The Cambrian

THE GREENOCK BANK ROBBED. On the morning of Sunday se'nnight, the Greenock Bank was entered by a gang of thieves, by mearwof false keys, and the desks, drawers, chests. &c. plundered, and their contents (amounting, it is said, to 20,0001.) carried off. The thieves obtained above one thousand sovereigns, and .11. and 101. notes of the Greenock Bank, to the amount of many thousands of pounds. They also obtained possession of notes of the Scotch National Bank, amounting to many thousands of pounds, besides valuable tecurities and papers, the loss of which must prove very embarrassing to the proprietors of the Greenock Bank. The door through which the thieves entered the Bank was double locked but that presellted little impediment to thieves of the London school, as these are supposed to have been. The robbery was not discovered till Monday morning, about nine o'clock, the thieves having left everything in such a state, that, till the different places where the property had been deposited were examined, no suspicion was excited that the bank had been plundered. Greenock was thrown into a state of extreme agitation when intelligence of the robbery was an nounced: but the amount of the loss was concealed. When the proprietors of the bank had ascertained that two suspicious persons had left Greenock inach-tiseandfoursoonafter the time the robbery was supposed to have been committed, a gen- tleman was dispatched in a chaise and four in putsuit, and he traced the thieves as far as Doncaster, where he lost the clue, as they had there dismissed their chaise, and had proceeded in another direction by some other mode of conveyance, and in all probability they had their own horses and gigs there ready to carry them beyond the reach of their pursuers. The gen- tleman proceeded on to London, where he arrived on Thursday, and gave information to Sir Richard Birnie. IlIformation of the robbery, which had been previously sent to the Bank of Scotland, was also sent to the Bank of England, and to the respective banks in London, and every other means were used to prevent the circulation of the stolen notes. Bishop, a prin- cipal officer of Bow-stieet, was employed to use every exertion in his power to apprehend the robbers, and to recover the stolen property and that officer, with the aid of George Lead- better, are now in active pursuit of this daring gang.—A reward of two hundred guineas has also beer, offered for the apprehen- sion of the thieves. The Bank occupies the lower floor in one of the wings of the Exchange-buildings, which are situated in almost the most cen- tral part of the town. The coffee-room occupies the other wing, and the Tontine hotel is immediately opposite; yet, strange to say. as far as can be conjectured, the robbery must I have been committed between the hours of eight and nine in the morning The porter of the bank, who sleeps in it, arose j on Sunday morning about sesen o'clock, and was not there jgain till his usual time of going to rest at night; but although the robbery hnxj been committed previous to that time, every thing had been left iu such, a state, that no suspicion was excited. Three fellows of doubtful aspect were seen walking in front of the Exchange-buildings early in the morning; and a person answering the description of one of these was in the coffee- room about eight o'clock inspecting the newspapei-files, and affecting to be very anxious after the notice of the death of an individual; in his pretended search, he engaged the keeper of the room, as it now obviously appears, for the purpose of pre- venting him from returning to the bar-tlie passage to which is common with that to the bank and at this criticl jaucture there is little doubt that his confederates were carrying away their spoil. In one of the locks they left a skeleton key. In this case, it appears that two of the thieves, some time be- fore the robbery was committed, took private lodgings at Greenock, and there is every reason to believe that they must have obtained impressions on wax of the wards of the bank lock, to enable them to fabricate picklock keys to unlock the door. It is suspected that the parties who committed the Ledbury bank robbery were concerned in the present one at Greenock, the arrangements in all respects being so very similar, though it is seldom that London thieves travel so far north. The two men who had lodged in Greenock for some time before the robbery, were seen at the Exchange Coffee-house, which adjoins the bank, on Sunday morning, and it appears that they were joined by two others the night before the robbery was effected, and the whole assisted in carrying the booty to a chaise and four, which had been previously ordered, and was waiting in a different part of the town ready to start at a minute's notice. Having placed their plunder inside the chaise, two of the rob- bers got in, and ordered the post-boys to drive on. The other two thieves started immediately after by the mail. Accounts of the robbery did not reach Edinburgh till Tuesday morning. On Monday a little ruddy faced man, having an English accent, got Greenock bank notes to the amount of 50001. exchanged with the different banks in Edinburgh and Leith; that these were part of the stolen property is beyond all doubt.' The following additional particulars are given in the Greenock Advertiser: — We were right in supposing that the thieves were strangers but it now turns out, that they had been located, as an American would phrase it, for a very considerable time amongst us. Two of the four ascertained to have been concerned in the robbery, are traced to have taken and occupied lodgings at the west end of the town as far back as the 24tli November last, and to have met their confederates occasionally, no doubt, for concerting operations, in the apartments of a spirit-dealer in Hamilton- street. At their lodgings they behaved civilly and paid promptly but although they usually went out at an early hour ill the morning, even in the depth of winter, and seldom re- turned till fate, no other suspicion was excited, or conjecture formed regarding them, than that they were probably seeking c'tnceafment to evade the demands of creditors. They changed their lodgings repeatedly since the period above mentioned. A gig, which they had with them from Glasgow, was deposited with a stabler at the Rue-end, and was frequently taken away and returned by them during their abode here. The steps by which they progressed in their undertaking, it is, of course, im- possible to do more than guess; but it can easily be believed that they were as tedious as they were full of danger in the execution. That day, which, in Christian countries, is pecu- liarly a day of test, must have been the one on which they chiefly labouied, and for many weeks, as often as it came round, they must have perilled their lives in the prosecution of their work of villany. The bank apartments being, all the rest of the week, occupied in the transaction of business during the day, and during the night by the porter, who slept within them, left the period very limited in which the burglary could be prepared for; but there is now little doult, that having succeeded in opening the outer door of the bank, they must have made, at least, occasional visits to the interior for some time past, in order to fit the keys necessary for opening the inner doors, safes, &c. In fact. the whole process, which must have been one of labour such as might have exhausted human perse- verance, and fraught with danger calculated to appal the stoutest heart, seems to have been carried on with a dexterity and suc- cess, of which we know not any parallel, while it at the same time demonstrates, that locks and bars, however complex and numerous, are no security, -where the ingenuity of desperate men is stimulated by the large sunts which banking houses ne- cessarily accumulate in their repositories. In the chest from whence the monev was abstracted a con- siderable sum in coin and mixed banknotes was left. The cash Chést, containing the company's stock of specie, and notes which had never been issued, with bills, bonds, and various other valuable securities-, remain untouched likewise, two chests under the charge of the deputy teller, full of money, and to a very large amount. What the sum was which was carried off, we have no authority to say common rumour states it at about Twenty Thousand Pounds, of which little more than one thousand were in gold the notes, it is understood, were chiefly I small notes of the Greenock Bani. We trust this is the greatest extent of the plunder; and inded when the bulk and weight of such a sum is considered, we camot easily comprehend how a larger amount could, with any chance of eventual success, be carried off in the time. The wiole party having secured their retreat, arrived in Glasgow on Sunday afternoon.—From thence two of them proceeded to Edinburgh, the same night, in a chaise hired from a person in the GaJowgate. The other two it is conjectured, went off by Carlisle. The villains had too well calculated the proper time for ac- complishing their enterprise, to dr?ad immediate pursuit, if they were once suffeied to pass the boundaries of the town uninter- rupted. The skeleton key, with which they opened the money chest, was indeed left in it, but to protract disclosure, the safe door was locked, and a ring forced into the key-hole, so that even when resorted to on Monday foreuoon, it could not be opened, and time was inevitably lost before entiance could be effected by a tradesman, and the mischief ascertained. The doors of the bunk apartments had been carefutiy re-locked. The confidence thus inspired, and the certainty of being at least 60 miles distant from the scene of action before the dis- covery could be made, seem to have placed the depredators quite at their ease; and it is perhaps to the very openness of during which distinguished their later movements, that the suc- cess of them is to be attributed. To trace them was an easy task, but to come up with the villains impracticable. On Mon- day forenoon they effected the exchange of Greenock notes for others, at different banking-houses in Edinburgh and Leith, without creating a suspicion of so strong a nature as to lead to their apprehension. The amount so exchanged is said to he 50001. Their route by Edinburgh was followed from thence they were successively traced to Haddington, Dunbar, and Berwick and by the latest accounts, it appears obvious, they would proceed without delay to London, and bury themselves in the mass of human beings forming the population of the metropolis. Some time, therefore, will probably elapse before the final issue of this daring enterprise is known but we cling to the hope that such villany will not not be ultimately success- ful, but meet with its fitting reward, in the ignominious death of the perpetrators.

J ->— DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS.—In the night of the 19th of February the Terror bomb vessel, which sailed January 29, to join the Mediterranean fleet, was wrecked in a dreadful gale of wind uear St. Ubes on the coast of Portugal. All the officers and crew, except one man, were saved, together with the stores, provisions, and money—about 27,0001. in silver and copper coin, intended for the use of the Commissariat at Malta.-The Jane, of Qsebec, from Liverpool, bound to Gibraltar, was lost on the same day, within a half-cable's length of the Terror; and one-third of her cargo was saved with the crew and passengers, except an officer of the 42d Regiment, a woman, and three child ren.-A still more melancholy event remains to be detailed. The Ann and Amelia transport, Lieut. Hopkins, agent, laden with stores for the same fleet, valued at 50,0001. was also wrecked at the same time, and all on board perished consist- ing of one Captain of Marines and thirty men, four Masters' Mates, one Midshipman, forty of the crew, and seventeen pas- sengers. Among the latter was Mr. Peake, son of the late Sir Henry, a student in the School of Naval Architecture, on his way to join his Majesty's ship Warspite. THE FINANCE COMMITTEE.—The first Report of the Finance Committee presented to the House of Commons on Monday is brief but important. In 1808, an Act was passed, enabling the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt to grant Life Annuities on certain terms, and in 1809 an Act was passed to amend the former. The Finance Committee's attention has been directed to these enactments, both in their principle and their working; and they have found the one to be false, and the other injurious. As generally happens in such errors, the public has been the loser, and individuals the gainers. The following is the Report:- "The Committee having, in the course of their inquiries, dis- covered that the conditions under which the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund are required, by the Act for enabling the Com- missioners for the reduction of the National Debt to grant Life Annuities, are extremely disadvantageous to the Public, feel it to be their duty to call the immediate attention of the House to the expediency of repealing this Act."—March 10,1828. And the losses of the one, and the gains of the other parties, have been by no means trifling. Ii was stated by Lord Ahhorp in the House ot Commons on Wednesday, on the repeal of the Act in question being moved by the Chancellor of tile Exchquer (see Parliamentary proceedings), that they had amounted, ac- cording to the calculations of Mr. Finlayson, to 80001. a week. This fact, his Lordship added, had been communicated both to Lord Bexley and Lord Goderich, and the perseverance of these Noble Lords in upholding so mischievous a law, which brought with it no political advantage, was as unaccountable as it ap- peared improper. On Wednesday the Committee made six orders for the production of documents connected principally with the army expenditure. They reiated to the allowances of 11,2141, for the Commander-in.Chief-the ISfge staff allowances, both in this country and Irelatid-tlie sums paid in the civif branches of the army, the cavalry expenditure, the barrack dis- bursements and also accounts shewing, in all its details, the expense of the Preventive Service, incurred for the military who are in barracks in different parts of the coast; the number of men employed in each, a return of their duties, &c. These ac- counts were ordered to be made out with the greatest dispatch, and were sent to the Treasury by the chairman, Sir Henry Parnell, at five o'clock in the evening. The first Report has made a favourable impression in the City respecting the future utility of the Committee's labours. It has been long notorious, that the rate at which annuities were granted by the Govern- ment was higher than that adopted at most of the public offices, which were able consequently to transact very little business in that description of life risk. It may be proper to mention, as many people are falling into a contrary supposition, that the recommendation of the Finance Committee cannot possibly mean that any contracts already concluded are to be interfered with, but merely that a Bill shall be brought in to prevent the engaging in any new ones by the Commissioners for the reduc- tion of the debt. THE AVERAGES.—On Wednesday last, a meeting of highly respectable agriculturists, took place at the Angel Inn, Bury St. Edmunds, John Moseley, Esq. in the chair; to take into consideration the Law of Striking the Averages of Corn when it appeared to be the unanimous opinion of the Meeting, that Ihe present mode was very objectionable, inasmuch as the returns were generally 3s. or 4s. per quarter more than an average price, which must arise either by resale of com from merchant to merchant, or by fraudulent returns, in which latter case, although a heavy penalty attaches to the offence, yet it may frequently he practiced with impunity, detection being almost impossible, the farmer being prevented from examining the inspector's books. A Petition to the County Members was immediately signed, pointing out to them the necessity of the returns being made by the Corn Growers only, and requesting their attention to the subject, when the new Corn Law shall be brought forward. EXTRAORDINARY PROSECUTION,—A trial of five days took place recently in Dubliu, in which Miss Helen Richards, her mother, and three others, were charged with a misdemeanour, in having procured the marriage of a boy of sixteen, John H. H. Grady, who is heir to considerable property, to the said Helen Richards. After a trial of five days, ending on Thurs- day se'nnight, the Jury declared themselves unable to come to a decision, and on this intimation the counsel on both sides agreed to withdraw a juror, which puts an end to the prosecution. JOVENIIE CONVICTS.—A measure has lately been ,adopted by Mr. Peel, which is likely to be productive of much benefit, while it joins the reformation of the offenders with the infliction of the punishment called for by the outraged law. He has determined to send all juvenile convicts, who shall be sentenced to transportation for seven years, to work at the hulks' for that or a less period, depending for its diminution on the degree of repentance and amended conduct exhibited by them. -The first batch of this class of offenders so disposed of was on Monday, when a number of them, from ten to fifteen years of age, were sent under a proper escort from Newgate to Chatham to be put on board the Canada hulk. ROBBERIES BY SHOPMEN.—Several meetings have taken place amongst the tradesmen in the city, in the haber- dashery line, on account of the evidence given at the Old Bailey last session by a person who was an accomplice in a robbery committed at Bath, and who had acknowledged that he knew several shopmen who had been in the daily habit of robbing their masters to a ruinous extent. The meetings were held at the Sun Tavern, in Ludgafe-street. and the disclosures made by this accomplice were singular enough, and exhibited the system upon which this description of plunder is carried on. Burrowes and Adlam, the persons convicted of robbing Mr. Rose, of Bath, had long been in the habit of robbing their employers. Immediately after the Bath robbery, Burrowes wrote to Mr. Rose, requesting a character. As soon as he should receive the character, he was to give it to Adlam, who was to use it in get- ting a situation at the house of a Quaker, a very desirable master to those who engage themselves in a concerti for the purpose of plundering it, as prosecution is out of the question wherever the Society of Friends are sufferers. Adlam would have stolen every thing he could lay his hands upon, if he should have had the opportunity, and Burrowes would have been active in another shop. These fellows were accompanied to Bath by a worn-in of the town, whose practice it was to go and purchase as much silk as would make a pelisse, and Burrowes used to give her as much as would make three or four gowns besides. He had been in the habit of going round with his goods to the brothels, where he sold them for about half-price. There are gangs of this sort of shopmen, who meet together when they are out of place, and change characters, by which means they can manage to rob, sometimes to the value of SOI,, a week, before it is discovered that they are impostor*. The accomplice described the mode of secreting the money which they receive before the eyes of their masters. He pointed out a man who calls himself Captain, in the saloons of the theatres, and is enabled to drive a gig and to keep two brothels, from his former labours in this way. The shopkeepers have been enlightened upon the sub- ject, but they came to no definitive resolution. Hop DUTY.—Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart. M. P. for Kent, and E. J. Curteis, Esq. M. P. for Sussex, have had an interview with tlie Duke of Wellington and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at which they laid before them the several Memorials and Petitions of the Hop Planters of their respective counties and at the same time took the opportunity of slating their present situation, and of explaining their hopes and ex- pectations, which as stated by Mr. Curteis in a letter to his constituents, received the fullest attention from his Majesty's Ministers. The result of the interview is, that "Government having considered the petitions of the hop growers of the several counties presented by them, the Duke of Wellington and the Chancellor of the Exchequer have the honour to acquaint them, that directions have been given for postponing the payment of the hop duty till August and November next, on sufficient secu- rity being afforded for payment of one half of the duty now due at each of those periods.—The Duke of Wellington and Mr. Goulburn have farther had under consideration the incon- veniences which have been found to result from the repeated postponement of the payment of the hop duty, and which have arisen in a great degree from the mode in which the dutv is now paid. They have, therefore, thought it expedient to take measures for effecting a change in the existing regulations, the effect of which will be that hops in future will be BONDED, and the duty paid only on the article being taken out of bond." ROOF OF THE LATE BRUNSWICK THEATRE.—It appears to be at length acknowledged, by the parties concerned in the erection of the late Brunswick Theatre, that the whole of that edifice was what is usually termed a contract job. But we are assured by an experienced architect, that the scantling of the iron roof was altogether too slight for supporting a roof of 118 feet long, and more than 60 in depth. With the view of saving expense, the horizontal iron ties were not made of more than one-half the proper thickness, being iron plates i of an inch thick. The bending of this fragile basement of the roof, and the consequent separation from the walls, seems unquestionably to have been the proximate cause of the accident. To DESTROY RED SPIDERS IN HOT-HOUSES.—Take a quarter of a pound of flour of sulphur, mix it in a common-sized watering-pot of water, and pour the mixture along the top of the flues when the fires are at work, putting least near the fur- nace, and most at the farther extremity, through a course rose, when the sulphur will be found to have ran down the sides of the flues, and adhered to them, as well as upon the top. The sulphureous exhalation arising from the hot flues generally de- stroys the Spiders in five or six days, when a good syringing will clear the plants of them but the house is neither steamed nor syringed from the time the sulphur is put on till they are killed.-Loudon's Gardener's Magazine. CURE FOR STAMMERING.—(From a provincial paper). -Those who suffer under the distressing affliction of an impe- diment in their speech, may be effectually cured—where there is no mal-formation of the organs of articulation—by a perse- verance for three or four months in the simple remedy of reading aloud with the teeth closed, for at least two hours in the course of each day.—The recommender of this simple process adds, "I can speak with certainty of the utility of the remedy." LIGHTNING CONDUCTORS.—It has been ascertained, that iron, by acquiring polarity, loses a portion of its power as conductor of electricity and as at) figtning rods placed in ver- tical directions are liable to acquire a considerable degree of polarity, it may be inferred, that in all such cases their pro- tective properties are reduced. Dr. Fisher mentions an instance in which an iron conductor, in connexion with a powder maga- zine, so far lost its powers as to allow of the powder exploding by a flash of lightning and on examination, the rod was found to be strongly magnetic. Copper is the best metal for a light- ning rod, though considerably more expensive than iron.— Weekly Review. HAYTIAN PARADISE.—Mr. Washington Irving ob- serves, in his Life of Columbus, that the Haytians had an idea of a place of reward, to which the spirits of good men repaired after death, where they were reunited to the spirits of those they had most loved during life, and to all their ancestors. Here they enjoyed uninterruptedly, and in perfection, those pleasures which constituted their felicity on earth. They lived in shady and blooming bowers, with beautiful women, and ban- queted on delicious fruits. The Paradise of these happy spirits was variously placed, almost every tribe assigning some favourite spot in their native province. Many, however, concurred in describing this region as being near a lake in the western part of the island, in the beautiful province of Xaragua. Here there were delightful valleys, covered with a delicate fruit called the mamey, about the size of an apricot. They imagined that the souls of the deceased remained concealed among the airy and inaccessible cliffs of the mountains during the day, but descended at night into those happy valleys, to regale on this consecrated fruit. The living were sparing, therefore, in eating of it, lest the souls of their friends should suffer from want of their favourite nourishment. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE BEST.—When this individual, previous to his elevation to the Bench, was retained as counsel, in a case of some importance, at one of the English Assizes, he subjected one of the witnesses against his client to a rather se- vere examination. He questioned the witness, who was a plain but shrewd countryman, very particularly regarding the time at which a certain circumstance connected with the case occurred. The witness answered the questions put to him in a general way. This, however, would not satisfy the limb of the law he, in a tone of the utmost harshness, insisted on knowing the precise day on which the event in question happened. Well, then," replied the plain countryman, it was just on the very day on which you fought the duel with Mr. —— It is needless to add, that the whole Court burst out into a fit of laughter; and that the tone of the learned gentleman was quite altered in the remaining questions he put to this witness. ANECDOTE OF GEORGE THE THIRD.—One of the early friends of Mr. Copley, the father of the present Lord Chancellor, was Mr. Wilson, the father of the present Sir Robert Wilson, and the late Mr. West, President of the Royal Academy. Mr. West was accustomed to relate a lively anecdote respecting Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson, an American loyalist and a natural phi- losopher, opposed Franklyti's system of electric conductors, and maintained that blunt conductors were of superior efficacy to the pointed recommended by Franklyn. Mr. West being one day at Buckingham House with the King, related the subject of contest to his Majesty, and finished by respectfully asking what his Majesty thought ?—"Hey replied the King, <■ what do I think—I will tell you what I think, Mr. West. If your coun- tryman, Mr. Wilson, wants blunt conductors, I think he cannot do better than take my Ministers; they will fit him to a hair ANECDOTE.-His late Royal Highness the Commander- in Chief remarked to Col, W., at the mess of the 11th regiment, that the Colonel was uncommonly bald, and although a younger man than his Royal Highness he stood more in need of a wig. The Colonel, who had been of very long standing in the service, and whose promotion had been by no means rapid, informed his Royal Highness that his baldness could be very easily ac- counted for. In what manner ?" asked his Royal Highness rather eagerly. To which Col. W. By junior Officers stepping over my head." The Duke was so pleased with the reply, that the gallant Colonel obtained promotion in a few days afterwards. LORD NORBURY'S LATEST.—On Mr. Spring Rice's an- nounced intention of going to India, as Secretary to the Gover- nor General, Lord Norbury said, sending rice to India was as bad as sending coals to Newcastle."—Lord Norbury last week, when in a fine tune after an excellent dinner in Dublin, re- marked, that the Marquess of Anglesea would be one of the most active Lord Lieutenants Ireland had ever known. On being asked why ? Because.' replied the wit, whilst he has one leg in Dublin, the other is in Cork! OXFORD, MARCH 13.—This day the following degrees were conferred Bachelor in Divinity: The Rev. W. Jackson, Fel- low of Queen's.—Master of Arts: Rev. H. C. Wilson, Lincoln. -Bachelor of Arts: W. D. Philpot, Lincoln. CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 14.—The Chancellor's Gold Medals for the two best proficients in classical learning among the Com- mencing Bachelors of Arts, were on Wednesday last adjudged to Mr. William Selwvn, of St. John's College, and Mr. Thomas Williamson Peile, of Trinity College.

BANKRUPTS from Friday's Gazette. To Surrender in Basinghall-street. J. HOWARD, Dunstable, linen-draper March 21, 28, April 25. Atts. Hardwick and Guest, Lawrence-lane: C. JAMES, High-street, Bloomsbury, linen-draper, March 18, 25, April 25. Att. Smith, Watbrook. G. C. BISHOP, Fordwich, Kent, soap-manufacturer, March 25, 28, April* 25. Att. Fitch, Union-street, Southwark. W. S. WILSON, Cannon-street-road, Middlesex, master mariner, March 18, April 1, 25. Atts. Warne and Son, Leadenhall-street. To Surrender in the Country. M. SotJLBY, Swinefleet, Yorkshire, draper, March 19, 20, April 25, at the Commercial-inn, Goole, Yorkshire. Atts. Capes, Gray's-inn, or Shearburn, Sneath. E. BUTT, Ledbary, Hereford, grocer, March 31, April 1, 25, at the Feathers Inn, Ledbury. Atts. Bicknell and Roberts, Lincoln's-inn, or Holbrook, Ledbury. W. GREATBATCH, jun., May-bank, Stafford, and-T. GREATBATCH and J. GREATBATCH, Oxford, dealers in earthenware, March 28, 29, April 25, at the Swan Inn, Hanley, Staffordshire. Atts. King, Temple- chambers, or Dent, Hanley, Staffordshire. A -|TER' Knaresborough, Yorkshire, timber-merchant, March 21, April 7, 25, at the Court-House, Leeds. Wiglesworth and Ridsdale, Gray or Gaunt, Leeds. and J. WALTON, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ship-brokers, March Pn' 25, at the George Inn, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Atts. Williamson, Gray's-inn, or Ingledew, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. BANKRUPTS fiom Tuesday's Gazette. To Surrender in Basinghall-street. J. HOLLAUD, Lincoln, victualler, March 21, 28, April 29. Att. Taylor, Clement's-inn. To Surrender in the Country. Amiwch, Isle of Anglesea, draper, April 7, 8, 29, at White's Hotel, Manchester. Atts. Ellis, Walmsley, and Gordon, ■aT T ncer^tone; or Walker, Manchester^ iu. T80"' t'le younger, Thirsk, York, grocer, April 9,10, 29, at the lnree Tnns Inn, Thirsk. Atts. Swarbreck, Thirsk; or Milne and Parry, Temple. ?Ef»5Y' ^:l.lton> Yorkshire, innkeeper, March 28, 29, April 29, at the Blacksmith's Arms, Swinegate, York. Atts. Wiglesworth and Ridsdale, Gray's-inn or Wood, York. COPPER ORE I Sold at REDRUTH, on Thursday, March 13, t828. I MINES. TONS. PURCHASERS- PRret. Wh. Busy its Fox, Williams, and Co 2 10 6 Ditto .115 Ditto 390 Ditto .106 Ditto. 2 17 0 Ditto. 91 Williams, Grenfell, and Co. 3 8 0 Ditto. 90 Fox, Williams, & Co. & Birmgm. Co. 5 10 Ditto .80 Birmingham Co. 5 19 6 Wh. Buller 123 Fox, Williams, and Co. and Shears and Sons 3 15 6 Ditto 109 Crown Co. 3 14 6 Ditt0 92 Fox, Williams, and Co. and Shears and Sons 4 8 0 Ditto 88 Mines Royal Co. 311 6 Ditt0 83 English Co. 69 6 Wh. Beauchamp 38 Williams, Grenfell, and Co 4 2 0 Herland 94 Vivian & Sons, 713 0 Ditt0 ,.71 Vivian and Sons 9 17 6 Ditt0 54 Ditto 13 13 Q Ditt0 39 Ditto 417 0 Ditt0 17 Daniell, Nevill, and Co. 2 15 0 Penstruthal ]03 Fox, Williams, and Co. 211 6 Ditto. 96 Ditto. 211 6 Ditto .72 Ditto 110 Fowey Consols 122 Ditto, and Shears and Sons .576 Ditto 116 Pox,WiUiams,andCo.616 Wh. Montague.. 87 English Co. 710 6 Ditt0 68 Ditto 12 16 0 Ditto 66 Freeman and Co. 9 18 0 Wh. Tolgus 81 Ditto, and Crown Co 9 7 6 Ditto. 66 Daniell, Nevill, & Co 11 9 6 Wh. Caroline 57 Williams, Grenfell, & Co. and Vivians 613 o Ditt0 24 Daniell, Nevill, and Co; .400 Ditt0 21 Ditto. I 19 6 Wh. Fortune 65 Ditto .206 Ditto 36 Ditto. 10 13 0 Cardrew 77 Crown C0..5 19 0 Wh. Mary 56 Ditto 5 15 6 Wh. Trannack.. 51 DanieU,NeviH,andCo.440 Quantity of Copper Ore sold, 2672 tons.—Average Produce, 6j.— Quantity of fine Copper, 185 tons, 1 cwt.—Amount of Sale, £14,621 5s. Od.-Average Standard, tils 15s. HIGH WATER ON SWANSEA BAR FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. Days. Morning. Evening. Height. H. M. H. M. F. I. Saturday 10 1 10 23 14 9 Sunday. 10 49 11 17 12 9 Monday- 11 51 12 0 11 4 Tuesday- 1 9 149 10 9 Wednesday 2 28 3 4 11 4 Thursday 3 36 4 0 12 8 Friday 4 23 4 44 14 5 HIGH WATER AT THE PASSAGES DmJs. Morning. Evening. H. M. H. M. Saturday 11 21 It 43 Sunday. 12 9 12 37 Manday 1 11 1 2() Tuesday 2 29 3 9 Wednesday 3 48 4 24 Thursday 4 56 5 20 Fridav 5 43 o 4

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. WEDNKSDAY, MARCH 12.-There was scarcely any business before their Lordships. Petitions for checking the importation ot' Foreign Wool and against the Malt Act were severally read, and laid on the table.—Adj. THURSDAY, MARCH IS.—On the motion of Lord Wharnclife, a message was ordered to be sent to the Commons, requesting a copy of the reports, dated June, 1816. and April, 1821*, of the committees appointed by them to inquire into tlie laws relating to game. "The Earl of 7ankerville presented a petition against the Test and Corporation Acts, from a congregation of Protestant dis- senters, meeting in W est Chapel, Wooller, in the county of Northumberland. The Bishop of Gloucester presented petitions against Roman Catholic emancipation from the Dean and Chapter of the Holy Trtnitv, of Gloucester, and from the several rural deaneries of Cirencester, Stowe, Hawkesbury, Stonehouse, and Gloucester. -Adjourned. FRIDAY, MARCH 14.Petitions were presented from the Maltsters of Wrexham, in the county of Denbigh, praying for an alteration in the Malt Act; from the Roman Catholics of King's County, praying for some alteration of the law with respect to education in Ireland against the importation of Foreign Wool, from the Sheep-breeders and Wool-growers of Allord, in the county of Lincoln; from Protestant Dissenters in Chelmsford, Essex, against the Test and Corporation Acts and from Protestant Dissenters in a parish in the county of Durham. The Army and Marine Mutiny Bill went through a Committee. The Marquess of Lunsdowne presented a Petition from a body of Surgeons, with respect t<> the state in which their profession was placed, from (he nearly total absence of means of finding bodies for the purpose of dissection. The moderate degree in which that which was so necessary for their instruction was supplied to them, narrowed and restricted the means enjoyed by surgeons in following their business. A considerable num- ber ot young persons engaged in studying for the profession, were thus driven to leave this country, with a view to pursue their studies in other countries, and particularly in France, where many and greater facilities were afforded to them in procuring the means of instruction.—Ordered to lie on the table.—Adj. HOUSE OF COMMONS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12.—Several Petitions were presented praying for a repeal of the Malt Act; from the Clergy of Glou- cester against Catholic Emancipation from two places in Essex against the Test and Corporation Acts; and from Bainlree, for a repeal of the Stamp Duty. Mr. Stanley moved, thaia Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the laws relating to the passing of Irish vagrants to their own country. In 1827 the numbers were not less than 7983, at an expense of 36001. which was a great hardship upon parishes particularly at Liverpool. His ohject in moving for the appointment of a Committee was, to take the state of the laws into consideration-to meet immediately pro forma, in order to consult upon the returns they might wish to obtain, and then to fix an early day after Easter for entering fully into the necessary discussion.—Agreed to. SAVINGS BANKS. Mr. Hume said, that on a recent occasion he had moved for returns of the accounts of savings' banks, from the period of their establshment to the present year. He now intended to resume the subject for the purpose of submitting certain motions, in continuation of what be had already brought forward. The money of the depositors in savings' bartks was vested with go- vernment, who paid interest to the hanksjU the rate of 4l. lis. 6d. per cent. In this manner government has paid 2,<>i>0,000l., incurring a loss of 487,0001. The loss which government was sustaining by those banks might be now estimated at^the ra!e of 3000]. weekly. He was sorry that he had not on a former occa- sion. three years ago, moved for the appointment of a committee .1, or aimm at a repeal ot ine Savings' Bank Bill. He was at that time, however, informed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that a remedy for this evil was then in contem- plation. Vllas this dtilly loss to be stiffet-ed,lori,,er in the present financial condition of the country? He submitted that the intention for which these establishments had been formed was widely departed from. The bill he now thought should be re- pealed lor two reasons,—the progressive loss to the country, and the great surplus which the managers always had in possession untouched. This surplus in the Newcastle Savings' Bank, it oppcnred, was at present 4,8011. The Hon. Member also men- tioned the Devon and Exeter bank as another example of the system on which those concerns were now managed. He thought no time should be lost in abating an evil so prejudicial to the state. For deposits amounting to 15,000,0001., government had paid the fuil price at which the money was invested by those who deposited it. At a change of the price of stock, it was pro- bable that government might lose 3,000,0001. or 4,000,0001., while the depositors would be entitled to the same sum in any event. He considered that they ought to be placed in precisely the same situation as other capitalists who had capital to invest. They should do so like members of other public companies, at their own risk. There was one other point, which he would particularly urge; and he hoped that it might be taken into consideration by the Hon. Member for Surrey,—he meant the mismanagement of the officers who were intrusted with the business of the banks. They frequently entered into competition with depositors, and this, as well as tht immediate and heavy loss to government accruing from savings' banks, tended to aggravate the injury which the public was sustaining. The Hon. Member then made a motion relating to the account return of the amount of interest paid by the commissioners for the reduction of the national debt, and placed to the credit of the respective banks, from the period of their first establishment up to the 29th of November, 1M7. The motion, after a few remarks from Mr. G. Dawson, was -agreedto. Mr. Hume then moved for a number of returns connected with promotions in the army by their production, he contended, he would prove that great unnecessary expense was occasioned by the present system.-Lord Palmerston defended the system, as introducing young men into ttie army, and also into the half- pay, where they were ready for service if called for.— Mr. Maberly thought the FinanceCommittee would enter into the question fairly.—After a few words from Mr. Calcraft, who said the Hon. Member (Mr. Hume) would starve the service which he aimed at reforming, the returns were ordered. On the motion of the Chancellor of' the Exchequer, the House went into a Committee 4)pon the Life Annuity Acts. The Right Hon. Gentleman stated, that his object was to propose a measure for regulating Life Annuities, folded upon a recommendation of the Finance Committee.— Lord Althorp said, 'hat the necessity of the measure had been proved by the evidence given by Air. Finlayson before the Committee, from which it appeared that the power given to the Commissioners of the National Debt of granting Life Annuities, had occasioned a loss to the country of .90,0001. in the last three months, and that the same loss was now goins; on at the rate of 8ooot. per week. Mr. Finlayson stated, that he ha, communicated these facts to Lord Bexley in 1819, arid subsequently to Lord Goderich. These calculations might be'extra^igant, but there was no doubt but that a considerable loss had been suffered by the country.—After a few words from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Calcraft, and Mr. Hume, a Bill was ordered to be brought ill, to repeal so much of several Acts as enllbledthe Commissioners of the National Debt to grant Life Annuities—Adj. THURSDAY, MARCH 13,-The ballot for the choice of a Com. mittee to try the merits of a Petition presented against the Dover Election having been fixed for this day, the presence of 100 Members was tbereforfe necessary, but as that number did not assemble at four o'clock, the House adjourned. FRIDAY, MAncn 14. — Mr. W. J. SntitTt brought tip the Re- port of the Committee on the Thames Tunnel, and obtained leave to bring in a Bill to enable the Company to raise a farther sum of money fot*the purpose of carrying on that undertaking. Mr. Grattan presented a petition from Dublin, praying that some provision should be made for the Irish poor.—General Gascoyne thought this a far more important subject than the Ca- tholic Claims.—Mr. Hume hoped the Right Hon. Gent. (Mr. Peel ) would give his attention to the subject.—Mr. Peel said he had already sufficient to attend to, but it any Gentleman would move for a Committee on the subject, he would give it his support. Mr. W. Smith presented a Petition from the Associate Synod of Scottish Dissentt-rs. against the Corporation and Test Acts, signed by the Moderator and C!erk of the Synod on behalf of 150,000 persons. After the presentation of such a petition it could not be said that the people of Scotland accounted these Aits no grievance.—Mr. Secretary Peel was confirmed in his opinion, by a passage in the petition, in which it was said that the petitioners appreciated the blessing which exempted that part o! the United Kingdom from disqualification to fill civil offices. Ordered to be printed.—Similar petitions were pre- sented from Margate and other places. Laid on the (able. Lord John Russell then moved the second reading of the Cor- poration and lest Acts Repeal Bill.-Sir John Shelley said he sfw-ulri oppose the measurer be thought it merely a stepping tone to Catholic emancipation.— Mr. Huskisson said he opposed it for a precisely opposite reason, because he had reason to be. lieve it would injure that question.—Mr. Secretary Peel saJd it was understood that the discussion should be feken at the com- mittal of the Bill. He was determined to oppose the principle of the Bill, but he deprecated discussion at that stage.—The committal was then fixed for Tuesday next. On the Order. of the Day for the Penryn Disfranchisement Bill being read, Mr. Manning, Mr Stewart, and Mr. D. Barclay opposed the second reading.—Mr. Peel said, the case had been fully heard last Session, and was as clear a one as ever came before the House. He would, however, only consent to the se- cond reading, on the proviso that the place to which the transfer was to be made. should not be resolved on until after the East Retford Bill had been disposed or.-Lord John Russell concurred with the Right Hon. Secretary, that the committal of the Bill should not take place till then.—Mr. O'Neil warmly contended against the inconsistency of the House in condemning one place more than another for bribery. He looked on it as the su- borners of perjury bribing the perjured.-After some fuither conversation strangers were twice ordered to withdraw, but no division took place, and the Bill was read a second time. The Scotch Parochial Settlement Bill went into a Committee, and the report was ordered to be taken into consideration on the 2d of May. Mr. Hume presented three petitions praying that Mr. Robert Gourlay should be examined at the Bar of the House of Com- mons, touching a plan for reducing the national debt by the sale of coloniallanrls.-Laid on the table. The Chancellor of the Exchequer brought in a Bill to repeal so much of certain Acts as empowered the Commissioners of the National Debt to grant Life Annuities.—Read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday. Mr. Estcourt moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of licensing ale-houses. Mr. E. said, he proposed that the Bill should be read a first and second time, committed, and the blanks filled up, so that complete printed copies of it might be in the hands of the Magistrates at the next Quarter Sessions. It might be recommitted after the holidays, and the debate taken then. The principal and most important feature of the Bill was the right of appeal to the Sessions, in case of dissatisfaction with the decision of the local Magistracy. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving for leav.e to bring in a Bill to regulate the granting ot licences to persons to keep inns and ale-houses.—Mr. Hobhouse seconded the motion, declaring that he never knew a Bi I concocted with more attention, or with a greater wish to do justice to the parties interested. He was sure that the Bill would be productive of as much benefit to the country as could be expected from any legislative mea- sure on the subject.-The motion was then agreed to. Mr. Home Drummond gave notice that on Tuesday next, he would move for leave to bring in a similar Bill regarding Scot- land.-Adjourned to Monday.

MARKETS Mark-lane, London, Monday, March 17.—The arrivals of Eng- lish grain during the last week were moderate, but of Irish oats the quantity was immense. This morning there is again only a moderate fresh supply of corn from the neighbouring counties, and several more vessels with oats from Ireland. There are so few samples of fine dry wheat, that such have obtained a trifling advance on the terms of this day se'nnight, and other qualities, though slow in sale, fully maintain last quotations.—Barley has met a fair trade to-day at is. qer quarter advance on the terms of this day se'nnight. Malt meets buyers slowly, at last quo- tations. Beans that are dry sell heavily, and hardly maintain their previous rates; and damp parcels are almost entirely ne- glected. Boiling and grey pease meet a very heavy sale at the terms of last week. The market appears almost overwhelmed with Irish oats, and they have caused a further reduction in the prices of this article, of lull Is. per quarter since last Monday. The arrival of flour is moderate, and as most of the holders are anxious to quit their stocks, the prices, therefore, remain unaltered. Red, Wheat, new 48s to 52s Malt 48s to 54s Fine 54s to 57s Fine 56* to 60s Superfine 58s to 61s Hog Pease 33s to 54s New White 50s to 54s White -58s to 401 Fine 563 to 62s Ditto, boilers,new 42s to 44i Superfine 64s to 66s Small Beans, nelv 43* to 45s White old -8 lo -s Ditto, old —s to — s Red, old -8 to -3 Tick, new 32s to 36s Rye, new 30s to 33* Ditto,old 54s to 588 Brank 28s to 34s Feed Oats -16s to 18, Barley 26s to 295 Fine • 19s to 21s tine 28s to 30s Polands 17s to 21s Superfine 33s to 35s Fine 22J to 25s Price of' FLOUR. F. Flour per sack 46s. to .50s. I Second, per sack 40s. to 44%. AVERAGE PRICE'of CORN, per Qr. For the Week eliding March 7,1828, and by which importation is regulated. Wheat 52 6 I Rye 3t 4 j Beans 37 2 Barley 29 101 Oats 21 0 j Pease 38 9 Average Price for South cf North Wales, and the undermentioned Maritime Counties of England, ending March 7. Wh. Bar. Oats. 1 Wh. Bar,\Oatf. S.Wales 19 0 i>9 10 16 4 Monmouth 52 10 30 721 6 '{ N.Wales 53 0 33 0 15 2 Gloucester|54 0 29 6|26 1 t PRICE of HOPS, in Pockets perX!wt. Kent 41. 4s. to 61. 6s. Sussex 41. 2s. to 41,12s. Essex 41. 4s. to 51. Os. | Farnham 81. Os. to 91. 9s. Maidstone, March 13.—In the Hop trade now we have little or nothing stirring, nor do we expect much alteration until there is some appearance of the bine. PRICE of SEEDS, &c. s, s. s. s. Turnip,White,bush. 26 a 34 Clover, Red, perewt. 50 a 66 Red and Green 34 a 38 White 68 a 86 Mustard, Brown 13 a 16 Foreign Red 44 a 58 White •• 8 a 10 ———-———— White 56 a 80 Canary, per quarter 60 a 66 Trefoil 26 a 40 Santoin 44 a 52 Carraway 36 a 44 Rye Grass, 32 a 42 Coriander 10 a 16 PRICE of MEAT. SMITHFTELD. LB DEN H A L I. A N D N E WG At E To sink the offal, per stone By the Carcase.-Per stone of iitb. of Wbs. Beef 3s 8d to 4s lOd Beef.-SsOdto3s8d Mutton 4s 4d to 5s 4d Mutton 3s 8d to 4* 4d Lamb Os Od to Os Od Lamb Os Od to Of od Veal 6s Od to 6s 6d Veal 3s 8d to 5t 6d fork 5s 10d to 6s 6d Pork 4» 8d to 6* od PRICE of TALLOW, SOAP, # CANDLES. Town Tallow, p. cwt. 48s Od Good Dregs 5s Od Russiado. candle 41s Cd CurdSoap 82s Od Whiteôitto. 4its Od Mottled 78s Od Melted Stuff 35s Od Yellow ditto 72s Od Ditto rough 21s Od Cantiles, per doz. 7s Od Graves 20s Od Moulds. 8s 6d BRISTOL PRICE CURRENT. Musc. Sugar very Br. 60s. 61s. Cotfee, Jam., triage 25s. 30s. ry Brown.. 62 64 Ordinary. 35 40 Middling. 65 66 Good ditto 42 45 -Good ditto 6768 -Fineditto .48 5lI Good 69 70 Middling i)4 70 Fine 71 72 Good ditto ..72 80 Brown Lumps. 86 90 —Fine ditto 81 83 Middling 92 94 Fine 90 95 Good and fine 96 100 Logwood,Jam. 61. 6s. 7l. Os. Titlers and Loaves. > 94 110 St.Domingo 7 0 7 jo Double 130 140 Campeaehy 8 0 9 0 Bastard 56 6.t Fustic, Jamaica 7 10 8 n Molasses 26 27 Cuba 9 J t0 0 Rum, Jamaica-■ 3s. 6d. 4s.6d. Oil, Galipoli 42 0 44 (> ——- Leeward Isle 2 3 3 0 Sicily. 40 0 0 0 PRICE of CORN. Spring Wheat,) s. d. s. d. Pigs' peas,p.bush.4s.3d.4s. gel. per sk.of351 lb$35 0 36 0 Malt, Pale •••'• • 6 3 7 0 Wheat,foreign > 5 6 6 6 Brown- 5 0 5 6 perbushel">$Beans, English • 5 0 5 & ——— English 6 0 6 9 -Heligoland 5 6 5 9 Irish 5 6 6 0 Oats, Poland ••• • 2 6 3 (> -Welsh. 5 6 5 9 Feed 2 0 2 3 Barley, Malting 3440 Vetches, forseed 6670 Grinding-* 3 0 3 6 Flour, fine, per Pease,White •• •• 5 0 5 6 sack,2c.2q.5lb. S -Boilers ,5 6 6 0 seconds 39 0 40 0 BRISTOL PRICE of LEATHER. Heavy Crops l?d to 19(1 E. Horse Hides 14d to 16(1 Light &Midd.- l5d to 17d Spanish ditto 18d to 22rt Buffaloes-_ 15d to 18c) B. Pattern Skins 25d to 27d Rounded ditto l8d to 20d Common ditto 21d to 24d Close Butts 21d to 23d Heavy ditto 18d to 20d Best.Saddlers' l 18.d to TOci Welsh Skins 13d to 2ld Hides 5 IrishSkins 16d to 17d Common ditto 15d to 17d Kips 16d to 20d Bull ditto 14d to 16d Small Seals 18(1 to 20d

Norwich Corn Market, March 15.—We had a short supply of both wheat and barley to-day—Red wheat from 50s. to 58s. white to 6')s. ) barley 26s. to 32s. oats 2Is. to 26s. beans 34». to 36s. pease 35s. to 37s. boilers to 43s. per quarter; and flour 42s. to 43s. per sack. Norwich Cattle Market, March 15.-The supply of fat cattle to this day's market, was quite adequate to the demand; prices 7s. 3d. to 7s. 9d. per stone of 14lbs. sinking offal; of store stock w,e had a very large supply Scots sold more readily at 4s. to 4s. 9d. per stone of what they will weigh when fat; shorthorns 3s. 6d. to 4s. cows and calves a brisk sale homebreds, of one and two years old, the same. Horses, of both riding and cart kinds, but few exposed for sale, and appear to be reducing in price. We had a large number of sheep penned shearlings 24s. to 33s.; fat ones to 44s. hoggets 19s. to 23s. pigs, a plen- liful supply, and a little lower in price,flat ones to8s. per stone. Meat,—beef 6d. to Sfd veal 6d. to 8d. mutton 6d. to 7d.; 7 and pork 6d. to 8 £ d. per lb.