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'4 •• •• •SP • • - 1 • • • - • '• • . - • - Vortrp, SPRING. (From the Cork Constitution.) Oh ! where's dark Winter's sorrow fled— His mourning robe—his sighs and tears ? Is he, too, numbered with the dead— Entomb'd with the departed years ? Yes! Heav'n in mercy bath withdrawn The shroud from Nature's lovely form ; No longer may sad Winter frown, Or speak in tempest and in storm. His captives, that in anguish lay— Flow'rets withering o'er the tomb— With rapture greet the Spring-beams play, With Nature share those hours of bloom. Bright contrast to the night-watch lamp, Of sunless gloom and sufrring's woe ! The Spring-like feeling what can damp? 'Tis the reviving spirit's glow. The element of purest air Brings health on its etherial wing ; And Sorrow lays aside its care, To smile again with lovely Spring. To sip the dew from morning's flow'rs, And bask at noon in each bright ray, To muse at Eve, those calmer hours, And praise kind heav'n for such a day. The little warblers now regain Their happy home, their budding tree, And note to note responds a strain Soft as Love's whisper'd melody. Dear—oh ! how dear, the joys of Spring— Those joys that knows not sin's control! Creation's beauties touch one string— 'Tis GOD ! 'tis GOD within the soul. HE speaks in ev'ry opening flow'r That rises from its Wintry grave, Sweetly reminds us of that hour When ransom'd treasures earth shall leave. Yes ! soul-fraught picture ! we shall rise Upon redemption's balmy wing— With kindred spirits in the skies, Chant Heav'n's high joys —Eternal Spring. BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST. Proudly was gather'd the festive throng; Bouyant each heart, and beaming each eye ; Loud was the mirth ; and the joyous song A thousand voices raised to the sky. Around the monarch his satraps sate, Sharing the bold and impious strain ; His queens were there, in their royal state ; And warriors too, a mighty train. Belshazzar gazed, with a look of pride, On the smiling mein that beauty wore ; " Bring forth the vessels," in scorn he cried, " The boast of Judah in days of yore !" " Bring them forth ! to our gods let us quaff From those goblets by her deem'd divine !" The vessels were fill'd : loud rose the laugh, As scoffing they drain'd the rosy wine. Why trembles the monarch ? why pales each cheek, As smote to the heart by a sudden-fear? 'What means that wail—that feminine shriek? Tells it of anguish and peril near ? He marks the writing upon the wall, The sign of his empire overthrown ; Fled is the joy of the festival ! Hush'd is the magic of music's tone ! Monarch ! arouse from thy deathly trance ! The host of Persia is at thy gate ! ! seize the buckler, the sword, and the lance!! To arms ! to arms ! ere it be too late ! Vain is the summons : the city walls Are gain'd by the foe's invading host ; And the king lies dead within those halls That lately rang with his lordly boast. Thus fell the king that vainly defied Jehovah's wrath, in his revels gay ; And thus will ever be crush'd the pride That trusts in the might of earthly sway. CONTEMPORARY PRESS. TIIE PRACTICE OF STABBING IN ENGLAND. (From the Morning Herald.) It is to be hoped that the foreign practice of stabbing with dirks or knives, which has lately become, like some other bad continental practices, dangerously pre valent in this country, will receive a wholesome check from the examples which, in two recent and remark able instances, have been made of the blood-guilty offenders, both of whom are new under sentence of three years' imprisonment in the metropolis. The common carrying about of knives and daggers by any man, in an orderly and civilised community like that of England, indicates, we fear, in itself a revenge ful and treacherous disposition, prompt to seek occa ions of quarrel, and cowardly and cruel in avenging real or imaginary wrong. The very opposite is such a disposition to the bold, manly, and generous qualities for which the English character has been heretofore distinguished. The stiletto of the Spanish or Italian assassin, and the bowe knife of the American savage, are not suita ble appendages to the habit of an Englishman. The practice of resorting to those weapor s for the decision of private quarrels, and in tavern and street brawls, if once naturalised in this country, would effect a great and fearful change in the national character. A com munity of stabbers and assassins exhibits, as the sub stitute for courage and manhood, nothing but ferocious cowardice. The practice—the unmanly, treacherous, and malig nant practice—of stabbing with daggers, or knives, carried in concealment about the person, must be put down, or the national character will be debased beyond redemption. It must and can be put down by a firm, consistent, and temperate vindication of the law, bestow ing on offenders such a measure of punishment as will coerce and correct them, without exciting public sym pathy in their behalf. Intemperate punishment makes the offence of the guilty object be forgotten or under rated, and destroys the moral influence of the law. The two stabbers now under sentence of three years' imprisonment in the metropolis are great criminals, both in a moral and legal point of view. At one period of our judicial history their offence would have sub jected them to a forfeiture of life. We are glad that time has passed away. On the scaffold the fate of such homicides would attract public commiseration; but t'ie just and moderate punishment which they now un dergo will not cause the public horror of their crimes to he merged in the public sympathy. In passing sentence upon Medhurst, convicted of ie treacherous and cowardly stabbing of his school fellow with a knife or dagger of a peculiar construc tion, which he habitually carried about his person, Mr. Justice Coleridge thought it necessary to state his reasons for not sentencing him to transportation for life—the highest punishment of manslaughter. Those reasons were the character which he had received— the sudden quarrel in which he had been engaged— the absence of malice or premeditation—and the con trition which, since the fatal event, he had constantly evinced. The learned judge very properly added—" I should be extremely sorry, however, if it should be supposed that, in passing on you a lighter sentence than transportation, the court has forgot to take into consideration the deadly weapon which it appears you carried about you. I trust that you and all those who hear me will feel that circumstance weighs heavily against you, and that it has called for punishment against others as it must against you ; and I trust if there be any persons here, or elsewhere, who are in p ,session of such dangerous instruments, they will get r.d of them as soon as possible, for we see the danger of possessing such weapons, and the absolute necessity which exists for those who administer public justice to visit with heavy punishment any person who violates the law by using such instruments against the life of a fellow-creature. But for the fact of your possessing that knife you would stand in a less unfavourable po sition from what you do now." We do not wonder at the censure passed by the learned judge upon the pre ceptor of this young man, who, knowing that he was in possession of such a deadly weapon—knowing also that he was of irascible and vindictive temperament— left the room when the quarrel commenced, which ended in bloodshed and death, that he might, and ought to, have prevented. It is very right that judges should take into account, when awarding punishment to an act like that of which Medhurst has been convicted, the circumstance of the deadly weapon having been habitually carried about with him by the offender, as if anxious that his own violent temper should not lack the means of de§troying life upon any sudden provocation. Nothing will better tcnd to put down the practise of carrying such weapons upon the person than its being known that judges, in passing sentence, will always take into account, as an aggravation of the offence, the fact of the offender being one who provides himself beforehand with such a deadly weapon, as if desirous of finding an opportu nity to use it. On Friday morning, a respite during her Majesty's plea sure was received from the secretary of state, for the culprit Musgrave, left for execution by Baron Alderson, for the rape at Armley.—York Chronicle. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal, for greeting the dignity of a v :count of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ire land, unto the Right Hon. John Baron Ponsonby, G.C.8., her Majesty's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary at the Sublime Ottoman Porte, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Vis count Ponsouby, of Imokilly, in the county of Cork. POPISH INTRIGUES ON THE CONTINENT.—The Roman Catholic clergy are actively engaged in undermining the Pro testant religion in Bavaria, with the full sanction of the bigotted King of that country. Six sisters of the congrega tion of St. Eulalio opened, on the Ist June last, a school in the royal palace of Nymphenburg, in Munich, at which young girls of the nobility, both Catholic and Protestant, were to be a .mitted. The children of the last persuasion were to be in structed in their religion by Lutheran and Calvinist Ministers. The establishment being patronized by the Court, most of the distinguished families of Bavaria placed their daughters therein, and the conditions of the prospectus as regarded re ligion were for some time strictly complied with. The nuns, however, were not idle, for, aided by several Catholic clergy men, they laboured underhand to convert the Protestant children to Rornanism. In the course of December last, four publicly read their recantation, with the tacit consent of their p rents, who, belonging to the Court, thought thereby to in gratiate themselves in the favour of the King. A judge'of the Supreme Court of Appeals, however, was not to be in fluenced by such considerations. On being informed that the nuns had prevailed on his daughter, a child ten years old, to become a Roman Catholic, he immediately took judicial proceedings against the managers of the school and a Jesuit • Dillengen who had received her abjuration. The nuns pro duced, in justification of their conduct, a letter f rom th e Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs, by whom th e y were au thorised to use all their influence to convert to Rornanism the young Protestant girls committed to their care. The trial, says a letter from Munich, of the 26th ult., will shortly come cs before the orkoiaut court of that city.—Lr Droit. A VISIT TO THE WHITWORTH DOCTORS. BY WILLIAM HOWITT, (From Tait's Edinburgh Magazine.) - Whitworth is a little village in Lancashire, about three miles from Rochdale. In this village, I suppose half a century ago or more, resided John Taylor, a farrier, and most likely, originally a blacksmith. This man, who possessed a strong, rough, but sagacious character, was eminently successful in practice upon horses. It is probable that, seeing the bene ficial results of his pharmaceutical and surgical operations on horses, like Warburton, he began to imagine that they would succeed on " humans as well." It is certain, however, that their efficacy was tried, and with such consequences that his neighbours .begun to have a great opinion of his skill, and not only to put themselves under his hands, but to sound his fame abroad in the country. His patients increased to such a degree that " the humans" soon became more numerous than the brutes. John Taylor's fame soon became pre-cmi neat for the cure of cancers, for setting broken hones, and straightening twisted and contracted limbs. For these and numberless other cures, people of all ranks flocked to bins from all parts of England. lie seems to have been a curious compound of rude independence and good nature. Whoever went to him, gentle or simple, lord or labourer, were treated just in one way. John was no respecter of persons, but he seemed to have strong feelings Of the rights of man, and an unbendable sense of justice. It was with him, first come first served ; as every one entered his dressing-room, or surgery, or call it what you will, he took his place, and was attended to in his turn ; and no sooner. It was his daily delight to deride the skill of the medical men of the country ; and, sure enough, he had always before him plenty of instances of sig nal failures on their part. " A famous doctor of Manchester," said he, on one occasion, and naming a leading physician,— " met me the other day as I was going along the street. ' Well, John Taylor,' said he, ' you go on killing as usual, I suppose.' ' Ay,' replied I, to humour the man, ' but at a somewhat cheaper rate than thou does.' ! That John did some signal cures there can be no question. I knew a lady well who had been given up by the ablest sur geons of her neighbourhood as incurable. Her complaint was a cancer in the breast. Though living a hundred miles from Whitworth, she resolved, as a last resource, to go to John Taylor. When John had examined the breast, he looked at her, and said—" What art thou come here for, woman ?" The lady, who was a woman of dauntless heart, replied, " To j be cured, to be sure." " Cured !" said John in a stern voice, " not all the doctors in England can cure thee ; thou may go home again, and dee!" "I tell you, John Taylor," replied the lady, " I shall do no such thing. lam come here to see whether you are as much cleverer than other men, as you are represented. Try your hand, John Taylor, on me. You think lam afraid of being hurt, but you are mistaken. I can bear what you can inflict ; and I say, try your hand—let it be kill or cure. I can but die at last." " Thou art a brave lass," replied John, in evident surprise. " Then I will try—and God prosper us both." The lady remained there six months, and, during that pe riod, she suffered as much as it is perhaps possible for a hu man creature to bear ; but she came home a sound woman, and lived thirty years afterwards. I have often sat, when a boy, and heard her tell what happened at Whitworth. When I visited Whitworth, old John Taylor was dead, and his son James, and the two sons of George (then dead. too) were the doctors. I remember James, a stout man in a blue coat, about fifty years of age, having much the appear ance of a respectable farrier. The elder of the two nephews appeared a fine active young man of three or four and twen ty ; the other, a youth two or three years younger. A gentleman of great wealth came to Whitworth. He drove up to the inn in a carriage, with a very splendid equi page. He soon sent down a very smart and powdered ser vant, who requested John Taylor to wait on him. " Wait on him !—wait on him !" exclaimed John, in apparent aston ishment. " Tell the man I will wait on nobody—those who come here must wait on me. If he wants me he must come to the dressing-room like the rest, and take his turn." This answer was so offensive that the gentleman, though suffering excruciating pain from a complaint pronounced by his own medical men to be hopeless, was, like Nahaman, when the prophet told him to dip in Jordan, so indignant that he ordered his carriage out, and told the coachman to drive home again. His servants, however, prevailed on him, as it' was of so much consequence to himself, to humour the Lan cashire bear, as they called him. He did so, and when he entered the dressing-room—" Thou lazy dog," said John, " what hast thou come here for ? If it is not worth thy coming from the inn, it was not worth coming all the way, I think." The gentleman smothered his indignation, and John eventually sent him home a sound man. At another , time a nobleman brought N his lady to Whit worth. She could not walk, and was carried into the private dressing-room. John enquired what was the matter, and was told she had been startled by a sudden fright; had fallen; and from that time had not been able to put one foot to the ground. John Taylor told her to try to walk. The lady, smiling, answered that if she could have walked she need not have come to him. Nothing would satisfy John, however, but that he must try to walk. So, being raised up by her husband, and leaning on him, she made the attempt. As she stood in great pain, John went behind her, and gave her a sudden push with his knee. The lady gave a sudden scream. and start, and fell into her husband's arms. The nobleman, very indignant at the insult he supposed put upon his wife, asked the doctor very fiercely what he meant. " Why," said John, " I mean to see what good that has done her. Let her try to walk again now." The nobleman was very angry, and the lady vary much alarmed and agitated ; and it was with the utmost difficulty the doctor could get them any further to listen to him. " Why, if you are fools, ye are fools," said John. " Let the woman, I say, try to walk again." " They were at length p r e va iled on to consent, when, to the astonishment of the lady, she found the power of her limb in a great measure restored, and was able to get across the room, leaning on her husband. The nobleman was now as full of amazement as he was before of wrath. "In the name of wonder," said he, " how came you to hit en that scheme ? " Why," replied the doctor, the woman's hip was out. It was put out in a fright, you said, and I thought a fright was just as likely to put it in again. There it is, you see. She must have it well bandaged for a while, then all will be well. But you may go home to-day, if you like." Of course, the joy of both husband and wife was not small. The nobleman, in his gratitude, pressed neon John a purse of gold; but he refused to take more than his regular fee, the nobleman threw the purse on the table and - left it. James related this story of himself. He was in Stafford shire, near Litchfield, and, it becomin g known, he was sent for to a gentleman who was in bed. When he got into tha room he round him surrounded with abundance of bottles of physic. He immediately rung the bell, and ordered the ser vants to throw all them into the yard ; and to get up their master, and let him sit. down to dinner with him. They all exclaimed that was impossible, for their master had not been out of bed for some months. " Never mind," said James, " get us some dinner here, and bring your master a glass of brandy and water. What lie is dying of is want of nourish ment.' With much persuasion the gentleman was got up ;, drank the brandy and water, and took some food. Next day he felt a great deal better, James had him down stairs to dinner; and, in.a very few days, had him out with him on horseback, and after the hounds. James used to relate his father's visit to the royal family, to prescribe for the Princess Elizabeth, with much gusto. The complaint of the Princess was a continued pain and stupor in the head. A snuff is made of the powdered leaves of the Assarabecoa, (Asarum Europccum) which has the property of purging the head, and of which plenty was grown in the garden at Whitworth. John, having given his order and delivered the snuff, looked about him, and, seeing the Princesses all there, he c lapp e d th e Q ueen familiarly on the back, and said—" Well, thou art a farrentiy woman to be mother of such a set of straight-backed lasses." Charlotte took his unusual familiarity with a very e:ood grace, sniffling, and replying—" Yes, Mr. Taylor, and fwas once as straight-backed a lass as any of them." John had not, however, retired from the presence of royalty very long, when he was sent for again in great haste. " Well, and what is the matter now ?" asked he, on entering. "'Oh ! the Princess is taken with such a continual sneezing that we are quite alarmed." " Is that all," said John ; " then let the girl sneeze—that is the very thing that will do her good." _ . _ _ _ John is said to have the honour of completely relieving the Princess' of her complaint. We must, however, give one more characteristic anecdote of him before we withdraw from court. One morning, as he sate chatting with the Queen and Princesses, a draper's man brought in, by order, a num ber of piece 3 of Irish linen for the Queen's inspection. On looking it over, none was found to be so fine as was desired. The man was ordered to bring some much finer. He, of course, assured her Majesty that every effort should be used to meet her wishes, but that he was very doubtful whether any finer really was made. " Oh, dear, yes !" exclaimed both Queen and Princesses, " much finer than this, we are confident." The man bowed and retired. When he was gone, John Taylor, who sate closely observing all thet passed, said— " Now, do you expect the man will bring you any finer ?" " Oh, certainly !" `• Well !" said John, "I don't." " You don't ? Why, Mr. Taylor, what makes you think " Because," replied John, " I don't think there ever was finer made than one piece amongst these. But I will tell you what the man will do. He'll go home and rest awhile, and then he will come back with the finest piece of cloth, and put a good deal higher price upon it, and then it will do." " Oh, no !" exelaimt.d Queen Charlotte, " I am a better judge of linen than you give me credit for, Mr. Taylor. Be sides, the man dare not do such a thing—he would at once lose our patronage—he dare not do such a thing." " Well," said John, " we shall see." " Well, now," said . the Queen, "we will see. You shall remain here till the man returns, and be convinced." He did so. The man, after a while, came back with a single piece. He assured her Majesty that they had sent all over the city, and had had the good fortune to discover this piece—certainly the most extraordinarily fine piece of linen which he had ever beheld. The Queen and the Princesses, on examining it, at once joined in adiniration of it. " That was fine indeed! That was much superior to the finest of the foriner pieces !" As soon as the man bad withdrawn—" There !" said the Queen, turning triumphantly to John Taylor, " what do you think now, Mr. Taylor ? ou will admit, I think, that you were mistaken." "That may soon be settled," said John. "If that be the the fine piece which the man had here before, there is the mark of my 'thumb on it ; for I never saw finer linen than that in my life, and, expecting what the man must do, I pri vately wet my thumb, and rubbed it in the chimney, before I took hold of the piece." There was an instant eager examination of the piece, and there sure enough, was John Taylor's mark. The country people in the neighbourhood had such an opinion of Dr. John's ability, that they believed nothing was too difficult for him. James often told this story. A country fellow one day appeared before the house with a couple of wretched old horses, and asked to speak with the Doctor. John Taylor went out to him ; and, on seeing the man's cattle, supposed he was come to sell them for the hounds. What then was his surprise, when the fellow gravely told him he got his living by carting coals with these two horses ; that they were now nearly worn out ; and that he was too poor to buy fresh ones ; so he would be much obliged if he would take them, and make him one pretty good tin out of them. If he could not he was a ruined man. " One pretty good 'un !" said John, looking very grimly at the horses ; " why, fellow, what pretty good 'un can be made out of two such bare-boned old dog-tits as those, thinkest thou ? But, however, take them, and turn them into the close by the barn there, and come again in a fort night. I must try what I can do for thee." With many thanks, the man made his bow, and took his leave. Duly at the end of the fortnight, to the day, the man appeared, and asked the Doctor if he had done the job for him. John Taylor called a man, and told him to go and bring the horse that he made the other day. Accordingly, the horse was brought from the neighbouring croft, and the fellow, looking him all over with the air of a judge, declared that the horse was certainly better than both of the old 'uns put together ; " but," said he, " Doctor, you've made one mistake, and a great 'un." " What's that ?" asked the Doctor. " Why," said the fellow, " it's a wall-eyed 'un ; and of all things, I canna abide a wall-eyed 'un." " Get away, thou fool !" said Dr. John, " thou should ha' told me that before. It can't be altered now." So the man walked his beast off the ground, never for a moment doubt ing but it was compounded of the two'old ones, or thinking it at all wonderful that Dr. John had done such a thing. The Doctor had plenty of horses on the moor, reserved for his hounds ; and out of these he had picked the best. But we must draw to a close. Great changes time has made amongst the Whitworth Doctors, as well as amongst other people, since that day. Time has swept away Dr. John, and Dr. James, and Mrs. George, and one of the younger ones tob. I have heard something of the two young men going out shooting, and one accidentally shooting the other; of the younger branches going to study, and taking their me dical degrees at the university ; that one or more still remains at Whitworth one practices largely, much in the old style, at Oldfield-lane, Manchester; and one is settled at Tochnor den. The newspapers, in giving an account of the riots at 'Todmorden the other day, stated that the house of James Taylor, Esq., a magistrate, and one of the family of the fa mous Whitworth Doctors, had been entered by the rioters, and his family paintings cut to pieces. Can this be the James of the days of my visit to Whitworth—the slim youth of the old pill-manufacturing bat? If so, it is probable that the portraits of Drs. John, and James, and George, of Mrs. George, and all the famous Whitworth Doctors, are gone to destruction, beyond the art of their successors, or all the powers of " keen," red-bottle, or black-plaster, to restore them. The rascally rogues of odmorden rioters ! A cotton mill might have been rebuilt ; but who shall return to the world the likeness of honest John Taylor, who made nobles come to him as common men ; who clapped the Queen of England on the back ; and made, for a believing countryman, one " preatty" good horse of two bad ones? The loss is ir reparable ; and, perhaps, even this slight reminiscence may he the most palpable record of him remaining. AFTER-DINNER SITTINGS (From " Births, Deaths, and Marriages," an interesting Novel by the Author of " Sayings and Doings," &c.) Ladies who are themselves charming, and who fancy that the men at table arc not altogether disagreeable, feel no dis inclination, especially in country houses, to linger long before they " retire : ' it is only your very modest, very foolish, or very vulgar person, who bestirs herself to get away from an intercourse which, in self-defence, every intellectual. English woman, for her own sake and for the sake of the male portion of her party,. ought to prolong. In French society, the whole coterie rise - together like a covey of partridges, and, there fore, it makes no great difference at what particular moment they go ; but, with all our translations into English of foreign fashions, we shall be a long time before the national prejudice of sitting a little—not for any very long period—after dinner, subsequently. to the departure of the bright stars of the ,firma ment, is generally abandoned and abolished. We love to drink their healths when they are gone ; we love to talk of them and all about them ;—and then " Bull" must have his politics—politics must be the topic, after the ladies are gone, in every circle where nothing about the real state of politics happens to be known. Why men and women should sepa rate after dinner for any lengthened period certainly requires a solution ; but as English custom has, time out of mind, made it a law, all we can say is, that the longer the mistress of the house stays at table after dinner, the more benefit she does to society, and the more rational amusement she and her lady friends enjoy. English people get sociable only round a dinner table (and any dinner table, except a round one, we presume, is rarely seen in these days). Strangers who, (it' a Man is weak enough to be in time to witness its miseries) seem, in that melancholy stage of purgatorial dulness, the quarter of 'an hour before dinner, absolute monsters, if they chance to be strangers, become by half-past eight o'clock generally endu rable—sometimes pleasant; and only conceive, just as this sort of congenial feeling is coming over one, to catch the in quiring look of the lady of the house directed towards the leader of the throng, and see the whole bevy take their de parture in long and melancholy array ! When you go to the drawing-rooms—if you do—the thing is all to be begun over again ; it is a new field. Rely upon it that nothing giVes so much play to English society, high or low, as the aid of a dinner table : it gets rid of an awkward ness with which the islanders are, more or less, universally affected ; it puts them at their ease ; and however cold and stiff the affair may be in the outset, it rarely happens but that before the dessert is put down, all is going well. The best proof of the truth of this axiom may be exhibited in the sup position of what the same twelve people—we mention twelve as an extreme number to be comfortablS at a round table— would do; if it were possible to allow the said table suddenly to sink, like the caldron of the Weird Sisters, through the floor, and leave them sitting round the outside edge •of the circle which it had just previously occupied. It might, in some societies, be dangerous to perform this experiment too suddenly; but, done with due precaution, it would unquestionably produce on the convives a most extra ordinary evolution of feeling. CLUB LAW, No man, we presume, who has a house of his own and a tolerably large circle of acquaintance, dines at a club, except as a matter of convenience—always excepting house dinners and trials of skill in gastromimy. It should, therefore, be held, if he sit down to dine alone, that his object is to BE alone—to dine, and to go wherever his business or pleasure calls him ; and no man should take the deciding step of in viting himself to dine with him, unasked, any more than he would in his own house. If the originally planted dinner be gins the colloquy by an invitation to the next arrival, what can be better or more agreeable ? but, as it appeared to Jack, the most active self-bidders—the chair-placing offenders of themselves to the unhappy solitaire who desired of all things to dine alone—were uniformly the greatest bores of the whole community._ _ _ " If," said Jack to himself upon the occasion to which we now refer, " the rule in clubs were that men should hold the little table at which one dines sacred, and that, until they were asked, they would not make one' at it, all would be well: in all other respects this club house is my house in common with others ; but my little table is as much mine, individually and exclusively, as my larger table in Gro-svenor street. To-day I like to dine ; lam not in the humour to talk, or laugh, or drink, or eat—and here I am by myself. If I want a companicn, there are plenty to join me; but still I say, Won't you sit down?'—' Won't you come and dine here?' or some such provocative, I do expect to find myself as much alone as if I were in my own dinner parlour with the house door intervening between me and the street." " How do you do, Mr. Batley ?" said a most respectable fellow of Ma'dalene, drawing his chair to the table where the repulsed Lothario was sitting. How do you do, doctor ?" said Batley. " Pray," said the doctor, " have you , heafdanythinglately of poor Dick Dowbiggen?"—and then turning away without waiting for an answer, added, " Waiter, bring my glass of negus here." Batley wished him in—his college, at least. No," said Jack,' I haven't heard of him for some times' " He's going"' said the doctor, " very fast ; gout, asthma, and a touch of erysipelas ?—why, you know, Batley, we can't last for ever. He must be about your standing, I think." " My standing I" said Batley, and all his , hopes of • inatri- - moray rushed Into his mind ;•' is may senior by twenty years, doctor." = _ _ . . " Oh ! perhaps so," said Dr. Bottomly;••" I may mistake; —but.you were both at.Ma'dalene together." ",..A.h!" said Batley, " but he was at least old enough to he my father. - Why, he was a fellow when I was an under graduate." " Probably," said Dr. Bottomly ; " but you were always Old-looking of your To Batley, with the curly wig, the uncommon stock, the extraordinary waistcoat, and the sort of coat he wore, this was a hateful observation. " Waiter," said Jack, " my bill 1" " Are you going ?" said the doctor. " Yes," said Jack ; " I have an engagement at ten, and it wants only a quarter. I thought you were going yourself." No," said the doctor ; " no ; I purposed having half an hour's chat with you about old times, over my nevus." " I don't care much about old times," said Batley ; " I always keep looking forward, doctor." And then Batley went off in a strain which quite astonished the venerable fellow, and led him to suspect that his compa nion was not altogether in the possession of his right senses ; after which exhibition of principles and opinions, he disbursed his four shillin&s and sixpence for his cutlet and pint of sher ry, and took leave of .the snug corner in which he bad en sconced himself to be quiet, but out of which he had been driven by the extraordinary good nature and attention of his reverend and venerated friend. A REFLECTION Looking round the world, whatever may he one's inherent respect for high blood, it must be confessed that upon many occasions and in many instances the democracy of the second table have very much the personal advantage of the aristo cracy of the first ; and it did once happen to the narrator of this small history, at a party at which the attendance of blue coats and white waistcoats was profuse, to send a gentleman so clothed three or four times for soup, lobster-salad, jellies, and other nourishing supports, the absolute necessaries of life for ladies after dancing, until at length, having borne with ineffable good-nature the toils which he felt conscious were inflicted on him unintentionally and by mistake, and in the ". service_of the fair," the aforesaid gentleman, upon a fifth demand, delivered in the ordinary tone of—" Here, sir, get this lady some macedoine" quietly turned to the narrator, and said—" No, no ; I have -got all you asked me to get for your friends five times; now it is time I should get some thing for myself." It is needless to add (as the jest books say) that your narrator was absolutely annihilated—stam mered an apology, the more difficult to make, as what had previously happened practically inferred his belief that the suffering gentleman was, in fact, a servant. The suffering gentleman, however, seemed perfectly aware of the mutufd embarrassment, and behaved very like a gentleman who did not deserve to suffer, by taking his seat next the narrator, and proving his claim to " guestship" by finishing with the said narrator at least one bottle of champagne, not to syeak of the moral to the fable, in the shape of two verdant, spiry glasses of Roman punch, which the cockneys, to show their learning, think it right invariably to translate into "pouche a la Romaine;" believing, to a certain extent, that it was invented by the late eminent preacher of that name—and more shame for him ! REDUCTION OF POSTAGE (From the Times.) In the great pending question, which all clasSes are striv ing to carry, of a reduction of postage, a sort of specious ob jection has been adduced to that part of Mr. Hill's plan which relates to payment before-hand, and by the. sender invariably, by means of stamps, which amounts to this— " that a letter-carrier receives at present a number of letters, the postage of which comes to a certain sum, and he must either bring back that sum, or a portion of undelivered letters to make up the deficiency ; but if he has merely paid letters to deliver, it is difficult to see what security can be had for the punctual and regular performance of his duty." This seems to have had some weight in some quarters, or it would be hardly deserving of notice ; but a satisfactory and conclu sive answer may readily be given to it, and it may be shown, in fact, that more letters would reach their destination-by that mode than by any other. There should be taken into the account, first, the great number of letters which are refused, when the handwriting is unknown, by parties unwilling to pay postage, which could not occur under the new plan, which letters might be equally important to the sender and the re ceiver. Next, it may he observed, if the objection is worth anything, that it is equally applicable to all letters franked at present, which are not known to-tail more than others. Again, with regard to the new plan, there is a provision in it, that .on payment of one halfpenny a receipt for any letter is to be given, and, as the postman could not be sure which letters were so protected, he would risk certain detection in not de livering all. Then, there is the pre-payment with the letters of soldiers and sailors, which are not known to fail more than others i 7.1 reaching their destination. Further, it is ascertained, in reference to the evidence before the post age committee, that of the paid letters which fail, nearly all do so before they reach the post-office, through the dis honesty of persons employed to put them in, a fraud which there would be no temptation to commit if stamped covers were used ; to this it might be added, that to make it worth while for the postman to commit this breach of his duty, he must keep back the letters of a whole district, which would raise such a clamour against him as would lead to his instant dismissal ; and finally, when it is i onsidered that as a class of public servants, and, for their rank in life, these men have always been distinguished by punctuality and fidelity, amidst very great temptations, in the discharge of their duty, there cannot remain any distrust, so far as this particular argument is concerned, of the success of the new plan. Such is the degree of conviction which it has carried to all who have be stowed any thought upon it, that the only question is, and it is asked universally, will these Ministers have the honesty and the courage to try it? - On a review of the public feeling which it has called forth, from men of all parties, sects, and conditions of lite, it may well be termed the cause of the whole people of the United Kingdom against the small coterie of placeholders in St. Mar tin's4e-Grand and its dependencies. A duel was fought at Hatchet a few days since between. Captain Maynard of the Royal Horse Guards, and Mr. Jea nings, a gentleman also in the army. Captain Maynard fired in the air, and apologised to Mr. Jennings, who was the challenger. Contradictory and confused accounts of this silly affair have appeared in the newspapers. MISCELLANEOUS. AYRSHIRE ELECTION.—We understand the canvass is going on with great spirit, and that Saturday, the 27th instant, has been fixed on as the day of nomination. The election to take place on Monday and Tuesday following.—Scottish Guardian. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the great seal, for granting the dignity of a baron of the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, unto the Right Hon. Sir Frederick James Lamb, G.C.B. her Majesty's ambassador extraordinary to the court of Vienna, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Beauvale, of Beauvale, in the county of Nottingham. It is rumoured, and we fear truly, that the Queen will not take up her residence at the castle until August next, her Majesty having, it is stated, abandoned the intention of pass ing a short time at the castle just previously to and during the race week at Ascot. We learn that the sojourn of the Queen at the "royal residence at Windsor " will then pro bably be prolonged from August to the following February.— Windsor Journal. The Council of the Administration des Ponts et Chauss6es has just decided that the basin of the Florida, at Havre, shall be put in a fit state for the provisional reception of steamers of large dimensions, with a 63 feet sluice at the entrance. This is a measure for which the town of Havre has long been pe tioning, in order that large steamers for the American packet service may be established there, the existing docks not allow ing of the entrance of such steamers as the Great Western, Liverpool, &c. PAGANINI Is DYING.—The physicians despair of being able to prolong the days of this eminent artist, who appears to have lived for some time past by po itive enchantment. It is said that Paganini will leave a fortune of ten millions of francs (X 400,000), which, according to his last. intention, will be di vided among his musical colleagues both in France and Italy, whose number is rated at between 700 and 800. We hope that his will, which is intended to produce so great a sensa tion, may be opened as late as possible.—France Musicale. A HINT TAKEN. — About a fortnight ago, Mr. Francis Brount, of Cowley, near Dronfield, purchased some seed oats in Chesterfield market, which were placed in his barn the same day. On entering the barn the' following morning, he discovered that a sack and four bushels of oats had been stolen. Suspicion fell upon some persons in the neighbour hood, to whom Mr. Brount paid a visit, hinting his intention of endeavouring to find out the rogues, and describing the consequences that would follow detection. To his surprise, on the next morning the stolen property was found against the house door. Pious MUNIFICENCE.—The Earl of Stamford and War rington has, with h's accustomed liberality, undertaken to repair, at his sole expense, the fine old parish church at Ashton, which has fallen into great decay. The work will be conducted according to the plans and under the superintendence of our townsman E. Sharpe, Esq., whose skill in church architecture is so abundantly attested in the frequent calls that are made upon his services. As one of the conditions of the restoration of Ashton church, the in habitants are to form a cemetery (the ground for which Lord Stamford gives), and erect a suitable chapel.—Lancaster Gazette. On the evening of the 4th inst., the inhabitants of Nismes witnessed a very rare phenomenon in a magnificent quintuple rainbow, forming a complete semi -circle, the diameter of which ran from the equinoctial point to the south-west. The colours of the principal or internal bow were red, orange, yellow, and green, were continued quite down to the horison, and were very vivid ; the external or false rainbow filled a wider space, but the rays of light were less brilliant. Three imperfect bows of a purple colour, tending to violet, were seen in the interval, near the summit of the principal bow, but much less distinct. They disappeared gradually as the sun sank below the horizon. REPRESENTATION OF LElTH.—There are many rumours afloat on this subject, which place at least four candidates in the field—the Solicitor-General, the Hon. J. E. Murray, a Mr. Mitchell, and Mr. Gladstone. Placards have been posted up, in the name of the Solicitor-General ; but we are inclined to believe that this step has been taken without con sulting him. The circumstance, however, indicates an under standing in some quarters, that in the case of the present Lord Advocate being raised to the bench, Mr. Rutherford, as his successor, will be likely to stand for Leith. We be lieve we may safely say, that Mr. Murray, who is very anxious that no act of his should be the means of creating a division among reformers, has no intention of coming for ward for this constituency, in the case of an early vacancy.— Scotsman. A NARROW ESCAPE.—On Monday se'nnight, as Mr. J. Horrocks; of Buckland, who had been dining at Wodley house, the seat of Mr. T. M. Goodlake, was returning home in a fly, the driver got down from the box to open one of the turnpike gates ; the horses went off at full speed along the avenue into the turnpike road, and before the driver could overtake them turned in the direction of Faringdon,.to which place they continued their course, dashing down the hill at a fearful rate into the centre of the town, amidst the sheep pens erected for the cattle market on the following day, and ran with great violence against•the g ates of the Crown Hot e l, which happened to be closed, and bursting them open pro ceeded quietly to the stable doors, where they were soon af terwards released from the carriage, and 1".1r. Horrocks from his perilous %situation. We are happy, ! owever, in stating that Mr. Horrocks sustained not the slightest injury.—Berk shire paper. EARTHQUAKES.—The fol!owing details of 22 shocks of earthquake which were felt at the end of the last, and in the first quarter of the present year, near St. Jean de Maurienne, in Savoy, are given by the Re'parateur de Lyon :—" On De cember 19, February 28, and March 1,6, 10, 12, 16. and 18, there was one shock each day ; on March 2, there were two shocks; on February 27, and. March 13, three shocks; and od March 17, six shocks. Out of the whole, six were rather violent, and all their oscillations appeared to run from the north, the west, or the south-east. The vibrations extended from St. Michael to La Chappelle, including 34 communes. It appears also that they extended throughout the chain of Alps, which divide Italy from France ; from St. Remy to St. Sorlin d' Arves, and thence to Valloire. Out of the 22 shocks it was obsert'ed that only seven took plac,Q in the day time, and not one when the weather was rainy." A slight shock of an earthquake was felt last Wednesday at Grenoble, in a direction from east to west. The vibrations were sufficiently strong to shake the furniture in the houses, but no claniage was occasioned. PitaSlNT Eno rERSIA..—A splendid cadeau from the Persian court to her Majesty Queen Victoria has just reached this country by the Hermes steamer. It consists of between 50 and GO shawls, woven in the looms of Shiraz and Ispahan, and exhibiting proofs of skill and taste that fully authwrise the Schah to anticipate a favourable reception for the " rich gifts" he has transmitted. The borders of some exhibit, in all its details, a triumphal procession : trains of camels and Arab steeds, sumptuously caparisoned—elephants carrying palanquins, musicians gathered in groups, and the countless attendants of mighty chiefs, being all pourtrayed with equal fidelity and splendour. These striking and com plicated objects are woven in the most exquisite colours, with perfect accuracy of outline, and present a combination of forms and hues, blended into one great ensemble of beauty, with which the workmanship of Europe would, perhaps, strive in vain to compete. NATIONAL CONVENTION. — Letters have been received by Lovatt, the secretary, from Worcester, Dunfermline, and Stirling, announcing that the working classes in those places repudiate the principles of the revolutionists. The letter from Worcester states that it is impossible to collect the rent there. That from Dunfermline states that treason must be in the camp, and that if the destructives and levellers assem bled in Bolt-court recommend physical force, they need not reckon on the working men of that town. The letter from Stirling announces that the working classes will seek their rights solely through constitutional means. A communica tion has also been received from Salisbury, stating that every means have been in vain tried to form the working men of that place into an association in connexion with the conven tion. No landlord could be found to grant them a room, no printer to print the bills, nor a crier to announce a meeting ; and that of 50 men who had declared themselves favourable to the charter principles, 44 had deserted them.—Evening • paper. THE WEATHER, &C. IN SCOTLAND.—Since the com mencement of the month, the weather, although sometimes intensely cold, has been favourable for rural operations. From all parts of the country we learn that the last was a busy week. A great deal of land has been sown down with beans and oats, and the soil was never found to work more kindly. In some places potatoes, both early and late, have been committed to the ground ; and, in the course of a few days, the fields will be ready for the reception of barley upon forward farms. It prognosticates well that a dry bed has been found. Vegetation, indeed, was for some time at a stand ; but this is the less to be regretted, as all the early herbage is in such a state of forwardness as to be speedily recoverable. In the gardens all the fruit gives early token of a good crop. Early pease, in some gardens, are a good way above ground, and relays are coming forward in succes sion. Since Thursday the weather has been admirably fitted for agricultural operations. The mornings have been frosty, but throughout the day the genial beams of the sun have produced something like a good spring heat.—Scottish Guardian. To,rvloTtimis.—Not long since, at Sunning, Berks, a little boy, of five years old, being in a violent passion, his mother locked him into a room by himself, and left him crying vio lently. In a little while, his cries suddenly ceased ; she thought he was good ; went to let him out ; to her horror and anguish she found the - Child dead,—black in the face—suffo cated.! It was currently reported that the boy had killed himself by perversely holding his breath; an incredible feat for an infant of five years of age to perform. The fact is, children are very apt, in the paroxysms of violent crying and languishing, to be unable to get their breath, and often suffer agonies in consequence. It is a real kindness, then, in any person, happening to be by, to give, by a light shake, or blow l on the back, 'a counter-shock, to over-stretched na ture; which instantly restores the power of breathing. Some recommend in preference to a shake, or blow, instant immer sion of the Sufferer's hand and arm, in cold Water. The little boy at Sunning, was, without donbt, suffocated, because no one was with him again to set going his suspended breath. THE KIEKINTILLOCH CIIILD.—On Friday, the present nurse of the extraordinary child, which was said to have been kept in a barrel for years by its unnatural parent, and fed on coarse food until it became -like one of the inferior animals, passed through the city with her little charge in her arms, on her way on business to Paisley. It came out among some females who are fond of gossip, that this was " the Kirkin tilloch child that was kept five years in a barrel," and the intelligence having been communicated from one to another with the rapidity Of thought, a crowd sooncollected, so large that the good-natured nurse found it impossible to proceed, until she obtained the assistance of the police, who conducted her to the police-office, whither the people followed in great numbers, and collected about the building in order to obtain a glimpse of "the wonderful child." There was really no thing remarkably striking to be seen about the boy. He is pretty much like other children—not to appearance so old as five, but seemingly about three years of age, able to walk a little, and articulate " mamma." There are several marks of sores, which have healed sometime ago, on his head: his figure is shrunken, his limbs, though slender, quite supple and not ill-formed. Under the same fostering care for a few years, perhaps months, the little unfortunate may become a very fine boy.—Scottish Guardian. Goon OLD Swaps.— In several recent numbers of that invaluable maritime journal, the Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, various interesting statements on the subject of good old ships have appeared. The following account may be amusing to readers who are curious in such matters. There are at present twenty sea-going vessels belonging to the port of Sunderland, " the united ages of which amount to 892 years," their average ages being 424 years, as will be seen by the following table : Ships. Built. Age. Edward 1763 .. 76 Ships. Eleanor 1797 Albion lBOl Alexander.. lBO4 Betsy 1804 Freedom . • • 1804 Mary lBO4 Flora lBO5 Betsy.... Barbara Concord... Busick .. . 1772 .. 67 1776 .. 63 Loyalty 1785 . Minerva 1790 . Hunter ... Resource . 1791 .. 48 1794 .. 45 Mary .... 1795 .. 44 New Concord 1796 .. 43 Symmetry .... 1797 .. 42 Argo ......:..1795 .. 42 I 892 In addition to the above, many old vessels, built at Sunder land, and which sailed out of this port for many years,.have lately been sold to other ports, and are, therefore, accredited to the ports to which they at present belong. Nearly all the above-named vessels were built at Sunderland ; and their durability may be taken as a fair specimen of the quality of the ships.built at this port.—Sunderland Herald. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, tirc. Herculean, J Grindall, 317 Bombay, T& J Brocklebank Two Sisters, T Tinley, 401 Cape of Good Hope, J Aikin & Son WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Blackaller, G A Cockrain, 136 Hayti, Imrie & Tomlinson Halcyon; W Le Lacheur, 118 St Thomas, W Rose & Co SOUTH AMERICA. Conti Ortenburg, D Vucavich, 280 Bahia, Hadfield, Wood & Co Rival, T Keswick, 403 Rio Janeiro, Moon Brothers • UNITED STATES. Europe, W Drummond, sgs New York, Hughes, Cowie & Co Caledonia, H Coffin, 620 New York, A Dennistoun &Co Shakspeare, E Cornell, 749 New York, Wildes, Pickersgill &Co Katherine Jackson, J G Dorry, 456 New York, Baring Brs &Co Chevalier, J Knight, 522 Philadelphia, G Brown Medora, S C Turner, 481 Philadelphia, Kirby, Sc &Co BRITISH AMERICA. Kent, J Elder, 328 Miramichi, Morrison Bros or Anderson Hope, W Sheridan, 158 Nfld & Quebec, Harrison & Co or J Day Fisher, J Sewell, 126 Nfld & Quebec, Graham & Co or J Day Scipio, H Greggs, 186 Mid & Quebec, W Tarbet or J J Day Venture, R. Wilson, 303 Quebec, Galt & Bard' LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, APRIL 15. There has been an increase of Beasts at market to-day, and the quality generally pretty good the demands have been large, there being many country buyers present, who bought largely. In the early part of the day Beasts sold readily at last week's prices, but towards the close of the market Beef of middling and ordinary quality was bought at 1d per lb less ; but from the great increase in numter, and the very heavy prices, there have been a good few Beasts, of middling and ordinary quality, left unsold. The supply of Sheep has been rather less than the preceding week, and prices much about the same ; good Sheep were eagerly sought after, and all sold up at an early hour. The best Beef may be quoted at from 6id to nd (saving a few of very extraordinary quality, which were sold as high as 70) middling pid, and ordinary at a shade less. Good Wether Mutton sold readily at Bd, middling and ordinary 72d to 7id per lb sinking the offal.—Number of Beasts, 1318 ; Sheep, 2524. MACHINE FOR SOWING GRASS SEED.—Several machines have been used, none of which, however, perform their work as well and with such certainty, as the one now in use. It consists of a seed box about ten feet long, through which a roller the same length passes, and in which are inserted brass taps. It is turned by a wheel and pinion from one of the valves, in the same manner as the common corn drill, and re gu!ated as to quantity of seed to be sown, in the same man ner, by different sized wheels. In short, the principle is the same as the corn drill : but the seed, instead of being de livered into spouts, as in the corn drill, is received by a large box, from two to three inches wide, and about 18 inches deep, and which reaches within six of the ground. In the inside, L is crossed by numbers of' small pieces of wood, in order to separate the seeds more effectually. It is drawn by a horse, upon two wheels ; and from twenty to thirty acres may be gone over in a day, by a man and a boy, and sown in the most correct manner. It can be regulated to sow from one peck to two and a half bushels of seed per acre.—Transactions of Yorkshire Agricultural Society. CONJURER'S TRICKS.—A man once waited upon the Vice- Chancellor of the University, and the Mayor of the town of Cambridge, requesting permission to perform as a conjuror, in the Town Hall. Both these functionaries were dining together with a, party of several university men, when the artist being shown into the room where they sat at table, he was asked if he could furnish them with an immediate spe cimen of his abilities. He answered yes—called for a pack of cards, and dealt them equally smongst the gentlemen, so that each had the same number ; then (but standing away from the table, and thence no apparent trickery on his part was discoverable) he desired the Vice-Chancellor to name how many cards he wished to hold in his hands. Dr. mentioned a higher number than he knew he had. " Count them, sir," said the man. He did so, and found the exact number he had requested, without being in the least able to say how the surplus got there. No cards had been seen, ()I .felt, to fly from his friends' hands to his own, and yet there they were ! The same juggler, in a manner quits as incom prehensible, conveyed a silver snuff-box from the pockets of one gentleman to those of another, who, when pointed out as the unconscious posses.or of the missing box, was excessively annoyed. " Never mind, sir," said the artist, " the box is yours, I dare say, therefore oblige me by returning it to your pocket." Mr. , though unwillingly, did so. " And now," remarked the conjuror, " I should not be surprised if the gentleman who claims the box, and says he has lost it, finds it again in his waistcoat pocket." The owner of the box instantly, to his own excessive surprise and that of every one present, produced it. How these various imperceptible transits were made was never discovered. The clever ex hibitor of such and similar marvels was allowed, of course, a public performance ; but for these particulars of his private one the writer is indebted to a gentleman who was of the party. M)ipping TUESDAY, APRIL 16.—Wind ARRIVED.—Briton, , from Constantinople—Minerva, Goss; Susannah Willielmina, ; Diligence, Bottcher, and Amalia, Albrecht, from Danzig—Hercules, Zeplim, from Rostock—Walter, Foulk, from New Orleans—Roscius, Collins, from New York ; sailed 56th March _ SAILED.—UzeIIa, Nawton, for Naples—Matchless, Falkner, for Hayti—Jackson, Jackson, for Grenada—Minerva, Hamon, for Bahia—James & Ann, Dickinson, for Arichat—Triumvirate, Hunt, for Trinidad—Ambassador, Hall, fcr Natchez—Joven Enrique, Urgarte, for Christiansaud—Tiphis, Dreano, for Bordeaux—Ark, Flanders, for Baltimore—Superb, Gatchell, for New York—Jeffer son, Bains, for Baltimore—Earl Durham, Williams, for Riga—Pau. lina, Zeuhinst, for Alexandria, Egypt—Eleanor, Bracegirdle. for Quebec—and Rachel, Scott, for Gaspee. Nonpareil, Allen, sailed from Constantinople, for Odessa, on the 20th March Sylph, Barton, hence at Marseilles Horatio, Lepage, hence at Portsmouth, and on shore on the Spit, but expected off on the flood, bound to Fareham Mangarton, Hughes, hence for Hambro' at Longhope Black-eyed Susan, Thompson, hence for Riga, at ditto Clyde, Reid, hence at New Orleans Queen Victoria, Chambers, hence at Savannah Siddons, Britton, hence at New York on the 25th March Thetis, Brown, hence at St. John, N.B. Malaga, —, hence at Havana CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 20.—The Nonpareil, Allen, which ar rived here 27th tilt., from Liverpool and Syra, has discharged part' of her cargo in a very damaged state. PATRAS, MARCH 28.—The Stamboul, Sloman, from Liverpool to Constantinople, which was bound to Navarino, 11th inst., dismast ed, has been repaired, and proceeded on the 25th. MARCH 30.—The Albanian, from Vostruzza to Liverpool, got aground at the Castle to-day. MARSEILLES, APRIL B.—The Strathmore, Gavin, which arrived here 3rd inst., from Liverpool, has discharged part of her cargo in a damaged state. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17.—Wind N.N.W. fresh. ARalvßD.—Hebe, Duncan, from Demerara; sailed 4th March — Fergus, Cornforth, from Apalachicola—Bradshaw, Milroy, from Mobile—Rockingham, , from Natchez—Shakspeare, Hender son; Banffshire, Pitcairn; Riga, Smith; Charles, M`Lanothan, and Saxon, Mansfield, from New Orleans—Sarah Sheafe, Merry, and Portsmouth, Wilson, from New York—Algonquin, Turley, from Philadelphia—John Francis, Cotter, and Irvine, Reid, from Savan nah—Jane Maria, , from Newfoundland—Traveller, Peilott, from Pernambuco; sailed 24th Feb.—Laidsman, late Hughes, from Savanilla ; sailed 26th Feb.—Lady Bulkely, , from St. Mi chael's—William, Jollie ; Mer, Verling ; Romeuldo, and Parparita, from Trieste—St. Pietro, ——, from Genoa—Prehine, from Fiume—Pioneer, , from Ancona—Favourite, --, from Bonrdeaux—Anna Josepha, Le Bars, from Bayonne—Vigilant, Budig, from Strettou—Mary Jones, —, from Hamburg—Juff. Frow Hendrika, Shotten, from Gronengen—Elizabeth, Potlick, from Amsterdam—and Augurta, --, from Ostend. Nile, Anderson, and Ingleborough, Rickett, hence at Canton 14th Dec. Frederick Huth, Toby, from Sincapore at ditto 20th Duchess of Clarence, Birch, from Bombay, at Cochin, and sailed for this port 3rd Feb. Calcutta, Brown, from Sydney, N.S.W. at Bombay 9th Jan. Fortfield, Sly, from Muscat, at ditto 27th Reliance, Robertson, hence at ditto sth Feb. Mount Stewart Elphinstone, Smith, from the Clyde at ditto sth Warwick, Jells, hence at ditto I2th Bland, Callan, hence at Calcutta John Bull, Ormond, from Canton, at ditto Cornubia, Bell, sailed from Bombay for this port 4th Feb. and the Lady East, Emery, for London 10th St. Lawrence, ., , hence at Boston Priscilla, , hence at Perdarnbuco Orozimbo, , from New Orleans, at Marseilles Hope, Roberts, from Rlo Janeiro, at Hamburgh Jupiter. Eamsay, sailed from Bombay for this port ljth Jan. and the Clydesdale, Davics, for Calcutta, the 25th Hunter, Miller, sailed from Marseilles for this port Bth instant Favourite, Kersen, sailed from Bourdeaux for this pert 9th inst. Charlotte, hence for Quebec, was spoken 9th instant, in lat. 51, long. 13 Thomas Bennett; hence for Charleston, and Robert Kerr; hence for Quebec, off Waterford 11th instant Arctus, hence for Quebec, off Cape Clear Henry. Anderson, for this port, put back to Mobile 15th ult. with loss of rudder. Providence, Maas, from Danzig for this port, at Elsinore Memnon, Every, from Aleppee for this port, at the Cove. On the 10th instant, in lat. 51 0, long. 10 41, spoke the Hants, hence for Quebec Brothers, Poole, from St. John, N.B, off the Cove. Ou the 24th Ult. off Cape Sable, spoke the Evergreen, hence for St. John, N.B. Aid-de-Camp, -, from St. John, N.B. at Londonderry, with loss of rudder and bulwarks Hercules, Palish, sailed from Kingstown for Quebec 11th instant A veSkel, apparently a brigantine, is sunk near the N.E. Buoy, supposed to have been run down last night; a boat marked Byron, of Bristol # Wm. Biewitt, was seen near the wreck this morning Britannia, Atcheson, from Philadelphia, at this port, in 28 days. Left the Minerva, Pearson, loading for this port, and was to sail on. the Ist instant. On the 31st ult. in lat. 42 40 N; long. 47 OW, passed through a large cluster of icebergs. On the 14th instant, in lat. 49 40 N, long. 19 30 W, spoke the ship Albion, of Scarbro', hence for New Orleans, all well Margaret Johnson, M'Auley, from Charleston, at this port. On the 3rd instant, at 3 p.m. in lat. 43 14, long. 31 3, spoke the Great Western, (steamer) from Bristol for New York, out 101 days; wind W.N.W. blowing a gale with a heavy sea. On the loth instant, off Cape Clear, spoke the City of Waterford, fm Waterford for Quebec Heywood, Jones, from Mobile, at this port; sailed 4th ult. On the 27th ult. in lat. 42, long. 49, during a gale, was struck by a heavy sea, which carried away the wheel, binnacle, after hatch, &c. and washed six men overboard. On the 16th instant, off Bardsey, spoke the Ann, hence for Maranham THURSDAY, APRIL 18. ARRIVED Enterprise, Lundgrum, and Craigevar, Barclay, from J eghorn—Belvidere, Gemellar, from Genoa—Elizabeth, Mossop, from Naples—Kingston, , from Demerara —AdriAn, Senegal—Ganges, Jones, from New Orleans —Napoleon, Mont gomery, from Charleston—Arrow, —, from Charente—Circas sian, —, from Lisbon—Maria Augusta, Kruger, fin Frederick stadt—Marmora, Myers, from New Orleans—Samarang, Abbott, from New York—Camoens, Barnes; Lady Maria Somerville, and Hope, barque, from Oporto. Woodstock, Cook, from Jamaica, at this port; sailed from An natto Bay 10th March. The Charlotte, White, was to sail from Kingston for Liverpool 10th ult. The Jamaica, Gibson, was to sail on the 13th for the south side to complete her loading. The Wood. stock is only about half full John Hale, Crowell, from New Orleans, at this port ; sailed 3rd March. On 27th March, in lat, 46, long. 43, was struck by a sea which carried away stancheons, roundhouse, boat, &c. and injured the rudder Adelaide, Swaffin, sailed from Cadiz for Liverpool 30th March Perseverance, Surrage, from Sligo for Liverpool, at Rutland ; cargo shifted * Donald, Allison, from Berbice, at Deal Leonard, hence for Mobile, was spoken 17th ult. in lat. 32, long. 29 Eleven, Morrison ; Countess Dunmore, Johnston, and Black-eyed Susan, Watkins, hence and Constantinople, at Odessa Margaret, Pitkethly, from Gonaives, at the Cove. On 27th March in lat. 33, long. 63, passed a British brig, clismasted and abandoned, had a female bust head, painted white, and appeared to have been newly caulked Sarah, Adolphus, from Honduras, at the Cove Rebecca, Drake, from St. John, N.B. at ditto Bland, Callan, was to sail from Calcutta for this port 20th Feb. Sir John Franklin, --, from Mobile, at Glasgow Jane Brown, Dunlop, from Batavia, at Canton James Matheson, Milward, hence at Calcutta Lady Rowena, Clayton, hence at Bombay 23nd Feb. Eliza, Mann, from Llanelly, at ditto Balfour, Foster, sailed from Bombay for Liverpool 17th Feb. Henrietta, Fell, sailed from Madeira for Cape de Verds 15th March Euphemia; Dull, sailed from Laghorn for Liverpool Ist April Sarianno, Galazzi, sailed from Marseilles for Liverpool loth April Frolic, Bennett, hence at Gibraltar Fenella, Wakeham, hence at ditto, and sailed 2nd inst for Maiaga SINCAPOKE, Jan. 10.—A severe gale was experienced at Manilla I gth ult. but without doing much damage to the shipping TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 18. Wind at Holyhead W.S.W. blowing fresh. Off Holyhead, inward bound, at 5 30 a.m. No. 1545, Carleton, —and 214, Ariel, at 1 p.m. from Pernambuco. Off Paint Lynas, inward bound, at 6 a.m. No. 1584, Wilberforce, from Africa—and 1899, Woodstock, at 5 a.m. from Jamaica. East of the Floating Light, inward bound, No. 332, Camoens, at 10 50 a.m. from Oporto; 1088, . Elizabeth, at 11 45 a.m. and 471, Hope, ditto, from Quebec. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 16. The arrivals up to and since Friday, furnish a very large supply of Foreign Wheat, with a few parcels of English and Irish, and a fair quantity of other kinds of Grain from various sources, except Oats ; with these, however, some vessels are in this morning from the West of Ireland, and several more with Wheat from the Baltic, particu lars of which are not yet ascertained. Although our Corn Exchange to-day was again rather thinly at tended by distant buyers, some parcels of Wheat were sold for coun try account, and the town millers reappearing as purchasers, business to a moderate extent was done in the general runs of Mediterranean samples at a decline of 3d per 701 b ; whilst of good English and Irish, which are comparatively scarce, and held at former prices, few sales were made ; and in the value of prime Bal tic Vtlh.ta. ¢o h.v. 'atto rhancr. to note.—Flour of all curt., - tinned to meet a dull sale, and must De deemed a turn cheaper. Barley and Malt in the face of tolerable supplies, fully maintained our last quotations.—Beans and Pease remained in slow request at late request. Oats, with the exception of some parcels taken by one or two buyers, moved off sparingly at the rates of this day week.—Oatmeal, though in rather better demand, was 6d per 2401 b lower. Duties have been paid here this week upon 20,348 qrs. of Wheat, 11 qrs. Barley, 143 qrs Beans, 1 qr Pease and 7415 cwt Flour, Foreign produce. . The Foreign exports of the week comprise 752 qrs Oats, 2 qrs Pease, 123 barrels Oatmeal and 1816 barrels of Flour, principally to the West Indies. WHEAT, per 701bs English Scotch Irish Bonded BARLEY, per qr. English 43 0 44 0 Chevalier 44 0 46 0 Scotch, per 6011). 5 4 510 Irish 5 1 510 Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 OATS, per 451 b. .English Scotch 4 0 4 3 Irish 3 6 4 0 Foreign, in bond 210 3 2 Ditto, duty free.. 4 0 4 2 RYE, per quarter 42 0 44 0 MALT, per qr. fine.. 68 0 70 0 middling 50 0 62 0 S. d. S. d. I INDIAN CORN, Tr 4809, 9 6@l I 9 Red 4O Oec 12 0 9 4 10 6 I White 42 0 44 0 7 3 9 3 BEANS, per quarter. 0 0 0 0 i English 4l 0 43 0 Irish 37 0 43 0 Paws, Grey 3B 0 42 0 White 44 0 43 0 Stlir BREAD, per 1121 b. In bond l7 0 20 0 FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. Fine 48 0 55 0 Irish 46 0 53 0 Amer. 94p brl. free 31 0 35 0 Sweet U.S 37 0 39 0 Sour 34 0 35 0 OATMEAL, per 2401 h. English 32 0 33 0 Ditto, new 34 0 31 6 Scotch 32 0 33 0 EUROPE. Leopold First, M Pienschke, 124 Antwerp, C G Weber & Co Susanna, G Canesi, 210 Alexandria, Egypt, Ross Bros [Entered 13th April for Constantinople. Diana, Schoofelsen, 71 Bremen, . Bahr, Behrend & Co Acorn, Robertson, 107 Cadiz, Eshelby, Rowett & Co Richard & Ann, J Way, 119 Dordt, Bahr, Behrend & Co Apollo, R H Rendell, 123 Dordt & Riga, W W Bulley Rapid, W Mathias, 125 Dordt & Archangel, Cram & Smith Sarah, W Watford, 110 Elsinore, C G Weber & Co Delfino, G B Pietranera, 157 Genoa, Haskayne, Chapple & Co Goshawk, —, 84 Hambro' R Semple & Co Star, M Farrell, 58 Heligoland, Bahr, Behrend & Co Constanca, D Avellar, 136 Lisbon, T Martin or C Cotesworth Jacoba Maria, T T Kramer, 110 Liebau, Bahr, Behrend & Co [Entered 15th April for Rotterdam Azores Packet, J Peters, 67 Lisbon, C Cotesworth Augusta, J Dc Grave, 150 Ostend and Bruges, C G Weber & Co Auguste, P V Kerkhove, 212 Ostend, C G Weber & Co Union, J V Heyde, 150 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend & Co Jacoba Maria, T T Kramer, HO Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co Concordia, J Straaekholder, 89 Riga, Bahr, Behrend & Co Anna Agatha, J R Berghius, 83 Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co Mentor, C F Meyer, 240 Stettin, Bahr, Behrend & Co Plym, J Davis, 140 Syra, Bahr, Behrend & Co Victory, J Abernethy, R 6 St. Petersburgh, Campbell & Rudd PACKET BOATS.—FALMOUTH STATION, GENERAL POST-OFFICE, April 15. 1 Mails made Last Packets Ne.rt Packets DESTINATION. London. Holland Tues. & Fri. Mon. & Thurs. Hamburg & Swed. Tues. & Fri. Tues. & Satur. Lisbon Madeira I. Saturdays .. 1 April 8. April 7. Spain& Gibraltar Malta and Greece.. 2nd Saturday Braganza, April 1 Egypt and India .. 4th Saturday Royal Tar Mh 18 Madeira lst Tuesday H.M.B. Penguin, Swift, Brazil & B.Ayres each month. April 5. May 24. America lst Wednes. Tynan, April 6. L.Melville, Ap. 5. 1 Jamai. L'ward Ist day of B. Express, Mutine , 1 Isl. & Hayti.. each month. April 3. April 28. Laguira Mexico and Ha- I . 15th day of H.M.B. Star, Spey, vans 1 Jamai. L'ward 15th day of H.M.B. Lapwing Pandora, 1 Isl. & Aayti each month. March 17. May 12. Carthagena Imparto. WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. - - James Lyon, (137) J Scott, from Nevis, 8 hhds 2 brls sugar, 7 puns 8 hhds rum, 10 puns molasses, S Moore-1 hhd 25 brls sugar, 12 puns rum, 5 pins molasses, Glen and Andersen-83 hhds 9 tees 7 brls sugar, 18 puns rum, 88 puns 2 Lris 12 hhds molasses, Murray, Syme and Co—S hhds sugar, Jee Brothers-8 hhds 19 brls do, \V Claxton-1 box presents, Blundell-2 do, Mrs. Savage-3 do, Glen and Anderson-2 do, J Scott-3 do, 1 box returned goods, S Moore-5 bales cotton, Murray, Syme and Co-1380 coker nuts, J ScOtt—K D SOUTH AMERICA. Traveller, (139) J Padot, from Pernambuco, 48 pipes 2 hf and 4 qr pipes rum, 50 cases 184 brls sugar, 376 brls flour, order-37 puns rum, 47 cases sugar, 500 dry salted hides, M'Colmont, Brothers and Co—G D _ _ - - - UNITED STATES. Rcscius, (1098) J Collins, from New York, 1309 bales cotton, W and J Brown and Co-374 do, order-45 do, S and T Ashton-41 T Niells-33 do, Waddington and Co-62 do, Wainwright and Co -24 do, S Christie-13 brls quercitron bark, Humphries and Barratt -6 packages contents unknown, order—P D Portsmouth, (492) J L Wilson, from New York, 1142 bales cotton, Roskell, Ogden and Co-191 do, W & J Brown and Co-149 do, A Dennistoun and Co-27 do, order—P D Margaret Johnson, (766) N M'Auley, from Charleston, 141 bales cotton, D Buchanan and Son-773 do, order-346 do, Molyneux, Witherby and Co-6 do, 100 brls tar, J B Amey-10 pitch pine planks, for exportation—P D John Francis, (362) L Cotter, from Savannah, 913 bales cotton, Molyneux. Witherby and Co-95 do, order-4000 reeds, the master —27 planks, for exportation—P D Walter, (459) G Faulk, from New Orleans, 1528 bales cotton, Purton. Parker and Co—W D Charles, (283) W M`Lanatiian, from New Orleans, 705 bales cot ton, Humphreys and Biddle-231 do, Todd, Jackson and Co-20 do, J Turner—W D Riga, (382) 0 Smith, from New Orleans, 235 hales cotton, R and G Benn-16 do, J Turne;-166 do, 3000 brls flour, Collmann and Stolterfolit—W D Shakspeare, (657) G Henderson, from New Orleans, 1783 bales cotton, C Tayleur, Son and Co-150 do, 3 cases presents, order -1825 wet salted hides, F Holdsworth—P D Rockingham, (513) W L Dwight, from Natchez, 2007 bales cotton, Todd, Jackson and Co-2 do, Wildes, Pickersgill and Co—P D Bradshaw, (589) R Milroy, from Mobile, 1957 bales cotton, J Hol ford and Co—P D Heywood, (437) J Jones, from Mobile, 1000 bales cotton, order -27 do, J Maury and Sons-50 do, Purton, Parker and Co-159 do, T and J D Thornely-166 do, Humphreys and Biddle-0 40, A Pope —P D Algonquin, (451) A Turley, from Philadelphia, 8 packages con tents unknown, 2750 brls flour, order-1802 do, W and J Brown and Co-27 hhds quercitron bark. Fletcher and Co—P D Britannia, (769) W Atchison, from Philadelphia. 400 brls flour, order-2000 do, Breed and Eccleston-5030 do, Bolton, Ogden and Co-1 hhds tobacco, Branckers and Co—fl casks quercitron bark, 10,100 staves, 5 hhds tobacco, Wildes, Pickersgill and Co—P D Orpheus, (543) D G Bailey, from New York, 1 box cOntents un known, Baring Brothers and Co-1 do, Fitzhugh and Co-1 cask do, 2 brls apples. T and J Sands and Co-3 do, Walker and Co-121 bales cotton, H Mure and Co-122 do, Molyneux and Co-171 do, Wainwright and Co-87 do, W and J Brown and Co-277 do, J Mauro and Sons-51 do, order-32 do, 50 casks flaxseed, Purton, Parker and Co-44 casks flaxseed, J and C Kirkpatrick-66 hhds tobacco, Hunter and Co-12 do, W H Giiliat-6 casks nutmegs, T Hatton, jun-18 bales rags. J Naile-224 brls iron ore, H Mure and co-11 casks sweepwashers' sand, J Alston and Co-4 bundles trees, Wilmer and Co—P D BRITISH AMERICA. Elizabeth Ann, (92) M Dunn, from St. John, Newfoundland, 13 casks train oil, Job Brothers-36 do, R Alsop-227 do, J G Oughter son-61 do, R Bowring-1 do, Honey and Eyre-61 do, Graham and Taylor-13 do, C Melhuish-43 do, J Robertson-100 casks calf skins, 160 deals, 10 dozen oars, Job Brothers-150 ox hides, 46 tons 121 b old junk, J G Oughterson—l box papers and sample flour, T and J Brocklebank-1 quintal dry codfish, 1 keg cod sounds, 1 fin firewood, 1 parcel a map, order—K D EUROPE. Wm. Inglis, (16S) J Truscott, from Smyrna, 35 bags 24 sacks yellow berries, 193 double bales madder roots, order-18 qrs wheat, Hanson Brothers—about 525 do, A F and R Maxwell—G D Anna Joseph, (60) PV Le Bars, from Bayonne, about 420 qrs wheat, Wright and Carter—P D Favourite, (143) L Hudson, from Bourdeaux, 25 bris 50 hf bris prunes, J Levy and Co-50 bris 50 hf brls do, D Parry-210 hf brls do, Blundell, Falk and Co-143 cases wine, Morinaud and Co-6 do, R Nixon-3 do, Brough and Gardner-10 do, Fisher, Robinson and Co-1 hhd do, T Hebblewhite-1 do, J T Isaacsou-4 casks cork's, H Moore and Co-1 case sardines, 2 kegs capers, 1 case olives, 1 case chouxcronte, 1 case pickles, 1 case pickles, 1 cue mustard, Fisher, Robinson and Co-4 hf pipes brandy, J T Isaacson-832 hectolitres beans, 152 hf do tares, 232 bags peas, Blundell, Kalk and Co-140 bales hemp, order Lady Rowley, (72) H Wright, from St. Michael"s, 670 boxes oranges, E Rae-3 do, the masfer—S D Vigilant, (115) F liudigg, from Danzic, 16 puns spirits, 69 pces deck planks, 1 fin lathwood, 143 deals, 1119 bags wheat, Neuman and Engel—Q D Juffvrow Hendrka, (109) H H Scholtens, from Groningen, 660 qrs oats, 1 grave stone, order—Q D gtarktto. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 38. The Cotton market still continues very quiet, notwithstanding prices of American descriptions remain steady, and holders have apparently little inclination to press sales; in Brazils little doing, and prices are rather lower. The sales on Tuesday were 1,000 bales, on Wednesday 2,000 bales, and to-day only about 1,200 hales. The arrivals since Friday last are rather large, namely 5 vessels from New York, 3 from Charleston, 3 from Savannah, 10 from New Orleans, 4 from Mobile, 1 from Natchez, and 2 from Apalachicola. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, APRIL 18. Very prime Fresh Butter has touched 100 s, but the bulk of the very limited stock now at markct, being of a very inferior descrip tion, does not command within 205 to 30s of this rate. Pickled But ter is dull—exporters wait for the new brands on the Ist proximo. Some indifferent Pork is on the market at a low price—prime stuff holds its own, and will we think do so.—Beef is very steady, so are Bacon and Hams. Belfast Dotter 948 @ 98s per cwt. Carlow, Kilkenny, &c. . . BB 98 Newry, Banbridge, tke. . . BO 96 Cork B6 88 Beef lO5 120 per tierce Pork 7B 84 per barrel. Bacon , 4B 50 per cwt. Dried Hams 56 58 Lard, firkins bladdered 62 64 AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE, Imported into Liverpool, from the 9th to the 15th instant. FROM IRRLAND. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lambs. 58 2 0 185 6 77 81 200 955 Horses. Calves. Lambs. 11 4 0 25 41 4 Cows. Sheep. Pigs. 1387 324 6155 Previously 14961 22509 80064 Previously.. COASTWISE. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. 143 1831 51 ..1831 19 054 2863 LIVERPOOL AGRICULTURAL MARKET. April 17. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Old Hay .... o y®o 11 P 20/b. Potatoes, new 3 3@3 8 scre New Hay.... 0 5 011 - Cattle Ditto 2 8 0 0 - Clover Hay.. 0 74 010 - Turnips 40 0 0 0 Straw, Wheat 0 7i 0 - Carrots - Straw, Oat .. 0 6 0 - Manglewurzle 0 0 0 0 - Straw, Barley 0 0 0 0 - Manure .... p 612 0 - Green Clover 0 0 0 0 - AT LIVERPI LATE ;T DATES 'OOL. INDIRECT. DIRECT INDIRECT. DIRECT. From China Calcutta .... Feb. 12k Bombay .... Feb. 25 Mauritius .... Jan. 7 St. Helena • 1 Savannah.. March 20 Bahia Feb. 7 1 _Pernambuco Feb. 24 1 -- _____ 6 PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. LONDON & LIVERPOOL, Outward. 1 Home. (Sailing before 12th Jan.) to .... .... after Ist. Ang. Jamaica 2ss Od @ —84 s @loss 0 Leward Isl. Deme. & Berbice 2O 0 40 0 Honduras 5O 0 105 0 —147 0 New York, Boston 4O 0— 50 0 20 0 Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Havana 5O 0— 60 0 50 0 Canada — British North America B4 0 -- -- Newfoundland — 40 0 Brazils River Plate East Indies China 45 0 50 0 Batavia 4O 0 40 0 New South Wales Cape of Good Hope Africa 3O 0 126 0 Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, &c. Malta, Sicily, &c. - 30 0 Smyrna and Constantinople Malaga Madeira 2O 0 20 0 -- Western Isles, Cape de Verds _ Lisbon Cadiz 25 0 20 0 France Holland 3O 0 so 0 Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm - 40 0 Petersburg, Riga, Sta. Oporto ..... .. . - 20 0 LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, APRIL 16' --- - PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T Oil P. Magee and M. Corcoran, Liverpool, merchants-- ir As, and E. Chesterton, Liverpool, fancy shawl.manu-f actu re all)e l Wardle and J. Vine, Manchester, fustian-shearers —J • '4.10 M'Connel, J. M'Connel, and T. rown, Manches ter, • turers—G. Pant and M. A. Plant, Stockport, flo re-delie Wo sen. and J. Pigot, jun. Manche s ter, engravers —v • Wilding, and R. Wilding, Preston, cotton manufacturers' - INSOLVENTS. April 10.—William Jubb Coupe, Doncaster. groc er ' April 13.—John Mossman, Maul(len, Bedfordshire, BANKRUPTS. oIV P ' William Johnson, Harlow-place, Mile-end-road, 1-c maker. John Edmundson, Manchester, merchant. William Bunting, Stockport, cotton-spinner. h ot. Mordecai Lazarus, H o u n sdit c h, L on d on , glass-fi n Edward Gomm, Birmingham, corn factor. Thomas Smithson, Flaxton, Yorkshire, cattle - .••• - , - .f.ar• • George Oxley, Rotherham, Yorkshire, money- Ku -- ,/{ • DIVIDENDS. a, C•9 l May 8, J. B. Falkner, Liverpool, share-broker — ~ a, Hingeston, Walbrook, London, men's-mercers — M a g o 'ejan e, High-street, Southwark, oilma n —M a y p, C. Terry, '': re ct, don, gal-merchant —May p, J. Laing, Great Tow er -s, cork-cutter—May 9, T. Laycock, Minories, Lo ad °.%.loer? May 11, J. S. Houldsworth, Lower Edmonton , c°, May 11, J. H. Barlow, grange-court, , , C are y-street, r,,a00 1 .0 stringer—May 11, T. Fordham, Leade nhall-mar ket, 7 4, terer—May 10, J. Headley, Leicester, hosier—M 3 F l ,,, I;eni Nettleham, Lincolnshire, farmer—May Li, G Cll Devonshire, ship-owner—May 11, W. Hook, DevonP° l 7:,.; c eneV, May 14, T. Yates, Welclipool, Montg,sp erys hire, sc" m g 10, J. Jackson , Masham, York s hi re , wo ol -stapler — d j, I• Hogdes, Cirencester, victualler—May 8 ,E. Manchester, cotton-spinuers. CERTIFICATES tr or To be granted unless cause be sh o w n t o the con.- , ' .44 0' . 9: Ma 8. 5- 91.1 J. Jones, Barmouth, Merionethshire, ship-build er-- Oxford-street, London, elieesemonger. I' VER- P MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LI , 0° 0 0 Arnii. Ri ilDr . _,,a6 , I°' 19. J. and J. Lamb A corn T a vern, - -111 gw- 1 19. Marrow and Frocisham, (2d) Clarendo n t Mao, 22. Thomas Pearson, jun. (Ist) 22. Reiman and Jones, (Ist) 23. T. P. and J Peek, (div ) Pitt° /51 21. Robert Edwards PRICES OF SHARES, Aram 18 ' Last Pric e '' 4 1 RAILWAYS, &c. Fer Share . Birmingham and Gloucester 4O paid 18 1 0 0 0 '• .• i Ditto and Derby Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh lOO paid 61 0 Chester and Crewe 25 .... 21 15 0 •-, . 0 1 Dublin and Drogheda, lO paid 0 0 0 • ':. , Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 5 paid o o°'• • Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock S paid 7 0 0 ''.. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1 6•• • ' 1 ' 10 paid 7 2 JO nock, and Ayr Grand Junction lOO .... 205 0 0 • '• Ditto half shares 63 10 0 •••• 20 .. .. Great Western 65 71 10 0 ' • Hull and Selby .••• Lancaster and Preston 3O paid Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares - London and Birmingham go .... 136 10 0 '•• 0 , Ditto new quarter shares Ditto an i Southampton 5O .... 41 10 0 •' • / Ditto & Brighton (United) Leeds and Manchester 5O .... 64 10 0 '•'• Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 73 0 0 '• •• Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham l5 .... 10 10 0 • Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle MO .... 92 10 0 • Ditto quarter shares North Midland South Eastern and Dover North Union lOO 61 10 0 • St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 • York and North Midland 2O paid 0 0 0 • BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 733 10 0 • Bank of Liverpool 412,10s paid 23 5 0 • - Commercial cf Liverpool 10 .... 19 17 0 • - Liverpool Union la .... 13 15 0 • - Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Wales lO .... 10 2 0 , • - of Manchester lO .... is 12 6 • - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 13 12 6 • - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank lO 16 6 0 Commercial Bank of England 5.. .. 5 5 0 East of England lO .... 9 10 0 Phonic Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 los. 0 0 0 :: :4,0 • • • ,• • • • • • • • • GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings .eloo paid L'pool and Harrington Water 1 „„ Works I "v • • " Bootle Ditto Stock.... L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. x'loo .... Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance } 25 paid Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... Liverpool Fire and Life - 10s. 171 0 0 457 0 0 327 10 0 370 0 0 197 0 0 9 0 0 6 12 6 1 11 0 DOCKS ' FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderten Carrying Company 15 .. pIS 0 Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry ll 10s. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company 7 . Harrington Docks 100 . Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool) (Polonceau) 2 . 7 7 6 7 1 7 4 2 6 85 10 6 0 9 2 0 15 0 1 0 ° LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES• Number of new patients entered on the books of th e P..' during the last week:— otis' North. So 566 Total at each Dispensary Received advice and medicine at the Insti tution Visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine 1 01 163 ......, VISITORS. North—Rev. P. Wilcock. Mr w Pi . m'a.6.` , 441.4 .-11 alnith. • 1: 1 ,"st South—Mr. F. Jordan, Mr. Jo se ph C ooper, an d Rev.,,es It. WEDGWOOD, ~"" Dispensaries' Office, I, Fe nw i c k- s t ree t , A rp il 15, 183' ----'' TIDE TABLE. Days. Men. Ern. !Height. - lOl H. M. IL M. I F. T. °1 'o.4 t o n. hr.., Tuesday 16 018 039 21 1 V enu s in c- (It, r Wednes. 17 1 o 123 19 3 tier. station• 4h lr 4 Thursday l 0 146 210 17 2 J up it e r ri3e s " agi f Friday 19 234 3 1 11 11 Alphege. 4 1, 3. r A Saturda) 20 330 4 2 12 8 Jupiter sets ste•ev, Sunday 21 442 526 11 3 3d S un day afi`. 9 0 .17 11 ) Monday 22 614 659 10 10 S a t u rn rises _--- ,0 ,v, MARRIED. On the fith instant, at Burton, Westmoreland, c ot.- DENBIGH, Esq. wool-stapler, of Bradford, to JANE, S ftOC ter of the late ROBERT ATKINSON, E sq . o f Hohne. the 0. , On the lath instant, at St. George's Church, Evcrt o T to SANDARS, B.A. curate of St. Margaret's, Leicester , e, BARBER, daughter of the Rev. R. P. BUDDICOM, ,t On the lath instant, at St. Botolph's, the Rev. Sydney Turner, curate of Christ Church, , z i p A LIAM, second son of SHARON TURNER, Esq• to „01/4 youngest daughter of the late JOHN RODGERS, E, s(l ,4i,T,pt On the 16th instant, at St. David's Church, ROD;4)9I'. Esq. to LUCY, youngest daughter of the late JOHN ; O s / Prestol Same day, at St. George's Church, Everton, W. he CLOUGH, Esq. solicitor, to JANE, only daughter of t e po o ROBERT BANISTER, of this town. „ of 1 6' 0 Same day, at Woolton Priory, HERMAN, 913- .'„ CHARLES WALMSLEY, Esq. of West w ood 1 1011 ' - ' • ELLEN, daughter of the late JOHN LYNCH, Es t i' 4 this town. . 5 .1 0 0, 4 On the 17th ult. at Walton, by the Rev. Thomas - ,„te HARDY MACRAE, to MARY, d aug ht er o f the WOODHOUSE, Esq. of Bronte. Yesterday, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. Si eit A.M. Mr. ROBERT GREAVES WRIGHT , druggist, 1110 to Miss MARGARET DOD, secon d d aug ht e r of " THOMAS DOD, of James-street. ~( DIED. 1 Lately, at New York, WILLIAM, fourth son of the , ' ate oititi BARK, Esq. aged 20, much regretted. °°d' On,the 27th March at sea, on board the ship Hevo r , b , re,g4 o4 hurricane, JAMES LYNCH FLETCHER, aged 21, d ee r a st On the 21st ult. at Upsal a , a ge d go, LOUISA, the ' ar,# daughter of the great naturalist, LINNiEUS. ,„cgSg` t ie t On the 25th ult. in Manchester, Mr. WILLIAM tin / the Rev. Joseph Meek, Wesleyan minister, late assists' of Messrs. G. and J. Meek, Wigan. 1 ,0 On the 26th ult. aged 4y, Mr. JEREMY Vl , -- - ^ KS merchant, and one of the councillors for Lancaster. On the ist instant, aged 65, Mr. W. SMITH, Wigx l ',:te of Je l • Same day, aged 52, Mr. BENJAMIN BAXTER , "`" hall, near Frodsham, Cheshire. „ On the ad instant, aged 21, JOHN, second son of . I . lr * 3- 1 41' BURTON, late of Wakefield. JA. On the sth instant, aged 23, ELLEN, wife of Mr . 4. 4 LANEY. T. S tiV On the Bth instant, aged 2 years and 2 months , second son of Capt. G. S. KEYZAR, Wanvick-street. h er f p Same day, at Mickleton, Yorkshire, the residence 010.ced4.4j, Sir Francis Lindley Wood, Bart. CAROLINE, the bee h er srSV WILLIAM BUSFEILD, Esq. M.D. in the 66th year ° i CO, On the 9th instant, awfully sudden, aged 60, Capiate•d. of the High Seacombe lintel, Cheshire, much resP ec . e d,l 4f. Same day, suddenly, aged 5s years, much respe ct FRAZER, confectioner, Vauxhall-road. 0 4g - Same day, at Parkstylc, West Derby, Mr. JOSE - aged 82. e d Same day, at his seat, Denton-park, deeply regret t ie and friends, Sir CHARLES IBBOTSON, Bart. tl j his age. Nfr• life, On the loth instant, at Dumfries, in the prime of frig" • , , 15 M'LELLAN, bookseller and stationer. The f' ° ' hn l society he cultivated will long remember, with nieT be sr!;dt,i his amiable and gentle deportment and goo nes s to Jo" On the 11th instant, Mr. WILLIAM LLOYD , 'a 4 builder, aged years. tree ' On the 12th instant, at his residence, Dean-seoepu JOSEPH JONES, Esq. merchant, formerly of I) 60 ). 0 regretted: in his 16 , On the 14th instant, at his residence, Islington' THOMAS AVISON, Esq. JO De! Same day, of apoplexy, aged 71, Colonel FORD , - the county of Chester. r i On the 16th instant, at his residence, at Brallie°te, o f shire, ALEXANDER HADDEN, Esq. aged 75. AM. no 0. ERS'i ft . Same day. at her house at Brighton, Lady 'H ido berland-terrace, Regent's-park, London, aged 80, / Sir Robert Chambers, formerly Chief Justice of Beo . %TiverV , Same day, at his residence, Lymm, Co S spected, JAMES BIRKETT, Esq. late in her Maj e ''. I dc• this port. ncl, qcoti a D'"4 Same day, at his father's house, Baths-ate, •-• tig er WALKER; of Clarence-street, in his tad year, Y °u the the late Mr. Thomas Walker, surgeon, who died on o ,o e last. t e ' 11" 5 0 5V Same day, after a short illness, ELIZABETH , - h n od , Lite THOMAS BALDWIN, Esq. surgeon, Clithe . roe! . . o, Leonard Wilkinson, Esq. of Rock-house, siaalblu _4OO. most deeply and sincerely regretted. ti - ' On the 16th instant, at the house of Mr. Mar Percy-street, CECELIA VON HOLTZ, aged 34. „OSin n Same day, at Seacombe, Cheshire, GEORGE P. P 4. late of Demerara, aged 49 years. Yesterday, aged 54 years, ROBERT GUE. , - High Sher:ff of the City of Dublin. LIVERPOOL: ,„, 0 FRIDAY, APRIL 19, i r f"' PRINTED AND PUBLISH E, " EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY ''' od BY S SA 1 1' JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 88. 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