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Date of Article: 19/02/1832
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THE TOWN: " IN TOWN, OUT OF TOWN— ALL THE WORLD! OYER." 8UMAY, FEBRtABY 1 ® , Price fftl. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE.- TO- morrow evening, " Will be produced, on a scale of unprecedented grandeur, and which has been some time in preparation, anew Grand Opera, to be called THE D- EMON ! Or, THE MYSTIC BRANCH. With, for the first time in this country, the whole of the Music from the celebrated Opera of ROBERT LE DIABLE by Mayerbeer. The principal Characters by Mr. Wood, Mr. Phillips, Mr. Tein- pleton, Mr. Bedford, Mrs. Wood, and Miss Fanny Ayton. Tuesday THE RENT DAY. And other Entertainments. Wednesday, THE SELF- TORMENTOR. And other tertainments. THE MERCHANT OF LONDON, a new Drama, in Five Acts, is in an active state of preparation, and will appear in the course of a few days. En- THEAT RE ROYAL, ADELPHI. To- morrow evening, VICTORINE, Or, " I'LL SLEEP ON IT." Alexandre, Mr. Yates. Victorine, Mrs. Yates. After which, ROBERT LE DIABLE; Or, THE DEVIL'S SON ! Robert, Duke of Normandy, Mr. Hemmings. Bertram, Mr. Yates Isabella, Miss Daly. Pauline, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. MR. WARREN, Surgeon Dentist, in announc- ing to his Friends, the Nobility, and Gentry, his removal from Leicester- square, to 27, Bruton- street, Bond- street, begs leave to add, that his method of supplying deficiencies of the mouth, from a single tooth to a complete set of teeth, gums, and palates, continues to be highly and extensively patronised, and that his treatment of decayed and tender teeth may be relied on as physiologically judicious. 27, Bruton- street. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. F' SPLENDID AND COSTLY CHINTZ FURNITURES- AMILIES Furnishing, and Upholsterers, may select from 1700 Pieces, the entire Stock of a Town Printer, retired from business, viz. :— 750 pieces, at • . 0s. 7> d. > , 950 ditto, at • • Is. Od. \ Pet yard- This Stock includes elegant and beautiful designs, and may now be had at much less than than One- half the cost of Printing. GRAHAM and Co., 294, High Holborn MADAME VESTRIS1 ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE, MONDAY, 20th February, 1832. HE'S NOT A- MISS. Price Prettyman, Mr. Liston. Mrs. Prettyman, Mrs. Glover. GERVASE SKINNER. Gervase Skinner, Mr. Liston. Charles Meanwell, Mr. James Vining. MY GREAT AUNT. Lionel Glossover, Esq. Mr. J. Vining. Mrs. Headly, Mrs. Glover. Rosa Crawley, Miss Norman. The whole to conclude with OLYMPIC DEVILS; or, ORPHEUS and EURYDICE. Orpheus, Madame Vestris. Eurydice, Miss Forde. Box Office open from Ten to Four. Private Boxes to be taken of Mr. Andrews, bookseller, 157, New Bond- street. CTTHE NOBILITY and GENTRY FURNISH- ING HOUSES.— PRATT and SON, by appointment to their Majesties, encouraged by the uiiiversaladuption of their Patent Wire Stuffing, have enlarged their Show Rooms, 47, New Bond- street, where they solicit an inspection of a varied assortment of New Patterns of their much- admired Recumbent, Lounging, and Library Easy Chairs. Patent Wire Beds, Sofas, Chaise Lounges, and Ottomans. Drawing and Dining Room'Chairs, and Invalid Reclining Beds. Mahogany Dining and Drawing Room suites of Rosewood Tables. Mahogany Four- post and Fren'ch Bedsteads, with metal joints. Patent Metallic Bedsteads, in brass and iron, impervious to in- sects. Improved Military ditto; Canteens, Marquees and Pleasure Tents Dressing Cases, with plated, silver, aud gold mountings. Modern Parisienne Bedsteads, Toilette Tables, Secretaires, & c. Ancient Buhl Furniture, Carved and Gilt Chairs, Damasks, & c. of the time of Louis XIV., the prices of which will be found affixed on the most moderate scale. Invalids and travellers to the Indies will derive much comfort from the Patent Sofa Beds. UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUGH AND OTHER NOBLEMEN. GERMAN NEW- SILVER.— J. FISCHER and CO., from Berlin, respectfully invite the attention of the Nobility, Gentry, and Public in general, to this new and superior Metal. It is in every respect calculated to supersede the use of Silver, which it equals in appearance and facility of cleaning, and surpasses in durability. It is also, from being a solid metal, and the same throughout, not only applicable to articles of the most delicate texture and workmanship, but to those of the most massive description, and for culinary purposes can be used with equal safety as Silver, as ap- pears from tbe certificates of the most eminent Doctors of Berlin, one of which J. Fischer and Co. here subjoined. Its extreme cheapness is also a great recommendation, as the price is under one- third of that of Silver, and consequently does not exceed the price of plated goods. J. Fischer and Co. beg to call the attention of the Captains of vessels to this Metal as being one particularly suited to the markets of the East and West Indies. J. Fischer and Co. wish the Public to be put upon their guard against other and spurious imitations, as tbe German New- Silver cannot be obtained genuine except at this Manufactory, it being the only one connected with Messrs. Henniger and Co., the New Silver Company at Berlin, who alone possess the secret of the chemical process by which this Metal is produced. Orders for articles of every description, that are made in Silver, executed with punctuality and in a superior style. Specimens may be seen at the Manufactory. Letters and orders to be directed, post paid, to the Manufactory Stangate House, Stangate- street, Lambetn, behind Astley'sTheatre The following Certificate is one of the above referred to :— " From the chemical process lo which I have subjected the New Silver of the Manfactory of Messrs. Henniger and Co., I have obtained the result, that the Metal keeps towards ordinary plants ( vegetables), acids ( vinegar & c.), & c. & c,, the same unaltered state as vessels made of Silver ; it has been ascertained even that, when a spoon of New Silver, and another of Silver, each separate yet both at the same time, were kept immersed, fbr the space of forty- eight hours, in diluted acid of vinegar, that of New Silver had imparted less copper ( verdigris) to" the acid than the other of Silver. " This circumstance proves that the New Silver may be em- ployed for making spoons, knives, forks, teapots, & C. Sic., with the same effect as similar utensils and vessels of silver, and that they THE ABSOLUTE FACT why the Nobility and Gentry have submitted to pay the very high charges of a fe eminent Tailors, who have monopolized their patronage for so long a period, is, that until now no one had succeeded in producing Clothes which a gentleman could wear. But this monopoly can be now but of short duration, as FLETCHER, of 33, NEW BOND STREET, has produced Coats, & c., & c., which cannot possibly be distinguished by the critical eye, even of a Brum mill, either in make or materials, from those of any eminent Tailor in the neigh- bourhood of Clifford- street or St. James's, and at a very little more than half their charges, yet obtaining a fair Tradesman's Profit. H. FLETCHER begs leave, in returning his grateful thanks to the many Noblemen and Gentlemen who have honoured him with their support since his commencement in business, to assure them that the same assiduity and exertion, which have gained him so many Patrons ( whilst under an engagement to avery eminent West- end House) will be persevered in, thereby maintaining his esta- blished reputation as the only first- rate Tailor who has boldly stepped forward to destroy the monopoly by which Gentlemen who do pay have for so long a period been taxed for those who do not. * The following Scale of Prices is respectfully submitted, for prompt payment : £ s. 3 16 • 3 6 4 18 1 14 1 10 0 18 0 15 may be used without any danger whatever concerning health. " That such is the real fact, I hereby testify, conforming to my experience and to truth. " Dr. SIG. FREDERICK HERMBSTADT. Royal Medical Privy Counsellor, Professor, & c. & c, Berlin, Nov. 15,1825 ( L. S.)" Early in the Spring will be published, HE FLITCH A Design, by THOS. STOTHARD, Esq., R. A. Illustrative of an old English custom. Engraved by WATT, Size of the Engraving, 30 inches by 12J inches. T Dress Coat, Blue or Black Ditto — any other colour . , Frock, do. Blue or Black, Skirts lined with silk Trowsers, Blue or Black .... Ditto — any other colour Ditto — White Drill .... Waistcoats Regimentals, & c. upon equally reasonable terms, VERY BEST LIVERIES. A Footman's Suit, complete, with sleeves to waist- coat, and velveteen breeches A Suit, with kerseymere breeches A Ditto, with hair plush ditto .... A Stable or Working Dress • . . . • A Footman's extra double- milled Drab Great Coat, with large Cape Gold or Silver Lace, and Crested Buttons, charged the whole sale price. ' Officers' Coatees, & c. & c. lower than any other House in London. DEPUTY LORD LIEUTENANT'S COAT 4 5 4 10 4 15 1 4 13 6 Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto Ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto ditto Pantaloons Epaulettes Sword • • • Sword Knot Sash Sword Belt. Cock'd Hat- 30 Guineas. To his Majesty' last New Regulation. H. FLETCHER, Military Tailor, & c., 33, New Bond- street. Copy of a letter from Sir Gerard Noel, Bart., Deputy Lord Lieu- tenant of the county of Rutland. " Chandos- street, Cavendish- square. " 12th July, 1831. " Sir— I am very well pleased indeed with the good fitting of the Deputy Lord Lieutenant's Dress, and your expedition in preparing that and the other outfit belonging to it, and otherwise, when bring- ing it home, to the adjustment of it: with high approbation in all these matters, aiu gratified in sending the cheque ( enclosed) in pay- ment of the account. " Yours, & c. ( Signed) " GERARD NOEL. " To Mr. H. Fletcher, 33, New Bond- street." At an assembly of the National Political Union in Dub lin oil the 1 Oth of February, a letter was read from Mr O'Connell, in which, after stating that the wealthy classes wore guilty of originating and fomenting religious dissen sions and animosities, he said, " the poorer classes of Irish men contribute still more fully to the weakness of Ireland The bane and most fatal curse to Ireland is to he found in the unlawful combinations and crimes of the people— it to be found in. the outrages committed hy Whiteboys. Hockites, Terry Alts, and by Black Feet and White Feet, and by every class of criminals of these descriptions. Every party that attacks a house by night, that takes away arms, that burns or destroys property, and especially, and far before every tiling, every party that commits a murder, not only perpetrates a grievous offence before God, but weakens the friends, and strengthens the enemies of Ire land. The only thing that can retard the repeal of the union is the criminal conduct of the people themselves. Any thing like a resiirrectionary movement would annihi- late our hopes forever." He finally says, " I shall do no more than again remind the Union that we can never see attention paid to Irish interests until we see once again a parliament in College- green.'' On tlie assembly proceed- ing to reconsider the petition against tithes, Mr. James Dwyer read from Mr. Dalton's late publication, an esti- mate of the resources of the church iu Ireland, and in- sisted that it was more than enough for its own mainte- nance in fee- lands alone. These Mr. Dalton estimated at 600,000 acres, which, valued at the rate of 3s. 4d. per acre, ( rent or lint s per ami.) produced to the dignified and bene- ficed clergy 100,000?. per annum, and there were one thousand benefices yet unestimated in Ireland. The holders of these lands at present only pay 2,923/. first fruits. Under good management they would produce400,000/. gross rental per annum. Mr. I). had proposed ( under a reformed valuation of first fruits and rental) to give the Archbishops 5,000/. a year, to place them on a level with the Judges ; to give the Bishops 3,000/., thoufhMr. Dwyer thought 2,000/. per annum would be an ample provision. All the salaries of the dignitaries, deducted from the annual value of the church lands, would leave a balance of 374,000/. to be divided among the poorer classes, and undo any necessity of paying them by tithes. Mr. Walslic caused great agi- tation iu Hie meeting, and excited the indignation of tlie Protestants present, by denouncing what he called the " infamous and diabolical system, termed tithes," and vo- ciferating his determination lo " cry aloud for justice for the wretched peasantry who were insulted, robbed, des- poiled, and murdered by those infernal ecclesiastical vul- tures." HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB. 13. The royal assent was given by commission to the Buckingham palace bill, Court of Session ( Scotland) bill; Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues bill; Lottery- office out- standing claims bill, and the embezzlement bill. Lord Cloncurry presented a petition from the county of Dublin favour of reform. CHOLERA. The Marquis of Lansdowne moved for certain papers relating to the spasmodic cholera, and the reports from the Board of Health to lite Privy Council on the subject, to be laid before the House, in the hope that some measure might be immediately founded upon them, in order to enable parishes to tax themselves for the purpose of preventing the spread of that malady.— Agreed to. The Earl of Wicklow adverted to the complaint of the Irish magistrates, that the fees demanded of them on the renewal of their commissions were unjust, and asked the Chancellor of Ireland whether he had reason to expect that they would return to act ii execution of their duty ?— Lord Plunket explained the circum stances under which those fees had been demanded, and said he had no doubt that the magistrates would proceed as usual. TUESDAY, FEB. 14. The only circumstance worthy of notice that occurred in the House to- day was the presentation of certain papeisby the Marquis of Lansdowne, relating to spasmodic cholera. Papers ordered to be printed. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 15. The bills on the table were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned. THURSDAY, FEB. 16. After a few remarks from the Marquis of Lansdowne and Lord Elletiborougb, the cholera morbus prevention bill was read a first time, and ordered to be printed and read a second time next day. IRISH TITHES. The Marquis of Lansdowne presented the report of the committee oil the system of tithes in Ireland, and the slate of the law thereon, which report, upon his motion, was read. The Committee commenced by stating that they had proceeded to examine the subject which had been referred to them for their consideration, and that though they were not as yet enabled to bring their inquiries to a close, they felt it their duty to lay before the house their opinion, founded upon that part of the evidence which had been laid before them, and the circumstances and facts which that evidence disclosed. The report went on to state that the com- mittee felt it their duty to call the attention of their Lordships to the resistance which had been made to the collection of tithes in certain districts of Ireland, namely,— Kilkenny, Carlow, Tipperary, and Ihe Queen's County, a resistance that was supported by illegal anil armed associations, which, from whatever cause they arose, if allowed to extend into other districts, would altogether undermine the laws, and destroy the security and peace of society in that country. The report went oil to observe that in consequence of sue1, proceedings in the districts already named, the clergy there had been reduced to the greatest distress, and that the total amount .. la in all those districts for tithes was stated by the committee to be 84,9541. The report proceeded to state, that it appeared to the committee, that in order to afford relief to the distressed clergy in those districts, his Majesty should be empowered to advance to the incumbents there for the tithes due to them, sums of money not exceeding the arrears of tithes due to them for the year 1831, and in proportion to the income of each incumbent, decreasing as that income increased ; that as security for such money thus advanced, tho tithes due to those incumbents were to be handed over to Go- vernment, to be enforced according to law ; that where the composi- tion act had taken effect, the amount of money to be advanced should be regulated by the amount of such composition ; that where no com- position had taken place, but where there had been an agree- ment, it should be regulated by such agreement; and that in all other cases it was to be regulated by the average amount of tithe for tlie three preceding years. The committee further stated, that in o£ ler to the more effectually levying of the amount of sums thus advanced, it should be lawful for his Majesty's Attorney- Genejal for Ireland, to proceed by civil bill in the Court of Chan- cery, in the Court of Exchequer, or at the Quarter Sessions, against the parties in those different counties from whom those tithes were so due, and that the said Courts should issue processes for the sums so due, in accordance with the provisions of the acts of Parliament of Ireland of 1787, 1789, and 1800, with such al- terations only as the present times and circumstances mightrequire. But ( continued the report) strongly as the committee was im- pressed with the necessity of maintaining the authority of the law, andrelieving the wants of tlie clergy, they were equally impressed with the necessity of effecting some useful alteration in the present system ; and though their inquiry had not arrived at its termination, they felt it their duty to pronounce a distinct opinion, that enough had already appeared in the course of that inquiry, to satisfy them, that; with a view to secure the interests of the church aud the last- ing welfare of the country, a permanent change in that system was necessary ; such a change as involved a complete extinction of tithes, as well of those belonging to the lay impropriator as of those belonging to the clerical incumbent, and the substitution of an equi- valent either on the land, or in the land, in lieu thereof, thereby preventing collisions between the parochial clergy and the occu- piers of land. Such is the general purport, as well as we were able to collect it, of this report, which was read by Ihe clerk in a very indistinct and hurried manner. Tbe Marquis of Lansdowne mored that the report then read, and the evidence as far as it had gone before the commitee, on which that report was founded, should be printed.— Ordered. FRIDAY, FED. 17. The cholera prevention bill, England, was passed through all its stages, the standing orders having been postponed in order to avoid delay. The Marquis of Lansdowne, in the course of the discussion, complimented the parish' authorities for the assistance which they had rendered to the Board of Health. The cholera morbus preven- tion bill, Sotland, was also read a third time. THE TITHE SYSTEM IN IRELANO. Lord Ellenborough remarked at some length upon the report made by the Lords Committee relative to Irish tithes. Among other questions, the noble Lord asked whether the report recom- mended that a Government should have extraordinary powers to levy the tithes due for 1831, if those powers were to be given without prejudice to the claims of the clergy for the arrears due on preceding years, and if it was intended that the clergy should proceed for those previous arrears, whilst the Government was proceeding in the mean time, by virtue of extraordinary powers, for the tithes of 1831? The Marquis of Lansdowne said, that the expenses of re covering the arrears should be paid by the clergy, so far as they did not exceed the expenses which would have been incurred in the recovering of those, arrears by the ordinary processes ; and that it was not proposed to give extraordinary powers for the levying of any arrears except those tithes of which the payment had been ille- gally withheld. Lord Ellenborough hoped that the decision of the noble Marquis was notirrevocable, and that his Majesty's Ministers would give the subject a fuller consideration. Lord Plunket was of opinion that the extraordinary powers ought nut'to extend further than for the recovery of the tithes which had been Illegally withheld in the last year.— The Earl of Wicklow said the answers which had been given to the questions put by the Noble Baron nearhiin would not lend by any means to satisfy the Irish clergy, or to do away with the alarm which had been excited by the resolutions avowed by his Majesty's Ministers.— Earl Grey said that it was the determination of the King's Ministers to enforce the authority of the laws on all occasions whe> e it should be attempted to resist them. Although he did say, on a late occasion that it was the determination of the Government to uphold the authority of the laws, he stated at, the same time that no man was more convinced than he was of the absolute necessity of removing the grievances connected with the existing system of tithes, of which Ireland so ' loudly complains. ( Hear.) To effect this object, and in doing so, to promote the peaceof Ireland, was the purpose of his Majesty's Ministers when they proposed to the committee the measures alluded to in the report. The proposition was submitted to the committee with the most anxious care, and with a desire to do justice to all' parties, to preserve the rights of the church, and to establish the peace of Ireland.— Tbe Earl of Wicklow said, lie believed that so long as the people of Ireland thought that they had a watchful Government guarding over their interests, and that societies which were agitating Ireland were but evils incidental to tlie constitution, so long the loyal portion of the people remained tranquil. ( Hear, hear.) But when he saw the Government lending itself to those associations—( hear)— and giving their support and confidence to those who were their enemies, and the decided enemies of the country— when they saw men of that description—( cheers)— made the objects of the favour and patronage of the Government—- when the head of the Government stood up in that house, and said that the leader of those associations was fitted, by his talents- and learning, for any office under any Government, setting no value upon integrity or loyalty ( as the Noble Lord, Wicklow, was under- stood to say), as if these were no requisites for office— then the Protestants of Ireland thought it was time for them to look to the security of their rights and property. ( Cheers.) The Lord Chancellor said, the words in the report were so qua* lified that it was impossible to suppose that " extinction" was used in the odious sense, or that it was meant to signify the destruction of church property. Lord Plunket said his noble friend ( Earl Grey) had never given on the one hand the smallest reason to believe that in his opinion the just rights of the church ought to be abandoned ; nor, on the- other hand, had his noble friend ever uttered a sentiment which could make it be supposed that the just expectations of the people were not to be attended to. The noble lord observed, that there, was no person more firmly attached to all the best interests of Ire- land than the Marquis of Anglesey. After some remarks from the Earl of Carnarvon, the House ad- journed. ap- HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, FEB. 13. On the molion of Alderman Wood the London bridge proaches bill was read a second time. A petition was presented by Colonel Conolly from the Protest- ant inhabitants of a parish ill Westmeath, complaining of the sup- pression of the Kildare- street Society, and deprecating the new system of education introduced into Ireland, which, the petitioners said, was grounded on a mutilation of the scriptures.— After some conversation it was laid on the table. j CHOLERA MORBUS. Mr. Croker wished to know from Ministers whether an official- report of this disease, which he had heard had manifested itself in the metropolis, had been made to them 1 He was the more anxious to obtain definite information upon this head, as he was convinced that the best mode of preventing all undue alarm in the public mind was to avoid every thing like mystery or concealment as to tile' existence, actual amount, and danger of the malady. ( Hear.) Mr. P. Thomson, in answer, said that the medical authorities had communicated to the Board of Health their belief that one or two cases of the true Asiatic cholera had appeared in Rotherhithe, and that Ministers, agreeing with ihe right hon. Gentleman, had imme- diately directed that the greatest publicity should be given to the fact of its existence, and accordingly that very evening an official announcement had been made to the public by - the Board of Health, and that arrangements had been made under that board for the appointment of district surveyors, and of a sufficient num- ber of physicians, so as to afford the promptest means of recovery, aud adopt every precaution towards checking the progress of the pestilence. Mr. Croker urged the expediency of tracing the first cause of the disease, so as to arrive at a knowledge of the means of check- ing it. Mr. Robinson hoped that Ministers would use every means for allaying undue apprehensions of foreign states, so as to lessen the • consequent commercial restrictions. Mr. Warburlon was of a decided opinion that the disease had pread from Ministers having relaxed the check upon intercourse between infected and non- infected places, out of regard to trade. He hoped they would not be so influenced with regard to London. • Mr. Hume said nothing was known of the modus propagandi of the disease but this— that no precautions hitherto tried can° keep it out, and that it does not extend to districts under apparently the most conducive circumstances to propagation. The only effect, then, of the proposition to cut off all intercourse with infected places would be, to add famine to pestilence, and aggravate tenfold the evils of both. The best preventive was to provide the poor and destitute with wholesome food, fuel, and raiment—( Loud cries of Hear)— and to enforce rigid habits of cleanliness. ( Hear.) Mr. Strickland agreed with Mr. Hume, and said that if the spread of the disease were dependent on close intercourse with tbe infected, it would have spread to all the districts round Sun- derland, and some one of the 600 medical gentlemen who had watched its progress in Sunderland would have suffered from it. Sir H. Hardinge urged the propriety of adopting the regulation with regard to the military which had been found so successful on the Continent. Mr. Dixon agreed with Mr. Hume as to the mischievous effect a strict prohibition of intercourse wilh infected places. Mr. Briscoe trusted that Ministers and the parochial authorities would provide asylums for the poor in the more exposed and desti- tute districts of the metropolis. Lord Althorp said he should make a motion, which was similar to that proposed the same night by Lord Lansdowne in the other House. Mr. Hunt alluded to the state of the district of Bethnal- grecn. He Imped that something would be done towards Ihe ventilation of that House ; for, at present, the atmosphere was impurity itself, owing to the foul currents of offensive air which occupied it to the exclusion of pure air. (" Hear," and a laugh.) Hon. Gentlemen might laugh, hut he trusted that every precaution would be adopted towards checking the spread of the disease among themselves. To a question from Mr. S. Wortley, whether there was any truth in a report that Government intended to alter the settlement made in the Currency question in 1826, Lord Althorp replied in the negative. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. Previously . to going into Committee, Lord Althorp announced a new plan to be adopted by Ministers in future, nail ely, to make estimates precede expenditure, and to make the financial year commence ou the first of April.— Sir R. Peel did not object to it on of THE TOWS, Feb. 19. principle, but thought it would be attended with inconvenience, without producing any ostensibly practical good. After some conversation, the Navy Estimates were referred to the Committee, when Sir James Graham moved a resolution, that 32,000 men, including 10,000 Royal Marines, should be em- ployed for tbe sea service, for three months, commencing the first of January, 1832, which was agreed to. After which the several grants were proposed in detail and agreed to, with the exception of a sum for defraying the cost of certain new works at Cremill and Weevil, which was withdrawn in order to allow of inquiry. Mr. S. Rice then moved for a grant of a sum, not less than 200,0001. for civil contingencies, from the 1st January to the 31st March, 1832, and for twelve months from that date. A sum of 1,0001. paid to Mr. Telford for making a survey, for the pur- pose of providing a better supply of water to the metropolis, was objected to on the several grounds that tbe Water Companies should have paid it, and that Sir F. Burdett had taken it upon himself.— This portion of tbe accounts was postponed for further information. Mr. Hume astonished Mr. Hunt by declaring, that he thought the present estimates the least objectionable he had ever seen. And, with the exception referred to, the resolution was agreed to. The Chairman reported progress. TUESDAY, FEB. 14. The South Shields rail- way bill was read a second time. A long discussion ensued upon tbe subject of Irish Tithes, in the course of which Mr. Walker alluded to the remarks made upon tithes a few nights since in the House of Lords by Lord Grey and Lord Plunkett. Mr. W. said, he would tell these Noble Lords, that they might succeed in deluging Ireland with blood, but would not, and ought not to succeed in perpetuating its monstrous tithe establishments. ( Hear, bear.) Force would be met with force ; and the absurdity of resisting a national sentiment would be pain- fully demonstrated. The evil of the present system was, not the want of power in the clergy to levy their exactions, but in their harsh exertions to enforce that power ; of which disposition he was acquainted with numberless cases in point, which he was ready to prove at the bar of that House. ( Hear.) He trusted, indeed he was certain, that the hatred to tithes in Ireland would be as lasting as their injustice. ( Hear.) Lord Althorp, upon this, rose and said— I was present when allu- sion was made here the other evening to what had fallen from my Noble Friend ( Lord Grey) ; but, though very much astonished by tjhe version of liis sentiments then quoted, I did not feel myself justified to make any observations, affirmatorv or contradictory, upon them. But I felt extremely surprised that such a version could have been given of the sentiments of my Noble Friend ; for when I recollected tbe political principles which have guided tbe public conduct of my Noble Friend, and which entirely correspond with my own, I was convinced there was a misconception some- where. I find I was right, and that my Noble Friend and myself agree in this— that while we are prepared to enforce the laws when broken, yet we should be departing from the principles which we have acted on through our lives if, when extraordinary powers are demanded to enforce the law, these extraordinary powers should not be granted unless accompanied by an efficient remedy for the grievance which occasions their necessity. ( Loud cries of " Hear.") This is the principle on which my Noble Friend and myself have invariably acted, and which we are not disposed to depart from on the present occasion. ( Cheers.) While we feel that it is abso- lutely necessary that the law should be upheld— that all illegal combinations should be put down— we also feel, that if the resis- tance to that law and those illegal combinations have their origin in any grievance which it is in the power of the legislature to remedy, the legislature ought to provide the remedy for that grievance ( Continued cheers.) And this, let me add, is the principle on which we are determined to act with respect to the tithe system in Ireland." ( Loud cries of " Hear.") In answer to some remarks from Mr. Croker, Mr. Stanley said that tbe right hon. Gentleman was mistaken if he supposed that it was the intention of his Majesty's Ministers to recommend the continuance of the tithe system. The attention of Ministers was certainly directed to secure a maintenance for the Protestant clergy ; but another object to which their attention was also di- rected was the extinction of the system of tithes. ( Hear.) Mr. Slieil thought the last declaration of the right hon. the Se cretary for Ireland as satisfactory as explicit. An lion. Baronet ( Sir R. Peel) had said that coercion must precede relief.—[ Sir R. Peel denied, as we understood, having made such an observation.] Tlie House were well aware, that before the right hon. Baronet brought forward a measure of relief in favour of the Roman Ca- tholics, lie introduced a measure of coercion, on the passing of which the House was told that Catholic emancipation must depend. He did not ask what measures of coercion were to be proposed in the present instance, since be had been informed that the measure of relief was to be tbe extinction of tithes. God forbid that the money should be taken from the parson's pocket merely to be ac- cumulated in the pocket of the landlord 1 If a measure were brought forward, securing to the present incumbent that to which he was entitled, and if a pledge were given to the people of Ire- land that afterwards the public money would be applied to pur- poses of national utility ( one of which, be hoped, would be the decorous and dignified maintenance of the religion of the state), then the people of Ireland would be contented. He was, however, fully convinced that no measure would content the people of Ire- land which did not go beyond the mere temporary security of tbe clergy. ( Hear, hear.) Some conversation ensued respecting tbe cholera morbus, in the course of which Mr. Powlett Thomson confirmed the statements published by order of tbe Council office. Leave was given to bring in a bill to regulate the office of High Sheriff, and to reduce tbe expenses connected with it. Mr. Baring obtained leave to bring in a bill to restrain the privilege of members of Parliament in so far as regards freedom from arrest in tbe case of judgment debts. Colonel Trench moved for a committee to inquire into the state of the House of Commons with a view to afford better accommoda- tion to its members; but as the House did not seem inclined to en- tertain the proposition, the hon. Member withdrew it. Lord Althorp then entered into the particulars of a bill which government wished to introduce, the object of which was to enable tbe Privy Council to adopt such measures with respect to tbe cho- lera morbus as it might deem expedient. The bill was read a second time, ordered to be printed, and committed to a committee of the whole house to- morrow. Sir James Graham obtained leave to bring in a bill to amend the laws relating to the business of the civil departments of the navy, and to make other regulations for more effectually carrying on the duties uf tbe said departments. Tbe object of this bill will not only much facilitate business, but will materially diminish the expendi- ture. p » t3 WEDNESDAY, FIB. 15. Several petitions were presented.— Mr. Hunt presented one from Blackburn against the dead body bill, as tbe petitioners called it. He also presented a petition from the national union of Winchester, against taxes on newspapers; also a petition from a cabinet- maker named Lovat, who had been drawn for tbe Middlesex militia, and not having any share in tbe making of the laws, had refused to serve, upon which his goods, to the value of 40L, were seized and sold to defray a fiiie of 15f. Captain Yorlie presenled a petition from the county of Cam- bridge against the reform bill.— Mr. Adeane was not aware of any change of opinion in the county on that subject, aud referred to Captain Yorke's failure as a proof that there wits none.— The gal- lant Captain said, that if be had had more time he should have had a good chance of success.— Mr. Adeane, in alluding to what Captain Yorke said about his opinion liavhig altered in favour of the reform bill, declared be did say that the more he looked at that bill the better pleased he was with it. The expediency of taking petitions after five o'clock having been spoken of, Lord Althorp denounced the rather novel practice of making speeches upon their being presented. Alderman Thompson gave notice of his intention to present a petition of great importance to the soap trade on the 28th inst. on the bill for the prevention of this disease. The noble Lord stated, in answer to a question of Sir W. Rae, that the parochial and county rates would be so worded with respect to Scotland as to harmonize with the parochial rate machinery in that country. He was also willing, in compliance with the suggestion of Sir R. Peel, to omit that part of the clause which would throw the ulti- mate expense upon the county rates, and power should be granted to the Privy Council to reimburse parishes that were greatly dis- tressed, when they bad been at an expenditure for the preservation of the public health which they might be unable to afford.— Sir R. Peel said, he thought that it should not be limited to extreme cases of distress. Sir J. Malcolm had unhappily seen much of the dreadful ma- lady called cholera morbus. He had commanded many thousands of men in provinces which werenever entirely free from that fatal pestilence. He had often and often traversed those provinces in the performance of his public duties, and had invariably found the cholera to be locally infectious. ( Hear, hear.) Such corps as had the misfortune to pass the infected lines inevitably lost 40 or 50 men by the disease, while not one individual in any of the other corps had suffered from it. He had uniformly observed that the assembling together of crowds of people materially contributed to its progress, and predisposed tbe constitution to receive it. Allud- ing to the injurious effects of fear, he said his plan in the East Indies had been to suppress the newspapers and cushion the bul- letins—( Much laughter, and cries of Oh, oh)— and prohibit every soldier from the very mention of cholera, however inclined to make it a topic of conversation. He would have the physicians conceal most of the cases ;—( Oh, Oh)— but that system, he apprehended, would not be practicable here. ( Laughter.) Colonel Wood spoke of the confined space in which the Guards lodged ; a hundred of them slept in one room, which had served for a hayloft to the old grenadiers, and he really believed that a candle would not remain lighted in the centre of the room, so de- composed was the atmosphere. After some further conversation, in the course of which Dr. Hen- ry's mode of disinfecting places was recommended for adoption, Mr. Briscoe moved the insertion of certain words in the preamble, to declare that the cholera was an infliction of Divine Providence, but finding it was opposed, he withdrew his motion. The House then resumed, the report was received, and the bill was ordered to be read a third time next day. REFORM BILL. On the motion of Lord Althorp, tbe House went into committee on the reform bill, when his Lordship stated, that if, as he expected, the committee should get through all the clauses of tbe bill ( with the exception of tbe schedules) this week, lie would not ask the House to sit on Saturday. Clauses 62, 63, and 64, were agreed to. On clause 65 being read, Mr. Wason moved, as an amend- ment, that one day only should be allowed for the election where the electors did not exceed 1200. The committee divided, when the numbers were— For Ministers, 91 | For the amendment, 1 | Majority, 90. Some verbal amendments were made in clause tit), which was ordered to stand part of tbe bill. Clause 67 was agreed to. Clause 68, which fixes the time when the returning ofScer is to close the poll, and gives him power to adjourn in case of riot, being opposed by Sir C. Wetherell, after a long desultory conversation, was postponed. The 69th clause, which provides that candidates, or persons proposing a candidate without his consent, should be at tbe expense of booths and poll- clerks, was then read. This clause was opposed, and Mr. Hunt moved an amendment that all booths erected for county elections should be paid out of the county rates, and for those of cities or boroughs out of tbe corporation funds, if anv, and if not, out of a rate to be collected in tbe city or borough. Mr. Hume supported a proposal by Lord Sandon for limiting the expense, as that would deprive the country of the best candidates it could have.— Lord Althorp supported 401. for each polling place. The committee divided on Mr. Hunt's amendment— For it, 4 | Against it, 154 | Majority, 150 The further consideration of this clause was postponed. The cholera bill was read a third time and passed. A bill, for the same purpose in Scotland, was brought in, read a first and second time, and ordered to beprinted and to be cohi mitted the following day. The House adjourned at half- past one o'clock. THURSDAY, FEB. 16. Mr. J. Grattan presented petitions from parishes in Carlow and Wicklow, praying the abolition of the tithe system. Mr. Blackney supported the prayer of the petitions, as did Sir Henry Pamell, who bore testimony to the respectability of the pa rishioners. Mr. Leader presented eight petitions from different parishes ii Ireland fur the extinction of the tithe system. Six of these, we understood the hon.' member to say, came from Woollen Grange- arid 13 other parishes, which included the district between the citics of Waterford and Kilkenny, a distance of 30 miles, and which had been held for 36 years as an union by one clergyman, the Rev Dr. Butler. Within this union it was that the late me- lancholy loss of lives had taken place on the occasion of the police protecting a process- server. The petitioners stated, that before these unhappy disturbances, they had offered the rev. rector a composition equal in amount to that which had been accepted by the clergymen of the surrounding parishes, but which he had thought proper to refuse. This composition, they said, would give him an income of 3,000/. a- year, which might be considered a fair support for him, when this remarkable fact was borne in mind, that in the whole 14 parishes there- was but one church, and no Pro- testant congregation whatsoever, ( hear, hear.) Mr. Blackney supported the prayer of the petition, and. said that Dr. Butler had 19 parishes and a very large glebe, beside his accumulation for 35 years, although he was now represented as one of those poor starving clergymen, for whose support a grant was to be made and a land- tax levied. Mr. Leader moved that tbe petition be printed. On a division there appeared— For printing the petition 51— Against it 130— Majority 79. Mr. G. Bankes stated, that on Tuesday next he should move for the appointment of a select committee to inquire into the prese nt stale of ihe laws for the prevention of smuggling. Mr. Perceval next asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whe- ther Government would consent to devote ail earlier day to ihe national fast than had been previously intended. He put the ques- tion in consequence of the recent appearance of an alarming pesti- lence in tbe metropolis.— Lord Althorp considered, after what had already taken place, a change of day would be inexpedient.— Mr. Perceval said he should feel it his duty to call the attention of ihe House to the subject at an early opportunity. Mr. Cripps moved for leave to bring in a bill to alter the mode of electing county coroners. The object of the bill which he asked leave to introduce was to give to magistrates in quarter sessions the power to divide their counties into as many districts as there were co'oners in each county. It provided that the right of voting for coroners should be tbe same as that conferred by the reform bill, now in progress through the House, with reference to the election of county members ; and there was also another provision in ihe bill, making it compulsory on coroners to reside within their res- p ' ctive districts.— Mr. Littleton seconded the motion.— Mr. Hume hoped that some measure would be introduced to control the mis- conduct of coroners, who sometimes took it into their head to con- ceal information' which ought to be made public.— Leave was given to bring in the bill. Lord J. Russell moved for leave to bring in a bill to settle and describe tbe divisions of counties, and the limits of cities and bo roughs, in England and Wales, in so far as respected the election of members to serve in Parliament.— Mr. Goulburn said lie was glad that the bill was now to be introduced. He did not, however, consider the present tbe proper time to discuss its provisions.- Aftera few words from Sir E. Sugden, leave was given. MILITARY FLOGGING. Mr. Hunt moved for a " return of the number of Courts- martial that had been held upon private soldiers in the army in Great Bri- tain between the 1st of January, 1831, and the 1st of January 1832. stating the nature of each charge, the sentence passed, aud specifying the number of lashes endured by each individual." The On the motion of Wi AUhorpft^^ House went into committee J K * aid tbat U » as his intention at a future period to CHOLERA MORBUS. propose that the punishment of flogging, as regarded the army, should be abolished in time of peace.— Mr. Hume seconded the motion, and expressed a hope that the exertions of the hon. Mem- ber would be successful in causing the abolition of so odious a punishment. Lord Althorp would not be acting candidly towards the House if he were not to- state, that from all the communications which he had received from officers in the army, it was his opinion that it was impossible, consistently with the discipline of the army, to dispense entirely with the punishment of flogging. ( Hear.) At the same time he could not help expressing his regret that there should exist a necessity for the punishment. It was consolatory to reflect that the practice of flogging had recently much diminished, and that it was the wish of persons at the head of the army to check it as much as possible. With respect to the motion before the House, as the hon. Member had stated no peculiar grounds for the production of information, he felt it his duty to oppose it. Mr. Hunt expressed his surprise that a liberal Government, which was proposing all sorts of reform, and had a secretary of war who had for many years been declaiming against the practice of flogging, should refuse to accede to the simple motion which he had submitted. He would not refer to a motion which the noble Lord had once made, nor accuse him of inconsistency, but this he would say, that Ministers had changed their opinions with their situations in that House, and that they advocated measures by their speeches which they refused to support by their votes. Mr. Sheil said, that the question before the House was not whe- ther the punishment of flogging should be abolished, but whether the official record of certain facts should be produced. He thought that the motion ought to be acceded to. A division then took place, and the numbers were— For the motion, 28— Against it, 61— Majority, 33. REFORM BILL. On the motion of Lord Althorp, the House resolved itself into committee of the whole House on the reform hill. The Chairman having read clause 69, Lord Althorp moved the introduction of certain words, declaring that the expense of polling booths for elections in counties should not exceed 40L each, and the expense of polling booths for cities and boroughs should not exceed 251. each. The amendment was agreed to. After a few verbal amendments, the clause was agreed to. Clauses 70, 71, and 72, were severally read and agreed to. Clause 73 being read— A conversation took place, which terminated in the clause, as amended, being made part of the bill. On the 74th clause being put from the chair, which imposes penalty upon any overseer, parish officer, or barrister, transgressing the provisions of this bill, Mr. L. Knight said, that the penalty ought to be more accurately defined than it was in this clause. Sir Charles Wetherell supported the objections of his learned friend. Sir E. Sugden said, the clause was a species, of trap to the junior members of the profession, under which they, were made liable to actions for the non- observance of the slightest— nay, most inconsiderable— point in the duties intrusted to them in the bill. Lord Althorp acquiesced in the objections which had been offered by the other side so far as to be willing to introduce an amend- ment into the clause by which the judge should have the power to stay the penalties which might be sought to be enforced against the barristers, by any party save those who might feel themselves aggrieved by his determination or decision. Mr. C. W. Wynn was opposed most strongly to power being given to a jury to assess damages or award penalties against the barristers under this bill. The judges on circuit had the power of appointing the barristers, and to those judges ought to be reserved the power to assess or award penalties for wilful misconduct in the discharge of their duties. Lord J. Russell argued, that the clause was essentially neces- sary, as, by a previous clause, the appointment of the barristers was left to the judges. Mr. J. Campbell defended the limitation proposed to be affixed to the power of the jury in awarding costs. The Attorney- General said, the union of the damage and the wrong ought to be the guide of the jury, as was intended by this clause, in coming to a decision. After a few words from Sir C. Wetherell, the blank was filled up with 5001. Two provisos were then agreed to, the one declaring that mem bers and electors alone should be allowed to sue tbe barrister for any contravention of his duty under this act; and the other, recog- nizing the " common law" right of all individuals who might be in- jured by the conduct of the barrister, to bring their actions. On the question, " That this clause stand part of the bill," Sir E. Sugden said he must enter his decided protest against it. The clause was then agreed to. The 75th, 76th, and 77th clauses, were struck out as unnecessary. On the 78th clause being read, which enacts that all writs, man- dates, precepts, instruments, proceedings, and notices shall be framed and expressed in such manner and form as may be necessary for carrying the provisions of this act into effect, Sir C. Wetherell moved, as an amendment, the substitution of the following :—" That all writs, precepts, and other instruments shall be made out in the manner and form practised by law." The amendment was negatived without going to a division. Whilst the question was being put, that the clause stand part of the bill, a considerable noise took place at the bar, and loud laugh- ter prevailed for some time in the house. From what followed it appeared to be occasioned by the rush of members into the house, in order to be present at the division. Sir E. Sugden rose and complained of hon. members absenting themselves from the discussion, and then rushing in to be present at the division, on a question they had not heard debated, just as if they were prepared to vote any way with his Majesty's ministers. ( Oh, oh.) He should like to ask that hon. member who cried " Oh 1" where he had been during the debate 1 It was right that persons out of doors should see how this question was carried on here. He strongly deprecated the practice, on such an important question as this, of members rushing into the house to divide, not one of whom had heard the debate. ( Question.) Sir J. Hobhouse said, that although the gentleman alluded to might not have attended to the debate on this particular clause, yet throughout the discussion on this bill sufficient attention had been paid to it, and to all that had fallen from the hon. and learned gen- tleman ( a laugh); and he thought the hon. and learned gentleman was scarcely in a situation to lecture the house upon this subject, since the right hon. member for Tamworth ( Sir R. Peel) had not been in the house five minutes before the hon. and learned gentle- man rose. ( Hear.) Was the right hon. member for Tamworth to be taunted with the rest with neglecting this discussion because he happened not to be present? And he ( Sir J. Hobhouse) begged leave to say, that those gentlemen who were not present might find some excuse to themselves and their constituents for their absence; for he did believe there was a great deal of what might be fairly called not very important discussion ( hear, hear) ; he was not imputing to anyone a desire to impede the progress of the bill,- but there was a great deal of discussion which was not directed to any important parts of it. The house bad been a long time dis- cussing this clause ; and if the hon. and learned gentleman com- plained of a rush of members into the house at a particular moment, how did he know it was not to hear him ? ( A laugh.) But he ( Sir J. Hobhouse) protested against its going forth to the country that this was a novel proceeding ( hear, hear), and on the occasion of the reform bill alone. It had been the practice of Parliament ever since he had known it j and if members ever had an excuse for having made up their minds on a question, it was on this ques- tion. ( Cheers.) It was vain for gentlemen to appeal to the coun- try. The country had made up its mind. ( Cheers.) He did not mean any imputation on the conduct of the hon. and learned gen- tleman and his friends ; they acted, no doubt, from a conscientious desire to discharge their duty ; but their appeal to the country was vain. ( Hear, hear.) The country knew, indeed, that in the dis- cussion of the question, a majority of that house would give a certain degree of credit to the King's Government in passing the bill; but when the house had listened to a discussion of an hour and a half on a clause which was not an important one, even by the admission of the lion, gentlemen who opposed it ( hear), it was too much to hook on to this trifling clause Ihe often- repea'ted charge, and which did not deserve to be refuted, founded on a practice which, if ever excusable, was excusable on this question. Sir C. Wetherell said that the right hon. Secretary had attacked them for wasting— he had not used tbat word, but he had insinu- ated it ( a laugh), for the right hon. Secretary was an elegant scho- lar, and his diction was therefore not coarse but classical, and he therefore did not charge them expressly with creating delay, but he sarcastically insinuated that they had been the cause of an hour and a half's delay. The clause involved a great constitutional principle. But it. was said that the country had made up its mind on tbe bill: be it so, that was no reason for the house neglectinc the machinery of tbe bill, ( hear.) ° Sir J. Hobhouse disclaimed making any attack ; he had only re- pelled one made by the hon. and learned member for St. Mawes. The clause was then agreed to. CI ause 79 was agreed to without any discussion. Clause 80, with some verbal amendments proposed by Lord Althorp, was also agreed to, when the house resumed, tbe Chair- nian reported progress, and asked leave to sit again. Lord J. Russell brought in the boundaries'bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time on Monday week. In answer to a question from Mr. Goulburn, the noble lord was understood to say that the schedules of the reform bill would be discussed on Monday next. CHOLERA MORBUS ( SCOTLAND) BILL. The order of the day was then read, and the house went into committee on this bill. The Lord Advocate moved the insertion of the words, by the " interposition of Providence," in the preamble. Mr. Hume said, he could not help objecting to the insertion of these words, as uncalled for by any particular features of the pre- sent bill. r Sir R. Inglis was happy to find that the words relating to the " interposition of Providence," which had been omitted in the English, had been inserted in the present bill. It was to be deeply lamented, that in a Christian country any hon. member of that house should have given utterance to the expression of the lion, member for Middlesex,— namely, that the reference to Providence was a " humbug." ( Hear.) Mr. Hume, in answer to the right hon. Baronet, had only to say, that so far from retracting the words, he regretted that the hon. Baronet did not, in addition to the word " humbug," quote him ( Mr. Hume) as pronouncing tbe whole thing as the merest cant and hypocrisy, ( hear, hear.) He repeated, that the whole tiling of this particular reference to Providence in the present instance was mere cant and hypocrisy ; and had, moreover, to assure the hon. baronet, that he considered the conduct of those who had evinced so much zeal with respect to tbe present phraseology, as like that of the Pharisees in Scripture, who were proverbial for their osten- tatious sanctity ( hear), and the display of their religious tenets. Lord Altliorp could have 110 objection to the insertion of the words, and trusted there would be 110 division on the matter. Mr. Hunt could not, for the soul of him, see 011 what ground the Scotch . should monopolize Providence to the exclusion of the Eng. lish, and therefore knew not why the words should be introduced into tbe Scotch bill, and not into the English one. ( A laugh.) Sir G. Clerk could not help lamenting that these religious sub- jects should be discussed in the House of Commons. They were much more fitted for a theological assembly. ( Hear.) Mr. Warburton regretted the use of the words by his hon. Friend the Member for Middlesex, because they imputed motives, and such imputations ought always to be avoided. If tbe object of the words proposed in the amendment was to arm the people with cou- rage to. resist the impending evil, he should not object to them, but that was only a human motive for introducing them. He should object to tbe introduction of the name of Providence as connected with impending evils, for it ought rather to be connected with the blessings which we received from it. He should object to the name of Providence being held out on every occasion of alarm, when it was not equally held out on every occasion of advantage. The Lord Advocate said, tbat he had introduced this bill in some haste last night, and tbat he had since proposed to introduce those words without having observed what was the preamble of the Eng- lish bill. 6 Mr. Gordon hoped that a division would take place, in order that the country might know who: were the men who would object to the insertion of such words ill an Act of Parliament. Mr. C. Ferguson said, that he had never beard a speech so cal- culated to sow division, as that which had been just made by the hon. Member for Dundalk. Mr. James said, that if religious discussions were to be the order of the day there, they should meet on Sunday for that purpose, and appoint the Speaker's chaplain as their chairman. Mr. J. Wood deprecated such discussions as the present one. Mr. Hume said, that as he had been dared to divide the House on such a subject, he would do so, and he was sure that such a pro- ceeding did not require any justification in the eyes of men of real religion and common sense. Sir R. Inglis hoped that a division would take place. The house then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment, 55— Against it, 10— Majority, 45. The words proposed by the Lord Advocate were accordingly in- serted in the bill. The bill ( lien went through the committee; and the House- having resumed, it was reported, and ordered to be read a third time tlie next day. The other orders of tbe day were then disposed of, and the Heuse ailjourned at half past two o'clock. FRIDAY, FEB. 17. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved that the Order of the Day for the House resolving itself into a Committee of Supply, be read.— Mr. Hunt said he- wished to communicate to bis Majesty's Ministers a fact which had come to his know ledge that day. A person had been taken with cholera at Hoxton, and he was con- veyed in a coach to St-. Bartholomew's Hospital. The surgeon there said it was a decided case of cholera, but the patient could not be admitted into the hospital. The patient was then conveyed to the City Cholera Hospital, and being refused admittance was then carried to the Surrey Dispensary, where lie was once inore re- fused admittance. The patient was ultimately, lie believed, left in a house opposite New Belhlem.— Mr. Alderman Venables said, Ihe man had recovered, and there was no reason to believe he had suffered from cholera.— The Chancellor of the Exchequer implored lion, members to be cautious ill giving publicity to uufounded or improbable reports.— Mr. Hume stated the Chairman of the Board of Health had, in the course of a conversation, informed him that receptacles and accommodation had been prepared for cholera pa- tients and local inspectors appointed, in every district in London. — Tue conversation then dropped. Mr. Dawson made a protest against grants voted on a former even- ing, of 500(. to Mr. Marshall, for certain statistical tables, and 9001. to Dr. Bowring, for bis report regarding tbe mode of keeping public accounts in France, 4ec.; but both were strongly defended by Mr. Hume, Sir H.' ParneD, 1 the Chancellor of the Exchequer, iec., as uselul expenditure of those suras. Captain Yorke inquired whether Captain Sartorius, who appears as having a command in Don Pedro's squadron, was still in the British service ? It was answered by Sir James Graham that lie was on the British half- pay list;, but lliai be could not draw any pay except after an oath that he was not in any foreign service. The House then resolved into Com- mit ee, in w Inch Sir J. C. Hobhouse moved the Army Estimates for the current three months. They are supplemental to, or rather a continuation of the estimates already voted for 1831 ; they are for die three months that are left unprovided for by the new ar- rangement, of henceforth commencing the financial year in April instead of with January, as heretofore. There is, however, to be an addition to the number of men. These estimates were not op- posed— but they called forth a good deal of desultory discussion. I'lie Committee on the Irish Sub- letting Act tvas pustponed to Monday next. The House went into Committee on tbe Malt Sp rit Drawback Duty. Mr. F. Baring moved that the drawback should be reduced from Is. 2d. to 8d. the gallon. The resolution was ultimately agreed to. The report of the Tithe Committee wai brought in and ordered to be printed.— Adjourned. I Feb. 19. THE TOWH. L The Ultra- Tory Boroughmongering click, who have usually assembled at their den iu Charles- street, St. James's- square, met on Sunday, in great force, for the first time, at the house of Sir R. Peel, in Privy- gardens, by special summons. One o'clock was the hour appointed, but it was nearly two before many members of the Upper House had arrived. Tho business of the meeting, which, we understand, was extremely stormy, related entirely to the tactics to be adopted during the further progress of the Reform Hill .— Morning Chronicle [ It is truly charitable in Sir Robert to open a new Refuge for the Destitute], The expediency of creating Peers for life has been sug gesteil, not on the ground of analogy to such a proceeding in another country, but in accordance to many precedents for it in our own history. Lord Coke held that the King might create a man noble for life, and it appears that Richard II. created P. obert de Vere Marquis of Dublin for life ; Henry IV. created the Duke of Exeter also for life ; Richard J I. created Edward, tbe eldest son of his uncle Edmund Duke of York, Earl of Rutland for the life of his father only ; the same King also created the Countess of Norfolk Duchess of Norfolk for life; James I. created Lady Mary Compton, the Duke of Buckingham's mother, Countess of Buckingham for life; and James II. not only conferred a dignity on Sir Francis Knollys, but covenanted in the patent to grant a similar one to liis son, when of age, during liis life, with remainder to his second son, Algernon Percy, and his heirs male ; and in 1786, George Duke of Montagu was created Lord Montagu of Boughton during bis life, with remainder to his grandson Henry, second son of the Duke of Buccleuch, and his heirs male. Sir James Graham, we are informed, has conferred the valuable appointment of General of Marines on Admiral Lord de Saumarez, who, itis understood, will be succeed- ed as Vice- Admiral of England by Viscount Exmouth. The First Lord of the Admiralty, in communicating the appointment to Lord de Saumarez, staled that his Majesty had bestowed it as a testimony of Koyal approbation ol his Lordship's eminent public services. It is understood that Admirai Lord Gambier will succeed the late venerable Admiral Peere Williams Freeman, as Admiral of the Fleet, which high professional distinction was conferred on him by his present Majesty, on the 28th of June, 1830, only one day subsequent to the accession of the Sovereign. Admiral Freeman had attained the ad- vanced age of ninety at the period of his appointment, and at- his dissolution, which took place a few days back, at his seat in Buckinghamshire, was probably the most aged flag officer of the Royal Navy. An anecdote is in circulation in the naval circles, that the King, who, it will be recol- lected, was the predecessor of Admiral Freeman in the office of Admiral of the Fleet, having several months ago sent a splendid baton to the venerable officer, he expressed considerable surprise on being invested with a distinc- tion which had heretofore only been conferred on Field Marshals. BRISTOL MAGISTRATES.— No circumstance since the riots has created a stronger sensation in Bristol than the receipt of the following ietters by the Committee of In- quiry. The first is addressed to Ihe Solicitors of the Committee of Inquiry by J. E. Baillie, Esq., one of the Members, Mr. Protheroe, the other, being an invalid ; the other letter is from Lord Melbourne to Mr. Baillie, and by him enclosed to the Committee :— " Seymour- place, Feb. 15,1832. " DEAR SIR— I have just received your letter of yesterday, and I now beg leave to send you enclosed Lord Melbourne's reply to my last application. " I have to request Ihat you will immediately lay this communi- cation before the Committee of Inquiry, with my best respects. 4< I remain, & c., " To W. B. Cross, and F. Jarnian. Esqrs." '* JAMES E. BAILLIE.' " Home Office, Feb. 14, 1832. " Sm— In consequence of the personal inquiries which you' made of me yesterday, I take the earliest opportunity of acquaint- ing you that I have directed a letter to be written to the Mayor of Bristol, informing tlie Mayor that pioceedings will be instituted for the purpuse of inquiring in a Court of Justice into the conduct of the Magistrates on the 29th, 30th, and 31st of last October. " 1 have the honour to remain, & c. " To J. E. Baillie, Esq." " MELBOURNE.' By the letters received from Paris we hear that the French Government have ordered that all vessels arriving from Hie port of London are to perform a quarantine of three days. This is a much milder order than was antici- pated.— Morning Heruld. Proposals are circulating in the City for the establishment of a mercantile club there on a large scale. AWFUL SHIPWRECK.— On the evening of Saturday the 4th instant, in a heavy gale of wind, the ship Crown, of Liverpool, on her voyage to Charleston, was driven on the Great Rusk hank, on the coast of Wexford. The captain found the vessel sinking, and called aloud for the boats; a heavy sea was coming ; the mate and two others near the caplaiu fled into the lee raizen rigging, and the unfortunate master neglecting to secure himself, was carried away on tho swell; a faint cry was heard from him, but he was seen no more. The steward, in getting rum out of the cabin was drowned at the same time, and tbe second mate and the two boats which were placed on the poop broke adrift at this moment, leaving fifteen persons trusting to the masts of the vessel for safety, as all flic hull ( a part of the bow excepted) was under water. The men in the two smaller boats must have perished shortly, for ono boat was picked up by the coast guard at ten o'clock, p. m., en Cabore strand, aud the oilier was found more north, with no living soul on board, but the person in tlio launch, who was cook of the vessel, came on shore safely, although he had been hurt in leaving the ship. He stated lie felt most awfully his desolate condition when the bout broke adrift; and that the cries of his shipmates on board, when they found flie boat going, was inost awful and distressing. " When the morning cleared, two attempts, under the direction of the officer of the Coast Guard, were made to reach the wreck from the shore. The unhappy crew, finding it no longer safe to cling to tbe masts, descended by the stays to the bowsprit. At two o'clock, p. m., three men stated they would swim on shore, and stripped for the purpose; the strongest leaped first overboard, and was seen to sink a short distance from the wreck ; the other two having lost their clothes, perished shortly after by the inclemency of the weather. One man also dropped from the bowsprit, unable longer to support himself, and another lost his life at the jib- boom end, whereto lie lashed himself. The ten survivors were now driven from their last hold; the masts bad already gone, the vessel was breaking in pieces, and their shelter was a small part of ( lie bow above water. A piece of the wreck floated near them; the crew seized it with eagerness ; the carpenter freed it from the fragments near; a portion of canvass was instantly cast away, and the ten meu on their frail bark hoisted a temporary sail, and, With Providence tlieir guide, made for land, went nobly through the breaking surf, near the shore, aud made a safe landing oil the beach, to the amazement of all present, for their escape had been fancied impossible, and it was effected when no human power could aid or assist them in the smallest degree! THE GARRICK CLUB DINNER. The dinner to commemorate the founding of the Gar- rick Club took place at their house in King- street on Wednesday, his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex 111 tho chair. About a hundred and twenty members met their royal patron on the occasion ; among whom, at vari- ous parts of the table, were— Lord Mulgrave ( the president), Sir G. Warrender ( vice presi- dent), Lord Saltoun, Lord F. L. Gower, Lord Tullamore, Lord W. Lennox, Lord Castlereagh, Lord A. Hill, Sir J. C. Ilobhouse, Sir G. Clerk, Sir J. Anstruther, Messrs. Hodgson, Kerope, Ramsbot- tom, Capt. Polliill, and other members of Parliament; Mr. Lincoln Stanhope, M'Lend of M'Leod, F. Mills, F. Sheridan, Mr. J. Murray, W. Fraser, C. Kenible, Arnold, Mathews, Sir G. Smart, Hawes, T. Cooke, Braham, Jones, Bartley, Wallack, Linley, C. Taylor, Duruset, Harley, Power, Sola, Clint, Stanfield, Grieve, J. Smith, Planch^, Poole, Trueba, Beazley, B. Oakley, Hamilton Reynolds, G. Robins, & c. & c. On the removal of the cloth, " The King" was drank with great applause, as was also the toast of " The Queen and Royal Family." In introducing the toast of " Success to the Garrick Club," his Royal Highness described ils principal object, to afford a rallying point for the lovers of the drama, and bestow ed a high encomium on the plan, at once liberal and economical, which had been adopted by the committee iu carrying the design of the subscribers into effect. It was received with enthusiasm ; and after this, the fatiguing ceremony of three times three was dispensed with. Mr. Braham sang the following song, written by Mr. James Smith, in the most admirable style :— THE OARRICK CLUB. Air—" To Anacreon in Heaven." Jove sat on Olympus, in glory array'd, Conipeller of clouds, armed for battle complete, When lo! from Elysium upsoaring, a shade Knelt down, in mute grace, at the Thunderer's feet; The sight seemed to move Heaven's conclave above, Thalia, Melpomene, eyed him with love— ' Twas Garrick, up- travelling Jove's fiat to gain To bring back the stage to it's glory again. " ' Twont do 1" bellowed Momus ; " as well might you strive To jump, little man, o'er the Apennine bills; ' Twas all mighty well when Queen Anne was alive, And wit greeted. fashion at Buttons' or Wills'. Will wit call a chair, Or fashion repaii From Baker- street North, or remote Belgrave- square, And seek Covent Garden, or seek Drury Lane, To bring back the stage to its glory again ?" " Right, Momus," quoth Jove, '' that's a poser, my lad; The town's too enormous; its play- goers few : Your project, I fear, little David, is bad; You'll find that Goliath too mighty for you. Unless you can trace Some concentrated place Where play- going people may- meet face to face, I fear, David Garrick, your effort is vain To bring back tbe drama to glory again.'' " Dread sir," cried tbe actor, " your censure forego, My London committee have settled all that; King- street, Covent- garden's the Incus in quo, It flanks tbe Piazza." Quoth Jove, " Verbum sat: 3' Light Hermes, my son, Be off with a run, And bear Garrick back, for his business is done; Go enter our name in the Club; for we fain Would guide back tbe drama to glory again. Each god for our dinner his pic- nic prepares ; Red Bacchus gives wine, with its bottles and corks; Pomona contributes figs, apples, and pears, And Vulcan has forged us our knives and our forks: To blazcn- lhe boon, From the realms of the moon, I, minstrel unworthy, now give it a tune— Awake, tuneful echo, respond to my strain ! And call back the drama to glory again ! Ye friends of the drama, give ear to my song— To strengthen . love's fiat, and bind us anew, One bright ray of hope shoots the welkin along. That ray, star of Brunswick, is beaming from you ; Led on by its light We assemble to- night, Our new Garrick Club in one bond to unite : Then join hand in hand, persevere might and main, And light up the drama to glory again. Chorus— Then join,& c. The Earl of Mnlgrave proposed the health of the royal Chairman with a few brief but appropriate remarks. The applause having ceased, his Royal Highness returned thanks, and dwelt at great length on the moral and na- tional effects which might be produced by those great en- gines the press and the stage, by their union and by their light direction. The following glee, by a member of the club, was charm- ingly sung by the musical party, led by Sir G. Smart: Let poets of superior parts Consign lo deathless fame The larcenies of the knave of hearts, Who robbed his royal datue. The honest muse Such theuies eschews, Disdains all knavish cubs ; And hails to- day, With joyous lay, Tliy birth, fair Queen of Clubs. Salve, Regina I Bsto perpetua 1 Hail! Hail! Hail! illustrious Queen of Clubs! The Chairman now gave the health of Lord Mulgrave and noticed Ihe zeal with which his Lordship bad devoted himself to the formation of the club, as well as his general patronage of the drama. His Lordship, in return for the compliment, which was loudly cheered by the company, spoke in a very feeling and elegant manner; acknowledg- ing his love for the drama, and declaring the pleasure he felt in promoting all its interests. He alluded playfully to the days when these interests were taken in hand by the wits at Buttons' ami Wills'; but Buttons' and Wills' had in our days given place to Brooks' aud Crockfords', where other sorts of plays were more encouraged ; and it was in some measure to lill up the want thus created, that had led to the foundation of the Garriek Club, A song composed by Mr. Sola was ably sung by him. Captain Polhill and Mr. Kemble returned thanks 011 their healths, coupled with their respective theatres, being drank. About eleven o'clock his Royal Highness retired, when Lord W. Lennox took the chair, and for another hour elicited speech and song alternately from the merry party who rallied round him. Mathews and Harley were both in their happy vein.— Mr. Zachary's Vase frotn the wood- of Shakspeare's mul- berry tree was 011 the table before the chair. We have much gratification in stating that this enter- tainment delighted every gentleman who partook of it. LORD BLAYNEY, and the IRISH ORANGEMEN. Some persons are very cormoranls of the contemptible, and Lord Blayney, who is no ordinary gourmand, has a great appetite in this way. He was already notorious as having by some fatality been appointed to command an expedition sent from Gibraltar, and which landed at Fuengirola, near Malaga, 011 the southern coast of Spain, where he suc- ceeded in being taken prisoner and in losing a large num- ber of British troops. After the landing had been effected, a force was seen to advance upon Lord Blayney's corps. His Lordship bailed them as friends, and when all joy at their approach, his friends seemed to be taking very suspi- cious measures for surrounding him. " They are French,' exclaimed several British officers. " Let us fire," ran along the ranks. " Not a trigger shall be drawn," said Lord B. " they are Spaniards come to join us." Then it was that some of our brave fellows, for the first and only time in their lives, disobeyed orders. They poured in a volley 011 the approach- ing enemy, and whilst their General was lost in w onder at the madness of his own soldiers, two of the enemy's grena- diers rushed forward and forced him to join the French. He was made prisoner, with a large portion of his force. Some of the British who acted for themselves against their General's orders made good their retreat to the shore, and embarked under cover of our vessels of war. Lord Blayney was sent lo France, and published, some time after, the Memoirs of what he facetiously called his " Forced March through Spain and France." Never was a more vile book, or one more characteristic of the au- thor than this. He is all through, from post to post, from breakfast to supper, involved in one conside- ration— that of his owii stomach. Military ardour, the disgrace of defeat, the national indignation at his con- duct, are all merged in the appetites of the mere animal. Lately, this hero has proclaimed his readiness to take the field in the cause of the Irish Orangemen. I11 the midst of his new allies, who had assembled to dine and rant sedition at Morrisson's hotel in Dublin, his Lordship took Earl Grey to task— proclaimed him radical— declared that he had advised the King to disband the household troops— and that nothing bnt the stern conservativeness of Lord Hill saved the Empire from a measure so revo- lutionary. All this Lord Blayney asserted as of his own knowledge. The Dublin Evening Mail printed this speech of Lord Blayney's with all the imposing solemnity of " double leads." The Standard opened its willing co- lumns to it. Here, said The Standard, is proof positive of all that we have said and sung against Earl Grey; and, oh, what gratitude should the country ever cherish for Lord Hill!— not more brave in the field than wise in couucil. Lord Blayney is an old fool, retorted The Courier. He must be taught better. So the matter rested until the last week, when the fol- lowing letfer iu the true stylo of " I shall be sorry, since sorrow saves my bacon," was sent for publication to The Dublin Evening Mail:— Castle- Biayney, Feb. 1, I have this morning received your Lordship's letter of January 28, and regret that my former explanation was unsatisfactory. The statement I made, and what was reported to have passed between the King, Lord Grey, aud the Commander- in- Chief, with respect to the proposed reduction of the household troops, was taken from one of the public papers, the name of which I do not recollect. What I then stated I have since learned to be wholly unfounded, and 1 therefore express my regret at having been led into so un- justifiable a statement. I beg of your Lordship to lay before the King my humble duty, and the sorrow I feel at having used his Majesty's name on the oc- casion; and I trust your Lordship and Lord Grey will be satisfied that I was solely influenced by the excitement of the moment, and had no intention to misrepresent any part of his Lordship's political conduct. I have the honour, & c. General Lord Hill. BLAYNEY. In consequence of the Bill introduced into Parliament by Sir James Graham, for regulating the manner in which the business of the civil departments of the Navy is to be conducted in future, the following gentlemen retire from office:— From the Navy Office— Commissioners Middleton, Thomson, and Seppings, and Mr. Secretary Smith. From the Victualling Board— the Hon. Major- General Stapyl- ton, Commissioner Edgecumbe, and Mr. Secretary Clifton. An address to the| retaileis of beer has been circulated in Staffordshire, calling upon them not to promise their votes to any candidate for Parliamentary honours who will not pledge himself to support their interests in the House of Commons. The pawnbrokers in the same county are also called upon to exact a similar pledge! Smuggling has recently become tnuch more prevalent on the coasts of Hampshire and Sussex than it has been for some months. This is to be ascribed, we are tohl, to the almost total absence of cruisers in the Channel. If so, where are our revenue cruisers, or what are they doing? Ifthe country can afford to employ but few vessels, these few should be well disposed, and kept actively at work.— Hampshire Telegraph. Government have placed at the disposal of the City Board of Health a large number of iron bedsteads and bed clothes, which will be distributed in those places where hospitals are to be prepared. The Board have had sub- mitted to them plans for carriages to convey the sick to the hospitals with all possible speed. Tbe obtaining plot of ground to bury persons who may die of the dis- ease, has also been under consideration, as well as many other plans for affording relief to the poor. DON PEDRO.— During the stay of Don Pedro iu Paris, lie received the offer of a Polish Legion, for his expedition against the Usurper. It has been accepted, and arrange- ments are making for the conveyance of about thirty Polish officers, and several hundred privates to Tcrceira. The remains of the late Dr. Bell were deposited, on Tuesday, in the centre- aisle of the grand west choir of Westminster Abbey. The procession consisted of ten mourning coaches, and twenty- six private carriages, in- cluding those of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, Lord Eldon, Lord Amherst, Lord Kenyon, Lord Wynford, Mr. Justice Park, and Sir James Langham. The pall was borne by Lord Kenyon, the Rev. Spencer Phillips, Walter Cooke, Esq., and Captain M'Konocbie. The chief mourners were the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of London, who were followed by several Noble- men and Gentlemen. PARIS, FEB. 15. • ( From our own Correspondent.) The dispatches brought by the son of M. de St.' Aulaire from Rome, are of more importance than has been'gene- rally supposed. Extreme mystery has been observed upon the subject; but I have learnt from an authentic source, that they contain an assurance from the Pontifical Govern- ment that it disclaims most positively any wishfto abridge the liberties of the Italians, and states that it is prepared to grant almost an unconditional amnesty when the rebels, as they are termed, are brought to a proper sense of their duty. This proper sense of duty, I fear, is difficult to obtain, for in the opinion of file adherents of arbitrary power, it nieaus nothing less than the abandonment of the sacred rights of freedom and independence. Concessions, I am aware, have been offered by the Pope, hut they do not correspond with the spirit of the times, nor with the opinions of the people. The question is a difficult one, for the government have to ileal with a principle on which its opinions have been pronounced— that of non- intervention— and in a case opposed to this principle. The French troops have entered the Papal States, and so have the Austrians. Thus far the error may be saidj to be balanced ; but it would be a fallacy to insist that the in- tervention of Austria and that of France stands altogether upon the same principle. You may depend that Austria has some concealed designs upon the Austrian provinces; for in what other way can we explain the stipulation made by that Cabinet, that its troops should be allowed to occupy Ferrara ? No, no, M. de Metternich is too good a diplo matist to miss a golden opportunity. The idea that the French are occupying the Legations jointly with Austria is absurd, for the former power has been allowed to send only a few battalions there, whilst Austria has about eight thousand men scattered about the territory. If Austria chose to direct a hostile movement, it might speedily be in possession of the whole of Ihe Papal States, and what could a few brigades of French troops do to prevent her' M. Casimir Perier, it is to be feared, will have much upon his hands before the Papal question is settled. M. de St. Aulaire's dispatches are but too explicit. Of this be cer- tain : if the affair were merely a dispute between the Pope and his subjects, it might be settled without much difficulty, but Austrian cunning being mixed up with it, there is no telling to what it may lead. The proclamation for a general fast in England has formed a fertile source of derision here. " What.'" say the wits of Paris, " is poor old John Bull reduced to this? Why it is a greater attack upon his corporation lights than the reform bill. Let Englishmen, they say, no longer call themselves free. They are deprived of their dearest privilege by an ordonnance more arbitrary than those of July. Beefsteaks are interdicted by an official order - the roast beef shops are shut up; plum puddings are forbidden, and an embargo is laid upon potatoes. What will the poor Irish do ?" they maliciously add. Many of the French cooks, we are told, have given notice to quit, thinkin"- tliey will have a sinecure in London. " What a wrctched place must London now be," says one of the Journalists; " a bottle of good claret can hardly be had at any price, though the cholera may be caught for nothing." Poor Madame Fcucheres is more vituperated than ever by the Paris papers now she is in London. Her arrival there has beeu thus announced:—" Madame do Feucheres has taken up her residence in Mug Farieff' ( May Fair). Sbe purchased the hotel of Viscount Yarmouth." Some of the papers have made a dead set at her, but their remarks are perhaps more humourous than mischievous. We are told, amongst other things, that in order to throw a light upon the Duke of Bourbon's will, she was obliged to cut the gordiun knot. " The Baroness," adds the Journalist, " w hen she reads what we have said of her, will do what she has before done— suffocate with anger." The affairs of Italy have not passed unnoticed. The Figaro says, that the Pope is about to administer the extreme unction to Ilalian liberty. In further reference to the Italian affair, I am enabled to inform you that the French Cabinet was so convinced of the importance of the step sanctioned by llie Austrian ministry, that Cabinet Councils were held immediately, and not a moment was lost in sending back M. de St. Aulaire with dispatches to Rome. They are couched, I can as- sure you, in language which by no means can be implied as approving of a large number of Austrians being allowed to remain in Italy. It is not correct, as stated, that many of the Austrian troops have withdrawn from the Legations. The French Government have lowered the transit duty on English ships in French ports from about 3s. 5d. to Is. 3d. per ton, our own being 9d. per ton on French ship- ping in English ports. There is reason also to believe that approximation to freedom of trade and reciprocity will not cease here. Ibrahim Pacha and his Egyptians have thrown, au vent, sixty thousand cannon balls before St. Jean d'Acre ; after which fhey have been obliged to retire, with great loss. However, it is no disgrace to fail, where Napoleon did not succeed. A letter from Florence, dated Jan. 31, says, " In the sack of Casena five churches were plundered by his Holiness's soldiers, and all theif silver utensils carried off. You will see named in the official bulletin of the battle, Captain Graziosi as leading the Cacciatori. This is the celebrated Brigand Chief, Gaspar Graziosi, commonly known by the name of Gasparoni, whose proclamation to his old friends and companions of the mountains declared that he was authorised to raise a regiment, though it seems they have given him the rank only of Captain. He promised ab- solution, in eternum, from the Pope to his followers, and continued Godimenti in their service. Casena and Forli have witnessed the consequences. It is now stated, that in the massacre of Forli forty people in all were killed, and seventy wounded." The house of B. A. Goldsclimidt and Co. stopped pay! menton Tuesday. 60 THE TOWS. Feb. 19, TO CORRESPONDENTS. We suggest to our able correspondent, ivho writes on cholera aud hack- ney coaches, that many of his objections would be obviated if he pa- tronised cabriolets. We will take advantage of his communication in our next number. Rusticus must wait— dum deflnat amnis ! X. on Sir R. Inglis, and Exeter Change, shall appear in our next. An Oppidan shall be attended to. It will be seen, in another part of our paper, that the Rev. Mister Dillon, better known as the historian of LordWenables, and rival of Lord Mahon in Historiography, has been haranguing the Low Church mob at Exeter Hall. We propose, in our following number, to publish a compendium of the life,\ x\ tings, and speeches of this gen- tleman, together with a sketch of the rise and progress of Humbug. Ihe earliest opportunity will be taken to give the portraits of Lord Stormont, Sir R. Inglis, and Captain Gordon. THE TOWI LONDON: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19. We understand, from a source on which we place great confidence, that the French Government have ordered their Ambassador at Madrid to make a for- mal communication to the Spanish Cabinet of the in- tention of France to prevent any assistance from being given by FERDTNAND to DON MIGUEL. A similar intimation has been given to the Spanish Ambassador at the Court of Paris. Now, as it is positively stated in the diplomatic circles here that FERDINAND has pledged himself to assist MIGUEL, we may expect an extraordinary de- nouement on the appearance of the Portuguese expedi- tion in the Tagus. The other Great Powers of the Continent are, it is said, agreed on the propriety of abstaining from assisting DON MISEUL, but it is not quite so certain that they will allow France to assist his opponent, and it may happen, notwith- standing all the boasting that we have had about pa cific professions, that thefirstgun fired by Don PEDRO may be the signal for a general conflict. France is fully prepared for any contingency of this sort— troops are concentrating at Bayonne, and in the event of FERDINAND'S sending forces to the assistance of the usurper, the French will immediately cross the Pyre- nees on one point, and proceed by sea to Lisbon on the other. Such, we know, is the determination at this moment, and it is not probable that it will be abandoned. Another party, however, Austria, is endeavouring to mediate between tbe parties, and it is hoped that she • will be able to prevent the threatened collision. The Austrian Minister at this Court, Baron WESSEMBERG, has had several interviews with Lord PALMERSTON, Prince TALLEYRAND, and the Spanish Minister, on this important subject. extended to almost every portion of the continent of Europe. First, There are those who are still opposed to all changes and substitutions whatsoever, until they are absolutely extorted from them, inch by inch, by a suffering and exasperated nation. Secondly, There are men of sanguine temperament, and heated imagination, with, perhaps, distressed cir- cumstances acting upon both, who would dream of rushing to the goal of final and speculative perfection without ever taking the intermediate steps; some of whom, it is not to be denied, are ready to cut every knot of political and financial difficulty by the iron ar- gument of physical force. Thirdly, There are those who would take their sta- tion between the two extremes— who would strike the balance between abstract theories and existing cir- cumstances— who would look at once at the two prin- ciples of ultimate good and immediate practicability, and thus endeavour to adapt the Government of the country to its actual progress inwealth, and intelli- gence, and feeling, and opinion. Now, let us turn to the first of these classes, or the ultra- Tories. Let us put the matter both upon the foot- ing of right or wrong, and of possible or impossible. In either view of the case, the result must be the same Ought the principles of ultra- Toryism any longer to predominate in a country like our's ? or can they any longer— we will not say predominate, but maintain their ground? Are not the assertors of such principles dwindling, even numerically, into nothing ? are they not left solitary and exposed, like stranded vessels by the receding tide ? Has not their system now become as impracticable inexecution. as it has always been mon- strous in itself? Is not its unfitness to the times as pal- pable as its abstract and eternal injustice ? In a word what can the Tories do, if, by any accident, every office in the Government, and every place of trust in the kingdom, should be restored into their hands to- cess of even a beneficial change, is to precipitate it in point of time, and extend it too far in point of opera- tion. What then remains? It remains, that we require, aud must have a Government, which, while it looks steadily and unflinchingly forward to the true end of all legislative and executive authority, namely, the common happiness of all the governed ; while it con- templates progressive amelioration in every department of the State, and every interest in the country, would yet regulate the pace by the wants and capabilities of the actual conjuncture. We must have a Government, which will keep in view both ends and means at one and the same moment; and which will adjust its agency to the materials with which it must work. All else is Charlatanism, and not Statesmanship. We must, too, have a Government, which, without sacri- ficing the good of the people to their applause, enjoys some degree of popularity; because it is barely pos- sible that men, who are personally objects of suspicion or dislike, can carry happily into effect even a wise and useful scheme of policy. We think, therefore, on the whole, that the proposi- tions with which we started in the present article, have been fairly and incontrovertibly made out; and that an Administration, which, steering between headlong re- volution and obstinate adherence to antiquated forms, has taken for its motto and its guide the Talismanic words, " Peace, Retrenchment, and Reform," has nothing to fear from the victory of antagonist princi- ples; and can only fall by mistakes and deviations of its own, which we see no reason to anticipate. Its spirit, at least, is unquestionably right. irritated the lower orders, whose enjoyments have been thus limited. Many commotions have already taken place, and some of the custom- houses have been burnt; the tax- gatherers have been insulted and ill- treated, and the authority of the government has been, in a variety of instances, treated with contempt by the multitude. In Austria, although there are no commotions, men's minds are open to the folly of a continental war; and some of the most influential Nobles of the Court, who are rather more enlightened than our anti- reformers, have urged the King to dismiss from his Councils the violent men who would involve him in a war which he is little able to undertake in the present state of the finances. Ever METTERNICH himself, anxious as he is to make despotism triumph over liberal principles, sets too high a value on the. preservation of peace to endeavour to convert people to his way of thinking by the musket or the bayonet. He is, in fact, really paci- fic, although, from his experience of Courts and Cabi- nets, he talks very high, and threatens war, whilst he negociates and obtains concessions for his own Ca- binet. The best security for the peace of Europe is in the weakness of those who are said to be desirous for war. They will probably make a show of hostility, but they have not the means of compelling France and Great Britain to yield to their dictation. There are three subjects— Belgium, Italy, and Portugal— upon which they will make a stand for a time, but we doubt whe- ther they will attempt to carry any threats into exe- cution. In answer to the luminous and satisfactory state- ment of Sir J. GRAHAM, on Tuesday night, Mr. CROKER is reported to have said, with his usual smart and self- complacent flippancy, that, after pay- ing every attention to the alterations proposed by the Right Hon. Baronet, " he was bound to declare, that he disputed his facts, denied his reasons, disapproved of his policy, and doubted his success." Now, this sally in itself was merely a particular tirade spouted forth on a particular occasion ; but it is precisely in character with the general outcry raised against the Administration by their Tory opponents— it is exactly in the key pitched by the leaders, and then yelped out in chorus by the whole pack. The Quarterly Review must have its article on " the progress of this Govern- ment;" and the same strain is repeated through all the intermediate classes of publication, down to the lowest organs of Ultra- llliberalism. We would meet these writers and these orators on their own ground. We throw out of view the imme- diate question between Sir J. GRAIIAM and Mr. CRO- KER, for it is not yet fairly before the public. But we undertake to demonstrate, upon a wide and comprehen- sive survey of things, as they are, that the Government of this country could not be carried forward upon any other principles ( to the details we shall come hereafter) than those which the members of the present Ministry have adopted and reduced to practice; and, if this position be correct, it will follow, as an inevitable corollary that they who have already adopted and acted upon the only principles which are compatible with the] safety of the state, are the most likely persons to con- 1 tinue them in successful operation, and pursue them through their several applications with advantage and satisfaction to the people at large. To the proof, then. The political community may be stated to consist of three large classes. As there is no saltus and no hiatus in politics more than in physics, individuals, of course, may be found who fill up the intermediate spaces, and form connecting links along the whole chain ; but, for the broad and gene- ral outline which we are now taking, a three- fold division is sufficient; and it may here be added, that although we must at present confine our attention to morrow? Can they revive sentiments which have passed away for ever ? Can they pollute the statute book with fresh Test Acts 1 Can they disqualify the Roman Catholics again ? Can they re- impose the grinding fetters which an awakened realm has shaken off? Can they render safe and inviolable the collec- tion of tithes ? Can they steep a whole nation in the Lethe of ignorance, when it has once drunk of the waters of knowledge ? Can they arrest the moral progression of the earth ? They might as well dream of stopping its physical revolution round the sun, by stamping their foot upon it. And yet they must do these things before they can hold the reins of Govern- ment for a single week. Extreme Toryism, then, is hors de combat; it may smoulder in individual bosoms, but, as a principle of Administration, it is defunct.- This is no longer conjecture— no longer speculation no longer prophecy ; but it is the simple fact. The leaders of Toryism know it to be so ; and it is only its lowest partisans who still insist and expatiate upon tenets, of which the heads are beginning to be ashamed Nay, more; the Tories are divided among themselves ; they were divided about the question of Catholic Eman- cipation ; and, we speak not without knowledge, they are as much divided now. The only bond of union is their opposition to the Reform Bill ; and when that We are glad to hear from Paris that the President of the Council has received from one of our Cabinet Ministers a letter, in which he speaks of the Reform Bill as certain, whether new Peers be created or not. This is a bold assertion, but, from the character of the individual, we should be disposed to place confidence in it, and we are quite sure, that if he did not believe in the practicability of the plan laid down by the Ca- binet, he would retire from office. Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE, the new Secretary at War, as it is said, made a similar statement to some of his constituents, and, from other sources, we learn that Ministers are confident. Previously to the decision of the Conference in fa- vour of OTIIO, second son of the King of Bavaria, as the new Monarch of Greece, it was ascertained that the King would not object to the nomination of his son, consequently the question may be considered as settled so far as regards the person of the Sovereign. The amount of income, the exact proportions of assistance to the new Monarch from Russia, France, and this country, are still left for discussion, as are also all the financial arrangements respecting the late Loans. A new Loan will be brought into the market as soon as the acceptance of the Crown by Prince QTHO has been officially notified. We hear a great deal of a special mission to Paris rom the Court of St. Petersburgh, and of the pro- bability of a speedy ratification of the Treaty of the Conference by Russia. The French Ministers have Bill is incorporated with the law of the land, the state even spoken of it as certain. of parties will assume a new aspect, and the internal We have made inquiry in quarters likely to be well- rent in the body of Toryism will be as apparent as informed on this subject, and we learn, that although it is inevitable. We confidently assert, that very soon the Emperor of Russia has not said that lie will ratify the liberal Tories must unite with the liberal Whigs the treaty, there are admissions in the last communica- ( how happy should we be to discard names - which have tions from the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, relative to '' the treaty, which justify a hope of speedy arrangement. But the real cause of the change, if true, appears to be the desire of the Emperor to emancipate himself from the war party in his own country, and to strengthen the opposite party, in the hope of, at the same time, adding to his own stability; for he knows very well that if the war faction were to get the upper hand, his reigrn would be of short duration. The real truth is, that neither Russia, Austria, nor long lost their meaning !) and act in conjunction with tliern for the salvation of the Empire, and the real happiness of mankind But let us turn, for a moment, to the opposite spe- cies of Ultraism— to the violent pedants of democracy and equalization. We need hardly say, that the Owenites in England, and the St. Simonites in France, are scarcely worthy of any serious notice in their de- clamatory crusade against individual property. We need hardly say, that every honest and prudent man Prussia, is prepared for war. They make a display of will abjure opinions and wishes which have a leaning troops, but there is little of the morale, and even a towards spoliation and convulsion; and will guard great deficiency of the materiel, necessary for offen- | against the men, who would regard Great Britain as a sive operations. In Russia the officers of the Royal new country, in which they have nothing more to do, Guards have imbibed liberal doctrines, and in the than to start fair with a new constitution. Earnestly military colonies there is great insubordination. Very would we conjure the sincere friends of human recently one of the largest of these colonies revolted, improvement to draw a marked line of distinction murdered all their officers except one, and were about between themselves and a few extravagant enthusiasts, to march upon the capital, when their demands were ever anxious to goad the people and the Government complied with ; and on other points there has been a into revolutionary measures, which, if any thing could general disposition to revolt, for the poor wretches who " - i/ i i, i EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE. Our readers have probably observed, in the more west- ern parts of the town, an aged person, who for some years has been popularly known as " The White Lady." The name is not inappropriate, as the poor creature is uniformly clothed from head to foot, or rather from bonnet to shoes, in a faded dress of dirty white. She is now very old and feeble ; in fact, a decrepid thing, toddling and twaddling along, in almost the last stage of infirmity. It is indeed strange and somewhat melancholy to see her moving among the busy crowds of London, as if she did not belong to the present times, but were rather a solitary remnant of a gene- ration that had passed away. Her great age and evident weakness, her singular and grotesque attire, and the re- markable contrast between herself and all around her, na turally render the unfortunate being an object of compas- sion ; and vet, extraordinary as it may seem, she mani- festly imagines herself to be a person of notoriety and con- sequence ; nay, we should not be suprised to hear, that she was, in ber own opinion, the very mirror and favourite of fashion. This, however, is the less wonderful, as the poor old lady is not quite right in the head, and it is only her inability to do mischief which procures her the liberty of being at large. The question has been often asked—" Who or what can she be V' but, for a long time, the enquiry was made in vain. The most wonderful part, however, of the story is, that when the question was lately put to the old lady herself, she answered with a grave face and demeanour, " I am the Morning Post!" At this extraordinary an- nouncement, some laughed, some marvelled, that even a mad old woman should speak such a libel upon herself; some thought there was yet " method in her madness ;" and Prince Puckler Muskau having observed her obsolete pe- culiarities, her harmless insanity, and the pitiable fact that she had outlived her generation, and, as it were, herself— having, moreover, obtained from his German education an insight into the nature of ghosts and spirits, and being thus enabled to account for mysterious appearances— de- clared boldly his opinion, that " The White Lady" was really and truly— the Post, walking abroad ; in short, nei- ther more nor less than an impersonation of the paper. For ourselves, we hardly like to hazard an opinion, as the wisest philosophers have been puzzled by the abstruse subject of personal identity. EPIORAM ON THE " ALBION AND STAR NEWSPAPER. Thy names are blended : but the day be far When Albion's fate is rul'd by such a Star ; For, sad eclipse, ere spring cheers earth and sky, Tliis Star must vanish, and this Albion die. produce that effect, would cause a re- action in favour of the Tories, and strip the Ministers of all moral power, by putting them in the wrong. Earnestly would we conjure them to separate themselves from the visionaries, who would jump to their conclusions at a bound, and think to do every thing at once; for- the British empire, a similar classification might be getful that the surest method of endangering the suc- are dragged from their houses, and forced to become soldiers, are not quite destitute of human intelligence and feeling. In Prussia, the increase of taxation to meet the exactions of the court, and the expense of a large standing army, have made the middle classes discon- tented ; and the augmentation of the duties on articles of consumption and traffic from abroad, has greatly A ROYAL PUN.— A gentleman in his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex's box at Drury- lane the other night, remarking to the Duke on one of the actresses, observed that she spoke as if she had no roof to her mouth. " Yes," said his Royal Highness, " her voice is not at all palateable." Crofton Croker observing Jerdan with a new waistcoat, and not particularly admiring the make, asked him if it was not a city cut? " No," said the venerable Jerdan, " it's a west- cut" ( waistcoat.) Jerdan, in his peculiar accent, was observing to James Smith, that " the candles ought to be snuffed, the weeks ( wicks) were sae lang." " Yes," said Smith, " or they'll soon be fortnights.'" A lady complaining to Sir C. Wetherell that she had no sugar in her tea, was informed by Sir Charles, with his usual good taste, that " if she did'nt like it, she might lump it.'' IRISH TITHES.— We have already put on record our de- cided opinions, that the tithe system in Ireland must be abolished, and have described the Ministerial measure for effecting that object, and, at the same time, tranquillizing the country. The proceedings in both Houses of Parlia- ment on the subject of tithes this week, afford an ample proof of Ihe correctness of our views aud tbe accuracy of our information. The Globe of last night quotes as from the Evening Mail the letter of Mr, Boyd, which appeared first in the Town of last Sunday, Feb. 19. THE TOWar, 61 GALLERY OF » ILLUSTRIOUS" LIVING PORTRAITS. SKETCHED FROM WHITE'S BAY WINDOW. ( No. VI.) " Horribly stuffed with epithets of war.' - Othello. See, lolling his length ' mid the foes of reform, Or spouting his venom, hear Br— d— 1 storm 1 Though by Rose both his spurs and moustaches look short. My lord, for a Tory, is famed for retort; And all must acknowledge his argument new— Do you doubt, then ' tis pistols, and coffee for two I Thus he makes up in zeal what he has not in weight, And though slow in the field, he dragoons in debate. He's a good seat on horseback, it must be confest, Yet his seat in the Commons' uncertain at best. ' Tis strange such a jockey to ire should be prone— Who rules a beast's temper, can scarce keep his own : There are men of some merit in far- famed Bow- street, But none with his Lordship in rank may compete. A tight- lac'd hussar, who has made the campaigns Of London and Brighton, of Windsor and Staines— Has seen service in Dublin, and kept the mob quiet, And once was call'd out in a Manchester riot 1 For this arduous service he's gain'd much renown— A cavalry Colonel, and Lord about town. May Reform quickly pass, and St. Stephen's be soon Relieved of this tijer and Tory dcagoon! ODE TO OLD SLAUGHTER'S. Thou ' rt laugh'd at, not because thy coin Was made by bullocks' slaughter, But since thy folly seeks to join Some poor Peer to thy daughter! What, art thou still so fond of blood, That thou dost wish to buy The scion of a lordly brood, To grace thy butchery ? Go, see thy unwilling daughter tied To some vain whelp of fashion; And whilst his relatives deride, Thine view thee with compassion. Go, see the money you have won By saving in the shambles, Squander'd by thy despising son For pleasure, when he gambles! Give dinners— feed the titled herd— And let each courtly fop in; Thyself at last may be preferr'd. And thou hail'd—- Duke of Wapping EXETER HALL. The saints have met at their house of call, Spouting and flirting in Exeter Hall, And crying the " Church in danger." Yes I poor mother church is in danger we know, For you, Messrs. Noel, Dillon, and Co. To a meeting- house would change her 1 When lions moved to mansions strange From Exeter's demolish'd ' Change; And tigers westward, like the sun, Their fashionable course had run; Without a bird, without a beast, So far the Strand was still at least. But lately, when the neighbours heard The waters of confusion stirr'd— The hideous strife— the frantic din, Of pious men those walls within, Scared at that new menagerie, ( For Pidcock's animals could be So wild and savage never), " How'sthis?'' they cried; "' tis more than plain, The beasts are all come back again, And roaring worse than ever." At a splendid party given by her Koyal Highness the Duchess of Kent, on Friday night, at Kensington Palace, Madame Dulcken delighted the company by her exquisite and brilliant performance on the piano. John Shelly, Esq. is shortly to be united to the amiable and accomplished Miss Johnnes Knight. THE LATE DUEL.— In another part of our Paper will be found a police report of tbe examination of General Moore on a charge of having dangerously wounded a Mr Stapylton in a duel. There have been numerous versions of tbe cause of their meeting, and of tbe circumstances which occurred on the ground. Had our contemporaries refrained from alluding to and commenting on these, we certainly should not utter a word capable of leading to discussion on an affair embarrassed by facts of a nature the most distressing. We never could have been betrayed into an expression that could have aggravated the suffering of one of the parties, or wounded tbe sensitive feelings of an amiable young lady. The conduct of the other papers, " however, forces us to correct misrepresentation and rescue the honour of an old and a brave soldier from its conse quences. Of Mr, Stapylton, at present we shall say no more than is absolutely necessary for understanding the circumstances which brought him to the ground with a veteran who had been facing the enemies of bis country before his recent antagonist was born. Mr. Stapylton was introduced to Miss Moore at Florence. He paid his ad- dresses to her for some time, and at length was given clearly to understand that bis suit was hopeless. In the irritation of disappointment, ( and let us hope that it proceeded from no more diabolical feeling,) aspersions were cast upon the conduct of a young lady whose purity of thought and propriety of demeanour should deter the most hardened slanderers Irom venturing an insinuation against it. Miss Moore's brother is still a boy; and on the father devolved the cruel necessity of vindicating his daughter's honour. On the ground an incident occurred which gives the lie to any imputation of unfair advantage having been taken of Mr. Stapylton. The principals were placed back to back— were directed each to walk forward six paces, and upon the word being given, to turn and instantly fire. General Moore, on wheeling round, found that Mr. Stapylton's back was still towards him ; the General dropped his pistol, and withheld his fire. The parties were again placed back to back— they advanced, turned round at the same moment— the result is known. He is still lying in a most dangerous slate at Long's Hotel. The accounts yesterday were more unfavourable than on Friday PORTRAITS OF THETORY OPPOSITION. Sir George Murray is one of the most commendable of the party whom we see arrayed on the benches, to which, it is to be trusted, that they will long adhere. In a sol- dier, the spirit of subordination is so much a professional habit, that Toryism is not only excusable, but natural on his part. It constitutes the regimentals of the mind. It must be observed, that Sir George Murray has, by the man- liness of his bearing, and the easy dignity of his military demeanour, assuaged and mitigated the acerbity of his opinions. His delivery is not forcible, jbut it is almost always impressive. His tones are soft and persuasive, and he invests all that he says wilh that plausibility which is derived from a manner, of which sincerity seems to be a characteristic. Sir Henry Hardinge is of the same school of martial legislation. He is, however, entirely distinct a statesman and as a man, from his brother in arms. With a Hotspur temperament, of fiery and impetuous feelings, great boldness and frankness, a perspicacious in- tellect, undisturbed by the vehemence of his emotions ; a master of business, an ingenious debater, a clear stater of facts, and a turbulent partisan, he presents in his charac- ter and conduct several strange and anomalous contrasts. The Irish Members speak of him as having in him the materials of an admirable Secretary for Ireland. He is said to have exhibited an impartiality and fairness, which could hardly have been anticipated from so unqualified a partisan. Those who had an opportunity of observing, concur in saying that he made no sort of distinction be- tween Catholics and Protestants, and was equally acces- sible to men of all factions and views. His conciliatory manners are represented to have had a great effect in win ning over his opponents; and although he was compelled to resort to measures of severity, yet he acted with such an utter absence of all party feelings, that those against whom his proceedings were directed, were compelled to give their reluctant praises to his administration. The con- trast between him and his successor, Mr. Stanley, has in- spired many regrets at his removal from Ireland. The flippancy and offensive abruptness of the heir to the Earl dom of Derby, have, in spite of all his talents, rendered him an object of strong disrelish among the Irish Mem hers, who lament that Sir Henry Hardinge was not al- lowed by circumstances to be a Whig. A large blue eye, swelling in globular distortion beneath a prominent quadrangular forehead, thin grey hair, a ruddy cheek, a mouth expressive of hesitation, casuistry, and the consciousness of a million— these are the external cha- racteristics of Alexander Baring. He is set down as i member of the Tory Opposition, because, although he affeets not to belong to any party or to constitute one in bis own person, it is evident that he is an enemy to reform, and, by necessary consequence, to the present Ministry It is to be suspected that his commercial importance took the alarm at the aristocratic phlegm of the present Minis- try, who, however meritorious in the aggregate, are repre- sented to be, as individuals, distinguished by a peculiar haughtiness of deportment. Alexander Baring has seldom allowed an occasion to pass of doing them a serious detriment. His calm and unimpassioned tone, his dia lectical manner, his solemn protestations of being swayed by no other than public motives, give to bis arguments good deal of plausibility : men are apt to give liitn credit for a solicitude for the public good, with which his own interests are so immediately connected— but Alexander Baring, with a million of money, has objects of ambition, to which money alone will not conduct him. He wishes for power and for political consideration ; and it is tolerably evident to any close observer, that he perceives that it is not through the Whigs that his political and par- liamentary aspirations are to be gratified. He is, beyond doubt, a clever man, but is so addicted to minuteness of distinction, and to small subtleties, and to petty regards, that he fritters away the masses of things into fragments and breaks the substance of every question into grains, He generally concludes with a view entirely different from that which he commences by presen: ing, and it is almost unnecessary to suggest that upon this principle, the exor dium of almost every one of his speeches is in favour of reform. It is but justice to him to add, that on a recent occasion, when his parental feelings were touched, in the famous Deacle case, he displayed a deep emotion, of which an observer of his ordinary mood would hardly have guessed that he was capable. His speech in defence of his son had that true eloquence which has its fountain ill human nature, and flows in gushes of tenderness from the heart, Into tbe merits of that case, it is not necessary, or rather it would be inapposite to enter, suffice it to say, that Bingham Baring, if we may conjecture from the evidence of his deportment, would be incapable of any harshness towards a woman, and that the father must have felt in the discussion of that incident, fully as much pain as was given to the individuals who were represented to have sustained so cruel a treatment at the hands of the son. The ma nacles did not imprint traces as deep upon the wrists of Deacle and his wife, as the impression which the public condemnation has left upon the mind of Alexander Baring. His countenance is visibly altered since that un toward event, and care, to use the phrase of Shakspeare, " keeps watch in his eye.'' RETRENCHMENT, Amongst the great and important changes meditated by the present Government, the second place may safely be challenged for the sweeping retrenchment proposed in the House of Commons on Tuesday night last, by the present First Lord of the Admiralty. Its immediate beneficial effect in the reduction of the amount of taxation, cannot be questioned ; and if the principle be carried to the full extent by Ministers, it can scarcely yield precedence even to the great measure of Reform itself. The object is two- fold. The first, and most important to the public, is the certainty it holds out of effecting an unexampled saving in tbe annual expense of our Naval Administration at present, and the prospect of that saving becoming year after year greater by the falling in of an- nuities, with which the measure is necessarily encumbered for some time, in tbe shape of superannuation and retiring allowances lor the present officers of the Boards, proposed to be abolished. The merits, or rather the demerits, of those Boards, consisting, as they do, in a perverse adherence to a system of book- keeping, calculated to mislead and delude, if not actually to shelter misappropriation and fraud— in an obstinate resistance to all internal reform and improve- ment, whether suggested by the spirit of the times, or the heads of offices, in the singular and anomalous irresponsi- bility they assume, although, in fact, but subordinate branches of that administration— and in the total want of controul over both by the Admiralty— will be best appre- ciated by referring to the statement of Sir James Graham when proposing the consolidation of those two Boards, with the duties attached thereto in the Board of Admiralty alone. This measure is a reform of a character naturally to be expected from a member of the Cabinet who derived his strongest claim to the station he now holds for his success- ful attempt at breaking down the outworks of lavish ex- penditure in the department over which he now presides, by the signal defeat of a former Administration upon a motion for the reduction of the Lay Lords of the Admiralty. The amount of salaries which will fall in was stated by the Right Hon. Baronet to amount to above 49,0002. a- year. Independently of this great saving to the public the Ministry may, by such a measure of retrenchment as this, get rid of many subordinate officers whose Tory prejudices must lead them to wish ill to a liberal Govern- ment, and certainly would have no tendency to hearty exertions in its support. A PROVISION FOR LIFE.— A laborious special pleader being constantly interrupted by the mewing of his favourite cat, at length ( resolving to get rid of it) told his clerk to take and place the disturber where it might remain in safety, but still where it could never get out. The clerk instantly walked off with poor puss in the lawyer's bag and on returning, being asked by his master whether the noisy animal had been so disposed of that it could not come back, the cat- carrier drily answered—" Certainly, 1 have put him where he cannot get out— in the Court of Chancery \"~~ Fredcrick Reynolds' Life and, Times, NAVAL AND VICTUALLING BOARDS. IRISH EDUCATION. — A second meeting took place at Exeter Hall, on Wed- nesday, ostensibly for tbe above purpose— and exhibiting the same strange admixture of political infuriates, and bigots ill religion, who graced the assembly of last week. We will not stop to dilate upon the circumstances which could induce such persons as Lord Stormont! or Captain York to listen— not with patience, but— with satisfaction, to the ravings of a Mr. Browne, or the hallucinations o' the Rev. Gerard Noel;— we will but remark how perse- veringly the bad spirit of Toryism is at work— at St. Ste- phen's, or at an assemblage of burly Aldermen— at Court, or at the Crown and Anchor— in the Pulpit, or amid the worshipful Justices of Quorum— wherever the march of improvement is to be feared, there do we find those who are interested to stop its progress, are actively at work upon the fears and prejudices of their countrymen. The pious sages of Exeter Hall have denounced " tyranny little inferior to that of the inquisition," the project of choking the bitter weed of social and religious discord, in its first growth, by giving to the chil- dren of the Irish Poor, of both persuasions, in common, a religious education, founded on those doctrines of moral precepts of the Gospel, which are held sacred in both creeds. They would have education exclusively Protest- ant— and talk of proselytism with all the rancour of sec- tarian intolerance. Proselytism, to be successful, should be preceded by good example, and accomplished in peace and good will : to attempt it, in the present unhappy condi- tion of our Sister Island, would be but to add insult to tbe memory of past and the sense of present injustice. The main evil in that condition is, that the proprietors have there no common sympathy with tbe productive classes. No heavier plague could lay upon a land than this moral curse in the feelings of its population. We confidently believe that the sober- minded people of England will not allow themselves to be deluded by the cry that has been got up ( for base and selfish purposes) of the " Church in danger"— because the King's Government have determined that the Ministers of the Irish Protestant Church shall not, in future, be overpaid. This Adminis- tration, in a spirit of honourable integrity, and in confor- mity with intentions declared when out of office, has de- termined to govern Ireland by the hitherto untried system of equal justice to all parties. We trust that the difficul- ties they will have to contend with there, will not be in- creased by such attempts as we have described; but that these crude extravagances will be suffered to evaporate, amid the quiet contempt of the intelligence of all classes in this country. BELGIAN CIVIL LIST.— The Chamber of Representa tives at Brussels, in their sitting of the 2d instant, voted almost without a single comment, that King Leopold should, so long as he occupied the throne of Belgium enjoy a Civil List of one million three hundred thousand florins ( 137,500?,) per annum. This allowance, however, is to include the furnishing and keeping up of the three royal palaces at Brussels, Lsecken, and Antwerp, THE DUBLIN OMNIBUS. DUBLIN, FEB. 15. On Thursday, the Political Union.— A challenge from Mr. Barrett to all the Debating Societies in Ireland, with a wager that their first- rates will be beaten by tbe fifth- rate speakers of the Union.— A flaming speech from Walsh, of the Trades, who only said, that any attempt to enforce the payment of tithes would release the Irish from their allegiance to an English Sovereign; and yet, a less spirited orator had the presumption to call him to order.— Tom Reynolds and Mr. Finn maintained that he was perfectly in order. ( Loud cheering.)— A row between D'Arcy Malion and John Brown. " You are plump and fond of stale jests, like Sancho Panza." " You are a puppy, mannering before a glass," was responded. A message, and, of course, a recognizance— no bloodshed.— In the evening of the same day, a national opera produced at the Theatre, entitled Grana Uile ; the plot founded on the glory and hospitality of Ireland, and the worthlessness of England— praise of whiskey, and abuse of Queen Eliza- beth.— The music as delicious as the following morceaux could make it:— Planxty Irtvine— Yellow Wat— Paddy M'Rory — Planxty Maguire— Billy O'Rourke— and Pa- trick's Day.— Notwithstanding these exquisite materials,' it is a contemptible production.— A scrimmage took place in the stage- box between a Mr. O'Keeffe and a Captain O'Connor.— The Captain was charged with leaning against a lady— denies it— receives a facer— is arrested by the police— compelled to enter into recognizance to keep the peace, and is now threatened with a court- martial.— When the facts are investigated, it will, I understand, result— that he has been most harshly used ; and that, instead of being the aggressor, his conduct has been that of a soldier and a gentleman. Intelligence li om the country :— Three abductions— two murders— three attempts at ditto— anti- tithe meetings throughout Ihe North, Mast, and South— Tippcrary, Kil- kenny, and the Queen's County proclaimed to be disturbed, and about to be honoured with an increased police— Terry Alt preparing to retain Counsel and defend liis colleagues at the next Assizes, and raising subscriptions for the pur- pose— a fee of one hundred and fifty guineas offered to Mr. O'Connell to defend the Kilkenny men, charged with the murder of the police, at Knocktopher— the Sligo magis- trates refuse to act under Colonel Knox Gore, as Deputy Lieutenant— Attempts at Burking in Clonmel— Gaols full, and Assizes approaching— the Lord Lieutenant promised to dine with the Royal Yacht Club yesterday— at half- past seven o'clock sent an apology— in the evening, a play " for the benefit of the orphan children of distressed Freemasons." If the poor children be really orphans, it is to be presumed that their fathers are no longer distressed in this world.— The Duke and Duchess of Leinster attended. It was ex- pected that Cobbett also would be a visitor, and placard's to that effect were circulated ; however, he did not exhi- bit. The audience very deficient in respectability— about twenty masons in costume— most of them law clerks.— After the play, tbe Manager ( brother Calcraft) delivered an address, invoking charitable consideration for the chil- dren. Specimen— " For sure in Charity's pure cause We may o'erstep Propriety's stern laws." *• Thus heart to heart, and man to man. Let Heaven complete what Masonry began." The Duke of Leinster sat in the box next the stage, which was appropriately decorated, and Doctor Lamert and his fair partner adorned the stage box itself. Marcus Costello apologised to the Freeman's Journal yesterday, and pleaded guilty to the indictment. The amende was amusing enough, considering that it was ad- dressed to a Judge.—" Subsequent circumstances ( allud- ing to the Freeman's duel with the Times) had shewn that he ( Mr. Marcus) was not justified in imputing want of COURAGE to the Freeman." The Trades' Union met last night— Marcus and Walsh had a battle— cause of contention, the French Revolution and the Monks of La ' l'rappe. THEATRICAL DEPARTMENT. Preparations are making for the forthcoming opera of Robert the Devil, at Drury L? ne, on a scale of grandeur and beauty never before equalled. On Monday it will be ushered into theatrical life. Covent Garden has given us nothing new this week. Catherine of Cleves continues to attract, and the Haunted Tower ceases to do so. We have again had the pleasure of witnessing Mr. Power's acting in the Irish Ambassador, and certainly were quite as much amused as ever. The Olympic, and its guardian widow, flourish, and, as usual, attract crowds to its " Devils" and " Revels." Two new burlettas are in preparation, of which report speaks in high terms. DRURY- LANE.— A new farce, called The Self Tor- mentor, written by Mr. Kenny, was produced at this theatre on Thursday night. But, with much deference to the clever author, we believe it has nothing Terentian in it besides its name. It is a sort of Heautontimorumenos parvus, the chief part being personated by Mr. Farren, as Mr. Crotchet, a gentleman in easy circumstances, and session of every thing to make him happy; but i morbid mind sweetness itself turns acid, and < goes amiss. Like Lady Lillicrap's little dog, he is) far gone in misanthropy, and quite sick of the \ fc> il< l ijlhtt particularly of Mrs. Nostrum's physic, sltg, j* eiiug jhj^ p mother- in- law, and one of those good- naturctTpeoflic11, moZ would kill every friend they have— but only ip a doctor- , like way—" with too much cherishing." Mr. ( jrotclitt hath a daughter, and she, as naturally, a lover, whom for' 252 THE TOWS. Feb. 19, father resolves she shall never marry, from no well grounded suspicion that he is a profligate, given to drinking and play, and an unheard of propensity for kissing pretty girls. Mr. Edward. Winstanley, discovering that he is about to be tempted by the old gentleman in the disguise of a money- lender, invites him as such to dinner, and makes him guilty of all the enormities imputed to himself. He is there tempted to dissolve his sobriety in an exceeding glass of • wine, to play picquet, and to kiss the very damsel who had been the cause of scandal in the young gentleman. The young lady's father being thus shamed out of his only ob- jections, the lovers are of course united. The kissing in cidentwas rendered very amusing by Mr. Farrenand Mrs. Orgcr, who is the best of servant maids, and Becky Barnes all the world over. The piece, which, in spite of good acting, was doubtfully received, has been acted twice but it is even uncertain, whether, as is usual with a sinking subject before its final disappearance, it will be seen a third time. NEW STIUND THEATRE.— On Friday night, a picce. two acts, was played here for tbe first time, Ihe object of its production being to exhibit Mr. Rayner iu his usually feli citous representation of rustic character. He is here a young farmer, who, having surprised a neighbouring gentleman whilst attempting lo force his mistress to gratify his irre gular passion, the ravisher fires a pistol, which wounds the girl, as if mortally, " and stuns her lover, w ho is seized on suspicion, tried for murder, and about to be led to execution • when a gipsy woman comes forward with the girl who was supposed to have beeu killed. The rivals are proved to be children of the same father; and the young farmer is Anally made happy in the possession of his mistress. The same evening, we heard the little boy, Hughes, who made his debut on Thursday night, from the hills of Cam bria. It was a decided hit, and elicited very great, and it would appear, very sincere applause from a full house which was too fashionable to admit of a suspicion that was packed. Master Hughes has some claims to the title ' the Infant Prodigy,' with which he is announced in the bills, if he be really no older than he seems, and is said to be, in his fifth year. The son of Maia himself, in his fifth year, scarcely drew sweeter or more skilful notes from the lyre which he fashioned out of the tortoiseshell, than this extraordinary little Welshman manages to bring from harpstrings that seem to be nearly as thick as the fingers of the liny musician. His playing is not merely mechanical or the result of drilling, but bold, free and expressive, far beyond any thing of which so young a child could be thought capable. BRITISH INSTITUTION. CHIT CHAT. Miss Fanny Komble's tragedy of Francis the First is in rehearsal, and will be speedily produced. Mr. Murray has undertaken its publication. Mr. Serlc's new tragedy of the " English Merchant," in which Macready will sustain the principal character,, will shortly be produced at Drury Lane. No less than four copies ofDumas's new tragedy, Charles VII. et ses grands Vassaux, are already in the hands of as many of our adapting dramatists. Another new theatre is, we hoar, going to be built in the - precincts of the Savoy, under the immediate patronage of Lord Holland, who, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancas- ter, has alone the power of granting a license within his immediate district. It is not ( rue that Laporte has declined the lesseeship of Covent- garden Theatre. There are various conflicting in- terests and matters to be arranged between the proprietors, bondholders, renters, shareholders, and other creditors connected with this establishment, previously to any de- finitive contract for a lease being made with any body.— Morning Paper. Mr John Reeve, it is said, had been engaged in the celebration of the 33d anniversary of his birth on the even- ing when he dived into the orchestra. The remains of the late Mr. Munden were interred on Monday, at St. George's Church, Bloomsbury. The fu- neral was quite private. A short time since Lord Viscount Maynard presented to the Essex Hunting Establishment two slags, which, from the difficuKy of catchinglhem in Elston Lodge Park, jt was expected would produce some excellent sport. Thursday se'nnightone of those fleet animals was turned down at Canfield. The chase had lasted two hours and twenty minutes, and the spirit of the animal did not appear to have failed : but whilst running, apparently with re- doubled speed, the game dropped suddenly before the hounds, and was found lifeless. A post mortem examina- tion took place, when it was discovered that death had been occasioned by the bursting of the heart. THE EXPATRIATED POLISH AMAZONS.— A number of Polish females, still clad in their national uniform, passed through Frankfort recently ;— one of them, bearing rank as a lieutenant, who had been wounded on three occasions, attracted much attention. She looked 011 silently, but re fused to sit down to the dinner given to the corps to which she belonged. I learnt that the death of her son, who fell in his seventeenth year, fighting by her side, after she had herself been wounded, preyed incessantly upon her spirits. The most distinguished Pole who has yet made her ap- pearance at Frankfort among us, has been the celebrated Countess Plater; and her adjutants, the fair companions of her less clouded days, are shortly expected to follow her. JUST IN TIME.— Lately was married, after forty- six years' courtship, Mr. J. Wicks, aged eighty- four, to Miss English, both of Greeting, Suffolk. SPORTING. TATTEHSALL'S, FED. 16— DERBY— 9 to 1 agst. Lord Exeter's Beirani; 9 to 1 agst. Mr. Dilly's Margrave ; 9£ to 1 agst. Lord Exeter's Spencer; 11 to 1 agst. Lord Chesterfield's Non Compos; 12 to 1 agst. Lord Exeter's Byzantium ( taken) ; 17 to 1 apst. Duke of Grafton's Pastile colt; 18 to 1 agst. Mr. Vansittart's Darioletta colt; 18 to 1 agst. Lord Mountcliarles's Minster; 22 to 1 agst. Mr. S. Day's Gratis; 25 to 1 agst. Mr. Ridsdale' 4 Trustee ; 5 to 2 agst. Lord Exeter's Lot; 30 to 1 agst. Margrave and Enriliana winning Derby and Oaks ( taken). OAKS— 6 to 1 agst. Mr. Chifuey's Emiliana. ST. LEGEK— 8 to 1 agst. Mr. Richardson's Fang; 7 to 1 agst. Lord Exeter's Lot. The Hon. Frederick Ongley lias purchased Mr. Hobson's half- bred horse, Donnington, three years old, for five hundred guineas. Lord Grimston, the Hon. T. Brand, Mr. Olbaldeston, and Mr. Payne, are the Stewards for the ensuing St. Alban's Races. [ Continued from our last Number.] 201. " Morning."— This is one of many of Mr. Howard's ighly poetical conceptions which make all true friends to art lament that the noble and masterly manner of painting in fresco is— if not a lost— at least an unpatronised art. The previous preparation of studies for fresco painting on a large scale, with the necessity of rapid execution, creates a decision and greatness of manner; the painter, compelled to do daringly, is in no danger of doing too much, and the mportant knowledge of when to have done is forced upon him. Some of Mr. Howard's imaginings are worthy of having bestowed upon them the profound study necessary to their being fixed in fresco; the preparatory studies, on a large scale, would have corrected defects in the drawing, and the fervour of the moment, acting upon the already deeply- meditated materials, would have produced a vigour of execution, the want of which quality in some of Mr. Howard's paintings is perhaps to be attributed less to any absence of anatomical knowledge, than to the too easily altered mode of working with oil, offering a temptation to the painter to commence his study on the canvass, instead of reserving it for the rapid execution of a carefully- studied composition. 487. " A Domestic Aflliclion." W. E. West.— Powers of a higher order than merely mechanical dexterity are displayed in this picture. A subject of a painful nature is treated with such delicacy of expression, that it produces on the spectator the pleasing melancholy of " sweet music.' The style is dry, and the composition defective ; but a di ligent study of the works of Stolhard and Flaxman would open the mind of this artist to a perception of his deficiencies. 159. " Robinson Crusoe." W. Etty, R. A.— The breadth of handling, and harmony of colouring, acquired by Mr. Etty, are unrivalled in modern art; but, with the possession of such powers, it is to be regretted that too many of hi: pictures have the appearance of academical studies lack- grounded into subjects, rather than of original conception. 21. " Cupid and Nymph." G. Patten.— We leave to other " learned fingers" to point out defects in this lovely subject. It is beautifully modelled— Ihe drawing is mas- terly, and executed with great care, a sure indication of future excellence. 178. " Jacob parting with Benjamin." W. Hilton, R. A.— This class of subject, though not generally attrac- tive, merits the examination of the admirer of the higher order of works of art. This composition is well designed, but has rather too much of a processional appearance. The figure of Benjamin is graceful, but the head and shoulders are not drawn with the power and accuracy which Mr. Hilton has displayed in his large picture of " The Angel releasing Peter from Prison." 184. " Salmon Weir on the Lum, Devon."— Mr. Bur- net brings to his canvass a mind schooled by a well- digested study of the principles of the old masters, which he has judiciously applied to a truly British bit of picturesque scenery. In No. 218, he has beeu deluded by his admira- tion for Rembrandt into a servile imitation of that master; it might even be mistaken for a copy— an unenvied dis- tinction to an independent thinker. 39. " Study from Nature."— A delightful specimen of Mrs. Carpenter's talents. The naivete of childhood is de- picted with truly feminine tact, and a vigour of execution unusual to a female hand. 3,4,9,10. " Indian subjects."' W. Daniel, R. A.— Without pretending to the highest class of art, Mr. Daniel's views of Indian scenery are among the most attractive subjects in every exhibition. The unostentatious mastery over his means conveys as much pleasure to the discrimi- nating amateur as the interest attached to his subjects does to the general spectator. 69. " iEneas, with Achates, meeting Venus disguised as a Huntress, who directs him to Carthage." Copley Fielding.— This composition is extremely tasteful, and is one of the most agreeable pictures in the gallery; but Venus, jEneas, and Achates are too important personages to be inhurmoiiiously employed as mere figures to a land- scape. There are other clever pictures by artists whose talents are fairly appreciated by the public, and too many produc- tions by painters whom w e would advise, if it be not yet too late, to " Pause, ere they join the art- enamour'd train." Let artists beware of unmeaning praise, which, though kindly intended, has the pernicious effect of soothing them into indolence and irregularity. Success in painting is not achieved by a coup de main. Without unflinching industry the greatest genius must fail; the mind must be cultivated in order to provide a noble end to the laboriously- acquired mastery of means. There are but few pictures by our French rivals which do not bear indisputable evidence of their meritorious diligence; but they enjoy facilities for study which are but scantily provided for the English artist; we have no bibliotheque where he may unceremoniously con- sult authorities for tbe work on which lie may be engaged. Our infant National Gallery has not space for unsolicited practical study, and is not yet rich enough to communicate much improvement to the student; and though England could furnish an unrivalled collection of the finest speci- mens of the old masters, yet opportunities of unembarrassed intercourse with them are difficult to obtain. It would be worthy the liberality of our distinguished collectors to em- power the President of the academy exclusively to grant tickets of admission to artists only. His character and station would be ample security that this valuablo privilege would not be abused It is the proud distinction of our poets and painters to have, by their individual energy, fought their way to emi nence unfostered by national patronage. Let them exert their united energies in a vigorous effort to revive the manly art of fresco painting, which demands and creates a solid judgment; the advanced state of our chemical know ledge would soon lead to the discovery of proper materials. What has been once done may be done again, and although said to be a lost art, it cannot be doubted that, by energy scientifically directed, it must be found again. Success would ensure patronage, the walls of our noble mansions be wrested by degrees from the tyranny of the interested picture- dealer*, superior professional employment created, and the British school resetted from its inglorious condition. * If half the rubbish said, and part, of it even known to be painted by old masters were burnt, some of our collectors would exert an independent judgment, unfettered by the interested jargon of pic. ture- dealers. Their Ma jesties are expected to arrive in town on Tues- day. The King will hold a Council on Wednesday, for the purpose of making some alteration in the list of Sheriffs, several gentlemen having been excused from serving the office. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester have arrived at Gloucester House from Bagshot. The Royal Duchess has been slightly indisposed during the week. The Earl and Countess of Jersey have arrived at their seat, Middleton Park, Oxfordshire, from a visit to the Earl of Warwick, at his seat, Warwick Castle, Warwick- shire. The Earl of Derby is paying a visit to the Earl and Countess of Wilton, at Melton. The Marchioness of Anglesey, accompanied by Ladies Emily and Mary Paget, and Lady Louisa Cadogan, are expected at Uxbridge House, Old Burlington- street, on Monday, for the purpose of attending her Majesty's draw- ing- room on Friday next. The Marchioness left Ireland 011 Thursday week, intending to visit Beaudesert, his Lord- ship's magnificent seat in Staffordshire, for a few days. The gallant Marquis will hold a drawing- room at X) ublin Castle, on Friday next, to celebrate the birth- day of her Majesty. Major- General Farquharson, and suite, sailed from Gravesend, on Thursday, for St. Lucia. The Queen will hold her first Drawing- room for the sea- son, 011 Friday next, her Majesty's Birth- day, on which occasion the Knights of the several Orders will appear in their Collars. The King will hold his first Levee for the season, on Wednesday next, at two o'clock. THE APPROACHING DRAWING- ROOMS.—^ The following Regulations are to be observed at the Queen's Drawing- Rooms, at St. James's Palace :— " The Peeresses and Ladies who purpose to attend the Queen's Drawing- Rooms at St. James's Palace, are requested to bring with them three cards with their names thereon written, one to be left with the Queen's Page in attendance in the ante- room, one to be delivered to the Lord in Waiting, who will announce the name to the King, and the third tothe Queen's Vice Chamberlain, who will present the Lady to her Majesty. And those Ladies who are to be presented are hereby informed, that it is absolutely necessary that their names, with the name of the Lady who is to present them, should be sent in to the office of the Queen's Vice Chamberlain, before twelve o'clock on the Tuesday previous to each Drawing- Room, in conformity with the above regulations; and further, that no person shall be admitted 011 any pretence whatever, who has not been so presented. The cards of those Ladies who propose at- tending the Queen's Drawing- Room, on Friday tbe 24th instant, must be sent in to the office of the Queen's Vice Chamberlain, be- fore twelve o'clock 011 Tuesday next, the 24th instant, in order that they may be submitted for her Majesty's approbation. The Draw ing- Rooin on Friday the 24th instant being appointed for the cele- bration of the Queen's Birth- day, it is expected that all ladies do appear out of mourning." The Dnke of Devonshire, as Lord Chamberlain, will give a grand ball at Devonshire House on Friday next, 011 the occasion of her Majesty's birth day. Lord Burghersh will preside at the approaching anniver- sary festival of the Royal Society of Musicians. The Earl of Limerick gave a splendid dejeuner on Thursday morning, at his residence in Mansfield- street, to a large circle of the nobility and gentry, on the occasion of the marriage of his Lordship's daughter to the Hon. Mr. Russell. The Earl and Countess of Brownlow gave a ball and supper on Thursday week, at Belton House, near Gran- tham, at which ail the nobility and gentry in the neigh- bourhood were present. Lord Burghersh gave a musical soiree on Monday, at his residence, Hyde- park- terrace, which was attended by a large number of persons of rank and distinction. The vocalists w ere Madame Puzzi, Mrs. Bishop, the Contessa Laszie ( who is to make her debut at the Opera shortly,) Braham, Begrez, Horncastle, Signor Winter, Vaccai, and Parry, jun. Mrs. Bishop sang " Ah che forse," and Braham gave his celebrated serenade from Fra Diavolo. Puzzi': corno obligato was delightful. Sir G. Smart, Costa, and Mr. Bishop, accompanied the vocal compositions. To- wards the close of the evening several of the Noble host's compositions were sung by Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, Parry, j tin., and his Lordship. A masked ball was given at the Russian Court on New Year's Day, which was attended by 22,894 persons. The greatest order prevailed throughout, notwithstanding the number assembled. MARRIAGE OF KING LEOPOLD.— We understand that the marriage between the King of Belgium and one of the daughters of Louis Philippe, has been merely deferred, not broken oil', as one of the French journals has stated. Itis not the Princess Louise, it is said, but the Princess Marie who is destined to share with him the throne of Belgium This young lady has already made herself remarkable by her egalite opinions, and would, at any rate, please the rc publican party in Belgium.— Court Journal. The marriage between the Earl of Romney and the Hon. Mrs. Cholmondley, daughter of the late Viscount Sydney, took place early in the week. His lordship ha: four daughters, the Ladies Sophia, Frances, Mary, and Charlotte Marsham, by his first marriage with Miss Mot- ion Pits, of tho Rivers' family. The Hon. Colonel Abercrombie will shortly lead to the hymeneal altar a rich anil accomplished lady. Miss Smythe, wiiose approaching alliance with S'. r Fre derick Hervey Bathurst, Bart., of the Grenadier Guards, as jnst announced, is niece to Mrs.. Fitzherbert; who, be fore her union with her first husband, John Weld, Esq was a Miss Smythe, daughter of Walter Smythe, Esq of Tonge Castle, and niece to Sir E. Smythe, Bart., o Acton Burnell, in Shropshire. After the death of Mr Weld, she was united to Mr. Fitzherbert, who died, at very early age, in 1780. We are happy to state, that the health of the Earl of Hardwicke has somewhat improved of late. A letter from Naples, dated January 13, says, " Yesterday Sir Walter Scott, who has been here for about a fortnight, had the honour of being presented to his Majesty. Count Ludolfand the Marquis ofSpaccaforno have been appoint- ed, the former Ambassador, and the latter Secretary of Legation, at the Holy See. THE SEASON.— The fashionable classes already muster strong at the West- end ; the importance of the Session having determined many Members of Parliament to re- move their families to town for the season, who have hitherto remained in the country till after Easter. At present, however, the beau monde exhibits its usual dis- taste for premature exertion. Every one seems apprehen- sive that the signal has not yet been given by the leading lashionables; and who would not mope at home for three dull months to come, rather than appear anxious to amuse, and be amused, before the real crisis arrives ? Several brilliant parties, however, have taken place; an excellent ball, at Ashburton House, similar to that series of f6tes with which Princess Lieven enlivened the town two seasons ago. Lady Farquhar, Mrs. Beauclerk, Mrs. Vansittart, and Mrs. Maberly, have also opened their houses. Mrs. Cunlilfe Offley has issued cards for a rout; and the Duchess of St. Albans is about to open her house' The Duke of Devonshire will give a full dress ball after the Drawing- room, similar to his magnificent entertain- ment of last year; after which, we doubt not that the people of fashion, and all the people of no fashion at all. will once more vemure to bo " AT HOME." PARISIAN FASHIONS OF THE AVEEK.— Ball dresses of crape are frequently trimmed with ribbon edged with gold or silver. One of the principal milliners of Paris re- cently made a robe of white crape, from the waistband of which descended three white gauze ribbons, figured with gold, and twisted spirally one over the other. This rouleau crossed the front of the dress diagonally. At the top of the hem, the ribbons separated, and formed three different rouleaus, which encircled ( he skirt, and were terminated by a bow at tbe side opposite ( o that at which ( he ribbons were divided. We lately observed a blue crape dress with ribbons fas( ened at tbe waist, and descending over the front so as to produce the effect of an apron. These rib- bons were terminated at the top of the hem with bows and long flowing ends. Gauze embroidered w ith gold or silver is much in favour for ball dresses. A ruche of tulle, quilled round the top of the corsage, is very generally employed in the dresses of young ladies. There is no particular novelty in hats. Velvet and satin are almost the only materials in use, and ( he bibi form is still ptevalent. On Monday, the Honourable Franees Elizabeth Byng, twin sisler of Viscount Torrington, died at Yates Court, Kent, after a lingering illness, in the 20th year of her age. Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, Bart., died on Mon- day last, at Dyrliam, the scat of his son, the Rev. Wil- liam Scott Robinson, at a very advanced age. Sir George was united to Miss Howard ( natural daughter of the Earl of Suffolk), who died in tho year 1824. We regret to learn that ( he death of Mrs. Musters, of Colwick Hall, was remotely produced by ( he disastrous events that disgraced the neighbourhood of Nottingham at the period of the rejection of the Reform Bill ; when ( ac- cording to the testimony borne by her son in the recent trials) she was compelled to take refuge in the plantations, and remain there for some hours, exposed lo the cold and damp, though suffering from serious indisposition. Mrs. Musters is thus doubly pointed out to the interest of the country, her name being already connected with some of the most beautiful verses " in our land's language." The " Mary" of Lord Byron's early passion, who will one day become as intimately associated with the annals of poetry as those of Laura tie Sades or the Lady Dorodiy Sidney, of Leonora d'Este or the Countess d'AIbani, is thus apostrophized in " Don Juan :"— I have a passion for the name of Mary, For once it had a magic sound to rue, And still it half calls up the realms of faery, Where I beheld what never was to be : All feelings changed, but this was last to vary— A spell from which e'en yet I am not free." But the more impassioned invocation in the poem of " The Dream" contains, in fact, the sketch of his ill- fated en- gagement with Miss Chavvorth, and a pathetic allusion to the mental aberration under which she ( he'i laboured : II A change came o'er the spirit of his dream— The lady of his love, oh ! she was changed As by the sickness of the soul ; her mind Had wandered from its dwelling, and her eyes They had not their own lustre, but the look Which is not of the earth ; she was become The queen of a fantastic realm ; her thoughts Were combinations of disjointed things, And forms, impalpable and unperceived Of others' sight, familiar were to her's : And this the world calls phrenzy." The malady alluded to, in these lines is generally understood to have been occasioned by the shock of an accidental meeting between Lord Byron and Mrs. Musters, at Hast- ings, in the year 1813; and it lasted a considerable time. Many families who were preparing to leave Brighton at the close of its usual season, intend now to lengthen their resilience, in consequence of ( lie breaking out of the cholera in tiie metropolis. Tho elevated situation of this town, with its dry and salubrious atmosphere, is likely, we understand, to render it the resort of numbers who seek a refuge from the prevailing formidable epidemic.— Brighton Guardian. His Majesty has presented the King's College with a model of the human frame, of the size of life. ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM.— A Chapter of the English Language of this ancient Order was held yesterday at Brentford, by the Prelate and Vice- Chancellor, in the absence of ( he Chancellor. The opening of tho Chapters is with sacred music, and the whole of the proceedings are highly interesting. No foreigners are admitted, orcan belong to ( his, the sixth language of the Order. An In- stallation will take place early in the Summer.— Court Journal. Madame Lecomte, Ihe new dancer, is the pupil of Albert. She is considered to resemble Melauie, who enjoyed so long a career of popularity in this country. A brigade of cavalry and infantry is every Thursday morning exercised in the Champ de Mars, by the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours, in order to perfect the Princes in practical exercises. The Dey of Algiers lias made, once more, his appear- ance in Paris: it is believed, say the malins, that on hear- ing of the present critical state of things in France, and of the late conspiracy, he came to return Louis Philippe's hospitality, add invite him to share his lovely residence at Leghorn. THE COUNTESS OF KIRKWALL.— A Lady, who stated she was the Countess of Kirkwall, applied to the Consistory Court, 011 Tuesday, for assistance to enable her to obtain the reversal of a proceeding relative to the alleged last will of Lord Kirkwall. She had been refused her alimony of 1,200/. on the ground that Lord Kirkwall was dead;— she was, however, prepared to shew that his Lordship was still living, and that her rights were withheld from her.— Dr. Lushington said, it was not the duty of the Court lo instruct her Ladyship how to proceed, unless it could be proved that Lord Kirkwall was alive, After some further conversation, ( he Lady requested ( hat her petition might be left on the registry, ( o which Dr. Lushington con- sented, and she ( hen withdrew. Mr. Hughes Hughes, M. P., is the first barrister- at- law who has accepted the aklermanic gown of the city of Lon- don. It is rumoured ( hat a certain liberal M. P. for a northern county has been fleeced of large sums of money at some of the London gaming- houses. Feb. 19. THE TO war © 3 LORD THURLO W. Of liis ordinary manner and appearance ( luring the latter part of his life, we are fortunately able to present our readers with a very graphic description. What we are about to quote on this head is a short extract from the manuscript diary of a gentleman who, at the time, passed two evenings in his society at Brighton, and appears to have directed his observation particularly towards the cx- Chancellor. The date is 1806, the year in which Lord Thurlow died:— " BRIGHTON, 1806. — We afterwards dined at , to meet Lord Thurlow and > his daughter, Mrs. Brown. A large parly were assembled tbere. I was never more struck with the appearance of any one than with that of Lord Thurlow. Upon entering the drawing- room, where lie was seated oil a sofa, we were all involuntarily moved to silence, and there was a stillness, which the fall of a pin would have dis- turbed. He did not move when we came into the room, but slightly inclined his head, which had before hung down on his breast. He was dressed in an old- fashioned grey suit, buttoned very loosely about him, and hanging down very low ; lie had on a brown wig, with three rows of curls hanging partly over his shoulders. He was very grave, and spoke little. His voice is rough, and his manner of speaking slow. " Lord Thurlow is, I believe, only 75 ; but from bis appearance, I should have thought him 100 years old. His large, dark, heavy eyes, which he fixes at intervals upon you, are overshadowed with perfectly white eyebrows, and his complexion is pallid and cada- verous. Upon literary subjects he ordinarily converses with much seeming pleasure, but having been this morning to . the races, he was fatigued, and said very little. At dinner he drank a good deal, but nothing afterwards. In course of conversation, Mr, M. ( Mr. Mellisli) being remarked as a great favourite of the populace, Lord Thurlow said, ' They like him as a brother blackguard ;' and then added, ' 1 am of their opinion. I dislike your pious heroes; I prefer Achilles to Hector, Turnus to iEneas.'* Lord Thurlow has a surprising memory, and will not allow of the want of it in any one else ; but says that it is want of attention, and not of memory, that oc- casions forgetfulness. Being asked how long it was since be had been in Norfolk, he replied,' About 50 or 60 years ago.' " He went home very early, calling loudly for his hat, which I remarked as being of black straw, with a very low crown, and the largest rim I ever saw. It is easy to see that in his observing mind the most trifling incidents remain graven. Thus, upon Lady J. being asked a second time, at Ihe end of dinner, whether she would have any wine, Lord Tliurlow immediately exclaimed, in a gruff voice, ' Lady J. drinks no wine.' " We went to- day to dine at Lord Thurlow's, and upon being summoned from the drawing- room to dinner, we found him already seated at the head of his table, in the same costume as the day before, and looking equally grave and ill. Lord Bute being men- tioned, and some one observing that his life was going to be written, Lord Tliurlow sharply observed, ' The life of a fly would be as interesting.' "— Law Magazine. * Lord Thurlow's dislike to pious heroes is commemorated. When at Cambridge he read remarkably well, and often read Milton aloud to his companions. Satan's speeches were his especial favourites, and, on finishing one of them, he was frequently heard jo say—•< He was a fine fellow -. I wish he had won." OLD BAILEY SESSIONS. At these Sessions, which commenced on Thursday, a youth was convicted of robbing his masters ( Messrs. Sewell and Cross) of money. The officer who appre- hended him said, that on his asking him in what manner he disposed of the property which he thus possessed him- self of, he replied, that he hired a pair of ponies and a phaeton, in which he used to take out a young maiitua- niaker. The prisoner was not 14 years old ! Yesterday George BUtchley was indicted for stealing six sovereigns, a 10/. note, and a 5/. note, in the dwelling- house of Earl Grey, the property of Wm. Young. The prosecutor ( valet to Lord Howick) stated that he resided with Lord H., at the house of bis father, Earl Grey. On the 5th inst. witness placed the money in a drawer in the servants' room, and tho next day, when he went to look for it, it was gone. He subsequently disco- vered the money concealed ill the coal cellar. It was the prisoner's duty to carry coals from the cellar, and this circumstance created a suspicion that it was he who had placed the money there. He accordingly taxed hiai with the robbery, but he denied any participation in it. A police constable slated that he apprehended the pri- soner, who confessed to him that he had taken the money, but that a female had robbed him of one of the notes. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty— Death. MANSLAUGHTER.— Jane Taylor was indicted on the co- roner's inquisition, for the manslaughter of Isabella Rich- ardson. The deceased was the landlady of a public- house in Half Moon- streel, Piccadilly. On the 7th instant the prisoner went to the public- house in a state of intoxication, and quarrelled with the deceased, and afterwards pushed her down a flight of stone steps, and she fell upon her head with such violence that she died a few days afterwards from the injuries she received.— Verdict, Guilty. Eliza King was indicted for stealing eighteen shillings and sixpence, the property of a publican named Jenkins, residing at Bcthnal- green. The robbery was committed in the following singular manner:— The prisoner, a good- looking young woman, went to the prosecutor's house on a Saturday evening, when 1hey were very busy, and ordered a pot of half- and- half, and Ihe change of a sovereign was to be sent with it. The prisoner met the boy who was carrying the half- and- half, and took it from liiin with the change, giving him in return a gilt shilling. She was found Guilty. There were three other indictments against llie prisoner, on all of which she was convicted. The Court sentenced her to be transported for seven years upon each indictment. Robert Madgett was indicted for stealing a coat, the property of Gibbons Merle, Esq. It appeared that the coat in question had been left in the Courier office, from whence it was missed, and was subsequently discovered to have been pawned by the the prisoner. Verdict, Guilty. Mr. Merle recommended the prisoner to mercy. CAPTAIN GARTH.— An action in detinue was brought in the Common Pleas on Tuesday, by this gentleman, against Howard, an attorney, and Fleming, a pawnbroker, to re- cover a quantity of plate, which Howard had pawned wilh Fleming, under the following circumstances -.— The plain- tiff, in 1829- 30, being in pecuniary difficulties, gave How- ard a power of attorney to manage his affairs, and desired him to procure money for him, empowering him to pawn certain books, but saying nothing about the plate, which • was pawned without authority. The Judge having stated that without such authority Howard had no right to pawn, or the pawnbroker to detain, Ihe jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff against bolh defendants. FATHER AND CHILD.— Mr. Pemberton, in the course ol the week, applied to the Vice- Chiincellor to appoint pro- per guardians over a young person who was possessed cf a small properly, to the exclusion of her father, who was proved by affidavits to be a man of brutal habits, and ad- dicted to habitual drunkenness, and who had been in the constant habit of menacing his wife ( since the commence- ment of this suit deceased) with violence, which he dis- played on one occasion, by entering her roor.. at a time when she was slowly recovering from severe illness, with pistols in his hands, with which lie declared he would shoot her. His life was described to be one of discreditable vi- cissitude— he having been consecutively an apprentice to an apothecary and surgeon, a sheriff's officer, a soldier, a tide- waiter, and eventually an apothecary p. nd surgeon, in which last capacity he had been imprisoned for debt.— These allegations not being disproved, his Honour did not hesitate to relet Ihe matter lo the Master, to appoint such a guardian for the petitioner, and to determine such an allowance for her maintenance, as he should deem expe- dient ; tho costs of the petition to be borne by the funds in Court— those of the other party by himself. An action was brought in ihe Court of Common Pleas, a few days ago, by a certain Dutch Baron de Sewhanberg against a person of the name of Buchanan, upon a bill of exchange for 200/., which had been endorsed by the de- fendant to the plaintiff in consideration of a picture of an old man's head, which, it was attempted to prove, the Baron had pledged his word as un aneitn militaire for its being a work of Rembrandt's, whereas some of the wit- nesses pronounced that it was no such thing, some declar- ing it to be worth but 25/., and another nothing at all. The Judge fold the jury, that if they were satisfied that the picture had been warranted to be it Rembrandt, and that it was proved not to be a Rembrandt, they were to find a verdict for the plaintiff for no more than the value of the picture, but that if they were of opinion either that there had been no warranty given, or that, if there had, and such warranty was frue, then tbe plaintiff was entitled to their verdict for the full amount of the bill in question. Ver- dict for the full amount of the bill with interest, 202?. 18s. THE DUKE DE BOURDON'S WILL.— The trial of this cause in the Civil Tribunal of Paris was continued on the 10th. At tbe opening of the Court, M. Lavaux, counsel for Madame de Fcucheres, demanded the suppression of a recent publication by M. Hennequin in answer to the last replies in Ihe suit, and imputing falsehood to Madame de Feucheres in acts of a public nature. M. Didelot, ( the King's Advocate) was then called upon for his argument, and he went through the facts, praising the conduct of the King and Queen in their relations with Madame de Teucheres, and arguing that the insinuations that had Veen thrown out against them had no other object than to embarrass an infant government. He urged, that the light in which the Princes dc Rohan had placed the Prince, proved that they could have had no personal re- gard for him, and that their only purpose in instituting these proceedings was a sordid one. M. Didelot con- cluded with demanding the suppression of M. Henncquin's pamphlet as a defamatory libel. The cause was adjourned till that day week, when judgment will be given. The paragraph stating that Mr. Sloman had abjured the Jewish religion at Great Marlow church has been contra- dicted by M> r. Sloman, who certainly ought to be con- sidered the best possible authority on the subject. POLICE. MANSION- HOUSE. A MODERN APOSTLE.— Oil Monday, a middle aged individual, who gave bis name Ezekiel IVixey, was brought before the Lord Mayor, upon a charge of having twice disturbed the congregation of St. Swithiri's church on Sunday, by attempting to enter into a theological controversy with the clergyman. The Lord Mayor— This is very extraordinary and improper con- duct on your part, Mr. Wixey, and, if it is repeated, I shall be under the necessity of taking some severe notice of it. " Insane divine,'' said Mr. Wixey solemnly, " thou art in error; I am an apostle sent by Heaven to testify against the wickedness of the world and the abominations of the church." The Lord Mayor— You must find some other way of fulfilling your mission; I cannot permit you to interrupt public worship in the manner you have of late. Wixey— I have a call— Lhave a mission from above, and I am not ashamed to own it. Lord Mayor— Are you married ? " On that point," responded Wixey," " I beg to stand crooked." As it was evident the man was afflicted with partial insanity, the Lord Mayor directed that he should be removed to the Compter, and treated with humanity, until such time as his friends came for- ward, to whom he was to be delivered. This is the same individual who interrupted the congregation a few weeks ago at Bow church. It- appears that he labours under a very curious clerical monomania. lie most unaccountably enter- tains the idea that the doctrines of the Church of England are not those of the Christian religion, and that he has been specially ap- pointed to correct what he considers to be clerical abuses. Upon any other topic he is perfectly rational and collected. HUMANITY OF SLAVF- OWNERS.— A native of the Isle of France came before Ihe Lord Mayor to beg what he termed a free passport, in order that he might leave England, where his master, about four months ago, had left him to starve. He said he was the slave of a person named Christie, who was a Judge in one of the Bourbon Isles, and who had brought him to England, but turned him adrift shortly afterwards, and went to France. Poor Blackee conceived that he had obtained bis liberty tbe moment he placed his foot - on the soil of England ; but the deoision of Lord Stowell a few years back has dissipated this popular error. So the applicant found it was necessary for him lo obtain his manumission from his master.— He had applied, but had been reefused ; and he had also got a gentleman, named Farquhar, living in St. James's square, to write to Mr. Christie. This gentleman had done so, but his masterre- fused either to support or manumit him. He dared not, therefore, attempt to get- a berth on board an East India vessel, for, if it touched at tbe Isle of France, his family were so well known that he would be detained as the slave of Mr. Christie. The Lord Mayor said hit* case was certainly one of great hard- ship ; but he regretted he had no power to give him his freedom ; he should ad vise him to endeavour to get some situation in England. The negro shook his bead and left the office. An elderly man, of the Jewish persuasion, appeared to show cause why his son, Belasco, a pugilist, should not continue to maintain his illegitimate child, a dark- eyed little Jew girl, appa- rently about 11 years old. Mr. Belasco, sen. stated that his son was at that moment a pri- soner in the Marshalsea, and had an execution in his house. More- over, that the little girl herself was enabled to earn a comfortable snbsistence. The Lord Mayor, on looking at the diminutive figure of the girl, expressed some incredulity. " Oh, ' pon my honour, it's a fact," said Mr. B., " she sells brandy balls and lollipops, in the streets." " Well," said the Lord Mayor, " are you sure she finds cus- tomers enough 1" " Why," replied Mr. B., " I bought a pen'worth of pepper- mint drops myself only last Monday from her." The little girl hereupon stoutly denied that she had ever sold any tilings in the street, or had seen Mr. B. before. " 1 lnve got the peppermint drops in my pocket," said Mr. B. angrily, " and I beg to put them in as convincing proofs." The Lord Mayor questioned the little girl ; but all that could be got from her, which she1 repeated a dozen times, was, " I does nothing. I stops at home to mind my old blind grandmother when she tumbles in the fire." The overseer of the parish here stepped forward, and said he would endeavour to get the little girl some trade, upon which tiie Lord Mayor allowed the case to be dismissed. On Thursday, an old man, named Black, summoned the Church- wardens of St. Thomas the Apostle, for having withheld parochial relief. The Churchwardens said it was not the wish of the parish to refuse to continue his weekly allowance, but they suspected that he had some property, as he had changed a HOI. note a short time ago. The old man, in explanation, stated that he had kept a cobbler's stall on Dowgate- hill for upwards of fifteen years, and he had done cobbling to tbe amount of 31. 10s. for a man who had run away in his debt. This man he met accidentally a few weeks ago, and he gave him a 51. note as payment of his debt, to procure which he had requested the pauper to get him change of a 201, note. The Lord Mayor said the story appeared incredible, but the pauper persisted in asserting its truth. The overseer expressed doubts as to. the man's statement, ob- serving that at Christmas he had parties of 15 or 16 at his house junketting however, as he was upwards of 80 years of age, the parish would again place him on their funds. A GENUINE PAUPER.— A stout healthy young woman, named Yeardey, was charged by the Churchwarden of St. Magnus with having been exceedingly abusive. Mr. Smithers stated that the woman at the bar was a pauper be- longing to his parish. She had been admitted into tbe workhouse; but had chosen to discharge herself from the house whenever she thought fit. The parish had always received ber back upon her application, treating her tbe same as the other paupers. She had lately absented herself from the workhouse, choosing to procure her subsistence by prostitution. On Tuesday last she presented herself at the Churchwarden's house, and demanded relief. An order to go into the workhouse again was given to her, but she tore it up immediately, and demanded, in the most insolent manner, that an allowance should be made to her weekly. The Church- warden having refused, she assailed him with much abuse, upon which he was compelled to bring her before the Magistrate. The Churchwarden further stated that the woman had gained a settle- ment by servitude, and was 28 years old. She bad, on former occasions, behaved very violently, breaking his windows, and using improper language. Mr. Alderman Wilson asked the woman why she refused to go into the workhouse 1— 1 won't go into the workhouse. I'll have relief out of the house. Mr. Alderman Wilson— Many thousand honest persons would be thankful for the home which is offered you. Woman— What home is a workhouse for poor person. s ? they won't allow proper indulgences in it. Mr. Alderman Wilson inquired if any distinction was made amongst the paupers? The Churchwarden said there was a distinction made with pau- pers who were 60 or 70 years of age, but not otherwise. Woman— I havn't half enough to eat; I have only three meals a day. I get a pound of bread every day, and meat no oftener than three times a week. Mr. Alderman Wilson remarked that he thought she had more than she deserved. Woman— Do you ! What is the use of a parish if you can't make it support you ? They must allow me so much a week out of the house, for I don't choose to go into the workhouse again. The Magistrate, after some puinted remarks, which were received in the most insolent manner, directed that the woman should be removed until she made her election whether to go to Bridewell or the workhouse. IIATTON- GARDEN. Thursday, John Duvies, a youth about eighteen years of age, who was attired in a fashionable style, was brought lo this office, charged by his own father, Mr. Davies, of No. 40, Museum- street, Blootnsbury, with having stolen ten silver- spoons and a pair of sugar- tongs, under the following circumstances :— The prosecutor's evidence went to prove that the prisoner's ha- bits were exceedingly dissipated, and in consequence of his having frequently robbed and assaulted both him and his mother, they had forbidden him the house. Notwithstanding, he would often intrude himself into their house, aud property was frequently missing. On Thursday week, the prisoner cauie to the house, and shortly after he had left, the drawer in which the plate was deposited was found forced open, and ten silver spoons aud the sugar tongs were missing. Prosecutor, determined on checking the prisoner's career in crime, gave information of the robbery to Mr. List, the inspector of the E division of police, who apprehended the prisoner. Elizabeth Davies, the prisoner's mother, who was very much affected, stated, that shortly after the prisoner left the house she missed the property from the drawer, and she immediately sus- pected the prisoner of having stolen it. Thomas Burkett, a pawnbroker, deposed, that the prisoner pledged the property at liis shop on the day after the robbery was rcli w prisoner's mother. committed. He produced the articles, which were identified by the Mr. List apprehended the prisoner, and found the duplicates of the property in his possession. Mr. Laing asked the father whether the prisoner had not been there before on some charge ? Mr. Davies ( shedding tears)— He has, Sir ; for having assaulted both his mother aud myself. I prosecute with reluctance, but it is to save him from something worse that I now do so. Mr. Laing ( to the prisoner)— What have you to say to the charge. Prisoner ( with great assuiance)— I admit having committed the crime with which I am charged. I was starving when I applied to him for assistance. He told me to go ' thieving and get hanged.' Not being an adept in the art, or initiated, I thought that 1 would prac tice upon him who had been my tutor, so I robbed him. ( On say- ing which, he cast a peculiar evil look at his father, who was still in tears.) Mr. Rogers— After what you have said, I think that all the diffi cullies under which your father and mother laboured must now be put an end to. At this moment, a young, good- looking woman, gaudily attired, with a tremendous bonnet ribanded and feathered, who was painted up to the eyes, leaned over the bar to whisper to the prisoner. Mr. Laing observing her, said, " Who is that woman ?" She was retiring towards the door, when Mr. Laing peremptorily told her to stand forward, which she did with a reluctant step, and endeavoured to hide her face by hanging her head, and keeping her handkerchief to it. Mr. Laing— Who are you ? She made no answer.— Mr. Laing — How do you get your living ? Stooping her head lower and lower, she maintained silence.— Mr. Laing— How do you get your living, I say ? She turned her back, and appeared quite dumb.— Mr. Laing— It is clear that this boy is your tool, and that it is through you lie has committed robbery. Go about your business. The prisoner was fully committed to take his trial, and the par- ties bound over to prosecut% WORSHIP- STREET. INFANT SLAVERY.— TAMBOUR WORKING.— On Wednesday, Mr. Bowdler, of Hoxton- square, a tambour manufacturer, was sum- moned before the Magistrates, Messrs. Bennett and Twyford, to show cause why eight of his female apprentices should not be dis- charged forthwith. The apprentices, who appeared half- starved, were examined se- parately, and fioin their statement it appeared that they had been neglected in their clothing; that they had not had sufficient food ; thatthey had not been allowed to go to a place of worship on Sun- days ; working on the Sabbath day, and often shamefully beaten, besides other grievances. Sarah Hayes, one of the apprentices, fifteen years of age, com- plained that they were obliged to work on a Sunday— to eat raw potatoes all the winter— to work in a room without any fire, and being deprived, during the night, of leaving their room when taken ill. They had only two thin slices of bread and butter for break- fast ; one sausage each, and two potatoes, for dinner; and one piece of bread and butter for supper. Mr. Benett— Do you go to church? Apprentice— No; I have only been four times there during the six years I have been an apprentice. Why not, when you had not enough to eat, ask for more ? Because we were sure to get a beating. My mistress, the other day, cut me over my head with a key ! The mother of the last witness stated that she called on a Sun- day to see her daughter, when the defendant's wife told her that she was gone to church. Witness, however, found that she was then in the house, and locked up, and had been most cruelly beaten, until she was in a mass of bruises. Mrs. Bovvdler, the defendant's wife, afterwards begged that she would not say any thing about it. ' Defendant— Do you swear that?— Yes. Sarah Clarke, another apprentice, corroborated Sarah Hayes's statement in every particular, adding that she was obliged to work on a Sunday from nine o'clock until dusk, and had only one thin piece of bread and butter for supper. During three years she had been only twice to church. The defendant here called his eldest apprentice to disprove what had been alleged against him ; but she failed in so doing. Mr. Bennett said that a man acting as the defendant had done, regardless of all religious instruction, and depriving those under him of the common comforts they were entitled to, was not a fit person to keep apprentices. It was their ( the Magistrates) duty to pro- tect these children ; and, under all the circumstances, they should discharge them from their apprenticeship. He ( tbe defendant) might appeal to the Quarter Sessions against their decision, if he chose. Defendant— If I did, I have no doubt but another Court would put aside your decision. It is a conspiracy altogether against me. I shall not appeal, as I don't want to have back such a set of un- principled wretches. Mr. Twyford— You must not call them unprincipled. Recollect you have neglected them. DUEL ON WIMBLEDON COMMON. • On Monday evening, at eight o'clock, a post- chaise, in which was Major- General Lorenzo Moore, C. B., in the custody of Walters, the constable of Kingston- upon- Tliames, drove up to the door of Union Hall, and the Magistrate, Mr. Chambers, being on tbe bench, the Ge- neral was conducted into the office. Walters having stated who and what he was, said that the General had been given into bis custody at Kingston, the early part of that afternoon, on the charge of wounding a gentleman named Miles Stapylton, in a duel. He added, that none of the seconds were in custody, owing to the confusion that prevailed on the ground after Mr. Stapyl- ton fell wounded. Mr. David Harris stated, that as he was proceeding to Godatming on the outside of the stage- coach, about four o'clock on Monday afternoon, in passing the road which crosses Wimbledon common, he heard flic report of a pistol, and on looking towards the spot whence it pro- ceeded, he saw a gentleman fall. The coachman,' who also heard the report, immediately pulled up, when witness and a Mr. Selfe, who were sitting next each other on the coach, immediately alighted and ran to the place, which was a short distance from the roadside. There were seve- ral gentlemen together, and witness, on seeing the gentle- man lying on the ground, and blood upon tbe breast part of his shirt, went towards the General, who had a pistol in his hand, and told him that he must consider himself then in custody. The General offered not the slightest resist- ance, and immediately resigned up the possession of his fire- arms. During Hie period that elapsed from the time that the wounded gentleman fell, until witness had the conversation with the General on tbe subject of his appre- hension, the seconds and some other persons assisted the former off the ground, and placed him in a carriage which was in waiting, and immediately drove off towards town. Witness and Mr. Selfe conducted General Moore to King- ston, and gave him into the custody of Walters. Mr. Selfe stated, that when lie approached the gentleman who fell, he exclaimed " I am mortally wounded." In the confusion that arose in consequcncc of the dangerous state in which he seemed to he, the blood gushing from a wound in his left breast, he ( Mr. Selfe) was so occupied in rendering what assistance was in his power, that he ne- glected securing either of the seconds, and they proceeded off towards town at a smart pace, iu a carriage with the wounded gentleman. Mr. Selfe added, that he and Mr. Harris conducted the General to Kingston, and there gav © him into custody. The stage- coach from which Ihey had alighted on hearing the report of the pistol, drove off, leav- ing witness and Mr. Harris to escort the General to the next town. Major- General Moore, who declined saying any thing on the subject of the unfortunate affair, was remanded, and be was brought up again on Tuesday morning, when the following certificate, describing the dangerous state of his opponent in the duel, was read:— " 2, Berkeley- street, Berkeley square, Feb. 14. " I certify that Mr. Stapylton is in very great danger. ( Signed) " G. J. GUTHRIE." The General appeared to be affected on hearing the certificate read, but he made no remark. Bail lo any amount was offered for his appearance to answer the charge, but Mr. Chambers said, that while the wounded gentle- man remained in a condition between life and death, it was his duty, however painful, to keep the General in custody. In the course of the day Major- General Moore was visited at the office by Lord Nugent and several oilier of his friends. We ate given to understand that the meeting between the General and Mr. Stapylton took place in con- sequence of the bitter gentleman giving offence to the daughter of the General in the theatre.— The General was remanded until Tuesday. The following letter on the subject of the above police report of the examination of General Moore at Union Hall, has been addressed to a Morning Paper:— " Sir,— Observing in your paper my name in connexion with the unfortunate affair which occurred at Wimbledon common on Mon- day afternoon, I trust you will do me the favour of inserting some corrections. You state that Miles Stapylton was wounded in the left breast, and the blood was gushing from the wound ; whereas it was in the right, and there was no blood flowing, as it appeared coagulated. As to my neglect in not securing the seconds, to their honour be it said, they were rendering every assistance in their power to the unfortunate sufferer, of which I would not for a mo- ment think of depriving him. As to my conducting Gen. Moore to Kingston, when I left the carriage, I rode wilh a friend who was passing, and on my arrival there found him in the custody of Walters, the officer. The statement is incorrect in many particulars, but think you will not deem the above desultory. " I am, yours respectfully, " Teddington, Feb. 15. " HENRY SELFE." Two men, named Barnett and Hunter, have been com- mitted for trial, on a charge of robbing the shop of their employer, Mr. London; a clock ami watchmaker, in Black- friars- road, of 400/. worth of gold aud silver watches, to- gether with several gold chains and seals. They were ap- prehended in Scotland, in the neighbourhood of Peebles, as they were about to sail for America, where it was their intention to commence trade, having provided themselves with an expensive box of tools, belonging to their master. Officers are in active pursuit of Barnett's brother, who is implicated. Mr. Loudon stated that more than 1,000/. worth of watches had been stolen about three years ago, and one of the offenders since slept under the counter in the shop, as a safeguard to the property there. A correspondent reoommonds care in the use of rivef water in the neighbourhood of common sewers. 64 THE TOWS. Feb. 19, CHOLERA^ MORBUS. Since Sunday last tlie Board of Health has given official notice of the appearance of the Asiatic Spasmodic Cholera in London, and an Act of Parliament has been passed to check, as far as may he possible, the spread of that disease. On looking to the Act wc were much struck by the sum- mary remedy or rather prevention announced in the mar- ginal note of the first clause. It runs thus—" Lord Pre- sident of Council to have power to issue orders at any - time to prevent the spreading of Cholera." Here is a summary process with a vengeance. It aspires to an equality with Alderman Wood's bill, authorizing a man to lay hands on and detain a mad dog, until it could he de- livered into the custody of tho police, and throws quite into the background the resolution come to in ancient days at a small town in Devonshire, of keeping the turnpike gate locked fast in order to prevent the approach of the small- pox from Ilfracombe. The Board of Health, however, is carefully watching over the bowels of his Majesty's sub- jects ; and, whilst they are suffering under the general fast, the well- paid officers of this sanatory Board will be enjoying a general feast. Seriously speaking, we cannot help entering our protest against the alarming doctrines which are at this moment liarrassing this vast metropolis, to the paralysation of com- merce, and the most vital interests of the country. This • would, however, be a more fit matter for jest, were its ope rations confined to the sending some half- dozen old • women and club- house beaux down to Brighton; but, really, when the sinews of Great Britain are likely to be very materially injured by the bugbear of the real spas- modic cholera, it becomes a matter of most serious im- port. Without wishing to undervalue the power of our long- known English cholera, wc call upon all the sensible part « f the community to forswear those fears conjured up by hungry physicians and designing apothecaries, and nursed with great care by the Board of Health. Let them take ihe proper precautions, laid down in the Catechism, viz., 41 temperance, soberness, anil chastity;" but, for Hea- ven's sake, do not let the vague fears occasioned by the deathsof a few individuals, be the means of shuttingforeign ports against us, thereby throwing thousands out of em- ployment, and perhaps effectually ruining the commerce cf an already overburthened country. The following are among the notices issued by the Board cf Health:— " COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 13.— Ten cases of a highly suspicious nature have been reported to the Central Board of Health within the last two days; three of Ihese cases are already dead and two others are reported • desperate. One examination after death was made by 4hese gentlemen, and from their report the Board regret to state that they consider themselves bound to declare that Ihere seems but little doubt that the majority of the above cases have been affected with genuine spasmodic cholera." On the following day, an order was published from the Hoard, appointing officers for the different districts of the Metropolis. The medical and civil organization being 4hus put in activity, the Board of Health caused the fol- lowing to be placarded throughout London. " CHOLERA DISTRICTS.— Looseness of the bowels is the jfceginniiig of cholera. Thousands of lives may be saved by . attending in time to this complaint, which should on no . account be neglected by either young or old, in places where the disease prevails. When cramps in the legs, arms, and belly are felt, with looseness or sickness at stomach, when medical assistance is not at hand, three teaspoonsfull of mustard powder in half a pint jof warm water, or the same quantity of warm water with as much common salt as it will melt, should be taken as a vomit; and after the stomach has been cleared out with - more warm water, twenty- live drops of laudanum should ie taken in a small glass of any agreeable drink. Heated plates or platters to be applied to the belly and pit of the stomach. As persons run considerable risk of being in- jected by visiting those suffering from this disease in crowded rooms, it is most earnestly recommended that only such a number of persons as are sufficient to take care of Ihe siek be admitted into the room." DAILY REPORT OF CHOLERA PATIENTS. COUNCIL OFFICE, FEB. 18. 0 TO G V) U to J3 « S Date PLACE. a O • A ; s • 5 P « O < U 0 0) £ a> a V tf 0 H 0 H Jeb. 16 Newcastle .... 2 1 6 945 296 North Shields, Merton Township, & c. . . 3 2 60 290 77 South Shields . . . 1 — 1 8 4 Hetton, & c 4 4 20 432 87 15 Haddington and vicinity 2 — 11 126 57 — Tranent 3 — 55 268 73 Preston Pans . . . 2 — 19 104 18 34 North Berwick . . . — — 2 16 7 36 West Barns .... 4 2 4 12 8 15 Musselburgh . . . • 2 — 34 425 185 — Edinburgh .... 1 1 — 13 8 .— Kirkintilloch . . . — — 2 72 26 Glasgow and suburbs . 4 1 4 9 5 — Mary Hill .... 1 1 8 13 4 4 2 6 2 Total . . 251 12 228 2739 857 Total from places where the disease has ceased, and no returns made . 1831 514 4570 1371 LONDON. 17 Limehouse .... 1 1 — 5 4 Afloat in the River — — 2 2 — , — 1 — 2 2 Southwark .... — 1 7 18 7 Rotherhithe and Rat- cliffe ( reported before) 4 4 Total . . 1 3 9 31 17 tbe metropolis, as you shall think proper. It appears to me that no time should be lost in furnishing the medical practitioners of London with the means of affording such aid of clothing, or medi- cine, as they may deem necessary to guard against the present disease. " J. RUSSELL." The following notice was on Wednesday posted at the Middlesex Hospital:— " Middlesex Hospital, Feb. 15, 1852. " Ordered, that on account of the inconvenience and risk to the patients which have been found to result from the indiscriminate ad- mission of visitors to the wards of the Hospital, 110 strangers can be for the present admitted to visit the patients, without the express permission of the house- surgeon or house- apothecary. *' By order of the Board, ALEXANDER SHEDDON, Sec." The clothing department was removed yesterday morning from No. 3, Abehureh- lane, to Dover- court, Lombard- street, and free of every expense, to afford room for a general receiving hospital. Workmen are busily en- gaged in fitting op iron bedsteads in every room. Up to two o'clock, no cholera case had been admitted. Mr. Paul, of Bueklersbury, who had occasion to call at Guildhall, begged permission to say publicly, that he con- sidered it high time that some steps should be taken to disabuse the public mind as to the prejudices and alarm excited by men who profited by the anxiety they created. If let alone, these paid men would, doubtless, occasion disease by frightening the people, and he especially depre- cated a placard posted about the suburb, comtneticinj " Looseness in the bowels is the beginning of the cholera. This was wicked and dangerous, for doubtless 500 persons rose up every morning with a looseness in this vast metropolis. Mr. Alderman Birch concurred with the gentleman in deprecating the disposition to exaggerate and excite dismay. At the Thames Police Office on Friday, Mr. Evans, chief officer, was dispatched to tho collier brig, Anna, of North Shields, oft' Bell- wharf, Ratcliff, to enquire into the truth of a report, extensively promulgated, that a man had died on board after an attack of cholera, but which turned out to be quite unfounded. Same day, on a post mortein examination, it was discovered that death was caused by apoplexy. Mr. Evans stated that he had made every in quiry in the eastern district of the metropolis, and found that no new case of cholera had occurred, and that it was the general belief of the inhabitants that that frightful malady had not yet made its appearance in London, and that the cases which had been reported were nothing more than common bowel complaints. The health of the dis- trict was very good. In the course of the day a letter was forwarded by Mr. Wrigbt, surgeon, of St. Mary Rother- hithe, to Mr. Ballantine, stating that the parish was in the most healthy state, and 110 person at present in the parish afflicted with cholera. At Union Hall on Friday, Dr. Whiting, physician to the Surrey Dispensary, appeared before the magistrates, and said that a man labouring under symptoms of cholera was then in a hackney- coach at the Dispensary door, which, however, could not take him in, as it was only founded for giving advice and dispensing medicines gratis to the poor. A Mr. Harle, who accompanied the patient, said as he was passing along Pitfiehl- street, Shoreditch, that morning, he saw a man suddenly attacked with violent sickness, accompanied with cramp. He was taken into a chemist's shop, where he was somewhat relieved by brandy and opium ; he was then placed in a hackney- coach, anil carried to St. Bartholomew's. The authorities refused to admit him. He was then driven to Abchurch- lane; but the Lord Mayor expressed his regret that his mansion was not ready, and advised him to go to the Surrey Dispensary. The patient had been bled in the coach, and 18 oz. of blood taken from him, which gave him some relief. He appeared about 40 years of age, and a mechanic. He was lying along the seat of the vehicle, and every now and then exhibited agony, apparently from spasms in his lower ex- tremities. An officer was sent to Guy's Hospital, to as- certain if accommodations could be afforded there, and an answer returned in the negative. The poor man had now been two hours and a half in the coach. Admission was also refused to the workhouse of St. George. After a further delay, he was admitted into a house opposite Bethlcm Hospital, recently fitted up for cholera cases.— ( According to subsequent accounts, this was not a case of cholera.) RAMSGATE, FEB. 17.— In consequence of the cholera breaking out in the metropolis, orders have been received to place all vessels from London in quarantine. Commu- nications have likewise been received by Mr. Ayres, sur- geon, from government, to proceed on board the vessels immediately on their arrival, to examine the crews and passengers. BF. NEVOLENT WISH— Mr. Hume having declined at- tending a meeting of the Mechanics' Institute at Lime- house, on the ground that he would have nothing to do with bringing a crowded meeting together under the pre- sent circumstances, a Mr. Morris said, " that he had sent a message back to Mr. Hume, to say the disappointment would be great indeed. The gentlemen at the West- end of tbe town were mightily afraid of the cholera— he hoped they would have their share of it.'' THE LONDON GAZETTE. ( Signed) W. MACLEAN, Secretary. The following letter has been received from Lord John Bussell by Dr. Daun:— " Whitehall, Feb. 15. " SIR— I beg to enclose a draft for 251,, to be applied to pro- viding medicines for the poor either of this or any other part of, Thursday was observed throughout the bounds of the Edinburgh Presbytery as a solemn fast;— all business was suspended. FLEET PRISON.— On Monday last Sir E. B. Sugden was closetted with the Warden of the Fleet, and, being announced as a Master in Chancery, commanded several of the Chancery prisoners to appear before him, whom he interrogated 011 the state of their affairs, intentions, & e. It has not transpired whether Sir Edward presented himself clothed with the authority of the Court, or as the represen- tative of the visiting Master appointed by Act of Parlia- ment. Some of the prisoners 011 this, as on former occa- sions, expressed surprise at being catechised by Sir Ed- ward, he holding briefs as Counsel against them, without authority to arbitrate between plaintiffs and defendants. It is, however, due to Sir Edward to record that on some of the necessitous he bestowed gratuities, varying from five shillings to a sovereign, with a promise of another early visit. ' I'HE BARNET IMPOSTER.— The Lancaster Herald says, that the fellow who trumped up the story of an attempt to burke him last week, at Barnet, played a similar trick in that neighbourhood in 1829. He then called himself Stan- ley, and was found tied to a gate near Lancaster, under precisely similar circumstances to those which are spoken of at Barnet. He told very nearly the same story, and prose- cuted to conviction two men, named Grimes and Rigby, and a woman, the daughter of Grimes. The men were con- victed, and left for execution; and the woman was sen- tenced to transportation for life. Suspicions were enter- tained of the trick, inquiry was made, and the men were respited, but only within a few hours of the period fixed for their execution. The result of a further inquiry was the free parddn of all. ( FROM THE GAZETTE OF TUESDAY, FEB. 14.) Admiralty Office, Feb. 13. The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. James, Lord de Saumarez, G. C. B. Admiral of the Red, to be General of his Majesty's Royal Marine Forces, in the room of Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart., deceased. War Office, Feb. 14. Memorandum— The half- pay of the under- mentioned officer has been cancelled froni the 14th instant, inclusive, upon his receiving a commuted allowance for his commission :— Ensign Thomas Hun- gerford Powell, half- pay 84th Foot. The under- mentioned officer was allowed to retire from the service, on the 14th instant, receiving a commuted allowance for his commission:— Lieutenant Henry Rose Clarke, 4th Foot. 4th Regiment of Foot— Lieutenant Thomas Gibson, from half- pay 90th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Clarke, commuted. Office of Ordnance, Feb. 8. Royal Regiment of Artillery— Second Captain I. Whitty, to be Captain, vice Bentham, deceased ; First Lieut. W. II. Lawrence to be Second Captain, vice Whitty; Second Lieut. C. V. Cock- bum to be First Lieutenant, vice Lawrence ; First Lieut. J. Bloom- field to be Second Captain, vice Forster, retired on half- pay ; Second Lieut. R. Cockburn to be First Lieutenant, vice Bloomfield. INSOLVENTS. JohnMackay, Austinfriars, insurance- broker. Andrew Lewis de Metz, Bunh'dl- row, St. Luke's, tea- dealer. BANKRUPTS. Richard Gascoyne, Richmond, Surrey, tailor. Peter Knox, Maidstone, grocer. R. Hamilton, Fountain- court, Bishopsgate- street, wine- merchant. T. Cottle, Salisbury- street, Bermondsey, dealer in marine stores. Robert Ogdin Halliwell, Wiiitechapel- road, oilman. J. Newman, South- street, Chelsea, victualler. John Gilbert, jun., Coventry, coach proprietor. William Tutt Maugham, King- street, Covent- garden, hatter. Isaac Wiseman, Norwich, silkman. Daniel Aust, Walcot, Somersetshire, builder. George Parker, Deritend, Warwickshire, factor. James Brearly, Brimrod, Lancashire, woollen- manufacturer. John Foolkes, Mold, Flintshire, wine- dealer. Charles Muirhead Burgess, Toxteth Park, Lancashire, builder. Richard Bayley Sidford, Wiltoo, Wiltshire, baker. Joseph Armitage and Jaines Greenwood, Clayton, Yorkshire, stuff- manufacturers. George Brooke Kerr, sen., Framlingham, Suffolk, common brewer. Ashton Taylor, Dogford Mills, Lancashire, cotton- spinner. Samuel Mottershead, Manchester, cotton- spinner. Thomas Clayton, sen., Manchester, cheese- factor. ( FROM THE GAZETTE OF FRIDAY, FEB. 17.) War Office, Feb. 17. 2d Regiment of Life Guards— Brevet Major G. A. Reid to be Major and Lieutenant- Colonel, by purchase, vice Oakes, who re- tires ; Lieut. T. Hare, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Reid; and Cornet and Sub- Lieut. W. T. Squire to be Lieutenant, by pur- chase, vice Hare. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards— Cornet C. Kelson to be Lieu- tenant, by purchase, vice Collingwood, who retires; J. Nugent, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Kelson. 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons— Lieut. J. A. Pulteney to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stuart, who retires ; Cornet T. W. D. Willan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Pulteney; A. Peyton, Gent, to be Cornet by purchase, vice Willau. 4th Regiment of Foot— Lieut. Col. M. Creagh, from half- pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant Colonel, vice Faunce, appointed In- specting Field- Officer of a Recruiting District. lltli Foot— Ensign A. Kennedy to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fraser, who retires; G. J. H. Onslow, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kennedy. 13th Foot— Lieutenant J. Foulstone, from half- pay 1st Ceylon Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Keir, promoted. 20th Foot— Capt. F. C. Barlow, from the 97th Foot, to be Cap- tain, vice Smith, appointed to the 59th Foot. 29th Foot— G. L. Way, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Curtis, appointed to the 35th Foot. 59th Foot— Captain W. T. R. Smith, from the 20th Foot, to be Captain, vice Samuel Enderby, who retires upon half- pay York Chasseurs. 85th Foot— Ensign S. W. Blackall to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Belcher, who retires ; and Ensign H. C. Curtis, from the 29th Foot, to be Ensigu, vice Blackall. 89th Foot— Quartermaster J. Dukes from half- pay 84lh Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice T. W. Edwards, who retires upon half- pay. 97th Foot— Capt. It. Nolan, from half- pay York Chasseurs, to be Captain, vice Barlow, appointed to the 20tl. Foot. 2d West India Regiment— Lieut. R. Elliott to be Adjutant, vice Dickenson, who resigns the Adjutancy only. UNATTACHED— Lieut. T. E. Campbell, froni the 2d Dragoon Guards, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase ; and Lieut. G. Keir, from the 13th Foot, to be Captain of Infantry, without purchase. MEMORANDUM— Captain H. Forbes, half- pay Unattached, has been allowed to retire from the service, by the sale of an Unattached company. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. James Harvey, Dartford, Kent, timber- merchant. BANKRUPTS. Robert Benns, Bread- street, victualler. William Rowland Gladwin, Watling- street, smith. Thomas Samuel Fox, Wells, Norfolk, builder. Thomas Whittard, Dursley, Gloucestershire, shopkeeper. John E. Johnson, Albemarle- street, Piccadilly, wine- merchant. William Moss, New Market- place, Greenwich, cheesemonger. John Girton, Edgeware- road, earthenware- dealer. Thomas Salter, North Walshatn, Norfolk, corn- merchant. Thomas Wood, Headingly, near Leeds, miller. James Colquhoun, Sheffield, coppersmith. George Eames, Ilminster, Somersetshire, ironmonger. R. Beasant, Wolverton, Buckingham, miller aud meal- merchant. Robert Cox, Silton, Dorset, miller. CORN EXCHANGE, Fin. 17. We have no alteration in the price of grain from Wednesday, and the Market is flat for all descriptions. The supply consists of 6,280 sacks of Flour, 8,065 quarters of Wheat, 13,165 of Barley, 9,201 of Oats, 4.50 of Irish Wheat, and 2,656 of Oats. THE AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, For the week ended Feb. 10. Wheat. Barlev. Oats 59s 9d 35s 4d 21s 7d Six Weeks' Average, which regu- j lates duty \ Duty on Foreign Corn 59s 7d 35s 7d 21s 7d 27s 8d 9s 4d 15s 3d PRICE OF HOPS, FEB. 17. Kent Pockets 41. 15s. 81. 0s. Sussex ditto 41. 10s. — 51. 14s. Essex ditto 41. 10s. — 61. 15s. Farnham ditto, fine 91. 0s. — Of. 0s. Farnham Pockets, seconds 01. 0s. 91. 0s. Kent bags 41. 0s. — 61. 10s. Sussex ditto 41. 4s. — 51. Os. Essex ditto 31. 15s. — 51. 12s. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made ill the week ending February 14, is- . 25s. l| d. per cwt. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. SMITHFIELD, FEB. 17. The quotation for the finest qualities of Beef is 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d. per stone, and for the coarser meat tbe price is 3s. Od. to 3s. 6d. ; Mutton, for prime Downs, fetches 4s. Od. to 5s. Od. per stone, and coarser meat is 3s. 8d. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, for prime Calves, fetches 5s. Od. to 5s. 8d. per stone ; and dairy- fed Porkers fetch 5s. Od. to 5s. 4d. per stone. Per stone of 8lb. ( sinking the offal.) Beef 3s Mutton 4s Beasts • 375 6d to 4s 4d to 5s Veal- Pork- • OS • 4s Head of Cattle at Market. Calves • 166 | Sheep . 3,100 | 8d to 5s 8d 6d to 5s 4d Pigs - 90 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL, FEB. 18. The supply of meat generally this morning was not large, and demand was good. ( By the carcase, per stone of 81bs.) Beef - Veal - 2s. 3s. 6d. to 3s. 8d. to 5s. 6d. I 8d. Mutton - Pork 3s. 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d. 8d. to 5s. 4d. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows: Candles, per doz. 7s. to 8s. | Mould, per doz, 9s. 6d. HAY MARKETS.— FEB. 17. SMITHFIELD.— Meadow Hay, 31. 0s. to 41. 4s.; inferior ditto 21. 10s. to 2f. 15s.; Old Clover Hay, St. 15s. to 61. 0s.; second crop ditto, SI. 10s. to 41. 15s. ; Rye Grass Hay, 3/. 15s. to 4(. 10s. - Oat Striw, 1(. OS. to 1(. 8s. ; Wheat Straw, 11. 10s. to If. 16s. per load of 36 trusses.— The supply was plentiful at marketto- day, and in some instances higher prices were asked, but generally no alte- ration in Thursday's prices can be quoted. CUMBERLAND— Meadow Hay, 3(. 3s. to 41. 4s. ; inferior ditto, 21. 8s. to 21. 15s. ; Clover, 41. 0s. to 6i. 0s. ; second crop, 31.5s. to 41. 0s. ; Rye Grass Hay, 01. 0s. ; Oat Straw, 28s. ; Wheat Straw, 33s. to 37s.— A good supply at market and a fair trade. COAL EXCHANGE, FEB. 17. Prices of Coal, per ton, at the close of the market. Killingworth, 21s Od— Si. Lawrence Main, 18s 6d— West Hartley, 19s Od— Wall's End, Bell, Robson, and Co., 19s. 6d— Northumberland, 19s 6d to 20s— Perkins, 20s to 20s 3d— Rus- sell's, 18s— Lainbton Primrose, 22s— Stewart's, 22s to 22s 3d Hartley, 21s— New Flocton, Milne, and Co., 17s— Ships ar- rived, 34. PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS, Bank Stock Reduced 3 per Cents. - • Consols, 3 per Cents - • • — for Account-• • — 35 per Cents. • Reduced per Cents. • New per Cents. New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills M011. Tues. Wed. Thur. Frid. S 195 1941 195£ 194f 195 1 m 83 US} 83 82} 82J 82} m 82# 82} 821 821 82£ 82£ 82} yen 90i 90 £ 901 901 90} 90£ 901 90* 90 § 894 89} 90 89} 891 100 — 100 — 100 16 16} 16} 16 16 par par par par par 11 11 10 9 8 83 J- 82f 82} 90| 90} 16 par 9 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, FEB. 10. Amsterdam, 3 months, 12 1 Ditto, short, 12 18£ to 19 Rotterdam, 3 months, 12 1 to } Hamburgh, do. 13 13| lo 13 14 Paris, short, 25 50 to 55 Ditto, 3 months, 25 75 to 85 Frankfort, ditto, 152} to J Vienna, ditto, 10, 3 to 4 Trieste, ditto, 10 4 to 6 Madrid, ditto, 36} to f Cadiz, ditto, 36J to Bilboa, 3 months, 361 to Leghorn, ditto, 47J to f- Genoa, ditto, 25 67 J to 70 Naples, ditto, 40} to 1 Palermo, ditto, 119} to } Lisbon, 30 days' sight, 48 to J Oporto, ditto, 48} to 49 For. Gold, in bars, 31.17s. lOJd, New Doubloons, 31. 15s. 6d. New Dollars, 4s. 9fd. A few days since an audacious attempt was made to murder Mr. Samuel Grubb, of Clogheen, in the county of Tipperary. Robbery was the object. O11 Thursday the nephew of Mr. Bradshaw, a coroner of the same county, very narrowly escaped assassination. He had dined abroad, and having been escorted home by six police, dismissed them at the entrance into his own house. In a few minutes after he was fired at by some persons, who lay in wait for him within bis own lawn, and although the police were immediately on the spot, the assassins were not appre- hended. One species of crime has been recently com- mitted with a frequency which it is difficult to explain. Every day brings us an account of an abduction. The daughters of substantial and independent farmers are in general selected by the amatory freebooters— Sedfuit ante Helenam. The anti- tithe meetings in the South are fre- quently attended by the military, for the purpose of pre- serving the peace. Oil Sunday se'nnight there were five meetings on this subject in the county of Kildare. There are at present in the town of Kilkenny alone, one regiment of infantry, three troops of cavalry, and two pieces of can- non. At the ensuing assizes this force will be doubled; and yet it is in that part of the county that have occurred those outrages which 1 have alluded to. Can such things con- tinue? The existing law ought to be, aud must be vindi- cated. But what is to prevent the same law from again creating the same necessity? Can England afford to con- template that necessity as permanent? BIRTHS. At Leamington, the Lady of Sir C. Edmund Carrington, of Chalfont St. Giles, Bucks, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. At Milton, county of Murray, N. B., Henry Joseph Dunn, Esq. to Eliza, only daughter of tbe late William Brodie, Esq.— George Lake Russell, Esq. youngest son of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Rus- sell, to the Lady Caroline Alicia Perry, youngest daughter of the Earl of Limerick.— At Alnwick, Henry William Askew, Esq. of Glenridding, Cumberland, to Miss Lucy Percy, third daughter of the Bishop of Carlisle— At Cheltenham, William Whately, of Plainfield, Hants, Esq. to Margaret, widow of the late Robert Place, Esq. Lieutenant- Colonel of his Majesty's 41st Regiment of Foot.— At St. Marylebone church, Patrick Cruikshank, Esq. of Cornwall- terrace, second and youngest son of the late James Cruikshank, Esq. of Langley Park, Forfarshire, N. B., to Char- lotte Maria, only daughter of John Vincent Purrier, Esq. of York- terrace, Regent's Park.— At Cheriton, near Sandgate, in Kent, George Naish Rich, Esq. of Milton, next Gravesend, to Eliza Ann, eldest daughter of Henry James Pitcher, Esq. of Sandgate. — At Banwell, Herbert Williams, Esq. son of W. Williams, Esq. Castle Hill, Dorset, to Maria, relict of Willens Andree, Esq. and daughter of George Emery, Esq. Grange Banwell, Somerset.— At Barningham, Yorkshire, the Rev. E. Verdon, to Jane Frances, se_ cond daughter of George Hobson, Esq. of Great Marylebone- street DEATHS. At Iloddesdon, William Peere Williams Freeman, Esq. senior Admiral of the Fleet, in the 91st year of his age.— In the 55th year of her age, Jane, the wife of A. K. Newman, of Leadenhall- street.— At Scarborough, at the house of his brother- in- law, Dr. Leighton, Captain Neunburg Nash, eldest son of the late G. A. Nash, Esq. of Finsbury- square, in the 30th year of his age.— At Mortimer, Thomas Claudius, second son of Sir Claudius Hunter, Bart, in the 28tli year of his age.— William Alford Griffiths, Esq. late Paymaster 23d Regiment, Royal Welch F'usileers.— In Baker- street, Portman- square, Jonathan Thomas Candler, Esq. late of the Russian Imperial Guards.— At his seat, Esholt Hall, Yorkshire, Joshua Crompton, Esq. aged 77. LONDON: Printed by RICHARD NORMAN, Savoy Pre- cinct, and Published by him at the Office, 2, WELLING- TON- STREET, STRAND ; where, ONLY, all communications addressed to the Editor are received.
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