The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-05 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. W ll e tha n k " A CLERK" for the names of certain worthies con in good time.conspiracy of the Unions. "ter' with the. We L_ al l e eith er b urnt or mislaid D. D.'s letter. Our al to use destroy s . to all communications which we do not intend "ner _ Whigs themselves—vve implore. Lord Gnu, if lie have the power, to turn this man adrift, or if he have not the power, we beseech the KING to interpose and dismiss the whole set—tag•rag and dunderhead--from the coun cils of the nation. By the vote to which we allude the House of Corn mons has resolved, " That provided the Bank of Eng land shall be bound by law to discharge in the legal coin of the realm all such of its debts and liabilities as shall be demanded at the Bank of England, or at any of the Branch banks thereof, it is expedient that the promissory notes of the said corporation be made a legal tender for all sums above five pounds." By the resolution, as originally worded, it was pro posed that the notes of the Bank be a legal tender for all sums " of five pounds and upwards." The difference between these two propositions is this, viz., that although a five pound note can be converted into gold, a five guinea note, or a six- pound note, and so on, cannot. The reason assigned for thus altering the resolution was the fear that, the first proposition was calculated to drive the gold from those parts of the Country where there are no branch banks. Undoubtedly it had this tendency. •The Bank of England engaged to do that which we foresaw from the first it would never be able to perform. It engaged to discharge all its liabilities in gold at its several branches. This it never could have seriously intended. The Bank would not be solvent for a single month if such a proposition were acted upon, and its branches were compelled to pay in specie. Any rich capitalist would have it in his power to demand at a distant branch such a Payment in coin as it could not pos sibly be provided with. We therefore take for granted that the Bank had resolved to withdraw its branches as soon as the new law should come into operation. In this case the country would have been drained of gold, and the coffers -of the Bank in Threadneedle street' would have been the only receptacle of the precious metals. It was to prevent the consequences of this blunder that Lord ALTIIORP attempted to amend the first proposition by the vote of Monday night, making all five pound notes convertible into gold. But this foolish amendment does not correct the error. The Bank of England has only to call in its five pound notes and issue five guinea ones, or six pound notes in their place, and the atnendment is useless. The country banker too would take care not to have any five pound notes ; and in this way it would not be long before a sovereign would bear a premium in those parts of the country where bankers issue their own paper. They would also make it a rule with their cus tomers not to pay any checks drawn for a less sum than their smallest notes, so that gold and silver, if paid at all, would be paid as an act of grace to their customers, and made a source of profit in all transactions with strangers. w irrom and after this date the duty on advertisements p r i be „ le. 6d. only: which will g i ve a reduction in the e of each insertion of TWO SHILLINGS. Jra 14Z( tUt rP OO l A)tanbarli FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1833 E X ;IL he following important int e lli gence was p os t e d in our xierl'ange rooms yesterday relative to the expedition un pa, P EDRO and Re ar Ad m i ra l NAPIER. It is dated 'along), Tuesday last • His Majesty's schooner Pike, Lieutenant Brooking, ar nve,, h ls afternoon, from Lisbon and Oporto, with advises I'7 e alner city to the 2+.lth, and from the latter to the 2Sth Shortlbefore she left. the Tagus, a- telegraphic dispatch an ba. s i l l eed the landing of the troops under the command of the eof Terceira, ( which left Oporto on the 21st ult., in the ' te amer t S and fleet un d er the command of Rear Na Na pi er,) 4 , 4 _ a ges, ne ar C ape St. Vincent, about 130 miles to the south . l 4 "1 of Lisbo n. This intelligence excited the greatest surprise the the ca pital, and the government immediately gave orders for tr° °B to hold themselves in readiness to march at a Imo 41ent's notice. ii:lheocholera rages with fatal effects in Lisbon, upwards of it:"_ made having fallen under its destroying . p owers . since d b o ""'La its appearance. Every thing was quiet in the city, an ‘,ll,,Miguel's fleet was quite ready for sea. )tir advises from Oporto state that H.M.S. Leveret accom ',ivnitl'et,d the expedition on its sailing from the Douro, but, on ar appri°Bi:ff the Burlings, she parted company, for the purpose of n a i l g the British Admiral in the Tagus, whence she again early On Sat ur d ay morni n g, to accompany the expedition. a rtorius l e f t Oporto on the 20th ult. in a cutter named the Osprey' for lirest ; and M ars h a l S o li gnac on th e n i g ht o f th e tf i lll t he schooner Kitty. General Saldanha was in command etapestroops left in Oporto, where nothing was talked of but the 4 pon the doin gs o f w hi c h th e mos t sangu i ne expec tell, .„ u- wer e entertain e d. Ab ou t seventy sa il o f merc h an t men p ro :! Bl ned off the Douro, fr om w hi c h grea t quan titi es of stores, sailed n `' 84 e, were landed during the night. H.M.S. Conway Vi go. On the 21st u l t. f or the purpose of tak i ng i n water at ``Th e e n just l, e Packet gitn-iden, Tilly command e r, from the Brazils, is ,Ported i sight." ill a u hat th e mercenaries are to do at Lagos we are hardly port condi tion to co n j ec t ure . W e are no t aware th a t th a t it I:;ffera any parti cu l ar f ac ili t i es or o bj ec t s o f p l un d er , Op o —n g Only famous for its excellent fresh water.— thin 9. as exhausted, and as it is d desperate game, some kar°l,l"naY turn up at t h e other extrem i ty of t h e k i ng d om. c o4 . 1 8 "al BOU RNIONT, we perceive, is about to take the th o i tnan d of DON MiGnEL's army. The accounts of the er a in Lisbon we doubt. The p, But it is proposed by those who are anxious to bolster up the blunders of Lord ALTHORP, that the Bank of Eng land should be restrained from issuing any notes for in termediate sums between five and ten pounds. This we suspect would be interfering too much with the rights of the Bank, and the terms already agreed to between that establishment and his Majesty's Government. But sup posing that such a clause were added to the amendment, this would not be an effectual corrective. The country bankers would not issue five pound notes at all: They would keep a smaller supply of Bank of England five pound notes. They would drive a great portion of these notes out of circulation altogether. They would only issue ten pound notes, and become sellers of gold and silver. The ten pounder being a legal tender, they would refuse to change it unless paid for the change. They would perhaps give nine sovereigns and ten shillings for a ten pound note, but they would never be such fools as to keep gold wherewith to pay the notes of the Bank of England. They have a right to employ their capital in the most advantageous way, and no man could reasonably complain of their making a charge for doing that which the law did not compel them to do. In short, the whole measure is so beset with difficulties, rendered more in tricate by the foolish cobbling- and tinkering of that re nowned sumph, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that we see no- possibility.of any desirable results springing from it. The first proposition was intelligible enough, but in many respects dangerous ; the second proposition, or in other words, the Althorpian amendment, is a mere dash of stupidity and ignorance. If it be carried into effect, it will either give a premium to gold in the distant towns, and make provincial bankers the sellers of gold, or it will reduce a large portion of the country to a state of barter. - aetory. Commissioners having had leisure to o% 4 dige4 t i ll e good di nners th ey en jo ye d at M anc h ester an d rep ay Plac es have at length favoured the public with their th erl :' and the minutes of the evidence given before Pri tit • The rep or t itse lf is a bundle of trash, for the sh oui _ li g of Which the Times 'insists that these gentlemen 11 bah • nel aue to p a y. er to -"It Is description of it we have certainly no wish Pal th e its details upon our. readers. The expense of I)l4;°4'lnission has been an unpardonable waste of the u nde r l , 111 "eY• The reporters recommend that children th an Iftrteen years of age should not be worked more Thi s ei ght hours per day in the cotton and other factories. , 11 441, ProPositi on savours of some intende d tr i c k ; it i 3 t o 3 of th e billy roller ; and its real object we suspect l b il)arl age the bill i n suc h a wa y th a t its prohibiti ons Pell eci e , ea sily evaded, and the poor white slaves be com _, '° Work eight h ours eac h, i n t wo diff er ent facto r i e s. mall k eep our eye on the plot. llt 'Y M e l l ave bee n f avoured w i t h a perusal of a petition Y presented i n t h e House o f C ommons, b y M r. tl l', in f avour of admitting foreign sugars to the iiel i s market. Th e petition is signed by twenty-four i :cit h ants of-Liverpool, who — se names are also in our t h sion, but which from feelings of compassion we the% from publishi n g. These petitioners state that St. carry o n an extensive commerce with Brazil, s liel a ttlia ge, Cuba, India Batavia, and the Indian Arc lio h t °2 ' Thi s must bey a mistake ; for some of the per . 4% Wit 11y L . o.se: names are att ac h e d ca r ry o n no commerce of had bey on d the smoke of Liverpool, and would be th e Push ed to find the means of fitting out a wherry for 4 4 4)4 err ing fish ery. W e do not deny that some of . the do es are resp ecta b le ; but mind, we only say some we 4 (4 st La nd bail for the rest. kii tne t , l 2'e this as it may, and admitting for the sake of ar 4t,t that th e w h ole twenty-four were merchants of the taiss'as ti ection, s till t h e prayer of their petition is inad u- r a . able, inasmuch as it prays the. government to enco ted, "'extend the hateful traffic in the blood-and bones u_ h a African slave men of a million times more ia P l 3 ' caste than those whom we are about to emancipate u iis to be West Indies. Of course they do not avow dear their object, but that such would be the effect, as i s as the sun at noon-day. The sugar of the Brazils i Alkitetilitivated and manufactured by slave labour ; e qa,,, -(ts of th e B razils import slaves and carry on the atitt - trad e ; arid if the people of England were per t t° consume sugar so cultivated, would they the encouragers of slavery, and the horrors sh ort aliddle passage? Most indubitably they would. c'rt ' t it' petition is as impolitic as its statements are Dl~ tsi 4 ell4 °lls, and its object selfish and wicked. The tles t , Or Parchment upon which it is written might have hea l 14re usefully applied to quieter purposes nearer tD talk nd Mr. EWART might have found somethi ng b e tt er ket — abnnt: Why does the honourable m em b er no t atherlip Petition from the unfortunate jacka sses on th e s ide of the water ? 1 3 1 , 1 . 'a Iv Nitemporary of the London Standard published *4 3' ' ed ne sday the following, which, as t h e Americans her e 1- 41-Tenant, if true. It would not surprise us if it b t . lt We confess we have no information of our own ,c subject. : th e • t , kind of compromise which the government had made eq 41 }".° Colonial delegates and West India planters, merchants, atl'Powners, has been - broken up, .consequence of chiefly in the Cape Cl '''apt to includ e the sine owners of Honduras, . n the d ? °4 Rope, and, we believe, the Mauritius, as partners Sd ' vi sion of the twenty millions—thus farther reducing their 4,),,,„gilate divid en d to the actual West Indian proprietors. tdie lt c: v er, this and most of the other questions that the House .4111,'Ilons ha s b een idly dallying with through the session, 41 0 /1 ., 'atiger of an untimely end—from an explosion, the pre t week sYmpt tonic s of a which have be en thi c k en i ng w i t hi n t h e or te . 4 ° , 11. , wish his M AJESTY would take it into his head, katCo oder f th ese fine mornings, to walk down to the House his faithful Commons and his stupid ministers •ro ab out thei r b usiness. The blundering that is able ~ LY. witnessed is not only disgraceful and unpardon e it Ee is bringing th e nat i on—this nation of shop rs---into contempt, -an d making English statesmen tiikiltidieule of the whole world. The vote of Monday he ' 13Y Which Bank t o notes above five pounds are to b e 4 de a legal tender while those for five pounds are convertible into gold, is not only an absurdity in ' o _but it also proves that Lord ALTHORP is incapa t4tieL comprehending the simplest proposition. We kitri'Ouestion Whethe r he can either read or write ; but d 1,,,,it_71ng for the sake of charity that he can read an triost certain are -we that he is destitute of all rea hiealll! Powers, and has a very sorry knowledge of the t he 1 ,. 11 o f tile English language. Among synonymes keti,2lllB ignorance and ALTHORP might be classed to toteZ There is not a cowherd in the country, untu -1),1,, of unlettered, and unread—who never darkened the ~sc.hool—but would acquit himself on any o.r '''eres yes a°Jeet, and, in all matters of common sense, ‘vli,Pectably and satisfactorily than the noble lord to v l as the honou r to be Chancellor of the Exchequer the re f la the Fourth, and the recognised leader of abeirefted Rouse of Commons. He who should be i ll e st man of his generation is decidedly the great in4,4 13cl'head existence ; and if such be the head 'l)4 itThilth-piece of the Whigs,what must be the N cter 'l's? and pretensions of the other and inferiormem- Por d) the country—for the sake of the N.B.—Since the above was written, we have received a late edition of the Sun, containing a report of the pro ceedings in the House of Commons on Wednesday evening. It appears by these that Lord ALTHORP has abandoned his country banking experiment altogether for the pression session.. With the greatest good nature possible he has confessed that he is a confirmed innocent —honest, but daft! ' .• The terms in which he discloses his intentions are worthy of his innocence. He says, in answer to a ques tion put by Mr. HERRIES, what follows: " I had intended befcire proceeding in the Committee to make the statement lam now about to make. The resolutions which I proposed respecting joint stock banking companies in the country formed a part of the measure to which I attached great importance. To that part of it also the greatest objections have been urged—l mean that part which enabled joint-stock banks of deposit to be established on a limited liability in every part of the country. In bringing the measure forward, I certainly anticipated I should be opposed by a very powerful .body of men. In- that anticipation I have not been disappointed. (Hear, hear, and laughter.) From every information I could collect upon the subject, I find that they are a more powerful body than I had imagined—(Bear, hear)—and the probability is, that on that account I should not be able to carry that part of it into proper effect, or, if ultimately, not during the. present Session of Parliament. (Hear, hear.) With that view I do feel, I may say his Majesty's Government altogether feel, it would not be desirable to press that portion of the measure during the present session. It is, therefore, my intention to postpone all the part of the plan which I brought forward rela tive to country banking, excepting what required them to com pound for the stamp-duties, in order that the country might know their real circulation. I should be sorry, in making this announcement, if it were supposed that I withdrew this part of the plan because I was convinced by the arguments adduced that I was wrong, (Hear, and a laugh.) I certainly am not convinced of that. I wish rather to put it on its really true ground, that I believe lam not able to carry it. (Hear, hear, and loud laughter.) I mean during the present session. I beg herefore, to state, in answer to the Right Hon. Gentleman, that I do not mean to press that part of the Bill, as I have stated, which relates to country banking." "Loud laughter," indeed! it is enough to provoke an universal sneeze, and make the very dogs bark at a British minister. A difficulty has sprung up in the adjustment of the West India question, not the only one which we have for sometime foreseen; but one which is likely'to lead to considerable embarrassment in the final settlement of this entire compound of difficulties. The impediment to which we refer applies to the apportionment of the com pensation fund voted in the .resolutions of Parliament. It will be recollected that we have, on a recent occasion, fully expressed our opinion of the complication of inter ests that would present itself when the period of adjust ment might arrive; and we instanced the single case of the island of Jamaica, where five or six thousand claim ants will have to be reconciled. This, however, although of itself a matter of e xtreme difficulty, is still only one of detail ; and before the time for considering it arrives there is another question to settle of no less importance— the question of principle. On what general principle is the appointment to be made to the several islands and countries constituting, our colonial empire ? Mr. STAN- . LEY talked of a ratio compounded of the numbers of ne groes, and the amount of exports from each island or colony. We have heard of compound ratios before the present time ; and we have not forgotten the labours of one Lieutenant DRUMAIOND, on an occasion now be come matter of history. The slight investigation of this new doctrinal• system, which was aH that could be made at the period of its agitation, brought conviction to the minds of great numbers of the grounds on which it was attempted to be justified being quite untenable. Sub sequent and more deliberate analysis of the system has demonstrated the utter fallacy of those attempts at justi fication ; but unfortunntely too late to prevent great in justice being done to many boroughs which stood near the borders of those distinctive lines set up for the ad mission or rejection of their right to the return, of mem bers to Parliament. With this lesson before us we are extremely jealous of the re-introduction of a system, which proved on that occasion so manifestly unjust, for the settlement of an affair of so much difficulty as the di vision of a sum of £20,000,000 sterling among the pre sent owners of 800,000 negroes. if this be taken as the number—and it is not far wide of the truth—the average appropriation would be £25 for each negro. Now aiers have taken a fancy to a compound ratio as well as L:eu. tenant DRUMMOND ; and without affecting to have gone into it with all the accuracy of abstruse algebraical cal culation, but assuming Mr. STANLEY'S general principle, it is found that, instead of £23 each on the average, the various places would receive amounts differing greatly from each other. For instance, excluding fractions . of pounds, Mr. PHILPOTTS stated at the meeting in London on the 24th instant, that - Demerara would receive £5l Berbice Trinidad Mauritius Jamaica 24 Antigua 23 Barbados The consequence of this discrepancy, as might be ex pected, is, that a difference of opinion exists among tile parties interested as the general mass of claimants. If we are rightly informed, the division of opinion stall's about thus : In favoui of Mr. STANLEY'S proposition, Demerara having 69,460 Negroes Berbice 21,300 „ • Trinidad 24,0(X) „ Mauritius 76.000 „ St. Vincent's 23,840 „ • Grenada 24,140 „ The planter of Demerara meets this• statement by the declaration that his negroes have cost him bona fide the increased price at which they are valued—and as that high value was the result of legal enactment in its origin, so, in the remedy, he is entitled to look for a propor tionate compensation. To this the Islander retorts, that, :if his :neighbour of Demerara has paid more for his negroes, he has, also, for a series of years, been deriv ing a benefit from their labours far exceeding any - thing which he, (the Islander) has obtained from the labour of his negroes ; and, therefore, the Demerara planter has already secured an advantage fully equivalent to the ex cess in value set upon the negroes in that colony, above those of the islands ; and thus he justifies the per capita principle in the appropriation of the compensa tion fund. These, we believe, are the pro's and con's of the question. We could extend the argument much further; but, as we may have occasion to return to the subject,. we will now dismiss it, with the repetition of the opinion that this, as one of numerous difficulties with which the whole question is beset, will alone require much and calm deliberation; and we trust it may be placed upon a footing just and equitable to'all concerned. Total 238,740 „ In favour of an appropriation per capita, without re erence to the question of exports: — Jamaica having 322,400 Negroes Barbados 81,900 „ It has been the fashion for some tune to extol the efli cievey and the almost perfectibility of the General Post office. This cry has been on the wing fora long period, and it has been so general that the great bulk of people have set it down to be a well-merited encomium and an undoubted truth. It has, however, been a very senseless cry. We do not mean to say that the Post-office is not well regulated. Its mail coaches start punctually enough, go at a good speed, and reach their destination with as much regularity and irregularity as could in reason be expected. The letters, too, are all sorted, ticketted, de livered, and paid for, especially in the larger towns, with -.as fair a 16gree of - despatch as mortal hands and legs can I accomplish. This is something, and we record the fact with pleasure. ' _ But still, the post-office at head quarters—we mean the London post-office, is, in some of its departments, conducted in a manner that would reflect 'discredit on the establishment of a Jew dealer in old clothes. Its clerks in the hcme office are paid to do the work of the public by facilitating the transmission of letters and newspapers, and yet it is a notorious fact that they retard the trans mission of the latter in order to carry on a snug and pro fitable speculation of their own. A number of these clerks act as newsmen, and avail themselves of their influence in the post-office to exclude, after a certain hour, all news papers which are not sent through their agency. One halfpenny is charged for every paper that is brought to, the office from six to half-past six o'clock, after which hour none are received at all. The clerks, however, re ceive papers up to eight o'clock. and thus enjoy, advan tages which ,none of the ordinary newsmen possess. Why should this be ? Either the post-office employs too many clerks or it does not. If it employ no more than are necessary, they should have such adequate sa laries as would support them without the profits to be de rived from a monopoly in the trade of print-mongering. But the fact is that the post-office has too many clerks, .else they could not afford to spare so much time in des patching newspapers on their own account. The evil has increased considerably of late, and it is time that it , were put an end to. Another grievance connected with the post-office has !ately sprung up in the opening and searching of mail coach parcels. This is a dirty, beggarly, sponging-house 'business. None but a Whig administration would to lerate it for an hour.- It encourages espionage and gives employment to a whole retinue of thieves and informers. l'he Government want money, we know, and Lord ALTI - ioRP has to rake for it, like an old woman gathering rags, in every hole and corner; but still this mean way of Dropping up the revenue is disgraceful. If a parcel contain, ing a letter is sent to London, the person who sends it is liable to be fined severely ; and yet it is most true that we of Liverpool have no other way of despatching a letter that does not rest in the post-office in London eleven or twelve hours before it. is delivered. If on Friday morn f9r instance, we send a parcel containing a letter fur Antigua St. Kitts Montserrat Nevis Dominica 15,390 „ St. Lucia 13,660 „ Tobago 12,550 „ Total 510,510 „ These two sums, together 749,250, with the addi tion of the slave population of Tortola, the Bahamas, the Bermudas, and the Cape of Good Hope, will make a total of nearly 800,000, as the number of negroes in our colonies. That the circumstances of the several colonies varyl greatly, with regard not only to the original cost, but) also as to the current expense of maintaining the negro, 1 is a matter not to be disputed. But the bare existence of this fact does not, in our judgment, warrant the ap propriation of funds in the unequal manner which we have shewn to result from estimates conducted upon the compound ratio principle. There are many other consi derations-to be brought under review besides the mere cost of the negro. It must be considered what sort of soil is found in the country which he inhabits—how far his labours have tended to the interest of his owner, flowing from the natural advantages of his location — whether it has not been found more advantageous to the interests of the planter to direct the labour of the negro exclusively to the production of exportable articles, and to import provisions for his maintenance, rather than abstract a material portion of labour from the cultivation of exportable products, with a view of raising that food upon the estate ;—and, it is most material to consider whether this course of proceeding has not resulted from a paucity of labourers, with reference to the extent of surface, and degree of productiveness of the soil on which they are placed ;—and, if so, whether that state of things has not been entirely created by the enactments of the legislature. In regarding this question with a view to the general interests of all the planter, it will be sufficient to inquire why Demerara should participate at the rate of £5l, and Barbados at the rate of £l5 only for each negro. The, answer to such a qUestion would not be . 'difficult. Barbados, one of the oldest of our settlements, from its limited surface and extensive application of capital, for a succession of generations, contains more absolute wealth, in proportion to its superfices, than any- . Other of the colonies, Jamaica not excepted. The wealth thus concentrated, instead of being devoted almost exclusively to the production of those commodities which are exported, is more divided in its application. The estates, with few exceptions, are small, and embrace every variety of cultivation of which the tropical climate admits. The arts and many manufac tures flourish there to an extent unknown in all, or nearly all, the other colonies. The population is'dense, and the whole island resembles more an independent country than a colony. Hence a much larger proportion of the population being employed in the cultivation of food for the consumption' of the island than in others,--that population consuming also much of what is raised by the remaining numbers,—it follows, of course, that the ex ports of the island are smaller than those of any other, in proportion to its entire population. On the other hand, -Demerara, and the settlements of Betbice and Esse quibo, having chiefly a virgin alluvial soil of unbounded extent of surface, and susceptible, from its- proximity to the equator, of cultivation through the year, without re gard to seasons, yields a much more extensive crop with the same amount of labour than can be obtained in any of the islands. The extent and productiveness of these continental colonies is such, that, if they possessed a larger number of hands, they would be capable of furnishing the mother country with the whole amount of her consump tion in the chief articles of import from the entire of the colonies. That Guiana does not furnish more results en- Wednesday &ening, Half-past Seven o'clock. tirely from the legal difficulties thrown in the way of the Nothing has transpired with regard to the West India removal of negrOes froth 'one island or colony to another. Emancipation Bill since our last, although it is generally. With a view, doubtless, of preventing the evasion of those understood that the Colonial Secretary had succeeded laws enacted for the prohibition of the slave trade, the re- satisfyinm the West India deputation as to how the raising the money is to be effected. A very great diffi rnoval of the negroes of any proprietor—suppose of Bar- 1 culty exists, however, as to how it ()tight to be distribut bados—from an unproductive estate there to one be-1 ed, and this, it is expected, will not be a rran g ed without longing to the same individual in Demerara, where an , a considerable clashing of interests and differen ce of opi equal amount of labour would have yielded a much larger !Ilion. The accountsfrom the Leeward Islands are not very cheering. Some discontent prevailed among the return, has been, for a long series of years, absolutely black population, who had been led (we do not know by prohibited. Here, then, is the clue to the high value of whom) to believe that the recent change of Government, the negroes of Demerara. Here, also, the motive for ap. as respects-the islands, was to be accompanied by an im plying all the labour of those negroes to the raising of mediate . emancipati n public peace. o Our private letters, however, assert that this had not led to any disturbance of the exportable produce, -- at the cost of importing, to; a very large extent, the food necessary for the support of the po. The consol market has been very gloomy during the pulation. last three days. Consols for Account closed this after noon at 89 to 90. Exchequer Bills and India Bonds, on These are the two extremes. The other islands fall in the contrary, have been looking up, the former closing at between, in their several . gradations—which gradations ) 54 premium, and the latter at 33 to 34, this afternoon.— are mainly determined by the extent of surface, and the No material business has been done in any of our foreign bonds. Russian may be quoted at 104 b `Dutch at 4 S - 1 ;- , character of the soil in each case, as proport i oned to the and Danish at 73 1 to 74. Belgian Bonds are 91 1 to 1 . population settled upon it; and, therefore , need not be. There has been great dullness in Spanish Bonds, spe'- enlarged upon. There can be no question that , if the culators having been much disappointed at the 'recent as laws had not prohibited the removal of negroes from one semblage of the Cortes, who, strange to say, forgot to pay colony to another, a considerable number would have been off the CorteS loans, of which, probably, they never , heard. The price of the Stock this afternoon is 187 5 . located in Guiana , transferred from the exhausted and Notwithstanding the sailing of the mighty mercenary unprofitable soil of many of the old islands. The conse- Armada from Oporto, against Lisbon, the Scrip has de quence would have been, a larger amount of exports from dined to '2'4 discount within the last two days. The those islands, in proportion to the remaining population; Bonds are also heavy at 59. • Little is doing . in any and in Guiana, although the aggregate export s would/ other security, nor has the Share Market exhibited any material change except in Real del Monte, which are have greatly increased, their ratio to the whole popula- £34 10s. per share, and Bolanos, which are about £135 to tion would have been much diminished; inasmuch as the £l4O per share. approximate equalization of the value of the negro Advices from Stockholm- state that the Government had throughout the colonies, consequent on such power of, ordered, from the date of November next, that all bar on !Dade by hammer, and destined for exportation, all be removing them from one to another, would have led to a, in the middle of each bar the letters B M J as a distinct much greater number of them being employed in the : ive mark and guarantee to foreigners of its quality. raising of food for the general sustenance. f We have late accounts from Baltimore, which furnish The entire absence ;of this power of removal b e in g ,' us with a copy of the treaty between Russia and the therefore, the cause of time greater value set on the United States. The first article establishes a reciprocal liberty of commerce, navigation, and trade, extending to negro in Guiana than in the islands, the question seems th e i n h a bit an t s o f each , state sojourning or trading in the to be, whether a valu e di c t a t e d by suc h i m p er ious cir- territories of the other, the same security and protection cumstances, which were altogether beyond the controul, enjoyed by natives, on condition of obedience to the laws. of the planfer on either side, would warrant such an The second article places the vessels of both countries in the same port on an equality as to tonnage duties.— inequality in the distribution of the compensation fund, I as would be made under the compound ratio spoken of In regard to lighthouse duties, pilotage, custom - house fees, port charges, and all other fees and charges of every by Mr. STANLEY ? The island planter says, in answei ,description and for every purpose, they are to be placed to that question, that such a distribution would be en the footing of the most favoured nations, with whom ; just; as he has incurred nearly as much expense pet there are not specific treaties now in force•establishing a head for his labourers to obtain only half the amount 01. complete reciprocity. The third article abolish discriminating duties on im ' produce by their labour, which the planter of Demerara, portations, and stipulates that no greater charge of any or the other settlements of Guiana, have invariably beeil kind whatsoever shall be levied on merchandize, &c. im doing, owing to the inferiority of his soil, and the' ported in the vessels of one country than on the same ; articles imported in vessels of the other. -By the next increased expenses of transport to which he is liable, article it is explained that these stipulations in both cases London, it will reach its destination on Saturday morn ing; but if we send it through the post-office on that day, it will not reach the person to whom it is addressed be fore Monday morning ! This is not the way to carry on the correspondence of a great commercial country. The Post-office insist upon being the carriers of all letters, and yet they carry them in a way that a good walker would 'almost be ashamed of. But if the home department of the Post-office be thus wretchedly conducted, that of the foreign is still worse.— In the latter the business is an abominable job altogether. ;The clerks have low salaries—hardly sufficient to keep 'Soul and body together—but to make up for this they are licensed like a blue gown beggar of Scotland to prey upon the country. The publiC will hardly believe that no news-• paper can be sent through the Post-office to any of the towns on the coast of France or Holland unless a heavy 'fee in the shape of a bribe be given to thes,p clerks. Nor 'can any foreign newspaper be imported without the pay- IMent of a similar tax. The whole of the business is ma naged in a shameful manner. Newspapers yield a reve nue to the state, and yet the sale of them in foreign coun tries is restricted, in fact almost prohibited, by the inter 'posing fees of these needy officials of the three-legged stool. It is not for us to say who is most to blame, the Duke of RICHMOND or Sir FRANCIS FREELING j but they may, if they please, divide the charge between them.— All that we know positively is that the business has been much worse conducted since the noble duke accepted 'his present office. LONDON LATEST NEWS. - or the sake of 1 Jtsi.y . 5 ' 1833 THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD ,apply as. well to arrivals in either country, from ports.fo reign to both, as to direct voyages. The same recip roca l stipulation s for abolishing discri minating duties are by the fifth article extended to im ports from both countries. The sixth and seventh articles provide that no higher duties shall be paid on importationi or exportations of the produce or manufactures of either country to or from the other, than are paid on like articles from or to any other foreign country. None,of these sti pulations relate. to coastwise. navigation ; that is expressly excepted and reserved to botlynations. By the eighth and ninth articles the liberty is reserved to each country to appoint consuls, vice-consuls, agents,- &c., with the privileges of the same officers of the most favoured nations, they being liable, if engaged in com merce, to the laws-and usages established for native mer chants. They may act, too, without the interference of the local authorities, except when the public peace is endan gered, or assistance is required to carry their decisions into effect. The parties to controversies before them are not thereby restrained in their judicial remedies at home for acts dune under this authority. Consuls, &c. may re quire the aid of the local authorities for the arrest, &e. of deserters. Demand, in such case, must be accompanied by written evidence of the claim upon the deserter, and the, exhibition of proper official documents. Deserters may be placed by the Consuls, &c. in the public prisons, at the cost of those claiming them, until delivered to the claimant,• or sent home by another vessel. Four months Without being sent home is the limitation of this confine • ment, after which the prisoner, unless detained for crimes, shall be unconditionally discharged, and not subject to • arrest again for the same cause. The tenth article grants to alien residents.in both countries the right of disposing of personal estate by will, without any other charges, &c. than are imposed on native heirs. - It is provided that this article does not derogate from the existing Russian laws against emigration.. By the eleventh, article i t is agreed that if either party shall hereafter grant to .any other na tion any particular favoirr in 'navigation or commerce,' it shall immediately become common .to the other party freely, where it is freely granted to such other nation, or on yielding the same compensation when the grant is • conditional. The closing article extends the:force of the treaty.to Poland, and fixes its duration to the - year 1839, provided ,one year's notice of the intention-to abolish shall have been given at that date, or until one year after such previous notice shall have been given thereafter. LATEST PARLLIMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDNESDAY. The gallery - was opened at a quarter-past twelve o'clock, there being then about twenty-five members in the house. Mr. EWING presented five petitions from the merchants, the Chamber of Commerce, and other bodies in Glasgow, against the Scotch Bankruptcy Bill. Also a petition from the same place, against church patronage. Mr. HEATHCOTE presented - a petition from the master gun makers of the metropolis, complaining of a falling off in trade in consequence of the operation of the game laws, and praying for a revision of the same, especially as regards the sale of game. Mr. EWART, at the request of Lord Althorp, postponed the second reading of the Prisoner's Counsel Bill till Wednesday, the 17th inst. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL postponed till the same day the Law Amendment Bill. On the order of the day being read for the second reading of the Carrickfergus Disfranchisement Bill, Lord BELFAST suggested the postponement of the second reading until after his motion for the appointment of a Select Commtitee, which stood for that evening, had been disposed of. BANKRUPT (SCOTLAND) DILL. The LORD ADVOCATE moved tt e second reading of this Bill to that day six months, in consequence, as he - sag, of the ad vanced period of the session. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT BILL. On the motion of the Solicitor-General, this bill was read a second time, and ordered to he committed on Wednesday next. THE RANK CHARTER. 3`Lord ALTHORP moved that the house resolve itself into a committee on the Bank Charter. Mr. HEartiEs wished to know whether the report in circuta lion was or was not true, that it was the intention of the noble lord to postpone, at least beyond the present session, that part of the Bank Charter Acts which related to country banking ? The noble lord in reply said it was his intention to postpone all that part of his plan relative to country banking, excepting that which required them to compound for their stamp-duties. He should be sorry in making this announcement if it were supposed that he did so because he was convinced by the argu ments adduced that he was wrong. He certainly was not con vinced of that, but he wished rather to put it on its really true ground, that he believed he was not able to carry it. (A loud laugh.) Mr. THOMAS ATTWOOD presented a petition from the North ern Political Union, agreed to at'a public meeting, complaining of the distress of trade, and particularly of the labouring class, which they attributed to excessive taxation, and praying for the repeal of all taxes on the necessaries of life, particularly the Corn Laws. After several other petitions were presented the Speaker left .he chair. LOCAL NEWS. SACRILEGE.—The communion plate of Bootle church has been stolen from the iron chest in which it - was . deposited, during the past week. The strengfri of the steins to 'have resisted ordinary force, and to have been blown open. by gun-- pi-m(l.er. No clue has yet been found by which to trace out the robbers, whose daring act furnishes an additional proof of the in adequacy of our police regulations, which leave the suburbs of Liverpool in a totally unprotected state. MAD Does.—ln the neighbourhood of Litherland several dogs have been bitten within the last few days by a cur exhibit ing symptoms of hydro . phobia. Two most valuable dogs, be longitim to Owen Jones, Esq., of Seaforth, were severely lacera ted While fighting with the dog in question, and must, - it is feared, be destroyed. When the madness of the dog was dis covered, means for its immediate destruction were promptly taken by Mr. Makin and Mr. George Lowe; it was fired at and wounded by the latter, and ultimately killed in the village, but not before another dog was bitten. P.Yery precaution has been taken, by t3ing up and destroying- the dogs bitten, to prevent a recurrence of the alarming and too often fatal mischiefs re sulting from canine madness. THE LATE STORNl.—During the past week. severaLdead bodies have been washed up near Blackpool. The bodies were completely in a state of decomposition, and all attempts to trace the features were entirely fruitless.. . _ runtous DRIVING.—It really is time that some check shoule be given to a system by which the lives of the inhabitants are continually placed in the most imminent danger; we alludd to the practice of furious driving by drunken or inenperiencel coachmen. We have frequently witnessed some hair-brearith escapes, and we can only attribute the continuance of the evil to the apathy of the public, who having for the moment escaped the danger, think it not worth their while to further in the matter. • We are certain. however, that the evil would be cured if some of the gentry who have charge of these coaches were more frequently made to know that they are not at their pleasure to place the lives of his Majesty's subjects in jeopardy. There is no want of a desire on the pelt of the authorities to afford the fullest protection; but if the public will not come forward, the evil must necessarily continue. We have been led into these remarks-by a circumstance which occurred to a gentleman well known - to us, on Tuesday night. lie, With his wife, were on their way home from the Theatr; and had nearly arrived at the end of Williamson-street, when a car driven by a scoundrel, who must have been in a most beastly state of intoxication, turned into the street at such a furious rate, and at that rate drove so near, or rather on the pavement, that it was with the utmost difficulty the gentleman saved himself and wife from being run over. As it is, the mischief done is such as will not be speedily remedied. The alarm occasioned to the female was so great that she has been ever since in a very pre carioni state ; and will no doubt be long ere she perfectly re cover from the effects of it. We regret to say that the gentle man was too much engaged in rendering assistance to his wife to be able to take - the number of the car, and thus the scoundrel who was the cause of the alarm and subsequent illness of the female, has unfortunately escaped the punishment so justly due to him. QUICK DESP ATCH_— Sixty firkins of Butter were shipped, per the Earl of Roden steamer, on the 14th uit. in Dundalk, for Liverpool—transmitted from thence per railway, to Manchester, and were actuallv.ou the grocer's counter in, eighteen hours from the time of ihipment !—Newry Telegraph. INQUIRY AT THE LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY.—POMUO/It to pre vious announcement, a meeting cf the trustees of the Infirmary was held on Tuesday, to take into consideration the report Made by its fi ub -c ommittee, respecting a charge of a delicate nature against one of the medical officers cf the establishment. Samuel dope ; Esq. was - called to the chair, and !aVeral rese lotions were'proposed, 'but as it wet ultiMately decided to refer the investigation to the medical officers of the Manchester Infirmary, this would not lie the proper stage of the proceed ings to giv e publicity to details The Hon. Charles Edward Law, the late Common Sergeant of London, has been elected , by the Court of Aldermen to the office of Recorder of that city. The learrild gentleman is the sou of the late, and brother of the present Lord Ellenborough. The celebrated Mr. Michael Scales,•has been once more elected Alderman of the Ward of Portsoken. On a former oc casion when the Court of Aldermen refused to admit him of their body, he sought to compel them to do so by a writ of man damus from the Court of King's Bench, to which the Aldermen replied that Mr. Scales had surreptitiously obtained his freedom. When the judgment of the court was given, the late Lord Ten terden held " thata special return was not necessary, and that the Court of Aldermen had a right to reject any person re turned to them." In consequence of this decision iheVourt of Aldermen admitted Mr. Hughes, M.'P. for Oxford, who subse quently resigned the office, although Mr. Scales had a majority of votes. On the present election, Mr. Johnson teas the unsuc cessful candidate, but we suppose that the Aldermenlvill act on their former decision and swear in this gentleman. The advantages the public will derive by the establishment of railways are daily becoming more an object of consideration. The two great concerns, the Grand dimetion, and Lond on and Birmingham, will commence operations in a very short time, as soon as the Directors of the respective companies have been elected; and it is calculated that passengers and go o d s will be conveyed from Liverpool. to London, when th e ra ir wa y s are completed, in ten hours. This is a very important consi deration to the commercial community . ; but another work of equal importance is in progress. The Loudon and Greenwich Railway Company have procured an act of incorporation, and the Company is making great preparations in order that this concern may be completed at the earliest possible period. .Plans are also lodged in the private bill office, for . a continuation of this lire to Dover, in older that a speedy communication may be established between London and Paris, and the continent of Europe. The public is probably not aware, that a Magnificent line of arches from London Bridge, through the very heart of the city, form this railway.to Greenwich, and. when com pleted, will become one t f the most intcreeting improvements in arehitecure, and with this view, if.others of more immediate interest did not present themselves, we wish them every success in their undertaking. Lord Garlies, eldest son of the Earl of, Galloway, it is stated in the fashionable circles, is about to unite himself with the Lady Blanch Somerset, daughter of the Duke, of Beaufort. The family of the Earl of 'Lauderdale has keen placed in mourning by the demise of his lordshi,,,'s eldest surviving sister, Lady Jane Houston, the lady of Lieutenant-General Sir Wil liam Houston, Lieutenant-Governor of Gibraltar. Lady Jane, before her marriage with the gallant General, was the relict.of Samuel Long, Esq., brother to Lord Farnborough. Her lady ship's marriage with Sir 'Valiant Houston took place in SECOND► EDITION. Standard Office, Three o'clock CORN EXCHANGE. • FRIDAY, TWO O'CLOCK. To-day the market has gone off without animatiorL Canada and other prime fre.4l Wheats were without inquirvi but some business was done in good and Middling Irish at gull prices.— There were few samples of flue inealitw Oats ou show, and for such rather higher prices were got. The sales effected in Irish Flour, Oatmeal, and other articles were, all at fully the previous quotations. There were speculative inquiries for flour in bond, but holders generally asked an advance. Little of any bonded Wheat offeyin,g, and none pressing on the market. COTTON MARKET. FRIDAY, Two O'CLOCK. The demand for Cotton continues very animated, and tioio to BDOO bags have been sold to-day at id. per lb advance in Ame rican and id. per lb in Brazil on the highest prices obtained last week; of these about half arc ou speculation. The sales of the week are 33,,000 bas, of which ucariy 20,(YYJ had been taken ou speculation. ' The imports of the week are 11,291 American and 92, West India. S MUT ING /LV TE L L IGENCE. FRIDAY, sth July.—Noon, Wind Sauth.—Fair, ARP.IV2D. Mount:tineer, Thompson, from New South Wales. Ozar, Ashford, from Cadiz and Milan. Parkfield, Auley, for Bombay. Lord Eldon, Dawson, for Calcutta. St. Jbhn, Spencer, for New York. Snowdon, Gernmill, for Demerara. Harvest, Prince, for Portland, A. S. Grace Brown, —, for Baltimore. Mary, Owen, for Newfoundland. The Princess Charlotte, for Bombay, 11.3.11 put back, having been is contact with a flat. . . The Perseverance, Gibson, from Antwerp, at Deal, and sailed fur this port ou the 2d inst. The Expedition, Krause, hence at Palau. The Galatea, Cook, from New York, for this port, in Mu:labia Roads, 2d inst. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, srii JULY. Wind at Point 1411 P- S. S. W . 710(Ivrate , with rain. No. 341, Canadian, 8.8. off, inward bound, at 1 p. m., with pilot on board. LIVERPOOL (AINTREE) RACES. The Liverpool (Aintree) races commenced on Tuesday, and have been the means of attracting to this place, as visitors, ail the fashion and nobility of the neighbourhood. Every descrip tion of vehicle, from the coach and four down to the poney chaise, covered cart, and horse, good, bad, and indifferent, has been called into active servile for the accommodation of the admirers of the sports of the turf. The North-'road has pre sented, dying the last three days, a continued stream of eques trian, vehicular, and pedestrian travellers towards Aintree; and, but for the appearance of the people, a stranger might have conjectured that Liverpool was sending forth its swarm to take possession of some new discovered and unoccupied country. On Wednesday the Grand Stand was full to repletion, and we never saw a more brilliant array of female beauty than the bai cony presented to our view. The day was in perfect accord ance wkh the scene, for the sun shone bright without oppress ing us with his rays. The sport was not so good as on the pre vious day, or yesterday. On this subject we must confess our ignorance of what is or is not _good sport, never having been initiated into the mysteries of jockeyship. We were pleased because all that we saw around us appeared to be so, and had no inclination to treat with critical severity the roundabouts, swings, throwing sticks, and other pastimes that afforded amusement to the " great unwashed," their wives and bairns, who, escaping from their every-day cares, appeared to enjoy something like an approach to " perfect happiness." What pleased us most of all was the perfect order that appeared among this vast as semblage of people, and the readiness with which a very large portion of them left the ground as soon as the races were at an end. Those of yesterday were better contested than either of the former days. The particulars are as follow : TUESDAY, JULY 2. The CROXTETII STAKES of 15 sous. each, 10 ft. 30 added. Mr. Beardsworth's Physician Mr, iiostvn's tier Eilitness _ . Four ()fliers started,Thut were not placed. A beautiful race, won only by half a head. • A PktonucE SWEEPSTAKES of 50 sows. each, h ft. Marq. Westminster's The Controller (Calloway) 1 Sir W. Wynh's Ratcateber 2 Four others started. Won by a length. A SWEEPSTAKES of 25 sous. each, p.p. with 30 added. Mr. Mostyn's Vittoria . (Lye) 1 Sir R. Keith Dick's Miss Margaret Mr. R. ALLANSON'S Cashier Five others started, but were not placed. Wm - , in a tauter. A MAIDEN PLATE of SO sous. Mr. Watmough's bc by Figaro Mr. Armstead's Miniature Mr. Lockey's bc by Lottery 4 3 Mr. Griffith's b g_by Antonio 3 4 Two drawn. Both heats bea.utifuiiy contested. WEDNESDAY. The FOAL STAKES of 100 sovs each, h ft for colts and fillies then three years old.—Colts, Bst 61b ; fillies Bst 31b. • Once 'round. • Marquis of Westminster's The Controller (Calloway) 1 Sir 1.. Stanley's Waxy Pope Won in a canter. The SEFTON STAKES of 30 sovs each, h ft 20 added; for three years old fillies, Bst 31b. One mile. Mr..Skipsey's b f Eve Walkev er Three paid forfeit. TRADSMEN'S Cup, or Piece of Plate, value 200 sovs with 100 sovs added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs each, 15 ft and 5 only if declared by the Ist March, 18.33. Two miles. The winner to pay 30 sovs fur the Judge, &c. and the 2d horse to save his 'stake. LOW Wilton's Chancellor (G. Edwards) I Mr. Houldsworth's David 2 Mr. J. Wilson Patten's Mowbray Hill 3 Mr. Skipsey's Physician Mr. A. Bower's Lady Stafford 5 Nine started.—Thirty paid. A splendid race, won by half a length. THURSDAY. A. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 sovs each, with 30 added, for all ages. — Once round and a distance. • Mr. Da son ns br e Satan (Heseltine) 1 Mr. Beardsworth ns ch f Puss • 2 Lord Derby's gr c Falcon bridge Mr. -Webster ns ch f Sensitive .l Two paid.--A beautiful race, won by a neck. The St LEGEtt STAKES of 25 SON'S each, p p. with 100 soya added; for three yrs old colts and fillies.—Oue mile an d three quarters. Mr. Mosln's h c Jack Fawcett (Darling) 1 Mr. Barrow's b f by Whisker Marquis of Westminster's br c The Controller . Seven started.—An exceLeut race, won by a half a head. A. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES of 10 sovs each, with 30 SOTS added for all ages,. (except two yrs old ) T.Y.C. . Mr. Yates' eh f Sensitive (Lye) 1 Lord Derby's gr c lialconbridge Mr. Gardiner's gr g Pluralist Mr. Nanney's bl f Kitty Fisher His MAJESTY'S PLATE of 100 guineas, for three yrs old. Two mile-heats. Mr. W. Crompton's br c Satan (Lye) 2 0 1 1 Mr. W. Watmough's b c Mr. Yates' br in Hope Mr. Houldsworth's br h Contest 4 0 2 2 Five drawn.—Second heat, a dead heat. The following is the return of the Cocking between the Earl of Derby, and General Yates:—Derby •9 in 5 b. Yates, 8 in 1 b. COMMON COUNCIL. The monthly meeting of the Common Council took place on Wednesday last, when the Rev. Cyrus Morrell was appointed to the curacy of St. Michael's church. The candidates were the Rev. Messrs. Stafford, North. Morrall, and Winstanle\. The votes were, for Mi. Morall—Messrs. A. Molyncux, Hough ton, Thompson, Moss, T. Corrie, Ashton, Shaw, T. Bourn; T. Case, J. Bourne, P. W. Brancker, Sir T. Braneker, and Sir G. Drinkwater. For Mr. Stafford--Messrs. Crosbie, Glatt stone, Aspinall, J. D. Case, W. W. Currie, Lawrence, Wright , and the - Mayor. For Mr. North—Messrs. Lace, Cockshott, Pownall, Sandbach, Robinson, Leyland, and Sir John Tobin. The freedom of the Borough was unanimously voted to the following gentlemen :—Mr. George Stephenson,enoineer, Mr. Hartley, dock surveyor, and Mr. C. W. Williams, of the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, in consequence of the-im portant services rendered by these individuals .respectively, by which the town of Liverpool has profited so materially. A letter from T. C. Poi ter, Esq. was read, tendering his re iignation as a member of the Dock Committee, arising frOm 11 health. •Mr. C. Lawrence, •in moving that Mr. Porter's resignation be accepted, and regretting, the cause which ren dered such a step necessary, propose - d- Mr. Robertson Glad stone to till the vacancy occasioned by Mr. Porter's resignation, which was seconded by Mr. W. W. Currie, and carried. A memorial, most numerously and respectably signed by the inhabitants of the town , was read, requesting the assistance of the Corporation in permanently providing a- room for the ex hilAtion of pictures, without any charge to the Artists' Society. Mr. W. W. Currie and Mr. itobettson Gladstone urged the propriety of the Council's complying with the prayer of the memorial, when it was determined to defer the further consi deration of the subject. until their next meeting, and in the meantime, to guarantee the use of the rooms in Church-street for this year, without any charge to the Artists. INQUESTS, . • BEFORE ROBERTSON GLADSTONE; 3? SQ. CORONER. On Friday last, on the body of Elizabeth Charlotte John stone, aged seven years. who lived in Thurlow-street. On dm previous Tuesday afternoon, the deceased and her father and mother were in a room together in which there was no lire in the grate. and the deceased, _in attempting to light one, set flto to her pinafore by which she was so orL•atifury burned that she died on the Friday' morning.—Verdict. Accidental death. On M on d a y, oh the body of John Bowes, a labotircr. On Monday night, the 21th ultimo, the deceased was very tipsy when he got to his lodgings, in Ilackin ' s-hcv, and was observe:l to look very much at his right hand thumb, as if it gave him pain; he subsequently stated that he believed he had hurt it by catching hold of some iran rails to prevent him from falling into a cellar. Notwitbs.tandin,, , :: the means that were used to cute it, the thumb contlnued to grow worse till Saturday last, when the deceased was seized with pain in his shoulders and bowels; and he bcame so much worse on Sunday, that his friends thought it advisable to scud him to the Infirmary, wheta he died at n:ght of locked jaw, supervened by the injury of the thumb.—Verdict accordingly.—Also On the - Cody of a men un known, which was found that i mitning a little after six o ' clo ck, lying on part of a brick -lain nor:. Cfradwick-street.—Verdict, Pau ad 'lead. _ . On Tuesday, on the body of &. man unknown, which was found floating in the river in the morning, near Gar;ton.—Also, on the body of another man unknown, which was picked up Dear the liatch Buoy, in the channel, ou Tuesday last. The deceased had on a blue shirt, a light waistcoat, and a Pair of light trousers, hut no coat or jacket, and appeared to hove been in the water several days.--Verdict, in both cases, Pcund droirned.—Auct on the bode' of Patrick Toney. farmer, of Sheepridge, near Newry. The deceased, who lodged in Cros ton-court, Ctinliffe-stiect, had come bete a few days ago for the put pose of selling some horses, Which he brought from Ireland, and appeared to have spent his time principally in drinking till, Tuesday night, when he went to bed about ten o'clock, in a state of intoxication; about eleven he became very sick and ill, when a medical man was sent for, but before he came deceo4eu bud cnired.—Verdict, exr-'44ire drioart,y.