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TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1854 "SIGNS OF THE TIMES." VIE REV. V. M. WHITE'S LECTURE. On Friday evening, the Rev. V. M. White delivered a lecture on the above subject, in Clayton-hall. Notwith standing the disappointment on the 22d ult., and the ex treme severity of the weather, there was a large attendance. Precisely at the hour named, Mr. White took his place amid' loud applause ; and, after invoking the Divine blessing, began by apoogising for the previous disappoint raent. He felt assured that, whatever may have been the inconvenience of partieS attending on that occasion, there Was none so devoid of natural affection as to say that the sudden and serious illness of a parent did not plead a suffi cient excuse. He was thankful to say he found his mother better, and hoped by this time she was restored to com- Parative health. He then proceeded as follows : My subject is " The Signs of the Times," as indicating a near approach of the downfal of Antichrist, and of the coining and kingdom of the Lord Jesus. On this point there are two classes : on the one hand, there are some who are always on the topic ; it is a glorious one, full of blessing to the world ; they are carried away with it, and, without calmly weighing the evidence, are persuaded that it is close at hand ; their ardent wishes for its consumma tion make up for the lack of proof. So it has been with many from the first. Thus, the apostles put the question , :Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom unto Israel ?" The apostolic churches were so fully persuaded of it, that it became necessary to assure them that that day should not come until there should be a falling away Inst. The same feeling prevailed universally—at the de struction of Jerusalem, and again on the overthrow of paganism, under Constantine, and again at the time of the Reformation ; and now, with not a few of the church and the world, its found to exist, all of which should lead us to consider impartially the evidence, before we come to a conclusion. On the other hand, there are those who refuse to entertain the question at all ;—many deny its ,t,rnth, and scoff at those who speak of it, forgetting that the Apostle Peter predicted the existence of such per sons in the latter days ; many are so careless in spiritual things as never to give it a thought • many regard it as divin g into the hidden mysteries of the kingdom, and con cludethat it is not a legitimate field of inquiry; that it is even forbidden, when we are told that " it is not for you to know the times and the seasons which the Father bath put in his own power." There are, again, some who regard the subject as unprofitable, and tell us that we eight select other questions, such as bear upon ourselves in the way of experimental and practical godliness, and leave the solution of dark prophecies to those who shall Witness their accomplishment, and thus have some clue to Understand them. Now, these different views demand a r eply ; if the eubject be not a legitimate one, we are most Presumptuous in daring to fathom the unrevealed purposes of God. If it be not profitable, lam offending against You in trifling with that time which might be given to tither "things ; if, On the other hand, it be the triumph and fulness of Christ's kingdom on earth, in proportion as We have any interest in his cause, we shall look forward to its glorious consummation, studying God's word, and comparing the signs given there with the events of the ' Present and past ages. Did the Jews of old refuse to entertain the promise of Christ's coming till they got some clue to its interpretation from the fulfilment ; was it not the one theme of their meditations, their hopes, and their prayers? The men of Issachar were men who had under standing of the times, that knew what Israel ought to do. In the 24th of Matthew, where our Lord speaks of his "Thln„ g,he :commands his disciples to attend to the signs ,‘aereof. The antediluvian world perished from the neg- Lect of this ; it is so fully insisted upon in the Gospels and .r4istles, that the Apostolic Churches fancied that his C oming was close at hand; and when, at the pouring out of the seventh vial, our Lord comes and completes the l'tlitl'of the mystic Babylon, consuming it with his bright ', it is introduced with these words,—" Behold, I come as &thief; ' blessed is he that wateheth." In prosecuting , the subject, we propose 'to review the course of events as they are predicted In the Scriptures, 'and accomplished in the history of the Church and the world, prior to the full establishment of 'Christ's kingdom the earth, and then to notice the iigns which are to :Precede that period as they are given an the Scriptures, 'and as they now appear to be ftilfilledeor are fulfilling, in re world. We have first to observe flint the cause and Notwithstanding of Christ is designed by-God to be universal. the limited extent of the patriarchal 'Church, and the very circumscribed character of the - Jewish, this view of Christianity runs through the whole. The first promise was, that the seed -of the woman, that is, the Lord Jesus, should bruise the head of the serpent., 'that is, effect the extinction of Sin and Satan. To Abra ham it was said that." hi his seed all the nations of the earth should be blessed." In fie 172iid Psalm it was pre dicted that "All kings shall 'al down before him, and ,all nations shall serve him." Isaiah declares that in the last days the mountain of the 'Lord's house should be established on the top 'of the entrantains, and exalted above the hills and that all nations -should flow unto it—that the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the w aters cover the sea. Daniel informs us that there is fiver, to the Son of Man 'dominion, and glory, and a eve ; that all people, nations, and languages, should e re him." And Malachi winds up the testimony I t rophecy by assuring us; or the authority of the Lord t i„_ests, " that from the rising of the sun to the going G; w4 ,,, of the same, God's name shall be great among the s i i ,ies, and in every plat Incense and a pure offering „ t ,T, be o ffered to Him. 'Such was the language of pro h„.."eeY at the very time when the Alm ight y himself cone -ft„Jed that none but Jews should partake of the privi- Neil'', of his church. The facts were in full accordance e o •Ln the prediction. The r.ature of Christianity fitted it it t; 4 7 universal. The Apostles were commanded to preach for th e Y, erY creature. The-gift of tongues was given them e e ' B ,end ; and, although the fact of its triumph is not the world, enough has been done to prove that 1t ig i v -Perfectly applicable to-every nation and everycountry. th a : t 7 second eat fact-revealed in the Scriptures is, world,before the fulness eef Christ's kingdom in the lasi ng e a great, wide-spread, long-continued, and deso is f a u y -I) 2 u s t,aCY from the:faith would take ace. This Script ure : gained In the Tollowine• three portions Of are br oug h t n o 2 nes. the "following particulars was the eoroino.a.ti—that the great subject of the chapter his people to Rim our i Lord, and the gathering together of there be a falling array 'that day shall not come .until quity, the germ a tha a t y fi p rm ;" that the mystery of ini in the church; that it was a Teta"' was even then at work hindrance, and would -not ;devil down by some 'let" or was taken out of the way,-and then itself until that ""Jet " be revealed, that is, the _apostasy should openly " would peul a y s eow itself; and its head sitting 'in the temple of uld not only set himself forth ::as another God on earth, but claim powers above and against God, till the end of his aPnointed time, and then the glorious and expectedcoming would take place, and this fleathsome apostasy should be utterly destroyed by the appearing of the Son of Man. Nowthe apostacy is the Church of Rome, the Man of Sin Is. the Pope ; the mystery-Which was at work in the days ;. 1 1 the Apostles is the essence of the Papacy in making Christianity a mixture of the prevailing opinions of the Lute with the fundamental doctrines of the cross, such gas St. Paul combatted in the'Epistles to the Galatians and `'Colossians.„., The "let," the ; persecuting pagan emperors, e ,_"no kept down Christianity,:und thus kept it pure. With dame paganism was overthrown, and Christianity 'ee-ttme the state religion. :It then spread, and soon be .esine more and more corrupt, until the time of Christ's " e°l ning, when this apostate system shall be utterly and for 'ever destroyed. • I Precisely the same view of 'things is given in the 7th Vl.aPter of Daniel. Four le.asts, that is, four kingdoms, nse in succession,--the Assytian, the Persian, the Gre ~ia,t,and the Roman. The fourth had ten horns, that 'is, la out divided i n t o t e n ki ng doms. a little horn then eatue ho a ni tir:ar w ith the t of th e f our th, and more time is taken np with th is whole four kingdoms together. This little ''wass lag the same as the Man of Sin of St. Paul , appear in ta • ....e s ng ame order and of the4ame character , continu - Th e destroyed by the coming and kingdom of Christ. t. next referred to the Book of Revelations in -th e of the f ac t th a t a grea t apostacy was to arise before T h coll Thig and kingdom of Christ. apo s e eee e 4 bird point is* , that the Church of Rome is th at h a u'"Z"eY• I know not if there be sue- d e t ec tives in this , outeif there be, I will venture to say, that no detec ah'o;ver-reeeived so full and accurate'marks and tokens of ta e i o e n n i ter as the Scriptures give of this grea t ecclesias siztee outlaw --the Church of Rome. We shall enumerate nit a i m Eirst It was to be a departure from Christie • iv. tb.e speaketh theft us, 1 Tim. I. Now spirt tbat in the latter days some shall depart from th roe and also, 2 , e Th 3 " That day shall not the eef ,eePt there come a falling away firet." It cannot, ehri e t.,,,• v e be paganism, which was not a departure from of a Secondly, It should still preserve the name of s e ir rinrch of Christ. Thus, in 2 Thes. 4. "The Man Self „ sits in the temple of God as God, and shows him tier, 'oat he is -God. Certainly very like a descrip it i s of the, Pope in the church. In Revelations, 17, spo,lLePresented as a faithless woman passing 'for the true to ( 1,,' of Christ; a tgure all through the Scriptures used d ehea 's'cribe the chureili. It cannot, therefore, be Mahome teen), which might be called the wife of Mahewet, but r i sh. of Christ. Thirdly.,—The time when it should - flou the It was to arise out of the ten kingdoms into which a nd \Tut Roman etupire, at its fall, should be broken, ch ee !as _t_o l continue until the coming and kingdom of Thl7 T 1 is fact is confirmed in the 7th of Daniel, 2nd ""‘ ti• 3-9, and e by Jehn in Rev. 17, 18, and 19 . Y, — The character a its government, Dan. vii. 24. other horn was to be divers e from the others. In all govern men t ar e h uman s there are points of difference, but they mixture of governments : but here there is a professed e e d esiee „l ea t_he human and the divine, of the civil and the !yes in 'b o u 1 ; not as in Israel of .old, when the prieithood the say rte u Z_Allse, and the kingly office in infallible but Priest, diff e-L e e- e i m himself an absolute king and an ever sa w all s pu ta ro rPllt fro every other government the world • ay beyond—The place of its seat. This is put tiug on the bea s t ° , Z:l 5- } ,b3' Rev. 1 7, where the woman sit (verse 18) to be " thais "e n heads and ten horns, is said kings of the earth ;„ great city which reigneth over the • heads are seven mount:1 1 1 1 again, (verse 0,) " the seven Now Rome was universally on which the woman sitteth." on seven hills, and the known in history as the city which reigned over the kingdomsY city, in the time of John, conclusive is the evidence here that of the earth ; indeed, so that R om i s h wr it ers a d m it that Rome is the place, b u t which, however, it cannot be, Yltist refers to Pagan Rome, away from the faith. SixthlY,— tis never was a falling Rev. xvii. 4: " The woman was erdress is given m scarlet colour, and decked with array e d in purple and and Pearls." If the g ol d and precious stones _y costume of a pope and cardinal were appeared in full dress, undoubtedly Bel, where they more perfect description there could not be a lust quoted. sevetia than the words of the prophet The waters which 111; Frer extent, Rev. xvii. 15 : sitteth are nations, and where the woman peoples, and t engues." The simple application gasiioand of this and !node by the Church of Rome herself n in the mark is - Lion and boast that she is " the Catholic asgunp ' ; It i s Church ! _ very rare you find an outlaw insisting thus !Penly in wearing his known dress ; but out of her own mouth God will condemn her. Eightly—The extraordi -3' powers and influence of its head. The little horn of Daniel (vii. 20) had " a mouth that spake very great tll 2n gs, whose look was more stout than his fellows." "The beast that rose up out of the sea with seven heads L and ten horns " is Popery, in its civil and political rela 'Jens. The sea is the flood of Gothic conquerors that over- Iva the declining Roman Empire, and settled down in Rome, and being unable to bring the masses of the popula tion back to Paganism, they had sufficient influence to graft upon a Christianity, already far declined, not a few of their heathen rites and observances,. and thus produced the anti-christian mongrel Popery. Now we read in Rev. xiii. 3,4, 7 :—" All the world wondered after the beast;" again,. " and they worshipped the beast," and again " power was given him over all kindreds and tongues, and nations, and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him." And again Rev. xvii. 2, " The kings of the earth , " and " the inhabitants of the earth " are represented as made drunk with the wine of her fornication. The application of this is to be found in the fact of the Popes in the middle ages putting their feet upon the necks of mighty kings, and the almost unlimited influence which Romanists themselves boast the Pope and their clergy have over them. Ninthly—The blasphemous names that it assumes. Of the beast that came up out of the sea we read, Rev. xiii. 1, that he had " upon his head the name blasphemy," and of the woman, Rev. xvii. 3, we are told she was full of names of blasphemy." Now, to pass by such names as our Lord God the Pope, " another God on earth," and such like given to him and assumed by him, we refer to the title by which he is universally known. In that most exalted of all the visions of the Almighty with which man has ever been favoured, that given in Isaiah vi., the highest. of the Heaeingly hosts cover their faceswith their wings, and cry "Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts." God is said to be " love." He is infinite and perfect in all his attributes, but holiness is the only one that is thrice repeated, and thus applied to him, as if to teach us that, of all the per fections of the Divine Being, holiness is that one pecu liarly and especially his. He is " the Holy One of Israel." Well, what is the title of the Pope ? We stop not to inquire what sort of man he is.. He. is a man, with all the infirmities of humanity, and yet ventures to assume the peculiar title of the Great God and to call himself " his holiness " the Pope.—Tenthly, He usurps the pre rogatives and powers of God. The little horn was to speak great worde, against the Most High, Daniel vii 25. And as " the man of sin," " as God, sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God." The applica tion of this, mark, is the fact that the Pope usurps the infallibility of God the Father, re-enacts the perfect and finished sacrifice of the Son, and altogether does away, by the fires of purgatory, with the sanctifying work of God the Spirit, and, in general, claims the powers of God upon the earth, according to the words of Clement VII.—"As there is but one God in heaven, so there is not, nor ought to be of right, but one God on the earth."—Eleventh; Persecution : The little horn of Daniel was to "wear out the saints of the Most High." The woman was " drunken with the !sloe/ad the saints and with the blood of the martyri •of Jesus," Rev. xvii. 6; and, when destroyed, in her will be " found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth." Rev. xviii. 51. On this point, whether we look into the nature of Pope r y , or into her principles, as taught by her infallible councils and. • divines, or into her practices for many centuries, where the had the power ' she stands before us as the literal em bodiment of the language of prophecy.— Twelfth, " Doc trines of devils," or demons ; the demons of the heathen being identical with the saints and intercessors of the Church of Rome.— Thirteenth, " Forbidding to marry," which some Romish pri es t will perhaps explain.—Four teenth, " Commanding to abstain from meats," or the fastings of the Papacy.—Fift,eenth, Lying wonders and pretended miracles, Rev, xiii. 14, and-xix. 20, of which it is not necessary to make any application.—And, " Having their conscience seared with a hot iron," / 'rim. iv. 2, upon which supposition alone we can account for , men who boast to be consistent members of the one Catholic Church, which we are told is every where the same, shouting for civil•aod religious liberty in England, and, with the same breath, vindicating the tyranny-and persecutions of the 'continent. Such are some Of the conclusive marks by which we prove the Church of Rome to be the Apostacy of the Scriptures. . Our fourth pointis,that this apostacy is to be destroyed. It is not to be reformed nor pardoned, but destroyed. Of the little horn see are told, Dan. vii., 11, 12 : I beheld even till the beast was slain and his body destroyed, and given to the burting flame.. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and a time." In Rev. xvii. s 'The ten 'horns shall hate the woman and make her desolate and snaked, and shall eat her fie 's-jh and burn her with fire ." and th ro ughout the whole of the eighteenth chapter of Revelations her complete .destruction is re peatedly stated.; and in the nineteenth chapter the beast and false prophet are " cast alive into a lake of fire burn ing with brimatene." It is remarkable thttin every place the destructionis said to be by fire, from:which some have concluded that Rome will be destroyedly a volcanic erup tion, and•that the judgment will be so signal as to give a deadly him to the system throughout the world, Who, then, shall condemn us for exposing what God.himself has thus destined - to ruin. The fifth point is, the period of its 'continuance.' With ereferencg to our Lord's coming to suffer, there is but one passagewhich gives the exact tirae,tbat with respect to 'his - coming to bring in his kingdom .and overthrow anti `Christ, there are many. Thus, in the eighth chapter of Daniel, in the vision of the Persian rain and the rough 'goat, which is the King of Grecia, there is a time marked in the 14th ve rse —namely, 2,300.k1ay. In reply to the question'. put in the twel ft h Chapter•cf Daniel—" Ho - long ,should it 'be to the end of these- wonders ?" There is a three-ford answer given: "A time, times, and a half. ; • *" A thousand two hundred and itimety days :" and again, • ' 4 ' A thousand three hundred and 'five and thirty days." 'ln 2 •Peter, third chapter, in expoalang the scofihrs who' -denied the-promise of Christ's 'coining, he says: "One day is with the lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years -as one day:" Apparently a calculation of some kind about • `the coming of Christ, which these men denied, and drawn . - from creation to which they had referred. In the eleventh of Reveletion the two witnesses -prophecy in saekloth, " A • thousandtwo hundred and threescore daysi." In theseme chapter the holy city is trodden down forty-and-two -rnonthi." In the twelfth of Revelations in two places, the churelids preserved from the great red dr agon for ' th o usand two hundred and threesceore days, " and for ".a . time; times, and a half," and in the Thirteenth chapter the, 'beast out eifthe sea has power for'-"-forty-two months." I Now, we - take " a time" to tea year of twelve months, and a month to be thirty days -ose "a time, times, and a half," -forty - two months, and uthoneand two hundred and' three scoredlays, are one and theeesme period. The pro-. -phetie language " a day" meaeaseeyear. Thus,when ec. 4, was 'commanded to lie 290 , dzys on his side ; and, eagaino4o.days, he is told that it .me arts 290 years, and 40- eyears, "each day for a year." •Thel7o weeks that Dania 'said were determined before Chrisliteshoutld come we w ere ten e 490' -years, that is, a day for a year. ere, hen, -periods noted in different places,:bnt all about the same time, arid referring to the same thing with a certain grin-• -ciple of interpretation ; and the only .question is, where are, eve to begin to reckon them . The main feature of Popery is the power and pretensions of the;Fope ; all the rest is -mere detail. - If, then, we can eafelyOfx them tie when 'fire assumed his peculiar powers, the rest is a mere mat-, -ter of calculation. About the year 530 these powers .ap -pear to have l r given by the Emperor Justinian, and , -reckoning from this 1,260 yearsovill'tring us to 1790, the • period of the French Revolution, when France, the eldest son of the Church, rebelled against 'tins Papacy, and be =came as a nation infidel ; 1,290 years - bring - 8 us down to. 1820, the revolt of Greece, and the Iseenning of the break big op of the Turkish power ; and IPS to 1865, which, • if - 530 is the starting point, will undoubtedly be about the dougdooked-for period of the coming sa our Lord, which is to effect the utter ruin of Babylon:; 'then, 2,300 years spoken of in connetion with the Pergian ram, if we date from -the expedition of Xerxes to Grew, A.D. 480, will 'bring us to 1820 ; said it is worthy •of 'remark that the language in Dan. xii., 1 1 , where the 1;290 days is noted, -refers '" - to the daily sacrifice," as does that of the Bth ad 13th and 14th v., a both terminate in 1820—Turkey 'being- the power by wltich Jerusalem is trodden down, and that yearlaeing the beginning of its end. The passage in • 2d Peter, 3, of one day being as a thousand years, and a thousand-years as one day, in the connetion in which it stands ; would seem to countenance the interpretation that -each day repolients a thousand years ; the beginning of the seventh thousand worikl introduce the enillenium of Test, during which Satan is to be bound, and Christ is to reign. According to the Hebrew calculation, 4,138 years passed before Christ, and 1,653 added to that:would bring us within nine-years of the millenitun of rest. Besides all this, the fulfilment of prophecy places us now under the last of-the vials el his wrath that are to be reared :upon 'his enemies. The sixth point is; that the extinction of this ..apostacy will be effected by the coming of our Lord ; in proof of which the lecturer quoted passages already re ferred -to—Daniel Ith, 2d Thee. 2,2 d Peter 8, .and to Revelations 19th, all of which fully proved his petition. Having thus laid down insix generalpoints the course of events we are led. to expect from the Scriptures, namely, that the Kingdom of Christ is destined to be universal — that, before this, a great, desolating, and wide-spread apostacy from the faith is to arise that the Church of Rome is that apostacy that it is doomed to utter and awful destruction—that before it begins to decline 1,260 years are to elapse, and 1,335 befere its final extinc tion, and that •simultaneonsly with its end will be the coming and kingdom of the Lord Jesus-Christ — we come now to eianilue the signs of the present times, as indi cating a near approach of that glorious period. 'Raving simply given the view of events predicted in the Scrip tures, only such signs shall anew be noticed as are given there. The first sign , of the times is drawn from the state of the Jews, and the intere st felt in them by the people of God. In the hundred and second Psalm, the following record is made concerning them : —That they shall be dis persed and judged fora lengthened period —that God will 'havemercy upon them"—that He has "a set time to favo ur ur them"—that when God visits them heathen mercy, " shall fear His name, and alt the kings of the earth His glory"—that the sign of this time of blessing to Zion will be when His "servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof"—that is, exert them selves for the go od of this dispersed peoplethen we are told, "This shall be written for the generations to come, that the people which shall be created may praise the Lord." The , same view of their case is given in Ezekiel, 36th and 38th chapters -- their literal return to heir own land being most fully and pointedly revealed tad lest any should s ay that all this is long s i nce accomplished, Paul repeats it in the eleventh of Romans, where he says : " If the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fulness ?" " I would not, brethrenndne, much more in part s hould be ignorant of th is mystery, that bliss is happened to Israel until t he fulness of the Gentiles be come in"—i. e,, till the full time of the world's conversion be come. Such is the sign. What is the fulfilment ? Is there no- change in the position and treatment of the Jews ? Why, for centuries no mad s eemed to care for their souls e ither men thong them not worth saving, or that it could not be done ; no attempt was made. They were a reproach and a proverb, and a curs e among the nations. Look at them now. Politically. they are everywhere holding up their heads. At this moment a Jew is one of the representatives elected by London —the metropolis of the world. A few years ago (1838), the Church of Scotland established the first Jewish mission, whilst now there is scarcely a church that has not a special mission to this people, and that mission the most favoured of the whole. In Palestine, in the last few years, they have increased from 2,000 to 20,000; whilst in the increased facilities of transit from place to place, it would seem as if men were unconsciously preparing for the fulfilment of prophecy on the return of the Jews to their own land at the set time, The second sign of the times is the universal preaching of the gospel, We do not give this because it is a means THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER. likely to produce such a result, but because it is given in The Scriptures as a sign of the end. Thus, iv answer to the question of the disciples, " When shall these things be, and what shall be the sign of Thy coming ?" our Lord said in the 2tth of Matt. (and let it be observed that, though this chapter refers, primarily, to Christ's coming, to the destruction of Jerusalem, it refers principally to . His coming, to the extinction of the apostacy, just as the 40th and subsequent chapters of Isaiah were spoken first in allusion to the deliverance of God's people from Babylon, and yet are now universally applied to the gospel deliverance), "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness to all nations, and then shall the end come." And then, again, in the 14th of Revelations, before the pouring out of the seven last vials of God's wrath upon the earth, the prophet " Saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to them that dwell upon the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people, saying with a loud voice, fear God and give glory to him, for the hour of his judgment is come ;" and then in the very next verse, another angel follows, and proclaims, "Babylon is fallen, is fallen" (v. 6-8). So much for the sign as given. Now for the fulfilment. Preaching is specially cha racteristic of the Reformation. Popery does not encourage it. She commands her votaries to hear, believe, and obey. No examination or judgment beyond the voice of the church. That is not all. The present century is em phatically the missionary age. Better than eighteen hundred years ago, our Lord gave the command to " go unto all the world and preach the gospel unto every crea ture." Nobly did the Apostles fulfil their mission ; but almost with them the missionary spirit died, and for seventeen hundred years the history of the church on this point is a blank. The oldest missionary society in exist ence is little more than half a century. Now every church has its missions. To be without them would be to be deficient in the one great end for which a church exists. Why did they not see this before, and why do they see it so clear now ? God's word says it is to be, and then shall the end come, and therefore it cannot but be regarded as a marked sign of the times. The third sign is false Christs and false prophets, which were to precede the coming of our Lord, with signs so plausible as to deceive, if it were possible, the very elect. In illustration of this, we need only mention Joe Smith and Mormonism, with the Salt Lake Valley Settlement, their miracles, the book of Mormon, &c., all stated so plausibly that no less than 14,000 persons in the last ten years have been induced to sell all they bad in this conntry and go forth into " the desert," as it were, that they may meet the coming Messiah. The revival of Popish miracles in this age of intelligence occurring so frequently, and advocated by such men as the late Lord Shrewsbury and Dr. New man, does seem to us so utterly out of place in these times, as to be explicable only on the ground of being the " signs and wonders" of "the false Christs and prophets" of the last days. The fourth sign is the increase of knowledge and the facilities of communication which the present day presents. Daniel xii. 4.—" Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be greatly increased." This refers to the time of the end, which an examination of the passage will show, though time will not permit that we should stop to prove it. First, then, look at the vast increase of know ledge. Look at the rapid spread of books and papers, good and bad. How old are they ? The flood of lite rature that is thrown broadcast over the lands is but . ef yesterday. Education throughout the three kingdoms is one of the chief questionaef the day, aid such is the 'change, that a mere child knows more now than a wise man did 100 years ago. Then look at the extraordinary facilities of communication, our steam-boats, our railways, and the electric telegraph—the lightning is God's mes senger—but this has new become a medium of everyday communication between man and man. A journey :from Edinburgh or Glasgow, or even Liverpool to London, some years ago, woUld have taken some weeks, now it is done in hours, whast'campeting steamers actually contend about minutes in their voyages across the Atlantic. Shall we give a description of a railway ? The hollows banked up, the heghts levelled or tunnelled through, the:angles cut off, and the line made as straight as possible, said then the rails laid dot's, or, in the words of Scripture, " Every valley shall be e:Yelted, and every mountaireend hill shall be made low, glia the crooked shall be made - straight , and the rough places plain ;" and then mark what fellows, " and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, andall flesh shall see it together." The fifth eeeen of the times is the trodliled and excited state of the world, wars and rumnars of wars. As this is an important point, we shall be a little-more full upon it. Haggai says, " Yet a little while, and I will shake the heavens aed the earth, and the -sea - and the dry land, and I will -shnke all nations, and 'the &elm of all nations shall come." This was priniarilyaccoreelished in the wars of Alexander before the birth of Christ, but will have, we believe, its chief fulfilment in :thelfte of the world prior to his second appearing. In:the 24th of Matthew we are told there shall be wars acid rumours of wars,' "nation shall rise against nation, end kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famine and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places." ' There shall be great tribeilation such as was sot since 'the beginning of the world to this time, no; nor ever •sivied be, and except Those days should be shortened, there--should no flesh be caved." Almost identical with the word` of the first verse •tif tire 12th chapter of Daniel, "And at that time shall Michael (i. e. Christ) stand -op 'that great Prince that standeth for the children of Thy people, and there -.Shall ben time of trouble, such as-never was since there - was. a 'station to that same timesund at that time shall Thy ,people be delivered." Wheethe Word of '" who treads the wine-press of 'the 'fierceness and wrath - ,of .Almighty God," i.e., ;pours. oar` the last vials of 'Gad?' :anger upon an apostate 'church and world, we are •in ;formed " the blood 'came out a the wine-press even unto the horseebridles by the -spaeeeof a thousand and six Inn • dred furlongs," Rev. niv.:2oeeetnpared with xix..ls. Under the sixth vial which is poured out upon the Euphrates, and is at this moment fulfilling in the state Tuike-s, three unclean spirits, like frogs, "go forth Unto - the kings of the earth and of the whale world to gather - them to the battle - of that great day of God Almighty," Rev. xvi. 14; and in the :nineteenth chapter, w-hiclu .gives in detail this last great battle .and the contending .parties, the prophet saw "an angel -standing in the sun, and le cried with a loud voice to all the fowls that fly inehe midst of heaven, come and gather yourselves Tinto the supper of the great God, that ye may eat the - flail of kings, and the flesh of ,captains, and the flesh ,of -Mighty mere and the flesh 'of hones, and of them thatesit 'on them, and the flesh of -alit men, both bond and free, both small and great;" and then:follows the battle of the kings of the earth, and the Wced of God and the armies of heaven, and the capture and punishment of The beast and the false prophet. These details are literal quotations from God's Word, and therefore, however terrible, weelare not withhold them. Now look at the application of - these signs to the present times. It would seem .aslif Ike seventh vial was aireadypoured out on the air. Wehare had famines and pestilence's, and we may have them again. We have not yet forgottentlie horrifying details - of A 84,7, in Ireland, nor the potato. disease which preceded it. .That .disease was not in the-wail, for then it would have gone ;from the root to the stem.and the leaf. The leaf wentfirst, and that often in a night, and fhen the stock, and then the .root and the tuber. 'Meanest eminent scientific meirand ~chemists were employed , by government to investigate 'the cause and prescribe the remedy ; but 0, how • God tan confound the wisdom of the wise. After ..all 'their experiments, they discovered what every :one 'knew before —it was do the air, and That % was nearly all they could tell concerning the disease. It was much the same with the cholera. Medical Jaen all agreed that it was net contagious, it was in • the :air. Look also at the present state of Europe. Who will venture to say there is no impending danger, distrust, and jealousy universally prevailicg. France and England are none - agreed, but will any- assert that even they mayseet failete understand each other; and even though they did, if God had a purpose to serve„seauld they prevent it? :.Has he not taught England a lessen already, and by the very commonest of plants confounded her men of science e pro ducecl acommercial panic -Ruches has had few equalse and with Ler gold and credit without count, absolutely starved to death thousands of her subjects in the midst of her. See Frame with 1,250,000 of an army, Austria with her 700,000,men, Prussia, a small 'kingdom, with half a million of soldiers, Russia with untold resources, England adding to her fleet thirteen sail of theqine, and every country in Europe-preparing for war. And look again at the deadly methodseof conducting war; notethe bows, and spears, and shields of the ancients, but our artillery and long-ranges vomiting forth death and destruction at every encounter. Only let the apple of discord bethrown in, and we are fully prepared, awful though the thought be, to realise the predictionjust recited. May God'prepare us for that try ing hour. The sixth sign of the times is, theestate of the Ottoman Empire. The sounding of the sixth trumpet was the loosing of the fem. angels from the banks of the Euphrates for an hour, a day, anionth,and a year, and that is the rise of the Turkish power, which rose about:the year 1057, and settled in Constsatinople in the year 1453, the very time predicted, i. e. - 390 years. Now, the pouring out of the sixth vial is upon this same Euphrates, .drying it up to make a way for the Kings of the East, i. e. the Jews to pass over. If we interpret the year, and 'month, and hour, ,and day, i. e. 396, to refer, not to the period that should elapse between the origin and settlement of the Turkish power, but to that which should exist between their settlement in Constantinople and their dissolution as a power, it would bring us to 1849, the time when the re fugee question stirred up the wrath of Russia end Austria against it. In connexion with this, we must not forget that tee 2,300 years dated from the invasion of Greece by Xerxes, 480 fee., and the 1,290 years, both of which refer to the removal of the abomination of desolation which occupies the place where the daily sacrifice was once offered, meet in 1820, when the drying up of the Euphrates began. Till then Turkey was a powerful and prosperous kingdom, but then her troubles began; Greece revolted, Egypt and Syria became independent, whilst in the north Russia has wrested from her seine of the best ports and fairest provinces, and placed others under an independent protectorate. Whether Turkey shall still have the name of a power, though stripped of all influence, or her very name be blotted out of the map of nations, a few years will tell; meantime, though France, and England, and the world uphold her, she is destined to fall. God has said it, man cannot prevent it. And, finally, we have the tripartite division of the great city. The Roman empire should give birth to ten king doms, " the woman sat on a beast with ten horns," a. e., ten kingdoms, which, with small changes, still mark the powers of Europe. But immediately before the end and the fall of Babylon the city shall be " divided into three parts." Rev. xvi. 19. And at this moment there are but • three powers in Europe that are able to exercise indepen dent action. Austria is the mere creature of Russia. Prussia would be independent, but dare not. The shadow of Russian. influence has already passed over Sweden and Denmark, whilst a very short time may see France give laws once more to Spain, Italy, and Belgium. But what ever be the result, present appearances indicate no ordi nary changes in the national boundaries of the continent, and thus give another striking sign of' the times. Tie manifestation of so many and extraordinary signs, and thewhich, agreement of so many periods of prophetic history by prophetic interpreters for more than a century back, us s v t e o bpaeeusnea,papnldiedsetriootuhselytianmdes things. psrataytederiashyoutoldpsourndeleyr ca these ingThaeppreevaLleas to cturerttillenducotinecsluodfedGodby,sappe o r a p c l t i e cal ud a e n r d steulich circumstances, urging more of personal preparation, of Protestant and Christian unity, both amongst Churchmen and dissenters; a careful avoidance or patronage of Po- pery as a system ; more active efforts for its overthrow, mingled with the kindness which Christianity teaches to all Romanists ; a more prayerful spirit ; and, whatever troubles may befal the kingdoms of the world, the most unshaken confidence in Him who of old wrought such wonders by sea and land for His people, and who, by the mere breath of His mouth, can utterly destroy the apostate Babylon. (The lecture, of which the foregoing is a full report, was listened to throughout with the deepest atten tion and interest, and concluded amidst loud and enthu siastic applause.) The benediction was then pronounced, and the meeting separated. LORD HAMILTON CHICIIESTER died on New-year's Day at Malta. GUANO.— several vessels, the Lanerk, Thornaike, Carlo Manran, J. Q. Adams, &e., have recently arrived at ports in the United States, with guano brought from islands in the Carribean Sea, called the " Mosquito Keys." The quality of this guano is not claimed as equal to that from the coast of Peru, as the prevalent rains wash out some of the salts. It sells for about $3O per ton. The Peruvian guano sometimes brings as much as s46.—Boston (U.S) Daily Advertiser. Monzrox BA.Y. — The rising importance of the northern districts of Australia is shown in the return of its exports, which has just reached ns. It appears that in the year ending June 30, 1853, the nett value of the exports from the districts lying northwards of the 30th parallel of lati tude was £370,110, or a hundred thousand pounds more than the estimated value of the exports as stated in the last petition from Moreton Bay, praying for a separa tion from the Sydney Government, from which it is sitnate some 500 or 600 miles. THE CHASE. THE CHESHIRE HOUNDS MEET To-morrow, (Wednesday,) 11th, at Belmont Thursday, 12th Tatton Pa rk Saturday, 14th Astle Monday, 16th Twemlow Hall Wednesday, 18th Thursday, 18th Cholmondeley Saturday, 21st Ravensmoor Windmill Each day ut half-past ten o'clo k, except Saturday; the 14th, and Wednesday, the 18th, nt eleven. SIR W. W. WYNN'S HOUNDS MEET This Day (Tuesday), 10th, at Hawn! . Jen Thursday, 12th Acton Reynald Saturday,l4th Baschurch Station Each day at half-past ten o'clock. THE NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE HOUNDS MEET To-morrow (Wednesday), 11th, at Whitmore Station Friday, 14th Bach day at half-past ten o'clock. PRIORS of STOCKS for the IVREK. BRITISH FUNDS. rusday. Wnsday Thrsday Friday. Satdy. ---- --- Rank no& .... 2173 i 217 .... 218 17 217 19 3v- , Cent•Rd.A nil. 93k i 4., k 234 k 933 i 3 933 3 3k, 93 2; ; 3 ip , Cent•Consols .... .... .... 933 2i ; 92/ 3 3 NewSi *Cent.. 94* k k i 943 i k 9 4 i 4 i i'9 4 i 3I 4, 94 33 i Long Ann., 1860. .... , 5* 5* .... 5 5-161 D0.,30 yenrs,l9.s9 .... 1 .... 5 1-16 .... ,5 1-16 ti0..30 years,lB6o .... i • • • • • • • • • • • • " • • India Stock •••• •••• •••• •.•• .••• •••• 1n.80nd5,41,000 par 5 pm .... .... 3 4 p:n Do. under.€l,ooo 1 pin : 1 pm .. • • 4 par South Sea Stock. .... I .... • ... .... 1 .... Do., Old Ann... .... i • • .. .. , .... . .. Cons.for Accoun t 93 I* 3 k 9 . 31 11 93} 2 i 3i 9 3 i 23 3 9 3 i i 4 4 1,000 R.8i115,2,15 10 pm 7 10 pm 10 9 pm , 7 IC pm 6 9 pm .500 ditto, 21 .. 8 5 9 pm .... .. ! 7 10 pm 69 pm Ditto Small. 2d ..;8 5 2 pm .... 7 VO pm 7 10 pm 6 10 pin Sid to 60, and a few left at the close. The number of sheep much the same as last week, from Gad to 7.0, and all so:d up at the close. Calves 614 to 73d, and all sold up.—Number of beasts, 1625; sheep, 5276 ; - Calves, 45. DUBLIN, JAN. s.—The reroads to-day brought a larger number of stock than could have been expected from the weather. Butchers bought freely. Beef, 50s to 60s per cwt in sink; mutton, sicl to lid; veal, Stl to Et I per lb in ditto; house lambs, 32s to 33s each. In the pig market, a good demand at 45s per cwt for prime ; inferior, 43s to 465. The supply also was considerable, chit& by raikays. Pork, Sad per lb, MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES. MANCHESTER.—Our market This week has been entirely without animatien. On Tuesday great dulness prevailed, aud, in consequence of the heavy falls of snov, but few of the spinners and manufacturers have since been able to visit Manchester,whitst since tuesday no letters arrived from any part until 'riday, so 'that •husines has been at a complete stand. Litnrs;--We have tad 'improved markets at our Cloth j Hall, compared with'the inarkets of the last few weeks, and the sales by the commis - eon men and of the market have also been to a larger extent than of late; on the whole, 'more business has been donetfhan usual at this period. The stocks are'low - for the season, 'prices are steady, and themills time .prettywell • emtiloyed. Business lies been rather dull in 'the warehouses, the wholesale houses being engaged in L I taking stock. "BaDFOßD.—Woc i ls: The transactions in wool this week hm'e been on a limited scale. No alteration in price'for finer descriptions of English wool. Anything low in quality meets with ready sale at full rates. Noils and brakes withotrt alter vation. Yarns: 'ode cannot report 'anything new in this =branch. Spinners are only working to order, and prices are ' , about the satn ears last week. Pieces: The heavy fall of snow impeding, and in - many cases altogether stopping the ordinary - transit of the - railway trains, has kept back a large number qsf buyers; and' the late fire having caused very great derange ment amongst 'the stocks of tbernanufacturersovhose pre mises are numerous in the neighboni hood of like fire, the transactions may be considered as very irregular; and only -such things snare specially wanted to assort up orders are inquired for. NOTTIKG/1-1:71.—50 far as themaecounts of experts and im ports or trade are made up forthe past year, i 1 appears that the commerce of the country at - Large is in a state of unusual prosperity;' but as we have notlet the particulars we cannot atatewhat -extent of increase in exports there 'kin either of I our trades;' but there can be no doubt that both hosiers and lace-manufacturers have participated the benents. There is every prospect of its continuarroe, as our lace, hose, glove, shirt, and , -other kindred trades seem tcrfind additional cus tomers in the western hemisphere, and our dependencies very rapidly, particularly Australia.; -even should the war between the powers - -is Eastern Europe •:ire prolonged• sr extended, it can make bat little differeneeto the exports from this town , , unless money matters be considerably deranged thereby. , VORN LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—There were a good many local and neighbouring millers at ourmarket to-day, butin consequence of the stoppage on most of the railway lines, few attended from any great distance. The demand for wheats of all descriptions, notwithstanding, eontinned swithout any re mission of -activity ; the sales, including parcels taken to bold over, are.coraiderable, and we must note an advance of fully 4d per bushel upon the currencies of Tuesday. For flour the consumptive inquiry is good, and speculators have bought to a fair extent, the improvement averaging le td per barrel. Barley is rather dull, and withoct amendment in value ; but 'beans are agsin held for Is per , qr advance. Oats are Id per bushel. ar.d oatmeal Is 6d per lead, higher; the. latter is in increased request for the country, and, even state advanced price, speculative inquiries are still directed (otitis article. Indian corn Is per quarter dearer; some parcels have been taken for investment, but the :buaiaess with consumers has been only moderate. ------ BRITISH. 'heat, sp 70th., s. d. s. d. English red.old 10 4 toll 0 Do. do. twirl° 4.. 10 8 Do. white oldll 4.. 11 8 Do. do. newlo 9..11 4 Irish red —old 0 0.. 0 0 Do. do. ner: 0 0.. 0 Do. white old 0 0.. 0 Do. do. . new 0 0.. 0 Barley,rir.Chev. 0 0.. 0 r6Otb.Sc.&lrish • • s Malt, or. Eng i 8 0_72 - 0 'Do. Irish 43 0.. 0 0 Data, sp , 4510., Eng.&Sctch,old 4 7.. 4 10 Da . Irish, 'Ds. Do. new 4 PO.. 4 3 icatlx3. qr. E.nr 53 .0..57 0 1.4.301 b. Sc. &Ir 49 0.. 53 0 p eas ,v.or.F.Tig 56 1..60 0 Flour, 7 i , 280tb, Seconds Fine . 4B 0-50 0 Super : fine Extra ........ Oatmeal, ie. 240th., Irish TORZIOK. 70Ib, a. 4. e. d. Caandian 10 6tolo 10 'United states 10 6.. 11 0 Dansig, &c 10,10..11 4 Potneratienn t &clo7.lo.. 11 6 Danish, &c 10 10.. 11 4 Freud', &c 10 2..10 8 Odesca,Polisli 9 ;9..10 3 Dauxbe 9 G.. 9 9 Russien&cliard 8 41.. 9 3 EgYPtian •• • • • 8 •6.. 9 0 Barley,Aa6ol l s 5 0.. 5 4 Oats, 1a.4581 , 4 41. 4 3 'Beans, g i a rp 52 0..55 0 . #4 €olb Egypt 43 0..49 0 Peae, gr.white 56 0..39 0 Ind. Corn, 4SOlb, Amer. yellow 46 6..48 0 Do. French, yellow 46 0..47 0 Do. wltite 45 0-48 0 thrall 8: C,,alatz.46 0..48 .6 Flour, vbfl.:l9Gth, Can., awoet .. 39 6..40 C V. States, do. 39 0.. 40 0 Do.& Ca thsour 35 0..36 6 frnchvak 2 B o tb 0 0.. 0 0 MANGSESTER, JAN. -4.—Owing, no doubt, to the in elemeucy.of the weather, our market this morniqg, was thinly attended, and but little business was transacted. :In accord. once with the enhancement -In prices_ established daring the wecklre raise our quotations .&d to 10d per 7.01b.,0n wheat, fullc 3s per sack and 2s to 2s fici per barrel on dour, id to 2d per 45tb. ou mite, Is to Is 6d per load on oatmeal, and is per quarter on beans. PRESTON, JAN. 7.—The few ; parcels of English wheat that appeared at our Corn Exchange this morning. were readily cleared:at an advance of 2s , to 3s per windle over the rates of last Saturday. Scotch Sd to 10d, and foreign 10d .to Is per bushel dearer. Flour rose Sstd per pack. Beans is per windle isigher.• Oats in fair request. and command 2d per bushel more money. Farmers' oatmeal 2s, and Irish fully Is 6d per load .owerlast currency. Bran Is per pack dearer. WAKEFIELD, JAN. 6.—At to-day's market buyers have been ready purchasers, at advanced prices; new wheat ss, and old fully Is per qr higher than this day week. Barley scarce, and 28 per qr dearer. Oats and beans partake of the general movement, and each article tends upward. WISBECH, JAN. 7.—The quantity of grain offering here to-day is small and wheat meets a fair sale at Is advance, good red, 601bs. per bushel, makes Sls. Not many oats offering, and Is to 25 dearer. Beans, peas, and barley, each 2s per quarter higher. CORK. JAN. 7.—Flour sold largely beginning of the week at the then rates, but factors demanding 2s. per cwt. advance has checked business. Wheat market very excited, and rose 3s to 45 per bushel ; except speculators, there was little sold at extreme rates. Indian corn has speculative demand, at 20s per ton advance. Wheaten offals are unprecedently high. DUBLIN, JAN. 6.—We have again to report a very excited market at our Corn Exchange to-day, and an advance of is on wheat, 6d to 9d on barley, and 6d on oats. Indian corn was held for a considerable advance, and so high as 515 was realized for good. White Wheat .41s 04 to 44s 04 Red do ... 393 Oil to 43s od SEABORNE MAILS. Dal when made From what When COUNTRIES. up in Gen. Post- 1 Port due in office, London. :despatched England. America(by Br. plc.) Every Friday.... Liverpool. Jan. 16 Awrerica(by U.S. p.) 10th of Jan. .... Liverpool j . Jan. 18 Atrierica(ln U.S.p.) ISouthamp. Australia (via South- I -ampton). 4th of Mar. ..• I ..Southamp. Feb. 4 Ditto (via Cp. of Good Elope) Africa (West Coast) 23rd of Jan. .... Plymouth . San. 245 Alexandria Wth of Jan. .... Southamp. Jan. 21 Bahamas l7th of Jan. .... Southarop. Jan. 16 Belgium Brazil Buenos Ayres • I24th of Jan. .... Liverpool . •• • • Canada Cape of Good Hope .. 114th of Jan. .... Plymouth . Nov. 2 6 Cape de Verde Ceylon ,l4t h of Jan. ... , Plymouth D. Nov. 26 Channel Isles.. — l Mon. Wed. & Fri. Southamp. T. Th. Sa. Chili ll7th of Jan..... Soutbamp. Jan. 16 China (see India) I • Constantinople 119th 0f.Jan...... Soutbamp. Jan. 16 Continent of Europe ITwice daily. Dover . ... Twice da. Feypt (see India) France .. ITwice daily . Dover .... Twice da. Gibraltar Greece (see India) ! Greytown ,2nd & 17th-of mo. Southamp. Jan. 16 Hamburg ... Thesclay t 'riday London .. Tue. Sat. Havannah l2nd of Feb. .... Southamp. Feb. 1 Holland Honduras India(viaS'ampton) 2Olll of. Jan. .... Southamp. Jan. 21 India l4th of Jan. ... . Plymouth. Nov- 26 lonian liies(see I ndia) - Ireland .. Pwicetlaily Holyhead: rwiceda. Lisbon 7,1710:70t month Southamp. - .Jan. 14 Madeira .. th Of-Feb. .... Southarap. Jan. 16 Madeira at alta - (see India) Malta . 7,17,19,278z300fm Dover . . Jan. 19 141anrititts (see India) Matfritins Mexico Naples New GI anada l7th of Jan. .... Southatup.- J an. 1G PapalStatea Peninsula . 17, 17, & 27 of mo. Soutbamp. Jan. 14 Peru nth of Jan. .... Soutbatnp. Jan. 16 Port Natal ll4tltof Jan. .... Plymouth . Nov. 2G Sicily l'usm.ny 15..15, &25 of mo. Dover . Jan. 19 Venezuela ll7th of Jan. .... Southamp. Jan. 16 Van Diemen's Land (see Australia) Wear:ladies Do., malting Here. lis 0(1 to 20s 0(1 208 Od to 22s 6d 158 Ott to ltls Od Oats, white .. 13s 6d to 16s 6d Oats, tawny.. 008 Od to 00s Od Rapeseed .... 27E 6d to 29s 6,1 0atmea1...... 15s Od to 17a Od Bakers' Ulour.23s Od to 27s Od Indian Corn, per 450tb..45s Od to 511 Ed CATTLE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, J. 9.—We have had a small supply of stock at this day's market, which met a good demand at full prices. Beef, Sid to 64d per lb.; mutton, 6il to 7ld per lb. Beasts, 1616: sheep, 6346; being 331 beasts, and 337 sheep less than on Monday last. SALFORD, JAN. 4.—The number of beasts much the same as last week, and of very good quality in general, from held on her, and her cargo, consisting of iron hoops and thrown ove board from the Robert Kelly, ater collision wit; bale goods, has been discharged, in ord. , '" that she may the Countess of Elgin. - undergo repairs before proceeding on her voyage. The name BELFAST, Jan. 7—A tante ship was driven ashore on the of the vessel is the .loven Claudio, Sanchez, master. A body Copeiands at noon to-day. She was breaking up yesterday Joseph Walker noted iii a former issue Of thisjimnial.— was cast on shore at Cur r scloe on the :9th instant, supposed a , 'i ernoon, awl crates end boZes of goads were washing out to be that of Frar.cisco Itoiz, is Sp tnish yo . ith, passenger by of her. . the ill-fated French shit; Car:lv:me, wh: , se t, , tt! los , has been NEW YORK , Dec. 23 —The Great Re p ubl ic , Wexford Independent. and Constellation , a h loading for Ltverpool, and White Squall' recently a , rived from S,,n Fratici,co, t ook fire, yesterday morning at otie.u'clork, horn some buildings in the vicinity, and only one of them, the Constellation, escaped total de struction. A great malty c,isks and nerts of a wreck floating, als, several bates of cotton, were seen off 'lrybee Lights 12th axernber. A large vessel. ilienaste4l, was passed 15th De cember, in lot. a St. John's Liver, (S.ivaou:il l ,) in fifteen fathoms water; :mil, on the 17th, a vessel, vah only one iiiitit: standing. w :, run on Saliello beach. iyletn. iThe China. from Livi.rpoi - iil. repotted to have art iVed off St. John's River, has not yet arrived at Savannah ] THURSDAY, JAN. s.—Wind S.E. ARRIVED. Von Weickman, Branihorff, from D.intz.c. The Atlantic (m.s.), West, arrive:l at this -wrt. She left New York on the 24th Dec., a►►d brought al:out $ - 550, , ,T0 in specie. Gleorlaragh, hence nt Mobile. Camillus, hence at Charleston. Pous Olii, Ecleston, hence at Baltimore. Glenrnanna. Rogers, hence at New Orleans. City of Manchester (s s.), hence at Philadelphia. Rip Vah Winkle, Alibree, hence at Philadelphia, Witch, Phelan, from Bahia, at this port, after being on shore at Crosby, but without injury. The Allen Brown, from Colville for St. John, N. 8., was lost on Seal Island, 30th Nov. . _ _ HOLYHEAD, Jan. 4. —The brig Henry. of Whit haven, struck on the north breakwater, in the new harbour, and sprang a leak. She has been run on shore in Pestlirnynath BEAUMARIS, Jan. 3. The brig Argus. Walters, from Pictou for Clyde. lost both anchors and cables in the' Cross Road , -, and ran on share in Cadnceat Creek, where she now remains, without damage. and safe. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 3.—The S. Helda, Kirby. from Manilla for London, has put in here with miin and mizen masts sprung, loss of topgallantmast, and decks swept, in a tremen dous gale 18th Dec., from S.W. to N.W., in lat 47. lon 12. DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN, Jan. 4.—The schooner Blair, Lassells, master, of Dublin, and bound for Maryp , rt, got npon'the rocks on the south side of our harbour yesterday morning, while coming into port, but ass got off next tide, with trifling damage. The schooner Mona's Qn2en, from Dundalk to Ulverston, encountered very severe we: ther on Sunday morning off the Calf of Man, and put into Ramsey, with bulwarks carried away. DOUGLAS, Jan. 3.—The brig Caioline, of Wexford, that put into this port leaky some time back. and after being dis charged and repaired left this harbour on Thursday last, 29th ultimo. for Newport. On the following day, wren off the Skerries, bad all her sails split, and was obliged to bear up for Douglas. Not being able to reach it, she was obliged to come to anchor about eig't miles off the island, and has since been brought into Donglas by the Ben-my-cbree steamer. She was obliged to slip anchor and chains. FRIDAY, JAN. 6. ARRIVED. Lady Sale, M`Kay Maranbam 1 Margaret (s.) Havre Escalduna Porto Rico Barkschitr Elbing, Littrab New York, Hutchinson Dont zic New York Harvey Galbraith, Leggett I Britannia St. John, N.B. Para VESSELS SPOKEN, SAILED. Persian (s.s.) Alexandria Alfred Kerr New Orleans Joseph Tarratt, Pritchard James WHenry, Wild Mobile St. John, N.B. British Queen (s.s.),Wickman Golden Age. Davies Africa Corretantinople Norfolk, 51.:nr;:ius to this port, Oct. 13, lat 2G 5, lon 2.5 E, with sails split. Wyoniirir, Philadelphia to this port, Dec. 5, lat 41 N, lon 55W. Topic, of ihis port, Dec. 11, hat 48 N, lon 11 W. Compeer, hence for Terceira. M.o. 14, lat N, lon 34 W. Prince of Waits, tincapore to this port, Oct. 17, iat 31 lon 16 E. 2Erolite, hence to Australia, Nev. 14, lat 9 N, lon 24 W. Courier. hone,' to Mauritius, Dec. 9, lat 36 N, ton 19 W. Arlington, Philadelphia to this Till, Drc. 10, lat 42. Sea Eagle, hence to New (Weans, Dec. 3, lon 68. R. B. Sumner, New Orleans to this port, Dec 5, lat 25 N, lon 80. Helen, Callao to this port, Sept. 22, lat 13, lon 24 W. Berwick, hence to Bombay, Oct. 6, lat 2 N. lon 17 W. Thetis, hence to Hobart Town, Sept. 21. lat 11 N, 'on 23 W. Athelstati, hence to Adelaide. Oct. 1, lat 5, lon 18 W. Merlin, hence to Australia, Nov. 8, tat 4 S, lon 28 W. Janette Callao to this port, Dec. 10, lat 41 N, lon 30 W. Lady Mary, hence to Melbourne, Dec. 26. lat 49 N, lou 10 W. Patras to this port, Dec. 17. off the S: rafts of Gibraltar. Inconstant, hence Nov. 16, tat 3 N, ton 23 W. Titania, of this port, Dee. 8, tat 10 N, ton 36 W. Mariam, of this port, Dec. 9, hit 44 N, lon 17 W. Ensign, Bonny to ihis port. Dec. 4. tat 31 N. lon 41 W. Tapley, of this port, Dec. 11 , tai 48 N, lon H W. Arno (a.), hence to Gibraltar, Dec. 28, off Cape St. Vincent. TIDE TABLE MORN. EVEN°. LIGHT., 110LYDAYS,5T0 December, 1,. m A. m ft. in. I Tucaday....lo 532 9 3 12 S I Wednesday .11 9"27 950 13 3 I • Thursday ..12 10 11 10 34 13 10 Friday ....13 10 51 11 9 14 4 Saturday ..14 11 28 11 45 IS 0 3umiay,Jan.ls • - 0 1 16 2 Ist Sun. after ElSkip ‘10nday....16 019 037 16 7 BIRTHS, On the 29th ult., in Percy-street, Mrs. H. Taylor, of a son. On the 29th ult., at Huyton, the wife of J. J. Kitson, Esq., solicitor, of a son. On the Ist inst., at Doncaster, the wife of Mr. J. P. Red head, of this town, of a son. On the 2nd inst., in Iledfurd-street South, Mrs. W. J. Paton, of a daughter.• On the sth inst., at Hia bfield, Oxton, Mrs. James Beasley, of a stillborn daughter. On the sth inst., the wife of Ur. Christopher Mitt, of a son. On the sth inst., at St. George's-mount, New Brighton, the wife of Thomas Corg i Esq., of a ton. Duchess of Leinster, and Hal:a—both hence at Valparaiso. Larne, sailed from Callao for England, 15th Nov. Jas. Carson put into Belfast Lough yesterday. Lancastrian, from Shanghae, off Ascension. Rolla Bell, and N. S. de la Victoria—both hence at Havana. Defence, Nleetry, hence at Sydney, N.S.W. Zebiati, La Gresley, hence at Vera Cruz. John Anderson, Marshall, hence at Trinidad. Liffey, Somerville, hence at Demerara. Woodstock, Johnson, hence at Jamaica. The Claybourne, from Bordeaux for New Orleans, has been wrecked near Tortula : crew and passengers saved. Magician, Spear, from La Guayra, at Porto Cabello, and sailed, sth Dec., for this port. Prudentia, Velasco, sailed from Bilboa, 23d Dec.,for this port Bellona, Jump, cleared at Demerara, 6th Dec., and Irt, Bth Dec.—both for this port. Mathilde, Frartzin, sailed from Anx Aayes, let Dec., for this port. Champion, Redmond, and LOasia, Kite—both hence at Barbadoes. Sebastian sailed from Havana, Ist Dec., znd Amalia, on the sth—both for this port. Maria, Freeman, sailed from St. Thomas, stb Dec. for this port. Harmony, Jameson; Jamaica, Keddle; Empire Queen, Porter; Columbian, Burk; Reaper, Archer; Fredricksteen, Lyne—all hence at St. Thomas. Globe, and William Prile, Spell, both hence (and sailed for Mazatlan); Athol, Fraser, from Caldera ; and Ann Sanderson, Barton, lasagna (both sailed for this port)—all at Valparaiso. Hartley, Loughlin, sailed from Valparaiso, sth Nov., for this port. Velocidad. Bart, and Kestral, Wise—both hence at Callao. WEYMOUTH, Jan. 4.—The Sprite is stranded. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 2.—The Emma, from Baltimore, is stranded. ROTTERDAM, Jan. 2.—The Hendrik, from Batavia, is ashore. MUMnt.ES, Jan. 4.—The Liberty, from Falmouth, is ashore, much damaged.—The Erin, from Cork, is ashore, damaged. HARWICH, Jan. 4.—The Mary Lloyd, for Liverpool, and Skultla, are in contact, and both damaged.—The Countess is ashore. _ _ _ A RICH/t, Dec. 17.—The Goojerat, Minim, of this port, is on shore near Cape Hinchiborooke, and likely to go to pieces. lii.VANA, Dec. l4.—The Undine has been lost in entering the port of Carninas. ANTIGUA, Dec. 13.—The Ouzel galley must discharge and be hove down. BA RIII_DOES, Dec. 12.—The Bolivar, of London, has foun dered crew saved. HOLYHEAD, Jan. 4.—The James, on the rocks, has sunk, and is likely to become a wreck.—The Blandin, from Prii,ce Edward's Island, parted her cables, and was run on the bead in New Harbour. • SATURDAY, JAN. 7.—Wind S.E., moderate. ARRIVED. Leon Santander Balbec (s.s.), Simpson Havre Urania, Daw Hausbarg Agnes, Fox Demerara Brigand (s.s.), Alexandria Christina, Muir Bay Chaleur Rattler (e.g.), Benson Oporto PROVISION MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 6.—For beef the demand has not im proved, and the sales for the week are on a limited scale, at about former prices. Pork has attracted more attention, and some sales of French, for forward delivery, at a slight advance, are reported. New bacon sells slowly at the quotations; old is lower Is, without leading to increased activity. A low sale of lard has been made to clear out an old parcel, and the market is now firmer. Cheese is in fair request; the low qualities are, however, less sought after than the better descriptions. JAN. 9.—The transactions in butter were to a large extent, and prices advanced fully 3s per cwt. last week. Speculators took a fair share, and the dealers bought more freely. The advices of small supplies into all the Irish markets continue, and stocks held both here and in Manchester are very moderate for this season of the year. The import is falling off considerably, and as the present severe weather will operate against the aftermake, holders, anticipating higher rates, now demand a further advance of Is to 2s per cwt. on the finest description. The most esteemed brands of Water ford, Carrick, and Clonmel, 102 s to 101 s; Kilkenny, Carlow, and Wexford, 1006 to 1023; Belfast, 97s to 995; Limerick, 95s to 986 ; Sligo, 95s to 9Ss ; and pickled Cork, 2nds, 96s per cwt. landed. Imported from Ireland, from the 31st Dec., 1853, to the 6th January, 1854, 4.141 firkins, 3 kegs, 257 crocks, 92 boxes, 102 barrels butter, 41 bales bacon, 1 hhd. 8 tcs. hams, 115 kegs lard. ST. JOHN'S MARKET.—Prices current in this market : Beet u t ton Veal ; — 0 8 INectsrins .... 0 0— G 0 Lamb, per qr l2 0 —l5 0 IMelons 0 0— 0 0 Fresh Pork 0 6 0 7i,Apricots Cod Fish 0 6 0 0 ;Filberts 2 6 0 0 Bret Haddock 0 4 0 6 Ditto,Foreign 1 9 2 0 Soles 0 10 0 0 . Pines, . For each 0 0— 0 0 Salmon 4 0— 0 0 Do. Ens. 6 0— 6 6 Turbot 1 4 2 0 Fowls,v-couple. 3 0— 3 6 Fresh Butter 1 4 0 0 'Ducks Salt Ditto 0 10 1 0 Geese ....each 3 0— 6 0 Lobsters ..each 2 0— 0 0 Turkeys F.Fgs 124 9 4 0 0 Hares Potatoes.vrieck 1 4 1 6 Itabbitsm-cple 3 0— 0 o Cucumberseach 1 0— 0 0 Grouse 5 6 0 0 Damsons 0 0— 0 0 Partridges .... 3 0— 0 0 LIVERPOOL ACIRICPLTURAL MAnimr.—Prices on Saturday : tay,ukt,r6t 0. Cut @ OslGi "otatoes, s. A. s. u. New 0 0— 0 0 Keinps 4 9 5 0 Clover 0 5a 0 8 Pink Eyes .. 0 0 — 0 0 Ditto. Green 0 0 — . O 0 Cattle Vetches Straw, Wheat 0 4 0 *Carrots 0 0— 0 0 Oat Barley •TIVERPOIOL SHIPPING. TUESDAY, JAW. 3. .Wind , A•A B. I van. Dreadnought, Samuels New York Ocean Queen, Cooper P u mash Starof the South, PhiHine Quebec Sir 'Henry Pottinger, Cragg Shoup:hoe Boutelle New,/ or k Robert Hooper, Spencer Ditto Chipman, Bail./ St..-fitephen's, N.B. William Vail, , Wishart _ _ _ St. John AlexanderCochrane, Waldren Rio Grande Baca Whiteway, Whiteway Val paraiso Samuel, Baker Dantzic Margaret Pictou Lucretia, Such Santander Niagera (r.tu.sk), Boston and Halifax J ohn.f ramie, Stewart Quebec Reliance, Watson Alexandria Soli Allan ' o Ditguid Mobile Arabia, M 4 Whirler Bahia Barrow, Turner Melbourae Endymion, Withycombe Rio Janeiro rxigineer,Sellars Barbadoes Elizabeth Ann, Lidatone Azores Henrietta, Fieldmann _ _ _ Guayquii Sumatra, Grivel Sydney Sa)(mica, Faulkner.,Demerara Samolet, Ebersh Revel Webster, Lawrence New York Rita, Joblin i , Baenos Ayres Eleanor Thompacn, Foster La G nay ra Fairy Queen, Edward Bahia Oberon, Goldworthy Wewfoundland lierelaw, Easdale Mauritius Martin Frederich,;?eters Bombay Schack Stavanger Daring, Milligan Santa Martha Camatan, Bate Rouen .Juan, Cove <Gibralter The Bee, Tannehill Ditto I. Juana, iliaga _ _ San Francisco Jessie 3,2tinn, Duckett New Orleans Raidium, Murray Ditto: Inuustrie, Veer Pursarund. Liconia.M`Millan St.Thoinas Violet, Peck St. Michaels. Levasit,;Folner Maracaibo Marsball,‘Nrause Havre Marion, henceat Savannah. Margaret. (s.), hence at Havre. Susan Hinks, Gay, hence at Boston. Braziliera (s.s,), hence at Lisbon, in 3 days 20 lvmvs. International, ;Brown, and Consul, Smith—both hence at New Orleans. Mounthars, Olive, from Santander at Camaret, wits cago damaged hound for this port. John Barbour (packet ship) hence at St. John. N. 8., in thirty days ; Margaret, , Hanaon, from Quebec for this port, at Crook haven, 30th Dec. America ;(r.m.s.), :Lang, hence at :Halifax, at 8 a.m., 22nd December. China. hence for Savannah, off St.. John, N.B. She -had experienced the effects of the recent gales. Valiant, Kelly, for this port, at Caldy Roads, Ist Jan., in distress. The Grace Ifacve.a, .Of Ardrosean, from Quebec for the Clyde, was fallen in with on the 24th Dec.. waterlogged. The (crew were taken off. Countess of Elgin, from Bombay; Australia, and New York, Irom New York; Euxine;.tenohia; Alcyone—all off this port ,George Washington, Comings ; Elizabeth ; Prince de Join vine (with lose of sails and.qaarter boats stove); West Point, biuiliuer; and A Z, Cheniter—all hence at New York ficOUWERsHAVEX, froya Newport, has been got into harbour. Ya.umorrti, Jan. 2.—The •Coarrier ' of London, for Inver ness, is wrecked on Scrobja Sand, and abandoned. Ngw YORK, Dec. 20.—A .cotten laden brig, on fire, Was passed -by a vesel arrived at Charleston. - Ruv.g„ Dec. 31.—A board (supposed from the bristantine wrecked on West Hoyle) with Sophia, of Belf&at," on it, has been washed on shore here. Boa-rote, Dec. '2l.—A Large ship on fire, supposed to be cotton-laden., was passed on the 2nd Dec., in . lat 28, lon 66. Two ships vrere seen to leave her. {Man. : The I rwin . . from Charleston, was burnt on the 2nd Dec.] The brig Oscar, of Nova Scotia, was wrecked on the 13:ilutinai. The crew were saved. Ltsuolv, Dec. 28.—The Elizabeth, from Beyrout, pat in here on the nth, damaged, and part of her cargo thrown overboard: she must discharge. The Mark, from London, put in here on the 23rd, very leaky, and must disoharge. The Anoromague, from Marseilles, has foundered. The Anna Maria, from Riga, has been wrecked. WEDNESDAY, J ARRI As. 4. 7 -Wind E. VE D . Good Intent.WiCenzie Pictou Frankfort (s.s.), Loch lonian, Colley New York, &c, Naples, &c. Rhodes, St. John, N.B. Louisa Antwerp Laconic, WHenry Ditto Amelia (s.s.), Aikin Bristol - SAILED. City of Glasgow (s.s,), Wylie I Tyro, Lloyd Lltbon Philadelphia Emerald Isle, Candlish Messina New York Daisy, Miller Albatross (s.a.), hence at Lisbon. Kangaroo (s.s.), hence at Bordeaux. Calpe (s.s.), Bruce, hence at Genoa. Arno (s.), from this port, at Genoa, 3rd January. Rattler (s.s.), hence at Oporto, and cleared on her return, 28th December. Teneriffe (s.s.), Bell, hence at Constantinople, and cleared on her return. The barque Witch is on shore on the flat bank off Crosby, with anchors down. Windsor (s.), from Dublin at this port, passed sev en sq uare-rigged vessels at anchor, off the N. W. Lightship. The Sir It. Peel is on shore on the rocks, near Tynemouth —crew saved. A brig, belonging to Glasgow, and bound to this port, was passed on Sunday morning, off Wicklow, with loss of bulwarks, and a heavy list. Prince of Wales, Rippon, from Singapore Norfolk, Brown, and Isis, Lister, both from Madras; Sun da, Perchard, and Africa, Neil, both from Bombay ; John O'Gaunt, from Whampoa, for this port, all at St. Helena. SOUTHPORT, Dec. 31.—The William Whitty, Hutchins, from Pentewan to this port, was stranded on Formby Beach, 29th Dec., and became a wreck—crew saved. A Spanish lugger, which had sailed from Liierpool for Cadiz, was brought in here by the pilots on Monday evening, baying sprung a leak after leaving port, A survey has been BAILED. Niagara (a.), Leitch Boston Mermaid, Robinson Adelaide Bell, Clause D!tto Philadelphia Harriet Augusta Virginia Syra, Galsworthy Jamaica accident, hence for Africa,. at Kingstown. Coromandel, sailed from Callao, 10th Nov., and Flora, 11th, for England. Shamrock, Smith, from the Clyde, at Ramsey, Isle of Man, leaky, and short handed. The steam-tug Dreadnought went out last evening in search of the Emperor, but returned this evening without seeing her. BKAUMAIIIS, Jan. Argus is discharging, being reaped and leaky. Dun/AN, Jan. 6.—The Edward Fletcher, of Boston, was passed, 22nd'ult., abandoned. .Wind S.S.E., fresh. D. Xangaroo (c.s.), Cove Kossuth Madras Bordeaux Augusta Memel Guy Mtinnering, Freeman King of Tyre St. Michael's New York SUNDAY, JAN. 8.- Alt 1 SAILED. John, Haws Savannah Middlesex, Formalee N. York The:Duke, Gould N.Orleans Greenock, :Vl'Pherson Mobile Guiding Star, Couch Ditto Cormorant (s.s.) Lisbon Guiseppe, Built Alexandria Salatta, Beoier Batavia .Nimrod (a.), from Cork, at this port, passed a large fleet -of vessels, inward bound, between Tuscur and the head: wind. S. to S.E., with a heavy swell. Star of the East, hence and Port Philip, at Sydney, Oct. 4. Admiral Prins •Hein, at Adelaide, Sept. 16. .Kilternont, Oct. 2, and • Sept. 26, hence at Melbourne. Charles, Campbell, hence, off Port Philip Heads, having put into quarantine with fever. Hugh Walker, from Glasgow, and Defence, M`Murtry, hence at Sydney,,Sept. 29. Vesta, M'lntyre, from Archangel, at Christiansen, short of provisions, bound for this port. A large vessel, apparently a screw steamer, without funnel, and barque rigged, was seen off Holyhead yesterday after• noon:: she subsequently put into the new harbour. • Huaihßoberts, Owen, hence at Melbourne. HELVOET, Jan. 3.—The brig lost on the Hinder is said to •be English : crew saved by a fishing-boat. ANTWERP, Jan. 3.—The Nlarie.Alphonsine, from Liverpool, was lost upon the rocks of Pierre Percie, near St. Nazare, on Dec. 26: crew landed.; materials being saved. DANZIG, Jan. 7..—The Amalie Sevartenort, hence for Liver pool, which was on shore on Hela on Dec. 21, has been con delayed.: .nearly half her cargo has been landed, and the remainder is -expected to be saved. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 6.—The Gladiator, Phelan, from Maitland to Gloucester, was abandoned in a sinking state on Dec. 23, in lat 47, lon 16 : crew taken off by the Eleanor, from the Mauritius, arrived here. MELOGURNE, Oct. 10.—The Hero, which arrived here from Loudon on Sept. 28 threw overboard two crates of felt on Aug. 2, in lat 24 S. on 29 W, which were found to be on fire, supposed I from spontaneous combustion. LEITH, Jan. 6.—the Tinarnara, of and from Liverpool, for Newcastle, -with salt, has been brought into the harbour very leaky, cargo washed, and loss of bulwarks, &c., two of the crew sick, and another disabled. . _ . BELFAST, Jail. .11.—The Farmer, of Maryport, Campbell, from Liverpool ter Belfast, sprang a leak off tie Point of Ayr on the 3rd instant, was run into the Lough yesterday, and placed on the Wood Bank, with seven feet of wuter in her. The Jane Evans, from Ayr to Newport, ran on the Long Rock, Ballywater, yetterday, and is likely to become a wreck: crew saved. KINGSTON, Jan. 7.—The British Empire, which arrived here yesterday from Madras, was in contact with a ship painted ;black at one a.m., 4th inst., about ten miles off the Skerries, And lost bowsprit, head, &c.; the other vessel also lOst her !bowsprit, and had her bow stove. The Victoria, of and for Wexford, from Liverpool, was wrecked on Rogerstown bar on-the sth instant, at daylight ; crew drowned. The Edward and Margaret. front Cardiff, was wrecked last evening on the North Bull : crew saved. A boat, marked Win. Herford, has Leila picked up off Wicklow. MONDAY, Jai I. 9.—Wind E. V E D. AAR' Asijt (r.ra.s.), Lott New York Ellen, Jeukinson Africa Watkins C. G. Hope Hope, Laugdon Africa Golore Memel Emperor Brazil -Ea, Jarvis Patras Tribune Licata Windsor, Ma t tthews Para Star of the West, Woodward New York S Margaret (s.), S Leavitt Storer, Trott New Orleans Maemie, Johnson Savannah Bellona Prince Edw. Island Reporter, Howe New Orleans David Crockett, Spencer New York Ward Chipman, Roberts _ Callao Forget-me-not Rio Grande 'arrison, Havre. Alpine, Hunter, hence, off A lexandria. StimhOul, from'Quebic, at this port, with loss of fore and maintopmasts. She was towed in from off Holyhead by the Cormorant (s.s.), which sailed hence yesterday for Lisbon. The David Crockett, J, W. Spencer, from New York, at this port. on the 3rd inst., when in lat 49.30, lon 29, ex perienced a very heavy gale, which put the ship on her beam ends, with p:ank-shear mainsail under water fur four hours; cargo shifted. _ _ --7 1 ; 1W.c;fa(i.m.s .), Lott, from New York at this port, left New York on the 26th ult., at 5 p.m., and brought .8440,000 in specie, of which .8'287,000 are for Havre. The Emperor, from Brazil, was under Lambay Island yesterday. A steamer had been engaged in Dublin to tow her either to that port or to give her a good offing for this port. Pacific (m.s.), Nye, hence at New York, Dec. 26. Oregon, M`Donald. hence at Mobile. Golconda, Fort,and Gipsey, from Cardiff, at St. Jago de Cuba. Triumphante, Menchusa, hence at Havana. Deigo de Leon, from Cardiff, at Trinidad de Cuba. Western Continent, hence; Maria Ann, from London derry; Charles Hill, from Cardi ff ; Thornhill, Bogart, from Newport; all at New ()deans. Brothers, from Wexford, at S•ivannah. Huron, Wells, hence at Charleston. Cobequid, Soley, hence at Virginia. Ambassador, from New Orleans for thii port, put into Key West, Dec. 21, to repair rudder. America (r.m.s.), hence . at Boston, Dec. 24. Prince Arthur, Sutherland, sailed from Melbourne for Bombay, Oct. 3. Eclipse, from Shanghai, arrived this day at St. Catherine's Dock, London. Thomas Sparks, Calcutta, off Cape Clear 7th instant. The Guy Mannering, which arrived here yesterday, en countered a very heavy N.E. gale from noon to midnight of the 3rd instant, in lat 49, lon 14, with a very high sea: shifted cargo. The Forget-me-not, at this port from Rio Grande, on the 16th inst., off the Skerries, saw a great many barrels of flour floating about—most probably some of the flour that 11-53 MARRIED, On the 25th ult., at St. Nicholas's Church, by the Ref. Mr. Amos, Mr. Richard Hulbert, optician, to Miss E. Bans comb, Harring on-street, Toxteth•park. On the 26th ult., at Kendal, Mr. E. Gibson, of this town, to Mary, daughter of the late Mr. J. Medealf, Kendal. On the 27th ult., at St. Bride's Church, J. Brunskill, Esq., of Lambrigg•foot, nest* Kendal, to Isabella, youngest daughter of the late William Farrer, of Wythmoor. On the 29th ult., at the Parish Church, Bradford, Mr. Thos. Fisher, si,irit-dealer. of this town, to Mary Ann, only daughter of Mr. R. Smith, Thornton. Yorkshire. On the 29tn ult., at St. Silas's Church, by the Rev. W. H. Duck, Mr. H. Emmett, surgeon, to ElizAheth, daughter of the late Mr. R. Haworth. On the 29th ult., at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. C. H. Burton, M.A., Mr. Chas. Boyd to Miss A. M•Kay. On the 29th nit., at St. John's Church, Mr. Geo. Winters to Miss Jane Brownhill. On the 29!!) ult., at St. John's Church, Mr. Richard Wood to Miss Sathh Shepherd. On the 30th ult., st St. John's Church, Mr. Geo. Grant to Miss Margaret Grant. On the 31st ult., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. Edward W. W. Taylor to Miss Jane Ashbunier. On the Ist inst., at St. John the Baptist's Church, John James, Esq., Park-road,Toxteth- park, to Miss H. Williams. On the Ist inst., at St. Paul's Church, Prince's Park, by the Rev. Francis Gell, M.A., William, fourth son of the late Mr. Joseph Deplidge, of Swinton, Yorkshire, to Ann, fourth daughter of the late Mr. Henry Greenough, of Gateacre, Lancashire. On the 2nd inst., at St. Mark's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Moeran, Mr. John Hamilton, master-mariner, to Jane, daughter of W. Wilson, Esq., formerly of Killybeg, Ireland. On the 2nd inst., at the Tabernacle Chapel, by the Rev. W. Rees, Mr. G. Pritchard, joiner Gerard-street, late of J Llanengan, Glatnorganshire, to Miss J . Pritchard, Mansfield street. On the 2nd inst., at St. John's Church, Mr. James Ashcroft to Miss Margaret lnce. On tlie 2nd inst., at St. John's:Church, Mr. Henry Older to Miss Jane Jones. On the 2nd inst., at St. John's Church, Mr. John Flynn to Miss Ann Tierney. On the 3rd inst., at St. Michael's Church, Workington, Alex. Kincaid, Esq., of this town, to Frances, second daughter of the late Capt. John lienney, of Workington. On the 3rd inst., at St. John the Baptist's Church, Mi. Elias Tattersall to Mary, daughter of the late Samuel Naylor, Esq.,many years a resident in the Park. On the 3rd inst., at St. John the Baptist's Church, Mr. Martin Mulholland to Miss Sarah Pearson. On the 3rd inst., at the Parish Church, Leeds, by the Rey. N. Greenweil, Mr. Henry Plint, of this town, to Charlotte, only daughter of the late Mr. Jas. Jennings, oiSalisbury. On the 4th inst.; at St. Philip's Church, Mr. John Naylor to Miss Alice Elizabeth Hesketb. On the 4th inst., at Chilttivall Church. by the Rev. A. Campbell, M.A., rector of Liverpool. the Rev. Wm. Taylor - r , ector of Swynner:on, Staffordshire, second son of Samuel Taylor, Esq., of Eccieston, in this county, to Fanny, daughter of Bohn Marriott, Esq., Eton-lodge, Liverpool. On the 4th inst., at St. Augustine's Church, Everton, by the Rev. Mr. Newenham, James, son of Jonathan Haworth, Esq., of Oswaldtwistie, in this county, to Jane. youngest daughter of the late Jas. Bury, Esq., surveyor, of Blackburn. On the 4th inst., at St. John's Church, Mr. Wm. Sinclair to Miss Ellen Dickson. On the 4th in!t., at St. John's Church, Mr. Wm. Davies to Miss Margaret Nixon. On the sth inst., at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. G. L. Roberts, M.A., Mr. John Rathbone to Miss E. Asliburner. On the sth Inst., at the Crescent Chapel, Ererton, by the Rev. J. Kelly, Mr. Henry Jones, sen., to Miss Sophia Bar nett, both 01 this town. On the sth inst., at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. W. M. Falloon, C. Garbutt, Esq., merchant, of this town, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Robt. Morrow, Esq., Rodney-street. On the 6th inst., at St. John's Church, Waterloo-mai, Lon don, by the Rev, J. A. Johnston, Mr. %Val. Orange, son of the tate Mr. John Orange, of Lord-street, in this town, to Harriet, daughter of R. H. Vinson, Esq., architect, Kenning ton, London. On the 7th inst., at St. Saviour's Church, by the Rev. R. P. Blakeney, LL.D. ' John Maddock, Esq., t o M ar y A nn Ma tilda. youngest daughter of F. P. Gibbs, Esq.,Oxton, Cheshire. On the 7th inst., at St. Bride's Church, by th e R ev . W . M . Falloon, Thomas Bawetorn Starey. Esq., or N o t t i o ,h am, Susanna, eldest daughter of Thomas Brough, Esq., of Hutt kisson-street. On the Sth inst., at St. John's Church, Mr. Thomas Kidney to Miss Ann Newell. On the 9th inst. at St. Silas's Church, fir, Samuel Board man to Miss Eleaffibr Harding. DIED, Lately, nt Woodbine-cottage, Drumbannocicer, Ireland, aged, 110, Mrs. El zlb2th Logan, aunt of Mrs. C. Grant, of this town. On the 2nd Oct. ' at Essequibo, West Indies, aged 27, Mr. B. Jones, mate of the barque Ouzel Galley, and stepson of Mr. W. Morton, pilot. On the 18th ult., at New York, Shadrich M. S. Simpson, a native of Montrose, Scotland, and late chief mate of the Li verpool packet-ship James Wright. On the 26th ult., at his residence, Springrove-terrace, Beau -street, Mr. Henry Tyrer, late of Halsall. On the 28th ult., at the residence of his brother-in-law, St. Anne-street, aged 2t, Mr. William Frost. On the 28th nit., at his residence, Upper Canning-street, aged S 7, Mr. Nicholson Bradley, late of Ardnaree, county Sligo, Ireland. On the 29th ult., Rear-Admiral Ramsden, second son of the late Sir John Ramsden, Bart. On the 29th ult., aged I year, Arthur Wellesley, youngest son of Mr. Edmund Bickersteth, merchant, Park-lane. On the 30th ult., Edmund, infant son of Mr. 1. Edwards. On the 30th ult., at his residence, Blackheath, aged l, Sir Richard Jenkins, G.C.B. On the 31st ult., aged 57, Mr. John Williams, joiner and builder, Walnut street. On the 31st ult., et his residence, Beckwith-street, Mr. T. W. Eginn, clerk of Holy Trinity Ch urc h, Birkenhead. On the 31st ult., at Denbigh, aged 91, Ellen, relict of the late Richard Hughes, Esq., Abergele, North Wales. On the Ist inst., at Maghull, aged 59, Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. James Watkinson, postmaster of Maghull. On the 2nd inst., at his residence, Leamington, John Fletcher, Esq., formerly of this town. On the 2nd inst.. at Birkenhead, aged 76, Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. W. Parr, of Tarbock. On the 2nd inst., aged 33, Mr. Matthew John Kirby, of Whitefield-street, Eve:ton. On the 3rd inst., aged 21, Thomas, youngest son of Mr. Thomas Dennitts, of Great Orford-street. On the 3rd inst., aged 7 months, John Henry, infant ion of Capt. Robert iteid, of Toxteth-street. On the 3rd inst., at his residence, Prospect Vale, Fairfield, Mr. Charles Hall, formerly of London. On the 3rd inst., aged 13, Thomas Bostcck, youngest son of Mr. John Briscoe, Grove-park. On the 3rd inst., aged C 3, Tho mas W at ki nson, Esq., o f this town, formerly of Gargrave, tn the county of York. On the 4th inst., at Olive-mount, Wavertrie, aged ar Charles Barber, Esq. On the 4th inst., at Gorefield Villa Oxton-road, Birkenhead , aged 23, John Crow. eldest son of the late John Crow Coxon, Esq., of Birkenhead. On the 4th inst., at the house of her uncle, Duke - street, Everton, aged 33, Eleanor, wife of Mr. Thomas Cla3 ton, Ros tock-street. ____ ........... Mr. George Wilson, Li one l-street. On the 4th inst., aged 19, Eli za beth Itloncrieff, daug h ter of On the sth inst., Mr. William Young, licensed victualler, Kent. street. 75, Mr. Richard Salter. ths Samuel Walmsley, son of On the sth inst., aged s mon , On the sth inst., at his residence, Stanhope-terrace, aged w infant orce e s t o e n r s o li f i r the e, Mr. John Parkinson, Falrclough-lane. On the sth inst., at Soho-street, Joseph Balsbaw. t age d 79, Isaac Lee, Berry-street. On the 6th inst. aged 43 Rev. A. M'Conkey, Eirkdale road. of Whitehaven - r. t le )m s E b d er " s 'a le r y d , Mr. Thomas Taylor, formerly of Church-street, in this town.' On n n t i l h ie e 6 6 th th in in st s . t , . , C l , : t ar On the 6th inst., in Prince Edwin-street, aged 44, Mr. Bur dett On the 6th inst., at Dunfermline, in his Bath year, John Henderson, watchmaker. Chas. Blows, printer, formerly On the 7th inst., Mr. Charles Musher, aged 77, Bootle. On the Bth inst., in Cheap 'el sl e. aged 56, Agnes, wife of 'Arr. James Hsmpson, warehouseman. On the 9th inst., in Ca tl a e-street, Kirkdale, aged 35, Eliza beth, relict of the late Mr. Cha rles Honiwen, sin of the illilack liorse 3 '? Oreeuland-etreet. g ?o, is)",