The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

PUHEIGN AND COLONIAL. The King of Denmark is alarmingly ill. The Ojibbeway Indians made their first appearance in Brussels the other night at a splendid soiree, given by Mr. Clemson, the American charge d'aftrires. A fire near Tobolsk, in Siberia, lately destroyed a forest of 6 1 ) leagues in length and 20 leagues in breadth. 25 per persons perished in the flames, which destroyed 1 village, 13 mills, 1,850 barns, 77,800 stacks of hay, 600 horses, 815 horned cattle, &c. FROST AND OTHERS. The latest letter received from Van Dieman's Land, states that Geach, the expa triated solicitor, was, in July last, keeping a school in a small cottage at Hobart Town. Frost was actively em ployed as a clerk in the same place ; and Jones had left off driving a stage coach, and was then engaged at his trade of a watchmaker. THE EMPEROR AND THE POPE We give the following from the Joural des D6bats, without vouching for its accuracy. It is a letter dated Florence the 18tii ult. : " The Emperor Nicholas arrived in this city at six o'clock this morning. He travelled in a caleche with Count Orloff. The Grand Duke had sent his chamber lain to meet the Emperor, and had prepared apartments for him in the Pitti Palace; but his Majesty, wishing to preserve a strict incognito, alighted at the Hotel d'ltalie, which was plac, , cl at his disposal The Grand Duke pre sented himself at the hotel at nine o'clock, to pay his res pects to the Emperor, who at the moment was sleeping, and the Grand Duke withdrew without seeing him. Two hours afterwards the Duke sent his Grand Master of the Ceremonies to request the Emperor to accept a dinner at the court, to be followed by a concert. The Emperor declined all invitations and all honours, but expressed his desire to dine with the family of the Grand Duke without ceremony. " During the day the Emperor proceeded in a hired carriage, followed by a servant without livery, to pay a visit to the Grand Duke. He wore the Uniform of a Hetman of the Cossacks, and was accompanied by Count Orloff. The Emperor likewise visited Prince Paul of Wurtemberg, without, however, entering his apartments, but merely inscribed at the porter's lodge the name of Count Orloff and that of General Romanoff. " The two interviews that took place between the So vereign Pontiff and the Emperor Nicholas form the prin cipal topic of conversation in this city. There is nothing official known on the subject. it is agreed on all hands, however, that it was the Sovereign Pontiff who led the conversation to the subject of religious affairs. His lan guage to the Czar was firm, affectionate, and severe, but profoundly melancholy, and produced, it is raid, a strong impression o❑ the Emperor Nicholas.--At his first inter view the Sovereign Pontiff had on his table two ukases published by the Emperor, which his Holiness requested should be revoked. These two ukases not only deprive the civil power of all intervention with respect to the jurisdiction of the religious bffairs of the Christian com munities in Russia, and invest the Greek Russian clergy with such jurisdiction, but they confer upon that body the right, without appeal, of applying the penalties in such matters, contrary to the ukases of Catherine 11. and the Emperor Alexander. " The Sovereign Pontiff, on taking leave of the Empe ror, handed him a note, in which were stated all the com plaints of the Holy See against the head of the Greek re ligion. The Emperor bad requested his Holiness not to derange himself for the purpose of p lying him a visit ; and, in fact, the Pope did not visit the Emperor. Cardi nals Linibruschini, Bernetti, Acton, and Mezzofanti, members of the papal government, were the only cardinals who visited his Imperial Majesty. Cardinal Lambtus chir,i had several conferences with the Emperor, and with Count Nesselrode, his Minister for Foreign Affairs. Amonzst the Roman prelates, three only—M. Marini, Governor of Rome ; M. Antonelli, Treasurer ; and M. Spada-Medici, President of Arms—paid their court to his Maje,,ty. clad in a r i de-Cani much generosity l'he Emperor, in his promenades through Rome, was ain gray ly , letot, and was attended by an aide tressed in plain clothes. Although he displayed r, and although he made several purchases statue:, paintings, mosaics, and likewise bestowed much money in works of charity, the Roman population gave him in general a cold and not a very respectful reception. I am assured that, particularly at the promenade of the Pincio, where his carriage followed the file of equipages, he was neither saluted with any exclamation, nor did the pedestrians uncover their heads. This demeanour of the Roman populatio❑ appeared much to astonish the Em peror. "The Emperor is to quit Florence to-morrow, or at the latest on the 21st. His intention is to proceed through Bologna to Venice, where he will pass a day, and thence he will continue his route directly to Vienna. The Grand Duke has placed at his disposal more than sixty post-horses. Through a prudent precaution, the equi pages of the Emperor are divided into two trains, which set out at several hours distance from each other, and frequeutly by the most different roads. The persons of his suite are ignorant by what road and in what carriage the Emp?ror trawls." The Journal des Dibats adds the following details, borrowed from a letter dated Rome, Dec. 18 : " The eve of his departure the Emperor returned to the Pope to pay a farewell visit. This last audience lasted three-quarters of an - hour. After an interchange of com pliments, the Sovereign Pontiff said to the Emperor— ' At this moment :be eyes of the entire universe are fixed upon us, and every Catholic is anxiou , ly awaiting the re sult of our interview.' This result will shortly be made known. The Pope will make it the subject of an address to the Sacred College in the approaching Consistory, which will take place in the month of January. " But even at present, I can assure you,' adds our cor respondent, ' that the Holy Father spo',e truly like a pope (father). The dignified and calm demeanour of the venerable Pontiff—his language tinged with melancholy and with unmeasu'ed firmness, made the strongest im pression on the mind of the Emperor. No person at Rome doubts but that the liussian and Polish Catholics will soon experience the beneficial effects of that august intervention of the bead of the church with their temporal sovereign.' " On Sunday, the 14th, the Czar ascended the cupola of Saint Peter, about twelve o'clock. A collation was prepared for him there by order of the Major.Domo. He accepted some refreshment, and proposed the health of the Pope in the following terms—' To the health of the Pope. May God preserve that venerable person, and grant him all that he desires.' " UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—The Rev. T. Pearse, to be domestic chaplain to Baroness North, of Wroxton Abbey.—Rev. H. W. B. D'aubeny, to the rectory of Kirk, Bramwith, orkshire.—Rev. C. G. Davies, lately of St. Paul's Church, Cheltenham, to the vicarale of Tewkesbury.—Rev. J. C. Burnett, to the vicarage of North Curry, with West Hatch and Somerset. —Rev. E. Carlyon, to the vicarage of Lamerton, Devon. —Rev. G. Scaife, to the curacy of Darfield Barnsley, Yorkshire.—Rev Lane, to the living of Wrotham, Kent. —Rev. A. Pat - in, A.M., to the vicarage of Tuddenham St. Martin.—Rev. I. Gaskarth, incumbent of Haverth waite, to the perpetual curacy of Lowick, near Ulverston. THE LATE BISHOP OF JERUSALEM.—The will of Alexander has just been proved in London ; the personal effects in this country were sworn under £7,000. It ap pears to have been made just previous to his lordship's departure from this country for Egydt, and about a month after his consecration to this foreign see, being dated Ist December, 1841. He has left to his executors and trustees. the Rev. John Christian Reicherdt, clerk, and C. El, Corbett, Esq , both residents of London, the whole of his property, real and personal, in trust for his wife, to receive the interest for her life while unmarried, and at her death, or second marriage, then to his childen absolutely. PERMANENT PAY.—A writer in the Times, advocating the cause of the working clergy, asks—Would it be a very astounding thing for a member of parliament to bring be fore the house a bill for so ameliorating the lot,of t'te clergy as to provide for a'l incumbents £l5O per annum certain.. and not dependent on their places ; awl for all curates at least £lOO per annum, also certain ; and to be so arranged that the incumbent could not in any way evade the law ; and this might be done by having his salary paid by the churchwardens, and not by the rector. Would it als ) be likely to meet with opposition to propose setting by a fund tor the support of meritorious clergymen in sickness and old age; the two afflictions which bring certain ruin to curates as well as small incumbents without private means IMPORTANT ECCLESIASTICAL DECISION.—The Arch bishop of Dublin has just decided a very important ques tion affecting the constitution of unconsecrated places of worship, and the rights of rectors of parishes. We allude to the case of the North Strand Chapel, licensed by the present Archbishop during the incumbency of the Rev. Mr. Maguire, the late rector of St. Thomas's, and who also gave his formal consent ; and the important point decided by his Grace (under advice of his Vicar• General and Judge of the Consistorial Court) is, that the consent of the future incumbent, for the time being, is nece sary to validate such license. We believe there was nothing personal in the transaction, and nothing further sought or contemplated, than that of legally sustaining an abstract question of right. The case was brought forward by Archdeacon Magee.—.Dublin Mail. THE COURT 4• FASHIONABLE WORLD. The Court still remains at Windsor, but neither her Majesty nor Prince Albert have been able to take their accustomed exercise on account of the boisterous and inhospitable state of the weather. Sir Robert and Lady Peel. and a select party, have been on a Christmas visit to the Queen. The Earl of Lincoln, Sir James and Lady Graham, and the Right H on . W . E. Gladstone, left Windsor Castle on Friday. The Duke of Devonshire, on leaving Worsley Hall, Lancashire, after a visit of several days to Lord and Lady Francis Egerton, went to Chatsworth, Derbyshire. LAW INTELLIGENCE. We believe that, in the arbitration inquiry, relative to the Wallasey land, the Solicitor-General's fee was 250 guineas with the brief, 360 guineas f',r coming down, and 100 guineas per day while the arbitration continued. THE PROTECTIVE SOCIETIES.—The question of the legality of these societies has been exciting a great deal of discussion, their opponents referring to the old books to prove that their promoters are open to be prosecuted cri minally fur maintenance ; but it appears by more recent opinions that they are not illegal, a decision of Lord Ab'nger being cited to the effect that persons believing they have a common interest in defending a❑ action are not guilty of maintenance. LEEDS AND YORK RAILWAY.—A general meeting of this company was held at Leeds, on Monday. A long report from the directors wrs read, from which it ap peared that 5,000 shares in this company had been allotted to ten gentlemen as the parties who were to hold the shares as trustees for the Aanchester and Leeds comyany. These were subsequently accepted by the Manchester and Leeds directors, and the board sanctioned the payment of £12,500 as a deposit on those shares. The Manchester and Leeds board, however, subsequently intimated that it had been found necessary, in carrying out certain ar rangements with Mr. Hudson, that the support of the Manchester and Leeds board should be withdrawn from the Leeds and York Company. The report also stated that for the purpose of union with the northern parts of Lancasiire, and the port of Fleetwood, the directors had made an arrangement with the directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Noi th Eastern Railway Company, between the point of junction between Wetherhy and York. The directors expressed their confidence that the Leeds and York line would command such decided parliamentary support as would lead to the passing of the bill in spite of all competitors. During the discussion which ensued, the conduct of the Manchester and Leeds board formed the subject of animadversion. "No PEACE WITH" RAILWAYS.—A meeting was held at Cheltenham, on Monday, for the purpose of receiving a report from a committee appointed at a former meeting, to guard the interests of the inhabitants against " the in vasions and incursions of railways." The Rev. Francis Close presided ; andlthe Hon. Craven Berkeley, M.P. fur the borough, is reported to have concluded some observa tions (on the lines affecting Cheltenham) with the follow ing denunciation :—" So much for my public connexion with this railway ; now for myself—Gentlemen, as an individual I hate your railways, I detest them altogether, I wish the concoctors of the Cheltenham and Oxford, and the concoc'ors of every other scheme, including the soli citors and engineers, were at rest in Paradise. (Laughter and loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I detest railroads : nothing is more distasteful to me than to hear the echo of our hills reverberating with the noise of hissing railroad engines running through the heart of our hunting country, and destroying that noble sport to which I have been accus tomed from my childhood, and to which I would humbly hope the good town of Cheltenham owes some little of its prosperity, (Loud and repeated cheers.) Such are my feelings against railroads ; but I know it is useless for me to attempt to stem the stream of public opinion ; and my object in joining the Cheltenham and Oxford Company is to secure to Cheltenham a more direct means of com munication than she now possesses. My object has been to benefit Cheltenham ; and although I know I have in curred great unpopularity by so doing, I feel that I could do nothing else. By promoting facilities of communica tion I have felt that I must benefit this town, which de pends so much upon its visitors ; and whether those visitors come to enjoy the sports of the field, or to reno vate their health, or to avail themselves of the meagre religious consolation which your reverend chairman can afford"—[the remainder of the sentence was lost amid storm of hisses, groans, and " shame."] RAILWAY INTELL/UEACE LEEDS AND CARLISLE RAILWAY.—This line has amalgamated wit: the Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, which was looked upon as its chief opponent. On the Sheffield and Manchester Railway is one of the highest bridges in the world, being the wooden bridge at Broadbottom, whilh is seventeen feet higher than the Alenai. It is not, however, so high as the bridge at Basle. The South Devon Line of Railway has been frequently traversed by a locomotive engine and tender, during the past week, over the once called unfathomable swamp of Cockwood. The distance has been accomplished in from sixteen to twenty minutes. The Grand Junction Railway Company have advertised for contracts for the erection of a new passenger-station at Eccles. The preparations for the improvement of the Lime street station are drawing to a close—the property has been sold—and the works will, we believe, shortly be commenced. CAMBRIA AND GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY COM PANY, CONNECTING SOUTH WALES WITH LIVERPOOL, MANCHgSTER, &c.—We learn that this company have made a complete re-deposit of their plans and sections with the board of trade and clerks of the peace of the re spective counties, and intend prosecuting the undertaking with vigour. A RAILWAY COMPENSATION CASE.—FRANCE.— A very important question at this moment engages the at tention of the Courts in Paris—being no less than a trial of the claim of the road—carrying interest between Rouen and Paris, to compensation in consequence of the competition they are exposed to by the railways between these termini. The case will be argued on the 7th of January. FRENCH RAILWAY SPECULATION.—In the eleven months of 1845, the sums lodged in the Paris Savings' Bank have been 34,987,113 francs (X 1,399,484), and the amount withdrawn 47,624,817 francs (E 1,901,992), being an excess withdrawn of 12,637,794 francs (X 505,512). This is attributed by the authorities partly to the long strike among the journeymen carpenters, and partly to the speculation in railway shares. The King of Sweden has authorized the cons'ruction of railroads in Sweden. The principal lines will be from Stockholm to Gottenburg, Stockholm to Istad, and Stock holm to Upsal and Gefle, with various branches. The English Consul-General in Norway is authorized to con struct the road between Christiania, Ojeren, and Aljosen, in the event of his being able to form a company for that purpose within a delay of six months. The Directors of the Midland Railway Company, it is said, have resolved to allow the sum of fifteen shillings a week to the family of the late Mr. Stubbs, police•ser geant, of Leeds, who lost his life in the late accident, until the youngest child is ten years of age; after that ten shillings a week to be allowed until the youngest child reaches the age of fourteen, to be paid weekly in the Leeds pay-bill. The " Battle of the Gauges" last year, like other battles, was rather costly ; it is estimated to have cost £120,000. It is now known that one side. viz.. the Lon don. Worcester, and South Staffordshire narrow gauge line, promoted, by the London and Birmingham, against the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton broad guage line, promoted by the Great Western, expended nearly £60.000 out of £131,450 received for deposits. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—Last Monday two la bourers on the South Eastern line, near Ashford station, were working a lorry up the line, when a coke train from Folkestone came up with them. The driver of the en gine blew the whistle, snct did everything in his power to give them timely warning of his approach ; but it appears the men either did not hear him in time, or did not con sider the danger so imminent, for they did not make pre parations to clear the line till the train was too much ad vanced, and before they could get the line entirely clear the buffer of the engine struck one of them, and be died in a very short time. THE BROAD AND NARROW GAUGE We have already published the result of the experimen tal trip on the broad gauge, when, it will be remembered. the Great Western party ran experimental trips with weights, exclusive of the engin e and tender, of 814 tons, 714 tons, and 61 tons respectively, and with those weights attached the greatest speed attained were a mile in 61, 58, and 59 seconds. The narrow gauge, on Thursday, a experimentalized with a train of only 50 tons weight. The engine selected was a new one, uilt by Mr. Hobert Ste phenson, with six wheels. The driving wheels, 6 feet 6 inches in diameter, were behind ; the top of the boiler was about 7 feet 4 inches above the rhil, and the cylinders were outside. It had not been running above a week, and had bees engaged only on experimental trips. Before entering more into detail relative to the speed attained, it may be well to observe, that had it really been so great as that which was achieved by the Great Western, the experiment could not be regarded as a fair parallel, owing to the difference in the weights carried : since, in the case of the narrow gauge, the gross weight was ten tons lighter than the lightest attached in the case of the broad gauge. Mr. Brunel, as well as Professor Barlow, expressed surprise that a weight of only 50 tons should be applied to the engine. Mr. Bidder, however, stated that he was desirous of showing first what could be accom plished on the narrow guage with light trains; afterwards he would experitnentalize with heavier ones. All the preliminaries having been arranged, and the carriages, eight in number, having been attached, the train started from the first mile post at 12 minutes 17 seconds past 9 a.m. It arrived at the 44th mile at 26 minutes 10 seconds past 10, having performed the whole distance of 43 miles in 1 hour 13 minutes and 53 seconds. The shortest time occupied in performing a single mile was 68 seconds. The return trip was made in 1 hour 23 minutes 53 seconds, a delay of some four or five minutes having oc curred half-way in taking in water ; and the average speed not being so great as that of the down trip. From the above it will be seen that the utmost speed attained at any time, with the train of only 50 tons, was a mile in 68 seconds, and that even that pace was not main tained for above one mile. On the Great Western a speed of one mile in 61 seconds was attained, with a train of 81 tons attached, whilst the general average was con siderably al,ove that of Thursday's work. In extenuation of this disparity in speed, it is only fair to state that a high wind prevailed. It blew a perfect hurricane from the west, and beat with immense violence against the sides of the carriages. This, of course, materially retarded the progress of the train. Indeed, the difference between the speed on embankments and on cuttings was perfectly pal pable. When on an embankment, wholly unprotected by hedges or side slopes, the wind was so powerful that little more than a mile in two minutes was the result; whereas the instant a train descended into a cutting, where the slopes protected it from the wind, the speed increased to a mile in 68 to 70, to 90 or 100 secones ; and it is but just to observe, that the Great North of England line seems to have been constructed with very little cutting, and that iris consequently much exposed to wind. Mr. Bidder estimated the high wind as an additional weight of 100 tons added t' the train. The engine, he said, consumed as much water, generated as much steam, and employed as much power,:as had been consumed, ge nerated, and employed on the Great Western, with the 81 ton train, and the superior speed. What, he argued, had become of that power, if it had not been employed in overcoming the extra resistance of the wind ? When the advocates of the narrow gauge were regretting that the wind should have caused them such a retardation, Mr. Brunel turned round, and humorously observed, " You can't complain ; it's Hudson's fault ; he's the fellow that raises the wind." On Thursday, an engine with four carriages, engaged on these trips, left the York station, and on reaching a point about half a mile beyond the Thirsk station, (being a distance from York of about 22 miles,) the engine leaped off the railtl, owing, it is supposed, to too high a pressure, it being proceeding at the time at the rate of about 70 miles an hour. The consequence was, that all the carriages were broken to pieces, and the stoker was so much injured that there is little chance of his recovery. Ail the other parties with the train escape •) without seri ous injury. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENTS BY DROWNlNG.—Melall choly to relate, a boat from Gaily Cove, with six men to the west of Crookhaven, on Tuesday went out to fish, and she was struck by a heavy sea, and all hands lost. Five men were drowned in the hatbour of Sneem, county Kerry, last week, while returning to she shore; the boat sunk from being overloaded with herrings. DISTRESSING CASE OF BIGAMY.—A few days ago the daughter of a highly respectable citizen, who is connected with a public establishment in this city, was married to a gentleman, a native of Galway, and after the ceremony proceeded with him to France ; but the previous marriage of the gentleman with a lady by whom he has children, transpired after their departure, and the unhappy parents of the deluded girl have been obliged to resort to the laws to punish the offender. For this purpose a warrant has been issued for his apprehension.—Dublin paper, POTATO ROT AND PRIESTCRAFT.—By a letter from Anamoe, in the county of Wicklow, we learn the gratifying fact, that in that neighbourhood the disease has made little progress, and that the loss is but trifling. This in formation is accompanied with a further account of the use to which priestcraft has turned the disease in that quarter, and which lamentably elucidates the intellectual state of our poor popish peasantry in these enlightened days. We learn that from the adjoining county of Wexford holy water is brought a distance of twenty or thirty miles, and that the priests of Wicklow, not willing to leave all the profits to the Wexford worthies, who have th,. holy water, take care to sell, at a very high price, some blessed salt, which, being m'xed with the water, the charm is complete, and to this cause the cessation of the disease is attributed by the deluded Romish peasantry. It seems, moreover, that they are persuaded the benefit in this case of the charm cannot be extended to the potatoes of heretics, but that it would lose its purifying virtue if sold to, or touched by Protestants. What a hopeful task it is to ameliorate the condition of a country by multiplying, at the public expense, priests of fraud and superstition, who trade in practices like these.—Dublin Sqilesman. THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The chair at the meet ing on Monday was taken by the head pacificator, whose appearance in the hall, after his protracted absence, was the signal for most uproarious cheering. .The Chairman returned thanks for " the high honour" conferred on him, in his peculiar etyle of pomposity and magnilo quence, and congratulated them on the progress of their peaceable agitation—that " sublime " and " tremendous engine." whose mighty influence had induced the adher ents of Joseph Sturge and the Anti-Corn-Law-League in England to adopt it as Ike model for their system of political agitation. The minutes of the last day's pro ceedings were read by the secretary, and a letter from •• that most useful " Irishman, Wm. Smith O'Brien, re peating his call for no compromise, and regretting the necessity which obliged them to eject from parliament so many otherwi,e excellent non-Repeal representatives, in order to procure the election of the required seventy members of Concisiation Hall. The Liberator then in a speech of an hour and a half's length, proceeded to no tice the last letter of the Times' Commissioner. He en tered into a wearisome recapitulation of the statements respecting his property, charging the " two gutter Com missioners " with the suppression in their reports of many important facts which tended to viodicate his cha racter as a landlord, and in some instances with having wilfully asserted the most " arrant falsehoods." The two commissioners were held up to the ridicule of the au ditory, and the most vituperative terms heaped upon them with characteristic liberality. Mr. Russell, whom he denominated " liar the second," was visited with espe cially indignant denunciations, for having sustained the allegations of " liar the first," Foster went down de termined to view everything with an eye of malignant en mity; and Russell worked in harness with him—" an ug. lier pair of beagles never hunted game "—(laughter). He asserted that the letters of Messrs. Fitzgerald and Butler, and the testimony of Mr. Hamilton, approving of his conduct as a landlord, had not been the least invalidated, while his own statements, made on a previous oscasion, remained all uncontradicted. The amount of rent col lected during the past week was declared to be £2,371 3s. Od. GENERAL MISCELLANY Lord Metcalf is improving since his arrival in London. Primroses were gathered the other day, in the neigh bourhood of Doncaster. The Great Wester❑ Railway Company have subscribed £3OO to the Ascot Race Fund. Upwards of 600 sail of vessels put into Milford Haven for shelter during the late gale. The Oxford and Cambridge Review has an article by Lord John Manners, advocating free trade. MINING IN FURNESS.—A valuable discovery of iron ore has recently been made on a range of hills called Ricket Hills, by Messrs. Town and Rawlinson, of Dalton. Tne Rev. W. Gresley has pronounced the glorious re. volution of 1688 to be a transaction, "false in principle and pernicious in its results !" It is generally believed that in the event of a dissolution of Parliament, John Bowes, Esq., does not intend again to offer his services to the electors of South Durham. lt is said that Mr. Cardwell, at present Secretary to the Treasury, is to succeed Mr. Hope, as Under-Secretary to the Colonies. A fine dish of white currants was gathered on Christ mas-day in the garden of William Ford, Esq., of Yeo, near Yealhampton. The wheat plants are looking very promising, and there has seldom been a better prospect at Christmas for the ensuing harvest than this year. Mr. S. E. Cayley, M.P., says :—" That a duty of 15s. per quarter on wheat only adds one farthing and 1-16th to the price of a quartern loaf." On Saturday evening a young author, Mr. J. Christian floss, destroyed himself at a coffee-house in Aldergate street, by taking prussic acid, in consequence of the re jection of one of his articles by a popular magazine. A " High Change," similar to those of London, Liver pool, and Manchester, has lately been erected at Bristol, which has heretofore been deficient in this convenience for merchants. The driver of the Portpatrick and Dumfries mail having slipped, the other day, as he was about to mount his box, the horses started off without attendant, and ran upwards of three miles without accident. The good service pension of £3OO per annum, which re verted to the Admiralty on the death of Admiral Sir C. Rowley, Bart., is conferred on William Hotham,G.C.B., Admiral of the White. On Thursday last a chi nney was blown down at 1311- last Hills, near Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The bricks fell through the roof and killed an infant that was sleeping in a cradle. _ A short time since a dog, at Cardiff, seeing his portrait exhibited to some gentlemen, sprung at the painting in a rage, and, before be could be prevented, partially defaced • 11•• An American ship arrived in St. Katherine's Docks, last week, with a large cargo of potatoes from the United States. The potatoes appear to be of excellent size and quality. It is a curious circumstance, that, during the five days that Lord John Russell was supposed to be in power, not a voice was raised in the " famine cry," nor a word said upon the " potatoe disease." The duty on the importation of foreign wheat has this week advanced to 15s. per quarter. The grain markets, generally, have become animated, and prices have ad vanced in a moderate degree. Qutcx JUSTICE.—In the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion square, London, on Friday, at the commencement, the Jury were sorn four times, four causes tried, and four verdicts recorded in twenty minutes. _ _ _ The Reverend Librarian of Lambeth Palace, Mr. Maitland, at one. time acquired the soubriquet of the Clerical Fox-hunter, from his zeal to pick out every error to be found in the ponderous ♦olumes of the honest mart yrologist. _ _ _ Mr. Pugin, the Romish architect, lives at Ramsgate, near to the spot where St. Austin is said to have first set his foot on English ground. He has commenced, at an estimated cost of £lO,OOO, the erection on this spot of a church, school, and cloister. NOVEL IDEA OF INDEPENDENCE.—The English Churchman, in announcing itself to be " in an indepen dent position," suggests to its subscribers the doubling of their annual subscription, by which means, it says, " the loss on the paper would be entirely got rid of. STOVES IN CHURCHES.—On Sunday week Stanwix church was nearly burnt down, owing to the fire in the stove communicating with the woodwork of the pews. The pulpit, with several pews in the neighbourhood, was de stroyed, and the organ materially injured. Dr. Polli, of Milan, known to the medical world by his remarkable researches on the blood, has just communi cated to the Scientific Congress at Naples, a proceeding to render salt water drinkable by means of electricity.— Medical Times. A well-sinker has been suffocated at Market Weston, by incautiously descending a well without having first tested the state of the air by means of a candle. In the course of the previous hour a stratum of carbonic acid gas had formed for a depth of thirty feet; and as soon as he went down, the man fell senseless. Lord Lyttleton has sent circulars to his tenants caution ing them against disposing of their corn at injurious prices, at .d offering such accommodation as may be necessary to enable them to hold their stocks. The noble lord says Ora the present reduced price of wheat is the result of the recent political changes, but that' prices are certain to go up again ; and if his tenants cannot pay their tents now due, they have only to apply to his agent, and time will be afforded to enable them to retain their c.rn until the roarke's resume their former stability. HOW . TO MAKE A CDURCH.—A service took place on Tuesday, D cember 23d, in the Adelphi Chapel, Hackney road, to organise a Christian Church in this newly-erected place of worship. After suitable exhortation and prayer, the members received the right hand of fellowship, and were recognised and declared to be a Church of Christ. The recuguition was then confirmed by a participation in the ordinance of the Lord's Supper with the ministers and members of other Churches.—Nonconformisl. SUICIDES OF MILITARY OFFICERS.—On Saturday week Col. Gurwood, the distinguished officer and author of " The Wellington Dispatches," destroyed himself at Brighton by cutting his throat with a razor. The medical gentleman gave it as his opinion that the act was induced by the relaxation of the nerves consequent on the comple tion of the work above referred to, and on which the mind of the deceased was intently fixed.—The last intelligence from India details the distressing suicide by poison of Ensign Wm. Miles of the sth regiment Bombay Light Infantry (Native.) PROBABLE INCREASE OF THE INCOME-TAX.—We hear on good authority that orders have been issued from the Treasury for official returns to be made of the res pective amounts that would be realised by the different heads of " lands," " professions," " salaries," &c., on an income tax of five per cent. instead of the present rate of sevenpence in the pound. This would seem to countenance the rumour that it is in contemplation to charge some branches of local taxation on the Consolidated Fund.— Britannia. [This, it will be remembered, corroborates pro raters our announcement of last week. The New castle Journal seems to think our information will be found correct ] NOVEL INTERMENT CASE.—On Monday last, pursu ant to advice given by c,unsel, the Board of Guardians caused the child, to which the Vicar of Leigh had refused interment, to be prssented at the church-yard for burial. An order had been served on the vicar, and on his refus iog, notice of intention tc bury the corpse was served on the vicar, the clerk, and the sextoness. Several hundreds of persons assembled on Monday afternoon to witness the proceedings, and at four o'clock the funeral procession arrived, and, as was expected, found the gates locked, and their admission refused. They stood at the gates half an hour with the child, and afterwards returned to Bedford with the corpse. POISONING—A man named Farrer, a butcher, near Tadcaster, died on Sunday week very suddenly. He was out at dinner with his sister, Mrs. Prout, and, before the cloth was removed, Mr. and Mrs. Prout, Mr. Farrar, and other members of the family became alarmingly ill. Me dical assistance was promptly obtained, and in the case of the several individuals of Mr. Prout's family the treat ment was successful in averting any immediate fatal re sult. Mr. Farrar died in two hours from the time he sat down to dinner. It appears that a boy had been sent in to the garden for some horse-radish, and in mistake ga thered some portion of the root known as Monk's Hood, with which strong poison the gravy had become impreg nated.—Leeds Paper. CURIOUS.—WhiIe a gentleman was looking at the salmon essaying to pass Powick weir the other day, his dog (a bitch of the Newfoundland breed) discovered a very curious magazine. She began scratching and sniff ing violently at a rat-hole situate under a beam at the ex tremity of the weir, and some couple of yards from the water ; guessing there was something extraordinary there, it was examined, when it was found to contain nineteen lamperns all alive and in good order, which some fisher men insisted had been stored there by the rats. As the water had not reached the spot for a long time previous. the lamperns clearly had been carried there by some means, and the fishermen say that the rats are continually in the habit of robbing their putcheons.—Hereford Paper. SOMNAMBULISM•—REMARKABLE PRESERVATION.— About five o'clock on Friday morning as constable Parry was on duty near Eign-brook Chapel, in this city, he heard something fall heavily, and immediately made search, and in the street, close under the shop-window of Mr. Algood, discovered what he thought was the body of a man with nothing on but his night-dress. Upon raising it up, however, he found that it was an aged female, in a state of utter insensibility, or as be at first thought quite dead. She was taken into the house, and placed in a bed, and it transpired that her name was Mrs. Evans, and her age between 70 and 80 years. The solution of the occur rence is, that she had risen in her sleep, and that, getting out of the window, she first fell upon the ledge of the shop-window of the house where she lodged, which broke her descent to the groucd, a height of many feet, or she would certainly have been killed. We are happy to learn that Mrs. Evans is going on favourably.—Hereford Jour nal. DICKENS'S NEWSPAPER.—The first number of the Daily News will appear in a fortnight. Its peculiar feature will be, that the literary body, so long second to the com mercial in the daily press, will be in the foreground. They are committing a treat mistake in avowedly starting on the extreme Liberal interest. Bradbury and Evans are the proprietors. Dickens, it is now said, will not be the editor, as stated in a paragraph going the rounds of the press, but Foster, the literary editor of the Examiner. They have decided on giving their reporters seven instead of five guineas a week, for their annual engagements. The proprietors of the Morning Herald, which has lately been drawing an enormous revenue from advertisements, the price of the column formerly £l2, being now £3O, intimated the other day, to their Bombay and Calcutta correspondents, the increase of their salaries from £l2O, which is paid the former. to £4OO, and from £lOO, the sa lary of the latter, to £3OO per annum. The foreign cor respondents of the morning journals are paid from five to ten guineas a week; and the express India mail, fort nightly, stands the Times and Herald each £BOO a month. The principal editor is paid at the rate of 30 guineas a week, and the subs., of which there are six or seven to each paper, (not to speak of the managing editor, whose services are recompensed with 12 guineas per week,) re ceive from eight to ten guineas weekly. The parlia mentary reporters to each paper ♦ary from sixteen to twenty, at the salary above stated, irrespectively of which there are nine law reporters. at from three to five guineas a week, nine cehers who attend the police offices, at no fixed salaries, besides supernumeraries, who pick up a trifle in the accident and occurrence line. BAN KAU PTCY.—The total number of bankruptcies that have occurred in and up to a late period of the expiring year is, 1,028 and, it appears that there were 7 apothe caries, 1 attorney. 9 auctioneers. 7 bakers, 5 beersellers, 18 booksellers, 21 shoemakers, 14 brewers, 11 brick layers and masons, 3 brickmakers ' 18 brokers, 33 builders 19 bu!chers, 15 cabinet-makers, 4 calico printers. 10 car penters, 1 carpet manufacturer, 7 carriers and carmen, 3 carvers and gilders, 8 cattle-dealers, 7 cheesernongers, 21 druggists, 2 clothiers, 2 cloth manufacturers, 1 cloth merchant, 3 coach makers, 3 coach and omnibus pro prietors, 19 coal merchants, 18 commission agents, 2 con tractors, 1 cook and confectioner, 15 corn merchants, 6 cotton manufacturers, 2 cotton spinners, 12 curriers, 3 cutlers, 4 dairymen, 5 dealers, 33 drapers, 11 dyers, 3 earthenware dealers, 3 coffee-house keepers, 9 engineers, 1 engraver, 8 farmers, 4 farriers, 4 fell-mongers, 2 fish mongers, 2 fruiterers, 6 glass merchants, 59 grocers, 6 batters, 11 hosiers, 44 innkeepers, 8 ironfounders, 14 ironmongers, 2 jewellers, 2 lacemen, 3 leather sellers, 1 limeburner, 18 linen drapers, 1 livery-stable-keeper, 1 lodging. housekeeper, 7 machinists, 5 maltsellers. 2 mar ket gardeners, 4 mercers, 40 merchants, 4 milliners, 8 millers, 6 money-scriveners, 5 musical instrument makers, 8 oil and colourmen, 5 painters, 4 paperhangers, 6 paper makers, 1 pawn broker, 20 plun,bers and glaziers, 8 prin ters, 2 print and musicscllers, 8 provision dealers. 2 sad dlers, 1 sailcloth manufacturer, 3 shipb okers, 3 ship owners, 3 shipwrights, 4 silk manufacturers, 3 smiths, 1 soapmaker, 9 stationers, 6 surgeons and dentists, 16 tail ors, 4 tallowchandlers, 11 teadealers, 5 timber-merchants, 2 tobacconists, 3 trimming-makers.'9 upholsterers, 63 victuallers, 12 warehousemen, 8 watchmakers, 4 wharf fingers, 5 wheelwrights, 36 wine and spirit-merchants, 3 woollen-drapers, 7 woollen-manufactur , rs, 1 woolstapler. 3 worsted-manufacturers, 1 worsted-spinner, and 57 of various occupations. HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—A WOMAN EATEN BY RATS.—On Friday week, Mr. Jewison, Coroner, held an inquest at Tong, on view of the body of Sarah Holds worth, a woman St years of age, who was found dead in her house. The old woman resided in a hovel somewhere in the neighbourhood of Dudley Hill, and though so far advanced in life resided alone. For two days previous to her death she had been confined to bed, having no one to attend on her but a step-son nearly as old as herself. On Wednesday night, at eight, he left her in bed, and re tired for the night ; next morning be found her laid on the floor dead, and presenting a most horrible spectacle. Her right eye was nearly eaten out, her left eye was eaten, her forehead and nose were gnarled, and the edges of a sore on one arm had also been gnawed. It appeared that the residence of the deceased was infested by rats, which bad become so bold that they had on former occasions actua ly eaten the old woman's chemise as she lay in bed, likewise her other clothing and the bed clothes, into holes. To keep them from attacking her person she had been ac customed, as was the case on Wednesday night, to have aistick laid on the bed. Nothing had been heard in the night in her ccttage. It is believed that the vermin, more ravenous than usual, had attacked her as she lay, and that to escape them she made an effort too great for her feeble state, a fit had come on, of which she died, but that the rats made their horrid feast before life was ex tinct. The unfortunate old woman was in the receipt of 3s. a-week relief from the union, and but a short time ago it was sought to take her to the workhouse, but her opposition was so great that the relieving officer was obliged to desist. She paid 6d. a-week rent for her hovel, and when found had 6s. 74d., which she bad saved up to pay her rent. In connection with this little hoard a simple but affecting incident was related. On Wednes day her step-son, who appears to have been a tender, affectionate nurse, gave her some some tea without sugar or milk, and a piece of dry, coarse bread. The poor old woman said she could like something nice, the addition of milk and sugar to her tea, and of butter to her bread, would probably have been quite a luxury ; but though 90 ill not a word was said of dipping into the rent fund. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. IRELAND. A special commission has been iscued for Westmeath for the trial of the prisoners in Mullinzar gaol. The Dubin Mail states that there wit be an explana tion on the subject of the late ministerial difficulties on the part of either Sir Robert Peel or Lord John Russell. A. child, three years old, named Farrell, residing near Maryborough, Ireland, was, last week, torn to pieces by a pig, in the temporary absence of the father. The Drogheda and Londonderry coach was upset on Thursday and the driver was killed. One or two pas sengers were hurt. The Irish Colleges are to be styled respectively the Queen's Colleges, for Belfast, Cork, and Galway. Dr. John Ryall has received the appointment of Vice-Principal of the " Queen's College for Cork." Whilst Mr. John M'Curdy, of Magilligan, near Cole raine, was out sporting on the 25th ult , he was acciden tally shot dead by his servant, to whom he had previously given a gun, and directions that he should fire at the fowl immediately after him. On Christmas night, at 'Corbally, near Waterford, a quarrel took place at a public house between two men named Hacket and Power. They were separated by the landlord, when the f:rmer assembled his three brothers, and, concealing themselves behind a hedge, they waylaid poor Power, and he died of the injuries received. MINISTERIAL CHANGEs.—The Duke of Buccleuch will succeed the late Lord Wharncliffe as President of the Council. Lord Ellenborough will return to office as First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Haddington has accepted the Privy Seal in room of the Duke of Buccleuch.—Times. AMAZING UNANIMITY.—The Leeds Mercrry states that in the village of Quarmby, near Huddersfield, there are twenty-four houses and seventeen county voters, al: of whom signed the requisition of Lord Morpeth. So it seems the very stones cry out to be represented by his Lordship. Great Protectionist meetings have been held during the week, in Sussex, Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Es sex, Worcestershire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, and other par's of the country. At a meeting at Chichester on Wed nesday, the Times newspaper was gibbeted and burnt, in presence of the chairman, the Duke of Richmond ! Men are collecting their thoughts after the alarm of a Whig-Radical Government, and with such symptoms of returning confidence, that the Three per cents. have risen from 92 to 94, in the short space of nine days ; a testi mony to the confidence which the fundholders lately placed in a free-trade Government.—Mornino Herald. DESTRUCTION OF A LARGE MILL NEAR KENDAL.— On Saturday night last the neighbourhood of Kendal was visited with a severe gale of wind and rain, which effected the almost entire destruction of a very large and extensive mill at Scarrs Foot, near the above town, the property of G. and J. Braithwaite, manufacturers, which was in the course of erection. LORD GREY.—It appears that one strong expression was omitted in Mr. Macaulay's letter, which appeared in our last, relative to these noblemen. It is said that the original letter contained some very strong expressions of Mr. Macaulay towards Earl Grey ; one sentence particu larly was to the effect that the noble lord, in Mr. M.'s opinion, is "the most arrogant, most capricious, and most wayward of mankind." EFFECTS OF JEALOUSY AND PASSlON.—Yesterday week, a woman named Thorpe died at Bradford from the effects of arsenic. The deceased had quarrelled with her husband on Thursday, on a slight matter, and went to live with her brother-in-law. On Saturday morning a meddling neighbour told her a tale of her husband's infi delity, and i❑ a fit of passion she procured the poison, and died soon after taking it. A MAN SHOT IN MISTAKE FOR A WIT,D DUCK.-011 the night of Tuesday a person named Gooderson, while in his fowling skiff in Cowbit Wash, fired at what he consi dered to be a group of birds ; but was horror-struck when he discovered as the object of his aim his old comrade Jackson, who, like himself, was in pursuit of birds : but faint hopes are entertained of poor Jackson's recovery.— Lincoln Chronicle. THE BIRDS IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—This collection, which belongs to the Ornithological Society, at the pre sent time contains upwards of three hundred birds„ in cluding twenty-one species, and fifty-one distinct varieties. Although some of the specimens occasionally wander to some distance, but comparatively few are lost, as they generally return, even after a long absence, the secluded plantations and islands being quite congenial to their habits. DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Sunday, a tailor named Porter, at Bradford, entered his father's house, on a bed in which lay his sister, who had only been ten minutes de livered of a child; he dragged his sister from the bed, and threw her into the street, where she was found by the watchman, who had her immediately conveyed to bed again. The watchman was alarmed by the smell of burn ing, and he hastened up stairs and found that the priso ner had broken open a box, and had taken from thence his sister's and child's clothing, and put them on the fire, from which in burning they had fallen on the hearthstone, Ile then went down stairs and took up a chair, which he raised for the purpose of striking his sister as she lay on the bed, when his father struck him with a hammer and felled him, he was then secured and taken to the lock-up. —Leeds paper. YACHT CLUBS.—Mr. James Knight, secretary of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, proposes a magnificent re view of all the yacht clubs in the kingdom, to take place before her Majesty, off the Isle of Wight, in the yachting months of 1846. Of its magnificence some idea may be form :•d from the fact being that there are more than 11 clubs, commanding a force exceeding five hundred yachts, and as the statistics of such a force may be interesting to the lovers of aquatic amusements, we may conclude by lay ing the following particulars before our readers:— No. of No No. Principally Distinction of Clubs. Yachts. Tons. Men. Guns.Bras4 ) a. Royal Yacht Squadron 102 9000 1600 400 from 2to 9 Royal Thames Yacht Club 146 4400 540 220 from to 6 Royal Western Yacht Club 74 3000 400 260 from Ito 6 Royal Southern Yacht Club 67 2800 350 230 from Ito 9 Royal Victoria Yacht Club 38 3200 420 250 from 2to 6 Royal Harwich Yacht Club 38 900 120 40 from to 4 Royal Cork Yacht Club Royal Mersey Yacht Club Royal Northern Yacht Club Royal Eastern Yacht Club Roi'al Kingstown Yacht Club.. 29 1380 230 70 from Ito 6 - - - - 621 29250 4380 1810 Deduct about 1-6th for the same Yachts belonging to different Clubs, you will have a grand total of .... 530 25000 3900 1500 The seamen are exclusive of masters, cooks, and stew ards, which would give at least 800, in addition to the foregoing numbers. Th 3 wages alone for the masters and seamen exceed £120,000 per annum, and the intrinsic value of the yachts, with their armament complete, is more than three quarters of a million of money. THE OVERLAND ROUTE.—Considerable discussion took place last week between the Times and Morning Herald as to whether the route via Marseilles or Trieste is the most expeditious, the Herald having on the last occasion, by the former route, outstripped its contemporaries. The Herald gives the following explanation as to its arrange ments :—lmmediately upon reading the bombastic obser vations made by the Times in support of Mr. Waghorn's project for conveying the Indian Mail via Germany— offered, no doubt, as a compliment to Mr. Waghorn for bringing the Times' despatches, and with the hope of receiving his assistance hereafter—we determined upon proving the utter absurdity of the assertion that the Trieste route was the shortest, by running as rapid an express as possible from Suez via Marseilles. The only difficulty in our way was to obtain a steam-boat from Alexandria to Marseilles, and to obviate this difficulty we wrote to the French Government, stating our intention, asking the favour that one of the usual passenger steam boats trading between Alexandria and Marseilles might be placed at our disposal, and offering to pay all expenses incurred in that service. The French Government hav ing considered our proposition, answered that they could not comply with our request, but, to show their desire to afford every possible assistance in accomplishing an object of so much importance to England as the expediting the conveyance of the Indian Mail, they had determined upon placing at our disposal a French war-steamer, which could convey our agent to Egypt to arrange the express from Suez to Alexandria, and for the use of which ves sel the French Government could not possibly receive any pecuniary remuneration, but they expected that a copy of the " Overland Bombay Times" should be delivered to the Government in Paris as soon as our courier ar rived there. STATE OF TRADE MANCHESTER.—We have again to report an increasing confi dence as well as an improving demand for most descriptions of cloth, and at very full, and in some cases increasing rates, and the market closes very buoyant for all qualities. Yarns are better to sell, and the opinion is general that a large and good business will be done in the new year. LANCASHIRE, Jan. I.—The broad silk trade at Leigh. Middle ton, Failsworth, Manchester. and their vicinities is better than it was a month ago. Fancy work and mixed goods are in par ticular request, and many new sorts of fine fancy goods for the spring trade are now being manufactured in the neighbourhood of Manchester. The silk smallware trade in the same districts remains rather slack, and many silk mill hands are only partially employed. The trade in the cotton mills at Oldham is mode rately brisk, yet there are several turn outs amongst power loom weavers for an advance of wages. The wo illen cloth trade at Saddleworth is moderately brisk, and the operatives generally have full employment. The gingham trade at Radcliffe, Whit field, Prestwich, Eccles, and vicinities, is very brisk, and some of the manufacterere cannot get goods sufficient to meet their demands. ROCIIDALE.—At this time of the year the flannel market is usually dull, and there is very little hope of any change for the better before the first market, which is the first Monday after the 6th of January. The wool dealer. complain of the limited de mand there is for that article. Prices may be quoted the same as last week. LEEDS.-At this period of the year the merchants are much engaged in taking stock ; we always expect our markets to be rather dull at and about Christmas. The weather has also been stormy, which may be one reason why the Cloth Halls, both on Saturday and Tuesday last, presented a less than average attend ance of sellers as well as of buyers. Stocks of manufactured goods are not large, and prices remain firm. HunoxasprELD.--We are glad to say that the st-ple trade of this town and neighbourhood, is in a cheering condition and a good spring trade is generally anticipated. The re was a good attendance of buyers, considering the season, at market en Tuesday, and all descriptions of trowserings, waistcoatings, and other kinds of goods suitable for the spring trade were freely purchased. BRADFORD.—A slight improvement has been manifested in the demand for goods this week, principally for Paramattas and Orleans. We hope we shall have to notice a progressive im provement, for stocks are low in the hands of both merchants and manufacturers, all parties having exercised great caution to keep as low as possible. The fancy goods departmeot is greatly tleprOssed, and some are abandoning the trade altogether. Not much is doing in wools, the prices of which are slightly declin ing. As iespects yarns, the year just closed has been one of no ordinary character, for, throughout the entire period, nothing but loss has been the result ; for while wool has bee, very firm and high in price, yarns have been heavy and drooping; and what has added much to depress the trade, has been the large quantity of inferior yarns, which have been thrown on the mar ket and sold regardless of price, in many cases at even less than the wool cost ; we are glad, however, that less of this class is now offering. The inquiries for yarn are more numerous and as soon as the shippers are in the market, and the business more active, higher prices are fully calculated on. We hear of some houses unwilling to sell for distant delivery. HOSIERY AND LACK TRADES —The town and trade of Not tingham has not for many years presented a more gloomy aspect, as almost every branch of it, manufactures seems in a sinking state, though with here and there a bright speck to en liven hope for the future. In the midst of so much depression we believe that the demand for silk and plated silk gloves has again sensibly increased, but the other silk branches are in a lamentable state. The fancy bobbin•net trade, though the Leipsic fair is next week, is still in nearly a stagnant condition. The warp lace trade is by no moans in the stagnant state of the bobbin-net, and many mechanics well acquainted with the prin ciples and powers of both descriptions of machines, gave it as their decided opinion that the warp trade will eventually pre ponderate over the bobbin-net machine, which latter is extremely costly and expensive to alter. At the present time several new manufactures are contemplated from the warp; whilst the bob bin net Sc ems at a stand in improvement, the heavy cost at the present price of nets deterring every attempt, as the buyers in general, being ignorant of mechanism, know nothing of the in trinsic merits of the fabric.—Nottingham Journal. PRICES OF TIMBER AT LIVERPOOL. On the Ist instant, Gervase Tattenham Wale° Sibthorpe , eldest son of Colonel Sibthorpe, M.P. for Lincoln, to Constance , daughter of Colonel Cracroft, of Ilacktham-hall, near Lincoln , and niece of Sir William Ingleby, Bart., of Ri, ley Castle, forlf' shire. Same day, at Bettws, Abergele, Henry Lysons, second son Of the Rev. T. S. Griffinhoofe, Vicar of Arkesden, Essex, to Jane , second daughter of the Rev. R. Phillips, Vicar of Bettws. WOOD, Deals, 120 stand. m. duty paid Archangel 419 0 44 Memel 16 10 19 * Gothenburg l6 10 - 17 I Wybnrg 17 0 17 10 Petersburg 17 0 19 0 PLANKS, per foot of 2 inches thick. Danzig, Deck British American Pine LATH wcoD, per fathom. Danzig, 4 feet t 7 10 0 0 British American . 4 0 4 10 ktAHOOANY, per foot of 1 inch thick. Honduras Cuba St. Domingo 1 I OAK PLANKS 0 0 TEAKWOOD, per cubic feet 3 0 STAvEs, per 1200. Danzig, C. Pipe Hhd Quebec, red. to 1 in. thick, } 35 and 5i feet long . Do. Puncheon T!SIBKR, per cubic foot - Oak .ego o —lll a ..40 0 - 50 0 2 0 - 0 0 - Fine, British Amer. commc Riza,reti...... yellow 1 3 10i-- 1 IS -- 2 0 -- Free. 8. i. 3 0 0 8 BP 13 110 } • 1 Sa 2 2 2 2 }3ob Id T Id, 2 1 }el 18s. oer load. 1 .42 •s Is. } Free. lesper Id 0 9 1 0 1 6 0 • 3 6 Jan. 6, 1846. 3irtbs, glarriagts anb Dratbs. BIRTHS. On the 17th October, at Calcutta, the lady of the Hon. Frei Millett, member of council, of a son. On the 17th Nov. at Strawberry hill, Jamaica, the Hon. idri Price, of a daughter. On the 17th ult. at Heligan, the lady of J S. Trelawny, EsQ. M.P., of a son. On he 21st ultimo, at Florence-court, the Countess of ED' niskillen, of a son. On the 213th ultimo. at Plumpton-terrace, Evertors, the 10 of Mr. James B. Marsden, of a daughter. On the 2 - th ultimo, at the family residence, in Portland-plaeth London, the Countess of March, of a son and heir. MARRIED On the 18th ultimo, at St. John's Episcopal Church, Greenock , by the Rev. Henry Kennedy, M.A., Capt. G. Grant O'Pherson , of the South Pacific Steam Navigation C,.mpany, to Harriet Louisa, only daughter of the Rev. Charles Cnle, incumbent of that church. On the 22nd ultimo, at St. John's Chnrch, Thou as, son of the late William Thomps ;n, Richmond, Yorkshire, to Mary Jane, daughter of T. Widdowson, Esq. Same day, at Wem, Mr. E. S. Comberbatch, of Blackburn, W Mary Anne, daughter to S. Tiler, Esq., of Pepper-street-groVer Salop.. (In the 23rd ultim , , in London, Mr. T. S. Raimbach, M.A. Sidney College, Cambridge, to Margaret, youngest daughter the late .1. Shape, Esq., of Chester. On the 2ith ultimo, at Atsbury, Mr. E. S. N wood, in this county, to Fiances, daughter of the man, f to of Congleton Same dAy, at Upholland Church, Robert, son of C. Thule; Esq., of Portobello, to Catherine, daughter of Mr. Jackson, Fisher-house, Or ell, in this county. On the 2.5 th ultimo, Mr. H. Hobson, of tl ter, to Miss Ann He lings lof floole Lodge. Same day, at Burnley, Mr. John Balmforth, hair-dresser, t Miss Elizabeth Britcliffe, milliner and dress-maker. Church street, Burnley st- office, Ches. Same day, at St. I hilip's Church, by the Rev. R. L..,Townsend, M.A., Mr. John Lowe to Mary Anne, daughter of Mr. S. Pardy, of Argyle-s reet. Same day, at Hull, Mr. Thomas Garniss, draper, of this tower to Miss T. 0. Corden, daughter of Mr. E. Corden, tailor and draper, of the former place. Same day, at Sigg'esthorne, East Riding of Yorkshire, Mr. C. Thompson, of Ganstead, to Miss Maria, daughter of the late Mr. J. Biumby, of Scotton, and niece of the Rev. W. Smith/ Wesleyan minister, of this town. On the 27th ultimo, at the Superintendent Registrar's Office, William, fourth son of the late Maurice Jones, Esq., Ilarbour view, county Wexford, to Catharine, third daughter of the lat. Francis Atkin, Esq., Wexford. Same day. at Castleknock Cl'urch, the Hon. Robert Daly, son of Lord Dutisdale, to the Hon. Miss A'Court, daughter of Lord Elaytcsbury, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Same day, at Bolton, Frede ick Adolphe William Margrat Esq , Ph. D of Blackburn, to Amelia, daughter of the late Mt. Joseph King, of Bolton, formerly of Blackburn. Same day, at Denbigh, Mr. Thomas Rogers, joiner, of Olt town, to Miss Ellen Jones, of Denbigh. On the 28th ultimo, at Trinity Church, by the Rev. T. Bibby, Mr. Wiliiam Knowlee, junior, to Mary, only daughter of the late Mr. W. Grange, of York. Same day, at St. Peter's Church, Mr. William Wycherley, of Raining, to Mss Eliza Pepper, of Kent, Staffcrdshire. Same day, :A St. Michael's Church, Mr. John Backhouse tO Miss Eliza Fleming. Same day, at St. Philip's Church, Jchn, eldest son of MI. Thomas Molyneux, to Ellen, second daughter of Mr. Jame Lowe. On the 29th ultimo, by the Rev. J. H. Stafford, Frederic' Hall, Esq., of Gargrave, Yorkshire, to Sarah, eldest daughtef of Robert Blackburn, Esq., of La,caster. Same day, at Trinity Church, Chester, Mr. Wm. Marshall. 01 Birkenhead. to Miss Margaret, daughter of Mr. Thomas Jonefr master mariner, Chester. Same day, at St. John's Church. Chester, Mr. D brass-founder, to Miss Elizabeth Ellis, both of Chester. On the 30th ultimo,:at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, . Benjiv min Cooper, nail•manu facturer, to Mrs. Martha Burrows, hot! , of this tot{ n. On the 30th ultimo. at St. Mary's, Islington, London, the Rev. Alfred Bunier, of llington, to Eren Sarah, youngest dauebter of I'. W. Perry, Esq., of Tuffnell.place, in the same parish. . Same day, at the Parish Church, Blackburn, Thomas, son of Mr. James Bury, c .tton twist sizer, Sutton. Yo, kshire:to Marl Ann, second daughter of Mr. John Laycock, farmer, of the former place. On the 31st ultimo, at St. Thomas's, Ardwick, by the Rev. g• W. Gibson, M.A.. Mr Henry Parkes, eldest son of T. Barton, E-q ,to Eliza, eldest daughter of George E. Wainwright, Esq., Hyde-place. same day, at St. Peter's Church, Mr. John Leicester, of War' ring'ou, to Constance, fifth daughter of Mr. William Worrall , merchant, of this town. Same day, at St. Nicholas's Church, in this town, Mr. Heart Powis. joiner, Birkenhead, to Miss Anne, second daughter 0 1 the late Mr .1( hn Wilde, Bettows, Montgomeryshire. Same day, at Greenwich, Cuthbert Cowan, Esq., of Ayr, N. 130 to E iza Jane, daughter of J. Tingcrmbe, Esq. Same day, at Glasgow, G. H. Hope, Esq., M.D., Bootle. tO Adarni a, third daughter of the late W. Bell, Esq., of Morpethr Northumberland. Same day, at Bakewell, Mr. William lliskey, of Birkenhead , to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Mr. F. Mackin, for' merly of the Peacock Inn, Bakewell. DIED Lately, at Naples, after having undergone a second ovratio o for the dropsy, Signor Giubilei, the talented vocalist, husband of Madame Giubilei, formerly a dancer at the Opera-house and Drury-lane The tre. Liddy, in his 65th year, the Earl of PortarlinWon. Lately, at his estate at St. Clair, near Vir.:‘. aged 78, Count D e Percy Monchamps, the last representative in .‘ormanhy o f the noble house from which, aster the conquest, the Percies, Duke of Northumberland, sprang. On the 3rd September, at Brass River, Cameroons, by the e upsetting of the boat, aged 31, Mr. George Routledge, seeou offi er of the schooner Gle roy, of this port: On the 31st August, at New Calabar, aged 22, Mr. Matthei Rose, of Camdentown, second officer of the Zephyr, of thi. port. _ - On the 15th ultimo, at Warrington, aged 58, Mr. Wm. Smitl On the I6th ultimo, aged 56, Mr. Daniel Mason, of St John'. Market, in this town, same day. aged 57, John !Talton, publican. Cable-street. On the 1 gt:1 ultimo, at Kirby Cane Hall, aged 83, the Bare ,ese Berners. Same day, in Laurel-street, aged 25, Mary, youngest daughter of Mr. John Falkner. On the 23rd ultimo, at Brigl,ton, in his forrt'i year, Claude' ycungest son o Wm. Marshall, Esq., M.P. Same day, in her S3rd year, at Lithfaen, Carnarvonshire; Mrs. Roberts, mother of Mrs. J. Jones, late of 21, Castle street' On the 24th ultimo, in his 46th year, Mr. John Booth, of the Eagle and _had Inn, Darwen-street, Blackburn. On the 25th ultimo, aged 84, Anna Maria, wife of the late Mr. H. Morris, of Aberystwith. came day, aged st.' Edzabeth, wife of Joseph Holdswortli , Esq., 1.!e11e-vue, Wakefield. On the fiGth ultimo, aged 55. Elizabeth, wife of John Butler , Esq., of Gieoalield-house, West Derby. Same day, aged 24, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. Joh o Fair. On the 27th ultimo, aged 6E, Mr. Jones, surgeon, Breck_roadi Evei ton Same day. at Cheltenham, in the 70th year of his age, Mt' Thomas Flampto. , of this town. Game thy, aged 53, John Lancaster Moreton, Esq., late d Shaw's-br w. Same day, Edwin Wyatt, Esq., of the Mount, St. Asaph. On the 28th ultimo, at St. John's-hill, Ellesmere, Mr. Wit Davies, nail manufacturer, aged 47. Same day, at Southport, at an advanced age, Mr. G. Pollar- f, Same day, in her 56th y ear , Ali ce , w if e o f M r . Th omas Se p ton, farmer, Toxholes. Same day, at her residence, in Oxford-street, Abercrombt square, aged 56, Mrs. Jane Jones. Same day, at Workington, in his 73rd year, Robert Falco° , Esq., formerly of Elm-court, re mple, and latterly of Ilornde' bank, near Berwick.upori-Tweed. On the 29th ultimo, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. S. Soorn, Nortb' gate-street, Chester. On the 30th ultimo, Mr. Robert Griffiths, cheesemonger, Chester. Same day, at Liverpool, after a long and severe illness, 1 0 James Dempsey, writer, sec,..nd son of Mr. John Dempsel, carpenter and joiner, of Chet r. Same day, agcd I l m nths, John James, son of Mr. J. Bucr ley, High , ark-street. On the 3Cth ultimo, at his residence, Clare-street, aged 66 , Mr. Jchn Bromley. bricklayer. 0 1 Same day, at an advanced age, Mr. Richa r d P en dl e b u ry, Preston. Same day, at Southport, at the house of her son, Mr. Mercel i boot and shoe maker, Mrs Mercer. Same day, aged 35, 'Miss Renwick, of West Derby sister to Dr. Renwick, of this town On the 31st ultimo, Elizabeth, wife of William Winstanle M.D., of Woolton Lodge. Same day, aged 25, William Henry Scarisbrick. Same day, alter a severe illness, in the firth year of her Se Ellen, wife of Mr. John Howe, baker, Ranelagh-plare. Same day, at the house of his son-in-law, aged 72, Mr. W ill, Jones, formerly of Nevin. On the ;st instant, Margaret Jane, only daughter of Thoro 4 and Margaret Fergie, of Islington, aged three weeks and I days. Same day, aged 14, John, son of Mr. Richahl Harker, locke r ' in the Customs. Same day, aged 15 months, Harriott, daughter of Mr. WO Wess, of School-lane. Same cl,y, «t Lancaster , aged 25, M rs . Mary (nude, gran daughter of the late Mr. Richard Airay, of that place, much 9 : 0 , deservedly respected by all who had the pleasure of her quaintance. game day, agef Williamd 45 Henry-street. ,SarahFrances Frances, wife of Mr. Willi s" W :am udbeYday King,, at his father's house, in Head-street, Toxteth-PfO lf aged 42, Mr. William Wor , hington, master bricklayer te j builder, of St. James's•place, much and deservedly reSpeC by numerous acquaintances. On the :1 Martha Bal . P* I'd instant, at her reside nce. Scotland.road, P• 1, widow of the late John Ball, aged 85. A ATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL I r direct Oat• Nor. Australia Bahia .. Barbadoes.. Bombay ... B. Ayres ... Calcutta ... C. G. Hope Charleston . 1 China ...... Demerara.. Havana .... 1 Jamaica.... La Guayra. Aug 13 Nov. 9 ~ 24 Dec. 1 Oct. 25 Nov. 20 Lima St. Helena Maranham Mauritius Mobile Monte Video. .. N. Orleans New York Pernambuco . Rio Janeiro .. Valparaiso . Oct. 2 Vera Cruz Dec. 11 Nov. 1 TIDE TABLE !HEIGHT! HOLYDAYS Tuesday 6 541 Wednes. 7 657 Thu rs... >i 8 10 Friday.. g g 9 Saturday Is - 10 Sunday. 11 40 Monday. 12 Oct• Dee• s i Oct• I Dec• 0 Nof• No'• j l Dec' Of LIVERPOOL r E l . > - 617 13 2 Epiphany, 7 35 12 6 8 40 12 7 34 13 4 10 20 14 1 )0 58 15 u 181 Sunday after 11 32 15 1) Ha y, old 2s 11, Cie ver Vetch es .. " o f IAY AND POTATO MAKI“" JANUARY 5, 1816 1 • . i iiotatoes, golb 0 8 I hemps 0 0 i Short Tops s. d. 1 Straw , Wl.e it Oat Bar: ey O 0 Cups ... • 4 I Pink Eyes • 4 Cattle • 3 ;Turnips 0 Carrut s 35 • !NI an ure ;► ton I 2 6 --- 2 8 '''. 2 1 0 --- ; ; I 4 ..... a 1 I 6 --