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      THE POOR MAN'S PRATER . Great God ¦ ' tb » u maker of us all . ' 0 ! tear aa , when to thee we ca ! L Preserve n * fr ^ m the pswers of -wrong , Fji we are helpless ; them art strong . 0 . look -upon the starving poor , Who beg their bread from door to door . 3 ) 3 tiicra protect them , plead their cause And prosper them amidst their foes . Thou knoWst the poor have enemies , ¦ Who heap on them keen miseries ; And told them down in slavery , Bat thou , 0 Lord , can ' st Bet them free .

      Pro -ride tbe poor vnlh food and clothes ; Enable theni to keep thy lavs ; Be then , 0 Lord , their guide and friend ; And let tfcj peace on them descend . Tske all unequal l » w airay Fr om this our land , we humbly pray . 1 ,-t slaves no longer bow the knee In tii * out land , to tyranny . I , et peace , with mild effulgent ray , Chase war ior evermore away ; AnJ jnst 5 < v . truth , &rd j ^ ace , and lore , Rale ail below &s all above . A Pooh Chaktist

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      ODE TO LIBERTY . IfcTDid of liberty what ' s life ? A shadow and a name ; jLn undivided scene of strife , Of misery , ani fifcsme . ji th " -usaad worlds were Toid of worth , U liberty were lost , A thousand to obtain it giv " n Were but a trifling cost . TI « liberty makes a ! l thing * sweet , Its lost makes all things sad , Where freedom reigna fond pleasure meet , And eTery heart is glsd .

      Wcat are tbe empty dreams of wealth , Where t £ en art not a guest ? » jnrj ' -ion runs its mad career , And avarice rules the breast . 0 . ' pve me back my freedom lost , Or lay me in the grave , 5 one wili mrvive its loss divine , Sire he who ' s born a alave . CB . IT 0 Oliiaffi . April 25--h , 1843 .

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      LEEDS . —Stealing Weabisg A ? pabel . —On Ht » d * 3 a man ntuted Joan Hewitt , was charged at tbe Coori-Kouse , before Measis . Baines and Pawson , whh having stolen several articles of wearing appare \ the property of a Mr . Hunter , residing in Jianh-lane . Mr . " Hunter is » a hsy-dealer , and on Sascrcay evening , Mrs . Hunter left her house for & few minutes , and on her re-urn she found the prisoner stripping a iiitthrs horse , hadng at the time the cbthes over hi ? arm . She seized him at once , and oiled in the ass ' s : anee of a poheeman , by whom be was conrejea u > prison . He was committed for trial as tae sessions .

      DrrEixnrED SnciDE . —On Monday afternoon , an iEqufeJ * " ** b «! d ai the Conrt-House , before John Biiekpcrn , L-q ., " 2 'he body of W ' m . Swainson , a » ook-kefp 5 r » m the employ of Messrs . St&nn , in Eymtreet , and who . on the same mornicg , at an euh boor , hac « : hi ? throat ic a most dreadful and ( Jaaaiaed mannfr with a earring knife . The deemed ha * been ill for some time , and & fortnight i £ 3 wss so itcch so £ 3 to render it necessary for fca j « desist from his employment . Since this time be hi ? been ender medical treatment , bis wife and ectberattending upon him . He had been upon SoKij for iLi first time , and was vomewhat better , i » d £ is wiie , who had been gnarly mistimed with yrmhig upon him laj down on a bed in tbe same room wi ; i run ibest iweive , at which time she desired him i ? ie nrcke and wanted anything to ca ] j her H =

      jrwised to do so , and nothing farther was heard of kin EDtil about six o ' clock on Monday morning , TissarfrTait ^ irl fonnd him in a chair a : the foot tf Out siirs ; she gave an alarm and then he was imsi io be dead , with his throat cut in a very dreadfa Burner , his head in fact being nearly severed freahis body . The deceased was consumptive , and hi for 5 OE 33 nme been in a ue ? poncing state Biar ^ from the fear of being ob'iged to give up his EUai-. on on account of his health ; nothing had kcH ! observed , howeTer , to lead hi 3 family u > suspect ibt n > meditated self dceirucuon . tie was thirty Tstri of age , arid was much respected by his aspiOTer ? - in whose Eernce te has been since he » i * icTfcii ' keen years of age . Tee Jury returned a nrdic , "That the deceased destroyed himself iiislabourjng nader temporary insanity . "

      Ce : ld 2 je : 5 Dhowsed . —On Saturday last , an incu > : was held at the Tares Horse shoes Inn , iifriley , near Leeds , before John Blackburn , Esq . Conmtr , on the body of a 3 : t'lr c : rl , ihre ? years and fes tt : s : hs old , named Hannah Hargraves , whose Hra : s rtade adjoining the ca . Bil side , in Rodiey . Tk dec ^ aaed was playing , on Tnur ^ day afrernoon , * aea = he got into the water by some meana unkaoira , there being eo w ; rnrir =: es to the accident ; Wk ^ missed , howerer , a > earch fras tna-f e , and the t : > : y wie found oa Friday mcrnin ^ . Verdict , — * Fc--rd drowced in fee Le ^ ds and Liverpool Canal . " —V 2 the saise day , another irqu-st was held by the

      Si £ r Coroner , at the Cross K-y ; Ian , Hoibeck , on p £¥ of a I ' . ide boy , five j = ar « of age , named George Swiiti . Tae deceased resided with bis moiher in a tots * close to the Hoibeck beck , which , en Friday , ja coiseqayice of ih _ e rain was yery much swollen ; is via oat playing in the eyening , and his mother ££ 4-d him shout out that there tts . ? a large piece tf w ood in the beck . She immeciattly w ^ nt oat , Ka ecaid see nothing of him—he teemed to haTe ^ ppeared all at oDce . The beck was instantly «* £$ ed , and the body vr&s found some time af . er taliy hiif a j ^ g fam the place where he must have « Jea ia . The stream was running with great ra-Pioity . Terdict— Found drowned . "

      . " ^ aih bt DEo-vryiSG . —On Monday morning , an ttqsaiwas hsidattLe touse of Mri . Saicliff ^ , the t ' " * n iaea < ' Ian . Upptrheao-row , Le .. as , before J « ib 3 . « ib 3 rn , E-q ., on the body of John SutoMff-, lie son of the lanuiady , who was taken cnt of a r ?? ^ Mfr cistern , at the rear of his mothers' pre-B 11 ** , on battrday night . The drc ^ asea was thirty r ^ lf *"'• ^^ resided at the Whea t Sheaf ; he ~ . f ~ V" for a fonnight , ai , d seemed rathtr low -i > Jiie 4 , biii of tills so pait' . cular nonce was taken , « o ks = Bothing uncommon . He wti : to bed at an = «•! 2 cur on Sa-. urdsy Li ^ hc , and sai itsr seen by ^ w :: e servants about half-xs ^ .-t nine o ' clock . f ' ^ e . cTtc , oa a = eryaut go : iij ? into his room "^ qpe ii he waLted anyiLjiig , she found Qi £ fl ri 15

      tT ;^ ced , ai . o ob pro ; v-edir . ^ into an ad-;" . ° ^^ B 2 * he rouii d : he wir-do ^ r open , and the " ^ ' ^ Peat coafnsi ^ . —a chair be au broken , and i . ? .- ^ ^ ^ shifted , the lo ' K . Eg-sjiasa being j ?? . ? - " r ^; She imaje : ia : ejy gaT .- _ - an alarm ; ^ 5 < K . ; : ^ bsicgcirccily Dck ' w tr . e window , it j- " . ca j Ce s ^ rched , ai ^ d ihere : a .- body wis found . . ~ 5 cead . T ^ cre wa .- no tT' -dejiC- io show whether * f > c ajsu iD accidentally or thrown hiin-eif in , « 'W Jury therefore returned a Teroict oi -i F ^ niia ^»^ ed in a vr& ^ r cisura . " T }; e eistt-ru is afcuui zi £ & ? ' wnuined &t the time , nearly v --s * . ioas of water .

      &JGI 5 G the CHA > -Grs " -0 n Tuesday last , a ^ -imed Tr , os . Good ( who had been remanded &e C «? aai iP placfed V *^ 16 aspstrates at i&m * * . 0 Ese > ° ? a charge of a tempting to 2 ^ Tanous tradespeopl e , by the old trick of ^ "i to change for hai :- » -m-wn , and en two shil-^ aaa a sixpence bring given to him , suddenly JTJT ^ ° r appeariag w throw , th- money down ^ ' 4 ?^ rfPiestingtobe fsvoured wi ; h ali sixpences tote v *** ^ " ^ " -rii instances , but in 18 ^ ... ?^ te sc ^ ec-d , uur Leeds people being Bse ^ w ^ Tv * 00 far north" for the trickster , for on ^^ s Jit he had only p-j r down one = hii ] ing instead £ ? ^ taey at once reinsed to haTe any further fcj V * ^ ^ > and ^ e n ' . timately got into ? fe -f ? t . of po . ic ? man Ouihwaue , who had ^^ his marojaTr-s , When arked by the Ma-^^^ L- , ilondsy , where he came from , he jj j—Vi' ^ te lost w ;! b . astonishment at the question , ~ ri af . er a nan- - * . = « : h . " xvvi h «« t me ««« - l

      fc jLV * Sst » he name of th ? plsc- r" but snddenly late * H '_ he ^^ " 9- Surd . Tland , Sunder-Uie . v u ? ^ j * cre < i the magistrates it was all a mis-4 one « . ? " .. - no re «> llection whatever of having Hanin i IDgwrci : 2 ;< > and said * at he was so far fee ^ 2 . "qaor that he had no remembrance at all of ^ dsd ^ rv , ' rDe 5 Qa 7 j several other parties at-Wt ; , 0 Be ^ he ha < i Tinted , but in no instance tjm r o 118 suffered any loss . He then declared fe ne a ^ e , j ^ jjgg ^ Maillg to Leeda at aU . * i «* k ! rema » orance as to when he did come , nor k wLriJ ?* , tnm ' ' the onI J thing he seemed to « £ 7 " * ° «» « Vm that he worked at Liverpool , but •* tow " ^ wkom , or when , he really could B b » itwi v *** Dot been sober of three weeks . bc ^ m the magistrates would ooasider this as & ** , £ »^^ { or any thing which he iright have ^ nhir ™ , ; L ° not remember having done * t * ten ? L The BeDch told him the J wonld Uie » tjl 5 ° ° PP ° . J ™ ity of setting quits sober before ^ e iSfJ ? " him and ^ 5 ° "f knowing where i * t 22 | , ' what he worked at . He was •* V ? d ,, t ? . month ' s exercise at the treadmill , * kii to £ V ? 1 Leeds a ^ aiD ' at tbe expiration t « , lor if he did he would be looked after .

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      Sitddes Death of an Infant . — Oh Saturday erening . Air . Blackburn held an ii-quest at the Court House , on the body of MaTj Ann Peacock , an infant eight weeks old , whose parents reside in a miserable hovel in Marsh-lane , and are both in some decree of weak intellect . The child was found dead by the side of its mother on Saturday morning , having been in its usual health on Friday aighr . There was , however , considerable excoriation about the mouth 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 per f ectly 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 .

      StTKocuTio : * ijv , i Pig Tbocgh . —On Tuesday morning , an inquest was held at the Globe Inn , Bramley , before John Blackburn , Esq .. on the body of Mary Ann Turner , a little girl two years of age . The deceased , on Monday afternoon , went with her father into a tester field adjoining higionse , and whilst he was engaged with some cltMbe child strayed away from him . On looking round 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 , having fallen with her face into the pig trough , and there been suffocated . Tne 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 clothes asd a hat , the properly of a young man named John Vause . Tho two parties bad lodged together at the house of John Plumpton , in East-lane , and on the 20 ; h . o ! February , the prisoner having nothing to io , dressed himself in Vause ' s clothes and set off with them , telling Piumpton that Vause had lent them to him . He was not seen again until Monday last , £ ben 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 .

      CONVICTIONS UNDEfi THE ChIMNET SWEEPEB-i' Ad . —On Tue&day last , Win . Holgaie , chimney-sweeper , residing in Cryer'a Yard , North Town End , Leeds , was charged before Messrs . Goodman and Pawson , at the Court House , with having employed a lad under twenty-one years of age in sweepiug a chimney at the house of Mr . Fennell , in South Parade , by whom the information was laid . The offence was committed on the 12 th 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 Wakrfiela for » month .

      . Hobsk Steaixnc—On Tuesday last , two men named Charles Rawson , and Ge&rge Leathley , both of Hoibeck , were charged at the Court House , before Messrs . Goodman and Pawson , with having , on the ] 4 ; bof April , ( Good Friday ) stolen a brown mare the property of Mr . Samuel Petty , earthenware manufacturer , of Beeston . From tbe evidence of , Joseph Crossland , servant to Mr . Peity , it appeared that he locked his master ' s stable safe on the night of the 13 : b , Staving in it at that time the mare in question and ahorse . On the next morning he found the dsor of the stable had been forced open and the maTeand a pair of blinders were gone , fie did not Fee the mare again until Monday week , when , in oonseqneDcs of what he had heard , he

      wt-nt to Mr . Thomas Thornton ' s , of EodesLill , near Bradford , where he found the mare and brought her away . Michael Asbworth , wooicomber , of Ecclesbill , stated that on the Saturday before Good Friday , the prisoner Rawson called at his house , and a ter some conversation be told him that if ever he wanted to buy a horse cheap , if he would » o to Leeo- he thought he could get him one ; that on Good Friday , he ( Lawson ) cama again to his house , where he had not been above five minutes before tbe other prisoner also came , having with him a brown mare wi . h a pair of blinders on . Leathley said be understood he wanted to 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 , after some bargaining for 'Os . That mare was the same which he had lent to Thomas Tnornton , and which had been claimed a 3 having been stolen . The prisoner Rawsoa , he said , took no part in the bargain for the sale , ncr 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 oiher , at Hoibeck , for abou : twelve months , that they were constant aisociatcs , and that Rawson did not contrad-ct Leathley whea he stated that be came , from Bradford . The prisoners said nothing in defenc-j , aijd were comniiued to York Castle for trial a ; the next assizes .

      GABXBOSinii . Cobnwall . —This town and parish 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 be * fere he 3 d in this patish , the parish authoriti » s having allowed it to be taken out of the oiber rateB . Tne miners , on this occasion , mustered most nobly , when the caarchwarden 3 proposed that a rate of three-halfpence in the pound , be m&oe to cover the expgnces for the sacramental wine , &c . Mr . J . Skewes , jun . proposed ihat that meeting do adjourn , and the question of the chnrch-rates be postponed to that O 3 y twelve months . The chairman refused to put the amendment to the meeting , the question being whether there should be a rate or not . Mr . Skewes , 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 . Ait * r a great deal of shuffling with the followers of the apostles , E . W . W . Rendarves , M . P . demanded a poll . At the last election , the honourable 11 . P . when asked his opinion on church rates said , he was decidedly of opinion that they oujibt to come out of the revenues of the church . So much for his honesty of opinion . Mr . J . Skewes , jun . did Dot forgtt to remind him of his broken word , however tho poi ' nng ensued , and after many miners hid been com pel led to vote for mother church with tears in tbt-ir eyes , by their task-masters , the church wardens refused to proceed further with tbepo ]] , after being opt-a three days , and gave in the contest , ihtre bVir . g a majority of forty-one aeainst the rzte . In tho 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 Tjpp sbabt "Union is in debt £ 1 , 100 . Heb Majestt ' s new steam-yacht , the Victoria and Albert , was launched from the Royal Dockyard , Pembroke , on Thursday . JiMLS Fobd , who wa 3 sentenced to death at the last Cnes'er Assi 2 es , has rt . c- - - ; Ted a respite , and will not be hung . A Tic-ocr has occurred in Salisbury , on Jhe retirement oi Mr . Brodk from the representation of that towa . The lakg £ st Man in the British service is Lieutenant Sutherland , of the 26 th Regiment , at Cork He weighs twenty-five stone , h : 3 height is Eix feet foiir inuhes , and he is tweuiy-three years of age .

      It is a craRENT report all through Oxfordshire , that no le-s tham seventy- three tenants have given notice to quit iheir iarnis under the Blenheim estatrs . Tms is < EBglisb ) re-Peel with a vengeance —IMaTk-ldTie Express . The motion for a petition to Parliament , to repeal the A' -. i oi L ' . oion , was carried in the Cork To ^ tj Gonnci ] , on Wednesday week , by a majority of thirty to nine ; two declined voting at all . The Great Western eteam-ship , Lieutenant Huiken , ilN ,, sailed from Liverpool on Saturday 1-jz New Yori . To Destroy Mice . —Fry a sheet of brown paper ( the coarser the better ) in any grease ; this the mice w : l : eat , and it will destroy them . This is safer , cheaper , and easi-. r than any trap .

      Thames Tr . v , vEL . —La = t week the number of persons who visited the tunnel was 64 , 682 , and the receipt were £ 269 10 s . 2 d . Since the opening 479 , 656 persons cave been through . Monlv . — " Is this good money , " said a man to a su 3 p c ; ous-: ookinjc wag , who had made soms small purchase of nim . " It ous ^ ht to ba good , for I made it myseir , ' -vvus the answer . With that he took the nan up for iorcery—but the man in his defence proved that he made the money by fiddling . Test nearly ten pages of the Votes and Proceedings of the Huuse of Commons , delivered on Saturday morning , are occupied with the mere enumeration cf the petitions presented last night against the educational clauses a . Sir J ames Graiam ' s Factory Bill . This is the greatest demonstration of petitioning ever remembered to be made on one night

      omy . A ciscorarrjL ^ eE , without precedent , on the Dublin and Limerick mail coach lme . occHrred on Monda"y morning , when the coach arrived at this offloe , without a passenger , or even a single parcel , on the whole toui © from Dublin to Limerick . The way-bill was a perfect blank , not so much as the scratch of a p * n npon it . —Limerick Chronicle . The Bristol Gaxette of last week , states that Mr . Brunei , the engineer , whilst amusing the children of a friend , incautiously placed half a sovereign in his month , which slipped into the trachea , where it ineffectual

      stuck , every effort to remove it proving . ; Sir B . Brodie w » a going to make an ineJBima in the j thorax , to endeatour to remove it . Mr . Brunei s life has been placed in great jeopardy . j W . Fieldes , Esq ., MP . tor 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 oat of the phaeton unhurt .

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      On Tuesday moumno , a herring , which weighed three pounds ! was taken in ? ke net , at the North Inch fishing station . —Perthshir e Adverlizer , The Weatheh . —Last week , t ^ mountain , and even the low < r lange of hills around Ksndal , were clad with snotv . In a case HEABDbefcro the Court of Bankruptcy , the other day , one bill-broker admitted th . H he charged 40 per cent in his transactions ; another would not ewear that he had not received 200 per cent . On Wednisday evening , a young girl named Smith fell iuto a sound sleep in Bishopwearmouth Chapel of Ease , and remained in that state until the edifice was locked up . When she awoke , she alarmed the town by an extempore peal from the bell—which brought some hundreds of knighta to the fair lady ' s deliverance .

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

      wiih that almost sole port of Austria has greatly increased . In 1841 , Trieste received forty-one vessels from England , and fifty-eight English vessels 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 , hasmuch increased . One-third of the whole export of Brazilian coffee goes to Austria , which sen ^ s corn and iron in return . S . racge to say , its iron must go round by Hamburgh , and call itself Swedish .

      On Tcesdat last , a woman calling herself Thompson was brought below 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 tihe 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 projdeted inland bonding system , Co which the gentleman in question b 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 bis compliments to Mr . . and beg = > to inform him that with respect to tho Inland Warehousing Bill , the Government "will do what they con :-ider right , but they will not deem it necessary to consult Mr . ou the subject . ''—Liverpool Albion *

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

      the shop . His brother happened to be there attending upon him , aud , of course , made every eft > tt within his power lo prevent the precipitation , but Wis immediately felled to the fl ^ or by the afflicted maniac , who , we regret to state , epeedily accomplished his purpose . He was subsequently picked up from his appalling situation , lying upon the pavement with nothing on but his night-fchirt , by one of the workmen of Mr . Gowing , a neighbouring farrier , in whose arms he expired in less thau three minutes afterwards .

      Bhidgnobth . —A melancholy instance of the dread " ful tffects of passion occurred m this town on Monday week , and caused considerable excitement . The unfortunate victim of his own ungovernable passion was Mr . G . Preece , a highly respectable individual , about sixty . JUr . Preeca , 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 , but missed hi 3 aim , w ' mcQ caused the latter to laugh . This so enraged him that he jumped off a high step into the ) arJ , 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 vomit Wood , and died immediately , having ruptured a largo blood vessel by over-exertion . A surgeon was sent for in all haste , anil promptly attended , but unfortunately ail his attention Wis uuavailipg . —Stafford Advertixer .

      Fatal Event . —Dumfjues . —About three o ' clock on Tuesday afternoon Mrs . Muir , innkeeper on the Whiic Sands , directed a young girl who was occasionally employed by her to tince a small pail at the time gn . at ' y swolif n by the recent rains , and while in the act of washing the tub the girl exposed the inside of it to the force of the current , when she and it became involved in the waters in the depth of about six feet . Thd girl was instantly carried down the river , vainly striving with a full sense of danger 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 and energetic assistance of the by . ^ tandfrs he would to all appearance have perished by his temerity . The body of the suff-. rer was followed by many streaming ey .-s , and wa = often seen on the surface of the ragiug clement uriil near the middle of the dock , where it was completely submerged and given up fur lost amidst one of the greatest floods that have laved th >^ banks and braes of the Niih for porno 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 Fre . nch Marine Minister has asked for £ 24 V , 000—five millions of francs—for tho expense of establishments at the Marquesas and Tahiti . He estimated the annual expec .-e at £ 100 . 000 a-year . The force to be sent was 2 , 200 men . The Minister declared , ttiat the Marquesas first occupied were bo little fertile as to be scarce able to provide f > r the wautsof the French whalers , which were to crowd the Pacific . When the Isthmus of Panama was cut through , the Marquesas would be one of the moBt imponant stations of the globe . Even at present the islands would be useful entrepots of merchandise . They would be ooen to all imports , save arms and ammunition . " For a long tinse , " said Admiral Roussin , " English missionaries have been pstabliahed in th' Society islands , and to their efforts ,

      which preceded iho . * e of our own missionaries , is owing the more advanced state of civilization in Tahiti . The good which they have done , and may yet do , giveB them a right to the protection of th ° French Government . This they shall have in all their plenitude . On thts other hand , we aro happy to think that French influence will find in thw foreign miFSionaries auxiliaries devoted ta the cau ? e of civilization , which it is the great object to defend . ' A coarser piece of irony than this we have not read or heard for a long time . That Admiral Rouasin could utter it without bursting into a laujjh 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 holdiDg kis sides . For the poor English missionaries , however , it is 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 , and 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 t ! se rail , and the

      luggage train which leaves Manchester at a quarter past eleven passed ov « r his arm , and it , flicted 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 beiween 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 n « ar 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 sweet restorer *; yet there are thousands who pass weary and sleepless nights without taking the trouble to ascertain the cause ; many resort to opiates , and thus aggravate the evil . Parr s Life Piils will be found to soothe the irritated state oi ' ihe nerves , and will soon bring the whole system into that ceol and healthy state as will induce sound and refreshing sleep , aud thus fit the mind and body for the varied duiit » of life , which henceforward will be performed with ease and satisfaction . "

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      The Throne of Ireland . —It is rs-ry doubtful wuetberSir Augustus tt ' Este is not the next , lawful hsir to the throno of Ireland after the descendant nf the late Duke of Kent and the present King of Hanover , aud to the throne of Hanover afu-r the present R ., yal Fam . ! y . Mr . O'Connell , who e opinion as an Irish lawyer is entitled to great re-Fpect . haspTen itas h' 8 opinion that Sir Au ^ u-tus a u ' ? 2 e « Uitnat 6 in Ireland , the Royal Marriage Act having never received the assent of the Irish raniament , and there is every reason to believe that he is equally so in Hanover . —Liverpool Times .

      The wav to win a Fashionable Woman ' s Heart . Let your hair hang in superfluous ringlets over your neck and shoulders—never suffer a raz > r to touch your face—squeeze yourself into a coat of mulberry cloth—put on a vest , atriped 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 fiager , and you will be the doa of the day . —Fashionable World .

      Glasgow Assizes . —Conviction of a Husband tor the Muhdeh op his WiFE . —ln the Circuit Court of Justiciary , at Glasgow , on Friday last , Charles Mackay was charged with the crime of murder , in so far as on tho 18 th day of December , 1842 , he attacked and assaulted Catherine M'Keohnie 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 Meadowbauk summed up the evidence , and the jury haying retired about twenty minutes , returned with a verdict , finding Mackay , guilty as Jibelled . Lord Meadowbank then assumed the black cap , and in tbe most solemn manner sentenced $ he prisoner to be executed on Thursday , the 18 th day of May next . The prisoner during the time the sentence wa 9 being passed stood , and exhibited considerable firmness . Tho court was much crowded during the trial .

      A Gang of Murderess . —The Kilkenny papers give an account of the capture of a formidable banditti who within six months committed the most appalling murders in that aud the neighbouring counties . It appears there is evidence to shew that they murdered tne late Mr . George Haly , 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 ata Firework Manufactorv . —Another of those alarming accidents which so frequently occur in buildings of the above description too : < place on Monday afternoon , shortly after five o ' clock in Regent-street , Lambeth-walk , on the premises occupied by Mr . Ralph Fenwiok , 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 sou oi Mr . Funwick and the other a workman in his employ , were dreadfully burnt in various parts of their bodies .

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

      the treachery ot the natives . They were attacked on the way , and the Governor and fourteen persons were killed . Tiiis unfortunate event proves the unfriendly disposition of the natives ; but what will ft avail them I The French Government will inftantly send out a sufficient force to crush all opposition , and finally deprive the King and every person in authority iu those islands of every semblance of power . It may also have an injurious 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 , had lately lived in the neighbourhood of Llunriogo , whoso whole time and energies were employed in doing good to his indigent fellow creatures . Amoiij-pt other acts of beneficence , he founded and muiiUymed a large school for the poor , and was in tbu constant habit of visiting their abodeB and administering to them both temporal and spiritual assistance . Some of the members and companions of the notorious Bantwm band 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 enoiny in the wide world , that it actually caused an illness which has terminated in the destruction of his reason , and ho is at this moment within the * ards of a lunatic asylum . — Monmouthshire Merlin .

      The Law of Artiest again!—Attempt at Suicide . —A respectable gentleman , named Taylor , ayed upwards of srventy year ? , who ffHs tho situation of valuator to the South Dublin Union , was arrested on Thursday last upon a Sheriff ' s writ . He was conducted , in custociv of two bailiffs , to the Four Courts' Marshalsea , Thomas-street , at three o'clock , and , while the uivmty governor , into whose charge ho was given , wan making out tha 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 tho left jaw . Doctor Benson , the physician of the prison was caliod in , and rendered prompt and effective assistance to the sufferer , who is now in a fair way to recovery . fie appears , however , to be afflicted with ^? reat despondeacy , and threatens to ropaat his dread : iil attempt whenever a fitting opportuatty may occur . —Dublin Monitor .

      Four Men Drowned . —On Saturday , about noon , most of Jlie Oystermonth boats employed in the oyster fishery put off to sea , the wind at the time olowing 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 scarcoly left their mooring ? halt an hour when the alarm was given by the coastguard men at the look put station , that a boat had been upset in the mixen pool 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 x > . ached the spot , and when they did reach it , after much exertion , owing to the violence of the wind , Vr-hich by this time had risen to a high gale , they only saw the boat and a fow spars—tho unfortunate

      c ; - ' .-w had disappeared At length tho Neath pilots f-ueceoded in fastening the Sarah and Rachel to their own boat , and in towing her to the Mumble-roads . David John has left a widow near her confinement , and a family of six young children . Thomas Davies has also left a widow and six youngchildreu . Noah Jones and John Evans were sin » lo men . The last named young man was a granger in the Mumbles and merely accompanied tho party from motives of curiosity . 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 Baid that the accideut may to a certain extent , be attributed to the want ot caution exhibited by tho captain ( David John ) and his crew , in carrying « n too much cauvass . The other boats had thoir sails double reefed , whilst bis sails were fully expanded . — Welshman .

      EXTRAOBDINARV DiSMISSAL OF A CAPTAIN OF THE Abmy . —Captain Stanton , of the 1 st Royal Tower Hamlets Militia , has been recently dismissed from the service , and reinstated during the past week under the 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 sentenced to be transported for life , for 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 whioh he had been previously transported , but got a remission of his

      sentence in consequence of stating that he had some years since given import-ant information to the Government repecting Ireland . The prisoner also stated that he had been an officer in the army , and that he , in the year 1830 , olf < 3 ied himself to represent the borough of Southampton . The matter reaohing the ears of Lieut .-Colonel Grant , the commandant of the above regiment , he was anxious to ascertain whether the Captain Stanton belonging to bis regiment was one and the same person , and sent an officer , in company of tbe relieving overseer ot Hackney , of which parish the Captain was formerly one of the overseers , to Newgate , for that purpose . On their arrival they were shown tbe prisoner , bat neither of them spoke to him ; they , however , stated

      he was the man . In consequence of this a communication was forwarded to the War-office , and without further inquiry , Captain Stanton was dismissed the service . At this time Captain Stanton was residing at Brigg , in Lincoln shire , and received his half-pay from the branch bank of Messrs . Preacott , but upon applying he was greatly astonished on being told that the perton he represented himself to be had been transported for life . Ou receiving this intelligence , Captaia Stanton wrote to the authorities at the War-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 Captain ha 8 not only been reinstated , but an apol-ogy made to him for tuepaiu ' ful situation in which lie had been placed .

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      Lameniablk ( ccuriienck . —0 ' . 'i Saturday last , us Einjimm Lowo ai , d Hejjjamin £ "ddall were empl- 'yud in repairing the top of a pn fr » . ' 'lltn ., at Moorlanu , K » n ^ swiufbrd , tho temporary ^ ffolding o < - whicn they were standing gave way , and . they were prooipuatcd to the botwm of the pit , tb h'ty-four yard 3 in depth , the scaffold , mortar can , bricks , &s ., falling upon them . Tho mortar can ( a hesvj iroj * vessel ) fell on the head of poor Lowe and killed him on the spot . Be-all and the scaffold also fell upon him ; the former barely escaped with his life , having hi 3 right ann broken in two places , and ho seriously injured on the head and various parts of tne body , ihat but little hopes are entertained of his recovery . Poor Lowe has left a widow and four small children ; Beddail is married and has one child . — Worcestershire Chronicle .

      ¦ The Gun Trade .-A . good deal of dissatisfaction has bven matufesced by the gun trade , iu consequence ef the Board of Ordnanoe having , three years ago , entered into a contract for a considerable supply of foreign ^ un-stocks for the small arms' department of the Ordnance , and a memorial hag been presented to Sir George Murray , the Master-General of tho Ordnance , by Mr . Dugdale , M P , ; but it 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 heb Daughters . —On Fridiy , at the Neath Petty Sessions , Morgan Rees , Thomas Roberts , and David Williams , three workmen in the employ of the Neath Abbey Iron Company , were brought forward to answer to a charge of breaking and carrying away eome gates at Neath Abbey ou the 10 th of April . The evidence in this case was clear and conclusive , as police-sergeant Jones , 10 R . 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 , ou account of previous good character , deemed it expedient to dismiss the case . — Welshman .

      Remabxvble Cask of Conscience . —The Suffolk Herald publishes the following : — "Gur 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 his conscience not to have made any return of that , and he therefore enclosed , as the amount of three years ' tax , £ 14 , 000 ! Every effort has been made to discover the conscientious contrabandist , but hitherto without ( ff-iot . The fact may be relied on . "

      A Midnight Flight . —About midnight on Saturday last a imst 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 thai the noise exceeded anything similar ever heard , and somo females wera so much frighted as to have suffered in health in consequence . —Caledonian Mer .

      Incendiarism . —The village of Madley , about six miles from Hereford , continues to be the scane of a succession of diabylical outrages which are a disgrace to any country or people . Some miscreants have conceived tbe horrible plan of setting fire 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 outhouae

      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 aa 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 marauders , but as yet wuhoHt producing tbe desired effect . —Gloucester Journal .

      Alleged Death in a Workhouse from Want of Fropkh NuI / 'rishment . — A long inquiry took place , on Monday , ao the Feathers , public-house , Doan-street , Wesiminter , concerning the death of Sarah Bright , aged thirty-eight , an inmate of the workhouse of St . Margaret and St . John , Westminster . The itiquiry was instituted by Mr . H . ggs , deputy coroner t ; r Westminster , in consequence of s report that was in circulation that the death of the deceased had been greatly accelerated by the

      want of proper nourishment , she 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 , aud that it was not necessary to go further into the cabe . After a short consultation they returned a verdict that " Deceased died of a bleeding caucer of long standing , and expressed their full conviction that svery thing was done by the medical officers and others belonging to the workhouse that her case required . "

      Tjik 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 . Tail will readily be beheved 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 cutlery , amounting to £ 849 , 640 , making a total of £ 2 , 077 , 448 worth of metals aud their manufactures exported in ono year to America . Further , when we consider that of this prodigious sum no less than £ 1 , 650 , 838 was for iron and us manufactures , and that this extansivo trade has fallen to about one-third , we shall have an important fact to assist us in guessing 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

      uonproduction withraws at least 220 , 480 tons weekly from the market ; notwithstanding this , the price of iron continues to fall , the demand is become less , and the worst , but 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 a ; pig in Wales , 82 s Cd ; pig in Clyde , 60 j . 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 s ; pig in Wales , 70 s ; in Clyde , 453 . — Welshman .

      The Law of Arrest fob 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 of Mr . Wadd , the surgeon of the prison , and others , it appeared that the deceased had 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 had 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 arrest . He was accordingly arrested , and

      reached Whitecross-street Prison on the 28 th of ; March . As he was evidently Jabouring 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 fc \ r days he was confined to his bed . On the 18 th ulfc . an application was mado to Mr . Justice ' Maule to liberate him on account of his illness , 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 applicattoa was stoutly opposed by the creditor , who repeated his affidavits that the deceased wished to ! leave the kingdom . The judge felt that he had not the j

      power under the act to order the liberation of the deceased on the ground of extreme illness . He however , made an order for 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 ri «? at , without any special application . The deceased ' j / as unable to find sureties and lingered till Sunday iast , whon he died of consumption . Too Coroner a g fced if any affidavits were filed to show that the dec eased was not in a state of danger , and was ana' * ered , none . The Coroner remarked , that it waat » _> be regretted that tbe law did not authorize a : jUdgeto detained for debt where

      liberate a person & man's life was teallj at Btake . To return to b . j 3 native country if he did intend to return , wasw hat a man in his state of disease would naturally tb' mk of , and if the judge bad not authority to interpc 3 e he should have hoped that the creditor fro f jj humanity would not have so strongly opposed in- j unfortunate man ' s application . He trusted th e Legislature would extend the judge ' s power , so $ nafc he might liberate on common appearance w > uere a maQ ' 8 life was believed to be in danger . 7 jne jurj heartily concurred with the opinion of tt Coroner , aad a verdict of ** Natural Death" was recorded .

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      Richmond Corn Market , Saturday , April 29 We had a very large supply of Grain in onrmarket to-day . Wheat eold from 5 j 3 d to 6 s 3 j . Oata Is KM to 2 * JOd . Barley 3 s 3 d to 3 s 6 d . Bsans 3 * 3 d to 3 s 9 d per bushel . Manchesteb Corn Market , Saturday , April 29 —There is no change to notice in the trade , the transsiCiieus in Flour and Oatmeal during the week having been limited ( as already noted for some time previously ) io the demand for immediate consumption ; but as stocks of the former article are light , fre ^ b 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 article 3 of import into Liverpool and Runcorn : the arrivals of Fiour via those ports , as also from the interior , are only to a moderate extent . At our market this morning few &ale 3 of Wheat were reported , and , with a lifeless trade , we repeat the . quotations of this day se ' niiight . The demand for Flour continues equal to tho supply ; and for Oatmeal there has likewise been a fair inquiry , but no 6 ales to any extent wer <; effected . The trade in Oats , Bean ? , and other article was dull , without alteration in prices .

      State 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 ot 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 wages 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 Hahket , Mohday , May 1 . — Tho supply of CaUle at market to-day has beea rather larger than last week , with little or no variation in prices . Baef 4 ^ d . to 5 id ., Mutton , 5 i . to bhi . per lb . Number of Cattle at market : —Be / " » te 1055 , Sheep 2585 .

      Livkrpool Corn Mabket , 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 i . per bushel noted in price 3 of Wheat oa Tuesday last has not been followed by furthor reduction ; the trade , indeed , has shown more firmness , though the general demand has still been limited . Fiour 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 IDs . 9 d . per 2401 bs . There is no alteration to report as respects Barley , Beans , or Peas .

      Newcastle Corn Market , Saturday , Aphil 29 . —The weather this week has Rot 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 indications of a favourable change . At our market this morning , we- had a very Jarge supply of wheat from the growers , but the arrivals co&stways being tnfling ,, a-ck arauce 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 trifling , we cannot note any improvement either in its value or demand , but the stocks in warehouse , as weli as those in the hands of the dealers being moderate , would lead us to expect ii 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-eu 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 ! as-t ; subsequently , however , the demand slackened and the trade closed rather languidly at about the currency of this 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 thau 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 , this article was held vtry firmly at fully former rates . Malt was taken in retail at about the prices of this day se ' nnight . In addition to the 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 money as on this day &e'nnightt but Irish was very difficult of disposal , and in partial instances , where vessels were coming on demurrage , a fmall abatement was acceded to . Fine new English Beans found buyers at fully previous terms . Other kind 3 were dnil 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 of Bcapts fresh up to our market , to day were moderately extensive , but not to say large , while there was aa evident improvement in tbeir general quality , notwithstanding a large portion of them was suffering severely from the epidemic , particularly as relates to thoso from Suffolk and Cambridgeshire . Amongst ' ho Bullock supply we noticed two wenderfully 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 Railway , in excellent order . The attendance of both town and country buyers was by no means large ,

      and we have to report a very dull inquiry for Beef r although the supplies of dead meat in our various markets are far from large . On Friday last the trade was steady at an improvement of 2 d per 8 : bs ., but to day it was quite as dull as on this day se ' nnight , and tho quotations declined 2 d per 81 bs . ; the very highest figure for the primeat 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 , rums , &c . ; from Lincolnshire , Leicestershire , Northamptonshire &c , 100 shorthorns , &c .: from the western and

      midland districts , 200 JJevons , Durhams , Herefords , runts , and Irish beasts ; from other parts of England , 350 , of various breeds j 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 must be borne in mind that our present and future quotations for Mutton will refer only to those in that conditi » n . 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 sonawhat freely ; other breeds of sheep heavily at last Monday ' s prices , or from 3 s fid to 3 b 8 d for the former , shorn t and from 2 s 10 a to 3 s 6 d per 81 b . for other descriptions . The arrivals of Lambs « ete seasonably good , but by no means of prime quality .. The total

      number was about 8000 ; 230 of which were received fro n * the Isle of Wight ; tho remainder from Essex , Kent v Surrey , &c , &c . Prime Down Lambs were takea at full ratet of currenoy , but those of other descriptions were from 2 d to 4 d per 81 bs . lower . Calves were in moderate supply and heavy demand * at barely stationary prices , the top figures not exceeding 4 s 4 d to 4 s Sd per 81 bs » Nearly 200 pigs were received by sea from Dublin and Cork , and the total supply was good . The Pork trade , however , was in a very depressed state . atuHaltered quotations . During the past week the imports of foreign stock at Hiul have consisted of 4 S Oxen and 2 Cows by a sailing vessel from Aalborg ; at Southampton 40 Oxer i from Spain ; bat not a single head has reached the port of Londos , there being none on offer here to- day .

      Wooi Market . —The public Bales , bo far as they r . ave progressed , are favourable , aud the prices have advanced quite Id per lb for colonial descriptions , and a . } d on other kinds . Bohough and Spitalfields . —FuII average supplies of Potatoes have oome to band , the time of year considered , since our last statement , and , in t consequence of the abundance of grown vegetables , the demand is extremely inactive , at , in some instances , depressed condition . Bobough Hop Mabket . —We have a moderate supply of Hogs on offer in this market . Fine qualities of last year's growth are mostly taken on fall aa good terms as of late ; but , otherwise the demand is excessively dull , at almost nominal quotations .

      Tallow . —There is but little alteration to notica in this market . Prices are 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 axe about l , 00 t castes of various sorts advertised for publio sale on 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 . Petersburgh this morning we learn the price then was a trifle lower , with little doing .

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  • Citation
    • Northern Star (1837-1852), May 6, 1843, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/vm2-ncseproduct801/page/3/