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ottrp. THE PENNY POST. Of all the posts, the penny post Is that which 1 delight in most, Since now my litters, few or many, Come with the friendly prepaid penny. So, be they full of wit or phlegm, My only, tax is reading them. Thus, housemaids now can send their letters A s free andfrank-ly as their betters ; And waft a sigh, in strains of Pindus, From kitchen fires are far as Indus ; Or launch their passion hot as coals, To warm their lovers at the poles. All bail, then, penny-letter trade, (The best reform the whigs have made) Whose flaky showers, like March-tide hail, Cl'erspread the earth by ev'ry mail. PHILO-DENARIUS. iniprrw.l parliannitt. HOUSE OF LORDS.—Tuu asDA.v. Many petitions, chiefly for and against the repeal of the corn laws, were presented. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented petitions from officers of the British auxiliary legion, complaining of the treatment which they had experienced, and the delay in the payment of their claims. His lordship entered into very ex tensive details on the subject. The Earl of CL AREY DON said that the best answer he could give would be to read the report of the commissioner (Mr. Alcock) appointed on the part of the legionists. Among other matters, it set forth that 3415 certificates had been signed by the commission ; that credit had been given for 1500 warrants, on which no claims had been preferred ; and that £9OOO had heen set apart to meet those claims ; that the whole amount claimed was £280,000 ; and that of such sums, claims to the amount of £260,000 had been allotted. It transpired that those warrants had not b een paid, were not negotiable , and did not bear interest. The Duke of WELLINGTON inquired whether there would be any objection to produce the commission ? Lord MELBOURNE answered that there would be no ob jection to present the report of the commissi oners . The report of the Metropolitan Police Courts Act Amend ment Bill (as amended in committee, with two new clauses to counteract the machinations of " common informers ") was presented and agreed to. The Marquis of WE STM E ATH gave notice that on Thurs day next he would !pone the appointment of a s el ec t com mittee to inquire into the working of the poor laws in Ireland ; after which their lordships adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY. A great number of petitions were again presented, chiefly in favour of, and against the corn laws. Lord J. RUSSELL having brought up the bill _respecting Canada, which was read a first time, - on moving that it be read a second time, said that he wished to correct a misap prehension which had taken place of something that had fallen from him with regard to clergy reserves, and which perhaps, if not corrected, might lead to serious misunder standings in Canada. It had been stated that he expressed himself unfavourably to the general nature of the measure which the legislature of Upper Canada had passed, and that the Governor-General had proposed a measure totally op posed to the views of the government. This was far from being the meaning of what he had said. What he had said was, that it was a difficult thing to have a measure with re gard to the subject which would entirely coincide with one's own abstract notions, or with what might have been feasible forty years ago, but which was not practicable now. He went no further in his observations, which applied generally to the opinions held about church establishments. So far from annulling what the Governor-General had done, they entirely approved of the course, thinking it would be a means of restoring peace to Upper Canada. The bill was ordered to be read a second time on Monday se'nnight. Mr. MACKINNON gave notice of his intention of moving for a committee to investigate the subject and provide legis lative enactments for the regulation of the emigration of la bourers from India to British Guiana. A conversation ensued as to the appointment of the com mittee on the surrender of opium in China. Lord Sandon objecting to the preponderance of fifteen ministerialists to six conservatives.—The appointment was ultimately post poned. Mr. HERRIES referring to the post-office returns as printed, said in the estimate with regard to the post-office between the time of its being laid on the table of the house and the time of its being'printed, a difference had been made of £BO,OOO. That was a circumstance which he thought ought to be ex plained. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER observed that there had been no concealment or fraud. The post-office had made out an estimate and sent it in, but just as that estimate was actually printed the secretary of the post-office stated to him, in a letter, that some mistake had been made in the calcula tion, and requested to be allowed to put in the altered esti mate. Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that he should move that the order for the attendance of Mr. Sheriff Evans be put off till the 4th of May. Mr. HERRIES observed, that about eighteen months ago a cargo of rough rice was brought from America, and when in-. troduced into this country it was charged with a duty of 2s. 6d. per bushel. The parties importing it claimed, under the American treaty with this country, to be placed on a footing with the most favoured nations in respect of the du ties on similar commodities. He•wished to know whether it had yet been decided that the cargo should be admitted on the terms the claimants desired ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the proper communication on this suoject was between the American minister and the treasury. Mr. HERRIES gave notice that he would move for certain papers connected with the case. The law of evidence (Scotland) bill was brought up. The adjourned debate on the corn laws was then resumed. Mr. W ODEHOUSE began in a very discursive speech, op posing Mr. Villier's motion, and combating at great length the opinions expressed by Mr. Jones Loyd in his late pam phlet on the currency. Mr. RICH treated the question historically. From 1774 to 1790, under the free system, prices had been steady, and 500,000 additional acres had been brought into cultivation. Under the present law the fluctuations had been extreme. It was complicated with many steps, and these abrupt, espe cially in the very part of the scale where they ought to have been easiest—where the prices exceeded 655. It was to have produced moderate pikes, steady supply, and prosperity to at least the agricultural classes. All these anticipations had been disappointed. It had been said, however, that so great a nation as ours should grow her own corn. Would 3ou extend that argument to tea, to coffee, to cotton ? It was im possible for her, with ber great population, to render herself independent of foreign supplies. A fixed duty would give not only a steady import, but a revenue which would pre clude the necessity for any new tax. Captain HAMILTON deprecated the disturbance and the distress which must follow from a repeal of the present law. It was not for this densely-people,: country to throw all the inferior lands out of cultivation, and render itself dependent on the states of Germany. A great landholder in .1-lamp shire, now employing upwards of forty labourers, bad in formed him that if the present law were repealed he should be unable to employ more than fifteen. What, then, was to be the refuge of all the remainder, disrlaced by the abandon ment of cultivation on the inferior lands ? The union work house, where they might expect, ere long, to be joined by their former masters. . Lord MORPETH said that his persuasion of the impossi bility of forming a cabinet which would be united in the par ticular view entertained by himself had reconciled him to the consideration that on this question the present ministry was divided in opinion. Although he spoke not with the weight which might have attached to him had he been representing the sentiments of the government, yet he felt himself bound to say a few words on behalf of his constituents, who took an anxious interest on the subject. Even districts merely agri cultural in the riding which he represented had joined in pe titions for an alteration of the law ; and if he were not now to concur with them, he knew not how he could put up our common prayer for daily bread. He wished a general inter change of produce between all parts of the world. Monopoly should be banished from the family of nations, like selfish ness from private life ; and philanthropy and patriotism should be synonymous terms. He did not deny the expe diency of some protecting duty, nor would he prejudge the question whether it ought to be fixed or graduated, though his own impression was in favour of the fixed, as promoting uniformity of supply, and preventing sudden exportations of bullion. The argument against agitation was in favour of the side he espoused, for agitation could be stopped only by the removal of the grievance. But gentlemen were like the vestry in Oliver Twist, all struck with consternation, because the hungry asked for more to eat. This motion might be nega tived ; but he was confident of eventual success. Having lived to see freedom of religious opinions, and freedom from personal slavery, he trusted also to see freedom of trade in corn. Mr. G. KNIGHT observed, that if mere modifications were desired, it would be idle to make a comprehe ns i ve re f e rence to a committee, which could produce nothing but disappoint.. ment. But the people were beginning to understand the subject, and to know that free trade in corn was not compati ble with high wages, and that its only effect would be that of enabling the master manufacturers to increase their own gains at the cost of the operatives, and the landlords, and to grind their workmen still lower. No novelty had been pro. duced since the rejection of this attempt in the last session, except one which he much regretted—the exhibition of a ma jority of the cabinet ministers in hostility to the agricultural interest, but sheltered under the high-minded expedient of an open question. The present law, though of courseit could not control the seasons, had much mitigated the evil arising from their inequalities. He appealed for support more espe cially to the members for Ireland, whose staple was agricul ture. Mr. PRYME proposed to add to the motion for a com mittee, by way of amendment, the words • 4 with a view to the reduction of the average prices specified in the table an nexed to the act (the 9th of George IV.) according to which the respecti ve d ut i es are imposed." He grounded his recom mendation on the argument that agriculture is entitled to a protection in proportion to that which is given to other arti cles of general consumption. He supported his views by extracts from Adam Smith and Ricardo. Agriculture, he would remind th e h ouse, was subjected almost exclusively to the burdens of tithe, and to a much larger proportion of church, county, highway, and poor rate, than other branches of industry were liable to bear. He contended, however, that the present protection was too high, that it occasioned frequent fluctuations, and that it injured our commerce and manufactures, the prosperity of which was most important to agriculture itself ; and his conclusion was, that the requi site protection would be grievously injurious in years of scarcity. Such years, he showed, had occurred not only under the present law but under the system existing at the close of the last century, which was practically a system of free trade. Mr. W. DUNCOMBE opposed the motion for a committee. He was persuadqd that neither a fixed duty nor even a repeal of all duty whetever would satisfy the agitating parties. Their object was a general abolition of all burdens, of which this was only one. If the duty on foreign corn were to be re moved, you must remove the duty on all other foreign com modities. Was government prepared to surrender these sources of revenue ? Mr. CLAY supported the original motion. The house, though thin, was now inattentive and noisy, and called not unfrequently for a division, while the hon. gentleman endea voured to enforce the necessity of conceding to what he de scribed as the g enera l an d still increasing desire of the nation at large. Mr: SHAW was solicitous to correct the error committed by Mr. Villiers, in representing Ireland as a country whose export of corn was not extensive. Mr. VILLIERS had supposed that this export was dimi nishing. Mr. - SHaw, from the actual figures, showed, on the con trary, that the export of corn, flour included, was very largely increased. Much complaint was made in England of the in flux of Irish labourers : if the corn law should be repealed, there would be not merely an influx, but an inundation of them. At the conclusion of Mr. Shaw's speech the debate was ther adjourned. HOUSE OF LORDS—FRIDAY. There were a great many petitions presented, chiefly on the corn law question. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY asked whether the papers ' regarding which he had given notice, re- Spain and the British legion ? r..... : _ would t: t E ,...., :oduced, lativo to • shill 01 .< '4_ .! . ."Ase.l r ;e• ;;. .40 Lord MELsoutts E augwered that, as they were e'dnuected with negotiations still going on, he could not, in following the invariable rule in such cases, produce the documents at the present time. The metropolitan police courts bill was read the third time and passed. The Marquis of NORM ANBY stated that he was ready to give and should on Monday offer explanation respecting the recent temperance procession in Carlow on St. Patrick's day, —processions, which had been alleged to have assumed a political appearance. The Earl of WICKLOW said he trusted an explanation would be offered as to similar processions in Dublin on the same day. Their lordships adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY. After the presentation of numerous petitions on the subject of the corn laws, church extension, &c, Mr. PAKINGTON asked Lord John Russellwhetber he bad applied to the law officers of the crown for their Opinion as to whether the thirty days required by the constitutional act of Canada, during which the clergy reserves bill should re main on the table of both houses of Parliament, wouldinclude the time during the holidays. Lord J. RussaLL answered that he had not made such application, but the opinion of the government was that the thirty days comprised any time during which the house might be sitting, or might be adjourned by a resolution of them selves. He intended however, to allow the fortnight, during which it was probable the house might be adjourned, and also the thirty days required by the act, and then to take the opinion of the law officers of the crown before he advised the crown to give its consent to the bill. Mr. PAKINGTON asked whether the government was in possession of any further information with regard to the ordinance of the Governor-General of Canada, with respect to the incorporation of the monks of St. Sulpice, and whether that ordinance would receive assent. He wished to know whether memorials had not been presented by the landowners in and about Montreal, in opposition to the proposed ar rangement. Lord J. RUSSELL said that the Governor-General had acted under the provisions of the act of parliament. Lord SAN DON inquired whether the ordinance would be allowed or disallowed by government. Lord J. RUSSELL believed that there was no objection to it, but that it had not yet received consideration. The order of the day for the attendance of Mr. Sheriff Evans on the 6th of April (Monday) having been read, , Lord J. RUSSELL said he trusted that he should not have to renew the discussion on this subject. He hoped the other house of parliament would give their assent to the bill which had been sent up to them. Its second reading was fixed for Monday. He should move, therefore, that the order be discharged, and that Mr. Sheriff Evans be ordered to attend the house on the 6th May, by which time he anticipated that the bill would have passed into law. The motion was then agreed to, and the sheriff continues " at large" until the Gth of the next month. During the evening the committee on the subject of the affairs of China, with regard to the trade in opium, was nominated. The debate on Mr. Villiers' motion respecting the "corn laws" was again resumed, Mr. Brotherton opening the third night's debate. The house was eventually adjourned until Monday, after considerable confusion, and amidst loud laughter, as the question now will be, how to resume the debate, as this was not adjourned. THE "DUCHESS OF INVERNESS?" (From the Morning Herald.) In our paper of yesterday, we inserted some brief com ments on a very astounding announcement which had ap peared in the London Gazette of the preceding evening. That announcement apprised the British people that her Majesty had been pleased to grant the dignity of a duchess " to the right hon. Lady Cecilia Letitia Underwood (eldest surviving daughter of Arthur Saunders, second Earl of Arran, by Elizabeth, his third wife, daughter of Richard Underwood, late of the city of Dublin, Esq.), and the heirs male of her body, lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Duchess of Inverness." We will not stop to quarrel with the oddity of a patent of nobility, which, in express terms grants to any future " Master Saunders," who shall be entitled as legitimate heir male, the said dignity of a duchess(!) and we repeat that we desire "not to question her Majesty's right to elevate to the dignity of the peerage whomsoever her Majesty pleases." And this is constitu tional doctrine. "The Crown is the fountain of honour," said the sages of the English law before the days even of Bracton or of Fleta ; and it is a maxim as true in English jurisprudence as it is dear to English loyalty. The principle of loyalty has, down to our times, retained so much of strength end freshness, that it has sometimes seemed too active and flourishing, when crown-descended honours have been diverted into worthless channels, or poured into polluted courses. If, however, it has not "withered, drooped, and died" over these occasional aber rations of the Sovereign's grace, its permanency and health fulness may be ascribed to its own deep-seated conviction that such cases were but unhappy exceptions to the general principle which had formerly regulated the distribution of the waters of so noble a source. English loyalty was ever full of faith, and amidst the corruption and venal patronage pro fuse)y, encouraged and distributed by the profligate Jameses and'eharlese4, it looked forward to better times and juster and more upright peince4. It found them in the reigns and the persons of William- ICI., and of the second, third, and the fourth In, somq of Arse reigns do we remem ber that the bacUliteceddritlar !Gebr;,, , p 1., in the creation of his mistress to be.Dunhess of Kingston, was followed. The next notable creation of. this kind was that df' a late reign— the Duchess of Sutherland. That was a case in which it was little possible for the prerogative of the CrOikar to add to the hereditary rank and station of one of the noblest of Bri tish matrons. Tile' good and venerable " Duchess Coun tess" boasted a descent from the noblest houses of Scotland. and England, through an unbroken lineage of 800 years. Her own fortune was regal, independently of the enormous wealth of her excellent lord ; and both of them, not less by the unsullied purity of their private characters, their high attainments, their virtues, and their munificence, than by the lustre of their public position (eminent as this was in every attribute of title, influence, and the respect of ail classes), did honour to the station which they filled. The third coin age of a new duchess, to which we shall adiert, is this of the Lady Cecilia Letitia Underwood. If these creations are so rare in the annals of our peerage, we may, without the slightest imaginable disrespect to the sovereign, be allowed to speculate a little as to what can have been the reasons which have guided the grace of the throne in so remarkable a visitation upon the person of her ladyship. " Remarkable," in truth, is but a weak term. It is almost miraculous. If it was the glory of the r` Divine according to the legend, " to draw down an angel from the skies," to listen to her organ playing, what organs must this Cecilia (Letitia) have possessed to drawn down upon herself the ecstasy of a tangible duchess-ship ! Now, in these for tunate days of whis- ascendancy, in this bright age of liberal opinions, it can not only be improper in us, or derogatory to the lady, or offensive to the crown, to enter into the consi deration of the probable reasons which may have dictated this selection of an object for the highest exercise of grace and favour which it was in the power of the Queen to bestow on any female subject; but we should expect to be taunted with the charge of having deserted our duty by the organs of that ascendancy, and of these opinions, if we did not endea vour to elicit the facts. Besides, the crown itself, and the powers nearest to the crown, must be anxious that the mo tives of such especial distinctions should be known; and, indeed, in modern times these motives generally are either distinctly proclaimed, or permitted to be inferred from data, not very likely to be mistaken. That was but a sorry reign for this country (and we hope never to live to hear its autho rity quoted in the way of precedents for royal patents,) when the sovereign, being assured that he need give no reasons to the world for the most extravagant acts of his favour, created one mistress a " Duchess " of Portsmo u th, and another a Duchess of Richmond. We have fallen upon other days. Public opinion has, to a vast extent, usurped prerogative royal. This change in many instances, under many phases of circumstances, may be a change of uncertain tendencies. It may be for good or for evil. But, be it for evil or for good, to this extent it is omnipotent—it will not permit even the personal prepossessions of the sovereign to compromise the interests of public safety or of public morality. We feel, we know, how unnecessary it is for us to renew, at this time, the expression of our unfeigned, devoted, and affectionate attachment to the youthful and intelligent pos sessor of the crown of these realms. But the reflections to which the recent " creation" has given rise in our minds, are heightened in their character of solicitudb and earnest ness by the very intensity of that devotion. Shall we not, then, proceed to discover, first, the possible effect of this creation ; secondly, the possible identity of the party en nobled? Wherefore' should we abstain in performing this duty to the public? And first, as to the possible effect of this creation. If it had been determined upon with a view to do honour to some bright exercise of those female virtues of which our lovely Queen presents in her own person so signal an example--if it have been bestowed as a tribute to that maternal solicitude for the_ pure, and careful, and enlightened education of off spring, which her Majesty'S illustrious mother has so suc cessfully exhibited in the superintendence and direction of her Majesty's own studies—if it have been granted as an ac knowledgment of that touching devotion to the last hours, and the solace of the last pangs of a fond and confiding hus band, which Englishwomen, like Lady Dover, or princesses, like Queen Adelaide, have manifested under circumstances worthy of higher honours than courts or crowns can give,— in auy of these cases the creation may reflect even greater lustre on the Sovereign, than the Sovereign can confer, by her own act of grace upon the object of it. But, in order to judge of the possible effect of the creation just announced, subject, as it thus appears, to such conside rations, we must proceed to look at, Secondly, the possible identity of the party ennobled. And we assume, for the reasons adduced by us yesterday, that the modern Cecilia (Letitia) is no other than " the daughter of the late Earl of Arran, whose family name was Gore ; whose mother's name was Underwood ; that, in 1815, Lady Cecilia Gore espoused (forgive us, Clio !) Sir George Buggin, Knight I' and, under the latter name, was subse quently known in the fashionable world, at a period when her ladyship's acquaintance with his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex became matter of some notoriety." If this be so, and no other circumstances of a later date have altered the legal status of the lady, we must condemn the creation of duchess in her favour as a most Stuart-like, most unaccount able, most capricious exercise of the Royal favour. If other circumstances have since occurred to alter her legal status, why are not these set out in the Gazette, to account for the transformation of Lady Cecilia Letitia Gore Buggin into Lady C. G. (no Buggin) Unuerwoo .? Did Lady Bug gin (her Grace of Inverness will forgive us) ever marry, at all, after Sir George Buggin's death? Did she marry an " Underwood"—so as to have legally sunk in that kindred shelter the horrid memory of (the name and she has happened, of) f h e n r e i h t u h s er band, of t t h h e e s e attorney k r e ni ai g t h y t ? ceased to be " Lady Buggin,' Whom did she marry? With happy taste—as a compliment to the most decorous people in the world—the title created for her is a proud and an eminently Scotch title, Duchess of Inverness. The Duke of Sussex is Earl of Inverness. Is the duchy attributed to Lady Cecilia Gore Buggin Un. derwood in consideration of any claim arising out of a legal or quasi legal connection with his Royal Highness ? or is it a mere compliment to a long-accustomed inmat e of his Ro y al Highness' s bower at Kensington? Doubtless, in reference to the wording of the grant, the connection is legal or quasi legal ; hut the " heirs male of her body, lawfully begotten ?" youngthese? Bugginses, or little Underwoods, or grandson Saun s, or ---. 1 , But we cannot put the other alternative without graver and more foreboding feelings. We have lived to hear liberal peers and members talk of the rapid and widely-spreading progress of the de mocrat i c principle among us, as reducing the chances of the perpetuation of monarchy to the duration of three lives, or 21 years. God forbid, say we, from the bottom of our souls! " E a t o perpetua, " we cry to the mo narchy But tamper not with the saored questions of prior rights and legitimate descents. In an old established mo narchy, and a magnificent and immeasurable dominion like that of Britain—by the side of certainty, right, and legitimate title, all the personal curiosity or interest attaching to all the Duchesses of Bugging Inverness that ever existed, are as the mere office dust o a n n l d y sweepings o o n f s . a c l i f ty t - h a e t y t o c r a n n e attorney s e re o i c e e d . t L o e i t n u t s asheneicgtahtehn4, all other interrogatories, and all reasoning upon them, are " leather and prunella." Is the Duke of Sussex married to the new Duchess of In verness (Buggins) ? Are there male issue of this marriage (such issue, of course, if existing, are lawfully begott4n) ? Unless his royal highness could show a written despensa. don front the crown, such a marriage is clearly invalid, be cause it vas, ab hallo, illegal, against an express statute. Hear what Blackstone says of the I2th GeO. iii.— " And now, by statute 12 Geo. iii. c. 11, no descendant of the body of king George iii. (other than the issue of prin cesses married into foreign families) is capable of contracting matrimony without the previous consent of the king, signified under the great seal ; and any marriage contracted without such consent is void."—Blackstone 's Commentaries, vol. i, p. 22(y. We are pretty safe in broadly affirming that no such certi ficate of consent has ever passed the great seal. Then the marriage would be illegal. Then the public will he prone to ask why so extravagant a grant should emanate from the throne, in favor of any already, or here after to be, born Bugginses, or Invernesses ? If the lady be not the rightful wife of the Duke of Sussex, this is a sort of sacrifice to the lucky genius of the house of Buggins which even the house of Saxe Coburg might envy ! Take the other alternative. Is the Duchess of Inverness the lawful wife of the Duke of Sussex ? 'Why in that case, these enormous honours to the widow of the Hatton-garden attorney, which were denied to the high-born exemplary wo man, Lady Augusta Murray, whose marriage with the Duke of Sussex, duly celebrated by a protestant clergyman at Rome, was clearly, qouad the effect upon it of the 12th Geo. iii. legal ; because the purview of that statute does not ex tend to marriages celebrated de/fors the British dominions ? That marriage was further confirmed by a repetition of so lemnisation according to the forms of the English established church, in England, at a subsequent period, though it may be doubted, on the highest authorities of the ecclesiastical courts, whether such marriage, being in all other respects le gal according to the forms or dispensations of the foreign state in which it was first celebrateed, needed this additional solem • nity. If the marriage with the beautiful and accomplished Lady Augusta was legal, why are the honours now destined for the Bugginses (for aught that appears) withheld from the admirable, the excellent issue of that marriage, the accom plished gentleman and soldier, Sir Augustus D'Este, and his virtuous and high minded sister, Lady Augusta ? If the Duke of Sussex be married to Lady Cecilia Letitia G. 1.". 8., Duchess of Inverness, and the defect of any such consent of the sovereign, signified under the great seal, as is required by the Royal Marriage Act, had not invalidated the marriage, how can the legality of his royal highness's prior marriage with Lady Augusta Murray be disputed ? If the marriage with Lady Augusta was valid, what pre tence, what reason, what explanation, can be assigned to the British public for this inexplicable preference of the Bug ginses over the D'Estes ? Truly it excites some misgivings in our mind when we collate with this astounding patent to Lady Cecilia, the al most over-acted, impetuous affection and profound reverence of his royal highness fin- and to the sovereign of these realms, on the three memorable occasions of her majesty's first meeting her parliament, her majesty's coronation, and her majesty's marriage. A. lively hope of " grace to come" is a wondrous gout-curer ! Again, what did Mr. Gillon's motion portend, at the close of a former session, when he expatiated on his royal high ness's ill-paid state; and after showing how he had got in volved, from sheer disinterestedness, in the discharge of the duties of President of the Royal Society, prayed the house to levy countervailing " duties" on the people to the tune 0fX6,000 or £B,OOO a-year, in the shape of an addition to the duke's income? Is this proposition, then, repudiated very unequivocally by the House of Commons, to be brought on again under the more insulting suggestion of expediency of providing for the descendants of the relict of the knighted attorney? And if this ever be done, can any man guarantee us against a similar application, some fine morning, on be half of a sister connection—of which fame speaks odd things ? What pass arc matters now come to ? How far does our " socialist" premier mean to shock the ancient purity of Eng lish society ? With what further sacrifice of the decorums and decencies of life, after presenting Owen to his Queen, will this reckless lord be satisfied ? We bid him to beware. It is a dangerous experiment which we apprehend. On the one hand, however, we shall never cease to suggest that justice, generosity, and honour, are first to be satisfied to the D'Estes ; and that hitherto we know of no such case made out for the Bugginscs. On the other hand, we solemnly and with deep respect submit to that high tribunal, from which on earth such honours flow, that had they been devoted in a divided appropriation to the two D'Estes, and the reparation of the insulted cha racter and sacrificed life of Lady Flora Hastings, by the dis tinction of her next female representative, the fearful possi bility of all questions of a doubtful succession hereafter, and the hazard of public disgust at present, might have been avoided or overcome. STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY, ON THE ls? OF APRIL, 1840. (From the United Service Journal.) [Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which the Dep6t of the Regiment is stationed.] Ist Life Guards—Hyde Park 40th Foot—Bombay ; Chatham 2d—Windsor 41st—Madras; Chatham Royal Horse Guards—Reg. Park 42d—Templemore Ist Dragn Gds.—Canada; York 43d—Canada; Naas 2d—Glasgow 44th—Bengal ; Chatham 3d—Edinburgh 45th—Newport 4th—Birmingham 46th—Gibraltar; Jersey sth—Nottingham 47th—Malta, Inniskillen 6th—Manchester 7th—Leeds 49th - - B G e ib n ral gal ta ; re; Chatham Ist Dragoons—Sheffield 50th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham 2d—Ballincollig 51st—V. D. Land ; Chatham 3d—Bengal 52d—West Indies ; Armagh 4th—Bombay 53P—Ionian Isles; Plymouth 6th—Dublin 5 Ith—Madras ; Chatham 7th Hussars—Canada; York 55th—Madras ; Chatham Bth—Leeds 56tht—Jamaica ; Belfast 9th Lancers—lpswich 57th-Madras; Chatham 10th Hussars—Dorchester 58th—Portsmouth 11th. Light Dragoons—Cantrbry 59th—Malta ; Tralee 12th Lancers—Brighton 60th*(1st battaln.)—lonian Isles 13th Light Dragoons—Madras Birr 14th—Hounslow (2d batt.)—lon. Isles; Clonmel 15th Hussars—Bombay 61st—Winchester 16th Lancers—Bengal 62d—Madras ; Chatham 17th Lancers—Dundalk 63d—Madras ; Chatham Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.) 64th—Jamaica ; Boyle Port man Barracks 65th—Canada; Clare Castle (2d batt.)—Canada 66th—Canada ; Kinsale (3d batt.)—Wellington Barracks 67tht—West Indies; Cork Coldstream Guards—(lst batt.) 68th—Jamaica ; Cork St. John's Wood 69th—America; Youghall (3d batt.)—Canada 70th—W. Indies ; Fermoy Scotch Fusileer Guards—(lst batt)7lst —Canada ; Stirling St. George's Barracks 72(1.—Cape of G. Hope ; Dundee (2d batt.)—Tower 73d—Canada ; Sheerness Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar 74th—West Indies; Fermoy (2d batt.)—Canada 75th—C. of G. Hope ; Plymouth 3d Foot—Bombay ; Chatham 76th—West Indies , Enniskillen 3d—Bengal; Chatham 77th—Malta; Hull 4th—Madras ; Chatham 78th—Edinburgh sth—lonian Isles; Galway 79th—Manchester 6th—Bombay; Chatham 80th—N. S. Wales ; Chatham 7th—Gibraltar; Cork 81st—Barbadoes ; Hull 82d—Jamaica; Portsmouth Bth—America; Guernsey 9th—Bengal; Chatham 83d—Canada; Belfast 10th—Burnley 84th—Kilkenny 11th—Canada; Gosport 85th—Canada; Pl7mouth 12th—Mauritius; Brecon 86th—Bolton 13th—Bengal; Chatham 87th—Mauritius; Dublin 14th—West Indies ; Chester 88th—Dublin 15th—Canada; Plymouth 59th—West Indies ; Gosport 16th—Bengal ; Chatham 90th—Ceylon ; Dover 17th—Bombay; Chatham 91st—Cape&St.Helena; Aberdeen 18th—Bombay ; Chatham 92d—Malta ; Birr 19th—Bristol 93d—America; Fort St. George 20th—Stockport 94th—Madras; Chatham 21st—Bengal • Chatham 95th—Ceylon • Carlisle 22d—Dublin - - 96th:—M'ancliester 23d—America; Castlebar 97th—Dublin 24th—Canada; Cork 98th—Newcastle-on-Tyne 25th—C. Good Hope ; Devonport 99th—Athlone 26th—Bengal; Chatham Rifle Brigade (Ist batt)—Weedon 27th—C. Good Hope ; Wexford (2d batt.)—Windsor 28th—N. S. Wales; Chatham Royal Staff Corps—Hythe 29th—Woolwich Ist W. Ind. Regt.—Demerara, &c. 30th—Bermuda ; Newry 2d—New Providence & Honcuras 31st—Bengal; Chatham Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Ceylon 32d—Canada ; Cork Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape of 33d—Gibraltar; Tynemouth Good Hope 34th—Canada; Chatham Royal African Colonial Corps 35th—Mauritius; Chatham Sierra Leone 36th—America ; Limerick Royal Newfd. Veteran Company 37th—America; Waterford Newfoundland 38th— Limerick Royal Malta Fencibles—Malts. 39th—Madras ; Chatham * Ordered home. t The 56th and 67th are to go to Canada 2 Ordered to New South Wales. SECOND EDITION. Standard-office, Eleven o'clock. ARRIVAL OF THE INDIA MAIL. NEWS FROM CHINA AND INDIA. (Prom' a Second Edition of the Morning Post.) By an extraordinary express from Marseilles and Paris, we have received our letters and journals brought by the Atalanta steamer. Our dates from Bombay are Feb. 29, China Jan. 7, and Calcutta Feb. 16. The following is the letter of our Bombay correspondent Bombay, Feb. 29. The accounts from China. which are to the 7th of January, continue of the same unfavourable complexion as those pre viously received. The reports which were previously in circu lation respecting the imperial displeasure at the failure of the Commissioner Lin's attempt to eradicate the traffic in opium turns out to be totally unfounded. His master's con fidence in him is unshaken, and instead of being degraded, as reported in the Canton papers, he had received additional . marks of the imperial favour. The decisive measure adopted by Lin of excluding British commerce for ever from the em pire has received the approbation of'the emperor, and the commissioner has not only been relieved from all the respon sibility of the ordinance, but the power of modifying it has been taken out of his hands ; and he is thus precluded from entering into any negotiations for the restoration of our intercourse, all of which must be henceforth directed at once to the court at Pekin, and not to its minister at Canton. Before the Emperor's pleasure had been know, the com missioner issued a fresh edict (a copy of which I transmit herewith), prohibiting the evasion of the new law by the transhipment of British goods to foreign bottoms, to be con veyed to Canton under the protection of a foreign flag, to do so. The Captain of every American and other foreign ship, before being permitted to enter the port of Canton, was re quired to give bond to the following effect :—" If have got on board the goods and merchandise of any ship belong to the English nation, no matter whether tak en o n board within or without the Grand Ladrone Island, or on the high seas, or at Singapore, or at Penang, or at Manilla, or while touching at any other of these foreign possessions. If any thing of the kind be found on board, we are hereby perfectly willing that both ship and cargo be confiscated." The Thomas Coutts had commenced taking in her home ward cargo, and was expected to leave about the end of January. She was being loaded by the merchants at the rate of £8 to £9 per ton. The Royal Saxon, Captain Towns, had also succeeded in getting up to Whampoa. It appears her Majesty's ships Volage and Hyacinth had left their an chorage at Tankoo, and repaired to Macao, for what reason does not appear, unless to enjoy Christmas-day at that place ; and the captain of the Royal Saxon took advantage of their absence and entered w ithi n th e B ogue , o f course having pre . viously signed the required bonds. Connected with this event is the capture by the Chinese of Captain Gribble, of the firm of Gribble, Hughes, and Co., who proceeded after the Royal Saxon in a Chinese fast boat for the purpose of putting a tea taster 'on. board, which, having accomplished, as he was returning to the fleet his boat was seen and chased by a Mandarin boat with about fifty rowers, and was overtaken close to the shore—himself taken out and carried away—but all his Chinamen escaped by jumping overboard and wading ashore. On the circumstance being made known, a number of the boats of the fleet at Tangkoo was manned with the greatest promptitude and went in pur suit, but failed to come up with the boat. On the 3rd of January it was ascertained that Captain Gribble was in con finement at Canton,'and it was expected that he would be immediately released therefrom by the Commissioner. The officer and crew of the Sunda, wrecked on the coast of the Haman, had been conveyed to Canton, where they were at once admitted into the city, and introduced to the Commissioner and all the other public authorities. They were treated with great kindness; the sailors were regaled with a pork feast, and the whole party was sent on to the, English fleet without detriment. Lin talked much with the captain, and was greatly delighted with Mr. Thelwall's book against opium, a copy of which appears to have been on board, and which was read to him, it is stated by a cabin boy. He is also reported to have said that notwithstandidg all that had passed, the English might return, if they would engage in the lawful trade ; but this is inconsistant with the edict of eternal exclusion, to which he had obtained the Emperor's sanction. a The late conduct of Captain Elliott seems inexplicable even making every allowance—and great allowances ought t be made—for the difficulties of his position. He appears to have made an attempt at reconciliation, which has only afforded a fresh opportunity to Lin to degrade him still fur ther. This vacillating conduct of the Superintendent is lamentable, and it is matter of congratulation that all further negociations with the Chinese will be speedily placed upon a different basis, and entrusted to other agency,. Captain Elllott's position has been a very difficult one, and his feel ings are not to be envied when the accounts of the dishonour his bills have met with from the British Government shall have reached him. A very great error appears to be prevalent in England in as suming that the opium trade was the sole cause of the late crisis in China. It undoubtedly accelerated it, but, inde pendently altogether of matters connected with opium, the time had arrived when the interference of our government with respect to China was absolutely necessary to place our relations upon a proper footing. The British Government ought to have peremptorily interfered in 1834, on the occa sion of the murder (for it was little better) of their represen tative in China, the late lamented Lord Napier, the occur rences connected with which had nothing whatever to do with opium. Nothing however was done at that time, the attention of people in England being engrossed with some petty affitir of politics, and the insult was tamely submitted to. Nothing short of a crisis such as has occurred, and the consequences of which will be felt through out the length and breadth of the land, was sufficient to rouse the British Government to a sense of the importance .of the interests at stake. _ _ With regard to the projected expedition to China, I have not any additional particulars to communicate. • Lord Auckland h:►s arrived at Calcutta, and in a few days we shall hear more definitely what the plan of operations will be. H.M. ship Wellesley, Captain T. Maitland, having on board Sir J. J. Gordon Bremore, commodore, commanding the British squadron in the Indian sea, arrived at Madras on the 11th instant, from whence she was to sail immediately for Calcutta in order to enable the commodore to confer with Lord Auckland, as to the measures to be adopted in relation to the expedition destined for Chinas. The expedition is said to consist of the following troops ; from Bengal, her Majesty's 21st and 26th regiments of native infantry ; from Madras one regiment of Queen's troops, four of native infantry, one regiment of artillery, and one of en gineers; —from Ceylon, one regiment of Queen's troops, total ten regiments. General Sir R. Arbuthnot, Commander in-Chief at Ceylon, is to command the above-mentioned force ; and Generals Oglander and Walker are to have divi sions. The expedition is not intended to arrive in China before May next. Two vessels have been chartered each to take in 200 tons of coal and some stores, and to proceed to Madras ; from thence receiving troops they proceed to Ceylon and Trincomalee where they will change the troops and proceed to China. Eight other vessels. the Ernaad fliaemar, Rai many, Nassurat Shaw, Indian . Oak, Ednionstone, Alla Al lenie, and Mahomed Shaw, each receiving 300 tons of coals and provisions, and, taking troops, will proceed direct to China. Tenders for tonnage to convey her Majesty's 55th regi• ment, had been issued, but afterwards countermanded, Brigadier Stewart of Vellor, has been appointed to the com• mand of the Northern Division on the departure of Major- General Welsh. The Marquis of Camden, one of the old first class India men, has been totally wrecked on a sand-bank off the Seme rary Islands, between Pannay and Mindora Phillippine Islands. The French ship L'Asic, which was in company when she struck, succeeded in saving a quantity of opium, (228 chests,) she had on board, the amount of salvage on which (one-third) alloWed to the French captain, amounts to upwards of 30,000 dollars. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIMES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m 6 a.m. Mixed 8 15 a.m. First Class 10 30 a.m. First Class , 12 15 p.m. First Class 4 p.m. Mixed 7 p.m. First Class 12 FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER 2 13 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside 1 15 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do. 11 30 a.m. First Class 2 15 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 3 30 p.m. Mixed 5 p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures will be 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 a.m. Mixed PP 1 30 p.m. 10 30 a.m. „ 7 p.m. ~ 12 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. „ 245 p.m. „ The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. LIVERPOOL AND MAD 'CHESTER RAILWAY. FROM L'POOL TO MANCNNSTER. First Class Second Class 4-- Morning.. 7 o Morning 8 45 „ ..10 0 „ FROM MANCHESTER TO L'POOL. First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 9 0 „ 10 0 „ 11 15 „ ..11 45 2 0 Aftern. ..*2 45 Aftern. 5 0 ~ 530 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed 't Stop only at Newton 8z Prkside I his Train does not start till Three. NDA Vs. First Class Second Class 8 o Morning.. 7 0 Mornin 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside ' AND WIGAN. PROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.. First Class 11 15 ~ • 2 45 Aftern. .. Second Class 5 0 „ .. Mixed 715 „ .. First Class NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 530 Afternoon .. „ LTON. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 2 45 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 „ NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. „ IELENS. FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second. Class 11 0 1 45 ~ • • 2 45 Afternoon .. Pt 5 3,) NDAYS. JP 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. !ORN GAP. 11 FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 11 45 5 30 Afternoon .. BP NDAYS. /0 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 • • Afternoon II 0 „ 45 ~ 2 0 Aftern. .. 230 Aftern 4 45 „ .. 5 30 __.„ 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 MiXed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I * Except on Saturdays, when tt ON SU First Class Second Class 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 5 0 Aftern. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed 1 top only at Newton & Prkside I TO PRESTON PROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 11 230 Aftern. .. Se co nd Class 4 45 „ .. Mixed 7 15 .. First Class ON SLY 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 30 Afternoon .. TO BO PROM LIVERPOOL. - 5 45 Morning.... First Class 12 0 1 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 8 30 „ - oar su 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. TO ST. 1 FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 10. 0 „ .... 11 45 „ „.... „ PP 2 5 3 3 0 0 Aft : rnoo . n.... .. ON SU3 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. TO RUNG , FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 11 45 ~ •• • • 911 s 30 Afternoon .. ,I ON SU 7 0 Morning.... Second Class c 30 Afternoon .. „ The Council of the Cambden Society have resolved upon the publication of the Egerton Pa p ers, fr om MSS. i u- nthe possession of Lord Francis Egerton, to be edit e d b y M r. Collier ; " The Chronicle of Joceline de Brakelond, Monk of St. Edmundsbury, from A.D. 1157 to 1211," to be edit e d by Mr. J. G. Rokewode ; and the Doctrines of the Lollard s a M.S. ascribed to Wickliffe, to be ed ite d b y the Rev. J. H: Todd. The publication of other interesting works is under consideration ; among these the Rutland . Papers, from the M.S. collections of the present duke, relating to the corona. tion of Henry VIII. and the Field of the Cloth of Gold, to be euited by Mr. Jerdau. THIRD EDITION. Stardard Office, Three o'clock. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, THIS DAY. Including the arrivals coastwise, from Ireland, the Baltic, and Mediterranean, we have to report a considerable influx of Wheat, Barley and Oats, since this day week, with a fair quantity of English Malt and Irish Oatmeal, hut a moderate. supply only of Beans, Peas and Flour. This large accumulation of the leading articles of the trade, the prospect of repeated imports, with some rain last night and fine seasonable weather to-day, have caused a further very limited sale for, and a depression in, the value of all sorts of Wheat this morning, thereby reducing our quotations 3d to 4d from the rates of this day se'nnight, and for one or two parcels of Foreign, to deliver after Thursday next, a decline of 6d. per 701bs. was submitted to. Flour continuing in slow request, English and Irish was 2s. per sack, Foreign duty-paid Is. 6d., and in bond from 6d. to is. per barrel cheaper, 1000 barrels of United States under lock having been sold to-day at 28s. 6d. English malting Barley and Malt, upon a very moderate demand, were ls. to 2s. per quarter, and Grinding Barley 3d. to 4d. per 601bs. lower. Beans and Peas ruled steady at former prices. Oats and Oatmeal, although held at our last currency, were hardly saleable without acceding to rather lower terms. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From the 31st March to the 9th April, 1840, inclusive. DESCRIPTION. IRE- COAST- FO- UNITED i TOTAL. LAND. WISE. j REIGN. STATES. - ------- Wheat Qrs. 2100 8221 13323 25644 Barley Qrs. 1670 2812 j 8644 13126 Malt. Qrs. 14 6249 6263 Oats Rye Qrs. 21 21 Beans Qrs. 491 144 2 64 899 Pease. Qrs. 315 315 Shelled Barley . Qrs. 1375 ;*1 Indian Corn .. . Qrs. 1375 Rapeseed Qrs. il Oatmeal .. . . Loads i 7185 5 I! 7190 Flow Szcks 742 982 720 li 2444 Ditto . Brls. I 60 100 2 1: 2260 Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, Oatmeal, 100 loads. EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, 150 qrs. ; Oats, 402 qrs. ; Pease, 52 qrs. ; Flour, 174 brls.—lrelancl. Wheat, 562 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 68 qrs. ; Flour, 162 sacks.—Coastwise. Wheat, 755 qrs. ; Barley, 631 qrs. ; Malt, 34 qrs.; Oats, 58 qrs. ; Rye, 75 qrs. ; Pease, 122 qrs.; Indian Corn, 15 qrs.; Oatmeal, 381 loads; Flour, 801 sacks, 366 Inds. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending March 27, 1840. Wheat.. 695. id. I Barley.. 3gs.gd. Oats.. 265. Od. Rye .. 365. Id I Beans.. 41s. Od. Pease, 408. 7th Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat.. 675. 7d. I Barley.. 3gs. Od. I Oats.. 255. 3d. Rye.. 375. 2d Beans .. 40s. 6d. Pease .. 40s. 3d. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week. Wheat 18s. Bd. I Barley3s. 4d. Oats .... 95. 3d. I Rye .. 14s. Od Beans, 9s. 6d. Pease.9s. 6d. I Indian Corn 3s. 4d. Flourl Is. *I Liverpool Averages, week ending 31st March, 1840. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. Qr 5..... 1184 44 1494 I 140 Prices.. l 665. 9d. 335. Bd. I 245. 10d. 455. 6d. Os. Od. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. TUESDAY, APRIL 7 —Wind N.N.E. ARRIVED.—James Ray, --, from Demerara—Harriet & Jessie, M•Kown, from Charleston—British American, —, from St. John, N.B.—Racer, Curtis, from St. MichaePs—Zeldenrust, Young, from Zwolle—Sirius, Fretwurst, an d Neptunus,Voss, from Rostock Flora, Brah ms , f rom Le er — an d'Activio, Fretas, from Lisbon. SAlLED.—Senator, Pike, froth New Orleans. Vesta, ---. from Smyrna, in coming down from the Quaran. tine ground this morning, got in contact with the British American, from St. John, N.B. The Vesta's mainmast was carried away, and the end the end of the British American's bowsprit VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, ZS.c. Duchess Clarence, W Birch, 274 Sincapore and Canton, J Bibby & Sons Madonna, R Miller, 504 Bombay, Brodie & Hamilton Tweed, R Lawson, 447 Bombay, Bold & Starkey John Blake, W Churchward, 220 Sincapore, Cotesworth & Wynne AFRICA. Hero, T Grant, 388 Africa, R & G Benzi NEW SOUTH WALES. Elizabeth, R Goddard, 229 Hobart Town and Sydney, Cotesworth & Wynne WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. _ Mary, W Duncan, Amphitrite, J M'Neil, 91 St. Domingo„ It Sheil 278 Barbadoes and St. Kitt's, . Imrie & Tomlinson Irlam, , 279 Barbadoes, Barton, Irlam &Co Sisters, H Short, 141 Cuba and Nassau, N.P. Claypole & Son David, J Adair. 144 Cuba, Campbell & Rudd Trinidad, T Sowden, 343 Demerara, Bold & Starkey Norman, G W Bond, 149 Kingston, Jamaica, Graham & Taylor SOUTH AMERICA. Agricola Grayson, 56t Rio Janeiro, W & J Tyrer Adriana. , 206 Monte Video, Cotesworth & Wynne Abbots Reading, R Renner, 333 Valparaiso, W& J Tyrer UNITED STATES. Powhattan, J M'Cerran, 568 New Orleans, F Huth & Co Sterling, T Sanders, 484 Savannah, Wildes, Pickersgill & Co Russia, S Elliot, 459 Mobile, Baring Brothers &Co Harriet Rockwell, J S Prescott, 523 Mobile, Bolton, Ogden &Co Caspian, L Patten, 537 New Orleans, Ingleby & Browne Norway, A Eldridge, 643 New Orleans, Baring Bra &Co Nantasket, W Wippen, 487 Savannah, Baring Bra & Co BRITISH AMERICA. Josephine, 11 Smith, 514 Richibucto, Holderness & Chilton Cottager, T Smith, 272 Montreal, Bahr, Behrend &Co George, R Fenwick, 361 Montreal, W Fisher & Sons William IV, S Chall, 109 Newfoundland, Graham & Taylor Scipio, H Greaves, 186 Newfoundland and Quebec, _ W Tarbet or J J Day Lfilarkfts. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, APRIL 3 There is only a moderate demand for Sugar; hut as holders do not press sales, pricei remain unaltered, and 450 Mids. B.P. have been disposed of. No transactions worthy of notice in Bengal or Mau. ritius. 60 cases and 100 brown Brazil Sugar have been taken by the refiners. The sales in bonded refined amount to 60 hhds. crushed, at 34s to 355.-60 puns Berbice Molasses, of very inferior quality, have been sold at 32s 6d per cwt.—The demand for Planta tion Coffee. as also for East India, and other sorts via the Cape, continues very limited: the sales, consequently, are to a very moderate extent, and at rather lower rates, comprising 40 casks of Jamaica anti 900 bags La Guayra, the latter at 9d duty, price not reported. Of Foreign, a small lot of ordinary Brazil was sold at 46s 6d per cwt.-260 pockets Bengal Ginger sold at 19s, 60 bags Pimento, all faults, at lid, and 250 bags black Pepper at 30 to 44f1 per lb.—No sales of Bengal Rice , a small lot of Carolina sold at 365, duty paid.—The business in Rum is limited to 20 puns. of mid. tiling Jamaica, at 5s 6d, 30 casks of strong Demerara, chiefly at 6s, and 20 pipes of Havana at Is 8d per gallon. In the early part of the week the Tea market was very quiet, and very little business doing, but yesterday and to.day there being a better inquiry. the market closes with a firmer appearance, at last week's quotations. There is nothing to report in Indigo.—For Shell Lac there has been more inquiry, and nearly all the parcels offering have been picked up; altogether about 300 chests have been sold at 33s to 83s per cwt.—A few chests of ordinary Lac Dye are reported at 6d per lb.: 20 chests East India Gum Arabic at 48s to 525.: 40 casks Cocoa Nut Oil at 405., and a quantity of Rattans at 2s d.—The market for Saltpetre is less firm the sales are 700 hags, at 25s dd to 275, and for a small lot 34s 6(1 was obtained.--30 tons Nitrate of Soda sold at 18s to 19s. There has been only a moderate business done in Dyewoods ; the sales are 50 tons Campeachy Logwood, an indirect import at £lO lOs; 150 tons Honduras and Jamaica at £7 lOs to .t 7 15s; 100 tons Ceara Fustic at 12s 6d ; luo tons Carthagena at .t'Zi 2s 6d to .€5 10s; a few tons Savanilla at .-e5 15s, and Cuba at .410 per ton —The demand for Turpentine continues regular; about 1200 Ms. have been sold at lls 2(1 to 12s 3d, according to quality.—Of Ameri can Tar 200 brLs have been sold, but the price is not reported.— There khas been some inquiry for Montreal Pot Ashes, and 150 to 200 brls have found buyers, but the purchases have been confined to the new brands, at 2.15; the brand of 1833 is freely offered at 235, without effecting sales. Pearl Ashes are improving in value ; about 200 brls have been sold at 29s ad to 2gs lid ; holders now generally ask 30s.—The demandfor Flaxseed, for sowing. is but limited, and the sales are only to the extent of 200 to 3no hints. New York at 67s 6d to fibs.—ln Cloverseed thb business has been confined to a few bags French red, at 70$ to 80s.—Nothing done in Bees' Wax.— The public sales of Hides, on Tuesday, which consisted principally of export Hides, went oft briskly, and the whole sold at rather bet ter prices; 3700 dry salted Aricati brought did to bid, 350 Lima 6/d to ad, 330 Jamaica 54d to Sid, 1100 dry Valparaiso 84 to did, 157 salted New York 4id, and 8600 East India Kips, gcl to Sid for sound dry and brined, 8d to Sid for Ist rubbed, and 7d to 74d for 2nd rubbed.—The sales of Tobacco, last month, amounted to 712 hhds, of which 329 were Virginia leaf, 113 stemmed, 34 Kentucky leaf, and 231 stemmed ; of these 130 were for Ireland, 30 for Scotland, and 114 for exportation, leaving 378 hhds for the home-trade. Prices of stemmed have given way, but leaf, being scarce, fully supports previous rates. The stock is now much reduced, and there is no prospect of any further importation for some mouths. More activity has been observable in the market for Brimstone than for some time past, in consequence of news having been re ceived from Naples, of the determination of the King to support the privileges granted to the French Company, which will, at any rate, lead to the protraction of the settlement of this question. The sales of the week have been about 300 tons, at stiffer prices. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 4. The trade have again bought rather freely, and there has been also a very good demand both for export and on speculation. Prices of American have in consequence fully recovered the de cline noticed last week, and are generally id 13 lb higher. Brazil and Egyptian have advanced 4ci 1.4 1, and for Surat. full prices have been obtained. Of 490 Sea Island offered by auction to day, 270 were sold, at full prices. 3500 American, 500 Pernambuco, and 400 Bengal have been taken by exporters, 5000 American and 150 Pernambuco on speculation. There have been forwarded into the country unsold during the last mouth 3860 American, 50 Pernam buco, 100 Bahia, 450 Egyptian and 320 Surat. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the '27th instant to this day, inclusive. Prices paid , zip in the week. Thia Wk. 12d 4) 22d 8. - - 110122 5 —6; 5i tik 5i 1130057 • 9 • 10 I • 9} ! I 955 8 84 Si 94 - - f 37 82 - 102 1 1701 - - 24 - - - 8 - - 5 - I T. - _ 54 i) 4035 LONDON GAZETTE.-.FRIDAY, APRIL 3. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. It. Dale, ii. Roydell, and T. Bundles. jun. Liverpool. timber merchants—T. Vernon and K. Fringle, Liverpool, engineers —H• Coming and J. Johnston, Liverpool, provision -merchants—B. Lam-. beet and T. Dawson, Preston, cotton-spinuers—J. T. Haigh and J. Diller. Halifax, woolstaplers—J. Johnson and T. Wilson. Higher Be bbin glop, Cheshire, nurseryman—J. Rowlands and J Birchwood, Manchester. wheelwrights—W. D. Fullalove and J. Lownds, Man chester. auctioneers—J. Thompson and I'. Edwards • Northwich. shi,wrights—W. Hicnsworth and T. M'Coy, Salford, fancy coverlet mannfacturers—W. R. Potts and M. A. Nixon, Heaton Norris, Lan cashire, grocers Carthage, Knapp, from Virginia, is on shore off the Clarence Dock Urania, Noakes, from the Persian Gulf, at Bombay Lancaster, Campbell, and Rothschild, Lucket, hence at Bombay Seymour, -- ; Cambria, --, and Bland, Callan, hence at Calcutta Windermere, Brown, hence and Mauritius, at ditto Imogen Downes, sailed from Calcutta 2yth Jan. and Duke of Lancaster, Hargreaves, 31st Jan. both for Liverpool, and Intrepid, Stewart, for Berbice, 29th Jan. Elvira, Gell, from Mauritius, at Calcutta. Yarmouth, Forsyth, sailed from Ancona, for Liverpool, 19th March, Ch:lde Harold, Willis, from Bombay at Falmouth. On the 17t.. Feb. in lat. 5 N. long 23 W. spoke the Tigris, hence to Calcutta On the 9th March in lat. 35, long. 34. Elizaueti, tiolderness, hence to Savannah. On the 26th March, in lat. 50, long. 19, the Hem y Hood, hence to New York Arachne, Thurtell, from Mauritius, off Cove, and proceeded to this port Lady of the Lake, —, from the Clyde at Calcutta Earl Grey, —; Matilda, —, and Theseus, Gayner, henc at Calcutta Nora Creina, Howes, and Dean, Archer, hence at Malta Janus, Wilson, sailed from Marsti 'e3 for this port on the 23th March , Grede Vrow, Taisker, hence at Texel Constant, Van Schie, hence at Antwerp Clutha, —, hence to St. John, N.B. was spoken in long. 12 Tacitus, —, hence for Havana, off Scilly Duke of Buccleuch, —, from London to Calcutta is lost oft Point Palmyras, (Bengal) Marchioness Camden, —, from Calcutta to China is lost on one of the Phillippine Islands Richard Bell, --, from South Shields to Calcutta is iost Rossandale, Friend, hence at Bahia Satisfaction, Gibson, hence at Africa TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 7, 1849. Holyhead, 1 p.m.—Wind N.N.E. light breeze.—No vessels to report Off Great Ormshead, at g a.m.—No, 772, Cicely, B. B. .I)ipptiig intrlligrart. FRIDAY, APRIL 3.—Wind E.S.E. , . . Amman—Sancho Panza, Smith, from Naples—lduna, Gron wald, from Odessa ALSO ARRIVED—Formosa, Cuboe, from Cork—Charlotte, Wil liams, from Newport SAILED.—GIobe, Oliver, for New OrleanK—Arial, Robinson, and Lavinia, Brown, for Mobile—lsabella, Doring, for Havre and Rouen —Henriette, Claussen, for Pillau—Ambassador, Tate, for Charlotte Town—Margaretha, Koster, for Amsterdam—Swallow, Wilson, for Stettin—Scotland, Robinson, for New York—Britannia, Oliver, for Halifax, N.S.—Ganges, Blyth, for Dalhousie, N.B.—Louise, Rooms, for Antwerp—Cardova, Owen, for New Orleans—Dit-on, Le Gros, for Caraquet, N.B.—Livingston, Salkeld, for Sydney. N.S.W. Tiber, -, from Trieste, at Dublin Gertrude, Black, from Leghorn, ditto Off Point Lynas, at 7 a.m. No. 1421, Kingstown, (steamer.) Joseph Storey, Spencer, from the Cape of Good Hope for Lon don, at Falmouth, out 87 days Tweed, Lawson, fell over in No. 1 Graving Dock, this morning. and received damage Marchioness Bute, , hence to Mobile, was spoken 27th ult, in lat. 50, long. 8 Harmony, .---:- hence to the Cape of Good Hope, was spoken 13th ult.in lat. 48, long. 13 Ccra. Melville, sailed from Rio 'Janeiro to Cape Good Hope on the 10th January Lady Wright, Wright, hence at St. Michael's Harriet, Beniest, hence at Antwerp Venilia, Kranenbnrg, hence at Helvoet Philadelphia, Morgan, from New York at Portsmouth, sailed on the 2nd of March, in company with the Yazoo, Trask, for this port Virginian, Higgins. hence at New York 28th February Randolph, Bilton, from Pernambuco, off Falmouth SATURDAY, APRIE 4.—Wind variable and moderate. ARRIVED.—Mary, Robertson, from Mauritius—Alan Kerr, M'Kechnle, from Bombay—Actress, Toole, from New Orleans — Iris, Dickson, from Savannah—Lynx, Watson, from Terceira—Wm. Sorlie, , from Cephalonia—Daniel, Mathews, from Lisbon — Splendid, Dishon, from Seville—Gustav & Leopold, Kell, from Wol. Bast—Hercules, Schwann, from Wismar—Johannes, Harlingen. SAILED.—John Woodall, Williams, for Rio Janeiro, &c.—Angli. cania, Burridge, and Alcyone, Dales, for Quebec—Aurore, Briard, for Cape Breton—Liverpool, Davenport, and Ambassador, Wade, for New Orleans—Fanny Connell, Dixon, for Lisbon—Elizabeth, (lark, for Laguira, &c.—Otter, Preston, for Constantinople—Snow. drop, Nicholls, for Beirout, &c.—Elizabeth, Stone, for Trieste. Columbus, Green, trqm Pernambuco, at this port; sailed 27th Feb. Left loadingl)e. Pakenham, for Falmouth, Superb, for Trieste, Ranger an Matthew Plummer, for Hamburg. On 9th March, in lat. 25 N, long. 42 W, spoke the Octavio, from Lima for Liverpool, 95 days out. On lgth March, in lat. 31 N, long. 15 W, spoke the John Souchay, from the Mediterranean for Monte Video. On 28th March, in lat. 50 N, long.' 22 W, spoke the Carribbean, from Mauritius for Cork United States, Barr; John & Robert, M'Kechnie ; Girard, -; St. Lawrence, Brown; Diadem, Leslie; and Timoleon, hence at New Orleans Alexander Edmonds, -, hence at Savannah Leila, -, hence at Baltimore Montezuma, -, hence at Philadelphia Oxford, Rathbone, hence at New York 13th March Roscius, Collins, hence at ditto 14th; lost spars, &c. Sheffield, Allen, hence at ditto, I;th Frankfort, Russell, hence at ditto, 18th British Queen, (steamer) from London, at ditto, 18th March, in 16 days from Portsmouth North America, Lowber4 Siddons, Palmer; and Europe, Mar shall, hence off New York, 19th March AbeOna, Grant, hence at St. John, N.B. Rapid, Bolton; Phcenix; "Hartley, and Petrel, Tureen, hence at Madeira Ann Wise --, from Savanilla, off Bardsey, 2nd April Grqat Western, (steamer) from New York, at Bristol, 3rd April; sailed 19th - March. Arrived out in 15} days. On 29th March, in lat. 49, long. 27; spoke the Champlain, from Philadelphia for Liver pot)! Wm. Shand; hence for Calcutta, was spoken 29th March, in lat. 49, long. Romulus, —, hence for Algiers, was spoken 10th March, in lat. 40, long. 11 Shakspeare, hence for Charleston, was spoken 12th March, in lat. 43, long. 33 Clifton, , hence for New Orleans, was spoken in lat. 24, long. 80 Ulizabeth Brute, —, from New Orleans for Liverpool, was spoken 10th March, off Matanllla Reef Edwin, --, .from Natchez for Liverpool, was March, in lat. 2&, long. 79 Alert, (packet) froth Falmouth, at Pernambuco, 25th January Bruce, Campbell, from London, at Havana Unicorn, Mullins, and Chas. Quint, Mnlenear, hence at ditto Reindeer, (packet) from Tampico, at ditto, and sailed 6th Marc for Falmouth, with 600,000 dollars on freight Tynwald, , and Andes, —, hence at Vera Cruz Ironside, , hence at Galveston George Canning, , hence at Laguira Ann Hall,'--, hence at Mobile .Banffshire, , from Dundee, ditto New Vona, March 12. —Francis Ost, —, hence for London derry, sprung a leak, and p u t into Newport, (Rhode Ikland,) and is discharging. 18th March.--Agnes, from New Orleans for Liverpool, went on shore on the Tortugas, but was afterwards got off, and taken into Key West, with little injury. Belmont, from Montego Bay, (Jalnaica) for Liverpool, went on shore on Carysfort Reef, but was afterwards got off, and taken to Key West, badly injured, and it was supposed would be condennied r1(14 SUNDAY, APRIL s.—Wind N.N.W. light. ARRIVED.—Yazoo, —, from New York; sailed 4th March— Indian, Prost, from Calcutta—Ann Wise, Thorns, from Savanilla— Tamenend, Borland, from New Orleans—Mount Charles, Good, from Cadiz—Julia & Elizabeth, Lawson, from Tonsberg—Freiheit, —, from Lubeck—St. Antonius, Recovery, Blodjen, from Reryugada—Waterlilly, . , from Bilboa —Effort, —, from Smyrna—Thomas Dempsey, -, from Africa—and Harriet, Scott, from Charleston. SAlLED. — lndependent, Morris. for Quebec—Carlton, Allan, for Mirtunichi—Sterling, Saunders, for Savannah—Tamerlane, Fisher, for Quebec—Huntress, Putnam, for New York—Martin, Brown, for Trinidad—and Lyons, Agry, for New Orleans. Cumberland, Power, hence at Apalachicola Perseverance, Corkhill, and Cynosure, Brice, hence at Rio Janeiro Petrel, Packet) from Falmouth, ditto Ainicitia, Miehoelson, hence at Havana Amalia, Zimmerman, hence at Pillau Eduard, Zeilcke, hence at Danzic Sir Charles Forbes, Laing, from Batavia, at Hambro' Garland, Wright, from Bahia, ditto Java, Pickering, from Manilla, off the Cove _ _ HALIFAX, March 2.—The John Porter, parted her cables lath \larch, during a gale at S.E. went on shore at the entrance of St. Mary's Harbour, and is expected to become a wreck MONDAY, APRIL 6.—Wind W.N.W. ARRlVEn.—Hirondelle, —, for Lisbon—Clipper, , from Bilboa—Elize, Paton, from Rostock—Flora, Horsfall, from Kraga roer—Danzie Packet, Tannen, from Danzic—Circassian, White, from Requijados—Elizabeth, Englishman, from Rotterdam—Her culean, Grindall, from Bombay ; sailed 20th Dec. and from St. He lena 13th Feb.—Clifton, Spalding, and Telnmah, Glidden, from New Orleans-,lsaac Newton, , from Mobile—Margaret Johnson, M 'Auley, from Charleston—Heywood, Jones, from Bombay—Helen Jane, M'Doual, from the Mauritius; sailed loth Jan. and from St. Helena 12th Feb.—Henry, Salter, from St. Joseph's—Limnos, , Skipton, , and Syra, , from Odessa—Effort, Orfeur, from Smyrna—Octavia, Hayfield, from Callao ; sailed 30th Nov. and from Huanchacoo 17th Dec.—Alexander, Leeds, from Baltimore. Isabella Cooper, , from Calcutta, at this port; sailed 11th Dec. On 29th March, in lat. 48, long. 16, spoke the Hindoo, from Van Diemen's Land for London Highlander, Bottomley, from Calcutta, at this port; sailed 24th Nov. On 23th Jan. in lat. 36 S. long. 18 W, spoke the Rosalind, from Calcutta for Bristol. On sth March, in lat. 27 N, long. 35 W, spoke the Robert Watt, from Cork for Puerto Cabello Royal Saxon, Atkins, from Calcutta, at this port; sailed 22nd Nov. On Ist March, in lat 23 N, long. 33 W. exchanged Nos. with 569, Arica, and Ist April, off Tuskar. the Commerce, hence for Africa Patrick Henry, Delano, from New York, at this port; sailed 9th March. On 25th Feb. in lat. 48, long. 28, spoke Duncan; for St. John, N.B. Diana, , for London, at St. John, N.B. Novo Bona Fin, Mesquieta, hence at Lisbon Ruby, Anuing; Marshall Blucher, Mathews, and Mauney, Downes, sailed from Lisbon for Liverpool 24th March Felix Destino, Dc Luz, hence at Oporto Albatros, Aiken, and John Taylor, Tyrrell, hence a t Old C a l a b ar Harriet, Carrell, cleared at Gibraltar 20th March, for Liverpool; Premier, Neuman, 23rd March for Malaga, and Gem, M'Kenzie, 25th March, for Seville Leonora, Harrison, hence at Demerara Clyde, Matches, hence for New South Wales, at Rio Janeiro Tamerlane, , for Quebec, has put back EUROPE, Gallovidia, A Rae, 117 Stettin, Campbell & Co or J Rae Naiad, L Phillips, 130 Riga, M`Leod & Yarrow Jeremiah, W 1 4 ,1` Laren, 119 Narva, Bahr, Behrend & Co Providence, T Hutchinson, 301 Cronstadt, C G Weber &Co Emma, T Irving, 153 Venice and Ancona, J Bibby & Sons Phoenix, G Kuper, 209 Antwerp, Bahr, Behrend &Co Formoza, A S Coelho, 140 Lisbon, Vianna & Jones Redbreast, K Bence, 132 Malta and Stettin, F Littleton Provident, J Faddy, 113 Stettin, Bahr, Rehrend &Co Balciasare, G B Randich, 300 Trieste, M'Nair & Dutton Jane, D Evans, 86 Ilambro', Bahr, Behrend &Co Sarah, J Heiter, 98 Marseilles, Bahr, Behrend & Co The Suabian Mercury states that steam navigation is about to be established on the Vistula. Two iron steamers are only waiting at Danzig for the breaking up of the frost, to corn menu regular passages as far as Cracow and Warsaw 1 : They have been constructed in England by order of the Governor of Warsaw. On Thursday evening last, the Rev. William M. Bunting, Wesleyan minister, administered the ordinance of baptism by immersion, in the Baptist Chapel, George -street. This is the first instance, within our knowledge, of the ordinance of baptism being administered by immersion, in Manchester, by any of the Wesleyan preachers.—Manchester Guardian. As a reward for the services of the 45th Regiment of Foot, during the chartist riots at Newport, it is the intention of government to make them a light infantry regiment, and for that purpose they are ordered to Woolwich to make them selves proficient in their military duties. SALES OF THE WEEK 530 Sea Island 30 Stained 9680 Bowed Georgia 1020 { Mobile Alabama and Tennessee 15770 New Orleans {1434 Pernambuco A: Paraiba 1430 Aricati and Ceara 170 Bahia and Maceio 7/0 { l a a v, rzt u h nd Minas Para Demerara, Surinam, &c... 530 Egyptian Barbados 80 Peruvian Bahama 100 Laguayra 100 Common West India, 10 Carthagena Smyrna Manilla 1580 Surat Madras 500 Bengal 32240 Dales 4k - 4P - 4i 46391 )RTS !this year 173769 8862 6678 139 1;954 183 LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, APR 15828 337190' Notwithstanding the exertions of certain interested brokers, (whose speculating friends are in the mill,) to talk up prices of Butter, the market continues to have a downward tendency. Fine Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny, &c. we quote gss to loss, and Belfast about the same rate. Pickled Butter without inquiry, and the nominal currency may be called 95s to 965. 861 and Pork are un altered in value, and both expected to maintain high prices. The price of Bacon is well supported, prime middles* being saleable at sis per cwt. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, APRIL 6. The number of Beasts at market to-day was a little larger than last week ; high prices were asked for all descriptions of Cattle, and sales effected at our last quotations, say for the primest Beef 7d to 74d, second quality 64d, inferior 6d—at the close of the day the Beasts were well sold up. The supply of Sheep was again very small, and the demand brisk, at fully our last quotations; prime Wethers Bd, second quality 7d, inferior 7d, and at an early hour in day the Sheep were mostly all sold. Beasts, 890 ; Sheep, 2347. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, APRIL 4. The arrivals of British Grain, Flour and Oatmeal, during the last seven days, are to a fair amount, and the imports from abroad com prise 13,600 qrs. of Wheat, 2790 qrs. of Oats. and 2000 qrs. of Barley. Duties have been paid upon 1770 qrs. of Wheat, tog qrs. of Barley, 280 qrs. of Beans, and 20d0 barrels of Flour. On Tuesday last a moderate business was transacted in both Wheat and Oats at our previous quotations ; but the demand for either article has since been of a very limited nature, and, at yesterday's market, Wheat was generally noted 1(1 to 24 per bushel cheaper.—Oats, also, were the turn in favour of the buyer. Really good Oatmeal has met a lair sale at 33s 64 to 34s per 2401b5., but inferior qualities, which constitute a very large portion of the supply, have been neglected. Fine malting Barley is scarce, and fully maintains the prices of last week ; grinding parcels are selling, in retail, at 5s to 5s 6d per 601 b. Beans upon a moderate demand, have brought full prices. No change in the value of Peas. American Flour may now be bought at 42s per barrel. free; and about 2000 brls. have been sold, iu bond. at 295, but holders, generally, are not sellers under 2gs 6d per barrel. LIVERPOOL PR ' Asues Montreal, Pot 22 6Th 24 3 Pearl, new 29 3 —29 6 U. States, Pot., none. Pearl none. BARK, Quercit. Oak, 1. ton .. aes 10 7 5 German 4 5 5 0 BRIMSTONE, lb' ton Sicily, &c l2 0 13 0 Tuscany l3 0 13 5 CASSIA. LIGNEA, S. 6. S. d vo cwt. in bond 85 0 90 0 CLOVER -SEED, 1. cwt. American, red.. none Dutch 70 0— 30 0 French & Germ.7o 0— 80 0 COCOA, - 41 , cwt. Trinidad 56 0— 65 0 Grenada Brazil COFFEE, 19 , cwt in bond. Jama. triage ordinary good& tine ord.loB 0-115 0 middling llB 0-124 0 good mid. fine mid. &c l4O 0-150 0 Dutch, triage.. 60 0-100 0 ordinary .... good kz tine 0rd.102 0-106 0 middling los 0-112 0 good mid. 114 0-116 0 fine mid., &c. Mocha lOO 0-125 0 Ceylon Java Havana good & fine ord. 46 0— 52 0 St. Domingo 45 0— 48 0 Brazil 45 0— 50 0 Laguira 7O 0— 75 0 DyEwooi,s, ton a. s. Logwood, Jam... 7 15— 8 0 Hon. & Dom. 7 15— 8 0 Campeachy 10 10— 11 0 Fustic, Span 5 5 5 15 Tampico 6 10— 7 0 Brazil Cuba NICARAGUA WOOD. Rio de la Hache solid 0 0— 12 0 rough 6 0— 7 10 small Lima, solid l4 0— 16 0 I3arwood, Ango 8 0— 8 10 Gaboon 5 0— 6 0 Camwood l9 0— 25 0 Red San. Wood 8 0— 9 0 FLAx, la ton. Riga. P.T.R. 42 0— 45 0 P'burg, 9 head 4l 0— 42 0 Archangel 4B 0— 50 0 Dutch & Flem. 6O 0-110 0 GALLS, qici Turkey, blue 74 0— 80 0 mixed 60 0— 70 0 East India 7O 0— 75 0 GINGER, 43 cwt. Barbadoes 45 0— 50 0 Jamaica 6O 0-120 0 E. India, in bond 12 0— 19 0 GUM, cwt. Arabic, Turkey 7O 0-140 0 East India 21 0— 55 0 Barbary 45 0— 52 0 Senegal 65 0— 66 0 HEMP, p ton s. s. P'burg, clean 36 0— 36 10 outahot 34 10— 35 0 Riga, Rhine outshot 35 0— 35 10 Archangel 33 0— 33 10 Manilla 27 0— 28 0 Bombay l7 0— 20 0 Jute HIDES, Ox and Cow, la lb B. Ayres and Monte Video. dry. inferior & mid. 0 71— 0 81 good & prime 0 93 0 103 Do. salted N. Amer. salted 0 4 0 43 Brazil dry salted 0 53 0 6ii Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 6;l 0 73 Odessa, &c. dry 0 6 0 7 W. India, dry 0 51— 0 7 salted 0 43-- 0 53 East India Kips, B.A. dry 0 73 0 83 Horse, d. each 9 0 —l2 0 HORSE HAIR, 43 lb. Short mixed long tails 1 5-- 1 10 combed '.p lb. in bond. Bengal. pur. & violet blue & violet blue violet, g. & line 7 3 7 9 ord. & mid. 6 3 7 0 violet & cop.} mixed .. 59 6 9 cop. g. & fine. 6 3-- 6 9 ord. & mid. 5 3 6 0 con. quality .. 4 9 6 6 Oude 2 6 6 0 Madras 3 6 6 0 Guatimala, lb Floras Sobres 5 0— 6 3 Cortes Caraccas, Floras 6 6-- 7 0 Sobres 5 0— 6 3 Cortes LAC DYE, To lb. D.T. and prime. 1 6 3 0 mid. to good 0 8— 1 4 ord. & inferior 0 6 0 73 MADDER ROOTB,*qp , Cwt. Smyrna Nalipoli & Syria .. 0 0— 0 0 French 4B 0— 50 0 Gaples 44 0— 45 0 [CES CURRENT. MADDER,'!.' Cal. S. d. s. d. Dutch, crop 70 0 —Si) 0 Ombro 50 0 —65 0 Gamene •l2 0 —4O 0 Mull lO 0 —3O 0 French, S.F. 42 0 —46 0 S.F.F 48 0 —52 0 E.S.F 54 0 —5B 0 E.5.F.F.63 0 —7O 0 Spanish 45 0 0 0 MOLASSES, IS cwt. Trinidad, &c 33 0 Demerara, &c 34 0 Bar & Antigua.. 36 0 !MUNJEET, S cal 14 0 OIL, Olive, p 252 galls. Gallipoli £64 0 —65 0 Trieste 59 0 --tio 0 Sicily 58 oio 0 Malaga 53 0 —55 0 Portugal, &c 53 0 —55 0 Levan,: 54 0 —5B 0 Palm, tun 36 0 —36 15 Fish, 252 galls. Seal, pale 28 0 —2B 10 brown 24 0 —26 0 Cod 26 0 —26 10 LINSEED, V Cat 24 6 Rape, pale do. 3B 0 —3B 6 Turpen. V 0 0 —57 0 Rica, 14 , cwt Carolina, dress. 36 0 —37 0 in bond 24 0 —25 6 Bengal, ord. do 11 0 —l3 6 mid to fine l4 0 —l5 0 African none. Rum, p gallon, in bond. Jamaica, 12 to 16 0. p 4 6 4 9 stronger 4 10 5 10 choice marks 6 0 6 4 SAFFLOWER, V Cart. Bengal, good & Anc e 5 0 7 10 ord. & mid Bombay :SALTPETRE, V CWt. S. d. S. d East India 23 0 —2B 6 South American 18 0 —l9 0 SHELL LAc, V cal. in bond. orange 56 0 —95 liver and black 36 0 —5O SKINS, Neutria, V doz Chinchilli, do. in 0 —25 Seal, each 'SR LIMAC, cwt Sicily... Malaga.. Trieste .. Verona.. Tyrolese SUGAR, V cat. B. P. Muscovado moist brown dry brown good & mid fine & v. fine Mauritius, dabs and moist 56 6 —5B brown 6l 0 —64 yellow 66 0 —67 fine yellow 6B 0 —7O East India, Bengal ord. white 64 0 —66 -34 0 -35 0 -37 0 -15 0 ... 11 0 —l3 6 none 8 0 - 8 6 7 0 -- 7 6 9 0 -10 0 .58 6 -59 0 ..60 0 -63 0 ..65 0 -68 0 .69 6 -72 0 good and fine.. 69 6 —7O extra tine 71 0 0 Manilla, in bond 20 0 —23 0 • Havana, do brown yellow . white ord good & fine Brazil, in bond brown yellow white ord. good and fine TALLOW, fir' cwt. P'hurgh, Y.C Odessa Archangel Buenos Ayres.. TAR, 14 brl. Stockholm .... Archangel .... Carolina Virginia TARTAR, 1,4 rwt Cream of Tartar.. 73 0 0 brown and yel... 50 0 —6B 0 TEA, tb. in bond. Bohea, Canton none. do. do. do. 17 0 -20 0 21 0 -22 0 22 6 -24 0 25 0 -28 0 .. 51 0 -51 6 ... 50 0 -50 6 48 6 -49 0 45 0 -48 6 .16 0 -16 6 .15 6 -16 0 .13 0 -14 0 .00 - 0 0 Fokein Congou, corn. .. 2 2 2 3 mid. to fine. 2 4 2 6 Twankay, corn... 2 2 2 3 mid. to good 2 4 Pekoe, Orange .. 2 6 4 0 Campoi, corn. to good lryson Skin mid. to rine, Souchong, corn none 2 0 24 2 6 2 2 2 3 2 6 3 0 3 0 4 0 2 6 2 8 2 10 4 6 29 3 0 2 9 3 3 good to flue, Pekoe, flowery Hyson, c0n.... fine Young Ifyson Imperial Gunpowder, good and fine .. 3 6 4 0 TOBACCO, lb. in bond. J. River, Leaf.... 0 33 0 9 Stemmed.. 0 5 0 11 Kentucky Maryland TURMERIC, 1:) , cwt in bond. Bengal 28 0 —33 0 TURPENTINE, qp. cwt. American VALo.s/A, ton• ae a Smyrna, picked l5 0 —23 10 Morea WAX, Brnss' 7p cwt. in bond. African 6 10 7 10 East India American 7 10 8 0 BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. George Robinson and Mary Farrand, Almondhury, Yorkshire, fancy cloth-manufacturers. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Martin, Shoreditch, London, grocer. Samuel Toll Bidwell, Chertsey, Surrey, common-brewer. William Graham Naylor, 1-Ugh-street, Shadwell, grocer. Robert Scampton, Coventry, grocer. William Butler. Shelton, Statlordshire. iron-founder. Robert Bradbury, Dodley, Worcestershire. grocer. Jonathan Lodge and Simeo❑ Lodge, Salford, manufacturers of fancy cloths. William Perkins. St. Woollos, Monmouthshire, ship-builder. Matthew Worthington, Ulverston, innkeeper. Edward Savage, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dealer in marine stores. James Wardlow and Mary Wardlow, Charlesworth, Derbyshire, cotton-spinners. DIVIDENDS, April 27. M. Wotherspoon ' Liverpool, share-broker—April 25, G. Stanton, Regent-street. London, woollen-draper--April 25, J. Brown, Fowey, Cornwall, draper—April 27, R. Elford, jun. Twick enham, veterinary-surgeon—April 27, W. Higgs. Jermyn-street. London, soda-water manufacturer—April 25, J. Elsworth. PudseY. Yorkshire, cloth-maker—April 24, R. Hughes, Wrexham, Denbigh shire, tailor—May g, R. Richardson, Great Driffield, Yorkshire, draper—Aug. 3, T. Baker, Newport, Monmouthshire, innkeeper -April 29, P. Walker, Hindley„Laneashire, cotton-spinner. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before April 24. S. Parbery, Wells.street, Westminster, builder—J. White, ging William•street,West Strand, London, chemist—R. Hewitt, Learning ton-priors, Warwickshire, builder. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Alexander Clark, Glasgow, grocer. William Cowan and William Morrison, Paisley, manufacturers. John Somerville, Edinburgh, feather-merchant. Robert Duff, Dundee, merchant. John M'lntyre, Ardigie, Perthshire, distiller. , MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. APRIL Hays 6. Gandy Brothers and Co. (div.) 7. Robert Hatton (Ist) 8. James Trottel , (final div.) 9. Anthony M'Coy, (div.) Ditto, 1 10. John Jones, (2nd) 11. William Roskell, (special) Holden and Clarke's, 12 11. Golborne and Dobbs, (div.) 11. William Bates, (Ist) 14. Peter Petrie, (div.) 14. Blundell. Falk and Co. (!st) is. James Wilson, (Ist) 15. Joseph Taylor Hobson 15. Benjamin Baker, (div.) Is. John Alexander Grifiiii. (15t).....: - Ditto, 2 16. Samuel Lennox, (illy.'' 16. John Thompson, (final div.) 17. Joseph Mitchell, (div.) Town-hall, Preston, 11 17. William Fairclough, (211:i 18. Willis and Swainson. (div.: 1 18. John George Roth Bishop Ditto, TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 6. Wind at Holyhead. West, moderate in the morning, and blowing fresh at noon ; W.N.W. light breeze in the evening. Off Holyhead, inward bound, at 12 no p.m. No. 1256, Ellen, B.Bk. from Demerara, and 1672, Copeland, D.Bk. at 1 30 p.m. from Lon don. A baeque, outward bound, at 6 p.m. with B. in her foretopsail. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, at 7 a.m. (has a pilot,) No. 129 4 . Ann Mary,.ship, from Newport, R.I. OR Great Ormshead, inward bound, At 1 p.m. No. 672, Jame: , Ray, 11.8. from Demerara, at 12 at noon, and 1204, Harriet & Jessie, A.S from Charleston. In the Victoria Channel, No. 745, Herculean. B.Bk. at 10 20 R.lll. from• Bombay.-287, Ann Paley, 8.8. from Cork ; e 530, Highlander; B.Bk. (by Maryatt's code,) ; 710, Heywood, B.S. from Bombay ; and 13, Helen Jane, B.Bk. from Mauritius, at 11 a.m. -- - -- --- - --- ----=---- --- PRICES OF SHARES, APRIL 6. Prices. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester .. 80 paid 65 o o .... Ditto and Derby go . .... Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh lOO paid .. Bolton and Preston 3O .. .... Bristol and Exeter 25 . •• • Chester and Crewe 4O .... 43 15 0 ...„ Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Comities Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid .... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 16 15 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1 Greenock, and Ayr :10 paid •••• Grand Junction Ditto half shares 3 0 ... 89 0 0 .... Great Western 6s • 67 10 0.. Ditto new shares 30 . 31 I.i 0 .. , Hull and Selby 35 paid 26 15 0.. . . Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 o 0 0.. .. Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares 5O . . 85 10 0 London and Birmingham 9O .... 158 0 0 .... 1:9 0 0 Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto aria Southampton 5O .... 42 5 0 ... Ditto & Brighton London and Croydon Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 73 10 0 .... Ditto half shares Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 71 0 0 .... Ditto, (new) 30 paid 49 10 0 .... Manchester, Bolton, & Bub* Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... 11 0 o ...„. 10 17'. r , Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .. .. - - • '', ' • '.' .. . ; Ditto quarter shares North Midland lOO •.... 96-19 0 .... 96 10 0 New North Midland lO .... 19 . 6 0.. ~ . : • South Eastern and Dover North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid o o 0 .... York and North Midland 4O paid 50 15 0 .... Great North of England BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 .... ;65 0 uexdiv Bank of Liverpool £l2 1 Ospaid 21 0 oex div.2l 0 0 - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 16 15 0 .... - Liverpool Union lll .... 12 10 0 .... - Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Wales iv .... 617 6 . - of Manchester lO - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 ... - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank lO .... Commercial Bank of England 5 .... East of England lO .... Phcenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings 4lOO paid 163 0 o . L'pool and Harrington Water } _ 350 .... 4„ _ 10 0 . Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0.. L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 0 .. L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. elOO .... 191 0 0.. Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... g 5 0 .... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 113 oex div. DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 10s. Rock Ferry Monks Ferry Steam Tug Company lO . . Harrington Docks 100 Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool; (Poloncean) 2 42 5 0 9 17 6. 14 17 6 ..:. 7 17 6 5 7 6.:: 7 0 0. O 0 0. O 0 0. O 14 6. O 15 0. BIRTH. On the 2nd instant, the lady of ROBERTSON GLADSTONE , Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 30th ult. ANDREW TAYLOR, Esq. formerly of Glasgow , to Miss MARY MOSSMAN, St. Anne-street. On the Ist instant, !at St. Bride's Church, Mr. JOHN COLBURI•4 master-mariner, to MARGARET, eldest daughter of Mr. WILLIAM PRIOR, Parliament -street. On the 2nd instant, at Paradise-street Chapel, by the Rev. Jame! Maztineau, Mr. WILLIAM KNIGHT to MARY ANN, second daughter of Mr JABEZ DUNSFORD. Same day, at Birkenhead Ciiureh, by the Rev. A. Knox, A.M• THOMAS TATTERSALL, Esq. of Halt-hill, to ANNE SWINNER, TON, the daughter of WILLIAM VAUGHAN, Esq. Landfall' , Cheshire. Same day, at St. John's Church, Manchester, by the Rev. Vinl; Huntingdon, WILLIAM HAMPSON, E sq . o f S a lf ord, to MARL' ANN, eldest daughter of JAMES WORRALL, Esq. of the cue place. On the 3rd instant, at Runcorn, Mr. JOHN LINDOP, Wrexharo coach-maker, to REBECCA JONES ; also, Mr. WM. EVANS, 01 Denbigh, draper, to SARAH JONES, both daughters of Mr. Thos' Jones, Runcorn, formerly of Chester, ship-carpenter. On the sth instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. S. Bovi stead, Mr. JOHN BATE to Miss MARY J ANION, both of this toWli° DIED. On the 3rd February, at Barbados, after an illness of only three days, aged 42, Captain WILLIAM GATER, of the ship Cheshire. deeply lamented by his bereaved family and friends. He was an affectionate husband, a kind parent, and a sincere friend. On the 15th ult. at Aberayron, SACKVILLE GWYNNE OWEN. aged 35 years, second son of the late John Owen, Esq. of Maindiff court, near Abergavenny, and brother-in-law to Mrs. J. 0. S' Owen, 8, Upper Stanhope-street, Windsor, near this town. On the 28th ult. in Ashton-street, aged 45, Mrs. ROBERTS, muc h respected and most sincerely regretted. On the 29th tilt. at Kensington, aged 2 years and 7 months,,, , MARION FRANCES, the infant dau g hte r o f C apta i n NO RMA N M`LEOD. On the 81st ult. in the 81st year of his age, much respected, VI: SAMUEL EVANS, of Maguire-street. He went out as Judge' Clerk with the late Sir William Syers, first Recorder of Bombay', inf the East Indies, and also held in that court the appointments 0 Sealer and Commissioner for taking Affidavits, which offices he re' signed in 1802. Same day, at Kirhdale, aged 15, SARAH, youngest daughter d the late Mr. JOHN KIDWELL, of Kirkdale. Same day, at Windsor-view, after a long and painful illneSe. which she bore with Christian fortitude and resignation, aged 37 , MARY SOPHIA, the dearly beloved wife of Mr. JOHN RUSHED On the Ist instant, after a short illness, aged 31, ANN, daughter of Mr. RICHARD HATCH, Richmond-row, much and deserredlY respected by all who knew her. _ . . Same day, in this town, aged 32, JOHN GRANT, Esq, M.D. tbe f second son of the late John Grant, Esq. of Kill a l a, i n the count,' ° Mayo, formerly captain in the 40th Regiment of Foot. On the 2nd instant, after a short illness, in his 40th year, Mr. SD WARD MILLER, Church-street, eld est son of the late Surge o O Miller, Fairfield. Same day, at Willow-lodge, Seacombe, aged 30, JANE, the be loved wife of Mr. FREDERICK JAMES, corn-merchant, and the only daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Fresh, of Stephner-P om near Ulverston. Same day, at Hartford, deeply lamented, Miss MARSHAL L ' formerly of Green-bank, in the county of Chester. Same day, aged 46, a f ter a s h ort illness, Mr. HENRY ROSC O S. pavier, deeply regretted by his numerous acquaintances. of On the 3rd inst ant, i n her lgth year, MARGARET, wife air. JOSEPH SANDERS, and daughter of Mr. John Partington, Limekiln-lane. On the 4th instant. at Warrington, in his 83rd year, Mr. KAY, formerly of the Red Lion Hotel, in that town. Same day, aged 28, Mr. WILLIAM HUGHES, slater and Pfd terer, of Christian-street. He was a kind and affectionate husX and parent, a good master, an d hi s loss will be long felt by a I of acquaintances with whom his honesty and principles were known, and by whom he will be much and deservedly regrette d _, On the 6th i ns t an t, at llreckfield Lodge, Everton, age° o f months, ALBERT CHAMPNEYS, eighth and youngest Son ADAM HODGSON, Esq. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 1840. 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