The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-21 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN

TRADE.

The value of Wheat has risen day by day for many weeks
consecutively without a single pause, and prices have now
obtained an altitude calculated to induce caution ou the
part of buyers. Prudent tradesmen consider speculative
investments at present rates hazardous; and parties who
purchase only in the regular way of business are gradually
restricting their operations, being generally unwilling to
take more than just sufficient to keep their customers sup-
plied. When affairs arrive at this position a reaction
usually follows; but, owing to the peculiar circumstances of
the present season, we greatly doubt whether such will in
this instance prove the case. The fact that large shipments
of grain continue to be made from England to Ireland—from
which country, in the ordinary course of events, we are in the
habit of drawing a considerable proportion of our supplies—
is alone sufficient to upset all previously-conceived notions.
But the singularity of our position does not end here. The
loss of the potato crop in Ireland, and the consequent neces-
sity of feeding several millions of people not generally in the
habit of consuming grain, on so expensive a substitute, is cer-
tainly ens very powerful reason for concluding that prices can-
not well recede ; but when to this Is added the present state of
France, and other continental countries where the crops of
corn have proved so short as to oblige the different Govern-
ments to have recourse to such expedients as those lately
adopted by the French—first altering the navigation laws
to encourage importation, by admitting flour under flags
of alt nations, and subsequently taking off the duties of
grain altogether there are certainly grounds to appre-
hend that it will be necessary to pay very high prices
abroad to induce our continental neighbours to part
with a commodity they stand in such urgent need of
themselves. We are, therefore, inclined to think that,
unless the spring should prove extraordinarily propitious,
and the arrivals from the other side of the Atlantic more ex.
tensive than we have reason to calculate on, the value of all
kinds of food will remain high up to the time of next har-
vest. 'The trade in wheat has not been quite so excited this
as the proceeding week, the very high terms demanded
having had the effect, as stated above, of causing all par-
ties to exercise more than usual prudence in their operations.
But, notwithstanding a somewhat. diminished demand, the
tendency of prices has been steadily upwards ; in proof of
which we shall quote the advance realised at some of the
leading provincial markets :
At Liverpool on Tuesday there was a good attendance of
buyers from the manufacturing districts and from Ireland ;
and the quantity of wheat on Bala being moderate, rates 6d.
per .701b5., or 3s. 6d. per quarter, above those of that day
se'nnight were obtained without difficulty. Later in the
week a further enhancement of 2d. to 3d. per 701bs. was
established, several parcels having been taken on Friday by
speculators, at the price last named.
The reports from the leading towns of Yorkshire informs
us that business in wheat had been more or less checked by
the advance; still, needy buyers had had no alternative,
and had been under the necessity of paying the terms de-
manded. At Leeds, the article was on Tuesday quoted 2s.
to 3s. per quarter higher; and at Hull, on the same day,
the rise was nearly as great. From Wakefield we learn
that a tolerable extent of business was done there on Friday
in Wheat at prices 2s. per quarter above those of that day
week.

At Birmingham, Bristol, and other towns in that direction
the upward movement has been equally important, although
purchasers have declined taking more than has been abso-
lutely necessary to supply their immediate wants. In the
foregoing observations we have confined our remarks more
exclusively to Wheat; but we need scarcely state that all
other articles have participated in the rise. Barley has, in
many parts of the country, sold at the unusually high rates
of 60s. to 651. per quarter, according to quality; and the
scarcity of Oats has now become so great that farmers have
refused to sell this grain altogether, being well aware that if
they were to part with the little hey may still hold, they
would afterwards have to pay relatively higher prices to pro-
procure food for their stock.
The advices from Scetland are of a similar character to
the reports from other parts of the kingdom. Not only
wheat, but all species of grain, is rapidly rising there ; and
it is certain that no supplies of oats (the staple article of
shipment to the south) can be expected, that article being
worth quite as much, if not more, at Edinburgh as in the
London market.

The accounts from Ireland become from day to day more
distressing, and the temporary decline which a large arrival
of Indian corn caused last week had again been recovered,
the supply having proved inadequate to the demand. With
the people starving in many parts of the island, shipments
of provisions from thence to England are, of course, out of the
question.
The arrivals of English Wheat into London have again
been moderate, the high range of prices at Liverpool and
other northern markets having caused the shippers on the
east coast to direct their consignments to those place rather
than to the metropolis. The quantity brought forward at
Mark-lane by land-carriage samples from the home counties
since Monday has also been small ; and the millers' wants
having again become urgent, increased anxiety to get into
stock has been manifested by buz-ers. The few lots left over
on Monday, principally from Essex and Kent, were easily
placed on Wednesday at rates rather exceeding those
obtained in the beginning of the week. Oa Friday factors
again raised their pretensions, which checked the demand ;
but having scarcely anything fresh up, needy purchasers
,were under the necessity of paying the terms asked. In
free foreign Wheat a fair amount of business has been done
during the week, the lower descriptions having been in
request for the manufacture of meal for Ireland, and
the finer sorts having excited attention for local use.
The continued demand from the other side of the Chan-
nel, and the smallness of the stock remaining on hand,
together with the certsinty that no foreign supplies
can for a month or two be calculated on, have all
tended to give an upward tondency to prices, and the
rise since last Monday cannot be estimated at less than,
Is. to 2s. per qr. Prices being now as high, if not higher
here than in France, the export to that country has ceased ;
notwithstanding which, holders of bonded Wheat have con-
tinued to ask prices within Is. to 2s. per quarter of those of
free, for parcels under lock. This can only be accounted
for by the supposition that the Legislature may, on the
meeting of Parliament, take off the existing duty of 4s. per
quarter.
The sale of town-made Flour has been more extensive this
week than was the case earlier in the month, which has pro-
bably been caused by bakers having become apprehensive
that the millers may again put up the price : hitherto, how-
ever, the top quotation has remained stationary at 655. per
sack. Ship Flour has been in fair request. and has com-
manded full terms. For American the inquiry has been
lively, and a further enhancement of Is. per brl. has been
pretty generally realised on the best brands.
The arrivals of English Barley have been very trifling ;
and though 12,551 qrs. have come to hand from abroad, prin •
cipally from the north of Europe (from whence the vessels
were dispatched previous to the setting in of the frost), the
high rates of last Monday have been maintained. Very
thin foreign Barley has realised 465., good grinding qualities
505., and for superior English malting qualities very close
upon 70s. per qr. has been paid. Such prices are well calcu-
lated to draw supplies ; but the Baltic ports being frozen up,
with litile prospect of becoming free till March, whilst in the
interval nothing of importance can be expected to reach us
from other quarters, we see no chance of a material reaction.
Malt has moved upwards in value quite as rapidly as Bar-
ley, and 90s. per qr. has been insisted on for fine qualities.
The supplies of Oats during the week ending this (Satur-
day) evening amounted to only 4,473 qrs. ; and the receipts
having for several preceding weeks fallen materially short of
the quantity required for consumption, great inroads have
been made on the dealers' stocks—indeed, so bare has the
market become of this grain, that holders have experienced
no difficulty in obtaining very high rates. The extent of the
advance will, perhaps, be better understood by giving the
quotations obtained for some particular sorts than in stating
the rise in shillings per qr. Archangels have sold freely at
365., good heavy Irish at 38s. to 395., and fine Scotch feed at
40s. per qr. and upwards, with more anxiety to buy than sell
at these rates.
Beans have participated in the general advance; and for
floating cargoes of Egyptians 445. to 455. per quarter, cost,
freight, sad insurance has been given.
Peas have likewise been held at enhanced terms, though
the demand for the latter article has not been particularly
active.
Floating cargoes of Indian Corn have again been much
sought after on Irish account, iand important bargains were
closed on Wednesday and Friday, on terms hardly procur-
able in the commencement of the week.
THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
By the Cambria steam ship, we have advices of recent
dates from North America. Shipments of wheat, flour, and
Indian corn, en rather an extensive scale, were still being
made to England ; but the very high freights demanded
had interfered a good deal with business. The New York
letters are of the 31st of December ; the stock of flour in
store was then becoming very small, and as in conse-
quence of the close of the inland navigation no supplies
from the interior were expected till spring, holders had raised
their pretensions from 12ic. to 25c. per barrel. The ad-
vanced rates demanded had, however, been very reluctantly
paid, and for some days the actual transactions had been
on quite a retail scale ; Genessee Flour had been held at
5 dolls. 561/Ic. to 5 dolls. 64c., which with charges added foe
buying and storing till spring, and calculated at the ad-
verse rates of exchange then prevailing, would make
the cost on board, in English money, 265. to 275. per
barrel. The total exports from New York during the par
1846 had been—Flour, 960,534 barrels; Wheat, 1,200,598
bushels; and Indian corn, 1,243,668 bushels. At Baltimore,
on the 29th ult., the flour trade was dull, and prices had
then rather a downward tendency; the last sales of Howard-
street had been at 4 dolls. 75c. to 4 dolls. 87c., and City-mills'
had also been sold at the latter rate. The export of flour
from that port to Great Britain during the year had not
exceeded 50,000 barrels. From Philadelphia the shipments
had been much larger viz., 360,844 brls. of flour, 223,947
bushels of wheat, and 272,768 bushels of Indian corn. At
the last-named port business was far from brisk; on the 26th
of December holders of flour generally demanded 4 dolls.
87i c. per barrel, which being rather more than buyers were
disposed to give, only retail sales have been made. Of Indian
corn a couple of cargoes of new southern yellow had been
bought at 57c. to 58c. per bushel.
Owing to the non-arrival of the Hamburgh mail of Tues-
day last, our advices from the northern parts of Europe
are not of such recent dates as usual; we have, however,
Dantzic letters of the 9th instant, by the way of Holland,
from which it appears that the continued advance on this
side had had the usual effect, prices having run up quite
as rapidly there as with us. For fine high-mixed wheat
holders had refused to accept below 60s. to 615., and for fair
high-mixed 58s. to 595. per qr. had been demanded; whilst
the most ordinary descriptions had been held at 50s. to 525.
per qr., free on board, in spring. Rye had been much in-
quired for, and, having come very sparingly to hand, had
realised equal to 425. per qr.
be extremely small ; and by the most recentin accounts from
Ie
- At the Lower Baltic ports the stocks of grain arentasaid
to
Rostock, Stettin, &c., it appears that the supplies
little business had been done, though
the comparatively
growers had been on a restricted scale, consequenceth ofh
the demand had been lively. At the first of these ports
andoa rd , ient
Stettin, cn the same day, 345. per quarbarley was, on the 7th instant, quotedt
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The very great rise which has
corn had further advanced.
place in prices here, has placed
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country above those of Mar-
seillesquite unimportant, but the prices of both wheat and spring
quotations of wheat in this
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the
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Odessa wheat, deliverable
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equal to about 508. per qr. free on
there for shipment,ofethe French markets wheat and flour
board. In most
further rise, and prices are now too nearly
chase of 4,000 sacks otf Marianopoli wheat had been made
have undergone a
above the Hamburgh mail of Tuesday
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COURT CIRCULAR.
The Earl Forteacue, Lord Steward, and the Earl Spencer,
Lord Chamberlain, had an audience of the Llueen yesterday
at. Buckingham Palace, and presented to her Majesty the
address from the House of Lords, in answer to the Speech
from the Throne.. The Queen was pleased to return a most
gracious answer.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the
Princess Royal, left town at ten minutes past three o'clock
yesterday afternoon, in a carriage and four for Windsor
Castle. The Equerries in 'Waiting, Lord Alfred l'aget
(Clerk Marshal) and Colonel Seymour, followed in another
carriage and four. The Lady in Waiting, the Marchioness
of Douro; the Maids of Honour in Waiting, lion. Miss
Stanley, and lion. Miss Dawson ; and the Lord in Waiting,
Earl Dude were in the third carriage; and the Groom in
Waiting, Colonel Berkeley Drummond, and the Master of
the Household, Major General Bowles, were in the fourth
carriage.
Her Msjesty and the Prince were conducted to their car-
riage by the Lord Steward and Captain Francis Seymour,
Groom in Waiting to his Royal Highness. The Royal party
proceeded from Buckingham Palace to the Paddington ter-
minus, and left by a special train on the Great Western
Railway.

Wirrnson, WEDNLSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert,
accompanied by the Princess Royal, arrived at the Castle at
a quarter past four o'clock this afternoon, from the Slough
station of the Great Western Railway, escorted by a party of
the Ist Life Guards. The Royal suite consisted of the Mar-
chioness of Douro, Hon. Misses Stanley and Dawson, Earl
Ducie, Major-General Bowles, Colonel fierkeley Drummond,
Lord Alfred Paget, and Colonel Seymour.
Earl Spencer arrived at the Castle this afternoon, on a
visit to her Majesty.
The Royal dinner party at the Castle this evening will in-
clude her loyal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Lady in
Waiting to her Royal Highness, the Baroness de Speth, and
Earl Spencer.
The band of the First Life Guards attend during dinner;
her Majesty's private band afterwards attend in the Castle.

A deputation from the Society of Friends, headed by Mr.
Foster, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday,
at his official residence in Downing-street.
Earl Spencer and Earl Fortescue had an interview with
Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home-office.
Mr. Musson had an interview with the Earl of Clarendon
yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade.
Lord Ingestre, and a deputation from the Staffordshire
Railway Company, had an interview with the Right Hon. E.
Strutt yesterday at the office of the Commissioners of Rail-
ways.
The Earl of Devon had an interview with the Chancellor
of the Exchequer yesterday at his official residence in
Downing-street.
The Lord Advocate of Scotland had an interview with Sir
George Grey yesterday. Earl Cawdor bad also an interview
with the Right Hon. Baronet yesterday at the Home-office.
Mr. S. D. Patch and Mr. Simmonds bad an interview with
the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, yesterday, at the office of
the Board of Trade.

A deputation relative to the Mauritius, had an interview,
yesterday, with Lord John Russell.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general
meeting, yesterday, at the office, in Whitehall-place.
The Marquis of Lansdowne had a dinner party, yesterday
at Lansdowne House.

Lord Thomas and Lady Sophia Cecil left Farrance's Hotel,
yesterday, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of
Exeter, at Burghley, Stamford.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHAMPTON RACES, 1847.
Handicap for the Great Northamptonshire Stakes.
Lightning, 6 yrs, 9st 21b-Sweetmeat, 5 yrs, 9st-Wolf-
dog, 5 yrs, Bst 111b-Dulcet, 5 yrs, Bst 91b--Lothario, aged,
Bst Slb-The Best of Three, 6 yrs, Bst 71b-Sting, 4 yrs,
Bst 71b-Annandale, 5 yrs, Bst 61b-Norpeth, 6 yrs, Bst 61b
-Mendicant, 4 yrs, Bst 21b-Lord Saltoun, 6 yrs, 7st 121 b
-Doleful, 5 yrs, st 101b-Red Rover, 6 yrs, st 10Ib-
Princess Alice, 4 yrs, 7st 101b-Refraction, 5 yrs, 7st 101 -
Rufus, 4 yrs, 7st 91b-Emmeline, 4 yrs, 7st 91b-Miss
Burns, aged, 7st 91b-Chamois, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-Mildew, 5
yrs, 7st 71b-Roebuck, 5 yrs, 7st 71b-Counsellor, aged,
7st 71b-Jenny Wren, 5 yrs, 7st 71b-Arthur, 5 yrs, 7st 6lb
-What, aged, 7st 61b-Captain, 5 yrs, 7st 61b-Valentis-
aimo, aged, 7st 61b - Bokhara, aged, 7st slb - Best
Bower, 6 yrs, 7st 51b-Roderick, aged, 7st 51b-Alvanley, 6
yrs, 7st 5113-Humdrum, 4 yrs, ist 51b-Campanile, 531 s,7st4lb
- Sheraton, 4 yrs, 7st 31b-Diomed,4yrs,7st 31b-St. Demetri,
4 yrs, 7st 31b-4iiselle, 4 yrs, 7st 31b-Marquis of Conyng-
ham, 4 yrs, ist 31b-Duke of Richmond, 4 yrs, 7st 21b-
Lady Cecilia, 4 yrs, 7st-Romance, 4 yrs, 7st-Leopnrd,
5 yrs, 7st-Ennui, 4 yrs, 6st 121b-Morocco, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b
-Hydrange, 4 yrs, Est 121b-Camera Obscura, 4 yrs, Est 121 b
-Turpin, 4 yrs, Est 12b-Magnet, 5 yrs, 6st 121b-Sister to
Pedometer, 5 yrs, Est 121b-Komager, 5 yrs, Est 111 -
Alliance, 4 yrs, 6st 111b-Princess Royal, 5 yrs, 6st 101 -
Pal, 4 yrs, 6st 101b-Buttress, 4 yrs, Est 101b-Icicle, 4 yrs,
6st 101b-Secundus, 4 yrs, 6st 101b-Punch, 4 yrs. Est 91b
-Flitch, 4 yrs, Est 91b-Trojan, 6 yrs, 6st 91b-Idolater,
5 yrs, 6st 91b-Sate}r, 6 yrs, Est 81b-Queen Anne, 4 yrs,
6st sib-Sister to lambeau, 4 yrs, Est 81b-Fort William,
4 yrs, 6st 71b-br g by Young Cadland, 5 yrs, Est 71b-
Blackatrap, 5 yrs, 6st 71b-Tit-bit, 4 yrs, Est 61b-
Golden Bee, 4 yrs, Est 51b - Headsman, 4 yrs,
6st 51b-Chatterbox, 4 yrs, Est 51b-Caprice, 4 yrs, 6st 51b
-Milliner, 4 yrs, 6st 416-Wild Roe, 5 yrs, 6st 41b-Polka,
4 yrs, 6st 31b-Tragical, 4 yrs, 6st 21b-Spur, 4 yrs, 6st 2lb
-Fugitive, 4 yrs, Est 21b-Projectile, 3 yrs, 6st-
Reminiscence, 3 yrs, sst 101b-Devil-me-care, 3 yrs, sst 61b-
Crozier, 3 yrs, sst fib-The Premier, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Queen
Mary, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Comme it Faut, 3 yrs, sst 21b-
Daughter of the Star, 3 yrs, sst 21b-Credential, 3 yrs,
sst 21b-Moodkee, 3 yrs, 4st 121b-Vampyre, 3 yrs, 4st 101 b
-Watc'hdeg, 3 yrs, 4st 101b-Palma, 3 yrs, 4st 1 °lb--
Brother to Stitch, 3 yrs, 4st 101b-Halo, 3 yrs, 4st 101 -
Mirmillo, 3 yrs, 4st 101b-Moonlight, 3 yrs, 4st 101 -
Lancer, 3 yrs, 4st 101b-Typhon, 3 yrs, 4st 1 Olb -Mistress
Jean, 3 yrs, 4st 71b-Ch c by Euclid, dam by Taurus, 3 yrs,
4st 71b-Wee soy, 3 yrs, 4st 71b. Forfeits to be declared on
or before the Ist day of February.
EPSOM, 1847.
Acceptances for the Metropolitan llandicap.
Wolfdog, 5 yrs, Ost 31b-Dulcet, 5 yrs, 9st I lb-Annan-
dale, 5 yrs, Bst 131b-Ingo, 4 yrs, Bst 121b-Queen Mab,
aged, Bst 91b-Pine Apple, aged, Bst 71b-Red Rover, 6 yrs,
Bst 51b-Dexterous, 4 yrs, Bst 31b-Lord Saltoun. 6 yrs,
Bst 11b-Refraction, 5 yrs, Bst-What, aged, 7st 131b-Best
Bower, 6 yrs, 7st 1216-Gannet, 5 yrs, 7st 121b-Milden,
5 yrs, 7st 111b-Torn Tullock, 4 yrs, 7st 1 °lb-Little Jack,
5 yrs, 7st 101b-Diomed, 4 yrs, 7st 91b-Magnet, 5 yrs,
7st 91b-Gwalior, 5 yrs, 7st 91b-Driflield, 4 yrs,
7st 91b-Alliance, 4 yrs, 7st Blb-False Report,
6 yrs, 7st 81b-Rufus, 4 yrs, 7st 81b-Bourton, 4 vrs,
7st 81b-Marquis of Conyngham, 4 yrs, 7st 81b-
Ajax, aged, ist 81b-Buttress, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-Icicle, 4 yrs,
7st 7113-Humdrum, 4 yrs, ist 71b-br c c by Amateo, 4 yrs,
7st 71b-Duccan-durras, 5 yrs, 7st 7th-Sir Simon, 4 yrs, 7st
71b-Binnacle, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-Finvaragh, 4 yrs, 7st 71b-
Flahowlagh, 5 yrs, 7st 51b-Jenny Wren, 5 yrs, ist sth-
Sherator, 4 yrs, 7st bib-Camera Obscura, 4 yrs, 7st 51b-
Lady Sarah, 6 yrs, 7st 31b-.Cherry, 4 yrs, Est 131b-Heads-
man, 4 yrs, Est 121b-Correct Card, 5 yrs, Est 121b-Pimento,
6 yrs, Est 121b-Hannah Raine, 4 yrs, Est 91b-Ferney, 4 yrs,
6st 51b-Projectile, 3 yrs, 6st 51b-Crozier, 3 yrs, sst 131 b Devil- me -care, 3 yrs, sst 101b-Comene-it-faut, 3 yrs, sst
101b-Agnes, 3 yrs, sst 51b-Mirinillo, 3 yrs, sst 1-Laner-
cost filly, 3 yrs, sst llb-Meance, 3 yrs, sst llb-Pink Bon-
net, 3 yrs, sst llb-Bro to Stitch, 3 yrs, 4st 121b-Vampire,
3 yrs, 4st 121b-Euclid colt, 3 yrs, 4g 121b--Elis filly, 3 yrs,
4st 121b-Emerald Isle, 3 yrs, 4st 121 b.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
DIVIDENDS DECLARED.
R. Perry, hatter, Leeds—first and final div. of B'/d. in the
pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds.
J. B. Hellawell, dyers, Thornhill Briggs, Yorkshire—first
div. of Is. 11,4 d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office
of Mr. Hope, Leeds.
W. H. °shun, stock broker, Bradford, Yorkshire—first
div. of 9s. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of
Mr. Hope, Leeds.
J. Stonehouse, mercer, Scarborough, Yorkshire—first div.
of Is. 6d. in the pound, on any Tuesday, at the office of
Mr. Hope, Leeds.
W. Beckitt, money scrivener, Doncaster—second div. of
Is. 10d. in the pound, and a first and second div. of 4s. 4d.
in the pound on new proofs, at the office of Mr. Hope, Leeds.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street.
B. Calway, draper, Tooley-street, Southwark, Feb. 5, at
half-past eleven—R. Mitchell, merchant Lime-street, City,
Feb. 5, at eleven—J. Graham, stationer, Jewry-street, Ald-
gate, Feb. 9, at one—Tring, Reading, and Basingstoke Rail-
way Company, New Broad-street, Feb.ll, at eleven—H. A.
Douglas, merchant, Old Broad-street, City, Feb. 9, at one—
E. Brentnall, builder, Cold Harbour-road, North Brixton,
Feb. 9, it two—J. C. Johnson, merchant, Laurence Pount-
ney-lane, City, Feb. 9, at two—T. Oakley, farmer, St.
Albans, Feb. 10, at two—A. Stocken and W. Utton, coach-
makers, Halkin-street, Belgrave-sqare, Feb. 11, at two—A.
V. Leaman and W. Andrew, mahogany dealers, Fenchurch-
street, Feb. 10, at one—W. Brewer, grocer, Kensington-
Nravel-pits, Feb. 11, at one—ft. G. Newby, harness maker,
orwich, Feb. 11, at half-past twelve—F. Tatham, sculptor,
Newman-street, Oxford-street,Feb. 11, at half-past twelve-
-1 D. Arnold, pipe-maker, St. Mims, Feb. 11, at twelve—J. F.
Burness, baker, Twickenham, Feb. 11, at eleven—E. Crofts,
1 bricklayer, Castle-street, Southwark, Feb. 11, at twelve—J.
B. Oram, clerk to a wine merchant, West-square, St.
George's-road, Southwark, Feb. 11, at half-past eleven—J.
Adams, rope maker, Malden, Essex, Feb. 11, at half-past
eleven—B. H. Stevens, smith, Wimborne Minster, Dorset-
shire, Feb. 11, at one—S. Cowell, comedian, Walcot-place,
Lambeth, Feb. 11, at eleven—P. Stewart, clerk in the Ord-
nance-office, Craven-place, Old Kent-road, Feb. 11, at one—
W. Blake, linendraper, Bromley, Essex, Feb. 11, at eleven—
J. Sawyer, attorney, Goulden-terrace, Barnsbury-road,
Islington, Feb. 11, at half-past eleven—G. Harling, butler,
Brighton, Feb. 11, at twelve—D. Allen, spirit merchant,
High-street, Southwark, Feb. 11, at hale-past twelve.
In the Country.
J. Massey, engineer, Etruria, Staffordshire, Feb. 9, at half-
past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—T. Crane,
brewer, Kegworth, Leicestershire., Feb. 12, at twelve, at the
Birmingham District Court—A Baldock, grocer, Notting-
ham, Feb. 12, at twelve, at the Sixchange-rooms, Notting-
ham—F. Shaw, eating-house keeper, Manchester, Feb. 12, at
twelve, at the Manchester District ourt.
CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to
the contrary, on the day herein mentioned.
H. Mayhew, printer, The Shrubbery, Parson's-green,
Feb. 11—W. Reeves, live stock dealer, Horseferry-road,
Limehouse, Feb. 11—R. K. Payne, grocer,`,Brighten, Feb. 12
—A. Burton, coal merchant, Pimlico, Feb. 5--H. Newton,?
chemist, Northumberland-street, Strand,
eFeb. irloin—Ffounder,
Farley, hatter, Liverpool, Feb. 9
W
Wolverhampton, Feb. 11—J. tailor,Payne:Pry , Weymouth,
Feb. 10—C. Malpas, victualler, Manch est er,Feb. 12— W.
Wells, coal merchant, Bankside, Southwark, Feb. 9—J.
Fryer, stock broker, Birchin-lane, Southwark, Feb. 9—II.
Copner, mercer, Ludlow, Shropshire, Feb. 9—W. Hildrow'
grocer, Darlington, Durham,
Feb. 9—J. Birley, card manu-
facturer, Eccles, Lancashire, Feb. 9—G. F. Kerscher, licensed
victualler, Holloway, Feb. 9.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
J. and F. Symonds, surgeons, Oxford—G. Lenox and W.
Metcalf, wine merchants, Liverpool—W. Webster, and C.
Johnson, merchants,
.Sheffield—S. Duke, C. Duke, and S.
Duke, jun., tailors, Hastings—J. and C. B. Warner, brass-
founders, Crescent, Jewin-street, Cripplegate—J. Crowther
and J. Brook, stock brokers, Halifax, 1 orkshire—J. Stafford
and J. Johnson, bleachers, Foggbrook, within Offerton
Cheshire—lL and G. Allen, mercers, Birmingham—J. Kinder
J.
and J. Sorrell, attorneys, Jewry-street, Aldgate—W. and
Shawcross, worsted manufacturers, Stockport—R. Kay
and
M. Owen, molasses manufacturers, Bolton-le-Moors, Lanca-
shire—W. Barker and W. Puckey, tailors, Manchester—S.
Myers and E. Guigues, patentees for improvements in print-
ing on leather, Bermondsey.....G. W. Peel and T. Allen, mer-
chants, Wood. street, City—T. and J. Reeves, coal merchants,
Whitstable, Kent—T. Dawber and M. Middlehurar, Aspull,
Lancashire—R. K. llabgood and W. Wakefield, drapers,
Fairford, Gloucestershire—J. Wade and D. Crowther, cloth
finishers, Huddersfield—W. Ingham and I. Lockwood,' fang
manufacturers, Lepton, Yorkshire—S. Davis and J. B. H i?-
ton, confectioners, Grange-walk, Bermondsey—M. Tyrrell
and J. Alford, coach painters, Little Grove-street, Portman-
square—J. Bulniforth, D. Smith, and J. Booth, engineers,

Leeds—C. Webb and W. Leapingwell, apothecaries, Oxford
—D. G. Clarke and E. M. Macklin, warehousemen, Gresham_
street, City—.J. Bradley and T. W. Hanson, upholsterers,
Halifax, Ycrkshire—J. J. Foquett and L. Worsley, atternevm,
Newport, Isle of Wight—G. and S. Rooke, jun., brass'.
founders, Birmingham—De Prez d'Hers and C. Bradley,
importers of foreign goods, Lower Thames •street—W. and
H. Milks, painters, Hull—G. Parrott and E. J. Cornock,
tanners, Chipping Sodburv, Gloucestershire.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
. . _ _ _ _

Robert Logan, baker, Paisley, Jan. 25 and Feb. 15, at
twelve, at Fraser's Goorge Inn, Paisley.

COURTS OF ALDERMEN AND
COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday about 120 members of the Common Coun-
cil assembled in the Council Chamber, for the purpose
of receiving the suggestions of the sub-committee ap-
pointed by them to consider the most advisable mode of
proceeding on the next Common Council day, with re-
spect to the Bill, the third reading of which, at the last
Court, the Lord Mayor refused to put.
It appeared, Mr. Ashurat said, desirable to the sub-
committee, and they recommended accordingly, that at
the next Court a committee of privileges should be
moved for, bef 're they proceeded to call upon the Lord
Mayor to put the question of the third reading of the
Common Council Qualifications Bill, in order that the
objection that they were not a legally constituted body
might not be started against them, &c. It also appeared
to them to be advisable to assert their light to have
the question put the moment after the committees were
appointed.
Mr. R. L. JONES supposed the case of the departure
of the Aldermen, which was a very possible contin-
gency, upon the motion for the appointment of the Com-
mittees of Privileges, and asked what ,in such a case,
would the Court du ? He suggested whether it would
not be preferable to have the committees appointed in
the first instance, and then to move for the appointment
of the Committee of Privileges. If the Aldermen then
chose to depart, the Court would be convinced they went
away for the purpose of avoiding the question, and they
could determine upon a mode of settling the difference.
The time was exceedingly eventful, and he thought it
necessary to caution the Court not to plunge itself into
a vortex in which great danger might be apprehended.
Mr. ASHURST said he no more than stated the recom-
mendation of the sub-committee. There was no resolu-
tion proposed. Every member would, when the time
arrived, act for himself.
Mr. R. L. JONES asked whether the sub-committee
had taken into consideration the fact that the notice of
the third reading of the Qualification Bill was not upon
the paper of the business of the next Court ?
Mr. ASHURST answered in the affirmative, but ab-
stained from discussing the subject, a course which
seemed to be approved by the meeting.
Mr. HARRISON said he thought it necessary to state
that it was his intention to move upon a subject in which
he believed he had the sympathy of all the members
before the third reading of the Qualification Bill should
be put. He meant the distressed condition of the Irish,
to contribute to the relief, of which as soon as possible,
he should move that the sum of 2,0001. be voted. He
intimated so much to the members, in order that it
might not be supposed that he meant to throw any diffi-
culty in the way of the Qualification question.
Mr. R. L. JONES put the case that the Lord Mayor
should refuse to put the question. He wished to know
in what condition the Court would be in that event?

No distinct answer was given to the question.
Mr. DE JERSEY believed that the motion for the ap-
pointment of a committee of privileges, would be an
interruption to the proceedings which the Court bad
commenced.

Mr. KING said the reading of the minutes of the last
Court, would be the first part of the business of the next.
Those minutes were to his knowledge improperly re-
corded, and would prejudice the question if permitted to
pass. If, therefore, they found that there was existing
inaccuracy, it would be advisable to move a committee of
privileges upon that matter.
The CHAIRMAN said that he had been merely in-
structed to state the recommendations of the sub-
committee, and having fulfilled his instructions, and
advised that the meeting should make no resolution, but
proceed with unanimity to the attainment of their object,
he considered the business of the committee at an end.
Mr. Ashurst then vacated the chair.

BREWING AND DISTILLING
FROM SUGAR.
The following most important petition was presented
to the House of Commons last night from the bankers
and merchants of London, more influentially signed than
any similar document which ever proceeded from that
important body. The presentation of this petition was
most appropriately and judiciously entrusted to Mr.
Charles P. Villiers, as a mark of the confidence which
the commercial world has acquired in the Hon. Member's
support of a liberal and enlightened commercial policy
TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS
OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. OF GREAT
BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT
ASSEMBLED.
The Humble Petition of the Undersigned Merchants,
Bankers, Brewers, Distillers, and other Traders of the
City of London,
Sheweth,—That inasmuch as your Honourable House
has repeatedly declared, more particulary at the passing
of the Canada Corn Bill and the late opening of our
markets to the sugar of foreign plantations, that her
Majesty's subjects in the Colonies ought to be placed
on a footing of equality with the subjects of the United
Kingdom, particularly with regard to commercial and
industrial privileges, including more especially the fair
and free disposal of the produce of their soil and lit-
boor, and
Inasmuch as the present dearth of every species of
food in Great Britain and Ireland, and most other coun-
tries of Europe, renders all legitimate efforts for pre-
venting needless or premature consumption of the
existing scanty stocks of grain, a paramount duty of
humanity and policy, and
Inasmuch as the present high and still advancing prices
of barley and malt, threaten a partial if not total smcpcn-
sion of brewing and distilling, as well as a material
defalcation in the public revenue derived from those
sources.

We, your humble Petitioners, for these reason, pray
that your Honourable House will immediately be pleased
to rescind the penalties to which Public Brewers and
Distillers are at present liable for using Sugar and Mo-
lasses, and allow henceforth the free and unrestricted
use :of those commodities : whereby your Honourable
House will greatly encourage and benefit the Colonists,
and concede to them the right, as British subjects,
to di-pose of their produce in a more enlarged and
better market ; cause a considerable saving in the con-
sumption of Barley and other Grain : secure to your Pe-
titioners, and her Majesty's subjects generally, the con-
tinued enjoyment of their usual beverage at a cheap rate;
protect, and probably augment, the public revenue, and
extend the shipping and commerce of the British empire.
And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray
N. M. Rothschild's Sons i'd'hotnson, 1-I.anke,y. and Co.

Magniac, Jardine, and Co.
Heath, Furse, and Co.
Forbes, Forbes, and Co.
Frederick Huth and Co.

Fletcher,- Alexander and Co.
Hibbert and Co.
P. ar.d C. Van rotten and Co.
Davidsons and Co.

Thomson, Bonar, and Co.
Sir J. N. Lubbock and Co.

Finlay, Hodgson and Co.
Bodilington and Co.

Barclay Brothers and Co.
Reid, Irving and Co.
Cockerell, Larpent and Co.
John Thomas, Son and Lefevre
Palmer, MMckillop, Dent and

John Henry Deffefl and Co.
Bosanquet and Co.
Anthony Gibbs and Sons
Archibald Hastie
Samuel Dobree and Sons

Co.
Morris, Prevost and Co.
John Henry Schroder and Co.

ITruernan and Cook
James Pattison and Sons
Arbuthnot and Latham

Gregson and Co.
A. A. Gower, Nephews and Co.
De Lisle,Janvrin and De Lisle

A. Colville
Gledstanes and Co.
John Hubbard and Co.

Crawford, Colvin and Co.
Scott, Bell and Co.
H. D. and J.Blytland Greene.

Cavan Brothers
H. and R. Thornton and West

And nutnej,

•ous others.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 20.—The Hyacinth, 18, Commander
Scott, was paid off in this harbour to• day.
The Athel troop-ship, Master Commander Pearne, em-
barked a company of Royal Artillery last evening for Malta,
and was towed to Spithead to-day by the Rocket.
WOOLWICH, JAN. 20.—The Dragon steam-frigate, under
the command of Captain Ramsey, with the officers and crew
of the Terrible steam-frigate, left Deptford on Saturday last
for Ireland, with a cargo of meal and other provisions for the
famishing inhabitants.
The Terrible steam-vessel was brought up to Woolwich on
into
dock afternoon from Sheerness, and will be taken
dock here to have her bottom examined.
___

The Amphion steam-frigate, Captain Williams, has had
twe powerful anchors prepared for her—one of the common
kind, of 57 cwt.; and one of Porter's patent, of 52 cwt. The
anchors have been tested, and are now ready to be put on
board.
The Wildfire steam-vessel, Second-master George Brock-
man commanding, went up the river yesterday from Sheer-
ness to Deptford.
The Ondine steam-vessel is in the harbour at Woolwich,
having been offered for sale to serve as a packet for Govern-
ment service.
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It is contemplated to appoint an additional comptroller of
the steam machinery of the Royal Navy, and Captain Ellice
will aid as the practical engineer ianpptohinisteddepseacrottunde.nats.sistManr.t
Lloyd, chief engineer at Woolwich Dockyard, is named for
the appointment of the steam machinery branch, with offices
toet thethe c chief Admiralty.en gine
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Woolwich Dockyard, the increase of
the works requiring the addition of a second-a.ssistant to the
department.

ppga,:rviciksiofNrosm FROM THE
Stephen Baldwin from New
STATES.--The
Orleans, and Anglo-Saxon from Alexandria, which were St. UNIB
re-
ported at the Custom-house, Liverpool, on the 19th instant,
bring 5,735 barrels flour, 2,000 quarters' wheat 2,450
bushels and 3,120 sacks Indian corn, 100 barrels Indian corn
meal, 166 barrels beans, 100 casks rice, and 1,510 packages
cheese.
The Courrier de Lyons states, on the authority of
a correspondent who left Odessa on the 12th ult., that there
were at that port 3,000,000 of hectolitres of corn, and 200
vessels taking in their lading, most of them Greek, Austrian,
and English, and only four French. There were besides, he
says, 2,500,000 hectolitres of corn ready for exportation in
the different ports of the Sea of Azoff.
We hear the Ministers of Austria, Russia, and
Prussia did not attend the opening of Parliament with the
rest of the corps diplomatique, in consequence of the formal
protest contained in her Majesty's Speech against the recent
annexation of Cracow. No doubt this step was taken by
their Excellencies as a mark of deference and respect to an
opinion so forcibly entertained and expressed by the Sove-
reign and Parliament of this country, with reference to the
violation of the treaty of Vienna by their respective Courts.
—Times.
THE ROYAL VISIT TO GUERNSEY.—The subscrip-
tion for the memorial which it is proposed to erect in Guern-
,ey, in celebration of her Majesty's late visit to that island,
is already announced to exceed the sum of 1,2601. A sub-
scription has also been set on foot among the inhabitants for
the relief of the distress in Ireland, in furtherance of which
benevolent object nearly 6001. has been contributed.