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      TBE POOR MJLN'S PRATER . Great God ! tfi&n maker of us all . ' 0 ! hear ns . when to thee -we calL Preserve xu trota the pswers of -wrong , f ji we are helpless ; thou art strong . 0 . look upon the starring poor , Who beg their bread from door to door . Da Ultra protect them , plead their cause Ad 3 prosper them amidst their foes . Thou kut / w ' st the poor have enemies , ¦ f t-bo heap on them keen miseries ; And hold tbem down in slavery , Bat then , 0 Lord , can ' st set them free .

      p-ovide the poor with food and clothes ; Enable them to keep thy lairs ; Be then , 0 Lord , their guide and friend ; And let thy peace on them descend . Take all unequal lava airay From this onr land , we humbly pray . L-t slaves no longer bow the kite In this our land , to tyranny . Let peace , " with mild effulgent ray , Cb&se war for eTermore away ; An jnstico , truth , and grace , and lore , Kale all below us all above . A Poos Chartist

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      «•¦ ODE 10 LIBERTY . I > rToid of liberty wbafs life ? A shadow and a name ; Ac undivided sctne o ! strife , Of misery , an ! etstue . A tfc' usand worlds were Toid of worth , 11 liberty were last , A thousand to obtain it giv " n Were bat a trifling cost Tis liberty makes all things sweet , its losa makes all things sad , Where freedom reigna fond pleasure meet , And eTery heart is glad .

      What are the empty dreams of wealth , Where than art not a gnest ? AmH-ion runs iia mad career , A nd avarice rules the breast . 0 ! give me back my freedom lest , Or lay me in the grave , yone wili snrriTe iu loss divine , Save be who ' s born a alave . Cairo Oiihim , AP ^ - * ' *> S 13 '

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      LEEDS . —Stealing Wearing Afpabel . —On Jdoi >( i » j amannarcfd Joan Bewiu , was charged at the Court-Kouse , before ilessis . Baines and Pawson , with hiving stolen several articles of wearing » ppare \ the property of a M ** Hunter , residing in fianh-lane . Mr . Hunter i » a hsy-dealer , and on Saicrcay evening , 31 r& . lloBter left her house for a few minutes , aad on her re-urn she found the prisoner stripping a rights horse , having at the time tiie thtbes otst bis arm . She seized him at occe , and called in ihe ass ' aiinee of a policeman , by whom be was canrejea to prison . He was committed lor triii ai tie sessions .

      DrrasT 5 ED Sncins . —On Monday afternoon , an inquest vis held 31 the Court-House , before John Biickttcrn , £ -q-, "n the body of Wm . Swainson , a iook-keepar , in the employ of Messrs , St&nn , in Ejrwtreet , and wao . on the same mornicg , at an tuh hour , hac cm his throat in a most dreadful and ( ietaaiaed manner with a carving knife . The dauM&A h& £ been ul for some time , and & fortnight if » wm so Bcch so as to render it necessary for kmte desist from his employment . Since this time iifeis been under medical treatment , his wife and shifteraUeocicg upon him . He had been upon Soecit for ; he Srst time , and was tomewhat better , add Eis wiie , who had been greatly misiimed with miiisg cpoa him laj down on a bed in the same room irii rim ibcst twelve , at which time she desired him i' fce lwcke and wanted aaytcingto call her H =

      jrwised w > do so , and nothing further was heard of kin sb :: 1 about six o'clock on Monday morning , * ki a « rra ^ t girl fonnd bam in a chair at the foot of the sJiirs ; she gave an alarm and then he was imni 10 be dead , with his throat cut in a very dreadfht Banner , his head in fact being nearly severed frwahis body . The deceased was consumptive , and hii for ioms time been in a tie ? poncing state ciar ^ frem the fear of being ob'iged to giTe up his Eum-. on on aecotsnt of his health ; nothing had baa observed , however , to lezd bis family u > suspect ttK ia medicated teif dcsirucnon . He was thirty yens of age , a ^ d wa s much respected by his BBf 4 oTers - in whose Eerviee te has been since he tb ecTen «* n years of age . Tee Jury returned a Ttn ^ ct , "That the deceased destroyed himself wills labouring nnder temporary insanity . "

      Ce : ld 2 x ? Dso"wnfd . —On Saturday last , an incie > : was held a ; the Taree Horse Shoes Inn , lifriitj , sear Leeds , before John Blackbarn , Esq . Cotkct , on the body of a 3 : t r lr cirl . three years and fcee : s : b . 3 old , named Hannah Hargraves , whose Jira : s rtside adjoining the canal side , in Rodiey . Ibe deceased was play in ? , on Tnuriday afternoon , waea = he got into the water by some means unb » wn , there being no witnr e = es to tbe accident ; kk ^ misled , howerer , a > earca was ma > . e , and the t : > : y wia found oa Friday morning . Verdict , — * fc-- ; : d drowned in tbe Le ^ dsand Liverpool Canal . " —Uti : be saise osy , another icqn ^ st was hel d by the a a = Coroner , at ; he Cross K-y ; Ian , Hoibeck , on pfs of a liule boy , Stc j = ars or a ^ e , named George fcwista . Tne deceased resided with his moiher in a

      * aose to the Hoibeck beck , which , ce Friday , p co ^ ieqaeiice of t he rain was Tery much swollen ; £ s via oat playing in ihe evening , and his mother K * ra ilia shout out that there w ^ ls a large piece tiwood in the beck . She immeciittly went out , b& cwiid see nothing of him—he seemed to hare ^ appeared all at odc * . The b&ck was instantly ° ^ £$ ed , and the body was found some time af . er lalij half a mile from the place where he must hare k- * i * - The stream was running with gTeat rapaury . Teraict— » Found drowned . "

      . ^ ^ s bt I ) sow 575 G . —On Monday morning , an * £ 5 == > i wasisidatiLe touseof Mr- ^ . Saiclifff , the "fcas aneaf Iun , rpperhtac-row , Levos , before J « ib B . Mibira , E-q ., on the body of Joha SutcliSV , , son Ci we lanoiadT , who was taken cnt of a «^ e ww ercistern , a : the rear of his moihers' pre-»«* , ob iatcrday night- The drc * asea wa 3 thirty tf ^ £ , * V- ^^ resided at the Wheat Sheaf ; he ~? ¦ y £ " for a ' ortnight , a ^ d seemed rather low ^¦ T 1 ^ Dat ^ of this so pan-. cuiar Dotic * wa 3 taken , « -: wsssotbisg uscommun . He rs : 10 bed at an « * r-J Eta on Sa : u . 'C 3 j Li ^ ht , and was lest s * en by ^ of ; r sciraEts about half-xs ^ .-t niac o ' clock . ^*^ e . ctcii , oa a = ervai ; t gotiig into his room U v ^ P .. " waLted aiiy : L ' : iig , she found . ^ ifeftais bed , 2 lc ! on proiv-edir . s into an ad-Ji

      ; - ? reoBa she fouud the window c-ptu , and the ¦^ 'i g riat coafnsic-n . —a ehsjr bt ' a ^ bro ken , and ^^ ereseiu table sbiittd , the lcK ^ nK-jji ass being t " . v ~ " ; She imaieiia : eiy gaT =.- an alarm ; ^_ - _ -it c ^ tcr ^ bsiut ; cirecily Dck ' w tr . e window , U c-t . cace s ^* ched , aiid there : a- body wis found . ^¦ * ^ . ; J - . -cre "Wi * no e ^ dejiC- ; o . -row whether j ^ . ^ ^ - i& accldcDtali T or tbrowu hiai-eif in , * JJ ^ f / . J' . hcrefoit returned 3 verdict oi "' F ^ n ^ a tiJ ?^ ^ «¦ wa- ^ r cistern . " Tiie eistt-rc is afeuui kti ^ cee p ' ^ comained &t the ilmt , nearly v --5 ViQa 5 0 f waicT . Btfe ^ Chx > -g « " -On Tuesday last , a fra » ' v ' " ^ ^ ^ il ° ^ Decn remanded fi » fw iP plaCMi «> tfore the ms A nstrstes at WHI Jt JtlOUse . On a nVis-nra r , f »• ? , Tnn » i ni' to

      » -a Tanous tradespeople , by the old trick of £ ^« lo r change for fcaif-a-crt-wn , and en two sbU-^ wi > pence ^ ? ^ - Io him » SDddeD ] y , ^^ , or appeariag w > throw , th- money down Sbwl ?^* . ^ fs-oured wi ; h ali sixpences , toaj ? -v ^ " ^ " TiTii instances , but iu fotciiv ^? sc ^^ ec . d , uur Leeds people being Eee ^ ptv'T \ J ? ° fsr Donfl" f ° 3- the trickster , for on ^ p-s -iat ce had oniy pat down one shiiling instead 6 jt ]~ ~ e ^ J 11 - oncfe reIa ^« d to have any fur ther t « j vil . ° tim , and he ultimately got into l } j - * n-3 of po . icemau Ouih ^ aite , who had ^^ his maEceavT-s , When arked by the Massen ^ T-- , iIoDrfsy , where he came from , he j . , H ^ te lost w : rn astonishment at the question , «§ e frf a ? * ' ^ ' " we ' -l 5 d ^ r me , now 1 kJ ^ . the name of rise pbc- f but snddenly lfc ^ H '_ ad ? ed " 0 . Su-d .-rland , Sucder-U ^ j . i f & f&uied t ' ae magistrates it was all a mis-^ oae ' mj , ' . ¦ no recollection whatever of haring 7 }^ 7 and said that he was far 8 il

      totol ? * *^ ; so Wittin j " * » anfl sai ° that newasfoiar fee X , " ^ had Do remembrance at all of ksdai * *!^ v Taesday . several other parties at-WjiT toBe * ° i s ke had Tinted , bnt in no instance * U hi t , ^ ff" ^ any losa . He then declared fefedJ ^ rw > nected eo ming to Leeds at all ; **»** K ? r faa »»»» nce as to when be did come , nor ^ ¦ Brt !^? from ; the onlT thin 8 h « seemed to ? j ^^ ns of was tbat he worked at Lirerpool , but *« f cT 1 " ^ wfiom » or when , he really could fctemwuv *** not b * ea sober of tbjee weeks . ¦ "S ceTt ' Tv ffi&pstrates would consider this as a ** , fcatST * ( ° MJ th 5 ng which he ^ 'S haTe tet 4 a .. I , ; ^ , Dot remember haTing done ^ iitom a ^ Beod > teJd h 5 m theJ won ] d ^ bi n ? ° PP ° . nsity of getting quits sober before ^ StJ *? mih him aDd ^ 5 ° ff knowing where * x * zZf ? »^> and wha t he worked at . He w&r ** «^ dB ^? - I : ? OI'tQ > seierc 55 e allha treadmUl , «* kis u >» V £ ?* Leeds again , at the expiration " ^ o ! lor if he did he would be looked after .

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      Suddes Death op a > - Infant . — Ou Saturday ereuing , Mr . Bla « kburnheld aii ii-quest at the Court House , on the body of Mary Add P ^ oik , ak infant eight weeks old , whose parents reside in a miserable horcl m Marsh-lane , and are both in some dc-rre of weak intellect . The child was fonDii dead hj the side of its mother on Saturday morning , having been in » s usual health on Friday uighr . There was , howerer , considerable excoriation about the month of the child , and the coroner therefore ordered an examination of its body to be made , from which it appeared that it had died from perfectly natural causes , and that the appearances about the mouth had been caused by a peculiar kind of dropsy , to which it had been subject . The jury returned a verdict to this effect .

      StTFocATiojr is x Pig Teocgh . —On Tuesday morning , an inquest was held at the Globe Inn , Bramley , before John Blackburn , Esq .. on the body of Alary Ann Turner , & little girl two years of age . The deceased , on Monday afternoon , went with her father into a W . er field adjoining bistomse , and whilst he was engaged with some cloflfetbe child strayed away from him . On looking ronfid for her a few minutes af-. erward 3 , be had lost sight of her altogether , and , on going towards a pig stye in the field , he found her quite dead , haTing falfen with her face into the pig trough , and there been suffocated . Tae jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death . "

      Stealing Clothes . —On Tuesday last , James Belhouse was charged before the magistrates , at the Court House , with having stolen a suit of clothe 3 and a hat , the property of a young man named John Vause . The two parties had lodged together at the house of John Plumpton , in East- ] ane , and on the ' 20 ; h , oi February , the prisoner haTing nothing to do , dressed himself in Vause ' s clothes and set off with them , telling Piumpton that Vause bad lent tbem to him . He was not seen again until Monday last , when he was apprehended by Inspector Child m Kirkgste , with the stolen trousers on . He was committed to take his trial at the next Borough Sessions .

      Conviction vndeb the Chimnet Swefpehs' Act —On Tuesday last , Wm . Holgaie , chimnwy-sweeper , residing in Cryer ' s Yard , North Town End , Leeds , was charged before Messrs . Goodman and Pawson at the Conrt House , with having employed a lad under twenty-one years of age in sweeping a chimney at the house of Mr . Fennell , in South Parade , by whom the information was laid . The offence w » s committed on the 12 ih of April , and was proved to the satisfaction of the Bench , who convicted the defendant in the lowest mitigated penalty of £ 5 . In the event of his goods failing to satisfy tbe amount by distress , he was ordered w be sent to Wakcfielu for a month .

      . Hobsb Steazi . nc . —On Taesday last , two men named Charles Rawson , and George Leathley , both of Hoibeck , were charged at the Court Honse , before > iessrs . Geodman and Pawson , with having , on the I 4 ; bof April , ( Good Friday ) stolen a brown mare the property of Mr . Samuel Petty , eanhenware manufacturer , of Beeston . From the evidence of _ Joseph Crossland , servant to Mr . Petty , it appeared that he locked his master ' s stable safe on the night of ihe 33 : b , having in it at that time the mare in question and a horse . On the next morning he found the dsor of the stable had been forced open and the mare and a pair of blinders were gone . He did not fee the mare again until Monday week , when , in consequence of what he had heard , he

      went to Mr . Thomas Thornton ' s , of EodesLill , near Bradford , where he found the mare and brought herawsy . Michael Ash worth , wooioomber , of Ecclesbill , stated that on the Saturday before Good Friday , the prisoner Rawson cailed at his house , and a ter * ome conversation be told him that if ever he wanted to buy a horse cheap , if he would go to Leed- he thought he could get him one ; tbat on Good Friday , he ( Lawson ) cams again to his house , where he had not been above fire minutes before the other prisoner also came , having with him a brown mare wi ; h a pair of blinders on . Leathley said he tmcemood he wanted lo buy a horse , and said he had one to sell , for which he asked in the first

      instance £ 3 10 s ., but which he bought , zfitr some bargaining for 2 i ) s . That mare was the same which he had ient to Thomas Tnornton , and which had been , claimed 33 having been stolen . The prisoner Rawsoa , he said , took no part in the bargain for the sale , Dcr did beseem to be at all acquainted wi'h Ltathley , who described himself as a coal-dealer from Bradford . Evidence was given to show that the two prisoners had lived neighbours to each other , at Hoibeck , for abou : twelve months , that they were constant associates , and that Rawson did not contradict Leathlej wheu he stated that he came , from Bradford . The prisoners said nothing in defence , and were committed to York Castle for trial at the isext aisizjs .

      CAMBOSNE , Cotlswalt .. —This town and parisn have this week been thrown into a very great state of exekemen ; by the novel announcement cf a church-rate meeting , n * ver such meeting being before held in this parish , the parish auihoritiss having allowed it to be taken out of the other rates . Tne miners , on this occasion , mustered most nobly , when the cnurchwarden 3 proposed that a rate of three-halfpence in tbe pound , be ma < 3 e to cover the expences for the s ^ cram-jntal wine , &c . Mr . J . Skewcs , jun . proposed thai that meeting do adjourn , and the gue ~ ion of the chnrch-rates be postponed to that 03 y twelve months . The chairman refused to put the amendment to tbe meeting , the question being whether there should be a rate or not . Mr . Skewe * , jun . then moved that there should be no fate made . A show of hanas was taken for and against , in which the blistered hands out-numbered

      the delicate fingers by scoies . AtV < r a great deal of sbuffl'cg with the followers of tbe apostles , E . W . W . Feudarves , M . P . demanded a poll . At the last election , the honourable M . P . when asked his opinion on church rates said , hs was decidedly of opinion that they ou * : bt to come out oi the revenues of the church . So much for his honesty of opim ~ n . Mr . J . Skewc-s , jus . did Dot fergtt to remind him of his broken word , howevtr th ^ ptilhng ensued , and after many miners hid been compelled to vote for mother church with ttarsin their eyes , by their task-masters , the church warden 3 refused to proceed further with the poll , after being open three days , and gave in tbe contest , ihtre being a majority of fcrtyone against tbe rate . In the course of -he afternoon , Mr . Skewes , jun . delivered an open-air lecture on the rise and progress of the church , and the political rights of the working men , to several thousand people , with great effect .

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      » The Tipfsbart Union is in debt £ 1 , 100 . Hee Maj £ sti s new steam-yacht , the Victoria and Albert , was launched from the Koyal Dockyard , Pembroke , on Thursday . JiMis Ford , who wa 3 sentenced to death at the last Cnes'er Assizes , has received a respite , and wiil not be bung . A taca > ct has occurred in Sa . li = bury , on tbe retirement oi Mr . Brodi ^ from the representation of that towa . The lahgest Mas in the British service is Lieutenant Sutherland , of tbe 26 th Regiment , at Cork He weighs twenty-five stone , hi 3 height 13 six feet four inches , and he is tweuty-three years of age .

      It is a ccrb . e > t report all through Oxfordshire , that no le- ; thaa seventy-three tenants have given notice to quit iheir farms under the Blenheim estatrs . Tms is ( English ) re-Peel with a vengeance . —Mark-lane Express . The motion for a petition to Parliament , to repeal the Act 01 Union , was carried in the Cork Town Gonndl , on Wednesday week , by a majority of thirty to nine ; two declined voting at all . The Great "Western Fleam-ship , Lientenant Kt-iaen , R >"„ s ; uied from Liverpool on Saturday i-jr New York . To Destroy Mick—Fry a sheet of brown paper ( the coarser the better ) in any grease ; this the mice wil : eat , and it will destroy them . This is safer , cheaper , and easi-. r than any trap .

      Thames Tunnel . —La = t week the number of persons who visited the tunnel was 64 , 682 , and the receipt were £ 269 10 s . 2 i . Since the opening 479 , 655 persons cave been through . Money . — " Is this good money , " said a man to a su 3 p cious-: f > okinj { wag , who had made soms small purchase oi' rrim . " It ou « ht . to be good , for I made it myseli / ' wis the answer . With that hs took the dan up for ioreery—but the man in his defence proved that he made the money by fiddling . Tsbt nearly ten pages of the Voies and Proceedings oi t ' ae Hwuse of Commons , delivered on Saturday morniDg , are occupied with the mere enumeration cf the petitions presented last night against tbe educational clauses of Sir James Graham ' s Factory Bill . This is the greatest demonstration of petitioning ever remembered to be made on one night

      omy . A circumstance , without precedent , on the Dub-. lin and Limerick mail coach hue . occurred on Monday morning , when the ooacn arrived at this offloe , ' without a passenger , or even a single parcel , on I the whole route from Dublin to Limerick . Tbe j way-bill was a perfect blank , not so much as the ' scratch of a pen upon it . —Limerick Chronicle . i The Bristol Gaxette of last week , states that Mr . j Brunei , the engineer , whilst amusing the children of j a friend , incautiously placed half a sovereign in his month , which slipped into the trachea , where it stuck , every effort to remove it proving ineffectual . Sir B . Brodie was going to make an incision in the '< thorax , to endeavonr to remove it . Mr . Brunei's life haB been placed in great jeopardy . ;

      W . Fiexde * , Esq ., M . P . for Blackburn , had a providential escape on Wednesday . As he was driving a phaeton near Blackburn , the horse took fright , and ran down a steep hill , at the bottom of which were eome iron railings , against which it ran with great violence , and was thus stopped . Mr . Fielden " was able to get out of the phaeton unhurt .

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      On Tuesday moknjno , a herring ' , which weighed three pouruis ! was taken hi 'he net , at the North Inch fishing station . —Perthshir e Advertizer . The Wzathes . —Last week , t ^ e mountain , and even the lower lange of hills around Kondal , wore clad with snosv . In A case heard befcro tbe Court of Btiii . fcruptcy , the other day , one bill-broker admitted th . H he charged 40 per cent in his transactions ; another would not swear that he had not received 200 per cent . 9 Wednesday evening , a young girl named Smith fell into a sound sleep in Bishopwearmouth Chapel of Ease , and remained in that state until the edifice was locked up . When she awoke , she alarmed tbe town by an extempore peal from the bell—which brought some hundreds of knights to the fair lady ' s deliverance .

      To Persons in want of a BaouGHAM . —Henry Vaux respectfully informs the public that he has on hire a Hack Brougham . It was considered tho completest thing upon town a few yeara ago , although it is at present a little crazy . Any kind of jobs undertaken ; the respectability of parties engaging the "hack" is of no consequence . For further particulars apply to H . V ., House of Lords . —Punch . The Austrian Lloyd has published an account of Trieste , from which it appears that English trade

      with that almost sole port of Austria has greatly increased . In 1841 , Trieste received forty-one vessels from England , and fifty-eight English Tesseis from other ports . In 1842 these numbers increased to eighty-four and eighty-three . There ar . ' as many more from the Ionian Isles and Malta . Austrian trade with Brazil , too , ha 9 much increased . One-third of the whole export of Brazilian coffee goes to Austria , which sends corn and iron in return . Svracge to say , its iron must go round by Hamburgh , and call itself Swedish ,

      O . v Tuesday last , & woman calling herself Thompson was brought before the Lord Mayor of London , charged with having stolen a little boy , four years old , supposed to be the child of respectable parents . The child evidently showed superior birth and training , and talked about a mother who had a piano in the country , and lived in a fine room with a carpet upon it , aad of the cruelty of his other mother ( ihe prisoner ) , who lay in dirty beds , and beat him . The woman was remanded for a week , to allow time to get further evidence . She persists that it is her child , but from the number of falsehoods she has told it seems extremely unlikely .

      Laconic—A gentleman connected with a large mercantile establishment in this town wrote , it is said , to the Duke of Wellington on the subject of the projected inland bonding system , £ 0 which the gentleman in question is strongly opposed . A reply was received from his Grace in due course , and , it is rumoured , ran somewhat in the following words : — " The Duke of Wellington presents his compliments to Mr . , and begi to inform him that with respect to tho Inland Warehousing Bill , the Government will do what they consider right , but they will not deem it necessary to consult Mr . on the subject . '"— Liverpool Albion .

      Fatal Disasteh at Camdkn Town . —This neighbourhood was , at about seven o ' clock on Wednesday eveuiug , thrown into tbe utmost consternation by the following distressing circumstance : —Mr . Thos . Hall , about tony years of age , upholsterer , of No . 3 , Stucley Terrace , was lying ill in his chamber , of brain-fever . It happened , about this time , that reason had left her empire , and delirium having gained an ascendency in the mind of tho unfonuaate gentleman , he attempted self-destruction by au endeavour to leap out ot the window , which is two stories above

      the shop . His brother happened to be there atteuding upon him , and , of course , made every efFort within his power to prevent the precipitation , but was immediately felled to tbe fl > x > r by the afflicted maniac , who , we regret to state , speedily accomplished his purpose . He was subsequently picked up from his appalling situation , l y ing upon the pavement with nothing on but his night-shirt , by one of the workmen of Mr . Go wing , a neighbouring far-Tier , in whose arms he expired in less than three minutes afterwards .

      Bbidgnorth—A melancholy instance of the dreadful tffecta of passion occurred iu this town on Monday week , and caused considerable excitement . The unfortunate victim of his own ungovernable passion was Mr . G . Preece , a highly respectablo individual , about sixty . Mr . Preece , on returning home from Much Wenlock-market , discovered that his nephew ( who resided with him ) had neglected some slight business which he had been instructed to do during hi 3 uncle ' s absence , and became greatly exasperated at the circumstance . An altercation ensued , and

      Mr . Preece took up a stick and threw it at his nephew , bu ? missed his aim , w ' nicn caused the latter to laugh . This so enraged him tbat he jumped off a high step into the jarJ , and running his nephew into a corn . r gave him a violent beating . His passion being exhausted he turned round ; but , melancholy to relate , he began to vomic blood , and died immediately , having ruptured a large blood vessel by over-exertion . A surgeon was ssnt for iu all haste , an <) promptly attended , but unfortunately ail his attention was unavailing . —Stafford Advertiser .

      Fatal Event . —Dumfries . —About three o ' clock on Tuesday afternoon Mrs . Muir , innkeeper on the While Sine's , directed a young girl who was occasionally employed by her to rince a small pail at the time grtat ' y swoli' -n by the recent rains , and while in the act of washing the tub the girl exposed the inside of it to the fcreo of the current , when she and it became involved in the waters in the depth of about six feet . The ; girl was instantly carried down the river , vainly striving wilh a full sense of daDger to make to the side , and a number of individuals made unavailing efforts to reach the object of solicitude . At the watering place , Bank-street , one man ' s

      life was fairly risked to save her , and but for the prompt aud energetic assistance of the by ^ tand ^ rs he would to all appearance have perished by his temerity . The body oi" the sufferer was fallowed by many streaming ey <; s , and wa ^ often seen on the surface of the raging element until near the middle of the dock , where it was completely submerged and given up for lost amidst one of the greatest floods that have laved th *; banks and braes of the Niih for foma t ; rne . The name of the unfortunate victim of the catastrophe is Sarah Watton . To add to the calamity , the state of the river utterly precludes the hope of the body being recovered . —Caledonian

      Mercury . The French Marine Minister has asked for j £ 24 U , ( i (' O—five millions of francs—for tho expense of establishments at the Marquesas and Tahiti . He estimated the annual expen s e at £ 100 . 000 a-year . The force to be sent was 1 , 200 men . The Minister declared , that the Marquesas first occupied were so little fertile as to be scarce able to provide fir the waut 3 of the French whalers , which were to crowd the Pacific . When the I ? tiitnu 3 of Panama was cut through , the Marquesas would be on& of the most important stations of the globe . Even at present the islands would be useful erdrepots of merchandise . They would be ouen to all imports , save arms and ammuniiior ,. ** For a long tin ; e , " said Admiral Roussin , " English missionaries have been pstabliflbed in th * Society Islands , and to their efforts , of

      wbich preceded tho ^ our own missionaries , is owing the more advanced state of civilization in Tahiti . The good which they have done , and may yet do , gives them a right to the protection of th " French Government . This they shall have in all their plenitude . On the other hand , we aro happy to think ihat French influence will find iu tht \« e foreign miFsionaries auxiliaries devoted ta the cau ? e of civilization , wbich it is the great object to defend . ' A coarser piece of irony than this we have not reari or beard for a long time . That Admins ! Roussin could utter it without bursting into a launh shows that the diplomatist had a full command of his nerves . We are certain that no seminarist , or congregationist in Tahiti can read it without holding kis sides . For the poor English missionaries , however , it ia too bitter a joke . —Morning Chronicle .

      Railway Accident . —An accident occurred on the Manchester and Birmingham line of railway at Stockpori on Friday night week . The sufferer is a labouring man named Luke Shore , residing at Stockport , aud the accident he has met , wi . h , which is likely to cost him his life , occurred solely from his own intemperance and folly . On the evening in question he got drunk , ard on leaving the publichouse at which he had be-on drinking , went a distance from his home to the Edgley tunnel of the Manchester and Birmingham railway , where he fell asleep , with his right arm across tl » e rail , and the

      luggage train which leaves Manchester at a quarter past eleven passed over his arm , and inflicted some serious injuries on his head . It would appear that the man was so stupid that the accident did not awake him , as he was found still asleep belween three and four o'clock on Saturday morning . He was conveyed to the Stockport Infirmary , when it was found necessary to amputate his arm above the elbow . He was much cut on the head , from which injuries his life is considered somewhat in danger . There is no road across the railway near this point , and Shore must have climbed over some railing to have got in the tunnel where the accident occurred

      Sleep . —Nothing has such a tendency to restore the system as sound and refreshing sleep ; a popular writer beautifully remarks— ' All-healing sleep soon neutralises the corroding caustic of care , and blunts even the barbed arrows of the marble-hearted fiend Ingratitude f and by a well-known poet it is described as ' Nature ' s 6 weet restorer *; yet there are thousands who pass weary and sleepless nights without taking the trouble to ascertain the cause ; many resort to opia ' . es , and thus aggravate the evil . Parr a Life Pills will be found to soothe tbe irritated Btate of the nerves , and will soon bring the whole system into that cool and healthy state as will induce sound and refreshing sleep , and thus fit the mind and body for the varied dm its of life , which henceforward will be performed with ease aad satisfaction . "

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      The Throne of Ireland . —It is very doubtful whether Sir Augustus U'Este is not the next , lawful hair tithe ihrono of Irdaad after the descendants of the late Duke of Kent aud the present King of Hanover , aud to the throne of Hanover after the present Ifryal Fam-ly . Mr . O'Connell , who e opinioii as an Irish lawyer is entitled to great refpect , has pen it as his opinion that Sir Augu'tos d jiita is legitimate in Ireland , the Royal Marriage Act having never received the assent of the Irish pa rliament , and there is every reason to believe that he ia equally so in Hanover . —Liverpool Times .

      The way to win a Fashionable Woman ' s Heart . Let your hair hang in superfluous ringlets over your neek and shoulders—never suffer a raz ;> r to touch your face—squeeze yourself into a coat of mulberry cloth—put on a vest , striped with green , yellow , and red—pantaloons checked with blue , crimson , and purple—shove your feet into a pair of boots with the heels at least three inches highdandle a little black stick , tipped with brass—a huge brass ring on you little finger , and you will be the don of the day . —Fashionable World . Glasgow Assizes . —Conviction of a Husband fOB the Murdeh of HI 3 Wife . —In the Circuit Court of Justiciary , at Glasgow , on Friday last , Charles Mackay was charged with tho crime of murder , in so far as on the 18 th day of December ,

      ] 842 , he attacked and assaulted Catherine M'Kcehnie his wife , which violence terminated in her death . The prisoner pleaded Guilty , " but not with intent to murder . " This plea was rejected by tho Advocate Depute , and the case went to trial . After tho examination of several witnesses , Lord Meadowbank summed ap tbe evidence , and the jury having retired about twenty minutes , returned with a verdict , finding Mackay , guilty as libelled . Lord Meadowbank then assumed the black cap , and in the most solemn manner sentenced the prisoner to be executed on Thursday , the 18 th day of May next . The prisoner during the time tho sentence was being passed stood , and exhibited considerable firmness . The court was much crowded during the trial .

      A Gang of Muhdebkss . —The Kilkenny papers give an account of the capture of a formidable banditti who within six monthB committed the most appalling murders in that and the neighbouring counties . It appears there is evidence to shew that they murdered the late Mr . George Ha Iy , of Johnstown , and after that set fire to the body , to destroy all traces of the murder , They also murdered Mr . Mortimer , in Freshford , having hired themselves for a sum of money for that purpose ; they shot General Kearney ' s Bteward , butchered a poor farmer named Hoyne at noon-day , in his own yard , and they closed their singular career by attempting to assassinate Mr . Shee .

      Explosion at a Firework Manufactori-. —Another of those alarming accidents which so frequently occur ia buildings 0 ? the above description toon place on Monday afternoon , shortly after five o ' clock in Regent-street , Lambeth-walk , on the premises occupied by Mr . Ralph Feuwiok , firework manufacturer , and pyrotechnical astist , by which one poor man , named James Field , sustained such frightful injuries as to render his death a matter of certainty , and two others , the one a son oi Mr . Funwick and the other a workman in his employ , were dreadfully burnt in various parts of their bodies .

      Massacre of the Governor of the Marquesas Islands and Suite . —We regret to state that very melancholy intelligence has just been brought to this country from the new French settlement ia the Paci-So by a merchant vessel , the Sarah Ann schoouer , which left Otaheite on the 23 rd of October , It appears that the French Governor of ! he Marquesas with fourteen attendants , had been on a visit to the native King , Nichaevar , where they had been hospitably entertained , and suspecting no danger , they let s his residence to return to the French station without probably taking proper precaution against

      the treachery of the natives . They were attacked on the way , and the Governor and fourteen persona were killed . Tiiis unfortunate event proves the unfriendly disposition of the natives ; but what will it avail them ? The French Government will instantly send out a sufficient force to crush all opposition , and finally deprive the King and every person in authority iu those i = lnnds of every semblance of power . It m ; iy also havo an injarious effect on the relations between the French Protector of Otaheite and the inhabitants . It is , therefore , an event deeply to be regrotted . —London Paper .

      The following painful fact has been given us by an undoubted authori y . A gentleman , whose name we refrain from mentioning , h .-id lately lived in the neighbourhood of Llunrfogo , whose whole time and energies were employed in doing good to his indigent fellow creatures . Anioi ^ st other acts of beneficence , he founded and ma in turned a large school for the poor , and was in tho constant habit of visiting their abodes and administering to them both temporal and spiritual assistance . Scrae of the members and companions of the uotorioui Bantwm baud determined to rob this excellent man ; their lawless threats were reported to him , and such was the effect of the intimation on him , who had no reason to suspect having an enemy in the wide world , that it actually caused an illuests which has terminated in the destruction of hi . s reason , and ho is at this moment within the * ards of a lunatic asylum . — Mjnmouthshire Merlin .

      The Law of Arrest again!—Attempt at Suicide . —A respectable gentleman , named Taylor , atjed upwards of seventy years , who fills tho situation of valuator to the South Dublin Union , was arrested on Thursday last upon a Sheriff ' s writ . He was conducted , in custody of two bailiff : ? , to the Four Courts' Marshalsea , Thomas-street , at three o ' clock , and , while the uV > uty governor , into whoBe charge ho was given , was making out tho requisite receipt for the sheriff ' s officers , Mr . Taylor , who was standing in the batch , furtively took a penknife out of his pocket , and drawing tho blade , inflicted therewith a severe wound across his throat , in the direction of the left jaw . Doctor Benson , the physician of the prison was called in , and rendered prompt and effective assistance to the bufferer , who is now in a fair way to recovery . He appears , however , to be afflicted with ^ reat despondeacy , and threatens to ropL'at his dread nil attempt whenever a fitting opportunity may occur . —Dublin Monitor .

      Four Men Drowned . —On Saturday , about noon , most of ( 'he Oystermouth boats employed in the oyster fishery put off to sea , tho wind at the time blowing rather fresh , and among others the Sarah and Rachel , with her orew , namely , David John ( master ) , Tnomas Davies , Noah Jones , and John Evans . They had scarcely left their moorings halt an hour when the alarm was given by the coastguard men at the look out station , that a boat had been upset in the mixen p ;> ol by a squall of wind , and the orew lost . Instantly three or four Neath pilots put out to sea to render all the assistance in their power . Some time necessarily elapsed ere they r : ached the spot , and when they did reach it , after much exertion , owing to the violence of the wind , which by this time had risen to a high gale , they only saw the boat and a fow spars—tho unfortunate

      c ; -. ;\ v had disappeared ' . At length tho Neath pilots tucceeded in fastening the Sarah and Rachel to their own boat , anJ in towing her to the Mumble-roads . David John has left a wido * y near her confinement , and a family of six young children . Thomas Davies has also left a widow and six young children . Noah Jones and John Evaiis were single men . The last named young man was a , stranger in the Mumbles and merely accompanied tho party from motives of curiosiiy . He was to have been married on Friday ( to-day ) . Their bodies have not yet been found , that part of the channel where they went down being unusually deep . It is said that the accident may to a certain extent , be attributed to the want of caution exhibited by the captain ( David John ) and his crew , in carrying » n too much canvass . The other boats had thoir sails double reefed , whilst his aails were fully expanded . — Welshman .

      Extraordinary dismissal of a Captain of the Army . —Captain Stanton , of the 1 st Royal Tower Hamlets Militia , has been recently dismissed from the service , and reinstated during the past week under tha following extraordinary circumstances ; — In the month of December last a man named H : ; nry Stanton , alias Dr . Winkworth , alias Palmer , was convicted at the Central Criminal Court , and bentenced to be transported for life , fur stealing two watches , valued at £ 35 , the property of Mr . Menzies , jeweller , cf Clerkenwell . The case created unusual interest , from tho fact of the prisoner hating married several respectable females and made away with property ; in addition to which he had been previously transported , but got a remission of his

      sentence in consequence of stating that he had some years since given important information to the Government respecting Ireland . The prisoner also stated that he had been an officer in the army , and that he , in the year 1830 , otfeved himself to represent the borough of Southampton . The matter reaching the ears of Lieut .-Colonel Grant , the commandant of the above regiment , he waa anxious to ascertain whether the Captain Stanton belonging to his regiment was one and the same person , and Bent an officer , in company of the relieving ovctBeer of Hackney , of which parish the Captain was formerly one of the overseers , to Newgate , fi > r that purpose . On their arrival they were shown the prisoner , bat neither of them spoke to him ; they , however , stated he was the man . In consequence of this a

      communication was forwarded to tho War-offioe , and without further inquiry , Captain Stanton was dismissed the service . At thiB time Captain Stanton was residing at Brigg , ia Lincolnshire , and received his half-pay from the branch bank of Messrs . Preacott , bat upon applying he was greatly astonished on being told that the person he represented himself to be had been transported for life . On receiving this intelligence , Captaia Stanton wrote to the authorities at the Wat-office ; and he subsequently received a letter requesting his attendance in London for the purpose of being identified . This has been done to the satisfaction of the Duke of Wellington , Sir Henry Hardinge , &c ; and the Captaia has not only been reinstated , but an apology made to him for the painful situation in which be had bean placed .

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      Lamemablk < ccuiuiENCK . —O . 'i Saturday last , as Eonjiinin Lowe and Menjamin iT ^ dall were empljyj d in repairing the top of a pit Sb , " ' " ^ at Moorlanu , Krn ^ swiuford , tho temporary ft ^ tfolding o > - whien they wero standing gave way , and . ' hey were procipir-ated to the bot ' . V . m of the pit , tbh ^ y four yard 3 in depth , the scaffold , mortar can , bricks , &s-i tailing upon them . Tho mortar can ( a heavy iro . t vessel ) fell on the head of poor Lowe and killed him on the spot . Be < i

      j The Gun Trade .-A . good deal of dissatisfaction has b < ,-en manifested by the gun trade , in consequence ef the Board of Ordnance having , three years ago entered into a contract for a considerable supply of foreign « jun-stocks for the small arms' department of the Ordnance , and a memorial has been presented to Sir George Murray , the Master-General of tho Ordnance , by Mr . Dui < dale , M P . ; but u is found , from the reply given , that the board will not institute any inquiry into the present system of purchasing foreign walnut stocks , and that without further tffjrts the gun-makers will not be able to obtain redress . It is expected that the subject will be brought before Parliament . —Evening Paper .

      Rebecca and her Daughters . —Oa Fridiy , at the Neath Petty Sessions , Morgan Rees , Thomas Roberts , and David William 9 , three workmen in the employ of the Neath Abbey Iron Company , were brought forward to answer to a charge of breaking and carrying away some gates at Neath Abbey on the 10 th of April . The evidence in this case was clear and conclusive , as police-sergeant Jones , 10 K . P ., caught them in the very act of destroying the gates ; but as the parties whose property have sustained injury did not appear to prosecute , the magistrates , on account of previous good character , deemed it expedient to dismiss the case . — Welshman .

      Remarkable Case of Conscience . —The Suffolk Herald publishes the following : — " Our readers may frequently have seen advertisements in the daily papers acknowledging , on the part of the Chancellor of the Exchequer , certain payments made by anonymous persons , who , having defrauded the revenue , make this restitution , and it is called ' conscience money . ' A remarkable instance of this kind has come to us from a most credible source . An individual wrote a letter to the Exchequer-office , saying , that although he had returned his income-tax correctly on his ostensible business , yet that he was extensively engaged in smuggling , and as his returns from that source were very great , ho had it on hia conscience not to have made any return of that , and he therefore enclosed , as the amounV of three years ' tax , £ 14 , 000 ! Every effort has been made to discover tho conscientious contrabandist , bat hitherto without eff . ot . The fact may be relied on . "

      A Midnight Flight . —About midnight on Saturday last a m-st violent aud alarming noise of an unnatural kind of screaming was heard over the whole town of Perth , awakening such as were asleep and frightening those who were awake . The visitation continued for upwards of a quarter of an hour , in which time it was discovered to proceed from an uncommonly numerous flight of wild geese , winging their way to the sea side . It is known that when these birds are night travellers , and to prevent straggling the leader keeps up a constant cry , which is taken up at intervals and repeated by the whole or greater pan of the flock . Whether in passing over the town the glare of the gas lamps had alarmed them , or their leaders thought increased caution was rt quired so near the habitations of men , can only be conjectured ; but the fact is unquestionable that the noiBe exceeded anything similar ever heard , and aomo females wera bo much frighted as to hava suffered in health in consequence . —Caledonian Mer .

      Incendiarism . —The village of Madley , about six miles from Hereford , continues to be the scene of a succesaion of diabolical outrages which are a disgrace to any country or people . Some miscreants have conceived tbe horrible plan of setting fira to stacks and outhouses belonging to various farmers in the parish , and during the present month no less than four fires , the fiendish acts of incendiaries , have occurred . On Monday night last , or rather about one o ' clock on Tuesday morning , a barn or outhouse

      was discovered to have been fired , and although every effort was made by the villagers to check the devastation , the whole was burned to tho ground , entailing a loss to the proprietor of from £ 15 to £ 20 . The secrecy in which these nefarious schemes are planned and executed is astonishing , and about as inexplicable as the lawless conduct of " Rsbecca and her daughters" in Wales . Large rewards , varying in amount from £ 100 to £ 300 , have been offered for the detection of the marauderg , but as yet without producing the desired effect . —Gloucester Journal .

      Alleged Death in a Workhouse from Want of Propkk . Nourishment . —A long inquiry took place , on Monday , at the Feathers , public-house , Dean-street , Westminter , concerning the death of Sarah Bright , aged thirty-eight , an inmate of the workhouse of St . Margaret and St . John , Westminster . The isquiry was instituted by Mr . H . ggs , deputy coroner f ..-r Westminster , in consequence of s report that was in circulation chat the death of the deceased had been greatly accelerated by the

      want of proper nourishment , fhe being pregnant and labouring under a cancer of the breast . The case having lasted nearly six hours , the Jury said they were satisfied with the evidence they had heard , and that it was not necessary to go further into the case . After a short consultation they returned a verdict that " Deceased died of a bleeding caucer of long standing , and expressed their full conviction that every thing was done by the medical officers and others belonging to the workhouse that her case required , "

      The Iron Trade . —Tho iron and metal trade gets worse and worse . It is in it that the want of the American market is principally felt . This will readily be believed when it is considered that in 1839 our exports in the United States of iron and steel , copper and brass , and tin plates amounted to £ 1 . 227 , 808 , besides hardware and cufJery . amounting to £ 849 , 640 , making a total of £ 2 , 077 , 448 worih of metals aud their manufactures exported in ono year to America . Further , when we consider thai of this prodigious sum no less than £ 1 , 650 , 838 was for iron and its manufactures , and that this txtansivo trade has fallen to about one-third , we shall have an important fact to assist us ia guessir . g at the causes of the depression of the iron trade . In Staffordshire , out of 111 furnaces , 53 are now lying cold , and have been blown out for twelve months , and their

      nonproduction withraws at least 220 , 480 tons w « ekly from the market ; notwithstanding this , the price of iron continues to fall , the demand is become less , and the worst , bnt clearly inevitable , evil followswages are reduced , and industrious men are driven out of employment . — Worcester Herald . Decrease in tho price of British Iron . —Since the commencement of 1842 , a continued gradual depression of the price of English iron has taken place . In January , in that year , bar iron was quoted at 140 s ; cargo in Wales , 120 s ; hoops , 200 s ; pig in Wales , 82 a Cd ; pig in Clyde , 60 s . Slight advances and increasing depression have marked the intervening period to the end of March , when the following prices only were obtained , being a falling off of about 23 per cent , in fifteen months : —bar , 1053 ; cargo in Wales , 155 s ; hoops , 155 a ; pig in Wales , 70 a ; in Clyde , 4 , 5 s . — Welshman .

      The Law of Arrest for Debt—On Monday morning an inquest was held at Whitecross street Prison , before the coroner of London , upon view of the body of Edward Cox , aged 55 , the son of a gentleman of large estate in Ireland . From tho evidence ot Mr . Wadd , the surgeon of the prison , and others , it appeared that the deceased h&d from improvidence become embarrassed . To one of his creditors , a Mr . Heathcote , of Manchester , he owed £ 43 tbr > horse and chaise . The deceased having , in answer to an inquiry after him , said he bad gone , or was going , to Ireland , Mr . Heathcote went before a judge and made affidavit that the deceased was going to leave the kingdom , and obtained an order for his arrosfc . He was accordingly arrested , and

      reached Whitecross-streot Prison on the 28 th ofj March . As he was evidently labouring under tho J distressing symptoms of consumption he was immediately placed in the infirmary , and received all the care and additional nourishment his case required ; food , hower , would not remain on his stomach and in a few days he was confined to his bed . On the 18 th ult . an application was made to Mr . Justice ' Maule to liberate him oa account of his \ Unes 9 , Mr . Wadd giving a strong certificate that there was no hope of saving his life if he remained in the prison . Dr . Heath gave a similar certificate . The application was stoutly opposed by tho creditor , who repeated his affidavits that the deceased wished to leave the kingdom . The judge felt that he had not the

      power under the act to order the liberation of ina deceased on the ground of extreme illness . He however , made an order foF his release on finding sure - ties for the sum of £ 40 . This was only £ 3 less th # n the sum for which he might be bailed as of rig ? ^ t , without any special application . The deceased t ^ unable to find sureties and lingered till Sunday ' i&stt whon be died of consumption . Tno Coroner a ked if any affidavits were filed to show that tbe dee eased was not in a state of danger , and was ana' ^ ered , none . The Coroner remarked , that it was V j fee regretted that tho law did not authorize a , ' judge to for debt where

      liberate a person detained a man ' s life was really at Btake . To return to b j a native country if he did intend to return , waBw hat a man in bis state of disease would naturally tb 1 D ] £ of , and if the judge had not authority to interpo 3 e he should have hoped that the creditor fro' jj humanity would not have so strongly opposed tb / j unfortunate man ' s application . He trusted tt > e Legielature would extend the judge ' s power , so that he might liberate on common appearance w » jere a man ' s life was believed to be in danger . ? jne j urv heartily concurred with the opinion of th e Coroner , and & verdict of " Natural Death" was recorded .

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      i Richmond Corn Market , Saturday , April 29 I We had a very large supply of Grain in our market to-Way . Wheat eold from 5 s 3 d to 6 s 3 j . Oats Is Ittd to 2 s JOd . Barley 3 s 3 d to 3 s 6 d . Beans 3 a 3 d to 3 . s 9 d per busheli Manchester Corn Market , Saturday , April 29 —There is no change to notice in the trade , the transiCiious in Flour and Oatmeal during the week having been iimited ( as already noted for some time previously ) 10 the demand for immediate consumption : but aa stocks of the former article are light

      frejb supplies continue to be taken off by the bakers as they arrive . 9323 loads of Oatmeal and 4330 quarters of Oats frcm Ireland constitute the chief articles of import into Liverpool and Runcorn : the arrivala of Fiour via those ports , as also from the interior , are only to a moderate extent . At our market this morning few sales of Wheat were reported , and , with a lifeless trade , we repeat the quotations of tlu 3 day se ' niiight . The demand for Flour continues equal to tho supply ; and for Oatmeal there has likewise been a fair inquiry , but no sales to any extent wero effected . The trade ia Oats , Beans , and other articles was dull , without alteration in prices .

      Statb of Trade . —The demand , yesterday , for some descriptions of goods , and especially for printing cloth , was not quite so animated as on the preceding Tuesday ; but shirtings continue in extensive demand , and many of the buyers seem desirous of making contracts at the full prices of last week . The yarn market continues flat , and some descriptions have been bought a shade lower than last week . Still , we believe , there is no accumulation of stock ; and the market may be considered tolerably healthy . We are glad to learn that the continued demand for manufactured goods has caused somb advance of wag « s in the neighbourhood of Blackburn , where two firms of spinners and manufacturers ( one of them amongst the largest in the kingdom ) have given notice of a general advance , amounting to ten per cent , to all the hands employed in their factories . To what extent this example will be followed , remains to be seen . —Manchester Guardian of Wednesday .

      Liverpool Cattle Market , Mohday , May 1 . — Tho supply of Cattle at market to-day has been rather larger than last week , with little or no variation in prices . Beef 4 . ^ d . to 5-id ., Mutton , Si . to 5 hd . per lb . Number oi Cattle at market : —Beasts 1055 . Sheep 2535 .

      Liverpool Corn Market , Monday , May 1 . — With the exception of 8990 loads of Oatmeal from Ireland , the arrivals of Grain , &c , into this port during the past week are of moderate amount . The decline of Id . to 2 d . per bushel noted in prices of Wheat on Tuesday last has not been followed by further reduction ; the trade , indeed , has shown more firmness , though the general demand has still been limited . Fiosir has latterly met rather more inquiry ; we make no change in its value . The supply of Oats has been small , and though few have been wanted , holders have maintained previous rates . Two or three thousand loads of Oatmeal have found buyers at 19 s . 6 d . to 19 * . 9 d . per 2401 bs . There is no alteration to report as respects Barley , Beans , or Peas .

      Newcastle Corn Market , Saturday , Apric 29 . —The weather this week has Hot been quite so favourable as we have had occasion to note of late , much rain having fallen accompanied with a cold pinching wind ; to-day , however , there are indica tions of a favourable change . At our market thig morning , we- had a very large supply of wheat from the growers , but the arrivals co&stways being tnfling ,, a-clearance was early made at a decline of Is . per quarter . In foreign few transactions occurred , holders being unwilling to submit to any further reduction . Although the arrivals of flour this week have been ( rifling , we cannot note any improvement either in its value or demand , but the stocks i-n warehouse , as well as those in the hands of the dealers being moderate , would lead us to expect a better demand shortly .

      London Corn Exchange , Monday , Mat 1 . — During yesterday and to-day we have had very fine weather , ' and the barometer and thermometer have both ri . ^ en considerably . The show of Wheat at Mark-lane this morning was very small from Essex , and quite moderate from Kent and Suffolk . At the commencement of business there was some competition among the millers to secure the finest qualities , and for picked samples of White Is . per qr . more was realized than would have been obtained on Monday last ; subsequently , however , tha demand slackened and the trade closed rather langnidly at about the currency of thia day se ' nnight . In free Foreign Wheat the operations were not extensive ; a parcel or two were , however , taken for shipment to Ireland and holders remained firm , refusing to accept less money thaa on Monday . The bakers bought Flour

      very cautiously , but we do not alter quotations of either town or country manufactured . The quantity of Barley on sale was small ; and , notwithstanding the arrival from abroad , thia article was held viry firmly at fully former rates . Malt was taken in retail at about the prices of this day se'nnight . In addition to tbe quantity of Oats reported , about a dozen cargoes have arrived from Ireland ; we had therefore on the whole a good display of samples . Fine English and Scotch corn brought fully as much mouey as on this day &e'nnigbt , but Irish was very difficult of disposal , and iu partial instances , where vessels were coming on demurrage , a small abatement was acceded to . Fine new English Beans found buyers at fully previous terms . Other kinds were dull of sals . The trifling business done in Peas was at about the currency of Monday last . For Bonded Grain we heard of no inquiry .

      London Smithfield Cattle Market , Monday . —From the various grazing districts the arrivals ot Bcapts fresh up to our marked to day were moderately extensive , but not to say large , while there was aa evident improvement in their general quality , notwithstanding a large portion of them was suffering severely from the epidemic , particularly as relates to thoso from Suffolk and Cambridgeshire . Amongst ' he Bullock supply we noticed two wonderfully fine Durhams offering by Mr . Robert Morgan ; these magnificent animals were bred and fed in Warwickshire , while their estimated weight was 180 stones , and they came to hand , by the Birmingham Kailway , in excellent order . The atte&dance of both town and country buyers was by no means large ,

      and we have to report a very dull inquiry for Beef , although the supplies of dead meat in onr various markets are far from large . On Friday last the trade was steady at an improvement of 2 d per 8 ibs ., but to day it wa 3 quite as dull as oa thi .-j day se ' nnight , and tho quotations declined 2 d per 81 bs . ; the very highest figure for the primest Scots not exceeding 3 * . lOd . per 8 lbs ., and a clearance was with difficulty effected . There were about 96 store cows , barrens , &c , on sale , but they were with difficulty disposed of at extremely low rates . From Norfolk , Suffolk , Essex , and Cambridgeshire , we received 1 , 750 Scots , homebreds , ruma , &c . ; from Lincolnshire , Leicestershire , Northamptonshire &c , 100 shorthorns , &c .: from the western and

      midland districts , 200 Devons , Durhams , Herefords , runts , and Irish beasts ; from other parts of England , 350 , of various breeds \ from Scotland 200 horned and polled Scots ; and from Ireland , via Liverpool , 90 Beasts . Nearly the whole of the Sheep being out of the wool , it taust be borne iu mind that our present and future quotations for Mutton will refer only to thoso in that condition . The supply was by no means so heavy as last week's , yet it was fully adequate to meet the wants } of the butchers . Prime old Downs sold Boniwhat freely ; other breeds of sheep heavily at last Monday ' s prices , or from 3 i 6 d to 3 b 8 d for the former , shorn ,, and from 2 i lOd to 3 s 6 d per 81 b . for other descriptions . The arrivals of Lambs were seasonably good ,, but by no means of prime quality * The total number was about 8000 ; 230 of which were received froms

      the Isle of Wight ; tho remainder from Essex , Kent v Surrey , &c , &c . Prime Down Lambs were takea at full rate « of currency , but those of other descriptions were from 2 d to 4 d per Slbs . lower . Calves were in moderate supply and heavy demand * at barely stationary prices , the top figures not exceeding 4 a 4 d to 4 s 6 d per 81 b& . Nearly 200 pigs were received by ae * from Dublin and Cork , aud the total supply was good . The Pork trade , however , was in a very depressed sfcate . at unaltered quotations . During the past week the imports of foreign stock at HuU have consisted of 49 Oxen and 2 Cows by a sailing vessel from Aalborg ; at Southampton 40 Oxer 1 from Spain ; bat not a single head has reached the port of Londos , there beieg none on offer here to- day .

      Wool Market . —The public Bales , so far a 9 they r . ave progressed , are favourable , and the priceB have advanced quite Id per lb for colonial descriptions , and a Jd on other kinds . Bobough and Spitalfields . —Full average supplies of Potatoes have come to hand , the time of year considered , since our last statement , and , in I consequence of the abundance of grown vegetables , the demand is xtremely inactive , at , in some instances , depressed condition , Borough Hop Market . —We have a moderate supply of Hops on offer in this market . Fine qualities of last years growth are mostly taken on full as good terms aa of late ; but , otherwise the demand is excessively dull , at almost nominal quotations .

      Tallow . —There is bat little alteration to notice in this market . Prices axe firm , both on the spot and for the autumn delivery , the former at 433 3 d to 43 s 6 d ; and for the latter there are buyers for the last three months at 43 s 6 d . There are about l , 00 f casks of various sorts advertised for public sale oa Friday next . The demand for Town Tallow is very good , the net cash price being about the same as Y . C ., and the trade give the former the preference . By letters from St . Petersburgb this morning we learn the price then was a trifle lower , witfi little doing .

      Market Intelligence.

      MARKET INTELLIGENCE .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 6, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1211/page/3/