The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-02-22 00:00:00

f 3 o. trp. L. E. L.'S LAST QUESTION. BY ELIZABETH B. BARRETT. " Do you think of me as I think of you, My friends, my friends ?" she said it from the sea. The English minstrel in her minstrelsy— While under brighter skies than erst she knew, Her heart grew dark, and groped as the blind, To touch, across the waves, friends left behind— " Do you think of me as I think of you?" It seemed not much to ask—as I of you— We all do ask the "same•-7no eyelids cover Within the meekest eyes that question over— And little in this world the loving do, But sit (among the rocks ?) and listen for The echo of their own love evermore— Do you think of me as I think of you ? Love-learned, she had sung of only love— And as a child asleep (with weary head Dropped on the fairy-book he lately read), Whatever household noises round him move, Hears in his dream some elfin turbulence— Even so, suggestive to her inward se nse , All sounds of life assumed one tune of love. And when the glory of her dream withdrew, When knightly guests and courtly pageantries Where broken in her visionary eyes By tears, the solemn seas attested true— • Forgetting that sweet lute beside her hand, She asked not " Do you praise me, 0 my land,' But, " Think ye of me, friends, as I of you ?" True heart to love, that poured many a year Love's oracles for England, smooth and well — Would God, thou hadst an inward oracle In that lone moment, to confirm thee dear ! For when the questioned friends in agony Made passionate response, " We think of thee," ThMtlace was in the dust—too deep to hear ! Cotild she not wait to catch the answering breath ? Was she content with that drear ocean's sound, Dashing his mocking infinite around The craver of a little love ?—beneath Those stars, content—where last her song had gone ? They, mute and cold in radiant life, as soon Their singer was to be, in darksome death ! Bring your vain answers—cry, " We think of thee!" How think ye of her ?—in the long ago Delights !—or crowned by new bays ?—not so— None smite, and none are crow- fl ea lyeth she— With all her visions unfulfilled, save one, Her childhood's, of the palm trees in the sun— And lo !—their shadow on her sepulchre ! Do you think of me as I think of you ?- 0 friends, 0 kindred, 0 dear brotherhood Of the whole world—what are we that we should For covenants of long affection sue ? Why press so near each other, when the touch Is barred by graves ? Not much, and yet too much This, " Think upon me as I think of you." But, while on mortal lips I shape anew A sigh to mortal issues, verily Above th' unshaken star that see us die, A vocal pathos rolls—and HE who drew All life from dust, and for all, tasted death, By death, and life, and love appealing, saith, Do YOU THINK OF ME AS I THINK OF YOU ? THE CORN LAWS. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL, SECRETARY OF SATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT. My Lord,—l regret exceedingly that some person more competent to the task has not noticed your lordship's de claration in reference to the present corn laws, in your letter to your constituents of the 21st ult. Your lordship says " that it was desirable not to maintain a system of duties which, as experience has shown, increases the high prices of dear years to the consumer, and depresses the low prices of cheap years to the producer." This is a character which, I hope to convince your lordship, the present law by no means deserves. I watched the progress of the bill in 1827 and 1828 with some attention. The great men who were the authors of this beautiful piece of legislation are now no more ; the noble lord, our late colonial secretary, brought up the report upon this great and difficult question, amidst the general ap probation and admiration of the country. It may be com pared (acting inversely) to the safety valve of a steam-engine ; when we have corn enough of our growth, and prices low, the valve is shut, and as prices are reduced in our markets, the pressure of duty is still heavier, so as entirely to exclude foreign grain ; if prices rise the weight becomes less and less, duties of 10s. Bs., 65., and 2s. are charged on the admis sion of foreign wheat to our markets, till at 735. per quarter it flies open, and corn from all parts of the world is admitted at the nominal duty of is. During the low prices of 1833, 1834, 1835, and 1836, the duty imposed by the present law on the importation of wheat was for some time above £2 per quarter, and for the whole of these four years I think it was nearer to £2 than to £l, the quantity brought into our mar kets was in consequence quite insignificant. This is not a matter of opinion but a matter of fact. What more could any law do to prevent the prices falling ? Had there been a moderate fixed duty, as the continental prices were very low at that time, the probabilities are—nay, it is certain, a large quantity of foreign grain would have been added to our already glutted markets. A duty of 30s. or more did pre vent an influx of foreign grain, which a moderate fixed duty would not have prevented. It is thus, I think, clearly shown the tendency of the present corn law is not to depress the low prices of cheap years. It may here be observed that a greater regularity of prices for the first 10 years of the ex istence of the present corn law prevailed than for any period of the same extent for 100 years, or since a register of prices had been kept. The last spring and summer having proved very unfavourable we have had a deficient harvest in Septem ber; the average price of wheat having risen to 735., about 1,000,000 quarters of foreign wheat were brought in instantly into the home market, the consequence was an immediate decline in the price. Since then there has been about another million admitted at Is. duty, and it is confidently expected another.million of quarters may be bad if required. At this time flour is sold generally at 2s. 10d. and 3s. per stone in Mark-lane ; the highest price of the best Norfolk flour is 555. for 2801b5., or less than 2s. 10d. per stone. The present law does not, therefore, tend to increase the high prices of dear years. Had there not been a very deficient crop of corn on the continent much more might have been had if wanted, but the crops there are more deficient than our own. If instead of the present law it had been a moderate fixed duty, in lieu of this supply coming at our need it would have been ex hausted in driblets long before. What would be the case if there was a fixed duty sufficiently high to protect the far mer ? I apprehend so long as we 'have plenty of corn of our own growth its operation would be similar to the present law. How would it he in cases of need ? It would be thus, no English merchant would store corn for our use; knowing that before it could he admitted to the market it must pay a duty equal perhaps to the first cost, nor would any foreigner either grow or store up corn for us under such circumstances. The high prices of dear years to the consumer would be most terrific. The present sliding, self-acting scale of duties ac comodates itself to every emergency without either noise or trouble. I have not spoken of a fixed duty as a source of revenue, because I think no statesman would advocate such a tax for such a purpose, nor have mooted the question, shall we have corn laws, or no corn laws, it not being within my present purpose, which is to convince your lordship that in giving the character which you have done to the corn laws, you have acted from erroneous information, or from conclu sions drawn from false premises. Nothing but the extent of the evil, if uncontradicted, could have induced me thus to address your lordship. I speak it not invidiously, but thou sands and tens of thousands have and will continue to adopt your opinion without giving it the benefit of one doubt ; it is, therefore, necessary that this incorrect statement should, especially at a time when this law is likely soon to be brought up for trial, as well for the sake of truth and justice as for the lake of the best interests of the nation, be as fully and as publicly contradicted as it has been asserted, and I trust to the moral rectitude and to the honourable and honest bearing of your lordship's character, for such a contradic tion, if your lordship he convinced the statement has been erroneously made, and of this I can have no doubt, in order that the public may, by your lordship, be disabused. Had the corn law deserved the character you have given it, it would not for one moment have the support of your lord ship's most humble and obedient servant. Leeds, Feb. 13, 1839. JOHN BAKER. ." JUSTICE TO IRELAND"-THE CORN LAWS, (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) We have already adverted to the policy of the abolition of the corn laws as regards Ireland in particular. We have shown that this country, being essentially agricultural, having in point of fact no considerable manufacture of any kind— nearly two-thirds of her population are vitally interested in the maintenance of those laws, regarding the question merely as an agricultural one ; whereas in Great Britain little more than one-fourth are immediately concerned in it. We have shown that the misery and wretchedness, and, perhaps, to a great extent, even the disturbances, of this unhappy country, being mainly attributable to the disproportion which exists between the demand for and the supply of labour, it would be the policy of Mr. O'Connell and the abolitionists to multiply this redundancy, by throwing into the scale the trifling addition of some 700,000 or 800,000 families ; thereby obviously increasing the misery and disorganisation of this country to an extent which it is absolutely frightful even for a moment to contemplate. Let us now add a few words on the justice of the abolition. It is commonly said, yo' dii err taxation in Ire land; you stand, therefore, pro tanto in a better position than your brethren in England. It is true, certainly, there is no direct taxation in this country of a general nature—that Is io say —the merchant, the professional gentleman, the landholder, the landed proprietor, do not, as in Engl an d, pay a tax for their carriages, their. servants, their armorial bear ings, &c.; but there is a taxation, a heavy and direct taxation in this country ; and it is imposed, not as in England, upon all classes, but exclusively upon the landed interest. Th e proprietor and the occupier are both sensitively aware of this—they know full well that in almost every session of parliament some new and burdensome tax is imposed upon them exclusively. There are the compulsory presentments continually increasing —assizes after assizes, grand juries obliged to register fresh edicts of taxation upon land. There are the presentments for the constabulary : a host of inspec tors, subbs, chief constables, head constables, constables, gab-constables, and, we believe, two or three grades of each sf the classes we have enumerated. We quarrel not with the force, nor with the assessment in aid of them • we only state it a a direct tax upon the landed i n te r e s t. Then there are the "prcemia merentium," those most convenient appoint ments, the stipendiary magistrates. Our orange friend, Sir Lynar, is quartered upon the landowners of the county of Dublin; the equally notorious John Gore Jones is thriving upon the hard earnings of the cess-payers of Cork ; and Arthur French and Laurence Cruise Smyth are receiving the reward of their services from the Protestant counties of Fermanagh and Sligo. But these are trifles compared with the impositions of the last session. Tithes are now (we should be the last to complain of it) fixed, as a permanent charge upon land. Formerly they were but a deduction from the produce of land; now they form a rent charge-(and we rejoice that it is so,) not upon the produce, but upon the land itself- payable to the clergy, irrespective of the quan tity or value, or circumstances of the produce. The landed proprietors and occupiers have now, likewise, suspended over their heads the fearful experiments of poor rates. The good feeling, moderation, and generosity of the landed interest prevented them from even remonstrating against a measure which, by many, is supposed likely to involve an overwhelm ing weight of taxation upon land; and anew charge, greater, nrobably, than any we have adverted to, has consequently b -en imposed upon them. Under such circumstances we do not hesitate to state that the parliament which so recently sanctioned a measure, of necessity so onerous to the landed interest of Ireland, is hound on every principle of honour, consistency, and justice—if indeed; there is still a place for any of these qualities in the majority of our imperial legis lature—to protect the interests of those upon whom the pressure of that measure will fall. Let the landed interest, then, while it is time, bestir themselves—let the proprietors and occupiers of the soil—the landlord and the tenant, the gentleman and the farmer, for once join together and demand justice for Ireland." We tell them they will receive it, not from Mr. O'Connell or Lord Normanby, but from Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington. The approaching assives will afford a favourable opportunity for procuring sig natures and making known to Irish members the sentiments and etwocta&m A of their coust WHO IS TO BE DAN'S LIEUTENANT? The appointment of the Marquis of Normanby to be the successor of Lord Glenelg relieves Ireland from one of the greatest and most pitiable inflictions which ever yet pros trated her natural energies, or mocked the earnest endea vours of England to make her, in the sense of the words, as " great, glorious, and free" as herself. , It would be an easy task to write his Excellency's history. An amateur actor, and writer of namby-pamby novels, he was considered perfectly well qualified to bear rule over the niggers of Jamaica, who rebelled whilst he was Governor. His exploits amongst the Blacks rendered him, in the eyes of the Whigs, most peculiarly fitted to be the Lordi Lieutenant of Ireland. And how has he managed affairs in that unhappy land ? During his Viceroyalty murders have increased in number and atrocity ;—outrages of the most fearful nature have multiplied, until the Police Gazette is unable to con tain the list ;—landlords have been assassinated, because Pro testants ; and criminals have been pardoned, and aspirants have been promoted, because Papists. Every place of honour or distinction has been given away in a manner studiously contrived to insult the Protestants of Ireland, and to con ciliate the favour of the Priests, who rule the deluded peasants with the hell threats of the confessional. But let that pass :—his reward has been a Marquisate in the past year ; and, leaving Ireland most appropriately from the Theatre, a seat in the Cabinet in the present year, where by the way, his fides Aehates, Lord Morpeth, sits beside him. Why is not Mephistvhiles himself promoted to a similar honour. Who is to be the Deputy of the Agitator?—Many are mentioned. First, the Royal Bellyserious, the Duke of Sussex. Cer tainly, if the Viceroyalty of Ireland is to be given to poor men as a place in which to save money, the examples of Lord Wellesley and Lord Normanby, may be quoted by the wan derer of Kensington. Next, the Earl of Radnor. He is well kndwn for a most rabid hostility to the Universities and the Established Church ; therefore, just the man to " carry out" the plans of the Howicks and Russells. But we are well assured that Minis ters will not dare to send this Peer to Ireland. His appoint ment would be a challenge to the Protestants, which they would not be slow to interpret and accent. The Earl of Clarendon is also spoken of. His Lordship is in Madrid ; and, we should think,:will not be over desirous to carry his new honours to Dublin. The Marquis of Conyngham ! This poor wretched cour ter—a Polonius at forty ! Well • as far as respects moral training, he is well fitted to succeed Lord Normanby ! The Marquis of Tavistock, the eldest son of the erudite ' Johnny,' (as her Grace calls him), the Duke of Bedford, has hereditary claims, Johnny himself having once enacted vice-King at the Phoenix Park. His lordship is, moreover, brother to another recommenda tion ; he is brother-in-law of the Duke of Leinster, which may be another ; but we would advise him to stick to Oakley and its hunt, where he is respected, anei eschew Ireland, where a second ' Russell purge' will not be swallowed. The Earl of Albemarle is also spoken of, as having con sented to relieve Ministers from their embarrassment. His lordship is in the same category with the Duke of Sussex, and Lords Wellesley, and Normanby, and may go for the con-si-de-ra-tion Who, then, is to be Lord Lieutenant of Ireland? What think you of ' our right trusty, and well-beloved John George, Earl of Durham ?' &c. There are more things,' says Hamlet, ' in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy ;' and we should not feel at all surprised to find the said. Earl installed in Dublin Castle. That the com ing battle between him and Lord Melbourne will be a rank cross, there is no doubt ; and even Lord Brougham speaks of the ex-Canada King as my noble friend.' One thing we do know,—which is, that the Earl of Dur ham is a gentleman, and would not for one moment endure the presence at his table of the bloated and dishonoured beggarman. If, then, the ministry survives long enough to be able to appoint a Viceroy for Ireland, politically opposed to him as we are, we should be glad to hear that the Earl of Durham was sent there. If we are to have a foe, let us have an open one, not a jesuitical popinjay —not a whining Prince starving on an allowance of X 21,000 per annum,—not a cun ning church destroyer under the plea of improving it,—not the fawning courtier of equivocal morality,—not the hungry heir of a family gorged with church plunder :—if we are to have an opponent as the Irish representative of M a j es ty, l e t us have Lord Durham, even though he take with him the Turtons and Wakefields of his train. He at least would not be Dan's Lieutenant,—or he is not the proud man we believe him to be. He would fawn upon none ; and, what would suit us very well, he would very soon blow up all !—Age. INSULT UPON THE BRITISH FLAG BY THE FRENCH. THE EXPRESS PACKET. (From the Falmouth Express. With feeling of inexpressible sha me an d humiliation we are compelled to record, another insult inflicted on the British flag, by a nation that once trembled to encounter it upon the seas. We pledge the respectability of the Falmouth Express for the accuracy of the facts ; and we believe we are giving them its substance as they have been transmitted to the Ad miralty. The day of the attack on the castle of Ulloa, Vera Cruz, her Majesty's Express, Lieut. Croke, R.N., was in the har bour ' • but seeing the pr e p ara tio ns by th e F renc h f or t h e bombardment, a native pilot was induced to entrust himself to the safety of the British flag, and pilot the gun-brig to the Island of Sacrificios. On his way thither, Lieut. Croke, with the English colours flying, passed the corvette which Prince de Joinville commands ; mutual civilities being ex changed, as her Majesty's packet was proceeding, signals were seen flying at the French admiral's mast-head. A shot was presently fired by the corvette on the quarter of the Ex press packet, an English jack was shown at the Frenchman's mast-head, and a boat was discerned pulling from him. Lieut. Croke hove to, and a French officer having boarded the packet, positively demanded the pilot. The packet being under the guns of the corvette, the commander, after some objection and remonstrance, felt compelled to surrender him, and he was forcibly taken on board the French ship. Now, be it remembered, the pilot had only embarked on board a neutral vessel, under the confidence which foreigners have hitherto reposed in the protection of the British flag. An English officer induced him to leave the safety of his home, and he felt that he was surely intrusting himself to the officer of a nation powerful enough to protect him. In vain, how ever, the poor man—with England's ensign and pennant waving above his head—in vain he entreated the rights of that confidence which had brought him, not to pilot an enemy against his country, but a neutral and armed ship from danger. In vain he averred that should he even be forced to pilot the French to the action, his own indignant countrymen would reward his involuntary treachery with death. His just re monstrance was in vain—the red cross of Albion was dis honoured, humiliated, and powerless. The respect which, under whig impotency, England ceases to maintain for her own glorious flag, availed not for the security of even the decent rights of neutrality. A British officer, beneath his own pennant, with the commission of his Queen, and the uniform of his country, in her Majesty's armed brig, was • compelled, by superior force, to resign his pilot a prisoner into the hands of the enemy—a prisoner to lead the foe to the attack and slaughter of his own countrymen ! Comments on the outrageous insult were superfluous— every Englishman will feel not more indignant than ashamed ! Shall we dare to resent it ? Where is the force to command respect ? It is mockery to complain—it is only one more insult ; and since the effeminate creatures that degrade our government have held office, the flag of Britain has sustained more insult in three years than she had previously brooked for three centuries ! With such governors it would be wiser at once to land our ships' guns, disarm our officers, and no longer offer even the pretence of an armament to the bullying insult of the foreigner ! PETITION IN FAVOUR OF THE CORN LAWS TO THE HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The petition of the agriculturists of Great Britain and Ire land humbly showeth,— That a number of restle.:s men, whose minds are ever given to change, less acquainted with the interests of the community than with the gullibility of mankind, have, for purposes best known to themselves, (being inscrutible to us,) collected with immense industry a combination or conspiracy against the corn-laws, which your honourable house, in its wisdom, es tablished in 1815, for the benefit of the whole community ; and, laying aside the use of their understanding, and for a wicked or interested purpose, perhaps, originating and sup ported by Nicholas of the north, for they seem to have the advocacy of all the weakest, perhaps gratuitously, perhaps not so, with a great portion of the most able of the press, who have exhausted the whole of the English vocabulary, whether standard or provincial, in terms of abuse of those laws, such a. unjust, iniquitous, a dreadful tax on the com munity, and a monstrous monopoly. Now your petitioners humbly show, That this monopoly consists of about one million of competitors, who possess the monopoly so long as over production produces a glut and low prices. But whenever corn gets to unremunerating prices, away goes our monopoly, and in comes the corn of our dear brother autocrat of Russia from the Baltic, and from the Black Sea,—from Prussia,—from Denmark,—from Germany,—from Holland,—from Belgium, and from our autocratical-republican brethren in the Uuited States, if they can now spare any. Now we humbly beg to draw the attention of your honour able house to the official returns of the average price of wheat which, from 1795 to 1814, inclusive, will be 81s. 10d. per quarter, and Ghat from 1815 to 1834, inclusive, will be 635. 6d. per quarter; lower by 18s. 4d. Now, takng the consumption of the United Kingdom in all kinda of grain, equal to 15 millions of quarters per annum, at 18s., the saving in price to the community, for one year, will be 40 millions sterling, and for the twenty years 800 million. sterling, more or less. as your honourable house may judge correct, less than in the same period before the corn laws were establisned. Now, although these anti-agricultural-employment men have gulled millions to believe that your corn-laws have made corn dear, we hope that your honourable house, with the assistance of the official average returns as above, will expose their declamatory assertions,—untwist the conglo meration of their minds,—correct their metaphysics,—detect their sophistry, and protect the community from their anti national political economy, by presenting to the astonished eye of the whole kingdom a result the very reverse of their assertions. We also beg leave to mention, that we have a fellow-feeling for our manufacturers, who complain of the decrease of the sale of their goods on the continent, and we are sorry to ob serve they have also fallen into the gull-trap, that that de crease is in the exports of yarn, and with those yarns they probably make goods. And your honourable house will, no doubt, perceive that the people of the continent have not yet enough of capital to build factories for spinning. They only want our open corn markets without duties for a few years to enable them to do so, and be independent both of spinner and weaver. Your honourable house cannot but observe the very sin gular and strong anti-national current ; the mysterious source of which, for the interest of our manufacturers we humbly beg of you to investigate. And we humbly beg your honourable house to give to all that is conveyed in our humble petition all the attention which the good of the whole community requires, in which we hold so great a share. MISS JULIA NEWMAN.—The ship John Beinvick, has brought safely to our shores the celebrated female convict, Julia Newman. What has become of the lady mother of this interesting damsel we have yet to learn.—Sydney Monitor. HYDROPHOBIA.—An American physician is said to have discovered that a few drops of any mineral acid, applied to the bite of a rabid animal will prevent hydrophobia. The acid decomposes the poisonous saliva, and cannot be injurious. HINT FOR JONATHAN.—There is a little river in Corsica named Restonica, for whitening everything thrown into it. It is rather singular that none of the American journals have availed themselves of the circumstance, and discovered that a black man who had bathed in it became suddenly white. A MODERATE CLIMATE MOST CONDUCIVE TO LONGEVI NY.—CIimates that are moderately cold are favourable to long life. This observation applies to the vegetable kingdom ; and trees that have scarcely attained their full growth in northern regions are drooping in the south. Dryness of soil is another source of health and life • and the hardy moun taineer's existence is seldom abridged by the diseases that visit the inhabitants of damp and swampy regions. Sterile plains are more salubrious than regions covered .with a rank , and exuberant vegetation, or highly-cultivated grounds, from many obvious reasons. The humid earth is not turned up, and decayed vegetable substances are not acted upon in a deleterious manner by the solar heat. MISCELLANEOUS. A MISNOMER.—A paragraph in the Globe which relates to the death of a faithful servant after living 66 years in one family, is headed "Exemplary Longevity." To couple the former word with the latter, is rather a droll idea, as if any one could help dying young ! It is a notorious fact that immense quantities of whiskey and other spirits and cordials have been brought to Bristol by the Irish and Scotch steamers, and ruri without paying any duty, to the great injury of the fair trader. The Excise and Customs officers have received instructions to put an end to this illicit trade.—Bristol Gazette. A young lady, about 19; allied to some of the most respec table families of Alercon, eloped a few nights since, from the convent of the Adoration, m that town, where she was a parlour boarder, with a notary'.s clerk, no t more than 20 years of age. The adventurous heroine descended from a window of the second story into the street, with "the aid of two or three ladders clumsily attached together. The lover was assisted in the elopement by three or four hair-brained comrades, who had a cabriolet waiting at a short distance, in which the enamoured pair whisked off, but in what direction has not been traced.—Galignani. A MAN ASSAULTING HIMSELF.—At the Hull police office, a tradesman, named Clayton, was summoned for an assault" on him, the said William Clayton." The solicitor for the defendant contended that the summons should be dis missed. The clerk to the magistrates declared that the de fendant knew perfectly well who was meant instead of him self in the summons, and urged that the magistrates should alter the name of the defendant to that of the complainant. The solicitor for the defendant maintained that the error was fatal, but the magistrates, after condemning the clerk for his frequent errors, decided upon altering the summons ; on this the solicitor refused to appear in the case, and left the office. —Hull Paper. THE QUEEN'S LETTER.—Much has been said about the Queen's letter to Lord Durham during the brief period of the Lord High Seditioner's stay in Canada, It seems how ever from the following copy, which we assure our readers has been obtained from a most authentic source, that the report of its containing any urgent request of her Majesty that his Lordship would, as a personal favor to her Majesty, continue to hold the reins of government in that colony, was untrue. We print the copy verbatim:— " Windsor, Oct. 25th. "MY DEAR LORD DURHAM. — Understanding from Mamma that you are coming back from Canada, may I beg the favor of your bringing with you a copy of the Canadian Boat Song, as it is sung in that country. You will know the song I mean. It begins—' Row, brothers, row,' and a precious row they have been snaking amongst them. "With compliments to Lady D. and the children, Daieve me, yours truly, "VICTORIA R." —Coventry Standard. _ ____ " FLASH NOTES."—CAUTION TO THE PUBLlC.—Shop keepers and others, and more especially the frequenters of fairs and markets, at which places the unsuspecting are more liable to be "taken in," are cautioned to be on their guard against what are termed "flash notes, which are now in extensive circulation. We have seen some so admirably executed, especially the figure of Britannia, and the word "ten" in the left-hand corner, at the bottom, that persons who are daily accustomed to receive Bank of England notes in payment, would easily, in the hurry of business, be decei ved by them, from the c l ose rese mblance they bear to a genuine note. A short time since the proprietors of one of the unstamped weekly publications gave away to each pur chaser one of this description of notes, and several thousands of them have thus got i n t o th e hands of the public. The printers, as well as the publishers of these notes, are liable to heavy penalties ; and it would be well if the proper autho rities were to adopt the necessary legal means to put a stop to their dangerous circulation. MR. RAWSON AND HIS SAXONY HOSE.—The Notting ham Journal, after quoting the remarks on the statements made by Mr. Rawson, at the late gathering of anti-corn law agitators, observes as follows :—" Mr. Rawson, as some of our readers are aware, formerly resided in this town and neighbourhood : he has of late, to serve the purposes of the corn-law repealers, been very busy on 'Change, in Manches ter and Liverpool, in exhibiting Saxony hose, which he has represented as being so much cheaper than those manufac tured in the midland counties, that some merchants have been induced, to the prejudice of the Nottingham trade, to give their orders to Saxony. Experience, however, has al ready taught some (no thanks to Mr. Rawson) that they can do a much better business with our own stockings ; and their orders are, consequently, coming back to this market. It ,really does seem to us " too bad" that men, like Mr. Raw son, should not only injure our manufacturers, by fallacious and absurd statements, but that he should be eternally cry ing out that our commercial prosperity is ruined by the pre sent corn laws, when, under the same order of things, they have achieved for themselves pecuniary advantages and social advancement. And yet it generally happens, that the most surly grumblers at our laws and constitution are they who have most reason to be grateful for the blessings which in no other kingdom could they so readily have secured. Fancy now a man rising, in a few years, from the drudgery and an xieties of a " bag hosier" in an obscure village, to take a stand as a leader of public opinion in flourishing towns and sea-ports, whose " merchants are princes, and whose traffick ers are the honourable of the earth," rising from a sphere of humble occupation to rank with the manufacturing " aristo cracy" in their busy marts and country villas ; and yet to hear this man denouncing our commercial and agricultural policy as a curse, and labouring hard to excite murmurs and discontent among the densely populated districts of. Lanca shire ! Why Mr. Rawson himself, one would think, if un warped by party prejudice, would reprobate such an ingrate, even though, in passing judgment upon him, he should utter his own condemnation." EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.-At the Town-hall, Rye, on Tues day, two men, named Woollett and Terry, farming large farms in the neighbourhood, were placed at the bar, charged with stealing thirty packs of wool from Henry Brazier, a wool stapler at Rye, of the val ue o f £6OO an d upwar d s . The pro sqcutor is in a large way of business, and has a warehouse called the Chapel Warehouse, which had been robbed to an immense extent. The warehouse contained £20,000 worth of wool, and £6OO worth of that article had been stolen within the last four weeks. John Hood, a gamekeeper at Northian, in going his rounds on Friday, the 22d January, saw the pri soner Woollett go towards the Chapel Warehouse with an empty cart, and return to his house, called the Tanpit farm, with a very heavy load. Witness followed the cart, and heard some parcels of a bulky article thrown on to the ground.—An excise officer stated that he was called upon by information he had received to go into the prisoner Woollett's house for the purpose of searching for hidden spirits, and on searching it he found twenty five packs of wool. A constable took the prisoners into custody for the robbery, and has kept possession of the wool. The servants of the prosecutor stated the wool to be of the same description as that in the Chapel Ware house. Mr. Elkington and Mr. Powell, extensive woolsta plers in Southwark, proved having bought of the prisoners, who are uncle and nephew, quantities of wool of the val ue o f £3OO. ; the wool was of the same kind as that in the Chapel Warehouse. Mr. John Paris, of Maresfield, also bought wool of the prisoners like that in the prosecutor's warehouse. The prisoners, who made no defence, w ere f u lly comm it te d for trial. The apparent respectability of the prisoners, and the great extent of the depredations, being in the whole above £l,OOO, has excited a great sensation in the neighbourhood. —Brighton Gazette. NEW LAMP •FOR LIGHTHOUSES.—Professor Faraday, on Friday night, gave an interesting lecture at the Royal Institu tion on the subject of a new lamp invented, or rather brought to perfection, (for the invention is not, it appears, altogether new by Mr. Gurney, which Mr. Faraday proposed to call the " oxy oil lamp," for want of a ,name better describing its nature, not having, as he stated, been at present informed what name the inventor intended to give it. The new lamp most nearly resembles the common argand lamp, with this difference, that its burners may be made•to equal at the lowest two and a half and at the highest number fifty of the common burners, and into the flame of which a stream of oxygen gas is intro duced, by which operation the character of the flame is exchanged from a dark smoky light to the bright and indeed brilliant light of the hydro-oxygen lights now used for micro scopic exhibitions. The application of oxygen gas to the light of common oil lamps is not new, Dr Priestley having discovered the use of such application many years ago ; but to Mr. Gurney belongs the merit of having overcome all the difficuTes which stood in the way of its practical application and every-day use. The Tamp in question is more immedi ately intended for light-house purposes, and Mr. Gurney, it seems, has been engaged for three years in the mcst perse vering and undaunted experiments in completing his task, which is the more laudable, inasmuch as, on the authority of Mr. Faraday, for five-sixths of that time all his efforts ap peared fruitless in overcoming the objections to and surmount ing the obstacles which stood in the way to the completion of this useful invention. The introduction of the oxygen has the effect of decreasing the length of the flame, which is thus better adapted for the marine purpose to which it is des tined ; and it has the greatest of all recommendations, namely, economy in its favour. This is not, however, appa rent at first view, for the gas costs double the amount of the oil. But the introduction of the former effects such a dimi- nution in the consumption of the latter, that not only is the expense of the gas and the apparatus used in its preparation paid for, but an ultimate saving, as well as a most supe rior light, is the result. This lamp was the text of the pro fessor's discourse for the evening, and he treated it in so lucid and pleasing a manner, as to render his lecture exceed ingly interesting, and to elicit the applause of a numerous and scientific audience. DESTRUCTION OF A COAL SHIP.—On Saturday intelli gence reached London of the total destruction by fire of the collier brig Swallow, of Shields, and her cargo of co a l s , i n Long Reach, off urfleet. On Thursday last the vessel brought up in the place assigned to her by the harbour master, in the No. 5 section, just below Long Reach T avern . At midnight. when the captain and crew were asleep in their berths, an alarm was raised by the people in the oam-r•ships of the tier, that the Swallow was on fire. The crew were in the forecastle, and soon ascended to the deck with their clothes and hammocks. The captain and mate, who were asleep in the cabin, were with great difficulty aroused, and on leaping from their berths they found that the fire had already reached the bulk-head separating the cabin from the cargo. The cabin was full of smoke, and the captain and mate were nearly suffocated before they could reach the top of the companion ladder. They were unable to save a single article of clothing. The captain immediately slackened the cables and got away from the tier, thus avoiding all danger to the fleet of colliers. The wind drifted the ship to the Essex shore, where she grounded and stuck fast, just below Purfleet, and a few sails were all the crew could save. At two o'clock the coals had ignited, and the deck was soon burnt through, when the flames illuminated the counties of Kent and Essex to a considerable distance. The country people flocked from all quarters to ascertain the cause. The villages of Erith, Purfleet, and Greenhithe were distinctly visible. The fire, which was perceivable at Gravesend, con tinued to rage with fury until day-break on Friday morning, when the top sides of the ship were burnt through, and there was not a stick standing. About noon on Friday the coals were on fire from one end to the other, and the heat was so intense that no boat could approach within twenty yards. The coals were not entirely consumed until yesterday morn ing, when all that remained of the vessel was her keel and a poition of her lower works. The Swallow was a ;ery file . brig, being only three years old, of 295 tons register. She had nearly 400 tons of coal on board for the London market. THE REV. SYDNEY SMITH ON THE BALLOT.—The single lie on the hustings would not suffice ; the concealed demo crat, who voted against his landlord, must talk with the wrong people, subscribe to the wrong club, huzza at the wrong dinner, break the wrong head, lead (if he wished to escape from the watchful jealousy of his landlord) a long life of lies between every election ; and he must do this, not only eundo, in his calm and prudential state, but redeundo from the market, warmed with beer and expanded with alcohol ; and he must not only carry on his seven years of dissimulation before the world, but in the very bosom of his family ; or he must expose himself to the dangerous garrulity of wife, children, and servants, from whose indiscretion every kind of evil report would be carried to the ears of the watch ful steward. * * * It must always be remem bered, and often repeated, and said and sung to Mr. Grote, that it is to the degraded liar only that the box will be useful. The man who performs what he promises needs no box. The man who refuses to do what he is asked to do, despises the box. The liar, who says he will do what he never means to do, is the only man to whom the box is useful, and for whom this leaf out of the punic Pandects is to be inserted in our statute books ; the other vicecs will begin to look up, and to think themselves neglected, if falsehood obtains such flattering distinction, and is thus defended by the solemn enactments of law. * * * Universal hypocrisy would be the consequence of ballot; we should soon say, on deliberation, what David only asserted in his haste, that all men were liars. SELECT EXTRACTS. ONE OF THE MISERIES OF HUMAN LlFE.—Being a com positor on a newspaper, and having to insert the marriage of the girl you love with a man old enough to be her father ! he is rich, and you are poor. MEDICAL COURTESY.-Sir Henry Halford prescribed ice cream to some old dowager, who complained of her stomach. " Oh, Sir Henry," she said, " It is too cold—my stomach won't bear it." " Then, my lady," answered the obliging baronet, "you may have your ice warmed."—Gentleman's Magazine. IMPORTANCE OF PURE AlR.—That the air is deteriorated by breathing is generally known, but not universally ; other wise so many persons would not be careless of living, sleeping, and working in unventilated rooms, workshops, factories, and counting-houses. To tolerate about our person or habitation excretions of the animal economy is justly considered inju rious to the health, and repugnant to delicacy and cleanliness ; it is not less to inspire a contaminated atmosphere ; for the nutriment of the air is quite as effectually extracted by in spiration as the nutriment of food is by digestion, and the residue in either case ought to be deemed equally offensive. FULFILMENT OF PROPHECY.--I read in the sacred book prophecy upon prophecy and curse upon curse against the very land on which I stood. I was about to journey through this laud, and to see with my own eyes whether the Almighty had stayed his uplifted arm, or whether his sword had indeed come down " upon Idumea, and the people of his curse, to judgement." I have before referred to Keith on the Prophe cies, where, in illustrating the fulfilment of the prophecies against Idumea, " none shall pass through it for ever and ever," after referring to the singular fact that the great caravan routes existing in the days of David and Solomon, and under the Roman Empire, are now completely broken up, and that the great hadji routes to Mecca from Damascus and Cairo lie along the borders of Idumea, barely touching and not passing through it, he proves, by abundant refer ences, that to this day no traveller has ever passed through the land."—Stephen's Incidents of Travel in the Holy Land." ACCOMMODATING FISHES.—It has been said, whether truly or not the reader must decide, that the means of ex istence in some of the western parts of the United States of America are so easy, that pigs ready roasted, with knives and fo?ks stuck in their bac4s, run about the roads cryinc? " Come and eat me—come and eat me." Whatever may be thought of the above story, it can scarcely be considered more miraculous than the following account 'extracted from the travels of Oderic, of Portenau, a monk of the early part of the 14th century, and now a saint of the Roman calendar. Speaking of the seas of the Indian Archipelago, he relates that they abound so much in fib'', that nothing can be seen to some distance from the shore but the backs of fishes. The fish come themselves upon the shore, and, for three days, allow the people to take as many of them as they please. At the end of those three days this shoal returns to sea, and a different kind comes to the spot in the same manner, and for an equal time. This happens, he says, once every year ; and the people pretend that the fish are taught by nature to do this in token of homage to the Emperor. On this wonder ful story the author of " The Geography of the Middle Ages" has the adjoined remarks :—" This account is, in all material points, perfectly true. The seas of the Archipelago abound more in fish than any other part of the world ; and it is said that the inhabitants of Java have the art of taming them to such a degree, that they come to the shore in obedi ence to a call !' This remark of Dr. Lardner's most sagacious writer is not a little curious ; but he ought, in justice to his readers, to have given them. art interpretation of the call. For our parts, we have no doubt that it means " Come and let me eat you!" A RUSSIAN GENTLEMAN'S DWELLING.—For the inte rior arrangement of the houses, the custom is to have as many rooms as possible, opening en suite. If the reception rooms are on the first floor, the ground tier is low and re served for servants'-rooms, &c. The kitchen is generally in a detached building. The bed-room of the master and mistress of the house is usually connected with the drawing room or saloon, by folding doors, which stand open all day, so that any one who pleases may enter. Sometimes a fold ing screen runs across the room, so as to conceal the bed, washing-stand, &c., and sometimes when the lady has a se parate dressing-room, the bed is exposed without hangings, but covered by a handsome silk quilt, while the toilette-ta ble displays the usual silver boxes and cut-glass bottles, which belong to a handsome dressing-case. The rooms by no means boast the same comfort and luxury of furniture which exists in England ; the sofas are stiff and hard, and the chairs and tables heavy and clumsy, castors beimg seldom used ; and the walls, instead of being papered or painted, are in general merely white-washed or coloured. Ido not mean to say that elegant furniture is unknown in Russia, but that it is not generally diffused as in England. Indeed its preposterous expense must confine it to the houses, and for the most part to the town-houses, of a very few rich people. Gams, of Peters burgh, will fit up a house with the utmost luxury and good taste, but then his charges would be double what would be paid to a first-rate London upholsterer. Refinement cannot be con sidered as naturalised in any country till it can be obtained at a reasonable price, and can therefore become habitual to the people. To return to Russian rooms. The floors are generally bare, with the exception of a small carpet in one corner; they are composed of neatly inlaidwood, or boards painted in imitation of a parquet. Almost every apartment, without excepting the bed-rooms, is a passage : and this is an inconvenience to which the Russians do not appear at all sensible. Since there are no bells, except one sometimes, which communicates from the saloon into the ante-room, the servants cannot live in one part of the house and their mas- ters in another, an arrangement sd materially contributing to the comfort of both, nor can the doors be shut on all that ought to lie behind the scenes. Here the footman must be close to the saloon, the valet must be within call of his mas ter, and the maids must be next door to their mistress's bed room ; and each in general sleeps by night where he or she sat by day.—Venables's Scenes in Russia. APPALLING INCIDENT.—The following is extracted from a private journal kept on board the Vincennes, one of the vessels attached to the Exploring Expedition, and published in the Bunker Hill Aurora :—" Just before noon, while taking in the main top-gallant stub one of the crew who was in the yard, by the slatting of the sail, had the buntline thrown over his head, and before he could free himself, was jerked off, and forward of the yard, where he hung dangling by the neck at the height of 80 feet. He struggled for a moment only, trying with both hands to reach the rope over his head, and then they fell powerless by his side. He was first seen by the boatswain, who looked up, on seeing a hat fall over board. I was by his side, and never shall I forget the face of horror, nor the unearthly and fearful shriek that broke froM him after pointing aloft for a few seconds, incapable of uttering a sound. It was like that sometimes heard from persons suffering under the night-mare. It was indeed a most awful sight, to behold a fellow-creature thus quivering in the air, his arms dangling to and fro, and his whole body swayed backwards and forwards with every roll of a ship, fif teen or twenty feet, and every little while striking with vio lence against the mast. In a few seconds a dozen men were aloft to his assistance, but it seemed as many hours. And here a new danger presented itself; one of them thinking only of freeing the sufferer's neck, caug ht hi m w ith one h an d, leaning over the topsail-yard, as he swung in, and began cut ting the rope with the other. Providentially, the attempt was seen and arrested by tlfe first lieutenant. Had he cut the rope, the jerk must have thrown them off together. He was now soon liberated, but declared to be dead. • On being lowered on deck in a hammock sent up for the purpose, the means used for the recovery of persons whose animation is suspended were successfully used, and he is now doing well. Another minute, and all would have been over with him. On examination of the manner in which he was suspended, his preservation is little short of miraculous. There was only a single turn round his neck. Had it slipped (and Heaven only can tell what prevented it) he would have been dashed to pieces, or whirled overboard, where, with the heavy sea that was running, he must have perished. Had it caught an inch nearer his"ear he must have suffocated ere relieved. And in view of hi; escape, will you believe it, all he thi n k s o f i s stop ping his grog to-day, lest it should induce fever.! Not half an hour since, I went to see him, and he said ' it was hard a man must lose his grog because he came near breaking .his neck.' Such is the old man-of-war's man." INSTINCT.—In the forests of Tartary and of South Ame rica, where the wild horse is gregarious, there are herds of 500 or 600, which, being ill-prepared for fighting, or indeed for any resistance, and knowing that their safety is in flight, when they sleep, appoint one in rotation who acts as sentinel, while the rest.are asleep. if a man app roac h es , th e sen ti ne l walks towards him as if to reconnoitre or see whether he may be deterred, from coming near—if the man continues, he neighs aloud,hnd in a peculiar tone, which rouses the herd and all gallop away, the sentinel bringing up the rear. Nothing can be more judicious or rational than this arrangement, simple as it is. So a horse, belonging to a smuggler at Dorer, used to be laden with run spirits, and sent on the road unattended to reach the rendezvous. When he descried a soldier, he would jump off the highway and hide himself in a ditch, and when discovered would fight for his load. The cunning of foxes is proverbial : but 1 know not if it was ever more remarkably displayed than in the Duke of Beaufort's country ; where reynard, being hard pressed, disappeared sud denly, and was, after strict search, found immersed in a water-pool up to the very snout, by which he held a willow bough hanging over the pond. The cunning of a dog, which sergeant Wilde tells me of, as known to him, is at least equal. He, used to be tied up as a precaution against hunting sheep. At night he , slipped his head out of the collar, and returning before dawn put on the collar again, in order to conceal his nocturnal excursion. Nobody has more familiarity with various animals beside his great knowledge of his own species) than my excellent, learned, and ingenious friend, the ser geant ; and he possesses many curious ones himself. His anecdote of a drover's dog is striking, as he gave it me, when we happened to be near the place, to meet a drove. The man had brought seventeen out of twenty oxen from a field, leaving the remaining three there mixed with another herd. He then said to th dog, " Go, fa' them ;" and he went and singled out those very three. The sergeant's brother, however, a highly respectable man, lately sheriff of London, has a dog that distinguishes Saturday night, from the prac tice of tying him up for the Sunday, which he dislikes. He will escape on Saturday night, and return on Monday morn ing. The sergeant himself had a gander which was at a distance from the goose, and hearing her make an extraordi nary noise, ran back and put his head into a cage—then brought back all the goslings one by one, and put them into it with the mother, whose separation from her brood 'had occasioned her clamour. He then returned to the place whence her cries had called him. ANECDOTE OF LORD EARDLEY. — DUring breakfast one day, Lord Eardley was informed that a person had applied for a footman's place, then vacant. He was ordered into the room, and a double refined specimen of the genius so detested by his lordship made his appearance. The manner of the man was extremely affected and consequential, and it was evident that my lord understood him at a glance : moreover, it was as evident that he determined to lower him a peg or two. " Well, my good fellow," said he, " what, you want a lackey's place, do you ?" - " I come about an upper footman's situation, my lord," said the gentleman bridling up his head. " Oh, do ye, do ye ?" replied Lord Eardley • I keep no upper servants all alike—all alike he re ." " Indeed, my lord ! " exclaimed the hireling, with an air of shocked dignity. "What department, then, am Ito consi der myself expected to fill ? Department ! department ! " quoth my lord, in a tone like inquiry. " What capacity, my lord ?" My lord repeated the word capacity, as if not understanding its application to the present subject. " I mean, my lord," explained the man, " what shall I be expec ted to do if I take the situation ? " Oh, you mean if you take the place, I perfectly understand you now," rejoined my lord ; " why you're to do every thing but sweep the chimneys and clean the pig-styes, and those I do myself." The gentleman stared, scarcely knowing what to make 'of this, and seemed to wish himself out of the room ; he how -1 ever grinned a ghastly smile, and, after a short pause, inqui red what salary his lordship gave. Salary ! salary !" reitera ted his incorrigible lordship ; " dont know the word—dont know the word—my good man." Again the gentleman explained, " I mean what wages ?" " Oh, wages ?' echoed my lord; "what d'ye ask, ?—what d'ye ask ?" Trip regained his self possession at this question, which looked like busi ness, and considering for a few moments, a nswere d,—fi rs t stipulating to be found in hair-powder, and (on state occa sions) silk stockings, gloves, bags, and bouquets—that he should expect thirty pounds a-year. " How much, how much ?" demanded my lord rapidly. "Thirty pounds, my lord." Thirty pounds !" exclaimed Lord Eardley in affected amazement. " Make it guineas and I'll live with you!" Then, ringing the bell, said to the servant who answered it, "Here, let out this gentle/turn ! he is to) good for me—too good for me," and turningto Mr. Matthews; who was much amused, said, as the man made his exit, " Conceited, impu dent scoundrel ! soon sent him off, Master Matthews !" —Matthews's Memoirs, 'hlpp'ng fintrilignur. SAILED ON MONDAY LAST. Chatham, Smith, and Thomas Hunter, Hewson, for Africa—Do rothy Galcs, Moore, and Europe, Foster, for Ceylon—Siam, Boadle, and Alice Crowther, Smith, for Sincapore—Esther, Heron; for Cal cutta—Mary Hartley, Webb, for the Mauritius—Elizabeth, Highat, for the Cape of Good Hope—Zeno, Mossop ; Thomas Hughes, M'Minn, and Minerva, Furlong, for Jamaica—Parker, Risien, and Mary, Story, for Demerara—Archer, Braithwaite, and Bolivar, Fen wick, for Barbadoes—Minerva, De Reutera, for Havana—Siddons, Britton ; Nathaniel Hooper, Freeto ; Sarah Stewart, Wilson; and Mary Bollard, La v - renson, for New York—Shannon, Andrews, and Wm. Miles, Kind:ey, for Mobile—Leila, Higgins, for Baltimore— Resolution, ForrW - ; Fanny, Crowell, and Albion, Forrest, for New Orleans—Napier, :ndford, for Philadelphia—Tamerlane, Smith, for Charleston—Geof ,na, Toole, ditto—Hester, Marshall, for St. An drew, N.B. Mary - queen of Scots, Killey, for Pernambuco—lrish Lass, Grundy, for Rio de Janeiro—General Wolfe, Harrison, for Rio Grande—Gree ,how, Ogilvie,. for Bahia—Wm. Rushton, Greg ory, for Alexandria, Egypt—Celerity, Jones; Charlotte, Abbinett, and Aurora, Vaudin, for St. Michael's—Lightning, De Lueur, for Gibraltar—Mary Gray, Allan, ditto—Joseph Wallace, Heon, for Barcelona—Udoniz Wessels, for Dordt—Le N. Dey Daman, Rabot, for Bordeaux—Feriinando, Castellano. and Sisters, Adamson, for Naples—Camoens, Barnes, for Oporto—Abeona, Barron, and Carl Heinrich, Valentin, for Marseilles—Nova Sociedade, Rebediro ; Native, Spires; Robert & Henry, Ellis; Duke de Braganza, Con tent, and Livramento, Santa Anna, for Lisbon—Auguste, Unrich, for Ostend—Pantaloon, Candler, for Trieste—Syren, Foster, for Constantineple—J ne, Nathalie, Aubert, for St. Valery—Anna, Anna Agatha, Be4,aus, for Rotterdam—Astrea, Neill, for Genoa— Brilliant, Crocker, for Terceira—and Lareantin, Paron, for Ro chelle. TUESDAY, FEB. lg.—Wind S.E. OPP THE PORT—St. James, from New Orleans SAILED.—Europe, Marshall, for New York—Falcon, Small, for Hayti—Johnstone, Spence, for Bombay—Sarah Birkett, Atkin, for Trinidad—Donegal, Blair, fer Lisbon—Murray, Houston. for Ja maica—Jumna, Robinson, for Calcutta—Henry Alexander Pyke, for Ancona—Selo, Teasdell, for Messina—Adelaide, Swaflin, and Sarah, Penny, for Cadiz—New Jersey, Dickson, for Boston—Eliza beth, Swan, for Charleston—Kelsi c k Wood, Thompson, for Deme rara—Henrietta, Fell, for Madeira—and Nereid, Watkins, for Con stantinople. Albion, Forrest, hence for New Orleans has put back, having been aground on Burbo Bank, and must go into dock Jamaica, Gibson, hence at Jamaica Maria Louisa, , hence at Leghorn Ellen Clare, , hence and Genoa at ditto Eleanor, Halwyck, hence at Ostend Faerie Queene, Hughes, from Canton at Deal; sailed on the 25th Oct. and from St. Helena; 7th Jan. Richard, , from Calcutta at St. Helena Duncan, , and Amelia Thompson, , from Batavia, at St. Helena Sultan, , from Sincapore at St. Helena Clyde, Matches, hence and Dublin, at Sydney, N.S.W. Mary Appleby, hence to Bahia, was spoken 3d instant, in lat. 39, long. 15 . ' Ifygeia, Hann: 'l, hence at Sydney from London at ditto Portlane, Tait f om I oldonderry at ditto Welcome, Anderson, hence at Trinidad Countess Liverpool, Cotton, and Mary Ann, Atherton, hence at St. Michael's Governor Anson, Oakley, from Constantinople at Smyrna Pilot, Davies, from Salonica at ditto Clipper, Holland, hence at Constantinople Packet, Jones, from Odessa at ditto, and sailed for this port Mary, Walker, sailed from Smyrna 24th January; Apollo, Ran dal, 25th; and Eagle, Inch, 26th, all for this port Swift, Edwards, hence to Gibraltar, was wrecked about Bth Ja nuary, near Southport. Crew drowned The Victoria, from Charleston, that was stranded near Leasowe Bth Jan. was got off this afternoon, and brought into the river The William, -, from Sydney, N.S.W. was wrecked on a reef near Hardy's Island, Torres Straits, previous to the Ist Oct. ; crew saved POULTON, Deb. 16•—The Crusader, from Liverpool for Bombay, which went on shore between Blackpool and Lytham on the 7th ult. began to break up on Sunday last, and has since gone to pieces ; the remaining part of her cargo has been scattered along the coast, from Wyre to the Ribble, a great part of which has been saved by the officers of customs, and secured under their locks MILFORD, Feb. 16.—WRECK OF THE EDINBURGH.—The body of Lieut. Dizons was found yesterday by an extra man belonging to the custom-house. It was greatly mutilated. There was a hand some gold ring on one finger, stone out. Mr. Brown, the other passenger who was drowned, was an architect, from Natchez, on the Mississippi. He intended proceeding through France to Rome, for improvement in the science. As soon as the ship struck, he fastened round his waist a belt containing a large sum in gold coin, none of which has been picked up. J Morris, custom-house officer, has picked up a spyglass, a sextant set with silver, and the case of a watch. Two or three cart loads of sarsaparilla., a cable, an anchor, and some of the fore-rigging, have been saved SMYRNA, 29th January.—For the last two or three days we have had thick and stormy weather from the southward. Two or three British vessels are reported to be lost, and several others, of the sainv dag, to be in a perilous situation, in and at the entrance of the Dardanelles WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20.—Wind N.E. fresh, ARRIVED.—The Argyle, Cordman, from Baltimore—Medora, Har rison, from Charleston—St. James, Howe, and Columbus, Cropper, from New York. SAlLED.—Seymour, Morton, for New York—Blair, Newby, for Rio Janeiro—Greyhound, Rivett, jun. for Constantinople—Jolly Tar, Rossignol, for Barcelona—Peruvian, Brown, for Africa—Vic tory, Dickson, for Maranham—and Charlotte, Gorham, for Boston. Letitia, Causzer, from Batavia, at Demerara Clementina, Wotton, hence al Naples in 17 days Challenger, -, hence for Constantinople, off Malaga 25th Jan. Theodosia, Thompson, sailed from Cork for Jamaica 16th instant Aureo, Bonicelli, , and Rosalia, Bermuda, sailed from Trieste Ist instant; Mir, Warglien, and Wm. Solie, Frame, 7th; and Anterote, Lemig, on the 841,3 Maoney, Downes,•on the 9th, and Visiter, Lus come, on the lath---ail for this port Melaine, Raymond, sailed from.Bourdeaux for this port gth inst. Marie, Pirrau, groin Beitrdeatuc for this port, at Port Navalo 6th instant Edouard Marie, Bayard, hence at St. Valery Sur Somme Andes, Taylor; faom Bahia, at Cuxhaven Sixty packages were recovered this morning by the divers from the wreck of tie P , enasylvaula Emma, Maine, hence for Smyrna, at Waterford Hannah Booth, Best, hence for Gibraltar, at Milford Elizabeth Radclifve, hence at Lima Matilda, Scott, was to trail from Lima for this port 14th Dec. Caledonia, hence'for New Orleans off Antigua Bth Jan. FEanuARY 21 ARRIVED.—RoyaI Admiral, , from Valparaiso —Henry, , and Echo, Mallen, from New Orleans—Medora, Charleston—Alexar:•' , -r timond, , from Savannnh--Bengal, Teulon, from Maj. —and Columbus, Cropper, from New York. The St. James, rtl New Orleans, is at anchor in iloylake, and not on shore Fame, Reeve, from. Ancona for this port, is wrecked on the coast' of Naples; crew an , ' materials saved Ann & Jane, , hence for Berbice, was spoken sth instant, in lat. 56, long. 17 Wm. Wright, Flagg, hence at Jamaica King Henry, Leitch, hence at Antigua . _ Mary Brad, Jones, hence at St. Vincent, and sailed 21st Dec. for Santa Martha Intrepid, --, and Isabella, Dick, hence at Leghorn Adventure, Hardy, and Reindeer, King, sailed from Leghorn Ist Feb.; Parlena, Zeue.lerille, and Emma, Lamzed, 2nd ; Is a b e ll a, Perrilla; Lady Harv?y, Alexander, and Clyde, M`Kenzie, 3rd Feb, all for Liverpool Active, Moore, hence at Cuxhaven Hebrew, Whiting, sailed from New Orleans, for Havre Charles Hamerton, Reynolds, from Cape Hayti for Liverpool, at the Cove; sailed 20th Jan. Emma, Maine, ant; Resolution, Steele, hence, at the Cove Tinamara, from New Orleans, at Vera Cruz Arica, Stagg, lienc , at Arica TELEGRAPH OFFICE, FEBRUARY 21. Wind at Holyhead S.S.W. blowing fresh. Off Holyhead, inwtscl bound, at 3 p.m. No. 1234, Ann, 8.8. Put into Beaumaris, at 10 30 a.m. yesterday, No. 675, Catharine M`Donald, 8.8. East of the Floating Light, inward bound, No. 19, Medora, B.Bk from Charleston. Off Holyhead, outnard bound, on Tuesday, No. 1180, Sarah, 8.8. for Bahia. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. NEW SOUTH WALES. Britannia. R Dambrill, 271 Sydney, J Poole & Co Manilla, V.' Pearson, 353 Sydney, Cotesworth & Co WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Cheshire Witch, B Davidson, 150 Antigua, J Poole &Cc Alexander, J Scott, 177 PS'arbadoe4, Crozier Brothers & Co Rapid, 232 Demerara, G Quayl e Caledonia, E D Manson, 291 Havana, Ashley Brothers Euterpe, C K E llri slit, 12g Hayti, Imrie & Co Isis, J Graham, 298 Kingston, Jamaica, Tory, Holt & Co. Providence, R Shaw, 130 St. Thomas, IV Rose & Go Blundell, D Campbell, 139 Trinidad, J Poole & Co Wm. Salthouse, T Stanton, 234 Trinidad, T& H Murray SOUTH AMERICA. Triton, G Scorgie, Triton, G Scorgie, Senator, W Grindlay, Yarmouth, it F Holt, 176 Brazils, J Aikin & Son 170 Paraiba, J Aikin & Son 277 Rio Janeiro, Ashley Brothers 151 Rio Janeiro, Imrie & Tomlinson UNITED STATES. Ganges, J Corkan, y 23 Charleston, Lodge, Pritchard & Co Rob Roy, A Arnold, 565 Mobile, J Holford & Co Queen Victoria, R Lawson, 715 Mobile, Anderson, Garrow &Co Wm. Goddard, Potter, 514 Mobile, Humphreys & Biddle Louisa, F A Newall, 322 Mobile, J Poole & Co Edmund Perkins, N Ingersoll. 617 New Orleans, G Brown Mohawk, A King, 425 New York, W& J B rown &C o Norman, E Wood, 506 New York, Fitzhugh & Grhnshaw Roscoe, J C Delano, 617 New York, Wildes, Pickersgill &o Georgina, A H Brown, 570 New York, Focke & Bonn Entaw, W Allen, 571 New York, A Taylor Henry Bliss, — , New Orleans, G Brown Constitution, W Taylor, 464 Philadelphia, BRITISH AMERICA. G Brown Jane Walker, R Whyte, Lerwick, J Curry, 821 Halifax, Wildes, Pickersgill &Co 302 St. John, N.B. M'Leod & Yarrow EUROPE. Clememe, Stinge, 140 Antwerp, Bahr, Behrend &Co Mathilde, J Gorce, 80 Bilboa, Bahr, Behrend & Co Freedom, J Cox, 106 Beirout and Alexandretta, J Moss & Co Euphemia, G Pennington, 144 Bourdeaux, G Brown Julius, J H Sbhmidt, 120 Copenhagen, Bahr, Behrend & Co Louisa, W Spalding, 92 Elsinore, Bahr, Behrend &Co 1 Thames, J S Rutherford, 240 Genoa and Leghorn, J Bibby &Co L'Aigle, J P Thomas, 80 Havre, Bahr, Behrend & Co Andorinha, J B Ganoi, 113 Hambro', Bahr, Behrend &Co Mangerton, B Hughes, 167 Hambro', Bahr, Behrend &Co Thames, J S Rutherford, 242 Hambro', C G Weber & Co Teaser, A Le Boutilleur, 0 Jersey, Bahr, Behrend & Co Sea Flower, F. de la Parelle, 135 Jersey, J Robin & Son Orog. J Le Bas. 135 Jersey, J R o bi n & S on Old Tom, J Ballaine, 38 Jersey, J Kobm & Son Louise, T Knudson, 70 Kiel, Bahr, Behrend & Co Zeepaard, A J Bakker, 100 Liebau, Bahr, Behrend & Co Ellen German, R Blundell, 176 Lisbon, J Bibby &Co Wilmina, L N Bass, 165 Liebau, C G Weber & Co Aurora Liberal, J da Lius, 81 Lisbon, T Martin & Son Mary & Jane, J Osborne, 105 Messina and Palermo, J Moss &Co Veloce Messineo, S Villegrino, 114 Naples & Messina, J Moss & Co Comet, C Nassall, 80 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co Julia, J Cram, 134 Palermo and Messina, J Rothwell Le Mauricien, JLe Lievre, 238 Rochefort, G A Lilly &Co Beccles, G L ManthOrpe, 184 Smyrna, Bahr, Behrend &Co Celerity, Jones, 68 St. Michael's, Nicholson & Whittle Betsey, W P Ivey, 173 Trieste, G Yates Astrea, , 143 Trieste, Bahr, Behrend & Co Shepherdess, S Turner, 126 Venice, J Bibby & Co Royalist, R Jones, 127 Zante, Campbell & Rudd Aarktto. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 20. The trade continue Co purchase very sparingly ; the sales on Tuesday were 1000 bags, and 3000 were sold to-day without altera tion in prices. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 19 We have again to note considerable arrivals of Wheat and Flour from foreign ports, and of Wheat, Oats, Flour, and Oatmeal, from Ireland and Coastways, since Tuesday last, much exceeding the demand, although it has improved a little during the past week, and sales of Wheat, particularly of red French, and of middling qualities of foreign growth from the Mediterranean ports, have been made to a moderate extent, to our own millers, and to those in distant interior markets to the southward, at prices barely sup porting our last quotations, at which the superior qualities of British and Foreign are firmly held; for every other article in the Corn trade sales have been very limited at a small decline, though not sufficiently decided to alter quotations. In the Yorkshire markets of the past week there was a small improvement, but at Manchester on Saturday there was but a very dull market, and very little done in Grain from this port. _ _ _ There is no alteration this week in the duties on Grain from fo reign ports, and we can note no transactions in Oats, Beans, or Peas, the only Grain in bond here. At this day's market we had a fair attendance, but although there was an advance of Is to 2s per quarter on Wheat in Mark-lane yesterday, and rather more activity in the trade here to-day, sales were made only to a moderate extent of Wheat at prices not ex ceeding those of this day week, and .for all other articles the de mand was very limited at about last quotations—excepting Oats, which were about Id per 451 b. and Oatmeal, which was 6d to Is per 2401 b lower. WHEAT, t 70 - p s. d. s. d English 10 4 0 11 Scotch 9 6 10 6 Irish 7 6 9 10 Bonded BARLEY, 13 , qr. English 4O 0 42 Chevalier 43 0 44 Scotch, y 60% . 5 4 5 Irish 5 0 5 Foreign, bond 0 0 0 OATS, 19 , 451 b. English Scotch 4 0 4 Irish 3 7 4 Foreign, bond 3 2 3 Ditto, duty free 4 0 4 RYE, 13. qr. 42 0 46 MALT, qp , qr. fine 66 0 68 Middling 48 0— 58 LIVERPOOL AGRICULT s. d. s. d. Old Hay .... 0 9@o 11 p 20Ib. New Hay.... 0 8 0 10 - Clover Hay.. 0 7 0 g - Straw, Wheat 0 73 0 83 --- Straw, Oat.. 0 6 0 6} - Straw, Barley 0 5 0 6 -- Green Clover 0 0 0 0 - INDIAN CORN, aq 4101 b. Red 44 0 @ 48 0 White 4l 0 48 0 BEANS, 114 , qr. English 4B 0 —52 0 Irish PEAS, Grey White 5O 0 52 0 RAPESEED, is , last, .4' . FLOUR, English, v 2801 b. Fine Irish American, v brl. free. Sweet, U.S 39 0 48 0 Sour, bond OATMEAL, 240/b. English 32 0 32 6 Do. new 1838 32 0— 33 0 Scotch JRAL MARKET, FEB. 16. s. d. s. d. Potatoes, new 2 B@3 3 10 , sere Cattle Ditto 2 4 2 6 - Turnips 40 0 0 0 Carrots 5O 0 55 0 - Monglewurzleqs o as o Manure g 6 11 6 THE WORKHOUSE. Statement of the average number and expense of paupers in ti Workhouse for the week ending Paupers, 1771 1872 Feb. 9, 1839. Feb. 10, 1838. Per Head. ls. 10d. 1 7 Per Week. .€l6B 15 4 147 14 11 Less 101 More 0 31 More 21 0 5 Statement of daily relief paid out-door poor the week ending Feb. 18, 1839 2274 families, per week, -'274 18 10 Feb. 19, 1838 2122 do. do. 294 5 6 Less.... 148 Less...eig 6 11 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, FEB. 18. The supply of Beasts at market to-day has been exceedingly , small, the least show we have had for the season, but the quality has been generally pretty good, and from the limited number the prices have been considerably in advance from our last quotations. The supply of Sheep has been much the same as last week, and sce cannot note any alteration in prices from last week. The best Beef sold readily at fully 7d, varying from that down to 6id, agreeable to quality ; a very few of ordinary quality at a shade less. The best Wether Mutton may be quoted at Bd, second quality yid, ordinary and Ewe id. The market may be considered a very brisk one, as well as very dear, as both descriptions of stock were sold up at an early hour.—Number of Beasts, 710; Sheep, 3863. FROM THE LONDON PRICES CURRENT, FEBRUARY 19. Rum, BRANDY & HOLLANDS. — For shipping there has been scarcely any demand for Rum, and the home trade have purchased cautiously of Jamaica as well as of Leewards.—Brandy has becow dull of Sale, and there are sellers at easier prices.—ln Geneva ther3 has been a fair business doing. PROVISIONS.—The limited business that has been done in Irish Butter has furtber reduced prices Is to 2s per cwt. ; the best in th market not being worth more than 96s per cA&t. Of foreign, little is here, and prices for the best, rule about 106 s per cwt.—Lard dull of sale, and lower.—Bacon can be sold in small quantities only, but holders do not seem disposed to take any thing below the prices quoted.—lndia Beef and Pork cheaper. SUGAR.—This afternoon there was more life in the market ; from the grocers there was a good demand, and for refining there was a fair business doing. The private purchases amounted to 800 hhds. and tces. at Friday's prices, and in some instances they were rather higher. FOREIGN.—Prices remain firm for all good descriptions, but ordi nary and soft kinds may be purchased on easier terms ; the trans actions have again been limited by private contract in Havana as well as in Brazil. COFFER.—This afternoon, for British Plantation, there was a good demand for home consumption, and nearly the whole of 145 casks 3 brls 233 bags at public sale, were sold at full prices, in some in stances the very ordinary unclean sorts went a shade lower : Ber bice, good middling clean sold at 109 s to Ills; Demerara, •unclean ordinary to good ordinary 85s to 90s, triage 675. TALLOW.—The market in the middle part of last week was in a very dull state, and prices on Wednesday declined to 48s 6d on the spot. SMITHFIELD MARKET, LONDON, FEB. 18. There was a fair average time of year number of English-fed Beasts on sale in our market of to-day, which, owing in a gregt measure to the unfavourable state of the weather, experienced a very heavy inquiry, at a decline of last week's quotations of 2d per Sibs. whilst a large portion of the Bullock supply left the market unsold. As the number of Sheep on sale was by no means exten sive, the Mutton trade was somewhat renovated, at fully Friday's enhanced rates. In. Pigs exceedingly little business was transacted, at unaltered currencies. LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. From Direct. Indirect. From Direct. Indirect. Calcutta • 20 Pernam. Bombay China Mauritius . St. Helena Rio Janeiro .... , . Dec .... 22 Charleston. Jan Bahia .... ...... Dec.... 22 New York.. Jan .... 26 PACKET Bi GENERA IATS.—FALMOUT POST-OFFICE, Feb 'H STAT] L 19, 1889, Mails made Last Packets Neat Packets DESTINATION. • up in London. Suited. Due. — Holland Tues. & Fri. Mon. & Thurs. Hamburg & Swed. Tues. & Eri. Tues. & Satur. Lisbon Madeira 1 Saturdays .. 1 Braganza, Liverpool, Spain& Gibraltar J Feb. 11. Feb. 24. Malta and Greece.. 2nd Saturday Liverpool, Feb. 4. Egypt and India .. 4th Saturday Tagus .. Jan. 21. Madeira lst Tuesday H.M.B.Opossum Seagul, Brazil & B.Ayres each month. Feb. g. March 29. America lst Wedues. L.Melville, Feb. 9 Magnet, Mar. g f Jamai. L'ward Ist day of H.M.B. Mutine, Pigeont, - 1 Isl. & Hayti.. 1 each month. Feb. 3. March 28. Laguira I 0 Mexico and Ha- 1 lath day of H.M.B. Alert, Petrel, vana I Jamai. L'wardl 13th day of I H.M.B.Pandora, Lyra, 1 Isl. & Aayti March 11. Carthagena iimparts. EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 8 ( c. Ellen, (408) T Yapp, from Calcutta, 740 sacks flour, Haworth, Hardman and co-84 bags cubebs, N Crooke and co-35 bales raw silk, Nicol, Duckworth and co-2587 bags sugar, 100 bags saltpetre, 800 bags rice, 23 bales raw silk, 800 sacks linseed, 1 case beet, 1 box feathers, 1 package wall shades) 25 bales hides, order—K D SOUTH AMERICA. Tynwald, (202) J Arthur, from Monte Video, 6460 dry salted ox and cow and 759 buntileti horse hides, 8500 ox and cow horns, 48,000 bones, 37 pipes 6 hf pipes 50.brls grease, R Edwards-358 salted ox and cow hides, C Hollm'l-3 bales horse hair, Breed and Eccleston —W D I7' I , 'D STATES. Alexander Grant, . 1 - 1 , rnton, from Mobile, 87 bales cott on , Ewart, Myers and c0—:.37 .; Maury and Son-300 do, G Gordo n —99 do, Murton, Parker and co-91 do, Fountain and Prince-100 do, W and J Brown anti ~o-610 do, order—W D Stirling, (372) H Ned, from Mobile, 200 bales cotton, W Forde and co-400 do, order—'2,l2 do, W and J Brown and co-1 do, H Neef—V D Clifton, (sgg) J B InersoU , from Natchez,"94o bales cotton, Todd, Jackson and co-5'26 do, G Green and Son-432 do, W and J Brown and co-96 do, order-6l TJ3 Barclay and co—V D John Porter, (298) from Savannah, 582 bales cotton, Molyneux, Witherby and cc-179 do, order-30 do, 1g pitch pine planks, Fair dough and Frost—Q D EUROPE. Mose, (200)P P Fumo, L. - om/Siessina,B pipes 143 hhds 15 qr casks 7 octaves wine, order-41 qr casks do, J Moss and co-5 do, Nicol, Duckworth and co-2 do, J Rothwell-75 cases 75 boxes lemons, T Mayor -50 cases do, E J H Garston and co-232 cases 475 boxes lemons, order-20 boxes lemons, Hamnett and co-80 cases lemons, Harrison and co-1 do, G Barker-32 do, the master-20 casks argols, Alletson and Fral:kland-6 do, J Macaire and co-100 bags nuts, 10 casks pumice st ,ne, 44 casks concentrated lemon juice. 2 casks cream tartar, 3 bales silk, ordr-17 boxes oranges, 4 bags wal nuts, Hamnett and co-13 casks concentrated lemon juice, C Mel huish-1 pipe 3 hf pipes do, :1 brls concrete, 1 box cream tartar, E P Thompson-1 cask pickled citrons, :1 cask sweet almonds, 1 box oranges, Harrison and co-403 brls Lipari currants; Ross Brothers —1 case oranges, 1 case co.-Zents unknown, U Barker-1 case ap parel, Tennants, Clow co —Q D • Richmond, (154) W from Odessa, 40 bales sheeps' wool, about 900 qrs wheat, H Homby and co—K D Comet, (46) E Bell, irom St. Michael's, 329 boxes oranges, W Dart-2 do, the master—S D . _ PRICES OF SHARES, FEB. 21. Last Prices. This day's RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices Birmingham and Gloucester 4O paid 24 5 0 ... , Ditto and Derby Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh lOO paid 64 10 0 , Chester and Crewe l5 .... 15 5 0 . Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow 11 5 U _ _ .... Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 5 paid 0 0 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 8 paid 8 2 6 .... Glass..., paisiey, ---"---mlr 110 paid 7 2 6 ... nock, and Ayr Grand Junction lOO .... 205 0 0 .... Ditto half shares 2O .... 63 10 0 .... 63 0 0 Great Western 65 .... 79 0 0 .... Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 25 paid 21 10 0 .... Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham go .... 171 10 0 .... Ditto new quarter shares Ditto an t Southampton 5O .... 45 0 0 .... Ditto & Brighton (United) Leeds and Manchester 5O 68 10 0 .... 6g 0 0 Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 75 10 0.. Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham l5 .... 14 17 6.. Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... 92 10 0.. Ditto quarter shares North Midland South Eastern and Dover North Union lOO 70 10 0 . St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 . York and North Midland 2O paid 20 5 0 . BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 718 10 Bank of Liverpool £l2 lospaid 23 2 Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 20 0 Liverpool Union lO Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Wales lO .... 10 2 - of Manchester lO .... 12 12 - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 13 15 - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank 7 10s. 14 0 Commercial Bank of England 5 .... 5 2 East of England lO .... glO Phoenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 1 .... 7 0 171 0 0 6 2 6 GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings £loo paid L'pool and llarrington Water Works 1 350 .... Bootle Ditto Stock.... L'pool Coal Ga,s Company Stock.... L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... Ditto new shares are now paid up. 10 5 0 0 .... 14 0 0 6 .... 6 .... 320 0 372 0 197 0 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance 1 25 paid 9 0 0 Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 6 10 0 . Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 114 0 . DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderton Carrying Company l2 10s. 10 2 6 . Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 10s. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company 7 .... 3 5 0 Harrington Docks BO .... 6s 10 0 . Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool) - (Polonceau) 2 .... 0 13 0 . . , 1 10 0 LONDON GAZETTE.---TUESDAY, Fan. 19. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. 10 1 T. Grierson and J. S. Tripp, Liverpool, lacemen—J. Flew. -- J. Bailey, Stockport, Cheshire, joiners. INSOLVENT. Feb. 16,—Joseph Matthews, Bath, tailor. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Thomas Clarke Harding, Winslow, Buckingham, grocer. Robert Neech, jun. Parkfield, Suffolk, cattle-dealer. Edward Barker, Exeter, druggist. S. ar di Robert Hamilton, Liverpool, BANKßU mastePTr-mariner, to surrender M 2, April 2. at ele ven , a t t h e Clarendon-rooms, B Liverp oo l. SO . WA d v o ' Messrs. Taylor, Sharpe, Fi e ld , an d Jackson, Bedford-row, Lnn o, and Messrs. Lowndes and Robinson, Liverpool. t•M arcb Thomas Mucklow, Duke's-row, New-road, London, agen • l as 2, April 2, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Soh o . Messrs. Wilde, Rees, Humphry, and Wilde, College-hill , Qu and street, Cheapside, London; and Messrs. Radcliffe, Duncan' Lowe, Liverpool. Jolm Chapman, Isleworth, market-gardener. James Cooper, Newport, Dile of Wight, innkeeper. Charles Reesby, Stamford, Lincolnshire, maltster. tac t ' Joseph Newsome, Dewsb ur y, Y or k s hi re, b lanket-manu f a c George Jones, Taunton, silk-throwster. DIVIDENDS. March 13, W. Ebsworth, Henbury, Gloucestershire, dealer chapman—March 13, W. Di c k enson, sen. T. Goodall, an d Dickenson, jun. Poultry, L on d on, b ankers—March 13, A • W Springfield, Essex, merchant—March 12, R. Pomery, jun. Ihl d, Devonshire, banker—March 12, W. Kirkpatrick and J. G n ,„" - nu Austen-friars London, dealer s i n prov i s i ons—March 12, J. and J. Mallandaine, Marlborough-road, Chelsea, candle-Ma l l e y turers—March 12, J. Ablitt, Silver-street, London, a haberda"" March 14, J. H. Nainby, Blackfriars-road, London, dealer i lfo . bacco—March 14, J. Arthur, Colyton, Devonshire, paper-man's 14, W. Dickenson and T. Throp, Blackbarn , o, cashire, ironfounders—March 18, J. T revethan, Bury St. Edniii carpenter—March 26, P. Harwood, York, ironmonger—March" R. Nickolls and J. Groves, Sta m f or d , linen-drapers—March Vol Hunt, Rochdale, woollen-manufacturer —March 14, S. Barin'on, R. S. Mulley, Little Bartholomew-close, West Smithfield, W o n. stonemasons—March 14, S. Harris, Wardour-street, Soho, Lo n d n. timber-merchant—March 14, J. B. Weinh o lt, Old Swan, I ° l uc , merchant—March 14, J. Bevil, Harleytbrd-place, K enn i n gton,: 0 , tioneer—March 12, A. U. Meredith, P or t smout h , draper —March A. Robertson, Leeds, linen-draper. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless c ause b e s h own to the contrary, on or befi' March 12. R. Dalton, Derby, varnish-manufacturer—C. Welman, Dorsetshire, linen-draper—D. Maddock, Liverpool, victualler 0 ,. Mason, Plymouth, victualler--R. Garrett, Woodstock-street , ford-street, London, lead-merchant—J. D. Stevens, Hemel n el „ r t. stead, Hertfordshire, pap er - ma k er—J. Saunders, Watford, lidi'ers fordshire, butcher—J. Slater an d W . Slater, Strand, wax-chan,.,, —J. Eggleston, Manchest er , publican—C. Healy, Nottingn., grocer—R. Nuttall, Tottington Lower End, Lancashire, iarnier Hill, Cheltenham, woollen-draper. AVERAGE SUGAR. The average price of Brown PRICE-OF or Muscovado Sugar, computed frl 39 , the returns made i n th e week ending the 12th day of Feb. 1- „„,d 86s 5d per hundred we i g h t, excluSive of the duties of Customs Pl, or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great BM"' MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL* soc ° FEB. 22. John Goff, (2nd) March 1. William H. Morgan, (2d) 1. Charles West, (2d) . Clarendon Rooms, ditto, 14 ditto. TIDE TABLE. Days. Jima. Ern. 1 licight. H. M. H. 3t. F. I. Tor' Tuesday 19 231 253 18 3 Saturn sets 10h 411 n Wednes. 20 316 343 16 0 Venus sets 6h 38m e Ve n n. Thursday2l 410 441 14 0 Venus rises 6h 47m mots' Friday 22 519 6 1 12 0 Mars rises 7h 21m even' Saturday 23 647 7 3.5 11 5 Mars sets 8h 12m mor , !;. t , Sunday 24 820 •8 57 11 9 2d Sunday in Lent. St. Monday 25 929 955 13 0 Jupiter rises gh 181 n evev PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. LONDON & LIVERPOOL, (Sailing before lath Jan.) Outward. I Home, Jamaica Leward Isl. Deme. & Berbice. Honduras New York, Boston Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Havana Canada British North America Newfoundland Brazils River Plate East Indies China Batavia New South Wales Cape of Good Hope . Africa Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, &c. Malta, Sicily, &c. Smyrna and Constantinople Malaga Madeira Western Isles, Cape de Verds Lisbon Cadiz France Holland Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Alga, &c. Oporto 25s Od 0 Odi 20 0— 0 0 1 50 0 -- 0 0 1 40 0-- 50 0 30 0 0 0 40 0 -- 0 0 50 0-60 0 O 0 -- 0 0 84 0 -- 0 0 i O 0 -- 0 0 25 0 -- 0 0 35 0-40 0' 35 0 -- 40 0 1 45 0 -- 0 0 I 40 0 -- 0 0 40 0 -- 0 0 40 0 -- 0 0 30 0— 0 0' 20 0 -- 0 0 50 0-60 0 O 0-- 0 0 40 0 -- 0 0 20 0 -- 0 0 20 0 -- 0 0 O 0 -- 0 0 25 0 -- 0 0 25 0 -- 0 0 23 0 -- 0 0 30 0 -- 0 0 30 0 -- 0 0 O 0 -- 0 0 O 0 -- 0 0 25 0 -- 0 0 after Ist. Ang. 84s od@loss Od 40 0 0 0 105 0 —147 0 20 0 0 0 20 0— 0 0 50 0 0 0 50 0 0 0 00— 0 0 00— 0 0 40 0 0 0 , 25 0 0 0 ; 30. 0 0 0 1 35 0-40 0 50 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 126 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 00— 0 0 20 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 7 6 10 0 40 0 0 0 81 0 —147 0 20 0 0 0 BIRTHS. On the 25th ult. Ann, wife of Mr. George Edmund, of Th y near Bridlington, of a son, making the fifth surviving genera u:, This child is remarkable for having five grandfathers and se" grandmothers all living. MARRIED. Of On the 7th instant, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. J. R. Lawson' b, the firm of Johnson and Lawson, chemists, to Isabella, only dat i g ter of the late Mr. W. Harrison. On the 12th instant, at St. George's, Hanover-square, L0nd.,0113: the Catholic ce remony hav i ng been previously performed, his 9. 4 er cellency Sylvan Van de Weyer, Envoy Extraordinary and Mini: 4 Plenipotentiary from the of the Belgians, to Elizabeth e , Sturgis, only daughter of J o s hua Bates, Esq., Portland-07v On the 16th instant,t at Gourock House , Renfrewshirc, by Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D. Ge orge R a i ny, Esq. of „t. town, to Marg aret Janetta Louisa, youngest daughter of Lie " General Darroch, of Gourock and Drums. h es, On the 17th instant, Mr. William S. Phillips to Miss Eliza Hug" only_ daughter of the late Mr. Samuel Hughes, ttie Same day, at St. Philip's Chur c h, M r. John Lawson, mate ,-.-.;;„,0 barque Boykett, to Mary, fourth daughter of the lat e Mr. ViTlP' Ireland, of Much Woolton. On the 20th instant, at the parish church of Walton-on-the -1°1 :4. by the Rev. Thomas B o ld , M .A. Thomas Carson, Esq. Rodney street, to Mary Anne, second daughter of William Myers, 9 "'" . Mere-bank, Everton. Same day, at St. David's Church, lirownlow-hill, by the Rev g. , h e Davies, M.A. Mr. Bell Williams, wholesal e tea-dealer, to Janet'''. youngest daughter of Mr. Wm. Steel, of this town. DIED. • -- • fal Lately at her residence, 30, S awne y P ope -street, after a pals,. ri suffeng of fifteen days, in confinement, w hi c h s h e b ore w ith . , t, precedented patience and Christian fortitude, aged 29, MarPcOf the beloved wife of Mr. Ri c h ar d Pl unkett, and eldest daught er Mr. Henry Kermode. e Lately, in the village of S u tt on - at-Hone, Grace Lock, a misers A b l s o old miser. We subjoin th e following statement of her death, t,af a list of persons benefitt e d thereby :—lnfirmity seemed ral 3l " - , coming upon her, and she wa s i n d uce d to have a distant relati° fte Alfred Richardson, a man with a large family, to look a fter th, house, which was now kept more cleanly; but a clean house is poor substitute for an empty stomach, and sh e cont i nued to de a herself that sustenance whi c h h er feeble and almost bedridden state so urgently demanded. Every attention was paid to her by Mr. l e : pets, of Dartford; but the most earnest entreaties of that ge 3 ",.., man could not persuade her to alter her course of life ; and 9 ." expired, without pity or regret, at the age of 68 years, and her ill?: poverished bones were laid in the family vault at Ash Chure".: There was just room left for her coffin ; and she is the last o f her family bearing the name of Lock. Thus has the tomb closed upon the ashes of a being who sustained fifty years of human sufferingand the bitterest privations, for the single purpose of at lent dying that wiser persons may enjoy the wealth which, if it had ba' properly applied by herself, might have converted into a parad-l' e that earth which, accordi ng to her mode of living, must have 1 0, sented to her the horr ors of a hell. Mr. Neville, Sutton-at-Honer £lOO ; James Middleton, l ate of the Brown Pear, Greenhithe, .4 100 ' Mrs. Mary Dean, Gravesend, .e3OO ; to the family of the late Jamel. Taylor, of the Mote, near Ightham, £300; Mr. Thomas Dean, c ' t - Wrothath, 4200, and an annuity of .4a6; Mr. Richard Dean, ?„ Wrotharn, .4100; William Wiffin, surveyor, „ 1 " formerly a Road- Essex, .4'200; to each of the executors, .41,500 ; Mr. Alfred Richar d " son, .ei,000; Mrs. A. Richardson, 41,000 ; the executors in tru st - for the children, (the names of whom our informant could ~? catch,) 42,500; Mr. Whittaker, of Barming, .e 2,500 ; Mr. Whit taker, jun., .4'2,500 ; Mr. Seager, of the firm of Searle: and Evan s ' , distillers, f London, 42,000 ; Mr. Selby, of Boughton, Monche , sea, £2,000; to the family of the above gentleman, 42,350; 1'!, 1 , 5 ; Harriet Fellows, of Farnaingham, .t"2,000 ; the cousins of 31 , — Lock, (we believe of .the family of Mr. Muggeridge, of Green' street -green,) .4'500 ; Mr. R. Tippets, of Dartford .45,000 ; "' 4O . Whittaker, jun. and Mrs Fellows, before mentioned, each 4' 3,4 "; The residue of the prove. ty to be equally divided between 3 ", Whittaker and Mrs. Fell ows. The freehold residence, with all ti ,:ii property she held on mort gages, to the joint executors. The M ,i was dated Oct. 26th, 1836 ; and attached to it were the navies Measrs. Selby and Norton, of Town Mailing, and Mr. Friend 31e.1' burst, of Sutto n -at-Hone.--Kent Mercury. On the 19th ult. age d go, W i lliam Oliver, Esq. of Higher A r dwi 04 father of Mr Samuel Oliver, Hollingworth, paper-manufacturl; He had been thrice married, and has had thirty children. CI E,"Fd wife died in childbed of the tenth child, a n d b o th mother an d aa were bailed in the same coffin. Thus, three coffins, each contall; ing a mother and her tenth child, are interred in St. Thomas Churchyard, Ardwick.green, Manchester. On the Bth November last, in the 25th year of his age, on ' passage frnm St. Vincent to Cariacou, s, the eldest son Mr. Thomas Lewis, of this town, much ~,,,..4 deservedly respecte d On the 30th ult. aged 17, Ann, third d er of Mr. James Peer s ' West - Derby. Zie On the 31st ult. aged 104, Margaret Davies, of Evel Bach, riet r , Abergele. She was attended to the gra ve b y a daughter, nay/ '' her 74th year. On the Ist instant, John Glending, youngest son of Mr. woo` Fawcett. On the 2d instant, aged 20, James, second son of Mr. ar —. Speller, Thornton, near Sephton. On the 4th instant, at Kirkcudbright, aged 93, Mr. Andr e w Gran t r ship-carpenter. Same day, at Newton-Stewart, aged 81, Mr. James Dunn. o f the Same da-. at Cample-ill, parish of Closeburn, a wom an , name of Christian rn Flint, supposed to be near 90 years of age. 11 ; t maiden name was Kil patr i ck; but, when in the bloom of yo u she married a mason, of the name of Flint, a man of industry " n et a good tradesma n, who predeceased her many years. The 1), Burns was well a cqua i nted w i th this female, and frequently ef,, pressed his admiration of her powers as a vocalist. H er vo i c e W'', l at with cep oncowerful and sweet, and the poet was so much del i g hte ,, " wood-notes wild " that he very rarely vi s it e d Closebur. without calling at the High Tree where the deceased and •her WI!: band then resided. With ballad literature she was extensively a'' quaintcd : her memory, too, was strong, and her conversatio n ' generally, intelligent. Burns sent her copies o f near l y all hi s 0 1 . e,:: songs, and these she either chaunted to hi m or drew from her ov•f; exhaustless stores of melody. " Highland Mary " and a MO' Water " were, at all times, favourites with the bard, and he fr e , quently said to friends and neighbours, th a t no one could do tliFf _ ,", greater justice, not even " bonny Jean" herself, than Christ , '" Kilpatrick. On the sth instant, at Fazakerly, Sarah, wife of Mr. Wm. Hy d e ' formerly of Manchester. t Same day, Mr. James Brownbill, fo r 2 7 years t h e f a i thful se rves of Mrs. Squires, Walton-lodge. On the 6th instant, aged 102. M r . C . Ll oyd. upwards o f sib years miller at Havodymaidd, Cerrig-y-Druiddion. 'cl 32 ' On the 6th instant, at his residence, in Mulberry-street, age atra Benjamin Wagstaff. On the 7th instant, aged 66, Mrs. A. Carlin. Same day, at Low-hill,7aa•ed 78, Mrs. Anne Robinson. On the 7th instant, at Lea, air. ' ea, near Preston, aged 100 years, •'" Richard Singleton. a On the 9th instant, at his seat, Swanfield, Northumberlandak aci 91, Henry Collingwood Selby, Esq. 11 0 Same day, at his residence, West Derby- s t ree t , age d 36, a- in , 1 Watson, Esq. late of Charleoton, South Carolina. Same day, at Boulogne-sur-Mer, a ge d 55, M r. R i chard c orn fortlh formerly a merchant of this town. r: , On the 9th instant, at his father's r es id ence, i n Lodge-lane, 1 " ' i. teth-park, aged 33, Mr. Jonathan B ar l ey, f or many years of H. '- Customs. On the 10th instant, Alexand er , on l y son of the late Alexander Forrest, Esq. solicitor, aged 37. f On the 10th instant, at Li s h een, near Cashel, the residenc e - n her husband, Sir JoJn Judki n Fitzgerald, Bart., Lady Fitzgerald' of fever, taken after her accouchement. ' On the 11th instant, Di na h B oswe ll , one of a numerous tr ibe ,: o e gypsies of that name, sh e was buried at Bury, and had attained t good old age of 101 years. th e Same day, aged 16, Geo rge Cyrus Swinburn, youngest son of late Wm. Swinburn, Esq. of Workington. 0' On the 11th instant, at Star a-N: atix, near Carlisle, aged 56, Mr. .--__, e Crone, brother-in-law of the lat e Mr. William Mann, wholes"' grocer, of this town. OP S On the 12th instant, at Sp e k e, i n hi s 50t h year, Mr. William...,, ton, son of the late Mr. J o h n S utton, f ormerly of Sutton-gra "- Speke. -ear s Same day, suddenly, a ge d 53 years, John Evans, many 3._ t o overlooker of the old line of pack e t- s hi ps s hi ps sa i l i ng from this New York : greatly respected. 69 Same day, at Mill-hill-pl ace , M rs. Eli za b eth Le i gh, aged . t o years, relict of the late Geor ge Leigh, hag. late of Blackroa , this county. • On the 14th instant, ag e d 70, M rs. 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