The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-13 00:00:00

BUCKS CONSERVI rivE FESTIVAL. (Abridged from the Times.) On Friday, the must numerously attended dinner that ever occurred in the county of Buck iughaei, or perhaps in any other, took place at Aylesbury. Those present were chiefly the yeo manry of the county, but the meeting comprised a great portion of the nobility, gentry. cler , l7, and freeholders of Buckingham shire. The o'ject, however, of the stewards, in which they signally succeeded, was to convene u festive meeting of the great body of the farmers of this county. The Earl of Orkney presided. The list of stewards comprised the following among other names :-- ThirEarl of Orkney, his Grace the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos. the Earl of Abingdon, the Marquis of Chandos, M.P. the Hon. T. Grenville, Sir J. Chetwode, Bart., Sir W. L. Young, Bart., M.P., Sir. G. Nugent, Bart., Sir. T. F. Freetnanlre, Bart., M.P., Mr. J. B. Praed, Lieutenant-Colonel Han mer, M.P., Mr. W. M. Praed, M.P., &c. &C. Letters regretting their absence were• received from Lord Lake, and Lord C. Churchill. 'The following distinguished individuals were also present : Lord Alford, Lord Norrevs, the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey, Mr. J. R. Prettyman, the Rev. J. Prettyman, the Rev. W. Smith, and Capt. Hoare. The dinner took place in the County hall, which was commo diously and tastefully fitted up for the occasion. There could not have been fewer than 900 present, and tables were laid at the White Hart and the George Inns for those who, unable to find room at the principal dining-place, added their numbers after dinner to the great assemblage at which, of course, all the speeches were delivered. As early as 11 o'clock in the forenoon the yeomanry of the county began to arrive, and from that hour till half-past 2 there was a constant influx from the country 4o the several inns of the town. From the whole of the proceed ings, as well as from the view Which the meeting presented, it was evident that the assembly comprised almost all persons of influence in the county, amongst whom perfect cordiality seemed to prevail, and who appeared resolved ; by a meeting of an im posing and splendid character, to afford to the nation an evi dence of the increased, and increasinsr prevalence of conserva tive principles in Buckinghamshire. The hall was decorated with fl.iwers and laurel, and amongst the vatious inscriptions were the following:—" King and Constitution" at either side of the chair, with a crown in the centre. At the left of the plat form, "Citandos, the stanch supporter of Farmers' Interests ;" on the right, " The King. Constitutional Reform, and Chandos." Amongst those in other Ftts of the hall were the following : " Praed, and Prosperity to the County of Buckingham ;" " Young, Church, and King.," " Orkney" (opposite to the chair;) " II anmer, King, and Constitution ;" " Prmd, Church, and King;" "The Lord Lieutenant ;" " The High Sheriff;" "'Lyndhurst, Peet, Eldon ;" "Church and State ;" "Success to the Conservative Cause," &c. Several professional vocalists attended Dr. Hawtrey said grace. After the dinner was over, and " Non nobis" chanted, the hall because crowded to excess, from 1,100 to 1,200 persons being present. The Chairman, in rising to propose the health of "The King," said he hoped it would be received there, as it had ever been received elsewhere throughout the nation, in a manlier requiring no eulogy from the individual proposing it to au as -sembly of Englishmen. (Great applause.) 'The toast was -drunk with the greatest enthusiasm. The Chairman then gave the health of " The Queen," ob serving that devotion to the fair sex had ever been amongst the prime and leading qualities of Englishmen. In proposing the health of the first lady in the land, he did hope that it would be received with all the respect which it deserved. (Loud cheers.) The next toast was " The Princess Victoria and the rest of the Royal Family." • The Chairman then gave "The army and navy." Sir G. Nugent, as the senior officer present. returned thanks. The Chairman then gave " The High-sheriff of the county." The High-sheriff returned thanks. The Chairman, in proposing the health of "The lord-lieu tenant of the counter," said he was exceedingly sorry for their salsas that the chair had not been filled that day by the person who ought to have filled it, arid who would have filled it but for events over which he had no control. It was his duty to pro pose to them the health of their good, hospitable. and worthy Lord Lieutenant, the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and he was sorry to say that the state of his health prevented his attendance there that day. (Cheers.) The Marquis of Chandos in rising to return thanks for his father, was received with several distinct rounds of ap plause. He said that on many occasions be had been brought forward by their kindness to return in his name and in that of his father his grateful thanks for the honour they had done his father by drinking his health. But on no occasion did he ever feel greater satisfaction, and never wad he more penetrated with a more grateful sense of their kindness than that day. when he returned thanks before more than 1,000 conservatives. (Loud cheers.) The Chairman then gave " The health of the three conserva tive members for the county." Three times three. The Marquis of Chandos, on rising to return thanks, was again greeted with loud cheers. As one of their county mem bers, he took the liberty of rising _ to acknowledge on his own part his grateful sense of the compliment they had paid him, and never did he rise with a deeper feeling of proud and grate ful satisfaction than he did now. Never had it been his lot to address so many of his constituency as had now assembled to express their sentiments in favour of the rights of the crown and the constitutional liberties of the people. Many things had made him sensible of the importance of those meetings, and from the moment they had placed him in the proud situation which he now filled, he had felt it his duty on all occasions to come for 'ward when his constituents assembled together. Setting aside every object of personal ambition, his only aim had been to for woad their interests and the interests of the country at large. He now addressed them on the eve of one of the most important crisis that ever occurred. They had met there that day to uphold the prerogatives of the Sovereign, the privileges of the House of Peers, and the rights and privileges of the people. They had showed that they were determined not to be put down by a fac tion, nor to be trampled upon tie the advocates of revolutionary principles. They were resolved to support the throne, and to declare -that the county of Bucks would rise as one man in sup port of the recal prerogative and of the institutions of the coun try. We lived in times when it was necessary for all parties who valued the safety of the Crown and the rights of private property to - rally round them, and to declare to tho,e who were attempting to undermine the Protestant religion'and the consti tution of the country that they would nut look tamely on and permit it. Ile for one would not submit to such measures. He knew that the government of the country had taken their stand on the pledge of maintaining the institutions of the country ; but he would ask what these men had done to carry their pledge into execution, and whether they were not obedient to the beck and call of a certain party whose avowed object was ultimately to destroy every one of those institutions? lie would ask the noble lord at the head of the government, why he did not rule in the manner in which he professed to govern ? He would ask him and his cabinet associates why he truckled for place and office to others ? And he defied him to show that he had acted in a manner that proved he had at heart the interests of the country. When the administration of Sir R. Peel was displaced, ' and the present government came into office, they said they would take their stand on one great principle, but he submitted that they would find it very difficult to show that they had acted on any principle at all. (A laugh.) They had lulled up to every breeze of wind that blew, and trimmed their sails to catch the following gale, instead of steering a straightforward and statesmanlike course. ( Hear, hear.) Ile saw it stated some time ago in a public print, that the principle which would some time ago have satisfied the government would not satisfy them now; and that it was a phantom and a shadow. What ! was it a phantom are! a shadow which Lord Melbourne had been so long pursuing ? (Loud cheers.) Where was to be the end of the journey of is statesman who followed phantoms? (Hear, hear.) They al least would not follow phantoms. (Loud cheer ing.) They weuld look to the established constitution of the country—to King, Lordie and Commons—for which their an cestors had bled, again and again, but which was now placed in extreme jeopardy 'by the unprincipled attempts of a band of reckless and profligate adventurers. But when he looked on the vast multitude assembled there, he had no fear whatever for the ultimate result. (Cheers.) He felt that our balanced constitution of King, Lords, and Commons would be manfully and honoura bly supported by the people. Whon people talkedof doing away with the House of Lords, they forgot that the greatest tyranny which this country had ever experienced was when we had an uncontrolled House of Cominons; and he would ask, when that took place, how long afterwards did the sovereign retain his throne! Before he sat down he would beg to be permitted to ex press in his own name his grateful sense of the honour they 'tad done him that das . He had enjoyed on many former occasions the high privilege of addressing them on political topics, and bud never shrunk from expressing freely and openly his own opi nion —(Loud cheers,)—nor, so long as God gave him life, would he shrink from. coming forward to his_ Sovereign's support, and the maintenance of the constitution of these realms • for, whatever situation h e m i g h t h erea f ter b e p l ace d in, whether it was to bo his lot to tenter the House of Lords or not, be should always stand up, and to the hest of his ability exert himself in defence of the rights of the crown, the privileges of the House of Lords, and the liberties of the people. (Loud. cheers.) Sir W. Young presented himself, and was received with loud applause. He begged to return his most sincere thanks for the honour they lied done him in drinking his health, and for the warm and gratifying manner iu which the toast had been re ceived. From the reception which that toast had met with, he trusted he might without presumption hope that his conduct (lur ing the last two sessions of Parliament had been such as to win their approbation. -( Loud cheers.) Mr. J. B. Prued then rose to return thanks, but the few words which he addressed to the meeting were delivered in so low a tone that none of them were audible beyond the platform. 'fhe Chairman then announced, that the next toast would he proposed by one possessing much more exalted powers of intel lect and eloquence than he could pretend to, and, proud as he was of seeing him on the present occasion, he was sure they would receive him with that cordiality of feeling which he so well deserved. Mr. B. D'lsraeli then presented himself, and was received by the vast assemblage with the utmost enthusiasm. The cheering having subsided, he spoke to the following effect:—My Lords and Gentlemen, although this is not the first occasion that I have had the honour of addressing an assembled county in their hall, 'and even on subjects that have much engaged our atten tion, I feel convinced I neveret threw myself upon your in dUlgence on a subject of so much interest and of so much portance as the cause which assembles us here this day,— (cheers,)—for that cause has been well described by my Hon. friend in a single sentence. (Here a temporary interruption took place in consequence of a chair breaking down in the further corner of the room; after silence had bees restored the sPeaker proceeded.) I pity that unhappy gentleman whose chair is broken all to pieces ; but so long as w e succee d i n pre venting the constitution from being equally battered, the great object of our union this day shall he secured. (Loud cheers.) The reason of that union, I n take it, gentlemen, is simply this._ we have met here to express our determination to uphold that political constitution, to which, among other blessings, we are indebted for the glorious privilege of meeting like freemen to communicate our thoughts with frankness and to express our opinions Without fear, (Loud and long continued cheering.)— My Lords and gentlemen, I think there is one characteristic of that liberty of which as Englishmen we are -so proud which disti,pguishes it from every species or degree of freedom that has been yet enjoyed by men in any other country, and the glorious quartly of English freedom to which I allude is this—that it lasts;o tog ( u Lx‘r cheers.) And that proud quality, this endurance freedom may be ascribed, I believe to our political institutions cheers); for it may be an easy task to make a nation free,rudt the great difficulty is to keep a people free. (Loud and continued eheerin., ) cipate a people, but political A rnan of genius institutions can alone preserve public liberty. (Ch es. if 1 may venture upon an illustration, homely in trath,ti?buadtteendn'e nevertheless that appeals to our feelings, I should say is something like a faradith, a ut C "jthY without institutions golden harvest may . rise n (Cheers.) The e ' x r rt l may combine the "finest agricultural skill with the :Whuman industry, ell as the soil and An , ti nu tt L a n t .your farm but if you have no granaries to preservegre% the dustry to produce . , I need not assu wills oon be found,a ruinous speculatio n , cheering.) Amongst those institutions that dlavele"""e4 perhaps not the least beneticial influence Upon, our sexercised, gtess, is one which will this day be introduced to y 0ur ° ,,, e1 11 , Pr0.... more speakers probably than myself—l mean .the la qu ' es 4 3' ...ttotutta Lords. (Long continued Cheering.) I need not remind you that, among other blessings, we are indebted to the House of Lords for the existence even of the House of Commons (cheers); and I trust the time will never come %lieu an ungrateful progeny will rise against its venerable parent, and strike down that which has endoWed it with such vigorous youth, and bestowed upon it such a careful education. (Loug continued cheering.) The framers of English freedom were the English aristocracy. (Loud cheering.) For five centuries the house of Lords, as at present constituted, have been an active, an independent, a powerful branch of our Legislature. (Loud cheers.) Tney laid the foundation of our liberties in rude times; anticipating by centuries th e refined and sublime theories of modern phi losophy, they made us eqdal, they have kept us free, they have rendered us famous. (Loud and vehement cheering.) After 500 years of fame and felicity, shall we prove ungrateful? (Cheers ) What blessing that man has yet enjoyed—what that seize has yet devised, which has not been the portion of this country (loud cheers)—a country that nature has made a favourite isle, but the wit of man has rendered a famous empire ? (Loud cheers.) Where have the arts flourished—where has commerce more expanded her sails—where has the husbandman been more skilful—or the manufacturer more relined? (Loud cheers.) If human wit, if human industry, have met all this encouragement, experienced all this success, tell me the region where her navy has not been victorious—tell me the land in which her flag has not waved proudly triumphant. (Loud cheers.) But if this feeble sketch be not an exaggeration, and your feel ings, your knowledge, your thoughts, will tell you that it is in deed but a slight indication of the truth, can it be po?sible that we are assembled this day in such mighty numbers to express'a determination to uphold this august and venerable institution ? (Loud cheers.) Who attacks it? Where is the assailant? Let me see hint. Is he the King's Minister ? (Loud and pro tracted cheering.) And here, gentlemen, I can't help stopping to notice a very remarkable characteristic of these times; it is this—instead of being protected by the government, we have to protect ourselves against the government. k Loud cheers.) The government is the great patron of the violation of the law — (loud cheers)—the government favours—the government heads insurrection—(deafening cheers)—it smiles on outrage. (Re peated cheering.) We - have before had to struggle with foreign foes—we have baffled domestic treason, but at least the govern ment was on our side. (Cheers.) It was not corresponding with the enemy (loud cheers), or enrolled in illegal associations. (Loud and vociferous cheering.) But now ev e ry: meeting of the King's cabinet is a fresh conspiracy against the state. ( Loud and deafening cheers.) Strange times, my countrymen ! (Loud cheers.) What, then, can sayeeis ? Meetings like the present. (Long continued cheering.) But, it may be said that the Prime Minister of the Sovereign rather winks approbation at this assault upon the House of Lords than leads on the assailants. it may be so; discretion may be the better part of valour, even in Downing-street. (Loud cheers.) The gay epicurean leader may summon his forces, and yet may refuse to march through Coventry with them. (Cheers and laughter.) It would seem that the gay epicurean will not march through Coventry with his troops, but nevertheless he receives the King's wageefor being their commander. (Loud cheers.) He fras placed a Justice Shallow in the cabinet (cheers), assigned, the seals of one office to Master Silence, and intrusted the not ft engement of our foreigp affairs to Master Slender. (Lotrd amid continued cheers.) But the rank and file, who, after all, are the men to fight at Shrewsbury—he tarns up his nose at these—at Mouldy, and Wart, and Shadow, and Forcible Feeble, and Builcalf, bellowing out, " Down with the lords," and who must surely have been a memberlor one of the metropolitan districts ; our Falstaff at the Treasury will not lead those fellows to the field. (Loud cheers and laughter.) If we add to these the Milesian Pistol (loud, long, and continued cheering,) and his ragamuf fin tail of cutpurse Nyms and drunken Bardolphs, the political picture is complete; and these—these are our rulers. (Cheers.) A denunciation has gone forth against the House of Lords, and from whom ? From the paid agent of the papacy. (Loud cheers.) I am nut surprised at this. It is as natural for Mr. O'Connell to cry out " Down with the House of Lords," as for a robber to cry out " Down with the gallows." (Great and long continued cheei ing.) Both are national institutions very inconvenient in their respective careers. (Loud cheers and laughter.) Gentlemen, the House of Lords has baffled Mr. O'Connell and those who hire him. (Loud cheers.) " Down with the House of Lords !" What could be more reasonable? 1 do not wander at the policy he pursues: I marvel at those who patronise him. It may suit the Castle of Dublin, but can it agree with the forms of the Castle at Windsor? (Loud cheers.) In spite of all his popular asseverations, the English nation whatever be their political opinionsor religious sects, have made up their minds as to this gentleman and his character. (Loud and continued cheers.) This affected de mocrat, but secret slave—(cheers)—this mercenary disturber (loud cheers) has within these few days poured forth a fresh tirade against the House of Lords, but particularly against a noble and learned lord whom Mr. O'Connell has good cause to remember. (Loud cheers.) He taunts and twists him, for sooth, with his origin. Why, gentlemen, I have always con sidered that noble and learned lord as one of the most glorious existing arguments in favour of the English constitution. (Loud and continued cheering.) It is the proud boast of the conservatives, the national party of the realm (cheers,) that their leaders have either sprung from the ranks of the people, or, if scions of the aristocracy, have assumed their prominent position in the party by their great qualities—by the exercise of their wit and valour. (Loud cheers.) Such, surely, are a Wellington anda Stanley, a Peel and a Lyndhurst. (Vehement applause.) But can this be predicated of the members of his Majesty's government? (Cheers.) It is not exactly the leader of the ministerial party in the House of Lords; or of the government in the House of Commons, that I would adduce as the most felicitous specimens of nature's creation—the most illustrious ornaments of British worth. (Loud cheers.) I may say of them, to use the words of ont of their quondam sup porters, they are ministers because they are lords, and if they had not been lords they never would have been ministers. (Loud and continued cheering.) I look upon those two noble loids as the prologue and epilogue of the play—clumsy, formal machinery that we cannot yet quite discard, and yet who have nothing to do with the genuine business behind the curtain. - (Cheers.) But, "Down with the Lords !" cries Mr. O'Connell. Ay, down with the only barrier between him and his disastrous machinations. (Loud and enthusiastic cheering.) The House of Lords is a great breakwater of sedition (cheers,) that his waves of commotion will break against in vain. (Renewed cheering.) But, .gentlemen, when I mark this man spouting forth his ensanguined torrent of guillotine rhetoric over the coronets of England, I am full rather of feelings of triumph than of terror. (Cheers.) The arrow rankles in the wound. It is barbed. There are rather the shrieks of agony than the vaunts of menace—(cheers)—the exclamations of despair than the bold threats of coining revenge. (Reiterated cheering.) When I listen to them, I am reminded of what the great Dean Swift said of a gentleman who was almost as anxious to plunder the people of Ireland as Mr. O'Connell himself, though not quite so successful : I mean William Wood, who tried to impose on them with brass farthings. "These are the last howls of a dog dissected alive." (Loud and continued cheers.) " Down with the lords !" and what would follow ? Once before the ex periment was tried, and how long did the commons survive them? (Cheers.) Why the machinations of these disturbers have not even the charm of novelty to re c ommend them. ' (Loud cheering.) Having already stained the scaffold with royal blood, destroyed that senate those disturbers now oppose, and trampled a hierarchy to the ground, what was the consequence? How long did trial by jury survive the destruc tion of the sceptre? Six months after the Archbishop of Can terbura was beheaded, a Quaker had his tongue cut out for his faith by the House of Commons. Such was their boasted liberty, and such their vaunted toleration. (Cheers.) Take, then, some lesson from the past. (Cheers.) I feel I have your sym pathies along with me. (Loud cheers.) I feel that the county of Buckingham —no inconsiderable section of this empire—has already made up its mind on this great argument. • (Loud cheers.) Before I offer to your notice that toast which has been committed to my feeble advocacy, let me for an instant remind you of the feelings with which you have met here this day. You have assembled here to-day for no mere festive purpose, for no holyday work. You have assembled here influenced by solemn feelings, and in fulfilment of a duty which I for one esteem sa cred. (Cheers.) You have assembled here to prove that you are not unmindful that it is the proud boast and the glorious privilege of the county of Buckingham that it has for many ages exercised no inconsiderable influence on the public opinion of England, and interfered with no inconsiderable effect in the haughty fortunes of this realm. (Loud cheers.) You have assembled to prove that you are no degenerate descendants of your famous ance stry—(cheers) —that you will not disgrace your celebrated forefathers. (Cheers.) Have I tnisrepresented your feelings? (No, no, and loud cheers.) Have I misstated your views? (Cheers.) Have I misinterpreted your senti ments? (Loud cheers.) Oh, no, I know you well. Still flows in your veins the same blo o d that in old days sent forth the pa triot cohorts of our rural cavalry from the beech-clad Chilterns to uphold the freedom and vindicate the faith of England. (Loud and continued cheering,) As your fathers acted so will you, (loud cheers,) and in your name ['throw down the gage of your defiance to the hired disturber of our country., (Loud cheers.) The popish faction has said " Down with the House of Lords!" England has answered, and in the name of this great section of the land let us reply, "Down with the popish faction !" (Protracted and deafening cheering.) Ay, let these words cross St. George's Channel ; let these sentiments, ratified by your sympathy, uttered in our constitutional county-hall, re-echo within their hired chambers of sedition. (Loud cheers.) I tell them they have mistaken the mind and mettle of England. (Continued cheering.) I tell them they must march over the bodies of indignant freemen, before they destroy that august and venerable assembly in whose wisdom and courage we alone re cognize succour for an insulted people, a menaced constitution, a perilled empire, and a distressed monarch. (Enthusiastic cheering.). Gentlemen, in calling upon vou to pledge to the power and prosperity of the House of Lords, I have associated with the toast the'riame of that nohleinan who has been marked out by the faction which .die has baffled for the vengeence which he defies. Let us , prove to him this day. by adding our unani mous verdict to the multiplied testimonies of his countrymen, that the mote he is menaced and assailed by the anti-national enemy, the more he is entitled to our gratitude and admiration, our sympathy, and our support. It is with these feelings I pro pose " The health of Lord Lyndhurst and the House of Lords." (The toast was teceived with nine times nine, and one cheer more.) The Earl of Abingdon rose to return thanks for the toast, and said, that after the speech which they had just heard that he could hardly by any possibility say anything ; but when Lord Lyndhurst and the House of Lords was the theme, he hail a pride and pleasure in even saying a single word in reply to such a toast. He would now thank them most cordially for the ho nour they had done to him in drinking the health of the House of Lords, and he hoped it would not be the last titno that lie should have the honour of meeting them. (Cheers.) The Chairmen remarked that they all were aware of the pleasurable feeling that attended success. Ile once had the honour-of being very nearly the member for the borough of Aylesbury—(cheers and laughter)—and thanks to the kindness of many of those whom he saw around him, he was enabled to come s e a very good second. (Laughter renewed.) But though he was extremely gratified at having had so near a chance of becoming one of the representatives of a borough in the county of Buckingham, those who had been fortunate enough to succeed in obtaining that station had the greatest reason to feel proud of the honour bestowed upon them. lie therefore gave " The three conservative members of the boroughs of Aylesbury, Buckingham, and Nlarlow," three times three. Colonel Hamner was loudly cheered . on coining forward to return thanks, and said, that it now became his pleasing daty to respond to the toast which had just been drunk, by Making his best acknowledgments for time honour they had dune him as an individual connected with them as one of their representatives in parliament. .. Sir Thomas Freemantle then returned thanks Mr. T. P. Williams also briefly returned thanks. Mr. G. G. Pigott begged leave to propose the health of Sir Robert Peel and the Conservative members of the House of Commons. (Drunk with nine times nine, and one sheer more. - . . . . Mr. W. M. Praed, M P. in rising to acknowledge the toast was loudly cheered. He was the only member of parliament present entitled to return thanks to this toast, because he was entitled to return thanks for no Otber toast they had drunk. (We regret that we have no room for the very able speech of Mr. Praed.) *e:.tral other toasts were drunk before the meeting broke up, amongst which were " The Agricultural Associations of the F i _guutv,.". "Lord N orre y s an d th e C onserva tives of Oxford hlre,"" Thi Provost i Fellows, and Masters of Eton College, ,, Lord Alf or d and the Conservatives of Bedfordshire, " THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. "Major Cartwright andthe Conservatives of Northamptonshire," &c. The company did not separate till a late hour in the even ingA. s much accommodation as circumstances permitted was afforded to the reporters for the public press, who experienced from Mr. Ryde and other members of the committee the utmost courtesy and attention. It was stated that Lord Montague wrote a letter expressing regret that their invitation to him had wit been delivered in time to admit of his being present, but he authorized the use of his name, and gave his full approval to the meeting The Earl of Buckinghamshire also gave in his adhession. A POPULAR COURSE OF CEIEMISTRY. MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. bites] a large crystallized mass of carbonate and sulphate of lime which hisd been detached from a brewer's boiler in Lon don, and also a beautiful and exceedingly ens ious crystallized piece sulphate of lime, which had been presented to him in this town, that was detached from, the boiler of a steam •ftscket. Mr. Hemming said he believed the latter were the first perfect crys tals of sulphate of lime produced by accidental means. 'rise presence of hi-carbonate of lime in water can be detected by adding lime water to a suspected solution, when. should it con :a:it:a:l:e' a white precipitate will be formed iii consequence of the combination of one atom of carbonic acid with the lime, or, if we boil the water so as to deprive it of one atom of carbonic same effect will ensue. An - excess of carbonic acid will again dissolve this precipitate, and restore the transparency of the fluid. The only substauce we need fear in water used for domestic purposes is lime, to detect which we have only to add a small quantity of the oxalate of ammonia to any water con taining it, when an insoluble substance, the oxalate of lime, will immediately be produced. When lime is present as a sulphate, a muriate, or a carbonate, it may be detected by a few simple tests. The term inuriate is employed, though perhaps chloride would be more strictly correct, because when salts are in solu tion, they are in the state of relriates. When sulphates are held in solution by water, the addition of a few drops of sous - late of barytes will immediately detect them by forming a white pre cipitate, called the sulphate of barytes. The muriates or chlo rides may be detected by the addition of a few drops of a solution of nitrate of- sity?r, which will separate the muriatic acid, or rather the chlorine in the state of chloride of silver. The ca;trn be atmospheric air or carbonic acid gas which water may con tain driven off by boiling. A patent has been taken out for preventing the accumulation of calcareous deposits on the bottom of steam-boilers by a contrivance for returning the spent steam back to the boiler; but the lecturer was not aware ttuhraar in tal,n , yvery great beneficial results had been derived from it. Water ex i s t s i n a var i ety o f diff erent states. W e h ave it na the solid, liquid, and vaporous forms. In the former it exists as ice; in the liquid state it is most valuable to us, and it always is contained in the atmosphere in the state of vapour. We have it in salts, some of which will not entirely part with it ata red heat. Of this potash is one instance. The quan tities of it in the atmosphere is surprising, from which it de scends in the state of rain, hail, snow, or dew. Dr. llallev said, that at St. Helena a surface of 10 irphes of water will evaporate one cubic inch in the course of 21 hours; at this rate a single square mile of the ocean will evaporate 6,91`4 tons in that period. The Mediterranean sea is said to evaporate 5,`230 millions of tons daily. This is, perhaps, more thau is evapo rated from any ot h er s i m il ar surfacer of water in the world, and probably arises partly from its being exposed to the winds, which have been desiccated in passing over the dry and arid deserts of Africa, and by its being enclosed by land, which in creases the temperature of the air and water. It is well known that air can be desiccated or dried of its vapour by passing it over dried oatmeal, and, hence it is not improbable that the sands of Arabia produce the same result. The desiccating pro perties of the air are in proportion to the quantity of vapour it contains, and the rapidity with which it travels. It is known that wet articles of dress will dry more rapidly when the wind is blowing hard than when exposed to the sun's rays, and in the sun than in the shade. If the air were stationary, that portion of it in contact with the wet article would become saturated with moisture, and as there would be no succession of dry air to come in contact with the wet clothing, the process of drying would be very slow. If, however, the air be 'moved as soon as it becomes changed with moisture, a fresh stratum of dry air is immediately brought into contact with the cloth, and it soon be comes dry. In like manner, if we expose an article to the sun's rays it is dried by the increase of temperature. It is sup posed by philosophers, that the cause of the surface of the Mediterranean sea being lower than the level of the ocean, is owing to the rapidity of its evaporation. Air without vapour would be exceedingly prejudicial and injurious to life. This is very well known in those regions alluded to near the coast of Africa. In these regions there is sometimes a dry wind blow ing, which, in all probability, loses its vapour in passing over the dry sands. When this wind, which is called the Harmattan, blows, it produces the most distressing effects. In a few days cabinet work falls to pieces, wood splits, fruit and vegetables ripen with great rapidi; - , but are found to be destitute of flavour and juice. Its effects upon the animal system are ex traordinary : the nostrils and the eyelids because excoriated, and the skin of the body dries and cracks. The grass becomes dried up, and it is usual at this period to set fire to in some places to destroy noxious reptiles. The incendiary who does so stands to windward, and it is surprising to witness the rapidity with which the flames extend over the surface of the country. During the continuance of this wind no distemper appears to be contagious, the small pox, typhus, or scarlet fevers, which are admitted to be contagious and infectious, at this period are by no means either contagious or infectious. This would seem to prove that all the peculiarly infectious contagious matter—for matter it must be that occasions these disorders-is contained in the vapour of the air, and the opinion will not be considered absurd, when it is said that all those deleterious gasses which are prejudicial to life will be absorbed by water. It appears, there fore, that the putrid matter or miasmata which conveys infecti ous disorder, is contained in the vapour of the air. So singular is this powerfully disinfecting influence of the Harmattan, that during its prevalence a child afflicted with the small-pox may be placed in bed with a child who has never had the disorder, without the least fear of dangerous consequences. We have frequently stated, and again repeat, that so far as the subject will admit of it, Mr. Hemming illustrates every posi tion with a conclusive expsrim.ent, which renders the meaning of the lecturer much more intelligible than the best chosen language. We are glad to perceive that these lectures are re ceiving that attention which they deserve, for we have nightly witnessed the attendance of many of the eminent chemists of the town, who are highly delighted with the intellectual treat they experience. To-morrow evening Mr. Hemming will en ter on a new subject, Mettallurgy, in which he will practically illustrate the modes practised in reducing and purifying theva rious metals. LECTURE VII. On Wednesday evening Mr. Hemming proceeded with his valuable and interesting course. We have now to consider the nature and properties of the most important of all fluids—water. Weiss was formerly sup posed to be an element • indeed a long period has ioe e:si- ed since it was supposed there were only four elements, viz., earth, air, fire, and water. We now know that these are composed of a number of elements, water containing two, oxygen ana hydro gen. It was, at one time, the opinion of many eminent philoso phers, that there were only three elements in nature, and Van lielmont performed a very curious experiment to prove this. He placed a plant of willow in mould, both of which he had accurately weighed. The root was embedded in the mould, and the . pot covered with lead. Tho plant was regularly watered during the space of two years, with distilled water, at the end of which time it was taken out of the mould, and notwithstanding its great increase in weight the earth had only lost a few ounces. It was thought that the additional weight arose from the de composition of air and water, and this led him to suppose that these combined with earth would form every known substance e were acquainted with. Water was first decomposed by Cavendish, in 1776, when he succeeding in producing hydrogen gas, so called because it ittoduces water. It was found by Mr. Waltire that it produced water in its combustion, but not soot. He ignited for this purpose a minute jet of it proceeding from the philosophical candle of Dr. Priestley beneath a saucer, and to his surprise large globules of water were formed. This ex periment he repeated with the seine result. It was not sup posed at that time that water was formed by the gas, but that water was deposi:ed, arising from the vapour contained in the gas and air, as it was known that every gaseous body contained water, which, is now ascertained to be one-third part of a grain in every.loo cubic inches of its volume. More accurate expe riments performed by Priestley, Cavendish, and others, led to the Supposition that this could not be the reason, for the quantity of water thus deposited by the combustion of a given volume of the gasses was greater than could have been contained in them. When Watt, the celebrated engineer saw this, he imagined that water was formed partly by the gas, and he and Cavendish set about igniting hydrogen and oxygen gasses in certain quantites, Their couclusions were the same, namely ; that water was formed by the union of these two gasses by combustion. This may be familiarly proved by holding over an ignited jet of hydrogen a bell-shaped glass, which will in a short time be covered over by vapour. This opinion, however, appeared to be rather unwil lingly received. We are indebted to Lavoisier for proving that it is correct. Previous to his experiment, however, three French chemists sat up for three days and three nights burning a given quantity of hydrogen and oxygen. They found that with the exception of a few grains the quantity of water which was pro duced was equal to the weight of the oxygen and hydrogen gasses which had been burned.' But the experiment of Lavoi sier was much more ingenious and conclusive. He imagined that water might be decomposed by passing its vapour over ig nited iron. Now, iron at a very high temperature, either at a red or white heat, has a greater affinity fur oxygen than any other substance in nature, potassium itself not excluded, for potassium is sometimes obtained by heating potass with iron filings in a retort, wheys the oxygen uniting with the iron, po tassium flows over. In order to decompose water by this means a quantity of iron turnings are introduced into a gun barrel, the centre of which is heated in a furnace. Into one end of this gun barrel the beak of a retort containing distilled water is inserted. Let us suppose the water to weigh nine hundred grains. To the other end is fistened a flexible tube, which is in troduced beneath a receiver filled with water in the pneumatic trough., A spirit lamp being applied to the retort, the water is slowly vapour:zed, and the vapour passing over the ignited iron yields its oxygen to the iron, and the hydrogen being liberated, passes out at the extremity of the tube, and may be collected in the receiver. When the water was all vapbnrized by this pro sees, Lavoisier again weighed the iron and the gas, and he found that the hydrogen gas weighed 100 grains, and that the iron had gained 800 grains in its oxydation, supposing 900 grains of water had been used. Another, and perhaps, more satisfactory mode of proving the fact, and one by which we can prove it, both analytically, and synthetically, is by decomposing water by electric agenry. 'The Most convenient mode of effecting this, is with a voltaic battery. In this manner we may obtain the two gasses, either in a combined or separate state. When we obtain them in a combined state, we can in stantaneouslv reproduce water, by passing the elective spark through them. To obtain them in a separate state, all we have to do, is to fill two test tubes with water, and invert them, when, by introducing beneath them two platinum wires from the posi tive and negative poles of a voltaic battery, hydrogen will be evolved at the negative pole - , and oxygen from the positive. This experiment Mr. Hemming satisfactorily formed, and, in our opinion, it is one of the most beautiful of all chemical experi ments, and demonstrated to the audience, that the gasses were', actually oxygen and hydrogen, by their opposite properties of burning or supporting combustion. For the purposes of ex-1 periment, we decompose water to obtain hydrogen by means of an oxidable metal. There are same metals which have so poweiful an affinity for oxygen, that they will decompose water at ordinary temperatures. This is the case with Sodium and Potassium. Zinc and iron are usually employed for this pur pose; when a piece of zinc is thrown into water, an instan taneous decomposition' of the water will take place, in conse quence of the eagerness with which the oxygen of the water unites with the zinc, and the hydrogen will be liberated, but the action will immediately cease, because the surface of the metal becomes covered with a coating of oxide. To remove this, an acid is employed, which, dissolving the oxide as soon as formed, continually presents a fresh surface to the water for oxydation, and thus the action goes on until the whole of the zinc is oxydated, and dissolved, or all the water is decomposed, or the acid is expended. When hydrogen gas is mixed with atmos pheric air, and inflamed it produces an explosion, and more espe cially when mixed in the properties of one part of hydrogen to five parts of atmospheric air. A much more powerful explo sion is produced when two parts of hydrogen and one part of oxygen (the proportions in which these gasses form water) are mixed together and inflamed. In this explosion, it is said by some, that these gasses expand into 30 times their space, and according to others into 15, but they as instantaneously con dense together to form water. The amount of explosion, how ever, has not been accurately determined. The sounds we hear are produced by air striking against air. The ultimate particles of water are impenetrably hard, for if we confine water in a vessel from which the air has been extracted, the water will produce a noise similar to that of a melted metal falling. We must then believe that the particles of water are impenetrably hard. The properties of oxygen and hydrogen, having been explained by Mr. Hemming-, in a previous course of lectures, delivered at the Mechanics Institution, at the com mencement of the present year, he did not dwell upon them, but confined himself to a distinguishing property of each. Oxygen is a great supporter of combustion, and of respiration. So intense is its power of supporting combustion in its separate state, that if we introduce a piece of ignited wood, without flame, into it, the wood will be instantly inflamed. Hydrogen burns with a lambent blue flame, but is not a supporter of coin bust ion. Water, then, is a compound of oxygen and hydrogen, but in all probability it has only once been procured in a perfect state of chemical purity. Sir Humphry Davy distilled water on this occasion in a silver vessel very carefully, and received it in ves sels of gold and silver. From this water, by means of voltaic electricity, he then produced hydrogen, which was without smell. When we decompose ordinary water the hydrogen evolved al ways exhales a faint odour, in consequence of the foreign mat , ter which the water contains, and which, hydrogen gas, as shown by . Mr. M'arsh's beautiful test for arsenic, is capable of holding in solution. It would, however, be useless to take this trouble. to obtain water in its pure state, as nothing can be more insipid than water in such a state. River and spring water con tain atmospheric air, as well as vegetable, animal, and mineral substances. When water contains vegetable or animal matter it is soon decomposed, as it . is improperly called. The water is nut decomposed, but the foreign matter which it contains, in consequence of which a bad smell is emitted by it. Persons who supply water to vessels for the purposes of a long voyage, introduce it into charred casks or into iron tanks coated with tar, try which means this spurious decomposition is prevented. Water, when deprived of as much of these impurities as possi ble by double distillation, becomes very insipid, but when ex posed to the atmospheric air, which it absorbs very quickly, partly regains its pleasant taste. We cannot deprive water of all its impurities, but we can separate it from the salts it may contain. The impurities of water, arising from the presence of these salts, about which so much is said, are seldom prejudicial; indeed, the snore impurities of this nature the water in general contains, the more beneficial is it considered; fur we find the springs at Tunbridge, Cheltenham, Harrogate, &c., to con tain salts which have a salutary medical effect, so that the more impure, the more valuable the water becomes, in some cases. The mechanical impurities are more important than the chemical impurities; it is usual to separate these by simple filtration. All the filters we have depend upon cue principle; t we constructedv‘.ish to se the water passes throu g h s u b s t ances excee di ng l y porous, but twhhithec pores must be fi ner th an t h e san d or f ore i gn part i c l es poaf porous sFor stone. t h i s Therepu purpose, oiss a e, trifling fi lt r d a i r s e generally . . advantage . attending the use of this stone, in consequence of the tthoe restore pores impurities choking in many causepstheof p th o e ros s i t t or of , t s h o e th fi a lt t e i r t . is im possibleßut of all the filters there is perhaps none r c fl uperior to one which any individual may mak e with case aa trifling expense. Suppose we take a lead pipe, of capacious dut t iret er, and introdu ce i nt o one end of it a cork p er f orated with ai above this let a layer of b ru i se d charcoalnhuemlasereiltshmall holes, layer of gravel, and above all a l ayer of fine sand ; en t h a e n t ( t ) thr bending the pipe so as to all ow th at portion of it cont'airY lies the various layers, to form the shorter leg, we have a' " syphon farmed, through which water may be obtained as much purified as required. There is one advantage attending this filter—sif the sand becomes choked with impurities it can be readily cleansed by reversing the passage of the water through' if, by making the shorter leg the longer by bending the pipe, by which the impurities are quickly removed. We have thus,' for a few pence, the most perfect filtering machine we ran employ. Water is supposed to be composed of small particles, which are hard, mond, and slippery. There is but a slight attractive force between the particles of water, so little, indeed, that it is said they fall and gravitate independently of each other. Thus, supposing we allow water to descend from a high situation in a mass, it will not fall in a mass , but will separate unto innumera ble alobules. This is a fortunate circumstance; for, if th e water of a dense cloud were to fall in a solid mass, the inevita ble consequence would be destruction to every thing on which it might descend. But there is an attraction between the ulti mate particles of water, by virtue of which they adhere together with some slighLdegree or force. By dipping the finger into water a slight quantity adheres to it, which collects at the point when we withdraw it, and as soon as it has increased to a certain size, it falls from the linger, and another drop forms in its place. It is improper to say that particles will gravitate independently of each other; drops may do so. Theearth's gravitating force is in proportion to mass of matter, and as a drop is formed it is carried to the earth. On account of this, we find that the surface of water is horizontal and level as it is expressed, though in point of fact the surface of water is never, mathematically speaking, horizontal, as it partakes of the earth's curvature, which amounts to more than many persons imagine. If we look nveran extent of water one mile in length, at the extremity of that distance the surface of water will be 8 inches lower than the water near us, and at the distance of two m ile s tour times fower than th a t, or thirty-two inches. The most frequent impurities we find in water are compounds of lime. Aliaost all the water we employ contains lime, which is frequently precipitated by allowing it to remain quiet for a short time. The bi-carbonate of lime and the sulphate of lime are frequently found.; and, if we do not take care to cleanse our , boilers frequently, we shall ii id these substances adhering in a ' crystalline state to their. interiors. Mr. Hemming here exhi ,i. Current IMPOSTS. SALEs or THE WEEK. Prices. ThisWk this Year ---- - 100 Sea Island —d I/ —d Stained — } 6360 342713 6120 Bowed Georgia 1980' NI 1 ' l'Al°al);zt l e rn - a and Tennessee 6l 10 1097 345295 2820 Nu..v Orleans r 23 , 5 Pernambuco and Pa a', ba lOl 131 I 4074 122 72397 1 Aricati and Ceara lOl 115 3 200 Bahia and Maueio Bl 979 32215 Maranham 13 1 3074 I 41089 730 I S awg i nne d 95 11 3 Minas — —__ , _ . _ 1 • • • • I 136 Para Demerara, Surinam, &c...... 11 14 28 1911 390 Egyptian lO5 141 • • • • 28068 Bar b a d os lO —1! 21 484, Peruvian 10.4 11 1 1 Bahama— 700 Laguayra 500 Common West India, &c 7l 10 1852 } 26006 Carthageria Smyrna ' I 100 Manilla 95 105 J J 1870 Surat 3l 7 1 1300 85583 10 Madras 5 -- 71 .... 14008 60 Bengal 3l 5 1 3 18120 bales 18985 989905 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET—MONDAY. Dcc. 12. A Zood supply of Beef and Mutton, both in good demand. Beer at an advance from last week, and thy' best quAlity sold at Ed. Beef 3d to 6d, Mutton Ed to lid. LONDON (;ORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY. The supplies of Grain and Flour still continue ny)lerate ; but many vessels with Grain being shortly expeeted,,the buyers this week have manifested great disinclination to purchase.—Wheat may again be . re ported is to' s per quarter cheaper than Monday f or inost descrlptio , ts. —Barley also is rather lower.--Beaus and Peas are unsaleable as the duty on foreign is becoming low.—Oats have experienced a heavy sale since Monday, and hardly maintain that day's prices.—Flour is on varied. ftlaritto. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, DEc. 9. The demand for Sugar continues extremely limited ; the sales amount to 600 hhds 8.P., and prices are again rather lower. 1400 bags brown and middling Bengal have also been sold within the range of our quotations. In Foreign no sales.—The sales in Molasses are con fined to -a small parcel ofDemerara,.from the quay, at 27s 4' cwt.— COTTEN% There is a fair inquiry for Plantation, and the sales com prise 160 casks of Jamaica, at very full prices. Nothing done in Fo reign. —In Cocoa or Pimento no sales.-100 bags black Pepper sold at 4d to &id, and 200 J bags Ginger, at 2Ss for Bengal, and 31s to 33s for Malabar. —No transactions worthy of notice have occurred either in Rice or Rum. IndigoTA'small public sale of Bengal brought forward this day, went oil' better than was anticipated, from the previous state of the market, and 31 serons Caracca sold readily at 4s 4d for tortes, to Os 8d for good sobres.—East India Gum Arabic is lower, 80 chests selling from 578 to 70s for middling to good quality, and 27s to 37s for siftings. —3 ' chests Shell Lac, by auction, brought 95s for good liver, and £6 to £6 lOs for orange.-50 boxes Cassia Lignea are reported at Ms.— Saltpetre is dull, and the sales do not reach 200 bags, at 263 to 30s 6d V' cwt. - Dye Woods. About 100 tons of Campeachy Logwood sold at £9, and 50 of J ama i ca at £7 2 s 6d ; nothing reported in Fustic; 20 t ons o f solid Nicaragua Wood bronf:ht £l2, and a few tons of Sapan Wood £l2 6s ton.—The sales of Turpentine are this week confined to 300 brls. at 17s 6d, to arrive.—No sales reported in Tar.—There has been rather more disposition to sell Pot and Pearl Ashes, and about 300 brls of Montreal have been sold to the trade, at 36s for Montreal Pot and 34s for old brands, and at 38s 6d to :f 9s for new Montreal Pearls.— Cluercitrou Bark continues extremely dull of sale.—Nothing done in Cloverseed.-2200 bags of East India Linseed have been disposed of at former prices.—The sale of Hides consist of 12,600 East India at 510 to 61d for sound dry and brined, 41d to 5d for first rubbed, and 4d to 41d for second rubbed, 2300 dry salted Brazil at 41d to Sad for best, 650 salted Jamaica al 4d to 41d, 9a4 salted African at 41d for sound, also 400 East India Buffalo Hides at 31d to 41d tb.—ln Horse Hair and Oak Bark no sales.—The sales of Tobacco have been about 100 hints this week; a few have been taken for Ireland, a few for export, and the remainder by the home-trade. MEDITERRANEAN PRODUCE. The market for Brimstone has remained in a quiet state during the whole week, scarcely any sales having been effected.—Of Sumac, the sales have been only one sm all Tarcel of Verona at Gs 6d, and 300 to 400 bags new Sicily at 13s 6d 4? cwt.—Argols and Cream of Tartar have barn dull of sale • of 70 casks Oporto Argots offered at auction, only about 30 were sold, at previous prices.—Nothing worthy of no tice has been done in Madders or Madder Roots.—The holders of Va lonia requiring advanced prices, only a few small parcels have been disposed of this week.—For Olive Oil the demand still continues'very limited, without any change in prices.—Two cargoes of Cod Oil having arrived this week, about 100 tuns have been disposed of to the trade, at and about the quotations.—ln Seal Oil the sales have been very limited, and the prices remain without alteration.—Linseed Oil has experienced a further decline, and Ow market is heavy at the re duction; pale Rape is also dull of sale.—The only transactions in Palm Oil are a small parcel of 15 tons by auction on Monday last, at £3O is fid V ton, casks not returned, and 10 tons l) private at £3l 10s, with usual allowance for casks.—Oil of Turpentine supports the recent advance.—ln Hemp and Flax there is no alteration to report ; the market remains heavy.—Tallow has experienced a further decline this week • sales of yellow candle, on the spot, have been effected at 459 6d to 465, and for arrival, in quantity, at 44s 6d to 455 thl 4, cwt. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. DEC. 9. There has again been a fair inquiry from the trade ; and although the market has been dull, there is no alteration in prices to notice, except of new Bowed, which are now more freely offered, and have dei•lined id to iu m. 1230 bales of CarthaL;ena and 120 of Deme rara ware offered, to-day, by auction, but withdrawn for want of bid ders. 220 Surat and 35 Bengal have been taken for exportation. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the 2,/ iu st. to this du y inclusive. Monday Evening. Dec. 12. The sales on Saturday were •23 1 0 bags ; to-day there have been many of the trade here, whoa• purchases amount to 4000 bags ; viz. : 500 Surat, 500 Brazil, and about 3001 American ; the market has closed with firmness at rather better prices than on F iday last. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET. Dm:. 12. 5. d. . s. d. BUTTER.—Belfast, new i 1(:6 0 e 107 0 per cwt. Banbridge, new 97 0 100 0 Colerain 100 0 101 0 Sligo, new 100 8 102 0 Derry, new 0 0 0 0 Limerick, new 97 0 98 0 -- Dundalk .. - Carlow, new 100 0 106 0 -- --- t Waterford, new 100 Q 106 0 -- N ewr y 0 0 0 0 -- Cork, new 94 0 — 9 5 0 -- Do. pickled gds, new 99 ( 0 .1 _-- 1 5 0 2 0 t o ) per cwt. Dutch 0 0 0 0 --.. Ram—New Prime Mess 100 0 112 0 p er t i erce. PORK ....• Do. Bac" new 'Do. 01 DRY HAMS 5B 0 59 0 ---. W RT• Do LARD.—Firli in 64 0 66 0 Bladdered •• •••• 72 0 74 0 LIVERPOOL AGRICULTI s. d. s. d. Hay, old 1 4al Eir 201 b Nevr Hay - 1 3 1 6 - Clover Hay 1 3 1 6 -- Straw, Vert 0 8 0 9 -- Straw, Oat 0 7 0 9 - Green Clover U 0 0 0 - 'UR L MARKET, DEC. 12. P. (1, PutatoPs ..... 2 Vi 2 84r 90th Cattle Potatoc, 9 0 2 3 Turnips ...... 40 0 0 0 per ton Carrots .58 069 0 Mangimurzle 0 0 0 J Namur. 7 0 10 0 -- MANCHESTER MARKET, DEC. 10. Of all descriptions of Grain, the imports from Ireland and coast wise are still on a very moderate , scale, but of Flour they again ex ceed 11.090 sacks, and of Oatmeal upwards of 5000 loads are reported. Owing to the boisterous state of the weather the arrivals into Wake field are small. The trade has been in a languid state throughout the week, both millers and dealers appeari no very reluctant to increase their stock, and sales only have been made by submitting to reduced rates. At our market this•morning there was rather more confidence than previously, yet although we reduce our quotations for Wheat fully 2d Ir 701 h, and Flour 2s to 3s 4' 2801 h, there was by no mesns C. free sale for either article.—Oats may be noted as on tins day se'n night, but Oatmeal was offered full 6d W load lower, 37s 4t 3 ' 2-10Ib be ing a top quotation. Beans were in limited request and rather lower, and Malt was dull of sale at a decline of is load.—The late high prices at which Irish and other fine Butters have been selling, seem to have operated materially on the consumptive demand, and have had the consequent effect on the dealers during this and the several previous weeks, the business done has been on the most limited scale, at a reduction of fully Os cwt on the currency of this day se'nnight. WAKEFIELD MARKET, DEC. 9. Owing to the boisterous- weather and high water , we have a short supply of all Grain fresh up to this day's market, but many samples are offering from vessels that will be here in a day or two. Wheat has met a dull sale for all deseriptioes at a decline of 2s rtft quarter. Oats scarcely support the rates of last Friday. Very fine Barley nearly maintains last week's prices, but all other sorts go off slowly at a re duction of is If quarter. Beans are dull of sale and cheaper. PRICES OF SHARES, LIV ERI'OOL, Dxc. 12, 1836. ' RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Bolton and Leigh XlOO paid £63 0 0 Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Canal and Railway £4 , 3 „... 65 0 t Liverpool ft Manchester Railway (Ex. i Shares) 100 .... 916 0 0 Quarter Shares New Half Shares — ...; 47 10 0 London and Birmingham Railway Grand Junction ditto Warrington and Newton ditto Kenyon and Leigh Junction ditto Wigan Branch ditto. North Union, late Preston and Wigan Railway St. Helens and Runcorn Gap ditto . . 100 .... 33 0 0 Leicesterand Swan nington ditt 0..., Manchester and Leeds ditto 6 .... 12 5 0 London and Brightm Ditto (Stephenson's) 5 .... 610 0 Ditto Ditto (Rennie's) , 2 ..... 1 1) 0 Eastern Counties Midland Counties ditto North Midland ditto Birmingham and Gloucester ditto Great Western ditto ' 3O .... 4G 0 0 Leeds and Selby Railway Edinburgh and Glasgow ditto ' 2 .... 310 0 London and Gravesend ditto 1 .... 0 0 0 Dublin and Drogheda 2 10s.. 2 0 0 Ulster BANKS. Bank of Manchester Bank of Liverpool Liverpool Union Bank lO .... 14 7 6 Manchester and Liverpool District Bank l5 .... 21 0 0 Commercial Bank of Liverpool . lO .... 20 0 0 Commercial Bank of England 5 .... 515 0 Northern and Central Bank of England lO .... 10 7 0 Borough South Lanc,ashire North and South Wales Bank £s Os.. 4 0 0 Ulster United Trades' Bank £lo Os.. 10 10 0 Tradesmens' Bank GAS AND WATER WORKS. _____ _ Oldham Gas Light an i Waterworks Si. Helen's Gas Works ' L.verpool Coal Oas l* 0 0 Liverpool New Cras and Coke Company .....c£100 New Shares., premium Liverpool and Ilatrington Water Works 472 0 0 Bootle ditto ..... .. 326 0 0 Exchange Buildings ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance Company . £25 Ocean Assurance Company • lO .. • • 8 7 6 FERRIES. Woodside, Birkenhead, and Liverpool Steam Ferry Company Royal Rook Ferry l5 0 .. 13 10 0 Monk's (Woodside) Ferry 5 0.. 415 0 Egremont Kellewerris Consolidated Mines £l .... 117 6 West Tresavean Tin and Copper ditto British Silver, Lead, and Copper ditto ..... 2 1 10 0 Liverpool and Manchester Coal NEW COMPANIES. Liverpool Steam Towing ... Liverpool Fish Liverpool Timber.. DEC. 13, P-36. Emports.s. WgST INDIES AND MA DF. I RA. Jamaica, (298) Smith, fm Jamaica, with 47 hds 7 tea 3 brls sugar; 219 o and c hides, 59 tcs 6 eks 6 brls coffee, I pkge tortoiseshell, I csk ginger, 11 canisters arrowroot, 56 pkgs presents, 133 t logwood, 24 t 3 Nicaragua wo , ;(1, 188 t fustie, 42 logs mahogany, Tory, Holt and co -1,8 o and c bides, 2 htls sugar, 26 tes 1 csk 5 brls 2 hfbrls eotlee, 1 csk arrowroot. W ikon and Derbyshire-2 tea 1 brl coffee. Coniston and co —1 brl sugar, T Ilendrick-10 lids sugar, J Y Lope 2-7 bgs 2 bls Wool 2 tes 1 eak catfee, 3000 horns, A'Hoyes-5 tes sugar, 7 pns rum. T Barham-10 pus rum, Jll Yates & co-30 bgs pimento, Gibbs, Bright and co-12 t logwoud, 1I Cohen and co-109 lancewood spars, Order -PDIc Peninghame, (250) Green, fin Berbice, with 80 h 21 t 48 brls sugar. N Cairns-114 h do, N Waterhouse and Sons-62 h 8 t do, J Crosth waite and co-10 h do, T and W Earle and co-40 do, It Semple and CO —5O bales cotton, parts of a mill retd,- N Waterhouse and Sons-1 box castor oil, cassaripe and pepper, 69 hds rum, N Cairus—W DI: SOUI7f4 M 8 RICA. Vectis, (206) Weeks . , fm Maranhain, with 129 bags cotton, Fostef Bros-5U do, Duart,e, Bros and co-216 do, R Zwilchenbart and co -252 do, T llesketh-66 do, J Glynn and Son-50 do, Order-58 hrls Indian rubber, 39 bgs cocoa, R 7 wilchenbart and co-12 bgs castanhrt nuts, 100 whetstones, .T Glynn and' S on -200 t og s cocoa, 7 6 b r l s I n dian rubber, 9 brls isinglass, Order—G Dk UNITED STATES, Macon, (344) Osborne, fm Savannah, with 1195 bales cotton, T Smith and co—W Dk .. __— Trenton, (428) Pratt, fm New Orleans, with 345 bales cotton. Bu , chanan, Laird and co-356 do, G Green and Son-338 d.), Keill and Courant-2:56 do, Roskell, Ogden and co-94 do, Collmann, Lambert and co-20 do, Rathbone Bros-163 do, 1 cse conts unkn, Fde Lizardi and eo—W Dk Napier, (4 - i1) Stafford. fm Virginia, with 151 hds 3 tcs tobacco; Hunter and Alexander—ll 6 hds do, W A and G Maxwell-06 lids do, Hagarty and Jerdein-5'4 Ms do, W Oxley and co-21 hds 1 tee do. J Stewart-9 lids do, Maury, Latham and co-41 hds, 1 tee do, 200 bales cotton, Evans and Trokes-13 hds tobacco, Baring Bros Sc. eo-22 hds 9 tes do, W and S Irvin-58 hds do, 52 bales cotton, W H Gilliatj —K Dk Oglethorpe, (343) Miller, fm Savannah, with 204 bales cotton ; Cott'• mann, Lambert and co-105 do, J Horsßeld-27 do, Fisher, Bros and eo-21 do, E E Webb-480 do, Order-26 do, 5000 cane reeds, Isaac, Low and co—W Dk Scotland, (645) Walter, fm New York, with 200 brls turpentine, 3 Platt and Son-1300 do, T Todd-34 b a l es co t ton, W and J Brown and co-145 do, Wainwright, Sheila and co-170 do, J Hobson and Sons -158 do, Melly, Prevost and co-1;31 do, Keill and Courant-2g do, Ha gan, Magee and co-128 do, T B Blackburne-142 do, Order-2 bales conts unkn, P W Byrnes—a qnty *books, &c, Robinson Bros-4 brls apples, 199 brls rosin, Order—W Dk BRITISH AMERICA. Prince Regent s (433) Burt, fm Quebec, with 517 ps white pine tim ber, 1 c 19 deals, 611 c 17 staves, 171 cords lathwood, J M`Lellan and co —B Dk Pekin, (6,:8) APDonald, fin Quebec, with 29 ps oak, 90 ps Min and 522 p , pine timber, 381 c 15 s t an d ar d , 86 1 c WI and 45 c ash staves, 52 c 91 deals, 2i oars, 24 handspikes, D Gibh—B Dk Ann, (163) Foster, fin .Pietou, N 8, with 175 ps pine 8: 101 ps birch tithber, 31 c deals. 391 c2l staves, Cannon. Miller and co-1.1 Dk Athabaska, (405) Nesfield, fm Pictou. N 8, with 265 ps birch and 21 ps pine timber, 3140 ps deals, 1638 ps battens. 2000 11(1 staves, 620 billets, 131 fins lathwood, Holderness and Chilton-15 spars, said Master—B Dk George Wilkinson, (391) Brown, fm Quebec, with 40 pa oak, 462 ps pine, 1 pee elm, 1 pee butternut and 13 ps ash timber, 88 c 17 staves,. 261 a 7 deals, 4 cords lathwood, J Froste and co—a (pity of shooks, Order—B Dk Devererix, (425) t'skdale, fin Quebec, with 515 ps fir timber, 250 deals, 11692 staves, C Chaloner and co—B Dk Sarah Maria, (181) Booth, fin St John's, Newfoundland, with 451 eks cod and 15 cks seal oil, 10 eks cod oil dregs, 180 quintals dry cod fish, 40 c old junk, 12 wet ox hides, W Tarbet-2-1 cks cod oil, .1 Ito ,bertson—K Dk SPAIN AND PORTUGAL. Laura Ann, (144) Cosely, fm Lisbon, with 320 bales wool, "C and J Rawdon-72 do, Duarte Bros and co-78 do, Leech and Ilarrison-96 chts 158 hf chts oranges, G Badenach-12 hf chts do, abt 10 tons salt, Order-87 bls shell almonds, .1 Van Zeller and co-2 bxs onions, 1 box almonds, I prcl, T Martin—S Dk LIVERPOOL TIDE TABLE. Days. Mrn. Eon. Hs. Festivals, ltr. 0. 0. M. F. 1. Tuesday ....13 218 247 16 7 Lucy Wednesday..l4 314 345 15 3 Jupiter rises Sh urn even Thursday....ls 416 452 14 4 Jupiter sets llh 23m morn, Friday, /6 526 6 3 13 8 Cam. Mich. Term ends Saturday 1 7 636 71) 13 6 Mars rises 8h 39m even SUNDAY...IB 741 812 13 6 4th Sunday in Advent Monday 839 9 4 14 0 Venus rises 4h 54m morn • LONDON GAZETTE.—FRMAY, Dec. 9. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Croft and co., Liverpool, wine-merchants—N., A., and D: niggle, Ellis-fold, Lancashire, skin-dyers. INSOLVENT. Dec. B—William Pennyead, Rosemary-lane, London, grocer. BANKRUPTS. Robert Wilkinson, Addle-street, London, flannel-factor. Thomas Turner, New Bond-street, London, upholsterer. William George Docking, 'Hampstead-road, Middlesex, cheese monger. Thomas Folkard, High Holborn, London, hackneyman. Joshua Darwin Gander, Brill-row, Somers-town, London, licensed victualler. Felix Joseph M`Carthv, Drury-lane, London, baker. Charles Jean Baptiste Pons, Old Bond Street, London, hatter. William Nelson Procter, Manchester, cotton-dealer. Robert Askew, Manchester, merchant. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 12, J. Freeman. Ipswich, woollen-draper—Dec. 30, W. P. Crewe, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, surgeon—Dec. 29, A. and J. Plank, Canterbury, wool-staplers—Dec. 31, J. and T. Hony church, Bovey Tracey, Devonshire, potters. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before the 30th day of December. F. Glass, Cateaton-street, London, Blackwellhall-factor—M. Hob ling, Elizabeth-street, Pimlico, London, carpenter—C. S. Dixon, Al dersgate-street, London, bookbinder—C. Basan, Strand, London. li censed-victualler—W. &lay, Fenchurch-street, London. merchant. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. James Nimmo, Glasgow, coal-dealer. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, '<imputed from the returns made in the week ending the 6th day of December, 1836, is 35s 6d per hundred weight. PRICE OF CORN. General Weekly Average received in the week ending Dec. 6:— Wheat, 595, 7.494 d ; Barley, 375, 9.760 d ; Oats, 265, 10.951 d ; Rye, 41s, 9.140 d ; Beans, 465, 7.53 Ad ; Peas, 455. 4.645 d. Agregate Average of Six weeki which governs duty : —Wh e it„ 55s 5d ; Barley, 3ifs 5d ; Oats, 26s 6d ; Rye, ns lid ; Beans, 44s 9d ; Peas, 44s Id. ,f:Dipptng futelltgence. FRIDAY, DEC. 9.—Noon, Wind W.—Moderate. (An Irish mail—High Water 1 lh 23m a.m.) Aattivsn—The Oglethorpe, Miller, from Savannah—Napier, Staf ford, from Virginia—Ann, Foster, from Pictou. ALSO ARRIVED—The Irishman, (steamer) from Drogheda—William Huskisson, Batty, from Dublin—Coleraine, Macarthur, from Cole raine—Hoddam Castle, Cassady, from Cork—Falcon, Head, from Belfast—Solway, Burton, from Carlisle. The Active, ' • and Vixen, Wakem, hence, at Leghorn. Mary, Williamson, hence, at Trieste. Spartan. Cornish, hence, at Barcelona. Sarah, Nixon, hence for Galway, at Islay. Catherine Isabella, Main, hence for Derry, at Loch Ryan. The Maria Bertha, Sap ; Fenn'glna, Peyster ; Jacoba, Grunninger ; and Agatha, Potjewyd, hence, at Helvoet. The Shawfield, hence for Islay, foundered between the Cope land Islands and the Mull of Galloway. 27th Nov. in consequence of shipping a heavy sea—crew saved. Nimrod, Sheriff, hence for Newcastle. Corsair, Cumming, hence, at Odessa. Orwell, Gow, hen - c'e for New Orleans, at Milford. Abeona, Drake, hence for Darien, at Milford. Jessie, Rae, from Westport for this port, at Loch Ryan. The George Wilkinson, from Quebec, docked this morning with loss of cutwater, jib-boom, &c. having been in contact with the Hark away, for New York, last night, in the river. James Bryce, Davies, from Ballyshannon ; and the Jessie, Ray, fm Westport, both for this port. Mona, Rowland, from Antwerp, at Falmouth, for this port. Adriana, Jones, from Berbice, at London. The Maria Vittoria, Vibert, from Glasgow for Cork, is on shore at the entrance of Campheltown harbour. The Georgetown, from Demerara for London, is on shorn below Gravesend. The St Mungo, was passed in long. 18, with loss of main and mizen masts. The Heves, Nagle, which sailed 26th ultimo, for Barbados, has put back, bore up three days since off Waterford. On the Ist December, off the Smalls, saw the Mary Jones, from this port for Buenos Ayres. On the 6th, off the Saltees, spoke the Jane, from this port, for the Gulf of Mexico. The Enfield, Bottoudy, from Mexico, at Valparaiso, for England. SATURDAY, DEC. Io.—Noon, Wind N.W.—Moderate. (An Irish mail.—High Water Oh Ilrn p.m.) ARRIVED—The Trenton, Pratt, from New Orleans—Portsmouth, Marshall, from New York—Athabaska, Nestlelll, from Pictou—Sarah Maria, Booth, from Newfoundland—Laura Ann, Kemp, from Lisbon —St Andrew, Thompson, from New York, sailed 24th Nov.—Grace, Jones, from Demerara, sailed sth Nov.—The Despatch, Adelle, from Richibucto. _ _ _ ALSO ARRIVED—The Edward, Clarke, from Newry—Rose, Barron, from Strangford—Telford, Maken, from Dublin—Gipsy, (steamer) fm Waterford—lsabella Napier, (steamer) from Londonderry—The Not tingham, and the Birmingham, (steamers) from Dublin. The Bristol, M'Known, hence for New York, was totally lost 20th ult. on Far Rockaway Beach-76 steerage passengers drowned. The Adam Lodge, • Queen Adelaide, Borland; and North America, Dixey, hence, at Charleston. The Chevalier, Knight ; Berwick, Chase; American, Manchester; and Roscoe, Delano, hence, at New York. The Lowell, Wilson, hence, at Boston. St Andrew, Garrison; and Cyrus, Robinson, hence, at St John's NB Thomas Leech, Coull, hence, at lkionte Video, Puella, Hardy, hence, at Gibraltar. The Brilliant, Gibson, hence for Jamaica, was spoken in lat. 43 34, long. 10.0. The Cceur de Lion, Robinson, hence for New York, was spoken 30th Nov. in lat. 51,-long . 13. The Killegrew, Noye, hence, at Seville. St Ann's, Curran, hence, at the Bay of Fundy. Dove, Roach ; and Columbia, —, hence, at Newfoundland. Perseverance, Monnet, hence, at Ostend. Meg Merrilies, Penrice, hence for Africa, off Cape Clear, sth Dec. Fenwick Keating, M'Kenzie, hence for St Petersburg. Alexander, Leeds, hence, at Baltimore. Ellen, Pue, from Quebec, at Waterford. Carlton, from do, at Dublin. —, Hebrew, Carr, from New Orleans, at the Clyde. The Grace, Jones, arrived at this port from Demerara, sailed sth Nov. On the 7th Dee. in lat. 50, long. 11, was struck by a heavy sea, which carried away starboard quarter galleries, wheel, &c. On the Bth Dec. off Dungarvon, was struck by a sea, and shipped a quantity of water down. the after hatchway, which was open at the time for bending the cables. The Margaret, (steamer) arrived from Waterford, with loss of head, cutwater, and other damage, having been in contact with a barque. The Despatch, Adcile, arrived from itichibucto, sailed in company with the Renovation, for London, and Campaign, for Cork. Ana Mondell, Armstrong, from Demerara, at St Andrew's. Eliza Killick, Waugh, from Hambro', at Torbay, for St Domingo. John and James, Delarne, for this port, h as put back to Ilambro', leaky, having struck the ground, and must discharge. A barque, hound to Quebec, was seen on the coast of Anticosti, by the John and Mary, arrived at Milford. The Hibernia, of Kinsale, was spoken 4th Dec. in lat. 46, long. 21, dismasted, was bearing for Kinsale under a jury foremast—did not want assistance. The Wexfw d, of Wexford, timber laden, was spoken Ist Dec. in lat 48, long. 24 40. The Chieftain, M'Bride, from Quebec for this port, off the Brandy Pots, 13th Nov. The Martha, Kerr, sailed from Seville for this port, 26th Nov. ST. PETRitsßußa, Nov. 23.—This morning there were 9 degrees of frost, and the river was full of ice. The Minstrel was to sail yesterday, and the Ganges this morning, but the wind is almost lulled. These are the only ships loading, except two Americans. SUNDAY, Mc. I L—Noon, Wind N.N. W.—Moderate. (An Irish Mail.—High Water Oh 3 51 n•) ARRIVED—The Algonquin, Miercken, from Philadelphia—Canton, Melville, from Quebec—Herald, --, from Honduras—Ward. Mas ters, from St J ohn, N B — ldcghetera, Neuman, fromWasa—Charliatte, Tusher, from Quebec—Lady Cremcrne, Fenwick, from St Petersburg. Also A nay/RD—The Hoddam Castle, and Veracity, from Cork— Sir W S lirongh, f rom D u b lin —Sir FII Head, Strangford, from Beau maris—Stewart Monteith, Hunter, from Dumfries—Actress, Davis, from Belfast—Unicorn, and City of Glasgow. (steamers) from Glasgow —Athlone, (steamer) from Belfast—fteorg,e IV. (steamer, from Newry —(Earl Roden, (steamer) from Dundalk—Hibernia, (steamer) from Dublin—Mountaineer, (steamer) from Swansea—Portland. Hardy ; and Sophia, Maxwell, from Glasgow--Isabella. Wilkinson, from Newry—Scotia, Muller; & Countess Galloway, (steamer) from Kirk cudbrlght—Preston, from Dublin. SAILED —The Mary Catherine, Colburn, for Malta, &c—Phillins, Woolley, for Valparaiso, &c—Anne, Holmes, for Africa—Ganges, llPDonald. for Marauharn—Porto, (steamer) for Oporto. The Tam O'Shanter, Sumpton, sailed from Quebec for this port, 13th November. Lnckwoods, —, from Quebec. at Crookhaven, for this port. Helen, ——, arrived fr om Ch ar l es t on, sa il e d 14th N ov . In lat. 44, long. 43, spoke the George, from Pictou, for London. MONDAY, DEC. 12.—Noon, Wind S.S.W.—Blowing Fresh. (An Irish Mail—High Water lb 2 5 m•) ARRIVED—The Thomas Dickason, L3•on, from Savannah, sailed 21st: ult.—Esther, Douglas, from Quebec, after being aground on Jordan's Bank—Albion, Kydd, from St Petersburg. ALSO ARRIVED—The Duke of Clarence. File, from Dundalk—lris, Strangan ; Fearon, Leonard ; and Gipsy, Gowirg, from Dublin—Ailsa Craig, (steamer) ; Tiger, Doyle ' • and Arctic, Murphy, from Wexford —Jessie, R ae , f rom N ewp ort—Gond Intent, Belford, from Kirkcud bright—Scotia, Milne, from Dumfries—Stag, from Glasgow— Earl of Sorry, Ch r i s ti an, f rom Isleman. The Trafalgar, Jackson, hence 011' Waterford, Bth instant, for New Orleans. The Emigrant, Petrie, hence, at Savannah, hi 33 days. Jane, Lennox, hence, at Savannah. Atalanta, Sexton, hence, at Malaga. Industrie, Zellien, hence, at Ostend. superior, Tyler, from St Domingo and Turk's Island, at Cove. Champion, Gallilee, from Richibucto, at Cove, with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c. The Eliza .Ann, Hyde; Pallas, Hall; and Urania, Clarke, from Quebec, at Cove. The Tronningen, Stottenburgh, from Bristol, at Cove, for New York, with loss of boats, bulwarks, Sec, and is leaky. The St Muneo, Griffiths, from Gloucester, at Cove, for St John's, N B, dismasted. The Enterprise, M'Cready, sailed from Newry for St John's, N B, Dit, instant. The Swift, Davies, sailed from Newry for this port, 27th October last, and his not since been heard of. TRALEE, Dee. 9.—=The Liverpool, Louden, from Miramichi for Li. verpool, struck on the Point of Inch in Dingle Bay, and has gene to pieces—crew saved. BIRTHS. On Friday, the 11th alt, the female sailor, whose story lately made so much noise in the world, and who entered the marriage state about nine months ago, was delivered of a fine boy. On Sunday, the 4th instant, at Paris, the lady of the Hon. It. Cut ler Ferguson, of a son and heir. MARRIED On the 11th of October, at St. James's Church, Bristol, by the Rev. J. Mackenzie. Mr. John Leaves, many years a member of the Liver pool and Manchester Theatres-Royal, to Mary Maria, youngest daughter of James Bourne, Esq. of Bath. On Saturday, the. 26th ult. at St. George's Church, Captain Swan, of the Margaret, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. Wyldo, of Itun;;orn. On Thursday, the Ist inst. ' at St. Augustine's Church, by th e R e v. J. Jones, Mr. William Hewitt, to Miss Jane Hyatt On Sunday, the 4th inst. at Copp eras -hill Ch ape l , b y t h e R ev. M r. Gillow, and afterwards at St. Philip's Church, Mr. William Sharpe to Mary, second daughter of Mrs. Lyon, publican, Albion-street.. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. George Ellidge, cordwainer, Birkenhead, to Miss Catherine Shimmins, of the Isle of Man. On Monday, the sth inat. in Cheshire, Mr. James Warr to Miss Eliza Barker. Sure, wonders now will never cease, It strikes me more and more ; This gentle maid could find no peace, Until she went to Warr; And, having gained, you'd think she'd pause, Yet still she strives for little Warr:. On Wednesday last, at St. Luke's Church, Mr. Robert Ellis to Miss M. G. Black, daughter of the late Captain George Black, of Greenock. On Thursday last, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. S. Bow— stead, Mr. W. Griffith, of Anglesea, to Eliza, daughter of Mr. Tyre'', l'ickwell, Leicestershire. Same day, at St. David's Church, Captain Turner, of this port, to Sarah, youngest daughter of the late Mr. John Robinson, of Union street. Same day, at Leek, by the Rev. T. H. Heathcote, vicar, Fttz-james Watt, Esq. of Morris Brook, Cheshire, to Phcebe Elizabeth, only daughter of the late John Fowler, Esq. of Horton-half, in the county of Stafford. On Saturday last, at St. Mary's Church, Lancaster, by the Rev. 1. Dodson, A. 11.. Vicar of Cockerham, Thomas Gudgeon, second sun of John Dodson, Esq., of Lancaster, to Eliza, second daughter of the late hlorecroft Kirkes, Esq., R.N., of Holker, in the said county. Yesterday morning, at Walton Church, by the Rev. Thomas h'os ,, , vicar, George Wilson, Esq., merchant, of this town, to Margaret, daughter of the late John Pyke, Esq., of Everton. DIED. On Friday, the 21st Oct. at Philadelphia, in the 78th year Ipf his age.' Gilbert Robertson, Esq. his Britannic Majesty's Consul in that city. As the deceased had many friends in Great Britain who were attached to him, we extract the following account from the obituary of a Phila delphia paper :—" It is not our purpose to enter into any details re lative to the merits of the deceased as a public functionary. The con tinued approbation of his sovereign is sufficient "root his having satisfactorily performed the duties of his responsible office. Cherish ing an ardent and unabated fondness for the land of his nativity, we have reason to believe that he entertained the most kindly disposi tions towards the country in which he was destined to live for nearly half a century. Com'inemorative of hint only in his private capacity is the ensuing notice intended. No one of hit community was, per haps, more widely or advantageously known, and none, certainly, whose death would be more generally or deeply lamented. Long re sident in it, he sustained, by the weight of his character and the polish and amenity of his address, the highest position in society, to which he largely eontributed by a singularly liberal and refined hospitality. Bred in the Sold school of manners, he presented the best and among the very last'of his peculiarities. Dignified and courtly, he was still cordial and gracious, and it was impossible to approach him and not to feel respect, or to conciliate his intithacy without this sentiment being converted into the warmest affection. The whole of his titian ties were elev ated, robust, and manly. Eminently distinguished by truth, sincerity, and frankness, he never forfeited, those virtues, on any occasion, and seemed uniformly to turn with instinctive disgust from all that is mean, sordid, diminutive, or wily. Thus generous, open, and unreserved, he commanded entire confidence, and secured, to the last moments of existence, a band of* faithful and devoted friends, who Watched over him in his lingering illness with the ten derest solicitude, and now deplore his decease as an extinguishment of no small purtion of their purest happiness," On Friday, the 1 3 th ult., at Skerton, near Lancaster, aged 77, Mr. Richad Dixon, formerly landlord of the hoot and shoe public-house, in Scetforth, and father of Mr. William Dixon, butcher, of Preston ; and on the same day, at the same place, John, his youngest son, aged 36, lately a shopkeeper, in Lancaster. On Friday, the 14th ult., aged 56, Elizabeth, relict of Humphrey' Owen Esq.„ of Dolgelly, North Wales, much l amente d b y her fam i ly and 311 who knew her. On Saturday, the 26th ult., at the Vicarage-house, Wrexham. ef3e.d 32 years, Mary Ann, the affectionate wife of John James, Esq.. soli citor, and only daughter of the late Mr. John Painter, of that place, stationer. On Tuesday, the 29th u!t., in his 35th year, Captain•Williamion, of the brig Forth, from Catopeachy, which arrived the previous day. He' was an affectionate husband anti father, and his lose will be severely felt by- his family. On Sunday, the 4th inst. Richard Westall, Esq. R.A. aged 71, be► loved and regretted by all who knew him. On Monday, the oth inst. aged 45, Margaret, wile of Mr. Thorns' Parkin, Frederick-street. On Wednesday last, aged 76, Rachel, relict of Mr. Richard Ed mondson. On Thursday last, Mrs. Strickland, wife of Mr. Strickland, Bootle Marsh. On Friday last, at Bootle Marsh, after a few days' illness, Ellen. wife of Mr. Jesse Hartley. Same day, Mrs. Hall, wife of plc, hall, Bootle Marsh. On Sunday last, aged 21, Ann, youngest daughter of Mr: C. !Jaye , . ship-builder, Upper Pitt-street. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1836. PRINTED AND''SHED EVERY TWESDAY' FRIDAY MORNING, BY RICHARD PATTISSON, (Of Hope Cottage, Seaconzbe, Cheshired At No, 4, NORTH CRESCENT, CASTLR-STRRE7, LiTERPOOL. Orders and Advertisements are received by Messrs. Newton and Co., Warwick-square ; Barker, Fleet-street; Deacon, Walbrook Reynell, Chancery-lane; Lawson & Barker, Birchin-lane ; Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane, Cornhill ; Mundell Hammond, 27, Lom bard.street ; Mitchell, 8, Red Lion-court, Fleet-street • Clarke and Lewis, 4, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street ; Mr. 'Thomas llextall, 11, Aldermanbury ; at Garraway's; at the London Com mercial Coffee-house, Mincing-lane ; at the Jerusalem Coffee.. house, Cornhill ; Chapter Call-to-house, Pater-noster-raw; and North and South American Coffee-house, Tireadneedle-street. London; by Messrs. Johnston and Co. ; and Mr. John Lee, at his Newspaper and Advertisemeat Agency Office, 3d, Henry-street, Dublin; Mr. M' Pbun, Glasgow; Mr. Wheeler, Exchange-street , and Mr. Lewis, Market-street, Manchester ; Mr. Malley, Book seller, Warrington ;,) , Ir. Clarke, Pilot-office. Preataa and Mr' Ceope, 33, tlislou-street, Birmingham. ~9 ~y/~ I .......... ta.,st; Her ill. be and caulk aud , th e -c Bi ll tsup and —.._ si❑. dull 1 Ilurt and , on h Whi oltly. and 1 ..,.. ~......._ uN I si. VER StiE Th and cabi n and t Th Quin t ~, 24 3 t, Por of ( I, 'haft hest Net %p ee , trtith Aul t/ her I buil Pee host Nei the p bi u i Witt dati