The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

Vortrp. THE MINSTER. BY MRS. HEMANS " A fit abode, wherein appear enshrined Our hopes of immortality."—Byron. Speak low !—the place is holy to the breath Of awful harmonies, of whispered prayer; Tread lightly !—for the sanctity of death Broods with a voiceless influence on the air; Stern, yet serene !—a reconciling spell, Each troubled billow of the soul to quell. Leave me to linger silently awhile ! —Not for the light that pours its fervid streams Of rainbow glory down through arch and aisle, Kindling old banners into haughty gleams. Flushing proud shrines, or by some warrior's tomb Dying away in clouds of gorgeous gloom : Not for rich music, though in triumph pealing, Mighty as forest sounds when winds are high ; Nor yet for torch, and cross, and stole, revealing Through incense-mists their sainted pageantry : Though o'er the spirit each hath charm and power, Yet not for these I ask one lingering hour. But by strong sympathies, whose silver cord Links me to mortal weal, my soul is bound ; Thoughts of the human hearts, that here have pour'd ' Their anguish forth, are with me and around ; I look back on the pangs, the burning tears, Known to these altars of a thousand years. Send up a murmur from the dust, Remorse! That here has bow'd with ashes on thy head : And thou, still battling with the tempest's force — Thou, whose bright spirit through all time has bled — Speak, wounded Love! if penance here, or prayer, Hath laid one haunting shadow of despair? No voice, no breath! of conflicts past, no trace! —Doth not this hush give answer to my quest? Surely the dread religion of the place By every grief hath made its might confect! —Oh! that within my heart I could but keep Holy to Heaven, a spot thus pure, and still, and deep ! CONTEMPORARY PRESS. TAXATION. (From the Morning Herald.) The Government journals are delighted with what they consider the " successful debut" of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. The extremely kind and courteous tone of the conservative opposition has been taken as a decided acknowledgment of the transcend ant abilities of Mr. Baring as Finance Minister. It is, indeed, a "lucky administration," and in nothing more than this, that it has to deal with the most polite and genteel opposition that any ministry in this country ever had to deal with. We have often had occasion to observe that the view of the opposition in the House of Commons at the present day seems to be bounded by the four walls of that house. Seldom, indeed, do the speeches of the leaders indicate the existence of a people out of doors, to whom both ministers and their opponents are, or ought to be, responsible. Whigs in place are actually forgetful of the people, and tories out of place do not much like to remind them that there is a people in existence. In fact, an appeal to public feeling from the conservative side of the house is so rare, that one is inevitably led to infer that it is considered beneath.the dignity of conservative se natorship to address the tribunal of public opinion at all. Yet there have been oppositions in the House of Commons quite equal in intellect, intelligence, and wis dom, dignity and eloquence, to the present, that did not disdain to appeal from parliamentary divisions to the sense of the universal people. In the question of taxation it cannot he denied that the people are peculiarly interested, and yet in the dis cussion upon the budget of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer the interests of the people, and the faith of Government pledged to the people on the subject of the assessed taxes, were left as completely out of view as if the members of the House of Commons on both sides of the house only represented themselves. If they alone paid the taxes we should have no objection to their taking a view of the Chancellor's budget, which had no reference to anything beyond the visible horizon of the house. But whatever whigs and tories may vote on the subject, it is certain the PEOPLE mustpay. They have e. right, therefore, to be heard upon the me rits of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plan. For Mr. Baring's brass they have to give their sterling gold. And surely whig brass never made a more impudent demand upon the public pocket than in the matter of a proposed augmentation of the ASSESSED TAXES. When Ministers had the face to propose an increase of the assessed taxes, the opposition were too genteel to remind them that those were the very taxes that the whigs, when out of office, were continually agitating against, and with some reason, if their endeavour to obtain a repeal of those taxes had been an honest one, instead of a mere hollow and delusive pretence, The assessed taxes were originally imposed expressly as WAR TAXES—imposts that were to cease on the return to a state of peace. Upon this ground the whigs used to charge the tories with having broken faith with the people in having prolonged those taxes after the termina tion of the war. This constituted the pith and marrow of many a popular harangue by Lord Althorp, now Earl Spencer, Sir John Hobhouse, and others, at the time when Lord Palmerston was as yet an unconverted, because a p!ace-enjoying tory, and Lord Melbourne had a truly aristocratic horror of everything in the shape or bearing the name of reform. People of England ! see what golden fruit you gather off the branches of the " tree of liberty," planted ten years ago by the whigs, and labelled and ticketed on every bough with the words " PEACE, RETRENCH MENT, and REFORM." For reform—that is, parlia mentary reform—it is admitted that bribery and cor ruption, which Lord John Russell positively declared the Grey bill would extinguish, are greater than ever. For "peace," we have had the Anglo-Gallic " little war" of the Netherlands, with all its " amicable slaughter." The non-intervention or buccaneering war in Spain, in which Evans, if he lost the battle, won the race at Hernani and Fontarahia; and we have now, last but not least, the opium war with China, which has cut off legitimate commerce with that great empire, because the influence of opium smugglers on the na tional councils - is stronger than the voice of justice and morality. For "retrenchment" we have an augmenta tion of the assessed taxes, though it is a quarter of a century since that French war terminated for the con tinuance of which only were they originally imposed. Such, people of England, are the benefits which ye derive from the practical application of the whig motto, " Peace, retrenchment, and economy." When the whigs came into office there was about £2,000,000 sur plus of public revenue over expenditure ; now there is nearly £3,000,000 deficiency. (From the Scottish Standard.) The results of whig " reform" are now developing themselves in a way which must bring the country to its senses, if anything will. The public burdens, it has been officially announced, are to be seriously augmented to meet the deficiency occasioned by the folly and ex travagance of our self-styled economical " reform" mi nisters ; and the initiatory has already been taken, in the reformed House of Commons, to carry the liberal object into effect. Surely John Bull will now find out that he has indeed and in truth " paid too dear for his whis le l" ‘v'e had prepared our readers for the whig chancel lor's budget, which was laid before the House of Com mon' an Friday night. The right honourable whig economist candidly acknoss ledged that the expenditure of the country had exceeded its income by two millions seven hundred and thirty-two thousand pounds—which, of course, must be made up ; so that instead of carry ing out the reductions of taxation so well begun by tory administrations, the whig reformers, after ten years' application of their boasted principles of eco nomy and retrenchment, and in this, the twenty-fifth year of profound peace, are under the necessity of im posing additional burdens upon the people. There are to be no new taxes. 0, no ! that would be an offence against the majesty of the people which the whigs could never think of committing for a moment; all, there fore, that is to be done is to increase the taxes which al ready exist !—a " distinction without a difference" for which their friends, the people, will no doubt be most thankful. We have given a report of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer's financial statement under the proper head. He estimates the . expelfditure of the present year at £49,432,000, inclusive of the previous deficit, and the probable income from present resources at 546,700,000 —leaving an amount of deficiency to be made up, as we have already stated, of £2,732,000, which he pro poses supplyin g upon the following plan : Instead of new taxes, to impose 5 per :lent. additional on the customs and excise duties, with the exception of a few articles, and ten per cent. upon the assessed taxes without distinction. The exceptions to the 5 per cent. duty are, first the articles of spirits, including home, foreign, and colo nial, for which art advance of 4d. per gallon will be substi tuted; secondly, on corn imported, upon which no alteration will De made, because the impost levied on that at ticle is not considered to be for the purpose of revenue, but, for protec tion of the home producer ; thirdly, th e d uty on post-horses, and the licenses upon stage-coaches are to be exempted from the advance, on the ground of the competition they have to encounter from the railways. The increase to the revenue by this advance on existing taxes is estimated at £2,337,000, reducing the deficiency to £395,000, for which, and also for a further sum of 4155,000, as a guarantee for defalcation from the estimate, a vote of credit will be applied for. This plan, under all the circumstances of the case, is perhaps as unobjectionable as any that could be de vised. Articles will, it is true, be included in the ad vance of the import duty, which ought to be the sub ject of a reduction rather than an augmentation of duty ; and among them we would particularly notice the ar ticle of raw cotton, the present import duty upon which is extremely mischievous both to the manufacturing and agricultural interests ; but exceptions may be made when the details are discussed. Certainly there are advantages in augmenting old duties instead of impos ing new, since the expense of collecting is not increased, and the channels of industry are not deranged. No—At is not to the plan of increasing the taxation of the country that there can be any great objections, but to the necessity that has arisen for increasing it at all. We have now had a quarter of a century of peace— a period long enough, in all conscience, for reducing fully and permanently that large amount of taxation which a protracted war had rendered indispensable, for the security of the national honour, the national safety —nay, our very existence as a nation at all ; and under the administration of the country's affairs by conser vative statesmen, that amount was very considerably. reduced ; and lad such statesmen only continued to administer the country's affairs, it would by this time, no doubt, have been reduced as low as any reasonable man could expect. But, unhappily for the country, a set of political charlatans, calling themselves whig re formers, have been allowed to have possession.of the government of the kingdom; and although economy and retrenchment were the most prominent principles upon which they professed to act, instead of going on reducing the public burdens, until made consistent with a time of continued peace, we are now, as we have shown, in the twenty-fifth year of peace, to have the taxes increased upwards of two millions at one slap. The fact is, it ought to have been done a year or two ago, for the evil has been growing, and of course get ting worse all that time ; but the whig economists were, no doubt, too muck ashamed of their handy work to bring forward a remedy for.it likely to be so injurious to their popularity, until they could no longer stave it off. They have at length, however, been obliged, by stern necessity, to furnish the country with this decisive evidence of the hollowness of their professions, and the profligacy of their prrctices ; but under the additional burdens which their conduct has imposed, there is this consolation, that the exposure must hasten their expulsion from office. POLITICAL CHARACTERS. No. V. (From the Orford Herald.) MR. JOSEPH numE. " The man's an ass, and hardly worth writing about." Every body must admit that Sir Walter Scott never penned a sentence more strikingly truthful than the one here ex tracted from his diary ; but though it is an undoubted fact that Mr. Joseph Hume is " an ass, and not worth writing about," he has contrived to mix himself up so much with public matters, that we cannot, in the faithful discharge of the task we have undertaken, dismiss him without some kind of notice. Glad, indeed, should we have been if his name could have been left out altogether from our Gallery of " Po litical Characters ;" but as this is impossible, it is well to get rid of him at once. There are no men who have lived long, and few who have lived but little, in the world, who are not able to state, from their own experience, that the great secret of success in life is impudence. Impudence is a very different quality to what many old-fashioned persons suppose : it is a good sterling virtue,'not a mean, dirty vice. Its value in all worldly mat ters is so great, that parents ought to encourage rather than check the cultivation of it by their offspring. To those espe cially who are, destined for public life impudence is of the ut most importance ; it is of much greater value than posses sions of gold and silver, or even than hereditary rank. Mo desty is a very pretty thing, indeed, no doubt of that ; but modesty was never intended for these glorious times of Re form and Whiggery and March of Intellect. Nothing, de pend upon it, is now-a-days of so much importance to a man striving to attain any worldly object, hut especially any pub lic object, as impudence. Let him go. to work in a bold, dashing, impudent manner, and success will he certain ; but let him pitch modesty to the dogs, or he will prove himself an arrant simpleton. These profound remarks suggested themselves to us in contemplating the career of certain poli tical and other characters, and the striking truth, which it is their object to teach, will be apparent if our readers will say what it is that secures the present Ministers place and pelf— what it is that enables O'Connell to wring some twenty thousand pounds of " Rint" from his starving countrymen— and what it is that has made Joe Hume a more important member of the asinine fraternity, to which Sir Walter Scott says he belongs, than others of his long-eared brethren. By pondering these matters for a few moments, it will be seen that impudence is a virtue of exceeding worth, for it is impu dence alone which has accomplished all. Confining ourselves for the present to the " Honourable Member " for Kilkenny, we have to say that it was impu dence which first obtained him a seat in parliament, and it is impudence alone which hast kept him there. What rank or wealth or talent has done for other men, impudence has done for him. Though rank or wealth may enable a man to get into parliament, it is talent alone that will gain him dis tinction when he is there. To be a great man amongst great men, a peer amongst peers, demands intellectual power of a varied and lofty order; but without a shadow of pretence to the possession of talent or ability of any kind, Hume has contrived to make himself a great man amongst the con temptible clique of little men to which he belongs. His brazen impudence has been to him, indeed, a pearl of preci ous price. It enabled him to meddle with matters which he was about as capable of understanding as a dustman would be to teach Greek ; and it enabled him, also, to set at nought the, biting laughs, the withering scorn, the sarcastic jeers, which his bungling and ludicrous attempts at states manship occasioned. His impudence enabled him to go on from year to year, from day to day, chattering and snarling about the doings of men who looked udon him as a crawling insect beneath contempt. That same impudence led him to set up as the watchful guardian of the public purse, and in spite of defeat after defeat, to persist in boring the house with motions and propositions, which it would not agree to, nor listen to. That impudence led him to suggest the most extravagant and absurd schemes, which sunk him deeper and deeper in the estimation of thinking men. Even that impu dence, monstrous and brazen as it was, could not have brought him down to the present day, had it not been en couraged by an enormous quantity of self-conceit, and backed by obstinacy the most dogged that was ever known. His conceit is such, that he fancies himself capable of speaking on every subject that comes before parliament; his impudence is so great that he will thrust his opi nion upon the house, though it is never required ; and his obstinacy is so great and also so extravagant that he will divide the house twenty times on one of his ridiculous crotchets. For him no affair is too great, none too minute. He directs his powerful mind alike to matters affecting the interests of nations and to matters affecting the inte rests of old apple women. He pays equal attention to a pro position for a war with China and to a proposition for an im proved method of manufacturing birch brooms. He will support a measure for the reform of corporations, and ano ther for the reform of dog carts. He will move for returns of the expense of an armament, and of the cost price of tallow candles used by the parties in the public offices. Ile will bring in a bill to protect the river Thames from incendiaries, and another to limit the consumption of red tape in the dif ferent departments of government. He will draw the atten tion of the house to proceedings of the Emperor of Russia, and animadvert on certain improper conduct of Mr. Bill Smith, a scullion in the royal kitchen. He will infamously attack the good King of Hanover, and laud to the skies the rebel Mackenzie. He will move for a committee to inquire into the commercial relations of England and the Continental nations, and another to inquire whether it would be cheaper to use white or blue foolscap paper. He will put questions respecting the dethronement of an Eastern monarch, and re garding the number of pots of butter consumed in Bucking ham Palace. He will speak on every subject that comes be fore the legislature, whether he knows anything about it or not. Measures relating to finance—parliamentary elections —municipal corporations—prisons —poor laws—corn laws -the Established Church—ecclesiastical courts—national education—police-Church rates—tithe commutation—vote by ballot—Canada—universal suffrage—socialism—turnpike roads—vaccination—Newport riots—Prince Albert's annuity —railways—dissenters—factories—metropolis improvements —county constabulary —court of chancery—bank of England —chartism, and five hundred others, in all, all, all, will he chatter, and splutter, and bluster. •Notwithstanding his clapper is continually going, there is not a worse speaker to be found; anything like reasoning never comes from him. He makes the most monstrous assertions, from which he draws the most extravagant conclusions. He begins a sentence and forgets to finish it. He repeats himself over and over again, and wanders from one point to another continually. What he does say he says in a manner as if he believed it (as no doubt he does) and others received it as " absolute wisdom." His presumption is so great that he will take upon himself to advise Sir Robert Peel—to censure Lord Stanley—to attack the Duke of Wellington—to abuse Lord Lyndhurst —to at tempt to be witty at the expense of Sir James Graham, though the attempt is only a miserable failure. Poor crea ture! he fancies himself a great man, but he is merely a vain, egregious, and shallow-pated blockhead. Still he will not pass into the grave "unwept, unhonoured, unsung," for behold ! his name appears in the immortal pages of Sir Walter Scott. That great and illustrious man has conferred upon him no mean celebrity. He has ho noured him with his notice, and that notice is so flattering, so true, that Mister Joseph Hume may point it out to his fa mily, his friends, his country, with honest pride, and when his early career shall have ended he may have it engraved on his monumental tablet, as a most appropriate inscription—an inscription which, in one brief line, will show posterity the eminence to which he attained, and the esteem in which he was held by the most distinguished of his contemporaries— " The man's an ass, and not worth writing about." THE NEW POSTAGE STAMP. To the Editor of the Macclesfield Courier and Herald. Mr. Enrroa,- - -Many of your readers have been more puzzled to find out the meaning of the design of our new postage stamp, and her Majesty's ministers have been cen sured for issuing such a miserable specimen of modern art ; but, though I will not venture to pronounce upon the execu tion of the work, I think much may be said in commendation of the design. It strikes me, sir, that government has in tended, by the pen of Mr. Mulready, to favour us with an emblem of the state of our internal and external affairs, and that we may understand from it, that everything is in its wrong place. To commence with the upper part of the sketch, which from the representation of a Laplander in a rein Aleer sledge, is evidently intended for the north point ; we have the said sledge half sunk in the sea, whilst several ships are seen on dry land. I need scarcely say, that the latter part o, the picture most aptly pourtrays the state of our navy. On the right hand, or east side, we have a group of Americans and West Indians and, on the left, or east side, an assembl age of Chinese, 'Arabsls., and Indians, with looks ele P h a f n a t s s t a a s l nd ee p ea , n w r a t whilst t thoughtThhe e l a l n i d o y e n i t h h a e e t r r stael fe peacet e a c s t lostof nor B ph r re i er t a poa n l r n i de a branch, and trideas • for war. The figures proceeding from the uplifted arms of Britannia, and which have been variously construed, 1 can not but consider as intended for emblems of riches, which " make themselves wings and fly away," and designed to represent our fleeting national prosperity, still further indi cated by the empty hands of the melancholy lady. But, sir, if we have this striking picture of confusion and mi • sery, we have also held out to us a gleam of hope, for the Ameri cans se em busy packing up, and collecting their wives and children for a journey home, shaking hands with and wishing farewell to the half-dressed and naked gentlemen, whom, no doubt, they think, especially the one who has decently sat down and turned to us a back-front, better calculated for a warmer climate, than for the far west. In the west, the men, elephants, and camels seem all getting ready for a start, se em all how to get back the poor Chinese only app, now we have destroyed their junks.the Even Laplander is • in a hurry to get out of the water, and reach dry land ? so that the artist has favoured us with a prospect of things coming to their right places, •a nd of better times, if we will only have a little patience. I think the n, sir, that this new pictorial stamp ought to be hailed by the country as an omen of good hope, and as a proof that the ministry have seen the blunders they have committed, and intend, like the Ameri cans and Chinese on the envelopes, to remove from their false p os iti on , an d t o cross ove r from the treasury bench to their ow n p ro p er pl aces . L e t us then rejoice and be glad, and look forward to the time when our navy will once more be afloat, when the British lion will awake from his slumber, when Britannia will once more smile, and all will be well. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, FABIUS PICTOR. THE : PENNY POST ENvaLory.s.—There are two ways of acquiring immortality ; by doing something worthy of it, or something utterly undeserving. The man who fired the Temple i of Ephesu s i s an i nstance of the latter class of as pirants n ancient times, and the artist who designed the penny post envelope a striking modern example. The absurdity of the design has provoked all manner of people to "gird" at it, and amongst them we fi n d one from " A twopenny post letter-carrier,' who has don e more than merely find fault with the invention of the royal academician, for he has sent in a design of his own, infinitely superior to that which is to spread the fame of Mr. Rowland Hill over the remotest quarters of the globe. Next to the new ca r i ca t ure j ust pub lished by Fores, it is the best thing we have seen, and if the Post-office authorities do not wish to be la ug h e d at to the end of time they will find out the inventor, and adopt a design less hieroglyphical than the present, and more to the purpose. —Herald. AN APPEAL TO VIE MITTS* iiiATION, ON BEHALF OF THE JAMAICA AND OTHER BRITISH WEST INDIA PLANTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL SS"ANDARD. SIR,—As an enterprising and loyal section of British colo nial subjects, who have for so many years suffe red in silence the violence and outrage of party zeal, which h as almost ali enated them from the regard and esteem of her Imperial Ma jesty and her faithful subjects at home, the We st India plan ters feel it to be not only due to their individus 1 interest, but also for the national weal, that the people of E ngland should be appealed to, on the INJUSTICE of the sam e high duties being still imposed upon Sugar, Rum, and Co.; fee, produced by limited FREE LABOUR in the British West Indies, toge ther with government taxes and intercolenit .1 restrictions, enforced as before emancipation, whilst EMIGB .ATION of suit able labourers is intercepted by government, though slaves are being smuggled into FOREIGN COLONIES. to outrival and ruin the British Colonist ; and to add to t aese enormities against him, it is proposed to.equalize the duty of FOREIGN SLAVE LABOUR SUGAR with BRITISH I i'REE LABOUR SUGAR. The Spaniards and Portuguese can count viand unlimited slave labour, to compete against the very Urn ited free labour of the British planter ; who, so long as he w as supplied with labourers to cultivate his estates to the exti •nt necessary to enable him to stand up against foreign CON )etition, bore all the burthens of revenue and sundry regulations imposed upon him by the mother country without a nrui .mar; but since emancipation has deprived him of the meat s of doing so, it must be apparent to the world that he can t to longer sustain those heavy imposts, nor make head against. foreign slave la bour competition, with the intercolonial and other still exist ing impolitic restrictions. Admitting that the state of the revenue ma y require mode rate duties to be laid on Sugar, Rum, and t 'offee, I, never theless conceive the present lIIGH DUTIES n iay be consider ably reduced without injury to the revenue , and with even greater advantage to all parties: " the pi •esent restraining system is forbidding the British planters to exercise a bene ficial interchange of products, when, by tin ir necessities and their climate, they are standing in perpetual need of such mutual traffic. All duties on, and regulat ions affecting the importation of, lumber, flour, &c., &c., it ito the colonies, ought to be abolished, or most assuredly ti ley will be smug gled into the colonies by the Americans, to the injury of British shipping, and no effort on the part c.f England, costly as it would be, could entirely and perrnanet fitly prevent it." The additional duty imposed upon West India sugars dur ing the war, and thence called the " a navy,' was to have been abrogated on the restoration of peace ; but con trarily thereto, has been continued up to the present time ; with which breach of faith, together wit h the superadded evils arising from the unceasing agitation I or Negro emanci pation the West India planter has had to struggle for many years, previously to, and during which agi Cation, he had suf fered, and is further doomed to endure, ti re injuries and dis advantages which did, and must contint te to result to him from other nations illicitly carrying on t. he slave trade sub sequently to its having been abolished in s .11 the dependencies of Great Britain. These, it must be obvio us, have long been, and still continue to be, grievances of c onsiderable magni tude; but, in addition to which, the ph inter suffered great hardship by the unprincipled and wanton agitation to de feat the apprenticeship enactment, whit :11 had the effect of frustrating the prospective arrangements on his estates, and of robbing him, on the Ist of August, 18:;8, of that labour to which he was legally entitled by the enuincipation act until the Ist of August, 1840. Besides, his Ibreign competitors (since the Ist of August, 1838, when the: negroes in all the British colonies were emancipated) have had the advantage over him of slave labourers which by Creed and smuggling they continue to enjoy as before, and in open defiance of the abolition act, without any limitation, or t he probability of any interference; by their respective governments to suppress it, some of whom tolerate and openly countenance the inhuman traffic of kinnapping and selling native Africans, fearless of the British cruisers or executive, and so perpetrate the most iniquitous violation of the act, to which they subscribed, to abolish the slave trade. Yet in the fact: of all these flagitious iniquities continuing to be practised by the foreign slave master, it is proposed to equalize the duty on his sugar, and to allow it to be imported into England on equal terms with British free labour sugar, and thus in effect to reward and perpetuate his crimes and to give the death blow to the (al ready greatly injured) British colonist. "It cannot be for the interest of any British subject to promote the commerce of the Spanish and Portuguese slave oettlernents to the ruin of our own free colonies, which are now suffering severely, from the unfair advantages obtained by the Brazils and by Cuba." HOW then can such a proposition, as relieving them from all prohibitory duty, for a moment be entertained by the nation, until at all events these our foreign rivals, shall not only have fully complied with their solemn engagements with us, to cease to traffic in slaves ; but shall also have refunded to the nation all the expense engendered by their gross vio lation of that compact, and by their having countenanced the smuggling of slaves into their colonies ; and further, until they shall also have emancipated their slaves as we have done ? Without these most reasonable, and indeed mutual terms be complied with, the English nation ought not to listen to any such proposition for the manifest and exclusive benefit of its foreign rivals, and thus to perpetrate the grossest injustice on its own colonists, so long as the former possess the ad vantages of slave labour, over the latter, co-extensive with their requisite cultivation, and other privileges which they have enjoyed and surreptitiously maintained for years, whilst the. British West India planter, has guardedly and strictly fulfilled the abolition act. Besides, for them to be placed on the same footing as our own colonies, it would be but equal justice, that they should in return allow free, or at least reciprocal importation of British products and manufactures into their countries and colonies. "It is well known that the Brazils and Cuba, by their unlimited supply of slaves, have engrossed the sugar market of Europe.' " The agitators of such a measure would be carrying their scheme, throw back in the progress of civilization those very persons—the negroes—to advance whom in the social scale, such mighty endeavours have been made by England. Thus Great Britain would fail in the experiment she has hazarded, and rivet more closely the chains of tens of thousands now in slavery in the Brazils and in the United States, whose sole chance of release appears to be in the successful issue of the trial now being made in the British West India colonies." The proposition to equalize the duty on free and slave grown sugar—for it is nothing less—is not one that exclusively con cerns the planter ; all having the least stake in these colonies, will equally feel the effects of the measure ; the abandonment of estates—the ruin of the owners—the merchants, the me chanics, and the labourers, dependant for the necessaries of life and its comforts on the agricultural prosperity thereof. . . If the West Indian planter be driven to an abandonment of his estates, because of not being allowed to employ suitable emigrant labourers thereon, and from the other causes enu merated, he will be entitled to claim the value paid for his property from the imperial government,who have only hitherto given him a consideration for the freedom of his people, and not for the annihilation consequent upon that and the subse quent inter diction of emigrants, to fill up the void occasioned thereby.—lf the anti-slavery party be determined, "far et nefas," nationally considered, to extinguish utterly the pre sent race or generation of West India planters, justice requires that they should purchase their properties, and then, and not before, will they have a good right to sit at home at ease, and at their own fire side to concoct plans to newly colonize and manage the West Indies after their own fasaion.—Pure mo rality is a principle that cannot take root in an uncongenial soil, it will be the work of time and pure philanthropy, de void of partial benevolence and co-existing rancour, to pre pare the national mind for its nurture—any party spirit evoked in such a cause will only outrage any favourable and growing disposition thereto, and tend to close those avenues of the mind, that alone can be approached with any chance of suc cess in the attempt to exalt the national morals. The friends of the negro must reflect that abstract morality, bears the same relation to the present state of national morals, as CHARTISM to the existing national laws, and the government founded thereon ; so that if the former be violently enforced, as the latter has been attempted to be, it must be attended with the like disasters and untoward results. The tax on. sugar which is 24s per cwt. has forseveral years ranged from 70 to 90 per cent. on the market price, less duty ; and the tax upon rum, being 9s. per gallon, has ranged from 100 to 300 per cent. upon the market price in bond, and in the year 1838, was 400 per cent. ; so that the duty on sugar and rum, is many times greater in proportion to their respec tive value, than the tax on any other article of our own pro duction, and although in a moral point of view, it may be considered that rum should be taxed higher than more neces sary articles. we must not overlook the fact that, hitherto, the prohibitory rate of duty has not been any check to the intemperate use of rum, and it is known that desire abates in the proportion that facilities for gratifying it are afforded, whence it must be obvious that even morally considered, it would be advisable to reduce the DUTY ON Rum, when there would no doubt be less adulterated, and more pure rum sold, producing comparative benefit to all parties, and at the same time would relieve the British planter from his unjustly pro portioned share of the burthen of the revenue on this article, from which excessive duty the nation derives not the expected moral benefit, and when its treasury, if not from an extended and honest sale of genuzne unadulterated rum, (the usual ef fect of such a change) must, from the improvement of moral habits creating an increased demand of other taxable articles, derive more than the amount of the proposed reduction, at all events the planters, as a body, should not now under free labour be taxed beyond any other class for matters of national concern. To ask for a DRAWBACK on the exportation of unrefined sugar and rum the produce of British possessions, so as to encourage the British free labour planter, to try to compete with the foreign SLAVE labour planter in Continental and other markets, would not be to seek an exclusive or monopo lizing privilege, for it would be to the manifest advantage of the English nation, inasmuch as such traffic would operate favourably for our merchants on foreign exchanges, employ their shipping and keep their bullion at home, by causing our colonial productions to stand in place of the corresponding portion of gold now or hereafter to be paid for foreign corn- How, under present circumstances, is it probable that the planter can pay the heavy parish, public, and road taxes of the island, in respect of estates he is not allowed to have the most suitable and only remunerative retails of cultivating. Upwards of £2OO. a year for taxes, is being paid for an estate whereon no labour was performed for several months after the Ist of August, 1838, and subsequently, yea, even by the last despatches from the island, very little has since been done, !aft year it gave only one sixth, and this year it will not re turn more than one tenth of former years, although liberal wages were offered and promptly paid in silver, and the pro perty is within three miles from the sea-beach, considered now the most favoured locality. Many estates, in the imme diate neighbourhood of this, are suffering in the same man ner and to the same or greater extent ; for at present neither the home government nor the abolition party have succeeded, nor indeed used the necessary endeavours to induce the Negro to go to work, but are permit ting an unjust interference between them and their former owners, which prevents and protracts any amicable arrangement. Neither will the executive leave the planter at liberty (unsuspeetedly and uninterruptedly) to import and hire labourers upon such terms as he might legally do; for whenever he resorts to any expedient, however fair and open, for that purpose, he is interdicted by orders in council ; so that, in the zeal to protect the Negro from fancied oppres sions (whose state is bliss compared with the white slaves of England), he will, Quixotic-like, be embattled on the defen sive, as though it were to establish him a monopoly of labour, to which it is known he is reluctant, or, from his indolent nature, not likely to embrace. Whilst the planter, being so restrained from procuring elsewhere a supply of labour, will thus eventually be driven to abandon his estates, after his funds have been exhausted in the laudable endeavour to rally the elements of colonial prosperity, rendered fruitless by the impediments created by the mother country, who ought to have encouraged and co-operated with, rather than thwarted the planter, Lord John Russell has been forewarned by Mr. Burnley, the agent at Trinidad, that any interdict by which the British colonist may be prohibited from hiring labour wherever it can be procured most advantageously, will be nroductive of the worst moral effect, and that if they be not allowed to enter into contracts, which both parties, after due consideration, and acting in good faith, may believe to be mutually advantageous—if her Majesty's coloured subjects in Asia or Africa are to be debarred, under the plea that they l w d o a til lo d ne be ha in ve contraventi on i a n r g e too tba that whichnorattt i t s () understand lauiu it o b t e h e d i o r n o e w b n y interests , their w hi white ofemilodwo justified any institutions which had been the West Indies, and destroying in os fellow subjects h t j h e o c s t e s high elsewhere—such principles w which ch v e c t o o . o • d for years by the highest encouraged and sanctioned the e re w ed o o rl m d interference in the established rights of . private property in authori ties in the state. to M eN 7 , h er e y n stlhaevegeinneirtsosditoymoinf dominions, labour of their that all men had an indefeasible right to the English nationdec declared e g d a t v o e own hands, with liberty to dispose of it when and where they itboldly deemed it most advantageous, and that after emancipation all (without distinction of colour) would be possessed of equal natural rights, and would be best competent to judge of that which was most likely to promote their own happiness. If these principles, which were solemnly invoked for the destruction of our colonial system, are now to be discarded when appealed to in aid of the difficult task of reconstructing a new one, what hope of success can remain in the breast of a colonist ? what confidence can he place in the promises or legislation of the mother country, or in the stability of the opinion of the nation ? Instead of the courage and cheerful hope which the accomplishment of his present most difficult task requires, he will be filled with distrust and despondency, and renounce it in despair. The effect will be disastrous. Upon the broad principle of justice and freedom we com menced the mighty movement of emancipation, which has saddled the nation with a large accession of debt, and risked the prosperity of some of our most valuable colonies, and it is upon the same broad principles we must continue with vigour and perseverance to act, if we intend the great expe riment of free labour in the tropics to be crowned with suc cess. The object of emancipation was not to injure the planter, but to protect the Negro ; not to encourage the slave trade amongst other nations, but to relieve Great Britain from the stigma of slave labour ; not to increase the revenues of the Brazils, Cuba, or the slave states of America, by the sacrifice of our own colonies, but to elevate our national character. Without emigration on a most extensive scale, Jamaica never will flourish. It is therefore the duty of the English nation to urge emigration, and it must be brought to the no tice of parliament : all must be done during the present ses sion. It is in their power to increase our population from the East Indies, America, and Africa. Look to the East Indies • 56,000 persons died there in 1838 from famine! yet the English government will not allow them to locate in our colonies, where they would, by moderate labour, enjoy every comfort, and become a well-fed and happy people. Government must also be reminded of the fact, that the Jamaica planter is burthened with threepence an acre land tax, and a halfpenny an acre for quit rent of land, on thou sands of acres, which he never has had the means of culti vating, and for the greater portion of which he never will have; these fiscal imposts are equal to 5 per cent. per annum on ss. 10d., which is more than an acre of land is sold for in the United States, being only ss. ild. per acre ; and though land in Jamaica is much more valuable than in the States, this statement sufficiently evinces the disparaging position of the Jamaica planter, and suggests the question, how he is to pay these taxes, if he be compelled to desert his estates and the island ? when there would be none but the negroes to ap ply to for payment of taxes, for which benefit, and owing to whose fostered indolence, their former masters will have been goaded into an abandonment of properties once the busy haunts of industry. Hence it must be evident, that the ex chequer ought to abate the charge upon such land as yields no return. Ought the parish tax and other subsidies for the poor and lazy, to be exacted from owners of estates, whilst the negroes are, by a certain party, advised to stand out for unreasonable wages, and remain in idleness, when abundance of employment offers at such rates as can be afforded. No parochial relief, under such circumstances, should be given, it would be to confirm them in their obstinacy and laziness, and beget overwhelming vagrancy and pauperism. On an impartial and unbiassed consideration of the above facts, which bear with peculiar and greater hardship on the colonists of Jamaica than on any other of the British colo nies, owing to the physical and local difficulties with which the planters of Jamaica have to contend, and from which the other colonies are more free. Such as the irksome and ex pensive cultivation of its hilly cane fields, its great extent of uneettled or unappropriated land, affording refuge for squat ters (i. e. negroes who give themselves up to sloth, and are inclined to return to the wild and uncivilized condition in which their ancestors were found, and thus not only cease to render either any service to themselves, or to any civilized community, but also to cause the annihilation of the im mense capital invested in lands, houses, buildings, works and machinery, together with the valuable and undeveloped local resources of Jamaica, and the comparatively great disad vantage, under which it has always been placed, of having a less number of labourers in proportion to its cultivable land, than most other of the British West India colonies. Whence it must be obvious that the British planter, is cogently entitled to an immediate and ample reduction of duty, a repeal of unjust restrictions, an abatement of land taxes, and a drawback on exportation, as some of the reme dies by which in connection with an efficient plan of autho rised emigration, he is hopeful, if not long deferred, to be enabled to maintain his ground, and without which, it is to be feared there is little chance for most of them, (especially those of Jamaica,) to continue to cultivate their estates at such high rate of wages as the late apprentices are demand ing. Though the British planter were patiently to endure these wrongs, and to submit thereto, whilst all his funds became exhausted in the effort to bear up against these multiplied hardships, is Mr. Mothercountry less culpable in withhold ing from him timely and commensurate redress ! The planter cannot think so meanly of his fellow-subjects in England (frail mortals as himself,) as to suppose they conceive there is any thing in the climate, or productions of the West Indies, that the English nation should wish their ruin, or that the West India planter should be an exile or outcast. Public writers and speakers, in the mother coun try, have it in their power to defend their fellow-subjects abroad, and it is very clear, that for the sake of consistency alone, if on no other account, the true patriot, after having visited with punishment any malpractice (legalised or other wise,) must discontinue his inflictions. Indeed, the tolera tion and encouragement of the FREE COLONIES of England, is so obviously identical with the amelioration of negro suf fering in foreign slave colonies, that no truly humane man would object to affording it to the fullest extent. This is no whig or tory question, and it shall not be our fault if it ever be made one. Let the nation now manifest the same zeal in the effort to do justice to the planter, as it did to emancipate the negro ;—both classes must be equally regarded, if our colonies be to prosper they are reciprocally dependant on each other. The British free labour planter calls upon the negros' friends for a renewal of their exertions, and upon all who take an interest in our colonial and maratime commerce, to join in a cause so just and honourable, and one deserving the best exertions and energies of the English nation. The British planter vested great capital in the colonies, on the good faith of the nation, which is as much bound to pro tect the agriculturist in its colonies; from the want of la bourers to keep up the cultivation, and from the competition of foreign and slave-grown produce, as it is to protect the property of the English agriculturist from competition with Russia and other countries. England ought to attend as judiciously to the colonising of her colonies, as to her own domestic policy. Great Britain has the power within her self of redressing these grievances, she has millions of indi viduals, whose circumstances would be infinitely bettered by emigrating to Jamaica and the other West India Islands. We hope she will look well to this. We beseech the British public, for it is to them, and not to Mr. Mothercountry, that we are to look. We say then to the English nation, let the cries of barbarity, let the human gore spilt in savage Wars'on Africa's deserts rouse you, let the horrors of Indian infanti cide, the pestilence, starvation, and miseries of the teeming millions of India, animate you to call upon the government, to do what every principle of national interest and glory should prompt it to do : Which is, to open up a free system of emigration to those of its colonies as are suffering for want of labourers, from those countries, viz., A mer i ca , I n di a , Africa, and other places whose inhabita n t s would thereby so much better their circumstances and advance Briti s h in terest.—On behalf of the Jamaica Planters, BY A FELLOW COLONIST. May, 1840. THE NEW TAXES.—A hearty laugh has been raised in the city at the expense of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, finding such a difficulty in levying 5 per cent. on the duties on spirits, was obliged to give up such a plan in despair. and resort to a fixed duty of 4d. per gallon. The difficulty here lies in comprehending what there is in the peculiar na ture of a duty on spirits that it should make a case by itself and not come within the general rule. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's reason for adopting this course, that he has done it to avoid increasing the differential duties between different parts is considered so far from satisfactory, that he is thought, while trying to avoid one sort of inequality, to have produced another, and to levy an equal duty on articles of unequal value, as for instance on rums and brandies. Again, the difference made between wine and spirits has caused greit surprise. The capitalist who operates in sherries is to pay his 5 ►er cent.; but if he prefer brandies, he will pay less than 14. The accounting for such discrepancies by a professed abhorrence to rigid justice is regarded as ludicrous in the extreme.—Times, Tuesday. ImPoRT OF Woor..—A return to an order of the House of Commons gives as the total amount of sheep and lambs' wool imported in 1839 into the United Kingdom 57,395,944 lbs., of which 57,379,923 lbs. are foreign, and the remaining 16,021 lbs. the produce of the Isle of Man. The total quan tity of foreign wool retained for home consumption was 52,959,221 lbs., and the quantity re-exported 695,049 lbs. Of the foreign countries, by far the greatest quantity of wool was imported from Germany, being 23,837,805 lbs. The se cond and third as to quantity were Russia and New South Wales, from the former of which 7,966,954 lbs., and from the latter 6,621,291 lbs. were imported. The quantity of British sheep and lambs' wool exported during the same year was 4,603,799 lbs., and the quantity of yarn (including that of wool mixed with other materials) was 3,320,441 lbs. Of the wool, the largest quantity, being 3,625,896, was sent to Bel gium. Of the yarn, the largest quantity, being 1,770,536, was sent to Germany. The total value of British woollen manufactures exported in 1839 was £6,271,645. The value of the manufactures sent to the United States was consi derably the highest, being £2,142,352. The value of those sent to Germany, the East Indies, and China, and the North American colonies, was also high, being respectively £816,604, £530,687, and £511,190. COLONISATION OF NEW ZEALAND.—The crowded state of our columns on Saturday precluded our inserting more than a very brief notice of the meeting held in the Assembly Rooms, on the above subject. To-day we have given in our first page a report of the principal speeches, which, we doubt not, will be read with interest, particularly that of Lieut. Macdonnell, the late British resident , at New Zealand, who has resided in that country since 1830. Lieut. Macdonnell, in an interview with Lord Glenelg, when urging the impor tance of taking immediate possession of New Zealand, ob served, that, " as we lost Java from ignorance, we might lose New Zealand by procrastination ; " and impressed with these views, he is the more earnest in his appeals to the Bri tish public. The knowledge he possesses of the subject, em boldens him to advert strongly to the natives' hatred of the French, (the Marians) and the fearful consequences that must ensue, should it be intimated to the chiefs that the French intended to form a penal settlement in their country—a point of very great moment, not only to the present settlers, but to intending emigrants, and, indeed, to to the trade and com merce of this country. Dr. M`Leod has gone into the gene ral question of emigration with his usual perspicuity and feeling. Mr. Johnston, in opening the proceedings, was not less clear in the practical view which he gave of the present position of the colony. Altogether, the conduct of the go vernment, it would appear, has been of a most unstatesman like character, such indeed, as we might naturally expect from such a feeble and vacillating a dministration.—Glasgow ' Courier. IMPORTANT CORPORATIONS ! !—From a return presented to the House of Commons pursuant to the Municipal Act for the year 18216,we observe that the revenue of the borough of Cardigan vias n Os. 6d. and the expenditure of t 3 Os. 6d., to manage which estate 4 aldermen and 12 councillors are elected. In Blandford the income was £65 Os. Bd. and the expendi ture £194 175., with 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Caine the income was £96 13s. 9d. and the expenditure £l2B 2s. 94., with 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Cli theroe the income was £126 19s. Old. and the expenditure £lO5 10s. Bd., with 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Da ventry the income was £ll3 ss. and the expenditure £152 12s. 3d., with 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Dur ham the income, with the aid of rates, was £462 12s. 2d. and the expenditure £409 18s. 9d., having 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. In Evesham, with the same aid, the income was £424 12s. and the expenditure £374 Os. 14., with 6 aldermen and 18.councillors. In Flint the income was £46 Bs. sd. and the expenditure £BO Is. 9d., with 4 aldermen and 12 coun cillors. In Llandovery, income £7 45., expenditure £8 65., and 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Oswestry, income £4ll 6s. Id., of which the sum of £368 15s. 6d. is derived from borough rates, expenditure £3OO 12s 4d., with 6 alder men and 18 councillors. And many others we might na me where the receipt s are equa ll y i ns ignificant, and the balance due to the treasurer forms an appalling contrast—even in the larger boroughs this contrast is more apparent than could be wished. When we reflect that in all these places alike the annual ceremony of a popular election is performed, and af terwards a solemn council convened to appoint a dignified person to fill the civic chair, we cannot help smiling even at the risli of incurring his worship's frown. &bippfug lintrilignirt. TUESDAY, MAY Ig.—Wind N.E Aftazveo 7 Farewell,_Kreech, and Elise, --, from Pillau SAlLED—Alliance, Haley, for Mobile—William, Bird, for Mar seilles—Victoria, Lennox, for New York—Condor, Churchill, for Baltimore—Thalia, Rogers, for Genoa and Leghorn—Sarah and Arsilia, Macoduck, and Louisville, Allen, for New York—Nra Sra de Los Delores, Monterola, for Bergen—Tampico, Winder, for Cron - sta.dt—Dorothea, De Boer, for Amsterdam, &c.—Beccles, Man thorpe, for Monte Video—Anguste, Vander Kirkhoxen, for Ostend —Auguste, De Jaeghere, for Ostend, &c.—Baldassare, Randich, for Trieste—Factor, Hart, for Tromsoe—Cossack, De La Rue, for An tigua— Harriet, Beniest, for Antwerp—St. Helena, Long, for the Cape of Good Hope—Julerne, Jenson, for Collunborg—Jane, Wil liamson, for Charente—Amalia, Albrecht, and Providence, Maas, for Datizic—lndian, Fearon, for Halifax—Eugenie, Codlet, for Havre and Rouen—Chase, Powell, for Malta and Smyrna—Robina, Gutherie, for Hayti—and Abbots Reading, Renner, for Valparaiso. Jessie Logan, Major, sailed from St. Helena 31st March for this port Brothers, Daniel, and Coronation, Bradley, hence at St. John, NB, Charlotte, Keith, hence and Halifax, at ditto Susan, Collings, from Patras at Cephalonia, and sailed 23rd ult, for this port Matilda, Hodgson, hence at Leghorn Adeona, Joumonge, sailed from ditto for this port, on the sth instant Arrow, Harris, sailed from Seville for this port 21st April Zeldennust, Kong, hence, at Zwolle Anna Hermann Hendrike, Gust, and Fanny, Mathew, hence, at Helvoet Catharina, Peterson, hence, at Hamburgh Mary Imrie, Boyd, sailed from Mauritius for Calcutta 17th Feb. Henrietta, Claussen, and Germania, Kross, hence, at Pillau Vesper, Bellamy, hence, at Nantes Thames, Williamson, sailed from Marseilles for this port gth May Henriette, Devoust, hence, at Flushing Eugene, Perre, sailed from Marseilles for this port 12th May Leonora, B S, from New Orleans, off Holyhead, at 8 a.m. Frances, B S, from Barbados, off Point Lynas, at 11 a-m. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20.—Wind ARRIVED.—EIiza Heywood, Heywood, from Antigua—Frances, Dixon, from Barbadoes : sailed 15th April—Leonora, Harrison, and United States, Barr, from New Orleans—Cumberland, Hatch, and Canada, Wilson, from Mobile—Pampero, Roberts, from Monte Video—Harmony, Potlich, from Grieswald—and Thomas Hunter, —, from Africa. Freeman, Sullivan, from Manzanilla de Cuba, at this port, in 39 days. On the 6th instant, in lat. 40 0, long. 49 30, spoke the Alex ander, from Jamaica for this port. On the 16th, off Cape Clear, spoke the Forth, from Jamaica for this port, out 79 days. And, off Tnskar, a brig, supposed the Velocity, from Jamaica for this port. Ann & Jane, Cocks, hence at Berbice Elizabeth Wood, hence at Barbadoes 7th silt. Magnet Packet, from Falmouth, at ditto, 11th ult. Tam o'Shanter, sailed from ditto for this port 13th ult. Palmyra, Croal, hence and Milford, at Demerara 7th ult. Diana, Robson; Rapid, Bolton, and Spencer, Birkett, hence at Demeraaa Mary, Hamilton, sailed from Demerara for Mobile 26th March Eliza Killick, Waugh, and Governor, Adamson, hence at St. Thomas Elizabeth, Price, sailed from St. Thomas for Santa Martha 6th ultimo Alice Brooks, Scott, sailed from Port Adelaide for Port Phillip sth Nov. Mir, Warglien, and Isabella, Rymer, hence at Pernambuco Emily, Wirdle, from London, at ditto 31st March, in 33 days from the Downs Agnes, Cobb, and Superb, Hunter, sailed from ditto for Trieste 26th March Lawrence, Williams ; Camoens, Wilson ; Celt, Hagerty ; Joseph P. Dobree, Hayes; Chandos, Heylop, and M'lntyre, -, at Laguna, all for Liverpool Superb, Melhuish, from Messina, at Palermo 18th ult. and sailed 23rd for this port Emilia, Milora, hence and Naples, at ditto Elizabeth, Stone, hence at Trieste Clipper, Holland, hence at Syra 11th ult. and sailed 17th for Con. stantinople Firefly, Easter, hence at Constantinople Challenger, Hernaman, sailed from Smyrna for this port 20th ult. Swiftsure, Tyack, sailed from ditto for this port 28th ult. Scipio, Watson, from Cape Hayti, at Falmouth Ann Wise, Nicholson, hence for Tortola, at Fowey Julerne, for Callenburgh; Thalia, for Genoa, and Tampico, for Cronstadt, have put back Aurora, , hence for Cape Breton, was spoken 2nd instant, in lat. 30 0, long. 46 Alicia, Nicholas, hence for Quebec, was spoken 30th ult. in lat. 4g 0, long. 26 Biitaniiia, hence for Rio Janeiro, was spoken sth ult. in lat. 0 11, long. 19 . 15 Rik, hence for Pernambuco, was spoken Bth ult. in lat. 2 Is, long. 22 86 _ _ Esther, for this port, was spoken 26th March, in lat. 26 0 S, long. 26 0 W. of Paris Part of the letter bag per Inca, hence for New South Wales, re ported in a former publication as abandoned, has been saved, and now lies at Messrs. Cotesworth and Wynne's office. HULL, May 18.—The Dorothea, from Memel for this port, is re ported to have put into Grimsby this morning, leaky VALENCIA. May 7.—A boat marked " Black-eyed-Susan, Liver pool," has been picked up at sea, and brought to this port. THURSDAY, MAY 21,—Wind North ARRIVED.—Mary Worrall, Gardner, from Lima; sailed 18th Jan. The Thomas Worthington was to sail in 14 days for Liverpool. The Susannah Collings had sailed for Valparaiso. SAILED.—North America, Lowber, for New York—and Emma, Irving, for Venice and Ancona. United States, Britton, hence at New York 26th April Blair, Newby, hence at Barbadoes Hudson, Hamilton, hence at Lima, and sailed for Valparaiso Siddons, (Packet Ship) from New York, landed all her passengers and letters at Dunmore, in Ireland Tyrone, —, from New Orleans, off Tuskar Cora, Melville, from the Cape of Good Hope, at the Cove Terra Nova, Bennett, from St. John, Newfoundland, ditto Eveline, Nosworthy, and Slavina, Sablicich, hence at Bahia Llama, Clayton, hence at St. Thomas Atlas, Smisk, honce at the Dardanelles Hebe, Warren, hence and Syra, ditto Basconzado, Ecchevaria, sailed from Bilboa for Liverpool Bth May GRIMSBY, May 18.—The Dorothea, Hoppet, from Danzic for Liverpool, has put into this port very leaky, and with greater part of deck load thrown overboard TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 21, 1840. Wind at Holyhead, N.N.E. blowing fresh in the morning; North, moderate breeze at noon ; North, light breeze in the evening. Off Holyhead, inward bound, at 9 30 a.m. No. 4295, Siddons, A.S. from New York-1427, Josephine, A.S. from Mobile-261, Tam B.Bk. at 11 30 a.m. from Philadelphia—and 770, St. George, B.S. at 1 p.m. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, at 12 at noon, No. 4295, Siddons, A.S. from New York, (has a pilot.) VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, kc. Galston, —, 169 Manilla, Brodie & Hamilton Agnes, Cumming, • 299 Singapore, Imrie & Tomlinson Mysore, H J Ward, 330 Singapore, Chapman & Willis Bella Marina, Wickham, - 564 Singapore and China, W & J Tyrer AFRICA. Dido, --. Faleon, J Turner, 297 Africa, J & T Johnson 112 Africa, Agett & Hemingway NEW SOUTH WALES. Superb, J Newlands, 353 Port Adelaide and Sydney. Claypole & ion or II Fox WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Grace, P Pearson, 341 Antigua, C W & F Shand Margaret Highfield, R Johnson, 178 I3arbadoes, J Bibby & Sons Pavorite, J Cameron, . 296 Berbice, J Poole &Co Queen of Scots, J Follett, 166 Trinidad, W Rose & Co SOUTH AMERICA. Robert Syers, It Toney, 311 Laguira and Puerto Cabello, W Rose -& Co UNITED STATES. Congaree, J Doane, 321 Boston, Baring Brs & Co Independence, E Nye, 829 New York, Wilde 3, Pickersgill & Co Frankfort, J G Russell, 889 New York, (3 Blown & Co Sheffield, F P Allen, 595 New York, T& J Sands Sr Co Britannia, E Cook, 606 New York, Fitzhugh & Grimshaw Ganges, J Jones, 376 Hampton Roads, Lodge, Prichard & Co BRITISH AMERICA. Faith, J Dunning, 143 Newfoundland, T & W Earle & Co William, J Richardson, 153 Newfoundland. Graham & Taylor Abeona, It Jenett, 70 Newfoundland, Valhulce & Henry Rising Sun, R Christian, 133 Newfoundland and Mexico, J J Day Clarence, A Betts, 237 St. John, N.B. Gibbs, Bright & Co Greenhow, J Ogilvy, 291 Quebec, Molyneux, Witherby & Co George Sutton, J Archer, 84 Labrador, The master EUROPE. Alligator, R W Cook, 197 Constantinople, M& A Wilkin Maria, R Revett, 131 Dordt, • Cram & Smith Triumph, J White, 177 Dordt, Cram & Smith Carl, 3 C Wustenhurg, 120 Elsinore, Bahr, Behrend &Co Providentia, C F P Witt, 150 Elsinore, C G Weber & Co Georg, C Moller, 150 Elsinore and Narva, Bahr, Behrend & Co Hope, N Harmer, 261 Havre and Honfleur, J Aikin & Sou Christians Gabe, S Thaysen, 100 Iceland, Bahr, Bel►rend &Co Sultana, J B Rogers, 181 Malta and Smyrna, .. . ... _ . . G Yates, Lowthean & Co Ann, G Jardine, 1o i Narva, J Crawford & Co Bristol, W Escott, 212 Lisbon and Monte Video, J Poole & Co Charles, J Rickmeers, 116 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend & Co Maria Aleta, L K Schutt. so Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co Anna Agatha, J Berghius, 85 Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co Galway Lass, J Strevens, 224 Hammerfest & Archangel, A F Moore Helene, G Anderson, 160 St. Petersburg, C G Weber & Co Judith, J Hamon, go 'Venice, J Bibby & Co Norval, G Wright, 101 Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co Zeelust, D J Mik, 120 Rotterdam and Dordt, Bahr, Behrend &Co Arab, J Findlay, 287 St. Petersburg, Bahr, Behrend & Co Caroline, J Walters, 129 Messina and Palermo, J Rothwel *nip° rts, EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, sm. Heart of Oak, (326) J'Macdonald, from Mauritius, 5611 bags 22 brls sugar, J Gladstone and co-1 case specimens natural history, 2 cases liqueurs, 1 case jelly, 1 case pickled mangoes, 2 qr casks 1 hhd Madeira wine, order—P D New Thomas, (144) it Nicol, from the Cape of Good Hope, 87 pipes 140 hhds 1 qr cask wine, It Allinson-10 pipes I hf aum do, W Dickson-1 hf aum do, M Z Just-10 hf pipes do, M Clover-1 cask do, I box tea, order-132 boxes tea, W Dickson-35 boxes 21 cases 15 packages tea, 3 bales wool, R Zwilchenbart and co-2 bags rice, 1 bag coffee, I box arrowroot, 1 package cigars, 1 case seeds, W Dickson—K D WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Frances, (413) J F Dixon, from Barbedoes, 669 hhds 44 tees sugar Barton, Irlam and Co-5 brls I pot sugar, order-21 packages ta marinds, 34 packages arrowroot, 9 packages saccades, 2 brls gin ger, 2 packages pickles and pepper, 6 brls roots, 3 packages wine, i package falernum, 1 tee old copper, 5 hhds cocoa nut oil returned, order—Q D Royal Mint, (309) W Searight, from Jamaica, 358 hhds 18 tces 3 brls sugar, 65 puns rum, 64 tees 1 brl coffee, about 44 tons logwood, 50 lancewood spars, 38 dry ox and cow hides, 2 kegs tamarinds, 200 coker nuts, J B Yates and co-28 hhds sugar, 6 puns rum, D and T Willis-1 box suecades, order—K 13 SOUTH AMERICA. Fortitude, (251) G Arbuthnot, from Monte Video, 118 pipes 9 hf pipes tallow, 23 bales wool, 6 bales hair, 8730 horns, 15c hide cut tings, 4518 wet salted hides, C Holland-15 pipes t hf pipe tallow, about 30 tons bones, 2998 wet salted hides, 42 bales sheeps' wool, order-38 bales wool, G Beley—K D Jane May, (104) T May, jun. from Ceara, 20 bags coffee, 122 bags cotton, 889 dry hides, C L Mendez and co--2 bags cotton, 100 dry 'hides, Fruiing and Goschen-8 bags cotton, 570 dry hides, order -100 bags cotton, 570 dry hides, Cotesvorth, Powell and co—ig bags cotton,'L B Paget and co-20 do, C Middleton and Son —l2 do, Came and Telo-40 (10, J Duncan-122 dry hides, J Macaire and co —about 1} tons horns, Mendez and Murt—K D Alice Jane, (238) J Bleasdale, from Laguna, 260 tons logwood, C Tayleur, Son and co-46 brles jalap root, T Ashmore-18 do, order —2 cases contents unknown, W B Melville-2 cases silver figures, C Tayleur, Son and co-1 painting, D Madden—K D Spinster, (161) W Colquhoun, from Laguna, 230 tons logwood, M'Nair and Dutton—W D UNITED STATES. Leonora, (404) T B Harrison, from New Orleans, 535 bales cot ton, W Smith and Sons-104 do, Roskell, Ogden and co-200 do, Melly, Prevost and co-131 do, order-46 do, 300 sacks wheat, J Hoiford and co—P D United States, (430) J Barr, from New Orleans, 1254 bales cotton, Brown, Shipley and co-85 do, Molyneux, Witherby and co-35 do. Molyneux, Witherby and co-36 do, D and T Willis-77 do, order -34 do, J Ramsay and co-75 do, W Smith and Sons—S THE WORKHOU§E. Statement of the average number and expense of paupers in the Workhouse for the week ending Paupers. Per Head. , Per Week May 9, 1840 11, 1839 More' 4 More 0 11 More 13 14 0 Statement of daily relief paid ont-door poor the week ending May is, 1840.. 20, 183 g 2068 do. do. 259 110 More 114 Less t'7 18 10 Aarkrts. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 21. There has been a good demand for Cotton today, and the sales are 4000 bags, including 400 for export ; prices remain steady, but a heavy market. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, MAY 21. The weather is cold and unvegetative ; shippers of Butter in Ireland are consequently obtaining most extravagant rates. We have heard of as -much as 115 s on board for Carlow. 118 s to 120 s are about the prices landed, and much inquiry is made after the article. LONDON GAZEPII.--TuEsDAy, MAV 19. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. C. Campbell and J. Campbell, Liverpool, eaton-brokers—T. .Overton and J. Overton, jun. Liverpool, wine-merchants—J. Ed wards and W. Drummond, Liverpool, tea-dealers—J. Taylor, J. Taylor, and A. Clegg, Prestwich, Lancashire, nurserymen ; as far as regards A. Clegg—J. Redhead and R. M. Cartwright, Cartmel. Lancashire, surgeons—K. Grundy and I. Kirby, Lancashire, wool len-brokers--T. Waddington and J. Hanson, Manchester, stock manufacturers—J. Jones and G. Cowen. Manchester, cabinet makers—S. D. Moss and J. Cowen, Wigan, tailors—D. Hesse and IL. Shepherd, Manchester, stock-manufacturers. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. Number of new patients entered on the books of the Dispensaries during the last week: — North. South. Total Received advice and medicine atthe Insti tution Visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine 335 231 616 Total at each Dispensary. 188 142 330 VISITORS North—Mr. W.F. Macgregor, Rev. Dr. Buck, and Mr. C. Booth South—Mr. Jordan, Mr. J. Cooper, and Rev. C. Morrall. R. WEDGWOOD, Secretary. Dispensaries' Office, 1, Fenwiek-Street, May 18, 1840. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, MAY 19 Since Tuesday last the imports of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal, from Ireland and Coastwise, have again been very small ; but of Wheat, Flour. and Barley, from Foreign ports, they have been very considerable; the two former articles are going into bond for the present; duty is paid on the latter as it arrives for home use. The weather, throughout the whole of the past week, has been very seasonable, and favourable for the rapid growth of all agri cultural produce; we have had heavy showers daily, and it is now considered that we have had a superabundance of rain all over this district, quite sufficient until after the hay harvest;—the country has assumed a most luxuriant appearance, and the season is now estimated more forward than the last, by two or three weeks. In consequence of which, andof the large quantity of Foreign Grain and Flour recently released for home use, our millers and dealers have been very sparing buyers for their immediate wants, although a reduction of about Is to is 6d per quarter on all other kinds of Grain, (except the most superior qualities of Wheat and Flour, and also Beans and Indian Corn) and of about 6d to Is per sack on Flour and Oatmeal, has been submitted to. The only alteration in the duties on Grain from foreign ports, since Friday last, is an increase of Is 6d per quarter on Barley, Indian Corn, and Buck Wheat, and no change is anticipated next Priday ;—it will be ob°erved that all Grain and Flour are exempt from the new intended increase of five per cent to take place from the Isth instant, on the duties of customs and excise;—there has been but very little demand for Grain or Flour in bond for export, last week, but several parcels of very good fresh sweet Foreign Wheat, chiefly Dantzic, are reported to have changed hands, to be held in bond, at 7s 6d to 7s 9d per 7elbs. The supplies to this day's market have been very considerably increased by the arrivals. yesterday, of Oats and Oatmeal from Ireland, and of Wheat and Flour from Foreign ports. The small improvement in London, yesterday, gave a little more confidence to the trade, and sales were effected to-day to a moderate extent of Wheat and Flour in bond, and free at about the decline above mentioned Oats, Oatmeal, and Barley, were also a little lower, but Beans and Indian Corn fully supported last quotations. WHEAT, per 701bs R. d. s. d. INDIAN CORN, 48016. English Scotch 9 3 10 0 White 39 0 41 0 Irish 5 3 8 3 BRANS, per quarter. _ _ _ 66 s 6 Bonded BARLEY, per qr English 37 0 39 0 Chevalier 35 0 41 0 Scotch, per 601 b. 4 6 5 0 Irish 3 10 4 3 Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 OATS, per 451 b. English Scotch 4 0 4 3 Irish 3 4 4 0 Foreign, in bond 3 6 3 10 Ditto, duty free 4 0 4 3 English 45 0 50 0 Irish 42 0 45 0 PEAS, Grey 3B 0 42 0 White 42 0 46 0 SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b. In bond l4 0 17 0 FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. Fine 48 0 53 0 Irish 44 0 51 0 Amer. brl. free Sweet U.S 35 6 37 6 Sour 35 0 36 0 OATMEAL, per 2401 b. RS x, per quarter 36 0 38 0 MALT, per qr. fine 68 0 70 0 middling • 56 0 66 0 English - 33 6 34 0 Ditto, new 34 6 35 6 Scotch 33 6 34 0 AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE, Imported into Liverpool, from 12th to the 18th inst. inclusive. FROM IRELAND Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lamb 1075 775 3550 Previously 16189 14811 85004 - - 910 66 50 3112 Previously .. COASTWISE Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Calves. Lambs, 450 2041 1088 :4 '2 1931 25792 3332 56 8 26 PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. W oon, Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid Archangel .t'l9 0 €1) 20 10 Memel 17 '0 18 0 Gothenburg l5 10 - - 16 10 Not above 16 ft Wyburg l6 10 - 18 10 ' F.xlg. B. P. 2 Petersburg 17 0 - 19 10 21 feet. PLANKS, per foot of 2 inches thick. lOs Danzig, Deck British American Pine LATHWOOD, per fathom. Danzig, 4 feet lO g 1 0 British American 5 0 6 0 MAHOGANY, per foot of 1 inch thick Honduras Cuba St. Domingo JAI( PLANKS, British American rNAK wool), per cubic feet STAVES, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe .1135 0 —l4O 0 Hhd. 7O 0 80 0 Quebec, red, 13 inch thick, 155 0 75 0 and 53 feet long Do. Puncheon MISER, per cubic foot. Oak Pine, British Amer. common red.... yellow _ . Duty 1 .4'4 Ss. 15s. . 0 6 - 0 10 .09 - 1 0 . 1 0 - 2 0 none. . 4 9 & 6 1 10s. 'Ss per load. Os. 14 0-24 0 s. d. s. d. . . 2 9 4 0 • 0 0 0 0 • I 6 2 0 • ; 1 4 1 8 Danzig, middling 2 2i— 2 3 Memel, middling 2 2i— 2 3 Riga, red 2 54 2 6 Not ab. 36 in. 1 3s. B.P. 2s 2 6 43. 3 0 6s. I Os 'per load. 1.€2 15s. v load LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT. May 16, 1840. ADMITTED. DISCHARGED In-patients cured 36 ( In-patients . Relieved and at own request Made Out-patients 0 ; Casuals during the last week 3 Irregular . 0 Remain in the house Dead 3 Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson. Chaplain Rev. R. Davies. House Visitors . . . . . Mr. Semple and Mr. Martin. Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon Mr. Brandreth. Admitted, LOCK HOSPITAL. 11 I Discharged . . Remain in the house 11 50 TIDE TABLE. Days. Mon. 1 Eon. Height. F Sundays, Holydays, .5.e. H. U. U. M. T. T. ---... Friday .. 22 219 237 il2 11 Saturda) 23 3 8 333 12 8 Rogation Sunday. Sunday 24 I 4 0 4 29 12 10 Monday 25 5 6 542 13 5 Tuesday 26 618 641 14 1 Trinity Term begins. Wednes. 27 714 746 15 3 Thursday 28 810 830 16 8 Ascension Day. Holy Th. PRICES OF SHARES, MAY 21. Prices. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester llO paid 71 0 0 .... 70 10 0 Ditto and Derby Birkenhead and Chester Ditto, new 5 13 2 6 .... Bolton and Leigh lOO paid • .... Bolton and Preston • 30 .... .... Bristol and Exeter 25 .... 20 0 0 .... 29 10 0 Chester and Crewe 45 .... 55 5 0 .... 55 5 0 Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow 3O . 25 5 0 .. . Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid .... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 19 10 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1 ••30 paid ' • Greenock, and Ayr , Grand Junction lOO .... 231 0 oexdiv Ditto half shares 3O .... 100 10 0 ....100 10 0 Great Western 65 95 0 0 .... 91 0 0 Ditto new shares 3O .... 43 15 0 .... 42 0 0 Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 32 15 0 .... Ditto, new Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares • 25 .... 43 5 0 .... 44 0 0 Ditto half shares London and Birminghani 9O .... 177 0 0.. Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto and Southampton 39 .... 54 10 0.. Ditto & Brighton 35 . 30 5 0 .. London and Croydon , l4 17 6 . • Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 83 0 0.. Ditto half shares Leicesterand Swannington 5O .... 71 0 0.. Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... 23 5 0 . .. 29 10 0 . 53 10 0 Ditto and Ditto Extension 7 .... Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle Ditto quarter shares North Midland New North Midland 2O .... 32 10 0 . South Eastern and Dover North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 .... York and North Midland.. 50 paid 64 0 0 .... BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 746 10 0 ex div Bank of Liverpool .el2 lOs paid 20 12 6ex div. - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 17 2 6 .... - Liverpool Union lO .... 13 7 6 .... - Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Wales lO .... 6 10 0 - of Manchester lO .... 10 2 6 .. . - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 9 17 6 .. - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank Commercial Bank of England East of England Phoenix Bank Wilts and Dorset o 0 0. 96 0 0. 80 0 . 15 2 6. 10 .... 10 .... 7 10s 8 0 0. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings £loo paid 163 0 0 L'pool and Harrington Water 1350 Works . 477 10 0 . Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0 ... L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 0 L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 191 0 0 .... Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance} 25 paid 210 0•• • • Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 550 ex div, Liverpool Fire and Life 2 109. 1130 ex div DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderton Carrying Company l5 Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 10s. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company Harrington Docks Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool; (Polonceau) 650 6 7 6 5 0 .. . . 6 12 6 .... 57 0 0 6 17 6 .... 0 14 6 .... I 0 0 .... . 10 . . 100 .. 2 .. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIMES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 6 a.m. Mixed 8 15 a.m. First Class 10 30 a.m. First Class 12 15 p.m. First Class 4 p.m. Mixed 7 p.m. First Class 12 'FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVEKPOOL AND MANCHESTER 2 15 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 1 15 p.m. 4 p.m. 6 p.m. 6 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do. 11 30 a.m. First Class 2 15 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 3 30 p.m. Mixed 5 p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures will Le 3 30 a.m. First Cla;s, joins Londou Train at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 a.m. Mixed OP if 1 30 p.m. 10 30 a.m. „ 7 p.m. IP 12 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. „ 245 p.m. „ The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. LIVERPOOL AND MA: CHESTER RAILWAY. FROM L'POOL TO MANCHESTER. First Class Second Class Morning.. 7 0 Morning 8 45 „ .. 10 .0 FROM MANCHRSTER TO 1. 9 1.001.. First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 9' ..10 0 „ 11 15 „ 11 45 2 o Aftern. ..*2 45 Aftern. 11 p rr ..n 45 „ 2 0 Aftern. .. 230 Aftern. 4 40 „ .. 5 30 . _ 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I * Except on Saturdays, when tl ON SU . First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed top only at Newton & Prkside I TO PRESTON - FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 5 0 „ 530 ~ 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside I his Train does not start till Three. rNDAYS. First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Mornin 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside ; AND WIGAN. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.. First Class 11 15 „ 2 45 Aftern. 5 0 ~ 715 ~ NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 30 Afternoon ILTON ___ 11 0 ~ ~ 2 30 Aftern. ..Second Class 4 45 ~ .. Mixed .. Second Class .. Mixed .. First Class 715 „ .. First Class 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 530 Afternoon . . „ TO B FROM LIVERPOOL. 5 45 Morning.... First Class 12 0 1 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 830 „ . • FROM MANCHESTER. g 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 ~ •••• ' , 2 45 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 ~ •••• „ NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon ,IBLENS. ov sir! 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. TO ST. 1- PROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 „ .... „ 11 45 „ .... ff 2 45 Afternoon .. ~ 530 „ NDATS. I 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. IR ;ORN GAP. FROM I‘TANCITESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 11 45 .. • • • • .. 11 45 It 2 30 Afternoon .. 5 30 If ON SW 7 0 Morning.... Second Class I 5 30 Afternoon .. PP TO RUNG FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morniug.... Second Class 11 45 IP 5 30 Afternoon .. ft ON Su 7 0 Morning.... Second Class I 5 30 Afternoon .. 5 30 Afternoon 9, NDAYS. I 7 0 Morning... . Second Clam 5 80 . Aftenlooo „ ON SU INSOLVENTS May 18.—Henry Webster, Bedford -street, Covent-garden. Lon don, patent portable inkstand-manufacturer, Benjamin Barker Smark, Honiton, Devonshire, scrivener. May 19.—John Malley and John Aspinall, Liverpool, corn-mer chants. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Fletcher, Sedgeley, Staffordshire, maltster. BANKRUPTS. William Kelly, Liverpool, bookseller, to surrender May 2g, June 30, at one o'clock, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. Pedder, Liverpool; and Messrs. Willis, Bower, and Willis, To kenhouse-yard, Lothbury, London. Caleb Ashworth Tate, Liverpool, tea-dealer, June 4, 30, at one at Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Littledale and Bardswell; London. Henry Reinecker, Great Tower-street, London, wine-merchant. Arthur Redford, London-road, Southwark, printer. James Youens, Ludgate-hill, London, grocer. Harry Fry, Newport, Monmouthshire, surgeon. John Caton, Preston, cotton-spinner. Thomas Washer Gibbs, Bristol, soap-boiler. Matthew Case and William Hodgson, Manchester, commission agents. - William Elder, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer. DIVIDENDS. June 11, J. Henley, Hampstead-road, London, rectifier of spirits —June 11, J. Clarke, Keppel-street, Bloomsbury, London, dentist— June 10, It. Parker, Rupert-street, Haymarket, London, harness maker—June 10, J. Richardson, New Bond-street, London, cutler June 19, E. Blundell, Samlesbury, Lancashire, innkeeper—June 15, N. Phillips, Haverfordwest, banker—June 17. J. Brodrick, Ply mouth, merchant—June 10, R. Otley and T. Otley, Sheffield, manufacturers of Britannia metal wares—June 20, R. Cawood, Leeds, woollen cloth-manufacturer--June in, J. Burr, Wells, So mersetshire, baker—June 9, W. Marsh, Wolverhampton, hosier— June 16, R. J. Tomlinson, Bristol, oil of vitriol-manufacturer — June 13, T. Rees, Crumlin, Monmouthshire, shopkeeper—Jane 13, C. J. Wrigley, Doncaster, chemist—June 10, T. Willacy, Windle, Lancashire, corn-dealer. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before June 9. J. A. Griffin and It. Falk, Liverpool. merchants—S. Lodge. Sal ford, manufacture of fancy cloths—ll. King, Eltham, Kent, sur geon—J. W. Webster, Salford, currier—R. Bowie and W. Bowie. Burr-street, Lower East Smithfield, London, surgeons—B. R. Pem berton, Basingliall-street, London, wool broker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Archibiad Allardice, Dundee, bookseller. James Lawson. Edinburgh, merchant.tailor, George Nicol, jun. Dundee, grocer. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. MAY Hotta 22. Geoige Raw, (2nd) Clarendon Rooms, 12 22. John Stripling, (2nd) Ditto, 1 2q. John Barlow, (2nd) 25. James Tatlock, (Ist) 25. Jordan and Magratli Ditto, 12 26. Betty Smith, (god) 26. William Walking Bailey, (2nd) 26. Charles and William Sidebotham, (2nd) Ditto, 1 26. Henry Laffer, (2nd) 26. James Sill and William Watson Clay and Swift's, 1 27. Golborne and Dobbs Clarendon Rooms, 1 27. Thomas Maguire Ditto, 2 29. Samuel Rogers, (div.) Commercial Rooms, Bristol, 12 29. William Bilsborrow, (2nd) , Clarendon Rooms, 1 30. Betty Smith, (special) • Ditto 11 30. Montetiore, Carmichael & Co. (special) Court of Bankruptcy, London, 12 BIRTHS. On the 13th instant, at her residence. Piccadilly, London, Mrs. FREDERIC LA BLACIIE, (late Miss F. Wyndham,) of a daughter. On the 14th instant, at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, the lady of Major HARDINGE, of twins. On the 18th instant, Mrs. HUNTER LANE, of Lancaster, of a son. MARRIED. On the 13th instant, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, JOHN LAWSON KENNEDY, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to ELIZA, daughter of GEORGE MURRAY, Esq. of Ancoar s.hall. On the 13th instant, at Neath, Glamorganshire, by the Rev. Henry Knight, B.D. rector, the Rev. STEPHEN DAVIES, M.A. of Old Basing, Hants, to MARIA SOMERVILLE, eldest daughter of the late JOHN YARDE FOWNES, Esq. of Plymouth. On the 14th instant, at Shaw. near Newbnry, Berks, by the Rev. Samuel Slocock, rector, COURTENAY OSBORN HAYES, Esq. commander R.N.,eldest son of the late Rear. Admiral Hayes. C.8.t0 CAROLINE INE, only daughter of the late ALFRED SLO COCK, Esq. of Donuington Cottage, in the same county. On the 14th instant, at All Soul's, Langham-place, London, by the Rev. Wm. Hunter Ross, M.A. RICHARD COBDEN. Esq. of Manchester, to CATHERINE ANNE WILLIAMS, youngest daughter of Hugh Williams, Esq. Machynlleth, Montgomeryshire. On the 16th instant, at Hampstead Church, London, JAMES WHATMAN BOSANQUET, Esq. second son of Samuel Bosanquet, Esq. of Dingestow-court, in the county of Monmouth, to MERE LINA, only daughter of the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice TINDAL. On the 18th instant, at the Friends' Meeting-house, Y0 11102 ' 4 near Lancaster. ISAAC BRADSHAW, cabintl-inaker, PROCTER, confectioner. Same day, at Childwall Church, WILLIAM DEBONAIRE, son of WILLIAM D. HAGGARD, Esq. of Lea-grove, Blackheath, Kett, to SARAH, the third daughter of WILLIAM NICKSON, Esq. of Wavertree. DIED. Lately, at Kihnarnock, aged 31, Mr. JAMES BRYAN. This is the periOn who, last summer, under the title of the Queens' Scots Lover," paid daily visits to Windsor Castle, and gained some noto riety in the public prints. On the 11th January last, at Old Calabar, Afiica, THOMAS, the only surviving son of JAMES MONK. Esq. Woodside. On the 27th of March, in London-street, Edinburgh, of hooping cough, in her 6th year, MARGARET OLIVER ; on the 23rd ult. aged 16 months, ROBERT OLIVER: and, on the 24th ult. in her 4th year, ISA BELLA OLIVER, children of Mr. Wm. Oliver, mer chant, Mansfield-place. On the 12th ult. at. Butterly, Derbyshire, aged 19 months, JOSH. GLYNN ; on the 30th ult. aged 6 years, DOUGLAS GLYNN; and, on the 10th instant, aged 5 years, ISABELLA GLYNN, children of Joseph Glynn, Mil. On the 16th ult. at Oswestry, aged 69, MARY MORRIS, the be loved wife of Mr. Wm. Morris, late of Llorian. The deceased was the mother of fourteen children, grandmother to seventy.eight, and great-grandmother to seven. On the 19th ult. at Madeira, aged 17 years and II months, THOS. ALEXANDER, son of CHARLES WYE WILLIAMS, Esq. of Rod ney-street, in this town. On the 22nd ultimo, of inflammation on the lungs. aged 38, Mr. THOMAS ASTBURY, late mate in the African employ. On the 23rd ult. at Venice, aged 80, the Count GUICCIOLI, hus band of Lord Byron's famous contessa. On the 26th ultimo, aged 1/ years, JANE COULDREY, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Couldrey, master of Manesty. lane School. On the 3rd instant, at Lancaster, aged 62, SAMUEL FIINDE, Esq. On the Bth instant, at Waterloo, Crosby, after a tedious affliction of four years, borne with great patience and. resignation, RICHD. GARLAND, eldest son of the late Richard Garland, Esq. of Hull. On the 9th instant, much respected and lamented by a numerous aircle of friends, Mr. DANIEL PARRY, joiner and builder, of Whit ford-street, Holywell. He has left a wife and six small children to lament his loss, and was so extensively engaged that he invariably employed about a hundred men. On the loth instant, SARAH DAVIES, wife of Mr. John Davies, late of the Llysun, Montgomeryshire. Same day, at Black Brook, near St. Helen's, MARY WINSTAIsr- LEY, wife of Mr. Samuel Winstanley, watchmaker, of this town. Same day, in his 73rd year, MARGARET DEARE, relict of Ed ward Deare, Esq. solicitor, formerly of this town. Same day, at Storton, Cheshire, aged 37, Mr. EDWARD JONES, much and deservedly respected. On the 11th instant, at Oxford, the Rev. G. GRANTHAM, senior fellow but one and bursar of Magualen College. He was killed by falling at night from the window of his room, on the second story, in the new buildings. He was found lying on the ground, in the grove, about six o'clock in the morning; and, as lie usually threw up the sash of the window previous to going to bed, it is supposed he overbalanced himself while so doing, as he was obliged to stand on a chair to do o, and, the window being recently varnished, it probably stuck, so as to require considerable force to move, and suddenly gave way. On the 11th instant, at Mount Sackville, near Dublin, Miss CATHERINE PLACIDA GERARD, youngest daughter of the late John Gerard, Esq. of Windle-hall, in this county, and sister to Sir John Gerard, Bart. On the 12th instant. in his 3;th year, much esteemed, after a short but painfully severe illness, Mr. JAMES BROWN, spirit dealer, of Commutation-row and Tempest-hey. On the 12th instant, at Oxton, near Woodside, Cheshire, aged 76. Mr. THOMAS WALMSLEY, late of Gort, near Lancaster. On the 13th instant, after a short illness of five days, aged 59, JANE DOBIE, wife of Mr. James Dobie, Mill-street, nixteth-park , She was an affectionate wife arid a tender mother, and is deeply re gretted by her family and relatives. Same•day, at the house of his son-in-law, Mr. James Kelly, of Kent street, aged so, Mr. JOHN CLARE, formerly of the city of Dublin. Same day, suddenly, in London, aged 75, the Rev. WILLIAM LOWFIELD FANCOURT, Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester. During the speech of the Rev. Hugh Stowell, at the meeting of the Pro testant Association, in Exeter-hall, he was taken ill on the platform, and, on being removed to the Committee-room, it was found that life was wholly extinct. Same day, at Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, London, in the 79th year of his age, SAMUEL FOOTE, Esq. father of Lady fifte: rington, better known to the world as the celebrated Miss Foote, 01 the London theatres. Same day, of scarlet fever, in his loth year, WILLIAM LEWIS INNES, eighth son; and, on the 14th instant, ir, his Bth year, FRANCIS HENRY INNES, ninth son of Robert H. limes, Esq. of Leyton, Essex. On the 14th instant, at his residence, Hyde-park.terrace, London, in his 68th year, Sir WILLIAM BOLLAND, late one of the barons of her Majestys Court of Exchequer. On the 15th instant, aged 47, Miss BLACKBURNE, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Blackburne, of this town. On the 16th instant, aged 63, Mr. JOHN HOLROYD, Gloucester street, formerly of the Ohl Fox Inn, Hale-street, in this town. On the 16th instant, M r . ARTHUR WI LSON, of Formby, ag e° 79 years. On the 17th instant, at his residence, Northwich, JOHN NOR BURY, Esq. aged 72 years. On the 18th instant, aged 60, Mrs. POOLE, Stretton, Cheshire. Same day, much and deservedly respected, aged 48, Mr. CHRIS. THOMPSON, soap-boiler, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude and resignation. 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