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Vottrp. MY OLD ARM-CHAIR. (From the Athenceum.) Let poets coin their golden dreams, Let lovers weave their vernal themes, Or paint the earth all fair ; To me no such bright fancies throng : I sing a humble hearthstone song Of thee,—my old Arm-chair ! Poor,—faded, —ragged,—crazy,—old, Thou'rt yet worth thrice thy weight in gold : Ay, though thy back be bare ; For thou hast held a world of worth, A load of heavenly human earth, My old Arm-chair ! Here sate—ah, many a year ago, When, young, I nothing cared to know Of life, or its great aim,— Friends (gentle hearts !) who smiled and shed Brief sunshine on my boyish head; At last the wild clouds came, — And va;n desires, and hopes dismayed, And fears, that cast the earth in shade, My heart did fret, And dreaming wonders, foul and fair ; And who then filled mine ancient chair, I now forget. Then Love came—Love !—without his wings, Low murmuring here a thousand things Of one I once thought fair ; 'Twas here he laughed, and bound my eyes, Taking me, boy, by sweet surprise, Here,—in my own Arm-chair. How I escaped from that soft pain, And (nothing lessoned) fell again Into another snare, And how again Fate set me free. Are secrets 'tween my soul and me, — Me, and my old Arm-chair. Years fade :—Old Time doth all he can : The soft youth hardens into man; The vapour Fame Dissolves ; Care's scars indent our brow ; Friends fail us in our need ;—but Thou Art still the same. Thou bring'st calm thoughts, strange dreamings sleep, And fancies subtle (sometimes deep) ; And the unseen air, 'Which round thy honoured tatters plays, Is rich with thoughts of other days, That quell despair. Let the world turn, then,—wrong or right ; Let the hired critic spit his spite ; With thee, old friend, With thee, companion of my heart, I'll still try on the honest part, — Unto the end ! LITERARY NOTICES. The Aldine Magazine of Biography, Criticism, and the Arts. April, 1839. Owing to some irregularity, we presume, we did not receive this admirable magazine at the usual time. We are glad to perceive that it is rising rapidly in pub lic estimation. The spirited manner in which it is conducted, and the great ability displayed in its origi nal articles, entitle it to our highest commendations. The present number is enriched with several original articles of considerable merit. The remarks on Ser geant Talfourd's Copyright Bill are sensible and to the purpose. " The Fate of Louis the Seventeenth "is an article upon which we can scarcely venture to pro nounce an opinion until we have some further evidence on the subject. " The advantages of being blind" is a well written essay. We have been greatly delighted with the amusing anecdotes in the " Annals of Au thors, Artists, Books, and Booksellers." These mem oirs abound with much original information. " Points of the month " is a happy hit.• " Rome in the year 1839 " is an agreeable sketch. The criticisms on new books, &c., in the Aldine Magazine are temperately and impartially written. The Jew, or the Veil taken away. By the author of " Both one in Christ." London : Seeleys. Liver pool: Perris and Newling. 1839. Of a former work by Mr. Myers we have had oc casion some time since to express a favourable opinion. We are glad to find him again engaged in the praise worthy endeavour to enlighten the minds of his Jew ish brethren. The present work is calculated to effect much good. Its style is simple, pleasing, and attract ive. Its arguments are of the most convincing cha racter. His allusions to the customs of the Jews, and the details of his early experience, while inquiring into the truth of Christianity, will be perused with much interest. The account which he gives of the repulses with which he met from professing Protestants, while anxious to obtain more light and instruction, cannot fail to excite sympathy. We cordially recommend this edifying work to the notice of the Christian reader as well as of the inquiring Jew, as eminently calculated to edify the one and to instruct the other. Modern Art and Living Artists. Glasgow : Syming• 1839. This is an extremely well- w ritten essay on a subject of considerable interest and importance. It embraces a series of temperate and elaborate remarks on the fol lowing topics :-1. Have the people of Britain any love for the fine arts ? 2. Are the arts progressing or re trograding in this country ? 3. Does the existence of painters and sculptors produce any improvement in British manufactures ? 4. On the rise and progress of painting. 5. The National Gallery. All these sub jects are handled with great skill. The author is evi dently competent to the task which he has undertaken. To all who are interested in the progress of the fine arts, we confidently recommend this neat little work. Men and Measures; or the Political Panoruma. A Satire. London : Thomas. 1839. It is seldom that we have to speak in anything like terms of commendation of the poetical effusions of the day ; but we can safely venture to pronounce the satire before us as a production indicating considerable tact and genius. The pictures which the author presents us with are carefully drawn and true to life. Those who wish to see the characters of Lord Melbourne and his associates depicted with the fidelity of truth, will here find ample gratification. We have already trans ferred some passages of this satire to our columns, and may hereafter give some further specimens. The Art- Union. April. This publication very agreeably blends the utile dulci in all its articles. The essays and critiques which it contains are characterised by great candour and mo deration. Its notices of the public exhibitions in the metropolis must render it a valuable guide to visitors. The Probe. April. This is another professional work of considerable merit, furnishing us with some very striking original essays on subjects connected with the fine arts. We hope that publications of this character may have a beneficial tendency on the public mind by superintend ing an improved popular taste. --------- LADY FLORA. HASTINGS. (From the Leeds Intelligence.r.) Our seventh page contains a copy of a correspond ence which has passed between the Marquis of Has tings and Lord Melbourne, and the Marchioness of Hastings and the same noble lord, with regard to the scandalous charge trumped up in the Queen's Court against the Lady Flora Hastings, the noble marchion ess's daughter, and the marquis's sister; and, painful as is the subject, we feel it to be our duty to direct the reader's attention to it. If virtue and propriety are not to be found in high places, where example ought to be set, where shall we expect to find them ? And if the court go free of the censure of the moralist, when offending, it is a mockery to complain of the vices found in a lower stage of society. We remember that when Lord Melbourne was in volved in an unpleasant legal proceeding for trim con., the organs of the ministry denounced the whole affair as a tory trick. There was no truth in the tale, they contended, but the brother of the plaintiff being a tory, it followed, in the estimation of the candid whig wri ters, that the noble lord was at the bottom of the pro ceeding—that his object was to turn Lord Melbourne out of office—and that he had no objection to bring about that end by the infamous subornation of per . jury. Of course the imputation was as false as discredita ble to its authors. On the present occasion, however, no such defence can be even colourably set up. The Marquis of Hastings is not only a whig himself, but belongs to an old whig family : therefore he may be supposed to have had the ear of Lord Melbourne. And what is the result of his appeal to the Premier for justice ? A shuffling excuse—that is all. A lady of unspotted character has been outraged; her calum niators are known ; they are in close attendance upon the Queen, having been placed there by Lord Mel bourne ; the falsehood of the charge is admitted ; yet the authors of it are retained in their situations as if nothing has happened, notwithstanding the wrong done to her Majesty as well as to Lady Flora Hastings. Lord Melbourne pleads ettiquette and want of prece dent. The Marquis of Hastings tells him that if there is no precedent it is time to set one; and the world at large will be of his way of thinking. Now mark the contrast. If the husband of either of the ladies re ferred to had voted against ministers in either house of parliament, there would have been an instant change at Court, without reference to ettiquette or precedent ! The fact is, that the Queen has not the appointment of her own household, under the reign of the liberal Whigs, and more's the pity; the persons surrounding her Majesty are partizans, or the near connexions of partizans ; and they are placed there by Lord Mel bourne for the purpose of controlling the Crown and keeping at a distance all persons whose advice might lead her Majesty to arrive at correct political conclu sions, It must be confessed that, in this respect, Lord Melbourne's purpose is answered to admiration. Not only is her Majesty in leading-strings, but even her public drawing-rooms are deserted by all but the de pendents of the ministry. On this head some pain fully-interesting details may be seen in another part of t its sheet. Th e Queen is not to blame in the matter of Lady Fl ora . She appears to have made all the reparation in her power ; and the conduct of the Duchess of Kent h agL ,6 e n 9,11 that becomes a mother and a princess. N ... • . - with the Ducheis for obvious Tea . • -1 ; ...°9r: withdrawn, as Leirditastiiigs lip2self ( . would ialo advantage oiler Ic'/"~' f ..~ ,1 absence and attribute it, after all to guilt; by remain ing, she secures her reputation at the expense of her feelings and those of her family ;—on that point Lord Melbourne has much to answer for, and public opi nion, sooner or later, he and his apologists may be cer tain, will exact it to the uttermost. His bearing in this matter shows him to be devoid of all sensibility save that which is connected with his care of place. It is time that the Queen, at least, were rescued from the shameful durance in which she is held. A writer in the Morning Post thus trenchantly deals with the Premier : " 1. His answer to Lady Hastings' first letter, written in the Queen's name, has all the guilt, morally speaking, of the vilest treason. If the Queen herself desired him to make such a reply (which God forbid that we believe should be the case,) it was his plain duty, on his allegiance, to have ad vised her Majesty that such an answer, to such a mother, on such a subject, would chill every feeling of love and loyalty which her people delight to cherish towards her—would show her to the world as one utterly incapable to sympathise with the noble, the pure, the generous, the compassionate affec tions of the human heart—to feel, in short, as every one of her subjects, high and low, rich and poor, have felt on learn ing these deplorable events at Buckingham; Palace. If, on the contrary, he used his own unconstitutional influence to force or wheedle instructions for such a letter from the Queen, (and this all England will believe,) his suite is ten fold. "2. As for his answer to Lady Hastings' second letter, there is only one thing said, or to be said. The man who could write it deserves to be kicked and spit upon by every nzot her's son in the three kingdoms. " I cannot help adding a few questions to which the Queen's subjects have a right, on her behalf and on their own, to demand a prompt reply. "IS THE QUEEN SAFE ? Is her life, her honour, her character safe, whilst people such as I have named remain about her? " 1. The Doctor. If he BELIEVED the slander he uttered, what must be his professional rashness and ignorance ? If he did not believe it, what must be the nature of the man ? On the first supposition, ought he, as a physician, to be trusted with her Majesty'i life ? On the second, in great measure, with her majesty's honour ? Answer that, on your head, my Lord " Precedent" Melbourne! "2. The Ladies ! If they, too, believed the slander in their hearts, what an exhibition f charity, decency, and discretion was theirs ! To carry such tidings to the maiden ears of a Queen, just nineteen years of age !—when that Queen had a mother—when their suspected equal had a mother—either of whom would have withdrawn the supposed unhappy object of their virtuous scorn, without public scandal and needless indignity, from the presence where their pure eyes could not abide to behold her ! Oh ! uncliristian, unwomanly, indecent, meddling, scandal-mongers, even if ye believed your own story ! . " OUGHT WOMEN WITH SUCH TONGUES AS THEIRS TO BE LEFT ROUND THE QUEEN ?—Remember Marie An toinette ! and the slanders which dogged her to the scaffold ! " But, what if they believed it not, and only caught at the lie, in all the joy of court malice, to wreak their spite on the Duchess of Kent and her household, to aggravate the variance v4ich (it is useless to conceal the fact) their arts and their ilatrons have already succeeded in raising between their sovereign and her parent. Then, and in that case, I ask, ought such persons to be endured in any female society above the vilest ? How much less in the presence of our Queen? " God grant her Majesty's eyes may be opened, her false flatterers unmasked, her true friends made known to her." LIVERPOOL MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. LECTURES ON ANIMAL MECHANICS. T. Rymer Jones, Esq. Professor of Anatomy, King's College London, commenced a course of lectures on this subject on Wednesday evening. We were gratified to behold such a numerous attendance, and doubt not, from the satisfaction evinced by the audience, that the succeeding lectures will be still better attended. Amongst the various subjects brought beneath our notice there are few, notwithstanding its importance, so little at tended to as the structure of the animal world. There is this difference between the works of creation and those of mankind :--all effects of human skill are indicated by degrees of comparison, as being more or less adapted to the purposes for which they were intended, but in the works of nature, from the simplest forms of being to those which are the most highly organized, there are no such degrees of comparison in existence. Perfection is stamped upon every part of animal organization. Locomotion is strictly a mechanical science. We are aware that to remove an animal from one place to another will require the exercise of certain forces and powers. We possess in ourselves locomotive organs of the most perfect description, but human ingenuity and art has succeeded in still further enlarging our powers of this description, and by a variety of ingenious contrivances enabled us to move through elements, for the traversing of which, man was not originally intended. But let not man imagine that all these inventions, on which he prides himself so much, have originated with him ; on the contrary, we shall find that when we inspect the animal kingdom, however cursorily, that many of the inven tions which are looked upon at the present day as the emana tions of human genius have existed from the creation to the present hour. If you consider the extensive distribution of the animal world, the variety of circumstances under which creatures are destined to live, and the different elements which they inhabit, you will perceive at once that to enable them to move from place to place very opposite contrivances are required in diffeient cases. You will know that the different lakes and the mighty ocean itself swarm with thousands of beings, many of them so minute as to escape our observation, yet we have succeeded in ascertaining most of the points con nected with their existence. The air, the leaves, the grass of the field, and the soil to a considerable depth below the sur face of the earth, have their different animals adapted to them, all peculiarly qualified to move through the media in which they are placed. If any one views a drop of putrid water through a microscope he will find it inhabited by mil lions of living beings, many of them not exceeding in size the thirty thousandth part of an inch. If he watch these minute beings more attentively, he will observe that the little drop of water which forms their little world is freely traversed by them in every direction, that they skim from place to place in a graceful and rapid manner, and, that, notwithstanding the numerous population of the drop of water, that they avoid each other with the utmost facility, and never interfere with each others movements. I ask any one acquainted with mechanics, how are bodies such as these to be put in motion ? What is the mode adopted by nature to endow these beings with the motions which they exhibit. The animalcule e in a drop of water are so many rolling bodies, the surface of which is crowded over with millions of microscopic hairs, so minute that words would fail to give an idea of their size, but every hair is under the perfect control of the little beings, by which they use as oars, so that their motion through the water is easily and beautifully effected. But this is not the only mode employed in giving movement to the little creatures which we are considering. We find gelatinous animalculw, which can convert their bodies to any form necessary for their move ment. The hairs, or cilia as they are called, instead of sur rounding the whole of the body, are in some cases so attached as to form spiral wheels, which are comparable to the paddles of our steam-boats, but of more beautiful and perfect con trivance. The wheel animalcules afford instances of this ar rangement, and so exactly do the movements of these hairs resemble the revolution of a wheel, that our forefathers sup posed that they really were wheels. When these cilia are put into motion the animalcule moves in any direction it pleases, and can avoid coming in contact with the little crea tures with which it is associated. The cilia of the wheel ani malculw, unlike the inventions of human ingenuity, which generally serve one purpose only, enable it to obtain its food by causing currents in the water, so as to bring its prey within its reach. Amongst the various gelatinous bodies met with in the ocean, that called the " girdle of Venus" is one of the most remarkable. It is found in the Mediterranean, about 6 feet long, in the form of a riband. In the daytime it appears of a greenish hue, as it pursues its way through the water • and in the night it emits a phosphorescent light , by which its track can be seen by mariners many fathoms beneath the surface of the ocean. Along the whole length of its back are placed thousands of hairs, which act as oars to urge the creature onwards in a continuous and undulating line. But there are some of those gelatinous masses which can sail upon the surface of the waters, by means of instruments adapted to such a mode of progress. The belemnite is an instance of this kind of locomotion. It can raise itself from the bottom of the ocean to the surface, and, when it arrives there, erect its sail, by which it is enabled to make its way along the surface of the ocean. There is another gelatinous mass of the same class, called by sailors " the Portuguese man-of-war," which is likewise furnished with a sail. It consists of a bladder, upon the top of which is placed a sail ; from the bottom of the bladder hang down several greenish coloured appendages, which are the instruments by which it obtains its food. It possesses the power of secreting air, with which it distends its little bladder, and then becoming lighter than the water, it rises to the top of the ocean, upon the principle of a balloon ; and when in this situation, its little sail comes into play. The paper nautilus is familiar to us all, as being furnished with a shell of beautiful construc tion, in which it sails on the surface of the ocean. It has nothing to do but to raise its membranous sails, and the wind wafts it along. There are besides five moveable arms, which hang over the sides of the boat, and serve as so many oars to urge it on its course. The pearly nautilus is another of this description of animals. Until lately the animal was unknown, although its shells were found. The fact is, that this is a nautilus which is so protected by nature, and is en abled to escape Iso precipitately from human observation, that by the merest accident only one of them was captured. This creature can swim at the top of the sea, and sink sud denly when alarmed. Its shell is divided into a number of compartments, communicating with each other by means of a pipe running through them from the margin to the extre mity. When the creature wishes to rise, it fills these cham bers with air, by which, becoming specifically lighter than the water, it is enabled to ascend to the surface ; and, when alarmed, by withdrawing its body it condenses the air, and sinks to the bottom instantly, Brit to leave these modes of progression, which are only to be met with in the humblest and least-known forms of animal life, let us examine some which are not less curious. Throughout nature there are various animals called officers of police, and not amongst the least important are the sca vengers for the removal of putrid matter, and the prevention of its accumulation. We know that in hot countries animals of this kind abide. The banks of rivers are in fested with alligators and crocodiles. The deserts are in habited by hyaenas destined to take away garbage, and the vultures prowl about for similar purposes. There are sca vengers likewise for the ocean, amongst which the star-fish must be ranked. Star-fish are literally stomachs contained in bags. The problem to be solved is, how are these bags removed from place to place. The outward forms of the coverings of these creatures will be found to vary materially, and their mechanical contrivances must vary with their out word forms. The gorgonocephalus, or head of Medusa, is the simplest form of star-fish with which we are acquainted. It has a great number of fibrous appendages, which are ca pable of acting as legs, or of attaching it to any vegetable which may be in its vicinity ; but we meet with round star fish without any of these appendages. Natural history does not furnish a more pleasing spectacle than that presented by a common star-fish when placed in a glass jar full of sea water. The star-fish has a number of small feet, with which it can climb to the top of the jar, or move about in it in any direction. Its legs are similar to the common suckers used by schoolboys. If we examine the interior structure of the star-fish, we shall be as much amazed at the simplicity as the perfection of the arrangement. We shall find that every foot is formed by means of a bladder within the star-fish. When the creature attaches itself, this bladder is flaccid ; and, by dilating it, the creature is enabled to obtain a secure footing, by means of the pressure of the atmosphere. Again, in the globular forms of the sea-urchin, you will find this form to exist, so that, by means of these suckers, these crea tures can roll themselves up the sides of a rock, and drag themselves into places where we should hardly suppose them capable of penetrating. Insects foim an extensive division of the animal kingdom. They are diffused over every part of the world, and exist un der a variety of circumstances. The power which insects possess of moving from place to place, is well deserving of our attention. The most common appendage to the foot of an insect, is the instrument by means of which it makes its way along a tolerably rough surface. It resembles a pair of hooks, something like those made use of in removing packages of cotton wool from one place to another. Now these hooks are the rudest formi of prehensiv,e organs which we dareimagine. - The comraba. loust ! tnstead of .hookti of cletcriPtioh, is furnished with a put of pincerri, resembling the mandibles of the lobster; with these pincers it can take hold of the stems of the hair with the utmost possible facility, and thus make its way under circumstances in which no other insect would be enabled to do so. The common house fly is able to walk upon the ceiling, with its head downwards. If we magnify the foot of the house fly, we shall find that, besides the hooks possessed by ordinary insects, it is provided with a pair of membranous flaps or suckers, to take hold of any surface with. It is by no means uncommon for these creatures, when enfeebled by cold weather, to be incapable of detaching these suckers from the surface to which they may have been affixed, and they necessarily perish from their inability to overcome the atmospheric pressure, which, under favourable circumstances is so conducive to their welfare. But there are insects which not only are able to climb as the house fly, but are adapted to burrow beneath the surface of the ground, precisely as the mole does amongst quadrupeds. Now by what contrivance in the structure of the leg of an insect can you convert it into a digging animal, so as to enable it to clear away the earth with facility ? The mole cricket is one of the most striking examples of this species of insect. The two first legs are converted into rakes of immense power, by means of which it can scratch its way and bury itself in a manner which must appear marvellous to those who watch the movements of the creature. With all his ingenuity, man has not been able to wend his way through the atmosphere by strictly mechanical means ; and, although at the present day individuals are endeavour ing to accomplish that feat, there is little doubt that their efforts will be futile, for however fertile the ingenuity of these later years may have been in producing discoveries, the power of flying has never been approximated. The rapidity of the movement, and the strength of wing in all creatures destined to move through the air must be proportionate to the weight to be raised and carried along. Many of you may have ob served a dragon fly in pursuit of its prey You may have seen it for hours together moving about the surface of a pond pursuing and capturing the insects on which it feeds, but perhaps you have not observed the perfection of its flight. It is not only able like a bird to fly directly forward, but it is capable of flying backwards as well as forwards, sideways and downwards without turning during its flight, so beautifully are its wings contrived. The swallow is not to be compared to the dragon fly in its means of flight. An instance is re lated of a swallow pursuing a dragonfly, but it could not cap ture it, for whichever way the swallow turned itself, the dragon fiy without turning was able to advance or recede as circumstances might require, and after a long chase, it ap peared that the bird was not capable of gaining upon the in sect, or of coming nearer to the accomplishment of its wishes. The house fly has been calculated to fly at the rate of seventy-five feet in a second of time with the same num ber of strokes of its wings. Is there any thing in human practice like this ! A fly thus will pass over three quarters of a mile in a minute, whilst the fleetest race horse has not been able to run more than one mile in the same period. And ob serve the difference between their strength. If the insect was to increase in power with its relative bulk, and to grow to the size of a race horse. the world itself would be unable to sus tain it or to resist its ravages. The common stag beetle is endowed with huge wings. Suppose this insect were in creased to the size of the tiger and leopard, and that its powers increased in the same ratio as its bulk, we should have a monster such as human invention never imagined. Where is the animal alive that can resist such devastators as these creatures would be, and yet so perfect is the mechan ism with which they are provided to enable them to fly, so perfect indeed, that ifit was not enacted by a law of nature that they~ should not exceed certain bounds in bulk, they would depopulate the earth. Why are insects furnished with wings? Insects are not, properly speaking, made to fly because life is dependent upon their possessing that faculty. The ephemeris will live for three years under water, in the form of a grub. It obtains its wings, leaves the waters in which it has survived so long, and in an hour its existence ceases. Is there any particular wisdom displayed in thus furnishing this creature with the means of flight ? If it were not the case, we should find the race confined to one particular locality, instead of being widely disseminated, which its brief hour of flight accom plishes. The grub of the dragon fly urges itself through the water by discharging a stream of water from a bag situated in its hinder parts. Human mechanics have vainly endea voured to bring this species of locomotion to perfection in steam-boats. We thus see that even in insects there are me chanical laws, which are carried into effect upon such prin ciples as to adapt these beings most admirably for the cir cumstances in which they are placed, and that in some cases, especially as regards the power of flight, the proudest achieve ments of human ingenuity have fallen far short of what the Celestial Mechanic formed long before the human attention was directed to the subject. This lecture was illustrated throughout by a beautiful and exceedingly numerous collection of diagrams, as well as by a number of specimens of shell fish, birds, &c. The next lec ture takes place to-morrow evening, when the structure artd mechanism of the internal skeleton of vertebrate animals will be considered. CONSTABULARY FORCE FOR THE COUNTIES OF ENGLAND AND WALES. A Commission was appointed by the late King, for the pur. pose of inquiring as to the best means of establishing an effici. ent Constabulary Force in the Counties of England and Wales especially with a view to the prevention of offences, and also with regard to any proceedings before trial, by which the de tection and apprehension of criminals may be rendered more certain ; and also for inquiring as to any public services which may be obtained from such a force, either in the preservation of the peace or the due protection of property, &c., &c. The Commission was renewed on the accession of Her Majesty, and consists of three members—the Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, one of the Poor-law Commission ers, and the Secretary of that Board. On a former occasion we stated that their First Report had just been laid before both Houses of Parliament, and at the same time published the plan, consisting of seven propositions, which they recom mend to her Majesty's Government for carrying their views into effect. Before noticing the details of the Inquiry, which are full of interest, we will give their chief reasons for recom mending the establishment of a general Constabulary Force for England and Wales. These are also seven in number, and are as follows :- 1. That it is essential for the efficacy and attainment of all compatible services from a .constabulary force,—first, that the constables should be trained, or appointed from a trained force ; secondly, that neither by appointment nor otherwise should they be privately connected with the district in which they act; thirdly, that they should at periods be changed from district to district ; fourthly, that whilst they should act under local direction for the performance of various local and administrative duties, for the repression of the practices of migratory depredators, vagrancy, and offences.which concern the community at large more than the particular locality, the-- must act under general rules and principles, and in subordi nation to general directions from one general and responsibl executive authority. 2. That such a trained and moveable force, under genera and responsible direction, will produce greater advantages than at least double the number of untrained, irremoveable constables, acting more expensively under separate, inde pendent, and voluntary, or untrained and irresponsible direction. 3. That the expense of a general and uniform force, which we believe would be adequate to the attainment of these ob jects, would be under half a million sterling per annum. 4. That the saving from the service of such a force would be considerable ; that, independently of the saving to indi viduals of the greater proportion of the money or produce now taken by habitual depredators, there would be much saving eflected on upwards of two millions of money, now expended chiefly in the cost of repression and of punishment in various ways, amongst others in the maintenance of delin quents in gaols, in transports, and in penal colonies, as well as in the prevention of frauds upon the revenge. 5. That much time, which we cannot accurately determine, would be required to obtain proper persons and fit them by training for the proper discharge of their duties, and to or ganise an efficient trained force. 6. That the only available district or trained force that can at present be obtained is the new Metropolitan Police force. 7. That in the great majority of instances, or nearly all, of the successful trial of a paid constabulary force, have been instances where trained men have been obtained from the Metropolitan Police Force, comprehending about 200 in stances in towns and rural districts. The first point the Commissioners endeavoured to ascertain was the extent of depredation to be guarded against, and at the beginning of the inquiry it became evident that the re turns hitherto made of the number of persons prosecuted or convicted cannot be relied on as correct indications of crime in any given district. In proof of this they state : In two instances, where crime was remarkably frequent, where the only real security of the subject consisted in his own power of self-defence, and where, as we have good rea son to believe, from the defective state of the constabulary force, there was no pursuit or apprehension, the gaols being empty, the judges were, according to custom, presented at the assizes with white gloves, as emblems of the purity of the districts. In other instances, where, from the increased efficiency of the constables, or from increased facilities of prosecution, there has been an increased number of cases on the calendar, it is common to hear this increase of crime, and as the ground of alarm. The answers to the questions put by us, to ascertain the state of the information possessed, as well as the state of the fact, show that there is in general no recorded information upon the subject on which any reliance for exactitude can be placed. In order, however, to form the most correct estimate of the amount of one species of crime, and to show how very few are convicted, as compared with the number of offenders, they formed a comparison of the number of forged notes pre sented to the Bank of England, with the number of prose cutions and convictions, and the result was, that for a period of 18 years, ending with the year 1823, the number of forged notes presented to the Bank of England was 263,990 ; the convictions 1574, or one in 167, and the proportion of exe cutions to crimes committed was as 1 to 1003, or more than a thousand chances of escape (or minor punishment) to one of suffering the last penalty of the law ; and that 166 acts of forgery, or uttering, out of 167, were committed with impu nity. The greatest number of forged notes presented to the Bank of England was in the year 1817, being not less than 3180, and the proportion of convictions was lin 243. After the act for restoring cash payments, and small notes were abolished, the decrease of this species of crime was most re markable, the number of forged notes presented being only 1648, in 1823, and the convictions 6: in 1827 they were re spectively 267 and 3. The commissioners found equal difficulty in ascertaining the number of habitual depredators with that of ascertaining, except in this instance, the proportion of offences to convic tions. The answers from the county magistrates, gaolers, and others, were most unsatisfactory. The ordinary tenor of the greater proportion of answers was, " a few"—` we cannot ascertain." " There may be persons of this descrip tion, but we have no means of ascertaining their numbe r., In order to form some criterion, therefore, as to the propor tion of persons who live by habitual depredation, the com missioners had recourse to the following plan : " With a view to make some approximation to a tolerably correct estimate of the amount of crime actually committed, as compared with the prosecutions within particular districts, we have directed an enumeration to be made by the Metro politan Police, of the number and description of persons known to them as being addicted to habitual delinquency or breaches of the law. We have obtained similar enumerations from Liverpool, Bristol, Bath, Hull, and Newcastle-upon- Tyne, where the police is organized and conducted on the same plan as the Metropolitan Police. Before the means of making such estimates were obtained by the organization of such an agency more or less closely observant of the classes in question, and therefore enabled to give more or less accu rate particulars with relation to them, one of the Commission ers who had then paid attention to the subject, endeavoured to determine the number of common thieves who were at large in the metropolis. The course taken was to endeavour to ascertain the following points :—First, the average dura tion of the career of common thieves or habitual depredators before their permanent removal from the field of depredation, by transportation, deaths, or other means. Secondly, the number of habitual depredators who annually pass through the gaols, ane are permanently removed from the field of de predation by such means. Upon the first of these points, it was estimated in 1830; on the information of governors of prisons, attorneys practising in criminal courts, and other persons conversant with the habits of the criminal popula tion in the metropolis, that the average career of impunity to common thieves was not less than six years. On the second point it was estimated that the total number of habitual de predators annually tried in the Crown Courts of the metro polis, was in round numbers IWO : hence it followed that the number of common thieves at large in the metropolis, from which the annual supply of 1000 convicts was made without apparent diminution, could not be less than 6000. In the • year 1834 an estimate was made of the number of common 'ttieyes in the metropolis known to the Metropolitan_Polie , e. The total number . tlain known to them wait:s2lo. -Upon a more close enumeration made in the year 1837, the number was returned as 6407." The following is the proportion of known bad characters to the population of the six large towns to which they ex tended their inquiry :—London Metropolitan Police District, 1 in 89 ; Liverpool, 1 in 45 ; Bristol, 1 in 31 ' • Bath, 1 in 37 Hull, 1 in 64 ; and Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1 in 27 ; but this list includes three classes : " 1. Persons who have no visible means of subsistence, and who are believed to live wholly by violation of the law, as by habitual depredation, by fraud, by prostitution, &c. 11. Per sons following some ostensible and legal occupation, but who ere known to have committed an offence, and are believed to augment their gains by habitual or occasional violation of the law. 111. Persons not known to have committed any offences, but known as associates of the above classes. and otherwise deemed to be suspicious characters." The number of common thieves in the metropolis was esti mated not long ago at 30,000, and, according to Mr. Colqu houn, the Magistrate of the Thames Police, the number o f depredators and prostitutes amounted in his time to 50,000, an estimate proved to be enormously extravagant. In a re cent address published by a voluntary association for the suppression of prostitution, the number of persons of that description in the metropolis was stated to be not less than 80,000, while " the actual enumeration shows that at this time the number living amidst nearly a million and a half of the population does not exceed 7000. The next point of enquiry was the proportion of vagrant thieves who constitue the most prominent body of delinquents in the rural districts—those who seek alms as mendicants, and those who travel from town to town, and from fair to fair, and who snake incursions from the provincial towns upon the adjacent rural districts. From persons of this class confessions were obtained setting forth in detail their previous career of depredation, and the description of their associates. The following extract is from a statement made by a prisoner in Salford gaol, aged 21, the son of honest parents in Man chester. The gypsies come in for their share of the blame, and the unfortunate Irish are not forgotten. Even this scamp traces the sources of his crimes to Irish blood : " For the last four years, up to 1839, I have travelled' for a maintenance. I carried a covered hawker's basket, with an oil-case on the top, with cutlery, braces, trinkets, Birmingham fancy goods, buttons, pearl,. bone, and wood. This pack was not what I and others chiefly depended on ; it was the excuse for travelling ; and also sometimes to fall hack upon in case we could do no business of other kinds. The value of the contents would vary from £2 to £4. I have sold silk goods stolen,' bought of the shop-lifters ; there are these in all towns, small as well as large. They will not sell to any unless they know them ; if they supposed a man to be a traveller,' they would come up to him and say, perhaps, Will you stand for some handkerchiefs, rib bon, anything in silver, or gold, or wearing apparel ? ' There are ring -stealers, on pretence of buying them. Needle-steal ers from drapers' shops buy 100, and steal a couple of thou sand.' There are cant words for everything you use or do. I have seen some old cant in print, but it is nothing to the cant now used. There are three sorts of cant, the gipsies', the beggars' (such as pretended sailors and others), and the thieves'. The cants are distinct in many words, and alike in others. A stranger to the cant words could not understand the gipsies or others, save a few words here and there. The gipsies have a cant word for every word they speak: The vagrant cant is a lower style than the thieves ; they use it to tell one another what they get at different houses ; they are not always thieves, they will not push themselves forward to steal, and one-half of them, if they saw another stealing, would tell of him, and yet, if they could do it themselves they would. The gipsies are the worst of thieves • they live by fortune-telling ; they make rings out of brass buttons and pewter, and the wives sell them as gold and silver ; they have tiles and other instruments for cutting them out ; the metal ones are cast ; many of them make bad money. They will coin the money in lanes, or buy it of the dealers in towns in the rough, and make it up themselves. This is extensively done, most `up' the country, the south and west of Eng land; more round Sussex, Essex, Kent, Surry, Northamp ton. They have no religion ; are heavy cursers ; go in fami lies ' • never marry ; many of them are sheep stealers. The two families of the Boslems and Smith, about sixty in each ; are about Nottingham and Derbyshire ; hardly an assize or sessions but some of this set are had up ; in winter they live in towns, if very severe. They will be in one tent when out ; as soon as old enough they pair,' and if they don't like each other, after a fight the woman will go down to her own tribe again, and the man selects another woman. Play cards and drink the Sundays. Travellers' will not do busi ness' on Sundays. There are some who will rob houses at chapel-time on that day, because they cannot get in at others. I know two sent from Leicester last March for a robbery on Sunday night. One got fifteen, the other ten years. Amongst thieves there are several kinds. Ist. Those confined to pick ing pockets have boys to work for them, and close round them, that no one shall see them. This is very gainful : large towns furnish them, and they frequent all fairs, wakes, and races. They travel various ways, some with spring and covered carts. ' Muffling' the cart is of use only when there is no watchmen : the wheels and horses' feet are all clothed. I have not heard of its being done this long time. 2. Robbers of the person with violence, mostly three to gether, two hold the man, and the third rifle his pockets. All three will, most probably, be behind when the attack is made, and one will put his arms ro and him, or he will hit him from ;behind with a stone in a handkerchief, or a heavy stick, to stun or drop' him, and when the plun der is got, throw him out of the way. If a man is in a gig, one will hold the horse and cut the reins. A horseman will do well to take to the fields, but in a gig a man has only the chance of self-defence ; few travellers' i. e. thieves, will venture their lives if a pistol is shown. Few travellers' are confined to one kind of robbing ; in some places you will see the same persons with boys picking pockets, and others with a three-thimble, gambling at fairs and races ; it would be a good thing to stop it universally ; they are thieves to a man ; it would draw them to other things. * * " Take one with another, Manchester is the worst town in England for a thief; I have heard the names of and the other side of London. Liverpool is a better place for a thief than Manchester, it he be a stranger. If you say in any other part of England that you are from Manchester, you are at once supposed to be a thief ; it is the same with London, Birmingham, and Liverpool ; but they say that Manchester and Birmingham turn out more thieves than London and Liverpool. The Manchester and Liverpool are reckoned the most expert; they are thought to be .or Irish parents, and to have most cunning. In fact, I'll be bound to say, that three parts of those who are travelling now throughout the kingdom have Irish blood in them, either father, mother, or g randmother. " I should think there are some thousands of ' travellers' in England, not to mention Ireland and Scotland ; there are more in Scotland than Ireland (Ireland is too poor, unless in large towns). I have seen 150 of different sorts at one _ place. ie CIIINESE MANNERS. - Mr. Medhurst gives the following account of one Chinese peasant's visit to another :—" Com plimentary cards are presented, and polite answers returned, all vying with each other in the display of humility and con descension. On the arrival of the guest considerable difficulty is found in arranging who shall make the lowest bow, or first enter the door, or take the highest seat, or assume presidency at table, though the host generally contrives to place his guest in the most elevated position. When conversation commences, the mutual assent to every proposition, the scru pulous avoiding of all contradiction, and the entire absence of every offensive expression or melancholy allusion, show what a sense these people entertain of politeness." RUSTIC, CONTRASTED WITH TOWN, POVERTY.—TO be born poor as the spirit of poverty herself, is sufficiently bad ; but far worse is it to be thus born in the bottom of some noisome ally of a vast town, where a single ray of sunlight never falls, nor a glimpse of the sky itself is ever caught, beyond what may be afforded by that small dusky section of it which seems to lie like a dirty ceiling on the chimney tops, and even then cannot be seen, unless (to speak like a geome trician) by raising the face to a horizontal position, and the eyes perpendicularly. Fresh air, fields, rivers, clouds, and sunshine, redeem half the miseries of want, and make a happy, joyful being of him who, in any other sense, cannot call one single atom of the world his own.—" Collin Clink," in Bentley's Miscellany. DISCOVERY OF AN ABORIGINAL RACE OF NATIVES NEW SOUTH WALES. — We learn by the Tasmanian and Austral-Asiatic Review of October 19, 11138, that " A most interesting discovery has just been made by a gentleman be longing to Sydney, of a race of natives inhabiting the banks of Thorn's River, (a river lying between the Rig River and Moreton Bay, navigable upwards of sixty miles inland,) in comparably superior to the Aborigines of other parts of the territories, both in intellect and personal appearance, and much further advanced in civilization. Our informant, who visited the place in search of good cedar grounds, informs us that they inhabit villages of from twenty to fifty houses in extent, each house capable of containing from twelve to fifteen individuals. Three of these villages our informant encoun tered in his progress, the largest of which must have con tained 400 inhabitants. The houses, which are very ingeni ously constructed, are in the form of a horse-shoe, with a low porch in front of each ; the walls are constructed of slahs driven into the earth, and ingeniously interwoven with wattles, so as to be impervious to the rain ; the roofs of the houses are covered with tea-tree bark, and so strongly is the whole fabric put together that the weight of several individuals on the roof is insufficient to injure it." As we anticipate being shortly in possession of particulars relative to the above discover, we shall not fail to lay them before our readers.—Mirror. FASCINATION OF THE RATTLESNAKE.—" When I was a boy 13 years old," says Mr. Willard, " my father sent me into the field, to mow some briers. I had not long been employed when I discovered a large rattlesnake, and looked round for something to kill him ; but not readily discovering a weapon, my curiosity led me to view him. He lay coiled up, with his tail erect, and making the usual singing noise with his rattles. I had viewed him but a short time - when the most vivid and lively colours that imagination can paint, and far beyond the powers of the pencil to imitate, among which yellow was the most predominate, and the whole drawn into a bewitching variety of gay and pleasing forms, were presented to my eyes ; at the same time my ears were enchanted with the most rapturous strains of music, wild, lively, complicated, and harmonious, in the highest degree melodious, captivating, and enchanting, far beyond anything I ever heard before or since, and indeed far exceeding what my imagination in any other situation could have conceived. I felt myself irresistibly drawn towards the hated reptile ; and, as I had been often used to seeing and killing rattlesnakes, and my senses were so absorbed by the gay vision and rapturous music, I was not for some time apprehensive of much danger ; but suddenly recollecting what I had heard the Indians relate (but what I had never before believed) of, the fascinating powers of these serpents, I turned with horror from the dangerous scene ; but it was not without the most violent efforts that I was able to extricate myself. All the exertions that I could make, with my whole strength, were hardly sufficient to carry me from the scene of horror, yet pleasing enchantment ; and while I forcibly dragged off my body, my head seemed to be irresistibly drawn to the enchanter by an invisible power. And I fully believe that in a few moments longer, it would have been wholly out of my power to make an exertion sufficient to get away.—Peter Pilgrim. POPISH INTOLERANCE.—DANGER OF INTERMARRIAGES. —The intermarriages of protestant females with members of the Church of Rome, is an evil which cannot be too strongly deprecated. Seldom a day passes that does not, in some part of this unhappy country, exhibit a practical illustration of the misery and heartburnings that arise from this unhallowed compact. The following, which has been communicated to us on good authority, shows that length of time cannot pro mise a respite from persecution to the deluded female of the reformed faith, who places herself under the protection of a papist husband :—ln a certain town, not twenty miles from Buncrana, a man, who fills the situation of clerk of the petit sessions, happened, some fifteen or sixteen years ago, to get married to a protestant. Previous to this the arrangements entered into by the parties were, that he should allow her to go to her own place of worship, and that the one should not interfere with the other in religious matters; however, shortly after they had got married, instigated, no doubt, by the priest, he endeavoured to induce her to go to mass, which she as strenuously resisted, urging upon him the agreement entered into ; he, however, was deaf to all remonstrance, and when he could not persuade her to accompany him to the mass-house, he persisted in his refusal to allow her to go to any other place of worship. The poor woman thus deprived of religious instruction was anxious to read and improve her mind at home, and for this purpose had borrowed from a female neighbour a volume of family sermons ; this book, however, her persecutor recently discovered, and having ascertained who was the owner of it, lie took it to her house, and after upbraiding her for lending it to his wife, took the tongs, and having stirred up the fire, - deposited the book in the flames. The owner as - it might be expected, hastened to its rescue, and succeeded inriaT4pg it out before itwas totally consumed.—Zondthic rr -Sehttiset. - • • •• .* Mitpputrf flittifigiut. FRIDAY, APRIL 19.—Wind, W.N.W. ARRlVED—Margaret, —, from Honduras—Abeona, ; Equator, Bisson, and Jane, (brig) —, from New Orleans—Sher brooke, , from Mobile; sailed 13th March—Shepherdess, —, from New York; sailed 26th March—Argus, from Rostock—Thomas Mellor, Hutchinson, from Maranham sailed 2d March—Abercrombie, —, from Charleston —Philips, from Valparaiso—Falcon, —, from Calcutta—Rowchester, Swainson, from Seville OFF THE PORT—Wilberforce, from Africa Ariel, -, from Pernambuco, at this port ; sailed 6th March. The Cognac Packet sailed on the 4th March for Paraiba. The Cy bele was to sail about the 10th for this port Lady Lilford, Galt, from Mobile, at this port : sailed 12th March. On the Ist April, in lat. 42, long. 54, passed the Maida, of Hull, with loss of topmasts, mainmast-head, and bowsprit, and apparently leaky Falcon, Anstntther, from Calcutta, at this port ; sailed from the Sand Heads 27th Dec. ; Cape of Good Hope 18th Feb, and St. He lena sth March, in company with the Otterspool, from Batavia for Rotterdam Phillips, Woolley, from Valparaiso, at this port ; in 94 days. The Neptune was to sail in a few days for Liverpool Thomas Mellor, Hutchinson, from Maranham, at this port ; sailed 2nd March Cabotia, Ashton, hence at Bahia Australia, from Bahia for Liverpool Ist March Secret, —, hence at Valparaiso in 92 days Glanmalier, , hence at Valparaiso Medium, , hence at Pernambuco Sceptre, Bartlett, sailed from Alexandria for Liverpool 26th March Robert Henderson, M`Farlane, sailed from SmyrnEhlst March, and Victoria, Alexander, 22nd, both for Liverpool James Hunt, M`Donald, from Rotterdam for this port, at Deal Caravan, , hence for Boston, was spoken Bth April, in lat. 47 23, long. 24 40, tost both topmasts in a gale on the 6th Poantom, Sanders, hence at Syra Stamboul, Sloman, hence and Narva, at ditto Tigris, Titherington, hence at China Malabar, Southward, from Bombay at ditto Nile, Anderson, sailed from China for Manilla 14th Dec. Mary Ann Peters, Roberts, hence at Calcutta Cambria, Robertson, hence at ditto 14th January Alexander, Ramsay, hence at ditto 15fh January London, Adamson, hence at ditto 2nd February Matilda, Rowe, hence at ditto Bth February Louisa Munro, Lowry, sailed from Calcutta 23rd January; also the Allerton, Chatterton, and Blorenge, Banks, 12th January; and the Fatima, Fethers, 31st January, all for this port Richmond, M`Leod, sailed from Calcutta 22nd January, and the Courier, Dixon, 2nd February, both for London. William Rushton, Gregory, heave Emma, Maine, hence at Smyrna Syren, Foster,- hence at Syra, cargo damaged, and cleared for Constantinople 30th March WESTPORT, April 16.—The Assistance, Poole; from Liverpool for Westport, struck on a Reef in Blacksod Bay, 15th instant, and bilged BARROW, near ULVERSTONE, April 18.—A large vessel, laden with tin, pig iron, railroad iron, bales of prints, &c. was Ivr0•1(ed near Pile Foudry, during the late gales ; parr of the cargo saved GENOA, April 11.—A three masted vessel, laden with planks, wine and flour, dismastcd and abandoned, was passed 19th March, in lat. 36, long. 5, off Cadiz CHINA, Jan. s.—About twenty vessels, inward bound, are lying outside, with their cargoes on board, not being allowed to discharge, in consequence of the Hong merchants refusing to secure them, owing to the recent disturbances SATURDAY, APRIL 20.—Wind N.W. fresh. SAlLED.—Liverpool (steamer) Fayrer, for New York. Matilda, Scott, from Lima, at this port; sailed 24th Dec. Left at Calloa, the Globe, Hudson, Daniel Grant, Elizabeth Radcliffe, and H.M. Ships Presidentand Samarang Little Catherine, Williams, from Demerara, at this port, sailed 11th March Patriot King, Clark, from Calcutta, at this port; sailed Ist Jan. and from St. Helena 6th March. On the 19th instant, off Tuskar, spoke the Rachel, hence for Gaspee Joseph, , from Ostend, at this port Clyde, , from Batavia for Amsterdam, at St. Helena Amelia, , from Calcutta, for London, at ditto Brankenbourne, , from Mauritius for London, at ditto Matilda, , from Lima, after being docked this afternoon , was discovered to have run her anchor through her bow, and made so much water that she was:hauled between the gates to prevent her sinking Robert Isaac, Mills, hence for New York, at Terceira, 31st March, out ten weeks, with loss of topmasts, sails rigging, rudder, &c. and greater part of the cargo thrown overboard Black Prince, Martin, from Santos, at Valparaiso Calista, , hence at Honduras Margaret, White, hence at Antigua Judith, Hamon, from Messina, at Palermo, and sailed 7th March for Liverpool Adelaide, Manger, from Messina, at Palermo, and sailed 21st March for Liverpool Feronia, Jarvis, hence at Palermo Livonia, Poole : Sisters, Adamson, and Criterion, Wallis, hence at Naples Brenda, Stephens, sailed from Naples for Liverpool 23rd March Grace, , hence for Antigua, was spoken on the 15th instant, in lat. 49, long. 7 Wilhelmina, Bass, and Zeepard, Bakker, hence at L'ebau Theresa, Fawes, and Mangerton, Hnghes, hence at Hamburgh Shems, Consiean, hence at Gironde Frances Ann, Hay, and Drinnore, Mylne, sailed from Saugor for Liverpool 6th Jan. Enmore, Nash, from Calcutta, at the Cape of Good Hope Antigua Packet, M‘Knight, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Mauritius 10th Feb. and Hero of Malown, Grundy, for New South Wales 12th Feb. Salus, Crickmay, from the Cape of Good Hope at St. Helena, and sailed 26th Feb. for Liverpool James Turcan, Turcan, from Manilla, at St. Helena, and sailed 27th Feb. for Falmouth Sincapore, Loch, from Sincapore, at St. Helena Gateshead Park, from Odessa for Cork, was stranded 3rd April, near. Marsala, and is not expected to be got off; crew saved, At the time the gale commenced she was off Cape Passare, in com pany with about twenty vessels. Another English vessel, said to be the Victoria, from Smyrna for Liverpool, is on shore near near Cape Feto, close to Mazzara Arica, —, hence and Arica, at Lima PALERMO, April 6.—A most tremendous gale was experienced on the 2nd and 3rd April, which seems to have extended all along the islands TROON, April 17.—The Antigua, Fisher, from Liverpool for An tigua, put in here last night, under jury foremast, having been rnn foul of by a Foreign vessel, 6th April, off Cape Clear; it is feared the other vessel went down SUNDAY, APRIL 21.—Wind N.W. moderate. ARRIVED.—Urania, Noakes, from Bombay—Wm. Russell, Bruce, from Paraiba. SAILED.—LoweII, Whipple, for Havana—lsabel, Cope, for St. Vincent —Blakely, Simpson, for Calcutta—Stirling, Saunders, for Savannah—and Beirarn, Woolner, for Constantinople. Dryad. Rickerby, hence at Sincapore Gunga, Younghusband, from Manilla, ditto Hero, , from Siam, ditto Hero, Smallwood, from Bombay, at St. Helena, and sailed 22nd Feb. for the Clyde Wm. Parker, Sewell, from Rio Janeiro for Mauritius, was spoken to the eastward of the Cape Mary Sommerville, —, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 12th ult. ih lat. 2 N, long. 22 W Wanderer, , from Calcut ta for this port, was spoken 12th ult. about lat. 3 N, long. 23 Pink, from Bombay for this port, was spoken sth ult. in lat. 1 S, long. 20 W Mary, --, hence for New Orleans, was spoken in lat. 28, long. 15 Mary Appleby, M'Kay, hence for Bahia, was spoken 22nd Feb. in lat. 1 N, long. '2O W S rreeMNES 4, April 13.—The Snowdrop, Trewavas, hence for Liverpool, with part of the cargo of the Everthorpe, in proceeding out of Hoy Sound, got in contact with the Jane, of Liverpool ; the former lost main boom and has put back; the latter lost jolly boat and proceeded MALTA; April 6.—The Zoe, Tarabochia, from Trieste for Liver pool, which put in here some time since to repair, sailed Ist inst. but put back on the 4th with much damage, and it is expected must discharge her cargo SINGAPORE, Jan. 13.—The Saguenay, White, from Manilla for Cork, put back to this port 14th ult. with 40 Arabs on board, whose vessel had been wrecked at the entrance of the Straits of Dryan. MONDAY, APRIL 22.—Wind S. SAlLED.—Hibernia, Cobb, for New Yo-k—Finland, Hanlin, for Cadiz—Wm. Ackcrs, Nichol, for Laguira—Trusty, Morris, for St. John, N.B.—Concordia, Shaacholder, for Riga—Union, Heyde, for Ostend—Anja, Hazewinkle, for Amsterdam and Zwolle—Ada, Tre garthen, for Algiers—Vigilant, Simons, for Ostend—Broad Axe, Dolbet, for Gaspee—Jacoba Maria, Kramer, for Liebau—Moun taineer, Hutchins, for Leghorn—Diana, Schoofelen, for Bremen— Leopold Ist, Painscke, for Antwerp—Vincenzo, Grantipano, for Genoa and Leghorn—Commodore, Campbell, for Barbadoes— Giasone, Dodero, for Alexandria, Egypt—Joseph, Potterlitz, for Ostend—Preter, De Weerd, for Pernau—and Catharina, Brahma, for Antwerp. London, Tate, from Canton for Cork, at the Cove Condor, Smith, from Monte Video for Liverpool, at ditto Cassiopea, , from Mauritius for Liverpool, was spoken 27th Feb. in lat. 13 S, long. 9 21 W, out 43 days—had experienced heavy weather off the Cape Margaret, Blythe, from New Orleans, off the Cove, and proceeded to the Clyde Hindoo, Van Zwilecom, hence at the Cape of Good Hope COVE, Ayril 20.—The mainmast, bowsprit, &c. of the David, from Rio Grande for Antwerp, are damaged, and are being taken out The Caroline, —, from Liverpool for New York, is to be sold, being found unfit for repair. Her cargo, (salt) is beidg ship. ped on board the Governor Douglas, for New York Sincapore, , from Sincapore for London, was spoken 9th April, in lat. 40 40 N, long. 31 30 W, out 103 days CAPE OF Goon HOPE, Feb. 24.—The Trafalgar, Baxter, from Liverpool for Sydney, N.SW. was totally lost 21st instant, at the entrance of Table Bay ; one female passenger drowned. It is feared the cargo will be all lost TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 22. Wind at Point Lynas S.W. light breeze. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, at 12 at noon, No. 1016, Ann Mondel, 8.8. from Barbadoes, and No. 1343, Australia, B.S. at 1 30 p.m. from Bahia. LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. IXDIRECT. DIRECT P From China Calcutta .... Feb, 14 Bombay .. .. Feb. 25 Mauritius.... Jan. 11 St. Helena' Bahia . .... Feb. 7 Pernambuco- DI RNCT From Rio Jan... Feb. 16 Maranham Feb .. 28 N. Orleans March 18 M0bi1e..... March 19 Savannah.. March 20 Charleston March 21 New York March2 TIDE TABLE. Days. . Mnz. Evn. I Height. . M. 11. M. P. 1. Tuesday 28 73g 813 111 4 St. George. Wednes. .24 842 9 7 12 9 Mars in con. with mn. 1-9. Thursday2s 928 948 13 11 St. Mark. Duch. of Glos. b Friday 26 10 5 10 21 15 1 Saturda) 27 10 37 10 52 16 0 Sunday 28 11 8 11 22 16 7 4th Sunday after Easter. Monday 2g 11 36 11 51 16 0 Length of day 14 48. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL, APRIL 111/l/ 22. Thomas Pearson, jun. (Ist) Clarendon Rooms, 1 22. Kennan and Jones, (Ist) 23. T. P. and J Peck, (div.) 24. Robert Edwards 29. John Shynn, (Ist) Ditto, 1 29. Moses Jackson, (Ist) 30. Samuel Leon, (2d) Commissioners, Rooms, Manchester, 10 30. John Warburton, (2d) Ditto. 30. Robert Gibson, (ad) Clarendon Rooms, 1 May 2, Marrow and Frodsham , ( s p ecial) Mr. Leathers, 1 4. John Slinger, (final div.) Clarendon Rooms, 1 Einports. WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Kingston, (2633 C Merritt, from Demerara, 5 hhds sugar, 196 puns 18 hhds 1 brl nun, 26 hhds 176 casks molasses, T and H Murray -30 puns rum, order-15 do, S Mackay-12 puns 2 hhds rum, G Quayle-15 do, K F M'Kenzie and Co-30 do, J Withers-14 do, 18 cases cutlasses and 40 muskets returned, Murray, Syme and Co -500 ox hides, T and H Murray—G D Hebe, (136) J Duncan, from Demerara, 86 hhds 19 brls sugar, 28 puns 10 hhds 2 brls rum, 66 puns 6 hhds molasses, 25 bags coffee, 160 wet salted hides, G Quayle-1 box succades, J Grant-1 box contents unknown. order—K D UNITED STATE& Sara h Shaafe, (387)W H Merry, from New York, 98 bales cotton, W H Merry-380 do, Collmann and Stolterfoht-315 do, order-6 chairs, Glen and Anderson—P D Irvine, (496) W Reid, from Savannah, 773 bales cotton, Moly. neux, Witherby and Co-400 do, order-152 do, Collmann and Stol terfoht-11 do, Isaac, Low and Co-5 brls rice, J Low-5500 reeds, the master-32 planks, for exportation—Q D Fergus, (429) J Cornforth, from Apalachicola, 1118 bales cotton, Roskell, Ogden and Co-10 do, the master-1 box plants, order — Q D Saxon, (405) C Mansfield, from New Orleans, 732 bales cotton, Todd, Jackson and Co-266 do, Roskell, Ogden and Co-51 do, Molyneux, Witherby and Co-104 do, Baring Brothers and Co-37 do, J and W Oxley and Co-213 do, Reid, Irving and Co—W D Ganges, (376) J Jones, from New Orleans, 1056 bales cotton, W Gilliat-347 do, order—W D John Hale, (344) A Crowell, from New Orleans, 99 bales cotton, J Turner-66 do, J M Hornby-86 do, Steains and Rowley-154 do, A Dennistoun and Co-128 do, W Modsley-248 do, Reid, Irving and Co-5I do, Purton, Parker and Co-58 do, G Green and Son -254 do, order—W D Banffshire, (831) J Pitcairn, from New Orleans, 197 bales cotton, W Barber-103 do, Roskell, - Ogden and Co-213 do, Reid, Irving & Co-288 do, E Heath and Co-504 do, Baring Brothers and Co-200 J and W _Oxley and Co-79 do„ . I bale Shooks, order-5 do, E Heath & Co-7 do, A L Brown-59 bales sarsaparilla, FDe Lizardi and. C0.—.1 „pa s se coutents anknolvn, oider-L - 2 C• 921 nuts; EqUte - Btotlitt'S and Co-42 ir • • ••-•-• • --•-- - ' arks t 5. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, APRIL 12. There has been a better demand for Sugar, particularly for the lower descriptions, and the sales amount to about 1400 hhds B.P. at prices establishing only a decline of 6d to is per cwt. from the late highest point of the market. 4000 bags Mauritius have also been disposed of 62s 6d to 655, and 1000 Bengal. The sales in foreign Sugar are 140 cases Brazil, chiefly good dry brown and yellow, at full rates : there was little or no competition for the 237 cases Per nams offered by auction, being nearly all white, end the whole were withdrawn.—There is a fatr inquiry for Plantation Coffee, but the the sales do not exceed 120 casks Jamaica : very full prices were ob tained. 60 bales Mocha brought 92s per cwt. Nothing done in foreign.-100 bags black Pepper sold at 4d.—ln Cocoa, Ginger, or Pimento no sales reported.-2000 bags of Bengal Rice have been sold at 15s fid to 17s per cwt. in bond.—Rum has been much in quired for, and prices are rather higher : the sales amount to 110 puns, chiefly common Leewards, at 3s 6d to 3s Bd, with a few puns. of Jamaica, 27 per cent. O.Y. at 4s 11d, and fine Demerara, 38 per cent O.P. at 5s 4d per gallon. Some small sales of Indigo are reported ; 25 chests of Shell Las at 92s 6d ; 21 chests East India Gum Arabic at 48s ; and 150 frazil Senna at 22c1.—A few serons of Cochineal have realized full prices. —There is nothing to report in Saltpetre : 16s 6d has been paid for Nitrate of Soda. . In Dyewoods the demand for Logwood has been trifling, and the few sales made were at rather lower rates ; for rustic higher prices are demanded, owing to to the small quantity at market : in other kinds no change.—Turpentine is in regular demand, and for 1000 brls of good quality 13s 4d to 13s 6d has been obtained.—For 500 brls American Tar, offered by auction, 16s being the highest bid, it was withdrawn, but, subsequently, sold at that price.—Montreal Pot Ashes remain firm at 26s to 26s 6d, the sales; however, scarcely ex ceed 200 brls : Pearl Ashes are in very limited demand, at 34s 64 to 35s.—There has been a very good demand for Flaxseed, for sowing, and about 1407 hhds New York sold at 75s up to SOS per hhd.— Several parcels of East India Linseed were disposed of at 45s 6d per quarter.—Quercitron Bark goes off slowly : about 40 hhds only have been taken at 22s to 255, according to quality.—ln Hides the pub lic sales have gone off briskly, and full prices generally paid : 4600 salted Rio Grande Ox and Cow have been sold at 4d to id, 3200 Monte Video at 41c1 to 41d, 200 Danish at 4/d, 100 do. Kips at 6d, 3000 dry salted Ceara and Pernambuco at 51d to SA-d, 150 Savanilla at 41d, 400 dry Jamaica at 5-id to 51d, 150 Savanilla at 41d, 400 dry Jamaica at 74d for sound, and 61d for wormed, 9000 East India Kips at 1044 to 12d for sound dry salted, Eilid t 0 gd for Ist class rubbed, Bid. to 8d for sound brined, Bid for sound dry, 74c1 to 74cl for Ist rubbed, and 61d to 6id for 2d rubbed : 513 Buffalo Hides at 4;6 per lb : 330 salted Monte Video Horse at 13s, and 500 dry salted at gs tid each for sound.—ln Tobacco the sales of the week are about 160 hhds: of these 60 were for Ireland, 20 for Scotland, 20 for re-sale, and the remainder to the trade. _ _ An operation in Palm Oil, to the extent of about 1,100 tons, to arrive has been effected by one of the soap trade this week, at about 5s per ton ; also othersales, to the extent of about 250 tons, by +ha hilainacc n» t? Snot is Only about 50 tons, at Is to £43 10s. but holders now demand £44 per ton. Oil of Turpentine meets a ready sale at per ton. in Hemp or Flax little or nothing has been done. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 19 The demand has been very limited throughout the week, and all descriptions have been difficult of sale; notwithstanding, however, the firmness of holders generally, a partial qcline of kd s lb has been submitted to in most kinds, at which rate the market has closed steady, but without spirit. Exporters have taken 200 American, 50 Pernambuco, 50 Maranham, and speculators 750 American. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON From the 12th inst. to this day, inclusive. Prices paid IMPO in the week. ThisWk.,l SALES OF THE WEEK 240 Sea Island . 20d @ 31d 11 130 Stained 8 1 7 111 13218 2800 Bowed! Georgia , A , A 1 f M o bile --- ; 1 Alabama and TenhesSee 72 BY ' 20745 3110 1 New Orleans 700 {Pernambuco & Paraiba lO —ll .11 , Aricati and Ceara 380 Bahia and Maceio f Maranham 640 93 10 i 1 1°79 , 1 Sawginned .... I Minas Para 30 Demerara, Surinam, &c l2 12} i ..., ago 1 Egyptian : Barbados Peruvian } 112041 1119831 14948 6683 1 12443 1 - - Bahama 160 Laguayra 10 Common West India, &c 440 Carthagena ... Smyrna ... Manilla 620 Surat 40 Madras ... Bengal - 91 81- - 401 64 - 889. 6 - 8 7i - - 11697 1 f 281 [0770 bales 33819 MONDAY EVENING. The Cotton market still continnes very quiet, the trade appearing indisposed to buy more than will supply their present wants. The sales on Saturday were only about 1000 bales, and to-day 2500 bales, at rather easier prices. The arrivals since Friday, are 2 veFsels from New York, 3 New Orleans, 2 Mobile, 2 Charleston, I Apala chicola, 2 Pernambuco, and I Maranham. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, APRIL 22, ---: A little new Butter has appeared and been sold at 1105. Good old commands full prices. Pickled Butter 88s to 90s, and not much asked for. Beef, of prime quality, is scarce. Pork becomes more plentiful, and may be purchased on easier terms. Bacon in good demand, and good dry Hams are about 3s dearer. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 20. During the last week we have again had large supplies of Foreign Wheat and Flour, the former amounting to upwards of 26,600 qrs. and the latter to 17,000 barrels. The whole, within a few thousand quarters, arrived in time for entry at the duty of 6s 8d per quarter, which was paid by most of the importers. On Friday the rate of impost advanced to 10s 8d per quarter. From Ireland we have re ceived upwards of 11,600 quarters of Oats, but of ether descriptions of British Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal the imports have continued moderate. At Tuesday's market our town's millers where buyers of Wheat to a fair amount : two or three parcels have since been taken for shipment to Ireland, but the trade generally has been less active than for some weeks previous, and prices have rather given way. The secondary qualities of Foreign Were, yesterday, offering at 3d to 4d per bushel below the quotations of this day se'night : the generality of holders, however, have shown no disposition to force sales.—Oats must must also be noted fully id per bushel lower, and the demand for them limited.—Flour and Oatmeal have met a dull sale, and both have receded in value, the former fully Is per sack, the latter is 6d to 2s per load : the best Irish manufacture of this artiele was sold yesterday at 33s per 2401bs.—English malting Bar ley has been in request at prices ranging from 42s to 44s for good up to 48s per imperial quarter for Chevalier.—Beans and Peas as last noted. LIVERPOOL PRICES CURRENT (Quotations duty paid, except when mentioned in bond.) As 115 . 5 Montreal, Pot 25 0® 26 6 Pearl, new 34 6 —35 0 U. States, Pot none. Pearl none. BARK, Quercit. 20 0— 25 0 Oak, to .. .E 5 .5 615 German 4 3 5 0 BRIMSTONE, 14 , ton Sicily, &c lO 10 11 0 Tuscany lO 10 11 0 CASSIA LIONEA, S. d. s. d cwt. in bond 58 0 62 0 CLOVER -SEED, ' CWI American, red.. Dutch BO 0-90 0 French & Germ. COCOA, Vela Trinidad. Grenada MADDER, cwt. S. d. S. ti. Dutch, crop 56 0 —65 0 Ombro 40 0 —5O 0 Gamene 3O 0 —36 0 Mull 10 0 —2O 0 French, S.F. 42 0 —44 0 S.F.F 48 0 —52 0 E.S.F 54 0 —5B 0 E.5.F.F.60 0 —63 0 Spanish 2B 0 —32 0 MOLASSES, V , cwt. Trinidad, &c 30 Demerara, &c 31 Bar & Antigua.. 32 MUNJEET, 13 , cwt 18 Olt Olive, r 252 galls. Gallipoli 1.54 0 —54 10 Trieste 5O 10 —52 0 Sicily 52 0 —53 0 40 Io 43 0 Malaga _ 50 0 —5l 10 0 ---32 0 0 -32 0 6 -33 0 0 -20 0 .. 40 0 - 43 0 Brazil 32 0 35 0 COFFEE, 19 , cwt in bond. ordinary Jama. triage j 50 0— 98 0 good& fine 0rd.102 0-108 0 middling 109 0-114 0 good mid. ll7 0-128 0 fine mid. &c 130 0.. 150 0 ordinary Dutch, triage.. 45 0— 85 0 good &fine ord. 90 0— 98 0 middling lOO 0-105 0 good mid. 106 0-110 0 fine mid., &c. Mocha Ceylon Java Havana good & fine ord. 46 0— 52 0 St. Domingo.... 45 0— 48 0 Brazil 42 0— 50 0 Laguira 47 0— 55 0 DvEwoons, tp ton X. s. X. s Logwood, Jam... 9 5 9 10 Hon. & Dom. 9 10— 10 0 CampeachY .. 13 0— 14 0 Fustic, Span 12 10— 13 10 Tampico 12 10— 14 0 Brazil lO 0— 11 0 Cuba l5 0— 17 0 NICARAGUA WOOD. Rio de la Hache solid rough 5 0— 6 0 small 6 0— 7 0 Lima, solid ll 0— 17 0 Garwood, Ango 8 10— 10 0 Portugal, &c 4B 0 —5O 0 Leval - at 48 0 —5O 0 Palm, To hrt 43 10 —44 0 Fish,le 252 galls. Seal, pale - brown. 0 -33 27 0 0 Cod 3l 0 0 LINSEND, cwt 27 6 0 Rape, pale do. 45 0 —45 Turpen. cwt. . 65 0— 0 Rica, 4g cwt Carolina, dress. 38 0 —4O in bond none Bengal, ord. do 12 0 —l4 mid to fine l5 0 —l7 African none. RUM, T. gallon, in bond. Jamaica, 87 0-100 0 100 0-103 0 40 0- 50 0 12 to 16 o. p 4 0 4 stronger 4 7 5 choice marks 5 2 5 SAFFLOWER, V. CWt. Bengal, _ _ good & fine.. £5 0 7 Ord. & mid 2 10 4 Bombay SALTPETRE, cwt. S. d. S. East India 24 0 —3l South American-16 0 —l6 SHELL LAC, cwt. in bond. orange 80 0 —126 liver and black SKINS, Neutria, r doz, .. 10 0 —l5 Chinchilli, do. ..20 0 —25 Seal, each 2 0 :1 SHUMAC, V , cwt. Sicily... Malaga. Trieste Gaboon 5 10— 8 0 Camwcrod 2O 0— 24 0 Red San. Wood 8 0— 9 0 FLAX, 4. ton. Riga. P.T.R. 47 0— 49 0 P'burg, 9 head Archangel Dutch & Flem. GALLS, 10 , cwt Turkey, blue 0 -13 0 0 -11 6. Verona, Tyrolese SUGAR, cwt. B. P. Muscovado 75 0- 80 0 mixed 60 0— 67 0 East India 7O 0— 73 0 GINGER, V , cwt. . _ 0 - 9 6 0 - 9 6 0 -10 6 moist brown 56 dry brown 59 good & mid 64 fine &v. fine 67 Mauritius, dabs and moist 55 brown sg yellow 62 fine yellow 65 East India, Bengal ord. white 64 good and fine 67 extra fine 70 Manilla, in bond 21 Havana, do. brown none yellow .26 0 —29 white ord 35 0 —37 good & fine 38 0 —4O Brazil, in bond. brown l6 yellow • 23 white ord. 26 good and fine 29 TALLOW, cwt. P'burgh, Y.C. 49 9 —5O Odessa 49 0 —49 Archangel 47 0 —4B Buenos Ayres 45 0 —47 TAR, V. brl. Stockholm l6 0 —l6 Archangel l6 0 —l6 Carolina l6 0 —l6 Virginia l7 0 —l7 TARTAR, (Wt. Cream of Tartar 65 0 —69 brown and yel 50 0 —6O TRA, lb. in bond. Bohea, Canton 0 -58 0 6 -63 0 0 -66 0 0 -70 0 0 -58 0 0-61 0 0 -64 6 0 -67 6 o —66 0 o —69 6 o —72 0 0 —23 0 0 -22 0 0 -25 0 o —2R 0 0 —33 0 Fokein .. 1 Congou, com. .. 1 mid. to fine. 1 Twankay, corn 1 mid. to good 1 Pekoe, Orange 1 Campoi, com. to goad Hyson Skin 1 mid. to fine 1 Souchong, com 1 good to fine 1 Pekoe, flowery 2 Hyson, corn 1 fine 2 Young Hyson 1 Imperial Gunpowder, good and fine TOBACCO, 19 , lb. in bond. J. River, Leaf 0 81,— 1 Stemmed 0 11k— 1 Kentucky Maryland - TURMERIC, owt in bond. Bengal 16 0 —22 TURPENTINE, If , cwt. American VALONIA, 1 , ) , ton. S. Smyrna, picked l3 0 —2l Morea l2 0 —l5 WAX, BEES' 14 cwt. in bond. African 7 10 8 East India Amersicn 7 15 8 Barbadoes 9 o 10 1— 1 3 0 1 3 4- 2 6 2 - 1 3 4 - 1 6 8 - 3 0 5 - 1 7 2 - 1 4 7 - 3 0 9-4 6 6 - 2 0 6 - 3 9 8 - 2 4 9 - 3 2 45 0- 50 0 Jamaica BO 0-120 0 E. India, in bond 18 0— 22 0 GUM, cwt. Arabic, Turkey 7O 0-140 0 East India 25 0— 56 0 Barbary 45 0— 52 0 Senegal 62 0— 64 0 HEMP, To ton E s. ae a. P'burg, clean 45 10— 46 0 outshot 44 0— 41 10 Riga, Rhine /46 0— 47 0 outshot 45 10— 46 0 Archangel 44 0— 44 10 Manilla 32 0— 33 0 Bombay 27 0— 28 0 Jute Hines, Ox and Cow, qs' lb B. Ayres and Monte Video, dry. inferior & mid. 0 7 0 8 good & prime 0 82— 0 Do. salted - 0 5 N. Amer. salted 0 4 0 44 Brazil dry salted 0 5 0 Si Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 6 0 7 Odessa, &c. dry 0 6 0 7 W. India, dry 0 si 0 7 salted 0 5 0 54 East India Kips, B.A. dry. 0 74 0 81 1 Horse, d. each 9 0 —l2 0 HORSE HAIR, lb. Short mixed long tails 1 8-- 2 0 combed 19 , lb. in bond, Bengal. _ _ pu - r. & violet 8 6 9 6 blue & violet 8 6 9 6 blue violet, g. & fine 8 3 8 6 ord. & mid. 7 6 7 9 violet & cop.l 6 6 _ 7 9 mixed .. cop. g. & fine. 7 0— 7 9 ord. & mix. 6 0— 6 9 com. quality .. 5 9 8 0 Oude 4 6 7 0 Madras 4 0— 7 6 Guatimala, lb Floras Sobres 6 0— 7 6 Cortes 4 6 6 0 Caraccas, Floras 7 8 0 Sobres 6 6 9 7 3 Cortes LAC DYE, 14. lb. D.T. and prime. 2 0— 4 0 mid. to good 0 11— 1 i ord. & inferior 0 6 0 10 MADDER ROOTS, V. Cwt. -Win"Y-rii.W. -- - - I '47 0— 48 0 Tripoli & Syria 42 0— 44 0 French 47 0— 48 0 Naples 34 0— 35 0 NORTHERN HOSPITAL, APRIL 20. ADMITTED. DISCHARGED. Accidents 7 Cured Medical and Surgical cases Attending as Out Patients . upon recommendation . . 5 Irregular - Died Total Remaining in th; ie Hoipital . . . 77 House Visitors, Rev. T. Hornby and Charles Esq: -- • ' freasurer, R. W.Bateson, Esq. ClaplaiD, Rev. J. Ktgly—ilkiuge Surgeon, Mr gigivitbre INDIRECT , LONDON GAZETTE.---FRIDAY, APRIL , 19' • PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. ar tifiv* H. Miller and J. T. Singg, Manchester, surer. soda-water -in - INSOLVENTS. Charles North-Daw row, Covent-garde April IR.—Peter Van Den son, Ende merchanntioro, London, fruiterer. George Finister, Edmonton, wine-merchant. BANKRUPTS. t James William Ball and William Millar, Mount - p lea'an, Inn-road, London, printers. Francis Leete, Chipping Ongar, Essex, victualler. William Hickman, Rutland-place, Upper o ndca , rag-merchant. d n vict"age' John Hartley Butterworth, Leadenhall-market, 1,011-:?„,:aner. Richard Phillips, Brick-lane, Spitalfields, London, vi` - `" Thomas Harris, St. Alban's, grocer. Thomas Paten, Worthing, lodging-house-keeper. John Smith, Torpoiut, Cornwall, baker. Oa' Richard Bynon, De tonport, clothes-dealer. v ied John Chapman, Vvisbeach St. Peter's, Cal William Davis, Bath, linen-draper. Simeon Pickard, Southsea, Southampton, brewer. a. 0. Philip Bray, Bromyard, Herefordshire, dealer in Po tr " DIVIDENDS. oXe r' coati cce May 10, S. Iloadley, New Bond-street, London, c ° , „ a „d00,„4. Thames_street, May 10, R. Clarke and J. Burges, Coal Exchange , . 4 '; 1,00" factors—May 10, C. Jacob, and R. D. Jacob, George-Y a "' street, London, merchants—May is, R. Taylor, Southwarw. —Myy 25, H. Poole, Carnarvon, innkeeper—June 14, Leeds, merchant—May 11, R. Machell,-DewsburY,Y°ll's keepe—May 14, W. Wise. Manchester, pleture-mer c an . ::t o ttor J. Greenwood and W. Greenwood, Wheatley, Yorksh tm spinners. CERTIFICATES or b e To be granted unless cause be shown to the contrary' °ll May 18. 'up. S Pif C. Stovin, Birmiugham, coach-proprietor—C. Odlin, , ford, mercer—J, Ray, St. Dunstan's-hill, London, 1 1 01 ' .s tore,'C ing, Little Bolton, common-brewer—W. Sweeting, Fore ~,,ker;6 plegate, London, linen-draper—J. Bristowe, Poole, cliil)n-3.0132, Savill, Rumford, Essex, grocer—J. Money, Donnington,;.l3oo' builder—J. Reddall, Bunhill-row, London, carpenter— jun. Wolverhampton, ironmonger. • SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. George Small, Edinburgh, musical instrument-rneo'. 10 4 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. o putot The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, a' )1 .0, 141 the returns made in the week ending the 16 th da y of ''jotorD.Pi) 39s 4id per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of„ t tyl or payable thereon on the importation thereof into VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOAD ING. - CI , rnTur TrATICIg-1 —..... npF ke 'F' EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD H-- 1,51 116 Earl Powis, D Spittall, 299 Cape of Good Ho pe , t e CANTON. Helen Stewart, D Stewart, 353 Canton, Bold t S tlr NEW SOUTH WALES. p cote , Ea tinger, B Candlish, 297 Sydney, N.S.W . WEST INDIES AND MADEIR4; & FZ 7 4 Denison, H Jones, 325 Antigua, .0 Sc Tolsi:•: Capricorn, J WMillan, 243 Berbice, Iron e w go,' t!; Racer, W Laity, 131 Hayti, ,11 _,/, , 11100eTe P.: Saladin, J Simpson, 3 6 7 Havana, w et t , Adelgunde, L Lappenberg, 2 0 0 St. Thomas , IV g n ;go, John , A Nicol, 10 St. PO Halc yon, Brooks WLe Lacheur, 118 St. Thomas Thomas, an d St. ~ o ot W r 4 O E SOUTH AMERICA. 0.4 4 c co _.., Alciope, W Bennett, 199 Monte Video, ~,, Tow.o' Rosalie, J Alsop, 228 Rio Janeiro, Ilori e ... — colri Glenarm, A Grueber, 263 Valparaiso, Hughn o c Lord Althorp, P Jackson, 233 Valparaiso, T& ' ' 0 UNITED STATES. nro , +' 299 -./. 299 Boston, Barin J g g a g " „,.) joli v r 320 Boston, J $, 39 New York 519 New York, , FR III4II , 130 - 14r„,j,17 / Tiberias, G Sears, Carthage, Toppan, Grace, H Reid, Napoleon, NV Chadwick, BRITISH AMERICA. A • Dryope, R Hamilton. 351 Montreal, ~t • NV • A . Providence, W Major, 93 Newfoundland, _„,,,,.' i,,0.4 1 Margaret Ann, R Burrell, 123 Newfoundland, i''''',,,,e,:i' J 0- 0. Ann, J Crossman, 474 Quebec, 13 0 g Allegro, J R Phelan, 160 St. John, N.B. Gibbs, r ,X 4 EUROPE. li`S P ",, 1 Morava, G Verneih, A s d yv a, er A he Tr id e , gart r A h L e i n, evens, 200 Alexandria (EgYP -, end , it' 109 Algiers, Bedl ll ,oer A O: 190 Antwerp, C G 'old t t Anja, A C Hazewinkel, 91 Amsterdam, Bahr, Ben t itiv , ll ,id' Comet, F A Pattison, 407 Bordeaux, lulu . '" 4 ' Diaua, F P Schooper, 81 Bremen, Bahr, , b oo , It , Lidia Abegg, H E Oortgiese, 80 Bremen, Bahr, o p e , r etia d s , .: Charles, B Briecks, 139 Bruges Bahr, - hre o t L William, J O'Hagan, 110 CronstLit, Bahr, D e o l `,, Exile, W Avery, 122 Dordt, Bahr, S e ev ed.',; Freedom, M Tyrer, 113 Dordt , Bahr , B pd:' Fan -- Redn lo Brol E. _ Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 5 paid 0 0 0 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 8 paid 7 0 0 Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1 10 paid 7 2 6 • nock, and Ayr Grand Junction lOO 204 0 0 • Ditto half shares Great Western 65 71 10 0 • • Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 3O paid Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham 9O 156 10 0 • • Ditto new quarter shares Ditto an l Southampton 5O .... 43 10 0 • • Ditto & Brighton (United) Leeds and Manchester 5O 64 10 0 • • Leicester and Swannington 5O ... . 73 0 0• • Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham l5 .... 10 10 0 ' • Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... 92 10 0 .. 0 Ditto quarter shares North Midland South Eastern and Dover .. North Union lOO •• • . 61 10 0 - St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap.. 100 paid 0 0 0•. York and North Midland 2O paid 0 00 • • BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool ..... . 500 . .. 720 0 0 Bank of Liverpool .t'l2 103 paid 23 5 0 •• Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 19 17 6' ' Liverpool Union lO .... 13 15 0 • ' Northern and Central Albion North and South Wales lO .... 10 2 ".. of Manchester lO .... 12 12 6 • ' M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 13 12 6 • ' South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank lO 16 5 ° '' Commercial Bank of England 5 .... 55 0 • East of England Phoenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 los. 0 0 0 GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings £loo paid 171 o 0 • L'pool and Harrington Water } 350 .... 4 57 0 0 Works Bootle Ditto A Stock.... 327 10 0 ' L'pool Coal Gas Company.... Stock.... 370 0 0 • L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 197 0 0 • ' Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance 125 paid 9 0 0 • Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 612 6 ' Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 111 u • DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &C. Anderton Carrying Company l5 „ „ 915 0 Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 los. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company Harrington Docks Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool) .. (Polonceau) . Sr 14 64 7 7 6 • 7 17 6. 4 2 6 • 89 2 s 10 6 0 • 0 16 0. n 1 0 - ' __--- BIRTHS. 1.1 ~/, trc sl4'' On the 12th instant, at Runcorn, Mrs. C. 1. ~,ilPi 4 daughter. I• 15° • f On the 1 Bt ' On the 15th inst. the lady Of the Rev. JOHN --E L /A Falkner-terrah instant, of a son. DAV I° at 33, Everton-road, Mrs. o , SON, of a son. cf, On the 20th instant, at Eton Lodge, Mrs. MU IIII4 ter. i ~ MARRIED. gcot ° to On the 18th instant, at ChriFtleton, by the ReV• 0 , 144$ JOSEPH PRESCOTT, wholesale tea-dealer, of this V s , , BETH CATHERINE, eldest daughter of THOM A Esq. Christleton, Cheshire. k r tt . } 7 On the 18th instant, at St John the Baptist's Chur - ,.„EL 6 F. LEITHEAD, landing-waiter in H. M. Customs' ANN, youngest daughter of Mr. JAMES WEAVE g iicll l e t; Same day, at the Chapel of St. Mary-in-the Ca' .1 0.5 4 , tie Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man', STEAD, Esq. M.A. barrister-at-law, and Fellow °',.htef lege, Cambridge, to JANE, second surviving da u ,,, l ' o rif• WILLIAM PARKE, Esq. Anfield-lodge, near this tlie dr tly Same day, at St. George's Church, Everton , " , to CP Buddicom, Mr. JAMES STRACHAN, of Montro se, gfil• 04 AUGUSTA, third daughter of Mr. JOHN W. ST lt ‘ tyle,iii+, r 4, Same day, at St. Peter's Church, by the Rev - DAVID WILLIAMS, millwright, eldest son of i`X," liams, of Beaumaris, to ANN, only daughter o f street. _ .01" d 4" Same day, at Great Budworth, Mr. GEORGE ;,419 , off ley, to ELIZA, youngest daughter of the late Mr . of Stockton Quay, near Warrington. Pit h Yesterday, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. THOMA S Or , and glover, to LYDIA, fourth daughter of the 19 ' te THORPE. -es . I)IED. he lo try On the 11th instant, aged 64, MARY, relict 0 i - t, s io o , POTTS, formerly precentor of the Scotch Sec.- if Mount-pleasant. rnildri °ll) Same day, aged 72, Mr. W. BROADBENT; —. 41 0 "1 On the 12th instant, ANN, wife of Mr. ED"' Paradise-street. 0 10 li r i On the 13th instant, at Warrington, aged 3-„,,,, ,, 0 4 HUGHES, brewer, son of the late Mr. Hughes, ''' A il, 4 . much regretted. _,.g01r', 4 9",) On the 14th instant, at the racing stables, ne ,, ,,,,gueii' ~,r Mr. ROBERT BRUNTON, trainer to Sir R. W• '''' 4 r i many years trainer to the late John Clifton, ESq,' of ' . r Same day, aged 37, Mr. WILLIAM CALVEIL'' or much regretted. On the 15th instant, suddenly, aged 2i, ' ED VIAIt9' ,) late Mr. THOMAS GRIBBII-I. JO 'it g 0 OA On the 16th instant, at the residence of da h: :: : :: 1: : : :041, 1 3 ,: t: Or rer: Esq. London, after a few days' illness, aged 4 A e lti it , Esq. Accrington-bouse, Lancashire, and Shi n plt e fri Berkshire. On the 17th instant, after a short illness , e ,„ ec ic e , t o ~,f,d FORD. Her late ladyship who was Lady ath ~."'t et 1 09 ii Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, was sister of the present Earl of Courtoun. Her la 1, iopAor pritlY P e born on the 21st February, 1801, was conseclo- fj. er. , Same day, in Blackburne-place, aged 86, Mr s ' ed by 14, Ai of the late Joseph Fletcher, Esq. deeply reg ret la/4 0 0 Same day, in her 65th year, Mrs. HET HE street. ropt io o 4 pi e ' , On the 19th instant, at Egremont, of CO JONES, youngest son of the late Mr. PETER l' of this town. i.„ LIVERPOOL: 1839, 4f,' TUESDAY, APRIL z. 3, ,„..n fIF PRINTED AND PUBLISH P 31v ° el EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDA I , / 6 ' BY t fi e e t l, JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 88 . Moun d..st re 0 0 oi LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orion,er, /j !„„Telit , c, iii At No. 4, NORTH CRESCENT, CASTLE-Sil' so . , •O', l Orders and Advertisements are received by ) 1 , e :00 1 4 Co., Warwick-square ; Barker, Fleet-street ; c, e r,1 9 ,14 Reynell, Chancery-lane ; Lawson and _, l3aj , i den Pfle,iff Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; A IU c urt , dir' . Lombard-street ; Mitchell, 8, Red Lcadoedse,y4 Clarke and Lewis, 4, Crown-court , T hre ree-Dl,SYn f y Garraway's ; at the London Commercial '‘ t i i • C'..irr I fi s i lane ;at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, CorowAop; 0, house, Paternoster-row ; North and Soot il house, Threadneedle-street S oo a , 17 Maitre, and Co., Sise-lane, London ;ben t A gel , i e r, ~/ Co., at their Newspaper and Advertisen wpee_., , c r e l 1 Quay, Dublin ; Mr. M'Phun, Glasgow ; id r ' . t , W- %i I street, and Mr. C. H. Lewis, Market-strteici-5, 3' 3 ' : Haddock, and Messrs. J. and W. Booth, 0 0° '"cool' e ' 6 Mr. Clarke,. Pilot-office, Preston ; and Mr' 0 11 10 ' street, Birmingham. ----- 1 erms of Subscription for this pap er 3 . 6 , ; ( 1 1 one year, £2 6s. ;. half-year, i l year 11 s. 6d.—lf paid in advance---0,13 ~ lialf:lioi, el • ls - i cuatter, 10' el • 6a : ' ` 1 anny, T Moon, . 160 Dordt, neut., ~,,i rothers, S Lewis, 144 Dordt and Archangel J )I'd I Bahr, Behrend & Co u _,,,JVI Ie Spruit, A H Karsyns, Varnor, J W Williams, 100 Harlingen, Bahr:l.J3olo% 99 Lisbon, i; 10 1 . 0 " )e Vreede, D F Wiersma, 150 Riga, Bahr, - e qi B , 11 ', di ;hieftain, J Connor, 407 Narva, 1., dry .ctif, J Vanderbrocke, 114 Ostend, ,4.0 : 2:1 ,0 11 upiter, J V Steene, 130 Ostend, B ah r, oeur ell Lnna Hermanna, A W Bakker, 120 Riga, Bah r, PRICES OF SHARES, APRIL 22 ' TO er , ' L a st Prices . f RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. 3irmingham and Gloucester 4O paid 18 10 0 '• '. • k Ditto and Derby 3irkenhead and Chester 3olton and Leigh lOO paid 61 00• • ' . , Chester and Crewe 25 .... 24 15 0 • • , i o Dublin and Drogheda pastern Counties . _. .RTS i this year iA 11 'rtheri 9' ' 4 `. l C„ ec°E E _____ hq P rt se he u — 1 1 -nts a gorids cs-lp 4Ptain ,_, :~_ ` c 11% ;" e r 3 ° 'e i iii3 llp e _ te r 44 P 4 rt r : o t CO' o,rtinlars „ ".eq u t. Q t 0 II Dl 4 „ 4 - 1 .31 H AI ?. VIRG IC ANN s,PIE l‘tt,,,All Th e y, t' °f I ;4, N iri rt a nd 4 441: f ' 4l * r, Wg e ate 4 " qn bvi'it4iirt tuu; ,ith,,,t rad o sea 41ti e t bal L)'; in tl Fr om la th lgt 21 st IGth P Lg :• 14 C1 r: tt gt k i 'Rers exp r ! 4 ° „ i tt hi c co o4 P 0 •, / !ill *4ll:B,:aryee, (.1 1 4 „_ . ,1, 1 1'g• o I. ) sti ltl sa ttei,Pbui '`d at - • I 434 s Shia, V