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PRICES OF SHARES. Shares. RAILWAYS. Amount paid. Price 2,500 Forest of Dean £50 £ 28 10,400 Grand Junction 40 83 25,000 Great Western 5 181 5,100 Liverpool and Manchester 100 2]5 25,000 London and Birmingham 45 941 g CANAI.S. 1,005 Brecknock and Abergavenny.. 150 85 3,096 Grand Western. 100.. 20 600 Glamorganshire £ 172. 13s. 4(1. 280 1,960 Gloucester and Berkeley 100 15 2,409 Monmouthshiie 100 180 535 Swansea 100 215 ex. div. 3,762 Severn and Wye and Railway. 35 17J 1,300 Thames and Severn, Black. 100 30 1,150 Ditto ditto Red 100 35 6,000 Worcester and Birmingham.. £ 78. 8s. 85 DOCKS. 3.238,310 London. Stock.. 1,380,000 West India Stock 2,209 Bristol £ 147. 9s. 85 JOINT STOCK BANKS. 10,000 Gloucestershire 5 11 Equitable Loan Company 9 10 National Provincial England.. 25 25i North & Central Ban.kofF.nn. 10 m

FRANCE. POLIGNAC AND HIS FELLOW PRISONERS.—WE have authority to contradict the report in the Messager of the 5th instant, to the effect that the State prisoners at Ham were all in good health, with the exception of the Count de PEYltRON NET, who was suffering from rheumatism. A late visitor there assures us that the health of three out of four is visibly injured, and daily sinking under the effects of their captivity.— Galignani. GRAND FANCY BALL AT TllETuILERIEs.-The fancy ball at Court on Wednesday evening was extremely brilliant: nearly 3000 persons were present. With the exception of about 50 deputies and some few foreigners, the whole of the company were in costume. It was re- marked that several noble families of the Faubourg St. Germain, who had not made their appearance at the Tuileries since 1830, were present. Among the English of distinction were the Duke of Sutherlanct, Lord Can- terbury, Lord Bentinck, Messrs. Ellis, Bulwer,Bowring, and Smith. Some officers of Scotch regiments in uni- form made a striking appearance. There were also many Americans. All the Ambassadors and Foreign Ministers attended. The King and Queen, Madame Adelaide, and the rest of the Royal Family, entered the Hall of the Marshals at nine o'clock, and the dancing immediately commenced. The Princesses opened the Ball with officers of the National Guards. At half.past twelve their Majesties and the Royal Family, followed by 600 ladies, went into the supper-room, which was most splendidly laid out and decorated. CONDUCT OF LACENAIRE AND AVRII? 4.T THE EXECUTION. -Lacenaire slept, or feigned to sleep profoundly when the officers came to announce to him officially that the fatal hour had arrived. He received, immediately afterwards, a visit from the venerable Abbe Montes. Another ecclesiastic was ient to Avril. At seven o'clock the two convicts were led into the lower cell, where are made those dreadful prepara- tions known by the name of the toilette." The executioner, assisted by his son-in-law, and by a son-who that day, it is said, commenced his awful apprenticeship to the trade-were present with several others. Lacenaire entered smokifig a cigar, and asked for a cup of coffee. Avril had just finished hi3 last glass of brandy. Lacenaire embraced him, Saying, Eh; well, mon vieux Let us bear no rancour yon denounced me I denounced you in my turn it was merely tit for tat you know." The passage from Bicetre to St. Jacques was slow and solemn, and lasted from half-past seven to half-past eight o'clock. Behind the carriage in which were.the convicts, came a hackney coach containing the executioner and his assistants. When they arrived at the barriere St. Jacques the crowd was already considerable. The authorities had taken measures in order that the moment of execution should not be known-the executioner and the other person, whose services were required, only received notice at a very late hour at night; but during the time which was necessary for the erection of the scaffold, rumour, with her thousand tongues, had spread abroad the news. The coach (the cart has not been used for the last five years) which contained the two convicts, and which concealed them from the curiosity of the increasing crowd, was at last opened, and Lacenaire and Avril stepped out. The two ecclesiastics addressed to them, at the foot of the scaffold, the consolations of religion, to which, however, they seemed to pay but little attention. Lacenaire trembled, his knees bent under him. Avril, who was first delivered over to the executioner, sprang with a rapid step up the terrible staircase. Having reached the last step, he cast a last look towards Lacenaire, and said, Adieu, my old boy it is my turn first." When Avril felt himself attached to the bascule, he wished to address a few words to the spectators, but he had not time. At the end of a few seconds he had ceased to live Lacenaire, deeply affected, and hardly able to sustain himself, started convul- sively back when he saw, in the basket destined to receive them, the already inanimate and mutilated remains of his companion in misfortune. He had several times announced at the Conciergerie and at Bicetre that he had composed a harangue for the fatal moment but time was not left him. more than to Aril to pronounce it: perhaps he would not have had strength. At five minutes after the clock had struck half-past eight, all was over. An end so vulgar seemed much to disappoint the crowd, and to dispel the singular idea which many of the spectators had formed, of a man of some education, end of some happy faculties, but who became -no- thing after all but a very ordinary rascal.

SPAIN. A letter from the north of Spain says, "in Segur the Queen's troops and Carlists had a desparate conflict on the 23rd of last month. Nearly 200 men are computed to have been killed on each side, and a great number wounded, but the result was favourable to the Queen's troops, owing to the defection of a considerable portion of the Carlists, who came over, abandoned the Preten- der's standard, and rivalled the Queen's soldiers in dealing destruction to their former officers, and those men who remained under them. The Carlists werAflen completely routed, and finally took to flight, leading arms, amunition, provisions, and bullocks, which they- had plundered to a considerable amount. Gorrondovarf a somewhat celebrated Carlist commander, was one p the killed. Sixty Carlisis of the faction of Tristani were surprised in the vicinity of Casteltallet, and brought in as prisoners to the village of Manresn on the 27th ultimo. On the 28th of the same a newly raised regiment of Ca- 9 tores cavaljy, consisting of 300 men, well mounted and equipped, placed themselves under the command of Don Pedro de Plaudoliz, a General of the Queen's ca- valry of Catalonia. There are still 10 or 12 batallions of the Carlists in this province and its confines, but they are quite inactive. We had last week here a number of resignations from officers of all ranks in the Legion, on aceount of alleged partiality in promotions, &c."

PORTUGAL. MARKIACE OF THE QUEEN or PORTUGAL.-The marriage ceremony between the Queen of Portugal and Prince Fer- dinand of Saxe Coburg, took place at Lisbon on the 1st in stant. The Duke of Terceira acted as proxy for the Prince There were great rejoicings on this occasion, aud the city was expected to be illuminated for three successive evenings. The Queen is desciibed to have appeared,unusually thought. ful on her way to the cathedral. Nor is this to be wondered at. She could not but reflect how brief the period which had elapsed since she took part in a like ceremony with one ten- derly beloved, who is now in the tomb. To have become a wife, a widow, and a second time a wife, has not often hap- pened] to one ofjher high rank, and shebutstiH in her 17th year. The ceremony is described to have been really mag- nificient. The Queen was attired in a gown of white satin, made very low, short sleeves, trimming of deep white bionde* with a, brilliant diamond stomacher, the only ornament she wore. Her hair was plainly braided over her forehead, and was fastened from behind. She wore a white veil. On the second, Donna Maria opened the Cortes in person. The speech which she delivered glances on the mournful events of the past year, and recommends the Peers and De- puties to proceed with those labours which were so unhappily interrupted by the dea'h of her father and her husband.. She congratulated them that the peace of her kingdom had not been disturbed, and anticipates that the Portuguese arms which, after crushing a liberticide faction at home, are now carried to support the crown of Spain, will shortly, acting in concert with Great Britain and France, restore tranquillity to the whole of the Peninsula. On the subject of her marriage r she states, that before the interests of the nation, all other considerations are silent, and she announces with satisfaction that in the Prince to whom she has been united, all those virtues which ought to eniure to her, private happiness and give to the Constitutional Monarchy of the country a new and solid support, strengthening at the same time ancient alliances, will be found. Some general expressions are ha- zarded on the subject of economy, but disappointment was felt in Lisbon that the intended course of the Minister was not more distinctly indicated.

RUSSIA. .i-f r; (From the Courrier Francai#. } Extract of a commercial letter from Trebizond The Russians are endeavouring to establish themselves in the Gulf of Batoun, with the view of securing their communica- tions between the two seas couriers are established from Tiflis to Derbend, and will soon be also from the former place to Batoun. They may be consideted as masters of the country situated between the Phasis, the Tchork, and the Upper Kour, as far as Georgia their vessels are taking soundings along the coast from Lazes to Rizeh, and two armed vessels maintain the maritime police of the coast, as if it made part of the Crimea. At Trebizond they have dissemi- nated corruption throughout the place, and all the public functionaries are sold to them their object is to keep strangers away from the place as long as it does not belong to them. From all accounts received by land and sea, the tribes of the Caucasus are in open revolt; the power of the Russians is still very precarious theie they are said to be endeavouring to complete a line of strong holds between Azof and the Kouban, and to re-establish the ancient and immense trench that used to serve as a southern boundary between them and the Tartars.

WEST INDIES. The following extract of a letter from Jamaica, dated No- vember 17, 1835, conveys rather unpleasant intelligence "The special magistrates from.England are so harrassed by endless correspondence and business, not strictly within their province, that they die off more rapidly than they can be ap- pointed. Several have died within a few weeks, and many are now ill, with little hopes of recovery. Of the first thirteen sent out by the Home Government, one only remains, and he is gone to St. Thomas s, in hopes of recovering his health. Mr. Robert Fitzgerald, son of the Knight of Kerry, died on the 7th, and was buned on the 8th. He arrived here from St. Lucia about four months ago, and was settled in St. An. drew's. The Governor, very much against Mr. Fitzgerald's inclination, ordered him to remove, just as he was settled, to the Port Royal Mountains. Fitzgerald remonstrated but in vain. A suspended magistrate advanced a number of charges against him to the governor. He asked time to answer them, and to be excused for a few days from his ordinary duties.— The governor refused, and this preyed upon his spirits. He -died in a few days. Being generally respected, his funeral was attended by a vast number of respectable inhabitants of Kingston. The governor is a man of great activity. There is not much hope at present of carrying the Abolition Law into full effect. Some of the magistrates, to preserve their lives, try to save trouble, and to avoid the chance of inqui- ries, and thus the really guilty escape punishment. The tna- gistrates have, I think, reason to complain their salary is wholly inadequate to the risk and labour, and the treatment many of them receive wholly unmerited. Mr. Edwards, of Westmorland, died a few days ago, and his place has been filled by a police officer. Poor Fitzgerald's place has been filled by a brown gentleman, who keeps a liquor shop aj Kingston."—Courier.

UNITED STATES- DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION AT NEW YORK.- New York papers to the 23d ult. by the London line of packet-ship Toronto, which arrived yesterday at Ports- mouth, after an extraordinary short passage of 15 days, bring the intelligence of an awful and ruinous conflagra- tion which destroyed nearly TOO of the principal houses and stores,-and has occasioned a loss of 25,000,000 dollars. A little before nine o'clock on the evening of the 15th ult. a fire broke out in the store of Cromstock and Andrews, in Merchant-street. The street is narrow and built on both sides with high stores, principally oc- cupied by dry goods, jobbers, and importers. The wind blowing a gale at N. W., the thermometer at or below zero, the hydrants mostly frozen, and the engines almost unfit for service in consequence of the freezing of the hose- from their exposure the preceding night, great fears of extensive damage were expressed at the commence- ment of the fire, and these fears were more than realized -the flames spread with singular rapidity, street after street sank in succession before the devouring element, and it was only by blowing up the buildings with gun- powder, and thereby creating vacant spaces which left nothing for the flames to fasten on that the fire was ar- rested, but not till a portion of nearly 50 acres was left a mass of ruined buildings, after a conflagration which lasted 15 hours. It ts remarkable, that few are suppos- ed to have perished in the flames, although greatlper- sonal risk must have been encountered by those who were active in rendering assistance. The most revolting circumstance attending this calamity was the infamous extent of the plunder. Nearly 100 scoundrels were seized in the very act of "stealing valuable articles, even when the alarm and danger were at the highest, and about 200 more were afterwards arrested for having articles in tbeir possession, stolen from the scene of the conflagaration. Notwithstanding the vigilance exerted to prevent these spoliations, the army of the plunderers was so numerous, and they displayed so much boldness and dexterity, that a large amount of propeity was car- ried off. In the midst of this terrible visitation, it was, however, consolatory to see the elastic energy of the people. Instead of wasting their time in despondency over this frightful desolation, the whole population seemed on the alert to repair the mischief. The poorer classes worked with spirit, and the richer consulted together with calmness and promptitude. Plans of re- building on an improved scale, and modes of borrowing money for that purpose, on sound securities, were dis- cussed as steadily and rationally as if, instead of having incurred an almost unparalleled loss, the inhabitants had merely met to consider how best to employ an immense surplus capital. This is, we repeat, a consoling spec- tacle; and, as Englishmen, let us be allowed to say, that we recognize in such men the congenial natures of our common ancestors.—There is not so much in those papers respecting the quarrel with France. It was ob- served, as something worth notice, that the French ,Consul at Washington refused to dine with the Presi. dent after the delivery of the message to the Congress. (From the New York Times.) The public mind has experienced much relief during the last two days. We ate beginning to recover from, the shock. It came on us with such overwhelming force, that we were not only prostrated, but stupified by it. We are beginning to look around us-to examine coolly, and dispationately, into the extent of the calamity-to examine, with cautious- ness and prudence, into the course to be pursued to relieve us from our temporary sufferings-for temporary, we trust, they will be. The elastic spirit of our citizens is beginning to rise from the temporary pressure that weighed it down. Our energies, checked for a time, have again begun to exert themselves. Sufferers, of all classes, have determined to put their own shoulders to the wheel, and then, if necessary, to caU MpCp Hercules—to trust to themselves first, before they trust to others—to ascertain first, whether in our own city, and our own State, we have not the means to repair our losses, before we ask aid from other sources. Despon- dency now is as unwise as it is unmanly. We want action, prompt, immediate, decisive action. Our prosperity may be checked, but it is far from being destroyed. We have that within us—the sources of our riches and our prosperity—that disaster cannot break. We have all that has made us what *e aie-energy, promptness, and enterprise. We need the Exertion of these qualities now-and, unless we mistake the character of our citizens, they will be called into prompt and vigorous exercise. In times like these, the minor considera- tions which ordinarily divide us must be discarded. In re- lieving each other—in restoring the prosperity of our citizens —there must be but one party. We must act with entire una- nimity of feeling, as if but one heart led, and one hand acted. We have received a check in our prosperity, but it has been after a business year of most unparalleled success. The calamity, heavy as it is, has fallen at a time when it could be best borne by our commercial community. The stocks of our merchants are at this season of the year generally very low. Our banks are disposed to act liberally, and relief will and must be obtained, if not from the General, at least from the State Government. Our citizens are of good heart: they will do justice to themselves; and we trust that within a brief period, we shall be able to state that we are again in the full tide of successful experiment, and fast recovering from our recent disasters. The energies of the city of New York cannot be easily repressed or destroyed. Onward" is the word. (From the New York Advertiser.) The aspect of affairs is decidedly more cheering although about 52 acres of ground resemble the ruins of the old world, yet on a close inspection of things, it is discovered that the losses have not been half as great as was first contemplated. Ten or fifteen millions will probably be the extent. The Insurance Offices will pay better than was expected -the North River, Equitable, City, New York, Bowery, Guardian, Fulton, Eagle, and Greenwich all pay. The confidence that the Corporation will issue Stock to enable the Companies to pay promptly-and the spirit among the Banks to be liberal —and a corresponding disposition among all classes to yield to circumstances, have inspired more hope in the public. Not a failure, as we can learn, has yet taken place no bonds are to be put in suit. The merchants meet as usual. The Board of Brokers commence to-day, and already business be- gins to assume some appearance ofa activity. Our columns begin to present a fair share of goods for sale many of the larger houses have advertised to discount all their notes out. All these conspire to give confidence. Let every sufferer re- double his exertions, remembering that industry, integrity, prudence, and economy will soon bring all right again. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 11.—The Virginian from New York arrived he^e to-day« bringing dates to the 24th ult. She made the passage from New York to Tuscar, in the unpre- cedented short period of thirteen days and a few hours, and had probably reached this port in less time than any pre- ceding vessel if the wind had not suddenly changed while entering the channel.—The Virginian brings two days later dates thai) the Toronto, which arrived at Portsmouth on Fri- dty last. The absorbing subject is, of course, the recent 'ttafrviCttW fTW,' iFtTiTTTre most strenuous exertions are making all classes of the community to aven the evils resulting from it. A private letter states that the destruction of pro perty will not exceed ten millions of dollars (two millions sterling), towards which the Corporationlof New York has offered to advance a loan of six millions of dol- lars, and the Bank of the United States another two millions. The subject of an advance of money to meet the distressing calamity was mooted in Congress and fa- vourably received, but the citizens appear to think that their resources are sufficiently ample without troubling the Legis- lature. It is generally believed that the calamity will not impede, for any length of time, the commercial business of the city, nor is it likely to occasion the failure of any resi- dent commercial houses, or be productive of loss to any foreign one. The energies of the people appear to have risen with the occasion.—It is generally believed in New York, that although General Jackson, on the arrival of Mr. Barton, would serrtl an angry special message to Congress, that body would not take any steps with regard to France, until it was ascertained what effect the Messagej of the Pre- sident, delivered last month, had produced in France. This of course, settles at once the question, and Congress, if it ad- here to this wise policy, will be entitled to the thanks of the civilized world. The only obstacle to a peaceable ad- justment of the matter as it stands at present will thus be avoided.—The following is given as a rough summary of the goods destroyed at the great New York fire 20,000 chests of tea, 12,000 bags of coffee, 3,000 boxes of Cuba sugar, 500 bags of saltpetre, 40,000 gallons of sperm oil, several thousands bags of pimento, and a large quantity of brandy and indigo. Of dry goods two or three large stocks of American manufacture were burned; but the destruction was cbiefly of foreign fabrics, and, in proporrtion to the quantity in the market, heaviest of all on French goods.- The exchange on England [was 10} 10J. Ihe Americans were nxiously looking to the'effect which the President's Messuage would produce in Europe. Mr. Barton was ex- pected daily. The commerciallelter3 from New York are written gene- rally in much better spirits than might have been expected from the peculiar position in which the mercantile affairs of that city had been placed by the dreadful sacrifice of pro- perty by fire.

TITHES. The following circular has just been issued from the Home Office, with the view, it is concluded, of obtaining informa- tion for a measuie to be brought forward in the approaching session: The favour of an answer is requested to the following queries, which answer you will please to fill in, in the co. lumns on the other side, according as the tithe is taken in kind, or compounded for on view of the crop just before harvest, or compounded for by a money payment per acre, stating whether let on lease, and for what term, or only com- pounded for from year to year; and if any part is subject to a modus, or composition real, or prescriptive payment, you will be pleased to state the quantity and culture of land so subject, and the amount per acre, under the proper column "Quere 1. The county in which the parish or estate is situate, to which these queries apply. 2. State the name of parish, and name and distance of market town usually frequented for sale of produce. "3. State how many acres does the said parish or estate contain, distinguishing the number of acres of arable, mea- dow, pasture, or sheep-walk, and wood-land. 4. Is the parish or estate the property of aiay or ecclesi- astical impropriator? "5. State, under the appropriate head on the other side, whether the tithe is taken in kind, or compounded for on view of each crop every year, or compounded for by an annual average money payment, or by a corn rent; and state, in either of the two last cases, whether on lease, or the payment varied from year to year. 6. In the first case, state the amount of average market value of the tithe so taken in kind during the last seven years, without any deduction whatsoever. 7. State the scale of prices at which the above value is calculated. 3. State whether the whole parish or estate is subject to rectorial and vicarial tithes, and if to vicarial tithes, state the amount in value of each description separately, and (if any) the quantity and culture of land subject to any modus, com- position real, or prescriptive payment, and the amount of any such payment per acre. "9. If the tithe is taken in kind, state the expenses of collecting, thrashing, and carrying the same to market. 10. State the amount of all rates and taxes to which such tithe is subject. And the two sums referred to in Nos. 8 and 9, when subtracted from the marketable value of the tithe, will give the net value of the tithe. "11. If compounded for on view of each crop, state the average anuual value of the whole of the produce during the last seven years, without any deduction whatsoever; and also the prices on which each value was calculated the amount of such composition for such description of land, and whether the same has been made subject to rates and if so, state the amount of such rates, which, deducted from the composition, will give the net value of the tithe. If you cannot answer the question in detail, give the whole composition. 12. If under composition by a money payment, or on a corn rent for several years, or from year to year, state the amount of such composition, when such composition was made, and for what term. 13. What was the scale of prices on whijh such compo- sition was calculated 1 14. Is such composition received clear of all rates, or subject to them ? And if the latter, state the amount of such rates, and the net value of such composition received by the tithe owner."

MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday an unfortunate female, of the lowest class, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having run away with a coat and waistcoat of a gentleman who was sta- ted to be the brother of a Member of Parliament. The facts were rather odd, as was the complainant himself, who is an elderly, stout, sad-looking?person, and who appeared in a coat and waistcoat which had evidentty been made fur a man of smaller dimensions. The scene was as follows • The Comphinant: My Lord, I am the injured person in this business. I was last night in Bishopsgate street, and I saw a good many poor devils about, who looked as if they wanted something to drink so I slipped off my coat and waistcoat, and told this woman to go to the next pawnbroker, and spout 'em for all she could get [laughter]. Well, I waited at the corner of Petticoat lane uniifl became so pre- cious cold that I went to look after her, but I soon found that she had bolted. The Lord Mayor: Bolted I suppose you mean she ran off with your coat and waistcoat ? Complainant: Just so, my Lord it was a regular clean bolt. So I said to a woman that was with her when I gave her the clothes. An't this a shame that I should be strip- ped-, when I meant only what was right 1" but what did she do, but I hope I may be obliged to take tea, if she did'Dt bolt too [laughter]. The Lord Mayor: You seem to be very fond of that word "bolt." Is it not rather strange language for a person in your'station in life to use Complainant (not seeming to comprehend his Lordship) I assure you, my Lord, that both bolted like bricks so I ran after them, and I called to the police, and the officers bolted after them like shot, and grabbled this one, and she can tell all about it [great laughter]. A policeman stated that he saw the complainant come out of a gin-shop about half muzzy, but with his coat and waist- coat on. Five minutes afterwards witness saw him take off his c6at and waistcoat and give them to a female, who turned the corner and disappeared. Witness had no idea that anv. thing unfair was contemplated, and did not interfere till the complainant told him that the coat and waistcoat had walked off to the pawnbroker's. The prisoner had been in company with the woman who was said to have bolted. The Lord Mayor (to the complainant) You can't say that this woman took your coat and waistcolt 1-Complainant: She bolted as well as the other, that's what I know. If she wasn t down to the move, why did she bolt, I'd be glad to know? Neither you nor I would bolt for nothing [laughter]. ■fi 1 'aDt^or^ o^'he house in which the complainant lodged said that the gentleman was a person of peculiar habits, whose Tk '1'S krol')er had been obliged to restrain, for two pints of beer would have the effect of pouring out 100 sovereigns in a minute amongst the distressed if the gentlemen had that sum about him. Here the complainant shed tears, but the coat he had on was so tight about the back and shoulders that he could not put up one of his hands to wipe his eyes without throwing his other arm in a very awkward manner behind him. The waistcoat, too, was so tight, that he was obliged to leave un- buttoned the whole of the lower part of it. Added to this, was the effect of two pints of porter which he had swallowed at his breakfast. The Lord Mayor: I am very sorry, Sir, that I can do you no service in the case, except it may be of service to you to advise you not to get into such company again. Complainant: What would you have me to do, my Lord, if I should be so unfortunate ? The Lord Mayor: Do why bolt, to be sure [laughter]. Complainant (with energy) Bolt You're right, my Lord, I hope I may be smothered in tea if I don't bolt [great laughter]. THE CITY OF LONDON MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL. -The information thai the City of London Municipal Reform Report will be speedily produced has excited a very strong interest in the city of London, and it is expected that meetings will immediately take place not only in the Courts of Aldermen and Common Council, but in all the" Wards, on the subject. THE GLASGOW ELECTION.—We see by The True' Sun, arrived this afternoon, that Mr. Feargus O'Connor is a candidate for the representation of Glasgow. In his address to the Electors he declares himself an advocate for Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, ;Vote,.by-&lIot, and no property Qualification for Metnbers of Parliament, Mr. O'Connor has not the slightest chance. We should be glad him meet with a congenial constituency ID his own country, or where he is known; but he need not come to Glasgow, where the electors know little comparatively about him. -Glasgow Chronicle. The late Town Clerk has not yet- made his claim for compensation. Rumour says,will amount to £ 60,000. We wish he may get it I-What a dear little man Mr. Foster is!—Liverpool*Albion. M rN 1 NG INTELLIGENCE.—It is with gratification that we are enabled to state, that the Anglesey mines are in general and profitable operation and we understand that those sources of wealth are likely to be considerably increased, as a new copper-mine has been recently dis. covered in Beffon Mountain, which in all probability will not only furnish increased employment, but also be highly remuneratiie to the capitalist.— Carnarvon Herald. A dreadful accident occurred at the Down's Pit, Hetton Colliery, on Thursday morning. Philip Snooks and Matthew Rutherford, pitmen, got into the loop to descend the mine to work, when the rope had, unfor- tunately, not been over the hook, but only resting on the point, it consequently slipped off, and they fell to the bottom, a depth of 180 fathoms, by which they were dashed tb pieces. Some masons working in the shaft at the time had a very narrow escape, part of the scaf- fold on which they were at work having been carried to the bottom.— Durham Chronicle. A gigantic crab, taken off Dover, has been presented to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society it weighed 131bs. Its body, in dimensions, resembles that of a turtle; the claws are in the same extraordinary proportion.

IIAY AND STRAW, SMITHFIELD, JAN. 10. I 1 Hay 60s Od to 80s Od Clover .75s Od to 105» w 1 Inferior — s Od to — s Od fnferior.s Od to —1 Od Straw. 26s to 30s. W HITECflAPEL.-Clover. 90s to 108s; second cut, Os to Os-; [ new ditto, Os to Os Hay, 72s to 104s new ditto, Os to Os j Wheat Straw, 24s to 30s. PORTMAN MA HKET.-Coarse Heavy Lowland Hay, 50s t oGOti New Meadow Hay, 66s to 84s; Old ditto, 80s to 95s; use- ful ditto, 70s to 85s New Clover ditto, 70s to 85s Olo ditto, 84s to 100s Wheat Straw, 28s to 34s per load Uti 36trusses. il PRICES OF TIMBER PER LOAD. Quebec Oak, £ 5. 10s Od to £ 6. 0s Od Pine Red, £ 4. 12s 6d ff to £ 4. 15s Od Riga Fir, £ 5. 10s Od Dantzic and Memeli'lJ X-5. 2s 6d to £5. 7s 6d. « PRICES OF BARK. M English Bark, per load 45 cwt. X14 to £ 16 new, £ 0 to so -Foreign Bark, £5. Os to .£6. 10s; Mimosa, £11. (is t £12. Os and Valonia, £]2, Os to X17. Os per ton. B WOOL, PER POUND. I Blanket, lid to 15d Combing, 14d to 22d Flannel, 14d t<9 13d.—FLEKCE WOOLS.—N. and S. Down Hoggets, ls8^B to Is lOd Half-breed, Is 8d to Is lOd Kent, Is 7d to If 8d The Long Wool of Lincoln, Leicester, Warwick, fi.ons W the grower, Is 4d to Is 6d.—FOREIGN WOOLS.—Germany# 1 Electoral, 4s 6d to 5s 9d Lower Qualities, 2s 2d to,2s Australian, best, 2s 3d to 4s Od Inferior, 0s lOd to Is oa» I Van Dieman's Land, clean, 2s Od to 2s 8.—Trade briskèt. SHF.RP SfcTTVS W Polled 3s 6d to 5s Od Downs 3s Od to 3s Polled 3s 6d to 5s Od Downs 3s Od to 3s Lambs 3s Od to 4s Od.

COUNTRY MARKETS. S Monmouth, Saturday, Jan. 9.—Wheat, per quarter, 1m penal measure, 36s 6d to 39s 6d; Barley, 28s Od to 00s Od « Oats, Os Od to Os Od. B Bristol, Jan. 12.-Wheat, per quarter, 35s'3d 27s 7d; Oats, 16s 4d; Rye, 0s Od Beans, 36s 4d; Petfla 46s Od. Hereford, Jan. 9.—Wheat per bushel Imperial Measurfi W 48 lOd to 5s Od; Barley, 3s 6d to 3s 9d; Beans, old, 41 2d to 4s lid i ditto, new,0s Od to 0s Od Peas. 3s Stfto 4s Hi Vetches, 0sOd to 0s Od Oats, 2s 6d to 2s lid. Gloucester, January 9.—Wheat per bushel of 601bs. 484d to 5s 3d Barley per Imp. Quar. 28s Od Ao 32s Cd Beans per Imp. bush. 4s 6d to 5s 9d Oats, Imp. Quar. 17s Od to 32s Od Peas, Imp. Quar. 40s Od to 44s Od; Malt, IroP? Quar. 42s Od to 56s Od; Fine Flour per sack of 2801bs.3?f to 34s. Swansea, January 9—Wheat, 5s 6d to 5s 9d Barley. 9d to 3s Od Oats, 2s 6d to 3s 9d, per Winchester. Carmarthen, January 9.-Wheat, 4s 9d to 5s 3d. per ■ 64lbs.; Barley, 2s 6d to 3s Od, per Imperial Bushel; Oats, Is 4d to 2s Od, pet ditto.. J

BRISTOL PRICES CURRENT OF LEATHER ANJt RAW GOODS. m Crop Hides per lb I ljd to 170 RAW GOODS. English Butts IIJ 20 Market Hides, per ib. 214 to Shoulders 10 12 Calfskins 4 Bellies oj Hides, BuenosAyrs,dry 7 9* wm Foreign Hides 11 13 salted 41 ■ Shoulders 7 to North American. St B«'lies 8 8 New South Wales 3j Butts 134 17J Danish 4 <| V Saddlers'Hides 14 is Copenhagen. 4I v I Shaved Hides 14 17 Dutch 3j 4,-1 Bull lo 12 Irish 3 <1 1 English Horse Hides (5 17 Brazil, dry salted 5 '•I Welch ditto 11 15 Spanish Horse, dry 1 German ditto 14 18 each. 8s ffd to !0s Spanish ditto 16 20 German,each.. lostol'l'f Shaved (without butts) trish.salted.prlbfldto each 10s 13s I Kips, Petersbnrgh, dry. 8 Best Pattern Skins., isd 24d African 0 'KSl Eng Horse Butts pi lb II 12 Cape 6 f Calf Skins 14 2l East India, dry.. 5 f. i^heavy) 15 18 dry salted 7 *t ^elch 13 22$Irish, salted. 4 4*' Irish 13 15 Skins, Irish Veal. il Kips,English&Welsh 14 17 Calf. 2I Foreign j 1 i6j Cape a Seal Skins (small) 16 17 Newfoundland Seal (large)' 10 14 perskin.. is 4d to IS*! 19 14 Bark per ton, £ 5 to £ « Dual, Foreign Bellies 6 8 Valonia..per ton, £ 14 to Ditto Shoulders. 8 loj Shitmac per cwt. I2s to Dress Hide Bellies i)A lo Horns per 12J, 30s to Do. do. Shoulders o| loj Cod Oil .p»r trni

LONDON COAL MARKET.—(CLOSING PRlCf&M WEDNESDAY EVENING.) Quality. Price per ton.j Quality. Price per tAS NEWCASTLE. S. <i- Adair's 18 6Lambton Primrose vsS. Bensham 18 9'Braddyll Richmund. Bradley Main Wall's End Braddyll's- Burdon Main Betton Cans Hartley 19 9 Wall's End Haswell Chester 19 Oj Wall's End Hetton. & ,| Dean's Primrose Wall's End Lambton 2? "if East Percy. 19 0|Wall's End Lyons J&M Felling Main. Wall's End Russell's -WM Hebburn21 0 Hettons JX Holywell 21 0 Wall's End Stewart's -23'*« Holywell Retns Wall's End Stobart's Kenton Wiest HARTLEY FOOL. JB Leaze Main 16 6 W, FUBrad. Hetten. A Ordes R&fheitgh 18 0 STOCKTON. Pontop Windsor Dixon's Butterknowl Pitt's South Moor 18 0 Wall's End Adelaide :M Russell's Higfi Main 18 3 Wall's End Chilton. South Hartley Wall's End Gordon. 22 Shipcote W. E. South Durham rM Tanfield 21 0 Wall's End Southend.. '?'• » West Hartley 20 0 Wall's End Tees M Wellington W.E.TeetTanneM.. Wylam 20 9 Wall's End St. Helen'r W. E. Bell and Brown Tees W.E.BellRobson&Co. W. E. Wellington W. E. Bewicke and Co. 21 6 W. E. West Hetton. Walls End Burraton BLYTH, SCOTCH, WELCH, aH" Walls End Brown's. YORKSHIRE. Walls Eri3 Chilton 17 6Blyth Walls End Carr and Co. Cowpen ■ Walls End Clark & Co. Hartley i Walls End Gosforth. 21 6 Howard's Netherton «i Walls End Graces Main Walls End Hotspur. Kaye's Old Flockton •• Walls End Heaton 21 3Llangennech Coal Walls End Hilda 21 0 Merthyr ■['4 W. E. Killingworth. 21 OSilkstone Field and Co- W. E. Killingworth re- Silkstone Biram shipped. Wosbro' Park o.. W. E. Lanchester 20 6!Twibell's Gawber Hall 1' « j W. E.Newmarch. 19 9Thorpe's Gawber Ilall 1' W. E. Northumberland |Wrall's End Elgin j Walls End Perkins 19 9!W. E.Henderson Walls En?l RUdells, 21 0 TRADERS. V Walls End Walker W. E.Tees and Gordon, ■< Walls End Waldridge.. mixt i SUNDERLAND..Tranent -i Bell's Primrose 17 6 I Arrived since last day, 2.—Shipping Gazette. E

FRIDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY8Fi BANKRUPTS. 16; S P. Walker, Quickset-row, New-road, builder, JaD' Feb. 19, in Basinghall-street. Alt. Peile. London. j-.} \V. Buck, Hammersmith, victualler, Jan. 15, Feb. Basinghall-street. Atts. Messrs. Langham, Loildon., J. Moser, Oxford-street, cabinet maker, Jan. 12, Feb- in Basinghall-street. Atts. Watson and Sons, London- A. Ash worth, Haslingden, Lancashire, woollen turer, Feb. 4, 19, at the Commercial Inn, Bolton. Awf? Milne and Co., London Mitchell, Haslingden, j. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. j C. and C. Mason, Piccadilly, livery stable keepers. I W. Harris, Farnham, Southampton, cattle salesman. DIVIDENDS. J Jan. 29 J. Postlethwaite, Liverpool, draper. fr Jan. 30: M. Jacobs, Exeter, tailor. m Feb. 1: I. Pemberton, Worcester,, brush maker. Feb. 3: J. M. Bird, Liverpool, chymist. ,.f« Feb. 9: R. S. Clare, Harrington, Liverpool, tar Feb. 17 J. Cooper, Liverpool, joiner. CERTIFICATES. Jan. 26: S. Stocker, Baptist Mills, Gloucestershire, tualler S. Lorymer, Bristol, brewer; W. Hannay, J..1\' pool, merchant. 'ijwf Jan. 29 J. Jarmain. Air-Street. Piccadilly, bill hioktrfTjm DISSDTUTIONS OF PARTNERSHIP. FJJM W. R.and C. Robinson, London, merchants J. and JJg8 Bubb, Cheltenham, attorneys-at-law C. and C. jun., Liverpool, ship brokers E. and G. Shelton, Birrn1 ham, timber merchants Meek and Co., Manchester, iBflK chants; Rathbone and Co., Liverpool, merchants (so (at, regards R. Rathbone); Matihie and Steel, Liverpool, chants Scott and Parke, Liverpool, corn merchants DI and Prime, Coventry, bankers; Pinlay and N eiison, G gow, bankers. if

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE, JANUARY ^J BANKRUPTS. LJLK B. Brook, surgeon, South Lambeth, Jan. 19, Feb. 22, Basinehall-street. Atts. Rickards and Co., London. T. Joel, dealer'in watches, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Feb, 23, at the Commission Room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. A' Watson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Shield and Co., J. Reeves, coach smith, West Bromwich, StafFordsbi^Kl Jan. 23, Feb.23, at Radenhurst's Royal Hotel, Birmingham* Atts. Swain and Co., London; Whatley, Birmingham.. fa W. Godwin, timber merchant, Gillingham, Dorsetsh,f'H Jan. 22, at the Talbot Inn. IwernMinster, Dorsetshire, 23, at the Greyhound Inn, Blandford, Dorsetshire. AM Venning and Co., London; Chitty, Shaftesbury. L. J- C. Claytte, agent, Manchester, Jan. 26, Feb. 23i the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Atts. Co., Manchester Walmsley and Co., London. • R. Drew, currier, Ilampstead-road, Jan. 20, Feb. 239 Basinghall-street. Att. Billing, London. II. Pierce, victualler, Birmingham, Jan. 22, Feb. 23^^ V the New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Atts. (Jem and W London; Lloyd,^Birmingham. M G. T. Clough, baker, George-street, Great 1 Blackfriars, Jan. 23, Feb. 23, in Basinghall-slreet. A » Young, London. G. Hewitt, coach master, Brixton-road, Jan. 19, Feb* f in Basinghall-street. Att. Sadgrove, London. j W. Smyth, coach master, Portsea, Jan. 26, Feb. 23,L Royal Oak Inn, Portsea. Atts. Wimburn and Co., Lo11" f Low, Portsea,