The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. The King of Denmark is alarmingly ill. The Ojibbeway Indians made their first appearance in Brussels the other night at a splendid soiree, given by Mr. Clemson, the American charge d'affaires. A fire near Tobolsk, in Siberia, lately destroyed a forest of 60 leagues in length and 20 leagues in breadth. 25 per persons perished in the flames. which destroyed 1 village, 13 mills, 1,850 barns, 77,800 stacks of hay, 600 horses, 815 horned cattle, &c. FROST AND OTHERS. - The latest letter received from Van Diernan's Land, states that Geacb, the expa triated solicitor, was, in July last, keeping a school in a small cottage at Hobart Town. Frost was actively em ployed as a clerk in the same place ; and Jones had left off driving a stage coach, and was then engaged at his trade of a watchmaker. THE EMPEROR AND THE POPE We give the following from the Joural des De'bats, without vouching for its accuracy. It is a letter dated Florence the 18th ult.:— " The Emperor Nicholas arrived in this city at six o'clock this morning. He travelled in a caleche with Count Orloff. The Grand Duke had sent his chamber lain to meet the Emperor, and had prepared apartments for him in the Pitti Palace; but his Majesty, wishing to preserve a strict incognito, alighted at the Hotel d'ltalie, which was placed at his disposal. The Grand Duke pre sented himself at the hotel at nine o'clock, to pay his res pects to the Emperor, who at the moment was sleeping, and the Grand Duke withdrew without seeing him. Two hours afterwards the Duke sent his Grand Master of the Ceremonies to request the Emperor to accept a dinner at the court, to be followed by a concert. The Emperor declined all invitations and all honours, but expressed his desire to dine with the family of the Grand Duke without ceremony. " During the day the Emperor proceeded in a hired carriage, followed by a servant without livery, to pay a visit to the Grand Duke. He wore the uniform of a Hetman of the Cossacks, and was accompanied by Count Orloff. The Emperor likewise visited Prince Paul of Wurtemberg, without, however, entering his apartments, but merely inscribed at the porter's lodge the name of Count Orloff and that of General Rotnanoff. " The two interviews that took place between the So vereign Pontiff and the Emperor Nicholas form the prin cipal topic of conversation in this city. There is nothing official known on the subject. It is agreed on all hands, however, that it was the Sovereign Pontiff who led the conversation to the subject of religious affairs. His lan guage to the Czar was firm, affectionate, and severe, but profoundly melancholy, and produced, it is raid, a strong impression on the Emperor Nicholas. At his first inter view the Sovereign Pontiff had on his table two ukases published by the Emperor, which his Holiness requested should be revoked. These two ukases not only deprive the civil power of all intervention with respect to the jurisdiction of the religious affairs of the Christian com munities in Russia, and invest the Greek Russian clergy with such jurisdiction, but they confer upon that body the right, without appeal, of applying the penalties in such matters, contrary to the ukases of Catherine 11. and the Emperor Alexander. " Toe Sovereign Pontiff, on taking leave of the Empe ror, handed him a note, in which were stated all the com plaints of the Holy See against the head of the Greek re ligion. The Emperor had requested his Holiness not to derange himself for the purposa of p tying him a visit ; and, in fact, the Pope did not visit the Emperor. Cardi nals Lambruschini, Bernetti, Acton, and Mezzofanti, members of the papal government, were the only cardinals who visited his Imperial Majesty. Cardinal Lambrus chir,i had several conferences with the Emperor, and with Count Nesselrode, his Minister for Foreign Affairs. Amongst the Roman prelates, three only—M. Marini, Governor of Rome ; M. Antonelli, Treasurer ; and M. Spada-Medici, President of Arms—paid their court to his Majesty. _ _ '• The Emperor, in his promenades through Rome, was clad in a plain gray paletot, and was attended by an aide de-camp, dressed in plain clothes. Although he displayed much generosity, and although he made several purchases in statues, paintings, mosaics, and likewise bestowed much money in works of charity, the Roman population gave him in general a cold and not a very respectful reception. I am assured that, particularly at the promenade of the Pincio, where his carriage followed the file of equipages, he was neither saluted with any exclamation, nor did the pedestrians uncover their heads. This demeanour of the Roman population appeared much to astonish the Em peror. " The Emperor is to quit Florence to-morrow, or at the latest on the 21st. His intention is to proceed through Bologna to Venice, where he will pass a day, and thence he will continue his route directly to Vienna. The Grand Duke has placed at his disposal more than sixty post-horses. Through a prudent precaution, the equi pages of the Emperor are divided into two trains, which set out at several hours distance from each other, and frequently by the most different roads. The persons of his suite are ignorant by what road and in what carriage the Emperor travels." The Journal des Dibals adds the following details, borrowed from a letter dated Rome, Dec. 18 : " The eve of his departure the Emperor returned to the Pope to pay a farewell visit. This last audience lasted three-quarters of an hour. After an interchange of com pliments, the Sovereign Pontiff said to the Emperor— ' At this moment the eyes of the entire universe are fixed upon us, and every Catholic is anxiously awaiting the re sult of our interview.' This result will shortly be made known. The Pope will make it the subject of an address to the Sacred College in the approaching Consistory, which will take place in the month of January. " 'But even at present, I can assure you,' adds our cor respqndent, that the Holy Father spobe truly like a pope (father). The dignified and calm demeanour of the venerable Pontiff—his language tinged with melancholy and with unmeasu'ed firmness, made the strongest im pression on the mind of the Emperor. No person at Rome doubts but that the Russian and Polish Catholics will soon experience the beneficial effects of that august intervention of the bead of the church with their temporal sovereign.' "On Sunday, the 14th, the Czar ascended the cupola of Saint Peter, about twelve o'clock. A collation was prepared for him there by order of the Major- Domo. He accepted some refreshment, and proposed the health of the Pope in the following terms—' To the health of the Pope. May God preserve that venerable person, and grant him all that he desires.' " UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. T. Pearse. to be domestic chaplain to Baroness North, of Wroxton Abbey.—Rev. H. %V. B. Daubeny, to the rectory of Kirk, Bramwith,Yorkshire.—Rev. C. G. Davies, lately of St. Paul's Church, Cheltenham, to the vicarage of Tewkesbury.—Rev. J. C. Burnett, to the vicarage of North Curry, with West Hatch and Somerset. —Rev. E. Carlyon, to the vicarage of Lamerton, Devon. —Rev. G. Scaife, to the curacy of Darfield Barnsley, Yorkshire.—Rev Lane, to the living of Wrotham, Kent. —Rev. A. Paton, A.M., to the vicarage of Tuddenham St. Martin.—Rev. I. Gaskarth, incumbent of Haverth waite, to the perpetual curacy of Lowick, near Ulverston. THE LATE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—The will of Alexander has just been proved in London ; the personal effects in this country were sworn under £7,000. It ap pears to have been made just previous to his lordship's departure from this country for Egypt, and about a month after his consecration to this foreign see, being dated Ist December, 1841. He has left to his executors and trustees, the Rev. John Christian Reicherdt, and C. H, Corbett, Esq , both residents of London, the whole of his property, real and personal, in trust for his wife, to receive the interest for her life while unmarried, and at her death, or second marriage, then to his childen absolutely. PERMANENT PAY.—A writer in the Times, advocating the cause of the working clergy, asks—Would it be a very astounding thing for a member of parliament to bring be fore the house a bill for so ameliorating the lot of the clergy as to provide for all incumbents £l5O per annum certain. and not dependent on their places ; and for all curates at least £lOO per annum, also certain ; and to be so arranged that the incumbent could not in any way evade the law ; and this might be done by having his salary paid by the churchwardens, and not by the rector. Would it als ► be likely to meet with opposition to propose setting by a fund for the support of meritorious clergymen in sickness and old are; the two afflictions which bring certain ruin to curates as well as small incumbents without private means ? IMPORTANT ECCLESIASTICAL DECISION.—The Arch bishop of Dublin has just decided a very important ques tion affecting the constitution of unconsecrated places of worship, and the rights of rectors of parishes. We allude to the case of the North Strand Chapel, licensed by the present Archbishop during the incumbency of the Rev. Mr. Maguire, the late rector of St. Thomas's, and who also gave his formal consent; and the important point decided by his Grace (under advice of his Vicar-General and Judge of the Consistorial Court) is, that the consent of the future incumbent, for the time being, is nece sary to validate such license. We believe there was nothing personal in the transaction, and nothing further sought or contemplated, than that of legally sustaining an abstract question of right. The case was brought forward by Archdeacon Magee.—.Dublin Mail. THE COIIRT 4 FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Court still remains at Windsor, but neither her Majesty nor Prince Albert have been able to take their accustomed exercise on account of the boisterous and inhospitable state of the weather. Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and a select party, have been OD a Christmas visit to the Queen. The Earl of Lincoln, Sir James and Lady Graham, and the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, left Windsor Castle on Friday. The Duke of Devonshire, on leaving Wqrsley Hall, Lancashire, after a visit of several days to Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, went to Chatsworth, Derbyshire. LAW INTELLIGENCE. We believe that, in the arbitration inquiry, relative to the Wallasey land, the Solicitor-General's fee was 250 guineas with the brief, 300 guineas for coming down, and 100 guineas per day while the arbitration continued. THE PROTECTIVE SOCIETIES.—The question of the legality of these societies has been exciting a great deal of discussion, their opponents referiing to the old books to prove that their promoters are open to be prosecuted cri rninallyefor maintenance; but it appears by more recent opinions that they are not illegal, a decision of Lord AlYnger being cited to the effect that persons believing they have a common in terest in defending an action are not guilty of maintenance. RAILWAY INTELLIGEA CE. LEEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—This line has amalgamated with the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, which was looked upon as its chief opponent. On the Sheffield and Manchester Railway is one of the highest bridges in the world, being the wooden bridge at Broadbottom, whi-di is seventeen feet higher than the Menai. It is not, however, so high as the bridge at Basle. The South Devon Line of Railway has been frequently traversed by a locomotive engine and tender, during the past week, over the once called unfathomable swamp of Cockwood. The distance has been accomplished in from sixteen to twenty minutes. _ The Grand Junction Railway Company have advertised for contracts for the erection of a new passenger-station at Eccles. The preparations for the improvement of the Lime street station are drawing to a close—the property has been sold—and the works will, we believe, shortly be commenced. CAMBRIA AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COM PANY, CONNECTING SOUTH WALES WITH LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, &c.—We learn that this company have made a complete re-deposit of their plans and sections with the board of trade and clerks of the peace of the re spective counties, and intend prosecuting the undertaking with vigour. A RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASE.—FRANCE. —A very important question at this moment engages the at tention of the Courts in Paris—being no less than a trial of the claim of the road—carrying interest between Rouen and Paris, to compensation in consequence of the competition they are exposed to by the railways between these termini. The case will be argued on the 7th of January _ FRENCH RAILWAY SPECULATION.—In the eleven months of 1845, the sums lodged in the Paris Savings' Bank have been 34,987,113 francs (£1,399,484), and the amount withdrawn 47,624,817 francs (.£1,904,992), being an excess withdrawn of 12,637,794 francs (£505,512). This is attributed by the authorities partly to the long strike among the journeymen carpenters, and partly to the speculation in railway shares. The King of Sweden has authorized the construction of railroads in Sweden. The principal lines will be from Stockholm to Gottenburg, Stockholm to Istad, and Stock holm to Upsal and Gefle, with various branches. The English Consul-General in Norway is authorized to con struct the road between Christiania, Ojeren, and Mjosen, in the event of his being able to form a company for that purpose within a delay of six months. The Directors of the Midland Railway Company, it is said, have resolved to allow the sum of fifteen shillings a week to the family of the late Mr. Stubbs, police-ser geant, of Leeds, who lost his life in the late accident, until the youngest child is ten years of age ; after that ten shillings a week to be allowed until the youngest child reaches the age of fourteen, to be paid weekly in the Leeds pay-bill. The " Battle of the Gauges" last year, like other battles, was rather costly ; it is estimated to have cost £120,000. It is now known that one side. viz., the Lon don, Worcester, and South Staffordshire narrow gauge line, promoted, by the London and Birmingham, against the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton broad gunge line, promoted by the Great Western, expended nearly £60,000 out of £131,450 received for deposits. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last Monday two la bourers on the South Eastern line, near Ashford station, were working a lorry up the line,'when a coke train from Folkestone came up with them. The driver of the en gine blew the whistle, and did everything in his power to give them timely warning of his approach ; but it appears the men either did not bear him in time, or did not con sider the danger so imminent, for they did not make pre parations to clear the line till the train was too much ad vanced, and before they could get the line entirely clear the buffer of the engine struck one of them, and he died in a very short time. LEEDS AND YORK RAILWAY.—A general meeting of this company was held at Leeds, on Monday. A long report from the directors was read, from which it ap peared that 5,000 shares in this company had been allotted to ten gentlemen as the parties who were to hold the shares as trustees for the idanchester and Leeds comyany. These were subsequently accepted by the Manchester and Leeds directors, and the board sanctioned the payment of £12,500 as a deposit on those shares. The Manchester and Leeds board, however, subsequently intimated that it had been found necessary, in carrying out certain ar rangements with Mr. Hudson, that the support of the Manchester and Leeds board should be withdrawn from the Leeds and York Company. The report also stated that for the purpose of union with the northern parts of Lancashire, and the port of Fleetwood, the directors had made an arrangement with the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Not th Eastern Railway Company, between the point of junction between Wetherhy aild York. The directors expressed their confidence that the Leeds and York lir would command such decided parliamentary support as would lead to the passing of the bill in spite of all competitors. During the discussion which ensued, the conduct of the Manchester and Leeds board formed the subject of animadversion. "No PEACE WITD" RAILWAYS.—A meeting was held at Cheltenham, on Monday, for the purpose of receiving a report from a committee appointed at a former meeting, to guard the interests of the inhabitants against " the in vasions and incursions of railways." The Rev. Francis Close presided ; andithe Hon. Craven Berkeley, M.P. for the borough, is reported to have concluded some observa tions (on the lines affecting Cheltenham) with the follow ing denunciation :—" So much for my public connexion with this railway ; now for myself—Gentlemen, as an individual I hate your railways, I detest them altogether, I wish the concoctors of the Cheltenham and Oxford, and the concociors of every other scheme, including the soli citors and engineers. were at rest in Paradise. (Laughter and loud cheers.) Gentlemen. I detest railroads : nothing is more distasteful to me than to hear the echo of our hills reverberating with the noise of hissing railroad engines running through the heart of our hunting country, and destroying that noble sport to which I have been accus tomed from my childhood, and to which I would humbly hope the good town of Cheltenham owes some little of its prosperity, (Loud and repeated cheers.) Such are my feelings against railroads ; but I know it is useless for me to attempt to stem the stream of public opinion ; and`my object in joining the Cheltenham and Oxford Company is to secure to Cheltenham a more direct means of com munication than she now possesses. My object has been to benefit Cheltenham ; and although I know I have in curred great unpopularity by so doing, I feel that I could do nothing else. By promoting facilities of eommunica- tion I have felt that f must benefit this town, which de- pends so much upon its visitors ; and whether those visitors come to enjoy the sports of the field, or to reno vate their health, or to avail themselves of the meagre religious consolation which your reverend chairman can afford"-[the remainder of the sentence was lost amid storm of hisses, groans, and " shame."] THE BROAD AND NARROW GAUGE We have already published the result of the experimen tal trip on the broad gauge, when, it will be remembered, the Great Western party ran experimental trips with weights, exclusive of the engin e and tender, of 811 tons, 711 tons, and 61 tons respectively, and with those weights attached the greatest speed attained were a mile in 61, 58, and 59 seconds. The narrow gauge, on Thursday, a experimentalized with a train of only 50 tons weight. The engine selected was a new one, uilt by Mr. Robert Ste phenson, with six wheels. The driving wheels, 6 feet 6 inches in diameter, were behind ; the top of the boiler was about 7 feet 4 inches above the rail, and the cylinders were outside.' It bad not been running above a week, and had been engaged only on experimental trips. Before enterine more into detail relative to the speed attained, it may be well to observe, that had it really been so great as that which was achieved by the Great Western, the experiment could not be regarded as a fair parallel, owing to the difference in the weights carried : since, in the case of the narrow gauge, the gross weight was ten tons lighter than the lightest attached in the case of the broad gauge. Mr. Brunel, as well as Professor Barlow, expressed surprise that a weight of only 50 tons should be applied to the engine. Mr. Bidder, however, stated that he was desirous of showing first what could be accom plished on the narrow guage with light trains; afterwards he would experiroentalize with heavier ones. All the preliminaries having been arranged, and the carriages, eight in number, having been attached, the train started from the first mile post at 12 minutes 17 seconds past 9 a.m. It arrived at the 44th mile at 26 minutes 10 seconds past 10, having performed the whole distance of 43 miles in 1 hour 13 minutes and 53 seconds. The shortest time occupied in performing a single mile was 68 seconds. The return trip was made in 1 hour 23 minutes 53 seconds, a delay of some four or five minutes having oc curred half-way in taking in water ; and the average speed not being so great as that of the down trip. From the above it will be seen that the utmost speed attained at any time, with the train of only 50 tons, was a mile in 68 second's, and that even that pace was not main tained for above one mile. Oa the Great Western a speed of one mile in 61 seconds was attained, with a train of 81 tons attached, whilst the general average was con siderably above that of Thursday's work. In extenuation of this disparity in speed, it is only fair to state that a high wind prevailed. It blew a perfect hurricane from the west, and beat with immense violence against the sides of the carriages. This, of course, materially retarded the progress of the train. Indeed, the difference between the speed on embankments and on cuttings was perfectly pal pable. When on an embankment, wholly unprotected by hedges or side slopes, the wind was so powerful that little more than a mile in two minutes was the result; whereas the instant a train descended into a cutting, where the slopes protected it from the wind, the speed increased to a mile in 68 to 70, to 90 or 100 secones ; and it is but just to observe, that the Great North of England line seems to have been constructed with very little cutting, and that it is consequently much exposed to wind. Mr. Bidder estimated the high wind as an additional weight of 100 tons added to the train. The engine, he said, consumed as much water, generated as much steam, and employed as much power,:as had been consumed, ge nerated, and employed on the Great Western, with the 81 ton train, and the superior speed. What, he argued, had become of that power, if it had not been employed in overcoming the extra resistance of the wind ? When the advocates of the narrow gauge were regretting that the wind should have caused them such a retardation, Mr. Brunel turned reund, and humorously observed, " You can't complain ; it's Hudson's fault ; he's the fellow that raises the wind." On Thursday, an engine with four carriages, engaged on these trips, left the York station, and on reaching a point about half a mile beyond the Thirsk station, (being a distance from York of about 22 miles,) the engine leaped off the rails, owing, it is supposed, to too high a pressure, it being proceeding at the time at the rate of about 70 miles an hour. The consequence was, that all the carriages were broken to pieces, and the stoker was so much injured that there is little chew e of his recovery. All the other parties with the train escape I without seri ous injury. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND A special commission has been issued for Westmeath for the trial of the prisoners in Mullinzar gaol. The Dubin Mail states that there w.ll be an explana tion on the subject of the late ministerial difficulties on the part of either Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell. A child, three years old, named Farrell, residing near Maryborough, Ireland, was, last week, torn to pieces by a pig, in the temporary absence of the father. The Drogheda and Londonderry coach was upset on Thursday and the driver was killed. One or two pas sengers were hurt. The Irish Colleges are to be styled respectively the Queen's Colleges, for Belfast, Cork, and Galway. Dr. John Ryall has received the appointment of Vice-Principal of the " Queen's College for Cork." Whilst Mr. John M'Curdy, of Magi Ili gan , near Cole raine, was out sporting on the 25th ult., he was acciden tally shot dead by his servant, to whom he had previously given a gun, and directions that he should fire at the fowl immediately after him. On Christmas night, at 'Corbally, near Waterford, a quarrel took place at a public house between two men named Hacket and Power. They were separated by the landlord, when the farmer assembled his three brothers, and, concealing themselves behind a hedge, they waylaid poor Power, and he died of the injuries received. _ _ _ MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS BY DROWNlNG.—Melan choly to relate, a boat from Gaily Cove, with six men to the west of Crookhaven, on Tuesday went out to fish, and she was struck by a heavy sea, and all hands lost. Five men were drowned in the harbour of Sneem, county Kerry, last week, while returning to the shore ; the boat sunk from being overloaded with herrings. DISTRESSING CASE OF BIGAMY.—A few days ago the daughter of a highly respectable citizen, wh2 is connected with a public establishment in this city, wa married to a gentleman, a native of Galway, and after the ceremony proceeded with him to France; but the previous marriage of the gentleman with a lady by whom he has children, transpired after their departure, and the unhappy parents of the deluded girl have been obliged to resort to the laws to punish the offender. For this purpose a warrant has been issued for his apprehension.—Dublin paper, POTATO ROT AND PRIESTCRAFT.—BV a letter from Anacnoe, in the county of Wicklow, we learn the gratifying fact, that in that neighbourhood the disease has made little progress, and that the loss is but trifling. This*. formation is accompanied with a further account of the use to which priestcraft has turned the disease in that quarter, and which lamentably elucidates the intellectual state of our poor popish peasantry in these enlightened days. We learn that from the adjoining county of Wexford holy water is brought a distance of twenty or thirty miles, and that the priests of Wicklow, not willing to leave all the profits to the Wexford worthies, who have the holy water, take care to sell, at a very high price, some blessed salt, which, being m'xed with the water, the charm is complete, and to this cause the cessation of the disease is attributed by the deluded Romish peasantry. It seems, moreover, that they are persuaded the benefit in this case of the charm cannot be extended to the potatoes of heretics, but that it would lose its purifying virtue if sold to, or touched by Protestants. What a hopeful task it is to ameliorate the condition of a country by multiplying, at the public expense, priests of fraud and superstition, who trade in practices like these.—Dublin Statesman. THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION. — The chair at the meet ing on Monday was taken by the head pacificator, whose appearance in the hall, after his protracted absence, was the signal for most uproarious cheering. The Chairman returned thanks for " the high honour" conferred on him, in his peculiar style of pomposity and magnilo quence, and congratulated them on the progress of their peaceable agitation—that " sublime " and " tremendous engine." whose mighty influence had induced the adher ents of Joseph Sturge and the Anti-Corn-Law-League in England to adopt it as the model for their system of political agitation. The minutes of the last day's pro ceedings were read by the secretary, and a letter from •• that most useful " Irishman, Vim. Smith O'Brien, re peating his call for no compromise, and regretting th e necessity which obliged them to eject from parliament so many otherwise excellent non-Repeal representatives, in order to procure the election of the required seventy members of Conciliation Hall. The Liberator then in a speech of an hour and a half's length, proceeded to no tice the last letter of the Times' Commissioner. He en tered into a wearisome recapitulation of the statements respecting his property, charging the " two gutter Com missioners " with the suppression in their reports of many important facts which tended to vindicate his cha racter as a landlord, and in some instances with having wilfully asserted the most " arrant falsehoods." The two commissioners were held up to the ridicule of the au ditory, and the most vituperative terms heaped upon them with characteristic liberality. Mr. Russell, whom he denominated " liar the second," was visited with espe cially indignant denunciations, for having sustained the allegations of " liar the first," Foster went down de termined to view everything with an eye of malignant en mity; and Russell worked in harness with him—" an ug lier pair of beagles never hunted game "—(laughter).. He asserted that the letters of Messrs. Fitzgerald and Butler, and the testimony of Mr. Hamilton, approving of his conduct as a landlord, had not been the least invalidated, while his own statements, made on a previous oscasion, remained all uncoutradicted. The amount of rent col lected during the past week was declared to be £2,371 3s. Od. GENERAL MISCELLANY. Lord Metcalf is improving since his arrival in London. Primroses were gathered the other day, in the neigh bourhood of Doncaster. The G•eat Western Railway Company have subscribed £3OO to the Ascot Race Fund. Upwards of 600 sail of vessels put into Milford Haven for shelter during the late gals. The Oxford and Cambridge Review has an article by Lord John Manners, advocating free trade. MINING IN FURNESS.—A valuable discovery of it on ore has recently been made on a range of bills called Ricket Hills, by Messrs.'rown and Rawlinson, of Dalton. The Rev. W. Gresley has pronounced the glorious re. volution of 1688 to be a transaction, "false in principle and pernicious in its results !" It is generally believed that in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, John Bowes, Esq., does not intend again to offer his services to the electors of South Durham. his said that Mr. Cardwell, at present Secretary to the Treasury, is to succeed Mr. Hope, as Under-Secretary to the Colonies. A fine dish of white currants was gathered on Christ mas-day in the garden of William Ford, Esq., of Yeo, near Yealhampton. The wheat plants are looking very promising, and there has seldom been a better prospect at Christmas for the ensuing harvest than this year. • Mr. S. E. Cayley, M.P., says :—" That a duty of 15s. per quarter on wheat only adds one farthing and 1-16th to the price of a quartern loaf." On Saturday evening a young author, Mr. J. Christian Ross, destroyed himself at a coffee-house in Aldergate street, by taking prussic acid, in consequence of the re jection of one of his articles by a popular magazine. A " High Change," similar to those of London, Liver pool, and Manchester, has lately been erected at Bristol, which has heretofore been deficient in this convenience for merchants. The driver of the Portpatrick and Dumfries mail having slipped, the other day, as he was about to mount his box, the horses started off without attendant, and ran upwards of three miles without accident. The good service pension of £3OO per annum, which re verted to the Admiralty on the death of Admiral Sir C. Rowley, Bart., is conferred on William Hotham, G.C.8., Admiral of the White. On Thursday last a chi oney was blown down at Bal last Hills, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The bricks fell through the roof and killed an infant that was sleeping in a cradle. A short time since a dog, at Cardiff, seeing his portrait exhibited to some gentlemen, sprung at the painting in a rage, and, before he could be prevented, partially defaced it An American ship arrived in St. Katherine's Docks, last week, with a large cargo of potatoes from the Uuited States. The potatoes appear to be of excellent size and quality. It is a curious circumstance, that, during the five days that Lord John Russell was supposed to be in power, not a voice was raised in the " famine cry," nor a word said upon the " potatoe disease." The duty on the importation of foreign wheat has this week advanced to 15s. per quarter. The grain markets, generally, have become animated, and prices have ad vanced in a moderate degree. QUICK JUSTICE.—In the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion square, London, on Friday, at the commencement, the Jury were sorn four times, four causes tried, and four verdicts recorded in twenty minutes. The Reverend Librarian of Lambeth Palace, Mr. Maitland. at one time acquired the soubriqpet of the Clerical Fox-hunter, from his zeal to pick out every error to be found in the ponderous volumes of the holiest martyrologist. Mr. Pugin, the Romish architect, lives at Ramsgate, near to the spot where St. Austin is said to have first set his foot on English ground. He has commenced, at an estimated cost of £lO,OOO, the erection on this spot .of a church, school, and cloister. NOVEL IDEA OF INDIFENDENCE.—The English Churchman, in announcing itself to be " in an indepen dent position," suggests to its subscribers the doubling of their annual subscription, by which means, it says, " the loss on the paper would be entirely got rid of. STOVES IN CrauncnEs.—On Sunday week Stanwix church was nearly burnt down, owing to the fire in the stove communicating with the woodwork of the pews. The pulpit, with several pews in the neighbourhood, was de stroyed, and the organ materially injured. Dr. Polli, of Milan, known to the medical world by his remarkable researches on the blood, has just communi cated to the Scientific Congress at Naples, a proceeding to render salt water drinkable by means of electricity.— Medical Times. A well-sinker has bcen suffocated at Market Weston, by incautiously descending a well without having first tested the state of the air by means of a candle. In the course of the previous hour a stratum of carbonic acid gas had formed for a depth of thirty feet; and as soon as he went down, the man fell senseless. Lord Lyttleton has sent circulars to his tenants caution ing them against disposing of their corn at injurious prices, arid offering such accommodation as may be necessary to enable them to hold their stocks. The noble lord says that the present reduced price of whear 15 the recent political chang:s, but that prices are certain to to up again ; and if his tenants cannot pay their rents now due, they have only to apply to his agent, and time will be afforded to enable them to retain their corn until the markets resume their former stability. Ile resu MINISTERIAL CHANGES.—The Duke of Buccl.euch will succeed the late Lord Wharncliffe as President of the Council. Lord Ellenborough will return to office as First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Haddington has accepted _ the Privy Seal in rooniof the Duke of Iticcleuch.—Ti;nes. AMAZING UNANIMITY.—The Leeds Mercury states that in the village of Quarmby, near Huddersfield, there are twenty-four houses and seventeen county voters, al: of whom signed the requisition of Lord Morpeth. So it seems the very stones cry out to be represented by his Lordship. Great Protectionist meetings have been held during the week, in Sussex, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Es sex, Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, and other parts of the country. At a meeting at Chichester on Wed nesday, the Times newspaper was gibbeted and burnt, in presence of the chairman, the Duke of Richmond ! Men are collecting their thoughts after the alarm of a Whig-Radical Government, and with such symptoms of returning confidence, that the Three per cents. have risen from 92 to 95k, in the short space of nine days ; a testi mony to the confidence which the fundholders lately placed in a free-trade Government.—Morning Herald. DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE MILL NEAR KENDAL. — On Saturday night last the neighbourhood of Kendal was visited with a severe gale of wind and rain, which effected the almost entire destruction of a very large and extensive mill at Scarrs Foot, near the above town, the property of G. and J. Braithwaite, manufacturers, which was in the course of erection. LORD GREY.—It appears that one strong expression was omitted in Mr. Macaulay's letter, which appeared in our last, relative to these noblemen. It is said that the original letter contained some very strong expressions of Mr. Macaulay towards Earl Grey ; one sentence particu larly was to the effect that the noble lord, in Mr. M.'s opinion, is "the most arrogant, most capricious, and most wayward of mankind." EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY AND PASSlON.—Yesterday week, a woman named Thorpe died at Bradford from the effects of arsenic. The deceased had quarrelled with her husband on Thursday, on a slight matter, and went to live with her brother-in-law. On Saturday morning a meddling neighbour told her a tale of her husband's infi delity, and in a fit of passion she procured the poison, and died soon after taking it. A MAN SHOT IN MISTAKE FOR A WILD DUCK.—On the night of Tuesday a person named Gooderson, while in his fowling skiff in Cowbit Wash, fired at what he consi dered to be a group of birds ; but was horror-struck when he discovered as the object of his aim his old comrade Jackson, who, like himself, was in pursuit of birds but faint hopes are entertained of poor Jackson's recovery.— Lincoln Chronicle. THE BIRDS IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—This collection, which belongs to the Ornithological Society, at the pre sent time contains upwards of three hundred birds„ in cluding twenty-one species, and fifty-one distinct varieties. Although some of the specimens occasionally wander to some distance, but comparatively few are lost, as they generally return, even after a long absence, the secluded plantations and islands being quite congenial to their habits. How TO MAKE A CHURCH.—A service took place on Tuesday, D comber 23d, in the Adelphi Chapel, Hackney road, to organise a Christian Church in this newly-erected place of worship. After suitable exhortation and prayer, the members received the right hand of fellowship, and were recognised and declared to be a Church of Christ. The recognition was then confirmed by a participation in the ordinance of the Lord's Supper with the ministers and members of other Churches.—Nonconformist. SUICIDES OF MILITARY OFFICERS.—On Saturday week Col. Gurwood, the distinguished officer and author of " The Wellington Dispatches," destroyed himself at Brighton by cutting his throat with a razor. The medical gentleman gave it as his opinion that the act was induced by the relaxation of the nerves consequent on the comple tion of the work above referred to, and on which the mind of the deceased was intently fixed.—The last intelligence from India details the distressing suicide by poison of Ensign Wm. Miles of the sth regiment Bombay Light Infantry (Native.) PROBABLE INCREASE OF THE INCOMIC-TAX.—We hear on good authority that orders have been issued from the Treasury for official returns to be made of the res pective amounts that would be realised by the different heads of " lands," " professions," " salaries," &c., on an income tax of five per cent. instead of the present rate of sevenpence in the pound. This would seem to countenance the rumour that it is in contemplation to charge some branches of local taxation on the Consolidated Fund. — Britannia. [This, it will be remembered, corroborates pro touts our announcement of last week. The New castle Journal seems to think our information will be found correct ] NOVEL INTERMENT CASE.—On Monday last, pursu ant to advice given by counsel. the Board of Guardians caused the child, to which the Vicar of Leigh bad refused interment, to be prssented at the church-yard for burial. An order had been served on the vicar, and on his refus ing, notice of intention tc bury the corpse was served on the vicar, the clerk, and the sextoness. Several hundreds of persons assembled on Monday afternoon to witness the proceedings, and at four o'clock the funeral procession arrived, and, as was expected, found the gates locked, and their admission refused. They stood at the gates half an hour with the child, and afterwards returned to Bedford with the corpse. POISONING—A man named Farrer, a butcher, near Tadcaster, died on Sunday week very suddenly. He was out at dinner with his sister,'Mrs. Prout, and, before the cloth was removed, Mr. and Mrs. Prout, Mr. Farrar, and other members of the family became alarmingly ill. Me dical assistance was promptly obtained, and in the case of the several individuals of Mr. Prout's family the treat ment was successful in averting any immediate fatal re sult. Mr. Farrar died in two hours from the time he sat down to dinner. It appears that a boy had been sent in to the garden for some horseradish, and in mistake ga thered some portion of the root known as Monk's Hood, with which strong poison the gravy had become impreg nated.—Leeds Paper. CURIOUS. — WhiIe a gentleman was looking at the salmon essaying to pass Powick weir the other day, his dog (a bitch of the Newfoundland breed) discovered a very curious magazine. She began scratching and sniff ing violently at a rat-hole situate under a beam at the ex tremity of the weir, and some couple of yards from the water ; guessing there was something extraordinary there, it was examined, when it was found to contain nineteen lamperns all alive and in good order, which some fisher men insisted had been stored there by the rats. As the water had not reached the spot for a long time previous, the lamperns clearly had been carried there by some means, and the fishermen say that the rats are continually in the habit of robbing their putcheons.—Hereford Paper. SOMNAMBULISM REMARKABLE PRESERVATION. — About five o'clock on Friday morning as constable Parry was on duty near Eign-brook Chapel, in this city, he heard something fall heavily, and immediately made search, and in the street, close under the shop-window of Mr. Algood, discovered what he thought was the body of a man with nothing on but his night-dress. Upon raising it up, however, he found that it was an aged female, in a state of utter insensibility, or as he at first thought quite dead. She was taken into the house, and placed in a bed, and it transpired that her name was Mrs. Evans, and her age between 70 and 80 years. The solution of the occur rence is, that she had risen in her sleep, and that, getting out of the window, she first fell upon the ledge of the shop-window of the house where she lodged, which broke her descent to the ground, a height of many feet, or she would certainly have been killed. We are happy to learn that Mrs. Evans is going on favourably.—Hereford Jour nal. _ . - DICKENS'S NEWSPAPER.—The first number of the Daily News will appear in a fortnight. Its peculiar feature will be, that the literary body, so long second to the com mercial in the daily press, will be in the foreground. They are committing a great mistake in avowedly starting on the extreme Liberal interest. Bradbury and Evans r are the proprietors. Dickens, it is now said, will not be the editor, as stated .in a paragraph going the rounds of the press, but Foster, the literary editor of the Examiner. They have decided on giving their reporters seven instead of five guineas a week, for their annual engagements. The proprietors of the Morning Herald, which has lately been drawing an enormous revenue from advertisements, the price of the column formerly £l2, being now £3O, intimated the other day, to their Bombay and Calcutta correspondents, the increase of their salaries from £l2O, which is paid the former. to £4OO, and from £lOO, the sa lary of the latter, to £3OO per annum. The foreign cor respondents of the morning journals are paid from five to ten guineas a week ; and the express India mail, fort nightly, stands the Times and Herald each £BOO a month. The principal editor is paid at the rate of 30 guineas a week, and the subs., of which there are six or seven to each paper, (not to speak of the managing editor, whose services are recompensed with 12 guineas per week,) re ceive from eight to ten guineas weekly. The parlia mentary reporters to each paper ♦ary from sixteen to twenty, at the salary above stated, irrespectively of which there are nine law reporters, at from three to five guineas a week, nine others who attend the police offices, at no fixed salaries, besides supernumeraries, who pick up a trifle in the aesident and ooeurrence line. BANKRUPTCY.—The total number of bankruptcies that have occurred in and up to a late period of the expiring year is, 1,028 and, it appears that there were 7 apothe caries, 1 attorney, 9 auctioneers. 7 bakers, 5 beersellers, 18 booksellers, 21 shoemakers, 14 brewers, 11 brick layers and reasons, 3 brickmakers, 18 brokers, 33 builders 19 butchers, 15 cabinet-makers, 4 calico printers. 10 car penters, 1 carpet manufacturer, 7 carriers and carmen, 3 carvers and gilder', 8 cattle-dealers, 7 cheesemongers, 21 druggists, 2 clothiers, 2 cloth manufacturers, 1 cloth merchant, 3 coach makers, 3 coach and omnibus pro prietors, 19 coal merchants, 18 commission agents, 2 con tractors, 1 cook and confectioner, 15 corn merchants, 6 cotton manufacturers, 2 cotton spinners, 12 curriers, 3 cutlers, 4 dairymen, 5 dealers, 33 drapers, 11 dyers, 3 earthenware dealers, 3 coffee-house keepers, 9 engineers, 1 engraver, 8 farmers, 4 farriers, 4 fell-mongers, 2 fish mongers, 2 fruiterers, 6 glass merchants, 59 grocers, 6 hatters, 11 hosiers, 44 innkeepers, 8 ironfounders, 14 ironmongers, 2 jewellers, 2 lacemen, 3 leather sellers, 1 limeburner, 18 linen drapers, 1 livery-stable-keeper, 1 lodging• housekeeper, 7 machinists, 5 maltsellers, 2 mar ket gardeners, 4 mercers, 40 merchants, 4 milliners, 8 m'llers, 6 money-scriveners, 5 musical instrument makers, 8 oil and colourmen, 5 painters, 4 paperhangers, 6 paper makers, 1 pawn broker, 20 plumbers and glaziers, 8 prin ters, 2 print and musicsellers, 8 provision dealers, 2 sad dlers, 1 sailcloth manufacturer, 3 shipb okers, 3 ship owners, 3 shipwrights, 4 silk manufacturers, 3 smiths, 1 soapmaker, 9 stationers, 6 surgeons and dentists, 16 tail ors, 4 tallowchandlers, 11 teadealers, 5 timber-merchants, 2 tobacconists, 3 trimming-makers. 9 upholsterers, 63 victuallers, 12 _warehousemen, 8 watchmakers, 4 wharf fingers, 5 wheelwrights, 36 wine and spirit-merchants, 3 woollen-drapers, 7 woollen-manufacturers, 1 woolstapler, 3 worsted-manufacturers, 1 worsted-spinner, and 57 of various occupations. DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Sunday, a tailor named Porter, at Bradford, entered his father's house, on a bed in which lay his sister, who had only been ten minutes de livered of a child; he dragged his sister from the bed, and threw her into the street, where she was found by the watchman, who had her immediately conveyed to bed again. The watchman was alarmed by the smell of burn ing, and he hastened up stairs and found that the priso ner had broken open a box, and had taken from thence his sister's and child's clothing, and put them on the fire, from which in burning they had fallen on the hearthstone, He then went down stairs and took up a chair, which he raised for the purpose of striking his sister as she lay on the bed, when his father struck him with a hammer and felled him, he was then secured and taken to the lock-up. —Leeds paper. YACHT CLUBS.—Mr. James Knight, secretary of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, proposes a magnificent re view of all the yacht clubs in the kingdom, to take place before her Majesty, off the Isle of Wight, in the yachting months of 1846. Of its magnificence some idea may be form td from the fact being that there are more than 11 clubs, commanding a force exceeding fire hundred yachts, and as the statistics of such a force may be interesting to the lovers of aquatic amusements, we may conclude by lay ing the following particulars before our readers : No. of No. No. No. Principally Distinction of Clubs. Yachts. Tons. Men. Guns.Brasinli. Royal Yacht Squadron 102 9000 1600 400 from 2to 9 Royal Thames Yacht Club 146 4400 540 220 from to 6 Royal Western Yacht Club 74 3000 400 260 from Ito 6 Royal Southern Yacht Club 67 2800 350 230 from Ito 9 Royal Victoria Yacht Club 38 3200 420 250 from 2to 6 Royal Harwich Yacht Club 38 900 no 40 from to 4 Royal Cork Yacht Club Royal Mersey Yacht Club Royal Northern Yacht Club Royal Eastern Yacht Club Royal Kingstown Yacht Club 29 1380 230 70 from Ito 6 Deduct about 1-6th for the - - - - 621 29250 4380 1810 same Yachts belonging to different Clubs, you will have a grand total of .... 530 25000 3900 1500 The seamen are exclusive of masters, cooks, and stew ards, which would give at least 800, in addition to the foregoing numbers. The. wages alone for the masters and seamen exceed £120,000 per annum, and the intrinsic value of the yachts, with their armament complete, is more than three quarters of a million of money. THE OVERLAND ROUTE.—Considerable discussion took place last week between the Times and Morning Herald as to whether the route via Marseilles or Trieste is the most,9xpeditious, the Herald having on the last occasion, by the former route, outstripped its contemporaries. The Herald gives the following explanation as to its arrange ments :—lmmediately upon reading the bombastic obser vations made by the Times in support of Mr. Waghorn's project for conveying the Indian Mail via Germany— offered, no doubt, as a compliment to Mr. Waghorn for bringing the Times' despatches, and with the hope of receiving his assistance hereafter—we determined upon proving the utter absurdity of the assertion that the Trieste route was the shortest, by running as rapid an express as possible from Suez via Marseilles. The only difficulty in our way was to obtain a steam-boat from Alexandria to Marseilles, and to obviate this difficulty we wrote to the French Government, stating our intention, asking the favour that one of the usual passenger steam boats trading between Alexandria and Marseilles might be placed at our disposal, and offering to pay all expenses incurred in that service. The French Government hav ing considered our proposition, answered that they could not comply with our request, but, to show their desire to afford every possible assistance in accomplishing an object of so much importance to England as‘the expediting the conveyance of the Indian Mail, they had determined upon placing at our disposal a French war-steamer, which could convey our agent to Egypt to arrange the express from Suez to Alexandria, and for the use of which ves sel the French Government could not possibly receive any pecuniary remuneration, but they expected that a copy of the " Overland Bombay Times" should be delivered to the Government in Paris as soon as our courier ar rived there. HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—A WOMAN EATEN BY RATS.—On Friday week, Mr. Jewison, Coroner, held an inquest at Tong, on view of the body of Sarah Holds worth, a woman 84 years of age, who was found dead in her house. The old woman resided in a hovel somewhere in the neighbourhood of Dudley Hill, and though so far advanced in life resided alone. For two days previous to her death she had been confined to bed, having no one to attend on her but a step-son nearly as old as herself. On Wednesday night, at eight, be left her in bed, and re tired for the night ; next morning he found her laid on the floor dead, and presenting a most horrible spectacle. Her right eye was nearly eaten out, her left eye was eaten, her forehead and nose were gnarled, and the edges of a sore on one arm had also been gnawed. It appeared that the residence of the deceased was infested by rats, which had become so bold that they had on former occasions actualy eaten the old woman's chemise as she lay in bed, likewise her other clothing and the bed clothes, into holes. To keep them from attacking her person she had been ac customed, as was the case on Wednesday night, to have alstick laid on the bed. Nothing bad been heard in the night in her cottage. It is believed that the vermin, more ravenous than usual, had attacked her as she lay, and that to escape them she made an effort too great for her feeble state, a fit had come on, of which she died, but that the rats made their horrid feast before life was ex tinct. The unfortunate old woman was in the receipt of 3s. a-week relief from the union, and but a short time ago it was sought to take her to the workhouse, but her opposition was so great that the relieving officer was obliged to desist. She paid 6d. a-week rent for her hovel, and when found had 6s. 7d., which she bad saved up to pay her rent. In connection with this little hoard a simple but affecting incident was related. On Wednes day her step-son, who appears to have been a tender, affectionate nurse, gave her some some tea without sugar or milk, and a piece of dry, coarse bread. The poor old woman said she could like something nice, the addition of milk and sugar to her tea, and of butter to her bread, would probably have been quite a luxury ; but though so ill not a word was said of dipping into the rent fund. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER,—We have again to report an increasing confi• deuce as well as an improving demand for most descriptions of cloth, and at very full, and in some cares increasing rates, and the market closes ♦ery buoyant for all qualities. Yarns are better to sell, and the opinion is general that a large and good business will be done in the new year. LANCASHIRK, Jan. I.—The broad silk trade at Leigh, Middle ton, Failsworth, Manchester, and their vicinities is better than it was a month ago. Fancy work and mixed goods are in par ticular request, and many new sorts of fine fancy goods for the spring trade are now being manufactured in the neighbourhood of Manchester. The silk smallware trade in the same districts remains rather slack, and many silk mill hands are only partially employed. The trade in the cotton mills at Oldham is mode rately brisk, yet there are several turn outs amongst power loom weavers for an advance of wages. The wolllen cloth trade at Saddleworth is moderately brisk, and the operatives generally have full employment. The gingham trade at Radcliffe, Whit field, Prestwich, Eccles, and vicinities, is very brisk, and some of the manufacterers cannot get goods sufficient to meet their demands. _ _ ROCHDALE.-At this time of the year the flannel market is usually dull, and there is very little hope of any change for the better before the first market, which is the first Monday after the 6th of January. The wool dealer; complain of the limited de mand there is for that article. Prices may be quoted the same as last week. LEEDS —At this period of the year the merchants are much engaged in taking stock ; we always expect our markets to be rather dull at and about Christmas. The weather has also been stormy, which may be one reason why the Cloth Halls, both on Saturday and Tuesday last, presented a less than average attend ance of sellers as well as of buyers. Stocks of manufactured goods are not large, and prices remain firm. Huneartsexst.n.—We are glad to say that the staple trade of this town and neighbourhood. is in a cheeriug condition and a good spring trade is generally anticipated. There was a good attendance of buyers, considering the season, at market on Tuesday, and all descriptions of trowserings, waistcoatings, and other kinds of goods suitable for the spring trade were freely purchased. BRADFORD.—A slight improvement has been manifested in the demand for goods this week, principally for Paramattas and Orleans. We hope we shall have to notice a - progressive im provement, for stocks are low in the hands of both merchants and manufacturers. all parties having exercised great caution to keep as low as possible. The fancy goods department is greatly depressed, and some are abandoning the trade altogether. Not much is doing in wools, the prices of which are slightly declin ing. As respects yarns, the year just closed has been one of no ordinarcharacter, for, throughout the entire period, nothing but loss has been the result ; for while wool has bee very firm and high in price, yarns have been heavy and drooping; and what has added much to depress the trade. has been the large quantity of infer,or yarns, which have been thrown on the mar ket and sold regardless of price, in many cases at even less than the wool cost ; we are glad, however, that less of this class is now offering. The inquiries for yarn are more numerous and as soon as the shippers are in the market, and the business more active, higher prices are fully calculated on. We hear of some houses unwilling to sell for distant delivery. HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES —The town and trade of Not tingham has not for many years presented a more gloomy aspect, as almost every branch of its manufactures seems in a sinking state, though with here and there a bright speck to en liven hope for the future. In the midst of so much depression we believe that the demand for silk and plated silk gloves has again sensibly increased, but the other silk branches are in a . . . lamentable state. The fancy bobbin-net trade, though the Leipsic fair is next week, is still in nearly a stagnant condition. The warp lace trade is by no means in the stagnant state of the bobbin-net, and many mechanics well acquainted with the min ctpretraim-powera of both descriptions of machines, gave it as their decided opinion that the warp trade will eventually pre ponderate over the bobbin-net machine, which latter is extremely costly and expensive to alter. At the present time several new manufactures are contemplated from the warp ; whilst the bob. bin net seems at a stand in improvement, the heavy cost at the present price of nets deterring every attempt, as the buyers in general, being ignorant of mechanism, know nothing of the in trinsic merits of the fabric.—Nottingham Journal. PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. WOOD, Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid Archangel £l9 0 ® • • Memel l6 10 19 • Gothenburg l6 10 - - 17 • Wyburg ;7 • - 17 10 Petersburg 17 0 - 19 • PLANKS, per font of 2 inches thick. Danzig, Deck k — British American Pine 4 — LATH WGOID, per fathom Duty. 1 1 18s. Der load. Danzig, 4 feet 4 7 le British American 4 0 H 0 OA N T, per foot of 1 inch thick Honduras Cuba St. Domingo OAK PLANKS TEAKWOOD, per cubic feet o 6 0 9 0 II 1 0 1 0 1 6 o e 0 3 0 3 6 liOsper STAVES, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe .. hcl. . Quebec, red. to and 5} feet long ego o —no • 40 • I I Free 55 0 in. thick, } Do. Puncheon 13 • - 17 0 li Tim &ER, per cubic foot Oak ritish Arc,e r mon 0 0 1 5 3 0 ° ° }B P• ls 1 10 • 1 si, 2 2 2 2 1130 s ed vld 2 1 yellow , . 1 3 Memel Riga,red...... . I. - . 2 0- Jan. 6, 1846. Zirtbs, Otarrtagts anb Deaths. BIRTHS On the 17th October, at Calcutta, the lady of the Hon. Fred, Millett, member of council, of a son. . On the 17th Nov. at Strawberry-hill, Jamaica, the Hon. Mrs. Price, of a danghter. On . the 17th ult. at Heligan, the lady of J S. Treiawny, Esq., M.P., of a son. On he 21st ultimo, at Florence-court, the Countess of En- niskillen, of a son. _ _ . On the 26th ultimo. at Plumpton-terrace, Everton, the lady of Mr. James B. Marsden, of a daughter. On the 2;th ultimo, at the family residence, in Portland-place, Loudon, the Countess of March, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the ISth ultimo. at St. John's Episcopal Church, Greenock, by the Rev. Henry Kennedy, M.A., Capt. G. Grant M'Pherson, of the South Pacific Steam Navigation Company, to Harriet Louisa, only daughter of the Rev. Charles Cole, incumbent of that church. On the 22nd ultimo, at St. John's Church, Thorr Eli, son of the late William Thompson, Richmond, Yorkshire, to Mary Jane, daughter of T. Widdowson, Esq. Same day, at Wem, Mr. E. S. Comberbatch, of Blackburn, to Mary Anne, daughter to S. Tiler, Esq., of Pepper-street-grove, Salop. On the 23rd ultimo, in London, Mr. T. S. Raimbach, M.A. Sidney College, Cambridge, to Margaret, youngest daughter the late J. Sii . ape , Esq., of Chester. On the 24th ultimo, at Atsbury, Mr. E. S. Newman, c f wood, in this county, to Fiances, daughter of the late of Congleton. Same day, at Upholland Church, Robert, son of C. Durie. Esq., of Portobello, to Catherine, daughter of Mr. Jackson, of Fisher-house, Orrell, in this county. On the 25th ultimo, Mr. H. Hobson, of the Post-office, Ches ter, to Miss Ann He lings 101 Hoole Lodge. Same day, a* linrnley, Mr. John Balrnforth, hair-dresser, t Miss Elizabeth Britcliffe, milliner and dress-maker, Church street, Burnley. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. R. L. Townsend, M.A., Mr. John Lowe to Mary Anne, daughter of Mr. S. Pardy, of Argyle-s' reet. Same day, at Hull, Mr. Thomas Garniss, draper, of this town, to Miss T. 0. Corden, daughter of Mr. E. Corden, tailor and draper, of the former place. Same day, at Sigg'esthorne, East Riding of Yorkshire, Mr. C. Thompson, of Ganstead, to Miss Maria, daughter of the late Mr. J. Brumby, of Scotton, and niece of the Rev. W. Smith, Wesleyan minister, of this town. _ On the 27th ultimo, at the Superintendent Registrar's Office, William, fourth son of the late Maurice Jones. Esq., Harbour view, county Wexford, to Catharine, third daughter of the late Francis Atkin, Esq., Wexford. Same day, at Castleknock Church, the Hon. Robert Daly, son of Lord Dunsdale, to the Hon. Miss A'Court, ci3ughter of Lord Haytesbury, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Same day, at Bolton, Frede:ick Adolphe William Margret, Esq., Ph. D of Blackburn, to Amelia, daughter of the late Mr. Joseph King, of Bolton, formerly of Blackburn. Same day, at Denbigh, Mr. Thomas Rogers, joiner, of this town, to Miss Ellen Jones, of Denbigh. On the 28th ultimo, at Trinity Church, by the Rev. T. Bibby, Mr. William Knowlee, junior, to Mary, only daughter of the late Mr. W. Grange, of York. Same day, at St. Peter's Church, Mr. William Wycherley, of Rainhill, to Miss Eliza Pepper, of Kent, Staffordshire. Same day, at St. Michael's Church, Mr. John Backhouse to Miss Eliza Fleming. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, John, eldest son of Mr. Thomas Molyneux, to Ellen, second daughter of Mr. Juno) Lowe. On the 2 t h ultimo, by the Rev. J. H. Stafford, Frederick Hall, Esq., of Gargrave, Yorkshire, to Sarah, eldest daughter of Robert Blackburn, Esq., of Lancaster. Same day, at Trinity Church, Chester, Mr. Wm. Marshall, of Birkenhead, to Miss Margaret, daughter of Mr. Thomas Jones, master mariner, Chester. Same day, at St. John's Church, Chester, Mr. D Williams, brass-founder, to Miss Elizabeth Ellis, both of Chester. On the 30th ultimo,,at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Mr. Benja min Cooper, nail-manufacturer, to Mrs. Martha Burrows, both of this WWII. On the 30th ultimo, at St. Mary's, Islington, London, the Rev. Alfred Burler, of Islington, to Ellen Sarah, youngest daughter of T. W. Perry, Esq., of Tuffnell•place, in the same parish. Same day, at the Parish Church, Blackburn, Thomas, son of Mr. James Bury, c'tton twist sizer. Sutton. Yo, kshire, to Mary Ann, second daughter of Mr. John Laycock, farmer, of the former place. On the 31st ultimo, at St. Thomas's, Ardwick, by the Rev. N. W. Gibson, M.A., Mr Henry Pat kes, e'dest son of T. Barton, Esq., to Eliza, eldest daughter of George E. Wainwright, Esq., Hyde-place. Same day, at St. Peter's Church, Mr. John Leicester, of War rington, to Constance, fifth daughter of Mr. William Worrall, merchant, of this town. Same day, at St. Nicholas's Church, in this town, Mr. Henry Powis, joiner, Birkenhead, to Miss Anne, second daughter of the late Mr John Wilde, Bettows, Montgomeryshire. Same day, at Greenwich, Cuthbert Cowan, Esq., of Ayr, N. 8., to Eliza Jane, daughter of J. Tingcombe, Esq. Same day, at Glasgow, G. H. Hope, Esq., M.D., Bootle, to Marra - a, third daughter of the late W. Belt, Esq., of Morpeth, Northumberland. Same day, at Bakewell. Mr. William Hiskey, of Birkenhead, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Mr. F. Mackin, for merly of the Peacock Inn, Bakewell. On the Ist instant, Gervase Tattenham Waldo Sibthorpe, eldest son of Colonel Sibthorpe, M.P. for Lincoln, to Constance, daughter of Colonel Cracroft, of Hacktham-hall, near Lincoln, and niece of Sir William Ingleby, Bart., of Ripley Castle, York shire. Same day, at Bettws, Abergele, Henry Lysons, second son of the Rev. T. S. Griffinhoofe, Vicar of Arkesden, Essex, to Jane, second daughter of the Rev. R. Phillips, Vicar of Bettws. DIED Lately, at Naples, after having undergone a second operation for the dropsy, Signor Giubilei, the talented vocalist, husband of Madame UMWlei, formerly a dancer at the Opera-house and Drury-lane The , tre. Lately, in his 65th year, the Earl of Portarlington. Lately, at his estale at St. Clair, near Vire, aged 78. Count De Percy Monchamps, the last representative in .Nortnanby of the noble house from which, after the conquest, the Percics, Dukes of Northumberland, sprang. On the 3rd SepteMber, at Brass River, Cameroons, by the upsetting of the boat, aged 31, Mr. George Routledge, second offi-er of the schooner Gle, royy, of this port: On the 21st August, at New Calabar, aged 22, Mr. Matthew Rose, of Camdentown, second officer of the Zephyr, of this port. On the 15th ultimo, at Warrington, aged 58, Mr. Wm. Smith. On the 26th ultimo, aged 55, Mr. Daniel Mason, of St John's Market, in this town. _ Same day, aged 57, John Halton, publican, Cable-street. On the ►9th ultimo, at Kirby Cane Hall, aged 83, the Baru lesS Berners. _ Same day, in Laurel-street, aged 25, Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. John Falk ner. On the 23rd ultimo, at Brighton, in his fot rth year, Claude, youngest son o• Wm. Marshall, Esq., M.P. _ Same day, in her 83rd year, at Lithfaen, Carnarvonshire, Mrs. Roberts, mother of Mrs. J. Jones, late of 21, Castle.streat. On the 24th ultimo, in his 46th year, Mr. John Booth, of the Eagle and ;. hild Inn, Darwen.street, Blackburn. On the 25th ultimo, aged 84, Anna Maria, wife of the late Mr. H. Morris, of Aberystwith. Same day, aged 54, Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Holdsworth, Esq., Belle-vue, Wakefield. On the 26th ultimo, aged 55. Elizabeth, wife of John Butler, Esq.. of Grec ndeld-house, West Derby. Same day, aged 24, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. John Fair. On the 27th ultimo, aged 66, Mr. Jones, surgeon, Breek-road, Everton. Same day, at Cheltenham. in the 75th year of his age, Mr. Thomas Hampton, of this town. Same ddy, aged 53, John Lancaster Moreton, Esq., lat.; of Shaw's-br ,w. Same day, Edwin Wyatt, Esq., of the Mount, St. Asaph. - On the 28th ultimo, at St. John's-hill, Ellesmere, Mr. Wm. Davies, nail manufacturer, aged 47. Same day, at Southport, at an advanced age, Mr. G. Pollar. Same day, in her 56th year. Alice, wife of Mr. Thomas Set ton, farmer, Toxholes. Same day, at her residence. in Oxford-street, Abercromby square, aged 56. Mrs. Jane Jones. Same day, at Workington, in his 73rd year, Robert Falcon, Esq., formerly of Eim.court. Temple, and latterly of Horndetuz• bank, near Berwick-upon-Tweed. On the 29th ultimo, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. S. Soorn, North gate-street, Chester. On the 30th ultimo, Mr. Robert Griffiths, cheesemonger, of Chester. Same day, at Liverpool, after a long and severe illness, Mr. James Dempsey, writer, second son of Mr. John Dempsey, carpenter and joiner, of Chester. Same day, aged 11 nu.nths. John James, son of Mr. J. Buck ley, High i'ark-street. On the 38th ultimo, at his residence, Clare.street, aged 66, Mr. Jchn Bromley, bricklayer. Same day, at an advanced age, Mr. Richard Pendlebury, of Preston. Same day, at Southport, at the house of her son, Mr. Mercer , boot and shoe maker, Mrs. Mercer. Same day, aged 35, Miss Renwick, of West Derby-street , sister to Dr. Renwick, of this town. On the 31st ultimo, Elizabeth, wife of William Winstanley , M.D., of Wootton Lodge. Same day, aged 25, William Henry Scarisbrick. Same day, after a severe illness, in the 64th year of her age. Ellen, wile of Mr. John Howe, baker, Ranelagh.place. Same day, at the house of his son-in-law, aged 72, Mr. W Jones, formerly of Nevin. On the ist instant, Margaret Jane, only daughter of Thomug and Margaret Fergie, of Islington, aged th7ee weeks and four days. Same day, aged 14, John, son of Mr. Richard Harker, locker/ in the Customs. Same day, aged 15 months, Harriott, daughter of Mr. Henri Wess, of School-lane. Same d iy, at Lancaster, aged 25, Mrs. Mary Ilinde, grand daughter of the late Mr. Richard Airay, of that place, much an d deservedly respected by all who had the pleasure of her ac' quaintance. Same day, aged 45. Sarah Frances, wife of Mr. Willia ol Waudby King, of William Henry-street. Same day, at his father's house, in Head- street, Toxtetli.par k ; aged 42, Mr. William Worhington, master bricklayer au': builder, of St. James's place, much and deservedly respecte u by numerous acquaintances. On the 3rd instant, at her residence, Scotland-road, M: 6 ' Martha Ball, widow of the late John Ball, aged 85. LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL. Direct. L direct Direct. Australia.. .. Aug 13 Lima . Oct. S Bahia Noy. y St. Helena Barbadoes.. „ 24 Maranham Oct. 28 •• ,4 Bombay ... .. Dec. 1 M aur iti us Oct. B. Ayres ... .. Oct. 25 Mobile Calcutta Nov. 20 Monte Video. Oct. I C. G. Hope N . O r l eans Charleston . Dec. 11 N ew Y or k , tI 0 China ...... N Nov. 1 Pernambuco . ov' I Demerara.. „18 Ri o J ane i ro .. N o v ' t o Havana 29 , avannah „ Dec. et Jamaica.... .. ~ 23 V a lp ara i so . O c t . 2 •• La Guayra. „ 21 Vera Cruz I NOV. ' TIDE TABLE HOLYDAYS, ETC 2 Epiphany, DAYS. I 1'1". I EVN. IHRIGHTI Tuesday 6 541 617 13 Wednes. 7 657 715 12 6 Thu rs... 8 810 840 12 7 Friday.. 9 g g 934 13 4 I Saturday 10 10 0 10 20 14 1 Sunday. 11 10 40 10 58 Monday 12 11 15 11 32 15 ii I ,lst Sunday after rPII LIVERPOOL lIAY AND POTATO MARKET, JANUARY 5, 1816- s. d. ,' 6 Fla y, old it . . a Clever i@ 1 I tPotatoes 0 8 I Kcmps Vetch es Grass .. I 0 - 6 - 3 3 2 8 straw , 3 Oat • 3 Bar ey 0 4 I Pink Eyes 0 4 Cattle .. • 3 Turnips, Is ton 19 0 —35 • IManure 2 10 -- 1 4 -- Carrot s 5 6 - 7