The Sun. — London, England, 1832-03-12 00:00:00

.5.4-PIRIT OF Tilt PUBLIC JOURNALS. this day an important document, to which tt a names of the principal houses engaged in the West India trade are attached. That the distress of our sugar colonies is now rapidly ap proaching a crisis, is a position which can hardly be questioned. That much of that distress has been caused by a mistaken policy, on the part of the Government of this country, is a point tilich can as little he cerstioned. Ws l'isve more 'Jinn once alluded to the additiens to the cost of peoducing sugar, caused hr various absurd mono polies. In the last nurract: of the Edinburgh Re: ;etes the effect of these monopolies on the P1 . :7,f3 of articles indispensible to the colonists, we.: shown in a very :able mane r, The traders in the document we this day publish, are muds more correct in accounting or the distress than Wise in the remedies they stiff gest for the distress. We do not believe it possible by any reduction of duties to inereesse the consump tion of sugar so much as to relieve the distress ; and with regard to the additional bounty on the expor tation of refined sugars, this is but an aw& weird way of employing the evil caused by rsonopoly. The simple and easy mode of presseeding would be to free the West Indians fresro the absurd restrir2.:ibbs of our Colonial system, by which we rends the ex pence of cultivation so much higher bin in the posses sions of other states. In the document we publish, reference is made to a memorial of the West Indian body, dated the I lth July last, for which we have not space at present. In that memorial a ;eduction of duty and bounty on exportation are also sug gested. "It may be objected i'they say) that this measure is contrary to the principle of allowing trade and production to find their own level, and of not forcing them by bounties. But able principles, though sound in theory, must be consistently ap• plied, and be secured in perfect freedom of action in all their hearings, before they can be absolutely ap. plied with justice and equity in any of the affairs of commerce. " It is unreasonable to expect thet our colonies, with various restrictions on their to,de for the benefit of the mother country and its othar dependencies, and with in creased cost of labour, arising cut of the abolition of the slave trade, and various expensive adisations imposed upon them for the benefit of the slave population, should he able to raise sugar at so cheap a rate as Cuba and Brazil, which carry on the slave trade and have a free intercourse with all the world ; and yet the policy now pursued by this country forces them into this unequal and ruinous coin titian. " There is a general system of protecting duties and restrictions in favour of the preductions of the soil and of manufacturing irKlustry of this country. A similar system ought in justice to be applied to the prmiwctions of th e Colonies; aud, it is respectfully subm'eted, must he applied, if it be intended to continue their possession to this country. Since that protection cannot be effectually given by imposing duties on the importation of foreign produce, in consequence of the policy pursued by this country having accumulated in this market a large sur plus production beyond 'the consumption, there is, in truth, no departure from principle in adopting the only alternative left for attaining the same object, viz.—tht establishment of a justly-regulated system of encourage. meat to export its surplus." The West India merchants attach considerable importance to the aid given to the cultivators of Brazil and Cuba by the slave trade. We suspect that there is much exaggeration on this subject ; saki well-informed persons have, in fact, assured us Oat more is attributed to this supposed advantage than truth warrants. No doubt the importation of slaves enables the planters of Cuba and Brasil to extend their cultivation ; but the advantage is the extent of fertile soil rather than in the cost of the labour. Most of our colonies are worn out. — Morning Chronicle. We publish a letter bearing the signature of " Justus," because it comes from a respectable quarter, because it pleads to have been called forth by our animadversions on Lord Grey's procrastina ting policy with regard to the creation of Peers, and because it offers a convenient opportunity of adding a few words more upon the same important sub ject. Our correspondent affirms that there has ex isted no " emergency" to justify, what he calls, our " attacks" upon Lord Grey, and asks why Lord Grey should be con pdled to submit " to the dictum of Philo-Radical,' " and to originate a dangerous precedent, if, by means less hazardous, and within Lord Grey's own power, he still hopes to carry the present rreasure of Reform." ! To all this we answer, that "Justus" appears to raise to an extraordinary height hi standard of the degree of public danger which is requisite to form an "emer gency." If the letter did not assume Whig co lours, we should suspect the writer of it to be no better than a Tory of the common stamp; for the bur den of the song with their whole party is neither more nor less than that the creation of Peers at this moment cannot be justified by any existing necessity, Now 'suppose that we believe the loss of the Bill to be inevitable if Peers be not crested, is not that belief a moral justification of all the earnestness we have shown upon the question, were our language ten times stronger than it has been? But we contend That it is an unwarrantable, however usual, trick, for Tory enemies of Reform to disguise themselves and their sentiments in the Reform livery, and to offer au hypocritical defence of Lord Grey, the intended purpose of which is no other than to trepan his Lordship's wavering judgment, leading him to a de cision such as none but Tories can desire, and by which no cause hut that of the old oligarchic inter est can profit. Of course, according to the Anti reform principle, the triumph which would be secured to the Bill by a reinforcement to the Reform Peerage constitutes the real ground on which (whatever may be the pretext) rs..ch a measure is exclaimed against by the party to which it is indeed manifest that " Justus" in his heart belongs, and therefore every fresh paroxysm of dismay or violence exhibited by that faction against the creation of Peers, ought to be, with a shrewd statesman, an additional motive for adopting it. If there be danger in the precedent of a large creation of Peers, it implies the danger also of some other occasion, whereon the majority of the House Peers is to be in direct hos tility with the bulk of the British nation. A crea tion for the purpose of bringing the Peers into har mony with the House of Commons and the people can surely not constitute a precedent for one, the object of which would be to obtain a majority of Peers adverse to the Commons and to the consti tuent body. Such a measure, adopted with the latter view, would be followed by an immediate im peachment—a consequence which it would now, on the Reform question, be somewhat chimerical to entertain. But, it is asked, why press Lord Grey to make Peers, " it" his Lordship hopes to carry the Bill by any means less hazardous? What the contingency here referred to means, we are at a loss to conjecture. It is indeed, as we have already stated, quite natural for Tory intriguers to insinuate such imposible chances, as blinds to the vision of imbecile or cowardly Reformer,. But for a professed Whig and advocate of the Bill to pretend that he can doubt the necessity of creating Peers, knowing, what is notorious to all the world, that there is now at least as strong a majority against the best clauses of the Bill as there was last year against the second reading, we pronounce to be either down right childishness or treachery the basest and most unpardonable. Nor is it to the risk of defeat in the committee only that the measure stands exposed by these monstrous delays. Look. .;it the composition of the Anti-reform par ty,and read with attention the periodical prints which express their sentiments, more especially the last number of the Quarterly Re. r i ew . There exists, it is plain two subdivisions of Toryism. One set will make no shadow of com promise. They will not admit theprinciple of the measure. They are for meeting the enemy on his march, and giving him an early overthrow. A se cond subdivision, at the head of which is Lord Har rowlly.,i4.o)leivluck and more skill than their fel lowsepropow42 acquiesce in the second reading, to let the , invi4eroceupy his cantonment', and then ?tit him up in detail—in other words, destroy the Bill by inches. We have hitherto proceeded on the assumption that the more wily of these two bands would prevail upon the more resolute to concur with it, and to tolerate tZ.Is rscctd reading of the Bill. But how if it should not be so ? How, if the Duke of Wellington, for instance, should have replied to Lord Harrowby (report says he has done so), " I will have none cf your second - readings, nor any of your piecemeal skirmishing; instead of recognik7ing the principle of this odious measure, arc; endeavouring afterwards to neutralize my tivn act, by a wretched resistance on t'.'h . :;.:lauses, I call upon you, my Lord, ate.'„7 - c: - .r supporters, to join with me andrnri.-. i:-; an attack upon it at the very threshriA. See if w e b e not s t rong enoug h to • throwe it out at once." Now let the public consider, for one moment : if Lord Harrowby, finding the Duke and his friends inflexible, tliculd himself give in and join them on the secorrd reading,-- - --what in the name of Heater will then be'Corne of lord Grey, and his " discreet," and " t'epperate," and " mild," and "safe" speculations P 'the Bill is then disposed of. What may happen to the Ministry no body, in that ta:se, will care a single farthing,—they ' will have fallen. and most righteously, into t'.':e bot tomless pit. But on Lord Crtie ---. 77, own (or his ad vocate's) favourite doct.:ine, that the necessity for a creation " awe `'lle proved,"—that is to say, that the Govern't,ent must be actually beaten on the clauses cf the Bill, before any effectual measure shell be resorted to,—we have already said that snob talk is utter madness ;one ether slgnAl defeat in the House of Lords will be a taLtmity which nothing can repair. The country horn end to end, will be confounded by it. the House of Lords itself, already too exten sively biassed against the oireatlon, will imbibe a deeper and broader stain of Toryism. Nothing, then, short e a creation of a hundred Peers, if e-ven that, w'ill suffice to restore the As , embly to its wholesome colour. So that by waiting until the " necessity shall he proved;'--that is, until the mis chief shall have been completed,—the remedy will have become, to all good purposes, impracticable. How difrerently would the Duke of Wellington have acted, had he been a reforming Minister, backed by a reforming King and pet . :le, and with only a bo roughmonger o.;.,lt'oSition to resist him ! flow lightly would thsa new convert to Catholic emancipation, won carried that Bill with the history of his own life haunting him every hour,—how lightly would he have taken these squeamish and qualmy terrors of Lord Grey ! For ourselves we have but done our duty. The question for the country is Reform or Revolution : for Lord Grey himself it is only in famy or eternal honour. For the sake of England, may Heaven direct his enicel.—Timex. TO THg DITOR OF THE TIMES. S'it,—Your attack on the political conduct of Lord ' trey, during the last two days, joined by those of " a Me tropolitan" and " Philo-Radical," are hardly justifiable under any plea of public emergency; and you will stand accused of gross partiality, and want of that boasted inde pendence, with which you are pleased to assail his Lord ship, if you decline the •' avdi alterum purtem." Why should Lord Grey be called upon by you to obey the dictum of " Philo-Radical," and to originate a precedent on an extended and dangerous basis, if, by means less hazardous to the tf:obstittition than an extensive creation of Peers, probably within his own view and compass as a prudent statesman, he still hopes to carry the present measure of R.-form, under the spirit of rational conviction, "in Toro conscienticr," and without producing a collision of inter ests, hurtful in its tendency to the welfare of the nation at large. What has the private "attachment," fidelity, or " counsel" of the members of his Lordship'► family to do with an important measure of national state policy, which should tarry conviction on its own merits on purely public grounds? And what, forsooth, if Lord Grey even shrinks from the danger, as not merely insinuated by you, is England so lost in intellect that only one public man can he found to sustain her at the critical juncture? Away with such untenable reasoning ! "Philo-Radical," who assumes to himself the chief direction of the state machine, if in heart an Englishman, pays his countrymen a sorry compliment indeed, for their presumed lack of intelligence and honesty of sentiment. Lord Grey surely moves on his responsibility, and if he is to act nobly, he must also act independently of external dictation, or he would indeed deserve the "justifiable mistrust of an indignant people." With the actual professor of knowledge discretion is power. " Violence" can never be the true result of discreet action, and the bare assertion of " Philo-Radical" that Lord Grey is armed with the " King's authority" to hazard a dangerous precedent solely to carry a measure of such magnitude, is not sufficient to warrant the unqualified at tack you have made, in the absence of sufficient data, on his Lordship's policy, and whereon to found your premises. If Lord Grey really " wants not courage," how can he he deficient in "resolution," unless he sets the propriety of pursuing that system of heroic moderation which in times of civil danger has ever, by the wisest men, been deemed t!-.e greatest attribute of a statesman, and as best calculated to " lull the jarring elements to peace," and sa tisfy the desires of all considerate men, tending to pro duce that tranquillity so essential to the public weal, and th,t repose of the Royal mind which can alone spring from national unanimity en this vital question. Dealing in invidious personalities gives no support to fair argument, and the " celebrated letter to Lord Talbot of 26th Decem ber" is not the only moving-spring of Lord Grey's con sistant hesitation. I have it from the first authority that it is in conformity with the expressed wishes of the King that the Reform Bill should not be carried by "violent," but by moderate means, and the recent personal attentions of his Majesty to Lords Wharncliffe, and others of the same party, prove the fact. Your contradiction, or that of your correspondent, " Philo-Radical," if you can give a better authority than that which emananates from those who profess kindred ties to royalty itself, is therefore at your op'ion.—l remain Sir, yours, &c., Westminster, March S. JUSTUS. The Radical Press are directing all the shafts of their malevolence and resentment against poor Earl Grey because he hesitates, as they say, to make such a number of Peers as would render tne House of Lords a subservient instrument in the hands of the present - Ministers of the Crown, and secure the adoption by that Assembly of the Reform Bill with out any considerable amendments. This censure, if the statements which gave rise to it were true, would, in the estimation of all but determined revo lutionists, amount to the highest praise. It would he, in truth, to award to the Noble Earl the honour which is due to one of the most difficult of human achievements—that of st •pping short in the down ward career of evil ; of arresting himself, by dint of his own virtuous resolution and manly energy and courage in the midway descent of a revolutionary course, slippery and precipitous as it is, loud, vehe. merit, and appalling as are the menaces and yells by which he is urged to proceed, violent and reckless as are the efforts of his less reasoning followers to push him onward to the most fatal depths of the gulf which terminates the declivity. But before either merit or demerit can justly be ascribed to Earl Grey on account of the non-creation of Peers, it would seem indispensible that some grounds should exist for the belief that the Noble Earl had possessed the power of packing the House of Lords, and that he could have exercised it without creating in some other quarter an hostility as fatal to his Ad ministration and its revolutionary scheme of Reform as the most determined resistance of the Upper House of Parliament can be, even in its present unpacked, independent, and constitutional con dition. Certainly no foundation for the belief of either of these propositions has yet been presented to the public, and the strong prolsability is that no grounds for such belief can be advanced. With respect to the disposition of his Majesty, it is only necessary to say that his acquiescence in an unli mited, or indeed in any, creation of Peers, rests at present exclusively upon the authority of that divi sion of the Revolutionary Press which employs itself day after day in vituperating the Administra tion for not availing themselves at once of the sup• posed prostration of their Sovereign. And as it is from some Member of the Cabinet only that any in formation upon the subject could by possibility have transpired, and from him only by a flagrant breach of his duty and his oath, we must assume, before we can credit such an authority, that some INlemi er of the Cabinet has been guilty n a f nd his that tre h ac e he h ry as I c i h m o t sen the se oill th f e thi c s han cr n i e m ls e, in telligence, which is the effect of his betrayal of the King's counsels, is brought forth to the world in conjunction with the most virulent abuse of the King's Government. As fair and avowed opponents of the present Administration we are not inacces sible to the proof of this delinquency ; and the crea tion of Peers, after all that has passed, wou d go far to prove it. But oar opposition is 'not so virulent as to prepare us to admit it gratuitously. But, in dependently of the disposition of the Sovereign, there is a difficulty in the way of a large. creation of Peer.; for the purpose of carrying the Deform Bill of which the advocate.i cf t%is revolutionary measure do not gee:ll io be aware. In the whole of the three Kingdoms there is not a large number of per sons who would in any circumstances yore for the Reform Bill, and who possess the advantage s of fortune, character, and lineage necessary to giv e decency or plausibility to their• elevation to the reetage t while ; o!' this i t Considerable num- ber, the - greater part would shrink from the danger of entangling themselves as parties to an impeachable conspiracy against the Constitution. Earl Grey then, to complete the muster of his Re form battalion of Peers, must deScend to a lower class of the gentry of the conntry, and here he would be met by the opposite difficulty, of an inconveni ent'.'y numerows body of competitors for the degraded distinction. Hence the danger of making more ene mies than friends, and of impairing rather that, ‘trengthening the influence of the administra tion. And hence the Bill, instead of being more ssfe, might be in greater jeopardy than ever; for if a single syllable or letter of the Bill be altered in the House of Lords, the Com mons recover their power to reject the Bill altogther and the present House of Com mon, it is not extravagant to suppose, might sympa thize very w arm ly w i t h t h e o ff en d e d and 'disap pointed portion of the reforming gentry. Is it, moreover, so very certain that even the present House of Commons, in a majority of the Members, although we know they have voted in favour of the Bill, are desirous of seeirg it carried by means of the protestation and destruction of the House of Lords? We have great doubts, if the alternative could be proposed to them, whether the Reform Bill should be lost or the Peerage degraded, trampled under feet, reduced as a branch of the Legi-lature to a mere vassal of the Crown, in effect annihilated as an independent Member of the Government of Great Britain, whether a majority of the pre sent House of Commons, notwithstanding the authority of rabble dictation, would not prefer the former. We have reason to know that a creation of Peers for the undisguised purpose, of overruling the opinion of the House of Lords, would convert many of the present friends of •the Administration and the Bill, in the House of Com mon•, into the determined and uncompromising enemies of both, and that Ministers cannot adopt so violent and revolutionary a measure without in curring tire risk, not only of dismis-al from office from the alienation of the existing House of Com mons, but of impeachment by such an improved House of Commons as a General Election would not even at the present moment fail to produce. Earl Grey then perchance is not the renegade, the iaspostor, nor the driveller which the Radical Press labours to represent him, although the second estate of the realm has not yet been destroyed by the re volutionary coup d'etat which that press so urgently demands.—Morning Past. We learn with much satisfaction, from a para graph in another part of this day's paper, that the Secretary of State, Lord Melbourne, has at length determined on cautioning the Magistrates not to grant licences for the sale of spirits to the owners of beer-shops, many of whom have recently made applications to that effect. The ground on wh;cli Lord Melbourne is anxious that they should not be granted is, that the granting of such licences would tend materially to increase the consumption of Spirit,, and to injure the morals of the community ; but leaving this question to rest on its own merits, as one more fit for individual settlement than for le gislative enactment, it must have become appae,nt, long ago, to all who had ears to hear, or eyes to see, that that the Beer-shop Bill has been already productive of almost all the mischievous conse quence; which we expected to result from it— that it has tended to deteriorate, instead of to improve, the quality of malt liquor—that instead of beer-shops proving an accommoda. tion to the public, they are voted, in all quar ters, to be pests and nuisances—that they have been injurious to the morals of the poorer class of society, and instead of benefitting those who have established them, they have been alike ruinous to them, and to the regularly-licensed victualler. In the country the beer-shops have proved convenient places of resort to poachers and thieves—and in town it is equally well known that many of them are mainly supported by equally meritorious members of the community. No one benefit, in face, has re sulted from the Beer Bill, which its fond father, Goulburn, predicted as its necessary results—it is the most complete legislative failure that ever took place, and were it not that it must soon die a natural death, we should say that the sooner it was repealed the better, both for the beer-shop-keeper and for the community at large.—Morning Advertiser. Shakspeare's well-known exclamation, " 0 world, thy slippery turns !" and its subsequent elucidation were never more fully exemplified than in the treat ment which Lord Grey is now experiencing from that part of the Press which has hitherto given him what may be called its " thick and thin" adherence. Not being ourselves among the number of those who have allowed themselves to be leagued under the banner of any political leader or party, we have , felt ourselves perfectly free at all times to praise or blame, to support or condemn, both men and mea sures, as their probability of promoting the real in terests of the country seemed to us most apparent. With this view, on the subject of Reform especially, we have given Lord Grey's Government our warmest and, we trust, consistent support, con einced as we are that, though the measure may not be perfect in its detail:, its principle and its main features are such as the good sense of the right-judging part of the community loudly calls for. And we must add that the consistency and the firmness with which Lord Grey's Govern ment have adhered to the measure through every mode of clamour and resistance—nay, even after defeat—entitles them at least to " fair play" from all the real friends of Reform. What the pre cise nature of the negotiations have been which have lately taken place between Lord Grey and the more moderate opponents of the Bill we may, pro bably, never know,—unless, indeed, they escape during the forthcoming discussions in the House of Lords ; but one thing seems pretty certain from the result, that Lord Grey has hitherto yielded no one atom of the principle of the measures ; but his of fence, it would seem, now is that, instead of taking counsel of " violence," he still hopes to carry the measure by means of reason and moderation; and he is arraigned, forsooth, at the bar of public opinion, as possessing a " fear of what posterity may think of him if he resort to violent measures for carrying the Reform Bill." This is one of the most extraordi nary accusations, in its terms at least, that ever was made against any public man. For what does it imply, but that violence is praise worry, and any de ference to the opinion of posterity a fault ! Truly, if this be the " absolute wisdom " of the " great public instructor," the world will do well to ask itself what kind of ignis fatutis it has been following? Yet, after all, unless (which we do not profess to know) more is meant, on this occasion, than meets the ear, whlst does Lord Grey's offence, in the eyes of these accusers, amount to, hut that he has delayed availing himself of using the power of the Crown in creating a sufficient number of Peers to ensure the passing of the Bill through the Upper House ? Now, we would ask, in reply to this, is there any man moving in the ranks of the well-informed and moderate classes of society who does not look upon suc h a creation of Peers as an evil of great magnitude, and one which nothing but an overwhelming unavoid able necessity can justify ?—and whether the Minis ter, who may find himself at last compelled to re sort to it, ought not to be able to sh ow b ot h t h e present age and posterity that he avoided having re course to it up to the very twelfth h our, an d t ill every means of so avoiding it had been tried, re tried, and exhaused ? Instead, then, of Lord Grey's conduct upon this head . being brought aga i nst hi m as an accusation, we are 'relined to hope that it will entitle him to the highest ptaisC—that praise, it is true, will cease, should he not, if the time should come which renders the act unavoidable, have the courage to perform it. But we never yet heard the courage of the General called in question who won a battle by first out-manoeuvring an enemy; nor will the victory of Reform be the less complete by be ing brought about by a little generalship.— Mornitt,g Herald. In the absence of all positive or direct information on the subject, it seems the general opinion that the Premier, in the face of the Jesuitical epistle of Lord Harrowby, is determined to commit the second read ing of the Reform Bill in the Vpper house, to the promises of the Tory Peers. To us this appears the very acme of credulity ; and if, in consequence, the Bill is treated as the last was, the name of Earl Grey will, in future limes, never be uttered unac companied by the most bitter terms of reproach. Ac %ve stated in our last, the Anti-Reform Peers intend to maul the Bill in the Committee ; to which stage of the measure their treaty with Earl Grey does not extend. It will then be seen whether his Lordship possesses spirit enough to apply the means with which he is entrusted to counteract their plans. Even if he dots, we contend he is acting a puling part in not using those means lather as a preventative of an evil than as a cure for it, after it has been done. Forty or fifty new Peers might suffice if sent sent into the House simultaneously with the Bill ; but eighty or a hundred may not be enough after the Bill has been emasculated in the Committee. The immediate friends of Lord Grey may write vo lumes in his defence, but it cannot be denied that the timid, hesitating manlier in which be has con ducted the Reform Bill to its pre-ent point, has had an invariable tendency to weaken the efforts of the real friends to Reform—to draw aside from its support those hollow advocates, on whom principle had no influence in voting for it, and to stimulate the Tories to the desperate defence of their rotten system they have made in the Commons, and to the no less desperate one, which may he expected in the Lords.—News. ROLLS' COURT, MARCH 10. DE BLAQUIERE V. HUTCHINSON. A separation having taken place between Gen. and Lady H. de Blaquiere, a sum of 2,0001. alimony was settled on the latter. This sum, originally vested in Exchequer Bills, the trustees became desirous of laying out in a more pro• ductive security. The defendant, Hutchinson, solicitor to one of the trustees, having been intrusted with the ef fecting of some such desirable arrangement, contracted, with a person named White, a client of his, to lend him the fund on the security of certain premises, wharfage and freehold land, situate at Deptford, it being covenanted by White, in conformity with the recommendations of a sur veyor, that a sum of 2,0001. should be expended on the property, that it might be rendered the more disposabl e to a tenant. Eventually the money was advanced to White, who being in embarrassed circumstances, and overwhelmed with actions, did not make the stipulated nude) , on the premises in question, and shortly afterwards became a bankrupt. The bill was filed to compel Hutchinson to re place the fund of Lady de Blaquiere. Two questions were involved is the case, whether the defendant was liable to this demand ; and this depended on the opinion of the Court as to whether he had acted in the transaction with White as agent for the trustee, or directly for the ces'ui que trust, 'The second question was, whether he had been guided by due discretion and purity of motive in this negotiation with White. His HONOUR. was of opinion, that Messrs. Hutchinson and Holdsworth had acted ss solicitors not merely for the trustee, but also for the eeslui que trust ; and that they should be held responsible for the loss incurred, if it ap peared that through the want of reasonable skill and dili gence they had failed in this transaction. From two letters of Hutchinson, describing the property, and rum his correspondence with White, his Honour was of opi nion that there had been a most improper bias on the mind of Hutchinson, ; and that his conduct therefore ren dered him liable, with his partner, who was involved with hint, though not an active ag, nt in the transaction, for the loss to the mortgagees that had been sustained. The prayer of the bill was therefore granted with costs. SPRING ASSIZES. IIUNTINGDON, MARCH 9. Henry Russell, whose trial for the murder of Mary Worimsley was reported in The Sun on Saturday, but not concluded, was found guilty, and sentenced to be executed. LANCASTER, AfAncm 9. William Heaton was charged with the wilful murder of John Ratcliffe, at Burton-wood on the 29th Oct. last. James Andrews, on the morning of the 29th of October las., about six o'clock aaw a man lying dyad in Dallam• lane, near Burton-wood. That man was John Ratcliffe. He was lying on his face. One hand was in his waistcoat pocket, and the other lying under him ; his hat was off. There was a quantity of blood, and some brains, under the right ear. James Ratcliffe examined—l am a son of the deceased. Deceased lived at Warrington, but I live with my grand mother at Burton-wood. I rememb-r my father coming to our house on Friday evening, the 28th October. He went away about half-past 8 o'clock. My grandmother gave him 31. to buy two plates, and he usually carried a knife and tobacco-box in his pocket. He was quite sober. I saw the prisoner on that night. He lives at Burton• wood with his sister, Martha Lawson. He came into our house just as the clock struck 10 that ❑ight, and asked my uncle William if he had seen his (prisoner's) brother John. lie came and sat down by the fire, and asked for a pipe. Ile smoked part of it, and said, " I had like to have been in a skirmish last night." I s lid, " Who with ?" and he made no answer. I said, " You have either gotten a black eye now, or there is a scab on one side of your nose." Ile said, '' No, it's dirt," and he rubbed his face. He stuck to it that it was dirt, and for satitif.ction sake I took a candle and held it up to his face. I then saw three marks of clotted blood. I said, " Why it's blood," and he went very red. He said, " Oh, I fell over Charles Hindley's wheelbarrow, and scarred my hand among the cinders." He showed me his hand, and I observed it was all covered over with blood. I oh served no mark of a scar. After this he sat till about 20 minutes after ten, and then went away. He wore a white straw hat. Robert Davis.—! am a constable of Warrington. On Saturday, the 29th of October, I went to DaHam-land, and was shown the spot where deceased's body had been found. I found much blood, and the mark of some instrument, made by striking the ground. I had . exa:nintd the body. There were 3d. in the pockets, and a key. The shoes were off. I then went to look for the prisoner. I went first to the witness Pownel's house, and found two po tato-forks behind the bid. On the prongs of one were marks of blood. I afterwards saw some blood on the handle. I afterwards apprehended the prisoner in a gar den near Tarbuck's house. lie seemed just to have got over the pig-sty. I took him to Dellam lane. Before I got to the spot where the body was found, I in Ide him stop, and then 1 went to look for footmarks. I saw the mark of a shoe within three yards of the blood. It was pointed tow ads the blood. I first tried prisoner's left shoe by holding it over the mark, and thought it did not fit. 1 then took the right shoe, and fitted it exactly. I noticed the nails on the shoe, some were long and some were shorter, and they exactly fitted the impression. I compared the cuts in the ground with the edge of the po tato-fork. they exactly fitted. (The potato-fort was pro duced.) I afterwards searched prisoner. I found in his pocket a small pocket-book with a luck of red hair in it. After the coroner's inquest the wife of the deceased went to prisoner at his request. The book and lock of hair were produced, and she said in prisoner's presence that she had given them to him. Mr. Kellet, a surgeon, had no doubt deceased died of the wounds upon the head, given by some right-handed person meeting the deceased. It was proved that the prisoner was a right-handed man. The Jury deliberated some time, and then pronounced the prisoner Guilty. The Learned JuDGE forthwith sentenced the prisoner to be hanged on Monday next. SALISBURY, MARCH 10. This day at twelve o'clock the Assizes for this county were brought to a conclusion. -- John Afoor and Daniel Middleton, convicted of the rape on Sarah Keuipstor, at Marlborough, and George Pearce ;w it Elizabeth Haws, with being accessories thereto, are left for execution. Judgment was respited on Ellison and Vines, convicted of arson, as Mr. Justice PARK was of opinion that a point reserved in their favour for the consideration of the Judges was Robert Star, convicted of burglary in the house of Jane Greenman, at Breemhill, under ♦ery aggravated cir cumstances, was brought up this morning to receive judg. meet, when hie Lordship stated, that alter a full consider. ation of his'axsc, mercy bad with him prevailed over jult;i c, and his life would be spared, though he could hardly e concile to his duty to the country not to leave him tor execution. Judgment of death has been recorded against no lets than 50 persons capitally convicted at there assizes—a number almost unprecedented, including 12 for horse steal ng, 1 for cattle-stealing, 8 for sheep-stealing, 2 for cutting and maiming, 24 for burglary, and 3 for hithway robbery: 2 were transported for life ; 2 for 14 years, one of whom was Jacob Wiltshire, for sending a threatening letter, and 6 for 7 years; 37 have been sentenced to va rious periods of imprisonment ; 25 were acquitted, in cluding Henry Dowdle and Thomas Stanly for arson. Against 6no bills were found. The total of prisoners for trial was 134. STAFFORD, MARC!! 9. The Commission here was opened late yesterday evening, and the Grand Jury were sworn at 12 o'clock this day. The calendar is a heavy one, there being upwards of SO prisoners for trial. There are two for rape, trio for arson, eight for horse-stealing, and a great number for burglary and highway robbery. Mr. Justice l'AuNrox presided in the Crown Court, and Air. Justice LITTLEDALE in the Nisi Prius. There are only 20 causes fer trial, eight of which were disposed of this day. LINCOLN, MARCH S. Priscilla Woodford, aged 15, was indicted for felo niously and maliciously setting fire to a stack of hay, the property of Isaac Teesdale, fisher, at Ilacconby, on the Bth of December last. She was found Guilty, but recommended to mercy on account of her youth. The Learned Juoc.j took time until to-morrow to con sider of her case. Margaret Wallis, wife of James Wallis, labourer, was indicted for feloniously and maliciously setting fire to a house in the possession of her husband, with intent to in jure either M. Wright or the Right Hon. Lord Yarborough. The prisoner's husband was a labourer in the employ ment of Wright, the prosecutor, a large farmer, who allowed him and his family to occupy the house in ques tion as part of the remuneration for his labour. About the latter end of August he and his master had some dis pute, and the latter gave him notice to quit in a mouth. In two days afterwards the nrisoner was confined of a still. born chtio. un the 28th of September, two nays darl the expiration of the month's notice, the prosecutor rode down to the house, taking two of his men with him, fur the purpose of driving the prisoner, who was known to be a violent woman, out of it. The husband was from home at the time, and the prosecutor deeming it vain to attempt to persuade the prisoner to quit the house voluntarily, directed his men to strip off the thatch. They set ahoutdoing so, when the prisoner rused out of the house with a pitchfork, and thrust it at one of the men, who, however, succeeded in dis arming her ; upon which she ran buck into the house and came out with another pitchfork. Of this she was also diaarrord by one of the men. No sooner, however, was she at liberty, than she milled into the house, and bring ing out a hatchet, commenced breaking in the window frames. She then went in and came out armed with a red-hot poker. With this she ran at one of the men, who ran out of her way. She next rushed towards the prosecutor, who had remained on horseback, and Is ho seeing her making towards him clapped spurs to his horse, and gallopped off. The other man then went up to her for the purpose of taking the poker from her, but she quietly gave him the hot end of it in his hand, and he was glad to let it go instantly. She also pelted the men with stones, until at last one of them struck her with his fist in the face, and knocked her down ; and when she was down he struck her on the back part of her person with a pitch. fork. The men, after having pulled off sonic of the thatch, went away; upon which the prisoner collected i v ,o ario use i:s n i e n a a r t n er v, ia , l i s n , do a w nd , on ro w ade fire hicha she in h e plac t ed e tw m n i le of the doors and after the fire had communicated to the floor, she said she should have more fire, and placed two other doota anti a gate upon it, by which the whole house was speedily set on fire. The Jury having found the prisoner Guilty, judgment way respite(' until neat assitos. FRIDAY, MARca 9. Frederick Miller, and six other defendants, named Glen, Waite, Wells, Stout, Clemment, and Bradshaw, were indicted for a riot at Boston in May last. Ag the defendants were identified as being present at the riot, except Bradshaw, who was therefore acquitted, and the others found Guilty. The defendant Bradshaw, who is a fisherman, and a butcher named Woods, were then put to the bar, charged with having been concerned in a previous riot, which took place two days before the election. The Jury found both defendants Guilty. The Learned RIDGE took time to consider of the sen tences, both in this case and the last. HORTENSE, EX-QUEEN OF HOLLAND.- This lady, whose connexion with the Bonaparte family has involved her in so large a share of its memorable variations of fortune, is the daughter of the Viscount de Beauharnais and of Josephine, illustrious in her virtues and her misfortunes. She has given conspicuous proofs of talent, the cultivation of which was partly due to the fostering care of that well-known precep tress of female aristocracy, Madame Campan. Her unhappy differences with her husband, Louis Bonaparte, and her wand, r ings, subsequently to the decline of her greatness, though vari ous European states, under the title of the Duchess de St. Lcu, have been hitherto the subject of considerable mystery —but these, and other circumstances of her eventful careen, will receive ample elucidation in the forthcoming " Memoirs." COUNTERFEIT CROWNS.-There is now a gang of common utterers of counterfeit coin actively at work in the City and East end of the metropolis in passing off coun terfeit crowns. The imitation is so excellent, both in sound and appearance, that detection is almost impossible, without weighing the counterfeit. A great number of respectable tradesman in the neighbourhood of Birchin-lane and Cornhill have been duped by an individual dressed in the garb of a jour neyman carpenter, passing off base crowns in purchase of some trifling article. The public will do well to be on their guard, and to rely on "weight" alone' when a crown.piece is tendered. COMFORT FOR C}GAR SMOKERS.—The greater and more common part of the cigars vended in the United Kingdom, and sold at from Ss. to 13s. the hundred, are prepared from the cabbage leaf, soaked in a strong solution of tobacco water. Cigars, so composed, are generally passed off under the names of Hamburg, Maryland, and Virginia. The same deceptions may be said to exist in respect to the small cheroots, whether scented or not ; they are, with comparatively trifling exceptions, nearly all of British make.—Nicotiaita. The precautions taken against the cholera at Woolwich are operating very much against the public house. keepers. The troops are all ordered into barracks by six o'clock in the evening ; and the coachmen bringing company to the monthly balk, given by the officers, are in general ordered not to enter the public houses. The precautions appear to be effec tual hitherto, as no case of cholera has appeared at Woolwich. READING —On Thursday evening a hand some silver cup was presented to Mr. Cowslade, the editor of the Reading Mercury, from the mechanics of Reading, at a numerous meeting convened for the purpose at the Lower Ship inn. This mark of respect has been called forth by the liberal manner in which Mr. Cowslade has afforded gratuitous information to the public, on every momentous occasion, by tl • distribution of handbills. The mechanics have taken up the matter with much spirit, and the gift presented was the produce of the conjoined subscriptions of nearly 700 operatives. The evening was spent with much harmony.—Windsor Express. It is rumoured in London that Ministers are desirous of securing the powerful aid of Mr. Macauley, and that, with a view of enlisting his great talents most effectively in the service of the public, they have requested his acceptance of office. Should this be correct, which seems very probable, and should Mr. Macauley accept office, the Administration will have strengthened its hands by obtaining the active sup port of one of the ablest and most upright of our senators ; and Mr. Macauley, we think, will do himself honour by joining the most patriotic and virtuous Ministry this country has ever known. There can be no greater benefit to a nation than to have wise, honest, and disinterested men occupying the import ant offices of state : and in the present circumstances of the country, nothing is more essential for extending the liberties of the people, and securing grand reforms in the Representation, the Church, and the Public Departments, than the upholding of the existing Administration, which has with unparalleled bold ness grappled with the worst abuses, and manifested a deter mination to stand by the cause of the people against every form of oligarchical corruption and tyranny. We doubt not the Electors of Leeds, who will owe their political existence to this Reforming Ministry, will be pround to have an opportunity of testifying their gratitude for the inestimable gift, as well as their regard for the most eloquent ad vocate of that measure, by returning Mr. Macaulay as one of their Members at the first election- So public spirited an Administration may safely count on public sup_ port. That support Leeds and Yorkshire have already given in every possible way, and they will never withdraw it so lon g as Ministers are true to their principles of economy and Re form. After the Augazan stable of the representation shall have been cleansed by their Herculean hand, the Irish Church will call for their reforming :energies ; and we have seen that Mr. Macaulay has pledged himself to a " complete Reform" of that extravagant establishment. It is above all important to prevent the return to power of that party which has created the greater portion of the national evils and burdens, which defends every abuse, opposes every Reform, maintains with a blind bigotry an unjust, intolerant, and corrupt ascendancy in Ireland, with the whole system of tithes, and which by its foreign policy would enlist England in support of despotism over the whole Continent. We should be glad, therefore, to see the vigorous and manly powers of Mr. Macaulay devoted to the support of that Ministry which is identified with the cause of liberty and Reform.—. Leeds Mercury, GLASGOW CORN 1 The transactions in our Grain ittle alteration in prices. Wheat, per 2401 b s. d. s. d. British, old 250t02 80 new 26 0 29 0 Canada, free 2B 0 29 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 C Scottish 24 0 26 0 Irish M A }MEE—March 7. I market have been limited, with OMs, per 2641 b. s. d. s. d. Irish lts 0 to 18 3 British .. 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1401 b l6 0 17 0 Flour, per 2801 b 46 0 48 0 CORNWALC. MARKETS. • Trtuao—Wheat (average) 228.3d.—Barley, Ils. 6d.—Oats, 9s. ST AUSTELL—Wheat, —s. to 23s.—Barley, —s. to Ils.—Oats, 04. to Ss. 0(1. BoOMlN—Wheat (average) 2Bs. He. Od.—Oats, 8s HELSTON—Wheat, 2.25. od.—Barley, llr Od. PENZANCE—Wheat, 225. to 248.—Barley, —s. to 125.--Oats, N. to Bs. o,l.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to Gd.—Pork, aid. to 4d.— Butter, 12d. per Ih. LNK sAan—iNheat, —s. 0(1 to 238.—Barley, 10s. Od.—.oats, :o 7s. tkt. LAUNCEsroN—Wheat (average) 275. Od.—Barley,los. 441-oata, 75. o,l.—Beef, CA.—Mutton, 6d. ST. CoLumu—Wheat, 225. to 23s.—Barley, Its. to I2l.—Beef. and Mutton, 4d. to sd.—Veal, 4d.—Lamb. sd. Thel.K , pii l i A ic n u c l iz ar l ly o. within the A week, the last day or two, has been general, and full price s h ave b een realized for American descriptions. The quantity o f U p l an d s in the market is proportionably rather limited, an d i n t h e f a i r to forPO OL Cotton C T during'f ON MARI~F:T, good fair qualities an advance has, in some instances, been ob tained of per lb. In Brazils, with the exception of Bahias, which are still heavy of sale, there is also a further improvement of to 1 ,4 d; per lb. East India Cotton is scarce, and prices are extremely steady. The sales of the week, including 1,000 bales of Maranham, 1,030 Pernams, and 1,500 American, taken on speculation and 300 American and 200 Surat, for export, amount to 18,500 bags, namely, 390 Sea Island Georgia, 101,4 d. to I3d. ; 70 stained ditto, 6d. to 8 5 'd.; 6,590 Upland ditto, 5%d. to 7 , ,tidt. ; 1,4334 Alabama, 5%d. to md.; 3,200 New Orleans, 6 4 gqd, to BNd.; 1,550 Pernambuco, Bd. to 9V.; 1,160 Bahia and Macaio, to 7!4,d.; 2,730 Maranham, 6 , 4(1. to d. ; 100 West India, s%si. to 6%d. ; 630 Carthagena, dd. to 9d. ; 380 Surat, 4%d. to 5%c1. ; and 40 Bengal, at 43 d. per lb. Import 23,484 bags. Mr. Horace Smith's forthcoming work of fiction denominated " Romance of the Early Ages," is likely to prove as attractive as his celebrated tale of " Zilla." Like that narrative, several of the stories of which his new volumes are composed turn on the powerfully interesting events which occurred on the first dissemination of Christianity and the prosecutions which its early professors had to endure from the Jews and the Romans. Egypt, the Holy Land, and Greece are, we understand, the scenes of three of the Romances; the others being laid in Britain, and on the bleak shores of Scandinavia. In the General Assembly of Scotland, held in Edinburgh on Wednesday, a motion was made by Dr. Dick. soti, for the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the character of the reported doctrines and proceedings of Mr. Ir ving, at the Scotch National Church, with a view to deprive him of his license from the Church of Scotland. It was carried by majority of 46 to 7. BIRTHS. On the Oth inst. the wife of Mr. Thomas Cansdell, of the Hoop and Horse-shoe Tavern, Queen -street, Tower-hill, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the Sth inst. by special licence, at the domestic chapel of George John Legh, Esq., of High I.egh, in the county of Chester, Sir Philip de Malpas Grey Egerton, Bart., of Oulton-park, in that county, to Anna Elizabeth, second daughter of George John Legh, Esq., of High Legh. On the 10th inst. at St. Margaret's, Westminster, Leonard Barber, Esq, to Sarah, eldest-daughter of the late William Walker, Esq. , of Brunswick-square, and the Inner Temple. On the 10th inst. at All Souls, L angham-place. ' Richard Car. venter Smith, Esq. to Miss Elizabeth Webb. DIED. On the Bth inst.' at his chambers in Barnard's-inn, in the 66th year of his age, much regretted, the Rev. S. P. Sheppard of West Wickham, Kent, rector of Constantine, Shropshire. On the 6th inst. in the prime of life, Matilda, the wife of Ed ward Merrick Elderton, Esq., of Queen-square, Bloomsbury. On the Nth inst. at Harleston, Norfolk, at the house of her son-in.law, Thomas Hunter, Esq., Mrs. Wilcox, relict of Thomas Wilcox Esq., late of Wimbledon, Surrey. On the 7th inst. at the Priory, Leamington, while on a visit to the Lady Katharine Howard, Harriet, the wife of Thomas Paul Sandby, Esq., ..0 years Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park, aged 68. On the 9th inst. at his residence, Canterbur-yplace, Lambeth. Joseph Liitlefear,:Esq., aged 70, one of the oldest members of the Court of Assistants (and formerly Master) thecalies of London. NVilliam Allen, of South-place, Fintbury 71uare. 1 11 1 Y 2, 1 \ s l i U .RA R NZ O Lo. Y N 0 00 U N, NC, AT TUE Z PRINTED AsPuonFLFILE,D EXPENSES OF TILE CEN'T'RAL BOARD OF - HEALTH. A Par Harm nt Paper has just been published, giving aU account of the monthly expense of the Central Bard of Health, at Whitehall, and Other establishments dep• tyl e nt on it, fur prevention of clolera. The total amount of the salaries of the Members of the Board, and inspectors cif Hospitals and Medical Officers employed under the hard, is 6.14/., exclusive of a certain sum which will be given to the Chairman, the Han. E. Stewart. Lieut. Marshall has 331. a month; Sir W. Russell, MD, 60/. Sir I). Barry, 424.; Messrs. Macdonald, 331. ; and W. Maclean, Secretary, 20/. ; two clerks, a messenger, and porter to the Board, '..*71/.; four Deputy Inspectors of Hospitals, 89/. per month ; four Staff and Regimental Surgeons. 874 ; two Assist ant Surgeons, 36/. ; three Naval Surgeons, 63/. ; one Asilier Surgeon, in charge of a district, IS/. ; three Assistant Sur ''''° 411. ; Deputy Inspector of Hospitals at Glasgow, Assistant-Surgeons there 271.; Assistant. Surgeon at ci,,_ _verland were 131. ; Assistant Surgeons at Hetton, '271. The , the 644/, ,dnt of Cholera Another Return of Expeniss paid orkasell, limy, and is also published. The ex.-clues of Ore were 522/. The Hammett to Petersh..gb and Dl , cinn 7 ,np:i.k:tluep, iietner xut. up to the .. 'r Board of Hearth was, it wilt de recollected, app ,tited into the diseo'e. It'was pr r eel. precautions mit j,,quire . r eel. Bennett, Sir J. . ; ‘,mpotil( al of Sir R. lialford, Sir \V. Turner, Nl‘Michael, M Gregor, Drs. Warren, Holland, for five months, Seymour, an 4 Mutton. T.lB board sat services 1251. 1 .11 of the members rec..ved for their an, each Board amounted to 761., ;:x.gPi''n'in'iensP.a't‘ 1832. A Prejin' ' a rn June, 1831, to 'take The contingent expenses of the Boa This sum was charged ted tri Pm , !lament. in the Civil List C/Jutiagencies when presented which made the sum tonal 1,934/. . COUNTRY CORN MARKETS Per Quartt'r. Carlisle _ Hexham* Morpeth Petiiith Sheffield Winchester Per 13tishel. Carmarthen rorentry Newcastle (grair - r Northallerton Swansea Warwick Per 8011. Barnardcastle..... Durham . Richmond ...—...... Stockton ...---. DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. s. to s. s. to s. 61 30 56 65 30 35 54 61 3'2 36 57 t 94 61 40 56 66 29 36 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. rt. 66 70 36 39 7 0 9 0 4St 5 4 9 0 9 2 8 0 6 4 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 9 1 9 3 5 6 6 0 7(1 80 39 40 90 10 0 4 6 30 150 17 6 9 0 100 140 160 90 100 150 180 90 96 146 180 96 100 S. to S. 20 25 21 22 24 s.d. s.d. 14 20 36 40 . 36 39 33 40 39 4 0 24 28 22 26 53 60 46 70 50 68 50 70 Beans. S. S. 41 - -. 32 40 38 39 42 46 8. d. v. A. 00 00 56 60 49 50 56 60 70 80 4) 0 00 73 76 00 110 90 100 90 100 0 . 0 n 4 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-March 9 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk -e. 525. to 58s. tine 61:. Lin. and Cam. -e. 525. to 58s. fine 60s. -- Yorkshire -s. 545. to 58s. fine 60s. - White s. 565. to 61s. tine 645. - Foreign, Red -s. 475. to 525. fine 595. White s. -s. to -L tine 645. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Lincolnshire 13s. to 375. fine 41s. - Yorkshire Wold 34s. to 38s. fine 41s. - Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s. Beans, Small - Tick 325. to Ms. fine 36s Oats, Potato 22s. to 245, fine 255. - Poland -s. 20s. to 235. fine 24e. Friesland and Small - Mealing lod. to 12d. per Stone. Shelling 26s. to 295. Od. per Load. Malt 323. 40s fine 445. per Load. Rapeseed 221. Os. 251. Os. 26/. 10s. - per Last. 'Cli MARKETS. Wheat. Barley I Oats. I Beans. 'Oatmeal. . 22 24 30 31 26 30 26 28 20 24 30 34 48 22 26 45 48 43 44 25 29 iout the country. 30 32 33 38 50 58 40 43 38 42 57 62 48 56 52 56 56 58 41 44 40 45 60 64 of the ml 25 30 20 23 20 - 22 28 32 30 33 26 32 32 33 21 23 27 39 28 31 tsiire Vai 18 22 15 17 16 IS 22 24 22 26 20 24 21 2'2 17 21 25 32 24 26 ies throui Aberdeen -. Berwick. Coldstream.,,, Cupar Dundee Elgin —.—. Inverness—. Kelso Perth The size EDINBURGH CORN MARKN►'.--March 7. The supply of Oats, Pease, and Beans to.day was again nncoM. molily large, and although sales were heavy, 20 quarters Potato Oats, for seed, brought 325. and Hopetnun Oata 365. Wheat and Barley a small supply and quick sale, one parcel of Talavera Wheat sold for 725. ; and one parcel of Barley, for seed, brought 40.. per quarter; there was very little s .le for Pease and Beans. Wheat up ss. on the top, and 1.. Bd. on the average. Barley 54 quarters; up 2s. 6d. on the top, and 2s. 2d. on the average. Oats 348 quarters same top, and up !s. lid. on the average. Pease and Beans 26 quarters; down '25. on the top, and 4d. oei the average. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First 72s Od 40s Od I 32s Od 1 34s Od I 34s Od Second 6Bs 05 38s Od 24s Od I 33s 65 33s Od Third 54s Od 33s 6d 18s tfd 32s Od 32s PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Os. 3d. to Os.6d. Fresh Butter, lb. 6.10 d. to Is 2d, 0 4 0 6 Salt 010 1 0 0 5 010 Ditto, per cw t.BO 0 90 0 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doe. 0 9 0 0 1 6 3 0 OatStraw(kp.)l2 0 13 0 0 0 40 0 Wheat Ditto-10 0 II 0 0 0 0 9 Barley Ditto ....10 0 11 0 0 3,1 0 0 Hay,per 1 2 1,4 EDINBURGH HEAL Beef, peer lb. Mutton Veal Lomb, per qr. Callow, cwt.... Quartern Loaf Potatoes. 1741 b. We had a small supply of which sold heavily, at last week' Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 16 0 Barleymeal llO 0 Peasesxeat. 1 10 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12s MARK —March 6. Oatmeal at this day's market, 's prices. Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 2 0 Second ditto Barleyineal 0 1 8 Peasemeal s.-2fl, 155.-3 d . 1 83. —Pea r 1221. coS t