The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-09 00:00:00

NATIONAL D. TMPTION ACT. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SELLING STEEPLECIIAS E of 3 sovs, each, with 20 added Optional selling weights. Once round and a distance. About 2 miles. (12 subs.) Mr. Land's The Slashing Painter (40/.), lOst 91b Mr. C. Hi gg i ns ' s Timothy (20/ ), 9st 111 b (Green) 1 25 The following also started :—Non()LdaelliGi u e g r r e h , j e n ga 37, . )2 1 6 0 Napoleo n , Th e B rewer, The Trojan, and 'lackey L - 12; 12 FREE HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of 5 sovs. each, with 30 added ; orer six flights. Twice round ; about two St miles. (19 su b s. , 12 of whom did not accept.) St. Mr. Saxon's Caurire, 10st ..................... (Archer) 1 l ag Mr. Benstead's 1 . 1 / a hnesbury, 9st. • 411) ...... (Eatwell) 2 The following also started :—Gulnare, Quickstep, 3 Ormsby, and Union Jack. ven. betting on Caurire, 4 2 to 1 agst Quickstep, sto 1 agst any other. Caurire had nearly all the race to himself, and won, pulling hard, St. by half a distance. Quickstep was well up with Malmes- 20 bury to the stand, where he pulled up, and did not pass St. the post. STAND PLATE STEEPLECHASE of 50 sov., for all horses. 15 Optional selling weights. Once round and a half. About three miles. Mr. Sait's Simon th e C e ll arer (201 .), lOst (Owner) 1 10 Mr. Hodgman's Shinrone (201.), lOst (Abiett) 2 10 Mr. Hotham's Little-thought-of (201.), lOst 25 • „ _ (Lamplugh, jun.) 3 10 The following also started :—Louis the First and Peg- 110 j top. C. Boyce weighed for Captain Scott's Victress, but she did not go to th e p os t. 20K SEAMEN'S HOSPITAL SOCIETY- The quarterly court of the Seamen's Hospital Society —` iet i y was i held yesterday at the office of the society, rig v , H. Blyth, Esq., _ street, City; John Labouchere, Esq., Captainin the chair. Dixon, Captain n t id —John Wild, Esq. M adan, Captain Nairne, t Esq., &c. Felga e,20 It. Grant, Esq , G. Lindsay, Esq., Wm. Captain Probyn, G. Soanes, Esq., 5 %I° Seha7b.le.enpresentof e n. of March, from which it appeared 20 annual subscriptions financial statement from the 20 legacy h the late taa.listinll. 12811 in... 17s. , dm en , d donations, ds 6301. 14s. ld. ; 20 received in petty, 71. 12s. 7d, • expenditure for the ardwick, 550/. ; unclaimed pro- 5 _ g a total of 2,605/. 13. 7d. The 20 741/. 4s. 4d. c'" ief a balance in hand of 20,? Prom the Ist of Jannaltolhe 31st of March there had 5 been reeseBivB7 onlbobt:radrcjan 1, 13;4'4'1'. anclzfQreign From her Majesty's ship s , 9 .:ruought hospital ship : vessels, merchant 20 in Isiteceived since the 5 Now on board :—Siek, 111 ; Coriy a r c raak i 73 - a• total of 732. 10 '2l'9olo', 340. 20 discharged since the Ist of Jan uary, s ti e l e s il . t , 1 ; fit for duty, 2; first establishment of the hospital, tice request of patients, from the Ist of January to the 3141.461 i It was announced that Mr. Labonehere at Out- 10 Mr. Cardwell, the President of the Board' of 20 ported to the committee that her Majesty's ade, luta re. 33i desirous Of being relieved of their annual liaglZirr n es t resp ect 10 1 2 . Z to the society by an immediate payment in lieu thereof,-a - wished the committee to state what sum they would consider , an equivalent for the society's interest under the MeerCantile Pg Marine Act, and also under the Merchant Seamen's Winding 2-C -up Act. The committee considered their interest under the Mercantile Marine Act would be 23 ,0001., and 4000/. under ji the Merchant Seamen's Fund Act, and Mr. labouchere was 21 instructed to wait upon Mr. Cardwell to represent the same. 2 1 A resolution was passed empowering the treasurer to pur- 2 chase 10001. stock in the Three -and-a- Quarter per Cents. on 2 behalf of the society. The reports were re ce i ve d and adopted, and the meeting 1 terminated by a vote of tha n k s t o the chairman. EUREKA.—As an instance of what has been done I,t isli rs /IA !If.; Pgureka, by lucky diggers, we may mention that one da y - st week a. party of six sold their gold, amounting t -,, i lbs. weight, or 2,160 ounces, to Messrs. Thorne: ke and Co., for the sum of 7,574/. Only a portion of ld came by escort,--Geelong Advertider. • r.. .• • • Az`' a a (Frain the Times. ) Mr. Gladstone shows a full sense of what the country expects from a grand financial operation when he says that the ultimate aim of the Government and the key of his Resolutions is to lay the foundation of a permanent irredeemable 21 per cent. stock. To do that in one way or another is the wish of all who contemplate our huge debt with some hope of its final extinction. As successive Chancellors of the Exchequer have reduced terte of interest from 5 to 4 and from 4 to 3, there was nothing very unreasonable in the hope that we may see the rate lower still, there being no more reason why it should stand at 3 than why it should have stood at 4. No wonder then that this, which Mr. Gladstone calls the key of his Resolutions, should qccupy a prominent place in the scheme, as rumour first brought it to the commer cial world. The Resolutions, however, have by no means this single object and this simple character. They raise the interest as well as lower it ; they add to the %capital as well as extinguish it ; they create new Annuities and still newer Echequer Bonds ; they leave . much to the discretion of Government, and still more to the taste of the public ; they make it impossible to describe in what state the Debt and the national charge may be ten years hece ; while sweeping away a few small deno minations of debt, producing no inconvenience, and scarcely known to the public at large, they introduce novelties of the greatest magnitude, which may possibly embrace larger portions of the National Debt. These novelties, and this variety of operation, may or may not be beneficial to the State or to the public creditor. We only observe on the complexity of the scheme, the un certainty of its working, and the gratuitous character of 1 its innovations. We are not denying its sagacity ; time alone can establish or confute its pretensions on that point. We must, however, confess to a certain degree of surprise at this invasion of the inventive, not to say the imaginative, faculty into the regions of finance. We may be wrong : Mr. Gladstone may be right when he caters to the commercial appetite with such a profu sion of dishes ; but the public cer t a i n l y expects sim plifi. St. cation, and finds the contrary in this instance. 12 Mr. Gladstone app ears t o h ave h ad in his eye three 50 different tastes or exigencies. First, the views of those 161 who think we ought to extinguish the capital of the debt St: by paying , a higher rate of interest. Secondly the 20 views of those who, looki ng on t h at capital as an rith- li metical abstraction, hold th e i n t erest to be the pubstan- t tial ingredient of the d e bt, an e the thing to be reduced at any price. But inasmuch as in some cases this de crease of interest is to be purchased by an increase of capital, and in others by a more convenient and nego tiable form of security, hence a thrrd taste is consulted by the proposed issue of Exchequer Bonds. These are, in fact, the three heads of the scheme, and we deny neither their fitness to the public wants, nor the pos 40 - sible co nven i ence of these financial instruments to fu 25 - ture Chancell ors o f th e E xc h eq uer. Supposing, as Mr. g Gladstone appears to contemplate the operations should St. extend to a hundred millions of stock, pretty equally 8 divided between all three operations, then we should se gain not less than a quarter of a million per annum St. in reduced interest, and, setting off the diminished 50 capital against the increased, we should strike off rather 25 less than three millions from the aggregate capital at 100 the end of 40 years. At the end of that period there St. will also be the power of redemption at par, which may or may not then prove a very great convenience and 25 An gain to the country. Long before 1894, h owever, the whole of the funds may have b een em b raced in the 20 working of this measure, with a corresponding de- St. crease in the annual interest paid to the fundholders, as 15 also in the ultimate capital. As concerns the fund- 50 holders, the Chancellor of the Exchequer meets the St. wishes of those who live on their dividends, or who 16 for other reasons, do not look far into futurity, with 16 an investment which will take away 2s. 3d. per 0 cent. from their incomes, but at any future period di minish their capital by 171, 10 s. per cent. Ile meets 20 - the case of settlements, trustee-ships, charitable funds, 10 20 and the like, with au i nvestment that will diminish St their incomes ss. per cen t ., b at leave ' the capital 101. per cent. larger in 1894. He meets the convenience a of merchants , b an k ers, and others withsecurity of a perfectly negotiable character, and which may be compared to a bank-note, not payable on demand, but instead thereof paying interest at 2 2 1 per cent. Per haps wr are to regard these three securities as so many experiments or feelers on the taste and demands of the public ; a n d th at the glory of reducing, if not finally extinguishing the National Debt is to be awarded at last to the most successful of the three financial creations. Unwilling possibly to risk his character and his oppor tunity in one great experiment, Mr. Gladstone has sent three shafts at the mark. The one that hits is to be tried on the whole National Debt. We certainly did regard with great apprehension the possibility of an overwhelming number of fundholders choosing to accept the Two -and-a-Half per Cents. at the present loss of only ss. per cent. 'per annum, and the ultimate gain of 101. per cent, in capital—a result which might possibly hand over to the Chancellor of the Ex chequer in 1894 the onerous task of redeeming at par near 50 ,000,0001., added to the capital of the debt. Mr. Gladstone has done justice to this apprehension, though a contemporary affects to think it only a mark of , ignorance, or stupidity, or malice ; he accordingly con sents to limit the creation of these Two-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities to 30,000,000/., the same limitation as - that proposed to the new Exchequer bonds. Such a precaution may, perhaps, be superfluous, but there can St. be no harm in it, and in case of that amount of the new 5 stock being taken, there will be time to consider th e ex - St. pediency of another issue. Supposing the experiments 20 entirely successful, and the whole of the national debt ~t; eventually commuted into these three new securities in equal proportions, the State would save thereby 6, about two millions in annual interest and some 6, thirty millions in capital. That would be a con siderable achievement. We confess, however, to 3, being rather ambitious in our demands.' We had 5' hoped that even more might be done before the 7 1 end of the century. The guarantees given by the reso fij - lutions before the house would close all prospect of more being done in this direction, and would make Mr. Glad- ~6 ; stone's name memorable for at least half a century from " 20 the simple fact that he bad monopolised its opportuni ties. All things considered, those opportunities are St. great and may be greater still ;soit is not without a 5 pang that we see them all forestalled at once in one St financial scheme, however multiform and elastic i+ may be. St. St St. St. 10 St. 25 25 St. EPSOM STEEPECHASES. 50 GREAT METROPOLITAN STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP of 10 St. sovs, each, w i t h 100 added ; t h e secon d h orse t o save his stake. Twice round a distance. About four 16 miles. Winners extra. The highest weight accepting St. being under list 71b, it has been raised to that weight St. and the others in proportion. (24 subs., 14 of whora did not accept.) St. Mr. Mason'; British Yeomen, 11st 71b (S. Darling, jun.) 1 50 Mr. Osborne's Ringleade-, St. lOst 51b (Archer) 2 The follo w i ng also started : Maria Day, Hero, Janus, and Sam H oo d . 50 THE 211 ABB MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. Shr. I Paid.l RAILWAYS. It. 1100 '.O 1 kii Aberdeen Ambo.. Nottng. Boat & 'LAIL Junct Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct. Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.. Cork, Blackrock and Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian (E 25 L. and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (181. E.& H.) Eastern Counties..... Eastern Union, Class A. (late E. U. Sh.) Do do A I all a I 28 :7il 11 It. 100' it. 100 i 0 all i 0 all ;0 all I 45 o all 15 I all r 5 all L 8 all lo all ',5 all 15 8i ;5 all 100 0 all Do., B. and C....,,,,, East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk & Birming. June it. 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 10 l j Edin. and Peebl es it. 100 Editt. Prth. & Dundee it. 100 i Glasgow& S. Western it. 100 ' Great Northern Stk It. 100 jDo., A. Stock t. 100 IDo. , B. Stock 100 Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 100 Great Western 11 Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 111 Do• , 'I nirds 100 Lancasli.& Yorkshire 15 Do., Viahs 4 111 Do., Wst. Riding Un all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt b all London & Blackwall 3 Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. .100 Loud. Brigt. &S. Cat 100 London &N. Western 12 Do., Fifths. 1 Do. ,1:10 Shill. &B. C 100 London &S. Western 42i Do., £5O 34 Do., £4O all Londerry. &Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch. Shef. &Lincln 4.1 Do., Man.& Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Do.Birming. &Derby 471 Midland G. West. (In) 17 Do. i Shares a ll Newcas:le & Carlisle 100 Newmarket 3 Do. Bury Extension. 16 Newp. Aberg.&Hftd 7i Newry & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor 100 Norfolk a ll Do., New 3A Northn.Counties Un 106 North British 13 North Devon, No. 1 64 Do., No. 2 ( a n Do., A A Def erre d . r 5 Do., i B Guaranteed' 176 North Staffordshire hii North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. June 1100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland ... 100 Shrewsbury & Birmg 100 Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock 8 Shrewsby.& Hereford a ll Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) ... all Do. Halves do .... ..... all Do Do. Oswestiy 6i Shropshire Union all South Devon.... 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yorksh.River Dun 5 Do. 16i Stockton & Hartlepl •19 Thames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford& Limerick 13 West Cornwall ILls Wimbledon&Croydn 1 Woodford 100 York Newcti. &Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 114 Do. G. N. E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland. PREFERE 100 'Aberdeen. all Do., No. 2,7 p. c.. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. Si 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares . 100 'Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5, 1 , per cent. 34 Cork&Bandon 5 p.c. all Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction all E. Aug. (705.) 6p. c. all Do. (£5), 7 per cent. 2 Do. (£7l7s), 7. p ct. all Eastern Counties Ex- tension, 5 p. C. No. all Do., No: 2 all Do., New 6p. c. St all Eastern Union Scrip .... Guar. 6 per cent... ,100 East Lancash. 6p. cts. all Edinb. Prth.&Dund. 100 Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent... 100 Great Northn. sp. e. 100 Do. 5 p. c., Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem.., all Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights 6 Gt. Westu. (Berks k Hants Ex. 5 p. e.), 100 Great Western, fixed' 4. per cent 6 Lan - . & York. F. £2O 100 Do., 6 p. c., StCock 100 Londonand Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c 100 Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St all Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 100 Do. New Guar. 6p. c 5 London ez. S. Western, Con. Thirds 10 Londonderiy&Coler, A Shares Lon(lndry. & Ennisk. Shares all Mauch.,Shef.,&Lin., Shams, No. 1 all Do., New, £lO 3 Do., .£6 all Marypt. 6z Cr rl. 4p. c, all Do. 4i per cent._ 8 Do AI Hid. Consol. 6 p.e.St. DO Do, Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 5 Do. Ffef. 4 . 4 percent. all Norfolk Extension... all Do. Guar. 51 per et. all Do. Wavenoy Valley 5 per cent 100 North British all North Staffordshire.. 1.00 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. X15,6p. c. 9 Do. all IShrewsbmy & New Guaranteed all Shrewsby. & Chester Nor.W. (Min), 3 p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent. all South Devon 11 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading) Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. all S. Yo rksh. 4p. c. Guar. 3 Wat3rfd.& "Cilk. 6p. c. 100 Yorz, Newcastle, and P 3 - zwick, 4 p. c. Prof 5 Do 10 'York & N. Midland, 11. & S. Purchaso... 3 I Antwrp.&ltotterdr. m 3 Belgian Eastn. Junct. all Charleroi & Erquelin 8 Dijon and Besan9on 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indian 1 Do. Extension all Gt. Indian Peninsula 7 Gd. Junct. of France 15A,Gt. Westn. of Canada - Shares 2 Lucca and Pistoja, 6 per cent. prof 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 2 Do. 3 Do. (Canal).. 2 Do. 6p. cent. pref 7 Lyons & 3fedierrall• 7i Madras 29 Maria Antonia 10 Do. New all Namur k Liege (with interest all all Do. (emsi nterest) Northern of Pnce all Do. flo/. 3 p re Eds (:luY•ll.B4Aans.Shs.] all NorweglanTrult.Prel 10 Paris and Lyons, .. all Paris and orleauS. . all Paris and Rouen .. 11l all Paris and Strasbourg 4 ParisCaen&Cherbrg. 1 54. Quebec & Richmond all Rouen and were.... Sambre and Meuse... 4 Do. 5,11 per cent. p re f . 4 Southern of P rance.. 2g. Upper India Scrip._ i all West Flanders.... 6 o. 5i per c. Pref... , 9 Western of Prance_ 1 2 West. of Switzerland 1 3 New Zea1and........ 10 , 20 10 20 FOREIGN. Closing Prices Yesterday. Business done this day. 29i - - 9 - 104 7i - sial 21 22 3i —24 d 104-105 65 -65 i 22 22 18i -- 19 1 i - 1" :3 pm i 8 - - 5i 3i - 4 134 - 132 [0 - 11 7i - 8 '2 - 74 55 - 57 74 - 76 32 - 34 62 - 64 83 - 84 48 - 50 123 -125 108 —lO9 ' 93 9 6 7i 92 94 13 13ip, 77 —78 k 4t —4i d 34 3 d 16. 9h —9 1 104 -- 105 1 121 -- 1214 2i -34 p lg la P 914 -92 h 5 -- 4c 4 -- 3d 10i -- 11 19 -- 21 30 -- 31 34 3d 754 -- 764 43 --45 1 ad 51 53 3 1 31 I 33 3d - 33 84 - 9. 53 - - 55' - 35 —36 d ... - .. 4i 3,' d 8 -- 84 1 23 3,i 533 54 1 98 100 61 —63 i 65 67 73 - 76 18 -- 20 9 10 14 -- 15 34 -- 3 d 21 -- 22 761 -- 77 37 39 121 -- 131 4 44 19 -- 21 34 -- 31 14 . 4 -- 151 9 -- 91 29 -- 31 94 -- 9i 69 70 7: 7 d 2i —21 d, 60 61 10 - St. St. 20 10 St. I 10 54 1 2& 76i 38 I sot CE SHARES. 106 1 : 108 105 - 107 19 —2O xct 6 64xd' 3# 3i 4i -2 p 1$ 11 p 14 - 15 Is 3 19 31— 3 127 -- lx2g 1111 - 113 - s - 7. —lob - 151 - 153 .50 - 1531 3 1 -- 3 ip 10 -11 13/1 —l3axt 8 - 9 10:4 - 1149 . - 151 - JP 224 - 23 54 - - 24 108 - 110 25 - 26 2j -- 2i p 101 -- 114 171 14 par 254 —26 i 19 20. d spar 101 - 103 5 - Par i PI Id -- 4d 1 -- 1,1 14i -- 151 2 -- 2jp 2i -- 2 d 5j -- 6 p ld -- p 1 2 pl i - i p -8 - 5 11 - - 2 P iP i 9 -11 pl 2 - ii 8 5 6 36i 363 14 . 15 1 9} 18 __ 184 4 4 2 " ----- 41? R i l --__ 1 4 21 4i _ si a A p 2( , ) , --- 2? ..4 — 0, ... a 4t -- 4i - 9i....._ I ad I li li pm 1 20 1 x(1 56 50 100 25 149 i A 5A li 18i p 15. t P 25k 6 .i . r . I r par - lop' R d Oi FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of YESTERDA Y. sir) p a id R A/LwAu. Leasing Closing Prices Business Compans. Yesterday, this day. 50 all Bedford and London & • Bletchley.... N. West ... 304 all Birm. & Oxfd. • ••• guarantee ... Gt•Westn. 304 all Do.withoutgr Do — 304 all Birm.Wolv. & Duclleygnar. Do • ••• 304 all Do.wtht,guar. Do — St. 100 Buckghamsh .L. &N.W. 105 —lO7 50 all ClydesdaleJc: Caledon... 53 —54 St. 100 E,Lincoln. gr• 6p. cent .. ... Gt.Notrhu 152 154 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Gt.Westn. 32i 331 100 all Hrtlpl. Dc. & Yk. New. flailway & Berw.. 50 all Hull & Selby Y.&N.Md. 112 114 25 all Do. Shares Do 56 57 121 all Do. 4 Shares. Do • 271 284 12 all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern 134 144 • 20 all Do. Preference Do 2SA —26ixd 20 all Lowestoft gr. all 4 per cent... Norfolk 194 194 a d 20 all Do. 6 per ct. Do 26 27 51 all Mane: .Thrton. Ln.&N.W and Matlock & Midld 2 - 31 50 all Middlesbro' & Stcktou & Red car. Darlingt. [OO all Midld.Bradfd. Midland lO5 107 50 all Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count 64 66 50 all Do. 6 per ct.. Do 50 all Do.FiLedsp.c Do .. . . 25 all Prest. & Wyre L. dtIS. W &Ln&Yl 12i 11 Do. Shares. )o St. 100 Roystn.&HL. Gt.Northn 149 151 St. 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do 149 151 25 186 Shef. Roth. & Tian.eash.sk Goole g.5.p.c Yorksh 12 9i Staffordsh.. MrMClean 1 d 9 50 all WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent ... Darling . 25 all Do.. Do 32. 33 St. 100 Wilts &Somrst,Gt.Westn lo2§ —103 i Debt hereby give notice, that the sum of six hundred and four thousand three hundred and eighty-nine pounds six teen shillings and sixpence, being one-fourth part of the said surplus of two million four hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and fifty-nine pounds six shillings and three pence, will be applied und er th e prov i s i ons of the said act, between the 7th day of April, 1853, and the sth day of July, 1853, to the following purposes ; viz : To be applied towards the reduction of the National Debt Add interest receivable on account of do nations and bequests, to be applied to the purchase of stock WHITEHALL, ARPIL 6. The Queen has been pleased to order a writ to be issued under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland, for summoning the Right Honourable George Stevens Byng (commonly called Viscount Enfield), to the House of Peers, by the style and title of Baron Strafford of Harmondsworth, in the county of Middlesex. The Queen has been pleased to appoint George Granville William Sutherland Leveson Gower Esquire (commonly called Marquis of St a ff or d) , t o be Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of the Shire of Cromarty, in the room of Rode rick MacLeod, Esquire, deceased. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Reeve, Esq., Barrister at Law, to be Registrar of the Privy Council, under the provisions and as regards the purposes of the Act of the 3rd and 4th William the Fourth, cap. 41, " for the better administration of justice in her Ma jesty's Privy Council." DOWNING-STREET, APRIL 6. The Queen has boe - i pleaced to appoint Lieutenant- General the Honourable GeorgeCathcart, Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, to be her Majesty's High Commis sioner for the settling and adjustment of the affairs of the territories in Southern Africa, adjacent or contiguous to the eastern and north-eastern frontier of that colony, save and except the territories of theOrangeßiver Sovereignty, and Sir George Russell Clerk, K.C.8., and Charles Mos tyn Owen, Esq., to be Assistants to the High Commis sioner. 2,415 16 4 £606,805 12 10 National Debt Office, April 4, 1853. A. Y. SPEARMAN, Comptroller-General. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. James Bishop lionnsham, schoolmaster, Hornsey, William Bryan, baker, Gilbert-street, Oxford -street. BANKRUPTS. George Ireland, bricklayer, Old Church-street, Padding ton, to surrender April 21, at twelve, and May 19, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, 3, Coleman -street Buildings, City ; Spicer, solicitor, 118, Chancery-lane. Joseph Simon Samuel, watch manufacturer and jeweller, Hatton-garden, Middlesex, April 21, at two, and May 26, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official as signee, 3, Coleman-street Buildings, City; Teague, Crown court, Cheapside. William Brittain, builder, Hendon, April 15 and May 20, at half-p as t t we l ve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Can nan, official assignee, Aldermanbury ; Reed, Coleman street, City. William Reading, builder, Charles-street, West, Pad dington, April 20, at two, and May 20, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee, Basing hall-street ; Bicknell, Connaught-terrace, Edgeware-road. Sarah Mayo, hotel and, tavern keeper, Birmingham, April 18, and May 9, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Cox and Sons, Sise-lane ; Gem, Docker, and Son, and Bloxham, Birmingham. _ Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Sir George Russell Clerk, K.C.8., to be ler Majesty's Special Com missioner for the settling and adjustment of the affairs of the aforesaid territories of the Grange River Sovereignty. FOREIGN-OFFICE, APRIL 6. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Alb nfeert Strekeisen as Vice-Consul in London for the Swiss Cod eration. has bee? M EBB pleased PAL to appoint MARCH R ly c i l li l e B m . The Queen ' Topham, Esq., to be Lieut enant of her Majesty ' s Honou ra bl e C orps of Gentlemen -at-Arm s, vice Sir James Tyler, retired. The ST. JAMES'S-PALACE, APRIL 7. • Queen has been pleased, on the t'of Right Honourable Lord Foley,to !lemma the appoint James Peters, Esq. one of her Majest y's Honorable Corps of Gentlemen - at-Aims, vice Topham, promoted. WAR-OFFICE APRIL 8. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Major John Daniel Dyson, to be Lieutenant-Col 'by ' Colonel purchase, vice Arthur, who retires ; Captain Edwards Dyson, to be Major, by Purchase, vice John Daniel Dyson ; Lieutenant Frank Chaplin, to be Captain, by purchase, vic e Ed war d s Dy son ; Cornet James Swinburne, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Chaplin, Ap r il 8. 11th Light Dragoons—Serjeant-Major Fenry Kauntze to be Quartermaster, vice Gilleland, appointed Cornet and Adjutant 3d Dragoon Guards, April 1. 2d Regiment of root—Ensign William Henry! Spencer to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vide Tolcher, who retires, April S. 7th Foot—Lieutenant George Rashleigh Edggll to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wynn, promoted in the 2d West India Regiment; Second Lieutenant Edwarcl Barker Prescott, from the 87th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Edgell ; Ensign James Molesworth, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wardl aw , whose pro mo ti on , by p urc h ase , on th e 25th March, has been cancelled, April 8. 22d Foot—Lieutenant Herbert George Bowden to be Captain, without purchase, vice Johnston, deceased, Feb. 22 ; Lieutenant Robert Colvin Jones to be Captain, without purchase, vice Bowden, whose promotion, without pur chase on the 15th March, has been cancelled ; Ensign John Burke to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Jones ; Ensign Bonar Millett Deane, from the 96th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Burke, March 15. 23d Foot—Second Lieutenant Henry Clarke Jervoise to to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir Henry Or lando Robert Chamberlain, Bart., who retires, April 8. 36th Foot—Ensign William Tyler Stuart to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Morgan, deceased, March 3: 41st Foot—Ensign George Robert Fitzroy to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Alexander, who retires, April 8. 51st Foot--Ensign Frederick Edwa'-d Medburst to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Westropp, deceased, Jan. 24. 54th Foot —Lieutenant Charles Fitzroy Barnett, from 75th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Le Pelley,' who ex changes, April 8. 58th Foot—Ensign Michael Tighe, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Duncan, deceased, March 13. 59th Foot—Lieutenant Martin Francis Kirwan, from. half-pay, 62nd Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Trevor, ap pointed to the 4th Foot ; Ensign Monteford Spread Morgan, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kirwan, who retires, April 8. 64th Foot—Schoolmaster-Serjeant Louis D'Acosta, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Tuke, promoted, March 14. John Brandon, draper, Pensnett, Staffordshire, Apri 23 and May 21, at one, a t the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Doddington, Dudley. MINES. 1 all Agua Fria lOs all Anglo Californian — pll 10 2 Australasian.. — 1 p 20 5 Australian -5/ 1 all Australian Cordillera pl/ 1 all Australian Freehold. id -1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden(Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austria. Gold # p 1# 20 13.5 British Iron • 6 8 35 24} Brazilian Imp. (issued at a pm.) 5 54 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 6i - 7 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 30 —3l 1 h Carson's Creek.. p ar —4 p 40 all Cobre Copper 47 —4B 5 1 Colonial Gold 24 —24 p 14 Copiapo 6 Si. all CopperMinersof Eng B5 95 25 all Do. Preference. 5 all English and- Austin Copper Smeltg. Co l4 1 d 20 all General l7 —l9 2 all Great Nugget Vein l4 —24 p 3 all Great Polgooth 1 —l/ p 1 all Lake Bathurst 4 dis— par 1 all Liberty g - # p 1 all Loud. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co / 1 all Mariquita d par 10 9 Mexican &S. Amerie 7— 8/ 1 all New Granada — p 14 1 all Nouveau Mondo l4 —li p 5 1 Port Philip P 1 4 1 all Quartz Rock par CI p 50 all Rhymney Iron ___ 26 15 Do. New 7 8 30 10i tiago de Cuba - 7 1 all South Australian par— 4 p 10 7 Tin Croft ll —l3 284 all United Mexican 6l 6 1 1 all Waller 1 all West Granada p 1 1 all West Mariposa par 4 p 1 all Yuba 4p P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 92 - 93 50 all British N. American 60 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 1 lip 100 25 Colonial — •• . 100 20 Commercial of Lon don • 32/ •• 4 English Scottish and Australian 24 2b 20 74 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 3 = 4.1 p 50 20 London and County 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Loud. d; Westminstea 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 224 National of Ireland 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 55 56xd x d 25 5 Do. New — 100 25 Provincial of Irclano 10 all Do. New — 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp. Co / dis— par 25 25 South Australia 5O 52 25 all Union of Australia 774 —78 A 24 Do. New — 50 10 - Union of London.. 40 all Unioa of Madrid MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult 100 102 20 6 Austrlasn.Pcific.Mail' 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail 38A1Brit. America. Land ... ... 69 70,1 100 323, Canada — 5 5 ICrystal Palace — I DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. J. L. Mortimer, Exeter, linendraper, April 29, at two— T. E. Southee, Fleet-street, advertising agent, April 29, at two—R. Whittaker, Landport, Hampshire, outfitter, May. 2,• at twelve—J. Richards, George-yard, Lombard street, metal broker, May 3, at half-past twelve—T. Hol land, Langham ' Surrey, manufacturer, May 3, at eleven— C. Klug, New Bond-street, Revelenta Arabica importer, May 3, at twelve—G. Collier, Louisa Collier, and Matilda Collier, Hatton-garden, bookbinders, May 3, at half-p as t eleven.T. and J. Jarvis, Great Bush-lane, Cannon-street, wine and spirit merchants, April 30, at one—E. Win stanley and H. G. Winstanley, Poultry - , chemists, April 30, at two—A. B. Gramville, Piccadilly and Wembly, Middlesex, boarding and lodging-house keeep ers , Ap r il 30 , at half-past one—. Williams .and R. M. Marchant, Great George-street, Westminster, Liverpool, and Camp den, Gloucestershire, contractors for public works, April 30, at twelve. In the Connbry. F. Rufford, Stourbridge, Worcestershire, banker, April 30, at ten, at the Court, Birmingham—E. Dickinson, Wol verhampton, corn and provision m erc h a nt, M a y 25, a t twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—H. James and T. James, Rushall, Staffordshire, millers, May 4, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham —W. Tanner, Alcester, Warwickshire, draper, May 18, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—W. H. Barrett, Gloucester, miller, May 6, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol —C. Hare, Huddersfield, manufacturing che mist, May 10, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds. ad I 20 75th Foot—Lieutenant Ernest Le Pelley, from 54th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Barnett, who exchanges, April 8. 80th Foot—Lieutenant and Adjutant George Bodle, to be Paymaster, vice Hunt, deceased ; Ensign Erasmus Burrowes to be Adjutant, vice Bodle, appointed Pay master, April 8. 84th Foot—Captain Henry Frederick Saunders, from half-pay unattached, to be Captain, vice Half hide, who exchanges, April 8. 87th Foot —First Lieutenant, Edward W. Johnson Ful cher, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Herring, who re tires ; Second Lieutenant Charles Edmund Goddaid, to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fulcher, April 8. 97th Foot—Thomas r Biggs to be Captain, without pur chase, vi ce M`Caskill, who retires u p on full. pay ; Ensign Richard Francis Holmes to be Lieute nan t, with Out pur clia63,.vice riggs, April 8, HEmoßmaoum.—The Commission of Lieutenantlßichard. Raphael Heade, of the 94th Foot, as Adjutant, has been ante-dated to 23d Jul. , 1852 .111 y, _ ADMIRALTY, APRIL 4. The following pro-notions, dated the 2d inst:, conse quent on the death, on the Ist inst. of Admiral of the White Sir Thomas Livingstone, Bart., have this day taken place :—Admiral of the Blue the Right Hon. Thomas Earl of Dundonald, G.C.8., to be Admiral of the White; Vice- Admiral of the Red the Right Hon. Lord William Fitz roy, K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue ; Vice-Admiral of the White Sir John Lou;s, Bart., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red ; Vice-Admiral of the Blue the Right Hon. Gran ville George Lord Radstock, C. 8.. to be Vice-Admiral of the White; Rear-Admiral of the Red Henry Hope, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the Blue ; Rear , Admiral of the White Charles Sotheby to be Rear-Admiral of the Red ; Rear-Admiral of the Blue David Price to be Rear-Admiral of the White • Captain Geor ge F re d er i c k Ri ce to b e Rear- Admiral of the Bh'e. 35 Australian Agricult ;0 6 Austrlasn.Pcific.Mail, 0 5 Australis. Royal Maill 38A I Brit. America. Land' ' 323, Canada ..., 1 5 Crystal Palace 2 Crystal Pal. of France' 1 Eastern Steam 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir 14 Gen. Ste. m Navigat 50 Generali_ilrew Steam. -- ... 2i f lrish Bee ,root Sugar all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 2 Netherlands 1and....1 Nrth .of Europe Steam all Peninsular & Oriental 25 Do. Do. 60 Royal Mail Steam....! 25 South Austral. Land 51 53 1 Submar. Telegraph...! 2 Universal Emigration) and Colonisation...) 28i Van Diemen's Land.. 21i —22 i Co - nmission by the Queen. Duke of Cornwall's Rangers Regiment of Militia— Thomas Frederick Hill Alms, Esq., to be Adjutant, Feb. 23. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Southampton. The Right Honourable Henry Howard Molyneux, Earl of Carnarvon, to be Deputy Li eu t enan t ; t h e R i ght Honourable William Bingham, Lord Ashburton, to be Deputy Lieutenant ; the Honourable James Kenneth Howard to be Deputy Lieutenant • Sir Apchibald Kepp e l Macdonald, Bar one t, t o b e Deputy Lieutenant, April 2. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Selkirk. William Henry Walter Scott, Earl of Dalkeith, to be Deputy Lieutenant; Robert Keith Pringle, Esq., of Broad meadows, to be Deputy Dieutenant, March 23. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Stafford. King's 0 - wn Ist Regiment of Staffordshire George Teriiant, Esq., late Major in Her Majesty's 85th Regiment, to be Major, vice Talbot, promoted, April 1 ; Ensign Walter Vernon He. ord to be Lieutenant, Dec. 14. King's Own 3rd Regiment of Staffordshire Militia— Colonel Charles Bagot, late of the Ist or Grenadier Regi ment of Guards, to be Lieuten an t-C o l one l C ommar d ant ; George John Wood, Doctor of Medicine, to be Surgc.iyi ; Samuel Mayer Turner, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, April 5. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Northumber landshire. Northumberland Regiment of Militia—Ralph Henry philipson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, April 2; William Adamson, Cent., to be Lieutenant, April 4. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire. Warwickshire Militia—Major Sir Thomas George Skip with, Bart., of the Ist R eg i men t, to b e Lieutenant -Colonel of the 2nßegiment ; Brevet - Lieatenant-Colonel Charles Wi se to be Major in the lst Regiment, vice Granville,• changed to thp 2nd Regiment : Charles Henry Beck, Gent., to be Lieutenant in the Ist Regiment, April 2. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the TowezHamlets. Queen's Own (Light Infantry) Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia —Henry William Burgess, Esq., to be , Captain, April 5. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Ist Regiment of West York Militia—Richard Dyneley Chamberlain, Gent., to be Lieute nan t, M arch 17. 2d Regiment of est York Militia—Frederick William Thompson, Esq., to be Captain ; Richard Edward Davies, Esq., to be Captain, March, 24. 3Regiment of West York Militia—Henry Mainwaring, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Whitaker, resigned, March 10; Ferrara Compton Clargci Lotus, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Dunhill, resigned ; William Manley Eastwood, Gent., to be Lieutenant ; Cockcroft Sutclife, Gent., to! be Lieu tenant, March 19 ; Henry Neville Cotton Thurston, Gent., to be Ensign, March 24. 4th Regiment of West York Militia—The Right Honour able Lord Beaumont to be Lieutenant -Colonel Command ant, Marc►a 29. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire. Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry Cavalry— Cornet Thomas Fraser Grover to bo Lieutenant ; Edward Peach William Miles, Gent., to be Cornet, March 26. BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap 32, for the Week ending on Saturday the 2d day of April, 1t53. ISSUE DEPAJITMENT. Z Notes issued .... „ .. 32,570,030 Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities.... • . 2,984, 1 400 Gold coin and bullion 18,55,4876 Silver bution...... • • 19,154 £32,570,030 23 2,570,030 MARSHALL, Chid Cashier. Dated the 7th day of April, 1853, .ARTUENT. Government securities (includg•Dead Weight Annuity) .... ••• • . 1 3,464.1538 Other securities.... • • 16 . ,385,12<, Notes • • ••• • • 10,152A0 Gold and silver Coin 437,419 410,469,037 if. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY . EVENING, APRIL 9. 1853. ILINES LEASED A T VTIT rr n D/CM A __- COURSE OF EXCH. :A.NGEr--YESTERDAY. Amsterdam.-- .... 11 17% Ditto, three months .. 11 19 Rotterdam ............ 11 19 Antwerp .............. 25 SO Brussels .............. 25 30 Gibraltar •• •• •• ••..•••• (Leghorn •• •• •• •• •• •• •30 5 Genoa ........... . 25 35 Milan •• •• •• ••• •••• llamburgh ............ 13 BV, •• •• .... 25 73 Ditto, three months •• 25 ZO ~........ 25 30 Bourdeaus Frankiort-on•Maine .... 1201 A Venice •• •• • • •• •• • • •-• '•• Naples ..•• •••••••••• •• 41 % Prim rno •• •• •• .• •• .• •• 124% Messina ....... . 125 Lisbon ••••••e••• •• •• •• 5316 Oporto .......... Rio Janeiro .. Buenos Ayres • . • • New York, 60 days' sight Philadelphia .......... Berlin .............. Vienna .. • • ............ 11 7 Trieste ............ •• 8 Pet ersburgh 38 Madrid ................ 50% Cadiz • • •• • • .• IP• • 00000 •• 50 Barcelona.. ...... • • • ... I PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold in Bars 43 17 9 Portugal Gold Coln .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 New Dollars ...... '0 0 0 Silver in bars . . 0 i 1% WEST FLANDERS RAILWAY. Yesterday, the fifteenth half-yearly meeting of this company was held at the offices 61, Moorgate-street. Mr. W. P. Richards took.the chair, and said the report al ready published entered fully into the condition and pros pects of the railway that it would be unnecessary for him to detain them with any lengthened remarks. The subject of the report divided itself into three heads : the traffic, the expenditure, and the new road to be made and the road now in progress. Upon the question of traffic, he need only assure them that it was progressing gradually and healthily. During the last four months there had been a small increase over the traffic in the corresponding pe riod of last year, affording a proof of the satisfactory prospects of their line. With regard to the expenditure, he might assure the proprietors that it had been reduced to the lowest possible point of economy, and the work ing expenses had been brought down to 3181. per mile per annum. It had been a matter of great disappoint ment to the directors that they were unable to open the line between Courtrai and Wervicq until the 15th January. but , the shareholders would feel that the delay was not attributable to a want of zeal or activity on the part of the directors or engineer. In regard to the line now in progress between Wervicq and Ypres, he need only repeat what they would find in the report, that the works were proceeding very satisfactorily. The increase of the receipts during the last three months, in comparison with the corresponding period of last year, was 5601., or at the rate of 71. per mile week for the new line Courtrai to Wervicq. This was sufficient to show that although they were guaranteed a certain interest on this portion of the line by the Belgian Government, they were nevertheless capable of earning it. With regard to the preference shares, it was understood that the interest upon them was to be paid without at all trenching upon the capital, and that the 5i per cent. should be paid out of the in terest arising on deposits, and out of the rates of ex change. The interest already amounted to 11,033/. ss. 4d., and they had received on deposits and exchanges• 11,0291. 9s. 6d., so that in order to make up the defici ency they had only been obliged to borrow 3/. 15s. 10d. In the next half-year they would have a large amount to pay upon, but by that time they would have opened a fresh source of traffic, which would enable them to meet all the liabilities. By the arrangements ip progress and in contemplation they should be enabled to pay the interest without trenching upon the profits of the old line or interfering with the capital. He concluded by moving the adoption of the report. The resolution having been carried, a dividend was declared of ls. 3d. per share ; and the business terminated with a vote of thanks to the chairman and directors. THE CATHOLIC HIERARCHY IN HOLLAND.—The re establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in Holland has caused dissatisfaction amongst the Protestants. A peti tion, signed by 4,528 persons at Utrecht, is to be pre sented to the King, praying his Majesty, in virtue of the powers conferred on him by the constitution, to re fuse his authorisation to the assumption of episcopal titles. RAILWAY TRAVELLING. —yesterday a return to the 'House of Commons was issued, from which it appears that the receipts from ra il ways i n the United Kingdom in the haif-year ended the 30th June last, was 7,195,551/. 3s. 18s. , Did. in the corresponding period of 1851, 6,749 ,5211. nd •, • - . -_ ~-~ s .._.. BANKING IX ---- Proprietors' capital . • 14 Rest .... ... ~ 3,63.5,929 Public deposits ;in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Say- ,553,000 11 18's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 8,234,115 Other deposh s 12,690,203 Seven Day and other 8i115...... £40A69,937 Dated tho 7th day of April, 115: PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar ; computed from the re t urns ma d e i n th e w e e k ending th sth day of April, 1853, is 265. 100. per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Britain. REDUCTION OF THE NATIONAL DEBT. The Lords Commissioners of her Majesty' Treasury having certified to the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act, 10 Geo. 4, c. 27, sec. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, beyond the actual expenditure thereof for the year ended the sth day of January, 1853, amounted to the sum of two million four 'hundred and seventeen thousand five hundred and fifty nine pounds sx shillings and throe pence; The Comulissioners for the Reduction of the Nations], PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. F. Burghart, Clifford-street, Bond-street, 'tailor, 1 id., on Thursday next, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman street. J. Carruthers, Michells, Kent, id., on Thursday next, and three following Thursdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. J. Cole, Limehouse, victualler, 6s. 3d., on Saturday, April 9, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. A. Forfar, Dunstable, straw bonnet manufacturer, is. 6d. on Saturday, April 9, and three subsequent Saturdays, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sam brook-court, Basingh all-street. C. S. Fenwick, Tynemouth, Northumberland, banker, 11s. 6 2-3 d., on Saturday, April 9, or any following Satur day, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. ' E. Hindley, Liverpool, coal merchant, ls. 3d., on Thurs day, April 7, or any subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. G. Smith, Liverpool, tailor, ls. on Thursday, April 7, or any subs equent Thursday, , between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. J. Cooper, Liverpool, C.. 3d., on Thursday, April, 7, or any, subsequent Thursday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. J. Meads, Nottingham, 45., on Saturday, Ap r il, 9, or any subsequent Saturday, eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Bittleston, Nottingham. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. T. B. Miller, and W.Miller, Henstridge-villas, St.John's wood, builders; April 29, at half-past one—T. Holland, Langham, Surrey, manufacturer, May 3, at eleven-- Louisa Collier and Matilda Collier, Hatton-garden, book binders, May 3, at eleven—A. Bain, Old Bond-street, electric clock-maker, April 30, at one—W. Williams and R. M. Marchant, Great George-street, Westminster, and Liverpool, contractors for public works, April 30, at twelve—H. B. Roil; Woolwich, wharfinger, April 30, at two. In the Country. D. M. Burroughs, Liverpool, ironmonger, May 2 at ele ven, at the Court, Liverpool—G. H. Hare, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, manufacturing chemist, May 2, at one, at the Court, Leeds—R. P. Hunt, Kidderminster, Worcester shire, hosier, May 4, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham —H. Allen, Birmingham, tailor, May 4, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—S. Jones, Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, joiner, April 30, at one, at the Court, Birmingham. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. W. Ward, Manchester, auctioneer—T. Compere, Ayles ford, Kent, and Cleveland-street, Mile-end, paper maker, certificate of the third class—H. Worms, Blackfriars-road, bootmaker, certificate of the third class—G. Coldwell, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, boot and shoe maker, cer tificate of the first class—T. Moyle, Deans-gate, Manches ter, draper, certificate of the second class, in three months from April 5—W. W. Andrews, Wolverhampton, Staffordshire, ironmonger, certificate of th e fi rs t class—T. Speed, sen., Liverpool, butcher, certificate of the 'second class, after 21 days from March 31. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - - J. K. Haberfield, J. Gwyer, S. K. Gwyer, Jas. Gwyer, jun., W. 0. Gwyer, and J. H. Gwy er , Bristol, merchants (so ar as rogards Sir J. K. Haberfiehi)—S. Tobias and E. Stavenhagen, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, wool merchants— R. S. Harvey, Sarah Newton, and ir. Mackinder, Lin coln, linseed Cake merchants—J. Bonand and W. Austin, Billingsgate, oyster salesmen —H. Hobday and H. Hook ham, Birmingham, tin-plate workers—J. H. Hearn and C. J. Newby, Isle of Wight, solicitors—J. Burnley, W. Nichols, W. Westerman, G. Richardson, and S. Siddall, Leeds, machine-makers (so far as regards W. Westerman and S. Siddall)—E. Imbroll and C. Imbroll, Malta, merchants—W. Wittleton and R. Muirhead, Liverpool, merchants—J. Sandars, J. F. Good win, and F. R. Lowe, Liverpool, corn-merchants—V. Potter, J. Potter, F. C. Veltmann, and J. Macdonald, Calcutta, India, merchants (so far as regards J. Potter) — T. Cope and J. Williamson, Banner-square, St. Luke's, trimming-manufacturers—H. T. Davis and J. D. Cheese man, High-street, Islington, oil and colourmen—W. Mor gan and J. Wilson, Liverpool, ship and commission agents —J. Lawrie and . Gemmell, Cousin-lane, Upper Thames street, merchants -- C. Wilson and G. Fletcher, Birmingham, gilt-toy manufacturers—E. Fisher, W. Sherwin, and W. B. Dalby, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, attorneys —T. B. Troughton and W. Troughton, Harrington, Lancashire, limeburners—E. Perkins and F. Perkins, Southampton, grocers—T. B. W. Gale and J. Fensom, High-street, Ho merton, engineers— A. I. Coffin and T. Harle, Manchester, doctors of medicine and herbalists— J. A. Gillett, A. R. Tawney, and J. Gillett, Banbury and Woodstock, bankers R. Clarke, R. Clarke, jun., J. A. Clarke, and C. W. Mar tin, Cheapside, furriers—J. Holroyd, J . Robinson, and C. Robinson, Leeds, woollen-cloth man u f ac t urers — W. Tasker and J. Maker, tilthamstow, farmers—J. Robinson and G. Barling, Brighton, drapers—W. Taylor, S. S. Wood, and H. Taylor, Leeds, tobacco-manufacturers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Henry Humphreys, Brondanw, Merionethshire. George Francis, Braceborough, Lincolnshire, labourer. George Court, Maesteg, Glamorganshire, machineman. Jacob York, Selby, Yorkshire, potatollealer. George Elsworth, York, auctioneer, James Arrowsmith,Gainsborough,Lincolnshire,nail-maker. John Hopkins,. Southampton, beer-retailer. Chas.Ayton, Stratton St. Mary, Norfolk, licensed victualler. James Ives, Stowmarket, Sufiblk, boot and shoemaker. John Rackham, Wickham-market, Suffolk, saddler. Charles Hill, Winslade Farm, Clist St. Mary, Devonshire, farmer. James Floody, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, publican. Edward Riddell, Ne wcas tl e - upon -Ty ne , licensed victualler. James Bristow, Bath, fly proprietor. William Bayliss, Bath, licensed victualler. Henry Beeson, Birmingham, commercial traveller. Charles Knowles, Liverpool, flour dealer. William Baylis, Liverpool, optician. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HO — USE APRIL 8. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Diana, from Amsterdam ; Lord John R usse ll ( s ) , H ar li ngen ; Attwood (s), Rotter dam ; Crescent, Guernsey ; Margaret and Jane, Mega dere ; Ashley, Galatz ; Borneo, Mauritius • Ambassador, Taganrog ; W arr i or Jamaica ; Nuevo Rosans , Seville ; Devonshire,' Mauritius ; Jane, Genoa ; Sir Robert Peel, New York ; Veriengening, Seville ; Johannes, Aguilas ; City of Boulogne (s), Boulogne ; Nancy Dawson, Havan nah ; Sarah, Demerara ; Emma, Leo, and Sampson, Guernsey ; Emerald, Cadiz ; Wilberfore (s), Hamburgh ; Marchioness of Bute, Cadiz ; Diolinka, Guernsey ; City of Rotterdam (a), Dunkirk ; Dolores, Bilboa ; Flo.ra, Aveiro ; Amaranth, New York. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The Brilliant, for Mogadore ; Warrior, Jamaica ; Marie Constance, Rouen ; Lydia, St. Petersburgh ; Diana, Amsterdam ; Envoy, Mel bourne ; Sir Robert Peel, New York ; Colonist, Kurra thee ; British Merchant, Valparaiso ; Isabella Hercus, Sydney ; Jacinta, Barcelbna ; Constantine, Alexandria ; Lord John Russell (s), Harlingen. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Madagascar, for Havre, &c. • Swift, Jersey ; Catharine, Hamburgh ; Acis, Genoa ; Wm. Melbourne ; Superb, Sydney - Wm. Carl, Boston ; Cornwall, Now Zealand ;. Aug - If t : - Lisbon • Gratitude, Canaries • Margaretha Varel s Port Philip Triton Mary Anni Gann, Busheer ; Fame ( s), Calais; (8)' Ostend ; Caledonia, Hamburgh ; Bero, Sidmouth, Quebec. LIVERPOOL—APRIL 8. The Parker, arrived hero yesterday from Demerara, was off Point Lynas on the sth ; but the gale of that night drove her off pilot ground, and she was unable to reach it again until yesterday morning. The Glaucus, arrived here yesterday from Caldera, ex perienced a submarine commotion on the 16th Feb., in lat. 22 S., long. 21 W., which lasted 45 seconds, shaking the vessel the whole time, and was accompanied by a noise resembling thunder. A bell buoy, with a streak rcund it, and chain attached, and apparently some time in the water, was passed 22d March, lat. 37 N. long. 56 W by the Lotus, from New Orletuu. x d 25 100 92 i i i p 'l2l 24i NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 8. The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw three-decker, Cap tain H. B. Martin, C. 8., steamed out of the factory basin this morning to the harbour jetty of the dockyard, her Machinery working admirably. She will go out of harbour for trial on Monday. ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw line-of-battle ship, Captain Henry Byam Martin, C. B.—We had the pleasure of witnessing this noble vessel of war under steam, and left entirely to her own resources, this morning. At 10.30 all being in -readi ness, " turn ahead" was ordered, at the same time the dockyard authorities were attending to the leading guys, and this gigantic war steamer moved out of the basin. In rounding the north-west angle of the dock the strength of the flood caught her bow, and the two port guys snapped like twigs. A heavy charge now fell upon the assistant master attendant (Mr. Tonkin) and the pilot (Mr. Jones), who, with consummate skill and steadiness of nerve, brought her well out of the ticklish position in which she was placed; neither was their confi dence misplaced in the beautiful working of her engines. Nothing could be mere perfect or gratifying than to see this monster ship handled like a river boat. Such was the fact. She answered her helm instantly, reversed her engines at pleasure, gathered way as quicly as a model vessel on the Thames, and was safely and skilfully laid alongside the dockyard jetty, where she is -taking in coal, ready for her trial at the measured mile at. Stokes Bay, on Monday, the 11th. The scene was enlivened by Blenheim's band strik ing up "See the conquering hero comes"--most appropriate for the occasion. The Isabel, screw discovery-ship, Commander Inglefield, sailed from Cowes R oa d s a t h a lf- pest 11 this morning for Behring's Straits. The Arrogant, 46, Captain Fremantle, left Spithead this morning for Leith, to relieve the Leander. The Basilisk, 6, steam-sloop, Commander the Hon. F. Egerton, which stranded yesterday off Southsea beach in coming into harbour at low tide, floated on its rising at half-past 5, and came into harbour. It is said that the blame of her grounding rests upon the man employed to hoist the red flag at the muting shears in the dockyard, to denote the depth of water to the pilot when vessels are ordered out or into harbour, he having kept the flag up when it should have been hauled down. We are informed, while she was aground, one of her hawsers snapped, and seriously injured two or three of her crew, one of whom was obliged to be convoyed to Haslar Hospital. SHEERNESS, PRIL 8, B . A.m. The Persian, 12-gun sloop, CommanderA Thomas Mitche, arrived at the Nore yesterday, at 10.30, a.m., from th North American and West India station (last from Ports. mouth) ' • she saluted the Admiral, which w as re t urne d b y the Waterloo, 120-gun flag-ship. The Persian will dis charge her powder, shell, &c., at the Nore, after which she will be taken into the Basin to be paid off here. The Imperieuse, 60-gun screw steam-frigate, Captain Rundle B. Watson, C. 8., sent up topgallant masts and crossed topgallant yards at 8 a.m. yeaterday ; her steam was got up, and al 10.45 a.m. she slipped from her moor ings and steamed to the Nore. On rounding the Garrison Point she saluted the Admiral, which was returned by the Waterloo flag ship. The Myrtle steam tender proceeded to the Nore in com pany with the Imperieuse, and returned again at 5 p.m. with the Queen's Pilot. WOOLWICH, APRIL 8. APPOINTMENTS. Masters—William J. Olive (1845), Master in the Samp son steam-frigate since January, 1851, to the Bellerophon, 78, on the Mediterranean station ; Charles IL P. Forbes (1848), to the Sampson paddle-wheel steam-frigate, on the Mediterranean station, vice Olive. Clerk F. F. Miller (1853), to the Highflyer steam-sloop at Portsmouth, THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—The Phcenix screw steam sloop, Commander Edward A. Inglefield, is to be taken out of dock to-morrow, and will be ready for sea in about a week from this time. Mr. Fawckner, appointed a second master to be borne on the books of the Phoenix, is intended for service in the Breadalbane hired store-ship, at present at Deptford taking on board stores for the relief of Sir Ed ward Belcher's expedition, and she will be taken charge of by the Phcenix, and towed, when necessary, to Beechey Island. BPE, APRIL 7. Saturday, the 23d of thi s month, M has ROKE been named as the day appointed on which the launch of the James Watt, 90 guns, is to take place. She is rapidly being made ready for the occasion, a great portion of the dockyard strength being engaged in her completion. The Asp, Lieutenant Aldridge, surveying steamer, has been on the opposite shore of the Bristol Channel, survey ing the shore in the neighbourhood of Minehead and Bridgewater. Orders have been received that, during the course of the summer, two ships of the lino of 90 guns each, a heavy fri gate of 50 guns, with three lighter vessels (two of 16 and one of 10 guns), are to be laid down. In order to make room for this accession to our naval strength, several of the vessels now on the stocks in a state nearly approaching completion are to be sent afloat. The importance attached by the authorities to the screw-propeller, as an auxiliary power for men-of-war, may be inferred from the fact that all the vessels, large and small, are to be fitted with screw steam power. RAILWAY BETURNO. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles opdned, NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. 1853. 1852. 1853. \II3.ITISH. 72% Aberdeen £1,426 1 1.549 37.4 Belfast and Ballymena 652 719 17 Belfast and County Down .. .......... 182 231 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,4 .4 - 2631 Bolton,lllackburn, and Wcst York .... 810 796 8534 Bristol and Exeter ..... 3,947 3,98 4 189 4 Ca1ed0nian............. 8,129 i 8,951 94 , 4 Chester and Ffolyhead. , 2,432 3,161 6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage 130 i 179 20 Cork and Bant'un ................. 131 I 189 56 Dublin and Be' Junction 723 i 997 53 Dublin and Drogheda •• • 889 ' 1.314 6 Dublin and Kingstown 1 , 0, 3 1,093 1614 Dundee and Arbroath •.. 468 495 31 Dundee, Perth, and A berdeen Junction 61 , 2 733 19 Dundalk and 157 188 68 East • €65 779 81 East Lancashire 4,147 4 870 22 Eastern Counties and N0rf01k......., 13.956 15,641 95 Eastern Union 2,020 ' 2,418 89% Edinburgh and Glasgow ..... 3.270 3,619 78 B.'dinburgh, i'ezth, and Dundee...... 2,287 2,346 6 Exeter and 102 95 19 Furness Railway ... 496 648 17l .4 Glasgow, and South-West ern .• • 4,071 4,409 285% Great Northern and E. L......... 11,313 13,526 188 Great Soathem and Western (Ireland) 4,2?5 4,842 319% Great Western 16,784 19,088 25 Irish South Eastern ................ 188 282 90 Lancaster and Carlisle•. •• • 4,148 4,e12 260 Lancashire rod Yorkshire. 70 Leeds Northern .................... 972 1,271 18,4 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... 265 355 55331 London and North Western ..• • ..... 43,247 48,e94 5% London and 81ackwa11.............. 831 1,153 173% London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 9,755 10,382 253 H Lordoa and South Westerns......... 9,681 10,940 34% Londonderry and Enniskillen •• 270 347 11% Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - 167% Marcbester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 6,278 7,131 931 Blanchester and South Junction 502 596 28 Maryport and Carlisle .• .• ......., 541 572 498% Midland ..... .• .. • • 126 Midland Great Western (Irish) ...... 2,205 2,247 37 Monklands ........................ 85 B'4 60 Newcastle and Carlisle.. • 2,278 2,526 149 North British ••• • • • .... 3,7 i 3,748 232 North Staffordshire •• •• •••••• • • • • • • . 47 North-Western .... •• • ..... ........ 634 766 80 Scottish Central • • 1,885 1,857 82 Scottish Midland 620 620 29% Shrewsbury and Birmingham •• •• 569 737 47 Shrewsbury and Chester 29 Shropshire Maim .. • ... ••• • •• 602 576 58 South Devon 1,801 1,918 28834 Soot h. Ea stern 10,882 14,241 131 South Wales .. 1,463 2, , -98 .77 South York., Do ic• -, .ster, and Goo`e .. 1,416 1,453 40 Taff Vale •• •• •••••• •• •• ............ 2,402 2,663 36 Ulster .••• • •• ....... . 50 Waterford and Limerick .„ 421 379 25 West Cornwall 324 461 12 Whitehaven Junction 198 251 304% York and Newu - stic, and Berwick ... 14,227 15, 77 279 York and North Midland ...... •• •. 7,281 7,619 FOREIGN. 57 4 Dutch Rhenish .... 1,023 1,293 2131 Maria Antonia ~........ 160 144 €3 Mon••ereau and Troyes ............ 1,016 1,016 63 Namur and L'ege • ... 1,065 1.-97 4)3.51 Northern of France ... • • ..... 20,287 21,262 577 Or.eans and Central* ..... ........ 21,475 25,081 240 Paris and Lyons • ...... 12,259 .4,338 84 Paris and Rouen. 6,659 7,557 392 Paris and Strasourgh ..........., .. 9,213 16,970 59 Rouen and lir we • • ........•• ••. .. 2,414 3,130 99 Western of France 3,2z8 4,428 413 N 577 240 84 392 * The receipts include the franlo on the Orleans and Central, Or leans and Bordeaux, and Tours and Nantes lines. .RAILTVAY SHARE MARKETS. LiVJRPOOL, APRIL 8. The share market keeps tolerably firm, but not so buoy, ant as yesterday. The public do not seem disposed to pur. chase share property, notwithstanding the. prospective re. duction of the interest on Consols. .I— p 111 () e t Royal ,at s. Exhibition lißbi..tSiOnlomBlnonasil', Gla [A ss p ror ß th T e lSE w u arstc T o opticians, 39, Albemare-street, Piccadilly—ob site the York Hotel.—A valuable, newly-invented,serve, oppo small powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the . very by which a person can he seen and knownsize of a walnut, half distant; they answer every purpose one mile and a the opera-houses, country scenery, ande on the racecourse, at at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluableships are clearly seen deer stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, for shooting, and tourists. Telescopes gentlemen, gamekeepers, powers that some, 31 inchesPosiVising such extraordinary show distinctly upiter's moons,wan extra eye-piece, will double stars ; with the same Saturn's ring, anncal thper son's countenance three miles telescope distant,canalf esee and an object from 16 to 20 miles. and a h other kind They supersede every for the waistcoat pocket, and are of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordincrly. Opera and race course glasses with wonderful ' • ute object can power - a min he clearly seen from 10 to 12 miles' distant. Invaluable newly-invented spectacle. Deafness —Now Discovery— The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary, powerful; small, newly-invented in s trument, for deafness, entirely different from all others, to surpass a nything of the kind that has been, o r probably ever c an be produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, dt is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the oars is entirely removed ; and it Words all the assist ance that possibly could be desired.—S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemaile-street, Piccadilly.— Observe, opposite the York Hotel. [ADv.EuTisEmENT.] The Earl of Aldborough and Holloway's Pills.—An astounding cure by this miracu lous medicine after every other means had failed.—Seo extract from his lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21,1845. To Professor Holloway. Sir— I beg to acquaint you that your pills have effected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty at home and all over the continent had not been able to effect—nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Marienbad. (Signed) ALDBOROUGH."— These wonderful pills will cure any disorder of the liver or stomach.—Sold (also. Holloway's ointment) at Pro fessor Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, London, and by all medicine vendordhroughont the world. LIVERPOOL PRODUCE • There has been rather a want of animation in our Fn duce markets during the past month ; still we have rienced a steady demand for most articles, and Pr i i generally are without material change. In the earlY of the month an active de:nand prevailed for sugar , , h , i an advance of 6d to is per cwt. was established ; however, has not been maintained, chiefly owing to large quantities o f M aur iti us and Madras being -WI forwarded in the L on d on mar k et, which have had the eli; of influencing prices here. The stocks in the kin.„g`li have increased, imp or t s h av i ng b een considerable; etat total deficiency r eac h es 20 , 000 tons, against the "t . period last year. Tea.—Medium to fine Congous have been in goo 4 mand, but in co nsequence o f the unwillingness of hely to sell except a t an a d vance on previous rates, businosi, been prevented. Common congous have advanced NIP per lb. on the previous month's rates. The coffee market has been without activity, 0 6 foreign has been taken rather freely for export. OILS.—Of palm oil 300 to-400 tons have changed he,, on the sp o t an d f or arr i va l , at 33110 s to 341 per ton,' improved rates. Pale seal may be quoted at 361 to St , ' and cod at 331 to 341 per ton. Tallow is rather firmer, with yellow candle at 46s 61, LIVERPOOL COT'T'ON MARKET—APRIL 7. The sales since March 31 have been 45,000 bags, of 15,000 have been taken for export and on specniation., prices there is no alteration. The arrivals since MO have 36 vessels from the United States, 4 from Br o from Egypt, and 8 from Bombay. L 1 a • BALES AND IMPORT OF COTT ON INTO LIVERpoO is Sales. Imports' Description. Prices, Week t' l/ ' n i Week I a ending ending to le Mar. 31. M ar. 31. gar' _ Bags. d. d. 1852. 1 '° Sea, Island l6O 231 to 28 8 .,„ re • PDitto, stained l2O 6 2 7 3 li - h - 7 . 0 ~ - Upland. . .... .. .. id Orleans &Alabama 5183 4i 7i Pernambuco 31 Maranham Bahia, /cc Egyptian 350 54 —l2 i •" Demerara — 0 r, 0 _ ' f 1, We s t I n di a , &c • ' 110 0 Le East India 5660 3 411 40 , _.. y Total h Import into Great Britain for 13 weeks E ,poo, ending March 31. a I Year 1852.1 Year 1851. Year a - American a Brazil 39217 20223. - , m o e Egyptian Demerara, W. India, &c 823 . East India _---1 - ;', • Total number of bags 700646 449713 42r./ LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE.—AI4 s. d. s. d. per sca r ... 0 6i to 0 8 201b0 ... 0 6 ... 0 7 ditto ... 0 05i ditto • 0 0 4 ditto ▪ 0 3 ... 03i ditto ... 5 0 ... 5 3 per 901 1 A ... 20 0 ...21 0 per toll 28 0 ...30 0 ditto 20 0 ...22 0 ditto 4 6 ... 6 0 ditto Hay, old „- clover... Straw, wheat If oats , barley Potatoes, kemps Turnips Carrots Mangold wurtzel Manure COUNTRY MARKE2'3. LIVERPOOL--APRIL 8. ' rai The reduction in the price o f w h ea t an d fl our su-b ro t to on Tuesday l as t h as i n d uce d severa l country mille it; dealers to visit this market, and this morning ra therol business was t ransac t e d i n b ot h art i cles at fully Tuerf prices, and several p arce l s o f A mer i can barrel fiovi r ri taken for investment. Th ere was a moderate sale other articles of the trade, - without change of quota WAKEFIELD—APRIL 8. Our arrivals of grain are small. Our stocks of f; here are now much re d uce d, an d cons i st principalli,°l the season of the year, however, checks millers purchases, and the trade is generally inactive. EXETER—APRIL 8. CORN EXCHANGE.—For prime samples of Iva .t to 6s 9cl; inferior, 5s 6d to 6s ; barley, 4s Od to . ) grinding, 3s ; oats, 3s Od to Os p er b us h e l. Flotil 37s to 38s Lseconds, 35s to 36s per sack. CATTLE MARKET.—Prime beef, 9s6cl to OsOd.per se ° , re t ; quality, 8s to 8s 6d ; cows and calves, 818 s to 12/12s; °,,r 001 to 01; butcher's calves, 4. , ,d to 5d per 1b ; sheep, wethers, 7(.1 to 7,1 d ; ewes, 6ya. to bid; store h og s, 35s each.] INVERNESS —APRIL 5. CORN.—Wheat, per quarter, weighing 621 b per m q - 05 48s Od to 50s Od ; barley, diKo, 511Cditto, 28s Od to Oats, ditto, 421 b ditto, 19s Od. to 203 Od.dig MEAL.—Oatmeal, p er hr - o. boll 159 6d to 16s B.' os o second, CDs Od to Os Od ; ba - Aeymeal, ns 6d to o d peasemeal, 15s Od. to Os Od ; In-an, per store, Os 7d t ° Ist flour, p er 2801 b, 40 9 Od to 423 Od ; 2d ditto, 00" v; 30s Od ; oatmeal best 'ler 141 b 15 to is 8d ; ditto second, (ci Od. to Os Od • barleyine',` l l e to Os Od ; p easemeal, 1 ; Gd to Os Od • Ist' flour, 2 . 5 "` 3s Od credit ; 2d di tto, 2s 3d cash, 2s 7d credit. COAL MARKET —Aram 8. Prices of Coal per ton at the close or the market % ' _. ~. Burnhope l4 9, H i etton ...... ' 1 9 9 .............. Hartlepool West Hartley 16 0; Haswell .................. •• i g, Hedloy's Hartley l5 0' Lambton ... ' . lB ............. Holywell ..... ..... . . l7 6 Lumley ................... .:,5t Howard's West Hartley Peusher ............... • ip Netherton 16 Ojßussell's Hetton ......... ..igt T. ..dn's W. Hartley 16 :: i Stewart's .. ................ •: 1 9i ....ongii 6 Portland West Hartley 16 OiCassop _.. . _ .............. .. / 51 Tanfield Moor ..Butes 15 o!Heugh Hall.. ............. •• 1 9, Townley 16 01North Hartlepool .•.. ... i s Wood's Hartley Steam 13 91South Kelloe ............. ••if Northumberland l6 OlRichardson's Tee 5 ....•••'.111( Eden Main lB 9 South Durham ......... ••• / 9. Wall's End, &c. Tees . .0 Belmont 18 9 1 Birehgrove Graig01a......4 Braddyll 19 0 i Nixon Merthyr' s & Carded Ships at market i SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General P' by the night—and Mby the morning —dispatch.] Day when made up in General Post- Office, London.* From what Port Dispatched. Every Friday . Liverpool ... March 30 iJivei i )ooi • • • April 5 .... ISouthampton A 1 4th of May Bth of May Southampton Dover ...... 2d of April ...... 23rd of the month. 8,9, 24, & 30 of m 4th & 20th of mon., 2nd the month Daily .......... „ 9th of fan month.. 9th of she month.. 14th of the month 2114 of Aprd...... 14th of the month Plymouth .. Plymouth .. Dover ...... Southampton Southampton Dover ...... Southampton Southampton Flymouth Plymouth .. Plymouth .. I 14th of the month IMon..Wed Aird. cd & lith of month Plymouth .. Southampton Southampton, 7 ,8,17,24,&27 of m 4th & 20th of mon Twice daily „ „ , ~ , , Dover Southampton Al Dover Twice daily„ ... 1,7, 17, 20, 27 of rn. Dover ...... Suuthampton 2nd & 17th of mon. Tuesday & F r i day 2nd of th e month Wednesday & Sat 17th of the month 4th & 20th of mon. Bth& 24th of month Southampton London •• Southampton London .• • • • SouthlutiPt ° ' tiouthanWt °ll Dover •• Twice daily .. 7,9, 17, & 28 of m 9.h of the month 23rd of the month Holyhead ... SootharriptOn , outhampton Plymouth .. 7,17,19,28, 30 ofm, Dover ....,• 14th of the month 2od of the month. sth i sth2sthof mon 24 & 17th of month By private ship , th 5 th2 s tholmo n thl7 th2B thohnon • , c 1 & 'lBth of mon .14th of the month •Ahl , th2sth o l mon 5 tli 1 sth2sthof mon ' . 2d& 7th of month Plyinonth Southampton Dover Southampton Various port Dover Southampton - outhampton l'lymou33. Dover ...... Dover ...... Soithamptonl 2d & 17th of month lAPru,' 'Southampton' COUNTRIES. America(byßrit.pack)N America (by United Sts. packet) ..........N America (by U States) packet) .. N Australia (ria South ampton) Ditto (via Ai arseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of t.oocl Hops) ............N Africa (West Coast)..N Alexandria .......... N Alexandria... ..... ..111 Bahamas ........... Belgium ............N Brazil .............. M Buenos Ayres Cape of Good Hone ..N Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verds N Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ...... ..N Channel Isles ........N Chi1i........ ........31 China (see India) Constantinople ......N Constantinople cont. of Europe Al & N Egypt (see India) France ........ M & N Gibraltar ........ Greece (see India) kreytown .... • ..... [amburgh Lavannah [olland ....... : - -IVI Hoaduras India (viaSouthampt.)M India (via Marseilles)3l' lonian Isles (see India) Ireland .... & N Lisbon .. .• • . .• M Madeira . • ..... .Di Madeira N Malta (see India) malts Mauritius (see India) Mauritius " • • " 14 Mexico .• •• ... aples..... New Granada .New Zea1and.......... Papal states ........N Peninsula .. • • • • • • • • I" Port Natal .• • • • .....N Tu.eany • • • • • • Venezrela .. • • • • • ... M Van ►le•nen's Land (Fee Au- ) ...... West Indies - 0; Jo e d Ea 7 Arrilej * When any of these dates fall on a Sunday, the mails A dispatches on the foll ow i ng day, with the exception of the ntjo e cl Southampton), and th e M alta, both of which will be dispate' day precedhig. BIRTHS. OF A SON. t oPi On the 3d inst., at Wimborne, th e w if e o f R. A Phillips Esq. it. On the 6th inst., at Upper Clapton, Mrs. R. Birke - OF A DAUGHTER. if On the 7th inst., at 118, War w i c k- s t ree t, Pimlic ti ' wife of Trenham Reeks ; Esq. On the Bth inst., in Gaildfcrd-street, Lady polloolc:/ MA RRI ED. . 4 f , Oa the 6th in s t., a t R oc h dale, S. Easom, Esq., of IP pool, to Anna Maiia, (laughter of the late T. Mellor, of Edge-lane. On the sth inst.. at Tathwell, Lincolnshire, the 1 1 Holmes; cur a t e o f Fl eet, to Mary, eldest daughter of Byron, of Tathwell. DIED. t", On the 4th i ns t., a t .s, Charlotte-square, Edipbslls` Amelia Opie, twin daughter of Robert Nasmyth, , F.R C.S.E. goo ' On the sth inst., at Stratford-house, Ireland, the f . Harriette Wa r d, d aug h ter of Bernard, Viscount Bin/ liA) LONDON : Printed an d P u b l i shed by 111IIRDO K n .7„ 11 ( ) of No. 112, St ran d , P r i nter, at The Sun Office, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, io the cow' Middlesex, isaturday, April 91 108;