The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

attrp. THE MINSTER. BY MRS. HEMANS " A At abode, wherein appear enshrined Our hopes of immortality."—Byrun. Speak low l—the place is holy to the breath Of awful harmonies, of whispered prayer; Tread lightly I—for the sanctity of death Broods with a voiceless influence on the air; Stern, yet serene !—a reconciling spell, Each troubled billow of the soul to quell. Leave me to linger silently awhile ! • —Not for the light that pours its fervid streams Of rainbow glory down through arch and aisle, Kindling old banners into haughty gleams. Flushing proud shrines, or by some warrior's tomb Dying away in clouds of gorgeous gloom : Not for rich music, though in triumph pealing, Mighty as forest sounds when winds are high ; Nor yet for torch, and cross, and stole, revealing Through incense-mists their sainted pageantry : Though o'er the spirit each bath charm and power, Yet not for these I ask one lingering hour. But by strong sympathies, whose silver cord Links me to mortal weal, my soul is bound ; Thoughts of the human hearts, that here have pour'd Their anguish forth, are with me and around ; I look back on the pangs, the burning tears, Known to these altars of a thousand years. Send up a murmur from the dust, Remorse! That here has bow'd with ashes on thy head : And thou, still battling with the tempest's force— Thou, whose bright spirit through all time has bled — Speak, wounded Love! if penance here, or prayer, Hath laid one haunting shadow of despair? No voice, no breath! of conflicts past, no trace! —Doth not this hush give answer to my quest? Surely the dread religio❑ of the place By every grief bath made its might confest ! —Oh! that within my heart I could but keep Holy to Heaven, a spot thus pure, and still, and deep! CONTEMPORARY PRESS. TAXATION. (From the Morning Herald.) The Government journals are delighted with what they consider the " successful debut" of the new Chancellor of the Exchequer. The extremely kind and courteous tone of the conservative opposition has been taken as a decided acknowledgment of the transcend ant abilities of Mr. Baring as Finance Minister. It is, indeed, a "lucky administration," and in nothing more than this, that it has to deal with the most polite and genteel opposition that any ministry in this. country ever had to deal with. We have often had occasion to observe that the view of the opposition in the House of Commons at the present day seems to be bounded by the four walls of that house. Seldom, indeed, do the speeches of the leaders indicate the existence of a people out of doors, to whom both ministers and their opponents are, or ought to be, responsible. Whigs in place are actually forgetful of the people, and tories out of place do not much like to remind them that there is a people in existence. In fact, an appeal to public feeling from the conservative side of the house is so me, that one is inevitably led to infer that it is considered beneath the dignity of conservative se natorship to address the tribunal of public opinion at all. Yet there have been oppositions in the House of Commons quite equal in intellect, intelligence, and wis dmn, dignity and eloquence, to the present, that did not disdain to appeal from parliamentary divisions to the sense of the universal people. In the question of taxation it cannot be denied that the people are peculiarly interested, and yet in the dis cussion upon the budget of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer the interests of the people, and the faith of Government pledged to the people on the subject of the assessed taxes, were left as completely out of- view as if the members of the House of Commons on both sides of the house only represent e d. themselves. If they alone paid the taxes we should have no objection to their taking a view of the Chancellor's budget, which had no reference to anything beyond the visible horizon of the house. But whatever whigs and tories may vote on the subject, it. is certain the PEOPLE mustpay. They have P right, therefore, to be heard upon the me rits of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's plan. For Mr. Baring's brass they have to give their sterling gold. And surely whig brass- never made a more impudent demand upon the public pocket than in the matter of a proposed augmentation of the ASSESSED TAXES. When Ministers had the face to propose an increase of the assessed taxes, the opposition were too genteel to remind them that those were the very taxes that the whigs, when out of office, were continually agitating against, and with some reason, if their endeavour to obtain a repeal of those taxes had been an honest one, instead of a mere hollow and delusive pretence, The assessed taxes were originally imposed expressly as WAR TAXES—imposts that were to cease on the return to a state of peace. Upon this ground the whips used to charge the tories with having broken faith with the people in having prolonged those taxes after the termina tion of the war. This constituted the pith and marrow of many a popular harangue by Lord Althorp, now Earl Spencer, Sir John Hobhouse, and others, at the time when Lord Palmerston was as yet an unconverted, because a place-enjoying tory, and Lord Melbourne had a truly aristocratic horror of everything in the shape or bearing the name of reform. People of England ! see what golden fruit you gather off the branches of the "tree of liberty," planted ten years ago by the whigs, and labelled and ticketed on every bough with the words " PEACE, RETRENCH MENT, and REFORM." For reform—that is, parlia mentary reform—it is admitted that bribery and cor ruption, which Lord John Russell positively declared the Grey bill would extinguish, are greater than ever. For "peace," we have had the Anglo-Gallic " little' war" of the Netherlands, with all its " amicable slaughter." The non-intervention or buccaneering war in Spain, in which Evans, if he lost the battle, won the race at Hernani and Fontarahia; and we have now, last hut not least, the opium war with China, which has cut off legitimate commerce with that great empire, because the influence of opium smugglers pn the na tional councils is stronger than the voice of Justice and morality. For " retrenchment" we have an augmenta tion of the assessed taxes, though it is a quarter of a century since that French war terminated for the . con tinuance of which only were they originally imposed. Such, people of England, are the benefits which ye derive from the practical application of the whig motto, " Peace, retrenchment, and economy." When the whigs came into office there was about £2,000,000 sur plus of public revenue over expenditure ; now there is nearly £3,000,000 deficiency. (From the Scottish Standard.) The results of whig " refurrn" are now developing themselves in a way which must bring the country to its senses, if anything will. The public burdens, it has been officially announced, are to he seriously augmented to meet the deficiency occasioned by the folly and ex travagance of our self-styled economical " reform" mi nisters; and the initiatory has already been taken, in the reformed House of Commons, to carry the liberal object into effect. Surely John Bull will now find out that he has indeed and in truth " paid too dear for his whistle!" We had prepared our readers for the whig chancel lor's budget, which was laid before the House of Com mons on Friday night. The right honourable whig economist candidly acknon ledged that the expenditure of the country had exceeded its income by two millions seven hundred and thirty-two thousand pounds—which, of course, must he made up ; s o th at i nstead of carry ing out the reductions of taxation so well begun by tory administrations, the whig reformers, after ten years' application of their boasted principles of eco nomy and retrenchment, and in this, the twenty-fifth year of profound peace, are under the necessity of im posing additional burdens upon the people. There are to be no new taxes. 0, no ! that would be an offence against the majesty of the people which the Whigs could never think of committing for a moment ; all, there fore, that is to be done is to increase the taxes which al ready exist " distinction without a difference" for which their friends, the people, will no doubt be most thankful. We have given a report of the Chancellor of the Ex.; chequer's financial statement under the proper head. He estimates the expenditure of the present year at £49,432,000, inclusive of the previous deficit, and the probable income from present resources at £46,700,000 —leaving an amount of deficiebcy• to be made up, as we have already stated, of £2,732,000, which he pro- poses supplying upon the following plan : Instead of new taxes, to imposc.s per ;ent. additional on the customs and excise duties, with the exception of a few articles, and ten per cent. upon the assessed taxes without distinction. The exceptions to the 5 per cent. duty are, first the articles of spirits, including home, foreign, and colo nial, for which an advance of 4d. per gallon will be substi. toted; secondly, on corn imported, upon whirl - , no alteration will de made, because the impost levied on that article is not considered to be for the purpose of revenue, but, for protec tion of the home producer ; thirdly, the duty on post-horses, and the licenses upon stage-coaches are to he exempted from the advance, on the gronnd of the competition they have to encounter from the railways. The increase to the revenue by this advance on existing taxes is estimated at £2,337 , 00 0, reducing the deficiency t0£395,000, for which, and also for a further sum of £455,000, as a guarantee for defalcation from the estimate, a vote of credit will be applied for. This plan, under all the circumstances of the case, is perhaps as unobjectionable as any that could be de vised. Articles will, it is true, be included in the ad vance of the import duty, which ought to he the sub ject of a reduction rather than an augmentation of duty; and among them we would particularly notice the ar ticle of raw cotton the present import duty upon which is extremely mischievous both to the manufacturing and agricultural interests.; but exceptions may be made when the details are discussed. Certainly there are advantages in augmenting old duties instead of impos ing new, since the expense of collecting is not increased, and the channels of industry are not deranged. No—it is not to the plan of increasing the taxation of the country that there can be any great objections, but to the necessity that has arisen for increasing it at all. We have now had a quarter of a century of peace— a period long enough, in all, conscience, for reducing fully and permanently that large amount of taxation which a protracted war had rendered indispensable, for the security of the national honour, the national safety —nay, our very existence as a nation at all ; and under the administration of the country's affairs by conser vative statesmen, that amount was very considerably P•400---ok had ouch stool:am only continued to „ r . 7 - gL I SI.4 - N. 01% • • ‘N . z -• 74c • s_. dr , old ba" • E v . r administer the country's affairs, it would by this time, no doubt, have been reduced as low as any reasonable mart could expect. But, unhappily for the country, a set of political charlatans, calling themselves whig re formers, have been allowed to have possession of the government of the kingdom; and although economy and retrenchment were the most prominent principles upon which they professed to act, instead of going on reducing the public burdens, until made consistent with a time of continued peace, we are . now, as we have shown, in the twenty-fifth year of peace, to have the taxes increased upwards of two millions at one slap. The fact is, it ought to have been done a year or two ago, for the evil has been growing, and of course get ting worse all that time; but the whig economists were, no doubt, too much ashamed of their handy work to bring forward a remedy for it likely to be so injurious to their popularity, until they could no longer stave it off. They have at length, however, been obliged, by stern necessity, to furnish the country with this decisive evidence of the hollowness of their professions, and the profligacy of their prrctices; but under the additional burdens which their conduct has imposed, there is this consolation, that the exposure must hasten their expulsi on f rom office. POLITICAL CHARACTERS. No. V. (From the Oxford Herald.) MR. JOSEPH HUME. The man's an ass, and hardly worth writing about." Every body must admit that Sir Walter Scott never penned a sentence more strikingly truthful than the one here ex tracted from his diary ; but though it is an undoubted fact that Mr. Joseph Hume is " an ass, and not worth writing about," he has contrived to mix himself up so much with public matters, that we cannot, in the faithful discharge of the task we have undertaken, dismiss him without some kind of notice. Glad, indeed, should we have been if his name could have been left out altogether from our Gallery of " Po litical Characters ;" but as this is impossible, it is well to get rid of him at once. , There are no men who have lived long. and few who have lived but little, in the world, who are not able to state, from their own experience, that the great secret of success in life is impudence. Impudence is a very different quality to what many old-fashioned persons suppose : it is a good sterling virtue, not a mean, dirty vice. Its value in all worldly mat ters is so great, that parents ought to encourage rather than check the cultivation of it by their offspring. To those espe cially who are destined for public life impudence is of the ut most importance ; it is of much greater value than posses sions of gold and silver, or even• than hereditary rank. Mo desty is a very pretty thing, indeed, no doubt,of that; but modesty was never intended for these glorious-times of Re form and Whiggery and March of Intellect. Nothing, de pend upon it, is now-a-days of so much importance to a man striving to attain any worldly object, hut especially any pub lic object, as impudence. Let him go to work in a bold, dashing, impudent manner, and success will he certain ; but let him pitch modesty to the dogs, or he will prove himself an arrant. simpleton. These profound remarks suggested themselves to us in contemplating the career of certain poli tical and other characters, and the striking truth, which it is their object to teach, will be apparent if our readers will say what it is that secures the present Ministers place and pelf— what it is that enables O'Connell to wring some twenty thousand pounds of " Rint" from his starving countrymen— and what it is that has made Joe Hume a more important member of the asinine fraterr'ity, to which Sir :Walter Scott says he belongs, than others of his long-eared brethren. By pondering these matters for a few moments, it will be seen that impudence is a virtue of exceeding worth, for it is impu dence alone which has accomplished all. Confining ourselves for the present to the " Honourable Member" for Kilkenny, we have to say that it was impu dence which first obtained him a seat in parliameut, and it is impudence alone which hast kept him there. What rank or wealth or talent has done for other men, impudence has done for him. Though rank or wealth may enable a man to get into parliament, it is talent alone that will gain him dis tinction when he is there. To be a great man amongst great men, a peer amongst peers, demands intellectual power of a varied and lofty order; but without a shadow of pretence to the possession of talent or ability of any kind, Hume has contrived to make himself a great man amongst the con temptible clique of little men to which he belongs. His brazen impudence has been to him, indeed, a pearl of preci ous' price. It enabled him to meddle with matters which he was about as capable of understanding as a dustman would be to teach Greek ; and it enabled him, also, to set at nought the biting laughs, the withering scorn, the sarcastic jeers, which his bungling and ludicrous attempts at states manship occasioned. His impudence enabled him to go on from year to year, from day to day, chattering and snarling about the doings of men who looked u z ion him as a crawling insect beneath contempt. 'That same impudence led him to set up as the watchful guardian of the public purse, and in spite of defeat after defeat, to persist in boring the house with motions and propositions, which it would not agree to, nor listen to. That impudence led him to suggest the most extravagant and absurd schemes, which sunk him deeper and deeper in the estimation of thinking men. Even that impu dence, monstrous and brazen as it was, could not have brought him down to the present day, had it not been en couraged by an enormous quantity of self-conceit, and backed by obstinacy the most dogged that was ever known. His conceit is such, that he fancies himself capable of speaking on every subject that comes before parliament; his impudence is so great that he will thrust his opi nion upon the house, though it is never required ; and his obstinacy is so great and also so extravagant that he will divide the house twenty times on one of his ridiculous crotchets. For him no affair is too great, none too minute. He directs his powerful mind alike to matters affecting the interests of nations and to matters affecting the inte rests of old apple women. He pays equal attention to a pro position for a war with China and to a proposition for an im proved method of manufacturing birch brooms. He will support a measure for the reform of corporations, and ano ther for the reform of dog carts. lie will move for returns of the expense of an armament, and of the cost price of tallow candles used by the parties in the public offices. He will bring in a bill to protect the river Thames from incendiaries, and another to limit the consumption of red tape in the dif ferent departments of government. He will draw the atten tion of the house to proceedings of the Emperor of Russia, and animadvert on certain improper conduct of Mr. Bill Smith, a scullion in the royal kitchen. He will infamously , attack the good King of Hanover, and laud to the skies the rebel Mackenzie. He will move for a committee to inquire into the commercial relations of England and the Continental nations, and another to inquire whether it would be cheaper to use white or blue foolscap paper. He will put questions respecting the. dethronement of an Eastern monarch, and re gardir", the number of pots of butter c onsume d i n Bucking ham Palace. He will speak on every subject that comes be fore the legislature, whether he knows anything about it or not. Measures relating to finance—parliamentary elections —municipal corporations—prisons —poo r laws—corn laws - -the Established Church — ecclesiastical courts—national education—police—Church rates—tithe commutation—vote by ballot—Canada—universal suffrage—socialism—turnpike roads—vaccination--Newport riots—Prince Albert's annuity —railways—dissenters—factories—metropolis improvements —county constabulary —court of chancery—bank of England —chartism, and five hundred others, in all, all, all, will he chatter, and splutter, and bluster. Notwithstanding his clapper is continually going, there is not a worse speaker to be found ; anything like reasoning never comes from him. He makes the most monstrous assertions, from which he draws the most extravagant conclusions. He begins a sentence and forgets to finish it. He repeats himself over and over again, and wanders from one point to another continually. What he does say he says in a manner as if he believed it (as no doubt he does) and others received it as '• absolute wisdom." His presumption is so great that he will take upon himself to advise Sir Robert Peel—to censure Lord Stanley —to attack the Duke of Wellington—to abuse Lord Lyndhurst —to at tempt to be witty at the expense of Sir James Graham, though the attempt is only a miserable failure. Poor crea ture ! he fancies himself a great man, but he is merely a vain, egregious, and shallow-pated blockhead. Still he will not pass into the grave "unwept, unhonoured, unsung," for behold! his name appears in the immortal pages of Sir Walter Scott. That great and illustrious man has conferred upon him no mean celebrity. He has ho noured him with his notice, and that notice is so flattering, so true, tbat Mister Joseph Hume may point it out to his fa mily, his friends, his country, with honest pride, and when his early career shall have ended lie may have it engraved on his monumental tablet, as a most appropriate inscription —an inscription which, in one brief line, will show posterity the eminence to which he attained, and the esteem in. which he was held by the most distinguished of his contemporaries— " The man's an ass, and not worth wiiting about." THE NEW POSTAGE STAMP. To.Me Editor of the Macclesfield Courier and Herald. Mr. EDITOR,—Many of your readers have been more puzzled to rind out the meaning of the design of our new postage stamp, and her Majesty's ministers have been cen sured for issuing such a miserable specimen of ,modern art ; but, though I will not venture to pronounce upon the execu tion of the work, I think much may be said in commendation of the design. It strikes me, sir, that government has in tended, by the pen of Mr. Mulready, to favour us with an emblem of the state of our internal and external affairs, and that we may understand from it, that everything is in its wrong place. To commence with the upper part of the sketch, which from the representation of a Laplander in a rein .deer sledge, is evidently intended for the north point; we have the said sledge half sunk in the sea, whilst several ships are seen on dry land. I need scarcely say, that the hitter part o, the picture most aptly pourtrays the state of our navy. On the right hand, or east side, we have a group of Americans and 'West Indians , and, on the left, or east side, an assemblage of Chinese, Arabs, and Indians, with elephants, and camels. The lion at the feet of Britannia looks fast asleep, whilst the lady herself has lost her olive branch, and trident, as though neither at peace nor prepared which have been variously stillcho Il s . t f r ul u ar e; hybe , :r l can notißnduit, for war. The figures proceeding from the uplifted arms of and as intended for emblems of riches, which "makethemselves wings and fly away," and desi,med to mn Britannia, ah ku et consider anc o rated y hands national . of prosperi ty, sir, if we have this striking picture of confusion and misery, up, and collecting their wives and we have also held out to us a gleam of hope, for the Ameri 'shaking hands withand '' • • ey home, children for a journey cans seem busy packing doubt, they think,especially e fo w r e a st s , ta t r h t e , bac.k-front, better calculated for a farewell to the half-dressedand th n e ak o e n d e g w e i n io tle h m a e s n d , e vs e • e h n o t t l n y , z down and turned to us a • men, elephants, and camels see warmer 'climate, than for the 1 puzzled how to get back, m fa a r ll w g e e s t t ting i r n ead th y Even the Laplander is now we have destroyed their junks. the poor Chinese only appearet prospect of things that the artist has favoured us with of better times, if we will in a hurry to get out of the water t alid a reach dry land ; so coming to their right places, and sir, as an omen pictorial stamp ought to be hailed by the country have seen the only have a little patience. I think then, that this new of good hope, and as a proof that the ministry . they have committed, to remove from their blunders and intend, like the Ameri cans and Chinese on the envelopes, false p os i t i on, and to cross over from t h e treasur y bench to their o wn proper places. Let us then re j o i ce an d be glad, and look forward to the time when our navy will once more be afloat, when the British lion will awake from his slumber, when Britannia will once more smile, and all will be well. I am, Mr. Editor, your obedient servant, FABIUS VICTOR. THE PENNY POST E NVELOPES.—There are two ways of acquiring immortality ; by doing something worthy of it, or something , utterly undeserving. The man who fired the Temple of Ephesus is an instance of the latter class of as pirants in ancient times, and the artist who designed the penny post envelope a striking modern example. The absurdity of the design has provoked all manner of people to "gird" at it, and amongst them we find one from " A twopenny post letter-carrier," who has done more than merely find fault with the invention of the royal academician, for he has sent in a design of his own, infinitely superior to that which is to spread the fame of Mr. Rowland Hill over the remotest quarters of the globe. Next to the new caricature just pub lished by Fores, it is tbe best thing we have seen, and if the Post-office authorities do not wish to be laughed at to the end of time they will find out the inventor, and adopt a design less hieroglyphical than the present , and more to the purpose. --Herald-. • AN APPEAL TO THE BRITISH NATION, • ON BEHALF OF THE. • JAMAICA AND OTIIER BRITISH WEST INDIA PLANTERS TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR,—As an enterprising and loyal section of British colo nial subjects, who have for so many years suffered in silence the violence and outrage of party zeal, which has almost ali enated them from the regard and esteem of her Imperial Ma jesty and her faithful subjects at home, the West liidia plan ters feel it to be not only due to their individual interest, but also for the national weal, that the people of England should be appealed to, on the INJUSTICE of the same high duties being still imposed upon Sugar, Rum, and Coffee, produced by limited FREE LABOUR in the British West Indies, toge ther with government taxes and intercolonial restrictions, enforced as before emancipation, whilst EMIGRATION of suit able labourers is intercepted by government, though slaves are being smuggled into FOREIGN COLONIES, to outrival and ruin the British Colonist ; and to add to these enormities against him, it is proposed to equalize the duty of FOREIGN SLAVE LABOUR SUGAR with BRITISH FREE LABOUR SUGAR. The Spaniards and Portuguese can command unlimited slave labour, to compete against the very limited free labour of the British planter ; who, so.long as he was supplied with labourers to cultivate his estates to the extent necessary to enable him to stand up against foreign competition, bore all the burthens of revenue and sundry regulations imposed upon him by the mother country without a murmur; but since emancipation has deprived him of the means of doing so, it must be apparent to the world that he can no longer sustain those heavy imposts, nor make head against foreign slave la bour competition, with the intercolonial and other still exist ing impolitic restrictions. Admitting that the state of the revenue may require mode rate duties to be laid on Sugar, Rum, and Coffee, I, never theless conceive the present nintr DUTIES may be consider ably reduced without injury to the revenue, and with even greater advantage to all parties : " the present restraining system is forbidding the British planters to exercise a bene ficial interchange of products, when, by their necessities and their climate, they are standing in perpetual need of such mutual traffic. All duties on, and regulations affecting the importation of, lumber, flour, &c., &c., into the colonies, ought to be abolished, or most assuredly they will be smug gled into the colonies by the Americans, to the injury of British shipping, and no effort on the part of England, costly as it would be, could entirely and permanently prevent it." The additional duty imposed upon West India sugars dur ing the war, and thence called the " IVA R DUTY," was to have been abrogated on the restoration of peace; but con trarily thereto, has been continued up to the present time ; with which breach of faith, together with the superadded evils arising from the unceasing agitation for Negro emanci pation the West India planter has had to struggle for many years, previously to, and during which agitation, lie had suf fered, and is further doomed to endure, the injuries and dis advantages which did, and must continue to result to him from other nations illicitly carrying on the slave trade sub sequently to its having been abolished in all the dependencies of Great Britain. These, it must be obvious, have long been, and still continue to be, grievances of considerable magni tude; but, in addition to which, the planter suffered great hardship by the unprincipled and wanton agitation to de feat the apprenticeship enactment, which had the effect of frustrating the prospective arrangements on his estates, and of robbing him, on the Ist of August, 1838, of that labour to which he was legally entitled by the emancipation act until the Ist of August, 1840. Besides, his foreign competitors (since the Ist of August, 1838, when the negroes in all the British colonies were emancipated) have had the advantage over him of slave labourers which by fraud and smuggling they continue to enjoy as before, and in open defiance of the abolition act, without any limitation, or the probability of any interference by their respective governments to suppress it, some of whom tolerate and openly countenance the inhuman traffic of kinnapping and selling native Africans, fearless of the British cruisers or executive, and so perpetrate the most iniquitous violation of the act, to which they subscribed, to abolish the slave trade. Yet in the face of all these flagitious iniquities continuing to be practised by the foreign slave master, it is proposed to equalize the duty on his sugar, and to allow it to be imported into England on equal terms with British free labour sugar, and thus in effect to reward and perpetuate his crimes and to give the death blow to the (al ready greatly injured) British colonist. "It cannot be for the interest of any British subject to promote the commerce of the Spanish and Portuguese slave settlements to the ruin of our own free colonies, which are now suffering severely, from the unfair advantages obtainer' by the Brazils and by C'uba." How then can such a proposition, as relieving them from all prohibitory duty, for a moment be entertained by the nation, until at all events these our foreign rivals, shall not only have fully complied with their solemn engagements with us, to cease to tra f fic in slaves; but shall also have refunded to the nation all the expense engendered by their gross vio lation of that compact, and by their having countenanced the smuggling of slaves into their colonies; and further, until' they shall also have emancipated their slaves as we have done ? Without these most reasonable, and indeed mutual terms be complied with, the English nation ought not to listen to any such proposition for the manifest and exclusive benefit'of its foreign rivals, and thus to perpetrate the grossest injustice on its own colonists, so long as the former possess the ad vantages of slate labour, over the latter, co-extensive with their requisite cultivation, and other privileges which they have enjoyed and surreptitiously maintained for years, whilst the British West India planter, has guardedly and strictly fulfilled the abolition act. Besides, for them to be placed on the same footing as our own colonies, it would be but equal justice, that they should in return allow free, or at least reciprocal importation of British products and manufactures into their countries and colonies. "It is well known that the Brazils and Cuba, by their unlimited supply of slaves, have engrossed the sugar market of Europe.' " The agitators of such a measure would be carrying their scheme, throw back in the progress of civilization those very persons—the negroes—to advance whom in the social scale, such mighty endeavours have been made by England. Thus Great Britain would fail in the experiment she has hazarded, and rivet more closely the chains of tens of thousands now in slavery in the Brazils and in the United States, whose sole chance of release appears to be in the successful issue of the trial now being made in the British West India colonies." The proposition to equalize the duty on free and slave grown sugar—for it is nothing less—is not one that exclusively con cerns the planter ; all having the least stake in these colonies, wilt equally feel the effects of the measure ; the abandonment of estates—the ruin of the owners—the merchants, the me chanics, and the labourers, dependant for the necessaries of life and its comforts on the agricultural prosperity thereof. If the West Indian' planter be driven to an abandonment of his estates, because of not being allowed to employ suitable emigrant labourers thereon, and from the other causes enu merated, he will be entitled to claim the value paid for his property from the imperial government,who have only hitherto given him a consideration for the freedom of his people, and not for the annihilation consequent upon that and the subse quent inter diction of emigrants, to fill up the void occasioned thereby.—lf the anti-slavery party be determined, "fas et nefas," nationally considered, to extinguish utterly the pre sent race or generation of West India planters, justice requires that they should purchase their properties, and then, and not before, will they ~ave a good right to sit at home at ease, and at their own fire side to concoct plans to newly colonize and manage the West Indies after their own fasaion.—Pure mo rality is a principle that cannot take root in an uncongenial soil, it will be the work of time and pure philanthropy, de void of partial benevolence and co-existing rancour, to pre pare the national mind for its nurture—any party spirit evoked in such a cause will only outrage any favourable and growing disposition thereto, and tend to close those avenues of the mind, that alone can be approached with any chance of suc cess in the attempt to exalt the national morals. The friends of the negro must reflect that abstract morality, bears the same relation to the present state of national morals, as CHARTISM to the existing national laws, and the government founded thereon ; so that if the former be violently enforced, as the latter has been attempted to be, it must be attended with the like disasters and untoward results. The tax on sugar which is 24s per cwt. has forseveral years ranged from 70 to 90 per cent. on the market price, less duty ; and the tax upon rum, being 9s. per gallon, has ranged from 100 to 300 per cent. upon the market price in bond, and in the year 1838, was 400 per cent. ; so that the duty on sugar and rum, is many times greater in proportion to their respec tive value, than the tax on any other article of our own pro duction, and although in a moral point of view, it may be considered that rum should be taxed higher than more neces sary articles. we must not overlook the fact that, hitherto, the prohibitory rate of duty has not been any check to the intemperate use of rum, and it is known that desire abates in the proportion that facilities fur gratifying it are afforded, whence it must he obvious that even morally considered, it would be advisable to reduce the DUTY ON RUM, when there would no doubt be less adulterated, and more pure rum sold, producing comparative benefit to all parties, and at the same time would relieve the British planter from his unjustly pro portioned share of the burthen of the revenue on this article, from which excessive duty the nation derives not the expected moral benefit, and when its treasury, if not from an extended and honest sale of genuine unadulterated rum, (the usual ef fect of such a change) must, from the improvement of moral habits creating an increased demand of other taxable articles, derive more than the amount of the proposed reduction, at all events the planters, as a body, should not now under free labour be taxed beyond any other class for mutters of national concern. _ _ To ask for a DRAWBACK on the exportation of unrefined sugar and rum the produce of British possessions, so as to encourage the British free labour planter, to try to compete with the foreign SLAVE labour planter in Continental and other markets, would not be to seek an exclusive or monopo lizing privilege, for it would be to the manifest advantage of the English nation, inasmuch as such traffic would operate favourably for our merchants on foreign exchanges, employ their shipping and keep their bullion at home, by causing our colonial productions to stand in place of the corresponding portion of gold now or hereafter to be paid for foreign corn moaities. How, under present circumstances, is it probable that the planter can pay the heavy parish, public, and road taxes of the island, in respect of estates he is not allowed to have the most suitable and only remunerative means of cultivating. Upwards of £2OO. a year for taxes, is being paid for an estate whereon no labour was performed for several months after the Ist of August, 1838, and subsequently, yea, even by the last despatches from the island, very little has since been done,. last year it gave only one sixth, and this year it will not re turn more than one tenth of former years, although liberal wages were offered and promptly paid in silver, and the pro perty is within three miles from the sea-beach, considered now the most favoured locality. Many estates, in the imme diate neighbourhood of this, are suffering in the same man ner and to the same or greater extent; for at present neither the home government nor the abolition party have succeeded, nor indeed used the necessary endeavours to induce the Negro to go to work, but are permit ting an unjust interference between them and their former owners, which prevents and protracts any amicable arrangement. Neither will the executive leave the planter at liberty ( unsuspectedly and uninterruptedly) to import and hi re labourers upon such terms as he might legally do; for tE f o o ili- which that,hhaianicit hdl ) theithise kw purpose, zealnilol whenever he resorts to any expedient, however fair and open, lh i i siex protectoiiistiitc. e r.e r ti d lihtk i le c ce tt, Negroeabdnet b e by or, hr r ao d etf ti e rnlo r e s !dfna i no n hne c ii se o t diuienocpi oppres sions r ; e s s o . w, h to ncl e sions (whose state is bliss compared with the white slaves of defen sive, as though it were to establish him a monopoly of labour, nature, not likely to embrace. Whilst restrained from procuring elsewhere a supply f it l e2 being sil , b a l y prosperity, pe ri motherty , r rendered fruitless who ou b . II ought the to }' indolent thus eventually be driven to abandon s hi p s p e y states ° ler , w h i i funds have been exhausted in the laudable endeavour to rail s h itrnh a e v p e eedl e ei n mm c e r n u tt r ss a g oc e fr d ecs a ot i le i o d dui co-operated the planter, Lord John Russell has been forewarned by Mr. Burnley, the agent at Trinidad, that any interdict by which the British colonist may be prohibited from hiring labour wherever it can be procured most advantageously, will be productive of the worst moral effect, and that if they be not allowed to enter into contracts, which both parties, after due consideration, and acting in good faith, may believe to be under theplea that s in Asia or Africa are to be debarred, . they and their own interests, from do mutually advantageous—if her Majesty's coloured subject are too ignorant to understand be in contravention subjects elsewhere—such a veto would alone have justified any of those high principles which could . . ateproperty in ing that which is lawful to be d o ne by their white fellow subjects interference in the established rights of had 1:1 highest encouraged and sanctioned for years by the authori ties in the state. the West Indies, and destroying institutions which been eve reedom When the generosity of the English nation g f to every sla v e i n it s d om inions, it boldly declared to the world _ . that all men had an indefeasible right to the labour of their own hand', with liberty to dispose of it when and where they , deemed it most advantageous, and that after emancipation all (without distinction of colour) would be possessed of equal natural rights; and would be best competent to judge of that which was most likely to promote their own happiness. If these principles, which were solemnly invoked for the destruction of our colonial system; are now to be discarded when appealed to in aid of the difficult task of reconstructing a new one, what hope of success can remain in the breast of a colonist ? what confidence can he place in the promises or legislation of the mother country, or in the stability of the opinion of the nation ? Instead of the courage and cheerful hope which the accomplishment of his present most difficult task requires, he will be filled with distrust and despondency, and renounce it in despair. The effect will be disastrous. Upon the broad principle of justice and freedom we com menced the mighty movement of emancipation, which has saddled the nation with a large accession of debt, and risked the prosperity of some of our most valuable colonies, and it is upon the same broad principles we must continue with vigour owl persererance to act, if we intend the great expe riment of free labour in the tropics to be crowned with suc cess. The object of emancipation was not to injure the planter, but to protect the Negro ; not to encourage the slave trade amongst other nations, but to relieve Great Britain from the stigma of slave labour ; not to increase the revenues of the Brazils, Cuba, or the slave states of America, by the sacrifice of our own colonies, but to elevate our national character. Without emigration on a most extensive scale, Jamaica never will flourish. It is therefore the duty of the English nation to urge emigratiOn, and it must be brought to the no tice of parliament : all must be done during the present ses sion. It is in their power to increase our population from the East Indies, America, and Africa. Look to the East Indies; 56,000 persons died there in 1838 from famine! yet the English government will not allow them to locate in our colonies, where they would, by moderate labour, enjoy every comfort, and become a well-fed and happy people. Government must also he reminded of the fact, that the Jamaica planter is burthened with threepence an acre land tax, and a halfpenny an acre for quit rent of land, on thou sands of acres, which he never has had the means of culti vating, and for the greater portion of which he never will have; these fiscal imposts are equal to 5 per cent. per annum on ss. 10d., which is more than an acre of land is sold for in the United States, being only ss. 4d. per acre ; and though land in Jamaica is much more valuable than in the States, this statement sufficiently evinces the disparaging position of the Jamaica planter, and suggests the question, how he is to pay these taxes, it' he be compelled to desert his estates and the island ? when there would be none but the negroes to ap ply to for payment of taxes, for which benefit, and owinf , to whose fostered indolence, their former masters will have been goaded into an abandonment of properties once the busy haunts of industry. Hence it must be evident, that the ex chequer ought to abate the charge upon such land as yields no return. Ought the parish tax and other subsidies for the poor and lazy, to be exacted from owners of estates, whilst the negroes are, by a certain party, advised to stand out for unreasonable wages, and remain in idleness, when abundance of employment offers at such rates as can be afforded. No parochial relief, under such circumstances, should be given, it would be to confirm them in their obstinacy and laziness, and beget overwhelming vagrancy and pauperism. On an impartial and unbiassed consideration of the above facts, which bear with peeuliar and greater hardship on the colonists of Jamaica than on any other of the British colo nies, owing to the physical and local difficulties with which the planters of Jamaica have to contend, and from which the other colonies are mo i re free. Such as the irksome and ex pensive cultivation of its hilly cane fields, its great extent of unsettled or unappropriated land, affording refuge for squat ters (i. e. negroes who give themselves up to sloth, and are inclined to return to the wild and uncivilized condition in which their ancestors were found, and thus not only cease to render either any service .to themselves, or to any civilized community, but also to cause the annihilation of the im mense capital invested in lands, houses, buildings, works and machinery, together with the valuable and undeveloped local resources of Jamaica, and the comparatively great disad vantage, under which it has always been placed, of having a less number of labourers in proportion to its cultivable land, than most other of the British West India colonies. Whence it must be obvious that the British planter, is cogently entitled to an immediate and ample reduction of duty, a repeal of unjust restrictions, an abatement of land taxes, and a drawback on exportation, as some of the reme dies by which in connection with an efficient plan of autho rised emigration, he is hopeful, if not long deferred, to be enabled to maintain his ground, and without which, it is to be feared there is little chance for most of them, (especially those of Jamaica,) to continue to cultivate their estates at such high rate of wages as the late apprentices are demand ing. though the British planter were patiently to endure these wrongs, and to submit thereto, whilst all his funds became exhausted in the effort to bear up against these multiplied hardships, is Mr. yothercountry less culpable in withhold ing from him timely and commensurate redress! The planter cannot think so mea n ly o f hi s f e ll ow - su bj ec t s in England (frail mortals as himself,) as to suppose they conceive there is any thing in the climate, or productions of the West Indies, that the English nation should wish their ruin, or that the Wrest India planter should be an exile or outcast. Public writers and speakers, in the mother coun try, have it in their povfer to defend their fellow-subjects abroad, and it is very clear, that for the sake of consistency alone, if on no other account, the true patriot, after having visited with punishment any malpractice (legalised or other wise,) must discontinue his inflictions. Indeed, the tolera tion and encouragement of FREE COLONIES of England, is so obviously identical with the amelioration of negro suf fering in foreign slave colonies, that no truly humane man would object to affording it to the fullest extent. This is no whiq or tory question, and it shall pot be our fault if it ever be made one. Let the nation now manifest the same zeal iu the effort to do justice to the planter, as it did to emancipate the negro ;—both classes must he equally regarded, if our colonies be to prosper they are reciprocally dependant on each other. The British free labour planter calls upon the negros' friends for a renewal of their exertions, and upon all who take an interest in our colonial and maratime commerce, to join in a cause so just and honourable, and one deserving the best exertions and energies of the English nation. The British planter vested great capital in the colonies, on the good faith of the nation, which is as much bound to pro tect the agriculturist in its colonies, from the want ofla bourers to keep up the cultivation, and from the competition of foreign and slave-grown produce, as it is to protect the property of the English agriculturist from competition with Russia and other countries. England ought to attend as judiciously to the colonising of her colonies, as to her own domestic policy. Great Britain h a s th e p ower w ithi n her self of redressing these grievances, she has millions of indi viduals, whose circumstances would be infinitely bettered by emigrating to Jamaica and the other West India Islands. We hope she will look well to this. We beseech the British public, for it is to them, and not to Mr. Mothercountry, that we are to look. We say then to the English nation, let the cries of barbarity, let the human gore spilt in savage wars on Africa's deserts rouse you, let the horrors of Indian infanti cide, the pestilence, starvation, and miseries of the teeming millions of India, animate you to call upon the government, to do what every principle of national interest and glory should prompt it to do : which is, to open up a free system of emigration to those of its colonies as are suffering for want of labourers, from those countries, viz., America, India, Africa, and o,ther places whose inhabitants would thereby so much better their circumstances and advance British in terest.—On behalf of the Jamaica Planters, BY A FELLOW . COLONIST. May, 1840, THE NEW TAXES.—A hearty laugh has been raised in the city at the expense of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, finding such a difficulty in levying 5 per cent. on the duties on spirits, was obliged to give up such a plan in despair, and resort to a fixed duty of 4d. per gallon. The difficulty here lies in comprehending what there is in the peculiar na ture of a duty on spirits that it should make a case by itself and not come within the general rule. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's reason for adopting this course, that he has done it to avoid increasing the differential duties between different parts is considered so far from satisfactory, that he is thought, while trying to avoid one sort of inequality, to have produced another, and to levy an equal duty on articles of unequal 'value, as for instance on rums and brandies. Again, the difference made between wine and spirits has caused great surprise. The capitalist who operates in sherries is to pay his 5 per cent.; but if he prefer brandies, he will pay less than The accounting for such discrepancies by a professed abhorrence to rigid justice is regarded as ludicrous in the extreme.— Times, Tuesday. IMPORT OF Woor..—A return to an order of the House of Commons gives as the total amount of sheep and lambs' wool imported in 1839 into the United Kingdom 57,395,944 lbs., of which 57,379,923 lbs. are foreign, and the remaining 16,021 lbs. the produce of the Isle of Man. The total quan tity of foreign wool retained for home consumption was 52,959,221 lbs., and the quantity re-exported 695,049 lbs. Of the foreign countries, by far the greatest quantity of wool was imported from Germany, being 23,837,805 lbs. The se cond and third as to quantity were Russia and New South Wales, from the former of which 7,966,954 lbs., and from the latter 6,621,291 lbs. were imported. The quantity of British sheep and lan . tbs' wool exported during the same year was 4,603,799 lbs., and the quantity of yarn (including that of wool mixed with other materials) was 3,320,441 lbs. Of the wool, the largest quantity, being 3,625,896, was sent to Bel gium. Of the yarn, the largest quantity, being 1,770,536, was sent to Germany. The total value of British woollen manufactures exported in 1839 was £6,271,645. The value of the manufactures sent to the United States was consi derably the highest, being £2,142,352. The value of those sent to Germany, the East Indies, and China, and the North American colonies, was also high, being respectively £816,604, £530,687, and £511,190. COLONISATION OF NEW ZEALAND.—The crowded state of our columns on Saturday precluded our inserting more than a very brief notice of the meeting held in the Assembly Rooms, on the above subject. To-day we have given in our first page a report of the principal speeches, which, we doubt not, will be read with interest, particularly that of Lieut. Macdonnell, the late British resident at. New Zealand, who has resided in that country since 1830. Lieut. Macdonnell, in an interview with Lord Glenelg, when urging the impor tance of taking immediate possession of New Zealand, ob served, that, " as we lost Java from ignorance, we might lose New Zealand by procrastination ; " and impressed with these views, he is the more earnest in his appeals to the Bri tish public. The knowledge he possesses of the subject, em boldens him to advert strongly to the natives' hatred of the French, (the Marians) and the fearful consequences that must ensue, should it be intimated to the chiefs that the French intended to form a penal settlement in their country—a point of very great moment, not only to the present settlers, but to intending emigrants, and, indeed, to to the trade and com merce of this country. Dr. M`Leod has gone into the gene ral question of emir: ration with his usual perspicuity and feeling. Mr. Johnston, in opening the proceedings, was not less clear in the practical view which he gave of the present position of the colony. Altogether, the conduct of the go vernment, it would appear, has been of a most unstatesman like character, such indeed, as we might naturally expect from such a feeble and vacillating a dministration.—Glasgow Courier. IMPORTANT CORPORATIONS !!—From a return presented to the House of Commons pursuant to the Municipal Act for the year 18 ..we observe that the revenue of the borough of Cardigan was £3 Os. Gd. and the expenditure of £3 Os. Gd., to manage which estate 4 aldermen and 12 councillors are elected. In Blandford the income was £65 Os. Bd. and the expendi ture £194 175., with 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Caine the income was £96 13s. 9d. and the expenditure £l2B 2s. 9d., with 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Cli theroe the income was £126 19s. Old. and the expenditure £lO5 10s. Bd., with 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Da ventry the income was £ll3 ss. and the expenditure £152 12s. 3d., with 4 aldermen and 12 councillors. In Dur ham the income, with the aid of rates, was £462 Us. 2d. and the expenditure £409 18s. 9d., having 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. In Evesham, with the same aid, the income was £424 12s. and the expenditure £374 Os. Id., with 6 aldermen and 18 councillors. In Flint the income was £46 Bs. sd. and the expenditure £BO Is. 9d., with 4 aldermen and 12 coun cillors. In Llandovery, income £7 45., expenditure £ 8 6 5., and 4 alderm en an d 12 councillors. In Oswestry, income £4ll 6s. Id., of which th e sum o f £368 15s. 6d. is derived from borough rates, expenditure £3OO 12s 4d., with 6 alder men and 18 councillors. And many others we might name wher e the receipts are equally insignificant, and the balance due to the treasurer forms an appalling contrast—even in the larger boroughs this contrast is more apparent than could be wished. When we reflect that in all these places alike the annual ceremony of a popular election is performed, and af terwards a solemn council convened to appoint a dignified person to fill the civic chair, we cannot help smiling even at the risk of incurring his worship's frown. &bipping Entellignut. TUESDAY, MAY Ig.—Wind N.E . ARRlVED—Farewell. Kreecb, and Elise, --, from Pillau. SAlLED—Alliance, Haley, for Mobile—William, Bird, for Mar seilles—Victoria, Lennox, for New York—Condor, Churchill, for Baltimore—Thalia, Rogers, for Genoa and Leghorn—Sarah snd Arsilia, Macoduck, and Louisville, Allen, for New York—N,:a Sra de Los Delores, Monterola, for Bergen—Tampico, Winder, for Cron stadt—Dotothea, De Boer, for Amsterdam, &c.—Beccles, Man. thorpe, for Monte Video—Anguste, Vander Kirkhoxen, for Ostend —Auguste, Dc Jaeghere, for Ostend, &c.—Baldassare, Randich, for Trieste—Factor, Hart, for Tromsoe—Cossack, De La Rue, for An tigua—Harriet, Beniest, for Antwerp—St. Helena, Long, for the Cape of Good Hope—Julerne, Jenson, for Collunborg—Jane, Wil liamson, for Charente—Amalia, Albrecht, and Providence, Maas, for Danzic—lndian, Fearon, for Halifax—Eugenie, Codlet, for Ilavre and Ronen—Chase, Powell, for Malta and Smyrna—Robina, Gutherie, for Hayti—and Abbots Reading, Renner, for Valparaiso. Jessie Logan, Major, sailed from St. Helena 31st March for this port Brothers, Daniel, and Coronation, Bradley, hence at St. John, NB, Charlotte, Keith, hence and Halifax, at ditto Susan, Collings, from Patras at Cephalonia, and sailed 23rd ult. for this port Matilda, Hodgson, hence at Leghorn Adeona, Joumonge, sailed from ditto for this port, on the sth instant Arrow, Harris, sailed from Seville for this port 21st April Zeldennust, Kong, hence, at Zwolle Anna Hermann Hendrike, Gust, and Fanny, Mathew, hence, at Ilelvoet Catharina, Peterson, hence, at Hamburgh Mary Imrie, Boyd, sailed from Mauritius for Calcutta 17th Feb. Henrietta, Ciaussen, and Germania, Kross, hence, at Pillau Vesper, Bellamy, hence, at Nantes Thames, Williamson, sailed from Marseilles for this port 9th May Henriette, Devoust, hence, at Flushing Eugene, Perre, sailed from Marseilles tor this port 12th May Leonora, B S, from New Orleans, off Holyhead, at 8 a.m. Frances, B S, from Barbados, off Point Lynas, at 11 a-m. WEDNESDAY, MAY 20.—Wind N.N.W, ARAI r ED.—Eliza Heywood, Heywood, from Antigua—Frances, Dixon, from Barbadoes; sailed 15th April—Leonora, Harrison, and United States, Barr, from New Orleans—Cumberland, Hatch, and Canada, Wilson, from Mobile—Pampero, Roberts, from Monte Video—Harmony, Potlich, from Grieswald—and Thomas Hunter, —, from Africa. Freeman, Sullivan, from Manzanilla de Cuba, at this port, in 39 days. On the 6th instant, in lat. 40 0, long. 49 30, spoke the Alex ander, from Jamaica for this port. On the It;th, off Cape Clear, spoke the Forth, from Jamaica for this port, out 79 days. And, off Tuskar, a brig, supposed the Velocity, from Jamaica for this port. Ann & Jane, Cocks, hence at Berbice Elizabeth Wood, hence at Barbadoes 7th ult. Magnet Packet, from Falmouth, at ditto, 11th ult. Tam o'Shanter, sailed from ditto for this port 13th ult. Palmyra, Croat, hence and Milford, at Demerara 7th ult. Diana, Robson ; Rapid, Bolton, and Spencer, Birkett, hence at Demerara Mary, Hamilton, sailed from Demerara for Mobile 36th March Eliza Killick, Waugh, and Governor, Adamson, hence at St. Thomas Elizabeth, Price, sailed from St. Thomas for Santa Martha 6th ultimo Alice Brooks, Scott, sailed from Port Adelaide for Port Phillip stl Nov. Mir, Warglien, and Isabella, Rymer. hence at Pernambuco EnriCy, Wardle, from London, at ditto 31St Marcia, in 33 days from the Downs Agnes, Cobb, and Superb, Hunter, sailed from ditto for Trieste 26th March Lawrence, Williams ; Camoens, Wilson ; Celt, Dogerty ; Joseph P. Dobree, Hayes; Chandos, Heylop, ar►d M'lntyre, -, at Laguna, all for Liverpool Superb, Melhuish, from Messina, at Palermo 18th ult, and sailed 23rd for this port Emilia, Milora, hence and Naples, at ditto Elizabeth, Stone, hence at Trieste Clipper, Holland, hence at Syra 11th ult. and sailed 17th for Con. stantinople • Firefly, Easter, hence at Constantinople Challenger, Hernaman, sailed from Smyrna for this port 20th tilt. Swiftsure, Tyack, sailed from ditto for this port 28th ult. . Scipio, Watson, from Cape Hayti, at Falmouth Ann Wise, Nicholson, hence fur Tortola, at Fowey Julerne, for Callenburgh ; Thalia, for Genoa, arid Tampico, for Cronstadt, have put back Aurora, -, hence for Cape Breton, was spoken 2nd instant, in lat. 30 0, long. 46 _ _ Alicia, Nicholas, hence for Quebec, was spoken 30th ult. in lat, 49 0, long. 26 . _ _ Britannia, hence for Rio Janeiro, was spoken sth ult. in lat. 0 11, long. 19 15 isk, hence for Pernambuco, was spoken Bth Mt. in lat. 2 18, long. 22 86 Esther, for this port, was spoken 26th March, in lat. 26 0 S, long. 26 0 W. of Paris Part of the letter bag per Inca, hence for New South Wales, re ported in a former publication as abandoned, has been saved, and now lies at Messrs. Cotesworth and Wynne's office. Hum., May 18.—The Dorothea, from Memel for this port, is re ported to have put into Grimsby this morning, leaky VA LENCIA. May 7 —A boat marked " Black-eyed-Stu:an, Liver pool," has been picked up at sea, and brought to this port. THURSDAY, MAY 21,—Wind North ARRIVED.—Mary Worrall, Gardner, from Lima; sailed 18th Jan. The Thomas Worthington was to sail in 14 days for Liverpool. The Susannah Collings had sailed for Valparaiso; SAILED.—North America, Lowber, for New York—and Emma, Irving, for Venice and Ancona. United States, Britton, hence at New York 26th April Blair, Newby, hence at Barbadoes Hudson, Hamilton, hence at Lima, and sailed for Valparaiso Siddons, (Packet Ship) from New York, landed all her passengers and letters at Dunmore, in Ireland Tyrone, , from New Orleans, off Tnskar Cora, Melville, from the Cape of Good Hope, at the Cove Terra Nova, Bennett, from St. John, Newfoundland, ditto Eveline, Nosworthy, and Slavina, Sablicich, hence at Bahia Llama, Clayton, hence at St. Thomas Atlas, Smisk, nonce at the Dardanelles Ilebe, Warren, hence and Syra, ditto Basconzado, Ecchevaria, sailed from Bilboa for Liverpool Bth May GRIMSBY, May 18.—The Dorothea, Hoppet, from Danzic for Liverpool, has put into this port very leaky, and with greater part of deck load thrown overboard TELEGRAPH OFFICE, MAT 21, 1840. Wind at Holyhead, N.N.E. blowing fresh in the morning; North, moderate breeze at noon ; North, light breeze In the evening. Off Holyhead, inward bound, at 9 30 a.in. No. 4293, Siddons, A.S. from New York--1427, Josephine, A.S. from Mobile-261, Tam O'Shanter, B.Bk. at 11 30 a.m. from Philadelphia—and 770, St. George, B.S. at 1 p:rn. OffPiAnt I.ynas, inward bound, at 12 at noon, No. 4295, Siddons, A.S. from New York, (has a pilot.) VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, kc. Colston, --, 16g Manilla, Brodie & Hamilton Agnes, Cumming, 299 Singapore, Imrie & Tomlinscm Mysore, H J Ward, 330 Singapore, Chapman & Willis Bela Marina, Wickham, 564 Singapore and China, W & J Tyrer AFRICA. Dido, Faleon, J Turner, 297 Africa, J & T Johnson 112 Africa, Agett & Hemingway - - NEW SOUTH WALES. Saperb, J Newlands, 353 Port Adelaide and Sydney, Claypole & Son or II Fox WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Grace, P Pearson, 311 Antigua, C W & F Shand Margaret Highfield, R Johnson, 178 Barbadoes, J Bibby & ons Pavorite, J Cameron, 295 Berbice, J Poole & Co Queen of Scots, J Follett, 166 Trinidad, w Rose & Co SOUTH AMERICA. Robert Syers, R Loney, 311 Laguira and Puerto Cabello, _ W Rose & Co UNITED STATES. Congaree, J Doane, 321 Boston, Baring Brs & Co Independence, E Nye, 829 New York, Wildc3, Pickersgill &Co Frankfort, J G Russell, 889 New York, G Brown & Co Sheffield, F P Allen, 595 New York, T& J Sands &Co Britannia, E Cook, 606 New York, Fitzhugh & Grimshaw Ganges, J Jones, 376 Hampton Roads, Lodge, Prichard & Co BRITISH AMERICA. Faith, J Dunning, 143 Newfoundland, T & W Earle & Co William, J Richardson, 153 Newfoundland. Graham & Taylor Abeona, R Jenett, 70 Newfoundland, Valiance & Henry Rising Sun, R Christian, 133 Newfoundland and Mexico, J J Day Clarence, A Betts, 237 St. John, N.B. Gibbs, Bright & Co Greenhow, J Ogilvy, 291 Quebec, Molyneux, Witherby & Co George Sutton, J Archer, 81 Labrador, The master EUROPE. -- -- —. Alligator, R W Cook, - 197 — Constantinople, M& A Wilkin Maria, ft Revett, 131 Dordt, Cram & Smith Triumph, J White, 177 Dordt, Cram & Smith Carl, .1 C Witstenburg, 120 Elsinore, Bahr, Behrend &Co Providentia, C F P Witt, 150 Elsinore, C G Weber & Co Georg, C Moller, 150 Elsinore and Narva, Bahr, Behrend & Co Hope, N Harmer, 261 Havre and Honfleur, J Aikin & Sou Christians Gabe, S Thaysen, 100 Iceland, Bahr, Behrend &Co Sultana, J B Rogers, 181 Malta and Smyrna, __ __ .. _ _ _ . G Yates, Lowthean & Co Ann, G Jardine, 101 Narva, J Crawford & Co Bristol, W Escott, 212 Lisbon and Monte Video, J Poole & Co Charles, J Rickrneers, 116 Ostend, Bahr, Behrend &Co Maria Aleta, L K Schutt. . 80 Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend &Co Anna Agatha, J Berghins, 85 Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co Galway Lass, J Strevens, 224 Hammerfest & Archangel, A le Moore Helene, G Anderson, 160 St. Petersburg, C G Weber & Co Judith, J Hamon, 90 'Venice, J Bibby & Co Norval; G Wright, 101 Rotterdam, Bahr, Behrend & Co Zeelust, D J Mik, 120 Rotterdam and Dordt, Bahr, Behrend &Co Arab, J Findlay, 287 St. Petersburg, Bahr, Behrend & Co Carolire, J Walters, 12g Messina and Palermo, J Rothwel Otarketo. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 21. There has been a good demand for Cotton today, and the sales are 4000 bags, including 400 for export; prices remain steady, but a heavy market. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, MAY 21. The weather is cold and unvegetative ; shippers of Butter in Ireland are consequently obtaining most extravagant rates. We have heard of as much as 1158 on board for Carlow. 118 s to 120 s are about the prices lauded, and much inquiry is made after the article. LONDON GAZETTE.7-TUESDAY, MAY 19 PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. C. Campbell and J. Campbell, Liverpool. cotton-brokers—T. Overton and J. Overton, jun. Liverpool, wine-merchants—J. Ed wards and W. Drummond, Liverpool, tea-dealers—J. Taylor, J. Taylor, and A. Clegg, Prestwich, Lancashire, nurserymen ; as far as regards A. Clegg—J. Redhead and R. M. Cartwright. Cartmel. Lancashire, surgeons—K. Grundy and I. Kirby, Lancashire, wool len-brokers—T. Waddington and J. Hanson, Manchester, stock manufacturers—J. Jones and G. Cowen. Manchester, cabinet makers—S. D. Moss and J. Cowen, Wigan, tailors—D. Ilesse and R. Shepherd, Manchester, stock.manufacturers. imports. EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, s•c. Heart of Oak, (326) .1 Macdonald, from Mauritius, 5611 bags 22 brls sugar, J Gladstone and co—i case specimens natural history, 2 cases liqueurs, 1 case jelly, 1 case pickled mangoes, 2 qr casks 1 l►hd Madeira wine, order—P D New Thomas, (144) R Nicol, from the Cape of Good Hope. 87 pipes 149 lihds 1 qr cask wine, R Allinson-19 pipes i hf aum do, IV Dickson—l hf aum do, M Z Just-10 hf pipes do, M Clover—i cask do, I box tea, order-132 boxes tea, W Dickson-35 boxes 21 cases 15 packages tea, 3 bales wool, R Zwilchenbart and co-2 bags rice, I bag coffee. 1 box arrowroot, I package cigars, 1 case seeds, IV Dickson—K D WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA. Frances, (413) J F Dixon, from Barbedoes, 66p hhds 44 tees sugar Barton, Irlam and Co-5 brls 1 pot sugar, order-21 packages ta marinds, 34 packages arrowroot, 9 packages succades, 2 brls gin. ger, 2 packages pickles and pepper, 6 brls roots, 3 packages wine, package falernum, 1 tee old copper, 5 hhds cocoa nut oil returned, order—Q I) Royal Mint, (30g) W Searight, from Jamaica, 358 hhds 18 tces 3 brls sugar, 65 puns rum, 64 tees I hrl coffee, about 44 tons logwood, 50 lancewood spars. 38 dry ox and cow hides, 2 kegs tamarinds, 200 coker nuts, J B Yates and co-28 hhds sugar, 6 puns rum, D and T Willis—l box succades, order—K D SOUTH AMERICA. Fortitude, (251) G Arbuthnot, from Monte Video, 118 pipes g hf pipes tallow, 23 bales wool, 6 bales hair, 8730 horns, 15c hide cut tings, 4518 wet salted hides, C Holland-15 pipes Ihf pipe tallow, about 30 tons bones, 2gge wet salted. hides, 42 bales sheeps' wool, order-38 bales wool, G Beley—K D Jane May, (104) T May, Jun. from Ceara, 20 bags coffee, 122 bags cotton, 889 dry hides, C L Mendez and co-2 bags cotton, 100 dry hides, Fruiing and Goschen-8 bags cotton, 570 dry hides, order -100 bags cotton, 570 dry hides. Cotesmorth, Powell and co-19 bags cotton, L B Paget and co-20 do, C Middleton and Son-12 do, Came and Telo-40 do, J Duncan-122 dry hides, J Macaire and co —about tons horns, Mendez and Murt—K D Alice Jane, (238) J Bleasdale, from Laguna, 260 tons log - wood, C Tayleur, Son and co-46 brles Jalap root, T Ashmore-18 do, order —2 cases contents unknown, W B Melville-2 cases silver figures, C Tayleur, Son and co-1 painting, D Madden—K D Spinster, (161) W Colquhoun, from Laguna, 230 tons logwood, M'Nair and Dutton—W D E. Leonora, (404) T B UNIT Harrison, D from STATES New Orleans, 535 bales cot ton, W Smith and Sons-104 do, Roskell, Ogden and co-200 do, Melly, Prevost and co-131 do, order-46 do, 300 sacks wheat, J Hoiford and co—P 1) United States, (430) J Barr, from New Orleans, 1254 bales cotton, Brown, Shipley and co-85 do, Molyneux, Witherby and co-35 do, Molyneux, Witherby and co-36 do, D and T Willis-77 do, order -34 do, J Ramsay and co-75 do, W Smith and Sons—S D THE WORKHOUSE. Statement of the average number and expense of paupers in the Workhouse for the week ending Paupers. Per Head. Per Week May g, 1840 11, 1839 More 4 More o 11 More 13 14 0 Statement of daily relief paid outdoor poor the week ending May 18, 1840 2183 families, per week, £251 3 0 20, 1839 2069 do. du. 259 110 Less R 7 18 10 More 114 LIVERPOOL DISPENSARIES. Number of new patients entered on the books of the Dispensaries during the last week:— North. South. Total Received advice and medicine at the Insti tution Visited at their own houses and supplied with medicine 335 231 616 Total at each EllaPPsarY 142 330 - _ - 523 423 946 VISITORS North —Mr. W.F. Macgregor, Rev. Dr. Buck, and Mr. C. Booth. South —Mr. Jordan, Mr. J. Cooper, and Rev. C. Morrall. R. WEDGWOOD, Secretary. Dispensaries' 0111 Ce, 1, Feawiek•atreet, Nay 18, 1640. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, MAY 19 Since Tuesday last the imports of Grain, flour, and Oatmeal, from Ireland and Coastwise, have again been very small ; but or Wheat, Flour. and Barley, from Foreign ports, they have been very considerable ; the two former articles are going into bond for the present; duty is paid on the latter as it arrives for home use. The weather, throughout the whole of the past week, has been very seasonable, and favourable for the rapid growth of all agri cultural produce ; we have had heavy showers daily, and it is now considered that we have had a superabundance of rain all over this district, quite sufficient until after the hay harvest;—the country has assumed a most Itituriant appearance, and the season is now estimated more forward than the last, by two or three weeks. In consequence of whi. ii, and of the large quantity of Foreign Grain and Flour recently released for home use, our millers and dealers have been very sparing buyers for their immediate wants, although a reduction of about is to Is 6d per quarter on all other kinds of Grain, ',except the most superior qualities of Wheat and Flour, and also Beans and Indian Corn) and of about 6d to is per sack on Flour and Oatmeal, has been submitted to. The only alteration in the duties on Grain from foreign ports, since Friday last, is an increase of Is 6d per quarter on Barley, Indian Corn, and Buck Wheat, and no change is anticipated next Friday • —it will be observed that all Grain and Flour are exempt from the new intended increase of five per cent to take place from the 15th instant, on the duties of customs and excise ;—there has been but very little demand for Grain or Flour in bond for export, last week, hut several parcels of very good fresh sweet Foreign Wheat, chiefly Dantzic, are reported to have changed hands, to be held in bond, at 7s 6d to 75 9d per 7albs. The supplies to this (lay's market have been very considerably increased by the arrivals, yesterday, of Oats and Oatmeal from Ireland, and of Wheat and Flour from Foreign ports. The small improvement in London, yesterday, gave a little more confidence to the trade, and sales were effected to-day to a moderate extent of Wheat and Flour in bond, and free at about the decline above mentioned ; Oats, Oatmeal, and Barley, were also a little lower, but Beans and Indian Corn fully supported last quotations. WHEAT, per 701bs 51. d. 5. d. blur wx CORN, V 48011( English Scotch 9 3 10 0 White 'l9 0 41 0 Irish 5 3 8 3 BRANS, per quarter. • Bonded BARLEY, per qr. . Irish 42 0 45 0 English 37 0 38 0 Paws, Grey 3B 0 42 0 Chevalier 3B 0 41 0 White 42 0 46 0 Scotch, per 601 b. 4 6 5 0 I SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b. Irish 3lO 4 3 In bond l4 0 17 0 Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 nova, English, per 2801 b. OATS, per 451 b. • Fine 48 0 53 0 English Scotch 4 0 4 3 Amer. v , hrl. free Irish ' 3 4 4 Sweet U.S. 35 6 37 6 Foreign, in bond 3 6 310 Sour 'l5 0 36 0 Ditto, duty free 4 0 4 3 OATSIEA 1., per 2401 b. RYE, per quarter ...36 0 38 0 English 33 6 34 0 MALT, per qr. fine.. 68 0 70 0 Ditto, new 34 6 35 6 middling 56 0 66 0 i Seritch 33 6 34 0 AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE, Imported into Liverpool, from 12th to the 18th inst. inclusive FROM IRKLAND. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Mules. Calves. Lamb 1675 775 355 J 110 910 Previously 16189 14441 85004 819 66 50 3112 COASTWISE. Cows. Sheep. Pigs. Horses. Calves. Lambs. 450 2041 1008 ? 4 Previously .. 1931 25792 3532 56 • - e 26 PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. Wool), Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid Archangel £l9 0 20 10 Memel 17 0 18 0 Gothenburg - - 16 10 Wyburg lii 10 - 18 io Petersburg 17 0 - 19 10 PLANKS, per foot of 2 inches thiok. Danzig, Deck - 0 44 British American Pine LATH %V 00D, per fathom. Danzig, 4 feet lO 9 10 British American 5 0 6 0 ' MAHOGANY, per foot of 1 inch thick. Honduras Cuba St. Domingo 1 0 2 0 OAK PLANKS, British American none rEAK WOOD, per cubic feet STAVES, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe e 135 0 —l4O 0 70 0 80 0 Quebec, red, I inch thick, } 55 0 75 0 and 53 feet long Do. Puncheon TIMBER, per cubic foot. Oak Pine, British Amer. common red.... yellow 5 6 Danzig, middling Memel, middling Riga, red Duty. Not above 16 ft F.&19. B. P. 2. 21 feet. 422 ...*:2 10s. e 4 59. 55. 'I 10s. 5s per load Os. 14 0 24 0 s. d. s. d. 2 9 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 2 0 1 4 1 8 2 2i— 2 3 2 23 2 3 2 Si— 2 6 Not ab. 36 in. Xl 3s. B.P. 2s 26 4s, 3 (is, 1 Os per load. 1.4'2 15s. 19 , load PRICES OF SHARES, MAY 21. Prices. This day Last RAILWAY'S, &c. Per Share. Prices. Birmingham and Gloucester BO paid 71 0 0 .... 70 10 4 Ditto and Derby lOO .... 89 0 0 . Birkenhead and Chester Ditto, new 5 13 2 6 . Bolton and Leigh lOO paid Bolton and Preston Bristol and Exeter 25 . 20 0 0 . Chester and Crewe 45 .... 55 5 0 . Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid .... Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 19 10 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar 1 30 paid "' • Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction Ditto half shares 3O .... 100 10 0 .... 100 10 0 Great Western 65 . 95 0 0 .... 91 0 0 Ditto new shares 30 43 15 0 .... 42 0 0 Hull and Selby Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 32 15 0.. Ditto, new Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares Ditto half shares London and Birmingham 9O 177 0 0 .. Ditto new shares • Ditto quarter shares Ditto air.! Southampton 3g .... 24 lo 0.. Ditto & Brighton London and Croydon . l4 17 6 .. Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 83 0 0.. Ditto half. shares LeiCesterand Swarmington 5O .... 71 0 0.. Ditto, (new) 'ls paid 54 10 0.. Manchester, Boltim, & Bury .. 83 ... 42 5 0 .. Manchester and Birmingham.. 25 .... 23 5 0.. Ditto and Ditto Exten;ion Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle 100 .... 100 .... o o o. g 6 o o. . 54 10 0 • 29 10 0 • 55 5 0 44 0 Sti 10 29 10 53 I Ditto quarter shares North Midland lOO .... 104 10 0 .... New North Midland 2O .... 32 10 0 .... South Eastern and Dover North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 •• • • York and North Midland 5O paid 64 0 0 .... BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 .. .. 746 10 oex div Bank of Liverpool £l2 lOs paid 20 12 -6 ex div. - Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 17 2 6 .... - Liverpool Union lO .... 13 7 6 .... - Northern and Central - Albion - North 'and South Wales lO .... 6 10 0 - of Mandhester lO . ... 10 2 6 -- M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 917 6 - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank lO _Commercial Bank of England 5 .... East of England lO Phcenix Bank Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. GAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings .6100 paid 163 0 0 L'pool and Harrington Water 1 350 .. .. a 77 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 } 2 .. 3 _ paid 2 10 0 .. Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 550 e x di e , Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 113 oex div DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... Woodside Ferry ' Egremont Ferry l2 10s. Rock Ferry 2O .. Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company lO . Harrington Docks 100 .. Apothecaries' Company Asphalte (Liverpool; (Polonceau) 2 . AA 8 . 15 2 6 . 30 5 8 0 0 6 5 0 .... 6 7 5 0 i 19 6 L 7 0 ti 17 6 0 1 t 6 .... 1 0 0 GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY. The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street, Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester : TIMES OF DEPARTURE FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM 3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. a.m. Mixed 8 15 a.m. First Class 10 30 a.m. First Class 12 15 p.m. First Class 4 p.m. Mixed 7 p.m. First Class 12 FROM BIRMINGHAMTO LIVEKPOOL 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. 11 30 a.m. First Class 2 15 p.m. First Class 2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston at Parkside. _ _ 3 30 p.m. Mixed 5 p.m. First Class OliSunday the Departures will be 3 30 a.m. First Clais, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m. 8 15 a.m. Mixed PP 1 30 p.m. 14) 30 a.m. „ 7 p.m. ~ PP „ 12 2 15 a.m. First Class 7 30 a.m. Mixed 11 30 a.m. „ 2 45 p.m. The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only. LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY. FROM L'POOL TO MANCRZSTRR, First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 8 45 „ 10 ,0 PICOM MANCHESTER TO L'POOL. First Class Second Class - Morning.. 7 0 Morning 9' ..10 0 11 15 „ ..I1 45 „ 2 0 Aftern. .. *2 45 Aftern. .5 0 „ .. 5 30 „ 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside his Train does not start till Three. ',MOATS. I 1 0 ..11 45 ~ 2 0 Aftern. .. 2 30 Aftern. 445 ,• • • 530 ~ 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed Stop only at Newton & Prkside Except on Saturdays, when ti ON SU First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Morning 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening .. 7 15 Mixed top only at Newton & Prkside I TO PRESTON PROM LIVXRPOOL. 8 45 Morning.. First Class 11 0 2 30 Aftern. .. Second Class 4 45 .. Mixed 7 15 .. First Class. I First Class Second Class 8 0 Morning.. 7 0 Mornin 5 0 Aftern. .. 5 30 Aftern. 7 15 Evening.. 7 15 Mixed I Stop only at Newton & Prkside AND WIGAN. FROM MANCHESTER. 9 0 Morning.. First Class 11 15 „ 2 45 Aftern 5 0 „ 715 „ NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 30 Afternoon .. I LTON. . Second Class . Mixed . First Class oN su: 7 0 Morning.... Mixed 5 30 Afternoon „ 10 B FROM LIVERPOOL. 5 45 Morning.... First Class 12 0 1 30 Afternoon .. Second Class 8 30 FROM MANCHESTER. g 0 Morning.... First Class 11 15 „ 2 45 Afternoon .. Second Class 5 30 „ „ %JOAN'S. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon „ IELENS. FROM MANCHESTZR. 7 30 Morning.... Second Class 10 0 „ 11 45 „ 2 45 Afternoon Pt 5 30 4DAYS, 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. IP 'ORN GAP. FROM MANCIFIESTRR. 7 20 Morning.— Second Class 11 45 • • • • PI 5 30 A ft ernoon .. NDAYS. 7 0 Morning.— Second Clam 5 9u ~ Afternoon „ ON 7 0 Morning.... Second Class 5 30 Afternoon.. TO ST. FROM LIVERPOOL. 7 15 Morning Second Class 10 0 „ It LI 45 2 30 Afternoon.. rr 5 30 91 rr PI ON SU .... - -. 7 0 Morning.... Second Class I 5 30 Afternoon .. IP TO RUNeI VN.031 LIPCRPOOL. 7 15 Morning.... Second Class 1 45 PP 5 30 Afternoon .. ON su 7 0 Morning.... Socoud Class I 5 30 Attormovu INSOLVENTS. May I .—Henry3 Webster, Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Lon don, patent portable inkstand-manufacturer. 13iijamin Barker Smark, lioniton, Devonshire, scrivener. May lg.—John Malley and John Aspinall, Liverpool, corn-mer chants. . BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. William Fletcher, Sedgeley. Staffordshire, tnaltster. BANKRUPTS. William Kelly, Liverpool. bookseller, to surrender May 29, June 30, at one o'clock, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Mr. Pedder, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Willis, Bower, and Willis, To kenhouse.yard, Lothbury, London. Caleb Ashworth Tate, Liverpool, tea-dealer, June 1, 30, at one at Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors, Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London ; and Messrs. Littledale and Bardswell, London. Henry Reineeker, Great Tower-street, London, vine-merchant. Arthur Redford, London-road, Southwark, printer. James Yonens, Ludgate-hill, London, grocer. Harry Fry, Newport, Monmouthshire, surgeon. John Caton, Preston, cotton-spinner. Thomas Washer Gibbs, Bristol, soap-boiler. Matthew Case and Uitiam Hodgson, Manchester, commission agents. 'William Elder, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer. DIVIDENDS. June 11, J. Henley, Hampstead-road, London, rectifier of spirits -June 11, J. Clarke, Keppel-street, Bloomsbury, London, dentist — June 10, R. Parker, Rupert-street, Haymarket, London, harness maker—June 10, J. Richardson, New Bond-street, London, cutler June 19, E. Blundell, Samlesbury, Lancashire, innkeeper—June 13, N. Phillips, Haverfordwest. banker—June 17, J. Brodrick, Ply mouth, merchant—Jane 10, It. Otley and T. Otley, Sheffield, manufacturers of Britannia metal wares—June 20, R. Cawood, Leeds, woollen cloth-manufacturer—June 10, J. Burr, Wells, So mersetshi re, .baker—June 9, W. Marsh, Wolverhampton, hosier — June 16, R. J. Tomlinson, Bristol, oil of vitrlol-manulacturer— June 13, T. Rees, Crumlin. Monmouthshire, shopkeeper—June 13, C. J. Wrigley. Doncaster, chemist—June 10, T. Willacy, Windle, Lancashire, corn-dealer. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless cause he shown to the contrary, on or before June 9 J. A. Griffin and R. Falk, Liverpool, merchants—S. Lodge, Sal. ford, manufacture of fancy cloths—D. King, Eltham, Kent, sur geon—J. %V. Webster, Salford, currier—R. Bowie and W. Bowie, Burr-street, Lower East Smithfield, London, surgeons—B. R. Pem berton, Basinghall•street, London, wool broker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Archihiad Allardice. Dundee, bookseller. James Lawson. Edinburgh, merchant-tailor. George Nicol, jun. Dundee, grocer. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL. MAY HOUR 22. George Raw, (2nd\ Clarendon Rooms, 12 22. John Stripling. (2ndt Ditto, 1 22. John Barlow, (2nd) 25. James Tatlock, (Ist) . Ditto, 12 25. Jordan and Magrath .... Ditto, 12 26. Betty Smith, (2nd) 26. William Wilking Halley, (2nd) 26. Charles and William Sidebotham, (2nd) Ditto, 1 26. Henry Laffer, (2nd) 26. James Sill and William Watson Clay and Swift's, 1 27. Colborne and Dobbs Clarendon Rooms, I 27. Thomas Maguire Ditto, 2 29. Samuel Rogers, (div.) Commercial Rooms, Bristol, 12 29. William Bilsborrow, (2nd) Clarendon Rooms, 1 30. Betty Smith, (special) Ditto 11 30. Montefiore. Carmichael & Co. (special) Court of Bankruptcy, London, 12 LIVERPOOL INFIRMARY REPORT. May 16, 1840. DI SCHA RG ED In-patients cured 36 f In-patients Relieved and at own request . 6 I Out-patients Made Out-patients 0 j Casuals during the last week 3 Irregular . 0 Remain in the house I Dead 3 A DIIITTEIII. Consulting Surgeons, Mr. Forshaw and Mr. Dawson Chaplain Rev. It. Davies. House Visitors . . . Mr. Semple and Mr. Martin. Apothecary, Mr. W. Burgess. House Surgeon Mr Brandreth. Admitted LOCK HOSPITAL. 11 i Discharged . . Remain in the house . . . . 50 TIDE TABLE. Days A 1 rn . Ern. Height. iSundays, Ilalydays, If. %. M. r. r. • Friday .. 22 219 j 237 :12 11 Saturda) 23 3 8 f 333 jl2 8 'Rogation Sunday. Sunday' 24 4• 0 I 429 112 10 Monday 25 1 5 6 I 542 13 5 Tuesday 26 1 618 641 j 14 -1 Trinity Term I,egin:',. Wednes. 27 j. 7 14 746 i l5 3 810 30 16 8 :Ascension Day. Holy BIRTHS. On the 13th instant, at her residence. Piccadilly, London, Mrs. FREDERIC I,ABLACHE, (late Miss F. Wyndham,) of a daughter. On the 14th instant, at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, the lady of Major ILARDINGE, of twins. On the Isth instant, Mrs. HUNTER LANE, of Lancaster, of a son. MARRIED On the 13th instant, at the Collegiate Church, Manchester, JOIIN LAWSON KENNEDY, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to ELIZA, daughter of GEORGE MURRAY, Esq. of Ancoat's-hall. On the 13th instant, at • Neath, Glamorganshire, by the Rey. Henry Knight, B.D. rector, the Rev. STEPHEN DAVIES, M.A. of Old Basing, Hants, to MARIA SOMERVILLE, eldest daughter of the late JOHN YARDE FOWNES, Esq. of Plymouth. On the 14th instant, at Shaw, near Newbury, Berks, by the Rev. Samuel Slocock, rector, COURTENAY OSBORN HAYES, Esq. commander R.N., eldest son of the late Rear. Admiral Hayes, C.B. to CAROLINE ANNE, only daughter of the late ALFRED SLO COCK, Esq. of Donnington Cottage, in the same county. On the 14th instant, at All Soul's, Longhorn-place, London, by the Rev. Wm. Hunter Ross, M.A. RICIIARD COBDEN, Esq. of Manchester, to CATHERINE ANNE WILLIAMS, youngest daughter of Hugh Williams, Esq. Machylilleth, Montgomeryshire. On the Hith instant, at Hampstead Church, London. JAMES WHATMAN BOSANQUET, L'sq. second son of Samuel Bosanquet. Esq. of Dingestow-court, in the county of Monmouth. to MERE LINA, only (laughter of the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice TINDAL. On the 18th instant, at the Friends' Meeting-house, Yealand, near Lancaster, ISAAC 13RADSHA1V, cabinet-maker, to SARAH PROCTER, confectioner. Same day, at Childwall Church, IVILLIAM DEBONAIRE, son of WILLIAM D. HAGGARD, Esq. of Lea-grove, Blackheath, Keil, to SARAH, the third daughter of WILLIAM NICKSON, Esq. of Wavertree. DIED. Lately, at Kilmarnock, aged 31, Mr. JAMES BRYAN. This is the person who, last summer. under the title of the " Queens' Scots Lover," paid daily visits to Windsor Castle, and gained some noto riety in the public prints. On the 11th January last, at Old Calabar, Africa. THOMAS, the only surviving son of JAMES MONK, Esq. Woodside. On the 2;th of March, in London-street, Edinburgh, of trooping cough, in her 6th year, MARGARET OLIVER on the 23rd ult. aged 16 months, ROBERT OLIVER: and. on the 24th ult. in her 4th year, ISABELLA OLIVER, children of Mr. Wm. Oliver, mer chant, Mansfield-place. On the 12th ult. at Butterly, Derbyshire, aged 19 months, JOSH. GLYNN ; on the 30th tilt. aged 6 years. DOUGLAS GLYNN ; and, on the lOth instant, aged a years, ISABELLA GLYNN, children Of Joseph Glynn, Esq. On the 16th ult. at Oswestry, aged 6g, MARY MORRIS, the be loved wife of Mr. Wm. Morris, late of Llorian. The deceased was the mother of fourteen children, grandmother to seventy-eight, and great-grandmother to seven. On the 19th ult. at Madeira, aged 17 years and 11 months, THOS. ALEXANDER, son of CHARLES WYE 'WILLIAMS, Esq. of Rod ney-street, in this town. On the 22nd ultimo, of inflammation on the lungs, aged 38, Mr. THOMAS ASTBURY, late mate in the African employ. On the 23rd ult. at Venice, aged 80, the Count GUICCIOI.I, band of Lord Byron's famous contessa. On the 26th ultimo, aged 11 years, JANE COULDREY, youngest daughter of Mr. Thomas Couldrey, master of Manesty lane School- On the 3rd instant, at Lancaster, aged 62, SAMUEL HINDE, Esq. On the Bth instant, at Waterloo. Crosby, after a tedious affliction of four years, borne with great patience and resignation, RICH V. GARLAND, eldest son of the late Richard Garland, Esq. of Hull. On the 9th instant, much respected and lamented by a numerous circle of friends, Mr. DANIEL PARRY, joiner and builder, of Whit ford-street, Holywell. He has left a wife and six small children to lament his loss, and was so extensively engaged that he invariably employed about a hundred men. On the lath instant, SARAH DAVIES, wife of Mr. John Davies, late of the Llysun, Montgomeryshire. Same day, at Black Brook, near St. Helen's, MARY Wl NSTAN LEY. wife of Mr. Samuel Winstanley, watchmaker, of this town. Same day, in his 73rd year, MARGARET DEARE, relict of Ed ward Deare, Esq. solicitor, formerly of this town. Same day, at Storton, Cheshire, aged 37, Mr. EDWARD JONES, much and deservedly respected. On the 11th instant, at Oxford, the Rev. G. GRANTHAM, senior fellow but one and bursar of Magualen College. He was killed by falling at night from the window of his room, on the second story, in the new buildings. He was found lying on the ground, in the grove, about six o'clock in the morning; and, as he usually threw up the sash of the window previous to going to bed, it is supposed he overbalanced himself while so doing, as he was obliged to stand on a chair to do so, and, the window being recently varnished, it probably stuck, so as to require considerable force to move, and suddenly gave way. On the 11th instant, at Mount Sackville, near Dublin. Miss CATHERINE PLACIDA GERARD, youngest daughter of the late John Gerard, Esq. of Windle-hall, in this county, and sister to Sir John Gerard, Bart. _ . _ On the 12th instant, in his 37th year, much esteemed, after a short but painfully severe illness, Mr. JAMES BROWN, spirit dealer, of Commutation row and Tempest-hey. On the 12th instant, at Oxton, near Woodside. Cheshire, aged 76, Mr. THOMAS WALMSLEY, late of Gort, near Lancaster. On the 13th instant, after a short illness of five days, aged 59, JANE DOME, wife of Mr. James Dobie, Mill-street, Toxteth-park. She was an affectionate wife and a tender mother, and is deeply re gretted by her family and relatives. Same day, at the - house of his son-in-law, Mr. James Kelly, of Kent street, aged 80, Mr. JOHN CLARE, formerly of the city of Dublin. Same day, suddenly, in London, aged 75, the Rev. WILLIAM LOWFIELD FANCOURT, Vicar of St. Mary's, Leicester. During the speech of the Rev. Hugh Stowell, at the meeting of the Pro testant Ass9ciation. in Exeter-hall, he was taken ill on the platform, and, on being removed to the Committee-room, it was found that life was wholly extinct. Same day, at Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, London, in the 79th year of his age, SAMUEL FOOTE, Esq. father of Lady Har rington, better known to the world as the celebrated Miss Foote, of the London theatres. _ Same day, of scarlet fever, in his 10th year, WILLIAM LEWIS INNES, eighth son; and, on the 14th instant, in his Bth year. FRANCIS HENRY INNES, ninth son of Robert H. Inues, Esq. of Leyton, Essex. On the 14th instant. at his residence. Hyde-park-terrace, London. in his 6sth year, Sir WILLIAM HOLLAND, late one of tha barons of her Majestys Court of Exchequer. On the lath instant, aged 47, Miss BLACKBURNE, the eldest daughter of the late Mr. John Blackburne, of this town. On the isth instant, aged 63, Mr. JOHN HOLROYD, Gloucester street, formerly of the Old Fox Inn, Hale-street, in this town. On the 16th instant, Mr. ARTHUR WILSON, of Formby, a ged 79 years. On the l7th instant, at his residence, Northwich, JOHN NOR BURY, Esq. aged 72 years. On the 18th instant, aged 60, Mrs. POOLE, Stretton. Cheshire. Same day, much and deservedly respected, aged 48, Mr, CHRIG• THOMPSON, soap-boiler, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with Christian fortitude and resignation. Same day, at the house of her son-in-law, Robert Fisher, E&q• of Highbury-park, London, Mrs. UNDERWOOD, widow of the late John Underwood, Esq. aged ss years. Same day, at Keswick, aged 29, SARAH, the beloved wife of ISAAC SEALBY. On the I gth instant, after a very short illness, and in the prime of manhood, M r . WILLIAM BR ERETON NIGHTINGALL, c l u e_f son of Mr. B. Nightingall, surgeon to our Workhouse, in the 33rd year of his age. LIVERPOOL : FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1840. 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