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3ottr). ELYSIAN FIELDS AT LO ND WTHER IN WESTMOR LA. (From Blackwood's Magazine far January.) A youth caress'd and nurtured long, Beneath the sky, beside the sea, Where rules a vivid world of song The clear-eyed Queen Parthenope, And wont to blend with outward grace, The soul Virgillien memory yields, ' Might seek, with dull, uneager pace, The cloudy north's Elysian Fields. " Lowther," he cried, " of ancient strength Thy lofty towers the harness wear : Thy terraces their mossy length Extend through centuries of care. In thine old oaks may Fancy read A green traditionary chain Of Worth and Power ;—Thou dost not need To take the classic name in vain." Up Lowther's banks, that very eve, • This scornful youth was seen to wind Still tardier steps, that seena'd to grieve For joy or beauty left behind : But, ere he reach'd the lordly roof, High portal, and cathedral stair, His thoughts in other, fairer woof, Were offer'd to the attentive air. " Not once to Bai's column'd bay, Or Cumai's glade my spirit fled, While on that storm-cast trunk I lay, Above yon turrent's stormy bed : Crystal and green sufficed so well To solace and delight mine eyes ; They yearn'd for no rernember'd spell Fashion'd beneath serener skies. " If golden light, or azure void, The Poet's radiant dream fulfils, Are clouds and shadows unenjoy'd, The ghostly guardians of the hills ? Nature an open Faith demands : And we have little else to do, But take the blessing from her hands, Feeling—Here is Elysium too." R. M. MILNES. LITERARY NOTICES. The Church of England Quarterly Review. January, 1840. London: W. E. Painter. This is an admirable number, embraciog a great variety of articles of a most interesting character. We have been highly delighted with the introductory address of the new editor. It reflects equal credit upon his scholarship and his theo/bgical attainments. The elaborate article on " Psalmody" is well worth a careful perusal. The article on " The Apo§tolical Succession" is sound and orthodox in its views. We have been especially pleased with the numerous extracts from the fathers of the Anglican Church, many of which are entirely new to us, and all of which express the opinions which we have long held on the subject. We rejoice to find that the sentiments of the talented editor are in accordance with our own. " The Living Lamps of Learning" is the title ' of a very brilliant article. The review of the " Bishop of Exeter's Charge" we recommend to the serious notice of all true church men. It is a perfect mine of wisdom. The remarks on " The Anglican Liturgies".are extremely appropriate. The power ful article on "The Nature and Venality of Papal Indulgences" will he perused with much interest. Its exposure of the sel fish workings of Popery is complete and triumphant. " The Principles of Popery Developed" is another article exactly suited to the present crisis in the religious history of Great Britain. We should like to see this very seasonable paper printed in a separate form. Its extensive circulation among prdfessing Protestants might be productive of much benefit. " The Character of Bishop Hurd" is a pleasing tribute to the memory of a distinguished scholar and divine. " The Pe rilous State of the Nation" is a production of which any man might feel proud. The arguments which it embodies are incontrovertible. The " Ecclesiastical Report" and Miscel laneous Intelligence in the Church of England Quarterly .Review are copious, 'accurate, and valuable. The Churchman. January, 1840. London : W. E. Painter. The opening article in the present number on " The Present Position of the Church," is admirably written, and ought to be perused by every sincere Protestant. The reflections on the " New Year" are such as every pious mind ought to indulge in. We particularly recommend to the notice of our readers the apposite remarks on " National Education and the Centralising Principle." " The Church man's Christian Course," is the title of a very excellent paper, abounding in practical instruction. The account of " The Duchy of Saxe Coburg Gotha," will be read with vet y great interest. We greatly admire the " Brief Reasons for an Established Church." The " Life of Bishop Wilson" is replete with the most important species of instruction — the instruction conveyed by the force of example. The cor respondence, poetry, reviews, and miscellaneous intelligence in the Churchman are highly interesting, and breathe a truly Catholic spirit. The Village Churchman. January, 1840. London : W. E. Painter. This •is a very pleasing miscellany of ecclesiastical and theological intelligence, adapted to the capacities of the hum bler classes of churchmen. It is conducted with very great ability, and embraces a variety of articles of the deepest interest. The remarks on " Speaking the Truth in Love," form a very suitable introduction to the yearly volume. The " Hints on Popery" are truly excellent. They could not have been introduced at a better period. " The Village Churchman's Sabbath Meditations" promise to be a very useful series. We are glad to meet with the appropriate' remarks on the " Church of England Societies." The venerable Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Fo reign Parts," ought to be more generally known than it is. " Popular Mistakes respecting the Church of England," and " The Bible," are excellent papers. We cordially wish this unobtrusive periodical an extended circulation. The Monthly Law Magazine and Political Review. January, 1840. London :W. Crofts. This admirable periodical continues to improve as it ad vances in age. Its political essays are perfect " studies." It is almost needless to repeat that they are strictly constitu tional or conservative in their tendency. The paper on "The Inns of Court —Legal Studies—the Bar" will be found highly interesting to the legal student. The author is evidently quite au fait on the subject. We greatly admire the paper on " The Prospects of the Session. Its vigour of style and keen discrimination entitle it to the very highest recommen dation which' we can bestow upon it. Our professional friends will derive much useful information from the admira ble essay on " Titles depending on Voluntary Deeds." This difficult subject is here handled with very great ability. The paper on " Strangulation by the Umbilical Cord," in refe rence to infanticide, will be found highly useful to the student of medical jurisprudence. The cases adduced in illustration of the subject are very interesting. The essay on " The Motives to Crime" deserves a very attentive !pefusal. It is replete with sound philosophical deductions. The " Notes of Cases" in Equity and Bankruptcy, Common Law, and in the Ecclesiastical and Maritime Courts, form a very valuable compendium of legal intelligence. No statesman should be without this excellent periodical, which has obtained a merited degree of celebrity, not only on account of the information which it contains, but also on account of the strictly con servative tone of its politics. The British Farmer's Magazine. January, 1840. London - • - J. Ridgway and Sons. We feel that we cannot speak too highly of this valuable periodical. We admire the fearless and independent tone which it has assumed in speaking on the anti-corn law agita tion. This number contains two excellent articles on this. subject ; one on " The Anti-Corn Law League," and the other on " The Corn Laws" generally. The flimsy argu ments and gross mis-statements of the Anti-Corn Law Cir cular are here exposed with great ability. The crack-brained concoctors of that stupid publication are treated with very little ceremony by the editor. The valuable paper on " Ame rican Agriculture" is very carefully compiled, and presents us with much information of an original character. To the remarks on " National Education" we shall reply in our next. We have derived much gratification from the perusal of the " Introduction to Practical and Economical Geology and Mineralogy, including Mining and Metallurgy," by Mr. Donbavand. The remarks on " Saltpetre as a Manure" are sensible and valuable. " Facts and Opinions" will prove of great assistance to the practical farmer. They embody much interesting information, of the highest importance to the agriculturist. The essay on " The Advancement, of Agricultural Science, and the English Agricultural Society," displays a practical acquaintance With the subject. The re views and miscellaneous information in the British Farmer's 111agazine contain much that is valuable to the agriculturist. No farmer or landholder should be without this ably •con ducted periodical. General Sir R. C. Ferguson, M.P., is at present in dblicate health, and may not, for a time, be able to resume his seat • in parliament. THE REAL . T i UST PRINCIPLE OF TIIE NEW POOR LAW PROPOSED FOR ADOPTION TO AN INCONVENIENT EXTENT. ----That this law of no work no recompense should first of all be enforced on the manual worker, and brought stringently home to him and his numerous class, while so many other classes and persons still go loose from it, was natural to the case. Let it be enforced there, anti rigidly made good. It behoves to be enforced everywhere, and rigidly made good; alas, not by such simple methods as ` refusal of out-door re lief,' but by other costlier ones; which, however, a bountiful Providence is not unfurnished with, nor in these latter gene rations, (if we will understand their convulsions,) too sparing to apply. Work is the mission of man in this earth. A day is ever struggling forward, a day will arrive in some approxi mate degree, when he who has work to do, by whatever name he may be named, will not find it good to show himself in our quarter of the solar system ; but may go and look out elsewhere, if there be any idle planet discoverable! Let the honest working man rejoice that such law, the first of Na ture, has been made good on him ; and hope that, by and by, .all else will be made good. It is the beginning of all. We ,define the harsh New Poor-law to be withal a ' protection of ;the thrifty labourer against the thriftless and dissolute ;' a ,thing inexpressibly important ; a half-result, detestable, if . you will, when looked upon as the whole result: yet without which the whole result is for ever unattainable. Let waste ;fulness, idl en ess, drunkenness, improvidence, take the fate which ' God has appointed them;, that their opposite may have a chance fer their fate. Let the Poor-law administra.. tors be considered:4: useful labourers whom nature has fur ,nished with a whole tlry of the universe, that they might accomplish an indispeno4,e. fractional practice there, and -prosper iw spite of much coutzsdiction. — Chartism, by Mr. eCartyle. CONTEMPORARY PRESS. THE REPEAL OF THE 43ORN LAWS.--COM • PENSATION TO THE LANDLORDS. (From the Morning Herald) The exceeding self-complacency with which the op ponents 'of the corn laws are in the habit of deciding the question of compensation, to which, even they ad mit, a repeal of the corn laws would, inevitably, give rise, is not, at times, unamusing. An ingenious even ing contemporary discusses the matter in the following strain ; " It is not the business of those who are opposed to the felon law to demand its partial repeal. Founding on prin ciple, they should demand the total repeal, as an act of jus tice. If any persons, being advocates of the law, conic for ward and say, The abolition would inflict an injury on me ; I gave £20,000 for an estate, relying on the corn law being continued, which will not be worth above £12,000 if the law be abolished ;' we are far from saying that such a case ought not to be taken into consideration. If a farmer says he took a lease for ten years in 1837, and gave 30s. an acre for the land on the virtual pledge of the legislature that the corn law should be continued, his case also may be deserving com pensation. We must, however, have the individual injustice substantiated before giving redress. This promise of " redress" must be, doubtless, ex ceedingly consolatory to the agricultural community. The question may, however, suggest itself to sundry farmers and landowners—" Whence are to be derived the means of supplying the compensation so magnani mously guaranteed to us, in the event of abandon ing the corn laws ?" And, truly, the query is a co gent one ! The landowners of England have invested in . the soil upwards of two thousand millions of mo ney ; while the amount of farming capital is computed to exceed seven hundred and fifty millions. The amount of capital embarked in trade is, on the other hand, less than two hundred and fifty millions. These propor tions indicate but an indifferent prospect of compensa tion for landowners and farmers, _ should landowners and farmers ever consent to a repeal of the corn laws. THE CORN LAWS. (From the Evening Mail) We left off with the proposition that Ireland may be made to yield from ten to thirty million's worth of ad-. ditional agricultural produce yearly. There .are in Great Britain 34,254,000 statute acres of cultivated land, Which so, far back as ism yielded an agricUltn-: ral produce of the annual value of £150,000,000. There are in Ireland 14 , 603,000 statute acres of c ulti-, vated land, yielding; in 1835, an agricultural produce of the annual value of £36,000,000. So then, as to the extent cultivated in Great Britain is to the produce yielded there, so ought the extent cultivated in Ireland be to the produce yielded here, and see what is the result. As 34,254.000 acres : .E 156,000,000 :-14,603,000 acres : at 64,000,000 The result is simply this that Ireland which now yields £36,000,000 worth of agricultural produce only ought to yield at least £64,000,000 worth to be on a par with what Great Britain was even so long back as 1810. But, as has been seen, the increase in the amount o agricultural productiveness in Great Britain since 1810 has been enormous. We have shown that less foreign grain is now imported into the kingdom at large, than in the period of ten years 'immediately preceding that date; while the mouths to be supplied have increased since then at the rate of one-and-a-halt per cent. per annum. Between 1831 and 1835 the mean number of consumers has been upwards of 25,000,000 ; in 1810 the number of consumers was less than 18,000,000; whence, then, came the supplies for these seven mil lions of additional mouths ? Not from abroad ; for from 1831 to 1835, we have actually been importing less foreign grain than we did in 1810. No : these supplies came from the better tilled farms of Great Britain and Ireland; but how much more from those of the former than from those of the latter, we have no accurate means of determining., Let us, however, say that each island supported its own additional popu lation by corresponding efforts in production, and the £150,000.000, at which the annual value of agricultu ral produce in Great Britain was, estimated in 1810, when the population of Great Britain was 12,000,000, will Swell to £208,000,000 in 1835, when the popula tion had risen to, 17,000,000. Arguing, then, that Ireland ought to have yielded as 'great an agricultural prOduce as great Britain did in the same year in proportion to the extent of cultivated land in each island, we have the result:— As 34,254,000 acres: X 208,000,000 :--14,603,000 acres: '88,673,000. That is to say, Ireland, to yield now as well as Great Britain did in 1835, ought to yield annually about, eighty-nine millions' worth pf agricultural produce, in . - stead of the thirty-six millions' worth at which her produce has been estimated. -Inother words, the agri cultural energies of the country are not yet developed. All these calculations, in which for greater simplicity we have adopted the round numbers, are grounded on facts disclosed in the Appendix to the Third Repot t of the Commissioners for Inquiry into the condition of the poorer classes in Ireland, and in " Porter's Pro gress of the NatiOn :" facts which have never been disputed, and which cannot be too prominently kept before the observation of the Irish public. In the ap plication of them we claim no credit to ourselves. In deed, we but repeat the argument advanced on a part of the same data lty the writer on the " Capabilities of Ireland" in the*" Dublin University Magazine" for Jan. 1837 ; and we cannot better follow up the pro gress we may have so been enabled to make in awak ening the Irish agriculturists and English manufactu rers to a sense of the benefits which both may derive from a support of the corn laws, than by quoting the views of that i writer as to the mode and means by which these increased agricultural energies are to be developed : " If any reader be sceptical, we can only repeat, we have as good land as the British ; we can afford to till it better ; we ought therefore to have at least as good a crop. But we have not half as good a crop in proportion to our capabilities ; we therefore look to double our annual produce at least be fore we rest satisfied. How the improvement is to take place is another subject of important speculation. In the first place, any one looking at the. face of the country must see .that immense quantities of arable land lie unproductive in the nooks and corners of our misshapen enclosures ; that the soil lost in ragged head-ridges, gripes, and bohereens is very considerable; that thousands of acres of wet and rushy bet toms might easily be made. productive meadtiw land ; and that almost universally* a vast improvement has still to take place in all our implements of husbandry. Next, the intelli gent observer must be struck with the want of proper roads for, the transport of manure and produce, but particularly with the inaccessible condition of thousands of noble lime stone quarries, which only wait a practicable avenue through which to pour fertility over whole parishes' and baronies. Then, when our fences are - reduced to convenient forms — when all the available surface of the land is cleared and drained, and made accessible—when our mines of manure are opened up, and all our mechanical aids of labour ready to be put in operation—the question of the most profitable rotation of crops, and the best description of seeds, will still remain to exercise the ingenuity of the farmer." Unquestionably we have on the average a better soil than the English or Scotch—a sweeter, kindlier, and more easily tilled soil. We have also a vastly greater amount of available labour to bestow on it. We want, then, nothing but a better system of farming to double our produce at least—thereby enriching ourselves, and keeping the manufacturers of the country in a state of continuous prosperity. Even England might still greatly increase her produce. On this subject hear Mr. Porter : " It would lead to a digression which might be considered out of place in these pages, if any attempt were made to exa mine the question of agricultural distress, as to which so much has been said year after year, during a very large por tion of the time in which the extension of tillage and the in crease of production, here described, have been going for ward ; but we may be allowed to remark, that the parties who, during all that time, have embarked their capitals in this branch of industry, must have been actuated by motives altogether different from those which influence the rest of mankind, if they have, year after year, been content to ac celerate their own ruin by increasing the extent of their ope rations. While the total number of families in Great Britain has increased, between 1811 and 1831, from 2,544,215 to 3,414,175 or at the rate of 34 per cent., the number of fami lies employed in agriculture has increased only from 895,998 to 961,134, or at the rate of 7+ per cent. The increased pro duction which is thus seen to have been brought about by a comparatively small addition of labour, has in a great degree resulted from the employment of capital in improving the soil, in draining and manuring, in throwing down a great part of the fences with which our forefathers were accustomed to divide their farms in small patches, by the use of improved implements of husbandry, and above all, through the employ ment of a better system of cropping by rotation. Nor should we omit to notice among the most effective causes of this im proved condition of agriculture, the help that has been bor rowed from men of science. In particular, the researches of Davy, undertaken at the instance of the Board of Agticul tare, about the beginning of. the present century, may he mentioned as having produced the happiest results, by show ing the various resources we can command, through the ap plication of chemical knowledge, for remedying the defects ' and , improving the natural capabilities of different soils." * , There is every reason to hope and to expect that the improvements which of late years have been, begun in the processes of husbandry, are very far from. having reached their utmost limit. Even in England, where the advances hitherto made have been so great as to place our farmers be fore those of many countries, much may yet be done by in troducing the profitable practices of some districts into the rema i n i ng parts of the kingdom, and by the consolidation of small holdings into farms of greater size, in the hands of men possessed both of capital and intelligence, as well as by the probable discovery of still superior methods -of culture, through the labours of experiments and the researches of men of science. It has been recently affirmed, that in Wales the country does not produce half of what it is capable of 'prod uc i ng ; an d that if all England were as welt cultivated as Northumberland'and Lincoln, it would produce more than double the quantity that is now. obtained." We say, then, food enough can be had, if the nation will only insist on proper steps being taken to give se curity to the farmer. What are.these steps ? Simply, these, to maintain the laws in general, and the corn laws in particular. Make Ireland safe for good far mers as a home, Do this, and we will h ave no more starv in g weavers and England safe for them a s a market. ---' neglect it. and the empire goes to ruin. * A most valuable work lately published by Chas. Knight. the h ea d o f a v i c tim of UNTtnneAnszn &ram , : EFFEC T represen ted on the theatre at Berlin the a drama recently the tyrant of the piece was to be presentellito lnin in a dish, on a table, and covered with a na p kin, wer e most ingeniously made for this awful the preparations spectacle.. The head was to be a real one, and the actor, who ~a the part of the decapitated person, had to thruststo perform i through an apertu re in the back.scene, and lay it in the s headdish, painted so as to make a ghastly appearance. This was done, the tyrant had raised the na p kin, and the audience were all becomingly horrified , w hen the .dead man's head replied to the tirade which•his murderer was in the act of delivering b y a viol en t fit of sneezing, wh ich at once turned the scene into a ludicrous farce; and the house rang with laughter. So me wag who h a d a d m ission behind the scenes had sprinkled the blood -stained dish with a quantity of snuff. -- • THE ANTI-CORN LAW AGITATORS. (From the Staffordshire Gazette.) We think it right to warn our readers of the efforts which are now being made for the repeal of the corn laws. Itinerant lecturers are proceeding from town to town, on the whining pretences of patriotism and benevolence, 'denouncing these laws as oppressive to the labouring classes, and even injuri ous to the farmers, for whose immediate protection they were enacted. But let us not be deceived by the artful speeches and false reasoning of these Wily orators, who, be it known, are not impelled by their sympathy with hungry multitudes, to tickle their ears with their high-seasoned elo quence, but by the PAY of certain master - mountebanks , who pull the wires by which these puppets are made to dance. We are not disposed to be very severe upon these lecturers for the performance of their duties to their employers ; still, when an.audience is thus called together, surely something like truth and reason is due to them, unless they attend for the purpose of being deceived, abused, and insulted. But this is an age in which clever men ale driven to seek employ ment in a great variety of ways, as well as an age of .unions and joint-stock companies. A project being conceived, an association is formed, and talented persons are emPloyed, as agents and speech-makers, to carry out their plans, as the. 'phrase is—one of which plans invariably is, to make honest: John Bull pay the piper, either in proprietary shares, admis sion to 'the lecture room, penny subscriptions, or in some more indirect and less apparent way. Some months ago, in . the busy town of Manchester, a dozen or two of patriotic cotton-spinners, groaning and struggling under what they call immense loads of oppression—thereby meaning large ac cumulations of capital, which they could not employ so as to produce them quite 20 per cent.—and ready as Pat would say, to spend their last shilling to save the remainder — met and formed one of these unions, called " The Anti- Corn-Law Association ;" the avowed purpose of which was to effect a repeal of the corn-laws, but its ulterior and main object being to bring about a signal and general reduction of the wages of labour, by means of which the conspirators cal culated on making princelyfortunes ; to further which lauda ble objects, most of these patriots, out of their extreme penury and distress, contrived to subscribe the pretty little son of ONE THOUSAND POUNDS each ! They have their spa cious office, with their clerks and itinerant orators, all of whom are, of course, well paid ; and the work assigned to the latter is to collect audiences as they best can, and by flatter ing their worst passions, to delude them into a conviction that a free trade in corn would operate as a remedy for all. they complain of. Now, as we said before, it is some apology for these travelling impostors, that they are only the hired advocates of a bad cause—just as a clever lawyer is engaged in the defence of a murderer ; his peculiar. duty on such an occasion is, not to tell the truth, but to try to conceal it : he is retained and paid for the express purpose of saving the murderer's life, if he can ; and this he attempts by all means in his power, at the expence of truth and justice, and the public good. Now, as this is the acknowledged rule of the profession, we do not quarrel with the individual for following it. But if we were on the jury, it would be our business to attend to the evidence, and to form our opinion on the facts elicited, and to take special care not to be led away by the sophisms of the learned advocate. It is thus, then, that we would estimate the weight of these anti-corn-law lectures, the false arguments and distorted facts in which we must not suffer to deceive us. But we should look at the facts as they are. Is it not evident that this country, taxed as it is, cannot compete with foreign countries, comparatively untaxed, in the production of either corn or manufactures, without our having secured to us, by. means of protecting duties, a preference in our own markets ? Are not all our manufactures fostered and protected in this way ? And why, then, is the landed interest alone—that on which our very existence depends—to be left unprotected ? when every sound statesman knows, that if our domestic agriculture were destroyed, no possible amount of importa tion could, in years of general scarcity, secure us against famine. No one doubts that, in years of plenty, foreign corn could be brought here at a less price than we can grow it for, any more than that foreign silks could be imported for less than they can be manufactured in this country. But what then ? Are our millions of labourers employed in these pro ducts to be deprived of their daily bread on this account ? A nation ought to be regarded as one great family, whose interest it is to buy as little from foreigners, and sell as much to them as possible. Other Countries are not so blind in their policy as to buy from us more than they want, and what they really want they will take at all events. Under this view, then, if we purchase foreign corn and pay our money for it, we, as a nation, become so much the poorer ; but if we grow our own corn, it costs us nothing but our labour, which could not be otherwise employed to the same advantage, nor perhaps to any real benefit whatever. Con ' sider the fact of the five or six millions of our gold which have been recently paid for foreign grain, and the great stag nation of trade which this drain of our wealth has produced amongst us. Why was not this grain paid for in woollens, and cottons, and hardware, and crockery ? Simply because those who supplied it did not want such goods, and there. fore would riot take them. What they want, and what the continental nations in general want, is our gold, to enable them to manufacture for themselves, They have already our machinery and our workmen ; and give . them a portion of our capital in payment for their corn, and they will soon rival our manufacturers .in our own markets. Behold, then, the precious fitrits of free trade—Must we shut our eyes while these political quacks delude our ears? Undoubtedly, one effect of a repeal of the corn-laws would be a great reduc tion of wages ; because a large proportion of the agricultural labourers, being deprived of their accustomed work, would necessarily enter into competition with the manufacturing labourers ; and this redundancy of hands would cause a cor responding scarcity of employment. This would answer the purpose of the great manufacturers, by enabling them to fill up the measure of their proposed wealth in double-quick time ; but it would be ruin to the labouring classes. And what is . the national benefit of these already opulent mann facturerS becoming so enormously rich ? Have we not ex amples enough of them ? They are gradually supplanting the old race of land proprietors ; and do we not usually find them harder task-masters than the hereditary aristocracy ? . . But who ever heard of a farmer thriving at this rate, or in deed of his raising himself, even in the course of a long life, above mediocrity ? And can any moral reason be offered why a farmer, with a certain amount of capital, should not have an equal chance of enriching himself with a manufac turer of the like capital ? But farmers have not their thou sands to subscribe for purposes of agitation ; nor is it their practice to conspire to enrich themselves at the expense of other people. They are plain matter of fact men, who would scorn to hire ranting speech-makers to travel the country, on their behalf, to persuade the ignorant and unwary that black is white, as is the case with the " Anti-corn-law Associa tion." But the trick is out, and we would earnestly guard all honest men against being gulled by the manoeuvring of these combined manufacturers to• procure a repeal of the corn-laws, merely to enable themselves to draw enormous profits out of the reduction of wages, which they foresee would be the consequence. One of the emissaries of this worshipful association, call ing himself Mr. Sydney Smith, bas lately been lecturing in this county ; not the Sir Sydney Smith, of whom we have formerly heard, whose name is immortalized by his brave de fence of an Acre ; but, as we suspect, a very dpposite charac ter, who under the guise of a distinguished name, comes to declare perpetual war against all our acres. It is one of the known habits of all parasites to attach themselves to diseased subjects; and - we accordingly, find this slimy gentleman fix ing his fangs on the morbid beads of radicalism and political dissent—political dissent, we say, for we would not insinuate aught against conscientious religious dissent, however we may lament its existence. It would be only a waste of time and words to expose and refute all the mis-statements and ex aggeration of this long-winded lecturer ; but to show bow little his statements are to be trusted, it may be necessary to treat our readers who do not see the " North Staffordshire Mercury," with a sample or two of his accuracy and consis tency. After a large measure of low abuse and calling of names of the landowners, he states that Peel's famous cur rency bill destroyed, at one blow, half the property of the merchant and labourer, whilst the value of landed property was doubled. Had he said the value of funded property was doubled by it, he would have been-nearer the truth ; but this, would not have suited his purpose. He then states the average wages of farm labourers in several counties, at ss. or 6s. per week only ; and in another part of his lecture he hints, what a good exchange they would make by going into the large town to receive 30s. per week.; here we see his real object peep out—namely, to allure country labourers into the towns, in order to reduce the factory wages. Even in Manchester, he says, they might earn 245. But amongst the people he- was then addressing, and whom he dignifies with the title of the " Aristocracy of labour," a girl of nineteen or twenty could earn 19s. or 20s. per week. The odour of this, however, was a little too strong to be between the wind and their nobility : murmurs of disapprobation arose ; and a gentleman present —not one of the aristocrats—was so good as to set the lec turer aright in this trifling mistake, by informing him that the average earnings of such young women did not exceed 12s. per week. But, suppose we were to admit the truth of all this man's statements, in whatlight would they show the disc tress of the manufacturers? Would they not make out a very strong case in favour of greater protection being given to the agricultural interest, and less to the manufacturing ? So much for the lecturer's accuracy, and now for his consistency, a single example of which may suffice. He repeatedly states the present price of wheat at 80s. per quarter ; and the pre sent rate of duty on wheat imported, he says, exceeds 10s. per quarter. Now, he knew, or ought to have known, that when the average price of wheat rises to 735.-per quarter, the import duty can only be is. per quarter. In short , his whole lecture is a tissue of false and garbled statements, only cal culated to mislead those who know nothing of the facts. And it is for this impudent attempt to deceive, and for the quack ery of prating about what he does not understand, that we are induced to show him up. On the horns of this dilemma, then, we leave him, and let him take shame to himself, either for having; undertaken to lecture on a subject of which he was grossly and culpably ignorant, or for having asserted as facts what he knew to be absolutely and mischievously false. ABOOT CORN-LAW HUMBUGGIN. To th' Edditor of th:Mancheyer Courrier, from a Chap e Chesher. Suu,—Seeing neebur clodhopper last papper but one, we his better laming, had a spel at yore corn-law brawlers, pre tefidin to kno all aboot their own intrest, an non ahoot ourn, of which they care no moor than the wisp o' a cat's tail. It strikes me, that being born we so mich gab in their heed, they mun at ther burths a saved ther muther's an th' gruntin, by givin mouth thersels. Rare chaps these fellies! It seems to ha cum at jitrest quite natrul, an to ha groun up we em— an- religion an respect for providence they tack no heed-for; an if bad corn times cum, they set it au doon to us clods, that ha a fou life to geet a lifin among em—an tauk as if price wur to -be at th' lowest -when we ha the wurst crops. If yo notis, Mr. Edditor, they allus float at top, like. cream, at such times, an as hussy as bees when swarmin—ay, an they'd sting as hard if yo'd let 'em. They's whissy chaps, ba'nt 'em ? If we tellies in Chesher cau'nt turn up ten thoo san clods a minnet, and mack furros we plughs as fast as wildfire runs—mack grass gro, an mack itself into hay with oot help—feed cows we a whirligig—mack 'em milk oneanu ther, an gro corn under umbrellas, an ripen it we stem, they think nowt on us, but sets a taukin aboot forrin parts, when they get th' extinguisher of failin seesons on our heeds as they thinks—an grumbles if we put on Saxon stockins. Yo see Mr. Edditor, they wants to feed up ther own guts, and to mack fiddle strings o ours, if we'd let 'ern ; but doo what yo con for us, if yo pleeasen, Mr. Edditor, for it's plain they'd loike to see au th' land in th' queen's dominyuns growin rushes, that they moight donee to 'em, while ther green. God help 'em, they allus macks t' moost stur when wee's t' worst off ; and when they e' th' same case abrooad, an we're lucky we plenty, ther gabs are as close as shutters at midneet; vomits,goo I n c ! , dinner e - o're r e it, pump a n ; b an as if turn aboot, under th' blessin o' th' Almighty, wur not as fair for one as ano th er . B u t leave 'em to 'rnsels, they'll a e sic then fu wheno'tl; e theisdum stuff , toll is they off ther stornmaks, they'll be th' better for 't ; for yo sees, Mr. Edditor, t' biles bin cummin on a lung toime this bout, an when they's weel enuff, they'l praps wank off wee ther fac trys on ther backs to forrin parts, loike Scotch peddlars of oud, an we'll get rid o' th' windy whittlers ; or let some o' 'em buy lond e Chesher, and cum we ther whirligigs to work it, all they'll foind us no so weel off as they'd thinks for. If they d o s corn, they'll larn summut moor than they know, I'll warrant 'em—praps to moind ther owd bissness, andtcr work it better, if they havant got to a star still areddy. Good by, Mr. Edditor, till yo meets agin we - • WILLY WEASLE, If a poor ch bees worth yore notis in or oike as me Y papper. One of the trawl boats bej4Pgii7g to this port saw, one day this week, just outside the Lizard, a 4ne whale, blowing up tke.water to a tremendous height. This is the second whale leas been seen by the crew of the same Yel3§Pl during the last fortnight.—Falrho44 Patket; • • ' • • THE USURY LAWS. (From the Morning Herald) A ministerial evening contemporary claims a large mea sure of credit for the cabinet of Lord Melbourne, on the score of the aid which that cabinet has lent to the efforts of certain classes of moneyed men, to repeal entirely the usury laws. The question is one, as it seems to us, of exceeding delicacy—one not to be disposed of quite so summarily as .our contemporary appears to imagine, even although his own authority is supported by that of Jeremy Bentham. It may be only fair, however, to permit our contemporary to state his views in his own terms : . • " Our readers will recollect that during the late session of parliament, as well as during the last five years, the govern ment have made various propositions for the modification or repeal of the usury laws. In these useful measures, as in many others, they had to encounter a tory opposition, and bills proposed to be made permanent or efficient were amended, as by parliamentary phrase it is . said, and were limited both in their duration and in their enactments. — Lord Ashburton called the attention of the House of Lords to the religious objections applicable to the:government bill ; Sir Robert Inglis seemed to consider the enfranchisement of mercantile security to he a branch of the detested Jew bill: and the country gentlemen would have preferred leaving the farmer without the means of borrowing at all, to the alternative of paying for money that which it was really worth. The. mere fact that Jeremy Bentham had written against the usury laws was sufficient to make the tories rely upon their stupid enactments as part and parcel of the British constitution, and `five per cent.' would assuredly have been a less objectionable party , cry than ' Protestant ascendancy.' Feeling convince upon general principles that the measure of Lord Melbourne s Go vernment was a sound one, it has been with peculiar pleasure that we find our judgment confirmed by the high authority of Mr. Samuel Jones Loyd, equally - distinguished as an en lightened economist and a practical man. He observes in his late pamphlet, ' The partial repeal of the usury laws has been of incalculable advantage to the commercial community, by securing the free circulation of capital, and the power, by the inducement of higher interest, of determining the appli cation of it to those quarters in which the demand may be the most intense. It was essentially necessary that the al teration of the law should precede any attempt to separate the management of the circulation from the banking business ; and it will be found-the means of obviatingrnany of the diffi culties and alleviating many of the inconveniences as may be apprehended as consequent on such alteration." We must be allowed to observe that the " advantages" connected With the relaxation of the Usury Laws,•to which Mr. Loyd adverts, may not be admitted, as establishing the soundness of that principle, which has, hitherto, been deno minated the principle of usury, whatever be the more ho . nourable title which it is destined to attain, in the approach- ing age of universally-diffused " intellect." A relaxation of the Usury Laws may, at particular seasons, and under the pressure of derangement in the financial affairs of the. country, be found to impart relief, as the use of poisons may in particular stages of disease be found to check the progress of debility. Bentham's argument in favour of usury is akin to the ar gument employed by Mr. Loyd. Bentham establishes that the existence of stringent laws against usury is apt to inflict, injury on the poorest classes of borrowers, without checking the practice of borrowing et a ruinous rate of interest. The reasoning is, to a certain extent, sound ; yet it leaves alto gether out of view certain considerations most important in attempting to arrive at a just conclusion upon the sublect. Concurrently with what is usually styled the progress of civilisation,' may be noted the perpetual tendency of money to rise in value, and of labour to decline. As population in creases, and as commercial exchanges multiply, the uses of money:become more numerous, and the , cemand - for it, by consequence, greater. In conditions of society, which we, in the plentitude of our s elf-sufficiency, are wont to regard as only semi-civilised, the custom of barter in as infinite vari ety of forms prevails,and enables the people who carry on the business ollife,sto a great extent, to dispense with the use of money: • The advance of " however, in volves the gradual ascendancy bf the money-power in every state; and all wise governments, in all ages of the world, have deemed it necessary to sustain by legislative enactment, the cause of industry against the encroachments of the usurious principle. It may be true, that direct legislation against usury may never have succeeded in checking altogether the practice of. lending at an enormous rate of interest—because, un doubtedly, under all systems of government there has been found wretchedness willing to borrow on any terms and rapa city net unwilling""-to lend,a little, for the chance' of receiving back an hundred, or a thousand fold. The good effects, how ever; of legislation against usury, are proved by the fact that a public opinion has always been created, in aid of the law—a,public opinion .which branded as disgraceful the ac ceptance of more than a moderate per-centage for the use of money. The law has already in this country, been mate rially altered, and may, very probably soon, be altogether re pealed. Public opinion will, in this event, follow the law, as it did before ; and the imputation of usurious dealing will lose its terrors. But mark the result. The power of the moneyed claSses will in conseqUence of such a revolution in senti ment, be obviously increased to a scarcely-calculable extent ; while the whole commercial arrangements of society will assume, every day, more deeply the aspect of gambling.. The money of the country will, gradually, find its way into the Possession of a smaller number of men ; while the parties de sirous to borrow must, in order to meet the demands of the parties willing to lend, engage in trading transactions of the most wildly-speculative character. Such his been for many years, too much the tendency of English trade ; and the re peal of the usury laws will, unquestionably, stimulate that tendency to an incalculable extent. The evils, for which, according. to: Mr. Loyd, the partial repeal of the Usury Laws has proved, to a certain extent, a remedy, have been caused almost exclusively by our unsound system of currency. A rectification of the disorder of the currency might be found more efficacious in relieving the distress of the mercantile community, than the repeal of the Usury LaWs will ever prove. RAILWAYS IN IRELAND, (From the Dublin Evening Packet) ~ The reader will see, by an advertisement in . our present publication, that a meeting is intended to be. held at the Commercial Buildings, Dame-street, on Monday next, for the purpose of submitting certain resolutions passed at the Thatched House Tavern, London, in April last. Having been present at the passing of the resolutions - alluded to, we can speak with certainty and confidence as to their spirit and intention, which were; that lines of railroad in Ireland should be simultaneously started, north, west, and south, with a view to extend the advantages of the undertaking equally to all the , provinces, instead of. confining them to the south, as was designed by the framer of the Government Report on. Irish Railways.' The meeting at the Thatched House Ta, vern was called by the friends of private enterprise, the oppo- nents of government monopoly,: and the enemies of the job for effecting which the report ofTom Drummond was framed : but they did not insist upon the adoption, of their plan for the encouragement of the principle of private enterprise, and the . investment of the surplus capital of England in Irish railways, lest a division between them and the friends of the government scheme, who attended in a strong number, should frustrate the establishment of the important principle that each of the provinces should gain alike by any grant of par liament for the purpose of Irish railways. It was distinctly intimated at the meeting, that the principle of private enter prise was not abandoned ; that it was only placed in abey ance, for sake of unanimity, until the intention of the govern ment on the subject of the new proposition shduld be known. To the principle of private enterprise we• steadfastly ad here i 'and, so far from anything that has been said in favor of government monopoly having shaken our opinions, every thing we have heard - upon the subject has tended to convince us the more that we are, and were originally, right. A cer tain individual, who sometimes tells truth unwittingly and by accident, declared, at the last meeting of the monopolists held at the Commercial Buildings—" That the government had .frightened English capitalists out of the Irish market." That 'was a, truth, though uttered by' Daniel O'Connell, who exclaimed—" Let me go. to the government and I will con vince their' that they should advance money for railroads in Ireland—l will tell 'them that they have, by their report, frightened English capitalists out of the field." This, we • repeat, was true, though spoken by Mr. O'Connell. Every sensible and impartial .man must be convinced that the great want of Ireland is capital, and that the influx of the surplus capital of England . would fertilise Ireland—would make her prosperous, industrious, happy, and contented. A few paltry millions from the government, or from parliament, spent on railroads, in the hands of monopolists, would not effectually benefit the country; We want John Bull amongst us, superintending the outlay of his capital, and exploring our vast resources for investment of this overgrown wealth. We want him to find out employ ment for our idle and overgrown population, by digging our mines and blasting our quarries for his benefit and our own. If the government iutended to advance the country, a parlia mentary grant in aid of private enterprise would have been long snce applied for, and the foul job meditated for the be nefit of an individual 'would have leen given up. "But it is folly to talk of an intention on the part of the Whigs to. benefit ally portion of, the empire, or any person beyond the circle of those who serve to keep them in office, It should not be forgot by those who may attend the meet ing on Monday,Ahat Sir Sobert Peel advocates the principle of encouraging private enterprise, and the outlay of British capital in Ireland ; and that the Right Honorable Baronet, when he shall return to office, will ask parliament for a grant or loan to adiance the interests of this distracted country, by aiding railroad speculation—a prayer or demand in which the representatives of the Irish people cannot refuse to join, lest they should lose their seats, and in which the English mem bers will heartily concur, beeause it will open a field for the investment of their capital. Most'earaestly do we entreat the friends of private enterprise—the true friends of Ireland and of England, and the enemies of obbing and monopoly—to be firm in the maintenance of _their principle, which being founded on truth must ultimately prevail. STATE TINKERS. • (Fi-om the Courier) Mr. Villiers delivered a speech, at a dinner given to him and Mr. Thornley, at Wolverhampton, on Thurday, the topics of which the - Wolverhampton Chronicle thus sums up: — rhe corn-laws want mending—the Church wants mend ing—the currency system wants mending—the House of Commons wants mending 7 -monopolies want abolishing—the Ministry wants pushing on, and the labouring classes want ,votes." The Wolverhampton 'Chronicle observes " All these wants are prettily enough enumerated, made so many themes for neat disquisitions, but not a practical word from the hon. member's lips." We will take the liberty to add, that the very thing which wants the mending' most of all, namely, the " Cabinet," is the very thing onntted in the hon. member's enumeration. But how is it that, after so many years of whig-radical rule, so much mending is requited in all our institutions ? :It would not be politic to compare the present government to a certain peripatetic pretender, of whom it is proverbially remarked that, in mending one hole he makes two, but the similitude irresistibly occurs to our imagination. e would rather attribute the increased` mending which is called for according to Mr. Villiers, to the peculiar ill-Fortune which seems to .have attended the attempts . of his friends at im proving what they have taken in hand; for it is a curious fact, that precisely in proportion to their official meddling with and mending what they did not understand, has the 'necessity for further mendings arisen to remedy the bungling acts and the mischief which they have perpetrated. The Trish Fishery Company - have *abandoned their newly formed establishment in Galway. DUNGENESS LIGHT. — The directors of the Trinity House intend to place' another row of lamps in the iight-house,Us an 'addition to the present ones, which, will increase the brilliancy of the light, and assist the mariners in avoiding the dangers of the coast in stormy nights. The lighthouse has been much improved by the present proprietors. SEQulstrioN TO MR. HARDY.—The electors of Bradford have nofforgotten the talents and services of their old friend, and being anxious again to have the opportunity of recording their support. 'in favour of a matt who will be some means of redeeming their representation in parliament, from the dis ,grace and imbecility which are its present characteristics, they haVe determined to take steps to secure the nomination of Mr. Hard} , it the first opportunity. Accordingly a requi sition has been got up and signed very numerously by the electors, so numerously, as to have justified its presentation and to have induced Mr. Hardy's acceptance. The number , of Lona fide ele c to rs who have signed the requisition is about (150. Requisitions had been presented to Mr. Hardy from Hull and Windsor, which were declined in favour of the one froth Bradford.—Leids Intelligencer. f!Pbipping FRIDAY, JAWCARY 10.—Wind S.S.W. Aantveo.—Vrow Hennctte, Klie, from Rotterdam—Reindeer, Kemp, from Monte Video—Clipper, Douglas, from St. Übes. ALSO ARRIVED.—George, Ross, and Endeavour, Roberts, from Dundalk—and Liverpool, Johnstone, from London. SAILED. — Aurora, Warren, for New Orleans—Win. Turner, Roals, for Bombay—Diligent, Davaine, for La Rochelle—Novo Amizade, Mills, for Lisbon—Perseverance, Monnot, for Ostend — Anna Agatha, Berghuis, .for Rotterdam—Huddersfield, Clegg, for Africa—Mary Hartley, Webb, for Calcutta—Paragon, Coleman, for Jamaica—Bee, Cornish, for Lima—Providence, Gare, for St. Mi chael—Violet, Murray, for St. Thomas, &c.—Elizabeth, Wendh, for Triester—Zeemeeuw, Noordhook, for Rotterdam—Hying Fish, Edwards, for Syra, &c.—C.R.C. Briard, for Gibraltar. Cordella, Crighton, hence at China H.M.S. Volage, (25) from Sincapore, at China Richard, Simpson, hence at Calcutta 14th Oct. Patriot King, Clarke, sailed from Calcutta for Liverpool Ist Nov. Diadem. - Taylor, sailed from Saugor 18th Oct. ; Indian, Frost, 24th Oct. both for Liverpool, and Chris. Rawson, for Mauritius Gth Nov. ' • • Urania, , Noakes, hence at Bombay 2nd Nov..and sailed for the Persian Gulf Princess Charlotte, Kean, hence at Bombay 15th Nov. and Sir C. Campbell, Pentecost, 16th Kingston, M'Lcan, from Muscat, at Bombay Alan Ker, M'Kechnie, and Hero, —,, sailed from Pomba). for Liverpool sth Nov. Ripley, Stewart, hence at Madras 25th Oct. and sailed Bth Nov. for Calcutta William Jardine, Crosbie, and Duke of Lancaster, Hargreaves, both from London, off the Sand Heath 14th Nov. Mary, Jackson, hence at Antwerp Juno, Spohn, from Danzic for Liverpool, off Danzic Berenice, (steamer,) from Suez at Bombay, 30th October, with the London mail of 14th September Zenobia, (steamer,) from Suez at Bombay, 23d November, with the London mail-of-12th October Jason, Reynolds, from Cadiz for this port, at Kinsale HOLYHEAD, Jan. p. Fine weather.—Sailed, Ellen, Connor, for Wicklow. Signal station—Nothing to report. Four p.m.—Cahn, dark, cloudy weather SATURDAY, JANUARY 11.—Wind S. moderate. ARRlVED.—lndepexidence, Woreman, sailed 10th Dec. and Ox. ford, Rathbone, sailed •20th Dec. from New York—Alice, Anwyl, from the Mauritius:—St. Lucia, , from Africa—Trenton, , from Savannah Hannibal. , from Charleston—Cur. sair, —, from St. John, N.B.—Lord Althorp, —. from Hamburg—Madonna, from -St. Andrew, N.B.—Harriet, . from Malta—Albert, —, from Marans—Tyro, Fray, from Bordeaux—George IV, Euston, from Charente—Ludwig, Andreis, from Rostock—Augusta„. from Ostend—Duke 01 Cambridge. (steamer) from Havre—Emma. Boyer, from Rostock— and Elizabeth, Brown, from Amsterdam. SAlLED.—Resolution, Forrest, for Maranham—Dominica, Har rison, for Barbadoes—Boyne, Forster, for Trieste—and Siren, Bur gess, for Leghorn. Liverpool, (steamer) from New 'York, at Liverpool ; sailed 15th Dec. On 20th Dec. put into Fayal„ for coals, and sailed from thence 3rd January. Left at Fayal the Washington, from Liverpool for Savannah, refitting; Bacchus, of Philadelphia, clismasted ; Pomo na, of New York, and brig Caroline, leaky; Le Petit Joanna, from New York, also leaky, and the Maryland, front Virginia, for Lon don, with loss of boats, bulwarks, spars, &c. and 500 barrels of flour thrown overboard. On 27th Dec. in lat. 44, long. 37, spoke the Lord John Russell, with loss of boats, bulwarks, stauncheons, &c. • on 28th Dec. in lat. 43, long. 35, spoke the Caroline, from Dalhousie for Berwick, leaky, and Toronto, front New York, for London. On Bth Jan. in lat. 45 40, long. 16, spoke the Fanny, from New Orleans for Liverpool North Briton, Nov. spoke the Elbe, from Alexandria. On sth Dec. in lat. 38, long. SE, spoke the Idris, front Alexandria. On 6th Dec, off Algiers, spoke the Europe, from Liverpool for Smyrna. On 29th Dee. oft' Gibraltar. spoke the Ifannah, from Smyrna Enchantress, Hewson, from Monte Video, at this port. Lost boats, bulwarks, stauncheons, jibbooms, and one man overboard. In lat. 44; long. 24, spoke the Charlotte, from Africa for Liverpool Venilia, , for Malta, has put back, leaky, having been in contact with the Doris, from London _ . Nimrod, Manning, and Grace,' Reid, hence at Charleston Caledonia Brandji, Sherry, hence at Virginia Guayama, -, hence at Wilmington Caspian, Patten, and Monongahela, Johnson, hence at Philadel phia James Holmes, Johns, hence at Sincapore 2gth Aug. Cambyses, Hutchinson. hence at ditto 30th Kilen, Yapp, hence at ditto 3rd Sept. Elizabeth Walker, Crawford, from Batavia, at ditto H.M.S. Hyacinth, (18) sailed from Sincapore for China, 24th Sept. John Bull, —, from London for New South Wales, was spoken 6th Nov. in lat. 43 N, long, 22 W Columbus. Cropper, hence at New York Bth Dec. ; Sheridan, De Peyster, and Roscoe, Glover, 10th, and South America, 2oth Delaware, Patten; Geneva,, Hall, and Stephen Phillips, hence at Boston . British Queen, Dudne, hence at Eastport Cincinnati, , from Virginia, at the Cove. On 19th Dec. in lat. 46, long. 33, spoke the Chilton, from St. John, N.B. for Liver. pool ; on 7th Jan. off Cape Clear, spoke the Constitution Pet. Hicks, from Smyrna, at the Cove Zoe, Holme, from the Mauritius, oft the Cove, and proceeded for Liverpool ; on 30th Dec. Dec. in lat. 46, long. 21, spoke the Vic toria, from Liverpool for Charleston Comwidore, Campbell, from Smyrna, off the Cove Arzthusa, Cunard, hence for New York, was driven on shore on Le(ng Island, 9th Dec. ; one of the crew drowned; the remainder of the crew and all the passengers, with part of the cargo, saved A large bright waisted ship was seen 19th Nov. on Sambrero Key, stripped to the lower masts, and a large ship on the Western Reef with two wreckers alongside A large bright sided brig was seen on shore on Orange Keys, V.3rd Nov. Jessie Logan, -, and Otterspool, , hence at . Kedgeree Lyons, Agree, hence at New Orleans . Phoebe, Brown, hence at Mubile Charles Humberston, -, hence at Savannah , • , .. Storm King, 'from Si. Thomas at Laguna, and would sai for Liverpool about 13th Nov. • Eupheinia, Duff, from Vera Cruz, at Laguna, and would sail for Liverpool about 3rd Dec. _. • __. •.. - • WATERFORD, Jan. 7.—Caroline, Minhesmet, from Liverpool, in running in, sth instant, struck on the Spit of Drumrod Bank, but was got off on the flood, without apparent damage SUNDAY, JANUARY 12.—Wind S.S.E. moderate. Anatvxn.—Amelia, , from Memel—Frankfort, —; John Holland, —; Rajah, —; Nanganset, —; Dale, —, and Constitution, Peabody, from N. Orleans—Zoe, —, from Mauritius--:Eutau & Nicholas, Biddle, from Charleston—Be verley, , from St. John, N;B.—Higginson, —, from Bar badoes—Elitabeth, —, from Yarmouth—Pocahontas, --; Powliattan ; and Walter, , from Philadelphia—Jamaica, —, trom Jamiaca—Sir John Beresford, —, from Bahia — Glasgow, —, from Baltimore—jasbn, —, from Cadiz — Caledonia, —, from Charente—Mary Campbell, , from --Idris. —, from Alexandria—lsabella, —, from Pernam buco—Rapid, —, from Maranham—and St. Petersburg, . from Hero of Malown, Grundy, from Calcutta for Mauritius, at Ceylon Ellen, Yapp, sailed from Sincapore for Siam lath Sept. Wanderer, Smith, hence for Calcutta, was spoken 9th Nov. in lat, 9 N, long. 88 E Andromeda, Coltish, hence for New South Wales, was spoken 19th Aug. in lat. 15 N, long. 22 W Mary, . from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro, was spoken 30th Dec. in lat. 48 N, long. 12 Bridget Archibald, —, hence for Rio Grande, was spoken 34th Dec. in lat. 48, long. 13 Nelly, Clay, which sailed from Hamburg for Liverpool, 4th Jan. was at anchor in the Elbe, near Stade, 7th Jan. and the Pomona, Penny, for Liverpool, proceeded to Cuxhaven Ferris, Palfrey, from Rio Janeiro, at Cuxhaven Huntress, Duncan, hence at Memel Zettand, Edmonds, front Cadiz- for Leith, at Falmouth, with sails split Elizabeth, •, hence for Trieste, was run into 10th January, off the Skerries, and abandoned. Crew saved CovE, Jan. 10.—New Jersey, Dixon, from Savannah for Liver pool, at the Cove, lost bowsprit and rudder in a gale of wind, 20th Dec. The American ship Cincinnati, arrived yesterday, has received orders, and will sail for Liverpool, to-morrow MONDAY, J ANUARY 13 ARRlVED.—Enterprise, Vaughan, and Earl of Durham, --, , from St. John, N.B.—Harriet, Guthrie, from Gergenti and Malta—Le Goede Isowe, Musker, from Amsterdam—and Le Adol phin, Cannean, from Marans. OFF THE PORT.—London, Patten, from New Orleans. ALSO ARRIVED. —Ann, Hall; Star, Doyle; AtlaS, Shell, and Vul. can, Cornish, from Wexford—Harriet, —, and Hero, Laing, from Cork—Robert, Pringle, from Waterford—Active, M'Guffey, from Tralee—Endeavour, James. from Dundalk—Marion, Barker, from London—Louisa, Chalker, from Poole—Amelia, Jay, from Cowes—Unity, Thomas, and Camilla, Hair, from St. Ives. SAlLEl,—Albion, Dooley, for Trinidad—Brisk, Hallen, for St. Michael—Concordia, Zweie, for Rotterdam—and Oberlin, Knapp, for New York. Wilsons, , from Demerara, at Liverpool ; sailed 2gth Nov, the Duchess of Portland, sailed 23rd Nov. and the Margaret, 25t both for Liverpool Royal George, Cook, from Glasgow, at this port, with damage, having experienced most tempestuous weather Europe, -, for Liverpool, was on the bar of the Mississipp i . 17th Dec. Pandora, , from St. Jago de Cuba for Havana, was spoken 6th Jan. in long. 40, 1at..45 Montezuma, , hence for Philadelphia, was spoken Bth Jan. in lat. 49, long. 15 30 Sophia, Lingard, and Thomas Battersby, Bahia 18th Nov. Allerton, Chatterton, hence at Bahia, bound to Calcutta, w loss of mizen mast Glengarie, WDonald ; Amelia, Judgues ; Celt, Greig, and Che. shire, hence at Barbadoes Linnet (packet) and Magnet (packet) from Falmouth, at Bar. badoes sth Dec. Elizabeth Wood, Crosbie, was to sail from Antigua for the Clyde about 30th Nov.; and the Francis, Dixon, for London, about 3rd Dec. Sylvanus Jenkins, hence at St. Thomas, bound to New York, short of provisions Hermitage, French, hence at Havana , Clyde, Reid, from London, at St. John, N.B. British Queen, Dudne, hence at St. John, N.B. Lord Gleneig, from Honduras, at Kilross . Standard, Thompson, hence at Demerara Columbia, for Mobile, is aground off the King's Dock pier; cargo discharging. It is not expected that the vessel will take any in jury -, hence at TELEGRAPH OFFICE, JANUARY 13, 1840. Wind at Holyhead, S.W. blowing freak. Off Holyhead, inward bound, yesterday, No. 1629, Alexander, 8.8. from Jamaica. Off Great Ormehead, inward bound, at 8 a.m. No. 24, Charlotte, B.S. from Africa—and 1779, Ellen, 13:B. at 1 p.m. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Sm. Julius Caesar, M Mitchell, 737 Aden and Bombay, I Anderson, Garrow & Co Caledonia, H Caramel, 518 Bombay, W & J Tyrer AFRICA. Boddingtons, ---, 361 Africa, WA & G Maxwell &Co Hankinson, 229 Africa, H Smith ik Co NEW SOUTH WALES . . • 114 Port Philip and Sydney, Cotesworth & Wynne WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Cintra, W Renfree, Avon, J Robinson, 251 Trinidad, J Poole & Co Brilliant, P Lefever, 277 Trinidad and Grenada, W Rose & Co SOUTH AMERICA. Tomlinson, W Wallace, 125 Gulf of Mexico, Bahr & Co Astrea, J Stoale, 208 Monte Video, W & J Tyrer Mir, T Wargiien, 315 Pernambuco, M'Nair & Dutton Amija, J Dalrymple, 350 Valparaiso, W & J,Tyrer Maypo, G Seymour; 173 Lima, T & J Brocklebauk UNITED STATES. 349 New (Means, G Brown & Harrison Minerva, Washington, W Adams, New 428 Nw Orleans, Ingleby & Co Chatham, J RiChardson, 470 Boston, Baring Brothers &Co Wave, J Broadfoot, 638 New Orleans, Bold & Starkey Nonantarn, Hanbury, 735 New Orleans, Hughes, Cowie &Co Thistle, J Hamilton, 612 Savannah, Bold & Starkey BRITISH AMERICA. Christiana, S S Lawson, 'llO Newfoundland, EUROPE. Hoffnung, C F Baumann, 150 Antwerp, Bahr, Behrend &Co Roscoe, C Ellis, 101 Messina and Palermo, Cram & Co Meteor, Merre, Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co Superb, W Melhuish, 107 Messina and Palermo, Haskayne, Chapple & Co 125 Syra and Constantinople, Bahr & Co 90 Gibraltar and Newfoundland , Cotesworth & Wynne Jane, D Vivian, 130 Leghorn, Bahr, Behrend &Co Patriot, II W Sawbridge, 95 Naples and Palermo, J Moss &Co Farewell, R Kersch, 250 Elsinore and Pillau, C G Weber & Co Copradine, T Muscke, Hambro', Bahr, Behrend &Co Harmony, T Fluckhart, 155 Leghorn, Kirkby & Watson Sultana, It Scott, 120 Leghorn and Messina, J Moss & Co Dean, T Haman, SI Malta and Corfu, Bahr, Behrend & Co Delphine, Chevelen, go Nantes, G A Lilly & Co Emma Graham, J Ferguson; 210 Oporto, Iligl7field & Withers Media, J W Bluckest, Stettin, Bahr, Behrend &CO Sarah, C Cafiero. 290 Genoa and Naples, Haskayne, Chapple &Co Queen Victoria, W Wright, Hambro', Buhr, Behrend &Co L' Eclipse, B Roy, 90 Marseilles, Bahr, Behrend & Co R Alsop Hebe, T Warren, Nerio, W Jarvis, ;filarket6. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET,-JAs. 13. The market for Butter is quiet; prices of all descriptions fully supported.—Pickled Butter dull at s6s to 89s.—Nothing doing in Beef and Pork.—Bacon is more sought after, good Belfast long middles steadily held at • tdOs. It is thought that the article will rule higher. LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 13. • As regards numbers, the -supply of Beasts were great, the quality generally 'inferior ; prime Beef was in good demand, and last week's prices fully supported ; second and inferior quality met (1 , 311 sale. There was a fair supply of Sheep, which was in good de mand, at last week's prices. Beef 60 to 53d; coarse and inferior Beasts 5d ;• Mutton 7d to Sid, and b ut few thin g s remained nusold. Number of Beasts, 1187; Sheep 4817. Prices paid Taira in the week.lThisWk. I RTS i thiS year SALES OF THE WEEK. 90 , Sea Island l7d 6 24d 1. 50 i St a i ne d 7770 t Bowed Georgia 5060 l i Mobile i f Alabama and Tennessee 63 —9/ 3725 5181 , 8760 New Orleans { Pernambuco Ik Paraiba 93 — lO .... } 1050 728 13 1r i l a ca a t n i d l c C e e l a o ra -- — 9l . 660 • .. .... Q „ f ' Nlamtiluun • 9 Di 1, I. Sawginned - • - - 1 .... Minas 1 1 - - Para i Demerara, Surinam, &c... - -.-- 7 6 ' 76 .530 !Egyptian Barbados 60 ;Peruvian 1 Bahama . - - - 110 Laguayra - 9 1 1 • Common West India, &c.. i_. s - - }. 562 675 • 100. Carthagena - .. ' i Smyrna J .. , ... t Manilla 1420 , Surat 4/ - 6 60' Madras - - - - 1 - - i Bengal - - - •••• ... • i • 25800 bales 9992 13608 LONDON GAZETTE.—FarDAY, JAN. 10. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED, T. Lutwyche and J. S. Smith, Liverpool, brimstone-refiners—T. B. Lewis and G. Ferguson, Liverpool, architects—R. Pace, P. Crel lin, and C. Ware, Liverpool, ship.chandlers ; so far as regards C. Ware—G. Atkinson and C. J. Townley, Liverpool, stock-brokers — .1. Hagan and J. Magee, Liverpool, commission-agents—W. W. Manifold and J. Canty, Liverpool, surgeons•—J. Bartlett and J. Weldon, Liverpool, plumbers—J. Chadwick and E. Chadwick, Roch dale, common carriers-LG. P. Jennings and H. Cowdroy, Manches ter, letter-press printers—W. T. Carr and D. Robinson, Blackburn, attorneys—J. Whaley, F. S. Gerard, E. Ellam, and J. Deakin, Ince, Lancashire, coal-proprietors; so far as regards E. Ellam—J. Barn forth, W. Parson, and R. Greenwood, Rochdale, cotton-spinners— J. Gilham and N. Denton, Gorton. Lancashire, hat-manufacturers. INSOLVENT. Jan. 10.—Joseph Simon, Trowbridge. Wiltshire, victualler. ' BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Smith, Union-vale, Blackheath, corn-merchant. BANKRUPTS. William Ambrose Dawson, Liverpool, merchant, to surrender Jan.. 24, Feb. 21, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Whitley and Rogerson, Liverpool; and Messrs. Lowe,. Garey, and Sweeting, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London. _ Christopher Kipling, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, London, li censed victualler. Alexander James Polden and Thomas Morton, Fenchurch-street t . London, merchants. 'Thomas Radcliffe Atkinson and Charles Johnson Atkinson, Hud-. dersfield, fancy and woollen cloth merchants. Robert Derham, Walter Allan Hinde, and James Derham, Leeds,, worsted-spinners. John Holroyd and Frederick Holroyd, Halifax, cloth-merchants:. Luke Bendle, Barnstaple, Devonshire, draper. James Senior, Lassell's Hall, Yorkshire, fancy cloth manufacturer:. Edward Davies, King's Mill, Denbighshire, miller. William France, Wakefield, maltstcr. Henry Johns, jun. Exeter, builder. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 31, H. Harvey, Hatton-garden London, merchant—Jam. 31, J. Jermy, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, London, linen draper—lan -31, A. Brooks, City-road, London, coach-builder—Jan. 31, T. White, jun. and J. D. Lubbren, Great Winchester-street, London, mer chants—Jan. 31, B. Briggs, Chatham, grocer—Feb. 1, W. Williams, Brewer-street, St. Pancras, London, grocer—Feb. 1, T. Fitch, Leadenhall-street, London, cheesemonger—Feb. I, H. Stanley, Tring, Hertfordshire, linen draper—Feb. 3, L. Cooper and M. Case, Manchester, cotton-manufacturers—Feb. 4. W. Rabey, Redrutb, Cornwall, leather-seller—Feb. 5, J. Russell, jun. Leominster, mercer —Feb. 3, R. DymOck, Oxford, saddler—Feb. 6, W. Jones, Newport, Monmouthshire, shopkeeper—Feb. 6, J. Kennedy and S. Hill, Linn . hilleth, Monmouthshire, iron-manufacturers—Feb. 12, J. Bentley and T. Brown, Manchester, merchants—Feb. 18, T. Johnston, jun. Lewes, Sussex, horse-dealer—Feb. 5, W. H. Browne, Manchester, stone-dealer. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JAN. 10. The market opened with a very,good demand from the Trade, and rather better prices were generally Obtained for the common and middle qualities of American ; but since Wednesday there has been less inquiry, with a greater disposition to realize, and prices of the better qualities of American have declined 0 per lb. Sea Island continues in limited request, and the few sales made have beeis at a reduction of fully Id per lb. Egyptian is also id perlb lower.. Brazil and East India remain with little or no change. Exporters have taken 100 American and 100 Surat, and. Speculators 1300 American and 200 Surat. 3000 bales Surat are announced for public auction on Friday next. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the Bth instant to this' day, inclusive. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, JAN. 11 Within the last three days, the arrivals into this port consist of 297 qrs of Wheat from Ireland, 4056 qrs Coastwise, and 2306 qrs from abroad ; of English and Irish Barley 43 qrs, of Oats 5254 qrs, and of Oatmeal 4026 sacks ; but of Flour and other articleS, the supplies fresh in for to-day are trivial., • • The duty on Foreign Oats is raised to lOs 0, on Beans to ss, and on Colonial Oats to 2s per qr. ; on all °eller produce it remains the some as last week. The Corn trade, from the close of Tuesday's market until to-day, remained extremely dull and uninteresting, and continued through out the whole of this day's market to exhibit a similar want of ani mation. A few limited sales of Foreign Wheat to ship northward and to Ireland, formed the only transactions in this Grain worth naming for that purpose, and the millers being still very in active, all descriptions of both old and new were decidedly Id to 2d per 701bs cheaper.—ln the value of free Flour, however, although taken off sparingly, we have no change to note ; and of bonded samples. very few parcels have sold. Barley, Malt, Beans and Pease; being equally dull, were severally the turn lower; and Oats as well as Oatmeal, commanding very little notice, hardly sustained our last quotations. LIVERPOOL Pit [CES CURRENT. MADDER, cwt. s. Dutch, crop so Ombro 42 Gamene 32 Mull lO ' French, S.F. ASHES Montreal, Pot 22 0@ 23 6 Pearl, new 29 0 —29 6 U. States, Pot none. Pearl none. BARK, Quercit. Oak, ton ES 10 7 5 German 4 15 5 5 BRIMSTONE, ton Sicily, &c l2 0 14 0 Tuscany l3 0 14 0 CASSIA LIGNEA, S. d. s. d v cwt. in bond 63 0 68 0 CLOVER -SEED, 4) , Cut. American, red.. Dutch llNominal French & Germ. COCOA, le , cwt. Trinidad. 50 0 56 0 Grenada .... none here Brazil ditto COFFEE, .10 , cwt. in bond. Jama. triage .. 70 0-100 0 ordinary good& fine 0rd.103 0-110 0 ;Addling ll2 0-118 0 good mid. fine mid. &c l3O 0.. 144 0 Dutch, triage.. 55 .o—. 94 0 ordinary ....J good &fine ord. 96 0-102 0 middling 105 0-108 0 good mid. ll fine mid., &c. 110 0-114 0 Mocha .. Ceylon .. Java.... Havana good &line ord. 46 0— 52 0 St. Domingo 45 0— 48 0 Brazil 42 0— 50 0 Laguira 47 0— 55 0 DYEWOODS,I I . ton S. S. Logwood, Jam... 7 15— 8 0 Hon. & Dom. 7 15— 8 0 Campeachy 9 0— 9 10 Fustic, Span 4 10— 5 0 Tampico 5 10— 6 0 Brazil Cüba NICARAGUA Wool). Rio de lit Hache solid rough 6 0— . 7 10 small Lima, solid ll 0— 17 0 Barwood, Ango S 0— 8 10 Gaboon 5 0— 6 0 Camwood l9 0— 25 0 Red San. Wood 8 10— 9 0 FLAX, V. ton. Riga. P.T.R. P'burg, 9 head Archangel 43 0— 50 0 Dutch & Flem. GALLS, 1,) , cwt. • Turkey, blue mixed 60 0— 70 0 East India 75 0— 82 0 GINGER, /a , cwt. Barbadoes 45 0— 50 0 Jamaica 6O 0-120 0 E. India, in bond 12 0— 17 0 Gum, Iv cwt. Arabic, Turkey East India. 24 0— 58 .0 Barbary 45 0— 32 0 Senegal 67 0— 68 0 HEMP, ton s. £' S. P'burg, clean 3B 0— outshot 36 10— Riga, Rhine .... 39 0— -- outshot.. 38 0— ' Archangel id 0— -- Manilla 29 0— 29 10 Bombay l7 0— 20 0 Jute HIDES, Ox and Cow, V , lb B. Ayres and Monte Video. dry. inferior & mid. 0 7i— 0 si good & prime 0 9 0 10 Do. salted N. Amer. salted 0 4 0 4i Brazil dry salted 0 sf 0 6# Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 62 0 72 Odessa, &c. dry 0 6 0 7 W. India, dry 0 52 0 7 salted 0 o 5f East India Kips, B.A. dry. 0 7f-- 0 0 4 Horse, d. each 9 0 —l2 0 HORSE HAIR,I) lb. Short mixed long tails 1 7 2 0 combed INDIGO, Yl lb. in bond. Bengal. pur. & violet blue & violet blue violet, g. & fine 7 3 7 9 ord. & mid. 6 3 7 0 violet & cop. l 5 9 __ 6 9 mixed .. J cop. g. & fine. 6 3 6 9 ord. & mid. 5 0— • 6 0 con. quality Oude a o— 5 9 Madras 3 6 6 0 Guatimala, v lb Floras Sobres 5 0— 6 3 Cortes 3 0— 4 10 Caraccas, Floras 6 6 7 0 Sobres 5 0— 6 3 Cortes LAC DYE, 19' lb. D.T. and prime. 1. 6 3 6 mid. to good 0 8— 1 4 ord. & inferior 0 6 0 7 MADDER ROOTS, 2,9 , cwt. Smyrna Galipoli & Syria ...43 0— 48 0 French 5O 52 0 Naples 3B 0— 40 0 d. S. d. 0 —72 0 0 —56 0 0 —4O 0 0 —3O 0 —46 0 —52 0 0 —5B o o —63 0 0 —32 0 S.F.F 48 E.S.F 54 E.5.F.F.60 Spanish 3O MOLASSES, V cwt. Trinidad, &c 31 0 —32 6 Demerara, &c 31 6 —32 6 Bar & Antigua 33 0 —34 6 MUNJEET, V CICt 14 0 —l6 0 OIL, Olive, 14 252 galls. Gallipoli 4'62 0 —63 0 Trieste 57 0 —5B 0 Sicily none 0 Malaga 53. 0. —54 0 Portugal, &c Levar.L 51 0 0 Palm, 'sp. ton 30 . 0 —3l 0 Fish, is• 252 galls. Seal, pale 32 0 —32 10 brown 27 0 —2B 0 Cod 27 0 —27:10 LINSEEDi my/ 24 0 —24 6 Rape, pale do. Turperi.v cwt. RICE, V. cwt Carolina, dress. 38 0 —4O 0 in bond 26 0 —26 6 Bengal, ord; do ll 0 —l3 6 • mid to fine African none. Rum, 14 gallon, in bond. Jamaica, 12 to 16 o. p 4 3 4 6 stronger 4 10 5 6 choice marks.. 5 10 6 2 SAFFLOWER, 5 cwt. Bengal, good & fine £5 0 7 10 ord. & mid Bombay SALTPETRE, V ClOt. S. d. S. d East India 22 0 —27 0 South American..l7 3 —lB 0 SHELL LAC, V cwt. in bond. orange 50 0 —BO 0 liver and black SKINS, Neutria, dux Chinchilli, do. Seal, each SIIUMAC, V cwt Sicily Malaga Trieste Verona Tyrolese SUGAR, V Mt. B. P. Muscovado moist brown .. 55 0 —56 0 dry brown .... 56 6 —6O 0 good & mid.... 61 0 —66 0 fine &v. fine .. 67 0 —69 0 Mauritius, dabs and moist 51 0 —55 0 brown 57 0 —59 0 yellow 62 0 —64 0 fine yellow "64 6 —67 East India, Bengal ord. white 64 good and tine 69 extra fine 71 Manilla, in bond 20 Havana, do. brown yellow . white ord, . good & fine Brazil, in bond brown yellow white ord. good•and fine.. 25 TaLLow, 74 cwt. P'burgh, Y.C. 48 Odessa 48 Archangel 47 Buenos Ayres 42 TAR, 10 brl. Stockholm l6 Archangel l5 Carolina 13 Virginia TARTAR, V , owl. Cream of Tartar 65 0 —7O 0 brown and yel 5O 0 —6O 0 TEA, V lb. in bond. Bohea, Canton Fokein Congou, corn. • mid. to fine. Twankay, corn mid. to good Pekoe, Orange Campoi, corn. to good Hyson Skin .. none . 90 0-118 0 .. . 100 0-105 0 .. . 40 0- 50 0 o —l5 0 0 —.5 0 7 4 4 .. 10 ..11 • 9 8 ▪ 9 6 —l3 6 0 —II 6 9 6 6—g 6 o 6 0 -66 0 6 -70 6 6-79 0 0 -28 0 ... none. do. do. do. 0 =2O 0 0 -22 0 6 -24 0 0 -27 0 6 -49 0 6 -49 0 .0 -47 6 0 -45 6 o —l6 6 6 —l6 0 g 0 0-0 0 uncertain , do do do do do do do do do do . do do do do mid. to fine.. Souchong, coin.. . good to fine Pekoe, flowery • • Hyson,'com... fine. Young Hyson Imperial ... Gunpowder, good and fine do TOBACCO, 43 lb. in bond. J. River, Leaf o 41-0 9/ Stemmed 0 g 1 1 Kentucky Maryland TURMERIC, 7l+ cwt in bond. Bengal 28 0 —33 0 TURPENTINX, Cwt. American lO 6 —l2 3 VALONIA, 13 , ton. X S X S Smyrna, picked l5 0 —22 0 Morea WAX, 1.121c5'19. cut. in bond. African 6 10 7 10 East India American 7 10 8 0 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 /I „ 12 S 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 pe 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.m. Mixed 6 p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures will Le 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 a.m. - Mixed Of IP 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 ,r LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. FROM L'POOL TO MANCHESTER. First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 845 „ ..10 0 „ 11 0 „ 11 45 ~ 2 0 Aftern. .. 230 Aftern. 445 ~ • • 5 30 , 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I * Except on Saturdays, when tt ON SU: First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I TO PRESTON PROM LIVERPOOI.. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 11 0 „ rr 2 30 Aftcrn. .. Second Class 4 45 „ .. Mixed 7 15 „ .. First Class 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 530 Afternoon .. „ ON su: TO Bi FROM LIVERPOOL. S 45 Morning.... First Class 11 0 , 2 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 ON. su 7 0 Morning.... Second Class ternoon TO ST. FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 11 45 2 30 Afternoon.. 5 30 „ PI ON SU 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 530 Afternoon .. ' TO RUNCI FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 11 45 5 30 Afternoon ON su : 7 0 Morning.... Second Class I 5 30 Afternoon FROM MANCHESTER TO L'POOL. ,First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 9 0 „ 10 0 • „ 11 15 „ 11 45 2 0 Aftern. .. *2 45 Aftern. 5 0 .. 5 30 „ • • 7 15 Evening' ... 7 15 Mixed I 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 Stop only at Newton & Prkside ' AND WIGAN. FROM SIANCHESTKR. 9 0 Morning.. First Class 11 15 „ • 2 45 Aftern...Second Class 5 0 .. Mixed 7 15 ~ First Class , NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed I . 5 30 Afternoon „ )LTON. PROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... First Class I l 15 2 45 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 PP • • • • PP NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon „ lIELENS. FROM MANCHESTER -7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 ~ • • 111 45 „ ~ 2 45 Afternoon 5 3) SWAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. • ~ !ORN GAP. . . FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... SecOnd Class 11 45 ~ • • • • II 5 30 Afternoon • • II NDAYS. I 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 .30 Afternoon ... • „ s • • 9 I, CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause he shown to the contrary, on or before JAn. 31. C. Goadsby, Liverpool, carver and gilder—S. Dalton, Aldgate High-street, London, straw bonnet-manufacturer—E. Benassit. Lime-street, London, wine-merchant—G. L. Williams, Portland. road, St. Maryleborie, builder—H. V. Garman, Coburn-terrace, Row-road, London, apothecary—A. Hodges, Bristol, stationer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. Joseph Thompson and co. Paisley, merchants. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending Jan. 7, is 37s Sid per cwt.- exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. JAN. Hoeft.. i 4 . William Parlour, (div.) 14. Charles Hargreuves, (Ist) 15. Joseph P. Bradford, (div.) 15. James Poynton, (Ist) 15. Hudson, Williams, and co (div.) . . .. Ditto, 12 17. Thomas and William Wilson, (2nd) . . Ditto, 2 20. C. J. Wilson Wharton, (Ist) 21. Charles Holtzendorff Byrne, (Ist) . . 22. Jordan and Magrath, (Ist) 22. Nathan Lithcrlaud, (div.) .... Ditto 2 23. Thomas Johnson, (special) 21. William Ambrose Dawson, ( I st) Clarendon Rooms, 1 25. Eyton, Carlile and Dyson, (div.)•Davenport and Collier's, 12 25. Golborne and Dobbs PRICES OF SHARES, JANUARY 16. Price,. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester 7O paid 50 0 0 49 10 0, Ditto and Derby Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh Bolton and Preston Bristol and Exeter 25 .... Chester and Crewe 35 .... 2g o o Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid 3 5 0 Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 14 paid 12 5 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar t 30 paid 0 0 0 .... Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction lOO .... 210 9 0 ... . 210 0 0 Ditto half shares 3O .... 79 10 0 .... Great Western 65 66 0 0 .... Ditto new shares 2O .... 18 10 0 .... Hun and Selby Lancaster and Preston 3O paid 22 15 0 .... Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares • 25 .... 42 0 Ditto half shares . London and Birmingham 9O .... 149 15 0 Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto awl Southampton 5O .... 4:1 15 0 Ditto & Brighton London and Croydon Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 70 0 0 .... Ditto half shares Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 71 0 0 Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, Si Bury Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... 14 7 6 Ditto and Ditto Extension 7 4 10 0 Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... 92 10 0 Ditto quarter shares North Midland South Eastern and Dover North Union - St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid o 0 0 .... York and North Midland 3O paid 40 10 0 .... BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 718 0 0 ex dir. Bank of Liverpool - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 19 o Al - Liverpool Union lO .... 13 12 6 - Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Wales lO .... 7 15 0 .... '5. - of Manchester lO .... 11 7 6 - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 9 15 0 15 South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company - Borough Bank lO 15 12 6 Commercial Bank of England 5 • • 4 1 0 East of England lO .• • • 9 7 6 .... Phoenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 108. 7 2 6 GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings £loo paid 170 0 o L'pool and Harrington Water 350 475 0 0 . Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 0•• • • L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .WlOO .... 196 0 0 .... Ditto new shares arc now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance } ~ 5 paid 2 2 6 .... 2 2 6 Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 7 2 6 .... Liverpool Fire and Life . I Os. 1 11 o ... DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. . Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... 9 7 0 •• • • Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 103. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company 8 105. Harrington Docks 100 .... Apothecaries' Company Asphaltc (Liverpool; (Poloncean) 3 16 6 4 12 ti .... 412 6 0 0 10 5 0 „ 14 0 .... 0 15 0 .... TIDE TABLE. Duys. I Mrn. Evn. Height. I Sundays, Holydays, 4e. R. 11. It. St Y. I. Tuesday 14 610 I 650 13 3 Oxford Lent Term begins.. Wednes. 15 726 811 14 5 Thursdayl6 844 923 15 10 Moon Perigee 811 morning.. Friday .. 17 938 10 23 17 0 Saturday 18 10 48 11 14 17 6 Sunday 19 11 37 0 0 17 11 2nd Sunday alter Epiphany Monday 20 0 7 024 17 11 MARRIED. On the ard instant, at Gresford, Mr. EDWARD WINSTANLEY, jun. Wrexham, to Miss ELIZA HANMER, the sixth daughter of Mr. Edward Hanmer, Bangor, Flintshire. On the sth instant, at St. Peter's Church, Mr. J. HUTCHINGS, of Cheltenham, to Miss MARIA HANMER, the filth daughter of Mr. Edward Hanmer, Bangor, Flintshire. On the 7th instant, at Netherton Chapel, by the Rev. A. Abram, Mr. HALL, butler to the late Charles Blundell, Esq, of Ince Blun dell, to Miss ANDERSON, niece of the late Rev. J. Tate, Lydiate. Same day, at Sefton Church, by the Rev. J. Clarke, Mr, JOHN FREEMAN, of Aughton, to Miss MARY HARRISON, second daughter of Mrs. Harrison, of Sefton. Oil the gth instant, at Wistanston, Shropshire, by the Rev. J. C. Coleman, H. P. SMITH, Esq. of Enniscorthy, county Wexford, to CAROLINE SOPHIA, eldest daughter of the late ROBERT COLE MAN, Esq. of this town. On the gth instant, at St. Mary's, Edge-hill, by the Rev. James Heyes, of Wybanbury, JOSEPH GEORGE SNOWBALL. Esq. solicitor, of this town, to Miss ELLEN MASON CROSSFIELD, the youngest daughter of Edward Mason Crossfield, Esq. Edge-hill. Same day, at St. Nicholas's Church, by the Rev. J. Chestham, M.A. Mr. MATTHEW WARD, son of Thomas Higgs Ward, Esq. of Whitmore-hall, near Wolverhampton, to Miss FRANCES ANNE BOLTON, Qdest daughter of the lath John Bolton, of Humphres ton-hall, Shropshire. DIED. On the 6th Sept. at Singapore, Mr. GEORGE SMITH, late master of the Alice Crowther, of this port. The deceased was a native of Hull, and has left a wife and family to lament their sad bereavement. Ott the 2?rd Oct. at Demerara, aged 31, Captain JOHN BLACK, of the ship Margaret. of this port. On the 23d ult. at Naples, aged 50, Miss MARGARET WILSON, fourth daughter of the late William Wilson, Esq. Whitfield, Dundee. On the 2nd inst. in his 100th year, greatly respected, Mr. JOHN MOXON, of Cawood, near Selby. The deceased was by far the oldest person in that part of the country. He occupied one farm eighty-five years. Same day, at her house, in Belfast, aged 88, beloved by her friends and respected by all who knew her, Mrs. ELIZABETH BATESON, relict of the late Thomas Bateson, Esq. and mother of Sir Robert Bateson, Bart. of Belvoir-park, M.Y. for the county of Londonderry.. On the 4th instant, Mr. THOMAS HINKS, joiner and builder. On the 6th instant, at the residence of George Ormerod. Esq.. Elmsley-lodge, Devonshire, of consumption, EMILY COOPER, the only surviving child of the late .Rev. John Ormerod Cooper, and niece of Mrs. Cooper, Crown-street. Same day, at Bangor, of consumption, aged 24, Mr. HENRY ASHTON TROTTER, of Tranmere, deeply regretted. On the 7th instant, after a short illness, aged 49, Mr. THOMAS: JONES, joiner. _ . . On the Bth instant, suddenly, at his father's house, Glasgow, Mr.. WILLIAM BENTLEY, jun. Woodside. On the gth instant, after a protracted illness, much and deservedly respected, Mr. WILLIAM WEATHERILT, watchmaker, Lawrence street. Same day, Mr. HUGH PRICE HUGHES, joiner and builder, of Hill-street. Same day, aged 21 years, GEORGE, son of Mr. WILLIAM PARR, Whitechapel. On the loth instant, Mr. WILLIAM THOMAS, late of the Talbot Hotel, Great Charlotte - street. Same day, Mrs. MARGARET COAKER, the beloved wife of Cap.. Lain John Coaker. Same day, after a short illness, Mrs. JANE LOMAX, wife of Mr.. John Lomax, of Holt-hill, Tranmere. Same day, in St. James's-road, aged 25, Miss JANE WILLACY,. only daughter of the late Mr. James Willacy. Same day, after a short but severe illness, to the great grief of his , family, aged 20 years and 6 months, THOMAS, eldest and beloved son of Mr. JOHN METCALF, St. James-street, respected by aR who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. On the 11th instant, at his residence, Belford-street North, aged 68, Mr. RALPH ISAACS, deeply regretted by a numerous cir cle of relations and friends. Yesterday, at the residence of her brother, Peter Rothwell, Esq. Sunning.hill, near Bolton, after a long illness, borne with true Christian fortitude, MARY, the beloved wife of RICHARD S. CROOK, Esq. of Rodney-street. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1840. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY MORNING, BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 98, Mount Pleasant, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford-street, At No. 4, ST. GEORGE' , CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL Orders and Advertisements are received by Messrs. 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