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lettn) A. SUNDAY IN THE COUNTRY "orcesterBhire Guardian.> Through the deep shades of night the orient dawn Cheeringly breaks upon yon reddening hill ; In calm renity the Sabbath morn s with so gladness so Maker's wt r realm, —ure, through all ht. , kept holy day. The whispering of the breeze—the babbling rill— The insects wheeling to their mazy play — The hum of vocal quires, chirping from spray to spray His str( No bus! Of man ;h rel;xing in the flowery mead sounds of preparation near od beast from daily laboul freed ; All speak of rest and peace, which, to their need, God has, in mercy, as their seventh-day share, By a perpetual ordinance decreed; Repose, which may their wasted powers repair, While the unentraminell'd soul ma; seek a purer air And now o'er upland lawn and dale a chime Bursts, as responsive to the voice of praise, Ilymn'd by creation at this solemn time, The blythesome hamlet at the call displays, In prim attire. through its converging ways, Th' assembled throng. Age, with a complacent mil Pacing along the venerable aisle, To its accustom'd place within that ancient pile Tis sweet where childhood and where youth before lave knelt, for hoary years to bend the knee; 'Tis sweet to hear familiar tongues adore ; From sire to son the well-known face to see Mixing around in kind fraternity ; is it to think that when our thread Is spun, within then And sw precincts we shall be, Mingling our ashes with the parent dead, And where our fathers rest that we shall lay our head With accents grave and brow serene and meek, In temper'd fervour, prayer and praise on high The reverend man pours fourth ;—the people speak Their hearts' concurrence in the full reply ; Grateful to find, what their tongues deny, The Church's ritual can fit word's afford, On which their wants, their cares, may upward fly, Nor do they speak in vain, with one accord When two or'three unite their voices to the Lord. And now the solemn organ, sweet and slow, Peals through the vaulted roof ; the sacred song Harmonious swells, and seraphs cast below Their eyes complacent on the tuneful throng. As one to whom pod's only truths belong, Reproof, correction, and instruction, he, The faithful shepherd, spreads his flock among As best may suit to their necessity, Albeit peace, joy, and love his dearer theme may be The service over, crowd the simple folk Around the pastor by the churchyard yew, Who asks their homely cares, or what he spoke • . • s in some shape familiar to their view Jietore the co Descends, the e-door :ed sit, or lingerin, In sober cheerfpluess, the youngerr - thro - ugh The scented lanes and blooming meadows stray ; And prayer and humble praise close in the Sabbath day TO THE ISLAND SURF, From the New Y 'ork Observer.) Thou hast come thyself from a distant shore, With thy silvery crest and thy billowy roar; hou hast touched the old beach of our father land ere now, to kiss young virgin strand. And art What mean you to say, as you send up this sound Of dirge like music, all echoing round ? And what have you seen, as y( u've lifted your head, To gaze on the living, and weep o'er the dead ? I mean to say that I've found no rest, As I've traversed these borders with buoyant breast; I have slept in the calm, and I've dashed in the foam, And still I am seeking a home ! a home I How sickened and weary am I of life, With its seasons of toil and turmoil and strife I'd gladly away to the stable shore, Where billows and sorrows are known no more. I have bared my breast to the lting rain . ~ • And my bosom has heaved with harrowing pain ; And often, my soul has been wrought up to rage, In the fury of battle and death to engage. I have laughed in the moonlight, and danced in the day, But 'twas only a moment for sportive play ; How changeful, how restive, bow yielding, how vain ! My 'portion, all launched on his wild-tossing main ! And is there no stillness, no comfort, no peace ? Shall the wanderer's rovings have never to cease? Shall there never a rest from this pilgrimage be ? A promise fore-whispers, " There's no more sea." I have seen, I have seen the ill-fated wreck, Where ruin and death have stalked on the deck ; Where gay hopes have perished, and treasures gone down, At the whirwind's nod, and the tempest's frown. I have seen the struggling saildr die, As he sent up a prayer to the Thunderer nigh ; And the lover and friend, all silent in death — I've echoed their names—but no answering breath I have borne on my bosom the anguisb'd crew, Of whose dread engulphiug no mortal knew; And last words I've gathered, all spoken apart, For the weeping survivors, bereaved in heart. But oh ! I have seen a bright starry sky, When the raging tampest has all passed by ; And sweet communings, e'en face to face, I have held with those tenants of boundless space. And thither I've sent up my echoing groan, And thither ascends this deep plaintive moan— I long for a transfer to those blest spheres, Where there are no strivings, nor wrecks, nor tears 'Tis not to be poised in yon vapory plain, To descend for a sojourn here again ; But it is beyond clouds, beyond skies to be, Where the promise is certain—" There's no more sea." CHRISTMAS GAMES IN THE OLDEN TIME (Abridged from an article in the Penny Magazine.) Few relics of the olden time are recurred to with more zest by our fathers than the goodly frolics and mirthful games which were wont to usher in the merry days of Christmas. We may still perceive in some parts of the country the lin gering remains of the rough sports which were wont in ear lier times to enliven the comfortless period of the year in which the anniversary of the great event occurs, in whose honour the Christmas festivals were instituted. Christmas parties and merry-makings are still formed to render the season of dark December more cheerful and en livening. The elders sit over their punch and smile at the adventures of their youthful days ; the young people dance on the sanded floor; John cudgels his brains for some sly trick to lead the blooming Mary, without her being aware of his intention, under the bunch of mistletoe hanging from the ceiling; and Mary at last runs, quite by accident, to the very place he wishes, when he bounces after her, and an nounces her capture . by a smacking report' heard at the far thest corner of the kitchen ; and " snap-dragon," or " hunt the slipper," or " hoodman-blind," or the merry song and hearty laugh, puts every one in good humour with'all, and with everything. The children, sitting round the blazing hearth, still listen to the stories of the village patriarch, who, honoured with the best seat in the chimney-corner, descants on the " good old times," when be and two or th ree o f t h e older guests (who smile and sigh as they recal the time) were boys, scarcely so tall as the stile at the end of thelane; when oxen were roasted whole, and the whole village was alive with the preparations and enjoyment of " real good English games ' " when the men were stronger, and the girls—" but, no, they were not prettier !" nay, he looks round and says he almost thinks the girls are prettitr now than they were then— " though there was Margery, the miller's daughter—he re membered her, and certainly she was the beauty !" But even in the youthful days of a centenarian of the pre sent age, the sports of Christmas were very different to what they had been a hundred years or so before. It was in the days of " good Queen Bess," or in the more spirit-stirring times that preceded her reign, that the festival of Christmas was celebrated with the greatest vigour, when the boar's head was brought to table with trumpets sounding, drums beating, and the whole company singing its praises; when the ale flowed unceasingly, the fire blazed and crackled with the yule-log, when the " Lord of Misrule" put in practice all the arts he was master of to make the peasantry joyful with boisterous merriment • when the game s an d f est i v i ty lasted f or a mon th, an d rendered every one happy for a year. Although most people are aware of the general passion for feasts and amusements which distinguishes the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but few persons are aware of the cha racter of the sports which were then so popular. We shall now endeavour to convey some idea of the amusements inci dental to the season which were then in high repute. In England we find, in the earliest accounts we have of the state of the island, that the Druids celebrated during the winter solstice the rites in honour of Thor, one of the Scan dinavian deities; and some few of the customs by which the festivities of Christmas werg characterised in later times may be traced to the established ceremonies in honour of that heathen deity. Thus the practice of adorning the house with mistletoe has been derived from the use of that plant in the druidical ceremonies; and other customs which ob tained in this country but a few years since are referable to the same origin. .„ Among- the many customs which prevailed at the period of Christmas in th e O days of Elizabeth, the investiture of a person with the power and privileges of assembling a number of persons and teaching them tricks, tumbling, and fantastic --rnances, for the p urpose of amusing the peasantry, and he higher classes, is on, of the most remarkable. 'ar personage was styled the " Lord of Misrule," t of Unreason ; " and by custom of long continu ance, connived at by the authorities of church and state, he was permitted to lead the vulgar wh o desired to enlist under his banner whithersoever he pleased in search of fun and ludicrous adventures. Even at court and at the houses of the principal nobility, this officer was appointed to super intend and direct the Christmas revellings , and his reign of folly generally lasted a month or more, commencing early in until e the month of December, and not terminati ng " morrow after the Fe as t of the Purification," on the 2nd th of February. These worthies were also appointed in solemn conclave by the principal inhabitants of a village or parish, to represent the wit or folly of the place. But it is probable that the Lords of Misrule appointed by parishes and by the less wealthy personages were more confined in their powers than those who were appointed and protected by the more powerful noblemen or by the monarch. We have no doubt that an assemblage of persons under so little control as that of the " Lord of Misrule" seldom sepa rated without some rough or dangerous mischief having been perpetrated. Yet the institution in itself was innocent enough, and calculated to lighten the severities to which the rude peasantry were exposed at this inclement season ; and had it been under proper superintendence and control, such a system for the exercise of joyful amusements might be en couraged without ill effects occurring to the people from its existence. With respect to the appearance and proceedings of this motley assemblage, Sir W. Scott has given a very lively and amusing description.* This joc or " Ab " The appearance of the crowd was grotesque in the ex treme. It was composed of men, women, and children, lu dicrously disguised in various habits, and presenting groups equally diversified and ludicrous. Here one fellow, with a horse's head painted before him, and a tail behind, and the whole covered with a long foot-cloth, which was supposed to hide the body of the animal, ambled, caracoled, pranced, and plunged, as he performed the celebrated part of the hobby horse, so often alluded to in our ancient drama; and which still flourishes on the stage in the battle that concludes Bayes's tragedy. To rival the address and agili'y displayed by this character, another personage advanced, in the more formidable character of a huge dragon, with gilded wings, 3ich the was sufficient, withou t their h actors were, by profes I whom they repres I and to on the nen as mt .ered with 1 grandsires assumed the infant I Children wore their shirts over pasteboards and ribands furnished out dec Those who wanted all these prc and turned their jackets inside o tation of the whole assemt I mummers was at once completed Mummings masquerading w riod great favourites with the English princes, the clergy, the gravest as wel were equally delighted with these am usements vent entr and even earlier, of sums paid for suits of buct to represent animals, angels, devils, &c., ac fancy of the wearers. At periods of festivity Chf alas, the tice of t ageants country, every one w hiring a troop of pi friends ; and even wt into a set of mad grote very early s the most wise disguised themseN r the amusement of their friends at Christmas, illage from house to house, made th games going thro _ selves merry at the expense of their m hbours were many ancient customs, the origin of most of whit involved in great obscurity, with which the Christmas r was wont to be amused. One of these, always observed great pomp, was that of placing a boar's head on the ball table, when a large • assembled at their Christmas dint, and friends Enzland has ever party of relative I celebrated for its substantial dinners, and - many of its curious ceremonies or pompous exhibitions are conne, with her feasts and entertainments. The abundance of sub stantial viands with which the tables at the great festive ex hibitions of the fifteenth century were covered may be con ceived from the following account of the installation-feast of Varwid i into th ft. bun- oxen and six wild bulls hundred and fou five hundred sta four kids, formed the solid fowls, large and small, rar there wen basis of ti mon, wild and P-two t These were aided by wounta ards and jellies ; and three h the vegetable portion of the banquet corresponded to that of the solids, consisting of t The quantity dred tuns of ale pocras. Besic seals."l - the tim cipally in large ticular esteem a hundred tuns Of wine, and a pipe twelve poipOises and Saxons, whc wealth consi ierds of swine, the boar has been held i English ; and on Christmas-day iewa Tought on table. Placed in a capacic I always tI I ornamented with sprigs of bay ar Ihuge head was borne in by the sewer , preceded ters, fifers, and drummers, who mad' ti hall echo with I . their minstrelsy, while the attendants and a person specially appointed for t to chant a collection of rude r s in praise of the favour assn, in which he was supported by ---- in the choruses, shouted at the top of their voices, until, from exhaustion, they were compelled to recruit tl the flowing tankards of bi own ale. One of these old songs has been preserved in a curious book printed by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1521, entitled " Christnaasse Carolles." Leir voices from Sir W. Scott has elegantly alluded to the custom in the fol lowing lines on Christmas festivities:— " The fire, with well-dried logs supply'd, Went roaring up the chi• • The huge hall-table's oaken face, Scrubbed till it shone, the day to grac Bore then upon its massive board No mark to part the squire and lord. Then was brought in the lusty brawn, By old_blue-coated serving -m om ' - ley wide ; Tben the grim boar's t Crested with bays and rosemary Well can tead frowned on high, the green arbed ranger tell How, when, and where t What dogs before his death he tore, And all the baiting of the boar ; While round the merry wassel-bowl, Garnished with ribbons, blithe did trowl." monster fell Then there bringing in the which, placed on the m on either side the hearth, was d__ the great ball or dining apartment_ Yule, by which Christmas was often c to be derived from giul, the name by which t r curious men great Yu r Christmas Cl, or Block or upright supports ) warm and illumine The Yule Clog (the word nated, is supposed Feast of Thor at this time of the year was known to th called it from iol, or 01, signifying ale)—tt selected from one of the largest tre prietor whose house was to be enliv and, accompanied by a number of candles, it was dragged with m u c h s t a t e an d re j o i c i ng on Christmas-eve into the apartment in which it was to be burned. The attendant customs of drinking ale and cele brating the occasion with music mgy be gathered from the following carol, which occurs in Herrick's " Hesperides :" Saxons, who so e Yule Log was 'es in the park of the pro- 4 by its consumption CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMASSE Come, bring with a noise My merrie, merrie boys, e Christmas log to t While my good dame, al Bids And drink to % With the last ght the new block, ,ring large For good succes On your saltries play, _ . That sweet luck may Come while the log is a-tending e strong be, Cut the white loafe here The whl For the rare mince-pie, And the plums stand by , To fill the paste that's a-kneading." le the meat is a shredding We might describe many other customs which enlivened the naturally gloomy season of Christmas in the old and pursue the subject until lost in the gloom of al were we sure that our readers would follow us with as much !n time, alacrity as we ourselves should feel in the pursuit. We might show how little images of the Virgin Mary and Infant Christ, made of paste, and called the Yule Dough, or Dow, were formerly carried about the towns, and presented by the bakers to their customgrs; how the minstrels made their progress through the village singing their carols and praying for the health and success of the inhabitants; bow the was sail-bowl, decorated with ribands, was paraded from door to door, accompanied by the most beautiful damsels, singing with dulcet voices verses composed for the occasion ; and how every one, from the highest to the lowest, greeted each other with presents and good wish These and ma matters connected with the subject, might be descant upon, did ,we not deem our readers to be somewhat more impatient than we, in the delight of our antiquarian studies, profess to be. We shall not therefore pursue the subject further at present. * See ` The Abbot,' vol. i. chap. xv. t Pictorial History of England,' ii. 253. $ Alluding to the custom of lighting a brand oti Candle mass-day (February 2nd), which, when quenched at sun-set, was preserved until the succeeding Christmas-day. AMUSING CHARACTERISTIC.—I have often spoken of the formalities of German officers. In the mere matter of send ing a parcel, which any coach-office in England would for ward without delay, if only wrapped in a bit of brown paper, and tied with a string, what difficulties meet you in Germany ! A parcel must be wrap It must have so man seals upon written outsic ust go oy one convey )f another, by a third be wrapped It must un, certain circ I an oil cloth. Failing any one of these formalities it cannot go. It is returned, or sent from one office to another, till more time is consumed than is necessary to take it to its destination. A title-deed was sent from England for my signature, which was urgently wanted back by return of post. Though signed and sent to the packet-post the same day, under the direc- tions of our German barker; yet so many obstacles arose that, after several days delay, we sent it by the omnibus pro prietor to the Steam Company at the Rhine: Two months afterwards, the sender in England wrote, in great distress, to know why the deed was not returned ; and on inquiry at the omnibus proprietor's we found it still lying In his house ! The Rhine company had not dared to take it because it belonged to the packet-post department ; and the poor man could not tell to whom to return it. He had even advertised it in the little Heidelberg newspaper, which we never see ; but though there were only about six English families in the place, and he knew it came from one, it had never occurred to him to send round and inquire. A common hostler, or boots, in England, would have done it in ten minutes. In four months the parcel reached England ! !—Howitt's Rural and Domes tic Life of Germany. THE RHINE.—My entrance to Germany was by the Rhine, the way by which the great bulk of travellers enter it, and certainly the most beautiful and impressive of all. You are thus introduced, at once, to that class of its natural scenery in which its uatural beauty lies, its mountains and its rivers. gimongst these again, you behold, considered in all points of river, and mountains which, if not on the perhaps, the fairest average specimens of tth. They have no pretence , f the Alps which belong to s lofty as most other of the n their aspect; are full of its mountains that can be met to compare with thos Germany, but t German hill ore var iistory and co - rntm;tions; anc o extensive, so perfect •of the nation. Spit Rhine, from the glow 11_ remains the MO£ or so picturesque in any ( of all that has been writtei ing poetry of Childe Harold, whicl descriptive, and most answering in the felicitous truth of its epithets to one's own feelings, dowel through the journals of hosts of travellers, to Fennimore Cooper's elaborate com parison of it with his native Hudson, in his Heidentnauer, it is much to say, that though many visitors are somewhat disappointed on first approaching the Rhinegau near Bonn, yet there are few who are not thoroughly enraptured with the full course of this scenery from the Seven Mountains to Bingen, and the more so, if they remain a few days on its banks, penetrate into its hidden valleys, or if they view it a second time. The great want about it is that of full-grown and noble wood ; but this is a great, common, and growing want in G ermany, where wood is the almost only fuel with wn h forty million s o f p eop l e h ave t o coo k t h e year roun d, and to warm themselves through their long and severe winter. But the loftiness and varying wildness of its hills; its sky seeking pinnacles of crag, on which are often perched the most pic eturesque of r u i ne d , or yet ha bi ta b le castles ; its bin:, ”rprinirs: ity pie ,,,,,„,,,. , ..a bpuntered and naked gigantic piles of rocks its miles and score s of miles of hanging vineyards, all in tb , neatest order of cultivation, and supported with terraces and walls on rocky and steep eminences, which bear testimony ti the most incessant labour of ages ; its wood-crowned sum mits°Pgeanridnegns, full of happy-looking pro ceed ; ;right and left as you i its ts delicious gre en fields valleys and peasantry, on its river banks; its fine old ruins of castles ant convents on the mountain heights; and towns, and towers and villages strewn along its shores fur scores and hundreds of miles, so quaint, so old-fashioned, so dimmed and darkened with the hues of antiquity, and yet so full of life and popula tion ;—it is impossible to witness all this With out the deepest delight and enthusiasm ; and, when you have seen many other and - very glorious rivers, you shall still acknowledge that tll6 is a true region of poetry and beauty.— William Howiteb Rural and Domestic Life of German,. played tt: for the d hind le Hood and Litt exhibited at ti s blacked their id thus the tran .ecided preterenc o other wi ye to the use of t r hands .-THIS DAY (From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.) The receipts into this , ort since Tuesday last include a fair Tal supply of Oats, Flour, and quantity of Wheat, with a lib Oatmeal fro Ireland, but of other articles thence or of an thing Coastwise we have still little to notic few parcels of Wheat and Pease, with 6,600 barrels of Flour and except a ,h naming have appeared ting dulness, the absence of any extensive ays as usual ais season of the year, contribu ting to r( der the market exceedingly uninteresting we have to report a very languid sale this morning for every article of the trade. Importers of Wheat, however, remained firm, and at an early hour of the day, in some instance quired rather higher prices; but no advance being obtaina ble, and the transactions very unimportant, the sale of all descriptions of this Grain closed heavily at the rates of last week. Flour also continued in slow request, and in general barely sustained its former value. e Malting Barley, upon a short supply, partially ex i our last quotations, but grinding qualities experienced Prime new Malt was rather dearer, infe- no impro rior k very unsaleabl I nominally as .d on Friday Beans and Oats, of which a few limited parcels alone found buyers receded id. to Id. per 451bs; and Oatmeal moved off ver3 ARRIVALS OF CORN From the 20th to the 27th December, 1842, it:clued DESCRIPTION COAST- CANADA PO LAND. WISE. REIGN Qrs. 149 28 Qrs. 15 583 Qrs. 11421 238 Beans . . . . Pease .. Shelled Earl Indian Corn on the reduced terms, specified in our preceding Into Runcorn, Ire V, qrs.; Malt, - XPORTS.—Foreign and Coastwise qrs.; Oats, 157 Wheat. qr -- qrs.; Bar Beans, - qrs..; Oat- Barley, qrs. ; Oat loads ; FlOur, sacks, 568 br Corn. 20 qrs. ; 0 Ireland. Wheat, 3 qrs. ; Barley, qr.; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids.; Flour, sacks Coastwise. Wheat, 410 qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Mal Oats, 12 qrs.; Rye, qrs.; Beans, qrs.; Peas Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, his.; Flour, 210 sack barrels. qrs. ' • Indian 120 brls.- Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Dec. 17, 1842 Wheat 465. lid. 1 Barley 265. 5d.) Oats.. 17s. 2d. I Rye.. 285. ; Beans.. 295. 10d. I Pease.. 325. 2d. Aggregate average of the six weeks. eat 48s. sd. I Barley 275. 7d. I Oats.. 17s. 7d. ! Rye.. 30 Beans.. 30s. I Id. Pease.. 335. 2d. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week. I Barley gs. Od. I I Oats .. . Bs. Od. Rye.. Ios. 6d. id. I Pease.. gs. 6d. Ind. Corn es. Od. Flour 126.00 Wheat 205.0 Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe. ..ss. Od. I Barley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats ..2s. Od. I Rye.... 2s. 6d. :s. 6d I Pease.. Is. Od. I Indian Corn.. Os. Od. I Flour 3s Cd Liverpool Averages, week ending Dec. 20, 1842. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. I Pease, 715 — 1 844 448. Od. Os. Cd. j 16s. 4d. lOs od. I Os. Od LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.-THREE O'CLOCK. Owing to yesterday being a holiday, our market opened with a good inquiry for Cotton, and fully 3,500 bales have been sold at the full prices of last week, and the market closes with firmness. He who saith there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave.—Btshop Berkeley. "I can't be beet," remarked a poor carrot to a sympa thising onion. If you wish to avoid quarrelling, stop short, and do not begin again until you have well considered the subject in debate. CURIOUS FACT.—After a hurricane which we witnessed at the Mauritius, we found every river, brook, and pond in the island to have a salt taste. We had observed also that during the hurricane the rain which fell was salt.—Mag. of Domestic Economy. On the application of the Prince Regent to parliament for a grant to pay off his debts, being talked of one evening in a company, an old Scotch lady, whose ideas were all of a homely character, exclaimed, " Debt ! how can he be in debt ? doesna he get his meat at his fayther's ? " A lady, who was formerly governess to some of the royal family at St. Petersburgh, lately died in London, and left amongst other relics, a curiously wrought mattress, com posed of genuine Russian leather and buckskin, and stuffed with hair from the manes and tails of horses that perished at Moscow, when Buonaparte and his army invaded Russia. CHINESE PLUCK.—When we went along a certain street in Nankin, says one of the curious letters of that city (of which there will be a hundred accounts published within the next two years.) the whole of the open shops at both sides we:e occupied by persons picking out the feathers from edi ble birds' nests with pincers. " That," observed J----, " was the greatest pluck they displayed on the conquest of the province." A JUDICIOUS LOVER.—The subjoined extract is literal and verbatim, from a letter bearing the Wigan postmark, picked up in one of the principal streets of Dewsbury. It may induce the damsels both of Yorkshire and the neigh bouring counties to be chary of boasting to their swains that they have other strings to their bow, or beaux to their strings :—" Wigan, Sept. 24th, 1842.—Dear Elizabeth, I ham Sorrie to ear that you are so unhesy in your Mind But you say you have the Chance of 3 Men and I think you had better take the Chance Not that I find aney fault with you No far from it But I Dont think of Marrieing yet awhile and there is an old Sweethart here of Mine and my affection seems to warm up again Not that I ham thinking anay warse of You But I think You had better think no more about me but tak the other Perhaps the . ) , are better than I * * * So fareweel and bless you is the wish of—Yours," &c. — Leeds. Times. RUSSIA AND SERVIA.—The National publishes an extract from the Augsburg Gazette, stating that M. Boutenieff, the Russian Ambassador at Constantinople, had announced to the Divan, that unless Prince Michael was restored to the government of Servia, he, M. de Boutenieff would quit Con stantinople, which fact was published exclusively in The Times of Thursday last, and observes, that what is more strange than the conduct of the Emperor Nicholas on the occasion, is the position of the French Ambassador at Con stantinople. "It appears to us," says the National, " that he ought to have seized the opportunity afforded by the hos tile declaration of Russia to recover our diminished influence with the Porte. When the Divan, however, in its distress appealed to the European power, M. de Bourqueney, taken by surprise, was obliged to reply that he was without in structions on the subject, and should apply to his Cabinet. Thus our foreign affairs are conducted with so much impro vidence that the eventuality of a rupture between Russia and Turkey was not foreseen. The fact is sufficient to prove with what intelligence and what skill M. Guizot directs his dip lomacy. The consequence will be, that before instructions from Paris can reach M. de Bourqueney, the Porte will have yielded to Russia, or taken 4 sotte middle course to appease her. At all events we shall arrive too late, and the opportu nity will have been lost." ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the meeting of this society a few evenings since a letter was read from the British Consul at Panama, containing some highly interest ing particulars regarding a communication being opened across the Isthmus of Panama for an intercourse with Australia, New Zealand, and China, the latter of which was likely to be very important. There exists in the Isthmus a tribe of Indians, who say that they can cross from one sea to the other in the course of one day, who are described as an industrious and harmless race, who do not like inter. course with foreigners, although many of them can speak the English language. The chairman read a letter from Sir W. Parish, giving a description of a map of Pekin, given to him by a relative who accompanied the expedition of Lord Macartney into China, He had forwarded the map for pre sentation to the society, but it had been shown to Lord Stanley, who had taken it to her Majesty at Windsor. There are some young Chinese at Rome, who are educating as missionaries, by whom the map was translated, although some difficulty was met in the reduction of Chinese to Italian miles. The whole circumference of the city might, however, might be stated as 26 miles; and the mar) was very full, con taining the names of all the streets, public offices, gardens, canals, treasuries, &c., being complete in every respect. It was stated by a member that a similar map at St. Peters burg, in which the circumference of the city, which had nine gates, was stated at 23 miles. An interesting paper was also read from Dr. Beke, giving the details of a journey which he had lately undertaken in Abyssinia, and where he had met with a chief of the Selahulla tribe, who professed himself a Christian, in token of which, as was the custom in the country, he wore a blue ribbon round his neck. Both chieftains and people are represented by the doctor as living upon terms of perfect equality, the latter being Kept in order only by the discipline of a "stick," which the chieftains ad minister freely. MISS EDGEWORTH'S LIBRARY AT HOME.--The library at Edgeworthstown is by no means the reserved and solitary room that libraries are in general. It is large and spacious and lofty; well stored with books, and embellished with those most valuable of all classes of prints—the suggestive; it is also picturesque, having been added to so as to increase its breadth : the addition is supported by square pillars ; and the beautiful lawn seen through the windows, embellished and varied by clumps of trees, judiciously planted, imparts much cheerfulness to the exterior. An oblong table in the centre is a sort of rallying point for the family, who group around it, reading, writing, or working; while Miss Edge worth, only anxious upon one point—that all in the house should do exactly as they like without reference to her—sits quietly and abstractedly in her own peculiar corner, on the sofa ; her desk, upon which lies Sir Walter Scott's pen, given to her by him when in Ireland, placed before her upon a little quaint table, as unassuming as possible. Miss Edge worth's abstractedness would puzzle the philosophers. In that same corner, upon that table, she has written nearly all that enlightened and delighted the world ; there she writes as eloquently as ever, wrapped up, to all appearance, in her subject, yet knowing by a sort of instinct when she is really wanted in dialogue; and without laying down her pen, hardly looking up from her page, she will by a judicious sentence, alsely and kindly spoken, explain and elucidate in a few vords, so as to clear up any difficulty, or turn the conversa tion into a new and more pleasing current. She has the most harmonious way of throwing in explanations,—inform .ng without embarrassing. A very large family party assem ,de daily in this charming room, young and old, bound alike o the spot by the strong cords of memory and love. Mr. Francis Edgeworth, the youngest son of the present Mrs. Edgeworth, and of course Miss Edgeworth's youngest bro ,her, has a family of little ones, who seem to enjoy the reedom of the library as much as their elders. To set these little people right, if they are wrong—to rise from her table Ind fetch a toy, or even to save a servant a journey —to mount the steps and find a volume that has escaped all eyes nit her own, and having done so, to find exactly the passage .canted—are hourly the employments of this most unspoiled Ind admirable woman. She will then resume her pn; and, chat is more extraordinary, hardly seemed to have even rayed the thread of her ideas. Her mnd is so rightly ialanced, ev( ry thing is so honestly weighed, that eh.: suffers no inconvede4ce from what would disturb an ordinary writer.—Mr. and Mrs. Hall's Ireland. G` ~ ~'~ i~ !;RPOOL COR EXCHANGI DITTO L .a. N.... Standard-office, Three o'Clock A . PREENWICH PEllgtONk med the office shakitg his hesid. This won't do, Thomp• if you con- rate courseM, the 1c of your leg will we•you Yer hoe° knows NI here I lost it rejoined the pensioner ssuming a rueful griffiin•eisage loot which was meant to convey what of the didn't go overboard without company ;" and he looked at the jury -limb of the lieutenant. " But our legs being buried together is no reason you should be constantly getting into trouble, and expect me to get you out of it again," re turned the officer, looking over the bla c k li s t, w hi c h h e h e ld in his hand ; our legs did not have kindred soles, old man ; and here I find your name, like the heading of a log-book, on every page, drunk'—' drunk' —everlastingly drunk ;' and running stem on, into all sorts of mischief. Why, it is only a week ago that you paid seven shillings for the freak you played in a china shop, by riding upon a donkey slap abroad the crockery ; and," turning over the leaves, " a few days before that, you were hauled up before Colonel Forman for knocking Bonaparte from an Italian's image-board ; and now here you are once more in limbo, for getting drunk, and using abusive language to the main-guard." "Why, ye; honour, as for that 'ere donkey consarn," rejoined the pen sioner, resuming his hat and his list to starboard, " I.was just going to show 'em how to steer the hanimal, all nat'ral like, by his tiller, instead of hauling it upon his head-braces, when he flings out abaft, and slap he runs me right into an enemy's port. And i n r e g ard o' th e matter o' Boney," added he, hitching up his azure inexpressibles with his wrists, and giving a severe turn to his quid, " why, yer honour, it warn't in natur' to see him standing up at full length all ataunt-o, with his boots fresh black'd, and his spurs rigg'd out below, and his sky-scraper cross'd aloft, and to see Wel lington's head alongside of him, with not never a bit of body whatsomever, as if Boney had just taken it off the duke's shoulders. I'm no sodger anyhow, but I'm bless'd if that warn't coming it too strong ; and so I doused him like a widow's pig, though I hardly thought they would have logged the matter o' that again me. But, howsomever, the worthy magistrate made all that square, an' guy me a glass o' grog into the bargain. And as to abusing the main-guard, why, I suppose it's a correct reckoning, seeing.as yer honour has got it down in black and white, though, for my own part, I don't disremember any thing about it whatsomever." And poor Thompson ultimately found favour where he had often found it before.—Naval Club Book. A STUDENT'S FUNERAL.—On the 22nd of July, 1840, I witnessed, in_ Heidelberg, one of these most singular and striking ceremonies. The deceased was a young man from Hamburgh, who died of consumption ; and the general esteem in which he was held by his fellow-students was testified by the mode in which they celebrated his obsequies. When it is intended to show more than ordinary respect for a deceased fellow-student, his funeral is conducted by torch light, and all or the greater part of the students attend. * * Bells were tolling from various churches, and the pro cession was proceeding through the principal street to the lodgings of the deceased, as we went into the city about eight o'closk. We were at too great a distance to see more than a crowd and the torches; but on reaching the house, the scene was singular to an English eye, and deeply interesting. The main part of the procession had halted at the distance of three or four hundred yards, where they had extinguished their torches. Before this house stood a sort of low covered car, or waggon, with six black horses ; the four first in Ger man fashion, at a considerabledistance from each other, and from the wheelers, and having, as usual, traces of ropes, but in this case black ones. The car, which, unlike our English hearses, was not boarded up top and sides, but appeared merely covered with an awning supported by bows of wood, had laid upon it a plain pall of black velvet, and upon the pall three garlands of leaves and flowers. The outer garlands seemed to be composed entirely of laurels, and occupied the whole outer portion of the pall, with the exception of a broad margin. Within that was another, which appeared coin. posed of roses and lilies; and then a central one, of flowers also. This inner garland, which was very beautiful, was said to be the work and gift of a female hand. Within it lay his cap, his gloves, and sword. One wondered that the sword should be there, and the books not ; and had one inclined to be critical on such an occasion, we should have asked why not, as well as the sword, the pipe, the beer-glass, the stick, and the spectacles? The sword, except as denoting the character of the students for duelling, was a singular appendage for a student ; but, without being too critical, the whole effect was rich and beautiful. The garlands of laurel and splendid flowers were so dispersed as to cover nearly the whole surface of the pall with a mass of rich and mosaic beauty, which was made visible to the crowd of spectators by a light set upon it as well as by the flare of a cresset-fire, which was burning before the house, on the opposite side of the little street. Behind the car stood two rows of about twenty torch-bearers each, but with their torches also extinguished. These men were not students, but hired attendants, probably the boot-cleaners of the stu dents, called by them boot-foxes. Many of them were of considerable age. In this manner stood the car and its at tendants before the house for a quarter of an hour, when the coffin, also richly covered with black velvet, and white ornamental work of silver-plated nails and shields, was put into the car, the light was removed from the top, and the attendants, lighting their torches at the funeral fire in the cresset, communicated light from one to ano ther down the line. The pall-bearers, who were young stu dents from the native town or neighbourhood of the deceased, took their places on each side of the car, dressed in court dresses, with their swords, an d wearing white scarfs. The mutes with staves of black, ornamented with bunches of white crape, walked on each side; the band struck up a mournful strain, and the procession moved on. The band, a military one, from Mannheim, a full and very superior one, preceded the car, the musicians being clothed also in black. Immediately behind came the chef mourners, young students in full dresses, with white neckcloths, and white gloves. These carried no torches, but on each side of them walked the hired torch-bearers. Then followed the main and almost innumerable train of students, in their usual costume of frock coats and caps. * * * The procession, taking a circuit, came along the main street for a considerable part of its length, where, of course, a dense crowd was collected, and every window in the upper rooms thronged with spectators. The students were about seven hundreds, and it is pro bable that the greater part followed, for the whole length of the street, as far as it could be seen both ways, was occupied by their two lines of torches, and they con tinued passing for some time. The whole procession could not be much less in length than half a mile. The effect was singular and impressive. * * * The procession passed on to the church near the end of the city, where the students are generally buried, where the clergyman performed the cus tomary service, and then a student pronounced an oration over their departed companion. The service being over, the procession then returned by the main street to the Museum Plaz. * * * As we stood at the .vindow of the Museum, we could see above the houses the light in the air over the spot where they were committing his mortal remains to the earth. Anon, the light moved, it became like a streaming lustrous cloud above the roofs in the direction of the High-street. The sound of the music became audible, and presently the first torches came flaring through the darkness, round the corner, from the street into the square. Nothing can sur pass the strange and wild effect of this scene. The proces sion, which had gone towards the church slowly, now re turned at a quick pace ; the music, which had been dolorous and complaining, was now gay and triumphant. The band was playing a martial and resounding air ; the students in a wild troop, three abreast, came rushing on, whirling round and round their torches, and shaking them above their heads, like so many wild Bacchanalians, and crowds of boys and young men ran on each side, amid the mingled flare, and smoke, and gloom, some of them having snatched up fallen and nearly burnt-out torches, and whirling them fiercely about as they ran. The band halted before the door of the Museum, and continued playing while the students formed themselves into a large circle in the square. The first, as he took his place, flung his blazing torch to some distance on the ground, and every one as he arrived did the same. This became the centre of the ring, round which the whole train arranged itself; and as the young men came near its bound, they tossed up their torches into the air, which came whirling and flaming down from a hundred places into the area of the circle. The scene was most wild and strange. The gathering ring of densely standing figures, all in the Burschen costume ; the lights tossing, and spinning, and falling through the air ; the h un d re d s of them lying and blazing on the ground ; while others, flying errant, dropped into the thickest masses of the spectators, and were again snatched up, and again sent aloft, and through all this the band playing in a consonant thunder and rending strain of exciting music. * * * When the circle was completes and the torches had been flung down, the marschals and the police were seen walking about in it. The scattered torche, were thrown together, till they formed one blazini , heap, which illumin a t e d w ith it s re d li g ht t h e who l e wa ll s and win dows of the square, and sent up a rolling column of pitchy smoke, that hung like a sable canopy above the crowds. At once, the band ceased playing; there was a pause of deep silence, and then the whole circle of students, as they stood round the flames, burst forth into a funeral song. which, un expected as it was, and sudden and solemn as was the strain, startled and thrilled beyond description. The deep red light flung upon the circle; the dark groups behind ; the mar schals and seniors standing with drawn swords ' • the blazing pile in the centre, a n d th e s ou n d o f th e funeral hymn, sung by hupdreds of deep a n d manly vo i ces , lik e t h e sound as of the sea itself—was altogether so wild, so novel, and strange, that it is not to be conceived by those who have not wit nessed the like, nor forgotten by those who have. The song was that sung on all such occasions, the hymn for the main tenance of their academical liberty. As it closed, one of tho seniors stood forward, and wielded his sword as in defiance.. The rest rushed together, and with wild cries clashing their swords above their heads, there was a shout—" Quench the fire !" and the whole of the skudents at once dispersed. The crowds then closed round it, waterwas thrown on the flames, the dense black column of smoke changed into a white one, and the whole was over.—Rural and Domestic Life of Ger many; by William Howilt PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. Wool), Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid i Duty. 417 0 @ 18 10 15 0 16 0 13 10 - 15 0 Not above 16 ft 15 0 16 10 F. 419. B. P. 2. 15 0 18 10 21 feet. .422.. at 2 10a. 0 31-- 0 31 1 0 2F— 0 2ii Memel Gothenburg Wyburg Petersburg. PLANKS, per foot of 2 inches thick Danzig, Deck British American Pine LATHWOOD, per fathom, Danzig, 4 feet British American AAHOGANY, per foot of 1 inch thici r " . t3 4 0 - 8 10 'X4 3s 5 10 15s. Honduras Cuba St. Domingo JAK PLANKS, British American PEAK WOOD, per cubic feet STAVES, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe Hhd 0 5 - 0 7 1 - s3d. ° 7 0 10 }2ls 9 0— 1 6 none. 116 s 6dper load 3 3 4 6 liis6d. 0 0 1 Not above none 36 inches.. us. 1 4 inch thick,} .40 0—47 10 50 .... 4s. 10 10 —l6 0 60 .... 6 s. 8. d. a. d. 10 0 0 } lls 6d. 2 0 perload. 1 1 2 2 2 0 ,}.€2 15s.vioad 2 2 i t'lso 0 - Quebec, red, _ and si feet long Do. Puncheon ... T I MBE R, per cubic foot Oak Pine, British Amer. common red 4 - 0 0 - 1 7 - I 0 - 2 0 - 1 10 - 2 0 - Danzig,middling Memel, middling Riga,red PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S LONDON & LIVERPOOL Jamaica Leeward Isl. Dem. & Berbice Honduras Havana New York, Boston Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Canada British vnrth America Newfouncuand 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 M alaga M adeira estern Isles, Cape de Verde. Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Riga, &c. Oporto Outward 25s Oct@ 30 0 20 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 35 0— 40 0 25 0-30 0 25 0 30 0 30 0 —3S 0 30 0 - 33 0 30 0 - 30s Od Q 0 0 20 0 0 0 40 0-50 0 40 0-50 0 15 0 17 6 15 0 17 6 25 0-30 0 25 0-30 0 35 0-40 0 40 0 35 0 50 0 - 60 0 35 0 - 40 0 40 0-50 0 40 0 -- 50 0 30 0 - - 25 0 - 25 0 - 25 0 - 30 0 - 15 0 - 17 6 50 0 - 60 0 17 6 - 20 0 30 0 - 0 0 17 6-20 0 15 0-20 0 35 0 40 0 45 0 - 50 0 35 0-40 0 40 0- 40 0 - 26 0 - 17 6 - 20 0 - 25 20 0 - - 20 0- 40 0 - 17 -20 0 20 4) - 25 0 17 6-20 0 15 0 -20 0 20 0 - 25 0 25 0 - 30 0 30 0 30 0 17 6-20 0 17 6-20 0 20 0 - 20 0 - 20 0 - 25 0 25 0 - ,Citippin iitteiligent‘ - ...,..t40.--- PRIDAY, DEMainEn. 23.—Wind —Sea. Delano, from New Orleans ; left thf rvu ..... Nov. — Utimberland, Power, from Maranhain ; sailed 16th Nov. — Elizabeth Mazy Ann, Ball, from Messina—Nia gara, Cole. from New Orleans—Ararat, Sumerson, from Quebec— Sandars, Bulley, from Smyrna—Terpsichore, from Patras—Janet & Catherine, Sutter, from Gallipoli—Margaretha, from Malaga— James Dunn, Purze, from St. Übes—Si, Mendezona, from Bilboa. Conservative, Lind, hence for the Cape of Good Hope, off Tuskar 22nd Decembcr SpQncer, Birkett, and He Cape of Good Hope Lrt of Oak, M'Donald, hence at the Ann. Keswick, and Prompt, Morton, hence at Maranham Cuba, Kissock, and John Horrocks. Bond, hence at Berbice Capricorn, Llewellyn, hence at Barbadoes Providentia, Cornelis, hence at Ostend Sarah, Allen, from Seville for Liverpool, at Scottery Roads, with loss of bulwarks, sails, &c. Gazelle, Parker, sailed from Trinidad for Liverpool Bth Nov. Montrose, Daveys, from Liverpool for New Orleans, was aban doned 17th Dec. in lat. 50, long, 17, with eight feet water in her hold; crew saved by the Ararat, from Quebec, arrived here. Vellore, Bell, sailed from Cape of Good Hope for Madras 20th October CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 30.—The cargo of the Diana, Serrich. (amongst which is some cotton twist from the Ottoman, from Li verpool, and some from another vessel insured in England) has nearly all been saved, for the most part without much damage ; should the weather remain favourable the remainder is expected to be saved. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24.—Wind W. fresh. A RRIVE o.—Rother, from Monte Video—Lucy, Little. from New William Goddard, from Mobile—and Rapid, Brown, from Orleans Lag uira, Magnet, Morton, from Quebec, at this port; sailed 2gth Nov. The Thoburn and Neptune sailed from the Brandy Pots 2nd I ec. in company with the Magnet. The Gleaner was to sail from Que. bec 2oth Nov. for -. The Bellona was seen on shore at Ka mouraska. with loss of anchors. The Gleener was on shore on Goose Island. The George Ramsay, Britain, and Wilsford were on shore between Green Island and the Brandy Pots. About ten days since, in long. 30, experienced a hurricane from the westward, which lasted six hours : blew away foresail and split foretopsail. Same day, spoke the Marquis of Queensbury. Ann 8r Jane, Smith. hence for Calcutta, was spoken 14th Sept in lat. 34 S, long, 18 W Gardner, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 22nd Sept. in lat. 27 S long. 38 W Star, hence for Buenos Ayres, was spoken Bth Nov. in tat. •20 8, Richmond, Cheyney, hence for Charleston, at Cove, leaky; bore up from long. 17 Isabel, Granby, hence for Charente, at Kingstown • Novo Sacramento, Aroline, from St. Übes, at Cove Sarah, Walter, from Palermo, ditto St. Harlampy, Kruger, from St. Petersburg for Liverpool, at Stornoway Hannah. Heslop, from Quebec, at Studwell Roads, with loss of roundhouse, galley, boats, &c. Eliza, Follet, from Catania, at Dartmouth, with loss of boats, bulwarks, ike WESTPORT, Dec. 31.—The James Reid, M`Kenzie, from Pictou for Limerick, has put into Black Sad Bay, with decks swept and started. 22nd Dec.—The James Richmond, from Galway, was abandoned 19th Dec. off Belmullet ; crew saved. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25.—Wind W.S.W. fresh • • ••••• • • • ••6••0•4• ARRlVED.—Margaret, Kerr, from Calcutta; passed St. Helena 7th November— Silvanus Jenkins, and Reliance, Tucker, from Sa vannah—Woodside, Welsh, and Oneco, Drew, from New Orleans —Mersey, Hamilton; Charlotte; Acadia; Benjamin Hart, Cata riqui ; and Palmerston. from Quebec—Jane & Jessie, from Corfu— John, from Trieste—Albion, from the Mediterranean—Tom Scott, from Malaca—Jane Loudon, from Miramichi—lndependence, Nye, from New York—and Ann Paley, from Lisbon. Walter Scott, Weech, from Nassau, at this port ; sailed 26th Nov On 15th Dec. in lat. 44, loug. 35, spoke the Wakefield, from Quebec for Liverpool, with loss of sails, cutwater sprung, and rudder case adrift. Lady Paget, hence for Bombay, was spoken ;th Nov. in lat. 10 N, long. 21 W Fame, Cummings, hence for Buenos Ayres. off Cove 28rd Dec. Phcenix, Kuiper, hence for Antwerp, at Milford Isabella Thompson, Powell, from Puerto Cabello for Liverpool, at Islay, with damage Barbadoes, from London for Prince Edward Island, at Cove A vessel was seen on fire during a gale ou the night of the Bth December, in lat. 42, long. 48, by the Lucy, from New Orleans, which bore up and lay by her all night, but she suddenly disap peared before day light. MONDAY, DECEMBER 26.—Wind W.S.W. ARRlVED.—Agenoria, Ham, from Palermo—and Brunette, from Quebec. James Ridden, Beck, from Quebec, at this port, for Flint Isabella, from Newfoundland for Liverpool, at Bantry Bay, with loss of foremast and other damage George, Thompson, hence at New Orleans Thomas Leech, Nosworthy, from Rio Janeiro, at Cowes; sailed 23rd Oct. On 15th Nov. in iat. BS. long. 32 W, spoke the Aus tralia. On 28th, in lat. 21, long. 27, spoke the St. Vincent, hence to St. Vincent Ocean Queen, from St. Petersburg for Liverpool, at Falmouth Avon, Robinson, from London for Liverpool, at ditto, with fore and main yards carried away Belvidere, hence off Charleston Adelaide, from Chili, at Swansea in 9" days Mary, Sullivan, hence at Mobile, after being on shore VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION. EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, ,'Ye: Meg of Meidol), A Bleasdale, 396 Calcutta, Cotesworth & Wynne AFRICA. Hesperus, C Jackson, 455 Africa, T Harrison &Co WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. John Brooks. R Lockhart, 'BO St. Thomas, Margarita, S de Ansoartoqui, 184 Havana, Denison, J Ryrie, 325 Antigua, W Rose & Co Jeffryes & Meek C W & F Shand SOUTH AMERICA. 268 Rio Janeiro, Cotesworth &Co Tommy, A Radarnivi, STATES. Trenton, G P Manson, U NITED 956 Mobile,, Baring Brothers &Co Joseph Porter, R Wilson, 482 Mobile, n Cannon, Son &Co Agnes Gilmour, J Meikle, 918 New Orleans, Oakland, C E Barry, United States, P A Decan, Swanton, S Davenport, Deucalion, G W Allen, Eliza Warwick, P Davis, Pocahontas, W K Higgins, Charles, J Rickmers, Susan, W Artis, Oporto, J Wilkie, Schyryd, J Nowlan, Rankin. Gilmour & Co 549 New Orleans, Todd, Jackson & Co 430 New Orleans, Hughes & Co 709 New Orleans, Fitzhugh &Co 588 New Orleans, M'Calmont &Co 580 Boston, Baring Brothers &Co 500 Baltimore, Brown, Shipley & Co EUROPE. Ostend, Bahr, Behrend & Co 212 Leghorn, Bahr, Behrend &Co 130 Almeira, Campbell & Co 139 Beirut and Alexandretta, Bahr, Behrend & Co Milheiro Primciro, J R Palha, 119 Fayal, Duarte Brothers &Co Betsey Hall, J G Cholditch, 151 Genoa and Lcghotn, J Bibby & Co Ina, J Barkar, 97 Havre and Rouen, 1-1 Smith & Co Laura Ann, J Richmond, 87 Havre and Rouen, Star, R Ewart, Emilia, G hliloro, Anna Catharina, J L Scof, Bahr, Behrend & Ce 91 Leghorn, G Yates & Co 135 Naples and Palermo, Vianna & Co Amsterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co NORTHERN HOSPITAL, DEC. 24 [WEEKLY REPORT.] ADMITTED. DISCHARGED. Accidents lO Cured 2l Medical and Surgical cases Attending asOut Patients Upon recommendation ..... 11 Irregular - Died Total Remaining in the Hospital . . 72 House Visiters, John Rigby and B. 11. Jones, Esqrs. Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. Wm. Hughes.-House-Surgeon, Mr. Parker, LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT, DEC. 24 DISCHARGED MitibtEWltil CORN 'MARKET, Ipte. 20 d. Wheat, old, Ip , 751 b Oats, old, v. Nth new Beans, xy 601 b, 2 8 MANCHESTER CORN EXCHANGE, DEC. 24. The present is a season when all business transactions are generally restricted to a narrow compass ; and this, added to the feelings of distrust occasioned by the recent heavy failures in York shire, has caused much depression in the trade. At Liverpool yesterday a fair business was done in Wheat at full prices. At Wakefield, on the contrary, the market, influenced no doubt by the circumstances above referred to, was flat and lower for all articles. At our Exchange to-day, little is passing to call for any particular remark. The depression in the Flour trade prevents any purchases of Wheat by our millers beyond what they immediately require, and they are , enabled to supply themselves at prices a shade lower than on this day week. Flour declining fully Is per sack, with very slow demand. Oats dull of sale at late rates. Meal is again 6d per load cheaper, with but a limited enquiry. Beans is per carter cheaper. Malt steady at former rates. LIVERPOOL HAY AN DECEMB: 16270 1169661 1 1211072 ADMITTED In-patients cured Relieved and at own re quest 8 i Out-patients . i Made Out-patients .. ..• Irregular D Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson. Chaplain... .. Rev. R. Davies. House Visiters, N. D. Bold and Thomas Todd, Esqrs. Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon. Mr. Brandreth. E. W. JACKSON, Treasurer PRICES OF SHARES, DECEMBER 26. Prices within the last seven days. This days RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices Bolton and Preston Birmingham and Gloucester Ditto quarter Birmingham and Derby lOO .... 00 0 .... Bristol and Exeter 7O .... 48 0 0 .... Birkenhead and Chester Ditto half Ditto, new, issued at '33 dis 25 .. 00 0 .... Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Ditto new Shares .. ~ 8 6 8 0 0 0 .... Ditto, Debentures Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto new shares 3 .... 5 0 0 .... Ditto Leigh and Newham, 20 paid 0 0 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 25 paid 0 0 0 .... IL Half Shares ... ........ g .... 0 0 0 Glasgow, Paisley, Ulnae} 50 paid 0 0 0 Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction Ditto half shares 5O .... 94 0 0 Quarter 25 .... 0 0 0 New ditto . , ' 7 10.. 27 15 0 Great Western 6s ~.. 0 0 0 Ditto new shares 5O .... 0 0 0 Ditto Fifth Shares 0 0 0 Great North of England Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston .• : Ditto Junction, new __. , , 0 0 0 Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 0 0 0 Leeds and Selby Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham go .... 188 10 0 .... 189 0 0 Ditto new quarter shares Ditto old shares Ditto London & Brighton Ditto new London and South We,tern Ditto, 10th shares Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham 4O .... 0 0 0 .. Ditto and Ditto Extension 7 .... 0 0 0 .. Manchester and Leeds 7O 0 0 0.. Ditto half shares 10 . . 0 0 0.. , Ditto quarter shares ... Midland Counties Ditto, quarter 1-sth Shares 2 .... 0 0 0 ... North Midland New North Midland 4O • ... 0 0 0 ... One-tined Shares North Union Newcastle and Carlisle lOO . . 0 0 0 Ditto quarter shares Ulster 25 . 0 0 0 Paris and Rouen 2O .... 24 15 0 Newcastle and Darlington Junc. 3 .... 0 a 0 South Eastern and Dover 5O . 0 0 0 New shares York - and North Midland 5O paid 0 0 a Half Shares l5 .... 0 0 0 BANKS. Bank of Liverpool £l2 10s paid 19 2 6 - Borough Bank lO .... 14 2 6 - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 0 0 0 - Commercial of England. 5 .... 0 0 0 - East of England lO .... 0 0 0 - of Manchester lO .... 0 0 0 - M'chestcr & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 0 0 0 - Northern and Central - North and South Wales lO .... 0 0 0 - Royal of Liverpool 500 .. 0 0 0 - South Lancashire - Albion - Liverpool Union lO .... 10 5 0 - Liverpool Banking Co lO .... 7 10 0 - Wilts and Dorset 7 los. 0 0 a 188 0 0 94 o o 17 0 0 tiAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange I3nildings .100 paid L'pool and Harrington Water 0 0 o %Vox Bootle Dit L'poo Gas Light Compan_ (Original Stock) 100 • • 0 0 0 Ditto new Shares.... 100 0 0 0 L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 193 0 0 Ditto new shares arc now ;,aid up. } Stock 0 0 0 0 0 0 ASSURANCE COMPANIES M'chester Assurance Company. 10 .... 0 0 0 Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 0 0 0 Ocean Assurance Liverpool Marine Assurance Company ;0 paid 0 0 0 DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW CONIPANI I Anderton Carrying Company 1G ss. Rock Ferry Steam Tug Company lO . Harrington Docks Apothecaries' Company Aisphalte (Liverpool) O 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O o 0 O 0 ) POTATOE MARKET, R 24, 1842. Potatoes rm. s. d. s. d Short Tops 1 1 1 3 Old Hay Cups 1 3i 1 43 New Hay.... 0 6 0 10 Pink-eyes and) 16 , , Clover Hay.. 00 0 9 -. Kemps ' Clover & Grass 000 0 - Cattle Turnips, qp , ton - Carrots 30 0 33 0 Straw, Barley 0 2 0 23 - 0 Pp 20Ib LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, DEC. 23. There has been an improved demand, and don hhds. B. P. have been disposed of, chiefly Barbadoes, at steady prices; brown and low middling, however, are difficult of sale. 4500 bags have also been taken, at rather lower prices for middling and good white, but at full rates for strong grained Sugar. 450 bags low brown Mauritius sold at the quotations. Foreign.—The sales are 130 cases low to middling white Bahia at 2ls to 22s 6d, 40 cases brown at 18s', and a small lot of low Cuba Muscavado at 16s per cwt. The sales of Molasses amount to 300 puns., chiefly Demerara and Trinidad, at the quotations. Coffee.—The transactions in Planl a. tion have been very moderate, comprising 50 casks of Jamaica, at the quotations. Of Foreign, 210 bags Costa Rica brought 60s, and a small lot of good ordinary La Guayra 40s per cwt. 100 bags Trinidad Cocoa sold at 32s td to 35s per cwt. No sales of Ginger, Pepper or Pimento. Rice.-300 bags Bengal brought 8s 3d for small, to 12s 6d per cwt. for very fine white. 100 puns. Demerara Rum have been sold at 3s to 3s Id for 33 to 35 per cent. 0. P., with a few puns. of very fine quality at 3s 7d per gallon. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. DEC. 23. A very firm feeling pervades the market to-day ; 5000 bale have been sold at very full prices. Weekly sales 32,601 bales. Speculators have taken 6000. There is every ap. pearance of a further advance. COTTON MARKET ,-WEEKLY REPORT The, trade have bought rather freely this Weelc,.and the daily purchases by speculators, who have almost exclusively confined their operations to the better qualities of the new crop of American, have given holders more confidence, and the full prices of last week have beep currently obtained. Brazil is still offered freely, particularly Pernambuco, for which lower prices have been sub mitted to. Egyptian is without change, but East India barely maintains last week's quotations. Speculators have taken 6500 American, and exporters 150 American. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the 16th to the 24th instant, inclusive. Prices paid, iai r o in the week. ThisWk.l SALES OF THE WEEK 130 , Sea Island ' si 0 134 I 80 i Stained 10400 , Bowed Georgia ~,,,, I f Mobile - 51 1 ''"''' 1 Alabama and Tennessee 4 42 i 3443 14800 : New Orleans 320 i { Pernambuco & Paraiba 62 74 11 969 i Aricati and Ceara 62 60 Bahia and Maceio q 490 1 { Maranham .... Sawginned , I Minas — , Para i Demerara. Surinam, &c. .. .. .. 140 1 Egyptian Barbadoes Peruvian Bahama — 1420, Laguayra 6 62 l 60 Common West India, &c 6 64 929 Carthagena — 1 I Smyrna — ... .. Manilla 2400 Surat 3a. 4# i 20 Madras Bengal 32450 bales I 14986 IRIS IthiSyea: 1 34113, 1 582429 24085 } 41159 10 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, DECEMBER 23. The import duties for the ensuing week continue unvaried from the rates previously chargeable on foreign Grain and Flour. A moderate quantity of Wheat, with a liberal supply of Oats, Oatmeal, and Flour, have been received here from Ireland within the last three days. We have also to report, during that time, a few hundred quarters of Wheat and Pease, with 5,455 barrels of Flour from Canada, forming the whole arrivals from abro a d ; b u t, coas t w i se , we have scarcely any fresh arrivals. From the close of Tuesday's market, and up to this date, a tolerably steady feeling prevailed on the part of holders, with limited sales of the leading articles to consumers, on terms varying little, if in any degree, from our previous cur rency, which appeared to constitute the only features in the corn trade here claiming any remark during that period. At our Corn Exchange this morning, foreign free Wheats continued to be held with increasing firmness, and some parties required rather higher prices ; but having very few millers in attendance, and little inclination to purchase, any decided advance, if obtained, was partial, and the transac tions altogether extremely unimportant in amount. Of English Wheat the supply to-day was trivial, and Irish moved off slowly, each description remaining unaltered in value. Home-made and Irish, as well as States and Canadian Flour, met a limited demand at late prices. A serious fire occurred here yesterday morning, in which, amongst other produce, about 2000 quarters of bonded, and 5000 quarters of duty-paid Wheat were destroyed. Barley and Malt, upon a slow gradual scale, maintained our last quotations. Beans and Pease, with scarcely any inquiry, were the turn cheaper. Excepting a few retail sales, the Oat trade appeared to excite no marked attention, and Tuesday's rates were barely supported. The general price of Oatmeal to-day, was re duced to 21s. per 2401b5. for good marks of Irish, at which from 1500 to 2000 sacks were disposed cf to country buyers LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARkET, DBCEMBEIt 26. We have had n fair supply of Beasts and Sheep at this day's market, and prices much about the same as last week. Prime Beef Sid; middling lid; inferior 3d td 501 prime Wethers 6d to 64d; middling 5 d, sinkaig the GirniL Number of Beasts 1371 ; Sheep 607. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, DEC. 26. The market closed steadily for Butter. last week. without, how ever, the transaction of heavy business. A brisk trade is antitici pated at the commencement of the new year. There is a specu lative inquiry for medium Butters; which, in proportion to the better descriptions, have ruled latterly ;ery much below their value. Fine holders of pickled Butter are at pretent disposed to take under 73s for seconns.—to this price we believe most are limited. Prime heavy Irish Beef commands full rates, as does also Pork of favourite brands. We continue to quote the former at 92s 6d to gss per tierce; the latter at 52s per barrel. Bacon 45s to 425. The stock of Colonial Provisions increases, and the demand is slack. LOIN.WON GAZEIM..-FRIDAY, DEC. 23 PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Harper and Co., Liverpool, provision -dealers—Lee and Harrison. Liverpool, painters—H. H. Medder and H, J. Syred, Liverpool, pawnbrokers—J. Gibb, G. Gray, and J. Gibb, Manchester, ware housethan (so far as regards G Gray)—Slater, Whitehead, and Platt, Manchester and Valparaiso, commission-agent. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Blason, Ecton, Northamptonshire, innkeeper. Charles Jones, Devereux's-court, Strand, London, hotel and tavern-keeper. William Bowler, Castle lane, Southwark, London, comb-maker. Gieovanni Battista Salvi, Duke-street, Portland-place, London, wine-merchant. John Bennett, Reading, railroad contractor. John Buckthought, East Looe, Cornwall, currier. George Richmond, Cowley, Oxfordshire, corn-aealer. Thomas Frazer, Brook-street, Bond-street, London, Italian ware houseman. Robert Barnes, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. tanner. Henry Pitt, elby, Yorkshire, wine -merchant, John and William Herring, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, merchants. James Gregory, Sheffield, ma , tufacturer of table-knives. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 13, J. Tomlin and W. Mann, St. Michel's-alley, Cornhill, London, merchants—Jan. 10, W. Stewart, Belfast, New-park, Jordan's town, Antrim, and Ludgate-hill, London, muslin-manu. facturer—Jan. 13, S. Moore, King William-street, London, woollen draper—Jan. 1, I. Sealby, Keswick, Cumberland, edge-tool-manu facturer—Jan. 25, W. Fletcher, Birmingham, oil and colourman— Jan. 16, .1. France, Manchester, cotton-manufacturer. CERTIFICATES 'To be granted by the Court of Review, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before January 13. T.' Johnson, of Liverpool. printer—A. F. Donovan, Liverpool. merchant—A, Mathie and S. Woore, Liverpool, merchanti—J. and T. N'rankland Liverpool, merchants—A. Bower, Basford, Stafford shire, and Manchester, banker—J. Butterworth, Ashton-under-Line, cotton.spinner—H. Jacob, Manchester, merchant—P. Williams, Wood-street, Manchester -warehouseman—J. Hayward, Manches ter, bookseller—A. Fletcher, Cheetham, Manchester, stuff•mer chant—T. Maguire, Liverpool, publican—T. Wooster, jun., Liver pool-street, Londonmerchant. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on the day herein mentioned. Jan. 14, R. Spencer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, scrivener—Jan. 17, G. Dodson, Boston, wool-dealer—Jan. 18, H, Budd, Birmingham, cigar dealer—Jan 16, Joshua James; Joseph. Richard, and John Wood, and C. Woodall. Denby-dale. Yorkshire. fancy cloth.manu faaturers—Jan. 20, J. Thorp, Manchester. merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Smith, sen., Leven, shipowner, Dec. 28, Jan. 18, at 12 o'clock, at M'Glashan's Inn, Kirkaldy. J. Thomson, Greenock, coal-merchant—, Dec. 29, Jan. 19, at 12 o'clock, at the chambers of Messrs. Williamson and Glasford, Greenock. W. Drysdale, jun., and Son, Alva, woollen-manufacturers, Dec. 29, Jan. 26, at 1 oclock, at M`Martin's Inn, Alva. MEETINGS . OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. DECEMBER. Holm 28, Edward Everall, (2nd) District Court, 11 28, John Topham, (special) . James 0. Watsons, 11, 31, Charles Lewis Wrenshall. (audit). District Court, 1 Jan. 4, William Mearns, (audit) Ditto, 11 5, George Beale Brown, (2nd) Ditto, 11 5, Thomas Perry, (2nd). Ditto, 12 5, H. G. and A. Kellock, (audit). Ditto, 2 6, Henry Clapham, (2nd).. Ditto, 11 6, William Barton, (2nd). Ditto, 12 6, William Webb, (Ist). TIDE TABLE Mrn Ban. IHeight.l Sundays, Holydays, Tuesday 27 a 4i . Wednes 29 758 Thursday 29 g 4 Friday.. 30 9 r.B Saturday 31 ;0 48 Sunday.. I 11 31 Monday. 2 -- If. M. F. T. 7 23 13 10 'St. John 833 13 11 Innocent's Day. 932 14 8 Length of day 711 10 23 15 8 Length of night 11 10 16 3 Silvester. 11 51 16 11 2nd Sunday in Ch 0 12 17 27m. 16h 30m ristmas LIVERPOOL PRICES CURRENT. Montreal, Pot 29 6@ 30 0 Pearl, new 3O g —3l 0 U. States, Pot none. Pearl none. BARK, Quercit. 7 6 s e Oak, 14. ton o g German 5 10 7 0 BRIMSTONE, 16 ton Sicily, &c Tuscany — - CASSIA LIGNEA, S. d. s. d 19 , cwt. in bond 73 0 80 0 CLOVER -SEED, IP cwt. American, red.. Dutch 1 nominal French & Germ. CocoA, cwt Trinidad Grenada 33 0- 37 0 Mfannsit, cwt. s. d. s. d. Dutch, crop 60 0 —7O 0 Ombro 50 0 —55 0 Gamene 32 0 —4O 0 Mull lO 0 —3O o French, S.F. S.F.F n 0 —44 0 E.S.F 46 0 0 —55 0 Spanish 4O 0 —5O 0 MOLASSES, CWt St. Lucia, &c 26 0 —27 0 Demerara, &c 27 0 —2B 0 Bar & Antigua.. 30 0 —3l 0 MUNTEET, Cwt 21 0 —25 0 OIL, Olive, '4O , 252 zalls. Gallipoli Trieste 49 0 —5O 0 Sicily 49 0 —5O 0 Malaga 49 0 —5O 0 Portugal, & Levani, none here 46 q —4B 0 32 10 —33 0 -40, 0 -37 0 --32 0 -33 0 -28 0 ;o o } 33 0-- 36 0 Brazil COFFEE, 70 , CWt. in bond Jaffna. triage .. 130 0_ ordinary f good& tine ord. 65 o— 86 0 middling go 0-105 0 good mid. fine mid. &c 135 0-156 o Dutch, triage.. 30 0— 69 0 ordinary .... good &fine ord. 65 0— 75 0 middling BO 0— 90 0 good mid. 95 0-105 0 fine mid., &c. Mocha Ceylon Java Havana good & fine ord. 36 0— 50 0 St. Domingo.... 31 0— 35 0 Brazil 3O 0— 70 0 Laguira 35 0— 70 0 DYE WOODS, 119 , ton £. s. e. s Logwood, Jam... 4 10— 4 15 Hon. & Dom. 5 10— 6 5 Campeachy .. 8 0— 8 7 6 Fustic, Span 4 5 5 0 Tampico 6 0— 6 10 Brazil Cüba NICARAGUA WOOD. Rio de la Hache solid rough 7 0— 8 0 Neutlia small 7 0— 710 Chinchild, do Lima, solid l5 0— 17 0 Seal, each .... Barwood, Ango 6 10— 7 0 SHU3IAC, cwt Gaboon 3 15— 4 0 Sicily Camwood l3 0— 22 0 Malaga Red San. Wood.. 6 0— 6 10 , Trieste FLAX, `.lt) ton. Verona Riga. P.T.R. .... 40 0— 12 0 I Tyrolese P'burg, 9 head .. 36 0— 39 G SUGAR, 4, cwt. Archangel 3B 0— 40 0 B.P. Muscovado Dutch & Flem. .. 50 0— 80 0 moist brown ~ 54 3 —55 0 GALLS, V , cwt. dry brown .... 56 0 —59 o Turkey, blue .... 50 0— 50 6 good & mid.... 60 0 —62 0 mixed 50 0— 52 o fine &v. fine .. 66 0 —6j 0 East India 5O 0— 57 0 Mauritius, GINGER, la cwt. dabs and moist 42 0 —55 0 Barbadoes 45 0— 50 0 brown & yel... 57 0 —62 Jamaica GO 0-200 0 fine yellow .... 63 0 —66 o E. India, in bond 11 0— 15 0 East India, Bengal GL73I, 2,9 , cwt. Khaur 46 0 —52 0 Arabic, Turkey .. 70 0— 140 0 brown & yel. East India. 24 0— 60 0 good and fine 65 0 Barbary Senegal B5 0— 0 0 Manilla, in bond 15 0 HEMP, ton t s. s. Havana, do P'burg, clean 34 0— 34 10 brown outshot.. 32 0— 33 0 yellow . Riga, Rhine .... 35 0— 35 10 white ord outshot.. 33 0— 34 0 good & fine Archangel Manilla 26 0— 27 0 brown l4 0 —lB 0 Bombay l6 0— 19 10 yellow l9 0 —2O o Jute HIDES, Ox and Cow, 9a , lb good and fine.. 23 0 —25 0 B. Ayres and Monte Video. dry. TALLOW,y cwt. inferior & mid. 0 6 0 64 P'burgh, Y.C. 49 3 —49 6 good & prime 0 7 0 74 Odessa 49 0 Do. salted .... 0 3i— 0 44 Archangel 47 6 —4B 0 N. Amer. salted 0 3 0 34 Buenos Ayres 41 0 —47 0 Brazil dry, salted 0 44 0 5 Stockholm ... Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 6 0 64 Carolina Odessa, &c. dry 0 6 0 7 Virginia W. India, dry.. 0 54 0 7 TARTAR, cwt salted.. 0 44 0 1 4 Cream of Tartar.. 58 u —62 0 East India .... 0 7 1 0 brown and yel... 47 o —5O 0 Kips, B.A. dry. 0 7 0 B,} TEA, 10 lb. in bond. Horse, d. each 7 6 —lO 6 Bohea, Canton .. 0 8— I 0 HORSE HAIR,r lb. Fokein Short mixed long tails 1 0— 1 6 Twankay, com... 1 5 1 6 combed INDIGO, 44' lb. in bond. Pekoe, Orange .. 1 6 2 6 Bengal. Campoi, pur. & violet blue & violet blue violet, g. & fun 7 0— 7 6 Souchong,com... 1 6-- 1 8 ord. & mid. 6 0— 6 9 good to fine.. 110— s o violet & cop. 5 0— Pekoe, floweryflowery2 6 3 6 mixed .. g Hyson, c0m..... 2 0— 2 2 cop. g. & fine. 5 6 6 6 rine.. 2 6 3 6 ord. & mid. 3 9 5 3 Young :Lysol) 0 3 0 con. quality - 6 3 Imperial . ....... 1 0— 3 0 Oude 2 9 5 o Gunpowder, Madras Guatimala, 44 , lD Tonacco,qp , lb. in bond. Floras Sobres 5 0— 6 3 Stemmed.. o 4 0 7:4 Cortes 2 6 4 3 Kentucky Caraccas, Floras 66 7 6 Maryland Sobres 5 0— 6 3 TURMERIC, 111 r ewt. in bond. Cortes LAC DYE, 10' lb. TURPENTINE, 19 , Cwt. D.T. and prime. 1 6 2 6 American mid. to good.. 0 7 I 4 VALONIA,V , ton. s 0 ord. & inferior 0 5 0 6 Smyrna, picked l5 0 —l9 0 MADDER ROOTS, Vp cwt. Morea p 0 —l4 o Smyrna ~ 49 0— 50 0 WAX, BEES' `.p. CIVI, in bond. Tripoli & Syria .. hone African 7 o—7 10 French! none East India Naples Palm, To tuu Fish, v• 25: Seal, pale.. brown Cod LINSEED, ¶ ell,/ Rape, pale do. . Turpen. ys cwt RICE, I) , CW/ , Carolina, dress. 3g 0 33 0 31 10 32 6 44 0 27 0 55 0-100 0 65 0- 80 0 40 0- 60 0 in bond 22 0 Bengal, ord. do 10 0 —lO 6 mid to tine ll 0 —l2 G African ❑one Rum, 2,1 , gallon, in bond Jamaica, 12 to 10 o. p stronger 2 8 - 2 10 3 6 5 0 choice marks.. 4 0 - SAFFLOWER, etet. Bengal, good & fine.. 5 0 - ord. & mid 2 10 - Bombay - SALTPETRE, 33. cwt. S. d. East India 25 0 - South American l9 0 - SHELL LAC,' P , Cia. 1 / 1 ,11 orange 56 0 - liver and block 3B 0 - 7 - 0 56- 6 0 80- 8 6 --62 0 -68 0 -19 0 17 0 —n3 o 19 o —2l 0 25 0 —27 0 28 0 —32 0 10 0 - BIRTHS. On the 22nd instant, at Dorset-place, Dorset-square, London, the lady of M. R. GLOVER, Esq., of a daughter. On the 26th instant, Mrs. WALTER H. WIIITEHEAD, of a daughter. A CJ Ca Z f-1 1:1 •::: . 4: co 7 ,•,.; 1 at :El cc; • E 0 x , 4 x .0 . . - 5 0 0 :: a 0 z z I; g 8 8 8 s Q a , A Al • 174 ce p ci) 4.4 • -0 €i t s.= i': , ' g cs , : c st._2 'g r, „.. 4 t..i ›, c' '. a • 1 4 0 4 7, 7:, v 2. k- , 0 = 2 4 ~ :4 •••• >, -6 , 0 .4 •t= E. 0 ~. =, 'f.; 4 1. .... 4 ., ... m= ...., t 4. 9 , -g• * 7 7 , .t: .. '. 4 . Y 2 ~.. . 74 -- -g .3 . >1 2 : c , - 9 4 g ; 5. • .•- t ., g ~ow, ii; I , ct cn c'S' 5,6: T ' ?? -1 F. ? ej LiZECi.2o4lnr4=M ••••=: 0 • • ::: • • 4 • U Q 1 c 3 : ,?, : : 4 ' 67 • ;- A 0 : MARRIED On the 20th ultimo, at Boston, United States, Major WILLIAM COCKELL, of her Majesty's 28th Regiment, or Royal Welsh Fusileers, only son of the late Lieutenant-General Cockell, formerly Governor of the Cape of Good Elope, to GEORGIANA FREDE RICA AUGUSTA, fifth daughter of the late WILLIAM KENT, Esq., surgeon, Nantwich. On the Isth instant, at Christ Church, Southport, Mr. CHARLES TODD, of North Meols, to Miss CATHERINE ASPINALL, of Halsall. On the 17th instant, at St. David's Church,' by the Rev. Robert Davies, ROBERT MACDONEL EVANSON, gentleman, of Win wick, third son of the Rev. W. A. Evanson, to Miss CATHERINE FOX, of Crewe, Cheshire. On the Igth instant, at St. Thomas's Church, Ardwick, Mr. J. H. MOLYNEUX, grandson of the late Mr. Richard Molyneux, of Manchester, to CAROLINE, eldest daughter of the late Mr. JOSEPH GREENWOOD, of this town. On the 22nd instant, at Northop, the Rev. H. Jones, vicar, Mr. JOHN DAVIES, slater and plasterer, to Miss S. JONES, youngest daughter of the late Mr. R. JONES, Maes-y-Lynn. near Northop. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Cave, Mr. THOMAS DINWOOD, of Castletown. Isle of Man, to ELIZABETH, only daughter of the late Mr. JOHN BALL, of this town. Same day, at Cambridge, the Rev. WALTER SCOTT DUMER GUE to LUCRETIA, only daughter of the late T. G. RAGLAND, Esq., Assistant Commissary-General at Gibraltar. O❑ the 24th instant, at St. Philips's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Cave, Mr. JAMES GUY, butcher, to ELIZABETH, youngest daughter of Mr. DAVID MORRIS, coach-proprietor, Haughton. street. On the 25th instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. It. L. Townsend, Mr. RICHARD FIZZELL, bootmaker, Fletcher street, Toxteth-park. and late of Court, in the county of Limerick, to Mrs. PH&BE LONG, milliner, Richmond-row, also late of Newcastle, in the same county. DIED, On the 14th ulimo, at Havana. aged 26, at the British Comul, General's, of fever, Mr. FRANCIS M'VICCAR, late of this town. On the gth instant, at the house of her son in-law. Mr. George Welch, Norfolk•street, aged 74, after a long illness, SARAH, wife Mr. JOHN GIBSON, mari ner , f ormer l y of Workington. On the 12th instant, aged 55, at her residence, Higher Hardwick, SARAH, wife of Mr. JOHN WHITE, of this town. On the 13th instant, aged 84 years, at her house, in Brook-street, Lancaster, MARGARET, relict of the late Rev. P. H. CHARRIER, minister of Bethesda Chapel, in this town, and previously of High street Chapel, Lancaster. Same day, at Nancy, at an advanced age, M. JULIEN SOUTH HATT. He was a member of the Convention, voted for the death of Louis XVI., and was banished from France in 1815. On the 17th instant, the Rev. ROBERT GROSVENOR, Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, brother of General Grosvenor, and first cousin of the Marquess of Westminster. _ ..... Same day, Mr. JAMS JOOK, farmer, Eccleston, aged 85 years, deeply regretted, by all who knew him, being an upright and worthy farmer of the old Engish style. Same day, aged 16 years and 5 months, AMELIA ANN, daughter of Mr. JOHN HANSON, engineer. Same day, much regretted, aged 42, JESSIE BATHGATE, wife of Mr. JOHN •WILSON, painter, &c., Great George-stceet. On the 18th instant, aged 8 years and 8 months, FREDERICK GEORGE, youngest son of Mr. RICHARD HUGHE: , , printer, of this town. Same day, at her residence in Upper Berkeley-street, London, Miss MURRAY, of the Theatres Royal, Covent-garden and Drury lan e. On the ) 9th instant, of consumption. in the 37th year of her age, MA KY, eldest daughter of Mr. T. FERGIE, Frazer-street. On the 20th instant, Mr. RALPH WOODWARD, of Maccles field, aged 6g. On the list instant, at Springfield, Edge-lane, AGNES, only daughter of Mr. THOMAS D. BROWN, aged 2 years . months. Same day, SARAH, relict of the late Mr. GEORGE CLARK, of Adlington, near Macclesfield. On the 22nd inst., SARAH JANE, aged IS, youngest daughter of Mr. WM. TAYLOR, of Etwall. Derbyshire, and sister of Mrs. Cornforth, of Mill-street, Macclesfield. On the 23rd inst., aged 6 years and 6 months, LUCY HARRIET, daughter of Mr. JOHN LLOYD, Scotland-road. The parents have to deplore the loss of three children in four weeks, on the 20th of November, 6th December, and 23rd December. Same day, ALFRED HENRY, infant son of the Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL. 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