The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-05-03 00:00:00

GRATUITIES TO TEACHERS.

To grant gratuities to such teachers as may appear to de-
serve encouragement.

GRANTS FOR BUILDING SCHOOLS.
Not to adhere invariably to the rule which confines grants
to the National Society and the British and Foreign School
Society, and not to give the preference in all cases whatever
to the school to which the largest proportion is subscribed.
To advance in no case more than one-half of the expense
of building a school.
To expend in grants for the building of schools not more
in any one year than £10,000."
We believe our late townsman, Dr. Kay, has been appointed
secretary to the committee ; and it would have been difficult
to select a gentleman better calculated to fill the office with
both zeal and discretion.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—On Saturday and Monday night
last, in Rochdale Market Place, fire-arms and dagger-canes
were publicly offeretl for sale, at one of the mock auction
stalls ; and the canes found a good sale at 6d. each.
WHALE FISHERY (SOUTHERN).—This consists of three
distinct branches; viz., Ist, the catch of the spermaceti
whale ; 2nd. that of the common black whale of the southern
seas ; and 3rd. that of the sea elephant, or southern walruss.
The spermaceti whale (Physeter macrocepholus) is found in
all tropical climates, and on the coasts of New Zealand and
Japan. The ordinal), duration of the voyage of a ship from
England, employed in this department of the fishery is about
three years. The common black whale of the southern
seas (Physeter microps) is met with in various places, but
principally on the coast of Brazil; in the bays of the west
coast of Africa, and in some of the bays of New South
Wales, Van Dieman's Land, &c. Sea elephants (interme-
diate between the walruss of the northern seas and the seal)
are principally met with in the sets round the Islands of De-
solation, South Georgia, and South Shetland, the coast of
California, &c. Vast numbers of these animals arc annually
captured ; vessels frequently load entirely with them ; and
they are believed to furnish more oil than the common South
Sea whale. The oil of the black whale and that of the sea
elephant, are both known in the market by the name of
southern oil; and they are so very similar, that those most
versed in the trade can with difficulty distinguish the one
from the other. Hence ships commonly engage indifferently
in either fishing as opportunity offers. The usual duration of
the voyage of a ship from England in either of the last two
departments, or in the two combined, varies from 12 to 18
months,

MANNER OF TEA-DRINKING IN KOONDOZ.—Nothing is
done in this country without tea, which is handed round at
all times and hours, and gives a social character to conver-
sation, which is very agreeable. The Uzbeks drink their
tea with salt instead of sugar, and sometimes mix it with
fat ; it is then called " keimuk chah." After each person
has had one or two large cups, a smaller one is handed round,
made in the usual manner, without milk. The leaves of the
not are then divided among the party, and chewed like to-
bacco.—Lieutenant Barne's Travels in Bokhara.

CHEAP LlVlNG.—Pultava is one of the cheapest places in
the world. Beef costs ten hopecks, or one penny, the pound ;
while mutton is sold for eight hopecks, or three farthings, a
pound ; and the second quality for six hopecks, or a fraction
more than one halfpenny per pound. Until of late, beef was
sold as low as two hopecks, or less than a farthing, per pound.
Who would go to France to economize after this ? A bottle
of the white wine of the Crimea may be had for ls. 3d. • and
it is by far the best we ever drank for the money, Though
sweeter, and of inferior body, it is not unlike the famous
Leistein wine of Wiirsburgh. A pair of good draught oxen
were to be bought for eight pounds, a good horse for twelve,
and a tolerable one for three pounds.—Bremner's Russia.

THE ADVANTAGES OF A COUNTRY EXCURSION.—A.
short trip into the country, even for a single day, is exceed-
ingly beneficial, by diverting the mind from the ordinary ob-
jects of contemplation, and rertioving from it for a time that
load of anxious cares, which, if suffered too long to remain,
destroys its elasticity. For a few pounds a person may visit
the lakes of Cumberland or Westmorland, the mountains
and lochs of Scotland, or the picturesque scenes which
abound in the Emerald Isle, and inhale strength and vigour
from the ocean's breeze; he may store his mind with the re-
collection of ti e beauties of nature, and of the various
pleasing occurrences that befel him while absent from home ;
and in the midst of tl.e•crowded city, and of pressing occu-
pations, he may often relieve and amuse his harassed mind
by the contemplation of these intellectual images.

THE NEGRO FIDDLER.—A. negro man was going through
the woods, with no companion but his fiddle, when he dis-
covered that a pack of wolves were on his track. They pur-
sued very cautiously ; but a few of them would sometimes
dash up, and growl, as if impatient for their prey, and then
fall back again. As he had several miles to go, he became
much alarmed. He sometimes stopped, shouted, drove back
his pursuers, and then proceeded. The animals became
more and more audacious, and would probably have attacked
him, had he not arrived at a deserted cabin, which stood by
the way-side. Into this he rushed for shelter, and, without
waiting to shut the door, climbed up and seated himself on
the rafters. The wolves dashed in after him, and, becoming
quite furious, howled and leaped, and endeavoured, with
every expression of rage to get to him. The moon was now
shining brightly ; and Cuff, being able to see his enemies,
and satisfied of his own safety, begun to act on the offensive.
Finding the cabin full of them, he crawled down to the top of
the door, which he shut and fastened ; then removing some
of the loose boards from the roof, scattered them with a tre-
mendous clatter upon such of his foes as remained outside,
who soon scampered off, while those in the house began to
crouch with fear. He had now a large number- of prisoners
to stand guard over until morning, and, drawing forth his
fiddle, he very good-naturedly played for them all night, very
much, as he supposed, to their edification and amusement;
for, like all genuine lovers of music, he imagined that it had
the power to soften even the heart of a wolf. On the en-
suing day some of the neighbours assembled, and destroyed
the captives with great rejoicings.—Hall's Notes on the
Western States.

A CHRISTENING IN COURLAND.—The music now com-
menced playing. Several of the clergy shortly after entered
the room : these stationed themselves near the folding doors.
In another minute they were thrown open, when a very sin-
gular sight presented itself to the assembly. A magnificent
bed, with hangings of the most costly materials, was seen
stationed with a sort of alcove, where, propped up by pillows,
richly dressed, jewelled, and sitting on the bed, appeared a
very handsome woman, about thirty years old. She was the
mother of the child who was to be christened, only three
days after its birth. . Several ladies were seen attending upon
her, or waiting round the bed ; these were fine women, at-
tired in dresses of state, and forming-a beautiful and magni-
ficent group. No sooner had the doors opened than the
clergy commenced chanting the service. The little hero of
the day next made his appearance ; he was brought forward
by the nurse, who was also dressed and robed. She bore him
on her arms, lying on his back, and almost buried in his
swaddling clothes of state. He was so rolled, and bound,
and muffled, that nothing of a human being could be discern-
ed, excepting the face, peeping from under a large white
satin cap. The outer garment or robe that covered the child
was made of different colours : it put me in mind of the
Dutch pictures of Joseph's coat of many colours ; for it was
composed of many pieces of satin, embroidered with the
finest work, and put together with much taste and fancy.
The chanting and the sacred ceremonies lasted about three
quarters of an hour, when the new-made Christian being
withdrawn from public view by the retreat of the nurse, the
company proceeded to pay their respects to the mother. The
whole of the company having thus offered their congratula-
tions, the doors closed, and no more of the mother or child
was on that day to be seen. The assembly next partook of
refreshments, and afterwards amused themselves with strol-
ling in the large and costly gardens which were adjoining the
house.—Mrs. Bray's Trials of the Heart.
ATTENTION TO LITTLE THINGS.—OOI. Maceroni, among
his " Seasonable Hints," in the Mechanics' Magazine for
January, 1836, states that he has had only three pairs of
boots for three years, and he thinks he shall not want any
more for five years to come. And why ? Why, because he
has studied out a preserving preparation, suitable to the
leather, and applied it in a suitable manner. Now, is there
no use in that, brother mechanic? A little matter, 1 know,
it is. Life, and the comforts, and the expense of it, and the
use of it too, are all made up of little matters. The ocean
and the land are made of little matters—drops of water and
particles of dust. I come every way, in a word, to one and
the same conclusion. The mechanic, to conduct his business
to advantage, or to live like a decent human being, to enjoy
health and strength, to do justice to himself or family—to be,
in a word, a comfortable, a respectable, or a useful person—
must not be an ignorant or an inattentive man ; and the more
he knows and studies of the right sort of knowledge, the
better it will be. This he must do for himself. Other men
may do something for him. They have done a great deal, as
I have shown. But they have not done, they cannot do all ;
no, nor the best part. A man's mind, like his eating and
breathing, belongs to himself ; and I should be as sorry to
have my thinking done by my neighbour, as to have him eat
up all my bread and potatoes when 1 am as hungry as he is.
I do not know why Colonel Maceroni, or anybody else, should
have the better of me or my reader in that affair of the boots.
I advise you to see to it, at any rate. And do you ask me
what is the colonel's recipe ? I'll tell you what mine is. Go
see for yourself, my good friend. You might have invented
it as well as he ; but as you have not, do the best you can ;
read it, remember it, and practise it. Do the same in other
matters. Keep a bright look-out. Take care of yourself.
Mind your business. See, hear, read, think ; and, my life
on it, you'll come out as well as Colonel Maceroni. There
is a great deal which passes for luck, which is not such. Ge-
nerally speaking, your " lucky fellows," when one searches
closely into their history, turn out to be your fellows that
know what they are doing, and how to do it in the right way.
Their luck comes to them because they work for it ; it is luck
well earned. They put themselves in the way of luck. They
keep themselves wide awake. They make the, best .of what
opportunities they possess, and always stand ready for more ;
and when a mechanic does thus much, depend on it, it must
he hard luck indeed if he do not get, at least, employers, cus-
tomers, and friends. " One needs only," says an American
writer, " to turn to the lives of men of mechanical genius to
see how, by taking advantage of little things and facts which
no one had observed, or which every one had thought un-
worthy of regard, they have established new and important
principles in the arts, and built up for themselves manufac-
tories for the practice of their newly discovered processes."
And yet these are the men who are called the lucky fellows,
and sometimes envied as such. Who can deny that their luck
is well earned ? or that it is just as much in my power to " go
ahead" (us the Yankees say) as it was theirs?—Hints to Me-
chanics.

EFFECTS OF GEOLOGY ON MANUFACTURES AND MAN.
—Perhaps there are few localities in which the advantages of
geographical situation, combined with cheap fuel, arising
from geological position, arebetter exemplified than at Swan-
sea, where not only the copper ores of Cornwall and Ireland,
but those also of Cuba and. Chili, are brought to be smelted;
these advantages even rendering it profitable to transport
ores from the western shores of South America round Cape
• Tiorn tcr the fogsil "
vegetation entombed in Sinith Wales. It
is not improbable that at some future period the South Ame-
rican copper ores may be reduced to metal more profitably in
other and nearer countries in which sufficient coal may be
discovered ; but should this change take place, it would still
be due to geological conditions. Merthyr Tydfil, in Glamor-
ganshire, may be cited as an excellent example of the econo-
mic value of geological conditions ; the proximity of the
carboniferous limestone, the coal, and ironstone, to each
other, in that part of the country, producing a cheap combi-
nation of flux, fuel, and ore, scarcely to be surpassed. It
will readily be understood, that, where a considerable por-
tion of any given population, all other things being equal,
lives by labour requiring constant skill, ingenuity, andjudg-
ment, that habits of reasoning and thought will be produced
which would render it mentally superior to another given
population in which the greater number of persons merely
followed some routine occupation during their whole lives, in
doing which they were not called upon to exercise any of the
mental powers they might happen to possess. To those
whose pursuits take them among the
,labouring part of the
population, the variation in the mental condition of the
people in the district under consideration is remarkably
striking. This variation is no doubt clue to many local
causes ; but among them the geological structure of the
country would appear to hold a more important place than
might, perhaps, at first sight be anticipated. The chief con-
trast would probably be found between the labourers on the
poor lands of the carbonaceous series of North-western
Devon and the miners of Cornwall, both considered in the
mass. While the former are thinly distributed over the
country, full of prejudices against improvement, and still
often firm believers in witchcraft, ghosts, &c., the miners are
thickly congregated together in the neighbourhood of the
working lodes, abound with intelligence, and from the con-
stant exercise of their judgment, upon which indeed the
living of a large proportion entirely depends, able to take
correct and enlarged views of many other subjects than those
immediately connected with their ordinary occupations. The
miners, nevertheless, in Cornwall and Devon, labour under
considerable disadvantages as regards education, when com-
pared with those of many other countries, where mining
colleges, or schools,'are founded. There is not a single place
in the whole district where they can learn the results of the
mining experience of other countries, and, by combining it
with their own, advance both their knowledge and its practi-
cal application. Neither is there any school to teach them
those sciences that bear upon their labours, and which would
be so useful to them. The necessity of studying the varying
conditions of their lodes has, nevertheless, so accustomed
their minds to the habit of reasoning, that they certainly, as
a mass, greatly exceed in intelligence the other labouring popu-
lation of the district, which, with the exception of the fisher-
men and sailors, is chiefly agricultural ; the manufacturers
carried on in the towns, omitting Tiverton and Chard, not
being sufficiently important to impress a manufacturing cha-
racter on them."—De la Beche's Geological Report.

NOISY DECLAIMERS.—There never was any party, fac-
tion, sect, or cabal whatsoeier, in which the most ignorant
were not the most violent; for a bee is not a busier animal
than a blockhead. However, such instruments are necessary
to politicians : and perhaps it may be with states as with
clocks, which must have some dead weights hanging at them
to help and regulate the motion of the finer and more useful
parts.—Pope.

ARABIAN SYMPATHY.—" Weary and faint from the fa-
tigue of our journey," says Lieutenant Willstead, in his
Travels in Arabia, " in order to enjoy the freshness of the
evening breeze, I had spread my carpet beneath a tree. An
Arab, passing by, pauzed to gaze upon me, and touched by
my condition and the melancholy which was depicted in my
countenance, he proffered the salutation of peace, pointed to
the crystal stream, which, sparkling, held its course at my
feet, and said, Look, friend, for running water maketh the
heart glad.' With his hands folded over his breast, that
mute but most graceful of Eastern salutations, he bowed and
passed on. I was in a situation to estimate sympathy ; and
so much of that feeling was exhibited in the manner of this
son of the desert, that I have never since recurred to the in-
cident, trifling as it is, without emotion."

FOREIGN MARRIAGE. A HINT TO TRAVELLING
BEAUTIES.-L-By the laws of Russia, ladies of fortune are
not allowed to marry foreigners ; at least if they do so, they
must bring their captive knights to live in Russia. This is
a practical lesson which we might take with much advantage
from that country. The Englishwomen whom we see wed-
ding themselves to misery in France and Italy, would be more
cautious in their choice were they compelled to bring Mon-
sieur le Comte, or Il Signor Marchese, home amongst their
English friends. They now throw' themselves away on the
principle that so long as they remain among strangers, there
is none to reproach them with their folly ; and when the
worst comes.'they know that heart-break and shame will be
less galling where no friend of happier years is by to remind
them of what they were and might still have been.—Brem-
ner's Russia.

THE NEWFOUNDLAND DOG.—Take another story of this
noble beast, which I know to be founded on fact :—A vessel
was driven on the beach at Lydd, in Kent. The surf was
rolling furiously, eight poor fellows were crying for help, but
not a boat could be got off to their assistance. At length a
gentleman came on the beach accompanied by his Newfound-
land dog. He directed the attention of the animal to the
vessel, and put a short stick in his mouth. The intelligent
and courageous fellow at once understood his meaning and
sprang into the sea and fought his way through the waves.
He could not however get close enough to the vessel to
deliver that with which he was charged, but the crew joyfully
made fast a rope to another piece of wood, and threw it
towards him. He saw the whole business in an instant : he
dropped his own piece, and immediately seized that w hich
had been cast to him, and then, with a degree of strength and
determination almost incredible, he dragged it through the
surf and delivered it to his master. A line of communica-
tion was thus formed, and every man on board was rescued
from a watery grave.—Youate s Humanity to Brutes.
THE POPISH INQUISITION.—WIIen the Inquisition was
thrown open in 1820, by order of the Cortes of Madrid, 21
prisoners were found in it, not one of whom knew the name
of the city in which he was; some had been confined three
years and some a longer period, and not one of them knew
perfectly the nature of the crime of which he was accused.
One of those prisoners was condemned, and was to have suf-
fered on the following day. His punishment was death by
the pendulum. The victim is fastened in a groove upon a
table ; suspended above him is a pendulum, the edge of which
is sharp, and so constructed as to become longer at every
movement. The wretched victim sees it swinging to and fro
from above, till it begins to cut, and it cuts on till life is
extinct. In the year 1820, by a Court Ecclesiastical, con-
stituted by papal authority, and directed by the priests of
Rome, this dreadful engine of fiendish cruelty was employed
to destroy human beings for presuming to think for them-
selves ; and yet, within sixteen years, we are gravely told
that this is the most mild and tolerant of Christian commu-
nities, and we are deemed the most illiberal men because we
hesitate ere we acquiesce.—Church Magazine.

LEECH GATHERING.—One of the branches of industry
prosecuted in the Ukraine is the gathering of leeches for the
Hamburg dealers. When talking with a person connected
with this trade,,we thought of Wordsworth's friend, of leech-
gathering fame ; but the people of the Ukraine perform their
work in such a wholesale, unpoetic way, that Wordsworth
would not soil his verses with them. Having exhausted all
the lakes of Silesia, Bohemia, and other more frequented
parts of Europe, the buyers are now rolling gradually and
implacably eastward, carrying death and destruction among
the leeches in their course—sweeping all before them—till
now they have got as far as Pultava, the pools and swamps
about which are yielding them great captures. Here a thou-
sand leeches are sold for four roubles (3s. 4d.) ; at Hamburg,
before reaching which one half die, the same number is sold
for 120 roubles (near £5) •,• and in England, the country
apothecary pays £9, and £l2 10s., for the number which
originally cost only 3s. 4d. But of every thousand which
leave the Ukraine alive, at least seven hundred die before
reaching England.—Bremner'a Russia.
THE PAST AND THE FUTURE.—If we were to prophesy
that in the year 1930 a population of fifty millions, better
fed, clad, and lodged, than the English of our time, will cover
these islands—the Sussex and Huntingdonshire will be
wealthier than the wealthiest parts of the West-Riding of
Yorkshire now are—that cultivation, rich as that of a flower
garden, will be carried up to the very tops of Ben Nevis, and
Helvellyn, that machines, constructed on principles yet un-
discovered, will be in every house—that there will be no high-
ways but railroads, no travelling but by steam—that our debt,
vast as it seems to us, will appear to our great grandchildren
a trifling encumbrance, which might be easily paid off in a
year or two—many people would think us insane. Yet, if
any person had told the Parliament which met in perplexity
and terror after the crash in 1720, that in a century the
wealth of England would surpass all their wildest dreams—
that the annual revenue would equal the principal of that
debt which they considered as an intolerated burden—that
for one man of £lO,OOO then living there would be five men
of £so,ooo—that London would be twice as large and twice
as populous, and that nevertheless the mortality would have
diminished to one-half of what it then was—that the Post-
office would bring more into the Exchequer than the excise
and customs had brought in together under Charles II.—
that stage-coaches would run from London to York in twenty-
four hours—that men would sail without wind, and would be
beginning to ride without horses—our ancestors would have
given as much credit to the prediction as to Gulliver's
Travels.—. Edinburgh Review.
THE DEGENERATE MAIL-COACH GUARD.—I was re-
turning from Manchester to London by the mail-train, when
I suddenly fell into another train—a mixed train—of reflec-
tion, occasioned by the dejected and disconsolate demeanour
of the post-office guard. We were stopping at some station
where they take in water, when he dismounted slowly from
the little box in which he sits in ghastly mockery of his old
condition with pistol and blunderbuss beside him, ready to
shoot the first highwayman (or railwayman) who shall at-
tempt to stop the horses, which now travel (when they tra-
vel at all) inside, and in a portable stable invented for the
purpose,—he dismounted, I say, slowly and sadly, from his
post, and looking mournfully about him as if in dismal re-
collection of the old road-side public-house,—the blazing
fire,—the glass of foaming ale,—the buxom handmaid and
admiring hangers-on of tap-room and stable, all honoured
by his notice ; and retiring a little apart stood leaning against
a signal-post, surveying the engine with a look of combined
affliction and disgust which no words can describe. His
scarlet coat and golden lace were tarnished with ignoble
smoke; flakes of soot had fallen on his bright green shawl,
—his pride in days of yore,—the steam condensed in the
tunnel from which we had just emerged shone upon his hat
like rain. His eye betokened that he was thinking of the
coachman ; and as it wandered to his own seat and his own
fast-fading garb, it was plain to see that he felt his office and
himself had alike no business there, and were nought but an
elaborate practical joke."—Boz in Bentley's Miscellany.
RlVERS.—Rivers all over the world are rich in remem-
brances. To then' are attached all the poetry and romance
of a nation. Popular superstition clings around them, and
every mile of their course is celebrated for some incident—
is the scene of a desperate adventure, a mournful legend, or
an old song. What a swarm of pleasant thoughts rise upon
the memory at the solemn mention of the Rhine !—what a
host of recollections are re-called by the name of the Danube,
the Rhone, the Garonne, the Meuse, the Seine, the Loire, the
Tagus, and the Elbe and the Guadalquivir! Even the low-
baned and unpicturesque Elbe and Scheldt are dear as
household things to the neighbouring people. Their praises
are sung in a hundred different idioms ; and the fair maidens
who have dwelt upon their banks, and become celebrated
for their beauty, their cruelty, -or their woe, have their
names mingled with that of the river in the indissoluble
bands of national song. To the man 'vho has a Catholic
faith in poetry, every river in Scotland may be said to be
holy water. Liddell, and Tweed, and Dee—Tiviot, and Tay,
and Forth—and doleful Yarrow, sanctified by a hundred
songs. Poetry and romance have thrown a charm around
them, and tourists from every land are familiar with their
history. Great writers have thought it a labour of love to
collect into one focus all the scattered memoranda and fleet-
ing scraps of ballads relating to them, until those insignificant
streams have become richer than any of our isle in recollec-
tions which shall never fade.—Bentley's Miscellany.
SENTIMENTALS.—In the village of Vaucluie is a small
inn, called the Hotel of Petrarch and Laura. Here senti-
mental tourists stop to regale themselves on the delicious
trout which the river furnishes ; giving, between every
morsel of the luscious fare, a sigh to the memory of the
celebrated lovers, whose busts decorate the mantel-piece of
the chamber where the refection is served. Those travellers
who command the most luxurious repasts, are considered by
inmates to possess the most sensibility ; and those who sub-
mit without resistance to extortion, are esteemed mirrors of
sentimentality ; a regulation of which our worthy hostess made
us aware, by the warmth of her praises of those who ex-
pended what she considers a proper sum, and the severity of
her strictures against the more economical or less wealthy
visitors. The English, she vowed, were the most sentimental
people alive. It was delightful, she said, to see them sit for
hours at table with their eyes turned towards the busts of
Petrarch and Laura, and sighing, while they washed down
their repast with bumpers to the memory of the lovers. They
(the English) never squabled about the items in the bill.
No ! they were too noble-minded for that ; they were wholly
engrossed by tender recollections. Of the Germans, Rus-
sians, Italians, and even her qompatriots, the French, she
spoke less kindly. " Wouldfou believe it, madam," con-
tinued she " many of them pass this inn—yes the inn—
sacred to the memory of Petrarch and Laura, without ever
crossing its threshold ; and the few who do, draw from their
pockets biscuits, and demand only a glass of eau sucre'e."
*
* * * * Our hostess became so animated
in her eulogim of the English, that she heeded not the
reproving glances of her husband ; who, observing that two
of our party were French, was fearful of her giving them
offence. At last, somewhat piqued by her obstinate con-
tinuation of this apparently impolitic praise malyre his
glances, he said—" You forget, ma there, when you talk of
the English never passing any mauvaises plaisanteries on the
respectable countenances of Monsieur Petrarch and Madame
Laure, the two mauvais sublets, that, with burnt cork gave a
pair of large black mustachions to Madame Laure, and,
with a red chalk, made the nose of Monsieur Petrarch
redder than a tomato ; ay, and gave him a pair of specta-
cles too. Why, it took me full twq hours to get them clean
again !"—Lady Blessington.

Columbias, Baker, hence at Beirout, and sailed 10th March for
Smyrna
Brenda, Watkins, hence at Constantinople
Honor, Christmas, from Malta, at Zante
Princess Victoria, Ellis, from Naples, at ditto
Zante, Johnson, sailed fram Zante for this port 28th March
Mary Ann, -, hence for -, was spoken gth April, in lat.
48, long. 16
Joseph Porter, , from Mobile, at this port, with part of the
crew of the Kingston, from Bristol for New York, which foundered
gth instant, as reported on the 24th
Sylvia, Willis, sailed from Marseilles for this port 21st instant
Novo Born Finn, Mesquito, hence at Lisbon
Mischief, Jones, sailed from Lisbon for this port 21st instant
Henry Hoyle, Chapman, sailed from Oporto for this port on the
21st instant
Marie, Priam, hence, at Port Navalo, for Nantes
Red Rover, Collis, and James Dunlop, Dunlop, from Malta at
'Gibraltar, and sailed for this port on the 13th instant
Fenella, Wakeharn; from Malaga, at ditto, and sailed on the 13th
instant for this port
Isabella, Starken, and Joanna, Allen, from Marseilles, at ditto,
and sailed lath instant for this port
Clementina, Brand, from Messina at ditto, sailed on the 13th inst.
for this port
Romulus, Garson, from Leghorn, at ditto, and sailed 13th instant
for this port
Clementi Felippo, Cordeiglia, from Genoa, at ditto, and sailed 15th
instant, for this port - Pilot, Davies, from Smyrna, at ditto, and sailed lath instant for
this port -
Lord Glenelg, Simpson, from Leghorn, at ditto, and sailed 17th
instant for this port
Marion, Masters, sailed from Tampico for Tobasco, Ist March

Urania; Bery, frcirn Monte Video at Falmouth ; sailed 2d Feb.
Bootle, -, hence at Puerto Cabello, and sailed for Tucacas
on the 25th Feb.

Tam O'Shanter, sailed from La Guayra for Puerto Cabello,
on the 3d March

Mary, —, hence at Stornoway for Riga, master dead
Ezs IN ORE, April 23.—The Anna Elizabeth, Buckhout, from Liver-
pool for Liebau, put into this port yesterday, having been run foul
of in the North Sea

BEI ROUT, March 20.—The Anna Sophia, Butcher, from this port,
has arrived at Alexandretta, ' completely dismasted, having en-
countered a very severe gale in the Gulf of Scanderoon

WEDNESDAY, MAY I.—Wind variable and light,

ARRIVED.—The Adelaide, Swaflin, from Cadiz—and Dorothea,
Dide, from Rostock.
SAlLED.—Diadem, Walker, for Trinidad—Sarah Sheafe, Merry,
for New York—Shepherdess, Hooper, for Boston—Naiad, Rondall,
for Dordt—Adventure, Lisbeiel, for Gaspee—Juff Hendrika, Schol-
tens, for Groningen—Caroline, Jones, for Lisbon—Christiann,
Gardner. for Nantes—Chieftain, Connor, for Narva—Cesar, Krelly,
for Ostend—UM. Merell, for Havre and Rouen—Russell, Connor,
for New York—Miranda, Colgin, for Cronstadt—Maria Aug, Meyer,
for Frederickstadt—Volador, De Ugarte, for Havana—Massasoit,
Bartlett, for Boston—Tevere, Pittarevich, for Alexandria, Egypt—
Harriet, Bertram, ditto—Nyverheid, Lievens, for Antwerp—Anna
Hermanna, Bakker, for Riga—Concordia, Kwakenbur, for Amster-
dam—and Anterote, Sencig, for Lisbon.

Ironside, Mitchell, (iron ship) from Maceio and Aricati, at this
port ; sailed from Aricati 21st March. On the 24th ult. in lat. 50 0,
long. 11 30, spoke the Celia, from Belfast for Quebec. On the 27th.
ult. off Cork, spoke the Henry Lee, from the Clyde for Trinidad
Charlotte, Fisher, from Baltimore, at this port. On the 15th ult.
in lat. 44 47, long. 33 37, spoke the Cornelia, from Amsterdam for
New York—out 21 days ; and the Elizabeth, from London for Que-
bec—out 9 days. On the 17th ult. in lat. 46 26, long. 27 49 W, spoke
the Jane et Louisa, from Jersey for Newfoundland. On the 18th
ulr. in lat. 45 28, long, 23 54 W, spoke the Columbus, hence for New
York. On the 27th ult. off Kinsale, spoke the England, hence for
New York
Emerald, Simpson, hence at Havana

. .
Jessie Ritchie, M'Lachlan, from Hamburg for Bahia, off Falmouth
Marie Leonie, Quemeneur, hence Bayonne
George IV, Leggett, and Briton's Pride, Scott, hence at Cadiz
Mary Gray, Allen, sailed from Cadiz for this port 16th instant
Alexandra, Firstoff, hence at Copenhagen
Jane, Woodcock, hence at Hamburg
Clyde, —, hence for Quebec, was spoken 24th ult. in lat. 50 0,
long. 11 0
Wild Irish Girl, Tooker, from the Cape of G. Hope, off Penzance
Alert, Hall. hence for Sligo, which sunk near Heysham 7th Jan.
has been raised and carried into Wyre Water
BALTIIIIu 'la, April 6.—The Lelia, Higgins, from Liverpool for this
port, struck on the Horse Shoe Point 30th ult. but came off leaky,
and with loss of false keel, and put into Hampton Roads ; the leak
increasing, she was run on shore on Sewell's Point, and filled ; the
water has been pumped out, cargo nearly all discharged, and she is
expected off next tide

We have had very little rain throughout this district for the last
seven or eight weeks ; a few showers fell last week. which have
done much good, and have improved the general appearance of the
country—but rain is still very much wanted.
There is no alteration in the duties on Grain from Foreign ports
this week ; very little of the recent imports of Wheat and Flour has
been bonded ; the Wheat is not offered for sale—but almost the
whole of the Flour recently bonded has found a ready sale for ex-
port, an.' some small parcels of fine Oats and boiling Peas in bond
have also found sales for export, at our quotations; the result of
next week's averages cannot with any confidence be anticipated ;
in Wakefield the last weekly average of Wheat has increased 6s gd,
while in this market it has decreased 6s lld per qr. and in Man-
chester in the two last weeks it has increased 19s 4d per qr.
At this day's market, which was well attended, sales of every
article in the trade were effected only to a very moderate extent,
and although in sonic instances a small increase in prices was ob-
tained on the good middling qualities of Foreign Wheat, and on
fine mealing Oats, we cannot notice any decided alteration in our
quotations of this day week; at the close of our market this day,
about 1000 brls western canal Flour were forced off by public auc-
tionn at 36s per brl duty free.
WHEAT, per 701bs s. d. s. d.
English
Scotch 9 0 10 3

Bonded

BARLXY, per qr
English

Chevalier

Scotch, per 601 b. 5

Foreign, in bond, 0

OATS, Pei 461 b,
English . .

6 3 10

Scotch.
Irish...

0 0 0

Foreign, in bond
Ditto, duty free..

O 44 0
O 46 0
4 5 10
4 5 10
O 0 0

3 10 4 0

3 10 4 0
36 4 0

29 3 2
3 10 4 0

. .
RYE, per quarter .42 0 44 0

INDIAN CORN, 1.1, 4801 b.
Red 4O 0e.12 0
White 42 0 44 0
BEANS, per quarter.
English 43 0 44 0
Irish 37 0 42 0
PEAS, Grey 3B 0 42 0
White 46 0 48 0
Snip BREAD, per 1121 b.
In bond 17.0 20 0
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b.
Fine 48 0 54 0
Irish 46 0.52 o
Amer.lo brl. free 34 0 35 0
Sweet U.S 36 0 37 0
Sour 31 0 35 0
OATMEAL, per 2401 b.
English 3l 0 32 6
Ditto, new 32 0 33
Scotch 31 0 32 0

MALT, per qr. fine 68 0 69 0
middling 50 0 62 0