The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-22 00:00:00

ottrp. THE PAST AND THE FUTURE. BY ROBERT SOUTHEY. [The following beautiful verses were communicated by the Poet Laureat to Sir Egerton Brydges. They were intended to be interspersed, with others, in his " Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society," but this design was abandoned, and they remain a fragment. .The.mind of the poet who wrote them is now, we grieve to say, in ruins.] My days among the dead are past, Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old : • My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day. With them I take delight in weal, And seek relief in woe ; And while I understand and feel How much to them I owe, My cheeks have often been bedew'd With tears of thoughtful gratitude. My thoughts are with the dead ; with them I live in long past years ; Their virtues love; their faults condemn; Partake their hopes and fears ; And from their lessons seek and tiucl Instruction with a humble mind. My hopes are with the dead ; My place with them will be, And I with them shall travail on Through all futurity ; Yet leaving here a name I trust That will not perish in the dust. CONTEMPORARY PRESS. THE ABOMINABLE LAW OF LIBEL. _ (From the Preston Chronicle.) _ _ _ We are rejoiced to learn, that an influential body of gentlemen, connected with the newspaper press of this country, are making arrangements for the purpose of bringing before Parliament, in a shape likely to obtain for the subject the attention it merits, the present un just and mischievous law of libel,—with a view, of course, to its thorough revision. We need scarcely say, that with such an effort we most cordially and most keenly sympathise. There is not an editor in the kingdom, who understands anything of his profes-: sion, and who has in his composition the spirit of a man, and the honest pride and high-minded independ ence of a gentleman, that does not, with a perfect ha tred, loathe and detest these envenomed enactments. Much as we differ in other respects, and though, on almost every other theme under Heaven, we.present to each other the attitude of strife and alienation, we all agree in the utmost concord of fraternal esprit du corps in our inexorable hatred of the infamous libel laws—for the huge drag chain .is hung alike around all our necks like an accursed incubus. Questionless, then, it is the high duty of all of us who are sensible of the danger and degradation to which we are all ex posed in the present state of the law, and who feel that it is unmerited in our own several cases, to join heartily and zealously in the pursuit, now opened by a portion of our brethren. Of one thing we may be well assured, that if we do not urge our own cause, it will not, whatever they may promise, be urged by others. Peers and members of parliament, judges and lawyers will not protect us if they can help it; they all impartially and indiscriminately hate us, and wish to retain us in that state of subjection and abasement to which we are condemned by the present state of the law.' This may be saying a hard thing, but it is, as every day's experience proves, the plain and incontro vertible truth. Strange, anomalous, and unjustifiable as it may seem, hatred, to the press and to its conduc tors, is a point upon which all ranks of public men and all political parties are agreed : they feel that the press has some power to expose abuse, and to punish disho nesty in spite of them; and they prefer to check the increase of that power by degrading laws, to giving it a right direction, by placing us in our proper position. The public may not know this, but those who are be hind the scenes know it full well and experience it constantly. There are men who would almost crawl to a newspaper editor in private, that is, in the place where favours are now and then asked, and yet who would not deign to recognise him in public; still less to render a kindness which could 'be detected, or to pay a mark of esteem justly and richly merited. One of our great, perhaps our greatest, poet, soliloquised, in his unrivalled style, upon the inquiry " to what base purposes may we descend ;" it appears, however, to have been reserved for the enlightened churls of the nineteenth century, to discover one solution to the query which far escaped even his keen and penetrating eye. We do not recollect, that in all his catalogues of criminals and crimes, he makes any especial mention of our et present proscribed order,—an order indeed to which it was once considered the highest praise and merit to belong. And will any one believe that in this our day, the interests of the country, to say nothing of the interests of justice, do not suffer by the persecu tion to which we are subjected ? That they do. suffer, and that most grievously, requires little argument to prove. There is no higher aim can be proposed to a pure and honourable ambition, than the direction of the public mind to ends, which, in the judgment of those to whom the opportunity offers, seem to be just, and conducive to the public good. In a country like this where so much freedom in other respects pre vails, and where consequently so much depends upon whatever impression is made upon the public mind, the attraction of this most ambitious aim must be most powerful. The press, therefore, notwithstanding the toils incident to its service, and even were it pro ductive of a less recompense to its labourers than it is, would naturally engage the first talent and the best dispositions of the country, were there not some pow erful principle counteracting the natural tendency. But the question is, does the press engage the first ta lents and the best dispositions of the country ? If it does, why is the press degraded—why are all connected with it studiously insulted in the courts of justice, and proscribed as a polluted caste elsewhere ? If the press does not engage, as rationally it ought to engage, the first talents and best dispositions in the country, but engages a class of men whom it is proper to insult and proscribe—how does this happen ? The answer is, the libel laws—laws infamously iniquitous in them selves, but made worse as they are administered. Let us, however, leave the hypothesis, and do justice to the press. There are connected with it, even under the discouragements to which all are exposed, some of the ablest, the most learned, and the most honest men of which the country can boast. It is, and always has been, a vocation with which many of the most splendid names in literature and politics, that have adorned the annals of our country since the invention of the art of printing, are associated. In justice to our cloth, and from that feeling alone, we state this fact broadly and fearlessly. We assert, that looking at the writings of many of our contemporaries (particularly those of the metropolitan press) without at all regarding the diver sities of political opinions, the periodical press generally, as one great department of literature, exhibits at least as much talent, knowledge, argument, and eloquence, applied to political controversy, and to the science of government, as even the debates in the imperial parlia ment disclose. But to those who would wield arms against our order—those who doggedly defend the present conduct pursued towards the press, let us again put the - question—how happens it that respectable men refuse to undertake the office of guiding the mind of England ?—and if the men who undertake the office are respectable men, why do you treat them as outcasts ? We care not how the question is answered, and we have at least the consolation of knowing, that such injustice and folly is not committed in any other country. In despotic states indeed, the press is alto gether in bond; but nowhere, save in England, is the absurdity committed of letting the press enjoy freedom and power, and then of insulting and degrading ,it. Let, however, the libel code undergo a salutary and searching revision, And then with one accord we will speedily purge the insult and wipe away the degrada tion. True, there will always be a few croakers, cynics, and charlatans, to bellow out their miserable railing, but happily it is of little consequence to a well-con ducted press, what such persons hate or love, admire or despise. Such a press can return their hatred with interest, and return their contempt in the forgiving spirit of scornful generosity. ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF THE PROTES TANT ASSOCIATION AT SHEFFIELD. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) We have been reluctantly compelled to defer the re port of this 'meeting, which was held on the 3d inst., from the impossibility of procuring the important do cuments adduced there by the Rev. R. J. M`Ghee, except through the medium of the Sheffield Mercury— Mr. M`Ghee's engagement to proceed to hold a similar meeting at Whitchurch having precluded the transmis sion of them to our office ; and, as even at Sheffield, the editor of the Mercury could not procure them in time for his paper of the sth—Mr. M`Ghee's speech having occupied four hours in the delivery—but was obliged to defer the half of his report till Saturday, the 12th, it will be seen that we present our readers with the earliest report that could reach this city. There was considerable interest excited in Sheffield, in consequence of the charge made by the honourable member for that borough, Mr. Ward, in the House of Commons, against the Rev. Messrs. WlSTeile and M‘Ghee, that, at the meeting of last year, they had propagated calumnies and falsehoods there, and his being consequently invited, by the latter of these gen tlemen, to substantiate his charge on the platform at Sheffield. This, as may .well be supposed, the hon. member thought proper to decline; and, having writ , ten to Mr. M`Grhee to that effect, and his letter being delivered just at the commencement of the meeting, the answer to this letter, and the exposure of his sophistry and evasion, will probably be heard more of at the next general election—having been received, as the first part of the report specifies, with the greatest enthusiasm by the most crowded auditory that the Music-hall could contain. But the part of Mr. M`Ghee's speech, the report of which was deferred till Saturday last, is of an interest so far transcending all local considerations, and extend ing in its application so intimately to the vital existence of British empire, that we deliberately exclude every other section and topic of that gentleman's address, and confine ourselves to that which is to be found in the report of Saturday ; and we feel no hesitation in adopting Mr. M`Ghee's own language, that " the sub- ject is capable of demonstration as perfect as it is pos sible to lay before the understanding of man ; and whether we consider the unquestionable sources.from whence the evidence is derived—the high authorities from which it emanates—the completeness of the proof on which the facts are established, or the tremendous nature of those facts—whether considered as corrobo rating all that has been stated by us as to Popery, or as exhibiting the real condition of the British empire— it is impossiblethat any subject more worthy of devoted attention can be submitted to a meeting of Protes tants." We refer our readers to the report, to justify this, and we know not whether more to commend it to the consideration of the Protestants or the Roman Catholics of Ireland, for it demonstrates the latter to be the veriest slaves of Papal despotism in all Europe. THE PUBLIC HEALTH (From the Times.) It has been clearly established that there is a much higher rate of mortality in towns than in the open country. During the first half year of registiation the difference between the diseases in a dense and scattered population was remarkable. Is this discrepancy of a transitory, accidental, or permanent character ? Mr. Far states that the year 1838 afforded un usual facilities (or solving this problem. The population of the city districts in 1830 is estimated at 3,726,221, and that in the counties at 3,539,008. The city was to the rural population as 1,053 to 100; and to this ex tent (5 per cent.) the deaths in the counties should be aug mented to render the mortality strictly comparable. The excess of deaths in cities, besides the 70,410 who died equally-in the dense and in the more scattered populations, was 30,609; 9,970 from epidemic maladies, 7,474 from dis eases of the nervous system, 10,465 from affections of the organs of respiration, and 3,144 from diseases of the digestive apparatus. The annual rate of mortality in the cities was 2.7—in the counties 2.0 per cent. ; and the mortality in the cities 1.36 to 1.10 in the counties. The mean duration of life in the two sets of circumstances would differ nearly in the ratio of 37 years and 50 years. In order to arrive at a cor rect conclusion as to the relative amount of disease in cities and counties, it will be necessary to examine in each depart ment an extent of country embracing the same amount of population. This course Mr. Far has adopted, and the fol lowing is the result of his observations :—The diseases that are most prevalent in crowded cities are asthma, erysipelas, convulsions, and teething, inflammation of the lungs, air tubes, and pleura, delirium tremens, or drunkard's delirium, typhus fever, smallpox, heart disease, affections of the liver, rheumatism, gout, hernia, and the diseases incident to partu rition. In the cities the mortality is less in the following cases : consumption, croup, violent deaths, mortification, stone, apoplexy, malformations, hemorrhage, &c. It appears that those chronic diseases in which there are new deposits, new formations, or new secretions, prevail to as great an extent in the country as in cities. This class in cludes scrofula, cancer, jaundice, diabetes, &c. Parturition is 63 per cent. more fatal in town than in the country, in consequence of its being more frequently follow ed by a disease which annually destroys many valuable lives, viz. puerperal fever. All injuries are more fatal in cities than in the country. The surgeons in the rural districts trust more to the resources of nature than to the results of operations ; and when it is deemed necessary to mutilate the body, the patient has a better chance of surviving the effects of it. In the metro polis, and in many of our provincial towns, the chance of re covery in these cases is lessened by the patient being exposed to the crowded and often impure air of an hospital. That the mortality should be greater in densely populated districts than iriplaces where the inhabitants are scattered, and have the advantage of inhaling an uncontaminated at mosphere, a priori reasoning would have led us to conclude. Early writers on this subject took a gloomy and fanatical view of the question. Cities were said to be the vortices of vice, misery, disease, and death, in fact " the graves of man kind." The attention which has been paid of late years to medical police, as well as to the study of the cause of disease in cities, justifies us in anticipating an ameliorati on o f th ose evils which now appear to be inevitably connected with a re sidence in thickly populated districts. It has been aearly established that the aggregation of mankind in towns, provided the density be not carried be yond certain limits, is not necessarily disastrous. Health and life may be preserved under these circumstances, pro vided attention be paid to certain laws upon which the dura tion of life depends. The following remarks of Mr. Far deserve the serious con sideration of every person interested in the promotion of the health and happiness of their fellow-creatures :—" Great im provements in the physical condition, and in all the circum stances upon which the health of the metropolis depends, have been made within the last few years, or projected with every prospect of being carried into effect. The primary ob jects to be kept in view are the careful exclusion of all unne cessary animal and vegetable matter ; the immediate removal of residual products ; and the dilution of inevitable exhala tions. The dead should no longer be buried where they are surrounded by crowded dwellings. Unwholesome manufac tories should be excluded from densely peopled districts ; and there is assuredly no reason why thousands of cattle, sheep, horses, and animals of every kind, sometimes affected with epizootic diseases, should be gathered together in market places within the city, or slaughtered in houses where the blood and offal can never be effectually removed." Mr. Farr suggests the removal of all slaughterhouses from the city, and that great attention should be paid to the supply of pure water and the sewerage of the metropolis. He observes, that "if a survey were made of the districts of the metropolis, and the levels, the sewers, the drains, and the nuisances known to be pernicious, were accurately laid down upon a map, it would be found to agree very remarkably with the table of relative mortality.':. In estimating the mortality of cities, we must not leave out of our calculation the influence of moral agents. Mr. Far has not, however, touched upon this important subject. It is possible for the body to stand up against the operation of physical evils for a considerable time with impunity; but when in addition to these the mind becomes worked upon and depressed, dreadful are the results. The poor, by their peculiar position in society, their want of education, &c., are less exposed to the influence of mental excitement than those who move in the higher walks of life. To a certain degree, however, they become the victims of unruly appetites and ill-regulated emotions, and by mixing in the turmoils of political and party strife, they foster a morbid condition of mind which often lays the foundation for serious mental and physical disease. Very few must have failed to observe the marked differ ence between the care-worn, haggard, and anxious counte nance of the London and Birmingham artisan, and the ruddy, happy, and apparently thoughtless face of the inhabitant of one of our healthy rural districts. The moral atmosphere which they respectively inhale is of a very dissimilar charac ter, and to this circumstance must we attribute, to a certain extent, the high rate of mortality in'towns. Atmospherical variations materially affect the duration of human life. The reduction of temperature alone is fatal to the inhabitants of a city on a favourable site, furnished with sewers, or to an agricultural population occupying a dry soil ; and summer to the inhabitants of marshy districts, or of cities in which the refuse organic matter is exposed to putre faction. In proportion as the severity of the weather or malaria preponderates, the winter or summer will be the unhealthiest season. The conclusion to which Mr. Far has arrived is opposite to the views entertained by the early English writers, and of the Greek and Roman physicians. Celsus observes, " Sa luberrimum ver eat ; proxime deinde ab hoc, hierns. ; peri culoBior rites; autumns longepericulosiasimus." In Eng land summer is the healthiest, and winter the most fatal, season. This rule has prevailed in this country since the beginning of the last century. In the winter of 1838 the deaths were 15,611; in spring, 13,109; in summer, 11,397 ; in autumn, 12,581. The following diseases were rendered more fatal by the influence of cold dining the winter of 1838 :—paralysis, apo plexy, asthma, diseases of the head, influenza, inflammation of the lungs, air tubes, and pleura, &c. The cold carried off many old people. Consumption destroyed the greatest number in spring. Males suffered from the disease in winter more than females. Diseases of the digestive organs and nervous affections pre vailed to a greater extent in summer. The most appalling fact that the registration tables of 1838 bring under our notice is the great increase of the number of deaths from that pestilential scourge the smallpox. It is, indeed, alarming to contemplate th mortality which pre vailed from this disease alone. " When the Registration Act came into operation," says Mr. Far, " the epidemic of smallpox had commenced, and was rapidly advancing. It was raging at its height on the western side of the island. In Liverpool and West Derby 458 individuals perished in the first three months. Bath, with its small population, lost 154; Leicester, 43; and Shrewsbury, 35." The epidemic prevailed in the south-west counties in autumn, extending to the districts around Bath, and then passing from Somersetshire to Devonshire, where it destroyed 131 lives in Exeter, and half as many more in the surround ing districts ; and to Wiltshire, where 40 died in Caine, Marlborough, and Pewsey, 48 in Deyises, and 22 in Salis bury. In Wales 711 perished in the third quarter of the winter of 1838. The disease spread over London at first,- 22 died in Holborn, 10 in Whitechapel, 16 in St. George's, Southwark ; 29 in Lambeth, 47 in Greenwich. The deaths from it were doubled in the second quarter. The smallpox mortally attained its maximum in the spring of 1838. The metropolis saw 1145 carried to premature graves ; Surrey lost 83 by the malady ; Kent, 132 ; Berkshire, 64 ; Wilt shire, .93 ; Somersetshire, 2`22; Glocestershire, 142; Wor cestershire, 89 ; Warwickshire, 107 ; Lancashire, 442 ; York shire, 282 ; Durham, 88 ; Cumberland, 44 ; Monmouthshire, 82; Wales, 551. In three months 4489 deaths from small pox were registered. The epidemic paused, either because its strength was exhausted, or it had no more victims to sacrifice ; but 3685 died of smallpox in summer, 3851 in autumn. The epidemic destroyed more than 30,819 persons. When the smallpox does not prevail epidemically, it is calcu lated that only 5 die weekly of the disease in the metropolis. The problem for solution is, as Mr. Far justly observes, why do the 5 deaths become 10, 15, 20, 31, 58, 88 weekly, and then progressively fall through the same measured steps ? Of the laws which regulate the course and modify the character of epidemic diseases we know little or nothing. That the contagion of smallpox is readily diffused in certain states of the atmosphere is an undoubted fact, but the con stitution of the air which appears to favour its propagation is neither appreciable by the thermometer, the hydrometer, nor the barometer. It may, as Dr. Gregory, suggests, be de pendent upon some electrical condition of the air which has hitherto eluded the researches of philosophers, but which time and closer observation may eventually succeed in dis covering. It has been supposed by some that epidemics are caused by the generation of many. insects, which are transmitted from one individual to another; but this hypothesis is devoid of anything like the semblance of facts fi,r its support. The most rational modes of arresting the progress of this fearful malady is, first, by making vaccination more general than it is, and secondly, by doing our utmost to remove these causes which experience informs us predispose the system to the influence of contagion. That the small pox and many other fatal diseases should make such rapid strides in dis tricts inhabited by the poorer classes of the community need excite but little astonishment. Few have such opportuni ties of investigating the degraded and miserable condition of the poor in this metropolis as the members of the medical profession. Callous, indeed, must be the hearts of those who can look upon the sufferings to which thousands of our fellow creatures are exposed, particularly during the incle ment seasons of the year, without feelings of intense emotion. Deprived of the common necessaries of life, destitute of clothing to protect them from the piercing cold, friendless, forsaken, contemned, thousands are doomed to perish an nually in a city which is designated as the centre of European civilization. It may be laid down as an indisputable axiom, that just in proportion as we elevate the moral and physical condition of the poorer classes of the community, we shall succeed in di minishing the mortality of disease, and prolonging the dura tion of human life. An explosion took place in Shincliffe Colliery, near Dur ham, on Thursday morning, when some workmen was un happily killed, and another severely burnt. The colliery has not sustained much damage.--Newcastle Jourizal. An eagle was shot on the sands, near Hadstone, on Mon day last, by Samuel Taylor, gamekeeper to A. J. Baker Cresswell, Esq., which measured from tip to tip eight feet ; in height three feet two inches, and weighed 9lbs.--N eto . castle Journal. THE FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON, PARIS, TUESDAY.—The programme of the grand cere monies of the day had announced that Messieurs the Peers and Deputies, &c., were expected to be in their places in the interior of the Invalides by eleven o'clock, and that private personages, munificently supplied with tickets, were not to be later than ten. It was near noon when the crowd was still waiting to be admitted at the great gate of the Invalides. The great court of the hotel had certainly a striking effect when one first entered and cast a hasty coup d'ceil aronnd one. The amphitheatre of steps that descended from the gallery to the ground, the black trappings which were hung round the upper gallery, and the general effect of the arch ways covered with festoons and garlands, were imposing ; but a nearer look betrayed the coarse painting of the canvas scene that covered the usual walls of the court, the wood work of which was, in many places badly joined, and con- , vinced me that the decorations had been patched together in haste and without taste. In the interior of the chapel the whole system of embellishment had been the same. The coup d'oeil was admirable •, but the painted canvas represent ing trophies, shields, and laurel crowns, enwreathing swords, which was suspended between each archway ; the great porch, built in the same scenic fashion, at the entrance of the beau tiful chapel of painted archways and columns, and the very coarsely carved and gilt candelabra that lined the whole leigth of the nave, to say nothing of two great machines at each side of the entrance to the dome, which looked like white washed fronts in a country church mounted upon a stage pe destal, and of which it was impossible to devise the meaning or purpose, unless by supposing that haste or negligence had left them incomplete ; all this, when one looked again, was poor, tasteless, mesquin, mean. The truth is, all this was unworthy of the solemn occasion, the national pomp that better taste might have exhibited, and the name of a great nation. Nevertheless, after having done justice to the stage managers and scene painters on this occasion, I ought to add that, thanks to the splendid vista of the chapel, the effect, taken as a whole, and as a piece of scenic effect, was fine. The great altar, which generally separates the long line of nave from the dome, had been removed, and from the en trance to the other extremity of the dome this view was an uninterrupted one. The space under the dome arranged as a chapelle ardente was filled with a blaze of light from the thousands and ten thousands of wax lights that hung in lustres or lined the walls, until the extremity of this part of the chapel looked one great wall of fire. In the midst was erected the catafalque upon which the coffin was to be placed, and stands, hung with black drapery, rose tier above tier for the reception of the different corps d'etat, the members of the two Chambers, and the Royal Family. Along the nave, the archways, both below and above, had been filled with trihunes for spectators, and were decorated with black velvet draperies studded with the different Napoleonic emblems. The real sight worth seeing after all, the only imposing sight in fact, was the crowd in mourning dresses that filled the chapel, first along the archways in th nave, then in the tri bunes of the dome, as they became crowded with the repre sentatives of the different bodies of the State, the Ministers and Staff, the Marshals, and superior officers of the army, and seemingly all that France still contained of brilliant in uniform or costume ; and the long vista of the nave as it became lined with the different deputations of the Court of Justice, of the thousand and one departments of the french state mechanism, and, at a later period, with the officers, non-commissioned officers, soldiers, and sailors who had formed a part in the procession. It was near two o'clock when a signal seemed to be given, and the Archbishop of Paris, attended by other bishops, by his clergy, and an im— mense body of priests, of all variety of Catholic pomp, ad vanced towards the nave, but it was only a false alarm, and they again retired. After a delay of impatient but silent expectation, the fune ral procession entered, headed by the train of priests. Be fore the coffin, walked the Prince de Joinville, who had ac eompanied the body to its final destination. I had heard the King announced—a loud voice called out "Le Roi!"—but I did not see his Majesty pass in the funeral train ; and I presume that after performing the reception of the body at the entrance, he found his way to his appointed seat during the mass by another passage. To see the coffin borne along the nave was a sight that set all the mesquinene of the painted theatrical show around at defiance: It was one of sentiment, and not of show. As the coffin advanced, borne upon the shoulders of the thirty-two non commissioned offi cers appointed for that purpose, accompanied at each end by General Bertrand and the Marshals who occupied each cor ner, covered with the funeral pall, with the imperial crown reposing above, there was an evident thrill, an evident elec tric motion, which pervaded the crowd that lined the passage. The old Invalides, who occupied the first rank, were deeply moved, as he whom they had for the most part obeyed with such fervour and enthusiasm in life, was borne along in death. Their emotion appeared to me to be one of pride and joy more than of grief. He was restored to them. The same sort of electric movement of feeling seemed to animate the mass of military men who lined one side of the dome as the coffin was slowly carried along up the steps that led to it from the nave. In a few minutes more it was being raised into the catafalque that occupied the middle of the dome, and the mortal remains of Napoleon reposed where his last wish was that they should repose—a wish which he thought in his dying mments to have been a vain one—in the heart of his own country, in the place worthy of France's greatest General—under the dome of the Invalides. The mass then began. Mozart's Requium was admirably performed ; but, in spite of this admirable performance,—in spite of the intrinsic worth of this beautiful composition, it did not seem to be a funeral mass appropriate to the occa sion. It wanted that stamp of originality which a nation's reverence to a national hero ought to have commanded. It was an occasion, surely, when a mass should have been com posed to mark the event. Time enough there has been since the vote of the chamber ; but this opp,otunity of doing jus tice to so unique a ceremony was lost. This was hastily done, as every thing else had been. The voices of Lablache, Tamburini, Duprez, Marie, Grisi, Persiani, Do rus G ras , Stoltz, Barcollet, and other celebrated singers, made the music tell magnificently. The Requiem of Mozart could not, probably, be better performed. At the conclusion of the mass the sacred water was sprinkled upon the catafalque by the archbishop, and then handed to some of the marshals and older officers near, to go through the same rite, accord ing to the observances of the catholic funeral services. It was long before the chapel was in any degree cleared. The crowd lingered still behind, and turned again and again to look at the coup d'wil of the burning wax-lights, the chapelle ardente, the illuminated catafalque, and the long vista of fu neral pomp, however mean it may have been in its minor details. Curiosity was, as usual, the only predominant feel ing—devotion was, generally speaking, quite out of the ques tion—and of enthusiasm I could not see a glimpse. The only words that reached my ears were exclamations of curio sity from the ladies, a few political speculations from the gentlemen around me, or such remarks as " Hush, that's Grisi's voice," " How charmingly Duprez sings," &c. Thus ended a ceremony which, for the interest inspired by the occasion, for the extraordinary congregation of men whose actions, for good or for evil, have been celebrated throughout the world, and for its own intrinsic splendour, will probably long remain without a rival. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY. . Zante has been ravaged by an earthquake, which took place, with repeated shocks, between the 24th and 30th ult. The damage done to the town and solitary buildings is esti mated at several millions of francs. A new journal is about to be established in Paris, called the Patriot de 1840, founded by the chief capitalist, and having for its aim to propagate the principle of peace, in contradistinction to the principle of the present opposition, said to be war. LADY SMOKBRS.—A private letter from Augsburg, states that on the 35th ult., several ladies of the royal family ar rived in that city from Munich, by railway, and that after dinner they called for cigars, and even entered the town-hall smoking. We have seen a Toulon letter, 11th inst., which states that Admiral Hugon, has been ordered to sail immediately, with six ships of the line, to the coast of the Morocco, to demand satisfaction for the insult recently mentioned by us, as hav ing been offered to the French consul at Tangiers. Some steamers are to go with the squadron, and, if satisfaction is refused, the place is to b e bombarded.—Galignani's Mes senger. The once extraordinary Fanny Kemble (now the amiable Mrs. Butler, with a smart husband and two fine children) arrived in town on the 29th November, on her way to Eng land, in the British Queen, to see her father. Her husband follows next spring. Previous to her departure, however, Mrs. B. has found time to write a ballet for Fanny Elssler, which is said to unite great genius and taste. During Ma demoiselle Elssler's engagement in Philadelphia, Fanny Kemble frequently visited the theatre, to see Fanny Elssler, and as one great artiste is capable of estimating another, the poetry of tragedy became a great admirer of the poetry of motion.—New York Paper. HAMBURGH, Dec. 11.—A duel has just been fought on the frontier of Baden, between a student of Wurtzburgh, the only son of the distinguished noble Hanoverian family of the Count Stollberg, and a Bavarian officer of the name of Grosz. The latter's bullet went through his opponent's heart, and he immediately fell dead on the spot. The me lancholy event is said to have been brought on by an actress of the name of Christiani, who caught both in her net, and for whom the officer, the father of a family, was about to separate from his wife. It is almost incredible, and very re volting, that the son should have acted as second to his fa ther in this duel. THE WINTER AT HAMBURG. — When the Transit steamer came down the Elbe yesterday week, the ice was for m i ng very fast, and a strong winter was anticipated. The ships in the river had all taken the precaution of running ashore, in consequence of the ice. The Transit did not leave any Bri tish steamer at Hamburg, and the Paris was the only foreign one in port. She left the Altona, Dagger, and Produce, of this port, at Hamburg, and saw the Holderness at Altona taking in cargo.—Hull paper. UNLAWFUL MARRIAGE.—A man named James Eneu, aged 84 years, was married, in Philadelphia, a few weeks back, by Alderman Campbell, to a young woman named. Emma Haines, aged about 20. A few hours after the 'cere mony was performed, a gentleman called on Alderman Campbell and informed him that he had married a grand father to his granddaughter. This turned out to be true ; for shortly the old man made his appearance, requesting the alderman to take back the certificate, and stating that he had not been aware, until he was just informed, that both the law of the land and of the church of which he was a member pro hibited such marriages. He must be a knowing child of his age. SINGULAR. PHENOMENA IN CANADA.—On Saturday evening, the 10 instant, a little before , nine o'clock, a flash of light, resembling lightning, succeeded in quick succession by two reports like those of heavy cannonades, were experienced in this town. It appeared to us to originate in the north east, and to die away, after rumbling for the space of perhaps two minutes, in the south-west. We at once were of opinion, that it was au earthquake. We are informed, that some houses in town trembled violently. Nothing having been said about this circumstance by the inhabitants of the town, we refrained from noticing it at the time, supposing it might possibly have been a sudden report of thunder. However, we have since heard at Yarker's Mills, in Loughborough, and in different parts of the district. The reader will perceive, by the following communication from a gentleman in Picton, Prince Edward District, that that district was visited by this singular phenomenon at the same time :—" On Saturday evening, the 10th instant, about nine o'clock, a flash of light, like that of lightning, and a report immediately after, like that of two cannons in quick succession, were seen and heard all over this district, and the earth trembled exceedingly. The buildings about the Stone Mills, and within several miles of that place, were shaken so violently, that it was feared they would fall. It is believed that the explosion took place about a mile south of the Stone Mills, in Marysburg, on a lot of Mr. Reynolds, in the second concession. Mr, Reynolds says he saw the flash, and heard the report, and felt the ground shake ; he also says, that about two years since, when thattoo took place, place. It he was clearing a side hill on his farm, an explosion took place, which threw off several rods sq uare of ear th and stone, caanndntohtat find hethfreesqpuoet where ntlyseetshis l flashes was likewise felt at the Carrying Place. Mr. Re ynolds also says that, when he was clearing the said hill , it was with diffi culty he could get a person to log it, on accou nt of the f requent flashes of light which were seen there. Th e p eo p le became: last e s x p about losi n o or would be, killed there."—Kingston News , Oct. 29. superstitious, and really thought that some perso n h ad been, " Recollect, sir," said a tavetn-keeper to a gentleman who was about leaving his house without paying the " reckon ing," " recollect, sir, if you lose your purse, you did'nt pull it out here." TIDE TABLE. Days. Mrn. Ern. I Height. Sundays, Holydays, H. M. H. H. F. I. Tuesday 22 10 17 10 35 14 11 Wednes. 23 10 58 11 15 15 1 Thursday 24 11 31 11 48 15 5 Friday .. 25 0 0 016 15 8 Christmas day. Saturday 26 025 043 15 9 St. Stephen. Sunday.. 27 1 2 119 is 8 Ist Sunday after Christmas Monday 28 141 167 15 5 Innocents. THE COUNTESS DE RESTERLITZ. (From the Times.) The countess came to England in the early part of March last, and took up her abode for two or three days at Long's hotel, in London. At the expiration of that period she pro ceeded to Windsor in her own travelling carriage, which she had brought with her from the continent, and hired a house in Clarence-crescent of Mr. Alderman Badborough for three years, at a rental of £5O per annum, paying twelve months' rent in advance from the 25th of last March. -...... It was supposed, upon the countess's arrival at Windsor, that she was not unknown to Prince Albert; but it has since been ascertained that she never saw the prince until about four months ago, and that was upon his royal high ness's return to Windsor Castle, from a visit to Eton Col lege. A considerable portion of the furniture at her residence in Clarence-crescent was brought by the countess from the continent ; the remainder was purchased of an upholsterer at Windsor. During her residence there she lived in great privacy, scarcely ever going out, and then only to walk in the enclosed gardens opposite to her house, which are solely appropriated to the use of the inhabitants of the crescent. On the 15th of October last, the Countess proceeded in her carriage, with a ladies' maid and footman, from Windsor to Slough, and thence by railway to London. On arrivinc , at the Paddington station she ordered four horses to be put to her carriage, and desifed the post-boys to drive to Bucking ham Palace. The carriage was first driven to the private entrance, but afterwards, by directions of the Countess, she was driven to the grand entrance, where she demanded of the porter to be shown the apartments. He told her it was im possible to comply with her request, unless she had an or der to see them from the Lord Chamberlain. She then in quired who was the owner of the building ; and on being told it was the residence of her Majesty, she replied, " Oh ! that's impossible, that so mean and common looking a place can be the abode of a Queen." The postilions were then ordered to drive to the Green Park Hotel, and thence to various others. At last, after driving about for some time, she determined upon taking up her abode at Gordon's Hotel, Albemarle-street, where she alighted. After having examined a suite of apartments, she expressed a wish to engage them for three months. The pro prietor, however, declined to let them for that period, and the Countess then said that she should take up her abode there, until other apartments could he obtained. Two days afterwards (on the 17th of October), in conse quence of the extraordinary conduct of the countess, and from other circumstances, Mr. Everall, the proprietor of the hotel, requested that she would. leave. She immediately or dered her bill, but on its being presented to her, she declared her utter inability to pay it. She told her maid that she determined to leave England for the continent on the following day (Sunday), and directed her to dispose of all her property at the hotel, including her carriage, and, with the proceeds, pay Mr. Everali his bill, and keep the surplus herself. The property, however, was not sold as she desired. From the morning of Saturday, (when the bill was presented to her,) until the following morning, she locked herself in her bed-room, suffering no one to enter but her female domestic. During the whole of that period she partook of no food, nor did she retire to rest, and she was all the time without fire or'candle. On Sunday, having dismissed her servants, she left Gor don's, en deshabille, on foot, and nothing was heard of her until she was discovered to be at Richmond. From thence she went to Mr. Redford's, at the King's Arms Inn, Hampton Court. While there, her conduct was eccentric and extra vagant in the extreme. She one morning went to the palace (which she maintained from the first was her own property), and after commanding the workmen to discontinue their la bours, declared that she was the wife of Prince Albert, pre vious to his marriage with her Majesty. The police at Hampton Court kept a close watch upon her movements, and were only prevented taking her into custody through the kind intercession of Mr. Redford, who then wrote to the Mayor of Windsor upon the subject. In the meantime; however, the countess received a remit tance from Prussia, which enabled her to pay her bill at the King's Arms. Thence she proceeded to the Toy Hotel, when, after a brief sojourn, she returned to Gordon's Hotel, in Albemarle-street, paid her bill there also, redeemed her carriage and other property, and shortly afterwards, on the sth of November, returned to her residence at Windsor. Upon her arrival there, she charged her servants with hav ing purloined certain property, consisting of jewellery and clothes. The cast was heard before the magistrates at the Town-hall, but no evidence being adduced to implicate her domestics, it was dismissed. The day after the decision of the magistrates (which was Saturday, the 18th ult.) the countess locked up her house, in which state it now remains, and left Windsor for town. • Previously to leaving she disposed of a great portion of her furniture to a broker at Windsor, leaving but little property of value in the house. ROMANTIC.—Miss Mary Ann Prettyman, quite a pretty looking girl too, was arrested in Philadelphia a few days since, and committed to prison, for Stealing five sucking igs p . A lady was recently teaching a boy to spell. The boy spelt but could not pronounce it. In vain his teacher asked him, " what do y.O get when yot go out upon the wet side walk on a rainy day, and wet your feet?"—" I gets a whipping. A Goon STORY.—Pray delight in the following story : Caroline Vernon, fine d' honneur, lost t'other night £2OO at play, and bade Martindale mark it up. He said he would rather have a draft on her banker. "Oh ! willingly ;" and s he gave him one. Next morning he hurried to Drummond's, lest her money should be drawn out. " Sir," said the clerk, " would you receive the contents immediately." " Assured ly."—" Why, sir, have you read the note ?" Martindale took it ; it was, " Pay to the bearer 200 blows, well applied." The nymph tells the story herself, and yet I think the clerk had the honour of the two. • A RELIC, INDEED !—ln the chamber of relics of an Irish convent, the cicerone was one day showing the treasures to a stranger. The latter fixed his gaze on two skulls. Paddy lifted one of them in his hand, and exclaimed—" Ah, this is indeed a treasure! The convent possesses no greater in its collection. This, sir, is the skull of the famous St. Patrick." The traveller looked at the relic with becoming reverence, and then turning to the smaller one which stood beside it , he asked with some anxiety, " And this—is this also the ,poor remains of a Saint ?" " That, sir," said Paddy, with out hesitation, but with immense increase of importance, " that, sir, bates the world fora curiosity, that is the skull of St. Patrick when he was a boy." SUBSTITUTE FOR TALLOW.—TO such as are not engaged in soap-making, and consequently are unable to use the sub stitutes for tallow, 1 would nevertheless recommend a strict attention to the palm oil trade. It is prospering to an extent which but a few short years ago, it would have been extrava gant even to imagine—it is employing our ships and our sai lors, and doing silently but sursly, the work of emancipation iu Africa. Not long ago, 2,000 or 3,000 tons of palm oil was considered a heavy importation for one year ; and now, from January, 1840, to January, 1841, there will have been brought to this country upwards of 15,000 tons, equal in quantity to 40,000 casks of tallow ; and at this moment I am informed that there are on the coast of Africa not less than 22,000 tons of British shipping loading palm oil for England. In short, the time is fast approaching when the soils of England and of her colonies will make her people independent of the rest of the world, as well in respect of the necessaries of life ; and with the consummation of this prospect ends the career of the foreign monopolist in our land. — Correspondent of the Journal of Commerce. - - RUM MORE PROFITABLE THAN SUGAR.—The following is an interesting extract from the ,, Agricult ura l R epor t o f S t. Christopher, just received : We may calculate, generally speaking, 2,000 gallons to a hhd. of sugar, and the hhd. by the prices quoted in our last Report, to be worth £27 ster ling. But the same quantity of liquor turned into rum will give more than treble that amount. For instance—a 300 gallon butt takes 20 pails, or 100 gallons of cane liquor, which will give about 20 gallons of proof rum, and as many more of weak rum, besides 40 or . 50 gallons of low wines. These 60 or 70 gallons of weak spirit, when re-distilled, will give half their quantity, or about 30 gallons of proof rum, which, added to the first 20, make 50 gallons of proof rum from 100 gallons of cane liquor. The value of this, at 60 cents, is 30 dollars, but from this is to be deducted the value of 4 pails, or 20 gallons of molasses, which are mixed with the liquor, and which, at 40 cents, are worth 8 dollars—leaving 22 dol lars as the value of 100 gallons of cane liquor in ruin, and consequently 440 dollars, or more than £9O sterling, as the value of 2,000 gallons. s, Reckoning then the hhd. to weigh 2,9001b5., it is worth at 6i 130 dollars, at £27 ster ling only—thus leaving a balance i . n favour of the rum of £63 sterling. The value of the two Is go disproportionate, that, unless' we had been very pareful, we should have suspected ourselves of some error in the calculation. It will be ob served that we have taken a very common still, as we have no experience in a patent one, which probably would give a still more astonishing result. CURIOUS BIBLE IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM.—Under the superintendence of our learned countryman, Alcuin, one of the few eminent literary characters who adorned the eighth century, and went to France, in 780, at the invitation of Charlemagne, a manuscript . of the Bible was made for that renowned monarch, which Is supposed, upon fair evidence, to be now lodged in the British Museum, having been pur chased from a foreign collector at the comparatively low price of £750. It is of the largest f o li o si ze , me asuring 20 inches in height by 15 in width, and c o n tai n i ng 449 leaves of very fine vellum, written in a character remarkable for its distinct, though minute, beauty. This M.S. is illuminated with many large inital letters, of less elegance and richness, however, than distinguish correspondi ng wor k s o f even an earlier period ; and its pictorial illustrations, which are four in number, though marked by considerable merits of both de sign and colouring, are inferior to other specimens that could be cited of contemporary art. This sacred relic has still been hailed with just admiration in the chief capitals of Europe ; and we may congratulate our own upon so splendid an addi tion to its antigue and literary treasures. NORTHERN HOSPITAL, DECEMBER 19. ADMITTED. DISCHARGED , Accidents --- l2 Medical and Surgical cases Cured Attending as Out Patients . . . 15 Irregular - I Died 2 30 1 Remaining in the Hospital . . . 65 Upon recommendation ..:: 18 House Visitors, R. B. B. H. Blundell and Daniel Neilson, Esqrs. Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.--House Surgeon, Mr. Woodward. PREMIUMS OF INSURANCE AT LLOYD'S. LONDON & LIVERPOOL, to Jamaica Leeward Isl. Dem. & L'erbice. Honduras New York, Boston Charleston, Savannah New Orleans Havana Canada British North America Newfoundland Brazils River Plate East Indies China ..................... Batavia New South Wales Cape of Good Hope Africa Gibraltar Lima, Valparaiso, &c ... Malta, Sicily, &c. . Smyrna and Constantinopl e Malaga Madeira .................... Western Isles, Cape de Verd s .• Lisbon Cadiz France Holland ..................... Hamburg, Bremen, &c. Gottenburg, Stockholm Petersburg, Riga, &c. Oporto Outward, nss od@ 30 0 20 0-25 0 50 0-60 0 30 0 -- 40 0 30 0 -- 40 0 40 0 -- 50 0 40 0-50 0 40 0-60 0 40 0 -- 6o 0 40 0 -- Bo 0 25 0-30 0 35 0-40 0 35 0 -- 40 0 105 0 -- 35 0 -- 40 0 40 0 -- 50 0 40 0 30 0 20 0 50 0-60 o 25 0 -- -- 40 0 -- 50 0 25 0 -- 30 0 15 0 -- 20 0 60s od@los 0 SO 0-40 0 60 0 —lOO 0 17 6 -20 0 20 0 25 0 40 0 80 0 do 0-80 0 30 0-6 o 0 30 0 Bo 0 20 0 30 0 25 0 —2O 0 30 0— 35 0 —4O 0 63 0- 84 0 40 0-50 0 40 0 40 0 126 0 —147 6 20 0 40 0 20 0 25 0 25 0-30 0 25 0 - 15 0-20 25 0 30 0 25 0 -- 30 0 40 0 30 0- 4 0 0 40 0 60 0 so 0 60 0 Bo o -- 25 0 30 0 17 6 - 20 0 20 0 - --- 25 0-30 0 25 0 - 30 0 30 0 - 40 0 40 0 - -- 40 0 -60 0 17 6-20 0 gAipping Intelligente. FRIDAY, DSCEMBER IS. SAlLEn.—Chicora, Rogers, and Xyion, Putnam, for Charleston— Mary, Hawkins, for Demerara—Voluntario, Golhardo, for Lisbon— Banshire. M'Kenzie, for Mobile—Cumberland, Fogwell, for St. Michael—Magnificent, Whitty ; Howard, Mills, and Glengarry, Harkness, for Savannah—John Campbell, Midgley, and Magistrate, Turner, for Africa—Brie Gezusters, Dykstra, for Amsterdam-- Margaret Jane, Roche, for Newfoundland—Galata, Palmer, for Constantinople—and Pakenham, Wardle, for Pernambuco. The Osprey, Kirk, hence to Bombay. has put into Beaumaris, from Belfast Lough, where she anchored after striking on the South Rock, and will return to Liverpool Olympia, -, hence at New Orleans Foskina, Gogh, for Rotterdam, and Jupiter, Schaefer, for Ostend, at Falmouth Helene, Eugene, from Antwerp, at Penzance Mary Dugdale, —, from Dublin to Port Adelaide, was spoken 10th August, in lat. 37 33 S, long. 4 22 E Creole, Stephenson, hence at Monte Video Resolution, Blake, from Tralee to Liverpool, was wrecked on the Coast of Galway, in the late gales ; crew drowned. Chester, Doyle, hence to Savannah, has put into Kinsale, NNW' loss of foremast, &c. ; bore up from long. Is KINSALE, Dec. 13.—The Prince of Waterloo, from Liverpool to Savannah, out 18 days, has put into this port leaky, having bore up from lat. 54, long. 17 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19.—Wind E. fresh. SAILED.—EIIen Jenianson, Tasker, for Africa—Providentia, Grave, for Antwerp—Windermere, Armstrong. for Calcutta— Geerdina, Boer, for Rotterdam—Arrow, Harris, for Gibraltar— Acadia, M•Kenzie, for Mobile—Oliveira Primeira, Santa Anna, for Oporto—Charles, Rickmers, for o.tend—Onrust, Dik, for Rot terdam—Augusta, Baddeley, and Castlereagh, Kellar, for St. Mi chael—Affleck, Banks, for Santa Martha, &c.—Francois First, Ainsworth, for New York—Martha Washington, Stevens, for New Orleans—Law Ogilby, Morris, for Constantinople—Weatherall, Conaeher, for Batavia, &c.—and Henry M'Cormack, Clering, for Bombay. Firefly, Stone, hence at Syra, with part of her cargo damaged, and sailed 28th Nov. for Constantinople _ Ilebe, Warren, hence at Syra, with part of her cargo damaged, and sailed 26th Nov. for Constantinople Andrew M'Kean, Thompson, hence for Hamburg, at Stornaway Vintage, Fraser, hence for Westport, at Stornaway; lost sails, &c. _ _ Scotland, Cunningham, hence at Manilla Margaret, Mollard, and Mary, Bond, hence at Smyrna Martha, Martin, sailed from Smyrna 26th Nov. and Sultana, Rogers, 27th Nov. both for Liverpool Eliza, Bellord, from Constantinople, and Herald, Alcock, from. Alexandria, at Malta, and both sailed 3rd Dec. for Liverpool James Geary, from Smyrna for Liverpool, off Cape Clear 16th Dec. Brooke, -, (that sailed this morning) for Jamaica, has put back with loss of rail, bulwarks, &c. having been in contact with the Acadia, for Mobile KINSALE, Dec. li.—Prince of Waterloo, Hepburn, from Liver pool for Savannah, which put in here yesterday, leaky, &c. must discharge SUNDAY, DEcEmßaft,2o.- : Wind E.N.E. SAILED.—Zeno, Stephenson, 'for Jamaica—Oxford, ltathbone, for New York—Algonquin, Turley, for Philadelphia—Nicolai Ist, Aspgren, for Malta—Mincarlo, Tregarthen, for St. Michael—and Earl Percy, Gordon, for Maranham. Archer, Mathewson, hence at Barbadoes Margaret, Probst, hence at St. Thomas Elizabeth Wood, Crosbie ; Elizabeth, Price; and Barbadian, Hughes, hence at Jamaica Fuome, Swaubeck, and Nye Carleby, Helderman, hence at Revel John Peat, Leslie, hence and Santa Martha, at Carthagena Pennsylvania, Farnham, hence for New Orleans, was spoken 12th Dec. Corsair, Farrant, hence for Leghorn, was spoken gth Dec. in lat. 51, long. 11 Concord, Bruce, hence for Newcastle, at Loch Muddy, leaky, lost bulwarks, &c. and must discharge part of her cargo James & Ellen, Fuer, from Jersey for Liverpool, at Waterford, leaky _ _ _ Juno, Spohn, from Danzic for Liverpool, at Longhope Harper, Murphy, from Miramichi for Liverpool, at Crookhaven Norman, Wood, from New Orleans for Liverpool, off Cape Clear 13th Dec. Robert Watson, -, from Quebec for Liverpool, was spoken 11th Dec. in lat. :•0 37, long. 11 Julie, from Bathurst for Liverpool, was spoken Bth Dec. with loss of sails, stanchions, companion skylight, &c. and rudder damaged; out 42 days Zorilda, Brien, sailed from Jamaica for Liverpool 31st October Brutus, M'Kenzie, from Greenock for Tobago, at Waterford, leaky, and must discharge Jane Geary, Reid, from Smyrna for Liverpool, at the Cove Adventure, Catto, sailed from Carthagena for London 12th Oct. Hope, Guthrie, sailed from Marseilles for Liverpool 11th Dec._ Wixvoan, Dec. 17.—A jolly-boat, marked outside Reward, Jer sey ; inside, F. Legrand, and also several pieces of bulwarks, have been washed on shore near Carnsore Point MONDAY, DECEMBER 21.—Wind N.E. moderate. ARRIVED.—Jane, Thompson, frem Bahia and the Cove—lsabella, Dornin, and Carl Grey, M'Cartney, from Glasgow—and Johannes, Finnigan, and Dundalk, Gieen, from Dundalk. SAILED.—James, Whyte, and Mary Ann, Edie, for Sydney, N.SW.—Harmonie, Schaebling, for Rotterdam—Fame, Dunning ham, for Port-au-Prince—Jumna, Verstracht. for Ostend—Emma, Maine, for Bilboa—Brooke, Adam, for Jamaica—and Irlam, Mor phew, for Barbadoes. Joseph, Potlich, hence for Ghent, at Falmouth Puella, Thomas, from Palermo, and Cleofrid, Robertson, from Cronstadt, at Kingstown, both for Liverpool Ferris, Hellyer, from ntwerp for Monte Video, off Portsmouth Undaunted, -, from Dalhousie to .Liverpool, was spoken 15th Nov. in lat. 42 N, long. 59 W, with loss of bowsprit VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) AFRICA. Rocket, Bishop, 237 Africa, C Horsfall & Son WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Argestes, T Hannah, 27► Kingston, Jam & Cameachy, J Poole &Co Jamaica, A Whyte, 298 Kingston, Jam, W Rose & Conor, J M Wood UNITED STATES. Asia, J H Sears, 550 New Orleans, Ingleby or Brown &Co Robert Benn, T Mathews, 703 Charleston, G Brown & Harrison Prompt, .1 Morton, 398 Charleston, Cram, Smith &Co Abeona, J Barrow, 136 Genoa, Haskayne & Co or White Michigan, G B Sturges, 493 New Orleans, T Dixon &Co New England, S H Croker, 337 New Orleans, Fletcher Garland, T Rogers, egg Apalachicola, C Pilkington Devonport, R Broadfoot, 767 Mobile, R & G Benu EUROPE. Irma, J Verstrate, 80 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co Kompariel, J Harding, 97 St Michael's, G Y Fishley Cynosure, N Yabsley, 136 Beirut & Alexandretta, J Moss &Co Fenella, J Wakeham, 66 Gibraltar & Malaga, J Aikin, & Son Eliza & Mary, J B S Steven, 70 Gurnsey, J Glynn & Son Alexander, M Teare, 29 Ramsey, H Brown & Co Inatitetri. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, DEC. 18. Sugar.—The Demand for B. P. has been extremely limited, and the sales are only 200 hhds., chiefly good and fine, at previous prices ; brown and low middling are quite neglected. No sales reported in Mauritius; But in Brown Bengal the sales are extensive, amounting to 7800 bags, chiefly at 54s to sgs ; a small parcel of fine white brought 86s to 86s 6d per cwt. 40 brls. of Brown Bahia have been sold at 21s to 22s per cwt. Nothing done in Bonded Refined. The sales of Molasses are limited to go puns. of ordinary Grenada at 31s per cwt., with a few Antigua at 308 per cwt. Coffee.—We have had a fair demand for Plantation this week, and the sales comprise 140 casks, chiefly of the middling and better descriptfons, for which former rates have been paid, whilst for the ordinary qualities a decline of 3s to 5s has been submitted to. 200 bags good Mocha brought 120 s per cwt., and small lots of Rio, via' the Cape, have been taken at the quotations. In Cocoa, Ginger and Pimento no transactions to report. 200 bags black Pepper sold at 3id to 33d per lb. No sales of Bengal Rice ; a small lot of Carolina sold at 36s per cwt. The business in Rum is limited to 70 puns. of Demerara, •at rather lower prices. Tea.—lmporters not being willing to submit to the reduction which has taken place in the London market, the sales have been confined to a few small parcels in second hands, for which rather lower rates have been accepted. _ . The sales of Indigo have been confined to a dozen serons of Caracca, at 4s 5d to 4s 7d per lb. Nothing reported in Shell Lac or Lac Dye. 50 bales of Senna brought 44d per lb, and a few tons of Turmeric 23s 6d to 28s per cwt, Of Cochineal, 6 serons of silver sold at 4s 4d per lb, 600 chests of Cassia were sold at 78s, 80s, and 86s, according to quality. There has been a trifling demand for Saltpetre, and about 600 bags sold very ordinary at 2is 6d, and fair to good at 26s gd to 295. In Nitrate of Soda, 400 bags sold at 21s to 21s 6d, and 980 tons at 200 3d per cwt. Dyewoods,--The sales consist of Co tons Campeachy Logwood at £8 155 to £9 12s 6d; 20 tons Cuba Fustic at £9 los to £9 15s, 90 tons Tampico at .e 5 5s .4'5 7s 6d ; 90 tons Lima Nicaragua Wood at £l2, and 17 tons Manilla Sapan Wood at £l2 5s per ton. The business in Turpentine is confined to one parcel of 401) to 500 brsls., the price for which has not been allowed to transpire. In Tar no sales reported. There is a steady demand for Pot Ashes, and 200 brls. of the new imports have been sold at 30s per cwt. For Pearl Ashes 305 has been given, and the market is firm at this price. Hides.—There is not much inquiry, but the market remains steady ; 1600 salted Monte Video Ox have been sold at 4id to sd, 3600 Cowes at 7id, 400 dry salted Brain at sd, 120 salted Berbice at sad per lb; and 1.200 Horse at 12s to 12s 6d each. Tobacco.— The sales this week amounted to 170 hhds., of which 20 were for Ireland, and the remainder to Manufacturers. Prices continue steady. There is no change to notice in the Brimstone market; the sales this week are 60 tons, at £'lo 10s per ton. Only small sales in Sumac, at the quotations. Nothing to report in Argols or Cream of Tartar. 46 bags Galls (sorts) have been disposed of at 658 per cwt. Flag Annato has been inquired for, but the sales are limited to a few casks of fine quality, at ls per lb, No sales reported in Madder or Roots. The sales of Olive Oil amount to about 60 tuns, at very full prices; an advance of 20s per tun for the common des criptions is now generally demanded. A few small parcels of Cod Oil have brought £26, and of Pale Seal £3O lOs per tun ; the latter article is getting scarce, and must be considered rather dearer. Seed Oils have also experienced some improvement, and pale Rape is is to is 6d higher this week ; 22 cases East India Teel Oil sold by auction at 478, and 6 cases Linseed Oil at 27s 6d per cwt. For Oil of Turpentine there is not much demand, but no alteration in price. About 100 tons Palm Oil have been sold during the week, chiefly during the week, chiefly in small lots, at .436, but part rather lower ; the largest holders, however, refuse to sell at present rates. Some little business has been done in Flax at about the quotations. In Hemp no sales of importance have taken place, but the market is again a little firmer. For Tallow there has been a fair inquiry, but having been met by a demand of higher prices, the transactions bave been limited ; early in the week 49s was accepted for yellow Candle, but small sales have since realized 49s lid, and 508 is generally required. iimporto. EUROPE. Lancashire, (88) J Norman, from Smyrna, 856 dms figs, 76 ins raisins, about 39 tons valonea, Woolley, Bell and co-2293 dms figs, 500 dms 250 bxs raisins, 42 bls madder roots, 3 dms fruit, order —1 of the above drums lost overboard-400 ps redwood, It and J Gardner-18 dms fruit, J Hankinson—about 19 tons emery stone— A Sinclair—K D LIVERPOOL INFI: December DISCHARGED. In-patients cured 27 Relieved and at own request Made Out-patients :Irregular . 0 Dead 2 Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson. Chaplain Rev. R. Davies. House Visitors .. Mr. John Cropper, jun. mul Mr. James Booth. Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon Mr. Brandreth. *** Donations and Subscriptions thankfully received at Messrs. A. Heywood, Sons and Co., and at the Infirmary. GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Limo-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIMES.OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 6 0 a.m. Mixed 8 15 a.m. First Class 10 30 a.m. First Class 1 15 p.m. 4 p.m. 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. 6 0 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do. 11 30 a.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. 3 30 p.m. Mixed 5 0 p.m. First Class On Sunday the Departures will be FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM, 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 a.m. Mixed ft tf 1 30 p.m. 10 30 a.m. ~ 7 0 p.m. •. .9 „ 12 PROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. „ 245 p.m. , The Trains on ' Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWAY. Steam Boats to Monk's Ferry pool, at the following hours : MORNING at 8, AFTERNOON at 2, The Trains depart every d Grunge-lane Stut. MORNING. 20 minutes past 8. 20 minutes past 10. 20 minutes past 12. Brook-street St, MORNING. :5 minutes past 8. 15 minutes past 10. 15 minutes past 12. ON SU: From Grange-lane: MORNING. 20 minutes past 9. From Brook-stree, leave George's Pierhead, Liver. 10, and 12 o'clock. 4, and 6 o'clock. lay, except Sunday, from ion, Birkenhead. AFTERNOON. 30 minutes past 2. 20 minuies past 4. 20 minutes past 6. 'ation, Chester. AFTERNOON. 15 minutes past 2. 15 minutes past 4. 15 minutes past 8. NDAYS. nation, Birkenhead. AFTERNOON. 10 minutes before 5. t Station, Chester. AFTERNOON. 6 o'clock. MORNING. 15 minutes past 9. All the Trains are Mixed Trains, and stop at Mollington, Sutton, Hooton, and Bebbington Stations. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. FROM L'POOL TO MANCnSSTER. First Class Second Class Morning.. 7 0 Morning 8 45 ~ • • 9 4 5 ~ 11 0 ~ •• 11 45 ~ 2 0 Aftern. .. 230 Aftern. 4 45 ~ • • 5 3 0 ~ 7 15 Evening .. 7 10 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside I 0 . Except on Saturdays, when tl ON SU First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 o Morning 4 45 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside I TO PRESTON FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.. Mixed 11 0 • • First Class 2 30 Aftern. .. Second Class 4 45 „ • . Mixed 715 ~ .. First Class ON SO ] 7 0 Morning, 4 7 4 1 5 5 A E f v t e e n rn it o ig o . n . ....Fiat Class TO LANI . Mixed FROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.... Mixed 11 0 „ .... First Class 2 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 4 45 „ ....Mixed TO BI PROM LIVERPOOL. 8 45 Morning.... First Class 11 0 „ .... IP 2 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 3 30 ON so : 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. ~ TO ST. I . FROM LIVERPOOL. C Morning.— Second Class 9 45 PO 11 45 IP 2 30 Afternoon.. 5 30 ON SU' 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 AfteThooll FROM MANCHESTER TO L'rOOL. First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 30 Morning 9 0 „ 10 0 „ 11 15 „ 11 45 „ 2 0 Aftern. .. *2 45 Aftern. 5 0 5 30 „ 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside I his Train does not start till Three. , NDAYS. First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 o Mornin 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed 11 Stop only at Newton & Prkside AND WIGAN. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.. Mixed 11 15 „ .. First Class 2 45 Aftern. .. Second Class 5 0 „ .. Mixed 715 „ First Class NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 0 Afternoon .. CA 7 ST IS ER. Evening.... First Class. FRO M MANCHNSTRR. 9 0 Morning. •• • Mixed 11 2 n e d las Class . Mixed LTON. 4 1 5 5 Afte " rnoo . n . S F e ir c s o t FROM MANCHRSTRR. g o Morning.... First Class 11 15 •••• tr 2 45 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30„ •••. ,r (DAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon .. „ fELENS. FROM MANCHESTER. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 11 45 10 2 45 Afternoon .. Pt 5 30 'DAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. IP RMARY RE PORT. • 19, 1840. ADMITTED. In-patients Out-patients Casuals during the last week 4 Remain in the house LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DECEMBER 18. The Trade continue to buy rather freely, and with confirmed ac counts from the United states of the reduced estimate of the present crop, holders are very firm; American, generally„ is *d dearer. and the middling and fair qualities of Surat are also rather higher ; Egyptian, on the other hand, barely supports previous rates, and in Brazil there is no material change to notice. The public sale of Sea Island was fairly attended, and out of 600 offered, about 430 were sold, at previous prices. Speculators have taken 4500 American. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND 1 From the 11th instant, t IMPORTS OF COTTON, ro this day, inclusive. SALES OF THE WEEK. Sea Island Stained Bowed Georgia Mobile 1 Alabama and Tennessee New Orleans f Pernambuco & Paraiba 1. Aricati and Ceara Bahia and Maceio J Maranham 1 Sawginned Minas Para Demerara, Surinam, &c Egyptian Barbados Peruvian Bahama Laguayra Common West India, &c Carthagena Smyrna Manilla. Surat . Madras Bengal Prices paid in the week. !2icl4) 22 6i 12 4i 7 5 6i 4 52 5 72 84 - 9 8 Si 8 Si 74 - 81 6 1 72 93 - 12 4/ - 5 - - 3i - 5 IMPI ThisWk, .... } 2520 } 3173 'this year 456596 } 7061.77 } 39107 } 19619 1407514 LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, DECEMBER 19. With the exception of Irish Oats, of which several cargoes have got up within the last two or three days, increasing the week's supply to upwards of 7700 loads, the imports of each article of the trade are to a very moderate amount. On Tuesday last, upon a moderate demand, a further advance of 2d to 3d per bushel was established for free Foreign Wheat. Irish new was also rather dearer ; and American Flour was tully fid per barrel over the quo. tations of this day se'nnight, best brands of United States selling at 565. Canadian at 345 to 35s per barrel. Holders have continued very firm, but the subsequent transactions have been on a limited scale. Scarcely a sample of English new Wheat at market. In the early part of the week, absolate scarcity rather enhanced the value of new Oats; but the recent accession of supply has again rendered them somewhat easier to purchase ; 3s 1 d per 451bs. may be considered an extreme quotation for the best mealing qualities, 263 6d a top quotation of Irish new Meal. No change as regards Barley, Beans or Peas. A few hundred barrels of Flour, in bond, have been taken for export at 26s per barrel. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, DEC. 21. We think the trade is recovering, though slowly, from the effects of a heavy hit received by the stoppage of an extensive house in the North of Ireland. Choice Butter fully supported our late quo tations, lofis to loss. Middling Butters are not much inquired for, but are not cheaper. Pickled Butter has sold with more freedom. The Brazilian packet of this day takes a few hundred firkins at 97s to 98s. Heavy Beef stands its ground. Light stuff is a drug, notwithstanding au effort to bolster, in an obscure print of this day. Pork tolerably steady at 70s to 72s 6d for prime. LIVERPOOL PR. ASSES Montreal, Pot 30 0 0 0 Pearl, new 3O 0 U. States, Pot none. Pearl none. BARK, Quercit. Oak, ton .. £5 5 7 0 German 4 15 5 0 BRIMSTONE, IS , ton Sicily, &c... 10 10 11 0 Tuscany ll 0 11 10 CASSIA LIGNEA, s. d. s. d. 74, , cwt. in bond 80 0 85 0 CLOVER-SEED,''V. Cwt. American, red.. none Dutch 70 0— 80 0 French & Germ.7o 0— 80 0 COCOA, V cwt. Trinidad ag 0— 52 0 Grenada Brazil COFFEE, V cwt in bond. Jama. triage ordinary good gr fine ord. 86 0-106 0 middling llO 0-125 0 good mid. 128 0-140 0 fine mid. &c. Dutch, triage.. .} 60 0— 70 0 ordinary good &fine ord. 75 0— 82 0 middling B4 0— 90 0 good mid. fine mid., &c. 92 0— 98 0 Mocha Ceylon 'B6 0— go 0 Java Havana good & fine ord. 46 0— 52 0 St. Domingo 42 0— 44 0 Brazil 42 0— 45 0 Laguira 5O 0— 60 0 DYEWOODS, r ton £. S. S . Logwood, Jam... 6 5 6 15 Hon. & Dom. 7 0— 7 10 Campeachy 9 0— 9 15 Fustic, Span 4 15— 5 0 Tampico 6 10— 7 0 Brazil Cüba NICARAGUA WOOD. Rio de la Hache solid rough 6 0-- 7 10 small Lima, solid l2 0— 13 0 Barwood, Ango 8 0— g 0 Gaboon 6 10— 7 0 Camwood l9 0— 25 0 Red San. Wood 8 0— 8 10 FLAX, 'p ton. Riga. P.T.R. P'burg, 9 head 4O 0— 41 0 Archangel 44 0— 55 0 Dutch & Elem. GALLS, V cwt. Turkey, blue mixed 60 0— 66 0 East India 6O 0— 72 0 GINGER, V Cwt. Barbadoes 45 0— 50 Jamaica 6O 0-200 0 E. India, in bond 12 0— 19 0 Gum, v. cwt. Arabic, Turkey East India 24 0— 55 0 Barbary 5O 0— 0 0 Senegal 75 0— 0 0 HEMP, V ton S. S. P'burg. clean 4l 0— 42 0 outshot 4O 0— 41 0 Riga, Rhine outshot 4O 0— 41 0 Archangel ..... 0 0— 0 0 Manilla 3O 0— 31 0 Bombay l9 0— 21 0 Jute HIDES, Ox and Cow, le , lb B. Ayres and Monte Video. dry, inferior & mid. 0 71— 0 83 good & prime 0 9 0 10 Do. salted .• • • 0 4 2 0 5 N. Amer. salted 0 3i— 0 4 Brazil dry salted 0 53 0 6 Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 7 0 8 Odessa, &c. dry 0 63 0 7 W. India, dry 0 63 0 7 salted 0 43 0 5i East India •• • • 0 8 1 0 Kips, B.A. dry. 0 73 0 g Horse, d. each 9 0 —l2 0 HORSE HAIR, lb. Short g mixed long tails 1 4 1 10 combed INDIGO, sp. lb. in bond. Bengal. Pur. & violet blue & violet blue violet, b • & fine 6 6 7 o ord. & mid. 5 3_ 6 0 violet & cop. mixed .. 5 °— 5 9 cop. g. & fine. 5 0— 5 6 ord. & mid. 4 0— 5 0 con. quality Oude 2 0— 4 9 Madras 2 6 5 0 Guatimala,Vlt. Floras Sobres Cortes Caraccas, Floras 5 6 6 0 Sobres Cortex LAc DYE, '49. lb. D.T. and prime. 1 6 2 6 mid. to good 0 8— 1 4 ord. & inferior o 4 0 73 MADDER ROOTS, Ip cwt. Smyrna ..54 0— 57 0 Galipoli & Syria .. 42 o. 46 0 French 45 0- - 47 0 Naples. 45 0— 46 0 CES CURRENT. MADDIiR, V Mt. S. d. s. d. Dutch, crop 70 0 — BO 0 1 • Ombro 50 0 —65 0 Gamene '32 0 —4O 0 .. Mull lo 0 —3O 0 French, S.F. 42 0 —46 0 S.F.F 48 0 —52 0 E.5.F... 54 0 -58 0 E.5.F.F.63 0 —66 0 Spanish 42 0 —5B 0 MOLASSES, Mi. Trinidad, Ace 32 0 —34 0 Demerara, 33 0 —36 0 Bar & Antigua.. 38 0 —4O 0 MUNJEET, V cwt 12 0 —l4 0 041.,01ive, :0,252 galls. _ . Gallipoli - .i'63 0 —64 0 Trieste 6O 0 —6l 0 Sicily 59 o 0 Malaga 57 0 —5B 0 Portugal, &c 56 0 —5B 0 Levan t 57 0 —59 0 Palm, .49 , ton 35 15 —36 0 Fish, ge 252 gulls. Seal, pale.. brown 30 10 —3l 0 26 0 —29 0 Cod 26 0 —26 10 LINSEED, 14. Mt 28 0 —2B 6 Rape, pale do. 46 0 —47 0 Tin - pen. ) cwt 51 6 —52 0 RICE, s cwt Carolina, dress. 36 0 —37 0 in bond 22 0 Bengal, ord. do 13 0 —l4 0 mid to fine l4 6 —l5 6 African none. Rust, v gallon, in bond. Jamaica, 12 to 16 o. p 4, 4 5 10 stronger....., 5 0 6 2 choice marks.. 6 4 6 10 SAFFLOWER, Cwt. Bengal, good & fine.. 'S 0 7 10 Ord. & mid Bombay SALTPETRE, 30 Cwt. S. (1. S. d East India 25 0 —3O 0 South American 20 6 —2l 6 SHELL LAC, 13 , cwt, in bond. orange 56 0 —BO 0 liver and black 33 0 —5O 0 SKINS, Neutria, doz Chinchilli, do. Seal, each 1 5 3 6 SHUMAc, ap. cwt. Sicily Malaga Trieste .. Verona.. Tyrolese SUGAR., cwt B. P. Muscovado moist brown .. 73 0 dry brown .... 7 6 0 good & mid.... 80 0 fine &v. fine .. 85 0 Mauritius, dabs and moist 70 0 browt. 73 0 yellow 77 0 fine yellow Bl 0 East India, Bengal Ord. white .•• • 78 0 good and fine 82 0 extra fine 86 6 Manilla, in bond 20 0 Havana, do. brown 24 0 yellow 25 0 white ord 32 0 good & fine 34 0 Brazil, in bond. brown lB 0 10 6 —l2 0 none 6 8 6 6 6 7 0 9 0 —lO 0 -7.5 0 -79 0 -84 0 -87 0 -72 0 -7$ 0 -80 0 -84 0 -81 0 -86 0 -87 0 -23 0 -24 6 -27 0 -33 0 -35 0 -22 0 -24 0 -23 0 -26 0 yellow 22 6 white ord. 22 0 good and fine 24 0 TALLOW, 1,4 , cwt. P'burgh, Y.C. 49 6 —5O 0 Odessa 49 3 —49 6 Archangel 47 6 —4B 0 Buenos Ayres 40 0 —47 0 TAR, 11 , bd. Stockholm 2O 0 —2l 0 Archangel l9 6 —2O 0 Carolina -16 9 —l7 0 Virginia TARTAR, air cwt. Cream of Tartar 7B 0 —BO 0 brown and yel 50 0 —7O 0 TRA, 7t) It. in bond. Bohea, Canton Fokein Congou, corn. 2 4 mid. to fine. 2 5 3 u Twankay, corn 2 4 mid. to good 2 4i— 2 3 Pekoe, Orange 2 6 3 6 Campoi, COM. to good none Hyson Skin 2 1 2 2 mid. to fine 2 3 2 6 Souchong, corn 2 4 2 5 good to fine 2 9 3 6 Pekoe, flowery Hyson, corn. •• • • 2 8 2 9 fine 3 0— 4 6 Young Hyson • Imperial Gunpowder, good and tine 3 6 5 0 TOBACCO, 13 , lb. in bond. J. River, Leaf. . 0 4 0 7 Stemmed 0 4 0 7 Kentucky Maryland TURMERIC, .f cwt in bond. Bengal 23 6 —32 0 TURPENTINE, 1' Cwt. American w 10 6 —l3 3 VALONIA, V , ton. s X 0 Smyrna, picked.. 14 0 —l9 10 _ _ Morea ' 6 0 —l3 0 WAx, Bags' 7 , cwt. in bond. African 6 10 8 0 East India American 7 0 S 0 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of brown or Muscovado sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending Dec. 15, is 52s 4id per hundred weight, exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, Dtc. 21. Our supply at this day's market has been small, but generally' of a good quality, which commanded hich prices ; prime Beet Nit to 7id I middling and inferior Sid to 6d. Good Wethers 7d ; mid dling and inferior 6d to bid : the demand was brisk and every thing cleared off at an early hour. Number of Beasts, 1044 ; Sheep, 4401. LONDON GAZEITE.—FRIDAY, DEc. 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED J. Smith and E. Barnes, Leyland, Lancashire, surgeons —T. Connah and J. Connah, Liverpool, general merchants—R. Rainford and W. Rainford, Blackburn, Lancashire, iron-founders. INSOLVENT. Dec. 16.—George Ellis, Lane-end, Staffordshire, earthenware ma nufacturer. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. John Page, Horseferry-road, Westminster, London, engraver, Dcc. 29. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED Anthony George Wright Biddulph, John Wright. Henry Robin son, and Edmund William Jcrningham, Henrietta-street, Covent garden, London, bankers. BANKRUPTS, Richard Buggeln and John Buggeln, Lirerpool, sugar-refiners, Jan. 5 and 29, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. So licitors, Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London ; and Mr. Booth, Liverpool. Samuel Dickinson Seatharn, Liverpool, ironmonger, Jan. 5, 20, at twelve, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Shackleton, Wright. and Hunter, Liverpool; and Messrs. Baxendale, Tatham, Upton, and Johnson, Great Winchester-street, London. George Pound Dalston, London, licensed-victualler. Hugh Julian Roberts, Old London.srreet, London, merchant. James Tillman, Aldgate, Loudon, tailor. John Stone Smallfield, Newgate-street, London, bookseller. Christopher Hall, Piccadilly, London, upholsterer. Anthony George Wright Iliddulph, John Wright, Henry Robin son, and Edmund William Jeruingham, Henrietta-street, Covent garden, London, bankers. James Wells, St. Martin's.le-Grand, London, woollen-draper. John Chamberlain Knill, Gloucester, tailor. John Burkil, Louth, Lincolnshire, merchant. Parker Brooke, Leeds, grocer. Edward Edwards, Anglesea, iron-founder. William Wyatt Crowder, Birmingham, woolstapler. Benjamin Barnsley, Greet's-green, Staffordshire, builder. Samuel Myers, Smeaton, Yorkshire, victualler. William Henry Battiscombe, Bristol, money-scrivener. William Jackson, Louth, Lincolnshire, corn-merchant. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 8. R. Brine, late of Hart-street, Crutched-friars, London, wine-merchant—Jan. 8. J. Steer, Maidstone, Kent, tallow-chandler --Jan. 8. C. L. Clark, Rosemary-lane, London, licensed-victualler— Jan. 8. E. Thomas, Aldermandbury, London, tailor—Jan. 9. G. Jemmett and C. Scholee, Longacre, London, coachmakers—Jan. 9. J. Barnett, Tottenham-street. Fitzroy-square, London, copper plate-printers—Jan. 9. L. Edndge, Pekham, Surrey, builder—Jan. 9. H. Pembroke, Cheapside, London, bootmaker—Jan. 9. L. H. Cove, Western-wharf, Adelphi, London, coal-merchant—Jan. 12. C. Crippen, Limchouse. London, hoop-bender—Jan. 12. C. R. H. Bailey, Swallowfield, Wiltshire, dealer and chapman—Jan. 12. W. Bloxham, Abingdon-street, Westminster, London, merchant—Jan. 16. W. Chadwick and J. Chadwick, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lanca shire, cotton-spinners—Jari 9. C. Pain. Liverpool, hat-manufacturer —Jan. 11. 'l'. Moffit, Liverpool, marble-mason. CERTIFICATES To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before Jan. 8. J. Potts, Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire, grocer—W. N. Buckley, Manchester, linen-merchant. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. DECEMBER. Houa 23, G. Miller & R. Blackie, (proof and div.) Clarendon Rooms, 1 23, Blundell, Falk and Co. 23, John Rowlett, (special) Davenport and Collier's, 1 28, William Robinson, (special) Henry Hime's. 1 29, Thomas Hebblewhite, 2nd Clarendon Rooms, 1 30, John Edwards, (proof and final div,).. Ditto, 12 Jan. 1, Thomas Moffit & Co. (proof and div.) Ditto, 1 2, Thomas Ha!sail, (proof and div.) Ditto, 1 2, Ebenezer Jones Ditto, 2 PRICES OF SHARES, DECEMBER 21. Prices. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices. Bolton and Leigh lOO paid .... Bristol and Exeter 6O .... 34 0 0 .... Birmingham and Gloucester Ditto and Derby lOO 89 0 0 .... Birkenhead and Chester Ditto, new l5 .... 10 15 0 .... Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Ditto, Debentures Edinburgh and Glasgow 35 .... 29 5 0.. . Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid .... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 20 paid 22 2 6 .... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1 30 paid 29 5 0 .... Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction lOO .... 210 0 0 .... Ditto half shares 4O .... 92 0 0 .... Ditto quarter shares (late Chester and Crewe) Quarter 2B 0 0 .... Great Western 65 .... 87 0 0 .... 89 10 0 Ditto new shares 4O .... 50 15 0 .... 51 5 0 Ditto Fifth Shares 4 .... 10 0 0 . ... 10 10 0 Hull and Selby Leicester and Swannington 5O .... 53 15 0 .... • Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 28 0 - 0 .... 25 10 0 Ditto, new Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham go .... 169 0 0 .... Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto and Southampton 39 .... 54 5 0 ... Ditto & Brighton Manchester and Leeds 7O .... 76 0 0 .... Ditto half shares Manchester, Bolton, & Bury Manchester and Birmingham 35 .... 26 15 0 .... Ditto and Ditto Extension Midland Counties Ditto, quarter Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... 92 10 0 .... Ditto quarter shares North Midland lOO .... 76 0 0 .... New North Midland 4O .... 37 0 0 .... Paris and Rouen 2 .... 3 0 0 .... South Eastern and Dover North Union York and North Midland 5O paid 67 10 0 .... BANKS. Bank of Liverpool .... .... $l2 lOs paid 18 15 oex dir. - Borough Bank lO .... 14 2 6 .... - Commercial of Liverpool 12 10. , 18 0 0 .... - Commercial of England. 5 .... 3 2 6 .... - East of England lO .... 7 2 6 .... - of Manchester lO .... 8 16 3 with div. - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 9 7 6 .. . - Northern and Central - North and South Wales.. 10 .... 4 17 6 .... - Phcenix lO .... - Royal of Liverpool 500 741 0 0 div - South Lancashire - Albion - Liverpool Union lO .... 12 7 6 .... - Liverpool Banking Co lO .... 8 10 0 ... - Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. .... GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings £loo paid 158 0 0 .... L'pool and Harrington Water 1 , _ 3JO .... 47 7 10 0 . .. Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0 ... L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 380 0 0 .... L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 171 0 0 .... Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance 125 paid 310 0 Company " " Ocean Assurance Company.... 0 .... 0 13 9 .... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 103. 2 3 0 ... ... DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company lO . . 7 0 0 ... Plarrington Docks 100 .... 57 0 0 ... Apothecaries' Company Woodside Ferry Egremont Ferry l2 105. .. Asphalte (Liverpool', (Poloncean) 2 .... 1 0 0 ... * Exclusive of new Shares. BIRTHS. On the gth instant, at Crosby, the wife of Mr. RICHARD DICKINSON, of two daughters and a son, who, with the mother, are doing well. On the 11th instant, the wife of Mr. THOMAS BURT, Mulberry street, of a eon. MARRIED. On the Ist instant, at Whitchurch, Mr. PETER SADLER, cord wainer, a pensioner of the 6th Regiment, to Miss JOHNSON, eldest daughter of the late Mr. Alderman Robert Johnson, of Chester, a blooming spinster, iu her 77 year, and only six years oider than the bridegroom's mother, The brida's mother had twice twins within twelve months, and one of the twin daughters has had twins twice. On the 7th instant, at St. Mary's Church, Birkenhead, Mr. JAS. COOPER, Leece-street, in this town, to MARY, youngest daughter of Mr. JAMES DUNCAN, Woodside. On the lath instant, at the Parish Church, Preston, Mr. WM. CRANKSIIAW, lun., cotton-spinner, to MARY, youngest daughter of Mr. HENRY RISHTON, corn-merchant of this town. On the 13th instant, at Runcorn, Mr. JAMES COX. master mason, to MARY, eldest daughter of Mr. JOS. BALL ADSHEAD, both of that place. On the 15th instant, at Todmorden Church, by the Rev. Joseph Cowell, Captain WILLIAM CAMPBELL, fourth son of the late Mr. Campbell, Springfield, Kircudbrightshire, to AGNES, daughter of the late Mr. TAYLOR, Rochdale. On the 16th instant, at Childwall Church, Mr. JAMES GRAY, commander of the steamer Thames, to JANE, eldest daughter of Mr. WILLIAM STEEL, Gateacre. On the 17th instant, at the Old Church, Runcorn, by the Rev. Frederick Master, A.M., vicar, Mr. JOSEPH HALL, grocer, of Bridge-street, Warrington, to ELIZA, youngest daughter of FRANCIS SALKELD, Esq., Runcorn. DIED. In the 18th year of his age, Mr. CHARLES B. ADAM, midship man of her Majesty's ship Fairy, son of Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Adam. The ship is supposed to have been lost, on the 13th ult., in the North Sea, when all on board perished. Lately, on Board the ship Chester, aged 18, PETER, second son of Captain PETER ROPER, of this port. Lately, at Mobile, in his 25th year, Mr. JOHN COLLINS, mari ner, son of Mr. Charles Collins, Ansdell-street. On the gth instant, MARGARET, relict the late Mr. T. BROWN. On the 11th of June, 1833, on his passage from Batavia to Sydney, New South Wales, on board the ship Henry Wellesley, of London, aged 35, Mr. JAMES MADDEN, late of this town, deeply lamented by his relatives and friends . . On the 6th instant, after a short illness, at his residence, Chad wick-street, aged 44, Mr. THOMAS JUDSON, grocer and provision. dealer. On the 13th instant, after a protracted illness, which she bore with Christian patience and resignation, aged 44, CATHERINE, wife of Mr WILLIAM LACE, shipwright, Grafton-street, much regretted by a large circle of friends. . . On the 14th instant, aged 29, Captain LUKE HALL SMITH, late of the barque Lord Cochrane. Same day, in Bedford-street, Toxteth-park, of scarlet fever, aged 3 years, ELIZABETH BAILEY, daughter of Captain F. CLARKE. On the 15th instant, ELIZABETH HURRY, wife of Mr. N. W. STRAKER, and daughter of the late Mr. John Cross, merchant. Same day, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude, Mr. J. READY, Cleveland-square. He has left a wife and six children to lamenthis loss, and was much.and deservedly respected by a large circle of friends. On the ;7th instant, at Stocks, near Manchester, Mrs. G REEN ALL, relict of the late Peter Greenall, Esq., of St. Helens. On the 18th instant, aged 31, ANN, wife of Mr. JAS. ABBOTT, Virgil-street. Same day, after a lingering illness, Mrs. CHARLOTTE HOL DEN, for fifteen years a confidential domestic servant in the family of John Wilson, Esq., Heath-bank, Wallasey, by whom her loss is sincerely regretted. Same day, at her house, Everton, aged 63 years, ALICE, the beloved wife of the late Mr. WILLIAM ROY DEN, of this town. Ou the 19th instant, at her residence, Lydiate, in her 72nd year, Mrs. ASPINWALL, relict of the late Mr. Aspinwall. Same day, after a short illness, aged 5i years, SARAH ANN, the only daughter of Mr. ROBERT WALSH, Everton. On the 20th instant, in Great Orford-street, Mr. WILLIAM M'LEAN, aged 47 years. LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1840. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY moRNING, BY JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 88, Mount pleasant, and LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Orford -street, At No. 4, Sr. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. Orders and Advertisements are received by 2dessrs. 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