The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-12-19 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

LIVER-POOl., SATURDAY, DF.C. 17.

Our British Plantation Sugar market hag been dull and some-
what lower this week, owing in part no doubt to the amazing con.
virlsions In the London money market. Only about GOO hhds. Su-
gar sold ; nothing in East India, Havannah, or Brasil. In Molasses
about 50 puns. Demerara have been sold at 335. The Runt market
continues very languid, but we do not observe any alteration of mo-
ment in price. In Coffee 100 casks Jamaica of ordinary quality sold
at a reduction or 2s. On Thursday 00 casks and 400 bags Cuba
Coffee were offered by auction. but none sold. The only sale of
Cocoa is 30 bags Brazil at 311 s. Nothing done in Ginger or Pi-
mento. Ashes are steady, the sales consist of 160 brls. Mont-
real Pot at 303. a few Pearl at 31s. with 120 barrels States' old
Pearl at 295. Gd. Dyewooda are heavy ; the sales are, 15 tons
Campeachy Lngwood at 71. 17s. Ad., and 20 tons of rough Ni-
caragua Wood at 18/. Nothing done in Tar, and only 750
barrels Turpentine sold at 10s. 50 casks old Carolina Rice
sold at 195., and 140 bags Bengal at 20s. In Hides, 160 da-
maged Rio at Bd., 414 salted North American at Sid., 20 bales
damaged Monte Video Horsehair at 314. a 7ad. A small lot
of Gallipoli Oil at 421. a 431. Sumach, 25 bags Sicily at 15s. Gd.
In Quercitron Bark, 15 hhds. of Philadelphia, at 153. have been
sold. Indigo is quite nominal; 45 chests of East India were
offered by auction, but none were sold, although the holders
were willing to reduce their prices. Cochineal is also dull ; a few
chests put up with the Indigo did not se'l. In Madder Routs GO
bales of French sold at 451. Tobacco is unsaleable, and quite
nominal. Nothing done in Cork.tree Bark ; 100 tons Dutch Oak
Bark sold at 71. a 7!. 10s. The Corn market to-day was Very dull
and lower. Our Cotton market, notwithstanding tlt• briskness one
or two days, has been otherwise generally rather lower; the sales
consist of 250 bags Sea Island. 'at 2042. a 274. ; 2460 Uplands, at
Gad. a 10d.; 310 Alabama, at 54d. a flad.; 1090 New Orleans, at
82. a 1144.; 420 Pernambuco, at Dad. a 124 d. ; 270 Bahia, at
100. a I Id. ; 240 Maranhana at 1 Id. a 114 d.; 10 Mita Novas'
at 11111. a 1014. ; 60 Para, at 10d.; 120 Demerara, at 100. a Mad. ;
GO West India, at 9fo. : 960 Egyptian, at 1044. a 110.; 110
Surat, at Gd. a Gad.; and 20 Bengal, at GO. per lb., making a
total of 6900 bags, of which about 84.10 Bowed have been taken on
speculation.

This day, since the foregoing was made up, them has been about
2500 bags Cotton sold at steady prices.
IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL. FROM THE lOTA TO THE 16TII

DECEMBER INCLUSIVE.
Sugar, D.P. . 58 lihds Pepper - 115 bags
Ditto, East India 2,923 bags Flax Seed - 50 Midi
Ginger - 40 bags Safflower . 83 hales
Coffee 53 tea Hides, ox sod eow 12.710 dry
- 31 b Ditto , do. 6 932 salted
......

I bags
Ditto 9 brls
Molasses - 312 pun
Rune . 191 pun
Ashes - 3,681 brls
Logwood . 290 tons
Nicaragua Wood M tons
i lam wotid 3 tons

Ditto do:
Ditto, hone
Ditto do.
Horsehair
Palm Oil
Wine
Ditto

100 bales
- 12 Wes
- 697 salted
. 16 bales
84 casks
3-17 pipes
_76 'lds

Geneva
Tallow
Rice
Shell Lac
OA Bark
Sumach
lac Dye

107 pieces
1.043 casks
1,644 bags
19 chests
319 tons
50 bags
53 chests
48 'cross

Elephante Tceth 257
Olive Oil . BO casks

Cotton, W. Indio 21 boles
I►itto Egyptian 1.240 do.
Ditto Arncrican 1.223 do.
Ditto Brazils 2,451 do.
Ditto Ireland, &c. 124 do.

Saltpetre . 1.639 bags
Madder - 264 casks

5;759 bile

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

POIITMOUTit, Dec. 17.
Yesterday arrived the Espiegle, 18, Captain Luke H. Wray,
from the Cape of Gond Hope station, having been relieved. after
three years' service, by the ;Benin, 18, Captain Thoti.as Wilson.
She left the Cape on the 17th October (brought a mail thence), St.
Helena, 31st October, and Ascension, Bth November.—The Tees,
28, Capt. Fred. Alanyatt, arrived at the Cape on the 12th October,
from Trincomalee and the Mauritius, and was to sail on the 20th
Oct. for England. No news by her of the Burmese war. The
Liffey, 46, Captain Coe, was daily expected, on her passage from
India. The Leven, Captain F. W. Owen, Baracoutar, Capt. Tidal,
and Albatross tender, had returned from surveying at 51adagascar
and Delagoa Bay, refitted, and were to sail in a few dais, to com-
mence a survey of the West Coast of Africa. Acting Lieu-
tenant Nesh, 11r. Farley, Purser, of the Leven, and several
seamen, had died of the fever peculiar to Delagoa Bay—The
Ariadne, 20 guns. Captain F. Chapman, was to Sail ffir Eng-
land about the 27th of October. It was reported that Lord
Charles Somerset and family intended to return by this ship. The
Owen Glendower, Commodore Christian, was lying at the Cape.
The Semarang and Martin were at the Mauritius, The steam.
vessel Enterprise reached the Cape, after a long passage of 56 days
from Falmouth, having been obliged to much at St. Thomas's for
water. The brig Eleanor had been brought from Delagoa Bay by
the Leven, having been taken from the Portuguese, who, because
all the crew except two seamen had died, deemed her a good prize.
When the Espiegle sailed, the Cape, St. Helena, and Ascension
were healthy. Colonel Nicolls and the ravine garrison had been
unceasingly employed in cultivating the island of Ascension, and,
with complete success. The garrison supplied the Esinegle with
forty tons of water and a quantity of vegetables. Colonel Bird.
late eolonial Secretary at the Cape of Good Hope, and Lieutenant
Rutherford, Royal Engineers, came pasaengeta in the Espiegle. It
is understood lie is charged with a strong representation to govern-
ment of the great loss which must be expenenced by the colotista,
if the Cape fix dollar be allowed to remain, as now heed, at Is. fad.
per dollar, the old standard being 4s. each. Mr. M'Coy, the Pur-
ser, is the only officer arrived who left England in the Espiegle.
Acting-Lieutenants J. R. 31aralland George Trollope, Acting.
Master R. N. Newman, and Mr. R. Wylie, Surgeon, now belong
to her. She is ordered into harbour, to be paid off.
On Wednesday the Heroine transport, Lieutenant Jewry., ar.
rived from the coast of Africa aad the isle of Ascension, but had a
longer passage than previous arrivals t she brought invalided sea-
men. This morning the Ottowa transport arrived from Quebec in
twenty-nice days, with part of the 37th and 76:h regiments. The
Sovereign, Vibilia, and Cato transports, are to proceed to Cork, to
embark the 24 battalion of Rifles, for Malta ; the Jupiter, Speke,
and Joseph Green transporta, also to Cork, to embark the tat re-
giment of foot for the West Indies, and to return with either the
4th nr sth foot. fhe Zelra transport has sailed with the depot of
the sth foot from Cowes, for duty at Tynemouth Castle, and will
take thence a detachment of the 65th foot to Chatham.
On Sunday arrived the Jasper, 10, Captain Freemantle, from
Vera Cruz, last from Falmouth • Tuesday sailed the Arrow, Lieu-
tetant Stewart, on a cruise ; 11"ednesday arrived the Tweed, 28,
Captain Frederick Bunn, in 26 days from Halifax, whither she
took, the Lord Bishop of Nova Scotia t Thursday the ,Bittern,
Lieutenant Dwyer, with forty seamen, from Liverpool; yesterday
the !leiter, Lieutenant Adams, in 26 days from Halifax (left the
Niemen there), and came into harbour. The Jasper is come into :
harliour ; the Magnificent gone out. Remain at Snithead—Glas.
gow. for Lisbon, Tweed, Harlequin, for the West India; Dotterel,
fur Halifax ; Eepiegle, Calliope, Bittern, Dromedary, for Bee-
made ; Magnificent,. for Jamaica. In the harbete--Victory, '
Ganges. Superb, Spartiate, Warspite, for the East Indies; Volage, I
for the East Indies; Span° &hawk. Herald. for the Mediterranean;
Mastiff, for the Mediterranean; Jasper, Pellet, Royal Oak, for
Bermuda.
The Ariadne and Espiegle will, this season, bring home, from
the Cape of Good Hope, ninety casks of Constantia Wine, being
the perquisite of his Majesty front that colony of this choice wine.
The whole are addressed to Lord Bathurst.
The Galatea frigate, Sir Charles Sullivan, Bart., is ordered to
this port, from Deptford, to embark hie Excellency Alexander
Cockburn, Esq. Minister to the Republic of Colombia. The
surveying vessels Adventure, Capt. P. P. King, and Beagle,
Capt. Pringle Stokes, are ordered to this port from the River, to
take thcit final departure for the Straits of Magellan and Le
slaire, which they are to survey, as well as the south-west coast
of Patagonia, as far as Chiloe.
Rear-Admiral W. 11. Gage is appointed Commander-In-Chief
in the East Indies, vacant by the death of Admiral BMW) urn.
The Rear-Admiral will hoist his flag in a few days en the War-
spite, 74, Capt. W. F. Carroll, C. 8., and sail probably on the 10th
of next month, for his command.
The Spartiate, 74, will be paid ofr on Wednesday, docked, and
recommissioned as a guardslttp at this port. Captain F. Warren
is appointed to command her. The Superb, 78, will be paid off
on Monday by Sir Thomas Staines, and recommissioned by Capt.
Henry Hill, Lieutenant Picking, Mr. R. Hallilay, purser (late
Secretary to Sir W. Falk), and the Rev. C. Hardy, Chaplain, are
appointed to the Superb; Mr. W. C. Heiner, Purser, to the Spar-
tiate. Lieutenant John Drake is appointed to the Albion, she
Scrvante, sick; Lieutenant Peyton to the Glasgow; Lieutenant
A. Sinclair, to the Dotterel ; Lieutenant Thaekery, to the Oxen ;
Lieutenant F. Jeffreson to be agent of transports (in the Joseph
Green) ; Rev. John Briggs, to be Chaplain of the Windsor
Castle. •
The Philowiel brig is ordered to be commissioned.
Captain tanning (son of the Right Hon. George Canning) late
of the Sappho, and the officers and crew of that ship, came home in
the Tweed.
PLYMOCTIT, Dee. 15.
Sailed the Pandora, 18, Capt. Jengise, for the East Indies;
Basilisk, Lieut. Hough, with speck AliDuelin ; Calliope, Lieut.
l'owncy. for Spithead, having landed here the life-boat intended
for the establishment at this port. A certain number of brave
fellows residing in Caweand will be always ready to man the boat.
Came in the Nightingale, to refit. Remain, the Baitannia, Genoa,
Windsor Castle, Druid, Shamrock. Talbot, Nitta* Victor, Caine-
lion, Nightingale.—/lamps/ lie Teterrap4.

This day, the King's stag bounds will turn nut for the
day's diversion at Belmont Cottage, Maiden/lend-fields,
and on Friday at the Magpies, bog; days at half-sit ten
o'clock.