THE LARGEST OF THE LARGEST, THE CHEAPEST OF THE CHEAPEST.— FORWARDED TO ALL PARTS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, FREE OF POSTAGE. No. 43.— Vol. I. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1838. Price Fourpence. NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS TO OUR READERS. A New Year's address from the Editor of a newspaper to his readers is as customary a " thing as a speech from the throne at the opening of Parliament; and we do not intend to let the present occasion pass without expressing our grateful sense of the favours that have already been conferred upon us, and, at the same time, submitting to our subscribers a brief description of the peculiar and additional fea- tures we have given to " THE MAGNET," in the hope that we shall obtain thereby an ac- cesssion to the number of those friends whose patronage it shall be our unceasing study to deserve. " THE MAGNET," is an Agricultural and Commercial Newspaper of the first class ; its price one- third less than that of its contempo- raries ; it contains every description of infor- mation likely to interest the Farmer, tl; > Mer- chant, and ' lie Manufacturer, together with as " large a quantity of Foreign and Domestic News as may be found in any other London Weekly Newspaper, which we are enabled to give ( owing to the surpassing size of " THE MAGNET") without abridging the Business part of the paper, or omitting anything of interest to the Agriculturist and the Commercialist, to whom we especially address ourselves, and to the ad- vancement of whose interests our labours are devoted. Our object is to produce a paper which the Farmer may read in his field, the Merchant in his counting house, and their families may also enjoy at their fire- sides. We commence the New Year with some new and extensive arrangements, which will enable us to. give in our columns every description of useful information, at greater length and in a more varied style than before ; by which means we hope to increase the usefulness of " THE MAGNET," and its popularity, also, among the Agricultural and Commercial classes. We shall henceforth be able to give every week such a mass of important and authentic Market In- telligence, as will be to be found in no other newspaper. We shall also give, every week, correct East India Intelligence : also every in- formation relative to its Shipping. The Agriculturist has the chief claim upon our attention ; lor agriculture is the mainstay of our country. We Would earn the enviable title of the Farmer's Friend. We agree with a popular writer that the man who invented the Plough effected more for the happiness of the world than the whole race of heroes and of con- querors, who have drenched the earth with tears, and manured it with blood; we maintain that the greatest possible encouragement should be given to that intelligent and industrious class of the community, to whose exertions this country is so much indebted for its present elevation in the scale of nations. In the earliest ages our ancestors took es- pecial care to promote and extend the science of Agriculture, conscious of its national import- ance ; in the time of the Conqueror, " the monks paid much attention to it, working in the fields in seed tiijie and harvest; and it> is recorded that the celebrated Thomas a Becket used, after he was made Archbishop © f Canter- bury, to join the monks in reaping corn and making of hay." Although we do not now find archbishops and rectors engaged in husbandry, the science is not become of less national im- portance, nor are those who devote themselves to its study and practice, less deserving of en- couragement and suport. Our arrangements enable us to give the Latest, and, as we have reason to believe, the only Official and Accurate Reports of the London Markets. We pledge ourselves to the Agricul- tural community that our reports shall never, to serve an interested party, state other than the actual market prices. There is a great de'al of trickery practised in Mark Lane, and else- where ; and we know it to be a fact, that high- sounding names are placed to the reports of the Slate of the Com Markets, and of which our friends, the Farmers, should beware, The communications of Agricultural bodies, and for individual practical agriculturists, will receive our best attention. The formation of a National Agricultural So- ciety upon the principle of the Highland So- ciety, is being agitated by some noblemen and gentlemen of great ability and experience, whose labours we shall constantly support, from our settled conviction of the utility of, and the ad- vantages to b^ derived from, an Institution of the kind in England. The Farmers require to be brought more frequently before the world; their exertions are confined to too limited a sphere; we know that much jealousy exists between them and commercial men, but we feel assured that all prejudices would give way if these two classes of the community were brought more frequently together ; and as in Liverpool and other manufacturing districts, individuals in no way connected with farming pursuits, have come forward in support of local agricul- tural asseciations, it is very probable that a better understanding might be brought about between the two classes by means of a National Association. But the great objects of the Asso- ciation would be to encourage the Farmer, to improve cultivation, and the breed of stock. We find it stated that in addition to offering premiums for the objects to which agricultural societies generally direct their attention, it is intended to have correspondents in many parts of the United Kingdom and upon the continent, and to open communication with the agricul- tural institutions, colleges, and schools, of which there are many in Europe, for the purpose of obtaining early information of agricultural im- provements of every kind. Improvements in agricultural implements of every description, and the adoption of those most approved, will be especially encouraged. Arrangements will be made for carrying on regular and systematic experiments upon the application of chemistry to agriculture, from which such important re- results are anticipated as have lead many per- sons, and amongst them, Earl Spencer, to declare his opinion that " agriculture is as yet but in its infancy." In short, it appears to be intended to establish an agricultural institution embracing every department in which practical agriculture can be improved. " France has anticipated us in the establishment of a society of this de- scription, and we trust," says a writer in an evening paper, " the landed interest in this country will in the case of this society, follow the advice given to the waggoner in the fable, ' to cease to call upon Jupiter, and put their own shoulders to the wheel,' and thus extricate agriculture from the swamp in which it has for some time been stuck." It is remarkable that in the neighbourhood of the manufacturing districts, the farming is of an inferior character, and the land is compara- tively unproductive. Proceeding from Worcester to Birmingham, for instance, we observe the system of farming deteriorating, as we near the latter place ; and yet one would suppose that agriculture would flourish in the neighbourhood of so densely populated and wealthy a town; on the other side of Birmingham the same appearance of inferior cultivation presents itself, and it is not until, we near Northampton, that any marked improvement is visible. How is this ? How is it that agriculture languishes in the neighbourhood of commerce ' Chiefly because a good understanding does not exist between the agriculturist and the commercial man. We think that one of the effects of a national association would be the establishment of a good understanding between the two classes. The prospects of the agriculturists at the opening of the year are, we regret to say, not better than they" were at the commencement of 1837 ; the legislature are not much disposed to attend to their complaints, nor is the govern- ment disposed to do much for their relief. The farmers, therefore, must look about them, must v rt themselves, and prick on those of their inactive friends in Parliament, and out of it, to exertion in " support of their cause. A great saving it is thought will be effected by the dis- tillery experiments which are being made under the sanction of the government, and as the farmer has a first and exclusive right to any benefit that may be derived therefrom, we trust the Government will not be allowed to appro- priate the saving elsewhere. That the year may prove a happy one to all who have done us the honour to read these remarks, and by whose patronage we are enabled to publish this weekly broadsheet of useful and interesting intelligence, at the price of four- pence only, is our sincere and earnest wish. " Success to Agriculture 1" is the first toast we drink at the opening of the new year. May Agri- culture ancl Commerce, twin sisters, dwell toge- ther in harmony and prosperity ! ACTUAL STATE Of THE CORN TRADE. MARK LANE, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY1, 1838. We received, up to 8ur market this morning, a very moderate supply of fresh wheat, by land carriage, from our corn growing counties, the quality of which was by no means superior, whilst the supply was considerably less than has been ex- hibited on several preceding Mondays. A large quantity of the wheat was damp, and otherwise much o ut of condition, arising from the weather being very humid, consequently unfavourable to the shipment of wheat. Owing to there being very few really fine samples of both red and white wheat on sale, the superior qualities were readily taken off, at fully, but at nothing quotable beyond, last week's prices ; whilst the other quali- ties of wheat were exceedingly heavy in sale, at barely late rates. In bonded corn, very little business was passing, as the last accounts which we have received, from the United States, re- specting the transactions in both wheat and flour are extremely unfavourable, for the ship- meat of corn to that quarter, as the supply of flour was great almost beyond recollected precedent, at a similar period of the year How- ever, the shipments > to' Baltimore, since ' our last, hsive been composed'of nearly 2,000 quarters of wheat; which, we much fear, will not adequately remunerate the speculators for the employment of capital. With respect to the shipments of flour, they have been rather extensive, and the trans, actions somewhat large, and full piicee have been realized. All kinds of barley were very heavy in sale, whilst; ia quotations, no alteration can be noticed. In barley, in bond, next to nothing doing. With the exception of the very finest new malt being inquired for, and such having been sold at last Friday's quotations, malt went off slowly, at barely late rates. We have received, since our last week's im- pression, the largest supply of oats, from Ire- land, which has arrived in the same period for many weeks past, the supply being composed, toge- ther with the fresh arrivals this morning, which consisted of about 2,200 quarters, of upwards of 50,000 quarters; on account of which the demand for oats was exceedingly dull, and the prices were from ( id to Is per quarter lower than last week. A few sales of foreign oats, in bond, took place, for exportation to the Mauritius and our West India Colonies, but at very low prices, The quan- tity of oats at this time in the bonded ware- houses in the United Kingdom is still large ; and tbe general quality of them is tolerably prime. During the past week, a very small quantity of oats has been released for home consumption, but we are of opinion, that the quantity which will be released for some time hence will be comparatively trifling, owing to the great influx of Irish oats— and they mostly out of condition— which will almost effec- tually prevent the duties lowering to that range so as to enable the holders of foreign oats to release their oats so as to derive any advantage thereby. A very sluggish demand was experienced for beans of all kinds, and a decline in some few transactions of about Is per quarter was submitted to, but a clearance was not effected. In bonded beans nothing transpiring, either for speculation in this murket, or for export, to any quarter. Most kinds of peas went off heavdy, and a slight depression in most kinds took place, whilst a large portion of the supply was unsold, at the close of the market. There was a steady demand for the finest flour, at fully late rates ; but the inferior kinds went off slowly, at barely our previous currencies. We do not recollect to have received, in one week, for many months past, so large a quantity of Irish oats as has been the case since this day se'nnight, the supplies having amounted to nearly 50,000 quarters ; but they have been, in great part damaged, and otherwise out of condition. The supplies of oats from our own coasts, and Scot- land, have been again limited, but mostly of supe- rior quality. The p « st week having been kept, in most parts of England as a holiday, the corn trade in the provincial markets, has been, notwithstanding the supplies have been but moderate, very dull, and, in some instances lower prices have been paid, for inferior parcels; but the finest have not expe- rienced any depression. We, with all classes of the community, cannot but express our astonishment, at the unusually mild state of the weather which we have lately experienced; indeed, it has been more like Spring than Winter: whilst we have heard it asserted, that the oldest man living does not recol- lect finer weather at a similar period of the year. ENGLISH CORN, per qr. per qr. Wheat, Essex and Kent Red 47 to 56 White 53 — 65 Suffolk and Norfolk Bed 48 — 55 White, do. do 55 — 57 West Country Red 45 — 56 White, do 48 — 56 Northumberland & Scotch red 48 — 50 White, do 50 — is Irish lted 42 - so Ditto White 52 — 53 Batley Malting.... 30 — 34 Chevalier 34 — 36 Distilling 26 — 29 Grinding 24 — 27 Malt brown 50 — 54 Ditto Suffolk and Norfolk pale.. 54 — 6o Do. Ware 61 — 6l Peas, HogandGrey30 — 31 Maple 34 — 36 White Boilers .. 36 — 39 Beans, small 40 — 44 Harrow 37 — 41 Ticks 30 — 32 Masagan 36 — 40 ats, ENGLISH feed21 — 24 Short small .... 22 — 26 Poland 24 — 23 SCOTCH Do 24 — 27 Potatoe 27 — 39 Berwick 24 — 29 laiSH do 16 — 22 Do. Potatoe 22— 25 Sran, per quarter 8 — 20 Pollard, flue .. do. 15 — 18 FOREIGN GRAIN IN BOND. per qr. s. s. Wheat, Dantzic 34 to 35 — Hamburgh 34 — 36 Barley 20 — 24 Oats 16 — 24 .. Feed 14 — 16 Beans 25 — 23 Peas 2- 6 — 30 Flour per barrel.. 26 — 28 ACCOUNT of CORN, & c., arrived in the PORT 01 LONDON, from the 25th of December to the 30th of December, 1837, both inclusive. SEEDS. Although the supply of seeds which is exhibited for sale is by no means large, Except, indeed, that of linseed ; the trade with them is in a very dull state, and the prices are, in some instances, drooping. Since Monday last, the imports of foreign seeds have been exceedingly limited. PER CWT.— Red Clover, Eng. 46s 62s ; tine, 63s 6( s; Foreign, 40s 52s ; fine, 6ls 62s. White Clover, S4s 62s; line, 63s 64s ; old, 63s 64s. Trefoil, new. 16s 17s; line. 18s 19s; old, Ills 20s. Trefolium, 14s 17s ; fine, 18s 19s, Caraway, English, 38s 42s ; foreign, 35s 40s ; Coriander, 7s 14s. Pun QUABTBK.— St. Foin, 36s 40s; fine, 40s 42S; Rye Grass, 26s 36s; fine, 38s42s; Pacey Grass, 28s 32s: Lin- seed for feeding, 40s 44s ; fine, 45s 46s ; ditto for crushing, 38s 463. Canary, 3Ss 48s. Hemp, 36s 40s. PKR BUSHEL.— White Mustard Seed, 7s Od to 10s ( id.; brown ditto. 5s Odto 7s ; Tares, 3s 6d to 4s 6d ; fine ditto, is od to 4S 3( 1. PKR LAST. — Rapeseed, English, 25/ 29/; foreign, 111 26/. PRICES OF FLOUR. Town made, and superior country Flour, 4Ss. to 50s Norfolk and Suffolk, 42s. to 4 1s. Stockton and York shire, 40s, to 44s. Inferior Irish, 36. s. to 38s.; superior ditto, 40s. to 42s. per 2801bs. REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN TRADE, DURING THE PAST WEEK. The following are the EXPORTS of CORN, PULSE, and FLOuR, from the PORT of LONDON to the under- mentioned quarters, in the course of the Week ending on the 30th instant. Wheat: Bar. Oats. Beans Peas. Flour In taking a review of the transactions wh; ch have taken place in the corn trade at Mark Lane since our last week's impression, we have tj notice a circumstance which seldom occurs, viz., limited supplies, and a very heavy sale. This state of the trade we consider to have been in a great measure occasioned bv the buyers having been aware of the fact that, although the quantity offering has been, comparatively speaking, short, there is a large quan- tity of wheat iu the granaries which will immediately on any advance taking place be brought forwards, consequently they have held off, as their wants have not been very pressing, in anticipation of increased supplies of fresh wheat. On Wednesday, not the least variation was notic- d in the currencies of wheat; whilst on Friday they were quoted some- what lower. A considerable falling off has been experienced in the demand for wheat in bond, and a very small quantity has changed hands on speculation, whilst exports, to any quarter, have been very moderate. Barley, which has been in moderate show, has gone off heavily, and the quotations noted in the preceding week have been with difficulty sup- ported. T'iere has been a steady sale for the finest new roa- r, and< full prices have been realized ; but in oihtt'r kinds of malt next to nothing has been doibg. From Ireland the supplies of oats have been exceedingly great— larger, indeed, than for many months past; but a large portion of them have come to hand much out- of- condition, many of the - rcatjcia » « flltivu they have arrived having suffered much frorr the fate gulee. English stnd Scotch oats still continue to come sparingly to hand, but they have been, generally speaking, of very supe- rior quality, and, aa such, have gone off steadily. A decline of about ( id per quarter has been sub- mitted to in the prices of Irish oats, at which de- pression a very considerable quantity remained on hand at the close of Friday's market. Several sales of foreign oats in bond have been concluded, for exportation to our West India colonies and the Mauritius. The finest large beans have gone off steadily; bnt other kinds of beans have commanded very little attention. White peas have been somewhat inquired for, but no enhancement has taken place in the quota- tions ; all other peas have been heavy iu sale. A large quantity of flour in bond has been dis- posed of, for shipment to the West Indies. In British flour the business doing has not been large, at unaltered prices. One of the principal causes which can be rea- sonably assigned for the trifling amount of business doing in the corn trade during the past week is, that, owing to it having been a holi(' » /, the attend- ance of buyers has been by no means numerous. IMPORTS OF CORN. The total importations of Grain into the United Kingdom for the last year, and for nine years, end- ing 10th October last, were as follows :— Year ending Oct. 1837. 9 Years to Oct. 183J. PRICE OF BREAD IN LONDON. The prices of Wheaten BREAD in the metropolis are from 8d. to 9d.; of household ditto, 64d. to 7jd. per 41bs. loaf. meat 6,783,848 qrs. Barley 1,386,763 Oats 2,641,614 Rye 263,306 Beans 420,518 Peas 485,699 Flour ,3,951,183 cwts. 428,432 qrs. 136,648 441,454 29,866 104,883 131,088 353,860 cwts ADMITTED FOR HOME CONSUMPTION, Last Year. 9 Years, • Wheat 209,816 qrs. 5,494,756 qrs. Flour 40,695 cwts. 2,359,411 cwts. The great bulk of the importations took place in the first three years, in which period the quantity of wheat imported was upwards of 5,200,000 quar- ters, and that of flour ahove 2,700,000 cwts. An Account of the quantity of Foreign Grain and Flour imported into the United Kingdom during the month ending the 5th December, 1837 ; the quan- tity on which the Duty has been paid for Home Consumption, and the quantity remaining Warehouse. OFFICIAL CORN AND GRAIN REPORT, & c. WEEKLY REPORT of the NUMBER of QUARTERS, and the AVERAGE PRICE of CORN and GRAIN sold in the several Counties of England and Wales ( comprising the One Hundred and Fifty Towns named in the Act of the 9th Geo. IV. cap. 60}, which governs Duty. FOR WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 22, 1837. DISTRICT. mperial Weekly Average., STATE OF CORN THE COUNTRY MARKETS. RECEIVED FROM OUR NUMEROUS CORRESPON- DENTS THIS MORNING. REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE. At HAMBURGH, with the exception of several sales of wheat having taken place, for export, the trade was in a sluggish state, while the alteration in the prices was very trifling. A few very superior parcels of upland wheat was offering, at from 32s. to 32?. 6d. ; ser quarter, deliverable in the Spring. Tlse stocks of wheat in the granaries were quite as lirge as at the corresponding period last year. At DANTZIC, very little variation has been noticed in the prices of all kinds of grain. Ssveral sales of flour for future delivery have been con- cluded, at from 17s. fid. to 18=. per barrel. The quotations of wheat were from 28s. to 3fis ; barky. 14s. to 14s. 9d.: oats, 10s. 6d. tolls.: rye, 20s, to 21s. ; beans, 13s. fid. to 143. : and peasj 18s. to 18s. fid. per quarter. At NEW YORK, the supplies of both wheat and flour, which have been offering, have been much more than adequate to the demand. The prices of wheat were fronj 1 dol. 45 cents, to 2 dols. per bushel. A depression of fully 15 cents took place in the currencies of flour, the prices of it being, from 9 dollars to 9 dollars 35 cents per barrel. COMPARISON OF FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR WITH THE ENGLISH MARKET. The price of white wheaten bread of the first quality at Paris is 65c. the 2 kilogrammes, which is less than 5fd. the loaf of 41b. English weight, aid the price of bread of the first quality in London being 9d. tbe loaf of 41b., the difference is 5fi& per cent, that bread is dearer in London than at Paris. The highest quotation of white wheat of the first quality is 31f. the hectolitre, which equals 47s, 4d. the quarter. The highest quotation of flour of the first quality is 56f. " the 159 kilogram- mes, which answers to 35s 3d. the 2801b, English weight, and the highest quotation of flour in London bein| 52s. the 2£( filbs. it follows that flour' is 474 per cent, dearer ik London than at Paris, and that with the sum of 21. l' 2s. a man may, buy 4131b. of find flour at Paris, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 2801b. in London. The following is the state of things in other parts of France :— AT BLOIS the registered mean prices of wheat is 18f. 5c., which equals 41s 4d the quarter. At BORDEAUX wheat rules from 101. to 221., which is from 43s 6d to 50s 5d the quarter. At Lun » sa the quotation of wheat is f » m 20f. to 21f., whieh is from 4bs lOd 10 4 » « Id tin- quarter. At MARANS the highest quotation of wheat is 18f., which equals 41s 3d the quarter. At ROUEN wheat rules from 17f. 50c, to 19f., which is from 40s Id to 43s 6d the quarter. At AMIENS the quotation of wheat is from 32f. to 35f. the double hectolitre, which is from 36s 8d to 40s Id the quarter. At BAYONNK the highest quotation of wheat of the growth of the district is 21f., which equals 48s Id the quarter. At DIEPPE the quotation of wheat is from 30f. to 35f. 50c. the double hectolitre, which is from 34s 4d to 40s 8d the quarter. At MEAUX the quotation of wheat of the first quality is 18f. 67c., of the second quality 18f., and of the third quality 16f. 17c., which gives a mean price of 17f. 78c., and which answers to 40s 8d the quarter. At NANTES the highest quotation of wheat of the first quality is 19f. 50c., which answers to 44s 8d the quarter. At PERONNe wheat rules from 15f. to 16f. 50c., which is from 34s 4d to 37s lOdtlie quarter. At SOISSONS the quotation of wheat of the first quality is from 17f. 69c. to 18f. 7c., of the second quality from 17f. 6c., to 17f. 52c., and of the third quality from 16f, 53c. to 16f. 92c, which gives a mean price of 17f. 29c., and which answers to 39s 6d the quarter. The highest'quotation of flour of the first quality is 48f. the 159 kilogrammes, which equals 30s 3d the 2801bs English weight, and the highest quotation of flour of the first quality in London being 52s the sack, it follows that flour is 7H per cent, dearer in London that at Soissons, and that with the sum of 21. 12s a man may buy 4811b. of fine flour at Soissons, whereas with the same sum he can buy only 2801b. in London. Monday, January 1. BARNARDCASTLE.— There was a good supply of grain which sold at the following prices. White wheat at from 15s to 16s fid ; red ditto 13s to 14s 6d ; and oats 5s to 5s 8d per boll. BOSTON.— The supply of wheat was limited ; good dry samples obtained rather more money, and other descriptions were fully as dear as on Wednesday last. The delivery of oats was considerable, nnd to effect sales a decline of 6d to Is per qr. was submitted to by the farmers. There was also' - fair supply of beans, which were the turn cheaper. In Barley little offering, and no alteration in value. Wheat, 43s to 52s, white, 55s; oats, 14s to 18s; beans 33s to 39s ; barley' 26s to 32s per qr. CANTERBURY.— Notwithstanding we have had but a short supply of corn on sale, we had an excessively dull trade for all articles. The best samples of wheat, barley realized last week's rates, while the secondary qualities ( of which the supply principally consisted), were full 2s per qr. lower. Barley was also about Is cheaper, but beans, peas, and Mis, maintained their former value. White wheat netf50s to 59s ; old. G2s; red whet- t, 45s to 54s ; old, 56s ; barley, malting 29s to 34 ; barley, grinding 25s to 28s ; beans, old 34s to 38s ; new beans, 26s to 31s ; grey peas, 30s to 34s ; white ditto, 33s to 38s ; oats, 26s to 30s ; new ditto, 17s to 26s. DONCASTER.— The market for wheat was moderate in quantity, and slow in sale ; good dry qualities, however, maintain our former statement, but the major part offered was not of that description, con- sequently a lowering rate must be quoted for damp and infer or samples. Oats, Beans, and Peas are firm, but barley of inferior growth is heavy sale at a reduction.— Old wheat, 21s to 24s ; new, 20s to 23s; per load. Oats ( old), 2- ls to 27s; new, 17s to 21s per qr. Beans ( old) 14s to 17s ; new, 14s to 16s per load. Rye, 13s to 15s per load. Barley, grinding, 21s to 30s ; malting, 31s to 35s 6d per quarter. HULL.— The tender state of the samples of new wheat cause the demand to be limited ; the buyers showed no disposition to purchase, except at a reduc- tion of is to 2s perqr., but lower terms were partially submitted to. The finest new, as well as sweet old wheat, were about Is aud all other sorts Is to 2s per qr. cheaper. Barley moves slowly, and all but the best rather lower. No material alteration in the value of any other article. Wheat, old, 48s 50s to 54s, new 44s 48s to 50s ; peas, old 30s 32-- to 34s, new 32s 33s to 34s ; beans, English 35s 37s to 40s, new 28s 30s to 32s ; barley, malting 25s 26s to 28s, grinding 22s 23s to 25s ; oats^ old, 18s 20s to 22s per qr. ; floor, fine 40s to 41s, seconds 36s to 38s per sack ; tares, En- glish 26s 28s to 32s, Foreign 25s 28s to 30s ; linseed, 38s 40s to 42s per qr.; rapeseed 221 to 24/ per last. LOUGHBOROUGH.— Wheat, 49s to 52s ; barley, 25s to 32s ; oats, 21s to 25s ; beans, 40s to 48s : malt, 56s to 58s.— Flour, wheaten ; 41s, standard wheaten, 39s ; household, 37s per sack. LYNN.— We have a small market, and a limited supply of wheat, the condition of which is not at all improved from last week ; firm samples maintain pre- vious rates, but all damp parcels are dull of sale, and when forced Is per qr. lower. Barley iu a limited supply, and no alteration in prices, although the trade is very dull. Beans, peas, and oats, remain the same as last week. Wheat, fine new, 50s 53s 55s to 56s, white 52s 54s 56s to 57s, coarse 40s 46s 48s to 50s ; barley, fine 29s 30s to 32s, secoilds and inferior 26s 27s to 28s ; beans, 28s 30s to 32s, old 37s to 40s ; rye, 24s 26s to 27s ; peas, maple 30s to 32s; oats, new and stained 18s 20s ?, 2s to f! 5?. NeWarK.— Wheat,( tine old 55s to 57 » , new 48s to 55s ; barley 25s to 34s ; malt, 57s to 60s ; oats, 24s to 26s; beans 41s to 44s: grey peas, 32s; winter tares 30s to 32s ; new rye, 31s to 34s per quarter. SANDWICH.— Best white wheat, 51s to 58s ; best brown do. 44s to 52s; barley, malting, 30s to 31s; grinding, do. 24s to 27s ; 0 its, 13s • 26s ; beans, old, 32s to 37s ; do. neiVjMs to 29s ; 5. - as, 30s to 32s ; white do. 31s to SPALDING.— Our market was small and the sup- plies limited. Te le was very dell, and us most of the samples were in damp state, a decline of about Is qr. was submitted to on the sal- -- effected. UPPINGHAM. — Wheat, 44s to 52s ; barley, 24s to 30s ; oats, 20s to 33s ; beans, 30s to 42s p. r qr. WAKEFIELD.— With the exception of oats, which have arrived to a middling extent only, our market this day was abundantly supplied with grain of all descriptions. Wheat generally met with a very lively demaud this morning, aud a fair number of dealers being present the business in this article assumed a brisk aspect, and our quotations of Friday last were in some cases exceeded. Only a very limited inquiry was experienced for oats, at the same time we cannot report them as being lower in price. Fine samples of barley were fully as dear, but other qualities were in languid request, and the turn cheaper. Beans are dull sale at late > ates. COUNTRY CATTLE AND PRO- VISION MARKETS. RECEIVED FROM OUR NUMEROUS CORRESPON- DENTS THIS MORNING. SCOTCH AND IRISH MARRETS. GLASGOW.— The prices of good cattle were similar to those of last week-— viz. 9s to 10s per stone ; inferior stock was dull of sale. For the first time this season the sheep market was supplied with turnip fed wethers, which brought fair prices— viz. 25s to 30s; black- faced wethers of ordinary quality 15s to 19s, and ewes 12s to 15s each. EDINBURGH.— The supply of all kinds of meal, flour, and pot barley was large. Sales were heavy. Current price of oatmeal from 32s 5d to 33s per sack. Bros.- meal from 38s to 40s ; retail price, 2s 4d per st. KIRKALDY.— The supply 8f wheat was extremely small; that of barley, anil also oats, moderate. All descriptions of grain were quickly taken off at fully the previous day's rates. Wheat, 60s, 54s, 46s. Barley, 31s, 26s, 21s. Oats, 23s, 21s 6d, 18s 3d. Oatmeal, 32s per bag of 280 lbs imperial. |. DUBLIN.— The supplies begin to come forward more liberally iu the interior, and prices have gone down something in consequence at all the country markets. The supplies by the Canals to this market begin also to be more extensive. We had a good show of wheat from our farmers, and a fair supply by the canals. The better qualities sold slowly off at a re- duction of about Is a barrel since last week ; while- boat corn suffered a reduction of Is to Is 6d, and for middling full 2s a barrel. The distillers arc in the market for barley, which keeps its price ; 13s 6d to I3s 9d was got for a few large parcels of grinding barley; malting samples, 15s to 15s 6d per 224lbs. Malt is in fair demand, and some further business in picked marks has taken place this week ; 27s to 28s 6d. There has little rapeseed appeared at our market these few past weeks, 18s 6d per barrel about the rates, Oatmeal is rather a dull sale, but is not lower, 10s 6d to lis for ordinary runs ; supe- rior brands lis 6d to 13s per 1121bs. Coarse fbur in demand at 12s to 14s 6d for inferior ; 7sto 103 thirds, per cwt. Bran 3s per 84lbs. There has been little done in the flour trade this week, and to- day some slight reductions were submitted to where a sale was made ; some of the leading Cork brands have been sold this week at 18s 6d ; and prime Kilkenny flour at 19s 6d ; the fall in the Wheat market has caused all the bakers to hold off, so that till after the holi- days very little business caa be done in the article. Monday, January 1. DONCASTER.— With the exception of a few barren cows, & c. our market, this day, was bare of cattle, and the same may be said of sheep. The season of the year, will account for this. The pig market was well supplied, but the sales were only moderate. Suckers are still on the decline, but strawyard stores and fat pigs maintain our former statement. HEREFORD.— A very small supply of Cattle and Sheep, but a large supply of Pigs, particularly of fat ones, the average sale of which was at the prices quoted. Prices per 121bs. to sink the offal.— Fat beasts, 5s. 6d.; calves, 6s. to 6s. 6d. ; sheep 5s. 6d.; small porkers, 5s. 3d. to 5s. 6d.; bacon pigs, 5s. 6d, to 5s. 9d. . LEWES.— There was only a moderate supply, the trade in general middling, and the demand slack.— In beasts the top price did not exceed 4s 2d for the best descriptions, and in mutton 4s 8d for the best whethers. Best steer and heifer 3s 8d, 4s to 4s 2d ; inferior, 3s 4d to 3s 8d; wether muttoln, 4s 4d to 4s 8d ; ewe, 3s lOd to 4s 4d ; veal, 4s 4d to 4s 8d. Number of beasts, 841 ; sheep, 395 ; calves, 7 ; pigs 45. MANCHESTER.— 929 sheep, at 5d to 7d per lb., sinking the offal ; 309 cattle, at 4d to 6d ; 681 pigs, at 5d to 5id ; 22 calves, at 5$ d to 6id. Total, 1941. MORPETH.— Our market opened with a very brisk demand for sheep, at last week's quotations ; towards the close higer prices were obtained, and the market was cleared at an early hour. The supply of fat beasts was beneath an average shew, and prices rated much the same as this day se'nnight. Prime bullocks, in some instances, were a shade higher. Beef brought from 5s 9d to 6s ; neat heifers 6s 6( 1; and mutton, 6s 6d to 7s per stone, sinking the offal. In the grain market, wheat sold at from 48s to 58s : barley 28s to 32s ; rye 36s to 39s ; and oats 22s to 30s perqr. ROMFORD.— Beef from 3s 6J to 4s 4d; mutton, 4s to 4s 6d ; aud pork, 3s lOd to 4s 6d per 8lbs ; suckling calves, 19s to 32s ; quarter old store pigs, 12s to 20s ; and milch cows, 12/ to 17/ each. Supply good, and trade dull. RyE.— There was but a poor supply of stock at market, and that met with a dull sale. SALFORD.— 1868 sheep, at 5Jd to 6Jd per lb. sink- ing the offal; 703 cattle, at 4d to 5Jd; 10 calves, at 6£ d to 7id. Total, 12581. SKIPTON,— We had only a very limited supply of fat stock, but it proved equal to the demand, as very little business was done— prices rather lower. SOUTHALL.— Our market was well supplied, with each kind of meat, which caused the sale to be heavy, at the following prices, per 8lbs. to sink the offal. Beef, from 33 4d to 4s ( id ; mutton, 3s lOd to 4s 6d ; veal, 4s to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s lOdto 4 s Cd, No variation was noticed in the quotations. Beasts, 404 ; sheep, 2954 ; calvss, 42: pigs, 39; a large portion of the supply left the market unsold. WAKEFIELD.— We had a short supply of stock of both descriptions ; the attendance of buyers only moderate, aud the market very heavy indeed, it being a holiday. Beef, 63 tu 63 6d per stone ; mutton, 6d per lb. Beasts 300 j sheep, 3,700. YORK.— There was a fair supply of store pigs at market, as also pf pork pigs, with a pretty good de- mand. Pork pigs, 7S to 73 3d; bacon, 5s 9d to 6s3d; pork hams, 7s 9J per stone. MONDAY. JAN. 1. THE CANADIAN STRUGGLE. MAP OF THE SEAT OF WAR. REVOLT IN CANADA. FROM THE SUPPLEMENT TO THE LON- DON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY NIGHT. OFFICIAL DISPATCH OF SIR JOHN COLBORNE. Colonial- office, Downing- street, Dec. 26,1837 A dispatch has been received from Lieutenant- Genera] Sir John Colborne, K. C. B., Commander of the Forces in Canada, dated 20th November, 1837, of which, and of its inclosures, the following are copies:— " Head Quarters, Montreal, Nov. 29, 1S37. " MY LORD— I have the honour to acquaint you, for the information of the General Commanding in Chief, that, since my dispatch of the 20th instant, the revolt has been rapidly extending, and that the law officers of the Crown, and the magistrates of Montreal, having applied to me for amii'ary force to assist the civil power in apprehending Mr. Papi- neau, and other traitors, who were supposed to be at the villages of Saint Denis and Saiat Charles, I ordered strong detachments to support the civil authorities in the execution of their duty. Sain! Denis is seven miles to the northward of Saint Charles, on the right bank of the river Richelieu ; the former sixteen miles from Sorel, the latter about seventeen j from the ferry ef Chambly, ( op- posite Pointe Oliviere. Colonel Gore and Lieute- nant- Colonel Hughes, with five companies and an howitzer, were ordered to proceed from Sorel to Saint Denis, and five companies and two guns to move from Chambly on Saint Charles, under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Wetherall, of the Royal Regiment, accompanied by two magistrates, to execute the warrants against those individuals charged with high treason ; and it appeared proba- ble that the sudden appearance of the troops at these points, and entering the villages nearly at the same time, would afford an oportunity of taking into custody the leaders of the revolt. The Sorel detachment, under the superintendence of Colonel Gore, marched at ten o'clock on the night of the 22d, by a back concession road, to avoid the village of St. Ours, occupied by the rebels, which increased the distance of the march. The incessant rain and almost impassable roads so im- peded the progress of the detachment, that he did not reach St. Denis until ball past nine on the morning of the 231 ; the rebels, on the approach of her Majesty's troops, commenced a heavy fire on them from all the houses on the north side of the village ; some of these were immediately taken by the light company of the 32d regiment, commanded by Captain Markham, but the fire from the howit- zer having made little impression for several hours • on a large stone building, strongly occupied, and the whole of the companies of the detachment being milch exhausted, from the very long and difficult inarch of the previous night, Colonel Gore consi- dered it necessary to return to Sorel. Colonel Wetherall, with four companies of the Royal Regi- ment and a detachment of the 66th regiment, and two six- pounders, passed the Richelieu by the upper ferry, at Chambly; the bad state of the roads, however, impeded his march, and prevented him proceeding further than Saint Hilaire, at which place he halted till another company of the Royals joined him; he then advanced on St. Charles, st- acked the rebels, carried an eaclosed work defend- ed by fifteen hundred men, and completely dispersed them. The advanced period of the seasoD, and the constant expectation ef the navigation becoming impracticable, the passage of the river being interrupted, it became necessary to use the utmost • exertion, with a view of restoring order in the re- volted district. The troops which have been called to act in the disturbed districts, and to put down this sudden and extensively combined revolt, have had to contend with great difficulties: their com- munications with head- quarters having been com- pletely interruptedby the armed peasantry assembled on the line of march. Many of the deluded inha- bitants are returning to their homes, and I trust that the affairs which have taken place may be the means of quickly restoring tranquillity to the country. I am much indebted to Lieutenant- Colonel Wetherall, for his active zeal and judicious conduct on many occasions in which he has bcea employed at this critical period. I forward the reports of Colonel Gore and Lieutenant- Colonel Wetherall, which will afford the General Com- manding in Chief " full information of the pro- ceedings of the detachments under their command, and returns of killed and wounded. Captain Mark- ham, an intelligent and zealous officer, has received several severe wounds. I cannot close my dispatch without mentioning the exertions of Captain David and the Montreal Volunteer Corps of Cavalry, who accompanied the troops on the service in which they have been engaged. " I have the honour to be, & c., " J. COLBORNE, Lieut.- Gen. 41 Major- General the Right Hon. Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Sec. & c. & c." OFFICIAL REPORT OF COLONEL GORE. " Montreal, November 23. " SIR— In obedience to your commands I left this garrison with the flack companies of the 24th regiment, under the command of Lieutenant- Co- lonel Hughes ; the light company of the 32d regi- ment, commanded by Captain Markham; one howitzer twelve pounder, under Lieutenant New- eomcn, Royal Artillery, and a party of the Mon- treal cavalry, under Cornet Sweeney, on board the St. George steamer, at three o'clock p. m. on the 22d instant, on route to Sorel, where I disem- barked at six o'clock, and placed the men in the Barrack- square ; I directed Captain Crompton to be prepared to march at ten o'clock, when, accord- ing to my iwtruetions, I proceeded on the road to St. Denis, on the river Richelieu, which I was directed to carry, and then nice on rapidly to assist Lieutenant- Colonel Wetherall, of the Royal Regiment, in his attack on St. Charles. The roads being deep, the march was severe ( although the distance was only eighteen miles), it having rained violently all night, the mud and water reaching to the knees; I did not reach the small but rapid river which crosses the roafl four miles and a half from St. Denis until sometime after daylight; in order to arrive at my destination with as little delay as possible, I took the back road, to avoid the village of St. Ous and pass the small river by a bridge higher up than the one by the main road, also for the purpose to take on an intelligent guide, who had voluntered to lead. After passing the bridge I observed an armed party leaving the lower one, who had been sent to oppose our crossing, and who flanked our line of march ; but I did not waste time in dispersing them, but moved on to my point, which was now frequently impeded by the breaking up of the bridges. Several, however, were saved by Cornet Sweeney's detach- ment of cavalry, who took two armed peasants, but could gain no positive information as to the intention of the rebels. Oa approaching St. Denis, a strong body of armed men, moving along a wood, skirted my left flank j all the houses along the road were deserted, and on nearing St. Denis I was attacked by skirmishers occupying the houses aad barns on the road, and along the bunks of the river Richelieu ; these were rapidly driven in by Captain Markham to the main entrance. I found the place was strongly occupied, and the entrance defended by a large fortified stone house, and a barricade crossing the road, and flanked from a building and houses, from which a severe fire was commenced. I immediately reinforced the ad- vance with Captain Crompten's Maitland's and Harris's companies, aud placing the howitzer in a position off the right of the road, at a range of three hundred and fifty yards, directed Lieutenant New- comen to fire round shot into it, and batter it down, if possible; oa examining the house, I found it too well secured and flanked, and the incessant firing shewed it to be well occupied. The armed force of the rebels, from what I can ascer- tain, was fuli fifteen hundred men, but report said nearer three thousand; during these operations the rebels were crossing the Richelieu in large batteaux, from St. Antoine, but I could not spare shot from the fortified house to obstruct their passage ; Captain Markham got possession of a house immediately opposite to the fortified house, driving cut the occupants at the point of the bayonet, but was almost immediately wounded in three places; the day was now advancing, it was evident that the whole country was io arms, and no important effect was made on the fortified house, and sixty round shot expended, and only six left; the ground we occupied could hardly have been maintained during the night; it was necessary to come to some decision, either to assault the house so well defeuded, and flanked by others loop- holed, or to fall back before the bridge in my rear could be broken down. The hazard of a failure under such circumstances and the jaded condition of the men, frost having succeeded the rain and snow, and their clothes freezing on them, determined me to fall back, and having collected the wounded and placed them in such carts as we had, and the howitzer in the centre, I directed Lieutenant- Colonel Hughes to take the direction of the rear- guard, and fall back. I was immediately fol- lowed by strong bodies of the rebels in rear and on my right flank, who were checked by the rear- guard, and having observed that a strong force had been detached in the direction of the upper bridge, by which I had passed in the morning, on arriving v. here the road branches off to the two bridges I turned to my left to the lower bridge, having ascertained that St. Ours was not fortified, and rid myself of the rebels, who were skirting my right flank. On crossing the bridge the artillery horses gave up altogether, and two of them fell; the in- fantry went immediately to the gun, and every exertion was made to get it on; the officers' horses aad those of the ammunition waggon were put to the gun, but without effect; the wheels clogged with mud were now frozen, and after seven hours of severe toil, during which Lieutenant- Colonel Hughes never left the gun ; the medical officer de- clared that half an hour more would freeze the men. The gun was spiked and abandoned. I then moved to St. Ours, where I was in hopes of finding the steam- boat Varennes, ordered to meet us with provisions; but she had been attacked by two hundred armed persons, and forced to cut her cable and return. 1 passed through the village, aud halted at sc, m8 farmhouses a mile on to refresh the men, and proceeded in the morning, at daylight, to Sorel, where I arrived at eleven o'clock ia the morning of the 24th. My loss in killed and wounded, by the accompanying returns, is, one officer severely wounded ( Captain Markham) and nineteen killed and wounded, and four missing; the loss of the rebels must have been about one hundred, which has since been confirmed. I have not yet received a correct return of the two com- panies of the 66th regiment, hut I do not think they lost more than one or two. I enclose a detailed re- port from Lieutenant Newcomen, on the loss of the howitzer, who deserves much praise for his conduct. In this arduous march, and during the whole of the operation, the officers and men dis- played the highest courage and steadiness, al- though exposed to extreme suffering. I was much indebted to lieutenant- Colonel Hughes, of the 24th regiment, for the Advice and assistance I re- ceived from him, and hre exertions to extricate the gun ; and also to Lieutenant Lysons, of the Royal Regiment, attached to the Quartermaster- general's department, for his zealous and active conduct; in Captain Markham, of the 32d regiment, who led the advance with great judgment, and was severely wounded, the service will ' oe deprived for some time of a most valuable officer; Surgeon Farndon, of the Royal Regiment, and Assistant- Surgeon MacGrigor, of the 32d regiment, ren- dered every assistance in their power, aad made the best arrangements for the wounded. " I have the honour to be, & c, " CHARLES GORE, Colonel. " Lieutenant- General Sir John Colborne, K. C. B. and G. C. H., & c., & s., & c." RETURN OF KILLED, WOUNDED, AND MISSING. KILLED.— 24th Regiment: 1 sergeant, 2 * ank and file.— 32d Regiment: 2 rank and file.— 66th Regiment: 1 rank and file. WOUNDED.— 24th Regiment: 1 rank and file, severely ; 2 rank and file, slightly.— 32d Regiment: Captain Markham, severely, but not dangerously ; 3 rank ank file, severely ; 2 rank and file, slightly. MISSING.— 24th Regiment: 1 rank and file.— 32 Regiment: 4 rank and file ( 1 wounded).— Total: Killed ; 1 sergeant, 5 rank and file.— Wounded : 1 captain, 9 rank and file.— Missing ; 6 rank aad file. REPORT OF COLONEL WETHeRALL. " S". Charles, Nov. 27, 1837. " SIR— I had the honour, yesterday, to report the successful result of my attack on the stockaded post of the rebels at this place. Ia my letter of the 25th of November, I stated tlie circumstances which induced me to suspend my march towards St. Charles, and to order a company from Chambly to my support, and I then said that I should wait at Saint Hilaire for his Excellency's further orders. This dispatch was sent by Dr. Jones, of the Mon- treal Cavalry, and I hoped for his Excellency's answer during the following night. Not having re- ceived it at nine yesterday morning I concluded that my messenger had . been interrupted, and having learned that the basin, at Chambly, was frozen over, and every probability of a retreat being out off, should such an event occur, I resolved on the attack. The march was accomplished without opposition or hindrance, except from the breaking down of the bridges, & c., & e., until I arrived one mile from this plaee, when the troops were fired at from the left or opposite bank of the Richelieu, and a man of the Royal Regiment wounded ; several rifle shots were also fired from a barn im- mediately in our front. I burnt the b » ra. On arriving at two hundred and fifty yards from the rebel works I took up a position, hoping that a display of my force would induce some defection among these infatuated people ; they, hawevcr, opened a heavy fire, which was returned. 1 then advanced to another position one hundred yards from the works, but finding the defenders obstinate, I s. ormtd a. id carried them, burning every building within the stockade, except that of the Honourable Mr. Debartsch, which, however, is much injured. The affair occupied about one hour. The slaughter on the side of the rebels was great; only sixteen prisoners were then made. I have counted fifty- six bodies, and many more were killed in the buildings and their bodies burnt. I shall occupy this village until the receipt of his Excellency's orders. My killed and wounded are as follow:— The Royal Regiment— 1 sergeant, 1 rank and file, killed ; 8 rank and file severely wounded ; 7 rank and file slightly wounded.— 66th Regiment: 1 rank and file killed; 2 rank and file severely wounded ; l rank and file slightly wounded. Total, 1 sergeant, 2 rank and file killed ; 10 rank and file severely wounded ; 8 rank and file slightly wounded. Every man and officer behaved ncbly yesterday. Major Warde carried the right of the position in good style, and Captain Glasgow's artil- lery did good execution. He is a most zealous officer. Captain David's troop of Montreal ca- valry rendered essential service during the charge, and I regret that more are not attached to my force. My horse was shot under me. and the chargers of Major Warde and Captain David se- verely wounded— since dead. " I am, Sec., ( signed) " G. W. WeTHERALL, " Commanding 2d battalion of the Royal Regi- men!" ' TheDeputy Adjutant- gen., , Montreal." ( COPY.) " Chambly, Nov. 28, 1837. SIR— I have the honour to report my return to Chambly this evening, with the troops under my command. Having received authentic information at St. Charles, on Sunday night, that a consider able body of the rebels had assembled near Point Olivierc, under Saniere, for the purpose of cutting off my retreat from St. Charles, I resolved upon attacking tbem, in preference to marching on St. Denis ; my march was so delayed by the diffi- culty of procuring conveyance for the wounded men, that it was too late to proceed when I arrived at St. Hilaire. This morning I continued my march, leaving the sick and wounded at St. Hilaire, the house of Colonel De Ronville, aad a guard of one sergeant and fifteen men, in charge of Dr. Sewell, of the Montreal cavalry, where I pro- pose that they shall remain until the ice on the river will admit of their being transported in sleighs. About a mile from St. Oliviere the rebels were discovered in a position well adapted to check my progress ; they had protected themselves with an abattis and two contemptible guns,, mounted on carts ; they fled as soon as I formed to attack, relinquishing their gans, which are in my possessisn ; a few shots were exchanged, by which two of the rebels were killed. I burnt a house from which they fired on their retreat. With the exception of a tew straggling shots from the oppo- site side of the Richelieu, i reached this station without further opposition. 1 have now brought in tweaty- five prisoners, and propose marching with them to Montreal, via St. John's and the railway, the day after to- morrow, should I not receive oonnter orders. The party assembled at St. Denis have broken up since tiie aSair of St. Charles. " I have, See. " G. W. WETHERALL, " Lieut.- Col. Royal Regiment. " The Deputy Adjutant- General, Montreal." FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE REVOLT. ( from THE NeW YORK ENqUIRer, GOVERNMENT PAPER.) At the latest data, the Royalists were concen- trating, with a view probably to an attack upon St. Denis. To join the three companies already at Sorel, a detachment of the Royal Artillery, under Captain Holwell, was dispatched on the 30th ult. from Montreal, and on the following day five com- panies of light troops, and a supply of Congreve rockets, had also been forwarded to Sorel. The destination of the troops was not positively known, but there seems little reason to doubt a march is intended upon St. Denis. A great deal of dis- satisfaction prevails both at Montreal and Quebec in regard to the temporising course of the govern- ment. The magistrates of Montreal, with the ex- ception of D. B. Viger— an intimate friend of Papineau and his policy— have mads a requisition upon Lord Gosford for the proclamation of martial law in that city. This would enable the troops to disarm all the suspected inhabitants, and the Montreal Herald says that '' nothing but a general disarming of the french Canadians can long pre- serve Lower Canada to England. However this may be, there is little doubt that the French Cana- dians are generally united in the interests of Pa- pineau and the insurgent leaders. Even those in Montreal, who remain apparently loyal, are sus- pected. Three volunteer companies in that city are under the oommand of French Canadians, and not a soldier in their ranks is of French Canadian extraction, nor an officer, with the exception of the captains. It is obvious that affairs have now reached a cris'. s. The French Canadians must either be subjugated, treated as a oonquered people, and their political power merged in the re- union of the provinces, or the Lower Provinces must continue for years the scene of popular outbreak and insur- rectionary violence. To meet this crisis the Royal- ists appear to be concentrating all their military force in Lowor Canada. The Upper Province has been emptied of its regular troops, and the entire 43d regiment, recently stationed at New Brunswick, were to march by the post route to Quebec, as soon as the necessary provisions could be made for their accommodation on the road. The detachment - pk Annapolis has been ordered to St. John's. Arolun- teer companies are forming in many of the counties. In Upper Canada meetings have been held, at which resolutions havs been passed proffering all requisite aid to the Loyalists of their sister province. ( FROM THE qUeBEC MERCURY, GOVERNMENT PAPER, DEC. 10.) The only further information we have from Lower Canada, is, that the whole country is in a state of fermentation; and that about 2,000 habitant are assembled at Grand Bruele, and that the com- munications at Montreal and the adjoining country were altogether interrupted. In some of the seigneuriers the disaffected had paid domiciliary visits to the Loyalists, and dis- armed them. Many of the latter have removed to Montreal with their families. It must be remem- bered that Montreal is an island, and that repeated embarkations and disembarkations are a sad impe- diment to the celerity of military movements. In the mean time the inhabitants of British and American descent are not idle. They are muster- ing in great numbers and spirit. The Scotch set- tlers in Glengarry, to the number of 2,000, have declared their readiness to march to the. assistance of the government. The Radicals in the Upper Pro- vince, although clamorous for reform, are by no means ready for revolution, and havs intimated their willingness to quell M. Papineau's preten- tions. Their example has been followed in other places. ( from THE MONTREAL HERALD OF SATURDAY, DEC. 2.) On Tuesday last a person named Chartrand, a respectable mason, residing in St. John's, and a loyal volunteer, left his house to collect a debt due to him a few miles out of the village by one Roy, asd on his return he was arrested by five men with loaded muskets, who set him up against a tree and fired at him. One ball pierced his heart, and se- veral others showed the deadly aim which the savage murderers took. M. Spiers, who was reported as having been murdered by the rebels, returned on Thursday with the Royals, " safe— not sound." He left this city on Saturday morning last with dispatches, addressed to Colonel Weatherall, and was taken prisoner on the same day by about three or four hundred men near Point Oliviere. Mr. Spiers resisted their authority, and shot one of them, when he was immediately stabbed on the forehead and beaten nearly senseless with a bludgeon. He was then secured, and conveyed from place to place during the darkness of the night, so that he had not any idea of the exact part of the country he was in. They threatened to shoot him, but, on his telling them that if they did his death would be fearfully avenged, they changed their minds. He \ va3 re- leased along with nine or ten other prisoners on Wednesday, and immediately joined the Royal Re- giment. THE ARMY.— It is stated in the Halifax papers, that the first division of the 85th Regiment, under Lieut— Colonel Maunsel, had arrived at New Bruns- wick from Halifax. The 43d Regiment were to march by the post route for Canada as soon as the necessary preparations were made. The 34th are said to have arrived at Metis, in this province. A postcript of the Burlington Sentinel of Friday, Dec. 18, is to this effect:— THURSDAY, 11 O'CLOCK, P. M. " The accounts from the seat of war are corobo- rative of our former accounts. St. Charles was re- taken by the Patriots. From three to five hun- dred of the Government troops were in St. John's on Wednesday night, on their way to Montreal. " Not much reliance can be placed upon the es- timates made of numbers engaged on either side at the battle of 8t. Denis and St. Charles. The reports are various and conflicting." In the same paper we find this paragraph — " LIBERTY— LOWER CANADA.— The inhabitants of Burlington and vicinity are informed that Philo Weeks is an accredited agent for the Patriot cause of Lower Canada, aud that he will receive thank- fully, at D. Lyman's Hotel, any donations that any person may think proper to bestow, in order to for- ward the sacred cause of Liberty." THE THEATRE OF THESE HOSTILITIES is on the right bank of the St. Lawrence, aud embraces the territory between that river and the river Sorel, or Richelieu, or Chambly— for by all these names it is known which froms the outlet of lake Champion, and after running nearly parrallel with the St. Law- rence at a distance of some 3G miles, and gradually converging towards it, finally discharges itself into that river. ( FROM THE MONTREAL COURIER OF DEC. 1. RETURN OF THE TROOPS TO MONTREAL.— The return of Colonel Wetherall and his gallant troops from Chambly yesterday was an interesting sight to the hundreds who crowded on the wharf to witness it. Papineau is declared to have crossed the river to St. Marc just as the troops came up. MILITARY MOVEMENTS.— The John Bull and St. George steam- boats came up yesterday forenoon from Quebec, with about 6,000 stand of arms and accoutrements complete. The Vareones steam- boat left yesterday morning for Sorel with two field pieces, a good supply of Congreve rockets, and a detachment of Royal Artil- lery under the command of Captain Holwell. The John. Bull also left for the same place, with the light company of the 24th under Captain Mait- land, three companies of the 32d under Captain Brown, one company of the 83d under Captain Emsly, and a- detachment of the Montreal Volun- teer cavalry under Cornet Sweeny, the whole force being commanded by the Honourable Colonel Gore, Deputy Quartermaster- General. The force already at Sorel consisted of one com- pany of the 32d under Major Reed, and. two of the 66th under Captain Crompton. With the reinforcements just sent down tke whole form a pretty strong bri- gade. Its precise destination is of course unknown. We are not sanguine enough to expect that any regular opposition will be attempted, whatever it may be. ( from THK COURIER OF dEC. I.) THE INSURGENTS AT GRAND BRULE.— The late acoounts from Grand Brule and its neighbour- hood are of a character to demand a full share of public attention. On Saturday last amuster of some hundreds of the rebels took place at Grand Brule, and on Saturday a second was held, at which wc have been credibly informed that no less than 2,000 men were in attendance. For some time past we are assured they have been at work upon entrenchments of one kind and another, for the defence of Grand Brule, from an attack in either direction, whether from Montreal or from the back country. An Ame- rican gentleman who passed through the place about noon on Tuesday last informs us that he was stop- ped there and examined by a body of about 150 armed men, who appeared to be acting as a regular guard under the command of a man named Cour- solles. After some delay our informant was allowed to proceed, but ha was assured by the mail- carrier who overtook him at St. Martin that the rebels regretted afterwards that they had not made him prisoner. On Wednesday we learn that the mail- carrier was himself stopped on his return, and his mail taken from him. The same day a party of One hundred or more proceeded to visit and disarm most of the Royalists residing in that quarter. ( from THE NEW YORK COURIER, A GOVERN- MENT PAPER.) Sandy- hill, Monday night. Whetherall's victory was much more complete than has been reported ; the carnage was so great that it has not been published. The malcontents lost at least 500 men, by shot, fire, and water. They fought very well until they were charged by the bayonet, and then the butchery was dreadful. Upwards of 100 were in a barn full of hay and straw, which was set fire to, and they were buried alive or smothered Many attempted to cross the river and were drowned. Brown's carpet bag, with one clean shirt and one pair of stockings, and his new regi- mentals, were found ; and in the bag many letters which implicate parties not hitherto suspected. Colonel Gore has marched with five or six hun- dred men against St. Denis. The fate of that town was decided on Saturday last, but is not yet known. The orders are to destroy every thing ; to raze the houses to the ground or burn them i aud it is ex- pected that, as in the affair of St. Charles, no quar- ter will be given. Colonel Wetherall also leaves Montreal this day for Grand Brule, where the enemy are in force, but without provisions. They have been pillaging the whole country without mercy One thousand pounds have been offered by the Governor for the head of Papineau, and also for that of Brown. REBELLION AMONGST THS REBELS.— We have the following statement from a Canadian. General Brown, having abandoned the standard which he had so materially assisted to raise, was stopped by a band of his own party. Knowing that they were already deserted by Pa- pineau, O'Callaghan, and Nelson, and left to bear the penalties of their misdeeds and counsel, they at first proposed to try the general by a court martial and shoot him. In vain he protested that he was bound upon some important business connected with their cause ; they doubted him, and proceeded to search his person, a duty in which they are great adepts Upon his person they found a large sum of money ( it is stated a little short of 3,000!.'). which fully sa- tisfied them of his dishonourable intentions. They stripped him, kicked him, and let him go— detaining the money. Several seizures of gunpowder have been made at Montreal. From the correspondence of the New York He- rald of the 6th, we extract the subjoined letter : — Utica, Dec. 1, 1837. Mr. Cooper has just received by way of Ogdens- burgh, direct from Montreal, confirmation of the battle at Les Trois Rivieres, The letter ia from a relation of his. The English left 200 and the re- bels 90 killed on the field. Papineau has secured the foundries at St. Charles and Three Rivers. They are very extensive at the latter place. The authorities had given orders to march the treops stationed at Toronto for Montreal. Imme- diately the population rose en masse, and demanded their stay. They said that they had nothing to do with the people of the Montreal district, and that as they were Loyalists they wanted the troops for their own defence. They threatened to oppose their passage vi et armis. Finding such a, determinatioa among the people, the expedition was abandoned. On the 1st of September last I learned from Captain Malcolm that there were but three regi- ments of troops in the Canadas. V/ ith such a force the government will not be able to make much resistance. The rebels, knowing their fate if con- quered, will fight to the death. Success will com- pell the neutral portion of the population to take sides. It is an admitted fact that the sympathies of the neutrals ( British) are with the Canadians. If the English people join the latter, the contest will continue till it end in independence or exter- mination. There is an immense number of Ameri- cans in Canada. Their conduct it is easy to perceive. AMERICA. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE TO THE TWO HOUSES OF CONGRESS. " Fellow Citizens of the Senate and the House of Representatives. — We have to renew the I expression of our devout gratitude to the GIVER of ALL GOOD, for his benign protection. Our coun try presents, on every side, the evidences of that continued favour, under whose auspices it has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. The industry and prudence of our citizens are gra- dually relieving them from the pecuniary em- barrassments under which portions of them have laboured ; judicious legislation, and the natural and boundless resources of the country, have afforded wise and timely aid to private enterprize, The condition of our foreign relations has not materially changed since the last annual message of my pre- decessor. We remain at peace with all nations; and no efforts on my part shall be spared to main- tain a position so consonant to our institutions. With European powers, no new subjects of difficulty have arisen and those which were under discussion, although not terminated, do not present a more unfavourable aspect for the future preservation of that good understanding, which it has ever been our desire to cultivate. Of pending questions tke most important is that which exists with the go- vernment of Great Britain in respect to our north- eastern boundary. It is with unfeigned regret that the people of the United States must look upon the abortive efforts made by the executive for a period of more than half a century, to determine, what no nation Should suffer long to remain in dispute, ths true line which divideS its possessions from/ those of other powers. Time has, however, changed this state of things ; and has brought about a condition, of affairs in which the true interests of both coun- tries imperatively require that this question should be put at rest. It is not to be disguised that, with full confidence often expressed, in the desire of the British government to terminate it, we are appa- rently as far from ita adjustment as we were at the time of signing the treaty of peace ia 1783. With- out coinciding in this opinion, which is not thought to be well- founded, my predecessor gave the strongest proof of the earnest desire of the United States to terminate satisfactorily this dispute, by proposing the substitution of a conventional line, if the con- sent of the states interested in the question could be obtained. To this proposition no answer has as yet been received. The attention of the British government has, however, been earnestly invited to the subject, audits reply cannot, I am confident, be much longer delayed. The general relations be- tween Great Britain and the United States are of the most friendly character, and I am well satisfied of the sincere disposition of that government to maintain them upon their present footing. This disposition has also, I am persuaded, become more general with the people of England than at any pre- vious period. The feelings produced by a temporary interruption of those harmonious relations between. France aud the United States have been happily succeeded by a cordial disposition on both sides to cultivate an active friendship in then- future inter- course. The opinion, undoubtedly correct, and steadily entertained by us, that the commercial ie- lations ^ at present existing between the two coun- tries are susceptible of great and reciprocally bene ficial improvements, is obviously gaining ground in France ; and I am assured of the disposition of that government to favour the accomplishment of such an object. Between Russia and the United States sentiments of good- will continue to be mutually cherished. A correspondence has been opened with the government of Austria, for the establishment of diplomatic relations, in conformity with the wishes of congress, as indicated by an appropriation act of the session of 1837, and arrangements made for the purpose, which will be duly carried inio effect. With Austria and Prussia, and with the States of the German empire now composing with the latter the commercial league, our political relations ars of the most friendly character. Civil war yet rages in Spain, producing intense suffering to its own people, and to other nations inconvenience and re gret. Our citizens who have claims upon that country will be prejudiced for a time by the con aition of its treasury, the inevitable consequence of long- continued and exhausting internal wars. The last instalment of the interest of the debt due under the convention with the Queen of Spain has not been paid. Having received satisfactory evidence that discriminating tonnage duties were charged upon the vessels of the United States in the ports of Portugal, a proclamation was issued on the 11 th day of October last, in compliance with the act of May 25, 1832, declaring that fact, and the duties on foreign tonnage which were levied upon Portu- guese vessels iu the United States, previously to the passing of that act, are accordingly revived. The act of July 4, 1836, suspending the discrimi- nating duties upon the produce of Portugal im- ported into this country in Portuguese vessels, was passed upon the application of that government, through its representative here, under the belief that no similar discrimination existed in Portugal to the prejudices of the United States. I regret to state that such duties are now exacted in that coun- try, upon the cargoes of American vessels ; and as the act referred to vests no discretion in the executive, it is not for congress to determine upon the expediency of further legialation upon the sub- ject. With Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Naples, and Belgium, a friendly intercourse has been un- interruptedly maintained. With the governmentof the Ottoman Porte and its dependencies upon the coast of the, Mediterranean, peace and good will are carefully cultivated, and have been fostered by such good offices as the relative distance and the condi- tion of those countries would permit. Our com- merce with Greece is carried on under the laws of the two governments, reciprocally beneficial to the navigating interests of both. Copies of the treaties concluded with the governments of Siam and Muscat are transmitted for the information of congress, the ratifications having been received, and the treaties made public, since the close of the last annual session. Already have we reason to congratu- late ourselves on the prospect of considerable commercial benefit; and we have, besides, received from the Sultan of Muscat prompt evidence of his desire to cultivatethemostfriendlyfeelings, bylibsral aets towards one of our vessels, bestowed in a man- ner so striking as to require on our part a grateful acknowledgment. An advantageous treaty of com- merce has been concluded by the United States with the Peru- Bolivian confederation. The aggra- vating circumstances connected with our claims upon Mexico, and a variety of events touching the honour and intsgrity of our government, led my pre- decessor to make, at the second session of our last congress, a special recommendation of the course to be pursued to obtain a speedy and final satisfac- tion ofthe injuries complained of by this government and by our citizens. So soon as the necessary do- cuments were prepared, after entering upon the duties of my office, a special messenger was sent to Mexioo, to make a final demand of redress, with the documents required by the provisions sf OUT treaty. The demand was made on the 20th of July last. The reply, which bears date 29th of the same month, contains assurances of a desire, on the part of that government, to give a prompt and explicit answer respecting each of the complaints. Since that time, an envoy extraordinary and minister ple- nipotentiary has been accredited to this government by that of the Mexican republic. He brought with him assurances of a sincere desire that the pending differences between the two governments should be terminated in a manner satisfactory to both. Although the large number, and many of them ag- gravated cases of personal wrongs have been now for many years before the Mexican government, and some of the oauses of national complaint, and thoseofthe most offensive character, admitted imme- diate and satisfactory replies, it is only within a few days past that any specific communication in answer to our last demand, made five months ago, has been received from the Mexican minister. By the report of the secretary of state, it will be seen that for not one of our public complaints has satisfaction been given or offered; that but one of the cases of personal wrong has been favorably considered, and that but for cases of both descriptions, out of all those formally presented, and earnestly pressed, have as>- yet been decided upon by the Mexican government. Ia accordance with the clearly understood wishes of ths legislature, another and formal demand for satisfaction has been made upon the Mexican go- vernmeut, with what success the documents now communicated will shaw. On a careful and deli, berate examination of their contents, and consi- dering the spirit manifested by the Mexican go vercmcat, it has bcoeme my p- infol duty to return to the snbject, as it now stands to c- mgress, to whom it belongs, to d; cide upon the time, the mode, and the measure of redress. The balance in the trea- sury on the 1st day of January, 1837, was forty- five millions cine hundred uad sixty- eight thoasand five hundred and twenty- three dollars. The receipts during the present year from all sources, ineluding the amount of treasury notes issued, are estimated at twenty- three millions four hundred and ninety, nine thousand nine hundred and eighty- one dollars. Of this amount, about thirty- five millions two hundred and eighty- one thousand three hundred and sixty- one dollars will have been expended at the end of the year on appropriations made by con- gress : and the residue, will be the nominal ba- lance in the treasury on the 1st of January next. But of that sum, only one million eighty- five thousand four hundred and ninety- eight dollars is considered as immediately available for, and ap- plicable to, public purposes. Those portions of it which will be for some time unavailable consist chiefly of sums deposited with the states, and due from the former deposit banks. Notwithstanding the great embarrassments which have recently oc- curred in commercial affairs, and the liberal indul- gence which, ia consequence of these embarrass- ments, lias been extended to both the merchants aud the banks, it is gratifying to be able to antici- pate that the treasury notes wliick have been issued daring the present year, will be redeemed, and that the resources ofthe treasury, without any resort to loans or increased taxes, will prove ample fo'r defraying fell charges imposed on it during 1838. Kour attention was, at the last session, invited to the necessity of additional legislative provisions in respect to the collection, safe keep- ing, and transfer of the publiu money. On that occasion, three modes of performing this branch of the public service were presented for considera- tion. These were the creation of a national bank ; the revival, with modifications of the deposit system established by the act of the 23d of June, 1^ 36, permitting the use of the public moneys b. y the banks, and the discontinuance of the use of such ^ institutions for the purposes referred to, with suit- able provisions for their accomplishment through the agency of public officers. Considering the opinions of both houses of Congress on the two first propositions as expressed in the negative, in which I entirely concur, it is unnecessary foj:- again to recur to them. In respect to the last,; have had an opportunity since your adjournm/ not only to test still further the expediency of measure, by the continued practical operatic, such parts of it as are now in force, but also to 4 cover what should ever be sought for and regard with the utmost deference— the opinion aad wishes of the people. The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and, on all subjects within the limits of the Constitutional powers, should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. The discontinuance of the use of state banks for fiscal purposes ought not to be regarded as a measure of hostility toward these institutions. According to the bank's own official statement, so late as the 1st of October last, 19 months after the hanking privileges given by the charter h « d ex- pired, it had under its control uncancelled notes of the late Bank of the United States to the amount of 27,561,866 dollars, of which 6,175,861 dollars were in actual circulation, 1,468,627 dollars at state bank agencies, and 3,200,390 dollars in transitu, thus showing that upwards of ten millions and a half of the notes of the old bank were then still kept outstanding. The impropriety of this procedure is obvious : it being the duty ef the trustees to cancel and not to put forth ths notes of an institution whose concerns it bad undertaken to ^ wind up. The United States, in settling with the trustee for their stock, have withdrawn their funds from their former direct liability to the creditors of the old bank, yet notes of the institution con- tinue to be sent forth to its name, and apparently upon the authority of the United States. The report of the commissioner of the general land office, will show how the affairs of that office have been conducted for the past year. The practica- bility of retaining the title and control of such ex- tensive domains in the genera! government, and at the same time admitting the territories, embracing them into the federal union as co- equals with the original states was seriously doubted by many of our wisest statesmen. Whether in the new or the old states, all now agree that the right of soil to the publie lands remains in the federal govern- ment, and that these lands constitutes a common benefit of all the states, old and new. Upwards of 70 millions of acres have been sold. The popu- | lation of the new states and territories created out of the public domain, increased between 1800 and 1830 from less than 60,000 to upwards of 2,300,000 souls, constituting, at the latter period, one- fifth of the whole people of the United States. A large portion of our citizens have seated them- selves on the public lands without authority, since the passage of the last ' pre- emption law, and now ask the enactment of another to enable them to retain the lands occupied upon payment of the minimum government price. They ask that which has been repeatedly granted before. If the future may be judged of by the past, little harm oan be done to the interests of the treasury by yielding to their request. Upon a critical examination, it i I found that the lands sold at the public sales since the introduction of cash payments in 1828, have produced, on an average, the net revenue of only six cents an acre more than the minimum govern- ment price. There is no reason to suppose that future sales will be more productive. I reoola- mend the passing of a pre- emption law for their benefit, in connection with the preparatory stepp towards the graduation of the price of the public - JAN. 1. THE MAGNET, MONDAY. 3 lands, and farther and more effectual provisions to prevent intrusions hereafter. The principal part of the army has been concentrated in Florida, with a view and in the expectation of bringing war in that territory to a speedy close. The necessity of siripping the po; ts on the maritime and inland frontiers of their entire garrisons, for the purpcce of assembling in the field an army of less than 4,000 men, would seem to indicate the necessity of increasing our regular forces; and the superior efficiency, as well as greatly diminished expense of that description of troops, recommended this mea sure as one of ecouoaiy as well as of expediency. It is not, however, compatible with the interest of people to maintain, in time of peace, a regular fores adequate to the defence of our extensive- frontiers. The provision in the constitution that renders it necessary to adopt a uniform system of organization for the militia throughout the United States, presents an insurmountable obstacle to an efficient arrangement to the classification hereto- fore proposed ; and I invite your attention to the plan which will be submitted by the secretary of war, for the organization of volunteer corps and the instiuction of militia officers, more simple and practicable, if not equally advantageous as a gene- ral arrangement of the whole militia of the United States. The military academy continues to answer all the purposes of its establishment, ami not only furnishes well- educated officers to the army, but serves to diffuse throughout the mass of our citi- zens individuals possessed of military knowledge, and the scientific attainments of civil and military engineering. At present the cadet is bound, with consent of his parents or guardians, to remain ia service five years from the period ef his enlist- ment, unless sooner discharged, thus exacting only one year's service in the army after his^ educutiou is completed. This does not appear to me sufficient. Government ought to command for a longer period the services of those who are educated at the public expense ; and I recommend that the time of en- listment be extended to seven years, and the terms of the engagement strictly enforced. The creatiou of a nation i! foundry for cannon, to be common to the service of the army unci navy of the United States, has been heretofore recommended, and ap- pears to be requisite ia order to place our ordnance, on au equal footing with that of other countries. The same reasons indues me to rccommend the erection of a manufactory of gunpowder, to be under the direction of the Ordnance- office. Tue system of removing the Indians west of the Missis- sippi, commenced by Mr. Jefferson ia 1804, has been steadily persevered in by every succeeding president, and may be considered the settled policy of the country. It will be seen that the most san- guine expectations of the friends and promoters of this system have been realised. The Choctaws, Cherokees, and other tribes that first emigrated beyond the Mississippi, have, for the most part, abandoned the hunter state, and become cultivators ef the soil. By the report of the secretary of the navy, it appears that unremitted exertions have beea made at the different navy yards, to carry into effect all authorized measures for the exten- sian aad employment of our naval force. Our commerce and navigation have received increased aid and protection during the present year. Our squadrons in the Pacific and on the Brazilian s'- ation have been much increased, and those in the Mediterranean, although small, is adequatee to the j> re « eot wants of s « r commerce in those seas. Ad- ditions have been Made to our squadron on the West India station. Considerable additions have been made to the number of captains, comman- ders, lieutenants, surgeons, aad assistant- surgeons ia the navy. The operations of the Post- office department constitute oae of the most active ele- ments of oar national prosperity, and it is grati- fying to observe with what vigour they are 60a- ducted. The mail ror; cs of the United States cover an extent of about 1 12,377 miles, having beea Increased about 37,103 miles within the last two years. The annual transportation ou these routes is about 36,228,962 miles, having been increased about 10,351,476 miles within the same period. The number of post- offices has also been increased from 10,770 to 12,099. The revenue of the department withia the year ceding the 30th of June last, was 4,137,056 dollars 59 cents ; and the liabilities accruing withia the same time were 3,380,847 dollars and 75 cents. The increase of revenue over that of the preceding year was 780,166 dollars 41 ceuts. Washington, Dec. 5,1837. M. VAN BUREN. SPAIN. The Infante Don Francisco and his wife had re- cently a narrow escape of being carried off by a band of twenty- five mounted Carlists, under the orders of the son of Palillos. The Prince was in his carnage on the banks of the canal, and the officer who com- manded kis escort, having perceived the band at some distance, apprised him of the circumstance. The Infante ordered the carriage to stop, and the Carlists then advanced at a gallop. The coachman, however, took a by- road, and was enabled to escape their pursuit. The band had approached within musket- shot of Madrid. THE NEW CABINET.— A new cabinet has beea appointed, the following being named as the go- vernment of Spain :— Minister of Foreign Affairs, with the Presidency of the Council of Miuisters, the Conde de Ofalia; Minister of Finance, Senor Mon; Minister of War, the Conde Luchana; Minister of the Interior, the Marquis de Some- ruelos; Minister of Grace and Justice, Senor Castro ; and of Commerce and Marina, Senor Conas. A Madrid letter of the 18th, states that the new ministers took the oaths of office on that day, and immediately afterwards held a council, at which the bases of a programme of their in- tended line of policy were agreed upon. Thsse were said to be— to urge on military operations with the utmost activity, in order to bring the civil war to an end ; to carry the constitution of 1837 into execution; to cause public order to be respected; and, by negotiations, to obtain the political and financial aid of foreign powers. The arrival of a French governess for the young Queen Isabella had given rise to much conversation. The ledy's name is Mademoiselle Bruneau, and she is said, before her departure from Paris, to have had a long conference with the King, by whom she is strongly recommended. TURKEY. A circumstance of most unusual importance to Islamism, though perhaps more curious than in- teresting to the rest of Europe, took place recently at Constantinople, viz., the embarkation on board a frigate, which is to convey them to Alexandria, of a new sacred covering ind decorations for the tomb of the Prophet at Medina. It had formerly been the custom that these oruameats of the holy sanctuary should only be renewed on the aseession of each succeeding Ottoman sovereign ; bat S alan Mahmoud having been nearly thirty years on the throne, aad it having been represented to him thut it was nccessary they should be replaced, he doubtless thought he could not give his people a better praof of his respect for his religion than by giving way on this point. These costly gifts, therefore, consisting of a magnificent covering for the tomb, with a set of curtains, a drapery of cloth of gold, embroidered with sentences from the Koran ia the hand- writing of his highness himself, four lamps with chains of solid gold, and two mag- nificent candelabra of tbe same material, after having been foi three days laid out in the room of the Seraglio, ia which the clothes of the prophet are still preserved, and being there inspected, kisseJ, aad blessed by th- a Chelk Islan, Ulemas, and all the pachas and officers of state, were con. veyed in the state barge of the Saltan to his palace at Dolma Batchi, for his highness's inspec- tion, and from theuce conveyed by himBelf, wiih the greatest pomp and ceremony, on board the frigate. HANOVER. DECREE DISMISSING FROM THEIR POSTS THE SEVEN PROFESSORS WHO PROTESTED AGAINST THE ROYAL PATENT OF THE FIRST OF NOVEM- FRANCE. The Chamber has elected its President. There were 348 members present. M. Dupin obtained 213 votes, and was proclaimed President. The candidate whe had the next greatest number of votes was M. Dupont ( de l'Eure), who was sup- ported by 29, and M. de Lamartine, by 28 votes. The numbers who voted for other candidates are too insignificant to mention. But it is worth ob- serving that at a reunion at the house of M. Perier it was agreed to by the Doctrinaires that, rather than give their votes to M. Dupin, they should distribute them in twos and threes in support of different members. They have only proved by this, however, that they can only muster altogether 75 votes instead of the 120 or 130 upon which they calculated. THE HUBERT AFFAIR.— A person, named Baiely, formerly a non- commissioned officer in the army, has been arrested. Steigler, a journeyman tailor; and a young man, clerk to a hussier, are also in custody. It is said that M. Godard, who was ar- rested at Rouen, and brought to Paris, OR suspicion of being implicated with Hubert, will be shortly set at liberty; but we are informed that a person employed in the prefecture at Rouen, with whom M. Godard was upon terms of intimacy, has been dismissed from his place, which produced him the moderate income of 800f. Mile. Grouvelle, who is iu prison as an accompbce of Hubert, has become so reduced by illness, that Dr. Magendie, who at- tends her, despairs of her life. The brother of Mile. Grouvelle, who was away from Paris at the time of her arrest, has published a contradiction to the re- flections cast upon her by some journals, and de- clares that she never entered into any political theories, although she was ever ready to render her assistance to her unfortunate fellow- creatures, whe- ther arising from the censequences of civil dissen sions, war, cholera, or other diseases or cause, and had received a gold medal as a reward for her be- nevolent exertions. • BOULOGNE, Dec. 25.— ELOPEMENT.— To relieve the dullness which periodically prevails in this place during the winter season an event has oc- curred which has caused a good deal of sensation, and has given " materials," if not " for thinking," at least for " small talk," iu the elopement of a gentleman connected with the London press. Mr. B , with the fair daughter of a highly respectable London citizen, who had been removed- here by her parents, to be out of the reach of his solicita- tions, " But love will venture in where it daurna weel be seen." " The gentleman arrived here this morning, and Christmas eve saw the happy pair on their way, we believe, to the far- famed blacksmith, intending to take advantage of railway speed as far as Liverpool. They found that the French marriage regulations were a bar to the consummation of their wishes. Perhaps this is the first time that railways may have been found serviceable to the votaries of Hymen. RAISING THE CARGO OF A WRECKED VESSEL. —- M,. Duboc, having entered into a contract for raising the 800 bottles of quicksilver belonging to the Messrs. Rothschild which were sunk in the Leda, wrecked at Ambleteuse, and having engaged with Mr. Down, of London, to employ his diving apparatus in the operation, has been successful. Two men, sent for this purpose from London, were occupied daring a whole week, till interrupted by the roughness of the weather. On the first day they got up 173 bottles ; on the second, 73 ; on the third, 22 ; on the fourth, 17 ; on the fifth, 22 ; on the sixth, 17; and on the seventh, 12 ; in all, 336, the value of which is estimated at 200,060f., each bottle weighing from seventy- five to eighty pounds. Each diver remains two or three hours under water, and then is relieved by his companion. When they obtain a bottle it is attached to a chain and drawn to the surfaoe, aad the diver himself is ia like manner brought from the bottom. It is said that the divers are rewarded with every twenty- fourth bottle they recover. One of the guns be- longing to the Leda has also beea found. " Ernest Augustus, & c.— The protest under date of the 18th of November, handed in to the Curators of our well- beloved University of Gottingen, by the seven Professors attached to the same, Dahlmann, Albrecht, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Gervi- nus, Dwald, aad Weber, against our patent of tbe 1st of November, has been laid before us. Although the extraordinarily rapid communication of that document through all parts of our kingdom, and in foreign countries, might reasonably have induced us to resolve on a legal investigation, in order to discover the authors of this publicity, aad visit them with the punishment justly dui. to such con duct, we are nevertheless disposed, for the present, to abstain from such a course. The priuciples, however, openly put forward by the authors ef tbe protect are, alas 1 of that description, that impose upoa us the sacred duty of immediately taking severe measures agaiast them, ia order to prevent farther most injurious consequences. The authors of that protest have refused obedience to us their legitimate Sovereign, under the delusion that they eaa show their fidelity to us, as subjects, only on condition of the constitution of the 26th of Sep- tember, 1833, abolished by our patent of the 1st of November of the present year, being allowed to remain in full force. The authors of the aforesaid protest have therein declared that they can con- tinue iu their office as teachers at the University of Gottingen, with real utility to the studious youth, only in case of their remaining faithful to their former oaths te the fundamental law of 1833, since they cannot hope for a blessing on their exertions as public teachers, if they appear before youthful studeots in the light of men disposed to treat their oaths with levity. The said professors hove, by declarations of such a kind, in which they seem to have completely lost sight of the fact that we are their sole Sovereign, that the oath of alle- giance is taken to us alone, and that we alone have the right to absolve them from the same either in whole or ia part, altogether cancelled the relation of duty ia which they stood to us ; as a necessary consequence must be considered their dismissal from the office of teachers intrusted to them at the University of Gottingen. In consideration of the sacred duties intrusted to us by Divine Providence, we cannot longer intrust to men aaimated by such principles, the influential office of publis teachers, since we cannot but apprehend that the foundations of states would thereby be gradually undermined, aud that the future servants of the country, sot ia our kingdom aloue, but ia other countries also, would receive such an education as would be likely to make them injurious both to the state and the church. Actuated by these motives, we see our-, selves iu the melancholy necessity ef dismissing the, said professors from the office ® f teachers hitherto held by them at the University of Gottingen. " ERNEST AUGUSTUS. " Hanover, Dec. 11. " G. VON SCHELE." GOTTINGKN, Dec. 8.— THE EXILED PROFES- SORS.- The students had a meeting at Iriek ; they resolved on an address to the seven professors, in which they express their affection and esteem, and the most cordial interest in their fate. There was no further interruption of tranquillity and order during the evening. All minds were tilled with consternation at the rigour which was used towards the town. It transpired that a student who was wounded was in a dangerous state, though he had not given the slightest cause for the treatment. The town was literally in a state of siege. Horse- patrols rode up and down. About fifty students were arrested, and confined partly in the new Karcer, partly for want of room in the Aula. The riding- house in the town was converted into a barrack for Cuirassiers, who were ordered to have their horses saddled and bridled all night. This state of things continued the whole of Saturday. It was kuown that all coachmen had been forbidden, under a pe- nalty of twenty dollars, from supplying the students with carriages or horses, or taking them to Witzen- hausen, or from over the Hessian frontiers. The students, therefore, resolved on Saturday afternoon to set out on foot. Most of them walked ia the night three miles and a half German, or sixteen English miles to Witzenhausen, in the severe cold, and there waited the whole morning in the open air till their beloved teachers appeared. Several pro- fessors and masters also went up to bid them fare- well, and on reaching the bridge at Witzenhausen, were welcomed with loud cheers by the students there assembled. At length, at half- past twelve o'clock, the two carriages with the exiled professors, accompanied by their nearest relatives and friends, appeared. They were received with deafening ac- clamations, and nosegays of everlastings presented to them with affectionate addresses. The horses were taken from their carriages, and they were drawn with loud huzzas to their inns. Here they addressed some words full of gratitude and affection to the students, who certainly could have given no more touching proof of their love and veneration, and nobody will forget the impression made on him by the words. Not an eye remained dry. During the dinner at the inn the students sung in an ad- joining room, the doors of which were open. Dahl- mann drank to their well- being, and Jacob Grunon to the prosperity of our German fatherland. The takiog leave was painful. They were accompanied on their departure by a few relations, and abeut fifty students, who went ia waggons to Cassel. The taking leave was not clouded by any disturbance, and the students returned in the quietest manner to Gottingen. The state of siege here seems to have ceascd, but the town is, as it were, dead and deso- late. Most of the lectures could not be read, be- cause there were no hearers. Many students have left Gottingen, others intend to do so. No depar- ture orders have yet come respecting the six pro- fessors who signed the declaration against the ad- dress of the pro- rector. BRAZIL. REVOLUTION AT BAIIIA.— SUCCESS OF THE INSURGENTS.— Intelligence has been received of a revolution having taken place at Bahia. On the 4t" h of November, the president, Senhor Paraizo, a gentleman by no means distinguished, it is stated, far firmness of character or other attributes be- fittiag a statesman, issued a short proclamation stating that the government was aware of the ex- istence of a party which were endeavouring to sub- vert matters, but that they would be narrowly watched aad rigorously punished if they persevered ia their plans ; but no demonstration of force or power was made by the governor. The people were astonished at this novel procseding, but two day.- passed off without any movement. On the morn- ing of the 6' th, however, the artillery- men, about 86, stationed in the fort of St. Pedro, showed symptoms of disaffection, and during the day were reinforced by the greater part of the regular troops in the city, the whole net exceeding 300. The President then assembled all the remaining sol- diers and others, about 800, including 400 police, but did Dot leave the palace, and allowed the in surgents to approach and parley, the consequence of which was that the disaffee'ed iunoculated the others, and all, except about 50 men belonging to a Brazilian brig, joined the rebels. The President immediately embarked on board the brig, and, accompanied by another vessel, dropped down to the bar. The insurgents, as soon as they 1' eund the President had departed, convoked the municipal chamber, but, instead of twelve, only three attend- ed, and these nominated as President a person who is now in the United States, named Rocha Galvao, a well- known ultra- republican, and Carneiro da Silva Rego vice- president, who entered ioto his functions immediately, and appointed several per- sons to various offices, declaring at the same time the independence of Bahia. The President is ssid to have been in a state of stupor all the time and perfectly panic- struck. Business necessarily was at a complete stand still, bat a reaction in the po- litical stats of affairs was daily expected, as the in- surgents had already begaa to quarrel amongst themselves. Not a single shot was fired except from tho fort upoa the vessels which conveyed the President away. No attack had beea made either upou persons or property, and promises, on the contrary, were given by the principal actors for the security of every body. All persons of pro- perty, however, were fast leaving the town, and retiring to the towns of Cachoeira, Amero, and Nazar£, whence protests had been made against the revolutionary government at Bahia, and mea- sures set on foot to overthrow it. The joint popu- lation of these towns is 48,000, and are, moreover, surrounded by one- half of the inhabitants of the province of Bahia, which contains a population of 700,000. There are two English frigates at Baiiia, which will protect the British rcsidenls and their interests. probably an idea of obtaining possession of impor tant despatches, whereof he was the bearer to the, governments of the Spanish Peninsula. Some curious conversation between the citizen king and Dr. Bowring found its way to the press at that period, nd it was said, we believe with truth, that at the first interview with Louis Philip, the gilt chair on which he was sitting broke down, and he was saved from falling by the Prefact of the Seine and Dr. Bowring. The Reform Bill having passed, Dr. Bowring was called on to take upon himself the duties of a representative. v A considerable majority of the electors of Blackburn signed a requisition to him, but he failed by a very small number of votes. He received, however, a handsome service of plate from the people, a as testimony of their regard. The Burghs of Clyde, however, returned him with- out canvassing a single elector, by a majority ot' 237 over the Whig, and 367 over the Tory can- didate. It may be supposed that such a man was no idler in Parliament. During the two brief period of his membership, he surpassed all the Scotch Members for regular attendance, and his votes were invaria- bly of a Radical cast. He pithily stated, in an ad- dress to his constituents, that he had never voted against the Whigs except when the Vhigs had voted with the Tories. He snolce often in the House, ge- nerally ^ vith effect, but never at great length, Dr. Browning has received many marks of dis- tinction from European sovereigns. He is the author of several works written in other laugauges than his own. His letters on Holland have been translated into Dutch, and his Matins and Vespers, Russian theology, and other of his writings, have been reprinted in the United States. Dr. Bowring was the friend of Jeremy Bentham. What political reformer, what labourer in the delightful field of scholarship and literature, could desire a fairer " letter of recommendation" to ano- ther age, than his long and intimate association with such a man. MR. O'CONNELL'S SECOND LeTTER ON POOR LAWS. MEMOIRS OF POLITICAL REFORMERS. JOHN BOWRING, L. L. D. In the first rank of those Reformers who have been doers rather than dreamers in the warld, stands Dr. Bowring. John Bowring was born at Larkbear near Exeter, on the 17th October, 1792. His ancestors had been . or many generations connected witfl the woollen manufacture. He received the ordinary education of the middle classes of society, and was taught the elements of the classics and mathematics at a country school near Dartmoor, whose wild and romantic scenery made on his young mind a stronger impression than the lessons of the dissenting teacher. \ t the age of fourteen he was employed by his father in his trade. He was of studious and reserved habits, devoting almost all his leisure to a secluded study whose walls he had lined with books, with objects of natural history, with chemical ap- paratus, antiquities and various curiosities,— a museum, in fact, seldom opened even to the mem- bers ofhis family,— for he was in the habit oflocking himself in before day- break, and retiring to it again when the labours of the day were over. French was the only language he learned from a master. Bowring had an intense desire to acquire languages, and unknown even to any of his acquaintances, he mastered Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, and made much progress in German and Dutch before he was sixteen years old. He thought that the best mode of learning another tongue was to watch that easy mental process by which an infant acquires its own, by proceeding from the simplest signs and sounds to the more complex and entangled, from the noun to the verb, from the root to its various ramifications and auxi- liaries. In this way Bowring acquired aa easy command of most of the modern continental lan- guages. A great portion of Dr. Bowring's life, since the age of twenty, has been passed in foreign coun- tries. He was originally intended for commerce, arid duriog the Peninsular war he inhabited various portsinthe North of Spain, andreceivedconsignments of merchandize to very large amounts. he next visited Northern Europe, remaining some time in Russia, and traversing Sweden, Finland, and Germany ; he also spent some time in Portugal, making it his rule, wherever he dwelt, to live more among the natives than among his own countrymen, and by adopting the usages and speaking the language of the country, to make himself better acquainted with all its peculiar and interesting points. In this manner it has often happened to him to have lived ten months almost without entering an inn. Dr. Bowring has also been engaged i » several official missions to foreign countries. In 1828, be visited the Low Countries in order to examine into the manner in which their public accounts are kept, and in 1830 he was nominated with Sir Henry Par- nell to a similar mission in France. The reports he made on the accountancy of both countries have been laid before Parliament. In 1831 he was nominated with Mr. Villiers, our present ambassa dor at Madrid, as a commercial commissioner, to examine, with two French commissioners, into the tariffs of France and Great Britain, with a view to the extension of the trading relations between the two countries. Though the modifications introduced were far less important than the real interest of both countries required, still they have led to an enormous increase in the trade with France. In 1834, Dr. Bowring was charged with a mission to Belgium, and in 1833, with one to Switzerland, his report on which led to some " sharp sparring" in the House of Commons, Mr. Goulbnrn objecting to the expenses of his journey being paid out of the public purse. Dr. Bowring visited northern and central Italy in 1836, for the purpose of extending our commerce with those parts ; and he is now engaged in a similar mission to Egypt, having, we are assured, every prospect of a successful issue. Our traveller was in 1822 arrested at Calais, by a telegraphic order from the French government, and kept during several months in solitary confine- ment. The cause of his detention was never fully known ; but he was probably suspected of being one of the links in the chain of Europeon liberalism, which caused so much disquiet to the despotic sove- reigns of Europe. When he was claimed by the British government, who insisted either on his re- lease from imprisonment, or oa his being subjected to some specific accusation, the charge laid against him was, that he had been a party to the attempt to bribe the keeper of the French jau, in which Rones and the young Serjeant of the Rochelle were confined, an attempt which failed ; for though the sum agreed upon was paid to the mercenary jailor, he kept the money, denounced the plot to the police, and the unfortunate vietims were guillotined the following day. The real cause ef dr. Bowring's arrest was JOSEPH HUME, ESQ., M. P. Joseph Hume was born in Montrose, in the year 1777. He was still young, when his father who was the master, or captain, of a trading vessel of that port, died, leaving a numerous family to the charge of his widow. Mrs. Hume is described as a person of extraordinary perseverance, energy, and self- dependent habits. By the business of a shop, which a small capital was sufficient to carry on, she enabled herself to bring up her children iu cre- dit and comfort; giving to each an education not inferior to that usually attained in the middle ranks of life in such places as Montrose ; but it was the influence of her own example, her precepts, and her character, that fed, matured, and perfected those striking qualities that have since rendered her son a popular performer on the great political stage of the times, and won for hisn the regard ijnd grati- tude of so many of his countrymen. The school of hisnative town were the boundary of his fields of knowledge. His original education consisted simply of reading, writing, accounts, and an elementary knowledge of Latin ; and with these scanty stores, being intendod for the medical pro- fession, he was apprenticed to a surgeon in Montrose, with whom he served for three years. During 1793 and the two following years, he attended the me- dical classes in the University of Edinburgh, aad was then admitted a member of the College of Sur- geons in that cicy. In 1796 he made a voyage to India ; and after the lapse of a twelvemonth, having duly attended the hospitals, he was admitted a member of the London College of Surgeons. With an experince derived from practice during a considerable period ia the medical department of the East India Compaay's Naval Service, Mr. Hume proceeded in 1799 to Bengal, being placed on the medical establishment under that presidency. Here his energies had scope for operation. Ob- serving that few of the company's servants submit- ted themselves to the labour of acquiring the native languages, and perceiving too how materially a knowledge of the dialect of the country would add to his chances of utility and his prospects of rising in the world, Mr. hume immediately applied him- self, with characteristic assiduity, to effect the desi- rable acquisition. In 1803, when the Company's army took the field in the war with the Mahrattas, Mr. Hume was attached to that division which, under the command of Major General Powell, marched from Allahabad int » buldelcund. his foresight and industry in the acquisition of the native dialects were now rewarded; an interpreter being required for the assistance of the commanding officer, Hume was selected. He contrived to continue his medical duties, and to fill, besides, the offices of paymaster and postmaster of the troops— trusts that could only be efficiently discharged by one capaple of holding direct com- munication with the natives. Other duties of a profitable nature were occasionally confided to him ; and during the whole time the army was in the field, his extraordinary powers of application, and apparently natural taste for labour, enabled him to unite in his own person, a variety of offices, to which not merely honours but considerable emoluments were attached. Peace was concluded in the year 1807- 8, and Mr. Hume returned to the presidency. His private affairs, which by this time, in a pecuniary sense, were flourishing, soon after called him to this country. On his return to England, the seat for Weymouth being rendered vacant by the death of Sir John Johnstone, Mr. Hume was elected for that bo- rough, and sat in Parliament during the session of 1812. From this period Mr. Hume has pursued one uniform aud untiring course. He has never been, for a single week, out of the public sight; and the character, extent, and variety of the reforms which he has proposed and effected are known to every one who has devoted even a cursory attention to the proceedings of parliament. Mr. hume may undoubtedly claim the merit ef having, during twenty years, in which he has re- tained a seat in the house, been more uninterrupt- edly active than any other member in it. The leader of the assembly for the time- being may have risen as often and made longer speeches ; but he has been respited after a season, and has fouud re- pose oa another beach. Mr. Hume's duty, volun- tarily imposed himself, has been continuous. Un- der every administration, his labours have beeu re- newed. No change has brought change to him, in the matter of attendance and exertion; nor can we conceive it possible for him to survive that day ( not very likely to dawn at present) in which, having ransacked the deepest drawer oi' his desk for parliamentary documents, he should find himself left without an abuse to investigate, or a'grievance to be redressed 1 To this, to him, essential store is decreasing, slowly as Reform proceeds, ie sufficiently capable, if we refer in general terms to the subjects upon which Mr. Hume has bestowed the largest portion of his energies sinoe his election in 1818. Finan- cial matters have always been his favourites. His exertions in regard to financial affairs, to retrench- mcHt and reduction generally, to pensions, sine- cures, and salaries, are said by his friends to have realised a saving to the country of " two millions a- year in peace, and five millions a- year in war I" Honours, more than can be enumerated have been paid to him ; the cities of London, Edinburgh, Gloucester, and several others, have presented him with their freedom ; addresses and votes of thanks from many counties have expressed the pub- lic opinion of his assiduity and disinterestedness. We must not pais over his election, in 1824, and re- election in the following year, to the Lerd Rec- torship of the University and Marischal College of Aberdeen. The spirit in which he filled that offiee was, we believe, advantageous to the University, and favourable to the advancement of education in Scotland. Another distinguished honour was paid to him by the electors of Middlesex, in 1830, in returning him to parliament as their representative. TO MY CONSTITUENTS. Fellow - countrymen— This letter is intended to fix your attention upon two objections to the pro- posed poor law; both are important, though of un- equal magnitude. The first is this :— By the 19th section of the bill, at page 7 of the printed copy, it is enacted that no clergyman of any persuasion can be elected a guardian of the poor. I submit that it would be infinitely better to have clergymen of all denominations eligible — that is, capable of being elected, if the rate- payers think fit to elect them. It is a mistake to think that the catholic and protestant clergy quarrel or create jealousies when engaged together in works of charity or be- nevolence. The contrary is proved by one thou- sand instances in which they have cordially co- operated together in such works. Indeed this enactment is one of the proofs of the utter, and I may say, contemptous ignorance of the real state of Ireland on which this bill is framed. The real guardians ef the poor are the clergy. Why should they be shut out from any share whatever in the legal guardianship ? It is really too bad. The second objection, however, is of vital consequence. It is the grand and overwhelming error of the bill. It is the most important feature of the measure. It involves these questions : — How and by whom are the rates and cesses to be paid ? Who are to be the payers ? Are they to be landlords or the tenants ? the residents in Ireland or the absentees ? The answer to each question is— the occupiers are to pay : that is, the tenants are to pay, and not the landlords; the residents are to pay— not the ab- sentees. I procecd now to show how * he occupiers are to pay, and also what remedy they are to have for a part— a small part, indeed — of the rates against the landlords and the absentees. By the 67th section, page 23, the occupier is rendered liable to the payment of the entire rate; that rate can be enforced by distress and sale, or by suit, in like manner as the grand jury cess. By the 69th section every tenant holding at a rent not exceed- ing 57. a- year is not to pay any poor rate. This seems to be a provision in the favour of such tenants. But its operation will be directly other- wise. No landlord will in future demise a holding to any tenant at a less rent than 51. Why should he do so at his own loss ? The smaller holdings will thus be annihilated, and probably more than 200,000 unhappy creatures driven into the work- house by the operation of a clause intended for their benefit. Every occupier is to pay the entire rate in the first instance. If he pays or assumes a rent equal to the full value of the land, he may deduct one- half the rate from his rent. But, iu addition to the full value of his holding, he is to bear the loss of the other half the rate. That is, he is to give the landlord the full value of his land, and pay, over and above, out of his own pocket, half the rate. This is the first case. The second case is this:— If a man pays or assumes to a landlord a rent higher than the full value of the land, he is still to be compelled to pay, in addition to more than the value of his land, one- half the poor rate out of his own pocket. This poor law, for which so many are clamorous, does seem to bear rather heavily on the poor, that is, on those who have no profit, and on those who are incurring a loss. The landlord is thus in every case relieved from one- half of the poor rate. The absentee is in every cose relieved from one- half of the poor rate. Now, mark what is to be done with the other half of the rate. If the occupier has any profit by his holding above his rent, his case then stands thus : he will first bear his own half of the poor rate, and next a portion of the second half, equal to the proportion his profit bears to his rent. This will be best ex- plained by reducing it into figures. Suppose a man occupies land, or a house, at a rent of 100/., and that the land or kouse be rendered by hira worth 150.'. a- year, sa as to give him a profit of 50/. a- year. Suppose the poor rate to be 12(, a- year, the tenant will then have to pay the entire one- half of the 12/.,, that is 6/. a- year for his own share, and of the other 6/. a- year he will have to pay 11-, being the proportion his profit bears to his rest. Thus the occupying tenant, with only 50/. a- year for his income, will have to pay 8,'. a- year poor rate out of 12.'.; the landlord, with a clear income of 100/. a- year, will be chargeable with only 4/. a- year out of 12/. I thus show that a tenant occupying land, or a house, in Ireland, with only one- halt the income of the landlord, will have to pay twice as much poor rate as the landlord, who, with twice that income, will have to pay only one- third of such rate. see what an advantage this will be to a landlord having 50 such tenements. It wiil be an enormous gain to him, provided he does not eccupy his estate himself. Of this more pre- sently. Let us keep the matter distinct by con- fining the illustration to the case of the single occu- pying tenant, with a rent of 100/. a- year, and a profit of 50/. That occupying tenant, though he is to pay twice as much poor rate as his landlord, employs labourers, pays wages, puts capital into employment, and in 20 ways is of us8 to his neigh- bours. But the landlord spends his money in Bath, or London, or Paris ; nobody in Ireland is the better for him. He does not enable a single Irish- man or woman to earn a shilling to keep out of the workhouse. Yet by this law the useless and worth- less absentee, with double the income of the useful employing occupier, pays but one- third the poor rate, whilst the occupier pays two- thirds. There are many strange inconsistencies in this best of all possible sublunary worlds ; but this, as applicable to such a country as Ireland, dees really appear to me the most absurd of all. The occupier also, if he lays out money in the cultivation of his farm, or improvement of his house, renders it of more value. What is the consequence ? For every shil- ling he lays out he increases his proportion of the poor rate, and exonerates, in the ratio of his ( the tenant's) expenditure, his landlord, who does not lay out one shilling. What can be more incon- sistent with good policy than this, to discourag improvement, and encourage absenteeism ? I have the person tendering the receipt, be also tendered and paid." Thus the receipt of the rate collector for the landlord's share of the poor rate shall be taken as part of the occupier's rent in one case, and in one case only— that is, in case the occupier shaU pay up in full all rent due of him when he paid the rate, and all the gale to become due after he paid the rate. It is, in short, only out of a gale to be- come due after the poor rate has been paid that it is to be allowed, and only upon the terms of paying up all that gale. This is, indeed, a boon to land- lords 1 It is, indeed, the first time an Irish tenant was ever required to pay a rent not due, but to become due! Was I not right in caVling this a land- lord's bill— an absentee's bill? It ought to be entitled an " Act the better to enable harsh land- lords and absentees to extort large rents, and to throw the support of the Irish poor on the resi- dents and occupiers ef lands and houses in Ireland." Besides, there is this peculiar hardship in placing these payments on occupiers resident in Ireland, that it is a plan diametrically opposite to the general policy of the present admnaistration. That policy has been to throw the tithes and other burdens on the rents, that is, as much as possible on the land- lords. This plan is to throw as little as possible upon the occupiers. Thus the ministry contradict themselves, and whilst they advocate the placing other burdens on the rent and landlords, they now insist upon throwing this burden on the occupiers and residents. Why should the ministry violate their own principles, and, in this instance, act in a way directly the reverse of that which they pursue on other occasions ? I have no doubt that one reason is, because, unless they conciliated the land- lords, they would have no chance of passing tbe bill through the House of Lords. The secood reagou I fear is this, that this bill has been ginated with the Grey sectiou of the cabiuet, and that section is necessarily tinged by the unextin- guishable hatred of Ireland and Irishmen which is well known to rage in Earl Grey's breast, and from which sprung the ntrocious Coercion Act. Our business is, if possible, to save the ministry from the fatal effects of suoli a mistake as is involved in this poor law bill. We owe too deep a gratitude to Lord Melbourne's administration, and, above all and before all, to the government of the Earl of Mulgrave, not to exert every energy in our power to rescue that administration from the fatal effects of the ill- considered measure. My object is this; if we are to have a poor law in Ireland, let the rates come out of rents, and out of rents almost exclu- sively. Take the rents, one, two, or ten shillings in the pound. Relieve the occupiers, the payers of wages, the employers of labourers; lean on the non- residents, on the absentees, on the men who receive all and restore none, who employ nobody in Ireland, pay no wages in Ireland, drain everything, and re- turn nothing. What is then to be done? Alas! I fear very little; nothing, certainly, effectual, un- less every parish, town, city, and county in Ireland bestirs itself, and clamours loud and lofig against this bill. It has been said that the bill may be amended in committee, I tell the people of Ireland that it will not be so amended; that it cannot be so amended, unless the people, by overwhelming peti- tions to parliament, compel the ministry to attend to their cries. Citizens of Dublin, it depends ou yourselves. I do my duty in expesing the ab- surdities— the glaring mischiefs of this bill. What support am I to expect ? From the press, little— very little. There is a maudlin affectation of sen- timentality about what is called a " provision for the poor," which distorts the views of most of our public writers, and prevents them from seeing that, at all events, this bill is no " provision for the poor," but is really a provision to render occupants and residents poor indeed, and to proclaim protec- tion and reward to landlords and absentees. Even the English press will do nothing for us. Irish poor laws are not of sufficient interest to justify the London papers to insert my letters on this sub- ject. Even The Sun, which takes so kind and zealous a part on most subjects connected with Ireland, does not feel itself warranted to consume its space by printing my commentary on this bill. I could not give a stronger proof of the utter dis- regard of purely Irish affairs which pervades, and naturally pervades, society in England. This is a subject exclusively Irish, and therefore public opi- nion is either diverted into a wrong channel or ren- dered powerless of protection to the unfortunate Irish people. My determination, therefore, is to redouble my agitation on this subject. The less assistance I get from others, the more am 1 bound to exert myself to supply the deficiency. I am thoroughly convinced that if thin bill passes, or any poor law bill which does not put the rates on the rents and absentees, and not on the occupiers, new agrarian disturbances will disfigure and disgrace the country, and prevent our advances towards " jus- tice from England," or justice for ourselves. Fellow- countrymen, I call for your aid; assist me to get rid of the obnoxious clauses in this bill. I respectfully iutreat the clergy of every persuasion will be pleased to explain the fatal effects likely to be produced by this bill, and then I implore the people to assist me by petitions and remonstrances to prevent its enactment.— I have the honour to be, fellow- countrymen, your faithful servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL. He has " laboured in his vocation," and has " fulfilled his destiny." It must also be recol- letted, that if he be destitute of the loftier and more original powers of mind, he makes no pretension to the possession ef them. He seeks to be theught only what he really is. He professes not to be a discoverer ef new truths, but a reviver of old ones. The above is taken from Part III of Saunders' memoirs of eminent Political Reformers. thus showa the state of the occupiers of lands. I wish my constituents to understand that the oc- cupiers of houses are worse off, for this simple reason, that the rent of a house is, in general, less in proportion to its value than the rent of lands. The value of houses is given by way of fine in very many instances. In most instances some fine is given. That fine is not to be taken into calculation iu order ta exonerate the occupier from the poor rate. No such thing; it is the landlord or the house- owner who will be exonerated from the poor rate in the exact ratio of the fine he receives. By paying the fine the rent of the tenant is less, and the annual calculated profit above the rent is more. It is upon that profit the occupier will pay his pro- portion of the second half of the poor rate; aud, of oourse, that proportion to the greatness oi' the fine, and of the sums of money laid out in improve- aients. Inhabitants of Dublin— the more you im- prove your houses, the more you fine down your rents, the more poor rates you will have to pay, and the less poor rates will be paid by your landlords. Is this to be borne, is this burden on the occupiers and residents in Ireland to be endured, in order to exonerate the rents of landlords and absentees from poor rate, and to give a pecuniary bonus to land- lords to transport themselves out of Ireland, and to augment the baleful number of absentees ? But this is not all; the tenant is still worse off, the landlord is still better off. Look at the 74th sec- tion, page 25 ; you will find the mode in which the tenant er occupier is to be repaid by the landlord the part of the poor rate chargeable oa the land- lord. Observe, in the first place, tliat the entire rate is to be paid, without any deduction, by the occupier, and that in every instance. In Ireland it is no smell inconvenience to a tenant to be obliged to advance money on account of his landlord; but let that pass. Under this bill the occupier must advance the landlord's share of the rate. But, having advanoed it, how is the occupier to be re- paid by the landlord ? The 74th section will tell you the astonishing faot, that the occupier is to be repaid only out of the gale to accrue next after such advance. This is almost incredible, but it is not less true. The words of the 74th section are ex- press. I will give them, to exhibit a monstrosity of legislation I believe unparalleled. Oh, the union 1 the union 1 " Provided always that no person entitled to rent shall be compellable to ae- c « pt in part payment thereof any receipt for rate, ur- lass the residue of the portion or gale o reot, next accruing due after the payment of the rate by MR. O'CONNELL, ON TITHES. Mr. O'Connell entered upon this most vexatieus question, at a public meeting in Dublin, a few days ago. He dwelt upon the advantages that his re- cent proposition would give to the clergy. He said that these men laboured under the greatest imagi- nable mistake when they supposed that he was their enemy. He had proved himself their best bene- factor. He had carried a bill through the House of Commons, deducting but 22i per cent, from their income, and securing to them without trouble or expense the remaining 77/. 10s. They refused that; and Sir Henry Hardinge would afterwards have been glad to take them out of their difficulties at a loss of 25 per cent. Another bill was brought in, striking off 5 per cent, more, and thus the thing went on like a Dutch auction. No: they must go on in a harassing and fruitless endeavour to collect the impost for two or three years more, blind to the clear assurance that it will be abolished in the end. They suy that they cannot submit to the principle of having any portion of their rights taken from them by act of Parliament, lest if a part be taken now, the rest may follow in the same way ; but he would be glad to know upon what but au act of Parliament the whole rights of the esta- blished church are founded ? If a sponge were ap- pUea to the statute book, all claim of the church of England to tithes would be wiped out; for without an act of Parliament they would remain for their original purposes— the supptrt of the poor, the provisions for masses for the dead, and the building and repair of churches. He should like to know how an act for the abolition of tithes differed in principle from Lord Stanley's Church Temporali- ties Bill, which knecked down ten bishops, as if the- noble lord had been playing at nine- pins ( laughter). If the people of England insist that Ireland shall have parsons without flocks — that a large number of clergy shall be supported for the honour and glory of the church— why, all he oould say was, let those who dance pay the piper ( laughter). He called upon the meeting and upon the people of Ireland to petition for the total abolition of tithes, for nothing else could ensure permanent tranquillity and happiness to the eountry. Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH has been invited to a public dinner of the Working Men's Associa- tion in Leeds. In reply to the invitation Sir, Wil- liam wrote as follows : — " Though it would be ex- cessively inconvenient for me, for various reasons, to leave town, yet if it be the wish of a considera- ble number of my friends tkat I should do so, for the purpose of attending a public meeting, I will undoubtedly comply with their wishes. Allow me, however, te remark on one snbjeot— namely, the propriety of following the example of the Westmis- ter meeting in petitioning for an extension of the svffrage, and not specifically for universal suffrage. LANGUAGES.— There are said to be no less than 3,424 known languages in use in the world ; of wkich 937 are Asiatic, 587 European, 276 African, and 1,624 American languages and dialects. By calcu- lation from the best dictionaries, for each of the fol- lowing languages, there are aboat 20,000 words in the Spanish, 22,080 words in the English, 25,000 iu the Latin, 30,000 in the French, 45,000 in the Italian, 50,000 in the Greek, and 80,000 la the German. 4 JAN. 1. T liiii Would < M FASHION Monthly Magazine of the Court of London, FOR JANUARY, 1838, IS A SPLENDID MAGAZINE. 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The Consumption of Morrison's Pills. The following: calculation is made from the evidence given by Mr. Joseph Wing, clerK to the Stamp Office, Somerset House, London, on the trial of Morison against Harmer, the Proprietor of " The Weekly Dispatch," that gentleman stated, that in a. period of six years ( part only of the time that Morison's Pills have been before the'Public) the number of Stamps issued for the above medicines amounted to Three Millions Nine Hundred and One Thousand. THEREFORE, ALLOWING 3,300,000 stamps for Boxes at is l^ d each, containing 50 pills, the number is 90,000,000 1,000,000 stamps for boxes at 2s 9d each, con- staining 120 pills, the number is 120.000,000 400,000 stamps for boxes at 4s fid each, con- taining 200 pilis, the number is 80,000,000 500, COO stamps for boxes at 113 each, con- taining- 600 pills, the number is 300,000,000 £ 01,800 stamps for powders. 3,901,000 Stamps. Total Number of Pills 590,000,000 Thus it appeals that in a period of six years the above enormous quantity of Morison's Pills have be? n con- sumed, amounting to five hundred and ninety millions. The object in placing the foregoing statement before the public is to deduce therefrom the following powerful argument in favour of Mr. Morison's system, and to which the public attention is directed, viz., that it was only by trying the above medicine to such an extent, that the truth of the Hygeian system could possibly have beenaestablished. It is clear that all the medical men in England or the world put together, have not tried a sys tem of vegetable purgation to the extent, and in the manner prescribed by Hygeists. Hoiv, therefore, can they ( much less individually) know anything about the extent' of its properties >" CAUTION. Whereas spurious imitations of my Medicines are now in circulation; I, JAMES MORISON the Hygeist, hereby give notice, that I am in no way connected with the following medicines purporting to be mine, and sold under the various names of " Dr. Morison's Pills," " The Hygeian Pills," " The Improved Vegetable Uni versal Pills," " The Original Morison's Pills, as com- pounded by the late Mr. Moat," " The Original Hygeian Vegetable Pills." & c. & c. That my medicines are prepared only at the British College of Health, Hamilton- place, King's- cross, and sold by the General Agents to the British College of Health and their Sub- Agents, and that no Chemist or Druggist is authorized by me to dispose of the same. None can be genuine without the words " MORISON'S UNIVERSAL MEDICINES" are engraved on the Govern- ment Stamp, in white letters upon a red ground. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand. JAMES MORISON, the Hygeist. The following is a list of the principle Depots where the Medicines may be had in London. Medical Dissenter Office, 368, Strand ; Mr. Field, 65, Quadrant, Regent Street; Mr. Lofts, City Agent, Park Place, Mile End ; Mr. Chappell, Bookseller. 97- Royal Exchange; Mr. haslett, 118, Ratcliffe Highway; Mid- landBranch, 10, Hand Court, Holborn; Western Branch, 72, Ecgware Road ; British College of Health, Hamilton Place, King's Cross, and of thpir Sub- Agents. FOR COUGHS, COLDS ASTHMAS, INFLU- ENZA, SHORTNESS OF BREATH, & c, WALTERS'S ANNISEED PILLS.— ? h These invaluable Pills, which have stood the test of experleuce for several years, in curing the most dis- tressing and long- established diseases of the Pulmonary and Respiratory organs, can with confidence be taken in all Asthmatic and Consumptive cases, difficulty of breath- ing, wheezing, catarrhs, and every species of con- gealed phlegm; they are entirely vegetable, and, unlike most cough Medicines, neither affect the head, con the bowels, cor leave any unpleasant sensation so sub- quently complained of. Testimonials from many received:— F. Nunige, of South Street, Finsbury Market, by t aking one box was entirely cured of a most violent cough, from which hp had obtained but little respite night or day for several winters. E. Booley, of Queen- street, Spitalficlds, after taking a few doses, wss entirely cured of a most inveterate cough, with difficuty of breathing, which he had had for many months, and tried almost everything without success. Prepared by W. Waiker and sold by J. A. Sharwood, 55, Bishopsgate Without, in boxes at Is. l£ d. or three in one for 2s. 9d.; and by appointment, by Sanger, 150, Oxford street; Pink, 65, High street, borough : Prout, 229, Strand ; Heudebourcic, 326, Holborn; Green, 42, White- chapel road; Alliso. v, 130, Brick lane, Bethnai Green; Farrarr, 3, Upton place, Commercial road ; Emerson, Bath place, New road; Talbot, High street, Poplar; Tulley, Church street, Hackney, and by all the wholesale and retail Medicine Vendors. The very extraordinary demand for this excellent Me- dicine renders it necessary to caution the nobility, gentry and public in general, that none can be genuine unless signed by W. Walker, on the outside wrapper, and J. A. Sharwood, on the Government Stamp* *** Be sure to ask for Walter's Anniseed Pills. A CERTAIN cUre FOr COtNS And BUNIONS, ALLINGHAM'S ROTTERDAM CORN and BUNION SOLVENT, which gives relief upon the first application. The Corn Solvent now submitted to the notice of the public, has been in general use for the last fifteen years, and has never been known to fail where the directions have been followed: it has afforded relief after all other remedies had been tried without success. The following are selected from numerous other testi- monials equally satisfactory, in the possession of the Proprietor. " SIR,— The surprising efficacy of your Corn Solvent, on several persons to whom I have sold it, induces me to wi ite lor three dozen of the small size, for which I have enclosed the money. Mrs. Egar of this place purchased a bottle of me a few days ago ; the pain she had previ- ously experienced rendered her incapable of walking far, or sleeping at night; she affirms that after two applica- tions the pain and inconvenience entirely left her, and further states, although she is but a pjor woman, that she would give a sovereign per bottle for it, could it not be got for less. Your's respectfully, T. SPOUNSER." " Gainsborough, August 25, 1836." " Sir— I have been for several years troubled with Corns, which nothing appeared capable of removing, until I made use of ALLINGHAM'S CORN SOLVENT, which has effectually removed them.— I am, Sir, yours, & c. BEN. GIBBINS." " Barton- on- Humber, Sept. 30, 1836." 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FRANKS'S SARSINE PASTE ; or, ALKALINE COMPOUND of SARSAPARlLLA. This Compound contains the Active Principle of Sarsapa- rilla, in combination with other Vegetable Alterative, and Tonics, in the most pure and Concentrated Forms It will keep in all climates, and not deteriorated by air, The heretofore difficulties in the preparations of Sarsa- parilla are entirely obviated in the chemical combination, of FRANKS'S SARSINE PASTE at the same time the effi- cacy is greatly increased. *** In the Compound Decoction of Sarsaparilla, as ordered to be prepared by the London Pharmacopseia, the ACTIVE PRINCIPLE or SARSINE is very partially extracted, and its. great dilution with mucilage and vege- table matter renders it inert unless taken writhin twenty- four hours after being prepared, for seldom will it keep longer in any fluid state. In Rheumatic Gout, and all Neuralgic Affections; in Bespepsia, Eruptions of the Skin, Scrofula Affections, Enlarged Glands, Morbid Secretions, & c. ; in general debility, and where the Constitution has been impaired by the continued use or abuse of Mercury ; and, in fine, • whendVer it is desirable to'administer the full benefit- of Sarsaparilla, this form of that valuable vegetable will be found of the greatest service. To be had of all Wholesale and Retail Patent Medicine Venders in the United Kingdom. In Bottles at 4s 6d and lis each. Prepared only by George Franks, Surgeon, 90, Black- friors- road, London. *** Mr. FRANKS may be consulted until two o'clock daily. CAUTION. The public are protected against Counterfeits by the naUie, " George Franks, Blackfriars- road," being en- graved on the Government stamp attached to each package. london: MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 1, 1838. THE CANADIAN TROUBLES. Our paper of to- day contains the official reports of the revolt in Lower Canada, together with further particulars of this important occur- rence. The consequences to which the Canadian outbreak will lead must bg disastrous, if the in- surgents are supported, as is generally supposed that they will be, by the whole of the French Canadian population, amounting to five hun- dred thousand. The number of British in Lower Canada is but one hundred thousand, and the British troops there amount to five thousand only. The Upper Canadians seem to be promising assistance, but their interference may cause the followers of Papineau to call for aid upon the American riflemen, who would not be slow to respond to their call. The plot has been well laid ; the time for the insurrection well chosen ; the river St. Lawrence being frozen up, no ships can approach Canada until May, and before that time it may be in the hands of Papineau. As many of our - readers may not perfectly understand the grounds of dispute between the French Canadians and the home government, we will here briefly state them. 1 he government of Lower Canada is modelled on the principles of the British constitution. The executive power is vested in a governor, with a council of ten members, all appointed by the sovereign of Great Britain. The legislature, or provincial parliament, is composed of a coun- cil of twenty- eight members, appointed by the Queen and a house of assembly of fifty mem- bers, elected by the people. The House of Assembly has a right of voting the supplies ; and feeling aggrieved by the proceedings of the legislative chamber, they exercised their privilege and refused the money required for the salaries of the judges and other functionaries. The British government, believing the house of assembly to be in error, refused to comply with the demands of the Papineau party, to make the Legislative Council elective, and determined also to put an end to a state of things which was becoming hourly more alarming; but they sent out only some resolutions, of the British Parliament; and the Papineau party, feeling their strength, have taken up arms, and at a time too, when no additional troops from the mother country can reach them. The House of Assembly wished to change the constitution of the colony, in order to further their own pur- poses-, which were, in the opinion of ministers, with whom, upon this point, both the Whig and Conservative parties concur, fraught with evil to Great Britain. The ministers ground their refusal to consent to the demands of the French Canadians, upon the circumstance of Lower Canada not being exclusively French, but inherited also by men of British descent, who have received grants of land in the pro- vince from the Crown, and also upon that of the river which flows through Lower Canada, belonging also to the immense territory ofxthe Upper province. They further allege that the French have always wished, not only to exclude British settlers from Lower Canada, and to set aside the grants of lands which have been made to them, but they have further claimed a right to tax Upper Canada, by imposing a duty on emigrants, & c. They will not allow the river to be common to all the lands for which it is the outlet, but would act the part which Holland has always acted with regard to the Rhine, and against which the various Governments on the banks of that noble river have so long protested. The Lower Canadians wish to tax their neigh- bours, and refuse to contribute anything from the duties levied by them, to the improvement wanted to make the St. Lawrence beneficial to the Upper Canadians. The government acted imprudently in sending out threats to the French Canadians, which could not possibly be of any avail. The Papineau party might have been terrified by the sight of an army, but they laughed to scorn a powerless bit of paper ; and, as it might have been expected, from the cha- racter of their previous proceedings, they im- mediately took the necessary steps to effect their object before the government could possibly put their threats into execution. If a body of troops had been sent over with the resolutions of Parliament, the insurrection might not have occurred. The Goverment have acted most unwisely ; if they were determined upon resistance, why did they not resist with some- thing stronger than a scrap of paper ? If they had determined to overpower the high- toned House of Assembly, why did they not follow the course which Sir Robert Peel pointed out to them as being the proper one to pursue ? If they had done so, these disturbances would riot have happened : the authority of England would have been vindicated, a peaceful state of things established, and without bloodshed ; but the Government were stubborn in error, they would neither listen to the agents of the Papi neau party, nor to the friends of the Legislative Council; and we see the consequences. At such a time a moderate line of policy could not possibly be productive of any good; the colony was ripe for rebellion; the time was past for argument; Papineau felt his strength, and was determined to exercise it, and as the Government could not acceede to his demands, it should have sent a sufficient body of troops to tell him so. But this the Government did not think proper to do, and the consequence is that many hundred men have been slaughtered, some burned and suffocated in barns, wherein they had taken refuge, others driven into the water, and a price is said to be set upon Papineau's head. These are horrible things to contemplate ; and we see very plainly that they might have been and ought to have, been averted. We cannot tell where the wits of Lord Melbourne's ministry were straying when they resolved upon the course to be taken. Did they think to please the Radicals? If so they were never more completely out in their reckon- ing. Did they hope that their shew of spirit would gratify th^ Conservatives? The Conservatives rebuked their shortsightedness. They did not win a smile from either side. ' The probability is that Canada will become one of the United States. The American Pre- sident in his Message to Congress which will be found in another part of our paper, says no- thing of the revolt, although it must have been the prevailing topic of conversation. His silence may be indicative of his desire to support the French Canadians, and be meant to encourage them in their struggle against the mother country. We cannot forget the policy of America with regard to the insurrection in Texas, the revolu- tionists in which colony have been protected and supported, subscriptions have been opened at New Orleans and elsewhere, ships have been armed and equipped for the revolted colonists, arms and war stores have been publicly bought and sent from the American party to Texas ; men have been levied in several towns, with the tacit consent of the authorities ; and whilst the Ame- rican Government might legally have prevented all these acts of open hostility from the American citizens against a friendly neighbouring State not only has it done nothing of the kind, but it has treated with scorn all the representations of the Mexican Government respecting this cul- pable toleration. Who can entertain a doubt after this of the desire of the Americans to sup- port the Canadians in their resistance to the government of Great Britain! Mr. O'CONNELL REBUKED. A second letter on the subject of Poor Laws for Ireland has been issued by Mr. O'Connell, which we have also thought it necessary to lay before our readers in order that they may be fully aware of the proceedings of the agitator. It does not call for any observation, and we should not have been disposed to advert to it in tnis part of our paper had not Mr. O'Connell's re- marks been replied to by another Irish Radical Member, Mr. Barron, who seems to be much more clear sighted or more honest hearted upon this subject than " the great O' " ; and who rebukes his friend for having issued letters con- taining ridiculous and extravagant passages. " I may agree," says this more worthy Radical, " that it would be better for Ireland to have the poor of Ireland relieved by England and Scot- land, than by levying a tax on Ireland herself. But could we stop there ? Would England or Scotland think it just that they should support their own poor and ours also ? Would this be ' justice to England ?' " Mr. Barron blushes at Mr. O'Connell's expressed wish for England and Scotland to support the Irish poor. He cannot uphold so impudent a proposition. " Would it be justice to England!" he cries, most assuredly it would not. Whether O'Con- nell will deign to make reply or not, we cannot tell, but we think he would be puzzled to make a reply that would be at all satisfactory. Mr. Barron, though a Radical, appears to be a very well- meaning and intelligent gentleman ; he sees the case of the Irish poor— his country- men— in its true light, and he has the manliness to say what he thinks. He tells Mr. O'Connell that a Poor Law Bill for Ireland would raise the moral and social character of the entire peo- ple, would secure the property of the rich and industrious, and prevent ( that great moral dis- grace and crime) any man from starving for want of food. He cannot understand how any person that has calmly read the History of England from the time when the convents and monasteries were destroyed by Henry VIII. to the 43d year of Queen Elizabeth's reign can doubt that the want of a proper provision for the poor of England during that time was the cause, or at least the principal cause, of the frightful state of crime that we read of in those days in this country. There were no less than fourteen different acts of ^ Parliament passed during that time for the purpose of relieving the poor or punishing " vagabonds and sturdy beg- gars." Then look to the testimony of Walsing- ham and all other English historians of those times as to the state of the poor and the injuries to property in those days. Har- rison says, talking of the reign of Elizabeth prior to passing the bill in the 43d year of her reign, " Rogues were trussed up apace : not one year wherein three hundred or four hundred of them were not doomed and eaten up by the gallows." Is it not equally notorious that thousands of vagrants traversed Scotland in like manner, and committed robberies, mur- ders, and every kind' of excesses and crimes ? Neither life nor property was secure ; the most sanguinary laws were passed— all failed to arrest crime, until a poor- law was enacted. What followed a provision for the poor in England ? A gradual diminution of crime— a rapid im- provement in property and the comforts of all classes. What followed a poor- law in Scotland? A rapid improvement in every class of the people— a rapid improvement in property— and Scotland, from being the most barbarous people in Europe, has become the most thriving, prosperous, and happy people in the civilized world. " When we see these examples at our own doors," ex- claims Mr. Barron, " can we doubt the benefits that mu3t flow to Ireland from a similar course ? But is there a well- regulated state in Europe without some provision for the poor ? I believe not one at this moment. Shall Ireland be the only exception, and at the same time contain the most miserable and most discontented people ?" What will O'Connell say to this ? WHAT HAVE MINISTERS DONE FOR OUR FARMERS ? Part of another Session of the Reformed Parlia- ment has passed away, without any proposal having been made, by Ministers, as we might— had we placed much reliance in the very plausible pro- fessions of regard to our farmers, which have been made, from time to time, by those who are now, at the head of the Administration— have been led to anticipate, in order to relieve the agriculturists of the undue proportion of taxes, which it is their lot to be compelled to pay. But this was not unexpected, on our part, knowing, as we do, that under present circum- sta? ices, ( which expression is by far too common, on account, we presume, of its being so very convenient) their would be much difficulty, in proposing such plans by which permanent re- lief could be granted to the tillers of England's soil, who have so long and so patiently borne more oppressions than any other class of men in existence. We most sincerely hope ere the Parlia- ment reassembles that farmers will stand forward fearlessly, and boldly to assert their just rights ; and petition, for the abrogation of those ob- noxious imposts by which agriculture has sus- tained a great and unnecessary injury, but which we do hope to see again brought into that flourishing state in whichit was wont to be, some years since. QUEEN VICTORIA AND HER COURT. On Monday, her Majesty and her mother attended divine service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. After the service the Queen and Duchess of Kent received the sacrament, which was administered by the Bishop of London, assisted by the Rev. Dr. Vivian. Her Majesty had a small dinner party at the new Palace, on » which day, her Majesty and her mother left the new Palace in a carriage and four, preceded by outriders in scarlet liveries, and escorted by a party of Lancers, for Windsor Castle. Her Majesty's suite followed in two of the Royal car- riages and four. On Tuesday evening there were some brilliant illu- minations iu the town in honour of the Queen's arrival, and the guns continued firing for some time after ber Majesty's arrival. On Wednesday, the Queen did not leave the cartle. On Thursday afternoon her Majesty left the castle iu an open pony phaeton, an4 rode a short time in the Great Park. In the evening there was a royal dinner party. On Friday afternoon the Queen drove out at Windsor, in an open carriage, in the Great Park. In the evening there was a dinner party at the Castle. Yesterday morning the Queen attended divine ser. vice in St. George's Chapel. In the afternoon her Majesty rode out on horseback i I the Park. ANECDOTE OF THE QUEEN. — The Queen is passionately fond of little children. A few days since her Majesty commanded Lady Barham to bring her family of lovely children to the New Palace. They were greatly admired and fondly caressed by the Queen— when a beautiful little boy, about three years of age, artlessly said, " I do not see the Queen— I want to see the Queen ;" upon which her Majesty, smiling, said, " I am the Queen ;" and, takiug her little guest into her arms, kissed the child. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. ( after fourteen days' absence, with the loss of three killed and eighteen wounded, with thirty- two pri- soners taken, in arms, their cap of liberty, & c.) has given us all fresh courage. He will no doubt re- in. Five hundred men are barricading all the smaller streets of Montreal. None but Great St. James, Notre Dame, St. Paul, and the main street of St. Lawrence suburbs, will remain open. A strong redoubt lias been erected on the Cflte a Barron. Lieut.- Colonel Gore was sent off yester- day with three companies of the 32d Foot, two of the 24th Foot, one of the 83d Foot, a division of cavalry, six field pieces, and a train of artillery, to take St. Denis by storm, and reduce it to ashes. It will be done this evening or to- morrow morning. The rebels are not over 400 or 500 there. Brown, Papineau, and O'Callaghan are still at large. The two latter ran away, at St. Charles, before the troops came up — the former, as lieutenant- general of the rebels, remained to hear the first shot, and then speedily departed. Everything is doing to place Montreal in a good state of defence. Fears are entertained that the rebels are arming and equipping in great numbers at Terrebonne, at the Brule point Clare, and in the direction of the Lake of the Two Mountains. This last place has been the hot- bed of rebellion for some months, the conventions being held there. Fears are also entertained that the by- town and Upper Canadian mails will be stopped, or have to be sent round by the United States, a detour of fully 120 miles. We have full information that General Scott commands the rebels in chief at the Brule; Lieut.- General Eschambault is second in command. They have, in three divisions, fully 2000 men, well armed and equipped. Rumours are afloat, that in the winter they purpose, by a com- bined movement, to attack Montreal by storm 1 The priests of St. Charles, previous to the troops coming up, administered the sacrament to the rebels, to encourage them to stand bold or die. The slain that were left on the field were voraciously mu- tilated by hogs which had been penned up in the rebels' stockade, and got loose on its being fired at by the troops. Poor Lieutenant Weir, of the 30th Regiment, was shot by a rebel Captain's order, immediately after falling into their hands. He was conveying dispatches to the regular troops, and was betrayed by his rebel conductor, who drove him to St. Denis, instead of St. Charles. LAST NEWS FROM FRANCE.— The Ps. ris papers of Saturday ( received this morning) repre- sent that the Bourse has been agitated by the move- ments in the French army towards the frontier of the north, occasioned by movements, it is said, cf the Dutch army in Brabant. The f- ct relative to the march of French troops is, we understand, that a corps of 18,000 men is ordered to form at Metz, and that the Duke of Orleans left Paris oa Friday night to either command it or inspect it. This is a strange contrast with the passage in the R iyal speech declaring that never was France on better terms with Foreign Powers, nor the peace of Europe less likely to be troubled. The Siecle mentions a rumour circulate 1 in the Chamber of Deputies, that one of the bulletins put in the voting- box, on occasion of the President's election, was inscribed with the name of Robespierre. This aimable esplengerie the journal attributes to one of the Doctrinaire Deputies. The Journal du Com- merce of Lyons relates, that on the 16th and 18ih instant the female population of Roches de Con- drieu rose in a body to stop the continuance of works that had been commenced for making an embankment along the Rhone. A party of Lancers sent from the garrison of Vienne kept these amazons in check for a time, but they were not prevented from threatening to destroy what bad been done till the sub- prefect interfered, and by his persuasions put an end to the revolt. FRENCH FUNDS.—( Last Prices at the Paris Bourse on Saturday Afternoon).— French 5 per Cents., 108c. 15f. ; ditto 3 per Cents., 79c. ; Bank of France, 2540c. LAST NEWS. FROM SPAIN.— We have re- ceived to day Madrid letters of the 21st. The new administration was getting on, but with difficulty, on account of want of union of its members. Count d'Ofalia, being of the old regime, was said to be at variance on many points with his colleagues, who had all risen into notoriety since the establishment of the constitutional system. The constant inter- views of the Count with the French Ambassador induced the belief that King Louis Philippe se- riously intended to assist the Queen. The Carlist expedition has set out for the Asturias, and Espar- tero for Madrid, Simultaneously. This cannot tell to the credit of the latter, nor to his profit either, since the Liberals of Madrid, moderate as well as exalte, are putting forward Cordova in opposition to the present commander- in- chief. Cordova will most likely be returned deputy for Madrid, which will enable him the better to struggle. Our Saragossa correspondent writes on the 24th that Cabrera had first gone to Quinto on the morning of the 23d, and from thence, after seeking it, to Zaida. General San Miguel had arrived and taken the command." LAST NEWS FROM RUSSIA. WTe have received letters from St. Petersburg^ to day, which state that the Grand Duke Michael has been summoned by the Emperor to Moscow. It is believed that he will have the command of the army of reserve. The brothers are upon the best terms with each other, as the Czar is again inclined to favour the German party, of which the Grand Duke is the chief, it being thought that the Russian nobles have adopted principles which may tend to embarrass the throne. INTELLIGENCE FROM CANADA. BARRICADING OF MONTREAL.— INTENTION OF THE PATRIOTS TO ATTACK MONTREAL BY STORM. — Letters arrived yesterday from Montreal, of the date of the 1st inst., bringing intelligence up to a late period. The following extracts are from the letter of a gentleman attached to the government:— Lieutenant- Colonel Wetherall's return to town LATESt FROM CANADA. MAGNET OFFICE : Monday, 2 o' Clock, p. m. New York papers have just reached us to the 12th ult. They bring intelligence of very great importance. While they speak of Lieutenant- Colonel Wetherall's expedition a^ hxving been com- pletely successful, they state the rebels to be still in arms, and prepared to continue the struggle An application appears to have been made by our government, to the President of tbe United States, for permission to send a body of troops to Canada by the way of New York, but tie answers to it had not transpired. The rebels are nothing daunted by the result of the St. Charles affair; every one" feels that the worst has not yet come. There are not more than 3,380 regulars on this continent; and how are they to defend the cities, and the expanse of country during the winter, is a question. About 5,000 loyalist volunteers may be raised, but their fanaticism is as troublesome to the government as the open hostility of the Canadians. Throughout New England and New York, the popular feeling is unquestionably de veloping itself in favour of the Canadian insurgents. In the city of New York there are many secret movements going on in favour of the revolters. The disaffected, to the number of two thousand, are stated to have remained at Grand Brule. On the night of the 28th of November, about 500 men from Clareneeville, on the Richelieu, near the frontier state of New York, turned out with alacrity against a supposed; attack from the insurgents ; however, it was a false alarm. The Scotch settlers in Glengarry, to the number of 2,000, have declared their readiness to march in favour of the government, The Quebec Mercury of November 30, contains tbe following paragraph :—" The enrolling of men for the several volunteer corps of artillery and in- fantry commenced yesterday, and went on with a spirit beyond the expectasion of the most sanguine. We understand that upwards of 400 men bad volur- tte ed before three o'clock. ' One company, nearly 80, consists of sailors, many among them old man- of- war men, who will make excellent hands at the batteries. It is stated in the Montreal Courier, that the howitzer, and five wounded men left behind, were recovered, and that the property of Nelson and the houses from which he and his companions fired upon tbe British troops were burned.— Several additional arrests had been made in the district of Montreal. A proclamation had been issued by Lord Gosford, dated November 29, inviting the diaffected to re'urn to their allegiance. The New York Weekly Herald of the 9th ult. says:—" We have reason to know, that, for the last week very active measures have been taken to forward armed auxiliaries to the Canadian frontier, there to abide the directions of those entrusted with the general details of the insurrection.— We also learn that about 130 barrels of gunpowder in the shape of butter kegs have been smuggled across the frontier into Lower Canada. Papiueau is said to be ia New York." We have received a New York paper, dated Dec. 9, being one day later than the arrivals whose con- tents appear in our other columns. Though the paper last received contains a greater number of paragraphs on the subject of Canadian revolt, it furnishes no new fact, nor any observation worth extracting. The following paragraph, however, may be excepted from this remark, as it would seem to indicate the existence of a very different tone of feeling in one quarter of the republic, from that which the New York papers have so generally re- presented : " SYMPATHY FOR THE CANADIANS.— At a late meeting in Buffalo, consisting of more than 400 persons, resolutions were passed, sympathising with the Canadians in their present struggles, and offer- ing assistance to them in their emergency. There was to have been an adjourned meeting a day or two after to hear an address from the Hon. William L. Mackenzie, who was expected to be present." TROOPS FOR CANADA.— The Times of this morning states that the following is the force in- tended to be embarked for Canada, and we are led to believe that all are to proceed to Halifax as soon, as the means of transport in ships of war can be provided. 1 regiment of Cavalry augmented to 450 93d Highlanders, augmented strength .... 600 Brigade of Guards, say 2,000 65th Regiment from West Indies, augmented strength 600 23d Fusileers and 71st Light Infantry aug- mented strength 1,200 Augmentation of 100 rank and file to all regiments in Canada, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick— namely, 1st Royals, 15th, 24th, 32d, 34th, 43d, 66th, 83d, and 85 th 900 Total 5,750 The 11th and 73d Regiments, ordered home from the Mediterranean, are to land at Gibraltar, there to await instructions iu case their services should also be required in Canada. The 1 In- constant' lias proceeded to Cork, on her arrival there will take on board 250 rank and file of the 93d Highlanders ; the remainder . of the regiment will folltw as other vessels arrive. Two com- panies of artillery are also, it is said, under orders for the same destination. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS. The Rev. James William Inman, M. A., appointed by the Trustees of the Grantham Charities to the situation of Head- master of the Grammar School in that town, vacant, by the resignation of the Rev. R. G. Andrews.. .. The Rev. Henry Edmund Pres- ton, to the Rectory of Tasburgh, Norfolk, on the presentation of Isaac Preston, Esq., Recorder of Norwich.. .. The Rev. W. Wilkinson, to the V, car- age of Glentham, Lincolnshire. Patron, Dean and Chapter of Lincoln.... The Rev. Edward Pollard, B. A., to the Rectory of Evedon, Lincoln- shire. Patron, the Earl of Winchilsea and Notting- ham.. .. The Rev. Charles Warren, late Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge, elected librarian of that Society, in the room of tbe late Rev. A. E. Heushaw, M. A.. .. The Rev. Walter Davies, Rec- tor of Manafon, Montgomeryshire, to the vicarage of Llanrhaiadr- yn- Mochnant, Denbighshire, vacant by tbe death of the Rev. Samuel Steele. Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph The Rev. Daniel Hughes, Perpetual Curate of Llandisilio, near Llangollen, Denbighshire, to the Rectory of Alo- nafan. Patron, the Bishop of St. Asaph.... The Rev. John Smith, to the Perpetual Curacy of Well- combe, Devon, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. William Chanter. Patron, Lord Clinton.... The Rev. Edward Faulkener, M. A., to be Chaplain to Berkley's Hospital, Worcester.... The Rev. James Ford, M. A., to the Vicarge of Combe St. Nicholas, Somersetshire. Patron, tbe Very Rev. tbe Dean of Wells.... The Rev. J. Currie, to the Perpetual Curacy of Borrowdale, Cumberland. Patron, the Vicar of Crosthwaite.. .. The Hon. and Rev. H. Pelham, to the living of Burghapton .. The Rev. C. Cole, Curate of Long Sutton, to the Incumbency of Peterhead, Scotland.. .. The Rev. Charles Augustus Thurlow, Vicar of Scalby, Yorkshire, to the Perpetual Curacy of Beverley, St. John and St. Martin, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. Joseph Coltman. Patrons, the trustees of the late Mr. Simeon. The Archbishop of York has appointed Mr. Thurlow to be oue of his Grace's Domestic Chaplains.... The Earl af Thanet has presented tbe Rev. Richard heeles, M. A., of Queen's College, to the Perpetual Curacy of Silsden- on- the- Moor, Yorkshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. T. F. Wilson The Rev. W. Sinclair, M A., has beeu elected by the Trustees to the new Church of St. George's, Leeds. OBITUARY. At Repton Priory, in the county of Derby, aged 60 years, the Rev. Matthew Witt, M. B., Vicar of Ticknell, Minister of Calke Chapel, and Second Master of tile Grammar School, Repton.. .. At Throop, near Christ Church, Hants, aged 32, the Rev. Frederick Waldo, youngest son of Joseph Waldo, Esq., of Bristol Aged 61, the Rev. Philip Meadows, 34 years Rec. or. of Great Beatings, Suffolk.... Aged 78, the Rev. William Parsable, 32 years Perpetual Curate of Borrowdale, Cum- berland, and 12 years Vicar of Gilcrux, Cumber- land.... At Somers- place, West, Euston- square, aged 78, the Rev. Robert Blair, D. D., Rector of Barton St. Andrew's, Norfolk.... At Leamington, the Rev. Robert Russell, late Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and for nearly 40 years Rector of Anchalurger, county of Fermanagh.... At Ottery, the Rev. William Gracchus Northmore, aged 69.... At Westgate Cottage, Lichfield, tbe Rev. Thomas Bromwicb, aged 84.... The Rev. William Todd, of Finnard, aged 62 years.... The Rev. Horace Townshend, Rector of Carrigaline, Ireland.. .. In tbe 57 year of his age, at his seat near Coleraine, the Rev. Thomas Richardson, the proprietor of the estate of Somerset, in the covnty of Londonderry, and Rector of the parish in which his estate was situated. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DEC. 29.— On Saturday last the fol- lowing gentlemen were admitted Students of Christ Church:— F. Balston, H. Smith, W. F. Hotham, E. T. Fielde, having been elected from Westminster School the 23d of last May. At the same time were admitted— W. Linwood, W. Barnes, W. J. Whateley, G. Marshall, H. P. H. Cholmon- deley, E. Dukes. ORDINATIONS. CAMBRIDGE.— On Thursday, being St. Thomas's day, the Right Rev. Bishop Walker held an, Or- dination in St. John's Chapel, Prince's- street, when the Rev. Thomas G. S. Suther, B. A., of King's College, Windsor, in Nova Scotia, and the Rev. John Hunter, Minister of tbe Episcopal Chapel in Alloa, were admitted into Priest's orders. On Sunday se'nnight, his Grace the Archbishop of York held an ordination at Bishopthorpe Chapel, when thirteen Priests and twelve Deacons were ordained, having undergone the necessary examina- tions during the preceding week. The following are the names of the candidates:— Priests: B. trapp, B. A., Clare Hall, Cambridge; T, C. Thompson, M. A., Trinity, Cambridge ; G. B. Rey- nardson, B. A., Trinity, Cambridge; J. Witley, B. A., Queen's, Cambridge ; T. Edwards, B. A., St. John's, Cambridge; P. Lewis, B. A., Univer- sity, Oxford; C. W. Robinson, B. A., Emanuel, Cambridge; J. Hepworth Gresham, B. A., St. John's, Cambridge; H. Breilsford, B. A., Trinity, Dublin; E. W. Foottil, B. A., Emanuel, Cam- bridge ; T. C. Wilson, B. A., Clare Hall, Cambridge; R. Easterby, Student of University, Durham; E. Gilbert, Literate.— Deacons: Hon. A. Dancombe, B. A., Worcester, Oxford; K. Sutton, B. A., Trinity, Cambridge; J. R. Hill, B. A., University, Oxford; W. Metcalf, B. A., Jesus, Cambridge; G. Scott, B. A., Trinity, Cambridge; J. Allot, B. A., Clare Hall, Cambridge ; St. G. Kirke, B. A., Christ's, Cambridge; T. P. Dodson, B. A., St. John's, Cambridge ; H. N. Burrows, B. A., Trinity, Cambridge; C. Moore, Queen's, Cambridge; M. D. French, B. A., Brazennose, Oxford; F. Keeling, Literate. CHARGE OF STEALING A VAN.— Yesterday, Stevens was charged at Marylebone Police- office, with having stolen a van belonging to Mr. T. Day, of Salisbury- street, Regent's- park.— Com- plainant stated that on the previous day he took the horse out of the van at his own house, and having placed the animal in the stable, went in to dinner; in the course of an lionr he came out and discovered to his great surprise that the defendant had brought one of his own horses and driven off with the van which had been taken possession of by another person and locked up.— The defendant was libe- rated on giving bail for bis appearance to answer any charge which might be preferred against him at the sessions. HUNTING APpOiNtMEntS. The East Sussex hounds meet on Wednesday, at Deau Lane; Thursday, at Maresfield Workhouse j Saturday, at Norton Cross: tit a quarter to eleven .... The Cheshire hounds— Wednesday, at Duddon Heath; Thursday, at Duddon Heath; Saturday, at Oulton Park : at half- past ten.... The Monmouth- shire hounds— Thursday, at Dingestow Wood; Satur- day, at Crowfiild : at a quarter to ten.. .. The Cot- tesmore hounds— Tuesday, at Wardley Toll- bar; Thursday, at Wytchley Warren : at a quarter to eleven.... Earl Fitzwilliam's hounds— Wednesday, at Stauwich Pasture; Thursday, at Walcot Park: at ten .... Sir R. Sutton's houuds— Tuesday, at Legs- by ; Wednesday, at Potterhill Toll- bar ; Thursday, at Midge Inn ; Saturday, at Harpswell : at eleven.... Lord Yarborough's hounds— Wednesday, at Wootton House ; Friday, at Crotley Village : at eleven .... The Rufford hounds— Tuesday, at Oxton Warren; Thursday, at Louud Hall; Saturday, at Rufford : at half. past ten .... Sir Thomas Boughey's hounds— Wednesday, at Loggerheads ; Friday, at Himley : at half- past ten ... . The Essex and Suffolk hounds- Friday, at Hintlesham George : at half- past ten.... The Canterbury harriers— Saturday, at Adisham- street: at ten. .. . The East Kent hounds— Wednes- day, at Tyler Hill; Friday, at Beinden : at half- past ten .... Mr. Smythe Owen's hounds— Thursday, at the Queen's Head; Saturday, at Wolfe's Head Turnpike : at half- past ten .... Mr. Wilkins' hounds — Wednesday, at Llanville ; Friday, at Rydespence: at ten. .. . Mr. Meynell's houuds— Thursday, at Rad- bornc ; Saturday, at Swarkestone : at half- past ten . . . . The Marquis of Hastings' hounds— Wednesday, at Clifton Village; Saturday, at Morley Toll Bar : at half- past ten... . Mr. Horlock's houuds— Wednesday, at Lucknam ; Saturday, at Derry Hill: at half- past ten. . . . The M. H. hounds— Friday, at Doles Ash Hog Lease : at half- past ten .... Mr. Leche's hounds — Wednesday, at Sliocklatch Village ; Friday, at Gallantry Bank : at half- past ten .... Mr. Candler's hounds— Friday, at Hewell Park : at half- past ten. . . . The Brighton harriers— Wednesday, at the Race Course ; Friday, at the Dyke : at eleven .... The Thanet harriers— Wednesday, at Vincent : at ten. THE CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT SESSIONS commence this day, but owing to the frequent sit- tings of the Court within the last month the calen- dar is a light one in point of number, but some of the offences charged art of a very serious character — three of them being for murder, some for man- slaughter and maliciously cutting, beyond which there, are several charged with extensive forgeries the Bank of England. DREADFUL DEATH.— On Monday last, as Jane Hudson, a fine girl, 10 years old, was standing by the sid « of the steam- engine at Marlborough coal miw, the wind blew her clothes against the ma- chinery, which caught her up, and cut both her legs off at the top of her thighs before assistance could be given. The poor sufferer shortly after- wards expired. JAN. 1. THE MAGNET, MONDAY. 5 THE CANADIAN BOATMEN— MESSRS. RUSSELL, BOATMEN. STANLEY AND PEEL. rwM '- jMi : Row, brothers, row !— the stream runs fast ; THE RAPIDS ARE NEAr, and the daylight's past 1" " Canadian Boatman's Song." THEATRES. THE CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES. The Christmas theatrical entertainments, pro- duced on Tuesday last, are of the usual average merit; but not the merest fraction of a grade be- yond it. Our opinion of pantomimes is, that they are the worst possible lessons to the vulgar and riotous among the full grown, and to the young without any eiception. They teach them to take, or encaurage their taking, delight in the inflicting of annoyances and bodily mischiefs upon their fel- low- creatures ; and, even in the matter of amuse- ment, we doubt their equal attractions for child- hood compared with those of such farces as • Simnson & Co.,' ' A Roland for an Oliver,' & c. & c. But this is no place, or time, for philoso- phising ; and we will therefore at oncc proceed to our detail of the Christmas- night performances at the various Metropolitan theatres. At COVENT GARDEN, we h- idRowE's stilted rhetorical five- act dialogue of ' Jane Shore with Messrs. MACREADY, G. BENNETT and PHELPS, and Mesdames huDDART and HELEN FAUCIT, conversing inaudibly to noisy galleries. After this cams a new pantomime, called ' Harlequin and Peeping Tom of Coventry ; or, The Ladye Go- diva and The Witch of Warwick.' " No lady of the age," says the legends, " was more celebrated for her beauty and virtue than Godiva, wife of Leofric Earl of mercia, of whom it is reported, that in order to redeem the inhabitants of Coventry from the severe taxes which had been imposed upon them by her husband, she undertook to ride through the city without any other covering than her long hair, he having sworn never to remit them unless she did ; and having first forbidden the inhabitants to look into the street during her procession, she mounted her horse, and rode through the town. One person, a cooper, and a maker of leather bottles, having the curiosity to look at her as she passed, was instantly struck dead with lightning, and in memory of this event, the citizens of Coventry still exhibit his statue ou the very spot, in the attitude of peeping." Such is the story on which the pantomime is founded. « Peeping Tom ' ( C. J. SMITH), with a face as large as a good- sized loo table j ' Leofric,' the warrior, who, when reduced to despair, plucks as much black hair from his head and whiskers as would staff the seat of a chair ; the fair ' Lady Godiva,' with a profusion of red locks, and mea- suring more round the waist than from head to foot; guards with every variety of grotesque fea- tures j castles with an extensive assortment of iJrobdignagian furniture, petitions much larger than garden rollers, and tax- gatherers, whose batons are enormous screws; immense door- knockers, who apprise the dwellers on enchanted ground of the approach of strangers, by knocking violent double knocks of their own accord ; these, and a hundred other devices, render the opening portion of this pantomime one of the very best thing of the kind. The audacious ' Tom,' instead of being struck dead for his presumption, is merely Btiuck into a ' Harlequin ; Miss FAREBROTHER is his ' Columbine,' Mr. JEfFERINI the ' Clown,' and Mr. H. CLARKE the ' Pantaloon.' Among the best changes are the conversion of " The Mirror of Parliament" office into an extensive assortment of Whig and Tory weather- cocks, three most complicated aad ingenious transformations of " The World" Inn, the substitution of a very beautiful transparent portrait of the Queen for The Old King's Head, and the sudden trans formation of a quiet lodgiug for invalids into a neighbourhood combining every possible va- riety of dismal and appalling noises. A lu- dicrously loyal box- call for " God save the Queen!" upon the scenic appearance of her Ma- jesty's portrait, was quickly silenced by the " Gods." The only really admirable thing introduced in the pantomine, is a series of Dioramic views by our il- lustrous scene painter, STANFIElD— Savoy, the Alps, Germany, through French Flanders, to the sea: commencing at Mazorbo Trevisano, in the Gulf ; of Venice; Lecco and the Adda, Milanese Valley of Aosta at Villeneuve, and summit of the Col de Bon Homme, by moonlight, Piedmont; Huy on the Meuse; the Hundsruck mountains, and Chateau Elz; and terminating in the British Channel. In its progress, are exhibited two very extraordinary deceptions : the one the passage of a body of mimic troops over a bridge ; and the other the tacking of a first rate British man- ef- war j both represented on a plain surface, and both presenting a most wonderful and striking appearance of reality. The view of the channel, for purity and breadth of coloring, even out- Stanfield's Stanfield; and the entire Diorama is one of the grandest works of art that ever adorned a theatre. We join in the re- gret expressed by a contemporary relative to this fine painting, that, " bearing as it does the stamp of all that is most exquisite and beautiful, it cannot adorn the walla of some great national institution, and so become a lasting evidence of the artist's genius." We must also especially notice the capi. tal way in which Mr. BEDFORD, the singer, played a town- crier, and accompanied each clang of his bell with a wring of his leg, which together elicited peals of laughter from the audience. The panto- mime was boisterously applauded, aDd will, we think, be the favorite one ; although the ineffective- ness of two pasteboard representations of the late Reginal procession and city dinner, coming imme- diately after STANFIELD'S wondrous work, rendered its conclusion somewhat of the dullest. It was ' swipes' after nectar. At DRURY- LANE, the pantomime is entitled ' Harlequin Jack- o'- Lantern ; or, The Witch of the Dropping Well.' It is founded upon the fol- lowing passage from an o^ d romance:—" In the autumnof the year 1486, Sir Palinore, a young Nor- man knight, and his right trusty squire Tristram Snacke, were cast away on a marshy part of the coast of Yorkshire, where 1 Ignes fatui full oft mislead Nighte travellers o'er hills, and synking bogs.' and whSre, amidst the fary of the storm, no place of shelter did present itself save a lone black castle, in which Griselda, surnamed the * Beauty of the Raven Locks,' had long been spell- bound by the magician Aldobrand, whose dealings with evil spirits were opposed by the old honest witch of the dropping- well ( Mother Shipton), so celebrated for her pro- phecies, predictions, & c. The good humour of the audience was secured at the very outset, for in the overture several popular airs were introduced, amongst which was the never- ending ' Jim Crow.' No sooner did these well- known notes burst from the orchestra than the whole gallery rose en masse, and shouted the words of a verse or two in full chorus, amidst the general acclamations of the hoase. The opening scene presents an ' old gothic black castle' on the Yorkshire coast, with ' Mother Shipton' riding in the air on her broom- stick, and directing the course of a veseel which is driving to- wards the shore. In the old gothic black castle, which belongs t > the magician ' Aldobrand,' is con- fined the fair ' Griselda;' in the ship which is hastening to become a wreck is the young ' Sir Palimore,' who loves ' the beauty of the raven locks,' but is as yet unconscious of the place of her confinement. ' Mother Shipton,' who is opposed to ' Aldobrand,' brings the vessel to the vicinity of the castle, throws it upon the rocks, and then leaves the knight to the protection and guardian- ship of ' Jack- o'- Lantern' ( Mr. WIELAD). ' Sir Palinore ( Mr. HOWELL) and his trusty squire ( Mr. T. MATTHEWS) having with difficulty reached the shore, seek to obtain admittance to the castle, but are opposed by ' Will- o'- the- Wisp,' the familiar of ' Aldobrand.' At this moment 4 Jack- o'- Lantern' appears, accompanied by his attendant sprites, armed from head to foot with lighted lanterns, and gliding upon the stage to the air of ' the light of other days.' ' Will- o'- the- Wisp,' nothing daunted, summons his followers, whose helmets emit a flickering light, and in a few minutes a general en- gagement takes plsce, in which, after a very stout battle, ' Will' is worsted, and ' Jack' makes a triumphant entrance into the castle, followed by ' Sir Palinore' and the squire. Here the knight obtains a sight of the ' beauty of the raven locks' at the moment that ' Aldobrand is threatening her with death unless she consent to become his. ' Sir Paliaore' makes a valiant attempt at rescue, but is overcome by the power of the magician and thrown into a dungeon, whither the fair ' Griselda' has been previously hurried " dur- ing the confusion of the conflict. ' Aldobrand,' enraged at the resistance of the lady and at the boldness of the knight, despatches messengers to kill them both ; but the messengers, somehow or other, kill each other instead, and, after another eneral conflict between ' Jack- o'- Lantern' and his followers and ' Will- o'- the- Wisp,' backed by all the familiars of the magician, ' Sir Palinore' and the ' lady of the raven looks' effect their escape. Having passed through the ' antique resi- dence' of ' Will- o'- the- Wisp' and ' Jack- a- Lan- tern's' renowned dwelling, the lovers arrive at the dropping- well, near Knaresborongh, where ' Mo- ther Shiptoa' re- appears, and effects the transfor- mation necessary to the pantomime, ' Sir Pali- nore' becomes ' Harlequin,' the fair ' Griselda' ( Miss LANE) ' Columbine,' the 1 Squire, Clown,' aud the ' Governess of Griselda' ( Mr. SUTTON) ' Pantaloon.' The usual scenes of racing and tumbling ensue. The tricks and transformations are very num. rous, but not particularly pointed or witty. Those which. had the slightest reference to politics were very equivocally received. Towards the close of the pantomime, there is ' a grand movingpanprama' ( painted by tlje Messrs. GRIEVE), exhibiting Queen Elizabeth's visit to the city, aad her Majesty's coronation. The concluding scene, ' The Green Spa— the Dwelling of the Witch,' ex- hibiting a general tableau of the characters, was one of cunsiderable splendour. The pantomime was announced for repetition amidst much applause. At the HAYMARKET, a Christmas show was got up, under the title ot' Whittington and his Cat ; or, the Fairy Queen of Herne's Oak. The story of Whittington is too well known to require any de- scription. Some of the scenery was pretty, and, if the piece had been a pantomime, would probably have redeemed it; but the flatness of the dialogue indisposed the audience to good humour. At the ADELPHI the pantomime, with the somewhat extensive title of ' Harlequin Silver Six- pence and the Giant Pennypiece ; or The World of Coins,' is amusing enough, as pantomimes go now- a- days. ' Giant Pennypiece' abstracts the ' Prin- cess Halfcrowniana' from the paternal roof, and from her lover, ' Silver Sixpence'; but the lovely lady is restored to her disconsolate parent and lover by the ' Fairy Fourpence,' who adds to the obligation by turning the ' Princess' into ' Colum- bine, the ' Lover' into ' Harlequin,' the ' Giant' into ' Pantaloon,' and the ' Giant's Son' into ' Clown,' and then begins the comic business, which consists of the usual quantum of accidents and offences, ' Harlequin' and ' Columbine' being aided and abetted by a lissom gentleman in silver tights. The change of a gin shop into a prison was the only morality especially worthy of notice. A tailor's boy being thrown into a barrel of vine- gar and coming out pickled cabbage, was a joke which met with en'ire approbation. The distri- bution of thumps and bumps and knockings down is tolerably well kept up here; but the ' Clown' and ' Pantaloon' seem to have become moral in the article of theft, and gluttony is discouraged. The novelty at the SR. JAMES'S is entitled ' Pascal Bruno,' and is adapted from Mr. THEO- DORE HOOK'S translation of the celebrated tale by M. ALEXANDER DUMAS. Mrs. STIRLING played ' Pascal Bruno,' we presume, for want of an adequate male performer to fill the part. She is too pretty a woman to look well as a bravo. Mr. WRIGHT danced in the closing scene with an extravagance which elicited hearty peals of laughter from all the children and lovers of Christ- mas representations amongst the spectators. The production is a very meagre one. At the OLYMPIC the entertainments were of the latest novelties, and a new " magical and mews- ical" burletta, called Puss in Boots, which is likely to be as attractive as any of its holiday predecessors. It is founded on the eld nursery tale of the same title. Ralph ( Madame VESTRIS), the nephew of a deceased miller, finds that his uncle has bequeathed him nothing but a oat ( M. C. MATHEWS) : a good fairy, however, assists him, and Puss becomes instrumental in advancing his fortunes. He is advised to attend, as the Marquis of C'arabas, a ball at the palace of Pumpkin the Pompous ( Mr. J. BLAND), and to make approaches to the heart of his beautiful daughter, Princess Rosebud ( Miss LEE), which ad- vice he follows. Puss precedes him with a present of rabbits, during the presentation of which it is announced, that while the Marquis was bathing some rogues had run off with his clothes. A dress from the royal wardrobe is instantly ordered to be conveyed to him, and Ralph, in his court suit, arrives at the palace. He makes love to the Princess, but the prudent father of the lady is de- sirous of knowing what property the proposer is possessed of; this disconcerts the young adven- turer; but at the suggestion of Puss, he declares that all the land in a straight line to the sea be- longs to him ; the Prince then rides along this line, and by a device of Puss, the story is confirmed. The Ogre's cavern is at last entered, when the Ogre is destroyed by the cat, after the manner of the tale, and Ralph beceomes possessed of his riches ; then he marries the Princess. The piece is written by Messrs. PLANCHE and DANCE, in the style of their other Christmas entertainments, and is studded with songs to the most popular of tunes. VESTRIS as Ralph, plays aud sings charmingly, and she is tolerably well supported by Mr. MATHEWS in Puss, w. io would be more effective if he could be a little more lively. The final scene aud tableau are showy and imposing. At the SURREY, the title of the new Harle quinade is ' Old Dame Trot, or the Fairy and the Comical Cat. The dances, groupings, tricks, me- tamorphoses, and devices, are innumerable ; but what particularly deserves mentioning are some satirical hits at one or two of the " untoward " events of the time. That ( as certain parties deem it) most " untoward" business of all, the carrying of Mr. Harvey's motion for an inquiry into the pensions, is treated as the " Death of Quarter- day," and a whole train of Wilhelminas and Lady Tabitbas in deep mourning weeds perform the funeral houours. Then, again, a box, containing a sample of the damaged fruit of Spain, produces some of the discarded British Legion, whose claims for payment obtain for them a string of promissory notes, ending in smoke. The aldermen at the civic feast do not escape. That great natural curiosity, an alderman's paunch, is very rudely examined by the ' Clown,' whose discoveries therein would shock any but an alderman to witness. At the VICTORIA we had ' The Maid of Boc- chara ; or, Harlequin and the Veiled Prophet of Khorassin,' borrowed from MOORE'S poem of " Lalla Rookh ;" but the words in which his poem has been inscribed were discarded as quite uusuited for the introduction of a pantomime. It was the ' Veiled Prophet,' stripped of any covering, and exhibiting, if not " the human face divine " in a state of ugliuess, in such a condition of deformity that it looked very like a veryjhorrid mask. At the CITY OF LONDON the first piece was c- illed ' The Page of Palermo,' in which Mrs. HONEY performed the part of the ' Page' with that archness and pertness which usually charac- terise this order of homunculi, at least on the stage. The piece was enlivened by some of Mr. VALE'S sallies and comicalities. Some of the scenes were remarkably gorgeous and imposing. The interlude of ' Every Body's Husband ' followed, and this was succeeded by the pantomime—' Will o' the Wisp.' As a matter of course there is a hard- hearted guardian and a booby ri7at. Equally they are, under the guises of' Clown ' and' Pantaloon,' com- pelled satisfactorily to expiate their ill- nature. The scenery was very good. The house has undergone a process of tasteful decoration, and can now boast a comparison with any of the minor theatres in the metropolis. We have thus, from our own reporters, and from those of some of our daily contemporaries, given an account of the. pantomimic performances this Christmastide at the principal theatres. Upon a review of the whole, we confess that the genius of pantomime appears to us to be in a condition of spiritual paralysis, and that it will require more conjuration to give it living motion again than seems to be possessed by " us moderns ", Were ice managers of a theatre instead of a newspaper ( which, Heaven forbid I) we would have no panto- mimes at Christmas at all; but entertainments of the nature of the " Easter pieces ", animated by the charms of poetry and the captivations of wit. Imagination, sense and humour should spiritualize the painted dry bones of spectacle ; the head and the heart should rejoice as well as the eyes aud the ears : and the ignorant aud the young should quit our benches with wiser and maturer minds for their having sat thereon. But, then, the " experienced" will say— we should be ruined ? We would give " long odds" upon the other sids of the question. THE UNITED SERVICES. Master— Manser Pearce, dec. Bradshaw ( 182- 1) to ' Temeraire,' v. THE PHYSICIAN. No. 40. INDIGESTION— is a disease in which the stomach ceases to perform its office with full efficiency, un- attended by organic mischief. The symptoms are extremely diversified. They may be divided into such as are referable to the stomach itself, or to its sympathy with other parts of the body. Among the first may be enumerated loss of appetite, nausea, pain in the region of the stamac'i, heart- burn, sense of fullness, distention, or weight in the stomach, a feeling as if a ball weie lodged in the oesophagus, acid or foetid eructations, water- brash, and lastly, a sensation of sinking- or flatter- ing at the pit of the stomach. To the second head of indigestive symptoms may be referred, among many others, costiveness or an irregular state^ of - the bowels, a disagreeable taste in the mouth, especially on first waking, tooth- ache, palpitation, irregularity of the pulse, and occasionally, difficulty of breathing, giddiness, and headache, langour, lassitude, and great depression of spirits, with the fear of death, or impending evil. The tongue is very frequently furred. The first, and most simple, cause of indigestion is the occasional overloading of the stomach ; or the taking in of - some indiges- tible substance, which, even in a small quantity, offends the nerves of the stomach, such as tainted meat, or lastly, an accidental debauch of wine. The second is habitual full living, particularly the too frequent indulgence in animal food. This is one of the most common sources of indigestion in the upper classes of society, and is easily distin- guished from any other by its occurrence along with the gout. The third is the abuse of spiritu- ous liquors. This is the prolific source of indiges- tion in the lower ranks of life. Indigestion from this cause is often a severe, and always an obsti- nate, complaint. The fourth eause of the diseasa is want of air and exercise. Another cause, is the practice among the lower orders in this country of keeping strong children at the breast for a year and a half, or two years. Indigestion is also causcd by mental emotion, particularly the depres- sing passions, fear, grief, but above all, anxiety. In such cises, change of air, ecene, and habits, are generally to be recommended. In every form of indigestion, attention to diet is indispensable, and the patient must have regard not to its quality only, but to its quantity. In a weakened state of I the stomach, it must have little given it to do. The body is strengthened, not in proportion to the quantity of food taken in, but to that which is thoroughly digested. Differences in the habits of life will, of course, lead to important differences in the kind and quantity of diet which should be allowed to a patient suffering from indigestion ; but the following may be regarded as rules of very general application. It should consist of a due mixture of animal and vegetable food, but the former should be eaten only once a- day, and should be thoroughly masticated. Great varieties of food at any time should be prohibited, as leading to an indulgence of the appetite beyond the wants of the sysfem. Articles of difficult digestion 3hould be carefully avoided ; such as all kinds of smoked, dried, salted and long kept meat; all those dishes where too much nutricious matter is collected in a small space, eggs, for instance, potted- meat, strong soups, and preparation of suet, fat and butter, lastly all raw vegetables whatever, with the excep- tion of ripe fruits. Regularity in the hours of meals should be rigorously enjoined, and the pa- tient should be very cautious not to make a hearty meah While attending to the above di- rections take the following medicines.. For Adults.— Of extract- of- gentian, compound- extract- of- colocynth, and powdered- jalap, of each, 1 scruple, oil- of- peppermint 6 drops, and enough mucilage- of- acacia, to form 16 pills, three or four to be taken occasionally at bed- time. And take three table spoonfuls of the following mixture three times a day,— of carbonate- of- soda, 2 drachms, powdered rhubarb, half- a- drachm, infusion- of- gen- tian, and peppermint- water, of each, 4 ounces, mixed. For Children.-^- Between the age of four and nine. Take 4 grains of mercury- with- chalk, every night at bed- time in honey or jelly ; and one of the fol- lowing powders three times a day; of powdered- c ) lumba- root, and powdered- rhubarb, of each, 12 grains, mixed, and formed into 6 pewders. PROPOSITION FOR SETTLING THE CANADIAN DISPUTES.— The Spectator of yesterday contains a proposition ( by a New York correspondent) for settling the quarrel by arbitration; France to act for England and the United States for the Canadians. " But," adds our contemporary very shrewdly, " it is to be feared that neither the Government of France, nor any other, could be trusted with the arbitration of English interests. There i3 not a people or a government on the face of the globe that will not rejoice in the disgrace in store for this country." THIS LATE VISCOUNT DUNCANNON.— The mortal remains of this venerable Nobleman were interred on Thursday last in a vault in the parish church near Brynkinalt, Donbigh. THE ARMY. From the London Gazette. [ The promotions are dated Dec. 26, unless otherwise expressed.~\ WAR- OFFICE, DECEMBER 26. 1st regiment of life guards.. Brevet colonel P. Wode- house, from the half pay unattached, to be major, vice h. r. Wyatt, who exchanges . Brevet major J. Hall, to be major ami lieutenant colonel, by purchase, vice Wode- house, who retires.. Lieutenant Lord W. Beresford to be captain, by purchase, vice Hall.. Cornet and sub lieu- tenant W. Anderton to be adjutant, with the rank of lieutenant, vice Eman, deceased.. Cornet and sub lieu- tenant Calcdon Du Pre Alexander to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Beresford.. Corporal John Winterbottom, ridingmaster, to have the rank of cornet and sublieu- tenant, without pay, vice Anderton.. John Furrer, gent., to be cornet and sub lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alexan- der. 13th regiment of light dragoons.. Lieutenant Denis Hauson, from the 17th light dragoons, to be lieutenant, vice Burdett, who exchanges. 17th regiment of light dragoons.. Lieutenant Francis Burdett, from the 13th light dragoons, to be lieutenant, vice Hanson, who exchanges ; lieutenant Wallace Barrow to be Adjutant, vice Hanson, who resigns the adjutancy only, 3d regiment of foot".. Lieutenant Bobert Manners Sparks, from the cape mounted riflemen, to be lieutenant, visa Peshcall who exhanges. 7th Foot.. Lieutenant Sydenham Snow, from the 67th foot, to be lieutenant, vice Whittingham, who exchanges. lyth foot.. Lieutenant George Adamson Stanley, from the 40th regiment of foot, to be lieutenant, vice Lewis Wynne, who retires upon haif- pay of the 45th regiment of foot. 271 h foot.. Bartholomew Tunnard, gent., to be ensign, by purchase, vice Vignoles, promoted in the 28tli regiment of foot. 40th foot.. Lieutenant J. Willock, from the 45th regi- ment of foot, to be lieutenant, vice Stanley, appointed to the 19' h regiment of foot. 64th foot.. Lieutenant H. A. Cumberlege, from the 45th regiment of foot, to be lieutenant, vice A. Glendinning, , who retires upon half pay of the 45th regiment of foot. 65th foot.. T. Butler, gent, to be ensign, by purchase, vice W. Butler, who retires. 28th foot.. Lientenant Charles Ferdinand Hamilton Smith to be captain, by purchase, vice Syroons, who re- tires. . Ensign Francis durell Nignoles, from the 27th regi- ment ot loot, to be lieutenant by purchase, vice Smith. 92d f ot.. A. W. Viscount Drumlanrig to be ensign, by purchase, vice Murray, promoted. 2d West India regiment.. Lieutenant C. B. Alcock, from half pay of the COth regiment of foot, to be lieutenant, vice Measiter, appointed to xhe 89th regiment of foot; ensign F. L. Halliday to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alcock, who retires; i- I. Lees, gent, to b3 ensign, by purchase, vice Halliday. Cape mounted riflemen.. Lieutenant C. Ross to be captain, without purchase, vice Aitchison, deceased; ensign R. M. Sparks to be lieutenaut, vice ross; lieu- tenant C. Peshall, from the 3d regiment of foot, to be lieutenant, vice Sparks, who exchanges ; J. P.. O'Reilly, gent, to be ensign, vice Sparks, promoted. Royal Newfoundland veteran companies.. Staff assis- tant- surgeon J. D. Grant to be assistant surgeon, vice Huston, appointed to the staff. brevet.. Captain G. Procter, of the royal military col- lege, to be major in the army. Hospital staff.. Assistant surgeon J. S. Huston, from the royal Newfoundland veteran companies, to be assis- tant surgeon to the forces, vice Grant, appointed to those companies Apothecary to the forces G h. reade, from the half pay, to be apothecary to the forces, vice Wheadon, who retires. Memoranda.. The Christian names of Mr. Lockhart, appointed to an ensigncy in the 39th regiment, and re- moved to the 78th regiment ol" foot, are Graeme Alexan- der, aud not William Mercer.. .. The appointment of Mr. II. H. Lake was to an ensigncy in the 28th regiment of foot, and not 23d foot, as state! in 44 The Gazette" of the 15 th instant. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Flint. C. W. D. Dundas, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. War- Office, 29th Dec. 1S37. [ The promotions are dated December 30, unless other- wise expressed.'] , lst Regiment of Dragoon Guards.. Lieut. G. D. Scott to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dames, who retires.. Cornet M. Pipen to be Lieut, by purchase, vice Scott.. B. New- land, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Pipon- 2d Regt. of Dragoons.. Brevet Col. J. 11. Ward, from the half- pay Unattached, to be Lieut,- Col. vice A. W. M. Lord Sandys, who exchanges . Major C. Wyndham to be Lieut.- Col. by purchase, vice Ward, who retires.. Capt. J. F. S. Clarke to be Major, by purchase, vice Wyndham.. Lieut. R. Miller to be Capt. by purchase, vice Clarke.. Cornet G. A. F. Lord Glenlyon to be Lieut, by purchase, vice Miller.. M. Milbank, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Lord Glenlyon. 5th Regiment of foot.. Brevet major D. E. Johnson, to be major, by purchase, vice Lord C Wellesley, promoted. .. Lieutenant P. M. N. Uuy, to be captain, by purchase, vice Johnson.. Second lieutenant T. Eyre to be first lieu- tenant, by purchase, vice Guy.. B. P. Baker, gent, to be second lieutenant, by purchase, vice Eyre. 9th foot.. R. Harthill, gent, to be assistant- surgeon, vice Griffin, deceased. 20th foot.. Lieutenant H. M. Cuninghame, from the 94th regiment of foot, to be lieutenant, vice Kelly, who exchanges. 3ith foot.. Assistant surgeon W. Bain, M. D. from the 15th regiment of foot, to be surgeon, vice Griffin, ap- pointed to the 85th regiment of foot. 35th foot. . T. Teulon, gent, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Baldock, rvho retires. 37th foot.. A. B. A. Bowers, gent, to be ensign, without puichase, vice Hamilton, whose appointment has not, taken place.. Serjeant major R. Hamilton to be quarter- master, vice Hayes, deceased Dated November 2, 1837. • T. D'Arcey, gent, to be assistant surgeon, vice Neill, promoted in the 56th regiment of foot. 38ih foot—, Captain J. Campbell to be major, by pur- chase, vice Hopper, who retires . Lieutenant W. L. O'hal- loran to be captain, by purchase, vice Campbell.. Ensign t. Anderson, to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice O'Hal- loran.. W. h. Hopper, gent, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Anderson. 521 foot . Quartermaster serjeant Clune, to be quartermaster, vice J. Morgan, who retires upon half- pay. 56th foot.. Ensign H. D. Crofton to be lieutenant, without purchase, vice Lacy, appointed adjutant.. F. G. T. Deshon, gent, to be ensign, vice Crofton— Lieutenant R. W. Lacy to be adjutant, vice Walmsley, promoted.. Assistant surgeon M. Neill, frem the 37th regiment of foot, to be surgeon, vice Dawson, promoted. 64th foot— Lieutenant E. Mandeville to be captain, without purchase, vice Wright, deceased ; dated October 22, 1837 - • Lieutenant J. A. Kingdom, to be captain, with- but purchase, vice Dillon, deceased; dated November 29, 1837.. Ensign E. J. Coxe to be lieutenant, vide Mande- ville; dated October 22, 1837.. Ensign A. B. Parker, to be lientenant, vice Kingdom ; dated November, 29, lb37. .. Ensign J. S. Kirwan to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Coxe, whose promotion, by purchase, has not taken place.. Ensign J. D. Smyth to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parker, whose promotion, by purchase, has not taken place dated December 30, 1837.. J. Dillon, gent, to be ensign, without purchase, vice Kirwan.. H. Downes, gent, to be ensign, without purchase, vice Smyth; dated December, 30, 1837. 67th foot.. Captain E. E. Hill, from the half pay Unat- tached, to be captain, vice I. Elton, who exchanges.. Lieutenant C. C. Davie to be captain, by purchase, vice Hill, who retires ; dated December, 30, 1837.. Ensign J. Porter, to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Parker, who retires.. Ensign C. B. Hague, to be lieutenant, by pur- chase, vice Davie ; dated December 30, 1837.. C. Coape, gent, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Porter.. W. R. Adair, gent, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Hague ; dated December 30, 1837. 79th foot.. Lieutenant J. S. Smyth, to be captain, by purchase, vice Macdcnald, who retires.. Ensign W. Monro to be lieutenant, by purchase, vice Smyth.. F. Milbank, gent, to be ensign, by purchase, vice Monro. 85th foot.. Surgeon G. Griffin, from the 34th regiment of foot, to be surgeon, vice G. Home, who retires upon half pay. 91th foot.. Lieutenant E. H. M. Kelly, from the 29th, regiment of foot, to be lieutenant, vice Cunninghame, who exchanges. Royal Malta Fencible regt.. Major Marquis G. de Piro to be lieutenant- colonel, with local and temporary rank in the Army. UNATTACHED. . Major Lord C. Wellesley, from the 5^ h regt. of foot, to be lieut.- coionel, by purchase.... Lieut' C. F. Sweeney, from the 25th regt. of foot, to be Captain, without purchase. HOSPITAL STAFF. . Surgeon W. Dawson, M. D. from the 56th regt. of foot, to be surgeon to the forces, vice Stewart. MEMORANDUM .. Lieut.- colonel H. H. farquharson upon haif- pay unattached, has been allowed to retire from the service, with the sale of an unattache i Lieu- tenant- colonelcy, he being about to become a settler in Canada. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 27, 1837. Royal regiment of Artillery.. Gentlemen Cadets to be second lieutenants.. M. O. Nixon, vice Hawer, promoted. .. h. L. Gardiner, vice Warburton, promoted.. B. Baihurst, vice Cocks, promoted.. H. B. O. Savile, vice Fyers, pro- moted. . R. P. Radcliffe, vice R. Harvey, promoted.. T. Knox, vice W. F. Crofton, promoted.. C. W. Young- husband, vice Morrit, promoted.. T. C. Lyle, vice Wilkins. .. The above are dated Dec. 14, 1837. Corps of Royal Engineers.. Gentlemen cadets to be second lieutenants.. F. W. D'Alton, vice Hutchinson, promoted., H. A. Freeling, vice Hamilton promoted.. H. St. Leger Ord, vice Lugard, promoted.. F. Lemesurier, vice Hadden, promoted.. D. W. Tyler, vice Beatson, pro- moted.. H. C. B. Moody, vice S. Freeth, promoted.. J. L. A. Simmons, vice M'Kerlie, promoted.. G. A. Leach, vice Symonds, promoted.. R. Tylden, vice Hamley, pro- moted.. P. J. S. Barry, vice Beatty, promoted. .11. A. White, vice Gordon, promoted. . P. B. Whittingham, vice Dill, promoted., P. J. Hornby, vice Fellowes, promoted.. J. W. Gosset, vice Downes, promoted.. The above are dated 14th December, 1837. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Worcester. The Queen's Own or Worcestershire Regiment of Yeo- manry Cavalry— The Right Hon. W. Lord Ward to be Lieut. Col., vice the Right Hon. T. H. Lord Foley, retired .. Cornet J. R. Cookes to be Lieut., vice Robeson, re- tired. . F. Rufford, Gent, to be cornet, vice Cookes, pro- moted. . The above are dated Dec. 27, 1837. LONDON GAZETTES. Mates.. H. L. Parson to 4 Samarang,' from Electra- H. Le Visconte to 4 Calliope,' from ' Excellent.' G. J. Jones ( Col.) to ' Excellent.' J. E. Vallack to ' Bri- tomart.' R. White to 4 Pique.' Secpnd Master . John Scott to 4 Thunder.' Midshipman.. W. Purver to 4 Comet.' Master's Assistant.. J. Beckett to 4 Thunder.' Assistant- surgeons.. T. Scallon and R. Chambers, ( addi- tional) to 4 . Britannia.' Purser.. Henry South to 4 Volage.' Royal Marines.. Second Lieutenant Maxwell is promoted to the rank of First Lieut, v. Lieut. James, placed on half pay. Alex. Ramsay, son of Captain Ramsay,, to Second Lieutenant. MOVEMENTS. OF HER MAJESTY'S SHIPS AND VESSELS IN COMMISSION. Beagle, 10, Com. J. Wickham ( 1837) sailed from the Cape of Good Hope, for Swan River, Oct. 13. Rattlesnake, 28, Capt. W. hobson ( 1828) arrived at Cal- cutta from Sydney, Oct. 29. Samarang, 28, Captain w. Broughton ( 1831) arrived at Bahia, from Pernambuco, Nov. 5. Pelorus, 16, Com. F. Harding ( 1830) arrived at Calcuttu, from Penang, Oct. 9. PORTSMOUTH. DEC. 291- h— Ships in Port : 4 Britannia,' 4 Victory,'' Ex- cellent,' 4 Tyne,' 4 Royal George' yacht, 4 Wasp,' 4 Electra,' ' Pantaloon,' 4Seaflower,' and Cracker.' PLYMOUTH. Dec. 29th.— in Harbour : Royal Adelaide,' ' San Josef,' 4 Racehorse,' ' Malabar, and 4 Lily.'— In Barn- pool : ' Alligator' and 4 Britomart.'— In the Sound. 4 President' and 4 Thunder.' SHIPPING. EAST INDIA AND AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING. ARRIVALS.— Dec. 23 ; ' Malay, Welsh, from Cey- lon, off Dover, sailed Point de Galle, Aug. 27 ; St. Helena, Oct. 31 ; i Samarang,' Meacour, from Ba tavio, off Portsmouth, sailed, Aug. 31.— Dec. 25: ' Achilles,' Duncan, from Ceylon, off Dover, sailed, Gille, Sept. 3 ; Mauritius, Sept. 20 ; Cape, Oct. 21 ; and St. Helena, Nov. 3 ; 1 Hindostan,' Redman, from Madras, in the Downs, sailed, Sept. 3 ; Cape, Nov. and St. Helena, Nov. 15.— Dec. 26: 4 William Met- calfe,' Philipson, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed Aug. 17 ; and Cape, Oct. 25 ; 1 Adelaar,' Smith, from China, off Portsmouth, sailed, Aug. 4 ; Aujer, Sept. 22; and St. Helena, Nov. 15 ; 1 Esther,' Douglas from Bengal, at Liverpool, sailed, Aug. 16 ; and St. Helena, Nov. 6.— Dec. 27 : ' Edward Barnett,' Proudfoot, from Bengal, in the Downs, sailed, Aug. 16 ; and St. Helena,' Nov. 15 ; 1 Mayflower,' Head- ley, from Van Diemand'- s Land, off Dover, sailed, Aug. 19; ' Fox,' Wilbycombe, from the Mozambique, off Margate, sailed Oct. 9; and Cape, Nov. 1.— Dec. ,28: ' Crusader,' M'Donnell, from Van Diemands' Land, off Dover, sailed, Launceston, July 13.— Dec. 29 : ' Mary Hartley,' Mackay, from Bengal, at Liver- pool, sailed, Aug. 16; ' Celt.' Monro, from New South Wales, at Liverpool, sailed, July 6. DEPARTURES.— Dec. 4 : 1 Adams,' Mills, for St. Helena, from Shields, since put into Leith,|( 7th) leaky. — Dec. 6 : 1 Jane,' Mills, for New South Wales, Long- hope, and Orkney.— Die. 21 : H. C. S. 4 Semiramis,' Grant, for Bombay, from Falmouth. — Dec. 22: 1 Cuba,' Grey, for the Mauritius, from the Downs.— Dec. 25 : 4 Augustina,' Derry, for the Cape of Good Hope, from North Shilds.— Dec. 26: ' Gazelle,' Robertson, for Marseiles and the Mauritius, from Leith; 1 King William,' Thomas, for Llaaelly and Bombay, from Bristol; ' Albatross,' Westmoreland, for Lauuceston, from the Downs ; ' Malcolm,' Eyles, for Madras and Bengal, from the Downs ; ' Ferguson,' Robertson, for New South Wales, from the Downs ; ' John Woodall,' Mossman, for Llacelly and Bombay, from the Downs ; ' Patriot,' Drum, for the Cape of Good Hope, from the Downs ; ' Britannia,' Gibson, for Launceston, from the Downs ; ' Seymour, Dace, for the Mauritius, from the Downs.— Dec. 27: ' Thalia,' Graham, for Bengal, from Liverpool; ' Frankland,' Webb, for Bengal, from Liverpool; ' William Turner,' Roals, for Bombay, from Liver- pool ; ' New Thomas,' Sutherland, for Algra Bay, from Plymouth; ' Janet Izot,' Scotland, for New South Wales.— 28 : ' William Lockerly,' Parker, for the Cape and the Mauritius, from Liverpool; ' Mary Anne,' Jones, Sydney, from Cowes. ( FROM LLOYD'S LISTS DURING THE WEEF.) RAMSGATE.— The 4 Friendship,' Purcell, from Sligo to London, has been brought into this harbour with consi- derable damage, having been on shore near Dover, and sunk betwen the Pier Heads ; part of the cargo loaded in a damaged state.— The 4 Robert,' Huntress, from Havre to Newcastle, has been brought in here in a sinking state, and with loss of rudder, having been on shore on the South Foreland, and abandoned. JERSEY.— The • Amiable Lisette,' Pheasant, from Bue- nos Ay res to Rotterdam, is sunk in deep water at the foot of the Paternoster rocks, ani it is feared the crew have perished. BrISTOL.— The Vessel lost on the Hook Sand, with the crew, in the gale of Thursday last, is the 4 Amelia,' from Cardiff to Bristol. WATErFOrD. — The ' Edward,' Buckley, from Cork to Waterforcl, was driven on shore near Ballymacaw 19th inst. and is not expected to be got off: crew and greater p . rt the cargo saved. CORK,-.' The ' Wm. Glen Anderson,' Metcalf, from St. John's NB to London, has put in here leaky in topsides, quarters started, head knees and rails carried away, and toresail and foretopsail split; was very leaky at sea, and conld scarcely be kept free. WARKWORTH.— Trie ' Betsey,' of Newcastle, Aikenhead was driven onshore near this place last night, but is ex- pected to be got off; crew and cargo saved. BLYTH.— Trie ' Rebecca,' Miller, from London to Sun- derland, was driven on shore ou Newbiggen Rocks dur- ing a heavy gale last night. Part of the eargo has been lar. ded, the vessel is expected to go to pieces. SCARBRO.— The 4 Ellen Sarah,' Boyes, of Hull, is on shore near hayburn Wyke, bottom upwards; crew drowned. BRIDLINGTON.— The ' Dove,' Billingham, from Lon- don to Scarbro, was wrecked on the Rocks near Flam- b'O Head, during a tremendous gale 21st inst.; crew drowned. BOULOGNE.— The ' Lord Wellington,' Nicholas, from Portsmouth to Sunderland, and 4 Irhorfunster,' Nelson, from Cette to Stavanger, are on shore on Ambleteuse ; the former is gone to pieces. COWES.— The ' Enighen,' Thygason, from St. Ubes to Cbristiansand, was wrecked on Atherfield rocks 24th inst.; crew saved. BERWICK.— The 4 Venus,' from Shields to Dundee, was wrecked on Hoxley Rocks on the night of 15th inst.; crew saved. ST. UBES.— The ' British Union.' of London, bound to Cork, which sprung a leak 2nd inst. has been condemned, and her cargo sold. FRAUD.— At Guildhall, on Thursday, a solicitor attended on the behalf of Messrs. Home, the coach proprietors, to answer the complaint of Mr. Lart, a wholesale hosier in Wood street, for ne- glecting to deliver with a parcel a ticket containing the sum due for the carriage thereof* conformably to the Act of Parliament. The parcel came from Rochester on the 15th iust. The charge for car- riage from thence was ordinarily Is., and he had paid that sum perhaps a hundred times, but in this case a ticket was made out for Is. 2d. If the solicitor for Messrs. Home would produce the way- bill, and he believed they vrere bound to pro- duce documentary evidence in their possession, h ® believed it would appear that the sum due for carriage was only Is., and that they had fraudu- lently substituted in their ticket the different and greater sum of Is. 2d.— The complaint was dismissed. CHARGE OF STABBING.— On Thursday, John Millings, was charged at Hatton- garden, with stabbing Cornelius Sullivan in the head and breast, and also with cutting Dennis Donavau most severely in the hands.— Mr. Rogers fined the prisoner 51. THE NAvY. PROMOTIONS. Lieutenants.. Richard Studdart Wrn. Hugh Dobbie, Alex- ander Little. Surgeons.. William Doak, G. David Maclarum. Pursers— D. Conway, James Mountsheven. APPOINTMENTS. Captain.. S. Jackson, C. B. ( 1807), of ' Bellerophon,' to be Superintendent of Pembroke Dock- yard. Lieutenants.. Wm. Critchell ( 3819) to Electra.' Colson Festing ( 1915) to command ' Espoir.' L. Dunbar Mit- chell ( I8l7), in charge of mails on board Peninsula Con- tract Steam Vessel. BIrTHS. The Lady of Captain A. G. GRAHAM, late of the Hanoverian Guards, of twins, a son and daughter.. .. The Hon. Mrs. SHAW, of a daughter. The Lady of Captain FULLER, R. N., of a son and heir.. .. The Hon. Mrs. G. MASSEY, of a son. MARRIAGES. The Hon. DAVID PLUNKET, third son of Lord Plunket, to LOUISA ALDRIDGE, eldest daughter of the late R. A. BUSBY, Esq.. ALLAN M'LEAN SKINNER, of Lincoln's Inn, youngest son of the late Lieutenant- General Skinner, to CAROLINE EMILY, only daughter of the Rev. J. HARDING, of Glannagwr . .. Captain COLIN MACKENZIE, Royal Engineers, to ANN PET- GRAVE, sixth daughter of the late J. PENDRILL, Esq..., Captain TYRON, 43d Light Infantry, to ELIZABETH, only daughter of Sir J. HARVEY, K. C. H, and a grand- daughter of General Lord Lake, and niece of the present Viscount. DEATHS. At Brussels, Lord NAIRNE. His lordship was unmarried, and was the only child of William Lord Nairne, in whose person the title which had been forfeited in 1746, was revived in 1824. The late Lord was only in the 30th year of his age. We believe the title is extinct FRANCES LID- DELL, daughter of Lieutenant- Colonel LIVING- STON. . .. G. J. CARNEGIE, Esq., only son of the Hon. Lieutenant- Colonel Carnegie, and nephew to the late Earl of Northesk.. .. ANN ELIZA- BETH, relict of the late W. NEWTON, Esq., formerly Lieutenant- Colonel of the 10 th regiment of Light Dragoons, and sister of the late Sir E. Knatchbull, Bart.. .. J. P. LOCKHART, Esq., many years senior Member of Her Majesty's Coun- sel in, and late President of the Island of Dominica. .. .. F. T. QUARLES, Esq., solicitor, and coroner for the liberty of the Duchy of Lancaster.,... Mrs. MILDERT, widow of the late Bishop of Durham TUESDAY— DECEMBER 26, 1837. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. J. Gillingham, Farringdon street, nu - lican. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. J. Driver, Cambridge, hatter. BANKrUPTS to surrender in the COUNTRY. GRAVENOR, WILLIAM, Hatfield Woodhouse, York- shire, farmer, January J l, at two, and February 6, at twelve, at the Guildhall, Doncaster. Attorney, Mr. Raynes, Bawtry. DAVIS, JAmES, Birmingham, licensed victualler, Jan. 12, and Feb. 6, at two, at Dee's royal Hotel, Birming- ham. Attorneys, Mr. Smith, Staple Inn, holborn : and Aston- street, Birmingham. HUSLEr, WILLIAM. Woodhouse, Leeds, stone mason, January 1, and February 6, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds. Attorneys, Messrs. Battye and Co., Chancery- lane; and Mr Cooper, Leeds RUMLEY, HENRY, Bristol, builder, January 9, and f ebruary 6, at one, at the Commcrcial- rcoms, Bristol. Attorneys, Messrs. Blower aud Vizard, Lincoln's Inn- fields ; and Mr. Gregory, Bristol. MATHER, WILLIAM — MATHER, COLIN — NE W- STEAD, JOHN TENNEY, Manchester and Salford, iron founders, January 10, and February 6, at three, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester. Attorneys, Messrs. Adlington and Co., London; and Mr. Hamp- son, Manchester. DIVIDENDS to be made in BASINGHALL- STREET. J. Finleyson, Union- place. New- road, Marylebone, colour manufacturer, January 10, at half past eleven.. J. Southam, Tillotson- place, Waterloo road, boarding house keeper, January 19, at half past twelve.. G. T. Ferrers, Great Pulteney- street, Golden- square, bedding manufac- turer, January lfi, at half past twelve.. W. Wood, Graves- end, carpenter aud builder, January 18, nt twelve.. H. Cooke and J. herbert, Birchin- lane, merchants, January 18, at half past eleven.. J. Standen, Grosvenor street, victualler, January 18, at two.. J. Walton, Newcastle- on- Tyne, stationer, Janaary 18, at two. R. H. Vinson and W. Shoults, Maze, Southwark, and also of Tower- street, carpenters and builders, January 16, at eleven.. C. Barry, Jermyn- street, St. James's, surgeon and apothecary, January 16, at twelve.. R. Coodhugh, Glasshouse- street, St. James's, fishmonger, January 16, at one. r. Blair, Hook, near Kingston, Surrey, coal dealer, January 16, at twelve. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. W. Tate, Chorley, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer, January 22, at three, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester.. J. Gray, sen., Manchester, paper manufac- turer, January 20, at one, at the Commissioners' rooms, Manchester.. J. S. Robertson and J. Todd, Manchester and Oldham, linen manufacturers, January 18, at three, at the Commissioners'- rooms, Manchester.. J. Llewellyn, Guildhall square, Carmarthen, draper, February l,* at twelve, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen.. S. P. Lewis, Dark Gate, Carmarthen, draper, April 25, at eleven, at the Boar's Head Inn, Carmarthen.. T. Clark, Bristol, woollen draper, January 18, at eleven, at the Commis- sioners'- rooms, Bristol.. B. Heighington, Darlington, Durham, wine and spirit merchant, January 23, at two, at the King's Head Inn, Darlington.. J. Clarbour, Sheffield, tea dealer, January 16, at eleven, at the Town HaU, Shef- field.. J. Anderton, Bradford, Yorkshire, dyer, January 19, at eleven, at the Court House, Bradford.. H. Gledhill and J. Gledhill, Cloughmill, Yorkshire, cotton manufac- turers, February 5, at ten, at the Commissioners'- rooms Manchester. CERTIFICATES. S. Stuart, Pall mall, milliner. . J. Rawlins, Curtain road, Shoreditch, dealer in building materials.. J. Loosemere, Tiverton, Devonshire, scrivener.. J. Tayler, Holborn., carpet dealer.. S. Hewitt and T. Weatherby, Manchester, calico printers.. H. Silvester, Birmingham, Florentine button maker. . J. Heaword, Stockport, cotton manu- facturer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M. Hall and W. Lowe, Manchester.. W. Stretton and W. W. Stretton, Leicester, furriers.. J. Eiliston and J. Collyer, Ipswich, Suffolk, drapers.. B. A. M'Ghie, Totten- ham, and E. Hawks, Rotherhithe, ship builders.. W. Hick- man and W. Stapledon, Henley upon Thames, book- sellers.. J. Hodges and W. Price, Dudbridge, Stroud, ironfounders.. W. Adamson and E. N. Gerrard, Man- chester, druggists.. J. W. Southgate sen. and J. W. South- gate, jun. Fleet street, auctioneers.. R. Hill and B. Turner, Birmingham, builders.. W. Parsons sen. and W. Parsons, jun. Tamworth, druggists. E. Lascelles and Co. Crutched friars.. W. Speight aud M. Speight, Leeds, joiners S. Russell and R. Spencer, Bridge water square, book- binders. . W. Churton and E. G. Churton, Oxford street, hosiers.. J. Cozens and J. Copeman, Norwich, grocers.. E. Hayman and C. Broadbent, Sackville street, Piccadilly, milliners.. W. Fairclough anl R Stanlar, Manchester, fustian manufacturers J. C. Wilcocks, jun. and Co. Exeter, linendrapers.. J. Eccles and W. Moss, Preston, Lancashire, power loom cloth manufacturers.. T. Brad- ford, and J. Hawkes, Bradford, Yorkshire, horse dealers .. J. Stanlar and P. Stanlar, Manchester, brass wire drawers.... E. Moorhouse and Co. Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire, heald knitters ( so far. as regards E. Moor- house).. R. Hughes and Co. Carnarvonshire, quarry pro- prietors. . J. Rayner and R. Hartley, Halifax, Yorkshire, worsted spinners.. T. Leigh and J. Leigh, Ashton under Lyne, drapers.. J. Ackers and Co. Liverpool, brewers ( so far as regards 1'. P. Ackers).. J. Wragg and Co. Morton, Lincolnshire, mustard manufacturers. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION. J. Young, sen. Glasgow, engineer. FRIDAY— DECEMBER 29, 1837. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. T. Skelton, and J. Skelton, Gerrard street, Soho, oilmen. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. D. Boast, London road, chemist. BANKRUPTS to surrender ia BASINGHALL- STREET. DORRInGTON, CHARLES, Digswell hill, Hertford, miller, January 9, at one, and February g, at eleven. Attorney, Mr. Neal, Threadneedle street; official as. signee, Mr. Graham. CHARLETON, WILLIAM, and REDDELL, JOSEPH hADLEY, Berners street, Commercial ro jd, East, white lead manufacturers, January 13., at hal? past twelve, and February 9, at eleven. Attorney, Messrs. Ling and Harrison, Bloomsbury square; official assignee, Mr. Edwards. BANKRUPTS to surrender in the COUNTRY. PIGGINS, STEPHEN, jun., Cambridge, common brewer, Januarp 6, and February 9. at ten, at the Eagle Inn, Cambridge. Attorneys, Mr. Twiss, Cambridge; and Messrs. Lytbgoe and Martin, Essex street, Strand. AMAN, RICHARD, Northampton, cabinet maker, Jan. 23, and February 9, at twelve, at the Goat Inn, North- ampton. Attorneys, Messrs. Lewis and Lewis, Ely place ; and Messrs. C. and C. Markham, Northampton. HAYWARD, ISAAC JOHNSON THOMAS, Dounfield, Gloucester, common brewer, January lo, and February 9, at eleven, at the Golden Cross Inn, Cainscross At- torneys, Mr. Shearman, Gray's Inn; and Mr. Paris, Stroud, Gloucester. TEAsDALE, JOHN, Bolton- le- moors, Lancasttr, road contractor, January 13, at two, and February 9, at ten, at the Commercial Inn, Bolton- le- moors. Attorneys, Mr. Barker, Gray's Inn square ; aud Messrs. Wood- house and holden, Bolton- le- moors, BURKE, SAMUEL, Liverpool, coal agent, January 17, and February , 9, at one, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liver- pool. Attorneys, Messrs. Davenport and Son, Liver- pool ; arid Mr. Raynes, Norfolk street, Strand. DOWNES WILLIAM, Wortley, York, cloth manufac- turer, January 8, and Feb. 9, at eleven. Attorneys, Messrs. Battye and Co., Chancery lane; and Mr. Nay- lor, Leeds. HAINES, EDWARD, and HAINES, CHARLES, Glou- cester, linen drapers, Jan. 11, atone, February 9, at three, at the Booth Hall Inn. Attorneys, Mr. Jones, Crosby square ; and Mr, Smalblridge, Gloucester. BLAKE, CHARLES BOYD, Woolpit, Suffolk, innkeeper, January 1, and February, 9, at the Globe Inn, Bury St. Edmunds. Attorneys, Mr, Gudgeon, Stowmarket; and Mr. Chilton, Chancery lane. DIVIDENDS to be made in BASING HALL- STREET. N. Kirwan, Riches court, Lime street, city, merchant, Jan. 29, at one. . B. W. Pike, New Gloucester place, Hoxton, embosser, Jan. 20, at eleven.. C. L. Birch, Great Queenstreet, Lincoln's inn fields, coach maker, Jan. 20 at twelve. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. J. Kenworthy and Co. Quick, Yorkshire, cotton manu- facturers, Jan. 19, at ten, at the Commissioners' rooms » M anches': er.. J. Ward, Greta bridge, Yorkshire, inn- keeper, Jan. 19, at twelve, at Mr. Freer's, Catterick bridge.. J. Smith, Bristol, merchant, Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Commercial rooms, Bristol. CERTIFICATES. D. Hasechurst and Co. Unston, colliers.. J. Cuff, Liver- pool, grocer.. R. Barker, Manchester, druggist.. J. Catt, Tunbridge wells, ironmonger., A. Wildeboer and Co. London street, Fenchurch street, merchants.. J. Clark, Keppell street, Bloomsbury, dentist. . T. Daniell, Bath, copper smelter.. J. Bentley and Co. Cneapside, ware- houseman. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Hodges and J. Lyns, furnishing undertakers, Bea- viour place, Kingsland.. W. Crosthwaite and J. Harrison, Kendal, manufacturers.. J. Rewcastle aud C. Shephard, Newcastle upon Tyne, booksellers.. T. Grainger and J. Worcester, china manufacturers.. P. Joyce and W. Lee, Humphreys, Bradford, brush makers.. W. Jackson and M. Latham, Ashton, cotton spinner.. E. Cowper and J. Blackwell, Liverpool, drapers.. J. and W. Taylor, Bir- mingham, paviers.. D. and T. Goodall, Leeds, joiners.. J. Dresser, and Co. Thirsk, bankers.. R. W. Chadwick and G. W. Sladden, Herne- bay, wine merchants.. H. Foster and J. Hopwood, Kingston upon Hull, wine mer- chants. . R. Boyall and T. Donkin, Peterborough, spirit merchants.. C. Cockerton and L. Honey, Royal City of London Theatre, Norton Folgate.. F. Wittick and W. Thorpe, Lombard street, commission agents.. J. Bristowe and Co. Poole, coal merchant j.. J. Molloy and T. Rich • ards, Liverpool, paper rulers.. G. Radcliffe, and G. Rad- cliffe, juu. New Sarum, schoolmaster.. L. Collman and Co. London, merchants. INSOLVENT debtors' COURT. PETITIONS and SCHEDULES of the Prisoners hereinafter named, are appointed to be heard at the Court- house, in Portugal- street, Lincoln's inn- fields, at Nine o'clock in the Forenoon. Ou Friday, the 5th day of January. W. Womack, ratcliff Highway, victualler.. J. Richard- son, Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, tailor.. J. Towsey, Acorn street, Bishopsgate street, tailor.... W. Holding, Mor- timer street, Cavendish square, wine merchant.... T. Griffiths, Camden place, Blackhaath, hair dresser W. Collier, Stafford House, Turnham green, stage coach proprietor.... J. Newell,. Princes, street,, edgeware road, omnibus proprietor.. R. N. Brickman, Little Queen street, Lincolh's- inn- fields.. H. Perry, Welbeck street, Cavendish square, artist.. W. Harris, Union street, Blackfriars road, milkman.. H. Shailer, Mornington grove, Camden town, n.. J. Staples, Chester street, Grosvenor place, dentist. 6 THE MAGNET, MONDAY. JAN. 1. NEW BOOKS. C02- THE DUCHESS OP MARLBOROUGH'S RESPONDENCE. 2 vols. This work exhibits the conduct and character of soma highly influential persons of the times of the great" Duke of Marlborough, whose Duchess, it is known, was upon terras of close familiarity with Queen Anne, whom she in- fluenced for a considerable period, and, at length, fell, as other favourites had fallen : to this in- fluence the glories of Marlborough are to be ascribed, to the failure of it we may trace the unfortunate treaty of Utrecht. The correspon- dence includes letters from the cclebrat. c- d Earl of Peterborough, Godolphin, Penn, Defoe, Prior, and the Queen herself, in whose cor- respondence with the Duchess the former was always styled Mrs. Morley, and the latter Mrs. Freeman." Some sketches are given of Queen Anne. QUEEN ANNE AFTER THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND. " When she came into the coach, she bad a very extraordinary thought, as it appeared to me. She desired me to send to my Lord Treasurer, and at once beg of him to take care and examine whether there was room in some vault to bury the prince at Westminster, and to leave room for her too. 1 suppose it was where her family, and kings, and queens, had beea laid : but in case there was not room enough for the prince and her too, she di- rected another place to be buried in. When we earne to St. James's, I carried her privately through my lodging into her green closet, and gave her a cup of broth ; and afterwards she ate a very good dinner ; and at night, I found her at a table again, where she had been eating, and Mrs. Masham very close by her, who went out of the room as soon as I came in ; but with an air of insolence and anger, and not in the humble manner she had sometimes affected of bed- chamber woman. I attended the queen upon this aftlictisn with all the care that was possible to please her, and never named Mrs. Ma- sham to her ; and she would make me sit down as she had done formerly, and make some little show of kindness at night when I took my leave; but she would never speak to me freely of any thing, and X found I could gain no ground, which was not much to be wondered at, for I never came to her but I found Mrs. Masham there, or had been just gone out from her, which, at last, tired me, and I went to her seldomer. Before the prince was buried, she passed a good deal of time looking into precedents, that she might order bow it should be performed, which I thought unusual, and not very decent; but she naturally loved all forms and ceremonies, and remembered more of them than I could even do ; but she had bits of great tenderness for the prince, and I remember she wrote ms once a little note, at which I could not help smiling, that X should send to my Lord Treasurer to take care that some door might be taken down at the removing of the prince to Westminster, for fear the dear prince's body should be shook as he was carried out of some room, though she had gone long jumbling journeys with him to the bath, when he must feel it, and when he was gasping for breath. I did see the tears in her eyes two or three times after his death, upon this subject, and I believe she fancied she loved him : and she was certainly more concerned for him than she was for the fate of Gloucester ; but her nature was very hard, and she was not apt to cry." CHARACTERISTIC SKETCH OF QUEEN ANNE. " Queen Anne had a ptrson and appearance not at all ungraceful, till she grew exceeding gross and corpulent. There was something of majesty in her look, but mixed with a sullen and constant frown, that plainly betrayed a gloominess of soul, and a cloudiness of disposition within. She seemed to inherit a good deal of her father's moroseness, which naturally produced in her the same sort of stubborn positiveness in many cases, both ordinary and ex- traordinary, as well as the same sort of bigotry in religion. Her memory was exceeding great, almost to a wonder, and had these two peculiarities very remarkable in it, that she could, whenever she pleased, forget what others would bave thought themselves obliged, by truth and honour, to remem- ber, and remember all such things as others would think it a happiness to forget. Indeed, she chose to retain in it very little besides ceremonies and cus toms ef courts, and such like insignificant trifles ; so that her conversation, which otherwise might have been enlivened by so great a memory, was only made the more empty and trifling, by its chiefly turning upon fashions and rules of precedence, or observations upon the weather, or some such poor topics, without any variety or entertainment. Upon which account it was a sort of unhappiness to her, that she naturally loved to have a great crowd come to her ; for when they were come to court, she never cared to have tliera come in to her, nor to go oat herself to them, having little to say to them, but that it was either hot or cold ; and little to inquire of them, but how long they had been in town, or the like weighty matters. She never discovered any readiness of parts, either in asking questions, or in giving answers. Iu matters of ordinary moment, her discourse had nothing of brightness or wit; and in weightier matters, she never spoke but in a hurry, and had a certain knack of sticking to what had been dictated to her, to a degree often very dis- agreeable, and without the least sign of understand- ing or judgment. Her letters were very indifferent, both in sense and spelling, unless that they were generally enlivened with a few passionate expres- sions, sometimes pretty enough, but repeated over and over again, without the mixture of any thing cither of diversion or instruction. Her civility and gool manners in conversation ( to which the educa- tion of great persons naturally leads) were general enough, till, in her latter days, her new friends un- taught her these accomplishments; and then her vhole deportment was visibly changed to that de- f. " 3, that, when soma tilings disagreeable to her ii honour or passion have been laid before her, e would descend to the lowest and most shocking ; orms of contradiction, and what, in any of a meaner station, would have been esteemed the height of impoliteness. Her friendships were flames of ex- travagant passion, ending in indifference or aver- sion. Her love to the prince seemed, in the eye of the world, to be prodigiously great; and great as was the passion of her grief, her stomach was greater; for that very day lie died, she ate three tery large and hearty meals, so that one would think that, as other parsons' grief takes away their appe- tites, her appetite took away her grief. Nor was it less remarkable, where there was so great an appear- ance of love, the peculiar pleasure she took before his funeral in settling the order of it, and naming the persons that were to attend, and placing them according to their rank and to the rules of prece- dence, which was the entertainment she gave herself every day till that solemnity was over." THE DUCHESS'S DOGS. " 1737. I am very fond of my three dogs ; they have ali of them gratitude, wit, and good sense ; things very rare to be found in this country. They are fond of going out with me ; but when I reason with them, and tell them it is not proper, they sub- mit, and watch for my coming home, and meet me! with as much joy as if I had never given them good advice." LIFE AND DEATH. " 1737. I am a perfect cripple, and cannot pos- sibly hold out long : and as I have little enjoyment of my life, I am very indifferent about it. 1737. It is impossible that one of :- ny age and infirmities can live long: and one great happiness there is in death, that one shall never hear any more of any thing they do in this world. 1737- 8. I think one can't leave the world in a better time than now, when there is no such thing as real friendship, truth, jus- tice, honour, or, indeed, any thing that is agreeable in life. 1738- 9. I am so weary of life that I don't care how soon the stroke is given to me, which I only wish may be with as little pain as possible. 1739. As to my own particular, I have nothing to reproach myself with: and I think it very impro- bable that I should live to suffer what others will do, who have contributed to the ruin of their country : and when I am dead I shall hear nothing of it, nor have the uneasiness, when I die, of parting with • any thing that gives much pleasure. I have always thought that the greatest happiness of life was to love and value somebody extremely that returned it, and see them often ; and if one has an easy fortune, that is what makes one's life pass away agreeably. But, alas ! there is such a change in the world since I knew it first, that, though one's natural pleasure is to love people, the generality of the world are in something or other so disagreeable, that ' tis impos- sible to do it: and, added to this, 1 am a cripple, lifted about like a child, and very seldom free from pain. 1740- 1. As I have seen so much of a very bad werld, I must own I have no taste left, but to have what is just necessary to support myself, and those that I am obliged to take eare of, which are a reat many." THE DUCHESS'S OPINION OF HER OWN SEX. " 1727- 3. Women signify nothing unless they are the mistress ( es) of a prince or a first minister, which I would not be if I were young; and I think there are very few, if any women, that have under- standing or impartiality enough to serve well those they really wish to serve. CORRESPONDING BY CYPHERS. The Duke of Marlborough says, in a letter written to the Duchess in 1708 :— I shall send by Mr. Craig's son a letter from 44 ( King Charles) You will see by it that he gives assurance to 39 ( Marlborough) that he shall have for my life what 253 ( Lady TyTconnel) was so desirous 210 ( Marlborough) should have ; no doubt this" is a great expression of 41 ( the King of Spain), but if I know myself, my happiness does not depend so much on greatness as on your kindness and quiet- ness. This must be known to nobody but 38 ( the Lord Treasurer) and 42 ( the Queen,) without whose consent I would not accept of any offer, though of the greatest advantage ; besides, if this were known before 81 ( the Peace), it would do hurt in 110 ( Holland). And at another time :— In the mean- time let us be quiet and say as little as is possible. God has his ways of punishing, and I belive 256 ( Mrs. Masham) is to be the instrument that will cause great mortification to 42 ( the Queen) and it may be to others we wish well to. For this world is not always governed by reason, and that 240 ( you) and 38 ( Lord treasurer) may be upon their guard. I am assured by 39 ( Marlborough) that he thinks that 256 and 230 ( Mr. Harley) have made 42 ( the Queen) jealous of the power of 38 ( Lord Treasurer) and 210 ( me), but nobody should know this but 209 ( you)?" THE STAGES OF FEMALE BEAUTY. BY F. MONTAGUE. This work describes the various stages of fe- male existence, from infancy to the grave. It is made up of prose. and poetical sketches from one of which we make the following extract:— THE MOTHER. " She was not yet hopeless: it seemed so impos- sible that she should be entirely parted from those who were part of herself I So impossible that the father of those little beings whom she had borne in pain and nursed at her bosom should inflict on her and them a separation as complete as that of death! So impossible that the best and purest happiness of her life bad vanished in that sudden and un- expected wreck ! She bore it as people bear most great misfortunes ; too much stunned at first to feel all the agony. It has been truly _ and beauti- fully expressed, ( hat 1 Light to our feelings is the immediate blow, And the first pang the weakest of our wo ;' and so it was in the case of Mrs. Davenal. Years of heart- break were before her, but the present was filled with vague and feverish plans for a re union with her children, and wild as those plans were, they enabled her to bear up against the separation from them. * * Laura Davenel became frantic with anxiety : it was impossible that her husband would push his vengeance so far as to refuse her permission to attend on her sick child: she wrote to him one of those wild and mournful appeals which experience might have taught her were vain : all day she paced restlessly up and down hsr room, awaiting his reply : the day light stole away— and, In the dim sadness of the autumn evening, visions of terror and distress passed before her eyes ; the restlessness of despair rose in her heart; her child, her ' merry Isabel,' was ill, perhaps dying, and she waiting, passively, permission to go to her bed- side! She would depart instantly ; they dared not refuse her admission. She rose, and, attended only by her maid, crept through the streets which led to what had been her home. With a beating heart she rung the bell; the door was opened, and hastily closed again. Mrs. Davenel waited ; the door was again partially opened; voices were heard consult- ing in low whispers in the hall; the servant mut- tered an inarticulate message, that Colonel Davenel had forbidden him to allow his wife to enter. Laura leaned against the iron rails. * Is Colonel Davenal within ?' said she, faintly. ' Yes, madam.' ' Tell him I want to see my child— I will not depart till I have seen my child.' The servant obeyed, and five minutes of intolerable suspense passed away ; then a slow stern step was heard, and Colonel Davenal himself stood at the entrance. His face was livid with rage. ' You have made me the sub- ject of abuse and ridicule,' said he, ' and now yon will only expose yourself; go back to my brother, and those who have encouraged your follies, for, so help ine God, if you stand there all night, you shall not come in.' Laura Davenel could not speak; she flung her arm wildly across the space between them; felt the grasp of his fierce hand, as he undid her hold, vainly attempted to utter the name of her child, and sank, insensible, to the ground. Lord Davenel wrote to his brother. ' Your conduct,' said he, 4 is that of a madman ; your vengeance that of a fiend : if I were to consult my own feelings, I would hold no communication with you: but the misery of your most injured wife compels me to act against my own convictions. I beg to inform you, from her, that she consents to forego all legal pro- ceedings for a separation, on condition that the chil- dren are restored to her. She offers to take them to any part of England you may point out, and to obey any directions you may give. So much for her own offer. For myself, I beg to say that as the addition to your income was made with a view of increasing thS) comfort and respectability of your llpme, and not to be squandered away in payment of the extravagances of a popular « il> ger> J shall withdraw it on receipt of your refusal io agree to these terms.' Lord Davenel's letter was in a blank cover, and, in a few months from that date, Colonel Davenel's embarrassments had made him an inmate of the King's Bench Prison. The two boys were suddenly and privately sent abroad, and placed at a French pension of the meanest and cheapest class, and the bright and lovely little Isabel was left to the care of La Bertolini, who daily visited her father, accompanied by the child of his unhappy and outraged wife. These events occurred while Laura was at Davenel Park, and as she perused the letter containing that miserable intelligence, she exclaimed, passionately, ' This, at least, need not be suffered 1 This, the laws of a Christian country will protect me against! I am not to live to see my innocent and lovely child abandoned to the care of a worthless woman 1' Again was the struggle of the weak against the strong ineffectually made, l- aura Davenel com- menced proceedings at law, demanding the care of her infant daughter, and stating the circumstances under which the child was placed. Colonel Davenel was ordered to produce the child in court, and hope, the hope of justice, ence more beat restlessly in Laura Davenel's heart. In vain 1 The case was admitted to be a hard one; much sympathy was expressed in the sufferings of the you>. g and blame- less mother: much interest excited by the little gay unconscious child ; but the result was to leave things precisely as they were: the infant daughter of these divided parents was stated to be under ths father's authority, and continued to reside with that father's mistress. * * * Laura Davenel did not speak ; she did not weep ; but she looked up with a vague and wistful stare to the countenances of her companions. ' Oh I my dear Laura j do not look at us in that way,' exclaimed her sister- in- law, as she flung her arms round the wretched woman's ne « k and burst into tears: ' who has written to you ? it was very wrong; I hoped to have broken it to you myself; she did not suffer.' ' Who did not suffer ?' said Mrs. Davenel stupidly, and with an abstracted look. ' Little Isabel, poor Isabel I she died of exhaustion only ; and quite, quite unexpectedly. Be comforted, dear Laura, be comforted ; think of your boys; you have still Charlie and Willie to love and be with you hereafter ; think of them— of them only.' A wild hysterical laugh burst from the lips of the bereaved mother ; the double blow fell heavily on her heart; aud for many days after- wards the ravings of the delirium alone gave a clue to the misery of her thoughts. It was during her slow recovery from the fever which had wasted her, that Lord Davenel sought her presence. There was an effort at composure in his manner which the trembling of his voice belied ; and Laura smiled mournfully as she Stretched out her hand to him. ' Do not fear,' said she, ' I feel so ill, that I am, as it were, removed beyond the joys and sorrows of this life, waiting on the shore and verge of a mortal world, till God shall please to call me : expecting, nothing, hoping nothing ; only losking across the dark ocean of deawi to eternity.' Lord Davenel hesitated, affected by her manner : atlengthhe said, ' I have seen your husband ; he is sorry for your state : the woman— La Bertolini— has forsaken him; she is gone to Bavaria with Count Armensperg : he was very lonely when I saw him.' There was a long and heavy pause. Lord Davcnel resumed*— ' I found him more willing to listen to what I had to say. I thought the best step was to obtain the recall of yoHr boys : my brother's embarrassments are cleared off,— and— and the children are in Eng- land.' ' They are here,' said Laura, wildly ;' ' I feel it; I know it. Oh 1 my God, I thank thee,' and she dropped helplessly on her knees by the couch on which she had been lying. ' Be calm, dear Laura said, Lord Davenel, as he raised her in his arms, ' be calm, and you shall see them ;' and in a few minutes more the two little boys entered. They stood once more before her; They for whom she had pined though so many feverish days and prayed in vain ! They were dressed in the deepest mourning ; in mourning for ' Merry Isabel; for her whose glance had been so bright and mirthful; whose birdlike voice seemed only tuned for joy; whose frolic laugh returned strangely at this moment to Laura Davenel's memory, wringing her heart to bitter tears. BY THE LATE THE MODERN PYTHAGOREAN. R. MACNISH. This is a collection of papers originally pub- lished under the above title, ia Blackwood's Magazine ; with the author's life prefixed, written by Mr. Moir, another contributor to the northern periodical. Mr. M. has furnished a readable biography of a man of genius. The following extract from one of his letters, and a bacchanalian song, will be perused with interest, and regret for the author's loss. PLEASANT READING.. " Glasgow, Nov. 1531. " My dear Sir,— I wrote you my last letter while confined to the house by bad weather. I am now confined by a vile cold in the head, which has gone down to my chest, and annoys me a good deal. Thanks to myself for this, for I owe it to sheer care- lessness in being out late at night, supping with a set of bachelors. This is the great advantage yon married folks possess over us. You become quite regular and orderly, staying at home with your wives, and going to bed early, and not quite seas over, as we honest bachelors are enticed to io. Do not suppose, however, from this, that I am going to get married, for I look upon a wife as an encum- brance, fully as great as a walking- stick, and not quite so useful. Not but there are exceptions, as you know, not to your cost, but to your own great happiness. This last sentence I insert, both be- cause it is true, and that it may save me from getting a scold from your own excellent wife, when I next see her. Talking of wives, by the bye, let me congratulate you upon the birth of your son. God bless the little chap I * * * I think a virtuous and amiable woman must be a poetess, for what the plague is virtue but poetry. It follows, then, that poetry is virtue ; and such being the case, no person who can write ( or think or speak) poetry, mrKt be. hanged in future, or even suspected of a crime. Q. E. D. There is sound logic for you. * * * We are getting on well with the Anatomy. When you see the new editioa, you will allow it to be much improved. I have been converted into a believer of spontaneous combustion, by the mass of evidence in support of the phenomenon. I have also a shght wipe at temperance societies, but only a slight one, fori think they deserve credit for good intentions. My sublime acquaintance, Tom Atkin- son, has published his ' Chameleon,' in the1 style of the annuals'; and a most elegant affair it is, so far as exterior goes. I believe I am answerable for the publication, for Tom sent me all the MSS. to read; and I returned them to him with the highest com- mendations, without having read a single page. You see the advantage of a good wide conscience. I now make a practice of praising every thing WTitten by asses. When I condemn a thing, I think I am paying the author a compliment, as it is a proof I have read his work. After all, blockheads are useful animals, and should not be abused. I am a huge favourite with all the literary idiots of Glas- gow ; and I impute it solely to this absurd system of flattery, by which they are gammoned into a belief they are men of genius. The system answers two purposes. It makes them imagine themselves clever, because I say so- even I myself; and it makes them suppose me clever, seeing that I have judgment to admire their great talents. It was while supping with one of these intellectuals that I caught cold— a punishment, I suppose, far the hy- pocritical praises I bestowed upon them. * * * When did you see Professor Wilson ? I wonder what he is about. What a sad pity it is that, with one of the most powerful and beautiful minds ever formed, an intellect overflowing with ths diyinest poetry, and blended pathos, and humour, and phi- losophy, he should not have tasked it more than he has done 1 It is really an outrage upon nature, who has so bountifully gifted him, to waste these vast powers as he has done, instead of consecrating them to some immortal work. * * * Hogg is rhyming away in Fraser. I do not know what sort of affair his last is, for I have not yet read it. I see those masculine feminines, the * * * dam- sels, have brought out a couple of volumes. What an itch for writing these ladies have I I should not like to marry one of them ; confirmed blue stock- ings. What a lot of them there are in Edinburgh ! In fact, I think the Edinburgh women are con- foundedly disagreeable, speaking in a general way, on account of their blue- stocking propensities. They have a tremendous opinion of themselves, which accow? ta ft1' there being so many old maids in the Modern Athens. Our Glasgow Indies we nice and ignorant, and do not plague one with learning. Gfi this account I greatly prefer them to the self- con- ceited damsels of the metropolis. Women should' never be as wise as men," BACCHANALIAN SONG. " Who cares a potato for Solon or Plato, Those dull philosophical pedants of yore ? A glass of good stingo, is better by jingo I Than all their flash sayings, their wisdom, anil lore. What is gruff Aristotle to a well- pleuished bottle, With daffy can Socrates ever compare ? If grief should attack us we'll call upon Bacchus, Renown'd for his hatred to sorrow and care. Let's all set a brewing strong ale, and blue ruin Iu puncheonsful studiously let us distil, For sound man or cripple, there's naught like a tipple; Have it, ye lush coves ! and swig off yo « r fill: Who cares a potato for Solon or Plato, Those dull philosophical ninnies of yore ? But Anaereon the jewel he took to his gruel, Voting care an encumbrance, and wisdom a bore 1 Ye mealy- faced noodles, ye soft- livered doodles, Ye tea- sipping quakers come answer us, pray, What makes us pugnacious, good- humoured, saga- cious, But tippling the jorum and soaking our clay ? Accursed by the muses ia he who refuses Each day to get muggy at Lushington's bar; Or cheer with good toddy the soul of his body, And wage with dull sense and sobriety war. The soul needeth fuel, and drink is a jewel, Which wise men aud true can ne'er value enough; Blue devils it scatters, tears sorrow to tatters, And floors iu a jiffy despair and such staff : If aught should perplex us, bamboozle, or vex us, Heavy- wet will assuredly give us relief: rum, brandy, and whiskey, or Hollands SO frisky, Oh, these ate elixirs for banishing grief!" SCOTLAND. EDAY.— CAPTURE OF WHALES.— A few days since a capture of no less than 66 whales of the Delphinus Detractor, or Calling Whale of the Shetlander, took place at the Island of Eday, Seven boats well manned were engaged in an ad. venturous warfare with the monsters of the deep ; and though the contest was long doubtful, victory at length declared in favour of the poor islanders, who viewed their prize in a providential light during this severe season of the year, when there are so many mouths to fill, and so* little to fill them with. The whales were disposed of for 200 guineas to the Kirkwall merchant?. CATRINE.— FRUITLESS ECONOMY.— A poor but respectable woman, who resided upwards of forty years in this village, had in her younger days, been able to scrape together^ the sum of forty- two shil- lings, which with that spirit of honest independence so characteristic to the Scottish peasantry, she de- posited carefully in the corner of her chest, ; in the shape of two one guinea notes, in the hope that she might perhaps therewith be able to assist herself at some future time. One day last week she was obliged to draw one of thera from its hiding p'ace, and tendered it in pay- meat of some commodity she was about to pur- chase, when, to her no smuil grief and dismay, she learned that the bank from which it emanated had long since ceased to exist. Her suspicion was thus very naturally awakened with regatd to the value ef her other note, and she ventured to express a hope that a better fate awaited her with regard to it, as she " was sure it was not of the same kind," yet, stranje'as it may appear, it turned out that, though of a different bank, it had also expired upwards of twenty years ago. The notes are of the late Fal- kirke and Kilmarnock bunks. FALA.— SHOCKING ACCIDENT— Two of Mr, bain's servants, a man and a boy, were driving a cart loaded with straw from his farm at the Maga- zine to that of Sauchland. They had seated them- selves on the cart above the straw, and had just entered the road leading to the firm- house from the highway. At that place the road is about tea or twelve feet above the level of ths fields, with no parapet or paling; and whether the horse had started, or the force of the wind, which was then very boisterous, had occasioned the catastrophe, it is difficult to say, but the cart was overturned. The man and the boy were pitched into the field below, and the loaded cart above them. Unfor- tunately there was no person near ; and although the man was able to call out for assistance, it was about twenty minutes before the cart could be re- moved. By this time the boy was quite dead, and the man considerably injured. The poor boy had fallen with his face to the. ground— it was a recently ploughed field— and he must have died by suffoca- tion, as his mouth was filled with earth, and the great load above had prevented him from making any exertion. PEEBLESSHIRE. — THE BALLOT.— Oa Tuesday se'nnight, a numerous meeting of electors and in- habitants of the county of Peebles was held in the town- hall, to consider the propriety of petitioning tbejlegislature to pass a law authorising the votes of electors for members of Parliament to be taken by ballot. Among those on the platform were William Steuart, Esq., tife Honourable J. Erskine Murray, Adam Stewart, Esq. Baillies Patterson and M'Nab, Dean of Guild Smeai, and other members of the Town Council of Peebles, and a number of farmers. The room was crowded to excess; every resolution was cirried with the greatest cordiality and unani- mity. The chairman requested Mr. Murray to gra- tify the meeting by explaining the promised mode of voting by Mr. Grote's ballot box, which the ho- nourable gentleman did in a manner to call forth repeated cheers. MUSIC. When in the Stilly Midnight Hour. Recitative and Air. Written and composed by William Kerr, Jan. This is one of the prettiest drawing- room songs that we have heard for a long while : th « words are pleasing, and the melody of a simple and beautiful character, is equal to the most approved love- com- positions of the school of Lee and Balfo. The song is well worthy of the attention of our musical readers. Mr. Kerr is a young composer, but he is likely to become a very popular one. NEWS FROM THE COUNTRY. AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR DECEMBER. The field- labours of this mouth consist of fallow- ploughing such lands as have been, since its com- mencement:, cleared of their turnips, mangel- worsel or other beet, or succulent bulbous roots ; giving the seed furrow for early beans, carting out manure, both to the lands destined to be sown with these and also oats, in January; draining of wetlands, fining and planting deciduous timber trees and coppices ; planting hedgerows, carting home fire- boot or fuel ; mending thatch and fences, looking to early lambing ewes, mixing composts, going to market to sell produce, to cattle shows for experi- ence, & o. The pastures and other grass lands, both seed and natural, together with the sheep downs, arc still, generally speaking, sound, fresh, and tolerably well covered with herbage, and the stock depastured on them doing well, with the aid of very little, if any, dry or succulent fodder, whilst that at the home- stall, and live farm stock- in general, is in a satisfactorily healthy state ; and the yeaning of those ewes which bear lambs to be fattened for spring consumption have proceeded hitherto under favourable auspices. There is, too, E good crop of turnips, mangel- worsel, and other beets ; and a good one of potatoes was secured in the last and early part of the present month ; whilst the autumnal sown wheat plants are, on most soils that ought to be sown with wheat, plant- ing well, strong, and healthy, and, notwithstanding the mildness of the season, tolerably free from in- Eecc. Indeed, so mild has been the atmosphere nearly the whole of the month, that there has not been one instance, in any of our southern, western, or midland districts, of a frost productive of ice thicker than the paper on which this is printed i whilst there have been no more than two windy, as many rainy, and as many densely foggy days or nights I Christmas day resembled a fine Easter Monday. In brief, there has been nothing except the nudity of the deciduous shrubs and trees to distinguish it from the generality of Septembers. As relates to the mouth's prices of farm produce, these have been in everything drooping, which is very unusual on ( he approach of Christmas. Say those of fat stock at from 4i to 8d per 81bs. ; of e? ch kind of grain, from Is to 4s per quarter; horses from 31 to 51; milch cows 11 to 21; suck- ling calves a » d store pigs fe to 3s per head ; hay' and straw 3s to 5s per load ; wool lid to 2d per lb. : hops 2s to 3s per cwt. ; and game and poultry and dairy produce about 10 per cent. The de- pression in the fat stock in Smithfield being attri- buted to its Club's cattle show commencing so eirly in the month as the 8th, causing the great Christmas supply to come into the market before many butchers were furnished with the means of buying their Christmas stock, and most others who were not liking to do so on account of the asto- nishing rapidity with which it falls away, conse- quently loses weight both in caroass and internal fat, both by travelling or being for a few days taken from its fattening diet. I; is well known to ex- perienced graziers, butchers, and salesmen, that highly- fed beasls, vthen taken from their wonted feed, if even fed en plenty of good hay, and hav- ing plenty of water, will, both from travelling and being shut up in a bullock pouud, fall away from 5 to 6 of every 100 atones of 8ibs. in carcass, and 21bs. of every 81bs. of its loose or interior fat, in four or five days. Hence we conceive that the middle of the month, say from the 15th to the 17t'a would be quite early enough for the conclusion of the Club's show, and holding the great Christmas market. Tho official account of the imports, ex- ports, and sales of foreign grail), for the month ending on the 9th, not having yet transpired, we can only say that both this month and last, these have been but inconsiderable ; and in that part of this report which relates to the field we have we per- ceive, omitted to assert that these, in no part of the empire, have experienced scarcely a day's at- mospheric obstruction, consequently, may all be considered as snugly in their places. The prevail- ing opinion of those interested in the corn trade seems to be, that prices, though there should be for some weeks a frozen navigation, will not be much higher than at present ; and we must say that we consider the character of the wheat offered for sale, and sold, at Mark- lane, in same instances much abused. DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS. The provincial papers contain accounts of great damage to property, and in some instances loss of life, occasioned by the overflew of the rivers and brooks in Yorkshire and Lancashire during the late violent storms. In the neighbourhood cf Halifax several mitts were damaged, and waggons loaded with goods were washed away from the roads, and the property carried along the stream. At Salter bebble, such was the impetuosity of the flood that the canal aqueduct, which crosses the Hebble near its junction with the Calder, was forced open, and the navigation of the canal will be impeded. Along the whole line of the beautiful vale ef Todmorden the Calder overflowed its banks ; and every brook in the vicinity swelled into a river. The Perse- verance coach, oa its way to Todmorden from Manchester, passed through water a yard deep, and on its way from Todmorden to Halifax the horses had several times to swim, the water beinS so high that it rose within H few inches of the seats in the inside of the coach. AT BOLTON Low FOLD, the inmates of a cottage were suddenly alarmed by the ingress of the water. The father and mother immediately rushed out, leaving asieep in the cradle an infant, which perished in the flood. AT WAKEFIELD great damage was done. The loss in the corn warehouses alone is estimated at 3.000Z. to 4,000?. Two horse3 and several sheep were drowned. AT GROLE the flood has caused very extensive damage to the public warehouses, and it will re- quire several thousand pounds to caver the loss. IN DERBYSHIRE, also, the storm was very de- structive. A very high chimney was blown down at Eckingtcm, at the manufactory of Mr. George Launt. A clay warehouse, at Brampton- moor, was blown dawn. The two wooden bridges ever the Derwent, at the font of Matlock High Tor, were washed away by the flood. MORTON.— A MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT has oc- curred ia consequence of the flood occasioned by the late extraordinary rains. Owing to the rapid rise of the beck which runs through the village, a considerable part of the road became inundated, when a man of the name of Beaoland, usually em- ployed as a stone- waller, commenced attempting to open a passage for the water by destroying part of a wall at the edge of Mr. Clapham's dam. He had succeeded in his undertaking, and was standing on the remaining portion of the wall, watching the progress of the water through the gap, when the wall suddenly gave way, and he was swept along with it into the water. The persons standing by succeeded in taking him out soon afterwards, feut he was quite dead, being, it is supposed, partly suffocated with the thick aud muddy state of ths water. BRADFORD.— INUNDATION AND LOSS OF LIFE. — The whole of Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday afternoon se'nnight, the rain centinued to fall with little intermission ; but on Wednesday it descended with increased force and continuance. The water rushed in streams do. vn the sloping streets, which were entirely deserted by all, except those whose business or locality obliged them to go about. Towards noon, the water in the beck rose rapidly, and the occupiers in the line, anticipating the con- sequences, began to move their goods. About two o'clock the dreadful catastrophe commenced, for the course being choked up, the flood rushed over the banks carrying destruction on every hand. In a very short time the whole of the lower part of the town was one sheet of water— cellars, kitchens, parlours, all full. One continuous, impetuous cur- rent flowed from the end of Thornton- road, through Tyrrell- street, over the area in front of the Sun, Bridge- street, Market- street, Well- street, Hall Ings, Sec., and reaching up the hill as far as Hustler Gate on the one side, and Skinner- lane oa the other. In many parts of the streets the water was at least six feet deep. All the warehouses, shops, & c., in these localities were visited by the flood, and the va3t quanities of goods, of various descriptions, that they contained, seriously damaged, and, in many instances, wholly destroyed. Several persons attempted to cross the water on horseback and in carts, but its depth and impetuosity obliged them to relinquish the attempt. One or two individuals, whose temerity mastered their prudence, persisted, and were exposed to imminent danger. Iu one in- stance horse and rider were overturned, the man with difficulty escaped, the horse was drowned. A young woman named Bamforth was passing * long Well- street, and becoming, alarmed at the rapid rise of the water, rushed into Mr. Samuel Cousen's shop. This, however, proved no place of safety, as in a short time, the water was five feet deep ia the shop ( this shop is lower than the level of the street) and consequently up to her chin. In this perilous moment Mr. Cousen, who was likewise in the shop, contrived to make their situation k . own to some men near ai hand, who waded through the water, and forced the shop window out, and by that means secured both Mr. Cousen and the girl from inevitable destruction. DEWSBURY.— INUNDATION.— On Wednesday night, Dewsbury was visited by one of the largest floods in the recollection of the oldest inhabitants. The beck from Batley rose to a considerable height iu the forenoon, and in the afternoon, the rain poured down in torrents. The river Calder began to rise very rapidly. The cellars of the Royal Ho- tel, the New Inn, Spence's Hotel, the Black Bull, the King's Arms, the Fox and Grapes, and several other inns, were filled nearly to the top, and wine, spirits, and ale, were floating about indiscriminately. Six newly- erected cottages, built with the hack part towards a drain, at Thornhil! Lees, the property of Mr. Thomas Strafford, ef Thornhill, were un- dermined by the flood, and they all came down with a tremendous crash, and are now a heap of ruins. To crown the whole catastrophe, the town was enveloped in darkness, the water having into the gas pipes, which the directors, up to got Friday morning, had not been able to remove, LEEDS.— GREAT FLOODS.— The almost inces- sant rain which fell on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, throughsut the West- Riding, caused a mischievous flood at Leeds. In the night of Tuesday, and early on Wednesday, the waters of the river Aire were much swoollen, but it was not till the volumes of rain from the Airedale hills came rolling down, shortly after noon on Wednes- day, that the flood assumed an alarming character, but sooa after that time it suddenly rose several feet in height, and appeared to carry every thing before it that stood in its way. BIRMINGHAM.— DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT.— On Monday last, an accident of a most distressing nature took place in Coleshill- street, Birmingham. Two men were engaged re- pairing a well at the rear of the Green Mao public- house ; and while at work a piercing cry was heard by tba man at the wheel to " wind up." Nat an instant was lost in doing so, but while the bucket coutsiaiug the poor fellows was being rapidly drawn up, the brick work and sand suddenly gave way, jamming them within, while yet fourteen yards from the top. Hundreds of persons rushed to the spot to reader assistance ; as soon as the crowd could be cleared away, a number of ex- perienced hands instantly 6et about excavating the soil in the hope of saving the lives of the unfortu- nate men ; but from the great depth at whieh they were w'nsn the accident occurred, aud the difficulties encountered in removing the sand, the progress of the work was necessarily slow. The men, however, continued thoir labours day and uight without intermission, until Wednesday morning, when they reached the spot at which the backet was caught by the falling in of the brick work above. The poor fellows were both lifeless when taken out, aud the medical gentlemen who examined the bodies, gave it as their opinion, that their death must have been instantaneous. SURPRISING AND SINGULAR ADVENTURES OF A J£ 10O NOTE.— A circumstance which should operate as a caution against destroying papers, without carefully examining them, has occurred at Lane- end. A person who had a superabundance of capi'al hid a Bank of England note for 100i, under an old box in his room, which had not been moved for some time, thinking that if thieves broke, into the house they would not look there for money. He lately weut from home for a few days, and during his absence his sister gave the room a gosd cleaning, in the course of which she moved the box, and seeing some old papers, nfat being able to read, she threw them on the ash- heap. A neighbouring boy, who is an idiot, found ths bill, aud was playing with it, when his father, seeing the piece of paper, and thinking it looked like a bill, got hold of it, but not beiag able to read, he teak it to an honest barber, who teld him it wss a Bank of England bill for 100!., and that no doubt, inquiry wouid soon be mads about it. When the owner of it returned, he went to his hiding- place and found his note gone. The reader may imagine his chagrin on learning from his sister what had probably become of it, for she recollected having thrown some " rubbishing old papers"' away, though she had not observed the money among them. The sister sought the sympathy of her neighbours, by whom she was informed of the manner in which the note had been rescued from destruction. The barbsr was then applied to for the note, which he cheerfully surrendered, having retained possession of it until the owner should be fouud. BARNSLEY.— ALARMING OCCURRENCE.— On Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, the inhabitants of the northern part of Barnsley, were seriously alarmed by a terrific shock which was likened to an earth- quake. The same sensation was experienced by the inhabitants at Burton, Smithies, and the Old Mill, some of which places are distant from Barns- ley more than a mile ; their houses shook so mech^ that they ran out of doors iu their night dresses, and many remained in a state of great anxiety for several hours, expecting to be buried in the earth every moment, until their fears were allayed by a report that the shock had been occasioned by the blowing up of a boiler at the| BleachWorks of Mr Francis Kendray, which was used to recover the ashes. Fortunately nooe of the workmen were on the premises, or they must inevitably have been killed, as bricks, slates, and fire were blown three or four hundred yards distance, and the burning em- bers have done considerable damage to the liaea yarn which was laid on the bleaching grounds. BERKS.— NOVEL AFFAIR.— About a fortnight 8u: C3 Mr. S.. overtook a person oa the road be- tween Wantage aad Hcndred, attired in man's ap- parel, with a quantity ef waistcoat pieces and other articles, who importuned him to purchase at such a price that he suspected all " was not right," and therefore declined. In a short time afterwards the same person offered the same articles, together with a wetch and several books, for sale at a beer shop at Hendred, but at so low a price that the suspi- cions of the persons tinwe being also awakened, they were induced to- e « amlne the watch and books, in which they discoi- ered the name of a person resi- dent at Wantage, and not having received satisfactory replies to the questions pfct to the seeming man of commerce, a constable was sent for, who conveyed his charge to Wantage, that the matter might un- dergo a further examination, when lol it was dis- covered that the individual in question was no other than the daughter of the person whose name ap- peared in the watch and books, and who dutifully purloined them from her father to gratify her pen- chant for a roving life. She was therefore conveyed to her injured parent. CRANBROOK.— AFFRAY WITH POACHERS. For some time past a desperate band of poachers have been committing depredations ia the pre- serves of this neighbourhood. On Monday week the band was seen at Bull- wood, the property of Mr. Roberts, of Glastonbury, whose keeper and assistants, being only five ia number, were com- pelled to give way before the overpowering force- of the poachers. Iu their retreat, however, they met with the keepers of Lord Beresford, and thus reiaforced, they returoed and attacked the enemy. A severe contest ensued, in the course of which one ef the keepers named Allchin, was knocked dowa, his head cut open, and otherwise severely injured. Ultimately seven were takes, aad have since beea committed to the county gaol. CANTERBURY. — ROBBERY.— A very ex- tensive robbery has been committed by a passenger, named John Thomas Wise, belonging to a vessel' from America which has just put ia at the Downs, It appears that on landing at Deal with a gentleman named Short, a gold- beater of London, who had during the voyage behaved with great kindness and liberality towards him on his passage to England, and sleeping in the same room at the King's Head, Deal, he absconded with upwards of 100 gold rings, two silver watches, 10 sovereigns, and some silver, and made off towards Sasdwich. When near that town, feeling very unwell, he took refreshments at an inn; while there he saw the gentleman he had robbed go by. He afterwards came to Canterbury, when by the merest accident he was discovered and apprehended by Clements, the police- superin- tendent. He had taken a plane by one of the Dover coaches. He was lodged in the station, house, and examined by M. W. Plummer, and committed for further examination, to give time- for the prosecutor to attend from London. CHIPPENHAM.— HIGHWAY ROBBERY.— AS Mr. James Fry, of Chippenham, was returning on horseback from Castle Coombe, he was attacked by three young men, who, after a desperate resistance on his part, dragged him from his horse, aud rob- bed him of his cash and watch. In the scuffle his hat was beaten almost to pieces, his clothes much torn, and he received several severe injuries in the head and loiy. Oa the thieves leaving him, they threw him into a ditch nearly full of water, where he lay some time senseless, but, on recovering, managed with great difficulty, from weakness, to reach Yatton Keynell, on the Chippenham- road, where he procured a friend to accompany him home. Mr. Fry's horse escaped on his falling, and galloped to Chippenham ; and his family becoming alarmed, despatched parties ia search of him, when he was found nearly exhausted proceeding with his friend from Yatton towards home. Mr. Fry is now confined to his bed, and seriously hurt j no trace of the thieves has yet been found. FITZPAINE.— MURDER.— A little girl, three years old, named Goodge, was found on the lath instant, in her father's house, with her head nearly severed from her body. Suspicion falliDg on the mother, she was apprehended, but contrived to swallow poison, and died the following moroing. HULL.— As J. Sly was driving a bullock up Church- street to the shambles, wheu near the hos- pital it made a sudden bolt up one of the narrow passages adjoining that place, aad, unable to return mounted a grass plot elevated on a level with the tops of the neighbouring houses, and from thence sprang upon the roof of the shop occupied by Mr. Humphrey, painter, and succeeded in gaining its summit. Here it remained a second or two, as if ccniideriog what next. The roof, however, unable to bear so protracted and unusual a pressure, gave way, when bullock, roof, rafters, and tiles, all made their disappearance, to the no small astonishment of a number ef spectators outside, and the very great woadcr of the painter inside, who was busily employed at. work ; unable to account for so singu- - lar an eccurrence, and alarmed for his safety, he dropped his muller and pallet- knife, and sought safety only in flight. Much did a Souihcotian marvel at the sight of " cow apon the top of the house"— oft and anxiously did Jemmy Sly inquire after " his ous"— uproariously did the bystanders laugh at the bullock's extreme altitude and sudden disappearance, and mauy were the sarmiies of in- juries done to paint- pots aad brushes. All was, however, speedily put to rest by the animal's deli- berate exit out of the paiater's shop, uninjured and unhurt, and submitting quietly to be driven to that bourne from whence " no fatted ox returns." HOUGHTON.— CASE OF MANSLAUGHTER BT A BROTHER.— An inquest has been held at the Royal Oak Inn, on the body of George Knowles, who died ia consequence of a wound received from his brother, William Knowlee. The prisoner is a man of infamous character, and, possessing re markable strength, has been the terror of the neighbourhood for a great while, molestiug every person with whom he happened to be in company, and ill- treating every one who declined submission to his wishes. It appeared the prisoner lived at Riley Green, and had come home in a state of intoxication on the night of Tuesday, declaring that he would eat all that was in the house. He remained up till morning, and when his sister come down, beat her savagely. The brother, George, hearing her cries, leapt up and hastened to her assistance, but had scarcely entered the kitchen when the prisoner seized the fire poker and felled him to the ground, inflicting a severe blow on the temple, that he expired two days after- wards, The deceased, who was about twenty years of age, was a modest quiet lad, and partook in no way of the ferocious disposition of his brother. The jury brought in a verdict of Manslaughter, and the prisoner was forthwith conveyed to Lanr c9stcr Castle. HERTFORD. — THE MURDER. — Since the committal of the three men, Roach, Sams, and Flctcher, for the murder of William Bennett, the police of the district have been actively employed in endeavouring to apprehend the man Taylor, JAN. 1. • who was als » concerned in the murder, but he has hitherto eluded the pursuit made after him, not- withstanding that, by directions of the magis- trates, no expense has been spared to endeavour • to obtain a c! ue to his retreat. It has been ru- moured that he has made away with himself; and the rumour has gained some credit, from the fact of Taylor not havir. g any relations or friends iu any other part of the country, and from his b: ing without any resources or means of obtaining sub sistence. It was at one time believed that he had enlisted into the East India Company's Service, and the officers went to the depot of the Company in London, and saw al! the recruits; but although several of them answered tke description of Taylor, he was not amapg them. For some time after the above- mentioned prisoners were in custody tliey exhibited the utmost levity, and were not at all affected at the awful situation in which they were placed, each prisoner imagining that the confession he had made, and whieh has been made public • would be the means of saving him at the expease of his companions; but after they were committed they were each made acquainted with the fact of his companions having made the same statement of himself, aad they were told that they mtjst not expect the least benefit at the trial ia consequence of'it; and this had the effect of causing a great chsHge in their demeanour and conduct, and they appear to be deeply impressed with their situation. They still declare, however, that they l. al no otle intention but that of robbing the deceased, and that they were quite ignorant of the fact of bis death until the next morning. The trial wiil not take place until March. LEEDS.— SHOCKING AND CURIOUS ACCIDENT. — On Saturday morning, a fine girl about eight years of age, daughter of Benjamin Oldham, of Cronkyshaw, near this town, was fetching the milk for Breakfast, and when near their own door fell, breaking the pitcher, a piece of which struck her in the neck, and cut her so severely as to cause her death in a few minutes. LIVERPOOL.— ACCIDENT TO THE MAIL.— On Sunday morning a rather serious accident occurred to the Liverpaol mail, at the railway station. By the new arrangement the London mails drive direct to the Company's offices, to • deliver the letter- bags, previous to tha starting of the first train, and on the above morning the guard and coachman had got off on purpose, when the engine about to be attached to the carriages was observed to be coming up. As it passed the spot where the coach was stationed, the engineer sounded the alarm- whistle, a practice necessary in order to give notice of its approaeh, and to prevent acci- dents. All who recollect their sensations on hearing its shrill cry for the first time will not be much surprised that the horses, which were left f r a few moments to themselves, should talcs fright. Such was the case; the high- spirited animals started off towards the gate at full speed, on passing which the fore wheels eame in contact with the stone- work, and the traces broke. The violence of the shock urged the animals forward with increased speed, and they proceeded along Proepect- row, fortunately without accident or in- terruptions, until within a short distance of the new market- house, when one of the. horses fell down. This ultimately checkcd the course of the others, but not before they had dragged the poor animal a considerable distance, and we unders'and it has since died of the injuries it received. There were two ladies inside the mail at the time the horses set off, but we believe they have received » o greater injury than the fright which the acci- dent occasioned. LIVERPOOL.— A MAN CHOKED WITH A PIECE OF MEAT.— On Sunday afternoon week, a labouring man, named John Kelly, residing in Union- court, Banastre- street, during his dinner asked his wife for a drink of water. He drank it, and immediately let the cup fall, and dropped backwards to the floor. His wife ran to him, and raised hiai up. He appeared to be choking. She put her fingers into his mouth, but he pulled her hand away, and almost immediately died. The body of the deceased has been examined by one of the surgeons to the Dispensary, who found a piece of meat, about an inch square, lodged in the opening of the larynx. LEICESTER.— DEATH OF AN EXTRAORDI- NARY CHARACTER.— A few days ago, Mrs Jones, an elderly woman, died, who far exceeded any of Morison's customers in her powers of swallowing strong doses of mediGins. About twenty years ago she was attended by a medical gentleman, who, finding that a slight dose ef calomel had no effect 011 her, increased it until it reached ten grains. As he feared to give her a larger quantity, she in- creased the dose herself until she acquired a won- derful power of swallowing as much as 124 grains at a time. Through mistake, about two years since, she took 110 grains of tartar emetic, which made her very unwell, but she recovered from its effects in a few days. One day she took 60 grains of jalap, for'she did not confine herself to calomel — indeed, she drank Epsom salts in such enormous doses that she purchased that medicine by a quarter of a stone at the time, and took it in solution by basins full. MOORSIDE.— SHOCKING DEATH.— On Tues- day morning a cry of murder was heard to proceed from the premises of Messrs. Holt, Moorside, Bury, and the place was immediately examined to see what was the cause, when a man was found in one of the ash- holes of the dye- house. He ap- peared like a negro, and was supposed to be one, until they pulled his handkerchief off, when, horrid to relate, the akin of his neck and part of his flesh eame away, and he was found to be a white. As soon as the man could speak for agony, he told them his name was Openshaw, and he was then re- cognized as a blockcutter working on the premises. It appeared that the poor fellow had left home that morning, and had spent the day at the public- house. His wife had come from Tottington to see him at 11 o'clock at night, and was near the place where he was found. Afterwards he got into the yard, and from thence into the dyehouse, where he in- tended to spend the night, but fell into some boiling colour, and, in the sudden agony, threw himself from thence into the ashes. He was released from his sufferings about 9 o'clock. MANCHESTER. — SCOTT, THE LEAPER.— Samuel D. Scott, who made himself conspicuous in Liverpool by jumping from the mast- head of a ves- sel into the river several times daring the last fort- night, made a similar display in Manchester on Thursday. Haudbills were circulated, stating that Scott would jump head foremost into the river from the top of the warehouse of Messrs. Shanklin aud Manley, the carriers, and repeat the feat with his feet first. Stanley- street, the New Bailey- bridge, and every place where a view of the adventurous sailor could be had, was crowded. Exactly at the time appointed he made his appearance on the roof alone, attired in a tight flannel dress, and after speaking a few words, which could not be heard, he commenced his preparations by taking off his shoes and his jacket. Having stood for a few moments at the edge of the parapet, and shown his daring by running along it, he jumped off with his feet foremost, falling into the stream, which was rupid, at about the middle. He rose about a second after- wards, bringing with him two handsful of mud, to show that he had been to the bottom. He swam to the shore in beautiful style, and on landing was hailed with cheers. At three o'clock, he presented himself at the same place, repeating his perform- ance, in the presence of a still greater concourse. At a few minutes after three, he jumped head fore- most from his elevation, and fell into the water considerably nearer the bridge than on the previous occasion. He remained under the surface several seeonds longer than before, and on rising he was saluted by cheers and clappings. After swimming to the shore he dressed ia his usual clothes, and the box went round, but with very little success. NEWCASTLE. — MURDEROUS ATTACK ON THE POLICE.— A very seriou3 affray occurred on Friday se'nnight, at Byker, between some labour- ers employed on the newcastle and Shields railway and some members of the police force. Four of he police observed four of the excavators em- ployed on the railway drunk aad fighting. They interfered to preserve the peace, and were bringing two men away as prisoners, when they were at- tached by great numbers of the workmen. They stood against a wall and defended themselves as well as they ceuld; but having been attacked by between 200 and 300 men, they were thrown down and beaten in a most savage manner. They were kindly taken from their murderous assailants and conveyed into the neighbouring cottages. SMISBY.— SHOCKING ACCIDENT.— On Tues- day an inquest was held on the bodies of three colliers, named John Bonser, Reuben Rigley, and Thomas Rigley, at Smisby, sear Ashby. The de- ceased, with ether workmen, had been employed in opening a new slack- pit belonging to Sir George Crewe, at Smisby, which they had sunk about twenty- one yards deep. On Monday morniaj, the 18th inst, the workmen assembled on the bank, but could not work as their barrels had been fe'ehed to another colliery. Bonsor went down to see what water there was ia the pit; but when he had got down some distance he cried " hold, turn sharp up 1" but immediately fell out of the trunk. Reuben and Thomas Rigley instantly d: scended to his assistance ; when they got nearly to the water Reuben, and afterwards Thomas Rigley, fell out of the truck. In about ten minutes Thomas Rigley was drawn out with a drag, but he was quite dead; an hour elapsed before the last man was got out. No damp had been perceived in the pit before. Verdict accordingly. UNDERCLIFFE. — DREADFUL ACCIDENT.— On Saturday se'nnight, a man named John Foster, a collier, came by his death under the following circumstauces: his wife had gone to Bradford market, and had left him at home to take care of the house and children. After she had gone, a neighbour went and asked him to go and have something to drink with him. They went to the Potters' Arms beer- shop; after they had been there a short time, a dispute arose between them, respecting blowing out a candle with percussion caps, and a wager was laid who could do it the soonest. The landlady borrowed a gun of a neigh- bour, the wife ef William Wood, shopkeeper, Bol- ton- lane top. Foster took the gun, and in order to render his success as secure as possible, placed the touch hole near the candle on the ground, and pro- ceeded to blow down the gun barrel, in order to discover if there was a fair vent. The gun was charged, went off, and blew his brains out instanta- neously. Wood's wife, when she gave the landlady the gun, did not know that it was charged, her husband, unknown to her, having charged it. An inquest was held on the body, when a verdict was returned according to the above facts. WEST THURDOCK.— DREADFUL FIRE.— On Sunday morning last, a destructive fire broke out on the extensive farming establishment be- longing to Mr. James Skinner, which, we regret to state, terminated in the destruction of property to a considerable extent. There appears to be little doubt that the calamity was the act of an incendiary. The inhabitants of West Thurdock hastened with all possible expedition to the scene of destruction, and they succeeded in saving several valuable horses ia the stables ; but during the con- fusion some calves and pigs in the cow- houses were forgotten : these perished in the flames. Within an hour after the discovery of the fire ( two o'clock) it communicated to two barns which contained several hundred quarters of wheat, oats, & c., to out houses, to several stacks of hay and corn, in fact, to the whole of the homestead, and continued to rage the entire morning and the whole of the day. WILTON.— SINGULAR DISCOVERY. — In the course of the improvements at Wilton Church, the workmen last week accidentally discovered in a vault behind the pulpit an immense stone coffin seven feet and nine inches long, two feet 11 inche wide, and two feet deep. The cover is upwards of six inches in thickness, and its weight nearly half a ton, DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. On Thursday morning, one of the most terrific and destructive conflagrations that has occurred for some time past in the metropolis broke out in th premises of Messrs. Davis and Curling, wharfingers, at the lower end of Tooley- street, and directly op posite the Tower. At about half past six o'clock, same of the workmen employed in the warehous gave the alarm of fire, whieh it was discovered hud made its appearance in the back warehouse, farthest removed from the River. Messengers were in- stantly despatched to the different engine- stations, and in about half- an- hour,' several of those in the neighbourhood were on the spot, together with the large floating- engine moored off Southwark- bridge. By this time the entire of the landside warehouse, which contained about 400 tuns of oil, 500 tuns of bark, about 10,000 barrels of tar and turpentine, aad a vast quantity of naval stores of a very in- flammatory description, were one mass of flames ; and a fresh breeze from the southward carried the burning particles rapidly across the narrow lane which runs between the warehouses and the wharf. The latter was instantly in flames, and communi- cated with three vessels moored off the wharf. One of these, the Dream, of Limerick, had just got her cargo of 759 quarters of wheal on board, aad was bound for France : the others contained oil and tallow to the amount ef about 12,000/. each, and i > an incredibly short period they were enveloped ia flames, and together with a barge, or billy- boy, burnt to the water's edge. It being low water at the time and the vessels aground, no assistance could be rendered them until the destructive ele- ment had gained such an ascendancy as to render al the efforts of the firemen unavailing. Before eight o'clock the two engines of the London Deck Company, the West India Dock Company's engine, and about sixteen others belonging to the London Fire Establishment and other parties, were on the spot, bat the supply of water was very scanty, and they were consequently of very little use. The floating engines were, however, soon supplied with a sufficient length of hose to bring them to bear with eflect upon the premises, and poured a vast body of water upon the flames. By the time the fire had reached the wharf, the scene was one of terrific grandeur. The whole ef Messrs. Davis's extensive premises, extending over a space of six or seven acres, being one brilliant mass of fire, which illuminated the entire of the eastern part of the metropolis, while overhead immense volumes of thick black smoke, mingled with fiery particles, were wafted across to the opposite shore, creating at one period serious fears for the safety of the shipping in that part of the river. Notwithstand- ing the incessant exertions of the firemen, who were most efficiently worked, under the direction of Mr. Braidwood, the superintendant, the fire had, before nine o'clonk, extended to a corn store belonging to Mr. Gouldiag, and this was also entirely consumed. The efforts of all parties were now directed to con- fine the conflagration within the area of Messrs. Davis's warehouses and wharf, and these were happily attended with success. Had the extensive turpentine works of Messrs. Hastings, which adjoin the wharf, taken fire, it is impossible to estimate what would have been the extent of the casualty. A little before eleven o'clock the flames had nearly exhausted themselves. The lanes and passages around the premises were flooded to B early a foot in depth with oil and turpentine, and vast quanti- ties, in a state of ignition, continued pouring iat the river, extending for several yards around the wharf. At half- past twelve a great portion of the river wall of the warehouse fell in with a tremen- dous crash, and before one o'clock all danger of the fire extending further was at an end. At one period it was suggested by an officer of artillery who had crossed over from the Tower, for the pur- pose of tendering the services of his party to blow up the buildings immediately around the warehouses to prevent the spread of the conflagration, but Mr. Braidwood, to whom the suggestion was made, did not think it necessary to resort to such an expe- dient. It is worthy of remark, that most of the property saved from Fenning's Wharf, in the fire which broke out there about eighteen mouths ago, was removed for safety to Davis's Wharf, and all the property saved in the present instance was con- veyed to the churchyard at Herselydown, or to Fenning's Wharf. The three vessels destroyed are, in the Irish trade, and are fully insured ; the premises of Messrs. Davis and Curling are, we un- derstand, also insured in the Phoenix, Sun, and Globe offices, upon whom the loss will be very heavy. It is impossible to ascsrtain with any de- gree of accuracy the amount of the damage sus- tained, bet it cannot fall short of 150,000/. We have not heard of any lives being lost, and no serious accident, with the excedtion of one of the firemen, whose arm has been severely shattered. POLICE. BOW- STREET. CHARGE OF STEALING A BARRISTER'S WIG AND GOWN.— On Tuesday, Willam M'Bride, was charged with having stolen a wig and gown belonging to some legal gentleman.— On Saturday night last the prisoner went to the shop of Mr. Moses Solomon, a dealer in old clothes, in Vinegar- yard, Drury- laae, and offered to sell him the gown and wig in question. Mr. Solomon haviag some months ago purchased similar articles from the prisoner, which were sub- sequently claimed by a barrister, from whom they had been stolen, suspected that those now produced had been obtained by the prisoner in an equally dis- honest way, and having detained him in his shop under the pretence of making a bargain, he seat for a constable, and gave the prisoner iato custody.— The prisoner said that the wig and gown had been given to him by the gentleman whom he served as clerk, but he could not produce him bccause lie had gone on a visit to his friends in the country, to spend the holydays.— Mr. Twyford ordered him to be remanded to srive time for the production of other evidence. CHARGE OF BIGAMY.— On Wednesday, Henry Napier Disney, a tall military looking man, having only one arm, was charged with having; feloniously intermarried with Sarah Ann Stovin, his first wife bring then and now living.— The prisoner, being at the time a married man, united himself in marriage with a youug lady named Stovin, who was a ward in chancery ; and the present prosecution was insti- tuted by her brother, at whose instance the prisoner had been apprehended on the previous evening.— Mr. John Charles Stovin, who proved that he was now residing ia the Strand, and that Sarah Ann Stovin was his sister.— Mr. Bodkin : Was the prisoner mar- ried to your sister ia the month ef August last?— Witness: Yes, I have every reason to believe so, but I was not myself present at the ceremony.— Where did it take place ?— At Burleigh- street chapel.— Miss Emily Drummond was then sworn, and stated that she resided in Kuowles- square, Little Carter Lane, Doctors'- commons. On the 14th of August last she was present at Burleigh- street chapel, and saw the prisoner married there, by license, to Miss Sarah AUK Stoua.— Mr. Bodkin applied to have the prisoner remanded, to give time for the production of wit- nesses from the country to prove the first marriage.— Sir F. Roe : It appears that Miss Stovin is a ward chancery. Have proceedings betn instituted in the Court of Chancery against the prisoner.— Mr. Bodkin replied that application ha: l been made to the Court of Chancery upon the subject.— Sir F. Roe asked what time would be required befere the wit- nesses from the country could appear ?— Mr. Bodkin said that, as it would be necessary to send both to Warwickshire and Devonshire for them, he did not think tliey could be produced in less than a fortnight. Sir F. Roe said that the prisoner would stand re- manded until that day fortnight, but if the witnesses could be produced sooner, Mr. Flower should have notice of the fact.— The prisoner was then removed in custody.— It appeared that he had formerly served in the guards, and subsequently entered into the ser- vice of the Queen of Spain, and held some rank in a lancer regiment attached to the British legion, under Colonel Evans. He lost his right arm at the taking of St. Sebastian, aud returned from Spain to this country last summer, when he became acquainted with Miss Stovin. NEW MODE OF PROCURING A CHRISTMAS Box. — On Thursday, Barnard Boyle, was charged with stealing a sovereign from Sarah Woodhouse, his sister- in- law.— It appeared that the prisoner and th£ brother of the prosecutrix, with several others, were playing cards, on Wednesday, in North- street, Man- chester- square, for pots of beer. The prisoner, having lost all his money, declined playing any more until he could procure same money, aud for that pur- pose went away, and, meeting with the prosecutrix, he told her he was sent by her brother in all haste to get a sovereign from her, whieh she instantly gave him, supposing his story to be true ; and, inetead of delivering up the money as he was desired, he stopped on the way with his companions and got drunk.— Mr. Minshull ordered him to to be remanded. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. SHOPLIFTING.— On Tuesday, Eliza Cuff was charged with shoplifting.— A shopman from Messrs. Railton, and Peascod, mercers, Regent's- street, proved that on Saturday last the prisoner came into the shop, and was shown some articles. She looked at some riband, needles, and lace, and while so doing, she was o'o served by the shopman to secrete a piece of black riband and some needles. She made some trifling purchases, and alter the bill was made out the amount appeared to be about four shillinss, in payment of which she laid dowh a 10/. note. The shopman told her she had taken a piece of riband, and she then produced the missing piece and stated she had taken it un in mistake. She was then taxed with having also stolen same needles, but she defied tbe truth of the accusation, and rose up and shook her cloak, ia order to corroborate the assertion ; in so doing, a piece of pink riband, which she had evidently secreted unobserved by the shopman, dropped on the ground, and she was then given into custody. On the way to the station house the prisoner was observed to drop something. On examination it was ascertained that she had thrown away the needles which had been missed.— The prisoner in defence denied any intention of stealing the articles.— She was fully committed. ROBBERY OF PLATE.— On Wednesday, John Jones was charged with a burglary in the dwelling - house of Mr. George Gillett, the landlord of the Three Pigeons Inn, Piccadilly, and stealing a quantity of silver plate. A police constable deposed, that on Tuesday morning, he met the prisoner in Frith- street, Soho, carrying a bundle. He asked him what it con- tained, and he said some broken victuals. He let him go, but having some suspicion of him, he followed him, and stopped " him again in Greek- street, and told him that he must see the contents of the bundle, and took it awAy from him, upon opening jt he found a quantity of plate, which consisted of silver spoons, a milk- jug, mustard- pot, and other articles. As they were going to the station- house, the prisoner also produced from his pocket several silver kuives and forks. Mr. Gillett, the prosecutor, deposed that the prisoner had beeu in his service, but was discharged in May last. The house was left securely fastened on Tuesday night, and the next morning it was discovered that the bar and parlour had been broken open, and a quantity of property taken away. The thief had effected an entrance by getting on to a cistern, and from thence forcing his way into the dining room. He identified the whole of the property found upon the prisoner, and said that it had beeu taken from the dining- room and the bar. The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial. THE SPANISH LEGION.— On Wednesday, three miserable- looking fellows, dressed in the uniform of the Spanish Legion, were charged with begging. In their defence they said that they had been seduced by the Spanish Government to enter its service, and had been in that country since the first formation of the Legion, until about three months since, when they were sent home, having been wounded, and their constitutions almost destroyed by the fatigues and privations they had uadergone. A considerable sum was due to them for arrears of pay, and their objeet in coming to London was to endeavour to ob- tain it; but after repeated applications they were unable to get a farthing, and they were, consequently, compelled to beg to enable them to obtain food. The Magistrate said, it was lamentable to see the number of poor wretches who vtere about the streets similarly circumstanced. He told them, however, that they could not be allowed to beg, aud he advised them, if they could not get their claims attended to, to make the best of their way to their own homes. Upon the defendants promising to do so, they were discharged, and the magistrate directed that a trifle should be given them from the office poor- box to get some re- freshment, as they appeared to be in a famishing condition. MARYLEBONE. ROBBERY.— On Wednesday, Thomas Gregory, . a porter in the service of Mr. Evans, silk- mercer and woollen- draper, of Tottenham- court- road, was finally examined, on a eharge of having plundered his em- ployer of upwards of 100/. worth of property.'— Anthony North, shopman to Mr. Blackburn, pawn • broker of Skinner- street, Somers- town, stated that on the 1st inst. the prisoner pledged a cloak and shawl at kis master's house for 22s. On the Moaday following the prisoner again came to the shop with another cloak and shawl. The articles being new, and of a superior quality, witness had his suspicions that they had not been honestly come by, and asked the prisoner to whom they belonged ? He replied that one belonged to his wife, and the other to his wife's si3ter. Witness told him that he must see the owners, and he went away promising to fetch them, leaving the property behind hira, which was here produced. He had not seen him since, and is quite positive that he is the man who brought the articles.— An immense number of cloaks, shawls, whittles, table- covers, & c., were produced by other pawnbrokers; one of whom clearly identified the prisoner as the person who pawned the articles.— Mr. Bevan and Mr. White, foremen in the employ of the prosecutor, here ex- amined the articles produced, and pronounced them to be the property of Mr. Evans, and which had been clandestinely carried away from the premises.— The pawnbrokers here informed the magistrate that the) were willing to give up the property, as they did not wish to appear at the Old Bailey.— Mr. Rawlinson : I dare saj not, but I'll take care that you shall appear there, that you may see what the judge will think of your conduct. It is really scandalous to see how property is taken in without the least inquiry, and it is no wonder that servants are tempted to rob their masters when such facilities are offered for the disposal of the plunder.— The prisoner was fully committed. QUEEN SQUARE. STABBING.— On Tuesday, a sweep named John Reynolds, was charged by Lydia Cooke, a girl of the town, with violently assaulting and stabbing her ia the arm.— The girl stated that she had accompanied the prisoner on Monday night in a shed in wkich the latter slept at the bnck of his master's house, where she remained for about an hour, and then told him that she intended to return home. He then seized her in a most brutal manner, and called a large bull- dog, which was in the yard adjacent, to attaek her. She scrcamed violently, and he immediately drew his knife, with which ho inflicted a wound nearly three inches ia length.— A police- constable deposed, that he, in cofhpany with Sergeant Elliot, went to North- street to apprehend the prisoner, where they were also attacked by the bulldog, who furiously fell upon both of them. The master, however, interposed, aud the man was taken. There were marks of blood on the fiSor of the shed, and it appeared evident that the poor creature had also lost a quantity of blood in the street. Witness found a clasp knife unusually sharp concealed in the knee of the prisoner's breeches. — The prisoner was ordered to be remanded. A RELIGIOUS TIPPLER.— A very old man, with his face dreadfully disfigured, but who had evidently possessed a siost puritanical aspect, was charged by a policeman with being drunk and rolling in the street opposite Chelsea Church soon after the ter- minatiou of divine service on the morning of Christ- mas day.— Mr. White : What can an old man like you say to this chargc ?— Defendant: All owing to my devation for religion, your worship, I and four of my friends thought it our duty to go to church on Christmas- day, and of course on such a day it was our duty afterwards to have a glass or two, hut only look at my face and I'm sure you'll forgive me.— Mr. White told him, that in consideration of the season of the year, and the damage the old gentleman had sustained, he would consent to his discharge. MANSION HOUSE. ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY.— On Tuesdav, Mary Millar was charged with intent to commit a robbery. Thomas Pouchen, a watchman at tiae Custom- house, stated that on Wednesday last, he went to assist his wife in cleaning up the offices, and found the prisoner, who had been formerly employed in that way, talking to her. The prisoner offered to sweep out one of the offices, and asked witness to go for a pot of half- and- half. He refused to do so, and got a hint from hi, wife to watch the prisoner, who was after ns goods as there was reassn to expect f om the rattling of some keys in the dark. Witness procured a light, and found the prisoner at oue of the desks. He pushed her away, and found that the desk was open, and that there was in it a tin case, containing some small keys, which it was evident the prisoner had removed in the desk, and which were the keys of the desks in the coast- office. The Solicitor to the Custom house stated that for some time complaints had been made tii. tt plunder had been committed in the offices ; ani it appeared most probable that the thefts had been effected by persons wh « had opportunities of knowing the practice of the officers. The prisoner had been formerly employed ia the establishment, and having been discharged in consequence of suspicicns enter- tained cf her integrity, had no business whatever upon the premises. Catherine Pouchen, wife to the first witness, and charwoman at the Custom- house, stated that the prisoner walked into the offiee and ran to the desk, and began to fumble with the keys ; witness asked her what she was about, to which she replied by requesting that a pot of half- and- half should be brought: witness then, suspecting some- thing bad, gave her husband intimation of what she thought, and they aeted accordingly. The Lord Mayor said, he had no doubt whatever that it had been the intention of the prjsoner to plunder the desks. His Lordship then sentenced her to Bride* well for one month. A CHRISTMAS DINNER SPOILED.— OB Thursday, William Bedford, who had been remanded, was brought up on a charge of stealing three dead geese. — It appeared that on Thursday se'nnight, Mr. Ste vens, a poulterer, in Leadenhall- market, sent out out his errand- boy with two geese, to be delivered at the houses of his customers. He was met by the pri- soner, who persuaded him to go into a public- house with him, where they had some ale ; while there the prisoeer took an opportunity of stealing eff with the gec3e in his possession, The prisoner was sentenced to hard labour in Bridewell for two months. CHARGE OF DRUNKENNESS.— On Wednesday, John Wilson, was brought before the Lord Mayor.— An officer stated that ® n the preceding night as he was on duty, he saw the defendant stagger, evidently from intoxication, and tumble to the ground, without making an effort to save himself from the fall, which happeued to be in the place usually destined to receive drunken men— the kennel. The' unfortunate man, upon being raised from the mud, was quite unable to put one leg before another, and was in that condition carried to the station- house, where proper care was taken of him and his " money.— The defendant said that there never was a greater mistake than the sup- position that he was drunk from drinkinz ; but he certainly was rendered as insensible us a drunken man by a toothache, whieh a friend of his told him could be only cured by a pipe of tobacco.— The Lord Mayor: And SO you smoked yourself drunk ?— De- fendant : My jaw and ear and the whole side of my head were in the greatest agony, and I took a pipe and began to pull at it violently, for I never smoked before ; the harder I pulled the more my friend told me ta keep it up, till I couldn't see anything but the dame of the candle. Well, I got up to breathe a little fresh air, and I hadn't gone far\ vhen I saw the ground rising up gradually until I thought it hit ine right iu the foreheijpiand then I found myself in the kennel; but out of ft I could not for the life of mo get ( a laugh).— The Lord Mayor : I hope yo-- found your toothach? better?— Defendant: I never felt it slnde, my lord; but I wpyldn't care it again on the same condition Mayor: have no doubt of the truth of your statement, and am very glad that your drunkenness was so innocent, and I trust that you will take care how you apply remedies for a to- thache. " A JOLLY FULL BOTTLE."— A man named Wil- liams, who was also a person of respectable appear- ance, was brought up.— An officer stated that he found Mr. Williams, who was known to be a very eloquent sort of a gentleman, in a speechless condition. When witness asked him what was the matter with him, he shook his head, as much as to say that he was so drunk as not to be able to use his tongue. Wit- ness conveyed him to the station- house, where he lay for sonse time, and upon recovering, he requested to be let cut. Witness finding that his customer was brought back to bis senses opened the door. The defendant was then immediately seized with a fit of talking, and, not being particular in what he treated of, he called those who acted so kindly to hira corn- man robbers.— The defendant said that he had been engaged in discussing matters of some consequence in the early part of the evening, and that the glass stole upon him until he lost the faculty which never failed him under any other circumstances. He did not recollect that he had said anything offensive to the officers, but, if he had, it must have been merely to ascertain whether he had recovered the perfect use of his tongue, wkich he was ready to admit he more frequently used, as he did his pen, ia censure than in praise.— The Lord Mayor : Then I think you are a capital subject for the drunkard's penalty, and I flue you five shillings. WORSHIP STREET. PREPARING A CHRISTMAS DINNER.— On Tues- day, George Elliott, and Sophia, his wife, were charged with stealing a roasting pig. It appeared that the prisoner is in the employ of Mr. William Featley, brass- founder, Ironmonger- row. On Sun- day night Mrs. Featley had been preparing various articles for her Christmas dinner. Among other things was a fat roasting pig, which was in the kitchen, and which she left safe about three o'clock that morning, when she went to bed. But on enter- ing that room some hours after, the pig was gone. The apprentice was charged with the robbery, but he positively denied it, and exerted himself to find the thief, and he thought of the prisoner. Upon calling at his lodiugs he went up jiuto the room, and there he beheld the pig performing its necessary evolutious before a blazing fire. He did not say a wcrp, but left, rnd meeting a policeman, informed him of the circumstance. Jones, G, 112, stated, that he ac- companied the last witness, and that he had some difficulty in extricating the pig from the spit. Whilst he was doing this the prisoner returned home, bring- ing with him some friends he had invited to partake of the pig. Witness apprehended the prisoner and the pig, aud his men walked away dinnerless. Mr. Codd asked how they could identify the pig as the one that was safe in the kitchen? Mrs. Featley said, that it was a pig without a tail, ard there were several red marks about the neck that she could swear to. The prisoner said that he bought the pig. The depositions were ordered to be taken against the prisoner, and his wife was discharged. DESTITUTION.— ON Wednesday, Mary Rogers, about 70 years of age, whose miserable and destitute situation, excited the sympathy of all present, ap- peared to obtain intercession jar her admission into one of the work- houses of the Whitechapel union. It appeared that one day last week the poor creaturc applied to Mr. Grove, stating that she hsd been to the relieving overseer of the Whitechapel union, so liciting rditf, aud which had been refused. In con- seqsence, Mr. Grove gave a letter to her, aad di- rected her to go to with it to Almond, aad gave her some money. But upon seeing that officer, he, upon the letter being presented to him, tore it in two. On Saturday last she returned, and showed to Mr. Bremghton the state in which ths letter was, and stated the result of hrr application. Upon Almond appearing before Mr. Bronghton, he ( the magistrate) told him to do what was right toward the poor creature. He pointed out to him her wretched plight, that she was suffering from disease, and that unless promptly relieved she might die of want. Almond was about to reply irrevelent to the remark- of the worthy magistrate, who ordered him to do that which was proper towards the unfortunat. woman, observing that if he did not he ( Almond) should hear from him. Mr. Broughton ordered oils of the officers of the establishment, to take her ti. Larabeth- street, and give their compliments to the magistrates of Lambeth- street, and acquaint them with the exertions they had made to obtain relief for her. THAMES POLICE. EXTENSIVE SEIZURE— CAPTURE OF A SMUGG- LING VESSEL IN THE RIVER.— On Wednesday, James Barnet, the master and part owner of tht sloop Prince Regent, George Barnett his sen, Jame. Parker, mate, and James Saunders and Charles Liversuch, seamen, were brought on a charge o. smuggling a cargo of contraband brandy and geneva into the river ia the vessel to which they belong Mr. Benjamin Donne stated, that on Tuesday morn- ing he was on duty with the men under his command, and i-. e boarded the Prince Regent, then coming up the river. He fell in with her a mile below Tilbury- fort, on the Essex side of the river. The vessel de- clared from Portsmouth, with a coasting eargo, and he found she was from Portsmouth ; but having a suspicion that she had a contraband freight on board, he commenced rummaging her, when Ids attention was called by his men to some small casks which they saw concealed under the eargo in the main hold. H< went forward, aud, on examining them, ascertained they were kegs such as were used in the conveyance of smuggled brandy and geneva, all slung ready for removal. He bored a hole with a gimblet, and fouli- the kegs filled with strong spirits of brandy and geneva. Tke cargo was over the brandy ;>. ad geneva. The master denied all knowledge of the tubs ol liquor. The men then spoke, and said t'sey had sailed from the port of Portsmouth, aad the kegs ot liquor were put on- board by a vessel the name of which they did not know, nor the names cf the partita belonging to her. Mr. Ballantine asked the captain if he wished to say anything ? He had already in- curred the loss of the ship and the smuggle ! goods, and he was liable to a heavy penalty. He might offer an explanation or not as he thought proper. Captain Baraet said he knew no more about the thing than the child unborn. He was called down by Mr. Donne to look at the spirits, aud that was all be knew. Livcrsueh, a tall seaman, said he wished to speak. He and the two mea, Parker and Saunders, were alone guilty, and would stand by it, they had intended to have landed the tubs when the captain was out of the way. He generally did go out ot' the way when the vessel was in the Pool, and thea they should have landed the stuff, but as it had happened they would not be able to do so. It was allu. known to the captain, and he and his shipmates would suffer the law. The captain had gone ashore to his s n when they took in the kegs. Mr. Ballantine re- manded tiie prisoners to Cierkeuwell prison. The vessel turned out to be a more valuable prize than was at first supposed, for during the day no less than 518 kegs of brandy and geneva were lauded on the Custom- house quay, and deposited in the Queen'* warehouse, A great proportion of the kegs contain- ing the best French brandy, each keg containing about four gallons. The value of the liquor is esti- mated at 2,300/., aud the sloop and her stores at 1,000/. more, making the total value of the prizr 3,300/. The Prince Regent took in a legal cargo ol 9,000 staves and a quantity of empty casks at Ports- month Dock- yard, for London, and the brandy and geneva were secreted beneath the staves. It appears that the sloop had been long suspected of carrying on a contraband trade, which caused Mr. Donne and his men to keep a sharp look out for her on her way to London. UNION HALL. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.— O^ I Wednesday, Alfred Parnell aud Henry Nixon, were charged with stealing a vast quantity of goods, the property of Thomas White, a linen- draper, of Newingtou and Broad- streat Bloomsbury. From the evidence it appeared that Parnell had obtained the situation of shopman in the complainant's service, by means of a fictitious character, and he had no soouer commenced the duties than he began to rob Ids employer. In this system of robbery ho was assisted by the other prisoner, who kept n respectable house in York, street, Westminster, and when the discovery of the depredation on complainant's stock was ascertained, bo" h prisaners were taken into custody. Both the prisoners were fully committey for trial. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. SUDDEN DEATH.— On Tuesday, an inquest was held at thd White Hart- inn, Kennington- cross, on the body e> f Jane Williams, aged 68, who died sud denly.— It appeared, from the evidence of Mary Ann Coyle, the niece of the deceased, that she went out about 10 o'clock on the morning of Friday, the 22d inst., and returned in aa hour : on going out and coming back she appeared quite well. She sat down, and in a short time complained that her head w hot. In a few minutes she fell from her seat on the floor, apparently in a fit.— Verdict—" Died by the Visitation of God." DEATH OF AN INFANT.— On Tuesday, a coroner's inquest was taken at the White Bear, New- end, Hampstead. on view of the body of a male infant.- Mrs. Elizabeth Freeman deposed that the mother of the deceased, Elizabeth Smith, was her servant, and had been with her three months. Witness did not know that she was in the family way. On Friday morning witness heard the voice ot a baby, and almost immediately her servant came into the kitchen. leant upon witness's arm, who said to her, " What is we meaning of all this ?" She had some thing in her" apron, aad made no answer, Witness observed to her, " What have you got here?'* She then showed witness the bead of the baby, and witness assisted her into the chair. There was a deep cut on the side ef the cheek. Witness did not think that it would have died so soon. The mother had prepared some baby linen.— Verdict—" Natural death." EXTENSIVE SMUGGLING IN THE CITY.— The recent discovery ot a very extraordinary and exten- sive system of smuggling, supposed to have been car- ried on for a series of years by certain well- known wine and spirit merchants in the city, with the know- ledge of and by the connivance of ft number of govern- ment officers, has been the principal subject of dis- cussion for the last few days on Change, at the several housts, and at the Custom House, and by which illicit trade the revenue has been defrauded of custom duties to an enormous amount. As it may be imagined, various rumours are current respecting the aiiair, but it appears that for the last two or three years certain large firms in the wine and spirit trade, carrying on a most extensive business, have been in the constant practice of importing the finest brandies and other spirits from the Continent, which, by the dexterity aud connivance of some Custom House officers stationed at the docks and quays where the spirits h^ d been landed from the vessels, have, after gauging, been delivered to the importers upon the payment of the wine duty of 5s. 6d., instead of the proper spirit duty of 22s, 6d, per gallon, An agent of the parties, it appears, recently received a consignment of six hogsheads of French brandy, which, by the negligence of some of the persons con- cerned, were landed in the Queen's warehouse on the ground floor of the Custom House, and through this mistake the whole of the nefarious proceedings have been happily brought to light. On being admitted to entry as wine, one of the hogsheads was seized, having been found to contain brandy, and on closer inspection a peculiarly- constructed tube, of about six inches in diameter, was discovered fixed ia the cask, reaching perpendicularly from the bung, and extend- ing the depth of the cask, which tube was filled with wine, the remainder of the cask containing braHdy ; but the tube, in this instance, having leaked, the wine became mixed with the brandy, which circumstance led to the discovery and seizure by the gauging officer. Immediately on these facts being communicated to the Honourable Board of Customs, the commissioners instituted a strict inquiry i[ ifo ail the circumstances. One individual, when examined before the board, most positively declared he had witnessed as much as 100/. given in one sum to certain persons, whom he named, ta iaduce them to allow the spirits to be delivered as wine. The Board of Excise, having been put in pos- session of the above- mentioned facts, and the excise*- men having also had similar information, those officers have since beeu indefatigable in their exertions in tracing the spirits to the place or places in which they were concealed, and had at length succeeded in dis- covering the five hogsheads which came over with the cask seized as above stated, and had been, and were now daily making seizures in aimost every part of the city. They had also succeeded ia seizing 35 cases of brandy which had been described as wine in the war- rant for paymeat of duty. Much still remains shrouded in mystery; and several officers hare been suspended, being suspected as having been concerned in this transaction as accessories ; but it is expected that the whole cf the additional particulars will soon be laid before the public. SHOCKING DEATH.— On Wednesday, an inquest was held at Tottenham on the body of William Stevens, who was killed by falling " under the wheels of the York mail, which passed over his body on Christmas- eve. The decease.! was a lad about 14 yeoft of ^ age, and was crossing the road when the mail was coming up. He could not cross ia li.^ c to save himself, and the horses coming in contact with him threw him prostrate, and the wheels pas3ed over him. On the examination of the body, it was found that his skull was fractured, no doubt by the feet of the horses, and his death was instantaneous. It was quite an ac- cideat, and the jury returned a verdict accordingly. FATAL ACCIDENT.— On Wednesday night an in- quest was held in the board- room of St. George's Hospital, Hyde- park- corner, on the body of Thomas Warren, aged 60, whose death was CGoasioned by being run over by a gentleman's carriage. Verdict— " Accidental death." DEATH BY APOPLEXY.— On Wednesday after- noon an inquest was held at the George the Fourth, in the Southwark- brlde road, on the body of Hannah Walsh, an Irishwoman, whose death took place in the station- house adjoining the abave public house, ft appeared that, early ou the morning cf Clnistmas- day, the deceased was tnkea into custody by a police- man on thf? charge of being drunk and disorderly. She was accordingly conveyed to the station- house in the Southwark- bridge- road, and locked up in one of die women's cells. She was visited several times in the coarse of the evening by the person appoiuted for that purpose, and about nine o'clock the same night, when spoken to, she answered that she was recover- ing from her intoxication. At this time she was iitting ou the bench eating an apple, and when the locker- up went into the cell in half an hour after- ward* the deceased was found sitting exactly in the saaie position that she had been previously seen iu, with a portion of the apple still in her hand, but not answering when spoken to, on examination it was found that she was a corpse. The medical " fficer was immediately summoned, but life being quite ex- tinct, he did not considt- r it necessary to resort to any means of resuscitation, and he was of opinion that her death was occasioned by apoplexy. A verdict to that effect was returned. BEGGING LETTERS. — The inhabitants] of the neighbourhood of the metropolis should be on their guard against the ingenuity and address of the beg-. ging- letter impostors. A few days ago, one called on a magistrate residing at C iswick, stating his name t< 3 be Edward Snell, and th* t his house and workshop at Reigate were burned down, and himself and family reduced to the greatest distress, lie pto- duced a written paper, purporting to be signed by Lord Monson, wherein his lordship particularly re- commended him to the benevolent. This paper, from its bad composition, especially excited suspi- cion, and he was desired to leave it and call again in a day or two. In the meantime application was made to the Mendicity Society, when it was ascer- tained the whole aceount was false. FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT.— A poor woman, who keeps a fruit- stall in Oxford street, was crossing the road on Thursday morning, whea she was knocked down by a spring cart, and both wheels passed over her head ; the blood gushed out iu torrcnu from her mouth and nostrils. She was instantly carried by four men to a surgeon's shop, and examined by the surgeon, within five minutes of the accident, t-, e p.- o- nouueed her dead. The driver of the cart was de- tained, as, through his wanton and carcioss driving, the woman's life was sacrificed. DEATH BY DROWNING. — On Wednesday, as three sailors belonging to a brig off Beat's wharf, Tooley- street, were in a boat, in the act of fishing the anchor, the boat was upset, and in consequence of the fide at the time flowing rapidly, two of the men were drowned before it was possible to render them assistance— the third was saved. SUICIDE.— Ou Wednesday afternoon a coroner's inquest was taken at the Fox, Duke- street, . Blooms- bury, on view of the body of Joseph Brand, aged 40. Edward Ward, a labourer, said lie was a lodger at No. 16, Church- street, St. Giles's, the house lately occupied by the deceased ; on Tuesday morning, he was alarmed by the wife of the deceased, who stated that her husband hud cut his throat ; on going into Che room he found him on the floor with his throat dreadfully cut, aud a razor near his right hand, covered with blood. Verdict— temporary derange- ment. THE LATE ROBBURY AT LORD SOMERVILLE'S. — Inspector Haining, who ever since the mysterious robbery of jewellery committed on the evening of Thursday se'nHight, has been actively engaged in en- deavouring to nuravel the mystery vith which it was surrounded, has ascertained that the thief obtained access by means of skeleton keys to an empty house, No. 36, ia the same street, from which, after passing over the roofs of eight houses, and climbing in the dark three wails upwards of 10 feet high, lie entered the house by means of the front att c window, and then proceeded down stairs to the bed- iooms, where the property was deposited. It appears that the child who raised the alarm was not in the room when the thief passed through, and that on his return for the purpose of making his exit, hearing the child scrcaai, he ran down stairs and escaped through the front door with his bost- i* unseen 1" a> -•- of the domestics. who were iu the kitchen at supper at the time. Ift addition to the property already specified, it has been ascertained thai the fellow also carried off a bracelet, consisting of eight rows of real pearls, with a cameo clasp ; two large gold armlets, a gold and turquoise bracelet, aa Italian bracelet, one with two valuable emeralds set in gold, with the name " The Hon. Mary D'Oyiey, obt. April, 1834 ;" three pairs of diamoud earrings, a pair of gold shoe buckles, a quantity of Brussels lace for a dress coat, & c. COWARDLY OUTRAGE.— On Tuesday afternoon, two persons hired the cab No. 1, driven by Thomas Warboys, from the eoach stand ia St. Paul's church- yard, to take the. n to the Angel inn, at Hammer- smith. On their arrival at Kensington turnpike they refused to pay the toll, alleging they had nothing but a large note, which they would get changed before their return. Lynn, the tod collector, refused to allow them to pass on those terms, and dem!"- ' ' ' toll from the driver, who, hov,- • ,,„„,. me it, on the ground that h; aid his customers, whom he wished he was rid of. Police- man Price, T 65, was then called in, who, after much altercation, accompanied the parties to the station- house, when they represented to the officer on dutv th » t they were going tq the Angel inn, to see a mail guard lying ili mere with u orCieii leg, and produced a letter to substantiate their statement, ou which they were allowed to proceed. The cabman thea drove them down thcroad to opposite Lee's nursery- ground, when they suddenly seized the reins out of his hand aud turned the horse short round into William- street, a most retired spot, where they knocked hira off his seat, And beat him in a most brutal manner, until he became insensible, when they ran off and suc~ ceeded iu effecting their escape. ROBBERIES ON CHRISTMAS DAY.— Between one aud seven o'clock in the afternoon, the house of Mrs. Frances Ward, in the Hackney- road, was tnterei noeaas of skeleton- keys, aud robbed of a quantity of cutlery aud wearing- apparel, valued at fifty pounds. Between five and six o'clock, the house of Mr. Thomas Daniels, No. 30, Walnut- tree- walk, Vaux- hall- road, was also entered by means of skeletou- keys, and roibed of a very valuable siver snuff- box aud a quantity of wearing- apparel. Between six and eight o'clock, the house of Mrs. Mills, No. 29, Nicholas- street, New North- roaJ, was likewise entered by ineaus of skeleton- keys, and robbed of a number of brooches, a gold chain, a double- cased Silver watch, a gold watch, a number of table and tea- spoons, and thirty sovereigns, Also, about the sains time, the house of Mr. Jones, No. 7, New South- street, Chelsea, was entered by similar means, and robbed of a gold watch, and a quantity of plate, consisting of table, tea, and salt spoons, a pint mug, aud other arti. les of value. Likewise, about the same time, and by similar means, the house of Mr. Ralph, 60, Lower South- street, Chelsea, was entered and robbed of a silver watoh, a small French ditto, a quantity of plate, consisting of table, tea, and salt spoons, several turquoise, ruby, wedding, hair, and other gold rings, a number of brooches, and about twenty pounes in cash; and between six and nine o'clock the same evening the house of Mr. Stokey, No. 8, Farling- street, St. George's in the East, was also entered and robbed of a quantity of wearing- apparel, several Thibet shawls, squares of lace, 20 sovereigns, and a considerable sum in silver. SHOCKING DEATH.— Last week a youug woman, aged 19, was accidentally burnt in so shocking a manner at the house of Mr. Wall, Oxford- street, where she was living as servant, that she soon after expired. It appeari that she had lighted a fire early in the morning, and was engaged iu brushing the stove, when her clothes caught fire; her cries brought her mistress to her assistance, and she endeavoured to extinguish the flames by rolling the hearthrug round her, but the young woman in her fright escaped aud ran down stairs. She was conveyed to the hos- pital, and expired the same day. DARING ROBBERY.— On Tuesday morning as Mr. William Watson, a gentleman who had just arrived by coach from Windsor, was standing at the end of Sackville- street, Piccadilly, and admiring the prints in the shop- window, his pocket book, containing up- ward^ of £ 40, was stolen from his coat pocket, aud in addition thereto his silk handkerchief disappeared. OMNIBUS ROBBERY.— Another daring robbery in an omnibus took place on Sunday night last. Mrs. Ellison, a lady residing in East- street, Manchester- square, got into one of the vehicles in question at the top of Wood- street, Cheapside, and was set down at High- street, Marylebone. On entering the nmnibus she took from her purse a sixpence, which she directly paid to the conductor, and soon after alightiag she discovered that her pocket had been cut through, and the purse, whieh contained £ 16 in gold and Hue silver, abstracted therefrom. THE MAGNET, MONDAY EVENING JAN. 1. SMITHFIELD MARKET. OFFICIAL AND ACCURATE PRICES OF THE LONDON AND PROVINCIAL MARKETS, TO A LATE HOUR ON MONDAY EVENING. EAST INDIAN AND CHINA COMMERCE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29. Our market this morning was tolerably well sup- plied with beasts, but they were in great part of mid- dling and inferior quality ; whilst the demand, though somewhat renovated, was heavy, at last Monday's prices. There was a moderate number of sheep ex- hibited, and the trade was tolerably steady, at fully late rates. Calves, the supply of which was mode- rate, went off slowly, at previous currencies. Prime small porkers were taken off freely ; but, in other kinds of pork little was doing. We received from Scotland 34 Aberdeen and Fife- shire Scots, by steam- packets. The remainder of the supply of beasts came chiefly from the neighbourhood of London. In milch cows little was doing, at from 14i. to 20/. 10s. each. Per slbs. to sink the offals. Coarse and Inferior Beasts 2 2 to 2 4 Second quality, ditto 2 6 to 3 0 Prime large Oxen 3 4 to 3 8 Prime Scots, & c 4 0 to 4 4 Coarse and Inferior Sheep 2 10 to 3 0 Second quality, ditto 3 2 to 3 4 Prime coarse- woolled Sheep 3 8 to 3 10 Prime South Down ditto 4 0 to 4 6 Large coarse Calves 4 0 to 4 6 rime Small ditto 4 8 to 5 0 , arge Hogs 3 4 to 4 4 Neat small Porkers 4 s to 6 2 Suckling calves, from 16s. to 33s., and quarter old store pigs, 12s. to 20s. each. Beasts, 504} sheep, 7,809; calves 110; pigs, 499. MONDAY, JANUARY 1. Owing to the supply of beasts in our market of to- day being much larger than was anticipated, and by far the largest portion of it of middling and inferior quality, the sale, even for the few prime beasts which were offering, was exceedingly dull, but we can quote no variation in the prices noted on last market day. The supply of sheep was tolerably good, both as to numbers and quality, whilst the trade was very heavy, at barely, but at nothing quotable beneath Friday's currencies. With calves, we were very shortly sup- plied, but no improvement took place in the demand for them, and we can notice no alteration in the prices. A large number of pigs, 200 of which arrived, by steam- packets, from Dublin and Cork, was offer- ing, on account of which the sale for them was heavy, at last week's quotations. The arrivals of both sheep and beasts, by sea, from Scotland, have been again very moderate. We received up to our market to- day, about 000 short - horns from Lincolnshire ; 500 short- horns, from Leicestershire ; 502 short- horns from North- amptonshire ; 200 Scots, from Norfolk ; 100 Scots, from Suffolk ; 30 Scots nnd Devons from Essex ; 22 Herefords from Cambridgeshire ; 25 runts, and Devons, from Warwickshire; 17 Scots, Hereferds, and runts from Oxfordshire; 192 Herefords, from Herefordshire; 120 Devons from Devonshire; 22 runts, from Shropshire ; 25 Scots, by sea, from Scot- land ; 29 Sussex oxen, from Sussex ; 25 cows, Herefords and runts from Surrey; 20 Herefords, Scots, and runts, from Kent. The remainder of the supply was chiefly derived from the neighbourhood of London. The supply of sheep was chiefly composed of South Downs, old and new Leicesters, Dorsets, Somersets, Kents, and Kentish half- breds ; with a few pens of Gloucesters, Norfoiks, & c.; as also 200, by sea, from Scotland. Per slbs., to sink the offals. Coarse and inferior beasts Second quality, do Prime large oxen Prime Scots, & c coarse and inferior sheep Second quality, do Prime coarse- woolled sheep..,. Prime South Down ditto s. d. s. d. 2 2 to 2 4 2 6 to 3 0 3 4 to 3 8 4 0 to 4 4 2 0 to 3 0 3 2 to 3 4 3 8 to 3 10 4 0 to 4 4 4 0 to 4 6 4 8 to 5 0 3 2 to 4 8 4 10 to 5 2 Suckling calves, from 16s. to 34s., and quarter old store Pigs, 12s. to 20s. each. Beasts, 3,380 ; Sheep, 24,200 j Calves, 99; Pigs, 596; A STATEMENT and COMPARISON of SUP- PLIES and PRICES of FAT STOCK, exhibited and sold in SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET, on Monday, January 2, 1837, and this day, Mon- day, January 1, 1838. At per Sib. sinking the offals. January, 2, 183". January 1, 1838. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. CoarseandinferiorBeasts.. 2 2 to 2 4 .. 2 2 to 2 4 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 2 .. 2 6 3 0 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8.. 3 4 Prime Scots, & c 3 10 4 2 .. 4 0 . Coarse and inferior Sheep .. 2 I 2 0 .. 2 10 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 4.. 3 2 Prime coarse- woolled ditto 3 10 4 4 .. 3 8 Prime South Down Sheep .. 4 8 6 0 .. 4 0 Large coarse Calves 4 0 4 8.. 4 0 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 4 .. 4 8 Large Hogs 3 2 3 8.. 3 2 Neat small Porters 44 4 8 .. 4 lo 3 8 4 4 3 0 3 4 3 10 4 4 4 6 5 0 3 8 t 2 SUPPLIES. Janaary 2, 1837. January 1, 1838. Beasts 2,93s 3,380 Sheep 2", 5i! 0 24,200 Calves 180 99 Pigs 260 £ 95 By the above comparison it appears that the supply of Monday, January 2, 1837, embraced 450 beasts, and 360 pigs less; 3,300 sheep, and 61 calves more, than that of Monday, January 1, 1S38, NEWGATE AND LEADEN HALL MARKETS. MONDAY, JANUARY 1. A slight falling off, as will be perceived below, has taken place in the arrivals of slaughtered meat since this day se'nnight, but they have been commensurate with the demand. With regard to the qualities of the supplies, it has been, for the most part, except about 300 carcasses of sheep, from Aberdeen, tolerably prime ; whilst, on account of the extreme mildness of the weather, some of the shipments have come to hand in an almost unsaleable condition. Several packages of prime roasting and boiling beef have arrived, which have been sold at high prices. The enhancement noticed iB our last week's report has not been supported, owing to the supplies having been large, and the weather unfavourable for slaughtered meat. We do not recollect the consignments of dead meat to these markets to have been so great, in any preceding year, as has been the case during the last two months ; indeed, we have heard great complaints on this subject, it being well known that the shippers are doing themselves very little benefit by the specu- lation. ARRIVALS SINCE OUR LAST REPORT. Beasts. Number of Carcases. Sheep. Number ol Carcases. Calves. Number of Carcases. Pigs. Number of Carcases. Scotland 80 2300 1255 Yorkshire... 60 1525 1150 Essex ... 20 200 300 305 Surrey 120 900 709 1000 Sussex 7 80 105 99 Berkshire .. 14 85 100 109 Wiltshire . .. 19 100 1400 605 Gloucester. 10 49 72 109 Hampshire.. 22 70 98 23 Devonshire.. 10 50 79 25 TOTAI. ... Supply of pre ceding weel 362 } 401 5319 5805 2S63 3192 4678 4741 39 less, 556 less, 331 more, 67 less, than the total arrivals of the preceding week. The following are the current prices of meat:— At per 81bs. by the carcase, s. d. s. d. s. d. Infr. beef from 3 0 to 3 Middling ditto. 3 6 — 3 8 Prime large do. 3 8 — 3 10 Ditto small do. 4 2 — 4 4 Large pork.... 3 6 — 4 4 Inferior mutton 3 Middling ditto.. 3 Prime ditto.... 4 Veal 3 Small pork .... 4 5. d. 3 6 3 10 4 4 4 10 5 2 NEWPORT MARKET.— MONDAY, JAN. 1. There was a good supply of each kind of meat ex. hibited to day, with which the trade was heavy, at the following prices :— Per 81bs., by the carcase, sdsdl sdsd Beef, from.... 3 0 to 4 0 Veal 3 6 to 4 8 Mutton 3 6 to 4 4 1 Pork 3 10 to 5 2 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL POULTRY MARKET.— THIS DAY.— Geese, 4s. od. to 5s. Od.; Tur- keys, 7s to 13s ; Hares, 2s. Od. to 3s. Od; and Pheasants, Od. to 2s. Qd. each ; Grouse, 2s. Od. to 2s. 6d.; fowls, 4s. Od. to 7s. Od.; Ducks, 3s. Od. to 4s. 6d. ; Wild Ducks, 3s. Od. to 4s. 0d.; Teal, ; s. 6d. to 2s. Od.; Widgeons, Is. 6d. to 2s. Od.: and Guinea Fowls, 4s. Od. to 4s. 9d. per couple; Partridges, 2s. od. to 3s. Od. per brace ; Pigeons, 5s. 6d. to 6s. 6d.; and Rabbits, 7s. od. to 8s. Od. per dozen. Fresh Butter, Is. Id. to Is. 4d. per lb. Eggs, Is. 4d. to Is. 8d. per score.— A moderate supply, and a heavy sale. COVENT- GARDEN MARKET. SATURDAY, DEC. 30.— The market this morniag was ' argely supplied with ail kinds of fruit aud vege- tables in season, whilst the demand was very heavy at droopiDg prices. d. s. d Ware Potatoes.. 4 Middling ditto... 2 Chats 1 Endive ... 0 Red Cabbages.... 2 Horseradish .... 2 Celery, per build. 0 Turnips 1 Carrots 3 Coleworts, or Greens 2 Oto 5 0 3 « 3 10 1 8 4 0 3 8 2 6 I 0 4 Onions 2 Leeks, per doz... 1 Spinach 0 Apples 2 Pears 3 Sweet Oranges 8 Seville do. .,.. 12 Lemons, per 100 8 Walnuts, per 100 0 PineApples per lb. 8 Hothouse Grapes 2 d. s. 0 2 0 1 G 0 0 6 0 7 0 12 0 18 0 12 6 0 0 10 PRICE OF PROVISIONS.— MONDAY, JAN. 1. We have to notice a very heavy demand for Irish butter, and, in several transactions, a trifling depris- s on has taken place. There has been a large arrival of foreign butter, which has gone off slowly, at barely stationary prices. In English and Scotch butter no variation can be noted. So inconsiderable are the transactions in lard, that the prices are almost nomi- nal. All other kinds of provisions are iu good supply, and sluggish demand, at unaltered rates. s s. s. s. Waterford Butter... 88 94 Newry do 82 86 Carlow do 90 96 Belfast do 85 92 Dublin do 86 1) 2 Limerick do 84 92 92 96 Scotch do so 93 Foreign do 86 105 Dble. Glo'ster Cheese 65 72 60 65 Old & new Cheshire 60 74 Derby do 60 67 45 50 Gouda do. 38 42 New fresh Irish York Hams 65 74 New fresh English York Hams 70 78 Small ditto 80 Westmorland do .... 60 Cumberland do 60 Westphalian ditto ... 48 Belfast mid. of Bacon 46 Waterford Sides 44 Lard in Bladders ( 7 New IndiaMess Beet 107 110 Prime ditto 92 94 Inferior 87 90 Pork, 318 lbs 120 126 Scotch ditto 40 44 Ditto Middles 46 PrimeMess Pork, brl. 75 Mess Bacon, ditto 72 Dorset Butter 50 Cambridge ditto 18 York ditto 45 Cumberland ditto .. 45 HUNGERFORD MARKET. FISH.— Turbots, 9s. to 20s.; cod fish, 2s. Od. to 6s. Od.; brills, is. fid. to 2s. 3d.; lobsters, 6d. to 2s. 0d.; haddocks, 3d. to6d.; soles, 4d. to 2s. od. per pair; fresh herrings, 3s. Od. to 5s. per 100; oysters, 3s. Od. to 4s. 6d. per bushel. POULTRY and GAME.— Geese, 4s. od. to 6s. Od. each; fowls, 4s. od. to 6s. 6d. per couple ; grouse, 2s. od. to 2s. 6d. per brace; hares, 3s. Od. to 4s 6d., partridges, 2s. Od. to 3s. per brace ; pheasants, 2s. os. to 2s. yd. each. Turkeys, 6s to 12s each. POTATOES.— Ware, from £ 3 1 Os to £ 4 os; middlings, £ 3 0s to £ 3 10s; arid chats, £ 1 to £ 1 10s per ton. In the above markets, in which was exhibited a short supply of everything quoted, trade was heavy, at somewhat drooping prices. RAW HIDES. At per stone of 14lb.; sheep and calfskins at per skin. s. d. s. d. Best steers and lieifsrs 5 8 to 6 0 Middling do 5 0 to 5 4 Inferior do 4 8 to 5 0 Market Calf 5 0 to 6 0 Long, woolled sheep 4 6 to 6 6 Short ditto 3 0 to 4 0 IIOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS MARKETS. POTATOES. The supplies of potatoes which have been received coastways, since Monday last, have been tolerably good, they having been composed of about 800 tons from Scotland; 600 do. from Yorkshire; 206 do. from Ireland ; 250 do. from Guernsey ; 300 do. from Jersey; 400 do. from Devonshire; 120 do. from Kent; and 202 do. from Essex. The general quality of the potatoes has been exceedingly good, whilst we are of opinion that, as the crop of potatoes has been large, the prices will not rise for some time to come. per ton. per ton HAY- MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.— Coarse Heavy lowland meadow l ay, £ 4 os to £ 4 5s ; useful ditto, £ 4 5s to £ 4 10s; fine, upland meadow and rye- grass hay, £ 4 '. 0s to £ 4 15s.; clover hay, £ 4 10s to £ 5 10s; oat straw, £ 1 12s to £ 1 14s.; wheat straw, £\ 14s to £\ 16s per load of 36 trusses.— Supply moderate, and trade very dull, at late rates. WHITECHAPEL.— Coarse heavy lowland meadow hay, £ 3 15s. to £ 4 0s.; useful ditto, £ 4 os to £ 4 5s.; fine upland meadow & rye grass hay, £ 4 JOS to £ 4 : 5s ; clover hay,£ 4 10s to £ 5 15s ; oat straw, £\ 12s to £ 1 14s ; wheat straw, £ 1 14s to £ 1 16s per load of 36 trusses.— Meadow hay somewhat lower ; clover hay dearer than last quoted. Supply good, and trade dull. BOROUGH.— MONDAV, JAM. 1.— Coarse heavy low- land meadow hay, £ 4 0s to £ 4 5s.; useful ditto, £ 4 5s to £ 4 10s-, fine upland meadow and rye- grass hay, £ 4 15s to £ 5 0s; clover hs. y, £ 4 10s to rf' 5 ! 0s ; oat straw, £ 1 12s to £ 1 I4S-, wheat straw, £\ 16s to £ 1 183. per load of 36 trusses. — A short supply, and a heavy sale. CUMBERLAND.— Coarse heavy lowland meadow bay, £ 4 5S. to £ 4 10S. ; useful ditto, £ 4 10s. to £ 4 15s. ; fine upland meadow and rye. grass hay, 3 5s to sSSOs.; clover hay, £ 4 15s. to £ 5 10s; oat straw, £ 1 ! 4s to £ 1 16s.; wheat straw, £ 1 16s to £\ 18s. per load of 36 trusses. A short Supply, and a somewhat increased demand, at a trifling increase in the prices. PORTMAN.——- Coarse heavy lowland meadow bay, £ 4 OS. to £ 4 58. ; useful ditto, £ 4 5s. to £ 4 IDS. fine upland meadow & rye- grass hay, £ 4 153. to £ 5 ( is. clover hay, £ 4 16s to £ 5 10s ; oat straw, £\ 163. to £\ ISs.; wheat straw, st l| iss to £ 2 os. per load of 36 trusses.— Supply short, and trade dull. FLAX. Dutch and Flanders, £ 45 Os to £ 55 0s. Petersburgh, £ 35 os to £ 39 0s. New Zealand, £ 0 0s. to £ 0. Os. Riga, P. T. R. £ 4 3. os to £ 46 os. METALS. We have very little business to notice in this market since our last, and prices have scarcely varied from those before quoted. English Iron is ra ther more in request, and prices are firmer ; of Foreign, there have been some arrivals, but nothing done. No sales of Spanish Lead to report, but a small parcel of English has been taken for export to Bombay at the quotations. s. d. £ s. d. Duty. 0 0 to 0 0 00 00 0 11 00 £ Yorksirc reds 3 5 Do. Kidneys .. 3 0 Scotch reds 2 10 Essex do 2 5 Guernsey blues2 10 Jersey whites.. 2 0 Kents 2 5 £ 3. to 3 15 .. 3 15 .. 3 0 .. 2 15 .. 3 0 to 2 15 £ 8. American na- tives 2 10 . Devonshire reds2 15 . Lynn kidneys. .3 0 . Irish 0 0 . Shaws 2 0 . Chats ... I 0 LEATHER, Al' LEADENHALL. The leather trade is in a very dull state, whilst in the quotations little alteration has taken place. per lb. d. d. English uuits, per lb) 5to24 Foreign do 13 18 Dressinghides 10$ 16$ Crophides, 30.4olb.. 104 13 „ 45.601b.. 12 17 Tan. Eng. h. hides.. 10 14 per lb, Spanish H. hides ... Sm. Green, S. skins I. argedo 11 Light Calf skins .... 14 Middling do 16 Heavy do 14 d. d. 12 to 21 18 21 BRITISH WOOL MARKET. MONDAY, JANUARY 1. Considerable attention appears to be now directed to the low qualities of wool, and a considerable num- ber of large sales have been effected, at fully the late advance. We, however, consider that the prices have reached their maximum range for the present, as the stocks of wool in the hands of the sellers are still very large. per lb. per lb. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. 3 to 1 5 I Leic. wethers.. 0 11 to 1 0 4 to 1 6 1 Blanket wool . 0 7 to 0 11 | Flannel do 0 10 to 1 3 I to 1 2 Skin combing.. 1 0 to 1 2 I to 1 2 I . 1 Down teggs , Half- bred do. Down ewes and wethers 1 Leicester bogs 1 FOREIGN WOOL MARKET. MONDAY, JANUARY 1. The demand for Foreign Wool still continues tole- rably steady, and the prices are well supported. The imports have been composed of 222 bales of German ; 150 do. of Spanish; 37 do. of Cape of Good Hope; and 49 do of Italian wools. Electoral Saxony wool, 4s Od to 5s od ; first Austrian, Bohemian, & ether German wools, 3s0dt » 4s0d; second ditto, 2s od to 3s Od ; inferior ditto, in locks and pieces, Is 6dto 3s ; German lambs' do, 2s to 3s od ; Hungarian sheep's ditto, 2s to 3s Od; Leoriesa, sheep's ditto, 2s Od to 3s Od ; Segovia do. Is sd to 3s ; Soria ditto, 2S to 2s lod ; Cacares ditto, 2s to 3s 2d; Spanish lambs'wool, Is 6d to 2s 6d ; German and Spanish cross ditto, 2s Od to 3s od; Portugal sheep's ditto, 2s Od to 3s od; Portugal lambs' ditto, 0s od to is Cd ; Australian line crossed do, 2s od; to 3s 4d; Australian native sheep's do, lsGd to 2s 6d; Van Dieman's Land native sheep's ditto, 0s lod to 2s; and Cape of Good Hope ditto, Is 4d to 2s lod per lb. COPPER. British Cakes., ton Tile Sheets lb. Bottoms ... Old S. American IRON. British Pigs Bars ton Hods ... J. Ioops . Sheet... Cargo at Cardiff " oreignbd. C. C. N. D. P. S. I. Swedish LEAD. British Pig ton Sheet ( milled) Bars Patent Shot, i a 5 .. 6 a 12.. Red, or Minium.... White Litharge Pig Spanish STEEL. English Milan Sweaisli ton TIN. In Blocks cwt. Ingots Bars Grain Blocks Banca, bd cwt. Straits Plates, p. b. 225 slits. Spelter ton Platina Ore . ... oz. • Orsidew lb. . bd 6 9 9 10 10 10 It 10 12 10 8 10 0 18 10 0 13 10 0 12 10 0 20 0 0 21 0 0 22 10 0 24 0 0 24 0 0 22 10 0 30 0 0 22 10 0 18 5 0 32 0 0 28 0 0 17 0 0 0 0 0 0 « 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 ^ 27 ton. \£\ los. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 20 per cent. 470 4 8 0 490 5 15 0 3 17 0 3 14 0 1 10 0 15 5 0 0 10 6 0 3 0 4 7 6' 4 8 6 4 9 6 0 0 Oj 5 If 2 } rf50ton. 1 15 0 15 10 0; 2s. cwt. 0 13 0 5 per cent. 0 3 3 6d. RAILWAY COMPANIES. SHARE LIST. Price. Paid. Selling- Birmingham and Gloucester 100 13 5 pi 6 Birmingham and Derby 100 15 Bristol and Exeter 100 10 n Cheltenham and Great Western .. 100 74 2 Commercial Blackwall 50 3 i 25 24 1 Great North of England 100 44 14 100 55 11 pi 50 5 144 London and Brighton 100 5 98 100 90 198 Liverpool and Manchester 160 100 230 Northern aud Eastern 100 30 23 North Midland 100 15 3 50. 20 n South Eastern 50 7 2 London and Birmingham 100 95 196 London and Greenwich 20 20 uis. COAL MARKET. STATE OF THE TALLOW TRADE. MONDAY, JANUARY 1. The business which lias been transacted iu Tallow, since our last, has been on a limited scale, but owing to the quantity on sale being short, an advance has been obtained, in most sales, of from 2d to 6d per cwt. A very small quantity of tallow has lately changed hands for export. For forward delivery, little doing. TALLOW. 1S35. 1836. 1837. Casks Casks Casks Stock this day 4979! 38059 29999 Delivery last week 1051 3122 2139 Ditto from June 1st 53: 67 68398 72202 Arrival last week 222 39" 596 Ditto from June 1st 75122 87659 94629 The following are the present currencies of Tal- low, soap, & c. :— Town tallow, 49s od to 49s 6d; yellow Russia, 46s to 47s. 6d ; yellow soap, 45s. to 49'. ; mottled ditto, 48s. to 52s.; curd ditto, 64s. to 69s.; melting stuif, 34s. to 35s. ; rough ditto, 22s. to 23s.; graves, 12s. to 14s.; and go; jd dregs, 5s. per cwt.; rough fat, average, 2s 9d. per bibs. INDIGO. The accounts received last week from India, re- presenting the great increase in the crop of Indigo, have occasioned a very flat market for the ar- ticle The trade are now proceeding with the in- spection of the Indigo declared for public auction on the 16th January-; they have gone over 2451 chests. bd. s. d. s. d. } floras lb 6 6 to sobres 5 9 .. cortes 4 0 Bengal fine blue 8 3 Fine purple and violet 8 0 Good ditto 7 8 Middling 7 0 Copper Fine 7 4 .. Good and middling 6 6 Ordin. Violet and Copper 63.. Oude 5 3 Madras 5 3 Java 5 3 Manilla ordinary 3 6 Indigo, per lb.— Foreign, 4d. ; B. P. 3d. 7 7 0 6 0 8 6 8 3 7 10 7 6 7 6 7 3 6 9 6 6 6 6 7 0 6 0 OILS. Linseed oil has become less in demand, but no change can be quoted in the prices ; they are not quite so firm. Rape oil may be purchased more easily at late prices, but the demand is still languid, aud very few purchases have been made. Imperial measure. Olive, d. p. Ft. jchst. Lucca, jars Gallipoli, 252 gals Spanish, do. Barbary tun Linseed cwt. Pulm, d. p cwt. Rape, Pale Brown Cod, d. p tun Seal, d. p. Pale — Brown aud yel. Sperm, d. p Head Matter Whale, d. p. Greenl. South Sea S. d. £. 8. d 0 19 0 1 1 0 s 0 0 0 0 0 58 0 0 0 0 0 53 0 0 54 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 0 0 0 0 1 15 0 1 16 0 1 16 0 1 16 6 1 15 0 0 0 0 44 0 0 0 0 0 45 0 0 0 0 0 32 0 9 40 0 0 80 0 0 84 0 0 85 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 0 0 33 10 0 £ 4 4s. per tun Domini- ons oftheK. of two Sic; - lies 10 10: 1. 3d c. ls. B. S. £ 26 F. S. BOROUGH HOP MARKET. MONDAY, JANUARY 1. The hop trade is still in a very sluggish state, and the prices are barely supported. The quantity of hops on sale is considerably larger, notwithstanding that the last year's growth has fallen somewhat short of that of the preceding year, thaa has been the case at the corresponding period in many former seasons. Per cwt. East Kent, in pockets 4/ 15 to 6 0 Ditto, in bags 4 5 to 5 10 Mid Kent, in pockets 4 5 to 5 10 Ditto in bags 4 0 to 5 0 Weald of Kent, in pockets.... 3 10 to 5 5 Ditto, in bags 3 5 to 4 15 Sussex, in pockets., 3 5 to 4 5 Old hops 1 5 to 3 10 Mon. Wed. Friday, Ships arrived, Monday.. —. Dec. 25. Dee. 27. Dec. 29. Wednesday, 39. Friday.. a6. t. d. s. d. s. d. 22 0 22 0 Bensham .... IS 6 18 6 Chester 21 6 21 3 Picton 20 e 20 0 22 0 22 3 South Hartley 22 0 22 0 Bute's Tanfield 23 0 22 9 Tanfield Moor 22 3 22 0 Wylam 23 0 23 0 Wallseud, Clarke and Co. 23 0 19 3 23 c 23 0 23 0 23 0 23 0 23 0 Do. Killingworth 22 3 22 9 Do. Northumberland .. . 22 3 22 3 23 0 23 0 Do. Braddyli's Hetton ,. .. 23 0 23 9 23 6 23 6 Do. Lambton 23 9 23 3 Do. Russell's 23 9 23 3 Do. Stewart's 23 9 23 3 Do. Hartlepool 24 0 24 0 ' 9 6 19 3 22 6 22 6 21 3 21 0 Orde's Redheugh 18 3 18 6 Llangennech Coal •• 29 0 29 0 Delivered to consumers, at an advance on the above quotations of from 10s . to 12s. per ton PRICES OF WINE IN BOND. PORT, per pipe, 1st class old, 45/. to 55/.; second and third, 327. to 401; light and common, 20/. to 30/. — SHERRY, per butt, 1st and 2d old, 46/. to 74/.; 3d and 4th, 30/. to 40/.; 5tli and 6th, 18/. to 241.; common, consigned, 12i. to 18/.— MADEIRA. E. I. per pipe, fine, 38/. to 55/.; very fine, 60/. to 80/.; middling and common, 20/. to 35.— W. I., first, 52/. to 63/. second and third, 28/. to 47/.— Direct London particular, first, 32/. to 43/. ; second, 21/. to 30/.; in- ferior, 17/. to 25/.; Cape, 15/. to 18/.— Per hhd.: Claret, 20/. to 45/.; Burgundy, 40/. to 50/.— Per pipe : Teneriffe, 16/. to 22/.; Lisbon, 20/. to 24/. ; Bucellas, 20/. to 30/. ; Marsala, 12/. to 15/.— Per butt: Mountain, 15/. to 28/.— Per dozen: Cham- pagne, 24s to 52s.— Duty on Cape, 2s 9d; other ioreign, 5s 6d per gallon. In cases 13s 8d, bottles fncluded. ENGLISH FUNDS. CLOSING PRICES EACH DAY. | Tues., Wed. . Thur. , Frid.] Sat. 203 2034 203J 90J 203J : 9 » f 205 90f 90| 9U 3 per cent. Consols Consols for Account.. 92i 92 924 924 924 New 3$ per cent 100 100 100 100J 984 H per cent. Reduced . 98J 98i 984 93 « 14J 14} Hi 14J ! 4S 26 26 26 26 27 266 2554 266 2664 Exchequer Bills 47 pin. 46 pm 47 pm 47 pm 46 pm FOREIGN FUNDS. FOREIGN. Colombian Bonds, 1824.. Portuguese D tto New to 3 per Cents S anish Consols Spanish Passive Spanish Deferred Dutch 2$ per Cents Ditto 5 per Cents COURSE OF Amsterdam.... C. F. 12 44 Ditto, at Sight 12 24 Rotterdam 2U 12 4$ Antwerp 12 5i Hamburgh 13 l2j Paris, 3 days sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Francfort 15 2iJ Petersburgh lo Vienna effective .... 10 12 Trieste ditto 10 14 EXCHANGE. Madrid 2 Ms ,. 34£ Cadiz 36} Bilboa 36 Leghorn 31J Genoa 26 15 Venice, 46 Naples 39 Palermo 1 go Lisbon, 60 days date.... 53 j Oporto....*. 54 Rio Janeiro 264 It being of the utmost importance to all classes of the community to become acquainted with the State of Trade in, and the Arrivals and Sailings of Vessels to and from, India and China, it will be perceived, by the following valuable information— which we intend giving as often as possible— that we intend paying the most minute attention to Indian and China Commerce. The information may be relied upon as being Official and Accurate. SHIPS TRADING TO INDIA AND THE EASTERN COLONIES. APPOINTED TO SAIL. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frid. Sat 23 23 234 234 24 66 66 66 66 74 29 i S9S 29 ii 29} 30 194 194 194 194 194 198 191 19S 19* 19iJ H IS 4* 4* 4S It 74 74 74 74 534 53 534 53 53? 100 100 iooi I00£ 101 MINING INTELLIGENCE. COPPER ORES SALE AT SWANSEA, JDECEM. 27.— Chili, 416; Knockmahon, 384 ; Cobre, 319; Tigrouy, 195 ; Eallymurtagh, 130; Llandidno, 113 ; Allihies, 97 ; Lackamore, 19.— Total, 1,675 twenty- one cwts. CoprER ORES SOLD AT REDRUTH, DEC. 28.— United Mines, 810; Consolidated Mines, 600 ; Great St George, 470 ; Fowey Consols, 275 ; Cam Brea, 232; Wheal Liberty, 27.— Total, 2, 114 twenty- one cwts. 1838 Portsmouth Jan. 1 20 4 25 25 15 30 Feb. 1 5 10 10 Jan. 10 5 20 10 30 Llanelly j. 20 Feb. 1 Mar. 1 Jan. 31 25 10 10 13 5 7 5 20 1 5 31 25 15 Feb. 14 Jan. 15 1 Feb. 7 Jan. 25 Plymouth Mar. 1 Jan. 30 20 SHIPS' NAMES. Duke of Northumberland Claudine ( Cape) Larkins Kellie Castle La Belle Alliance ( Cape) Abberton ( Cape) Java Asia Ladv Raffles Eliza John Fleming Lysander Bolton Tamerlane Inglis Cleveland Lord Eldon Visecunt Melbourne.... Child Harold Margaretha David Salomons Africa Regulus Jane Shirreffs Agnes Hebe Lord Charles Spencer .. John British Sovereign Maria Eden Wilmot Bolina Henry Mary Aberdeenshire Wave Augusta Caesar Amelia Thompson Henry Porcher Shepherd) Cape) DESTINATION. Madras Madras Madras and Bengal Madras, Bengal & China | Madras & Bengal Madras & China j. Madras, Bengal & China. Madras & Bengal j- Bengal Bombay & China j Bombay Bombay & China Bombay I Batavia [ China iColomba & Trincomalee. : j Mauritius Cape Algoa Bay St. Helena New South Wales. V. D. L. & New South Wales Launceston > Hobart Town South Australia ... New South Wales... South Australia ... Swan River OWNERS & CONSIGNEES. 650 William L. Pope 500; William Heathorn 700 Charles Ingram 1418[ Read and Co 676jThomas Farncomb 500 Henry Shuttleworth 1300 Joseph Hare 1020 Edward Moxhay 700 Richard Green [ and Co. 700 Palmers, M'Killop, Dent 600 Edward Rose 475 Gilkison aod Co 600 J. and W. Stewart and Co. 427 Thomas B. Oldfield 1400 Daniell Dickenson, & Co. 450 Robert Barry 337 Thomas Worsell . - . . 670 William E. Ferrers . . . 500 Captain and Co 400 Thorntons and West. . . 450 John Pirie and others . . 450 William Tindall . . . . 370 C. S. Fenwick 240 J. Smith and Co. . . . 300 Robert Cumming. . . . 150 Edward Luekie . . . . 120 W. Crozier 472 John Scott . . . , . 350 C. Stainbank and Son . . 280 Miller and Co 420 Joseph Jackson . . . . 687 Sharp and Co 244 Robert Brooks . . . . 419' George Bishop . . . . 400 Henry Nelson 345 William Catto and Son. . 340 Phillips, King and Co. . 500; Gale and Son 460, John Pirie and others . . 485 N. Griffiths 31ljF. and C. E. Mangles . . CAPTAINS. George W. Wood . Charles Kemp . . Charles Ingram David Buchan . . Charles Arkcoll. . Henry Shuttleworth Robert Jobling. . James S. Biles . . Mark Lay . . . Edward Rose . . William Currie . . Adam Young . . Eilar McKellar. . Edward Routh . . William Marley Thomas Worsell . William Drayner . George Willis . . Wiliiam Barcham . James Thomson . Johnson Skelton . Monson . . Robert Cumming , Robert Douglas. . William Spence . Alexander Smith . h. h. Browne . . Ninian Miller . . George Noble . . Ninian Miller . . Archibald Ewing , William Walmsley. Robert Brown . . Alexander Smith . Edward Goldsmith. William Wiseman . Thomas Tomlinson John Hart . . . George Jardine WHERE LOADING. West India Docks West India Docks East India Doeks East India Docks West India Docks Dondon Docks East India Docks East India Docks East India Docks East India Docks West India Docks East India Docks West India Docks St. Katherine Docks East India Docks West India Doeks Llannelly • jEast India Docks .! West India Docks JEast India Docks Rii er Thames West India Docks St. Katherine Docks St. Katherine Docks London Docks London Docks London Docks - j St. Katherine Docks . | St. Katherine Docks ., London Docks . St. Katherine Docks • St. Katherine Docks • ; London Docks .' St. Kathcrine Docks • St. Katherine Docks • ! St. Katherine Docks , St. Katherine Docks • St. Katherine Docks . St. lvatheriae Docks • ! st. Katherine Docks .' London Docks THE EAST INDIES. LATEST ACCOUNTS OF THE CALCUTTA MARKETS. { From the Bengal Hurkaru Price Current, Sept. 3,1837.) RAW SILK. — Several purchases have been made for the English market, at rather low prices SILK PIECE GOODS. — Cossimbazar Corahs have engaged attention during the week for the English market, and the prices a shade of improvement.. .. COTTON.— The market is bare of good quality, and business is at a stand. Upwards of eighty, boats are 011 their way down with sup plies. ... SALTPETRE continues to engage attention, and several purchases have been made for shipments to England, America, and the Eastward. The prices of the day shew a slight improvement on GUNDA. ... SUGAR is less enquired for, and we have no change in prices to notice.. .. LAC.— Shell Lac of ordinary quality has been engaged on English and American accounts at rather low prices GRAIN The transactions have been to a limited extent, and are reported for the Mauritius only ; no change in prices.... CLOVES without sale : prices exhibit a slight reduction.... MACE AND NUTMEGS have been sold at a shade of decline in prices.... PEPPER has also giveu way in price.... TIN.— A sale is re- ported at a slight reduction in price.... CHINTZES. — A few sales of Bengal stripes and Neutral Pines have been effected at low prices.... WHITE COT- TONS.— Book muslins to the extent of about 23,000 plfces, have been sold during the week at low prices.... MULE TWIST.— The prices shew a re- duction of three to six pie per morah.... TURKEY AND OTHER DYED YARNS without sales.. .. WOOL- LENS.— No material improvement in prices..., COPPER.— A further improvement had taken place in prices.. .. IRON, STEEL, LEAD.— No variation in prices. Pig lead is quoted at a shade of im- provement. ... SPELTER.— A sale had been effected at reduced prices. COUNTRY PRODUCE.— Saturday, Oct. 7 ,1837. INDIGO.— Advices respecting the expected crop are still undecided as to the quantity ; but it is ex- pected that it will rather exceed than fall short of our estimate of 90,000 maunds.... RAW SILK.— A purchase of 18 maunds Ilurripaul is the only transaction reported for the English market.... SILK PIECE GOODS.— The transactions reported are for the English market SALTPETRE.— Business to a considerable extent appears to have been done principally for the English market, and our last quotations are supported.... OPIUM.— Shipments are in progress for China. Intelligence has been received from the Eastern Coasts of China, of an improvement having taken place on the sale of Opium in those quarters. CHINA, STRAITS, AND COAST PRODUCE. BETELNUT without sale; but the article has given way in price..., CUBEBS have advanced in price.... CLOVES.— Sales of some Bourbon Cloves have been effected at our quotations.... MACE AND NUTMEGS have also been sold at our quotations.. .. PEPPER.— Some sales are reported at the unaltered prices.. .. BLOCK TIN.— The prices shew a reduc- tion on odd and mixed tin. EUROPEAN GOODS. CHINTZES.— Operations in these and all other British Goods have been very limited.... WHITE COTTONS.— In these also business has been on a small scale ; attributable to the same cause as stated above. We have no change in prices to notice.. .. MULE TWIST.— The market has been without action, holders having shewn more firmness in their demand TURKEY RED AND OTHER YARNS.— A few sales of Turkey Red and Orange Yarns have been effected at a slight reduction in prices WOOLLENS.— Sales of middling and coarse Woollens continue to be effected, but to a limited extent, at former prices.... COPPER.— A slight advance throughout the assortments.... IRON.— A sale of Nail Rod is the only transaction reported. The prices of the assortments remain as last quoted.... STEEL without report of sale, and remains as last quoted.... LEAD.— A sale of Pig Lead has been effected at a slight reduction in price.... SPELTER without sale. We notice a small improvement on the price of this metal.... TIN PLATES AND QUICKSILVER without sales. The latter article is very scarce in the market, and much enquired for. BILLS ON ENGLAND. On H. M. Treasury, at 30 days'sight. . . 1 lojto 1 ll^ persa. r. On the Court of Directors, at 12 months' date overduel 10£ " 1 llj ditto Insurance Bills, at 12 mouths date . . . . 2 1 " 2 lj per sa. r. London Crredits for opera- tions, at 6 months' sights2 2 " 0 0 ditto Agency Houses 011 their Lon- Constituents, at 6 mouths' sight ... 1 ll| to2 0 per co. r. Government advances, on shipments to Londou or Liverpool, to the extent of § at 6 months' sights . 2 0 " 0 0 ditto GOVERNMENT SECURITIES. Buy Sell Stock [ Transfer Loan of I sa. rr. Paner 1 1835- 36 interest f- prem. 15 0 14 0 per ct, ' L payable in Engd. J (" From Nos 1200"] to buy Second J to 15,200 ac- I do. 0 12 4 0 5 prct. 1 cording to f to sell L Number. J do. 0 4 3 4 Third 5 per Cent. . ditto 3 4 2 12 5 per Cent, disct. Co.' s R. l 6 1 13 COURSE OF EXCHANGE. Buy.] s. d. s. d. 2 2 at 0 0 on London, 6 months' sight 102 0 at 102 8 on Madras, 30 days' sight 102 8 at 103 0 on Bombay, 30 davs' sight ..... BULLION, SPECIE, AND BANK NOTES. Span. Dlls. Co. Rs. 220 4 3 at 220 12 9 per 100 Doubloons . . . 33 1 1 ,, 33 13 10 each. Joes or Plazas . . 19 11 0 ,, 20 0 0 ,, Sovereigns ... 10 3 6 ,, 10 4 6 „ Bank ol Eng. Notes, 10 8 6,, 10 10- 8 ,, Gold Mohurs . . 18 9 6 ,, 18 10 6 ,, China Gold Bars . 12 12 9 ,, 14 10 8 p. sa. wt. Sycee Silver. , . 102 4 0 ,, 104 4 3 p. 100s, w. BOMBAY. — LATEST ACCOUNTS OFTHE TRADE — September 26, 1837. GOVERNMENT SECURITIES :— 5 per Ct. loan of 1825- 26 — 108 Rs. at 111 Do. do. 1829- 30 — 110- 12 Rs. at 111 Do. transfer loan of . . 1834- 35- 117 Rs. at 117- 8 4 per Ct. loan of 1835- 36- 105- 8 Rs. at 105- 12 EXCHANGES. — Bills on London. — The agency priees are drawing at Is 9d a Is lOd, six months' . sight. Drafts against shipments to a small ex- tent, Is lOd to Is lid. Government have re- duced their exchange for advances to 2 per rupee, a rate at which they are not likely to do any business. Bills on Calcutta at 30 days, Co.' s Rs. 99.8a 100. Bills on Madras . at SO days, .. 99 a 99.8. FREIGHTS.— For England difficult to be obtained. The last engagements to Liverpool have been done at 35s per ton. COTTON.— The dealers have not yet lowered their prices, and the market is almost in a state of stagnation. Shipments to England have been very limited ; and those to China are now only beginning to exceed the atm'- ialaverage of 125,000 bales. EUROPE GOODS.— Metals.— Of copper and spelter the stocks in first hands are getting reduced, but of copper they are still large with the dealers. Small plate spelter 8i Rs. and tile copper 50 Rs. per cwt. Of English bar iron there is a year's consumption at moderate prices. Tin plates continue heavy at Rs. 15 per box. Swedish iron and steel are chiefly nsw in dealers' hands, im- porters' stocks being very small. Iron chain cables, 10 a 15 per cwt. Anchors, 13 a 14. Lead, pig, sheet, and red at 10, and white at 12, Sheet brass at 45. Patent shot, 10s 8d. .... Piece Goods.— Many sales during the week, but at low prices. The only descriptions in de- mand are grey Madapolloms and grey Jaconets. A more general one is looked for. Mule Twist, 9 to 13 annas per lb. Bleached long- cloths a 7 Rs. per piece. Grey shirtings, 7. 4 a 7. 14 Madapolloms 34 inches, 4. 12, and - 12 inches, 5.12. Cambricks, 8. 8. Mules, 2. 12 a 2. 14. Jaconets, 3. 0. Bleached ditto, at 13. 8. Lap- pets, 2. 6. Chintzes assorted, 5. 10 a 6. 4. Ditto blue ground, 8. 12. Ditto Turkey red, 11. 12 a 14. 8. Turkey red twilled cloth, 6. 10. .... The following articles are at a discount. Con- fectionary, 25 per cent... Earthenware, 35.. Glassware, 40.. Hats, 25.. Millinery, 25.. Oil- man's Stores.. Plated Ware, 40.. Saddlery and Harness, 20.. Stationery, 40.. Cutlery, Hosiery, Ironmongery, Perfumery, and Ship Chandlery are realizing prime cost.. and Window Glass is at 25 per cent, advance. .... Other articles are as under :•— Quart bottles, Is 8d.. Pint ditto, Is 4d per dozen.. Corks, 2s a 3s per gross ; Cochineal, 3s 4d a 3s 8d per lb.. Coals, 12s a 15s per ton.. Gunpowder, Is per lb.. Beer ( Bass. Ind. Tennent) 55 Rs per hhd Allsop, Hodgson, 45.. Barclay, 40s.. Elliott, 35s CANTON. ' 198 '}. 98 d. 3 to [ Sell. d. O 0 0 to 98 8 0 to 98 8 LATEST ACCOUNTS OF THE CHINA TRADE.— July 4th, 1837. EXCHANGE— The East India Company's agents advertise that they will give bills on the Supreme Government of India at thirty days' sight, at the rate of 218 Co's. Rs. per 108 Sp. Drs. On London, 6 months sight, 5s per Sp. Dr. On Bombay, 3 months sight, ' 222 Co's. Rs. per 100 Sp. Drs. Sycee Silver at Lintin, 5 a 5J per cent. prem. ( very scarce) OPIUM.— Malwa, 520 a 540.. Patrea, 695 at 700 Sp. Dr. Deliveries from Lintin in April and May, 3,902 chests, value 2,267,380. " " to 8th June, 762 chests, value 2,267, 380. Stock on hand at Lintin 1st June, 10,759 chests, value 2,267,380. Deliveries to 1st July, 2,249 chests, value 1,312,110. RAW SILK, Canton.— The second crop to be brought to market in a few days, and likely to be an a- verage one. Nankin— No purchasers in the market. TEA.— No transactions have lately taken place ; no ships loading for Europe. COTTON.— A small advance has taken place on the higher qualities, but none on the inferior, though they have been more saleable. COCHINEAL without demand. Cotton Yarn in more request, and prices a shade higher.. Ebony, heavy stock; no improvement... Lead, firm ... Long Cloths, demand continues, and few on hand... Pepper steady... Quicksilver rather on the rise... Rice, no purchasers but at losing prices to the importers... Sandal Wood in good demand . Tin, no purchasers, from apprehensions of further arrivals... Wollens, no improvement. SINGAPORE.— Latest accounts of the Trade. 27th July, 1837. EXCHANGES.— On London Treasury Bills, 10 a 30 days' sight, 4s. 6d. per Sp. Dr. On London Private Bills, 6 months' sight at 4s. 7d. ditto. On China, at par. FREIGHTS to London and Liverpool— Dead weight and rough goods abundant.— Light freight and measurement goods scarce. OPIUM.— Benares, 630 a 632 per chest.— Malwah,. 560. ' EUROPEAN GOODS.— Beer.— Hodgson, Allsop, and Bass, 33 a 35 Sp. Drs. per hhd. ' The market is supplied.— Sherry, Brandy, Hollands, stocts large. .... Metals.— English bar iron and nail rod wanted. — Lead, both pig and sheet, wanted; consumption of latter trifling. — Spelter but a small stock. Steel without enquiry. .... Sundries. — The market is fully supplied with anchors, chain- cables, canvas, cordage, biscuit, guns, gunpowder, cutlery. ' I lie following are wanted :— Paints, paint oil, and turpentine, Irish beef and pork, hams, and cheese. Plain, printed and coloured cotton goods. LAST STATE OF THE LIVER- POOL MARKETS. Saturday, December 30, 1837. COTTON.— REVIEW OF THE MARKET FOR THE WEEK.— Little business has been done to- day, the sales not exceeding 1,000 bags. The stock- taking has proved favourable and satisfactory, the actual amount exceeding the estimate by 4,000 to 5,000 bags. The business is far from being ex- tensive this week, and only amounts to 13,550 bags ; of this quantity, 500 American, 500 Surat, and 150 Pernambuco have been taken by specu- lators. In prices we quote a decline in all Ameri- can descriptions of J to } per lb., and nearly as mnch in Brazils and Egyptians. It wil be observed that the import has made a considerable addition to our stock this week. For ourselves we do aot reckon much on the reputed decline in prices, aid make, therefore, but little alteration in our quota- tions, as the present being holiday time many per- sons have held off buying for the present, and are awaiting the stock- taking. CORN.— Since Tuesday last we have been moderately well supplied with Grain, Flour, end Oatmeal from Ireland, but nothing fresh lias arrived coastwise. In the intermediate period between this day and the conclusion of our last market the Corn trade generally was exceedingly inanimate, but no reduction occurred in prices. Our market this day was only thinly attended, and the trade generally evinced little disposition to purchase Wheat, except for immediate use, conse- quently, but few sales were effected; our last- quoted rates, however, were firmly maintained* Fiour of superior descriptions realized last Tues- day's rates, but other sorts were next to unsaleable, and Is to 2s per Eack lower. We have no change to report in Peas, Beans, or Malt. Oats are still heavy sale, and the prices are somewhat depreciated. Oatmeal, on the contrary, was more inquired for, and maintained late rates. There is still little Barley offering, yet there is no business transacted in this article. PROVISIONS.— Since our last notice of the Provision trade 5,000 firkins of butter have been imported. This week commenced with a fair de- mand for home consumption, which was well sus- tained, yet, with the exception of favourite brands, which were somewhat dearer, we have no variation to report from our last quotations, partly iu con- sequence of the extremely mild weather which has prevailed here for some time past ; however, it is pretty generally supposed that our present small stocks are certain to force the rates higher. In Cork pickled seconds there is nothing passing j 500 barrels of foreign Pork have been taken for export this week ; beef and pork sell pretty readily for ships' use ; and there is very little of new beef offering at present. A middling portion of business was effected in bacon ; lard, likewise, was in tolerable request. Butter, Belfast, 90s to 95s; Banbridge, 80s to 86s ; Derry, 82s to 88s ; Cole- raine, 82s to 85s; Newry, 78i; Sligo, 82s to 86s; Waterford, 82s to 92s; Carlow, 82s to 88s ; Cork, dry thirds, > 7s ; Pickled secoads, 90s to 91s. Beef per tierce, prime mess, I02s 6d; Foreign, 47s to 50s ; bacon per cwt., 40s ; haais per cwt., dry, 54s to 57s. Pork, per barrel, 72s to 74s. WOOL.— Since our report of this day week no alteration eas occurred in foreign wools generally, and they still experience a lively inquiry. Many holders still persevere in upholding their stocks from the market for a short time, in anticipation of advanced rates, and it is the general opinion that their expectations will be realized early in the ensuing year. We may now confidently quote most descriptions of wool at Id. to l} d. per lb. higher than they were at this period of last month. Im- port this week, 578. Previously this year, 40,323. FOREIGN AND COLONIAL PRODUCE.— The stc « k of coffee is reduced to a very small compass, and although the trade have little on hand still they buy sparingly, and the transactions of the week are un- important. In foreign likewise no sales are re- ported, The demand for British plantation sugar has been extremely limited, and only 100 hogs- heads have been sold. Prices are firm, and holders in general are looking for higher rates. 1,200 bags of Bengal have been taken at former prices. In the Mauritius or Foreign nothing has been done. The sales of tobacco this week reach 350 hogs- heads, at steady prices. LONDON: Printed and Published for the Proprietors, by JOHN BKOW. VK lima, at No. 30, Holywell- street, Strand, in the County of Middlesex. — SUNDAY, JANUARY 1, IS38. " THE MAGNET" can be for- warded ( post tree) to all parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and by the Post Oflice Packets to France. Denmark, Hamburg, Bremen, Cuxliaven, Antigua, Ba hamas, Barbadoes, Berbice, Bermuda, Canadas, De- merara, Dominica, Gibraltar, Grenada, Halifax, Heli- . goland, Honduras, Jamaica, Malta, Buenos Ayres, the Greek Islands, Montserrat, Nevis, New Brunswick, Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Quebec, St. Kitt's, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Tobago, Tortola, Tri- nidad and Columbia, including La Guayra, Caraccas- and Bogota, at ss. per Quarter.— Holland, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Germany, and the North of Europe, Madeira, South America, and tiie West India Islands ( not British) at 7s. 4d. per Quarter.— The East Indies, Cape of Goud Hope, St. Helena, the Mauritius, Batavia, Singapore, Ceylon, Van Dieman's Lar. d, New South Wales, Now Zealand, and the Falkland Islands, at 6s, 6d. per Quarter.