The Sun.
London, England, 1834-05-19 00:00:00

MEETING. OF THE DISSENTERS.

( Concluded from The Sun of Saturday.) '
Mr. ABERCROMBIE, M. P., said he had been twenty
years in Parliament, and had never been called on to
vote for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts,
though during the whole of that time he would have
been most ready to give his vote for such a measure.
(Hear.) But the consequence was, that when the
measure was at length brought forward, it was brought
forward in such a manner as insured its triumphant
success. This plan had succeeded with regard to. the
Test and Corporation Acts ; and it might perhaps be
worth their while to consider whether such a plan
would not be that most likely to insure the ultimate
success of the voluntary church principle. As a mem-
ber of the legislature, he would not look only to the
views of one party. He was not, he would not be, a
partisan. His duty was to do equal justice to all his
fellow subjects. (Hear.) He would try to remove all
practical grievances. (Hear.) He would be the friend
of all reasonable reforms in the church, and in saying
that he showed he was no partisan, for if he were he
should oppose church reform, and leave it with all its
blots as an argument in their hands. He had thus stated
his opinion, and he hoped that no man imagined that by
attending that meeting he intended to give the most
distant encouragement to an opinion that he, as a
member of Parliament, was about to embark in a con-
test for the purpose of asserting the principle for which
they contended. ( Hear, hear.) He spoke only as a
sincere friend to religious liberty; but he had a higher
and a nobler duty to perform in doing justice to all
classes of his fellow subjects. It was not his purpose
to defend the course which his Majesty's ministers had
taken. ( Hear, hear.) He might be wrong, but he
knew and esteemed many of them, and he believed
that they were sincere in their wish to redress the
grievances of dissenters. ( Hear.) What he wished
to bring about was a good understanding between the
government and them. He wished them to recollect
that union was power, and that disunion was the sure
way to defeat their own objects, and to retard the ac-
complishment of their just desires. (Hear.) Under
the peculiar circumstances of the country, the threat-
ened separation between the friends of civil and reli-
gious liberty and the present administration, would be,
in his estimation, one of the greatest calamities that
could befal his country. ( Cheers.)
Mr. BAINES expressed 'considerable surprise that the
learned gentleman who had spoken with so much
ability (Mr. Brown) should hold up the conduct of
the electors of Dudley as worthy of imitation. When
they had, on the one hand, a man, from whose general
opinions and principles they wholly differed, and, on
the other, one with whose general principles and
opinions they agreed, he thought nothing could be
more injurious to their cause than permitting the Con-
servative to succeed, when, by the slightest exertion,
they could have excluded him. The Dissenters did
not require a national appropriation to themselves.
The principle of the Dissenters was not that there
should be two established churches, but, if he under-
stood it rightly, that there should be no established
church at all. ( Applause.) He, was of opinion that
the time would shortly come when every church would
support itself, and that every church would find its
advantage in such a mode of support. The honourable
gentleman concluded by eulogising the services
which the house of Lambton had rendered to the
cause of civil and religious liberty, and by moving the
tenth resolution.

On the resolution being proposed of a vote of thanks
to Lord Durham, his lordship rose and said he had ac-
cepted the offer of presiding at the meeting
.most
readily, because he was most anxious to show his re-
spect for the dissenters as a body, and the attachment
he felt to those principles of civil and religious liberty
which constituted the basis of the Society. ( Cheers.)
When he looked back to the list of tile illustrious and
excellent men who had, on former occasions, filled the
chair, he confessed himself deeply impressed not only
with a sense of the great honour now conferred upon
him, but with the consciousness of his own unworthi-
ness to succeed them ; for he could in no way pretend
to any of those qualifications which had so eminently
fitted his distinguished predecessors for their task.
He could pretend to nothing but honest intentions,
and he would add, an uncompromising and unsullied
iategnty. (Loud-theers.) He must also take this op-
portunity of returning his thanks to the meeting for
the conduct it had observed, by which it had consider
ably lightened his labours a$ chairman. There had

' I een but one interruption, and that was of a slight
character, proceeding more, he believed, from the mis-
' apprehension of the rev. gentleman who was address-
, ing them than from any thing e se. That interrup-
tion was occasioned by its being considered, per-
haps, that there was a little want of taste in breaking
in upon the arrangements. It was this View that had
possibly induced them to say anything unpleasant that
I might have been addressed to the rev. gentleman, who,
I he was sure, had not given them any other reason for
so addressing him. ( Hear, hear.) He might have
he e closed the few observations he intended to offer
to them, and should, have done so, as he felt consi-
derably exhausted by the length of time that the
meeting had lasted, and the attention he had endea-
voured to pay to the interesting and beautiful senti-
ments which had been addressed to them by many who
attended, but a question in the second resolution of
such vital importance had been mooted—a question on
which he had heard the opinions of all those who be-
longed to them as a body of dissenters, and upon
which they ought to know the opinions of all who were
engaged in public life—that he must entreat their at-
tention for a few moments. The question he alluded
to was the one of the separation of the church from the
state. And his hon. friend near him (Mr. Wilks)
would admit he had said to him frankly and fairly that
he could not consent to any proposition which involved
a question as to the propriety of the church being se-
parated from the state • these sentiments he had al-
ready expressed in Parliament, and they were such as
he should always consider it his duty to express in any
society or place in which he might hear the separation
of the church from the state recommended. His con-
scientious opinion, then, was, that the church was
bound to tender religious instruction to all the members
of the state. In the present ignorant and uneducated
condition of the great mass of the population of
this country, he considered that it would be most im-
proper to leave them avithout any religious instruction
at all. ( Hear.) He thought it would be most unwise
to leave such persons to the canvassing of religious
sects, some of whom might endeavour to gain favour
and support by increasing their prejudices and flatter-
ing their ignorance. If, indeed, all were as en-
lightened as were the Association which he was now
addressing—if all were as capable as were those pre-
sent of forming a correct judgment—they might be
safely left to the formation of their own religious opi-
nions -without assistance at all ; but such was unfor-
tunately not the case; and he should, therefore, con-
sider it as improper in him, as a statesman, not to ten-
der religious instruction to the people in their present
condition, as it would be culpable in the parent not to
provide it for his children in their state of infantile or
imperfect judgment. The religious, as well as the
moral or secular instruction of the people, was one of
the most imperative duties of the State ; and, in the
present condition of large masses of the community,
should not be left to chance, or, to speak in their
words, to the voluntary principle. He was aware,
from what had passed that day, that they were not
agreed in this principle ; but it was his conscientious
opinion, and such were his reasons for differing with
those who advocated a separation of Church and State,
or rather, according to his view, Religion and State ;
his object being to advance the cause of religion, as
the best security for the welfare, happiness, and pro-
sperity, of every community. But he hoped they
would allow him to put it before them in another point
of view. Even if he could agree with them in prin-
ciple as to the propriety of the separation of the
Church from the State, still he must press on them,
in strong language, the expediency of not now
urging that question on the attention of the Legislature.
They ought clearly to understand that both branches
of the legislature were hostile to it. In the House of
Commons, from the best information he had been able
to collect, out of upwards of 600 members, not thirty
would vote for it • and in the House of Lords not a
single' peer would be found to support it. The coun-
try, he was bound to tell them, was not now prepared
for it. It had been admitted by some of its most ar-
dent supporters, who had made the most sanguine
calculations, that they could not expect a majority of
opinions in favour of the separation. There was not
one single individual (and he wished it to be under-
stood that he spoke this advisedly) in public life
whose support they could calculate on, whose aid and
assistance was worth having ; whilst, on the other
hand, the bare agitation of the question raised fears
and prejudices, and bitter hostility—operating not
on the speculative question itself, but affecting the
redress of those acknowledged grievances of which
nothing but their own wilful imprudence could pre-
vent the settlement. They would disqualify their
friends from acting in their behalf, and increase the
power of their enemies ten-fold. In looking to these
effects he alluded to the delight with which this point
had been taken up by that intolerant faction which
had ever distinguished themselves by opposition to the
Dissenters' claims, and by the avidity with which those
who only hoped to raise themselves to eminence by
confusion and civil discord have seized on the, decla-
ration, to which they would irrevocably bind the
Dissenters. He earnestly prayed that the unhallowed
designs of both parties would be defeated. Let them
not adopt so impolitic a course, and they could not
fail in the attainment of those practical objects in
which they would demand, and indeed must obtain,
the assistance of every true lover of his country. In
humbly tendering to them this advice, he hoped they
would not misunderstand WM. He had told them he
wished to connect religion with the state, but he did
not wish to identify the state with the abuses and cor-
ruptions of any church establishment. ( Hear, hear.)
This led him to an observation made by his hon. friend
Mr. Wilks, in reference to which he would say that
the evils of which they complained were not found in
the establishment itself, but in the abuses and corrup-
tion which disfigured the establishment. As regarded
the correction of those abuses, in whatever quarter,
form, or shape they were found to exist, he would
have them dealt with most firmly, and most unspar-
ingly corrected, and to that end they might ever de-
pend on being able to command his best services.
Now, as to the grievances under which the dissenters
laboured, they had been detailed to them with so
much more power and effect than he could speak of
them, that it was not necessary for him to say more
than that on that subject he agreed in almost every'
word that had been uttered. He might, however, be
allowed to allude to one fact, because it was one with
which he was personally acquainted. A complaint
bad been made of the exclusion of dissenters from
the universities, and allusion had been made by one
of the reverend speakers to the University of Dur-
ham. When that question came under discussion
in the House of Lords, he, and he alone, did
make an attempt to get that university thrown
open, so that the dissenters might have their share in
the benefits and advantages that were to be derived by
-those who were members of the church of England.
Having expressed his cordial concurrence in the devo-
tion of all their energies and power to obtain the re-
dress of their practical grievances, he begged they
would permit him now to say, that no man more
deeply regretted than he did, on private as well as
public grounds, the inadequacy of some of the mea-
sures that had been proposed. Their course, he ap-
prehended, was plain. Such of those measures as
they could agree to, consistently with their just ex-
pectations and wishes, they should support. As to
those that they considered insufficient, let them pray
for their withdrawal. Let them at the same time
press on this government, or on any government which
political events might create, the knowledge of their
firm determination never to rest satisfied till they had
a full unqualified compliance with their just claims.
( Cheering.) By pursuing this course, in his opinion
their success must be certain. In doing this, they
would not banish their friends, but would combine all,
wh?ther of the church or dissenters; whose retirement
from their ranks, on a question of speculative policy,
and notoriously impracticable, would tend more than
anything else to retard the march of reform and ame-
lioration in which they had been so long and so bene-
ficially engaged. ( Cheers.) He once more begged
to tender them his kind acknowledgments for the reso-
passed, and for the manner in which
religious
T he supported him in the chair ; and, in conelu-
tlhuetiy reso-
lution ' had
sion, would assure them, that whenever his services
might be calculated to 'advance the cause of civil and
liberty, they should command them. (Much
cheering
. )
meeting then broke up, it'being about half-past
four o'clock.

MR. HARVEY'S CAlsE7lon Thursday, on
a special motion in the House of. Commons, Mr. Ni-
choll, Mr. Evelyn Denison, Mr. Gladstone, Mr.
Frankland Lewis, Lord Eastnor, Sir W. Rae, Sir F.
Vincent, and Mr. Alderman Thompson, were added
to the committee appointed to investigate Mr. Harvey's
case. The committee met on Friday at half-past
eleven o'clock, chose Mr. O'Connell chairman, ar-
ranged as to the course of proceeding, and adjourned.
The committee sat with closed doors.

The Rose arrived off the Wight the 16th
instant ; she left China the 25th of January, and .St..
Uelena the 10* April.

LITERATU RE.

TYTLER'S HISTORY OF SCOTLAND.

Vol. V. London 1534.

We have just received the fifth, and, we be-
lieve, the conCluding volume of this history.
As it is the only one •we have yet seen, of
course we cannot form an opinion of the gene-
ral merits of the work—unless, indeed, we read
it backwards, like the Hebrew Bible. If Mr.
Tait will send us the History entire, we will en-
deavour to do it justice ; but to send us one
volume (and that one the last !) is just as ab-
surd as if Sir Jeffrey Wyattville were to send
us a brick as a sample of his new improvements
at Windsor Castle.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

YORK SPRING MEETING.

York, Saturday after won.
The meeting commences on Monday, and will termi-
nate on Wednesday. The following horses have arrived,
for the York Derby and other stakes :

THREE-YEARS-OLD.
Lord Kilburne's br. f. by Jerry—Emilia
Duke of Leeds'sbr. c. by Blacklock—Lady of the Vale
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Blacklock—Mrs. Rye
Mr. Armitage's b. c. by Velocipede, dam by Whisker
Mr. W. Richardson's b. c. Beverley, by Y. Phantom
Mr. G. Crompton's b. c. Mellerstein, by Corinthian
Mr. G. Crompton's b. f. Mayflower, by Jerry
Mr. Skipsey's br. c. Wyndham, by Chateau Margaux
Mr. Skipsey's b. c. Warlaby Baylock, by Blacklock
Mr. Powlett's br. c. by Figaro or Lottery—Miss Fan-
ny's dam.
Mr. Hebden's ch. c. Rifleman
Mr. Armitage's ch. f. by Velocipede—Nonplus's dam
Major Yarburgh's b. f. by Velocipede—Laurel's dam
Duke of'Leeds's ch. c. Valparaiso, by Velocipede
Mr. Smith's b. f. Rectitude, by Lottery
Duke of Leeds's ch. f. Medea, by Whisker
Duke of Leeds's b. f. by Whisker—Young Mary
Mr. Skipsey's gr. f. Nell, by Blacklock
Mr. S. Fox's ch. f. by Blacklock—Mrs. Fry
Mr. G. Crompton's b. f. Flight, by Velocipede
Mr. R. Bower's b. c. Mr. Merryman, by Comus
Mr. Maxwell's ch. c. Buccanier, by Blacklock
Sir W. Milner's ch. c. Currency, by Velocipede
Lord Sligo's ch. c. Bran, by Humphry Clinker
Mr. Salvin's b. f. Isabella, by Lottery
Mr. Bowes's ch. f. Maid of Lune, by Whisker
General Sharpe's ch. f. by Malek—Perlet's dam
Mr. Gascoigne's b. f. by Blacklock—Repealer's dam
Lord Sligo's b. f. Ellen, by Starch
Lord Chesterfield's b. c. Mammoth, by Leviathan
Lord Sligo's b. c. Spume, by Roller
Lerd Kilburn's br. f. Sister to Retainer, by Jerry
Mr. Gascoigne's Zohrab
Mr. Marson's bl. c. London

Of the above the first eleven are in the York Derby, the
next three in the Wentworth, the next six in the Oaks,
the four following in the St. Leger, the succeeding five in
the filly stakes, and the next four (with Warlaby Baylock)
in the Shorts.

TWO-YEARS-OLD.
Mr. Smith's b. c. by Memnon—Chorister's darn
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Actaon, dam by Reveller
Mr. Petre's ch. f. Lucia, by Granby, Juliana
Mr. Jaques's ch. f. by Actozon—Comedy
Sir E. Dodsworth's b. c. by Mulatto—St. Patrick's d.
Mr. Edmundson's b. f. Rosamond, Sister to Richmond
Mr. Walker's ch. f. Alice, by Langar
Mr Ridsdale's gr. c. by Tramp—Flora
Mr. Powlett's b. c. py Langar—Giovanni's dam
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Actxon, dam by Reveller
Duke of Leeds's ch. f. by Malek—Rhodacantha
Duke of Leeds's ch. c. by Actaeon—Gin
Duke of Leeds's b. c. by Longwaist, dam by Walton
Major Yarburgh's br. f. by Lottery—Belinda
Mr. Wilson's b. c. Winkley, by Velocipede
Mr. S. Fox's b. f. by Langar—Lady of the Tees

BETTING in ST. JAMES'S.—(THIS DAY).
The following is a statement of the odds up to this
morning:—

THE YORK. DERBY.
5 to 4 on Watlaby Baylock (taken)
TILE DERBY.
7 to 2 agst. Plenipotentiary
9 to 2 agst. Bubastes
5 to 1 agst. Shilelah
16 to 1 agst. Olympic
IS to 1 agst. Bentley.
20 to 1 agst. Brother to Marpessa
22 to 1 agst. Comet
30 to 1 agst. Guardian (taken)
50 to 1 agst. Morotto (taken)
550 to 400 on Olympic agst. Bentley (taken)
THE OAKS.
3 to 1 agst. Cotillon (taken)
Mr. Walker's Oaks filly, Velocity, broke her leg in the
stable a day or two since.

LIVERPOOL SPRING MEETING.

FRIDAY.-The Kirkdale Stakes of 2.0 sovs. each, h. ft.,

with 20 added for three and four-yrs.-old. Once round
and a distance. Three yrs., 6st. 91b. ; 4 yrs., Bst. bib.
Sir R. K. Dick's b. f. Miss Margaret, walked over.
The Stand Cup, value 100!., added to a Sweepstakes of
10 sovs. each, for all ages. Twice round and a distance.
Three yrs., 6st. 101 b. ; 4 yrs., Bst. 21b. ; five yrs.,
83t. 101 b. ; six yrs. and aged, 9st. The second horse to
receive 20 sovs.

Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Birdcatcher, 5 yrs I
Mr. Thompson's ch. c. Fitzdictor, 4 yrs 2
A Handicap, for all ages, of 10 sovs. each, 5 ft., with 20
added. One mile and a half.
Sir T. Stanley's Les Grace, 4 yrs 1
Mr. Ross's b. c. Pretender, 3 yrs 2
Marquis of Westminster's Mary, 3 yrs
The Liverpool Stakes of 15 sovs. each, 10 ft., for horses
not thorough bred, 3 subs. or no race, did not fill.
The Ormskirk Plate, value 100/. ; three-yrs. -old, 6st.lolb. ;
four ps., Bst. 21b. ; fire yrs., Bst. 101 b. ; six yrs. and
aged, 9st. Heats, twice round.
Mr. Shepherd's Revolution, aged 1 1
Mr. Powlett's b. c. Lambkin, 3 yrs
Mr. Dawson's ch. g. Pestilence, 5 yrs
Two others drawn. •

KELSO SPRING MEETING, April 13.
A Sweepstakes of 5 sm. each, for hunters bona fide the
property of subscribers. Two mile heats. Gentlemen
riders.
Mr. W. Boag's br. g. The Pilot
Captain Pott's gr. g. The Cornet
Two others drawn.
Match. Three quarters of a mile.
Mr. Boag's gr. h. by I. 0. U
Mr. Duncan's br. m.
Hack Race. Heats, once round.
Mr. Harper's ch. m. Lady Mary 1 1
Mr. W. Pye's b. m. Silk Sleeves
Mr. Gow's b. h 4 3
Mr. J. Curry 's br. m. by Mac-Orville 2 4

The British Museum closed on Saturday last
for the holidays, and does not open until Monday,
the 26th.

A circular has been forwarded from Calcutta
to the merchants of London for the purpose of point-
ing out to them the outline of a plan which they con-
sider best calculated to carry into effect the proposed
steam communication between the East Indies and
Europe, and calling upon the capitalists of the metro-
polis to use their best exertions in securing the ulti-
mate success of the undertaking. According to this
scheme, it is proposed that a capital of 12 lacs of
rupees (120,0001.) should be raised, and four steamers
of 200 horse power each to be built—one to run be-
tween England and Alexandria, and the other three to
be employed on the eastern side of the Isthmus, one
at Bombay and two at Calcutta. The steamer from
Bombay is to be despatched so as to arrive at Socotra
two days previous to that from Calcutta, which is to
call at Madras and Ceylon. On the arrival of the
steamer from Calcutta, the Bombay steamer having
had two days to clear the boilers, &c., the passengers
will be immediately transferred to that vessel, which
is to start without delay for Suez, and there receive
the passengers from Alexandria by the Mediterranean
steamer, as the departure of the vessel from England
is proposed to be so arranged as to insure a punctual
arrival. The Bombay steamer is then to return to
Socotra, there transfer the passengers for Ceylon,
Madras, and Bengal, into the other vessel; and 'then
pursue her course with those for sombay. The com-
munications are intended to be quarterly. A contract
for the conveyance of despatches, mails, &c., is pro-
posed to be entered into with the government for
five lacs of rupees for five-years, Government receiving
the postage of the letters. We are not very sanguine,
from what has heretofore been done, of a very cordial
reception of this project by the merchants of Loncien,
but it now appears to be nearer completion than hai
yet been the case, and as the Eazt In is company
and the Government have, vatl.cany speaking, a de-
cided interest in its success. it certainly will be highly
disgraceful to all concerned should it be suffered now
to drop. The merchants resident in the whole of uny
East India possess:ons have acted nobly, and 4140wn a
degree of public spirit which cannot be tqo, highly
praised. Those of the mother country will not, it is
to be hoped, suffer themselves to be outdone.

ri w ::
it Et. tt *
From Whence. et , F 5,
, •
r :4
. - .........
Qrs. Qrv. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I Qrs. jrcks
V Iclborough 397 ::25 14 90
Alemouth
on,ton • 713 2510 _
Rridport
Clay ... — 280
,_ Colchester 297 309 395 23 88 14 545
`.;.• llarwich
Leigh 447 25 ._B5 10
' Maldon B7O 27 20(i t.,8 144 71 (37f1
c. x (ler — 1 , 98
Grimsby 137 450
lull 1136 470
Ipsw,ch 154 609 782 12 72 968
'ent 735 . 85 90 4 al4 31 663
Louth
Lowestoft 205 71 44)
i .ynn — 2'15 510
Newcastle — 75 170 _ _2
Newhaven — 401
Newport
Poole 35 8
,tockton
Wells l3O 160 _
Weymouth
Whitby
Wisbuach 1207 748
Wood) ridge I7S 87 29 4 '261
Yarrncuth 317 1616 3535 50 1392
Aberdteri ....
.1 rbroath : 328
Banff ... — 2642 43
i)cr w i c k
Dunbar — 51 —.-
Lundee l7 80 _ _
1 verness l5O 550
Slontrosa f3s __
7347 4502 €Ol2 i 12201 1473 126 !14t:8
1 RUM.
Galway — 15C0
Limerick
Sligo — 700 —i
Waterford . 32 50 1330 120
Fo IGN.
C. G. Hope
Ne*.v York
Rostock l33') 52 --.—
--I
Total - 6042 15787 1473 )78 9318

AGGREGATE' QUANTITY OF OTH
aye, 0--Tares, C—Linseed, 1733-1
Mustard, 49--Set

'15747
ER ki
Rapesec
ads, 76.

1473
tins 01
ed. 275,

F 1.1/1.%
k—Branl

SMITHFIELD IV

.ARK ET.

. 0-.

This day's supply of 13easrs, Sheep, and Lambs, was moderately
goal; of Ca!ves and Porkers, limited; and the trade was dull;
at the following prices :

PRICES PER STONE OF SLBS. TO SINK THE OFFAI.S.
s. d. to s. d. a. d. e.
inferior Beasts 2 2 2 41 Large Lambe,........ 0 0 0 0
Second (malty ditto .2 6 3 0 Pri:ne small ditto... .1 8 6 0
Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 6 Large coarse Calvet. 2 6 4 0
Prime Scot, &c 4 0 4 2 Prime small ditto... 4 8 5 2
Inferior Sheep 2 4 2 8 Large Hogs
Second quality ditto 3 4 3 8 Small Porkers 3lO 4
Coarse.woolled ditto 3 8 310 Suckling Calves 12s. to3o each.
SouthdownWethers 4 0 4 4 Quarter old Pigs 12.s.to16,eaelt
SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT.
Beasts Sheep stud Laml;s. I Calves. pig,
2,tISO_ _ 16,800 130 I 400

Aim;ut 70 o't the ve;ists came up the St. Alban'sroad ; about
.s!i up the other northern roach; shout 100 ;including Irish)
frog. the western and midland districts; at..nit 1500 irom
folk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire ' • about 1( 0 from Kent
and gli,sex and most of the remainder from the marshes, &c
in the neighbourhood of London,

.r..vt GAVE ANI) LEADENHALL MAttKET,3.
At per stone, by the Carcass.
5. d. to s. (I.
see, inferior 2 0 2 2 1 Mot ton, inferior..,
--- middling 2 6 210 I middling..
-- prime large... 3 0 3 4 prime......
-- prime small... :3 2 3 6 I fork, large
yea' 2 8 4 8 -sing!! .......
Lamb ...........-- 4s. 6d. to ss. &L

5. &Ins. d.
24 2 R
30 3 4
36 4 a
2 2 3 O.
2 8 31

NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—May 17.
Having a large fair in our neighbourhood to-day, few
farmers attended our market, and the little Wheat offering
went off readily at fully last week's prices. Oats were
in better demand, and sold freely at an advance of 64. per
quarter. Little doing in Malting ißarlev, with more in-
quiries after Grinding Parcels. Malt and Rye steady sale.
White Peas, if breakers, wanted. Few Beans offering.
Fresh well dressed Flour sells readily.

New. 01,-.
:Vhc-.,t, Nortlitimbvrland 40s. 48s. -s • 1
- - Norfolk and Suffolk .4t, 48...... -s. -r.
- Berwick and Scotch -10,. 44s -a -,.. 1
- Foreign
itye, Norfolk and Suffolk .321 436. -s. -...
- Foreign
Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suithlk...P.fis. 311 i ....., .-„_,. -,...
- Grinding .dui Feeding '-l• tin:. .‘„, -,s. --s., (
Halt, Norfolk and Suffolk '-0:. M; -5....,
fteano, Small 30, B*,
.. -,s. --.4.
- Tick .11. als -s --s.
Pease, White :Xis. 38a. ... -4 ....%

----. Gray
t.„„ 0% als —s ~ —s.
)ars, N,•rtlitnnUerland, Potatne ' 18, 19s 193. f,2();. .„
Fend 174 IBs —s .....,,
Foreign
Fleur, Fine (par sack) .—.3. —s 1,-.1;. 34,,,

Earl Gray and Lord John Russel are on a
visit to the Duke of Bedford, at Wooburn.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges
and King's Counsel at his house in Great Stanhope-
street on Thursday next, the 22d inst., being the first
day of Trinity Teim,

Between Friday noon and Saturday ni,ht
the thermometer in the shade varied no less than
24 degrees.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-?MARKET, MAY 17,
We have had a very general and extensive demand
for cotton throughout the week, and the trade has pur-
chased freely, at full prices, fox common American, at
d. to adyanee on fair to good, and Brazila are,
fully id. per lb. higher. There is great steadiness in
the market, which closes healthy. Speculators have.
taken 6,000 American, 2,000 Pernarn,..oo Bahia, and
500 Maranham ; and exporters WO American, 400
Maranbam, and 400 Surat. The import this week is
33,309 bags, and the sales are 46,790 bags--namely,
640 Sea Island, 144; to ttd. ' • 60 stained ditto, W.
to 131 d. ; 13,00 Q Boweds, 7p. to sp. ; 14,080 Neat
nd. to 90. ; 7,240 Alabama, &c., to,
(tyl. ; 3,390 Pernams, loid. to 12d. ; 2,300 Bahia, 9-4-d.
to 101-d.'; 4,120 Maranharn, 9d. to 113 d. ; 280 Para,
_
Bp. to sp. ; 120 Demerara, 11Ad. to 12d.
;d. ; and
80 com-
mon West India, 7p. ; 100 Egyptian, li 1,320 Surat, sid, to "id. per lb. There Las been a
fair demand, to Cotton to-day, although less business
has been done than on any former day this ut, k; the
.piantity sold is about 4,000 bales, at steady prices—.
namely, 420 Marranams, lid. to 1170. ; 3( 0 Saw-
ginned ditto, 9:ld. to 9 d. ; 100 Peinams, llid. ; 60
Sea island, 16 d. to 17d. ; 140 Suats, 6Ad. to bid. ;
rdrernaladq• in A.mericana from U. to tyr.l er lb.