The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-12-06 00:00:00

COLONIAL NEGLECT AND FOREIGN PROPI- TIATION. (From 711ackwood's Magazine for Deceniber.) (Concluded from last Tuesday's Standard.) " Let us no longer strain," said Mr. Sheriff Alison, " after the impracticable attempt to disarm the commercial jealousy of the European states; but, boldly looking our situation in the face, direct our main efforts to the strengthening, concie listing, and 'increasing of our Colonial Empire. There is to be found Ile bone of our bone, and the flesh of our flesh. There are to be found the true descendants of the Anglo- Saxon race ' • there the people, who, already imbued with our tastes, our habits, our artificial wants, must be chained for centuries to agricultural or pastoral employments, and can only obtain from the mother country the immense amount - of manufactured produce which theirgrowing wealth and num - bers must require. So strongly, gentlemen, am I impressed with these principles—so clearly do I see the future path traced out to England, not less by her duty than her inter ests, that there is no ene circumstance in her present condi tion, act even those which are most justly considered as preg nant with danger and alarm, that they may not be converted into the se-erne of blessings, if a decided and manly course is taken by the nation and its Government in regard to its co lonial interests. Indeed, so clearly does this appear, that one is almost tempted to believe that the manifold political and social evils of our present condition, are the scourges in tended by Providence to bring us back, by necessity and a sense of our own interests, to those great national duties from which we have so long and se unaccountably merged. Are we oppressed with a numerous and redundant population ? Are we justly apprehensive that a mass of human beings, al- . ready consisting of five-and-twenty millions, and multiplying at the rate of a thousand souls a-day, will ere long be unable to find subsistence within the narrow space of these islands ? Let us turn to the Colonies, and there we' shall Lind bound less regions, capable of maintaining •ten times our present population in contentment and effluence, and which require only the surplus arms and months of the parent state, to be converted into gigantic empires, which, befome a century has elapsed, may overshadow the greatness even of European re nown. Are we justly fearful that the increasing manufac turing skill and growing commercial jealousy of the Conti tental strites may gradually shut us out from the European market, and that our millions of manufacturers may find their sources of foreign subsistence fail at a time when all home employments are filled up ? Let us turn to the Colonies, and there we shall see empires of gigantic strength rapidly rising to maturity, in which manufacturing establishments cannot for centuries.take root, and in which the taste for British manufactures, and the habits of British comfort, are indelibly implanted on the British race. Are we overburdened with the weight of our poor-rates and the multitude ef our paupers, and trembling under the effect of the deep-rooted discontent produced in the attempt to withdraw public sup port from the maintenance of the adult and healthy labourer? Let us find the means of transporting these healthy workmen to our colonial settlements, and we shall confer as great a blessing upon them as we shall give a relief to the parent state. Are we disquieted by the rapid progress of corruption in our great towns, and alarmed at the enormous mass of fe male profligacy which, like a gangrene, infests these great marts of pleasure and opulence ? Let us look to the Colo nies, and there we shall find states in which the population is advancing with incredible rapidity, but in which the greatest existing evil is, the undue and frightful preponderance of the male sex ; and that all that is warnine to complete their means of increase is, that the proportion should be righted by the transfer to distant shores of part of the female population which now encumbers the British isles. Are the means to transport these numerous and indigent classes to these di, tint regions awantiag, and has individual emigration hitherto been liable to the reproach that it removes the letter class of our citizens who could do for themselves, and leaves the poorest who encumber the land ? The British navy lies between, and means exist of transporting, at hardly any expense to the pa rent state, all that can ever be required of our working popue lation from that part of the empire which they overburden, to that to which they will prove a blessing. Gentlemen, I agree with my eloquent and esteemed friend, Dr. M`Leod, that it is astonishing the attention of Government has not ere this been turned to this subject. And why, I would ask, may not part, at least, of the British navy be constantly employed in transporting emigrants of all classes to our Colonial pos sessions ? Why should two hundred vessels of different sizes, that are now in commission in the British navy, be employed only in useless parades, when hundreds of thousands on the British shores are pining for the means of transport across the seas, and millions of acres on the other side of the ccean, teeming with verdant fertility, await only their robust hands to be converted into a terrestrial paradise? Why should the British navy not be employed, like the Roman legions in time of peace, in works of public utility ? and why should their ef forts not construct causeways across the deep, which would bind' together the immense circuit of the British Colonial dominions, as strongly as the highways constructed by the legions cemented the fabric of their mighty empire ? In this view the last inconvenience attending a redundant pauper population—that of being with difficulty removed, would be converted into an element of national strength, because it would induce all classes cheerfully to acquiesce in the dupli cation of our naval force, from which they all derive such obvious advantages; the navy would augment in size and grow in usefulness under such a salutary system ; and the very quality which Adam Smith long ago remarked as the greatest obstable to the improvement of the human race, that of being the lumber which it is of all others the most difficult to transport, would become the means of augmenting the. maritime force of England, and strengthening the .Unseen chain .which holds together the far distant provinces .of its mighty dominion." We cannot help thinking that the suggestion here made, of directing a part at least of the British navy to the removal of such part of our population as desire it, to our colonial pos- sessions, is well worthy of the most serious consideration.. It must be evident to every one who considers the extraordinary reduction which has taken place in our naval force during the last thirty years, and which has brought it down from two hundred and forty ships of the line to eighty, that we have fallen now into an economical and commercial generation ; and that the rulers of the state, and the democratic constitu encies who direct the rulers, are entirely governed by that passion for present economy, and that disregard of future ob jects, which is the invariable characteristic of the masses of mankind. No surprise need be excited at a democratic com munity being influenced by such want of foresight, when all the eloquence of Demosthenes was unable to .persuade the most enlightened of the states of antiquity to take any steps to ward off the danger arising from the invasion of Philip of Macedon ; and all the wisdom of - Washington, was unable to communicate to the greatest republic of modern times, suffi cient strength or foresight to prevent its capital being taken, and its arsenals pillaged, by a British division not four thou sand strong. It is cf the last importance, therefore, to dis cover some method by which the increase of the navy, evidently essential to our national independence, and to avert the horrors of the actual blockade of our harbours, may be rendered popular with the masses of the people. That these masses would make the most strenuous exer tions to support the independence of the British flag, if a war actually broke out, may be considered as certain ; but will they be equally ready to make those efforts during peace, and when the danger is as yet distant, which are requisite both to insure its su cc e ss an d shorten it s duration ? Expe rience proves that they will not; for, though menaced by maritime dangers of every kind, they have, in the last five and-twenty years, let the royal navy sink down one-third of what it was durin g the war, and one-half what it was before its commencement. The only mode, therefore, that is ap parently practicable of bringing up the royal navy to a level at all commensurate either with the strength of the state or the dangers with which it is threatened, is by giving the masses some present and personal object of advantage,which is to be gained by the expense requisite for itsincrease. Now, no object would be so generally popular, or universally felt to be important, as that which furnished the means of gra tuitous emigration to a large proportion of our surplus work in population. Every class in the country, every part of thfttanire, would at once feel the benefit of such an arrange ment :—the poor, by the safe and easy means of emigration that would be afforded them to countries where their condi tion would at once become prosperous; the landholders, in the diminution of the number of paupers and the burden of poor-rates, which would be occasioned; the manufacturers, in the vast increase in the colonial market for their produce which would be opened up ; the colonies, in the boundless supply of robust and efficient labourers with which they would be furnished. The increase in the population, now so much the object of concern to the mother country, would cease to be ,regarded with any disquietude ; it would be con sidered only as the harbinger of the increased growth of our colonial possessions, and an increased vent for our produce for our colonial wants. The British navy would really be come the chain which holds together the far distant parts of its immense dominion ; the means of uniting them in peace —the force to protect them in war; mid the prosperity and extension of the far and distant parts of the empire, acting and reacting upon each other, would tend only to angment their mutual and highly beneficial dependence on each other, and to increase the strength of the naval force which was to protect alike all parts of the empire. The British commercial policy, ever since the reciprocity system began, may be characterised in two words—" Colonial Neglect and European Propitiation." As this system has now been in operation for sixteen years, ample time has been afforded to demonstrate, by experience, its eflects, whether for good or for evil. The following statement of the effect of this system, which commenced in 1823, was made by Mr. Alison at the Glasgow dinner above referred to : " Standing as I do in the midst of this great commercial city, second to none, after the metropolis, in the British em pire, I need not say that we are people mainly dependent on commerce and maritime strength ; and we have only to look around us, and contemplate the narrow extent of these islands, compared with the vast population already crowded within their shores, to feel convinced that any serious and permanent obstruction to our foreign commerce, or decline in our maritime power, would not only be attended with the greatest danger to cur independence, but fraught with a de gree of wide-spread misery, perhaps unparallelled even in the long annals of human suffering. But, gentlemen, when we minutely examine our maritime and commercial situation, we shall find many causes for serious alarm, and many rea sons for concluding that our policy in these respects has hi therto been mainly directed to fruitless or unattainable ob jects ; and that, in their prosecution, we have overlooked or neglected the certain elements of strength lying in our own bosom, in the growth of our colonial empire. If we , look to our exports and tonnage returns, we shall see that our mari time resources for the last forty years have been far from keeping pace with our commercial growth, and that our ex ports to the countries whom we have made the greatest sacri fices to propitiate, have been constantly and rapidly declining, while those to our colonies, for whose interests we have done so little, have been as constantly and rapidly increasing ; and that it is the growth of the latter which has concealed and counterbalanced the decay of the former. Let us look at our total exports, imports, and tonnage in the present time, as compared with what they were during the peace of Amiens. They stood as follows : Exports. Imports. Tonnage. 1802, £38,309,980 - £29,826,210 £2,167,000 1838, 105,170,549 61;268;320 2,890,601 " Thus, gentlemen, you see, that while from 1802 to 1838, that is in six-and-thirty years, our exports have advanced from 38 to 105, that is about 280 per cent., and our imports from 29 to 61, that is about 210 per cent., our whole tonnage has only increased from 21 to 28, that is about 33 per cent. This broad and decisive fact is calculated to excite the most serious alarm in every rational bosom, as to the maintenance in future of the maritime superiority of Great Britain. For who has carried the remainder of our merchandise abroad, and wafted the remainder of our imports to our shores ? Somebody must have dune it. The conclusion is unavoid able that it was done in great part by foreign states, that is, by vessels and seamen that may any day be ranged against us by our enemies. And, gentlemen, the number of those fo reign seamen and vessels now employed in the British trade, and the rapid encroachments they are making on British ma ritime strength, is decisively proved by the Parliamentary Tables collected with so ►such care and accuracy by Mr. Porter, at the Board of Trade : from them it appears that the relative proportions of Foreign and British shipping employed in conducting our trade at these two periods were follows : British. Vessels. Tor.s. .11,285 1,668,060 .... 16,119 2,785,387 Foreign. Vessels. Tons. 1832 .......... 3472 447,611 1838 ......... 8679 1,211,066 "Thus, while the British tonnage in the last thirty-six years has advanced from sixteen to twenty-seven, the foreign employed in conducting cur trade have advanced from 41 to 121, that is, nearly tripled. This, gentlemen, is the general result,. and unquestionably it is sufficiently alarming to every one who considers how essential our maritime superiority is to our foreign commerce ; and what would be the condition of the British population if the empire of the seas were wrested from it, and the Thames, the Clyde, and the Mer sey, were blockaded by hostile fleets? But the particulars of our trade with separate countries are far more instructive, because they demonstrate, in the clearest manner, where,it is that the decay of our trade and shipping is going on, and where the counterpoising sources of strength and revival are to be found. It appears from Mr. Porter's Parliamentary 'fatles, that since 1823, when the reciprocity system com menced, our tonnage with the countries with whom the reci procity treaties were concluded has been decreasing in the most alarming manner, while no increase whatever has taken place during the same period in The amount of goods which they take off our hands. The British and Foreign shipping employed in the trade with Prussia, Sweden, : Denmark, Nor way, since 1820, have stood as follows : British declined with Prussia from 539 ships to 270 • • Denmark, 57 .... 16 Norway, 168 .... 15 Sweden, 123 .... 66 And the foreign ships with Great Britain have increased dur ing the same period in these states as follows : 'Prussia with Great Britain increased from 258 to 903 Danish 41 to 624 Norwegian 558 to 785 Swedish 71 to 250 Such, gentlemen, is the working of the reciprocity system with these countries ; and even in regard to America our trade stands thus : British. Ships. Tons. 1836.. 226 89,383 American. Ships. Tons. 524 226,483 " Thus you see, gentlemen, that while our commerce with Northern Europe is almost entirely passing into the hands of foreigners, nearly three-fourths of that with America is at this moment in the hands of the inhabitants of that country ! It is easy to see, that if we had no commercial intercourse but with such foreign and independent states, we should, by the very extension of our export of manufactures, be nursing up a foreign, and possibly hostile, commercial navy, which would cre long wrest from us the empire of the seas. It is needless to go farther into details; for the. following is the general result of the change which the tonnage of our foreign commerce with all parts of the world has undergone during the last thirty-six years : " The trade of Great Britain with all Europe has declined from 1802 to 1836, from 65 to 48 per cen With British Colonies in America increased With United American States With India 18 to 25 • .. 6 to 9 .. 34 to 5 .. " These facts may be considered as decisive against the re ciprocity system, so far as the maritime interests of the em pire are concerned. . They prove, beyond the possibility of doubt, after the most ample opportunity of trying the system by experience has been given, that under the reciprocity system the British flag is-generally becoming extinct in the trade with Continental Europe ; and that, if it is continued for ten or fifteen years longer, our whole traffic with Europe will be carried on in the vessels of foreign states. Indeed, it is evident, from the extraordinarily rapid growth of foreign shipping' in carrying on the British commerce, that if the present system continues many years longer, the foreign sai lors and tonnage employed in carrying on our commercial intercourse, at least with the states of Europe, will be greater than our own ; that is to say, we shall have nursed up a race of foreign seamen in our own harbours, and in conducting our own trade, superior in number to those of the British islands—in other words, sharpened, and put into the enemy's hands, the dagger which may at any moment pierce us to the heart. Real reciprocity with these countries would evidently have consisted in stipulating, that in consideration of our admit ting some article in which they had advantages over us, on the same terms as they admitted ours, that they should do the same with some article of our manufacture in which we had the advantage, and they had the worst of it by nature. But we never thought of doing this, but contented ourselves with surrendering to them the whole advantages which the navigation laws gave to our shipping, without ever stipulating even the &retest corresponding advantage in favour of our cotton, hardware, or woollen goods, in which we had by nature the start of them. The consequence has been that our own shipping employed in carrying on the trade with these nations has been almost destroyed, while no benefit whatever has been gained in our exports to these nations by the sacrifice. This decisively appears from comparing our exports to the powers with whom we concluded reciprocity treaties for the last ten years, during which time, in conse quence of the action of these treaties, our shipping with them has been dwindling away to nothing. The following table exhibits the value of our exports to the Baltic powers, in 1827 and 1828, and 1835 and 1836 : Countries. 1827. 1829. 1835. 183 G. Russia £1,408,970 £1,318,936 £1,752,775 £1,742,433 Sweden 46,731 42,699 105,156 113,308 Norway 39,129 53,552 79,278 79,469 Denmark Prussia 174,338 179,145 188,273 160,722 It is needless to go farther into details; for the following statement by the learned and indefatigable Mr. Porter, of the Board of Trade, on that subject is decisive :—" That part of our commerce," says Mr. Porter, " which, being carried on with the rich and civilised inhabitants of Euro pean nations, should present the greatest field, for extension, will be seen to have fallen off under this aspect in a remark able degree. The average annual exports to the whole of Europe were less in value by nearly 20 per cent. itz the five years from 1832 to 1836, than they were in the five years that followed the close of the war; and it affords strong.evi deuce of the unsatisfactory footing upon which our trading regulations with Europe are established, that the , exports to the United States of America, which, with their population of only twelve millions, are removed. to a distance from us of 3,000 miles across the Atlantic, have amounted to more than one-half of the value of our shipments to the whole of Eu rope, with a population fifteen times as great as that of the United States of America, and with an abundance of pro ductions suited•to our wants, which they are naturallk desi rous of exchanging for the products of our mines and looms."* Thus it distinctly appears, that while we have completely sacrificed, by the reciprocity treaties, our shipping employed in the trade with Northern Europe, we. have derived no countervailing advantage whatever in our exports to these countries, because they actually, as a whole, take off,.on an average of five years, less of that produce than they did live and-twentY years ago. It is evident that, while they have taken advantage of our simplicity to engross to themselves all the carrying trade between their harbours and Great Bri -min,- they have taken care to give us no corresponding ad vantage whatever in our commercial intercourse with them. In fact, they have done more—the only return they have made for onr concession in maritime affairs, has been to load our manufactures with atitlitintM thrtir,a. Prolrsia has re warded us for our ample concessions to her by the Prusso- Germanic league. Every year brings a fresh ukase from the Emperor of Russia, imposing additional duties on our goods ; and even our little puppet, the revolutionary Queen of Por tugal, has shown her gratitude for the aid Which pat her on the throne, by nearly doubling the duties on every species of British manufacture ! Mr. Alison, after dwelling on these facts, proceeded as follows to exhibit the very different picture which the colo nial trade has presented : " Gentlemen,—l will not fatigue you with farther details. You see here the astonishing facts that France, with its thirty two millions of inhabitants, takes ofF only £1,500.000 worth; that Prussia, with a population of fourteen millions, takes off only .±:160,000 worth ; and, most marvellous of all, that Russia, now with a population of sixty millions, takes only £1,700,000 of our produce. From these facts we may esti mate, with perfect certainty, the chance which Great Britain has of being able to maintain a lucrative commercial inter course with the old European nations in the same stage of civilisation with herself, and influenced by the political hos tility and commercial rivalry incident to their political situ ation. Gentlemen, I have said, however gloomy the pros pects of our commercial interests with such states may be, there is not only hope but confidence to be derived from another quarter ; and if we turn to the Colonies we shall at once see whence it is that England is now deriving its heart's blood, and from what commercial intercourse our wealth and greatness in future times is to be derived. Gentlemen, you will be astonished, your hearts will exult, at the magni tude of the returns which lam now to lay. before you. In the year 1836 it appears that our— Real Value, Exports to the United States of America were no less than British North AMerican Colonies 2,732,29. British West Indies Australian Colonies East Indies 4,285,829 " The articulate returns of the trade of each country for the years 1837 and 1838, have not yet been laid before the public • but here is surely enough to excite our won d er an d astonishment. You see that Canada, with its population that 'does not yet reach fifteen hundred thousand souls, takes off' no less than £2,800,000 of our produce, or nearly twice as much as Russia, with its population of sixty millions.- Yon see that the British West India Islands, with a -popula tion of about forty thousand white and eight hundred thou sand black inhabitants, consumed in 1836 no less than £3,709,000, or considerably more than twice as much as France, with its population of thirty-two millions. And - what is most marvellous of all, and conies directly home to the object of this night's festive, assembly, the Aus tralian Colonies, with a population scarcely at this mo ment amounting to a hundred thousand, take off no less than £1,000,000 a-year of produce. Why, gentlemen, I venture to predict, that before the year 1810 the colonists of New Holland, reinforced as they will be by our friends around us • proceeding to New Zealand, will consume more of British• produce and manufactures, though they may not number a hundred and twenty thousand souls, than the sixty millions of the Muscovite empire. Such is the wonderful difference between the commercial intercourse we can maintain with our own descendants—our own flesh and blood—the Anglo-Saxon race whom we have sent forth to civilize the world—and the inhabitants of foreign states, subjected to the authority of hostile governments, or swayed by foreign commercial jealousy." Lord Brougham, in the debate on the repeal of the Orders in Council in 1812 has explained, with even more than his usual felicity, the causes of this remarkable difference be tween the commerce opened in our colonies and that which can be maintained with any other independent state in the old world. " The extent," says he, "and swift and regular progress of the American market for British goods, is not surprising; we can easily and clearly account for it. In the nature of things it can be no otherwise, and the reason lies . on the very surface of the fact. America is an immense agricultural country, where land is plentiful and cheap ; men and labour, though quickly increasing, yet still scarce and dear, compared with the boundless regions which they occupy and cultivate. In such a country manufactures do not na turally thrive • every exertion if matters be left to themselves, goes into other channels. ' This people is connected with England with origin, language, manners, and institutions ; -their tastes go along with their convenience, and they come to us as a matter of course for the articles which they do not ' make themselves. Only take one fact as an example : the negroes in the southern states are clothed in English-made goods, and it takes 40s. a-year thus to supply one of these unfortunate persods. This will be admitted to be the lowest sum for which any person in America can be clothed ; but take it as the average, and make a deduction for the expenses above prime cost, you have a sum upon the whole population of eight millions, which approaches the value of our exports to the United States. But it is not merely in clothing. Go to any house in the Union, from their large and wealthy cities to the most solitary cabin or log-house in the forests, you find in every corner the furniture, tools, and ornaments of Staffordshire, of Warwickshire, and of the northern coun ties of England. The wonder ceases when we thus reflect for a moment, and we plainly perceive that it can be no other wise. The whole population of the country is made up of customers who require, and who can afford to pay, for our goods. This, too, is peculiar to that nation, and it is. a pe culiarity as happy for them as it is profitable for us. I know the real or affected contempt with which some persons in this country treat our kinsmen of the West. I fear some angry and jealous .feelings - have survived our -former more intimate connexion with them—feelings engendered by the event of its termination, but which it would be wiser, as well as more manly, to forget. Nay, there are certain romantic spirits who even despise the unadorned structure of their massive democratic society. But to me I freely acknowledge, the sight of one part of it brings feelings of envy as an En glishman : I mean the happy distinction that, over the whole extent of that boundless continent, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Mississippi to the Atlantic Ocean, there is not one pauper to be found. Such are the customers whom America presents to us. The rapid increase of their culture and population, too, doubling in twenty-five or thirty years, must necessarily augment this demand for our goods in the same proportion. Circumstanced as the two countries . * Porter's Progress of the Nation, p. 101. are, I use no figure of speech, but speak the simple fact when I say, that not an axe falls in the woods of America which does not put in motion some shuttle, or hammer, or wheel in England."* Such is the astonishing effect of the causes thus eloquently described by Lord Brougham, as occasioning the surprising demand for English manufactures in the British Colonies, or the independent states which have arisen from that origin, over other countries. The following Table,. which, is priori, would have been incredible, shows the exports to different states, as compared with their respective population, and the value of British manufactures which they consume per head : Export in Proportion Population. 1836. per head. 60,000,000. £1,742,433 £0 0 5 3,00►0,000 113,308 0 0 9 Russia &Netlen Denmark Prussia . France.. . 2,000,000 91,302 0 0 11 . 14,000,000 160,472 0 0 31 . 32,000,000 1,591,381 0 0 11 Portugal 3,000,000 1,085,934 0 0 8 Spain U. States of America .14,000,000 12,425,605 017 0 Br. N. Amr. Colonies. 1,500,000 2,739,291 1 11 6 Br. W. India Islands.. 900,000 3,786,453 312 0 Br. Austral. Colonies. 100,000 • 1,180,000 11 15 0 It may truly be said that this table speaks as to the real interests and manufacturing establishments of Great Britain ; and that, if our rulers were not struck with judicial blind ness, they would at onoe perceive where it is that the steady and rising market for British manufactures, and where all our efforts to promote a successful traffic may be regarded as fruitless and nuavaiiing. For fifteen years past our whole commercial policy has been directed to the object of gaining a more ready vent for our manufactures into the continental states of Europe. We have concluded no less than twelve reciprocity treaties with the principal powers; and, in order to propitiate their we have sacrificed by our -trea ties all our commercial advantages at least in our intercourse with these states. And what has been the result ? Why, that our commerce with them is a perfect trifle when com pared with that which we maintain with our own colonies, whom we have maltreated and neglected for their sakes ; and that, while the old states take off a felt pence per head of their population, our own colonies take off as many pounds. In this instance we have truly verified the old adage, that we have been penny wise and pOund foolish, even in regard to our existing interests at the moment.: But when, in addition to this, it is 'recollected that these colonies are part of our selves—distant provinces of our own empire, whose blood is our blood, whose strength is our strength ; that they are in creasing in numbers with a rapidity unparalleled in the annals of the world ; and that, however fast they may augment, they are by their situation and circumstances chained for centuries to agricultural and pastoral employments, and consequently our export trade with them must increase in the same pro portion as their numbers ; while, on the other hand, the states of continental Europe are increasing far less rapidly in numbers—are actuated for the most part by commercial or political jealousy, and may any moment became our enemies, it may safely be affirmed that the neglect of the colonial-pro, vinces to propitiate foreign powers, is of all human absurdities the most absurd. It is needless to inquire to what canse this marvellous difference bet Ween Colonial and European trade is owing. It is immaterial whether it is to be ascribed to the circum stance of the Continental states being in the salile state of civilisation with ourselves, or being inhabited by people who have no taste for our manufactures, or no money to buy them ; or governed by jealous and hostile foreign governments —or actuated by similar and rival commercial establishments. It is sufficient to state the fact, that, from one or other, or all of these causes, their trade with us is trifling, and either sta tionary or declining, while that with our colonies is enor mous, steady, and constantly increasing. In truth, how ever, it is not difficult to perceive to what cause the total failure of all attempts at commercial increase with the old states of Europe is to be ascribed. Mr. Alison observed at the Glasgow dinner, " It is easy to see to what cause this remarkable decline in our trade with old nations and this marvellous increase in our commercial intercourse with our own colonies, is to be ascribed. It is evidently owing to the fact, that these old states are in the same state of civilisation with ourselves, and therefore they are actuated by a natural desire to deal in the same articles, and to manufacture the same produce as ourselves. Are we cotton-spinners ?—so are they. Are we iron-masters ?—so are they. Are we silk ma nufacturers ?—so are they. Are we cutlery and hardware merchants?—so are they. Are we clothiers and woollen drapers ?—so are they. There is no branch of industry in which we excel, in which they are not all making the greatest and most strenuous, and sometimes Successful, efforts to rival and outstrip us. It is in vain that we meet them with the signs of amity, and hold out the olive branch in token of our desire to establish reciprocity treaties on the fooling of real mutual advantage. 'We cannot, by so doing, either shut the eyes of their manufacturers to the danger of British com petition, or close the vision of their governments to the daz zling spectacle of British greatness. Tixey see that we have risen to the summit of prosperity under the system of pro tection to domestic industry, and they naturally imagine that it is only by following our example that they can hope to ri val our success. It is in vain that we now offer to meet them on the footing of perfect reciprocity. They say—" It is very well for you to throw down the barriers when your superio rity in every branch of industry is incontestable. When ours is the same, we will follow your example; in the mean time, you must allow us to imitate the steps which enabled you to reach the elevated position which you now enjoy.' Gentle men, it is difficult to see the answer which can be made to such arguments." Powerful as are these considerations, derived_ from the commercial and manufacturing interests of Great Britain, in favour of her colonial settlements, the facts pointing the saute way, deducible from the shipping interests, are, if pos sible, still more conclusive. The essential difference between the shipping, which carries on a trade between the colonies and the mother country. is, that it is, as in the former case, all our own—in the latter, one-half belongs to our enemies. This difference is so enormous, the effects it produces on our maritime strength are so extraordinary, that, numerous as have been the details which we already given, we cannot resist the temptation of contrasting our shipping and tonnage with some 'of the principal foreign powers with whom we have concluded reciprocity treaties with that which we carry on with our own colonies. BRITISH AND POREIGN TONNAGE 'WITH RECIPROCITY COUNTRIES. BRITISH. FOREIGN. Ships.. Trans. Ships. Tons. Sweden 66 10,865 . 250 42,439 Norway Denmark .. Prussia 270 42,567 . 903 174,439 France 2,035 189,329 1,740 108,352 Uaited States Ral TISII. East Inctia and Territories, ships. Tons. Singapore Ceylon 227 97,034 New So4th Wales 59 19,195 British Northern Colonies 2,029 620,772 British West Indies Nor is the present magnitude of the British trade with these colonies more remarkable than its rapid increase. Some very remarkable - facts on this subject were stated by Mr. Alison at the public dinner in Glasgow :—" You have already seen bow completely our shipping which trades with Northern Europe is withering away under the action of the reciprocity treaties ; and you have seen that it is now little more than a fourth of what it was fifteen years ago ; while that of the- Baltic powers trading with us has quadru pled during the -same period. But, gentlemen, turn to the colonies, - and you will learn a very different result; and be hold with delight a growth of our shipping as extraordinary, as its decline in our intercourse with Europe is serious and alarming. Gentlemen, - it appears from Mr. Porter's Parlia mentary TableS, that the growth of our shipping employed between Canada, Australia, and the mother country, has been as follows Australia, Canada. Canada. Coasting Trade. With Britain. Tons. Tens. Tons. 1820 1836 19,195 609,111 620,772 Thus the astonishing facts are apparent. that, in conducting the intercourse between Canada, the West Indies, and the mother country, there has grown up a commercial navy of nearly 1,200,000 tons, .of which . nearly 600,000 belong to Great Britain, and the remainder to her transatlantic off spring ; while the tonnage with the Australian Colonies has increased in sixteen years, prior to 1836, from 1200 to 20,000, or nearly twenty-fold. When we recollect that the ntal commercial navy of Great Britain is only 2,800,000 tons, and that our vast foreign trade with America giaLy't'un. ploys 80,000 tons of our shipping, the whole remainder being in the hands of the Americans themselves ; and that our in tercourse with Canada and Australia, .the population of which is not sixteen hundred thousand, already gives em ployment to 600,000 tons, or nearly seven times that em ployed in our whole immense commerce with the United States of America, the vital importance of colonial trade to maritime independence becomes at once apparent; and the general result of the comparative progress of the vessels be longing to -Great Britain, at home and in the colonies, from 1814 to 1836, is as follows : Great Britain. Colonies. Tons. Tons. 2,414,170 202,795 2,349,649 442,897 Thus you see, gentlemen, that while the shipping of Great Britain and Ireland has declined in the last five-and-twenty years, notwithstanding the prodigious increase of our ex ports and imports, that employed in conducting the .trade with the colonies has more than doubled. More decisive evidence cannot be imagined of the vital importance of the colonial trade, not only to our commercial wealth, but to our national existence. And if any one, after the facts that have now been stated, remains blind to our true national interests, and the quarter from which we must look for our wealth, our security, and independence, in future times, I say neither will he be converted though one ros e f rom th e d ea d.' - When it is demonstrated by statistical facts like these, concerning which there can be no dispute, that interests so vast both- in our colonial possessions and the parent state, are dependent upon the connexion between Great Britain and her Colonies ; when it is recollected that the bread and very existence of millions at home depend upon the increasing trade and market with these Colonies ; and that our mari time strength and national independence are entirely de pendent upon the immediate adoption of such a system as ' shall extend and increase our colonial empire, it is with feel ings of regret too profound to be mingled - with bitternesa— with sentiments of indignation too deep to exhale in angry words—that we look hack upon the colonial policy of Great Britain for the last ten years. It may safely be affirmed, that the insane policy of Great Britain to her colonial pos sessions during that time has been unparalleled in modern times. She has first forced upon the West India Islands the monstrous project of negro emancipation, a step which has already reduced to one-half the produce of those splendid colo nies, and given a blow to the prosperity both of the Negro and European population from which neither can ever recover. We have the details lying beside us, and were we not fearful of exhausting the patience of our readers by farther statis tical details, we cuuld exhibit a picture from parliamentary and authentic documents of progressive ruin in those noble establishments, which would amply bear out, and even exceed this statement. She next, practically speaking,.shortened by two years the period of negro apprentiecship, and thereby completely dis organised all the plans which the planters had laid, for en abling them to wind up their affairs during the period of ap prenticeship. And when it became manifest that the negroes would not work, and that a fresh supply of labourers became indispensible to maintain the industry of the West India Is lands, we passed acts of parliament prohibiting the introduc tion of free Asiatic labourers, and promulgated regulations in the island, which by giving the planters no security in the retention of the labour of free European workmen, have in effect, cut off all means of supplying the place of the indolent negroes in the cultivation of the land. What have we done during the same period in Canada? It would apPear from our conduct to that noble colony, that we were desirous of disgusting it so completely with the rule of the mother country, as to throw it headlong into the arms of the United States. We first winked at and promoted repub licanism and sedition to such a degree, as to fan them into actual rebellion ; and, though aware for years that an insur rection was rapidly approaching, we left the colonies with only 3500 British soldiers to protect them from destruction. When the first ievolt was put down by this gallant handful of men, and the strenuous support of the loyal North American British population, we carried the system of conciliation, concession, and dallying with treason to such a length, as to cause the rebellion to break out a second time under circum stances of still greater horror, and when it required to be ex tinguished in oceans of blood. While the wintry heavens were illuminated by the light of burning villages and the wintry fo res t s were s t rewe d w i t h th e carcasses o f the slaugh tered peasants, we submitted quietly to the insulting inroads of hundreds of buccaneers and pirates from the American * Parliamentary Debates, xxiii. 515. 'terriory, in a way that never yet was done by the government of any independent state. When the royal banner. of the loyal inhabitants in Upper Canada had surmounted these various evils, and a second time restored peace to a distracted land, the sympathy of our rulers with their old allies—the republican party i►► America —was so strong, that they have never proposed a vote of thanks in either house of parliament or from the crown, to the brave soldiers and patriots who saved the empire from dismemberment! Lastly, to show our sympathy with the anti-national party in our transatlantic possessions, in our total disregard to their vital interests, we placed at the head of the colonial department Lord Normauhy, whose policy in Ireland was graced by the wholesale liberation of felons and anti-national convicts, and placed at the head of the Govern anent in Quebec, Poulett Thomson, the President of the Board of Trade, who is chiefly-known by his long established con nexion with the Baltic .timber tiade, and his often avowed predilection for an equalisation of the duties on Baltic and Canadian timber. -. Serious as there evils are, we much. fear that greater and More heavy blows at out. colonial interests are yet in the con templation of 'our infatuated government. Acting en the dictation of the urban constituencies, whose great object is to buy cheap, and still clinging to the blind system of foreign propitiation, there is little room for doubting that they will, ere long, perhaps in the next session ofparlialuent, bring for ward ministerial plans for equalising the duties on Baltic and Canadian timber, and Foreign and British sugar. Strong indications of these intentions have already appeared in the speeches of many of the supporters of government, and the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson to the viceroyalty of Canada may he considered as the cfficial promulgation of their intention. Let no one imagine that these propositions are so obviously destructive in their eflects, and bear so obviously the tendency to dismember tl e empire, that therefore they will not he attempted by a ministry whose only principle seems to be to prolong . their official existence, without any re gard to the jeopardy in which the means of accomplishing that object may place the existence or independence of the coun try. it is never to be forgotten, that to secure the support of O'Connell's tail, they have surrendered the government of Ireland and the direction of the naticii to the Popish faction, whose bond Of cement is the repeal of the union, that is, the dismemberment of the empire. True, by establishing a free trade in timber, we should annihilate the industry of our North American Colonies, and throw them at once into the arms of the United States, and cut off at once 600,000 tons of British shipping, and altogether extinguish both our maritime superiority and national independence. True, by equalising the duties oh Foreign and British sugar, we should utterly destroy our West India colonies, and perpetuate that hideous tearing of 200,000 negroes from the shores of Africa, which we have professed ourselves so anxious to prevent. But what doeS all that signify ?—the urban constitueacies must be pro pitiated; a few stray seats at the next election may turn the balance in favour of the destructive or conser% ative party ; and the cry of cheap sugar and cheap bread may catch these stray votes and cast the balance. It is childish to descant always upon the weakness and im becility of ministers, or suppose that a tortuous policy, so flagrantly dangerous and impolitic as that which we have just • been considering, is to be ascribed to the mere recklessness or want of capacity of our present rulers. It is perveisity in. the public mind which is the real source of the evil—it is the short-sighted views of the numerous constituencies that have so long rendered a remedy impossible. The colonies are wholly unrepresented in the House of Commons ; the ten pounders have the disposal of the majority of the seats in that assembly ;' to buy cheap is their immediate interest, and it matters little to the short seeing Masses what effect that cheap buying may ultimately have upon their•own or the national interests. Here is the true secret of colonial misgovernment ; we are governed by masses who think only of buying cheap, and the interest of the colonies is to sell dear. Eight years ago we foresaw, and distinctly predicted this effect, as neces sarily flowing from the Reform. Bill. All the colonial calamities that have since occurred are but the accomplishment of our predictions in this - particular.* The colonies were not actually represented under the old constitution, but they were virtually so, because colonial waalth found an easy entrance into parliament through the close boroughs. The whigs have destroyed that avenue for colonial representation in the House of Commons ; time will show whether they have not destroyed with it the colonial empire and national independence of Great Britain. * Blt.ckwood's Magazine, September, 1831, vol. xxx. p. 436 The conservative majority in the lords has been lately aug mented by three votes. It is stated that the mountains in the neighbourhood of Keswick and Ambleside have assumed their mantle of Snow, and that the lakes and tarns are unusually stocked with wild fowl. The trade in Carlisle continues in a very depressed state ; the weavers having usually to wait two, three, and four days for every fresh web—and considering the very low state of their wages, this is a very great grievance. A HINT.—A half-crown piece weighs four grains and a half under the half ounce, so that a letter can be easily ascer tained by this means to be within the weight allowed at the post-office for a single postage after the sth of next month. The provincial police should be vigilantly on the look-out for suspicious characters, as the activity of the metropolitan constabulary has driven into the provinces many of the most accomplished London thieves and sharpers. The fact that her Majesty was to marry Prince Albert, of Saxe Coburg; has been long known to every inhabitant of the vicinity of Claremont, where the young prince made long and repeated visits to the Duchess of Kent before her Majesty's accession to the throne. JONATHAN..NO MATCH.—A correspondent informs us that the carriages on the Ayr and Irvine railway have acquir ed such a degree of velocity, that the passengers can, with the most perfect ease and safety, alight at the one end before • they can get up at the other.—Ayr Advertisee. Mr. Leader has act publicly denied the newspaper report that he was the writer of the hoaxing letter to Mr. Mont gomery, announcing Lord Brougham's death ; therefore the natural inference is—he was the author of that " lamentable piece of folly." In Sir T. D. Lauder's account of the tournament, pub lished in Tait's Magazine for November, it is mentioned as a curious circumstance, that scarcely any of the suits of an-- cient armour worn on that occasion were large enough to fit the wearers easily. The idea of modern degeneracy is thus practically proved to be quite erroneous. Friday night's Gazette contained the Royal commissions for the trials of the prisoners implicated in the chartist out break in South Wales. The judges appointed are the same as those already named, viz.—Sir Nicholas Tindal, sir James Parke, anti Sir John Wiliiern*- with the addition of Mr. Serjeant Ludlow. The day for the opening the special com mission is not fixed in the Gazelle, but left to the decision of the judges themselves, and they have appointed the 10th • inst. for that purpose. THE DUKE AND THI,7 SWEEPS.—Three Mansfield sweeps were lately going through Welbeck Park, for the purpose of sweeping, in the morning; the chimneys of the duke's noble mansion there. Tq beguile their lonely walk, th e sable coloured boys comMenced singing a hymn. His grace, who was in the park, being aroused from his reverie by the unusual -sound of religious devotion in his plantations, proceeded to aseertainfrom whence it arose ; .. and our readers may judge were some tfutehe sweeps duke's w s h tt o r p v, r_ s r e e or, tus di p s r e a o i v s e h r , i g n t g ,h , e t i h r a c t re t a h t e 9 y r. " Which of you was singing?" he inquired ; " We were all singing, your grace," was the answer, in tones whichlndicated their fear of having offended the duke. " Sing on," said the no bleman ; the sweep - srecounnenced their hymn, his grace fol lowing them to the Abbey. On their arrival there, he or dered them a very iibgral refreshment, gave the eldest boy 3s. and the two younger 2s. each. This trait, so honourable to thoduke, speaks for itself, and renders comment unneces sary. It is but right to add, that the master of these boys hears an excellent character, and pays great attention to the morals of his apprentices.--Nottingham Review. THE PRESIDENT STEAM-SHIP.----This new and splendid transatlantic steam-ship, which has, for some time past, been building in Messrs. Curling and Young's yard, Limehouse (the builders of the British Queen,) will he launched on Sa turday, the 7th December. The President is the largest ship in the world. The British Queen has a Hush deck, covering the whole of the engine and vessel from stem to stern. The President has another deck, similar to the spar-deck - of a frigate, which gives an excellent promenade for passengers, working of the crew, &c. - Her dimensions are a s under Length, extreme, 268 feet ; length for measurement, 230 feet ; length of keel, 220 feet ; breadth, 42 feet ; breadth, including paddle-boxes, 64 feet, depth in the hold, mid-ships, 23 feet 6 inches ; beisht of upper deck, 7 feet 6 inches ; burden in tons, old measurement, 1,921 57-94ths feet ; power of engine, 600 horses ; diameter of paddle wheel, 21 feet ; weight of engine, boiler, &c., 560 tons ; draught of water with cargo, 17 feet. Thus it will be seen that this magnificent vessel is 126 tons more burden, and has 100 horse more power than the British Queen. FEMALE COURAGE.—A little before twelve o'clock on Friday night last, the grate was forced, and the cellar of the house occupied by Mr. hill, in this town the same moment, or immediately after, k was entered. At Mr. A. Hill, hair dresser, Bridlesmith Gate, who lodges with his father, hap pened to go home ; and, on opening the back door, which was fastened with a French latch, with his key, he found the family had retired to bed. He instantly proceeded to the top of the cellar steps to find a match light, when he over heard a noise in the cellar : suspecting all was not right, he closed the back door carefully, went to the cellar grate out side the house, and discovered it had been forced ; he placed himself as sentinel, and called "Watch ;" his eldest sister, who was in bed, hearing a disturbance, but not aware that it was her brother calling out, instantlyjumpednp, ran down stairs, and, to her surprise, saw a strange man standing iu the house ; she repeated several times "Who is it—who is it ?" but, not receiving any answer, she concluded it was a thief, and though in her night dress only, and without a light, she courageously dashed forward, and seized the fellow by the collar. A violent struggle ensued; but Miss Hill, who is stout, kept firm hold : the thief, however, though closely pinioned, contrived to open the back door, and had actually dragged Miss Hill into the yard, when her brother Anthony came up, and the villain was" Securcd.—Nottingham Review. SAGACITY OF GnEYnouNns.—Three dogs of this species, the property of a gentleman residing at Gomersal, were ob served a few days ago to be Wending their way in the direc tion of a small covert on the estate of Mr. Emmet, of Bir kenshaw, which the owner of the dogs had been in the habit of beating, and where a hare was usually found. On arriving at the covert, two of the dogs covered it, whilst the third took his station on the outskirts in the direction which the. hate was, wont to take when driven out of the covert. Although the covert teas beat by the two dogs inside with as much ex actitude as if' they had been accompanied by their owner, the draw proved a blank, and the dogs trotted off to a s m a ll clump of brushwood a few hundredyards distant, when pre cisely the same arrangement again took place ; but in this in stance with more fortunate results, as a hare was found, driven into the open - fields, and after a capital course was killed. A gentleman, who had been an amused observer of the singula?proccedings of the dogs, sent one of his labourers on to ascertain the upshot ; when he discovered the dogs bearing away the dead hare in triumph in their mouths : he, however, succeeded in securing them, and conveyed the truants, together with th e f ru it s o f heir sport, to their owner, who rewarded him by a present of the game.—Brad ford Observer. CROP OUT IN THE lIIGHLANDS.—We have been informed by a person who has made a journey into the Highlands with in the last few days, that he was surprised to observe in Strathbrand, in Perthshire, nearly three-fourths of the crop still in the fields; and on approaching the country from a distance, the stooks which dot the hillsides have the appear ance of numerous herds of black cattle. The small tenantry of Stratbbrand seem to think that a fatal spell has fallen over their country, once of fair reputation for fertility and earli ness. Far north of them, and still farther south, the harvest has been got in Well, and the Mind of the husbandman free from care ; but here, " the rain it raineth every day," and the crops of oats and barley promise to be utterly destroyed. In certain intervals, when misty days gave pface to actual deluge, the Strathsrnen secured a splendid yield of potatoes; but, as has been stated, it is far otherwise with the white cro ps. The people themselves are much down-hearted, and not without cause ; and many of them who attended the re cent Donne market in the midst of splendid weather, were still more depressed, on their return, to find that in their own locality there had been no abatement of the watery influ ences. Strathbrand is about twelve miles in length, by from two to four in breadth. The western division, called Glen quaich, is the property of Lord Breadalbane • and the eastern that of Sir William D rummon d, o f Marti:ly.—The above facts, of the veracity of whiCh we have been assured by a person who witnessed them, forms only another and a dis tressing proof of the fitful freaks of the ,present season.— Glasgow Herald. Oa riutO. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 5. The Cotton market since Monday afternoon had presented a very flat and depressed appearance, wil h many willing sellers at gradually easier prices; they are nowfor common American about id, and for the better descriptions 4tl lower than on Saturday last. The sales for the last three days have been Omit 3,000 bales per diem, prin cipally American, at 6d to Bd, to the Trade. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, DEC. 3. . Notwithstanding the prevalence of easterly winds, many vessels have worked into this port since Tuesday last, containing a moderate quantity of Wheat, a further good supply of Oats and Oatmeal, with a few parcels of Barley, Beans and Pease; and up. wards of 20,000 'barrels Fldur from, New York and • Baltimore, as specified underneath. These added to the imports of the three pre. ceding weeks comprise 36.852 qrs of Wheat, 14,094 qrs of Barley, 2129 qrs. of Malt, 58,475 yrs Oats, 60.1 qrs Rye, 251 Q qrs Beans, 3241 yrs Pease, 43,835 sacks Oatmeal, 10,850 sacks and 59,133 barrels Flour. . . Having a good attendance of buyers this morning, all descrip tions of old Wheat met a fair steady demand At the full rates of this day se'nnight, and in some instances realized a small improvement ; new samples, on the contrary, the best dry qualities alone being saleable, were somewhat depressed in value, and very little noticed, —ln English and Irish Flour we have no variation to note; but Foreign, duty paid, has moved off rather freely at an advance of Is ; and 8,000 to 10,000 barrels of American in bond, have changed hands since Friday "at 9.0 60 to 305 per barrel;and 30s to 31s has been paid to-day. Barley and Malt continued to rule much the same as last week. —Beans are scarce, and this article as well as Pease fully main tained late prices. The Oat trade commanding a tolerable degree of attention, sales to a fair extent were effected to-day, and a slight amendment upon the terms of last week was partially obtained.—Oatineal was also in more request at the annexed quotations. WHEAT, per 701bs 5. d. S. d. INDIAN CORN, 7,3 480tb. English Scotch . I HMI . . Bonded BA ULEV, per qr. English 46 0 47 0 Chevalier 4B 0 49 0 Scotch, per 601 b. 5 2 510 Irish... 5 0 510 Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 OATS, per 451 b. English - 2 4 4 Scotch - 2 4 4 Irish 3 6 310 Foreign, in bond. 3 6 310 Ditto, duty free 4 0 4 4 RYE, per quarter MA LT, per qr. fine 7O 0 75 0. middling 56 0 6d 0 .10 o@i2 .10 0 11 . 6 6 10 .o 0 0 Red 44 0'445 0 White 45 0 46 0 BEANS, per quarter. English 45 0 50 0 Irish 42 0 46 0 PEAS, Grey 3B 0 44. 0 White 44 0 50 0 Snip BREAD, per 1121 b. Iv bond l4 0 17 0 FLOUR; English, per 2801 b. - Fine 52 0 6o 0 Irish 48 0 56 0 Amer. 4. brl. free Sweet 0 42 0 Sour 37 0 38 6 OATMEAL., per 2401 b. English 3O 0 31 0 Ditto, new ... 34 0 35 0 Scotch 30 0 31 0 LIVERPOOL PROVIS Matters are as dull as they and prices are entirely nominal. Beef, Pork, Bacon, &c. ON MARKET, DEC. 5 an well be, in our Butter Market, The same remark is applicable to AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE, Imported into Liverpool, from the 26th tilt to the 2nd lust inclusive. FROM IRE LAND. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. _ 2919 2779 3926 Previously 95535 17802 266162 Horses. Mules. Calves. Lambs 41 21 5549 212 1443 2180; COASTWISE Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Calves. Lambs. 16 433 3 12 Previously 3857 56943 4195 118 - 36 540 THE WORKHOUSE. Statement of the average number and expense of paupers In the Workhouse for the week ending _ _ Paupers. Nov. 23, 1839 24, 1838 Per Head. ioid. 1 10f Per 'Week. &163 0 2 168 13 7 Less ,52 More 0 04 More 515 5 Statement of daily relief paid out-door poor the weekending Dec. 2, 1839 3, 1838 Less 67 Less .£l2 8 2 LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. Number of new patients entered on the books of the Dispensaries during the last week:— North. South. Total Received advice and medicine at the Insti tution Visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine 287 605 Total at each Dispensary 228 133 a 420 966 VISITORS. North—Rev. Dr. Buck, Rev. Thomas Bibby, and Mr. J. 11. Smith South—Mr. Jordan, Mr. T. Robinson, 'and Mr. Joseph Cooper. R. WEDGWOOD, Secfetary. Dispensaries' Office, 1, Fenwick-street, Dec. 2, 1839. [MONTHLY REPORT.] OPHTHALMIC INFIRMARY. SLATER-STREET, Established A.D. 1820. New Patients admitted in the month of Nov. Patients prescribed for, and who have received Surgical Assistance during the mouth of Nov O3 Total since the commencement.... 28,g39 Dr. Edwards and Mr. Neill, Surgeons. Mr. P. Hutchinson, Treasurer. [MONTHLY IMPORT.] LIVERPOOL INSTITUTION FOR CURING DISEASES OF THE EAR. NO. 5, MOUNT-PLEASANT N EAR THE ADELPHI HO TEL , _Established August, 1839. Number of Patients who have been prescribed for, and who have obtained Surgical Assistance during the month of November Total since the commencement 131 ..... • . . . 582 Attendance on Tue . sday and Saturday, at eleven o'clock. Mr. Neil, Operating Surgeon. LIVERPOOL AGRICULT 'RAL MARKET, DEC. 4 s. d. s. d. s. Old Hay .... 0 9(0 1 ac. 20%. Potatoes, 1 New Hay.... 0 9 1 0i - Cattle Ditto 1 Clover Hay.. 0 9 1 0 - rurnips 22 Straw, Wheat 0 5 0 6 1 1 - Carrots 4B Straw, Oat .. 0 4 0 5- Manglewurzle 0 Straw, Barley 0 4 0 41 Manure 7 Green Clover 0 0 0 0 -- d. s. d. 9@2 6 1 , 90115 71 s - 0 24 0 - o 50 0 -- 0 0 0 69 6 - PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. WOOD, Deals, 120 stand. rn. duty paid Archangel .,e19 0 ® 20 10 1. MOMPI . . - .... 17 n - IQ n Gothenburg l5 10 - 16 10 Wyburr 18 e —1!) 0 Petersburg . PLANES, per foot of 2 inches thick Danzig, Deck - 0 41 British American Fine - 0 2' ; :— 0 LATII WOOD, per fathom. - - Danzig, 4 feet :.. Britieli American 5 0 0 0 MAHOGANY, per foot of I inch thick. Honduras Cuba • 0 a— 1 0 • St. Doinit:go 1 U 3 0 3AK PLANKS, British American IIOIIC. Px.lic woo'', per cubic feet STAVE .S, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe .e135 0 —llO 0 Hhd. 7O 0 so Quebec, red, .1i inch thick,l and 51 feet long Do. Puncheon ... }55 0 - 75 0 14 0-24 0 Ti m zR, per cubic foot. s. d.j 2 Y - 4 0 Pine, British Amer. common OO - 0 0 red 1 5 2 0 yellow - 1 10 Danzig, middling 2 2i— 2 3 Memel, middling 2 2i -L. 2 3 Riga, red 2 si 2 6 Not above 16 ft F..,619. B. P. - 21 feet. £22.. £2 10s. :41 10s. 5s per load. Os. Not ab. 36 in. L'l 35.1.1.1 ) . 23 26 4s. 3 0 6s, 10s per load. 1.4'2 15s. ?load TIDE TABLE. Days Mrn. Ern. Height. U. IT. 11. Y. 1. Friday .. 6 11 17 11 34 15 4 New Moon 2-47 morn. Saturda) 7 11 25 0 0 15 6 Sunday 8 0 7 025 15 8 2nd Sunday in Advent. Monday 9 042 1 0 15 5 Tuesday 10 117 136 14 9 Venus rises 3-36 morn. Wednes. 11 157 218 14 5 Venus sets 1-54 even. Thursday 12 239 3 2 13 8 Mars rises 10-35 morn. LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. INDIRECT. DIRECT From China Calcutta .... Sept. 27 Bombay .. .. Oct. 7: Mauritius.... Sept. 2 Lima Bahia Sept. 20 Pernambuco.. Oct. 10 I\UIQLCT. DI RXCT From Rio Jan. Sept. 23 Maranham ' Oct. 17. N. Orleans .. Nov. 6 Mobile Nov. 7 Savannah Charleston New York GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIME'S OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAN 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 6 a.m. Mixed 8 15 a.m. First Class 10 30 a.m. First Class 12 15 p.m. First Class 4 p.m. Mixed 7 p.m. Eirst Class ~ 12 FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER 2 15 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 1 15 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do. 11 30 a.m._ First Class 2 15 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 3 30 p.m. Mixed fi p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures. will be 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 a.m. Mixed If 1 30 p.m 10 30 a.m. 7 p.m. 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 - a.m. „ 245 p.m. „ The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. „ 12 LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. FROM L'POOL TO MANCHESTER. First Class Second Class Morning.. 7 0 Morning 8 45 10 0 • • PP 11 0 „ 11 45 ~ 2 0 Aftern. .. 230 Aftern. 4 45 „ .. 5 30 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I * Except on Saturdays, when tl ON SU First Class Second Class 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 5 0 Aftern. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton &. Prkside I TO PRESTON FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 11 0 „ '2 30 Aftern. 4 45 „ 7 15 rr 19 .Second Class . Mixed . First Class ON so 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 50 Afternoon.. „ FROM LIVERPOOL S 45 Morning.... First Class ll 0 „ „ 2 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 ow se 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. To ST. FROM LIVSRPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 It 11 45 2 s 0 Afternoon . IP 5 30 ON 6U 7 o ... Second Class 39 Afternoon .. It TO RUNG PROM LIVERPOOL. 15 Morning. . Second Class 5 30 Afternoon _ ON SU 7 0 Moroing....-Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. ~ FROM MANCHESTER TO L'POOL. First Class _ Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning g 0 „ •• 10 0 „ 15 „ 11 45 „ 2 0 Aftern. *2 45 Aftern. 5 0 „ • • 5 30 „ 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I its Train does not start till Three. NDAYS. First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 5 0 Aftern. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside ; AND WIGAN. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.. First Class 11 15 „ „ 2 45 Aftern. .. Second Class 5 0 „ .. Mixed 715 „ .. First Class NDAYS. I 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 530 Afternoon .. „ ;LION. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 „ ...• 2 45 Afternoon ..Second Class 530 PP •• • • f• 'DAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon „ lELENS. PROM MANCHESTE 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 11 45 ~ 2 45 Afternoon 5 3) IDAYS. 7 0 Morning.— Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. „ CAP. FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 11 45 5 30 Afternoon .. NDAYS. PP 7 0 Morning. i.. Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. ~ TO 80. Obipping fittelligentr. • • TUESDAY, DEC. 3.—Wind South. ARRlVED—Tarolinta, Smith, from New York—Calcutta, —, and Albion, —, from Quebec—Ruby, , from Lisbon ALSO A RRIVED — Monkey, Stewart, from Waterford—Buoyant, Lanley, for Clare—Carisford, Case, from Wicklow—Ochiltree, Mor ris, from Dublin—Violet, Murray, from Charleston SAlLED—Grecian, Rowett, for Valparaiso—Agenoria, Olney, for Mobile—Liffey, France, for Gulf of Mexico—Planter, M'Mahon, for Apalichicola—Aurora, Vaudin, for St. Michael's—Mastery, Noel, for Syra Catherine, Klunder, hence at Helvoct Auguste De Jaghere, and 'row Elizabeth, -, hence at Ostend Stranger, Dowse, from Boston for this port, at itamsgate, after being on shore at the back of thepier, but without apparent damage Elizabeth Holderneis, Broomhead, from Hull fcr this port, at Cowes, with loss of mizen-mast • Angelo Mettco, Pergualetto, from Trieste for this port, at Gibraltar Catherine, Lilian, hence for Havre at St. Mawes Isabella, Doning, hence fur ditto at Poole Ashburton, Dickley, from Poole for this port, at Dartmouth, with loss of main-boom Ibea, —, from Quebec, at Belfast Lady Mary Fox, Sowbery, from Honduras, at Cork Thomas & William, Reid, from St. John, N.B. at Dublin Cubana, Bainbridge, from Cuba, at Swansea Fanny, Brabander, hence for Antwerp, sprung a leak, and was run on shore on Bardsey Isiand QuEn EC, Nov. 9.—The Thule, Fordyce, hence for Lerwick, went on shore at Port-aux-Basque, Newfoundland, 28th. Sept: during a gale at west; crew drowned. The barque Onondago, abandoned, with loss of rudder, was driven on shore on Cape Ray Point 13th Sept. and has gone to pieces WEDNESDAY, DIME:III3Iga 4.—Wind S.E. moderate. A RRlVXD.—Alcyone, Giles, and Don, Davidson, from Miramichi —Magnet, Morton; and Matthew Bell, Holt, from Quebec—Victo ria, Lennox, from Charleston—St. Lawrence, --, from New York—Albanian, Winsor, from Zante—and Active, Moore, from Frederickstadt. SAlLED.—Uuited States, Fisher, for New York—Wilberforce, Harrison, for Maranham—Juinna, M'Gill, for Calcutta—and Per severace, De Vries, for Antwerp. --- Tyrone, Clarke, hence at Jamaica Lerwick, M•Kinnon, hence at Berbice Estreilo,llar, hence at Havana Bencoolen, , from Laguira, at Cape Haytien .Dryad, Loose, hence at Cape Ilaytien, with rudder unshipped, having_been on the Silver Keys—bound to Cuba Comet, Davies, and Ellen nightield, --, hence- at Newfound. land Fanny, from Hamburgh. at ditto - Vesta, Orfeur, hence at Algiers St. Jean; Lelue, and Rainha Constitueional, Lourengo, hence al Nantes Diana, Walters, hence at Lisbon Elizabeth, liighat, was to sail from Madras for this port 28th Sept. Rival, Sutherland, sailed from Jamaica for this port 22nd Oct.. Devonia, Long, sailed from Algiers for Seville loth Nov. Uniao, Pampelina, sailed from Lisbon for this port 18th Nov. William, Whitburn, sailed from Nantes for this port 28th Nov. Mary, Jackson, hence for Antwerp, at Stromness Queen Victcria, Wright, from. Hamburg for this port, at ditto George IV, Drayner, and Reliance, Martinis, from China for Lon doh, were spoken, about 26th Aug. coming out of Batavia Roads, and Halifax, hence for Halifax, 17th Nov. in lat. 50, long. 18 Am:riot/A, Oct. 18. L-The Sir John Tobin, Griffiths, sailed this af ternoon for Liver 001, and shortly afterwards ran on the Warring ton Reef.-19th Oct. The Sir John Tobin is bilged, and the water is up to the lower deck beams. The four lower tiers cf sugar will be lost. 76 hhds. 10 tees. and s.hrls: sugar, 65 puns, molasses, and 62 puns. runs have been landed without damage. The whole of the materials will be saved THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5. ARRlVED.—Unit,ett States, Barr, from Philadelphia—Flora, Cow. ing, from St. John, N.B.—Rowena, Johnson, from Cape Breton — Jessie, M'Alpine, and Margaret, Ford, from Miratniehi—Venture, Wilson; Mars, Younger; Hercules, Postell, and lona, Campbell, from Quebec—Alexandrina, Howes, from Cephalonia—Porcupine, Cook, from Sm) rna—C.R.C, Briard, from Palermo—Dugnesilin, Guyou, from .Nantes—Aurora, Sehroder, from Pillau—Louisa, Rooms; from Antwerp—Pauline, --, from Ostend—and Fora. ger, ---, from Miramiehi. _ Atso ARRIVED.—Burge, Watt, from Wicklow-L-Pursuit, Watt, from Limerick—Elizabeth, Moore, from Donaziadee—Loyalist, Carroll, from Cork—Beresford, Porter, from Dublin—Tam O'Shan ter, Batty, from Hull—Flint, Bird; Cato, Ball; Lady of the Lake, Richards, and Thames, Wright, froth Ipswich—Hebe, Hannan, and Liverpool, Richardson, from Woodbridge—Thetis, Nelson, and Idea, Cooper, from London—Albion, —, and Jane, Spring, from Bristol. SAlLED.—Tynwald, Porteus, for Vera erzz—Amicitia, Michael. gen, for Havana—Monkton, A unon, for Messina—Phoenix, Port, for St. Michael's—and Ann Paley; Williams, for Genoa and Leg. horn. Hereford, Reaburn, hence for Cuba, off Montego Bay British Queen, (steamer) from London for New York, was spoken lath Nov. at noon, in lat. 40 46, long 44 45-12 days from Ports mouth, blowing very hard from W.N;W. Trinidad Packet, Griffiths, hence at Trinidad Reis Effendi, Harvey, hence at Cape Haytien Volo, Bowden, hence at Port-au-Prince Majestic, Laidley, and Pandora, —, hence at Restigonche Mary Bibby, Metcalf, sailed from Leghorn 15th Nov. and Sarah Trotman, Brown, 200, both for Liverpool LANCASTICR, Dcc. s.—The New St. . George, Owen, from Liver pool, got on shore on the North Wharf, on Thursday night, and threw overbbard 25 tons of salt VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 4-c. Gentoo, H Dodds, 280 Calcutta, W & J Tyrer Competent, A Robinson, 537 Bombay, Bold A Starkey AFRICA. -- Huddersfield, J Clegg, . 346 Africa, C Borstal' & Son WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Dominica, Harri s on, 27y Barbadocs, Barton, Irlam &Co Unicorn, S Mullens, 375 Havana, Ashley Brothers Alexander, J Scott, 177 Falmouth and Montego Bay, J Poole & Co It Sheil & Co Wasdale, Jyorgeri, 176 Hayti, SOUTH AMERICA. - 234 MOnte Video, UNITED STATES. Glengaty, J Huckness, 1054 New Orleans, Gibbs, Bright & Co Garrick, A S Palmer, 940 New• York, Brown, Shipley & Co SaMuel, J Jameson, 558 Mobile, Gibbs, Bright & Co England, B L Waite, 711 New York, Baring Brothers &Co Susquehanna, J W Miercken, 559 Philadelphia, Montagu, - - Crabb, J Poole & Co Brown, Shipley & Co Leone, Trefilletri, • 350 Philadelphia, • Vianna & Jones Thetis, C Brown, 804 Savannah, Gibbs, Bright &Co John & Robert, A M`Kichine, 501 New Orleans, Langtrys &Co Sarah, It Kimreg. • - 495 Savanbah, Gibbs, Bright &Co Prompt, J Morton, 358 Charleston, J N Wood & Co Coeur de Lion, Robinson, 352 Charleston, W Fisher &Con Madison, C D Wood, 445 City Paint, Virginia, Barings & Co BRITISH AMERICA. _B2 Newfoundland. Harrison, Ridley & Co 418 St. John, N.B. Gibbs, Bright & Co 758 St. JThn, N.B. Gibbs, Bright Si Co BUROPE. go Hambro', Bahr, Bebrend &Co 91 Antwerp, J Johnstone 156 Beirut and Alexandretta, Bahr & Co 150 Stettin. Bahr, Bebrend & Co 350 Danzie, Bahr, Behrehd & Co 2.17 Danzie.. Bahr, Behrend & Co b 6 Gibraltar, G Yates, Louthean &Co 1.5 Messina & Palermo, Vianna & Jones Elizabeth. Abeona, It Grant. ttni , e.E Tilley. Alea, J Trimarm, Henrietta, Devroot, W Astrepe, Maria, F Moritz, lduna, W J Groenwald, Alexander, W D Albreck, Atalanta, J Clark, Puella, J Thomas, imports. UNITED STATES. TaroMita, (570) J G Smith, from New York, GOO brls apples, J Taylor--60 do, It Reeve-200 Lrls flour, Bolton, Ogden and co-4610 do, 5 brls 2 boxes contents unknown, order— 74 bales cotton, Brown, Shipley and co—V D Ccsmo, (409) J Canning, from New York, 18 cases contents un known, F Jacques -2 do, 1000 brls dour, order-500 dd, J and W Collier-1000 do, Sandars and Claxton-106 pipes grease, 50 bales sheep skins, J Hatman-43 bales wool, 1 log mahogany, order-8 casks 6 boxes mother o'pearl shells, It W Waddington—P D Monument, (49j) J" Chase, from New York, 6654 brls 189 hf brls flour, Tennants, Clow and co -78 cases returned goods contents unknown, A and G Martin—NT D Girard, (325) J Gross, from New Orleans, 122 bales cotton, J Fry —4 do, J 0 Johnson and co-21 do, W Modsley—.92 do, G Green and Son-61 do, V Poutz-604 00, order-1:18 do, R Zwilchenbart and .co--36 do, W Mills-105 do, F Huth and co--W D Dowell, (414) L Pratt, from New Orleans, 221 bales cotton, Pur ton, Parker and co-21 do, W Baker and co-46 do, Todd, Jackson and co-56 do, Finlay and Alston—li do.Wildes, Pickersgill and co —l5 do, W Modsley-333 do, F Huth and co-500 do, Pilling and l3rierley-384 do, order—W D Victoria, (572) J Lennox, from Charleston, 1184 bales cotton, order-57 do, A Dennistoun and co-25 do, W-Stuart-218 do, T Crowder and co—GO do, W Baker and co-206 do, J Hall and co -7 do, J Calder-1 box specie, Palmer, M'Killop, Dent and co—G D BRITISH AMERICA. Kent, (328) J Elder, from Miramichi, 52 pees hardwood, 392 pees pine, 2562 pees deals, 7 cords lathwood, 902 deals ends, Anderson, Garrow and co-3 spars, for exportation—B D Calcutta, (706) J Brown, from Quebec, 715 pees pine, 600 deals, 17,167 staves, 2 pees oak, 10 b r l s apples , C Chaloner and co Fanny, (514) IV Sloan, from Quebec, 88 pees elm, 17 pees ash, 423 pees fir, 5c 12 deals, 1593 c g staves, 1 bat flour, W and II Sharpies and co—B D Josephine, (514) R Smith, from Richibucto, 34 pees birch and 201 pees pine timber, 8140 deals and deal ends, 6 cords lathwood, Hol derness and Chilton-16 spars, for exportation—B D Dibdin, (570) J F Kruger, from Magaguadavic, 16,561 deals and deal ends, Wlides, Pickersgill and co -9 spars, the master-8 do, 21 planks, exportation—B EUROPE. Fanny Connell, (171) J Dickson, from Lisbon, 13 pipes 27 }.casks olive oil, C L Mendez and co-14 pipes olive oil, 100 chests 237 hf chests oranges, order-4 pipes olive oil. Duarte Brothers-30 pipes olive oil, J Yeowartl-12 do, Alletson and Frankland-20 chests 65 hf chests do, J Levi and co—ls chests 70 hf chests do, T Mayor— o brls honey, A Baruchson-43 do, C and J Rawdon-20 qr casks wine, A Swainson-5 boxes furniture, Agent St. George's Steam Packet Co-59 chests llg hf chests fruit, 2 trunks 1 basket apparel, 1 package contents unknown, order—G D Essex, (54) W 'Woodward, from Seville, 280 chests 62 boxes oranges, M'Andrews, Pitcher and co-1 chest do, the master—S D British Queen, (351) J Gladston, from St. Petersburg, 656 casks tallow, 51 bales outshot hemp, R. G Morgan and co —I ton junk, small spars, 500 pees lathwood, the master-300 pees lathwood, order—K Boyne, (23g) J Forster, from St. Petersburg, 2412 deals, 516 deal ends, 700 pces lathwood, 1 bale isinglass, 20 tons iron, Carne and Telo—g kegs cranberries, the master—Q D Justinian, (275) T Eden, from Cronstadt, 50 casks tallow, Perkins, Smith and co-400 do, 2517 bobbins flax, order-4 ankers cranberries I box provisions, 1 bag crout, 1 box tongues, 2 boxes furniture, 1 parcel lamb skins, H Hill-800 pees lathwood, about 31c oakum, 8 ankers cranberries, a quantity screw boards, the master—K D Mersey, (207) J Martin, from Oporto, 13 pipes 16 hhds 10 qr casks wine, It Preston and co-13 hhds wine, Bevan and Smith-1 pipe do, P Hope -1 do, W H Allinson-5 hhds 2qr casks do, J Garner -8 hhds Bqr casks do, J Driver and co-10 plpes 24 hluis 60 qr casks do, J and J Mellor-6 nits do, J Smith-24 hhds 32 qr casks do, Dixon, Son and co-10 pipes 30 hhds 60 qr casks do, J Tippett and .co-2 pipes 10 hhds do, T Naylor and co-1 pipe 2 hhds 3qr casks do, C and J Rawdon-10 hhds 40 qr casks do, Moore and co-1 pipe 3 hhds do, G Jackson-8 pipes do, Pemberton and Green-20 pipes 20 qr pipes do, K W Preston-2 pipes do, J Scholfield-5 do, W mid J Lockett-5 do, T Cliaddock and Son-4 hhds do, W Maxwell and co-2 pipes 8 hhds 6qr casks do, 2 boxes samples, order-58 chests 20 boxes oranges, E Reeve-5 boxes onions, J and J Mellor-15 chests 20 boxes oranges, 22 bons onions, J Levy and co— 2 boxes oranges, 5 boxes 1 basket onions, order-115 chests 60 boxes oranges, M'Andrews and co-87 chests 65 boxes oranges, 18 baskets chesnuts, T Mayor-279 baskets chesnuts, C de Paria-1 truss dried fruit, B Haram-1 case do, J Bold-3 packages do, T Mayor -2 parcels plums. J and J Mellor-1 package 1 box contents unknown, 2 bags corks, order-2 flower pots, T Mayor-1 cask argols, T Ma. bony and co-2o bags wool, C and J Ra.wdon-70 boxes tallow candles, Collmann and co--G Ruby, (93) T Arming, from Lisbon, 174 chests 343 hf chests oranges, 119 baskets figs, J Yeoward-10 chests so lit chests oranges J Levy and co-4 chests oranges, 1 bag walnuts, 1 bag chesnuts, the master—S-D PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. Outward Home. LONDON & LIVERPOOL, Jamaica — Leeward Isl. Dem. & 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 Yards.. , Lisbon Cadiz France : Holland Hamburg, Bremen, &c. . Gottemburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Riga, &c. Oporto 25s Od@ 30 0 20 0 25 0 50 0 40 0 30 0 -•-- 40 0 50 0 66 0 60s od @loos 30 0- 40 0 105 0 —147 0 29 0 25 0 20 0 25 0 40 0 50 0 50 0-60 0 50 0 —lOO 0 50 0 -190 0 40 0 El 0 - 80 0 - 25 0 - 0 0 35 0-40 .0 35 0-40 0 25 0 - 30 0 - 35 0-40 0 6 ' ) 0 - 70 40 0- -- 40 0- 40 0 - 125 0 - 20 0 - 40 0 40 0 - 40 0 - 45 0 40 0 - 30 0 - 20 0 - 50 0 ---- 60 0 20 0 25 0 30 0 25 0 - 20 0 - 20 0-25 0 20 0 -25 0 25 0-30 0 40 0 - 40 0-50 0 60 0 - 60 0 - 80 0 20 0-25 0 LONDON OAZETTE.-TUESDAY, DEC• 3. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. le ts , J. Prescott and J. Middlebrook, Runcorn, Cheshire, m- - INSOLVENT. e "l .' Dec. 2. John Vaughan, Trawsfyilydd. Merionethshire, pig BANKRUPTS, John Clark Matthew, Croydon, Surrey, grocer. John Jones, Maddoc.street, Regent's-Etna, London, tail°:ma, Jonathan Harding, Myddcltou-street, Clerkenwell, • jeweller. 800 Jacques Alphonse Carson and Julie Frederica Finck, street, London, dress-makers. John Lewis Marchant, High Holborn, London, oilman. Jonas Whiteley, Halifax, machine-maker. Edward Booth, Birmingham, victualler. George Theodore Bolton, Manchester, wine-merchant. Sampson Bagnall, Cheadle, Staffordshire, grocer. Joshua Broadhead, Woo Male, Yorkhlre, clothier. • -nuara Thomas n • Waller, Samuel Wailer, Thomas Waller, JI , Waller and Ralph Knowles Waller, Manchester, cotton-21.n,,ap William Taylor and John Taylor, Macclesfield, silkalili."" turer. David Glasgow, Birmingham, engineer. James Gideon Jenkins, Sidinouth, Devonshire, scrivener: Edward Booth, Birmingham, victualler. DIVIDENDS. wn • ~ Dec. 27, J. Evans, E. Coupe, J. Bro, A. Southward. 1- 010. F. Donueley, J. Linney, D. Stott, R. Berry, and J. Robinson.. Lancashire, dyers. ••• CERTIFICATES o r beds To be granted unlers cause be shown to the contrary. on I)ec. 2. a rt ire 7 R. More, Norwich, linen-draper—ii. Benson, Parliament' st London, newspaper-agent—A. Abraham, • Lane-end, Staffor d c. J. druggist—T. Taylor, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, builder — Wrigley, Doncaster, chemist. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Robert Lamb, Leith, broker. Alexander Barlas, Glasgow, writer. AVERAGE CE OF SUGAR. r° The average price of Brown or PRI Muscovado Sugar, comp u tea c wt. the Returns made in the Week ending Nov. 26, is ass Pe" . „ the exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon "" hnportation thereof into Great Britain. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERP 00 6 DEC.Ii 6. Saml. and Joseph Phillips, (sep. div.) Davenport & C 0.% ;2 /1. Edmt.ud Taylor 11. John Smith, (div.) 11. James William Bogie Duncan, Lowe & Radcliffe% i; 12. Joseph Carruthers Nicholson, (lit) .. Clarendon 11.0 10 ' 1 12. Abraham Lewis Franklin, (Ist) 12. William Parlour Ditto, I 14. William Christian Thompson, (Ist) ___......... 40 0 - 25 0 - 20 0 - 25 0 - 30 0 20 0 25 0 30 0 40 0 40 0-60 0 40 0 -60 0 25 0 - 30 0 25 0 - 30 0 PRICES OF SHARES, DECEMBEIL 5. jo t Prices. This day Per Share. 11°' RAILWAYS, &c. Birmingham and Gloucester 6O paid .30 0 0 ...• Ditto and Derby Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh Bolton and Preston Bristol and Exeter 25 • • • • Chester and Crewe 35 . 25 10 0.• •• Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow . ..,. .... .... _ - . Ditto Leigh and - Newliaveit 9 paid 3 5 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 14 paid 12 10 0.. Glasgow, Paisley, KiLtuar 1 20 paid 0 0 0 •• • • nock, and Ayr „ 0 0 e ~ Grand Junction lOO .... 200 0 0•• • • ..- - Ditto half shares 3O .... Great Western 65 .... Ditto nevi shares 2O Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 3O paid 21 17 6 • • Liverpool and Manchester ' Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares o ff :: : : 140 30 1 1 0 5 0 0 :• . . 3 ° 5 ° 5 .... 21 5 0 .• • • Ditto an i Southampton 5O .... 38 5 0.. • Ditto & Brighton London and Croydon Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 67 10 0.• • • 0 0 Ditto half shares Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 71 0 0 ...• Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury .. 0 • Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... 1 3 17 6..• • " Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... 92 0 0 •••• Ditto quarter shares North Midland South Eastern and Dover North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 ..•• York and North Midland 3O paid 36 15 0.. • • BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 .. 718 0 oex di v Bank of Liverpool Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 18 15 0•• - • Liverpool Union lO .... 12 17 6 •••• Northern and Central .. 10 .... 3 7 6 .• • • li Albion North and South Wales lO .... 6 15 0 .••• 6 of Manchester lO .... 11 7 6 •• M'chcster & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 9 12 6 ••• - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company . ; 10 .... 8 2 6 .:••• Borough Bank lO .... 14 10 0 •••• Commercial Bank of England 5 .... 4 1 0 ...., East of England lO .... y 7 6 •*" Pluanix Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings 4'loo paid 166 00• • •• • 0 L'pool and Harrington Water 1 350 .... 467 10 0 • •• 465 Works Bootle Ditto •. Stock.... 327 10 0.• • L'pool Coal Gas Company.... Stock.... 370 0 0•• • • L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. X;100 .... 197 0 0•• • • Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. , Liverpool Marine Assurance } 25 paid 4 13 0 •• • • Company Ocean Assurance Company 10 6 7 6 .• • • Liverpool Fire and Life 2 lus. 1 a 0 •• • DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &e. Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... 9 76 • • • Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 iou. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company 8 10s. Harrington Docks 100 Apothecaries' Company Asplialta (Liverpool; (Polonccau) 2 74 10 0 •••• 53 10 0 ...• IL 10 1P.... 7 2 g, •• • • 7 G •• • • 5 0 0 .••• v 4 7 6 •• • o 0 0 • • • • 10 5 0 .••• O 14 0 •••• O 15 0 BIRTHS. ng Of On the 1601 ult. the wife of M r . EDWARD DASS— ' street, of a daughter. clerk° On the 2nd instant, the lady of Mr. JOSEPH BANN IN G' the Liverpool Post-oalee, of twins, son and daughter. • MARRIED. .„,„ of P it ' On the 2ist ult. at Walton Chur c h, J. T. SIM?SON, ton-breck. to Miss C pmws Y BREIT. W r. u ' - On the oath ult. at at. Michael's Church, by the Rev. he S O O rail, M.A. Mr. WILLIAM HENRY. CLARK , mas ter of t . pe Church of England Infant School, to M rs . FEIIGCsON. 1 ; of the Infant School in connexion with St . A n d r ew's Ch ute % Jel' e j On the 2nd instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the IteV,' 00 M.A. Mr. WILLIAM FIRTH, of Bradford, to SARA"' daughter of the late Mr. THOMAS WOOD, of this town: 1,5, OP' Same day, at St. Peter's Church, M r . WILLIAM QUA' t. . ,s. wright, to Miss ELLEN HUMPHREYS, of Mount-please , "• OW,/ Same day, at St. Mary's Church, Newington, Loncionr'veyqiyr. NEWLAN, youngest son of GILES PRICHARD, Es ( l', s 2late Customs, to .CHARLOTTE, the eld es t d aug hter of t GEORGE n the 3RO rdBERTS, master-mariner, of tis port. he W V ' instant, at St. David's Church h b, y t to ~ Davies, Mr. JOSIAH WHARTON, of N ew t o n, ChesiL4 .e ... -Act GARET, third daughter of Mr. JOHN JONES, iron,ouw.• street. — RSt K . * Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. WILLIAM }ln-" to Pl' merchant, and son of John Harris, Esq. Birmingham , eldest daughter of Mr. THOMAS LEWIS, of this toWo• i te. DIED. tson ° ' B ed On the 19th Aug. aged 24, ANDREW LAW, younges t s ot. a pi• Law, of Doddington, Northamptonshire; on the 11th d 35, or 21, MATILDA, the eldest daughter; on the 13th Sept a g ed BROSE, tile eldest son pon the 30th Sept. aged 25, Gi'; at ier; ,10 second son • on the 14th Oct . aged 59, WILLIAM, the ...' hte r. ,Di on the 12th Nov. aged 19, HARRIET, the second dans fsisiDis, mother and daughter are the only surviving members o f , i sall i ' l ! ;ii , which the hand of death has been at wo r k w ith s uch fear l s bsy, On the Ist of September, on his passage home from ll'. los. JOHN EARLE, steward of the Johnsto n , age d 31 Ycar';'gr. 11 ,i 00 , On the 10th ult. aged 24 Mrs. JANE TATE, wife of 60" TATE, superintendent of the Grand Junction Rag gral 0 4 Crown-street, highly respected by all wh o k n ew her. ..sir, l os Same day, at his residence, in Kin g - s t re et, Toxteth•S i 7 t ,se is , 6), Mr. MICHAEL EVANS, for sixte en years garde n t e ! s stru t ad r Thomas Addison, Esq. He was much re s pected for f is tives tegrity through life, and is deeply regretted by his 41$ friends. ' rn or P` tv On the 19th ult. much respected, age d 68, Mr..- - 0 rope-mailer, Beving - ton-busb. • b rod .° ' VA Same day, at Lancaster, ISAAC GREENWOOD, ..isfh the late Captain Greenwood, of the same place. ...,d I/ 7 02 On the 20th ult. aged 5 years, JANE; on the 21st, ar c ' s &Soar ELIZABETH; on the 22d, aged 4 years, MARY • arrwal° 4 ' aged 2 years, ANN, daught ers o f M r. ANDREW ' M'''" „ so 4 ' cooper, Shudehill, Manche s t er, a ll o f scarlet fever. ,sigGt" ' On the 20th ult. in thi s t own, W ILLIAM HART L' solicitor, of the city of Cork, in his 41st year. a ge d 7°' On the 21st ult. at O rc h ar dl e i g h -park, Somerse t s hire, a 1. 55, THOMAS SWYMMER MOSTYN CHAMPNEYS, n al tifiti lf yo o un n ge t s h t e da 2 . ls g t ht u e l r t. of ag A e l d r. , l rh s o , e n a ia3 r, HARRlET simrpie MARIA ' c oP, the..streer• o ted, des On the 22d ult. in Dublin, universally beloved and rest c on son s HUGH BLAIR. On Saturday his mortal rerusina we r e 44 44 i t l i f s f s : to this town for interment in St. James's CemeterYs.er. P- s Same day, aged 95, Mr. JOHN BROADHEAD, nv - ipte l j o ,, , ' He was a man universally respected ; and sing&ar t 0.. ., y e of without one exception, he attended seventy-one Barn s '7o4 l i Macclesfield. Ile was married sixty-eight years ag°' Ogg `-' had a funeral in his house. 0 On the 22nd ult. in Dublin, in the 43rd year of his al , ,e, a sK• THOMPSON, Esq. of Ilarbadoes. . rli er • IC a °lb4 0 1 ' rOn the 23d ult. in London, Mrs. SCARISBRIC , bri o. o p , Lancashire, relict of Thomas Searishrick, Esq. Sca,r i S. Mr. il s V4 l On the 25th ult. at the house of her brother-u'•l a ' ; 1 1 , or ~s j ss son, Bold-street, aged 30, Mrs. MARY WALKER , vd ".,,lstiv` 11. Walker, Oakes-street, deeply lamented bV h" '' A O). friends. of M r. r On the 25th ult. JANET, the yo unge st daughter Bre s t' MAXWELL, Clayton-street. lac ' Same day, aged 65, EDWARD SHIMIN, Esq. Chap Cl-P os 1), ~,y 00 , wick-road. oil, cl , '• ,•;-' On the 26th ult. suddenly, in his 45th year, Mr. i d ft-len : oo.' l s Upper Pitt-street, sincerely regretted by his familY 81 ' E ra C,t o ,, Same day, after a short illness, aged 85, Mr. ROn,, (tile. see', Penwortham, weaver. He was married in tl b w o :e fo e r 1 17 1i . 0 2:':A uil i, • d wo ul " lis le , year,) and again in 1802, (the Guild year,) an the o gl married again in 1822, (also the Guild year,) of his intended bride dying. He regularly worked, ""' 1 0/,,i up to the time of his death. 40 0 0 .jelos On the 26th ult. at her brother's residence, Carl of SAr'too.st Wales, in the 32nd year of her age, ALICE, daught7 44 ;4 . , s ial ' MILLS, Talgarth, Breconshire, a young person () b i le , / ‘.. el manners, and affectionate disposition, and deeply I n m JOIE;, 0 spi it of piety. „ ca ste/1; 4 90A Oil the 27th ult. at his house, Green Area, L a " . the ' V D' •• TAYLOR WILSON, Esq. aged 78, Ile was clerk •n es tsk o _,,,per ) sinners of the turnpike roads, recorder of the- WaP 0 0 c" 4, Lancaster, and had filled the office cf mayor under the 0.14,t' tion three times. „ E GO' ,of Same day, at Martinscroft, aged 83, Mr. GEORGE 0 4 1° formerly of Rixton-hall, in this county. s CA ltit ' sill - Same day, at the Palace, Worcester, aged 65, BA's. ~ the Lord Bishop of Worcester. On the 28th instant, aged 72, Mr. JAMES LEA . : I r a c t i Vt ( o s l utr10 5 1 : 0 , Same day, at Woodside, Mrs. ANN 1111311A 1 W/ ' opt, ,d isl su - n Capt Elipliaz Hibbard, of this port. ES l''' ids ell'' Same day, at Church-view, Bootle, Mr. CHARLE S 0 aged 47; and, on the 30th ult. Mr. CHARLES Plf the tin .- 4', 23, late of Wells, Norfolk, in the family in 28 days. T s4l/4 6 Off On the 29th ult. aged 32, HELEN, the wife of "'-' A og Esq. merchant, of this town. , young est ° ol f. son of the above, beinb As p Same day, at Everton, ELIZABETH BRAUN. 141 or the late Lorentz Braun, Esq. la e! J Itir'' OP On the Ist instaht, the infant daughter of Mr. Ra i° •i t , e INGALL, surgeon of this town. illne ss ' Gre' On the 2nd instant after a severe and long Whiter, William WINTER, aged 44 years, wife of Mr. 9 4 street North. ES, V P ( • JP . On the 3rd instant, aged SO, Mr. JOHN HOLM ~ o f Pi • Same day, aged 4 years, ANNE, second &melte' LAIDLAW, St. James's-place, Toxteth-parlc. _...............„.„,..,/ LIVERPOOL: lin FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1839' TVs EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY ''' 0 1 PRINTED i AND PU BLISHER .. 1 oft: \ . 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