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Vottrp. THE PENNY ENVELOPE. Speed ye, speed ye, leaves Sibylline, East and west, and south and north ! Penny now, 'twas once a shilling ; And the plate's a penny-worth ! See the pens and paper speeding (Stationary now no more), Letter-writing, letter reading, Nothing else from shore to shore ! See a literary lion Crouching at Britannia's feet, Reindeer mails o'er deserts hieing, Cherub postmen in the street ! Elephants—discreet beholders-- Spite of all their masters' care, Read his letter o'er his shoulders Till the jealous camels stare. China turns her back towards us, Home the empty vessels sail; But the penny-post rewards us With an Oriental Tail : See the planters' puncheons filling ! Grinning negroes show their teeth ! See the sugar-casks distilling Sweetness on the group beneath. See the elder maidens sharing, Sister like, their billet-doux Younger sister cease your teazing, 'Twill not serve for more than two ! Of the postage emblematic Deep-red Indians, copper men, Hail the boon with joy ecstatic, Stretch their hands to grasp a Penn —John Bull. LITERARY NOTICES. The Political Works of Ebenezer Elliott, the Corn-Law Rhymer. Edinburgh : William Tait. 1840. Of this work, which has been lying on our desk for some time, we find it extremely difficult to express a deliberate opinion. We know not whether its beauties or its defects are the more.nunaerous. Ebenezer Elliott is, undoubtedly, a poet of the very highest order. He possesses the true divinus afflatus. But, as has been well remarked, be is a " poet of his own order"—the mechanics and artisans of his fatherland. In describing their habits—their toils—their trials—their privations—their sufferings-=he writes with a force and eloquence which few have ever equalled, and none surpassed. His pictures of domestic life among the humbler classes are touchingly truthful and pathetic. Callous, in deed, must that heart be that is not deeply affected by his recitals of " the poor man's woes." Here, however, we must stop. Would that Ebenezer Elliott refrained from his bitter invectives against the rich. With him every rich man is a demon in human shape, to he denounced and loaded with curses. We may add that on the subject of the corn laws he is almost, if not altogether, a monomaniac. How true is it that there is no great mind without its failings I Asmodeus; or the Devil on -Two Sticks. Newly translated by Joseph Thomas, from the French of La Sage. Illus trated by Tony Johannot. Part 1. London : Joseph Thomas. The well known character of this exquisite satire on the follies and vices of mankind cannot fail to procure for the present edition an increased measure of popularity, The illustrations are both numerous and exquisitly conceived and executed. The frontispiece is a veritable portrait of the mischief making imp. The Illustrated Shakspere. Part 12. London : Robert Tuns. Each succeeding part of this truly splendid edition of the works of our great dramatist seems to be an improvement on its predecessors. Whether we consider the number—the originality—the exquisite finish of its engravings, or the in trinsic value and extent of its annotations and introductory remarks, we are constrained to acknowledge that this is the best edition of Shakspere that has yet made its appearance. When we say that it is worthy of the patronage of the whole reading community of Great Britain, we only express what we conscientiously believe. Wilson's Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative Tales of the Borders, and of Scotland. Part 71. Edinburgh : John Sutherland. This series of tales appears to possess an inexhaustible degree of interest. They are eminently adapted to the popu lar taste. Their morals are unobjectionable, their language is simple and impressive, and their perusal is calculated to foster and encourage, in an eminent degree, the domestic virtues. We cordially wish them an extended circulation. A Letter to the Farmers of England. By Edmund Ed munds. Liverpool: Davenport. This plain-spoken epistle is from the pen of a farmer, lately returned from that " land of promise," America. He gives a faithful picture of the state of the country, especially of its agriculture, and forcibly describes the nisappointtnents which he met with, and the hardships to which he was sub jected. The perusal of this tract is calculated to effect much good. It ought to he in the hands of every one who may intend to emigrate to the United States. THE WEAVER CHURCH BILL. (Frorn'the Chester Courant.) One of the errors into which Mr. E. J. Stanley, and other opponents of this bill, have fallen, is this :—they argue as if the county-rate was to be taxed for the building L f churches for the use of persons in whom the county has no interest; whereas the fact is, that this navigation, employing a large body amen, brings a very considerable revenue to the county, and it is proposed to set apart a moderate sum out of that reve nue for the instruction of men who, by the " sweat of their brow," assist in obtaining it. This makes all the difference, and this, in the course of the debate, Mr. Gaily Knight pointed out in a clear and forcible man ner; that hon. member very justly remarking, that every ratepayer who shared in the advantage of being eased from countv-rates by the profits derived from the navigation, was bound to provide for the moral and religious instruction of the people. The hon. member concluded his sensible address by significantly observing, that " the opponents of the bill had more the fear of the ratepayers before their eyes, than the fear of God." As to Mr. Jervis's oft-refuted argument that there was already ample church accommodation, it is not worthy of a serious reply. We do not doubt there are plenty of dissenting chapels to he found on the line; but we deny that there is accommodation in the churches for Batmen, and that the resident clergy can devote the necessary time to their instruction. The fact is, the lion. member, like many other opponents of the bill, has derived all his information upon the matter from the enemies of the Church of England, who oppose the measure upon dissenting principles. As to the insinuation thrown OM about the rejection of Sir Philip Egerton and Mr. Tolemache, at a future election, on account of acting honestly and uprightly towards the fiatmen of the Weaver, we have no fears on that point. The freeholders of the county of Ches ter are not the mercenary body some imagine them to be : they can and will distinguish between empty de claimers and true patriots. A reference has been made to the presentation of two petitions from. Macclesfield, one signed by three thousand persons against the bill, and the other in fa. your of it by four hundred ; but nothing was said of the fact, that the amount gr assessment was placed op posite the signatures of the latter, and omitted, for very obvious reasons, in the former. The definition of cha racters, creeds, Sze., of these three thousa n d p et i t i oners, would, forsooth, furnish a notable and very curious document. It will be recollected, too, that the larger petition lay. for signature at Weston Point, and was signed by liatmen, &c, trading from Northwich, and other places, to Liverpool; Weston Point being at the entrance of the Mersey—the precise point where the • rivers Weaver and' Mersey join. To this petition also, it will be borne in mind, the signatures of a:great num ber of children were appended. There is one point to which we would request par ticular attention,--it is asserted that Sir Philip Egerton intimated, that the Clergy did not consider the Flatnien their parishioners, and, therefore neglected them. This absurd declaration it is hardly necessary to refute. Sir Philip thinks, and thinks rightly, that the clergy on the line, being occupied by other pressing duties, conse quent on the increase of population, cannot May that attention to this class, which is necessary, and which, did circumstances admit, they would feel it their duty to do. We deprecate strongly the virulence with which some of the opponents of the Weaver Church Bill attack the measure and its supporters ; but violence of language and strength of argument are two widely different things. We regret that so much malicious sort of feeling should exist in some quarters, although we do not accuse all who oppose the bill as liable to such a charge. In one place it is suggested that room should be ob tained in a church, for the flatmen, by turning out the National School children, thus cutting off the rising generation from public worship, so important -to be at tended by persons at all periods of life ; hut especially as relates to the young, in these days when socialism and chartism, and a variety of other isms are so rife. We would just remark that in the report of the de bate upon this bill, given in the Chester Chronicle, four cyphers, instead of three, are placed after the figure 7, which might perhaps lead some to the supposition that £70,000 instead of £7OOO was proposed for the build ing of the proposed churches. We, do not, however, wish to insinuate that this is an intentional mistake, — our friend's ;:rithinPtical powers, as evidenced in his recent profound di , quisitions on the financial state of the country, forbid us to entertain such an extravagant idea for one moment ! As to the committee selected for the consideration of the evidence to be adduced for and against the bill, we are as ignorant of its composition as the Chronicle; but if consisting of private men we have no apprehen sions as to the result. Notwithstanding all the abuse that has been heaped upon this measure, we are convinced that, if carried into effect, it will be found gratifying as well as ho nourable to its promoters, and beneficial, through the Divine blessing, to that class of men whose welfare is consulted by its introduction into the House of Com mons. BRITISH GUIANA. gXTRACTS FROM " A DESCRIPTION OF BRITISH GUIANA, GEOGRAPHICAL AND STATISTICAL : EXHIBITING ITS RESOURCES AND CAPABILITIES, TOGETHER WITH THE PRESENT CONDITION, AND FUTURE PROSPECTS OF THE COLONY. BY R. H. SCHOKBURGK, ESQ." Guiana*, Guyana, Guayana, or Guianna, is that part of South America which lies between 8 deg. 40 min. N. let. and 3 deg. 30 min. S. lat. and the 50th and 68th degree of longi tude, west of Greenwich It is bounded on the north by the Atlantic and the eastern course of the river Orinoco, on the east likewise by the Atlantic, on the south by the rivers Negro and Amazon, on the west by the northern course of the Orinoco, the natursi canal of Cassiquiare, and the south ern course of the Rio Negro. Its greatest extent between Cape North, and the confluence of the Rio Kie with the Rio Negro, is 1098 geographical miles ; its greatest breadth be tween Punta Barima, at the mouth of the Orinoco, to the confluence of the Rio Negro with the Amazon, 710 geogra phical miles. Its line of sea -coast extends between the Amazon and the Orinoco, and is divided into Brazilian, French, Dutch, British, and Venezuelan Guiana, but its definite limits have never been obtained. All that has hitherto been done, between Spain, Portugal, and France, is regarded as only provisional, and the boundary which separates the British settlements from Venezuela and Brazil has never been determined. Tha following description is limited to those parts which comprehend British Guiana ; but the exact knowledge of its area depends upon the determination of its boundaries ; and in the uncertainty whether the pretensions of the Brazilian and Venezuelan governments will he attended to, it is im possible to come to a result. Some modern geographers ex tend British Guiana from the mouth of the Corentyn is 56 deg. 58 min. W. long. to Putna Barima in 60 deg. 6 min. W. long. ; in consequence of the early Dutch settlers having had occupation of the eastern bank of the river Barima, where they had constructed a military outpost, before the English in 1666 had destroyed the fort of New Zealand, or New Mid dleburgh. The Republic of Venezuela claims the country to the mouth of the river Morocco, from thence to the conflu ence of the rivers Cuyuni and Mazaruni, along the western bank of the river Essequibo, to the confluence of the river Rupununi. The Brazilians having lately claimed as far north as the mouth of the Siparunus, its area would then be reduced to about 12,300 square miles, and it would form the smallest of the three colonies in Guiana, which are possessed by European powersf. If we follow the limits which nature pre scribes by its rivers and mountains, and include all the regions which are drained by the streams which fall into the Esse quibo %Rhin the British territory, and adopting the river Corentyn as its eastern boundary, the counties Demerara, Essequibo, and Berbice, which constitute British Guiana, consist of 76,000 square miles. PHYSICAL ASPECT OF THE COLONY 'The banks and low lands adjacent to the chief rivers of British Guiana, namely the Essequibo, Demerara, Berbice, and Corentyn, consist of a blue clay, impregnated with marine salt mixed with decayed vegetable matter, which in its decomposed state forms rich mould and is highly produc tive. This alluvial flat extends from ten to twenty, and in some instances (as between the rivers Berbice and Corentyn,) even to forty miles inland, and is terminated by a range of sand-hils, from about 30 to 120 feet high, which approach the sea within two miles of the Arabisi coast of the Essequibo, if we follow them upwards from that point, they take first a S.E. by S., and afterwards a S.E. direction, traversing the whole colony. Almost parallel with the ridge of sand-hills run several detached groups of hillocks, of moderate eleva tion, being seldom more than 200 feet high ; they cross the river Essequibo at Osterbecke Point, in lat. 6 deg. 15 min. N., the Demerara at Arobaya, in 6 deg. 5 min., the Berbice in 5 deg. In the fifth parallel of latitude a chain of mountains is met with, which consists of granite, gneiss, and trappean rocks, and their various modifications ; they are an offset of the Orinoco mountains, with which they are connected by the Sierra tissiparna of geographers; they traverse Guiana in a south-eastern direction, and may be considered the central ridge of the colony. Whenever this chain crosses any of the rivers which have been under my investigation, it forms large cataracts, namely, those of Twasiniki and Ouropocari in the Essequibo, Itabrou and the Christmas cataracts in the river Berbice, and the great cataracts in the river Corentyn. The highest peak appear to be the mountains of St. George, at the Mazaruni, the Twasiniki, and Maccari on the Essequibo (the latter rising about 1100 feet above the river), and the mountains of Itabrou, on the river Berbice, the highest of which, according to my barometrical admeasurement, was 662 feet above the river, and 828 feet above the sea. This chain appears to be connected with the Sierra Acarai by the Marowini mountains, and I am inclined to consider it the old boundary of the Atlantic, the geological features of the chain conducing to such a supposition. Further north commence hillocks of a lower elevation, and those ridges of sand the consequence of a retreating sea. The mountains of Pacaraima approach the Essequibo in lat. 4 deg. N., and are an offset of the Sierra Parima ; their general direction is east and west, and so far as I have been able to ascertain, they consist only of primitive formation. The culminating point of this chain is a range of sand stone mountains, of which the highest is called Roraima by the Indians, in lat. 5 deg. 9 min. 30 sec. N., long. 60 deg. 47 min. W. This remarkable mountain group extends twenty five miles in a north-west and south-east direction, and rises to 5000 feet above the table-land, or 7500 feet above the sea ; the upper 1500 feet presenting a mural precipice, more striking than I have ever seen elsewhere. Down the face of these mountains rush numerous cascades, which eventually form tributaries to the three great rivers of the northern half of South America • namely, the Amazon, the Orinoco, and the Essequibo. These mountains form the separation of waters of the basins of the Orinoco and Essequibo on the north, and the Amazon on the south, and they are therefore of the great. est importance in deciding the boundary of British Guiana. The mountain Makarapan was formerly considered the highest point in Guiana, before I visited the Roraima moun tains. This mountain approaches the river Repununi in 3 deg. 50 min. N. lat., and rises to a height of about 3500 feet above the sea. The Cannucu or Conocon mountains, in 3 deg. N. lat., connect the Pacaraima mountains with the Sierra Acarai, in which the largest river of Guiana, the Essequibo, has its sources. The Acarai mountains likewise give rise to the river Corentyn, and form the southern boundary of British Guiana. I shall designate them as the mountains of the equator, that imaginary line cutting their axis, They are densely wooded, and display the vigorous and luxuriant ve getation which is the striking feature of Guiana. These mountains do not reach the height of the Roraima; 1 esti mated the highest at about 4000 feet. The Ouangouwai, or Mountains of the Sun, form the connecting link between the Acarai and Carawaimi mountains ; The Tarapona mountains between the latter and the Cannucu and Pacaraima mountains. A peculiar feature, of British Guiana are the savannahs, which extend between the rivers Demerara and Corentyn, and approach the sea-shore at the river Berbice. They are not directly connected with the great savannahs of the Ru. pununi, as the second ridge of mountains intervenes. These great savannahs are encompassed by the Sierra Pacaraima to the north, the Cannucu, Taripona, and Carawaimi mountains to the south, the thick forests of the Essequibo and isolated mountains to. the east, and the mountains of the Mocajahi, and offsets of the Sierra Parima to the westT. The winding course of the rivers are generally mar k e d w ith f r i nges o f t rees ; and, if we except in some places tufts of trees which rise like verdant isles or oases in a desert from amidst these plains, they are merely covered with grasses and a few stunted trees. The geological structure of this region leaves but little doubt that it was once the bed of an inland lake, which by one of those catastrophes, of which even later times give us examples, broke its barrier, forcing for its waters a path to the Atlantic. May we not connect with the former existence of this inland sea the fable of the lake Parima and the El Dorado ? Thousands of years may have elapsed ; generations may have been buried and returned to dust ; nations who once wandered on its banks may be extinct, and exist even no more in name ; still the tradition of the lake Parima and the El Dorado survived these changes of time ; transmitted from father to son, its fame was carried across the Atlantic, and kindled the romantic fire of the chivalric Raleigh, This tract contains the:lake Amucu, which in the dry sea son is of small extent and overgrown with rushes ; but during the rainy season it not only inundates the adjacent low coun tries, but its waters, as I have been assured by the Indians, run partly eastward into the Rupununi, and partly westward into the Rio Branco. The small river Pirara has its sources somewhat south of lake Amucu, flowing through it towards the Rio Mahu. On the banks of this small lake stands the Macusi village Pirara. With the exception of these savan nahs, and the swamps of the river Berbice, the interior is thickly wooded, the forests consisting mostly of useful timber trees. The large rivers with which the colony is intersected con tinually bring down quantities of detritus. The land at the mouths of these testuaries is therefore on the increase, form ing a fringe of low ground, which is soon covered with Man groves (Rhiznphora Mangle) and Courida Bushes (Anicen nia nilida) ; it is the first step of the shore's encroachment upon the sea. The sandy flat extends from twelve to fifteen miles to seaward, and in proportion as its distance from shore increases, it is covered with from three to four feet of water. These outskirts of new land may, it is more than probable, be hereafter gained from the sea, and form a valuable addi tion to the productive land. It has within the recollection of many advanced considerably, though in absence of precise data the yearly progress cannot be ascertained. GEOLOGY The geology of British Guiana presents phwnomena that are in accordance with what has been observed in the eastern hemisphere ; th e a ll uv i a l so il an d c l ays , o f w hi c h th e strata l along the sea-coast consists, rest upon granite ; and it is to b . e observed as a remarkable feature, that masses which have the been coa st ,are discoveredtob bye n a t a boring forw distance ater, of 150 ata depth r o jes flln situ. oOfe et on The alluvial flats are in many instances covered with a black vegetable matter, the detritus of the numerous rivers of Guiana, committed during l the periodical rains to their cur rent, and swept towards pos - ired t their testuaries , where the tides have in its decomposition, and it T he brms caused it to be de atmospheric nolva air carbonaceous as assisted vege. t t a b b e le ri i4a r tt E e s r s , e v ri u u lg ib a o rl , y a e n a d ll e I ' is A of t te A n in fo p u s n i ( T l i t t o be ha ri za r d l e n p • ' t t l i ' ll:e ga v B ic s inity of the Pomeroon, it direction, Essequibo, terl a s distance iv e bed c, o f f granite about withfifty miles from George Town, is a of five tOonsitxhfeeAetr.abisi coast of rtiove Mazaruni. This appearing again hornblende ; it has a south-wensteelr at the site of the old post, i n ti n ie granitic bed has become of advantage dyke, consisting of the first it is much used for building material. A George dv Town, where greenstone, traverses the Essequibo, and forms The ca taract in 6 deg. 11 min. N. lat. ; it is calle rocky regions commence now, denoting primitive ritan• formation in all its component parts : granite, porphyry, and the extensive family of trappean rocks, may be trnacentilaletrthoef base and on the top of the mountains. A peculiar feature are large tracts of boulders, mostly of granite, which are more or less accumulated in particular places, sometimes with great confusion ; and whic h, wherever the y traverse the r i c ers, form rapids and cataracts. They assume their grandest fea ture in that tract which is called Achra Moucra in the river Essequibo, in lat. 4 deg. 20 min. Veins of quartz frequently traverse the great masses of granite; and vast tracts of brown iron ore are met with in the mountains and the flats which extend between the rivers, from the admixture of which the soil receives a reddish tinge. This is chiefly the case in the savannahs on the Rupuntini, which are frequently covered with black shining pebbles. In the vicinity of Roraima rock crystals are found in the form of hexagonal columns, some times solitary, sometimes apparently agglutinated : they grow out of beds of sandstone, are perfectly t rans parent, and ge nerally terminate in a single pyramid, with from three to six faces. The leading features of the mountainous regi ons are ' coloured ochres, indurated clays, granite-gneiss, and trap pean rocks , and a t o t a l a b sence o f li m estone or its modifica tions. * The British portion is called Guiana in official documen ts ; The earliest is th e s winish name, Goiania the Portuguese. earlist Dutch settlers called it Guiana, or the wild coast. It is said to have rece i ved its name from a small river, a tribu tary of the Orinoco. It is called th e sma ll est European colony in Guiana, i n the Diet•onnaire G 6 ographique Universe), Paris, 1828, vol. i v . p. 615, where the area is stated to consist only of 3120 leagues. They occupy about 14,400 square miles. P OF BLossoM.—A f ema l e ca ll e d upon a lady in the neighbourhood of Ulverstone, a few days ago, to in q ui re if she wanted any fine ripe cherries, for that her cherries were the finest cherries in all the town, and that she was patronised by all the young ladies of Ulverstone, and many of them had ordered a pound a day every day for a month, and that they were only a shilling a ponnd. The lady in quired, " Are you not very early with your cherries ? where do they grow ? have you them in a hot-house ?"—" Oh no, main, they are not ready yet, but we have plenty of blossom.,, POLITICAL CHARACTERS. (From the Oxford Herald.) LORD LYNDHURST. The name of Lord Lyndhurst is necessarily familiar to our readers, for it is a name which is to be found, one Nvoy or another, in every newspaper that is published. By giving then, an early place in the list of " Political Characters,' we feel assured we shall give gratification to the numerous ad mirers of that noble and learned lord. Detraction, it is said, is a tax which eminence must pay to insignificance ; and the case of no one exemplifies the truth fulness of the adage more strikingly than the case of the nobleman whose name appears at the head of this article. With detraction he . must be as well acquainted as with the air he breathes. The Whig-Radical scribes have no more agreeable occupation than that of slandering, and vilifying, and endeavouring to blacken in every possible way the cha racter of Lord Lyndhurst. No man, it is true, in the stormy arena of politics can expect to escape censure and abuse but the abuse with which the noble and learned lord has been assailed has been of the foulest and vilest kind ; so foul and so vile indeed has it been that it could with difficulty be equalled, and could not possibly be exceeded, even if it came from demons instead of men. Falsehoods the most extravagant, lies the most monstrous, have been told respect ing him ; his sayings have been misrepresented, his motives maligned, nay, so far has the hostility towards him been car ried, that it has been solemnly asserted, as a gravely esta blished fact, that he is in league with the devil ! We assure our readers that we are not stating what could not easily be substantiated, for, ridiculous as the assertion must appear, it has been made, more than twice or thrice, in the leading Whig-Radical newspapers—newspapers written by men of acknowledged talent, for readers claiming to be possessed of some glimmering of intelligence and having received the rudi ments of education. Alas ! that party feeling should be car ried to such extreme lengths as it has been, and still is, with respect to Lord Lyndhurst, If one-tenth part of what has been written against him were true, he would deserve im peachment ; if one five hundred-thousandth part of what the wretch O'Connell has said about him were true, he ought long ago to have died the death of an ignominious felon. If it were true that his constant endeavour in parliament is to commit as much mischief as possible, he ought to be ex cluded from the Senate; if it were true that the delight of his soul is to heap insult upon insult upon the Irish nation be ought to be held up as a mark for public scorn and execration ; if it be true, as the exemplary Lord Melbourne once insultingly remarked, " that God had given him splendid talents, but the devil directed the application of them,' he ought to be shunned by all who have the good of their country at heart. But, un fortunately for the scribes in the pay of the whig-radical clique in Downing-street, none of these " ifs" are as they would have them. Lord Lyndhurst is a very different man to what they represent, and to what they so constantly endea vour to make their readers believe. He is a man of brilliant talent, which he devotes to the beg and the holiest of pur poses. He is one of the most eloquent speakers of the day, and his voice is never raised save in the cause of right and justice, and the denunciation of evil and wrong doers. He is the leader of the conservative party in the upper branch of the legislature •, hence it is that he is so obnoxious to the snarling curs of the radical press ; " the very head and front of his offending bath this extent, no more." It is not too much to say that he would not be the acknowledged head of a party so virtuous, so great, so able, as the conservatives—a party combining all the rank, the wealth, the intelligence, the respectability of the land, but, happily, holding no communion with the riffraff, the rag, tag, and the bobtail—it is not, we say, too much to assert that Lord Lyndhurst would not be one of the foremost men of such a party as this, if there were the slightest foundation for the foul mass of venomous ca lumny with which he is so continually assailed. But perhaps the hostility of the radicals to his lordship may he accounted for when we call to mind the extreme mortification they must feel on seeing an individual raising himself, by his command ing abilities, from a station comparatively obscure to a posi tion among the proudest to which a private citizen can attain, and devoting those abilities to the best interests of his coun try, instead of joining those men who are endeavouring by all the means in their power to undermine and destroy the. time-honoured institutions which, under Divine Providence, have raised their own, their native land, to the first place in the scale of civilised nations. Those of our readers who have had the good fortune to hear Lord Lyndhurst speak in the House of Lords, have experienced an intellectual treat, which they would, no doubt, be glad to have repeated. Closeness of reasoning, felicity of illustration, an impressive and graceful delivery, are the main attributes of the noble and learned lord's oratory. There is no claptrap, no mere rhetorical flourishes. no aiming after effect, in the speeches of his lordship; they - are peculiarly adapted to a highly intellectual audience ; there is a weight, a solidity about them, far removed from the harangue of a mob orator, on the one hand, or from the vain, frothy, flashy declamations of a Marquis of Normanbv, on the other. The addresses of the noble and learned lord are invariably received by the assembly to whom they are addressed in a manner befitting at once their intrinsic worth and the eminence of him by whom they are delivered. Nothing can possibly be more pleasing than to see Lord Lyndhurst fall foul of some unfortunate ministerial measure. He commences his examination of it in a cool, calm, and statesmanlike manner, and as he begins so he ends; .step by step, clause by clause, he investigates the government nostrum ; seizing intuitively upon its absurdities, he makes them apparent to the view of all, seeing at a glance its de fects, he points them out, and suggests their appropriate re medies. If the ministerial project be one containing an in sidious attack on any of our venerable institutions, or aiming a heavy blow and inflicting serious discouragement upon Protestantism, (as most ministerial projects do). Lord Lyndhurst will denounce it with the severity it demands, and administer as stinging a rebuke to its authors as their conduct deserves. But to see the noble and learned Lord in all his glory, we should be present when he brings forward his annual motion respecting the measures introduced and abandoned by the government in the course of the session. What pen can describe the agony of the occupants of the ministerial bench as he details measure after measure, scheme after scheme, bill after bill, which ministers have in troduced and abandoned? ,Who can adequately paint the misery of the Treasury men, when their promises at the com mencement of the session are contrasted with their actual doings at the end of it? Who can describe the intense torture which these 'poor devils endure when Lord Lynd hurst, at the close of his speech, exclaims, in a tone of the most withering sarcasm, the most unbounded contempt— " Such, my Lords, are the doings oilier Majesty's ministers ! Able statesmen! Vigorous rulers! Proper men to govern a great kingdom !" To describe all this as it ought to be de scribed is a task to which we feel incompetent, and we there fore leave it to the imagination of our readers. Our space is now fully occupied, and we must conclude by expressing our most earnest prayer that Lord Lyndhurst may be spared to fill once again that station the duties of which his talents enable him to discharge with so much advantage to the country, and so much honour to himself. A. T. T. Y. THE OPERA DANSET_ISE. A SKETCH FROM NATURE. Now gay and prosperous i►► the summer stinv-smiling, And now the victim of chill penury—weeping.—ANsoN Life is said to be made up of contrasts. Pleasure is sup posed to be enhanced by pain ; happiness by misery. Soli tude derives its power of pleasing from the enloyment of too much society ; and comuany is more enjoyed after the in dulgence of solitude. There are few minds which accomplish that happy medium—that juste milieu,—that medic lulissi mis ibis, which produces a regularity of happiness—a tran quil contentment—that kind of millenium of the mind, which has been trumpeted up by philosophers as the acme of human happiness. For our own part, we do not envy the possessors of this, to us, negative kind of happiness ' • we would enjoy excess of pleasure, even at the hazard of excess of pain— would endure misery rather than forego exquisite happiness. Violent contrasts may be sometimes painful, but they are likewise pleasing ; and it has been our lot to witness many, not only in our own experience, but in watching those of others. We have seen those who had been indebted to us for a shilling, in the days of early poverty, rise to wealth, and look down upon us from their carriages in their prosperity. And it has been our lot to throw half-a-crown into the brim less hat of a beggar, whom we have remembered the gay master of splendid equipages, the head of a magnificent es tablishment, and our own successful competitor for the hand of beauty ; we have sat at the hospitable board of a man sur rounded by his friends, and bare envied his social position ; and we have seen this envied man sacrifice his life to the offended laws of his country ; and we have witnessed, often, contrasts quite as painful as these. We remember a prince of the blood living only in the smiles of a celebrated beauty, basking in her charms, laying his whole power at her feet, and piling oath on oath of his constancy and fidelity ; and we have read of his meeting and passing her unnoticed, while she was sunning herself upon crutches, with paralysed limbs and faded beauty, on her premature journey to an early grave. .These are painful contrasts, but, alas, they are every day ones. Some years since, and very few, we recollect one opera night, lounging behind the scenes, when a dancer of some celebrity in her profession, but of far greater for the attrac tions of her beauty, was the fashion. Numbers of young men of the first rank were crowding round the fair disciple of Terpsichore. One was ambitious to hold her scarf, ano ther considered the care of her handkerchief a favour, every one sought to obtain a word, a smile, a look. Wealth poured out its stores to obtain her favours. Rank exhibited its at tractions to excite her vanity and engage her attention. Exery sentence she uttered was construed into a " Mot," and every step she took displaying the graceful contour of her limbs, elicited rapturous applause. Her neck, head, and arms were encircled with diamonds. Her person redolent with the sweetest perfumes, her eyes lighted up with blushes of delight which shone even through her rouge, and her bland and joyous smiles displayed the triumph she took in the ad miration she • excited. The curtain rose, her admirers re tired to their boxes and their stalls, and silent admiration was succeeded by tumultuous applause. Three or four men of high rank and great means were the supposed envied pos sessors of this beauty—and each one of the four, from the snug corner of his omnitius box, imagined himself the sole favourite of the then " observed of all observers ;" for it is the peculiar fact of a celebrated dauseuse to persuade in secret that each of her lovers is the only one whom she favours, and that the adoration of the others is only for the talent that gives her celebrity. The curtain fell—deafening shouts for the artiste were heard from all quarters of the house. She was led forward by the manager, and retired amidst the in cense of the adoration she had created. Now comes the contrast! It was a few years after this—for the sake of poor human nature we are ashamed to say how few— that, walking up one of the bye streets near Drury lane, we were surprised at the sudden start of a poorly clad female as she passed us. The start was so per ceptible that we turned round, and we found the person still gazing at us with a look of recognition. Finding herself observed, she advanced with a timid step ; she was not quite si p m ty ila bottle.rity to something Aslight suffusion in rags, b u t near l y so, yet everyt hi ng a b out h er was c l ean , and arranged w ith a certa i n d egree o f taste. H er f ace was pale, he r f ea t ures attenuated, and she held in her hand an ern them haagt an ht a.rd oniseen n seemedy beforetr o t e g o i ;cht butei or recollection features are turning pal eness drove the do not remember me?" she faintly said, and asserted in not wonder that you should' that seemed to call all French, " 1 am ut I tun greatly altered, and I do not know me." Another suffu sionthe remains of that beauty which memory, her n features into life, recalled the once celebrated danseuse toand I recognised dim s i al limbs had once been so admired. She was pale and thin. Her weak. My eye rested upon the bottle —she saw my attenuated— her cheek sunken—her eye languid, h and her voice And,' no,t s thoughts I am going Al t ," said she, " do not think it. a r f o ro t o h f, she to a dispensary for some medicine." showed me the charitable letter which entitled her e sn a e hiv e shilling,, h I i(lilagrse, notat' d pri vilege shocked, and requeste d to k now her resident of medicinal aid , for which she could n o t ‘;:parted. e ' nture to ' s! she I " ‘ a 34 her thoughts. A week or two el a p se d , when I re ceivedguess I a s t l i t i a n t s n i e n d g t o o n t t e h l l e i a note, simply saying, lam dying. • rhe frie n d w h o c t— on l tr g a a s y t e . has never deserted me through all my trials, will be unable to pay for my funeral. Will you see to this—promise me that I shall not be indebted to charity—to the parish for a pauper funeral." I sought her out, and found her in the upper story of one of those blind alleys with which the neighbourhood of some of the London markets abound. An old apron was slung upon a rope over the door, to prevent the rush of wind from a public staircase ; other rags and pieces of paper were thrust into the broken panes of glass to keep out the chill air, which unable to warm. a miserable fire, struggling into ignition, was A miserable truck bedstead supported the frame of the poor girl--the apology for a pillow raised by rags supported her head. A mere tick laid over the sacking was the apology for the bed, and a rug, with the remains of a cloak that had Qrs. 105 Qrs. Qrs. 1 41 Qrs. 525 Qrs. Qrs. 37 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Loads! 3024 . . Sacks 24 Wheat Barley Malt Oats Rye Bawls Pease. Shelled Barley Indian Corn Rapeseed Oatmeal Flout . Ditto Brls. 330 E 6 336; 8494 44:1 9372 762 i i 818 I 3408 6925 485 1 274 I 274 I 3509 424 - 16686 116686 EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, qrs. ; Oats, 244 qrs. ; Pease, qrs:; Flour, 604 bris.—lreland. Wheat, 1150 qrs.; Indian Corn, 983 qrs. ; Flour, hrls. —Coastwise. Wheat, 502 qrs. ; Barley, 240 qrs. ; Malt, 35 qrs.: Oats, 25 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beaus, 15 qrs.; Pease, 8 qrs.; Indian Corn, 22 qrs.; Oatmeal, 30 loads ; Flour, 575 sacks, tss4 brls. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending May 22, 1840. Wheat 68s. Od. I Barley.. 375. 3d. I Oats.. 275. 3d. I Rye .. 375. 2d Beans.. 445. 10d. Pease, 425. sd. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat.. 68s. 6d. I Barley.. 395. id. I Oats.. 265. 4d. I Rye.. 375. 4d. Beans .. 435. 6d. I Pease .. 41s. 10cl. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week. Wheatl6s. Bd. I Barley 2s. 4d. Oats .... .. is. 9d. Rye .. 14s. Od I Beans, ss. Od. Pease. Bs. Od. Indian Corn 3s. 4d . 1 FlourlOs. oid Liverpool Averages, week ending 26th May, 1840. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. Qr 5..... 995 580 Prices.. 525. 4d. Os. Od. 1 275. Bd. 475. Bcl. Os. Od. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. FRIDAY, MAY 29 ARRIVED,—Douro, Stubbs, from St. Kiti's—Heneetta, Longford, from New Orleans—Carl Auguste, Beilke, from Danzic—Hopkin son, Stephenson, from Bombay—Denmark, Frost, from Charleston ; sailed sth May—Oporto, Wilkie, from Faro—Concordia, Strack holder, from Leer. Thomas Worthington, —, from Lima, at this port; sailed 26th Feb. has a freight of 260,000 dollars. Clifton, Hill, from Hobart Town, at this port ; sailed 26th Jan. On 2nd April, in lat. 20 40 S, long. 37 45 W, spoke the Eliza Kin caid, and Cornwall, both from Liverpool to Rio Janeiro. On 24th April, in lat. 10 23 N, long. 34 W, spoke the Pearl. from Valparaiso to Cadiz. On 18th May, in lat. 43, long. 17 30, spoke the Harriet, hence to Baltimore. On 27th May, in lat. 51 26, long. 10, spoke the Veneznila, (steamer) from Cork to Barbadoes Engine, Coriet, hence at. Havre Dorothea, De Boer, hence at Texel Copse, Louthean, henc,:;, at Jamaica Hostelina, Day, hence, at Cape Haytien Wanstead, Agnew, hence, at St. Thomas Dove, Cobbe, and Kerswell, Glover, hence, at Barbados Elizabeth, Midwinter, hence, at Grenada Albion, Dooley, and Wilsons, Campbell, hence, at Trinidad Margaret, Jackson, hence, at Demerara Vriendship, Klein. hence, at Zwolle Augusta, De Jaghine, hence, at Ostend Emily, Heroine, and Mary and Anne, from Valparaiso, at Iquique Plumstead, Simonds, from Valparaisa, at Acagetlia, and loading for Istappa Brandon, from Guayaquil at ditto, and was loading for Mazatlan 20th February Hermes, Oliphant, hence, at Lima, and was to sail about the 7th March for Iquique Brilliant. Lefevre, hence, at Trinidad Henry Bell, from London and this port, at Alexandretta Helme, Astrope, from Alexandretta, at Beiront Palmyra, Gill, hence, at Malta, and sailed 14th May for Alexandria Rob Roy, Albanson, hence, at ditto No. 292, Hibernia, A.S., from New York, was off Point Lynas at 8 a.m., with a pilot The Syiphide, for St. Petersburgh, was run down yesterday off the Floating Light, by the England, for Quebec; crew saved. The masts and sails, apparently attached to the hull, were passed by the Actaeon steamer at 6 last evening HELVOET, MAY 6.—The Lively, late Hicks, from Liverpool to Dordrecht. sprung a leak and sunk oft the latter place BEAUMARIS, MAY 28.—The Jane, Williamson, for Charente, is afloat, and remains windbound in Friar's Roads once been splendid, was her only covering—a rush bottom chair with no back was my seat at her bedside—a rickety table, upon which stood bottles of medicine, a cup of cold tea, a stale orange, and a few fresh flowers in a broken jug, containing, in short, all her remedies, necessaries, and luxu ries, was within her reach. Her humble friend was on her knees, blowing the fire with her mouth. What a contrast! Where was the eider-down couch—the luxurious sofa, with pillows swelling into rotundity as you left them—the rare exotics—that once adorned her boidoir ? And where was she who once was their possessor? Upon this truckle bed, in the last stage of a rapid consumption— with nothing of her former beauty but that delicacy of ex pression which added to the melancholy picture—she was dy ing, and she knew it; yet, in her extremity, an air of mor tification passed over her features as she recognised me, and attempted to return the pressure of my hand. I bowed down my face to the flowers to hide any expression that might have told her how I felt the change. What a contrast !—the sweet, fresh flowers, and the dying woman !—" Before those flowers are faded," said she, " I shall be dead."—She spoke the truth.—lra. SECOND EDITION. Stardard Office, Three o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—THis DAY. Exclusive of a moderate supply Oats and Oatmeal from Ireland, and of Malt coastwise, we have very little English or Irish produce fresh in to notice ; and with the exception of 8937 qrs of foreign Wheat, and 16,686 barrels of States Flour, the arrivals into this place from abroad, since Tuesday last, are small. During the period between Tuesday last and to-daybonded Flour continued to attract the attention of speculative buy ers, and several thousand barrels changed hands ; free fo reign Wheats also met some inquiry at late prices ; and the inferior qualities of Irish new, having until this week or two been offering comparatively cheap, were in request and held on higher terms.—ln other respects the trade appeared to remain unaltered. .On Beans the duty is down to 5s per qr. and unvaried for the ensuing week upon all other foreign produce. Having several country millers at this day's market, di recting their attentions to good Foreign free Wheats, and be. ing met by a disposition on the part of holders to sell, a mo derately fair extent of business was transacted in these de scriptions at a decline of ld ,to 2d per 70Ibs.—Irish new Wheats, on the contrary, were saleable at an advance of 6d per bushel, but in English we perceived little or nothing passing to day, such being held at former prices. American Flour, although excluding the demand for all other kinds, was taken off less readily to-day, duty paid brands, as well as parcels in bond, receding 6d. per barrel, thereby reducing the extreme value of the latter to 255. Malting Barley remains nominal ; but grinding samples of foreign, having been forced off at the low rates of 3s 10d to 4s 3d per 60Ibs, considerable sales were effected. In Malt, Beans, and Pease we have no change to note. — Oats, upon a slow demand, were rather cheaper ; and Oat meal, notwithstanding some inquiries for reshipment to Ire land, hardly maintained our last quotations. ARRIVALS OF CORN. From the 26th to the 28th May, 1840, inclusive DESCRIPTION. AND LAND, COAST WISE. FO- UNITED REIGN. STATES. TOTAL SINGULAR DETECTION OF A SWINDLER. A rather singular and unpremeditated disclosnre took place at the public office on Tuesday last, by which one of the most notorious of an incorrigable race ofmore or less respect able swindlers who infest this part of the country has been, for the present at least, safely lodged in the Forbury Gaol. It appears that on the above day a fellow calling himself George White, but who has gone by as many other names as occasion and convenience have suggested during his "black" career, preferred a charge of felony against Elizabeth Towns- bend, a very decent-looking woman, of about 40 years of age, who took up her abode in this town about a month since. He produced a copy of the Police Gazette of the Bth inst. in which he had inserted a paragraph descriptive of certain money and goods stolen from him, and of the dress and ap pearance of the woman who had absconded from him with such of his property about a month ago, at Colchester, and for whose apprehension he offered a reward of 2 guineas, giving for his address, Post-office, Bristol. He then stated thet he had now traced her to this town, the prisoner being the individual in question, and having applied for and pro cured a search -warrant, he proceeded to the woman's lodg ings for the purpose of investigating her goods, and meanwhile she made the subjoined statements :—That she, though not his wife, had lived with him for the last three or four years, during which time they had visit e d a b ou t 20 p l aces, sett i ng up in each town as corn and flour de a l ers , or ot h erw i se , ob taining goods on credit, selling them under their stipulated(!) cost, and finally, when the faith reposed in them by their good-natured neighb o urs began t o di m i n i s h, d ecamp i ng sans cerimonie, or previous indication o f p a y men t f or va l ue received; that previous to embarking in this lucrative occu pation, she lived i n Cheltenha m , w h ere s h e h as a s i s t er now living in respectable circumstances, who is the bona fide wife of the now-styled George White, but who was perfectly agreeable to the transfer of that worthy member of society ; that in the course of their travels her partner ; had assumed the respective names of " John White, ThOrnas Shaw, William Langdon, George Martin," &c, and had visited the following towns :—Thame, where they took rf shop for the sale _of corn, &c, and remained one month ; New bury, where where they purchased some oats, took a shop, and stayed one week only ; Salisbury, where they took a shop, obtained corn and flour, and remained three weeks; thence they proceeded to Southampton, St. Alban's, St. Neot's, Newport, Abergavenny, Yeovil, Chard, Exeter, Taunton, Colchester, &c., their stay in each place averaging about a month. It was at Colchester she separated from him, having first packed up some of her own goods, which she took away with her, together with some money that was due to her, it being the amount of cash borrowed by him of her, with the allowance for the loan thereof. The woman further admitted, that they had both been convicted, in the name of Martin, of obtaining goods under false pretences, at Grantham, in Lincolnshire, for which they were senterced each to seven years' transportation ; but before they had hardly reached their destination they were, by the interference of some kind friends, and the ingenuity of counsel (who detected a flaw in the indictment), again brought back, and once more set at liberty. She likewise stated that she had now £3 belonging '.to her, independent of £5 in the savings' bank, and that she at present lodged with a woman in Thorn-street. There is no doubt that every word of the woman's statement is sub stantially correct, and will shortly be corroborated elsewhere, the magistrates being determined, if possible, to bring so in corrible a rogue to justice . she appears to regret that she had ever formed so discreditable a connexion, and we believe it was her intention to open a little shop for the sale of small articles of provisions, &c., as soon as an opportunity pre sented itself. It has already transpired that White is the same man who visited this town about twelve months ago, and took the Lamb beer-house, in Alfred-street, at which time he was furnished with a cart, agreeably to order, by Mr. Freak, of Friar-streot, who, however, experienced rather an unpleasant freak -on that occasion, Mr. White (we beg par don, lie was then in the enjoyment of an earlier alias—Wil liam Loader being at that time his chosen cognomen) having made off with the cart, after a sojourn in Reading of about two weeks. We understand that Mr. Freak intends, if prac ticable, to appear against him on this score. The man hav ing recovered from the disagreeable surprise which this unexpected disclasure.occasioned, was, with the female pri soner, committed for further examination till Wednesday next.—Reading Mercury. OLD WIVES LEESE.—" I have, in manuscript that in the year 1638 Si r Dudl e y Diggs, of Sheldwich, Kent, lave by his will zt:26 to be paid yearly from an estate called grave Manor' to two young men and two young women, on the 29th of May for ever, to be run a lye at Old Wives Leese, in Chilham, and prevail.' Li pursuance of this bequest, the young men and maids run at Old Wives Leese yearly on the Ist of May ; and the same number run at Sheldwich Leese on the Monday foll ming by way of trial; and the two of each place of either sex that ' prevail' run for the £lO at Old Wives Leese, as above mentioned."— Mockett's Journal. We understand a contest is likely to take place this year, several young men and women from Wingham, Margate, and St. Peter's intending to try their speed, the sum being so inviting. Many gentlemen from each place will back their neighbours.—Kentish Observer. Barbadian, Hughes, from Norfolk, at Jamaica Sarah, Hanker, hence at Marseilles Jane, Watson, from Valparaiso, at Deal St.'Patrick, Danis, from Newport for Liverpool, at Milford, with loss of main topmast Felicity, Ackers, from , at Studwall Roads, with loss of foremast and leaky Thomas Worthington, , sailed from Lima for Liverpool 24th Feb. - Hindley, , from Istappa, at Lima, and was to sail for Liverpool Ist March Eblana, , and Avon, , hence at Trinidad Lively, Hick ; Agatha, de Groot, and Chieftain, Baxter, hence at Helvoet Brilliant, , hence at Jamaica Mary, ( supposed the May) off Cape Palmyras 21st March Elizabeth Radcliffe, Black, hence at Lima in 112 days Murray, , hence at Jamaica Despatch, de GI uchy, hence for Hayti, off Antigua 24th April Sonnes, CaMpbell, from Belfast, at Troon, with loss of topmasts, bound to St. John Douro, Stubbs, from St. Kitts, at the Cove Chieftain, Todd, front Sierra Leone, ditto Jenny, Boumack, hence at Newfoundland -Tomlinson, , hence off Tampico Ann Mondell, Roberts, from London, at Trinidad Heyworth, Dunlop, from the Clyde, at Demerara Glanmalier, Brown, hence at Valparaiso Black Prince, Martin ; Heroine, Bouch, and Asia, Bloomfield, sailed from Valparaiso for Islay 4th Feb. and Pearl, Carrick, for Cadiz 6th Feb. ANTIGUA, April 25.—The Eleanor, M'Pherson, from Liverpool for New Orleans, ran on the Horse Shoe Reef 22nd instant, but got off without apparent damage, and making no water, proceeded BEAL/MARIS, May 27.—The Jane, Williamson, hence to Charente, is aground in Friar's Roads, but not expected to receive any da mage _ _ May 26.—The llebbles, Floating Light Ship, came in here last night, having broken from her moorings during the gale TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 28, 1840. Wind at Holyhead, S.W. moderate. Off Holyhead, outward bound, at 6 p.m. No. 388, Mischief, B.Bk. for Ancona. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, (have pilots,) No. 1279, Grey hound, B.Sc. at 8 a.m. : No. 1612, Henrietta, 13.8. from New Or leans, and p 6, Thomas Worthington, 8.13. at 2 p.m. and No. 115, Clifton, 11.11 k. at 4 p.m. - . . . Off Wel Nant, inward bound, at 7 p.m. No. 1612, Henrietta, B.S. from New Orleans. &bipping TUESDAY, MAY 26.—Wind.S.E, Aanivun—Julia, Rae from Mobile—Friends, Maclean, from Vir ginia —Isis, Maas, from Uistnar—Elizabeth, Pybus, from Rotterdam SAlLED—Patriot Queen, Hoodless, for Calcutta—Falcon, Turner, for Africa—Coroman do, Pierce, for Charleston—Cecilia, Anderson, for Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, and Sydney—Helen, Kuner, for Riga.—Asia, Hannah, from Savannah,.—European, lkl`Lean.— Mogul, Gallagher from Apalachicola Capricorn, and Governor, James, hence at Jamaica Renown, from the Clyde at ditto Sultana, hence at Trinidad :steamer, with the mails :or the Hope Packet, was to leave Jamaica for Cape Hayti, 21st ult Jersey Lass, and Mersey. hence at Vera Cruz Opossum Packet, from Falmouth at ditto David Banks, Jolly, hence and Leghorn, at Malaga Redbreast, Bence, hence at Malaga, and sailed 9th instant, on her return Alicailitz, Smith, hence at Malaga Pioneer, Cook, sailed fro Malaga on the 9th May for this port Nais, Easter, hence at C Maria Ann, Hagedon, hence at Riga Marion, Martin, sailed from Cadiz for Tampico on the 10th May, and lithe, Thompson, for this port 12th May Tjakkien, Driennes ; Margareitha, Scholtens, and Gezina, De Boer, hence at Zwolle Trinidad Packet, -, hence to Carthagena, was spoken Bth instant, in lat. 44, long. 16 _ _ _ Susquehanna, -, hence to Philadelphia, was spoken. 26th ult. in lat. 41, long. 58 Elizabeth, •, from St. Joseph's to this port, was spoken 2nd instant, in 1at.`.15, long. 71 The Unicorn, (steamer,) hence to Halifax, was spoken 20th inst. at 10 a.m. in lat 49 20, long. 18 Two Sostre, Spiens, hence for Swenborg off Deal, on the 24th instant _ _ . Dorothea, De Boer, hence for Zwolle off Deal, on the 24th instant YAKmoupn, 24th May.—The Henry and Elizabeth. Mann, from Liverpool to Newcastle, has put into this harbour leaky, and must discharge TRIESTIi, 14th May.—A British barque from this port in ballast is reported to be on shore on the rocks off Grosse Islands WEDNESDAY, MAY 27.—Wind W.N.W. moderate. ARRlVED.—Cliampic;n, Wright, from Pernambuco and Paraiba.— Reynard, Wetherall, from Naples.—Elizabeth, Jennings, from St. Joseph's.—Pauline, and Henriette, from Ostend.— Roscoe, Huttles toti, from New York.—Adelaide, from Mobile.—lmogen, frolfr Calcutta.—Thomas Perry, from Cuba SAILED.—Sir J. Franklin, Borthwick, for Rio Janeiro.—lndepen deuce, Nye; Angora, Salisbury and Warsaw, Mendell, for New York.—Robert Burns, Messenger; John Bull, Rogers ; Actress, Dixon, and Greenhow, Mackay, for (ftebec.• Bristol, Ilesketh, and Mary A. Henderson, Evans, for Cadiz and Monte Video.—Oberon, Whitesides, for Lima.—Jane, Reid, for Leghorn.—Thalia, Rogers, for Genoa and Leghorn.—Hope, Jellard, and George Sutton, Archer, for Labrado.—St. Mary, 111' Minn, for Jamaica.--Joseph Potter, Wilson, for Charleston.—Tally Ho, Taylor, and Mischief, Jones, for Ancona.—Octorara, Deccan, for Philadelphia.—Galway Lass, Abbett, for Archangel.—Louisa, Chalker, for Amsterdam.— Grenada, Miller, for Calcutta.. Balfour, Foster, from Bombay at this port, sailed 29th January, ans from St. Helena, 4th ult. On the 16th ult. in hit. 1 40, N. lon. 20 39, W. spoke the the Venus, M'Donald, hence for Lima. Johnstone, Spence, hence at Demerara, in 26 days. Integrity, Watson, and Mearns, Allen, hence at St John, N.B. Earl Durham, Doane, hence at Halifax. Ariel, Hoodless, hence and Newfoundland at New York, 3rd inst Lagoda, hence-at Baltimore Flying Fish, Edwards, hence 14 Odessa Thomas Crisp, Bloom, sailed from ditto for England, lath inst Danubin, Milinovich, sailed from Trieste for this port, gth inst , Elizabeth Mary Ann, Ball, hence at. Naples Mary Jane, Osborne. sailed from Naples for this port 2nd inst Abeona, Baron, sailed from Marseilles for this port, gth inst Johanna, Shuck, hence at Hamburgh Handelaars, Nyman, and Camilla, Coster, hence at Harlingen Aurora, Nieman, from Wismar, for this port at Elsineur Amphitrite, Bentz, from.Rostock, for this port at ditto Jonge Wicher, Bontekoe, hence at Zoltkamp Union, Pulliam, hence for South Australia, off Weymouth, 25th inst Bruce, Campbell, from Havana for St. Petersburgh, at Pentland Frith 23rd inst Caledonia hence for New York, was spoken sth inst. in lat. 44 0, lon. 46 0 CORK, 23rd May.—A vessel, bottom up, about 200 tons, with deep keel and flat floor, and about 8 inches of false keel, not coppered, was passed 19th inst. on the edge of soundings, by the Ardent, Hartgrave, arrived off this port. THURSDAY, MAY 23, ARRIVED.—Robert James Haynes, ;----, from Rio dela Hache —Oxford, Robinson, from Savannah—Marathon, Brown, from Charleston. SAILEIL—Kate, Barrett; Anja, Hazewlnkel. and Maria Aletta, Schutt, for Rotterdam—Wm. Herdman, Michael, for Quebec— Erie, Funk, for New York—Alonzo, Adey, for Naples—George, Moller, for Narva—Ada, Rowe, for Marseilles—Wm. Sorie, Frame, for Monte Video—Dcspique de Inveyja, da Cruz, for Libbon—Gue senan, I.utke, for Danzic—Leonidas, Gardner, for Brigtol, U.S.— Emma, Thomas, for Ancona—Carl, Westerburg, and providentia, Well, for Elsinore—Diana, Warns, for Bremen—Autora Liberal, Mendes, for Oporto—Abeona, Jennett, for Newfot:rdland—Wis mar, Krohn, for Cronstadt—Galata, Palmer. for Co stantinople— Regalia, Cobb; William, Clouston, and Sylphide, Schrueling. for St. Petersburg—Hirondelle, Oxley, for Constantinople—Liberty, Littledale. for Newfoundland—John Christian, Niejehr, for Elsinore Emma, Fischer, from Stettin—Galata, Bruhn), for St. Petersburg— Emelia, Brading, for Riga—Ostsee, Trettin, for Copenhagen— Charlotte Froderick. Schribe, for Christiana—John Marshall, Poy thress, for Alexandria—Courier, Stindt, for 3remen — Johanna, Peterson, for Rendsborg—Coral, Payne, for otterdam—Alfred, Paelow, for St. Petersburg—and England, Gardiner, for Quebec. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) CHINA. Lowell, T Remmonds, 444 China, Baring Bros & Co WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Queen of Britain, J Follett, 166 Cayenne, Eshelby, Rowett &Co Entered 18th May for Trinidad Ann Eliza, J J Mattison, 242 Madeira, Baring Brs Co Harmony, 374 St Thomas, J Poole & Co Entered 22nd May for Quebec SOUTH AMERICA. Racehorse, I Punchard, 178 Rio Janeiro, Cotesworth & Wynne Courier, It Huntriss, 142 Lima, T & J Brocklebank UNITED STATES. John A Lancaster, 1) Rogers, 175 Richmond, Va, Baring Bra & Co Adirondack, W G Hackstaff, 763 New York, Ingleby or G Brown Portsmouth, L S Akin, 492 New York, Focke & Boult Kosato, It Murray, jun. 246 New York, J Maury & Sons Virginia, G Barstow, 629 Philadelphia, Ingleby or G Brown &Co Orozimbo, D Haney, 496 New Orleans, Focke & Boult Isaac Hicks, Pettes, 473 New York, Brown, Shipley & Co Genera/ Jackson, F Moore, 329 New York, Waddington, Holt &Co Albion, 0 Lovett, 387 New York, D Malconison BRITISH AMERICA. Alexander Edmund, J Strang, 716 Quebec, Wildes, Pickersgill & Co England, J Gardiner, 939 Quebec, D Gibb Skipton, T Place, 279 Quebec & Montreal, Crozier Brs & Co Entered 2nd May for Montreal only Juno, S M'Taggart, 103 St John, N.B. Cannon, Miller &Co William Rodger, J Nicholson, 139 Halifax N S and Pugwash, Campbell & Co or G B Brown Entered sth May for Halifax only EUROPE. Wilhelmine. J C Linde, 140 Pillau, C G Weber & CO William Henry, A Crawford, 117 Rotterdam, J Drybrough Agnes, T Muir, 114 St Petersburg, Campbell & Rudd Mary & Eleanor, J George, 122 Dordt, A F Moore Erindring, J Neilson, 100 Elsineur, Bahr, Behrend &Co Amide, H P J Schultz, 198 Eisineur, ~ Ditto Harmonic, J H Dik, 60 Amsterdam, Ditto Emilie, T Thorsoe, 300 Walloe, Ditto Charles, J Rickmeers, 130 Ostend & Bruges. Ditto Entered 18th May for Ostend only Friederica Gustavo, C F Block, 168 Danzic, Lucinde, E Pottlich, 150 Ilambro', Entered 21st May for Stettin Cheshire Witch. B Davidson, 150 Leghorn, Eshelby or Ilaskayne Liberal, 9M de Oliveira, 109 Lisbon, Cotesworth & Wynne Mary & Eleanor, J George 122 Dordt and Bergen, A F Moore Entered 26th May for Dordt only 73 Marseilles, Eshelby or Grote 232 Ostend, C G Weber and Co 189 Antwerp, C G Weber & Co Morris, W Ferguson, Pauline, J Schreienberg, Eugene, J V (le Perre, TIDE TABEE Days. Mrn. Eon. Height. Sundays, Holydays, 4e, 11. M.ll. M. V. Friday ..29 9 5 932 t 'l7 5 Saturday 30 9 57 1 0 23 18 0 Sunday 31 10 11 15 18 8 Snnday after Ascension, Monday 1 111 36 0 0 1 18 2 Niconaede. - Tuesday 2 0 4 029 ' 18 4 Wednes. 3 -0 56 123 17 6 Thursday 4 149 216 16 2 Restoration of Charles II LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT. May 23, 1810. DISCHARGED. ADMITTED. In-patients cured 36 ( In-patients Relieved and at own request . 8 i Out-patients Made Out-patients o , Casuals during the last week 7 Irregular . o Remain in the house 216 Dead 2 Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson. Chaplain Rev. R. Davies. House Visitors . .... Mr. R. Houghton and Mr. Martin Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon Mr. Brandreth. LOCK HOSPITAL. Admitted.. Remain in the house PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. LONDON & LIVERPOOL, to Jamaica Leeward Isl. Dem. & Berbice Honduras New York, Boston Charleston, Savannah New Orleans . . Havana Canada British North America Newfoundland Brazils River Plate East Indies China Batavia New South Wales Cape of Good Hope Africa Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, &c. Malta, Sicily, &c. Smyrna and Constantinople Malaga Madeira Western Isles, Cape de Verdi Lisbon Cadiz France Holland Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Rigif, &c. Oporto Outward. i Home. 256 Od@ 30 0 20 0 -- 25 0 40 0-50 0 30 0— -- 25 0-30 0 35 0 40 0 40 0 50 0 30 0-40 0 30 0-40 0 30 0 25 0 -- 0 0 35 0 -- 40 0 35 0 -- 40 0 35 0 -- 4U 0 40 0 -- 45 0 40 0 - 30 0 - 17 6 -- 20 0 50 0- 60 0 20 0-- 25 0 40 0 -- 50 0 20 0-25 0 20 0 25 0 25 0 - - 25 0- 30 0 30 0-40 0 40 0 - - 40 0 - 50 0 50 0 - 60 0 25 0 - 30s Oil @Os 0 20 0-25 0 50 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 25 0- 30 0 40 0- 50 0 40 0 50 0 40 0- 50 0 23 0- 30 0 25 0 30 0 - 40 0 - 40 0 - 40 0 - 40 0 - - 126 0 - 20 0- -- 40 0 - 20 0-25 0 30 0 - 20 0-25 0 20 0 - 17 6-20 0 20 0 - 0 0 25 0 - 30 0 30 0 - 40 0 40 0- 50 0- -- 17 6- 20 0 Ditto Ditto arktts. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 28. • There has been but a moderate demand for Cotton to-day; the sales are 3000 bags, including 300 for export; the market very fiat, and 4d 14 , lb lower in the low qualities of American Cotton. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, MAY 26. Since — Tuesday last the imports of Grain. Flour, and Oatmeal from Ireland and Coastways, have again been very small ; and of Wheat, Flour, and Barley, from Foreign ports, they have been much more moderate ; the two former articles are chiefly going into bond for the present; on the latter, duty is paid as it arrives, for home use. The demand during the past week has not been very active, the millers and dealers having been purchasers very sparingly, and only for their immediate wants; but the holders of Wheat, gene rally, have felt more confider ce, there has been some demand for Ireland, and last week's prices of this, and of every article in the corn trade have been fully supported here and in our country markets. _ . . The only alteration in the duties on Grain from Foreign ports, since Friday last, is a decrease of Is 6d per quarter on Oats, and no change is anticipated next Friday ;—some few sales have been made of Wheat, in bond, at prices as if free, deducting the duty ; --Flour, in bond, at 25s a 25s lid to 26s in small quantities for ex port, and of Oats, in bond, at 3s 8d to 3s yd per 45Ibs. At This Day's Market there was a fair attendance of town and country millers and dealers, who bought of Wheat more freely and to a moderate extent, at a reduction, in many instances, of about Is per quarter, which the decline in London, yesterday, enabled them to do: Oats were also a trifle lower, and all other articles were but dull, at about last quotations. WHEAT, per 701bs s. d. s. d. INDIAN CORN, 2ir 48016, English 9 10@11 3 Red 'l7 o@4l 0 Scotch 9 3 10 0 White l9 0 41 0 Irish 5 3 8 3 BEANS, per quarter. Bonded BARLEY, per qr. Irish 42 0 45 0 English 37 0 38 0 PEAS, Grey 3B 0 42 0 Chevalier 3B 0 41 0 White 42 0 46 0 Scotch, per 601 b. 4 6 5 0 SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b. Irish 3lO 4 3 .In bond l4 0 17 0 Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 , FLouR, English, per 2801b.__ OATS, Per . 451 b. I Fine English Scotch 4 0 4 3 Amer. v brl. free Irish - 'I 4 4 0 Sweet U. 5..... 35 6 36 6 Foreign, in bond 3 6 310 Sour ' 35 0 36 0 Ditto, duty free 4 0 4 3 . OATMEAL, per 2.101 b, 13.1 - E, per quarter MA LT, per qr. line 6B 0 70 0 Ditto, new 34 6 35 6 middling •,6 0 66 0 Scotch 33 6 34 0 48 0 53 0 44 0 51 0 AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE, Imported into Liverpool, from lAh to the 25th inst. inclusive, PROM IRELAND. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lamb 910 1319 2417 50 388 Previously 17864. 15616. 88560 929 66 50 4022 COASTWISE. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. 89 530 Previously .. 2381 27833 4620 Horses. Calves. Lambs. 2 70 :0 26 PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL, Woo), Deals, flu stand. m. duty paid Duty . .. Archangel ' jl9 o 0 20 0 Memel 17 0 18 0 1 • Gothenburg - 10 10 I Not above 16 ft Wyburg lO 10 - 18 10 ' 1....t'19. B. P. 2. Petersburg 17 0 - 19 10 21 feet. PLANKS, per foot of 2. inches thick. ..'22...t'2 10$. Danzig, Deck British American Pine - -' LATHWOoII, per fathom. , , Danzig, 4 feet .e 8 10 British American 5 0 MA HOGANY, per foot of 1 inch thick. Honduras Cuba St. Domingo 1 0 —..). PLANKS, British American none. 1155 per load I'p:A IC wool), per cubic feet STA v ES, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe £135 0 —l4O 0 l Not ab. 36 in Hhd. 7O 0 80 0 .'1 3s. B.P. 2s and 5i feet long Quebec, red, 11 ininchthick 1 , , ' 55 0 5 0 2 6 4s Do. Puncheon l4 0—240 i 3 ‘ e 6s TIMBER, per cubic foot. a. d. a. d. Oak '2 9 4 0 Pine, British Amer. common red I 6 2 0 i per load. yellow 2 21— 2. 3 .1 2 IP,!— 2 3 }..e2 15s. - i.loail 2 5a- 2 6 i j g 10 X 4 53 6 o 155. Danzig, middling Memel, middling Riga, red 0 10 '..41 10s, 1 0 2 0 LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES Number of new patients entered on the books of the Dispensaras during the last week : North. South. Total Received advice and medicine atthe Insti tution Visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine 291 280 Total at each Dispensary 153 340 VISITORS North—Mr. W.F. Macgregor, Rev. Dr. Buck, and Mr. C. Booth South—Mr. Jordan, Mr. J. Cooper, and Rev. C. Morrall. R. WEDGWOOD, Secretary. Dispensaries' Office, 1, Fenwick-street, May 25, 1840. PRICES OF SHARES, MAY 28. Prices. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester BO paid 70 0 o Ditto and Derby lOO .... 89 0 0 .... Birkenhead and Chester Ditto, new 5 . 13 2 6 .... Bolton and Leigh lOO paid Bolton and Preston Bristol and Exeter 25 .... 2g 10 0 Chester and Crewe 45 .... 55 5 0 .... Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow 3O .... 24 5 0 . Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 19 10 0.. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar t 30 paid Greenock, and Ayr Grand J unetion Ditto half shares 3O Great Western Ditto new shares Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 13 0 0 250 0 oexdiv 100 10 0 —.lOO 0 0 92 5 0 .... 93 10 0 43 5 0 .... 43 15 0 36 10 0.. 34 5 0.. 12 12 6.. 184 0 0 .. 44 5 0.. 88 10 0 .. 178 0 0 .. 51 5 3► .. 29 10 0 .. 53 10 0 .. 29 0 U.. 30 .... 40 paid 42 10 0 Ditto, new Liverpool and Manchester lOO .. Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham 9O .. Ditto' new shares Ditto quarter shares 178 0 0 Ditto an.l Southampton 39 .... Ditto & Brighton London and Croydon Leeds and Manchester 6O .... Ditto half shares Leicester and Swannington 5O .... Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury ... Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... Ditto quarter shares North Midland New North Midland 2O .... South Eastern and Dover North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid York and North Midland 5O paid 30 0 0 83 0 0 .... s 6 10 0 .... 71 0 0 .... 54 10 41 15 0 23 5 0 .... 0 0 0 .... 94 10 0 102 0 0 .... 29 15 0 .... 29 5 0 715 0 .... 7 15 0 85 10 0 ex. 81 10 0 0 0 0 .... 64 0 0 .... BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 . Bank of Liverpool .elt: 10s paid - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... - Liverpool Union lO .... - Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Wales lO .... - of Manchester lO .... - M'clmester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank lO Commercial Bank of England East of England lO Phoenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. 746 10 0 ex div 20 12 6 ex div 17 2 6 .... 13 2 6 .... 3 7 6.. 23 0 0 ex div 7 0 0 .... 10 2 6 .. . 9 17 6 . 710 0. 15 2 0. 80 0 . GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings £loo paid L'pool and Harrington Water t „ Works "" •• • 163 0 0 477 10 0 Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0 ... L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... :170 0 0 .... L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .elOO iyl 0 0 Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance } 25 paid 2 10 0 Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 5 5 oex div, Liverpool Fire and Life 2 1 os. 1 13 0 e4div DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, Ike. Anderton Carrying Company.: la .... .... Woodside Ferry Egremont Fero , l2 10s. .... Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company lO . . 6 19 6 .... Harrington Docks 100 .... 57 0 0 .... Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool; (Polonceau) 2 .... 1 0 0 .... GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIMES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM. 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 6 a.m. Mixed ~ 12 8 15 a.m. First Class PP PP I 15 p.m. 10 30 a.m. First Class PP 4 p.m. 12 15 p.m. First Class PP 01 6 p.m. 4 p.m. Mixed 7 p.m. First Class l2 FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. 2 15 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 6 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do. 11 30 a.m. First Class 2 l 5 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. a 30 p.m. Mixed 5 p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures will be 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London 'l'rain at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 a.m. Mixed' Pt IP ' , 30 - p.m. 10 30 a.m. „ 7 p.m. „ PI „ 12 2 la a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. 45 p.m. The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. FROM 1.'1 , 001. TO MANCHESTER. FROM MANCHESTER TO 1.'1'001.. First Class Second Class First Class Second Class Morning.. '`i 0 Morning Morning.. 7 0 Morning 845 ~ —lO 0 „ 9 „ ..10 0 ,r ll 0 . —ll 45 ~ I/ 15 „ ..11 45 2 0 Aftern. .. 230 Aftern. 2 0 Aftern. .. *2 45 Aftern. 4 45 ~ .. 5 30 „ 5 0 ~ .. 5 30 715 Evening .. 715 Mixed 1 715 Evening .. 715 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prksid e I St op on l y a t N ew t on & P r k s ide I * Except on Saturdays, when this Train does not start till Three. ON SUNDAYS. First Class Second Class First Class Second Class 8 o Morning.. 7 0 Morning 8 o Morning.. 7 0 Mornin 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 715 Evening.. 715 Mixed 1 715 Evening.. 715 Mixed 1 top only at Newton & P r k s id e I Stop only at Newton & Prkside, TO PRESTON AND WIGAN. FROM LIVERPOOL. FROM MANCHESTER. 8 45 Morning.. First Class g 0 Morning.. First Class 11 0 „ 11 15 ~ • • f 9 tt 2 30 Aftern. .. Second Class 2 45 Aftern. .. Second Class 445 „ .. Mixed 5 0 „ .. Mixed 715 „ .. First Class I 7 15 ~ .. First Class ON SUNDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 530 Afternoon .. ~ ,LTON. 7 0 Morning.. . . Mixed 530 Afternoon.. „ ZO B FROM LIVERPOOL. 5 45 Morning'.... First Class 12 0 •• • • 1 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 8 30 „ „ FROM MANCIIESTKR. 9 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 „ 2 45 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30. „ „ 'DAYS. ' ON SU 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. ~ 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. HELENS. TO ST. PROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 PI 11 45 2 30 Afternoon.. 5 30 f P FROM MANCIIESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 „ .. • • 111 45 ~ •• • • 2 45 Afternoon .. 5 30 „ •••• NT DAYS. 7 0 Morning.... 5 30 Afternoon.. 'URN GAP. FROM MANCRHSTRR 7 30 Morning.— Second Cla s 11 45 ,e • • • • PO 5 so Afternoon .. PO NDAYS. 1 I 7 0 Morning.— Second Clans 5 90.. Afternoon ON su:, 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 A fternoon TO RUNCI PROM LIVERPOOL. _ I Second class 7 15 NlCWnini::..Second Class 11 45 PI 5 30 Afternoon .. 9 t ON SU 7 o Morning.... Second Class; '5 30 Afternoon .. imp° rtr". EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, ke. Balfour, (310) W Foster, from Bombay, 1388 bales 77 . hf bales cotton, II bales 1 hf bale wool, 121 pees 28 bundles ivory, 1 bundle fish teeth, 50 cases 175 bundles mother o'pearl shells, 70 bundles deer and about 3 tons buffalo horns, 38 cases silk, 1 case a saddle. order— 93 bales 1 hf bale cotton, 100 weights, 1 box contents un known, Dirom and co -9 chests indigo. 30 bundles hides. Bates, Sons and co— i box contents unknown, R C Money—.—From St. Helena, 7 casks and 168 loose pieces elephants' teeth, C iforsfall and Son—W D Cora, (210) A Melville, from the Cape of Good Hope, 3743 bags 204 brls coffee, J More, jun and co—P 1) WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Jamaica, (295) A Whyte, from Jamaica, 12 hhds 198 tees 3 casks 102 brls I hf.brl coffee, J Holt-71 tees 1 cask 3 brls coffee, J Glad stone and co-64 hhds 41 tees 17 brls boffee, Wilson and Derbyshire —29 tees do, J Hall and co-3 tees 8 brls do. A. H Cohan-24 tees cask 14 brls coffee, .1 Adams-12 tees do, Headlam and co-20 tees do, R Almond-20 do. G Geddes-9 do; J Mackie and co-2 do, .1 Dick-6 do, T and H Murray-3 do, J 13 Yates and co-22 do, 11, Gray-12 tees 1 brl coffee, Langtrys and co—about 5 tons ebony. 36 tons logwood, 5.5 tons lustic, 1 case wine, 24 cases arrowroot, J Holt—about 10 tons logwood, J Gladstone and co-114 salted hides, 40 pees sample wood, Wilson and Derbyshire -2 kegs tama rinds. 1 box pickles, Mrs. Smith-10 bales returned good. , J Gandy and Sons-1 brl sugar, T Maddock and Son-13 bales cotton, F Singleton-1 D case arrowroot, 1 box shells, 1 case presents, order — P Irish Lass, (184) S Grundy, from Jamaica, about 180 tons log wood, S Cohen and Sons—K D SOUTH AMERICA. Sirius, (236) D Croal, from Laguna, 300 tons logwood, to order— K D Hannah Grayson, (136) E Penrice, from Laguna, 150 tons log wood, W P Bushby and Son—K D Lydia, (277) H - W Cothay, from Savanilla, '2OO tons fustic, 42 bales cotton, 294 bags dividivi, Imrie and Tomlinson—about 12 tons dividivi, Lanferry and co-181 bags caaozos, Plock and Logan -148 bags dividivi, 5 tons fustic J Cohen and Son—about 50 tons fustic, C S Middleton and Son—B D LONDON GAZETVE.---TUESDAY. MAY 2G. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED G. Ramsbottom and R. K. Ramsbotiom, Liverpool, lime-burners —R. Chadwick and T. Hargreaves, Bolton-le-Moors, timber-iner chants—P. Davies and W. Heath, Warrington —J. Young, sen. W• M. Young, and J. Young, jun. Bury, Lancashire, woollen-manu facturers. INSOLVENT. May 26.—Thomas Phipp, Southampton-row, Bloomsbury, Lon• don, bookseller. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED, Richard Perian Psat, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, scrivener. Samuel Prat, Glastonbury, Somersetshire, scrivener. BANKRUPTS. • Frederick Gye, Fleet-street, London, tea-dealer. Robert Baxter. Montague-close, Southwark, wharfinger. Thomas Fitkin,jun. Turnharn-green, London, omnibus-proprietor Joseph Brook, Victoria-road, Pimlico, corn-dealer. William Reynolds, Droitwich, Worcestershire, baker. Thomas Heatherley, Wolverhampton, miller. William Hirst Boeston, Manchester, coach-builder. Nathaniel Author Austen, Itainsgate, banker. Thomas Tovey, Warminster, Wiltshire, innkeeper. George Richardson Southampton, builder. Joseph Brook, HuAersfield, cloth-dresser. Samuel Bradley Booth, Macclesfield; silk-merchant. Silas Matthews, West Cowes, Isle of Wight, grocer. John Richardson, Leeds, wool-merchant. John Peters Hubbard, Teignmouth, Devonshire, cabinet maker. James Park, Manchester, iron merchant Ralph Lees, Burslem, grocer. DIVIDENDS. June 20. J. R. Gorst, Liverpoql, coachmaker—Oct. 13. J. Ratcliffe, Lowestoft. Suffolk, coachmaker—June 16. C. Palfreyman, Man chester, calico-printer--June 18. J. Jones, Maddock-street, Regent st London, tailor—June 18. G: Finch, Newbury, Berkshire, cabinet maker—June 18. H. Jacob, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, builder — June 16 W. Henderson and J. Henderson, Great St. Helen's, London. merchants—June 1 J. Perraton and T. Fletcher, Mac clesfield-street, City-road, rondon, coal-merchants—June 18. J• Watson and J. Cooper, George-yard, Macelesfield-street, Soho, Londo,n, silver-platers—June 18. G. A. Ennitt, Walveorth-road , grocer—June 29. M. Hart, Northwic•h, Cheshire, mercer— June 1 • C. Webster, sen., Manchester, banker—June 17. J. W. Edwards, Kingsbridge, Devonshire, druggist—June 16. P. C. Nicolle, South ampton, wine-merchant—June 18. J. Ryder, Manchester, crown glass-cutter—June 1 g. S. Jones and J. Jones, Nanchester, machine makers—June 18. J. Hill, Shifford's.grange, Staffordshire, miller — Jane 19. W. Yates, Manchester, commission-agent—June 19. J• Rutherford, Wingerworth, Derby shire, stone-quarrier CERTIFICATES R. Hatton, Liverpool, woollen-draper—W. Blundell, Liverpool. merchant—W. Church, Aston, near Birmingham, civil engineer — J. Richardson, Hyde, Cheshire, shopkeeper—W. Edwards, IN ent worth-street, Spitalfields, cabinet-maker—F. Robinson, Coventry. riband.manufacturer—C. H. Papps, George-street, Adelphi, Lon don, coal-merchant-3. Lumley, Leeds, flax-spinner SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS Lawrence Tweedie Robertson, Edinburgh, silk mercer. Joseph Gibson, Dundee, merchant. James Morison, Dundee, manufacturer. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. MAY floor 29. Samuel Rogers, (die.) - Commercial Rooms, Bristol, 1 3 29. William I3ilsbcrrow, (2nd) Clarendon Rooms. I 30. Betty Smith, (special) Ditto 11 30. Montefiore. Carmichael & Co. (special) _ ... . , Court of Bankruptcy, London, 1 2 29. William Kelly, (Ist) ' Clarendon Rooms, 1 30. Thomas Wilson and Son, (proof , Ditto. . 2 June 1, James and John Cotter, (final div.) Ditto, 1 AGRICULTURAL MARKET, MAY 27. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Old Hay .... 0 10@1 11. 201b.1Potatoe s , 2 0 6 3 8 Vg ° '" New Hay.... 010 1 0 - Cattle Ditto llO 2 0 --- Clover Hay.. 0 10 1 0- Turnips o 0 0 0 --- Straw, Wheat 0 6 0 7 - Carrots - Straw, Oat .. 0 5 0 6- Manglewurzle 0 0 0 0 .-- Straw, Barley 0 4 0 5- Manure 8 oio 6 --- Green Clover 0 2 0 3 -- BIRTHS. On the 21st instant, at Milford-lodge, near Lymington, Han"' the lady of Colonel H. T. ROBERTS, C.B. of a son. On the 27th instant, at Breektield-lodge, the lady of ADAM HODGSON, Esq. of a son. MARRIED. On the 11th instant, at Oporto, ALEXANDER REID, Esq. of Rio de Janeiro, youngest son of the late Sir John Reid, of Barra, T FItANCISCA, daughter of Signor FRANCISCO FERRY:IRA D SAMPAIO, of Oporto. _ _ On the 20th instant, by special license, at Baitinglass, by the Re', William Johnston, GILES WILLIAM CULLEN, Esq. lieutenant (?,, revenue police, to LOUISA NICOLINA, the amiable and (laughter and heiress of Sir CHARLES LENNOX DICKSON. of Lennox Castle, Norfolk. On the Seth instant. ROBERT JOHNSON, jun. Esq. to Ef- IZ ` l- BETH, only daughter of RICHARD ALISON' , jun. Esq. ~.„„, heys. On the 91st instant, at Spratton, Northanipshire, SARAH ELLS 1 eldest surviving daughter of THOMAS HUTU N, EN. t o lIAYSTON, youngest son of WILLIAM DOCKER, Esq. 14°"-- Vernon, in this town, On the 24th inst. at St. Mark's Church, Mr. THOMAS POYEI I ' printer, of this town, to Miss JANE LIM BIRD, of 'Halifax. On the 25th instant. at St. Paul's Church, by the Rev. J. H. Staf ford, Mr. JACOB HICKS, chief officer of the ship Richard, to Miss SALLY SMITH, both of St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, Cornwall. On the 24th inst. at Farnworth Church, Mr. JOHN SOUTHELL, 'spirit-merchant, of this town, to MARY ANN, second daughter or THOMAS NORMAN, Esq. of Sankey, near Warrington. On the 2;th instant, at St. Michael's Church, by the Rev. Cyr" M.A. JOSEPH, fifth son o f AN T HONY SCOTT, E,(l- MARGARET, fourth daughter of Mr. GEONGD RA FFIELD, Upper Pitt-street. DIED. On the 21st of December last, at Candahar, East Indies, AN" DREW WALKER, surgeon. H. E. I. C. S. 42n d Native InfantrY, second son of the late Andrew Walker, Esq. Gairbraid near Glasgow. Lately, at the island of Tobago, HORATIO EMERY, surgeo n, eldest son of the late John Emery, comedian. Lately, aged 23, CATHERINE ROGERS, w if e o f M r . John Thu s Rogers. iron-moulder. ' Rev Lately, at his Rectory of Fenny Compt on , W arw i c k s hi r e, the „(1 CHARLES KEMYS WATKINS, f ormer l y F e ll ow o f Ch r i s t Church College, Oxford. This excellent m an d evo t e d upwar d s of .1 a-year to acts of charity. Co lliery', On the Bth ultimo, at Beziers. in the south of France, after a fey' days' illness, on his way to En g l an d, Si r ROBER T HUGH KF', NEDY, K.C.H. second son of the late H ug h Al exan d er Kennedy' M.D. of London. On the 6th instant, at Bath, Lady ANN MARIA LUMLE Y , the to eldest daughter of John, sixth Earl o f Sc ar b oroug h, an d sister the present Earl. On the loth instant, at Ramsey, I s le o f M an , i n th e 8 5th yea r of her age, MARGARET CALLOW, eldest daughter of the late i''"" Callow,Claughbane. Same day q , at Ramsey, Isle of Man, aged 88, Mrs. HA rcolC relict of the late Rev. David Harri son , an d mother of the Rev. 10 " . yer Harrison, Kirk Maughold. On the 12th instant, at Kirk Michael, I s l e o f M an , muc h and de servedly respected. aged 76, Mrs. CAINE, wife of Mr. John Cato of Balla-nea. Same day, aged 76, MARY DAWES, w if e o f th e Rev. • ‘ itt —. ll Dawes, formerly pastor at the Independent Church, at Ormsk lrt Her life was eminent for piety and beneficence, and her death I °` tranquillity and peace. On the 15th instant, at St. Asap'', Mr. JAMES 11UXFORP, . eed 79. He had been a long and faithful servant of the Hon. Mr: maurice, and also to the late Lord Viscount Kirkwall On the 15th instant, at Ulverstone, aged 37, Mr. ALFA STORDY, late of this town. Same day, at her apartments, near Warrington, the beatific , . - 1 0 lamented ANN DENT, eldest daughter of Capt. Dent, of the Pi o, Durham Fencibles. She bore an accumulation of afflictions v. the most exemplary fortitude. Same day, Mr. THOMAS BURLEY, Wesley-place, aged 31. by ' Same nay, at Maryport, much beloved and deeply lainente „, all ranks in his neighbourhood, KELSICK WOOD, E sq. s hipbuiltw in his 70th year. On the 17th instant, after a severe illness, MARY , w ife of Ai r. WILLIAM HAWKINS, Olive-street, aged 57, le On the 17th instant, at Windsor Castle, after a short illnesT io her 68th year, Miss WHITE, housekeeper at Wi n d sor C as tle. White was appointed, in the first instance, housekeeper to the r4 t he lion, at Brighton, and was highly and d eservedly respecte d by pi royal household, during the long period of twenty-five yea ft a pd the service of their late Majesties G eorge IV. and William IV* , of her present Majesty. Same day, aged 3 years and 2 m on th s, JOH N NICOL, on ly s°° °f John Nicol, Esq. M.D. Rodney -street. , Sam day, awfully sudden, in th e 3 6th year of his age, of aPor" eY p. Mr. WILLIAM SUTTON, Of the Mill-stone public-house, Frods o Ile was much respected by a large circle of acquaintance. ~o l e On the 18th instant, JOHN NORBU RY, Esq. brewer, Nor theb o f Same day, after a protracted illness, aged 60, Mrs. POOLS' Stretton. Cheshire. Same day, at the advanced age of 91 years, ELIZABETH, r eSi4 of the late Mr. J. DILWORTH, of Utkinton, Cheshire. Sle d Same day, Mr. GEORGE RICHARDS, late of the Eagle Child Inn, ilolywell, aged 78. THU! On the 19th instant, ANN, the belo v ed wif e o f Mr. AR-,-,spe EBBS, and youngest daughter of Mr. John Jame s , Cori street. V 1" '0 On the 20th instant, at Cardigan, the Rev. JOHN I,ILACKI- M.A. Rector of Manordeivy, in the county of P :8 years e , WlL.embrok. iftg On the 21st instant, at Altrincham, aged 1 , GILMOUR MILLER„ youngest son of th e l ate James .Miller, „ merchant, St. Thomas. Ore!' On the 21st instant, aged 25 year s , a t th e res i dence o f h e r ,A gy, Mr. John Arden, late of Norton, in the coun ty o f Hereford, . 14 ! 01 0 the beloved wife of Mr. THOMAS SMITH, Ilanelagh- place, ° town. 3"• On the 22nd instant, MARY, the youngest daughter of W H A RTON, gamekeeper, Ince -Blundell. ye 10; Same day, Mr. WILLIAM ANGUS ROBERT S O N, age d 28 for several years assistant editor and publisher of the Mee" Magazine." 0 1 °' Same day, after a long and painful illness, aged 56, MA wife of Mr. MASKERRY, coach-builder, Warrington. , : urg e Same day, JOHN DEAN, aged 15 months, son of Mr. s' Dean, watchmaker. .00r 4 On the 23rd instant, at Brighton, Dr. ROBERT Fit's su Sa R N. g me day, deeply regretted, aged 31, Mr. SAMUEL HE , -- - organist of St. Nicholas's Chapel, Copperas-hill, in this tow", l 'i e ro, f last and most beautiful o f M ozar t' s compos i t i ons, h i s " i te( !,,ber ° ,l was sung at the funeral on Wed nes d a y morn i ng, b y a the professional gentlemen of this town ; Messrs. 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