The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-01-23 00:00:00

CONTE3IPORARY PRESS. THE GLASGOW COTTON SPINNERS. (From the Munchesler Courier. ) The trial of the live men charged with murder, con spiracy, and other off-nces, at Glasgow, terminated on Thursday week, in the convic:ion of the p►isoriers on charges of conspiracy and assault ; that of murder be ing declared " not proven." It appears that this com bination has existed twenty years; and so long ago as 182& or 1821, a murder was committed and others at tempted. Of recent proceedings we have the following startling account in the Glasgow Courier:— " Within the last four months three murders of a most diabo; bolical description have been perpetrated in the heart of this great city ; and at this moment outrages against persons and property are so common in the immediate neighbourhood, that additional protection has been required, and will be immediately procured." "Besides murders actually committed, there have been, during the existence of this association, several atroci ous attempts to murder, cases of injury to the person by throwing vitriol, and various acts of incendiarism, all perpetrated by order of a " secret committee," who paid agents to perform their diabolical work, and paid them out of the funds of the association. It was stated by one of the witnesses, that the chief purpose of this com mittee was understood to be " to destroy life and pro pertg." The existence of such a tribunal is a stain upon the moral character of the country, which all men who desire the peace and happiness of society must wish to remove. We have copied from our able contemporary, the Glasgow Courier, an account of the manner in which this diabolical council of murderers is constructed : "The secret select committee was formed in this way :—A card was left at each spinning factory or shop, 'desiring the parties working there to send a delegate by a certain day to the central committee rooms, at the Black Boy Tavern, in the Gal lowgate. It was perfectly understood by the association what the object of this summons was, and persons suited to the re quired work were accordingly returned. These delegates, who were 38 in number, then nominated a sub-committee of l'2 from amongst themselves. With this body resided the power of ap pointing the "secret select committee," which they did in the following ominous manner:—They met in a darkened room in the Black Boy Tavern, each man bringing with him the name of the person whom he had chosen, written on a slip of paper. These slips were put into a hat and given to Peter Hackett, the treasurer, who withdraw and examined them. The "secret select committee," consisted of but three persons, and the first three names which this functionary took out of the hat were, accurdin" to rule, the parties upon whom the choice of the body fell. Having satisfied himself upon this point, he burnt the slips, and then returned to the room, where the sub-committee where assembled, he dissolved the committee without uttering one word as to whom the lot had fallen upon. These persans were privately informed of the result, and this dime the secret select corninittee were duly constituted. The objects of the committee were nakedly and literally murder, maiming, assault, or wilful fire-raising; it was likewise enjoyed to suborn wit nesses, that an aliU might he attempted to be proved, if neces sary; and the reward for these crimes was graduated by a fixed scale, calculated, no doubt, according to the notions entertained of their relative importance. Thus £2O, wee given for a mur der or fire-raising, and £lO or £l5, for lesser injuries, such as throwing vitriol, violent assaults, or breaking of limbs. It does not appear, however, that any of the three who constituted the " select committee," were necessarily the executioneets of this new system of Thuggery. They might be so, but they had higher duties to perform ; they were the executive council of this body of patriots, and had nobler functions assigned to them. Their proper office was to hire assassins, or incendiarie s , t o " do the job," . and t o a rrange w ith th e p ersons so employed as to the price they were t o r e ce i ve . " N o , 60," was th e well known expression among these people fur the loose hands who were ready for this work, and there are various entries in the books of large s ums —i n one i nstance o f £2-1 16 s. — as pa id to this cabalistic number. There was also a peculiarity about the mode of payment, which strikingly marks the beastly nature of the whole transaction. When the job" was done the per petrator did nut receive any money from the " secret select committee," though they were his real employers. He was re ferred to the treasurer, the aforementioned "Master Hackett, who met him in the house of one Christie, a publican, The room where these worthies encountered each other was, as usual dark, and Peter having laid a sum upon the table the " jobber" was directed to grope for it, to take all he could get, and then to depart. In this way the persons who employed him did not pay him, and the person who paid him had uo direct concern iu Iris employment." "So complete was its organization," says our con temporary, " and so merciless its vengeance, that it both baffled and paralyzed the arms of justice. No witness {Jared give evidence aginst it, except at the risk of being shot, or drenched with vitriol, or assaulted, or burnt out of his house." Indeed no stronger proof of its terrible influence need he adduced than the fact, that the wit nesses who were to give evidence on the trial were obliged to give their information to the authorities at night and by stealth, and were, at their own request, conveyed to gaol for safety ! This system of combination has unfortunately been too common of late yeats, and every where it appears to be accompanied with crime. Our readers will remember the atrocious murder of Mr. Thomas Ashton, of Hyde, seven years ago ; the attempts to murder two other- mas ter spinners, soon afterwards, during the turn-out at Ashton and Stalybridge ; and the outrages that were committed during the turn-out at Bolton in the preced. ing year. We have, we are sorry to say, more recent evidence of the existence of combination of a dangerous character in this neighbourhood. Our columns this day contain a report of the trial of three men at the Salford sessions, on Wednesday last, charged with conspiracy, and with riot and assault, on the sth of the present month, for the purpose of intimidating the workpeople in the employ of Mr. Guest. We have frequently had occasion to report cases -of assault committed by the turn-outs, and since the trial we have received particu. Lars of some others, of a brutal nature; the whole prov ing the existence of a completely organized system of In Dublin a similar system of combination has been in existence for some time. At a recent meeting of the trades it was stated that it had been the practice to pay what was called a slating rent, the object of which was 'to assist in paying ruffians for beating, perhaps murder ing,.their citizens, or persons who refused to join their body ! We are far from thinking that such detestable practices have the approbation of the great body of the operatives. We believe, on the contrary, that the insti plots and perpetrators of crime are few in number ; but through their mysterious and secret mode of opera tion, they-have obtained an appalling influence over the minds of their fellow.workmen. It is time, however, that•a system so dreadful should be put down. The conviction and punishment of the Glasgow conspirators may do something towards effecting this object ; but government will not discharge its duty if it stop short in its exertions to bring the guilty to justice, or hesitate to adopt the necessary measures to prevent the repetition of such atrocious crimes. LORD DURHAM'S MISSION. ( From the Standard.) There is much to commend, and nothing to disapprove of in Lord Durham's speech of Wednesday. If his lordship act in the spirit of that. speech his administra tion will be, i n a ll h uman pro b a bili t y, beneficial to the empire, and to the colony over which he is appointed to preside, and he may defy all the chances of fortune to `render his government otherwise than honourable to himself. We can imagine no principles better conceived or more properly professed than those which the noble earl avowed in the following sentence :—" My ditty is, in the first instance, to assert the supremacy of her .Ma jesty's government, and to vindicate in the next the dig nity and honour of the law, taking care that it is not set -at nought in the remotest cabin, in the remotest settle- ment in Canada, and I shall feel that I have not per formed that duty while the dignity of the Crown re mains assailed." This is the language of the faithful representative of a constitutional Sovereign, who feels that he receives power, not for personal aggrandisement, or in order to serve a party interest, but to assert the au thority of the law. Lord Durham was at some pains to acquit himself of the suspicion that he would conduct his government for the advantage of a particular Canadian party. After the. declaration which we have quoted, these pains were , unnecessary. The governor who maintains the autho rity of his Sovereign and of the law, can be no party magistrate.. , He will have supporters, because the crown and law have supporters. These supporters will be called a party or a faction, for when were rebels at a loss for nicknames ? but HIS will be the party °fall loyal and 'good-mem; and if be be a wise man he will be neither 'ashamed of the imputation of preferring and encourag ing that misnamed party, nor afraid to deserve it. It is for the advantage of the traitorous enemies of or- • der and good government to establish the doctrine, that as all.men-must be party men, the virtuous and loyal are hot a party like themselves, and that justice must take the middle path between : by the establishment of this doctrine, they have gained much in our time ; hut the doctrine is equally opposed to truth and to sound policy, The adherents to the settled constitution and the law can never be in the nnfavourable sense a party —they re the state; the invaders of the constitution and the law by any irregular means are rebel faction. To compromise between the two is not to administer justice to opposite claimants with equal rights, hut to surrender to the robber half his coveted spol, which, so surren dered, will never satisfy; for what is yielded, upon any • other grounds than the demand of justice, will be be lieved to have been wrung from fear, and the claims of 'the unjust from the timid are insatiable while anything Tmains. "Lord Durham says that he will not known Frenchman from a British settler : the promise is a wise and Ito, riourable promise, but let It be faithfully observed . throughout. If his lordship will not know a loyal Frenchman to discountenance him, because he is a Frenchman, neither let him allow the plea of French -scent to palliate the guilt of a traitor. On the other 'hand, if British birth or race shall not, as we hope it wilt not, excuse the crime of any degfterate rebel, it must not det rac t f rom the m erit of lo;.-ally. " Law," says,the philosopher, " is mind without passion." And .sushi as law is, legal government ought to be. In our time, the passions against which the depository of legal power has most diligently to guard himself, are the love cf a spurious popularity, and the fear of unmerited ob loquy : against these besetting temptations there is but one sure protection—to make loyalty and obedience to the law, and zeal for its honour, the sole criterion of public character, the sole passport to official fay s our. Let ihe law, justice, and the right of his Sovereign be Lord Durham's guides, and he cannot err—but we tell him frankly what he must expect in that case. He will be called a party man falsely, and lie will be called a fa vourer of Tories and Orangenen with truth. This last imputation has been earned by Sir Francis Head, who went to Canada at heart as liberal a politician as his lordship. On the other hand, by doing his duty as lie promises, his lordship will lose something. He will not lose the colony for his royal mistress, it is true, but he will lose the praises of the whole army of traitors throughout the world. The Papineaus, Browns, and APKenzies will not attend his levees; Messrs. Hume and O'Connell will proclaim anything but his praise. He will be, and he will beheld up to be, the contrast of Lord Mulgrare. We, however, hope much from Lord Durham. In the words of a provincial contemporary, the Oxford Herald— " We have a favourable opinion of Lord Durham's designs in the last resort, as we have always had of his father-in-law's, Lord Grey, though both, and particularly the former, may have been bent a great deal the wrong way by mere party politics.. Now there is no cure for the democratical disease like a close acquaintance with the workings of democracy—here the doc trines of " hommopathy" are indisputably sound—and we have little doubt that Lord Durham will return from Canada, a Con servative as staunch as Sir Francis Bond Head, who went thither a strong Radical. At all events, the country is indebted to Lord Melbourne for not sending Lord Brougham, of whom be is at least as anxious to get rid as he can be to get rid of Lord Durham. much as the last named noble lord stands in his way." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • AssAuLT.—On Friday at the Police-office, a Frenchman, who keeps a lodging-house for the reception of foreign sailors, Wes placed at the bar on a charge of assault. The captain of a foreign vessel at present in port—himself a foreigner, but speak ing remarkably good English--stated that his ship had been robbed by some of the seamen„ whom he had traced to the house of the prisoner. About seven o'clock on Wednesday evening, accompanied by another person, he consequently went there, and, while speaking to the prisoner's wit'e at the door, the prisoner himself rushed out, struck and knocked down the complainant, then struck his companion, and, when a policeman was called, struck him also. Prisoner.—" Struck de tree! Ma Got, vat a lie! I struck de tree and knock de too .down! How vas I able to knock down de tree ? I have not de ability, de puissance, de power to strike a man since twelve month. Mine fingers are gone, you see. Twelve month since, de police break mine head and cut mine fingers ; dere is tree cuts on my head, which was make me light-headed • and how vas I able to knock tie tree down ? De police vas light-headed; me very well. But it vas eleven o'clock yen he com'd to my house, as I vas asleep vid toy shill, I know it vas; and I heard a cry of ' Murder!' yen I vent down to see. But he vas dere on Vednesday morning. and said he would call at eight o'clock, and I did not known it; and dere came a stone to toy face, too, which cut my head, and I did not know who hove it." The magistrate said that his assertion of being well known to the police was perfectly correct; they knew hint perfectly well as the keeper of a very bad house; and his conduct in assaulting the person who cain to his house in pursuit of the thieves was most reprehensible. He was fined 40s. and costs, and ordered to find bail to keep the peace. THICKS OF A BAILIFF.—On Friday, at the Police-office, a somewhat goodly-looking bailiff—that is, he was not a thin, scarecrow,'hung,ry-looking, ill-favoured thing, like the generality of that respectable and popular class, and might therefore be considered as a natural phenomenon, was charged by Mrs: Ann Jaickson and her daughter Mrs. Milne with having taken away the brass plate from their door, and then demanded for its restitution the sum of 6s. The bailiff pleaded that he had the authority of Mrs. Milne's husband for what he had done, and also for seizing upon other atticles which were his property, The policeman who had taken him into custody handed to the magistrate a paper, which the bailiff called his warrant. Mr. Hall truly characterized it as " a most extraordinary docu rnen;" it was a mere personal authorization, written by Milne himself, to the following effect :—" I hereby authorize V.dward Smeatham and John Proctor, or any other persons they may choose to associate with them, to seize all my property, con , sisting of [something good, as well as Mr. Hall could decipher if] and likewise other articles which I have pointed out to them." The magistrate, after severely reprimanding the bailiff for his conduct, remarked that there was no class of men who practised more oppression on the poor than the bailiffs; they were-a miserable set of fellows. The complainant was hampered, he believed, with a worthless husband, who had left her to be partly supported by her mother, and yet he (the bailiff) went to her house to seize property, and with a document which he no doubt knew was perfectly worthless. The bailiff, pleaded that when he became acquainted with the true circumstances of the case he had refused to give up the brass plate to the husband, and, marvellous to relate, he felt sorry for the two females! Magistrate.—lf I find you lending any assistance to Mrs. Milne's husband to annoy her in future, you may depend upon it you shall be very severely punished. Bailiff-1 shall not behave so again; indeed, sir, I intend to give him a very good scolding. Mrs. Milne, hearing this fellow "out-Ilerod Herod" with his pretended sympat hyand regard tojustice,declared that he had kept the plate himself, not because he thought her husband acted wrongly, but that he might extort money front her. When she begged that it might he restored, he used the most disgusting language to her, and said she should not have it un less she paid him Bs. The bailiff was be g inning a defence, when the magistrate said, " Go about your business, and take care how you conduct youiself." The brass plate was, of course, rustored to the owner. STEALING Ittora.—On Friday, at the Police-office, John Goodacre, William Evans, William Pennington, and Ste venson, (the first two and the last being in the, employ of the Chester and Ellesmere Canal Company, Goodacre as warehouse man,) were brought up on a charge of having stolen a quantity of bar iron, about 51 cwt. It appeared from the evidence pro duced, that the iron in question was deposited in a shed or ware house on the wharf of the Chester and Ellesmere Canal Com pany; it did not, however, belong to that company, but had been left in their charge by Messrs. Fairhurst, Tilston, and Co., the ,former occupiers of the wharf. Early on Wednesday afternoon, Evans called upon one John Travis, a blacksmith, in Frederick street. with whom he had been some time acquainted, and inti mated to him that he could let bins have a great bargain in iron. Travis, however, refused to, purchase until he knew to whom the property belonged, and, having then to go out, promised to re turn at a specified time and accompany. Evans to the owner. On returning he found that the iron had been brought' to his smithy during hi' absence, and, determined to have nothing to do with it under such suspicious circumstances, called in 'Wm. -lon, a police-officer, and transferred it into his custody. This led to the apprehension of the prisoners. Goodacre was taken into custody on account of the assertion of Evans, that " they h a d o bt a ined the iron from the warehouseman, and were to sell :it for as much as could be obtained, and divide the money amongst them."—Benjamin Bennett, the carter who had been em pl o yed to take the iron from the wharf to Frederick -street, deposed that he had been employed by Evans, and that he saw Pennington both at the wharf and at the smithy. Pennington declared that he had never suspected there was anv thing wrong in the transaction. " How could I," he demanded, " when I saw the warehouseman engaged in it?" Ile sincerely wished, " that he had had nothing to do with it; he had suffered enough a l re ady during the last two nights in bridewell." The ware houseman denied all knowledge of the transaction, on which Pennington exclaimed, " You tell lies to clear yourself; you are the biggest rogue on the bench."— Mr. Hall observed, that the misfortune in the present case was, that the most guilty party would escape, on account of the lack of evidence against him. He had no doubt that the prisoners were speaking truth when they implicated the warehouseman; but there was a legal diffi culty in the way, and he should be obliged to discharge loin. After animadverting with severity, as he has hitherto done, on the conduct of warehousemen in this town, who " betray the confidence of their Pm ployei s, and carry on a system of plunder," he said, that if other evidence could be produced against Good acre, he should be very happy to deal with him. He hoped, however, that his employers would have nothing to do with him, and of course they could give him no recommendation. The in formations were ordered to be taken against Evans and Pen nington; the other two were discharged. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Intelligencer.) Tit Arm or LEEDS.—The markets on both Saturday and Tuesday last have been among the best we have had since Christmas, and have exhibited a striking improvement in the demand for our staple commodity. Asa necessary consequence of t his improved demand, prices are looking up, and when the spring !lade shall have fully set in they are expected to advance still higher. BRA DFOII n 31A RKET.—There was a deal of business done at our market on Thursday, at a trifling advance in prices, and more goods might have been sold if the manufacturers would Gave accepted the prices offered by the merchants. There was a -brisk demand for Yarn at advancing prices, and the wool market was firm. the sUpply,being short, owing to the inter ruption of the conveyances by the frost and snow. We are glad also to report that some of the American houses are coming into the market again, and there is every prospect of a brisk spring trade. All the mills in the town and vicinity are fully employed, and working full time. _ HALIFAX NIARKET, on Saturday, was one of the best that has been e xperienced for several weeks past. There was a more numerous attendance of buyers than usual; the transactions were proportionately extensive, and prices begun to look up, the manufacturers holding out for zn advance when they ob served the altered appearance of the market. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, on Tuesday, was well attended by buyers, and there was a fair demand for plain goods, but no material alteration of price. Buckskins and other trowsers cloths were in moderate r , qiiest, and the market altogether wore a more cheering appearance than it did some time ago. BLAcKBCRN.—There was about an average sale of cotton pieces on Monday. Buyers were not numerous, but sales were good, and prices sound. Manufacturers are looking forward to a steady season. SUE TRADE AT MIDDLETON.—There is a slight improve meat this week in the silk trade, weavers have more work, and manufacturers and working people are expecting a good trade shortly. MANCIiEsTRIL—The market is exceedingly dull, and there has been no business transacted in either goods or yarns. Prices are altogether nominal, though where purchases have been made, they have been at lower quotations than last week. The present state of the weather is very unfavourable to any transac tions in busineQq, and no improvement can be looked for while it lasts.—Manchester Courier. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET. — The flAnnel market was thinly attended on Monday, and business was ; last week's prices were with difficulty maintained at which few were sold; all kinds of flannels met with a dull sale.— Ibid. INFLURNcR- "OF COLD WEATHER ON CR IME.—We have often remarked th a t a cold rainy disagreeable night has a great effect in diminishing the number of cases brought up at the police office for the adjudication of the magistrates; and rice versa, on warm moonlight, serenading sort of nights, people have a propensity to get into mischief, and the laborious duties of the stipendiary magistrate, are thereby - greatly increased. During the last week, for instance, "business" as the officials call it, has been very slack at the police office; and on Snnday night, (generally Prolific in police cases) which teas almost sufficiently cold and comfortless to drive the "old gentleman" down from the face of this earth to warm his nose in his own do minions, the cold bad such an effect, combined with the dan gerous state of the streets, as far more efficiently to put a stop to crime in all its gradations than all the police force put to gether. In consequence "business" was over at the police of c . e ye , terday by 12 o'clock , instead of continuing as it ordi narily does, till 4; and the magistrate had little or nothing to do. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. CHARGE OF MURDER ON BOARD AN AFRICAN TRADER. Last night, at 7 o'clock, Captain Fain, of the barque King ston, Afticau trader, was brought up he Police-otlice, fOr the purpose of being examined hetOre Mr. Hall, nu a cn.rge of 9- tog ordered his steward, a man of colour, to be beaten to death on hoard his ship, whilst lying off New Calabar, on the Coast of Africa. . Mr. Curry, appeared on behalf of the prisoner. John :she, a man of colour, deposed that he shipped as cook on board the harque Kingston, in Liverpool, in February la't. They weut a voyage to the coast of Guinea. There were about or 21 men on board, and a black steward named Lewis Ilan ford. They arrived at New Calabar on the lith of April. They were lying at their mooring's at Calabar ri ve r, a b ou t 10 miles front shore. Hansf or d was pumping some ruin one Saturday, on the 20th of May. Hansford was called on for some leaden tacks by one of :he coopers. The steward said he was busy at that moment, he could no t get t h e t ac k s, b ut h e wou ld ge t them as soon as he had lei s u re . I n th e meanw hil e t h e stewar d went to get the tacks. H e ( w it ness ) was stan di ng at t h e ga llery trimming his lamps for him, and did not see any more of the steward till he saw him fetched on board by the Kroomen. Capt. Kain called out for the Kroobovs; they were coming from shore in a canoe. It teas not two miuutes before the Kruomen were on board. Two boys who were from the cowl ran out of the cabin hallooing for the Krouboys, as well as the captain. The captain hallooed for them "to come and drag this black son of a out of the cabin." When he called out, the boys were just coining alongside the ship, and they jumped on board immediately. They rushed into the cabin and fetched the steward out. He (witness) saw them bring the steward on the deck to the starboard side. The captaie bad the cat in his hand at the time. He took the butt end of it and struck him on the head and knocked him speechless on the deck. The captain then ordered the Kroo boys to lay on him and kill him. He said," Damn him kill him," and he saw the captain kick him on the side, the side of the head and face, and the steward was crying out for mercy. There were four kroomen laying on him and from 12 to 18 negroes that came out of a conoe alongside. The captain ordered the chief mate to cut up a lead-line for the Kroo men to beat him and kill him. The mate cut up a lead-line into pieces about two feet long, and the Kroomen took them up and floy ged the steward with them. He saw several of the men from the canoe on shore beating him with stickS. They were beat ing hial in this way ftir three quarters of an hour. The Stew ard called out "Oh Lord, I'm a dead man." The captain came forward to !ism and said "cook," be replied " sir." He said, " I'll shoot you you black son of a bitch you knoW something about this." He (witness) said—" 1 know nothing about it Captain Kain." The captain kept walking round and kicking him and saying " kill him, kill him, a black son of a bitch; strike me in my cabin." The man never rose from the deck afterwards, but died under the operation of flogging. He was carried ashore next morning at day-light and buried. They flogged him on his shirt. The captain ordered the Krooboys to take his shirt off him. Ile said " never mind, tear it or cut it off—Kill him." There were two merchant's ships lying along side ; the " Heyworth" and the brig, " Anne." l'here was a Mau-of-war lying inside the bar. There were no other cap tains of ships on board at the time the steward was flogged. The man was in perfect hualth at the time, and a young active man. Examined by Mr. Curry, the Coroner. He observed a wound and blood at the back of the captain's head. 'rhe cause of it he said was that the steward bad knocked him down in the cabin. He, (the witness) had been flogged on board the vessel by the captain and Krooliovs. This was on the second of May last. He was flogged for hike reports in the ship about him. It was said he was going to run away ; but he was going to do no such thing. Ile had no where to go but amongst the savages. He and the rest of the crew had not come to tell this stoi y against the captain through spite, but because it was their duty; they had been flogged and put in chains, and struck with cutlasses. Two other men were flogged, named Joseph Gill roy and John Lindsay. He could safely swear that there were from twelve to eighteen persons, men and buys, beating the steward at once. Ile had been examined by Mr. John Dawson and by Mr. Hemingway, in the river; he saw they were writing as he spoke, and the paper produced was read over to him after fards. Captain Dawson read it over to him. The account which he then gave of the transaction, and which was written, was nut the same a s h e now gave. T he reason t h at b e then gave a different account, was because he was in danger of his life. Captain K a h l had not threatened him at all if he did not sign the paper Captain Bain was present, walking backward and forward in his cabin as his deposition was being taken, but did not interfere in any way, though be could hear every thing that was said. Edward Jones deposed that he shipped on board the barque Kingston, in February last, to go to the coast of Africa, as cooper; Captain Kain was the captain. The crew and officers were twent v-one in number. They sailed from Liverpool on the 2nd of March, and arrived in New Calabar on the 17th of April. They had a black steward on board. On the 20th of May, they were lying in the river off New Calabar, when at the commencement of the afternoon the steward passed him with water, and took the dipperout of the water cask, and began pumping water into the water cask. Ile then took the pump when he had got enough of water, and put it into the rum cask. He then came to witness to ask him if he had any tacks. He did not see anything more till he heard a scuffle in the cabin. The captain then came out of the cabin and said the black rascal had seized hold of him and knocked him down; he walked about as if in a great passion, and on looking round he saw three or four black men dragging the steward out of the cabin door As soon as the steward was pulled on deck, the captain knocked him down with the handle of the cat, which he held in his hand. The captain called for the carpenter, Jacob With, to put the steward in irons, but he was forward, and did not cause immediately. The carpenter not coming. the captain gave the cat he had in his hand to Walker, and got others out of the cabin, which he gave to other two kroo boys, and the three commenced flogging the steward immediately. After they had flogged some time the captain called for the deep sea lead lines, as thick as a finger, and the mate, Carr, by the cap tain's orders, cut three pieces off, which he gave to three black Men, natives of Calabar. They had nine of these natives living on board, and ten kroo boys. Then others of the black men began beating the steward without the captain's orders, with the after hatch teeacle fall. The captain said, " hit'him about the head, kill him out," and he kicked him. There were either six or seven on him at a time, including boys, 15 or 16 years of age. He was present during the whole of the flogging. He had only a shirt, and a pair of trowsers on. The captain ,ordered them to pull his shirt off, and they pulled it off, and continued flogging on. They flogged three quarters of an hour good. The men were in a complete perspiration with flogging hitn, and their arms ached. The steward died under their flogging. Black man's flesh does not break like a white man's, it was not broken, but his flesh was blown up like blood and jelly; he was puffed and swelled all round. He was cut about the head arid face, as if his eyes were knocked in. As soon as it was over, one of the men said, " give him to Juju, throw him overboard,"' but the captain ordered them not. There was no man of war's man lying near. Cross-examined by Mr. Curry.—He gave his depositions on board ship, at Calabar, before twogentletnen, and declared what he then sated to be true, but he durst nut tell the whole truth, he was afraid. By Mr. HALL.—They knocked him up in the night from 10 to 12 o'clock to examine him in the cabin. The captain was present in the cabin the whole time. Ile durst not tell the truth, because he was afraid of his life coming home in the ship. The steward had been sick for a few days, but had got well again, and gone to his duty. William Dodd deposed, that he shipped as cooper on board the barque Kingston, in Liverpool, commanded by the prisoner, Captain Kain. On Saturday the 20th of May, he saw the coloured steward dragged out of the cabin by three Krootnen, Walker, Grey, and Bottle-o'-beer. When be was brought out of the cabin, the captain stood at the door with the cat with eight tails, and as soon as he came out the captain struck the steward with the stump of the cat, and he never rose again. Ile lay there for a few minutes, and the captain fetched him several lashes, and said, " you black 1., to try to throw me down in my cabin, and to catch me by the privates; I'll have your life this night." He called the three Kroomen, and or dered them to go on and flog. The witness then detailed the sante scene of cruelty as the former witnesses. The: steward crawled once out of the way under the gunwale, and the cap tain kicked him out. There was a Krooboy in the cabin named Warrahow, who, whenever the steward turned on his face, cut hint in the eyes. The steward cried out, "Oh Lord, save my eves." The captain kept crying out "go on, flog him ; I'll h . ave his life this night." rhere was a native named II ombo, .who flogged the steward also. There where seven flogging him at once. Ile saw when he turned round to take his last gasp, he stretched himself out. He was dreadfully swollen after he was dead. His head and neck were swollen all of one thickness. The Heyworth, the Snowden, and the Anne traders were lying beside them. On his return to England be did not give any information; he attended the discharge of the ship and never saw, the captain. On Friday afternoon he saw the captain going on board another vessel, and he called 'a policeman and ordered hint to take the captain into custody for murder. Cross-examined by Mr. Curry.—He saw the captain's head was wounded when tie came out of the cabin ; it was bleeding a little. He was examined on board ship by Captains Holmes, Hemingway, and Dawson. What he said was taken down, but he durst not tell the the truth then for fear of his life. He was afraid of speaking the truth, because the captain was a bad man, and would in a moment have murdered him as he had done the steward, if he had spoken the truth. He was examined on board between twelve and one o'clock at night. He was nut in duced by any spite to give•evidenee against the •ea'pLaitr4 only fur justice and for the sake of that man's life. He never said in Mr. Horsfall's office that he would transport himself to hang him, What he said was, that "he would sacrifice all his wanes to have the law of justice go over his head," Wm. Gove deposed that he shipped on board the Kingston at Liverpool, as boatswain, and sailed on the 2d of March last. They had a black steward on board, named Lewis Ilansford. He recollected the 20th of May, and seeing the steward beaten. The witness then proceeded to give the same detail of revolting cruelty as the last witnesses. He repeatedly cried out for mercy. His body when dead, was all cut up with cats and lead-lines wherever they could get a stroke at him. When the carpenter ca l i c o u e s to a p n u , t , o u n se, thtehieronnias,nthweascadpetaadi.n The hav captain ing ordered some called him, h e sa id it water to be thrown over the man ; and when he heard he was dead he ordered a boat to be sent to the two other ships for the captains and a doctor, and they came. None of the white crew assisted to flog the man. Cross-examined.—He was examined by Captains Dawson and Hemingway, and his depositions were read over to him. Ile said then, what was written was right, and he could say no morea bout it ; he did not say it was true. He durst not do other wise than say what he then said, because every Word the cap tain used was, " I will blow your brains out with a pistol," or " Pll run von through with a cutlass," and he durst not speak the truth till he got to England, where he knew there would be somebody to take his part; there was no one there. The cap tains did not threaten him at the time of his examination. Jacob With, a Prussian, shipped in Liverpool, in Feb. last, on hoard the barque Kingston, as carpenter. He corroborated the former witnesses. Ile heard the steward cry out whilst be ing flogged, " Captain, forgive me this time;" but the Captain said " No, flog him," and kicked him in the side. Capt. Kain ordered hiM to get irons and put on him, but his arms were stiff, and he told the Captain he was dead, and the Captain said, " Never mind the irons for his feet," and sent for some gentle men to come on board, one of them a doctor, who looked at the man, and said he was dead. He made the coffin for the man. His body was cut and swollen, and so was his face. His eyes were swollen up, and his face cut. Mr. Hall at this juncture said, he thought it was unnecessary to have any more witnesses who were merely corroborative. There was some evidence on behalf of the prisoner, which he would take this day at half-past two o'clock. The case was then adjourned at ten o'clock, and the several witnesses were bound over in £lOO each, to appear at the Central Criminal Court, and give evidence against the prisoner. PICTURES ON VlEW.—There is a small collection of very fine pictures by the old masters, now exhibiting qt Jack's Coffee-house, Clayton-square. Any respectable person May inspect them free of expense, and we assure our readers who admire this divine art, that they will find some exquisite pro ductions amongst the number. nee picture, by Carlo Ma retta, particularly struck us as being a charming production. The subject is the Holy Family. e i..Dipping ~.:~4W~~Li~LaiLZ„♦ FRIDAY, JAN. ID.—Wind B. AlllllTED.—Pertinunet, from New Orleans—Walter Scott, Rea, from Savannah , with loss oihvad, and stern started. having been sir uek by a sea 2tith Dec.—Lockwouds, front St John, N.B.—Malta, Gibraltar, &c mails. SAurn.—llarold, Crowell, for New Orleans—Albion, Brown, for St John, N.B.—Sophia Maria, Hull, for Toulon Bentriek Whichelo. from Civitia Verhia for this port, at Milford Sarah, Doyle, hence, for li.tvre, at ditto SATURDAY, J ANUAUY 20. —W ind S.E. .AantvEn.—Perclennett, Ingersoll, from New Orleans : sailed from the Bar 10th ult. Spoke the Comet, from Charleston for this port, With loss of-turlder, making for this port. , Sat cau2—firHlton, Howes' for Boston—Phoebe , Brown. for Savan nah—lsabella. 'Rymer, for Pernainbuco—John Orinrod, Dickson, fur Oporto—Baivar,Janserand, and Crescent, Dumalie, fur Gibraltar. Rowley, M' Lachlan, hence at Demerara Pet, Stone. hence at Malta, and sailed 20th Dec. for Constantinople Matilda. Hodgson, sailed from Genoa for Nfessiva 4th Jan. ; and the Ellen Jenkinson, Irving, for Naples tith January Garonne, Richardson. and Buoyant. Perry, hence at Gibraltar Kelsicic Wood, Thompson, from Whitehaven, at Lisbon Perseverance, Monnet, and Frances, Delpierre, hence at Ostend Sin Rafael, Mauris, from Havana, at Scilly SUNDAY, JANUARY 21.—Wind S.S.E. a gale. 6 p.m. South, moderate. Tavistock, from Lisbon, at this port -, Standard, Pelle ; Sir J ohu Tobin, Griffiths, and Sandbach, Bisphano, hence at Demerara Tyro Fry, hence for Antwerp, at Falmouth 'MONDAY. JANUARY 22. &mita—Mediterranean Packet, Saunday, for Barcelona—Parthe non. Thomas, for Boston—North America, Heath, for New York— Rowena, Grouehey, fur Palermo—and Westmoreland, Small, fur St. Domingo. Jupiter, Ramses, from Calcutta, at Demerara Thomas Pelle, Carr, hence and liarbadoes, at Campeachr Boliyar, Janserand, hence at Holyhead, leaky, hound to Oihraltar Russia, 11 , 1 4 Nlanus. from New Orleans, at the Clyde. On the 30th Dec. spoke the Lydia, from Jamaica for this port I.mports. SOUTH AMERICA, Phillips, (244) E Woolley, from Lima. 51 large 424 small balfs wool 2730 bags saltpetre, 4 bags metals, A Gibbs and Sons-86 large 52 small bales wool, C Tayleur and co-22 large 441 small bales wool, 1 bale, cotton, order-100 hides, 1 ton Nicaragua wood, J Worratl-2 boxes contents unknown, Todd, Naylor and co—P D UNITED STATES. Pocahontas, J West, from Philadelphia,*24l brls contents un known, Cropper, Benson & co-70 do, Jordan & Mag,rath-1 package do. T packages 1 box do, 7i bales rollon, 1' O.; bra' tur pentine, 145 hhds quercitron bark, W and J Brown and co—l box contents unknown, J Thomas--I bale do, Bathbone Brothers and co 99 bales.cotton,3BB brls turpentine, order-20 hhds qttercitron bark, P lipward=2s hhds tobacco, W Oxley and co-10 Multi horn tips, 3 cases bees' wax, Fitihugh and co—:4 brls apples, Leech rind Harrison Walter Scott. (469) W Rea, from Savannah, 1126 bales' s cotton, Wainwright. Sheils and eo-68 do, Isaac, Low and co-130 do, A Taylor-48 do. Waddington, Holt and co-333 do, order—W ll AZORES. Emma. (591 W T Jarvis, from St. Michael's, 343 boxes oranges M'Andrew's, Pitcher and co—S D EUROPE. Phoenix, (109) J 11 Bunnetneyr. from Ant , about 170 tons oak bark, order-49 bales flax, Horner and Bell-100 , Tennants, Moore and co—Q D H o p e , (139) A Vautier, from Jersey, 1200 bushels itvples. 11 bushels onions, 33 casks whale oil, J Robin and Son—lOJNoxes oranges, order —G 1) Crescent (92) G Rider, from Charente, 17 pipes 93 hhds 31 qr casks 21 brls I case brandy. order-6 pipes brandy. Higginbotham and co -20 hhds 30 qr casks do, Glazebrook Brothers-9 hints 17 qr casks R C Gardner-10 hhds 15 qr casks do, J R Preston-10 hhds 3qr casks do, T Thwaites-6. pipes 4qr casks do. W Ellison-7 pipes 4 hhds Bqr casks do, Hassall and Foulkes-5 pipes do, It Turner-1 hhds do, J Pickup -10 hhds do, AshbUrner and Priestley- - ,2 do, W Turner-22 W Lockett-3 do, E Rae-10 do, J Gaskarth-15 do, .J Knowles, jnn and co-10 do. Slater-10 do, E Duckworth and co—lt) do, J Schol fleld-4 meat pipes, 3 Knowles, jun—.l' D L'Auguste, (60) J J Julia, from Havre. 21 cases wine. Morinaud-7 do, Bevan and Smith-73 cases 410 baskets wine, It W Preston-1 cask wine, Stewart. Bald and co--10 cases do, order-1 case do, F Norris -2 do, Golhorne and Dobbs-10 do, Pemberton and Green-2 cases 2 baskets do, T and W Earle and eo-3 cases do, Brereton, Jones and co —4 casks 36 cases do ~W Maxwell-2 cases do. Taylor, Potter and co —4 do, Brough and Gardner-2 do, 11 Barton anti co-3 baskets do. Nicholson and.co—l qr cask 9 cases do. J Chapman-3 hhds 41 cases do, J Dawson-3 eases do, Vianna and Jones-2 do, J M Gardner-10 cases contents unknown, order-1 do, F NOrris-1 do, J Burgess-21 do, W B Promoli-1 case 1 cask brandy, W Maxwell-1 cask do, J Dawson-2 brls lamp oil, D case books, F Croft and co— PD LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. From Direct. Indirect. From Direct. Indirect. Calcutta . • Oct ....10 Maranham Nov ....25 Bombay Oct ....25 N. Orleans Dec. —ll Mauritius Oct ....17 Mobile .. Dec. ..12 Rio Janeiro iN0v....11 Savannah . Dec. ..14 Bahia N0v....19' Charleston Dec. ..15 Peniamburo N0v....141 New York. Dec. ..20 PACKET BOATS.—FALMOUTH STATION. GENERAL POST-OFFICE.—Jan. 19, 1837. Mau made Last Packets Next Packet DRSTINATION. Up In Sailed. Due. London. _..— Holland Tues. & Fri. Mon. & Thurs. Hamburg & Swed Tues. & Fri. Tues: & Satur. Lisbon . Neptune, City of Madeira S a t ur d ays .. Jan. 15. Londonderry, Spain & Gibralt Jan. 28. s and Greece.. 2nd Saturd. Jan. 8. Egypt and India .. 4th Saturday Madeira Brazil &B. Ayres each month. Jan. 5. Jan. 29. America lst Wednes. Briseis.. Jan. 6. H.M.B. Alert, f .lamai. L'ward Ist day of Goldfinch, 2 Isl. & Hayti.. Feb. Id. H M B.Skylark each mon th . Jan. 3. LaguiraJan. 26. Mexico and Ha- , 15th day of B. Sheldrake, B. Banger, vcma 5 each month. Jan. 17. Jan. 22, c Jamai. L'ward . 1 . i Isl. &H lsth day of H.M.B. Pandora B. Lap w i n g, a y a eachmonth. Jan. 17. Feb. 9. Carthagena ...: J PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. LONDON & LIVERPOOL, Outward. Home. (Sailing before 12th Jan.) to .... .... after Ist Aug. Jama ica Leeward Isl.- Demerara & Berbice 2O 0— 25 0 0 0 --, 0 0 • Honduras New York, Boston 3O 0— 35 0 20 0— 25 0 Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Havana 12th Jan.. 40 0 50 0 100 0 -14(1 0 Canada British North America 0 0— 0 0 120 0 —.140 0 Newfoundland 3O 0— 45 0 40 0— 0 0 Brazils River Plate East Indies Company's Ships Batavia New South Wales Cape of Good Hope Africa 25 0— 30 0 30 0 —l2O 0 Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, &e. Malta, Sicily, &c. Smyrna and Constantinople Mala ,, a Madeira Western Isles, Cape de Verds .20 o—3o 0 20 0—25 0 Lisbonls 0— 20 0 15 0— 20 0 Cadiz France Holland Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Riga. Bze. Oporto l5 0— 20 0 15 0— 0 0 LIVERPOOL AND MA, Times of Departure of the Coa, the Railway Stati, FIRST CLASS. Seven o'clock. Two o'clock. i - Pas' Nine o'clock. Five o'clock. Teri Eleven o'clock. Seven o'clock. T• le / [CHESTER AILROAD. , 7/t 7'soins f Manchester from ion in Lim street. ECOND CLASS. ..5 even. Three o'clock. clock. ;-past Five. ve o'clock. Seven o'clock rom Manchester at the same • N.B.—Corresponding Trains start hours. On Sundays, the only departures are,—in the morning a Second class Train at Seven, and a First-elass Train at Eight ; and in the afternoon, a First-class Train at Five, and a Second-class Train at half-past Five. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY FROM TO LIVERPOOL,AND MANC, prt NI INGHAM ESTER. HOURS OF DEPARTURE AND RRIVAL. ARRIVAL AT PROM BIRMINGHAM. LTV POOL AND lIANCHESTER. li. mL h. in. First Class 'Mixed • First Class ll 30 .. A.M 415 .. r. First Class Mixed First Class - 7 0 _ p.m 11 45 .. P. FROM ARRIVAL T.ITERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. AT BIRMINGHAM. First Class Mixed First Class First Class Mixed First Class 630 .. r.m.. ll 30 .. P. Horses and Carriages should be at the Stations, and booked Half an hour before the time of starting. On SUNDAYS the four First Class Trains only, with the addition of second Class Coaehes. will start at the same hours as on the week days, but will not take up and set down Passengers at any but the six principal stopping places. ALARAITNG ACCIDENT.—ESCAPE AND IGNITION OF GAS. — It generally known, that a tunnel is being excavated from the Rochdale canal to the river Irwell, to form a navigable communication between that canal to the river. This tunnel passes under Camp-street; and we believe the excavators had been at work during the greater part of Thursday last, and were about to resume operations, between eight and nine o'clock at night; and a boy was passing along the middle of the street with a lighted candle, to provide the men with light by which to descend, when suddenly, to his great amazement, a large flame burst from the surface of the ground at his feet, nearly opposite to St. John's Church. This flame, which appeared to have made its way through an aperture in the earth from the tunnel below, continued to increase in dimensions till it was nearly three yards in height, and about the same breadth. It excited the greatest consternation in the neighbourhood ; messengers were despatched to the watch office and to the gas office, but it was not till some time afterwards that two of the men employed in the service of the latter department were found, and they pro ceeded with their implements to the spot. The flame was by this time very high; and so intense was the heat, and the glare so dazzling, that no one could approach to within a distance of many yards. The gas men proceeded to dig down to the street main, at a distance of twenty or thirty yards each was' from the flame. The ground was so hard front the frost, that this was a work of great labour and time; but ultimately, having laid the main, they proceeded at each place to break the pipe in two with sledge hammers, and this done, they plugged the main, and closed it carefully with cement. The communication and supply of gas being tlius cut off at both ends, the gas that had escaped was soon consumed, and then the flame became ex tinguished, we believe about midnight. So great had been the alarm that none of the inhabitants of the street would venture to retire to rest, until! all was made secure. The ignition of the gas, from the boy's candle, doubtless prevented a much more disastrous result ; for had the men entered the tunnel with a light, they would most probably have lost their lives. It would appear that the settling 'if the earth over the excavation had broken the main; and the escape of gas, from a pipe of so large diameter, during about four hours, must have been very con sidi:•eode. Fortunately no personal injury was sustained by any one, so far as we have heard.—Mancliester Courier. Mayhem LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, JANUARY 19, The Sugar market continues in a very depressed state, and the sales of B. P., wlr eh are again Limier :::fro hints, are at a decline of is to Is Gd on last week's p ices. Some hollers having consanted to a consider able reduction in price. about 2500 bags Bengal have been disposed of at G6s lid per cwt fur good to tine white, and 300 bags uncertified at 14s to Ids for dark brown, and 24s per cwt for low yellow. The Sales in - Foteign Sugar consist of 1500 bags Manilla at 2Us to 218.440 bags low brown Bengal at 14s to 16a per cwt, and 160 cases, 130 brls Brazil at the quotations.—The only sale that has taken place in Molasses is re ported at 335, and consists of 114 puns now landing.—Coffee. The sales of Plantation are confined to a small parcel 01 Jamaica and 25 cas,lis, 50 bags of Berhice, at the quotations. Nothing done in Foreign. —Nothing done hi Cocoa.-60 brls Jamaica Ginger sold at 84s to 100 s per cwt, 400 bags Pimento chiefly at 3d, and a small parcel of black Pepper at 41d per lb.—East India Rice continues in demand at former prices, but very little is offering under bas to 14s 6d ; Carolina is dull, and sales are limited to very small parcels —There has been a very good inquiry for Rum, and higher rates have been obtained, particu cularly for the lower strengths. The sites are about 300 puns Deme rara, at 2s 11d for common Leewards to 35 I id to 4s 2d for 23 to 30 a P. and 4s 5d to 4s 8d for stronger and choice marks; altio 150 casks East India, of ordinary and low strength, at 23 4tl to 3s 4d. for exportation. Indigo. There has been some demand, but the market ia bare of suitable qualith s.-50 chests of Shell Lae have been taken at 92s 6d to 955.-25 (Nests of K M Lac Dye at 12W to lid, and diamond 1 in pro portion.—At a public sale of Gum Arabic, 30 chests sold at 40. s to 45s per cwt for fair quality, and 300 chests of Cassia brought the qu,,ta tions.—Seareely any demand for Saltpetre.-140 baskets of Mother of-Pearl Shells sold at 65s 6d to 66s per cwt, and 240 bags Turmeric at 18s per cwt. - Dyewoods. An improved demand has appeared for Logwood, and the sales are 350 tons of Campeachy, part to arrive and part in store, up to £B. and 100 of Jamaica at £6 I2s Gil to £7; 30 tons of Savanilla brought £4 12s Gd ; a small lot of Lima Nicaragua Wood £l2 10s, and 20 Urns of Red Sanders Wood £6 lag to £G 1.5 s per ton ; nothing re ported in other kinds.—There have been no sales in Turpentine or of Tar this week, and prices remain unaltered.—The business in Mon treal Ashes has scarcely amounted to 100 brls, at 29s 9d for new Pot, and 33s 6d per cwt for new Pearls.—hides. The public sales to-day were well attended, and fair prices generally obtained, 2400 dry Buenos Ayres Ox and Cow brought 610 to 81d. 1900 salted do 4/i1 to 41d, 700 day Valparaiso 51 , 1, 166 New Orleans 610, 200 Laguayra 51d, GOO dry and brined Savanilla 5d to SW, 250 dry salted' Brazil 41d to 51d, 3200 dry Manilla Buffalo 31d, 11,800 East ndia•Kips 81d to 10d for sound dry salted. 70 to 9d for first rubbed do, Sid to 71,1 for sound dry and brined, and 4d to 510 per lb for rubbed ; also 2500 dry Buenos Ayres - Horse at 9s Gd to its Gd, a ntli 379 salted at Ils 9d to 12s 7d each ; 1900 salted Buenos Ayres Ox have been sold by private at 4W, and 600 Cow Hides at 41d per lb.—The demand for Tobacco has again been exten- sive, and higher prices have been obtained, Kentucky stemmed having been sold at 7W per lb. The sales consist of 80 lihtlg stemmed and 30 leaf for re-sale, 90 hints leaf and 30 stemmed for Ireland, and the re mainder were taken by the trade. MEDITERRANEAN PRODUCE. The demand for most descriptions of heavy produce. in Drysaltery articles has been much interrupted this week 'by 'the severe frost, which has caused a stoppage of communication with the interior by canal navigation. there has been more disposition to sell Brimstone, and rather lower prices have in some instances been accepted..—For Verona and Trieste Sumac there have been ready buyer's; and most of the recent imports have been imports have been disposed of; 460 bags Malaga, by auction, went off with some briskness at 12s 6d to 12s 9.1 per cwt.—Ti►ere is a fair demand for Crean) of Tartar, Argols, and brown Tartar, and the market is but barely supplied with the good qualities of each.—With the exception of French Madder Roots, which have been inquired for, hut of which there are no sellers at present rates, all other sorts, as well as Madders, have been neglected. —Fine Persian Berries have been sought after, and some sales effected at rather higher prices. —Owing to the frost, there has been less doing in Olive Oil, but the few sales made fully support the last week's quotations; the business done amounts to about 30 tuns.—ln Fish Oils there have been no transsetions, excepting in pale Seal, of which about 25 tuns have been sold at lower rates.—There has been more in quiry for pale Rape, and about 50 tuns have been sold at about our quotations.ln Linseed Oil little doing, but the price steady.—Early ►n the week, there appeared a disposition on the part of the consumers to buy freely of Palm Oil, both on the spot and for arrival; of the former, about 20 tons; was'sold at £33 17s 6d to £34, and for arrival, (shortly expected) about 150 tons at £33 1 rs to £34 per ton.—Oil of Turpentine meets a fair demand.—But little has been done in Hemp this week -Flax is also in limited request.—We continue to experi ence a good demand for Tallow, but the arrivals here of about 150 casks Coastwise has had the effect of checking the advance, but the market remains very firm at 51s fur Petersburgif yellow candle. Lt I!: !WOOL, MA lilt la JAN. 19. The demand has continued limited throughout the week, owing, in some degree, to the stoppage of the Canals by the frost, which com bined with the late arrivals from the United . States being still freely offered, has occasioned a further decline of id per lb in the prices of American and id in most other descridtions. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON. Prong the 12th to this day inclusive. Curren! IMPORTS. SALES ge Tun wBrK. Prices. Tli is Wk this Year --- 220 Sea Island l4d qt 30d 20 Stained 6 12 2798 13692 6200 Bowed Georgia 6l 8i 680 I C Mobile C4 84 I Alabama and Tennessee G 74 10103 t 12702 2350 New Orleans .. . 64 9 400 {Perillmbue() and Paraiba... 9 101 i • 7 78 1 _—__ 8, 9 1 1 .... } 30092567 9 91 1 •••• i •••• Arteati and Ceara 363 Bahia and Mageio. 220 I Maranham Sawginned Minas —— _ .... 1 1 .... Para I Demerara, Surinam, 5te...... 9 124 .... 3 680 Forptian . Bl —l3 .... 3793 Barbados 7l 8 .... 15 560 Peruvian 8 9 Bahama 161 Laguayra 30 Common West India, &c 64 —Bl} 14 r /807 Carthagena. Smyrna ... 64 —64 I Manilla 470 Surat 44 64 .• .. .....• 50 I Madras 44 6 z 22 Bengal 3l - 5 S 12400 bales 12915 37578 There has been rather more doin . Saturday were near 3000 bags, and rather steadier prices. N1:141.Y. JA ,ast. The ousiness is M o since our 1; u-day the bi ,x. 22. sales on 13500, at LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. JAN. 20. Since this day se'nnight we have had moderate supplies of each article of the Corn trade, and the improvement then noted in prices of Wheat has been followed by a fair amount of business and a fur ther advance of 3d to 41d per bushel, the best Irish red being now worth Ss 3d to Fs 4d per 701hs. Flour must also be noted 2s to 3s per sack dearer, and the market is bare.—Though no actual change can be noted in the quotations for Oats, which still range from 2s 7d to 2s 9.1 d or 2s 10d per 451bs. for choice samples, there is more firmness as re gards this grain, and purchases to any extent could not be made on so easy terms. Oatmeal has advanced 6d per load, 25s paid for prime Irish manufacture. There has been little done in Barley ; Scotch malting, of which there are several parcels on the market, has been sold at 4s 6d to 4s 8(1 per . 6oll,s.—Beans and Peas as last noted. A par cel or two of bonded Wheat have been takt.n for export : a little lbw: Baltic red has brought 5s 3d per 701bs. LIVERPOOL. PROVISION MARK ET. JAN. 22. Butters may be bought a little easier to-day ; some of the finer kinds we however note Is to 2s above our last quotations. There is a thaw to-day, hut we do not think it will be permanent—the wind still sticking steadily in the east. Beef and Pork remain unaltered. Bacon will be better ere long. Hams more sought after, and is to 2s higher, —the price of this article in the North of Ireland comes over-high. Lard steady. s. d. s. d. BUTTER.—Belfast 9B 0 43 104 0 per cwt. Banbridge - Coleraine 9O 0 9i 0 Sligo 9l 0 —' 94 0 Derry . 96 0 93 4 -- Limerick Carrick Kilkenny Carlow, - 100 0 Waterford Newry - ....... Cork dry 3ds B4 0 0 0 Do:piekled 2ds 94 0 0 0 BHP r.—NevrPnme Mess 92 6 107 6 per ti.n.r. Do. PORK ... ... . .. ~ ....... .... BACON 46 0 50 0 per cw t. ...-•••••• DRY HAMS 56 0 6') 0 0 0 ••-• 0 0 •••-..... WRT Do 56 U 62 0 LARD.—Firkin Bladdered MANCHESTER MARKET, JAN. 20. There is a fair arrival of Butters from Ireland this week, and a mo derate extent of business has been done at very full prices. The transactions this morning were not extensive in any article; choice samples, of both English and Irish Wheat, were held for higher prices. and, on the sales effected, an adranee of 2s per 280Ibs was realized on approved marks of Flour. 25s lid per 2401bs was paid for prime Oatmeal, and Oats were fully as dear. In Beans and Malt a retail trade only could be reported, and in prices no ♦ariation to notice. LONDON COLONIAL MARKET, JAN. 19. The continued frost nearly lays all business under an embargo. To-day exceedingly little has •heea done, and on 'Change nothing worth reporting. The imports are quite unworthy of notice. SUGAR —Rather more business was done to-day in British Plan tation Sugar, a further decline of 6d per cwt. being accepted ; still the market closes heavily, and the sales of the week amount to only about 850 hhds. and tees. NUTMEGs.- •34 casks of good bold consumers were bought in at pub lic sale at 5s per lb. ; the biddings were not above 4s 9,1 psi- lb. GINGEE.-690 bags and 140 robins of Malabar were submitted for public sale, and chiefly sold at 28s to 26s for middling and good quality. Thom —Bengal continues in demand; 406 bags and 400 pockets were readily disposed of at stiff prices, middling and good middling a t 13s to 13s Ed per cwt. SALTPETRE brings fully former rates. 339 hags Calcutta offered at auction sold at 25s for slbs. per cwt. refraction, and at 23s for 5611b5. refraction. INDIGO.—The sale proceeded to-day with better spirit. the buyers evinced more inclination to purchase, and a lsrger quantity was sold thntibis any day previously. 841 ehest4t posseilsruction, of. which 45 were disposed of, and for which rather better prices were obtained. The total quantity got through up to this afternoon is 4933 chests, of which only 1;80 chests have been actually sold. For Wool, the advanced prices of yesterday continue to be fully supported. LONDON COUN EXCHANGE. JAN. 19. - - -• The frost continues, and the river becomes daily more choked with ire and snow ad,:ed to whirl., the streets of Limdon are in that state there is ronsi lerable difficulty in moving waggons through them. These circumstances tend to limit the transactions at our market, even for Corn in granary, or on hoard vessels alongside quays. We do not vary our quotations from Monday, for either Wheat or Barley : the Is per quarter then noted on Oats is in more rates ,obtained to-day, which is 2s dearer - to the buyer, owing to extra charges. A few vessels have arrived from Ireland this week with Oats : some of them are in the stream, and cannot be got at. -- WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, JAN. 19. The arrivals of Wheat this week are small Owing to the frost. There was a very thin attendance of buyers, and the business done exceedingly limited. Holders of Wheat and Beans, ready for delivery, asked more money. In other things little passing, but sellers wanted higher rates for every article. Wheat 3229, Barley 1398, Bean s 18 Oats 108, Peas 58, Shelling 100. IRISH PRODUCE AND MANUFACTURE, DUBLIN, Jan. 19: BEEF—Per fierce India. £7 to LI 58 ; prime mess, .1.55 s to £5 12 - s ; plant mess, £2 7s to £2 lOs ; barrels £3 :is to £3 lOs liscoN—Per cwt. 40s to 48s : heavy 35s to 37s ; pigs' cheeks 32s 8d to 37s 4d ; hams 46s to 50s ; pork per barrel BCs to 82s ; tongues per firkin 26s to 335. BUTTER—First per cwt. qs ; in cools Sid to 10d per lb. CANDLES—Export, 7d to 8d per lb ; mould, 6s Gd ; dipt, Gs. FEATnEas—From the country per stone, 7s to 8d ; white Ils to 13s ; mixed 6s to Bs. GLUE—Per cwt. GOs to 655. GLASS—Wine and porter quarts per grow 34s ; ditto pints 30s ; ditto half pints 22s ; imperial quarts 33s ; ditto pints 335. LEAD.—Pig per ton £2O ; sheet £22 •, pine £24 lOs ; shot £24. .0, Ls—Rape refined per cwt. 425; brown rape 40s; turpentine 75s to 90s ; linseed 325. SALT—Per ton 40s to 425. SOAP—White per cwt. 365; yellow 265. STAacu-28s to 30s. TlLES—Flot . .rinn per dozen ss. TALLOW—Melted per cwt. 525; bladdered lard 565; rough ditto 365; fat per stone 4s 6,1 to 4s Bd. • TonAeco—Roll per lb 3s Id to 4s. WOOL—Ph...re per IGIII. W ethers 19s esl; Iroggets 20s Gd ; mixed parcels 20s ; skin 148 to 11;s. WHISICFY. Oen—lmperial gallon, 7s to 8s ; new Gs ;:d to Gs 6d ; in bond 2s Bd. DUBLIN CORN EXCHANGE, JAN. 19. We have stiil very small supplies of izrain at market. the ca n a l navi gation beingquite interruptea by the frost ; prices remain without any alteration from Tuesthy's currency ; Wheat. white .... ?As i.d n 22s ed I New Oats Os Od rd 11 s Od bill: is red 2B 0— 3G 6 1 Oatmeal ...... 10 o 12 6 Inferior Oats 'Sere JANUARY 23, 18;38. LONDON GAZETTE.-FRIDAY, JAN. 19. PARTNER SH PS r) sso t.v n. J. Herainan and G. Herdinxii, Cungleton, Cheshire, grocers—W.; Turner, A. Ackers, H. Critchley, and J. Whitley, Airam, Lancashire; miners; as far as regards W. Turner.—U. - 11.dstead and J. Halsteaai Colae, Lancashire, cotton-spinners. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Th o •nas Simcock and James Slater; Little Ryder-street. St. Jumes's; Loimuu, Loudon, tailors. • - BANKRUPTS. John Hayter, Kennington-oval, victuallei. Joseph NI oritz Bloom, East Clitl, Brighton, dealer in fancy goods. Bartholomew IlaskelL Watford, Hertfordshire, wheelwright. , Thomas Linsell and William Linsell, Piccadilly, London, tailors. John, lluxham, College-street, Upper Thames-street, London, ale.; merchant, • Henry Kendall, Edmund Kendall, John Kendall, and Joseph Kea= dali, Deritend, Warwickshire, perfumers, Aaron Lees, Gorton, Lancashire, cotton-spinner. George Digkinson, Dover, paper-manufactitrer, Robert Stone, Oxford, surgeon. • DIVIDENDS. Feb. 12, E. B. Bradley, Nine Elms, Surrey, malsters—Feb. 6. W; Devey, Holland -street, London; coal-merchant—Feb. 12, U. Green; Eagle-street, Red Lion-square, London coach-maker—Feb. 13, W. S. Warwick and T. W. Clagett, 13itliter-square, London, merchants—Feb. 9, W. S. Billiter-square, London, merchant—Feb. 9, H. Fend and J; Crane, Bush-lane, Cannon-street, London,varnish-makers—Feb. 9,R. Springett, St. Margaret's-hill Southwark, hop-merchant—Feb. !J E T. Dorntord, Philpot-lane, London, wine-merchant—Feb. 10; R. H.Vin.: son, Maze, Southwark, carpenter—Feb. 14, J. Broom, Kidderminster.; worsted yarn-spinner —Feb. 12, W. Brown and W. Andrews, Leeds,- cloth-dressers—Feb. 13, J. Stevenson, Sheffield, furniture-brokez. Feb. 12, E. Jones; Manchester,drysalter—Felt. 19, S.Owen.-Nantwich,- mercer. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before the' Qtli day of February. J. Britton and J. W. Briscoe, Darlington, Durham, linen-manufac.- - turers—W. Soulsby, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, tailor—W.Alston, Leicesfi ter, spinner —J. Wootton, lilandford Forum, Dorset, coach-maker-- H. Fend, Bush-lane,Cannon-street, London,varnisti-nather—J. Drab hie, Kent-street, Great Dover -street, London, axletree-maker-.G. Stringer, sen. High-street, Islington. furnishing ironmonger —S. An derson, Wigmore-street, London, merchant—M. Eburne and W. 11. - Eburne, Rathbone-place, Oxford-street, London, coach-makers-;T: Wyatt. Oxford, baker—J. Macdougall, late of Buenos Ayres, merchant —lt. Mower, Shoreditch, woollen-draper. - SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Robert Thomson, Edinburgh, brush-manufacturer. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending Jan. 16, 1438, is 40s 4id per bun-' dred weight, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable' thereon uirthe importation thereof i n t o Gr ea t Britain. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. JANUAD.Y. ROLM . 23. John G. White. (2d) Clarendon Rooms, IL' 21. Lownsborough, Lee and co. (div.) Ditto... ` 2 24. John Slinger Ditto 1 25. lames Mercer, (div.) Ditto I 25. Robert Jones, ',lst) . - Ditto.... •• • • 1 26. G. Dennistoun and It. Laird Ditto . 12 26. Henry Conway, (2d) Ditto 1 26. Peter Hughes, (2d) 26. Coupland and Duncan, (special)....Lowndes and Robinson, 2 27. William James, (special) E. Bretherton's, II 31. John Slinger, (special) Birkett and Foster, I Feb. 1. C. Humberston and Co Clarendon Rooms, 1 PRICES OF SHARES, LIVERPOOL, JAN. 22. Last Prices This day's RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester l2 10, 4 17 6 .... Ditto and Derby 2O .... 13 15 0 .... Birkenhead and Chester 2 .... 1 1 6 .... Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow (old) Ditto ditto (new) Ditto Leith and Newhaven 3 .... .... Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock 4 .... 3 2 6 .... Grand Junction Great Western - 0 Hull and Selby Liverpool and Manchester 100 .... 197 0 0 .... Ditto quarter shares .25 .... 48 0 0 .... Ditto half shares 2O .... 56 10 0 .... London and Birmingham 9O .... 164 10 0 ....163 0 0 Ditto. new quarter shares 5 .... 29 5 0 .... Ditto and Southampton 5O .... 34 10 0 .... Ditto, new shares Ditto & Brigbtin (United) 5 .... 6 2 6 .... 6 2 6 Leeds and Manchester .. 15 .... 21 5 0 .... Leicester and Swannington Manchester, Bolton, & Bury 75 .... 57 10 0 .... Manchester and Birmingham 7 .... 62 6 .... 80 0 Midland Counties l5 .... 13 a 0 .... North Midland 23 .... 25 5. 0 .... South Eastern and rover •—• North Union, (new) • 20 .... 35 15 0 .... 36 0 0 Ditto, (old) lOO .... 6l 0 0 ..... ~ BANKS. Bank of Liverpool.. £l2 103 paid 24 2 6 .... -- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 20 2 6 .... --- Liverpool Union • 10 12 17 6 ... Northern and Central.... 10 .... 3 60 . Albion .. 5 - 5 2 6 _ •••• United Trades' ditto lO .... 10 , 0 0 ..,.9 14 0 e.d. North and South Wales lO 9 7 6 .... of Manchester -10 .... 11 17 6.- , .... M'chester 3: I: pool Dsct 15 .... 19 15 0 .... South Lancashire 7 10s 6 17 6 .... Borough Bank . . 7 lOs 12 15 0 .... Commercial Bank of England S .... 415 0 .. East of England , lO .... 917 6 .... Phoenix Bank .... 4 12 6 .... Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 .... 623 0 0 ....625 0 0 Wilts and Dorset . . .... . ... .. ••1• • • • • 10 7 6 •••• OAS, WATER WORKS, &e. Exchange Buildings. £lOO paid 161 0 0 .... L'pool it IlarringtonWaterWorks2oo .... 450 0 0 .... Bootle Ditto • Stock .... 312 0 0 .... Liverpool Coal Gas Company, Stock .... 355 0 0 .... L'nool New Gas St Coke C0....X100 .... 196 0 0 .... Ditto New Shares • • 90 .... 176 0 0 .... ASSURANCE COMPANIES. • Liverpool Marine Assurance C0.£25 paid 10 3 6 .... Ocean Assurance Company lO ..., 7 2 6 .... Liverpool Fire and Life .. 2 Ws. 2 3 0 .... 2 0 0 - - .... . DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES. Sze. Anderton Carrying Company 12 10s. 11 12 6 .... Woodside Ferry 25 .... 28 5 0 .... Egremont Ferry Rock Perry Stearn Tug Company Harrington Docks 6O .... 44 0 0 Apothecaries' Company .... 210 0 .... NORTHERN HOSPITAL WEEKLY RESORT• For the week ending JAN. 20, 1838. PATIENTS ADMITTED. PATIENTS DISCHARGED. Accidents without recommen- I Cured l& dation Medical and Surgical eases with Incurable' , a ---....;.. ..... ..... 20 Died recommendation Remaining in the Hospital 76 House Visitors, Rev. T. Hornhy and R. B. Anderson, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. H. S. Joseph.—Treasurer, Charles Warner, Esq. House Surgeon—Mr. Benjamin Blower. Donations of old linen will he thanitfully received. LIVERPOOL TIDE TABLE. i Mr n. i flan. .- -.----- H. 11 H. H,. F -4 . Tuesday 23 843 913 13 J ,Saturn rises 3h 13m. morn. Wednesday 24 940 10 6 14 . 6 i Length of day 81t. 24m. Thuraday 25 10 31 10 56 16 1 i Conversion of St Paul. Friday ~..26 11 20 11 44 17 10 ' Length of Night 15h 30m. Saturday 27 .07,18 10 ; Moon in Peri.ge'. 2h morn. Sunday 28 030 053'i 19 10 , 4th Sundayafter Epiphany. Monday 29 116 139J.20 1, I Venus . at greatest brilliancy. BIRTH. On the 15th instant, in the Is:e of -Man, the lady of Sylvester Rich mond, Esq. of a stillborn daughter. MARRIED On Tuesday last, at Manchester, M r. William Goodwin, of this town s to Mrs. Rose Hannah Temple. of Manchester. On Sunday last, at St. Philip's Churc4. Mr. William Thomas to Miss Alice Culverston. of Prussia-street. Yesterday, at i3elthington Church, by the Rev. A. Knox, James William Armstrong, Esq. R.N. to Mary, only child of Antonio Pedro Fortunato, Esq. late of this town. DIED. At Melbourne-hall, aged 70, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Maghull Mer vyn Vavasour, Bart. Sir Henry was descended from the Vavasours of Hazlewood and Spalain... At her residence, in Brighton, aged 77, the Mary Dowager Lady Musgrave, relict of the late Sir John Chardlin Musgrave, of Eden-hall, Cumberland. Lately, at the advanced age of 85, the Rev. Thomas Richards, for many years Vicar of Darowen, North Wales. In August last, at Benin, Africa, aged 26, Mr. John Varo, surgeon. son of Mr. J.,hn Varo Newton, late of Wexford. On the I Ith ult. at Newbury. aged 93 years and 6 months, Mrs. Mary Best, widow of the Rev. Thomas Benrose, rector of Becking ton, and relict of the Rev. Thomas Best, of Newbury. On the 26th ult. aged 23, Mrs. Bairstow, the wife of Mr. Oats Bair stow, of her Majesty's Customs at this port. On the 29th ult. at the Rectory, Woodstock, aged 82, the Rev. W. F. Mayor, L.L.D. Be was Rector of Biathlon and Woodstock, and author of the voluminous Universal Ilistory which bears his name, and an active magistrate of the county of Oxford. lie had been ten times Mayor of the horough of Woodstock. On the 3d instant, at his residence, 4, Warwick-street, Toxteth park, aged 57, Mr. Richard Lowry, collector of taxes. • On the 4th instant, at Chetwynd-end, Salop, aged 81, Mrs. Ilickin. relict of the Rev. Win. Dickin, Vicar of Audlev. On the Bth instant, after a short illness, aged $9, Mr. Alexander For rest, son of the late Mr. J. Forrest, marble-mason. __ On the 11th instant. at Worcester; aged 68, Mr. Mary Brettell, of Upper Parliament-street, relict of the late John Brettell, Esq. On the 12th instant, aged 42, deeply regretted, Sarah, the wife of Mr. Thomas Phillip Seymour-street. Same day, aged 47, Mr. James Morris, Johnson-street. Same day. aged 79. Mrs. Ellett Illackledge,-Of Clayton-green, relict. of the late Mr. John Blaeltled , re, Hoghton. Same day, at Blaclentro, aged 75, Mr. James Holt. The deceased was at the siege of Gibraltar. On the 14th instant, at Douglas, Isle of Man, aged 35, Mr. Wm. Owen, late of St. Asaph, Flintshire Same day, after a few hours' illness, Mr. Edward Cartwright, of this town. On Wednesday last, aged 33, Mr. John totherington, only son of Mr. Benjamin Lotherington, late of North Shields Same day, of co nsum pti on , age d 31, Eli za b e th , w if e o f M r . M'N o lty, innkeeper, tedeross-street, deeply regretted Same day, aged 30, Mr. John Storr. late wine and spirit merchant Same day, suddenly, aged 81, Nicholas Grinishaw, Esq. of Preston, On Thursday last, after a few hours' illness, Elizabeth, ,wife of Mr. Wm. 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