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TILE LONDON JOUB.NALS. 'DAILY EXTRACtS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS. December 25. [km TiMES.] We are happy to agree 'with any respectable coternporary in our views of just and liberal .policy : and therefore cordially accept the ap-. probation of The Morning Chronicle as to the ".• opinion we have delivered on the course which ;.France. and England - oughe to pursue in me-. • - liorating the lot of Greece, without endanger-, ing the balance of power in Europe. That opinion, however, we beg leave to say is wholly our own ; for though it pleases our cotempo rary to designate our Journal as it Ministerial one (perhaps not improperly in so far as we ~,bave given our humble but honest support to -."Ministers in all the great features of their policy), -, yet we never have suffered, nor ever shall suffer, human authority to dictate the opinions which we set forth to the public. On the other hiui we are far from laying that claim which 7-he Morning Chronicle kupposes us to do, to in fallibility in political prediction. We cannot per.etrate the mysteries of foreign Cabinets or Divans, where the springs of action- are carefully cOncealed from all inspection ; but we can judge of men by their . public coquet and avowed principles, we can apply plain reasoning to obvious facts, and it is thus, and thus alone, That we have ever pretended to form an opinion , of the relative policy of France and England. The great thesis, which we have ever maintained, is that France and England should know each other .hetteT, in order that they might esteem each other more—that they should draw their knowledge from better sources, in order that it might direct -them to more beneficial results. it is as plain as any proposition in Euclid, that if the two greatest and most enlightened Powers in Europe agree to maintain the public Peace, upon the principles of a just, generous and liberal po licy, it can be effectually disturbed by no single power, nor by any other combination of powers ; Russia can no more enforce any unreasonable de mand on the Porte,lhan the Porte can resist a jest claim hi behalf of the oppressed and injured C reeks. rivIORNING HERALD.] From what has taken place in the Spanish Cortes, there is every reason to hope that order and tranquillity will soon be restored in that, kingdom. The sketch of the Report of the Com mittee, which we have given, affords every pro-, spect of such a result. Those who drew it up appear to have viewed the subject from an ele vation .far above passion and party. They have abstained from denouncing or threatenidg the persons who have marshalled themselves against the Government, and they have, at the same time, qualified the illegality of resisting the Con stituted Authorities of the State in decisive terms. The accounts received from Spain since the organi zation of the Constituted Authorities,and the people in Andalusia, have frequently stated that all that prevented a cornpPnnce.with the orders of Go vernment was the want of any security against vindictive punishment to those who have compro mised themselves. This they now have in the Report of the Committee of the Cortes, which, no doubt, will receive the sanction of that whole body. The remedial measure proposed by the Committee was presented under seal, and had not been 'opened when the last accounts came i away. There can be ,little doubt that it com prises the removal of the actual Ministers. — hat step had long since been proposed by the permanent Conmaittee of the Cortes, and rejected by King, Ferdinand. Yet if there be' any one thing clear as to the causes of the troubles in that kingdom, it is the un fitness-of the men at the head of affairs. Is it possible to acquit them of the disqualification either of treachery or imbecility ? They even came into the Cabinet under, suspicious and un constitutional circumstances. They were actually smuggled into it by a cabal, if we may trust ac counts in some of the French " Liberal" Papers, of the worst persons within the Court. Nothing can be more disingenuous than the view taken of the state of Spain by the Ministerial Papers in this country, and the Ultra party Journals in France. The representations of the latter are natural and easily accounted for. Though many of those who now skew so much zeal in France for the sacredness of religion are renegade Anar chists and Atheists, yet they deplore the aboli tion of the Inquisition, the secularization of the Monks—the insolence of the Laity in standing , uncovered and erect before tire Priest, with the same horror as the most fanatic Dominican — merely because they find it their interest to sup port a system of Government founded upon des potism and priestcraft. [MORNING CHRONICLE. We believe few political axioms rest on a better foundation than this : that a Revolution never can take place in any Country, the Government of .which is in degree adequate to the discharge of the duties which men have a right to expect from Government, and that Revolutions necessarily carry with them their own justification. When justice is well and impartially administered in any Country, when property is secure, and industry sant impeded ; when the power of trampling on the. rest of the community is given to no privileged class, it would he as' vain to attempt a Revolution in it, as to attempt to blow down St. Paul's with a common pair of fire-side bellows. It is only when a country abounds with men who have nothing to lose and something to hope for from a change, with men without property and without the means of ac quiring it. with men soured by oppression, and burning with the desire to take vengeance on their oppressors, that a Revolution can be at all ef fected. When men feel themselves comfortable,they are 'seldom desirous of change. Hence the ease with which the Hanover Family retained pos session of the Throne of this Country, notwith standing the majority of the great Landholders, down to, the reign of his late Nlajesty,were in the Jacobite interest. Hence the only attempt against that Family originated in a part of the country,. namely, the Highlands of Scotland, where the body of the people were totally un acquainted with the very. idea of comfort. Heace the strength of the Government of this country, compared with that of most coun tries of Europe. • EMORNING POST.] Two sets of French Papers to the 23d instant arrived yesterday. From the nature of the in telligence which they communicate from St. Pe tersburgh and other quarters, no doubt of an ap proaching war between the Turks and Russians can be any longer entertained. The Petersburgh jonruals now speak openly, and in a country where the liberty of the Press. has no existence, eiery thing which is suffered ,to appear must of course be taken as either expressing the send rronts of the Government, or at least as congenial with its views. Thus, when it is said, under the head of Petersburgh, ‘‘ it has been observed tha tseveral G eneral.o tlicers attached to the person of the Emperor have successively quitted the ca •pital, and it is added that they are charged with orders for the Commanders in Chief of our various 'corps," • we may believe that what is given in the shape of tt report, is a real fact. When we 1050 read under the same head :—" A report is is ciroulation—here . that.. a considerable part of our : troops will march into .Asiatic Turkey in order to act in concert with the Persian Army," we may rest assured that the troops are on their way, and we tnay..cease,.to doubt, .if we ever could hesitate to believe, that the Persians took up arms,, at the, suggestion of Russia. These statements; in the Petersburgh Journals. are half ayowals, intended to prepare, not the' Russian fOr they, have Jong expected the intelli gence with eager anxiety, but the European istt onarchs,who wished to doubt to the last minute, ion the peat and final explosion which is about taking place. Whilst negociating with the Minis ters of the Allies, Russia has silently completed 'her preparations, encouraged the Greeks, r .ised the Persitins, the Druses, the Wechabites, and all the ancient enemies of, the Porte; and more effec tually insured • the downfal of that Power, than if she had unsheathed 'Old sword and crossed the Pru tit: when the first .mis.s4crei in Moldavia and Wallachia afforded her a just cause for interfer ing. An article of the ,3,5 th, inst..from Frankfort Oates, .that a Firman had been published at Con stantinople on the Bth ult, declaring that the Amnestylendered to the Greeks was withdrawn, as thei had refused to avail themselVes of 'its conditions. Letters from tonstantinople of No vember llth ; announce that the celebrated city • [BRITISH PRESS.] The Paris Papers of Friday and Saturday last, which have arrived at our Office, contain some very interesting news concerning the affairs of Spain. We know not whether we should be perfectly justified in acceding to the notion ex pressed by some of the Paris Papers, that a civil virar has actually commenced in Spain ; but there is sufficient evidence that a serious, though per haps an accidental, rencontre has occurred near Cordova, between two regiments of different parties, in which they severally maintained their political opinions by force of arms, and that some lives were lost. The Paris Papers seem to chuckle at this unhappy occurrence, as if it were their desire or that of their readers that Spain should undergo such calamities as those which France so recently suffered. They probably hold on this subject senti ments similar tb those which have been evinced by some of the ministerial writers in our own country, to whose view nothing appears so ab horrent as the prospect of a people seeking to fling off the' burden of, slavery, and to enlarge the sources of national and individual happiness by correcting the character of its Government. To persons impressed "With such feelings, a civil war in Spain, accompanied by the desolation of that fine country, would be highly acceptable ; but we sincerely trust that in the present in stance their hopes will be disappointed. The occurrence near Cordova, if truly stated, pre sents, no doubt, some circumstances of a very dis tressing character. Our readers are aware that General Moreno Daoiz, who was lately appointed by the King as the Military Chief "of the pro vince of Andalusia, had been refused admittance into the town of Seville, and that he, in con sequence of this refusal, had gone to Cordova, where he found a more hospitable or more loyal reception. The indignity offered to the Royal authority at Seville, in the refusal of this Gene ral, was one of the complaints recently made to the Cortes by the King; and the report of the Committee of the Cortes, to whom his Ma jesty's message was referred, fully asserted the King's prerogative, and strongly condemned the illegal and unconstitutional conduct of the Se villians. This report• is said to have operated very favourably in many parts of the province of Andalusia, confirming the unsteady in their duty, and drawing back many who had been misled, so that General Moreno Daoiz conceived warm hopes of inducing the people of Seville to recognise his authority. His efforts to effect a pacific arrangement unfortunately failed, and he then .applied himself to assert his power by force of arms. He in consequence dispatched a regiment of carbineers from Cordova to occupy some important pass in the vicinity of the town. General Velasco, who commanded the mutineers at Seville, had dispatched a regi ment of cavalry to seize upon the same point; the regiments met, and the madness of party zeal unfortunately impelled them to a mu tual attack. Many lives are said to have been lost, but the Royalists were eventually success ful, and maintained• their position. It is some consolation to learn that Seville ,stands alone in the Southern provinces of Spain in opposition to the power of the Constitution, and that' throughout the kingdom the only other place of Bagdad, which had no other defence than a wl►ere a similar spirit prevails is Corunna, where single wall of no strength, had been taken by Mina still exercises unlimited power. T hose storm. The Persians are said to have put to the numerous other towns which had previously con sword the whole of the Turkish garrison, and curred in feeling with Seville and Corunna, have most of the inhabitants who followed the doc- recognised the force of the appeal contained in trine of Omar. The Christians alone had been the Report of the Committee of the Cortes, and spared, conformably to the Manifesto published halle avowed their submission to the Cgnstitu by the Prince Royal of Persia. tional authority of the King. This chews temper of mind in the mass of the Spanish people that may justify the proudest anticipations of their future welfare. It proves a readiness to submit even their prejudices to the force of rea son and to the power of the law ; and that they are as well capable of appreciating the spirit of their Constitution as they were resolute in assert nc, their Freedom. [TnE TIMES.] The proceediugs in the case of the Sub scribers to the Beacok-bond are before the pub lic. The most remarkable clause in the abstract of the bond, is one in which the subscribers agree to exempt themselves from all responsibility. " It being expressly understood (they say) that " we have no concern in the property of the said newspaper, nor any other responsibility re-1 " garding it, - nor control over it, except that " we become bound in manner above and after cc mentioned ;" that is, to subscribe one hun dred pounds each, if necesSary,' . for the sup port of the said libellous paper. It would be very happy for some men if they could thus exempt themselves from the legal responsi bility of their own actions, by a-previous resolu tion, secretly signed, that they would not be re sponsible. One man, for example, might throw 1,000/. into a commercial house, to divide as a partner, with a secret resolution that he was not responsible if the house failed. Another might supply a man with a,dagger to murder an indivi dual, with a,secret resolution that he would not be au accomplice if the murderer were detected. Unfortunately; the law and common sense hold a different opinion upon these subjects. MANAGEMENT Or THE,POOR.—An experiment has been tried for the bettering the condition of the labourers in agriculture, and for reducing the poor rates in the parish of `ferrington, by the apportionment of parcels of land, from. one to five roods, which has been found, after three years' trial, to be productive of the happiest effects. Through the kind ness of the Right Hon. Lady Frances Bentiuck, two pieces of land were hired by the Overseers for the purpose, one of 22A. 2n. 39e'., the other three acres. Soon after it was known that the land could be obtained, a notice was given that such per sons as thought . they could get their livelihood by the occupa tion of an acre, and their labour, without troubhng the parish, should leave their names at the house of the Rev. Mr. Goode, and state' their agesand number of children. Thislist having been obtained, a meeting. in vestry was called, for the purpose of its consenting to be guarantees for the rent, and also to choose la bourers for occupying th eland. The land was taken,and the choice determined - in the following mariner :—First of all, four men were picked out, who had in part brought up a family, and had never troubled the parish at all. Then a number of those were selected above fifty years of age; after that, those that had three or more children, and among them, the worst and most troublesome men in the parish ; the. reason of the last selection being to try the real effect of the plan, on men of all descriptions. The men being selected, and the two . and 20 acre-piece being divided into as many parts, the labourers were called to another vestry meeting, and had possession given them of their res e pective pieces, by lot ; all acre pieces but one, and that half an acre. One acre was taken up by a - road cut right through the piece, dividing the land into two equal parts,or .• as nearly as possible. One of these parts is always in potatoes, or pease and beans ii,n(l - • cabbages; the other is wheat. The parish pays the expellee of the acre lost in the road. The fol lowing remarks are subjOined to a statement printed for dis tribution: the - amount of produce for two years (that for the year ending Michaelmas, IC2O, not having yet been ascertained) is as under : Wheat grown on 21A. 211. in two years, 161 coomb 3 bushels. Potatoes grown on ditto, in ditto, 136 lasts 16 sacks. Pease, beans, and cabbages, a small portion on most of the all/talents, and one half acre was in pease. Average : Wheat per acre, seven cooinbs two bushels. Average : 'Potatoes per ditto,. silt lasts, seven sacks, one bushel. The land is unin jured, part improved ; the former opposers of the measure in the parish are now become its friends : the most troublesome 'labourers to the Overseer, now no trouble. There is more in. dustry abroad—more spirit, and that a better one : less labour in the market, a better understanding between master and la bourer, a greater opportunity anrded of mutually oblising each other—much thankfulness, and less complaint.—(Norfolk Paper.) An official cotAnunication from the Portuguese Secretary at War to Lieut.-Colonel CAMPBELL, ex-Field Marshal in the service of his Most Faithful Majesty, has been published in the Diario do Govern°, by which it appears that " the Lieut.-Colonel having arrived at Lisbon' on his way to Gibraltar, to take the command of the 75th Regiment, and applied for leave to stay a few weeks in that capital, for the purpose of kissing his Majesty's hand, embracing his friends, and settling his private affairs, and having further offered to pledge his honour that he would not meddle with the political affairs of the country during his visit, his Majesty was pleased to au thorize the Minister to assure him, that, " for the whole time he should find it necessary to remain in Lisbon for the above purposes, he would be considered as a subject of his Britannic Majesty, appointed by his Sovereign to the command of one of the regiments of that Power." We hope a correpondent is misinformed who states to us that it is intended to discharge 5,000 men from the Dock-yard and Victualling Esta blishments, and reduce a number of the clerks employed therein. Five senior clerks in the Navy Office, two of the second cla:s and eight of the third class, and two senior clerks of the Ad miralty, are to be reduced. We are informed that Mr. FINLAISON has been removed from the Admiralty, where he was principal clerk and li brarian to the Treasury department.—(!lamp. shire Telegraph,) • The northern and western coaches did not a.' rive on Sunday night until long after their usual time, being heavily laden with parcels from the country. A REMEDY FOR BAD TistEs.—A gentleman of this town has undertaken, 'for a wager, to live upon three pence per day for 28 successive days, including both liquids and solids. He commenced the performance of the task on 'Tuesday last, and should he prosecute it with the same spirit and determination which he has hitherto manifested (of which there is very little doubt) it will certainly be verifying the observation of one of our Poets, that " Man wants but little here below." —We presume the Gen- : tleman is endeavouring to rival the celebrated Cornaro, who, when about 40 years of age, corn menced a life of singular abstinence, by which . he removed several maladies to which he had always been subject, and lived, almost free from pain, to the great age of 101, dying at Padua, in April, 156 1 6.---(Birming h am Commercial lie. raid.) rOll, filit SUN. .~_. MODEIIN POLITICAL ECONOMY—METTER 1.) MR. EDITOR—The Morning Chronicle lately congratulated us in its columns, that a Mr. IVI'Cur.LocK of Edinburgh is going to open a school of Political-Economy (for grown gen tlemen, I suppose) which may be, compared to another edition -of the Crazy-tales, as- he informs us that the said Mr. M'CuLr.ocK is the writer (from RICARDO'S school) of the admirable articles on this subject in the Edinburgh'Review : let me mention before I forget it, that there was an admirable article, on the same subject in the last Quarterly Review, and the writers of this (and the others) envious of Mr. Itic.tunO's pro found abilities, have plunged still deeper into the occult qualities of the subject.—l am not going to deny but that some passages, in all 'these, are highly ingenious and acute, and a few of the in ferences are just and satisfactory ; but the writers unfortunately pursue pure- speculations, without considering the real state and practicable opera tion of things and circumstances. , The Morning Chronicle has been long a pro fessed admirer of these pure specuiations . ; but ii I should venture to tell you the reason-i-it is because they lead to Ministerial embarrassment, and national difficulties. IdO not quite accuse him of designedly pursuing the course which \leads to National Bankruptcy ; because, like his tutors, he may not know the tendency . ofhis doe trines. But be this as it may, he very wisely and cautiously throws in a sweetener to the Fund holders every now and then, and purports to de fend their rights and property to the utmost—But this by the bye. The Chronicle tells us that this school will contribute to the prevalence of sound opinions and to shew how desirable anti necessary this iS, I beg leave to give you a sketch of them and their operations. For the date and origin of the new light, which is now spreading 'abroad, •we must look into Mr. RICARDO'S book on Political Economy. Beginning at the first page.-.--The world did not know before, that human labour gave value to all articles of exchange, and therefore Mr. ItscAano (following about 41 predecessors) lays this down as a safe rule. But not contented with what other people had said -on the subject, he is pleased to add some very sagacious conjec tures, which help to Make a plain case very ob jectionable. That labour is the price •of every thing, may be:very well admitted ; 'butjWinake it of real use, as a principle, every thing should be valuable in proportion to the time and labour employed upon it, which is notoriously not the case : one man may get a fortune, with ease, by making trinkets; while another with a life of hard labour can by no means provide more than a comfortable subsistence by making horse-shoes. But suppose the . profession be the same ; one man paints a picture as large as the side of a room, and labours at it a twelvemonth, without being able to sell it for 20 guineas ; another strikes out a car toon in five minutes, which is worth 100. But' this is not the worst ; because labour in one branch may be so overdone, that its followers cannot get necessaries; or in any branch, its products may be so accumulated as to find no adequate market ; then what becomes of the in ference of the political economists ? Hear their 'own exemplification :—" If among a • nation of hunters, it usually cost twice the labour to kill a beaver which it does to kill a deer, one beaver would naturally exchange for two deer." But, f a nation of hunters had no commerce with civi lized people, they would scarcely hunt heavers at all, or at most, only to make bedS, of their skins ; and V an Indian hunter's family were in want of food, they would give 20 beaver skins for a fresh killed deer. On the other ham', if the hunters had learned the use of spirituous liquors, with the advantages of rifles and_ powder and ball, they would give two or three deer (now more easily shot) for a beaver skin, wherewith to buy spirits and ammunition. It makes the foregoing beautiful sentence no bet ter that it is quoted by itsc„sitou from ADAM ; CaAw.sotto has ten birds and one hare, which is a worse case than the other ; for an Indian hunter would scarcely ever shoot ten partridges with bow and arrow, .bOt hares he might take by snaring. But what becomes of this sound principle if the etonparison be between partridges and wild turkies ?—I dare say that Indian hunters (if they- barter any thing in a state of nature) are not such fools as to give a turkey for a partridge, although the latte'r Might take much more time and trouble in the Catching. Yet RICA RDO says" this is really the foundation of the exchangeable value of all things excepting what cannot be increased by human industry (I suppose he means antique curiosities), and it is a doctrine of the utmost consequence in political economy." So it may—but such poli tical economy is of no consequence to the wel fsre of states ; nor will it govern the concerns , r. 4 private life. He goes on :—" If the quantity of labour, realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value (then) every increase of la, boar (and so on)." . Here is another if; -but how, if it does not 2—lf there be other cir cumstances, when men have laboured hard and long, to produce commodities (as corn for in stance) which prevent them from procuring by the sale of it a competent proportion of other necessaries—how will these sound principles of political economy afford us relief ? It is high time, Mr. Editor, that these notions should be fully exposed and refuted ; I consi dered them only as the pretty toys of literary minds, which are well acquainted with almost every thing but what concerns the real affairs of mankind ; but they arc unfortunately getting into newspapers, and may be thus transfused into the shallow pates of all this reading generation, and so be looked upon as more certain than di vine truths ; for which reason I shall trouble you with another letter or two of this kind. I am lour's, &c. APERTUS. London, 1821. r' ROM THE LONDON. GAZETTE, DEC. WHITEHALL, DEC. ;24. . , The King has been pleased to order a writ to_be issued Undrr the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of •breat Isritain and Ireland, for. summoning the Right .flonourable George Hope tio Cholmondeley (commonly called Earl of . lioeksafage) to, the House of l'ers hy the stile and titie oZ , Baron Nu/buret, of Newburgh, in the County of .Anglisea. WAR-OFFICE, Dgc. 24. , 4th Regiment of Light Drag,oons—Lieut.-Colone/ James Hay, from half-pay 16111 Light Dragoons, to be -Lieut.-Colo— nel, without purchase; Capt. Thomas Jarniy,.from half-pay Cavalry Staff Corps, to be Captain, 'Without purchase.—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Comet Thomas Harrison; Cornet Arthur Sullivan ; --Lieut. Robert Robison, from half pay 22d Light. Dragoons; Lieut. John Wm. Murray, from half-pay 22d Light Dragoons; Lieut. Wm. Thomas Loftus, from half-pay 24th Light Dragoons - Lieut. EdgarGibsOn, from hall - pay Cavalry Staff Corps; lie.m.• William Henry Bingham Lindsey, from 17th Light Dragoons ; Lieut. Robert Rollo GilleSoie from half-pay - 20th Light Dragoons; Lieut_ George F. Clarke,i from 17th Light Di.v,oons. To be Cor nets.., without - purchase—John Souiers , _t Smith, Gent. vice Harrison ; Edmund Knox, Gent. vice Sullivan. To Adju-, tam and COrnet—Cornet Jas. - Dixon, from 'inilf-pay 21st Light Dragoons, vice Daly, who resigns the Adjutantcy only.- To be Assistant-Surgeon— Assistant-burgeon F. George from h...1f-pay Ist Royal Vueran Battalion. . 16th Ditto—John silent Ramsbottom, Gent. to be cornet, by •purchase, vice Al on tgomery, pranOted. • • • MEMOILANDA.—Th.e appointment of Lieutenant Honont. able Robert King, from half-pay 60th Foot, to be Lieutenant in the fitrth•Foot, as stated - in the Gazette of 22d instant ; has not taken place. Deputy .Assistant-Commissary-General Wetherman, ' in charge of the Commissariat Department at the Lahantas, having failed toipay over to-his superior the whoole of the ba-' 'lance of the public-money othi , ,h ought, •accoraing to- bis ac counts, to have been paid over, has been dismissttd from his Majesty's service. -• - Deputy Coutnussary-Gencral Vaux, having executed the duties of his office in the Peninsula, in .t mode which has sub, jceted the public to great less, turd hiinsaf to considerable sur charges, has been, dismissed from his .Alajesty's service. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. John Twigg, Cheapsidc, warehouseman,- from Dec. 29 to Jan. 8. J. Raiiston, North Stick's, ship-owner, from 'Dec. 29 to Jan. 8. BANKRUPTS. J. Nattriss, sen.. Thornton,. Yorkshire, linen-draper, Jan,, 8,9, and Feb. 5, at ten, at the Blacksmith's Arms lan, Scar borough. Solicitors, Air. C. Lever, Holborn-court, Gray's inn; and Air. J. Cornwall, Scarborough. 0. Butcher, Burnham AVestgate, Norfolk, farmer, Jan. 7,. at six, 8, and. Feb. 5, at ten, at the King's Arms Inn, East Dereham Solicitors, Mr. Withers,. Bolt, Norfolk; and .11r. Bridger Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. J. — BOnd, unsley, Herefordshire, coppice-dealer, .tan. 10, 11, and Feb. 5, at eieven, at the .Seven Stars Inn, Ledbury. Solicitors, Messrs. Stevenson and Bicknell, Lincoln's-inn New square ; and Sir. Holbrook, Ledbury. J. I.;therington, Knottingley, coal-dealef, Jan. 1, at five, 2, and Feb. 5, at ten, at the Star inn, POntefract. Solicitors, Air. E. Walker, Lincoln's ; and Messrs. Clough and Brook, Pontefract and Iludder,tkld. _ . J. Tennent, Liverpool, merchant, Jan. 14, 15, and Feb. at one; at the George Inn,. Liverpool. 'Solicitors, Mr.' T. G. Maisey, Liverpool; and .:+tea,rs. Adlington and Co. Bed lot d -row. J. Heath, Rosemary-lane, chcesemong,er, s,Jan. l9, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Court of Conmussurners of Biinkrupts, Basinghall-street. Solicitors, Aitssrs. ti. Tundinson-and Co.. Copthall-court. . Al. A. Robinson, Red Lion-street, Hol,born, groccr,.Dec. 29, Jan. U, and Feb. 5, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners ci Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. solicitors, Messrs. Few airs, 'Co. Henrietta-street, Covent-gardr. J. Penley, jun. Ulty, Glonetzstershir, dyer, Jan. 8, at. four, -9, arid Feb. ti, at ten, at the Old Bell Inn, Durslex, Gloucester shire. olicitors. ; Mr.:Eden, AV ootton-Untiercdge; and Messrs. Bridges and-Co. Red Lion-square. • T. Cartwright, Oakehamptoil, DeVonshire, innkeeper, Jati- 9, 10, and Feb. 5, at eleven, at the Subscription Rooms, Exeter. Solicitors, Mr. It. .Brutton, Old Broad-street ; and Mr. C. Brutton, Exeter. J. Shaw, Oldham, Lancashire, machine-maker, Jan. II; 12, and Feb. 5 at ten; at the White Bear Manches ter. citors, Mr:Chippendale, Crane-court, : anti Alcssrs. Shuttleworth, Rochdale. . 11. ruilscone, Cottenharn, Cambridg4hiie, auctioneer, Tan. 1,2, and le,b. 5, at eleven, at the 110.1) Tavern, thunbridge- SolieitorS, Mess; - s. J. and It. ilatton-gar den ; G. H. Bays, Cambridge: •J. Stoker, Doncaster, tinman, Jan. 2 at six, 3, at eleven, at the Woolpack Inn,, Doncaster, and Feb. 5 v .a.t. eleven, at c.h Star Inn, Yontefra4. Solicitors,. ;11r..5. Taylor, joitu.street, Bedford.row ; and Mr. 'l'. Badger, Rotherham. DIVIDEND& • Jan. 19, J. Routh Austin-friars, merchant-Jan. 24,' S. :Nc vile., Leeds, flour seller—Jan. 22, T. Jarrett, Silrcwsburyi vic tualler,—Dee. 29, 'l.'. Soho, merchant— Jan. 15, It. Blackwell, Crosecut, jtinorkti, nal-calm - It—Jan - . 5, J. Burn, Lothbury, merchant—Jan. 15, R. Bs Day, Torii,' near IN/aidstone, seed erusbtaJan. 19, A. Ice.atiug, silversmith—Jan. 22, P. Atimson, It.l.obone-place, babel daili.r_T—Jan. 19, Bedford, 'l'. Palmer, dralyer—Jan 22,. E. Fincham, son. W. Finchani, 'and B. l'inelnun, jnn. Epping, Essex, bankers—Jan. 22, P. Jordan, Whiteaapel, clruagi>x —Jan. 28, J. Dingle, Charlestown, Si. Aestie, Cornwall, mer chant. CERTIFICATES, JAN - . 15. R. Edwards, Cratiley, 11;:leA Owen, Worcestershire, iron monger—W. Baker, Lloyd's C0ft . ...c.-11ouse, Neringon green, Middlesex, insurance broker—B. Phillip, Thretw needle-street, vintner—T. Emery, , Wore2ster. wine-rnercruilt —T. Ileppell, South Elyth, Northumberianti, Parry, Manchester, cotton spinn: - :r. PART NERS Li I l'S DISSOLVED. J. Suteliffe, Pasture, and B. StuciifF,', I;h4how, Lancashire., cotton manufacturers—W. -flolgate and B. J. Roden, Men, chestcr, and Wilmslow, Ches!ir; cotton spinners—J. Hartshorne and J. Nix, Broad-street, merchants—W. H. Green and NA". Thorley, Angel-court, Tilrogmerton-street, attorneys —J. Leatham, T. W. `few, E. Truolir.u, W. Leathern, and E. 'few (as far as .respects J. Jackson) Doncaster, hankers—B. Ross and 11. Ross, I.4.icester. wooh“mLrs—.l. L es, J.Watson and J. Broadley, Acre Bank, Oldham, cotton spinners—J: Jas. and E. Reynolds, and J. ribbon manufac turers—T. %V. Candler and E. Suter, Little Bush-lane, porter merchants—A. Knott and W. Wilson, Poland -street, tailors. Moonrm.ns CuAer.c.--Llesterday morning a Grand Pontifical High Mass was celebrated by the Rev. Doctor Poynter, the Catholic Metro politan Bishop. At an early hour the avenues leading to the Chapel were completely crowded, and before seven o'clock there was not even standing room ; there ►n►►et, at least, have been_ four thousand persons present. A few minitte.4 after eleven the choir commenced the service., which consisted of the most celebrated compoii- . dons of Haydn, Mozart, and other e.nuuent.'eto ; there were also performed a _Gram! Credo adeste fideles, an►i Gloria in Excelsis, com posed expressly for the occ:ison, and given in the most exquisite style, by a very un►uerous choir. A Sermon was delivered by the Rev. Mr. Deve reux, from the Gospel of St. Luke, beginning at the words ; " Glory br: to God on High, and Peace on Earth ;" Sz.c. from ;which the Rev. Ge ntleman delivered a discourse ; after which a li beral collection was made for the support of the establishment. • DIED. On the 23d inst., in Harley-str:,et, of a decline, Jane, the wife of John Poingdestre, Esq., in her 29th year. - On the 2.lth inst., at Penton-place, Newington-butts, Michtiel Millis Coventry, aged 52. . . Lately, in French-street, Southampton, Mr. F. Guion, was at an early period of his life on the Edinburgh Theatre, and played the same characters as Mr. Garrick was then fel-- forming in London, and with nearly as touch eclat.. On the 10th inst. at his house, Itankeillor-street,Edinbur,;ll, Mr. Thomas Ferguson, aged 78. This Gentleman has be queathed the sum of £lOO to each of the fbur follaWirg'i!aati tutions :—The Magdalen Chapel—The Royal infirmary—Vie Trades Maiden Hospital—And the Charity 1V64-lieuie--.. (Edinburgh Courant, Dec. 22.) Printed and Published, for the PRomtlETons, at the tit. 4 OFFICL, 112, strand, by J. B. CARSTAI Its.