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PRICE OF BREAD.
The highmt rri eof fira td Ihe B t °lrks is 9Md for the lib
Loaf. Got d Bre td may be had at 7;4d.

...
PRI T'Ei OF SEEDS.
Per Cwt 1 Per Quarter
.sT,w E ;gl.sh 1t,... C10ver...63s COs St. Fein ........... ....... —s .ViS Cass Old I itto Dit'o —s —s —s'llve Gass..
—.3 Itis 30e
New Foreign Di.t0...... s 55s ifts Pacey Grass s .....-3
01 t Di to Di to —s —R —s Linseed, for fe di. g ...—s 50s 51e
New White Clover 45s 5Cs 6:8 Dit o, for sowing ......—s 60. 66s
Old Di!t • Ditto —s —s —s;Ditto, for crushi.:g ....—s 4Gs 4S;
Nov Tre oil —s 3ns 4T4 H-r•ni s ..—s 3lis -1•1 e
Old Ditto .-s 20s 20s'Canary .---s E 53 96:,
'Fr folium s ,Ss 70s1 Per B. shel.
English Carraway —s 50s s's White lilust-rd .... is Od to Its Or
Foreign Ditto „ —, 46s 50s Brown Ditto 1.4 s Od to 17s Cc
Coriander ... —s Its ISs,Tares 7s 6d tc 10s 0.1

PRICE OF OIL.

Rape Oil, brown, per ton
Ditto, refined
Linseed Oil ‘.7o
Lins cc! Oil Cake at th.: Mill (per 1000) lt 0
Rai c ake, per to a 7
PRI.,E OF TALLOW
cown Tallow ..............£2 11 6
Yellow Russia
Whit, „„ ii 0 1'
Soap Ditto 0 0 0

r, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b.
Melting Stuff
1 XI 14 0
Ditto Hough I 4 0
Graves
i Good Dregs U 5 0
'AT, per stone of 6lbs
['allow slelters) -,s 10d.
IA RICET.
last market day, 151.

PRICE OF RAW F
Price of Tallow (as stated by the '1
COAL I
Ships arrived since _ _
s. el. P. e,
Bell, Robson Sr Co. Hartley 17 u Walls End Hetton 22 9
Rlaydon Main l5 3 Walls End Lambton
Ilebblirn Main n... 19 C Walls End Russell's Hetton '.-2 9
Oirglnai Windsor's Pontop 13 C Walls End Stewart's .... ..... 22 9
Smith's Pontop
Tantield Moor. 2O 6 Walls End Caraaoc 2, 9
Wylam .......... . ..... .. ........ 17 0, Walls End:Howden 20 0
Walls End .M.tfo ,th
Walls End Hotspur lB 0 Walls End Kelloe
Walls End Hilda.... ..... 20 Q Walls End Adel Ude 2l 9
Walls End Riddell's 2 i 3 \alb End'Seymour Tees ... !..70 6
Walls End Waikcr 2O . Walk Eml South Durham,. 20 6
Walls End Belmonii...., , 21 9 Wal s End Ices
Walls End lirdley l9 61Walls End Wilton Park.... !S 0
Walls End Haswel .

HAMBURC
G It

MARKETS
AIN.

Wheat, Manta 324 to 151 Barley, Mccklenborgh 159 to 174
---- it :121 to 351 i -- Magdeburgh... 1;0 to 139
-- Anhalt, white 324 t0:,51 --”--- Holstein 139 to 174
--- red .., 321 to 35' ------ Summer 132 to 154
-- Brunsis ick 321 to 351 Oats, Eider ,„, , l2O to 1:22
-- Mecklenburg.. 231 to 354 -- 'Mecklenburg
--- Polish '312 to 331 -- Holstein 135 to 146
-- 11olstoin - East Friesland... 114 to 11:4
Rye, Mecklenburg
-- Dantzic
-- Elbing and Ko. Buck Wheat l6B to loi
nigsburg 2Ol to 211 i Rapeseed, Hanover ... 510 to 576
- Upland 2Ol to' 19 Malt
- Riga 2Ol to 219 Tares 270 to 400

COTTON.

Carolina and Tennessee 7(4 to 9%
Georgia, Ist scat 8
2d ~ 714 7%
:id and 4th ... G 34 7

COE]
Niecha 11 to
Batavia ssh
Sumatra "
Pa 5!,1a
Bahia 4%
SUGAR..—(Witt
Ilavannah, White.-- 3 to 4%
Brown 2 2%
Rio, White 2% 4
Brown 2 2%
Manilla. Brows

Maranham 714 toS
Madras ss4 6•%
Surats 5% 0
D0ming0.....• 7 7%
'EE.

Domingo 43 t 043(
La (it”ra 4% 714
Porto Itico 5%,
Ilavannah 4% 7.,4,

Ch 8% Discount.)
` Bahia, White 0% to 3
Brown 0% 2%
Pernambuco, White ...2q 2%
Brown ...2% 2%
n, 2% to 27,

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.

The following are the results of " A Table of Mort ility
in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from
all Causes Registered, in the week ending Saturday, the
20th March, 1841." The Table is issued from the Office
of the Registrar- General :

CAUSES OF DEATH.

Weekly
Total. Average
1838-9-40.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 152 204
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 164 151
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of

_
Respiration
Diseases of the Hea-t and Bloodvessels
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other

Organs of Digestion
Diseases of the Kidnsls, &c.
Childbed, Diseases of the Uterus, Ice.
Diseases of th'e Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c 1 1
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ll9 103
Old Age, or Natural Decay Bl 71
Deaths byViolence, Privation, or Intemperance 28 25
Causes not specified
Deaths from all causes 990 -
Average Weekly Deaths .. 926
Deaths in the Average Weekly
Week. Deaths, 1838-9-40.
Western Districts ... 143 ...... 139
North Districts
Central,Districts 212 ..... 190
East Districts 219 ...... 211
South Districts ...

69 60

Total 99U

It is stated that under the term Metropolis are corn-
prised the 32 districts herein mentiooed, which include the
City of London within and without the walls, the City and
Liberties .of _Westminster, the out Darishcs within the
St. Pancras ; Kensington ; Fulham ; Hammersmith
(Chapclry) ; St. Luke, Chelsea; Paddington • St. Mary,
Stoke Newington; St. Leonard, Bromley; St. Mary-lc-
how ; Camberwell Greenwich ; St. Nicholas and St.
Poll, Deptford; and Woolwich. The population as enu-
merated in 1831 was 1,594,890. The weekly average for
1838, 1839, 1840, was obtained by dividing the deaths in
the three years by 156,
TEMPERATURE IN THE WEEKS ENDING MARCH 13 AND 20.
March 13. March 20.
61' 62'
40 38
51 50
eh 25, 1841.

Highf;st

Lo—west

Daily Mean . .
General Register-office, Mal

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF TWIG DAY.

- - _
CHRONICLE.—In the absence of further intelligence
from the United Slates, and still disappointed at the non-
arrival of the President steamer, business has not been brisk
at the Stock Exchange, where the dealers appear disinclined
to enter into any extensive operations until some further de-
spatches have been received.
In our article of the 16th of December last there are some
cogent arguments used for an amendment of the law of bank-
ing, and, in particular we argued strongly for having the
names of all partners in joint-stock banks, without regard to
locality, registered at the Stamp-office, their deeds of sett'e-
ment submitted to the inspection of a public officer, and that
his certificate should be the warrant for the Stamp-office
authorities to issue the hcense. We added, " The regulation
ought not, however, to he confined to joint s:ock banks : it
ought he extended to all fire and life insurance companies.
The Committee on Banks of Issue will, doubtless, con-
sider what amendments should be adopted as regards
the law regulating joint-stock banks. To speak, however,
of a law on that subject, is incorrect. The country jo:nt-stock
banks are certainly established by statute, but the London
joint-stock banks are merely suffered to exist, while their
powers and privileges are unsettled:and undefined, and neither
class is regulated by any well-digested uniform code of legisla-
tion. But if some general system of registration and lodg-
ment for inspection of the deeds of settlement be called for in
respect of joint-stock banks, as a measure of safety for the public
interests, and to protect the rights of bona fide establishments
from spurious companies, much more so is this the case in re-
gard to other joint-stock companies, and particularly fire and
life insurance companies. In treating of the loss to which the
public was exposed from the want of legislative checks upon
flash establishments of this last description, we stated in the
course of our remarks before referred to, that "to make
the picture more pleasing they take care to announce
that the Company is established under and by virtue of a
variety of Acts of Parliament, which are enumerated. lhese
are the statutes applicable to friendly societies, which have
no power over or any thing to do with insurance companies.
To prevent impositions, and to secure the public in the bene-
fits resulting from a proper system of well-conducted life
insurance companies, the subject ought to be taken up by
some active member of the Legislature. He will find plenty
of materials and no want of evidence that legislation to correct
existing evils is essentially required." Since these remarks
were written, disclosures have been made at the Mansion
House which prove their truth, and we understand that the
Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced his intention of
moving for a Committee to inquire regarding the constitution
of joint stock companies nut being banking companies. We
trust, therefore, that the subject of fire and life insurance
companies, and of the discount and loan companies in the
metropolis will not escape attention and investigation.

POST.—The anxiety of the business classes generally to
obtain some further news from America has been intense
throughout the day, indeed far more so, we should hope, than
the circumstance of the two countries, as they actually stand,
at all warrant.

At a meeting of Portuguese Bondholders held to-day some
resolutions strongly deprecatory of the decree of the late
Finance Minister at Lisbon were passed, we may say, unani-
mously, as they found but one single opponent, and this was in
an individual who admitted his connection with the agency.
The conduct of the contractors of the Penin,ular loans was,
moreover, reflected upon in terms which called forth great ap-
probation, the remissness of the parties alluded to forming,
when compared with the active exertions of Messrs. Hullet
(Brothers) and Co., Messrs. Pow les and Co., and Messrs.
Baring (Brothers) and Co., in the respective cases of Chili,
Colombia, and Buenos Ayres, a contrast that was certainly not
flattering to them. Some communicationsfrom Lord Palmer-
ston were read to the meeting, and gave much satisfaction, his
Lordship evincing a disposition to push the interests of the
Bondholde s, not in the Peninsula alone, but in every other
quarter where their claims are not honestly met. The attend-
ance was unusually numerous.

TIMES.—The wholesale grocers and refiners had a meeting
to-day to consider the expediency of assimilating the mode of
bringing forward Bengal and A lauritius sugars for sale to that
a-lopted in the 13i itish plantation market, It seems that this
branch of the trade have
i seized the present as the most fa-
vourable opportunity to impress upon the merchants, whom
they must consult before their plan can be put into practice,
their views of the case, the sugar market being in an excited
state from the late failures. lhey propose that business shall
be carried on by private contract, which they say will secure
both to the importers. and the trade a fair average price,
besides obviating difficulties and losses arising from the se-
lection of buyers. To a private contract business they appear
to think the dealings in this branch of the sugar trade
must eventually come, as it is yearly increasing, and
both descriptions are readily bought. Besides objecting
to the system of public sales, as at present, on the score that
at certain periods of the year serious fluctuations occur from
ex,ensive imports, they also object to the system on account of
the time occupied in the valuation of the description offered,
and the examining of lots. They admit that at times public
sales are necessary, but when these take place, they propose to
regulate them in respect to lots, &c., after the manner of the
public sales of British plantation. Judging from the appear!,
ance of the meeting, which included the leading members of
this branch of the trade, and the unanimity that prevailed,
there would seem to be good encouragement for the move-
ment. It was generally contended that both the merchants

PRICE sd.

and the trade would be much benefited by the alteration, and
a Committee was appointed to confer with the merchants.
Another meeting of the holders of Portuguese Bonds took
place to-day, on the subject of the late decree for the conver-
sion of the bands, and the conduct of the financial agency in
endeavouring, subsequent to the expression against it of a
large meeting of bondholders, to carry it out. This was
strongly adverted to in the resolutions passed, the more so, as
it transpired that our Government has instructed the Minister
at Lisbon to enforce the claims of the bondholders, and that
Lord Howard de Walden has already been in communication
with M. de Magalhaes on the subject. The support of the
committee of the Stock Exchange having been likewise se-
cured, the meeting determined to resist every compromise not
based on fair and equitable terms, for which good and tangible
security must be given.
The public are already in possession of the facts that Captain
Douglas, of the Cambridge. has been reimbursed his expenses
for lus gallant conduct in the Canton river, and that he re-
ceivcd on Thursday last the ord •r of knighthood. In addition
to the honour thus conferrel, he and the crew of the Cambridge
have received remunerations on the following scale :—To
Captain DJuglas himself .has been awarded 2,000/. ; to the
first officer 1004 ; to the second 601. ; to the third and
fourth, each, 50/. ; to the surgeon and purser, each, 80/. ;
to the warrant officers, 40/. each for those engaged in the
action of Kow-lune, and 30/. each for those not engaged ;
to the petty officers 151. for those engaged, and 10/.
for those not engaged; to seamen in action 81. ; to those not
in action 4/, ; while two seamen who have been severely wound4rl
are allowed 201. each. It is an interesting feature in this affair,
that it is the first instance of an officer of a private merchant
ship receiving the order of knighthood far his services, although
officers in the East India Company's service have been known
to receive that distinction. In the city this acknowledgment
of valuable services is regarded with much satisfaction—in the
first place, because it is thought the oecasioa was a most fitting
one for conferring
.the honour ; in. the second, because it is.
hoped that a precedent'isitStablished, according to which simi-
lar services may be similarly rewarded.

SUN.—The public securities tc-day were in a tranquil
state, but although the accounts of Ibrahim Pasha's war-
like preparations had a tendency to check business, no
partiular depression was occasioned by them, as it is ge-
nerally believed that all differences will eventually be set
aside. Consols for pre eat transfer realised 88a to 881,
and for the Account 891 and 881, closing at 89 ; Ex-
chequer Bills were at .s=. to 7s. premium, and the Now
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 971 to 97k.
The result of the meeting of Portuguese bondholders
(one of the fullest we have observed for a long time past),
has been the aieption of a series of resolutions, setting
forth the hardships under which the bondhclders labour,
the shameless conduct of the Portuguese Finance Agency
in threatening the creditors with being subjectel to such
determination as the Government at Lisbon may come te,
in the event of their not accepting the terms offered in the
'scree of November, and the propriety of petitioni9gyar-

. . . .
liameat to render in future the c3ntractors of all loans
amenable for the acts of the States or countries on whose
account they borrow so as to prevent the further waste of per-.
haps many millions of British capital, which would be far bet-
ter employed in extending our own nationallresources. We
are glad to observe that Lord De Walden has been making
energetic remonstrances on behalf of the English creditors
to the Ministry of Donna Maria. The Peninsula Bonds
were the favourite speculative stocks to-day, and in them
a very large amount of business was transacted. Port u-
guese New Stock was worth 3n to in the morning, tut
after the meeting fell to 32k. The Three per Cents.
ranged from 201 to 191 ; Spanish Active Bonds were
worth 231 to 231 ; Mexican Bonds 30 to 291; Colombian
22; Brazilian 72 ; and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents.
50i to I.
The Railway Shares were dealt is to some extent, and
generally at full pricer.

POLITICAL SUMMARY OF THE

MORNING JOURNALS.

The Times of this morning, speaking incidentally of Lord
Sandon's notice of amendment on the New Poor •law Bill,
says:—" Such an amendment, of course, falls far short of the
remedy which, in our opinion, must sooner or later be applied;
and the principle which it involves, if consistently followed out,
would probatly be found to strike at the root of the union sys-
tem. Still, it would not surprise us if many who do not open
their eyes to the whole extent of the evil, were to vote with
Lord Sandon when this proposition comes to be discussed.
The stock arguments of those who advocate the Poor-law are
fallacious and illogical, even with reference to the agricultural
unions; yet, as they pretend to be based upon facts having an
existence in those unions, the!r fallacy requires to be exposed."
The Morning Chronicle alludes in the following terms to
Lord Denman's remarks on the Earl of Waldegrave's case in
the House of Lords last night :—" As far as Lord Denman was
himself concerned, he did right in relieving himself from an
unjust imputation. We are not so certain as to the propriety of
his noticing the allusion in the newspapers to the case of a
man lately sentenced by Mr. Justice Erskine to fifteen years'
transportation for a less heinous offence than that of the Earl
of Waldegrave and Captain Duff. We will not assume the
possibility of the Noble and Learned Lord being actuated by
any but the purest motives in the sentence which he shall pro-
nounce. We believe also that Mr. Justice Erskine merits the
panegyric which his Lordship pronounced on him that a more
excellent judge, or one that more applied himself to th" facts
and the evidence, did not exist. But if Mr. Justice Erskine
cumin Jung; we nu-um buy- wiry . _ _
made to a sentence pronounced by him, when parties are about
to be sentenced for an offence simi;ar to that which was pu-
nished by transportation for fifteen years, with the difference,
that the case remaining for judgment is much the more
flagrant." _ _

The Morning Herald, returning to the question of Puseyism,
observes :—.6 I f the Puseyite is justified in denying Christian
burial to the child of a Dissenter, because, in his opinions, he
has not been canonically baptised, then, as we hare already ob-
served, he would also have been justified in denying Christian
burial to some of our most distinguished Bishops—to Seeker,
to Butler,- or to Burnet, because they had never been episco-
pally baptised, and therefore, according to the Posey doctrines,
they were never members of the Christian church, though they
had been consecrated Bishops according to the rites and cere-
monies of the Church of England. Yet these are the men
who affect to uphold the apostolic succes ion of our English
Bishops—to be the staunchest and truest friends of our eccle-
siastic establishment, and to le the only effective opponents of
the Church of Rome I" _ _

The Morning Advertiser observes, in a leading article on
the subject of Lord Denman's explanation of the Waldegrave
case last night in the House of Lords :—" With great defer-
ence for Lord Denman's authority, we would ask, by what law
is a pecuniary mulct to acquit a n,ble from a wanton and out-
rageous assault, for which the untitled culprit would be visied
with imprisonment and even transportation? No just scale
of punishment can be fixed by a pecuniary fine, the pressure
of which must altogether depend up)n the income of the in-
dividual, the poor man frequently finding it more difficult to
pay twenty shillings, than the rich man, like Lord Wa'd^grave,
would to pay as many hundred pounds."

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCUIT.—KINosraN, MARCH 29.

The Learned Judges arrived at Kingst :n this morning,
and proceeded to open the Commission for the county of
Surrey.
Notwithstanding that the adjourned Sessions were held
only last week, there arc a good many primers fur trial,
and some of the offences are of a serious description. A
great number of causes rro. already entered on the Civil
Side, and the business is expected to occupy the Court the
whole of the week. _ _ _

Lord 1/ nman will dispose of the causes, and Mr. Baron
Parke will sit in the Crown Court ; but, as the criminal
cases will nrobgbly not occupy mcre than three days, both
Courts will then be employed in going through the cause
list.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—WenTrier, Malta( 26.
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—AIfred Balduch was placed at
the bar charged with having feloniously stolen a letter from
the Post-office, containing four bank notes, in the whole of
the value of 60/. This case seemed to excite very great in-
terest, as well from the respectability of the prisoner and his
connections, as from the frequency with which similar of•
fences are now perpetrated.
It appeared from the evidence that a letter was delivered at
the Birmingham Post-office, containing the notes in question,
directed to Messrs. Walters and Co., Macclesfield. The
letters never having reached their destination, inquiry was
set on foot, and the notes were traced to the prisoner's pos-
session at Stafford, he having changed one of the twenties
there. He had also changed another at the Grand Junction
Railway-office.
The case was clearly brought home to the prisoner, and he
was found Guilty.
It is said that the prisoner, at the time he committed the
robbery, bad a salary of NU a year.

NORFOLK ClRCUlT—Camnninas, MARCH 27.