The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-10 00:00:00

Never was a country called upon to exert itself, either for its own interests, or for those of our common humanity, in a louder, more emphatic, or more pathetic tone. The colo nial empire of Britain contains a population equal to that of the whole of Europe. It is so extensive, that the sun never ,sets on its confines. Alas ! that its daily beams should have hitherto shone to reproach the mother country for such un natural neglect of her distant offspring ! But a truce to com plaints and lamentations. We are now beginning to perceive that our interests and duties are identical, and that we can not forego our oligations as Christians, without endangering our securities as Englishmen. Look at India, with her 300,000,000—the icy chains of Hindoo caste are melting away before the beams of Chris tianity. You behold all the elements of a mighty Christian empire springing out of the ashes of Hindoo barbarism and idolatry. If you would cultivate the Assam tea plant, rather than the fatal poppy, step forward to give your countenance to a meeting which is to embody the moral sentiments of our merchants and traders, and to speak a language which can not be mistaken, either at the India House or the Treagury. Look at the West India islands—the thousands and tens of thousands of the swarthy Africans, whom your liberality has enfranchised. Will you give theni only nominal freedom from slavery? Will you render their new liberty a curse, rather than a blessing ? No ! you are prepared to introduce them to the glorious liberty of the Gospel, —to come forward to aid the contributions which are to send missionaries, schoolmasters, and catechists, to instruct them in their du ties towards God and man. But turn your eye to a still far interesting and affecting spectacle—behold the new world of Australia supplicating your Christian generosity and succour. It is there you send the wretched convict—it is there you relieve yourself and your country of the worst of criminals. Have you no duties to perform to those whom you thus banish and expatriate ? Have you no interests in preventing the creation of an em pire of ferocious vagabonds and of unreclaimed criminals? This meeting, be it remembered, is called to support and succour a society which has been stripped of all the aid which it heretofore derived from parliamentary bounty. The pre sent Ministers have thought fit to cut off the grant which it so long enjoyed, and they now also are resolved to deprive it of the clergy reserves, which might hereafter sustain its ope rations in our North American colonies. These Ministers feel no reluctance to prOposing grants for Maynooth, but they scruple to give any aid to the Protestant Society for the Pro pagation of the Gospel. Well, be it so. The merchants, bankers, and traders of the city of London are of far more real importance than all the lords of the treasury. and we think they will also show that they have far more sound wis dom, and more practical Christianity, than some of our le gislators at the court-end of the metropolis. The moral spectacle which the Egyptian Hall will exhibit on Wednesday will,be such as ancient Tyre and Carthage could never boast. Hail to the union of commerce and re ligion ! The Primate of all England and the Bishop of Lon don will then sit next to the first magistrate of the first city in the world, to move resolutions which may influence mil lions yet unborn. The commercial genius of Britain will henceforth go hand in hand with the diffusion of Christianity. Methinks we may already realize the sublime anticipations of prophecy.—He shall have dominion from sea to sea—from the river even to the ends of the earth. They that dwell in the wilderness shall kneel before him—his enemies shall lick the dust. All kings shall fall down before him ; all nations shall do him service. THE HILL COOLIES IN GUIANA. (From the Scottish Standard) We had lately occasion to expose the gross misrepresenta tions made by the itinerant agitator, Mr. Scoble, at a meet ing of " th e f r i en d s o f N egro emanc ip a ti on " i n Edinburgh, respecting the condition of the Hill Coolies in British Guiana; and we gladly avail ourselves of an opportunity that is afford ed us, by having a letter from that colony put into our hands, of presenting our readers with a full confirmation of the flat denial we were then enabled to give of Mr. Scoble's calum nious statements. The letter, which is from a gentleman of high respectability, and long connected with the colony, to a near relative in the neighbourhood of this city, and dated the 4th January last, thus alludes to the happiness and prosperity of the Hill Coolies : " The Christmas holidays have passed as usual in a peace able way ; but little work will be done till the 6th current, when I expect the people will return to their labour in ear nest. lam happy to say, that although we do not get nearly the labour that we used to get, the want does not, in general, proceed from misconduct so much, as from the desire of the best disposed and most industrious men to keep their wives attending to the children and household matters, seeing that they can by their own labour obtain enough to keep their wives from field work. The people, besides, are acquiring property of their own, and so soon as they have enough of money to buy a few acres of land, and build a small hut upon it, they in six months can raise as much provision as will keep the family, and only labour when they choose for hire, which will seldom exceed a third part of the year; and the money so earned is spent in the purchase of luxuries, for they pay no taxes, they have fuel for nothing, and as for ne cessary clothing, it is a mere nothing ; hence the want of labour to cultivate the soil to a profitable e:itent. Any in-' dustrious man in this colony, by the labour of his hands, may become in three years the owner of a house and land, quite sufficient to maintain him by fifty days labour in the year. How cruel, then, is the fate of the poor Coolie of the East Indies, born without the smallest hope of raising himself in the scale of humanity from the wretched condition in which the superstition of his caste has brought him up, and how unfeeling is the conduct of the government under which he lives, to keep him in that state of misery ; not only so, but enact laws to prevent his accepting an offer which will assuredly elevate" his mind and his bodily condition. Oh how much I would give to be able to make the words of the poor Coolies here to be heard by the British nation, were it only to expose the fallacy of those who , under the garb of philanthropy, raise their hypocritical voices against the immigration of the poor Coolie of II indostaninto the West Indi es . Wh en I asked the poor Coolies if they in tended to remain here after their term of service had ex pired, one of them answered, no ; he should not remain to take a cup of water after that time, but would return to In dia, his nati ve coun t ry . A n d w h en as k e d, what he would do there? Ile quickly answered, to see his children, and take them all to this country, along with all those who would be lieve his words; and added, Seib, here we are all some thing—all are good to us, but in our own country we are no one. Poor Coolie treat bad in Bengal. Send shin and get plenty Coolie here to this country, for they will bless you, Sail)! And when told that no more Coolies were allowed to come hither, his eyes flashed indignation, and he said some one told lies upon them. But when informed that no one here could do so, but it was Indian netb law, he hung down his head and seemed much distressed. The others came round him asking the cause of his distress ; and on hearing the reason they all cried. At last this man said, 'then I shall not go back—they' will keep me there;' in which the• others joined when they heard of his determination." We trust, after this, that " the friends of Negro Emanci pation" in Ediuburgh, will estimate the harangues of such men as Mr. Scoble at their true value, and not suffer them selves to be led away by the mere excitement of the moment. RESPITE FOR THE BOATMEN.—A respite from the home office has been granted for Jame's Owen, George Thomas, alias bobell, and William Ellis, alias Lambert, for the mur der of Christiana Collins, until Saturday, the 11th of April, to afford the opportunity of making further inquiries into the evidence adduced at the trial.--Staifordshire Gazette. The WHALE FISHERY.—The total number from England and Scotland will he about 30 ships. Last year the total number was 41. The decrease in this trade during the last 10 years is very striking, and in twice that period still more so. In 1832 HUH sent 30 ships, Peterhead 11, England 39, and Scotland 42 ; total, 81. In the four years from 1818 to 1821, not less than 140 ships sailed from the United King dom in each year, with about 6000 men on board. The greatest number of ships was 142, with 6137 men, in 1820, when Hull sent 62 ships, and the greatest number of men 6291, in 140 ships, in the year 1819, when Hull sent 66 ships. The average number of ships sent from Hull during the 11 years ending 1820, was 55 4-11, and the average num ber leaving the United Kingdom each year during the same period 133 4-11. The average number of men in each ship was about 45, those leaving Hull being of a large class, carry ing 48 to 50 and upwards. Should the ensuing season be prosperous, it may have the effect of encouraging more owners to send their vessels in the following- year ; but the governm ent bounties, formerly so great an following hav ing long since been abolished, there is no p ro b a bili ty of this trade becoming again that which it was long ce l e b rated for being—the most famous nursery of British seamen. —Port of Tyne Pilot. (From a Second Edition of the Morning Post,) By an extraordinary express from Marseilles and Paris, we have received our letters and journals brought by the Atalanta steamer. Our dates from Bombay are Feb. 29, China Jan. 7, and Calcutta Feb. 16. The following is the letter of our Bombay correspondent Bombay, Feb. 29. The accounts from China, which are to the 7th of January, continue of the same unfavourable complexion as those pre viously received. The reports which were previously in circu lation respecting the imperial displeasure at the failure of the Commissioner Lin's attempt to eradicate the traffic in opium turns out to be totally unfounded. His master's con fidence in him is unshaken, and instead of being degraded, as reported in the Canton papers, he had received additional marks of the imperial favour. The decisive measure adopted by Lin of excluding British commerce for ever from the eni pire has received the approbation of the emperor, and the commissioner has not only been relieved from all the respon sibility of the ordinance, but the power of modifying it has been taken out of his hands; and he is thus precluded from entering into any negotiations for the restoration of our intercourse, all of which must be henceforth directed at once to the court at Pekin, and not to its minister at Canton. Before the Emperor's pleasure had been know, the com missioner issued a fresh edict (a copy of which I transmit herewith), prohibiting the evasion of the new law by the transhipment of British goods to foreign bottoms, to be con veyed to Canton under the protection of a foreign flag, to do so. The Captain of every American and other foreign ship, before being permitted to enter the port of Canton, was re quired to give bond to the following effect :—" If we have got on board the goods and merchandise of any ship belong to the English nation, no matter whether taken on board within or without the Grand Ladrone Island, or on the.high seas, or at Singapore, or at Penang, or at Manila, or while touching at any other of these foreign possessions. If any thing of the kind be found on board, we are hereby perfectly willing that both ship and cargo be confiscated." The Thomas Coutts had commenced taking in her home ward cargo, and was expected to leave about the end of January. She was being loaded by the merchants at the rate of £8 to £9 per ton. The Royal Saxon, Captain Towns, had also succeeded in getting up to Whampoa. It appears her Majesty's ships Volage and Hyacinth had left their an chorage Tankoo, and repaired to Macao, for what reason does not appear, unless to enjoy Christmas-day at that place; and the captain of the Royal Saxon took advantage of their absence and entered within the Bogue, of course having pre viously signed the required bonds. Connected with this event is the capture by the Chinese of Captain Gribble, of the firm of Gribble, Hughes, and Co., who proceeded after the Royal Saxon in a Chinese fast boat for the purpose of putting a tea taster on board, which, having accomplished, as he was returning to the fleet his boat was seen and chased by a Mandarin boat with about fifty rowers, and was overtaken close to the shore—himself taken out and carried away—but all his Chinamen escaped by jumping overboard and wading ashore. On the circumstance being made known, a number of the boats of the fleet at Tangkoo was manned with the greatest promptitude and went in pur suit, but failed to come up with the boat. On the 3rd of January it was ascertained that Captain Gribble was in con finement at Canton,'"and it was expected that he would be immediately released therefrom by the Commissioner. The officer and crew of the Sunda, wrecked on the coast of the Harnan had been conveyed to Ca n to n , w h ere th ey were at once admitted into the city, and introduced to the Commissioner and all the other public authorities. They were treated with great kindness ; the sailors were regaled with a pork feast, and the whole party was sent on to the English fleet without detriment. Lin talked much with the captain, and was greatly delighted with Mr. Thelwall's book against opium, a copy of which appears to have been on board, and which was read to him, it is stated by a cabin boy. He is also reported to have said that notwithstandidg all that had passed, the English might return, if they would engage in the lawful trade ; but this is inconsistant with the edict.of eternal exclusion, to which he had obtained the Emperor's sanction. The late conduct of Captain Elliott seems inexplicable, even making every allowance—and great allowances ought to be made--for the difficulties of his position. He appears to have made an attempt at reconciliation, which has only af f orded a fresh opportunity to Lin to degrade him still fur ther. This vacillating conduct of the Superintendent is lamentable, and it is matter of congratulation that all further negociation s with the Chinese will be speedily placed upon a different basis, and entrusted to other agency. Captain Elllott's position has been a very difficult one, and his feel ings are not to be envied when the accounts of the dishonour his bills have met with from the British Government shall have reached him. A very great error appears to be prevalent in England in as suming that the opium trade was the sole cause of the late crisis in China. It undoubtedly accelerated it, but, inde pendently altogether of matters connected with opium, the time had arrived when the interference of our government with respect to China was absolutely necessary to place our relations upon a proper footing. The British Government ought to have peremptorily interfered in 1834, on the occa sion of the murder (for it was little better) of their represen tative in China, the late lamented Lord Napier the occur rences connected with which had nothing whatever to do with opium. Nothing however was done at that time, the attention of people in England being engrossed with some petty affair of politics, and the insult was tamely submitted to. Nothing short of a crisis such as has the occurred, and the consequences of which will be felt through out length and breadth of the land, was sufficient to rouse the British Government to a sense of the importance of the interests at stake. • cu . With regard to th e •oijaercstettol communicate. expediti nto China, I h ave not any additional parti p f e e r w a t daysi o n s we L s o h r a d l A h u e c a l r cl ainndorheasdeafirrn7treetily a w t h C a a t l c t u li t e t a p , l a a t n i d o b i ! a o will be. board Sir J. J. Gordon Bremore, comm commanding i no on Madras on H.M. ship Wellesley, Captain . T. M alo a .l(. i ii t io l ,e a re( n , d ac , toi l ii a tn vi the British squadron in the Indian sea, ed y i r a witht l the 11th instant, from whence she was to for Calcutta i n or d er t o ena ble the commodore Lord A uc kl an d , as to t h e measures t o be adopted in relation to the expe di t i on d est i ne d f or Chi na. sai sail to r c n o m nt . e The expedition is said to consist of the following troops ; from Ben ,, al, her Majesty's 21st and 26th regiments of native infantry ;from Madras one regiment of Queen's troops four of native i n f antry, one regiment of artillery, and one o f en gineers ;—t roin C eylon, one regiment of Queen ' s troops, , total ten regiments. General Sir H. Arbuthnot, Commander in-Chief at Ceylon, is to command the above-mentioned force; and Generals Oglander and Walker are to have divi sions. The expedition is not intended to arrive in China before May next. Two vessels have been chartered each to take in 200 tons of coal and some stores, and to proceed to Madras ; from thence receiving troops they proceed to Ceylon and Tr will ch ange t h e troops and proceed to vessels, the E rnaa d Hiaernar, i c n h co in n a. Trincomalee light where other r y Rai many, Nassurat Shaw, Indian Oak, Edmonstone, Alla Al lenie, and Mahomed Shaw, each rece i v i ng 300 tons of coals and provisions , and , taking troops, will proceed direct to China. Tenders for tonnage to convey her Majesty's 55th regi ment, had been issued, but afterwards countermanded. Br taa i n g d ad o ie f r tShteewisraorrtthofetVneDllio.vri has si.on o b n ee t n h appointed depattu to r eo f t h coin_ Major- General Welsh. RETURN OF KILLED AND WOUNDED OF A DETACHMENT • UNDER THE COMMAND OF LIEUT.-COLONEL ORCHARD, C. 8., BEFORE THE FORT OF PESHOOT, ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1840. _ Camp, Peshoot, January 18, 1840. Detail.—Artillery—Killed, none ; severely mounded, none; slightly wounded, 2 sepoys. Sappers and Miners—Killed, 1 sepoy ; severely wounded, 1 naick and 1 sepoy • slightly wounded ; 1 serjeant. Ist European Regiinent—Vled. 1 private ; severely wounded, 1 ensign and 3 privates ; slightly wounded, none. 37th Regiment, Native Infantry—Killed, 1 havildar and 6 sepoys; severely wounded, 1 lieutenant, 1 havildar, 1 naick, and 9 sepoys; slightly wounded, 1 drummer and 5 sepoys. His Majesty's Schah Shoojah's 3d Regiment—Killed, 1 jemadar and 9 sepoys ; severely wounded, 2 havildars, 3 naicks, and 10 sepoys ; slightly wounded, 7 sepoys. Total—Killed, 16 ; severely wounded, 20 ; slightly wound ed, troopei of Captain . Christie's horse wounded Seven horses drowned in crossing the fords. NOMINAL ROLL OF OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED. Lieutenant Collinson, 37th Regiment, severely wounded ; Ensign Hicks, Ist European Regiment, severely wounded ; Jemadar Gunace Tewary, His Majesty's Schah Soojah's 3d Regiment, killed. J. R. POND, Lieutenant, Detachment Staff. J. ORCHARD, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding Detachment. By order of the Right Hon. the Governor General of India in Council, T. M. MAI)DOCK, Secretary to Government of India. (Front the Bengal Hurkaru, of Feb. 13.) The Governor-General held a levee this morning at ten o'clock, and a large assemblage of civil, military, medical, legal, clerical, and miscellaneous officers were honoured by receiving a bow from his lordship. There would be no diffi culty in saying who were there, but it would be hard, per haps, to say who were not, for Calcutta had poured out all her " bettermost people" into Government-house for the oc casion, and red coats, blue coats, black coats (legal,) black coats (ecclesiastical,) and other coats of all sorts, were ming led in the presence chamber thickly and confusedly, afford ing every one an excellent opportunity of seeing his friends without the trouble of calling on them. The commander in -chief, the members of council, the judges, the law com missioners, &c., as in duty bound, were all present ' • and his lordship, who appeared to be in ve r y go od he a lth, bowed for an hour by the cathedral clock, and then withdrew from, as he had entered, the presence chamber to the tune of " God save the King." A company of the Cameronians, were in attendance, as a guard of honour, ordering arms on a Mirza pore carpet, and presenting them amongst the chandeliers. We observed, that some constables , were present also, but did not learn that any pockets were picked. It gives us great pleasure to be the means of recording an act worthy of the Bombay column of the British army of the Indus, in which are displayed in one view, the valour, the generosity, the highmindedness, and the ennobling spirit, that animates the whole. All our readers are aware that the gallant corps which stormed the fortified city of Ghuzni be came possessed of a ,magnificent sword, that belonged to Prince Hyder Khan, the Governor. As a part of the general prize property, the weapon was ordered to be sold by auction, and accordingly, after due notice, it was brought to the ham mer on the arrival of the head quarters at Ferozepoor. The officers of the Bombay column purchased it, and then, by the agency of Major-General Wiltshire, commanding that column, they presented it to their commander-in-chief, as a most honourable tribute of their esteem, of their respect, and of their gratitude ;—of esteem for his valour, of respect for him, who had once been their own special chief, and of gra titude to the general who had led them to victory, to con quest, and to triumph. In the letters which we subjoin are expressed in the frank simplicity of a soldier's style, those sentiments which do honour to all the parties. It is worthy of notice, that a similar proceeding on the part of certain officers in one of the colonies has lately produced the republication of a general order from the Horse-Guards, prohibiting all such demonstrations in future. It, however, gives us pleasure to state, that the testimonial was presented to Lord Keane before that general order was known in this country. Vottrp. TENDER. MERCIES OF POPERY. BY MISS M. A. STODAIIT, (From the Church of• England Magazine.) .Hie to the battle-field ! _ And mark the soldier who hath stood the foe, But ivho at last bath reel'd. Drag his faint limbs where cooling waters flow : Mark him, in torturing pain And feverish haste his parched lips to raise— Then bid his toil be vain, And cast him far, in hopeless thirst to gaze. Haste to the sinking ship ! Listen the crashing planks, the rushing wave, While from a neighbouring steep One-rope descends a drowning man to save : • But as with eager speed His hand is stretch'd that friendly rope to clasp, Then—shrink not from the deed— Sever, mid yawning waves, his death-like grasp. Turn to the prisoner's cell, And see " a sunbeam, that bath lost its way," Fall where thick vapours dwell, And o'er the captive's forehead cheering play : With joy long time unknown, Sunshine and youth beam with that sparkling light ; Heed not the lonely moan. But shroud him once again in darkest night. Thence to the poor man's cot — Hear famish 'd babes on weeping parents call, And parents curse their lot. As one by one they see their children fall :* And stand thou by the while, And grasp unflinchingly thy loaf of bread, And count with joyous smile, As one by one the victims bow the head. Shrinkest thou from the task? These are as tender mercies, heartless Rome ! We rend away the mask, We view thy workings in our sea-girt home. From the pure living word 'Tis thine to turn away the thirsting soul ; 'Tis thine to snap the cord, When troubling water's o'er the spirit roll. 'Tis thine heaven's precious light With thy false mists to darken and becloud, And—fearful, devilish sight— From souls of babes withhold their daily food. From thee with hate we turn, And count thee, Rome, as our most deadly foe ; Thoughts, feelings, in us burn, Though faintly in our words those thoughts and feelings grow. * It is but just to acknowledge that Dante's description of the death of Count Ugolino's children by famine was in the writer's mind while penning the seventh and eighth stanzas. One line has been directly borrowed : " Come to mi vedi Vid' io cascar li tre ad uno ad uno." RELIGIOUS, CONDITION OF THE BRITISH COLONIES. (From the Morning Herald.) Nire have already briefly adverted to the great metropolitan meeting to be held at the Mansion House on Wednesday next, on the subject of the moral and religious condition of our colonies, and to devise measures for alleviating that moral destitution under which they are suffering. Such a spectacle is at once painful and cheering. It is painful to re flect that a country like Great Britain, the first in arts, arms, commerce, and wealth, should so long have allowed this blot to tarnish her reputation ; but it is cheering to behold the merchants, bankers, and traders of the first city in the world rising up to wipe off this foul stain from their country, and resolved to compensate for past neglect by such a glorious demonstration of their future intentions and designs. PORRION INTELLIG_ENCE, EGYPT. Private letters from Malta bring additional ilitelligence from Alexandria to the 22d of March, It appears that there are some political relations between Mehemet Ali and the Imaum of Sanaa, who is the Sultan of Yemen. An envoy extraordinary of this Imaum went to Egypt a few months ago, and had secret conferences with the Viceroy, the. pur poses of which are yet unknown. He returned to his mas ter, accompanied, on the part of the Viceroy, by Hussein Effendi returned from his mission to Cairo, and thence started at once for Alexandria, where he thought to find the Viceroy, but not finding him, he returned to Cairo, and on the 13th of March had a secret interview with him, in which he gave a complete account of his mission. The Viceroy seemed completely satisfied, and Hussein Effendi was again sent with fresh despatches to the Imaum. It is reported at Alexandria • that the presence of the Scheriff of Mecca on the coast of Yembo, where the Bedouins had risen, has greatly contri buted to subject them to the Egyptians. The Bishop Fre derico Cao came to Cairo by the way of Suez, having accom. plished his mission in Ava and Pegu. The Viceroy has returned from Cairo to Alexandria, and the preparations for war always continue. Tents, which are intended for the four regiments expected from Arabia, have already come to Alexandria, and powder and ammunition are disembarked every day at Mahmoudeh, whence they are transported by camels to the Government magazines. Exer cise is gone through both by land and sea ; 60 cannons of large calibre have been sent to Aboukir to fortify that sta tion, and carriages for cannon are manufacturing at the ar senal. On the 20th of March Aly Gezar, an old Arab, was sent by the Viceroy to Boulaque and old Cairo to form the redif (militia). This man had been in disgrace for 15 years for a quarrel with Solimai Aga, whom he attempted to shoot. He was exiled, but as he was an influential person, the Pasha recalled him to Alexandria, and said—" Old man, I have made you a colonel, but you shall not wear the decoration until you have formed a regiment at Boulaque and Old Cairo./' The Alexandrians have become proud of bearing the mus ket, and the colonels and officers are more haughty than the Pasha himself. • The Capuchin priests cannot appear without being grossly insulted. Ibrahim Pasha, from never praying at all, has turned devotee, prays five times a day, and severely chastises those of his soldiers who will not do the same. The plague continues, and the doctors, notlully understand ing the disease, often fall into ridiculous mistakes. An Arab, who had fallen in the street in a fit of intoxication, was sent to the Lazaretto by the health authorities, and though on coming to his senses he cried out that he was well, the guardians of health would not commit themselves, and he had to perform quarantine. Accounts from Damas state, that the murderers of the Pa dre Tommaso have at length been discovered, but the details of the affair are so extraordinary that it is hard to give them credit. It appears that the deceased was invited to enter the house of certain Jewish merchants, who sent his servant for a barber. They all assisted in cutting the throat of the priest ; his body was hung up by the feet, that the blood might flow into a basin ; and his flesh cut into small pieces, and his head and bones heaped up in a pile. These remnants were put in sacks, to be thrown into the common sewer of the Jewish quarter, where they were found. Nine persons Were appre hended, and seven, amongst whom were the barber and the servant, confessed the crime. Some turned Mussulmans in the hope of saving their life, but in vain ; five have been al ready hanged. According to the confessions of the murderers, the priest was killed that his blood might be used for passover bread, according to an ancient custom of their religion. However, the Israelites say that this confession is entirely false, and has fo been drama forth by rture, and that the government has only wanted an exc se to despoil the rich Jews of their wealth. A singular eature has been the violent indignation of the Mussulmans of Damns, &c., at the death of a Chris tian. The strictest exercise of authority has been required to prevent the extermination of all the Jews in Damas. COI,ONIAL INTELLIGENCE. !lk CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. i t The Cape . '' o i dHiWe papers reach to the 9th of Febru ary. Bankin oemed prospering in the colony, and f rom the reports ma bf the operations of the respective esta blishments for the past year, there appeared every prospect of progressive improvement. The Cape of Good Hope Bank, which had existed three years, had declared a dividend of 15 per cent. Cn the 3d of January a statement of its liabilities and assets was published, and it then appeared that the lat ter exceeded the former by £76,132. The South African Bank in this its first year's report showed a profit of £5,079, of which sum £2,559 was carried to the reserve fund, leaving £2,520 to be employed for the payment of a dividend which had been declared at 6 per cent. The assets and securities of this bank on the 31st of December, 1839, exceeded its lia bilities in amount £59,124. The Eastern Province Bank had also declared a dividend of 6 per cent. out of the profits of the past year, and its first of existence. From the frontiers the accounts continued favourable, and the discipline used by the Lieutenant-Governor to preserve order was spoken of in terms of commendation. An interview between the Lieu tenant-Governor and some of the Caffre chiefs is alluded to, and it is said that Macomo spoke reasonably and with dis cretion, but Tyali and Botma were rude and insulting. Nothing, however, was feared from this by those who knew the general character of the tribes. The particulars of the interview are not given. NEWS FROM CHINA AND INDIA. Mornuis Cnrotion i ono of tho old fleet ofaio Thais. men, Las been totally wrecked or a sandbank off the Seine rary Islands, between Pannay and Mindoro. Phillippine Islands. The French ship L'Asie, which was in company when she struck, succeeded in saving a quantity of opium, (228 chests,) she had on board, the amount of salvage on which (one-third) - allowed to the French captain, amounts to upwards of 30,000 dollars. STORMING OF PESHOOT. (From a Second Supplement to the Calcutta Gazette o February 15.) Camp, Peshoot, January 19, 1840. TO CAPTAIN DOUGLAS, ASSISTANT-ADJUTANT-GENERAL, ARMY OF THE IItHES. Sir,—l have the honour to report, for the information of the Major-General commanding in Affghanistan, that on the afternoon of the 17th, the rain having ceased, and with every expectation of favourable weather for commencing operations, I issued the necessary orders to the detachment for attacking, on the following morning, the fort of Peshoot ; and as it was advisable that Captain Abbot should have his guns into bat tery, and the infantry be in the best position they could oc cupy before daybreak, we left camp at 4 a.m. As soon as Captain Abbot could distinguish the gate, he opened the bat tery against it, and after firing for nearly two hours, succeed ed in making a practicable breach on each side of the gate, when Lieutenant Pigou, with a party of 15 men of the Euro- . pean detachment, and 25 sepoys of the 37th, advanced, push ed down the gate, and proceeded to examine the inner one. The bugler with the party, observing them going forward, sounded the advance (without order), which caused the storming party and column to immediately move down to wards the breach ; but Lieutenant Pigou having ascertained that the inner gateway was closed, ran back and directed them to get under cover from the enemy's tire, which was easily accomplished among the numerous ravines close to the fort. Lieutenant Pigou then returned, and applied the powder to blow open the gate ; but as it had rained without intermis sion from about half an hour after commencing the attack, from the damp state it was in, and the very inferior quality of it, being powder of this country, it unfortunately failed. As from the situation of the gate, and from the nature of the ground surrounding the fort, it was found impracticable to bring a gun to bear on it, Lieutenant Pigou suggested that another trial should be made to blow it open, and a sufficient quantity of powder (nearly I001b) having been procured from Capt. Abbot, the attempt was made, but I regret to say it also failed. As it still continued to rain heavily, the troops had been exposed to a severe tire for several hours, Capt. Abbot having expended nearly the whole of his ammunition, and every possible means adopted towards gaining an entrance into the fort having failed of success, I determined at half-past 11 a.m. on withdrawing the troops from before the fort until the weather cleared up, and certain measures could be taken to insure success. Our failure, however, I am happy to say, has proved as good as having gained possession of the fort, for a short time after we retired the enemy evacuated the fort of Peshoot, as well as that of Khatke, on the opposite bank of the river, both of which are now in our possession; but I am sorry to say there is nothing in either fort but a small quantity of grain and about 10001 b. of powder. I lament to say our loss has been rather severe (a return of which is enclosed), which was mainly caused by want of means to reduce a place of so much strength. To Lieut. Pigou the highest praise is due for the gallant and meritorious manner in which he three times advanced to the inner gate, under a heavy fire from the enemy, and laid the powder to blow it open, the failure of which can only be attributed to the causes already explained. To the party who accompanied him, under the command of Ensign Pattule, the greatest credit is also due for the manner in which they kept in check the enemy's side. To Captain Abbot the highest praise is also due for the manner in which he has conducted the arduous duties de volving upon him, as well as the great service rendered by him yesterday. I also beg to bring to the notice of the, Ma jor -General the conspicuous gallantry of Lieutenant Tytler, who accompanied Lieutenant Pigou on both occasions of bringing the powder, and throughout the day rendered me every assistance ; I am also highly indebted to him for the manner in which he has conducted every duty required of him as Assistant-Quartermaster-General since leaving Jul lalabad. I have much pleasure in bringing to the notice of the Major-General the gre.•t assistance I have on all occasions received from Lieutenant Pond, whom I appointed as de tachment staff. The highest praise is also due to every officer and man composing the detachment, who have cheerfully borne up against every privation and hardship ; and the coolness, gal lantry, and ambition of each individual displayed yesterday morning elicits my warmest thanks and approbation. In noticing the names of the officers to whom I am in debted for assistance during this expedition, I have omitted to mention that of Lieutenant Dallas, of the commissariat department, who has on all occasions proved himself a most zealous officer in procuring supplies whenever there was any possibility of obtaining them, and also of rendering me every assistance during the attack yesterday. J. R. POND, Lieutenant, Detachment Staff. J. ORCHARD, Lieutenant-Colonel Commanding Detachment. J. DOUGLAS, Captain, Assistant Adjutant General. By order of the Right Hon. the Governor-General of India in Council, T. H. MADDOCK, Secretary to the Government of India. (True copy) COPIES OF THE CORRESPONDENCE. To His Excellency Lieutenant-General Sir John Keane, G.C.B. and G.C.H., Commander-in-Chief, Army of the In dus :—Sir,---The officers of the Bombay column of the ar►ny of the Indus who were present at the capture of Ghuznee, having obtained possession of the sword of the governor, Prince Hyde'. Khan, have requested me to solicit your Ex cellency's acceptance of testhnoffy . ef their personal re gard and esteem. I avail myself of this opportunity thus afforded me to ex press the great satisfaction and pride I feel, in having been selected by my brother officers as the channel of conveying to your Excellency their sentiments, in which I so deeply participate. _ _ I have the honour to be, Your Excellency's most obedient, T. AV ILLSHIRE, Major-General, Commanding Bombay Column Army of the Indus. Sukhur, Feb. I, 1810. TO MAJOR-GENERAL WILLSIIIRE, AND THE OFFICERS DE PUTED TO PRESENT SIR J. KEANE THE GHUZNEE SWORD. Gentlemen,—l beg you will believe that I receive this sword as a testimonial, the most flattering and agreeable to my soldier's pride that could have been presented to me. I shall ever value and hold it as a marked pledge of your friendly f ee li ngs towards me, and of the confidence you have reposed in m e as comrades whom I had the honour to lead from Bombay to Cabool, through a country little known, and inhabited by uncivilised, but warlike people. Throughout this arduous service, I was often cheered by the zealous and spirited assistance I received from you, and those under your orders, and that hearty co-operation and gallant bearing, I unhesitatingly say, led to the accomplishment of our trium phant success, which has gained for me the high honour now conferred on me by my Sovereign, and assures me that as a soldier, I ant well thought of by my superiors and fellow countrymen. To such distinctions my ambition always aspired, but I could not have expected to have realisit our Atighanistan, and should not, in all probability, tiut for.y able and cor dial assistance. It will be painful to separate from such companions, but it will be a pleasing reflection ill the evening ofmy life, to f ee l that I have finished my military career as an humble servant of the hon. company, its commander-in- c hi e f of the Bombay army, and that the distinguished position I h ave been so for tunate Bombayeodiy regard and esteem, I rema i n, your mos General. t faithful General, J. KEANE. Sukhur, Feb. 1. Witht to attain, of as DEATH OF SIR RICHARD PHILLIPS.—We have to an nounce the demise of this venerable knight, which took piece on Thursday last at Brighton, after a long illness, in his 73d year. Sir Richard was collata•ally related to the late Lord Milford, and served the office of sheriff of London in 1808-9. He was known in the literary world as the projector, editor, and proprietor of the Monthly Magazine, and the author of various books connected with an improved system of educa tion.—Morning Herald. It has been attempted to cloak the proposition under the subterfuge that free grown sugars alone will be admitted at an equalised rate of duty. We are not charitable enough to give the advocates of the measure the excuse of ignorance, that the produce of slave labour would yearly find its way, to an enormous amount, into free adjoining colonies ; and what would be easier than to ship the thus smuggled produce for England, cleared as free labour sugar? There are no regulations which human ingenuity could invent, however severe and however honestly executed, which could suppress a tithe of the contraband traffic which would spring up on the passing of an equalising measure, and unhappily we are all well aware that foreign officers are but too easy of corruption to suppose, that they would vigilantly carry into effect any such regulations, laying aside the feeling which must influ ence them, that the larger the amount thus smuggled, the greater the gain to their particular country, at the expense of Great Britain and her colonies. As it is, do these colt): nies not suffer enough by the loss of the sugar market of the North American provinces, supplied as these provinces almost entirely are by foreign slave colonies, while we are compelled to receive their lumber, fish, &c., paying them for these in money, with which they actually proceed to Cuba, and Porto Rico for their supplies of sugar and coffee; yet we venture to say not one-half of the bulk of the people of the mother country are aware of the fact of the existence of such a traffick. Here are we obliged to take the produce of the North American provinces of England, while better and cheaper articles from the United States are heavily taxed ; but scarcely one hogshead of our sugar finds its way back in payment, simply because the foreign slave grocer can under sell us, and the duty enforced in British America is not such as to prohibit the traffic. Protected thus at our expense and giving a direct stimulus to slavery and the slave trade, Bri tish America does not import by upwards of £3,000,000 sterling of the amount of English manufactures annually consumed by the British West Indian Colonies. Are the other colodies of Britain so oppressed as the western dependencies? Do we find the duties on the wools of Australia and Saxony equaliked ? No ; yet Saxony wool is the produce of free labour. Is the timber of Canada and that of the Baltic, admitted on the same terms ? No; the timber of the former is far inferior, and dearer, yet the peo ple of England are called upon to pay an extra dnty for this inferior article, in order that the Canadas may receive the protecting care due by a mother country to her colonies. Are not the West India colonists further compelled to re ceive the produce of the North American provinces, by a prohibitory duty on similar articles from foreign states ; but if the West India colonies have any encouragement extended to them, a hue and cry of " monopoly" and " injustice" is raised by parties interested in their ruin —individuals, who, though Englishmen, may have large capital embarked in foreign slave countries. If th"e government of England therefore be induced to sanction a measure so utterly ruinous to us, either from pre judice or the fear of the powerful party who may he ex pected to support the measure as most conducive to their in terests, we shall in a very few years witness a similar state in England, as now exists in British America, with regard to our produce. If cheap sugar is wanted, let the duties now exacted'on that grown by British colonists-245. per cwt.— be reduced one half ; and if .former experience can he re lied on, the increased consumption would soon throw into the treasury a larger amount of revenue than is now realized from this source. .The planter would be enabled to increase the wages of his labours, the extent of the cultivation of his property would be doubled, and consumers and manufac tures would thus be gainers. Did not an enormous increase follow the reduction. of the duty on coffee ?—has not the con sumption of East India sugar been more than doubled within the short space since the duties were equalized with West In dia, sugar? Reduce, we repeat, the duti es o f W es t I n di a sugars to 12s. or 155., protect these colonies by giving them a monopoly of the British markets, encourage emigration, and we shall soon hear no more of the high price of sugar at home. t will be seen by the extracts which we give this evening that our neighbours of Trinidad have not been idle in this !natter. Petitions have been adopted to her Majesty, and the two Houses of Parliament. At a meeting held in this town on Monday last, a similar course was agreed upon, and p. reference to our advertising columns will place the public in possession of a copy of the petitions which it is proposed to transmit from the colony of Grenada. This document will, we cannot doubt, be both respectably and numerously signed since the threatened evil must affect all classes. Let the united West India Colonies, as if with one voice, forward their remonstrances against the contemplated in justice, and surely the people of England are not yet so far gone in prejudice against us, as to refuse to lend a favourable ear to our appeal. We trust that in our next we shall be able to lay before our readers some account of the mariner in which the recently arrived Maltese are progressing. They are, it is said, an active, docile, and hard-working set of labourers, and pleased with the country. CHESTER AND CREWE RAILWAY.—We understand that on Friday last an accident occurred on the new tunnel under the canal, at Christleton, in consequence of a leakage in the puddle, which interrupted the traffic on the line of canal for a few hours. We are happy to be enabled to state that the damage is inconsiderable, and no delay in the progress of thu works will arise from the occurrence. EXTRAORDINARY OCCURRENCE IN A WESLEYAN CHA PEL.—On Sunday evening last, the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in this town, became the scene of one of the most extraordinary occurrences ever witnessed in any place of worship. Divine service had proceeded as usual, until the preacher, the Rev. Robt. Hays, had given out the passage of scripture chosen for the discourse, when a strong and mus cular female, who sat in the body of the chapel, rose from her seat, and, with " deliberate step and firm," ascended the pulpit stairs, entered the pulpit, seized the preacher round the arms and waist, and, in a magical manner, turned him down stairs, at the same time exclaiming, " Now I'm satis fied !"--" The Messiah is come !" The effect produced upon the congregation was truly electrical—females fainting, gen tlemen laughing, many running out of the chapel without their hat's, and all in the highest state of excitement. The female preacher commenced an exhortation amidst an uproar and confusion which almost rendered her expressions inau dible, and which it would be impossible to describe. The expressions, - 0 Youare all sinners"—" The Messiah income" —" The abomination that maketh desolate"—" The woman in the wilderness"—" The drunkards in Ephraim"—and others similarly incoherent, were those which seemed to occupy her mind. After the sensation had ,partially sub sided, a number of men ascen d e d th e p u l p it stairs, for the purpose of expelling this intruder ; but this proved a more difficult task than they contemplated, for she defended her self in gallant style; and it was not till after a considerable struggle had taken place that she consented to forego her claim to the pulpit, which, she stoutlyt maintained, was built for her use, and not for the reverend gentleman. Having, however, been expelled by phisical force, she contented her self by exclaiming, " Glory to God !" and was put out of doors, where she continued to ejaculate this and similar ex pressions. Order having again been restored, the reverend gentleman ascended the pulpit, and proceeded with his dis course: We have since heard that the unfortnnate woman las been sent to CaSileliaen.—Mona's Herald, Douglas, sle of Man. MURDER OF Two MISSIONARIES.---The subjoined ex tract of a letter said' to have been received from Sydney, stating that Messes. Williams and Harris, both missionaries of the London Missionary Society, had been murdered on one of the South Sea Islands, if true, will produce among the churches of our native country but one feeling of lamenta tion :—" Mr. 'Williams intended touching at the New He brides and New Caledonia, to endeavour to introduce the gospel -among the people by means of native teachers. On one of the New Hebrides, named Tanna, they were more favourably received, and succeeded in settling a teacher there. The next island they went to was Enno mongs, where a Mr. S. Henry went for sandalwood a few years ago and destroyed a number of the natives, w hi c h had filled their hearts with hatred to all white men, and a determination to be revenged. Mr. Williams, it 'seems, was not aware of this circumstance, and went on shore, as to other islands, accom p a nied by Mr. Harris, C apta i n Morgan, and a Mr. Cunningham. The natives did not ap pear very friendly ; so they decided on not leaving teachers with them at that time, but to leave them on some of the islands near. Mr. Harris was a little further inland than the rest, when they were alarmed by hearing the war yell. They looked around and saw Mr. Harris running towards the beach, followed by a number of natives armed with clubs and spears. "They saw poor Mr. Harris fall, murdered be fore their eyes. The rest ran for their lives to the boat. The captain and Mr. Cunningham gained it and escaped, but Mr. WilliaMs stood for a moment to look for Mr. Harris, when he was overtaken and murdered in the water. From the vessel they saw his body dragged upon the beach and stripped, and the natives dressed in his Vlothes. Mrs. Wil liams is still unacquainted with her loss, as the Camden set sail immediately for this port, after an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the bodies."—Madras Courier, Feb. 13. VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, &c. Thomas Sparks, J Sparks, 497 Calcutta, Cotesworth & Wynne Corinna, 11 Wilmot, 324 Cape of Good Hope, Bold & Starkey Devon, J Gething, 400 Sincapore, W & J Tyrer AFRICA. Wm. Rathbone, C Calvert, 326 Africa, Agett & Hemingway Warwick, J Casement, 2Y7 Sierra Leone, J Dawson WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Sarah Birkett, R M Atkin, 202 Kingston, Jamaica, W Rose &Co SOUTH AMERICA. Lima, E Newby, 179 Brazils, Hadfield, Braga &Co Reliance, J It Dunley, 179 Ceara, Hadfield, Braga & Co Apollo, Hayedorew, 198 Porto Rico, Focke & Boult UNITED STATES. Sidney, R Cowen, 519 New Orleans, W Quayle Turbo, J Beauchamp, 281 New York, Isaac, J.ow & Co Garrick, A S Palmer, 1004 New York, Brown, Shipley & Co Citizen, A Hatch; 459 New York and New Orleans, T Dixon &Co Augusta, T A Snow, 422 New Orleans, Baring Brs &Co Caledonia, W Massicot, 561 New Orleans, R L Dawson & Co Lucy, Murphy, 396 Mobile, Galt, Barff & Co Congress, C Adams, 370 Mobile, Bolton,:Ogden & Co EQUALIZATION OP THE SUGA.R DUTIES, (From lhe Grenada Free Press.) The measures which have been threatened to be introduced into parliament during the ensuing session, for equalizing the duties on British free and foreign slave grown sugar, is one which, if allowed to be carried into effect, will give a death blow to the prosperity of these colonies, now happily reviv ing, though slowly, from the effects of the emancipation of the labouring population, au event which one would have thought of sufficient disadvantage to us, in competing with foreign sugar growers, with the immense aids which slavery affords them, it being to them a matter of no importance at how great a sacrifice of human life their staples are raised. Not satisfied, however, with our present- disadvantageous condition, it is contemplated to whelm us with utter ruin, by throwing down the only protection left us,- and not only thereby destroying the remains of what prosperity may yet be within our reach—not only closing up a great outlet for English manufactures, but, as if blinded by an unaccountable fatuity, the agitators of this measure would, by carrying their scheme, throw back in the progress of civilization those very persons--the uegroes—to advance whom in the social scale such mighty endeavours have been made by England. That such would be one effect we conscientiously believe, and the failure of Great Britain in the experiment she has hazarded, would but rivet the shackles of thousands and tens of thou sands of human beings now in slavery, who se s ole chance of release appears to bin the successful issue of the trial in progress in these colonies. _ _ The causes which have produced the agitation of the mea sure are far different from those ostensibly assigned. This cannot be thought either harsh or unfounded assertion, when we consider that the interests of the individual who has shown himself most active, are, in the advancement of the East, at whatever cost to the West. To such men, private gain is everything, patriotism a mere feather in the scales. Mr. Ewart, one of the parliamentary members we believe for Li verpool, is deeply connected with eastern commerce, if report speaks truth, and it becomes of course his duty to step for ward and provide the British consumer, sugar at a cheaper rate than he can at present obtain it, even at the certainty of reviving, in a tenfold degree, slavery and the slave trade, by the direct encouragement which would thus be afforded ; and this too when the temporary ise in price has been caused by the deficiency in our colonial products, arising out of the working of an experiment, over which the colonists have no control, and which was brought on by the people of England themselves. And if such are the real parties on whom the just blame is to be thrown, are the unhappy West Indians to be again and again made to suffer, as if from them proceeded the evil of the high prices complained of, which as has elsewhere been shown, might in a very few years, by a proper course of fostering care towards these colonies, be reduced .to an unexampled degree. Why in the name of all that is honest or just, is not a reasonable time given to afford the new system of free labour a fair trial? Why de stroy men who are but even now in time act of recovery from former heavy blows? The subject of equalising the duties on free and slave grown sugar—for it is nothing less— is not one that exclusively concerns the class of planters alone—all having the least stake in these colonies will equally feel the effects of the contemplated measure. Not the aban donment alone of estates—not the ruin of the owners, the merchants, the mechanics, the labourers dependent for the necessaries of life and its comtbrts, on agricultural prosperity —not the loss to the British manufacturers of an immense and still growing market ; not all these calamities alone will ensue, but the foreign slaves, toiling under the lash, will have to throw aside all hope of liberty, the granting of which the otherwise improved condition of the British colonies might have made compulsory on their masters—they must throw aside all thoughts of freedom, and, instead of blessing, curse the nation which, having brought such. hopes into existence, so recklessly dashed Ahem away, undoing' at a blow the labours of many years. These would, we have too much reason to believe, be the speedy results which would follow the passing of Mr. Ewart's proposed .measure, and to avoid calamities so great, are our utmost and combined ex ertions now called for. gpliippiiirs Elitelliottur. TUESDAY, APRIL - 7 —Wind N.N.E. A aaiv n.—Jam es Ray. from Demerara—Harriet & Jessie, WKown, from Charleston—British American, ---, from St. John, N.B.—Racer, Curtis, from St. l'+.l ichaers—Zcidenrust, Young, from Zwolle—Sirius, Fretwurst, and Neptunus,Voss, from Rostock Flora, Brahms, from Leer—and Activio, Fretas, from Lisbon. SAlLED.—Senator, Pike, from New Orleans. Sarah Parker, Davies, from New Orleans, at this port. On 29th ult. in lat. 49 0 N, long. 26 au W, spoke the Orontes, front Savanilla for this port : out 50 days. Same day, spoke the Edward, from Philadelphia for Hamburg: out twenty days; she had thrown part of her cargo overboard in a heavy gale 14th Feb.—Passed through the Gulf of Florida in company with the Ann, Johnson, fl'ont New Orleans for this port Vesta, -, from Smyrna, in coming down from the Quaran tine ground this morning, got in contact with the British American, from St. John, N.B. The Vesta's mainmast was carried away, and the end of the British American's bowsprit Carthage, Knapp, from Virginia, is on shore off the Clarence Dock Urania, Noakes, from the Persian Gulf, at Bombay Lancaster, Campbell, and Rothschild, Lucket, hence.at Bombay Seymour, -- ; Cambria, and Bland, Callan, hence at Calcutta Windermere, Brown, hence and Mauritius, at ditto Imogen, Downes, sailed from Calcutta 29th Jan. and Duke of Lancaster, Hargreaves, 31st Jan. both for Liverpool, and Intrepid, Stewart, for Berbice, 29th Jan. • Elvira, Gull, from Mauritius, at Calcutta. Yarmouth, Forsyth, sailed from Ancona, for Liverpool, lye March. Childe Harold, Willis, from Bombay at Falmouth. On the 17th Feb. in lat. 5 N. long 20 W. spoke the Tigris, hence to Calcutta On the 9th March in lat. 35, long. 34, Elizabeth Holderness, hence to Savannah. On the 26th March, in lat. 50, long. 19, the Henry Hood, hence to New York Arachne, Thurtell, from Mauritius, off Cove, and proceeded to this port Laity of the Lake, -, from the Clyde at Calcutta Earl Grey, -; Matilda, -, and Theseus, Gayner, hence at Calcutta Nora Creina, Howes, and Dean, Archer, hence at Malta Janus, Wilson, sailed from Marseilles for this port on the 29th March Grede Vrow, Taisker, hence at Texel Constant, Van Settle, hence at Antwerp Clutha, —, hence to St. John, N.B. was spoken in long. 12 Tacitus, —, hence for Havana, off Scilly Duke of Buccleuch, —, from London to Calcutta is lost off Point Palmyras, (Bengal) Marchioness Camden, —, from Calcutta to China is lost on one of the Philippine Islands Richard Bell, --, from South Shields to Calcutta is lost Rossendale, Friend, hence at Bahia Satisfaction, Gibson, hence at Africa WEDNESDAY, Amu. B.—Wind N.N.E. fresh ARRIVED.—Sabina, Mattison, from Savannah. Sauk:D.—Chariot, Fairlam, for Gaspee—Redbreast, Bence, for Malaga and Stettin—Nanta,ket, Wippen, for Savannah—Columbia, Clarke, for New'York and New Orleans—Maria Anna, Hagedoorn, for Riga—Caravan, Nichols, for Boston—Alicia, Nicholas, for Mon treal—Tamerlane, Fisher, for Quebec—England, Waite, for New York—Chicora, Rogers, for Charleston—Susquehana, Miereken, for Philadelphia—Dinah, Dick, for Gibraltar—Volunteer, M`Minn, for the Cape of Good !lope and Maurititis,—Hardware, Vizier, for De merara—Caspian, Patten, for New Orleans—Heron, Wingood, for Newfoundland—and Halifax, Gallilee, for Tatmagouche. City of Poonah, Wilson, hence at, Bombay 29th Feb. • Cornubia, Bell, sailed from Bombay, and Feb. ; Hopkinson, Stephens, 3rd, and Salsette, Harrison, 4th—all for this port Dumfries, ---, from New South Wales, at Sincapore Malcolm, Sim, sailed from Sincapore 25th Dec. and Friends, Arnold, 15th Jan.—both for London Helen Stewart, was to sail from China 6th Jan. and Queen Mab, in all January—both for this port, and Tapley, about 10th Jan. for London Ebro, Cordero, hence at Manilla Lretitia, Black, from New South Wales, at ditto Faerie Queen, Hickman, and Mars, Gardner, from China, ditto Wm. Lockerby, Parker, from Calcutta, at the Cape of Good Hope, and sailed sth Feb. for Cork John Horton, Cunningham, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope 4th Feb. for this port, and Mary, Ilunter, 4th Feb. for Rio de Janeiro Alexander, , hence at Hobart Town Jamaica, , hence at Bahia Lancashire Lass, Norman, hence at Alexandria Concord, Martin, hence at Beirout, and sailed 27th Feb. for Alex andretta Mary Bibby. Walker, hence at Genoa 26th ult. Venilia, Andrews, and Leveret, Ditcham. hence at Malta Queen Victoria, Wright, hence at Hamburg Medea, Bleckhert, and Maria, Sieverts, hence at Pillau Neptunus, Paeplow, hence at Stralsund Ilindoo, Vau Zuilecom, from Hobart Town, off Portsmouth Dundee, ---, from Monte Video for this port, at Falmouth Julius Cwzar, Mitchell, from Llanelly at Madeira, and sailed 14th March for the Red Sea Cremore, Shapley, and Corriere de Messina, Minach, sailed from Trieste 21st March, and San Lazzar, Vercassovich, 23rd—all for this port—and Mary Appleby, for Dublin, 27th Fairfield, , from Manilla for London, was spoken 13th March, in lat. 32 . 0 N, long. 35 0 W _ _ Earl Powis, Spittall, from the Mauritius to Cork, was spoken 28th Jan.: 9 days out Thomas Lowry, Graham, kence to New South Wales, was spoken 20th Feb. in lat. 12 0 N, long. 21 0 W Venus, M`Donald, hence to Lima, was spoken 23rd March, in lat. 51 0, long. 7 0 SINCAPORE, Jan. 16.—The Heber, hence to London, that was on shore at Bintang, has gone to pieces • part of the cargo saved COVE, April 6.—The Wm. Parker, Sewell. from Liverpool to Mon treal, put in here this day, with loss of bowsprit, and with seams in deck and topsides forward, plank sheer in both bows, top-gallant forecastle deck, and several treenails started, having been in con tact with a large steamer 31st March THURSDAY. Aram 9.—Wind North, light. SAILED.—Rob Roy, Marsh, and Mary Jane, Varney, for New York and Virginia—Union, Steffins, for Hambro'—Grace, Reid; Osceola, Milliken, and Caledonia, Bibby. for New York—St. George, Dempsey, for Dalhousie—Mary Scott, Sanler, for Valpa raiso —Rebecca, Drake, for St. John, N.B.—Norway, Eldridge, for New Orleans—St. Clair, Putnam, for Boston—Christiann, Gardner, for Stettin—Margaretha, Berg, for Rotterdam—Don, Muir, for Quebec—Agamemnon, Broomheati, for Montreal—Merrimac, Pike, for Boston—Devereux, Armstrong, and John, Heselton, for Quebec —Germania, Kross, for Pillau—Melanira, Sampson, for Gibraltar— Erin-go-Bragh, Sumpton, for Montreal and Quebec—Reis Effendi, Crass, fur Monte Video—and Alexander \ise, Coulthard, for Quebec. Gratitude, White, sailed from Gonaives for the Cape of Good 11 ope Feb. Planter, Kirk ; Alexander, Young, and Archer, Mathewson, hence at Jamaica Alecto, Ayshford, was to sail from ditto for Liverpool 99th Feb. Esther, Bertin, hence at Marseilles Alert, Vidler, and Crescent, Thomas, sailed from Charente for Liverpool 3rd April Victoria, , hence for Rotterdam, off Dover 6th instant Canton, , from Valparaiso and Rio Janeiro, at Milford H.M.S. Wellesley, (72) front Colombo, and Alligator, (26) front Madras, at Trincomalee, and both sailed 7th Feb. for China Elora, Blair, from the Clyde, oil Bombay Yapp, front Siam for London, off the Cape of Good Hope Mary Mallaby, . from Australia, at the Mauritius Shannon, Killock, sailed from Rio Janeiro for Bombay 31st Jan. and Clyde, Matches, for New South Wales 7th Feb. Hankinson, , hence for Africa, was spoken 29th March, in lat. 49. long. 8 Michigan. , hence for New Orleans, was spoken 13th March, in lat. 44, long, 46 Pandora, itl lot . 48, long. 15 _ Echo -, hence for New Orleans, was spoken 13th March, it lat. 29, long. 41 Sheridan, De Peyster, hence to New York, was spoken in lat. 50: long. 17 Plumstead, Symonds, hence at Lima Agnes, , sailed from Lima 10th Jan. Mary Worrall was to sail lath Jan. ; Thos. Worthington, Ist Feb. and Robert Whiteway, 15th Feb.—all for Liverpool Courier, Huntress, and Black Prince, Martin, hence at Valparaiso Middleton, Tinton, from Cadiz, at Monte Video Rival, Keswick, and Deva, Sproat, hence at Rio Janeiro Jarrow, --, from Demerara for Liverpool, at Antigua, on the 6th of Feb. leaky, and will have to discharge her cargo MILFORD, April 7. —The Jant, Pring, from Bristol for Liverpool, in beating into the harbour this morning, missed stays,.and drove on shore to the north of Angle Block House ; she lies in a dan gerous position TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 9, 1840. Wind at Holyhead, North, moderate breeze in the morning; N.N.E. light breeze at noon, and S.W. very light breeze in the evening. Off Point Lynas, outward bound, at it a.m. No. 1682, Volunteer, B.Bk. fin' the Cape of Good Hope-8234, Hardware, 8.8. for Deme rara-1817, Caspian, A.S. for New Orleans—and 1021, Dinah, B.Sc. at 6 p.m. for Gibraltar. West of the Floating light, outward bound, No. 9611, Devereux, WM. for Quebec, at 2 p.m. Off Holyhead, outward bound, at 6 a.m. No. 262, Susquehanna, A.S. for Philadelphia, and 1476, England, A.S. for New York, at 7 a.m. BRITISH AMERICA. Ann, J Wilman, 334 Pugwash, Holderuess & Chilton Enterprise, J Fletcher, .163 Newfoundland, Harrison &Co Fisher, J Sewell, 126 Newfoundland, W Tarbet Thomas, J Edmondson, 211 Newfoundland, W Tarbet Huntington, W Widdicom. 156 Windsor, N.S. Cannon, Miller & Co Patruus, F Gibaut, 205 Bay Chaleur, J Robin & Son Donegan, W Thompson, 196 Newfoundland and Quebec, Ward, P Masters, W Tarbet or J J Day 745 St. John, N.B. Gibbs, Bright & Co EUROPE. Daniel, D Matthews, 59 Gibraltar, J Adam Anna, F A Keuth, 150 ltiga, Bahr, Behrend & Co Iduna, J A Krosland, 166 Windau, C G Weber & Co Due de 13raganza, J A Mortinez, 200 Oporto, Highfield & Withers Harmonie, B J Zvelkesh, 150 Dordt, Bahr, Behrend & Co Eugene, J V du Perre, 189 Ostend, Bruges and Ghent, C GWeber - Ez Co Anna Elizabeth, E G Bockhout, 135 Rotterdam and Dora., _ _ Bahr, Behrend & Co Concord, C Cobb, 270 St. Petersburg, Bahr, Behrend & Co Susanna, W Maberley, 255 Narva, It & J Gardner Lynx, T Watson, 80 Lisbon, T Hampson Jantina, B H Gust, 72 Tonniugen, C G Weber &Co Auguste, P Vanderkerkhoven, 212 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co Fanny Palmer, J Cutting, i-ti Constantinople, Bahr, Behrend & Co Isis, J Scott, 155 Leghorn, G Yates ifinportc',. EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, .`•e. Royal Saxon, (142) it Atkins, from Calcutta, 4 chests shell lac, 413 sacks linseed. 271 bags saltpetre, Sands, Turner and co-1000 bags rice, 818 sacks 1440 pockets linseed, 1335 bags saltpetre, G Boggs-405 sacks linseed, order-300 bags lice, landed at St. He lena-102 chests shell, lac, W Jones and co-20 chests lac (lye, Sands, Turner and co-210 bales . jute, iti bales hides, G Boggs -1527 pees redwood, order-1 box Delhi scarfs, Col. Cadell-400 sacks flour, Rawson and co.—From St. Helena, 1 box contents un known. Finlay and co—W D Highlander, (20) A Bottomley, from Calcutta, 549 bags sugar, 401 bags saltpetre, 2727 bags rice, 150 bags pepper, 450 bags jute, 1 package tablet, 13 boxes castor oil, order—P D Indian, (557) W Frost, from Calcutta, 351 bags saltpetre, Rick ards, Little and co-401 do, 16 bales safflower, 16 pees elephants' teeth, 1011 bales hemp, 17 chests silk piece goods, 1176 bags rice, 980 boxes sugar, 87 chests castor oil, 2 cases 29 boxes lac dye, 26 bales cow hides, 243 bags mustard seed, 104 logs ebony, 2 cases boots, shoes, &c. order-238 bags sugar, 1003 packages linseed, 270 bags saltpetre, Sands, Turner and co-60 cases castor oil, R Allinson—;i chests silk piece goods, Finlay, Alston and co--13 bags gall nuts, Kelsalls and co-8 bales raw silk, 144 bags sugar, Ogilvy, and co -320 sacks flour, 150 sacks linseed, 57 sacks mustard seed, 50 bales jute, 10 bales hemp, ficyworth and co-10 chests tobacco leaves, 38 chests shellac, a ches lac dye, N Crooke and co-67 bags sugar, 500 bags rice, 201 chests lot cases shell lac, 38 chests lac dye, 995 pockets mustard seed, 3 cases silk piece goods, 200 bales jute, Crawford, Colvin and co —I bus presents, T and H Littledale and co—i parcel muslins, Mrs. G Thompson-2 boxes natural cu riosities, 1 box preserved ginger, 1 box sugar candy, the master— W D Alan tier, (605) A M`Kechnie, from Bombay, 805 hales IN) hf bales cotton, order-64 bales do, G . Armstrong-100 do, Ogilvy, Gillanders and co-1480 bales 40 hi bales do, Cockerell and co -95 bales -i hi bales do, 1 package coffee, (.1 Loch and co-86) bags pep per, G Armstrong-72 bundles 5 bags deer horns, Ogilvy and co -8 bundles silk, 313 bales 7 hi bales wool, 532 pees buffalo horns, 3 boxes contents unknown, 1 chair, order-14 cases Colombo root, J Bibby and Sons—P Herculean, (317) J Grindall, from Bombay, 140 bales 30 hf bales cotton. order-916 bales do, J Bibby and Sons-482 bales 20 hf bales do, H S Albrecht and co-370 boxes plurnbago, 1 box shells, 2 horns 1 box images, order-1 hale hemp, Albrech and co-18 tons ebony, G Malcolm and co-9 boxes arrowroot, Mrs. Gibbs—P D Helen Jane, (266) R M'Dowal, from Mauritius, 5835 bags bags 28 casks sugar, J Gladstone & co—P D Arachne, (319) J B Thurtell, from Mauritius, 5015 bags sugar, 2 boxes pickles and preserves, order Prices. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester BO paid 65 10 0 .... Ditto and Derby Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh lOO paid .... Bolton and Preston Bristol and Exeter . 25 .... Chester and Crewe 49 .... 43 15 0 .... Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 16 5 0 Glasgow, Paisley, Hilmar 1 '3O paid Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction Ditto half shares 3O .... Great Western 65 Ditto new shares Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham 00 Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto an.l Southampton 5O .... Ditto & Brighton London and Croydon Leeds and Manchester 6O .... Ditto half shares Leicester and Swannington 5O .... Ditto, (new) Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham 25 .... Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... Ditto quarter shares North Midland lOO .... New North Midland lO .... South Eastern and Dover North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid York and North Midland 4O paid Great North of England BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 . Bank of Liverpool . t .12 1 Os paid Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... Liverpool Union lO .... Northern and Central Albion North and South Wales lO .... of Manchester lO .... Bl'cliester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank lO . Commercial Bank of England 5 .... East of England Phoenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 los. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings L'pool and Harrington Water ) 350 .... 477 10 0 Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0 . L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 0 . L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 191 0 0 . Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance 1 125 paid 9 10 0 . Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 95 0 .... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 1130 ex div DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 10s. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company Harrington Docks Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool; .... (Poloncean) 10 . .100 . 230 0 0 ex ilia• 89 0 0 .... 88 1 . 5 0 72 10 0 32 15 0 26 15 0 32 5 0 0 0 0 182 0 0 42 10 0 .. . . 85 10 0 . 15g 0 0 44 5 0 . , 25 0 0 25 0 0 42 5 0 24 0 0 .. . . 73 10 0 .... 22 5 U .... 71 0 0 .... 49 10 0 .... 35 0 0 .... 11 7 6 .... 0 0 0 .... 86 10 0 .... 97 0 0 .... 18 15 0 .... 0 0 0 .... 84 10 0 .... o o 0... 50 15 0 ... 159 0 0 18 15 0 *65 0 oexdiv 21 0 0 ex div.2l 0 0 16 15 0 .... 12 10 0 .... 22 17 6 ex div, 6 17 6 .... 9 17 6 14 17 6 .... 7 1 7 6 - 5 7 6 .. . . 7 0 0 .... O 11 0 O 0 0 .... 0 14 6 .... O 15 0 .... 8 0 0 SEIARE MARKET, THURSDAY EVENING. Our market for Shares has been dull to-day, and prices of some stock rather lower. Great Westerns and London and Birmingham - is fully maintain themselves, but there is little demand. MARRIED. On the 12th November, by special license, at St. David's Church , Hobart Town, by the Rev. William Bedford, senior chaplain, the Hon. DAVID ERSKINE, of the 51st King's Own Light Infantry,. third son of Lord Erskine, to ANNE MARIA, eldest daughter of JOSIAH SPEDE, Esq. chief Police Magistrate of Van Dieman'' Land. At Altona, Mr. ALFRED AINGER, of Doughty-street, Lon lon, to ISABELLA, youngest daughter of the late Mr. ELI jAGGEE , of this town. On the 30th ult. at the Scotch Secession Chapel, Monnt-pleasan t, by the Rev. J. Kelly, of Crescent Chapel, Mr. G. MUSGROVE, (4 Kingsford, to Miss L. J. A. LONGSTAFF, of London. On the 31st ult. at the C o ll eg i a t e Church, 111anchester, b>'• the . Rev. W. W. Johnson, M.A. Mr. JOSEPH ELLIS, of this tows to Mrs. HANNAH SIDI/ALI., of Sheffield. On the 2nd instant, at the Scotch Church, Oldham-street, by t~ je Rev. Dr. Ralph, Mr. HUGH THOMPSON, sugar-refiner, to mam` CHRISTIANA STEWART, daughter of Mr. Andrew Stewart, sugar" refiner, both of this town. Same day, at St. Jude's Ch urc h, b y t h e Rev. Hugh M'Neile, A • fA. f Mr. JOHN ANDERSON, ship wr i g h t, to M i ss ELLEN DERRY, °f this town. On the 7th instant, at St. Andrew's Scotch Church, Rodney-stre et ' Mr. WILLIAM KENNEDY to ELIZABETH, eldest daughter of Mr' BENJAMIN WOOD, optician. Same day, at St. B r id e ' s Ch urc h , Mr. THOMAS HUGHFS. late of the firm of Whiteside and Hughes, spirit-dealers, Great Crot hall-street, to JANE, seco n d d aug h ter of Mr. THOMAS CLAR K cork-cutter and spirit-dealer, Cable -street. Same day, at St. Mares Chureh,Edge-hill, by the Rev. M in Nunn, of Stockton, Salop, JOHN PH ILLIM Esq. or hrelysbinl: to MARY EMILY, eldest surviving daughter of J. B. TIPTO N Esq. of Elms-house, near this town. On the Bth instant, .at Birkenhead Church, by the Rev. A. I ,° ;',' ARCHIBALD SMITH, M.D. to DOROTIIEA ELIZA HERR, thulg ter of the late Col. PEERS, Ruthin, Denbighshire. Yesterday, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, THOMAS LEONARD WATSON, chemist, &c. to ELLEN, 0 1 0 (laughter of Mr. WILLIAM ROBINSON. - Yesterday, at Lytham Church, by the Rev. R. B. Robinson, DAVID KINNEAR BROWN, of this town, to URSULA, daugh"' of PAUL CATTERALL, Esq. Lytham. artaritettl. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, Arm 8. The sales on Thursday last were 4000 bags ; Friday 5000 ; Satur. day soot) ; Monday 3000 ; Tuesday 3000 ; and to-day 3500. There has been a fair amount of business transacted since last week, without any material alteration in prices ; except in the • lower qualities of American, which may be obtained somewhat cheaper. Brazils are id per lb higher. East India and Egyptian remain firm. The accounts received per Great Western had the effect of softening the tone of • the market in a slight degree. There appears an excess of 330,000 bales, over last year's exportation, from the United States, and about the same difference in the receipts into the ports. The import of the week amounts to 25,107 bags. LIVERPOOL- PROVISION MARKET, APRIL 9. The speculating "waiters upon Providence " In our Butter market are sadly nonplas'd by the beautifully gro wing weather that the country is at present favored with. Nobody is buying except for the satisfaction of immediate wants ;—and the limited demand is confined to the finest and freshest parcels of Butter. of which there is very little in town. There is, however, an abundance of stale lots. and thenr we should say, parties would be more than happy to finish off, at a reduction in price of los per cwt. New Grass Butter may be looked for by the next arrivals from the South of Ireland, and will no doubt meet a ready sale, in the hands of legitimate importers. There have occurred a few sales of pickled Butter since our last at 94s to 955. The market is a little more plentifully supplied with Pork, and that article may be bought at a cheaper rate. Beef continues high and in few hands. Bacon has been more run upon latterly iu consequence of the moderate price it has borne in comparison with Butter. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, APRIL 7. The imports of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal, from Ireland and Coastways, and of Wheat and Barley from the continent of Europe, have been rather considerable since last Tuesday, and have, with preceding supplies, exceeded our limited demand, so that last quoted prices have been barely obtainable for almost every article in the Corn trade hero, and in all our surrounding Corn markets. The only alteration in the duties ou Grain from foreign ports since Friday last is a decrease of Is 6d per quarter on Barley, In dian Corn, and Buck Wheat : it is very likely that on Friday next the duty on Wheat will be reduced to 16s 8d per quarter, and on Flour to 10s 04c1 per barrel. We have again to notice t he sale to speculators of several parcels of American Flour in bond here, and on the passage, at xys to 298 6d per barrel ;-30s has been generally demanded and paid on small quantities for export. Oats in bond continue to go of very slowly, for export, at our quotations; and bonded Wheat finds sale as free, in proportion to the duty. The weather continues favourable for agricultural operations, but rather too cold and dry ; warm rain is now much wanted. It rained a little last night, and there is every appearance of a change in the weather. The supplies to this day's market have been very much increased by arrivals yesterday of Wheat and Barley coastways, and from foreign ports ; and we Ir.:ve experienced very dull sales at a decline which we can hardly regularly quote, nominally Is to 2s per quar ter for every article in the Corn trade, except the finest qualities of Wheat, and for foreign Barley 3s to 4s per quarter lower. Flour in bond 2ps, free 41s per barrel; Oatmeal 33$ dd per 2401b5. The new Irish Wheat offered by auction this day was withdrawn for want of bidders. Ni HEAT, per 701bs s. d. s. d. Englkilt INDIAN CORN, V , 4801 b. Red 4O O@•41 0 White 4O 0 42 0 BEANS, per quarter. English 45 0 4g 0 Irish 42 0 44 0 PaAR, Grey IS 0 42 0 White • 42 0 46 0 Snir BREAD, per 1121 b. In bond l4 0 17 0 FLOUR, English, per 28016. Fine 52 0 57 0 Irish ..44 0 54 0 Amer. r 1)1'1. tree Sweet U. 5..... 40 0 41 0 Sour 39 0 47 0 OATMEAL, per 2401 b. English 32 6 33 0 Ditto, new 33 0 33 6 Scotch 32 6 33 0 Scotch Irish.. Bonded. BARLEY, per qr, English .... 9 9 10 .... 5 10 9 0 0 0 0 43 0 Chevalier Scotch, per 601 b. 5 0 5 6 Irish 4 3 410 Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 OATS, per 451 b. English Scotch 4 Irish Foreign, in bond 3 Ditto, duty free.. 4 RYE per quarter 36 1 4 2 1 4 2 6 3 9 6 4 0 0 4 2 0 39 0 MA f:T, perqr. fine 68 o 75 middling 56 0 66 AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE, Imported into Liverpool, from 30th ult. to the Gth inst. inclusive, FROM IRELAND Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lambs, logy 500 5613 SO 213 Previously.. 8465 loyGo 63708 560 S 45 717 COASTWISE. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Calves. Lambs 194 1891 2 Previously .. 920 14277 ?305 39 8 26 Old Ilay AGRICULTURAL MARKET, APRIL 8. New Hay.... Clover Hay.. Straw, Wheat Straw, Oat .. Straw, Barley Green Clover s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. O 11@1 3y. 2016. Potatoes, 2 6E63 0 1.9016 O 10 1 2- Cattle Ditto 2 3 0 0 - O 10 1 2 - Turnips 0 0 0 0 - 0 73 0 Si - CAMAS 0 0 0 0 O 6 0 7- Manglewnrzle 0 0 0 0 5 0 6 - Manure 10 6 12 6 -- ' 0 0 0 0 -- TIDE TABLE. Days. I urn. Een. I Height. Sundays, Holydays, April it. tr. u. at. r. t. Friday .. 10 521 6 8 12 4 Cambridge Lent Term end, Sat urda) 11 654 734 13 1 Oxford Lent Term ends. Sunday 12 811 839 14 1 Palm Sunday. Monday 13 9 8 929 15 2 Tuesday 14 953 10 16 15 9 Wednes. 15 10 29 10 45 15 11 Easter Term begins. Thursday 16 11 3 11 20 16 4 PRICES OF SHARES, APRIL 9. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Blanchester TIMES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 ao a.m 6 a.m. MAW • 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 .15 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 3 30 p.na. Mixed 5 . pan. First Class o?!,§unday the Departures ?Hill be 3 30 a.m. First Clais, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 u.m. Mixed fog 1 30 p.m. It) 30 a.m. „ 7 p.m. ~ It 12 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. 2 45 The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. FROM L'POOL TO MANCIIESTER4 First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 8 45 „ 10 0 11 0 •• 1 1 45 2 0 Aftern. .. 2 30 Aftern. 4 45 „ 5 :30 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton Prkside * Except on Saturdays, when ti ON SU FROM MA'NCIIRSTER TO L'POOL. First Class Second Class Morning.. 7 0 Morning 9 0 „ 10 0 „ 11 15 —ll 45 . 2 0 Aftern. .. *2 45 Aftern. 5 0 • • 5 •30 .• 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I 'is Train does not start till Three. First Class 8 0 Morning.. 5 0 Afters. 7 15 Evening.. top only at Newt, Second Class 7 0 Morning 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Mixed :on &Prkside I TO PRESTON PROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 11 0 „ If 2 30 Afters. .. Second Class 4 45 „ Mixed 715 „ .. First Class VDAYs. First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Mornin 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 is Evening.. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside AND WIGAN. Fawn mANciiiisrEa. 9 0 Morning.. First Class 11 15 „ 45 Aftern. .. Second Class 5 0 ~ .. Mixed 715 „ .. First Class 'NDAVS. ON SU: 7 0 Morning... 5 30 Afternoon . Mixed 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 :in Afternoon „ TO BO FROM LI VERPOO L. 5 45 Morning.... First Class 12 0 1 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 30 „ FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 2 15 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 'NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. HELENS. ON: su 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. r. TO ST. PRONI LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 fr 11 45 FROM MANCHESTER., 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 „ •• • • I 11 45 2 15 Afternoon 5 39 „ • • • • NDAYS. I 7 0 Morning S e cond Class 5 30 Afternoon .. :01LN GAP. FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second (la,. 11 -15 ~ • • • • 5 30 Afternoon 2 30 Afternoon 5 30 ~ .. ON S u 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. To RUNC PRO3I LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 11 45 1/0 5 30 Afternoon .. PO LONDOV GLIZETTP.—Tvcopkv, APRIL 7. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. B. Thorpe and J. Hague, Manchester, cotton•spinuere — J. ()pig, jun. andJ. Craig, Manchester, calico-printer—R. Woodward, J. Woodward. sett. P. Holland, D. Woodward, and J. Woodward, NIL Macclesfield, Hilk.manufacturers—J. Gee and G. Rowbotham, Macclesfield, common -brewers—H. Harrop, J. Harrop, and E. liar rop, Cheadle, Cheshire, painters—G. Lowe, J. Lowe, and T. Lowe, Chester, goldsmiths. INSOLVENT. April 7.—Richard Young, Wandsworth, bnilder. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. John Harrison Curtis, Soho. square, London, bookseller. BANKRUPTS. ~r •:-A'i~~ William Wright, Liverpool, corn-inerchant, to surrender April 29. May 19, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors , Messrs. Taylor, Sharpe, Field, and Jackson, Bedford-row, London; and Messrs. Lowudes and Robinson, Lixerpool. Joules King, Eton, Buckinghamshire, blonder. • John George Meyer, Baltic Coffee house, Threadneedle•stree t, London, wool-broker. _ _ John Jordan Coulter and Joseph May, Liverpool-street, London, glass-cutters. Josiah Brandon, Jermyn•street, St. James's, London, wine-mer chant. Henry Tyler and William Tyler, Dudley.port, Staffordshire , cement-manufacturers. Francis Goadsly, jun. Salford, druggist. Charles John Wilkinson, Eye, Suffolk, merchant. William Stone and James Gibson, Bristol, tailors. Edward Herbert Butt, Cheltenham, innkeeper. James Bradbury. Birmingham, grocer. William Markland. Bolton-le-Moors, plumbers. William Michael Onions, Westbromwich, Staffordshire, iron foamier. William Mosedale, Derby, engine -manufacturer. John Cox, Nottingham, silk-throwster. William John, Bridgwater, hackneyman. Thomas Dixon, Preston, flour-dealer. Thomas Milner, Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham, draper. Frederick William Fiddiau, Birmingham, architect. Thomas Manley, junior, Atherton, Lancashire, patent nail" manufacturer. Robert Jordan, Barnard Castle, Durham, carpet-manufacturer . William Hodgetts, Birmingham. bookseller. DIVIDENDS. Aptil 30, H. Martin, Liverpool, wine-dealer—April 28, S. Wil liams, Finsbury-square, London, merchant—April 30, E. Flint. Lud gate-hill, London, hosier—April 28, J. Waterhouse arid W. Water house, jun. Lad-lane, London, coach-proprietor—April 30, 0. 1 1111 '' Bow, grocer—April 29, G. F. Hodgkinson, Fenchurch.street, Lo"" don, merchant—April 29, J. Windross, Bishopsgate-street, London , linen-draper—May 7, W. Hayward, Wi nc h es t er, ta il or — Apr il2o, A • Thomas, Ystradgunlais, Breconahire, timlier.inerchant—April 3 0 . J. Shepherd, Leicester, hosier—May 14, NV. M'Lintock, Barnsley. linen-manufacturer—My 7. J. Popplewell, Silkstone, Yorkshire , butcher—May 20, J. Fox, Barnsley, linen-manufacturer—May 14, J. Kennedy and S. Hill, Llanhilleth, Monmouthshire, iron-manu facturers—April 29, H. Kendall, E. Kendall, J. Kendall, and J. hen' dali, Deritend, perfumers—May 4, R. Heardman, Manchester, Wl"' merchant. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before April 2S. T. Pritchard, Sideup, Kent, surgeon—T. Sowler, Mancheste r, bookseller—J. Gauthorp, Manchester, chemist—J. Groombridg e • Al:bey-street, Bermondsey, licensed-vlctualler—W.Wright, Cutler's• street, Hounsditch, London, clothes-dealer—T. Swallow, Man chester, corn-factor—W. Higgs, Jermyn-street, London, soda water-manufacturer—J. Rogerson, Wigan. apothecary. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Robert Marshall, Tillicoultry, manufacturer. Donald M'lnnes, Castlemoyle, merchant. James John Fraser, Edinburgh, writer to the signet James Seeales, tropedeld, Linlithgow, flax-spinner. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. APRIL 1101:II 11. William Roskell, (special) Holden and Clarke's, 1 2 11. Golborne and Dobbs, (div.) I 1 . William Bates, (Ist) 14. Peter Petrie, (div.) H. Blundell, Falk and Co. (!st) 15. James Wilson, (Ist) 15. Joseph Taylor Hobson Ditto, 1 15. Benjamin Baker, (div.) . _ 13. John Alexander Griffin, (Ist) 16. Samuel Lennox, (div 16. John Thompson, (final div.) 17. Joseph Mitchell, (div.) 17. William Fakelough, (2nd) 18. Willis and Swainson, (div.) Is. John Geo►ge Roth Bishop . Ditto. ..2 . Ditto, 1.2 . Ditto, 1 Town.hall, Preston, II . Clarendon Rooms, 1 2 . Ditto, 11 . Ditto. __l NORTHERN HOSPITAL, ArniL 4. ADMITTED IQ Hospital . . . ss DISCHARGED. Cured 2O Attending as Out Patients .. • 13 Irregular Died. Accidents Medical and Surgical cases Upon recommendation Total 30 1 Remaining in th Treasurer, It. W. Bateson, Esq. House Visitors, James Heyworth, Esq. find B. H. Jones, Esq• Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.—House Surgeon, Mr. Arnott. BIRTHS. On the 29th nit. the lady of the Rev. W. K. TATAM, of Oswal d " twisle, of a son. Same day, the wife of JAMES BANISTER, of Little Hoote: gamekeeper, of a wit ; and on th e f o ll ow i ng evening, at half-pas' seven, of a daughter, who, with the mother, are well. On the 30th ult. at - the Vicarage, Blackburn, the lady of the Re c. Dr. WHITTAKER, of a daughter. On the 30th ult. at WestwoOd-hall, the lion. Mrs. 11. MA RSIIAL.I.. of a son. On the 4th instant, at Walton, Glastonbury, Lady JOl ll4 TIIYNNE, of a daughter. On the 7th instant, the lady of. the Rev. T. TATTERSHAL 13.1). of a son. DIED. ---- - Captain DICKSON, R.N. C.B. one of the heroes of Navaria°, under Admiral Sir Edward Codrington. Captain Dickson wt.' Knight of St. Anne of Russia, the L eg i on of Honour, and ot her foreign orde r s, con f erre d on hi m f or hi s brilliant services. The Pc' t commission of this gallant officer bears date the Lith May, 1831. n _ At his seat, hear Farnham, Major-General Sir JAMES CANI r ,, BELL, of the Royal Marines. This ga ll an t officer was knighte d b, his late Majesty, and invested with the insignia .of a minder of the Guelphie Order. His commission, as Major-Gelw' bore date 1823. At Dingle, Ireland, in his path year, Mr. THOMAS GRIFFIN. II)e , oldest individual practising the profes s io n o f an apothecaryin that country, Lately, at his seat, near Torquay, at an advanced age, 1 1 c, - ,.. Admiral FORSTER. The gall an t o f f i cer ' s commission, as IW".- Admiral, bore date 1825. At the latter end of November, at King George's Sound, Wester Australia, of which place h e was G overnor, Sir RICHARD CE lt, ff. Ills commission, as post-captain, Lore date 1st:1. On the tat of January, at Carlton-house, St. John's, N.B. deel , :; regretted by her family and friends, Mrs. CHARLES lIANDFOg v ,: relict of Captain Handford, and d aug ht er o f the late Mr. Joh- Bridge Pye, music.seller. On the 25th February, aged 79, M r. GEO RGE BESWIC g. or Pilkington-street, Bolton He was one of the few remaining °l the 72d, or Royal Manchester Volunteers, that served at the memos' able siege and blockade of Gibraltar. On the Itth ult. aged ad, MARY ANN , youngest (laughterto WILLIAM TARBET, Esq. On the 19th ult. at Accrington, aged 100 years, Mrs. RUsll.-; On the 23rd ult. aged 19, JOHN, younge s t son o f t h e l a te IN* WA RD. On the 25th ult. at Flint, at all advanced age, MARGARET LAFIELD, daughter of the late Mr. ROBERT COWELL, braijert this town. Same day, at Douglas, Isle of Man, FRANC ES, daughter o f the late Mr. THOMAS YATE. Same day, at his house, Aintree, d eserve d ly respected, aged •Of Mr. BENJAMIN MOLINEUX. Same day, in his 25th year, Mr. JOHN HARPER, chemist anj druggist, late of Harpurhey. On the 26th ult. in his 90th year, Mr. THOMAS PARTINGT—'., of Stockport, gentleman. Il e fill e d t h e off i ce of mayor of his o', tive town in the year 1882, and was, through life, a firm suppor t ' of its charitable institutions. On the 27th ult. aged 59, MARY, wife of Mr. JOHN HALSA Burscougb, near Ormskirk. Same day, on her return from Cornwall, whither she had b ee : l 3' by order of her medical adviser, for the benefit of her health, it e , 34, MARY ANN, eldest daughter of JOHN an d MARY GOLIIII. WORTHY, Preseot-street. She was a kind and affectionate datit' o 'f tar, and her loss will be regretted by all who had th e ',Westin her acquaintance. On the 29th ult. at Tremerchion, Flintshire, aged sg, BETH ELLIS. She had thirty-seven grandchildren and tweip, great-grandchildren. • Same day, aged 4 years, ROBERT CHAMBURY , Only son o f ta ROBERTS, ironmonger. Dale-street. Same day, at the residence of his brother-in-law, R. p arr y .10 the Hermitage, Whitcharch, Salop, in his 2gh year, EDWAgt,f JOAN AP ELLIS EYTON, Esq. Member of' the Royal College,„ Surgeons, London, second son of the late hectic Edward EY° . Esq. of Eyton-hall, in the county of Denbigh. • nEllf On the 30th ultimo, at an adv anced age, the Rev. RO-- GIBSON, LL.B., rector of Tyfield, Essex, near Lancaster. and incumbent of Ca t, — n, Same day, at Wallington, Surrey, Nil's. ELIZABETH I ‘ l1 g 1 KEIR, relict of the late Dr. Geo. heir, of Bombay, and Midear" Perthshire, N.B. On the 31st tat. of sca r l e t f ever, JOSEPH, only son of the, bite Sir. JOHN IvI'CONNOCHIE, of Burnley, solicitor. Same day, at the Deanery, Winchester, aged 86, the Very I le THOMAS RENNELL, 'i e • Same day, at the residence of his father, W. Palter, Esq. HI o f Cottage, near Greenock, ROBERT PALLAR. Esq. of the fir"!,,d C. and R. Faller and Co. Liverpool," and "Pallar, Brothers, " Porter, Melbourne, Port Philip, New South Wales." te, On the Ist instant, aged 65 years, a t h er residence, Fisher Preston, ELIZABETH, daughter of the l a t e HENRY CRITCHL Esq. of Leyland. Same day, Mr. JOHN JONES, of the Post-office, Chester. _ l s). On the 2nd instant, at F arnwort h , aged 84, Mr. JAmES surgeon, late of Prescot. Same day, after a long and painful illness, aged 10 years , ji, LIAM, only surviving son of the late Mr. THOMAS MURD' Paradise-street, in this town. On the lth instant, in his 20th y ear, o f Pulmonary consurfPG°ne produced by the pooping cough, HENRY, third son of the, JAMES MILL, Esq. author of the " History of British India, other works. On the 6th i ns t an t , a ft er a short illness, aged 54, LOUISA ° IHEA, a i e of Mr. WLENNAN, t f Tranmere. Same day, at her resilience, Chester-street, Toxteth-park , fr i i i ii 26, the wife of Captain J. 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