The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-26 00:00:00

Vottrp. ON THE DECEASE OF A VERY DEAR FRIEND, BY JOS. TOMPSON, ESQ. O art thou really past from earth, my first and dearest friend, To experience God's blest promises—with angel hosts to blend-- To join the glorious army of the Saviour's sacred throng, And laud the great Redeemer in the grand seraphic song Of holy, holy, holy ?—My friend beloved, when here Thy organ, touch'd by thy skill'd hand, has sounded in mineear, And warrn'd my heart's devotion with that soul-inspiring strain Which, with the like emotion, I must never hear again. O hast thou really left me—thou whose kind and gentle voice Reproved excess with tenderness, and made me oft rejoice When sorrow, as some gloomy cloud, has o'er my spirit hung, And spoke ofheaven when to earth, with sinful grasp, I've clung. 0 Harry !—how can I repeat that ever sacred word Without a sigh—to think how oft, in early life I heard It uttered by our schoolmates, when urging thee away From contemplative musings to join their heedless play. Ah ! how the heart with fondness now to every trifle clings, Fiom which a reminiscence of my once fond Harry springs. Each school-took brings thee to my mind, and wakes the pass ingthought How, for many pleasant years, we were together taught. My Ovid and my Virgil too, with every other book We studied in the school, or which we in our rambles took, Is cherish'd with affection now, since in a brighter age Those eyes, which now are dim in death, have scants d its classic page. And can I think upon the fields where w e have rov'd at will, Or ponder in my mind the grove, and not behold thee still ? Can I wander in my fancy—for, alas! I'm far away — The ruin'd balls of Ashby, where we spent the closing day, And not again behold that face, so gentle and so mild — That face on which with joy I gazed when but a playsome child? But which has often charm'd me as time progressing ran, And shed a pleasure round me when arriv'd at years of man. And when I visit that lov'd spot, shall I not long for thee To wander in the self-same walks whereonce we wander'd free? Shall I not call at thy late home, where wont, when young, to to shale Each passing pleasure ?—But, alas ! I shall not find thee there. Ah ! then shall I not wander to thy grassy, b loomy grave, And once More hanging o'er thee, whom no prayer of mine could save, Weep—but rejoice with holy joy to think how thou art blest, And ushered to the holy realms of never-changing rest. 0 Harry !—how I loved thee befits not men to know, Nor can the graphic art give vent to nature's tender flow : How dear I•vvas to thee too no power of words can tell ; Suffice it may to truly say we loved each other well. But all is o'er, and thou no more canst answer to thy name— Yet, though far absent from thee, I can love thee still the same ; And there's the thought—the happy thought—of meeting on that shore Where angels harp, and seraphs sing, and countless hosts adore. Liverpool. SELECT EXTRACTS. A METHOD OF SECURING MONEY IN LETTERS. — Take a card such as are played with, split it half-way through, put in your money, then wet the split part with yeast and press it together again, let it dry, and no person can take it out by fair means. YANKEE DIS C IPLINE.—GeneraI Howe's army running rather short of fresh provisions previous to their descent on Long Island, a foraging party was sent out one night to drive off, if possible, some Of the rebels' cattle. The pro vincial watchword for that guard was Cambridge, and pass word Swamp. It happened the foragers stumbled unawares on one of the advance provincial sentinels, who hearing them approach, bawled out in the true Yankee dialect, " Cam bridge !" To which no answer being given, he repeated it again—" Cambridge, I say once more ; if you don't say Swamp I'll shoot."—Upon which the British party instantly. cried—" Swamp"—" Pass," was the reply. In consequence of which, without the least interruption, they drove oft a very large herd of fat black cattle, with which the army and navy were regaled for some days, enjoying at the same time the ludicrous circumstance to which they were indebted for their extraordinary treat. - EATING- - Every animal eats as much as it can procure, and as much as it can hold. A cow eats but to sleep, and sleeps but to eat, and not content with eating all day long, " twice it slays the slain," and eats its dinner o'er again. A whale swallows 10,000,000 of living shrimps at a draught ; a nursling Canary bird eats its own bulk in a day, and a caterpillar eats 500 times its own weight, before it lies down to rise a butterfly. The mite and the maggot eat the very world in which they live ; they nestle and build in their roast beef ; and the hyena, for want of better, eats himself. Yet a maggot has not the gout, and the whale is not subject to sciatica. Nor does Captain Lyon inform us that an Exqui maux is troubled with a toothache, dyspepsia, or hysterics, though he eats ten pounds of seal, :and drinks a gallon of oil at a meal, and though his meal last as long as his meat. ROYAL WIVES IN THE EAST. —" His four wives, all very handsome, burnt themselves with his body, as did five of his Cachemirian slave girls, one of whom who was called the Lotus, or Lily, I often saw last year in my first visit to Lahore. Every thing was done to prevent it, but in vain. They were guaranteed in their rank, and in all their posses sions, but they insisted upon it ; and the account from the Eurokan officers who were present, describes it as a most horrible sight. The four wives seated themselves on the pile with Runjeet Sing's head on their laps ; and his princi pal wife desired Kurruck Sing, Runjeet's son and heir, and Dheean Sing, the late prime minister, to come to her on the pile and made the former take the Maharajah's dead hand in his own, and swear to protect and favour Dheean Sing as Runjeet Sing had done ; and she made the latter swear to bear the same true allegiance to the son which he had faith. fully borne to the father. She then set tire to the pile with her own hands, and they are dead—nine living beings having perished together without a shriek or a groan. Dheean Sing threw himself twice on the pile, and said he could not sur vive his master, but was dragged away by main force."— Osborne's Court and Camp of Runjeet Sing. WHO AND WHAT WERE THE CELEBRATED WOMEN OF GREECE ?—But who were these gifted and powerful women, these priestesses of a rtligion and sentiment, these destinies of fren states (whose smiles and frowns decided the fate of despot empires), these adored companions of heroes, these trusted friends of legislators, these disciples of philoso phers, and associates of sages, these models of wit and themes of poetry, these professors of abstruse sciences, and enlight ened lovers of all the refined arts, which tend to soften and cheer society, and to convert man from barbarism to civili zation ? Were they the honest mothers and virtuous wives of the free and noble citzens of the Greek states—the women of the Demos of Athens, or of the soldier patriots of Sparta ? Was their knowledge acquired, were their talents developed under institutions peculiarly favourable to the cultivation of female intellect? Were such accomplishments united to those moral qualities which give to wise maternity the cha racter and influence of a wholesome legislation? Gifted as such women must have been by nature, gifted as they noto riously were with that personal beauty peculiar to their climes and races, and with those fine perceptions of the beau tiful and the true in works of art and literature were they themselves ennobled by that sense of rights to lie enjoyed, and of duties to be performed, which creates the crowning perfection of all characters in either sex ? No ; these wo men, whose names ate linked with those of the greatest and wisest men of antiquity, were the outcasts of society—its admiration, its pride, and its shame—the agents of its refined civilization, the instruments of its rapid moral corruption. Born in slavery, or sold to it, infant captives taken in war, or of a class too lowly to be recognised as citizens by the state, these victims of civil combinations, foredoomed by the accidents of their birth, or of their lives, to an inevitable social degredation, had one privilege, incidental to their sin gular lot ; and of that they availed themselves, to the triumph of mind over station, and of usurping acquirement over es tablished ignorance. They were not under the ban of that intellectual proscription which was reserved by the law for the virtuous and the chaste. Chartered libertines, of their minds as of their actions, they were left free to pursue the bent of their natural talents, to sip at the fountain of every science, to cull the flowers of rhetoric, to rifle the whole hive of knowledge, and to possess themselves of the treasures of philosophy. Thus gifted, they Obtained a mastery over all that was eminent 4 - 1 the male population ; and, possessing the hearts of statesmen, orators, and philosophers, became influential on the destinies of the people. Standing half way between virtue and vice, a class apart, in the social dis tinctions of the sex, the Hetterre, or fair friends," fre quently exhibited the qualities of honest men, though they wanted the purer virtues of honest women. Such estimable qualities, however, were but happy accidents, an anomaly, not a general rule. The position of these women was a false one, dangerous to the best interests of society; and their privileges and their influence .(for rights they had none), though uncontrolled by the lawgiver, and freely permitted by the conventional manners of the times and country, be came a deteriorating principle, which worked out the political rein of Greece, through its moral depravity.—Lady Morgan's Woman and her Master. MIGRATION OF HERRINGS.—The great winter rendezvous of the herring is within the arctic circle, and there they spend many months in the year. In the spring this mighty army begins to put itself in motion. We distinguish the united shoals by that name, because the word comes from the Ger man heer, an army, and expresses their number. They be gin to appear off the Shetland Isles in April and May : these are only the forerunners of the great shoal which comes in June ; and their appearance is marked by the number of birds, as gannet, and other sea-fowl, which come to prey on them. When the main body appears, its breadth and depth are such as to alter the very appearance of the ocean. It is divided into distinct columns of five or six miles in length, and three or four in breadth, and they drive the water before them with a kind of rippling ; sometimes they . sink for the space of ten or fifteen minutes, and then rise again to the sur face • and in fine weather reflect a v ariet y of s p lendid colours --like a field of the most precious gems ; in which light this gift of Providence ought in very truth to be viewed. The first check this army meets with, in its journey from the Shetland Islands, which divides it into two parts ; one wing takes to the eastern, the other to the western shores of Great Britain, and fill every bay and creek with their numbers ; others pass on towards Yarmouth. the great and ancient mart for herrings; then they pass through the British Chan nel, and after that disappear. The other wing, which takes the westerly direction, after presenting themselves at the Hebrides, where the great stationary fishery is, proceed to the north of Ireland, where they meet with a second inter ruption, and are obliged to divide again ; one party takes the west of Ireland, and is soon imperceptible in the immen sity of the Atlantic ; but the other shoal, passing into the Irish sea, feeds the inhabitants of its coasts—(this is the shoal visited by fishermen of the Isle of Man). These last are often capricious in their motions, and do not, like the grand body, show an invariable • attachment to their old haunts. The object which induces this yearly migration is the spawning, or depositing of their eggs. Herrings are found also in shoals, on the coasts of America, as low down as Carolina. Chesapeak Bay is inundated with them. We find them also in Kamtschatka, and they probably visit Japan. SIGNS OF THE TatEs.,--An aristocracy does not expire, a man, in a single day ; the aristocratic principle is slowly undermined, in men's opinion, before it is attacked in their laws. Long before open war is declared against it, the tie which had hitherto united the higher classes to the lower may be seen to be gradually relaxed. Indifference and con tempt are betrayed by one class, jealousy and hatred by the other; the intercourse between rich and poor becomes less frequent and less kind, and rents are raised. This is not the consequence of a democratic revolution, but its certain har binger; for an aristocracy which has lost the affections of the people, once and for ever, is like a tree dead at the root, Which is the more easily torn up by the winds, the higher its branches have spread. In the course of the last fifty years, the rents of farms have amazingly increased, not only in France, but throughout the greater part of Europe. The remarkable improvements which have taken place in agricul ture and manufactures within the same period do not suffice, in my opinion, to explain this fact : recourse must be had to another course more powerful and more concealed. I believe that cause is to be found in'the democratic institutions which several European nations have adopted, and in the demo cratic passions which more or less agitate all the rest. 1 have frequently heard great English landowners congratulate themselves, that, at the present day, they derive a much larger income from their estates than their fathers did. They have perhaps good reason to be glad ; but most assuredly their know not what they are glad of. They think they are making a clear gain, when it is in reality only an exchange . their influence is what they are parting with fur cash, and what they gain in money will ere long be lost in power.--De Tocqueville's Democracy in America. The following appeared in a Second Edition of the STAN DARD of Friday last. We copied it from a second edition of the Bradford Observer of Thursday, with which we had been politely favoured :-- At an early hour this morning, a report reached the town, that that noble and venerable ecclesiastical edifice, York Minster, the pride of Yorkshire and the admiration of Eng land, was destroyed by fire. This report was not however credited. People are not generally ready to believe bad news. But as the day advanced, parties who arrived from Leeds confirmed the sad story, and at length on the arrival of the York mail at eleven o'clock, all doubt was set at rest. A great number of letters have come into the town from York, but all of them necessarily short. One lying before us says, " Our beautiful Minster has been on fire. The whole of the tower which contains the bells, and from thence to the great tower is one mass of ruins. It is still burning (one o'clock, A. at.)• but we hope soon to s top the devastating element." Our correspondent writes us word that he will send further particulars by ex press, but they have not reached us. In the absence of pre cise information, it is of course impossible to tell how far the reports in circulation are to be believed, but all seem to con cur in stating that the fire originated through the careless ness of some workmen, plumbers, who neglected to put out their fire and candles. The fire originated in the tower at the west end. It was first observed about ten o'clock last night ; the wind being high the flames spread ra pidly, and before any effective assistance could be rendered the beautiful roof of the nave, constructed of carved oak, ignited and communicated with the great tower. So quickly did the devouring element accomplish its work, that in little better than an hour and a half after the fire was discovered, one of the towers at the west front fell with a tremendous crash. We hear that several individuals were buried in the ruins, but have no authentic intelligence that the calamity, great as it is, is aggravated by loss of life. (From a second edition of the York Courant of yesterday.) It appears that about a quarter before nine o'clock on Wednesday night several persons observed a small light in the south-west tower of this magnificent pile, but did not take any particular notice of the circumstance, being aware that the works connected with the clock had been undergoing repair. In a short time, however, it appeared that the tower was in flames. The alarm was given, and two powerful engines were soon on the spot ; but, unfortunately, full twenty minutes elapsed before a supply of water could be obtained. The flames spread with astonishing rapidity, and by about eleven o'clock nearly the whole of the roof of the nave had fallen in. The Lantern tower was, with great difficulty, preserved. About half-past twelve, the whole of the roof having fallen, and two additional engines having arrived by railway from Leeds, the flames were gradu ally surmounted, and between one and two the danger was over. The south-western tower, with the noble nave are, however, a mass of ruins. Every pillar in the nave is more or less injured, and one of the windows near the west ern entrance was partially destroyed. The great western win dow was, however, entirely preserved, and the others sus tained but trifling damage. No injury was done to the screen or organ. though they were at one time in imminent danger. The belfry was reduced to a mere shell, and thefine peal of ten bells fell to the ground. No estimate is given as to the amount of damage, and nothing is known as to the cause of the fire. It is supposed to have originated in the carelessness of the persons employed in repairing the clock. By a singular co incidence the south-western tower is that on which the in cendiary Martin made his first and unsuccessful attempt to fire the cathedral on the 2d of February, 1829. FURTHER PARTICULARS. (From the Leeds Inteiligeneer of Saturday.) It is again our painful duty as public journalists to record the partial destruction of York Minster by fire. This disastrous event occurred on the night of Wednesday last. The flames were first observed about nine o'clock, bursting forth from the belfry tower at the South Western corner of the Cathedral. The alarm was rapidly spread throughout the city, but the citizens were to a great extent incredulous of the fact, considering the rumour as a mere invention to impose upon them. A glance at the sky, how ever, quickly dispelled their doubts, for a bright red glare soon overspread the firmament. The Minster engine was speedily got out, and the engines of the Yorkshire Insurance Company and of the North of England Assurance Company were promptly brought to the spot, and put into full play by the firemen attached to those establishments, the engines being supplied with water froM the neighbouring pumps and cisterns until the engine at the York Waterworks was got into operation to furnish a supply from the river Ouse. The Lord Mayor of York (Wm. S. Clarke, Esq.), Sir John Simpson, James Barber, Esq., and other city func tionaries, with Sir John Lister Lister Kaye, Bart., the Rev. D. R. Currie, B. Hague, Esq., and others of the County Magistracy, were early in their attendance, and by their ju dicious arrangements contributed much to the preservation of order, and the prevention of danger from the over-pressure of the crowd. Expresses were immediately sent off to the Bar racks for a detachment of the military, and for the Barrack engine : also for the engine kept by Lord Wenlock at Es crick Park. A special train was also sent off by the York and North Midland Railway Company, as soon as the steam could be got up in one of their locomotive engines, to fetch the fire engines from Leeds. As the night advanced, the streets and eminences com manding a view of the conflagration became densely crowded by spectators, many of whom had been spending the evening in the Festival Concert Room, at a tea meeting, given by the York Operative Conservative Society. The fire burnt with great rapidity, notwithstanding the ef forts of the firemen to arrest its destructive progress. Long before ten o'clock, though the precise time has not been stated, the bells in the tower began to fa11..-The descent of each was indicated by a hollow sounding crash, and the stir ring of the burning embers, which sent forth volumes of sparks, presenting an appearance to the spectators almost at alarming as it was grand. By this time the flames had communicated through one of the lower windows on the north side of the tower to the roof of the nave, which burnt with astonishing rapidity, the tim ber forming the principal part of the roof being extremely dry, having stood there upwards of five hundred years. The wind, which in the morning was rather high, had be come calmer as the evening approached, blowing chiefly from the north-north-west, from which about midnight it veered a little to the southward. This peculiar direction of the wind was at one time thought to endanger the safety of the lantern tower and the choir, but providentially both escaped. The rapidity with which the fire spread through the roof of the nave was really terrific. The height was so considerable that it was with difficulty the water could be thrown upon it; but as all the engines were in excellent order, and were very energetically worked, they succeeded in forcing up a consi derable volume of water, though their operations were occa sionally delayed by the bursting of the pipes. A little before twelve o'clock, the roof of the western end of the nave began to fall in, and as one wooden arch after another succumbed to the devouring element, the increased volumes of flame, augmented by myriads of sparks, presented appearances which may be not inaptly described as awfully sublime. The stained glass windows ' many of which escaped almost scathless from the threatened destruction, displayed their bright and variegated transparencies to great advantage, and formed a melancholy contrast to the destruction that was going on around. • By the time that the roof began to fall in, the fire in the tower appeared to have almost exhau s ted itself, yet at inter vals it exhibited something of its pristine force, especially when the heavy beams from which the bells had been sus pended, were burnt out in the centre, and the ends fell down upon the promiscuous mass beneath. These were followed soon afterwards by the mullions and other Darts of the stone frame work of the windows, portions of which fell outwards and carried along with them in their descent various orna mental or projecting parts of the tower. To many of the spectators it was not a little interesting to witness the bewildered gyrations of the jackdaws and other birds that have long made the two western towers their rest ing places; scared from their nests by the light and heat they flitted round the burning temple, ever and anon disappearing amongst the clouds of sparks. When a portion of the roof of the nave had fallen in, two of the smaller engines were conveyed into the interior of the edifice, and continued at work, in the northern aisle of the nave, in the hope of staying the further progress of the de vouring element ; but one by one the several arches gave way, until the entire length of the nave, from the western end to the lantern tower, was open to the skies. As the fire thus progressed from arch to arch, and from window to window, great fears were entertained that it would extend beyond the central tower to the choir, and thus reduce the entire edifice to one common mass of ruin. Fortunately, those fears were not realised. The firemen, many of whom had mounted the lower roofs over the northern and southern aisles of the nave, exerted themselves diligently, often placing themselves in positions of imminent peril, and towards one o'clock their efforts seemed to be attended with success, for the falling of the last burning arch of the nave, appeared to cut off the chance of any further danger to the eastward of the transept. Considerable apprehensions of mischief in another direction were, however, felt. Most of our readers who may have visited the Minster will remember the huge figure of a dragon that projected over the fifth arch of the nave, on the northern side, opposite the statue of St. George. That figure was con structed of wood ; and the immense volume of flame which arose from the burning embers after they had been precipi tated from the roof to the floor of the nave, communicated to the celebrated dragon, and as it was known to be attacked to the woodwork of the side aisles and galleries, it was feared that if its destruction was not stayed the side aisles would be the next to suffer. The efforts made to extinguish the flames around it were successful, and the dragon's head still re mains, as erect as ever, though somewhat shorn of its fair proportions. Near one o'clock, as we have said, the last beam or arch of the nave fell in, but upwards of an hour further elapsed, re turnededbnnoeefgoilre the fire could b e cons id ere d as e ff ec t ua ll y su bd ue d. The railway ex p ress f or the f i re eng i nes, arr i ved at L ee d s about half-past e l even ; and within seven minutes after the communicatedth poEngine,ionf si t o tunt the . h.eoes,d Norwich the. Union engines thatn keeper excellent to They thi nthee machine Leeds na theys was n , d Yorkshire sni e atw followed nao IsiYork the n wFeißailwayrda a few e minutes , T Fire withi Office d y Company's instantlyreachedom p a city about a quarter past one, and although the roof of the nave had then fallen in, they rendered efficient service in ex tinguishing the fire amongst the burning embers. Soon after two o'clock, the fire was considered to be ex tinguished, and the numerous assemblage of persons who had been watching with anxiety to learn the utmost extent of the damage, began to depart to their homes, deeply grateful that the conflagration had not been more extensive, and that the principal portion of the edifice had been preserved. Thus far we have confined our observations to the progress of the fire through the several portions of the Cathedral that have fallen a prey to its ravages. Before we proceed to de scribe more particularly the nature and extent of the damage sustained, we must notice two or three incidents that occurred during the conflagration. We have already mentioned that on the first alarm the mi litary were sent for from York wereßa rrack s.Tl f lei c r ntin attendance was prompt, and their services highly y retarded pre serving order, for the pressure of the crowd l upon thedd their fire men in the first instance very considerably stable Adetachment. of the ord 7th s, a inderab efficient Hussars detachment were on n foot, in 4th Dragoon Guards were mounted. They remained on duty till three in the morning, when the crowd having dis p ersed, the major part of them were marched back to their barracks. In a convenient apartment on the south side of the Cathe dral, bet w ee n the southern entrance and the south western tower, the wills proved in the Exchequer and Prerogative Court of York are kept, and when it was discovered that the flames had communicated with the roof of the nave, appre hensions began to be entertained for the safety of those do cuments, and measures were immediately taken for their re moval to more secure custody. Carts were provided, into which the immense mass of papers were hurriedly thrown, but the burning embers fell so thickly around that it was found necessary to protect them by covering them with a wet blanket. Even thi s was not thought sufficiently safe, and the carts gave place to covered i cabs, in which the remaining portion of the wills, & c . was ' removed to the residence of Joseph Buckle, Esq., the deputy registrar and keeper of the records. . During the progress of the fire, also, as a matter of pre caution, the vergers removed th e books, cushions, and other valuable articles from the choir, and the music books from the organ loft, into the vestry. When the bells had fallen, and the rafters from which they had been suspended were also precipitated almost reduced to charcoal, followed by the mullions of the upp er w i n d ows of the tower, great fears were entertained for the safety of that corner of the edifice. The space on the south, b e t ween the Minster and the Church of St. M i chael-le-pelfroy, was k ept clear of persons, and many of the residents in Petergate were so apprehensive of its falling in that direction that they te moved their families to places of greater security. Fortu nately, however, their precautions were unnecessary ; the tower still stands, and though it now presents a desolate and shattered appearance, it seems likely to stand for a long time yet to come. When the steam engine at the York Water Works was put in motion, it furnished a very adequate supply of water. All the drain grates to the south of the Minster were dammed up, and soon after all the water plugs had been removed, a large pool of water was obtained and kept up, in which the engines stood to play. It is stated that during the night no less than 240,000 gallons of water were furnished by the Wa ter Works Company. It is exceedingly satisfactory to be able to state that, not withstanding the length of time the conflagration lasted, the great number of persons who witnessed it and took part in its suppression, the daring efforts of many of the firemen, and the streams of molten lead that occasionally shot forth unexpectedly from different parts of the building, not a single accident of serious moment was sustained by any person whatever. We are rejoiced to be able to state, in the commencement of our description of the nature of the damage sustained, that the splendid organ presented by the late Right Hon. and Rev. John Lumley, Earl of Scarborough, and built by Messrs. Elliot and Hill, of London, has escaped uninjured, as like wise has the elegant stone screen on which the organ stands, and which contains the statues of fifteen of the earlier Eng lish kings, beginning at the Norman conquest. The massy pillars which support the central tower, or lan tern steeple, as it is sometimes called, from its having been used as a beacon to warn the surrounding country during periods of public danger, is also free from damage, though great fears were at one time entertained for its safety. Most singular also is it to relate, that although the massive great doors at the western end of the nave were burnt to so thin a substance as to bend inwards like a lath, the large stained window above them, which is said to be unrivalled for the beauty and lightness of its ramified tracery, has like wise escaped without a single piece of glass having been bro ken, so far as we could observe. In the upper compartments of this window, it will be remembered, are delineated the figures of eight saints of the church, and below them are re presentations of the first eight archbishops of the see, as large as life. In like manner the grand window over each side portal at the west end has been preserved intact ; and this is the more remarkable, as that on the south side is but a short distance from the belfry tower, beneath which the bells and burning materials principally fell. In the south-western tower there was a peal of ten bells, erected in 1765. Not long after the fire commenced, they were precipitated to the ground, and a quantity of other ma terials fell upon them. When our reporter left York yester day, the superincumbent mass, which was still hot and smok ing, had not been removed from them, so that, although considerable anxiety was felt on the subject, it had not been ascertainel whether the bells were incited or broken. In either case, it is understood that the cost of re-casting them would reach about a thousand pounds. It may, perhaps, be interesting to observe, that previous to the year 1765, there was a peal of twelve bells, which being then found to be un tuneable, they were taken down by Dr. Fountayne, then dean, the five trebles of which were exchanged for the three bells in St. Michael's, Spurriergate, in which church they now hang. They were replaced the same year by a set of ten new bells, cast by Messrs. Lester and Pack, of London (the same weight and dimensions of those in Bow Church, Lon don), and are allowed to be as complete a peal as any in the kingdom. The following is an account of their weight and description : • The first weighs 8 cwt. 3 qrs. 7 lb., and its diameter 2 feet 8 inches 1-4th. The second, 9 cwt. 1 qr. 5 lb., its diameter 2 feet 9 inches 3-Bths. The third, 10 cwt. 1 qr. 22 lbs., its diameter 3 feet. The fourth, 12 cwt. 2 qrs. 21 lbs., its diameter 3 feet 2 inches 3-4ths. The fifth, 13 cwt. 2 qrs., 22 lbs., its diameter 3 feet 5 inches. The sixth, 16 cwt. 4 lbs., its diameter 3 feet 7 inches 3-4ths. The seventh, 21 cwt. 23 lbs., its diameter 4 feet 1-Bth of an inch. The eighth, 26 cwt. 13 lbs., its diameter 4 feet 3 inches 1-Bth. The ninth, 33 cwt. 2 qrs. 16 lbs., its diameter 4 feet 9 inches 1-Bth. The tenth, 53 cwt. 25 lb., its diameter 5 feet 5 inches. _On Nos. 1,2, 3, and 4 there are no other inscriptions than he founders names Lester and Pack. On the sth, Music is medicine to the mind. On the 6th, Our voices shall with joyful sound, Make hills and vallies echo round. On the 7th, In wedlock bands All ye who join with heart and hands, Your hearts unite ; So shall our tuneful tongues combine to laud The nuptial rite. On the Bth, Ye ringers all, that prize your health and happiness, Be sober, merry, wise, and you'll the same possess. On the 9th, To honour both of God and King Our voices shall in concert ring. On the 10th, J. Fountaine, Dean ; W. Cowper, W. Berd more, W. Cayley, W. Mason, Residen- tiaries. The belfry presents the appearance of a shell, the interior frame work being completely destroyed, and nothing remain ing but the skeleton of its former beauty. At intervals, small fragments still continue to fall, and the soldiers and police men in the building strongly caution those who are admitted that. danger is still to be apprehended. From the western entrance to the great lantern tower there are seven pillars on each side, which form eight arches. Those pillars are plain, and formed of a solid piece, to which are attached three quarter columns, alternately larger and smaller. The capitals and bases are simple, though the foliage of the former was diversified, each capital being of a different design ; but now the capitals as well as the groined roof, are destroyed, and the lower portions of most of the columns are much injured, as well by the burning timbers falling against them, as by the columns themselves, which are of limestone, having become partly calcined by the sur rounding heat, and in that state subjected to the action of the water employed to extinguish the fire. The clerestorial windows, adorned with imagery and coats of arms, are all of them more or less injured, particularly those towards the western end of the nave, but those near the central tower are not much damaged. The windows of the side aisles, sixteen in number, and all of them, with two ex ceptions, of painted glass, have escaped in much better con dition than might have been expected. The window in that part of the south aisle, immediately under the belfry tower, is almost wholly destroyed, but, fortunately, it is one of the two that was glazed with common glass. The roof of the nave which being of wood, was wholly con sumed, was adorned with large carved knots, above a yard and a half in circumference, that were formerly ornamented with gold, but in many cases these have been wholly destroyed, and not one has escaped injury. We were much struck with the highly carbonized state of the timber that lay about on the floor : even those which might have been called the heaviest timbers, were burnt to extremely small dimensions. The nave, from the west end to the door of the choir, in cluding, of course, the breadth of the tower, is 261 feet long, 109 feet broad, and was 99 feet high. The side aisles are 18 feet broad, and the side arches, north and south, 42 feet high. The foundation of the nave was laid on the 7th April, 1291, by John le Romaine, then Archbishop, in the presence of Henry de Newark, Dean, and Peter de Ross, Precentor of the Church, and the rest of the Canons in their richest copes. Archbishop de Melton finished the west end with the steeples, about the year 1330. In this work he is said to have ex pended seven hundred pounds (a large sum in those days,) of his own money. Contributions from the nobility, clergy, and religious devotees of the age, furnished the remainder of the funds required. It will be remembered that the Musical Festivals of 1823, 1825, 1828, 1835, have been celebrated, in this nave and the transepts. On those occasions the centre aisle of the nave was filled with seats, backed and covered with crimson cloth, capable of accommodating sixteen hun dred persons. In the side aisle were placed seats for four teen hundred persons, covered with green cloth. A gal lery was raised from the second pillars to the grand west window, containing thirty-three tiers of seats, covered with crimson cloth. The front was adorned with a species of of gothic work, which added greatly to the magnificence of the gallery, whilst the manner of its execution exactly com ported with the style of architecture pursued in the building. In 1825 and 1828 galleries were also erected in the side aisles, which were fitted up to correspond with the decorations of the other part of the edifice; and in 1835, in addition to the former arrangements, there was a gallery erected for the es pecial accommodation of the royal visitors who were present. Only two or three weeks ago we announced that the inten tion to hold another Musical Festival during the present year had been abandoned, and that arrangements were in progress for holding a Festival on a grand scale during the next year. 'We fear, however, that unless the subscriptions for the re storation of the nave and tower are unusually prompt, the repairs will not be sufficiently advanced to admit of the hold ing of a Musical Festival there next year. With respect to the actual pecuniary amount of the da mage to the edifice, it is exceedingly difficult to speak. Much will depend upon whether it becomes necessary to take down the belfry tower, which is certainly very much shattered and shaken. if that step should not be necessary, the expense may not exceed from £20,000 to £31,000 ; but if the tower be taken down the sum may be doubled. Perhaps it may be in the recollection of some of our readers that for the repairs consequent upon the last conflagration, the suns of from £50,000 to £70,000 was subscribed, and that sum proved insufficient, although government presented a large supply of teak wood for the roof of the choir. The last is the fifth occasion on which the cathedral church of York has been wholly or partially destroyed by fire. The first time was in the year of Christ 741, when the'church of stone erected on the site of the wooden oratory built for the baptism of Edwin, the Saxon Monarch of Northumbria, and his whole court, at Easter, 627, was greatly damaged by fire. In 1069, the cathedral was again reduced nearly to the ground by an accidental fire during the siege of the garrisons in the Norman castles. In 1137, the structure which had been re built in a superior style by Thomas, the 25th Archbishop, was destroyed by a casual fire. For nearly seven hundred years it escaped a similar calamity; but on Sunday, the 2nd of February, 1829, as our readers will remember, the interior of the choir and chancel, with the roof, were destroyed by the act of the lunatic incendiary, Jonathan Martin. The repairs which that event rendered necessary occupied upwards of three years and a quarter, and the cathedral was formally re-opened for divine worship on the 6th May, 1832. Exactly eight years and a fortnight afterwards occurred the fifth con flagration of this noble edifice, which it is now our painful duty to record. The most difficult part of our duty remains still to be per formed that of tracing out the precise cause of this lamentable occurrence. At present the affair is still involved in mystery. Various were the rumours that prevailed on Thursday morning, with regard to this painful subject. The animated controversy which has recently taken place between the friends of the York Operative Protestant So ciety, and the Roman Catholic body, coupled with the fact a that the frie n d s o f th e P ro t es t ant S oc i e t y h a d appo i n t e d Wednesday even i ng f or a pu bli c tea party i n t h e F est i va l Concert Room, an d w hi c h was actua ll y met at t h e t i me t h at he fi r had e was e discovered,en occasioned gav e by y the revengeful i s e t o repor t that spirit th f m e confla grationso some Roman Catholic ; but we have some satisfaction in being able to st a t e t h at according to the best information that can at Ipresent the fe forenoon e obtained en e f h n e o t the .es least w efoundation minutely hau Mayor, Canons u e r n s Johnß es i s d i e e n v t Thursday i s a o r Simpson, and Dixon and ter . Lord in specteduocram r Haw kins, with other members of ihe Harcourt, Chapter, and also b} the and by Sir john L. L. Kaye, 13 other city magistrates, Bart., HenryHPreston, Esq., Colonel Markham, and several county magistrates. y At one o'clock on Thursday afternoon, mosto the gentle men we have just named assembled in the Magistrates' at the Guildhall, for the purpose of inquiri ng into t room circum stances attending the origin of the fire. Th e sitting lasted from one till half - past five o'clock, a great dumbe r of wit nesses having been examined. As the investigation was a private one, we are unable to give an outline of the proceed ings ; but we understand that the principal person examined was Mr. Williatn Groves, turret clock-maker, of Leeds. Mr. Groves had been employed to repair the Minster clock which stood in the south-western tower, and also the time piece (or dumb clock) which is fixed above the southern entrance. He stated that he had been employed on this business on the Wednesday, and for that purpose had as cended the belfry tower. The only other person engaged there was a carpenter who had assisted in fixing some new apparatus to the striking machinery of the ch i ck. b For that purpose they had ascended above the ringing c iam er into a sort of attic or low room below the chamber in which the bells were suspended. This place was seldom entered, per haps never, except for the purpose of repairing the clock, at long intervals. It *as therefore a favourite resort of th e jackdaws, who had carried up into it large quantities of sh ort dried sticks, coarse wool, and other 'ingredients suitable for their nests. There was also in the room a large quantity of hempen chafings from the bell-ropes. Mr. Groves stat ed. that to go into this room he used a lighted candle, which ht carried in a lantern, having lighted the candle with a lucifei match when he wanted to use it. He admitted having taker. the candle out of the lantern and put it into a sort of w oodet candlestick, for the purpose of examining the work a mort minutely ; and on being questioned on the subject, he stated that he had once snuffed the candle with his finge rs, but that he had put the snuff into the lantern. This was sometime before he left the belfry for the night, which he did a few minutes, before 'six, in order to examine the clock externally during the striking of that hour. He stated that on leaving the place he locked the door after him with a key which had been furnished to him for the purpose of attending to his work. This portion of his statement was confirmed by another witness, who on the first alarm of the fire ran with a bucket of water to the belfry door, which he found locked. It is, therefore, pretty clear that no person had been in the belfry after six, though that is not quite certain, as the key which Mr. Groves had is not the only key of the belfry-door. It goes far, however, to show that the fire could not have been the work of an incendiary ; unless such a person had pos sessed himself of a false key, which there is no reason to suppose was the case. It may not be amiss, perhaps, to state that there is no truth in the reports which have been extensively circulated, that the Cathedral was insured for a very considerabie sum of money, or that it was usually watched throughout the night by a person inside. The Minster was not at all in sured; though we understand that some years ago overtures were made to effect an insurance for £lO,OOO, at the rate of 4s per cent., but that the negociation did not succeed. No service was performed in the Minster on Thursday and yesterday ; and we believe that it will not be re-opened for divine service till after all the rubbish has been cleared away, and the dangerous parts of the standing walls of the nave removed. In the afternoon of Thursday the public were admitted to view the smoking ruins in the interior of the Minster, a detatchment of soldiers being posted so as to prevent them being led by curiosity into places of danger. We may here take the opportunity of stating that the con duct of the military on this occasion gave great satisfaction to all ; it was firm, yet forbearing, and the orders they re ceived were executed with a degree of considerateness which did them much credit. On Thursday afternoon and yesterday, great numbers of persons left Leeds by the railway to view the ruins of this venerable pile, and after staying a few hours in York, re turned to their respective homes. There was also a consi derable influx of strangers from other towns who had gone to gratify their curiosity. It may be remarked, as a somewhat curious coincidence, that the very tower, in which Jonathan Martin made his first attempt to destroy the Minster, on the night of the 2nd of February, 1829, but which he could not there accomplish, is the one in which the present direful calamity commenced. PARTIAL DESTRIiCTION OP YORk. MINSTER BY FIRE. PRICES OF SHARES, MAY 23. Prices. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester BO paid 70 10 0 .... Ditto and Derby lOO .... 89 0 0 .... Birkenhead and Chester Ditto, new 5 13 2 6 .... Bolton and Leigh lOO paid Bolton and Preston Bristol and Exeter 25 .... 2J 10 0 .... Chester and Crewe 45 .... 55 5 0 Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 19 10 0 Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar L 30 paid Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction Ditto half shares Great Western Ditto new shares Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston .... 100 .... 251 0 Oexdiv 30 .... 100 10 0 .... 100 0 0 • 65 .... 93 10 0 .... 93 0 0 • 30 .... 43 15 0 .... 43 10 0 ▪ 40 paid 36 2 6 .... • 42 10 0 32 15 0 .... . 12 12 6 .... . 184 0 0 .... . 44 5 0 .... . 88 10 0 .... . 177 0 0 .... . 51 5 0 .. . 2110 0 .... . 54 0 0 ... . 30 5 0 .... Ditto, new Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares 5O London and Birmingham 9O Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto and Southampton 39 .. Ditto & Brighton London and Croydon Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 83 0 0 . Ditto half shares Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 71 0 0 ... Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... 23 5 0 .... Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO 53 11, 0 Ditto quarter shares North Midland lOO 104 0 0 .... New North Midland 2O 31 5 0 .... South Eastern and Dover North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 .... York and North Midland 5O paid 64 0 0 .... BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 .... 746 10 oex div Bank of Liverpool - Commercial of Liverpool 10 17 2 6 .... - Liverpool Union lO 13 7 6 .... 13 2 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 lO .... Commercial Bank of England 5 .... East of England lO .... Phcenix Bank Wilts - and Dorset 7 10s. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings L'pool and Harrington Water l 350 477 10 0 . Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0 ... L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 t 1 0 ... L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .elOO .... 101 0 0 .... Ditto new shares are now paid no. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance 25 paid 2 10 0 .... Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... .5 5 0 ex div, Liverpool Fire and Life 2 103. 1 13 0 ex (Hy 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; .. (Poloncean).. S 0 0 ... 15 2 6 .... 30 15 0 8 0 0.. 6 7 6 .... 7 5 0 .... 6 12 6 .... 57 0 0 6 17 6 .... 0 14 6 .... 1 0 0 .... 10 . . 100 .... 7 10 0 SHARE MARKET, MONDAY EVENING. We have nut had an extensive business doing in our market to day. We have, however, a firm and 'h ea l t h y f ee li ng. The trans actions bave been Eastern Counties 12i ; Grand Junction halves 100; Great Westerns 93 ; ditto halves 431 ; London and South Western 531 ; North Midland halves 302; North Unions 853 Liver pool Union Banking Company 78. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIMES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 6 a.m. Mixed 8 15 a.m. First Class 10 30 a.m. First Class 12 15 p.m. First Class 4 p.m. Mixed 7 p.m. First Class 12 FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER 2 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.ni. Mixed 5 p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures will be 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m 8 15 a.m. Mixed 1 30 p.m. 10 30 a.m. ~ 7 p.m. 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. „ 12 LIVERPOOL AND MA. CHESTER RAILWAY. FROM eroot TO IMANCRESTRR. First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 8 45 „ .. 10 0 „ FROM MANCHESTER TO 1. 9 1.001.. First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 9 „ .. 10 0 „ 11 15 „ 11 45 2 0 Aftern. ...2 45 Aftern. 5 0 „ 5 30 „ 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I his Train does not start till Three. NDAYS. 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 n 0 „ 11 45 2 0 Aftern. .. 230 Aftern. 4 45 „ .. 5 30 „ 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed 11 Stop only at Newton & Prkside 1 * Except on Saturdays, when a ON SU First Class Second Class 8 o 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 11 0 ~ 2 30 Aftern. .. Second Class 4 45 „ .. Mixed 7 15 „ .. First Class 2 45 Aftern. .. Second Class 5 0 „ .. Mixed 15 ~ .. First Class NDAys. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 530 Afternoon.. „ ILTON. ..raou MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 „ , 2 45 Afternoon .. Second ' Class 5 30 - %MAYS. I 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. „ - IRLENS. FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 -• • • 11 45 ~ • • • • P* 2 45 Afternoon 5 30 ~ • • •• PI !WAYS. I 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. PI 'ORN GAP. FROM MANCHESTER. 30 Morning.... Second Cla s ON SU 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 530 Afternoon.. „ 10 80. FROM LIVSRPOOL. 5 45 Morning.... }list Class 12 0 1 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 8 30 ON so: 7 o Morning.... Second Class 5 3U Afternoon.. „ TO ST. FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 „ OP 11 45 IP 2 30 Afternoon.. 5 30 PP ON SU 7 o Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. t• TO RUNT FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 1 5 Morning.... Second Class 11 45 99 5 30 Afternoon .. 99 111 45 ~ •• • • 111 5 30 Afternoon .. PI 'NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Clans 5 20 .. Afternoon „ ON SU. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class I !I 30 Afternoon .. ~ SUGAR BEET.—Mr. Josiah Lee, an enterprising farmer of this county, was induced to make some experiments on this article, and last year raised 140 bushels from less than one-eighth of an acre. His cows are fed on the beet alone, without any grain, and the butter produced is of the most superior character. We hope the farmers of Berks will think of these things, and attend to a matter of so much impor tance. Seed may be procured in this town, and the best is easily cultivated.—Berks and Schuylkill Journal. CHURCH EXTENSION.—A handsome new church is about to be built near the extensive works of Messrs. Garnett and Horsfalls, Low Moor, near Clitheroe, where there is a dense population, and no place of worship. This will make the fourth new church built within the parliamentary borough, within these few years. ••• • REMARKABLE LONGEVITY.—The village of Pawtuxet, with a population of between 700 and 800, contains 95 per sons, or more than 11 percent. of the whole population over 60 years of age ; of these 52 are between 60 and 70 ; 34 be tween 70 and 80 ; 7 between 80 and 90 ; and 2 over 90. Ten of these are revolutionary pensioners, and several others are claimants but have not yet had their claims allowed.—Ameri can paper. CATeneiLLARS.—The berry trees in the neighbourhopd of Barnsley, have become infested with caterpillars, and i n many insta nces w h o l e trees are str i p p e d of their leaves by this destructive insect ; our correspondent informs us on the authority of Mr. Wilkinson, fl o rist, &c. that by dredging helebore p ow d er over the trees' it will completely destroy them, as will also black pepper, which is about half the price of the former. G ar d eners willdo well to pay attention to this.—Leeds latelligencer. Obipping 3Enttlltgenre. FRIDAY, MAY 22.—Wind N.W. ARRIVED.—RomuIus, Webster; St. Lawrence, Brown; Russia, Nl'Manus, and Tyrone, —, from New Orleans—Southerner, Tibbetts, and Josephine, Prindle, from Mobile—Tam O'Shanter, from Barbadoes—Juno, Sakerwage. from Basaro—Nathaniel Hooper, Freets, from Savannah; sailed 26th April—and Silvanus Jenkins, Parker, from Mobile. SAlLED—Windsor, Hayton, for Pernamb uco—Dorothea, James, and Royal Mint, Seawright, for Jamaica—Grace, Pearson, for An tigua—and Thos. Battersby, Leitch, for Santa Martha, &c. John Bentley, Disbrow; Elizabeth Holderness, Hoxley ; Enter prise, Muir ; Joseph Cunard, Birnie ; Coriolanns, Wells ; Governor Fenner, Bennett; Beverley, Brewer; Mary, Banks, and Mary Ca roline, Lawson, hence at Savannah Monongahela, Turley, hence at Philadelphia Howard, Mills, hence for Savannah, at New York 20th April Superior, Bailey, and Thos. Bennett, Hague, hence at Charleston Victory, Blackley, hence at New York Vriendschap, Klein ; Camilla, Coster ; Handelaars, Nyman ; Ge zina, De Boer, and Tyakkien, Drews, hence at Texel Gezina Hermina, Jonker ; Zeemeuw, Noordhook; and Goede Hoop, De Boer, hence at Helvoet Maria, Van Loo; Vigilant, Simmons, and Francis, Delpierre, hence at Ostend Leopold I, Garling, hence at Antwerp Victory, Jarvis, hence at Ancona Sisters, Brewer, hence at Constantinople Ann Jane, -, hence to Calcutta, was spoken Bth April, in lat. 4 N, long. 20, and had spoken the Wm. Shand, hence to Cal cutta, and Jupiter, hence to Batavia, a few days previously Republic, Thompson, hence at New York St. Leon, Westcott; Echo, Crowell ; Token, Chalmers ; Cincin nati, Barstow; Washington, Adams ; Coronet, Bute ; Michigan, Sturges ; Dale, Burton ; Mary, Redfurth ; Ontario, Jameson ; Henry, Pierce ; Walter, Boyd ; Isaac Allerton.Boyd, and Potomac, Berry, hence at New Orleans Narva, M`Kellar, from Trinidad for Liverpool, off the Cove Jane, Williamson, hence for Charente, at Beaumaris Lagoda, , hence off Baltimore 21st April America, Mackie, hence and Cork, at Savannah Humber, Wildredge ; Vandalia, Sarle ; Shannon, Nowell; and Columbia, Sutherland, hence at Mobile Hannah. Ratray, hence at Havannah 6th April _ _ _ 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 NEW YORK, April 25.—The Ligonia, —, from Liverpool to Baltimore, was run on shore on Swan Point 20th April; she started a plank and filled with water. Part of the cargo will be saved. Josephine, Prindle, from Mobile, at this port; sailed 11th April, in company with the Arcadia, for Liverpool. On 9th May, in long. 34, lat. 45, spoke the Louisa, from Cork, with troops for Quebec, all well. On 18th May, off Cape Clear, saw the Roscius, aid on the 1 gth, off Tuskar, saw the Carroll of Carrollton. SATURDAY, MAY 23.—Wind W. moderate. ARRIVED.—Cora, Melville, from the Cape of Good Hope—Forth, Glen, from Monte Video—Nerva, front Trinidad—Oregon, Gleddon ; Tyrone, Spear; Diadem, Hamilton; Russia, M•Manus ; Woodside, Welch, and Huntsville, Eldridge, from New Orleans— 'Jane Walker, White; Silvanus Jenkins, Parker, and Rob Roy, Arnold, from Mobile—Viola, Palmer, from Savannah—Cambridge, Bursley, from New York—Brigand, , flom Antigua—Maria, Moiler, from Iceland—Premier, ; Charlotte, White; Irish Lass, Grandy, and Jamaica, White, from Jamaica—Lima Packet, Singleton, from Potto Rico—Blackaller, —, from Maracaibo— Sirius, Croal, from Laguna—Lotus, Locke; Tamerlane, and London, Scott, from Savannah—Oseolo, Childs, and Henry Ewbank, Smith, from Mobile—Cumberland, , and Planter, , front Apalachicola—Fanny, Adams, from Charleston— Herald, --, from Baltimore—Lydia, Cothey, from Savanilla— and Lynx, Watson, from Lisbon. SAlLED.—Champion, Steele, for Bahia, &c.—Lady Bute, M`Kin tey, for Batavia—Canton, Gibson, for Demerara—Tampico,Winder, for Cronstadt—Lemnos, Rowell, for Rio Janeiro—Rising Sun, Christian, for Newfoundland—Amelia. Bleasdale, for Havana — Mary Muir, Payne, for Montreal—and New York Packet, Dorniug, for New York. Camoens, Wilson, from Laguna, at this port; sailed 20th March. Spoke the Providence, from Tobasco, going into Laguna, leaky; was on shore going in Lee, Bowness, lrom Barbadoes, at this port; sailed 18th April. Elizabeth Wood, was to sail about 25th April, for Antigua, and Joseph Wheeler in a few days for Cork Trenton, Bennett, from Savannah, at this port; sailed 23rd April. On 7th May, at 7 a.m. in lat. 46, long. 38 26, spoke the British Queen, (steamer) from London for New York Argyleshire, Scott, from Savannah, at this port ; sailed 18th April. On 6th May, in lat. 45, long. 37, spoke the Alicia, from Liverpool for Quebec. On 13th May, in lat. 43 33, long. 23, spoke the Pyre nees, hence for Quebec Tn skin a„ , from Mobile, at this port. On 2nd May, in lat. 42, long. 43, spoke the Lord Sandon. On 3rd May, in lat. 41, long. 36, spoke the Garrick, hence for New York North Star, Benedict, from Philadelphia, at this port. On sth in lat. 45 17, long. 38 W, spoke the Rosebank, from Belfast, for Prince Edward Island, with 200 passengers ; out 23 days, all well Margaretha, Shottens, hence at Texel Ripley, Steward, from Calcutta and Cove, for Hamburg, off Dover Unicorn, (steamer) hence for Halifax, was spoken 18th May, in lat. —, long, 10 Pandora, —, hence at Barbadoes in 2g days Phoenix, Hartley, and Agnes Primrose, Morrison, hence at An. tigua Minerva, Matthews, hence at ditto, and sailed 2nd April for New Orleans Sherbrooke, O'Brien, hence for Mobile, off Antigua 15th April _ . Balance, -, from Savannah for Liverpool, at St. Thomas gth April Manco, -, and John Walker, Gaskin, hence at New Orleans Alexander, Copie ; New York, Nieven ; Dibdin, Hutcheson, and Nimrod, Manning, hence at Mobile Rochester, Woodhouse, hence at New York 28th April Meridian, Williams, ditto 2gth Henry Hood, , ditto 30th Marmora, Brothers, , from Troon, ditto Dash, Huntzess, and Eagle, Campbell, henct at Newfoundland . . . - . Leila, Orfeur, hence at Leghorn DOVER, May 21.—Flora, Brahms, from Liverpool for Antwerp, was run down off Beachy Head, last night, by the Louisa, of Stet. tin, and sunk ; crew saved by the latter SUNDAY, MAY 24.—Wind W.S.W. fresh. ARRlVED.—Governor Troup, Redman, and Sila! Richards, Dick. inson, from New York—Jessie Logan, Major, from Calcutta—Cres. cent, Damon, from Demerara—Warsaw, Sheffield, from St. Josepi —Charles Humberston, Marshall ; Ranger, Curtis ; Perseus, Row. en ; Minerva, Adams, and Rhode Island, Rogers, from Savannah— Flora, (Danish Corvette) from Copenhagen—Leucothia, Reintrack, from Stettin—Eugene, Perrie, from Ostend—Catherine M•Donnald . --; Samuel, Ja►neson ; and Clinton, ---, from Mobile—Ve. locity, , from Jamaica—Elizabeth, Creesey, from Baltimore— Howard, Williams, from Apalachicola—Hannah Grayson, from Laguna—Gem, M Ken Lie, from Sicily— M onkton, Ann an from Marseilles—Trenton, , and Eutaw, Allen, (in 28 days, from Charleston. SAlLED.—Akkeboom, Potjer, for Rotterdam—Wm. Salthouse, Staunton, for Trinidad—lris, Garrido, for Norway—Richmond, An dras, for Boston—Zeehist, Mik, and Jantina Eugelina, Ebbing, for Dordt. I 0, , hence at Laguira 2nd April Wm. Ackers, -, hence at Laguira Bth April, in 33 days Wanderer, Hind, from St. Lucia, at Dublin Jamaica, Gibson, hence at Jamaica Hoop, Halst, hence for Narva, at Copenhagen, with mast sprung Wanderer, Hind, from St. Lucia, at Dublin Earl Durham, -, hence for Halifax, was spoken sth April, in lat. 44, long. 39, with loss of topmasts and head of mainmast American, , hence for Savannah, was spoken Ilth April, in let. 30, long. 73, with loss of topmasts, sails, yards, &c. Orleans, Calneron, from London for South Australia, was spoken 2gth March, in lat. 3 S, long. 27 W Patriot Minin, Tiedeman, hence at Havana Brilliant, Yule; Naid, Phillips, and Elizabeth, Park, hence at Riga Vrow Maria, Eden ; Lebra, Engelsman ; Jane, Evans ; Leopold, Flaltz ; Annette, Brahms ; Newcastle Packet, Gaboe ; Delphin, Bruins, hence at Hamburg Funff Gebroeder, Geycken, hence at Bremen MONDAY, MAY 25.—Wind W N.W. ARRI , and Moro Castle, Dunnas, from New Orleans--Agenora, Giffney, from Mobile—Dalmarnoek, •—, and Fama, from Savanilla—Laurel, Lcadbeater, and Thistle, Ham ilton, from Savannah—Cypress, Farmer, and Seabird, Smith, from Odessa—and Elizabeth, Prellas, from Rotterdam. The Great Western, (steamer) from New Pork, at Bristol; sailed on the gth instant. The Great Western was 17 days and 16 hours going out NEw YORK, May 2.—The broadside of a large brig or ship, ap parently nearly new, with spars and rigging attached, was seen on the 7th ult. off Cape Fear; and about a mile distant, the forepart of the same vessel was passed, had a woman figure head and bow sprit standing. The Ligonia, from Liverpool, that was on shore below Baltimore, was got off and taken to that port on the 26th ultimo.—May 6. A brig dismasted, was seen on the 27th ultimo, on shore off Cape Fear. Pyrenees, -, hence to Quebec, was spoken gth May, in lat 49, long. 18 30 Emerald, -, hence to Quebec, was spoken 11th May, in lat, 50, long. 12 Columbia, Blaney, hence at St. Vincent Marcellina, , hence at Carthagena Sorceress, Bryce, hence at Trinidad Wamman, Gibbon, hence at Port.au-Prince Isabella & Ann, -, and Rapid, -, from Dundee, ditto Rowena, Reid, hence at ditto John Cumming, 1 hayer ; Eliza Thornton, Foss ; Rialto, Holmes ; Platina, Duncan ; Minerva, Matthews ; Aurora, Warren; Persian, Robins; Georgiana, Toole, and Woodstock, -, hence at New Orleans William & Elizabeth, Pilcher, from Newport, ditto Hannibal, Mumford ; Venture, Parker; Hercules, Postill, and Abercromby, Ure, hence at Mobile Mary, Hamilton, from Demerara, ditto Tynwall, -, from Laguna, ditto Chieftain, Patterson; Robert Watt, Johnson, and Cassiopea, Pressley, hence at Apalachicola Solon, Buckman, hence at Savannah 2nd May. On 24th April, spoke the Vistula, and Tacitus, hence to Havana Celia, Porter; Columbine, Macon, and Eli Whitney, Harding, hence at Savannah Helen, Smith, hence at Charleston North America, Baker, and Katherine Jackson, Dorry, hence at New York Susan Crane, Coffin, and Admiral Benbow, Bruce, hence at Halifax Glasgow, Thompson, hence at Montreal Scotland, Black, hence at Quebec Albert, Gibson, and Tartar, Necker, hence at Gibraltar Reindeer, King, cleared at ditto for Liverpool 9th May Tarrujo 2do, Palha, and Nova Felix, -, hence at Lisbon Actioro, Freitas, sailed from Lisbon for Liverpool 16th May Wm. Rushton, Barnes, hence at Oporto Margaret, Martin hence to Montreal, went on shore at White Island Reef on the 25th ; was overflowed at high warer, and had 9 feet water in her at low water. The cargo was being saved in very good condition. It is feared the vessel will not be got off. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAY 25, 1840. Wind at Holyhead, W.N.W. blowing fresh during the day. Ba• rometer rising. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, at 6 a.m. No. 1521, Christiana, B Sc.; No. 1712, Arcadia, B.S. at g 33 a.m. fro►n Mobile, and 347, Mogul, A.S. at 11 a.m. Sailed from Beaumaris, at 11 30 a.m, No. 1514. Ebenezer, B.Sc. In the Victoria Channel, - at 10 40 a.m. No. 130, Nashville, A.S. from New Orleans. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Bcc. Helen Stewart, D Stewart, 419 Manilla, Bold & Starkey Win. Lockerby, 334 Calcutta, Imrie & Tomlinson WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Royal Mint, W Seawright, 309 Jamaica, J B Yates & Co Rochdale, T Shepherd, 191 St. Vincent, J Cropper 'SOUTH AMERICA. Thomas Battersby, J Leitch, 323 Santa Martha and Carthagena, J Poole Sc Co There is a very good demand for Sugar, and in consequence of the proposed additional duty and unfavourable accounts received of the probable deficiency of the crop, holders have obtained a fur ther advance of Is to 2s per cwt. and the sales of D.P. amount to 750 hhds. 4200 bags of good to fine white Bengal have also been taken, at 74s 3d to 75s per cwt No sales in Mauritius. 26 cases and 80 brls Brazil Sugar are reported, at 20s to 22s for brown, and 23s 6d for ordinary white, and 72 hhds Cayenne, at 20s 6d to 22s per cwt. Bonded Refined-30 hhds Crushed were taken at 34s 6d per cwt.—The arrivals of Molasses has not transpired.—Coffee. The demand for Plantation is very limited, the Trade being reluctant to purchase, except at a considerable reduction in prices ; the sales are to a moderate extent, and consist of 60 casks Jamaica, at a de cline, in most instances, of 2s to 3s per cwt. Of Foreign, a small parcel of Laguayra was sold at 52s per cwt.—Nothing done in Co. coa or Ginger; but 100 bags of Pimento sold at 21e1 and 700 bags of black Pepper at sjd to :rid per lb.-100 bags Bengal Rice sold at 14s, and a small lot of dressed Carolina at the quotations.—No sales are reported in Rum. During the week tire Tea market has been very heavy, and little or no business dole by private contract, and to eflect sales a de cline in price must be submitted to, say Id to 2d per lb on black, and Id per lb on green. At the sale on Wednesday, consisting of 689 packages of good and fine Congou, 168 found buyers, at 2s 4:1 to 2s 6d for cash on Saturday. The additional duty of 5 per cent. chargeable on Teas from the 15th instant, may partly account for the reduction, but the general dulness of the market arises princi pally from the want of information respecting the progress of ship ments at Canton, and the uncertainty of the amount of supply likely to be received during the year. Several public sales were attempted of Shell Lac, Safflower, and other East India Produce on Wednesday last, but without success, and the market remains dull.—A few chests of good consuming In digo sold at 6s to 6s 2d per lb. 16 serons of silver Cochineal at 4s 3d to 4s 6d, 2000 bags of Saltpetre, chiefly at 25s for good, with small parcels at 22s 6d to 26s per cwt.—Of Nitrate of Soda, 600 bags were sold at 175 to 17s 6d per cwt. The sales of Logwood are only 20 tons Campeachy, at .€lO to £lO 10s, and 100 tons Honduras and Jamaica, at €7 to .€7 15s ; 65 tons Cuba Fustic sold at £6 to .€lO ss, 170 tons Savanilla and Ma racaibo at .W 4 17s 641 to £5 lOs; 60 tons inferior Lima Nicaragua Wood, the price of which has not transpired ; 20 tons Red Sanders Wood at £8 2s 6d to .4'B 10s, and 25 tons Barwood at .€6 lOs per ton.—There are no sales of Turpentine to report this week, but prices remain unaltered.—ln Tar also there have been no transac tions.—There has been a moderate demand for Pot Ashes, several parcels of the brand of 1838 having been taken at 235, and at 24$ 3d for those of 1839 ; for a few 24s 6d has been obtained. Pearl Ashes go off slowly, at 3is to 31s 6d per cwt.—The only transaction in Bees' Wax consists of a few cases of American at .€8 per cwt. in bond.—There is no alteration in the price of Linseed ; 228 sacks and 420 pockets East India have been disposed of at 44s per quarter, duty paid, from the quay.—Hides. Salted Monte Video Ox and Cow continue dull, but East India Kips have again brought extreme prices ; 5000 dry salted sold at auction on Tuesday at l2jd to 13d for sound light, 10id to Ilifd for Ist rubbed, 11 id for sound heavy, and Sid to 9id for Ist rubbed; 150 salted New York Hides sold in the early part of the week at 4kd per lb, but this price cannot now be obtained.—Tobacco. The market had been extremely fiat, only about 60 hhls having been sold at the quotations. The demandlor Brimstone has been confined to small parcels for immediate consumption, without any material change in prices, though in some instances at a shade lower.—No sales worthy of notice have been reported in any description of Sumac.—Large parcels of Argols, both red and white, have been offered by auction this week, but no sales were effected. and scarcely any thing done since by private treaty.—Cream of Tartar has become dull of sale, owing to supplies arriving. —A few casks of flag Annatto have been sold at I s per lb.—Valonia has been dull of sale : f 0 tons of good Smyrna, offered at public sale, were disposed of at £l7, and 10 tons Camata at .€lB per ton.—The transactions in Madder Roots this week are confined to 100 bales damaged Turkey, at 19s to 445, and in Madder, 20 bags Spanish at 40s, and 100 barrels of better quali ties at 42s to 52s 6(1 per cwt.—Only a moderate business has been done in Olive Oil, the total sales being about 50 tuns, and with the exceptic n of lu tuns fine Lisbon, sold at .€53, prices have ruled ra ther lower this week.—ln Fish Oils the business is limited to a few trifling sales of Cod at .€26 lOs to .€27, and a sale of new Seal Oil, to arrive, reported to have been made a little under the present quotation.—Pale Rape Oil is still comparatively neglected, but Lin seed Oil is rather dearer, with sellers only to a limited extent.—More inquiry has appeared for Oil of Turpentine, but no business of mo. ment actually done, the Distillers showing no anxiety to sell at the present rates.—Abont 100 tons Palm Oil ,have been sold in small lots, chiefly at £35 105, but part rather lower.—ln Flax and Hemp there is little to report, except in Jute, the demand for which has been good, and 1620 bales sold at .t 11 105 to £l2, but nearly the whole at the latter price. —Tallow has been in fair demand, at steady prices ; Odessa selling in quantity at 495, and Petersburg yellow Candle, in small parcels, at 49s 6d to 49s 94 per cwt. On Saturday last, about 270 pipes and a few serons South American Tallow were offered by auction, the greater part of which sold at 45s to 46s 9d for good colour and firm, and fine Grease at 435 6il per cwt. being a little decline upon previous sales. UNITED STATES. Eleanor, Pemberton, 292 New Orleans, G Brown & Co Europe, E G Marshall, 615 New York, Galt, Bar' & Co Maria, Whedoii, 450 New York, Waddington, Holt & Co Cyrus, J Clark, 247 Savannah, J Gordon & Co Potomac, J Drew, 284 Baltimore, W Stuart Brunette, 0 Robinson, 335 Boston, Focke & Boult Commerce, S M Read, 234 New York, Roskell, Ogden & Co Grace Brown, J Duff, 447 Virginia, Brown, Shipley &Co Ganges, J Jones, 376 Hampton Roads and Charleston, Lodge, Prichard & Co BRITISH AMERICA. Angora, B Salsbury, — Jessy, J Harvey, 81 Newfoundland, T & W Earl & Co Wm. Herdmau, W Michael, -347 Quebec, W Michael Catherine, G Masson, 449 Quebec, Langtrys & Co JsvooiisuliJames,ntteerr , Johnny, -- 0wen,216 Halifax, N.S. M'Calmont Brs & Co 102 Labrador, C & E Bunt & Co 362 Montreal, W Fisher & Son Bull,G Christiana. P J BLSie Rodgers nlTkLittle , p'sou , , 436 Quebec, G L Jackson & Sons Harmony, , Adolphine, H Martiny, 70 Lubeck, • C G Weber & Co Leo, J M Kendall, 330 Montreal, W Fisher & Son EUROPE. Bristol, W Escott, 212 Cadiz and Monte Video, .1 Poole & Co Lucinde, E Pottlich, 150 Stettin, Bahr, Behrend & Co Maria Wilhelmina, J P Niemann, 171 Wismar, C G Weber & Co Livorno. J Randall, 160 Dunkirk and Danzic, Cram & Smith Albion, J L Ives, 172 Adra, G S Middleton Beiram, J Woolner, 135 Constantinople, Bahr, Behrend & Co Ida Cornelia, W P Schenk, 1:30 Elsinore, Bahr, Behrend & Co Frederica Gustavo, C F Block, ids Elsinore, Bahr, Behrend & Co Johanna, M Petersen, 88 Elsinore, Bahr, Behrend & Co Coral, E Paine, 58 Rotterdam, Cram & Smith Ida Corneliu, W F Shenek, 150 Amsterdam and Harlingen, Bahr, Behrend & Co Corinthian, WJ Scollay, 173 Leghorn and Zante, E Rae & Sons or J G Whyte Gretry, Gombeer, 132 Antwerp, J Johnstone Countess Durham, H M Stone, 168 Berbice and Maracaibo, J Poole & Co Arrow, G Rider, 79 Barcelona, J Glynn & Son Louisa, J Elliot, sg Cadiz, J Glynn & Son Sphynx, W Connibeer, Gibraltar and Cadiz, W H Wood No rma, N T Bradhering, 200 Narra, Bahr, Behrend & Co Prices paid IMPORTS SALES OF THE WEEK. in the week. This Wk. this year -- Igo , Sea Island l3ldop2Bd 40 Stained 5670 , Bowed Georgia 3250 { Mobile Alabama and Tennessee 41 51 1 24666 305700 10570 New Orleans J Pernambuco & Paraiba 9l 9i } 323 } 12732 280 1 Aricati and Ceara 310 Bahia and Maccio J Maranham -9/ 1 1 5617 90 1 Sawginned Minas — —1" ' 1 .. .• Para Demerara, Surinam, &c... -- .... 161 960 Egyptian Barbados — .... 183 370 Peruvian Bahama 9 10 , Laguayra — Common West India, &c.. : } 233 2798 Carthagena — 70 ' Smyrna 6i - 6+ . i Manilla 1620 Surat 41 5 } .... } 28242 : Madras — Bengal — j •••• 713 23430 bales I I 52556 596394 MONDAY EVENING, There has been but a moderate demand for Cotton to-day ; the sales are 2500 bags, with a flat market. As yet no giving way in price, although the arrivals are heavy, upwards of 50 vessels having come in since Thursday with Cotton. 250 on speculation. zalarkrtc4. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, MAr 22. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. MAY 22. A fair extent of business has again been done, but the market still continues in a very dull and uninteresting state, and although no alteration can be noted in the quotations for American. the buyer has had some little advantage. East India is rather lower, and Brazil, in which little is doing, has again declined id per lb. The public sales, consisting of 1,236 Sea Island, 162 Stained Do., ino Smyrna and 200 Madras, were but thinly attended, and for the former rather lower rates were accepted, and only 90 sold, at id. per lb decline. Spectators have taken 2,000 American, and Ex porters 2,500 American. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the 15th instant to this day, inclusive. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, MA I- 25. A seasonable supply of some five or six thousand firkins of But ter by the South of Ireland steamers, has had the important effect of causing a reduction in price of 4s to 6s per cwt. There is never theless a very animated demand ; fine Carlow and Waterford we quote to-day 112 s per cwt. Cork pickled Butter offered at 158 s, but we believe 106 s would not be refused. The very high price of Beef must act favourably upon the demand for Pork ; at present, however, very little is doing in either article. The holders of Bacon generally anticipate improved prices as the summer advances. . . .. • LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, MAT 23. The arrivals of Irish Oats and Oatmeal, since this day week, ti're to a• fair amount, but otherwise the supplies of British Grain, &c. have been very light. From abroad we have received upwards of 24,770 qrs. of Wheat, 11,540 qrs. of Barley, 784 qrs. of Beans, 1,400 qrs. of Peas, and 29,g00 brls. of Flour. Our town's dealers have not been free buyers of Wheat, but in addition to their purchases, some parcels have been taken for Irish and country account, and, on the whole, a fair business has been done, at the prices of last week for the better qualities, and with little if any variation for other descriptions.—Best brands of American Flour have sold in small parcels at 365. to 365. 6d. per brl., duty paid : there are buyers in quantity at 255., in bond, but holders are demanding not less than 20s. per brl.—Oats and Oatmeal have both met little inquiry, and any but choice qualities may be bought on rather lower terms fair runs of Irish at 3s. 10d. to 3s. 11d ; fine 'healing are worth 4s. Id. per 451bs ; Oatmeal 345. to 355. per 2401bs.—Some quantity of released foreign Barley has gone into second hands at 4s. to 4s. 6d. per 601bs. for fair and good parcels of grinding quality.—No change as regards Beans or Peas. LIVERPOOL PR ASHES Montreal, Pot 22 6@ 24 6 Pearl, new 3l 6 —3l 6 U. States, Pot none. Pearl none. BARK, Quercit. Oak, v ton .. t 5 0 6 10 German 3 10 4 15 BRIMSTONE, i, ton Sicily, &c l2 10 13 0 Tuscany l2 10 13 0 CASSIA LIGNEA, S. d. s. d. v cwt. in bond 80 0 —9O 0 CI.ovER-sKKD,Y cwt. American, red.. none Dutch 70 0— 80 0 French & Gerna.7o 0— 80 0 COCOA, le cwt. Trinidad 56 0— 65 0 Grenada 39 0— 0 0 Brazil s cwt in bond. Jama. triage :: 60 0— 95 0 ordinary) good& fine ord. 97 0-104 0 middling lu6 0-114 0 good mid. ll6 0-122 fine mid. &c 126 0-140 0 Dutch, triage.. 0— 90 0 ordinary .... good &fine ord. 92 0— 96 0 middling gB 0-101 0 good mid. 11 102 0-105 0 tine mid., &c. Mocha lOO 0-125 0 Ceylon Java Havana good & fine ord. 46 0— 52 0 St. Domingo 45 0— 48 0 Brazil 45 0— 50 0 Laguira 66 0— 68 0 Dirxwoons, v ton s. s. Logwood, Jam... 7 15— 8 0 Hon. & Dom. 7 15— 8 0 Campeachy .. 9 0— 10 0 Fustic, Span 5 5 5 15 Tampico 6 10— 7 0 Brazil Cüba NICARAGUA WOOD. . Rio de la Hache solid rough 6 0— 7 10 small • 6 10— 8 0 Lima, solid l4 0— 16 0 Barwood, Ango 8 0— 8 10 Gaboon 5 0— 6 0 Camwood l9 0— 25 0 Red San. Wood 8 0— 9 FLAX, as ton. Riga. P.T.R. 4l 0— (4 0 P'burg, 9 head 4O 0— 420 Archangel 43 0— 50 0 Dutch & Flem. GALLS, 13 cwt. Turkey, blue mixed 60 0— 70 0 East India 6O 0— 70 0 GINGER, 19 , cwt. Barbadoes 45 0— 50 0 Jamaica 6O 0-120 0 E. India, in build 12 0— 19. o. Gust, v cwt. Arabic, Turkey 7O 0-140 0 East India 24 0— 55 0 Barbary 45 0— 50 0 Senegal 63 0— 64 0 HEMP, 34 ton .e S. s. P'burg, clean 36 0— 36 10 Outshot 34 10— 35 0 Riga, Rhine outshot 34 10— 35 0 Archangel 31 0— 33 10 Manilla 27 0— 28 0 Bombay Jute HIDES, Ox and Cow, V lb B. Ayres and Monte Video. dry. inferior & mid. 0 71— 0 81 good & prime 0 94 0 10 Do. salted N. Amer. salted 0 34 0 441 Brazil dry salted 0 si 0 64 Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 6i-- 0 8. Odessa, &c. dry 0 6 0 7 W. India, dry 0 0 7 salted 0 44 0 5 t 4 East India Kips, B.A. dry 0 74._ 0 84 Horse, d. each 9 0 —l2 0 HORSE HAIR, 1. Short mixed long tails 1 4 1 10 combed INDIGO,* lb. in bond. Bengal. pur. & violet blue & violet blue 0 0— 0 0 violet, g. & fine 7 0— 7 6 ord. & mid. 6 0— 6 g violet & cop. I .. 56 6 6 mixed cop. g. & tine. .5 9 6 3 ord. & mid. 4 9 5 6 con. quality Oude 2 3 5 9 Madras 3 3 5 6 Guatimala, v tb. Floras Sobres 4 6 6 0 Cortes 2 3 4 3 Caraccas, Floras 6 3 6 9 Sobres 4 6 . 1 ; 11 Cortes LAC DIE, D.T. and prime. 1 6 3 0 mid. to good 0 8— 1 4 ord. & inferior 0 6 0 74 MADDER ROOTS, p cwt. Smyrna Galipoli & Syria .. 0 0— 0 0 French 47 0— 48 0 Naples 44 0— 45 0 CES CURRENT. MADDER, 14 cwt. s. d. s. d. Dutch, crop 70 0 —BO Ombro 50 0 —65 0 Gamene 32 0 -40 0 Mull 10 0 —3O 0 French, S.F. 42 0 —46 0 S.F.F 48 0 —52 0 E.5.F... 54 0 -58 0 E.5.F.F.63 0 —7O 0 Spanish 45 0 0 0 MOLASSES, 19 , Cwt. Trinidad, &c 36 0 —3B 0 Demerara, 37 0 —39 g Bar & Antigua.. 40 0 —4O 6 MUNJ HET, V. cwt 14 0 —l5 0 Oii., Olive, v 252 galls. Gallipoli ..t'64 0 —65 0 Trieste 56 o —57 0 Sicily 58 0 —59 0 Malaga 49 0 —5O 0 Portugal ; &C 5O 0 —52 0 Lever,; 50 0 —52 0 Palm, /1" tOn 35 10 —35 15 Fish, V 252 galls. .25 10 —26 0 .23 0 —25 0 Cod 26 10 —27 0 LINSEED, 13 cwt 24 6 —25 0 Rape, pale do. 3B 0 —3B 6 Turpen. Is. cwt. 57 0 —57 6 cwt Carolina, dress. 36 0 —37 0 Seal, pale. brown in bond 24 0 Bengal, ord. do.. 11 0 -25 6 -13 6 mid to fine l4 0 —l5 0 African none. Rum, at) gallon, in bond. Jamaica, 12 to 16 o. p 4 6 4 g stronger 4 10 5 10 choice marks.. 6 0 6 4 SAFFLOWER., ,p cwt. Bengal; good & fine.. £5 0 7 10 ord. & mid Bombay SALTPETRE, 19. cwt. s. d. s. d East India 23 0 —2B 0 South American 17 6 —lB 0 SHELL. LAC, 19 , Mt. in bond. orange 56 0 —95 liver and black .. 33 0 —5O 0 SKINS, Neutria,l , doz . . 8 0 —l4 0 Chinchilli, do. .. 10 0 —25 Seal, each SnumAc, ap• cwt. Sicily Malaga Trieste Verona Tyrolese .. ( SUGAR, 'p eavt. .. .11 0 -13 0 none .. 8 0 8 6 .. 7 o 7 6 •• 9 0 —lO 0 B. P. Milscovado moist brown .. 65 0 —66 0 dry brown .... 67 0 —7O 0 good & mid.... 71 0 —73 0 tine &v. fine .. 74 0 —77 0 Mauritius, dabs and moist 63 0 —65 0 brown 66 0 —69 0 yellow 70 0 —72 0 . fine yellow 72 0 —74 0 East India, Bengal ord. white 6B 0 --70 good and tine 72 0 —74 0 extra fine 75 0 —76 0 Manilla, in bond 20 0 —23 0 Havana, do. brown yellow white ord good & fine Brazil, in bond. none. (10.. do. do. brown lB 0 yellow 22 6 white ord. 23 o good and fine 25 0 TALLOW, 19. cwt. P'burgh, Y.C. 49 6 —49 9 Odessa 48 6 —49 0 Archangel 47 0 —47 6 Buenos Ayres 42 0 —46 6 TAR, TY brl. - - -22 0 -24 0 -24 0 -27 0 Stockholm l6 6 —l7 0 Archangel l6 0 —l6 6 Carolina 13 6 —l4 6 Virginia . 00 0 0 ( TARTAR, v• cwt. Cream of Tartar.. 80 0 —B5 brown and yel... 50 0 —6B 0 'TEA, 1;) lb. in bond. Bohea, Canton .. Fokein Congou, com. 2 2 2 3 mid. to fine. 2 4 3 0 Twankay, corn 2 3 mid. to good 2 4 2 5 Pekoe, Orange 2 6 4 0 Campoi, coin. to g00d... none Hyson Skin 2 0 2 2 mid. to fine 2 4 2 8 Souchong, com 2 3 2 4 good to fine.. 2 9 3 6 Pekoe, flowery .. 3 0 3 9 Hyson, MM..... 2 7 2 8 line 30-5 0 Young Hyson p 3 6- Imperial Gunpowder, good and fine TOBACCO, le , lb. in bond. J. River, Leaf 0 3 O S O 9 O 8 O 0 Stemmed 0 4 Kentucky Maryland TuRMKILIC, V , cwt in bond. Bengal 28 0 —33 0 tTURPENTINE, 4, cwt. American VALoNIA, ton. s Smyrna, picked 14 0 —2l 0 Morea ....... . 6 0 — l3 0 WAX, BEES' Cwt. in bond. African 6 10 7 10 East India American 7 10 8 0 LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, MAY 25. We have experienced a short suppply of good Beef, which was readily sold at almost a halfpenny per lb. over last quotation ; middling and inferior was in good demand, and higher prices were obtained.—The supply of Mutton and Lamb was more numerous, and sold readily, the prices of which were fully equal to our last market. Prime Beef 7,W ; middling 7d ; inferior 6d and bid. Best Old blethers in their wool 8d ' • Shorn Sheep 6} to 7d. Lamb Sd to 9d. Number of Beasts-617 ; Sheep and Lambs-6141. LONDON GAZETTE.-FRmAr, MAY 22. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED G. Wylde and J. Entwisle, Macclesfield, silk-throwsters—W. Nor man and T. Jones, Traninere, Cheshire, slaters—T. Blare and B. Blare, Manchester, feut-dealers—T. Ludlow and S. Barrett, Edge ley, Cheshire, brick-makers—A. Smith and R. Glasgow, Manches ter, iron and brass-founders—J. fl. Pollack, P. Thomson, J. D. Whitaker, and J. W . Davies, Manchester, merchants ; as far as re gards J. W. Davies. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Thomas Seddon and George Seddon, Gray's Inn-road, London, cabinet-makers. John Jaques, Hare-street, Bethnal-green, London, dyer. BANKRUPTS. Thomas Gould, Cheapside, London, stay-manufacturer. George Jemmett, Long-acre, London, coach-maker. Thomas Williams, Liverpool, linen-draper, to surrender June 6, July 3, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Abbott and Arney, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, Lon don; and Messrs. Bennett, Manchester. Robert Brooks, St. Albans. grocer. Robert Johnston and Edmund •Rowe Danson, Gracechurch street, 4. ondon, wholesale ironmongers. John Marshall, King William-street, London, commission-agent. George Whitehead, Fleet-street, London, printer. James Wellington, Ross, Herefordshire, butcher. John Towers, Wolverhampton, hatter. David Jones, Pontfaen, Montgomery, flannel-draper. Eliza King, Basingstoke. innkeeper. William Walter Yeld and William Bower Dawes, Lugeley, Staf fordshire, brewers. DIVIDENDS June 12, J. Taylor, Noel-street, Berwick-street, London, iron Plate-manufacturer—June 12, J. Waterhouse, Lad-lane, London, coach-proprietor—June 12, J. Bates, Long-lane, Bermondsey, far rier—June 15, W. Wilson and E. 13rodribb, Mark-lane, London, merchants—June 15, J. Telford, Star-court, Bread-street, Cheap. side. London, leather-factor—June 12, C. Walker, Pimlico, wharf ger—June 12, It. Pease, Leeds, timber-merchant—June 12, J. Gunn, Old-road, Limehouse, cowkeeper—June 13, W. Clark, Upper Thames-street, London, lead-merchant—June 13, J. Hines, St. Mil dred's-court, London, merchant—June 13, J. Black, Glasgow, mer chant—June 13, G. Liversidgge, Great Dover-street, Southwark, coachmaker—June 12, C. Saville, Romlord, grocer—June 11, W. W. Taylor. Gerrard-street, Soho, London, wine-merchant—June 12, R. Richardson, Corporation-row, St. John-street, London, merchant —June 12, B. Murgatroyd, Bradford, worsted-spinner—June 12, T. Smallwood, Drayton-in-Hales, Shropshire, banker—June 13, J. A. Howe, Bristol, umbrella-manufacturer—June 16, J. Hunt, South ampton, tailor—June 16, C. Hannurn, Chippenham, Wiltshire, car penter. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before June 12, J. Lloyd, Liverpool, linen.draper—T. Dixon, Preston, flour dealer—D. Alder, Leadenhall. street, London, merchant—C. A lcock Sheffield, case-manufacturer—J. G. Meyer, Threadneedle-street, London, wool.broker—J. Medlam, Bristol, victualler—J. IleatleY, Manchester. innkeeper. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Illingw•orth, Edinburgh, commission-agent. George Brookman and A.exander WDonald Hartley, printers. Alexander Forrest, Edinhurgh, smith. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar. computed from the Returns made in the week ending May 19, is 44s 9id per cwt. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. MAY II o e 3 26. Betty Smith, (2nd) Clarendon Rooms, 1 i 26. William Wilking Bdlley, (2nd) 26. Charles and William Sidebotham, (2nd) Ditto, I 26. Henry Laffer, (2nd) 26. James Sill and William Watson Clay and Swift's, I 27. Colborne and Dobbs Clarendon Rooms, I 27. Thomas Maguire Ditto, 9 29. Samuel Rogers, (div.) 29. William Bilsborrow, (2nd) Commercial Rooms, Bristol, 12 Clarendon Rooms, 1 30. Betty Smith, (special) I ato I I 30. Montefiore, Carmichael & Co. (special) ~. _ Court of Bankruptcy, London, 12 29. William Kelly, (Ist) Clarendon Rooms, 1 30. Thomas Wilson and Son, (proof , Ditto. 2 June 1, James and John Cotter, (final div ) Ditto, 1 Days. TIDE TABLE. Mrn. i Ern. Height. Sundays, Ifolydays, H. It I 11. 31. P. 1. Tuesday 26 618 641 II 1 iTrinity Term begins. Wednes. 27 j 714 1 746 15 3 Thursday 28 810 1 839 ,16 8 Ascension Day. Holy Th. Friday ..29 ' 9 5 1 932 il7 5 Restoration of Charles 11. Saturda) 3o 957 1' 23 18 0 Sunday 31 10 48 11 IS 18 8 Monday 1 11 36 0 0 18 2 NORTHERN HOSPITAL, MAY 23. DISCHARGED. Cured Attending as Out Patients . Irregular Died ie Hospital . . . 81 AL M ITTF: I) Accidents Medical and Surgical cases Upon recommendation Total 28 Remaining in th, Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. House Visitors, Rev. Dr. Ralph, and John Clint, Esq. - Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.—House Surgeon, Mr. An►ott. PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. Outward LONDON & LIVERPOOL, to Jamaica Leeward Isl. Bern. & Berbiee 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, &c. Malta, Sicily, &c. Smyrna and Constantinople Malaga Madeira Western Isles, Cape de Verds Lisbon Cadiz France Holland Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Riga, &c. Oporto 25s 0(.1q :30 0 20 0 05 0 40 0 50 0 30 0 25 0 30 o 35 0 40 o 40 0 50 0 30 0-40 0 30 0' 40 0 30 0 05 0 0 0 35 0-40 0 35 0-40 0 Home. 35 0-40 0 40 0 -45 0 40 0 - 30s OdCz.OS ° 20 0 -- 25 0 ° 50 0 -- 0 20 0 --0 0 . 20 0 -- 0 . 25 0 -- 30 ° 40 0 -- SO 0 40 0 -- 50 ° 40 0-50 0 25 0 --.00 0 25 0 30 0 40 0 -- 30 0 -- ---- 17 6 -20 0 50 0-60 0 20 0 -- 25 0 40 0 -- 50 0 20 0-25 0 20 0 -- ---- 25 0 - - 25 0 - -- 25 0 - 30 0 30 0-40 0 40 0 - -- 40 0-50 0 50 0 - 60 0 25 0 - ---- 40 0 - -- 40 0 - 40 0 - -- 126 0 - 20 0 - 40 0 - 20 0 -25 0 30 0 - 20 0 - 25 0 20 0 - 17 6 20 0 20 0 - 0 25 0 -30 0 30 0-40 0 40 0 - 50 0 - BIRTHS. 17 6 - 20 0 On the 21st instant, in Toxteth-park, Mrs. S. SNEADE, of 6 daughter. Same day, at Upland, Carmarthen, the lady of Captain EVEREST , Hon. East India Company's Service, of a son. MARRIED. On the 13th instant, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, Mr. JOSHUA THORNTON, fustian-shearer, to Mrs. STUART, both of Barrow-street, Salford. The bridegroom is 66 years of age, and the present is his 4th wife; the lovely bride is 73 years old, and has been married twice before. On the 14th instant, at Farnworth Church. Mr. THOMAS GLOVER, second son of Mr. James Glover, Widness, to ALICE APPLETON, eldest daughter of Mr. Appleton, of Upton, in the same township. On the 12th instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. S. Bovr• stead, Mr. JAMES VIDLER, of the Tunnel Hotel, Edge.hill. to Miss ELIZABETH WADDINGTON. Same day, at Seathwaite, Mr. JOHN NEWBY MOORE, wine and spirit-merchant, of this town, to SARAH TYSON, second daughter of the Rev. Edward Tyson. Same day, at Hawarden, by the Rev. J. Hill, B.A. Mr. EDWARD OWENS, of Trevellyn, to Miss ESTHER DAVIES, of Broughton. On the 21st instant, at St. Matthew's Church, Rastrick, York shire, by the Rev. Mr. Mayne, Mr. JOHN ALLEN CAIN, of this town, to HANNAH FLINDERS SCHOFIELD, only daughter of Jonathan Schofield, Esq. of the former place. Same day. at Wa Iton.on.the. Hill. by the Rev. Thomas Moss. vicar, Mr. JOHN WILLIAM DAVIES, to ELIZABETH, only sur viving daughter of Mr. WALKER, Wavertree-road.. _ _ On the - 22nd instant, at Birmingham, Mr. ORME, of this town, to SUSAN, second daughter of JAMES MONTGOMERY, Es 4• Finch-house, near Birmingham. On the 25th instant. at the Tabernacle, Welsh Independent Chapel. Marybone, by the Rev. Thos. Pierce, Mr. H. DAVIES, boot and shoe maker, Hill-street, Toxteth-park. to Miss HANNAII EVANS, formerly of Llanfaircareinion, Montgomeryshire. DIED. Lately, in the neighbourhood of Leigh, an old woman, aged 9 8 . It is somewhat singular, that she had worked forty years in a coal mine, was the mother of twelve children, and lived to see Ile , twelfth grandchild, by her twelfth and youngest son. On the 26th ult. aged 10 months, EMMA BROWNE; on the 15th instant, aged 6 years, MARTHA BROWNE ; and on the 18th inst. aged 8 years, JANE ANN BROWNE, d aughters of M r . J o hn Browne, cooper, Hanley-street. Os the Bth instant, FRANCIS AMB ROSE DAWS ON LITI'LE DALE; infant soli of Dawson Littledale, Esq. Manor-house, York On the 13th instant, after a short but severe illness, aged 83, Mr. DANIEL PICKANCE. . - On the 16th instant, at Chorley. aged 57, Mr. JOHN SALT, late master of the Rotunda, Bold-street, in this town. Same day, at Woodside, awfully sudden, in his 70th year, Mr. R. JONES, late of Bolesworth, Cheshire. Same day, aged 33, Mr. RICHARD JONES, Fox-street, Evertors. Same day, aged 5 years, FRANCES HANNAH LUCAS, daughter of Mr. Robert Lucas, Great Charlotte•street. On the 17th instant, aged 18, ELIZA ELKIN, wife of Mr. Thos• Elkin, and only daughter of Captain John Manning, of this port. much respected and deeply regretted by a numerous circle of ac quaintance. On the 18th instant, after a protracted illness of many years, aged 80, Mr. THOMAS MORRIS, deeply regretted by a large circle of friends. Same day, aged 20, MARY ANN BAILEY, eldest daughter of Mt. Thomas Bailey, bookseller, 32, Manchester-street. On the 19th instant, suddenly, Mr. JOHN BATESON, Leeds street. Same day, at Torquay, CATHERINE CIIALONER, the beloved wife of Edward Chaloner, Esq. Oak-hill. On the 20th instant, at Birkenhead, in the 37th year of her age , ELIZA ANN, the beloved wife of Mr. ROBERT PLUMMER. _,. Same day, at Emral, ad vance d i n years, Si r RICHD . PULESTO I " , Bart. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by Capt. Pulestoll• of Chester. Same day, after upwards of seven years' affliction, aged 1 6, JOSEPH HARLING SANKEY, son of Mr. Samuel Hurst SankeY , printer. . _ On the 22d instant, at Ball-greave, whither he had gone for th e benefit of his health, after a patient r e si gna ti on t o th e di v i n e vOY' aged 3g, Mr. ROBERT HILL, late of the Exchange News_roolo. this town. Same day, Mr. TEAR, tailor, Pitt-street. LIVERPOOL, : TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1840. 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