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any over-production, lie would ask, did it not arise en-
tirely from the Corn-laws ? Unless they were prepared
to show that the people in all corn-growing foreign coun-
tries were well clothed, it made a good argument against
the Corn-laws of this country. The people must be em-
ployed somewhere—it was proved by Mr. Porter's Tables,
that the land did not employ above 2 per cent. of an in-
crease of 37 per cent. —the remainder had, therefore, to
be thrown upon the commerce and manufactures of the
country. Again, if the people in this country were paying
double price for their food to what was done in foreign
countries, had the artisan not thus to work • double
hours, in order to compete with the foreigner ? The ar-
gument of Lord Darlington had made out a good case
against the Corn-laws.
Mr. WALKER, of Wolverhampton, said the arguments
of the Earl of Darlington were fallacious—utterly falla-
cious. It was now set at rest that the exports did not
form any criterion:of the prosperity of the country; in fact,
that on the contrary they were a certain proof of great
distress. There was not food for the people in this
1 country, or why should there be laws to keep it out ; upon
whom then did that shortness fall ?—not upon the noble-
men or the gentlemen present, because to them it made
no difference whether wheat were Ss., 155., or 255. a-
bushel ; they would get enough, but how was it with the
poor labourers, such as those whom they had seen before
them. Suppose that eighty gentlemen were in that
room going to sit down to dinner, and that there should be
only food on the table for 70, and the door were locked.
There was that good feeling amongst them, that none would
go away without a fair share of all that was there. But
how was it at the national table ; there was a deficiency of
food, but that deficiency all fell upon those poor labourers,
for even the artizan with his 20s. a week would get plenty
of food, though he went without other almost necessaries
. life. The poor labourers had to bear all the deficiency,
and were obliged to live upon barley and potatoes—upon that
pig's-meat, as it had bees aptly called, which they had seen.
Let them look to the operation of the present state of
things on our manufactures. He should tell the gentle-
men present, and particularly those from Manchester, that
they should not insist on there being a diminution in our
exports, as even Mr. Villiers had done last year, because
they could be met with figures, and, after all, that was no
criterion of the well-being of the working classes, but it
was quite the contrary. That merely obliged labourers to pro-
duce a larger quantity of goods for the same quantity of food.
What was the true consequence of an increase in our im-
ports ? Why there were more goods manufactured and
sold at a less profit, though the quantity might be numeri-
cally greater. He came from a district where they had
a great mass of people who manufactured in a small way
for parties in the wholesale trade, and whose whole capital
did not exceed .5/.—( Hear, hear.) They came to
solicit orders from wholesale manufacturers who had
to reduce their prices until they could sell against
cheap bread eaters.—( Hear.) One of those poor people
says " I will give you twelve locks for a bushel of wheat"
—another says " I will give you fourteen"—and, again,
another says " I will give you a dozen and a half." Here
there was a positive increase in quantity, but the merchant
not receiving the same rate of profit for his capital as he
formerly did, was obliged to make up for that deficiency
by an increase in the goods he manufactured. He would,
therefore, tell Lord Darlington and Sir Robert Peel that
an increase of exports was no criterion whatever of the
well-being of the people, but was merely a proof that they
were doing more work for the same, or perhaps a less
quantity of food. it was, therefore, but a consequence of
their misery and destitution. What, then, became of Lord
Darlington's argument against overtrading. He had to
apologise to the meeting for entering into that point, but
he thought it was an important one.—( Cheers.)
Mr. RAwsoN said that so long as the Corn-laws con-
tinued, the amount of labour to supply our people with the
means of subsistence would decrease. Let them remove
the Corn-laws and they would then be able to compete
with their foreign opponents.
Mr. SMITH said that he wished to make another allu-
sion to the speech of Lord Darlington. That Noble Lord
had said that " it was true that in unfavourable seasons
farmers might produce ninety quarters only instead of
one hundred, and if he could only obtain payment
at the ordinary rate, he would sustain a clear loss
of ten quarters, but at the same time the probability was
that he would get for the ninety quarters the same amount
as would be paid in other years fur one hundred; and the
argument, therefore, went for nothing." Thus the far-
mer contrived to exempt himself from the vicissitude of i
seasons —( Hear, hear.) Lord Darlington told them that
the Corn-laws were justifiable, because they enable corn-
vowers to get the same price for ninety as for one hundred
qua, tors. That was a temptation to farmers to put an im-
mense quantity of land out of cultivation.—( Hear, hear.)
Under the present law, the smaller the quantity of land,
the more the farmer was benefited, and when the rest of
the population was prospering he was complaining that he
was going to ruin.—( Hear.)
Mr. JOHNSON, of Derby, said he wished to notice one or
two misstatements on the part of Lord Darlington, which
were often urged by the supporters of the Corn-laws, and
not always refuted by their opponents. The Earl of Dar-
lington said " the extent of machinery and population was
such that they could manufacture enough for a new world
if a new world could be found." He denied that allega-
tion, and believed no manufacturer had made a statement
so utterly destitute of truth, and he thought it would be
much better if their opponents would confine themselves to
truth, and not propagate fallacies to mystify the people.
Tne Earl of Darlington had brought forward arguments
they had seen before. He said the iron was protected by
kl higher rate of duty than corn. That might be fact
or not—that iron bars three-quarters square were pro-
tected by a duty of 30a. the ton, and that bars of less size
were protected by a duty of at per ton. He thought it
would be better if the duty were reduced to 305., because
it was only holding out a delusion to the supporters of the
Corn-laws, when in fact it was no protection at all; for
of another class—hoop iron, the duty was 231., while the
price had not been more that 10 guineas, or 111. ; and he
would ask what protection that could be when the thing
which was only worth 10/. was protected by a duty of 23/. ?
The silk trade had a similar protection ; in 1424 it was
protected by a duty of 30 per cent. Since that time au
alteration took place, and there was now a variable duty
of from 30 to 70 per cent. ; but at this time this country
was scarcely an exporting country at all. Whatever was
the price in foreign countries, the home price must be pre-
cisely the same. Another fallacy was that the agricul-
tural class consumed four-fifths of the article produced. He
should say if he spoke of the classes purely agricultural,
and abstracted other classes, that, instead of consuming
four-fifths, as Lord Darlington said, he was quite sure if
he said one-third he should much overstate the question.
He had made inquiry into this subject, because he thought
small facts illustrated large principles, better than fallacious
declamation. He had spoken to a friend, a manufacturer
at Derby, how he found the country trade, and it happened
he was just packing up a parcel for the city of Yoi k, and
he said " This is for person to whom I used to send orders
to the amount of 80/., but they have been gradually re-
ducing, and this one is but 301." Perhaps this may be an
over statement as to the general principle of the country
trade, but he had no doubt of the important fact which had
been fully proved before Parliament that the home-trade
was considerably reduced. He had spoken to a per-
son engaged in the fine hosiery trade, and asked
him the amount of his business as compared with 1834,
1835, and ho answered it was not one half. Yet he was
perfectly master of his business, and a more industrious
man did not exist. He thought he should not overstate the
fact if he said the home trade had fallen off 25 per cent. But
it was urged if the Corn-laws were repealed land would be
thrown out of cultivation. Were there no mills out of cul-
tivation ? He had seen hundreds of men of Nottingham
selling sand, and yoked together drawing it ; he had
seen men of seventy years of age, who were almost
too weak for that purpose. Was such a state of
things to be continued ? ( Hear, hear, hear.) He
deeply regretted that their cause had not progressed
more in the House of Commons than it had done, but this
he knew, that it had progressed with such celerity out of
doors, that Parliament must very soon feel the effects of it.
--(Hear, hear.) The cause in which they were engaged
was the cause of the poor man—it was the cause
of the millions against the few, and it would, as
he was quite sure it ought to, prevail.—( Hear, hear.)
Mr. Sawn! (Saddlevrorth) wished to mention that a
German manufacturer had said to a friend of his who sent
out 10,000 dozen pairs of hosiery goods annually—" If
you have a duty of 10s. per quarter on foreign wheat, we
do not care about your opposition—if you make it 55., it
will be doubtful ; but if you take it off altogether we cannot
compete with you."
Mr. HILL (Bradford) wished to make an observation or
two, as he was about to leave for the North. In Brad-
ford, as well as in many other places, it was well known
that distress had existed to a very considerable extent.
The Poor-law Guardians had relieved, as far as they
could, all within their Union. But subscriptions had been
raised to relieve those who resided in districts that did net
fall within the Union. He (Mr. Hill) had visited
many of these districts, and he found that the
greatest distress existed among those who had
come to Bradford from the agricultural districts for em-
ployment—they had come from Suffolk, Norfolk, and other
places.—( Hear, hear.) He did not attribute the whole
of the distress to the Corn-laws ; but he believed that law
was something like the main-spring of a watch—it pro-
duced its revolutions and its effects. As it was more than
probable the motion in the House of Commons would be
lost, he would suggest to the Delegation the propriety of
mooting the question in another shape ; and he thought
the House of Commons could not refuse to inquire into
the state of the commerce of the country, the depression
of trade, and the cause of the bankruptcies that had re-
cently taken place.
Mr. LIVICSEY said he was anxious that the delegates
should know something of the distressed condition of the
hand-loom weavers in Lancashire, and he wished them to
heve up some of that distressed class—among whom in-
stances of utter destitution were too numerous, and eases
of starvation—of actual death for the want of food—were
not unfrequent. He begged to call the attention of the
Delegates to the following statement (respecting the
town of Preston and its neighbourhood)—of the condition
of the weavers. The state of a hand-loom weaved r, wife,
s.
and three children was this,—
Man's earnings ..................... .., 6 06
Wife's ditto 1
1 6
Parish ..............................

9 0

EXPFSDITURR. 0
Rent and looms ...........................
Coal
Candles, soap, &C ......................... 0 10

3 6
•
Balance for fi)od (not to mention clothing and every
leaoth:7t
t
comfort) 53. Gd., being one and a pennyfarthiny per
Yet he found the po3r people kept as long as possible out
of the workhouse, because they hoped better times would
et arrive.—(Hear, hear.) They lived in hope—were
their expectations to be disappointed ?—( Hear.) But it
ought not to be lost sight of, that the Corn-laws were the
root and basis of a mass of evil restrictions in regard to
provisions generally.—( Hear, hear.) For instance, in
respect to Irish butter—as the Irish peasantry were begin-
ning to leave of drinking whisky, and consume bacon and
butter—the importation of butter had already diminished

to this country, and would doubtless still further diminish ;
and Irish butter being now 116 s. a cwt. higher than
it had long been, consequently shopmen were cut-
ting up now Dutch butter, which paid a duty of
twenty shillings a cwt., and yet undersold our own
butter in our home market.—( Hear, hear.) So with
cheese, which might be bought in Holland at 30s. a cwt.
paid a duty of 10s. 6s. yet was cheaper in this country than
our own.—( Hear, hear.) Then as to eggs. French eggs
paid a duty of 10d. en every 120, yet were cheaper than
English eggs.—( Heart hear.) Now, in the event of Mr.
Villiers' motion being rejected, what measures were intended
by the Delegates ?—( Hear, hear.) Would they return
to their several districts and re-agitate the country, and
obtain petitions ten-fold more numerous, and strongly
worded?—(Hear, hear.) Could the motion be brought
before Parliament in another shape ?—(Hear.) Then
immediately on tho termination of the debate, should it end
in the rejection of the motion, let a member give a notice
of bringing forward the preposition in another shape. While
hundreds and thousands were starving, the Delegates
could not stop in: their course—( Hear, hear)—firmly
convinced that their cause was that of justice and truth ;
and persuaded that nothing but free competition in all
trades could promote cheapness and comfort.—( Hear,
hear.) He would pledge himself never to turn his back
on this great question, and both at meetings, in publica-
tions, and in discussions, he would do everything he could
invent to uphold the holy principle they had in view.
Mr. TURNER, of Chorley, said he was a manufacturer,
and had been so for nearly forty years ; sometimes he had
been most extensively employed, and he must say he did
not know a single workman in his neighbourhood who got
fie. a-week. He was the Chairman of the Chorley Asso-
ciation, and as such he might be permitted to state a few
short facts. In the neighbourhood of that place, up to
February last, the better kind of labourers—the weavers of
fancy goods got 75., Bs.! gs., 10s., and sometimes lls. a
week, but that was withdrawn in February; now the
weavers were employed upon a coarse kind of jaconet, for
which they got 71d. the piece, and for another sort they
got 101 d. ; of this work they could complete one piece a-
chy. For another article they could get 2s. or as. for
making a piece of 20 yards; of this he could not make
more than a piece and a half a-week. The work-people in
his neighbourhood were worse off than in the manufacturing
districts ; and the only difference was that in his
neighbourhood children could commence working when
they were nine or ten years of age. He had been
into the houses of several of the workmen in Chorley ; on
one occasion he went into no less than twelve during the
dinner hour, and, with one exception, all that they had for
their dinner were potatoes and butter-milk. One person
bad a piece of bacon and a little meat. These were facts
of which there could be no denial.
Dr. BowRING said that his valued friend who had brought
forward the question of the Corn-laws in the House of
Commons last night had adverted to many articles that
were prohibited from being imported into this country,
but he had omitted many which he would mention to the
meeting, all if which were totally prohibited from being
brought into this country under any conditions whatever.
Among them was fresh beef, live cattle, ground corn, all
foreign fish, except turbot and lobsters.—(Cheers.)
Lamb and mutton, fresh pork, sheep and swine. Ile
trusted that when the Corn-law agitation was arrested
in the House of Commons, something would be done to
remove the grievous oppressions which the people were
subjected to in consequence of the prohibition of
the articles to which he had referred.—( Hear, hear.)
With respect to other articles of food, he would mention
some welch were subjected to an enormous rate of taxa-
tion. There was the article of eggs. The importation
of eggs into this country was immense, it had amounted in
one year to eighty millions, and these eggs paid a duty of
12 per cent. on their value in this country, and of most
probably 40 er 50 per cent. on their value on the other side
of the water. Then there was the article of salt beet,
which was charged with a duty of 12s. per cwt., which
amounted to about 25 per cent. on its value. There
was butter, which was charged with a duty of 20s.
per cwt., which was equal to 20 per cent. on its
value. Cheese paid a duty of 10s. 6d. per cwt.,
which was equal to 22 per cent. on its value. Potatoes
were charged with a duty of 60 per cent., and thus, as
they approached the food of the poor, they found that it
was subjected to a more oppressive rate of taxation.—
(Cheers.) The revenue in this country had been raised
not by making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxation,
but the revenue had been raised by taxing the industry
of the labouring masses instead of the accumulators—
and when these facts should be fully understood by the peo-
ple, he was convinced that the yoke would be found to be
intolerable, and then those who stood between the op-
pressed many and the ruling few would be able to form a
confederation and a league, the voice of which would
force itself to be heard in those places in which, even now,
but little attention was paid to it.—(Cheers.) He noped
that some special reference would be made to the subject
•f these oppressive laws, and then it would be found that
tne corn grievance was not the only grievance which
ground down the people, but that it was only one portion
of that system of cruelty of which the people were the
victims.—(Cheers.)
Mr. RicliAßDsoN would ask two questions-Ist. Whether
the price of the Anti-Corn law Circular should not be
raised to 3d., the effect of which would be to get it into
coffee-houses and club-rooms, so that at all events the
arguments in favour of their cause should be placed within
the reach of the frequenters of such places. And 2d,
Whether it would not be advisable to meet next year the
first week in May, so as to get the co-operation of the
different religious societies, which met at that period, and
in that case he would suggest that the subject should not
be brought on in Parliament until that period.
Mr. LIVESEY would suggest the propriety of getting up
an Exeter Hall meeting on the subject during the latter
part of next mouth.
Mr. RiceaensoN said the use of Exeter Hall had
been refused.—(Cries of " Shame !")
After some little discussion the question of the price of
the Circular was referred to the Council.
Mr. J. SNIITII thought it most important to the poor
overworked and underfed labourer and artizan that only
19 of the Gentlemen in the House of Commons opposed
to them thought proper to attend in their places, while
the advocate of the poor man attempted to make out a
case, which he triumphantly did in their favour. They ob-
jected to the House being made a Court of Oyer and Ter-
miner ; it, in their hands, was one of Terminer
alone, where
.they were never present at a discussion
nor absent at a division.__( Hear, hear.) Let the people
know the manner in which their advocates were treated,
and their complaints despised, and they would rise in their
energy and return men who would do their duty and give
some attention to their wishes and grievances.
Mr. Wiesos suggested that a Committee ought to be
appointed for the purpose of attempting to obtain the con-
currence and assistance of the Dissenting Ministers of the
metropolis.
Mr. PRENTICE said, had Mr. Wilson inquired, he would
have found that steps had been taken for that purpose, and
was not confined to the metropolis, but extended through-
out the country.
Mr. T. M. GIBSON wished to make a proposition, in
consequence of what had fallen from Dr. Bowring and
Mr. Livcsey respecting the beef and mutton laws. He
thought it was most important that the public generally
should know that beef and mutton were not only not taxed,
but were actually prohibited altogether. Now he would
propose that some delegate or delegates should interest
themselves with any Member with whom they were ac-
quainted, in order that as soon as the discussion on the
Corn-laws was over, if they were beat, immediately to give
notice that he would call the attenti,,n of the House to the
Beef and Mutton Laws, with a view to their immediate
repeal.--(Laughter and cheers.) It would give a variety
to the question—it would be like a dessert after dinner—
and he would like to hear any good reason for the mainte-
nance of the prohibition. The only reason he knew was
that the Legislators were dealers in, beef and mutton, and
therefore they made laws to compel all persons to buy of
them alone. He would therefore move a Committee for
the purpose.
Mr. TAYLOR could assure Mr. Wilson, that the London
Association had taken all steps to obtain the assistance of
Dissenting Ministers. He would suggest the appoint-
ment of a Printing Committee, in order to lay short, pithy
acts before the public.
After some desultory conversation the Delegates ad-
'ourned till one o'clock to-morrow.

TELEGRAPH.—The importance
of this esta-
blishment was manifested last Tuesday. A brig outward
bound, with a cargo worth about 1,2001., not being able to
proceed attempted to put back into the Humber, but in a snow
storm got on the Binks outside of the Spurn. This vessel
(the Marys, for Dunkirk) not haring been entered in the tele-
graphic list, the signal-man on board the Bull Float could only
report " a brig on shore at Spurn," and as a matter of course,
no steps were taken until it was known whose business it was
to look after her. Some hours after the first intelligence
was sent, the men at the Bull Float ascertained and reported
that she was the Mary, Captain Lancaster, for Dunkirk. This
being ascertained, Messrs. Wilson Brothers, the parties inte-
rested, immediately sent down a steamer and lighters, and dur-
ing the night got the vessel discharigheed,acacniddenthtiseDd
vuluahbalveecbaregeno
transshipped before intelligence of
known in Hull by overland communication ; but had this
a
vessel had proper si
nals, Alessrs. Wilson Brothers might
sentssistance g down at nine in the morning, in-
stead of two or three in the afternoon. A complete
set of Watson's telegraph
flags being sent down by the
steamer en Wednesday morning, they were able to report the
satisfactory information of the cargo being all safely landed. A
meeting of the Telegraph Committee was held on Wednesday,
and we are informed Lieutenan sWatson reported that during
the six winter months, the telegraph has been interrupted by
the weather only twenty-nine days, and that during that pe-
riod 247 vessels inward bound, 219 outward bound, and 97 at
author in Grimsby and Hawk roads, have been reported by
name to the owners or agents, besides some hundreds of others
without signals —.Hull Observer.
AN ANCIENT EthNeTkeTenß,
u TRICK.--rrs,he means resorted to
every-way-looking
spcjou com-
mercial spirit of John Bull, in the necessary operation of
for outN-
emptying full pockets and filling empty ones, are so varied and
so :ngentous, that a man cannot but feel a hearty enjoyment in
being cheated : it is a sort of compliment paid to his under-
standing when such beautifully contrived mechanism is brought
into work to out-wit him ; yet there are men who prefer the
old worn-out bait which has already slain its hundreds and its
thousands, to the most beautiful trap into which this branch of
modern art could tempt bias. The hero of this our paragraph
present,n
was one of them. Tired of pulling the masculine noses and
trimming the feminine curls of the good folks of Brentwood,
he " shouldered his gun," and sallied forth to show his neigh-
bours " how birds were killed," and on his return at dewy eve,
he dropped into a public-house to wash away the remembrance
of the misses and the misfires of the day. His gun of course
attracted attention ; would he sell it, was. asked by a gentleman
who probably thought he saw the bump of takeinitive-
,as,
neohds
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atthghreierte strikingly thrtrioekeirnpegnolouyunndes of his
bdeveloped.eeof, ownership
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compliments.rethree
that
pounds, he w• o ual:d.l
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was more give credit till the morrow. The morrow came,
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men of sterling habits.— Chelmsford Chronicle.

CAUTION.—We caution the public against a
band of swindlers who are endeavouring to cash flash bills of
exchange, &c. One of the letters of the swindlers, received in
has been put into our hands, printed on fine gilt letter
paper.—Hull Observer.

SPIRIT of the

JOURNALS.

FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTREDAY.
(From the Globe.)
The Tories owe a debt of hatred to his Royal Highness
the Duke of Sussex, which, notwithstanding the large in-
stalments they have frequently, and at no distant intervals,
paid without reluctance, still remains undischarged. The
malignity appears to grow with what it feeds on. Every op-
portunity for manifesting it is seized with avidity, and seems
to communicate additional intensity to their vindictiveness.
This is not surprising. The private virtues of the Duke
of Sussex form a strong contrast to the vices which dis-
figured and debased the princely dignity of those of
his brothers whom the Tories most delighted to honour.
His patriotic principles, held firmly, and avowed openly,
when the Court was hermetically sealed against the
entrance of any who ventured to be honest in the cause of
the people in those bad times, also provoked the ven-
geance of the ruling faction, who succeeded in estranging
from him the affections of, first his father, and subsequently
of his brother who next occupied the throne. The Duke
of Sussex was, in effect, proscribed for his private and
public worth.

(From the Courier.)
it has been a sort of fashion of late years to treat the
various political and social questions which have agitated
the public as abstract considerations. The so•styled
Liberal Political Economists of the day have taken man
in his abstraction; and without reference to his passions,
his weakness, his habits, and the circumstances which
surround him, have legislated for him as if he was what
he ought to be. Relying on the axiom that the working
classes ought always to be industrious, frugal, and pro-
vident, Poor-laws have been enacted on that assump-
tion, which, but for accidental helps, would have
driven, and may still drive, the labouring popula-
tion to despair and madness. In like manner the
advocates for free trade, having satisfactorily proved
to themselves by a plus b minus x, that nations ought t•
buy where they can buy cheapest wherever the article
required might be produced or manufactured, would have
caused the trade of this country to be deprived of all its
protection, and have trusted to the politico-economico con-
victions of foreign countries to remove all their restrictions
on foreign manufactures, and to introduce a perfect system
of philosophic and commercial reciprocity.
(From the Standard.)

Mr. Villiers lasi night brought forward his Anti-Corn-
.aw motion, in a speech which, as the Morning Chronicle
says, lasted through nearly four hours. If the length of a
speech should afford a presumption of the goodness
of the case for which it is employed, Mr. Villiers
no doubt has gone far to achieve a victory. Most, however,
will be of opinion with the honest juror in Horne Tooke's
case, who, without taking much pains to weigh and
sift the evidence, grounded his verdict of acquittal
npon the nine hours' address of the Attorne)-General.
It must be a doubtful matter, said he, upon which a
cunning lawyer thinks it necessary to employ so many
words, and as it is doubtful the Judge tells me that I am
bound to acquit. The long speech of Mr. Villiers pre-
sents little that is new; all his arguments, when he con-
descended to reason, which was not often, were arguments
a thousand times refuted any exposed.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDAY.
A full room, and a good deal of betting.
THE DER.BY.
10 to 1 agst Angelica colt—taken
11 to 1 agst Theon—taken
14 to 1 agst Launcelot—taken
16 to 1 agst Confederate-15 to 1 taken
25 to 1 agst Gambia—taken
26 to 1 agst Wardan—taken
26 to 1 agst Monops—taken
26 to 1 agst Ottoman—taken
30 to 1 agst Bokhara
40 to 1 agst Black Bess-
-40 to 1 agst Velvet
50 to 1 agst Assassin—taken
50 to 1 agst Janus—taken
50 to 1 agst Diplomatist
40 to 1 agst Muley Ishmael-50 to 1 taken
0(X) to 15 agst Glenorchy—taken
,000 to 15 agst Dreadnought
[OOO to 15 agst Pathfinder
[OOO to 15 agst Little Wonder
[OOO to 20 agst Sophocles

THE OAKS.

7 to 2 agst:Crueifix
7 to 1 agst Black Bess—taken
[0 to 1 agst Lalla Pookh
[6 to 1 agst Filly out of Rowton's darn—taken

TWO THOUSAND GUINEA STAKES.
5 to 2 agst Angelica colt
(I to 1 apt Wardan—teken
7 to 1 agst Crucifix
7 to 1 agst Confederate—taken
10 to 1 agst Grey Milton

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

VESSELS SPeKEN wiTir.—The Monongahela, from Liver-
pool to Philadelphia, on the 25th ult., lat. 50, lon. 11, and
Irene, bound to Liverpool, 26th, off Cape Clear, by the Martha,
Martin, arrived at Liverpool; Marmion, Harrison, London to
Quebec, lat. 49, lon. 9, by the Vivacious, Proom, arrived in
the Downs; William Henry Angus, from Honduras, 13th ult.,
lat. 48, lon. 20 ; Shannon, from Liverpool, 15th lat. 48, lon.
19; Janet, from the Cape of Good Hope, 16th ; Victoria, from
Cadiz, 24th, lat. 49, lon. 9, by the Saladin, M'Kenzie, arrived
in the Downs ; Montreal, 13th ult., lat. 46, lon. 27 ; Rokeby,
bound to Liverpool, 27th ; and William Parker, Liverpool to
Montreal, 28th, off Cape Clear, by the Berbice, Greirson, ar-
rived at Liverpool ; Elizabeth, Odessa to Falmouth, 24th Feb.,
off Malta, by the Anna Laing, arrived at Falmouth ; Clutha of
Greenock, for St. John's, New Brunswick, 25th ult., lat. 51,
by the Persian, Fisher, arrived at Falmouth ; Hope, Bristol to
Newfoundland, 23d ult., by the Margaret, Green, arrived off
Cork ; Elizabeth, Pollack, from Odessa, 20th Feb. in the

Archipelago ; Mary Ellis, from Odessa, 10th ult. of Cape St.
Vincent, by the Sarepta, Buck, arrived off Cork; Renovation,
from Shields, 11th ult., off Lisbon, by the Six, Derry, arrived
at Falmouth ; Mary Ann, Odessa to Falmouth, off Girgente,
20th Feb., by the Nereid, arrived off Falmouth ; Mount's
Bay, bound to St. Michael's, lat. 38, lon. 22, by the Queen,
arrived in the River ; Harmony, Liverpool, to Cape Town,
13th ult., lat. 48, lon. 13, by the Claremont, arrived in the
Downs.

NOTICE TO MARINERS-FLOATING LIGHT AT

BERBICE.

The following is a copy of a letter received at Lloyd's from
their Agent at Berbice, dated sth February :
" SIR,—I beg to transmit to you herewith, for the informa-
tion of the Committee for managing the affairs at Lloyd's the
following particulars regarding a floating light placed at the
entrance of this harbour.
" A single bright light from sunset to sunrise, and by day a
black ball at the mast-head. Lat. 6 deg., 27 min., 30 sec. N.,
lon. 57 deg., 2 min., 3 sec, W., East Point Berbice River
bearing S.S.W., distant 10 miles, 21- fathoms at low water
spring tides. " I am, Sir,
" Your most obedient servant,
" G. FULLARTON, Jun."
To Mr. Dobson, Esq., Secretary to Lloyd's."