The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

'ON Liverpoo, treme d count Into p We do heavy and, in some cases, al- in the county rate occasioned )rce in question )een silent, though not uncon- nobservant, spectators of the working of em. We have certainly in no degree en- ; hostile to it, or to raise a engaged in carrying i 'or we have 'really disire'd that Lir trial, and that it should receive t were found to bear the golden fruit Of its advocates bauble d, r, intend to enter at 1 assured us we might ex tion that the whole thing is an y forces itself more strongly upon ige upon Suffice it to say that in several ty meetings in opposition to the new m have been held, and that in our taken up by s, who have sinned the follow- sembled at the General Quarter Ses olden by adjournment at Preston, in he county of Lancast 3g the Guardians of the Poor f the B 1 to represent to your Worships vy increase of the county rate, occa •tion of the new constabulary force, the d have found the greatest difficulty in rate, so as to meet the various demands burn Union, be .ollectors of this B, " That the expence of the new constab u l ar y force is equal o one-third of the total expense incurred in maintaining the - in the several townships of this union. ars and cottagers are serious sufferers from anal tax, and that it will, if persevered in, involve Any poor and industrious this Board, being fully assured of the inability and of the new force, when compared with the expense especially being convinced of ...ad particularly the rural districts, .oort so extravagant an establishment, humbly beg that worships would be pleased to take such steps as to you ay seem most advisable for the abolition of the new con . this district. Blackburn, 7th December, 1840." the far ain ma red,—and mor stabulary force i GREAT HUMSL RAILROAD (From the John Bull.) The directors of this undertaking, viewing with some re equent occurrence of inevitable accidents arising ,is else unparalleled mode of travelling, beg to sub a liberal and discerning public a few regulations which -innted by them upon this popular line, and a few they flatter themselves will greatly con practical advantages of the system perfect )ut of ti stionabli he directors beg to state, that they have engaged an ex geon to travel with each train upwards and )on their extensive line ; that convenient hearses tached to each, together with handsome coffins, ' f persons, so that immediate accommoda d to the remains of the nobility and gen- ay be affor ,titterers under any casualty, and likewise us, furnished with clean dry straw, for the by the third class carriages, which they b_ hersede the present mode of leaving laid on the side of the rail till the arrival of some ment they hope and believe will entirely get ssity which now exists for passengers to pro s with baskets calculated to contain their re of unavoidable but fatal events, against which tr of science, nor the unquestionable attention lerned, nor the evident and undeniable safety 'ling, can guard. And they are happy to convenient receptacles for those who are with life, they have purchased at sta their fast trains small pieces ‘'e in ..nurse of being laid out in the me mannt as cemeteries, in which arrange- igh to c K stations t .eatest care has been taken to secure the advi.n od air and beautiful scenery, to each of which a appointed at a proportionate e chaplaincies, is well as for secretary of the already been said, the nece Inconvenient to passehgers of ordinary or terrnini provi w in general us for the collection of and limbs, when by any unforeseen incident to be scattered to any conside ra ble distance from th the direr which th xplosion or collision occurs, should take the precautio k it right that passenge --• or ticireting, not only their heads and bodies, but ;te limb, with small cards bearing the same num will not only save a great deal of time to the of company in properly collecting the fragments, ;olutely prevent the recurrence of some unavoida s which have happened in packing up the remains issengers who were not so fortunate as to escape ,s of a limb or two, or the trifling deprivation of or a nose. upon this subject, the directors think they their duty to a discerning public more justly ian by thus tendering their best acknowledg- Selina Kettlewell, of Snigabury, for her ex and consideration for the hurry of business uch undertakings, in accepting with the body ;band, who was, in consequence of some little will be inquired into), unluckily decapitated of Grigglesby cutting, on the 24th of Novem f another passenger, Mr. Phineas Hogsflesh, a a similar fa-t-1 tance of the heads Dr scarcely to be censured, when it h the fact that also unlucky enough to b, o surviving relativ reat p 1 is head, and the, who! amiable with W. Wynn t reu syste m o f numberin the beads' and rob, all similar occurrences will, for the oided. .th of the late Wa aiversal teetotal drink to dinner a message was brought them znt-would be repaid them, upon which they simultaneously called for wipe and spirits, and every teetotaller got merrily drunk upon his good fortune.—Courier t. 'ants war they sented to do on con But tk Vet pattrp. MARY r the Liverpool Standard.) One tho earns fulfill We dream a to meet ! n sweet no more, A shore we met [0 more think of me ? It thou bestoW on bygone times? 1 starry night, of light vening star rite lines afar,— aght on me ruing strand, tom the ieat no more, Then, dearest, think of me ! CONTEMPORARY PRESS IBERALIT 91 the Cork Constitution.) a all not to 'd : we leave our native land L. E. L. mer, in the gift of the upon us to point any clergyman as the most 1. Considering that the writer is ce of forbearance for which Having monopolised the state ] leave us the church. " There 3r all things," and by-and-by 3us that. We rst to Id be the nece e sary con- .t sort of a " clen would recommenc a, attaches .tion and able to main- ions of doctrine' no such clergyman as 'Oval o; an advocate of Rome ary of truth is, to have n who will suffer he i of r posts wht )ur welt t was their duty to ndebted for the anxiety ire, but the course which acter will ?rotestant careful to avoid. Ich ani 1, extends no furth ointment, in the present instance, a " conservative or a neutral." All beral and a friend of the National Board Luires, though he modestly declines to man who would answer his expectations. -.ow N T Y (From POLICE Standar ,hs the gradual pro- nt at the new consiabularysys- what hastily,it must be confessed, This discontent misconduct on the part of but out of the ex- Df that force . n the adequacy and the e: me principle which prompted northern parts of the against it at t ere the proportionate cost of ood y other 3aintenance of rto we have last general t work in other districts ; and even the force is less ,eople are beginning what public good has arisen, o ATROCIOUS MURDERATASHTON-UNDER-LYNE (From Me Manchester Guardian.) On Friday evening last, this town was made the scene of one of the most atrocious and apparently deliberately-planned murders that it has ever been our lot to record. What adds to the atrocity of this crime is, that it was perpetrated at no late hour, but as early as six o'clock in the evening ; nor was it committed in any secluded spot, but near a great turnpike-road, and within 140 yards of the centre of the town of Ashton. The murderous act was committed upon the premises —a timber-yard—of Mr. Richard Whitfield, a timber-merchant, joiner and builder, and within 20 yards of the dwellings of several respectable gentlemen. What ren ders the circumstances of this atrocious murder still more harrowing is the fact, that hitherto nothing has transpired which dan lead to any supposition save that the unfortunate man has been murdered because he was supposed to be a " knobstick" by some malcontent sawyers of the town or neighbourhood. He was almost a stranger in the district, where he had only worked about two months ; but, in order to place the circumstances of the case before our readers in the order of time, it is necessary to commence some time anterior to the late murderous attempt s ; f or it w ill a pp ear in the sequel that there have been no fewer than three, made at different times, during a turn-out which commenced in October last. appears, then, that since February, 1832, the timber merchants, builders, and joiners of Ashton and the immedi ate neighbourhood, have been paying to their journeymen sawyers higher wages by about ten per cent than those paid in Manchester, as fixed by an agreement and list of prices adopted by the masters and journeymen in Ashton in the year 1827 • and which has subse q ue n tly b een regar d e d h ere as t h e standard rate of wages. While the trade continued good and money was plentiful, the masters in Ashton, though aware of the disadvantages under which they had to contend, as compared with those in the same business at Manchester, — a distance of only six miles,—did not make any very strong or universal complaint ; but the present commercial pressure having acted injuriously upon the building, as upon every other, trade in the manufacturing districts, has at length compelled them to reduce their workmen's wages to the Man chester list of prices, as agreed upon in 1827, in order that they might not be driven out of the market by their compe titors in neighbouring towns. The journeymen sawyers of Ashton and the neighbourhood resisted the proposed reduc tion, and, overlooking the fact that employment to persons engaged in building operations is necessarily less plentiful in the winter months than in summer, foolishly determined to make " a strike ;" to use their best endeavours to resist the proposed reduction, and to obstruct the business of the em ployers by preventing them obtaining fresh supplies of bands. Accordingly, in the early part of October last, the men, only about 30 in number, in the town of Ashton, turned out. Mr. Richard Whitfield, joiner, builder, &c., who employed saw yers on his premises, finding that his former workmen did not choose to accept the reduced rate of wages, was obliged to procure fresh hands; and, amongst others, he was applied to by two young men, named. Benjamin Cooper and James Coope, from Tintwistle (in Cheshire), for employment. As their characters were found to be unexceptionable, he at once accepted their services ; but the rate of wages at which they agreed to work is entirely unknown to any person, except Mr. •Whitfield and themselves. On their first commencing work, they were soon discovered by the sawyers' union, which meets at the house of Mr. James Whitehead, the King's Head Inn, in the Old Square, Ashton ; and the turn• outs, having found means to communicate with the two Coopers, invited them to come down to their club-house, on the first Saturday evening after they had commenced working. The Coopers consented, and attended the club-room, where they were treated with drink, strong efforts being made to in toxicate them ; and many rather pointed questions were put to them, in order to ascertain what wages they received. They ob stinately declined to give any information on this subject ; and the only satisfaction the turn-outs could obtain was from Benjamin Cooper, who plainly told them, that, as they (the turn-outs) had " given him a lift," (meaning that they had taken work which he had left, when a lower rate of wages was offered him,) they could not object to his giving them a lift" now ; and that, as soon as he could get work in his country (Cheshire) he would return to it. For better security, the Coopers lodged at the house of Mrs. Wood, the Swan Inn, at the top of Stamford-street, Ashton, on the Stalybridge Road, as n , , t only being nearer the premises of their employer, but being also, as was supposed, a place more secure from the visits of those who might be disposed to molest them. But the turn-outs have been in the regular habit either of " pick eting" the saw-pits and yards, or of visiting the different saw-pits, upon various pretences ; and in the forenoon of Friday week, the 4th instant, two turn-outs, named John Williams, (whose real name is Williamson,) from Stalybridge, and William Shaw, of Ashton, visited Mr. Whitfield's pre mises, and had some conversation with Benjamin Cooper, who was at his work, and who is what is technically termed the " top sawyer," being engaged above ground at the saw-pit (whilst his companion stands below ;) and he agreed to pay for some beer for them at his lodgings. Shaw and William son went there, where they were joined by the Coopers at dinner time, and had some ale. After dinner the Coopers went to their work ; and, in the course of the evening, were engaged in lining (marking) a piece of timber which was about to be sawn, when some miscreants discharged at them either a gun or pistol, loaded with sparrow shot, which all lodged in the boards of which the shed is formed—fortunately without injuring either of them. The miscreants, favoured by the darkness, immediately escaped. Mr. Whitfield, when ac quainted with the circumstances of this cold-blooded attempt, made all the inquiries in his power, but nothing could be learned respecting the dastardly assassins. From that time, until the evening of Friday last, nothing particular happened, when about six o'clock, the circum stances now to be detailed, took place. The Coopers were just commencing work, to cross-cut a short piece of foreign oak timber, when, without any previous notice or noise being heard by either of them, a most terrific explosion took place close to the side of the shed in which they were working. The noise of the discharge resembled that of a small piece of artillery, fired close to the spot ; and Benjamin Cooper, who was just in the act of stepping upon the log of wood, which had been placed upon the bearers for the purpose of being sawn ' exclaimed to James Cooper, who was i n th e p i t b e l ow, " Oh, lam done for !" He almost instantaneously reeled to the end of the saw-pit; and James Cooper, who was at first rendered insensible by the concussion, as soon as he re covered his senses, went to his assistance. No footsteps were heard; but it was seen at once that some piece of fire arms of large calibre had been discharged through the side of the shed, for the wood planking which formed the hord of the shed had been blown away for the space of several inches ; and, upon examining the opposite side of the shed, it was found that several large slugs had entered the planks. some of them perforated them, having been scattered in such a way as to make it utteriy impossible_ that they .. n WII g-piece, kfirtni g ithirnileSt finhigt'enCteigci ft - equally impro bable that they had been discharged from the barrel of a pistol. A joiner, named Hadfield, who was at work in a shed adjoining the saw-pit, was so alarmed at the explosion, that he had not at first the courage to go and inquire what had been the matter. He was soon, however, alarmed by Benjamin Cooper, who called , to him to go and help him ; and be sprung over his bench in the dark, and found Benjamin Cooper sitting, wounded in several places. He was taken to Mrs. Wood's, the Swan Inn, as soon as practicable; and Mr. Whitfield having been sent for, he called in Mr. Cheetham and Mr. Broadbent, surgeons, and the poor man was examined, and his wounds probed. Two or three slugs of large size had entered his groin, and one had penetrated, it is stated, as far as the colon, at least two of them inflicting mortal wounds. Upon examining the shed in which the man had been working, it was found that one slug, about three quarters of an ounce in weight, had passed through an inch board, and had lodged in the roof of a wooden shed adjoining. Cooper, as it may be supposed, mourned pite ously, his thoughts being directed to his poor wife and two children, the eldest of whom is not more than about six years of age, and his wife is again near her confinement. He ex claimed repeatedly that he was done for, and he was certain he must shortly die (an opinion which the surgeons in at tendance considered it mere hypocrisy to contradict ; and his continual exclamation was, " Oh ! what will become of my poor wife and children ! gentlemen, do stab me." The poor man lingered in great pain, his extremities being cold, until about eight o'clock the same evening, when he expired. He was attended in his last moments by the Rev. John Hand forth, curate of the parish church, and the Rev. Mr. Quirk, his newly-appointed coadjutor, who hastened to the bedside of the dying man the moment they heard of what had taken place. It is impossible to conceive the consternation which this diabolical act occasioned in the neighbourhood. The noise occasioned by the discharge of the piece (or infernal ma chine) was heard all over the town • nay, it is said that it actually shook the houses in the immediate vicinity of the spot where it occurred ; but the most remarkable thing about the matter is, that with the exception of Mr. Whitfield's own men about the yard, nobody thought of inquiring into the 'ntil it was known that one of Mr. Whitfield's men -. Mr. Whitfield, immediately after procuring the surgeons, gave information to the police, and Newton, the deputy constable, although labouring under serious injuries, (inflicted upon him by a party of drunken soldiers belonging to the 68th foot,) immediately went to the place and exami ned the spot where the shot had been fired. Nothing could then be found which could afford the slightest clue to the vil lains who had discharged the fatal shot. The ground, a piece of unenclosed waste, was examined ; but no one could be found, the ground being such as to afford ample opportunity for an immediate escape. In the course of the evening, Jas. Lord, Esq., one of the Ashton magistrates, was informed of the murder ; and with Mr. Henry Hall, one of the clerks to the magistrates, attended at the police-office, where they re mained till a late hour. Mr. Newton, in consequence of some suspicious circumstances, apprehended three men, named Edward Davies, and Samuel and Henry Hardwick, (two brothers) the secretary and the stewards of the sawyers' union ; and Mr. Gatley, the deputy constable of Stalybridge, apprehended John Williams. or Williamson, the party be fore alluded to. The police also visited the house of Mr. Whitehead, in the Old-square, and asked both Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead which was the box belonging to the sawyers' union. Both said that they did not know which was the saw yers' box (a denial which, it is almost needless to state, was not believed ) ; but Keys, one of the nfficers, having left in charge of all the club boxes in the house, accurate in formation was eventually obtained, and the sawyers' box was seized. It is unnecessary to state, at present, the contents of the box, or the nature of the letters and papers found in the possession of the secretary and in the box ' • as such statem en t, prematurely xaade, might mat er i a ll y tend to counteract the ends of justice. matter, 1 was shot We have, however, hinted that three attempts to destroy life and property have recently been made, in the case of Mr. Whitfield and his men. On the 25th of October last, a few days after the commencement of the present tarn -out of sawyers, an attempt of the most diabolical character was made on the premises of Mr. Whitfield's dwelling-house, which is situated near the timber-yard, upon the Stalybridge Road. This attempt, which has not before been suffered to transpire, Mr. Whitfield concealing it even from his own family, was made under the following circumstances About three o'clock in the morning of Sunday the 25th Oc- tober, Mr. Whitfield was awakened by shouts of " murder, ' apparently close to his house ; and, in the course of a short time afterwards, heard the watchman at the door. Upon proceeding down stairs, he found that some miscreants had bored a hole in the kitchen door, and had inserted the fun nel of a tundish, through which they had poured upwards of two pounda of gunpowder, which had fallen upon the kitchen floor, and more than three quarters of a pound of gunpowder was found in a paper in the yard ; and, in addi tion to this, a piece of touch-paper was found lying close to the door, and a train of gunpowder laid from the yard into the street. The watchman stated, that he had come upon three men with their faces blackened, concealed in Mr. Whitfield's yard ; and, upon being disturbed in their fiend ish operations, they had set upon him, ill-treated him, and escaped ; his being the cry of murder that Mr. Whitfield bad heard. Mr. W. removed every trace of the gunpowder from the Ilitchen an d yard ; but did not then discover the train laid thence . . . Llch some of his neighbours What renders this affair the more re .le watchman himself bad formerly been a er, all Mr. Whitfield's private investiga affair proved fruitless; and, being apprehen _ ,ner mischief from the turn-outs, he had kept a watch on his yard and premises, so that it would sp ear, save on one occasion, and' that (remarkably enough) the very day on which the first attempt was made to shoot the deceased, none of the turn -outs had gained admission into the timber yard on any pretence whatever. all the murderous attempts ,s men have been exposed ; ..ough they are ell that have come to our knowledge as oc curring since the commencement of the present turn-out. Some years ago, while Mr. Whitfield was in the service of Messrs. Bellhouse and Sons, as an agent or manager in Ashton, some villains threw a sort of hand-grenade o r can i ster filled with combustibles into his house ; fortunately, w i t h out the murderous elects which it was calculated to produce. .kable i morn' .t these are not Whitfield and During Saturday and Sunday, the place was visited by thousands of persons ; and the soft clay, which at first ex hibited the impressions of the deadly implement used, was soon trodden down by the footsteps of the curious. On Saturday forenoon, at a distance of twenty or thirty yards from the shed, in the waste ground, was found an instill ment, which there can be little doubt was the " infernal machine" used on the occasion. It is a piece of iron pipe, forming a joint of a steam-pipe, or of a service pipe for water, about twenty inches in length, of considerable thick ness, with a short arm or elbow at one end. It was of this form the short elbow being plugged with melted lead and a wooden stopper; the touch-hole being denoted by the dot in the diagram, and the length from the touch-hole to the mouth of the pipe at the end of the long arm being about seventeen inches ; the bore at least two inches. There is no wonder that the report from this murderous engine was a loud one, as it would take a considerable quantity of powder to charge it ; and as there are proofs in the body of the unfortunate deceased, and in the timber on the opposite boards of the saw-pit, that its charge had contained not less than eight heavy leaden slugs, of large size. This pipe on the out-side was very rough and uneven, its surface being deeply corroded by rust in many places, as if it had long lain exposed to the atmosphere. But the hole which had been pierced in it for the touch-hole had evidently been recently pierced, not by any bad tool, or bungling workman, but apparently by the application of a drill, in the- hands of an experienced work man. The instrument was conveyed to the Policc-office, and placed in the care of Mr. Robert Newton. During Sun day, great crowds visited, not only the shed and the place whence the fatal shot must have been fired, but also the Swan Inn, where the body of the deceased was placed. On Saturday, Mr. Broadbent and Mr. Cheetham, surgeons, made a post mortem examination of the body, and found several of the slugs lodged in various parts of the viscera. The whole neighbourhood was in a state of great excitement, in reference to this shocking affair ; and this excitement was by no means allayed by the apprehension of the four pri soners, and the club-box, books and papers, of the sawyers' union, as noticed above. The inquest was held at the Swan Inn, before Mr. W. S. Rutter, and a respectable jury. From the evidence pro duced, there can be little doubt that the case was one of wilful murder. The inquiry was adjourned to Thursday (yesterday.) SHOCKING MURDER ON THE EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY We are grieved to announce that a Murder was perpetrated in this neighbourhood on Thursday morning, marked by cir cumstances of the most fiendish atrocity. The victim is Mr. John Green, a ganger or superintendent of labourers on the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. The deceased had charge of the works at that portion of the line adjoining Bishop bridge, about three miles from Glosgow, and was proceeding to his duties about seven in the morning, before it was yet light, when he was assaulted by two labourers as he passed the wooden bridge at Cross-hill, which is a temporary erec tion over a part of the railway works, and so severely injured, that he died within an hour. All the labourers on this por tion of the line, with the exception of one or two, are Irish. It appears that, previous to Green's coming up, a large party of Irishmen were assembled on the bridge, or its vicinity, but before his arrival the most of them departed in the di rection of the smithy, as if about to commence work, leaving two or three behind. Green crossed the bridge, making a remark upon the weather as he passed, when one of the la bourers followed him, and, with a punch or iron bar, struck him a cruel blow on the head, which forced off his hat and brought the victim to the ground. Another labourer came up, and jumped upon the body, whilst the first wretch con tinued to inflict repeated blows on the head and face of the unfortunate man with a heavy iron instrument. The bloody work was soon done, and the two murderers ran off in the direction of Auchenearn, and have not yet been taken ; though we hope this will not long be the case, as the speed and eye of the law are after them. Green was only heard to exclaim, " Oh, God ! are you going to mtirder me ?" He was picked up quite insensible, and, as has been stated, died within an hour afterwards. That the murder was actually a combined and premeditated one admits of little doubt. Green had.only come to this superintendency two days before, but a report had been spread that he was strict and harsh in the former works which he overlooked ; and the deterrningtion to rid themselves thus cruelly of one whom they might consider a sharp taskmaster, is the only reason which can be given for this heartless action. Another proof of it is, that the unfor tunate deceased was attacked by a shower of stones on the previous evening. Green was an active young man of thirty years of age, has left a widow and small family in England, and, so far as we have heard, there was no cause for accusing him of harshness, unless a necessary degree of vigilance and attention to his duty can be called such. At a late hour on Thursday, Mr. H. G. Bell, Sheriff-substitute, waited on Col. Fleming, C. 8., the officer in command of the troops here, requesting military aid to support the civil power in the ap prehension 'of the parties suspected of being implicated in this diabolical affair. The request, of course, was at once complied with, and on Friday morning a company of the 58th Foot, under the command of Captain Hutchinson, left our infantry barracks, accompanied by Mr. Bell. and a strong body of police, and proceeded to the locality in which the murder was perpetrated. The troops and police were con veyed in omnibuses. In the afternoon they returned with upwards of twenty prisoners, who were safely lodged for the time in Bridewell, preparatory to an examination before the proper authorities. We understand that they offered their ptors no resistance. The labourers in custody are all na tives of Ireland, and no doubt is, or indeed can be, enter tained, that the murderers are included m the number of prisoners taken. On this distressing event a number of idle reports are afloat; but we deem it better for the ends of jus tice to refrain from giving them currency.—Scottish Guardian ECCLESIASTICAL AND UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. (From the Word Herald.) Yesterday, John Hannah, 8.A., Scholar of Corpus Chris College, was elected a Fellow of Lincoln College, on the Lin colnshire Foundation. The Rev. J. Gould, M.A. of Balliol College, has been, on own presentation, admitted by the Lord Bishop of Chiches '-' "'" rsu•rnry Tinrwash. SURSeX. vacant hp the d eat h of the Rev. Dr. Mackenzie. The Rev. George Anthon Denison, M.A. late Fellow o Oriel College, and Vicar of Broadwinsor, has been appointed Rural Dean of the Deanery of Bridport, in the Diocese of Salisbury. The Lord Bishop of London has collated the Rev. Charles Parr Burney, D.D. of Merton College, to the Archdeaconry of St. Alban's, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Wm. Hale Hale, appointed Archdeacon of Middlesex. The Lind ,Bishop of Salisbury has appointed the Hon. and Rev. C. A. Harris, M.A. late Fellow of All Souls' College, to be one of his Lordship's Domestic Chaplains. On the 2d instant, the Rev. W. Williams, B.A. of Jesus College, Curate of Wigmore, Herefordshire, was licensed by the Lord Bishop of Hereford to the Perpetual Curacy of Elton, Herefordshire ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. PROMOTIONS Rev. E. H. Johnson, of North Lodge, Sussex, to be one of the Chaplains of the Lord Bishop of Chichester. Rev. H. Middleton to the Vicarage of Barton Stacey, Hants, vacant by the death of Dr. Rennell ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. Hon. and rimy. G. T. Noel the Vicarage of Rorasey, Hants, vacant by the cessio n o f th e Rev. William Vaux, 8.D., late Fellow of Balliol College; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. Rev. George Elliott , B.A., of Pembroke College, Cam bridge, to the Principalship of the Commercial School about to be established at Southampton. Rev. Stafford Browne to be the Incumbent of Christ Church, Studley ; patron, the Vicar of Calne. Rev. James Bedingfield, 8.A., of Trinity College, Cam bridge, to the Vicarage of Debenham, Suffolk ; patron, Lord Henniker. Rev. J. West to the Vicarage of St. Anne's, Dublin. Dec. 3, the Rev. G. M. D'Arcy Irvine to the Chaplaincy of the County and City of Bristol Bridewell. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. W. M`Kenzie to the church and parish of Dumblane, in the presbytery of Dumblane and county of Fife, vacant by the death of Doctor John Grierson.—Gazette. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER.—We understand that the letters from India, brought by the overland mail, have brought favourable accounts of the state of business both at Calcutta and Bom bay, where a fair business had been done in manufactured goods. This intelligence, however, does not seem to have produced much effect upon the market here ; for, although there has been some demand for goods and yarn suitable to the eastern markets. the orders are generally upon a very moderate scale ; and, as the demand for the Mediterranean is nearly over, and, owing to the season of the year, not much doing for other quarters, the market yesterday did not exhibit much animation. Prices, however, continued per fectly steady, and great confidence appears to be felt in a gradual improvement in business as soon as the holidays are over. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 14.-- It is now the time of year when the flannel business begins to grow slack, as the chief of the winter stocks are generally laid in before Christmas. Though there has not been very much business done to-day, yet, upon the whole, the market has been better than that of last Monday. There is no change in prices. The wool market has been dull, with steady prices. ' HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, DEC. 15 .—There is no new feature to report in the aspect of this market to-day. Ap pearances are not very favourable ; but, as business is now usually done to order, as the operatives are generally em ployed, and stocks are not unusually large, a fair business may be said to be doing. New styles of fancy woollens meet with ready sale, and checks, of a lighter quality, are in tolerable demand. Business in the warehouses is an average for the season, and prices are firm.—Manchester Guardian. Trade in the Staffordshire Potteries has for a long time been in a very depressed state, more especially during the last twelve months. We are, however, happy to be able to announce that there are now signs of considerable improve.l - ment : several houses have within the last week or two re ceived large foreign orders, and their bands are now working full time.—Globe. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY A sugar-refining company has just been established in New South Wales by a party of forty German families, who have recently landed at Sydney. They are now extensively engaged in laying down lands as sugar plantations, and it is said that this new staple product will be of great advantage to our Australasian colonies. According to a letter from Naples, in the Commerce, the Count de Lecco, the King's brother, who is only 25 years old, and in the apparent enjoyment of perfect health, has been struck with paralysis, which has deprived his Royal Highness of the use of his right side. Last week, a sportsman shot, on the lake of Nantua, in the Ain, between Lyons and Geneva, a large diver of the North Sea, a bird much larger than a goose, measuring nearly three feet from the beck to the claws, and four feet from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other when dis played. This is the only specimen which has been seen in that country within the memory of man. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 18.—On the night of the 13th the Armenian Patriarch was deposed, in consequence of nu merous complaints from the Armenians, that he was not vi gilant enough in the cause of their faith, and had allowed se veral of their nation to become converts to the Protestant, Tthheayt Providence arereo. over, confirmed in this idea by the fact that the F rench and a great many to the Catholic religion. Th e Nile has risen to 221 feet this year, and the inundation is so great that incalculable damage has been done to the cou n t ry. The Egyptians, well known as a most supersitious nation look h u a p s on de t deserted e d greatthe e rise causeof theof Mehemet steamer which lately ar r i ve d a t Alexandria ran agrou n d w hi le entering the port. emasetthAeli. sign THE MANCHESTER CHARTER.—At half-past ten on Mon day morning Mr. Cresswell commenced his argument in the Exchequer Chamber. Nine judges were present, .viz., the Lords Chief Justices of the Queen's Bench and Common Pleas, Justices Bosanquet, Littledale, Pattison, Coleridge, Williams, Coltman, and Erskine. The attorney-general ad dressed the court on Monday and Tuesday. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.-TUESDAY (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.) WRIGHT AND COMPANY'S BANKRUPTCY This being the day appointed for the choice of assignees in the bankruptcy of Wright and Co., bankers, of Henrietta street, Covent-garden, there was a co ns id era bl e a tt en d a nce of anxious creditors, but their number was limited in conse quence of an advertisement which appeared in all this morn ing's papers, from Few and Hamilton, the solicitors to the fiat obtained on the 26th November last, upon the petition of Mr. Pett Cobbett, stating that that fiat had been super seded, and that the " meeting for the choice of assignees would not take place." The debts and liabilities are esti mated at from £700,000 to £BOO,OOO, and the assets to something like half a million, exclusive of Mr. Biddulph's large landed property. Among the creditors are the Duke of Norfolk for £54,000, Lord Petre about £15,000, and there is scarcely a Catholic college or chapel in the kingdom which has not had large funds deposited with the bankrupts, who are also trustees for many Catholic charities, and other reli gious establishments. - Mr. Hamilton, who opened the fiat, came into court shortly after twelve o'clock, the hour originally appointed for the meeting, and expectation was on tiptoe to hear some explanation offered as to the reasons for postponing the meeting, or the grounds upon which the fiat had been super seded, but not a word was said by the learned gentleman. In about half an hour afterwards, Mr. France, of the firm of France and Palmer, solicitors, (and who are said to repre sent deposit creditors to the amount of £98,000, and as such could have carried the choice of assigness), addressed the court, stating that several creditors, who were his clients, were anxious to prove their debts, and proceed at once to the choice of assignees ; but he had been informed that the fiat was superseded, and he wished to know officially if that were so or not? The learned Commissioner said, that the fact of the annul ment of the fiat had been officially communicated to the court, but he knew nothing more about it. Mr. France begged to know if any grounds had been stated for superseding the fiat ? The learned Commissioner said, none. An order from the Court of Review had been served upon this court, stating the fact of its having been superseded ; but no ground was stated upon which such a decision had been obtained. However, in order that the creditors should be in p ossess i on o f a ll t h a court knew upon the subject, he would direct the registrar to read the order of the Court of Review. Mr. France said he felt obliged to the learned commissioner, but he did not wish to trouble the registrar to read the order, as he was satisfied at hearing officially that the fiat was super seded. _ . who attended with an affidavit of debt from a client who resided in Wales, wished to know if it were neces sary to have a fresh affidavit in consequence of the fiat hav ing been superseded ?. The learned Commissioner said that that affidavit formed no part of the proceedings, and therefore could not be used. The Solicitor observed thatt the affidavit was made before the order of the Court of Review had been issued. The learned Commissioner thought a fresh affidavit would be necessary The Solicitor.—lt has been suggested to me, sir, that un der the terms of the order of the Court of Review, we are entitled to the costs in making a fresh affidavit. The learned Commissioner. - -That is not within my juris diction. I know not why the fiat was superseded; for, as far as the proceedings go, all was regular upon the face of them. My duty is to obey the order. FIRE AND LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANIES (From the Morning Chronicle of Wednesday.) It is impossible for the trade of the country to be in a healthy state, or for the commercial interests to be prosper ous or contented, until this floundering system of managing the national currency has undergone a searching investigation and reform. But our whole system of banking must be amended, and a proper code of legislation framed for the re gulation of the joint-stock banks. We are persuaded that every impartial person must see the propriety of making it imperative on every joint-stock bank, without regard to lo cality, to register the names of the partners annually at the Stamp-office ; that their deeds of settlement should be sub mitted to the inspection of a pnblic officer, and that his cer tificate should be the warrant for the Stamp-office authorities to issue the license. The regulation ought not, however, to be confined to joint-stock banks. It ought to be extended to all fire and life assurance companies. The facilities of es tablishing the latter class of companies are most objection able. They are under no species of legislative check or re gulation whatever, and thus temptations are put in the way of the vicious to dupe the public. We are perfectly sensible of the importance of life insurance companies, and of the great benefits they confer upon the community. Th e re marks we have made, both as regards joint-stock banks and insurance companies have, we trust, beeu explicit. We trust that our object has been seen, namely, to protect the genuine firms ; to separate the tares from the wheat ; to support the real against the fictitious, and thus encourage and advantage the sound institutions and the public. To accomplish this purpose the life-insurance system specially requires to be placed under the controul of legislative enactment, for seve ral bubbles of that class have burst in the metropolis, and there may be more to come. We have heard of one instance lately, of a most extraordinary kind, where the extent of the delusion is perfectly incredible. But the plan is of easy ac complishment. A flaming prospectus with a series of names for directors is published, all well " esquired " for effect ; tables of the most tempting kind are circulated, promising annuities on conditions which cannot pay the company ; but as that is never intended, the parties concerned give them selves no trouble about it, and the public greedily take the bait by paying the price generally at once, so as to secure the bargain. Then, to make the picture more pleasing, they take care to announce that the company is established under and by virtue of a variety of acts of parliament, which are enumerated. These are the statutes applicable to friendly societies, which have nothing to do with insurance companies. The object, however, is attained, and in a short time the dupe finds the magnificent Royal Union Fire and Life Insu rance Association, or some other fine—sounding title, nothing but a name. To prevent such impositions, and to secure the public in the oenefits resulting from a proper system of well conducted life-insurance companies, the subject ought to be taken up by some active member of the legislature. He will find plenty of materials, and no want of evidence, to satisfy him that legislation to correct existing evils is essentially re quired. It may be said, in answer to us on this point, as has been done in regard to the London joint-stock banks, ch.t altbough tho nut a...tali° tho partnere to bo re gistered, in p'actice the same thing is done, as the directors of London joint-stock banks generally print the names and addresses of their shareholders, which aro given with their prospectus. Supposing such to be the usual practice, as re gards the London joint-stock banks, which it certainly is, the same practice is not so general with regard to insurance com panies. But at any rate we do not consider it entitled to much weight. Our object is not to obtain guarantees from respectable establishments. We know that they will always afford the public reasonable satisfaction, but the right of as certaining the names of partners in joint-stock banks and life-insurance companies should not be left to the discretion of the directors. To guard the public by imposition from spurious firms, we maintain that the law should compel them all to register them all annually. A mere printed list is no guarantee of authenticity. We do not strictly believe every thing that we see in print ; and, in point of fact, in the case of the Imperial Bank not inure than one-sixth of the partners returned to the Stamp-office ever signed the deed. Fictitious firms could have no difficulty in providing printed lists of shareholders, and the law should take care to prevent the concoction of such fraudulent lists. Therefore the deeds of settlement with the signatures of the partners, verified by the oaths of witnesses who saw them sign, sh ou ld b e l o d ged with a public officer, with duplicates for examination ; and his certificates to the Stamp-office should he the warrant for a licence, to be followed up with advertisements in the London Gazette. Brigadier-General Sir Charles F. Smith, K.C.8., cpm mander of the troops in Syria, is second son of the late George Smith, Esq., of Burnhall, near this city, and received his education at the Durham Grammar School, where he gave early promise of those transcendant talents and that enter prising spirit which have since so eminently distinguished him. Sir Charles was born July 9, 1786 , an d is consequently in the 55th year of his age.—Durham Chronicle. ANECDOTE OF NAPOLEON.. BC ONAPARTE.—WhiIe about famousto enter upon the Polish campaign, the emperor was one day playing chess in the Tuileries with Marshal Berthier, when the Persian ambassador was announced, as requesting an audience. The game was aninteresting crisis, and Na poleon would no more permit it to be suspended, than would Charles of Sweden leave his chessboard when the Turks commenced } battering down his house in Bender. Buona parte ordered the ambassador to be shewn in, and M. Amedee Jaubert was commanded to the presence as interpreter. The emperor continued his game with Berthier, overwhelming the astounded Persian with questions all the while, in his usual rapid mode of asking to gain information. The Mus sulman found it difficult to plant his replies suitably; the various topics being Turkey, Persia, Mohammed, and the Koran ; Eastern harems, wives in sacks, the vaccine, mili tary discipli ne , an d ten thousand other matters. The Per sian, however, steered his way like the really skilful diplo matist he was. He exalted Persian institutes to the seventh heaven, or a little higher, and dwelt especially upon the horse-soldiers of Ispahan, as being the finest cavalry in the world. Napoleon good-humouredly disputed the assertion, and interrupted the son of Iraun more than once ; but the ambassador constantly returned with his pet cavalry to the charge, and, getting warmer, by degrees, pronounced his judgment with even more and more decision. " There could be no doubt about it—the foot soldiers of Europe were excellent—but the Persian horse !" Napoleon laughed out right as the interpreter rendered the sentences in French ; and carelessly addressing Jaubert i n rep l y, sa i d, " Tell him that 10-morrow we'll shew him a little cavalry here." The Persian made his salaam, and quitted the palace. The long contested chess-game was not even then finished. While pondering over the subsequent moves, the emperor found time to issue certain brief orders upon slips of paper, cen tralizing upon Paris the instant march of various bodies of horse-soldiers from their cantonments in the vicinity. Like the knights on the chess-board, he had them all in his band. The subject was not again alluded to ; the game was played out ; but the next morning saw 40,000 French cavalry defile before Napoleon and the Persian envoy, in all the glittering pomp of military decoration. Paris beheld that cavalry al most for the last time. Moscow awaited thm.—Fraser's Magazine. ENGLISH CHIVALRY DISHONOURED. — EngIish gold was paid, was admitted to have been paid, to Maroto, as the price of the blood of nine of Carlos's ablest generals, and subse quently for his betrayal of his master's cause. It matt ers not whether that cause was a righteous or an unholy one, and still less whether England could have reaped from such purchased treason any solid advantage ; we maintain that such system of warfare is not merely below the dignity of our country, but cannot be adopted without entailing a curse, permanent and terrible, in the moral degradation and profli gate principles which it thus announces to the world as the creed of a British ministry. The naval uniform has been soiled,—for one of its officers was made the go-between i n this convention of treason ; and we may add, that this took place when our fight was not one pro aris et jocis, hut the result of a forced interpretation put by a blundering ministry on the quadruple alliance. We were not bound to interfer ence more than the French ; •and all our engageme n t s wou ld have been equally fulfilled by our remaining either passive, or at least acting the part of honourable allies in the field of honourable war; it remained for an English minister to dis cover a necessity and sound policy in branding an English officer as the pimp of traitors. The money has been paid, and the blood has been sold ; but where is the harvest that England or Spain was to reap? It has no existence save in cold-blooded executions, and the usurpation of all legal au thority by self-constituted juntas, themselves the tools of a self-elected dictator. The curse which has long hung over Spain is at this moment more powerful than ever. English honour has been prostituted, not to effect the regeneration of an ally, but to accomplish her abasement. Yet, lest future ages might suppose that a feeling of repentance had dis turbed the self-complacency of our self-confident ministers, the grand cross of Bath has been bestowed on Espartero ; and the hand of the queen's uncle has been the hand to trace the damning lines, expressive of pleasure that the star of English knighthood should glitter on the breast of the gam bler—the boaster—the traitor to his country and queen ! Well did the latter say, when about to quit the land whence his bloodhounds were hunting her,—" I have given you fortune and rank ; I have done for you all I could ; I have madeyou a duke,—l could not ma k e you a gent l eman. " Philip of Macedon used to say,—., I love the treason, but abhor the traitor." To the more lib era l sp i r i t o f an English minister is due the honour of not merely loving the treason, but ful somely caress ing the traitor. —From Fraser's Magazine. &bippfug Entellfgtra. TUESDAY, DECAMMER 15.—Wind E.N.E. AnltlVEM—Monarch, --, from Bombay off this port—Suviah, , from Mobile—Victory, Jarvis, from Newfoundland—Pallas, Newton, from Oporto Sal Lan.—Dee, Pole, for Afriea—Gossypium, Brown, for New Orleans—and Maypo, Mann, for Lima. Acadia, (steamer,) hence for Halifax, was spoken 7th instant, in lat 51, long 14 Britannia (steamer), Judkins, from Boston, at this port: left isl Nov., and Halifax at 5 p.m. on the 3d. On the 13th, off Cape Clear, saw a ship, supposed to be the Roscius, from New York Caledonia, (steamer,) hence at Halifax, in 12 days British Queen, (steamer,) from London at New York 21st Nov. in 19 days from Portsmouth Great Western, (steamer,) from Bristol at ditto, 25th Nov., in 18 days Globe, Oliver; Agnes, - ; and Sisters, hence at St. Thomas Regulus, - Powhattan, M'Cerren ; Fanny, Glover ; and Harkaway, Norman, hence at New Orleans Wellington, M'lntyre, hence at Mobile Margaret Johnson, White, hence at Charleston Andes, Brocklebank, hence at Virginia Caledonia, from Quebec for this port, was totally wrecked near Arichat lath Nov.: crew all saved, but Capt. Huxtable severely hurt Montrose, from Quebec for this port was wrecked at Point Ebert 12th Nov.: crew and cargo saved, two passengers drowned St. Cloud, Emerson, hence at Philadelpnia Charlotte, Gorham ; Galen, Snow ; and Claudius, Scobie, hence at Boston ST. JOHN, N. 8., Nov. 14.—The Symmetry, Taylor, from Liverpool to Miramichi got on shore on Point Escumaniac 25th Oct , and has been abandoned HONDURAS, OCT. 15.—Palinurus, Simpson, from Omoa to this port, was on shore near Town Owens Channel (Sappodilla Keys) yesterday. H.M.S. Comus has gone to her assistance Hector, Johnson, sailed from Saugor for this port Oct. 14 Ben Nevis, Burns, from Hull, at St. John's, N.B. Mersey, Hamilton, sailed from Quebec for this port Nov. 22 Alexander, Courier, and Erin go Bragh, all for this port, were at Montreal Nov. 19 Camilla, , hence at Halifax Leander, Phelan ; and Branches, Petrie, hence at St John's, N.B. Chester, , hence for Savannah, was spoken 12th instant off Castletownsend, with loss of foretop and topmast, and maincap and maintopmast sprung, bearing up for Cork Hartlepool, Hubora, and Mardidoneas of Bute, Joblin, hence Al Constantinople Pet, Smith, hence at Venice Martha, Baddely, hence at Gibraltar Dove, Shipton, hence at Havre Lilean, Lilean, and John & Edward, Melhuish, hence at Lisbon Liberal, Oliveira, hence at Oporto Mary Ann, , hence off Oporto Henrietta, Devoort, hence at Antwerp Jacoba Maria, framer, hence at Texel Hector, Crisp, sailed from Constantinople for this port 18th Nov. Mersey, Hamilton, sailed from Quebec for this port 22nd Nov. Jane & Alva, Nith, sailed from Aveiro for this port 24th Nov. Ellen Highfield, Leggett, sailed from Leghorn for this port 30th November George Fourth, Cornelius, sailed from Cadiz for this port 30th November Morea, Nebes, sailed from St. Übes for this port 4th Dec. Swan, M`Lachlan, sailedfrom Lisbon sth Dec. ; Garoapa, Souza, and Leon, Atkins, Gth—all for this port ..... Royal William, Miller, from Rotterdam for this port, at Ply mouth ; master disabled, and two men sick LISBON, Dec. 7.—The Activo, Freitas, from Lisbon to this port; port, was totally wrecked Igth ult. in the Bay of Biscay ; four of the crew drowned. The Russia, Elliot, from Liverpool to New Orleans, which put in here 28th ult. is under repairs. The Mersey. Gregory, from Liverpool to Vera Cruz, which also put in 28th ult. has completed the necessary repairs, and will sail to-morrow for her destination. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER O.—Wind North, moderate. ARRIVED.—James Lyon, Peck, from Newfoundland—Heligan, Roche, from Cadiz—and Highlander, , from Jersey. SAlLED.—Betsey Hall, Cholditch, for Leghorn—Harkaway, Rowe, for Messina and Palermo—Countess of Durham, Viner, for St. Übes and Monte Video—and Wave, Edwards, for St. Michael's. Abbots Reading, -, hence at Valparaiso Isabel, , hence at ditto Livonia, , from the Clyde, at ditto Swiftsure, Tyack, hence at Beirout Mary & Jane, Osborne, hence at ditto, and sailed 17th Nov. for Smyrna Siren, Foster, hence at Palermo, and sailed 21st Nov. for the Clyde ante, Woolverton, hence at Trieste Ereole, Petrie, sailed from Palermo for this port 6th November John Brooks, Smith, sailed from Marseilles for this port sth Dec. Thomas Worthington, Duniam, hence for Lima, was spoken 4th ultimo, in let. 2 0 5, long. 32 0 W _ Magnet, Payne, hence for , was spoken lgth Nov. in lat. 270, long. 34 0 Hector, Anderson, from Montreal for this port, at the Cove. Experienced dreadful weather, and lost stanchions, bulwarks, &c. On the 2nd Dec. in lat. 49 0, long. 32 0, spoke the Coronation, hence for St. John, N.B. HAMBURG, Dec, 12.—The Eve, Hodgson, for Liverpool, in going out got on shore at Finkenwarden, THURSDAY, DECEMBER I7.—Wind N.N.E. ARRlVED. — Monmouth, —; Cardiff Lass, Evans, and Glynn, Curtiss, from London—Royal Adelaide, -- ; Britannia, M' Grath, and Birmingham, Church, from Dublin—Superior, Graham, from Wicklow—Agnes Emily, Bradin, from Inverness—Emily, Jessie, and St. Cuthbert, from Newport—Vignote, Pope; Majesty, Leith; Triton, and Boyne, from Sligo—Ritson, Johnson, from Swansea—Keath, Eagle, from Keswick—and Jennett, Smyth, from Dumfries. SAILED. — Dinah. Strickland, for New Orleans—Ann, Johnson. for Savannah—Eclipse, Mulled, for Ostend—Europe, Budie, for Monte Video—Sarah, Miller, for Malta—Eleonora, Cornelius, for Ghent and Ostend—Oscar, Ellis. for Genoa—Persian, Ellington, for Calcutta—Cesar, Nirenck, for Ostend—and Hebe, Thompson. for Gibraltar. • Cumberland, Power, hence to Apalachicola, was spoken in lat. 5 g, long. 10 Eliza Killck, , hence at Laguira Wm. Ackers, was to leave Puerto Cabello for Liverpool about 25th October Rosanna, -, sailed from Belfast for Rio Grande lath inst . Horsburg, Cragg, sailed from Valparaiso for Cobija and Arica 28th August Ann, Hoodless, from Pernambuco, at Newfoundland Eve, Hodgson, for Liverpool, put back to Hambro', 11th instant; after being on shore Farewell, Korsch, hence at Pillau Juliane Elizabeth, Larsen, hence at Kjorevigen, for Tonsberg Dynamene, Robinson, hence for London, at Falmouth, with loss of stern boat, bulwarks, &c. Sterling, Cowper, hence to Charleston, and Hamilla, M'lntosh, Bence to Trinidad, were at anchor oft° Carrickfergus oth instant Camilla, Healy, hence and Halifax, at Yarmouth, N.S. Planet, hence to New Orleans was spoken sth Nov. in lat. 23 , Huddersfield, Jor es, hence for Africa, at Stranraer. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, Ditchmszg 17, 1840, Wind at Holyhead, N.E. blowing fresh. Off Holyhead, at to a.m. No. soi, Countess of Durham. D.Bk. rur SC,. I.7beS and c Video No communication after 14 at noon in consequence of fog. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 4-c. Nith, W Shaw, 643 Calcutta, J Aikin & Son John Knox, J Thompson, 543 Calcutta, Bold & Starkey AFRICA. Ellen Jenkinson, J Taskar, 149 Africa, Halton & Cooper Cestrian, —, 350 Africa, W A & G Maxwell WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Canada, W C Edgar, 297 Trinidad, G Stubbs, jun Helen, W M'Cormick, 152 Barbadoes, Rose & Co Horsford, T Warnock, 136 Barbadoes and Maracaibo, J Poole & Co SOUTH AMERICA. Dorothea, V Barbour, a 65 Valparaiso and Guayaquil, Bold & Starkey 861 Cape Verds and Monte Video, Best & Co Nightingale, T Hunter, 263 Pernambuco, Rodger, R Teuton Portia, J Joss, 294 Rio Janeiro, Ashley Brothers Severn, 0 Williams, 232 Rio Grande, Cotesworth & Wynne Young Queen. W Chalmers, 284 Rio Grande, W Fisher & Son Cherub, W Whitley, UNITED STATES. John Bentley, R Disbrow, 783 Savannah, Cannon &Co Algonquin, J Turley, 478 Philadelphia, Brown, Shipley & Co Congress, R Marshall, 397 New Orleans, Eshelbv &Co Glengarry. J flarknesr, 1054 Savannah, Gibbs, Bright &Co Chicora, N S Rogers, 459 Charleston, W Stuart Joseph Cunard, J Birnie, 740 New Orleans, W N Moore Oxford, J Rethbone, 707 New York, Baring Brs &Co Pktrick Henry, J C Delano, 1000 New York, Wilder &Co Boyar:6. J G Mills, 387 Savannah, Molyneux &Co Acadia, W.M`lZenzie, 802 Mobile, Chapman & Willis Virginian, WPI Allen, 650 New York, T& J Sands &Co BRITISH AMERICA. 225 Newfoundland, C & E Hunt & Co EUROPE. Visiter, G P Lock, 103 Lisbon, J Glynn & Son Scotia, J Malcolm, 206 Naples and Messina, Vienna & Fones Cesar, C Niernenek, 61 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co Elizabeth, T Stone, 226 Genoa and Leghorn, J Bibby & Sons Unique, G Clark, 156 Alexandria, Bahr. Behrend & Co Drie Gezusters, P P Dykstra, 150 Amsterdam and Harlingen, Gazelle, C J Pratt, Eclipse, F Muyellaert, Nave N Edwards, Bahr, Belnind& Co 114 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co 88 St. Michael's, Crozier Brs &Co 107 Alexandria, Bahr, Behrend & Co 122 Gibraltar and Malta, W H Wood 244 Malta and Marmaria, J Barff & Co 100 Oporto, T Martin & Son 153 Palermo and Messina, Iris, A Henderson, Sphynz, W Conniceer, Elizabeth, Strickland, Constanca, A J Arugo, Astrea., P E Le Conteur, .1 Rothrrell or Mittthie & Co Vrenw Henriette, H F Klie, 91 Rotterdam, Bahr &Co Harmonie, P H Shaebeling, 160 Rotterdam and Dordt, Bahr &Co Castlereagh, J Kellar, 71 St. Michael's, Bahr, Behrend & Co 'linearlo, 5 Tregarthen, 95 St. Michael's, Edwards &Co irtpl)rts. EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Src. Warrior, (507) W Cuway, from Mauritius, 594 bags sugar, order—P D Monarch, (701) J Booth, from Bombay, 2995 bales 177 hf bales eotton, 27 chests 2 boxes gum arabic, 1011 bundles rattans, order -29 bags 1 hf bag coffee, 244 bags pepper, Walkinshaw, Skinner and co—P D WEST INDIES, ke. Blackaller, (136) J Watson, from Cienfuegos, Cuba, and Montego Bay, Jamaica, (from Cuba) 243 bxs 79 hits sugar, 5 puns rum, (from Jamaica) about IA tons ebony, 5 tons logwood, Graham and Taylor—K D UNITED STATES. Asia, (550) J H Sears, from Savannah, 1331 bls cotton, Isaac, Low, and co-77 bales do, W Steel and co-116 bales do, Rathbone Bra and co-200 bales do, 14 tce rice, order—W D BRITISH AMERICA. John Walker, (523) R Gaskin, froindiTZe7so6 ps pine timber, 602 ps deals, 3877 ps ppe and 16200 ps W I staves, 3 brls flour, 1 brl apples, Boughton and Smith—B D Lady Flori Hastings, (674) %V Simmons, from Quebec, 71 pa elm and 360 ps fir timber, 1237 deals, 9841 staves, 10 spars, 2 brls apples, No Consignee—B Ocean Queen, (563) W Wilson, from Quebec, sog ps fir and 15 ps oak timber, 12150 staves, Gibbs, Bright and co—B D William Parker, (411) W Sewell, from Montreal and Quebec, 1021 bris ashes, W Steele and co-100 bris pot do, K Girvin-2 bris do, W Rose and co-104 bris do, 2 bris flour, G G Unsworth-88 bris do, W Wingate and Johnson-1007 bris do, K Dowie and co -115 bris do, J Perrin and co-500 lolls do, 100 'brls oatmeal, W Steel and co-3 bris apples, order-59 lancewood spars, W D and A M'Arldrew 10c standard and 50c pn staves, J Matthie—K D Don, (449) T Muir, from Magaguadavic, N B, 242 ps pine and 12 ps birch timber, 587 ps deals, 26g deal ends, 62 spars, about 6 cords lathwood, J _Mure-74 oars, 6 bris flour, 4 bxs herrings, 29 spars, brl apples, Master-16 planks, a qty boards, Exportation—B D Woodstock, (520) W Pines, from St. John, N.B. 671 pces fir and '9 pees birch timber, 281 pees deals, 8i cords lathwood, 12 boxes ierrings, Wilcies, Pickersgill and co-3 spars, for exportation Phebe, (813) A Tomson, from Quebec, 1000 brls flour, order-100 Iris beef, 100 kegs 59 tinnets butter, 3 !iris apples, Cannon, Miller nd co-227 pees pine timber, 17,546 pees staves, 335 pees deals and eal ends, 400 handspikes, 7 fins lathwood, R Rigby-6 spars, 4 ndspikes, 4 oars, 26 pees pitch pine planks. exportation—B D _ . Mary Ann Hatton, (5137) T W Viro, from Quebec, IQ4 pees white pine timber, Cannon, Miller and co-1 pce ash and 400 pees red pine timber, 9904 W I and 2316 standard staves, 560 deals and deal ends, W& H Sharpies and co—B D EUROPE. Chase, (91) W Powell, from Smyrna, 2260 drns figs, 263 dms 179 cs 25 cks raisins, 5 cs sponge, 1 ck olive oil, Woolley, Bell and co -8;9 dms figs, 200 dms raisins, Geller and co-64 bgs nuts, Rathbone Bra and co-11 bgs yellow berries, R Christie and co-500 dms raisins, M'Andrews, Pitcher and co-8946 dms figs, 1100 dms 200 cs raisins, 441 dms fruit, 398 ps boxwood, 1 cse otto of roses, order X' n Jessie Mitchell, (Igo T Thomson, from Gergenti and Palermo, about 120 tons brimstone, 10 cs liquorice paste, 1500 bgs shumac, 20 cks pumice s t one, 2 ps spec i mens stone, 1 cs artificial flowers, order—so cs oranges, Master—K D Gideon, (100) W Guswell from Messina, 50 bgs nuts, 100 cs 60 bxs lemons 12 brls almonds, J Levy and co-200 bgs nuts, order -60 bgs nuts, 50 cs 50 bxs lemonds, P Chapman-60 bgs nuts, 100 cs 50 bxs lemons, T Chapman -200 cs ICO bxs do, Morrison Brs and co —about 25 tons brimstone, 2 bls raw silk, 4 pps 1 hd 10 qr cks 4 octaves concentrated lemon juice, order—K D Eliza and Mary, (70) J B S Stevens, from Malaga, 40 bxs lemons, 10 bxs oranges, 12 bts 2 qr cks wine, 5 jars 1 bx honey, 797 brls 240 hf brls 57 jars grapes, 22 bxs 10 hf dins 60 frails 1922 hf and 280 qr frails figs, 81 bxs 52 hf bxs 118 qr bxs I cse raisins, 107 bxs 5 hf and 6qr bxs almonds, order-1 ble raisins and almonds, M'Nair and Dutton-2 hf bxs raisins, Ihf bx almonds, R Rollo—K D Pauline, (210) Kehrmann, from Bremen, 250 bgs oak bark, 140 psoak timber, order —1 cht linen, L Kuhrt—W D Mary, (119) P Gras from Arawerp, about 100 tons oak bark, Boucher, Mortimore and co—Q D liaarittbs. LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET, DECEMBER 16 The London Wool sales having terminated, there has been, dur ing this week, an improvement here in the business done. The stocks on hand are light, and holders firm. For 91pacas there is a demand. For Scotch Wools there has been more inquiry, and sales have been made at full prices. The stocks are light. SALFORD CATTLE MARKET, DECEMBER 16 The show of stock today, was very poor, whether as applied to quantity or quality. The demand was fair, and both beasts and sheep were all sold early in the day at rather higher rates for both Beef and Mutton than on this day week. Best Beef, 6d to 6id ; inferior, 5d to 6d. Prime Mutton, 6/d to 74d, and inferior, 54 to 64d per lb sinking the offal. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, DEC. 17 Some heavy failures in Ireland, have rendered the nerVes of holders of Butter in this market rather unsteady ; and more anxiety, has been evinced to be realising, than we have for several days back observed. In the mean time prices of fine Butter are supported; whilst middling kinds are to be bought on better terms. No alteration in pickled Butter,—neither are there any transactions occurring in Beef or Pork, or Bacon worthy of notice. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, DECEMBER 15. (From the Circular of Messrs. James Scott & Son.) During the past week the imports of Grain, Flour and Oatmeal have again been very moderate, in some degree owing to the easterly winds which have prevailed; and sales have been effected to a fair extent of Wheat and Flour at fully the prices last quoted, and in several instances at an advance of 2d to 3d per 70 lbs on the former, and of about 6d to gd per sack, and per barrel on the latter article, sweet and sour; and for every other article in the Corn trade, our last quotations have been fully supported. The duty on Rye from foreign ports has increased Is 3d per qr and on Peas Is 6d per qr since Friday last ; on other Grain no al teration. Flour in bond has been in a fair demand for export, at 255 to 25s 6d, and some importers demand 26s per barrel; the quo tations of Grain in bond are almost nominal. At this day's market in consequence of the above.noted advance on Wheat and Flour being steadily demanded, sales of these articles and of every other article in the trade, were effected only to a very moderate extent at our quotations. WE EAT, per 70Ibs s. d. S. d. INDIAN CORN, V 48011. English Scotch 8 3 g 0 White 32 0 39 0 Irish 6 8 8 9 BEANS, per quarter. Bonded BARLEY, per qr. Irish 44 0 46 0 English 33 0 38 0 PEAS, Grey 3B 0 42 0 Chevalier 3B 0 3g 0 White 44 0 45 0 Scotch, per 601 b. 4 6 5 0 Slur BREAD, per 1121 b. Irish 4 6 5 0 In bond l3 0 14 0 Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. OATS, per 451 b. Fine 44 0 49 0 English Scotch ...... .... 3 4 3 5 Amer. T. , brl. free Irish 2lO 3 3 Sweet U. 5... •. 34 6 35 6 Foreign, in bond 3 3 3 4 Sour 31 0 32 0 Ditto, duty free.. 3 4 3 6 OATMEAL, per 2401 b. RYE, per quarter .. 36 0 38 0 English 24 0 25 0 MALT, per qr. fine.. 64 0 6a 0 Ditto, new 26 0 27 6 middling 54 0 58 0 Scotch 24 0 25 0 PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL *Woos, Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid Archangel eig 10 20 0 Memel 18 0 19 0 Gothenburg l4 10 . - 16 0 Wyburg l6 10 - 18 0 Petersburg 17 0 - 19 0 PLANKS, per foot of 2 inches thick. Danzig, Deck British American Pine LATHWOOD, per fathom. Danzig, 4 feet 0 British American 4 10 MAHOGANY, per foot of 1 inch thick. Honduras Cuba St. Domingo 1 0 JAR PLANKS, British American none I'mAxwoOD, per cubic feet STAVES, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe 4140 0 —145 0 Hhd. 7O 0 —BO 0 Quebec, red, 1 inch thick, } 40 0 65 0 and 51 feet long Do. Puncheon l3 0 —2l 0 TIMBER, per cubic foot. s. d. s. Oak 2 2 2 6 Pine, British Amer. common red 1 5 2 1 yellow Danzig, middling 2 2 2 3 Memel, middling 2 2e-- 2 3 Riga, red 2 5 2 6 *There is an additional duty of 5 per cent. on th Not above 16 ft r..e19. B. P. 2. 21 feet. 4'22 .. los. ss per load Os. Not ab. 36 in. £1 3s. B.P. 2s 2 6 4s 3 0 101 per load .el 15s. la los, Less rates. LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. Number of new patients entered on the books of the Dispensarie during the last week : North. South. Total Received advice and medicine at the Insti. tution Visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine..... 311 290 6q Total at each Dispensary 203 411) 493 1020 VISITORS. North—Mr. J. H. Smith, Mr. W. F. Macgregor, and Mr. C. Booth South—Mr. Jordan, Mr. J. Cooper, and Rev. W. Parker. R. WEDGWOOD, Secretary. Dispensaries' Office, 1, Fenwick-strect, Dec. 14, 1840. NORTHERN HOSPITAL, DECEMBER 12. ADMITTED DISCHARGED Accidents Medical end Surgical cases Upon recommendation 7 Cured ----------. 20 Attending as Ont Patients .. . 8 7 Irregular Remaining in th Le Hospital . . . 70 House Visitors, R. B. B. H. Blundell and Daniel Neilson, Esqrs Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.--House Surgeon, Mr. Woodward. THE WORKHOUSE Statement of the average number and expense of paupers in the Workhouse for the week ending Paupers 1852 1754 Dec. 5, 1840 7, 1839 Per Head. Per Wee, Is. 10id, 1 10i .e 172 9 9 166 3 10 More gs Less o o:} More 6 5 11 Statement of daily relief paid out-door poor the week ending Dec. 14, 1840 Dec. 16, 1839 More 32g More .€46 6 5 LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT. December 12, 1840 DISCHARGED. ADMITTED. In-patients cured 34 In-patients Relieved and at own request .to Out-patients Made Out-patients 1 Casuals during the last week 4 Irregular . I Remain in the house 217 Dead 1 Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson. Chaplain Rev. R. Davies. House Visitors . . Mr. R C. Dawson and Mr. John Cropper, . Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon Mr. Brandreth. *** Donations and Subscriptions thankfully received at Messrs A. Heywood, Sons and Co., and at the Infirmary. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-strqe Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIMES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m 6 a.m. Mixed 8 15 a.m. First Class 10 30 a.m. First Class 12 15 p.m. First Class 4 p.m. Mixed 7 p.m. First Class 12 FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER 2 15 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside 1 15 pan 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 4i p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 3 30 p.m. Mixed 0 p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures will be 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London '['rain at 8 30 a.m. S 15 a.m. Mixed tl 9 l 1 30 p.m, 10 30 a.m. „ 7 P.m. ~ ~ 12 11 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. „ 2 45 p.m. The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only, LIVERPOOL AND MAls CHESTER RAILWAY FROM L'roor, TO MANCHESTER. FROM MANCHESTER TO L'POOL. First Class Second Class First Class Second Class Morning.. 7 0 Morning - Morning.. 730 Morning 845 „ 945 „ 9 0 „ ..10 0 „ 11 0 „ ..1145 „ 11 15 ~ ..I1 45 ~ 2 0 Aftern. .. 230 Aftern. 2 0 Aftern. .. *2 45 Aftern. 445 „ 530 „ 5 0 .. 530 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I Stop only at Newton & Prkside * Except on Saturdays, when this Train does not start till Three. ON SUNDAYS. 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 f AND WIGAN. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.. First Class 11 15 • • 2 45 Aftern. .. Second Class 5 0 „ .. Mixed 715 „ .. First Class First Class Second Class S 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 4 45 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prksid e I TO PRESTON FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 11 0 „ 2 30 Aftern 4 45 7 15 Second Class Mixed First Class 7 0 Morning 4 45 Afternoon 7 15 Evening.... First Class TO LAN FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.... Mixed 1 0 „ .... First Class 2 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 4 45 „ ....Mixed TO B 1 FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.... First Class 2 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 fl • • • • .. ON SU 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. „ TO ST. I YLtOM LivZRPOOL. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 9 45 11 1 45 PP 2 30 Afternoon.. lt 530 „ ..•• PP I 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 0 Afternoon .. „ 7 15 Evening.... First Class CASTER. 0 Morning.. 7 30 Afternoon FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... Mixed 11 15 „ ....First Class 2 45 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 0 „ ....Mixed LTON. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 2 - 45 Afte " rnoon ::Secon " d Class 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. ~ ELENS. FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 11 45 .. 2 45 AftWrnoon 5 35 .. ON SUNDAYS. Second Class I 7 0 Morning.. fIP 5 30 Afternoon Second Class PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S LONDON & LIVERPOOL, to Jamaica. Leeward Isl. Dem. & Berbice Honduras New York, Boston Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Havana Canada British North America Newfoundland Brazils River Plate East Indies China Batavia New South Wales Cape of Good Hope . - .. Africa. ............ Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, arc. Malta, Sicily, & c . Smyrna and Constantinople Malaga ....... Madeira... .................. Western Isles, Cape de Verde. Lisbon Cadiz ............ Prance ............... Holland ............... * Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Riga, &c. . Oporto Outward. 25s odqp 30 0 60s Od(D105 0 20 0-- 25 0 30 0-- 40 0 50 0-- 60 0 60 0 -- 100 0 30 0-40 0 17 6- 20 0 30 0-40 0 20 0-25 0 40 o 50 0 40 0-- 80 0 40 o— so 0 60 o— so 0 40 0-60 0 30 0-60 0 40 0-60 0 30 0 -60 0 40 0-60 0 20 0-30 0 25 0-30 0 25 0-30 0 35 0-- 40 0 30 0 0 -40 0 0 - -- 0•- 40 0 0-50 0 3 5 0 - 40 0 6 3 0 - 84 0 40 0-50 0 40 0 o 0 o o 6o 0 40 0 - 126 0 -147 6 20 0 - - 40 0 - - 25 0 - 20 0-25 0 40 0-- 50 0 25 0-- 30 0 25 0-30 0 25 0- - IS 0- 20 0 15 0- 20 0 25 0-30 0 17 6-20 0 25 0 - 20 0-- 30 0-40 0 25 0-30 0 30 0-- 40 0 25 0-- 30 0 40 0-60 0 30 0-4 0 0 SO 0-60 0 40 0- 60 0 40 0 -- 60 0 25 0--30 0 17 6--20 0 LONDON GAZETTE.--TunsnAlt, DEC. 1.5. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED, R. Ashcroft and J. Ashcroft, Manchester, agents—J. Collier and D. li. Collier, Manchester. cotton-spinner. INSOLVENT. Dec. 14.—Ewig Edmonds Rouse, Worcester, stationer. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Treherne, Oxford-street, London, Upholsterer. ®John Halliday, Wapping, London, mast-maker. Charles Clutterbuck, Chandos-street, Covent-garden, London, licensed victualler. Charles Hawkins, Totterham-court road, London, draper. Lewis Joseph Smith and Phillip Summers, Tabernacle-walk, London, fancy-stationers. William Porden Kay and Edward Nicholas Kendall, Bedford-street, Commercial-road East, London and Greenwhich, brewers. William Jones, Tregaron, Cardiganshire, butter-dealer. Henry Foot, Horrabridge, Devonshire, tailor. John Cockill, Almondbury, Yorkshire, shopkeeper. Edward Jones, Wrexham, Denbighshire, ironmonger. William Gilley Wilde, Ross, Herefordshire, tanner. James Hunter Kellett, Ulverstone, Lancashire, cabinet-maker. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 8. R. Brambley, Shorter's-court, City, London, bill-broker— Jan. 7. T. Cartar, Cheapside, London, woollen-draper—Jan. B. W. Hodgson, Salford, Lancashire. sizer—Jan. 13. A. Smelt, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, woollen-draper—Jan. 10. J. Smith, Leeds, joiner —Jan. 8. T. Hopkins, Kidderminster, carpet-manufac turer—Jan. 9. A. Birks, Manchester, linendraper. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before Jan. 5. _ _ J. Burr, Wells, Somersetshire, baker—E. Rowell, Manchester, worstead-manufacturer—T. Fox, Alfred.place, Old Kent-road, Lon don, carman—J. Cockrell, llasinghall-street, wool-broker—H. Nicholes, Piccadilly, confectioner—M. Marks, Blackman-street, Southwark, carver—N. Vyse, Nuthurst, Warwickshire, farmer—W. Wilkinson, Bolton-le-Moors, ironmonger. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. David Heron, Glasgow, ship-chandler, Dec. 28, Jan twelve, at the Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow. Francis Wright, Edinburgh, merchant, Dec. 18, Jan. 8, at eleven, at the Royal Exchange Coffee-house, Edinburgh. 25, at AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of brown Cii.iiuscovado;;;;r, computed from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 8, is aas 2fd per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. DECEMBER. Hotta IS, Mathew J. Seagre, (proof and final div.) Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester, 10 18, Parke and Kenrick, Ist Clarendon Rooms, 1 19, Warden and Wauostrocht, (proof and div.) Ditto, 1 19, Jonathan Laidman, Ist 21, Richard Benbow Ditto, 11 21, Peter Petrie, (proof and div.) 23, G. Miller and R. Blackie, (proof and div.) Ditto, 1 23, Blundell, Falk and Co. 23, John Rowlett, (special) Davenport and Collier's, 1 PRICES OF SHARES, DECEMBER 17. Prices. This day Per Share. RAILWAYS, &c Bolton and Leigh Bristol and Exeter 6O .... 34 0 0 Birmingham and Gloucester Ditto and Derby lOO .... 89 0 0 Birkenhead and Chester Ditto, new IS 10 15 0 Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Ditto, Debentures Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 20 paid Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar l 30 paid Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction Ditto half shares Ditto quarter shares (late Chester and Crewe) .... Quarter Great Western Ditto new shares Ditto Fifth Shares Hull and Selby Leicester and Swannington Lancaster and Preston Ditto, new Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto and Southampton Ditto & Brighton Manchester and Leeds Ditto half shares Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Ditto, quarter Newcastle and Carlisle.. , Ditto quarter shares . . North Midland New North Midland Paris and Rouen South Eastern and Dover North Union York and North Midland 22 2 6 29 5 0 :11 0 0 93 10 0 4 10 0 22 2 6 45 paid 42 10 0 52 10 0 28 10 0 87 0 0 40 5 0 9 5 0 45 0 0 Ss 15 0 32 15 0 15 0 0 184 0 0 45 0 0 87 0 0 170 10 0 48 5 0 div. 48 S 0 27 5 0 .... 27 5 0 54 5 0 31 0 0 77 10 0 28 5 0 41 15 0 26 15 0 5 2 6 73 0 0 g 10 0 92 10 0 27 15 0 76 0 o 37 0 0 3 0 0 11 15 0 so s 0 9 7 6 28 0 0 50 paid BANKS 76 10 0 81 10 0 ix. n 10 0 67 10 0 Bank of Liverpool . ...... ..el2 105 paid - Borough Bank lO .... - Commercial of Liverpool 12 10.. - Commercial of England. 5 - East of England lO - of Manchester lO .... - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 - Northern and Central - North and South Wales lO .... - Phoenix lO - Royal of Liverpool 500 - South Lancashire - Albion - Liverpool Union lO - Liverpool Banking Co lO .... - Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings 4'loo paid 158 0 0 L'pool and Harrington Water } 350 Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0 L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 380 0 0 L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 171 0 0 Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES 18 15 0 ex div. 14 2 6 .... 16 17 0 .... 3 2 6 .... 7 2 6 .... 8 16 3 with div. 9 7 6.. . s 7 6 .... 5 2 6.... 4 17 6 741 0 0 div 5 2 6 .... 90 5 0 .... 11 17 6 .... 12 5 0 8 10 0 ... 477 10 0 Liverpool Marine Assurance } 25 paid 3 10 0 ... Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 0 .... 013 g ... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 2 3 0 ... DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, Re. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Comp an y lO . . 700. 0 • . Harrington Docks 100 .... 57 0 0 ... Apothecaries' Company Woodside Ferry ... Ei s iremont Ferry l2 103. ... Asphalte (Liverpool) (Poloncean) 2 .... 10 0 ... , * Exclusive of new Shares. 171 0 0 AGRICULTURAL MARKET, DECEMBER 16. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Old Hay .... 0 o@o 0 47+ 201 b. Potatoes, 90115 1 Sl®, 4 *QOM New Hay.... 0 8 1 1- Cattle Ditto 1 3 1 7 - Clover Hay.. 0 7 0 11 - Turnips 22 024 0 - Straw, Wheat 0 4 0 5- Carrots 4O 045 0 - Straw, Oat .. 0 3i 0 4i - Manglewurzle 0 0 0 0 - Straw, Barley 0 3 0 4- Manure 7 810 6 - Green Clover 0 0 0 0 - TIDE TABLE. Days. Evn. Height. S un d ays , H o l ydays, 1 H. U. U. L. IP. T. Friday .. 18 629 7 5 11 11 Saturday 19 736 8 6 12 11 Sunday.. 20 837 9 6 13 5 4th Sunday in Advent. Monday 21 g3l g 53 14 3 St. Thomas. Winter Ingins TueEday 22 10 17 10 35 14 11 Wednes. 23 10 58 11 15 15 1 Thursday 24 11 34 11 48 15 S BIRTH. On the 13th inst. at Stourbridge, the Lady of W. B. COLLIS, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIED On the 28th ult. at Bowness, Mr. JOS. MOORE, cornfactor, of this town, to MARY, youngest daughter of JOHN PATTINSON, Esq. of Lancaster. On the 3d inst. at Gilderstone, near Leeds, Mr. JOHN BANCLOUGH FELL, of Sparkbridge, near Ulverston, to MARTHA JANE, eldest daughter of Mr. JAS. BILBROUGH. Same day, at Lancaster, JAMES JOHNSON, M.B. Trinity College, Dublin, to MARY, only daughter of the late JOHN HEATON, Esq. of Lancaster. On the 1 oth inst. at Clitheroe, by the Rev. J. M. Whalley, the Rev. JOHN ASPINALL ADDISON, Incumbent of Barbon, West morland, to MARY, youngest daughter of LEONARD WILKINSON, Esq. of Rock House, Slaidburn. On the 12th inst. at Moresby Church, near Whitehaven, JOHN WINDER, Esq. merchant, of this town, to Miss MARGARET HORNE, of the former place. On the 13th inst. at Runcorn, Mr. JAMES COX, master-mason, to Miss MARY ADSHEAD, eldest dauguter of Joseph Ball Adshead, both of that place. _ On the 15th inst. at Todmorden, Captain WM. CAMPBELL, of Springfield, Kirkcudbrightshire, to Miss AGNES TAYLOR, daughter of the late Mr. Taylor, of Rochdale. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, WILLIAM EDWARDS, Esq. of Ludlow, to ALICIA, third daughter of the lat e SAMU EL JACKSON, Esq. of Manchester. _ Same day, at St. Philip's Church, by licence, JOHN MALLETT, Esq. Falmouth Hall, St. Anne's Jamaica, to MARIA, second daughter of JAMES CRAIG, Esq. surgeon, Great Homer-street. On the 17th inst. at St. Catherine's Church, by the Rev. T. G. Leigh, A.M., CHARLES ISAAC, second son of the late Rev. PHILIP YORKE, of Horkesley, Essex, nephew of the Earl Somers, and Rector of Shenfield, to ELLEN, youngest daughter of the late JOHN LEIGH, Esq. Sandhills. DIED. On the 2d inst. at Pontefract, aged 68, Mr. JOHN FRYER, father of Mr. Thomas Fryer, Yorkshire-house, North John-street. On the 2nd instant, at Soho Hill, Handsworth MARY, relict of the late JAMES ROBERTS, w i ne -merchant, of Shrewsbury. Same day, at Cannock, aged 66, THOMAS BIRCH, He was 45 years clerk of Cannock Church. On the 3d inst. at Bigland Hall, GEORGE BIGLAND, Req. late Major in the second Royal Lancashire Militia. On the 3d inst. aged 87, REBECCA, third and last surviving daughter of the late Alderman JOHN STOUT, of Lancaster. Same nay, at Coughton-court, Warwickshire, in the 85th year of his age, Sir CHARLES THROCKMORTON, Bart, On the 7th instant, aged 68, Mr. THOS. BATTERSBY, cotton_ spinner, Bedford-mills, near Leigh. Same day, MARY, relict of the late PETER APPLETON, Esq. of Ardwick, near Manchester. On the Bth instant, aged 66, SARAH ELIZABETH EDWARDS, Warwick-street, Toxteth-park. Same day, aged 8 years, MARY, second daughter of Mr. J. T. HOBSON, Berkley-street, Same day, in the 76th year of her age, SARAH, wife of Mr. ROBERT BULLOCK, of Rugely. On the 10th instant, agep 85, Mr. JAMES MARSDEN, brush manufacturer. On. the 12th instant, rather suddenly, at Nottingham, Mr. SAS. ALEXANDER, aged 32 years, brother to Mrs. Parley, of this town. Same day, at his residence, Claremont Lodge, Cheltenham, Sir B. W. BURDETT, Bart. aged 70 years. On the 13th instant, at Oldwarps-house, Warrington, HarroN TURNER BOWLE, Esq., M.D. Same day, HANNAH, seonnd daughter of Mr. JAMES lir MURDON, Hope-street, aged 48 years. 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