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~ ! ~¢ . Voetrg• " 'THE POLAR STAR. This star sinks below the horizon in certain latitudes. I watched it sink lower and lower every night, till at last it disappeared. A star has left the kindling sky— A lovely northern light— How many planets are on high, But that has left the night. I miss its bright familiar face, It was a friend to me, Associate with my native place, And those beyond the sea. It rose upon our English sky, Shone o'er our English land, And brought back many a loving a}•e, And many a gentle hand. It seemed to answer to my thought, It called the past to mind, And with its welcome presence brought All I had left behind. The voyage it lights no longer, ends Soon on a foreign shore : How can I but recall the friends, Who I may see no more ? Fresh from the pain it was to part— How could 1 bear the pain ? Yet strong the omen in my heart That says—We meet again. Meet with a deeper, dearer love, For absence shows the worth Of all from which we then remove, Friends, home, and native earth. Thou lovely polar star, mine eyes Still turned the first on thee, Till I have felt a sad surprise That none looked up with me. But thou hest sunk below the wave Thy radiant place unknown; I seem to stand beside a grave, And stand by it alone. Farewell l—ab, would to me were given A power upon thy light, What words upon our English heaven Thy loving rays should write ! Kind messages of love and hope Upon thy rays should be; Tby shining orbit would have scope scarcely enough for me. Ob, fancy vain as it is fond, And little needed too, My friends! I need not look beyond My heart to look for you!' " CONTEMPORARY PRESS. THE ARREST OF MR. STEPHENS. ( From Ike Morning Herald.) a The time has not long gone by, since whig , states men and philosophers were.wont to proclaim from the house-tops, during every day of each passing year, that for ail the miseries which prevail in a community the governors of that community ought to be held re sponsible. In conformity with this principle, the pre sent occupants of office, and other influential members of the whig party, did not scruple to trace the rural incendiary fires of 1830 to the alleged vices of the Duke of Wellington's government ; whilst, conversely, the whigs themselves have, for every partial gleam of prosperity that has cheered the country since their ac cession to place, assumed the most unqualified credit. Thus, they placed to the credit of their principles the suspension of the incendiary fires alluded to; and every impulse, in like manner, to the national indus try, which might be traced to the influence of joint stock banks, or even of bubble speculations, has been boldly claimed by the whigs, as an emanation at not more than one remove from the pure spirit of whig gery. By the test to which they have, in former days, so confidently appealed,.and on the result of the applica tion of which they so unceremoniously condemned their political antagonists, must the whigs themselves now be content to be tried. Let that test, then, be applied to the state of affairs in any part of the British empire —after that empire has been blessed for now eight long years with the benefit of whig sway—and what will he the conclusions in which we must rest? If the condition of public affairs must, as whig wise men have always proclaimed, reflect faithfully the cha racter of the policy adopted by our rulers, what cha racter shall we assign to that policy which presides over the aff.hs of India, of Canada, of Ireland—which has sanctioned the (to use no harsh term) equivocal condition to which our navy has been reduced—and which has stimulated millions of our manufgcturing population into a state bordering upon madness ? Let the whigs themselves supply the inevitable answer. The.whigs, to be sure, are in the habit of laying the dangerous condition of the manufacturing population at the door of Oastler and Stephens—the "incendiary agitators" of the north ! But the Whigs must have strangely forgotten their "philosophy" before ventur ing on such an assumption as is involved in that charge! Our " liberal" economists have always taught that mere " incendiary harangues" must al ways go for less than nothing, excepting in cases where real and deep-seated grievances lend to such harangues a dangerous degree of force. It is, how ever, the duty of every government to Put down "in cendiaries;" and the whigs have, accordingly, at tengtt; weron,),l t. arrest Mr. gt.piwnc_ That arreui, and the mode in which the consequent examination of the alleged " traitor" was conducted, have, as yet, added little to the government's reputation for wis dom. They are, however, now bound to follow the matter up. They are bound to prove Mr. Stephens guilty of the crimes imputed to him; or they are bound to admit that he has been most grossly injured and calumniated by them. Justice having been done, in one shape or other, to Mr. Stephens, it will then remain for the patriotic whigs to apply the same line and measure to the in cendiary harangues and treasonable advice of Mr. O'Connell. The whigs, however, will be in no haste, we fancy, to discharge the latter act of duty to the public; nay, they seem to be already ashamed of having taken up something like a false position in regard to Mr. Stephens—if, at least, we may judge of ministerial feelings by the tone of the ministerial organ—the Globe. That journal observes, last night : " Whether sufficient care has been taken to obtain legal evidence of the incendiary language reported without contradiction as used by this man, we have not materials, and do not undertake, to pronounce. We hold, however, that the public authorities, in a civi lised country, have no choice, where evidence has been obtained, as to proceedings in such cases. It is their bounden duty to put down all incitements to outrage, whether written or spoken. They have stretched their allowance of ' demonstrations' of opinion to the utter.- most limit. They must show an equal determination to uphold law and preserve order. They must punish (and, by punishing in one instance, prevent in others) exhortations to resistance of law—assassin suggestions against persons—incendiary menaces against property. If they do not this, with what justice can they punish the poor dupes of these firebrands ? With what jus tice—when the full persuasion of total impunity for whatever advice or whatever actions phrensy may dic tate has been suffered, by their culpable negligence, to diffuse itself through whole dishicts,—with what jus tice, we say, can the poor workpeople, who think in herds,' as Detrosier said of them, be fired upon by military or tried -by commissions, for acting in herds also ! :i\To—it is the truest mercy to the many timely to check the few, who have just sufficient talent and education to be fiery declaimers, but not sufficient en lightenment or sufficient conscience to be rational expositors to the poor of their rights, duties, or cir cumstances,—it is, we say, the tritest mercy to their easily-misguided auditors, to stop such men at the first moment they pass-33 such men never fail to pass— the bounds of fair and legal discussion, and aim at sti mulating their assemblages, by the very mode of meet ing, and still more by the topics addressed to them, to direct resistance and violation of law—and, by no obscure intimations, to direct attacks on persons, and destruction of property." The Globe is a journal far too clever not to be aware that all the 'propositions laid down in the passage which we have quoted, involve a bitter condemnation of the Whig government for having tolerated, and for still tolerating, Mr. O'Connell .in his treasonable movements against the integrity of the British empire, and against the lives and properties of the whole Anglo-protestant population of Ireland. Our minis terial contemporary does, indeed, subsequently con tend that Mr. O'Connell's recommendations have merely pointed to "passive resistance against tithe." We cannot, however, avoid thinking that the death's head and cross-bones emblems have little obvious affinity with passive resistance in any shape; nor can we understand, why a million or two of " fighting" men should be enrolled as "precursors," merely to give effect to doctrines of "moral force." If, besides, it were, for the sake of argument, to be conceded to the Globe, that Mr. O'Connell's recommendations have "pointed" only to passive resistance, still we cannot avoid knowing to what results those recommendations have actually, and almost invariably, led. Murders, burnings, wholesale destruction of Protestant life and property:—these results have flowed from the passive resistance counsels of Mr. O'Connell. No one, on the contrary, pretends that the followers of Mr. Ste phens has ever embrued their hands in blood, or that they have destroyed property in any shape. The charge of burning Mr. Jowett's mill, which was for some time directed against some unknown disciple of Mr. Stephens, has been gainsaid by Mr. Jowett himself;—whilst on the other hand, at the late dinner ' given by five hundred operatives to Messrs Stephens and Oastler, Mr. Oastler boldly declared that the mill in question was fired by some Whig emissary for the special purpose of trumping up a charge against Mt. Stephens. Be these things, however, as they may, let the Whigs, we repeat, proceed in the good work on which they have entered. If Mr. Stephens can be proved to be guilty of one tithe of the crimes which the Whigs so freely lay to his charge, let him be punished as the law may direct. Let, then, a similar opportunity be afforded to Protestant Conservatives of proving , high crimes and misdemeanors against Mr. O'Connell ; and let the punishment in the event of conviction be regu lated by the same unflincing spirit of patriotism, which has led to the persecution of Mr. Stephens. Among the remains of Egyptian art which have been banded down to the present day, many specimens of articles cowered with gold leaf are found, THE TRACTS FOR THE TIMES. (FROM THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND QUARTERLY REV IE W.) (Concluded from our last.) We have, moreover, observed individuals attached to this school of late busily employed in endeavours to give another illustration to those passages in the New Tastament which have been generally applied to Popery, and to others which have seemed convertible to their purpose. Opinions as allied to Popery as those of Mr. Fronde, the already recited writer in Fraser, has produced from Nos 4 and 9 of these tracts, and the author, too, of the High Church Principles Examined (from whom we dissent on a great variety of points, which we shall not interrupt our present paper by discussing), has also brought forward some startling extracts, which present the same suspicious hppearance. When in No. 10, we are desired to be sure that the bishop is Christ's appointed repre sentative, as if we actually saw him work miracles, as St. Peter and St. Paul did, that he is Christ's earthly likeness, we cannot abandon the thought that the Pope's supremacy flitted before the mind of the author. Who will call Maltby or Stanley Christ's earthly likeness ? The British Magazine also has the following verses : " 0 that thy creed were sound, • For thou dolt soothe the heart, thou Church of Rome, By thy unwearied watch, butyaised sounds Of service, in thy Saviour's holy home" (Feb. 1836.) which leads us to exactly the same conclusion respecting the religious principles of these men. The author of the Biyh Church Principles Examined seems to been a Dissenter, though he has a national dislike to the Papistical doctrines of the Oriel party; but he has incorrectly handled the arguments, and tested the allegations of the tracts by his own opinions, producingf little or nothing which a critic will allow to be a voucher for those opinions. The main point between us and the ignes fritui at Oxford is the validity or invalidity of tradition; it is the substratum on which the superstructure has been raised; it is that to which the Romanist has equally appealed. This accordingly has been the stand which Drs. Shuttleworth and Wilson, and Mr. Holden, have very properly taken. It must be the stand which every one of common sense will take in this dispute; and there is no point which may be more satisfactorily deter mined, even if a reference be made to the weary volumes of the fathers; for their credulity will show that tradition flow ing through their pages cannot be regarded as apostolical. Bishop Marsh observes, that the rejection of tradition is the vital principle of the reformation; hence, those who seek to revive its authority have expressed themselves in violent terms against the Reformers. '['he things which Professor Keble says must be abandoned, rather than a surrender of one jot or tittle of primitive faith, " the precious apostolical relics," should take place—viz., " present opportunity of doing good; external quietness, peace, and order; a good understanding with the temporal and civil power ; the love and co-operation of those committed to our charge; and all other pastoral con siderations," are so very important that it may be most rea sonably exacted, that those relics be proved equally precious and apostolical ere such a surrender be demanded. Dr. Wil son properly remarks, that the authority of any one father, or that of all the united fathers, is not apostolical authority; and that their testimony to any doctrine is a matter of credi bility, not a faith, unless it be confirmed by the word of God. We indeed cannot understand how this tradition, assumed to be pure, is to be proved more genuine than the traditionary rubbish which may be read in the Patristical pages; for, however those who may seek to extract it from the mass may be satisfied with their own, process, there is no warrant that others will be equally satisfied with it. Dr. Wilson, quoting from Bishop Marsh, has shown the striking coincidence that subsists between Professor Keble's statements and the Tri dentine decree, made at the fourth session, relating to scrip ture and tradition, which is singular enough, as the Council of Trent was one of Froude's few objections to Romanism. Our sixth article, as Bishop Marsh has proved, contradicts the Tridentine decree : instead of proposing "two partial rules of faith—viz., Scripture and tradition: instead of describing tradition, or the unwritten word, it gives the whole authority to Scripture alone." The sixth article therefore rejects, en tirely and absolutely, tradition as a rule of faith. Hesice, perhaps; Froude's antipathy to the articles. Have these persons reflected on the' moral effect of their doctrine, that Scripture alone is not a sufficientinstructor ? What security have they that the traditions which they may think proper to select and offer to public'acceptance under the name of apostolical relics, will he received as such ? What security have they, that others which they may reject will not be brought forward by another party ? Are they not undermining the reverence with which the word of God, as containing all things necessary for our salvation should be regarded? Professor Keble, however, says, " This use of apostolical tradition may well correct the presumptuous ir reverence of disparaging the fathers under the plea of mag nifying Scripture The very writings of the apostles were first to be tried by it (tradition) before they could be in corporated into the canon ; they, the Scriptures themselves as it were, do homage to the tradition of the apostles; the despisers therefore of that tradition take part, inadvertently or profanely, with the despisers of the Scripture itself." We are at a loss for the professor's authority that the Scriptures do homage, as it were, to the tradition of the apostles; or some of the apostles having been alive w h en th e th ree first gospels and acts and several of the epistles were in circula tion in the churches, and St. John having survived to a late period, and added in his own gospel the things ,wanting in the others, as long as these living authorities survived there would have been no need of appeal to a floating tradition; and ere the despisers of the tradition which is insisted upon in the present day can be said inadvertently or profanely to take part, as a consequence, with the despisers of the Scrip ture itself, it must be shown that that tradition is pure and identical with the tradition of the apostolic times. This is the proof we desire; but it is one which cannot be given. Examining tradition in the sense of actus tradendi, Dr. Wilson (of St. Luke i., 1-4) observes : " Tradition in its first and essential meaning seeing to be long to the apostles in a sense in which it can never be cor rectly applied to any one who :las not received in the same immediate manner, from the fountain head of authority, that which be delivers. If a new revelation were vouchsafed to any one, then would his declaration of it be properly a tradi tion; but that we have uo . reason to expect any such revela tion in matters of faith is evident from Jude, verse 3." The apex paradotheisee lois hagioispistis appears to preclude the idea of any tradition independent of the Scriptures as a rule of faith ; it implies a faith once for all delivered, that faith which was delivered by the apostles ; that faith which the apostles committed to those writings, which we call the New Testament. This act of delivery was Lois hagiois to the church, the faithful in Christ Jesus; and tradition " was the delivery of that which the apostles had received from their divine master, and the church was the depository to which the eeeue it. was it:: ru-nea.-1 PI =co. 214_ Mt:titan k d irti the 'pillar and ground of the truth—in our articles a witness and keeper of holy writ. The early church made constant appeals to Scripture, and admitted no one doctrine as of apostolical authority unless it could be proved from the Scripture. As many, like St. Luke. had taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of the very things most surely believed, "might not (Dr. Wilson asks) their dieegeeseis be allowed to be precious apostolical relics, remains to be guarded with extreme jealousy," &c. ? Had they been handed down to us, they would have been more trustworthy than any vehicle of apostolical tradition which may now survive; but as there is no intimation of their incorrectness or heretical pravity, why were they super seded and lost? Because, it would seem, they were written by uninspired men, and God willed not that his church should depend on such traditional testimony: if then, as this admirable writer urges, these, which would have been the highest and purest channels of tradition, were, on account of their uncertainty and slipperiness, cut off by the interpo sition of divine inspiration, that we might know the certainty (asphaleia) of those things in which the church was then instructed, apostolic tradition is closed up in the inspired writings, beyond which, at this distance of time, no certainty cap be attained. None but God may dare to raise the cur tain which has thus fallen on the actus tradendi. Professor Keble's opinions are very strange ; - .F. and we are sure that he would not apply to a profane author the style of criticism which he applies to the New Testament. His notion, that this deposit committed to. Timothy contained, besides the substance of Christian doctrines a methodical arrange ment of the whole, and a certain system of church practice, both in government, discipline, and worship, in an extra ordinary strain on parakatatheekee; and as, by the tenor of the argument, all this must have been oral, it is, as Dr. Wilson argues, still more singular, than even if St. Paul had not committed it to writing, neither Timothy nor any of his successors should have recorded it, and that it should not have been preserved in the church of Ephesus, together with the two epistles, which, in comparison of so important a document, might rather be regarded as private epistles. Again, this deposit is conjectured to have been a kind of public charge at Timothy's ordination, which he was to in trust to faithful men (2 Tim. iii. 2;) whence it is inferred that it "related principally to doctrine." But who for a moment can imagine these things which Timothy had heard from Paul "before many witnesses," the things which he was to commit to faithful men to teach others also, were any but the great mysteries of the Gospel—the word in which, instant in season, and out of season, he has to do the work of an evangelist, and make full proof of his ministry? Who can possibly believe that when St. Paul says, " I have kept the faith," lie meant only that he had been faithful to a certain form of confession and methodized arrangement of general truth ? By such language the apostle could have bad no intention but that of appealing to the whole extent of his ministrations. To us it is very clear, from 1 Tim., vi., 20, that the opposition in which the parakatatheek e e stands to bebeelui aennphoniai and antithessis tees pseadonumou ynoseas, shows that the true Gospel of Jesus Christ, in contrast to traditions current perhaps amongst the Jewish Christians of that day and the Gnosis, was intended by the apostle. We cannot be expected to follow Professor K. into all his other allegations, which Dr. Wilson has triumphantly disproved. As if to support his assertion, the professor, however, says— " To these conclusions we are led by the consideration, first, that the truths and rules committed to Timothy's charbse were at the time almost or wholly unwritten." But D r . N ilson shows, according to Cresswell, that six of St. Paul's epistles had been written ten years when he sentdhesecondepistle to Timothy : those to the Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon, and the Philippians, almost six years ; that to the Hebrews, three; that to Titus, one; the Gospel of St. Matthew, 24 years; of St. Mark, at least ten; of St. Luke, six years. Consequently, the apostle, by having made no particular reference to these Gospels or his own epistles, considered the whole canonical Scriptures as the rule of faith, just as the writings of the Old Testament had been the rule and.criterion of the apostolical preaching : hence, the general precept, wee heterodidaskalein. The authority cited from the fathers is quite as felicitously overthrown by br. Wilson, who in return cites Cyril of Alex andria, as stating that Christ is the truth, "1. e., the true rule, end, and object of faith, ho aleethees tees pisteos 1w res. In the appendix he has given an instance of amplification in translation, where the argument rests on the amplification; the words are of toinem episcopoi loipoa aneluntes to par' auton Pp/meet/rerun rheemata holsters exethento kat' auton teen hugiai nousan kai ekkleesiastikeen pistiu; which Professor Keble renders, "on the other [part] the bishops rejected the ex pressions devised by them, and proceeded to enunciate against them the sound faith, the faith of the church from the beginning." Here the insertion of "proceeded," and "from the beginning" is clearly designed to support the views of tradition. Were all the quotations of this school tobe carefully examined, similar instances might probably be found. When we are further informed that this treasure, the idea tic al deposit, is lost, hut must be recovered ; that the genu ine canons of the primitive councils, and the genuine " frag ments of the primitive liturgies, must be searched for 'the remnant of apostolical tradition,' whom are we to depute to the overwhelming task ?" With whose critical judgment shall we be satisfied ? Whom shall we trust " not only to purify, but integrate" a mutilated and corrupted text? And when this shall have been done, who will or can prove the * Sound rhyming with sound is very bad. t From this censure we exempt Misopapisticus, whose letters we had not seen when this passage was written. 1: Professor Keble wishes to prove that St. Paul left with Timothy a specific deposit, a treatise of apostolical doctrine, and church rules—the rules and doctrines which made up the charter of Christ's kingdom.—P.2o. This deposit is asserted to be something so wholly sufficient, so unexceptionably ac curate, as to require nothing but fidelity in its transmitters cp. 21;) a body of truth and duty totally distinct from the Scriptures, and independent of them (p. 2'2;) the substance of saving truth in a sufficiently systematic form (p. 23;) something independent of the written word, and sufficient at that time to refute heresy, even alone (p. 23;) to be paral lel to Scripture; not derived from it, and consequently fixing the interpretation of disputed texts, not simply by the judg ment of the church, but by authority of that holy spirit which inspired the oral teaching itself, of which such tradition is the record. (P. 23.) The faith once for all delivered to the saints, in other words apostolical tradition, was divinely appointed in the church as the touchstone of canonical Scripture itself (p. 27;) made the standard and rule of God's own divine Scripture (p. 28;) to which the Scriptures them seam do homage. (P. 28.) L. E. L. apostolical authority of the sifted matter ?—excepting as far as it may coincide with the inspired word ? Moreover, we are required to establish a "consent among the fathers as to unquestionable relics of the apostles;" but if apostolical tie dawn cannot be established until this shall have been effected, we may continue for ever in the good path which we have trodden; for it must be manifest to every one who has read the varying interpretrations of the fathers, and who has waded through their discrepant traditions, that they cannot be conciliated without extensive mutilations and. conjectural emendations; and very few will be inclined to. elevate the conjectures that will be required for this purpose to the stan dard of the inspired Scriptures. As Dr. Wilson says, the fathers not only disagree in interpretation, but exhibit in stances of manifestly unsound critical judgment, and often seem to quote Scripture for the mere sake of illustration. Dr. Wilson has also glanced at the apostolical succession, on which subject his opinion coincides with our own. .The apostolical character of the doctrines of the church is most evident; but can the apostolical succession be traced through all the links of the chain ? We suspect that many interrup tions would present themselves to the critical inquirer, and are sure that the doctrine propounded has been intended to direct us to the church of Rome, as that through which it might be traced. It has been a bait offered to the weak minded and self-important. The 23rd article of the 13th of Elizabeth, about the admission of persons below the episcopal dignity, who had been otherwise ordained into the church, is not greatly in favour of apostolical succession as now under stood. Even in the church of Rome the dictum, " übi vox apostolorum sooat, ibi, cathedrze apostolorum prmsident," snakes not this succession of place or persons independent of a succession of doctrine is right; and in this sense we may fearlessly assert the apostolical succession, for it is built on the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone; but if we attempt to maintain an unbroken and successive priesthood, we shall not be able to establish our proposition. The notion of an apostolical succession, in its strictest and plenary sense, is a part of the foundation of the system which we are discussing, and we can easily imagine that it is calcu lated, by inflaming spiritual pride, to snake proselytes. Never theless, the abettors of the notion are bound to produce the unbroken chain, not through Rome, for there it has been broken by a deflection from apostolical doctrines, and Rome scarcely otherwise could exhibit it; much lesS can it be proved through the native Britons, said to have been con verted by St. Paul; for the records are far too scanty for such an important purpose, and there was a time when the Romish defection from apostolicity prevailed in this land. It is, how ever, curious to perceive the inclination towards infallibility which we detect in Froude and some others, in connection with this notion. By the aid of Mr. Maurice's pamphlet, we are also enabled to notice some innovations in practice, which have a very dangerous and Papistical tendency. Some of them appear to have resulted from Froude's suggestions. Speaking of the new mode in which the service of the church has been per formed by certain ministers, he says, that the officiating mi nister "kneels on a low cushion placed on the step of the corn munion-table, and turns from the congregation with hiS face towards the communion -table, in which practice he continues during the prayers." This is exactly the practice which the Roman Catholics adopt, and cannot be misunderstood, as in dicatiug a closer approximation to the church of Rome than can be consistent with the safety of the church of England. In a new chapel of ease belonging to St. Mary the Virgin, at Oxford, the same practice is observed, according to Mr. Mau rice, who properly describes the nakedness of the interior, di vested of its reading-desk; may we not ask, when the bishop consecrated this chapcl, could he have failed to notice the ir regularity ? Did be authorize the change? In this chapel the lessons are read from a small moveable d esk, which just contains the Bible; and the prayers are of fered from a small octavo Prayer-bolk, the clergyman kneel ing on the step of the communion -table, with his face turned from the people towards the east. A plain cross rises up and projects out of the wall from the centre Of the communion table; in the central division of the eastern window is a pane of glass " like a drop of blood polluting the whole," which is a representation of an ornamental cross or crosslet. Within the rails of the Lord's table is a second table or sideboard to receive the elements, until the priest shall place them upon the table for consecration. We again affirm, that there can scarcely be a nearer ap• proach to Popish practices than these unauthorized changes of our mode of performing the service : -nor doubt we, that if they be unchecked, greater liberties will be taken, and that it will not be long ere images, tapers, and all the abominations of the Roman idolatry desecrate our churches. Things are rapidly progressing to this evil. Mr. Maurice adds, that the innovation is not confined to the churches; but that even in the chapel of one of the most distinguished colleges at Oxford the cross, which was in use in the reign of Edward VI., has made its appearance. It is thus described by Mr. Maurice: "It is a long strip of silk about two inches and a half in width, thrown over the left shoulder, where it is fastened by a pin or button, and extends downwards to the bottom of the surplice, before and behind, with a fringe of the same mate rial at each end, and a cross of black silk raised and embossed just above the fringed border, the arms of the cross being ex tended cornerwise, or in the shape of the martyr's of St. An drew's cross." Might not any clergyman, according to his fancy, by ex actly the same right, revive any of the obsolete dresses? If so, may not our dresses become as particoloured as a clown's at a pantomime? It is justly inquired, if the bishop has given his sanction to these proceedings? We affirm, that unless he prevent them, he is responsible for their conse quences; and that if he trouble himself not about them, the clergy in general should appeal to the archbishop of the pro vince. When, in addition to these things, we notice attempts to defend prayers for the dead, are we wrong in dreading that this new system will ultimately merge into Popery? Since the preceding part was written, we have received the letters of " Misopapisticus," which have some remarks that are very powerful, satisfactory, and most deeply argumenta tive. The subject is too important to be disregarded in any branch; and the light in which this writer has placed it is sufficient to show the invalidity of tradition, and the very small authority of the fathers in many respects. We do not approve of the latitude of many of his views; but, separting them from his proofs, we consider his letters unanswerable as to patristical authority. He perceives, with ourselves, that the doctrine of apostolical succession has been the allurement by which many have been drawn into these opinions, and rightly shows, that Hooker, Crammer, Wake, and other worthies of our church, had opposite sentiments on the point; for, as apostolical succession must rest upon tradition, its admission will wholly, or in great part, cause the admis sion of tradition as an authority.* _ _ It is very manifest from Polvcarp, and the history of his was t rdurn tiset tr”thirz 58 Sabellth. c d al. that tit... by rria orthodox church but what the Scriptures taught; conse quently, that no tradition which cannot bear the test of the Scriptures could be accepted. " Misopapisticns," after his survey of the apostolical fathers, cogently asks, " If these writings contain no traditions either as to doctrines or prac tices, where are they to be found ?" On their silence Dr. Shuttleworth's argument, that the first link of the chain is wanting, is also based. In many places the fathers were very excellent, but in others they were very wild and foolish, and were certainly unfitted for the conveyance of pure tradition. When we read in Irenceus, 1. iii., c. 1., that what the apostles preached they tradited (tradiderunt ) to us in the Scriptures, and that as they went forth evangelizing the earth, each and all had the gospel of God (omnes puller el sinyuli enrum ha bentes evanyelium Dei), we cannot imagine oral instructions independent of the Scriptures to have been intrusted by them to the custody of the churches. Two passages respecting the heretics, quoted by " Misepapisticus" from Iren,rus most re markably apply to the present controversy; the first is in 1. ii. c. 51, "for these (the heretics) are not score competent (to teach'the truth) than the Scriptures. Nor ought we to leave the words of our Lord, and Moses, and other prophets, and to believe those who say nothing that is sane, but dote on unstable things." The other is in lib. iii., c. 2. " When they (the heretics) are reproved from the Scriptures, they turn to find fault with the Scriptures, as if they were not right, or were not of authority, both because they are various ly expressed, and because the truth cannot be found from them by those who are ignorant of tradition; for that was not delivered by means of writing, but by word of mouth." When Trenteus traces the succession up to the apostles, maintaining that the tradition or delivery of the truth bad continued the same from the beginning, " he completely shuts shuts out oral tradition," because, what the apostles preached poured into the church they delivered to us in the Scriptures, and thus the tradition, which had remained inviolate, was the Scriptures themselves. lie could not have alluded to any oral tradition as a rule of faith ; otherwise (lib. iv., c. 66), he could not have asserted that every doctrine (omnem ducts loam) was contained in the gospel and the prophets. Justin's advice (A pol. i., 2,) that we should value and love only what is true, declining to follow the opinions of the an cients, if they be worthless, is very sensible. In opposition to the doctrine of a transmitted oral tradi tion, " Misopapisticus" quotes the words of Bishop Burnet on the 6th article, in evidence that this is not the doctrine of the Anglican church. The 20th article describes the church as the witness and keeper of holy writ; in Mr. Newman's lec tures she is the keeper and witness of Catholic tradition. Mr. Newman's argument, which would hold equally good respecting the Jewish traditions, that we use tradition to establish the divinity of the Scriptures, and receive through it both the Bible itself and the doctrine that is divinely in spired, will receive an answer in Bishop Burnet's words on the 6th article : _ . _ A great difference is to be made between all this and the oral tradition of a doctrine in which there is nothing fixed or permanent, so that the whole is only report carried about and handed down. Whereas, here is a book that was only to be copied and read publicly and by all persons; between which the ditlereuce is so vast that it is as little possible to imagine how the one (tradition) should continue pure, as .* We select from this work some of the absurdities con tained in the fathers. In the second epistle of Clemens, which is generally accounted spurious, but thought genuine by Arch. bishop Wake, we read, the Lord himself being asked " when his kingdom shall come ?" answered, " When two shall be one, and that which is without as that which is within, and the male with the female, neither male nor female ;" the ex— planation of which by Clemens is even more.absurd than the tradition. In Barnabas and Hermas the trifling is still worse. When Ignatius talks of his own soul as the expiatory offering for the church of Ephesus, of the virginity of Mary, and the birth and death of Christ having been kept secret from the Prince of this world, and of all the stars with the sun and moon having been the chorus to the star which guided the Magi; when, also, he describes the saints drawn up on high by,the cross of Christ as by an engine, using the Ilely Ghest as the rope, and calling himself the wheat of God; say that lie shall be ground by the teeth of wild beast, that 'he may be found the pure bread of Christ, we not ohly observe much which must be rejected, but have evidence that traditions passing through the hands of one so fanciful:and extravagant cannot be relied upon.. Justin Martyr, too; one of the most learned fathers, in more places than one affirms that GOd at first intrusted the earth to angels, some of whom (Gen. vi. 2) cohabiting with woolen begot deMons, which tradition we know to, be a Jewish fable. Athena ,, oras and Ircomus like wise appealed to the same tradition. How many others, then, may have been equally corrupt? In his interpretation olthe Scripture . Justin often errs ; ho makes some things propheti cal and others typecal which were never intended to be so, and carries his fancy to a ridiculous extent: 'if he and other fathers who are censurable on the same ground are claimed as the traditive interpreters who are to be consulted for the sense of the New Testament, we imagine the best refuta tion would be in a. selection of their interpretations. Ire emus is equally prone to speculation in some parts of his writings, and interprets scriptural passages in' a manner that is self-evidently ridiculous. He reports that our Lord informed St. John, St. John certain elders, and elders who had seen St. John recorded, that "the 'days, (the millennium) shall come in which vines shall grow each having 10,000 branches and on each shoot 10,000 clusters, and on each cluster 10,0011 grapes; each grape when pressed shall yield 25 kilderkins (metretas 12 gallons) of wine : and i• hen any one shall lay hold of any of these holy clusters, another will cry, lam a better cluster, take me ; by me bless the Lord.''" This is tradition ! On the subject of baptis:n some of the fathers were very wild ; Gregory Nazianzen and others allotted infants who died unbaptized a middle state, which was neither Heaven nor Hell; Tertullian said that the baptismal waters are medicated through the intervention of an angel; and in allusion to a well-known fanciful acrostic (ichthus,) we con tinually find ichthues, or pisces, or pisciculi applied to the Christians, and piscine to the font. The fathers also strangely varied in their interpretations.: Chrysosturn called the baptism Of fire the superabundant grace of the spirit; Basil and Theo philus, the fire of hell; Cyril, Jerome, and others, the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost; Hilary, a fire that the righteous must pass through on the day of judgment. Ambrose thought that John the Baptist will administer the baptism of fire at the gate of Paradise, which he identified with the flaming sword (Gen. iii. 24.) Origen and Lactantius affirmed that it is a river of fire at the gate of heaven, whose liquid flames will divide to give the righteous a free passage, and that Christ will stand at the brink to receive them, &r, (See Maurice, p. 63.) If those men thus received such stupid tradi!tonary fictions, must not we be equally stupid if we trust to them as custodiers of tradition of a puler intake ? how the other (Scripture) should come to be corrupted." " The authority of these books is not derived from any judgment that the church made concerning them, but from this, that it was known that they were writ either by men tir ho were themselves the apostles of Christ, or by those who were their assistants and companions." When, also; it is considered how strongly our Saviour con demned traditions and commandments of men, and how he and his apostles appealed to the written word ; and when we examine the existing evidence that the paradoseis incul cated by St. Paul were those which are embodied in the writ ten word of the New Testament, it is strange that with respect to oral tradition Christians should have fallen, into precisely the same errors as the Jews. For Maimonides attempted, in an exactly similar manner, on the authority of the Talinu dical writers, to retrace the Jewish traditions to the times of Moses, and had even the hardihood to name the custudiers, through whom it descended. But the first homily has been cited in defence of tradition; strangely indeed, for it speaks of "the stinking puddles of men's traditions." An old canon made in 1571 has also been pressed into the service; but that only mentions " what the Catholic fathers and bishops collected from the doctrine of the Old and New Testaments, and what they transmitted down by oral tradition from the apostles." The canon says, Aiticuli illi. religionis Christianae . . . baud dubie'collecti sunt ex sacris libris veteris et Novi Testamenti;" and in the ' concluding part, " Vanas et aniles opiniones, et hwreses et errores pontificios, a doctrine et fide Christi abborrentes non docebunt." The adoption of creeds has been as singularly claimed . as an argument: they were not, however, adopted on account of tradition, but (as our article says) because they ought to be thoroughly received and believed, for they may be proved by the most certain " warrants of holy Scrip ture." Basil excellently said, that it is a manifest fall from the faith and the clear vice of pride either to refuse any of the things contained in the Scriptures, or to introduce anything that is not written. Many of the things called traditions by the fathers either do not prove or they attempt to prove by apocryphal documents; yet, as Dr. Wilson affirms, that which is practically denied to Scripture by the advocates of tradition is peremptorily required in their own cause, " and a higher character is asserted of those portions than such ad vocates will concede to any inspired fragment that they are complete in themselves." Mr. Maurice informs us that the Regius Professor of lie brew, in addition to the lectures belonging to his professor ship, gives others on the types and prophecies, and that Mr. Newman has been in the habit of making use of his church for the purpose of delivering lectures onßomanistn, his as sembly chiefly consisting of students. Were such things done at Cambridge, we are convinced that the University would interfere. If, then, the principle of tradition, on which this system is founded, be worthless, who can calculate on the mischief that will thus be done among those whom Oxford is training for the church? Who can avoid the conviction that an extensive division or a great secession must soon take place? Are not the young nobility, and those intended for the Lower House of Parliament, who are intrusted to the University, in equal danger of acquiring an inclination to Roroanism ? Coupling these things with Mr. Maurice's ac count of the increase of' Popery itself in Oxford and its vi cinity, we will quote to the clergy once more Dr. Wilson's words—" Nay, it is our duty, as ministers of a Protestant reformed church, boldly to raise the cry To your tents, 0 Israel;' and if you see here a fundamental principle of„your church subverted, one of the strongholds of your Zion be trayed, quit yourselves like men, and" contend for the truth, on which alone the Protestant faith can rest—the absolute, entire, and full sufficiency of holy Scripture." The preceding remarks will suffice to show, that Dr. Shut tleworth, Dr. - Wilson. and. Mr. Holden must be allowed to have proved their points in the judgment of every impartial person; but we shall not in this number conclude our notice of their works. Our knowledge of abuses has been very much . increased by Mr. Maurice, and the keen argument and deep research of " Misopapisticus" have greatly availed us. Dr. Hook's visitation sermon is one which proves his addiction to the party at:Oxford, which would introduce alterations into our system; and his treatment of the defenders of our institutions and long-received opinions, as if they were the authors of the schism, as if they too, as watchmen, had no right to sound the alarm, when they perceived danger, shows him to be both mistaken and intemperate. When we read,* "And where are we to look for unity and union, if we find it not here? And what terms of reprobation can be suffi ciently strong to designate the conduct of those Who, by causing discord among brethren, who in principle are united, would thereby make music for our enemies ? Alas! in every community such persons are found to exist, whose element is strife, who live by faction ;" it is evident, that with the exception of union in principle, he is describing the church of England men without Protestantism, who began the alter cation and disunion. The charge is absolutely contrary to the fact : the same might have been formerly as correctly applied to the opponents of the Wesleys and Whitfields, who were equally members of the established church. Hence the principle of the charge would appear to be, that we must not oppose innovations by members of our own body ; that, doing so, we cause discord among the brethren, and live by faction. But if this principle be adopted, what heresies may we not expect ? As for ourselves, we are contented to receive the Scrip tures an a sufficient and infallible guide. We want not the aid of tradition to direct us in the study of them. We are contented, asf we have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so to walk in him, rooted and built up in him, and stablisbed in the faith, as we have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving, careful lest any man spoil us through philoso phy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, alter the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ. Well will allow no man to judge us in meat or drink, or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath ;§ much less will we be guiled into worshipping of angels, and, into those things with which men of vain imaginations and worldly minds are puffed up. Persevering in the principles of the Reformation, submissive to the wholesome discipline of our church, oust discarding all rules of faith independent of the Scriptures, we are satisfied to continue in that good old way, in which the word of God has been alight unto our feet, and a lamp unto our path. 4t See note'K. and P. 169 of this sermon. t Col. ii. 6. 8. 3. - Col. ii. ver. 16. § Ibid. ver. 18. . THE COMMON INFORMERS V. THE BOOKSELLERS.—WithiII the last few.daye upwards of 100 summonses have been taken out by common Informers at Worship-street and other offices against ,bookselless for yendiug weekly publications, of a litcrasy and miscellaneous char:Kase withm,t name on the first and last pages. A subscription has been opened, for the purpose of having the question tried in a superior court. The informers are making a set at the book sellers, as being in general inure able to pay the penalties than he news-agents,_ against whom, in the first instance, their operations' were directed. ANOTHER DISGUISE OF MR. 24 ATIIEWS.—The most ludi rous instance, perhaps, in, which the disguise was used was the fullowing:-1 remember, amongst many other, a curious scene which occurred on a parZicular occasion when we dined with Miss De Camp (aftei wards Mrs. Charles Kenable, (by whom we were invited, amongst other friends, to meet Mr. Stephen Keuible. Before dinner, `sir. - Kemble was told by Miss de Camp, that the only person she expected in the even ing was a friend, who could not come to dinner, but who was desirous of being introduced to him,.and would therefore drop in. She prepared Mr. Kenible to expect an eccentric person, and considerably bespoke his indulgence for the " peculiari ties of an amiable and, respected friend, whom she had known for many years." To the hostess's surprise, however, "Mr. Pennvinan" was announced before the cloth was removed ; for, at that period, dinner-cloths were really removed, the English being extremely proud of displaying a well-kept table after, as well as at, dinner. After the preliminary introduc tion, he took the place offered to him, opposite to Mr. Keinble,. having previously squeezed the great man's hand between both his own, declaring his gratification at being introduced to him. Then followed a series of ludicrous remarks, in voice and manner of the stranger, who fixed upon him as his mark, and entirely engrossed Isis notice. At length Mr. Kemble's gravity was so overset as to render it impossible for him to support any longer an appearance of decent attention of Miss De Camp's guest, and lifting his ponderous body from his chair. literally shaking with laughter, he rushed out of the room. My husband, instantly dropping his assumed charac ter, followed him, and.found Mr. Kemble searching for his hat in'the hall, to go away. Mr. Mathews, of course, would not permit this, and begged him to enter a sort of cloak-room for a few minutes, while he contrived to get rid of the person from whom Mr. Kemble had run away. While Mr. Kemble sheltered himself in this room, he heard an animated conver sation in the adjoining one which he had left, ending in Mr. Pennyman's declaring that lie must go to another party, and that he had merely come for the purpose of being introduced to Mr. Stephen Kemble, and slytuld take an early opportunity of improving an intimacy he had so longdesired. Mr. Penny man then left the dining-room, talking to Mr. Mathews, who accompanied him to the street door, which. being closed, he returned and released Mr. Kemble from a contemplation of the various patterns of the ladies' shawls, 8:c. and they toge ther rejoined the party, Mr. Kemble declaring that "he would not sit in that man's compauy again for a thou Sand pounds. Sir," said he, turning to my husband, "he would destroy me. I should be suffocated by my efforts not to affront him." An explanation of all this took place (as may be guessed) at the end of the evening, when Mr. Pennyman re appeared ; and before Mr. Stephen Kemble could escape as he was trying to do, he found Mr. Mathews standing in the stranger's place.—Memoirs Charles Mathews. ST. ELMO'S FIRE, &c.—The meteorological phenomena caused by simple communicated electricity are somewhat interesting, and are quite harmless, but often give rise to groundless terror among the ignorant or superstitious. 'They are two kinds—the accumulation of electricity upon the ex tremities of bodies which are insulated conductors, and the communication of electricity to showers to such a degree that the drops become luminous. The former kind, which is the more common, was known to the ancients as well as to the moderns. It depends upon. the proximity of a cloud highly charged, or upon an approaching- change of weather, in which the increase of the humidity. is the first visible sign. Its ap pearance is that of a pale-coloured flame quivering upon the tops of spears and other-military weapons, helmets, the manes and tails of horses, and generally upon all bodies which are not t good cotiducturs, but have sharp points upon which the electricity concentrates, without finding a passage to the earth. During storms at sea, the electricity often assumes the ap pearance of a ball of lire upon the mast-head, or at the ends of the, yards. and sometimes runs along the moist surface of the spars and rigging; it is then known by the name of St. Elmo's Fire, or Corpo-Santo. Pliny says that he could trace the ramparts of a fort, by night, by the gleam from the weapons of the sentinels; but what he affirms of the vocal sounds emitted by the meteors, which settle upon the yards and-masts of ships, has not been wituessed• by any modern naturalist. Bianchini mentions a remarkable instance of the electricity which may precede a storm before any threaten ing appearances are seen. On one of the bastions of the Castle of Duino, on the shores of the Adriatic, there bad ex isted from time immemorial a pointed iron rod, placed verti cally. In the summer, when an approaching storm was ap prehended, the sentinel in the bastion presented a halbert to the iron, and when he perceived it emit sparks or display a small gerb of fire, he rung a bell to give notice to the country people in the fields, and the fishermen at sea, to seek shelter from the approaching storm. Luminous showers are of more rare occurrence than the foregoing appearance, but some of the instances are quite well authenticated. In the month of January, 1822, Professor Lampadius, at Freyberg, obtained the state of the electricity during the change of weather brought on ITY a shift of wind from S.W. and W. to N.E. There had been a small rain at intervals; but the shower changed into sleet, and ended in a thick fall of snow. The electricity was so strong that one of the gold leaves of Bennet's electrometer was torn off, and there was a peculiar smell at tending intense charges of electricity. At the same time there was a thunder-storm at Leipsic, and the professor was informed by a gentleman who was travelling in the neighbour hood of Freybere, during the snow, that there was a strong phosphorescence at the extremities of the branches of all the trees along the road. 'l' lie light was very distinct, and of a bluish-white colour; it continued when he touched the tree, but ceased for the time when the branches were made to touch the ground by bending them down. Some miners who were upon the road when the storm began, said that the sleet ap peared luminous as it fell. A similar phenomenon took place on the east coast of the United States in January, 1817. There were thunder-storms with hail and snow, but not so much lightning as might have been expected in the circum stances. A luminous appearance was witnessed by those out doors. Their hats, gloves, and ears, and the manes and tails of their horses, the bushes along the road-side, and the trunks of trees, were all surrounded by a lively vacillating flame, in different shapes, which at the same time emitted a slight noise, like the simmering of water over a fire. 'When drops of rain impinge on a solid body, not very porous, a reflecting surface is formed at the distant of contact, which throws hack a flash of light to the eve of the observer. We are inclined to re fer to this the luminous appearancewhich is said to have been noticed during heavy showers when the drops reached the ground, —Companion to Allitanack, 1639, ipptng Entelligentr. TUESDAY, JANUARY I.—Wind W. fresh. ARRIIIRD—Sotia. —. from Messina—Chatham, Riland, from St. Petersburgh--.EUen, Gill, from Demerara—Tally Ho! —. from Virginia—Agnes, Wright, from Maranham—Deborah, from Leghorn Ranger, Brown, from Sincapore at London Victoria, Jarvis, from Denia at Falmouth, for this port, with loss of bowsprit, &e. and boats stove Penis, (late Vivian,) from London, at Plymouth for this port, with loss of sails. &e. Master and one of the crew washed overboard Antigua, Gibson, from Marseilles for this port, at Westport Cornelia, Cramer, hence for Altona, at Milford Perdonnet. from New Orleans, at Havi e Aurora, Turcan, hence at Trinidad Warwick, Jeffs, hence to Bombay, was spoken 11th Oct. off Palmas, with loss of forettipmast, and two men overboard Liverpool. Rowe, from Calcutta at Bristol Vrow Gelie. ekman, hence, at Flushing, after being on shore near Blackenburg. but apparently with little damage Sceptre, Bartlett, hence for Alexandria, at Soinbrera Bay, with rudder damaged Catharine Ann, hence for Newfouridland, was spoken 13th ult., on the Banks . —.— Argentina, Kelso, hence for Monte Video, was spoken 25th ult., in lat 47, long 12 Abeona, Grant. from St. John, N.B. for this port, at Kinsale, with loss of rudder, sails, &e. Rapid, Fox, sailed from Venice for this port, 21st Dec. Commerce, Prowse ; and Ebenezer, Adams, hence, at Seville Frances, Delpine ; and Perseverance, Monnet, hence, at Ostend Caroline Hammer, hence, at Danzig Blake, liadden, from Canton. at Deal Diamond, Bissett, from Batavia at Cowes: lost bulwarks, &c. Earl Powis, Spittal, sailed from Cape of Good Hope for Mauritius 18th October Albion, hence. at Maranham, touched on St. Ann's Reef, going in. but got off without apparent injury Ellen German, from Leghorn, was off Point Lynas at 10 30 a.m. Glasgow, (steamer,) pot into Beaumaris at 9 a.m. FRTHARD. Dec. 27.—The San Juan Baptista. Orano, from Riva de Stella to Liverpool. was brought in here by the coast guard 24th instant with damage, having struck on a sunken rock, and been abandoned by the crew Conic, I , ee, 28.—The Rinr , mahon Castle, Doyle, from Trinidad, has been towed in here, with loss of boats, bulwarks, sails. &c. and three of the crew washed overboard, having encountered a severe gale 23rd instant ST. PETERSBURGII, Dee. 12 —The gale of last night drove the ice into mid-channel. 13th—There bet ng no prospect of the ships which arc in the ice getting away this season, they are all being put back lIAMBURGII, Dec. 25.—The navigation is completely closed. Cuxizavnsz, Dee. 27.—The pilot vessel has left her station, and come into the harbour BREINIRN, Dec. 25.—A severe frost has set in, and the navigation is partially closed CARTHAGRNA, Dee. 15.—The Sceptre, Bartlett, from Liverpool to Alexandria, put into Sombrera Bay 11th instant, with rudder damaged WE DNESD AY. .1 AN. 2.—Wind N.N. W. fresh. ARRlVED—Virginian, Harris. from New York • sailed 13th Dec. —Elizabeth, Smith, from Prince Edward's Isle—Mayflower, and ShAnnon, Carpenter. from Cephalonia—Hebden. Fow ler, and Ellen German, Blundell, from Leghorn—Henry, Halsal, and Enchantress, Gayman, from Smyrnl—Euphemia. Pennirrton, from Alexandria. (Egypt)—Mary Jane, Batt, from Newfoundland —Liurainerento, St Anna, from Lisbon. Equator, Beeson, hence at New Orleans Matilda, Hodoon, hence at Leghorn Marchioness of Bute, --, from St. John, N.B. at Newry Hester, Marshall. from Santa Martha for this port at Waterford Henrietta, Fell, front London for this port at Torbay, with loss of foretopmast, sails split. &c Elizabeth, Heddle, from Limerick for this port, went on shore 28th ult. near Limerick, but got off with loss of 'anchor and chain Dunlop, hence for New South Wales,was spoken 3 d Nov. in lat. 18, long. 27. W Orleans, Cameron, hence for South Australia, was spoken 7th Nov. in lat. 9 13, S. long. .30 33, W. 33 days out Fama. hence for Batavia, was spoken the 25th Dec. about 120 miles W. of Cape Clear Hobart, —, hence for New Orleans, was spoken in lat. 49, long. 8 BANGOR, Dec. .28.—Brandon, loose, from New Orleans, to the Clyde, has been brought in here to repair ; cargo discharging THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, —Wind W. moderate. ARRIVRD.—David, Adair, for 'the Cape of Good Hope—Mary Ann it Martha, —, from Newfoundland—Euphemia, from Alexandria—Triton, Scorgie, from Smyrna—Alice, —, from Malta—Hannah Booth, Best, from Palermo—Ferdinand°, Castillano, from Naples—Wm. Hill, Berrill, from Leghorn—Lo rento, Santander, from Lisbon—Carl Heinrich. Valentine, from Hambro'—and Nelson Wood, Gardner, from Berbice. Warsaw, --, from Charleston for Liverpool, Ins passed 16th ult. lying to, wind S. W. ' Gem, M'Kenzie, hence at Bilboa Crescent, Thomas, hence at Charente, after being on shore Emerald. Dempsey; Gipse3 - , Shotten, and Lucy Sharpe, lll`Fee, hence at-Rourdeaux Alert, Mould, hence at St. Michael's Eve, —, from Monte Video, off Dover MAURITIUS, Oct. I.—Rosalind, Little, from Calcutta, put in here 24th ult. leaky : has been repaired, and sails again this do/ for Liverpool WESTPORT. Dec. 29.—Antigua, Gibson, from Marseilles for Liverpool, struck on the east end of Clare Island, but got off, and is now at anchor in this hay, and it is supposed must discharge WEXFOR D, Jan. • I.—A ship's boat, with Pursuit, for Liverpool, was passed ltith ult about 10 miles from this place LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. Direct. Indirect, From Direct. Indirect. China ...... Pernam... Nov. Calcutta .. Oct 20 Liar:lolam . Nov. .. 3 Bombay .. ...... Nov 1 N. Orleans ...... Dec .... 4 Mauritius St. Helena. Nov. 1:: Savannah. Rio. Dec .... Bahia .... Nov . S Vtootlo EnttreD for toatiing. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE Ann Lockerby. J Burt. 3fis OF GOOD HOPE, kc Calcutta, Aikin ft Son Ceylon & Madras, W & J Tyrer Cape of Good Hope, Europe. G Davie, Black Swan, A M'Neale, Cotesworth and Smith 140 Senegal, Bahr, Behrend 6r Co AFRICA. 132 Africa, 368 Africa. VEST INDIES. 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During the past week the imports of Wheat, Oats, Flour and Oatmeal from Ireland have been to a large extent, and the demand has continued very good from our millers, dealers and speculators, at fully the prices last noted, for all the above named articles ; and for superior qualities at an advance of 2d to 3d per 70M. on Wheat, Id to 24 per 451 b. on Oats. 6d to is per sack on Flour and Oatmeal, Is to 2s per quarter on Malt, Barley, Beans and Pease; nearly a similar advance occurred in the London markets of the past week, but in the Yorkshire markets, owing to the large supplies of more middling qualities, a small reduction occurred, and at Manchester, on Satnrday, there was less done from this port, but last quotations were fully supported. The duties on Wheat and Flour from Foreign ports continue at the lowest, and likely so to do for many weeks to come: on Rye, the duty is this week 3s, and on Beans is 6d per quarter lower; on Oats, Barley and Peas, no alteration ; Oats in bond are held at an advance of 2d to 3d per 451 b. in full confidence of the highest duty : all other Grain in bond may be considered as if free less the duty. At this day's market there was a fair demand for every article in the trade, at about the advance above noted on fine qualities. Irish Wheat and Flour continuing of very middling quality, find but a very dull sale. WIIRAT, 4y 70th s. English 11 Scotch lO Irish Bonded 0 BARLEY, #, QT. English ...... 39 0 —44 Chevalier 44 0 —46 Scotch, r 601 b. 5 3 6 Irish Foreign, bond. 4 2 4 OATS, Iff 45th. English .. 4 0 4 Scotch Irish 3 8 4 Foreign, bond. 3 2 3 Ditto, duty free 4 0 4 RYE, qr. 42 0 —45 MALT, 4V qr. fine6o 0 —6B Middling •4B 0 —5B d. s. d 6 al3 3 9 —ll 9 6 —ll 4 0 0 0 INDIAN CORN, 4p 4801 b. Red White BEANS, W qr. English 4B 0 52 0 Irish PEAS, Grey 42 0 45 0 White RAPESEED, 4 last, £ - FLOUR, English, 49' 2801 b. Fine •51 e— 68 0 Irish American, 41 , brl. free. Sweet, U.S. 0 0 0 0 Sour, bond OATMEAL, 41f 2401 b English 35 0 36 0 Do. new 1837 36 0-37 6 Scotch 35 0 36 0 Emporto. CHINA. VOlitnteer, (242) A Al'Alinn, from Canton, 2515 chests 884 hf chests tea, 40 bales raw silk, 125 packages contents unknown. 1 box paintings, order-1 box contents unknown, Thompson and ce-3 work boxes, I tea caddy; 1 parcel silk, 1 case bird skins, 4 feather fans; the master WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Ellen, (24513 Gill, from Demerara, 154 hhds 65 tees 40 hrla sugar. 60 puns 11 buds rum. J brls coffee, J Gladstone and co-50 hhds 33 tees sugar. 15 puns 13 hhds 4 brls rum, I box arrowroot, 1 box pre serves, order-14 hluissugar, G Shultz.—From Madeira, 14 pipes 17 hhds wine, order-2 do, Lassell, Lewin and co-2 qr casks do, It NVGachirt and co—G D SOUTH AMERICA. Reindeer. (172111 Watts. from Monte Video, 6030 cow and ox, 209 horse and 271 dry hides, about 8 tons horns, 12 tons bones, 3 hales contents unknown, G Barker and co-43 bales contents un known, Breed and Eccleston—P D John Souchay. (234) H Williams, from Monte Video. 20 t bones, 1142 salted o and c and 3156 salted ox hides. 61 prig 19 hf pps tallow and grease, 36 pipes, 1 hf ppe tallow, 6 b)s hair, I ble nutria skins, Rodger, Best and co-175 0 salted o an•l e bides, 16h1s horse hair, 2 hxs conts unkn. order-3226 dry o and c hides. and 78 lining hides, 55 bls wool. C Holland-3 his horse hides, Wright, Parlane and co —9400 ox.horns. G Porker and co—Q D Armes. (351) W Wright, from Maranham. 701 bags cotton. .1 Rushton-144 do. W and J Wellstoad-14 do, T Stockdale and Son -309 do, Moon 'Brothers-485 do, order-31 do. A Parlane-23 do. Gardner. Atkinson and co—ll do. E West-7 do, Hadfield, Wood and en-97 dn. Duarte Rrothers-33 baskets annatto, 19 bags 2 yips 2 hf pipes India rubber, 8 eases India rubber shoes, 2 bzls balsam capivi. J Rush ton-8 bags 2 pipes India rubber. 3 cases India rub ber shoes. W & J Wellstood-2 pipes 1 lif pipe 1 brl 2 casks 2 cases isinglass. 2 baskets taniora, 15 pines India rubber, 41 baskets an natt'. '2 boxes linen. 3ze. order--6 brls balsam capivi, A Parlane -5 brls isinglass, R Z wilebenbart and eo—P D Agnes. (213) D Broadfont, from Iquique, Islay. Arica and lima, (frftrivicinigne)l946 bas saltpetre, 24 has copper ore. o•rler--; from Aries) Si chinchilla shins, order—(from Islay) 173 blg 527 hf big 3 pkgs samples wool. order-3 cs eonts iinitn, C Tayleur, Song and eo—'from Lima', 150 his wool, order-547 salted n and c hides, .0 Mackie-11 , x samples. Hegan. Hall and co—K D Sarah, 1233) E Newby, from Bahia, 529 hags cotton, order-167 do, .0 Pennington—l 2 slo, Props Bros-121 do.imer. Millet and en 36 do, W Maeaire and co—CS do. 4 cks I sack old copper retd, 851 dry salted and 5 dry hides. Hadfield, Wood and en-123 cases 4 brig surVIT. 1 box specimens natural history. 516 dry salted hides. order-808 dry salted and 50 wet hides, J Macaire, and co—P IRISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURE. • DUBLIN, December, 28. Butcx—Tullamore per thousand 30s to 325. County Dublin 32s to 38s. BEEP—Per tierce India, £6s to £0 Os ; prime mess, £5 to £5 lOs ; per barrel £3 to £3 ss. BACON—Per cwt. 46s to 51s: heavy 43s to 48s; pigs' cheeks 37s to 40s; hams 52s to 565; pork per barrel 80s to Bas ; tongues per firkin 35s to 335. BUTTER—Iin coole per lb. 9cl to lid ; firkin, firsts, 86s to 94s ; seconds, 82s to 8.55, thirds, 78s. CANDLES—Patent mould, 9s ; plain mould, 8s 6d ; dipt, 7s 6d per doz. lbs. FRATIIRRS—From the country per stone, 8s to 10s; white Hs to 14s 6d ; mixed 8s to 9s. GLUE—Per cwt. 60s to 655. GLASS—Wine and porter (marts per cross 34s • .1714.-. pints 30s ; It:venal quarts 425; ditto pints 335. 2 per cent. oil for breakage. HIDES AND SKlNS.—Salted hides per cwt. 30s to 31s; kips 33s to 355; ditto calf skins 3d to 31d per lb. LEATHER—Per lb. British lid to 16d; native light 10d to 11 d ; ditto 421 b. to 451 b. per hide, 14d to 15d ; ditto 481 b. to 50Ib. 15d to 16d ; calf skins 18d to 22d per lb. slitters ditto 14d to 16d ; kips, Irish, 19d to 2211 ; English 22d to 26d ; cordovan 16d to 20d; bellies 9cl to 10d. Firm. LEAD.—Pig per ton £l9 ; sheet £2l; pipe £23 10s ; shot £24. Otts—ltape refined per cwt. 42s to 455; brown rape 40s to 42s : turpentine 75s to 80s. linseed 35s to 375. RAPESEED-14s to 15s per cwt. • SLATES—Queens, tons, sized, 50s ; tons, 35s ; quarters, in lengths; 50s ; half ditto 25s ; commons 12s : duchesses lsts £9 lOs ; 2ds £7 Os ; countesses, Isis, £6 ; seconds, 90s ; ladies, lsts, 35s ; 2nds, 40s, doubles, 30s ; and mosses 80s per thousand. SALT—Perton 48s to 50s. SOAP—White per cwt. 36s to 40s 0d; yellow 20s to 25s Od. house keepers, 428 to 445. STARCH-45s per cwt and cask. TlLES—Flooring per dozen 4s to ss. TALLow—Melted per cwt. 63s to 645; bladdered lard 66s to 68s ; rough ditto 42s to 445; fat per stone 4s 6d to 5s Od. TOBACCO—RoII per lb. 3s 8d to 4s 3d. WHISKEY, OLD—lmperial gallon, 7s Cd to 9s Od ; new 6s 8d to 6s 9d. In bond 3s Bcl to 3s 9d. SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—Hay, 2s Od to 3s Od per cwt. ; Straw Is 3d to is 6d per ditto. SMTALFIELDS.—Dee. 13.—Bacon per cwt. 46s to 51s ; Hams 54s to 56s ; cheeks, 396 to 40s Od: cool butter 91d to lld ; firkin 84s to 90s ; bladdered lard, 626 to 655. POTATO MARKET.—AppIes, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; Cups, 2s 6d to 2s :Od per cwt. POULTRY MARKET, COLE'S-LANE.—FowI per pair 2s 6(1 t 6 4s fid ; Chickens, Is 8d to 2s 4d •, ducks, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; Turkeys, 3s 6d to 58 Od • Geese, 3s to 4s 6d each. _ _ _ Ewa MARKET— Wholesale, 8s 0 9s Od per 124. BUTTER MARKET—Per lb. ; cool, 91d to 101 d ; fresh lid to 12d. UNITED S TATES. Wm. Bachrer. (3191 T 11 Tripe, from New Orleans. 417 hales cot ton, V Pouta-115 do, W and J Brown and co-9 do, Collmann and en-100 do. W Porde :old co-141 do. Dennistoun and co-50 do, Todd. Jackson and eo-12 rin , Burton. Parker and eo-28 do, Swainsoo and —66 an. order-100 do, W do. Rathhonb Brothers and co-52 bales 2 bags cotton, Heath and co— D Tally-110, (411) T K Cormick. from St. P.tershitrir. 42 hhds tobacco. W one .1 Brown and co-100 do. W H Gillint-5 do, J and W Oxley and co-45 do. W and S Irvin-131 do. Evart, Myers and en--.), do. Evans and Trolies-9 do. order-63 hhrls 32 tees do, Ilathbone Brothers and co-329 hales cotton, W and J Brewn and co-2 brls flour, Balle)' Brothers and co—K D TIDE TABLE. Day,. Meer. Evn. Ht. H. M. H. M. F. r. Tuesday 1 - 0 2 17 1 Circumcision. Wednes. 2 023 044 17 0 Venus sets 3h 56m even. Thursday 3 1 4 122 16 5 Mercury in Inf. con. Sun. Friday 4 142 2 2 15 11 Mars rises 10h 33m even. Saturday 5 222 241 14 10 Mars sets Ilh 17rn morn. Sunday 6 I 3 2 322 14 1 Epiphany. Monday 7 342 4 4 12 10 Moon in Apogee 2h even. PRITISH AMERICA Commerce. (369) T lw'Alpin. from Pictou.N.S. 7(1) ps deals. alit 10 fms lathwood. 90 ps birch and 430 ps fir timber, Cannon, Miller and en—B 1) Elizabeth, (1061 J W Smith. from Prince Edward Island, 1515 deals. 1 cordlathwood, Anderson. (7arrow and co—B D EUROPE. Kin. of Tyre. 161) P C Pond. from Leghorn, loose about on qrs and 1 bag samples wheat, Booth and Walmsley-4 es paste. 20 hxs 15 hf jars olive oil. 29 boxes argols,27 Ills wool, order-1 tnk apprl, J Bibby and en—K Norfolk Hero, (155) W Garwood, from Odessa, 50 bls merino woo l . 46 hi, won t. l oon ors wheat, order—K D L'Angelina. (200) M Damle. from Roircleaux 1150 qrs wheat, R Zwileheribart and en-60 Ills cork wood, 19 chairs. order—Q Mischief. (196) J Jones. from Lisbon. 10 ens olive oil . C and .1 Rawdon-40 do. Leech. Harrison and en-29 do. Duarte Bros and 15 do. J Yeoward-20 do, J Pownall-15 do. M Z Just-43 do. T Martin and Son-26 pps 8 lids 4 qr casks do, 227 chests 411 hf chts manges, ordc--4 hf ehts do, Master-1 bx conts unkr,T Martin and Son-49 brie do, M Steel and Son-60bgs wheat, J Yeoward— G D Emerald, 172) J Thomas, from Faval, 479 boxes 47 small boxes oranges, EII Burnett-1 small box do, W Dart-1 do, J Grimes -3 hxs eontsunkn..l Drevar—S Crown. (292) .1 Kerr. from Alexandria, 1731 hales cotton, A W Pawles and co-1 case manuscripts, Phipps and co-1 ton old junk, order—P D _ Sofia, (1481 e Lseana, from NT esaina, 693 eases 250 boxes lemons, ovler-10 cases 50 boxes do, W Hamnett-59 cases lemons. J Ma eaire and eo-40 pipes 38 hhds 25 qr casks wine, order-4 Muhl wine C and T Ashton-1 hhd Iqr cask dn. 1 octave dn, Ross Brothers-- 2 casks 5 bhrls do, J Moss and co—z.hout 120 qrs linseed, J Pownall —7 hales silk, order-1 rago essences, M Oates and co-2 cases honks. 7 eases minerals, Ce. 2.jars honey. Ross 13,thers Deborah, (158) J Neville. from Leghorn, from Leghorn, 3 pack :ores chairs, 3 nackages silks. Yates and Cox-23 slabs marble. W Winn-02 casks 100 lif chests oil, 20 tons manzartese. 11 casks argol, 9 casks wine. 130 bales bemn. 30 hales (moon shells, 100 hr chests T.urea oil. 1 case 'paste, 80 bales wool, order-1 bale hemp, Melly. Prevost and oo—Q enarham, 354) 11 Ryland.. from St. Petersburgh, 0019 hrrs iron, 30 0 casks tallow. Came and Telo-3268 deals, 451 deal ends, 1050 pees hardwood. nrdcr—B 1) Thomas Hughes. '309) (7 M'lNTinn. from Harnhro', rio casks hlaek lead. J f 4 Elmcnborst-5619 plates speller. '2OO casks tnll"w, 25 casks spirits sro hrls flour, a quantity oak bark, order-300 cps wheat. Sandal, and Claxton-10 easks clover-seed, linldforth, Raid ari d co-5 bags do, 34 packages furniture. JR A trey-2 eases honks. &e. N Word: 11-1 ease wwic fnstians. T and TT Murray -1 ease cotton manufactured "nods. Keill and Courant—W Sisters, 1137) .1 Adamson, from Marseilles, 1 ease returned ebina, Melly and en-40 or pipes wine. Breed and Eeeleston-35 hales madder roots, 40 tons brimstone 10 cases snap. 5 brls capers. 4 brls olives. I parcel samples. 1 cask olive nil. 113 casks madders, 8 cases thistles. 4 Nisi,s cream tartlr, oriler—P T) Mayflower.(ii ) ) P Wskeliam, from • Cephalonia, 49 butts o'2 ear rofeels currant: .1 Heap and Sons—K Thomas Rt Klizabetb, 12 Heard, from Marseilles, about 50 tons brimstone. 70-casks ground madders. 200'hag,s pumice stone, 3 brls contents unknown, 6 pipes en- croatrated lemon juice, 3 brls 19 casks carers, 6 casks cream tartar, 6 bales orange peel, 1 task verdigris,/ casks grease, Order--K PACKET BOATS.—FALMO[JTH STATION, GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Jan. 21. Maas made • Last Packets Next Packets DESTINATION. up In Sailed. - Due. London. ----- Holland Tues. & Fri. Mon. & Thurs. Hamburg & Swed Tues. & Fri. Tues. & Satur. Lisbon Madeira ... . Spain 8c • • ibralt. Malta and Greece.. 2nd Saturday Dec. 25. Egypt and India .. 4th Saturday .... .... Madeira Brazil & B. Ayres each month Dec. 7. Jan. 25. America lst Wednes. Star, Dec. 8. Reindeer,Jan 12 i Jamai L'ward Ist day of ILM B. Delight Linnet. ( Isl ' & Ila Y ti " each month Dec. 3. - ' Jan. 26. Laguira Mexico .ndHa z 15th day of H.M.B Spey, Sheldrake, vans... ...... 5 etch month. Dec. 17. Dec. 21. f Jainai. L'ward 15th day of H.M.B. Lyra, Pandora, 2 Isl. & Hayti. Jan. 9. Carhtagena .... each month. Dec. 17. ftlark tto. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 3. We continue to have a fair demand from the trade. The sales Yesterday were 3,000 bags, and to-day they amount to 3500 bags. Prices steady. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, JAN. 3. There appears to have been an increase in the import of Butter during the last twelve months, as compared with the year previous, of about 42,000 firkins—and the present stock is estimated at about 35,000 firkins, the bulk of which is not of the best description. The market continues exceedingly dull, and the fine open weather, now experienced, adds to the apathy among dealers. Prices may be noted Is to 2s down.—Pickled Butter dull at our quotation.— The stock of Beef and Pork in first hands is trivial, of the former we have imported about 860 tierces less, and of the latter about 3000 barrels less than in the year IS37.—Holders demand, with much firmness, the annexed rates. - Bacon is steady, and Hams very scarce and much wanted. How the currency of Butter may henceforward rule, will in a great measure depend upon the prosperity of the manufacturing districts—those great sources of our northern consumption.—We are quite of opinion, notwithstanding the croaking of the Cham ber of Commerce people in Manchester, and notwithstanding the dearness of food, that there is still a vigour and healthfulness about trade generally, which affords a sufficient guarantee of the opera tive population being employed at compensating rates of wages— we consequently look to a revival in the Butter trade ere long. Prom' all appearances Irish Provisions are likely to continue high. Belfast Butter 94s ' 96s per cwt. Carlow, Kilkenny, &m 908 —94 s Newry, Banbridge, &e 828 —90 s Cork * Pickled 2ds B7B —89 s- Beef 105s-117s 6d per tee. Pork 7Bs 84s per brl. Bacon 46s 508 per cwt. Dried Hams . 60s 688 --- PRICES of TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. Wood, Deals, 120 Stan. M. duty paid. Archangel EIB 0 Q 19 0 Memel l7 0 18 0 Gothenburg l6 0 16 10 Wyburg Petershurgh l6 10 18 10 Planks, per foot of 2 in. thick Dan tzig, Deck. 0 31— 0 41 British American, Pine 0 2i— 0 3 Lathwood, per fathom. Danzig, 4 feet, £9 0 10 0 British American... . Mahogany, per foot of linch thick. Honduras Cüba St. Domingo. Oak Planks, British American:. none Teakwood, cubic feet - 4 6 Staves, per 1200. Danzig, Common Pipe £l4O 0 —145 0 Hhd. 7O 0 80 0 Quebec. red 11 inch Thick, and 51 feet Long Ditto, Puncheon 16 0 22 0 Timber, per cubic foot. Oak I'ine, B. American, common ...1 6 1 71 red ..... yellow Danzig, middling 2 21— 2 6 Memel, middling 2 21— 2 6 Rigs, red AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE, Imported into Liverpool, from the 26th to t FROM IRELAND _ Cows. Sheep. Pigs. - Horses. Mules. 1430 2059 .1898 G 5 Previous 105907 170621 212545 5472 281 coasrwi sg. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. 48 373 204 Previously 4920 78519 8032 Horses. 14 234 Not above 16 ft Foreign £l9. ' B. Plan. £2. Not above 21 ft. Foreign £22. B. Y. £2 10s. 10s. £7los. ;15s load. 110 s. Not above 36 in. Foreign £l3s. B. Plan. 2s. 10s. per load. }£2 15s 4; load. lie 31st ult. Calves. Lambs. 7 657 28691 Calves. Lambs. 22 8920 LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. Number of new patients entered on the books of the Dispensaries during the last week:— North. South, Total Received advice and medicine at th elnsti tution . Visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine Total at each Dispensary _____ 3Bl 329 VISITORS. North—Mr. S. Barber, Rev. Moses Fisher, and Mr. •W. F Macgregor. South—Mr Francis Jordan, Rev. J. Martineau, and the Rev. G. Gibson. R. WEDGWOOD, Secretary. Dispensaries Office, 1, Fenwick-street, 24th Dec, 1838. THE WORKHOUSE. Statement of the average number and expense of paupers in the Workhouse for the week ending Paupers. F Head. Dec. 22, 1838 Dec. 23, 1837 Per Week. .£177 11 10 151 15 4 Less 74 More 0 4 More 22 16 6 Statement of daily relief paid out-door poor the week ending Dec. 31,1838 Dec. 31,1837 Less 96 Less..£23 10 2 PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. Outward, 25s Ode Os 0, 20 0— 0 0 50 0— 0 0 40 0-50 0 30 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 50 0 60 0 0 0— 0 0 84 0— 0 0 00 0 0 25 0— 0 0 35 0-40 0 35 0-40 0 45 0— 0 0 40 0— 0 0 40 0— 0 0 40 0 0 0 30 0 0 0 20 0— 0 0 50 0 60 0 0 0— 0 0 40 0— 0 20 0 0 20 0— 0 0 0 0— 0 0 25 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 25 0— 0 0 30 0 0 0 30 O— 0 0 00 0 0 '0 0— 0 0 25 0— 0 0 8711047141.105 J 0 40 0- 0 0 105 0 -147 0 20 0- 0 0 20 0- 0 0 50 0- 0 0 50 0- 0 0 O 0- 0 0 O 0- 0 0 40 0- 0 0 25 0- 0 0 30 0- 0 0 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 0 0- 0 0 20 0 0 0 20 0- 0 0 20 0-- 0 0 30 0- 0 0 O 0- 1 0 40 0- 0 0 84 0 --147 0 20 0-. 0 0 LONDON & LIVERPOOL. (Sailing before 12th Jan.) Jamaica Leeward Isl. Deme. & Berbiee, Honduras New York, Boston Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Havana Canada British North America Newfoundland Brazils River Plate East Indies Company's Ships Batavia New South Wales Cape of Good Ilope Africa Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, &c. Malta, Sicily, Smyrna and Constantinople .. Malaga Madeira Western Isles, Cape de Verds Lisbon Cadiz France /Tolland Hamburg, Bremen, Gottenburg, Stockholm rt.tersburg, Rigs. &c. Oportch • • LONDON GAZETTE.-TUESDAY, JAN. 1. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Parkin and W. Thomason, Liverpool, slaters--J. Darlington, and 11. Green, Liverpool, whitesmiths—J. Fisher, M. Robinson, and J. Martin, Liverpool,wine-merchants--G. 'limit., and B. Whit. taker, Lancaster, tailors—H. Hargreaves and C. Coates, Collinge ford, Lancashire, woollen-printers—J. Gibbons and W. Healing, Liverpool, corn-merchants—T. T. Taylor and W. Bancroft, Man. cheater, cotton-dealers—T. Anderson, J. Tyne, A. Anderson, and W. Thorburn, Manchester, woollen-merchants ; as far u regards J. Tyne. INSOLVENT. Dec. 31.—Mary Wells, Rotherwick, Southampton, grocer. BANKRUPTS. William Bartley, Liverpool, money-scrivener, to surrender Jan. 14, Feb. 12, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Taylor, Sharpe, Field and Jackson, Bedford-row, London, and Messrs. Laces, Clay and Myers, London. Daniel Maddock, Liverpool, victualler, Jan. 19, Feb. 12, at one, at the. Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood, Inner Temple, London, and Messrs. Littledale and Bardswell, Liverpool. Thomas Stevens Sidney-street, Mile-end-road. London, tailor. John Schofield, High-street, Shoreditch, London, licensed vic. tualler. _ Benjamin Brigs, Chatham, grocer. James Warren Davis, Hertford, draper. Robert Tuck and Robert Beck, Poultry, London, hair-dressers. William Clark, Upper Thames-street, London, lead-merchant. James Thorp, Stockport, carrier. Andrew Wharton, Bardsey, Yorkshire, joiner. William Morgan, Bristol. carpenter. George Hind, Bishops's Waltham, Southampton, draper. Thomas Yates, Welsh Pool, Montgomeryshire, scrivener. George Walters, Haverfordwest, cattle-dealer. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 22, J. Hobbs, Carrington-mews, May-fair, London, livery stable-keeper—Jan. 22, J. Young, T. Bracken, G. Ballard. J. C. C. Sutherland, and N. Alexander, 1 1 Iontague:square, Lrndon, mer chants—Jan. 22, R. C. Sheppard, Great Scotland-yard, London, woollen-draper—Jan. 24, W. P. Williams, Bexley, Kent, drapers— Jan. 24, H. Palmer, Stratford, Essex, timber-merchant —Jan. 24, C. Howard, Mile-end, London, victualler—Jan. 24, W. Gilbert. King's Lynn, Norfolk, stationer—Jan. 22, J. Wallwork, Chow bent, Lancashire, druggist—Jan. 24, J. Knight, Southampton. painter—Jan. 24, H. Roberts, Chirk, Denbigh. draper - Jan. 30,W. Golland, Sheffield, ale-seller—Jan. 22, J. F. Taylor, Wigan, Lan cashire, cotton-spinner—Jan. 25, D. D. Orlidge, Bristol, wino merchant. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before tr, e 22d day of January. J. Wright, Liverpool, grocer—ll. Lloyd, Old Bond-street. Lon don, hosier—R. S. Irish, Worcester, wine-merchant—R. A man. Northampton. cabinet-maker—T. Eatough, Blackburn, prorisinn dealer—W. Drake, George-street. St. Giles, London, licensed-vic tualler. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Thomas Whines, Overhill, Perthshire, distiller. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. JAN. not it 4. James Haddon and Co. (2d) Clarendon Rooms, 1 5. Wiiliam Steel, (div.) Ditto 1 b. John Couplaud, (final div.) Ditt0...... 1 11. Richd. Armistead. (final div.) Bankrupt's Court, London, 11 11. Robert Edwards, (2d) Clarendon Rooms, I PRICES OF SHARES, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 4. Last l'rices This d 53 's RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices Birmingham and Gloucester 3O paid 15 0 0 .... Ditto and Derby 3O ... • 0 0 0 .... Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh lOO paid 64 10 0...... Chester and Crewe l5 .... 16 10 0 .... Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow lO .... 910 0 ...„ Ditto Leith & Newhaven 5 paid 0 0 0 ...., Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 6 .... 600• • • • 6 2 6 Glasgow, Paisley, - Kilmar- paid„) 0 0 0.. a• , nock, and Ayr ...... .. Grand Junction 100 .... 205 0 0 ....205 10 0 Ditto half shares lO .... 54 0 0 .... Great Western Hull and Selby . ll paid 0 0 0 .... Lancaster and Preston. lO paid •• • Liverpool and Manchester —.lOO .... 204 0 0 e.d. Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares .... . ... London and Birmingham .... 169 10 0 ..„, Ditto new quarter shares Ditto and Southampton Ditto, new shares 2O paid 40 0 0 .... Ditto & Brightln (United) Leeds and Manchester .50 ...• 67 10 0 .... 70 10 0 Leicester and Swannington .... 50 .... 73 0 0 .... Ditto, (new) l5 paid 38 0 0 .... Manchester, Bolton, & Bury 7B .... 70 10 0 .... Manchester and Birmingham IJ .... 10 15 0 .... Ditto and Ditto Extension 3 lOs 47 6 .... Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle 100 .... 92 10 9 .... Ditto quarter shares North Midland South Eastern and Dover North Union, lOO .... 70 10 0 .... St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 00 0 ..... York and North Midland 2O paid 20 5 0 .... S.BAN Royal Bank of Live r pool K —.500 .... 703 14 0 ~..703 In 0 Bank of Liverpool £l2 lOs paid 23 17 6 .... 23 17 6 Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 20 2 6 .... Liverpool Union lO .... 13 10 0 .... Northern and Central Albion 25 paid 26 12 6 .... North and South Wales lO .... 10 5 0 .... of Manchester lO .... 12 12 6 .... M'chester & 140°1 Dsct .... 16 0 0 .... South Lancashire .... 710 0 .... 617 6 Liverpool Banking Company ... 11 2 6 ..., Borough Bank .... 13 5 0.. Commercial Bank of E ng l an d 5 .. ... .. East of England 0 0 ... Phcenix Bank Wilts and Dorset to ... • 70 0 .... GAS. WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings .£loo paid 163 0 0 . .. L'pool and Harrington Water } 350 .... , 452 10 0 .... Works Bootle Ditto Stock .... 320 0 0 ....327 10 0 Liverpool Coal GasComp an ySt oc k .... 37 2 0 0 ..., Lpool New Gas & Coke Co. £IOU .... 200 0 0 .... Ditto New Shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance 1 25 paid 9 0 0 ... Company Ocean Assurance Company ... 10 ..., - 615 0 .'.. Liverpool Fire and Life DOCKS, FERRIES. NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderton Carrying Company 12 10s. 11 10 o ... Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry Rock Ferry . .... Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company 7 .... 3 5 0 ... Harrington Docks lOO .... Apothecaries' Company Asphalt. (I.iverPotal -- (POloner au) 17 6 A 3 1 5 0 • MARRIED. On the sth instant, at Vienna, Baron Tonder den Trenck, great grandson of an officer who obtained much celebrity in the seven years' war, to 51dIlle. de Hammer de Purgstall, daughter of the celebrated Austrian orientalist. Upwards of three thousand per sonsi attended a soiree which Baron de Hammer gave upon the oc casion. The troisSeau of the bride was exhibited to the public : its value is rated at .£20,000. It includes eleven India shawls, given to the baron by various eastei n princes : one of them, the gift of the Sultan, is worth £3,000. On the 27th ult. at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, William Birkhy, Esq. of Marsh-house, Cleckheaton, to Lucy, eldest daugh ter of the late Samuel Gorton, Esq. of Manchester. On the 19th ult. at Whitehaven, Mr. H. 14 1`Connell, Bold-street, to Miss Sawyers, sister to the Comptroller of the Customs at the port of Whitehaven. On the 25th ult. at Prestbury, Mr. Stephen Brooks Shaw, of Hulme, son of Mr. D. M. Shaw, late of Dunham Massey. On the Ist instant, at Farnworth Church; by the Rev. William Clarke, B.D. the Rev. Joseph Clarke, 8.A..0f St. John's College, Hunter , E Cambridge, to Miss Hunter, younge s t d aug h ter of the late Roger sq. of this town. Same day, at St. George's, Everton, by the Rev. Charles Lucas Reay, ILA. vicar of Swanbourne, Bucks, Mr. N. Duckworth, of this town, to Lucinda Anne, only daughter of the late Charles Eyes, Esq. of this town. Same day, at St. Augaistine's Church, Mr. Charles Austin, of Everton, to Miss Catharine Owens, of Brunswick -road. Same day, at St. Catharine's Church, Mr. John Stllo',v, of this town, to Ann, youngest d aug h ter of the late Samuel Hobbs, Esq. of the City of Cork. On the 2nd instant, at St. Cuthbert's Church, Carlisle, by the Rev. John Fawcett, Joseph Thomlinson, Esq. of Laverock Hank, Liverpool, to Mary, only daughter of Sir James Robert Grant, K. H. of the Hill, in the county of Cumberland. Yesterday, at St. George's, Everton, by the Rev. C. T. Glactwin, Mr. John Eccles, to Miss Elizabeth Kennerley, both of this town DIED. On the 27th Sept. in the State of Delaware. U.S. Mr. John Clark, tanner, late of Kendal. Westmoreland ; and, on the sth Oct. at the same place, Mrs. E. Clark, the respected widow of the above. On the Bth Nov. at Maracaibo, Captain David Hutton, of the brig Euterpe, of this port. On the 4th ultimo. at Maryport, after a short illness, aged 64, much respected and regretted by her family, Mrs. Jane Crag;, wi. dow of the late Mr. William Cragg, of Workington. On the 7th ultimo, aged 54, Mr. John Dutton, coach -proprietor, of Yew Man-street, Eccleston, son of the late Mr. J o h n D utton, surgeon, chester. On the 10th ult. after a lingering illness of two years, which he bore with Christian fortitude, Mr. Jabez Powell, tailor, aged 44, He was much respected by all who had the pleasure of his ac quaintance, and has left a wife and six children to lament their loss. On the 12th ult. at her house, Brecon, aged 98. Mary. relict cf the Rev. Henry Allen, D.D. late of Altnely: Herefordshire. On the 14th ult. at Eyarth-Uchaf, near Ruthin, aged 44, Mary, wife of John Lloyd, Esq. Same day. aged - 72, Captain John Parry, Penditch. On the 15th ult. aged 60, the Re v . A. Ab ra hams, late Rabbi o f the Hebrew congregati on of Manchester. On the 16th ult. at Forwood-house, Gloucestershire, James Clot terbuck Chambers, E•q. aged 62. Same day, in Scotland road, aged 52, Lieutenant Matthew Thackeray, H.P. of the 4th or Queen's Own Regime nt of Foot. On the 18th ult. Patrick Shanley, tide-waiter, aged 70 y ears, much and deservedly regretted by his relatives and friends. On the 18th ultimo, in Brooke-street, Hammersmith, aged 61, Mr. James Mayes, fora long series of years one of the most eminent printers in London. Same day, the Rev, lt. Hodgson, Incumbent of St. Stephen's Kirkstall, very much respected. His death was the sad result of the upsetting of his gig, at Burley, by a hackney-coach, on the 10th ult. by which he and Miss Hobson, who was riding with him, were thrown out, and Mr. H. received contusions on the elbow and foot which led to locked jaw and death. Miss Hobson was also much frightened and ,hurt, hut not seriously. The deceased was in hiss7th year. The hackney-driver has been commit te d on a charge of manslaughter. On the 19th ult. aged 36, Miss Mary Ann Verdon, Erski ne - street. On the 22d ult. at his residence, Walmer-terrace, Deal, the Earl of Clarendon. Lord Clarendon was one of the oldest Pee rs i n the kingdom, having been born on the 14th November. 1757, and being, consequently in the 82d year of his age. lie was married • to the Hon. Maria E. Forbes, sister of the late E ar l of Granard, by whom he had no issue. He is succeeded in hi s ti t l e, and we " believe, in Ils es t • ' t.a by his nephew, Sir George Villi ers, her Ma i a jesty's [Minister at Madrid. Mr. On the 22nd ult. aged 46, Edward W t a erworth, of Hulme, near Manchester, joiner and builder, brother to Mr. J o h n Water worth, stonemason, of this town. Same day, on board the Courier, Captain.Smitli, on her voy age from Calcutta to London, Mr. James Dobson, in his 19th year; thedeceased On the 26th ult. aged Mr . .Green, 83 , Mr Green, of Allerton. Same day, Mr. Richard Spencer, of Formby, aged 80 years. On the 86th ult. at Oldwarps-house. Warrington, aged 55, Eliza beth Bowie, daughter of the late Hatton Turner, Esq. 'Same day, at Altrincham. aged 52 years, Dorothy, relict of the 'late Mr. Medlock, and late of Birkenhead.od formerly of Boundary-street, Ch or l ton-upon- On the 28th ult. aged 14 months, Phoebe Barlow, daughter of Mr. Edmund Ilolt, Titchfield-street, Burlington -street. On the 29th ult. at Birkenhead, aged 37 years, after a long and Protracted illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude, Mr. Laurie Fair, third son of Mr. Fair, agent. 8011. On the 30th ult. at her residence, 57, Pitt-street, Mrs. J. Dott, wife of Mr. Henry Dott, of this town. Same day, aged 3 years and 10 months, Mary Ann, eldest daugh ter of Mr. William Smith, watchmaker. On the Ist instant, Jane, the wife of Mr. W. Spence, the Mayor's coachman. On the 2d instant, Ellen Martena Isabella, only child of Joseph M. F. Dodgson, Esq. Cambridge-street. Yesterday, aged 57. Richard Whitehead, for more than twenty years the faithful and honest warehouseman of Messrs. 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