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and the internal policy of the country, this able work far outstrips every other publication in the ability with which it handles, and the information which it affords respecting, those questions of international policy, in which the pros perity of our commercial, manufacturing, and shipping in terests is so deeply concerned, and upon which a greater amount of ignorance preval even amongst educated men, than upon any other class of questions The number before us is exceedingly rich, in talent, and varied in subject and style ; and we can cordially recommend it to the perusal of t cal literature, for the purpose of deriving instruction, of Ts who resort to our periodi- Ming a correct taste, of arriving at accurate conclu- sions with respect to political or social questions, and not merely with a view to ti: amusement of the passing It has long since become a subject of serious and national concern, that the mind of Great Britain, or at least of a very numerous portion of its people, is rapidly imbibing a distaste for intellectual exertion, and a relish only for the fritters — the ephemera of literature. We no longer look, in our daily reading, for an adherence to the severe but salutary rules which the philosophic critic has laid down as indispensible to sustained and finished work of intellect or genius. We no longer seek in our reading, the materials for thought and re flection. We scarcely seek even for instruction—except of that description which lies upon the surface ; but expect only to be amused—to be startled—to be tempted by the claptraps of the superficial thinker rather than to " drink deep" from the hidden fountain of useful or elevating know ledge. In the correction of such a state of enervation of mind, the wide spread perusal of the able and vigorous writings to be found in our quarterly periodicals, is well cal culated to become instrumental; and in none of those peri- odicals are the materials for strengthening and directing the tastes of our youth to the appreciation of the best models of English, and of continental literature, as well, more abun dant than in the Britillt and Foreign Quarterly. Towards this object, the opening article of the present number, which is a review of Hegel's "Esthetics, is especially directed ; and although the writer (from the nature of his subject) is occasionally somewhat too transcendental in his language and style, for ordinary readers, there are few whom an attentive perusal would not be calculated to instruct and delight. Like most German scholars, the writer goes too deeply below the surface of every day philosophy to be at all times intelligible, without an effort on the part of those who would follow him accurately to his conclusions ; yet there is abundance of beautiful thought, scattered like gems upon the surface, to reward even the superficial reader, if it fail to tempt him into a closer examination. The review of " Viola the affianced," displays a keen discrimination of the beauty of the human character ; and from such a reviewer praise is praise indeed, and should be valued tenfold beyond the mere hacknied laudations of the undiscriminating pretenders to the office of critical instructors. The political articles upon " the Prussian League," and " the Handloom Weavers' Re port," are at the present moment extremely valuable ; and we may be tempted at an early period to remark upon them more at length than we can afford space to do in our present publication. Of the remaining articles, " The Poniatowski collection of antique gems," " Switzerland, her Political Crisis," "Le Chronique de Rains," " Tallemant de Reux," and " Passavant's Life of Raffaelle," the leisure which we have had for their perusal will not at present allow us to give a judgment. Popularity; and the Destinies of Woman: (Tales of the World.) By Mrs. C. Baron Wilson. 2 vols., post Svo. London : H. Cunningham. Mrs. Baron Wilson, well known as a popular lyrist, and who made her debfit, last year, in prose fiction, with the " Chronicles of Life," has taken a more sustained flight in the two stories before us. " Popularity " and the " Destinies of Woman" are eminently tales of the world. The romance of real life, for those who read it properly, contains materials for the novelist as startling as any ever imagined by fancy in her wildest wearing. From such materials, has Mrs. Wil son framed two stories widely differing in spirit and style, but alike distinguished by good sense and intellectual grace and beauty. In " Popularity " she has sketched the career, brief but eventful, of a young politician who enters life with fortune and friends—loses the wealth, even while he is making a name as a public man—experiences the trials that poverty is heir to, has his course of true love interrupted by doubts and falsehoods, and finally recovering station, property, and happi ness, becomes " Benedick, the married man," to the satis faction of all concerned. There is little intricacy in the plot ; but the events are detailed, and the characters sketched with a freedom and truth which few of our modern story tellers could equal. " The Destinies of Woman " relates to the vicissitudes Which, in course of time, befal three schoolmates. Two of them wed,—the third dies unmarried. The two girls who enter life matrimonial have their fates variously cast. Sun shine lights the prosperous path of one—shadows fall upon the fortunes of the other. But she battles bravely with ad versity, until she subdues it,—and all ends happily. It is a woman who best can draw the character of her sex. How womanly and how true are the sentiments embodied in the following : " Why are so many single women, of middle age, morose or mischief-making? Because, having abandoned in youth, as toils, those resources which would have proved pleasures when the hey-dey of life was passed, their minds have become a barren soil, and weeds have sprung up where flowers might have flourished. " The situations of a married and an unmarried female, it must be confessed, are very unequal : the former having greatly the advantage in the scale of earthly happiness: and the world makes the distinction still more unequal than nature intended it. "At thirty-five, the married woman is considered in the noon of life ; while the single one is considered as paseee. Again, the wife has less necessity to depend on intellectual pleasures as resources from the lassitude of ennui. She has duties to perform, let her station in life be what it may, to which the single woman cannot turn to vary the monotony of her existence. The matron, if she be a mother, will find a sufficient stimulus to keep up or revive, in the early in struction which it it is one of woman's sweetest privileges to give her offspring, the knowledge and accomplishmects she has learned in her own youth. " What pleasure can be higher or more unalloyed to the bestower—what sight more endearing to the beholder—than a matron, o'er whose brow the shadow of time, like that on the dial, has passed, yet left much of the sunny light of life behind, leading her daughter to emulate the graces of which she herself is so fair a pattern ? Or to mark a son, in all the pride of youthful manhood, paying back with love, little short of adoration, the cares of her whose gentle instructions first lured him to seek the wider paths of knowledge, and at whose knee his infant prayer was first breathed ? " Other feelings grow cold—other memories pass away ; but the gentle image of the mother who has watched our childhood—her love, her tenderness, her unwearied devotion, will for ever be mirrored in the human heart." Pictures of Popular People. By the Author of Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons, &c. London : George Virtue, Ivy-lane. The design of the work before us is not altogether an un happy one ; but, if the present number is a fair specimen of its execution, we are afraid that it cannot be very productive to its enterprising publisher. So far as regards the mere letter-press, paper, and engravings, they are undoubtedly cheap at Is., the price charged ; but for the literary matter, furnished by Mr. Grant, we are compelled to say that it is the veriest trash we have recently met with. It is unpleasant to us to have to give expression to such a dictum with respect to the production of any author ; and in the case of such a work as the one before us, had it been the production of some unpretending, unaccustomed venturer in the field of literary exertion, we might have been disposed to pass it over, with a gentle admonition to its perpetrator to confine his hand in future to some honest, humble trade, and leave that of authorship to men who possessed the talent, or would take the trouble, to write something worthy of being read. The author of " Random Recollections," however, is one who can put in no plea, on the ground of inexperience, or on any other ground, to critical forbearance. He has tres passed already more than sufficiently upon the patience and good temper of the reading public, whilst men of far greater ability have been cast into the shade; and it is full time that the class of pretenders, of which he is a rare specimen, should be compelled to fall back into their proper position, and mo dest merit be allowed to enjoy that public approbation and patronage which p u ffing imbecility has so l ong engrossed. specimen of the wretched stuff of which th e present As a pu bli ca tion is cotnp ose d, at the risk even of b e i ng ti resome, one pa ssage. The subject is " St reet Mu sicians"—one w hic h, in the hands of a writer possessed of th e smallest particle of fancy, talent, or taste, is capable of b e i ng made the vehicle of infiniteinstriurc.tiGonraaentd—d,,elmigehy be divided who into two classes : thos e t. "Street musicians" —wr ite s l‘ play by the ear and those who e a art.' The the hum bier been systematically taught performances ; h m a a v e e e r s iy t former class usually confine th ei r bier localities : eating-houses, c offee-rooms, and taverns of subordin a te pretensions are the p!aceson wishose generally, patro n a g o e s they depend. The music they d isc ourse might be expected, of an inferior kind. To s it acupllteiaysaets some de m a e r it is harsh an d i n h armon i o us. Neverthe l ess, persons ; and their end" (whose end ?—its isranvat'eoresde if it only have th e e ff ect o f extrac ting a few pence front h inside. With this view, when the performance usually consisting of se vera l sets o f p i eces —i s ove r, on e of their num - ber (query—of the 'sets of pieces') enters the place with little o hoz in hand, and n ays hi s respects i n a qu i e t, unassemio manner (!) to all whose ears have been regaled with their melody. The party takes thankfully (?) whatever is given him. No one thinks of Putting his hand into his pocket for less than a penny. (?) Some give all the pence they have in their possession, (! &c., Is this not the merest and most puerile trash that ever was penned, we ask ? The man cannot absolutely write a sen tence of grammar, and yet be is and has been a popular author !—the admiration of newspaper critics, and the be praised even of our self-styled " reviewers!" Leisure Hours. By Charles B. Greatrex, j un. Tilt and Bogue, London ; W. Gr a p el, Liverpool. 1 vol. p.p. 200. A very unassuming little book. bearing the above title, has arst been put into our hods. The content* consul of hu- LITERARY NOTICES The British and Foreign Review : or, European Qua: ieriy Journal. London : Richard and John E. Taylor, lied Lion-court, Fleet-street. Galignani, Paris ; Asher, Ber- Whilst the British and Foreign Quar:eriy is inferior to none of its contemporaries in literary a erit, there is no question that in some respects it possesses claims, superior to any, upon the patronage of a commercial community. Devoting equal attention, and bringing equal talent and critical acumen to the task of reviewing the n tive literature mourous and zentiLitntal Poet tremely clever, and show that th, versification. With here and there a plagiarism—and, "there Many of then author has a talent for !ling ye of the first we may take th is nothing new under the sun' original thought shines out There is in the wide, unfathomed deep A spot where the sons of Neptune sleep — A holy, a calm, and safe retreat; W heie dark and pale skinned warriors meet ; And the sand beneath is their winding sheet. Down, down below, there no tempests blow; This is the sailor's home. So sings Mr. Greatrex. The following well-known lyric comes very near it : There is in the lone, lone deep A spot unmarked, but holy, &c. e lines to a young lady who died of consumption, the lieav'n hails one a gel more—earth weeps a daughter less " Lines enclosed to a lady, together with a billet dour," &c., betray a want of gallantry and no small self-conceit. " The Greenwich pensioners" is well told. " Shipwreck" opens with a palpable plagiarism : An infant lay sleeping alone on its pillow, A mother was weeping one far o'er the billow What says Lover in " The angels whisper ?" A baby was sleeping, Its mother was weeping, While her husband was far on the wild raging sea. The rest of the poem is fairly written. " The Gambler" exhibits considerable power. " The Mariner and the Sea" is one of the best things in the book; the effect of it is, how ever, very much marred by the ridiculous and very silly intro duction. The information touching the versifier's juvenility is also unnecessary : some of the cleverest productions of our best poets have been penned by them at the age of the author when this was written. The effusion respecting "The author's hair when it wanted, or was thought to require, cutting," is very puerile. " The Midnight Guest" is a very fairly and smoothly told tale. "A Tough Yarn, but a true one," is cleverly told, but has " a lame and impotent conclusion." The song entitled " British Sailors" contains plenty of patri otism—a very good thing in a young poet—but it would be all the better if the fourth verse were omitted. The boast touching " the Frenchmen," good manners, and a twenty five years' peace, should hare told him to refrain from it ; while the remark touching " the Yankees" does not in any way apply. " The lament of St. Paul's over the ruins of the Tower" has been suggested, doubtless, by Hudson's "Mo- nument and St. Paul's"—a sort of serious version of it. " Young English Gentlemen" shows the author to possess some observation. There is a great deal of truth in the song "to an old tune." "The Maniacs Revenge" is a sort of Ingoldaby legend, " told by a gentleman with a bald head." " A Y arn—middle watch," is narrated with a great deal of humour. The author in this sort of versification excels. The lines on " Satisfaction" are very much to the point ; they are quite " Byronic." Taking this book altogether, it is very amusing, and does the author great credit. We pre- fer his comic effusions to his sentimental ones, although some of the latter exhibit feeling and pathos. With much that might be omitted, there is plenty worth retaining. CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE (From the Word Herald.) The Rev. Isaac Fidler, 8.A., of New Inn Hall, late rector of Kelbrook, Thornton-in-Craven, Yorkshire, has been pre sented to the rectory of Easington, in this county ; patron, the Bishop of Lincoln. PROMOTIONS. Rev. John Sabine, 8.A., to the rectory of Thorn Coffin, Somerset, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Alfred Tooke ; patron, the Rev. A. Tooke. Rev. Jacob Hugo North, M.A., to the vicarage of Car broke, Norfolk • patron, Richard Dewing, Esq. Rev. Henry Butterfield, M.A., minor canon of St. George's Chapel, Windsor, and rector of Brockdish, Norfolk, to the rectory of Fulmer, Bucks, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. W. Champness ; patrons, the dean and canons of Wind sor. Rev. W. S. Palish, to be chaplain to H.M.S. Agincourt. Rev. Arthur Wilkin, M.A., of Christ's College, Cam bridge, to be chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Lowther. Rev. John Little, 8.A., vicar of Shundon and Shealley, near Luton, Bedfordshire, to the chaplaincy of the Luton Union. Rev. B. Hopkins, 8.A., curate of Thurgarton and Hover ingham, Nottinghamshire, to the perpetual curacy of Bar ton, Westmoreland. Rev. Wm. Waller, to the rectory of Kilcornan, Ireland; vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Langford. Rev. W. Fisher, 8.A., curate of Kilmoe, Cork, to the rectory of that parish, vacant by the death of the Rev. F. Langford. Rev. T. Williams, M.A., curate of St. Mary's, Shrews bury, to the vicarage of Elloughton, Yorkshire ; patron, the Rev. H. S. Markham, M.A., canon residentiary. The Dorset County Chronicle says that the cause of the Bishop of Salisbury's secesion from the British and Foreign Bible Society was, the refusal of that society to put itself un der the sanction of the Archbishop of Canberburv. The Rev. R. W. Sihthorp states in a letter which be has published, that his leaning to Romanism is not of recent ori gin ; and that i❑ early life he sought admission into the church of Rome. and but for the interference of the law, he being then under age, should have joined:her. CHESTER ORDINATION.-FEB. 20,1542 . PRIESTS. Algernon Boote . B.A. Brazenose, Oxford James Parry B.A. Jesus College John D. Knox Scott B.A. Baliol William Bateson Robert Morewood Edward Dean .......... B.A. St. John's College " George Gibbon B.A. Catharane Hall Si James Losh Richard Parry Jones B.A. Trinity College, " 46 .. Benjamin Crompton.. George Bethune Norman, B.A. " .. Edward Francis Manley B.A. Christ College, II Richard Yorbugh B.A. i‘ William James Shearly .. B.A. St. Peter's College, " Allan Wallace Frederick Stewart B.A. .. James York B.A. Sid. Sussex College, " Henry French Beasley M.A. Trinity College, Dublin William Thornton Cust B.A. David Carson B.A. /I 41 Fitz J. Stannus Hamilton B.A. 44 4, Richard Parsons ........ B.A. 4, id Fran. Talbot O'Donoghue B.A. ~ " Robert Townley B.A. ~ Henry William Ray Lit. St. Bees College, " DEACONS. Francis Hinde Henry George Baily .. B.A. Christ College, Cambridge John Griffith B.A. II Henry Briant Hugh Johnson Hindley .. B.A. if " David Shaboe B.A. II ~ Matthew Isaac Finch B.A. Catharine Hall, II Vicesimus Lush B.A. Corpus Christi, " John White M`Kinley Millman B.A. St. John's Cone*, " James Hool Sharples B.A. Benjamin Mashiter AN HONEST RADICAL (From the Cork Constitution.) There is some sense among the opponents of Sir Robert Peel. They are not all so blind as not to see, or so brazen as not to admit, the advantages of his plan. The Manchester Advertiser is ashamed—absolutely ashamed of the conduct of the League Delegates, and openly denounces it ; but what could the Advertiser have expected of a parcel of people who have all through exhibited more passion than reason, and who, in their blundering about the morality of the question, show themselves so ignorant of its merits ? For our part, we think they might as well have drawn up their resolutions be fore the conclusion of Sir Robert Peel's speech as after, and we are better pleased that they did so too. We like to see creatures of this calibre consistent :—their indecent disregard of even the appearance of deliberation may help to open the eyes of some whom it is not easy to enlighten. Men of any propriety cannot long consent to identify themselves with with "leaders" whose indiscretions tend only to expose their precipitancy and presumption. For this reason, then, we are glad that the delegates were true to their character, and we have pleasure in copying the following article from a paper which, though belonging unfortunately to the same party, had the sense to see their folly and the independence to re prove it. " The indecent haste with which a body of these gentle men, the corn-law delegates, rushed from the gallery of the house to Brown's hotel, without waiting to hear the whole of the premier's speech; and, after all the deliberation they could possibly give the subject—in their way through the Palace-yard—denouncing Sir Robert Peel's plan as an insult to the country, will be generally accepted as an evidence of rash and violent counsels among the body. Nor will the adoption the next day, by the conference, of the resolution struck off in such hot haste avert from them this imputation. An exhibition of healed partisanship like this is not only calculated seriously to impair the legitimate weight and influ ence which attaches to their position, but will excite a re action in favour of the ministerial plan among men qf snore moderate temper." These sober and sensible remarks are succeeded by a con fession that something of this kind has, in the Advertiser's opinion, already resulted from "the indecent haste" com plained of, and our contemporary then candidly admits, opposed to the premier's project though he be, that it has the following undeniable advantages : " That the new scheme falls short of the justice and neces sities of the case, all but the landed interest will assert. But the cooler judgment of those who are a little removed from the vortex of agitation will recognise in 'the nevi sliding scale an e f fective cure for some of the worst evils of the pre sent system, and a measure of practical improvement, as great as could reasonably be expected from a minister in the position of Sir Robert Peel. " The - great and undeniable advantages of this new scale . are, that it w ill re d uce t h e t ra d e i n corn f rom a b usiness o f gambling to a legitimate employment of capital, and that we have now so me thi ng lik e an e ff ectua l protection against any such an approximation of corn to a famine price as we have lately seen it. As soon as there is reason to believe that our harvests will give us an insufficient supply, the speculator . will hav e , un d er the new scale of duties, a wider range from whence it makes up the deficit. One of the worst effects of the existing system is the waste of money, for no conceivable purpose, e n t a il e d upon us, by our corn merchantsbidding against each other, and rising prices to a ruinous degree in two or three of the p or t s nearest to our own shores. The sixteen millions of money paid for foreign corn within the last ten years above its natural value, will be in future saved to the country by jus t so much as the new plan admits of previous calculation, and opens to us every port in Europe. These are benefits of no trilling value, and it is only fair to acknowledge them." SOUTHAMPTON ELECTION. —I n the event of the Earl of Elgin vacating his seat for the town of Southampto i n orrw it s un derstood that Mr. Humphrey St. John Mildm firm of Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., will cam a e Y forward in the conservative interest. VALUE OF LIFE AT A DUBLIN EXECUTION. —Those who remember Ireland not very long ago can bear witness how lightly life was valued or death regarded. Illustrative of this, we may refer to the story of the two basket-women in Dublin, who held converse on the subject of an approach ing execution. " Won't . you go see de man die to-morrow, Judy ?" " 011, no, &trim," said Judy. " Ah, do, jewel," said her friend. Judy again responded, " No." " And why dont you go, dear ?" inquired her friend again. " I've to wash de child," said Judy. " Throth, Judy, your ruinin' your health," said this soft-hearted acquaintance, " dere's a man to die to-morrow, and you wont come—augh !—you never take no divarshin !"—Lover's Handy-Andy. .IISCELLANEOUS We rejoia to learn that it has been resolved, by n ma jority of 105 persons, and thirty-four votes, that the Dundee and Arbroath Railway is to be shut on the Sabbath. The immense stock of plate and other valuables used at the royal christening was removed from Windsor in eight artillery waggons, under an escort. An old man, a notorious sheep-stealer, was lately found drowned in a bog-hole, in the barony of Tyrawley, with a sheep which he had stolen tied round his neck. FLINTSH IRE ELECTION PETITION.—The petition of Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, Bart., Benjamin Brassey, Esq., Alderman of Chester, and others, against the election of the Hon. E. M. Lloyd Mostyn, fixed to be heard on the 9th of May next. Mr: Justice Pattekni and Mr*. Justic Cre,swell commenced the Oxford Spring Assize Circuit Wednesday last at lieadinz. Okrot t C riptom Mercuat and Preston Chronicle (Mlle pprove of tile The Belfast Vindicator states, on t respondent, that a man named Cavanagl Liverpool on a charge of Ribbonism, Ireland, to take his trial at the Armag LANCASTER AND PR thority of a cor- been arrested in id brought over to assize this company, on•lhurs ON RAILWAY !as, a meeting of nxtors recommen-ded ate on 4876 who. a dividend of 12s. pe and Bs. 6d. per share cn 4335 three-quarter shar,s, leaving surplus of £2605 lls. 4d. to the,eredit of the reserve fund. Prince Albert, through Archdeacon Wilberforce, has sub scribed £lOO to the Society for the Conversion of the Jews. It will be applied towards the fund - for the Lishopric of Je rusalem. Monongahela, Turley, from Philadelphia, at Liverpool ; sailed 2d instant. In lat. 4; long. 29, spoke the United States, hence to Philadelphia. On the 21st, at 9 p.m. spoke the Acadia, hence to Halifax Alert, Jordan, from Laguna, at Liverpool, after being on shore near Holyhead. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26.—Wind West. Bangalore, Smith, from Calcutta, at Suez Robert Beim, —, hence for Port Philip, was spoken 4th Oct. in lat. 36 N, long. 17 W Prima Donna, --, hence for China, was spoken 26th Nov. in lat. 30 5, long. 30 W Zante, —, hence for Leghorn, off Tuskar St. Andrew, Leitch, hence at Savannah Elizabeth Bentley, Hunt, hence at Mobile Ann Hall, ; Safeguard, —, and Fanny, Sloan, hence at Charleston Peru, hence for Arica, off Kinsale, '23rd February Scotland, —, hence for Charleston, was spoken fith Feb. in lat. 37, long. 36 Hindostan, —, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 17th Dec. in lat. 34 5, long. 17 Gondola, -, hence for Leghorn, was spoken 16th February, in lat. 44, long. 12 Bindley, -, from Mauritius, at the Cape of Good Hope Bidston, Harmer, hence at ditto Mary Somerville, Lancaster, from Calcutta, ditto Lancaster. Jefferson, sailed from ditto for Bombay 2gth Dec. Actaeon, Duniam, from Lima, at London SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 27.—Wind W. fresh. A aßlVED.—Charleston , Harlin, from Savannah—Gondola, Ren nie, from New York— Helen, from Alexandria—Lydia, Hartley, from Trieste—Fanny Palmer, —, and Apparition, Heron, from Smyrna—Concord, Reeves, from Lisbon—Gem, Men zies, from Tampico—and Adams, Gay, from New Orleans. Magellan, Bouch. from Lima, at this port ; sailed 23rd Nov. On 9th Dec. in lat. 37 30 S, long. 92 W, spoke the Elizabeth, from Liverpool for Valparaiso. On 19th Dec. in lat. 55 15 S, long. 62 30, W, spoke the Thomas Fielding. frOm Liverpool for Valparaiso. On 7th January, in lat. 30 40 S, long. 26 25 W, spoke the James Mat thewson, from Valparaiso for Liverpool. On s,th Feb. in lat. 30, long. 49, passed a large steamer steering to the westward Cantab. -, for Rio Grande, sailed from Kinsale 25th Feb. Diadem, -, for Bahia, ditto, ditto The General Parkhill drove foul of the George Washington this morning in the river, and lost her bowsprit, cathead, &c. Royal William, -, from Cephalpnia for Li. erpool, was spoken 31st January, in lat. 36, long. 13 E MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23.—Wind West, ARRIVED.—Water Lily, Payne, from Cephalonia—Competition, Brooks, from Marseilles—Colombo. Eldridge, from Savannah — and Flying Fish, --, from the Mediterranean. Scotland, Robinson, from New York, at this port; sailed Bth Feb. experienced very rough weather on the passage. On the 15th, on the Western edge of the Banks, took a sudden gust of wind, lost a suit of sails, broke the cross jack yard in three pieces, sprung main, fore and foretopsall yards, broke spanker gaff, in. jured the head of bowsprit, and received other damage; shipped a sea, and lost ports, &c. On the 21st Feb. saw the ship Girard, in long. 20 Vulcan, -, hence and Jamaica, at Tampico Lavinia, Donning, hence for Venice, at Milford Seaflower, hence to Lisbon, was spoken 19th instant, in lat. 42, long. 10 Sarah & Ann, —, from Glasson Dock to New York, was spoken 20th instant, in lat. 49, long. 16, bearing up for the English Channel, under a jury mast, having been struck by a heavy sea, during a severe gale on the 11th, which swept the decks PORTSMOUTH. Feb. 25.—The Frankfield, from New Orleans to Liverpool, that put into Bermuda in distress, had discharged her cargo, and was to he hove down sth instant; it was supposed she would be detained there until the end of March. In consequence of the scarcity of fine dry English white Wheat, it would fetch more money. but this improvement does not apply to any other sorts. The sale of free foreign is exceedingly heavy, but prices remain the same, and we hear of no transactions in bonded Wheat. Barley sells, on the same terms as on Monday, and our quotations are supported for Peas and Beans. The Oat trade continues in the same depressed state. The Clover-seed market is exceedingly flat, and an increased desire evinced ley the holders to press sales. Arrivals this week.—English, Wheat. 2010 qrs. ; Barley, 5930 qrS. ; Oats, 11,370 qrs. • Flour, 2170 sacks. Irish. Oats, 12,920 qrs. Foreign. Wheat, 19,740 qrs. " \Vell-informed persons," the Temps observes, that it is not in England alone that the gold coinage is falsi fied by being bored through; in France the coinage of 40f pieces has been obliged to be given up for several years from the same cause." THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—During his majesty's brief visit to this country Mr. Owen, the chief constable of West minster, was appointed to attend the King on all his visits to public places. In reward for those services his majesty has ordered a splendid silver tea service, bearing a suitable in scription, to be presented to Mr. Owen, which is now in a state of preparation. _ _ The price of corn has risen considerably in Poland.—This rise is attributed to the unfavourable state of the harvest this year in the neighbouring Russian provinces. The price of wool has fallen, very much to the dissatisfaction of the fund holders. We are informed, on good authority, that a marriage be tween the Princess Imperial of Russia and the Duke de Bordeaux has been finally determined on by the ex-royal family of France and the Emperor Nicholas. This alliance is said to be the main cause of the bad understanding which at present subsists between the courts of the Tuilleries and of St. Petersburg.—Morniny Herald. EMIGRATION.—Extract of a letter from the Cape of Good Hope, dated December 17, 1841 :—" The emigrant ship Lloyd's, bound from London for New Zealand, has ar rived at Table Bay. During the passage from England no fewer than 57 infants and children, all under six years of age, died from diarrhxa."—Observer. In the shop-window of a tailor, in Castle-street, South wark, a paper with he following inscription has been dis played for several days:—" N Petition to Parliament for a tottle abalition of the Corn Laws lieth here for Signature. N.B. Ladys as well as Gentlemin may sign." Perhaps Mr. Joseph Hume, who is so anxious for a "tottle" repeal of the corn laws, had some hand in preparing the above notifi cation. CHURCH EXTENSION.—A large Roman Catholic chapel at Bath, known as Portland Chapel, has been purchased by some members of the Church of England, and opened under episcopal sanction. The Rev. Sydney H. Widdrington, M.A., rector of Walcot, preached to an immense congrega tion on the day of opening. --- • • - . - Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD.-Mr. Crawford has given great dissatisfaction to many of his constituents, by walking out of the house on the division of Lord John Russell's motion. His explanation, given in the Times of last Satur day, for refusing to vote, has rather aggravated than palliated his conduct on that occasion. Many of his supporters s a y, that he was not called upon to vote for Lord John's speech ; but his motion, which was merely to negative the sliding scale, and thereby compel the ministry to adopt some more feasible plan. Several of the liberal electors declined to vote at the last election, through fear of his crotchety notions ; and that he would attempt singularity by walking in the footsteps of the honourable member for Oldham.— Manchester paper. We learn, with great satisfaction, that there has been a visible improvement in the health of the Princess Royal during the short residence of the court at Brighton, and, we may add, that the infant Prince is also remarkably well. Prince Albert is, we hear, greatly pleased both with the palace and the town. His royal highness has endeared him self to the inhabitants by his open and affable demeanour. — Brighton Gazette. MEMORIAL TO MR. BUSFEILD 'ERRAND.—A correspon dent informs us that some of the respectable farmers and others who attend die market at Knaresbro', contemplate originating a subscription for a service of plate, to be pre sented to Mr. Busfeild Ferrand, the member for that bo rough, in token of their approbation of his manful exposure of the tricks of the corn law repealers, and of his zealous de fence of the agricultural interest in the House of Commons. The receipts of railways for the past week—that is to:say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made—are as follow :—York and North Midland, £1,432 ; Midland Counties, £2,248 ; Great North of England, £1,105 ; North Midland, £3,688; Manchester and Leeds, £3,959; Birming ham and Derby, £874 • G r eat Western, £9,578; Greenwich, £BO5 ; Northern and Eastern, £789 ; Birmingham, £12,740 ; South Western, £4,107 ; Manchester and Birmingham, £336; Eastern Counties, £735 ; and Blackwall, £595. BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRI AGE.—DARBON V. ROSSER.—It will be recollected that an application was made by Mr. Thesiger, on the part of the defendant, last term, to reduce the damages (£1600) assessed by a special jury, who tried the cause, or that the court of Queen's Bench would be pleased to grant a new trial, when the court suggested that the parties should agree amongst themselves and granted time for that purpose, which led to an arrangement between Mr. Platt and Mr. White, and Mr. Pearson, counsel for the plain tiff ; and Mr. Thesiger, counsel for the defendant, who at last agreed that the verdict should be entered for the plain tiff, damages £B3O. The costs in the cause have been subse quently taxed at £5BB, making together the sum of £1,438. The directors of the Bank of England, at their weekly meeting, on Thursday last, came to the resolution of lower ing the rate of interest for discounts to Four per Cent., and immediately issued a notice accordingly. A copy of the notification will be found in another part of our paper. The measure was received with marked satisfaction by the com mercial classes in the city, as indicating the easy position of the bank in respect to its stock of bullion, and as affording evidence that the directors are disposed to apply an effectual remedy to the pressure which has so long mid so injuriously prevailed in the money market. It may be hoped that the relaxation will exercise a beneficial influence throughout the country, and that a speedy impulse will be given to our trad ing and manufacturing interests. AFFAIR OF HONOU R.—A complicated correspondence of " a hostile character," between Mr. Peter Borthwick, Mr. .1. Peard Lee, and Mr. J. Robertson, has been published. The origin of the " affair " was a letter published by Mr. Lee, accusing Sir W. Wraxall of ungentlemanly conduct. Mr. Peter Borthwich, who at first appeared as Sir W. Wraxall's friend, in the course of the correspondence became one of the principals in the matter But notwithstanding his hav ing expressed an opinion that the affair " could only be settled at the pistol's mouth," after a multiplicity of notes, the matter terminated without the introduction of powder and shot, or even a " hostile meeting." We are sorry to see a man, of the capacity for public service that Mr. Borthwick undoubtedly possesses, countenance such a Gothicism as the "settling" of affairs of any kind " at the pistol's mouth." BERLIN, FEE. 17.—His majesty arrived here yesterday about one o'clock in the afternoon, on his return from England, in perfect health. On the latter part of the jour ney his majesty travelled by the Anhalt Railway, where every preparation was made to receive him. Yesterday morning their Royal Highnesses Prince Charles and Albert went to Zuckenwald, where they met their royal brother. His Royal Highness the Prince of Prussia received his ma jesty at the station in Berlin, and the public, who were assembled in great numbers, welcomed their au gus t sovereign with loud acclamations. His majesty soon got into his car riage, which was standing ready for , h im, followed by those of the princes and the other suite. Crowds of his majesty's loyal subjects were waiting about the palace, who saluted him with cries of joy as he drove up. Her majesty the queen was anxiously waiting for her august con sor t. Hi s majesty came up by a special train from Coethen to B er li n , a distance of 20 German (9 0 English) miles in three hours 47& minutes, from which a stoppage of 37 minutes at the station must be deducted. ATTEMPTED ESCAPE PROM SALOP GAOL.--A rumour has been abroad in Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and other places, to the effect that John Williams (one of the persons in cus tody charged with the murder of Emma Evans, at Brony garth, near Chirk,) had made an attempt, during the last few days, to escape from Salop prison. We have nut been able to procure any account of the particulars from the gaol er, or any other party connected with the gaol, but believe there is no doubt that an attempt to escape has been made. The generally accredited report is that Williams had con trived to draw the staple from which his hammock was sus pended,—had worked with this so as to remove some of the bricks from the wall of his cell,—but being overheard by the watchman, was promptly placed in a cell of greater se curity than the one be had previously occupied.—Salopian Journal. 1 EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. — On Tuesday a specia general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at the station in High-street, Shoreditch, for the purpose of raising a further sum of money by the issue of new shares, and for declaring the forfeiture of certain shares on which the calls were unpaid. The chair was taken by Mr. Bosanquet, who submitted to the meeting the plan of the directors, which was embodied in a string of resolutions, and suggesting the creation of 36,000 new shares of £25 each, upon which the sum of XS 6s. Sd. only was to be payable in the following manner :—£2 6s. Bd. on the sth April, £2 on the 4th June, £2 on the sth August, and £2 on the sth October next ; one of such new shares (as ❑early as practicable) to be given for every three of the original shares, and for every three of the convertible debentures, or as the case may be, forevery three of such shares and debentures jointly, the new shares to be entitled on the 4th. January next to rank with the now exist ing shares in respect to the traffic of the previous half-year, and from and after that date, in regard to dividends and all other purposes, to be considered as if £25 had been paid thereon. Mr. Haseltyne moved the adoption of the resolu tion, which was seconded by Mr. Esdaile, and carried unani mously. The chairman, in reply to to a proprietor, said the question of a reduction of their 4d. toll to 21. on the passen gers of the Northern and Eastern Railway, was at present broken off, through that company not agreeing to their con ditions. Two hundred and fifty-seven shares were then de clared to be forfeited, after which the meeting adjourned. THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—OR Thursday the half-yearly general meeting of the proprietors of the Great Western Railway Company took place, at the offices of the company, Princess-street, Bank, Manchester ; Mr. C. Rus sell, M.P., chairman of the board of directors, presiding. Mr. Saunders, the secretary, read the report. It expressed the pleasure of the directors in laying before the proprietors the result of the first six months' business on the entire line of the Great Western Railway, together with that on por tions of the Bristol and Exeter, and of the Cheltenham Rail way, between Swindon and Cirencester. The gross receipts for six months, up to the 31st December, 1841, were £337,352 4s. 2d. ; of which sum, £295,010 18s. was earned exclusively on the Great Western Railway. The number of passengers conveyed on the line, between the Ist of July and 31st of De cember, 1841, was £882,119, travelling an aggregate number of 27,538,764 miles. The expenses on the traffic amounted to £125,910 6s. being in the ratio of 37,323 per cent on the receipts. The locomotive expenditure was £40,110 19s. 6d., of which £22,144 3s. was paid for coke, but which would be come much reduced; arrangements having been made for procuring it at Bristol. The number of miles run by the engines, during the half-year, was 673,398, of which 613,616 miles were travelled by regular engines with trains of pas sengers and goods, and 20,654 miles by the assistant engine upon the incline ; and the sum of £15,940 14s. 11d. had been paid for government duty. The first charge upon the profit of the half-year was the interest on the company's debt, and the rent payable, under lease, to the Bristol and Exeter Rail way and the Cheltenham Great Western Union Railway Companies, to the amount of £93,259 10s. 11d., which, de ducted from £212,446 165., would leave a balance available to the company of £119, 18 7 s s. Id. The report , after re commending thatjthe sum of £20,000 per annum should be appropriated for ten years, to meet the first cost and . probable depreciation of stock, concluded by recommending that a dividend of £6 per cent on the amount called up should be declared f or t h e l ast h a lf- yea r. (Cheers.) The engineer's report, after referring to the satisfactory state of the works throughout the line alluded to the late dreadful . accident at Sunning. which was attributed to a large basin of gravel, existing within the clay near the cutting, which, becoming . overcharged with water, pushed the top of the slope into the cutting, and with it a thin bed of sandstone, which caused the engine to go off the rail. Against such contingencies it was impossible, eith er on a ra il way or a ny other work, to provide.—The report having been adopted, four directors were elected, in the room of that number of gentlemen who went out by rotation. TILE CONFESSIONAL.—What a power over the consciences of their votaries does the confessional confer on the Roman priesthood ! It is recorded of Ximenes, confessor to the Queen of Spain in the 15th century, that on an insult being offered to him by a nobleman of the court, he with equal blasphemy and pride demanded respect for the man who each day bad the offender's God in his hand and his queen at his feet ! RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following calculation of the last weekly returns of 34 railways, 1215 miles in length, given in our present number, will, we believe, be of interest : Number of passengers on 22 railways. 166,813, consequently .the total for the week must be above X 400,000. The receipts for pa;;ener;on .-- S1 railways, £45,229 . 185. 9d., ditto for goods on 25 railways, X 17,478 18s. 4d., total, £62,708 17s. ld. This is an average of £52 per mile per week. The traffic, therefore, is certainly at the rate of more than three millions a year, and carrying fifteen millions of passengers.—Raitway Magazine. 'TIE CORN-LAWS.—At a recent agricultural meeting, the Earl of Hardwicke thus expressed himself on Sir Robert Peel's proposal for the modification of the corn-laws : " When first I saw the proposed scale the other day I was not only astonished, but greatly alarmed. (Cheers.) I did think the reduction appeared so great that its proposers must have forgotten altogether the interests they professed to pro tect, and had put forward a document which could never 'stand the test of public opinion. (Hear.) But on a careful review of the document I confess my opinion is totally changed. I consider the scale to be a safe and a protective one." " ALL HAIL!"--Some say there is nothing new tinier the sun, while others proclaim that there is no end to man's in genuity • and really this seems to be the case in this scheming age. One would have supposed that there was hardly an opportunity to squeeze in a nother company; but instead of that being the fact, among the bills now before parliament a measure has just been presented " to incorporate a company to insure farmers and gardeners against loss from the effects of hailstorms, under the title of `The Farmers' and Gardeners' Hailstorm Insurance Company i'" [To insure hailstorms, however, if the parties; have the power, may be no great public benefit.] INCURABLE PROTESTANTISM OF TELE WELSII.—A cor respondent of the Dublin Freeman's Journal, who writes in Friday's paper, thus laments the condition of the people of Wales :—" As to the conversion of the Welsh, there is, humanly speaking, no chance of it, under present circum stances. There is no priest to address them in their own language, except, perhaps, two in the whole principality, and there is an innumerable swarm of preachers of various sects, who poison their minds with all sorts of misrepresentations of the catholic religion. For this, the only and the obvious remedy is to educate Welsh boys for the church. But, alas! we have no seminary wherein to educate them. There are youths enough in our congregations, blessed be heaven, with the talents and dispositions suitable to the ministry, but we have not the means of educating them." RAILWAYS.—One of the regulations in the measure in troduced by Mr. Gladstone, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, for the better regulation of railways will authorise the Companies to close the gates, which a general highway act of the 2nd Victoria directs shill be put up wherever the railways may happen to cross the turnpike roads or high ways on the level, but which act leaves it entirely in doubt whether the Companies may keep such gates across such turnpike road or highways. We know instances where not only persor.s of inferior condition have taken advantage of this doubt, and have attempted to pull the gates down when so closed, by force, but where gentlemen (even of the quorum) have threatened to do the same thing. The provisions of Mr. Gladstone's new Railway Act will cure this defect, and make it legal, as well as salutary, to keep the gates shut in such cases. - • -• BLOWING-UP. OF A HOUSE. — It will be in the recollection of many of our readers that a most diabolical act was com mitted at Kirkham some time ago, by the blowing-up of a house when the inmates were in bed. This happened on the 19th April, 1836, and suspicion attaching to an individual of the name of Richard Bennett, he was apprehended and tried, but the evidence was not of a nature sufficiently conclusive to warrant his conviction, and he was therefore acquitted, though it was generally supposed that he had committed the frightful deed. Six years have since elapsed, and whether from the stings of conscience, or as it is thought by some, for the purpose of annoying his family, on Monday last he pre sented himself before the police-officer, at Kirkham, as his own accuser, and stated that he was the person who had committed the act. On the officer asking him some ques tions, Bennett requested him to hold his tongue and he (Bennett) would tell his own tale, when he stated that on the night in question he placed a barrel containing gunpowder in the cellar of Parkinson's house, but that this being done, he had not the heart to apply the light, and he went home, but that about four in the morning. the diabolical idea again came across his mind, that he got out of bed, threw a cloak over himself, and proceeded to the spot, when he set fire to the train, and immedi a t e l y r an borne. The explosion took place, and was must frightful in its consequences. Bennett was taken before a magistrate, and this statement again made, when he was committed to the House of Correction for trial at the sessions.—Preston Pilot. CORBETT ON FREE TRADE. Of all the stupid things --" that ever engaged the minds of s hallow and purblind politi cians, the free trade project is the most stupid."—.Register, Jan. 13, 1837. "Of the free trade project I have always been an enemy ; it is an absurdity in itself. Other nations have taken advantage of our folly, and all are gaining by our loss." (Aug. 8, 1829.) "A free trade in corn, if it had been adopted, would at this hour, have made the land deso late." (Sept. 12, 1829.) "If there were no corn-laws, the landowners and farmers of Wiuland would be totally ruined, and the land would be covered with docks and thistles in stead of corn." (Aug. 8, 1829.) Stich were Cobbett's opinions, and such must be the opinions of every sensible and honest man, unbiassed by any sinister influence or in terest. ILTERN HUNDREDS. —By an express Act of Par liament, the conferring of any office of emolument by the Crown on a Member o f the House of Commons vacates his seat. The Chiltern Hundreds are ancient divisions of the counties of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, in which peculiar courts exist, originally constituted as far back as the time of Alfred ; most courts of the same nature have been merged in County Courts, but the courts of the Chiltern Hundreds remain distinct and the appointment of their officers is vested in the Crown. The courts and offices attached to them are now scarcely anything more than a name, but the Chancellor of the Exchequer appoints a steward with a salary of 20s. and all fees and perquisites ; and this appointment, trifling as it is, vacates a seat in the House of Commons. It has long been the custom for the Crown to confer this appoint ment on any member of the'House of Commons who wishes to resign his seat—there being no other way by which he can legally free himself from representative duties ; and as soon as the holding of the stewardship has answered its purpose, the steward immediately resigns his office into the hands of the Crown. There is no obligation on the crown to confer this appointment, but it is a convenient usage, and on that account maintained. LIABILITY OF RETIRED PARTNERS.—Persons who have been openly partners continue to stand in that relation, as regards liability to the world, until the dissolution of the partnership has been properly announced, and the ordinary and well-known mode of making this announcement is by an advertisement in the Gazette, which is sufficient notice of the fact to the public at large. But notice in the Gazette does not exempt persons dissolving partnership from the ne cessity of using other reasonable precautions to prevent the public from inferring a continuance of the partnership. And therefore a person allowing his name to remain over the door of the late firm continues liable to the responsibilities of the firm, notwithstanding the advertisement of the dissolution in the Gazette. " Williams v. Keats," 2 Star. 290; •` Dol man v. Orchard," 2 Carr. and Pry. 104. And where a se ceding partner's name is continued in the firm, by express agreement, he will be liable to persons acquainted with the fact of the dissolution under those circumstances, inasmuch as such an agreement implies an undertaking to continue responsible for the engagements of the firm. DUBLIN POLICE--THURSDAY, FEB. 24.—Cil ARGE OF FRAUD.—A young gentleman, named George Leckey Mills, was brought up in custody before the magistrates, on a charge of having in his possession a certain forged or counterfeited bank note of the Governor and Company of the Bank of Ire land, purporting to be of the value of thirty shillings, know ing the same to be forged or counterfeited. Informations having been already taken in the case, Mr. Porter, one of the presiding magistrates, read them to the prisoner. The sub stance of the first information which was sworn by Mr. ' Graves, secretary of the bank, was as follows :—For some time back a number of genuine " one pound" notes have been in circulation altered to " thirty shillings," by means of pasting the words "thirty shillings" over the words "one pound." From various circumstances, Mr. Graves had strong reasons to suspect that the clerk in the Note Ledger's Office, Mr. George L. Mills, of York-street, had possessed himself of some of the cancelled thirty shilling notes, with the felonious intent of altering them ; and as he suspected that some portion of the notes were concealed in his residence, he prayed that the magistrates would grant him a warrant. The bench granted him a warrant. The prisoner was cons mitteed for trial, but there is a likelihood of his being ad mitted to bail. HORRIBLE CASE OF. BRUTALITY.—The Cambridge Chronicle details the following horrifying particulars of a case heard at the petty sessions, on the 18th instant. Mary Sim pole, aged 72, Charles Dobson, 65, and William Simpole, 36, were brought up on a charge of having conspired to acce lerate the death of Sarah Simpole, a lunatic. Mary Ann Gibson (who was examined about three weeks since), said, I was sent for to nurse Mrs. Simpole, who was ill ; I went on a Friday, and was not aware of the confinement of the lunatic till the following Sunday, when Mrs. Simpole, not getting up, asked me to take some meat and potatoes, and put it through a chink in the wall in the next room. I had smelt something very filthy, and upon going 1 found a hole in the wall just big enough to put a cheese plate through. I called " Sarah !" and she came and took it. The door was fastened by a large nail driven in two staples. I looked through the hole and saw the poor creature naked, and the floor of the room was covered with her own excrements : the stench was scarcely bearable. I was much shocked at what I saw, and told two or three neighbours. I was frequently ill through the smell of the house. Meeting Mr. Gray, the overseer, I made up my mind to tell him, which I did, and he brought the police and had the door opened. I fetched a hatchet, and forced the nail out ; when the door opened the stench was so bad we could not go in. We saw her lying doubled up on two chairs. She rai se d her head ; the police sergeant asked her to come out ; she said she could not, but when they re tired she ran into her mother's bed-room and got into bed, covering the clothes over her head. The superintendent of police sent for Mrs. Beckerton to dress her. There was no utensil in the room ; I have since cleaned it out ; the floor was covered with human excrements up to the top of my shoes. I used a birch broom and eight pails of water; the floor is quite rotten with the soil being so long on it. The only things in the room were two chairs, a bit of board on them, a small piece of sacking, a bit of green baize, and an old bedstead without any cord or sacking. The window had iron bars ; she could not open it to let air in ; she was very quiet except one night; I should not be afraid for her to sit at tea with me. Rebecca Beckerton—l was sent for by the superintendent of police to dress Sarah Simpole ; I found her quite naked ; her feet were sodden with standing in the damp ; her nails were 2-1 inches long, and her hair was matted ; she would not be dressed at first, but I shook her, when she let me dress her; I knew her about three years ago, when she was at times very violent ; she then struck me in the face •, I was not afraid to go in the room ; I believe Mrs. Sim pole had the interest on £5OO, which was out on mortgage to William Simpole, and which at Sarah's death would go to his child ren; I have several times told William Simpole that a truss of straw would add to his sister's comfort, having heard from the girl Gibson, of her being naked all this winter. The bench then decided that an indictment should be preferred against Mrs. Simpole at the assizes, but the other two pri soners were discharged, as the charge of conspiracy was not made out. Atipping --arte.._ FRIDAY, 25TH FEnnuAttie Monongahela, Turley, from Philadelphia—Hand of Brown, troniTaganrog— Rapido, from Bilboa—Doctor, from Cephalonia—Serzantin, from Rochefort. Glasgow, from St. John, N. 8., off Liverpool SAlLEll.—Retrive. Evans, for Jamaica. Concord. hence for Lisbon, at Kingstown, of rudder, having struck on the Kish Bank. Totne,:, Ming. for Lisbon, put back to Milford 23d instant, with loss of fore-topmast. a7lV> D ;sisted in with loss Sisters, Short, hence at Nassau. Eridatto, for Genoa, has put back. Limena, Frame, from Nassau, at Liverpool, sailed 31st Jan. The Walter Scott sailed on the 16th, and the Jamaica 26th Jan. for Li verpool. On 16th Feb. in lat. 49, long. 20, fell in with the barque Emma, of Newport, abandoned. On 21st, in lat. 51, long. 13, spoke the Whim, bound to Lisbon. _ _ TELEGRAPH OFFICE, FEBRUARY 28, Wind at Holyhead West, blowing very fresh in the morning; W.S.W. blowing fresh at noon, and S.W. ditto, in the evening. Off Holyhead, at 11 a.m. No. 461, Royal William, schooner. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, &v. Ursula, S Martin, 489 Calcutta, W & J Tyrer Fairfield, J Lee, 433 Calcutta, .1 Aikin & Son AFRICA Snowdon, E Davies, Africa, Agett & Hemingway WEST INDIES AND MADEIMI Calista, T Manger, 203 Honduras. D Buchanan & Son Superb, J Edington, Jamaica, J Poole & Co Alice, J Anwyl, 302 Barbadoes, Barton. Irlam & Co Rose, N Bayles, 234 Teneriffe, J Poole & Co SOUTH AMERICA. Enfield, W J Sbaddick, 97 Tampico, Boyes, Burrell &Co Undaunted, J B Beard, 267 Buenos Ayres, W & J Tyrer Mary, --- —, 198 Rio Grande, C Holland Venus, A M'Donald, 199 Lima, Gibbs, Bright Sc Co UNITED STATES. Portsmouth, C G Glover, 492 Mobile, Reid, Irving & Co Rappahannock, W Drummond, 1133 New Orleans, W H Gilliat Leodas, N B Robbins, 445 New Orleans, Todd, Jackson & Co Abbott Lord, A P Patterson, 437 New Orleans, WEI Furniss Hanover, J Drummond, 577 New Orleans, J S Holmes & Co BRITISH AMERICA. Thoburn, G Johnson, 287 Montreal, Ingleby & Co Dorcas, E Anthony, 124 St. John, Nild, Graham tk Taylor Aircy, J Nicholson, 304 Montreal, J Hamilton EUROPE. L'lmmaculata St. Guiseppe, J Maresca, 200 Naples, J Moss &Co Sphynx, W Connibeer, 122 Gibraltar and Malta, Wood & Ritson Queen, R. Qayne, 93 Genoa and Leghorn, J Bibby & Sons David. A M'Garva, 144 Rotterdam, Campbell & Rudd Undaunted, G Foster, 356 Antwerp, Bahr, Behrend &Co Derwent, 11 Nelson, 2;1 Cadiz, Newfoundland and Quebec, Theodore, J M'Lellan, 78 Lisbon, Strong & Reid TIDE TABLE Height.' Sundays, Holydays, 3, U. U. 1 11. U. F. 1. 141 ; 2 3 19 6 St. David. Wednes . 2 222 ' 241 17 3 Chad . Thursday 3 3 6 331 14 9 Friday .. 4 4 0 429 12 5 . Saturn rises 41121 m morn Saturday 5 5 7 548 10 10 6 635 733 10 3 4th Sunday in Lent. 841 10 8 Perpe na. Tuesday . I Mondiv. 7 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL MARCH. Houn 1, Robert 141'Lachlan 1, Clough and Galan, (2nd).. Ditto, 1 2, William Haskayne.. Peter Leather's, 1 2, Mackay Brothers (proof and div.) Clarendon Rooms, 1 3, Samuel S. Jackson, (proof and fin. div.) Ditto, 12 4, Peter Leicester, (2nd) Ditto, 1 4, Seth Flitcroft, (Ist) Ditto, 1 8, Robert Johnson Sharp, (2nd) Ditto, 1 8, Alfred Webb, (2nd) Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester, 2 12, William Haslett Clarendon Rooms, 1 12, John M'Lcan, (Ist) Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester, 2 PITAL, FEBRUARY 26. Cured Attending as Out Patients 19 Irregular Died .. re Hospital NORTHERN HOS ADMITTED. Accidents l4 Medical and Surgical cases Upon recommendation Total.. 33 Remainin g in th House Visiters, Rev. Thos. Hornby and H. J. Sanderson, Esq Treasurer, R. W. liateson, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. E. Maginnis.—House Surgeon, Mr. Parker. LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT February 26, 1840 DISCHARGED ADMITTED In-patients cured Relieved and at own request 12 ) Out-patients Made Out-patients ..... . .. 1 Casuals during the last week 6 Irregular Dead Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson. Chaplain Rev. R. Davies. House Visiters, John Cropper, jun. and W. M'Cracken, Esqrs Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon . Mr. Brandreth. E W. JACKSON, Treasurer. DISPENSARY FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASE OF THE HEART. Established by Mr. Cronin, in Oldham-street WEEKLY REPORT Received Advice and Medicine. Relieved Spasmodic Asthma Spitting of Blood .. Inflamation of the Lungs Palpitation of the Heart Incipient Phthisics Confirmed Consumption .—FEBRUARY 28 209 caess. liqarita9. LIVERPOOL HAY AN: Febru s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Old Hay 0 Kim 1 I ap 201 b. Pink-eye 2 0 3 0 New flay.... 0 0 0 10i - Cups 2 2 4 Clover Hay.. 0 7 0 10 - Short ToPs 1 10 ' 2 2 Straw, Wheat 0 4 0 5 13, 241 h Cattle - Turnips, v• ton - Carrots 0 40 0. 2 1 / 4 10.nglewurz1e 24 0 - Or ton. Cases 10 2 15 0 0 , 0 D POTATOE MARKET, tary 28. Potatoes, glib LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, Pen. 28. We have had a large supply of Beast at this day's market, which met with a dull sale, and a reduction of id 70. lb on our last quota tions. The supply of Sheep was small, and an advance of Oda lb. Prime Beef (lid ; middling 5d to 6d ; prime Wethers 7id; middling ;d, sinking the offal. Number of Beast, 1192 ; Sheep 2787. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, FEB. 25 Sugar.—The demand is still very limited, the sales of B. P. being only 100 hhds., and in the present unsettled state of the market prices are very uncertain. 1500 bags Bengal have been taken at about former rates. Nothing done in Mauritius. Foreign.—The sales amount to 200 cases and 900 bags brazil; middling brown Pernambuco at 17s, fine brown to greyish yellow Bahia at ISs to 18s 6d, and middling to fine dry white at 20s 6(1 to 23s per cwt. ; all new Sugars. A cargo of Bahia has also been purchased afloat, at 17s 6d to 22s (id per cwt., deliverable here. Nothing to report in Molasses. Coffee.—There are no sales of Plantation to notice, or of any other description ; former quotations arc continued. 400 bags Malabar Ginger at 14s per cwt., and 150 bags black Pepper at 3d to aid per lb. No sales of Cocoa or Pimento. 25 tees. fine Carolina Rice sold at 30s, and 1300 bags Bengal at its 6d to 12s per cwt. Rum.—The demand continues good, particularly for the finer qualities ; the sales are 170 puns. Demerara, 30 to 40 per cent O. P., at 3s lld to 4s 6d, a few common Berbice, 13 per cent 0. P., at 2s 8d p 7d,N e v r ith ga a ll s o m n. all lot of certified East India, 22 per cent. 0. P., at 2s Tea.— Throughout the week the market has been firm, and prices remain without alteration. There are no transactions to report in Indigo. 47 chests Cowries have been sold at 590 6d for small, and a few chests of large Shells at 54s 6d; 540 bags Malabar Turmeric at 20s, and 260 bags of Bengal, price not reported, and 16 bales Bombay Safflower at 325. 100 bags Sago Flour realized 16s per cwt. In Saltpetre and Nitrate of Soda more businss has been doing; nearly 3000 bags of the former sold at 27s 3d to 28s 3d, and of the latter, a cargo of 300 tons to arrive, price not named, and 5.0 bags on the spot at 22s 6d to 23s 6d per cwt. llyewoods.—The sales of Logwood are confined to small lots of Campeachy at £7 5s to £7 15s, according to quality, and Jamaica £5 7s 6d; 80 tons Savanilla Fnstic are reported at £5 12s 6d to £5 15s, 20 tons Lima Wood at £l4, £2O tons Red Sanders Wood £6 10s from the quay, and a few tons Carnwood at £25 to .1.6 per ton. The sales of Turpentine arc rather more extensive than usual, amounting to 2350 brs., viz. 780 in store at 1 is gd, 000 at 12s, and 1250 on the quay at 12s 4d ; the quality of this latter parcel was good. No sales reported in Tar. Although the market for Pot and Pearl Ashes is very firm, the business has been trifling; the few sales which have taken place have heen made at the previous quotations. Hides.—There have been no public sales, but one or two large parcels of salted River Plate have been t aken by private at fair prices. The demand for Tobacco has again been extensive, and nearly 600 hhds. have been sold this week ; of these about 280, chiefly good Virginia leat, have been taken for export, 120 of a similar ciass on speculation, 60 for Ireland, and the remainder by the Ttade. The consumers of Brimstone being pretty well stocked, are buy. lug just now very sparingly ; the sales this week are under 50 tons of Sicily ; 40 tons Smyrna have been sold, from the quay, at £3 ss, and for the same quantity, now in store, £3 (Os per ton is asked. —lOO bags Sicily Shumac are reported at lOs 6d to 105 941 per cwt. No sales to notice in Verona or Trieste.-40 casks Naples white Argots have been sold at the quotations. 10 casks Cream of Tar tar at 675, and so bags Turkey Galls at 576 per cwt. LIVER - POOL PROVISION IVIARKgr PEn. 2 8 . Our Butter market continues in an excessively dull state, and k prices are nominally as quoted on this day se'nnight. Very fine fresh Butters, however, which are very scarce, may form an ex ception ;—they are sought after, at full prices. In barrei'd Pro visions and Bacon there is nothing worth notice occurring. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FEB : 25 The supply of all descriptions of Grain this week is more than adequate to our present wants, and we have again to note a dull. slow sale for every article of the trade. Fine old Wheat was full Is per quarter, and new is to 3s per quarter lower than ou this day se'nnight. Barley, Oats, Beans and Peas were each is per Shelling sold at a reduction of Is per load. (In after cheaper LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 25 LONDON GAZEITE.—FR(DAt FE d 6. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED, P. Robinson and W. Oxley, Warrington, Lancashire, common brewers—G. and J. Milington, Manchester and Edgeworth, calico printers—R. Lever and Co., Manchester, yarn-dealers; as far as regards R. Lever—Holliwell, Boumphrey, and Co., Liverpool, plumbers; as far as regards T. Holliwell—Grundy, Williams, and Co., Manchester, woollen.merchants ; so far as regards J. W iiliama —H. and E. Tootal, Manchester, silk-manufacturers. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET, FEB. 25. At least three-fourths of the supply of Beasts this morning were from Scotland, the receipts from that quarter, by steam and sailing packets, having amounted, since Monday, to about 800 ; but only 360 were allowed to come into the market, while we understand that more than 400 are now on their passage hither from Aberdeen and Perth. The primest Scots sold in most transactions at Mon day's figures, or from 4s 4d to 4s 6d, but in the inferior qualities little was doing. There was a very small number of Sheep, while the mutton trade was tolerably firm, at late rates, the best old downs realising without difficulty 5s per 81bs. About 50 Lambs were brought forward, without commanding any attention. Calves were in short supply, and fair demand, at from 5s to 6s per Blbs. and a good clearance was effected. Pigs supported their value, with a moderate number in the pens. Milch Cows moved off slowly, at from £l6 10s to 'OO Its, including their small calf. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, FEE. 25 The duty on Foreign Wheat has advanced this week to 26s Bd. on Weans to 19s 9d per quarter, and on Flour to 16s 04d per barrel; that upon all Grain and Flour of Colonial produce having been for some weeks past at the highest rate of impost. We have some increase in the supply of Wheat, with con tinued good arrivals of Oatmeal from Ireland; but of other articles thence, or of anything Coastwise, the receipts are still very trivial. The imports from abroad consist of 760'J quarters Mediterranean and Black Sea Wheat, and 1000 quarters Indian Corn from the United States, being without any further quantity of Flour from that direction, though many parcels are shortly expected. Within the past few days the trade, for all free articles, has remained in an inanimate state, with no apparent altera tion in prices, and the only transaction reported in bonded is 1500 barrels American Flour, at 26s per barrel. We have to report, at our Corn Exchange this morning, a very slender attendance of both home 'and country buyers, who, although generally bare of stock, still appear determined to wait, at least nearer to a termination' of the debates upon the corn bill, before they venture to' come freely on the mar ket, and, beyond supplying their immediate wants, have done little business in any article to-day. The sales of Wheat, in consequence, have been at a de cline of ld per bushel, of Flour 6d per barrel, and of Oat meal, the choicest parcels are offering, without meeting buy ers, at is per sack reduction ; for one parcel of superior malting Oats, our last quotations have been realised, but any samples below that quality are Id to id per 451bs cheaper than on Tuesday. For all other articles we have bad a com pletely nominal trade to-day, as regards both price and de mand. There has been no further inquiry foreither Wheat or Flour in bond. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FEB. 25. There has been a fair skew of business in our market to-day which in prosperous times would have indicated a 5 or 6000 bag day; as it is we cannot estimate it at more than 3500 bales, at yesterday's prices. The weekly sales amount to 23,190 bales, of which near 6000 bales are for export ou speculation account, leaving only 17,000 to the trade. COTTON MARKET, FEBRUARY 26. The reduction of the rate of Interest by the Bank of England is looked upon here as a very seasonable relief to the depression of trade, and has induced a few speculators to come into our Cotton market. This has caused a little more animation, and fall 4000 bales have been sold. 1000 of these are Surats at a low figure, and the market closes steadily with a firmer fealing as regards prices. COTTON MARKET, FEBRUARY 28. The stimulous given to our Cotton market on Saturday has in. duced a more numerons attendance of the trade today, and we close our day's business with an estimate of 5500 bales, at the full prices of last week ; in some instances a shade dearer. There has again been a large business done in Surat, say 1200 bales, chiefly to one consumer. On the whole, things look better, and holders remain firm and unflinching. COTTON MARKET.—WEEKLY REPORT. The demand from the Trade continues extremely limited, and the common qualities of American are again id per lb lower, whilst the fair and better descriptions remain firm, owing to their comparative scarceness. In Brazil and Egyptian no material alteration can be noticed, but the prices of common Surat are barely supported. There has been a good inquiry and the buyers have some difficulty in executing their orders, which are chiefly for the better classes of American. 3400 American and 200 Surat were taken for export, and 2000 American on speculation. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the 18th to the 24th instant, inclusive Prices paid !as PC SALES OF TAE WEEK. tin the week. This Wk. OATS. 'this year 50 , Sea Island lO 0 14i 70 I Stained 6380 Bowed Georgia „ f Mobile 4rt— 1 Alabama and Tennessee 4i 5 1 29647 .. .62462 114072 } 4837 9680 'New Orleans 660 f Pernambuco & Paraiba 7 7i 1 Aricati and Ceara — I • 180 Bahia and Maceio - 7 ... 250 • f Maranham 6 —6/ } 1816 1 Sawginned .... Minas — .... Para ....• Demerara, Surinam, &c — • • 550 Egyptian .... Barbados — . 50 Peruvian .... B a h a ma 200 Laguayra . 330 Common West India, &c 5 10 Carthagena • i 44 •=•- .... i Smyrna — .. i Manilla 2300 • Surat 80 Madras .... ; Bengal 2454 6261 23190 bales 1 49866 LIVERPOOL PRICES CURRENT. MADDER, 1, cwt. S. Dutch, crop 70 Ombro 50 Gamene 32 Mull 10 French, S.F. 40 S.F.F 44 E.S. F 50 E.5.F.F.52 Spanish 4O ASHES Montreal, Pot 31 0 32 6 Pearl, new 32 9 —33 0 U. States, Pot none. Pearl BARK, Quercit, Oak, ton . German BRIMSTONE, V ton Sicily, &c 6 5 6 10 Tuscany 6 10 6 15 CASSIA LIGNEA, S. d. S. d 14 , cwt. in bend 76 0 86 0 CLOVER -SEED, V cwt. American, red.. 78 0— 85 0 Dutch 83 0— 86 0 French & Germ.B2 0— 84 0 COCOA, V ewe. Trinidad..., Grenada ... Brazil COFFEE, cwt. in bond. Jama. triage .. 1 30 0— - ordinary good& fine ord. 80 0-102 0 middling 106 0-125 0 good mid. 127 0-134 0 fine mid. &c. 1311 0-148 0 Dutch, triage.. 130 0— ordinary .... good &fine ord. 60 0— 70 0 middling 75 0— 80 0 good mid. ll 85 0-100 0 fine mid., &c. Mocha Ceylon Java Havana good & fine ord. 46 0— 52 0 St. Domingo.... 40 0— 42 0 Brazil Laguira 46 0— 48 0 DYKWOODS, ton ae. s. s Logwood, Jam... b 7 6 Hon. & Dom. 5 0— 6 0 Campeachy 7 5 7 15 Fustic, Span 5 5 5 15 Tampico 6 0— --- Brazil Cüba NICARAGUA WOOD. Rio de la Hache solid rough 6 0— 7 10 small 6 0— 7 10 Lima, solid 13 0— 14 0 Barwood, Ango. 8 0— 9 0 Gaboon 5 0— 6 10 Camwood 24 0— 26 0 lied San. Wood 6 10— 7 0 FLAX, ap• ton. Riga. P.T.R. P'burg, 9 head Archangel 44 0— 55 0 Dutch & Hem 6O 0-120 0 GALLS, cwt. Turkey, blue mixed 55 0— 60 0 East India 5B 0— 63 -0: GINGER,' cwt. Barbadoes 45 0— 60 0 Jamaica 6O 0-200 0 E. India, in bond L2.: . 0-+ 17' "0 (SUM, cwt. Arabic, Turkey East India. 24 0— 55 0 Barbary Senegal B5 0— 0 0 HEMP, v . ton S. s. P'burg, clean 37 10— 38 0 outshot 35 10— 56 0 Riga, Rhine outshot 3B 0— Archangel Manilla 27 10— 28, 0 Bombay Jute 2l 0— HIDES, Ox and Cow, 13.• lb B. Ayres and Monte Video, dry. inferior & mid. 0 6i— 0 74 good & prime 0 7i— 0 8 ) I Do. salted N. Amer. salted 0 3i— 0 3i Brazil dry salted 0 si 0 6g Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 6 0 7 Odessa, &e. dry 0 6 0 7 W. India, dry 0 0 7 ' salted 0 4 0 5i East India Kips, B.A. dry. 0 0 8i ' Horse, d. each 7 6 —l2 3 HORSE HAIR,' lb. Short mixed long tails 1 2 1 6 combed INDIGO, V lb. in bond. Bengal. pur. & violet 0 — blue & violet 0 0 — blue o 0 — violet, g. & fine 6 3 ord. & mid. 5 3 violet & cop 4 6 mixed ..I cop. g. & tine. 4 6 ord. & mid. 3 3 4 con. quality Oude 1 6 4 Madras 2 3 4 Guatimala, lb. Florts 5 6 6 Sobres 4 0— 5 Cortes 2 3 3 Caraccas, Floras 5 3 6 Sobres 4 5 5 Cortes LAC DYE, V lb. D.T. and prime. 1 6 2 0 mid. to good 0 6i— 1 4 ord. & inferior 0 4 0 6 MADDER ROOTS, V cwt. Smyrna Galipoli & Syria .. 38 0— 40 0 French 42 0— Naples . 4O 0— 46 0 .8 6 - £4 10 - 4 0 - 9 0 6 10 4 15 MoLAssEs. '4) cwt. St. Lucia, &c 24 Demerara, &c ti 6 Bar & Antigua.. 2 8 MUNJEET, cwt !4 Oxr, Olive, p 252 :raft Gallipoli Trieste 53 Sicily ....... Malaga Portugal, &c .. . • Palm, tun 33 0- 43 0 } 32 0- 35 0 74 0-110 0 70 0- 72 0 54 0- 75 0 o 0 O 0 o 0 6 6 6 0 n 33 J 11 33497 [ 1. s. d. —72 0 —6O 0 ) —4O 0 D —3O 0 U —42 0 o —54 0 0 —5O 0 0 -26 0 0 -27 0 0 -30 0 6 - - 4/ —6o 0 0 —55 0 0 —53 0 0 —52 0 (1 —5l 0 0 —5O 0 0 —33 0 -39 0 -36 0 -29 0 -35 6 -54 0 - 0 0 0 -37 0 o —l2 0 6 —l3 6 none. 4 10 3- 5 9 7 0 10 4 10 IS 1 14 .d. s. d o —2g 0 —23 6 bond. 0 —56 0 —3B 0 0 -12 0 0 -25 0 4i- 3 0 0 - 8 0 0- 7 0 0 - 9 0 0 —5B 0 0 —.63 0 o —7O 0 0 —75 0 0 —57 0 0 —66 0 0 —7o 0 0 -54 0 0-64 0 0 -73 0 0 -76 0 0 -17 0 .18 0 -19 0 .20 0 -22 0 .25 0 -27 0 28 0 -32 0 13 6 -16 6 17 , 6 -18 6 18 6 -21 0 22 0 -24 0 Fish, Seal, pale brown , 2 galls LINSEED, y cwt 35 Rape, pale do. .. 53 Turpen. cwt... 50 Rick:, cwt Carolina, dress. 36 in bond 22 Bengal, ord. do.. 11 mid to fine .... 12 African.......... Rum, tip , gallon, into Jamaica, 12 to 16 0. p 3 stronger 3 choice marks 5 SAFFLOWER,'p cwt. Bengal, good & fine...t's ord. & mid .. 2 Bombay SALTPETRE, ge CW.. S East India South American 23 SIIELL LAC, IP' clVt . in orange 45 liver and block .. 28 SKINS, Neutiia, 90 , do:.. 6 Chinchilli, do. .. to Seal, et.wh SR UIkIAC, cwt. Sicily 9 Malaga Trieste Verona 6 Tyrolese SUGAR, ?e , B. P. Muscovado moist brown dry brown 59 good & mid.... 65 tine & v. line .. 71 Mauritius, dabs and moist 43 brown & fine yellow .... 67 East India, Bengal Khaiir 44 brown & yel. 56 good and fine 70 extra fine 74 Manilla, in bond 13 Havana, do. brown yellow . white ord good & fine Brazil, in bond brown yellow white ord. good and fine TALLOW, 'IR cwt. P'burgh, Y.C. Odessa 49 6 —5O o 49 0 —49 6 Archangel 47 6 —4B 0 Buenos Ayres 40 0 —46 0 TAR, 74) , brl. Stockholm l7 0 —lB 0 Archangel Carolina Virginia — - TARTAR, 13 cwt. Cream of Tartar 66 0 —6B 0 brown and yel 46 0 —5O 0 TEA; ap lb. in bond. Bohea, Canton Fokein Congou, com. lll —1 11i mid. to fine. 2 1 9 Twankay, com 1 lei— 1 11 mid. to good 2 0 22 Pekoe, Orange 2 0— 3 0 Campoi, corn. to good Hyson Skin 1 7 1 8 mid. to fine 2 0 2 4 Souchong, com 2 0 -- - good to fine 2 4 3 Pekoe, flowery Hyson, corn 2 5 2 fine.. 3 0 4 6 Young Hyson .. 1 10 3 0 Imperial Gunpowder, good and fine 3 3 5 0 TOBACCO, !lf3v lb. in bond. J. River, Leaf 0 2i— 0 5i Stemmed 0 5 0 7i Kentucky ~ 0 3 u 6 Maryland TURMERIC, 20 , cwt in bond. Bengal 16 0 —2O 0 TURPENTINE,'. I 9 , cwt. American VAtoNia, p ton . £ s £0 Smyrna, picked l4 0 —l9 0 Morca WAX, Bitss' le , cwt. in bond. African East India AineriCan 7 10 8 10 24- 3 4 INSOLVENT. Feb. ‘,'3.—John Lockley, Bilston, Staffordshire, plumber. Feb. 24 .—William Barnes, Shiucliffe, Durham, tire-brick-manutae. turer. Feb. 25.—Frederick Pratt, Saredon-mill, Staffordshire, miller BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. Thomas Scudamore, Birmingham, chemist. Joseph Smith Nedhaan, Ullesthorpe, Leicestershire, banker. BANKRUPTS. Henry Gouger, Great Winchester -street, London, merchant. John Dover. Three Cranes-wharf. London, merchant. Thomas Burrell. Walthamstow, Essex, cattle-dealer. Richard Lamprell, Sherhorne-lane, London, builder. John David, Laughare. Carmarthenshire, moister. Vere and John Hare, Taunton, house agents. Joseph Dakeyne, Edinburgh, lace-dealer. Joseph Bate, Dudley, Worcestershire, iron-merchant. John Holroyd, Wheatley, Yorkshire, cotton-warp-maker. George Dodson, Boston, Lincolnshire, wool-dealer. DIVIDENDS. March 18, T. Waterfield, Dunstable, straw-hat manufacturer— March 18, J. Maughon, Percival-street, Clerkenwell, London, hardwareman—March ►O, J. Robins and C. Williams, London-wall, London, carriers—March 18, J. Marshall, Colchester -street, White chapel, London, boiler-maker--March 18, G. Dickens, Hertford, surgeon—March 18, T. Bedford, Goswell-street, London, carpenter —March 18, C. Hall, Piccadilly, London, upholsterer—March 19, A. G. W. Biddulph, J. Wright, H. Robinson, and E. W. Jerningham, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, bankers—March 21, J. Kyle, Macclesfield, banker—March 21, G. Last, Birmingham, merchant— April 11, W. Horsnaill, Dover, carpenter—March 19, N. Litherland, Liverpool, merchant—March 23, J. G. Bond, Great Yarmouth, draper—March 17, W. Parker, Hockley, Nottinghamshire, grocer— June 13, S. Evans, Road, Somersetshire, clothier. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before March 18, ,•• • A. Emerson, Shanlthill and Belfast, Antrim, and Enniskillen. Fermanagh. distiller —T, Burbey and J. Loe, Portsmouth. bankers —T. Potts, Birmingham. metallic tube-maker—D. B. Smith and .1. W. Smith, Alton. Staffordshire, paper manufacturers—M. Marshall, Chew Magna,Somersetshire, money scrivener—T. Kitchener, Arundel-street, Coventry-street, London, engrayer—J. Turlay, Manchester, tailor. PRICES OF SHARES, FEBRUAtSY 28. Prices within the last seven days. This days RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. ?rice. Bolton and Preston Birmingham and Gloucester Ditto quarter Birmingham and Derby lOO .... 00 0 ... Bristol and Exeter 7O .. , . 0 0 0 ... Birkenhead and Chester Ditto, new 2O .... 0 0 0 ... Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Ditto new Shares.... 2 6 8 3 19 2 ... Ditto, Debentures , . 88 8 10 10 5 ... Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigli and Newhaven 20 paid 0 0 0 ... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 23 paid 0 0 0 ex 4 0 0 Half Shares .. Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar } 50 paid Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction Ditto half shares 5O .... Quarter New ditto . . Great Western 65 .... Ditto new shares 5B Ditto Fifth Shares Great North of England lOO Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 47 10 0 Ditto, new Leiccsterand Swannington 5O .. Leeds and Selby lOO .. Liverpool and Manchester lOO .. Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham 9O Ditto quarter shares Ditto old shares Ditto new London & Brighton 5O Ditto new London and South Western Ditto, 10th shares Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham 4O Ditto and Ditto Extension Manchester and Leeds Ditto half shares Ditto quarter Shales . Midland Counties .... Ditto, quarter North Midland New North Midland One-third Shares . Worth Union Newcastle and Carlisle Ditto quarter shares Ulster 0 0 0 53 5 0 ex 184 10 0 ex 91 15 0 ex. 91 0 0 0 0 ex. 46 0 0 O 0 0 .... 61 10 0 .... 10 0 0 ex. 10 0 0 O 0 0 ... O 0 0 ... • 0 0 ... O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 191 0 oex O 0 0 ex o 0 0 ex 168 10 0 ... 34 10 0 ... 58 0 0 29 5 0 O 0 0 5 12 6 prin.! 5 10 0 59 5 0 O 0 0.... 51 15 0 .... O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 .... o 0 0 .... 76 10 0 ex. 19 5 0 ex. o 0 0.... O 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... O 0 0 O 0 0 o o 0.... 0- 0 0 14 15 0 O 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... 0 0 .... 34 13 0 29 7 6 Paris and Rouen South Eastern York and North Midland, Half Shares 48 .... 50 paid 15 .... BANKS, Bank of Liverpool Borough Bank Commercial of Liverpool 10 Commercial of England. 5 East of England lO of Manchester lO M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 Northern and Central North and South Wales lO Royal of Liverpool 500 South Lancashire Albion Liverpool Union Liverpool Banking C 0... 10 _ _ Wilts and Dorset 7 10s GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings 4lOO paid L'pool and Harrington Water } 350 Works Bootle Ditto L'pool Gas Light Company, (Original Stock) 100 Ditto new Shares .... 100 L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .6100 Ditto new shares are now paid up £l2 lOspaid 18 10 0 13 5. 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 4 5 6 0• 0 0 O 0' 0 O 0 0 10 10 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 7 10s. 25 paid 170 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance } o paid Company M'chester Assurance Company. 10 Liverpool Fire and Life 2 108. Ocean Assurance 0 0 0 11 O 0 2 11 6 ex. 0 0 0 ... DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COM PAN! Anderton Carrying Company .. 16 58. Rock Ferry Steam Tug Company lO . . ___ &e. O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 Harrington Docks Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool) --- (Polonceau) BIRTHS. On the 16th ultimo, at 25, Abereromby-square, the lady of Major THOMSON, C, 8., of a daughter. On the 21st ultimo, at Mersey Villa, Tranmere, Mrs. GEORGE PALMER, of a son. On the 24th ultimo, in Catherine-street, Mrs. J. W. SEABURNE M AY, of a son._ On the 25th ultimo, at 61, Highfield.street, ANN FITZSIMMONS, of three sons. Two lived I l hours, and one 3i hours. The names of the children were ARTHUR, JOHN, and PETER. MARRIED. Lately, by license, Mr. WM. NORRIS, cotton-manufacturer, of Chorley, to Miss MARROW, of this town. On the Isth of January, at Cambridge, United States, Mr. WILLIAM F. BOOTH, sou of Henry Booth, Esq., of this town, to ELIZABETH M., daughter of the late Dr. PHIPPS, of Cambridge, Boston. On the I ith ultimo, at Wrexham, Mr. JOHN ROGERS, school master, to Miss ALICE CADWALADER ; and, at the same time and place, Mr. WATKIN JONES, clerk. of Minera, to Miss HANNAH EDWARDS, both of Wrexham. On the 19th ultimo, at Southport, by the Rev. George Greatbatch, Dissenting. Minister, Mr. THOMAS HOWARD to Miss ANN 110DGE, both of the parish of North Meols. On the 21st ultimo, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. Mr. Stewart, Mr. W. A. BAILIE, of New Orleans, to Mrs. HARRIET PHILLIPS, widow, of this town. On the 22nd ultimo, at Wilton, by the Rev. Daniel Vaudrey, 8.A., Mr. RICHARD HOUGH, tea-dealer, to SARAH, eldest daughter of THOMAS BARLOW, Esq., of the same place. On the 24th ultimo, by special license, at Wolerton, Norfolk, Viscount POLLINGTON to the Lady RACHEL WALPOLE. Same day, at Walton-on-the-Hill, by the Rev. R. Wilson, EDWIN, son of ROBERT WILLAN, Esq., Edge-hill, to HELEN, only daughter of RICIIAItD BENNETT, Esq., Bedford-street. late of Summerfield-house, Bolton. Same day, at Sefton Church, by the Rev. John Fearon, M.A., HENRY W. ATKINSON, Esq., surgeon, of this town, to MARY ANNE, eldest daughter o f JON GILL, Esq., of Orrell. Same day, at Bidston, by the Rev. G. Gate, WM. BLORE DAVIES, Esq., of Frankby, to SUSANNAH, second daughter of Mr. GILBERT URMSON, of Saughall Massey. Same clay, at St. George's Church, by the Rev. Frederick Bridge, Mr. ROBERT GRAVES, jun., Stephen's-green, to BESSY, eldest daughter of JOHN POWER, Esq., North Anne-street, Mount Joy square, Dublin. DIED. Lately, at Kensington, aged 88, Mr. MENZIES, F.L.S., the emi nent botanist, the only survivor of the celebrated expedition of Captain Vancover round the world. On the 18th ultimo, aged 3g, Mr. WILLIAM ROBERTS, tailor, brother to Mr. George Roberts, Renshaw-street, much respected by a numerous acquaintance. On the 26th ultimo, the wife of Mr. JAMES POTTS, printer and public librarian, Marylebone, much regretted. Same day, after a long and painful affliction, aged 78, ANN, wife of Mr. R. R. CORE, agent, Edge-hill. Same day, aged go, Mr. CHRISTOPHER CHRISTIAN, late of Christian-street. For upwards of thirty years he was a starch manufacturer in this town, and was much respected by a large circle of friends and acquaintance. Same day, aged 98, Mr. WILLIAM BROADHURST, Congleton- On the 21st ultimo, at Baffin-cottage, Windsor, in his 77th year, RALPH CLOUGH, Esq., deservedly respected by a numerous circle of friends. Same day, at Hampstead, in his 76th year, RICHARD HART DAVIES, Esq., formerly for many years M.P. for Bristol. Same day, at Paris, to the great regret of all her family, the Countess SEBASTIAN!, sister of the Countess of Tankerville. Same day, of inflammation , of the stomach, aged 53, Mrs. ELIZABETH OVENS", - cif LoWer Frederick-street. deservedly re. spected by her neighbours and friends, and her loss is a source of much grief to her family and relations. On the 22nd ultimo, in this town, aged 38, Mr. WILLIAM SMITH PARKES, youngest son of the late Mr. Benjamin Parke; of Birmingham. On the 23rd ultimo, at Barton, aged 84, Mr. BROWN, deeply la mented by his family and friends. On the 24th ultimo, after a few days' illness, aged 27, Mr. JOSEPH LIGHTBOUND, of Pitt-street, deeply lamented. Same day, aged 73, Mr. JAMES KEOW N, mach regretted. Same day, MARIA, youngest daughter of THOMAS ARTHUR CORLETT, Esq., Dean-street, Fairfield. Same day, at Sandbach, aged 76, JOHN W ILSON, Esq. Same day, at his residence, Pat-street, aged 82, Mr. WILLIAM DIAMOND, joiner and builder, late of Teigninouth, Devonshir e. Same day, at Mr. Banks's, Berry-street, aged 59, Mr. JAMES GREEN. family y j a O n li d N fri friends. 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