The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-18 00:00:00

CHURCH GOVERNMENT IN NEW ZEALAND. the funds raised average income clergy, which . m n u f s 2 t fi n ol o . s and other Church for church building, education, w a- a y m ea o l u ., n a t na to if a l t l a e d as d t I,tOo, have an income of the American Church at half a m 10s a-head for the mem berspurposes, I am sure I shall be within the mark m i a f te l rli s n e g t t a h n e . ninny, that is, speaking roughly, . f fact, we do not want money,' says have funds want men for the ministry . ' This the na tural of her communion, or 2/. 10s. for h ev is e t ry nrin am , i . l w y funds enough ; we her members i pa nt r e t r i e c s i t pa w t h in i n ch in is t e h n e g ma end n e a i g v e d in a e m n o t n n g f result of b t y he an ze her affairs. In every departmentaaletainvde of her proceedings the advan tages of her system are visible. When an extension of the epis copate_d, she is not obliged to go, like some other is require people I have heard of, to a heterogeneous Legislature com posed of men of every religion or of no religion, nor to a co lonial minister, who may be her bitter enemy, in order to ask leave to consecrate a bishop, and to discuss the boundaries of the diocese, and the amount of the endowment. The Ame rican Church settles that for herself, as every Church ought. - But I need not expatiate longer on these advan tages of system and organisation which the American Church enjoys. I have been induced to say thus much on her constitution and progress, because, as presenting the only instance of an ecclesiastical body in communion of the Church of England, which possesses a regularly consti tuted representative government, she affords the only avail able precedent far her own case, and also because the signal success which has attended a career begun under such dis couraging circumstances, seems to show th a t, i n or d er to fulfil her mission, the Church of England does not require endowments or State connection ; she only wants to have her hands untied—a clear stage, and no favour. Of course Ido not suppose that self-government is the only cause of the success of the American Church, but it does appear not only to be remarkably coincident with that success, but to consti tute almost the only material difference between her position and that of the Colonial Churches which are so far behind her in available life and energy. I will next notice one or two of the objections commonly made to a representative government for the Church, for I need hardly say that the form of govern ment we wish to obtain involves tho representative principle It is said that it would encourage factions, debatings, and party contests. I will not insist on the argument that a si milar objection would lie against all representative Govern ment, civil as well as ecclesiastical—l would rather point to the American Church, and ask whether such an effect has been produced there. Of course I don't mean to say that there has been no party feeling on church it led mattersito Americain n —I only say it has not been so strong, nor hassuch evil results, as in England ; and that there, as elsewhere, in but the cure of faction. Again, it may be been, not the cause, the Church as in the State, free and regular institutions have said that self-government will lead to rash and heterodox altera tions in the formularies of worship, and in the discipline of the Church ; and here I must not be misunderstood : I would certainly claim, on the part of the New Zealand Church, the over formularies. While it is necessary and right that the formu laries right of managing to the fullest extent its own affairs, includ ing of the control course the regulation of worship, and of the Church of England should be the basis of union among those who combine to form a constitution for a Colo nial Church, I must say that, after it is formed, I think it would be unworthy of our position as a National Church to bind ourselves to these formularies for ever. Why should we not have the same right of revising from time to time our liturgies and articles to suit our circumstances which every National Church, and which the Church of England herself, has repeatedly claimed and exercised ? Are we afraid we shall exercise that natural and obvious right badly ? It is possible we may; but I am quite sure, if we are inclined to do so, no paper restriction will prevent us, nor is it advisable that it should; if bishops, clergy, and laity, should at any time wish for alterations, I really see no good in trying to make them use forms which they would on the hypothesis disapprove of. But having said thus much on the abstract right to effect changes, I point to the American Church as my ground for anticipating that they will not be effectual, at least not to any injurious extent. There was everything in the circumstances of the American Church and people to make wide deviations on their part from the English ritual a priori probable ; yet it is well known that the devia tions actually made are altogether unimportant, both in num ber and character ; nay it is remarkable, and forms a remark able testimony in favour of our formularies, that in several instances where alteratjous have been actually made, the Church has subsequently returned, after experience of the change, to the more ancient usage. The last, and by far the strongest objection to representative Government which I shall consider, is founded on the difficulty of settling how the lay element in the proposed governing body shall be constituted ; in other words, who shall possess the Church franchise. This difficulty is undoubtedly a formidable one ; indeed it is hardly susceptible of a perfectly satisfactory solu tion ; for in whichever way it be settled by \ any particular class of persons, it is always open to another class to ask them who gave you authority to settle it. But this is not properly an objection, it is only a difficulty, and difficulties are made to be overcome. Although we may never arrive at the solu tion of the question which shall be logically satisfactory, we may get in a rough and approximate way at a settlement of it which will be sufficient for all practical purposes, For exam ple, a plan might be proposed by the highest authority in our church, the bishop, or bishops, involving a settlement of the franchise question, and if that plan were accepted by the clergy, and the great body of those who call themselves churchmen, it will probably be thought that as near an approximation to the desideratum of a general assent as is necessary for practical purposes would be arrived at. For my own part, I am very anxious to have this question raised ; and though it is not strictly relevant to the matter in hand, and the discus sion of it may appear premature, I will ask your indulgence while I say a few words about it. After much and anxious reflection, I can see no proper qualification for a Church fran chise but that of full communion ; and I say this quite irre spectively of any doctrinal opinion about the nature and ef fects of that Holy Sacrament ; I say it because this qualifica tion, or something strictly equivalent to it, is in consonance with invariable usage in the ancient Church, and also indeed in every Christian denomination, except our own, of which I ever heard; I say so, moreover, because we can have otherwise absolutely no guarantee that those who as sume to legislate for the Church are even nominally Churchmen, still less that they observe those laws an ob servance of which all her members admit to be of the very essence of Churchmanship, and while I entertain what many would consider very democratic views about the participation of the laity in Church government, it is a sine qua non with me that they should be Church laity. Now, it seems a con tradiction in terms to say that a man is in communion with the Church who never communicates. The very word com munion, as applied indiscriminately to Christian fellowship, and to a participation in the Lord's Supper, proves that the two ideas are, in the minds of Christians, indentical. In deed, I may be wrong, but I cannot help thinking that those who hold a different vi ew i n thi s ma tt er either have hardly , thought out the question, orare mainly actuated by what I con ceive to be a mistaken view of expediency. Some of them fear that non -communicants would be offended; but I must say I think a man who deliberately and habitually abstains from com nion with the Church, is not one to whose opinions and feelings Church rules should be made subordinate. Others fear that a communicant's franchise might lead to a profanation of the Sacrament. Have they inquired whether in other religious denominations, where conformity to religious ordinances is invariably required, as a qualification for Church govern ment, any such profanatory effect is experienced or even sus pected. The fact is, it would really not be worth a man's while, for the sake of so small an inducement, to be habitually guilty of so great a crime. But even if it were found, as is just possible, that such a rule might aggravate the guilt of a few abandoned individuals, ought we to place their supposed spiritual interests in competition with the wel fare of the whole Church ? Others, perhaps, have heard the maxim, that taxation involves representation, and think ac cordingly that every man who pays money for Church purposes has a right to participate in Church Government. Have they considered how far this abstract proposition would lead them ? Certain it is that no political or religious community in the world even admitted or acted on such a principle. No mat ter how far a nation may go in the direction of universal suf frage, it always stops short of making contribution to its re venue the sole qualification for political power. Women, children, idiots, convicts, alieas, may and generally do con tribute to revenue, but they never enjoy its supposed correla tive—power. Go and subscribe to a Wesleyan meeting-house or a Presbyterian church, and see whether your doing so will get you a vote for members of the next conference or the next assembly. You may reasonably make pecuniary contribution one qualification, but I cannot even conceive a pro posal deliberately made that it should be the only one. On the other hand, I hardly think any one will propose as a permanent qualification for Church government a simple statement of Church membership. This again would be quite unheard of ; no religious or political privilege was ever yet granted on the mere condition that a person claimed it, for it comes to that ; there is always required some test of his sin cerity—something that involves a question of fact upon which the claimant may be objected to, if he be not telling the truth. There remains therefore only the alternative of a double franchise, i. e., a statement of Church membership combined with a payment ; and this is the franchise which has been apparently proposed for adoption in Wellington, and it may be said in South Australia also, for scat-renting involves in some degree a profession of Churchmanship as well as a money payment. To this rule I object, in the first place, that it does not secure the real churchmanship of the governing body, and, in the second, that pecuniary payment ought not to be mixed up with Church franchises at all. Wherever it is adopted, the best Churchmen may be excluded because poor, while persons who are notori ously not Churchmen will have votes in Church matters, and assist in making Church laws. On the whole, therefore, it does appear to me that no good reason can be assigned why the Church of England should adopt a more lax rule with re spect to its franchises than any other ecclesiastical body. I trust you will pardon me for this digression, if it be one, and for having intruded my own view of this subject on you at so much length. My object in doing so is not to pro cure any expression of opinion on it, still less the adoption of any practical step by the meeting, but merely to bring it before the mind or the public, in the sure hope that by full consideration and - free discussion the objects which we have all at heart will be best promoted. It will perhaps be expected that I should say a few words as . to the relation which the proposed body would bear to the Canter buryt ethnatt managementfi o f r a t b he od a s ;: ; s fb o ec itsi c a n t : v i n o ns n t u t t o un t ed m ac a i k h e n Ass oc i a ti on. M y own view is this. It is perfectly whicht alp h aveprovisiona i slig pleases htest g ht t dfeonarn competent e t ° repre sent the Church in this settlement, the association will, as a matter of course, hand over to it the management of its eccle siastical fund. I will conclude by saying that the practical step we propose to the meeting is merely to elect a corresponding committee, and to ascertain f rom the bishop, and the church men of other settlements, *what it is that they are going to do. Whether it will be our business a ft erwards to gom ore into the details of a plan or whether the bishop will be pleased to draw out a plan, and invite our co-operation in it—whether we shall begin by petitioning Parliament, or, as I should much prefer, the Colonial Legislature, to make us a corporation, or whether, like the people of South Australia, we shall endeavour to organise ourselves, and go on temporarily without being le gally incorporated, will depend on the nature of the answer we receive. I only trust ttiat now, having begun, we shall not let the matter drop; I trust we shall ace that if our Churchmanship be not a sham, if we really take any in terest in our Church, if we care as much about it as we should do about a joint-stock company in which we had invested fifty pounds, we shall do with respect to it what as men of business we should do as a matter of course in a worldly case —we shall claim for the ecclesiastical society to which we be long a constitution and a government _ RET' The Lyttelton Times (which arrives very 20, last and with great gaps in the dates) of March meeting sy at contains a very important and interesting Christ Church, on the subject of Church govern th m e entin New Zealand. The most important feature in h . meet ing was a speech from Mr. J. one may pro posing the first resolution, spoke ß .asGfoodllloe.wy'swe—o, whichin " The resolution which I have Th be said to express a truism. etoCtruorchsem' is a New Zealand, as eefisnseitentaimiptonncipained, the very a lt d s elsewhere, is a society having practical ends to accomplish. con dition of its existence,sive Church its work. Toeemka.s almost m an absurdity,y mind, the notion of an inactive or passive Indeed, what I say of a Church, applies more or. less e t e o el e e v sl e as ry . associated body. When men form or join a society,.. tical or secular, this idea .is almost necessarily involved of their doing something in combination which as individuals they they could not or would not do ; otherwise, combine ? But a society in order to work must have should e s an or ganisation and a government ; it must have forms, laws, qua lifications, executive instruments ; it must head and hands. Accordingly, every association of .t me o n v , e f ru or m a e n u y t ;puorn pose whatever, begins by constituting i g however small or humble may be its scale so a s e n ie d ty it , s o o r b a jee po t, li w ti h e e a - 1 whe ther it be a penny club, or a building union, or a religious sect, as a ma .d tte eu r t, of or co it u s rs s e yu it od ap , p o o r in w ts ha t Managing committee, or its e everelse it may please to call gsrrolaselugisitlaatuitvseaaundd speaks, and organ. Through Through the medium of this o ' Therefore I call it a truism to say that its business • without this organ it would be an unmeaning . and objectless list of names. ' it 'is exceedingly desirable for the Church of England in New Zealand to have a form of government. The wonder is, indeed, that at this stage of our ecclesiastical existence we should have to enunciate so self-evident a proposition. Yet so it is ; this is not merely ignored ; it is actually disputed. While, so truismfar as I can recollect, there is not in the world another in stance of a society without a government, to many English. men it appears right and proper that such should be the normal state of their Church. If you go to the shareholder in a joint-stock bank, or of a railway company, or to a Wes leyan or Presbyterian, and ask him how the society he belongs to is governed, that is to say, who makes and who executes its laws, not one of them would be for a moment at a loss for an answer ; he could inform you with respect to its organisa tion as easily as he could with respect to its character and object. But if you go to a member of the Church of England and ask him the same simple question, what answer can he give ? Is there any one here present who can tell me how the laws of the English Church are made, who speaks our collective voice, who does what we have as a corporation to do---in a word, who manages our affairs I One may refer me to certain laws made in the year 1603 for the government of the Church, and may reply to me by describing the judicial Machinery provided for the execution of them ; another may 'tell me that Parliament governs the Church ; another that the Queen ; another that the Bishops govern it. And in each 1 of these answers there would be a certain amount of apparent truth. The canons are nominally the statute-book of the English Church; Parliament does occasionally legislate in matters ecclesiastical ; the Queen is, in theory her executive head ; the bishops exercise after a fashion certain govern mental functions in their respective dioceses. . ts But still the question, ' Who governs us?' taken in for the most pa common-sense imeaning remains unanswerable. i The rt canons are necessarily and properly, . 'ty could devise complicated rules obso lete and unexecuted, as indeed it is absurd to suppose that that any human author]. action for a society whichwouldand f answer t y its ear purposes wlih o and a - sup ply its needs for two hundred tion and alteration. Parliamentary legislation in Church mat ters is a usurpation founded simply upon might ; the Queen's authorityecclesiastical is as purely nominal in as in civil affairs the bishops have no recognised collective authority a t all ; and in their respective dioceses exercise the simply minis terial office of carrying out the existing laws. No real govern mental power resides in any of these functionaries, because a right to make laws is an essential attribute of a real govern ment ; and no existing authority has a right to make laws for - the English Church. In considering this state of things, I confess it seems to me to resist the conclusion that even the en d urance of it, implies, in a degree, paralysis; contentment under it would imply the absence of life. A society that can not make a law for the regulation of its own affairs, or express a corporate opinion, or do a corporate act, that is unable, in short, to perform any of the functions of life, can only by a great stretch of language be said to be a living body. What • ever may be the numbers and' energy of its individual mem bers, as a society, I say it is virtually dead. However, such being the state of the Church of England, she has sent out numerous bodies of offspring to all parts of the world ; I beg your pardon ; she cannot send, because, as I have explained to you, as a Church she cannot do anything : I should have said numerous bodies of her offspring have gone out from her, bearing with them the principles and traditions of . their spiritual mother, and they have to adapt these as best they can, to a new set of political and social circum stances. Amongst other things they have to see how they can get on without government in a state of things which urgently requires corporate action. The Colonial Church is • cast on her own resources altogether; she has, generally speaking, neither influence nor funds, nor consideration be queathed to her or provided for her ready made ; she must • obtain them, as she can, by personal efforts, if I may use the term. But personal efforts require, of course, a personal agency; in order to collect funds, to build churches, to get : and keep congregations, to exercise order and discipline among them, and convert the heathen, a machinery is wanted ; the old machinery, such as it is, is inapplicable or inadequate, and there is no one with authority to create new. The consequence is, that the Anglican communion almost in variably falls, at the commencement of a colony, below the level of other denominations. Ido not recollect a single in . stance when, under such circumstances, she can be said to have held her own. Other sects come out accustomed to self . organisation and self-government ; each branch is complete in itself, prepared at all points ready for its work. Anglicans alone, when removed from the sphere of their old associa tions, stand bewildered and apathetic, and unable to move or act ; looking for help from Government or from the mother country; from every quarter, in fact, but from themselves. Though generally richer than other denominations, they can not or will not support their own ministers ; at least I know that in those colonies with which alone I am personally acquainted it is so. In British America, the English people through the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel and the Additional Bishoprics' Society, and in New Zealand, the people of England through the Church Missionary Society and Parliamentary grants, almost exclusively support the clerical establishments of communities (which are perfectly well able to do it for themselves, and would be perfectly willing, too, if they were not enervated by lon g disuse of the habit of acti ng f or them selves in ecclesiasticaaffairs. At the same time it would be only fair to say that the Church of England in the colonies is far from being on a level with other sects as regards freedom of action. Deprived as she is of the advantages resulting (or supposed to result) from State connection, it is believed (for such is the absurdity of the system that no one seems to know exactly what its principles or practices are), but it is believed that she still remains fettered by the liabilities which were the incidents of her establishment in the mother country. I will illustrate what I mean by an example which occurred not long ago in this colony. A member of the Anglican Church wished to marry a Jewess; the clergyman refused to perform the marriage, and persisted In his refusal ; but the Bishop told me he had been informed by the judge, that if the parties applied for a mindamus to compel the clergyman to marry them, he (the judge) would have felt it his duty to grant it. ' I am not going to enlarge on the intolerable • tyranny involved in the existence of such a state of things ; I allude to it at present as showing the necessity not only for a complete review of our ecclesiastical affairs, and for the estab lishment-of new and radically different principles of Church organisation, but also, perhaps, for parliamentary assistance in breaking our bonds. I have, now, sir, attempted to show why in the words of the resolution which I am about to propose it appears desirable theta form of government for the Church of England in New Zealand should be established as soon as possible. I have attempted to explain that, without it, she can not properly fulfil her most ordinary and necessary functions, and that to the want of it is mainly to be attributed the apathyand helplessness which arc such melancholy character istics of our Colonial Churches. I will next endeavour to corroborate the view I have taken by quoting the example set to us with respect to this matter by a sister church, which found itself not vary long ago in circumstances analogous to our own. I mean the Protestant Episcopal Church of America. It is often said by enemies of the English Reformed Church that she is the creature of the State, dependent on her estab lishment and her endowments for existence, and incapable of standing like other ecclesiastical bodies, humanly speaking, by her own strength, and working with her own means ; and 1 confess, if I were to look at the present state of our Colonial Churches alone, I should find it difficult to rebut the sneer. But I can show another side so the picture. When the United States declared their independence, it may be said (humanly speaking again) that the Church fell with the monarchy; epis copacy, especially in communion with the Church of England, was, for obvious reasons, n o t on l y unfashionable, but almost in famous; the endowments of th e c h urc h , which had been large in . some of the States, were taken away ; her edifices were de stroyed ; even her communion plate was sold ; numbers of her clergy emigrated together with the most earnest members of their flocks. In short, it is impossible to conceive a more complete and overwhelming prostration than the American Episcopal Church then suffered ; one would have said that within the lifetime of a geueration, her existence in the United States, like that of the British constitution on which she is said to depend, would be a matter of history. Now let us look at the sequel. For some little time the depression consequent on the resolution continued, but the American Churchmen who were left were not dismayed ; they had sense to see that new measures were required to meet the emergency, and faith to believe that they would be sufficient to meet it. Now, it is instructive for us to remark that the first step they took, when forced to shift for themselves, was the formation of a governing body. The first general convention of the Ameri can Church met in 1785, only three years after the peace ; the first American Bishop was consecrated in 1787. The Church was organised with a rapidity and completeness emi nently characteristic of the administrative talents of the peo ple, the civil constitution of the Republic serving naturally to a great extent as a model. A general convention was con stituted,. consisting of all the Bishops, and of clerical and lay representatives from each diocese, and possessing full legisla tive powers for the whole Church. Diocesan conventions 'exercised similar powers within their respective jurisdictions. Vestries administered parishes. - By degrees the outline thus sketched was filled up ; canons of discipline were passed ; the liturgy was revised ; provision was made for education, for foreign missions, for domestic extension. Scattered and helpless individuals became an animated, active, working body, far inferior, indeed, to most of-the other denominations in outward circumstances, but at least able for the first time to do justice to itself and make free use of its own resources. Before I describe the result of these measures, I must remind you that the America, , wi a th Episcopalwith. It Church had another disadvantage to t is notorious that of the emigrants to nally members of the E mall proportion are even norai e paratively s English Church. The causes of this are too obvious to regal; enumeration, and the fact is un forceddoubted. The Amercan°Episcopal Church, therefore, was to rely largely up on if it hoped to hold Its own in numbers and influence to return to the washis to afterbegin i the ja r m e v y o o 1 gr u pe t n i t n o e h n ir as e . cid number of Episco torical facts. I cannot find out whi.ti.: g er fa e c n ts as that the ascertainStatefiovfeNhielvt-eyanoorkel,yvfhie, n p s e ch an iso c ia lei t • 2844, had 304 clergymen, had onl4. l e e °l a 6 r parishes h e s al r• am 11::: pelled, therefore, later date. In 1814, I find that the Episcopainfturirse,ei. nhlaBt44: bored 240 clergymen officiating in ta with URN or PARDONED CONVICTS .--The Falcon, brig, the last year for which I have been able to proc , 0 8 n ptharedlo2ntehd icnoantv,icftrsomonßeßrinoaurdd,a,awrrhiviceidl lace t ac D s esphte tistics, it had 1,202. Assuming that its congregation s he B multi- --- ford left on the 17th ult. They were landed at the yard on Dept plied in equal proportions, and there seems nor eason for storekeeper of that doubting it, we have here the fact that in thirty years the the following day, received the gratuities due to them number of American Churchmen increased fivefold, or about from th twice as fast as the whole population of the Union. So that more storekeeper to enjoy the sweets establishmentof liberty, which a n and i once t i is even if we allow for argument that immigration supplied to be ho them proportioned to an extent proportioned to their ori- the p h ed they will now better a )re • t Several ginal numbers, they must have more than doubled themselves life. Twom er appeared to have r2ili che c d ia e. of by conversions alone in thirty years. And that they have done of them also, si 1 the evening of Too much cannot ngu ar to relate, were brothers. t least seems to be shown by the fact, that in 1839 more , . be said in praise fth so a • balf of their clergy, and nearly one-half of their Bi- "em adopted by the Governme• o e excellent sys tem' one • of their wages until the ex • et of reserving a portion shops, had been Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Methodists ti . t bl th eists. I need not say that the proportion of converts . is r . Y, as it ena ea pira tion of their term of • the to. avoid the ‘343. NE WSI lie ,3-1 have been larger among the congregations than their they would otherwise temptation to be se who rose to office and dignity in the Church. evil ways if turned ae e eee e exposed, to return to !zee --- gets plenty of money. Her tam , n the wide world pen. et American Church ( 1 :\,--. 1 5 ' 41.-t-- : „,. • NI S. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, APRIL 18, 1853. B A N N S. (Front the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 12th day of March, 1853: Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amo un t. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 10,925 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—G. and T. Copeman 4,249' Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 24,985 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and CO Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard and Sons Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester— H. M. and G. Tubb Birmingham Bank, Birmingham ---Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham—J. L. Moilliet and Sons Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co - Boston Bank, Boston—H. and T. Gee and Co Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgiaorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Cobb and Son Bath City Bank, Bath— G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett, Grant, and Co Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock & Co Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—David Morris and Sons, Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—La Coate and Son Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round & Green Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester—Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, T rur o —T wee dy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little & Woodcock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Oo Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Cheps.ow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snea,d, and Co Derby Bank, Derby—W. and S. Evans & Co Derby Bank, Derby—Samuel Smith and Co Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and C 0... Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster —Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Co Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—R. and H. Williams East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Fos ter' and Co 10 1 ,964 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower and Co 49,601 Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford—Sparrow, Round, and Co 43,975 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 27,665 Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon—Barnes, Medley, and Co Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and . Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon 8,119 Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and Co 24,685 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—S m ith, Hild er , and ao. Hereford City and County . Bank, Hereford—. Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead ---Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford— Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexander!! and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton—Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co. Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—J. C. Gotch and Sons Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leices:,er—Pagets and Kirby, Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co. Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan ddo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough D.,nk, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymingion—St. Barbe and 24,273 9,889 15,788 35,125 10,970 13,878 23,459 10,288 7,170 56,620 13,238 5,046 31,775 16,305 22,04 70,344 34,083 24,632 3,178 34,81' 33,424 12,391 64,865 26,945 11,474 1,768 16,773 39,218 31,860 - Co. - Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis—Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvisand Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. ..................... ......................... Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tan ner and Co Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cid Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and No * rfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co. Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance--Batten and Co. Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and 19,759 3,117 16,150 31,165 46,775 7,043 20,119 73,742 9,110 11,934 41,074 28,164 19,604 6,47 5,15 15,988 21,955 18,270 40,888 4,982 23,60: 35,315 21,088 20,389 59,233 13,936 26,364 8,995 19,685 42,392 8,571 5,291 55,601 36,842 25,429 30,483 11,390 82,116 14,426 6,953 3,906 31,411 11,355 14,265 2,633 1,713 6,370 14,193 28,679 12,911 25,520 46,604 21,452 16,623 45,842 62,086 9,825 3,524 25,828 12,478 27,832 11,018 33,829 8,092 10,795 37,857 11,158 7,343 W. Walters.. ................................. Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co , Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond —Roper and Co Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson...,,. 7,221 Royston Bank, Ro yston—Fordham and Sons 11,220 Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son 10,318 Rye Bank, Rye—R, C. Pomfret and Co. 10,447 27,706 31,934 5,G14 4,321 PUBLIC DINN.B.RS, (From the Times.) Public dinners are public bores. What man of sub stance is there— or, still worse, what man suspected of substance—who is not pestered at the least two or three times in every year to give himself a public indigestion in the cause of charity.? The season is now approaching when these exhibitions take place, and, ere they are taken in hand, we would endeavour to discourage them by all the means in our power. The real fact is, nobody is benefitted by them but the tavern-keeper. The various charitable institutions in the names of which the banquets are spread are absolutely injured by the system. Funds which, but for the dinners, would find their way into the treasury of the charity, are in tercepted by the till of the tavern, and no one, that we can discover, except " mine host," is a bit the better for the arrangement. First let us consider the subject as torture unnecessarily inflicted upon human beings. Who does not remember to have been dragged under the still burning influence of a July or August sun to some horrid den in the city about six or half-past six o'clock p.m. ? He goes through preliminary ceremonies much the same as those he would be called upon to endure had ho been mad enough to venture upon a dive into the pit of the Lyceum or Hay market at the frame season of the year. Next he finds himself amidst a crowd of perspiring fellow-sufferers in black—some with rosettes at their buttonholes, like Coronation horses, all doing their best to reconcile an expression of benevolence with that studious avoidance of fellowship with strangers which is one among the many amiable characteristics of our countrymen. Then there is the insane rush upstairs to discover the plate on which the counterpart of one's voucher is deposited ; the attempt, of course, is useless. You look around you for advice, but everybody is in the same condition as yourself, except one tall stern man, somewhat bald about the temples, who has realised his number, and stands sentinel over the position. Come what may, you daren't ask him. At this moment the idea of a Hansom and Liberty will flash across the mind, but you are under the spell, and must see the feast out whether or no. You rush upstairs among more per spiring men, to consult " the plan," and find, theo retically speaking, that you are billetted opposite the stern man; although you could be sworn in any court of justice in Christendom that you had strained your eyes in vain to discover your ticket for a hundred plates up and down on either side of the spot indicated. Finally, after rushing backwards and forwards between "the plan" and the stern man half-a-doien times, you find the ticket on the plate suggested, although it is clear enough that it must have been deposited there for the first time during your last absence to consult " the plan." Well, let us suppose this to be over, and that all the perspiring revellers are duly placed, - including a diplomatic-looking member of the Upper House, with a red riband across his white waistcoat, who is to let off the great speech of the evening. On either side of the " chair" are half-a-dozen grandees —one or two of them excessively dull-looking men—who, as you are informed in a whisper, are India directors or possess unbounded influence over the future destinies of the Namur Rail road. Then there is a gentleman connected with the American Mission, who is sure to say something after dinner about the graves of Milton and Shakspere. But we have not space to describe all the grandeur. The dinner is good—or, in the present instance, we will as sume it -to be so, although heaps of charity dinners are detestably bad ; but we wish to take the thing at the best. Your soul is thirsting for cool streams, not lusting after fleshpots ; but there is no help for it. Fall to and eat. Eat and drink—drink and eat. You have a chance of hearing from your neighbour that it is pub licly reported "Her Majesty is doing pretty well after her confinement," or that " 'Tis very warm in the Royal Academy about 2 p.m." That is your only intellectual relaxation until the speaking begins, and then, despite of yourself, you find yourself swallowing wine by the bumper and tapping the table under the influence of the stern man opposite you, who has already mastered pub lic opinion in his neighboUrhood, and puts you down with a glance if you tap a little longer than he deems consistent with exact propriety. So matters go on for two or three dreamy hours—but the dreams are bad dreams—until you escape out of doors into what seems a furnace cooling down. In two or three days you get over it ;—and that's the end of a Charity Dinner. We have purposely omitted all mention of the col lection, for that must be considered the very essence of the whole business, and deserves ampler remark. As we said before, we have taken a public charity dinner at its best, and presumed the affair to be a real banquet as far as gormandizing is concerned. But all this gluttony in action must be paid for. It is said that but for the feast there would be no collection, and no tickets bought. Of course there would be no tickets bought if there were no feast—no after-dinner collection if there were no dinner. There would, however, be something a great deal better in the shape of undiminished donations and subscriptions to the charity. Grant that tho gross receipts may be smaller—the net receipts would certainly be greater, and that is the only ob ject in view. Nobody shall ever persuade us that amidst two or three hundred men of average common sense who have thus been penned up in heated rooms, as in a charitable Smithfield, a dozen , could be found who enjoy the thing for its own sake, who look upon it as a real festive meeting. Men do not go to such places to forget the toils of business and the anxieties of life, for a few hours of friendly intercourse with their fellow -creatures. No such thing ; they have been talked into it—baited into it—persecuted into it—and there they are, and must endure it. They have screwed their charity up to martyr pitch, and are smiling at the stake. We cannot, however, dismiss this part of the subject without noticing the additional engine of pecula tion which is brought to bear upon the Queen's poor sub jects in connexion with these orgies. An endeavour is made to force you into what is called the stewardship. Now, the sole duty of a steward is to pay 41. or 51. in place of the simple guinea that he would have paid for his ticket in his private capacity. To such an extent is this system carried that there has been an instance in which there have been 200 stewards to 40 guests, This case is much the same as that of the German Principality towards the close of the last century, in which the standing army consisted of a single man ; but there were two field marshals, and general officers in proportion, to look after him, form him into squares, make him deploy, an d what not. It may be asked, why do we exclaim a ga i ns t a process when . the result is an additi ona l su b scr i p ti on to a charitable object We reply, that all the persons who can fairly be induced to give the 41. or 51. in the character of the steward would give it any way. As far as regards the compelled steward, we do not see why men should be bullied into almsgiving more than into anything else. Besides, the result is not such an addition to the funds of the charity as might have been obtained had the money been paid without being subject to deduction under the head of tavern bills. It would be much better to collect the sums subscribed without any dinner at all, and to gratify any little vanity that may be at the bottom of the transaction by publishing the names of subscribers. What more is gained by the present arrangement? We verily believe that, in the majority of instances, the whole affair lies between the secretary and the tavern-keeper. We have heard of a ease in which the secretary to more than one of these benevolent institutions has been presented with a piece of plate, as a public acknowledgment of his charitable exertions. This is flattering, of course, but it is remarkable that the landlord of the tavern at which the greatest number of the feasts was held figures for the very largest subscription in the list. We are not writing with the intention of directing our observations against this or that particular charity. We would have our remarks understood as applicable to all charity dinners. Bu t n it so happens th a t a t th e present mo men t a contest upon this very subject in the case of the Literary Fund, is being carried on with consi derable violence on both sides. The question for decision of course is, whether or no it be for the interest of the " fund" that the dinners should take place. Now, we do not mean in any way to mix ourselves up with the facts of the case, but to take the assertions of the disputants upon their own showing. The reporter for the managers asserts that the dinner of 1851 cost 1391. ss. 6d. (add singers, 71. 75.) ; an d th at of 1852 co s t 1461. 14 5 . ; an d th a t if to these sums be added the full share of the printing, stationery, adver tising, and incidental expenses, it appears that by the sale of tickets, the contributions of stewards and other honorary visitors, and donations directly traceable to the dinner, exclusive of the Queen's benefaction and other annual subscriptions, the dinner of 1851 p ro d uce d a clear profit o f 5181. 2s. 6d., and the dinner of 1852 a profit of 5571. 16s. ld. The opponents of the management pull this estimate to pieces, and show from the published accounts that there must be gross error in the calculation. They take from the amounts of the fund each heading separately, and show how small is the amount over which the dinner can exercise any possible influence. They tell us that for years the guinea tickets and the stewards' fees did not pay the expense, but that there was an annual loss of from 501. to 601. in consequence of the dinners. Who may be right or who wrong in this particular instance we have no means of knowing. We take the chief facts tossed about in a public controversy, and leave fur ther discussion to the persons more immediately con cerned. But we are very confident that in the main, in this instance as in all others, right must be with those who do not set about making money by wasting it tavern revelry and unnecessary prodigality. A FRENCH CAPTAIN JOHNSON.—The Paris police have just arrested a man, who, under the name of the Count de Bondy, has been carrying on a curious system of swindling. He was accustomed to go to tradesmen who deal chiefly with females, and obtain from them in formation respecting such of their customers as were unmarried, anxious to wed, and possessed of a certain amount of property. He then contrived to get an intro duction to some of the females, and by representing him self to have an income of 8,000 f., and, being on the look out for a wife, soon persuaded them to receive him on a footing of familiarity. He afterwards on different pretexts obtained from them various amounts, and then he disappeared. One of them was a poor woman, who only just knew how to sign her name ; and he got her to sign a bill of exchange, under the belief that it was a deed by which he made over to her all his property as a proof of his affection for her. From a small tradesman in the Rue du Temple, also, he obtained 200 f., on the pretence that he would give him an interest in a coal mine which had just been discovered in the neighbour hood of Paris, and which was expected to be extraor dinarily profitable. THE CONDEMNED CONVICTS IN CHESTER CASTLE.— The wretched women, Honora Gibbons and Bridget Gerratty, who were sentenced to death by Mr. Justice Wightman, at the late Chester Assizes, for poisoning a child of the former's with vitriol, for the purpose of ob taining 3/. or 4/. from a burial club, are to be executed this day week. An attempt is being made to induce Lord Palmerston to spare Garratty's life. They have made no confession as yet of the crime, STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.) MANCHESTER April 15.—The American accounts report a further advance in the price of cotton at the southern ports, consequent upon the very large actual and prospective falling off in the receipts. These advices have had the effect of slightly strengthening the tone of the Liverpool cotton market; so that the trade, though still wary and sparing in their purchases, have to pay some advance on the terms of last week for what they may Want. The great body of spinners, however, and the buyers of yarns and goods, keep their eyes steadily fixed upon the heavy stocks of cotton which are held on both sides the Atlantic, amounting to 820,000 bales of all classes here, and nearly 800,000 there, together with A, considerable quantity on the seas ; and they do not semi inclined to let any reports of diminishing receipts, or any such statements as we re ceived yesterday about the lateness of the season, divert them from the sound policy of buying with that prudent caution which hesitates to follow any further advance in prices. Accordingly, the Liverpool market receives no impulse from the action of spinners, nor does ours from that of merchants or dealers. So well engaged are spin ners, howeve:, that they notohly hold to their quotations for the medium and lower counts with unflinching firm ness, but in general are harder to deal with than they were last week. For fine spinnings the late consider able advance is easily obtained. Printing cloths are without change, as are also heavy domestics. The lighter domestics, together with long cloths, are in some degree improved. The very meagre telegra phic announcement of Eastern intelligence received to day, stating some improvement at Bombay, has caused a partial inquiry for shirtings, which have of late been dull, though steady in price. altogether, the business of the week has been inconsiderable ; evidently checked in those articles for which any advance has been de manded. GLASGOW, April ls.—Our cotton market has been animated during the week, and a good business has been done at the full rates of Friday last. CONCENTRATED AND DILUTED POISONS PROM DEAD BODIES. - Death is rife, disease always prevalent, in the vicinity of intramural burial places. Men accustomed to the work of grave-digging have been suddenly struck down by concentrated emanations from the dead. By a just retribution, the agents in the iniquity furnish, if not the greatest number of examples, yet, according to my ex perience, the most remarkable victims. We have nu merous instances of /pave-diggers, sextons, &c., be ing destroyed as it were by lightning. The poison which produces, when concentrated, such terrible consequences, must necessarily give rise to varieus degrees of disorder or actual disease when admini stered in a more diluted form. Thig I have abundantly demonstrated. The effects vary according to the degree of dilution on the . one hand, and on the condition of health, or in other words, the resistance offered by the individual to its reception. It is in this simple, yet all pervadinc, truth, that we must seek the solution of a difficulty that has long puzzled the reflecting. We know as little what constitutes that mysterious power—the re sistance to proved sources of disease in individual or ganisations, as we do of the animating or vital principle. If, however, we are yet profoundly ignorant of what causes the heart to beat, the stomach to digest, the brain to think, the nerves to feel, and our active limbs to move, facts have taught •us, that any cause which weakens the power of resistance, facilitates the action of miasmatic a genc i es , an d th a t th ese , agencies are most rife and most destructive in the neighbourhood of the receptacles of the dead. It is true the effects are often insidious, or mixed up with those arising from other, but infinitely less easily preventible cause of disease and hence a few interested parties were enabled to assert the wholesomeness of graveyards, until the body of evi dence which I accumulated became overwhelming, and reduced them to silence. Amongst the slighter effects which have been proved to arise from residence in the vicinity of over-crowded burial places, I would enumerate eruptive diseases, headache, giddiness, disorders of the stomach, and bowel complaints of various kinds. The digestive or gans are very soon deranged under the influence of the impure air respired, and a long catalogue of secondary mischiefs is the result. These maladies are too often at tributed to other causes, but long experience and close observation force me emphatically to re -assert that the chief, the primary, the most easily removable cause of mischief is the proximity to human habi tations of public and private burial places. This is shown to be the case, by the fact that removal from the poisonous localities is soon followed by restora tion to health, and that no amount of medical skill can benefit the patient so long as he breathes the products of his deceased neighbour, who is often buried under his back parlour window; or, as has happened, beneath his own kitchen floor. Can we doubt, then, that instances of sudden death, malignant fevers of various kinds, assuming forms not to be found elsewhere—typhus fever, that scourge of crowded cities, cholera, consumption, and many other fatal disorders, likewise . prevail more frequently and with increased intensity wherever crowded graveyards abound? —On the Past and Present State of Intramural Burial places, by G. A. Walker, Surgeon. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1853. The figures within parenthesis denote the number o 1 days' racing. APRIL. ...21 Newmarket F. S. (5)....25 Redditch (2) Bath (2) Manchester (3) Epsom (4) 24 .........15 Bibury (1) 22 Stockbridge (1) 23 Winchester (1) 24 Newcastle (3) 28 .LY. Stamford (2) 19 Nottingham (2) 21 Goodwood (4) 26 UST. York (3) 17 Radcliffe (3) 22 Eghani (2) 23 Derby (2) 24 Eccles (3) 29 Lichfield (2) 30 MBER. 1 Lanark (2) 22 1 Manchester Autumn (2)-22 INewmarket F. 0. (3) 27 Northallerton (2) 29 I BER. Richmond (2) 19 Newmarket H. (6) 24 :MBER. Warwick Autumn (2) 16 Shrewsbury (2) 23 Aberystwith (3)..Last week Malton (2).. Chester (4) 3 Newmarket Sec Sp (3) 10 Liverpool Hunt (2) 11 Shrewsbury (2) 11 Edinburgh (2) l2 JII. Newton (3) 2 Ascot (4) 7 Hampton (2) 15 Beverley, Hull, &c. (2) 15 JII. Newmarket (3) 5 Worcester (2) 5 Carlisle (3) Liverpool (3) 13 AUG Brighton (2) 3 Brighton Club (1) 5 Wolverhampton (3) North Staffordshire (2) 9 Yarmouth (2) 9 Beading (2) lO SEPTE Warwick (2) 6 Pontefract (2) 8 Doncaster (4) 13 Bedford (2) 20 Leicester (2) 21 OCTO Chester Autumn (2) 4 Newmarket S. O. (5) 10 :NOVE Worcester (2) 1 Epsom Autumn (2) 3 Cowbridge Hunt (2) 9 Liverpool Autumn (2) 9 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOITSE—Arnm 16. - - ENTERED INWARDS.—The City of Rotterdam, from Dunkirk • Panther, Ostend • D on Callino, Guernsey ; Baldur, dta,thelle ; Friesland, Woreum ; Seine, Boulogne ; Commissary, Callao; Adonis, Bremen ; Soho, Havre ; Eleanor, Hamburgh. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING.—The City of Rot terdam, for Dunkirk ; Panther, Ostend ; Neptune, Port Adelaide ; Rhine, Rotterdam ; Arban, Stettin ; Victoria, Altona ; British Merchant, Calcutta ; City of Boulogne, Boulogne ; Symmetry, Swinemunde ; Helena, Bremen ; Orestes, Trieste ; Wundringmanden,, Christiania, &c. ; Water Lily, Valparaiso ; Elizabeth; Rouen ; Adonis, Bordeaux ; Jongo Pieter, Rostock. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Active, for Leer ; Penelope, Schien ; Economy, Antwerp ; Eliza, De merara; Sarah, Antwerp ; Chowringhee, Melbourne, &c.; Diana, Trinidad ; Batavier, Rotterdam ; Earl of Auckland, ditto ; City of Rotterdam, Dunkirk ; Albion, Boulogne ; Antwerpen, Ant werp; Diana, Amsterdam; Jane, Dantzic; Eugene, Rouen ; Elizabeth, ditto ; London, New York. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Maginn, of Plymouth, from Boston, March 22, lat. 31, long. 66. • The Alice, Jamaica to London, March 18, off Cape Hatteras. The General Washington, Liverpool to Boston, March 22, lat. 49, long. 40. The Carib, Liverpool to Shanghai, Jan. 29, in Bombay Straits. The Don Ricardo, Liverpool to Amoy, Feb. 6, off the Pellew Islands. EXPERIMENTAL SIIICIDE.—A most extraordinary act of accidental suicide—if the verdict of a jury empan nelled by Mr. Bedford, the coroner for Westminster, on Saturday last, can be relied on—was perpetrated on Fri day, at Messrs. Coutts's banking-house, in the Strand. It appears that a father aad son, named Jones, in the employ of Mr. Rigby, a builder, of Belvedere-road, were engaged in plastering and whitewashing one of the rooms at the bank on Friday last. The father left the room for a short period in the middle of the day, and, on his return, was horror-struck at discovering his son a corpse, suspended by the neck from a line attached to a pane of glass used for ventilating purposes in the window. The line merely passed under the chin and at the back of the ears, without encircling the neck, and as the feet were upon the ground and the knees within two inches of it, it appears very remarkable that the deceased, if inclined only to try the effect of experimental hanging, failed in saving himself. The fact, however, is certain that animation was suspended, and, although the body was warm when removed, to Charing-cross Hospital, all attempts at re suscitation proveefruitless. The jury returned a ver dict of " Accidental death." An improper attempt to stifle the inquiry, by the offer of bribes to the reporters present, was made by certain persons, with what view it is not very easy to divine. EXTRAORDINARY ARRIVALS OF GAME FROM NORWAY. —Owing to the long and severe winter, there has just been received at Leadenhall Market an immense con signment of ptarmigan (or white grouse), capercalzies (or cocks of the wood), and black game— about 25,000 bead ; being a novel and upusual supply at this season of the year, Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross —Prich ards and Allaway Saffron Waldez and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Gibsons and Co. Salop Bank, Sh rews bury—Burton, Lloyd, an d Co Scarbor mgh Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co. Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co. Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Co, Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampLon—Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherley, Fell, and Co. Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton—H. and R. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and Rundle Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and Co. Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton - Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire—Thrapston, Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and C 0............ . Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, 'Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges, Wells, and Co ' Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— K. Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers, and Co West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield-- Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alto n B an k, Win chester—ulpett and Co Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurneys and Co Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W. Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Good ricke and Holyoake Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Laven der, and Co Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart , and Co York Bank, York -- Swann, Clough, and Co JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmorland, Kenda1..... .. Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley.... Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Bradford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pony, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich 23,228 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 146,723 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,005 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,720 Hull Banking Company, Hull 29,099 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 14,023 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax • Helston Banking Company, Helston Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 26,968 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,705 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 62,745 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 67,128 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 49,235 Leamington Priors and Warwi c k s hi re B an ki ng Company, Leamington Priors 9,748 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 10,285 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-Stock Banking Company, Newcastle upon-Tyne National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 388,930 North Wilts Banking Company, Melkshain Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 66,447 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth. Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall.... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stack Banking Company, Sheffield 52,213 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond • Storey and Thomas' Banking Company, Shaftes- 10,955 9,480 49,277 9,141 31,782 19,186 55,310 10,300 35,157 9,368 16,865 99,580 24,950 20,398 37,608 19,357 43,905 1,505 17,188 33,093 22,461 3,0M4 47,608 2,122 36,005 52,329 ..:. 351,882 .... 46,038 56,930 23,550 9,745 bury Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhampton 36,07'i Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake- 12,157 fie1d............................................ Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol 81,931 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 71,231 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud- 25,595 33,564 dersfield .... ............................................ Whitcliurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch.. . ...................................... Worcester City and County Banking Com pany, Worcester .................................... 4,384 York Union Banking Company, York ........,. 69,875 York City and. County Banking Company, 92,018 Yorkshire Banking Company, L eed5............ 125,758 p. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Inland Revenue, Somerset *use, March 19, 1853. 3,278 • [ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Royal Exhibition Small Glass for the waistcoat pocket, at S. and B. Solomons', opticians, 39, Albemare-street, Piccadilly—observe, oppo site the York hotel.—A valuable, newly-invented, very small powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut, .by which a person can be seen and known one mile and a half distant; they answer every purpose on the racecourse, at the opera-houses, country scenery, and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer , stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Telescopes possessing such extraordinary powers that some, 3 inches, with an extra eye-piece, will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double s t ars ; with the same telescope can be seen a per son's countenance three miles and a half distant, and an object from 16 to 20 miles. They supersede every other kind for the waistcoat pocket, and aro of larger and all sizes, with increasing powers accordingly. Opera and race course glasses with wonderful power ; a minute object can be clearly seen, from 10 to 12 miles distant. Invaluable newly-invented spectacle. Deafness—New Discovery— The Organic Vibrator, an extraordinary, powerful, small, newly-invented instrument, for deafness, entirely different from all others, to s ur p ass a nything of kind that has been, or probably ever can be produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, it is not Twreentible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public as semblies ; the unpleasant se=waion of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed; and it affords all the assist ance that possibly could be desired.—S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-Area, Piccadilly.— Observe, opposite the York Hotel, 9,653 10,622 66,699 78,044 9,475 44,580 15,252 22,295 38,939 13,558 13,534 10,770 28,201 23,223 22,348 11,395 7,165 10,475 11,588 13,229 14,278 23,462 47,512 13,970 20,969 14,320 86,001 38,256 7, 427 12,890 63,389 10,176 11,298 36,772 10,737 44,737 COUNTRY MARKE2'S. H ADDINGTON—AprtiL 15. The following are the prieee of grain at our n: l3r° to-day : • WHEAT. BARLEY. OATS. qg BoSSal First s4s Od 355 Od 23s Od v„ - ' I S econd 4Bs 4d 33 s 4d 203 lid 3 .V "0 Thi rd 403 Od 28 s Od I.os Od 3 33 i j Total quantity of wheat in market, 260 qrs., 2 G et 6 5 :,,j,1 barley „ 243 qrs., in -- ,11 ) f pp 1 f pp oats 264 qrs., I ,, a % ) id beans ;', 105 qrs.) a " PP ,I ABERDEEN—AnuL 15. The prices of grain arc—Old oats, OOs Od to ye" 401bs per b us h e l ; new oats, 17s Oct to OOs Od, 401b°1f, bushel ; b ere , 28s Oct to 29s Od, 531bs per bushel ; b3 1 1, t0 28.3 Od to 28 8 6d, 531b s per bu.shel • wheat, red, 3 9 1,701 40s Od , 621bs p ef b us h e l ; wheat, White 46s Od to Ili ' 621bs per b us hel • oatmeal; 14s Oct t o , 15s Od per Ib, flour, 3 9s Oct t o 41s Oct per sa c k. Provisions—Beef, Per,i; 4d to 7d ; mutton, ditto; 5,1 to 7d ; veal, ditto, Cu t o Pork, per lb, O s 5 ( 1 t o Os 6d ; salmon, per lb, is 6d t° ° ' ( A l; ' rabbits, each, 7d t o &I • tallow, pe r s t one, 4 s 0(1 to 'l s potatoes, per peck, lsto is 2d ; butter , per lb 9(1 to 081 , 1 n ." eggs, per doz, Os 6d to Os 8d ; hens, per pair, 0 , „ ( s 1 3s 6:1 ; chickens, ditto 2s Gd to 3s Od ; ducks, ditto, ep, to 3s Od • ducklings, ditto, Os Oct to Os Od ; each, 4s Oct' to 4s 6d ; geese, ditto, 3s Gd to 4 3 Oct ; e u o j; for exportatio n (p re s en t cure), per cwt, 76s to 005.40 ditto (summ er cure d) , OOs to ON Oct.; eggs, wholesale t,'4, per dozen, 4id to qd ; 41b loaf,. 6cl; 21b loaf, 3d ; rj; fine small. Os Od to Os 0(1; pork, large, Os Oct to Os 01 lamb, p er quar t er, 7s 6d to lOs ; cheese, per ielPe stone, 58 6d to 7s. --- CORK-APRIL 15. en White wheat 00s Od to 008 Od Os — 2 ° od rrencl otose , 1 Red wheat 23s 6d to 00s Od ‘.O do. Ditto oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od- 2 0 Ditto oos Od to OOs Od 70 Barley l3s Od to 13s 6d Ditto oos Od to Oos Od 00s Od—l 6 Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od Bere oos Od to 00s Od Os 011 195 Oats .......... 9s 8d to lls Ditto OOs Od to 00s Od lOs Od Ditto oos Od to OOs Od 2 Pigs 353 Od to Oos Od Oos Od per . Quantity sold at the highest prices :- 00 barrels white wheat ; 00 red ; 41 barley ; 0 be oats ; 0 pig. Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last week Wheat, 92. Barley, 511. Bere, 00. Oats, Pigs, 139. Return of cattle sold for week ending April 8 :--- Pigs, 626. Sheep, 520. Cows, 128. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. CURRENCY. 910 First quality lOO3 First quality ............... Second quality ............ Sly Third quality 9os Third quality ............... Fourth quality Fifth quality 7os Fifth quality ............... Sixth quality 6os Sixth quality ............... CORR.—Flour- First, 15s Od to 16s Od ; extra 17 ,1 ) ipii seconds, 13s 6d to 14s 6d; households, 10 s t o 13 s ; 3j, 75 Od to lOs per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, 7s 9d to Sst oatmeal, 103 6d to ll s Od ; w h eat meal, lOs to Ils Od Per 0 e Indian corn, 71 5s Od t o 81 O s Od per ton. Bran, 41 fir, to 4/ 12s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers, 24s Od to 44s Od; av` 38s; dealers, 36s Od to 5540 d ; average, Os per ton. St ra o jo Farmers, 20s Od to 27s Od ; average, 24s ; dealers, 355 1 j to 00s Od ; averag e , O s . per t on. Bread—Wheaten loaf, 'nj to Od ; household ditt o, 6d t o Od per 41b.—Fresh butter, 'yff, lid per lb. Eggs, 4s 4d to 4s 61 per hundred. Meat - jtc 4id to 8d ; mutton, 5p to 7d ; veal, 5d t o 8d ; p o rk, 6d ; bacon, 7d t o 8d ; sausages, 6d per lb.—Fish, NeWf° o t , land, 11/. O s t o 12 1 O s per ton ; Scotch herrings, 315 t 0 0 „,•plcs Red, do. , 30 s p er b r l .—Potatoes, white, Iod to 12d ; 12d to 15d.— Coals, Newport, 21s ; Lydney, 21s ; Od per ton. Whiskey, 25 0.p., 6s Od per imperial gsiii'co Hides, market, 30s to 365; Salted, 30s to 38s per cwt. skins, 3Ad per lb.—Bangor slates 21. 17s. 6d to 31. perif pd , Fleece wool, 00 s t o 00 s per stone.—Hemp, 381. to "jdo, ton—Timber, Memel, 31. 10s ; red pine, 31. 108 ; 'TUT: I A 31. ss. per t on; deals, 16/. to 181. pe r hundred.—Bark, e 8/. to 101. 10 s . per ton.--Tallow, 46'r to 47s per cirt• - " n ou , ' , 71. lOs to 01. p er cw t .- Tar, Archangel, 19s. per brl• - "' Peruvian, 101. lOs to 11/. per ton. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, APRIL IG. be l° STOCK EXCHANGE. Transactions to-day nal".•_, o o limited, and prices have generally declined. Tile cA rates were thus reported :—Caledonian, 32. Lancashir 9 i n Yorkshire, 764 ; London an d North Western, ditto (fifth share s ), 2i p . ; Mid land, 75 4.4 • Newil Warrenpoint, 8 ; South-Eastern and Dover, ; cashire and York s hi re (161 . F . shares), 1-16 p. • M', $' ter, Sheffield, and Lincoln (101. shares), 11; St.'Helw" - and C. (6 per cent.) 3n ; North Union A, 255. MANCHESTER, APRIL 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There i s s till a t endency to 104 prices, with but a moderate business. Buckingheoixo; 18$ ; Eastern Counties, 13 ; London and North-Vi r e 6 six 11.9 i • Manchester, Sheffield, a n d Lincolnshire, 301 i ( Ilk; ll land haway Consols, 74i ; North Staffordshire, 18 South-Eastern and Dove; 22. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 16. 4nor STOCK EXCHANGE.—Thi s market was rather -- I N Tor . day, and prices generally improved.. London and Westerns closed at 120. LEEDS, APRIL 16. ftf ling STOCK EXCHANGE. —Dullness is still the prevai 0i ,,,,, ture of the share market. The business doing into c'`c,f nil, and operators seem anxious, before enteri"g j • gel' t f he 113 1 - . ' chases, to be in possession of the budeet 0- , t t. '''' of the Exchequer, which is fixed for Lancashire, have been don to-dayat 183 1nr. ....................:3.... • • '3lOll aay nex 7 ABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General by the night—and Mby the morning —dispatch.] COUNTRIES. Day when made ill in General Post ce, London.* From what I'ort Dispatched. Jue Ed> America(bylirit.pack)N America (by United Sts packet) ........ N America (by U State , packet) .......... N Australia (via South am p Zon) N Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of t;oor. Bops) Africa (West Coast) ..N Alexandria.......... y A1exandria..........31 Bahamas M Belgium •• •• ..N Brazil Buenos Ayres .. ..N Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape of Good Hope .. N Cape de Verds Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N Channel Isles ........N Chili ..........N China (see India) Constantinople ...... Constantinople ........ _ _ Every Friday ... Liverpool ... APril !April 19 .. .. .. . Liverpool April 18 .. ISoutampton l Ith of May ... Bth of May ... Southampton Dover ...... Lprii' l 2d of June 23rd of the month. %, 9, 24, & 30 of m tth & 20th of moo.' 2nd of the month /ai1y............ Plymouth .. Plymouth •• Dover •• I Southampton Southampton Dover Southampton Southampton Plymouth Plymouth .. Plymouth .. 9th of the month.. 9th of she month.. 14th of the month 2nd of June 4th of the month 14th of the month Nfon „Wed ,&N'ed d & 17th of month Plymouth .. Southampton Southampton 4 . 1 I I; ii 1 f 0 01° MO 5 1 5 P. A 1 $, In P; 010 ° 15 5 ° 1 110 0) ;61 re .1 111 ‘711 Ato ll l i e gal - 6 April 4 ',8,17,21,&27 of ra Ith & 20th of mon Twice daily Dover •• •• •• Southampton. Dover ...... I :ont. of Ed - of)e Egypt (see India) France ........ M & N Gibraltar .... ....N Greece (see India) Twice dai1y...... 1,7, 17, 20, 27 of m !Dover Southampton' A 2 6 AP. - 3 To I.ll jo April °' API .° q 0 APr i l e jor ivgi , oreytoWn If Han burgh N Havannah .......... Holland ............ 31 Honduras . • . India (viaSouthampt.) M India (via Mareellles)s7 , lonian Isles (see India) Ireland .. & N l l Madeira ...... • . • . • . N Madeira .... • • .... Malta (see ludia) Malta ...... • • • • • • • ,Ti Mauritius (see India) Mauritius .... • • ....N Mexico ... • •.....N Naples .. .• • New Granada ......N New Zealand.... ..... Papal states .... • . ..N Peninsula .....• Peru ...... •• • • Port Natal Sicily .......... Tuscany ..N Venezuela Van Diemen's Land (Yee Australia) .......... West Indies 2nd & 17th of mon. Tuesday & Friday 2nd of the month Wednesday & Sat 17th of the month 9th & 20th of mon. Bth& 29th of mouth •Outhampton .ondon lAp Twie IP ,56 Aouthampton London . Aouthampton Aonthempton Dover ......, Twice daily 7,9, 17, & 28 of m. 9th of the month 23rd of the mona Elolyhead Southampton , outhampton Plymouth .. 7,17,19,2 F, 30 ofm Apr' . • :; 16 Taeside, 150 001 11 6 sfai ' iceP r To , Irriv A rri c i e g mat Dover..... 14th of the month 'nd of the month. .)thtsth2sthofmo r 2 , d & 17th of month' prirate ship thl s th 2 sthohnon .• th I 7th2Btholinon d & i7th of mon !4th of the month ?thl s tll2sthormon vthlsth2sthofmon : ,2d & 17th of month Plymouth .. Southampton Dover .. • • • • Apo " siouthampioo Various port !lover Southampton -outhampton .rlymouth Dover ...... I Dover Southampton F al 6 l A s p t r o , o r AV i! Apr , to w ne. er n! APS' i 6 APT!: 1 6 Apr,' 6 0 1 Apr „q Ur a l; APO j 6 April 2d& 17th of montbl ISouthamptonl * When any of these c dispatehei on the follow!] Southampton), and the day preceding. 11401; I D o lates fall on a Sunday, the mails elfi a , rig day, with the exception o f the lull Salta, both of which will be dispatch [ADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment an d Pillsefr the cur e o f S cro f u l a , Cancerous Wounds and Old o° ' of --Asa Avory, a youth, the son of Mr. James AVM., d 9 Ramsey, was severely afflicted with scro f u l ous ivevl for three or four years, and during that period ° jo t' remedies were tried, but without the least benefit i'Pl o te ever being derived from them. In this deplorable 6 ,0 Mr. Joseph Sargeant, Chemist, of Ramsey, reconnne e oe him to use Holloway's Ointments and Pill s , a nd t "111, invaluable medicines have been th e means o f effeettiei curing the boy of his shocking com pl a i nt i n a veil "IA space of time. They are an e ffi cac i ous remedy ft . ,il legs, old sores, gout, and rheumatism.—Sold 19 9 0 1 1 druggists, and at Profes4or Holloway's Establish° 244, Strand, London. BIRTHS. OF A SON. On the 12th inst., at 23, Calverley-park, Tunbiidge d* the wife of the Rev. Robert Aldridge. On the 14th inst., at No. 20, Victoria-road, Sel Newton, the wife of 21r. Challacombe. OF A DAUGHTER. t• ;he R~; 13th , at Harrow, the wife of ti On the Steuart Pears. f / 4° On the 15th inst., at lii,ghbury-terrace, the wife o f Steavenson, Esq. RRI ED. t he On the 13th inst., at St. John's Church, Hal 3 A, e litol'' Rev. Samuel Pl an t, v i car of Burton-on-Trent, Sft j:1 0 shire, to Ant o i ne tt e S ara h , youngest daughter of the e , Mr. Mr. Charles Fourdrinier, of Chell House;St.,ffordsu l On the 14th i ns t., a t th e Cathedral, Manchester, 11 . 1,. 6ef' Taylor Fisher, t o S ara h , younger daughter of Jos i a h Esq., solicitor, all of that city. DIED. f°' On the 15th inst , the Rev. A. R. H arr i son , curs George's, A George's, L e i ces t er .' On the 10th hist , at Hilsea, near Portsea, Harte, Es q ., late superintendent, of the Ordnance r a. LONDON : PrihEc,l aud i by Arti nDO 1 8 0 . 0 0 1 of N. 112, Strand, Printex, ut TUe Sun Office, •':„ l tf Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, i n the ow - .. Middlesex, Monday, April 18, 1803. , ,J Brig. 4,30 29,35 1,992 3,780 410 9,540 9,895 9,842 8,428 4,008 6,883 7,593