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LYNN, M•kacit 9.—Wheat 34s to 36s Od, fine 40s to
435; barley 24s to 265, fine 28s 30s to 31s; oats liOs to 00s;
beans Os to Gs, fine Os to Os per qr.
EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, MARCH 10.—There was
a large supply of grain to-day. Sales quick, and prices rather
up, The top of wheat was ls, and the average Is up.
Barley on the top 2s, and the average 9d up. Oats on the top
Is 4d, and the average ,c 1 up. Beans on the top s, and the
average 4d up. Unsold, 92 qrs wheat, 86 qrs barley, 446 qrs
oats, and I l qrs beans.
Top of Wheat ..... • ..• 63ilb. 51s Od
„ Barley 57*Ib. -35 s Od
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Oats .. 45 1b: 28s Od

„ Beans •••• 98 Od
EDINBURGH CATTLE nialtscitT, Mito.cit 10.—The number
of cattle was bO4, or 154 more than last week. Top price, 61. 6d
to 6s 9d; current, 68 t'd ; secondary and inferior, from ns
to 5s 6d per Dutch stone. A clearance was not effected.
The number of sheep at market this morning was
2,244, being 523 less than last week. Best wedder mutton,
top price, 5d per Ib ; current, sd' to Od; ewes, 4d to 4}l.
A clearance was not effected. •
CORK, MARC!” 10.

Barrels. Currently.
0 ' White wheat 00s Od to OOs Od 008 Od-20 stone
0 Red wheat oos Od to 00s Od .
0 Ditto oos Od _to 000 Od OOs Od-20 do
0 Ditto - '

0 Barley 00s Od, to 410 s Od
0 Ditto OOs Od to OOs Od 00s Od-16 do
O'Ditto oos Od to 00s Od

0 Bete ...... 005 Od to 005 Od Os Od
382 Oats 105 Id to 103 6d
38 Ditto los. 6d to lOs 9d 00s Od-14 dc
o Ditto oos Od to 00s Od
34 Pigs 29a Od to 321 6d 005 Od per cwt
Quantity sold at the,Highest Prices:-
0 barrels White wheat ; 0 red ; 0 barley • 0-bere ;
,17 oats
1 pig.
Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week t
Wheat. 290. Barley, 395. Oats, 3,391. Pigs, 471:
Return of Cattle sold for week ending March 6.
Pigs, 737. Sheep, 392. Cows, 134.
Coux.—Flour—First 12s 6d to 14s Od; extra 15s Od;
seconds, 1150 d to 12s Od; households 9a to 10s 6d; thirds, 7, to 91
per cwt. Oatmeal 103 6d tolls; Indian meal 7s 6d to 8s Od; wheat-
meal. 101 Od to 10s 6d per cwt. Indian corn 715 s Od to 7110 a poi.
ton. Bran 85s to 87s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers 25s to 30s; average
JBs ; dealers 32s to 4 ), Od; average 358 per ton. Straw—Farmers
16s Od to 21s Od ;- average 185 ; dealers 001 Od to 00s Od.
average 00s. 04 per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6id to 0,1;
household loaf bid to Od per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d is
10d per lb. Eggs-4s 4d to 4s 6d per hundred. Coals--
Newport 155 Od ; Lydney 15s 9 • Landore 00s ; Culm,
12s 6d pet ton. Tallow 38s Od to 406 per cwt
Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meal
--Beef 4114 to 7d; mutton 5d to 6}d; veal 5d tt
7d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon. 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d per lb. Hops
8181 to 910 s per cwt. Bangor slates 2/17s 6d to 310 s per ton.
Bark, red 71to 8110 s per ton. Fleece wool 14s to 15s per stone.
Hemp 291t0 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 19s to 00s; red
ditto, 24s to 005 per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ Os to 11/ t
ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton; red pine, 3155; yello..
ditto, 2/ 15s per ton; deals, 15/ to 18/ per 100. Hides__
Market 18s to 255; salted 20s to 26s per cwt ; calf skin.
aid to Od per lb. Potatoes, white 7d to 8d ; pink,
10d to 12d. Guano—Peruvian, 101 10s ,to 111; lchaboe, 81
to 91). per Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel.

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
The Duke of Northumberland, the new First Lord of
the Admiralty, has bestowed the first good service pen-
sions that have fallen in hand, by the promotions of
Admirals O'Brie❑ and Lloyd, to Captain Str W. E.
Parry. superintendent of Hasler, and Captain Peter
Richards, (3.8., superintendent of Chatham Dockyard.
It any curiosity has been excited in the naval world
as to how the Noble Duke will distribute the immense
patronage which appertains to the office of First Lord
of the Admiralty, this early indication which his Grace
has given of his appreciation of the claims of officers of
senior standing and of good service, will tend to assure
the navy and the country that justice, impartiality, and
discretion are the Noble and Gallant First Lord's cha-
racteristics. Sir E. Parry is now the senior on the cap-
tains' active list; and he has bithertoo been passed over
in favour of many who are not enly junior, but who have
not the claims that Sir Edward has to the good-service
pension. He cannot expect to hold the pension for any
length of time on account of his flag rank; but it is be-
stowed even at the eleventh hour is a most gracious mark
of appreciation of his services on the part of the Admiralty,
and the handsome way in which it has been conferred
reflects credit and honour on both pareies.
Everybody knows that Sir Edward Parry is the most
distinguished of Arctic voyagers, but he also served
with distinction during the war in early life, as
will be seen from the following sketch of his
career, &c., in " O'Byree's Biography." We may
add that he has served on full pay no less than
thirty-four years. He was hem Dec. 19, 1790, is fourth
and youngest surviving son of the late Dr. Parry, an
eminent Bath physician, by the daughter of Dr. Rigby,
of Norwich. He married first, in 1826, a daughter of
Lord Stanley of Alderley, and secondly in June, 1841,
the relict of S. Hoare, jun., E,q., of Hampstead. He is
in the 63d year of his age. He is an LL.D. of Oxford,
F.R.S. London and Edinburgh, member of the Imperial
Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburgb, and is the au-
thor of a small work entitled " Thoughts on the Parental
Character of God."

" This officer entered the navy, June 30, 1803, as first-
class vol., on board the Ville de Paris, 110, Captain
Tristram Robert Ricketts, bearing the flag of the Hon.
William Cornwallis, in the Channel, where, and in the
Baltic, be continued employed as midshipman and
master's mate on board the Tribune, 36, and Vanguard,
74, Captain Thomas Baker and Henry Richard Glynn,
until promoted to the rank of lieutenant, Janu-
ary 6, 1810. In the Vanguard he commanded a
gun-beat attached to the ship, and came into
frequent action with the Danish. flotilla. His first ap-
pointment after his promotion was Feb. 9, 1810, to the
Alexandria, 32, Captains John Quilliam and Robert
Cathcart, in which vessel, besides affording protection to
she Spitsbergen whale fishery, he was much employed in
making astronomical observations, and in preparing for
the Admiralty charts, which were much prized, of
Bslta Sound, of the Voe, a harbour in the north-eastern
part of the Shetland Islands, and of various places on
the 'coasts of Denmark and Sweden. -At the com-
mencement of 1813 Lieut. Parry proceeded in the
Sceptre, 74, Captain Robert Honyman, to North Ame-
rica, for the purpose of joining La Hogue, 74, Captain
;Hon. Thomas Bladen Capel. On April 8, in the fol-
lowing year, having accompanied a detachment of boats
under the orders of Captain Richard Coote, to the
,neighbourhood of Pettipague Point, on the river Con-
necticut, we there find him contributing to the destruc-
tion of 27 of the enemy's vessels, three of which were
heavy privateers, and the aggregate burden of the whole
upwards of 5,000 tons. In the course of 1814 Lieut.
Parry furnished many of the junior officers on the Hali-
fax station with copies of his ' Practical Rules for ob.
serving at Night by the Fixed Stars,' a treatise which
was afterwards published in order to facilitate the ac-
quisition of a species of knowledge highly. conducive
to the welfare of the naval service.' In August,
1814, he exchanged into the Maidstone, 36, Captain
William Skipsey ; and he next, in July, 1851, and
January and June, 1816, became in succession attached
to the Ardent, 64, Captain Sir William Burnaby, and
Carron, 20, and Niger, 38, Captains Nicholas Leciamere
Pateshall and Samuel Jackson, all on the North Ameri-
can station, when, in March, 1847, he returned to
England. On Jan. 14, 1818, he obtained command of
the Alexander, brig, hired for the purpose of accompa-
nying an expedition to the Arctic regions under Captain
John Ross, with whom he returned home in the follow-
ing November. Owing to the failure of the enterprise,
a new one was determined on, and the conduct of it en-
trusted to Lieutenant Perry, who was consulted in the
choice both of his ships and officers. He accordingly
assumed a command, Jan. 16, 1819, of the Hecht, bomb,•
and in the--early part of the ensuing May sailed from
1 Deptford in company with the Gripper, gun-brig, Lieut.
Commander Mathew Liddpn,for the purpose of carrying
out the object of his mission-the discovery of a north-
west passage. In the course of the voyage, which,
although not thoroughly successful, exceeded in its
general results the most sanguine expectations of its
projectors, Lieutenant Parry penetrated to long. 113
deg. 54, min. 43 sec. W., within the Arctic circle, and
thereby obtained for the - expedition the sum of
5,0001., -the amount of a Parliamentary reward
which • had been promised to such as should
cross the meridian of 110 deg. W. from Greenwich, in
the, latitude of 74 deg. 44 min. 20 sec. A full narrative
of his proceedings will be found in a volume published
by him in 1822, entitled ' Journal of a Voyage tor the
Discovery of a North-West Passage in 1819-20. The
Hecfs.and Gripper re-entered the Thames about the
middle of november, 1820, and were paid off at Dept-
fordi on the 21st of the ensuing December. On the 4th
of the former month Lieut. Parry was advanced to the
rank Of commander; and on Dec. 19 the Bedforslean
gold medal of the Bath and West of England Society
for'the 'Enconragement of Arts, Manufactures,
With ahnedsuCmomof-
merce was unanimously voted to him. •
500 guineas subscribed for the purpose, 'theexplorer of
the Polar Seas' was afterwards presented with a silver
vase highly embellished with devices embl
the city ofematic of the
Arctic voyages; and on March 24, 1821,
Bath presentectits freedom to himin a box of oak, highly
Encouraged
and appropriately ornamented. by the
or
dis-
coveries made during the late expedition, and by the pre-
sumption it afforded of the existencewase opfreap
ernrith s for
passage, the Admiralty soon mad
. another, the command of which again confided to
Captain Parry, who, on Dec. 30, 1820, received a com-
mission for the Fury bomb, with which vessel and the
8+ 1821.
Fred. Lyon, he
sailed from the Nore,
Hecla, commanded by Captain
May
1821. After having:
the
passed two winters in the Polar regions, the first to
northward of Southampton Island, and the second at
Ingloolik, a small island Ist. 69 d e
igt .s 2glramndin.oie
min., long. 1
satBinllt
deg. 44 min., the expedition with
unattained, but with the acquisition of i.tfo
much important pert
geographical knowledge).
off,returrineudv. tlot,
klB2B. Oni where
the two vessels were paid.
month
.Captain Parry (whose
valuablel of
the following
service had been
rewarded with
with a post-commission bear-
ing date Nov. 8, 1821)
appointed Acting-Hydroga-
pher to the Admiralty; and on 26 he was presented with
the freedom of the city of Winchester. Being selected,
17 1824, to take charge of a fresh expedition to
Parry, on 8 of the following
Jt:en'frigi'd zsef Captain.
may ag„.,ill sliilede
,frona Deptford, With •h,, rime ships
as
i •he last occ v.i.611-.ae deela, hoIN ever b •
1" ' ~,a by himself, and the Fury elng corn-
!. Wan" The following by Captain Parkyns
;inter was spent at Port
.11°PP"r.
Prince
Bowen, inßegents' Inlet, where the two vessels
remained from Sept. 28, 1824; until July 20,1825. The

Fury being ehortly.afterwards wrecked in lat. 72 deg. 42
mi.o. 30 see,. lung. 91 deg. 50 mte. 5 sec., the
unfortunately reduced to the necessiij- o` forthwith re-
turning; with a double ship's company, to England.
She arrived, accordingly, in the mul,ile of October. Ou
Nov. 42 in the sum,: yea'r, Captain Parry (to whom the
frioni of the borough of. Lynn was voted a mouth
afterwards te,tiire,,hy of the high t‘Pne entertained
fte c srperation of his tneriteriutia and enterprraiteg
i,,nducty was forma,ly appiantedi flydrograpirrtothe'
which etpc9 cclotinued to hold until Nov.
10, 182 G. At the :end of that peiiod: having pr,',Pol.eo
end oh. ained'sanution for n pl=or of reaching the North -
Pole from the northern Shores of Spi zbsigen, by travel-
Tith%*ll,4lge-hot34:i. over, the .ice, or thrcoigll tiny
/paces of Optql wao:;r that .might occur, va ,§,3gtila
fto 41:613. Sailing frem DIY-ford .11%
25, 1827, he Cfo) 1.1,:..e1a. Tieuredhorg Bay. 79
d g. 55 Ito:g. 16' deg:, 48 men. 45 sec. E.,
Jime 21 ndlowing, and then took. to his tledgt-boats,
"mh which he contrived, !,y July 23, 'to reach c littir
heyond 82 45 latitude more northern than
fix& been ever yet•attained. He then retraced his steps
to the liecla,, he brought home and paid 'off at
Dkvford Nov. 1, 1827. On the following day
he r•suined his duties us Eydrographer to the Ad-
miralty, where he remained until May 13, 1829 a
fortnight prior to which he:had r calved • the honour: of
kniOtho9d. He was subsequently employed, from 1829
until 1834, us Commissioner to the Australian Company
in New South Wales; from March 7, 1835, until Feb. 3,
1836, as assistant poor-law cocnnisaioneria the county
of Norfolk; and, from April 19, 1837, until December,
1846, as comptroller of the steam department of the
navy. He has filled, since the latter date, the post of
captain-superintendentof the Royal Hospital at Haslar."
The Duke las been equally just in his selection of
the second recipient of the captains' gosh service pen-
sion, for Captain Richards is well known, not only to
trtrilvie-of the best and most active officers in the navy,
but his career as a captain has gi - him a prominent
claim to reward fur distinguish rvices. We have
looked carefully down the active and scanned the
services of each officer, and we must say we cannot see
how, with any degree of justice, Captain Richards could
have been passed over. It will be seen that he has been
54 years in the navy, and during that time has served
afloat 26 years. Since his last sea-goingship, he has
filled the onerous and responsible office of superintendent
at Chatham.

Poker Richards entered, the navy in 1798, as first-class
volunteer on board the Cambridge, 74, Captain Richard
Boger, bearing the flag of Sir Richard King, at Ply-
mouth, where, with the exception of a few months in
1799 and 1800, be continued employed until May, 1802,
in the Resolute, Lieutenant Commander Thomas
Richards. From November, 1802, until December,
1807, he served on the Home and Mediterranean sta-
trona, principally in the capacity of midshipman, in the
Culloden, 74, flag-ship of Rear-Admirals James Richard
Dacres tied George Campbell, Dreadnought and Prin-
cess Royal, 92's, both commanded by Captain Robert
Car;hew Reynold, Hercule, 74, Captain Hon. John Col-
ville, and Ocean, 98, flag-ship of Lord Collingwood. On
the 12th of the month last mentioned he was made lieu-
tenant into the Repulse, 74; Captain Hon. Arthur Kaye
Legge, part of the force employed in the expedition to
Walcheren in 1809; and he was subsequently appointed
Feb. 23 and May 4, 1811, to the Montagu, 74, Captain
John Halliday, and Revenge, of similar force, succes-
sive flag-ship at Cadiz, off Toulon, and in the Adriatic,
of Rear-Admirals Honourable A. K. Legge and Sir
John Gore, to the latter of whom he became first
lieutenant. Ou the night of Nov. 8, 1813 having hand-
somely volunteered his services, Mr. Richards took com-
mand of the boats of the Revenge, and succeeded, with-
out a single casualty, in bringing oat from the harbour
of Pulamos a felucca privateer carrying 49 men, 20 of
whom jumped overboard and effected their escape. In
the course of 1815, after seven months of half-pay to
the Leviathan, 74, Captain Thomas Briggs, Alcmene,
38,Captain Jeremiah Cogialan, and Boyne,
98, flag-ship
of Lord Exmouth, all in the Mediterranean; and July 3,
1816, to the Queen Charlotte, 100. For his conduct as
first lieutenant Of that ship, which bore the flag of
Lord Exmouth, at the bombardment of Algiers, where,
in the Queen Charlotte's barge, he boarded, and in ten
minutes set fire to a frigate, he was promoted to the rank
of commander, Sept. 16, 1816. On Oct. 20, 1826, Capt.
Richards obtained command of the Pelorus, 18, in
which vessel he continued on the Mediterranean
station until advanced to post-rank, Sept. 17, 1822.
His appointments have since been Dec. 19, 1831, to the
Asia, 84, bearing the flag of the present Sir William
Parker off Lisbon, whence he returned in the summer of
1834; Nov. 1, 1835, for nearly two years, to the Vulage,
28, in the Mediterranean; and April 5, 1841, and Feb.
17, 1845, to the Cornwallis, 72, and Hibernia, 104, flag-
ships of Sir William Parker, in the Mediterranean.
While in the Cornwallis, which ship was paid off at the
close of 1844, Captain Richards bore a distinguished part
during the operations on the coast of China, where he
served on shore in the attack on theenerny'a entrenched
camp on the heights of Segaon, and at the taking of
Chapoo, Woosung, Shanghai., and Chin-Kiang-Foo. At
Chiu-Kiang-Foo Captain Richards landed at the head of
200 marines, and was wounded. As a reward for the
admirable gallantry, spirit, and judgment he had through-
out displayed, he was nominated a C. 8., Dec. 24, 1842.-
Herald.

THE FLAG PROMOTIONS.—In our list of flag-promo-
tions consequent on the death of Sir W. Montagne, we
omitted the promotions of Retired . Captains Wilson
Braddyll Bigland, K.. 11. (March 6, 1821), George Cor-
nish Gambier (June 4, 1821), John Gore (June 19,
1821), and John Gedge (June 19, 1821), to the rank of
Retired Rear Admiral, these officers being senior as
Captains to Rear Admiral Corry.
MALTA, MARCH 4.—The Medusa goes out to-night
to bring on the mails of the Bth inst. from Marseilles,
and the Spiteful to tow the Ardent into port.
On leaving Malta on the 27th ult. she put back, having
broken a waterpipe, and it was fully expected she could
not reach Marseilles without damage.
The Banshee, with that portion of the outward mail
sent through France, arrived here on Sunday last, having
arrived from Marseilles in the short space of 57i hours.
The Ripon arrived on the 29th ult., after a good pas-
sage, from Southampton, and proceeded onwards to
Aleiandria on the following day.
The Vengeance, 84, and the Terrible steam-frigate
left port on the Ist inst. Their sudden departure was the
subject of speculation, and the whereabouts being kept
a protound secret serves to increase the wonder. Eng-
land, however, is assigned to them by some, and Port
Mahon by others.

The Albion and Bellerophon line-of-battle ships are
also ordered to get ready for sea. The former will have
ber rudder hung on Saturday, and they will both get
away as soon as possible.

THE MEDITERRANEAN.
MALTA, FEB. 26.
" Her Blajesty's ship Queen, at Malta, Feb. 17.
(General Memo. relative to the Collision between Trafalgar
and Albion.)
"Having received the report of Rear-Admiral Harvey and
the captain of the Superb, who were directed to investigate
the circumstances under which the Trafalgar came into col-
lision with the Albion on the evening of the 31st ult., where
the latter ship, commanded by the senior officer then pre-
sent, was leading the weather column, and in the act of
reefing her fore and mizen topsails, it appears that Lieute-
nant -, officer of the watch in charge of the Trafalgar,
in endeavouring to get that ship into her station astern of
the Albion, incautiously ordered her helm to be put up when
she was on the weather quarter of, and about three cables
lengths' distance from, the Albion : and on finding that she
did not way off, as he expected, the sails were not thrown
aback or the helm righted until too late to prevent the col-
lision, although a light was displayed on the weather quarter
of the Albion to show her close proximity, and with proper
precautions contact might have been avoided. Blame is
therefore imputable to Lieutenant -- for his mismanage-
ment of her Majesty's ship when under his charge, and for
having omitted to send some person to acquaint his captain
of the near approach of the Trafalgar to the Albion. Had
Lieutenant --, who was officer of the watch in charge
of the Albion at the time, made sail more promptly the col-
lision might have been equally avulueu. iv-uu uue
elation, therefore, of the favourable testimony borne,
re-
spective y
Captain Hope Johnstone and Greville to the high characters
of Lieutenant and -----, and the attentionwith
which their duties are generally discharged in their
ships; the Commander-in:-Chief feels it incumbent
on him to admonish the latter officers to be more careful in
future.

- -
W.
Mr. Randle, chief engineer "of herP MaARKER, jesty'Admiral."
s ship al."
has been invalided.
Lieutenant Boileau is appointed to the Superb, vice
Nicholls, superseded at his own request.
Lieutenant Sir H. Blackwood, of the Vengeance, ex-
changeslwith Lieutenant Berkeley, df the Superb.
This makes the third lieutenant- that has left the Ven-
geance since her arrival on this station, and rumour says
another lieutenant will leave her shortly.
Mr. Denny, assistant-surgeon,
goes to England in
medical charge of the Hercules.
Mr. Turner, master, lately promoted from the Cara-
doe, proceeds to England as master of the Hercules.
Mr. Skead, second master of the Trafalgar, is appointed
to the Cando; vice Turner, promoted.
All the supernumerary lieutenants on this stati.onn are
the
ordered to be sent home ; they will take Passagheicih as. Hercules. Their occupation of the cabins to w
no_
~or
sistant-lurgeons were entitled is the reason ass
d t
this measure.
The Superb sailed for England on the 21st of
February.
°
Th® Phaeton sailed for Corfu n the 22d of February
to join the Channel
to relieve the Indefatigable, ordered
squadron.
al of the Trafalgar, exchanged
Captain Gascoigne.l-51., of h
t eSuperb.
with Captain Meheux.
Medusa arrivt d from the lonian
Her Majesty's ship
n the 25th of February.
lalandi and Greece
hip°—Ardent proceeds to Marseilles on
Her Majesty's s
the arrival of the Medina from Alexandria.
The Ardent steam-Teasel on her passage from Malta
hue
through the Straits of Bonifacio. Fortuna. !__
to Marseilles broke ber intermediate shaft 'Rte.)?
French steamer lying weather bound lb.
Sardinia, to which vessel she transferred
her prO
mail. She returns to Malta, when
her Indian
to the
passing
she
g i
n fooouu nr dt
34 a
y. ,
t. i''''
bably her officers and crew will be turned over
Oberon.
b r:, Seri.. F.,.
Dr. Trousdoll, of the Sholrwater, has ' '
to Malta Hospital.
hrousdell e Modeste, has
Mr. Pearce, Assisf t
been appointed to thetant Surgeon ea, T Shearwater, vi.