The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-08 00:00:00

_ y--remember the privations of the pain-, and
be determined to &fly yourself, in order to afford them re-
lief. and to better their condition.

you I

When you

) into the pantry, remember the poor, and
of some cold meat, a little bacon, butter,
Lich you can spare, and which would rejoice
; a hungry family.

the hearts of n
3. When yo

411 your drawers and wardrgyea,
I see if you cannot pick up a shirt, a
_ lir of stockings, a flannel singlet, or
e other useful article, wherewith to assist in clothing the

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4. When voi
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go to a sale, remember the poor, and think
enot a few chairs, a pan, a bedstead, a loom, or
else that you could by cheap, in order to help some
family. whose house has been broken up through

J. When you have a horse standing idle, remember the
, and consider whether it might not be employed in
retching coals for some poor fatherless family, or riding out
those Cho are sick and almost dying for want of fresh air.
G. When your garden brings forth abundantly, remember
the poor, and send them some_potatoes, cabbages, onions,
apples, or anything you have to spare.
7. When you are regulating your cellars and lumber places,
ret zember the poor, and instead of selling your useless things
fo' r mere trifle, order all your old iron, brass, lead, spoons,
, umbrellas, broken glase, physic bottles, skins, and
ins, to be collected and given to some poor person who will

When you a perambulating the back streets, or when
, ha • to spare, remember the poor, and step
,to ti .., and cottages, and see how they live and
Jeep ; enquire into.,their
'--nilies. unless you do this you will be in great dan-

little t

forgetting the poor

deniber

stock and find you have had a prospe-
the poor, and lay out a good round sum
°A steward of God.
the rich, you are to remember 1.

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sey'sLetter• Linings

scarlet fever has broken out in Montgomery, and se_
eral children have fallen victims to this malignant disease.
31111. E.—Two little boys decently clothed,
about thirteen and the younger eleven,
;-lionse for vagrants, in Warrington, for
the keeper of the house very properly
vagrant's office to be examined, and, if
be relieved. It appears that but a few
;ince these poor little wanderers had re-
mrents in London. The typhus fever,
ay carried oil' both father and mother,
in a wide world, without home and with-
ediaely after the last tribute had been
, . memory, having an uncle in Liverpool,
destitute as they were, they resolved to go and
nselees upon his protection. Tired therefore, and
arrived in Warrington on their way. Two bundles
their little all. In the younger boy's pocket was
.tly covered, and carefully preserved, a Bible. The
the lodging-house, addressing the little boy, said,
,e neither money nor meat, will you sell me this
will give you five shillings for it." " No," ex-
(the tears rolling down his youthful cheeks), " I'll
" To try him still further, six shillings were
1 for the Bible. " No," said he, " for it has been
t all the way from London. Hungry and weary,
I sat down by the wayside to read my Bible, and
refreshment from it. He then asked, " what
) when you get to Liverpool, should your uncle
ake you in ?" The reply may excite a blush in
many young Christians. "My Bible tells me," said he,
" when my father and mother forsake me, the Lord will take
me up." The next morning these refreshed little wanderers
rose early, dressed themselves, and let out for the town of
Liverpool.—Preston Pilot.
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VALUE OF Tll

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" You 1

And first, as to the exclusion of legitimate commerce,
let us take a look at the actual trade to that river, the Niger,
on which we are told none is found.' This river, we need
hardly state, is now known to flow into the Atlantic, by its
several mouths in the Bight of Biafra ; and it may be readily
ascertained, by reference to the Custom-house books of Liver-
pool, that the import of palm oil from the west coast of Africa
(nine-tenths of it being from the Bight of Biafra) into Liver-
pool alone, in 1836, the year above named in reference to
Sierra Leone, was 9,783 tons, and in 1839, 14,126 tons ; be-
sides ivory and other commodities to a large amount, the
quantities and values of which are not so easily ascertainable.
To say nothing of these last, however, the value of this oil
is, at the present price of the article, about half a million
sterling, procured in exchange almost exclusively for British
manufactures; and of this oil three-fourths at least (or to
the value of about £350,000) are produced and manufactured
on the Niger, and shipped from its delta. Such is the legiti-
mate trade of a river, on which the projectors of an expedition
to it believe and tell us none is found :' a trade which took
its rise from the date of the abolition of the slave traffic by
England, but which has made its principal advancement in
the last twenty years; a trade with England, the formation,
of which has not cost Government a shilling, though now
giving employment to from 12,000 to 15,000 tons of British
shipping annually, from the port of Liverpool only."
The allegation that 140,000 slaves are annually exported
from the Bights of Benin and Biafra is next proved to be
untrue. Mr. Jamieson shows, in the first place, that the as-
sertion rests upon insufficient evidence; and he produces, in
the second place, satisfactory evidence to show alit it is im-
possible.
" Again, in reference to the other allegation, that there is
an annual export of stares from these parts, to the extent of
140,000 annually—the correctness of which we deny—we re-
quest attention to the following extracts of letters on which
that allegation is founded, and which we find in The Slave
Trade, addressed to the author of that book by Governor
M' Lean, of Cape Coast Castle. The first bears date the 11th
of June, 1838, and was written during Governor M`Lean's
visit to this country ; the other is dated from Cape Coast,
in October, of the same year, upon his return to Africa.
" June 1838.—1 n compliance with your wishes, I beg
leave to state to you, in this form, what I have already men-
tioned to you verbally, namely, that in the year 1834 I have
every reason to believe that the number of slaves carried off
from the Bights of Benin and Biafra amounted to 140,000.
I have not beside me the particular data whereon I ground
this calculation ; but 1 can state generally, that I founded it
upon the number of slave vessels which actually passed the
forts on the Gold Coast during that year, and of those others
of whose presence on the coast I had certain information
from her Majesty's cruisers or otherwise.'
" October 1838.—Slavers have continued to pass the
forts, some of them, as usual, stopping here. From various
inquiries that I have made, and by collecting my information,
as received from several sources, I can state as a fact that
there are at this moment on the coast two hundred slave-ships,
all under Portuguese colours.'
" Now, we beg it may be particularly noticed, that the

former of these -letters speaks of the slave. trade in the
Bights of Benin and Biafra' in 1834, while the letter speaks
of it upon the coast' in 1838. It is necessary particularly
to note this, because, from overlooking this circumstance,
the projectors of the Niger Expedition appear to have fallen
into the grand mistake of assuming that the Slave-trade still
continues in the Bights in question, to at least as great an
extent as in 1834. And accordingly, upon this assumption,
the following statement is given in The Slave Trade, p. 52, of
the annual export of slaves from all parts of Africa, namely,
" From the south-eastern coast 15,000
From Angola, &c 22,929
Prom the Porte to the northward of
Cape Coast

74,929 say 75,000

Given by Mr. M`Lean for the exports from
the Bights of Benin and Biafra.... 140,000

215,000

Now, supposing each, vessel to carry on the average 400
slaves, and to procure her cargo on the average in two
months, the quota here alleged to have been supplied by the
Bights of Benin and Biafra, would have required a succes-
sion of not less than 60 slave-ships continuously kept up, or
the arrival and departure of 360 ships within the year, upon
a range of about 500 miles of coast constantly traversed by
our cruisers ! The thing seems in itself incredible !
" But however this may have been in 1834, we are pre-
pared to show, by the testimony of respectable men, com-
manders and supercargoes of vessels trading to the coast—
testimony, the correctness of which we presume may any day
be satisfactorily ascertained at the Admiralty, by reference to
the log-books of our cruisers on the coast—that a great and
important change has taken place in 1838-9. From such
testimony procured in writing, now lying before us, we select
the following—

TO ROBERT JAIWIESON' ESQ,
" ' Liverpool, 16th July, 1840

" Sir—Being on the point of sailing for Africa, I, at your
request, state in writing, what I have already mentioned in
your hearing, that I was in Bonny last voyage, from the
month of October 1839, to the month of March, this year,
during which time there was but one slave-vessel there.
" That I was likewise in that river in 1838, from four to
five months, during which time there was only one slaver
there; and that it is my opinion the export of slaves from
Bonny River is at an end, if the same watchfulness be shown
by her Majesty's cruisers as at present.

" I remain, Sir, your most obedient servant,
"' PETER DOUGLAS, commanding the barque Brutus.'
" Liverpool, 22d July 1840.
" Sir, I now state in writing, what I have before stated
to you verbally, namely, that I was in command of the
barque Boddington, of Liverpool, in the Old Calabar River,
Africa, from the 23d of February to the 21st of September,
1839, and that the only vessels that were engaged in the
slave-trade in the river, during that time, were two small
schooners, from Prince's Island, owned by a man of colour
at Prince's, both of which were taken by her Majesty's
cruisers shortly after leaving the river ; and I firmly believe
that the slave-trade is entirely at an end in Old Calabar, and
will continue so, if the same vigilance is kept up by the
same class of her Majesty's cruisers on that station ; for the
men-of-war have such easy communication with the river
from Fernando Po, that it is quite impossible for a slaver to
escape from Calabar if vigilantly looked after.
" These facts lam ready to give my solemn declaration
to before a magistrate, if required.—l am, Sir, your obedient,
humble servant, -
"` W. Moss.'
" • Liverpool, 23d July, 1840.
" In reply to your inquiry, 1 beg to inform you, that I
was with the barque Chatham and schooner Killermont at
Cameroons, from the 10th of April to the latter end of No-
vember, 1839, and that during that time there was no slave
vessel there or in the neighbourhood, with the exception of a
small schooner, belonging to the Island of Prince's, and
manned by blacks. She might carry about twenty slaves ;
but left, after remaining three months. without obtaining one.
I was likewise at Cameroons in the Strathmore and Killer-
mont for four months, in the year 1838, and there was no
slaver there then, nor had been for a considerable time pre-
viously.
" This I am ready solemnly to declare before any Ma-
gistrate, if required ; and it is my firm belief, that the Slave-
trade on that part of the coast is entirely extinguished, should
our cruisers continue to keep as bright a look out as they
have done.
'" I remain your very obedient servant.
" ' JOHN DICK, late Master of the barque Chatham."
•" Liverpool, 18th July. 1840.
'" At your wish I now state on paper what I had before
in your presence verbally, namely, that I was lying in
and off the river Benin, or Formosa, from the middle of De-
cember 1839 to the 22d of March 1840, during which time no
slave-vessel was there, with the one following exception.
" In the month of February last, a Brazilian brig, the
Santa la Rosa' came to anchor off the bar, sent in her cargo
by boats, with a supercargo and three men, to form, it was
believed, a slave factory on the river. Soon after (the brig
having left the mouth of the river) the whole of these men
were massacred, and the property plundered by the natives,
with, it was believed, the sanction of one of their principal
men.

" ' On a former voyage, in the early part of 1839, was both
at Bonny and Benina ; saw no slaves whatever, neither did I
on the passage home.

" ' These facts I am ready and willing solemnly to declare
before a Magistrate, if required.

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J OSPII GIBSON, brig Satisfaction.'
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presentactual state of matters in
t:me at Bonny, Old
re-
lation‘H
Calabar, and Cameroons, formerly the
the Bight of Biafra, as well as at Benin great
nihthe slave-marts of
Bight. We request for it attentive perusal; an' d adjoining
will the commercial community, will the public we
ask'n
believe, after reading this testimony, that the generally,
of
ally,
Benin and Biafra continue to send away 140,000 slaves an-
nually ? The assumption is a mistake, and akin to that
which we have just exposed in the alleged total absence of
legitimate commerce from the same quarters.
" The fact is, that in his anxiety to show so great an ex-
port of slaves from the Bights of Benin and Biafra, the

" ST. CAJETAN THE CONFESSOR.—He sometimes afflicted
his body by beatings whole nights, and he never would be
persuaded to relax the asperity of his life, witnessing that he
desired to die in ashes and sackcloth.

" ST. IslicoLAs.—Subduing his body with a rough gar-
ment, stripes, and an iron chain.
" ST. JOSEPII, A CUPERTINE.—He afflicted his body with
hair-cloth, with whips, with chains ; in short, with every
kind of hardship and punishment.
" ST. FRANCIS BORGIA, CONFESSOR.—In that pursuit of
a stricter mode of life Francis reduced his body to a state of
extreme thinness, by fastings, by iron chains, by a very rough
hair-cloth, by bloody and long beatings, and by very short
sleep.

" ST. THERESA.—She burned with so anxious a desire of
chastising her body, that although the diseases with which
she was afflicted might have dissuaded her from it, she often
tortured her body with hair-cloth, chains, handfulls of net-
tles, and other very sharp scourges, and sometimes she would
roll among the thorns ; being accustomed thus to address
God ; 0 Lord, be it my lot to suffer, or to die.'

" ST. PETER OF ALCANTARA.—He brought his body into
bondage by perpetual watchings, fastings, scourges, cold,
nakedness, and all kinds of hardships, having entered into a
compact with it to allow it no rest in this world.
" ST. JOHN CANTIUS.—His sleep was little, and upon the
ground; his garment covered his nakedness, his food just
warded off death ; he preserved his virgin purity, like a lily
among the thorns, by a rough hair-cloth, by scourges, and by
fastings.
" ST. CHARLES, BISHOP AND CONPESSOR.—ID the mean-
time approaching as a reconciler with most humble prayers,
a pubiic supplication having been appointed, with a rope tied
to his neck, and his naked feet also made bloody, carrying a
cross, and offering himself as a victim, he strove to avert the
Divine indignation.

" lurnigNii—He subdued his body by nightly watchings,
by rough hair-cloth, and by continual scourgings.
" ST. GERTRUDE.—In order that she might have more
leisure for God, she afflicted her body with watching, absti-
nence, and other torments.

" ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS.—Having declared war against
himself, as against a most inveterate enemy, he in a short
time crucified flesh with its vices and concupiscense, by
watchings, fastings, iron scourges, and all kinds of punish-
ments.

" OFFICE OF ST. LOUIS BERTRAND, CONFESSOR.—
Subduing his flesh by fastings, scourgings, hair-cloth, and
watchings, he nourished his mind with the food of continual
prayer.
__
--

- " Sr. FRANCIS XAVlg4t.—He was so infuriated against
himself with iron scourges that he was frequently covered
with blood.

" ST. CANUTE THE FOURTH, KING AND MARTYR.—He
chastised his body with fastings, hair-cloth, and scourges.
" ST. FRANCISCA.—She continually strove to subjugate
her body by watchings, fastings, hair-cloth, an iron girdle,
and frequent scourgings,
" ST. ROSA, OF LlMA.—Having assumed the habit of the
tertian order of St. Dominick, she doubled the former auste-
rities of her life; she interwove small needles in an oblong
and very rough hair-cloth ; she wore by day and by night,
under her veil, a crown armed with numerous little sharp
points. Treading in the arduous footsteps of St. Catherine,
she bound her loins with an iron chain thrice wound round
her ; she made for herself a bed of knotty pieces of wood,
and she tilled the open seams with fragments of earthen ves-
sels ; she constructed for herself a very narrow cell in an ex-
treme corner of the garden, where, abandoned to heavenly
contemplation, she fearlessly overthrew and subdued, victori-
ous in manifold contests, the spirits of devila, extenuating
her body with frequent discipline, with abstinence, and with
watchings, but nourished by the Spirit."

Obviously we have no choice but to believe one of two
things—either that " the senior priest of St. " Augustine's
Chapel in Manchester" had " no distinct recollection" of
the Roman Breviary ;—that is, of the Common Prayer Book
of his own Church ; or else—that he swore falsely !

WHAT MAKES WEST INDIA SUGAR SO DEAR ?

(From the Colonial Gazette.)

An able writer in the Anti-Slavery Reporter would save
himself a vast deal of trouble by taking that of mastering one
or two of the first principles of political economy. His object
is to show that " the great experiment has failed thus far,
because the present enormous price of West India sugar in
the British market is owing, not to any increase in the cost
of production, but entirely to a change in the proportion be-
tween the demand and the supply. His argument, which we
have not space to restate at any length, is briefly as follows :
The labour of freemen is cheaper, or more productive in
proportion to its cost, than that of slaves. The West India
planter, therefore, produces sugar at less cost than hereto-
fore, and could afford to sell cheaper than in the time of sla-
very. But he has a monopoly of the British market ; and
the supply having become less or the demand greater—is able
to exact a price as much exceeding the cost of production as
the demand exceeds the supply. His profit must be very
great. This great profit must encourage production ; and in
time the price will fall to the remunerating point, when the
success of emancipation will be obvious to all. The best way
to bring down the price will be to admit sugar, the produce
of free labour in the East Indies or elsewhere, to an equal
competition with West India sugar in the British market.
This writer, to have been consistent, should have further
proposed the admission of slave-grown sugar on equal terms
with that produced by free labour. If the cost of production
is less in the West Indies than in Brazil or Cuba, what me-
thod so effectual of showing the utility of emancipation as an
equal competition between free-labour sugar and slave-labour
sugar, ilk which the former would drive the latter out of the
market ? But no ; the abolitionists here are as little disposed
as the planters of the West Indies to admit slave-grown sugar
to the British market. And why ? They can have no other
reason than a fear lest the produce of slave-labour should
prove the cheaper of the two, and all their prophecies of " the
great experiment" be signally falsified. This is the incon-
sistency of the writer in question. He has no confidence in
the soundness of his argument. And indeed its intrinsic
fallacy will be made plain by a very slight examinaiton.
We will admit, not merely for argument's sake, but be-
cause we sincerely believe it, that the hired labour of free-
men costs less, man for mall, than that of slaves—that, all
things considered, the cost of production is less when the la-
bourers are free and paid for their work, than when they are
enslaved and flogged to make them work. But now, in order
to illustrate the subject by an extreme case, let us imagine a
country in which the head of every family is a proprietor of
land working by himself on his own account. In that case
the superior productiveness of hired labour would be an idle
abstraction, since there would be no labour for hire. This
is more or less the actual case of every country in which land
is extremely cheap. The scarcity of labour for hire prevents
the combination of many hands in each employment, and also
the division of employments ; so that, the productiveness of
labour being at the minimum, there is little or no surplus
produce over what maintains each separate family. Such is,
though in various degrees, the condition of every one of our
West India colonies. Labour for hire, whether cheap or
dear, is extremely scarce ; the only present means of
production, whatever the cost, is insufficient to produce
the old quantity of sugar; and therefore, the demand
being the same in a monopolized market, the price
becomes exorbitant. The cheapness or dearness of la-
bour for hire has nothing to do with the question : it is a
case of diminished supply by reason of the difficulty of hiring
labour at any price. This view of the subject agrees with the
facts, which that of the Anti-Slavery Reporter does not. He
cannot deny that the supply has decreased, notwithstanding
cheaper production, which should have inevitably occasioned
an increase of produce. And in order to reconcile this de-
crease with the greater cheapness of production, he is obliged
to suppose, what is wholly contrary to the truth, that the
struggling planters of the West Indies are making enormous
profits. We must repeat, therefore, that whatever the cost
of production, the industry of the West Indies cannot at pre-
sent compete on equal terms with that of slave countries :
The planters still raise sugar because their monopoly of the
British market enables them to obtain a remunerating price
notwithstanding the scarcity at any cost of labour for hire :
no bounty, no sugar. When will the abolitionists condescend
to inquire into th influence of the price of land on the pro-
ductiveness of industry ?

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.-It is quite true that the excel-
lent Queen Adelaide has decided to become for some time a
resident in Derbyshire. Sudbury Hall is certainly taken for
her majesty's occupancy, and her majesty will enter upon her
tenure on the 15th of September next. Workmen are busily
employed on the premises, and orders to various manufac-
turers and tradesmen in the country are already given. The
china will be supplied from the celebrated manufactory at
Derby. Sudbury Hall is the property of Lord Vernon, and
was built about the 17th century. The building is of red
brick, intermixed with those of a darker colour, and, though
not large, is well proportioned, and has two small wings. A
good gallery runs through the house.—Chesterfield Courier.

The poor-law guardians of Cork have resolved to admit the
press, in spite of the commisioners.
Fanny Eisler is so satisfied with her reception among the
Americans that she has determined to break all European
engagements for a year at least, in which period she will have
received upwards of £lO,OOO.
NOT IN HASTE.—A clergyman in the north, very homely
in his address, chose for his text a passage in the Psalms, "I
said in my haste, all men are liars." Ay," premised his
reverence, by way of introduction, " ye said it in your
haste, David, did ye ?—gin ye had been here, ye micht has
said it at your leisure, my mon."
A correspondent of the Essex Herald suggests that a se-
curity for travellers on railways might be contrived by an act
of Parliament, compelling two of the directors in rotation to
go with every train, seats being provided exclusively for
them immediately behind the engine.
A traveller stopped at an inn to breakfast, and having
drank a cup of what was given him, the servant asked, what
will you have, tea or coffee ? To which the traveller an-
swered, " That depends upon circumstances. If what you
gave was tea, I want coffee. If it was coffee, I want tea.
I want a change."
A labouring man, named Hunter, residing at Folkstone,
who had been long notorious in.the neighbourhood for hand-
ling vipers and snakes, and even caressing them with impu-
nity, met with the consequences of his dangerous ostenta-
tion on Friday, having been bitten to death by a viper. He
expired in two hours from the time of receiving the bite.

GANNAL'S PROCESS FOR EMBALMING.-2•68 lb. troy of
dry sulphate of alumina are dissolved in 88 (or rather more
than three-quarters of a pint) of hot water. Five or six
pints of a solution made after these proportions are to be
injected into all the vessels of the 'body to be embalmed. To
prevent the attack of insects, its is proper to add 15'43 grains
of chloride of copper to every 2.68 lbs. troy of sulphate of
alumina, or 7711 grains of arsenic.
HOPS.—We can report scarcely any change in the hops
since our last. The warm weather has certainly improved
those which were previously doing well. There is one ground
in the parish of Blean, which is calculated to produce from 12
to 15 cwt. per acre. In a planter's grounds which produced
last year several tons of hops, there will barely be as many
hundred weight picked. The duty may be quoted at £30,000.
—Kentish Gazette.

STEAM NAVIGATION IN AUSTRALIA.—The steam-ship
" Sea-Horse," of 250-horse power, sailed from Gravesend
on Thursday morning for Sydney. This vessel is intended
to ply between the various ports in tilt Australian Colonies,
for which purpose, from her build and great power, she is
eminently qualified. The Sea-Horse is admitted to be one
of the finest steam-ships which has been seen in the port of
London, and is valued at upwards of £30,000. Her cabins
and saloon were full of passengers, and she takes out a valu-
able cargo.

LIABILITY OF LODGERS TO SERVE ON CORONERS'
JUBIZS.—At an inquest held on Friday last, before Mr. Wak-
ley, M.P., in the parish of Marylebone, a person claimed ex-
emption to serve on the jury on the ground that he was a
lodger. Mr. Wakley said the claim must be allowed. Ano-
ther person—l too, sir, am only a lodger. Mr. Wakley—
to what extent? Claimant—l occupy the lower part of a
house. Mr. Wakley—Do you pay rent for your lodgings to
the amount of £.lO ? Claimant—l do. Mr. Wakley—That
gives you a right to vote far members of parliament, and the
reform act having given you that power, has virtually made
you a housekeeper. You must serve.
CAPTURE OF A SEA MONSTER.---9he inhabitants living
in the vicinity of the Old Quay at Lancaster, were thrown
into an unwonted state of activity and excitement, early on
Sunday morning last, by the vagaries of a large sea monster,
which was jumping about and spouting large jets of water in
the river Lune, a little below the Old Bridge. As soon as it
got sufficiently light, all who could lay their hands on a gun
were firing away as fast as they could get reloaded, and the
owners of boats, armed with harpoons, lances, and scythes,
were lying in wait for him in all directions, to give him a
warm reception as soon as he should show himself above wa-
ter. After about three hours hunting, he was shot in the
head by a marksman stationed on the Old Bridge, when he
immediately spouted a large jet of blood, and a man being
near at the same time in a boat, struck him with a harpoon,
and after some little further trouble he was landed, and
proved to be a large specimen of the Delphinus Tertio, mea-
suring about 121 ft. in length, and weighing 15 cwt., a fish
whose appearance in our latitude, is a thing of very rare oc-
currence ; indeed we learn from gentlemen deeply read in
natural history, that there are only some four or five instances
on record of this fish having been seen in England, two of
which have been taken near Lancaster, the one under notice,
and another some years ago in Morecambe bay. The captors
exhibited the fish at Lancaster on Sunday, and on Monday it
was shown here, at the Fleece Inn, St. John-street. From
the appearance of its teeth, which were evidently much worn,
and from the fact of several being gone, it is not unreasonable
to infer that the specimen was an old one—the fish was one
of the male kind. After the exhibition closed here, the fish
was disposed of for the sum of 1;7 or guineas, to some York-
shiremen, who intended first to astonish the Manchester
folks with the sight of it, and afterwards to make use of it for
the production of oil • what quantity it might possibly yield,
was quite a matter oitincertainty ; we are therefore unable to
inform our readers whether the speculation was a lucky one
or not.—Preston Pilot.

GRAND JUNCTION RAILWAY

The following are the Times of Departure from Lime-street
Liverpool, and from Liverpool-road, Manchester :

. .
TIMES OF DEPARTURE •
FROM LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER TO BIRMINGHAM,
3 30 a.m. First Class, joins London Train at 8 30 a.m.
6 a.rn. Mixed 9 9 12
I,
8 15 a.m. First Class
9, 1 15 p.m.
PI
10 30 a.m. First Class PO PO 4 p.m.
12 15 p.m. First Class tt ~ 6 p.m.
4 p.m. Mixed
7 p.m. First Class 12
FROM BIRMINGHAM TO LIVERPOOL ~
AND MANCHESTER
2 15 a.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston
at Parlcside.

6 a.m. Mixed Train do. do. do.
11 30 a.m. First Class
2 15 p.m. First Class
2 45 p.m. First Class—Meets N. Union Train to Preston
at Parkside.

3 30 p.m. Mixed
S p.in. First Class

On Sunday the Departures willbe

3 30 a.m. First Cla;sjoins London Train at 8 30 a.m.
8 15 a.m. Mixed tt t I 1 30 p.m.
10 30 a.m. „
7 p.m. „ „ 12
15 a.m. First Class.
7 30 a.m. Mix 64,, •
11 30 ELM. „
245 p.m. „
The Trains on Sundays stop at First Class Stations only,

imilorts.

WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA

Royal Albert, (109) J. Graham, from Demerara and Trinidad, 25
puns s'hluls rum, Ewart, Myers and co-25 puns 5 hhds do, S Makie
—l4 puns 30 hhds do, E J Troughton-40 bags coffee, order-20
puns 4 hhds rum, 31 casks 12 barrels offee, 238 bags do (in the husk)
T add II Murray-223 do, order—of the above, 90 bags coffee, 323
o and c hides, were landed at Trinidad—W D
EUROPE.

George Lord, (181) T Amlot, from Zante, 275 bales 223 bags and
Ise 14 c sheeps' wool, Nichol, D uckworth and co-2 quarter casks
Marsala wine, 24 stone flower pots, Master—S D •
Flamer, (103) P Billet, from Gurensey and Jersey, (fm Guernsey)
44 barrels farina, Richardsou Brs Co-10 pipes wine, C W Preston
—1 cow, C Saunders-20 pipes vinegar, 14 quarter casks pale B
spirits, 2 cases confectionery, 2 cases preserves, order-5 hhds
vinegar, 1 ton granite stones, A Kincaid-2 boxes pickles and pre-
serves, Exportation—(from Jersey) 14 puns 17 hhds 29 i-hhds
vinegar, T Jenklnson-5 tons potatoes, 3 hhds 7 cases wine, 1 cse
brandy, 1 gun and carriage returned, order-52 coils 1 bundle
cordage, 5 ship sails, Ship Calista-250 cases 12 hhds wine salad oil,
cordials and brandy, 6 hhds brandy. 2 cases jewellery, 4 cases
porcelain, 1 cask glass, 2 bales mirrors and frames, 1 box preserves,
J Robin and Co.

STATIONS OF THE BRITISH ARMY,

ON THE IST OF SEPTEMBER; 1840,

(From the United Service Journal.)

(Where two places are mentioned, the last-named is that at which

the Depbt of the Regiment is stationed.]
Ist Life Guards—Windsor 40th Foot—Bombay; Chatham
2d—Regent's Park 41st—Madras; Chatham
Royal Horse Guards—Hyde Park42d—Templemorett
Ist Dragn Gds.—Canada; York 43d—Canada • Armagh
2d—Edinburgh 4 4th—Bengal% Chatham
3d—Sheffield 45th—Newport
4th—Leeds 46th—Gibraltar ; Jersey
sth—Manchester 47th—Malta ,b Longford
6th—Dublin 48th—Gibraltar; Youghall
7th—Nottingham 4gth—Bengal; Chatham
Ist Dragoons—Glasgow 50th—N.S.Wales ; Chatham
2d—Birmingham 51st—V. D. Land ; Chatham
3d—Bengal 52d—West Indies ; Naas
4th—Bombay 53d—Plymouth
6th—Newbridge 54th—Canterbury
7th Hussars—Canada, York 55th—Madras ; Chatham
Bth—Norwich 56th—Madras ; Belfast
gth Lancers—Hounslow 57th—Madras ; Chatham
10th hussars—Coventry 58th—Glasgow
I 1 th Light Dragoons—Brighton sgth—Corfu ; Buttervaut**
12th Lancers—Dublin 60th (Ist battalon.)—W indsor
13th Light Dragoons—Cantrbry 2a batt.)—lon. Isles ;b Clonmel
14th—Dorchester 61st—Woolwich
15th Hussars—Madras 62d—Madras ; Chatham
16th Lancers—Bengal 63d—Madras ; Chatham
17th Lancers—Cahir 64th—Jamaica ;* Birr
Grenadier Guards (Ist batt.) 65th—Canada ;t Plymouth

Portman Barracks
66th—Canada ;t Sheerness
(2d batt.)—Canada 67th—America; Galway
(3d batt.)—Wellington Barracks 68th—Jamaica ;* Ashton
Coldstream Guards—(lst batt.) 69th—America; Limerick/A
SC John's Wood 70th—W. Indies ;* Spike Island
(2d batt.)—Canada 71st—Canada; Dundee
Scotch Fusileer Guards—(lstbatt)72d—Portsmouth

St. George's Barracks 73d—Canada ;* Hull
(2d batt.)—Tower 74th—West Indies ;* Fermoyß 11
Ist Foot (Ist batt.)—Gibraltar 75th—C. of G. Hope ; Exeter
(2d batt.)—Canada ; Buttervant 76th—West Indies, Enniskillen
2d Foot—Bombay; Chatham 77th—Malta; Dover
3d—Bengal ; Chatham 78th—Burnley
4th—Madras; Chatham 79th—Ilaydock Lodge
sth—Cephalonia; Castlebar 80th—N. S. Wales; Chatham
6th—Bombay; Chatham 81st—Barbadoes ; Ashton-under-

7th—Gibralfai; Tralee II Lyne
Bth—America; Guernsey 82d—Jamaica; Portsmouth
9th—Bengal; Chatham Bs(l—Canada; Londonderry
10th—Manchester 84th—Dublin
I lth—Devonport 85th—Canada; Devonport
12th—Mauritius ; Paisley 86th—Belfast
13th—Bengal; Chatham 87th—Mauritius
14th—Trinidad; Newbridge 88th—Dublin2
15th—Canada; Gosport 89th—West Indies ;* Fermoyau
16th—Bengal ; Tilbury Fort 90th—Ceylon • Dover
17th—Bombay; Chatham 91st—Cape B,:gtHelena; Dublin
18th—Ceylon ; Chatham 92d—Malta ; Sterling
19th—Corkt Kinsale 93d—America; Aberdeen
20th—Dublin 94th—Madras; Chatham
21st—Bengal; Chatham 95th—Ceylon ; Ty-nemouth

22d—Kilkeurti a, . 96th—Chatham
23d—America ; -Chester - 97th—Limerickt
24th—Canada; t Fermork* 98th—Newcastle-on-Tyne
25th—C. Good Hope ; Exeter 99th—Dublin
26th—Bengal; Chatham Rifle Brigade (Ist brat
27th—C. Good Hope ; Wexford**(2d Batt.)—Newport
28th—N. S. Wales; Chatham Royal Staff Corps—Hythe
29th—. Edinburgh let W. Ind. Regt.—Demerara, &c
30th—Bermuda ; Enniskillen 2nd—Jamaica & Sierra Leone
31st—Bengal; Chatham 3rd—Siena Leone
32d—Canada ;t Pigeon House Ceylon Rifle Reg. Ceylon
33d—Gibraltar ;b Chatham Cape Mounted Riflemen—Cape
34th—Canada ;t Dover of Good Hope.
35th—Mauritius ; Gosport Royal Newfd. Veteran Company-
36th—America; Clare Castle Newfoundland
37th—America; Birr Royal Malta Fencibles—Malta
38th—Corks
39th—Madras; Chatham

H-Windsor

* For North America. t Under orders to return home. : For
the Mediterranean. a Ordered to the West Indies. 3 For Limerick
6 Athlone. ** Templemore. tt Fermoy, to arrive 4th September,
ultimately to proceed to the Mediterranean. as Neuagh. II II Wa-
terford. 66 Buttevant.

N.B. 65t1}, 66th, and 6sth depots in England,

LIVERPOOL PROVISION

MARKET, SEPT. 7

A further advance of 25 per cwt. has taken place in the price of
Butter ; 98s having been obtained for Belfast first quality. The
prevailing feeling in the trade, is that the currency will be still
higher. The Cork coopers having struck work for an increase of
wages, we experience a temporary scarcity of pickled flutter.
Holders of consignments are generally limited to 945 , and some
there are, which look for gds. There appears to be very little doing in
Beef and Pork. A little of the former of this season's cure has ar-
rived, for which 61b per tierce is asked. We, however, think there
will be more safety in purchasing last season's Beef for some time
to come, as we cannot but have apprehensions for an article cured
so early. Bacon sells very freely at 57s to 58s for Belfast, and
looking up.

LIVERPOOL PRICES CURRENT

MADDER, 1,, Cwt.

s. d. s. d

Montreal, Pot.. 26 0 ® 0 0 Dutch, crop 70 0 —SO
Pearl, new .. 30 0 0 0 Ombro 50 0 —65 0

U. States, Pot.. none. I Gamene 32 0 —4O 0
Pearl none. Mull
BA nic, Quercit. .. 12 o—l 3 0 I French, S.F. 42 0 —46 0
Oak, qt, hut .. €5 10 6 10 1 s,F.F 48 0 —62 0
German 4 10 5 0 E.5.F... 54 0 —SH 0
BRIMSTONE, if. ton E.5.F.F.63 0 —66 0
Sicily, tkc l2 10 —l3 5 Spanish 4O 0 —5B 0
Tuscany l3 0 13 5 MOLASSES, 1p cwt._ _

. .
CASSIA LIGNEA, s. d. s. (1.1 Trinidad, &c 40 0 —42 0
cwt. in bond 80 0 82 0 1 Demerara, &c 40 0 —42 0
CLOVER-SEED, cwt. I Bar & Antigua.. 45 0 0 0
American, red.. none MUNJEET, '4' cwt 14 0 —l5 0
Dutch 70 0— 80 0 OIL, Olive, 14 252 galls.
French & Germ.7o 0— 80 0 Gallipoli
COCOA, V. cwt. Trieste 57 a —5B 0
Trinidad 49 0— 52 0 Sicily 57 0 —5B 0
Grenada .... }32 0— 36 0 Malaga
54 0 —55 0
Brazil Portugal, &c .... 52 0 —54 0
COFFEE, 1.1, cwt in bond. Levan, 52 0 --55 0
Jama. triage .. 37 0 —37 10
ordinary .... )600— 90 Fish, '{a 0 P!Ilm,1:. tyn
2.32 galls.
good& fine ord. 95 0-110 0 Seal, pale 3l 10 —32 0
middling ll4 0-120 0 brown 27 0 —3O 0
good mid. .... 126 0-134 0 Cod 27 0 —2B 0
illapielCb(.;.°l 4029 0° —3042 0°
fine mid. &c... 136 0-15 6 0
Rape,
Dutch, triage.. 160 0— 80 0
ordinary .... Turpen. v cwt 53 6 —54 0
good &tine ord. 84 0— 90 0 RICE, IF, cwt
middling 92 0— 98 0 Carolina, dress. 36 0 —37 0
good mid. 1 100 0-102 0 in bond 22 0—
fine mid., &c.
Bengal, ord. do.. 11 0 —l3 6
Mocha lOO 0-125 0 mid to fine .... 14 0 —l5 0
Ceylon
none.
Java
60 0— 65 0 RUM, V gallon, in bond.
Havana Jamaica,
good& fine ord. 45 0— 52 0 12 to 16 0. p... 4 6 5 0
St. Domingo 45 0— 48 0 stronger 5 3 6 6
Brazil 44 0— 50 0 choice marks.. 6 8 7 '
Laguira 62 0— 65 0 SAFFLOWER, 1-, cwt.
DYEWOODS, 7g, ton .t. s. .e. s. Bengal,
Logwood, jam... 7 10— 7 15 good & line.. £5 0 7 10
lion. & Dom. 7 15— 8 0 ord. & mid .. 2 10 4 10
Campeachy .. 9 0— 10 0 Bombay
rustic, Span 4 15— 5 0,4 -ALTPETRE, 43. coot. S. 11. S. d
Tampico 6 10— 7 0 East India 25 0 —3O 0
Brazil
Cuba

NICARAGUA Wool)
Rio de la Hache

. .
orange 56 0 —BO
liver and black 33 o —5O

solid V 9 0— 12 0 SKINS,
rough 6 0— 7 10 Neutria, :114, do:
small
Lima, solid l4 0— 16 0 Seal, each
Harwood, Ango. 8 0— 9 0 Sn um Ac, qp cwt,
Gaboon 6 0— 0 5 Sicily
Camwood l9 0— 25 0 Malaga
Red San. Wood.. S 0— 9 0 Trieste

FLAx, lo' ton. I Verona
Riga. P.T.R. .... 41 0— 42 0 • Tyrolese
P'burg, 9 head .. 40 0— 0 'Svc,An, Rfr cwt.
Archangel 44 0—.49 0 B. P. Muscovado

Dutch ii Flem. 6O 0-110 0 moist brown .. 77 0 —7g
GALLS, V cwt. dry brown .... 80 0 —B2
Turkey, blue 6B 0— 72 0 good & mid.... 83 0 —B5
mixed 60 0— 66 0 tine &v. fine .. 86 0 —BB
East India 5B 0— 72 0 Mauritius,
GINGER, V cwt. dabs and moist 74 0 —76
Barbadoes 35 0— 50 0 brown 77 0 —79
Jamaica 6O 0-200 0 yellow
81 0 —B3

E. India, in bond 1.2 0— 19 0 line yellow .... 84 0 —B7 0
Guar, 1' cwt. . East India, Bengal
Arabic, Turkey .. 70 0-140 0 ord. white .... 78 0 --81

.East India. 24 •0— 55 • 0 good,and fine.. 82 0 —B5 0
Barbary 45 0— so 0 extra fine 86 0 —BB 0
Senegal 62 6 63 o Manilla, in bond 20 0 —23 0
HEMP, V• ton 4 s. £ s. Havana, do.
P'burg, clean 40 0— 40 10 brown 24 0 —24 6
outshot.. 38 0— 38 10 yellow 25 0 —27 0
Riga, Rhine .... 41 0— -- white ord 33 0 —35 0
outshot.. 38 10— 39 0 good & fine 36 0 —3B 0
Archangel 35 o— 35 10 Brazil, in bond.
Manilla 2B 0— 20 0 brown lB 0 —22 0
Bombay ........ 18 0— 20 0 yellow 22 6 —24 0
Jute ........ 12 0— 13 0 white ord. 23 0 —25 0
Hinss, Ox and Cow, %4. lb good and fine 26 0 —2B 0
B. Ayres and Monte Video. dry. TALLOW, Is, cwt.
inferior & mid. 0 71— 0 oi P'burgli, Y.C. 53 3 —34 0
good & prime.. 0 94 010 Odessa 53 0 —53 6
Do. salted .... 0 4 0 3 Archangel 5l 0— 0 0
N. Amer. salted 0 31— 0 4 Buenos Ayres 44 0 —52 0
Brazil
dry salted 0 si 0 64 Stockholm l9 6 —2O 6
Rio, dry
Valparaiso, dry 0 74 0 84 Carolina
Odessa, &c. dry 0 64 0 74 Virginia
W. India, dry.. 0 64 0 76 TARTAR, V cwt.
salted.. 0 44 0 si Cream of Tartar 7B 0 —B5 0
East India .... 0 8— 1 1 brown and yel 50 0 —7O 0
Kips, B.A. dry. 0 74 0 84 Tit.t, v. lb. in bond.
Horse, d. each 9 0 —l2 6 Bohea, Canton
HORSE HAIR, is tb. Fokein
Short
mixed
long tails 1 4 1 10 Twankay, corn... 2 3
combed
'Nino°, 19 tb. in bond. Pekoe, Orange .. 2 6 3 6
Bengal. Campoi,
pur. & violet

blue & violet 0 0— 0 0 Hyson 5kin...... 2 0— 2 1
blue
violet, g. & fine 6 6 7 o Souchong, corn... 2 3 2 4
ord. & mid. 5 3 6 0 good to fine.. 2 9 3 6
violet & cop. 1 , „ v
, Pekoe, flowery .. 3 0 3 6
mixed .. 5 a -.7 ') 9 Hyson, com . 2 8— 2 g
cop. g. & fine. 5 0— 5 6 fine.. 3 0— 4 6
ord. & mid. 4 0— 5 o Young Hyson .. 2 g— 3 3
con. quality
Oude 2 0— 5 0 Gunpowder,

Madras 2 6 5 0 good and fine .. 3 6 5 0
Guatimala, v lb TOBACCO, 114 a lb. in bond.
Floras
Sobres 3 0— 5 0 Stemmed.. 0 3 0 7
Cortes
Caraccas, Floras 5 6 6 0 Maryland
Sobres 4 0— 5 3 TURMERIC, 19, cwt. in bond.
Cortes
LAC DYE, V. lb. TURPENTINE, r cwt.
D.T. and prime. 1 6 3 0 American
mid. to good.. 0 8— 1 4 VALONIA, V. ton. £ e S .e s
ord. & inferior 0 4 0 75 Smyrna, picked l4 0 —l9 10
MADDER Roars, v cwt. Morea
Smyrna
Galipoli & Syria .. 0 0— 0 0 African 6 10 7 10
French 43 0— 45 0 East India ..... 610— 7 15
Naples 43 0— 0 0 American 7 0— 715

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