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Peep out at the balmy day ; And a thousand birds, that mutely flew From branch to branch, crown bolder too, Break forth in a roundelay. And joy is the burthen of every song; There iq Joy in the river's flowing, In the voice of the breeze as it floats along, In the kine's soft, pastoral lowing; You may hear it the grasses and reeds among, On the merge of the streamlet growing. Joy on the new-born earth! Joy in the halcyon sky ! Poor mourner ! from thy silent hearth, Look upward hopefully, to those sounds of mirth, Ai.d give no Wrung heart and tearful eye. And thou, pale child ! that low --- On saddest couch art lying— Go forth, and Health shall fan thy brow, And chase away thy sighing. Go forth, and sport beneath the bough, Where the gladsome bee is humming, And thou wilt bless, as I do now, The young Spring's joyous coming. LITERARY NOTICES Poems, by Robert Nicoll. Second Edition, with a Memoir of the Author. Edinburgh : William Tait. London : Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. We have perused with delight the unpretending verses which compose the bulk of the volume before us, and with some interest the narrative of the author's brief career, by which they are accompanied. Many of the poems themselves are not entire strangers to us. A considerable number, how ever, which did not appear in the first edition, published during the author's lifetime, are here added—some of them from the various periodicals in which they were originally given to the world. The work is neatly got up, by poor Nicoll's kind and early friend, Mr. Tait ; and we heartily wish it an extensive sale We az y prepared to class Nicoll with either Robert He could never have achieved a poem like " Tam o'Shanter," or furnished us with Bonnie Kilmenie" of Hogg. Burns or he Ettrick Shepherd 3 compare with ti For all that, however, his limited opportunities taken into consideration, (which, by the way, were scarcely more limited of the youth of either of these poets,) it cannot be extent, " the vision and lied that I- sed, to sour ' and that had his lot, after gathering, in ation from the wild heaths and streams of !en cast in a path somewhat brighter than 1, matter of fact, and toilsome career of radical jour manufacturing town ; had such a man, removed —removed too from the )tiori of people, (the ultra-utilitarians and republicans radical borough of Leeds,) amongst whom, and for . be toiled—been permitted to cultivate his intellect the faculty divine his boyhood, inspir, his native land, be s of party warfare is sympathies in a more generous atmosphere, that within him which might have raised him )rld of literature, into which position, in ave cast him at many, very many, of the pottrp. SPRING (From the Athenceum.) Gray Winter star For the merry Spring, outleaping, is cold domai❑ bath passed, Over Arid su mmoned up the sleeping. it nook in the wild-wood glade, e forth to meet him, 'neath the old oak shade, The Fays com )us welcome greet him wn from his brow ,iuck,;;;ld away they bear it, ,ve him a chaplet green, I trove, ;:lshOutto see him wear it. And now gray Winter stands In the midst of their sportive bands, I . with closed ears, to keep their merry music out ; No love his looks bespeak, And o er his puckered cheek but not of joy I wist, i' the furrows course about Buy the winds, alas ! have drunken 'nu , deep of the nectarious draught that binds Like a chain their strength, and sunken In the laps of the wanton flowers they lie, On the beds of moss, scent-breathing, Or cradled soft, 'midst the leaves on high, With the sunbeams o'er them wreathing; So his voice awakes them not. Then he calls on the rains to aid him : e rains have wept themselves to death, ie ball has fled from the sun's warm breath, it snow lies in dew on the turf beneath ; Poor wretch ! they have all betrayed him ; He calls, but they heed him not. Then the saucy Spring, grown bolder, Doth bid old Winter flee ; And the eye of each beholder . lights up with ecstacy, As the hoary King turns slowly From the little blythesome crew, And with aspect, changed and lowly, Doth bid his realm adieu. But ah ! unpitying they; When be turneth to go, the tyrant host Surround him with odours be hatest most; They pelt him with thistles and thorned flowers, They drive him, in scorn, from their festal bowers, And ere yet he bath faded qu Or his footfall died away, They pierce with their songs the welkin blue, And with mocking laughter his path pursue ; While the young leaves dance on the spray, ite from view, was nigh isard flowers, that ti 1 deep while homely strains of li obert Nicoll (and it is upon homely house are written) will be cherished As it is W s that t time to come in the hearts and memories of thousands of b's countrymen. Bitterly as he was, in politics, opposed to the party to which we belong, we cannot lay down these, ~cy to mankind, without a liking for the man, and almost a respect for the politician. Light be the sod upon his early gray The Englishman's Magazine, a popular periodical for gene ral reading. London: James Burns, 17, Portman-street. We have received the first four numbers for the present year of üblication, which we can confidently recommend to t•ur readers as a really useful and valuable work. By the Y Ring especially, of our national religion, who are not the less fond of a magazine because, amongst the more lively sub lects upon which it treats, the inculcation of sound religious principles is not lost sight of, it ought to be extensively pa tronised. It is very neatly got up ; and the price of each number, 4d., brings it within every one's reach. Burn's Magazine for the Young. This is a publication of a similar nature to the English man's Magazine, by the same publisher, but it is intended for a more juvenile class of readers. Each number is em bellished with very neat wood-cuts—some of them perfect gems—and is published at the very low price of two-pence. Tail's Edinburgh Magazine, May, 1842. Edinburgh, W. Tait ; London, Simpkin, Marshall and Co. The present number of Tait is superior to most of the re cent numbers which have come before us. " Abednego, the Moiev-lender," by Mrs. Gore, is continued, and increases . There is something human, and therefore natu the character of the Jew usurer, whilst Dickins's his Christian prototype, was a fiend without _ aturu. " Irish Treason in Paris," by the O'Hara Family, which commences in the present number, an interesting contribution, and the story of e Gauge" is well told, and will be read with a' "—(query, Dickens')—" Impressions admirable hit at men and manners in the land of Brother Jonathan ; and some people might fancy that :;al upon the illustrious Boz himself. The 7 Ball" is especially excellent. We have Buckingham's Tour in the Slave States of Tvtler's History of Scotland," both of rat, abo Ralph itickl o rede promises to the " Marquis it is al "D Duggin iggins' F which are ab ' iissected, and their most interesting features us. The poetry of the magazine, of which we th • nens, is more to our tas t e than we usuall y meet wi Tail. The principal works, noticed in the re- [gilt before t • Miss Strickland's Lives of the -, Ater a and " Montgomery's Luther," to the is works it is creditable to Tait to observe that t' ,e reviewer, unlike some puseyite critics we could name, notwithstanding the difference of politics, does full justice. By the way, we may inform th e p u bli s her that his last num ber, from some cause or other, did not reach us. v.exi.tg d epartment, are Queens of England The Novel NeicapaPee, No 53. London,' N. Bruce, Peter borough-court, Fleet-street. number before us contains the first part of the " Can " by Miss Lee—awork Which is entitled to rank standard novels. One hundred and 'sixty pages of rinted matter for one shilling (l) is surely sufficient lost ardent admirer of cheap amusement. For about ii i ng s you have an assortment of standard tales suffi cientl s ( l 3 consitute a decent circulating library terbury Tales, Dublin University Magazine. May,1842. W. c Ind Co., D ublin ; W' S. Orr and Co., London. Dub/in for the present month is a valuable and " Jack Hinton " progresses to the eighteenth lis lively as ever. We have an excellent review f a Traveller," in which full justice i s Our Portrait Gallery," f the life of the Rev. William Archer )f the usual excellence which distin- Nuts and Nutcrackers, No. 4," i s isode of the French Revolution, " will be read caustic ; and an tourist Place des Terraux ul thoughts are contained in leftts fro 3 acquisition. by a new con- ~cii-timed—article in this ..abject of our relations with Aft . gha panied with a map of the seat of . war.. h the map, is worth double the price ot ,ght to be read by every Englisbtpap at - , inent, when public interest is so painfully. .rds th at scene o f th e slaughter of so many o f t ellow-countrymen. To the demand of the writer „ . ! tice, for these sacr ifi ce d men, upon the head of the " h i g u""istry, and, above all, upon Lords Palmerston and Auckland, we say, all our hearts—amen -I, continuation of the review of " Maxwell's Life of Wellington " brings as down to the European campaigns of that iliueitrious man, and is only less valuable than the work itself under notice. " Gaspar the Pirate" concludes in the pre;e:it number, a circumstance at which we are not sorry." "P • and Parliament" is written in the usual racy style alti_.p articles in this magazine. For the Liverpool Standard, THE DRAMATIST. BY JAMES STONEHOUSE CHAPTER ! L-THE BURGUNDY VINEYARD The " Burgundy Vineqard' 7 l;as - nor always been as it is at present, a stately and extensive restaurant. In 1810 the sign of the establi s h men t was suspen d e d over a p o or, stunted, half-grown hed g e, which encircled a muddy enclosure, dig nified by the name of " garden." In the middle of the gar den stood two melancholy-looking cypresses, appearing more like ornaments for a cemetery than a place intended for pub lic recreation. Up the centre ran a path leading to the ca baret, where the busy and obsequious vintner dispensed his potables and refreshments. On either side of the pathway, deeply imbedded in the soil, surrounded by forms as firmly fixed, were rudely-manufactured tables, at which the guests on sunshiny days seated themselves. Here and there were to be seen alcoves constructed of lath, and the resort of those who wished to be private. Such were the charms of the place known by the name of the " Burgundy Vineyard." Here it was that on Sundays and Mondays the blustering and rude throngs were wont to intoxicate themselves, who now, like unruly waves, move towards the Barriers, filling the air with the noise of their quarrels and disturbances. On other days of the week certain frequenters of the spot came to enjoy its attractions, and take undisturbed posses sion of the barn adjoining the house, where a game of skit tles could be played. The most constant of these habituis was a man of about sixty years of age. His person was short, thick-set, rather fair-complexioned, of heavy gal and rough manners ; but his eye was bright, pi erc ing, and intelligent ' • and although care had marked with it s finger of iron his broad brow and pale cheek, still around his well-formed mouth a faint smile occasionally played, in which wit and humour were evident, showing that o'er the mind happy thoughts and mirthful associations still flitted, in spite of poverty and wretched ness. An old dilapidated coat, an indescribable hat, and a pair of shoes the very masterpieces of patchwork, completed his attire. _ _ . One bright morning in February, 1810, although the frost was sharp and the wind bitingly cold, the man just described came and sat himself down before one of the tables in the garden, took off his hat, and passed his hands through the grey hair with which his head was luxuriously provided. His hands, by a strange contrast with his person and appear ance, were white and delicately formed ; the fingers taper and slender, were terminated by rosy nails a lady might have envied. As soon as the old man had seated himself, the owner of the cabaret ran eagerly towards him, and placed before him on the table a bottle of wine. " I want none to-day, good Pierre," said he. " I feel tired, and require rest only for a minute." " The best way to rest, good sir. is to drink a glass of old wine." So saying, he uncorked the bottle with great dexte rity, and poured out a portion of the liquid with the air of a tempter. The old man gazed at his host with inexpressible emotion ; he could not restrain the tears which first glistened in his eyes and then coursed down his cheeks. " True, Pierre, true," said he ; " misery and shame are two sisters always attendant upon misfortune. Come, I ac cept your wine. You shall treat me, good friend, this time ; pour out a glass for yourself. Here's a bumper to your health " said mine host, who showed great de " but let us in doors, where something " Good health, sir," ference to his guest ; more substantial awaits us. The old man rose, with an intention of departing. Pierre —confused and evidently embarrassed, permitted him to take a few steps, when, taking him by the hand, said, respectfully, " You have good credit, sir, at the Burgundy Vineyard. If you have forgotten your purse, you must not depart without breakfast ; tomorrow—any time you please—you can pay your reckoning." The old man quietly followed his entertainer, who soon set out the materials for a substantial meal. As if to excuse himself for his liberality, and place his friend at his ease, he said, " When they play one of your pieces you shall give me a ticket." The old man was Dorvigne, the dramatist ! " You shall have two this evening. Brunet, lam sure, will give you the best sittings in the house when he knows what care you show for a poor old man like me. I will fetch them and bring them to you to-day." " Nay, good sir; It is too far for you to go on purpose. You shall bring me the tickets to-morrow, or any other day when you come this way." " Friend Pierre, you shall have them this day ; to-night they play one of my pieces—The Simpleton. That will per haps amuse you." Ha, ha! that it will ; I shall enjoy it, I know." " Ah, my friend, the old man to whom you !save behaved with such kindness—who but for you might have died of hunger—will make many laugh to-night. They who applaud his wit and humour will not enquire after his fate." " But your pieces ought surely to bring you money ?" " Poverty is not a vice, my friend ; but it is—as Voltaire, whose bust I see yonder on the mantle-shelf, says—much worse. To live through the last month, I have been obliged to sell all my resources for this : those resources arise from the productions of other days : for at present age and misery have deprived my mind of all its strength and vigour. I sel dom now offer any vaudevilles to the managers ; for, although they receive them and sometimes pay me, they never play them. I can see that it is merely out of commiseration that they accept them, and to have an excusable reason for afford ing me relief. My good friend, you are the first, and shall be the last, from whom I will accept succour. The son of Louis XV. must resign his post of mental merry-andrew ; but he will never fall to the sad and shameful condition of a beggar. The canal runs coldly below ; that shall be his resting place. You look on me with surprise ; you think I am becoming foolish. It is not so, my friend. I, Louis Dorvigne, am the son of a king. My mother was a poor or phan girl, daughter of the Conte D'Archambaud. She was seduced by Louis XV., and died in giving me birth. During my youth an invisible protector watched constantly over me, directed my education, and supplied my wants—furnishing me with money to make an honourable appearance in the world. All at once the hand that assisted me was withdrawn. It then became necessary, seriously to consider how I should gain a living. I have done so till strength, and health, and talent have failed me. This is my history, my friend. Of royalorigin—attended by success—reputation almost amount `ing to glory — am I reduced so far as to be compelled to accept ' the gift of a breakfast. Well we must be contented, and endure with resignation. Good bye, and thank you : you shall have the tickets without delay. CHAPTER lI.—AN OLD FRIEND. The old man departed. As he reached the outer gate of the garden the appearance of a number of troops, which marched past the Burgundy Vintage , arrested his steps, and compelled him to wait until the whole mass had gone by. Dorvigne stood to observe the regiments as they moved towards their barracks, in the Fauberg St. Antoine. They had been reviewed by the Emperor. First came the drums, next the bands; then the officers, the soldiers following. In the midst rode a general, mounted on a magnificent Andalusian charger. He was attired in a richly embroidered uniform , his breas t being covered with de corations. His bronzed face, here and there marked by a scar, was also made remarkable by a pair of fierce red mous- taches. He cast his eyes mechanically towards " the Burgund Vintage." At the sight of Dorvigne he could not resist an exclamation of surprise. Without disturbing the march of the troops, he beckoned two soldiers to follow him. Throwing himself from his horse, he stood for a moment opposite to the Dramatist ; when, throwing his arms around him, he embraced him two or three times, with the most lively tokens of affection. Dorvigne received with much surprise the caresses of an officer of such high rank, whose features be endeavoured in vain to recognise. Those features were quite unknown to him. " What! you do not remember me ? Have twenty years of absence so changed me, that my good and excellent mas , ter does not know his old servant ? one whom he has.treated times out of number with such indulgence ?" " Dubois!" " Yes, I am Jean Dubois—` the Sinipleton,' as you used to call me. It is unkind of you to forget me, because I have supplied you with a model for the most original and success ful of your dramatic creations." " What, my poor boy—what, sir, I should say—have you —have you become a general ? " " Yes, good old friend. In your service I was a sad awk ward fellow, and a great breaker of plates. In the service of the republic and the Emperor, I became a great smasher of our enemies. That which caused me many a reprimand from you, was the stepping-stone in the army to my advancement. But how happy am Ito meet you again ! Two weeks ago I arrived in Paris : day by day have I sought for your address, and I was about giving up my search in despair." " For my address "—said Dorvigne bitterly ; " that was because I have none, my friend—General, I should say." " Call me friend ; that shall now be my name. Since you have no address, you shall take mine, and instal yourself at home with me." " General!" " A general, you know, is accustomed to have his wishes executed promptly, and punctually, and with precision. You shall occupy a little room beside mine. It shall be:so." " But, general!" "Do you resist? Then I take you prisoner." " Fetch a cabriolet," said Dubois to one of the orderlies who attended him, "and you take my horse to the barracks." In two minutes the cabriolet was ready. " Come, Monsieur Dorvigne, take your seat." Dorvigne, half laughing, half resisting, did as requested. The next moment his old servant was by his side. " On my way home," said General Dubois " I will in form you how I attained my present rank, as it appears to astonish you so much. You have not perhaps, forgotten the day on which I was compelled to quit your service, telling me you were not rich enough to maintain a servant. I parted weepingly from one so full of kindness towards me, and I en deavoured to enter into the service of a new master. No one would have me, because I was so awkward. There was no thing left for me but to enter into the service of the state. I enrolled myself in the army. I soon found my comrades lost no opportunity to laugh at my bungling, and ridicule the way I managed my firelock. On one occasion I became an gry, the consequence of which was, I challenged my tor mentors to fight a duel. All I gained by this was three or four cuts of a sabre, and a sojourn for a few months in the hospital. At length I was cured, and rejoined my regiment. Six weeks afterwards we found ourselves in front of an enemies' redoubt, which sustained a murderous fire upon us. Orders were issued to the grenadiers to take it by assault : we ruehed forward : my comrades fell thickly around me : those who remained appeared to hesitate, and were on the point of re treating. I threw myself by a successful lean into the re doubt and shouted, ` Follow me, grenadiers.' The Austrians, intimidated, paralysed with surprise, believed me followed by my regiment, and for a moment ceased firing gre nadiers, encouraged by my example, quickly pushed forward and supported me. We availed ourselves of the moment, and were soon in possession of the place. A dozen pieces of cannon fell into our hands. "The next day I was appointed sergeant. The jeers and jests of my comrades then ceased never to be renewed. My talent for destroying seemed to be put forth in tenfold power. From that moment a wide and brilliant career was opened to deed s . me. I gained promotion step by step until I attained my present rank of general, with no other patronage than my courage. Each advance in rank has been the reward of glo rious and ge neral. I may not, good friend, always remain a ge- Dorvi ' Dorvigne was quickly installed in a charming little "shookapart ment, a hand with the fair world again." His flashes of mirthpaonetd days seemed lik p eace, and repose. Mixing gilded sunset passing off in quietness, againwit burst from his lips, enchanting his once again amongst his equals, the charm of his conversation. hearers. The delighted those around him with host at the rspn. Nor wia he forgetful of his "Burgundy.. a , o meyard." Through the interest of his friend General e of peacelb i t a i , lne substantialruesstless Napoleon turned were stowed his Aft After r upon som e him. tiin thither. attention to the conquest of the great grief of the dramatist, orderedWaseisaa"General Dubois, to For the first three weeks of the . ave the pleasant little nest frequent communications to his old PriPeanign tii t e h m e general sent s th en a t t All at once they ceased, arid Dorvigne one morning read in the Duitbonioswhabdecfaalmleen n b e e c fo es re sa l ry rosc ru ow le ../ p e e r e t h e g eneral had provided. P o or Dorvigne • once more fell i n t o misery. He went to lodge in a small g arret behin d the - Pt e sa St. Martin. Ther e having parted with everything he os bent double by age, and afflicted with a troublesome corn. plaint, he applied to the Theatre de Varieties, (the fortune of which he had beep instrumental in establishing,) for a small pension, apd—was refused. Poor Dorvigne smiled when Gautrin, the manager, an nounced the refusal. From that time his friends ceased to see him in many an old frequented place. They missed him at their tables, where his mirthful sallies flashed and sparkled like the gaiety of his younger days. His most devoted friend, Barba, the librarian, becoming uneasy, sought him in vain throughout Paris. Dorvigne having quitted his apartments in the Rue de Bondy, none knew where he had taken refuge. A short time after his disappearance, Rubie, the director of the Porte St. Martin, was told by one Of his chorus singers that for four days there was lying in a house in the Rue Gren6tal the corpse of an old man, for whom no one seemed to care or willing to claim. On the following day Rubi 6 mentioned this to Barba, who, heart-sick and overwhelmed with sad presentiments, hurried to the garret where the body was said to be lying. What a sight presented itself to his view. There, in a lone and cold garret, with hardly any furniture, stretched upon a poor bed, was all that remained of the once much loved poet, barely clad, pale and emaciated. A prey to dis ease and famine, he had laid him down, exhausted and in pain, upon his mattress to die. Four days his remains had waited the office of a friend to give them burial. On the four nights of those days " The Simpleton" was played at the Varieties to crowded audiences, who laughed and revelled in the enjoyment of the dramatist's wit and fancy. . Thus the son of the peasant, the foot-boy, who seemed nearly half an idiot, became a general, and died gloriously upon the field of battle. The son of a king—the charmingl poet—the graceful au thor, whose thoughts and creations of mind gave entertain ment to thousands—onewho might be said to be like one of our own bards, _ _ . " The delight of all circles, and the idol of his own," lived through the evening of his days in misery, and died deeply steeped in poverty! MISCELLANEOUS THE TOWER OF LONDON.—It appears not to be generally known that all fees to the warders have been abolished, and that one shilling paid by each visitor obtains a view of the crown jewels, armouries, &c. The warders now get com pensation in full for the loss of the fees formerly exacted by A man, named Stone, exclaimed in a bar-room, " I'll bet I have the hardest name in the company." " Done," said one of the company, " What is your name ?" " Stone," cried the first. " Hand me the money," said the other, " my name is Harder." On Monday some of the scenery at the London Opera house fell upon two of the sceneshifters, who lie without any hopes of recovery. READING AND FALMOUTH ELECTION PETITIONS. — These inquiries have terminated, and in each case the sitting members have teen declared duly elected. It appears from a parliamentary return that orders have been issued to la 'nor law unions prohibiting out-door re lief, and that to 4bu such orders have not been issued. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—On Tuesday morning the Ander ston Grain Mills, in Washington-street, Glasgow, were re duced to a heap of ruins by fire. • POISONING.—A verdict of wilful murder has been returned against a servant named Sarah Goss, for poisoning her mis tress, a lady seventy-one years of age, living at Kettering, Northamptonshire. A correspondent in Wednesday's Times, states that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has agreed to take five per cent. on the gross receipts from railway passengers, in lieu of the present mileage duty. SHIPWRECK. — During the night of Thursday last, the brig Leon, of Rouen, laden with wine and brandy, was totally wrecked off Bac Island, and all the crew perished.— Cork Constitution. The subscriptions raised for the purpose of erecting and endowing an episcopal college in Scotland, amount, at pre sent, to £17,000, including £l,OOO from the Society for Pro- The Independent of Brussels contains the following amus ing anecdote :—One of the clerks in the Belgian War-office having been desired to make a fair copy of a petition for a pension from the widow of a general, on the ground of her husband's long services, when he came to the words "devore par u❑ cancer," the disease of which the general died, wrote " devore par un canar," the letters ce appearing to him like an a. On the report being laid before the ::sinister, he sent for the clerk, and pointing out the word canar, inquired what it meant. The clerk made many apologies for his error for having forgotten a letter, and taking his pen added the letter d, thus making it " devore par un canard" (de voured by a duck), and withdrew, convinced that he had repaired his error, leaving the minister convulsed with laughter. The London Record, in giving some Parisian religious in telligence, records the following :—One of the recent works that has distinguished the operations of the French and Fo reign Bible Society has been the publication of the Gospel of St. Mark in raised characters for the use of the blind. Amongst the instances in which this work has been blessed to the comfort and edification of the blind, is mentioned the case of a poor blind girl, who, dissatisfied with the little pro gress she made in reading, owing to the callous state of the fingers arising from the laborious occupations, attempted to peel the skin from the ends of them with the view of render- ing them more sensible, but being disappointed in the result of this painful experiment, her despair at being obliged to relinquish the reading of the precious volume was at its utmost, when she suddenly discovered that by applying her lips to the raised character the sensibility she sought for was obtained. She has since in this manner attained to reading it with ease, and has committed almost the whole of the Gospel of St. Mark to memory. DISSENTING STATISTICS IN CHESHIRE.—This county has a population of 395,300 ; has 487 parishes, townships, &c.; covers 1,052 squares ; has 73,390 inhabited houses ; and has 37 congregational meeting-houses. Of these 37, there are two at Macclesfield, and three at Stockport. Some of the meeting-houses in this county are very small, but we will still adhere to the average of 400 per meeting-house, and we find that only 14,800 can be accommodated out of a population of 395,300. Deficiency, upwards of 380,000. In fact, the real deficiency is much greater, for, instead of 14,800 persons attending these 37 meeting-houses, not more than 10,000 at the utmost are ever present in them. " The Cheshire Union," in support of itinerant preaching, raises about £2OOO per annum, or £6 per meeting-house. It em ploys four agents , to teach and preach over 1,052 square miles, and to 395,300 souls ! Dissenterism dates as far back as 1670, in Cheshire, at a place called Tintwistle, but though 170 years have since passed away, there are only 10,000 con gregationalists out of 395,300 souls. There are some vacan cies of pastors in the congregational places of worship, and three or four places, being unable to support their minister§ are connected with other " causes." Dissent is far from prosperous in Cheshire. - • TAKING THE VEIL.—On Monday morning a spectacle 0, unfrequent occurrence in this country took place at the couvent of " The Sisters of Mercy," which is situated near Hickman's Folly, Bermondsey. 'the ceremony was for the initiation of two young ladies, one of whom was to receive the white veil and the other the religious or black habit of the community. Before eleven o'clock, the hour appointed for the ceremony, the chapel attached to the convent was filled by a numerous congregation, the major part of whom consisted of ladies elegantly attired. As soon as the clock struck eleven the convent bell began to toll, which was the announcement of the entry of the procession into the chapel. The Very Rev. Dr. Griffiths, V. A. L. D., the Bishop who officiated, advanced to the altar, dressed in his pontifical, robes ; in his train were the Rev. Messrs. Fisk, Browman, P. Butler, Harrabin, J. Coyle, Foley, Hearness, H. Lea, and an Armenian monk, named Lazarian ' together with a number of other of the clergy, arrayed iit t robes of white muslin, with gold bands. &c., the choristers, bearers of incense, and others, forming the procession. At a given signal, the choir struck up the hymn to the 'Virgin, " 0 Gloriosa." The sisters of the convent then entered in procession, in the usual costume of nuns, each holding a lighted taper in her hand. The two noviciates, Miss Baxter and Miss Kellett, who are both young ladies of considerable fortunes, followed in order, led by the superioress, assisted by two of the sisters (one of whom was Miss Agnew, neice of Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart., and the other Lady Babara Eyre, daughter of the Earl of Newburgh. The religious names the latter ladies bear are sisters Mary and Clara). The noviciates, Miss Baxter and Miss Kellett, were both elegantly dressed in white embroi dered muslin, weving chaplets of white roses as the head dress. Each held lighted wax tapers in their right hands. After they approached the altar, an exhortation was deli vered by the bishop from the 19th chapter of St. Matthew, 29th verse : " And every one that bath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundred fold, and shall inherit everlasting life." After the exhortation the bishop severally questioned them as to their own free will of taking the holy habit of religion, to which having assented, the noviciates returned to put off their secular dress, and shortly returned in the habits of the nuns. On returning, the hymn " Veni CREATOR" was sung by the choir, during which the two noviciates lay extended flat on their faces be fore the steps of the altar, where they remained until the conclusion of the ceremony, when, after being assisted to rise, they each kissed the other sisters, and the procession left the chapel in the same order in which they entered, and returned to the convent. During the delivery of a very af fecting discourse by the bishop on their retirement from the world, the noviciates showed no signs of agitation, nor did their countenances betray any symtoms of reluctance, but, on the contrary, appeared to be lighted up by an expression of enthusiastic feeling. A WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND.—Saturday after noon, Beaver-court, off Meclenburgh-street, was the scene of a most lamentable and tragic occurrence, when a woman named Mary Connell fell a victim to the ungovernable pas sion of her husband, Michael Connell. The parties occu pied part of a cabin, consisting of only a ground floor, being No. 1 in the court. The man's occupation was that of clearer out of night soil, and a collector of manure, by which he made out a comfortable livelihood ; but it appeared they had lived unhappily together, and had frequent and violent alter cations. Between four and five o'clock on the above-men tioned afternoon some relatives of the Connells, who lived adjoining, and other persons in the neighbourhood, heard the noise of quarrelling (how originating we have not heard) going on in the house. An aunt of Mrs. Connell attempted to enter the place, but found the door fastened from the in side. A brother of Connell's forced it open, and with some others got in, when they found the parties having a hold of each other and engaged fighting—the wife was a remarkably robust, stout woman, the husband of extremely diminutive stature. The persons who entered disentangled them, and forced him out into the street, where they endeavoured to pacify him, but without effect, his passion seemed to be ex cited so as to'be beyond all control. He swore that he would kick her livers out while he had a sole on his shoes, and rushing trom those about him, he got into the house by a back door. He was followed by some persons, and it is said that, immediately on entering the apartment, he raised a smoothing iron which happened to be near him, and flung it at the head of his unfortunate wife, but whether it struck her or not could not be positively ascertained. The woman sunk on the side of a bed apparently as if in a state of exhaustion. Interference with him was attempted by a woman named Halpin, his wife's aunt, but, snatching up a poker, he swore that if she did not instantly leave the place he would give her the same usage. The woman, alarmed for her own safety, hurried away ; but a son of hers, a boy of 13 or 14 years old, remained on the threshhold, and if his account of what he then witnessed be correct, it would appear that Con nell drew out from the deceased, and swearing that he would be hung for her, he struck her a severe blow with his clenched fist about the head, by which she was knocked partly against one of the bed-posts, after which, seizing htr by the neck, he pulled her down towards him, and, as she bent forward, he dealt her a tremendous kick in the throat or stomach. She fell, and never spoke afterwards. Death seemed to have taken place almost instantaneously. The wretched man made no effort whatever to fly, and in a few minutes after the perpetration of the horrid act he was taken into custody by the police, and lodged in Sackville-place station-house. Many minutes had not elapsed till Inspector Dundon, of C division, was on the spot, and he immediately procured a medical gentleman, who examined the deceased, but was unable to discover any external mark or trace of violence whatever on her person, excepting her dress being very much po L al receiving yhn e a r i n p s g, o Liverpool) ff ) a eelt air:s t wfo r ia a unc d istn e i seouffnN w ce hfcieot effects torn. Portions of the husband's clothes were also torn. — Freeman': Journal. occasioned at h iss e iho nN et doh r merchants ntbh gyTs,ht Americaehn eo (chieflyabsence bh sa British eannrcecce erceooodomff creditor state ßrunswick. o w h y u e h sr o s as his claim on an insolvent house in America, if there be cre ditors on the spot, who can at once take possession of all the edtrilais l ela n dr bev t esa h ptnt i e s tecar c tga o esb m olore p ft Ipaotaihfnr the English ee t s h o e pi nlethi Englishne colony cNreedwmi creditor to r ir c rt sureenlnasfhat reacts who re c a hkt r oo e , goods to satisfy th e i r own d eman d s, w i thout b e i ng compe ll ed jftt eoinl a eit nd d hj i aub v tr i y s yt i hs o oee n vf as it tends to destroy credit altogether. A letter written by one of these has been published in a New Brunswick paper, and has been read with great interest by the merchants here who correspond with that colony. This letter exhibits a most melancholy condition of the state even of internal cre dit for the want of a bankru p t law. The merchants and their country c ustomers are described as bei ng afraid to trust each ear hr every " when dealing w ith hi s customers, appears, treading on a ch arge d m i ne; " an d indeed credit has sunk to such a state that the heav y dealers will not sell an article exce p t fur ready mone y , wh ich is v ery other;, ,it said, man, to be scarce on account of a pressure by the banks. The effect of the present state of the law in foreign countries is described as still more serious. Both foreigners and the inhabitants of the mother country have , it is said, lost confidence in th e colony to such a degree, that if a man comes to England with a letter of credit to purchase goods, he is refused on the plea that the credit of the place is gone. T his want of confidence, it is observed by the writer, is not at all to be blamed, but is the natural consequence of the absence of all law by which a cr editor's interests can be protected. Again, it is said, that the want of a bankrupt law operates as a preventive against persons of capital settling in the colony; since, wherever they place their money, they may find their cl aim to it barred by a judgment obtained by some other creditor, without a Possibility of redress. His Excellency Sir George Arthur, accompanied by Lady Arthur, took his departure on Sunday morning for Bombay. A committee has been appointed by the London merchants to watch the Bankruptcy Bill now before parliament. Several of the iron works in the neighbourhood of Wolver hampton have ceased work. A destructive fire occurred at Colchester on Saturday, by which property to the amount of £lO,OOO was destroyed. A subscription of £5OO was on Tuesday last forwarded anonymously to the Church Missionary Society. Seven ships, with sixteen hundred troops, have sailed for India since Sunday. The new Botanic Gardens at Glasgow were opened for the first time on Saturday The army of Poland and Lithuania is, it is reported, almost immediately to be placed on a peace footing. No fewer than 170 religious meetings are announced to be held in London during the present month. Out of 2,787 houses in Pontypool and the parish of Tre vethin, nearly one-half are at present unoccupied, the late residents having emigrated. The Forth steamer left Southampton on Monday, with 22 passengers. The Clyde was expected on Wednesday with the West India mails. It is expected that the Right Hon. J. C. I - Terries and Mr. Fitzroy Kelly will become candidates for Ipswich on the con servative interest. There were no less than 400 sail of vessels waiting, on Wednesday, in the channel for a favourable wind to come up the Thames to the London docks. moting Christian knowledge C. B. Adderley, Esq., M.P., has contributed £5OO, and H. H. Williamson, Esq., £3OO, towards the erection of a church, parsonage house, and school, at Brown Edge, Nor :on-in-the-Moors, Staffordshire. It appears from the report of the council of King's Col lege that the total receipts of the past year amounted to £21,569, and that the number of students who matriculated was 813. A letter from Florence says that the mine of quicksilver, discovered last year in the environs of Peravezza, near Pisa, is in full work, and yielded last month more than 6,0001b5. ; produce that is daily increasing The Courrier Francais states that, according to the rate at which the emancipation of the slaves' in the French West India Islands is proceeding, it will require a century to set them free. _ . We understand that arrangements are being made by the principal booksellers and stationers in Edinburgh to shut their places of business on Saturdays at five o'clock, for the purpose of allowing themselves and those in their employ ment to have a larger portion of time than heretofore for rational amusement and recreation.—Glasgow paper, 23d April, 1842. Frogmore Lodge, the residence of the late Princess Au gusta, has recently been extensively improved, and is to be appropriated for the future to the use of the Duchess of Kent. It is understood that it is intended as the nursery of the infant family of her Majesty and Prince Albert, where they will generally reside, under the same roof as the Duchess of Kent. The eminent preacher, South, who dearly loved a pun, once exclaimed from the pulpit, " marriage was formerly a merry age, but matrimony is now become a matter of money." If this was true in Charles the Second's days, how much truer is it now, when habits of business have superseded everything in the shape of natural emotion ! In affairs of the heart we now split upon settlements, where for merly we split upon sentiment. An old lady, aged sixty, was walking down Camberwell road, London, on Tuesday, and in her anxiety to avoid a boy with an iron hoop slipped off the kirbstone, and fell with such violence to the ground that there is scarcely any hope of her recovery.—[The trundling of iron boops in many of the crowded thoroughfares of Liverpool is a great nuisance, and ought to be suppressed.] At Windsor, on Tuesday, a foreigner ascended 400 feet on the inclined plane of a tightened single cord, the extreme point rising from 30 to upwards of 60 feet in height. When reaching the top he addressed the multitude assembled to witness him, and as there was no ladder sufficiently long to enable him to descend by that means from his immense height, he was compelled to let himself down by clinging to one of the poles to which the rope was affixed, and safely alighted on the ground. WESLEYAN MISSIONARY SOCIETY.—The annual meeting of the Wesleyan Missionary Society was held on Monday, in the great room, Exeter-hall. Colonel Conolly, M.P., pre sided. The Rev. Jabez Bunting read the report for the past year, from which it appeared that the receipts amounted to £101,688 2s. 4d.—(loud cheers)—and the expenditure to £98,754 7s. 9d., leaving a surplus of £2933 14s. 7d. The nett increase of the year, as compared with the preceding, is £11,505 13s. Bd. The present number of principal or central mission stations, called circuits occ upied by the society ill the several parts of the world, is 261 ; the number of mis sionaries employed, exclusive of catechists, 368 ; the number of full and accredited church members, exclusive of those under the care of the society's missionaries in Ireland, 87,2558; and the number of scholars in the mission schools is nearly 60,000. The report was adopted. ADVICE TO TRADESMEN'S ASSISTANTS. —Let no place or circumstance prevent your acquiring knowledge. Whenever and wherever a leisure moment offers, improve it; and, that you may be prepared to do this, always carry a book in your pocket. If the writer may speak his own experince on this point, he would say, that by following this course for years, he has acquired a considerable portion of his information. In waiting for another, if it be but for a minute or two, open your book, you may fasten on a sentence that will sup ply you with matter for hours afterwards. You will be told that, in so doing, business will most likely be neglected, and that business must be attended to ; but may it not be said in answer, that the mind must not be neglected, and and that business cannot be neglected when there is no busi ness to be transacted. The interest of a master is not more likely to be promoted when his servant is sitting or standing idle than when he is enlightening his mind by means of a book ; for if he be not, in his spare moments, gathering up the thoughts of others, it is very probable that his own, like the fool's eye, will be wandering to the ends of the earth. Thousands in this great city waste a considerable fraction of their time in waiting for business. Now, if they cannot put forth fresh efforts to obtain it, it were better for them, till it comes, to occupy themselves in the important duty of mental culture. Time, invaluable time, should never be passed in idleness ; for time, with us, will soon be no more. Acquire knowledge, then, whenever you can. In all places. under all circumstances, acquire knowledge. Let your determination to acquire it be but fixed, and you will succeed.—Prom a pamphlet entitled " Mental Culture." THE OFFICERS OF EXClSE.—Several communications have appeared in our columns relative to the salaries of the working officers of the Excise, particularly the supervisors, and showing that the expenses of a horse, and the cost of five or six journies a week, which are necessary for the proper fulfilment of their duty (nothing being allowed for travelling expenses), swallowed up the greater part of their income, leaving but a small sum to support them and their families which their position as Government officers, and their gene ral integrity, entitle them to hold. A correspondent has since called our attention to an article in Chambers' Jour nal, which points out many of the hardships which have been complained of. The writer observes that the duties of a su pervisor are exceedingly heavy, he being employed in super vising, examining, and sifting the operations of the whole district, which often occupies him 15 hours a day. The sa lary is two hundred pounds a year, out of which in a country district, he is obliged to keep his own horse and pay every expense. This salary, the writer observes, "is inadequate to the severity of the labour and responsibility of the office." The duties of the inferior officer are equally severe, and his accounts are required to be kept with the utmost exactness. Added to this there is the discomfort and inconvenience of removal every few years, not less teasing to the individual than useless in point of public advantage, which prevents these officers renting or furnishing a house on the most eco nomical terms, properly arranging for the education and settlement of their children, or permanently attaching them selves to any religious communion, In fact, the claims of these officers, upon whose diligence, efficiency, and integrity depends the fair collection of a revenue of such vast impor tance to the state, is entitled to the consideration of " the powers that be ;" and, if the matter were fully looked into by them, the justice would be seen of giving to those who are emphatically " the working men" in this branch of re venue, at least an allowance for travelling expenses propor tionate to that enjoyed by the officers of a higher grade.— Chelmsford Chronicle. SINGULAR SCENE AT LOUGHBOROUGH.—On Wednesday, the 20th ult., a woman named Mary Rollett, the wife of a pensioner named William Rollett, formerly of Sutton Bon nington, latterly of Nottingham, died at Loughborough workhouse, worn out with debility and age. She had been almost helpless for a considerable time, and her death had been hourly expected for several weeks before it took place. Her husband was informed of the circumstance, and came over to the funeral, which took place on Friday, the coffin being borne by six inmates of the workhouse. After the grave had been filled up, some children playing near the spot fancied they heard the woman groan, and ran home to tell their mothers of it. In a short time a number of women gathered round the grave, and putting their ears to the earth, were convinced they heard the groans also, and even affirmed that they felt the earth shake from the efforts of the woman to escape from her horrible confinement. It was known that the funeral was a parish one, and the idea immediately came into their heads that the officers at the workhouse had caused her to be buried alive to get rid of her. Burning with the thought, they resolved to open the grave, having first ex hausted all their rhetoric upon the sexton (who stood by a silent spectator), but all to no purpose, for he positively re fused to act without orders from his superiors, and several of them setting to work with their fingers they cleared the rods from the grave in an instant, and commenced raking the earth up with their fingers. The churchyard was soon all in bustle with persons flocking to learn what was going forward, and at last there could not be many short of 2000 present, some manifesting great anx iet y ; others laughing at what they believed to be little short of madness. Mean while the women raked away, changing when tired with other t bystanding females. At length they got a trencher, a broken plate, and a piece of a saw for tools, and the digging went on apace. At first they thirst not use any implements besides their fingers, as a wag had told them that they would not be prosecuted if they used only natural tools, but their earnest ness increasing with their toil, they resolved to bid defiance to what they supposed was law, and dig with what they could get in any way useful. To crown all, a spade was handed in, and one end of th e co ffi n was laid bare in a twinkling, and the other would soon have been, but here the sexton was ordered by the clerk to finish the job. He did so, the coffin was opened, and the corpse was found exactly as it had been placed, the funeral habiliments not disordered, and the body dead enough. Whil e t h e di gg i ng w as going on th e sexton had to stand no little insult from the infuriated women, one of whom, named Barne a sweep's wife, told him h e h a d y, often buried pe o pl e alive for money, and would do it again. She also put her fist in his face, and loaded him with almost every epithet in the genteel vocabulary. Another woman got on a tombstone, and harangued the crowd cn the abomina tions of commissioners and bastiles, and also of workhouse masters who would not hesitate to bury people alive.— Leicestershire Mercury. SUDDEN' REPRIEVE:—On the coast of Patagonia is small town called La Carman, which is under tile Buenos Ayrian government, and which is occasionally subjected to predatory incursions from the Aborigines, who carry off cattle, horses, and sometimes prisoners. In the year 1836 they made a bold attempt to take possession of the town, though it is generally protected by a large party of soldiers. Such was the vigour of the attack that every individual in the town capable of bearing arms was called out by the com mandant. Notwithstanding the powerful attempts made to repulse them, the Indians succeeded in gaining considerable advantage. They sacked the town, and took a number of prisoners, whom they carried away with them to their own territory, where they encamped. Amongst the prisoners was an Englishman, who had been ordered by the commanding officer to bear arms with the rest. The Indians, who were of the Pampa tribe, immediately held a council, and, according to their custom, led out the prisoners to put them to death. The executioner performed his office with the singular weapon which they use to catch wild horses. This weapon consisted of three balls, attached at different distances to a rope of green hide. With this they entangled the legs of the horses, and captured them with great ease. Each of the prisoners, on this occasion, was in succession placed opposite to an Indian, who, holding by one ball, rapidly swung the others round his bead, till, at length, a blow was struck which put an end to the existence of the unfortunate individual who was doomed. Five of the Spaniards were in this manner despatched, and the Englishman was next led forward. He was placed opposite to the Indian who wielded the fatal balls, and expected instant death. His appearance, however, attracted the attention of the chief, who, observing the fairness of his complexion, stepped up to him, and, in broken Spanish, asked him whe ther he were a Christian. Fortunately, the Englishman was aware that Christian was the term by which the Indians dis tinguish the Spaniards. He replied, "No ; lam an English man." " And how came you to fight against us ?" asked the Indian. " I was compelled by the commandant," was the reply. The chief ordered him to be instantly released, pro fessing the greatest esteem for the tribe to which the English man belonged and its chief. The Englishman was not less surprised than overjoyed at his escape, as the reader may readily believe. The chief ordered a horse to be provided for him, and sent a guide with him to put him fairly on his road to La Carman. The above was related to the writer by the gentleman who experienced this rather singular proof of kindness from the chief of the Pampas. That preference is thus accounted for. Some years previously to the occurrence alluded to, the English sloop-of-war Beagle was on a survey of three years in the River Plate and round the coast of Patagonia. During that time the captain of the Beagle made an excursion a considerable distance up the Rio Colorado in his boats. He established a very friendly intercourse with the inhabitants, and made various presents to their chief. On his departure, he erected a flag-staff, and hoisted a union ; jack thereupon. It is to this polite conduct, on the part of the captain of the Beagle, that the gentleman alluded to _ attributes his fortunate escape. It is also worthy of remark, that a crew of Germans, who were cast away on the Patago dian coast about twelve months previously to the occurrence above alluded to, were treated with extreme kindness by the natives. ,s)Otpptlig liturlltgrilfr. TUESDAY, MAY 3.—Wind N.W., changeable. ARRIVED.—David and Robert, from Bilboa—Telemaco, from Palermo--Independence, Holdridge, from New York ; sailed 10th April—Vascongado, —, from Tarragona—Philomene, Chris tenes, from Antwerp—Jane E. Hudson, Kelly, and Rumbold, Green, from Limerick—Elizabeth, Hewitt, from Tralee—and Expe dition, from London. SAlLED.—Woodstock, Nicholson, for St. Thomas—William Ro berts, Morris, Havana—Russell, Winter, for Rotterdam and Cron stadt—Belle, Leader, for Marseilles. Mediterranean, hence for Africa, was spoken 31st March, in lat 43, long 13 Water Witch, hence at Naples James Duncan, Ritchie, hence at Leghorn Portlandshire, Allen, and Magnet, Rocket, sailed from Marseilles for this port 2d April Speedy Packet, hence at Cadiz British Queen, hence off Oporto, 26th April, for Genoa Maypo, Huntress, hence for Lima, and Conqueror, were spoken 14th March, in lat 2 S, long 20 W Valparaiso, Dixon, hence for Valparaiso, was spoken 7th Jan. on the Equator George, Hanley, hence at Mobile Wolfville, Isaacs, hence at New Orleans Caledonia Brander, Malony, hence at ditto Diana, Eldridge, and Ward, Wessels, hence off ditto John Cocks, Cross, hence at Corunna Echo, Renfers, hence at Copenhagen Try, Howes, hence at Helvoet Minerva, Buir, hence at Ostend WEDNESDAY, MAY 4.—Wind W.N.W. ARRlVRD.—Hereford, Raeburn, from Calcutta—Fairfield, Wilson, and United States, —, from New Orleans—Pearl, —, from Mobile—Virginian, Allen, from New York ; sailed 14th April— Pamper°, Roberts, from Buenos Ayres—Betsey Hall, —, from the Mediterranean—Earl of Errol, Wade, from Palermo—Wm. Prowse, from St. Michael's—Henrietta, Luchies, from Antwerp— and Sophia, Brandon, from Norway. Virginia, Hussey, and George, Hanley, hence at Mobile Hope, Soule, hence at New Orleans Royal Sovereign, Walker; Clifton, Ingersoll; Stephen Whitney, Thompson; Roscoe, Huttlestone ; Amazon, Richardson; Mary Kingland, VVeare ; Old Tom, Le Grande, and Southerner, Palmer, hence at New York _ _ . T. P. - Cope, and Stephen Baldwin, Glidden, hence at Philadelphia Aurolius, Foster, and Sophia, , hence at Savannah Eagle, Long, hence for ditto off Charleston, with loss of boats, sails, bulwarks, Ric. Alciope, Bennett, hence at Buenos Ayres Conservative, Lund, hence at Trieste Francis, Russell, from Port-au-Prince, at ditto Waterlily, Burt; Lavinia, Downing, and Rhoda, -- , hence at Venice Undaunted, Foster, hence at Flashing Pursuit, Ruschmer, hence at Swinemunde Brazilian, Taay, from Bahia, at Falmouth Immaculata, Cacaee, from Barletta, off ditto Diamond, -, hence for Danzig, at Dungeness Lotus, Steele, from Sierra Leone, off Salcombe Helen, Taylor, from Bahia, off ditto Vesta, hence for Odessa, off Tuskar 27th April Higgiuson, hence for Barbadoes, was spoken 9th March, in lat 49, long. 10 Ursula, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 12th March, in long. 9. Helvellyn, from Sydney to London, was spoken 9th April, in lat. 44, long. 17, crew sick with scurvey. and supplied with provisions Resolution, hence for Rio Janeiro, was spoken 14th April, in lat. 50, long. lo BEF.RHAVEN, April 29.—A vessel is wrecked in Bantry Bay, with her masts above water ; a few casks of wine, and some of runt and brandy, have been picked up from her, also a board marked Lenor Ro—.' THURSDAY, MAY s.—Wind South AR RI VED.—Uzella, Newton, from Smyrna—Earl of Errol, Wade, from Palermo—Delia, Mitchell, from Lisbon—Lady Scott, M`Fer ran, from Mobile—Majestic, —, from Bombay—Otterspool, Little, and Carribean, Fleming, from Calcutta—Ann, , from Maranham ; sailed 25th March—Mary Ellen, —, from Barba does ; sailed 25th March—Wilsons, Campbell, from Demerara; sailed 21st March—Royal Mint, Searight„ from Jamaica; sailed 12th March—Lucy Wright, Pollock ; Sobieski, Emerson ; Columbia, Cromer; Joh❑ Bull, Rogers; Independence, M`Cappen, and Al banian, Crowell, from New Orleaus—Metoka, —; Lavinia, Downing, and Birmingham, Robinson, from Mobile—Frances, Westcott, and John Bentley, Dickson, from Savannah—Consbrook, Pollock . Huron, , and Sherbrooke, Gray, from Charleston— St. Mark, Alexander. from New York—Sisters, —, from Rouen —Superb, Selkirk, from Memel—Champion, Warren, from Apala chicola—Barbara, —, from the Mauritius—Denison, Pearson, from Antigua—and Brunswick, --, from St. Andrew, N.B. Black Cat, Chesser, from Grocioza, at this port, with cotton from the Mary Ann Hatton ladus, Brown, from Ceylon,. at this port. On 23rd April, in lat. 43 N, long. 10 W, lost mizen mast in a sqnal Selome, Warwell, sailed from Falermo 6th April; Effort, Orfeur, 6th, and Vigna, Napoli, 7th, all for Liverpool Jane, Ridley, hence at Palermo Saiacia, James, hence at Rouen Garrow, henee at Maranham Oxford, hence to New York, was spoken 26th April, in lat. 50, long. 16 Acadia, M'Kenzie, from Portsmoufb. at Mobile Cornelia, Croat, from I ; ?...urra, at Cove Miranda, Simpson, hen at Antigua Jurnna, Clarke, hence at Calcutta Ist March John Bagshaw, Riddington, ditto 2nd Roseana, Johnston, ditto 6th Enterprise, Robertson, ditto 13th Frances, Sharp, hence and Port Pbillip, ditto Harvest Home, Brown, sailed from Saugor 21st Feb. ; Hindos, Mawson, 21st ; Lemnos, Rowell, 25th ; Coaxer, Radley, 3rd March ; Grindley, Grindley, lith, and Annabella, Ward, 12th March, all for Liverpool Bland, Callan, and Intrepid, Stuart, hence at Calcutta Shakespeare, Henderson, hence at Bombay 2nd March Woodman, Good, ditto 18th Reliance, Hall, ditto 30th Wm. Gilles, Clark, ditto 31st • - ' " - • -- Glasgow, sailed from Bombay 12th March ; Adam Lodge, Hen derson, 16th; and Christina, Simpson, I;th, all for Liverpool. Queen Victoria, Black, 17th March ; Devonport, Broadfoot, 28th, and Token, Chalmers, 30th March, for China, and Colchester, Withera, 28th March, for Falmouth Pandora, Cothay, hence at Ceylon Wallace. Main, from Port Philip, at Bombay Ward Chipman, from Bristol, at Port Phillip . Livingstone Rickerty, from China, at Calcutta Artemis, Goulding, from the Cape of Good Hope, ditto 14 idston, hence at Calcutta John Campbell, White, from New South Wales, at China, and was to sail for Manilla gth Feb. Orixa, Ager, hence at Manilla Helen Stewart, Brown, sailed from Calcutta for Colambo 23rd Feb. Malcolm, hence at Sincapore Bencoolen, from China and Manilla, ditto Off the port, Nestor, Victoria, Washington, and Swanton, from New Orleans, and Wm. Russell, and Argyle, from VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, &c. Salisbury, R Cuthbertson, 587 Bombay, G L Jackson & Sons Stirlingshire, Davison, 587 Bombay, Watson & Co AFRICA. Bayfield, W H Jones, 395 Africa, WEST INDIES AND MADEiI?,I T Tobin Theodosia, Cushing, 2g9 Kingston, Jamaica, I mrie &Co SOUTH AMERICA Protector, G Graham, 274 Rio Janeiro, Imrie & Tomlinson UNITED STATES. 1093 New York, Brown. Shipley & Co 749 New York, Roskell, Ogden & Co 948 New York. J 1) Roche Roscius, J Collins, Shakspeare, A Miner, Jane Augusta, J Latham, Clutha, D Mann, BRITISH AMERICA. 170 Newfounhland, EUROPE. W Tarbet Isabella, G Clough, 265 Almeira and Adra, Chapman & Co Patelina, H W Strong, 84 Ancona, J Moss & Co Bridget, W Wade, 127 Lisbon, Hughes, Cowie &Co Fernandes, J X Contente, 192 Lisbon, Vianna & Jones Highlander, F P Carrel, 147 Messina and Palermo, H Smith &Co Mary, It Bowman, 131 Stettin, H Smith & Co Fortuna, S Taay, 194 Narva, Bahr, Behrend & Co Jeannette, C J de Voort, 174 Antwerp, J Johnstone iimparts. EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Hereford, (261) A Reaburn, from Calcutta, 1119 bags sugar, 10 bales safflower, 220 bales jute, order-400 sacks flour, Rawson and co-400 do, Hardman and co-250 do, Reid, Irving and co-682 do, J Gladstone and co -31 bales safflower, D and J Macdonald-100 bags rice, J H Boyle-6 bales raw silk, G Armstrong-2 baskets coffee, Higgin and Lane—sl chests tincal, 488 bags saltpetre, 21 bales cow hides, 120 bags cowries, order—B B Fairfield, (777)J UNITED STATES. L Wilson, from New Orleans, 1944 bales cotton, Brown, Shipley and co-115 do, order Independence, (829) H Holdrege, from New York, 1270 brls tur pentine, order-50 do, J and T Johnson-113 do, Platt, Son and co —1023 do, Fielder Brs and co-49 cases contents unknown, order —2 do, Richardson Brs and co-1 do, C Rawlins-1 do, C Humber stop-8 do, Sadler, Fenton and co-3 do, R Statter-1 box do, Reid, Irving and co-39 tees 31 hf tees cloverseed, J W M'Bride and co-11 tees do, Graham and Taylor-57 brls do, B Brown-46 chests 7Fhf chests tea, (exportation). K Dowie and co-99 hf chests do, C B Buchanan and co-40 do, W Steele and co-15 cases cheese, W Modsley-23 casks do, J Taylor-325 kegs lard, Archer, Daly and co-100 do, J and A Fraser and co-70 do, Bryans, Herd and co-63 packages do, Fletcher, Alexander and co-210 bales cotton, Fielden Brothers and co-93 do, R Wilson, Hallett and co —72 do, Collmann and co-185 do, Brown, Shipley and co-75 do, order-20 hrls jewellers sweepings, Fielding Brothers and co—a quantity shooks, hoops and heading and camboose returned, J and W Robinson-100 brls bread, 4 hhds provisions, P W Byrnes—W D EUROPE. Cicely, (235) T L Evans, from Marseilles, 1400 qrs wheat, order 2 casts wine, 9 bundles cork sticks, 1 keg anchovies, 1 package shells, the master—P D William, (46) J Prowse, from St. Michael's, 122 boxcs oranges, 30 tons bones, no consignee—Q D Sophia, (163) A Gulbrandsen, from Christiana, 1217 masts or spars, 114 deals, 15 deal ends, 50 batten ends, 255 battens, order — B D _ Henriette, (91) J Luchies, from Antwerp, 2s tons oak bark, 53 bales flax, order—l case contents unknown, G Bcley—Q D The business has been stagnant this morning, at the price of last market day, for every description of grain. The new Corn Bill came into operation on Saturday last, and an extensive change was announced in the duties, but still the rates remain practically pro hibitory, scarcely anything having been taken out of bond, and speculators indifferent to the new state of the trade. The weather and the prospects rf the coming harvest appear to be the real sub jects of consideration, and everything is reported satisfactory of the crops up to the present time. The new duty the present week is 13s per qr. on foreign Wheat, and iOs on Barley; but opinions are in favour of higher duties should not ,any unfavourable altera tion in the season take place. The stock of bonded Wheat in the kingdom is about 750,000 quarters; but there is comparatively less of any other description of foreign grain. ----- May 24, W. Munroe, jun., and T. Munroe, Milk-street, City, Lon don, merchants—May 26, S. Hopkins, Croydon, grocer—May 24, S. King, High Holborn, London, woollen-draper—May 21, C. Robottom, Holborn-hill, London, tavern-keeper—May 24, W. Straker, West Strand, London, bookseller—May, J. Cuisset, Black friars-road, London, jeweller—May 24, R. Richards, J. Briant, and J. Cocker, Shadwell, London, rope-makers—May 26, J. Wates, Old Kent-road, London, victualler—June 3, S. Tarbottom, Live] pool, factor—May 25, J. Cotter, Toxteth-park, Lancashire, joiner— Aug. 15, W. Horsnaill, Dover, carpenter—Aug 15, J. W. Pitcher, Crabble, Kent, miller—June 7, W. S. Bateson, J. Wilson, and J. Langhorn, Berwick-upon-Tweed, bankers—May 24, S. E. Weldon, Cambridge, butcher—Aug. 16, S. Peake, Ramsgate, builder—May 31, R. Briant, Whitchurch, Oxfordshire, builder—May 27, W. Dickinson and T. Throp, Blackburn, Lancashire, ironfouriders—May 26, T. Bemrose, Spalding, Lincolnshire, - grccer—June 6, J. Threlfall and T. Threl fall, Manchester, merchants—May 23, J. Sly, Melcombe Regis, Dorsetshire, draper. ffttivitets. WARRINGTON CORN MARKET, MAY 3. Total quantities. Total amount. Price per quarter Wheat, qrs. 99 Barley .... 180 Oats 8ean5...... 0 LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 3. A very quiet market, with little business doing, not exceed ing 2000 bales, of all descriptions, at yesterday's prices. COTTON MARKET, MAY 5 We have experienced rather a dull Cotton market. The sales yesterday were about 3000 bales, and the same quantity sold to day, buyers only purchasing for their immediate wants. 20 vessels arrived with Cotton to-day. We may expect a large import this month. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET, MAY 2. For the primest Beasts there was a steady demand, as likewise for Sheep. The numbers at market this morning are not so large as on Monday last. The price Of all kinds of Meat is precisely the same as on Friday last. there being a pleasant trade for Beef, at 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; for Mutton, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; for Pork, 4s to ss; Lamb, from 6s ad to 7s ; and for Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d,psr stone. _ _ . MANCHESTER AND OW MARKET, M SALFORD DE, SKIN HI AY , AND 4. The price of Hides, all weights above 601bs, 3d per lb, Cheviots and half-bred 3s gd to 4s 6d; large skins (Irish and Yorkshire) 5s to 6s. Tallow 4s 6d per stone of 141bs. SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, MAY 5. We have had about the same quantity of Beasts at market to. day as last week, but more buyers. In consequence of many butchers not having purchased last week. but who had supplied themselves the week before, which was a full market, an advanced price was asked, and obtained, for prime Beef, which fetched from 6id to 7d . per lb, middling 6d to t id. Mutton was in large supply, and brought 6d to 6id per lb, being chiefly all clipped• A few . Beasts and Sheep unsold. LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET, May 2 s. d. s. d.t s. d. s. d. ____ ... _. Potatoes, 90th Old Hay .... 0 74@0 nip 20th. Pink-eye - Cups 2 5 2 6 Clover •Hay.. 0 7 0 10 - Short Tops 1 10 2 0 Straw, Wheat 0 41 0 6 v 24th Cattle - Turnips, v ton - Carrots w none IManglevnuile 0 0 0 0 *ton Moderately full market, with a very fair demand. LONDON CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 3 The supply of Wheat from Essex and Suffolk was much smaller than on this day se'nnight, but from Kent it was good : the condi tion continuing to improve, we were enabled to realise the same prices. Free Foreign Wheat meets a very slow sale at Friday's rates, and some parcels of bonded have been offering, duty paid, without much business being transacted. The new Corn Law is now in operation, but some quantity of Flour will be released from bond, but not a great deal of Wheat at present. Barley is Is to 2s cheaper; Peas of all sorts and Beans have declined is last Mohday. The Oat trade remains in the same state. WEDNESDAY, May 4 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 3 Of English, Irish, and Foreign 'Wheat together, the arri vals since our report of this day week furnish a liberal supply, with several parcels of Malt coastwise, and a fair increase of Oats, Oatmeal, and Flour from . Ireland, including 1000 brls. of the latter from Marseilles. The royal assent having at length been given to the new corn bill, duties were receivable at our Custom-house yester day, agreeably to the annexed scale, which admits colonial Wheat and Flour at the lowest rates, and such may now be considered free for consumption : it is not likely, however, that any large portion of those articles comprised in the stocks of foreign in bond, will be released until the averages shall have attained a more favourable point. The following are the quantities of grain, Flour, and Oat meal computed to remain in Liverpool, on the 2d May, 1842 : In Bond.—Wheat, 209,032 qrs. ; Barley, 11,271 qrs. ; Oats, 13,584 qrs. ; Rye, 500 qrs. ; Beaus, 21,166 qrs. ; Pease, 7,787 qrs. ; F10urG5,166 brls. Free.—Wheat, 25,000 qrs. ; Barley, 5,000 qrs. ; Oats, 12,000 qrs.; Rye, 400 qrs.; Beans, 20,000 qrs.; Pease, 5,000 qrs. ; Flour, 5,000 brls. and 5,000 sacks ; Oatmeal, 80,000 loads. _ _ The effects of this measure having been, already, in a great degree, anticipated, little impression seems now to be produced upon the trade by its actual coming into operation ; for the present we are unable to notice any decided increase in demand, but may shortly calculate on some improvement in this respect, with a more steady and regular trade than has been, for some time past, experienced. The transactions in Wheat at this day's market, which were chiefly confined to retail purchases, were altogether to a very moderate amount, and although in a few cases the' finest descriptions rather exceeded the rates of this day se'n night, the various kinds of Mediterranean and other middling Wheats were generally obtainable on somewhat lower terms. English and Irish Flour was in limited request, at late prices, while States and Canadian receded is per barrel. In bond, the only transactions noted to-day were confined to a few hundred quarters of States and Ancona Wheat, for Ireland, the former at Is 7d, the latter at 7s per 701bs. Malting and grinding Barley, upon a very dull sale, de clined is per qr. • and Malt hardly sustained its previous value.—Beans and Pease remained unvaried. The Oat trade, being languid, prices gave way ld per 45 lbs ; and Oatmeal, although held at last week's rates, was very unsaleable to-day. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 5. Wind at Holyhead S.W. moderate in the morning. Off Holyhead, at 5 a.m. No. 218 g, Fatima, B.S. from London, and 3257, Troubadour, (steamer) at g a.ns. from Bristol. No further communication received from Holyhead owing to thick weather. Wind at Point Lynas, S.W. blowing fresh during the evening. Off Point Lynas, at 1 30 p.m. No, 5128, Shannon, ship, from Mobile, (telegraphed wherefrom.) Several vessels inward bound, in want of pilots. _ _ _ Off Voel Nant, at 6 a.m. No. 2649, Denison, ship, from Antigua ; 6531, Kestrel, Bk. at 9 a.m. from London; 3615, Speed, Bk. at I I a.m. from Buenos Ayres, and several other vessels outward bound. In Crosby Channel, at anchor, at 9 30 a.m. No. 3419, Majestic, ship, from Bombay; 9507, Thomas Battersby, 8.8. at anchor, near the N.E. Buoy, at 10 15 a.m. from New Orleans. Off the port, at 6 p.m. 3 ships, 3 barques, 2 brigs & 3 schooners. PRICES OF SHARES, MAY 5. Prices within the last seven days. This days RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. es ices Bolton and Preston Birmingham and Gloucester Ditto quarter Birmingham and Derby lOO Bristol and Exeter 7O • • • • Birkenhead and Chester Ditto, new Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Ditto new Shares.... 2 6 8 Ditto, Debentures Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 20 paid Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 25 paid O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0. 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 0 17 6 5 15 5 O 0 0 55 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 5 6 8 55 0 0 Half Shares... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarl Greenock, and Ayr........ .50 paid Grand Junction Ditto half shares Quarter 5 .• . New ditto 25 .... Great Western 65 .... Ditto new shares 5O .... Ditto Fifth Shares Great North of England .. Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 47 10 Leicester and Swannington.. 50 .... Leeds and Selby Liverpool and Manchester lOO .... Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares 5O ... London and Birmingham 9O .... Ditto quarter shares Ditto old shares Ditto new London & Brighton Ditto new London and South Western Ditto, loth shares Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham 4O .... 6 0 0 0 0 0 191 0 0 . 95 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... 26 15 0 94 10 0 .... 65 0 0 .... 10 10 0 .... O 0 0 ex. • 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... O 0 0 187 10 0 ex. O 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... 181 0 0 ...181 0 0 37 5 0 .... 61 0 31 0 0 36 12 6 .... 8 2 6 .... 63 15 0 .... O 0 0 .... 61 0 0 .... 28 15 0 O 0 0 88 0 0 .... 3g 5 0 .... 39 5 0 6 15 0 .... 79 10 0 ... 19 12 6 .... 65 10 0 .... 35 15 0 .... 32 15 0 21 18 4 .... O 0 0 .... O 0 0 ... O 0 0 18 0 0 .... 17 5 0 .... 32 0 0 4 2 6 .. 3 12 6 pm O 0 0 32 10 0 .... Ditto and Ditto Exten; -: ,ion Manchester and Leeds Ditto half shares Ditto quarter shales Midland Coun ties Ditto, quarter North Midland New North Midland One-third Shares North Union Newcastle and Carlisle Ditto quarter shares Ulster Paris and Rouen South Eastern and Dover .. pm. New shares & interest.. pm. York and North Midland Half Shares 50 paid 15 .... BANKS. Bank of Liverpool .... ......el2 10s paid - Borough Bank lO .... - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... - Commercial of England. 5 ... , East of England ..... 10 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 lO - Liverpool Banking Co lO - Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings L'pool and Harrington Water) Stock Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... L'pool Gas Light Company, (Original Stock) 100 .... Ditto new Shares .... 100 .... L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. M'chester Assurance Company. 10 .... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. Ocean Assurance Liverpool Marine Assurance } io paid Company 18 10 0 13 /9 0 .... 13 10 0 17 0 0 17 2 6 O 0 0 O 0 0 .... 0 0 0 .... 0 0 0 ... 0 0 0 .... O 0 0.... O 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... 10 12 6 .... O o 0 O 0 0 .... 174 0 0 0 0 0 o o 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANII Anderton Carrying Company .. 16 5s Rock Ferry Steam Tug Company Harrington Docks Apothecaries' Company Asphaite (Liverpool) (Poloncean) 0 0 0 10 100 9 2 2 Is, &c. O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. *Wool), Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid , Duty. Archangel £l9 10 @ 20 0 Memel 18 0 19 0 Gothenburg ll 10 - - 16 0 I Not above 16 ft Wyburg l6 10 - 18 0 , F.£l9. B. P. 2 Petersburg l5 10 -13 0 , 21 feet. PLANES, per foot of 2 inches thick. £22.. £2 los Danzig, Deck 0 3k— 0 al l , British American Pine 0 2g— 0 04 J LATHWOOD, per fathom. Danzig, 4 feet ................ £ 8 0 British American 4 0 MAHOGANY, per foot of 1 inch thick. Honduras 0 51 — Cuba 0 8 St. Domingo 1 o OAK PLANKS, British Americ an none 1 Not ab. 36 in. FRAxwoon, per cubic feet 3 0 STAVES, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe ............ £135 0 —lBO-45 0 1 B.P. 2s Hhd. 7O 0 Quebec, red, ii inch thick, 1 30 0 ~ ~ .el 3s. B ands 4 feet long .......... J ~ 0 2 6 4s Do. Puncheon lO 10 —lB 0 3 0 6s TIMBE a, per cubic foot. S. d. 5 . d . Oak. ! 10 2 n Pine, British Amer. cod common 0 0— 2 0 " 0 red l7 , lOs yellow -1 4 Per load. Danzig,middling 2 0 2 2 12 15s.load Memel, middling 2 0 2 : R i ga , r ed 2 4 2 g 10 .e 4 5s .5 10 15s. 0 lOs I 0 2 0 . las 6dper load 5 0 11s6d. LONDON GAZE7TE.—TuEsDAY, MAy.3. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED J. Bevington and F. Jee, Liverpool, tea-brokers—T. Deveny and G. tiirkett, Liverpool, chronometer-makers — J. Tillotson and J. Alexander, Manchester, iron-merchants. INSOLVET. ,—Stephen Vowles. Bristol, plasterer. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED Hatfield Nicholson, Canterbury, carrier. William Bury, Blackburn, corn-dealer. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Johnson, Liverpool, stationer, May 18, June 14, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Cuvelje, Skilbeck, and Hall, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, Lon don, and Mr. Thomson, Liverpool. Richard Sutton, Warrington, Lancashire, wheelwright, May 12, June 14, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Adlington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford.row, London ; and Mr. Ashton, or Messrs. Nicholson and Sons, War . I rington. • Robert Elliott. Liverpool, wine-merchant, May 18, June 14, at twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. Dim mock, Sise-lane, Bucklersbury, London; and Mr. Pairclough, Liverpool. Francis James Osbaldeston, St. Alban's, horse-dealer. James Bradshaw and George Williams, Marylebone.street, Picca dilly, London, woollen-draper. William Crosby, Benjamin Vallentine, and Benjamin White, Hounsditch, London, hardwareman. John More, Coleman-street, City, London, merchant. Robert Marsh, Upholland, Lancashire, provision-dealer. John Cree, Devonport, draper. Joseph Pidcock and Thomas Burton, Nottingham, corn-factors. George Hibbert, jun., Chesterfield, pawnbroker. Elizabeth Havard, Swansea, grocer. Dodshon Blake, Norwich, mohair-manufacturer. Edward Goddard, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, draper. William Antill, Bourne, Gloucestershire, umbrella-stick-manu facturer. William Wallis and John Wallis, Wragby, Lincolnshire, corn merchants. DIVIDENDS CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or before Hay 24. W. Caton, Preston, ironmonger —J. Parsons, Peasley-hill, Not tinghamshire, maltster—W. Backhouse, Leeds, oil-merchant—W. R. Bayntum, Bath, surgeon—P. Carr and C. Bell, Leeds, tiax spinners—W. Yewens, Golden-terrace, Barnsbury.road, Islington, scrivener—J. M Gipps, Howland-street, Tottenham-court-road, London, wine-merchant—T. Hill, St. Mary Axe, merchant. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. MAY. HOUR 6, Cunnard and Ingraham, (. 6, William Darlington, (2nd) Clarendon Rooms, I I Ditto, 12 Piers Lowe. 13, S. and W. T. Clough, (proof & div.) 13, James Ashton, (proof and div.) 13, Elizabeth Linstead, 2nd . Ditto, 12 Ditto, 1 Brabner 8:: Atkinson's, 12 14, Thomas Hampson, (proof and div.) 14, William Haskayne, (proof and div 14, Joseph Turner, (special TIDE TABLE Mrn, Height. i'Sundays,' Holyday,. Ste H. U.. 0. 0. v. I. Friday .. 6 831 854 12 8 St. John, Evangelist. Saturday 7 914 934 13 10 Saturn rises Oh 16m morn Sunday.. 8 953 10 9 14 11 Sunday after Ascension. Monday. 9 10 27 10 44 16 2 Easter Term ends. Tuesday .10 11 3 11 20 16 2 New Moon. Wednes .11 11 38 1i 55 16 8 Thursdayl2 - 0 14 16 8 LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT April3o, 1840 DISCHARGED ADMITTED. In-patients cured Relieved and at own request 9 Out-patients Made Out-patients ....• ... 0 Casuals during the last week 4 Irregular Dead Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson. Chaplain Rev. R. Davies. House Visiters, John Crossfield and N. D. Bold, Esqrs. Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon Mr. Brandreth. E W. JACKSON. Treasurer PREMIUMS OF INSU RANCE AT I 'LOYD'S Outward LONDON & LIVERPOOL, Jamaica Leeward Isl. Dem. & Berbice Honduras Havana New York, Boston Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Canada British North America Newfoundland Brazils - River Plate East Indies China Batavia New South Wales Cape of Good Hope Africa Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, &c. Malta, Sicily, &c. Smyrna and Co►wtai,tinuple . Malaga Madeira Western Isles, Cape de Vents. Lisbon Cadiz France Rolland Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm .... Petersburg, Riga, &c. Oporto 25s Od@ 30 0 60s Od @ , 84 0 30 0 0 0 20 0 0 0 40 0 0 0 35 0— 40 0 30 0-40 0 30 b SO 0 -105 0 60 0 - 70 0 20 0 -- 25 0 20 0- 25 0 40 0 - 60 0 40 0-60 0 40 0-60 0 30 0 -- 40 0 25 0 - 30 0 30 0 - - so o 6o 0 50 0-60 0 0 0 0 0 25 0 30 0 35 0 —4O 0 35 0-40 0 50 0 60 0 35 0-40 0 40 0 50 0 40 0-50 0 30 0 35 0-40 U 60 0-84 0 35 0- 40 0 40 0 - 126 0 - 15 0 17 6 so o 60 0 25 0 30 0 40 0 50 0 20 0-25 0 15 0-20 0 17 6 - 20 0 40 0 - - 17 6 -20 0 20 0 - 25 0 17 6 -20 0 15 0- 20 0 20 0-25 0 20 0 - - 20 0 - - 25 0-30 0 30 0 - 35 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 - - 17 6 - 20 o 17 6- 20 0 20 0 30 0 - 40 0 40 0 - 50 0 20 0-25 0 17 6-20 0 MARRIED At Walcot, COMPTON C. DOMVILE, Esq., 85th Regiment, eldest son of Compton Domvile, Bart., to ISABELLA, daughter of Sir GEORGE ARTHUR, Bart., Govenor of Bombay. On the 14th of October last, at Sydney, N. S. Wales, ARMYNE BOLDEN, Esq., of Melbourne, son of John Bolden, Esq., Hyning hall, Lancashire, to ANNA MARIA, (laughter of JAMES RAY MOND, Esq., Postmaster-General. On the 19th ultimo, at Stoke-upon Trent, HENRY, second son of JONATHAN AKROYD, Esq., Woodside, Halifax, to SOPHIA EMMA, only daughter of the late TMOMAS BALE, Esq., barrister at.law, and niece of John Ridgway, Esq., Cauldon-place, Stafford shire Potteries... . On the 20th ult., at Ordsall, Nottinghamshire, JOHN KNOWLES, Esq.. Darcy Lever-hall, near Bolton, to LETITIA, daughter of ROBERT MILLINGTON, Esq., of Ordsall, late of Manchester. On the 23rd ultimo, at Sheffield, Mr. JAMES MARSDEN, of this town, to ELIZABETH, second daughter of the late Mr. W. DER WENT, of Crookes-moor, Sheffield. Same day, Mr. WILLIAM FLETCHER ROOM, sailmaker and ship-chandler, to ANN, only daughter of Captain HANNAH. On the 28th ultimo, at Manchester, JOHN RICHARDSON, Esq., Wilton Polygon, to MARY MARVELLE, third daughter of the late PETER BURTON, Esq., of Ryecroft-house, Cruiepsall. Same day, at Warrington, Mr. JOHN E. CHRISTIAN, of this town, to ELIZABETH, daughter of THOMAS ROBINSON, Esq., of the former place. On the 29th s ultimo, at Portobello, (near Edinburgh,) by the Rev. Francis Thornburgh, EDWARD MAHON, youngest son of the late Sir DAVID ROOSE, to ALICE ANNE, youngest child of Dr. PAUL WESTON, of Charleston, South Carolina, and grandchild and co heiress of Plowden Weston, Esq. On the 2nd instant, at the Parish Church, Lancaster, by the Rev. H. Manby, vicar, THOMAS WILSON, Esq., of Hornsea, York shire, to SARAH ELIZABETII, eldest daughter of the late JOHN COLLINSON, Esq., Hull. Same day, at Over Peover Church, by the Rev. F. T. O'Donoghue, THOMAS HOLLAND, Esq., Weaver-hall, near Middlewich, to ANN, youngest daughter of Mr. DANIEL ANTROBUS, of Over Peover, in the county of Chester. On the 3rd instant, at St. Augustine's Church, by the Rev. Dr. Tattershall, ROBERT, eldest son of the late FENTON T. LAMBERT, Esq., of Elland-hall, Yorkshire, to MARIAN, second daughter of Mr. WILLOUGHBY G. WEISS. Yesterday, at Christ Church, by the Rev. Leonard Slater, EDWARD, only son of EDWARD GIBBON, Esq., to ALICE. second daughter of the late NICHOLAS ASPINALL, Esq., of Everton. Same day, at St. Mark's Church, by the Rev. B. A. Marshall, JOHN STARR DE WOLF, late of Wolfville, Nova Scotia, now of Liverpool, merchant, to CAROLINE LUCY, second surviving daughter of JAMES EARNSHA W MARSHALL, Esq., of Belmont park, near Taunton, Somersetshire. DIED Lately, at Bristol, in her gird year, ELIZABETH, relict of THOS. BONVILLE, Esq., and sister of the late EDWARD ASH, Esq. By her decease the Charity Trustees of Bristol become possessed of 30,000 and upwards for charitable purposes. On the 16th of February last, at Vera Cruz, Mexico, aged 26, Captain WILLIAM HODSON, of the barque Storm King, of thi s port. On the 15th ultimo, aged 31, Mr. JAMES MACFIE, plumber. On the 20th ultimo, at Alverthorpe-hall, near Wakefield, in his 74th year, FRANCIS MAUDE, Esq., F.R.S., barrister-at-law, and a deputy-lieutenant and magistrate of the West Riding of the county of York. On the 22nd ultimo, aged 19, WILLIAM, the son of Mr. WM. BICKERSTAFF, upholsterer, Whitechapel. On the 23rd ultimo, JOHN PRITCHARD, son of ROBERT MORRIS, broker and agent. On the 26th ultimo, at Preston, the Rev. JOHN DOBSON, in his 7gth year, for many years head master of Kirby Lonsdale Grammar School. On the 27th ultimo, aged 62, DOROTHY, relict of the late Mr WILLIAM WHITE. Same day, aged 35, Mr. THOMAS BOOTH, licensed victualler, Prince William-street, Toxteth-park. Same day, Mrs. DIERDENT,Iaie of Thatto-heath, near St. Helen's. Same day, drowned accidentally in the river Mersey, in the 25th year of his age, JAMES RAMSAY, Egg.. eldest son of the late James Ramsay, Esq., of St. Petersburg. On the 23th ultimo, at Hamilton-square, Woodside, aged 21 years, MARGARET, eldest daughter of ALEXANDER THOMP SON, Esq., merchant, 3, India buildings. Saine day, at Everto" n" -crescent, JOHN JONES, merchant, one of O t n he t d h i e re 3 c o to th rs u of lti tr o, No a r t th c at p d hain Sou . t e h om W n a w le n s , Bank.aged 30, JAMES BARTLEY, Esq. surgeon. On the ist instant, Mr. WILLIAM HARRIS, aged 45 years, deeply regretted by all who knew him. Same day, CHARLES, infant son of MI. C. A. MACAULEY, Mount-pleasant. Same day, at Canterbury -place, London, the Rev. EDMUND GRINDROD, late president of the Wesleyan Conference. Same day, at the house of her sister, Islington, after a long and painful illness, Miss MARY POLDING, aged 26 years, youngest daughter of the late Mr. John Polding, of Stand-house, Croxteth. Same day, aged 26 years, JOSEPH, only son of JAMES and MARY PRI CE, of this town. On the 3rd instant, Mr. THOMAS HARBRIDGE, grocer, Pitt street. 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