The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-02-25 00:00:00

FRIVOLOUS SUITS.-LORD DENMAN'S BILL

The following is Lord Denman's bill, presented to the
House of Lords, " to repeal so much of an act of the 43d of
Elizabeth, intituled ' An Aot to avoid trifling and frivolous
Suits in Law in her Majesty's Courts at Westminster ," and
of an act of the 22d and 23d of Charles 11., instituled 'An
Act for laying
Impositions on Proceedings at Law, as relates
to .Costs on Personal Actions ;' and to make further provi-
sions in lieu thereof."
The preamble sets forth that
" 1. Whereas an act passed in the 43d year of the reign of
Elizabeth, intituled ' An Act to avoid trilling and frivolous.
suits in taw in her Majesty's Gouvts at-Westminster!' And.
another act in the 22d and 23d years of the reign of king
Charles IL,lristituled ' An Act for laying Impositions on
Proceeding's at Law,' which recites that many good subjects
of this realm have been and daily are, undone by such suits,
contrary to the intention of the said statute of Queen Eliza-
beth ; but the same evil notwithsianding doth still prevail
and increase; and it is expedient to consolidate and extend
those provisions : now be it enacted by the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, by, &c,, That the two said recited acts of
the 43d of Elizabeth and of the 22d and 23d of Charles 11.,
so far as the sa
repealed.
inerelat
if relate costs to in personal actions, be and
hereby they are
plaintiff
ot 2. That the in any action of trespass, either to
the person or to real or personal property, or for libel, slan-
,
der, or malicious persecution, brought or to be brought in
.
Rif esty's Courts at Westminster, shall recover
any of her ~...a)_ a
i .
f jury less damages than 405., such plaintiff
by the verdict o
to recover or obtain, from the defendant,
shall not be entitled
verdict, any costs whatever, whether it
in respect of such
issues or
anyissue tried, or judgment
shall be given upon
shall have passed by
default, unless the judge or presiding
verdict shall be obtained shall im-
mediately afterwards certify onofficer before whom such
the
back of the record (if the
action be in tres asthe action was really brought to
try a right besides the that
mere right to recover damages for the
trespass or grievance for which the action shall have. been
brought.

. DIAN
tackle consistsnol
IN
taking the sai a
(CIIINoox) SALMON FISHING.—Their mode of
iron hook attachreasdnistoa tvheerYensid7plle'hoilsw.MaTchhienewl;
constantly trabilyinag hoeleyotk*
keep
pole about twelve feet long, with a large
i the water, and when the fish approaches
the surface,
iron into his side, quicklu, and dexterous jerk they fasten the
say they take so d shake him off into the canoe. They
many fish that it. is necessary for them to
land about three times a (I'
think—the
i n
motion,tl.t.
Sporting Excursions in the deposit them.—rorcuenenit's
Rocky Mountains.
like this country very.
reports which you hear
A SOLDIER'S LIFE IN INDIA.
much; as to the climate, I
suffand the pecu-
liar rtnleiennhsotof:wtehae-
of it in England are greatly exaggerated.
ther the heat is certainly oppressive r•ated.
much more
immense punkahs kept constantly
liar construction of the houses, we do not
than a hot day in England. As to the weather
15,) it resembles a fine sunshiny day in October, r now (Dec.
'the sun is hotter and the wind cooler. We : except that
play at cricket,
and go about ail day at this period of the year. y V
ou
be astonished to isee the queer houses we live in,
bigger than cottages. They look cold and desolategonCl
to a lt--e
per-
son just arrived from Engiaudo but one soon gets accustomed
t
0 them. We are all quite quiet in this part of the world,
since the arrangeinent of affairs in Cabool, and there seems
to be no prospect of a wan—Private Letter from Barrack-
pore.

(Rom the Colonial Magazine.)
But if we turn from the vast resources which England,
Ireland, and Scotland possess in the fertility of the soil,
and the highly civilized condition of the country ; in the coal,
iron, copper, lead, and tin, beneath its surface ; and in the
productive fisheries around our shores; if, while not over-
looking these and many other elements of wealth and power,
we view the transmarine possessions of the empire, " wide:
as the poles asunder ;" under nearly every parallel of latitude,
and beneath almost every meridian of longitude, we behold
myriads of human beings, of every creed, colour, and clime,
and an incalculable immensity of every thing that can tend
to promote individual comfort and social prosperity.
Do we require corn, whether wheat, barley, oats, maize,
or rice ; the vast plains of the Canadas, of Australia, and of
India, offer an inexhaustible supply, independent of foreign
countries, and of the casualty of adverse seasons. Every
species of timber, may be obtained from our American and
Asiatic possessions. The widely expanded downs of Austral-
Asia, now covered with flocks of sheep, are becoming the
wool country of the world. In the West and East Indies we
have the means of supplying sugar, coffee, tea, cocoa, spices,
&c. for all Europe.
Cotton, flax, silk, indigo, and dye-stuffs, are ready in
limitless quantities, and at the cheapest rate. Tobacco,
gums, hides, ivory, furs, &c. are among the staples of our
African possessions : fruits, oil, wines, and spirits, are ob-
tainable in the colonies of Europe, as also in those of the
southern hemisphere. India teems with gold, iron, copper,
lead, and coal ; and in almost every settlement the grand
adjuncts of commerce, coal and iron, abound..
We dwell not at this moment on the innumerable advan-
tages which our colonies present : we advert briefly to them,
merely to indicate the riches that are at our doors, if we will
but wisely use them, and thus advance the happiness of man-
kind. With such unmined wealth—with such untasted abun-
dance, it is folly—nay, it is wickedness, to talk of England's
decay ; she is but in the morning of her existence, bursting
into light, and betokening a golden harvest, not only for
those of her own race and lineage, but for all who desire the
inappreciable blessings of a Christianized civilization.
And this brings us to a consideration of the hostility of
continental Europe. What has France, or Spain, or Portu-
gal to gain by the downfall of England ? Do they think that
constitutional freedom would be More secure against the en-
croachments of northern Europe, were the freest and most
powerful kingdom on earth destroyed ? Were there even no
Autocrat to threaten the people of the south and west with
swarms of cossacks, Portugal would soon become an appan-
age of Spain, and Spain, in turn, would be added to the sove-
reignty of France, until the Gallic nation, incapable of main-
taining so great a territorial dominion, would split into petty
republics or oligarchies, and civilization would retrogade far
more rapidly than it has advanced. On the other hand,
would the despotic states of northern and eastern Europe
long withstand the onward lush of a crusade for political
liberty, if England were not at hand to check the misguided
zeal of rich theorists for freedom ? The determined enthusi-
asm of Germany, and the reckless courage of Poland, would
afford the means for kindling the flames of foreign and civil
war in Russia, Austria, and Prussia. There is no longer a
Holy Alliance in existence, to band nations together in self-
' defence for some common purpose—the balance of power
among the different sovereignties of Europe is daily becom-
ing less and fess effective for the preservation of the rights
of each : and it' peace is to be preserved in Europe, and that
war of opinion which Canning predicted is to be avoided, it
must be by England preserving her puissance, and acting as
the arbitress of the destinies of mankind.

In the confederacy of nations, as well as among the con-
stituency of a kingdom, there must be some chief acknow-
ledged, for the better upholding of the rights and privileges
of each. To which of the nations of Europe can that power
be siore safely entrusted than to England? She belongs to
Europe, although not on its continent ; she forms a part of
the family compact of nations, yet has no personal interest
in the connexion. Were the whole of Europe instantaneously-
engulphed by an earthquake, England would be no loser,:terri-
torially, commercially, or socially. But it is for the honour
and advantage of England that Europe should be in peace—
that its sovereigns and . governments should, by every 'possi-
ble means, extend freedom, knowledge, and commerce. She
has a common interest in the welfare of Europe, as it con-
tains the mast civilized portion of the human race ; but she
can have n 6 "views adverse- to, tlieinternal plissperityof
France, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Russia, Prussia, &c.
England can never become a great continental power : even
if it were possible, the attainment of such would be foreign
to her objects and interests : her dominion is on the ocean,
with her fleets and colonies she can command and•eontrol,
as she has before done, the coasts and commerce of all who
may proclaim themselves her enemies. But in no instance
has England ever waged an offensive war in Europe; when-
ever she has, been provoked into contests, it has either been
for the maintenance of her principles, or in self-defence.
France may desire to extend her boundaries to the Rhine,
Spain to re-annex Portugal to the ancient thrones of Castile
and Armpit' : Austria avariciously grasps Italy; Russia daily
augments her territories from the dislocated provinces of
Turkey'; but England seeks nothing in Europe. Whatever
may be the extent of her. acquisitions in other parts of the
globe, the white nations have assuredly no reason to fear an
encroachment on their territories and rights ; and by the ex-
tension of her colonies among thodark-coloured races of the
tropics, she is cheapening the luxuries of life, and enabling
all Europe to profit by her exertions.
We have thus shown that there is no, just ground for the
hostility which the continental powers have expressed towards
England ; and our future pages will develope how little Eng-
land has to dread from the united hostility of every nation of
Europe, were it possible for them all to combine against her.
Foreigners never comprehend sufficiently our social state, or
internal resources. If, by -any madness, Englaed were to •
be plunged into war, party feeling would soots subside, and:
the energies of this mighty country would he put forth with
tremendous effect. We should, as before, strip every hostile
nation of their eolonies, sweep the.seris of their vessels, and,
blockade their coasts. Autocrats or despotic sovereigns would'
soon find that their domestic condition would not, be favour-
able to the maintenance of their present power ; and that
which would but consolidate our internal strength, would, if
necessity required it, be made an instrument for breaking
their rule. • -
We desire not to dwell on this subject, and have not the
least intention of using minatory language ; on the contrary,
we wish to prove that it is the interest of every nation in Eu-
rope to be at peace with England, and it is for their direct
personal good that she should maintain her colonial poWer
and oceanic supremacy ; and when we come to discuss, at a
future period, our political and commercial relations with
our European brethren, we shall endeavour to show hOwlittle
England has to fear or to care for the hostility or friendship
of her Continental neighbours, apart from those general con-
siderations which we trust will ever sway a Christian kingdom.
There will arise so many occasions for an examination of
each and all the points adverted to, and for a mitinte inquiry
into the bases of our structure, as the oldest kingdom on the
earth, that we pass on to shadow forth a brief vaticination of
the future prospects of England.
Two proceedings, now in their infancy, are destined to
exercise a most important influence on the future condition
of this empire : the one is, the stream of emigration in the
direction of the Southern Pole ; the other, the flow of our
commerce towards the Eastern Hemisphere;., the one con-
taining millions of acres, in a genial climes 'feady for the
plough ; the other, myriads of comparatively civilized men,
ready to supply in exchange for our manufactures, all the
valuable and varied products, of the tropics, These two cir-
cumstances, in connexion with a sound monetary and fiscal
system at home, will make England young again, with all
the wisdom of mature age, and all the benefits of advancing
science and accumulated capital. There will thus be a new
spring to her existence ; whatever she has before accom-
plished will he trilling compared to her future efforts ; and
with 28,000,000 of free, educated, industrious, and religious
inhabitants at home, this small island in the German Ocean,
will hold complete sway over the entire Eastern world.
Nor will the Western or American hemisphere he neglected;
our possessions in the Northern and Southern portions of
that continent, on its Atlantic and Pacific coasts ; and the
rich islands of its tropical seas, under the stimulus of per-
sonal freedom and constitutional liberty, will yet add ma-
terially to our resources, population, and power : and when
the immense advantages of the vast countries watered by the
Orinoco and Amazon are developed, England will be pre-
pared to participate in their enjoyment. .
While our native land is intersected with railivaYsSthe wide •
ocean will be traversed by our steam-vessels, reducing the
distance of months to weeks, and connecting by our floating
bridges the continents of both hemispheres. Sooner or later,
the Anglo-Saxon language will become the universal medium
for communication between foreign nations, and thus give
to England a perpetual presence and identification with those
who now perhaps deem themselves our rivals.
By the aid of machinery, physical toil will be lessened, man,
in ceasing to be a machine, will become more and more an
intellectual being, and, with a full perception of the duties as
' well as the enjoyments of life, political privileges .may be
gradually conceded, and the progress of society will be equable
and happy.
England, even now, may claim the designation of the
queen-mother of nations ; by a just policy, the offspring of
her loins will become the sinews of her strength, until, like
• the banyan tree of the East, every fibre and shoot more and
more effectually shields, upholds, and adorns the parent stem.
Amidst the thousand million of human beings that now in-
habit this earth (independent of the myriads it is still capaole
of containing), there cannot be one uninterested in the future
progress of England, if England act up to the Christian prin-
ciples which are the foundation of her religion. Those prin-
ciples are the preservation of peace, the liberation of the slave,
the judicious extension of rational freedom, and the perma-
nent establishment of Christianity.
It was doubtless for these great and holy objects that this
small island has been permittted to rise from a barbarian
colony of heathen Rome, where her children were sold as
slaves, to her present exalted state ' • and if she be but true to.
the dictates of that divine creed which has been revealed to
man for his temporal as well as spiritual welfare, we cannot
contemplate an end to her power, nor a boundary to her hap-
piness. . , , . .
It is not, therefore, for th'e:Sake of tli'o—striall territorial
speck called Britain, that we seek the extension and the per-
manence of her supremacy ; it is because we believe that the
destinies of mankind are intimately blended with her weal or
woe, and that an awful responsibility rests upon the course
which, in the exercise of a free agency, she may for the fu-
ture pursue.
Cheerfully do we confess, that we feel no gloomy forebod-
ings ; there are even within this small island too many good
Christians to suffer despair to creep with its noisome weeds
around the heart; we believe that the salt of the earth is in
Britain, and that it contains the little leaven which will yet
leaven the entire mass of mankind—among whom our revered
ministers are everywhere spreading the light of a pure gospel,
and preaching its comforts and blessings in every known.
tongue.
Finally, we desire to be actively useful in aiding towards
the fulfilment of the high behests to which we believe Eng.
land is called ; we wish to cast our high mite into the general
treasury for the advancement of human happiness—and, in-
voking the blessing of the good upon our labours, with per-
fect confidence we commit the result to the disposal of that
Almighty Providence, who watcheth over and governeth the
universe.

fifty
IN THE HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS.—At six hours
minutes, we came to the confluence of the Seepun and
the Pubbur. Here the enormous gneiss rocks rise sheer se-
veral hundred feet into mural precipices, Over which many
cascades formed from the melting of the' snows tumble into
the gulf below, which has beensivtein asunder by the uncon-
atrroelladbeelep
;cattahraatctosf.
thTeheparhahlinrer
skiirmghywhich they
quivering crags
darkened into
dash
andind's o both,bt:t-th e whitest mists,
e
o.thteekr•nsally vexed splintered into sharp pinnacles,
glooine,hefibloleldlowwittku whirl;
n de r:0 f
th.
tor-
rents, which seem like the revelling lau
andab y sses
re-echoingof
This is Himalayan grandeur, inspiring . awe iwocia.diesolation.
delight
,and wonder. The elevation of the• confluence.tless with
8,300 feet. There is a sango over the Seepun at this place,
is
of: two narrow planks, thirty-four feet in length, and ah
twelve or fifteen feet above the impatient current. Here ou t
some Of our followers seemed to want resolution to cross the
perilous bridge: One crawled over on his hands and knees ;
another sat astride, and urged himself over by his hands;
while others were led by the vice-like grasp of their
,com-
rades. A Pariah dog, that had followed us froM the plains,
and was a favourite with the camp people, who had given
him, on account of his enterprising disposition, the cogno-
men of Subahtoo, was, however, so frightened that he would
not hazard himself on so insecure a footing, and howled
Piteousl at being left behind. One of the mountaineers
recrossed, and carried him over in his arms.--Lloyd' Nar-
rative of a Journey to the Himalayas:.

CURIOUS FACTS IN NATURAL HISTORY.—I am assured_
that when a sheep has two lambs at a time, she will not per-
mit one to suck her unless the other is present. But for this
instinctive arrangement, one of her offspring would have an
undue proportion of nourishment, and the other would either
starve or degenerate. It is well known that a pigeon usually
lays but two eggs. If, however, a third is laid, which is some-
times the case, it has never, I believe, been known to come
to maturity. If three young pigeons were to be fed, none of
them would probably be vigorous, and the race would dege-
nerate. This is another instance of the interest which nature
takes in the well-being of her creatures. The cow affords a
similar instance : if she has twins, one of them a male and the
other a female, the latter is always barren. If a doe produces
a white fawn, with red eyes, its under jaw is always defec-
tive, and it dies of starvation ; a wise provision of nature, in
preventing what would probably be feeble from arriving at
maturity. When we consider, also, the way in which the
Creator has provided for the clothing of animals, according
to the climate of the places in which they are found, we have
no less cause to admire his goodness. In hot countries many
animals have but little hair on their bodies, and some are al-
most entirely without it, such as elephants, monkeys, &c.
In very cold countries, the fur as well as the hair of animals
is very thick, and even the feet of some birds are covered with
feathers, not only to protect•them, but to enable them the
more readily to run upon the snow. Animals, also, which
have been brought from one country, and domestica-
ted in a different climate, are not . neglected by nature,
but are provided with such a- change or covering as is best
suited to it. How different is the covering of a Shetland
pony to that of an Arabian or Persian horse ! one has to en-
dure the extreme of cold, and the other of heat, and we see
how kindly nature has provided for both. Ducks, which lay
early in the year, strip more of their feathers off, and make
their nest much warmer than those which lay later in the
season. This instinctive property is very curious. and shows
the foresight which has been implanted in animals. It is
well known that in hot countries, where the blood of horses
is heated by the climate, they are in the constant habit of
bleeding each other, and sometimes of bleeding themselves.
This is done by biting the neck and shoulders. These, and
a great variety of interesting facts in the economy of nature,
prove that animals are in the possession of faculties beyond
mere instinct, and which they use to their own advantage un-
der peculiar circumstances. Thus, a friend of mine saw a
fine greyhound, which had been incessantly teased by a small
spaniel, take it up in his mouth, and drop it over a parapet
of a terrace into a river which flowed below it. The noble
animal was unwilling to hurt his tormentor, and, therefore,
took this opportunity of freeing itself from its annoyance.
The dog, in this instance, did what instinct alone would not
have taught him to do, and afforded another proof of the
truth of the remark I have made above. I will give another
instance of this :—A horse and a cat were very great friends,
and the latter generally slept in the manger. When the
horse was going to have his oats, he always took up the cat
gently by the skin of the neck, and dropped her into the next
stall, that she might not be in the way when he was feed-
ing. At other times he seemed pleased to have her near him.
Jesse's Gleanings. in Natural History.
AN OLD BOATSWAIN'S ACCOUNT OF lIIS MARRIAGE.—
" You must know, then, that about twenty years ago, one
summer afternoon, I was a walking along the High-street,
at Chatham, when I saw a young woman, whom I had before
knoWn something about, clap her helm a star-board, and
come to an anchor in a cook's shop. This young creature was
ormed in the beautifullest manner • from stem to stern she
was all alike ;sher cemetery was beautiful to beholders—P,
" SynrinelSY, perhaps, you menu, Mr. Swallowtail ?" inter-
rupted the- captain. " Very likely, sir ; lam sure I don't
know," said the boatswain ; " I an't much of a scholar, and
can't be expected to have so much book-wisdom as our doc-
tor : why, blesS your soul, sir, he is past all books—books
are of no use to -him. Well, then, sir, symmetry, since you
like it best;' her run was uncommon fine. Seeing as how I
brough up right athwart her hawse, so as she couldn't clear
me on either tack, when she got under way, she gave me a
look which went to my very vit-als ; I don't mean the ham
and beef that was in the window of the shop, nor those
Betsy was a buying which the woman was cutting with a
large knife ; but I mean the place where our feelings is—you
know, sir. Betsy got under way, and I made sail in chase ;
she hauled her wind close round the blue post at the corner
of the Chest Arms public-house, and slap she orders a pot
of porter. • NOw, thinks I, here's to be even with you, my
dear ; so I ordered a bottle of rum, paid for it, and put it in
my coat-pocket. When Betsy saw me so liberal-like, she
Smiled; on .me• so sweetly it would have thawed the North
'ole.; so mV heart gave way and I spoke to her. MiSs
Elizabeth,' said I, ' don't you. think a pound of beef and
a pot of porter too much for one solitary individual ?" No
doubt of it, sir,' said she. ` Don't you think that the addi-
tion of my company, and a bottle of rum, will make the
afternoon pass more pleasanter ?' No doubt of it, sir,'
said she sso I-took her at her word. We ate the beef, and
drank the beer, and were just at the finish of the rum, when I
seized her flipper and, kissing it, said in the fulness of my
heart; Betsy,-will you marry me ?' No doubt of it, sir,'
said the and so it was a .rnatch.—;The Saucy Jack and. the
indianzay.,•hy-a Aloe Jacket.
Our. LOST DAYS.—Bradley, astronomer royal, had a
'considerable share -in• the assimilation of the British Calen-
dar to. that of other nations. Lord Chesterfield was the ori-
.ginal promoter of this measure, which was carried in 1751.
The following curious anecdote happily illustrates the pre-
sumption. and ignorance of the mob in those days :—Lord
Chesterfield took pains, in the periodicals of the day, to pre-
, pare theaninds- of the public for the change ; but he found it
much easier•to prevail wish the legislature than to reconcile
the great mass of the people to the abandonment of their
inveterate habits. When Lord Macclesfield's son stood the
great contested election for. Oxfordshire, in 1754, one of - the
vehement cries raised by:the mob against him was " Give us
back the 11. days we have been robbed of "—(the reader will
recollect that Hogarth introduces this in his '"
Election
Feast ") ; and several.years after, when-Bradley, worn down
by his labours in the cause of science, was sinking under the
disease which closed his mortal career, many of the common
people attributed his sufferings to a judgment from Heaven,
for his having been instrumental in what they considered to
have been so impious an undertaking.—Edintsurph Review.
A MUSICAL ENTIITJSIAST.—" Dr. Ford, the rector of
Melton, was an enthuSiast in music, very singular in his
manner, and a great humourist. His passion for sacred
music was publicly known, from his constant attendance at
most of the musical festivals in the kingdom. I have fre-
quently met him, and always found him in ectasies with
Handel's music, especially the 'Messiah.' His admiration
of this work was carried to such an excess, that he told me
he never made a journey from Melton to Leicester that he
did not sin.- it quite through. His performance served as a
pedometer by which he could ascertain his progress on the
road, As soon as he had crossed Melton Bridge, he began
the overture, and always found himself in the chorus, Lift
up your heads,' when he arrived at Brooksby Gate.; and
Thanks be to God,' the moment he got through Thurmaston
toll-gate. As the pace of his old holmwas pretty regular,
he contrived to conclude the Amen chorus' always at the
cross in the Belgrave Gate. Though a very pious person his
eccentricity was, at times, not restrained even in the pulpit.
It need not be stated, that he had a pretty good opinion of
his own vocal powers. Once, when the clerk was giving out
the tune, he stopped him, saying, ' John, you have pitched
too low—follow me.' - Theo. clearing up hi voicethe lustili
began the tune. When
..the . psalmody went--4*iai apsisd, The
enjoyed it; and, in his paroxysms of delight,• woulddangle
•
one or both of his legs over the side of the pulpit-during the
singing. When preaching a charity sermon at Melton, some
gentlemen of the hunt entered the church rather late. lie
stopped, and cried oat, '.liere thsay,i
scamp here. come ,the
red coats; they know their. Christian. 'duties there's-uot It
man among them that is not good for a guinea.' The doctor
was himself a performer, had a good library of music, and
always took the Messiahs' with him on his musical journeys.
I think it was at a Birmingham festival that he was sitting
with his book upon his knee, humming the music with the
performers, to the great annoyance of an attentive listener,
who said, I did not pay to hear you sing.' Then,' •
said
the doctor, you have that into the bargain.'"—Gardiner's
Music and Friends.

PRICES OF SHARES, FEBRUARY 24.
Prices. This day Last
RAILWAYS, &c. Per Share. Prices.
Birmingham and Gloucester 7O paid 56 5 0 ....
Ditto and Derby
Birkenhead and Chester
Bolton and Leigh lOO paid 61 0 0 ....
Bolton and Preston .. 30 .... 15 0 0 ....
Bristol and Exeter 25 .... ..,..
Chester and Crewe 4O .... 40 15 0 ..'.. 41 0 0
Dublin and Drogheda
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Leigh and Newhaven 9 paid 3 5 rt.._
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock 17 paid 16 10 0 ....
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmar }
30 paid 30 0 0 .
Greenock, and Ayr ..•
Grand Junction
Ditto half shares
Great Western 65 71 0 0 ....
Ditto new shares 'to . 30 15 0 ....
Hull and Selby l5 paid 0 0 0 ....
Lancaster and Preston 42 10 0 30 5 0 ....
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto quarter shares
...... . ... . ... „ ..

Ditto lialf shares
London and Birmingham 9O .... 153 10 0 .... 154 0 0
Ditto new shares
Ditto quarter shares
Ditto awl Southampton 5O .... 44 10 0 ...
Ditto Rz Brighton
London and Croydon
Leeds and Manchester 6O .... 71 0 0 ....

Ditto half shares
..I.eicesterand Swannington 5O .... 71 0 0 ....
• Ditto, (new) 3O ifaitl 49 10 0 .... .._
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury ~ 83 ... 29 5 0 ....
Manchester and Birmingham.. 25 .... 13 0 0 ....
Ditto and Ditto Extension .. 7 .... 4 10 0 ....
Midland Counties
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO .... ....

....
Ditto quarter shares
North Midland Q 5 87 10 0 ....
New North Midland lO .... 15 15 0 .... 15 15 0
South Eastern and Dover
North Union
St. Helen's and Runcorn Gap IOU paid 0 0 0 ....
York and North Midland 4O paid 51 10 0 .... 51 10 0
BANKS.
Royal Bank of Liverpool 500 745 0 Ilexdiv
Bank of Liverpool &l2 los paid 22 0 oex div.
- Commercial of Liverpool 10 .... 17 12 6 ....
- Liverpool Union lO .... 17 12 6 ....
- Northern arid Central
- 'Albion
- North and South Wales lO .... 7 15 0 ....
- of Manchester lO .... 11 7 6
- M'chester & L'pool Dsct. 15 .... p Is 0 ....
South Lancashire
Liverpool Banking Company
Borough Bank lO 15 17 6 ....
Commercial Bank of England. 5
East of England lO .... p 7 6 •• • •
Phoenix Bank
Wilts and Dorset 7 10s. 7 12 ' 6 •• • •

_
GAS, WATER WORKS, &c.
Exchange Buildings £loo paid 164 0, 0 ....
L'pool and Harrington Water 1350
.... 475 0 0 . ..
Works
Bootle Ditto Stock.... 325 0 0.. . .
L'pool Coal Gas Company Stock.... 370 0 0.. • •
L'pool New Gas & Coke Co. .€lOO .... 191 0 0 ....
Ditto new shares are now paid uo.
ASSURANCE COMPANIES.
Liverpool Marine Assurance }25 paid 2 2 6 ....
Company
2 6
Ocean Aseinrance Company.... 10 .... 7 •• • •
Liverpool Fire and Life 2 los. 2 1 6 ...
. DOCKS, FERRIES, NEW CO MPANIES, &c.
Anderton Carrying Company l5 .... 976• • • •
Woodside Ferry
Egremont Ferry
Rock Ferry
Monk's Ferry
Steam Tug Company 8 10s. 419 6 .... 5 0 0
Harrington Docks lOO .... 0 0 0 •• • •
Apothecaries' Company
Asphalte (Liverpool;
----. (Poloncean) 2 .... 015 0 ...

There has again been a good demand for Sugar, 'and the market
being better supplied, the sales of B. P. amount to 1800 hhds. at
very full prices for all descriptions ; 4100 bags Bengal have also
been disposed of, at 69s to 725 for good to very fine white; no
Mauritius yet on the market. The sales in Foreign Sugar this
week are confined to 50 brls Pernams, at the quotations; nothing
done in Foreign refined.—No sales.reported in Molasses, the market
being at present very barely supplied.—Coffee. The market con-
tinues steady, but without animation, the sales comprising 100
casks of Jamaica at previous rates, 115 casks and 1000 bags La
Guayra at 765, and
.600 bags Rio at 60s to 62s per cwt. ; both the
latter parcels via the Cape. No sales of Foreign.-30 bags Trinidad
Cocoa sold at 60s, and 160 brls Jamaica Ginger at `..t.5 5s to £5 les
per cwt —No sales of Pepper or Pimento.—Rice. 1000 bags Ben-
gal sold, chiefly at 14s 6(1 to 15s per cwt. and 10 tees dressed Caro-
lina at 36s per cwt. duty paid.—There is a good inquiry for Rum,
and nearly 260 puns have been sold, chiefly good and tine Demerara,
at 14s ad to 15s and a few puns of tine Jamaica at 6s per gallon.
Tea. The market has been very quiet throughout the week, and
the quotations may be considered nominal. The London sales,
which commenced on Monday last, rave proceeded very heavily ;
abort 51,000 packages have already passed sale, of which 13,400
have been sold at a decline on previous rates of 4d to 6d on Con.
Bons, 4d on Twankays, and 7d to Rd on Hyson, Imperial and Gun-
powder ; the remainder was withdrawn at high prices.
The business in East India Drysaltety Produce has been very
limited this week ; a few chests of East India Gum Arabic sold at
52s to 545, and of Castor Oil at 7d per lb.—The market for Saltpetre
is very firm, and holders have in some instances obtained an ad-
vance of 6d per cwt.; about 1200 bags sold at 24s to 265.-30 tons
Nitrate of Sona are reported at 17s per cwt.
Dyewoods.—There has been an extensive demand for Logwood ;
the sales are 400 tons Campeachy, at £lO per ton, and a few tons
inferior at £9 125 6d, 200 tons Honduras at £7 12$ 6,1 to £7 ISs,
and 80 tons Jamaica at £7 les to £7 15s. A few tons of Cuba
Fustic have been sold at £lO per ton ; in other descriptions no
sales to report, excepting 10 tons Sapan Wood at £ll per ton, and
10 tons Angola Barwood at £8 10s. There are no sales of Turpen-
tine to communicate; prices remain without alteration.—A few
hundred brls. of American Tar have been sold within the range of
the quotations.—For Montreal Pot Ashes there has been rather
more inquiry, and 200 to 300 brls. have been sold, at 245 3d to
24s 6d, with 100 to 200 brls. Pearl Ashes, at 295 3d to 29s 6d per
cwt.—Clover-seed is in good demand, and scarce; a parcel of new
bags new French red sold by auction at 80s to Bls 6d per cwt.—
Nothing of consequence done in Flaxseed.—No alteration in Bees'
Wax.—Hides. The market continues heavy, and the sales of the
week have been unimportant.—The sales of Tobacco are about 70
hhds., of which 20 were for Ireland, and the remainder to the trade,
at the quotations.
The business done in Brimstone has been limited to about 100
tons.—Of Shnmac small sales have been made ; in Sicily at 12s 9d
to 13s 6d, and 200 bags of Trieste at Rs per cwt.—Some fair business
has been done in Oporto Argols the sales amounting to about 70
casks, at 30s to 32s per cwt., according to quality, good red Flo•
rence brought 53s 6d, and white Bologna 50s per cwt.—Some small
lots of inferior and discoloured Tartar were sold at 58s and 64s per
cwt.—No sales are reported in Annatto, and only 10 bales of Per-
sian Berries at £l6 to £l7 per cwt.—There has been at last some
inquiry for Madders and Madder Roots, and the sales reported are
200 bales Turkey Foots ; 25 casks French, and 12 casks .Dntch
• Madder, at the quotations.—The demand for Quercitron Bark con
thanes limited, and the sales only 20 casks, at las 6,l—Olive Oil has
been more in request, and the sales of the week have reached 60 to
70 tons, including, about 15 tuns Gallipoli, which has changed hands
at £63, and is now held for £65, besides a payeel of fine old Lisbon
Oil of £55 per tun.—About 40 tuns Halifax Cod Oil has been sold
at rather lower prices, and a .few tuns brown Seal at £24 per ton.
• —Pale Rape Oil continues in very- limited demand, and has been
sold at 375 per cwt.—Linseed Oil, which early in theweek advanced
to 255, may now again been bought on rather easier terms.-105
tons Palm Oil have been sold during the week, in small lots, at
£33 lOs t 3 .e 34 per ton.—Oil of Turpentine is inquired for, and
sales to some extent could he effected a little under the quotation.

Win Fawcett, (205) R Gosson, from.Havre, 3-packages contents
unknown, J Parsons-1S cases do, H M Castellani & Co-7s
baskets I cask wine, J Dawson-1 do, C J :Middleton-6 bales flax,
T S Gothie-20 do, L Couvenante-4 packages furniture, Baring
Brothers and Co-1 case perfumery, Madder-1 ease pictures, J
Barton—Cl D

Sir Colin Campbell, (160) G Pennington, from Charente, 90 puns
127 hhds 20 small hhds 95 qr casks brandy, R. Preston and co-15
puns 101.11.1 s d0..0 Hamilton-20 hhds do, W Dalgleish-5 puns to
qr casks do, J Radcliffe-10 hhds do, Bass & -Radcliffe-6 qr casks
do; R C Gardner and co-4 do, W Miller-10 hhds do, It Shute-5
do, J R Preston-14 hhds do, II Moore and co-6 do, H Thompson
and co-5 puns 20 hhds do. Knowles, jun and co-10 do, Dixon,
Son and co-3 puns 5 INN do, Freer and co-6 puns 12 hhds Iqr
qr cask do, J Pickup-44 puns 151 qr casks do, for Whitehaven—l
hhds syr casks do, 1 case fruit, order—S D

Days,

TIDE TABLE.

211rn. Ern. Height. Sundays, Holydays„ 4e

U. M. V. I
Tuesday 25 348 411 ilO 3
Wednes. 26 i 441 526 la 5
Thursday 27 6 3 f 658 11 2
Friday .. 28 f 7 37 8 16 7 13 2
Saturday 29 9 0 929 15 0
Sunday 1 951 10 15 16 7
Monday 2 10 35 ho 54 ,37 5

Moon last qr,loh 37113m0rn
iCam. Lent Term chi-. noon.

Quiu quagesinia Sunday.

NORTHERN HOSPITAL, FEBRI:ARY 22.

ADMIT 1)

DIS CH A R ED

Accidents
Medical and Surgical cases
Upon recommendation ....

16 I Cured ..
Attending as Out P9.tients .
17 Irregular'
Died
- •
. 33

Total

Remaining in the Hospital . . 89

House Visitors, Thos. Irlam, Esq. and 1). M‘Vicear, Esq
Treasurer, R. W. Bateson, Esq.
Chaplain, Rev. J. Connor.—House Surgeon, Mr. Arnott.