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Vottrp. . THE WOODEN WALLS OF ENGLAND. (FROM FRASER'S MAGAZINE•) The , homes of merry England, how sweetly do they rise Within her dells, upon her hills, beneath her native skies ; Tim fleecy clouds sweep over them, upborne by many a breeze; Tfie wooden walls encircle them upon her rolling seas : The wooden walls ! the merry homes !—good Christian men, ah, me ! The e homes are still, the meteor flag floats not upon the sea ; And the thunder songs of triumph that burst upon the blast, And the banner bold that floated free like eagle round the mast, Row proudly greets the whirlwind in the tempest's eye no more ; And the wooden walls of England all are rotting on the shore. The vision . of futurity is dark upon my brow, And the glbries of the past rise in mockery I trow, The voice of mighty triumphs that pealed from realm to realm, When the sons of Ocean armed, with a Nelson at the helm, And Thougand hopes were round them, and thoughts of home and beauty, And England hoped that " every man th a t d a y wou ld d o hi s duty,' Fills lofty retrospection : then every gale that rose Brought victory to Albion, defeat unto her foes ; And scarce the orient orb upsprung to sweep into the west, But England's fame was stamped in flame upon his gorgeous vest. The vision of futurity is dark upon my brow, The wcoden walls of England, where are your glories now ? Where is the flag of memory that floated o'er the deep, And the lion roar that shook the waste of waters in their sweep ? Where are the valiant men of might likerocks who dauntless stood, Who gazed like gods and potentates on England's ocean flood? A wailing from the white-cliffed shore, a wailing as of pain,— No battle-decks are on the deep, no thunder on the main • And murmur s fro m a tho usan d graves o f h eroes i n their pride, Fame's.speetral sons leap forth and point to England's sailless tide. Howe, Rodney, Jervis, Duncan, lo! "it is a knell" of t ru th, To rouse the shame, the agony of England's rising youth, When ye. and names like yours, are heard with all a nation's strength, • With patriot power wrung from the soul in all its breadth and length ;-- Invoking ye,—great God, to think !—invoking ye in vain. Ye cannot "sweep across the deep" of England's rolling main ; And it is well that Fame of old unwreathed each honoured • brow • That in your graves ye sleep, nor see our shame and sorrow now. wellfor ye, immortal shades ! ye hear not Honour's calls — For England now upon the sea no more has wooden walls. A wan and faded lustre shines, our sun is in eclipse, And naught but scorn, with fear combined, go forth from English lips ; Scorn of the heartless bloodhound band, whose foul unsated maw Old Ehgland's nobler parts devouredwithnever-wearied jaw ; Fear that our unprotected fanes the spoiler may pollute, The banner starred, the supple Gaul, or, worse, the northern brute ; For Albion's seas are tenantless, her meteor flag is furled, And her once dauntless spirit crushed and spurned by all the world ; For where a Pitt and Nelson shook with thunder sea and land, A Melbourne feeds and Minto's earl bursts bombshells on the strand.* O wo to England's weal, and wo to England's lordly power, And wo to every honest heart when knaves and fools have power,— When traitorism, giant vast, from surge and valley looms, And would, hyena-like, devour the dead within their tombs. Wo to the memory of the past ; what's glory but a shroud,— Fathe's sheeted phantom darkening allwhen traitors bay aloud? Wo, to the crown of centuries, wo to the sceptre and the ball, When feeble is the arm that wields the spearand sword of Saul; Woto the strength of loyal hearts, the trusty and the true, \Nlicin England's zenith star but shines on England's traitor Crew. 0 for an hour of good old days, e'en for that hour again, When Admiral Kempenfelt went down with his eight hundred men : Though sad that hour, yet in that hour Old England on the seas Had wooden walls, and jackets blue, and banners on the breeze; She'd hearts of oak to sweep the deep, and guard her island shore, And ne"er a foe but quickly felt her ocean thunder's roar. But now,---Idown heart, indignant hide thy spirit's manly tears, And brace thine arm, and grasp thy sword, and trample on thy fears ; Dish down the traitor knaves, dash down the knave and foe man too, And man once more thy wooden walls with England's gallan crew ! It is the soul's unbounded burst when patriot passion fires, To trample on domestic strifes, feel honour but inspires,— Honour, that from past centuries springs, and from the thou sand tombs _ _ Of heroes, England's glorious dead, lights up the 'passing gloon2s ; Honour that in the brave man's breast feels every hope restored Hears but its country's pleading voice, and grasps its coun try's sword ! Honour that flames above the storm like that transcendant light, Whose presence is eternal day, whose absence endless night ! Honour that bids us brave the blast, and true to glory's calls, Come forth in England's trial hour, and man her wooden walls ! Arlie ! and, spite of all the ,shame that weighs thy spirit down, C9me forth once more on sea and shore,—come forth for old renow n ! Remember not thy wrong, true hearts, remember but this thing— In ; danger Britons only see thei r coun t r y an d th e i r ki ng . Abide the time, but in the hour when storm and dangers rise, Lee,s only on our altars think, our homes and native skies. Ogee more, once more, 0 let the flag of England be unfurled, AUd'Epgland's wooden walls again be monarchs of the world ! Settle Gapers informed us, the other day, of this patriot earl's arittrOut erhplornent, in playing at hollow-shell practice; and of his blowing up sundry sand-hills, whilst the fleet was unmanned, the arsenals empty, and every dcck-yard was exposed to the aggressione of,,altreign.foe,—" Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a"—bomb. 5X 'LV: • altutari ninon 'o ~.,.SELECT EXTRACTS. 2z:Fl 4 gbirgliNMENT OF TEMPER. — Every human creature is sensible of the propensities to some infirmity of temper, which it should be his care to correct and subdue, particularly in the early period of life ; else, when arrived at a state of ma turity, he may relapse into those faults which were originally in hia'nature, and which will require to be diligently watched and kept under during the whole course of life ; since nothing leads' more directly to a breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow creatures, than the indulgence of an ill-temper.--Dr. Blair. 1::!lCTILITY OF THE INFANT MIND.—Mrs. Sigourney, in her '"Letters to Mothers," thus remarks on the influence of stories, particularly on those told by superstitious vicious setvitrits :—How criminally indifferent are parents to the in flikence which servants have on the youthful part of the family. f the little girl cries while I am gone," said a mother to an Irish domestic recently hired, " tell her a story, and she will be quiet." Ah ! and what kind of a story ? You will not be there to hear it. But the tender intellect, already sufficiently advanced to be soothed with stories, may imbibe foOlish, or vulgar, or frightful images, and take their colour ing; like soft wool sinking in Tyrian purple. " Tell her a story !" Why, that is the very aliment which her opening mind seizes with the greatest eagerness. Are you ignorant whether that aliment may not be mingled wall corruption ? It .was a wise man who said he cared not who made the laws of a nation, if he might only have the making of their songs. With greater truth may it be said of unfolding infancy —any one that chooses may give it grave lessons, but lookout for its storytellers. Thus it is that unfortunate babes are terrified, and,lnade to dread a dark room or lonely chamber, until the slay hilt should solace them is but a communion with name les? si (instrs, and they are frightened out of their sweet bit, EM —the fearlessness of innocence. , .... " ItLE CRUELTY COMMITTED IN HORSE REPOSI TOAWS•IN LONDON.—The ostler, or some one commissioned by,hina,walks through the stables of these repositories many tiraeosin,a day, armed with a heavy whip, which he forcibly appiipoi,to almost every horse. The horses, in consequence ofAla s isAisten for the distant sound of human steps, and are orkthealert, and shift their posture at the approach of every indivishutl. This state of apprehension and alarm passes for a dplay of spirit, of which the poor creature has scarcely a papiicle left. In addition to this, the continual shifting pos tnpsniay hide some blemish or unsoundness that would o ther wise,he observed. The more completely the animal is worn down, the greater is the torture applied. In proportion to the„ debility is the stimulus. This is almost constant practice. Ous,the .morning of sale, on most of the horses, and those espeeiaily !a which there is something to hide—groggy horses, perhaps, more than any others—this discipline is repeated with, additional severity. " I once," says John Lawrence, " saw a poor mare, stone blind, exquisitely shaped, and show ing all the marks of high blood, unmercifully cut with the whip about a quarter of an hour before the sale, in order to bring' her to the use of her stiffened limbs. I saw the tears actually dropping from her sightless eyes." A friend of ours tells ns, that, a littlewhile ago, in one of these sinks of infamy, he saw an old fellow on his knees before one of the hones. He was beating him with a short stick on the,mpsi sensitive places—the shin bones, and the tendons. The horse had been brought there decidedly lame, and it was, hoped that this torture over the whole limb might give hima_ quickness of action that would conceal the original disease. There is one practice for which no terms of rebro b4ion are, sufficiently strong. A horse is brought for sale, lame qn one foot. The other shoe is taken off, and a horse bean,: or, small pebble, or bit of iron, is inserted between the foot and the shoe, which is then nailed on again. This is ca34,7eaning a horse. The presence of this hard body be eep,, the shoe and the sole soon gives excessive pain, and thetlorpe is as lame on that foot as on the other. This, how evesrtdpappears, or is lost in the agony which the poor craatntg endures from the firing or horrible flagellation which he,.undergoes before he is taken from his stall to be exposed for sale. And are there brutes in human shape who can be guilty of atrocities like these ? It is the practice of every day, and there are plenty of smiths to be found degraded and base enough to lend themselves to this horrible barbarity. If the master will not be seen in the transaction, there is no diffi culty in bribing the man. Is there no law that will reach cruelties like these ? Would not the appointment of inspectors over these establishments restrain a portion, at least, of the evils? A case lately happened. A mare was sent to one of these establishments to be sold. She had some good points abqul her, but she had lopped ears. What was done ? A fineset,on was inserted, reaching across the poll from one ear tp the other, the ends being concealed in the inside of each ear. She then carried a decent kind of ear. This mare was sold for a greater sum than she would otherwise have prqduced„and some days passed before the trickery was dis covcrcd. .Smithfield is a still more horrible place than the eopapapn,horse repository. The firing is never omitted there ; butitis conducted in a different manner. The Smithfield horses are generally a stage nearer their end than those that are sent to the repository ; and, consequently, a still greater degree of cruelty is necessary in order to arouse them to the false appearance of spirit. The marks of the whip so savagely applied as it must be, would be visible and excite suspicion ; the miscreant, therefore, takes his ash plant, of its full size and weight, and that will reach from the hannelt to the shoulder, and standing behind the horse, belabours him with all his might. Perhaps two of them are employed in the same diabolical way. The loins and back are beaten almost to a jelly, but no wheals are seen. The poor sufferer after wards starts at the sight of the ash plant, and is all in motion if the weight of a finger is laid upon him. Plenty of ginger is then,uscd, and he is led into the market. The pain of the beating and the dread of its repetition keep him sufficiently on the alert for ,the requisite time ; but he probably will be scarcely able to drag his limbs out of the stable on the follow ing day. Here too, as in the repsitory, the animal fares ill in the inverse ratio of his value. If he has good points about him, he .perhaps, after a certain degree _of firing, takes his chance; but on the worn-out wretch the ingenuity of demons is • s exerted, in order to produce the requisite degr ee on>mrouatt's Work upon Cruelty to Animal ? , • Vtl-' . , . . - - -1- ••••-*--• • . 0 A . , Cu t •- r . . . , ' w r'y~ i' AN AGREEABLE DRAB GHT.—The waters of Freyenwelde, one of the celebrated mineral springs of Germany, are said "to taste like ink, and smell like gunpowder." ROWLAND HILL.—On an occasion of his preaching a cha rity sermon he said, I once got £lOOO by a charity sermon. I hope I shall get as much to-day. But observe, if any of you are in debt, don't put any money on the plate. Recol lect—take time—deliberate. If any of you owe money, be just before you are generous. Stop though ! On second thoughts, those who don't give will be pointed at, ' Oh, he or she is in debt, &c.' " CONVERSIONS TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH. — James Wheble, Esq. of Woodley-lodge, late High Sheriff of Berkshire, in a letter to the editor of the Reading Mercury, reckons the number of conversions to the Catholic faith in England to be about 2000 annually. Within the last few months, Dr. Walsh, Bishop of the midland district, has con firmed 692 converts in the eastern counties. Among other converts, Frederick Lucas, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Bar rister-at-law, has abjured the tenets of the Society of Friends, and embraced the Catholic faith.—Catholic Magazine PErrlcoxr INFLUENCE.—Here we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and unaccountable in fluence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise over—we can scarcely in this case say—their lords and mas ters ; an influence which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his inclinations. We do not remember to have met with a single individual, reported to be under petticoat government, who was not content with his lot—nay, who, so far :from repining, did not exult in his servitude; and we see no way of accounting for this apparently inexplicable conduct—for which, among other phenomena of married life, various reasons have been assigned, though none entirely satisfactory to us—except upon the ground that these domineering dames possess some charm sufficiently strong to counteract the irritating effect of their tempers ; some secret and attractive quality of which the world at large is ignorant, and with which their husbands alone can be supposed to be acquainted.—Mr. Ainsworth's Jack Shep herd. MARK-LANE HONESTY.—A short time ago, I was a fre quent buyer of oats. I was in the market at Mark-lane, and conversing with a factor I knew well. I perceived on his stall the very vilest sample of oats I ever beheld. " Why," said I, " how came you to have such rubbish as these ?" " Oh," said he, " these are paper oats." " Paper oats," said I ; " what do you mean by that title ?" " Why," he replied, " the fact is, I bought a few hundred quarters of these last market, and have sold a few thousands this at 13s. a quarter (tolerable oats were then 255.) : the sales, of course, are registered, and it brings the average down ; in fact, we want a rise." " A rise," said I ; " a fall, you mean." " No, no, a rise : the averages will fall : the duty, of course, will rise : we shall then withhold the supplies ; sell no more samples ; oats will get up, and some of us will do well by it." " But why call them paper oats ?" I asked him. " Because," said he, " the price is quoted in the papers, goes all over the kingdom, and influences country markets as well as this." These are the means by which markets are swayed.—From a pamphlet entitled, " The Factor, the Miller, and the Baker." THE FATE OF RACING HORSES.—Ambo, the fastest mile horse of his day, and that won the Holywell Mostyn stakes three years in succession, was consigned to drag an opposition coach that ran through Shrewbury. When no longer capable of that, he was degraded to yet lower labour, and was at length found dead in a ditch from absolute starvation. Hit-or-Miss, a good racer, was, during the last years of his life, seen drawing coal in a giggler's cart, in the same town. Mameluke is at this time drawing a cab in the streets of the metropolis ; and Guildford, after having won forhis different owners seven teen years, was afflicted with incurable stringhalt, ,and was, sold at a repository for less than £4. Thence the hero of the turf was doomed to an omnibus. There he was cruelly used, the spasmodic convulsion that characterizes stringhalt sadly aggravating his torture. The skin was nabbed from his shoulders—his hips and haunches were bruised in every part, and his stifles were continually and painfully coming in con tact with the pole. In this situation he was sent by the veterinary surgeon (the author himself) to 'The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,' and bought in order to be slaughtered."—Youate s Work upon Cruelty to Animals, (just published.) WHOLESOME DOCTRINE.--The celebrated Dr. Darwin was so impressed with a conviction of the necessity of good air, that, being very popular in the town of Derby, once on a mar ket day he mounted a tub, and then addressed the listening crowd. "Ye men of Derby, fellow citizens, attend to me ! I know ye to be ingenious and industrious mechanics. By your exertions you procure for yourselves and families the necessaries of life ; but if you lose your health, that power of being of use to them must cease. This truth all of you know; but I fear some of you do not understand how health is to be maintained in vigour—this then depends upon your breathing an uncontaminated air ; for the purity of the air becomes des troyed where many are collected together, the effluvia of the body corrupts it. Keep open, then, the windows of your workshops, and as soon as you rise open all the windows of your bed rooms. Inattention to this advice, be assured, will bring diseases on yourselves, and engender among you typhus fever, which is only another name for putrid fever, which will carry off your wives and children. Let me again repeat my serious advice—open your windows to let in the fresh air, at least once in the day. Remember what I say ; I speak now without a fee, and can have no other interest but yo u r g o o d in this my advice." HENRY V. AT THE BATTLE OF SHREWSBURY.—The onset was made by the archers of Hotspur, whose tremendous volleys caused dreadful carnage among the king's troops. " They fell," says Walsingham, "as the leaves fall on the ground after a frosty night at the approach of winter. There was no room for the arrows to reach the ground, every one struck a mortal man." The King's bowmen also did their duty. *A rumour, spreading through the host, that the King had fallen, shook the steadiness and confidence of his parti sans, and many took to flight ; the royal presence, however, in every part of the 'engagement soon rallied his men. Hot spur and Douglas seemed anxious to fight, neither with small nor great, but with the King only ; though they mowed down his ranks, making alleys, as in a field of corn, in their eager ness to reach him. He was, we are told, unhorsed again and again, but returned to the charge with increased impetuosity. His standard bearer was killed at his side, and the standard thrown down. At length the Earl of Dunbar forced him away from the post which he had taken. Henry of Mon mouth, though he was then no novice in martial deeds yet had never before been engaged in any pitched-battle field ; and here he did his duty valiantly. He was wounded in the face by an arrow ; but, so far from allowing himself to be removed on that account to a place of safety, he urged his friends to lead him into the very hottest of the conflict. Elmham records his address : whether they are the very words he uttered or such only as he was likely to have used, they certainly suit his character , " My lords, far be from me such disgrace, as that, like a poltroon, I should stain my noviciate in arms of flight. If the prince flies who will wait to end the battle ? Believe it, to be carried back before victory would be to me a perpetual death ? Lead me; I implore you, to the very face of the foe. I may not say to my friends, 'Go ye on first, to the fight.' Be it mine to say, ' Follow me, my friends.' " The next time we hear of Henry of Monmouth is as an agent of mercy. The personal conflict between him and Hotspur, into the description of which Shakspeare has infused so full a share of his powers of song, has no more sub stantial origin than the poet's own imagination. Percy fell by an unknown hand, and his de tth decided the contest. The cry, " Henry Percy is dead !" which the royalist raised, was the signal for utter confusion and flight. The number of the slain on either side is differently reported. When the two armies met, the king's was superior in numbers, but Hot spur far more abundant in gentle blood. The greater part of the gentlemen of Cheshire fell on that day. On the king's part, except•the Earl of Stafford and Sir 'Walter Blount, few names of note are reckoned among the slain.— Tyler's Henry of Monmouth. PNEUMATIC TELEGRAPH.—A model of a pneumatic telegraph, proposed by Mr. Crosley, has been lately added to the interesting collection at the Polytechnic Institution. The general introduction of railways, and the speed of railway travelling, seems to require that some means of communication between station and station, by night as well as by day, should be established, to guard against the collision of express-trains, and other accidents. For this purpose hydraulic and electro magnetic telegraphs have been sugested, but we are not aware that either have been adopted; and now a pneumatic telegraph is offered. Atmospheric air is the conducting agent employed. The air is isolated by a tube, extending from one station to another—one extremity of the tube is connected with a gas holder, or other collapsing vessel, as a reservoir, to compen sate for any diminution or increase of volume, arising from compression or from changes in the temperature of the air in the tube, and for supplying any casual loss by leakage. The other extremity of the tube terminates with a pressure index. Thus, if any certain degree of compression be produced and maintained in the reservoir at one station, the same degree of compression will spedily extend to the opposite station, were it will become visible to an observer by the index. Thus (says Mr. Crosley) with ten weights, producing ten different de g rees of compression, distiziguiXed front each other numerically, and having the index at the opposite station marked by corresponding figures, any telegraphic numbers may be transmitted, referring in the usual way to a code of signals. The only experience in the transmission of atmos- Aerie air through conduit tubes, which applies particularl: to this subject, may be referred to at three railway establish ments—namely,Edinburgh, Liverpool, and EustOn Square . . , London. In These establishments, air tubes, from one mile and a quarter to two miles in length have been employed, for the purpose of giving notice when a train of carriages is ready to be drawn up the inclined plane by the stationary engine at the summit, so that it may without delay, be put in motion. This notice is communicated by blowing a current of air through the tube at the foot of the inclined plane, and sound- . • ing an organ pipe, a whistle, or an alarm bell, at the stationary engine. This operation has been regularly performed from two to four years, without one single failure or disappointment. Mr. Crosley also states, that a trial was made with a tube of one inch in diameter, very nearly two miles in length, return ing upon itself, so that both ends of the tube were brought to one place ; the compression applied at one end was equal to a column of seven inches of water ; and the effect to the index at the other end'appeared in 15 seconds of time.—;lthenceum. A GERMAN DINNER.— (From Mr. Gleig's "Society, Morals, and. Religion in Germany.")—There is no country in which the business of dining is more gravely dealt with than in Germany. There is no city in Germany where men dine with greater zeal than in Hamburg. The affair is, in deed, a momentous one to all concerned ; and the deli beration and seriousness with which its details go forward are truly edifying. Figure to yourself, gentle reader, a long table, spread in the centre of an uncarpetted room, with covers for some 30 or 35 guests, each of whom has a station assigned to him, more or less removed from the chair, ac cording as his sojourn in the hotel may have been more or less protracted. As the clock strikes four, mine host—in this instance a grave portly personage—seats himself at the head of the board; his wife, for such I presume the lady to have been, taking her place at the right hand. A tureen of soup is then planted before him, from which he proceeds to administer to his guests their respective portions, with all the dignity, and not a little of the patronising air which marks the bearing of a noble towards his country visitors. The soup is eaten leisurely, and with great relisli; the operation being enlivened with much talk concerning money, and the occasional sipping of wine or beer, of which liquors you may or may not partake without exciting the sur prise of any human being—not eyen of a waiter. This done, and the tureen having been removed, there arecar . ried round two dishes of hOuille, that is to say, _of beef, entirely innocent of fat, and boiled to tatters ; - Of which, with the addition of sour sauce and putrified cucumber, ;he Germans eat greedily, while . you, if your gorge re- volt from it, must eiercise - Your patience, for it comes alone in its glory. But all things that had a beginning must like wise have an end. The bouille disappears at last; and there succeeds it a solitary dish of fish, which, after it has stood perhaps a second or two in front of mine host, goes, like its predecessor, the round of the table. It is not despised by any one, though I do not recollect that either here or at any other table d' hote, was the same dish eaten of twice, at least by a German. Next comes roast beef, at first presented entire, then removed to the sideboard, Cut into slices, and handed round. Then follows a plum pudding, and last 'of all a haunch of roasted venison with stewed prunes. Now when it is borne in mind that these various dishes all made their appearance one after the other ;—that no vegetables, except cucumbers and sour crout, bore them company ; that the guests lingered over their several morsels, as if to enjoy them had been the point towards which from early dawn their fondest wishes were turned ; that the head waiter, after seeing that the strangers were helped, sat down at the end of the table and helped himself ; the beef was succeeded by fish, and plum pudding by venison, and that to get through the whole occupied a space of not less than two hours and a half, it is scarcely to be wondered at if, in the eyes of such as had never witnessed the like before, a table d' hote dinner at . . the Hotel de Russie in Hamburgh should have appeared pre eminently absurd. LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. LECTURES ON ORGANIC CHEMISTRY. On Saturday evening Dr. Brett delivered the second of his valuable lectures upon this important subject, in which he entered fully into the nature and composition of organic acids and bases, exemplifying by striking experiments the theories which he propounded. The elegance of these ex periments was only equalled by the neatness of the manipu lation, which, as it is only to be acquired by long and con tinued practice, is an unfailing distinction to the eye between a theoretical and a practical chemist. In the last lecture I introduced to your notice the different substances which constitute organic bodies, and I endea voured to demonstrate several elements which constitute these substances. I attempted to show that organic bodies were constituted of four separate elements, one of which is solid, the three others gaseous. I also introduced to your notice the mode in which organic substances are ultimately analyzed, and I explained, by experiment, the method by which the elementary constituents of such organic substances are to be eliminated, demonstrating the existence of carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. In the present lecture I shall introduce to your notice the proximate principles which arc derived from the organic kingdom of nature ; and when I speak of proxi mate principles, it is necessary that I should state to you what is understood by the term. The different substances which are obtained from the vegetable or animal kingdom are resolved into a variety of what are called proximate prin ciples. The various secretions of plants, as well as those occurring in animals, are by no means simple elementary substances, but are constituted of a variety of substances called proximate principles, and these substances are sepa rated one from another by means of certain solvents. These solvents are water, alcohol, and ether, and by means of these fluids we are capable of separating the various proximate principles which enter into the constitution of animal and vegetable substances. If for example we take the root of a plant, we find that we are capable of separating from it a variety of principles. Mere cold water will abstract starch and sugar. Spirits of wine will remove from this solution of starch and sugar the sugar alone, and leave the starch. And that substances which' is found to be insoluble both in the water and in the spirit, is called for the most part ligneous fibre or lignia. Now this process is termed a proximate analysis. It is the mode by which these principles are sepa rated from the plant without suffering any change. They are closely associated with each other in the organization of the plant, and are separated by means of the solvents to which I have alluded ; we find, therefore, that starch is not readily removed by means of cold water, that sugar and gum are readily soluble in these menstruum ; but when our object is to separate each principle from the other, we have recourse to hot water, with a view of separating the starch. Cold water, with a view of separating the gum and sugar ; and alcohol, with a view of separating the gum from the sugar. The sugar being soluble whilst the gum is left behind, and that principle which is not soluble in either of these menstrua, is termed ligneous fibre. I have introduced this familiar mode of proximate analysis, in order that you might understand what is meant by the terms proximate analysis and proximate principles. The proximate principles are constituted of oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon, and sometimes, but not essentially so, of nitrogen. Independently, however, of these principles which enter largely into the consti tution of organic substances, we have a variety of others, and they may very conveniently be divided into three classes. We have, in the first place, those principles which are of an acid character : secondly, we have those which have basic properties ; and, thirdly, we have those which are neutral, possessing neither an acid or a basic character. The term acid must be familiar to all. We know that it ., possesses peculiar properties, such as exciting an acid taste. It pos sesses the property reddening vegetable blues :it also pos sesses, and which is the most essential property of acids, the property of neutralizing alkalies or basic substances. Now, such substances are to be met with in the vegetable kingdom, and they, therefore, constitute one class of proximate prin ciples. The second class are those which, to a certain ex tent, are analagous to the alkaline bodies which are met with in the mineral kingdom. We know that in the mineral king dom potash, soda, lime, and magnesia abound ; but these substances are recognized as alkalies, as they convert vege table blues and reds into greens, and possess the power of saturating acids. The same thing occurs in vegetable struc tures. We are able to recognise in plants substances pos sessing the same properties as those of the inorganic king dom. The neutral bodies belonging to the organic kingdom, which are neither acid-or alkaline, are exceedingly abundant, as in this class we rank gum, starch, &c. It is my purpose, in the present lecture, to consider more especially those substances which are of an acid nature, and which may be termed the organic acids. They occur very abundantly in the organic kingdom, and there are very few plants which do not contain certain quantities of these orga nic acids. They are met with both in a free state, uncom bined with any base, but in general combined with a base. The oxalic, carbonic, and mellitic acids are simply constitut ed of oxygen and carbon, and in this respect are very re markable, as the organic acids are generally composed of three elements. We then come to the formic acid, which is an acid derived from the animal kingdom, and also capable of being produced artificially by the action of certain re-agents upon vegetable substances. The acetic acid and the benzoic belong to the vegetable kingdom, as do the succinic, tartaric, citric, malic, and gallic. I shall first consider oxalic acid, as it is one of extreme interest, from a variety of circumstances. It is abundantly met with in the vegetable kingdom. There are certain va rieties of plants which especially yield this acid, which rank under the class of sorrels, and contain a large quantity of oxalic acid, combined with potash. It is found also in mi nerals, and in some quantities, combined with lime, in the roots of several plants. But the oxalic acid of commerce is obtained from the action of nitric acid upon sugar or starch, and is exactly the same acid as exists in plants and in some minerals. A large quantity of oxalic acid is made both for the purposes of the arts, as well as for medicine, by the means I have alluded to, namely, the action of nitric acid upon sugar or starch. Sugar and starch are composed of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen. Oxalic acid consists of a combina tion of carbon and oxygen. The action of the acid upon the sugar and starch is to cause the separation of hydrogen, to which the nitric acid gives up oxygen, so as to give water, whilst another portion of oxygen unites with a portion of carbon, forming carbonic acid ; and oxalic acid is formed by the combination of the remaining elements of the sugar. I have a portion of sugar, to it I shall add some nitric acid, and after the application of heat, in'a few moments we shall find that considerable action will take place, that the elements of the sugar, consisting of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, as well as those of the nitric acid, will be decomposed, and enter into new combinations, by which carbonic acid, oxalic acid and nitrous acid gas will be found, as I have before stated. The oxalic acid will crystallize after evaporation of the residual fluid. It crystallizes in prisms of a white colour, very like Epsom salts, with which it is sometimes confounded. Oxalic acid is composed of two prop . ortions of carbon and three of oxygen, or carbon and oxygen 24-36. It will therefore be seen that oxalic acid might be decomposed into carbonic oxide and carbonic acid, carbonic oxide 14, and carbonic acid 22-36, and we are able to effect this by means of certain agents. If, for example, we apply heat to oxalic acid alone, we shall convert it into carbonic acid and carbonic oxide, and nothing else. If we employ the agency of an acid, which has a strong affinity for water, the same result will happen, for oxalic acid in a state of crystallization contains a quantity of water, and the other elements, carbon and oxygen, being in a free condition to form other gaseous compounds, resolve themselves into carbonic acid and carbonic oxide. I shall endeavour to prove by experiment that carbonic oxide and carbonic acid are produced during the decomposition of oxalic acid, by means of sulphuric acid. By collecting the gaseous products over lime water, the water will be rendered turbid and white from formation of carbonate of lime, whilst the gas which displaces the lime water, and is not absorbed by it, is carbonic 'oxide : and it may be observed that when oxalic acid is perfectly pure, and the sulphuric acid which acts upon it is also perfectly pure, the only substances which remain in the retort after decomposition, are sulphuric acid and water, so that we demonstrate in this manner the exis ence of these two substances in oxalic acid, and that the water which was contained in the crystals is retained by the sulphuric acid. Carbonic oxide presents a blue flame when burnt, and, as it is the only gaseous substance which does so, we can readily detect its presence. Oxalic acid combines with alkalies and with earths, and forms salts, and these salts are of some interest, inasmuch as they are employed not only in chemical analysis, but also in the arts and for medicinal pur poses. When oxalic acid is combined with ammonia the volatile alkali, it produces a beautiful crystalline salt called the oxalate of ammonia, and this salt is of very great impor tance in chemistry, because it is used to indicate the presence of lime, and is one of the most delicate tests for the existence of that substance. I shall add to b. salt of lime a solution of this oxalate of ammonia, and we shall find that the oxalate of ammonia will suffer decomposition, as will also the salt of lime. The lime in this solution is combined with muriatic acid. When then I add the oxalate of ammonia to this mu- Hate of lime, the muriatic acid will go to the ammonia, and the oxalic acid from the ammonia will combine with the lime and fall as an insoluble substance. Oxalic acid is capable of combining with potash and with soda. With potash it unites and forms a salt which is extremely abundant in those vege table substances to which I before alluded, namely, the various species of sorrel, and is termed the salt of sorrel. It is a salt extrarted from the juice of those plants combined with potass, and is termed the oxalate of potass, an extremely poisonous salt. Oxalic acid combines with certain metals, with silver, forming an insoluble oxalate of silver, and with lead, forming an insoluble oxalate of lead. In this glass I have a solution of acetate of lead, to which I shall add a so lution of oxalate of ammonia, and we shall find that the oxalic acid will be transferred to the oxide of lead, forming an insoluble precipitate, whilst the acetic acid will combine with the ammonia to form acetate of ammonia. When oxalic acid or a combination of oxalic acid and a base is added to a salt of silver, we shall also obtain a precipitate of the same character. In this glass I have a solution of nitrate of silver, to which I shall add a solution of oxalate of ammonia, and we shall perceive an abundant white precipitate. This oxalate of silver differs very materially from the other oxalates in pos sessing slight detonating properties. If we take a portion of the salt and apply heat to it upon an iron spatula, we shall find that it will be dissipated with a very slight detonation. The oxalic acid is decomposed, and dissipated in a gaseous state, while the silver will remain in a finely divided state. This, is one of the most striking modes of ascertaining the existence of oxalic acid, as, there is no other acid with which we are acquainted which produces the same effect when combined with silver. I may observe, that oxalic acid has extremely• poisonous properties, and it is one of those acids not unfre quently had recourse to for suicide or murder, in a variety of forms. The best antidote in such cases is a substance which shall combine with the oxalic acid to render it insoluble, and there is no substance which possesses this property so com pletely as lime or chalk, which will unite completely with the oxalic acid, and render it completely insoluble, so that when an individual has taken oxalic acid, lime will be the best antidote. The croconic acid is one of artificial production, and is obtained by passing the gas which 1 have shown you over potassium, by which a portion of the carbonic oxide is converted_ into croconic and oxalic oxides, the croconic acid only differing from the oxalic in containing a lesser pro portion of oxygen. The mellitic acid, besides being an organic compound, is found in that peculiar mineral called the honey stone, from which it may be separated by strong acids. Formic acid is an acid of peculiar interest, and has a claim upon the animal as well as the mineral kingdom. We first obtained it from ants. It is stated, with some gravity, by the French and German chemists, that " if we take the red ant, and cause him to walk over blue litmus paper, that he will leave behind him in his footsteps a red mark." And this is a fact. This insect secretes a considerable quantity of an extremely pungent acid, which, from the circumstance of its being first observed in it, has been termed the formic acid, and was procured originally by crushing ants, in a whole- sale manner, in a mortar and extracting the acid from them. We are now able to obtain formic acid by artificial means, as upon analyzing the acid it was found not to vary very ma terially from certain substances of vegetable origin, such, for example, as tartaric acid ; and it was found ethic if we admit to this substance an extra quantity of oxygen, we should be able to procure formic acid__ The method of obtaining it now, is extremely simple. If we take sugar or starch, we shall find that, by supplying them with an extra quantity of oxygen, we are able to obtain formic acid. When, therefore, we mix sugar or starch with the oxide of manganese and sul phuric acid, and submit them to heat, the oxygen obtained fromlihe manganese is capable of converting the sugar into the formic acid. Now formic acid consists of carbon 2, oxygen 3, and hydrogen 1 ; and it is certain that these elements can be made to form two proportions of carbonic oxide and one of water, these products being equal to the elements obtained by the analysis of formic acid. Formic acid possesses stronjacid properties, very like those of acetic acid ; but when submitted to the action of sulphuric acid it is converted into carbonic oxide and water, and not into car- bonic acid and carbonic oxide. By leading the gas evolved from formic acid in this manner, by the action of heat, into a water containing barytes, which is a delicate test for car bonic acid, we shall find that the water will not be rendered turbid, as would be the case if we acted upon oxalic acid. I shall now add to the formic acid a portion of oxide of man ganese, and, by heating it with sulphuric acid, I shall supply oxygen to the carbonic oxide, and convert it into carbonic acid, and then we shall find that the barytes water will become turbid. Independent of this characteristic distinc tion between oxalic acid and formic acid, there are others which strongly mark the nature of the latter acid. I have in this tube some formic acid mixed with a salt of mercury, a combination of chlorine and mercury' called corrosive subli mate, there being two proportions of chlorine to one of mercury. The action of heat occasions the decomposition of this bichloride of mercury. The hydrogen of the water will unite with one portion of the chlorine to form muriatic acid, whilst calomel, a white powder, will be thrown down—the oxygen uniting with the formic acid to form carbonic acid. When formic acid is heated with the nitrate of silver, a dark brownish deposit is found in the tube. This is very charac teristic of formic acid. I shall now direct your attention to an acid of very con siderable importance, namely, the acetic, which is met with in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Acetic acid, how ever, is made in very large quantities for a variety of pur poses, and its preparation is one of extreme interest both in a theoretical as well as in a practical point of view. In order that acetic acid, or vinegar, may be obtained by what is termed the acetous fermentation, it is necessary that a fluid containing spirit or alcohol should be present, that this fluid should be submitted to a certain temperature, say 70 degrees Fahrenheit, and that there should be superadded a substance which acts as a ferment, or, in other words, be capable of setting in action what is termed the process of fermentation. The vinegar which is obtained in this country, as well as abroad, is produced for the most part from very weak wines, by exposing them simply to the action of the atmosphere, or from weak infusions of malt. These are the methods by which the weak vinegars are obtained. In the cases where weak wines are exposed to the action of the atmosphere, the spirit which they contain by its absorption of oxygen becomes converted into vinegar, but in the case in which the infusion of malt is employed, the principal ingredient contained in this malt is sugar, and it for the most part is converted into spirit, or alcohol, before it becomes changed into vinegar or acetic acid. At the same time it must be observed that it is not essential that the sugar should pass into the state of alcohol or spirit before the acetic acid is formed, but in the majority of cases there is no doubt that the sugar becomes converted into spirit or alcohol before it assumes the cha racter of vinegar. There are other modes by which we ob tain acetic acid—by what is termed the destructive distillation of wood, large quantities of acetic acid are obtained. The elements of wood, or ligneous fibre, being simply carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, are found, by the application of heat, to be resolved into acetic acid, as well as certain other products. The wood, which for the most part is of a hard character, is placed in iron cylinders, and, in this country, put into horizontal furnaces, in France they use vertical furnaces for the purpose. This wood is submitted in the cylinders to a considerable heat, by which the ligneous sub stance undergoes decomposition, and a number of gaseous products are disengaged, while there passes over a consider able quantity of acid fluid mingled with a dark brown tarry substance. This fluid is impure acetic acid, which is purified by distillation to a certain extent. To obtain it perfectly fine it is necessary to combine it after the third distillation with some base, such as lime, by which means an impure combination of acetic acid with lime is obtained. This sub stance is then evaporated to a dry state, or, as in some cases, is mixed with the salt called sulphate of soda, which, com bining with the lime, forms sulphate of lime, and takes up the acetic acid to form acetate of soda. The acetate of soda is then crystallized by evapoption, and submitted to a cer tain heat to destroy the impure substance with which it is combined. It is then dissolved in water, and obtained in a pure state. Having thus obtained acetate of soda in a pure state it is readily decomposed by a strong acid, such as the sulphuric acid, and the acetic acid is carried over by distillation and condensed. The acid, when obtained as free as possible from water, receives the name of glacial acetic acid, or radical vinegar. Acetic acid, in its pure state, when uncombined with water, is composed of 4 carbon, 3 oxygen, and 3 hydro gen, in 51 parts.. As I have stated, alcohol is capable of being converted into vinegar, by exposure to the atmosphere and fermentation. Thus, 2 proportions of alcohol contains carbon 4, oxygen 2, and hydrogen 6, so that the remaining 4 of oxygen must be derived from the atmosphere, as acetic acid, combined with water, contains 4 carbon, 6 oxygen, and 6 hydrogen, or 78 parts-3 o x y gen , an d 6 hydrogen, or 27 ' parts being due to the presence of w ater. If we place al cohol in a vessel, near to black platinum, in a fine state of division, so that the vapour of the alcohol may come into contact with the platinum, the latter enables the alcohol to abstract oxygen from the atmospheric air, by which it is con verted in a short time into acetic acid. Other products are formed during the process of acetification, which I shall al lude to in another lecture. A substance called aldehyd is formed when the alcohol has only received one half the quan tity of oxygen, and vinegar when it has received double - the quantity. The term aldehyde is compounded from alcohol dehydrogenatus, as that substance contains less hydrogen than alcohol.' It is inflammable, like spirits of wine, and is capable of being made artificially, by removing the hydrogen from alcohol. If we take a portion of this aldheyde, and heat it with caustic potash, it is subject to decomposition, and is converted into a brown substance called aldehyd resin. Acetic acid, obtained as pure and as strong as we are able to obtain it, always contains a certain quantity of water. When hegted in a very concentrated state it yields a vapour, which is in flammable, not unlike spirits of wine. A very characteristic distinction between acetic acid, which is strong glacial as it is called, and ordinary vinegar or weak acetic acid, is this, that the glacial acetic acid, becomes solid or crystalline when submitted to a low temperature, which is not the case with weak acetic acid. We have here placed in a cooling mixture a quantity of strong glacial acetic acid, every portion of which was put into this bottle in a fluid state, but which has been converted into a solid by the reduction of temperature. The temperature which is requisite to produce this change is not more than 45 degrees Fahrenheit, a degree considerably above the freezing point of water. Leaving, then, the subject of acetic acid, I pass on to the consideration of the remaining acids : and here I will observe, that I shall do little more than name them, inasmuch as there are very few properties connected with them of any interest. The benzoic acid is one which occurs very abun dantly in certain vegetable substances. It is capable of being formed artificially. Benzoic acid is light in its character, crystallizes in very fine delicate needles, is soluble in water to a certain extent, and also in spirits. It is used in medi cine, and occasionally in chemistry, in the detection of iron. The succinic acid, which is also of vegetable origin, is derived from amber, a substance with which we are all "familiar. It forms a combination with lime and other substances, and is used as a chemical test. The tartaric and citric acids ap proximate in their properties. They both crystallize in hard crystals, and are used extensively in medicine. They differ from each other in the citric forming a soluble salt, and the tartaric an insoluble salt, with potash. The citric acid is formed in the orange and the lemon. The tartaric is met with as an incrustation on the sides of wine -casks, in the state of tartrate of potass. The malic acid proceeds from the apple tribe of plants. The gallic is an acid met with for the most part in the gall-nut. It is obtained by simply ex posing an infusion of nut-galls to the atmosphere, when a quantity of oxygen is absorbed, and it is obtained by evapo ration in a crystalline form. It is white when pure, and soluble in water • and will produce a dark col our i n salts of iron, precisely like common ink. Upon the addition of a small quantity of oxalic acid to this, the colour is entirely destroyed ; and it is on this principle that we remove what are called " iron spots," by means of oxalic acid, or a sub stance containing oxalic acid, namely, the oxalate of potash. Vegetable bases are found associated with acids, from which . . it is necessary to separate them before we can get them in a pure condition. The general mode of obtaining them in a free state is, to saturate the acid with which they are com bined with strong bases, such as lime, magnesia, potash, or ammonia, by which' the vegetable alkali is set free. These vegetable bases vary very considerably in their properties : some of them are the most highly poisonous substances with which we are acquainted ; others are employed extensively in medicine, and form some of the most efficient substances in the medical art. Some of them are capable of uniting with acids, and forming salts. These substances are consti- tuted for the most part of carbon, oxygen, and hydro g en, and occasionally nitrogen. Therefore, you will perceive how differently they are constituted from the inorganic alkalies and earths ; but, notwithstanding, they possess properties very similar—namely, the power of changing vegetable reds to green, and of neutralising acids. The next lecture will take place to-morrow evening, upon neutral bodies of vegetable origin. The hop plant is found to be a good substitute for bark in the process of tanning. JONATHAN OUTDONE.—A short time ago, " a fine old English gentleman," in the good town of Burnley, though perhaps not one of the " olden time," always anxious to have the earliest news, went, in the course of his daily rounds, to a Mr. Boniface, who is distinguished for his wit and intelligence, and inquired of him the news of the morn ing. Mr. Boniface hesitated, and stammered out, " None ;" but shortly, as if recollecting himself, told him that the latest authentic news was, that a superb and elegantly fitted up steam-vessel was about to cross the Atlantic, from Liver pool, which had on board two acres of grass land, as many cows and sheep, and poultry, &c., as would fit them with milk and butcher's meat during the voyage out and home, and that the spirited proprietors intended to bore for coal, which they hoped to find, and thus be prepared for any length of voyage, without the fear of being short of fuel. The old gentleman, astonished, scratched his head, and walked away, muttering as he went, " These are strange times; what shall we see yet !"—Blackburn Gazette. STATE OP TRADE.—There was but a moderate demand for yarn yesterday, and the buyers showed very little inclina tion to follow up the recent advance in cotton. The business done was consequently limited. The goods' market was also quiet, and prices rather in favour of the buyers, though it could hardly be said that a decline was established, as com pared with the current rates of last week. As we announced on Saturday, several of 'the principal spinners and manu facturers at Stalybridge began to work six hours a day on Monday last ; and we understand their example will be fol- lowed by the whole of the trade there,—some beginning to morrow, and others at the commencement of next week. From the extent to which the working of short time has pro ceeded, and the general substitution of light for heavier fabrics, in almost every discription of manufacture, there, must be very considerable diminution in the consumption of cotton. We heard yesterday of one very large spinner and manufacturer, who, without stopping or retarding a single loom or spindle, had diminished his weekly consumption of cotton th the extent of 161 per cent ; and the same kind of diminution, to a greater or smaller extent, is very general throughout the trade, in consequence of the high price of cotton rendering heavy fabrics comparatively dear and un profitable.—Manchester Guardian. THE POOR IN PARIS.—The lowest forms of Parisian eat- ing may be found in certain streets of the Fauxbourgs, and in the market places. Visit the Marche des Innocens at any hour of the day, you will see around its fountain some score of old women crouched in the open air, by the side of their little tin cooking apparatus. Around each are a dozen men, women, and children ; some standing, some sitting, and all devouring the bowls of steaming parti-coloured soup, which have just for eight liards, or two sous each, been ladled forth. The dishes smell of garlic, and, judging from signs in faces, cannot be very relishable, The multifarious ingredients that surrounded the compounders of this broth. " The eyes ofnewt, and toes of frog, The lizard's legs, and owlet's wings," remind you of that " gruel thick and slab," manufactured by the witches in Macbeth. This is but the type of many other scenes ; and thus banquet thousands of the Parisians. Walk into the large meat market. At one corner . are half a dozen stalls ; in each sits a mutton-complexioned woman ; around her are twenty white platters, heaped up with second-hand, and third, and even fourth-hand remnants ;—they are rem nants from the great restaurants. And now here comes a ragged man, bearing upon his shoulder a dirty bag. Bargain ing for its contents with a woman of a stall, he pours out a bushel of half-stripped bones and half-munched crusts of bread. The heap looks repulsive enough, and you pronounce it without nourishment and unpalatable. Your dog merely smells at it, as he passes by. Yet, on such forbidding food, thousands of Parisians are nourished. Here are some sad facts, about which your gourmand at the Rocher, prating of luxury in Parisian banquets, never dreams. There are wide contrasts in Paris, and none more wide than those in eating. The scenes thus visited have some degree of mourn ful interest. Amidst them commenced that cry for bread in the former revolution—that cry which was not silenced till the royal family were dragged by a starving multitude from the palace at Versailles to their prison at the Tuilleries.— Bentley's Miscellany. 4§bipping inttlligtntt. TUESDAY, MARCH 12.—Wind S.E. _ . ARRIVED.—Maria, —, from Bourtleaux—Wetsina, Greven, from Harlingen—Ceres, Finsen, from Kiel—Constant, Vanschie, from Antwerp—Wm. A ckers, Nichol, from Puerto Cabello—and Diana, , from Leghorn. Wilberforce, SAlLED. — Columbus, Cropper, for New York—George IV, Legget, for Gibraltar and Cadiz—lnca, Harrison, for Honduras—L'Albatros, Boja, for Nantes—Senator, Grindlay, for Rio Janeiro—Courtenay, Ellis, for Savannah—Anaxibia, Trenethen, for Trinidad and St. Domingo—Cerio, Noore, for Rotterdam—Akkeboom, Pottjer, for Pernau—Bengal, Teuton, for Mobile—Lucas Wicher, Tonge, for Harlingen—and Nineja, Da Cruz, for Lisbon. The Elizabeth Bruce, arrived here yesterday, while ecudding under double reef, in a S.W. gale on the 13th Feb. in lat. 44, long. 49, got entangled in an extreme field of ice, and with great diffi culty, got out of it to the westward, after striking very heavily, which started the oakum in all ter seams round the bows, and did considerable injury to the copper, &c. _ _ _ _ Mary Hartley, hence for Mauritius, was spoken in lat 44, long 15 Governor, hence for Jamaica, was spoken 7th Feb., in lat 24, long 25 George Canning, from Monte Videb for London, was spoken 26th Feb. in lat 43, long 22 Louisa Monro, Lowry, sailed from Calcutta for this port 3d Jan Patriot King, Clarke, sailed from Saugor for this port 31st Dec Freeland, SOOlter, frOm Odessa at Constantfnople. and sailed 12th Feb. for London _ _ _ Firefly, Easter, sailed from ditto on the Bth, and Susannah Co; lings, Crabb, on the 11th Feb., both for this port Newton, Ferguson, hence, at Marseilles Cossack, Truman, from New Orleans, at ditto Schans, Courtean, sailed from Gironde for this port 3d March Hebe, from Rio Janeiro, at Pernambuco Diadem, Yule, from Port-au-Prince, at Falmouth Constitution, hence for Philadelphia, off Cork, Bth instant WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13.—Wind S,S.E. moderate. ARRlVED.—Cambridge, Bursley ; Hibernia, Cobb; sailed 15th Feb.; Roscius, Collins, 17th; Westchester, Ferris, 18th ; Orpheus, Bailey, 20th, and Hannibal, Mumford, 20th, from New York—Cyg net, —, from St. Joseph's—lrvine, Reid, and Adelaide. David son, from Savannah—Ellen Jenkinson, Walker, from Trieste — Alfred, Gullen, from Charente—Angelina, Cornelisse, from Antwerp —Hendrika Arentine, Breeland, from Dordt—Countess of Perth, Porter, from Hamburg--Petersburg, Meddell, from Rotterdam — Hope, Gallichan, from Jersey—and Farie Queen, Hughes, from Canton. SAILEn.---Georgiana: Brown, for New York—General Carnot, Pineau, for Nantz—Venture, Blockshaw, for Hamburg—larrow, Walker, for Laguira—Mischief, Jones, for Lisbon—Republic, Wil liams, for New York—lsaac Newton, Spalding, for Philadelphia -Alexaner Edmond, Strang, for St. John N.B.—lsis, Graham, for Jamaica—L'Jason, Gallien, for Rouen—Johanna, Bakker, for Per nau—and Julia, Cram, for Palermo. Jane, Smith, hence at Aux Cayes Sophia, , hence at Bahia Amelia, , hence at Havana Cumberland, Power, hence at Apalachicola Herman, Allyn, hence at Baltimore • Chiha, Larmour, hence at Charleston Margaret, Blythe; William, Clarke, and Birkby, , hence at New Orleans Minerva, , honce at Philadelphia Enterprise, Vaughan, hence at Savannah Native, Squires; Pearl, Pepperell, and Donegal, Blythe, hence at Lisbon Camoens, Barnes, hence at Oporto in 10 days Donna Maria, Steele, hence at ditto Wanskapen, Peterson, hence at Bremen Hercules, Erich, hence at Kiel Margaret Bogle, Morrison, sailed from Odessa for this port 20th Feb. Mary Marsden, Williams, and Tiber, Lamb, sailed from Trieste for this port 23rd Feb. Corrieire de Memfil, Mortio, sailed from Leghorn 25th Feb. ; Mary, Martin, and Intrepesa, Lundgren, 27th—all for this port Emma, from Leghorn, at Algesiras Bay, and Helme, As trope, from Odessa, at ditto, and both cleared 22nd Feb. for this port Rapid, Fox, from Venice, at Gibraltar, and sailed 23rd Feb. for this port Stirlingshire, Cargill, from Trieste, at ditto, and sailed 28th Feb. for this port Rapid, Mathias, from Barletta, at ditto, and sailed Ist instant for this port Carelin, Christian, sailed from Lisbon for this port Ist instant Atlas, Schmidt, hence for Antwerp, at Portsmouth Fife, Dare, and Sally, Heughan, ftc;ln Bayonne, at the Cove Kingston, n, hence at Llanelly, to load coals for Bombay Thames, ißoyd, from St, Domingo ; St. Jean, Perraud, and Taber. Gourdely, from Bourdeaux ; Bonne Mere, Cambeaux, from Nantz, and Hendrietta, D'Hont, from Antwerp, at Beaumaris—all for this port Liverpool, (steamer) Fayrer, hence at New York, 25th Feb. in 18i days ; would return about 7th instant Great Western, (steamer) from New York, at Bristol 12th instant, at three p.m. ; sailed 25th ult. Glenarm, Gruaer, from Manilla, at Portsmouth. On the 4th Nov. in lat. 18 S, long. gg E, spoke the Sophia, hence for Batavia WEXFORD, March 11.—The Elizabeth & Alida, of Amsterdam, bound to Liverpool, was totally wrecked last night near Carne ; crew, part of the cargo, and some of the materials saved BELIZE, Jan. 20.—The Eleanor Laidman, Watson, from Santa Martha for Mobile, was totally lost 13th Jan. on Serranilla Reef; crew arrived here, after being six days in the boats. Two other vessels were also seen on the Reef by the Eleanor Laidman ; one of which was supposed to be the Mary Brade, from Santa Martha for Apalachicola. A large ship was seen on Salamandina Reef, 26th Dec.: crew supposed to be lost. The Shannon, hence for Corlc, which put back leaky, will be condemned CHARLESTON, Feb. 10.—The Hope, arrived here to-day from Key West, reports that a sloop arrived there from a wrecked vessel, cotton laden, just previous to her sailing THURSDAY; MARCH 14.—Wind S.S.E. ARRIVED.—Maria Leoine, Leneinor, from Bayonne-Marie Peroven, and Province, Loaser, from Bourdeanx—Oporto, from Oporti—lsabella Cooper, Currie, from Caleutt—Mary, Walker, from Smyrna. SAILED.—Actmon, Fielding, for Valparaiso—Blucher, Brown, for Jamaica—Kate, Cutlibertson, for Hambro'—Heart of Oak, M‘Dowall, for Demerara—Captain Ross, Hare for Arica—Campion, Wright, for Maranham—Sultana, Rogers, for Malta and Smyrna— Levant Packet, Reld, fur Constantinople—Eendraght, Lemmen, for Riga—and Caroline, Jones, for St. Michael's. Jane Prowse, Branscombe, from. Valparaiso, at this port; sailed 20th Nov. On 20th Dec. in lat. 58 31 S, long. 68 W, spoke the Clifton, from New South Wales for London James Holmes, Johns, and Collingwood, —, from Calcutta; St. George, , and Zoe, , from the Mauritius ; Irlam, , from Barbadoes ; and Jersey Tar, , from Alexandria, off this port ALEXANDRIA, Feb. 11.—The Commerce, from Liverpool, that was on shore here, has been got off with little damage COVE, March 12.—About 30 tons of slate and 24 tons of iron have been discharged from the Mary, for Calcutta; a small leak in one of the butts near the edge of the copper, has been found and re medied Several vessels are reported to be detained, off Cape Clear, by easterly winds, and many short of provisions Caledonia, Hunstable, hence at New Orleans Thomas Hughes, , hence for Jamaica, was spoken in iat. 44, long. 13 Princess Charlotte, -, from Bombay for this port, at Water. ford Linen, —, from Bombay, at St. Helena, and sailed 27th Jan. for this port The Great Western experienced a hurricane, 6th instant, in about long, 37; had a boat stove, and sails split LISBON, March s.—The Majestic, of St. John, N.B. which was towed in here 25th May last, (dismasted, waterlogged and aban - doned) has been repaired, is nearly ready for sea, and will shortly proceed to Liverpool in ballast Gardiner, Jackson, hence at Charleston, with rudder unshipped, and other damage, having struck on the bar Nicholas Biddle, , hence for New York, was spoken 2nd instant, in lat. 57,10ng. 17 Clementina & Julia, , hence at Algiers Pilot, , from Smyrna for this port, at Malta TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MARCH 14. Wind at Holyhead S.S.W. light hreeze. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, at 3 30 p.m. No. 181, Birming- A.S.—No. 1583, Hobe, B.Sc. from Leghorn ; 76, United States, from New York, and 1634, Harriet Scott, B.S. (not quite sure of the secondllag) at 4 p.m. Off Great Ormshead, inward bound, an American Ship with a black ball in her fore topsail. ' Off Pofnt Lynas, inward bound, yesterday, at 8 a.m. No. 1985, Sarah, from London-335, Mary, from Smyrna-05, Zoe. from the Mauritius—and 1058, Factor, from London—and'at 11 a.m. No. 833, Collingwood, from Calcutta—and 342, Oporto, at 12 at noon. imports. EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Src. Blakely, (314) W Holme3, from Calcutta, 3390 bags sugar, 300 sacks linseed, 150 bales jute, 37 bales hides, 127 chests shell lac, T P aylor, D Potter and co-4 bags wool, (from St. Helena) the master— SOUTH AMERICA. Wm. Ackers, (327) J Nicol, jun. from Puerto Cabello, 763 serons bales cotton, Ackers, Greenshields and co-66 serons cotton, E Lindo and co-6 bales cotton, J Kearsley and Son-9 do, order— . 95 serons cotton, Suse and Sibeth-74 serons 16 cases indigo, 1 box contents unknown, about 50 tons lignumvitie, 50 tons mangrove bark, 6 tons fustic, 79 pces 60 cases machinery returned, Ackers, Greenshieldi and co-10 cases indigo, W L Syers-10 serons do, order-2 cases do, Suse and Sibeth-38 pipes and hf pipes rum, W H L Syers—i cask do, W Rose and co—i brl cocoa, Mocatta Bro thers-2 bales returned goods, Imrie and Tomlinson—about 83 tons copper ore, Bolivar Mining Association—G D Wilberforce, (395) .1 Harrison, from Maranham, 82 brls 13 pipes 1 cask Indian rubber, J Rushton-25 brls 23 bags do, order-3 pipes do, W and J Wellstood-1121 bags cotton, J Rushton-576 do, order —l6B do, W and J Wellstood-25 do, T Stockdale and Son-27 do, A Parlane-292 do, Duarte Brothers-2 brls 1 hf hrl isinglass, J Rushton-7 brls I bundle do, order-1 parcel contents unknown, Moon Brothers-1 box do, Skirving-1 package a model, C L Men dez and co—i case 1 box India rubber shoes, J Rushton—P D UNITED STATES. Elizabeth Bruce, (606) W H Russell, from Mobile, Ig6l bales cot. ton, J Holdford and co-360 logs cedar, W H Russell—W D St. Mark. (545) C Varnum, from Savannah, 1553 bls cotton, Hum. lhreys and Biddle-99 do, Roskell, anp co-153 do, order—W D EUROPE. Diana, (237) W Greig, from Leghorn, about 1275 qrs wheat, E Rae-53 bales wool, order-1 sofa, 1 mirror, 1 box alabaster, 1 mar ble table, the master—G D Reindeer, (163) E C King, from Leghorn, about 1050 qrs wheat, Baring Brothers and co-1 case seeds, W Guyton—Q D Le Sylphe, (150) A Pirut, from Lueon, 1000 qrs wheat, order Victoria, (175) E P Nissen, from Copenhagen, 350 brls flour, W Tarbet-1100 brls 200 hf brls flour, J M Wood-300 bags and sundry other goods, for exportation—Q D Cerse, (106) J D Jansen, from Kiel, about 580 qrs wheat, 20 bags peas, S Blain and Son—Q D Wietzeina, (116) D D Gruven, from Harlingen, about 130 tons bones, A C Kup—Q D Phoenix, (209) J Fl Bunnemeyer, from Antwerp, 12 bales flax, about 3 tons hemp, about 50 tons oak bark, order-90 bales flax, T Moore—about 21 tons hemp, Blundell, Falk and co-500 qrs wheat, Sandars and Claxton—Q D Alletta Elizabeth, (121) G A de Jonee. from Rotterdam, about 360 qrs beans, 6 pipes 20 hf pipes gin, order-100 hf pipes gin, P Devaux , —5O do, C Ellerkamp-2 . 5 casks black lead, A Bazuckson-110 mats flax, Tennants, Moore and co-50 boxes cheese, A C Kup-1 pipe gin, J G Holmes and Son—G D Active, (52) W Russell, from Lisbon, 100 bxs 17 chests onions, order-12 hf chts lemons, 33 chts 129 hf chts oranges, J Collier-39 pps oil, 6 bdls skins, F Martin and Son—W D Energy, (305) D Irvine, from Bourdeaux, abt 580 qrs and 150 bgs wheat, abt 730 qrs rye, 832 bgs 367 brls flour, A F and R Maxwell -340 qrs wheat, T Woodward and co-14 cs wine, Bevan and Smith —1 box boots and shoes, W Maxwell and co— Dk Lamoraal Ulbo, (154) N A Smaal, abt 540 qrs beans, 520 qrs oats, No consignee —Q D Ellen Jenkinson, (149) T Walker, from Trieste, about 640 qrs wheat, 170 bales and 50 packages containing 100 bales cotton, 6 bales contents unknown, order-2 cases wearing apparel, W Lind. say—Q D __ s _ . City of Perth, (186) J Porter, from Hambro', 4 cases horse tails, Idiorth and 'Co-1 case fuiniture, W Greaines and co-1 box insects, A Nelly-398 bags wheat, 4 pces smoked beef, Sandars and Claxton-2 packages cputents unknown, Preller and Gabain-19 chests 2 casks do, 2 cases furniture, S A Brandeis and co-43 bales hemp, 1 frk cabbage, Graham and Taylor-69 smoked hams, W Ford and Son-600 brls pork, 160 bags peas, 41 casks black lead, 80 kegs salfed 2 casks dried provisions, 25 casks spirits, 7 cases 1 cask contents unknown, 1 case furniture, 3 hampers smoked hams, order —1 case a lady's work table, 1 sofa, 2 cases pictures, the master-12 casks salted provisions, 2 frks butter, for exportation—G D Mayflower. (54) T Wakeham, from Lisbon, 830 qrs wheat, T Ma- hony and co-1 qr cask wine, 3 boxes oranges, order—S D Gerhard Hermann, (250) J C Claussen, from Bremen, about 620 qrs wheat, Geller and co-12 bacon hams, Focke and Boult-109 casks 105 cases bottled beer, 60 cases 615 packages linen, 200 kegs paint, 9 boxes contents unknown, for exportation—G D Jonge Ilarend, (172) J 0 Stutt, from Harlingen, about r3O qrs beans, 230 qrs barley, 210 qrs oats, 260 qrs wheat , 57 bales flax, Neuman and Engel-76 bales flax, order—Q D Hendrika Arentina, (149) A H Breeland, from Rotterdam, 50 bags mustard seed, about 490 qrs beans, 7 casks contents unknown, 100 mats rlax, order-15 pipes 10 hf pipes geneva, D Willink-195 mats flax, Tennants, Moore and co-200 do, W Fletcher and Son-1 homper Seltzer water, J Aikin-10 casks madder, G Ellerkamp-12 hampers mineral water. T Rodick-1 cask liquors, G Annstrong -4 casks contents unknown, 100 bags hempseed, 5 baskets mineral water, 1 cheese, A Baruchson—Q D Alfred, (86) A Guilean, from, Charente, 5 hhds 8 qr casks 2 cages braney, G Bennett-8 pipes do, W Ellison-10 hhds 10 qr casks do, J R Preston-5 hhds 20 qr casks do, H Rounthwaite and co-3 hhds do, R and F Cope-6 hhds 2 qr casks brandy, J and J Mellor-10 hhds do, R Richmond-5 do, E Mordaunt-6 pipes 5 hhds 40 cases do, R W Preston-5 pipes do, T and H Murray-16 hhds do, R A Mould-10 do, J Barton-7 do, Pemberton and Green-6 do, Laugh ton anc Potts-45 hhds 1 case brandy, Bevan and Smith-23 pipes do, J Wright, jun-10 do, Cooper and Houghton-30 hhds 40 qr crsks 1 case do, Dixon, Son and co-20 hhds do, Glazebrook Bro thers-30 do. J D Thomson-2 qr casks do, J Herford and Brothers —lO do, J L Walthew-20 cases do, J Knowles-6 hhds 42 qr casks do, order—S D Five Sisters, (87) R Williams, from Havre, 414 burr stones, Cdtton and Davis-12 cases wine, order-46 casks madders, R Zwilchen bart and co—about 10 tons hemp. Blundell, Falk and co—Cg D Angelina, (113) M.l Cornelissen, from Bruges, about 65 tom oak bark, order—Q D Hope, (1 i 9) A Gallican, from Jersey, about 40 tons hemp, 35 boxes and loose about 80 bushels apples, 10 bags hazle nuts, Graham and Taylor—about go qrs wheat, T Puckstock-1 cask flour, T Jenkinson —1 boat exportation, order—about 3i tons hemp, landed at Jersey in a damaged state, Graham and Taylor TIDE TABLE. Days. Mrn. Eva. Height. H. M. H. M. F. I. Tuesday 12 843 pl 3 12 4 Gregory. Wednes. 13 940 10 3 14 4 Merc. sup. con. 'with Sun. Thursday 14 10 24 10 45 16 8 Geo. con. Moon 7h 40m e. Friday 15 11 4 11 25 18 11 Sun eclipsed. Saturday 16 11 44 20 9 Moon in Perigee 11h morn Sunday 17 0 4 024 , 21 4 sth Sunday in Lent. St. Pat Monday 18 043 1 4 21 7 Edw. King of West Saxon LONDON GAZETTE.7TuzanAY, MARCH 12' PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Stansfield, R. Stansficld, and S. Stansfield, Skelmersdale , Le: cashire, cotton-spinners ; as far as regards J. Stansfield—J. Jo u ' son, T. B. Speakman, and F. Morley, Chester, salt-manufactu rers —R. N. Livesey and R. Johnson, Blackburn, cotton-brokers. INSOLVENT. March 7.—Christophe r Cattle, T a d cas t er E as t, Y or kshire, dea ler and Chapman. BANKRUPTS William Robert Edwards, London-road, Middlesex, linen.draPf: James Ashley and Joshua Jones Ashley, Regent-street, St J amen London, bankers. Thomas Horne, Nottingham, hardwareman. DIVIDENDS. April 3, J. F. I. Caplin, Great Portland-street, St. James's , Lon don, milliner—April 3, J. Wilkinson, J. Straith, and R. J. T. PerkT. Leadenhall-street, London, brokers—April 3, E. Justins, sen. and I Justins, jun. Mark-la ne , London, printers—April 3, J. Vinton D. Lawson, Brewer-street, London, woollen-drapers—April 1 1 , Griffith, Chester, cabinet-maker—Ap r il 2, J. W . C oo k , D o ver, WO O ' . len-draper—April 13, E. Hargreaves, Manchester, ironmonge r-- April 13, J. Haughton, Park-place, Blackburn, cotton-spinner. - : sob. April 2, W. S. Cockra m , T aunton, i ronmonger —April 5, G. d and D. Smith, Birmingham, leather-sellers—April 2, W.Brough 3 S. Smith, Sulcoates, Yorkshire, paint-manufacturers—April Johnston, jun. and T. Manley, Whitehaven, sugar-refiners — AP"' 4, J. Dale and E. Atkin, Manchester, manufacturing chemises' April 4, J. Bond, jun. St. Th omas-t h e-Apostle, Devonshire, eo°11": —April 8, J. Sellers, Yeovil, S omersetsh i re, drugg i st — Apr il 3, Wall, Great Yarmouth, linen-draper—Apr.l 29, R. Woolrich, Stroll". linen-draper. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or beic le April 2. J. Cliffe, Woodbank, Cheshire—J. T. Bryson, London-wall, Lon don, baker—A. U. Meredith, Portsmouth, draper. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. James Dim, Burntisland, coal-merchant. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL• MARCH 0011/ 15. Charles West Clarendon Rooms, --- . 1 16. W. Weston Wheeler. (Ist) 19. • Sloane and Whitty, (2d) Ditt o , If 19. Peter Thomas Smith, (2d) 30. John Marrow and Thos. Frodsham, (Ist) Ditto, I VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. [SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.] EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Sm. Earl of Lonsdale, J Peile, 350 Calcutta, W & J Tyrer Ellen, T Yapp, 408 Penang and Sincapore, Bold & Starkey AFRICA. Nelson Wood, Sierra Leone, J N Wood &Co WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Antigua, J Gibson, 148 Antigua, • J Poole &Co Eggardon Castle, T Warlands, 210 Antigua, Graham & Taylor Ann, J Brown, 208 Berbice, J N Wood & Co Charles Hanierton, R K Reynolds, 180 St. Thomas, W Rose &Co SOUTH AMERICA. Judith, T White, ' 253 Arica, Islay & Lima, W & J Tyrer Ann, 0 G Whinfield, 450 Maranham, Moon Brothers Robert Finnic, J Beverley, 253 Valparaiso, W& J Tyrer UNITED STATES. Anna Liffey, Oxford, J Rathbone, 707 New York, Baring Brothers & Co George Washingfon, H Holdredge, 603 New York, Wildes &Co BRITISH AMERICA. 572 Dalhousie, D Gibb 533 Miramichi, D Gibb 236 Montreal, Eshelby, Rowett & Co 621 Sydney, C.B. G B Brown EUROPE. Ide, J Bosustow, 188 Alexandria and Beirout, M & A Wilkin Flamer, , 145 Copenhagen & Nfld, Harrison, Ridley &Co Premier, R Newman, 100 Gibraltar, G Yates, Lowthean & Co Argyle, F Cobman, 250 Gibraltar, W& J Brown &Co Malvina, R Burton, 186 Gibraltar, C Cotesworth Malvina, R Burton, 186 Gibraltar and Cadiz, C Cotesworth Cearse Angus e, P Ferara, 200 Genoa, Haskayne, Chapple &Co Cintra, W Renfree, 114 Lisbon, C Cotesworth Amizade, J A Da Rocha, 106 Lisbon, Dolphin, BJ B J Bakker, 130 Liebau, Bahr, Behrend &Co Reynard, J Wetherall, 70 Messina and Palermo, J Rothwell Commerce, D Beatie, 369 Narva, M`Leod & Yarrow Frances, H C Delpierre, 111 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co Perseveranee, J Monnot, 120 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co Petersburg, J G Miedel, 100 Riga, Bahr, Behrend & Co Castilian Maid, J Scott, 112 St. Michael's, E H Burnett Faside, J Craig, Carlton, R Murray, Sirius, D Croal, St. Patrick, C Webster, itlaritrts, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 13. The sales on Thursday last were 8000 bags (5000 taken on specu ation,) Friday 6000, Saturday 5000, (1000 Surats on speculation,) Tuesday 3000, and to-day 8,000, (2000 on speculation.) There has been a good demand since last week. Prices remain without altera tion, and the market is steady. The week's import amounts to 5940 bags. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, MARCH 12 Since Tuesday last the imports of Grain from Ireland and Coast ways have been very small, from Ireland the import of Wheat has been for some weeks less than the exports thither ; 'but of Foreign Wheat the arrivals have again been very considerable, and added to those of previous weeks, have much exceeded the demand, and in creased our stocks here; sales have been very much depressed during the past week, though a reduction in price, which can hardly be very correctly stated, would have been accepted by many of the holders ; and the decline in Mark-lab, and in the Yorkshire mar kets, completely paralysed the demand in Manchester on Saturday, where very few sales of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal could be effected from this port. The duty on Rye from Foreign ports is this week increased Is, and on Barley, Indian Corn, Buck Wheat, Beans, and Peas, Is 6d per qr. ; on Wheat and Oats no alteration; some small parcels of the very finest heavy Oats, in bond, have found sales for export at about 3s per 451bs. At thiS' clay's market there was a very good attendance, but the accounts from Mark-lane received this morning very much limited and paralysed the demand; sales, however, were effected to a better extent than anticipated of Wheat, on which (excepting on superior qualities of English white and red, which being very scarce could not be purchased lower,) a decline of 3d to 4d on the best, and 4d to 6d per 701 b on middling descriptions of Foreign and Irish was sub mitted to pretty freely, though some holders withdrew their sam ples from present sale : for all other articles in the trade sales were very dull. Malt and Barley at last quotations. Oats and Oatmeal at a small decline of Id per 451 b for the former, and of 6d to gcl per 2401 b on the latter. Flour Is to 2s per sack. Beans and Pease I s to 2s per quarter lower. . WHEAT, per 701bs 8 English Scotch 9 Irish 7 Bonded BARLEY, per qr. English 43 Chevalier 44 Scotch, per 601 b .5 Irish 5 Foreign, in bond, 0 OATS, per 451 b. English Scotch 4 Irish 3 Foreign, in bond 3 Ditto, duty free 4 RYE, per quarter d. S. d. INDIAN CORN, V 4801 b. 6@ll 6 Red 4O 0@42 0 0 10 0 White 44 0 48 0 0 9 0 BEANS per quarter 0 0 0 English 44 0 46 0 Irish 42 0 41 0 PEAS, Grey 42 0 44 0 White 46 0 48 0 SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b. In bond l7 0 20 0 FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. Fine 48 0 55 0 Irish 46 0 52 0 Amer. 14 , brl. free 34 0 35 0 Sweet U.S 38 0 40 0 Sour 34 0 35 0 OATMEAL, per 2401 b. English 32 6 32 6 Ditto, new 32 6 33 0 Scotch 32 0 22 6 O 44 0 O 47 0 4 5 8 4 5 8 O 0 0 O 4 3 O 4 3 6 4 0 O 3 2 O 4 2 O 46 0 O 70 0 O 62 0 MALT, per fine 68 middling 50 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MARCH 11 The number of Beasts at market to-day has been rather limited, and the quality generally pretty good. Sales have been tolerably brisk, especially for those of good quality, and the principal part sold up at heavy prices. The supply of Sheep has been a little larger than that of the preceding week, and the prices much about the same. Good Beef sold as high as 74d, varying from that down to 6d, according to quality. Good Wether Mutton of large size sold at Bd, second quality 7111, ordinary and Ewes 7d per lb. sinking the offal. The market throughout may be considered a good one, as the principal part of the stock of both descriptions has been sold up at the close. Number of Cattle at market—Beasts 912, Sheep 2297. LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL,MARKET. March 12. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Old Hay .... 0 9GO 1 lir. 201 b. Potatoes, new 2 8633 2 v sere New Hay.... 0 8 011 - Cattle Ditto 2 4 2 6 - Clover Hay.. 0 7 o ioi - Turnips 0 0 0 0 - Straw, Wheat 0 71 0 oi - Carrots - Straw, Oat .. 0 5i 0 61 - Manglewurzle 0 0 0 0 - Straw, Barley 0 5 0 6- Manure o 611 6 - Green Clover 0 0 0 0 - FROM THE LONDON PRICES CURRENT, MARCH 12, 1839. SUGAR.—This afternoon the market was quiet, grocers ,s well as refiners purchasing very cautiously; importers, however, refused to sell excepting at fully previous rates. The sales are under 150 hdds and tierces. FonsiGN.—This afternoon 1148 bags Lima. and 20 chests Bahia were offered at auction ; the former were bought in at the general valuations, low yellow at 248, good brown 235, syrupy 21s; the latter principally found buyers at late rates; middling greyish white 27s to 28s, low heavy grey 24s to 25s per cwt. MOLASSES.—West India have sold to a fair extent at previous rates, 31s 64:1 paid for good Montserrat, 31s for fair, and 32s for fine Demerara. COFFRE.—This afternoon the public sales were important, and at tracted a large attendance of the trade, as the state of the market for the next few weeks, will be regulated by their result ; they con sisted of 2405 bags St. Domingo, 560 bales Mocha, 100 bags British Plantation, 203 bags Ceylon, 4178 bags foreign imported from the Cape of Good Hope, and therefore admissible for home consump tion at 9d per cwt. and 286 bags Sumatra, &c. PROVIS I oNs.--The demand for Irish utter has been steady, and prices have not further given way : the best sells from 88s to 945, and inferior and middling qualities from 78s to 86s per cwt. Dutch Butter is in moderate supply, and rather higher in price, the best selling at 112 s to 114 s, and in some instances at even higher rates. —Lard dull, but not cheaper.—Bacon in steady request, and main tains former prices, prime singed 4gs to 50s. Titi,Low.—There has been more activity in the market since our last, and prices have improved 2s to 2s 6d. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Prices generally cannot be quoted lower for Jamaica Rum, but the demand has again been limited; Leewards have heen taken sparingly, and importers have submitted to a reduction on the rates of this week of I d per gallon. —Brandy is held firmly, and there has been a firm demand.—ln the value of Geneva there is no change, but the sale has been limited. — British Corn Spirits as last quoted. AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE, Imported into Liverpool, from the sth to the 11th instant. FROM IRELAND. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lambs, 680 1273 3950 Previously 9287 18314 48778 52 8 138 29 182 278 COASTWISE. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Calves. Lambs. 116 lon 81 2 0 0 Previously 913 10293 2547 17 38 0 LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. INDIRECT, DIRECT IJan".l9 From China Calcutta .... Jan 5 i . Bombay .... Jan l9 Mauritius.... Dec l5 St. Helena Bahia Jan. 12 Pernambuco INDIRECT. [DIRECT. From Rio Jan. Dec. 30 Maranham N. Orleans .. Feb. 15 Mobile Feb, 17' Savannah Feb. 18 Charleston Feb. 19 New York Feb. 25 PACKET BOATS.—FALMOUTH STATION, GENERAL POST-OFFICE, March 11. Mails made Last Packets Next Packets DESTINATION. up in London. Sailed. Due. --- - Holland Tues. & Fri. Mon. & Thurs. Hamburg & SwecL Tues. & Fri. Tues. & Satur.l Lisbon Madeira } Saturdays .. 1 Londonderry, Tagus, March 4. March 17. Spain & Gibraltar Malta and Greece.. 2nd Saturday March 4. Egypt and India .. 4th Saturday Feb. 18. Madeira lst Tuesday H.M.B. Alert, Seagul, Brazil & B.Ayres each month. March 8 March 29. America lst Wednes. Linnet, Merch 9. Magnet, Mar. g, 1 Jamai. L'ward Ist day of B. Sheldrake, Pigeon 1 Isl. & Hayti.. each month. March 3. April 2., Laguira Mexico and Ha- L 15th day of H.M.B. Reindeer Petrel, vans 1 Jamai. L'wardl lath day of 111 M B Pandora, Lyra, 1 Isl. & Aayti each j. F . month. , el 3 .17. . AlL.trch 11. Carthagena PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. Outward. Home. LONDON & LIVERPOOL, (Sailing before 12th Jan.) Jamaica .. Lcward Isl. Deme. & Berbice , Honduras New York, Boston Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Havana Canada British North America Newfoundland. Brazils River Plate East Indies China Batavia New South Wales Cape of Good Hope Africa Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, &c. Malta, Sicily, &c. Smyrna and Constantinople Malaga Madeira Western Isles, Cape de Verds Lisbon Cadiz France Holland Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Riga, &c. Oporto 25s Od Op. ---- 20 0 50 0 --- 40 0 -- 50 0 30 0 ---- 40 0 -- 50 0 60 0 after Ist. Ang. 84s Od @loss 0 40 0 105 0 —147 0 20 0 20 0 50 0— 50 0 84 0 - 25 0 -- 0 0 35 0 -- 40 0 35 0 -- 40 0 45 0 40 0 40. 0 - - 40 0 30 0 20 0 0-60 0 40 0 25 0 - - 30 0 - 35 0-40 0 50 0 - - 40 0 - 40 0 - - 40 0 - -- 126 0 - -- 20 0 - -- 40 0 - 30 0 -- -- 30 0 - -- 20 0 - - 20 0 - 40 0 - -- 20 0 - - 20 0 - - 25 0 - - 25 0 - - 25 0 - - 30 0 - - 30 0 - - 20 0 20 0- - 20 0 - - 30 0 - - 40 0 - - 84 0 -147 0 20 0 - 25 0 - - LIVERPOOL POST-OFFICE. 2 o—For Manchester, Birmingham, London, and Grand Junction line of road, also for the North road and Scotland. 6 30—For Prescot and the York line of road, except Manchester. 8 o—For Maghull and Ormskirk. 8 20—For Manchester. g o—For Birmingham, Chester, and the road. 11 o—For Birmingham and the Grand Junction line of road. 11 30—For Manchester. P.M. . 1 30—For Manchester. 4 o—For the North road and Scotland,—For Prescot, Wigan, Manchester, and the York road,—For Chester anc Shrewsbury. 4 30—For all Ireland. 5 o—For London, Birmingham, Bristol, Falmouth, and the lines of road, and for South Wales. 6 30—For Chester and South Wales. The above is the hour at which the box closes for the receipt of letters and papers. The delivery of letters by the London mails takes place at 9 sp. and 10 30 p,rn, FAIRS OF THE WEEK. March 15, Nantwich, Okeham, Oswestry, Tregarron, Camelior d " 16, Bettws, Bollingey, Longridge, Peranzabuloe, Treg it. ron, Shrewsbury, Torrington. 17, Llangollen, Yspytty, Tregarron. 18. Cerne-Abbas, Castle-Dounington, llardford, LlanfY- Act, Merthyr-Tydvil. 19, Ruthin, Oakhampton, Alcester, Combridge, Saltabb• 20, Winslow, Dolton. THE WORKHOUSE. Statement of the average number and expense of paupers in the Workhouse for the week ending Paupers. Per Head. Per Week. March 2, 1839 March 3, 1838 - Less 63 More 0 2i More 15 311 _----- Statement of daily relief paid out-door poor the week ending , March 11, 1839 2297 families, per week, 27i 13 ; March 12, 1838 2420 do. do. 293 15 --- Less.... 123 Less.. £22 2 7 LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. Number of nen, patients entered on the books of the Dispensari es during the last week:— North. South. Total• . _ Received advice and medicine at the Insti- --- 53 2 tution 299 240 Visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine 155 160 315 Total at each Dispensary 447 VISITORS. North—Rev, J.H. Stafford, Re - v7 - 1 3 7i7iReock and the Rev. Moses Fisher. _ South—Mr. Jordan, Mr. Joseph Cooper, and Mr. T. Robinson. R. WEDGWOOD, SECRETARY. Dispensaries' Office, 1, Fenwick-street, 11th March, 1839. PRICES OF SHARES, MARCH 14. Last Prices. This day 6 RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester 4O paid 25 0 0 .... Ditto and Derby Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh lOO paid 61 10 0 .... Chester and Crewe 25 .... 24 15 0 .... 24 15 0 Dublin and Drogheda 6 Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 5 paid 0 0 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 8 paid 717 6 .... Glasgow, Paisley; Kihnar } nock, and Ayr lO paid 7 2 6 .... Grand Junction lOO .... 207 0 0 .... 207 0 0 Ditto half shares 2O .... 65 5 0 .... 65 5 0 Great Western 6s .... 76 0 0 .... _ :„. Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 25 paid 21 10 0 .... Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham 9O 168 0 0 .... Ditto new quarter shares Ditto and Southampton 5O .... 44 5 0 .... Ditto & Brighton (United) Leeds and Manchester 5O .... 67 5 0 .... Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 75 10 o .... Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham l5 .... 11 is 0 .... Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... 92 10 0 .... Ditto quarter shares North Midland South Eastern and Dover North Union lOO 64 0 0 .... St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0..... York and North Midland 2O paid 20 5 0 .... BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 724 10 0 .... Bank of Liverpool .el2 los paid 23 5 0 .... 23 5 0 - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 19 17 6 .... - Liverpool Union lO .... 14 0 0 .... . . - Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Wales lO .... 10 5 0 .... - of Manchester lO .... 12 12 6 .... - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 ... • 13 5 0 .... - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank 7 10s. 13 15 0.- - - Commercial Bank of England 5 .... 52 6 .... East of England lO .... glO 0 .... Phoenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 1 .... 70 0 .... GAS, WATER. WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings ....... . £lOO paid 171 0 0 .... L'pool and Harrington Water 1 Works 350 .... 452 10 0 .... , Bootle Ditto ' Stock.... 324 10 0 .... ~ L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 372 0 0 .... L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 197 0 0 .... Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. • , Liverpool Marine Assurance Company }25 paid 9 0 0 .... Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 62 6 .... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 105. • 1 11 6 .... DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... 917 6 . • • • Woodside Ferry . Egremont Ferry l2 10s. ... • Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company 7 .... 3 2 6 ... Harrington Docks 100 .... 00 0 .... Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool) ---- (Polonceau) 2 .... 1 0 0 .... BIRTHS. In Upper Belgrave-street, London, the lady of G. E. WsLai, Esq. M.P. of a daughter. On the gth instant, at Godmersham-park, Lady GEORGE HILL, of a son. MA,RRIED. • On the 3d instant, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. CHARLES COMMIX° LO SARAH M'lvica, the eldest daughter of Mr. JOHN BaowN, blocic maker. On the sth instant, at Aberdeen, by the Rev. W. King Tweedier HENRY JOHN WHITE, Esq. late of the 91st Regiment, to JANE. ALLAN BOYD, eldest daughter of Major BOYD, late of the s&0 regiment. _ On the 7th instant, at St. Paul's Church, by the Rev. J. H. Stafford • LESLIE SIBBALII, Esq. surgeon, Edi n b urgh, t o MARGARET ...ONE%fp daughter of THOMAS Dow, Esq. Hermitage, Neston, Cheshire. Same day, at Llanfechan Church, by the Rev. C. T. C. Luxmore , M.A. the Rev. HENRY CORNWALL LEON, B.A. second son of the late GEORGE JOHN LEON, Esq. of High Legh, Cheshire, to MARY , eldest daughter of MARTIN WILLIAMS, Esq. of Bryngwyn, Mont gomeryshire. - Same day, at the Friends' Meeting house, in Stockport, M r. TuomAs TOWNSON, of London, chemist and druggist, to JANsP daughter of Mr. SAMUEL FOSTER, tea-dealer, Stockport. On the Bth instant, at Manchester, Mr. GEORGE FREnsnici c GREGORY to MARY JANE, eldest daughter Of WILLIAM F O WDO HINDLE, Esq. of Thelwall, near Warrington. On the 10th instant, at Ormskirk, by the Rev. W. WAw: , ,Tvr, M r : JOHN ARNOLD to ANN , e ld es t d aug ht er o f M r. P . SMITH, of Wes t - head. On the 10th instant, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. ROBERT 111LL' proprietor of the Woolton Omnibus, to Miss ELLEN MuLLINso% , of the Railway Inn, New Haymarket. On the 11th inst. at Grundesborough Church, Suffolk, STEYI IS ' 4 EDWARD SPRING RICE, Esq. one of the Commissioners of Customs' to the accomplished Miss ELLEN FERRY., daughter of the late learned Mr. Sergeant FRE RE, of Downing College, Cambridge' There were present at the ceremony the Right Hon. Thomas Sprin,g Rice, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. and Mrs. H enr y Marsha' and other branches of the respective families. 4 On the 12th instant, at Roystone Church, R ICHARD DAnLIN- .. B . TON, jun. Esq. Edge-lane, to MART H A, third d aug ht er o f Mr. BAILEY, of Barnsley. Yesterday, at St. Mary's Church, Walton, by the Rev. Josh. PLa d c i . .. ley, THOMAS, son of JOHN G. B RADLEY , E sq . t o S ARAH , th i r d daughter of the late JOHN EccLEs, Esq. all of this town. DIED. -- - On the 17th ult. at Rome, WILLIAM, only surviving son of th e ' late THOMAS YATES, Esq. of Irwell house, Lancashire, aged 36. On the 24th ult. at Woolton, aged 20, Mr. HENRY Pon m ORE, Of geon, youngest son of Mrs. PonmoaE, Hanley, Staffordshire. On the 3d instant, aged 26, BETSEY, wife of Mr. THOMAS CLotro n ' solicitor, Blackburn. On the sth instant, at Manchester, of decline, ROGER, third 5 0 ° of Mr. ROGER LAYeOCK, letter-press printer. On the 6th instant., at the residence of his brother, in St. Peter's square, Stockport, deeply regretted by his family and friends, LIAM ROGER, SOIL of the late Mr. ALEXANDER HUNT, Of that too.? aged 36 years. _ - On the Bth instant, aged 65, ANNE, relict of the late Jonx BA g- TON, Esq. of Manchester. On the 10th instant, at his residence ? Wallasey, NICHOLAS, SOl l l the late NICHOLAS RUSSELL GARNER, Esq. formerly of the lsla n of Barbadoes. On the 10th instant, awfully sudden, aged 60, Mrs. EnwAs vg ,i wife of Mr. EDWARD EDWARDS, Chester-street, muc h res pected arl dee rertted by her relatives and friends. Same day, at the house of her son-in-law, Mr. Thomas Barber, el Edge-lane, AMELIA, relict of the late Mr. THOMAS Ex sn, of Car l 6 near Cartmel, in the 73d year of her age. Same day, JOHN, third son of Capt. H. GILL, of Mill-street, ag ed 8 years and 1 month. Same day, at the Abbey, Childwall, aged 64, Mr. ROBERT RIMMS. S. On the 12th instant, J OHN JoHNsoN, Esq. of Whitfield-ho e '" Kirkby, in the 8-2/1 year of his age. • the Same day, at Wavertree, a ge d 2 y ears an d 9 mon th s, ANN, youngest daughter of Mr. W. H. CORNFORTII, Upper Parliame" street. On the 13th instant, aged 44, Mr. ALEXANDER BARNHTTI aaC tioneer, Leigh- - street. Same day, Mr. JOHN COWLE, shipwright, aged 64. LIVERPOOL: FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1839. 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