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CONTEMPORARY PRESS. THE COUNTY CONS TABULARY. (From the Preston Pilot.) The - Subject of a Rural Police is one that is now en gaging much, and, we may safely say, well merited at tention, for that the adoption or rejection of that kind of force is a matter of the last importance to any county, there are few now hardy enough to deny. That its adoption is becoming more and more a question of the most doubtful policy, we are continually reminded by the accounts of the marked rejection which any at tempts to introduce it, receive,—the proposition for such an object seldom being sent to the " tomb of the capulets" by a less significant and substantial majority than that of two to one. And there is the still further testimony to be brought against the gendarmerie system, that only thirteen out of the fifty-two counties into which the kingdom is divided, have yet thought it prudent to accept its questionable advantages. this constabulary affair is of the same character, as the parliamentary reform. corporation reform, and poor law reform subjects—in all these matters, as they ulti mately came to exist, abuses were found, but in all of them there was a sound and safe principle ; and if the defects which time and altered circumstances had in troduced might have been carefully removed, that prin ciple would have been found vitally efficient to work out every salutary plan which the several institutions were designed to accomplish. But this system of pruning the decayed and useless branches was not adopted.. No, forsooth, the modern march of intellect, braggart-like, decreed there was no wisdom in the in ventions of former ages, and the whole tree, root and branch, must needs therefore be cut down and eradi cated ; and thus it is, that instead of having the good old system of our forefathers renovated and restored to us in all their first vigour and freshness, we have seen introduced in their stead a series of measures assumed to be based upon those whose names they bear, but which are diametrically opposed to them in principle and in every feature of their practical operation. But, our present object being to show the mischievous ten dency of the constabulary police scheme, we will-con fine to it the few observations that we intend to make. Our readers, then, will remember that we gave in our last a copy of Chief Constable Woodford's report to the magistracy, presented at the quarter session, and we think that after reading it they cannot fail to have felt a most marvellous astonishment at some of the statements and suggestions which it contains. The chief constable presumes that the magistracy regard the present constitution of the force as experimental ; we sincerely hope they do, because we are quite con vinced that the rate-payers would rather tint its con tinued existence was a matter of doubt, than that other experiments be made at their cost by any schemes of reorganization. But the present constitution of the force affords no proper stimulus to exertion, there be ing no prospect of promotion or any increase of pay. Now it is most notorious that the motives by which the individuals are actuated who enter the force have nothing whatever of an honourably ambitious character in them, but quite the contrary; for many of the men belong to trades from which a higher pecuniary remu neration might be obtained for their exertions; but in such case those exertions must be regular and conti nued, and. no spare time allowed them for aping the habits of gentlemen and soldiers, strutting in the pride of office, or killing the time in listless indifference ; there needs, therefore, no higher reward for such a class of individuals, because, for any services they are capa ble of conferring, they are abundantly remunerated. But Chief Constable Woodford has made a discovery, that by reorganizing the force in the manner he sug gests, viz., instead of paying 482 officers each 18s. a week, amounting per year to £22,557 125., he could have that number formed as follow :- 20 Inspectors at 28s. p. week 137 Constables at 17s. p. week 45 Sergeants 21s. do. 100 do. 16s. do. ISO'Constables 18s. do. The force would be less expensive and more efficient. As to efficiency that would become an experiment ; but on the score of expense, why, that is much easier de termined. Now the apparent saving of expense, and mark, only so far as salary is concerned, would amount to one of Joseph Hume's cheese pairing economizings, namely, the enormous sum of five pounds four shillings per year : for as the 482 men, as now formed and paid cost £22,557 12s. per year; so the " less expensive" mode of classification of the same number, as proposed, would cost £22,552 Bs. But we happen to have seen the uniforms of the superintendents and those worn by the ordinary officer, and we cannot but think that the cost of the one will materially exceed the cost of the other; and in like manner, we doubt not that some more expensive distinction in dress would be required to designate the inspectors and serjeants, and'it would require but a very slight addition to each of the whole 65 superior officers' outfits, lo swallow up' the balance of £5 45., and thus render more than problematical the notion of the new organization being less expensive. But as the chief constable remembered that by his proposed plan, there would, in a force of 502 men, be no less than 83 officers ? Here they are :—one chief constable; two assistant chief constables: 15 super intendents; 20 inspectors; 45 serjeants : so that if we divide the 417 by the division of 83 we shall have a quotient of five, and an unmentionable fraction ; thus for every five men an officer. Why the force would not be allowed to exist a month, were this redundancy of authority to be infused into it—it would burst by its own superabundant inflation of self-importance, and aspirations for increased dignity; and if these did not procure the explosion, the contempt and ridicule with which the public would regard the performers in the great county farce, would most assuredly secure its extinction. There is, next, another suggestion of the chief constable's—to allow each superintendent a horse, because the petty sessional divisions are of too great an extent. We think if enquiry had been made into the extent of the duties performed by other public officers, as the relieving and some of the other officers in poor • law unions, and the way in which they are remunerated by the rate-payers, no such a claim as this would have been put in for rural police superintendents. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING. There has not been any business, during the present day, that requires observation. Cruiskeen holds the premiership for the May event ; but closely pressed by Sir Thomas Stan ley's horse. 7to 1 has been accepted on the latter in a very good quarter; and Gilbert Gurney, at 10 to 1, has been, since Tuesday, supported to a considerable extent. 100 to 7is yet offered versus any of Mr. Dawson's lot. THE DERBY.--8 to 1 has been the current offer on the field. Launcelot was backed at 7 to 1, with Molyneux as "a cock boat," by a gentleman who appears never to have enough of the " yellow jacket." ' TATTERSALL'S, THURSDAY. The betting against the two favourites was tolerably brisk, and ended slightly to the advantage of Confederate, the last offers being to bet or take 8 to 1 ; his rival was supported with great energy at 8 and 81 to 1; and from the disinclina tion of the layers of odds, we suspect that some of the orders to '• get on" were only partially executed; the last bet against him was in hundreds, at the lower of the two prices. The Angelica colt fell into the third place, 10 to 1 having been laid in two or three quarters ; the takers, however, would have continued on the same terms. Theon was hacked at 12 to 1 in hundreds, but was not in much favour. Muley Ishmael, the Assassin, and the Melody colt, were talked of at the odds s t a t e d below, but not backed, that we heard of. Ottoman opened at 28 to 1 (taken to a pony), and receded to 33 to 1 before the room was closed ; at this figure one gentleman laid out £6O, and would have gone on. Benjamin and Graysteel were supported with some spirit at 1.000 to 15 ; and the same odds went down, but not quite so f ree ly, with the Prince Albert and Maroon parties. The betting was flat enough on this race, but on the 2,000 Gui neas Stakes and Oaks was dull in the extreme. All that we nerd say is, that Confederate, with plenty of friends, ad vanced a point, and Crucifix declined to the same extent for the first event, and Lalla Rookh lost ground for the other. We heard nothing of Crucifix or Black Bess for it. 6to 5 was offered on the Argelica colt for the Column Stakes, but nothing done on the Riddlesworth. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS' STAKES. 5 to 2 against Lord Orford's Angelica colt.—t 3to 1 ~ Mr. Houldsworth's Confederate.—t sto 1 ~ Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix.—t & alt. off. THE DERBY. 7 to 2 against Scott's lot.—take 4 to 1. 11 to 1 „ John Day's lot.—t . 7to 1 „ Marquis of Westmunster's Launcelot.— take 8 to 1. Bto 1 „ Mr. Houldsworth'S Confederate.—t 10 t o 1 „ •Ld. Orford's Angellc,a colt.—t 12 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Theon. — t „ 20 to 1 Ld. Jersey's Muley Ishmael.—t. 25 to 1. 22 to 1 „ Mr. Etwall's Melody colt. 25 to 1 Ld. Albemarle's Assassin „ 30 to 1 ~ Mr. Wreford's Wardan.—t 33 to 1 „ Duke of Grafton's Ottoman.—t 40 to 1 ~ Col. Anson's Black Bess.—t .50 to 1 ~ Lord Exeter's Velvet colt.—t 1,000 to 15. 1000 to 15 ~, Mr. J. Gill's Prince Albert.—t 1000 to 15 ~ Lord Westminster's Maroon.—t 1000 to 15 „ Mr. Clarke's Benjamin.—t 1000 to 15 „ Lord Eglingtou's Graysteel.—t 1000 to 12 „ Mr. Eddison's The Rider.—t 500 to 400 on Launcelot against Angelica colt (t); 400 to 100 against Confederate and Angelica colt (t); 2000 to 20 against Launcelot winning the Derby and St. Leger, and Cru cifix the Oaks (t); 25 to 1 against Launcelot and Crucifix winning the Derby and Oaks (t). THE OAKS. 12 to 1 against Mr. Fowler's Lalla Rookh.—t 18 to 1 ~ Mr. Wigram's Teleta.—t 20 to 1 ~ Gen. Grosvenor's Diploma. 30 to 1 ~ Mr. Oshakleston's Belshazzar filly. —t The regular racing season commences ou Monday next, with the Newmarket Craven Meeting ; there is a list promising an average of four races a day. About 250 horses, from two years old and upwards, are in training there, and at least 500 in different parts of the country, so that a brilliant season may he anticipated. EXTRAORDINARY Cow.—At Penrith, on Tuesday week. Mr. James Speak, slaughtered a beast which weighed a few pounds upwards of eighty-two stones ; the fat weighed fourteen stones eleven pounds. When alive she was a miracle, arid almost all the judges in this part of the country had been to see her. She vans of the Galloway breed, nine years old, and was bred and fed by Mr. Isaac'l'allon, of the Riggs, near Penrith ; she was also milked till within six months of the time she was s!aughtered. The beef was prime and soon sold at Bd. per lb.—Carlisle Patriot. DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT WESTERN. —BRISTOL, April 15.—The Great Western sailed this evening for New York, upon her second outward voyage, carrying with her 112 passen,gers, among whom are Mademoiselles Ellaler, the celebrated dancers of the Italian Opera-house, Major Clayton, the Hon. Mr. Methuen, Mr. R. Alsop, of the United States Bank, Don Ferdinand Mangino, with despatches from the Court of Spain, Count Lestapis, from France, Captain o tway , R.N., Captain Byron, the Countess Merlin, and Don Carlos de Zaldo. Detpatches to Canada and New Brunswick are sent out by her, and she Las a cargo of manu factured silks and general measurement goods, with several thousand papers and letters. She does not, however, carry out any specie, IMMIGRATION INTO THE WEST INDIA COLONIES MR. SCOBLE AND HIS MISSTATEMENTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. SIR,—In your paper of Saturday there appears a long let ler, signed " John Scoble," on Immigration into the West India Colonies, in which he coolly expresses his surprise that you should have ventured to adopt views contrary to his own on this most important subject, insinuatir , in effect that you are not competent to form an opinion, and endeavouring to prove to the world that he alone is qualified to pronounce a correct judgement. In the course of this letter it will be seen that others, whose authority is indisputable, have had the presumption to show a similar distrust of the soundness of , Mr. Scoble's own opinions, and a disinclination to adopt the measures proposed by the party with whom he acts. In a recent pamphlet by this same gentleman, after an ap parent lamentation over his declining trade, and an ill-dis guised indignation that the public will no longer suffer them selves to be deluded by his figments, he, in consequence of the London and provincial journals having taken up the cause of immigration into these colonies, and the encouragement of free labour . produce, says that "immigration is supported by a venal press in the colonies, and a well-paid band of editors in this country." Whether he intends to insinuate that you are one of the latter it is impossible for me to say, but the remark is both impertinent and suspicious • and un less you forthwith make the a men d e h onoura bl e , and at once adopt a line of argument in accordance with his mandate, your independence will be evidently questioned. En passanl, what is the salary allowed by the Anti -Slavery Society to Mr. Scoble, for his literary and itinerant labours But, Mr; Editor, it is time to consult the judgment of others upon this point, in order that the public may know how far Mr. Scoble's sentiments are worthy of general re ception ; and with this view I shall, with your permission, proceed to make a few extracts from certain parliamentary papers, in which he makes a somewhat awkward appearance. Sir James Carmichael Smyth, a gentleman of unquestioned judgment and unsullied integrity, which Governor of British Guiana, in a despatch to Lord Glenelg, dated 7th of April, 1837, writes— " I now beg leave to submit to your lordship a copy of a letter I have caused to be addressed to Mr. Scoble, acquaint ing him with the result of the several investigations. I re spectfully submit to your lordship that nothing can afford a more satisfactory proof of the state of this province, than the paucity of the complaints made known to me by Mr. Scoble, and the mistakes and errors upon which the greater number are founded." And again on the Bth of August, in the same year : " Your lordship will observe, and I am certain with con siderable regret, that the good which might be gained by the observations of a judicious and impartial traveller, is, in the case of Mr. Scoble, neutralized by the haste with whiCh he arrives at his conclusions, and, but too frequently, upon er roneous and inacc►irate information." Nor is Sir J. C. Smith singular in his opinions of Mr. Scoble's qualifications. At the end of 1838,it appears he ac companied Mr. Ainstie and Captain Stuart to British Gui ana. Of his conduct there Governor Light speaks in the following terms, in a dispatch to the Marquis of Normanby, dated Gth May, 1838. Mr. Scoble, and his companion Mr. Ainstie, are still here ; of course, their object has been to watch with jealousy all that is going on." This, surely, is not much in accordance with his boasted Christian spirit, and argues very little in favour of a dispassionate decision on the state of the coun try, and is very different from the course pursued by Mr. Stuart, or, as he was designated, the Rev. Capt. Stewart, of whom, in the same despatch, the governor says : " If appearances and expressions previous to his departure from this province are to be believed, Mr. Stuart was sat►sfied that the labourer was as fairly treated by the great majority of the planters as in any other free country, and that both parties are in a fair way of understanding their mutual re lations." So much for Mr. Scoble's title and capacity to become an exclusive oracle in reference to this important question. And here permit me to ofier a few remarks upon the subject generally, and to retain assumed facts in his letter specially. Having for some time past devoted much time and attention to colonial immigration, the importance of the subject has forced itself upon me in a stronger point of view, and led me to arrive at conclusions widely different from Mr. Scoble's, and more consonant to those of many able and talented individuals who wrote upon the subject longlefore the pre sent scheme of immigration to the West Indies was proposed —a scheme which, under proper government regulations, 'cannot fail to be attended with the greatest benefits to the emigrants, to the colonies, and to the mother country. Mr. Scoble complains that " the planters of the West Indies propose gigantic measures of emigration." Is this a crime? Are there not gigantic measures of emigration pro posed in this country to all our colonies, east, west, north, and south ? Does he not himself advocate gigantic schemes for growing cotton in Africa and the East? Why, then, in the name of reason and justice, should the West India colo nies, the most valuable and accessible of all, where the labourers would command ample remuneration, particularly in Guiana, Trinidad, and Jamaica—why, I ask, should they be invidiously excluded from the benefit of these measures ? The remark of his grace the Duke of Wellington, that " Great Britain could not engage in a little war," bears directly, in fact, upon the point ; and I have no doubt all but little-minded men will agree that immigration, to be generally beneficial to all concerned, cannot be carried on in a little peddling spirit. Dr. Hancock, a very able and talented medical gentleman, who had lived twenty-four years in British Guiana, (and who, his own words prove, could not have been one of the hired band of editors,) on his return to this country published, in 1835, a very valuable and important pamphlet, " On the climate, soil, and productions of British Guiana, and the advantages of emigration to that colony." In the introduc tion he observes, ' Although,' as Pope says,— ' Self-love, the spring of actions, moves the soul, the author has riot, in drawing up the following remarks had any other object in view than that of directing public attention to one of the most desirable countries on the globe for colonization, in order to relieve the sufferings of the poor —to excite travellers and colonists to examine the hidden treasures unexplored, and thus to extend the boundaries of science, of commerce, manufactures, and all that of peace." He subsequently says— '' National wealth and power have ever been found to in crease with the accession of colonies, and to decline in pro portion as these fall off; history abundantly testifies to these facts ; and that of ancient Rome especially. In later times the colonial possessions of Spain have, from bad management, nearly all been lost, and her foreign commerce, which for merly extended over the globe, is thereby almost annihilated. Napoleon Buonaparte, with his forty millions of subjects, became fully sensible that nothing but ships, colonies, and commerce, could enable him to cope with the power of Great Britain." p. 3. Again— " I may here quote a few words from a well-written pam phlet on emigration :—` From various causes, the fields of employment have become crowded, and the labouring classes are looking about fore more room and better means of sub sistence ; emigration, under such an impulse, resembles a stream from an overflowing fountain, which may be guided, but cannot be stopped." p. 3-4. In a subsequent page the following judicious remarks are particularly striking : " Most planters have considered the labour of slaves to be indispensable to successful cultivation in the coast; and with reason, perhaps, as heretofore conducted. It is certain, in deed. that the cultivation of the coast cannot be continued unless it be by the means suggested—by the introduction of emigrants, and the use of animal labour. In proof of this we might instance the Island of Hayti, where, notwithstanding the endeavours of despotic chiefs, the cultivation has so de clined, that there is not now a sufficiency of sugar produced for the use of the inhabitants."—p. 6. Many extracts could be made from this able pamphlet to show the advantages of emigration to British Guiana, hut I have already trespassed too much upon your attention, and therefore enclose the work itself, particularly directing your attention to the remarks (quoted by Dr. Hancock) of William Penn, Talleyrand, :the late Chancellor of England, Baron de Humboldt, and Abbe de Pradt. One other observation is, however, too valuable to be omitted : " Throughout this rich and beautiful country," the author says, " the great rivers Essepuibo, Demerara, Berbice, Cou rantine, &c., afford an easy transit to the higher lands, whence roads and canals may be opened to any other part of the interior. If, then, the government and people of this country desire to render the greatest possible aid to destitute families, to introduce the benefits of civilization among the native tribes, and at the same time to assist the planters in forming colonies truly valuable, they will not be backward, I presume, in rendering the necessary aid for effecting objects so desirable."—p. 14. This evidence may, perhaps, appear to be derived from a partial witness; let us then hear Mr. Scoble himself, who in a lecture delivered in Philadelphia, United States, makes the following confirmatory remarks, on the truth and accuracy of which I am willing to rest the expediency of emigration to British Guiana. " British Guiana," he says, " is a colony on the coast of South America, and one which will ere long rival, in its wealth and population, the state of New York. It is capable of sustaining a population of forty millions, though the actual number of the inhabitants is now only about a hundred thousand. It possesses an inexhaustible soil of amazing fertility and depth ; it has hem, ascertained by actual mea surement, that in some places the rich alluvial compost extends to the depth of one hundred and forty feet. There are those fields of cane which have been kept up by a process called rattoning' from forty, fifty, sixty, and seventy years. It is only necessary to thrust the top of the cane into the soil when it springs up, and spontaneously yields the richest produce. This is the province called Demerara." I will not spoil this passage by a single observation. To return, however, to the letter under consideration ; it is there affirmed that, notwithstanding the outcries of the West India body to the contrary, they never were in a state of greaterprosperity than at the present moment. If dimi nished crops, increased expenditure, the entire abandonment of many estates, the loss of hundreds of acres of cultivation on others, the excess of expenditure over the revenue by which the proprietors of many are deeply embarrassed, be marks of prosperity, Mr. Scoble is correct. But if, as I believe, they are indications of decay, and portentous of ruin, I do not envy that obliquity of mind which could hazard such an astounding paradox in the face of officially recog nized documents proving the contrary. If our commerce or shipping has not materially and ob viously declined, whence does it arise that, in the port of British Guiana alone, where formerly a fleet of seventy or eighty sail of merchantmen were constantly found, and the merry song of the sailor at the capstan continually rose on the breeze, but sixteen or eighteen are now to be seen, and many of these, instead of rich freights of sugar, coffee, cotton, rum, and molasses , clear out in sand or mud for ballast, an d sek in foreign slave states those productions which our neglected colonies no longer afford. Scoble must look upon the British public as stultified to an unparalleled extent when he expects unt of a t n h i e o mtobelieve that there is but a slight diminution in the sugar' t p h a n. t n e d ever. colonies, \%rh a tandsays y t s h totrhde John o a h r n e i e n xp a o n l o ed re from the u: n s l t t a tn te ci dated February 15, 1840 : Russell upon this head, in his despatch to Governor Light, you are at issue with the planter proprietorsat this moment pros perous," I will not at present enter Into theciuesti o o f n ß u r p it o i n sh w a hi n c i h . Gui ana, namely, whether the colony is unques tionable. The return appended to your from 6th or the reverse. The decline ofpi o d d es u p e n e te i h s oflsthOctober, 1839, shows a decrease on the quarter, , t July to 10th October, as compared with 1831, sugar, of 7,259 hogsheads ; rum, of 2,014 puncheons ; 183-, 1833, in mo lasses, 7,309 hogsheads. But in coffee the decrease is still more remarkable, being a decline from 1,613,228 pounds to 346,350, or more than three-fourths of the whole production of former years." ' The statement of the West India merchants, in their, me morial of the 17th ultimo, is as follows : " The deficiency in the last year's crops, in Demerara alone, exclusive of 13erbiee was shown to be no less than £930,000." Some p ar t of this decline may be owing, as you assert, to the lateness of the season ; but no doubt can exist as to the fact of a remarkable falling off in the quantity of produce during the first year of freedom." Nor is this the only evidence, for it appears from a parlia mentary paper that the average crops of British Guiana for six years, viz., 1831, 1832, and 1833, being the last years of slavery ; and 1835, 1836, and 1837, being the last years of th e a pprenticeship system , was , 62 , 1 95 hogshead s o f sugar; whilst the crop ,531, being b st e i i l n l g ro a o r d e iminutionof remarkable, 1, 9_, h 6 e 6 n 4 h w o e g c s o h m ea e ds to ; of an l d B3 t B he w fa a l s lin s g 2 compare the crop of 1839. The average as above of the six years is, 62,195 hogsheads, whereas the crop of 1839 has only reached 29,729, exhibiting the alarming deficiency of 32,266 hogsheads ; and this, not_ withstanding the extensive introduction of machinery, which ought to have produced a considerable increase. It was my intention to have gone through Mr. Scoblc's letter in detail, but I find I have already trespassed too largely upon your columns ; I trust, however, you will per mit me at a future oppo r tu n ity t o r e sume the subject, as it is not confined to the interests of the West Indies, but es sentially affects the prosperity of the British empire ; and the cause of truth is compromised when any garbled or fallactons statements are allowed to circulate uncontradicted. I have the honour to be sir, Your obliged and humble servant, AN ENEMY TO THE SLAVE TRADE AND-SLAVE PRODUCE. London, April 6, 1840. LORD STANLEY'S REGISTRATION BILL. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) Surely the eyes of the nation must by this time be opened to the purely partisan character of the opposition given to Lord Stanley's bill. If there were no press to record the acts of a government or the declarations of public men, it might be supposed that ministers and their allies had either forgotten their former doings, or trusted to the forgetfulness of the nation. But with these records staring them in the face, what a front of impudence they must possess to come before the country claiming credit for honesty, consistency, disinterestedness, and every other whig virtue, yet voting and speaking directly in the teeth of votes given and speeches made by themselves on the selfsame subject, over and over again, within the last five years. In August, 1835, the House of Commons, led by these very opponents of Lord Stanley's measure, passed a bill identical with it, as far as it goes. That bill embodied all that the• present bill contains. It was unpalatable to the conservative body solely, because, in addition to all this, it contained other clauses which they deemed objectionable. But on that occasion, and on three several occasions since, when her Majesty's ministers have brought forward similar measures, every clause contained in Lord Stanley's present bill received the highest whig sanction,—ay, and what is more, the highest radical, and the highest Popish sanction. In particular, the yearly renewal, and the final appeal to the judges, met with the warmest approbation of Mr. O'Connell. Hear him : " It certainly is most advisable to make the registry con clusive for a year, and not leave it in the power of commit tees of this house to determine upon the validity of votes as they please, or as it may suit them—sometimes one way and sometimes anotherforgetting altogether the solemn sanction under which their decisions are made. This will, however, be put an end to by a final appeal as to the right to vote to THE JUDGES. I trust the bill will be permitted to go into committee. It is a measure calculated to save the expense and inconvenience of scrutinising votes before an election committee. The principle of the bill has been ap proved of by gentlemen at both sides of the house." Where was your "bag" then, Mr. Maguire? You never dreamt of shaking the fox of Darrynane over Kingstown Pier, though the scent of an annual revision and appeal to the judges has been breast high after him, in every cover he has frequented these last tire years. Your bag then went the rounds with the wallet itself, and if any hunger-pinched peasant hesitated whether be should hand his penny or his halfpenny to the potato-dealer to purchase food for his children, or to the rank mendicant in whose odour of annual revisions and appeals to the judges you then rejoiced, there was no man readier than yourself to exhort him to a pa triotic starvation for the sake of the vast advantages your common country would derive from an annual settlement of the registry, and from a final appeal to the judges. Is not Mr. O'Connell struggling for your rights? Is not Mr. O'Connell sustaining the first English ministry that ever showed a disposition to serve Ireland? Has he not sacrificed ten thousand a year clear income to devote himself to the amelioration of your condition? See here the boon he and' her Majesty's ministers are preparing for you—au annual settlement of the registries, a conclusive mode of appeal—au inestimable benefit surely to the poor voter !! There was no talk then of three millions of teetotallers ; to resist this atrocious measure. No, the millions. were ex horted to be meek as church mice, lest any exhibition of popular excitement might furnish an argument to the tories against this "healing measure" of annual registry,. revises, and conclusive appeas to the judges ! It is in vain for the government press to endeavour to dis guise it. There are the newspapers of the day : there is the Mirror of Parliament ; there are the printed papers and votes of the house, and turn to which of them you please, there is the damning fact that her Majesty's - ministers, and Mr. O'Connell, and his whole party, in 1835, and three times since, supported and urged forward a measure contain ing provisions absolutely identical with those which they now, out of mere personal hostility to Lord Stanley, and hate anti fear of his party, resist unyuibus et pedibus. What can be more disgraceful to a government than such a plea from its advocate as this, put forward by the Morning Chronicle of Monday : " The very fact that Lord Stanley•was the father of the bill should have mustered the representatives of the Irish people in all their force to expose and to defeat it." And this is from a print which pretends to discuss political questions philosophically and upon their - merits. And what is the excuse ?—why this, forsooth— " Mark the language of the Dublin Evening Mail, the most influential and intelligent of the Irish tory journals. The Irish reform bill was a revolution. This bill' reforms the reform bill." The bill will reform the reform bill ; and if the reforin bill need reform in its details—and that of Lord Stanley while affecting such reform preserves the principle to the letter, why should it not ? If the reform bill which this yob,. advo cate of ministers is so eager to reform in other respettiS have. in some of its clauses, and their mode of operation, been so constructed as to leave open a wide door too - perjury and mis representation in Ireland, why should it not be reformed in that respect as well as in its other provisions, which this very journal of the government is so eager to have amended, and extended, and reformed ? Let every thing that is wrong be reformed, say we. Is perjury right? , Is falsification right ? is the polling of dead men right? Let the Morning Chronicle shew that ; and it may then object to reforming these abuses of the Irish re form bill. Is it denied that the Irish reform bill requires alteration ? Mr. O'Connell, in the commencement of his speech yesterday, speaks as follows : " The situation of Lord Stanley is one of considerable ad vantage ; there is no denying it. The evils of the reform bill, which, there is no doubt, are many, give him great ad vantages. There were many evils connected with the regis try, and attempts had been made front time to time to abolish some of those evils by the government. One of these bills got through the House of Commons." This, we consider, settles the question. But really it is only with Mr. O'Oonnell and his clique, whose very existence devends upon agitation, that this bill is exciting any ferment. There is not a conscientious, or a well-thinking, or a sound-judging person in Ireland who is not aware of, and who does not deplore, the flagrant villai nies to which the present mode of registry gives rise, and which it tends to encourage. We perceive that even in Mayo, the high sheriff has refused to convene a meeting of his bailiwick for the purpose of petitioning against it, as will be seen by the following, from the Mayo Constitution :-- " It seems (says our cotemporary) that certain worthies who have been manufacturing a requisition to call a meeting, for the purpose of petitioning against Lord Stanley's bill, have had the impudence to ask the high sheriff, Colonel Gore, to convene a meeting for them. Really this is a piece of presumption whose parallel we have not seen for some time. For what did the requisitionists take the high sheriff? Or what has he done that they should expect him to aid in upholding fraud and perjury ? What an opinion they must have had of this gentleman, to think that he would comply with their request—and assist them in their good work. But be has undeceived them—if they ever once imagined that he would be their tool ; he has refused to convene a meeting —or to give his assent to the bad and infamous practices which are sought, so much against the faction's wish to be prevented. No matter—the ' county will meet.' Aye will it—the priests and their allies will get together—publish re solutions and a petition—and say, or swear, if you like, they were all agreed to at a county meeting, numerous and re spectable. But will the country—will the legislature—be deceived? No, indeed, the trick has been too often ex posed—it is too stale." STATE OF TRADE. LEEDS.—There has been rather more activity in the wool len, trade since our last than for some time previously, espe cially in the warehouses. It is understood that the demand is principally to meet the domestic summer trade. There is not, however, any improvement in prices, which are gene rally complained of as being unremunerating. BRADFORD.—There was nothing worthy of remark in the transactions at this market on Thursday. The quantity of business done was about the average of some weeks past, the principal demand being for plain and Alpalha figures, which are low in stock, and the prices also very low. The yarn and wool markets were equally dull, and the transac tions very few. HECICIVIONDWIKE.—Very little business continues to be done in the Blanket-hall, and that little at ruinous prices to the manufacturer. At this season of the year the makers usually are chiefly employed for the American market, and during the summer months ; there is, however, scarce any thing doing at present, and but little prospect of any amend ment.—Leeds Intelligencer. LANCASIIIRE.—The silk and cotton trade, with but few exceptions, continue in a very depressed state in Manchester and the neighbouring towns. Silk dyers, however, are fully employed. The hating trade at Oldham, Denton, and Ash ton-under-Lyne, is moderately brisk. The operatives gene rally are very badly off. A cotton-spinner, in 1810, received 16s. Bd. for a certain kind of work, for which he now can get only 2s. 9d. In the flannel trade at Rochdale, good bands, when fully employed, get only from 6s. to Bs. per week.—Preston Chronicle. LEICESTER.—There is not the slightest improvement in the demand. The Leicester staple trade has not been so depressed for a great many years as it is at the present mo ment, and no hope of amendment for the next month or two. But little is doing in wool.—Leicester Chronicle. METALS.—The market for metals has not exhibited any change in the quotations, and the business has been generally very small throughout the week. The stock of East India tin is much reduced, but the prices are not higher than 745. for Straits, and for Banca 78s. per cwt. Spelter has been sold in small quantities at £2O, delivered on the spot. MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF GROSS SUPER , STITION-A FAIRY ! ! ! (From the Tipperary Constitution.) CORONER'S INQUEST.—We have frequently heard and read of the Irish peasantry, but we believe we may with safety affirm, that a case which displayed greater ignorance and cruelty than the one we are about to detail, never came before the public eye. When first we heard the circumstances connected with it, we really could not give credence to them. Although we are aware of the unenlightened state in which the peasantry of this country are kept, still we could not for a moment conceive that in the nineteenth century—in the pre sent drgy, when we hear so much about " moral information" —there could be found a body of persons so dead to eyery sense of religion, so sunk in the depths of grossest super stition, so devoid of the commonest feelings of humanity, as to have recourse to the practises which will appear in the s o f the ca ''e i—A man of the m investigation that w e thi s d ay lay before our readers. sllichwillappearmore ef e ofJam es Mahony, intlie evidence, The facts t are simply Mahony, who lives on the demesne of Heywood, the pro perty of Charles Riall, Esq., had a son of the age of six or seven, a most delicate child. It appears the boy had been confined to bed for two years, with an affection of the spine, and, being a very intellectual child, and accustomed to make the most shrewd remarks about everything he heard and saw passing around him, his parent s and the neighbours were led to the conclusion that he was not the son of his father, but that he was a fairy !!! Under this impression, a consultation took place at the house of Mahony,and the result result was, that the intruder front the " good people" should be frightened away ; and, accordingly on T ues d ay night last, the poor dying child was threatened with a red hot shovel and ducking under a pump, if he did not disclose wher e th e real successful were the actors in their scheme, John Mahon!, was ; and so ofthe fairy, their expulsion the fairy, that the feeble scheme, devised for the hotshovel, and being held near the also having child, after been taken part of thh way to the pump, told them he was a • Muhony fairy, and that he would send back the real John Gave him that night's lodybO. the next evening, if they . _ h 1 t This occurred on Tuesday rag t . as , and the child was dead the next morning. We heai that it is in contemplation greatly to enlarge the present station of the London and Birmingham Railway.-- Birmingham Advertiser. SELECT EXTRACTS. PRECIPITATION OF RAIN. — An interesting example of the species of information which an aeronautical acquaintance with the upper regions of the atmosphere is exclusively cal culated to place at our disposal, is to he found in the rela- tion proved to exist between the formation or precipitation of rain and the condition of the sky above the clouds which contain it, and consequently beyond the view of an observer situated upon the surface of the earth. From this we learn • the important fact, that whenever, from a skv completely overcast with clouds, rain should happen - to be falling a similar range of clouds invariably exists at a certain eleva tion above, whereby the rays of the sun are intercepted from the layer below ; and, on the contrary, whenever with the same apparent condition of the sky below, rain is altogether or generally absent, a clear expanse of firmatnent, with a sun unobstructed by clouds, is sure to. be the . prevailing character of the space immediately above; thus leaving it a determi nate fact, that when vain is pouring from clouds overspread ing the earth, the rays of the sun are not operating upon the clouds in question, while, on the other hand, rain does not fall from such clouds when the rays of the sun are unob structedly acting upon the upper surface. —Polytechnic Journal. A SLIM CIIIEF.—Rajah Sooket Sing, or Malek Adhel, as he was named by the ladies of Sir Henry Fane's camp, is the brother of the minister, Dbeean Sind. and one of the handsomest of the Sihk chiefs, who are all eminently good looking. He is high in Runjeet's favour, as well as much respected and admired by all the Sihks,. and about 28 years of age. His dress was magnificent ; a helmet or scull-cap of bright polished steel, inlaid with gold, and a deep fringe of chain mail, of the same material, reaching to his shoulders, three plumes of black heron's feathers waving on his crest, and three shawls of lilac, -.white, and scarlet, twisted very round and tight, interlaced with one another, and gathered round the edge of the helmet, a chelenk of rubies and dia monds on his forehead. Back, breast-plates, and gauntlets of steel, richly embossed with gold and precious stones, worn over a rich, thick-quilted jacket of bright yellow silk, with magnificent armlets of rubies and diamonds on each arm, a shield of the Polished hide of the rhinocerous, embossed and ornamented with gold, a jewelled sabre and matchlock, with his long and glossy black heard and mustachoes, he looked the very beau ideal of a Sihk chief.—Osborne's Court and Camp of Runjeet Sing. INDIA COAL.—To all who look forward with an eye of hope to the future regeneration of India, the discovery of this valuable mineral in so many different localities cannot but prove a source of satisfaction. Dr. Hutchinson, of the Madras artillery, has drawn up a report on the coal-fields re cently discovered in the vicinity of Mergui, b? which it ap pears that this coal is easy of access, lyino. at no great depth beneath the surface, so that shafts may be sunk without dif ficulty. For its conveyance there seems to be every facility ;- the river being adjacent, and a land carriage of one mile only ' being required. It is not stated whether the quality of the coal has been tested by experiment, but we presume it to be the same of which Dr. Heifer spoke so highly in his commu nications. Steamers will begin to ply between the different . . ports in the bay of Bengal ; an d the immediate coal depots, between the Presidencies and Suez, will be more plentifully supplied, and at a cheaper rate. The effects these circum stances 'will produce on the destinies of India can scarcely be estimated. The condition of the human race is subject to constant though gradual change; but the tendency of valuable disCoveries, such as this, is, in a few years, to bring about improvements which would otherwise require centuries for their accomplishment. --East India Magazine. A BABY AMBASSADOR--Here we met Pertaub Sing, a boy of seven years of age, son of Sher Sing, and grandson of the Maharajah. He had been sent by his father to accom pany us on our march through his district. Pertaub Sing was handsomely dressed, armed with a small ornamented shield. sword, and matchlock, all in miniature, covered with jewels, and escorted by a small party of Sihk cavalry and some gtins. His 'Wise was naturally of a white colour, but died with henna to a deep scarlet. He is one of the most intelligent boys I ever met with, very good-looking, with singularly large and expressive eyes. His manners are in the highest degree attractive, polished, and gentlemanlike, and totally free from all the mauvaise haute and awkward ness so generally found in European children of that age. In the course of conversation I asked him if his matchlock was a real one, and if he ever shot with it. He jumped off his _ _ chair, highly indignant at the question, and Eider rapidly loading his musket, exclaimed, " Now, what shall I shoot ?" I replied that I saw nothing in the camp at present it would be safe to shoot at, and asked him if he thought he could hit a man at a hundred yards' distance; to which he replied, without a moment's, hesitation, pointing to the crowd of Sihk chiefs and soldiers that surrounded the tent, `• These are all your friends; but show me an enemy to the British government, and you shall soon see what I can do."—Os borne's Court and Camp of .Runfeet Sing. CONDITIONS OF THE EUROPEANS WHEN AT CANTON.— In all the other parts of the East, Europeans bear themselves so haughtily before the natives, and to transcend them in wealth, luxury, and intellect, that the contrast at Canton is most striking. Here are generally about3oo foreigners, per manently resident, and often more, kept so completely under, that they may neither bring their- wives, nor take native ladies, nor build, buy, ride, row, or wa lk, without restric tions wholly forbidden to enter the gates of the city, and cooped up in a spot which w ou ld b e cOnsidered in Calcutta or Madras barely large enough for one good dwelling and com pound. The foreign factories, or hongs, - are thirteen in num ber; tinder the names of different nations, but occupied some what prirmiscuously by themerchants and shopkeepers. They form a close front along the river, about three hundred yards in length, with an open space towards the water, which is here about a quarter of a mite wide." The buildings extend towards the rear' about two hund r ed y a rds.' Ea c h hong is divided - into ' Several portions; entered by a narrow alleY, - which passes throngh - to the rear,. aiid is thus made to con sist of five or six tenements, generally three stories high. The heat, - Smoke, noise, and dreariness of the interior of this mass of buildings, 'with the total absence of female so ciety, gives it, in no small degree, the aspect of a prison. The front - rooms, however, are pleasant, and some of them have tine promenades on the roof. An open space in front, about one hundred yards long and fifty wide, serves both as a wharf and a promenade. But the first of these uses oh structslt for the others, to say nothing of barbers, cooks, pedlars, clothes-menders, coolies, and boatmen,. who crowd it most of the day.—.lll - alcolm's Travels. NAPOLEON AND TEES QUEEN OF PRUSSlA.—Napoleon sent his carriages, horses, equerries, and guards to attend her (the Queen of Prussia), and conduct her to Tilsit. " Forgive us," she said, as lie received her; " forgive us this fatal war • the memory of the great Frederick deceiv e d us ; we thought ourselves his equals because we are his de ,seendants ; alas ! we have not proved such!" In a letter to . Josephine, written at the time, Napoleon says : " The Queen of Prussia is really a charming woman.. She is fond of co quetting with,ree ; but do not be -jealous ; I am like a cere cloth, along which everything of this sort slides without penetratiag. It would cost toe too dear to play the gallant." . An aneedirte was related in the saloon of Josephine in rela tion to this .subject.- It was said that the Queen of Prussia one day had a beautiful rose in her hand, which the Emperor asked her to g i ve hi m. The Queen h es it ate d f or a few mo ments,_ and then presented it to lihn, saying, " Why should I so readily grant what you request, while you remain deaf to. allmy,entreatie,i !" She.alluded to Magdeburgh, which she had earnestly solicitated. It is certain that she did not succeed in any degree in altering the conditions of the treaty. —Tyas's History of Napoleon. THE PHYSIOGNOTYPE. ,-- The invention of a machine to which this name has been given for taking most perfect casts of the living features, must create a tot a l revo l ut i on i n t h e art of re-producing mman likenesses. By the common mode of taking a cast, the weight and constriction of the wet plaster not only renders thp progress disagreeable, but imperfect, especially in representing the features; for the muscles of the face become rigid, and .the physiognomical expression of a plaster mask is sullen and painful in conse quence. These defects are entirely obviated by the new machine, which consists of a vertical disc, whose surface is composed of an almost innumerable quantity of very fine steel .wires or blunt needles, as close together as the hairs of a brush, moving in two plates, perforated with a correspon ding number of holes, with so much ease that the wires yield to the slightest pressure : into this surface the face is gently pushed, and by a most simple and ingenious contrivance the whole of the wires are in an instant fixed securely, their sur face presenting a concave mould of the face. A cast is then taken in plaster, and as many copies produced as may be desired. So instantaneous is the operation, anti so delicate the construction of the mechanism, that the face of a crying child is taken with all its muscular contortions; and were any person to keep open his eyes, the eye-ball would not be injured. By this invention, posterity may, in future, be in possession of an accurate likeness of all great and eminent characters. EASTERN CONSUMPTION or OPIUM.—It is hardly ne cessary to apprise the reader, that opium, the extract from poppy plant, is an article of almost universal use in Turkey, Persia, Arabia, Sumatra, Java, and the whole of the great Malayan Archipelago, not merely as a drug, but as a source of consolation or of misery, as used sparingly, or abused by excess ; that it is also in very general use in India, more especially, we may almost say universally, among the Rajpoot race—and a fine race of men they are ; we understand, also, that if is served out as a ration to the Malay -troops in Ceylon. Ond would really suppose, from Mr. Thelwall's lamentations, that the whole population of China were opium-smokers, a drunken, depraved, and immoral set of beings, wholly ab sorbed in inhaling this deudly poison, destructive both of body and mind. Nothing can be more incoherent. Sir John Barrow, who appears to have walked a great part of the way along the banks of the grand canal, states, that in the whole distance (about 1,200 miles) he did not see one man in a state of intoxication ; and, we believe, that this smoking of opium is, in fact, a very confined and limited practice. The " Re sident in China" has made a calculation, the result of which is, that 40,000 chests a year will just afford a daily whiff to no more than 166 men, women, and children, out of a popu lation of 350,000,000 inhabitants ; that is to say, about 2,110,000 individuals would smoke opium, and the cost to each person would be something less than a penny a day.— Quarterly Review. GOVERNMENT AND NO GOVERNMENT.--1111Sthe Downing street Club any claim upon the name of a government in the management of our Finances? The mere suggestion of such an idea is enough to raise the unextinguishable laughter of gods and men. Never surely since Exchequers were created was there such a Chancellor as Lord Monteagle—invested with the robes of the peerage for the same reason that Sir De Lacy Evans was invested with the collar of the Bath—because he covered himself and his office with ridicule and disgrace. There is no need of encumbering our page with figures ; it is quite enough to say that now, in the twenty-fifth year of peace, with all our establishments, civil, military, and naval, in all their dedartments shamelessly cut down and reduced to the very verge of inefficiency, we are falling in our finances at the rate of from one to two millions a year ; and that in all probability the deficiency will this year, 1840, nearly reach three millions ! And yet, in the face of this astounding fact, ministers, to say nothing of some £30,000 lost by Spring Rice'S blundering in his loan—the Newport job, converting a place of £l4OO a year into a nest of places of £s4oo—the proposed dotation of £50,000 a year to Prince Albert, re luctantly reduced to £30,000 when the Prince himself, it is said, expected what, under the circumstances, would have been quite-sufficient, £4ooo.—the £70,000 for the Queen's stables—the £30,000 for the education quackery, which, to say nothing of other objections to it in any other score, is already turning out to be a miserable failure. Ministers, we say, in the face of this unprecedented deficiency, and in the midst of this wasteful profusion, have had the brazen folly to reduce the Postoffice duty from eightpence (the average sum of postage) to one penny—thereby risking at least an annual million, and that on the eve of engaging us in a war, the extent or duration of which no man is hardy enough to con jecture. This they have done out of no desire to make their budget look less prosperous ; all Chancellors of the Exche quer, whig as well as tory, are anxious that their accounts should bear as favourable an appearance as possible —out of no peculiar taint of stupidity afiecting the present ministry in such matters, for tory financiers have bungled and blun dered as well as whigs, but from the one main blight which plagues them in every thing they undertake—THEY HAVE NO POWER ! They saw as well as we do, that risking the Postoffice duty was impolitic ; but it was popular, and as they must truckle for popularity, the risk was hazarded. They know as well as we do, that the grant of ..Z70,000 for stables, and the proposed vote of £50,000 a year to Prince Albert, were shameful and enormous; but the Court wished for the money, and as they must truckle to the back-stairs, it was given in one instance, and asked for in another. They know as well as we do, that the education vote of £30,000 was either absolutely useless, or if productive of any effect, designed to act as " a heavy blow and a vast discouragement" to the Church of England ; but the Irish papists desired it. and as th e ma i n hold of the ministry is by the Tail, the sum was voted. In all this we cannot descry any trace of a government.—Church of England Review. ) Entelligrart. FRIDAY, APRIL 17.—Wind S.E. moderato, ARRIVED.—Roman, Davies; Gentoo, Hollis, and Eliza & Susan, , from New Orleans—Hamilton, Kilham, from Savannah— Spring, Fletcher. from Mobile—Galatea, Brum, from Stettin — }loyal William. , from Smyrna—Mary, , from Bruges. Sart, .—C lifton, laigersdll, for New York—Win. Rathbone, Calvert, for Africa—Premium, Finlay, for Cronstadt—Undaunted, Foster, for Hamburg—Phcebe, Brown, for Mobile—George, Fen wick, for Montreal—Lightfoot, Pierce, for Newfoundland—Harriet & Jessie, IVl'Kown. for Chuleston—Zeldenrust, 13oig, for Zwolle— Harmonie, Zwelkesh, for Dordt—Augusta. Snow, for New Orleans —Ward, Masters, for St. John, N.B.—Trio, Pierce, for Stettin— Catharina Juliet, Greeven, for Rotterdam—Priscilla, Taylor, for Pernambuco—Fisher, Sewell, and G. H. Harrison. Boig, for New fonndland—Anna Elizabeth, Bouchot, for Rotterdam—& Palmyra, Gill, for Beirout. Oberon, Parrall, from Valparaiso, at this port ; sailed 12th Jan. in company with the Circassian, for Liverpool. The Rimac was to sail in a few days for London, and the Courier, and Gazelle, in about a week for Liverpool Wasdale, --, hence at Gonaives Guglielmo, Micaeli, hence at Naples Duquesclin, Guyon; Sarah, Cafiero, and Newburn, Adams, hence at. Genoa Actif, Bennis, hence at Ostend Bootle, , hence at Trinidad Heroine, Bouch, hence at Valparaiso in 87 days Mary & Anne, Blackstone, hence at ditto Camoens, , hence at Campeachy J. H. Shepherd, Redman, hence at New Orleans • Agnes, Bainbridge, hence at Mobile Eutaw, Allen, hence at Charleston Pocahontas, M'Michaels, hence at Baltimore Algonquin, Turley, and Alleghany, Michaels, hence at Philadel phia • British Queen, (steamer) from New York, at Portsmouth, 16th April; sailed Ist April Leonora, Harrison, from Demerara, at New Orleans Reeloss, --, from Leer for Liverpool, off Deal Speculation, Schmidt, ditto, at ditto Gipsey, front Rio Janeiro, at Valparaiso, and sailed for northern ports Norio, Jarvis: Sphynx, Connibeer : Pearl, Cove; Fenella, Wake ham, and Rock Scorpion, Falcus, hence at Gibraltar Europe, Batcheldor, hence at New York 27th March Oberlin. Knapp, and American, Holden. ditto, 28th Columbus, Pentreath; Frederick, Fleming ; Pursuit, Spence, and Elizabeth, Sinclair, hence at St. John N.B. 23rd Jupiter, Carter, end Palmyra, Cushing, hence at Boston Valencia, Messa, sailed from Gibraltar for Liverpool 21st March Nova Amizade, De Mello, which sailed from Liverpool, for Lisbon, 10th Jan. has not since been heard of NEW Yona, April l.—Flora, Cowing, from Liverpool and St. John, N.B. for Savannah, went on shore on Frying Shoals, 22nd March : crew saved SATURDAY, APRIL 18. 7 -Wind East, moderate. Army Boag, from Monte Video—Normandie; Tyson, from New Orleans—Heroine, Adams, from St. Michael—Mary Ann Henderson, Ewen, from Bilboa—Erbgross Paul, Stedman, from Rostoek. SAlLED.—lsabel, Greve, for Valparaiso—Gallovidia. Rae, for Stettin—Enterprise, Fletcher, for Newfoundland—Ellen Clare, Roberts, for Genoa, &e. —Hinda, Loutliean, for St. Thomas—Sir John Harvey, Cutlibertson, for Miramichi—and Citizen, Hatch, for New York. Amelia, Judkins, from Laguna, at this port; sailed 22nd Feb. in company with the Bleng for London. Left loading for Liverpool, the Spinster, Alice Jane, Sirius, H. Grayson, Celt. Laurina, and Chandos ; for London, the Salus ; for Clyde, the Thalestris ; and for Cork, the Joseph P. Dobree. On 13th April, off the Smalls, spoke the Volunteer, for the Cape of Good Hope • Dumfriesshire, -, for Liverpool, remained aground on the S.W. liar of the Mississippi, loth March _ . Fanny, Glover, from . Liverpool for New Orleans, was spoken 14th March. Part of the crew had muti hd, but were subdued, and confined In irons Victory, Blackley, hence for New York, was spoken 6th April, in lat. 42, long. 51 Eliza Heywood, --, from Demerara for Liverpool, was spoken 10th April, in lat. 46, long. 32 Jane Prowse, , from San Blas, at Mazatlan Rosalie, Alsop, sailed from Valparaiso for Swansea 12th Jan. Abeona, Grant, from St. John, N.B. at the Cove Vestal, -, from Monte Video for Liverpool, oft' Tuskar 17th April SUNDAY, APRIL 19.—Wind R. light. A RRI VED.--Fenella.Wak eham, from Malaga—Friederich, Fischer, from Wolgast—and Wm. Fawcett, (steamer) from Havre. SAII.E.D.—C.R C. Le Gros, for Bay Chaleur—Norman, Bond, for Jamaica—Regulus, Thompson, for New Orleans—Bradshaw, Mil roy, for New York—Pauline, Schenburg, for Ostend—Ainphitrite, M'Neile, for Barbadoes—Phoebe, Brown, for Mobile—and Thomas, Edmondson, for Newfoundland. Mary, Nelson, from Demerara, at this port; sailed 28th Feb. The George Gordon sailed a few days previous for St. Domingo ; and the Sandbach was to sail in a few days for Liverpool. On Bth April, in lat. 47, long 25, spoke the Glasgow, from Liverpool for Montreal Leone, , hence at Palermo Mischief, Jones, sailed from Palermo for Liverpool gth March Mercer, Mercer, hence at Barcelona Henriette, Devort. and Louise, Rooms, hence at Antwerp Libertas, Nodius, hence at Stromness, and sailed 11th April for Wyburg Heinrich, Soderberg, hence at Stromness, and sailed Ilth April for Wismar Columbus, —, hence at Valparaiso PATRAS, March 30.—Fanny & Jane, Levering, from Vostizza, grounded 28th instant, between Lepanto and the Castle of Rumelea, and there remains Phcenix, Hartley, hence for Antigua, was spoken 18th March, in lat. 24, long. 38 Pandora, -, hence for Halifax, was spoken 9th April, in lat. 45, long. 20 Magnet, hence for Montreal, was:spoken sth April, in lat. 46, long. 36 Nora Creina, Howes, hence at Smyrna Flying Fish, Edwards, hence at Syria Tam O'Shanter, Dertie, hence at Venice Superb, Meihuish, hence at Messina MONDAY, APRIL 20.—Wind variable and light. ARRIVED —St. Andrew, Storer, from New Orleans—Princess Victoria, Ferguson, from Smyrna—Surprise. Grant, from Bilboa— Ricka, Doring, from Wolgast—and Elise, Moller, froin Altona, SAlLED.—Phamix, Kuper. for Antwerp—Urgent, Gibb, for Cal cutta—lris, Dickson, for Charleston—Earl of Errol, Wade, for Cronstadt— Lloyds, Blandford, for Quebec—Elizabeth, Englishman, and Anna Sieberdina, Ugen, for Dordt—and Mary, Dunian, for St. Domingo, Helena, Drenning, from Charleston, at this port. On 14th March, in lat. 37. long. sg, experienced a hurricane from W.S.W. to N.N.W. lost the hOatswain overboard from the maintopsail yard, lost foresail, jibbOom, &e. On 18th instant, off Bardsey, spoke the Priscilla, hence for Pernambuco, and the Ward, hence for St. John, N.B. Formosa, --, hence for New South Wales, was spoken 3rd April, in lat. 44, long. 12 Mary, Hamilton, hence at Demerara John Horrocks, Bond, hence at Madeira Pioneer, Cook, hence at Gibraltar Sphynx, Counibeer, from Malaga, at ditto, and cleared 7th April for Liverpool Fanny Connell, Dickson, hence at Lisbon Diligentia, Mesquito, sailed from Lisbon 6th April; Tarujo "do, Almeida, 10th, and Faith, Beer, llth, all for Liverpool • Regalia, , from St. Domingo for Liverpool, at Kinsale , . St. Marys, Currie, from :lamalea, off the Cove, for Liverpool head of topmast carried away Annabefia, Ward, Irmo Calcutta, at Cowes Amelia, Teasdale, from Matanzas, at ditto . . GIBRALTAR, April g.The Reindeer, King, from Leghorn for Liverpool, put into this port, instant, with decks swept, main mast badly sprung, loss of jibboom, foresail and foretopsail, and parr. of the cargo damaged, having shipped a sea two days after leaving Leghorn. The Index, Gill, from Malta and Messina to London, came in last night very leaky, and must discharge, having struck on a Rock lAriorFoitn, April 11.—The Jacob Pennell, from Liverpool to New York,.and Robert Bruce, Tilley, from Liverpool to Cork, struck on. the Long Bank last night in a fog ; the former got off and pro ceeded . this morning; the latter has just come off, after being lightened LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, APRIL 20. A little new Butter has arrived, but of indifferent quality, for which 112 s per cwt has been asked. Real Grass Butter would readily bring this price, and possibly 2s to 3s more. There is a scarcity of the finer qualities of :out, which however does not appear to affect inferior stuff, that being almost immovable at any price. The market for new Pickled Butter is expected to open at about 102 s for 2nds —Beef and Pork arc in more abundant supply. never theless holders continue to require extremely high rates.—The ex port trade for these articles is not brisk, the demand being alto gether confined to ship stores.—Bacon is less in demand, the late currency . is however supported. • Days. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, APRIL 20. The number of Beasts at our market to-day was smaller than last week, and the trade by no means brisk ; the primest Beef sold at OA to 6M ; second quality 6}d ; inferior 51d to 6d : at the close of the day there were a few lots of Cattle unsold. The snob' of sheep was a little smaller than on 'our last day; the demand was not brisk, hut last week's prices were maintained, say for the primest tVethers 7}d; second quality lid; inferior 7d. Beasts, a 75; Sheep 2-12 G. LONDON GAZEITE.—FnmAy. ApaiL 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. Addison and J. L. Syddall, Chadk irk, Cheshire, —J. P. Eyton, R. Eyton, E. Eyton, J. Eyton, H. Eyton, and S. A. Eyton, Mostyn Collieries, Flintshire, coal-owners. INSOLVENTS. April 15.—Stewart Hewlings and Charles Watling Wisdey, George . yard. Lombard street, London, bill-brokers. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. calico-priliters Thomas Wilcox, Broadway; Deptford, licensed-victualler. BANKRUPTS. • William Bilsborrow, Kirkdale, Lancashire, innkeeper, to surrender May 2, 30, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors , Mr. Payne, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood, London • John Clarence and James Goddard Chaltlecott, AbchurCh-yard , London, coffee-dealers. John Ryland, jun. William Chapman, and George Manley Smith. Birmingham, press-makers. Edward Bowler Buck, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, druggist. Robert Harris, Leamington-priors, auctioneer. John Swift, Birmingham, brass candlestick-maker. Samuel Wilson and John Knight, Radford, Nottinghamshire , . builders. Rowland Hall Heaton, Bolton-le-Moors, cotton-spinner. John Blayney, Chester, stone and marble-mason. DIVIDENDS. May 15, J. T. Hobson, Liverpool, merchant—May g, E. Bowyer, Liverpool, merchant--May 9, C. Bowen, Oxford, linen-draper—Ma)' 11, L. Bendle, Barnstaple, draper—May 19, T. Hart, Bognor, Sus sex, innkeeper—May 12, W. Elliott, Wakefield, corn-factor—Ma)" 11, T. Morris, Worcester, builder—May 13, J. Garner, Dunchurch, Warwickshire. innkeeper —May 12, H. B. Burwood, Lowestoft, Suffolk, fsh-inerchant—May 11, T. Mee, Kettering, Northampton shire, fart ier—May 11, C. H. Metivier, Wootton-under -Edge. Gloucestersoire,cloth-factor—May li, A Gittins and J. Cartwright , Shrewsbury, ironmongers—May 11, N. Hoyle and D. Grundy, Bury, Lancashire, cotton-spinners. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless cause he shown to the contrary, on or before May 6. J. Britain, sen. Birmingham, jeweller—P. C. Blacket, Green street, Grosvenor-square, London, lodging-house-keeper—H• Parry, Birmingham, tailor—G. Partridge, Bristol, grocer—T. Aglit ter, Deptford, fellmonger—G. Fall, Manchester, dyer—J. L. Hood, Princes-street, Leicester-square, London, rope-manufacturer — C. Boyd, sen. Kensington Gravel-pits, picture-dealer—G. Halstead , Colne, Lancashire, cotton-spinner—S. James, jun. and W. James. High-street, Whitechapel, London, smiths—J. Flower, Sheffield, ironfounder—Z. Stirk, sen. Stirk, jun. and J. W. Thornton, Leeds, machine-makers. SCOTC I I SEQUESTRATIONS. .„ George Turnbull, Greenock, merchant. Elizabeth Philips and William Philips, distillers. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sngar, computed frOill the Returns made in the week ending April 14, is 3gs laid per cwt. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. Aram .Jiio ll4 21. John Wreford Hunt, (2nd) 21. Edward Burrow, (2nd) Ditto, - ' 14 21. Thomas Croft Huxley, (die.) 21. James Wilson, (2nd) 21. John Barlow, (Ist) Ditto, . 1 22. George Raw, (Ist) 22. Charles James Wilson Wharton, (die ) Ditto, 1 23. James Haddon and Co. (die.) Ditto, 12 24. Henry LatTer, (Ist) Ditto, 1 25. William Wilkiug Bulley, (Ist) Ditto, I 1 VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 4'C. Amazon, W Holmes, 390 Calcutta, Imrie & Tomlinson Premier, I) Rent, 197 Mauritius, Aikin & Sons Cumbrian, 'l' Lee, 258 Mauritius, Aikin & SODS NEW SOUTH WALES. Cecilia, J Anderson, 325 Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Laud, and Sydney, W Tarbet or Cotesworth & Wynue Arne Mary, M Rackhatn, 516 Sydney, Cotesworth & Wynne SOUTH AMERICA. Chase, J Ritchie, 517 13allia, Lurie & Tomlinson Ann, (.1 Whinfield, 450 Maranham, Moon Brothers Thomas Fielden, J H Smith, 353 Valparaiso, Invie 4: Tomlinson UNITED STATES. Alexander Grant,.ll Thornton, 689 New Orleans, Cannon, Miller ( Co Intrinsic, J Davidson, 537 New York, A MontgornerY Sabina, S Mattison, 397 New York, Waddington. Holt N. t.. 0 Isaac Newton, S D Spalding, 609 New York and Savannah, Bolton, Ogden & Co BRITISH AIvIERICA. Harmony, M Foody, 213 Quebec, Kirkby & Wagon Chester, E Lawson, 580 Quebec, J Frosts & Co Susannala, J Stephenson, 138 St.. John, Nfld, Campbell ft Rudd EUROPE. Emma, W Thomas, 161 Ancona, Crozier Brothers RCo Shamrock, W Daldy, gcl Copenlimren, M•Nair & Dutton Mary Halket. CP L Foggo, 171 Constantinople and Odessa, 1% , 1 & A 11 : illiin Elise, Id Portorm, 180 Elsinore, Bahr,,Behtend &. Co Leopold, J C Holtz, 200 Hambro', Bahr, Ilehrend &Co Flora, J H Brahms, 68 Hambro', Bahr, Behrend & C(' Clementina, W Wotton, 118 Hambro', J G White Countess, J Garard, 120 Kiel, Bohr, Behrend & Co Aurora, P G Lestuner, 170 Narva, Bahr, Behrend & Co Drie Gesusters, B Franken, 105 ltotterdam, Bahr, Behrend Co Margaret Scott, G Scotland, 138 St. Petersburg, Chapman & Willis dEolus, .1 Forbjernsen, 150 St. Petersburg, Bahr. Behrend & Co Astley, 13 Starling, 221 St. Petersburg, Campbell & Audit NORTHERN HOSPITAL, APRIL 18. DISCHARGED. Cured ' . 21 Attending as Out Patients .• • 9 Irregular Died 0 ie Hospital PRICES OF SHARES, APRIL 20. Prices. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices Birmingham and Gloucester so paid 66 0 0 .... Ditto and Derby Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh lOO paid Bolton and Preston Bristol andENeter Chester and Crewe 45 ag 0 0 .... Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 15 15 0 Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1 30 paid Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction 229 0 0 ex diV Ditto half shares 30 .... 88 15 0 .... Great Western 65 80 10 0 .... Ditto new shares 3O .... 37 0 0 .... Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 0 0 0 .... Liverpool and Manchester lOO .... 182 0 0 .... Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham 9O .... 161 15 0 .... Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto an.l Southampton 5O .... 46 5 0 ... Ditto & Brighton London and Croydon Leeds and Manchester 6O 73 0 0 Ditto half shares Leicester and Swannington CO .... 71 0 0 ..., Ditto, (new) IU paid 49 10 0 .... Manchester, Bolton, & Bury .. 83 ... 34 15 0 .... Manchester and Birmingham.. 25 .... 11 7 6 .... Ditto and Ditto Extension .. 7 .... 0 0 0 .... Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... Ditto quarter shares North Midland lOO .... 97 0 0 .... New North Midland lO .... 20 10 0 .... South Eastern and Dover North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 York and North Midland 4O paid 54 0 0 .... BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 .. 765 0 uexdiv Bank of Liverpool - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 16 15 0 .... - Liverpool Union lO .... 12 10 0 .... - Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Wales lO .... 6 15 0 .... - of Manchester lO .... 10 2 6 - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 9 17 . - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank lO Commercial Bank of England 5 East of England lO .... Phoenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings ...... paid 163 0 0 L'pool and Harrington Water } 351) 477 10 0 Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0 ... L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 o L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .6 . 100 .... 191 0 0 .... Ditto new shares are now paid on. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance 1 Company 2., paid 2 10 0 Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. S 0 0.., 11 17 6 ... 7 17 t; .... 9 10 0 .... 1 13 0 ex div DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW 'COMPANIES, Anderton Carrying Company 15 .... Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 los. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company Harrington Docks Apothecaries' Company - Asphalte (Liverpool; (Poloncean).... 5 7 6 .... 10 . .100. • 9. 7 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... O 0 0 .... O 14 6 .... 1 0 0 .... SHARE MARKET, MONDAY EVENING. Our market to-day has been extremely active, we may almost say. wild, and prices have advanced considerably. Great Westerns have reached 84 ; half shares 394 to 391; Eastern Counties n ; Brighton 2(34; Manchester and Leeds 81i; Midland Counties 9:1; North Midland 104, and half shares 231. PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. Wow), Deals, 120 stand. in. duty paid Duty. Archangel £l9 0 @ 20 10 Memel - 17 0-18 0 Gothenburg - 16 10 Wyburg lB 0 - 19 0 Petersburg lB 10 - 19 10 !LINKS, per foot of 2 inches thick. Danzig, Deck British American Pine LATHWOOD, per fathom. . Danzig, .1 feet t'S 10 9 1 0 British American 5 0— 6 0 Not above 16ft F..e19. B. P. 2. 21 feet. 10s. \ AII OGAN V, per foot of 1 inch thick. Honduras Cuba St. Domingo 1 0 2 0 3.&i PLANES, British American none. PxAKwoon, per cubic feet STAVES, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe £135 0 —l4O 0 Hhd. 7O 0 80 0 Quebec, red, 15 inch thick, 1 55 0 75 0 and 5} feet long Do. Puncheon l4 0 24 0 TISIBL a, per cubic foot. s..d. s. d. Oak 2 9 4 0 Pine, British Amer. common 0 0 0 0 red 1 6 2 0 yellow Danzig, middling 2 25 2 3 Memel, middling 2 25 2 3 Riga, red 2 55 2 6 1.€4 ss, Ix' los, I 5s per load. LOS. Not al). 36 in. 3s. B.P. 2s, 2 6 4s, 30 os. os per load. 4 7 2 15s. load ITlarittts. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, APRIL 10 There is still only a moderate demand for Sugar; the sales amount to 350 hhds 8.P., at an advance of is per cwt. ox; strong brown qualities. 1500 bags of good white Bengal have been taken at 69s to 70s 6d, and 7700 bags of Mauritius, chiefly from 65s for brown to 72s for fine. Brown Brazil Sugar continues in demand ter refining in bond ; the sales are 70 cases, 350 brls and 100 bags of Pernambuco at former prices ; whites continue neglected ; S hhds and 50 brls yellow Cayenne sold at 24s ; 40 hhds Loaves were taken for export, but the price has not transpired.—Nothing done in Mo lasses.—The demand for Coffee is very moderate, the sales only com prise 50 casks of Jamaica, at a decline, in most instances, of 35 to 4s per cwt. Nothing reported in Foreign.—No transactions in Cocoa, Ginger, Pimento or Pepper.-1600 bags of Bengal Rice sold, from lOs 6d for ordinary yellow to 15s for good white: and lUD tes of Carolina, at ass, for export, and 3 s for fine, duty paid.—The sales in Rum are confined to about 50 puns. Demerara, at as 7d to as 9d for 4 to 7 O.P. During the week the Tea market has been firm, and an advance of 2d to 3d per lb on all descriptions may be quoted ; some sates have been made in good and fine Congous, per John o'Gaunt, at 2s 9cl to 3s, with a 3 months' prompt. The market closes quiet, but very firm. ....... In Indigo there is nothing of moment to report.—Small sales have been made in the following articles, viz. Bombay Safflower at 3is, East India Gum Arabic at 26s to sos, Castor Oil at 6,1 d. and silver Cochineal at ss.—ln Saltpetre the business has be?n trilling, as also in Nitrate of soda. . . The sales of Logwood are 60 tons of Campeachy, an indirect im port, at £'lo 2s Gd to £lO 5s ; a few tons of St. Domingo and Hon- duras at the quotations ; a cargo of 300 tons Savanilla Fustic sold at £5 ss, and 20 tons Tampico at £7.—There is a regular but not a brisk demand for Turpentine; 1000 brls have been sold at lis for ordinary, to 12s 2d for fair quality.—Ncthing reported in Tar.— Montreal Pot Ashes are rather firmer in price, there being no sellers under 245 6d ; 100 to .200 brls have been sold at 24s to 24s Gd. Pearl Ashes are higher, 31s to 31s 6d has in g been paid for a few small par cels.-2500 pockets East India Linseed sold at 425 66 to 43s 3d. — Hides. All descriptions suitable' for expiart are in brisk demand, at full rates. but for home-consumption there is very little doing ; 530 dry Monte Video wormed and damaged have been sold at 5d to Sid, 1600 dry salted Ceara at lid to lid for good, and 511 d to 53d for in ferior, 1670 wet salted Ceara at 4P,d'to 44d, 725 New York at 4id, and 75 Berbice at 5d per lb.—Tobacco. A fair demand has been ex perienced from the Trade, Irish Dealers and Exporters, and the sales reach 150 hhds of all kinds, without change in price, except stemmed, which has declined. For Brimstone there has continued a steady demand throughout the week, which in most instances has been met freely by the holders ; the sales have amounted to about 250 tons, and towards the close, on the receipt of. the news of warlike demonstrations against the Neapolitan Government, higher prices have been de manded.—There has been rather more doing in Sumac than for some weeks past, and full prices have been obtained fur the best Sicily: '240 bags from Messina sold at lOs to 11s 6d, and 100 bags from Oporto at gs per cwt.—Argols have remained in limited de mand.—The advanced prices required for Cream of Tartar prevent sales being effected.-10 casks of flag Mulatto have been sold at Is per lb.—Valouia has been iu fair request, and has been freely sup plied from recent importations.—No sales reported in Madders or Roots.-15 casks Ist quality Philadelphia Bark sold at 13s.—The principal business done this week in Olive Oil has been from dealers' stocks, who have sold pretty freely ; 01 import parcels, small lots of Seville have been taken, and 20 tuns Lisbon at £53 lOs to £54 per tun.—About 30 tons pale Seal Oil have been sold at £'27 to £27 58 per tun ; in other descriptions of Fish Oils, no sales reported.— Pale Rape Oil is very dull of sale, but prices pretty firm ; in Linseed Oil a fair extent of business has been done at 245 3d to 24s 6d, and some inquiry continues for forward delivery. The transactions in Oil of Turpentine are confined to retail parcels at about 575 per cwt.—Palm Oil is rather lower, a few very trifling sales only having been effected, at 436 per ton.—Some Riga and Petersburg outshot Hemp have been made at £34 lOs; 100 bales Sun❑ Hemp at £l6 ; and 50 bales Jute at £ll lOs per ton.—A sale of GO bales Riga PTR Flax is reported at £4l per ton.—The demand for Tallow is good. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 16. There has been an improved demand this week for all descriptions of American Cotton, and, although the late imports have been freely offered, the market remains steady at the last quotations. The very limited stock of Brazil, only a portion of which can be offered for sale, has caused a further advance of id ve ; Egyptian also is in fair request, and readily commands id v , lb more than previous rates. 2000 bales of American have been taken on specu lation, and 2300 for export. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the 10th instant to this duo, inclusive. SALES OF THE WEEK Prices paid, IMP in the week. This Wk. 12,1(1022a 9 1121047 43 6 5 * 4i 11 22370 4Z 7i : gi yi 10 I •• • • !) 10 110 Sea Island.. 10 Stained .... 7630 Bowed Georgia 3090 f Mobile 1. Alabama and Tennessee 11520 New Orleans 1080 raiba { A r Pernambuco /cat & * and Ceara Pa 160 Bahia and Maceio 80 Maranham Sawginned Minas ..... Para Demerara, Surinam, &c... 1040 Egyptian 20 Barbados 140 Peruvian Bahama ! 50 Laguayra 8 —I i 10 Common West India, &c — —j } 184 570 Carthagena 4/ 5i Smyrna — Manila 1170 Surat 20 Madras Bengal 27300 bales i 41 - 51 43801 MONDAY Eill There has been a good demand for Cotton to-day from tt and the sales are 6000 to 7000 bags, including 500 on Spei at an advance of 4d per lb on last Thursday's prices. )RTS !this year 1 138557 1 206078 } 9966 6678 } 3725 183 1 2091 1j 1 } 23172 :NINA, le Trade, culation, LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, APRIL 18, During the , last seven days we have had moderate arrivals of Grain, Flour and Oatmeal coastwise and from Ireland, but the im ports from abroad are large, comprising 11,300 qrs. ( f Wheat, 730 qrs. of Oats, 5,300 qrs. of Barley, 2,360 qrs. of Peas, and 20,800 barrels of Flour ; the latter from the United States. Duties have been paid upon 0,740 qrs. of Wheat, 4,100 qrs. of Barley, 310 qrs. of Beans, and 5,410 Ms. of Flour. By submitting to a decline of 3d to 4d per bushel on the prices of this day se'nnight, holders of Wheat were, on Tuesday last, enabled to make tolerably good pro. gress in sales,Oats and Oatmeal, too, met a fair demand, at about previous rates.—Barley and Malt were each in limited request and cheaper, the former by Is to 3s, the latter is per imperial quarter. Beans and Pease maintained there previous. value.—Anieriean Flour, duty paid, was retailing at 38s to 3gs per barrel. Owing in some degree, to the intervention of the holyday, there has since been little business done in any article of the trade, and prices generally remain unchanged. Two or three parcels of American Flour, in bond, have been picked up at 27s 60, but the generality of holders are not sellers at less than 28s per barrel. LIVERPOOL 'PR: Montreal, Pot 22 6" ®24 6 Pearl, new 3l 0 .-31 6 U. States, Pot none. Pearl none.. _ BARK ' Quercit. 12 0— 14 0 Oak, p toe 10 7 t) German 3 10 5 .9 BRIMSTONE, toe Sicily, &c l2 p 13 0 Tuscany l3 0 13 5 CASSIA LIONF.A, S. d.. s. d. cud. in bond 80. 0 90 WES 'CURRENT. MADDER, 19 , Co.t. S. S. Dutch, crop 70 0 —SO Orubro 50 0 —O5 0 'Oamene 32 0 —4O 0 Mull 10 0 —3O 0 French, S.F. 42 0 —46 0 S.F.F 48 0 —5•( 0 E.S.F' 5A 0 —5B 0 E.5.F.F.63 0 —7O 0 Spanish 45 0 0 0 MOLASSES, Cwt. Trinidad, &c 33 0 —34 0 Demerara, 34 0 —35 0 CLovEn-sizBn, cwt. American, red none Dutch 70 0-- 30 0 French & Germ.7o 0-- 80 Cocoa, sy. cwt. Trinidad 56 0— 65 0 Grenada Brazil COFFEE, 19 , cwt in bond. Jama. triage ordinary good& fine 0rd.106 0-112 0 middling 114 0-120 good mid. 125 0-133 0 fine mid. &c 137 0-147 0 Dutch, triage.. 1 60 0-100 0 ordinary .... good&rine ord.loo 0-104 0 Bar & Antigua.. 36 0 — 37 0 MUNJEET, la cwt.. 14 0 —.15 0 Oil., Olive, 252 galls. Gallipoli .e64 0 —65 0 -Trieste 5B 0 --59 0 Sicily 58 0 :0 0 Malaga 52 0 —54 0 Portugal ; &c .... 53 0 —54 0 Lava- - .. Palni, tun. 36 0 —36 5 Fish, 252 galls. Seal, pale 27 0 —27 10 brown 24 0 —26 0 Cod 26 0 —26 10 LINSEED V etvt 24 6 0 0 Rape, pale do. 3B 0 —3B 6 Turpen. 0 0 —57 0 Rice,' cwt middling 106 0-110 0 good mid. } 112 0-114 0 fine mid., &c. Mocha Carolina, dress. 36 o —37 0 in bond 24 0 —25 6 Bengal, ord. do.. i i 0 —l3 6 mid to fine .... 14 0 —l5 0 _ . Ceylon Java . .100 0-125 0 . 92 0- 98 0 . 72 0- 76 0 African none RUM, 14 , gallon, in bond. Havana good & fine ord. 46 0— 52 0 St. Domingo 45 0— 48 0 Brazil 45 0— 50 0 Laguira 6B 0— 75 0 DYRWOOOS, IP , ton s. X. 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 rough 6 0— 7 10 small 6 10— 8 0 Lima, solid 14 0— 16 0 Harwood, Ango 8 0— 8 10 Gaboon 5 0— 6 0 Camwood l9 0— 25 0 Red San. Wood 8 0— 9 0 , . Jamaici, 12 to 16 0. p 4 6 4 9 stronger 4 10 e 10 choice marks.. 6 0 6 4 SAFFLOWER, V cwt. Bengal, good & Rne e 5 0 7 10 ord. & mid Bombay SALTPETRE, V cwt. S. O. S. ti East India 23 0 —2B 6 South American 18 0 —l9 0 SHELL LAC,p cwt. in bond. orange 56 0 —95 0 liver and black SKINS, Neutria, do: , g 0 —l5 0 Chinchilli, do. Seal, each SHUIIAC, V cwt. Sicily Malaga Trieste 11 0 —l3 6 none 8 0 8 6 FLAx, v ton. Verona 7 0— 7 6 Riga. P.T.R. .... 41 0— 44 0 I Tyrolese P'burg, 9 head .. 40 0— 42 o SUGAR, v cwt. Archangel 44 0— 50 0 B. P. Muscovado Dutch & Elem... 60 0-110 o moist brown GALLS, 13 cwt. dry brown Turkey, blue .... 74 0— 80 0 good & mid 65 0 —6B 0 mixed 60 0— 70 0 fine &v. fine .. 69 6 —72 0 East India 7O 0— 75 0 Mauritius, GINGER, 19 , cwt. . dabs and moist IS 0 —6O 0 Barbadoes 45 0— 50 0 brown 62 0 —65 0 Jamaica 6O 0-120 0 yellow 66 0 —69 6 E. India, in bond 12 0— 19 0 fine yellow 7O 0 —72 0 GLIM,I. cwt. East India, Bengal Arabic, Turkey .. 70 0-140 0 ord. white 6l 0 —66 0 East India. 24 0— 55 o good and fine 69 6 —7O 6 Barbary 45 0— 50 0 • extra fine 71 0 —72 0 Senegal 65 0— 66 0 Manilla, in bond 20 0 —23 0 HEMP, v ton e a. .t. s. Havana, do. P'burg, clean 36 0— 36 10 brown outshot.. 34 10— 35 0 yellow . Riga, Rhine .... s 6 0— 36 10 white ord outshot.. 35 0— 35 10 good & fine.... Archangel ...... 33 0— 33 10 Brazil, in bond, Manilla 27 0— 28 0 brown lB 0 —29 0 Bombay l7 0— 20 0 yellow 22 6 —24 0 Jute ll 0— 12 0 white ord. .... 23 0 —25 0 limns, Ox and Cow, 1p lb good and fine.. 26 0 —2B 0 B. Ayres and Monte Video, dry. TAttow, V cwt. inferior & mid. 0 79 0 s 9 P'burgh, Y.C. .. 50 6 —5l 0 good & prime 0 91— 0 103 Odessa 50 o --50 0 Do. salted ....‘ 0 49 0 59 Archangel 4B (I —4B 6 N. Amer. salted 0 4 0 49 Buenos Ayres 44 0 —4s 0 Brazil dry salted 0 59 0 63 Stockholm . Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 ,6s— 0 8 Carolina .... Odessa, &c. dry 0 6 0 7 Virginia W. India, dry.. 0 59 0 7 TARTAR, `l3 cwt. salted.. 0 49 0 51 Cream of Tartar.. 78 0 —BO 0 East India .... 0 79 I o brown and yel... 50 0 —6B 0 Kips, B.A. dry. 0 79 0 ili TEA,I. lb. in bond. Horse, d. each 9 0 -12 0 Bohea, Canton .. HORSE HAIR, rf• lb. Fokein .. Short mixed long tail , ; combed INDIGO, 1 lb. in bond. Pekoe, Orange ... 2 8 4 0 Bengal. • Campoi, pur. & violet blue & violet blue violet, g. & tine 7 3 7 g Souchong, cone... 2 4 2 5 ord. & mid. 6 3-- 7 0 good to fine.. 2 g— 3 6 violet & cop.i 5 9 6 9 Pekoe, floery .. 3 0— 3 9 mixed .. I Hyson, cons. 2 8 2 9 cop. g. & tine. 6 3 6 9 tine.. 3 0— c 0 ord. & mid. 5 3 6 o Young Hyson .. 3 0-- 3 6 con. quality Oude 2 6 6 o Gunpowder, Madras Guatimala, v lb Tonecco, p lb. in bond. Floras Sobres 5 o— 6 3 Stemmed.. 0 5 0 10 Cortes 3 0— 4 10 Kentucky Caraccas, Floras 6 6 7 0 Maryland Sobres 5 0— 6 3 TURMERIC, 1. cwt. in bond. Cortes LAC DYE, /. lb. TURPENTINE, 70 Cut. D.T. and prime. 1 6 3 0 American lO 6 —l2 3 mid. to good.. 0 8— 1 4 VALONIA,I)' ton. 'e S £ 8 ord. & inferior 0 6 0 73 Smyrna, picked 15 0 —23 10 MADDER ROOTS, v cwt. Mores 6 0 —l5 0 BEES' 4, mt. in,bond. Smyrna BEES' & Syria .. 0 0— 0 0 , African 6 lo 7 10 French 4B 0 50 0' East India Naples 44 0— 45 0 . American 7 10 8 0 none. .... do. (10. (10. 16 6 -17 0 16 0 -16 6 13 0 -14 0 0 0 - 0 0 ADMITTED Accidents Medical and Surgical cases Upon recommendation Total Remaining in th Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. House Visitors, John Rigby, Esq. and G. J. ‘Vainwright, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.—House Surgeon, Mr. Ariaott. TIDE TABLE. Mrn. Ern. :Height.; Sundays, Holndays, ST. Aprili it. u. lU. M. P. 1. Tuesday 21 1 120 11 42 13 10 i Wednes. 22 158 213 12 6 Thursday 23 259 3 'll 141 St. George. Friday .. 24 325 350 11 . 6 Saturday 25 425 511 111 9 St. Mark Sunday 26 I 5 20 625 12 9 Low Sunday. Monday 27 ! 7 8 739 11 5 1 BIRTHS. On the 11th instant, the lady of Mr. BROOKS, of Great George - Street, dentist, of a danOter. On the 15th instant; at Harrow, Middlesex, the lady of G. k• HARRIS, Esq. of a son.., . .• - • On the 17th instant, the lady of N. CAIRNS, Esq. of a danglitVr• MARRIED. On the 24th ult.ln this town, Mr. JOSEPH CLAN, of Nantwiell. to CAROLINE VICTORIA, HOLLAND, second daughter of ;qr. Holland, surgeoll,.l•4htwichi • On the Sth instant, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. George Stokes, Mr. DE VOS UYTERLIMMEGE to ADELAIDE WI WEI. - MINE AMAN, eldest daughter of Mr. Paulus Aman. Same day, at St. likitle'sChurety, by the Rev. George Stokes, It,";; G. J. SCHROEDER, o f .Mancla..ster, .to Miss . SOPHIA !JA•'''" MORRIS. On the 15th instant, at the Independent Chapel, in St. litele.lS , by the Rev. Wm. Vint, Mr. WILLIAM BENSON, glass-maker, W Miss ANN BUTLER. . . Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr, CLIFFORD HARDIN to ALICE RUSSELL. third daughter of Mr. Wru, Russell. On the Itith instant, at St. Philip's Chu reh,.by the • Rev. T. S• Bowstead, Mr. WILLIAM MILES ‘ , VALTERS. youngest son of M. Walters, Berry-street, to CATHERINE YELVERTON, daughter of Mr. T. Yelverton, Soho-street. Same day, at St. Philip's Chard', Mr. JOHN GROVES WALTERS' second son of Mr. M. Walters, ferry-street, to FRANCES JAND RUSSELL, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Russell, of H. M. Cu'" loins at this port. 'On the 17th instant, the Rev. G BROWN, A.M. Windsor, oast this town, to SARAH, youngest da ug ht er o f t h e l ate M r. JOl -10 FENBY, Beverley, Yorkshire. Same day, at Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. 5: - Bowstea d, Mr. JOHN GRIFFITHS WILLIAMS to Miss JANE BALL, I ° 6. common.street. On the lbth instant, at St. George's Church, Everton, bkctlie_ Rev. R. P. Buddicom, Mr. RICHARD BATTERS BY, second so n of the late Mr. James Battersby, to HANNAH BAYLIS, younge st aughter cf the late Mr. Win. Baylis. On the I gth instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. S. BoW stead, Mr. ROBERT GEORGE to Miss CATHERINE EVANS. Same day, Mr. EDWARD HUGH SAYER to LOUISA HEWA; N : youngest daughter of the late Captain David' Hewan, of the 2 1 " Foot or Royal North British Ftibiliers. YesterdiY, at St. Nicholas's Chapel, Copperas-hill, by the Pr' Youens, according to the rites of the Catholic Church, and after wards at St. George's Church, by the Rev. J. G. Leigh, EDWA% KELLITT GREEN, Esq. of London, t o MARIANNE ELIZAI3E. TOWNLEY, third daughter of Cha r l es H . T own l ey, Esq. B-14" Great George-square. DIED. In December last, at the Mauritius, aged as, JOHN BASSET STRIPE, fourth son of Mr. W. Stripe, Parker-street. On the 99th ult. at her residence, Salisbury-terrace. Old Swan , Mrs. ALICE BRADSHAW, aged 69 years. aged On the sth instant, on his passage from Naples t o Leghorn, t sg, the Rev. LAST CARPENTER, LL.D. His frie n d s t ates , Oa they left Naples in a steamer on the sth, for Leghorn ; that Dr* Carpenter had unlocked his travelling-bag in his berth at hed-tinie, and had removed some things as if preparing for retiring to testa when it is supposed he became sea-sick, and went upon deck ; the the night was dark and rainy, and the sea. rough, and that ther e was no doubt a sudden lurch of the vessel had precipitated him jar ( ' the deep when : last seen, which was between ten and eleven, o'clock at night, he was standing on the c a bi n stairs, as if for t he benefit of fresh air. On the ;th instant, of apoplexy, aged 49, deeply regretted, JAN HEAPS, wife of Mr. William Heaps, Bittern-street. On the sth instant, Mr. GEORGE YOUNG, traveller for Messrs. Clare and Brown, crown glass-manufacturers, Warrington. On the 9th instant, at Aghadoe, Killarney, Ireland, aged 56, ti me Right Hon. Lord HEADLEY. on the 12th instant, much respected by his friends, RICHAO MERCER PARRY, son of the late Mr. Rowland Parry. merchant' On the 13th instant, deeply regretted, Mr. DALE, Cid Haymarket' On the 14th instant, at Elm-house, NVavertree, in her 81st year , MARY CROMPTON, widow of the late Dr. Crompton. Same day, aged 26, ANNE CH EESHROUGH, youngest daugbte r of Mr. Cheeshrough, Norton-street. Same day, in hiS Gard year, Mr. PETER JOHNSON, of LonIII? . . road, saddler, sincerely regretted by all who had the pleasure of hi' acquaintance. Same day, at Disley, much respected, in his Ilfith year, g r. ' JOSEPH STONES. This gigantic youth exhibited himself at tho . Zoological Gardens, Manchester, a few months back. He was , feet 3 inches in height, with strength in proportion. On the 16 th instant, at his residence, Phoenix-park, Dublin. M e r i JOHN DRUMMOND, Under-S ecretary f or Ireland. He was se ,' w ith inflammation of the bow e l s , w hi c h b at h ed med i cine ; an d c , set T ues day night, his case b ecame h opeless, mortification h i ving in. Mr. Drummond was well-known, in London, as the act' P r ivate Secretary to L or d Alth orp ; an d i n the Ir i sh ' Under-Se cr' taryship. he proved himself a most efficient public officer, lie 0 1 ) * pears to have won the regard of men all parties. On the 16th instant, aged 10 months, REBECCA, the young ° daughter of Mr. JAMES LAIDLAW, St. James's-place, Toxtt h park. . _ Same day, aged 31, MARY CRISPIN, the wife of Mr. J. Crispin' and second daughter of Mr..Underhill, London-road. Same day, aged 67, Mr. JOHN RIGBY, Upper Stanhope.stre ett Toxteth.park. Same day, aged 6 months, MARGARET ELIZA NEEDII"' , infant daughter of Mr. Isaac Needham, Scotland-road. A , On the 18th instant, ROBERT BILLING, E sq. o f R o e` County of Dublin. w re, Same day, of rapid consumption, in the 14th y ear o f his t , HENRY JAMES, only child of RICHARD THOMPSON, 13°- maker, Islington. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1840. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY MORNII\ BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE,of 88, Mount Pleasant, an LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford;street, At No. 4, ST. 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