The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-01-31 00:00:00

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CUSTOM-DOUSE, JAN. 211.
ENTZRED INIFAIDS.—Fame,, Hatfield, from Hamburgh;
Vrouw Alida, Suvrs, from Rotterdam; Penelope, Christie, from,
Alexandria; Herr:none, Holborn, frum Hamburgh; Neptune.
Stranack, from Dunkirk ; Borers., Storm, from Brahestad ; Mercu;
rius. Mos, from Antwerp; .Mayfluwer, Hague, from Hamburgh;
Briton, Martin. from Sierra Leone; Kraus, Lundt.from Antwerp
Elizabeth, Slade. from Memel; Kate, Cresswell, from Ham-
burgh; Peter and Rebecca, Allen, from Waterford; Fortitude,
Fawtkner. from Dublin; York, Talbert, from Calcutta, Madras, '
and Cape of Good Hope.
ENTERST) OUTWARDS.—MarshaI Blucher, Blake, for Rot-
terdam; Belle Alliance, Wilman. for Antwerp and Brusseli
Maria, Aluffatt, fc.. Teneriffc ; Juffrouw Willemina, Swart, for'
Amsterdam; James Sibbald, Forbes, for Madras and Bombay;
Diana, Bowie, for Teneriffe; Levant. Kerr, for Dublin, Lively,
Richie, for Smyrna and Constantinople.
CLEARLD OUTW•IIIM rix.tity AT GRAVX3END,JAN.
Ant, Eshelby, for Hamburgh ; Lorina, Miller, far Gibraltar.
('LEAIneG Ouvw.Sans JAN. Muirison, for
Lisboa ; Joyeuse Arrivie. Benieste, fur Antwerp and Brussels ;
Diana, Davis, for Para; Onterwagt, Rooderkirk, for Rotterdam.

FROM LLOYD'S LIST.
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FALMOUTH, JAN. 27.1—Sailed the Plover packet, for the
Islands; and Eclipse packet, for Buenos Ayres.
PORTSMOUTH, Jet*. M.—Arrived his Majesty's ships Thetis,
Orestes, Pyle(le", Champion and Jasper, from an experimental
cruise; and the Commodore, Bond, from Oporto. Sailed the Hon.
Company's ship Bridgewater, Mandason, for Bengal and China;
and the Walworth Castle. Walker, fur Alvarado ; and Lorton.
Sergeant, for London. The Shipley transport came out ofjtarbour
to-day, after completing her repairs.
DEAL. JAN. 28.—Arrived and remain, the Peace, Bruce, from
Alexandria, sailed the 14th November, left loading there the
Penelope, for London, end the Bristol, for Liverpool; the Perse-
verance, Simpson, from St. Petersburgh, three months' passage.
Sailed this morning, with the whole of the outward-bound, the
lion. Company's ship Royal George, Timmins, for India: the
Rosetta, Evans, for Singapore ; and the Dutch brig of war Valk,
for Curacos.
GRAVESEND. JAN. 28.—Arrived the Sarah, Grey, front --;
Duke of York. Miller, from St. Michael's; Golden Grove, Steel.
from Alexandria; Ilawk, Loveque, from Newfoundland; Hebe,
Verd, from Palermo; Zealous, Reed. from Trieste; John Bull,
Graves, from Havannah ; Minerva, Moburst, from Bremen;
Pallas, Wood, from Liman ; Friends, Spencer, from ditto; Be-
verly, Benison, from ditto ; an the Chance, Jackson, from ditto.
Sailed the Cambria, Cook, for Madeira ; John, Dawson, fa Ja-
maica ; Progress, Barker, for Trieste ; Earl Talbot, Everard, for
the Canaries; Benjamin, Byers, for St. Thomas's; and the Ana
Sophie, Hogan, for Rouen.
YARMOUTH, ISLE Or WIGHT. JAN. 23.—The Elizabeth.
Jones. front Carnet:von for London, with slates, ran on the mud off
Pitts Deep, being leaky. the day before yesterday; the leaks have
been stopped, and she has been got off, and has proceeded.
SCARBOROCGH. JAN. 27.—The Friend'hip, Thistle, was run
on boanl-art' near Filcy, at three o'clock this morning, by a light
vessel (name unknown), and sustained so much damage that she
sunk at ten o'clock, shout four miles to the southward of this
port. ('rew saved, and lauded here.
Itivenroot, JAN. 27 —Arrived the George, Hughes, from
Buenos Ayres; Colombia, Chapman, from Alexandria; Lady
Dunmore, 'Mackie, from St. Andrew's. New Brunswick; Hard-
ware, Eboml, from Lisbon; Fanny, Laird, from the Cape oh' Good
Hope; and :Baguette, —, from Jersey. The Thames, Bailey,
foi Laguira, has put back.
bltt.rooD, JAN. 27.—The George, Hughes, arrived here on
the 21st inst., from Buenos Ayres, was brought to on the 35th
ult., off the Cape de Vail, by two frigates, under Spanish
colours; there were five others in company.
A Lononounn, JAN. 26.—Tbe Richard. Plaskett, Syme, from
Hamburgh to London, struck upon the Lemon end Ore Sand
22d instant, and alma immediately went to pieces. The crew,
except one, were picked up by a Russian vessel, bound to
London., and landed here this afternoon.
GR•NGEMOUTH, Jaw. 26.—Arrived the Fame, ll‘Donald,
front St. Petersburgh, 12 weeks passage; sailed from Fleekero
12th inst., where she left the ship St. Petersburgh, from Pe-
tersburgh for London, and the Jolly Bachelor, of Aberdeen, from
Riga for Londonderry. The master states, that on the 16th inst.
he was blown as far north as Shetland.
BOWMORE. ISLAY. JAN. 12.—The Dale, Neil, froth LAW-
pool, put Mto Lochindahl, lest night, and is now a-ground. It is
supposed she must discharge part of her cargo before she can be
got off.
Limeareg, JAN. 26.—This morning, about two o'clock, it
came on to blow a very heavy gale, front W. to W.S.W., and
continued until about eight o'clock, when it moderated.
The York, Talbot, arrived from Bengal and Madras, saw the
Princess Charlotte, Kean, bound to Liverpool on the 19th
August, standing to the Westward, at nine p. m.; she tacked and
stood to the Eastward, under elr'se-reefed topsails, Ist. 16 N. long
84 E.
The William. Etherington from St. Petersburgh to London, is
supposed to be in Grimsby ioads.
! In Batavia Roads 9th Oct. :—lfelen. Pamelang. Magbar, Emi-
lie, lioemong. Goetle Fortuin, Foengyie, Jonge Jacobus, Louisa
de Kock, lierkus, Passau!, Henn, Franklin. Tjoempo, Collek,
Hoop, Malefic, Alert, Elitabeth, Doe Maries, Salmon River,
Colonial Trader, Anna, Maine, Moss, Congress, and General
Gates.
In Semarang Roads Ist Oct. :_.Emma, Johanna Ilubatina,
Cornelis, and Dorothea.
Extract of a letter from Captain Anderson, of the ship Norfolk,
of South Shields, dated New Ilellisound, Norway, 20th January:—
•' Since I last wrote you from this place, all the ships in and near
here sailed on the 2351 ult., but from the extreme bad weather
were driven batik, and many a great say farther Eastward. An-
nexed arc the names of the English ships in this harbour, as also
those In Mandeb' :—New Hellisound—Cullodsn, Leyden, and
Ellen Goo in, Lesely, from Riga, for Dundee; Enibtlen, Reid,
from Riga for Grangemouth ; Experiment, Lloyd front Riga for
Bridport ; Wallington, Watson. from M Memel for Leith; Norfolk,
Anderson. front Riga for Chatham; and Dorothy, Turnbull,
from St. Petersburgh for Exeter. Mandahl—Wellington, Coutts ;
Tindall;
Harbinger, Dunn; Bee, al•Laren ; Jane, blurry Scipio, —;
Elizabeth. ; and Friends (under average, do not know the
masters names, or where they belong); Mermaid, Kenear;
Esington„ Flames ; Prompt, Mould, front London, driven over in
ballast; Triton, of Arbroath , and Psyche. APlntosh.
Vessel. Snores; WITH —Duke of Wellington, of Gravesend,
Jan. 22, all well, by the Lark. Pynn, arrived at Poole.

TILE _4l: if Y.

Major-General Sir Henry Torrens, Adjuir.nt=General
of the Forces, left town on Fr:day for Chatham, for the
purpose of inspecting his fine Regiment, the 9.. d (the
Queen's Royal), preparatory to its embarkation for foreign
service.
A detachment of recruits arrived in town cn Saturday
from Bristol, and proceeded on its route to Chatham.
Detachments belonging to the td (the Queen's Royal)
and the Slat (Huntingdonshire) Regiments of Foot,
marched on Saturday morning frc:n Westminster for
Chatham.
Detachments belonging to the 11th Regiment of Light
Dragoons, and the 4th (the Queen's Own) Light Dra-
goons, marched on Saturday morning from IVestminster
for Maidstone.
Detachments belonging to the 17tb Regiment of Light
Dragoons ( Lancers), and the Ist Battalion of the coth (the
Duke of York's own Rifle Corps), marched on Saturday
morning from Wtittninster for Canterbury.
A Detachment of Recruits marcher! on Saturday morn-
ing from IVestminster for the Isle of Wight.
A Detachment of Recruits arrived in town on Saturday
morning, from Scotland, and his received orders to proceed
to Portsmouth.
_
ABIRDEEN, JAN. Deveron, Scott, bound to
London, went en shore about four miles north at this
place on the morning of the 18th instant, during a heavy
gale from about S. or S.S.E. The matt was washed over-
board, but the master sad the rest of the crew were saved
through the active and intrepid exertions of Lieutenant
Randall, and the crew on the preventive service under his
command, by means of Captain Manby's apparatus. The
cargo (grain) has been discharged, and the vessel was
brought round here yesterday, apparently with consider-
able damage in her bottom.
BEATING Wivis.—A Learned Judge has given it as
his opinion, that a man may correct his wife with a switch,
as thick as his thumb. Not so the inhabitants of Chat-
teris, with whom a custom exists, and has done from time
immemorial, of punishing those unhappy wighta who may
have been guilty of ill-treating their wives, by a rude re-
presentation of the event. As a note of preparation, chaff
is strewed on the Saturday night, before the doors of the
inhabitants for whom they intend to ride on the following
Monday ; when a man, with his face blacked, riding back-
wards upon an ass, bawls through the village, " I ride, I
ride, for and his bride ;" at the same time scatter-
ing chaff, saying, " here is a good sample." Fise or
six others, dressed up to resemble the unhappy couple and
their friends, then commence the dialogue, and conclude
with the fight. Two of these representations took place a
few weeks ago, and two or three others paid a tine to the
riders of from five to twenty shillings, according to their
circumstances. Many attempts hare been made to stop
the representations ; but as they are always encouraged by
a plentiful shower of silver and copper from the respectable
inhabitants, such attempts have beet: ineirxtual.—Hunt-
ingdea Paper.

LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY EVENING.

Wind W. to N.W.—High Water 54 minutes past 4.
Arrived the Margaret, from Westport; Hero, from Wex-
ford ; Edward, from ditto ; Rambler, from Virginia ;
Rachacl, from Pernsmbneo, sailed 20th Dec. ; Aid, from
Londonderry; Manchester, from Glasgow; Amity, from
ditto ; Jonun' from Ostend ; Edward, from Dungarvan ;
A ilsa, from Glasgow ; Grace, from Cork ; Irene, from
Dublin ; Liffey, from ditto ' • Staff of Life, from Charles-
ton, with pipe-clay ; and Minerva, from Londonderry.
SAT urtur.
Wind S.W.—High Water, 11 minutes past 6.
Arrived the Broad Axe, from ,Messina ; Vulture, from
Newport, Rhode Island ; Harmony, from Sligo ; Ameri-
can, from New Orleans, sailed 20th Dec.; John, from
Curl ; Trafalgar, from Dublin ; Diana, from Newry ; and
Lucretia, from Belfast.—Two brigs off at 6 o'clock.

PRICES CURRENT. 1. d. a. d.
lugar—Muaeovado, t)ercirt--Dabs to dry brown 48 0 a 55
Middling and
good middling 86 0 a 69
Fine and very tine 70 0 a 73
East India—trown and yellow . 20 0a 2l
White - . 32 0 a 38
Havannah—Brown and yellow . 24 0 a3O
White 60 It a 39
Amain —Brown and yelloW - 19 0 a 24
White - '24 0 a 32
Jimilca--Triage . 30 0 a 43
- 26 0 a 20
Ordinary, good, and
fine ordinary - 50 0 a 70
Middling and good
middling . 75 0 a 87
Fine middling and
fine 90 0 a 100
40 0 a 60

Coffee, per
Molasses

.Triage
Ordinary good and
tine ordinary 60 0 a 78 0
Middling and good
middling . 80 0 a 103 0
Fine middling and
Line . 90 0 • 97 0
St. Domingo . . 67 0 a 60 0
Havannah and Brasil - 51 0 a 00 0
Cocoa, per cwt.—Common West India - 44 0 a 46 0
Trinidad - 76 0 a 90 0
Brazil - 40 0 a 44 0
Pepper, per lb.—Black - . 0 64 • 0 at
. Pimento - . . . 0 8 a 0 9
Ginger, per cwt.—Jamaica white . 240 '0 a 300 0
Barbados 160 0 a 100 0
East India 20 0 a 0 0
Rum, per pd.—Jamaica, 16 O.P. - 1 7 a 110
!rewards, coin. and proof 1 3 a 1.5
Hides, pa lb.—Buenos Ayre,, dry . 0 Ili a 0 111
salted . OSi • 0
Brazil, dry . - 6 8 • 0
salted . 0 54 a 0
West India. dry . 0 7 a 0 1
Horse. per hide - 4 3 a 6
Rice, per cwt.—Americau . - 15 6 a 18
Brazil . . 0 0 a 0
East India . 15 0 a 16
Indigo, per lb.—Caracca - - 7 0 a 13
Guatimala - . 7 0 a 13
. _ .

Dutch, Pcc.—'

Bengal violet and fine do. . 9 0 a 12 0
Purple - 12 6 a 13 0
Ordinary - 4 0 a 6 6
Logwood, per ton.—Jamaica and Honduras 165 0 a 170 0
Campeachy . 100 0 a 190 0
St. Domingo . 110 0 a 0 0
Fusttc, per ton.—Brazil - - . 90 0 a 160 0
Spanish and Jamaica - 110 0 a 100 0
Cuba . - - 210 0 a 240 0
Nicaragua Wood, per ton.—Large and solid 600 0 a 700 0
small - 300 0 a 400 0
Bazwood—Angula . - 170 0 a 180 0
Gaboon - 130 0 a 180 0
Mahogany, per foot.—Cuba - . 1 6 a 2 I
Honduras . - 1 0 a 1 4
St. Domingo . . 1 7 • A 0
Cotton, per lb.—Nev Orleans - 0 9 a 1 01
Tennessee, Alabama, & how'd. 0 01 a 01 1 I
Sea Islands - - 1 4 a 2 6
Stained ditto . . 0 9 a 1 2
3lina, Germs, and Novas 0 Si a 011
Pars, Matanhana, and Bahia 0 101 a 1 0
l'ermuntuco - - 10 a 111
m Surinam, I/ems/s.& Barbie° 011 a 1 0.
Batbadoes, Bahama, &c • 0 It a 011
l'artharna - . 07ia 0 Ai
Egyptian • - 011 a 1 01
mrhon . . . 011 a 1 2
0 A.

lt;mt _
--
Bengal and Furst -
Tallow, per cwt.—Rmotia Yellow Candle
Brazil -
Oil, per ton, 236 gal —l:rllipoli
per ton, 20 cwt.—Palm -
Tar, per brl.—American - -
Stockholm, Etc.
Turpentine, per cwt. .

-06 a 0 8
43 0 a 0 0.
- 41 0 • 42 0
960 0 a 1000 0
490 0 a 520 0
. 12 0 a 14 0
- 13 0 a 18 0
11 6 a 11 9

IMPOILTED FROM JAM. 2!
Raw Silk . bales.
Olive Oil . . 23 pipes.
Lemon Juke . 8 pipes.
Turpentine . . 943 brls.
Ashes - . $BO brls.

TO JAW. 28, n cz.o Ivr.
Hides - . 81176
Tallow . . 290 casks.
Linseed - qrs.
Ditto - . 100 casks.
Cotton - . 300 bales.

, I
We continue to hare a good demand for B. P. Sugar, and price I
filly maintained ; about 1,100 hhda. taken by the grocers ; also a
demand for the Irish market, 90 hhds. brown Cuba Sugar were sold
at 194. ;50 puncheons Demerara Molasses sold off' the quay at
265. 9d. Our market for Coffee continues lively, particularly for
clean qualities; about ISO casks Jamaica have been sold: 200
ruech. Demerara Rum have *gen sold, at Is. 104. a 2s. 3d. for
30 a4O over proofs, with a fcircommon, at Is. 54. Our Cotton
market continues ?all, and may be quoted I,i. a id. per b. lower; '
about 5,200 bags have been sold, consisting of 2,700 bags Upland
Oeorgla; at !lid. a led. for inferior new, up to 10.1. for fair, and at
10}d. a 110. for clean good parcels, chiefly of the old crop ; 160
New Orleans, at I Id. a Ititl.; 300 Alnbamu, at a 101 d. ;
!GO Sea Islands, 180. a 21. ; 800 Pereams, at 121 d. a 14d. ;
100 flaranhatins, I2d. n 120. ; 1110 Mina Na.,, at 10. a.. Hid.;
200 Egyptian, at 11 fd. a I:,{ d. ; 211 Barbadoes, at 10d.; 120 Car-
' thagenas, at 94.; 460 hales Demerara offered by auction yesterday,
of which 395 were sold at ltd. a 134.1., ke. Dyewood continues in
limited demand; 5 tons l'ampeachy Dogwood, at 9/. 10s. ; 41T. tsns
Jamaica, at 71. 16. ; 15 tons Spanish Fustie. at 81. 105.; 74 tons
large solid Nicaragua Woed, at 321. a 341. ; 22 tons small rough, et
15/. a 18/. ; 10 tons Oaboon Barwood, at 91. The sales in Ashes
have been more limited, but without alteration in pricer. In
Indigo, 4 chests East India in bond, at I Is. ad. a 12s. Hides have
been improving this week ; lt,noo bits. Stockholm Tar have been
sold, at his, 6d.; and 1,000 brls. Turpentine, at Its. 3d. a 111. ltd.
Speculative demand fur Cod Oil continues, and a sale has bean
reported as high as 29/. Tallow rather dull.
Our Cdrn market this day very dull, and may be quoted 2d. a 3d.
per bushel lowei.

A PH E N M Esti N.—A wealthy farmer, remarkable for
his hospitality, invited, on a late occasion, one of his
guests to go with him into a neighbouring field, and he
would shew him a phenomenon. The gentleman, thus
invited, at once complied with the solicitations of his host.
The parties reached the field, and approached a beautiful
little animal, which lay by the side of its mother—a fine
Jersey cow. " There, said the farmer, " there it is."
" Well, bless me," replied the gentleman, " if you had
not told me that it was a pAelomenon, I should have taken
it to be a mere cal f."—Literary Ma net.
C•NINI SAGACITY.-011 Sunday last, as Mr. Usher, the
celebrated clown, was travelling Main Sheffield to this city,
he stopped at the turnpike at Chapel-en-le-Frith, to pay
the ettstomary tolls for his carriage, but was surprised, on
feeling for his purse, to find it had disappeared; and
while conversing with the landlady of the toll-bar oo his
loss, he was relieved from his unpleasant predicament by
the appearance of his faithful dog, with the ides Teal purse
in his mouth, which it had picked up, and carried it from
the public-house where Mr. fisher last stopped, a didance
of six miles l—Chester Chronicle.
EDINDVlOll.—Latcly an old man of the name of James
Henderson, better known by that of " Nickey," who was
generally employed as a porter, was found murdered in his
own house. This barbarous and unnatural act was com-
mitted by his own son, a man about '.13 years of age, who
is considered a loose character, and touch addicted to
inebriety, colder the influence of which, it is said, he did
the hotrid deed. As soon as the bloody deed was dis-
covered, the special constables, who are at all titnes very
active, immediately turned out, and, after a short search
had strong suspicions that he was concealed in his brother's
house; thither they went, and just at the moment they
got admittanee he made his escape through the roof, by re-
moving a few tiles, anti then dropped into a back garden,
whence be made his way into Callander Wood. As yet no
trace of him has been found.

TURN-OUT SPINNYRN.—In addition to the spinners of
Messrs. Swainson and Co. Mr. Cato, Messrs. Ainsworth,
Catterall, and Co. that have turned out, those of he=ars.
Paley and Co., last week, added themselves to the number.
Neatly the whole of the mills are, however, supplied with
fresh hands—the masters having set to work weavers anal
young persons who had previously been empinyea in ether
ilepartriientof the mill.—Prestcn