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ter.) That would make them industrious. That would make
them get up early, if ever they went to bed at all, which he
should very much doubt. (Laughter.) He only said this to
show the absurdity of the argument. (Hear, hear.) But,
suppose somo too-indulgent deities—some Dilfaciles—were
to say that these persons should have their own way ' • the
consequence would be that corn would be imported without
payment of any duty, a duty at the same time being payable
on other articles. Whence would this corn come ? Proba-
bly from Poland and the Baltic. Did the population there
require our manufactures? No. They were a miserable
set of people, getting about 3s. 6d. a week, and requiring the
very worst class of manufactures. They would bring corn
here, and receive gold and silver in exchange, and expend it
in Belgium or some other foreign country, where they would
get the miserable manufactures they wanted at a lower rate
than they could be supplied at in England. (Hear, hear.)
He would now call the attention of the company to what had
been said by different speakers at Anti-Corn-Law meetings.
Mr. Villiers had said that he had been informed (but he did
not say that the information was true) that if a free trade
was opened with Prussia and Russia by England, those coun-
tries would lower their tariffs. Had Mr. Villiers any reason
to believe his information ? If one thing was more difficult
than another, it was to induce foreign countries to make
commercial treaties with England. They had heard that
England had got millionaires, and they said they would
adopt the same system as had produced those millionaires.
(Hear.) What said the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce
on this subject? They wrote to Sir R. Peel, begging (cer-
tainly a very moderate request) that, in consideration of what
they said, he would alter the system of this country. They
said that foreign countries would not reciprocate with us in
trade ; by which they meant to say that foreign countries
would let England have their corn, but they would not take
English manufactures. What said Mr. Thornely, the
member for Wolverhampton ? He said he had lately been in
America, and had been astonished to see the quantities of
York, Sheffield, and Lancashire goods there lying unsold ;
but the fact was the Americans had manufactures of their
own, and those they were determined to support. What
said O'Connell, who professed to be a great anti-corn-law
man ? H e stated that, in the course of the last twelve months,
there had been no less than six tariffs adopted by foreign
countries—namely, by Russia, Prussia, Portugal, France,
America, and some other country, for the protection of their
own manufacturers. If this were the case it was madness to
suppose that foreign countries would relax their tariffs in
favour of England. If well governed (as he had no doubt
England would be under Sir Robert Peel), this country had
power to defy the whole world. It had the greatest popula-
tion, looking to Asia, Africa, America. and Europe, that had
ever been under the sway of any empire ; and, if the country
were properly governed, it had the power to defy all the world
and live in peace and happiness. (Cheers.) He knew it was
said that it was a good maxim "to buy in the cheapest and
sell in the dearest market." This was a maxim which be
confessed he did not like. He knew he should be told that
nothing was more foolish than to prefer one's own country-
men to others. It might be said, why should a man like any-
body but his own dear self? But one cannot help doing so,
and he declared that he would rather lay out ls. with Mr.
Cobden, bitter enemy as he was to the agriculturists, than
with any Frenchman or other foreigner, because he knew
that if 11 id. out of that shilling went into Mr. Cobden's
pocket, helping to make him a millionnaire, the other half-
penny went into the pocket of some other person, and that
other person was his (Dr. Marsham's) countryman. The
Anti-Corn-Law,League speakers said, that if foreign corn
was admitted duty free, the price of wheat would be down to
325. a quarterthe best land would be reduced to 20s.
an acre ; and that the worst land in England, among which
they classed the clay soil of Buckinghamshire, would pro-
portionably suffer. They were likewise pleased to call this
soil the Duke of Buckingham's own, as if it were not as much
for the interest of the country that the land should remain in
the hands of the Duke of Buckingham, as of any other man
living, provided the duke should continue to be what he
hitherto had been, a good landlord, and an employer of the
poor of the country. (Cheers.) He asked why should they
be dependent on foreign countries for corn ? Why beg their
bread when they could procure it by the sweat of their brow?
(Cheers,) His experience taught him that if one man fed
another, it was not long before he got the upper hand of
him. .(Hear, hear, and cheers.) He would have his brother
freeholders take his advice, and grow their own corn, if it
were only for the glorious privilege of being independent.

Lord Lismore has voluntarily relinquished £5,000 per
annum of his income, by making an abatement of 20 per
cent. in the rents of his tenantry in Cork, Limerick, and

Tipperary

niE MONMOUTHSHIRE COLLIERS.—The superinten-
dent of the Merthyr constabulary, received information on
the morning of the 16th instant, of an intended movement
of the Gellygaer and Monmouthshire colliers, to Mr. Pow-
ell's colliery Duffryn, Aberdare, for the purpose of compel-
ling the men of those works to strike. Mr. Superintendent
Davies immediatejy proceeded to Aberdare, accompanied

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ppeared in sight,

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It was evident

chiefly compo..
that they had received information of the arrival of the po-
lice, for they acted with extreme caution ; they did not
the works, but halted in a field

upon the rabble to be orderly,
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made a safe aria:wage off this place, Badagry, and I went
ashore. We landed no cargo, and after Wednesday morning,
the 13th, had no communication with the New Times; but
as Captain Rowe was on board, we, of course, calculated on
all being well both with the vessel and her crew. At one
o'clock p.m. the following day, Thursday the (13th), we
were alarmed by a tremendous explosion, and on looking in
the direction of the beach, saw an immense volume of black
nmediately over the spot where the vessel was
ks 1 knew we had a large quantity of gunpowder
ly suspected the destruction of the ship.

smoke rise

9l► board I iust

shock was

rrible, and must have been heard at a great
distance. Although the town of Badagry is situated about
two miles and half from the sea, and the ground so low that
the hull of a vessel in the roads cannot be seen, yet the con-
cussion was distinctly felt, and every house was shaken.
I, with others, immediately hastened to the spot, and dis-
covered that the masts had disappeared. We lost no time
and crossed the river to the beach, and I regret to say that
on our arrival there we could not see a vestige of the vessel
or any person to give us the least information respecting her.
I can form some idea of the distress which you will feel on
the receipt of this intelligence, and deeply do I sympathize
with you in the heavy loss you have sustained.
" To form an idea of the cause of this sad disaster is im-
possible ; none of her crew being spared, it must for ever re-
a mystery. At the time of the explosion I was busily engaged
taking stock with Captain Parsons, from whose stores we
could have seen the smoke had the vessel been on fire pre-
vious to the explosion; and, moreover, had such been the
case, the crew would certainly have had sufficient time to
take to the boats and to two large canoes which were lying
astern of the vessel. This proves that the explosion was in-
stantaneous. Half an hour at least elapsed after we heard
the report before we reached the beach, at which time, as I
have already stated, not a vestige of the vessel could be seen.
I, nevertheless, got a canoe launched, and with the assistance
of the two canoes that were lying astern of the vessel, and
which had broken loose, search was made for several miles
distant for the poor sufferers, but we returned at dusk unsuc-

UG,lb lul.
" Shortly after we reached the beach we perceived some-
thing in the water where the unfortunate schooner had been
anchored; which, on examination, proved to be the jibboom,
windlass, and spritsailyard. They are still stationary, and
are a little above water; and not having seen any portion of
her hull, with the exception of a piece of coppered plank,
about a foot square, which was picked up in the bottom of
one of the canoes, we conclude that the stern of the vessel
was blown out, and that she had sunk at her anchors.
Whether her decks or masts are blown out we cannot say,
but it is evident that the principal part of ber cargo has
floated out of her, as in two hours after the accident the sea
was covered with the tattered remnants of cloth, pieces of
puncheons, cases, butt-ends of muskets, &c. In consequence
of there being no other boats at hand, we were utterly unable
to save anything.
" Besides the original crew, the vessel shipped three others
at Cape Coast. I have kept a sharp look out for many miles
along the beach ; but,las yet, none of the bodies of the unfor-
tunate creatures have been washed ashore.
" J. H. AKHURST."

The New Times was about 120 tons burthen, and left Lon-
don in June last. The loss of the cargo is estimated at
several thousand pounds. Several bodies have, according to
a late communication, been washed on shore, and not being
able to procure any coffins the bodies, which were sadly
mutilated, were wrapped in clothes and buried in the sat R.

St. Michael's, in the city of Bath, is about to be consti-
tuted a separate rectory. Copies of the representation which
have been made on this subject to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury, through the Bishop of the diocese, have been posted
against the doors of the churches ;'as have, also, copies of a
notification under the signature of the Archbishop, requiring
all persons interested and objecting to the proposed division
to give notice thereof within six weeks.
ST. JAMES'S CHAPEL, EDINBURGII.—There has recently
been some misunderstanding between the Rev. Daniel Begot,
minister of St. James's Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh, and
the trustees of the building. In consequence of this, a body
of 511, out of a congregation of 551 seatholders' have ex-
pressed their confidence in, and satisfaction with, the rev.
gentleman's ministerial labours, and hope they may bet long
continued. Mr. Bagot sent a suitable reply to this affeion-
ate mark of esteem, expressive of the gratification he felt at
it. We have seen these documents, but are unable to refer
to them at greater length.
We hear that the living of East Farleigh, in the gift of the
Lord Chancellor, is presented, or is about to be presented,
to the Rev. Henry Wilberfore, curate of Walmer. This
living was given, about ten years since, by Lord Brougham,
to the Rev. Robert Wilberforce, out of regard to his father.
It was exchanged with the Rev. Charles Lutwidge, about
three years since, for the living of Burton Agnes, in York-
shire, which Mr. Robert Wilberforce now holds. Mr. Lot-
widge has recently died at Hastings, and now we hear that
Farleigh is again given to a Wilberforce, the youngest of all
the brothers. It is, we believe, of the value of above £9OO
per annum.—Record.
RECENT CONVERSION TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC
CHURCH.—A paragraph has been making the round of the
papers, detailing some particulars of the conversion of Miss
Young to the Roman 'Catholic communion, which contains
so many misstatements that we have been requested to con-
tradict them, and to state briefly the facts of the case, which
were these :—Miss Young the daughter of a widow lady,
and dependent upon her for support, was last month privately
received into communion with the Roman Catholic church
at the convent chapel of " Our Lady" at Birmingham.
Miss Young is no protegee of the Archbishop of York, and
is unknown at the Court of Her Majesty, nor did Dr. Pusey
stay several hours at the convent after she had received
her first communion, inasmuch as he was not present at it,
although it is true he was a witness, by accident, of her re-
.

ception there.—Times.
TWO ADDITIONAL MARTYRS IN
MADAGand licentious
ASCAR.—The
persecution of the Christians by the crltel
Queen of Madagascar, Renavelona, continues without the
least remission. A letter appears in the Evangelical Maga-
zine for this month from Mr. E. Baker, dated Mauritius,
August 4, which details the martyrdom of two inhabitants of
the capital, Antananarivo, who had been endeavouring to
find a place of refuge for the Christians. Their names are
Ratsitahina and Nabearahaba. They died with unshaken
courage, acknowledging- that they belonged to "the praying
people," and refusing to betray their fellow Christians. The
devoted female refugee from Madagascar, Mary Rafaravavy,
who visited England with the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Johns, is
about to sail from the Mauritius to her native land, resolved
to brave all dangers for the sake of endeavouring to convey
the gospel to her own countrymen.—Leeds Mercury.
DR. PUSEY.—In consequence of a statement in a scanda-
lous Roman Catholic print, that " Dr. Pusey stayed several
hours at the Convent, in Birmingham, after Miss Young had
received her first communion, and that he was much pleased
with the kind reception he met with at the hands of the
nuns," we are authorised to state, that Dr. Pusey's visit to
Birmingham took place some weeks before the period speci-
fied, and that he went there solely in the conviction that Miss
Young was still a member of the English Church, and wished
to remain so, and in the hope that she might yet be saved
from the unhappy step which she has taken. We have fur-
ther to mention, on undoubted authority, that when, to his
great disappointment, he found that he had arrived too late,
the only civility he received from the nuns was a cold permis-
sion to converse with Miss Young, who was a boarder there.
Several other statements in the same paragraph are equally
inaccurate.—Times

TRACTARIANISM V. PROTESTANTISM.—The Cambridge
Tractarians have given a little sample of their spirit during
the last week. A. meeting of the clergy of the Archdeaconry
I_ 1 T 1

and assert

tion parliament touching the annexation of the sees, of Ban-
gor and St. Asaph, and in behalf of church extension. On
the latter petition being moved, an objection was taken to
"
the use of the words Protestant " and " Reformed," as
applied to the Church of England. The omission of these
words was moved by the Rev. C. Warren, of Over, and se-
conded by the Rev. F. Collison, Treasurer of the Cambridge
Camden Society. Six of the clergy present voted for the

omission of these words, and nineteen tor their retention.
We have already observed that the Cambridge partisans of
the Tractarian heresy go beyond their Oxford teachers; and
this is here made manifest. The Tracts for the Times tell
us that " the Church of England is Reformed, not Protes-
t ,t." But the Cambridge Tractarians will not endure that

ant.
she shall be called either Protestant or Reformed.—

Record

THE REV. MR. SIBTHORP.—Dr. Wiseman► has addressed
a letter to the editor of the Maiming Herald in reference to
a paragraph which has appeared i❑ most of the papers, stating
that Mr. Sibthorp refused to pray to the Virgin Marv, and
to practice auricular confession, and that the matter had
been referred to the Pope for his decision. Dr. Wiseman
says, " it is not true that there has ever been the slightest
difference between Mr. Sibthorp and his ecclesiastical
brethren or sdperiors ; it is not true that he has ever refused
or hesitated to pray to the B. Virgin, or to be a party to au-
ricular confession (whether that meant to " frequent" or to
" administer" the Sacrament of Penance ;) it is not true that
any appeal has been made, or is pending, to Rome on these
subjects, or any other connected with Mr. Sibthorp ; conse-
quently it is not true that any concessions to converts have
ever been thought of; and, in fine, a shadow of fear of Mr.
Sibthorp's secession from the Catholic Church has never
been entertained by any one acquainted with him."—[The
statements as to Mr. Sibthorp, which are here declared to be
untrue, had been so long' uncontradicted that we imagined
they were correct, and we are certainly sorry to find they are
not so.]
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THE
1 CHuRcH OF SCOTLAND.—The Scottish Guardian
of Wednesday last winds up an article on the decision of the
judges in the Stewarton case in the following style :—The civil
power, which is an ordinance of God, and, in its own place,
a blessing to society, since it commenced its unhallowed in-
terference with the internal policy of the Kirk, has forced
mere hirelings into churches, has screened men accused or
convicted of theft, drunkenness, and impurity, and now has
done what it can to put a complete extinguisher on the spread
of religion and education. If this continue, what will the
venerable Church of Scotland become ? It will be the very type
and image of Babylon itself. With discipline prostrate, with
high-handed patronage rampant, it will become the receptacle

of everything foul, and loathsome, and unclean. Look-at it,
ye sons of the martyrs,—look at the picture of the church
drawn by the Court of Session, and say if this be the church

which your fathers purchased so dear, and which they shed
their blood to transmit to their posterity. Is this the church
which emulous foreigners loved to call Philadelphia and the
morning star of the Reformation? If this is to be the
Established Church of Scotland, it is an apostate church
that will be a hissing and a by-word in the earth, and which
cannot be too soon swept away with the besom of destruc-
tion."

SPEAKING LIES IN HYPOCRISY.—I am assured, on un-
questionable authority, that the most eminent legal Popish

vicar of a pari,

_ 1, holding an ecclesiastical benefice, who he-
x convert to the Rornish doctrines, can legally retain
a, glebes, tithes, &c., and, if he please, appropriate
its revenues to Popish purposes. The almost unanimous
opinion, I understand, is, that he may,—that there is no act
of parliament to prevent such a misappropriation of a most
important portion of the ecclesiastical revenues of the Pro-
testant Church. And, sir, lam further assured that it is in

that the apostate rector is to be the instrument in the hands
of the Popish and Jesuit party by and through which this
liberal definition of " the right to do what I like with my
own" is to be established. My informant, a respectable and
Rnman Catholic, further states, that an attempt

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Sir George Cockburn is dangerously ill, at,the Admiralty,
from the rupture of a blood7vesssel of the neck.
Six Roman Catholic clergymen took the pledge from Mr.
ed are I Mathew, in Kilkenny, last week.
n and Lord Courtenay, eldest son of the Earl of Devon, will,

ress in the House of Commons

The sixth annual meeting of the Buckingham Conserva-
tive Association was held in the county town on Tuesday.
The Crown Prince of Hanover is to be married in the
third week of February, but the day does not appear to be
yet fixed.
INSTALLATION OF LORD RECTOR.—We understand that
the Hon. Fox Maule was to be installed into his office of Lord
Rector of Glasgow University yesterday (Thursday).
A special commission has been nominated by the municipal
council of Zug, to examine the plan for cutting a canal be-
tween the lakes of Zug and Lucerne.

The Birmingham Journal states that " excellent breast
pieces of the finest beef" were sold in that town on Thursday
at 21d.

On Saturday a goose was seized from one of the regular
attendants at the Monmouth market, and publicly burned,
as being unfit for food.
It is said that a new line of railway is proposed from
Windsor to London, but the idea is considered preposterous
by the more respectable portion of the metropolitan press.

SHEFFIELD AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY.—WC under-
stand that the directors have let the construction of half the
tunnel (the eastern end), on very favourable terms.
Mr. White, of Nantwich, judge of the races at Chester,
and other crack meetings, is appointed judge at Manchester,
in the room of the late Mr. Jackson.

The Duke of Buckingham presided, and the Earl of
Orkney, Sir J. Chetwode, Bart., M.P., Sir T. Freemantle,
Bart., M.P., the Hon. W. Fitzmaurice, Mr. Murray, M.P.,
and other influential persons were present.
At a special meeting of the proprietors of the Union
Bank of Australia, which was held in London on Tuesday,
a dividend of £5 per cent. for the half year, ending the 31st
of December, was announced.

The " League " party held a meeting at Bath lately, but it
was a " two tailors " affair. The " deputation," twenty-
two members of the town council, and eight loungers formed
the company. Not a working man was there.

The lama at the Hull Zoological Gardens brought forth a
fine cub on Thursday week. Production by these animals,
in this country, was considered improbable: this, however,
is the second instance at the Zoological Gardens.

Two candidates are spoken of for the vacant seat for Ca-
van ; Mr. Clements, the son of the late member, and the
Honourable James Pierce Maxwell, one of the Farnham
family; both Tories.

To the credit of the ladies of this county it may be stated
that the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers have not been able to
induce one of them to join the roll of their " ladies" com-
mittee.

The number of horned cattle in the United Kingdom is
estimated at 7,000,000, that of sheep at 32,000,000. Taking
the former to be worth £lO each, the latter 255., the total
value will be XllOOO,OOO.

Mr. O'Connell has addressed a second letter on the sub-
ject of the Irish poor-law, which, stripped of its pseudo
philanthropy, is literally a proposition to overrun Ireland
with Romish emissaries.

On Wednesday week, a man of the name of William Barn-
hill was convicted of having ridden a horse to death, which
was hired at a livery stable, and he was sentenced to pay £7,
the value of it, and was also fined 40s. and 14s. costs for
cruelly ill treating it.
The Dean of Peterborough (Dr. Butler), one day last week,
saved the life of a young woman by jumping into the canal
near Northampton, and rescuing her from the death which
it would seem that some sort of domestic distress bad driven
her to seek.

A CHURCH-GOING PEOPLE.—The torn of Winchester,
Virginia, containing a population of less than 4,000 souls,
has thirteen churches-2 Methodists ; 2 Lutheran ; 1 Ger-
man Reformed; 2 Presbyterian; 1 Episcopal; 3 Baptist;
Friends ; 1 Roman Catholic.

BLACK V. WHITE.—In Cuba, within the last fifteen years,
the white population of the island has increased only 7,204,
while in the same period the colored population has increased
333,947, or, in proportion to the increase of the white popu-
lation, as 46 to 1.

ALEXANDRIA, DEC. 21.—Egypt has become a mere corn
and cotton field, and nothing more ; the only things stirring;
in this country relate to its agricultural produce, and the only
news we can give is that the Pasha is in the Delta, or at
Cairo, or in Upper Egypt, superintending his farms.
The calico printers of Great Britain and Ireland entertain
Mr. Emerson Tennent, the member for Belfast, at a public
dinner in Manchester, on the 27th instant, when he is to be
presented with a superb dinner service of silver, for his ex-
ertions on the copyright question.
The Journal des Debats mentions, that there are 11 mil-
lions of landowners in France, of whom one-half do not pay
more than five francs per annum each in taxes, and that the
average size of the different estates is about 127 English
acres.

A letter received at Lloyd's on Friday morning states,
that about 100 wreckers, engaged in plundering the Jessie
Logan at Boscastle, attacked the revenue officers and coast
guard, but were beaten off, and nine of the ringleaders
secured.

NEW SOUTII WALEs.—Swarms'of grasshoppers have de-
stroyed nearly all the grass in the Namor and Barwan dis-
tricts. It is estimated, that 150,000 sheep, and 15,000 head
of cattle, have perished in the Peel's River district, within
the last twelvemonths.—Record.

Mr. Oastler says in his Fleet Paper, to be published to-
morrow (Saturday), that Z 4,000 has been granted out of
the £50,000, for the purpose of establishing The Sentinel
newspaper, the publication of which has been announced by
large placards in this town and other places.

The Courier de la Bretagne states that an oyster bed, two
leagues in length, a league wide, and 15 or 16 feet thick, has
been discovered on the coast of the department of the Cotes-
du-Nord. It is said to lie between the island of Thome
and the little town of Penyenen.

A bactrian, or two-humped camel, which is the species
much employed by the Chinese in land-carriage, and desig-
nated by them the Tong-kYo-fo, or " camel with feet of the
wind," has just been added to the collection of animals in
the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park.

The Irish Court of Queen's Bench have made absolute an
- -
order for a mandamus to be issued to the Dublin Corpora-
tion, commanding that body to assess and award compensa-
tion to Sir J. K. James, the late treasurer of that corporation,
who was dismissed by the present radical body on their
coming into office._

We are enabled to state that Mr. Fox Maule has a bill in
reference to the Kirk question, ready .to bring in on the
opening of the session. Its precise character has not yet
transpired, but if it is in accordance with the opinions which
Mr: Maule has hitherto professed in the matter, there need
be no doubt as to its fate.—Fife Herald.

On Friday last, the boys in the upper school of the Royal
Asylum, Greenwich, commenced a general row, smashing
the windows with slates, brickbats, &c., and breaking up-
wards of 1000 panes of glass. The disturbance was occa-
sioned by one of the directors of gymnastics having restricted
the intercourse between the boys and their friends.

A company'has recently been established at Birmingham,
Connecticut, where pins are made at the rate of a million a
day ! The head and pin are one, and indivisible ; and by
great improvements upon the European manner of manufac-
turing, the buality of the article is said to be far superior,
although at a reduced price.

The steeple chase match at Kilshane, near Dublin, for
£l5O aside, came off on Wednesday, over a three mile course
with a dozen fences, between Lieut. Mackenzie, 90th, and
Ensign Davis, 90th, when the former won easily on his
chesnut mare, beating the horse six lengths. The owners
rode.
A subject of general discussion at this moment in political
,• •

itary circ

bearing

the signature of " Ellenborough,' and addressed to the po:
tentates of India, on the restoration of the celebrated cedar
gates to Ilindostan. The prevailing opinion appears to be
that the proclamation is a hoax.
At the Dungannon assizes, on Saturday last, a schoolmaster
of one of the national schools in that neighbourhood was
tried for improper conduct towards some of his female scho-
lars, and for other indecencies. The trial lasted the entire

day, when he was convicted under the clearest evidence ; and
this instructor of youth was sentenced to two years' impri-

sonment

WAKEFIELD BANK AND THE CORN TRADE.—We under-
stand that Messrs. Leatham and Tear, bankers, of this town,

have issued circulars to those interested in the corn-trade,
to the effect that they will, on and after the first of February,
cease to discount any bills or acceptances that may be drawn
by one corn-factor upon another, or which have resemblance
to " bills of accommodation."—Halifax Guardian.

We are much concerned to state, that a large portion of
the colliers in the mining districts of Lanarkshire are again
out on strike, and the numbers are likely to be increased
during the present week. The dispute has reference to the
question of wages, but we are not fully informed as to par-
ticulars. With very trifling exceptions, the men have been
peaceable and orderly.—Glasgow Herald.

The quarterly meeting of the Society of Friends, assem-
bled in Cork has, on appeal, confirmed the decision of the
Clonmel monthly meeting, in suspending Mr. Samuel Jelli-
coe, of Caber, agent to the Earl of Glengall, because he
paid tiithe rent charge on his lordship's property to the
parochial incumbent ; " the Friends" being obnoxious to
all ecclesiastical demands.

EXAMPLE TO LANDLORDS.—The Marquis of Lansdowne
has placed at the disposal of his Irish agent the sum of
£l,OOO to be laid out in draining, under the guidance of an
eminent agriculturist, whose services are to be employed in
advancing the improvements of the farms, and the tenants
are to have the benefit of earning this money among them-
selves.

AN OLD MAN OF A PROLIFIC FAMILY.—There is now
living at Weston Turville a man named Richard Stevens, who
was born in the reign of George 11., remembers the corona-
tion of George 111., knew his great-grandfather, has a great-
granddaughter living, who is 22 yeart old, and is .a mother.
This man is in good health, has seen eight generations, and
hopes to see the ninth.—Aylesbury News.

A GRAZIER'S PROFITS.—A grazier brought to Wakefield
Fortnightly Cattle Fair, on Wednesday last, 20 fat sheep for

which price he ultimately took per head. Three months
ago, the same sheep were bought by the grazier at York at

X 2 2s. Od. per head, and he had fed them upon turnips,
which cost him £2 12s. 6d. per acre. The amount of his
profits will be wily ascertained.—Halifax Guardian.

Lord Morpett, in his letter to Mrs. Chapman, who had
requested him to contribute an article for an abolitionist pe-
riodical called the Liberty Bell, states that, though he re-
gards the abolitionist party " with a respect and interest
scarcely to be inspired for any other cause's sake on the face
of the globe," yet " he has met among planters and their
families with persons not only of th' most agreeable and re-
fined conversation, but of high honour, of real humanity, of
deep and unaffected piety."

IHE LEIPSIC MAIR.—GOODS FOR UHINA.—A Cor-
respondent writes from Bremen :—" It is stated that at the
New Year's fair of Leipsic, English merchants made consi-
derable purchases of German cloths to be sent to China.
From this we infer that Germany is about to find a new
market for its cloths. In fact, the Hanse Towns have long
been sending considerable quantities of the goods to China;
and scarcely a week ago a cargo of cloth was shipped from
re. Many German merchants contem-
ishments in China."

SYRIA.-Our private letters from Beyrout of the 15th ult.
state, that the account of the appointment of a christian
prince over the Christian part of the mountains had produced
a most tranquilizing effee. all classes of the popula-
a Lion. The Sheik}, - - hae

Shibley-el-Arian made his subrnis-
.he ensuing session, by a certain " bigoted tory," who de_ gjon to Ahmed, Bashaw of Damascus, who had presented
nounces the alarming theological movement at Oxford, but him with a shawl and pelisse. The marauding parties, who
that it will not succeed, as the whole of the liberal party, and, intercepted for some time the communications between
he believes, the whole of the Tractarian parliament) oppose Beyrout and Damascus, had returned to their homes, and
any measure that may be brought into en the the mail from the latter arrived on the 15th without ac-
subject—Correspondent of Record. cident.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING

SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION

WEST INDIES, kc
Phoenix, W ft Greaves, 365 Antigua,

SOUTH AMERICA

Lima, J Towns, lgg Bahia,
Stewarts, J Fisher, 215 Pernambuico,
UNITED STATES.
• --

C W & F Shand

II adfields
It Tanto❑

I3arff & Co

Clara, J P Penhallow,
525 Mobile,
BRITISH AMERICA_
Energy, J Bullen. 305 St John, Nfld, Campbell & Rudd
Catherine, T Abbinett, 375 Halifax, N S Chapman
----

Sprightly, H Jeffrey,
Eleanor, J Cullen,
Victor, L B Guigon,
Wanderer, G Palk,

EUROPE.

88 Terceira, J Gordon
61 Lisbon, Hughes & Co
go Motamoras, lAthr,l3ehrend & Co
123 Naples & Messina, J Moss & Co

i i nip o rts.

UNITED STATES,

Cambridge, (911) W C Barstow, from New York, 43 cases 27
boxes contents anknown, C Jerome, jun-41 kegs do, W J Robinson
44 casks 3 brls do, older—ig hhds 10 brls do, Tennants, Clow and
co-12 cases do, Stuart and Russell-3 do, J H nlbert-175 salted
hides, Mitchell, Tooker and co-27 do, Carne and Telo-92 bales
cotton, Baring Brothers & co-345 do, order-510 do, J W M'Bride
and co-23g do, Phelps, James and co-14 do, J Edelston and Son
—5O brls tallow, J and A Fraser-42 do, Came and Telo-25 brls
pork, T W Mackford and co—i tub beef, Reid, Irving and co—luo
brls ore, Tennants, Clow and co—l brl 2hf brls flour, J N Wood
and co-626 brls turpentine, Fielden Brs and co-25 casks ashes, G
and W Beveridge-52 casks cheese, 6 brls apples, 3 easks horn tips,
1 box pebbles, order—W D

Portsmouth, (520) C G Green, from New York, 328 bales cotton,
Phelps, James and co-16 do, Collmann and co-89 do, fl E Le-
febure and co-66 do, order-461 do, Stuart and co-217 do, Reid,
Irving and co-100 do, J Taylor-1000 brls turpentine, Fielden
Brothers and co-3 casks bees' wax, Grimshaw and co-2 brls beef,
1 cask pork, 1 brl apples, the master-3 casks beef, 1 cask pork,
order—W D

Trenton, (461) S Snow, from Savannah, 1053 bales cotton, Baring
Brothers and co-123 do, order-177 do, Brown, Shipley and co—
lts do, Col!mann and Stolterfoht—P D
Ashburton, (449) W Plummer, from Natchez, 3g6 bales cotton,
Todd, Jackson and co-750 do, G Green and Son--602 do, Brown,
Shipley and co-32 do, A Dennistouu and co—P D

LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET,
._ JANUARY 26, 1843.

Since our report of the 20th instant, the arrival of Potatoes into
this port has been unusually small—adverse winds and the low
state of the tides, preventing the craft now loaded for here, from
proceeding to sea from their respective shipping ports. And coun-
try dealers having taken advanrage of the anxiety to press sales,
as noted in our last report, the market is now almost entirely
cleared of all descriptions of Cups, and during the last two or three
days, sellers have been able to realise from ltd to 17d per golbs. for
the general runs on the market. There are two or three small
cargoes to hand during this day, for which there is a good retail
demand at 17d to Hild per 001 b.

The advance noted above has had a corresponding influence on
the price of Potatoes sold in our local markets, which will be found
on reference to our annexed quotations. The value of other de
scriptions of farm produce remain without change.
Potatoes gulb. s. d. s. (1.1

s. d. s. d

—.
Short Tops 1 3 1 5 Old Hay .... J 0
7@.) 10 To 201 b
Cups .. 1 5 1 6 New Hay.... 0 0 0 0
Pink-eyes and } 1 9 1 11 Clover Hay.. 0' 6 0 9
Kemps Clover & Grass 0 0 0 0—
Cattle
rurnips, ',19, ton
Carrots 33 0 35 0 Straw, Barley 0 2a. 0 3

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, JANUARY 21.
With variable winds, but more temperate weather, many
vessels have worked into this port since the close of last
week, furnishing a moderate supply of Grain, Flour and
Oatmeal, coastwise and from Ireland, as specified in our
arrival list beneath ; but we have still no foreign produce to
notice, beyond a few more barrels of Flour from the Ame-
rican States.

Our market this morning opened, continued, and closed
under similarly unfavourable circumstances to those we de-
scribed during last week.

Having a very slender appearance of buyers, and a decided
disinclination to increase their liabilities at present, the trade
for all descriptions of Wheat remained nearly as dull as can
be conceived ; and although, in consequence of the decline
yesterday in Mark-lane, holders were induced to give way
in English and Foreign ld. to 2d., and for Irish 2d. to 3d.
per 701bs. from the rates of this day week, the transactions
altogether were extremely unimportant.
Flour was also in very slow request, and had sales been
forced, rather lower terms must have been generally con-
ceded.

Malting Barley, in anticipation of farther arrivals, was
slightly depressed in value, and grinding samples were
scarcely noticed. Prime new Malt, upon a moderate de-
mand, supported former prices, whilst ordinary qualities
seemed to be wholly neglected. Beans and Pease remained
unvaried.

Although we had very few prime Oats, and no large quan-
tity of other kinds offering to-day, sales were difficult to
effect at our last quotations ; whilst Oatmeal, attended with
a limited enquiry, receded 3d. per 2401b5.

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL.
JANUARY.
HOUR
27, William ]Yearns, (proof and dir.). District Court, 11
27, James Archer, (2nd) Ditto, 11
27, John Casson, (Ist). Ditto, 12
31, William Gorsuch (proof and div.).
Feb 1, Thomas Evans, (2nd) . , • Ditto, 11

LIVERPOOL DISTRICT PROVIDENT SOCIETY.
WEEKLY REPORT OF THE MENDICANT BOARD.
From the 17th to the 23rd Jan. 1842, both days inclusive.
Number of Applications
93€
Relieved..
895
Refused as Impostors, &c 35
JOHN SHAW, Agent.
Office, 4, Queen-square.