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K tteraturr. POETRY A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TI kee Doodle." Yankee Do&ile bor Ya,kee Doodle s And then 1 Ask him when I irtest w Yankee VOWS is frrr and And if t' :r's debt, There'd •er be an end on't They keep distinct t And then through 3g" con To preach repudiath Chorus—Yanke Lending cas' Or to Pent Once was quite Of all the states' Which ma hard to say proudest show, Sirs, But Yankee seems I .self to the —Yankee Doodle, &c The reverend joker of St. Paul's Don't relish much their plunder, t their knavi,h tricks his witty thtinflor And oft€ Has hurl But Jonathan by nature wears A hide of tow: .st leathe Which braves tt,e sharpest And canons ChorusLYank - 6c He tells 'em they are clapping on Their credit quite a stopper, And when they want to go to war They'd never rai If that's the case, 1 Just as if to spite e a copper. iey coolly say, They'd better stop our dividends, And hoard 'em up to fight us! Chorus—Yankee Doodle, &c What's the use of money'd friends If you mustn't bleed 'em ? Ours, I guess, says Jonathan, The country is of freedom! And what does freedom mean, if not Lop your slaves at pleasure, 'ou can, , ay it at your leisure ? Chorus—Yankee Doodle, &c, 1.(3 wn( And bo:r Great and free Am With all th. That she's the There is surely no denying, But be it know❑ henceforth to all, Who hold their I 0 I xorld is and of promise'' A Yankee Doodle promise is A Yankee Do, SELECTIONS SECRET OF THE EARL OF CHESTERFIELD'S INFLU ENCE IN IRELAND.—Chesterfield, regarded as a fop in England, was a daring, steady, and subtle governor of the unruly spirits of Ireland in one of the most hazardous periods. That the throne of the Brunswicks did not see an Irish revolt at the moment when it saw a Scottish in. vasion was the service of Chesterfield. But he ruled not by his wisdom, but by his wit. He broke down fscticns by bonmots ; he extinguished conspiracy by passing com pliments; he administered the sternest law with the most polished smile; and cut down rebellion by quotations from La Fontaine and calembourgs from Scarron. But with these fortunate pleasantries he combined public and solid services. He threw a large portion of the crown lands in the neighbourhood of the capital into a park for the recreation of the citizens, and thus gave one of the earliest and most munificent examples of regard for the health and enjoyment of the people. A more enduring monument of his statesmanship could not have been of fered to the gratitude of the country.—Blackwood. EXTEMPORE PRAYER.—What have I professed con cerning conceived prayers, but that which I ever a'loived, ever practised, both in private and public f God is a free spirit, and so should ours be in pouring out our vo luntary devotions, upon all occasions. Nothing hinders but that this liberty and a public Liturgy should be good friends, and may go hand in hand together ; and whoso ever would forcibly sever them let them bare their own blame. An enjoined Liturgy may well stand with the freedom of a prayer conceived. The desk is no hindrance to the pulpit. He is wanting to his duty that slackeneth either service. Surely I do from my soul honour both (i. e. Liturgical and extempore prayer;) I gladly make use of both; and praise God for them, as the gracious ex ercises of Christian piety, and the effectual furtheranc(-s enough for them both : they Who that hath sat within 1r ministers of salvation. net need not jos►l each ott " , e report of our pulpi, do there ordinarily pray, as freely as they preach ; I pray God they may do it holily and discreetly in both. While they are allowed this freedom in their pulpits, what in convenience can it be to be limited to solemn, public, but sacred, forms in their desk ? We allow both : you would rob us of one : where is the sacrilege ?—Bishop Hall. THE ENGLISH IN EGYPT.—There is an evident ex pectation in the public mind of Cairo that England must, sooner or later, take a leading part in Egyptian politics ; and not only here, but all over the cast, every traveller, at all capable of conversing with the natives, constantly meets the question—" When are the English coming ?" It would be difficult to trace the origin of this popular impression, which certainly had not arisen from any va pouring, politically or privately, en the part of the Eng lish. There are, moreover, no Englishmen in the Pacha's service, except the superintendents of the gardens at Rhoda, and of the sugar plantations in the Said ; but Frenchmen abound in every department, from Sulieman Pacha to the apothecaries' apprentices in the female sur gery. It was Frenchmen who made Egypt a naval power; it was a Frenchman who organised the army that all but overthrew the empire of Constantinople ; it was a French man who made the magnificent docks at Alexandria ; and the celebrated engineer, who caltrols the destinies of Egypt by means of acting upon the inundations of the Nile, is M. Linant. So it is, however, as every traveller will bear witness : England is expected in the East, where, hitherto, she has never planted a standard, except in de fence of the Crescent, and the integrity of its dominions. That she will ever come forward to vindicate the Cross, where her best and bravest blood was shed in its defence six hundred years ago, is very problematical; however, " Gold wings its way where angels might despair," and the interests of India may obtain what the Sepulchre of Christ has been denied.—Eothen. say that FIRST INTERVIEW OF PRINCESS CAROLINE WITH HER H USBAND.—I immediately notified the arrival of the King and Prince of Wales; the last came immediately. I, according to the established etiquette, introduced (no one else being in the room) the Princess Caroline to him. She very properly, in consequence of my saying to her it was the right mode of proceeding, attempted to kneel to him. He raised her (gracefully enough), and embraced her, said barely one word, turned round, retired to a distant part of the apartment, and calling me to him, said, " Harris, I am not well ; pray get me a glass of brandy." I said, " Sir, had you not better have a glass of water ?"—upon which he, much out of humour, said, with an oath, " No —I will go directly to the Queen," and away be went. The Princess, left during this short moment alone, was in a state of astonishment ; and, on my joining her, said, " Mon Dieu; est ce que le Prince est toujours ccmme cela ? Je le trouve tres gros, et nullement aussi beau que son portrait." I said his Royal Highness was naturally a good deal affected and flurried at this first interview, but she certainly would find him different at dinner. She was disposed to further criticisms on this occasion, which would have embarassed me very much to answer, if luckily the King had not ordered me to attend him. The draw ing-room was just over. His Majesty's conversation turned wholly on Prussian and French politics, and the only question about the Princess was, " Is she good-hu moured ?" I said, and very truly, that in very trying mo ments I had never seen her otherwise. The King said, _ . " I am glad of it ;" and it was manifest, from his silence, he had seen the Queen since she had seen the Prince, and that_the Prince had made a very unfavourable report of her. At dinner, at which all those who rincess from Greenwich assisted, and the the P] honours of which were done by Lord Stopford as Vice- Chamberlain, I was far from satisfied with the Princess's behaviour ; it was flippant, rattling, affected raillery and wit, and throwing out coarse and vulgar hints about Lady Jersey, who was present, and though mute, le diable n'en perdait rien. The Prince was evidently disgusted, and this unfortunate dinner fixed his dislike, which, when left to herself, the Princess had not the talent to remove; but, by still observing the came giddy manners arid attempts at cleverness and coarse sarcasm, increased it till it became positive hatred.—Life of Lord Malmesbury. THE PRINCESS CAROLINE AFTER MARRIAGE.—After one of these dinners, where the Prince of Orange was pre sent, and at which the Princess bad bc-haved very lightly, and eve❑ improperly, the Prince took me into his closet, and asked me how I liked this sort of manners ; I could not conceal my disapprobation of them, and took this op :-..-peating to him what the Duke of Bruns so often said to me, and that it was expedient she had been brought up very was not strictly kept, would, from high aought, certainly emancipate too much. said, " I see it but too plainly; but d you not tell me so before, or write it to '" I replied that I did not consider _ father himself towards his chil said of sufficient consequence, that it affected neither portunity of wick II de la strictly enir serre'e, that , and if al spirits and lii To this the I . me from Brunswic what the Duk character or cc and was in- proper to notice to his R on e at hoped his T ation which I conceived it only w bad ofi any real sl a one as ..,,ea, ar.d that I humbly oval Highness would not consider it as casting r or aspersion on the Princess; that as to not writing to his Royal of him to r- lest thatA was no ut with the m 3runsw;ck, I begged Princess Carol this sole poir in marriage tionary s to ask resrecn nothing more ; that to he marriage, anal no other, reflections or remarks that I ;s,) have 1 of his N. n prai'e of, or in ieena direct and How TO EAT AN ORANGE.—Now, how many ways there be of satin' an orange. First, there's my way when I'm alone ; take a bite out, suck the juice, tear off a piece of the hide, and eat it for digestion, and roll up the rest into a bail and give it a shy into the street ; or, if other folks is by, jist take a knife and cut it into pieces, or, if gals is present, strip him down to his waist, leavin' his outer garments hanging gracefully over his hips, and his upper man standing in his beautiful shirt; or else guar- Or him, with hands off, neat, scientific, and workmanlike ; or, if it is forbidden fruit to be carved, why, ttarin' him, with silver forks, into good sizeable pieces for helpin'.— Sam Slick. EFFECTS OF TRAFALGAR ON PITT.—On the receipt of the news of the memorable battle of Trafalgar (some day in November, 1805), I happened to dine with Pitt, and it was naturally the engrossing subject of our conversation. I shall never forget the eloquent manner in which he de scribed his conflicting feelings, when roused in the night to read Collingwood's despatches. Pitt observed that he bad been called up at various hours in his eventful life by the arrival of news of various hues, but that, whether good or bad, he could always lay his head on his pillow and sink into sound sleep again. On this occasion, how ever, the great event announced brought with it so much to weep over, as well as to rejoice at, that he could not calm his thoughts. but got up, though it was three in the morning. —Lord Fitzharris's Note- Book, 1805. AN AWKWARD PROVERB. — The Chancellor, Lord Eldon, had mentioned to the Prince the Princess of Wales, and the hopes her dignity and comfort would be attended to. The Prince's reply was, "He was not the sort of person who let his hair grow and - r his wig to pease his wife." On which the Chancellor respectfully but firmly said, " Your Royal Highness condescends to be come personal—l beg leave to withdraw ;" and accord ingly bowed very low, and retired. The Prince, alarmed at this, could find no other way of extricating himself than by causing a note to be written the next day to Lord El don to say that the phrase he made use of was nothing personal, but simply a proverb —a proverbial way of say ing a man was governed by his wife. Very absurd of Lord Eldon, but explained by his having literally done what the Prince said.—Lord Malmesbury's Diary. THE MIND IN ADVANCED LlFE.—Among other argu ments for the cultivation of the intellect, there is one to be drawn from the perpetual progress of the mind towards perfection, without a possibility of ever arriving at it. The infant body springs into boyhood, hardens into manhood, dwindles down to the decay of age, and returns to the dust from which it was formed. The mind runs a similar career in its onward progress, but not in its retrogression. Though the inroads of disease or the feebleness of senility may fetter its powers and obscure their brightness, yet the fact that intellect is fre quently retained in its pristine vigour by the advanced in years, is an argument that the mind does not necessarily retrograde in old age. In one morning of advanced life, Johnson amused himself by committing to memory 800 lines of Virgil. At the age of 73, when staggering under an immediate attack of paralysis—sufficiently severe to render him speechless—he composed a Latin prayer, in order to test the loss or retention of his mental faculties. Nor is this a solitary instance. One of the most beauti ful sonnets in the English language was composed by Mason, on the attainment of his 72d birth-day. Locke at 72, and Newton at 84, retained their faculties in un abated vigour. The feeble frame of the Earl of Chatham, at 70, sank under the effort to express the convictions of his mighty mind, after a speech so singularly eloquent, bold, ardent, and animated, as to rival, if not outvie, the most brilliant outpourings of his youth or early man hood.—Rev. Sir .1. P. Wood. LORD ELLENDOTIOUGH AND HENRY HUNT.—It was in those true tery times, now for ever fled—after the pe riod " when spies and special juries were unknown," and before those days when spies have grown historical, and special juries, even in the exchequer, give verdicts against the crown—that the celebrated Mr. Henry Hunt, in his character of redresser of wrongs, became the champion of an idle lad named Dogood. who had been imprisoned on some pretence as idle as himself ; and, a , ..suming that the Lord Chief Justice sat for the redress of all grievan ces, attended during one long day's sharp sitting at Nisi Prins, to address Lord Ellenborough on the subject's wrongs. He found no opportunity, however, on which even his consummate impudence could seize, till the bu siness closed ; for Lord Ellenborough, who had come down after an interval during which his substitutes had made slow progress, was rushing through the list like a rhinoceros through a sugar plantation, or a Common Ser geant in the evening through a paper of small larcenies ; but just as he had nonsuited the plaintiff in the twenty second cause, which the plaintiff's attorney had thought safe to the end of the week, and was about to retire to his turtle with the conviction of having done a very good morning's work, an undeniable voice exclaimed, " My Lord !" and Mr. Hunt was seen on the floor with his pe culiar air—perplexed between that of a bully and a mar tyr. The bar stood aghast at his presumption ; the ushers' wands trembled in their hands ; and the reporters, who were retiring after a very long day, during which, though some few city firms had been crushed into bankruptcy, and some few hearts broken by the results of the causes, they could honestly describe as " affording nothing of the slightest interest except to the parties," rushed back, and seized their notebooks to catch any word of that variety of rubbish which is of "public interest." My lord paused, and looked thunders, but spoke none. " I am here, my lord, on the part of the boy Dogood," proceeded the un daunted Quixote. His lordship cast a moment's glance on the printed list, and quietly said, " Mr. Hunt, I see no name of any boy Dogood in the paper of causes," and turned towards the door of his room. "My lord !" vo ciferated the orator, " am I to have no redress for an un fortunate youth? I thought your lordship was sitting for the redress of injustice in a court of justice." " Oh, no, Mr. Hunt !" still calmly responded the judge, " I am sit ting at Nisi Prius ; and I have no right to redress any in juries except those which may be brought before the jury and me in the causes appointed for trial." "My lord," then said Mr. Hunt, somewhat subdued by the unexpected amenity of the judge, " I only desi re to protest." "0, is that all ?" said Lord Ellenborough : " by all means protest, and go about your business!" So Mr. Hunt protested, and went about his business ; and my lord went unruffled to his dinner; and both parties were content.— Life of Lord Eldon. A SAFE BET.—Miss Elizabeth Peabody offered to lay a wager, on the Presidential election, with an eligible young man,—viz., that if Polk was elected, she was the winner, and should have her opponent for a husband ; and if Polk were defeated, then her opponent was the winner, and would be entitled to have her for a wife! LONDON MARKETS MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 20 Although at this day's market the supply of English Wheat was short, no improvement in price could be realised, but former rates were steadily maintained. The supply of Barley exceeds the present demand, and the trade dull at Is. decline. Malt the turn in favour of buyers. No alteration in Peas. Beans in good request at fAll prices. Since last market day about half a dozen vessels oat laden, hare arrived from Ireland. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE Wheat, Essex and Kent. Red White Norfolk and Lincoln, red White Irish, zed . Wbite Rye, old, Nem Barley, Grinding Malting Chevalier Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk, Brown Kingston and Ware . . Chevalier Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed Potatoe Youghall and Cork, black Cork, white Scotch, feed Beans, tick Pigeons Pease, Grey Maple White Boilers 38 0 - 42 0 - 38 0 - 58 0 - Flour, town made Suffolk Stockton and Norfolk 34 0 36 0 30 0 3R 0 3g 0 36 0 - 40 0 36 0 - 38 0 38 0 - 43 0 40 0 - 33 0 FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND Wheat, Dantzic 32 0 - Feed Bears.... Floor, American Baltic . ... 18 0 17 0 2g 32 0 24 0 - 28 0 - FRIDAY, January 24 The arrivals of all descriptions of Grain was tolerably good, though not extensive excepting Barley, of which there is now nearly lasso quarters reported. Wheat and other articles are dull of sale this morning at Monday's prices. those commands went ; a had presumed to I furious to her Royal .11 positive deviation from thob, el jesty's commands. i Birmingham 233, Brighton 52:1, South Western 75, Eastern They were as limited as they wei - ,perative. That still, Counties ig. Birmingham and Gloucester 106, Bristol and Exeter had I discovered notorious or glaring defects, or such as J 75, Cambridge and Lincoln 54, Churnet Valley 4a, Direct were of a nature to render the union unseemly, I should Northern sa, Great North of England 149, Great Western , 1764. have felt it as a bounden duty to have stated them, but it Halves_ an iO2a, LadnLcastder,a2nBdMCgllaisnled 244,12 Newcastle e a and e l t T o r n k a ! ,r t orw cl i igt a e n r d an ßran eL n s must have been directly to the King, and to no one else. ' IP:, South Easte ' rn 48a, Trent Valley ir,f, To this the Prince appeared to acquiesce; but I saw it did York and North Midland 10c1, Boulogne and Amiens 4a, Great not please, and left a rankle in his mind.—Life of Lord Northern of France Si, Lyons and Mignon 21, Orleans and Malmesbury. Bordeaux Bj, Paris and Rouen 41. ke wou Suckling do. each.; 8 0— nferior - Shcep [nted darts SMITHFIELD CATTLE MAUKET, JAN. 20 The supply of Beasts on offer was on the increase, and of somewhat improved quality. The attendance of buyers was tolerably numerous. while the pr melt Scots, commanded a steady sale, at fully Friday's depr ssion of 2cl per Bibs beneath the currencies obtained on this day se'nuight. All other breeds were a slow inquiry, yet prices were supported. The supply of Sheep was tolerably good, but not to say large. Prime old Downs and the best half-breds sold freely; other kinds of Sheep slowly, at last Monday's quotations. The num ber of Calves was limited, owing to which the Veal trade was somewhat active, and the late improvement in the currencies was steadily supported As is usually the case at this period of the year more business was doing in Pigs, and the rates had au upward tendency. _ _ Per Sibs. to sink the offal s d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... •2 8-- Second quality do. 3 () Prime large Oxen. 3 8 Prime Scots, &c... 4 () Coarse Calves .... 3 8— 3 0 Second quality do 3 6 Coarse do. 3 le -3 10 SouthdownWethers4 2 4 2 Do. out of the wool -- 4 S Small Poikers 4 4 4 () (ti Qr. old Pigs, each 16 0-20 0 3 21 Lambs Sheer, 26,040 Calves, 70 .. Pigs, 347 FRIDAY, January 24. The supply of Cattle to this morning's market is not large, but there is sufficient to command a steady trade. Prices in all cases show very little alteration, and the stalls will be cleared before the close of the day. LONDON SHARE MARKET, JAN. 20 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY The ChestPr Cup betting, although it missed several horses included in our last report, tauched upon a suffi cient number to make a very formidable display. All that we have mentioned below were backed, the lions being Semiseria, Cataract, Celeste, Obscurity, and Agri culture. The outlay. especial' on the first two, .was on a very liberal scale. The D , rhy betting was limited, and important in no other respect than as showing a decided improvement in Alarm, and the Cobweb and Miss Whip colts. Offers to take 25 to 1 about Annandale, but none to !ay against him. Closing prices : CHESTER CUP (ACCEPT OR NOT). 20 to 1 agst Mr Jacques's Semiseria (taken) 20 „ 1 „ Mr W. Scott's Cataract 22 „ 1 ~ Mr Bell's \Vinesour 35 ~ 1 ~ Mr Parry's Zanoni (taken) 40 „ 1 „ Sir R. Bulkeley's Hemp (taken) 40 ~ 1 „ Mr H. Stebbing's Celeste (taken) 40 ~ 1 Mr A. Johnstone's Obscurity (taken) 40 „ I „ Mr Irwin's Ould Ireland 50 „ 1 „ Mr Osbaldeston's Soreiia (taken) 50 „ 1 „ Mr J. Day's Seaport (taken) 50 „ 1 ~ Mr W. Scott's Agriculture (taken) 50 „ 1 ~ Lord Eglintoo's Aristides (taken) 50 ~ 1 ~ Lord G. Bentinck's Pug (taken) 50 „ 1 „ Mr H. Johnstone's The Era (taken) 50 „ 1 ~ Mr Ongley's Mystery (taken) 50 „ 1 „ Mr Shafto's Portobello (taken) 50 „ 1 „ Mr Irwin's Pride of Kildare 50 „ 1 „ Mr Irwin's Foig •a-Ballagh 50 „ 1 „ Mr J. Day's Portrait 50 „ 1 „ Mr Slarris's Little John 60 „ 1 „ Mr Johnstone's Rowena (taken) 60 „ 1 „ Mr Vane's Valerian (taken) 66 „ I „ Mr Gregory's Barricade 100 „ 1 „ Mr Plummer's Alice Hawthorn TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 50 even between Kedger and Idas 100 to 80 on Kedger agst Cobweb colt THE DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Mr Greville's Alarm (take 13 to 1) 16 „ 1 „ Colonel Anson's Kedger 16 „ 1 „ Lord Stradbroke's Idas 17 „ 1 „ Colonel Peel's Cobweb colt (taken) 30 „ 1 „ Ld Chesterfield's Newsmonger (t & aft offd) 30 „ 1 „ Mr Jaques's Anti-Repealer (tk and aft offd) 33 „ 1 „ Mr Gully's Weatherbit (taken and aft offd) 33 „ 1 „ Mr Gully's Old England (tk and aft offd) 33 „ 1 „ Duke of Richmond's Laird o' Cockpen (tk and aft offd) 35 „ I „ Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip colt (tk 40 to 1) 35 „ 1 „ Mr Stanley's Minikin colt 40 „ 1 „ Mr Irwin's Connaught Hanger (taken) 45 „ 1 „ Mr Coleman's Young Eclipse (taken) 50 „ 1 „ Mr Lintott's Cabin Boy 1000 even between Minikin colt and Miss Whip colt 1000 even Cobweb colt agst Weatherbit and Newsmonger 6o 0 64 0 56 0 63 0 - THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING, A strong muster, with two or three Liverpool faces; very little done. A good deal of chaff about obscurity, &c. Last night, at the Bush, St. Lawrence was re peatedly backed for Cup at I,ooo's to 20. April Noddy was backed by the immediate party at 3000 to 45. Closing offers, &c. 7 to 1 agst Hesselane's lot (offered) 20 „ 1 „ Semiseria (taken) 22 „ 1 „ Cataract (taken in ponies) 25 „ 1 „ Winesour (offered) 30 „ 1 „ Ratan (nominal) 30 „ 1 „ Zanoni (nom) 35 „ 1 „ Obscurity (off) 40 „ 1 „ Hemp (nominal) 40 „ 1 „ Rowena (off) 40 „ 1 „ Coranna (offered) 900 „IS „ Pug (taken) 1000 ~15 „ Neresus (taken) 200 ~ 6 „ Do (taken twice) 45 „ 1 „ Celeste (offered) 50 „ 1 „ Kildare (taken) 50 „ 1 „ Faugh-a-Ballagh (taken) 50 „ 1 „ Extempore (taken) 50 „ 1 „ Valerian (nom) 50 „ 1 „ Bastian (off) 50 „ 1 „ Bashaw (off) 50 „ 1 „ Counseller (named) 50 „ 1 „ Little John (offered) 50 „ 1 „ A-la-Mode (named) 66 „ 1 „ Mystery (offered) 300 „ 5 „ Agriculture (taken) 500 „ 6 „ Ale (off) 1000 „15 „ April Noddy (taken) 1000 „25 „ St. Lawrence (offered) 500 „ 5 „ Dr. Husband (taken) 1000 „20 „ Sorella (freely offered) 1000 „20 „ Yheomun-ac-Knuck, &c. 500 „ 5 „ The Cure (offered) THE DERBY. 1000 to 15 agst Lvcurgus (taken on Saturday) 500 „ 10 „ Miss Whip (Ditto) 500 „ 15 „ Pantasa (taken on Monday) 1000 „ 25 „ Frederica (taken on Tuesday) 1000 „ 15 „ Flahowlall (Ditto) 600 50 Alarm (taken on Wednesday) On Wednesday night, at the Bush, 12 to 1 was taken on Alarm, 14 to 1 on Kedger, 1000 to 30 on Newsmonger, also 30 to lin ponies, and on Anti-Repealer also. To day, the only bets we heard were 1000 to 30 on News monger, and 500 to 124 on Calypso's dam, and 25 to 1 on Anuandale (then offered.) The London prices say the others will be the best criterion. THE OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Lancashire Witch (off, 7 to 1 wanted.) TARLETON COURSING MEETING THURSDAY. TARLETON CUP, FOR PUPPIES.—Won by Mr. Hunt's Hope. Mr. Garnett's Waxy ran up. BANK HALL CUP.—Won by Mr. Bennett's Derby shire. Mr. Edward's Carmelite ran up. RADCLIFFE HALL CUP.—Won by Mr. Coupe's Major. Mr. Coupe's Alice Hawthorn ran up. A MATCH for £lO, between Mr. Bennett's Shropshire and Mr. Coupe's Clare. Won by the former. BR ETHERTON PUPPY STAKES.—Won by Mr. Coupe's Hope. Mr,Simpson's Gin ran up. . _ CRAVEN STAKES. —Won by 'dr. Bennett's Lincoln shire. Mr. Redgett's Whiskey ran up. RUFFORD H ALL STAKES.—Won by Mr. King's Flora. Mr. Buxton's Handy ran up. HORNBY CASTLE COURSING MEETING IST CLASS—PUPPY CUP,—Mr. Moore's Maria Monk beat Lord Bective's Byron, and won the cup. 2ND CLASS—PUPPY STAKES.—Mr. Thompson's Tur ner beat Mr. Hornby's Young Hyson, and won the stakes. OPEN DOG STAKE.—Mr. Lamb's Lime beat Mr . Walmsley's Wanton, and won the stakes. RESULTS OF THE PAST' RACING SEASON.—The fol lowing (says the Era) is a summary of the turf proceed ings during the season just concluded. The net amount of stakes won during that period (exclusive of winners' stakes and expenses, and cups, &c., of whose value we can give no correct account,) is £165,796, distributed amongst 526 winning horses, whose ages were as under: —73 were aged, 42 six-ye )r olds, 68 five-year olds, 94 four-year olds, 158 three-year olds, 73 two-year olds, and 18 of whose ages we have no account. Alice Hawthorn has won the greatest number of races of any animal during the season, viz., 20i races out of 23, of the value of £3,465. Colonel Peel's Orlando has won the greatest amount of stakes, £7,326 (Cotherstone last year won £13.'290). Foig-a-Ballazh has won £5,950. The under mentioned noblemen and gentlemen have been among the most successful during the year : Races Valuc Duke of Richmond 184 .e82`.7 Races Value Lord Lonsdale 4 £1325 Hon S. Herbert 9 .. 1175 Colonel Anson 9 .. 8 35 Colonel Peel Mr. Salvin 3' 6360 Mr. E. J. Irwin Mr. Wreford . Mr. Osbaldeston 6 .. 4640 Mr. Gully Mr. Meiklam 2l 2552 Mr. G. Payne 9 2255 Duke of Bedford Duke of Rutland Lord Exeter Lord Stanle Lord Stra tbroke.. 4 .. 184' , Lord Glenlyon .. 6.. 1 95 Lord Eglinton.... 19 .. 6555 Lord G. Bentinck. 41 .. 11170 Lord Maidstone Lord Albemarle Lord Chesteifleld. I o 6.. 915 6 . 1656 THE ARMIES OF FOREIGN NATIONS In the appendix to a rep, ust issued, the following int( ,ort on the Army Estimates eresting facts appear :—Bava ria has an infantry force of abaut 43,000 men; consisting of 16 regiments of 2 battalions each, and 4 battalions of sharp-shooters. The cavalry consists of 6 regiments of light cavalry (containing 6 squadrons each,) and 2 regi ments of cuirassiers—in all 8,750 men. The artillery and engineers are about 4,500, making the total peace esta blishment 57,000. But this is exclusive of he reserve and of the landwehr or militia. The army is raised by a sub scription from the population (except nobles and clergy,) the time for service is•six years, and the whole cost is about £700,000. Bavaria has 1,562 officers effective in the military, and 527 in the civil departmet,t, of its army. Its court and sinecure offices are 127, and its pensioned officers 588. Belgium maintains over 100,000 regular troops at a cost of over a million and x half. Denmark has, on its peace establishment, 17,162 infantry, 3,916 cavalry, 3,400 artillerymen, 295 engineers, and 937 horses; and in its war complement, 49,301 infantry, 10,627 cavalry, 8,153 artillerymen, 144 field guns, and 847 engineers. Its total peace force is 25,000, its war 69,189 men. The army costs about £309,000 a year. Every citizen serves for 2 years, and then for a month in the year during the four following years. He is then rated on the malitia, and only Fable to the ernergenny service. Egypt's standing force is 100,000 men ; 64,600 of them are infantry, in 20 regiments of 4 battalions of 800 men each ;-12,000 are horse, organized into 15 regiments of 8 squadrons of 100 men each ; 400 are artillerymen, and 20,000 are seamen. Thit is exclusive of iricgulars. The Popedom has a standing army of 14,680, 9,300 of whom are infantry, and 800 cavalry. The army is governed by a cardinal, presi dent, and a board of three general officers. There is a reserve and national guard of 9000 men. Portugal has a standing force of 21,500 infantry, costing about £750,000. Hanover has an army of 20,501 men. The infantry musters 15,580, in 16 regiments; cavalry, 3,340 men and 2,445 horses, in three regiments ; artillery, 1,638 men and 175 horses, in five companies—viz., two companies of horse artillery, two battalions of foot, one company of pioneers ; engineers 198 ; military staff 45. The army costs 1,500,000 rix dollars. Hesse Cassel sup plies a contingent of 5,679 men, and a reserve of 2, 000 to the Confederation. Its establishment is little more. The army is raised by conscription, to which all grown males under fifty are liable. The army costs about £llO,OOO a-year. Hesse Darmstadt has a peace establishment of 6,462 men, raised by a conscription of persons from twenty to twenty-five years of age, members of the mediatized houses alone excepted. Holland has a fixed army of 43,000 men raised by voluntary enlistment for a limited LANCASHIRE COAL MINERS The last number of the balance-sheet of the Lancashire miners, from Dec. 2 to Jan. 11 (a period of six weeks), is another instructive document. First, as to income, the receipts of the six weeks, for the general fund and the law fund, amount (with the balance in hand at the coin mencement, £27 4s. 51d.) to £1372 12s. Bd., or more than £228 weekly. We see that the eight or nine lec turers (Ingham being added to the number) contribute just 6d. a fortnight to the general fund, or 3d. a week ; but they give double that amount (Is. fortnightly). as in duty bound, to the law fund. Their names are—Harris, Parkinson, Embleton, Ingham, Price, Holgate, Dennett, Bowen, and Welsby. The receipts of the fortnight end ing Dec. 16. appear to be £4Bl ; those of the fortnight ending Dec. 30, £453 ; and those of the fortnight ending Jan. 11, £438. As in former balance-sheets, many dis tricts contribute larger sums to the law fund than to the general fund. If we turn to the account of the disburse ments, we find a jumble of things, without any arrange. ment or order. Take one item as a specimen :—" Ash ton district, 13 men, two weeks, one ditto three weeks, 20 ditto, one week, and coach hire for Mr. Roberts during procession, per J. Price, £l2 155." Amongst other notable items are—" W. P. Roberts, Esq., £120," ditto £l7O, and ditto £l5O (in the six weeks, £440). Then there are payments of lecturers' wages, at a guinea a week, of course swelled by " travelling expenses, post age, &c. ;" the " treasurer, two days' loss of time, and travelling expenses, 18s." Then comes an item of which no explanation is offered. "To the executive, £30." In the six weeks the executive appears to have received £6O, or £lO weekly. " Secretary two weeks' wages and travelling expenses, £1 19s. 6d. ; " four letters to Mr. Roberts, 4d., and two to the Star-office, 2d. The lec turers, we see, get their wages frequently in advance — thus, one entry is " Halford, six weeks' wages, four in advance, £6 65." Dixon received Bs. for lecturing at Ashton. Then the executive keep their grievance spin ners, as the following item shows :—" Grant to M. Pas quell and W. Smith, for the best statement of grievances, £l." The law charges in the Pemberton district are £5 10s. ; and the expenses of defending a man at Charley, before the magistrates, in the absence of Mr. Roberts, £1 4s. Bd. Another vote is " towards assisting the wool.. embers of Yorkshire, £2." The last item in the dis bursements is " Turner's bill for 6,000 bye-laws, £l5 10s. ; " and the total amounts to £1,330 16s. 3d. De ducting this from the total receipts, there would remain a balance in hand of £4l 16s. sd. ; and this, it appears, is the balance left on the entire amount from the com mencement, as stated thus in the balance-sheet : " Total income, since commencement .... £9495 15 9 " Total expenditure, since commencement 9453 19 4 Balance in band .. From this document, we may infer that the income of this Union is about £9OOO a-year ; and, assuming six weeks to be the eighth of a year (it being, in fact, rather less), the payments to Mr. Roberts, if he receives £440 in every six weeks, would be something like £3520, or more than one-third of the entire income of the Union. Then, if the executive are beginning to pay themselves at the rate of £lO weekly, this will absorb £520 more ; and the nine lecturers, at a guinea a-week each, will take away nearly £5OO more, without reckoning their travel ling expenses. Including all law expenses, travelling expenses, remuneration to deputations, and the payment of other machinery to keep up the agitation and its funds, it would seem that nearly £3OOO a-year goes into a very few hands, in order to raise £9ooo—in other words, the executive, officers, and lecturers receive amongst them nearly, if not quite, one-third of the entire funds raised amongst 9000 or 10,000 individuals. Such is the working of this Union, of which its own authorised and printed documents furnish such curious revelations.—Manchester Guardian. LAW INTELLIGENCE Mr. Baron Gurney has resigned his office as one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer, in consequence of con tinued illness. In the Bail Court, Mr. Justice Williams granted a rule isi for an attachment against the Mayor and seven mem bers of the Town Council of Wigan, for having neglected to make a return to the mandamus. In the Bankruptcy Court, London, on Thursday, the petition of John Davis, an insolvent, who was a director of the Tulacre Company, was dismissed on the ground that the company was a trading company, and was, there fore, liable to the bankrupt law. THE PROPOSED NEW POOR-LAW.—Married women are not to be removed from their husbands. Legitimate children are not to he removed from their father's parish, nor illegitimate children from their mother's. Widows and their families are not to be removed for a year after the husband's death. Widows are not to be removed from the place of their husband's settlement and death. THE INFERIOR LAW COURTS.—Since the passing of Lord Brougham's Act abolishing imprisonment for debt, there has been a very material decline of business in the Sheriffs' and Secondaries Court; plaintiffs not feeling very desirous to enter actions when, if they obtain a ver dict, they are not very likely to recover, after the heavy expenses they have been at in taking out writs. At the Secondaries' Court, London, there are seldom more than two or three causes. At the last sitting there was not one case for trial; and at the Sheriffs' Court most of the causes are now undefended. GENERAL MISCELLANY, Lord Sandon had an interview with Sir Robert Peel on Friday. The Marquis of 'Westminster has given his tenants per mission to kill the rabbits on their respective farms. From the Financial Report for £lOO,OOO League Fund for 1813-4, it appears that £86,009 7s. fid. have been received, and that £26,675 19s. remains balance in band. A fire broke out on Thursday morning, at Ilungertord market, London, which destroyed twenty-five loads of hay, and threatened serious damage before it was extinguished. A man named Thomas Dickson, aged nineteen, has been arrested on a charge of attempting to poison' his wife and infant by the mixing of oxalic acid in the sugar-basin. Mrs. Johnson, a widow lady, aged 76, was burnt to death yesterday week, at Wandsworth, through a candle in her lap catching her head-dress whilst she was reading. On the sth inst., the American barque Joshua Emlem, of Palermo, with sulphur, wine, &c., bound to the United States, was totally wrecked during a storm off Gibraltar. The crew were lost. A little boy named Morgan died in Whitney-street, London, on Sunday week, it is supposed from eating a portion of a candle in the manufacture of which arsenic had been used. NEW GUANO ISLAND.—Letters have been received in Leith, mentioning the discovery of an island, named " Nalagar," where guano is said to abound from four to seven yards in depth, and covering an area of about eight acres. An asthmatic patient, complaining bitterly of the long prevalence of a north-east wind, said he wished it had the same property as the great American aloe—only to blow once in a hundred years. On Wednesday last, Sir George Lament, chairman of the London Mercantile Committee on Postage, handed to Mr. Rowland Hill the sum of £lO,OOO, as " part of the amount raised" towards the national testimonial. During the performance of a pantomime at Astley's, on Monday, one of the sopernuweraries, who wore a truss for rupture, was thrown down by one of the clown's tricks, and so much injured that h' died the following morning. The Nottingham Journal records an inquest on a child poisoned with laudanum by its grandmother, in mistake for syrup of rhubarb ; another on a child which had drunk its mother's laudanum in ignorance of its nature. By the death of Earl St. Germains a vacancy is occa sioned in the representation of East Cornwall, by the promotion of Lord Elliot to that title. His Lordship will also retire from the secretaryship of Ireland. At Plymouth, one day last week, Mr. Jones, the head keeper of the Breakwater lighthouse, was unfortunately washed off that structure by an immense wave and was drowned. DEATH FROM EXCESS OF Joy.—On Friday se'nnight a poor woman, at Eastbourne, who kept a little shop and was behind in her payments, was so overjoyed at their settlement, by a benevolent lady, that she went into a fit, and shortly expired. Charles Skipworth, aged 22, who was tried and con victed at the last Lincoln Assizes for setting fire to a wheat stack at Swaby, the property of Mr. E. Enderby, and sentenced by Mr. Justice Matteson to transportation for life, committed suicide last week in Milbank prison. John Brill, accused upon his own admissions to a fel low i risoner in Coldbath Fields' prison, of a murder at Ruislip, eight years ago, underwent an examination at Uxbridge, on Monday, when a variety of corroborative evidence was adduced, and he was committed for trial. Two years ago, there were five paupers receiving relief in the Lichfield Union, all of whom had served the office of sheriff. One of them was ruined by law, another by extravagance, and two by drunkenness ; theififth was bile who " never could get forward," time. The limitation creates a trained body, by which l THE ADDRESS.—The address to the Queen in reply to the army can be i ncr eased to 70,000 men. Promotion is i her Majesty's speech on the opening of th e sess i on w ill be i in future i n a ll ran k s , f rom secon d li eu t enen t s np, t o be moved, n the House of Commons, by th e H on . F ranc i s two-thirds by seniority, and one-third by selection. The Charteris, one of the members for East Gloucestershire, Militia is composed of all males between 19 and 23 years and seconded by Mr. Thomas Baring. of age. The army costs about £1,000,000 a-year. At the Glasgow Theatre, the other night, a " gentle- Naples has a standing army of 29,000 infantry of the man" in the boxes, who conducted himself unseemly line, 4,500 cavalry, 2,800 gendarmes, in all 44,300 men. during the performances, and was called to order by the Its war establishment is 64,247 men. The army is raised manager, was afterwards forcibly ejected by one of the by conscription of pbrsons from 18 to 25 years of age. actors. The time of service in the artillery, gendarms, and vo- The oil and colour stores of Mr. Bayliss, Whitechapel lunteers, is 8 years; in other arms, 5 years actual acid 5 road, London, were burned down on the morn i ng o f in reserve. There is no militia. The war dep ar tment is , Thursday, through the indiscretion of two boys, who were said to cost £1,300,000. Saxony has 13,000 men, and a draw i ng naptha, having held a light too near the inflame:in reserve of 3,000 raised by conscription. Males of 21) ble material. In an instant the place was i n a bl aze and years (with exceptions) are liable to six year's active and one of the boys had to be taken to the hospital. ' three years reserve service. Spain.—The changes of late in Spain h ave grea tly i ncrease d th e regu l ar army , w hi c h The sum of £1,300 has been sub scr ib e d f or th e re li e f was only 60,000, an d di sarme d mos t o f th e m iliti a; b ut of the widows aryl children of the men who were killed there is no easily account of their present state. Sweden by the explosion at Blackwell, in November last. The has 8,356 men voluntarily enlisted, viz. 2,200 infantry, relatives of the sufferers have received weekly allowances 5,446 artillery, and 1,000 horse guards. She has 24,500 since the accident, and some of them have been supplied infantry and 7,000 cavalry ; in all 41,500 men, under what with mangles. is called the " Idelta System." Switzerland has a federal An attempt was made on the life of Mr. Evans, of militia supplied by the cantons, in proportion to their Pwllheli, on the night of Tuesday last. He was accom - popula'ion. The force rates at 61,000, viz. 51,800 infan- panied by a Mrs. Williams, and on the new road, near try, 5,800 artillery, 5,700 cavalry, and 700 engineers. A Penrhcs Church, was struck in the bask by a ball, fired federal camp is formed every two years. The expenses of by a man in the road. The sufferer was severely but not this militia are borne by a contribution of from five to mortally wounded. The villain escaped. ten Swiss francs per man, paid by the canton that sends CAUTION TO PYROTECHNISTS.—During an exhibition him, of fireworks, at Northampton, a few days ago, a rocket, in the act of being fired, slipped, and was discharged amongst the spectators, one of whom a woman, it struck on the head, and, penetrating the brain, killed her on the spot. The Bank of England has given the firm of Rogers and Co. value for the notes stolen from their premises, on the latter g:ving a guarantee to meet them if ever they should be ' , resented for payment. This arrangement is consi dered very fair on the part of the bank directors, although it is generally believed that none of the notes will ever make their appearance in circulation. EAST CORNWALL.—The demise of the Earl of St. German's and consequent elevation of Lord Eiiot to the peerage, has caused a vacancy for East Cornwall, which cannot, however, be filled up till after the meeting of parliament. J. A. Roberts, Esq., of Lanhydrock, is mentioned as likely to be a candidate on the Radical, and Mr. Carew on the Conservative interest. IRON TRADE IN GLASGOW.—The ordinary monthly meeting of Scotch iron-masters was held here on Wed nesday last, and was well attended. The price previously obtained for pig-iron (£3 ss. per ton for all Nos.) was confirmed, while it was understood that few of the makers were willing to sell at this rate. Bars are firm at £6 10s. for common, and £8 per ton for best. We are happy to understand that the underground workmen are partici pating in the progressive improvement of the trade, their present wages being about 40 per cent. above the mini mum rates of last year.—Scottish Guardian. Prior to Mr. Macready's leaving Paris, where he has been performing for a few weeks, Louis Philippe presented him with a most splendid poinard, in a still more mag nificent case. The blade—a real Damascus one—having upon it an inscription in Arabic, is set in gold; the hilt enriched with diamonds and other precious stones. The case is still more costly, being of pure gold, exquisitely chiselled, and set in rubies, sapphires, emeralds, and dia monds. His Majesty also gave to Mr. Mitchell, of Lon don, through whose instrumentality the performances were provided, a handsome gold snuff-box, accompanied by three bank notes of a thousand francs each, towards co vering his outlay. EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY.—An inquest was held at Sheffield the others, on a poor girl named Elizabeth Hewitt. From the evidence, it appeared, that about four months ago, she went to an old woman to have her for tune told, or her " planet ruled," as she called it. The sybil told her, she would leave Sheffield for two months ; that she would afterwards return, and have a quarrel with her sweetheart ; and lastly, that she would poison herself shortly after Christmas. Such was the infatuation under which this poor girl laboured, that she verified every one of the fortune teller's predictions. She did leave Sheffield, and visited Bradford. She returned, and had a quarrel with her sweetheart, and then put a climax on the bel dame's prophecy, by taking poison, of which she died. A document has just been issued by the Poor Law Commissioners which announces, that from the 25th of March next unions are to keep one particular part of their accounts in a more systematic and producible shape than it appears they do at present. No clerk or relieving-offi cer is for the future to commit the obvious irregularity of transmitting relief to paupers residing iu his own union from the unions to which they belong, without accounting for the same to his own treasurer, and entering in his official book under a seperate head all the names, the debts, and the credits of the transaction. This is to be done in all cases of relief given to poor not belonging to the union, whether their legal settlement is acknowledged or not, and whether the union has received any payments on their account or not. MERCHANT SEAMEN'S FUND.—On Saturday an ap pendix to the report on the Merchant Seamen's Fund was printed, showing the particulars of the invested funds and balances in hand, with their estimated value, &c. Among the bills printed for consideration in the present recess is one to amend the laws relating to the relief and support, in certain cases, of merchant seamen, their widows, and children. It is proposed by this amended bill that masters shall pay 2s. and seamen is. a month towards the Mer chant Seamen's Fund, which, it would appear, amounts to a considerable sum, and which, it would seem, parties wish to perpetuate. There is a provision to provide a fund for masters and seamen in case of shipwreck, from which they are to obtain assistance for their support, and to procure means (and a sum for clothes) to enable them to return to the port to which their ship belonged. THE COOPERAGE TRADE.—Among the parties that are coming forward for the remission of the existing duties the coopers are taking a prominent position. The incorpora tion of coopers of Glasgow and the journeymen coopers of London have alike memorialized the Board of Trade for a repeal of the duty on the raw material required for their work. The movement is not a new one, but was made in 1842. before the existing tariff was brought into operation, and also in 1843. The memorials now presented call at tention to the inexpediency of allowing foreigners to import manufactured articles into the British colonies without the payment of duty, while the British manufacturers are charged f om 20 to 30 per cent. on the raw material, and to the fact that there are no United States staves used in this country, although they are of the best quality and suited for the largest portion of the export trade of Great Britain. This exclusion from the United States market has the further effect of enhancing the price of the inferior material, which, the cooper complains, he is compelled to use. Under these influences it seems that the export of coopers' work has materially fallen, although the English workmanship is allowed to be far superior to that of any other nation in the world. LONDON Docxs.—The St. Katharine Dock Company, at their meeting on Tuesday last, declared a dividend of five per cent. The following statement shows the traffic of the port of London, including the operations of the St Katharine Dock Company : SHIPPING ENTERED THE PORT OF LONDON, CARGOES, FROM FOREIGN PARTS 1843. I 1844. Ships I r ---- Ships 6,138 I 1,306,738 I 6,852 I 1,356,614 Increase in 1844, ships 714 ; aggregate register tonnage, 49,876 tons. SHIPPING ENTERED THE ST. KATHARINE DOCKS, WITH CARGOES, IN 1842, 1813, AND 1844. 1842. 1843. I 1844. Ships. I Tons. Ships. I Tons. I Ships. I Tons. 592 I 149,817 I 608 1154,135 I 591 I 149,915 Ships, with cargoes, entered since the Ist of January in- stant, 15,498 registered tons Goods landed during the year 1842. Ditto ditto 1843. Ditto ditto 1844 Ditto since the Ist of January instant, 106,370 106,726 101,355 2,467 Tons. Stock in warehouse on the'3oth December, 1842 .. 68,502 Ditto ditto 30th December, 1843 .. 69,293 Ditto ditto 30th December, 1844 .. 65,415 Increase since the Ist of the present month 3,551 Two CHURCHES DESTROYED BY FIRE.—An event of a most disastrous character occurred at Edinburgh on Sunday week. The cathedral or collegiate church of the Greyfriars, in connexion with the Scottish Established Church, a pile of great extent, and peculiarly venerable from its antiquity and historical associations, has been totally destroyed by fire. It must be understood, that, as in many instances is the case in Scotland, the edifice comprised two churches under one roof, the one being separated from the other by a substantial wall of masonry. The eastern half, in which the Rev. Dr. Lee officiated, was called the Old Greyfriars; the western, of which the Rev. Mr. Robertscn was minister, the New Greyfriars. The building, now in ruins, is finely situated to the south west of the city, overlooked by the Castle on i's lofty rock within less than half a mile, and the churchyard adjoined the grounds of Heriot's Hospital. The eastern portion, in which the fire originated, is the more ancient hearing the date of 1613 ; the western half was erected a century later ; but the sight of the former had been oc cupied by a monastic establishment for some centuries previous to the date mentioned. It is providential that the edifice was discovered to be on fire before the con gregation had assembled for forenoon worship, as probr bly the most serious consequences would have resulted. The fire was caused by the overheating of the flue of a stove in the south-eastern portion of the building. The fire broke out about half-past nine o'clock, a.m. The au thorities soon collected on the spot, at the same time that the three city engines, and one from the Castle, were got in requisition. The colonel of the 87th Foot, now in the Castle, placed at the disposal of the civic authorities a detachment of 300 o f th a t cor ps, who repaired to the spot. The flames meanwhile spread with extraordinary rapidity, and ultimately the entire structure was burnt to a shell. The session books of the New Greyfriars have been saved ; the accounts as to those of the Old Grey friars are conflicting. All the seating, furniture, and books, have been destroyed, including some highly-prized relics—a table, once the property of the Reformer, John Knox, and one or two bibles of early and rare editions. The communion plate was not exposed to danger, not being kept in the church. Old Greyfriars Church was erected in the year 1612. New Greyfriars was finished in 1721, at an expense of about £4,000. Neither of the churches had any pretensions to architectural beauty, or were the slightest ornament to the city. Both buildings were insured, but only to the extent of £l,OOO each. They were both the property of the city, and were occu. pied by the Establishment. B I LLINGSGATE.—On Tuesday soles were selling in Lon don at ld. per pair for small, and 2d. and 3d. for middling size, and very fine ones could be obtained for 6d., such as generally cost 2s. per pair. Other flat fish was equally plentiful, especially plaice. Macka►el have for some time been selling at Is. to 2s. a dozen, and though this is not the time of year they are considered in season, the quality was gocd. REV. SYDNEY SMITH.—The reverend gentleman gives the following description of himself in a letter to a cor respondent of the New York American :—" I am seventy four Mars old ; and, being a canon of St. Paul's, in London, and a rector of a parish in the country, my time is equally divided between town and country. I am living amidst the best society in the metropolis, am at ease in my circumstances, in tolerable health, a mild Whig, a tolerating Churchman, and much given to talking, laughing, and noise. I dine with the rich in London, and physic the poor in the country ; passing from the sauces of Dives to the sores of Lazarus. I am, upon the whole, a happy man, have found the world an entertaining world, and am heartily thankful to Providence for the part allotted me in it." GUANO.—This valuable manure has now become an article of such peculiar interest and extensive consump tion, that we beg to lay before our readers, and particu larly our agicultural friends, the following statistics as to the stock and consumption, whicb may prove interesting at the present season. From statements we have received it appears that the consumption, last season, in Great Britain, of Peruvian and African guano, was about 60,000 tons, at prices ranging from £8 to £l2. The stock on Ist Jan. 1845, in all the ports, was 39.000, During the first four months we may calculate on a further import of 45,000 tons, making the stock, on Ist May, about 85,000 tons only, and this, to meet a demand, on a moderate cal culation, of 180,000 or 200,000 tons. Prices are, conse quently, advancing, and we may look for great activity in the trade immediately. On Wednesday a cargo of 315 tons of Ichaboe guano was offered for public sale at the Bromielaw, when the whole was sold, in a few minutes, at from £6. ss. to £6. 7s. 6d., as it lay.—Glasgow Chronicle. THE SMALL Pox.—At the annual meeting of the Vaccine Institution in London, on Thursday, Dr. Eppa stated that there had been a frightful increase of small pox, which they attributed to the inefficiency of the Vaccination Act, as, through the ignorance of many practitioners, vaccine matter was used which was not pure, thus rendering the patient, by its being inoperative, liable to the attack of the small-pox. A letter had been received from Mr. Labait, secretary of the Dublin Cow Pox Institution, who assigns a similar cause for the spread of small-pox in Ireland, and who states that the Poor-law Commissioners have done all in their power to promote vaccination. A letter from a medical gentleman in India stated that the small-pox was greatly on the in crease there. Dr. Epps said they had not applied to the cow for the vaccine matter since the formation of the institution. A medical gentleman who was present en deavoured to account for the vaccine matter having lost its virtue by the profession generally carrying it in their pockets, which caused its decomposition. Jan. 28, 1845 LOCAL NEWS READING-ROOM FOR AMERICAN CAPTAINS.--OR Tuesday last a spacious and elegantly-furnished reading room, for the use of the captains of American vessels visiting the port, was opened in part of the premises oc cupied by Messrs. Harnden and Co. the extensive Ameri can forwarding agents, at No. 60, Waterloo-road. SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Tuesday morning, John La page, a child seven weeks old, was found dead in bed. It appeared that death had been caused from asphyxia, pro bably from being overlain.—On Friday night, Edward Spencer, an old man 78 years of age, complained of in disposition, and went to bed. The following morning he was found lying on the floor, near the bed. He became gradually worse, and died about ten o' c l oc k th e same d ay. Death had resulted from an enlargement of the heart.— On Sunday evening, Edward Sef4on, a child seven years old, was taken ill, when the mother left it at home with the father while she went for Mr. Ashcroft, surgeon. On her return, however, the child was dead. Death had been caused by an effusion in the cavities of the chest and brain.—On Sunday afternoon, Mary Cearns ' who appea r ed previously in good health, su dd en ly fell off her chair in a fit; she recovered, and fainted a second time during the evening, when after her rest , ration she was put to bed, and died about seven o'clock next morning. The cause of death was apoplexy, the result of excessive drinking. PORTRAIT OF SIR ROET. SALE, AND SPLENDID SKETCHES IN BELGIUM AND GERMANY.-Mr. Grundy, of Church• street, who is ever on the alert to gratify the lovers of the fine arts, by bringing before them succes sive new and splendid paintings, drawings, prints, &c., has now at his repository a collection of novelties, an in spection of which is truly a new year's treat. A portrait of Major General Sir Robert Sale, whose gallant services for so many years in India entitle him to the esteem and admiration of every Briton, is peculiarly worthy of notice. It was painted by H. Moseley, Esq., and represents the general in the full and gorgeous uniform of Colonel of the 13th Light Infantry, with the sword in its richly chased scabbard presented to him by the Bengal Civil Service. The likeness is acknowledged to be most faith ful, and the whole picture a superior work of art. An engraving from this original is in course of preparation, in the finest style of mezzotinto—to be executed by H. Cousins, Esq., whose celebrity as an artist affords a guarantee of its fidelity.—ln the same room (besides a variety of other valuable works) are now to be seen the second series of sketches (26 in number,) in Belgium and Germany, by Louie Haghe, Esq. We do not remember to have seen finer specimens in water colours, whether as regards correctness of drawing and perspective, beauty of colouring, or correctness even in minute detail. In archi tectural delineation this artist is evidently a master, and he is equally happy in the delineation and grouping of figures—in some instances in these sketches very nume rous and diversified. " Rubens' Tomb," at Antwerp, designed by himself to mark his final resting place, is quite a gem, and has alone been valued, we understand, at 30 guineas. " The Tombs of Charles the Bold, and Mary of Burgundy" (father and daughter) —perhaps the most beau tiful monumental structures in Europe, is equally full of genius, and the subject possesses great historical interest. " The Screen in the Church of Lierri" is also fine and elaborate ;asis " The Town-hall of Louvain," during a conflict with the populace—the numerous figures being ad mirably pourtrayed. We were much pleased with the pic ture of " The Cloisters of Ratisbon." The sunny light through the clustered colonnettes is managed with great skill. In the representation of the Choir of Notre Dame, the architectural and sculptural embellishments are beauti tifully and minutely detailed. But the whole series is so beautiful that it is almost superfluous to attempt to parti cularise. The artist is a native of Belgium, but has re sided long in this country. Plates, executed in the first style, and also others coloured and mounted like the ori ginals, (nearly the whole of which are sold,) are in prepa ration, and at prices extremely moderate for works of so much intrinsic merit. DOCK COMMITTEE.—THURSDAY.—A report was read from the Dock Solicitor, on the claim of Messrs. Humble and Milcrest, for compensation ; and acting upon the solicitor's advice, the application was declined.—The wages of Joseph Carny, who has the charge of the south end of the Prince's Dock, was raised from 255. to 30s. a-week.—A letter was read from Mr. Steele, of the New Gas Company, requesting that the account rendered for Gas might be allowed to lie over until he had laid the sub ject of the charge before the committee of the company. The account having been certified and passed at the last meeting, a tender of the money was ordered to be made. —A letter from Messrs. W. A. and G. Maxwell, request ing the return of part of the charge made for the use of the shed for wrecked goods, was referred to the Ware house Committee.—A letter was read from Mr. W. Stret ton, chairmen of the Old Company of Carters, request ing that as the committee were about to lay rails along the docks, they would allow the public at large to put on trucks or carriages for the conveyance of goods. Ordered to lie on the table.—A letter from the Secretary to the Pilots' Committee, complaining of the want of sufficient protection against accidents at the docks, and especially at the Coburg Dock pier, where a pilot was drowned lately, was referred to the Harbour Masters' subcom mittee.—The application of James Hodgson and Co. for compensation for the buildings erected on the land rented from the committee in the event of their being removed at the end of seven years, was declined.—A discussion then took place whether or not reporters should be present at the meeting of the deputation of the warehouse owners with the committee, when it was decided they should not. Some conversation then ensued as to the best plan to be adopted at the interview. Mr. Nicol suggested that the opportunity should be taken of asking or calling on the warehouse owners when they came before the committee to absolve the dock trustees from the restriction by the 4th Vic., which restrained them from finishing the ware houses round the Albert Dock until those now under con struction had been completed two years. Mr. Horsfall proposed that the chairman should suggest to the deputa tion the propriety of acquiescing in the clause as proposed by Mr. Aikin in council, which was, that the present con struction of the warehouses be not considered at variance with the former acts. Mr. Aikin seconded the motion, which was carried.—Ultimately the deputation from the warehouse owners was announced, and the reporters were requested to withdraw. The deputation consisted of Mr. W. P. Bushby, Mr. J. Brancker. and Mr. Montgomery, and they handed in resolutions from the warehouse owners to the effect that they would not oppose the legalizing of the warehouses as at present constructed, provided the quay was left open. Mr. Nicol pressed upon the dep.uta tio❑ the propriety of allowing the whole of the ware houses round the Albert Dock to be built, but they de clined to enter into any discussion of this matter. SEASONABLE FESTIVITIES.—The gaiety that reigns supreme at this festive season, when friends and lovers assemble at the social board, or whirl in the giddy mazes o!' the dance, induces both sexes to be more than usually desirous of shining in personal attraction, and to devote a greater share of attention to the toilet. It is, at this par ticular season, that the virtues and singularly happy pro perties of those auxiliaries of personal beauty, ROWLAND'S KALYDOR, ROWLAND'S MACA S SAR OIL, and Row- LAND'S ODONTO, shine pre-eminent in their power ; while the white and swan-like neck, the rich luxuriant tress, and the pearly set of teeth form ad m i ra bl e t rop hi es of their inestimable qualities ! The august patronage conceded by our grecious Queen, and the several -Sove reigns of Europe, together with the beauties which adorn the circles of princely and regal magnificence ; and the confirmation by experience of the infallible efficacy of these creating renovating Specifics, have characterized them with perfection, and givee them a celebrity unpa ralleled. They have proved the theme of the poet ; they are celebrated in the periodical literature of the whole civilized world; the lays of Byron, and the voice of the universal press, have proclaimed the incomparable virtues of the " Oil Macassar," and of its accompanying irepara flow.