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THE COUNTY CONS FABULARY. (From the Preston Pilot.) The subject of a Rural Police is one that is now en gaging much, and, we may safely say, well merited at tention, for that the adoption or rejection of that kind of force is a matter of the last importance to any county, there are few now hardy enough to deny. That its adoption is becoming more and more a question of the most doubtful policy, we are continually reminded by the accounts of the marked rejection which any at tempts to introduce it, receive,—the proposition for such an object seldom being sent to the " tomb of the capulets" by a less significant and substantial majority than that of two to one. And there is the still further testimony to be brought against the gendarmarie system, that only thirteen out of the fifty-two counties into which the kingdom is divided, have yet thought it prudent to accept its questionable advantages. Now this constabulary affair is of the same character, as the parliamentary reform, corporation reform, and poor law reform subjects , ---in all these matters, as they ulti mately came to exist, abuses were found, but in all of them there was a sound and.safe principle ; and if the defects which time and altered circumstances had in troduced might have been carefully removed, that prin ciple would have been found vitally efficient to work out every salutary plan which the several institutions were designed to accomplish. But this system of prunitig the decayed and useless branches was not adopted. No, forsooth, the modern march of intellect, braggart-like, decreed there was no wisdom in the in ventions of former ages, and the whole tree, root and branch, must needs therefore be cut down and eradi cated ; and thus it is, that instead of having the good old system of our forefathers renovated and restored to us in all their first vigour and freshness, we have seen introduced in their stead a series of measures assumed to be based upon those whose names they bear, but which are diametrically opposed to them in principle and in every feature of their practical operation. But, our present object being to show the mischievous ten dency of the constabulary police scheme, we will con fine to it the few observations that we intend to make. Our readers, then, will remember that we gave in our last a copy of Chief Constable Woodford'S report to the magistracy, presented at the quarter session, and we think that after reading it they cannot fail to have felt a most marvellous astonishment at some of the statements and suggestions which it contains. The chief constable presumes that the magistracy regard the present constitution of the force as experimental ; we sincerely hope they do, because we are quite con vinced that the rate-payers would rather that its con tinued existence was a matter of doubt, than that other experiments be made at their cost by any schemes of reorganization. But the present constitution of the force affords no proper stimulus to exertion, there be ing no prospect of promotion or any increase of pay. Now it is most notorious that the motives by which the individuals are actuated who enter the force have nothing whatever of an honourably ambitious character in them, but quite the contrary; for many of the men belong to trades from which a higher pecuniary remu neration might be obtained for their exertions; but in such case those exertions must be regular and conti nued, and no spare time allowed them for aping the habits of gentlemen and soldiers, strutting in the pride of office, or killing the time in listless indifference ; there needs, therefore, no higher reward for such a class of individuals, because, for any services they are capa ble of conferring, they are abundantly remunerated. But Chief Constable Woodford has made a discovery, that by reorganizing the force in the manner he sug gests, viz., instead of paying 482 officers each 18s. a week, amounting per year to £22,557 125., he could have that number formed as follow :- 20 Inspectors at 28s. p. week 137 Constables at 17s. p. week 45 Sergeants 21s. do. 100 do. 16s. do. 180 Constables 18s. do. The force would be less expensive and more efficient. As to efficiency that would become an experiment; but on the score of expense, why, that is much easier de termined. Now the apparent saving of expense, and mark, only so far as salary is concerned, would amount to one of Joseph Hume's cheese pairing economizings, namely, the enormous sum of five pounds four shillings per year : for as the 482 men, as now formed and paid cost £22,557 12s. per year; so the " less expensive" mode of classification of the same number, as proposed, would cost £22,552 Bs. But we happen to have seen the uniforms of the superintendents and those worn by the ordinary officer, and we cannot but think that the cost of the one will materially exceed the cost of the other ; and in like manner, we doubt not that some more expensive distinction in dress would be required to desig nate the inspectors and serjeants, and it would require but a very slight addition to each of the whole 65 superior officers' outfits, to swallow up the balance of £5 45., and thus render more than problematical the notion of the new organization being less expensive. But as the chief constable remembered that by his proposed plan, there would, in a force of 502 men, be no less than 83 officers ? Here they are :—one chief constable ; two assistant chief constables : 15 super intendents ; 20 inspectors ; 45 serjeants : so that if we divide the 417 by the division of 83 we shall have a quotient of five, and an unmentionable fraction ; thus for every five men an officer. Why the force would not be allowed to exist a month, were this redundancy of authority to be infused into it—it would burst by its own superabundant inflation of self-importance, and aspirations for increased dignity; and if these did not procure the explosion, the contempt and ridicule with which the public would regard the performers in the great county farce, would most assuredly secure its extinction. There is, next, another suggestion of the chief constable's—to allow each superintendent a horse, because the petty sessional divisions are of too great an extent. We think if enquiry had been made into the extent of the duties performed by other public officers, as the relieving and some of the other officers in poor law unions, and the way in which they are remunerated by the rate-payers, no such a claim as this would have been put in for rural police superintendents. IMMIGRATION INTO THE WEST INDIA COLONIES. MR. SCOBLE AND HIS MISSTATEMENTS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. Stn,—ln your paper of Saturday there appears a long let ler, signed " John Scoble," on Immigration into the West India Colonies, in which he coolly expresses his surprise that you should have ventured to adopt views contrary to his own on this most important subject, insinuating in effect that you are not competent to form an opinion, and endeavouring to prove to the world that he alone is qualified to pronounce a correct judgement. In the course of this letter it will be seen that others, whose authority is indisputable, have had the presumption to show a similar distrust of the soundness of Mr. Scoble's own opinions, and a disinclination to adopt the measures proposed by the party with whom he acts. In a recent pamphlet by this same gentleman, after an ap parent lamentation over his declining trade, and an ill-dis guised indignation that the public will no longer suffer them selves to be deluded by his figments, he, in consequence of the London and provincial journals having taken up the cause of immigration into these colonies, and the encouragement of free labour produce, says that "immigration is supported by a venal press in the colonies, and a well-paid band of editors in this country." Whether he intends to insinuate that you are one of the latter it is impossible for me to say, but the remark is both impertinent and - suspicious • and un less you forthwith make th e amen d e h onoura bl e , and at once adopt a line of argument in accordance with his mandate, your independence will be evidently questioned. En passant, what is the salary allowed by the Anti-Slavery Society to Mr. Scoble, for his literary and itinerant labours ? But, Mr. Editor, it is time to consult the judgment of others upon this point, in order that the public may know how far Mr. Scoble's sentiments are worthy of general re ception ; and with this view I shall, with your permission, proceed to make a few extracts from certain parliamentary papers, in which he makes a somewhat awkward appearance. Sir James Carmichael Smyth, a gentleman of unquestioned judgment and unsullied integrity, which Governor of British Guiana, in a despatCh to Lord Glenelg, dated 7th of April, 1837, writes— " I now beg leave to submit to your lordship a copy of a letter I have caused to be addressed to Mr. Scoble, acquaint ing him with the result of the several investigations. I re spectfully submit to your lordship that nothing can afford a more satisfactory proof of the state of this province, than the paucity of the complaints made known to me by Mr. Scoble, and the mistakes and errors upon which the greater number are founded." _ _ CONTEMPORARY PRESS. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING. There has not been any business, during the present day, that requires observation. Cruiskeeu holds the premiership for the May event ; but closely pressed by Sir Thomas Stan. ley's horse. 7to 1 has been accepted on the latter in a very good quarter; and Gilbert Gurney, at 10 to 1, has been, since Tuesday, supported to a comiderable extent. 100 to 7is yet offered versus any of Mr. Dawson's lot. THE DERBY--8 to 1 has been the current offer on the field. Launcelot was hacked at 7to 1, with Molyneux as " a cock boat," by a gentleman who appears never to have enough of the " yellow jacket." TATTERSALL'S, T URSD Ay. The betting against the two favourites was tolerably brisk, and ended slightly to the advantage of Confederate, the last offers being to bet or take 8 to 1 ; his rival was supported with great energy at 8 and 81 to 1; and from the:disinclina tion of the layers of odds, we suspect that some of the orders to " get on" we re on ly p ar ti a lly execu t e d ; the last bet against him was in hundreds, at the lower of the two prices. The Angelica colt fell into the third place, 10 to 1 having been laid in two or three quarters ; the takers, however, would have continued on the same terms. Theon was backed at 12 to 1 in hundreds, but was not in much favour. Muley Ishmael, the Assassin, and the Melody colt, were talked of at the odds stated below, but not backed, that we heard of. Ottoman opened at 28 to 1 (taken to a pony), and receded to 33 to 1 before the room was closed ; at this figure one gentleman laid out £6O, and would have gone on. Benjamin and Graysteel were supported with some spirit at 1.000 to 15 ; and the same odds went down, but not quite so free l y, w ith the Prince Albert and Maroon parties. The bettiUg was flat enough on this race, but on the 2,000 Gel neas Stakes and Oaks was dull in the extreme. All that we need' say is, that Confederate, with plenty of friends, ad vanced a point, and Crucifix declined to the same extent for the first event, and .Lalla Rookh lost ground for the other. We heard nothing of Crucifix or Black Bess for. it. 6to 5 was offered on the Ar gelic a colt for the Column Stakes, but nothing done on the Riddlesworth. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS ' STAKES. 5 to 2 against Lord Orford's Angelica colt.—t 3to 1 „ Mr. Houl4worth's Confederate.—t sto 1 „ Lord G. Bentinck's Crucifix.—t & aft. off. THE DERBY. 7 to 2 against Scott's lot.—take 4 to 1. 11 to 1 „ John Day's lot.—t 7to 1 „ Marquis of Westminisier's Launcelot.— take 8 to 1. 8 to 1 Mr. Houldsworth's Confederate. — t „ 10 to 1 „ Ld. Orford's Angelica colt.—t 12 to 1 „ Duke of Cleveland's Theon.—t 20 to 1 Ld. Jersey's Muley Ishmael.—t. 25 to 1. 22 to 1 ~ Mr. Etwall's Melody colt. 25 to 1 Ld. Albemarle's Assassin 30 to 1 ~ Mr. Wreford's Wardan.—t 33 to 1,, Duke of Grafton's Ottoman.—t 40 to 1 ~ Col. Anson's Black Bess.—t 50 to 1 ~ Lord Exeter's Velvet colt.—t 1,000 to 15. 1000 to 15 „ Mr. .1. Gill's Prince Albert.—t 1000 to 15 ~ Lord Westminster's Maroon.—t 1000 to 15 „ Mr. Clarke's Benjamin. —t 1000 to 15 ~ Lord Eglington's Graysteel.—t 1001) to 12 ~ Mr. Eddison's The Ruler.—t 500 to 400 on Launcelot against Angelica colt (t); 400 to 100 against Confederate and Angelica colt (t); 2000 to 20 against Launcelot winning the Derby and St. Leger, and Cru cifix the Oaks (t); 25 to 1 against Launcelot and Crucifix winning the Derby and Oaks (t). THE OAKS. 12 to 1 against Mr. Fowler's Lalla Rookh.—t 18 to 1 „ Mr. Wigrain's Teleta.—t 20 to 1 „ Gen. Grosvenor's Diploma, 30 to 1 „ Mr. Osbaldesten's Belshazzar filly. —t The regular racing season commences on Monday next, with the New mar ket Craven Meeting ; there is a list promising an average of four races a day. About 253 horses, from two years old and urwards, are in training there, and at least 500 in different parts of the country, so that a brilliant season may be anticipated. EXTRAORDINARY Cow.—At Penrith, on Tuesday week, Mr. Janes Speak, s l aug ht e red a beast which weighed a few pounds upwards of eighty.ttro stones ; the fat weighed fourteen stones eleven pounds. When alive she was a miracle, and almost all the judges in this part of the count r y had been to see her. Sh e was of the Galloway breed, nine years old, and was bred a n d f e d by Mr. Isaac Tallon, of the Riggs, near Penrith ; she was also milked till within six months of the time she was slaughtered. The beef was prime and soon sold at Sd. per lb.—Carlisle Patriot. DEPARTURE OF THE GREAT WESTERN. BRISTOL, April D.—The Great Western sailed this evening for New York, upon her second outward voyage, carrying with her 112 passengers, among whom are Mademoiselles Ellsler, the celebrated dancers of the Italian Opera-house, Major Clayton, the Hon. Mr. Methuen, Mr. R. Alsop, of the United States Bank, Don Ferdinand Mangino, with despatches from the Court of Spain, Count Lestapis, from France, Captain Otway, R.N., Captain Byro n, the Countess Merlin, and Don Carlos de Zaldo. Detpatches to Canada and New Brunswick are sent out by her, and she has a cargo of manu factured silks and general measuremen t goods, with several thousand papers and letters. She does not, however, carry out any specie. And again on the Bth of August, in the same year : " Your lordship will observe, and I am certain with con siderable regret, that the good which might be gained by the observations of a judicious and impartial traveller, is, in the case of Mr. Scoble, neutralized by the haste with which he arrives at his conclusions, and, but too frequently, upon er roneous and inaccurate information." Nor is Sir J. C. Smith singular in his opinions of Mr. Scoble's qualifications. At the end of 1838, it appears he ac companied Mr. Ainstie and Captain Stuart to British Gui ana. Of his conduct there Governor Light speaks in the following terms, in a dispatch to the Marquis of Normanby, dated 6th May, 1838. Mr. Scoble, and his companion Mr. Ainstie, are still here ; of course, their object has been to watch with jealousy all that is going on." This, surely, is not much in accordance with his boasted Christian spirit, and argues very little in favour of a dispassionate decision on the state of the coun try, and is very different from the course pursued by Mr. Stuart, or, as he was designated, the Rev. Capt. Stewart, of whom, in the same despatch, the governor says : " If appearances and expressions previous to his departure from this province are to be believed, Mr. Stuart was satisfied that the labourer was as fairly treated by the great majority of the planters as in any other free country, and that both parties are in a fair way of understanding their mutual re lations." So much for Mr. Scoble's title and capacity to become an exclusive oracle in reference to this important question. And here permit me to offer a few remarks upon the subject generally, and to retain assumed facts in his letter specially. Having for some time past devoted much time and attention to colonial immigration, the importance of the subject has forced itself upon me in a stronger point of view, and led me to arrive at conclusions widely different from Mr. Scoble's, and more conscnant to those of many able and talented individuals who wrote upon the subject long before the pre sent scheme of immigration to the West Indies was proposed —a scheme which, under proper government regulations, cannot fail to be attended with the greatest benefits to the emigrants, to the colonies, and to the mother country. Mr. Scoble complains that " the planters of the West Indies propose gigantic measures of emigration." Is this a crime? Are there not gigantic measures of emigration pro posed in this country to all our colonies, east, west, north, and south? Does he not himself advocate gigantic schemes for growing cotton in Africa and the East? Why, then, in the name of reason and justice, should the West India colo nies, the most valuable and accessible of all, where the labourers would command ample remuneration, particularly in Guiana, Trinidad, and Jamaica—why, I ask, should they be invidiously excluded from the benefit of these measures ? The remark of his grace the Duke of Wellington, that " Great Britain could not engage in a little war," bears directly, in fact, upon the point ; and I have no doubt all but little-minded men will agree that immigration, to be generally beneficial to all concerned, cannot be carried on in a little peddling spirit. Dr. Hancock, a very able and talented medical gentleman, who had lived twenty-four years in British Guiana, (and who, his own words prove, could not have been one of the hired band of editors,) on his return to this country published, in 1835, a very valuable and important pamphlet, " On the climate, soil, and productions of British Guiana, and the advantages of emigration to that colony." In the introduc tion he observes, ' Although,' as Pope says,— ' Self-love, the spring of actions, moves the soul, the author has not, in drawing up the following remarks had any other object in view than that of directing public attention to one of the most desirable countries on the globe for colonization, in order to relieve the sufferings of the poor —to excite travellers and colonists to examine the hidden treasures unexplored, and thus to extend the boundaries of science, of commerce, manufactures, and all that of peace." p. vi. He subsequently says— •` National wealth and power have ever been found to in crease with the accession of colonies, and to decline in pro portion as these fall off; history abundantly testifies to these facts ; and that of ancient Rome especially. In later times the colonial possessions of Spain have, from bad management, nearly all been lost, and her foreign commerce, which for merly extended over the globe, is thereby almost annihilated. Napoleon Buonaparte, with his forty millions of subjects, became fully sensible that nothing but ships. colonies, and commerce, could enable him to cope with the power of Great Britain." p. 3. Again— " I may here quote a few words from a- well-written pam phlet on emigration :—` From various causes, the fields of employment have become crowded, and the labouring classes are looking about for more room and better means of sub sistence ; emigration, under such an impulse, resembles a stream from an overflowing fountain, which may be guided, but cannot be stopped." p. 3-4. In a subsequent page the following judicious remarks are particularly striking : " Most planters have considered the labour of slaves to be indispensable to successful cultivation in the coast; and with reason, perhaps, as heretofore conducted. It is certain, in deed. that the cultivation of the coast cannot be continued unless it be by the means suggested—by the introduction of emigrants, and the useof animal labour. In proof of this we might instance the Island of Hayti, where, notwithstanding the endeavours of despotic chiefs, the cultivation has so de clined, that there is not now a sufficiency of sugar produced for the use of the inhabitants."—p. 6. Many extracts could he made from this able pamphlet to show the advantages of emigration to British Guiana, but have already trespassed too much upon your attention, and therefore enclose the work itself, particularly directing your attention to the remarks (quoted by Dr. Hancock) of William Penn, Talleyrand, :the late Chancellor of England, Baron de Humboldt, and Abbe de Pradt. One other observation is, however, too valuable to be omitted : "Throughout this rich and beautiful country," the author says, " the great rivers Essepuibo, Demerara, Berbice, Cou rantine, &c., afford an easy transit to the higher lands, whence roads and canals may be opened to any other part of the interior. If, then, the government and people of this country desire to render the greatest possible aid to destitute families, to introduce the benefits of civilization among the native tribes, and at the same time to assist the planters in forming colonies truly valuable, they will not he backward, I presume, in rendering the necessary aid for effecting objects so desirable."—p. 14. This evidence may, perhaps, appear to be derived from a partial witness ; let us then bear Mr. Scobie himself, who in a lecture delivered in Philadelphia, United States, makes the following confirmatory remarks, on the truth and accuracy of which I am willing to rest the expediency of emigration to British Guiana. _ " British Guiana," he says, " is a colony on the coast of South America, and one which will ere long rival, in its wealth and population, the state of New York. It is capable of sustaining a population of forty millions, though the actual number of the inhabitants is now only about a hundred thousand. It possesses an inexhaustible soil of amazing fertility and depth ; it has been ascertained by actual mea surement, that in some places the rich alluvial compost extends to the depth of one hundred and forty feet. There are those fields of cane which have been kept up by a process called rattoning' from forty, fifty, sixty, and seventy years. It is only necessary to thrust the top of the cane into the soil when it springs up, and spontaneously yields the richest produce. This is the province called Demerara." I will not spoil this passage by a single observation. To return, however, to the letter under consideration ; it is there affirmed that, notwithstanding the outcries of the West India body to the contrary, they never were in a state of greater pfosperity than at the present moment. If dimi nished crops, increased expenditure, the entire abandonment of many estates, the loss of hundreds of acres of cultivation on others, the excess of expenditure over the revenue by which the proprietors of many are deeply embarrassed, be marks of prosperity, Mr. Scoble is correct. But if, as I believe, they are indications of decay, and portentous of ruin, I do not envy that obliquityof mind w hi c h cou l d hazard such an astounding paradox in the face of officially recog nized documents proving the contrary. If our commerce or shipping has not materially and ob viously declined, whence does it arise that, in the port of British Guiana alone, where formerly a fleet of seventy or eighty sail of merchantmen were constantly found, and the merry song of the sailor at the capstan continually rose on the breeze, hut sixteen or eighteen are now to be seen, and many of these, instead of rich freights of sugar, coffee, cotton, rum, and molasses, clear out in sand or mud for ballast, and seek in foreign slave states those productions which our neglected Scoble coloniesguepronafford. theßritish public as stultified mus must look to an unparalleled extent w h en l ie e x pects them to believe that there is but a slight dimin ution in the amount of sugar exported from the emancipa ted colonies, and that they are in a more prosperous state than ever. What says Lord John Russell upon this head, in his de s p atch to Governor Light, dated February 15, 1840 : tors of British Gui ana, are at issue with the planter proprietors question on which I will not at present enter into the qup or the reverse. The decline of produce s ana, namely, whether the colony is at this moment pros perous,iunques- tionable. The return appended to your despatch of 15th October, 1839, shows a decrease on the quarter, from 6th July to 10th October as compared with 1831, 1832, 1833, in sugar, of 7,259 hogsheads ; rum, of 2,014 puncheons ; mo lasses, 7,309 hogsheads. But in coffee the decrease is still more remarkable, being a decline from 1,618,228 pounds to 346,350, or more than three-fourths of the whole production of former years." ultimo, o The statement o f West India merchants, in their me morial of the 17th follows i— " The deficiency in the i s as last year's crops, in Demerara alone, exclusive of Berbice £930,000." Some part of thiswr shown . to be no less than eclin . e may be owing, as you , but no doubt can exist assert, to the lateness of the sea off in the quantity of as to the fact of a remarkable falling produce during the first year of fre l e n d g o a t 11-ee- from t a y . British Guiana for Nor is this the only evidence, for it m ap . ne appears from epaarrsliao; parlia mentary paper that the average crops o r six years, viz., 1831, 1832, and 1833, being slavery ; and 1835, 1836, and 1837, being years of the apprenticeship system, was, 62,195 hogshea' t whilst the crop of 1838 was 52,531, being a diminutionof sugar ; of 9,664 hogsheads ; and the falling off is still more remarkable, when we come to compare the crop of 1839. The average as above of the six years is, 62,195 hogshead whereas the crop of 1839 has only reached 29,729, exhibiting ' the alarming deficiency of 32,266 hogsheads ; and this, not " It certainly is most advisable to make the registry con clusive for a year, and not leave it in the power of commit tees of this house to determine upon the validity of votes as they please, or as it may suit them—sometimes one way and sometimes another—forgetting altogether the solemn sanction under which their decisions are made. This will, however, be put an end to by a final appeal as to the right to vote to THE JUDGES. I trust the bill will be permitted to go into committee. It is a measure calculated to save the expense and inconvenience of scrutinising votes before an election committee. The principle of the bill has been ap proved of by gentlemen at both sides of the house." Where was your " bag" then, Mr. Maguire ? You never dreamt of shaking the fox of Darrynane over Kingstown Pier, though the scent of an annual revision and appeal to the judges has been breast high after him, in every cover he has frequented these last five years. Your bag then went the rounds with the wallet itself, and if any hunger-pinched peasant hesitated whether lie should hand his penny or his halfpenny to the potato-dealer to purchase food for his children, or to the rank mendicant in whose odour of annual revisions and appeals to the judges you then rejoiced, there was no man readier than yourself to exhort him to a pa triotic starvation for the sake of the vast advantages your common country would derive from an annual settlement of the registry, and from a final appeal to the judges. Is not Mr. O'Connell struggling for your rights? Is not Mr. O'Connell sustaining the first English ministry that ever showed a disposition to serve Ireland? Has he not sacrificed ten thousand a year clear income to devote himself to the amelioration of your condition? See here the boon he and her Majesty's ministers are preparing for you—an annual settlement of the registries, a conclusive mode of appeal—an inestimable benefit surely to the poor voter !! There was no talk then of three millions of teetotallers to resist this atrocious measure. No,• the millions were ex horted to be meek as church mice, lest any exhibition of popular excitement might furnish an argument to the tones against this "healing measure" of annual registry, revises, and conclusive appeals to the judges ! It is in vain for the government press to endeavour to dis guise it. There are the newspapers of the day : there is the Mirror of Parliament ; there are the printed papers and votes of the house, and turn to which of them you please, there is the damning fact that her Majesty's ministers, and Mr. O'Connell, and his whole party, in 1835, and three times since, supported and urged forward a measure contain ing provisions absolutely identical with those which they now, out of mere personal hostility to Lord Stanley, and hate and fear of his party, resist unguibus et pedibus. W'nat can be more disgraceful to a government than such a plea from its advocate as this, put forward by the Morning Chronicle of Monday : " The very fact that Lord Stanley was the father of the bill should have mustered the representatives of the Irish people in all their force to expose and to defeat it." And this is from a print which pretends to discuss political questions philosophically and upon their merits. And what is the excuse ?—why this, forsooth— " Mark the language of the Dublin Evening Mail, the most influential and intelligent of the Irish tory journals. The Irish reform bzll was a revolution. This bill rgforms the reform bill." The bill will reform the reform bill ; and if the reform bill need reform in its details—and that of Lord Stanley while affecting such reform preserves the principle to the- letter, why should it not ? If the reform bill which this very advo cate of ministers is so eager to reform in other respects have, in some of its clauses, and their mode of operation, been so constructed as to leave open a wide door to perjury and mis representation in Ireland, why should it not be reformed in that respect as well as in its other provisions, which this very journ'J of the government is so eager to have amended, and extended, and reformed ? Let every thing that is wrong be reformed, say we. Is perjury right? Is falsification right ? is the polling of dead men right? Let the Morning Chronicle shew that ; and it may then object to reforming these abuses of the Irish re form bill. Is it denied that the Irish reform bill requires alteration ? Mr. O'Connell, in the commencement of his speech yesterday, speaks as follows : " The situation of Lord Stanley is one of considerable ad vantage ; there is no denying it. The evils of the reform bill, which, there is no doubt, are many, give him great ad vantages. There were many evils connected with the regis try, and attempts had been made from time to time to abolish some of those evils by the government. One of these bills got through the House of Commons." This, we consider, settles the question. But really it is only with Mr. O'Oonnell and his clique, whose very existence deuends upon agitation, that this bill is exciting any ferment. There is not a conscientious, or a well-thinking, or a sound-judging person in .Ireland who is not aware of, and who does not deplore, the flagrant villai nies to which the present mode of registry gives rise, and which it tends to encourage. We perceive that even in Mayo, the high sheriff has refused to convene a meeting of his bailiwick for the purpose of petitioning against it, as will be seen by the following, from the Mayo Constitution : " It seems (says our cotemporary) that certain worthies who have been manufacturing a requisition to call a meeting, for the purpose of petitioning against Lord Stanley's bill, have had the impudence to ask the high sheriff, Colonel Gore, to convene a meeting for them. Really this is a piece of presumption whose parallel we have not seen for some time. For what did the requisitionists take the high sheriff? Or what has he done that they should expect him to aid. in upholding fraud and perjury ? What an opinion they must have had of this gentleman, to think that he would comply with their request—and assist them in their good work. But he has undeceived them—if they ever once imagined that he would be their tool ; he has refused to convene -a meeting —or to give his assent to the bad and infamous practices which are sought, so much against the faction's wish to be prevented, No matter—the • county will meet.' Aye will it—the priests and their allies will get together—publish re solutions and a petition—and say, or swear, if you like, they were all agreed to at a county meeting, ' numerous and re spectable. But will the country—will the legislature—be deceived ? No, indeed, the trick has been too often ex posed—it is too stale." Oatmeal, on the contrary, was more neglected than usual, but without any material..ch{tnge in prices. withstanding the extensive introduction of machinery, which ought to have produced a considerable increase. It was my intention to have gone through Mr. Scoble's letter in detail, but I find I have already trespassed too largely upon your columns ; I trust, however, you will per mit me at a future opportunity to resume the subject, as it s not confined to the interests of the West Indies, but es sentially affects the prosperity of the British empire ; and the cause of truth is compromised when any garbled or fallacions statements are allowed to circulate uncontradicted. I have the honour to be sir, Your obliged and humble servant, AN ENEMY TO THE SLAVE TRADE AND SLAVE PRODUCE. London, April 6, 1840. LORD STANLEY'S REGISTRATION BILL. (From the Dublin Evening Mail.) Surely the eyes of the nation must by this time be opened to the purely partisan character of the opposition given to Lord Stanley's bill. If there were no press to record the acts of a government or the declarations of public men, it might be supposed that ministers and their allies had either forgotten their former doings, or trusted to the forgetfulness of the nation. But with these records staring them in the face, what a front of impudence they must possess to come before the country claiming credit for honesty, consistency, disinterestedness, and every other whig virtue, yet voting and speaking directly in the teeth of votes given and speeches made by themselves on the selfsame subject, over and over again, within the last five years. In August, 1835, the House of Commons, led by these very opponents of Lord Stanley's measure, passed a bill identical with it, as far as it goes. That bill embodied all that the present bill contains. It was unpalatable to the conservative body solely, because, in addition to all this, it contained other clauses which they deemed objectionable. But on that occasion ; and on three several occasions since, when her Majesty's ministers have brought forward similar measures, every clause contained in Lord Stanley's present bill received the highest whig sanction,—ay, and what is more, the highest radical, and the highest Popish sanction. In particular, the yearly renewal, and the final appeal to the judges, met with the warmest approbation of Mr. O'Connell. Hear him : STATE OF TRADE LEEDS.—There has been rather more activity in the wool len trade since our last than for some time previously, espe cially in the warehouses. It is understood that the demand is principally to meet the domestic summer trade. There is not, however, any improvement in prices, which are gene rally complained of as being unremunerating. BRADFORD.—There was nothing worthy of remark in the transactions at this market on Thursday. The quantity of business done was about the average of some weeks past, the principal demand being for plain and Alpalba figures, which are low in stock, and the prices also very low. The yarn and wool markets were equally dull, and the transac tions very few. HECHNIONDIVIKE.—Very little business continues to be done in the Blanket-hall, and that little at ruinous prices to the manufacturer. At this season of the year the makers usually are chiefly employed for the American market, and during the summer months ; there is, however, scarce any thing doing at present, and but little prospect of any amend ment.—Leeds Intelligencer. LANCASHIRE.—The silk and cotton trade, with but few exceptions, continue in a very depressed state in Manchester and the neighbouring towns. Silk dyers, however, are fully employed. The hattieg trade at Oldham, Denton, and Ash ton-under-Lyne, is moderately brisk. The operatives gene rally are very badly off. A cotton-spinner, in 1810, received 16s. Bd. for a certain kind of work, for which he now can get only 2s. lid. In the flannel trade at Rochdale, good hands, when fully employed, get only from Gs. to Bs. per week.—Preston Chronicle. LEICESTER.—There is not the slightest improvement in the demand. The Leicester staple trade has not been so depressed for a great many years as it is at the present mo- ment, and no hope of amendment for the next month or two. But little is doing in wool.—Leicester chronicle. METALS.—The market for metals has not exhibited any change in the quotations, and the business has been generally very small throughout the week. The stock of East India tin is much reduced, but the prices are not higher than 745. for Straits, and for Banca 78s. per cwt. • Spelter has been sold in small quantities at £2O, delivered on the spot. MOST EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF GROSS SUPER. STITION-A FAIRY ! ! ! heard and couoNEß ( fs ro i n s : a t Tipperary u heEsT.—mehave Clonsitutii frequently read of the Iri s h peasantry, but we b e lieve we may with safety affirm, that a case which displayed greater ignorance and cruelty than the one we are about to detail, never came before the public eye. When first we heard the circumstances connected with it, we really could not give credence to them. Although we are aware of the unenlightened state in which the peasantry of this country are kept, still we could not for a moment conceive that in the nineteenth century—in the pre sent day, when we hear so much about " moral information" —there could be found a body of persons so dead to eyery sense of religion, so sunk in the depths of grossest super stition, so devoid of the commonest feelings of humanity, as to have recourse to the practises which will appear iu the investigation that we this day lay before our readers. The facts of the case, which will appear more fully in the evidence, are simply these :—A man of the name of James Mahony, who lives on the demesne of Heywood, the pro perty of Charles Riall, Esq., had a son of the age of six or seven, a most delicate child. It appears the boy had been confined to bed for two years, with an affection of the spine, and, being a very intellectual child, and accustomed to make the most shrewd remarks about everything he heard and saw passing around him, his parents and the neighbours were led to the conclusion that he was not the son of his n • o ' n g "good spdeaoyoe night ' should last, i d father, but that he was a fairy !!! Under this i m p ress i on, a consultation took place a t the house of Mahony, and th e result was,that be frightened away , and, c h i ld was threatened with a red hot s h ove l and if he did not disclose where th e real John Mahony was ; and the intrudera accordingly, from ord i the gly so successful were the actors i n th e i r scheme, devised for the expulsion of the fairy, that the feeble duckingthe poor under dying a pump, •. the pump, told them he was a been taken part of the way to d back the real John Mahony fairy, and that he would rend him that night's lodging. child, after being held near the hot shovel, and also havin g the next evening, if they pave the next morning. This occurred on Tuesday night last, and the child was dead We hear that it is in contemplation greatly to enlarge the present station of the London and Birmingham Railway.— Birmingham Advertiser. ARRIVALS OF CORN, From Me 14th to the ,20th April, 1840, inclusive. DxscairrioN. I IDE- ' COAST- 1 , 0- I UNITED Tor, . 7 LAND. WISE. REIGN. STATES. . Wheat Qrs.! 346 , 3457 12090 592 18185 Barley Qrs. : .571 , 1658 5783 I 8012 Malt Qrs. i 5 3524 3529 Oats Rye . Qrs.' Beans Pease Qrs. 167 1194 I 1361 Shelled Barley Indian Corn .. Rapeseed Qrs. Oatmeal . ... Loads' 1699 2 1701 Floor . Sacks , 442 I 110 582 Ditto . Buis. ; , 111 25412 25813 Into Runcorn, Ireland sad Coastwise, Wheat, 50 qre.; Oatmeal, 400 loads; Flour, 40 sacks. EXPORTS.-Fo reign. Oats, 22? qrs. ; Oatmeal, 7 loads ; Flour, 3500 brla.-Ireland. Wheat, 503 qrs.-Coastwise. Wheat, 1097 qrs.; Barley, 998 qrs.; Oats, 98 qrs.; Pease, 84 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 97 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 20 qrs. ; Flour, 224 sacks 1196 barrels. Average prices of Grain, for the week ending April 10, 1840. Wheat 68s. 11 d. I Barley.. 395. I Id. I Oats.. 255. 2d. I Rye .. 375. Od. Beans.. 41s. Od. Pease, 4.5. Id. Aggregate average of the six weeks. Wheat.. 635. 6d. I Barley.. 395. 6d. I Oats.. 255. Bd. I Rye.. 375. 2d Beans .. 41s. Od. Pease .. 40s. Bd. Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week. Wheat 16s. Bd. I Barley3s. 4d. I Oats .... 98. 3d. I Rye .. I Is. ad Beans, Bs. Od. Pease.9s. lid. Indian Corn 3s. 4d. I FlourlOs. Liverpool Averages, week ending 14th April, 1840. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Pease. Qrs., ... I 891 29 1118 50 0 Pricks.. 160 s. I Id. 30s. 4d. 265. Sd. 435. Od. Os. Od. COTTON MARKT.—Two o'CLocx. There has been a good inquiry for Cotton, and the proba ble sales 3,000 to 4,000 bags, at firm prices. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. TUESPAY, APRIL 21.—Wind W.N.W. ARRIt ED—Anna Litrey, Stewart, from Savannah—Patriot Queen, from Calcutta—Wm. Harris, Luly, from Ancona—Alida, Deddes, from Groningen—Vestal, Graham, from Monte Video— Ocmulgee, Leavitt, from Savannah—Mischief, Jones, from Trieste —Louisville, from -- SAILED—Yazoo, Trask, for New York The Harriet, which arrived here last night, from Baltimore, v . perienced a hurricane on the 18th Match, in lat. 39, long, Ss. On the 9th April, in lat. 46, long. 20, spoke the Tartar, from Mobile to Havre, with loss of main and mizen topmasts, &c., having becn on her beam ends. Albert, Hurry, hence at Malta Calder, -, hence to St. Thomas was spoken 2nd instant, in lat. 47, long. 12 Asia, Bloomfield, from Bahia, at Sydney, N.S.W. Gustaf, Oldenburger, hence at Havre George, lleinkens, hence at Brake Marlon, Masters, hence at Cadiz Laura Ann, -, hence for Lima, off Cape Finisterre fth April Cecilia, Bay, from Hroge at Loughope, and sailed 12th instant for this port Quiz, Luckland, from Zante at Cephalonia, and sailed 18th ult. for this port Zulieka, Scott, sailed from Malta for this port on the 28th ult. Nestor, from IZew Orleans at II avr, SECOND EDITION: Standard-office, 'Three o'clock.•. 41110. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCIIANGE,—This DAY Without apparent animation in any branch of the Corn trade after Thursday last; a few sales only occurred towards the close of the week, on terms nearly corresponding with the rates then stated ; but as the large arrivals recently into Liverpool have reduced our prices of Wheat and Flour below those in most other markets, holders expect that the atten tion of buyers will shortly be more generally attracted this 'way, and create at least a better demand than we have lat terly experienced. • _ . . The duty on Beans is reduced to Bs. per qr., leaving that on all other foreign produce unaltered. Our supplies from Irelund•since this day se'nnight have been generally rather light; but, including those in coastwise and from abroad, the arrivals of Wheat and Barley are libe ral, with a moderate quantity of other Grain; and we have a gain to report upwards of 25,000 barrels of Flour from the American States. . The preceding remarks having been confirmed by a tole rably numerous attendance of country millers, and a more general inquiry for foreign Wheat at this day's market, sales o f good descriptions were effected to a fair extent at the rates of Tuesday last, and the best samples of Mediterra nean nearly recovered the decline noted on Thursday ; while in English or Irish the transactions were very unimpor tant, and such hardly maintained late prices. Home made and L•ish Flour were very unsaleable, and nominally cheaper, and States Flour was about Gd per bar rel lower, with a moderate demand from consumers : since this day week a few thousand barrels in bond have changed hands, at 27s to 27s Gd. Barley and Malt, upon a limited demand, scarcely obtained their former value. Beans were in fair request, and the turn dearer. In Pease we have no change to note. Oats, commanding more attention of late, were in mode rate request, and the best qualities rather exceeded our last currency. TELEGRAPH OFFICE, APRIL 21, 1840. Wind at Holyhead, S.W. light breeze, mornipg and noon. Off Holyhead, inward bound, at 5 a.m. No. 1469, John and Robert, B.S. from New Orleans—At 6 a.m 817, Clyde, S. (by Marryat's code)—At 8 30 a.m. 1998, Emma Graham, 8.8. from Oporto—At 10 30 a.m. 250, Montezuma, A.S. from Philadelphia; 248, Victoria, A.S. from Charleston ; 826, Oxford, A.S. from New York. Off Holyhead, outward bound, at 1 p.m. No. 1071, C. R. C. B.S. for Bay Chaleur. Off Point Lynas, inward bound, (have pilots), at 5 a.m. No. 398, Mischief, 8.8. from Palermo—At 6 a.m. 1117, Trinity Yacht, B.Sc from St. Michael's—At 7 a.m. 276. Pattiot Queen, B.S. from Cal. cutta—Att.B am, 1469, John and Robert, B.S. from New Orleans— At 10 a.m. 817, Clyde, Ship (by Marryat's cede)—At 12 noon, 245, Victoria, A.S. (in want of a pilot), from Charleston—At 1 p.m. 826, Oxford, A.S. (in want of a pilot), from New York. Off the Floating Light, inward bound, at 12 noon, No. 398, Mis chief, B. from Palermo—At 12 50 p.m. 276, Patriot Queen, B.S. from Calcutta. SELECT EXTRACTS. PRECIPITATION OF RanT.—An interesting example of the species of information which an aeronautical acquaintance with the upper regions of the atmosphere is exclusively cal culated to place at our disposal, is to he found in the rela tion proved to exist betweenthe formatio n or p rec ipit a tion of rain and the condition of the sky above the clouds which contain it, and consequently beyond the view of an observer situated upon the surface of the earth. From this we learn the important fact, that whenever, from a sky completely overcast with clouds, rain should happen to be falling a similar range of clouds invariably exists at a certain eleva tion above, whereby the rays of the sun are intercepted from the layer below ; and, on the contrary, whenever with the same apparent condition of the sky below, rain is altogether or generally absent, a clear expanse of firmament, with a sun unobstructed by clouds, is sure to be the prevailing character of the space immediately above ; thus leavin g it a determi nate fact, that when rainis pouring from clouds overspread ing the earth, the rays of the sun are not operating upon the clouds in question, while, on the other hand, rain does not fall from such clouds when the rays of the sun are unob structedly acting upon the upper surface.—Poll technic Journal. CONDITIONS OF THE EUROPEANS WHEN AT CANTON.— In all the other parts of the East, Europeans bear themselves so -haughtily before the natives, and to transcend them in wealth, luxury, and intellect, that the contrast at Canton is most striking. Here are generally ahout3oo foreigners, per manently resident, and often more, kept so completely under, that they may neither bring their wives, nor take native ladies, nor build, buy, ride, row, or walk, without restric tions ; wholly forbidden to enter the gates of the city, and cooped up in a spot which would be considered in Calcutta or Madras barely large enough for one good dwelling and com pound. The foreign factories, or hongs, are thirteen in num ber, under the names of different nations, but occupied some what promiscuously by the merchants and shopkeepers. They form a close front along the river, about three hundred yards in length, with an open space towards the water, which is here about a quarter of a mile wide. The buildings extend towards the rear about two hundred yards. Each bong is divided into several portions, entered by a narrow alley, which passes through to the rear, and is thus made to con sist of rive or six tenements, generally three stories high. The heat, smoke, noise, and dreariness of the interior of this mass of buildings, with the total absence of female so ciety, gives it, in no small degree, the aspect of a prison. The front rooms, however, are pleasant, and some of them have fine promenades on the roof. An open space in front, about one hundred yards long and fifty wide, serves both as a wharf and a promenade. But the first of these uses ob structs it for the others, to say nothing of barbers, cooks, pedlars, clothes-menders, coolies, and boatmen, who crowd it most of the day.—llial,colm's Travels. GOVERNMENT AND NO GOVERNMENT.--Has the Downing street Club any claim upon the name of a government in the management of our Finances.? The mere suggestion of such an idea is enough to raise the unextinguishable laughter of gods and men. Never surely since Exchequers were created was there such a Chancellor as Lord Monteagle—invested with the robes of the peerage for the same reason that Sir De Lacy Evans was invested with the collar of the Bath—because he covered himself and his office with ridicule and disgrace. There is no need of encumbering our page with figures ; it is quite enough to say that now, in the twenty-fifth year of peace, with all our establishments, civil, military, and naval, in all their dedartments shamelessly cut down and reduced to the vary verge of inefficiency, we are failing in our finances at the rate of from one to two millions a year; and that in all probability the deficiency will this year, 1840, nearly reach three millions ! And yet, in the face of this astounding fact, ministers, to say nothing of some £30,000 lost by Spring Rice's blundering in his loan—the Newport job, converting a place of £l4OO a year into a nest of places of £s4oo—the proposed dotation of £50,000 a year to Prince Albert, re luctantly reduced to £30,000 when the Prince himself, it is said, expected what, under the circumstances, would have been quite sufficient, £4OOO--the £70,000 for the Queen's stables—the £30,000 for the education quackery, which, to say nothing of other objections to it in any other score, is already turning out to be a miserable failure. Ministers, we say, in the face of this unprecedented deficiency, and in the midst of this wasteful profusion, have had the brazen folly to reduce the Postoffice duty from eightpence (the average sum of postage) to one penny—thereby risking at least an annual million, and that on the eve of engaging us in a war, the extent or duration of which no man is hardy enough to con jecture. This they have done out of no desire to make their budget look less prosperous; all Chancellors of the Exche quer, whig as well as tory, are anxious that their accounts should bear as favourable an appearance as possible —out of no peculiar taint of stupidity affecting the present ministry in such matters, for tory financiers have bungled and blun dered as well as whigs, but from the one main blight which plagues them in every thing they undertake—THEY HAVE NO POWER ! They saw as well as we do, that risking the Postoffice duty was impolitic ; but it was popular, and as they must truckle for popularity, the risk was hazarded. They know as well as we do, that the grant of £70,000 for stables, and the proposed vote of £50,000 a year to !Prince Alb er t , were shameful and enormous ; but the Court wished for the money , and as they must truckle to the back-stairs, it was given in one instance, and asked for in another. They know as well as we do, that the education vote of £30,000 was other absolutely useless, or if productive of any effect, designed to act as " a heavy blow and a vast discouragement" tei the Church of England; but the Irish papists desired it, and as the main hold of the ministry is by the Tail, the sum was voted. In all this we cannot descry any trace of a government—Church of England Review. SAtrun.—lsabel, Greve, for Valparaiso—Gallovidia, Rae, for Stettin—Enterprise, Fletcher, for Newfoundland—Ellen Clare, Roberts, for Genoa, &e. —liinda, Louthean, for St. Thomas—Sir John Harvey, Cathbertson, for Miramichi—and Citizen, Hatch, for New York. Amelia, Judkins, from Laguna. at this port ; sailed 22nd Feb. in company with the Bleng for London. Left loading for Liverpool, the Spinster, Alice Jane, Sirius, H. Grayson, Celt, Laurina, and Chandos ; for London, the Sales; for Clyde, the Thalestris ; and for Cork, the Joseph P. Dobree. On 13th April, off the Smalls, spoke the Volunteer, for the Cape of Good Hope Dumfriesshire, , for Liverpool, remained aground on the S.W. bar of the Mississippi, 10th March Fanny, Glover, from Liverpool for New Orleans, was spoken I.ltlr March. Part of the crew had mutinied, but were subdued, and confined in irons Victory, Blackley, hence for New York, was spoken 6th April, in lat. 42, long. 51 Eliza Heywood, , from Demerara for Liverpool, was spoken loth April, in-lat. 46, long. 32 Jane Prowse, -, from San Bias, at Mazatlan Rosalie, Alsop, sailed from Valparaiso for Swansea 12th Jan. Abeona, Grant, from St. John, N.B. at the Cove Vestal, , from Monte Video for Liverpool, off Toskar 17th April SUNDAY, Aran. 19.—Wind R. light. AMU VED.--Fenella,Wak eliam. from Malaga—Friederich, Fischer, front Wolgast—and Wm. Fawcett, (steamer) from Havre. SAILND.—C.R C. Le Gros, for Hay Chalenr—Norman, Bond, for Jamaica—Regulus, Thompson, for New Orleans—Bradshaw, Mil roy, for New York—Pauline, Schenburg, for Ostend—Amphitrite, M'Neile, for Barbadoes—Phoebe, Brown, for Mobile—and Thomas, Edmondson, for Newfoundland. Mary, Nelson, from Demerara, at this port; sailed 29th Feb. The George Gordon sailed a few days previous for St. Domingo ; and the Sanclbach was to sail in a few days for Liverpool. On Bth April, in lat. 47, long. 25, spoke the Glasgow, from Liverpool for Montreal Leone, , hence at Palermo Mischief, Jones, sailed from Palermo for Liverpool 9th March Mercer, Mercer, hence at Barcelona Henriette, Devort. and Louise, Rooms, hence at Antwerp Libertas, Nodias, hence at Stromness, and sailed 11th April for Wy burg _ _ . . Heinrich, Soderberg, hence at Stromness, and sailed I ith April for Wismar Columbus, , hence at Valparaiso PATRAS, March 39.—Fanny Sz Jane, Lovering, from Vostizza, grounded 28th instant, between Lepanto and the Castle of Rumelea, and there remains Phoenix, Hartley, hence for Antigua, was spoken 18th March, in lat. 24, long. 39 _ . _ Pandora: - , hence for Halifax, was spokcn 9th April, in lat. 45, long. 20 Magnet, -, hence for Montreal, was:spoken sth April, in lat. 46, long. 36 Nora Creina, Howes, hence at Smyrna Flying Fish, Edwards, hence at Syria Tarn O'Shanter, Bertie, hence at Venice Superb, Melhuish, hence at Messina MONDAY, APRIL 20.—Wind variable and light. ARRIVED —St. Andrew, Storer, from New Orleans—Princess Victoria, Ferguson, from Smyrna—Surprise. Grant, from Bilboa— Ricka, Doring, from Wolgast—and Elise, Moller, from Altona. SAlLED.—Phoenix, Kuper, for Antwerp—Urgent, Gibb, for Cal cutta--iris, Dickson, for Charleston—Earl of Errol, Wade, for Cronstadt—Lloyds, Blandford, for Quebec—Elizabeth, Englishman, and Anna Sieberdina, Ugen, for Dordt—and Mary, Dunian, I'm St. Domingo. Helena, Drenning, from Charleston, at this port. On 14th March, in let. 37, long. 59, experienced a hurricane from W.S.W. to N.N.W. lost the boatswain overboard from the maintopsajl yard, lost foresail, jihboom, &c. On 18th instant, oil' Bardsey, spoke the Priscilla, hence for Pernambuco, and the Ward, hence for St. John, N.B. Formosa, —, hence for New South Wales, was spoken 3rd April, in lat. 44, long. 12 Mary, Hamilton, hence at Demerara Jolt Horrocks, Bond, hence at Madeira Pioneer, Cook, hence at Gibraltar Sphynx, Counibeer, from Malaga, at ditto, and cleared 7th April for Liverpool Fanny Connell, Dickson, hence at Lisbon Diligentia, Mesqiiito, sailed from Lisbon 6th April ; Tartkio 2do, Almeida, 10th, and Faith, Beer, llth, all for Liverpool Regalia, —, from St. Domingo for Liverpool, at Kinsale _ . t. Marys, Currie, from Jamaica, off the Cove, for Liverpool ; head of topmast carried away Ailnabena, Watt', from Calcutta, at Cowes Amelia, Teasdale, from Matanzas, at ditto GIIIRALTAR. April 9.—The Reindeer, King, from Leghorn for Liverpool, put into this port, -- instant, with decks swept, main mast badly sprung, loss of jibboom, foresail and foretopsail, &c. and part of the cargo damaged, having *hipped a sea two days after leaving Leghorn. The index, Gill, from Malta and Messina to London, came in last night very leaky, and must discharge, having struck on a Rock WEXFORD, April IR.—The Jacob Pennell, from Liverpool to New York, and Robert Bruce, Tilley, from Liverpool to Cork, struck on the Long Bank last night in a fog ; the former got off rind pro ceeded this morning ; the latter has just come off, after being lightened LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET, APRIL 20 A little new Butter has arrived, but of indifferent quality, for which 119 s per cwt has been asked. Beat Grass Butter would readily bring this price, and possibly 2s to is more. There is a scarcity of the finer qualities of old, which however does not appear to affect inferior stuff, that being almost immovable at any price. The market for new Pickled Butter is expected to open at about 102 s for 2nds —Beef and Pork are in more abundant supply, never theless holders continue to require extremely high rates.—The ex port trade for these articles is not Wish, the demand being alto gether confined to ship stores.—Bacon is less in demand, the late currency is however suppOrted. Obipping intellig;tiut. FRIDAY, APRIL 17.—Wind S.F. moderate. ARRIVED.—Roman, Davies; Geutoo, Holl6, and Eliza & Susan, from New Orleans—Hamilton, Kilharn, from Savannah— Sprim , ', Fletcher. from Mobile—Galatea, Brum, from Stettin— RoyarWilliam, , from Smyrna—Mary, --, from Bruges. SA I LSD.—Clifton, lngersdll, for New York—Wm. Rathbone, Calvert, for Africa—Premium, Finlay, fur Cronstadt—Undaunted, Foster, for Hamburg—Phoebe, Brown,. for Mobile—George, Fen wick, for Slontreal—Lightfoot, Pierce, for Newfoundland—Harriet & Jessie, M'Kown, for Charleston—Zeldenrust, Boig, for Zwolle— Harmonie, Zwulkesh, for Dordt—Augusta, Snow, for New Orleans —Ward, Masters, for St. John, Nat.—Trio, Pierce, for Stettin— Catharina Juliet, Greeven, for Rotterdam—Priscilla, Taylor, for Pernambuco—Fisher, Sewell, and G. H. Harrison, Boig, for New fonndland—Anna Elizabeth, Bouchot, for Rotterdam—& Palmyra, Gill, for Beirout. Oberon, Farrall, from Valparaiso, at this port ; sailed 12th Jan. in company with the Circassian, tor Liverpool. The Rimac was to sail in a few days for London, and the Courier, and Gazelle, in about a week for Liverpool Wasdale, , hence at Gonaives Guglielmo, Micaeli, hence at Naples Duquesclin, Guyon; Sarah, CafierO, and Newborn, Adams, hence at. Genoa Actif, Bennis, hence at Ostend Bootle, hence at Trinidad • Heroine, Bouch. hence at Valparaiso in 87 days Mary & Anne, Blackstone, hence at ditto Camoens, . hence at Campeachy J. 11. Shepherd. Redman, hence at New Orleans Agnes, Bainbridge, hence at Mobile Eutaw, Allen, hence at Charleston Pocahontas, M'Michaels, hence at Baltimore Algonquin, Turley, and Alleghany, Michaels, hence at Philadel phia British Queen, (steamer) from New York, at Portsmouth, 16th April ; sailed Ist April Leonora, Harrison, from Demerara, at New Orleans Reeloss, --, from Leer for Liverpool, off Deal Speculation, Schmidt, ditto, at ditto Gipsey, , from Rio Janeiro, at Valparaiso, and sailed for northern ports Nerio, Jarvis: Sphynx, Connibeer ; Pearl, Cove: Fcnella, Wake ham, and Rock Scorpion, Falcus, hence at Gibraltar Europe, Batcheldor, hence at New York 27th March Oberlin, Knapp, and American, Holden, ditto, lath Columbus, Pentreath: Frederick, Fleming; Pursuit, Spence, and Elizabeth, Sinclair, hence at St. John N.B. 23rd Jupiter, Carter, and Palmyra, Cushing, hence at Boston Valencia, Messa, sailed from Gibraltar for Liverpool 2:st March Nova Amizade, De Mello, which sailed from Liverpool, for Lisbon, 10th Jan. has not since been heard of Nsw Yoax, April I.—Flora, Cowing, from Liverpool and St. John, N.B. for Savannah, went on shore on Frying Shoals, 22nd March: crew saved SATURDAY, APRIL 187-Wind East, moderate ARRIVRII.—Trio, Boag, from Monte Video—Normandie; Tyson. from New Orleans—Heroine. Adams, from St. Michael—Mary Ann Henderson, Ewen, from Bilboa—Erbgross Paul, Stedman, from Rostoek. PRICES OF SHARES, APRIL `lo. Prices. This day Last RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices Birmingham and Gloucester BO paid 66 0 0 .... Ditto and Derby 00 Birkenhead and Chester Bolton and Leigh Bolton and Preston 10 Bristol and Exeter Chester and Crewe 45 49 0 0 .... Dublin and Drogheda Eastern Counties Edinburgh and Glasgow Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 15 15 0 .... Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar l • :SU paw Greenock, and Ayr Grand Junction Ditto half shares 3O 88 15 0 .... Great Western 65 80 10 0 .... Ditto new shares 30 . 37 0 0 Hull and Selby 35 paid 26 15 0 .... Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 0 0 0 .... Liverpool and Manchester Ditto quarter shares .. Ditto half shares 5O .. 84 10 0.. London and Birmingham . 161 15 0 .... Ditto new shares Ditto quarter shares Ditto ant Southampton 5O .... 46 5 0 ... Ditto 8.: Brighton London and Croydon Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 73 0 0 .... Ditto half shares Leicester and Swaunington 5O .... 71 0 0 Ditto, (new) •3O paid 49 10 0 .... Manchester, Bolton, & Bury .. 83 .... 34 15 0 .... Manchester and Birmingham.. 25 .... 11 7 6 .... Ditto and Ditto Extension .. •; 0 0 0 .... Midland Counties Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... Ditto quarter shares North Midland New North Midland lO .... 20 10 0 South Eastern and Dover 18 .... 0 0 0 North Union St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap lOO paid 0 0 0 York and North Midland 4O paid 54 0 0 .... BANKS. Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 765 0 oexdiv Bank of Liverpool £l2 10s paid 21 0 oex div, -- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 16 15 0 .... - Liverpool Union lO .... 12 10 0 .... - Northern and Central - Albion - North and South Walea lO .... 6 15 0... - of Manchestfr .... - M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... 9 17 6 .. .. - South Lancashire Liverpool Banking Company Borough Bank lO 14 17 0 .... Commercial Bank of England 5 .... .... East of England lO . 7 17 6 •-•• Plarnix Bank ' lO .... Wilts and Dorset 7 10&. .... CAS, WATER WORKS, &c. Exchange Buildings £loo paid 163 0 0 .... L'pool and Harrington Water } 350 .... 477 10 0 . ..Works Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0 ... L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 0 .... L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. £lOO .... 191 0 0 .... Ditto new shares are now paid up. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. Liverpool Marine Assurance } 25 paid 2 10 0 ... Company Ocean Assurance Company.... 10 .... 910 0 .... Liverpool Fire and Life 2 10s. 1 13 0 ex dlv DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW COMPANIES, &c. Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... .... Woodside Ferry ' 25 .... .... EgTemont Ferry l2 10S. ... Rock Ferry Monk's Ferry Steam Tug Company lO . . 7 0 0 .... Harrington Docks 100 .... 0 0 0 .... Apothecaries' Company • 9 .... 0 0 0 .... Asphalte (Liverpool; (Polonceau) 2 .... 1 0 0 .... SHARE MARKET, MONDAY EVENING. Our market to-day has been extremely active, we may almost say wild, and prices have advanced considerably. Great Westerns have reached 84 ; half shares 391 to 391; Eastern Counties 11 ; Brighton 251; Manchester and Leeds 811; Midland Counties 941; North Midland 104, and half shares 232. PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. WOOO, Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid Archangel £l9 0 ® 20 10 Memel 17 0 18 0 Gothenburg' - 16 10 Wyburg . 18 0 - 19 0 Petersburg - 19 10 PLANKS, per foot of 2 inches thick. Danzig, Deck - 0 4k British American Pine LATH WOOD, per fathom. Danzig, 4 feet t'B 10 9 10 British American 5 0 6 0 SIA 800 AN Y, per foot of 1 inch thick. Honduras Cuba St. Domingo 1 0 2 0 OAK PLANKS, British American none. Penawoon, per cubic feet STAVES, per 1200. . Danzig, C. Pipe £135 0 —l4O 0 Hhd. 7O 0 80 0 Quebec, red, li inch thick, 155 0— 75 0 and 54 feet long Do. Puncheon l4 0 24 0 Timßliß, per cubic foot. a. d. 8. d. Oak 2 9 4 0 Pine, British Amer. common red 1 6 2 0 yellow Danzig, middling 2 2 2 3 *mei, middling 2 2k- 2 3 Riga,red 2 5 2 6 Duty. Not above 16 ft F.el9. B. P. 2. 21 feet. 1'22.. ae2 10s. 108, [ss per load. [es. Not ab. 36 iu. £1 39.13. P. 2s. 2 6 as. 9 0 6s. 103 per load. 4'2 15q. vim) Ottritets. LIVERPOOL COLONIAL MARKET, APRIL 10. There is still only a moderate demand for Sugar; the sales amount to 3so hhds 8.P., at an advance of is per cwt. on strong brown qualities. 1500 bags of good white Bengal have been taken at figs to 7os 6d, and 7700 bags of Mauritius, chiefly from 65s for brown to 72s for fine. Brown Brazil Sugar continues in demand for refining in bond; the sales are 70 cases, 350 brls and 100 bags of Pernambuco at former prices ; whites continue neglected ; 8 hhds and 50 brls yellow Cayenne sold at 24s ; 40 hhds Loaves mete taken for export, but the price has not transpired.—Nothing done in Mo. lasses.—The demand for Coffee is very moderate, the sales only com prise 50 casks of Jamaica, at a decline, In most instances, of 3s to 45 per cwt. Nothing reported in Foreign.—No transactions in Cocoa, Ginger, Pimento or Pepper.--1600 bags of. Bengal Rice sold, from lOs 6d for ordinary yellow to 15s for good white; and ion tea of Carolina, at 225, for export, and for fine, duty paid.—The sales in Runs are confined to about 50 puns. Demerara, at 3s 7d to 3s gd for 4 to 7 O.P. During the week the Tea market has been firm, and an advance of 2d to 3d per lb on all descriptions may be quoted ; some sales have been made in good and fine Congous, per John o'Gannt, at as gd to as, with a a months' prompt. The market closes quiet, but very firm. In Indigo there is nothing of moment to report.—Small sales have been made in the following articles, viz. Bombay Safflower at Sts, East India Gum Arabic at 26s to s:is, Castor Oil at 64d, and silver Cochineal at is.—ln Saltpetre the business has been trifling, as also in Nitrate of Soda. . . The sales of Logwood are 60 tons of Campeachy, an indirect im port, at .t 10 2s 6d to .i - 10 5s ; a few tons of St. Domingo and Hon duras at the quotations ; a cargo of 300 tons Savanilla Fustic sold at £5 ss, and 20 tons Tampico at £7.—There is a regular but not a brisk demand for Turpentine; 1,000 toils have been sold at lls for ordinary, to 12s 2d for fair quality.—Nothing reported in Tar. — Montreal Pot Ashes are rather firmer in price, there being no sellers under 243 6d; 100 to 200 brls have been sold at 24s to 24s 6d. Pearl Ashes are higher, 3 Is to 31s lid has big been paid for a few small par cels.-2500 pockets East India Linseed sold at 42s iid to 43s 3d. — Hides. All descriptions suitable for export are in brisk demand, at full rates, but for home-consumption there is very little doing ; 530 dry Monte Video wormed and damaged have been sold at al to bid; 1600 dry salted Ceara at 6d to 0(1 for good, and 5d to sid for in ferior, 16;0 wet salted Ceara at 4f,d to 4 4d, 725 New York at 4}(l, and 75 Bernice at 5d per lb.—Tobacco. A fair demand has been ex perienced from the Trade, Irish Dealers and Exporters, and the sales reach 150 hhds of all kinds, without change in price, except stemmed, which has declined. For Brimstone there has continued a steady demand throughout the week, which in most instances has been met freely by the holders ; the sales have amounted to about 250 tons, and towards the close, on the receipt of the news of warlike demonstrations against the Neapolitan Government, higher prices have been de manded.—There has been rather more doing in Sumac than for some weeks past, and full prices have been obtained for the best Sicily; 240 bags from Messina sold at lOs to lls tid, and 100 bags from Oporto at gs per cwt.—Argols have remained in limited de mand.—The advanced prices required for Cream of Tartar prevent sales being effected.-10 casks of flag Annatto have been sold at is per lb.—Valonia has been in fair request, and has been freely sup plied from recent importations.--No sales reported in Madders or Roots.-15 casks Ist quality Philadelphia Bark sold at Lis.—The principal business done this week in Olive Oil has been from dealers' stocks, who have sold pretty freely ; of import parcels, small lots of Seville have been taken, and 20 tuns Lisbon at .W 53 105 to .t 154 per tun.—About 30 tuns pale Seal Oil have been sold at £27 to £27 55 per tun ; in other descriptions of Fish Oils, no sales reported.— Pale Rape Oil is very dull of sale, but prices pretty firm ; in Linseed Oil a fair extent of business has been done at 245 3d to 24s 6d, and some inquiry continues for forward delivery. The transactions in Oil of Turpentine are confined to retail parcels at about 57s per cwt.—Palm Oil is rather lower, a few very trifling sales only having been effected, at -€36 per ton.—Some Riga and Petersburg outshot Hemp have been made at £34 10s ; 100 bales Sant', Hemp at £l6 ; and 50 bales Jute at £ll lOs per ton.--A sale of 60 bales Riga PTR Flax is reported at £4l per ton.—The demand for Tallow is good. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 16. There has been an improved demand this week for all descriptions of American Cotton, and, although the late imports have been freely offered, the market remains steady at the last quotations. The very limited stock of Brazil, only a portion of which can be otThred for sale, has caused a further advance of id ; Egyptian also is in fair request, and readily commands id :p th more than previous rates. 2000 bales of American have been taken on specu lation, and 2500 for export. ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON, From the 10th instant to this day, inclusive. BALES OP THE WEEK 110 Sea island 10 Stained 7630 Bowed Georgia 3990 { Mobile Alabama and Tennessee 11520 New Orleans 1080 Pernambuco & Paraiba., Aricati and Ceara 160 Bahia and Maceio SO f Maranham 1 Sawginned Minas Para Demerara, Surinam, &c... 1040 Egyptian 20 Barbados 140 Peruvian Bahama 50 Laguayra 10 Common West India, &c. 270 Carthagena Smyrna Manilla 1170 Surat 20 Madras Bengal 27300 bales There has been a good demand for and the sales are GOOO to 7000 bags, at an advance of id per lb on last Th Prices paid i IMP iti the week. ThisWk 12i(16122d 9 -- 21047 43 5 i j 11 22570 4 1 7 i 10 .1 " " 9 I •• • • 9 10 - !) - • oa 12. .... 8/ - 9 - 64 Y. 84 ai 53 43301 1 MONDAY EVI • Cotton to-day from th including 500 on Spe, hursday's prices. tTS his year ASIIE3 Montreal, Pot 22 6 hie 24 6 Pearl, new._ 31 0 —3l 6 U. States, Pot none. Pearl none. BARK, Quercit. Oak, T. ton WI; 10 -- 7 b German 3 10 -- 5 0 BRIMSTONE, `ll , ton Sicily, &c l2 0 13 0 Tuscany l3 0 13 2 CASsIA LloNcA, s. it. s. d ) cwt. in bond 80 0 90 0 CLOVER-SEED, V CO. American, red.. none Dutch 70 0-- 80 0 French 1:c Germ.7o 0-- 80 0 COCOA, V , cwt. Trinidad 56 0— 65 0 Grenada • Brazil COFFEE, V cwt in bond. Jama. triage ordinary good& fine 0rd.106 0-112 0 ,27 0 —27 10 middling ....: .. 114 0-120 0 .24 0 —26 0 good mid. .... 125 0-133 0 Cod fine mid. &c... 137 0-147 0 LINSEED, •. , 4,, cal 24 6 0 0 Dutch, triage.. 160 0-100 0 Rape, pale do. .. 38 0 —3B 6 ordinary ....1 Turpen. 'p cwt... 0 0 —57 0 good & tine ord.loo 0-104 0 Ries, v. awl middling 106 0-110 0 Carolina, dress. 36 0 —37 0 good mid. 1 in bond 24 0 —25 6 fine mid., &c. f 112 0-114 0 Bengal, ord. do.. 11 0 —l3 6 Mocha lOO 0-125 ' 0 mid to fine .... 14 0 —l5 0 Ceylon Java Havana Jamaica, good & fine ord. 46 0— 52 0 12 to 16 o. p... 4 6 4 9 St. Domingo 4.5 0— 48 0 'stronger 4 10 Ii 10 Brazil 45 0— 50 0 choice marks.. 6 0 6 4 Laguira 6B 0— 75 0 SAFFLOWER, V. Cwt. DvEwoons, - 4 , ton X. s. .e. s. Bengal, Logwood, Jam... 7 15— 8 0 good & fine.. £5 0 7 10 1 - 11 m. & Dom. 7 15— 9 0 ord. & mid .. 72 10 4 10 Campeachy ..10 10— 11 0 Bombay Fustic, Span 5 5 515 SAl.Tlqmitic, 13 cwt. s. it. S. d Tampico 6 10— 7 0 East India 23 0 —2B 6 Brazil Cuba NICARAGUA WOOD. orange 56 0 —95 0 Rio de la Hache liver and black 36 0 —5O 0 solid rough 6 0— 7 10 Neutria, v d 0... 9 0 —l5 0 small Lima, solid l4 0— 16 0 Seal, each Barwood, Ango. 8 0— 8 10 SnumAc, 14. cwt. Gaboon 5 0— 6 0 Sicily ll 0 —l3 Cainwood l9 0— 25 0 Malaga none Red San. Wood.. 8 0— 9 0 1 Trieste 8 0— 8 6 FLAx,I4. ton. ! Verona 7 0— 7 6 Riga. P.T.R. .... 41 0— 44 0 Tyrolese P'bnrg, 9 head ..40 0— 42 o SUGAR, V cwt. Archangel 4B 0— 50 0 B. P. Muscovado Dutch & Mem. 6O 0-110 0 moist brown .. sg 0 —6O 0 GALLS, :p cwt. dry brown .... 61 o —64 0 Turkey, blue 74 0— 80 0 good & mid.... 65 0 —6B 0 mixed 60 0— 70 0 tine &v. fine .. 69 6 —72 0 East India 7O 0— 75 0 Mauritius, GINGER, af. , cwt.. dabs and moist 59 0 —6O 0 Barbadoes 45 0— 50 0 brown 62 0 —65 0 Jamaica • 60 0-120 0 yellow 60 0 —69 0 E. India, in bond 12 0— IQ 0 fine yellow 7O 0 —72 0 Gum, p. cwt. East India, Bengal Arabic, Turkey .. 70 0-140 0 . ord. white 64 0 —66 0 East India. 24 0— 55 0 good and fine 69 6 —7O 6 Barbary 45 0— 5o 0 extra tine 71 0 —72 0 Senegal 65 0— 66 0 Manilla, in bond 20 0 —23 0 HEMP, V tO// t S. .e . s. llavana, do. P'ltrg, clean 36 0— 36 10 brown outshot.. 34 10— 35 0 yellow . Riga, Rhine .... 36 0— 36 10 white ord.. outshot .35 0— 35 10 good & line. , Archangel 39 0— 33 10 Brazil, in bond. Manilla 27 0— 28 0 brown lB 0 —22 0 Bombay l7 0— 20 o yellow 22 6 —24 0 Jute ll 0— 12 0 white ord. .... 23 0 —25 0 111n1cs, Ox and Cow, 10 , lb good and fine.. 26 0 —2B 0 B. Ayres and Monte Video, TALLOW, 3> cwt. inferior & mid. 0 72_ 0 91 P'burgh, Y.C. .. 5o 6 —5l 0 good & prime 0 94 0 104 Odessa 50 0 —5O 0 Do. salted .... 0 4/ o 51 Archangel 4B 0 —4B 6 N. Amer. salted 0. 4 -- 0 41 Buenos Ayres 44 0 —4B 0 Brazil .. dry salted 0 51— 0 64 Stockholm ...... 16 6 —l7 0 Rio, dry Valparaiso, dry 0 61— 0 8 Carolina Odessa, &c. dry 0 6-- 0 7 Virginia - 0 0 W. India, dry.. 0 si-..... 0 7 TARTAR, ~ e. cwt. salted.. 0 41— 0 54 Cream of Tartar 7B 0 —5O 0 East India .... 0 7,. i o brown and yel 5O 0 —6B 0 Kips, B.A. dry. 0 7i— 0 84 TEA, V , lb. in bond. Horse, d. each 9 o —l2 o Bohea, Canton HORSE HAIR, vit. Fokein Short 4 mixed long tails 1 5 1 10 Twankay, com... combed INDIGO, sp lb. in bond. Pekoe, Orange .. 2 8 Bengal. Campoi, pur. & violet blue & violet blue ' violet, g. & fine 7 3 7 9 Souchong, com... 2 4 2 5 ord. & mid, 6 3 7 0 good to fine.. 2 9 3 6 violet & cop. 1 5 A A Pekoe, ow rye .. 3 4 —2 . 3 0 3 9 mixed .. I '— ' ' Hyson, fl com 9 cop. g. & fine. 6 3 6 9 fine.. 3 0— c 0 ord. llt mid. 5 3 6 0 Young limn .. 3 0— 3 6 con. quality Oude 2 6 6 o Gunpowder, Madras 3 6 6 0 good and fine .• 3 6 4 0 Guatimala, 'p lb TosAcco, V lb. in bond. Floras Sobres 5 o— 6 3 Returned.. 0 5 0 10 Cortes 3 0— 410 Kentucky Caraccas, Floras 6 6 7 0 Maryland Sobres & 0— 6 3 TURMERIC, 13 cwt, us bond. Cortes .. 3 0— 4 10 Bengal 28 0 —33 0 LAc DYE, 7p it,. TURPENTINE, V cwt. D.T. and prime. 1 6 3 o American mid. to good.. 0 8— 1 4 VA.LONIA, V ton. e S —23 10 s ord. & inferior 0 6 0 74 Smyrna, picked l5 0 MADDER ROOTS, V cwt. Morea Smyrna ~ ...... 52 0— 53 0 WAx, Eggs' 'p cwt. in bond. Galipoli & Syria .. 0 0— 0 0 African 6 10 . 7 10 French 4B 0— 50 0 East ludia Naples 44 0— 45 0 American 7lO s o s. d. s. d. 70 0 --00 50 0 —65 0 32 0 --40 0 Mlll.l French, S.F. S.F.F 48 0 —54 0 54 0 —5B 0 E.5.F.F.6. 0 —7O 0 Spanish 45 0 -- 0 0 AlimAsst:fri, cwt. Trinidad, &c 13 0 — 34 0 Demerara, &c 34 0 —35 0 Bar & 36 0 — 37 0 MUNJEET, cwt.. 14 0 —l5 0 044,, Olive, 1.4. 252 galls. Gallipoli - Trieste Sicily Malaga Portugal ; &c , Levan Palm, 4• tca Fish, 13 , 252 galls Seal, pale brown :664 o --65 o •• 5 8 0 --59 0 ..58 0 0 .. 52 0 —54 0 .. 53 0 —54 ..52 o o .. 36 0 —36 5 • . none. ... do. ... do. do. 2 Si 3 0 2 5 2 6i 4 0 SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. George Turnbull, Greenock, merchant. Elizabeth Philips and NViMaui Philips, distillers. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar. computed fronl the Returns made in the week ending. April It, is Vs load per cwt. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL APR I I. Hot;1 1 21. John Wreford hunt, (2nd) 21. Edward Burrow, (2nd) Ditto, I '2 21. Thomas Croft H uxley, (div.) 21. James Wilson, (2nd) 21. John Barlow, (Ist) Di tto, 1 22. George Raw, (Ist) Ditto, ti 22. Charles James Wilson Wharton, (div ) Ditto, 1 23. James Haddon and Co. (div.) Ditto, 13 24. Henry Laffer, (Ist) Dit to 1, 25. William Wilking Bulley, (Ist) Ditto, 11 VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING. (SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION-7) EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, AT. Amazon, W Holmes, 390 Calcutta, linrie & Tomlinson Premier, D Rent, 197 Mauritius, Aikin & Sons Cumbrian, T Lee, 258 Mauritius, Aikiri & Sons NEW SOUTH WALES. Cecilia, J Anderson, .325 Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, an d Sydney, W Tarbet or Cotesworth & Wynne Acne Mary, M Rackham, 516 Sydney, Cotesworth & Wynn e SOUTH AMERICA. Chase, J Ritchie. 217 Bahia, Inirie & Tomlinson Ann, G Winnfield, 450 Maranharn, Moon Brothers Thomas Fielden, J H Smith, 3bB Valparaiso, Imrie & Tomlinson UNITED STATES. Alexander Grant,.l-1 Thornton, 689 New Orleans, • Intrinsic, J Davidson, 537 New York, Canno A n i%l M oi i i i t le i: . ol .‘ le CrO, ' Sabina, s Mattison 3g7 New York, Waddington. Holt ik 1 - 1) Isaac Newton, S D ' Spalding, Gog New York and Savannah, Bolton, Ogden & C o(. - - -- BRITISH AMERICA. 213 Quebec, Kirkby & w a t sal 5 80 Quebec. J F'roste & C 0 138 St. John, Nll,l, Campbell & Rudd EUROPE. Harmony, M Foody, Chester, E Lawson, Susannah, J Stephenson, -- Emma, W Thomas, 164 Ancona, Crozier Brothers & CO Shamrock, W Daldy, g 3 Copenhagen, M'Nair & Dutto o Mary Halket. CP L Foggo, 171 Constantinople and Odessa, M & A Will.i o Elise, M Portorm, 180 Elsinore, Bahr, Behrend &Co Leopold, J C Holtz, 200 Hainbro' Bahr, Behrend & Co Flora, J H Brahms, 68 Hainbro', , Bahr, Behrend & a Clementina, W Wotton, 118 Hambro% J G White Countess, J Garard, 120 Mel, Bahr, Behrend & C'. Aurora, P G Lestuner, 170 Nana, Bahr, Behrend & 9,... ° Drie Gesusters, D Franken, 105 Rotterdam, Bah r , Behrend"'„ Margaret Scott, G Scotland, 138 St. Petersburg, Chapman & ,' 1%.11,u, iEolus, J Forhjernsen, 150 St. Pete rs b urg , B a h r, B e h ren d & ''' Astley, B Starling, 221 St. Petersburg, Campbell & R' _.. NORTHERN HOSPITAL, APRIL 18. DISCHAROND Cured Attending as Out Patients Irregular Died is Hospital . . . bti 4091'22 ENING, ie Trade culation LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, APAIL 18. During the last seven days we have had moderate arrivals of Grain, Flour and Oatmeal coastwise and from lreland, but the im ports from abroad are large, comprising 11,300 qrs. r f Wheat, 7:so qrs. of Oats, 5,300 qrs. of Barley, 9,360 qrs. of Peas, and 26,500 barrels of Flour ; the latter from the United States. Duties have been paid upon 6,740 qrs. of Wheat, 4,100 qrs. of Barley, 310 qrs. of Beans, and 5,410 brls. of Flour. By submitting to a decline of :Id to 4d par bushel on the prices of this day se'nnight, holders of Wheat were, on Tuesday last, enabled to make tolerably good pro gress in sales,—Oats and Oatmeal, too, met a fair demand, at about previous rates.—Barley and Malt were each in limited request and cheaper, the former by as to 3s, the latter is per imperial quarter. Beans and ?ease maintained there previous value.—American FlOur, duty paid, was retailing at 355 to 39s per barrel. Owing in some degree, to the intervention of the holyday, there has since been little business done in any article of the trade, and prices generally remain unchanged. Two or three parcels of American Flour, in bond, have been picked up at 27s 6d, but the generality of holders are not sellers at less than ass per barrel. LIVERPOOL PR. ,CES CURRENT. SI A orat, la , cut. Dutch, crop.. .. Ombro Gamene . LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, APRIL 20. The number of Beasts at our market to-day was smaller than last week, and the trade by no means brisk ; the prin►est Beef sold at 6,1 d to bid ; second quality 6id ; inferior Sid to tid : at the close of the day there were a few lots of Cattle unsold. The supply of Sheep was a little smaller than on our last day ; the demand was not brisk, but last week's prices were maintained, 5.4- fur the primest Wethers 71d ; second quality ; inferior 7,1.• 'wags' 875 ; Sheep 2426. LONDON GAZ1:"1"1742.- FRTDA Y, APRIL 17. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. R. Addison and J. 1.. Syddall, Chadkirk, Cheshire, ca:ieo-printers —J. P. Eyton, R. Eyton, E. Eyton, J. Eyton, H. Eyton, and S. A. Eyton, Most) a Collieries, FLiutshire, coal-owners. INSOLVENTS April Is.—Stewart Hew•lings and Charles Watling' Wisdey, George yard, Lombard street, Loncion, bill-brokers. BANKRUPTCY SUPE RSEDE 0, Thomas Wilcox, Broadway; Deptford, licensed-victualler. BANKRUPTS. William Bilsborrow, Kirk dale, Lancashire, innkeeper, to surrender May 2, 30, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. Solicitors , Mr. Payne, Liverpool ; and Messrs. Vincent and Sherwood, London. John Clarance and James Goddard Chaldecott, Abchurch•yard, London, coffee-dealers. John Ryland, jun. William Chapman, and George Manley Smith, Birmingham, press-makers. _ Edw;id 13c; , ;ker Buck, Bingham, Nottinghamshire, druggist. Robert Harris, Leamington-priors. auctioneer. John Swift. Birmingham, brass candlestick-maker. Samuel Wilson and John Knight, Radford, Nottinghamshire. builders. Rowland Hall Heaton, Bolton-le-Moors, cotton-spinner. John 13layney, Chester, stone and marble-mason. DIVIDENDS. _ _ May 15, J. T. Hobson, Liverpool, merchant—May 9, E. Bowyer, Liverpool, merchant—May 9. C. Bowen, Oxford, linen- draper—MaY 11, L. Bendle, Barnstaple, draper—May 12, T. Ilart, Bognor, SUS sex, innkeeper—May 12, W. Elliott, Wakefield, corn.factor—May 11, T. Morris, Worcester, builder—May Li, J. Garner, Dunchurch, Warwickshire, innkeeper—May 12, 11. B. Burwood, Lowestoft, Suffolk, fish-merchant—May 11,'1'. Mee, Kettering, Northampton shire, farmer—May It, C. H. Metivier, Woottou-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, cloth-factor—May 11,A Gittins and J. Cartwright, Shrewsbury, ironmongers—May 11, N. Hoyle and D. Grundy, Bury, Lancashire, cotton-spinners. CERTIFICATES To be granted unless cause be shown to the contrary, on or before May 6. J. Britain, sen. Birmingham, jeweller—P. C. Blaoket, Green street, Grosvenor-square, London, lodging- house- keeper— 11. Parry, Birmingham, tailor—G. Partridge, Bristol, grocer—T. Atilt ter, Deptford, fellmonger—G. Fall, Manchester, dyer--J. L. liooJ, Princes-street, Leicester-square, London, rope-manufacturer -- C. Boyd. sen. Kensington Gravel-pits, picture-dealer—G. Halstead , Collie, Lancashire, cotton-spinner—S. James, jun. and W. Jaynes. High-street, Whitechapel, London, smiths—J. Flower, Sheffield. ironfounder—Z. Stirk, sen. Stirk, jun. and J. W. Thornton, Leeds, machihe-makers. ADMITTED Accidents la Medical and Surgical cases Upon recommendation Total 29 I Remaining in th Treasurer, R. W. Bateson; Esq. House Visitors, John Rigby, Esq. and G. J. Wainwright, Esq. Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.—House Surgeon, AI/ Arnott. lays. ! ilirn. TIDE TABLE. Et.n. Sitfidags, Ilutyddys, 4r. Aprili o. o. Al . ; F. I. Tuesday 21 13u 142 •IS 11/ • • • Wednes. 22 1 I 211 12 6 • T6ursday23 i 229 o 11 10 St. George. Friday .. 21 325 1 1 II 6 Saturday 25 425 511 ,11 9 St. Mark . Sunday 26 ib 20 625 12 9 Low Sunday. Monday 27 i 7 .8 7 39 I 14 B I RTI-IS On the I ith instant, the lady of Mr. IIROOLS, of Great George' street, dentist, of a daughter. On the 15th instant, at [farrow, Middlesex, tli;• lady 'of O. HARRIS, Esq. of a sou. On the 17th instant, the lady of N. CAIRNS, Esq.• of a daughter' MARRIED. iOn the 24th ult. in this town, M r. J OSEPH CLAN, of Nantwi c h' to CAROLINE VICTORIA BOLLAND, second daughter Id I. ' Holland, surgeon, Nantwich. On the Nth instant, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. 00 " r Stokes, Mr. DE VOS UYTERLIMMEGE to ADELAIDE WILLI. MINE AMAN, eldest.4.laugliter of Mr. Paulus Aman. Same day, at St. Bride's Church, by the Rev. George Stokes, G. J. SCHROEDLR, of Manchester, to Miss SOPIIIA JA%" MORRIS. On the 15th instant, at the Independent Chapel, in St. Ileleo' by the Rev. Wm. Vint, Mr. WILLIAM BE NSON, glass-make r. to Miss ANN BUTLER. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr, CLIFFORD HARDIN t ° ALICE RUSSELL, third daughter of Mr. Wm, Russell. On the 16th instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T • r . l3owstead, Mr. 'WILLIAM MILES WALTERS, youngest son of M. Walters, Berry-street, to CATHERINE Y ELVE ELTON, (WO O of Mr. T. Yelverton, Soho-street. fIS Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Mr. JOHN (;ROVES WALT-, second son of Mr. M. Walters, Berry-street, to FRANCES RUSSELL, only daughter of Mr. Thomas Russell, of H. M. 'lL toms at this port. On the 17th instant, the Rev. G BROWN, A.M. Windsor( Il a ; this town, to SARAH, youngest (laughter of the late Mr. J o ' FENBY, Beverley, Yorkshire. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. S. Bow(le Mr. JOHN GRIFFITHS WILLIAMS to Miss JANE BALL( I t°- common-street. t he On the lath instant, at St. G eorge ' s Ch urc h , Evertor], b) o f Rev. R. P. Buddicom, Mr. RICHARD BATTERSBY, second son qt the late Mr. James Battersby, to lIANNAII BAY LIS, yo n". taught -r ( f the late Mr. Wm. Baylis. On the ipth instant, at St. Philip's Church, by the Rev. T. 8. -lAA Mr. ROBERT GEORGE to Miss CATHERINE EVANS. Same day, Mr. EDWARD HUGH SAYER to LOUISA NE W",- 0 youngest daughter of the late Captain David Liman, of the 2 Foot or Royal North British Fusiliers. Yesterday, at St. Nicholas's Chap e l, C opperas- hill , b y the I / J: Youens, according to the rites of the Catholic Ch urc h, a nd al l it t p wards at St. George's Chur c h, b y th e R ey. J. G. Leigh, ED‘VA., ll KELLITT GREEN, Esq. of Londo n , t o MARI A NNE ELIZABD TOWNLEY, third daughter of Charles H. Townley, Esq. S' Great George -square. DIED. girt In December last, at the Mauritius, aged 23, JOHN 11A-^ STRIPE. fourth son of Mt. W. Stripe, Parker -street. On the 29th ult. at her residence, Salisbury-terrace, Old , S o.° ' Mrs. ALICE BRADSHAW, aged 69 years. On the sth instant, on his passage from N ap l es to l ot Leghorn, 59, the Rev. LAN'!' CARPENTER, LLD. Hi s f r i en d s t a tes, /g . they left Naples in a steamer on the sth, for Leghorn ; Carpenter had unlocked his travelling-bag in his berth at bed - t in and had removed some things as if preparing for retiring to pt when it is supposed he became sea-sick, and went upon deck er e the night was dark and r a i ny. an d t h e sea rough, end that 114,t0 was no doubt a sudden lu rc h o f th e vesse l h ad precipitated hint Jep the deep when : last see n , w hi c h was between ten and clel o o'clock at night, he was standi ng on t h e cabin stairs, as if fez benefit of fresh air. • r a' On the 7th instant, of apopl exy, aged 49, deeply regretted, - I HEAPS, wife of Mr. William Heaps, Bittern-street. g. On the Bth instant, Mr. GEORGE YOUNG, traveller for MeO f Clare and Brown, crown glass-manufacturers, Warrington. On the 9th instant, at Aghadoe, Killarney, Ireland, aged La , Right Hon. Lord HEADLEY. AftV On the 12th instant, much respected by his friends, RICH- 0. MERCER PARRY, son of the late Mr. Rowland Parry, On the 13th instant, deeply regretted, Mr. DALE, Old Haym°,,,g, On the 14th instant, at Elm-house, Wavertree, in her 81st MARY CROMPTON, widow of the late Dr. Crompton. I , l cr Same day, aged 26, ANNE CHEESIIROUGH, youngest (Wit of Mr. Cheesbrough. Norton-street. mercl e t, Same day, in his 63rd year, Mr. PETER JOHNSON, of LOnl road, saddler, sincerely regretted by all wh o h a d th e pleasure ° a cquaintance. r • Same day, at Disley, much respected, in his 26th year. at' JOSEPH STONES. Thi s g i gant i c youth exhibited himself a t Zoological Gardens, Manchester, a few months back. lle *' feet 3 inches in height, with strength iu proportion. On the 16th instant, at his residence, Pho. nix-park, Dublin , f JOHN DRUMMOND, U n d er -S ecretary f or Ireland. He wa s f alai" with inflammation of the bowels, whi c h baffled medicine ; 9i 5 5 1 Tuesday night, his case became hopeless, mortification 110 114 0* in. Mr. Drummond was we ll - k nown, i n London, as the ? , „.re• Private Secretary to Lord Alth orp ; an d i n the hill Under• i,- taryship, he proved himself a most efficient public officer. pears to have won the regard of men all parties. n et , ' On the 16th instant, aged le mon th s, REBECC A, the YO, „ t ett , ' daughter of Mr. JAMES LAIDLAW, St. James's-place, I°' park. Same day, aged 31, MARY CRISPIN, the wife of Mr. J• and second daughter of Mr. Underhill, London.road. _ t oe , Same day, aged 67, Mr. JOHN RIGBY, Upper Stanhopc'' Toxteth.park. • Same day, aged 6 months, MARGARET ELIZA NEEV" infant daughter f Mr. laac Needhm, Scotland-road. WO' On the 18th i o nstant, s ROBERT a BILLING, Esq. of Ro e County of Dublin. Same day, of rapid consumption, in the 14th year of I Jsoot, HENRY JAMES, only child of RICHARD THOMPSON , maker, Islington. LIVERPOOL: TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1840. 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