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The result of a long and extensive practice has enabled them, by a superior method, to remove Venereal Complaints however inveterate or complicated, without subjecting the Patient te tbe least restraint in diet or exercise i and in recent cases, where an early application is made on discovery of die infection, they frequently perform a cure in the short space of a few days. The unprecedented success of their mode of treatment, which has never been known to fail in one siogle instance in a practice of twenty years, during which period many thousand persons of both sexes have been cured, even after severe and injurious methods had been pursued by other practitioners without effect, induces them to thus publicly offer their advice. To be consulted daily, by Patients of either Sex, with • ecrecy, delicacy, and attention Letters from the country, containing the particulars of the case, enclosing a remittance, duly attended to, and Advice and Medicine forwarded to any part of the world. 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Editorial Correspondence.— Sacred Poetry— Notices of the Olden Time— Reviews— Reports of Meetings— Important Trials- Events of the Month— University and Clerical Intelligence— Oxford, Cambridge, and Scotland, & c. & c.— New Patents— Gardeners' Calend r—- Meteorological Journal— State of the Funds— London Markets, and List of Bankrupts, & c. John Turrill, 250, Regent- street, London; Parker, Oxford ; Grant, Cambridge ; Stillies Brothers, Edinburgh ; Wakeman, Dublin. Orders received by all Booksellers and Newsmen. N1 NOTICE TO FAMILIES, TAVERN- KEEPERS AND THE TRADE. OW on Sale, at CARTER and Co.' s, 2, Cheapside, near St. Paul's, Ninety Pieces of BRUSSELS CARPETING, the best quality ever manu factored, price 3s. 101. per yard. N. B. Many of tbe Patterns have been drawn at a very great expense, and were d* signed exclusively for tbe LARGE UPHOLSTERY Esiablishment that has re- : ently suspended payment. A'so, 500 HEARTH RUGS. March 5, 1833. A G R I C U L T U R A L R E P O R T F O R MARCH. We have received tbe most gratifying accounts of tbe excellence of the winter and the present seison ; weather most delightful for all agricultural operations: th. Spring seeds advantageously put into the soil, and great breadths of plant above ground throughout the country. In course there must exist some adverse exceptions, the result of peculiar circumstances, which we shall note in their place. We must also acknowledge that we do not entirely agree with our correspondents as to the benefits of a mild, moist, and foggy winter season, with perpetu. ally chopping and changing of the wind, which has had a morbid effect on the human constitution in many parts, and which has encouraged a premature and rank vegetation of the wheat crop, detracting, it is to be apprehended, too much from tbe seminal virtues of tbe root. A crop superabundant in straw, is seldom equally so in corn. If the greatest breadths of wheat, both autumnal and in the north, and some parts of the nortb- west, of spring wheat, ever sown in Britain, can command plenty, it is probable tbe next harvest will produce it. To say word or two on that convenient professional humbug, cholera morbus, our ancient acquaintance, we have not bad a single case from the country, though plenty of other atmospheric diseases from different counties— sore throats, coughs, intermittent*. Indigenous cholera has been immemorially periodical in this country, never contagious, but, as the doctors style it, sporadic, or locally infectious ; generally of atmospheric origin, but too often produced by starvation and neglect. The whears, cl'. vers, and grasses, natural and artificial, are all universally forward, promising very early spring food lor all kinds of stock. It is said, however, that the mild white frosts, which have prevailed through part of the last and present month, have in some degree checked beneficially, an over luxuriance.— Monthly Magazine for April. The following very useful works have been lately published by Messrs. Colburn and Bentley, New Burlington. street:— 1. A New System of Practical Domestic ( Economy, formed from the private communications of persons of experience, with estimates of household expences, adapted to families of every description : 4th edition, in one closely printed volume 6s. bound. The rapid sale of this work manifests tbe high opinion entertained of its merits. There is scarcely a single subject connected with housekeeping, from the care of the library down to the management of the beer- cellar, which is not treated of.— 2. The Horse and Carriage Oracle, edited by Dr. Kitchiner: a work full of knowledge and instruction relative to the expenses connected with the keeping and hiring of equipages of every description, and which, in the words of thereviewer, " will serve to enlighten many people who are the prey of their coachmen and livery- stable keepers," small 8vo. 7s. 6d. — 3. Dr. Kitchiner's Traveller's Oracle, or Maxims for Loco, motion : small Svo. 7s. 6d. " We recommend the * Traveller's Oracle' as a very amusing and instructive publication."— Atlas. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.— When Baron Dupuytren and Sir Astley Cooper met in Guy's Hospital, the Baron, in a very cordial manner, embraced the Baronet, and kissed him. Sir Astley, who disliked such a method of saluta. tion between men, at first blushed, but after a momentary pause, he pointedly exclaimed, " Well, never mind, 1 am even with you, for when I was in Paris I kissed your daughter 1 SUICIDE OF CAPTAIN GLENGALL MOSELEY.— On Saturday night, at ten o'clock, an inquest was held before Mr. Higgs, the coroner, and a respectable jury, at the residence of Cope, Esq., Mount- street, Grosvenor- square, on the body of Captain Glengall Moseley, who terminated his existence by cutting his throat. George Frederick Lockley, of Halftnoon- street, surgeon, sworn.— I have been in the habit of attending the deceased for many years; I first saw him under the present indisposition about a fortnight since, and the deceased has been confined to his house about six days; the symptoms were those ~ of a bilious fever, and bis pulse was never above ninety during any part of the disease j he never laboured under delirium ; I saw him yesterday about one o'clock, and sat with him a considerable time, he inducing me to do so by stating that he expected Sir H. Halford every minute; he was perfectly tranquil at that time, and entered into trifling mi. nutice, such as the making of barley- water, & c. I left him without any apprehension of the slightest danger, and was much surprised and shocked, on being called upon at five o'clock the same day, to find that he was dead by wounds in his throat which the jury have witnessed. He had always an im. petuous and impatient manner, which led me to expect that it might some day end in insanity. His body was reduced very much, in consequence of fever. The other evidence was only corroborative of the above, and the jury returned a verdict of- " Temporary insanity," " Danaos dona ferentes." The declarations of Lords Harrowby and Whan eliffe remove none of our apprehensions. We nev<- doubted that the second reading of the Bill wool be permitted; and, for the rest, what is the su' s auce of the statement of the « e Lords, bin that tl> e\ will do what seems right to them? They grcinusly say, that they will vote for the Bill, if thei can shape it to their pleasure; or, in other word they vviil pass it, if they can make it passable,— disfigure fit st, then pass it for their own." Th. camel is to be brought through the eye of the needle; but will it be rhe camel or the camel's hair that will go through the trial? Lords Harromby and Wharncliffe do not quarrel with names— the\ are no enemies to Reform ; on the contrary, all they desire is, to re- form the It- form. Their hostility is not to the tide, but to the size and shape of the design; and they have no objection to going to work on it, provided they may lop with the axe, and shave away with ihe plane, till it be reduced to their notion of fitness. Lear's daughters did not begin by tefusing him tbe escort: but they questioned the amount of it till they found no reasoit for any escort whatever. The sign- painter practised only iri painting red lions, consented, after many difficulties, to paint an angel; but the man had the candour to add, " I tell you beforehand, Mr. Bonniface, that though I paint you an angel, against my better judgment, she will look most confoundedly like a red lion." If Lord Harrowby were as frank, he would warn Lord Grey, thai though be passed him his Reform Bill, he should make it confoundedly like the corrupt system. Comparing the present with the rejected Bill, Lord Harrowby said, " The alterations were not so great as he wished them to b e : he hoped, however, they would be greater than they were at present." Not a doubt of i t ; he wishes to paint, in the old red lion, the favourite rapine rampant, the oxiginal beast of prey, " new revived," as the sign- posts delight to express it. " H » would v- ite for the second reading of the present Bill, in order to see whether such additional alterations might not be made in the Committee, as would enable him finally to vote for its passing into a law." Yes; if he can only be permitted to restore a pair of claws, in lieu of the angel's fair hands, and to substitute a huge grinning red head, with a yawning chasm, set with a harrow of teeth, and to rear her on two bestial hind legs, and provide her with a tail with a knob to it, and a mane standing an end, he will be content to let his red lion pass under the name of an angel. " But if, alter all, he should find it impossible to introduce such amendments as in bis opinion would render tbe Bill one which ought to pass into a law, he should still have an opportunity of opposing it." In short, he is to make the thing what he likes, or to do as he likes. To render this more distinct, he adds— Although tliey should vote for the second reading, tbey would not be bound to vote for the passing of tbe Bill, iri case it should still continue to be a Bill which oaght not to pass. If, after ali the amendments bad been intioduced which could tie introduced, any of their Lordships should conscientiously believe that the Bill ought not to pass, they would still have tbe power to vote fur its rejection, and it would be their duty toexertthat % wer. Here the danger is laid down in Lord char-, and it is one against which be cannot be seeuie, except by a creation. If he carries the Bill to a third reading, without a reinforcement to be ivi e d on, he, for no adequate object ( fur there is no object adequate to such a risk) runs a hazard of mischiefs incalculable to the country, anu thus proves Irmself, in any event, favourable or di astrous, unworthy of the great task he has undertaken. There are acts of rashness, which success itself will not sanction. If he succeed, having placed himself at the mercy of faction, he will have done that with difficulty and danger, which h might have done in security and with ease: he will have played such a trick as iEueas would have done, had he danced the tight lope with Anehises on his shoulders. But if he should fail, through the ciaft or wilfulness o f t h e Tory Lords, or the versat l i i y of the Trimmers, what then ? The stroke would be final, and they know it; and the indig. nation o f t h e nation would run more against the im. becil ty that had given the opportunily, than at the treachery with which the advantage of it was taken, If the stork will trust his neck down the wolf's throat, why the stork is more to be blamed than the wolf for what may happen. Lord Wharnciiffe is more peremptory in tone than Lord Harrowby; he asserts, that " the Bill ought not to pass into law without very considerable amendment." " He thought it the duty of their Lordships to allow the Bill to go into the Committee, in order to see whether such a compromise might not be made as might render it, under all the circumstances, advisable to pass the Bill. If this should be refused, then their Lordships might reject the Bill." Lord Grejr, in reply, spoke with his usual ability — if rhetoric were all- sufficient, he would leave us nothing to desire— and repeated his protestations that the principles and efficiency of the measure should not he imuaired. He explained that to alterations that might be improvements he would not be opposed. Any such alterations will, however, be regarded with gieat suspicion and dissatisfaction by the country, who will set down Lord Grey's assent to them, not to conviction, but to compulsion. Knowing that the Minister is really in a minority— that the majority is lent to him by his enemies, and the enemies of the measure— the people will suppose that his compliances are necessities of the helpless, powerless state in which he has choseH to leave himself. His concessions will be imputed to weakness, and the Bill will lose much of its value in public opinion, as it will be conceived to be impaired or vitiated by them. Lord Grey, as a statesman, must needs know that half the benefit of a good law is lost, if the repute ofits goodness fall short of the truth. This is a measure to remove causes of discontent ; it is therefore peculiarly desirable that the manner of settling it should be such as not to give birth to any suspicions that it is less beneficial than it purports to be ; but if an assembly, a majority of which is notoriously disinclined to the object in view, have the final arrangement, doubt and distrust of the soundness and efficacy of the measure cannot but be generated in men's minds. For the opinion of the virtue of the Bill, it is necessary that it should be passed by a majority of Lords really favourable to the end proposed, and not made up of men who avow that they curry it on the condition of lightening it ofits more popular provisions. We confess that we should much have preferred Lords Wharncliffe and Harrowby's declaration of uncompromising hostility to the Bill, to their qualified promises of support; which, like the oracles of old, will serve for the most opposite issues. However they may act, their conduct is to be interpreted by their own judgments, and, at las', as large is their liberty of disliking the Bill as was the epigrammatist's of hating Doctor Fell. One ground of hope alone we see in these declarations, and that is, from the schism which they would seem to open between the Ulra Tories and the Trimmers. When the self- love of men becomes warmed in such differences, it is apt to make them fly off front the middle ground to the extreme, and to rank them with allies they love not, in staunch opposition to the dissenters they most hate. Wellington remains obstinate; and if the Ultra Tories fall out with the Trimmers, the Trimmers are very likely to fali in with Lord Grey in all the earnestness of party •'• que. But supposing this to hanperi, it is yr\ hiuhtfiil what force Lords Hafrowlry and Wliarni i f f . carry with them, or if they exceed the dua i rnber. Some of the B'shops will of course turi • stain, as they did not succeed in turning the Minitry out. Wide is the difference between destrovug a power, ( and so ingratiating with the successor) i'id carrying on a quarrel with it, whence a share in be sweets is forfeited. Of this our Right Reverend Fathers are fully sensible.— Examiner. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o Clock 1M P E RIALPAKLIA M E NT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. A petition was presented by a NOBLE LORD, whose name we could not letrn, against the withdrawing of the drawback on malt distilled in Scotland. Lord KENYON presented a petition from J. J. Stackdale in favour of Reform. He also considered that the cholera was only a tub - hrown out to the whale in order to stop the progress of that great measure. T h e M rquis of SLIGO a n d the E II l of RHDNOR preiented petitions against tithes in Ireland. Earl BAT HURST gave no ice that to morrow in the absense of ' he Noble Chancellor of the University of Oxford, he would present a petition against the Reform Bill, agreed to at a Convocation of that University. The Marquis of WESTMEATH gave notice that tomorrow he would move for copies of an addr ss presented to the Lord Lieutenant of h eland by the Magistrates of Westmea'h, and the answer thereto. Lord PLUNK ET presented a petition from Liver. Mige, signed by fifteen hund- ed persons in favour of the new system of education in Ireland. The Noble Lord had received the petition, accompanied by a letter from a pen- on residing in that part of the country, who stated that m etings had been got up with great diligence against ihe Government system, but that it was made entirely a political question. The writer stated, that at t> n « meeting a person asked the chairman what the purpoit of the petition to which they were called on to agree, was, when the chairman answered that it was a most unreasonable question ; that the resolutions had been before prepared, and that the meeting had nothing more to do than agree to them. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY presented a petition from a place in the cuunty Down against the new system of education. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a petition from the Miyor and Corporation of Queenborough against the Reform Bill. Mr. BERNAL and others from the Commons, brought up several private Bills. Lord WYNFORD presented a petition from Sir Harcourt Lees, praying ' or the repeal of the Catholic Relit f Bill, and again.- t Reform. The D . ke of LEIN& TER presented a petition from a parish in Ireland, praying for the abolition of tithes. PLURALITIES BILL. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY moved the third reading of the Pluralities Bill. Lord SUFFIELD said he had been so discouraged by the House rej cting the propositions which he had formerly made against this Bill, that he would trouble the House no further, he hoped that some other Noble Lord would move amendments to the Bill. Although he should not take that course himself, he could not let the third reading pass without making some remarks on the subject.—( Hear, hear.) He was amonust the many who exceediugly regretted that the Bil should do so little when so much was to be done The Nobe Earl at the head of his Maj sty's Government had said that in his opinion the Bill WdS calculated to do good ; JiM. aotwithstanding. his deference to the talents and judgment of the Noble Earl in the present case, he could not but adhere to his own opinions, which were that if the Bill did any good it would not be of that description which the Noble Earl promised himfelf. As the No le Earl had treated the Bill of the Right Reverend Piera'e so fairly, he ho. ed that the PreUte would treat the Noble Earl's Reform Bill with equal favour, in which event, ht* ( Lord Suffield) would s » y that the Bill had real y done good beyond his calculation. He had looked into all the provisions of the Bill, and since it had been before the House, he had well informed himself on the subiect. He had ascertained^ he * tate of the Church in different p irts of the kingdom1} although the Right Rev. Prelate had expressed a suspicion that his correspondents were Churchjobbers he could assure him, that not only were they of the highest respectability, but one ol them had likewise been the authority from whom the Right Reverend Prelate had derived much ot his information. He alluded to the Rev. Mr. Hill, of S1 John's, Cambridge, who had proved that out of 11,164 parishes, only 5,000 possessed resident incumbents. The number 4,412 were legally resident; 182 were living in the parishes, but not in parsonage houses ; 176 were living near the parishes, and 140 were exempt on account of cathedral collegiate offices. Of 7,164 of richer benefices, 3,611 had now resident clergymen and in those cases it c>' uld not be pretended that the death of residents was occasioed by the poverty of the livings. Last 8priug he had read an advertisement in a paper, offering for sale a living, the incumbent ot which was 68 years of age, and his income was 650/. The see had made encroachments on the land, and this ad* ertisement added that the Church had gone to sea, and there was no Rectory House." This was the way in which church livings were recommended to purchasers by an exemption from all duties and from any necessity for residing on the spot* ( LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. On the motion of Lord GEORGE SOMERSET the Bridge* water and Tiunton Canal Bid ( with amendments) was read a third time. Mr. HUME moved for and obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend and render more effectual tbe Acts of the 23d of George II., and the 19th of George III., for the more speedy recovery of small debts in the Tower Hamlets. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON obtained leave to bring in a Bill to alter, enlarge, and amend, the Acts for making and maintaining tbe St. Katharine Docks. Mr. LYTTLETON presented three petitions from persons concerned in turnpike roads, praying to be beard by themselves or counsel against the Birmingham and London Rail- mad Bill. On the motion of Mr. E. BALL, tbe Bill for Lighting with Gas, Watching and Improving tbe Borouah ol Wells, in the county of Somerser, was read a third time and passed. On tbe motion of Mr Alderman WOOD, Josiah Smith'. Divorce Bill was read a third rime. Sir H. WILLIAMSON presented a petition from cer. tain parties against the Hartlepool Railway Bill.— Referred to the Committee. On the motion of Mr. S. RICE, who stated that it was desirable that the clauses should be well considered, the Gravesend Pier Bill was postponed until Thursday. STAMP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS. Mr. STKU'fT presented a petition from Macclesfield, most numerously and respectably signed, praying tor repeal of all taxes on knowledge communicated through the medium of tbe Press. Tbey complained most particularly of the taxes on the provincial Press, as it created a monopoly in the hands of a few individuals, who were thi reby enabled to suppress any knowledge they chose to withhold. He trusted his Majesty's Ministers would speedily take the subject into their serious consideration, with a view to reduce or abolish altogether those taxes. As bis Hon. Friend tbe Member for St. Ives intended shortly to bring the subject before the House, he would not trespass further than to move that the petition be printed.— Ordered. Sir C. COOTE presented a petition from the parish of Clognona, in tbe Queen's County, praying for an abolition ef tithes. DUTY ON HEMP. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON rose to present a petition from tbe merchants, ship owners, and others, in the city nf London, upon a subject of considerabl importance, and he therefore regretted that none of his Majesty's Mioisters were present. The petitioners prayed that the duty on hemp might be reduced to that imposed on flax. On hemp the duty was charged at 11. 13s. 4d. per ton, while the duty on flax was but Is. 8d, per ton, consequently hemp paid an ad valorem duty o' irom 20 to Sd ,> er cent.— there being three qualities on which separa'. lilies were charged. The petitioners relied, in suppot if their prayer, upon an understanding with his M . je- ' y's Ministers some time ago, when it was in ended t » take off the bounty on linen. No the linen trade was not only a loser of the bounty, but rhe manufacturers of linen were pre vented from using hemp. The capital of persons engaged in the hemp trade was consequently much . rtected, and tbe loss in business not only tended to lower the r ite of wages, but to throw a great number of persons • iut of employ. Although the income of tbe country, a< compa- ed with the charges upon it, was nearly equal, ye the duty on hemp for tbe past year did not produce more than 40.0001., and during the present year it was expected that the duty would not amount to more than 20,0001.— On the ground of policy, as well as justice, the duty ought to be reduced. Exclusive of the linen trade, the shipping trade was materially injured by the heavy amount of duty. Foreign cordage was imported, aod although it was sup posed to be used for commercial purposes only, there w s nothing to prevent British captains, dirictly after tliey passed Gravesend, from using it ; and indeed he knew that was a constant practice, and the consequence was, that tbe English rope- maker lost a great pirt of his trade, and then rhe duty was found to press most severely on ship, ping employed in the coasting trade, which must be fitted up with English cordage which was 10/. a ton dearer, the greater portion of which price was caused by theheavyduty. He thought it also worth mentioning, that while the quan tity of hemp imported into this country had been decreasing, the quantity imported into America had increased. It was, therefore, evident that tbe country would be deprived of a very considerable portion of their linen trade, if a reduction of the duty on hemp did not take place. Hemp was entirely a for. gn comtrn diry ; hut with respect to fl . x, a considerable quantity was grown in this country, and therefore he conceived a strong case had been made for lowering the duty on hemp below that fflax. It was upon these grounds he had been in. structed to present the present perition to tbe House, and he hoped his Majesty's Government would be aide immediately to repeal the duty. There was no article of foreign raw produce wliich paid so exorbitant a duty on the ad valorem value as that to which he had relerred. Tbe Hon. Member then moved that the petition lie brought up. Mr. HUNT, in supporting the motion, begged to state, that he had a petition from the ropemakers of London to the same effect. Tbe Hon Member thought the British ship- owners bad a peculiar claim for relief on the present occasion. The petitioners in bis petition were five hundred rope- makers in the port of London, who slated that only a fourth of the number were employed; and they stated that the heavy duties on this alone had been the means of keeping the ropemakers in a state of poverty. He thought the case of tbe shipping interest and rope- makers of London was sufficient to call upon Ministers to take off this duty. Tbe Hon. Member supported the prayer of tbe petition, and could assure the Hon. Member for Montrose, when he brought forward his measure on this subject, he should do all in his power to remove ' rom Ihe country this imposition. Mr. ROBINSON, in supporting the prayer of tbe petition, Btated that he was in hopes Ministers would have seen the necessity, ere this, of repeating this duty, without coming to Parliament. Any assistance that could be eonferred on the petitioners would be a benefit to tbe country generally. He hoped that a very short time would elapse before Government saw the necessity of repealing this duty. Mr. H. Ross and Mr. EWART supported the prayer of the petition, which was ordered to be laid on the table and be printed. Captain GORDON presented a petition from the clergy of the diocese of Coik, against tbe new system of educition in Ireland. In doing so the Hon. Member referred to a letter from an individual in a parish which be would not name, in which it was stated that t'- e Catholic Priests hid said from the altar, that the clergymen who supported tbe plan of education which had hitherto existed in Ireland, were fit subjects lor the dagger of the murderer. Mr. WYSE begged leave to state, that from a letter be held in his band, he was fully authorized in contradicting an assertion made the other evening, namely, that the Presbyterian Seceding Synod of Ulst r had petitioned tt. e House against the new system of Irish education. The Synod had not eveo contempia ed petitioning the Huuse upon tlie subject. Several Presbyterians might have petitioned upon the subject, bur rhe Synod of Ulster itselt had not. There was already ve* y strong evidence afforded that the system, now introduced by G vernment would be productive of much benefit, moral as well as intellectual ; he knew for a fact, that scriptural education was not discouraged, and the schools which had been already establishetl the utmost cordiality of feeling among PrnteBtants and Catholics had been tlie result. There were many petitions from different places in England and Ireland being forwarded in favour of the present system. Mr. SHAW said, that the education hitherto provided in Ireland, but from which the Government had now wit< drawn its support, hid not been a fruitful sourceof difference, as had been represented. That system bad not been objected to by tne Roman Catholics generally, but merely by tbe hierarchy; and it was in consequence of their opposition that the Kildare- street Society was attempted to be put down. It had been said ibat the present system was not fully understood— he begged leave, however, to differ in opinion. The old system bad been abandoned, because it was based on the whole word of God, and the new system was put forth because it excluded the whole word of God. No petition but on. had yet been presented from any part of England or Ireland in support of the new system. SUPERIORITIES OF SCOTLAND. Mr. DUNDAS presented a petition from tbe trustees of Heriot's Hospital, representing that the alteration in tbe franchise proposed in tbe Reform Bill for Scotland would greatly interfere with, and deteriorate the value of their property, and praying that they should be heard at the bar of the House by their counsel, and receive that compensation to which tbey were entitled. Tbe Hon. Member stated, that it was the opinion ot every unprejudiced person that tbe Scotch Relorm Bill would not only materially alter the method of making out titles, as regarded individuals, but of tbe whole landed property of Scotland. The LORD ADVOCATE would not enter into any general argument on the subject ot compensation, claimed either by corporations or individuals. On the present occasion the petition wore an air of very considerable hardship, owing to the circumstance of the supposed property, or superiority being vested in a corporation for charitable uses. Another opportunity would occur for entering at length into the snbject. Mr. DIXON complained that be had formerly been misrepresented upon this subject. He stated, tbat while he considered it a case of hardship, yet that should not be thought of, when the extorsive change in the elective franchise of Scotland which would affect it would lie so extensively beneficial. Sir G. CLERK hoped tbat before thes cond reading of the Scotch Reform Bill, this subject would engage the attention of Government. Under an Act ot Parliament persons bad been enabled to dispose of their superiorities, and it would be exceedingly hard that those who had bought these superiorities should have no compensation, especially in cases where the superiority belonged to charitable institutions. SCOTCH REFORM BILL. Mr. S. RICE moved the order of the day for the third reading of tbe Ordnance Department Bill. Sir GEO. CLERK begged to a- k the Noble Lord ( Altborp) when he intended to bring tbe Scotck Reform Bill foiward? It was desirable that ample time should be left for discussion, and he therefore wished to know whether it was the Noble Lord's intention to bring it forward before Easter. Lord ALTHORP was undersioed to Bay that be did not expect to be able to bring it on before Easter; but be would have no objection t . make such an arrangement as would insuie it complete discussion before tbe Scotch Members left town. The Ordnance Department Bill was then a third time and passed. On the motion of Sir J. GRAHAM, the Marine Mutiny Bill was read a third time. The order of the day for the third reading of the Malt Drawback Bill was then read. Mr. H. ROSS said, having taken an opportunity a few lays ago of stating his objections to tbe Bill, he would not in the present occasion detain the House with any further observations, but merely to state that it was a £ 1' OBS breach of foith, and would tend much to i « e the system of sinugj'ing. —( fleie, heir.) He • H simo'y move th it the Bill be read a third time - lay six months. Ao H'tn. Member, whom we unit- rstw! to he Mr. \ CKENZIE contended that the orawb- i fe wbieh wan w ntende I to rip ah dished, had not the effe * t ul inure*., illicit distillation; hut that it w » « - hi- d for the n'p ise of equalising the duties oo - ivnts rfW> i!|.-' l in the • ii? oms of Ireland and Scetl ind He opposed the present lid, and contended that it did not ' oUnw up the initions ofthe Malt Drawb ck Oommi: tee. I' riicv took - It the drawback » n spiriti distilU d from maft' » l n » 1 ey should adopt the same - ourse urirh all spirits stilled from r. w train. From 18- J4, to 1S:? 0. she amount : spirits distilled in the Highlands had increased from 4.10,000 to one million of gallons, vv! i.'* h w is a proof it ' he effect of the drawback. The present Bill ivnnld operate as a tax upon the spirit*, and i/ h,'; L. the h- tillerto make an inferior article. So leng - a th:- duties were equalised he would not off- r any object! in. hut He felt • onfi leot that the present measure would destroy all " quality. The pres. lire became greater in Scotland than in Inland, • nd nn this ground he would object to it. If a little • ime had been taken to have reviewed the whole if the I iws respecting spirits he had nn doubt a better system miththire been thought of. hut he considers) it of ssential importance that there . hoult lie equal s . tioo.—( Heir, bear, hear.; In opposing hi. Majesty's Ministers on this occ - sinn, he did it from a - ense of duty to his country— therefore, he seconded the Hon. Member's motion, that the Bill should he read * time on this day six months. Mr. CUTLAR FERGUSON felt honnd also to op pose the third reading of the Bill. He would not puni. li his country by voting lor the third reading It was i most extraordinary thing, that as by this system the smuggling in Scotland had been put down, hi- Majesty's Ministers should now come forward to punish the Scotch Distillers for the benefit which had been thus produced. The effect of carrying this B. ll would ' e to cause every individual who wis nr. w eiitag- d in leeal distillation to abandon that course, and to become an illicit distiller. The intention of the drawback never was to give a benefit to the m. lt distillers in o^ posmen to the grain distillers, but to pur the malt and tne grain distillers on an eqinl footing. A iarae amount of property had Iwn embarked in distillation hi the ' I's- illerof Scotland, and nmr they wer> to lie deprwed both of the means of wit drawing that pre. « rtv, and of realising it, in the fair way or business ( Hoar.) He ( Mr. F.) wished the time might speedily arrive .- hen manufacturers might know in what they mi* ht by out their aapital with any thing like a certainty n return. He would support the motion in opposition to the third reading if the Bill. Mr. DIXON was sorry that his Majesty's Minister, should persevere in forcing . n this Bill, which w. i » likely to he so very mischievous to Scotland, If it were carried into a law it would arraign almost every Scotch distiller ag. inst Government and again- t the Excise Laws. It would not only occasion them to withdraw their money immediately, ao far as they could withdraw it from a concern in which it had been embarked, with so much advantage to the revenue, but cause them to have the greatest distrust in his Majesty's Ministers.—( Hear, hear ) By passing the measure inlo a liw, the Enchequer would become minus at least to from 500,000/. to 600,0001. per annum; and he also felt it his bounden duty to enter his protest against the third reading of the Bill. If his Majesty's Ministers forced on this measure, he, as a Magistrate, would never take the trouble to see whether the revenues were collected or not. He therefore trusted the Noble Lord w. uld do away with the Bill altogether. Sir G. CLERK would vote in fav. ur of the third reading of the Bill, considering it would be productive of good, without the Bill would lead to an increase of illicit smuggling, he would oppose it; but as he was not of that opinion, he would vot. in favour of the third reading. Captain GORDON would vote against the third reading of the Bill, believing it would render fraud more frequent. Sir GEORGE MURRAY thought this a measure entirely in favour of monopoly, and wholly against the interests of the free trade. Lord ALTHORP concurred entirely with the opinions expressed by the Hon. Baronet, ( Sir G. Clerk) and if he thought this mea8ur< would increase illicit distillation, be would be the last man to permit such a measure to be brought forward. But the alteration on the present instance was so small, that he did not think it at all calculated to product such an effect. The facilities to fraud under the existing system had been proved to a great extent before a Committee, and it was high time that it should be put a stop to. The House then ilivided, when there appeared— For the amendment 41 Against it jj2 Majority in favour of the third reading... 41 TheBillhaving been read a thiid rime several amendments, were sugge- ted by Mr. Dixon, Mr. Gillon, and Sir G. Clerk, the debate upon them was deferred till to- m-. irrow. I N S O L V E N T COURT— MARCH 31. Robert Smith, fruiterer, Piccadilly, was brought up on l is perition, and opposed by Samuel Solomon, wl olesale dealer in frml. Cover t-^ nrtien, on these grountls— th « t the insolvent bad on a forme occasion made a fraudulent composition, he being at the time able to pay a larger dividend; that even this composition was not carried into effect, and that the last was a collusive arrest to enable him to de'eat ir. Evidence was gone into on several minor points, which it is untiec s- ary to detail. Aft> r Messn. WOODROFFE and COOKE had been severally heard on behalt of the opposing creditor and insolvent, Mr. Commissioner BOWEN said, the insolvent had not shown a serious disposition to carry the composition into effect. The judgment of tbe Court was, that insolvent be remanded for sis months, and that Solomon be his assignee. During the progress of thU ease, some confusion was caused by a scuffle just outside the court, and loud cries of " an officer, an officer 1" It seemed that a gentleman had his pocket picked of his wa- cti by one of the " swell mob." The thief was seixed ; but his friends gathered round him, and made a stout resistance for some time. He nri>, however, at length deprived of the watch, and taken into custody; but so tenacious had been his gripe, thai, though six or seven persons had hold » f his arms, legs, and body, and though he was quite pale from the dragging of so many individuals, a gentleman was obliged to twist his hand in his cravat, and half throtilehim, before he could be forced to resign th* watch. P O L I C E I N T E L L I G E N C E. MAN SI ON- BO USE. Hugh Evans, who described himself at a horsedealer, was charged with having stolen a mare be. longing to Joseph Shewell. The prosecutor employed the prisoner, of whom he hud a slight knowledge, to take his mare to Harriet fair, and dispose of her. The pruoiar punctually followed his directions, with tbe omissii n of forgetting to accouut for tbe m mey. Wittiest was unable 10 find ihe prisoner till Friday, when bo accidentally saw him mt'is horse- m . rket, Smithfield. Tbe Magistral* having called on BTBUI for hie defence, " Please you, my Lord," said he, " I rode the gentleman's mare to Barnet, and I chopped her for a pony, and 10 bub to boot. When I wa. coming home, I diskivered the ponjr had got a broken back, wliich had such an effect on my mind that I wat ashamed to look the gentleman in the face, and consequently I kepi away from him." Sir CLAUDIUS was no judge of the effects of such acute sensibilities as the prisoner appeared to possess ; therefore he should order him to be taken to flat ton- garden, and he had no doubt a Jury would be called upon to decide the question. THAMES- POLICE- OFFICE. Eleanor Cornelian, a disreputable female, wat charged with administering notioua drugs in some liquor to James Bradshaw, and a noted thief, named Wilson alias Cooke, was charged with assisting in the nnence, and with having robbed the prosecutor ( who is a sailor, lately arrived in England by tha China fleer), while he was in a state of stupefaction. It appeared that he fell into the company of he prisoners, that thrjr deeeyed bim iii'o a publichouse at Shadwell, where be was plied with opia'et in his liquor. When in a stale of in. ensibiliijr the/ actually stripped him ef his apparel. Tne evidence wat to conclusive that they were full; committed. F R E N C H PAPERS. T ( F om t1' e Mrss'tger des Chambres of Friday.) NOTE AND DECLARATION OF RUSSIA. Count Or 1 off, after having recounted in minute detail * ibe circumstafrces showing that-, thtough the whole count* ; of the B- lj- fen negotiation*, he has not failed to give thej unequivocal proofs to the Kin'g of the Netherlands of respecfcftnd friendship \ vhicYi were conformable to the de 1 d& rationa of the Emperor his master,— a ter having said the Cabinet of the Hague cannot refuse to him tin justice to believe that he has acquitted himself of his task with " zeal and perseverance,— proceed as follows : — % i A voluntary adhesion to arrangements ( which the treaty of the 15th of November sanctions) as to admissible amendments in a transaction that is to be final beween two States, alone can terminate this long and painf « l negotiation. " The Cabinet of the King of the Netherlands bas thought differently. His Excellency will not pronounce ttpon the motives w hich have influenced his Majesty \ n this decisive circumstance, as his Majesty h is formerly explained them. He claims to be sole judge in a determination which so nearly affects the rights of the Crown. " But his Majesty cannot, conceal, We announce it with a prwfour. d feeling of regret* thtt the Cabinet of the Ne'herland \ ias lost, beyond recaVl, a last opportunity of terminating the Belgian affair in a manner conformable to its triKj interests, its Allies ( more especially i'n Russia) m u?' t vainly hereafter seek the means of being useful to it " The E « ? peror has faithfully fulfilled towards ' th'e King of the Netherlands the duties of a sincere fcind ingenuous ifriendahip; hut he cannot forget his duties to the European alliance, and, least of all, hh duties to the people v/ hnm Providence has confided to his care. These are the obligations which it is his Imperial Majesty's duty to consult in the determinations which he shall hereafter make with refpect to the affairs of Belgium . "" In consequence his Majesty has charged the undersigned to make the following declaration : — , e After having used oil means of persuasion and every mode of conciliation to aid his Majesty King William to establish upon amicable terms, and in a manner consistent with the honour of his crown, and the interests of the fiithful portion of his subjects* a separation between two gieat divisions of his kingdom, his Imperial Majesty does not see any opportunity of hereafter rendering to the King of thr Netherlands either support or succour. u Faithful to his promises, his Imperial Majesty will not become a party to the employment of coercive measures for compelling the King of the Netherlands, by force oi a> rr. 8, to subscribe the twenty four articles; but considering thatthe8e articles comprise the only basis upon which a separation between Belgium and Holland can be effected, they being oj en to amendments, admis> able in a final ' treaty between the' two countries, his Imperial Majesty considers it just and reasonable that Belgium should remain in the enjoyment of all the advantages resulting from the articles in question, and more particularly of that • neutrality, in principle, recognized by the King of the Netherlands. 11 As a necessary consequence of this principle, his Imperial Majesty will offer n< i opposition to any repressive ( measures repressives) which the Congress may adopt for the purpose of guaranteeing and defending this neutrality, should it be violated by a renewal of hostilities on the Bide of Holland. " In this case, should it unhappily arise, hisl mperial Majesty reserves to himself the right to con ert with his Allies as to the nuans most proper for promptly re- establishing the neutrality of Belgium, in order th it the general peace of Europe may be protected from even the least danger of violation. u His Excellency thinks that here he ought to pau< e, as he is not aware of any thing further which, at the present, juncture, he can usefully submit to his Maj- sty. Hresigns it to the wisdom of the Cabin it of the Hague to consider the consequences of a state of things which the most sincere and disinterested friendship could have wished to obviate." After having presented to the Kins of the Netherlands the foregoing declaration, Count, Orloff demanded of his Majesty a categorical answer. This answer being in the negative, the Count demanded his passports, and on the next following day set out for London, where doubiless he has arrived. ( From the Messager des Chambres, dated Saturday.) PARIS, MARCH 29.— The epidemic, the appearance of which we announced yesterday, had proceeded in the manner which usually characterises it ; more patients have been received to- day into the hospitals, several died yesterday and to- day. The following is the account of the patients received at the Hotel Dieu up to to- day at noon : — Three on the 27th, ten yesterday, and five this morning. in all eighteen, of whom eight had died. The authorities had taken the wise resolution to publish every thing with the greatest fr » nknr'st<, in order that feir may have no pretext to exaggerate the importinceand the ravages of a disorder which is generally more fl ared than really formidable in our climate. We think that the al. irm which the appearance of the disease causes will subside in a few days, and that we shall see an end of the sudden departure of strangers and persons in good circumstances, who, as experience has demonstrated, have, from their situation, less reason to fear the effects of the epidemic. The example of London, as we said yesterday, ought to make the citiz ns easy, for in that city the ravages of the cholera are so inconsiderable that the inhabitants deny its existence. TOULON, MAUCII 24.— The two batteries of artillery defined tor the expedition to Ancona remain for the present at Toulon. Three companies of the Foreign Legion embarked yesterday in the Vigogne, which sailed immediately for Algiers. The Calypso frigate, which has just returned from, the Moroa, is ordered to sea again. Some persons affirm that they have S" en, in ihe haunts of some well- known legitimists at Toulon, printed copies of a plan of a Constitution, which the Duchess of lle- ry would grant to France, as Regent of the Kingdom, in the ritme of her son Henrv V. ; this Constitution is faid to be more liber d than the Charter of 1830; it would insure the provincial and commercial liberties, of which the men of the juste- in Hi an have only given us the appearance. Notwithstanding their pompous promises, we recommend the patriots to distruut these palpable snares. PARIS. MARCH SO, 6 P. M.— There are now 85 patients in the Hotel Dieu, among whom are only four women. The disorder seems to have manifested itself in different parts of the capital. Everybody fears it, but it is not everywhere that terror fancies it is The physicians show great zeal—" they go to the hospitals to offer their services. The chemists calm their neighbours* fears by simple remedies, which they keep ready made up. ( From the Journal des Debuts.) The remedy agaiRst the cholera morbus is in cleanliness and sobriety, and not in the place we inhabit. It strikes you in the country and spares you in town. The Official Report of the Academy of Medicine of Berlin proves that 20,000 persons died in towns, and 80,000 in villages. For this difference in the mortality we can give two rea- » ons; in the fiut place, life is easier, more comfortable, more substantial in some sort in towns than in the country ; next, in the country medical assistance is obtained later, and with more difficulty than in the towns ; and in this di- ease the b u t remedy is that which comes quickest. It add<—" We shall not speak of contagion, in which there are no longer any lielievers." ( From the Moniteur of Friday, March 80.) . P A R I S , M A R C H 2 9 — T h e Moniteur gives a detail of tlie saniiary measures recommended by the Central Board b. Health against the cholera, and also popular instructions on the principal means to be employed as & preservative against the cholera morbus, and the conduct to be adopted when the disorder manifests itself. » On the 29th, in the evenine, there had been in eli 62 known caves of cholera since the commencement of the isorder. Of the 62 p. rsons attacked, 24 had died. The German Papers bring word of the death of the • tlebrated Goethe, at Weimar, on the 22d, in consequence f a colrl, in the 88d Vrar of his age. The celebrated chemist B Iielius is ilsodead. FRCNCH FUNDS— PARIS, MARCH, 29.— Five per Cents, terminated at96f. 60c. for money, DBf. 40c. for end of month : Three per Cents. 691'. 50c. for money, ml 60c. for end of month. * « * NC » t- yjrps.— PARIS, MARCH SO.— Five per Cents., MSf. 50c fiOc. 65c. 70c. 80c. HOC, '. i7f. 96t: UOc 96f. » 5c. 97f. SWf. 05c. flue. 95c. 97f. ; Four per Cents., 89f.; Three per Cents., B9f. ti5c. 70c. 75c. 80c. 85f. 9.1c. 85c !) 0c. 70f. 69f. 95c. 70f. 70f. 10c 20c. 10c. 25c.: Rente de Naples, 80f. lllc. 20c. 15c. 30c, 40c. 80f. 45c. 60c. 6%. ; Iloyal Spanish Loan, 7-'* 80; Rente Perpetuclle d'Espagne, 55 » ( 56 55% 56 56 « 56ft ; Belgic Certil'., 78 71% 78 78( 4 ; Haytian oan, Q2Gf. Exchange on 1 ondon— One mcnth, paper, 25f. 70c.: oney, 25f. 65c.; Three months, paper, 251'. 50c.; money, 251. 45c.— Cours Authentique. FRENCH, FUNDS.—' PARIS, MARCH 31.— Five per Cents, epened at95f. 30c., closed at 97f. 50c.; Three per Cents opened at 70f. 85c., closed at 71f.; Bank Actions, l, 660f.; Rente de Naples, 81f.; Rente dc l'Etat Romain, 79$ % ; Royal Spanish Loan^ 80^ ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, opened at 55^, closed at ? 7 * > S ' r t i i Provi5" V< 5' J* « jf-' ifimp. IfelRC, 78 « M, f Haytian Loan, 220f. Exchange on London, one month, money. ? 5f. 60c.:, paper, 25f. 60c. j- j^ cemonttis, pafrer, iSf. 45b. J Wliffley, 2| f. 45c. We are happy, tq. ijnd t. Jiat the exchanges boll) on Hamburg and JJpjjs have improved, . the, fqi] tB? i) ito 14 marks 14 ^ to fe sch. banco, and the latter to 25f! 95c. to 26f. per pound sterling— as this will cause a reflux of the precious metals; and, secondly, that it is now generally supposed that the deficiency In the quarterly revenue, to be made up on the 5th of April, will not prove any thing near so large as was at first appre. hended, on account of the partial stagnation of the export trade and the suspension of the Reform Bill, in which it is now confidently expected Earl Grey will out- general his opponents, so trldently disunited. HAMBURGH PAPERS. BERLIN, MARCH 21 Notwithstanding the attackna le by some South German Papers, on the commerci;. • onvention for all Germany proceeding from Prussia, t . negotiations on the subject continue, and a Commercial O ngress is expected shortly to meet at Berlin, whose de • isions will probably have as much influence on the fr e lom of German commerce, as t i e late resolutions of ti f Diet on the limitation of the freedom of the press. It i> remarkable that those who, at tl'. e foundation of the C. n- i ttal German Commercial tJnion at Cassel, were the greates' • jiponents of Prussia, ar e now become its most zedons idvocatcs. The PlenipoteDtiaiifil of Hesse C. ssel, Darm . tailt, Weimar, and WuVfeSlburg are already hrre ; tho.. if the kingdom Of tl- e Duchies of S. xony, of B. varia, and Baden, are expected in a few days. Privy Councillor Gichhoro, on the part of Prussia, presides in the neg. itiatinns. HAMBURGH, MARCH ST.— TheQueen of England, at her Coronation, sent, u u ttf medals to the Civic Council of Meinengta, the cipital of her brother's dominions The Cottuvil ' returned a vote ot thanks ; in reply to which bet Majesty assures them that affection lor her nativ, count! y will never be extinguished in her heart, and thai it will at all times contri1 tlte to her happiness ; " more particularly as the eiti$* ns of Mriningen distinguish themselves so honourably at the present epoch by their excellent conduct, by their attachment to their hereditary princes, by their obedience to tin; authorities set over tliem, and by their submission to the laws of their country.' Bavaria, it is said, refuses to set its troops in motion against the newspaper editors of Eaden. WARSAW, MAR'CH 22 On Sunday next, Prince Paskewitscb, who has been appointed Governor of th Kingdom of Poland, is to announce the netv organization which the country is to receive. The Presidents of the Palatines and of the Courts of Law are to assemble at Warsaw on the occasion.— Hamburgh Papers, March 27. HAMBURG, MARCH 2 7 BOUSEN HALI, E, HALFPAST Two O'CLOCK.— Very little variation in prices since Friday. Discount per cent. End of March. Anglo.. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 64% Anglo- Russian Loan 95 ' 4 Hamburg ditto 8t.- lSi Russian 1 nscription, 5 per cent. 86% Ditto, ditto, 1831 85% Polish Bonds Ill Austrian Bank Shares 1131 Ditto MetaUSques 8fi % New Austrian 4 per Cents 76% — Hamburg Reporter. FXCHANGES ON LONDON. HAMBURG, MARCH 27 13 ; two m o n t h s , 13 11'^. VIENNA, MAKCH 17.— Three'months, 9 54. BREMEN, MARCH 2- 3.— Two months, 618. PRICES OP STOCKS THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 pet Cent. —- India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea stock Old Annuities Now Ditto. per Cent. Ann. 175! Ex Bills,- El, 000. 10 I l i a Ditto .... 5011 10 11 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial , Ditto Advertised . Bank for Account., India for Account . Cons v> r April 11.. Bank Stock shut 3 (. er Cent. Rod shut 3 per Cent, Cons 83^ V> J per Cent shut Dilto Red New3J$ per Cent.... 91 90% 3 per Cent Ann. 1726 .... -— t per Cent. 1826 shut Bank Long Ann to expire Jan 5, m " Oct. to, '. S59 Jan. 5, 1860 16 « Jan. 5, 1880 Aprils, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 « — , 2 dis. . 11 19 in;. ...—.— pm. — pm. ."." Siftvi PRICES OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds 10% Ditto Account... Portuguese Bonds Ditto Account .. Rcgency Scrip.„ Ditto Account % dis. Prussian Bonds ltd l4 Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1822... 100 Russian I'onds, 1822 97 Ditto Account — New Loan 91% Ditto Account ;.... Spanish Bonds, 1821 13% Pitt.. Account Ditto Bonds, — Austrian Bonds Belgian Bonds — Ditto Scrip par Ditto Account par Brazilian Bonds 45^' Ditto Account. 45% Buenos Ayrfcs Bonds 20 Dittu Account — Chilian Bonds 16 Ditto Account — Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1824 ......... — Danish Bonds 67 Ditto Account 67 Greek Bonds 23St Ditto Bonds, 1825 28% 7% 9iFrench Rentes, 5p. c. — f — c. Ditto Account — I Exchange — f. — c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. —| 3 per cent 691' 50c. Ditto Account — 1 F. xchange ... 25f 50c. Ditto, 6 per cent 31 iDutch Scrip Ditto Account 31ft j Ditto Account Wi- sftM Neapolitan ... —! French Scrip — we have deemed the shortest form, they are four times as long as those of America. " Conveytncino," says the Reviewer, " was studiousK livested of those forms which have been the dis irrace of English lawyers ; and before tin Revolution of 1776, a conveyancer found willing to do this for the Colonists ill practice what it has been truly asserted petitioners might do, but which none have beei bold and honest enough to accomplish in Eng land."—" In an English colony new lands are fettered by half a dozen serious provisoes and conditions. In the United States they are fret' from all restraints." A registration of deeds, mortgages and legal obligations, exists throughout the Union, and all artificial rules, useles* offices, and useless functionaries, are banished from the practice of the Courts, The law proceedings are recorded by stipendiary reporters, and the Judges are made to analyze their sentences and judgments, and to record the principles ami reasons of their decisions. Throughout America the professional lawyers ire in tha habit of studying the jurisprudence of other countries, with a view of meliorating the condition of their own. In England we assume as a first principle, that the Common Law is the perfection of wisdom ; and exccpt a few patchwork repairs by hole and corner Acts of Parliament, we deem an altera- > n of the law to be worse than sacrilege. Ecclesiastical Courts, probably the vilest in every respect that were ever constituted, are unknown in America. It is impossible within the space of an article in a newspaper to convey an adequate idea how immeasurably superior to our countrymen are their descendants, in the public spirit and enlarged intelligence with which they reform all practical abuses in the State. Immediately America threw off our yoke, she commenced a purification of all the abuses, jobs and prejudices which had emanated from the Tory country. The President JEFFERSON says, " Before the Revolution ( of 1776) a judgment could not he obtained under eight years, in the Supreme Court, where the suit was in the department of the commonlaw, which department embraces nine- tenths of the subjects of legal contestation. In that of Chancery from twelve to twenty years were requisite. The reformation of this was among the first works of the Legislature after our independence. A judgment can now be obtained) in the Supreme Court in one year at Commonlaw, and in about three years in the Chancery." This was written in 1785,— and such were the benefits of getting rid of English connexions. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT HOUSE OF LORDS.—( THIS DAY.) CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL—( THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. Places and Dates. Dudley, March 31 ..... From theseveralCollieries and other Villages around Newcastle ending Mar. i9 Ely, Cambr. April I Portobello, March 30 Bormington, March 30... Edinburgh, March 30. Water of Leith. March 30 Cannon Mills, March30... stockbridge, March 3 Greenock, March 30 Glasgow, & c. March 30... Mary Hill, March 28. Larbcrt, March 30 Bothkenncr, March 30... Paisley, March 30 Busby, March 30 Calder Iron Works, 30... Maryston, March 26 Falkirk, March 29 Perth, March 30 Total Total from places where : and from which no return have been this day received... LONDON.- APRIL 1, FIVE P. M. The House sate this morning in a Committee of Privileges on the Slane and Berner's Peerages, the former of which v.': s adjourned for further consideration, and the latter under discussion when our reporter left. Districts. Remaining at last Report. | New Cases. ^ 3 0 Recovered. Remaining. Total Ca, es from Commencement. Total Deaths from Commencement. 1 0 0 1 0 4 3 24 7 s 3 23 96 41 S 2 1 0 4 31 21 0 2 1 0 1 4 3 2 1 0 1 2 14 8 7 0 4 2 1 20 10 Rotherhithe 1 1 1 0 1 20 17 Rermondsey 24 12 5 • t 27 185 71 Deptford 5 3 1 " 3 in li Southwark 07 35 17 16 69 734 354 Newington Butts fl ti 5 4 6 110 53 19 1 5 1 14 137 100 Christchrch 18 6 2 4 16 7( t 33 Westminster 1 fl G 1 3 51 30 0 1 1 0 0 2 2 0 1 1 II n 2 2 2 0 0 0 2 28 21 Broinpton ( l 1 0 0 1 1 0 St George's, Hanover- sq. 0 1 1 0 0 13 10 Marylebone fi 12 ti 1 11 87 30 St. Pancras 1 1 1 0 1 14 1- 2 St. Giles's 11 4 2 4 9 69 40 St. Andrew's, Holborn ... 1 0 ; 0 e 4 3 Whitechapel 4 3 1 2 4 68 45 St George's East. fi 1 1 0 6 30 18 Wapping 1 0 1 0 li 7 6 St. Botolph Aldgate 7 0 1 1 5 15 9 St. Luke's 3 0 1 n 0 22 14 Bethnal tirecn 2 7 3 ( i 6 17 10 Spitalfields Wandsworth ( 1 2 1 0 1 6 3 2 0 0 0 2 9 3 225 1 IB 77 46 • 220 1865 70 98S Cases from places before r • port 49 ( Signed) Grand Total WM. MACLEAN 1835 , Secre 1037 tary PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O CLOCK. Paid. Anelo Mex. Mill. Co. ( iss. at 51. pm.'£ 100 Brasillan Imp. Min. Co. ( iss. at. V. pm.} £ 20 Ditto St. John Del Rey 17% Ditto Cocacs. . . 5 British Iron Mining Company £ 50 Columbian Mining Co. ( Iss. at5i. pm.) 47% English Mining Company 12% General Mining Association .£ 12% Real del Monte Mining Co — Alliance Fire I lleurance Comp 10 Protector InsuranceComp £ 20 Canada Company 17 Genetal Steam Navigation Co 13 Provincial Bank ol Ireland.. 25 j Van Pieman's Land Agricultural Co. 12 Expressly for this Editio R< H E p STANDARD NOVELS, No. XIV. Just, published, complete in one volume, neatly bound aud illustrated, and revised and corrected by the Author, price 6s, I O N E E R. By COOPER Forming the Fouiteenth Volume of THE STANDARD NOVELS. Henry Colburn aud Richard Bentley, New Burlingtonstreet. LONDON, M O N D A Y E V E N I N G , A P R I L 2, 1 8 3 8. The French Papers of Friday and Saturday have been received by express. Their contents are entirely pacific. The chslera caused Very general alarm in Paris, from which numbers were flying into the country! but this panic must be of short duration when the people find that they are as safe in ihe capital as in the provincesi ( 4 The official accounts made up to twelve o'clock Friday night, and published in the Mouileur, state that the number of cases of ehtileW amounted to 178, of which 118 Were males and 60 females The deaths were 6 0; namely, i 1 males and 19 females. Of the 118 remaining cases, there are 77 males and 41 females. There has been one case of cholera at St. D. nis; a Soldier died there yesterday, after a lew hours' sufferings. Upon the whole the general mortality has not been increased one. sixth." Private letters, however, assert that the number of cases amounts to 600, Being pressed for room we must refer for further particulars to extracts from the French Papers and to our City article. The news in the German Papers of the 25th, | 42^ to %. merely relates to the motions of the Austrians in Italy and the earthquake, near Cosewtta, in which 700 lives were lost. » VIENNA, MAKCH 22.— Metajlics, Five per Cents, were | 87$ ( ditto Four per Cents. 76f. In the present tiumbet of the Westminster Review, there are several articles pre- eminently Calculated to support the high character of the publication ; but there is one to which we wish particularly to call the attention of the public. It is an article upon the Law Reforms of | America; and at a moment like the present, it is peculiarly useful to our countrymen to compare the reforms they have made in their laws with those which have been effected by their transatlantic descendants. Practising lawyers are less numerous and less influential in America than in- England, and the aristocratic division of the profession into barristers and attorneys does not exist. Any person, not of the profession, may plead or conduct a suit for a friend, and the law in every respect is more cheap, prompt, clear, and certain, than in any country of Europe, not excepting even Denmark. The Americans have 110 feudal tenures, manorial rights, tithes, or law of primogeniture, and their conveyancing is brief and srmple beyond the imagination of an English lawyer. The special pleading and technica-, lities which in England defeat all the objects of law are unknown in the United States. Even in our colonies, where we have reduced our title deeds or conveyances of land to what] T H E F U N D S — ( T H I S DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Posted at the North and South American Coffee- house :— " PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 1.— The following order was issued by the Customs here this day:— Clean bills of health will no longer be granted at Portsmouth, unless the vessel leads there, or laden at an infccted port, not till she- has left that port ten days, and provided all on board are in good health. It will be stated on the bills of health where the ship was laden and when she sailed. Ships arriving here with alt on board in good health* will be cleard on arrival as heretofore. THE FtliSDS. The only fiesh arrival this morning is the Express from Paris, which relates to three important subjects; first, the French prices coming considerably higher, 71; secondly, the spreading of the cholera in the above capital, which seems to have greatly alarmed the Parisians, and HUmbSrS are flying id the country; thirdly, the approaching general pacification of Europe^ In consequence of the improvement of the French Rentes, our Funds have experienced a rise, but not tov. that extent which might have been expected, owing to the speculators be* ing still timid in entering into considerable speculations, before they know with certainty that the Five Powers have ratified the Dutch Treaty. We understand that the Bank clerks have been for several days occupied in counting and weighing the imiribhse quantity of sovereigns remitted to this country, the exchange being so high that bills cannot be obtained on the continent, Upon England, particularly at ttambro and Holiaftd; Consols, which left bfr oh Saturday at 83% % for the Ac- C'OUht, opened at 83% went Up to 83% and at present they are 83%. Although we have no arrival of a Dutch Mail, still we un. derstand that the Dutch Funds have also got tip: this account came by the Flanders Mail. In the Foreign Market Dutch Stock is 42 to HALF- PAST ONE. By our estafette. letters of this irtorhiiig, We have received the price of the French Three pet Cents, after Change* 7If. 2tjc, buyers* The private accounts from the above capital, state tile cholera to be Very bad there— above 600 cases siiice the cdtrimencement of its appearance, A letter from Naples, dated March 15th, says :—" A shock of earthquake was felt here on the 8th iiist about seven o'clock in the evening, but was very slight. The day before yesterday, however, expresses arrived from Cosenza and Catanzaro, with very disastrous accounts. Catanzaro mufst have suffered hiost severely, as it is reported that 700 persons have lost their lives. We have not yeiany intelligence irom Lower Calabria or Sicily." PARIS.— To- dav all persons who profess to be medical men are to assemble in the hospitals to be present at the consultations, amongst which i « the chief doctor of the Polish army* with several others. Several cases have taken puMJe where the persons died in nine hbUrs. BOLOGNA, MARCH 21.— It is stated that the whole of the Second Cot pB of the Austrian armyj under General GeppCrt, is approaching Anttdna. The Austrian fofi& ih Loriibardy is estimated at eighty^ five thousand men. They write from Paris ( 30th March) that the pacification of Europe a year ago was looked upon as a delusion, but to- day it is a certain fact. The great ability of Talleyrand, and the open faith of the French Cabinet^ haVe assured the peace of the world. The improvement in the French Rentes has not had a material effect oh our Funds. Consols, which were in the early part of dfty at weht up to 83% \ for the Account, owing to some good purchasers in the market, since which they have been done at 83& % ; at present they are 83% for next time 83% 84. It is said that despatches were sent off last Thursday by the Conference to the King of Hollaiid, demanding his categorical answer on the 5th of April to sign the treaty, and should he still remain obstinate the Five Powers are immediately to sign the treaty. England and France are to take pos. session of Antwerp. In the Foreign Funds D E A T H O F G O E T H E. Goethe has just expired at Weimar. During the last two years, and particularly since the death of his son, his spirit lost its energy, and he was but the shadow of that which he once had been. To his daughter- in- law was he indebted for that tenderness and assiduity which soothed his declining years. Goethe retained his faculties to the last. Though more than years of age, he still meditated literary projects, and talked of comploting his " Faust," and of executing other elaborate orks, with as much confidence as if he was in the vigour of his youth and genius. Few men, in the walk where Goethe shone so conspicuously) enjoyed more happiness than he did; His superiority no one attempted to dispute : he maintained a tranquil empire over the literature of his country, which was implicitly acquiesced in by every candidate for literary fame. In his intercourse with the world Goethe acted as a man of practical good sense : his en. thusiasm and romanticism he l- eserved entirely for his produce tions. He lived to see his nahie universally worshipped; and Upon Weimar, the place of his residence, he has conferred an undying interest. The death of Goethe cannot be regarded as an event of importance merely to the literary world; it marks distinctly the termination of one era and the commencement df another. Hg gxplf( Js with the literary age of his country, at the instant almost when its political existence begins. Dutch Stock has rather improved to t t i k E t l O'CLOCK. Consols for Account 8 3 J f. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES Consols 83£ Ditto for Account 83 J Br^ iiian Bonds — Buenos Ayres... Chilian Ditto.... — Columbian 1824. — Danish Greek, 1& 23 Mexican, 1825 Peruvian Russian. Spanish 66 97 13f C O L L I E RY D I S T U R B A N C E S NORTH. IN THE M E S S R S . D U C K E T T A N D C O S \ BANKRUPTCY—( THIS DAY.) A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Duckett, Morland, aud Co., was convened at the Thatched- House Tavern, St. James's- street, this day, at twelve o'clock, by Mr. Barber Beaumont. The meeting was very numerously attended, and after some hesitation on the part of different members declining the office, Mr. BARBER BEAUMONT took the Chair. The CHAIRMAN said he was a Creditor tQ the amoUjihdf1 13,870, and could not but feel interested in the amount and disposal of the bankrupts'propesty, which he did not think had been satisfactorily shown and proposed to be done at a former meeting— when not the creditors of the property, but actually persons who are debtors to it, took the lead, not only in the statements, but in the vote of thanks to Messrs. Duckett and Co., for what they were pleased to term an honourable candid and fait statement This lie thought nb't so cdrrect a § candid : for though there Was said " td be a surplus of 90,000/. on the items of the property specified, he thought that the standard of the calculation was incorrect, and that each particular was not only over- valued, but was in existence, subject to considerable exigencies. First, the two Canals, the Stork and Hereford: the Stork Canal was averaged at 5.000/. a- year, and was stated to be wcrth30 years purchase. He had reason to believe that 5,000/. was not the average rental of that canal: and he was unwilling to believe that that or other similar property was worth more than 20 years' purchase— and this would make a considerable diminution in its valuation, not to mention the probabilities concerning the uncertain existence of such property, if a railway or other convenience near to the canal were projected and completed. The same arguments applied also to the new canal near the Regent's canal and the river Lee, where it was said there were 45 acres of freehold property, although it was known that 28 of these were occupied by the cut of the canal, and all were averaged at 1,000/., which was certainly too extravagant a calculation, as he himself had lately purchased six or seven acres, wholly land, near Stepney, for 600/. Besides, there were considerable drawbacks, as expences, on these estatablishments. Other arguments he also adduced ; so, too, concerning the pictures, the wines, & c., which the Chairman said were enormously valued. He urged, in conclusion, the necessity of caution in the creditors concerning the appointment of assignees,& c. and that the property, ( whatever amount might be realized,) might not be swamped in law expenses. Mr, WALFORD ( solicitor for the bankrupts) answered the objections seriatim of Mr. Beaumont, proving that the canal property was bonafide worth thirty years' purchase, and the average annual value stated. He proved his opinion by that of Mr. Giles ( engineer) and others. He also ratified the statement of the chairman concerning the books, wines, china, ancient manuscripts, & c., and said that a fair and separate of each would be given. He then said that the assignees proposed were— Messrs. Henry Ellis, Baldwin, M. P., andPowel, the petitioner's creditor. It was then moved by Mr. BARBER BEAUMONT that a Committee should be appointed to further investigate the affairs of the Bankrupts— Upon which an Amendment was moved by Captain Percy Grace, R. N., and seconded by A. W. Mackinnon, Esq., M. P. That after the luminous and satisfactory statements which had been made to the Creditors, upon the former and present occasion, such a proceeding was not only perfectly unusual, but unnecessary. The Amendment was carried unanimously, and the meeting adjourned till Thursday next, when the Assignees will be chosen S H I P P I N G I N T E L L I G E N C E — ( T H I S D A Y .) FROM LLOYD'S FALMOUTH, MARCH 30, 31.— Wind E., light.— Arrived the Hannah, Underhill, from Lisbon ; the Sandwich packet from Lisbon, sailed the 11th inst. Sailed H. M. Cutter Gossamer, for Lisbon, with mails. FOWEY, MARCH 31 — Arrived off Port the Isabel, Stone, from St. Ubcs. LONDONDERRY, MARCH 30.— Arrived the Monument, Smith, from New York; the President, M'Caskey, from Alicant, CORK, MARCH 30.— Arrived the Malcolm, Brown, from Atherton j the 2orilda, Crofts, and the Native, Dingly, from London. ELSINORE, MARCH 24.— The Ann, Duncan, from Sun. derland to Memel, ran on shore on the Grounds, but was yesterday assisted off, after discharging part of the ballast and paying 100/. it is expected the quarantine for vessels from England will be reduced from ten to five days. LISBON, MARCH 10.— The Gustave, Guerron, from Bout1- deaux to Cayenne, has discharged part of her cargo to repair. The Magnet packet is reported to be off the port. OPOltTO, MARCH 6.-- The Aveline, from Newfoundland, is supposed to be off the port. ( FROM OUR OWN COKUKsrONDENT ) Newcastle- on- Tyne, Saturday, March 81, 1832. There is at present every appearance of a " strike" or cessation of work on the part of the colliers in this part of the country. The bonds which are entered into by the masters and men annually expire on the 5ih of April ( Thursday next) : by this time the pitmen should, according to the usual practice, have renewed their engagements for another year. They have been bound, however; at coii1| iaratively few of the col- 1 eries yet; and emboldened by their having succeeded in obtaining their own terms from the coal owners, when a difference took place last year, they appear by their conduct resolved to throw the district again into, confusion, in the hope of deriving still greater advantages for themselves. A few days ago they required the principal viewer at Hetton colliery to be discharged, otherwise they would not be bound. On Tuesday or Wednesday last six of these men were committed to Durham gaol for ill treating another pitman. This day ( Saturday, March 31), a considerable sensation has been produced here by the report that thirteen more of the Hetton men who were taken into custody last night, for assaulting some two or three pitmen who had left the Union, were forcibly rescued by a large body of the colliers. The magistrates of the county of Durham have just sent to Newcastle for the assistance of the military, and a troop of horse has been despatched to aid the civil power. It is hoped matters may be peaceably settled without further disturbances, but the aspect of affairs is at present rather gloomy. T H E M A R K E T S — ( T H I S D A Y .) CORN EXCHANGE. In the past week the arrivals of most kinds of grain were tolerably good, and the market was very dull for the sale of nearly every article. This morning the fresh supplies are mo. derate. The wholesale trade retains its late dullness, except for very fine parcels, which sell readily at an improvement in prices. Barley remains in the same dull state as lately reported. Beans are heavy in sale and, rather cheaper. Pease meet little inquiry, and remain as last quoted. For Oats the demand is not free; and unless for good parcels, this article may be reported Is. per quarter lower. The supply of flour is good, and the trade heavy at last quotations. PRICES ON BOARD OF SHIP. Wneat, Ked ( old) — s. — s. Beans, Small ( new)...— s. — 8. - White ( old)., — s. — s. i —* Red ;! 831) ... 48s. 51s. ' —— Fine 55s. 58s. - Superfine.. 62s. 64< 3. White ( 1831). 48s. 56s. • Fine 57s. ( 54s. Superfine.. 68s. 72s. Foreign free 5<) s. 7fis. Kye 34s. 38s. Barley i.' 4s. 30s. Fine 32s. 34s. Superfine New 34s. 38s. Malt 54s. 585. Fine New (:. 0s. 6is. Pease, Grev New 32s. .34s. Maple New.... 35s. 37s. White 32s. 34s. - Boilers 34s. 38s. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, ( T H I S D A ^ . )— This morning these sessions commenced, before F. Consf, Esq. and a bench of Magistrates. Nothing of importance took placi up to the time when our reporter left. In a small town in one of our northern coun ties a strolling company lately arrived to " astonish the na. tives," and the gentle Desdemona of tljfc dramatic corps con. sented, during her short sojourn, to domicile at an humble cottage near the scene of mimic action. The barn— we beg pardon, the theatre— being duly prepared, the play- bills thundered forth the tragedy of Othello, out heroine, of course, sustaining her " original" part. The rustic cottagers received a complimentary card of admission, and during the progress the tragedy expressed themselves " wouhdily pleased." , All proceeded well until the scene between t- Moor and our heroine, where he taxes her upon the siibject of the " handkerchief," which, he says— v" £ " An Egyptian did to toy mother give." This was not to be borne, and the bumpkin roared out, " That's a nation lie, Maister Black Chops-- it Wor' nae gypsy that did gie it, but my Meary, whovlent it to the poor thing to come here to hact wi' it; I bought, it mysen' yestere'en: and if she hae lost it, why she mun buy anither— there be plenty more like'un at John Tummas's, in t'High- street."— Olio. A prospectus has been issued for the sale or letting of Covent- gar& en Theatre, and we understand that a new and plausible? scheme is in agitation, viz.— for the same person to hire both Drury- lane and Covent- garden ( at a reduced rent of course), and according to circumstances nightly, to play Cdmedy at the one and tragedy at the other. At present each theatre is obliged to keep a tragedy and a comedy company; but should this scheme be carried into effect, only one complete body of actors will be necessary, while the public will have greater variety, both in the pieces and in the performers. It is also in contemplation, in this case, to reduce the prices of admission— the boxes to 5s., the pit to 2s. 6d., and the gallery to Is. 6d., abashing, if possible, t) i « shilling- gallery. KI N G ' S T H E A T R E — A new Opera, by Donizetti, entitled, Otivo e Pasquaie was brought out on , Sa. turda^ night for the first time at this theatre. The plot is govern& t frbrh the beginning to the < ind by incidents arising from a stern and harsh determination Sri iHe part of Olivo, a rich merchant residing in Lisbon ( Signor Mariana), that his daughter Isabella ( Madame M6ric) shall marry Monsieur le lirosse, a merchant settled in Cadiz ( Signor Curidni^ Whom isabettd haH never Seehj & nd whoiil she does not choose at all to accept as a husband. Otivo teases aiid torthfehts his daughter incessantly for that purpose, and his fits of illhumour and decided anger, which surely afford nothing of a comifc kiiid, iihlgfly fill Up ihe two acta into which the piece is divided. Isabella* s unconquerable aversion to the match, which her father has prepared without consulting her, princi. pally arises from a strong attachment which has long subsisted between her and youiig Catnillo, one Of her father's clerks ( Signor Arhaud), wliibh hiis be'enj id a. certain efcterit, Unintentionally encouraged by Isabella's good- natured aiid fdnd untile* Pasquaie CSignor Vincenzo Galli). Happily for the lovers Monsieur le Brosse is a very reasonable man, who, soon after his arrival haVing disebveredj by Isabella's own confession to himj how matters stand, generously resolves to lend himself to a scheme whereby her wishes may be accomplished. The father is at last made to relent, through a variety of contri vances, which it is needless to explain here, and the lovers are finally made happy. The music of this opera is good, but very little of it original; being chiefly taken from Rossini and previous WOrks Of Donizetti. Madame Meric played and sang with much ability. After the opera, a new grand ballet, en. titled, L'Anneau Magique, was produced, and received with much favour. It is very splendidly got up. DRURIT- LANE TH E A T R E . — T h e night receipts of this establishment, during the present season, have averaged 201/., and the night's expenses, including every thing, are about 240/.; consequently Captain Polhill has sustained a ioss dn each performance of 39/. He stated, a few days since, td the principal performers— Visi., W. Farren, Harley, Cooper, Wood, Phillips, & c.— that he was minus this season near 10,000/., and hoped they wculd ccme td a similar arrangement with that which had taken place at the rival theatre, and ccnsent te sdme reduction in their salaries. Wood and Phillips immediately declared that they would rather cancel their arti. cles; The latter course has been adopted, and Mr. and Mrs. Wood, and H. Phillips are no longer members of the Drury. lane company. They, however, appear in the Oratorios, as usual. The matter as to the other performers is still at issue. It is Understood that " the little people" ( « . e. persons receiving small salaries) are not to have their incomes in the slightest degree reduced. COVENT- GARDEN.— Saturday night, after Miss Fartny Kemble's Francis the First, Itosina was revived at this theatre, probably for the purpose of introducing Mr. Wilson as Belville, and Miss Romer as Rosina. They were both highly and deservedly applauded. Miss Romer was encored in " Whilst with village maids," " The moon retires," and " Sweet transports.'' The other parts were well sustained, and the performance very well received. The very scanty audiences at the two great winter theatres in the beginning of last week, led to the most gloomy reports regarding the intentions of the managers; and the belief that Drury- lane would close suddenly was strengthened by the fact, that nothing was advertised in the bills to be played after yesterday. On Thursday night, however, the attendance on the part of the public was so good ( at least 270/. having been taken at both houses), " that a new prospect seemed to open, and it was resolved to try the experiment for another Week. However great may have been Captain Polhill's loss, it is understood that it has not been so heavy by more than 2,000/. as at Covent- garden. The long- projected arrangements for the new street from Waterloo- bridge to Long- acre are about to be carried into effect. Workmen are now daily employed in clearing the foundation of Mr. Arnold's theatre, which will be completed in the course of the summer. The principal entrance to the boxes will be Under a handsome portico in the new street. That which was formerly the chief part, in the Strand, will afford admission to the pit, and there will be various other pas. sages to the private boxes, stage, & c. j so that all the inconveniences which resulted from the confined position of the former theatre will be completely got rid of. When the building is completed the houses in the Strand will be removed, the te. nants having for some time received notice to quit, and the street, as far up at least as the entrance- of the theatre, will be forthwith opened to the public. Mr. Beazley, the architect, has long been prepared with his plans; the first stone of the new theatre is expected to be laid by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, in about a fortnight. Actors aud actresses at both theatres have begun to talk eagerly about their benefits, even thus early. Mr. Charles Kemble is to play Macbeth, a part which, we believe, for many years he has not sustained in London. Of course his daughter will be the Lady Macbeth, and we earnestly hope it may not be found a character above her powers. All we venture to say is, that she is at least as competent as any actress now on the boards. Lady Dacre's Isaure is to be put into rehearsal for Miss Kemble's benefit as soon as the success or failure of Mr. Sheridan Kndwles's experiment in The Hunchback has been ascertained. It has been said that Braham intends td revive The Cabinet for his night. The school at Oraniembaum is taught upon the Lancasterian system, but, instead df sand, chalk and spdnge are used, it having been found that sand produced a species of ophthalmia. W A R W I C K A S S I Z E S , MARCH 30. CIVIL SIDE. ( Before Mr. Justice & A If LEY and a Special Jury.) SIMCOX v. BIGNOLO, This was an action brought by the executors of the late Mr, Bird, an attorney at Birmingham, against the Norwich Union Life Society, to recover the sum of three hundred thousand pounds upon a policy of insurance effected by Mr. Bird, in March 1827. The claim was resisted by the Office, principally upon the gfoiind that there was a want of sufficient cdmmunicaticn df a particular disease under which Mr. Bird had been labcuring in June, 1825, and December, 1826. The pleadings in the cause were sd framed as td call upon the Office td establish by evidence the concealment of such disease, and in the progress df that investigation an objection was taken by the plaintiffs' Counsel to a point of evidence as to whether Mr. Bird could be ignorant of the existence of the disease at the time he effected the insurance, when the following discussion ensued Mr. Bardtt BAYLEY.— How do you propose to make that evidence, brother Wilde ? Mr. Serjeant WILDE.— My Lord, the ground on which I submit it is evidence is this. In the outset of the case I stated that I should endeavour to point out circumstances to show a consciousness on the part of Mr. Bird of the state of his own health j but that is not essential to this case, it is a point I am not desirous of establishing, because I feel that many observations may be fairly and properly urged to rebut any such impression j but at the same time it seems to me material to show that the state of Mr. Bird was such as cught td have been communicated to the office, because that is part of the general inquiry as to what his actual condi. tion was. I have nd desire to proceed a step beyond that, even if 1 had the means of shewing that Mr, Bird was aware of it, be. cause I am perfectly satisfied what ideas individuals of sanguine expectations may entertain as td matters relating td their wel. fare. I am net desirdus df bringing hdme a charge df direct fraud.. td Mr. Bird, because by the cdnditidn of the pdlicy, the Ndrwich Unicn Office have the pdwer df retaining the premium effected updn every life they run the risk df, where there is an intentidn td Commit a fraud upon them. I am ndt desirdus df establishing fraud ; but I am ready ndw, as the dffice always has been, td return the premium, and treat the case as free from fraud. The office, of course, would ndt feel themselves authdrized td dd that, if they felt that fraud was intended ; they are perfectly willing td put the case dn this fdoting, that there was ndt due care and attentidn td the facts material to enable them to form a judgment of the ordinary risk, and therefore that they are entitled to a verdict, and are willing to take a verdict by consent, the plaintiffs agreeing to enter a stet processus, renouncing all claim in the policy and costs, the premiums being returned. I apprehend my friend, after that, will withdraw his objection. Mr. Serjeant ADAMS— My Lord, Mr. Bird, as a professional man, was well known to all the members of the Midland Circuit; he was a highly respectable man, and perfectly incapable of fraud. Whether he thought the disease would tend to shorten his life or not, is a question for the Jury, but I must confess that I think there was a concealment, though not intended on his part, that ought to have been made kndwn when the insurance was effected. The executors'are highly respectable men, and they as well as the family are desirous of acquitting Mr. Bird of any intentidn df deceiving the dffice ; they feel satisfied with what my Learned Friend has said relative td that, and I think they will best discharge their duty by accepting the handsome proposal which he has made on behalf of the office— returning the premium. Under these circumstances, therefore, I am sure your Lordship will not think I am sacrificing the in. terests of my clients, either in point of character or the money, which is of the least importance. I confess, in my opinion, the best termination of this case will be the office returning the premium. Mr. Serjeant WILDE— My Lord, to show the spirit with which the office has acted, I. come prepared with a resolution of the Directors of the Norwich Union Office, agreeing to leave it to my Learned Friend, myself, and the Office Solicitor, to dispose of the case under your Lordship's sanction. Mr. Baron B AYLEY.— It is behaving exceedingly handsome on the part of the Office. There certainly is no imputation upon the character of Mr. Bird, and, in my judgment, the Executors have exercised a very proper discretion in acceding to the liberal offer which has been made by the office j because although I admit that there was ho fraudulent concealment, yet I have no difficulty in saying that there ought to have been a communication of the disease under which he had been suffering in June 1825' and in December 1826, and even if the plaintiffs had obtained a verdict to- day my firm opinion is that the Court of Exchequer, from which this case comes, would, upon payment of the costs, have set aside the verdict, and have given the effice the eppdrtunity df introducing updn the reccrd a plea of non communication of material matter. I am perfectly satisfied, if there had been a plea of that description, I should have expected any Jury would have come to the conclusion that there had been a want of material communication at the time the po. licy in question was effected j there must, therefore have been a verdict for the office. Gentlemen of the Jury, you will find a verdict for the defendants. The case fdr the plaintiffs was cenducted by Mr; Sergeant Adams, Mr. Balguy, and Mr. Humfrey ; and for the defendants by Mr. Sergeant Wilde ( whd was brdught special frcm Western Circuit), Mr. Clarke, K. C., Mr. Sergeant Gdulburn, and Mr. Hill, ( did) .... — 8. — 3. Tick ( new).... 33s 35s. ( did) .... 40s. 42s. Harrdw ( new) 36s. 58s. ( old).. 40s. 44s. Brank..,. s. — s. Oats, Feed — s. — s. New 17s. 20s. Poland - New.. Potatoe 19s. — s. New ... 23s. 25s. Scotch 26s. 27s. Irish 18s. 22s 24s. Flour Town ( per sack) 55s 60s. • Seconds 50s. 55?. North Country 44s. 48s. Bran Us. J2s. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DURING LAST WEEK. S tt u V Ow W n ? 3 from Whcnce. P< 5 r •!< T F sr pa 3 S< 5 c0 Aldliorougb t> rs. Qn. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Scks. 278 1182 — 93 5 195 Bridlington 150 — — 665 — Boston 410 — 1182 __ _ . f Colchester.. 315 173 1214 _ 150 7 390 3 ) Harwich .... 251 181 1790 — 59 6SO \ ) Leigh 30!) 109 — — 228 72 ^ C Maldon S79 218 100 33 384 256 481 Exeter — _ — 21 _ _ 200 Gainsborough... — — 138 — — Hull 100 340 . — 14 175 2184 — 229 4 66 465 447 400 153 167 13 713 I. ynn __ — _ _ 3 88 Plymouth 183 120 120 190 — _ Poole 70 _ _ 5 0 Portsmouth _ 280 _ _ _ Spalding — — — 310 — — Southampton ... — mm — — — _ 5 0 Southwold , 620 _ Stockton —. 30 290 Wells.. 300 60 — 4 0 Wislwach 159 199 — _ Woodbridge 145 740 — 20 — _ hiO Yarmouth 45 2262 1655 330 7 _ 1717 Aberdeen 2. _ 525 — 3 Anstrwther 427 — 28 Banff 3 63 45 1770 Berwick 14t' 409 _ un. lee 332 __ __ _ 1 verness 2491 102 f^ ith 68 — — Montrose — 2/ 8 — — 136 — — 7528 6220 9039 5967 1450 358 5772 laiau. Belfast — — — — _ 8 0 Cork — — 952 — — 3 7 7 614 5 — 2437 — _ 5 0 Limerick — — — 868 — — _ Sligo — — — 1440 — — — Waterford 5 — — 7r. 9 2 6 55 48 — 930 — — — KOKEIUN. Copenhagen 770 — — — — Uantzic — 1220 — _ — — New York _ 8 1 1 Odessa 2800 • Pillau 330 VVismar 560 700 Total .. 12325 7- 145 9039 114003 1450 6 86 , V745 AGGREGATE QUANTITY OF OTHER KINDS OF PULSE. Kye, 30— Tares, 47( i— Linseed, 0— Kapeseed, 355— Brank, 0— Mustard. 346— Seeds. 283. SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply was rather limited throughout, but though considerable numbers of Sheen and Beasts were kept back, and brought in a few at a time as those sold were turned ou', to make it appear more limited than it was, for the purpose of producing a briskness, the trade with each kind of meat was very dull, at little variation from Friday's quotations. The general quality of the Beasts was unusually prime. PRICES PER STON* OF 8L « S. P. d. tos. d. ferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 S - cond quality ditto 3 0 Prime large Oxen... 3 6 Prime Scots, & c 3 10 inferior Sheep 2 6 Second quality ditto 3 2 •\> arse woolled ditto 3 10 Suithdown Wethers 4 6 3 2 3 8 4 0 TO SINK T H * OFFAI. S. « . rf. to « . d. Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Prime small ditto... 6 2 7 2 Large coarse Calves 3 10 4 0 pfime small ditto... 4 10 5 4 2 10 Large Hogs 3 8 3 10 3 lo, Small Porkers 4 4 4 10 4 8 j Suckling Calves 12s. to32s. eauh. 51 0! Quarter old Pigs 12s. to 18s. each. SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. Beasts. iSheep and Lambs.! Calves I Pigs. 2,516 I 17,320 I 92 I 140 About 40 of the beasts came up the St. Alban's road j about 20 up the dther northern roads; dt> out 70 ( including Irish) from the western and midland districts; about 2250 from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire; about 140fron » Keut and Sussex ; and most of the remainder from the marshes, ate in the neighbourhood of London. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. * s. d. tos. d. Mutton, inferior... 2 4 2 S — — middling.. 3 0 prime 3 6 tfeef, inferior — middling 2 4 prime large... 3 « • prime small... 3 0 Veal 3 0 I amb c, i d. tos. d. | 2 2 2 4 2 10 1 3 2 3 4 4 8 Pork, large 3 8 small 4 0 5s. Od. to 6s. Od. 3 4 4 0 4 6 5 0 NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET— March 31. Our farmers' supply of Wheat continues liberal, and sales were more slow to- day at a decline of Is. per qr. on all but the finest parcels. The Oat trade continues without improvement. Notwithstanding the small arrivals of Barley, we can yet quote no advance in the price of that grain. Fine Malt ready sale. Rye, Beans, and Pease heavy. New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 56s. 66s — s. — s." Norfolk and Suffolk 56*. 66s - s. — Berwick and Scotch 56s. 62s — s. — s. Foreign 49s. 57s — s. — s. llye; Norfolk and Suflolk — s. — s — s. — s. Foreign 32s. 36 » — s. — s. Barley, Maltiijg, Norfolk and Suffolk... 33s. 3 > 8 — s. — s. Grinding and Feeding 26s. 30s.. — s. — « . vlalt, Norfolk and Suffolk 58s. 62s — s. — s. Beans, Small ' JOs. 32s — s. — s. Tick 29s. 31s — s. — s. Pease, White 34s. 36s — s. - Oats, Northlimberland,' l") tV: » ii*.'.'.'.' 238 2 5 2 3 s . ' 25s! Feed 20s 22s 19 » . 22*. Foreign — s. — s — s. — s,^ Flour, Fine ( per sack) .....— s. — s 45s. 48s. LIVERPOOL COTTON- MARKET, MARCH 31. The sales to- day amount to 1,506 bags. The Sea Islands yesterday, by auction, went off with spirit, at an advance of per lb. upon the business previously transacting by private contract. The sales of the week, iflcluding 1,500 bales American taken on speculation, and 600 Carthagena and 200 American for export, amount to 15,100 bags, viz.— 380 Sea Island Georgia, lid. to 18d.; 70 stained ditto, 6 ^ d . to 8fd. ; 7,940 Upland ditto, 6d. to 7 % d.; 530 Mobile, 6d to 7d.; 1,640 N « w Orleans, 6 § d. to 8£ d, - y 340 Pernambuco, 8| d. to 9d.; 1$ 10 Bahia and Macao, 6 % d. to7$ d.; 880 Maranham, 7 % d. to 8 | d .; 20 Demerara, & c. to 8$ d. ; 30 Barbadoes, lOd. to llid. ; GO West India, 7d.; 570 Carthagena, 5% d.; 910 Egyptian, s i j tg 9d. j 120 Surat, 4% d. to 5Jd.; 130 Bengal, 4^ 9d. tcf& d. ^ By public auction this day. 470 Sea Island, ll£ d. to 13| d.! j 40 Stained ditto, 54d, to 9d. per lb. Import 3,275 bags. MAGAZINE DAY. THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. There is much in this number that deserves to be remembered beyond the month. " The Splendid Village," in particular, and the " Character of Canning" are, each, in its own line, admiral specimens of composition. The former is a poem by the author o f " Corn Law Rhymes," and contains not a few passages that may vie with Byron in sarcasm and energy, and with Thompson in the truth of its scenic sketches. Spleen is the author's better genius. Indignaiio Jacit versus. The very . title of his poem is a bitter sneer, the " Splendid Village " being neither more nor less than a description of a once happy, homely English hamlet, which has been stripped of its bHginal inhabitants, with their snugly- sheltered bits of cottages, to make room for great staring, awkward red mansions, in which vegetate and grow fat whole droves o( that upstart class of gentry whose rise is coeval ( or nearly so) with the growth of last year's toad- stool. The poem is in fact a sequel to the " Deserted Village ;" but if it possess less grace, less polish, less tenderness than Goldsmith's delightful work, it is a thousand times sterner, more vigorous, more profound in sentiment, more comprehensive in thought. Women will prefer the former, men the latter. What can be more energetic than the author's ( who describes himself as an emigrant) details of his return to the Splendid Village. The first object he meets is his own brother:— " My brother dwelt within. Tis true, he took My offer'd hand, but froze me with a look So trouble- worn and lost, so hard yet dull, That I shrank from him, though my heart was full: I sought society, but stood alone, 1 came to meet a man, and found a stone! His wife, In tatters, watch'd the tireless grate ; Three boys sate near her, all in fierce debate. And all in rags— but one constructing snares. With which, at night, t « choke Lord Borough's hares. ' My sister Rose had parish pay,' they said, 1 And Ann was sent abroad, and Jane was dead , And these misfortunes laid my sire beside The mother, who in better days had died.' Such welcome found the wanderer of the deep I I had no words— I sobb'd, but could not weep." There are few passages in Byron's satires more powerful, none of sadder, sterner truth than this sketch of an usher at one of our modern quack village seminaries. The two last lines remind us o( the best and most epigrammatic parts of Pope's epistles:— 41 His school is gone, but still wehave a school, Kept by an ignoramus— not a fool; For o'er his mansion, written large, we sec Mister John Suckemwell's academy; A boarding- school! where gentlemen are taught To write fine copies, which the teacher wrote. Behold the usher!— I behold, and start! For in his face I read a broken heart. Servant of servants, brow- beat by a knave! Why, for a coffin, labour like a slave T Better break granite on the King's highway, Than earn, with Porson's powers, a pauper's pay. Why die to live ? 1 know a wiser plan, An easier too— black shoes, and be a man" The subjoined sketches of tbe village lawyer and the curate may vie with any thing in Crabbe, of whom they strongly remind us:— " Broad Beech I thyself a grove I five hundred years Speak in thy voice, of bygone hopes and fears ; And mournfully, how mournfully! the breeze Sighs through thy boughs, and tells of cottages That, happy once, beneath thy shadow gaz'd On poor men's fields, which poor men's cattle graz'd! Now, where three cotters and their children dwelt. The lawyer's pomp alone is seen and felt; And the Park- entrance of his acres three Uncrops the ground which fed a family. What then All see* he is a man of Slate, With his three acres, and his park- like gate! Besides, in time, if times continue dark, His neighbour's woes may buy his gate a park Oh, then, let trade wear chains, that toil may find No harvests on the barren sea and wind ; Nor glean, at home, the fields of every zone, Nor make the valleys of all climes his own ; But with the music of his hopeless sigh Charm the blind worm that feeds on poverty ! Two stone- throws from the Hall of Doctor Drive, And from the village workhouse four or five, Where the Swung Turkey, with his plumage rough, Welcomes all loyal men who drink enough, Th e flying curate lodges— doom'd to say Three well- known sermons every Sabbath- day. His donkey, like a rat without a tail, Cost fifty shillings, and o'er hill and dale Bears its lean master, at u hunter's pace, Duly as comes his weekly steeplechase." What a crowded series of pictures, all fresh and glowing with life, is comprised in the following description! Every word is in its proper place, every character a necessary adjunct to the scene, with the exception perhaps of the " muttering bard," who might be dispensed with, as being too artificial, and marring the propriety and simplicity of the passage. " Path of the quiet fields I that oft of yore Call'd me at morn, on Shenstone's page to pore; Oh, poor man's footpath I where, " at evening's close," He stopp'd, to pluck the woodbine and the rose, Shaking the dew- drops from the wild- briar bowers, That stoop'd beneath their load of summer flowers, Then ey'd the west, still bright with fading flame, As whistling homeward by the wood he came ; Sweet, dewy, sunny, flowery footpath, thou Art gone for ever, like the poor man's cow! No more the wandering townsman's sabbath smile, No more the hedger, waiting on the stile For tardy Jane ; no more the muttering bard, Startling the heifer, near the lone farm- yard; No more the pious youth, with book in hand, Spelling the words he fain would understand, Shall bless thy mazes, when the village bell Hounds o'er the river, soften'd up the dell. But from the parlour of the loyal inn. The Great Unpaid, who cannot err or sin, Shall see, well pleas'd, the pomp of Lawyer Ridge, And poor Squire Grub's starv'd maids, and dandy bridge, Where yougling fishers, in the grassy lane, Purloin'd their tackle from the brood- mare's mane, And truant urchins, by the river's brink, Caught the fledged throstle as it stoop'd to drink. Or with the ramping colt, all joyous, play'd, Or scar'd the owlet in the blue- belled shade." In the whole wide range of modern poetry we snow not where to find a bolder, or more impassioned passage than the following. Its truth and minuteness of observation, its condensed energy of expression, more especially that striking line, " Oh, to- morrow of the Furies! thou art slow," may be equalled, they cannot be surpassed. " When daisies blush, and windflowers wet with dew, When shady lanes with hyacinths are blue; When the elm blossoms o'er the brooding bird, And, wild and wide, the plover's wail is heard, Where melts the mist on mountains far away, Till morn is kindled into brightest day; No more the shouting youngsters shall convene, To play at leap- frog on the village- green, While lasses, ripening into love, admire, And youth's first raptures cheer the gazing tire. The Green is gone! and barren splendours gleam, Where hiss'd the gander at the passing team, And the gay traveller from the city prais'd The poor man's cow, and, weary, stoop'd and gaz'd. Where yon broad mansion's tax- built drawing- room Displays its cornic'd- gold, dwelt Mary Broom, ( Close by the marble hearth her garden smil'd,) The widow'd mother of an only child. 1 taw her to the house of marriage move, And weeping o'er the grave of hope and love, Now, where the woe- worn and the weary rest, The child is sleeping on its mother's breast Not long she moum'd in duty's lonely shade, No praise expecting— and she ask'd no aid ; But toil'd and laded silently, and stood Alike unnoticed by the bad and good, Dropping meek tears into the sea of days; Like a pale flower, that, all unseen displays Its pensive beauty on a river's brink, While overhead the stars rush wild and wink, And shadows cast on earth at night's bright noon. Move with the clouds that chase the full. orb'd moon. Oh, happy! with her own proud emit supplied, In her own bed a Britonness she died ; In her own shroud her modest state she keeps; In her own coffin, gloriously, she sleeps! Not thus the brother of her soul will die; O'er him, poor pauper, none will heave a sigh ; No windflower, emblem of his youth, be laid, To blush for promise in its bloom decay'd; Nor, emblem of hii age; antl hopeless pain. The dismal daisy of sad autumn's wane; But workhouse idiots, and the limping slave, In four rough boards shall bear him to'his grave. Where is the Common, once with blessings rich, The poor man's Common ? Like the poor man's flitch And well- fed ham, which erst his means allow'd, ' Tis gone, to bloat the idle and theptoud! To raise High rents! and lpwer low profits.!— Oh, To- morrow of the Furies ! thou art slow." There is a stern and solemn pathos in the author's final adieu to the Splendid Village, which none but a poet of the highest and most original powers could have developed. There is no make- believe in it, no dallying with sentiment; ihe feeling is strong and direct, and evidently flows warmed and unchecked from the heart. " Again upon the deep I toss and swing! The bounding billow lifts me, like the wing Of the struck eagle— and away I dart, Bearing afar the arrow in my heart. For thou art with me, though I see no more Thee, stream- lov'd England! Thy impatient shore Hath sunk beneath me— miles, a thousand miles ; Yet, in my heart, thy verdant Eden smiles. Land where my Hannah died, and hath no tomb ! Still, in my soul, thy dewy roses bloom. Ev'n in Niagara's roar, remembrance still Shall hear thy throstle, o'er the lucid rill, At lucid eve— thy bee, at stillest noon; And when clouds chase the heart- awaking moon, The mocking- bird, where Erie's waters swell, Shall sing offountain'd vales, and Philomel: To my sick soul bring over worlds of waves, Dew. glistening Albion's woods, and dripping caves, But with her linnet, redbreast, lark, and wren, Her blasted homes and much- enduring men!" Independently of these graphic passages, the Splendid Village teems with minor beauties of thought and expression, such, for instance, as " poor wanderers blue with want"—" the sweet May morning of my Hannah's face,"— which are perfect pictures in themselves, like the single epithets we so often meet with in Shakspeare. In fact, the author every where shows himself a poet of first- rate genius. There is no living writer now before the public endowed with one- hundredth part of his feeling, his creative power, his energy, or his sweeping, headlong sarcasm. At the present crisis, the writings of such a man, steeped as they are in passion and black with gall, are likely to make a deep impression on the middle and lower orders, for they are as intelligible and transparent as Cobbett's prose, the thought being never overlaid by the language. They afford, besides, a pregnant sign of the times, which the Aristocracy will do well not to disregard. Ten such forcible English writers, taking plain sense as their guide, and truth as their motto, are really almost enough ( we speak it advisedly) to shake the Aristocracy to its centre! " Percy Bysshe Shelley at Oxford," is characteristic, but we fear will be deficient in interest to the general reader. " On the Spirit of true Criticism" contains one admirable passage, descriptive of the moral and intellectual qualities requisite to form the perfect critic. " The Character of G. Canning" is a sound, discriminating analysis of character, and the cursory speculations on what might have been this half- ultra, half, liberal, see- sawing Statesman's fate, had he lived to the present day, are full of sagacity. Of the remaining articles, we have merely left ourselves space to say that they are of the usual average in point of excellence. BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE. An admirable number, defective only in the tone and bearing of its politics. Christopher North belabours the poor Liberals as earnestly as ever, though with a sort of reluctant acknowledgement, that the chastisement is as useless as Xerxes' flagellation of the Hellespont. The " Prospects of Britain" is as sour and desponding as an evident dyspessia on the part of the writer can make it. " British Finances" is practical and elaborate, but heavy enough to sink a seventy- four. " The Poet's Dying Hymn" is in Mrs. Hetnans's best and most finished manner. The " Wet Wooing" is a powerfully written story well worked up, and containing a spirit stirring description of a storm at sea. " American Poetry" is a masterly notice of the works of Mr. W. C. Bryant, the popular transatlantic Wordsworth. We suspect it is by Professor Wilson, as also the review of Miss Kemble's tragedy, which has but one fault, that of being too exclusively eulogistic. We extract from this last an eloquent sketch of the Siddons. " We trust that we have too much good sense to attempt painting a picture of Sarah Siddons. In her youth, ' tis naiil, she was beautiful, even lovely, and won men's hearts as Rosalind. But beauty ia a fading flower. It failed from her face, ere one wrinkle had touched that fixed paleness which seldom was tinged with any colour, even in the whirlwind of passion. Light went ani came across those finest features at the coming and going of each feeling or thought; but faint was the change of hue ever visible on that glorious marble. It was the magnificent countenance of an animated statue, in the stillness of its idealized beauty instinct with all the emotions of our mortal life. Idealized beauty ! Did we not say that beauty had faded from her face? Yes— but it was overspread with a kindred expression, for which we withhold the name, only because it seemed more di vine, inspiring awe that overpowered while it mingled with delight,— more than regal,— say rather immortal, Such an image surely bad never b- fere trode, nor ever again will tread, the enc- anted floor. In All stateliest thews of waking woe she dwindled the stateliest into insignificance; her majesty made others mean ; in her sunlike light all stars " paled their ineffectual fires " But none knew the troubled grandeur of guilt, till they saw her in Lady Macbeth, walking in her sleep, and, as she wrung her hands, striving in pain to wash from t!> em the engrained murder. • Not all the perfumes of A labia could sweeten this little hand!' The whisper came at from the hollow grave, and more hideously haunted than ever was the hollow grave, seemed then to be tbe cell of her heart ! Shakspeare's self had learned something then from a sight of Siddons." " The Art of Government Made Easy" is an ironical essay in imitation of Swift. It has all his assumed gravity, but not his dry, pungent sarcasm. Nevertheless it is a clever paper. The " Noctes" are of a higher order in point of mind than usual. They have little humour, but much eloquent and impassioned writing. We have been struck with the following cursory observations on Hope:— " North— In this view of human life, the nature of Hope may be said to be this— that man is dependent for all issues, partly on himself, and partly on uncommaniled events; he has, therefore, in his own true and good ex ertion a ground of trust, and in the uncertainty of all human events a ground of fear; hence his always fluctuating, yet still rising hope— like the flow of the tide, where every wave that advances falls back, and yet the waters ttill swell on the shore. Young Gentleman— Sometimes, « ir, the soul seems to itself like the tea- sand, cold, bleak, and desolate; but in a few hours it overflnwi with joy, just as does that bay when the tide has again reached the shell- wreaths on the silvery shore, and on the merry music of the breaking bil lowi the tunny saila of long absent ships are seen coming homewards from the main. rth— Yes— just so, my young Poet. And as thou art a young Poet, though I have seen none of thy verses what xayest thou of that Hope which i- more airy an- f illusive; that visionary H<, pe which adorns the distance of life, filling the mind with bright imagery of unatteinablegood, promising gratification to desires which cannot ne re ilised ? Youne Gentleman— I fear to speak— I love to listen. North— And I, Hal, am on the verge— 1 know— 1 feel it— ol garrulous old age. Tickler— Which verge ? North— The mind, riiy son, cannot rest, for it was not made to rest, in realities. It lives on the future even more dian on the present It. lives by hope more than enjoyment. How then shall reusoti confine that spirit which is to live in the future, to the utiknown realities even of the future? It cannot— we tun-' l op- beyond the truth." MONTHL YTIIA GAZINE. The improvement in this magazine has not been confined ( as is too tifteh the case) to one, two, or three, numbers; but is progressive— decided. With its change of politics has come also " a change in the spirit of its dream" considerably for the better. The old, musty, commonplaces, about the inimitable, the immaculate, Constitution, the glorious sixteen hundred and eighty- eight, and so forth, have been very wisely thrown abroad, to make room for a fresher and more valuable cargo. " The Church put in the True Light" is a well written piece of irony, and reminds us— a great compliment to the writer— of Swift's ironical " Proposal for abolishing Christianity." We subjoin a passage by way of sample:— " Nothing, in short, can be plainer than that a radical reform of the church is necessary, if it be true, that its design is to benefit the community by the advancement of religion. But let us throw that itl>- a boldly overboard, and state the design of the establishment to be sitnply the temporal comfort and good estate of the clergy, and see how intelligible and harmonious the whole system at once becomes! Before the true theory, a* by the touch of some wizard's wand, every difficulty vanishes ; the crooked be comes straight; deformity is turned into loveliness; what seemed anomalous proves to be in the most exquisite proportion ; ecclesiastical practice with ecclesiastical princip e m ikes sweet music; all is regular, consistent, natural ; the splendour of the church is no more her shame; with one hand upon her coffers replenished with gold, anil pointing with ' he other to her vast domains, she turns to any who assail her, and exclaims— " You vulgar cynic! how can I be wrong ?" How glorious, upon the golden hypott esis, is the Eight Reverend Bench; how comely the Deans, each in himself a • orporation; how seemly the Archdeacons, Prebendaries, and Canons ; and oh ! how goodly a thing it is to traverse, even with the mind's eye, the florid files of the Re. tors, and see in every round and rosy form the profit of that godliness which maketh fat! Where now is the abomination of non- residence and the crying sin of plurality? where the scandal of fox- hunting? what has become of the unseemliness of holding the commission of the peace, or the extortion of taking the poor man's tenth sheaf, or tenth goose? Even the starveling curate, in this view of the establishment, is justly to be numbered amongst its beauties : lie makes the fatness of the Rector more fat by contrast. The money theory makes every thing square." " Don Pedro and his Adherents" contains some severe strictures on the public and private characters of these would- be regenerators of Portugal. The writer is of opinion that there is not a pin to choose between Don Pedro and Don Miguel: both being " black sheep," both equally despots at heart. " A Winter Evening with the Poets" is remarkable for some eloquent criticisms on the character of Milton's genius. The subject is a hacknied one, but it is surprising what freshness of observation the writer brings to bear upon it. Not u few of his remarks are worthy of Dr. Channing. " The Prentice Boy: of Derry" is a lively squib, part of which we gave in the Sun sf Saturday, and is embellished with a quizzical likeness of that paragon of Peers, the Marquis of Londonderry. " Dreary Wit and his Friends" is well described in its title dreary wit. It is long and dreary to a degree. THE UNITED SER VICE JO URNAL. This well- conducted and useful periodical displays great force in the present number. We flatter ourselves that we can discern symptoms of a more liberal spirit in what relates to our public institutions and establishments, and we hail the incipient improvement, for the only fault of the work has hitherto been an inclination to succumb too much to the powers that be The first article is upon manning the navy, and the author, though not in the trammels of the old school, has not got rid of all the barbarous notions of the sect. When he assumes the necessity of impressment and of corporal punishment, we cannot but smile at his confidence, and we must beg him to reflect that the old Tory Administrations did nothing towards civilizing the naval service, until Sir Francis Burdett, and other liberal Members, denounced their conduct to the public indignation. In an article upon our cavalry in the Peninsula many serious errors in Lord Londonderry's history of the war are detected and very properly exposed. The public are not to imagine that this periodica] is useful to only military or naval men It is a work of great historical and political interest, as its articles are written by eye- witnesses of important events, and by men who possess pro fessional tact in treating of our institutions and public transactions. to be seen, t suspected that Burke, with whom he m intimate, knew who he was. He was a great linguist, and was supposed to have given Burke much information. A Neapolitan lady followed him to England ; and he it tup posed to have fallen on the part o' the Neapolitan revolutionary itrmy in 1821, in an engagement with the Autrians. A few months before that, I had encountered him at Rome. He had mad- an acquaintance with the late Sir Mark Sykes, to whom he pointed out many bibliographical curiosities. He was very intimate with old Torloni,, the banker. The dow iger Lady Ellenborough made tome efforts to be acquainted with him, but unsuccessfully." The " Simkin Papers" are cleverer than tisual, and the character of Sir Edward Sugden is drawn by one well acquainted with the mental and personal peculiarities of the original. ME TR OP O LIT AN. The best paper in the present number is " The Waggoner," a tale, if we mistake not which has been contributed by the author of that clever series of tales " The Diary of a late Physician." Its leading incident, a murder and its discovery many long years after its perpetra tion, is forcibly pourtrayed. " Forty Two" is sprightly piece of poetry from the pen of Mr Cornelius Webbe. " Clavering's Autobiography" is full of characteristic anecdotes of some of the most eminent men who figured during the last fifty years. The following is curious. " I remember that a person was there, who seemed to haunt me like a ghost in other parts of Europe; and once met him even at Constantinople. He was a very dark man, who generally wore the most melancholy countedance I ever saw ; but now and then it was lighted up by an extraordinary anil most wioning amile. He had not a large acquaintance, but had gained the notice of a few tespectable people. His quiet attention to ladies made him rather a favourite with them. He bore the name of Fawsley ( but I never considered that to be his real name I had some reason to suppose that his true name was Lewarre or Warre. I am quite convinced that he was an Irishman by birth, though he strenuously denied it. He appeared to me to have some frightful weight upon hit spirits. He could not endure any one's steady look ; and. as he had the reputation of a good shot and expert swords, man, a frown on his part turneil away any one's observ ance. I noticed the penchant taken for him by a lady of high rank, which, if he encouraged, he did it with great caution and reserve : it teemed to me that his affections had been already deeply engaged. He was not in want of money ; an i he was well acquainted with the characters of all the C- iurts of Europe. He wore about his neck the miniature of a beautiful female, which be seldom suffered ERASER'S MAGAZINE. " Biography" is a very heavy, rambling essay on every thing but what its title woul. l import. We have read it with some attention ; but it has left a Very dreamy, indistinct impression on our minds. " American Traditions" is a romance of Indian life, told by Mr. Gait in his most forcible manner. " German Poeiry," is an ana* lyticai dissertation on the merits of Burger, the well- known author of that striking old ballad " Leonora," which Mr. Spencer has so well translated. The German poet is styled, we know not with what truth, the VVordsworth of Germany. Here and there the essay contains some just thinking, in proof of which we extract the following:— " In correspondence wi h the broad distinc'ions thus instituted, we find, in general, that ttue genius anil genuine humour are well enough content with the old in nature and man— old time , old feelings, old thought*, are with them for ever fresh ant living; and, in short, as it is observed by Coleridge, • their moral accompaniment and actuating princinciple consists in the carrying on of the freshness and feelings ol childhood into the powers of man hood.' Genius and humour are for ever children— unao i- ticated children, for whom Nature ever blows her hubbies. Tdent and wit, on the other hand, affect a m re manly gait— they claim to have at l ived at matuiity. and profess a knowledge of the world as it is. Wha'ever qualities arte new and fle. ting in the state and manners of society, they are ambitious of catching, ' living as they rise,' an I give up the eternal life within for the fugitive life without. Thus it is that novelty and originality stand in opposition a id contrast, instead ol being one and the same. Thus Shakspeure is more original than Pope, and will for ever remain to, though the material of his divine works is as old . s the creation of God, and that of Pope's is as new as the state of society in the reign of Queen Anne." " On the recent manifestations of Spiritual Gifts" is the conclusion of Mr, Irving's monstrous defence of these absurdities. It is verbose and trashy to a degree, without even a glimmer of argument, or am thing that the most exuberant charity can torture into sense. The literary portrait is of Mr. Israel D'lsraeli. It is cleverish, and possibly a good likeness. But of this we cannot speak with certainty. « Trollope and Paulding on America," is a severe attack on transatlantic society, in the uncompromising spirit of the earlier Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews. " Epistles to the Literati, No. 3 : John Gait," is smart and peppery, and styles Lords Wharncliffe and Harrowby " the first numbers of a Waverly series." IMPERIAJTAIA GAZINE. Is this month embellished with an admirable engraving ef Curran, from the well- know painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence. The memoirs accompanying it, are sketchy and contain no novelty. The MAGAZINE of NATURAL HISTORY. APRIL, N j . 25. This Journal of natural history, for the present month, contains nine useful and entertaining articles, besides its ordinary quantity of miscellaneous matter. There is an amusing paper upon the omens and superstitions connected with natural history, which » hows that many cases what are deemed superstitious prejudices are really natural deductions from the habits and instincts of animals We must point out to our readers an article upon the comparative anatomy of the whale now exhibiting at Charing- cross, and two other articles upon the capture of insects and on an entomological tour through England, Wales, and Ireland. Comparative anatomists differ strangely in opinions, and we find one writer in this magazine giving to the whale a great organization and power of smelling, wliils another anatomist denies the existence of the organ and faculty. Where anatomy is so large, surely a point of this sort is easily to be ascertained. COMIC MAGAZINE. This is a new idea, and we hope the speculation will not verify the truism, that all speculations begun on April fool's- day only live long enough to cause the speculators to repent that they laughed too soon. Every thing smiles in promise, and we must say this of little magazinej that its numerous wood- cuts are its best recommendations. They are full of humour, in palpable imitation of Hood's etchings in the Comic Annual. The " Lear ( leer) of Private Life' is capital. It is the very perfection of pictorial punning. Of the explanatory verse and prose: we shall content ourselves with saying that both might have been better. But it is something to get twelve humorous wood- cuts for the small price of ohe shilling ! fortnight, but was then splendid. The fkmoi Clinker, sold for six hundred guineas, was am ther extraordinary horse< When in theihumotu nothing could beat him. At other times he would not jump ever anything, but run headlong into every fence he came to." DIAMOND m a g a z i n e. A very cheap, graceful, Lilliputian periodical, such as would have suited the EffJperor ol Blefuscu. It is embellished with a striking likeness of William the Fourth; and contains a judicious notice of Miss Kemble s Francis the First. We quote the following as a specimen of the style and quality of its contents. MISANTHROPY CURED. 11 OI l) MAN— You hate commenced misanthrope a! an early aee,— h i V old are vnt; ? • V You NO MAN— Five and twenty. " Oil) MAN— Do you expect to reach a hundred ? " YOUNG MAS— Not exactly. " OI. D MAN— Do Y. ifl imagine that yon will b- able Reform minkind in seventy- five yeafs ? " YOUNG MAN— The supposition is trio stwtird. " OLD MAN— Nevertheless you must tuink sit,- or you would ntit fail with such bitterness at their present state. Nay, if you diT a tit! cipute a c ange within that period, y-. ur conduct would haidlv be reasonable, since you would have no time left to enjoy the ameliofatkm which you hao effected. " YOUNG MAN— There is something in what you jay. ( wdl re- c « n> idt. r of i t ." THE CRITIC. There is too mu: h of the old school in this periodical. The editor, we fear, cultivates a peruque, and wears square- toeil shoes and buckles. The very table of contents is drawn up in the fashion of old Pitillips's Monthly Magazine. Bating this defect, the number possesses merit, and of no ordinary character. he " Betrothed" is a melancholy tale told with much tenderness and simplicity, and the Translations from Anaereon," are elegantly and faithfully rendered. " sketches," however, and Remarks on the First French Revolution," are, as honest Dogberry phrases it, " most tolerable, and not to be endured." Wh) not Sketches and remarks on the first invasion of Rome by the Go hs ?" the subject would be quite as novel a one. We regret that we have no space for extracts. GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. Those who are attached to the study of horticulture will derive much sound practical infor mation from a treatise in this number on " The circulating system of Plants." The article, though elaborate, is penned in a very agreeable tyle. PRESENT DISTRIBUTION OF THE INDIAN ARMY. ( From the Asiatic Journal for ApriL) COMMANDERS- IN- CHIEF. Bengal— His Exc. General the Right Hon. Earl of Dalhousie, G. C. B., & a. Madras— Hit Exc. Lieut. Gen. Sir R. W. O'Callagban, K. C. B. Bombay— His Exc. Lieut. Gen. Sir Colin Halkett, K. C. B. BENGAL ESTABLISHMENT. THE SPORTING MAGAZINE For the present month is amusingly varied in its contents, and is embellished with two engra< vings and a vignette, executed in a good style We are happy to see several articles of a character to inspire the sportsman with hUiiiah feelings and liberal sentiments. There is article on the Northamptonshire Hounds, which must inspire foreigners with a high notion of English humbug ; broken legs, teeth knocked out, and other such accidents by flaod and field appear rather strange in an account of " a fa vorite sport." " Had 1 not been out this day, could not have conceived it possible that hounds could go such a pace: no horse can lh with them more than twenty minutes.' We find that at Melton horses can show as many fantastic tricks as their masters, and perhaps upon the same plea, their humours. Any horse that can go at all and jump one or two of these fences, is worth 300/. The famous Polecat was bought first for 50/. Some Melton man, during a run, observed a farmer's lad on great ill- conditioned mare jump two of theiir fences, and bought her directly, and sold her next season for 300Z. She tvas: a great loose looking thing, and only fit to come once ji KING'S TROOPS. Regts. Stations 11th Lt. Drags. Merut 16th do Cawpore 3d Foot Fort William 13th do Agra 16th do Chinsurah 26th do Meerut 31st do.. Kurnaul 38th do Ghazeepore 44th do Cawnpore 48th do Berhampore COMPANY'S TROOPS. 1st Lt. Cav Nusseerabad 2d do Kurnaul 3d do Sultanpore 4th do Merut 5th do Muttra 6th do Cawnpore 7th do Mhow 8th do Cawnpore 9th do Neemuch 10th do Kurnaul Europ. Regt... Dinapore 1st Nat. Inf. ... Delhi 2d do Dinapore 3d do Nusseerabad 4th do Saugor 5th do Nusseerabad 6th do Allahabad and Juanpore. 7th do Goruckpore 8th do Delhi 9th do .... Agra 10th do Cawnpore 11th do Chittagong 12th do Lucknow 13th do Baceilly 14th do, . Loodhiana 15th do .... Shahjehanpore 16th do Saugor 17th do Futtyghur 18th do Jubbolpore 19th do Hansi 20th do........ fSeetapore 31st do., i. ii... Cawnpore dd,.., « ... iLucknow 23d do Loodhiana 24th do Benares 25th do Barrackpore 26th do Nusseerabad 27th Nat; lfifi... Gurrawarra and iitls^ ingabad Regts. Stations. 28th do Agra 29th do Meerut 30th do Almorah 31st do Barrackpore 32d do Nusseerabad 33d do Barrackpore 34th do Barrackpore 35th do Jumalpore 36th do Mhow 37th do Kurnaul 38th do Midnapore 39th do ,... Agra 40th do Allyghur 41st do Pertaubgurh 42d do Neemuch 43d do Socro^ a 44th do Bareilla 45th do Neemuch 46th do Muttra 47th do Cuttack 48th do Allahabad 49th do Kurnaul 50th do Barrckpore 51st do Neemuch 52d do Meerut 53d do Dacca 54tli do Benares 55th do Benares 156th do Saugor 57th do Mhow 58th do Sooltanpore ( Oude.) do Allahabad do Cawnpore do Neemuch do .... Delhi do Mullye do Dinapore do Mhow do Arracan do Banda and Etawah 68th do Mynpoorie 69th do Muttra 70th do Bailool 71st do Meerut do. Berhampore do......... Banda do Mlrdapore Artillery Dum Dutn, ( Hd. Qu.) Engineers Fort William, ( Hd. Qr.) 59th 60th 61st 62d 63d 64th 65th 66th 67th 72d 73d 74th MADRAS ESTABLISHMENT. KINO'S TROOPS. Regts. Stations. 13th Lt. Drags. Bangalore 41st Foot Trichinopoly 45th 46th 48th 54th 55th 57th do Moulmein do Secundcrabad do Bellary do.. ..... Cunnamore do..,.. i.. iFWtSt. G « orge do do Bangalore 1st Lt. Car. ... Bellary dii..;.. o;; Jau} nah do Nagpore do Trichinopoly do Secundarabad do Arcot do Bangalore do Arcot Europ. Regt. Nagpore and MtatUllpatam 1st Nat. Inf. ... Palamcottah 2d .. Bellary 3d do 4th .. Vellore 5th do..;..!. i. Palaveram 6th db.. i. ii oPalmacottfth 7th do .. Nagpoor 8th do .. Vizianagrum 9th do .. Bangalore 10th do Mount 11th do .; Secunderabad 12th do 13th 14th do 15th do 16th 17th Nat. Inf. .. Mangalori; 18th do...... • i. Dindigul Regts. Stations. 19th do... Tenasserim 20th do... 31st 22d 23d do... PalaveraM 24th 25th do... Trichinopoly 26th do... Quilon 27tfl do.,. .11,. . Palaveram 28th do... Jacinth 29th do.. 30th do... .. V..' Vellore 31st do... 32d do... Trichonopoly 33d d( S..! !!.;. Bellary 34th 35th do.. 36th do.. Bangalore 37th do.. Nagpoor 38th do.. Berhampore 39th do.. ...... Trichinopoly • fOth do.. ! i!.!! Trichinopoly 41st 42d 43d do.. 44th do.. Cannanore 45th do.. Palaveram - f6th do.! !..!.. PenangfSignapt're, gcc. 47th do.. SalumCottah 48th do.. Vellore 49th do- Masulipatam 50th do.. Seounderab. nl 5lst 52d Mount ( Hd. Qu.) Engineers. BOMBAY ESTABLISHMENT. KING'S TROOPS. Regts. 4th Lt. Drags. Kirkee 10th 2d Foot Poonah 11th 6th do Poonah 12th 20th do Bombay 13th 40th do Belgaum 14th 15th COMPANY'S TROOPS. 16th 1st Lt. Cav Sholapore 17th 2d do Deesa 18th 3d do Rajcote and 19th Hursole 20th Europ. Reg. t... Deesa 21st 1st Nat. Inf. Poonah 22d 2d do Sattara 23d 3d do Belgaum 24th 4th do Bombay 25th 5th do Dharwar 26th 6th do Bombay 7th do Baroda 8th do Ahmednugger 9th Nat. Inf. ... Sholapore Stationi. do Malligaum do Bhewndy do Surat do .... Dapoolee do Kulladghee do Rajcote do Baroda do Poonah do Atteerghur do Malligaum do......... Hursole do Deesa do Ahmedabad do Baroda do Bhooj do Hursole do Kulladghee Artillery Matoon£ a( Hil. Qu) Engineer! Seroor ( Hi « u.) T H E I R M A J E S T I E S . ( From the Windsor Express of Saturday.) The King and Queen, » e are happy to state, remain in th « enjoyment of good health. The state of the Princess Louise continues essentially the same, although there occasionally occur some of those fluctuations which form one of the die. tinguishing characteristics of the flattering, but too fatal, dis. ease under which she is suffering. Last night her Highness had a comparatively good night's rest, but to-< 1ay again any hopes that might have been thus inspired have, we are sorry to say, been by no means sustained ; and it is the opinion of Ihe medlc'al men, that on the whole no alteration fo-' the better has taken place. To- day is the fifteenth anniversary of the Princess's natal day: of course, under the present painful circumstances, all the usual rejoicings and congratulations are iuspendcti, although we understand that the Queen, with a kind solicitude to communicate any little gratification to her afflicted young niece, presented herseli' to her bedside this morning with a present of co, tly books. We understand that her Majesty ttill entertains sanguine hopes of recovc- ry. The Princess's mother, the Duchess of Saxe- Weimar, did not ar. rive on Tuesday last, as was expected; and letter, have since been received to state that her Serene Highr. ess will not be able at present to come to this country. Tills afternoon the King drove out in a pony phaeton, accompanied by Lady Mayo. The following distinguishe- 1 personages ar, ived at the Castle this afternoon to dine, an: t will stay till Monday :— Prince and Princess Lieven, Coun! Orloflf, Earl Grey, Lorn Palmerston, Lord and Lady Brownlow, the Duke of Devonshire, the Marchioness Welleslcy, and Sir W. Fremantle. Lady Augusta Ertkine and children left the Castle this day for heT Ladyship's seat at lsleworth, and Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence arrived on a visit to their Majesties. Sir Philip and Lady Sidney remain at the Castle. No day has yet been fixed for the dinner to the Knights of the Garter ; that to the Knights of the Bath takes place on the 12th instant, the anniversary of Lord Rodney's victory, hit Lordship having been a Knight » f the Order. TBURSBit.— Bis Majesty, accompanied by Lady Sydney, took hit airing in ffte Grea' Park. Her - ajss'y, for the firtt time since her return trttlH London, roue out on horseback, attended by Prince George ot Cambridge, Sir Philip kidney, SSr Andrew Barnard, and the Rev. Mr. Wood FRIDAY.— His Majesty took A arive in a pony phaeton. The works gfting on » t the Castle at pretent - ir « the interior of the Round Towgr « ! d Queen Elizabeth's Gallery. COURT CIRCULAR. The Princess Augusta atlended divine service yesterday morning, at the Chapel Royal, St. James's. Her Royal Highness paid a visit in the afternoon to the Duchess of G oucetter, at Gloucester- houte. Divine service was performed yesterday, before the Ducfresa of Kent, and the Princess Victoria, and their Royal Highnesset' household, by the Dean of Chester. A Cabinet Council was held on & iturday afternoon at the Foreign- office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Grey, Viscounts Melbourne, Palmerston, and Goderich, tbe Right Kon. Charlet Grant, Sir James Graham, Lord Holland, the Duke of Richmond, and Mr. Stanley. The Minitters remained in deliberation two hours and a half. Directly after the Council Earl Grey left town on a visit to their Majesties at the Palace at Windsor. Count Orloff, accompanied by Prince Lievcn, the Russian Ambassador, left the Clarendon, on Saturday, for the Palace at Windsor, on a visit to their Majesties. Mr, Van Buren, the American Minister, took leave of Viscount Palmerston on Saturday, at the Foreign- office. Mr. A. Vail, Chargf d'Affaires of the United States, was presented to Viscount Palmerston, on his appointment. Prince Talleyrand, the French Ambassador, the Baron de Wessenburg, on a special mission from Austria, and the Prussian Minister, transacted business with Viscount Palmerston, on Saturday, at the Foreign- office. The Right Hon. Poulett Thomson, Vice- President of tfie Board of Trade, has been confined to his residence in Somersetplace for several days past by indisposition. Lord Durham catneto town on Saturday morning from hit seat at Sudbrooke, Surrey. Hit Lordship returned to Sudbrooke in the evening. Viscount Palmerston left town yesterday on a visit to their Majesties, Both Houses met on Saturday to enable the Ministers to press forward the Sugar Duties Continuation Bill, as the existing Act expires on Wednesday next, yet on Saturday it still remained in the Commons. It was then carried to the Lords, and their Lordships have directed their standing orders to be suspended, to afford facilities for the passing of the Bill, so that to- day it will have passed through all its stages. That fact will be announced to the Commons to- night, and to- morrow it will receive the Royal assent, by Commistion. Sharp and close work! Some foolish persons, for reasons which are not apparent, have published a rumour that Lord Durham has resigned. We allude to the report for no other purpose than to assure our readers that there is not the slightest foundation for it. The absence of Lord Durham from some of the Cabinet meetings was probably the temptation which invited the falsehood, and the reason of its being entertained by persons who ought to have l^ nown the authors of the fiction too well to place confidence in any thing they said. Lord Durham has been detained at Sudbroke. park by indisposition, and was consequently unable to attend the Cabinet meetings.— Times. Lord Auckland has just prepaied a Bill, and presented it to the House of Lords, " to Consolidate and Amend the Laws against Offences relating to the Coin. • The Marquis of Angle* ea, Li> rd Greuville, the Earl of Mulgrave, and Lord Erskine, will be present in the Houte of Lords, during the discussion on the Reform BilL It is said ihat l. ord Grenvile, in answer to the circular addressed by the Secretary of the Charles- street Gang, has stated hit inability to attend pertonally the debates upon the Reform Bill, but that he has intrusted the opposing clique with his proxy. Poor Lord Stowell, and the Earl of Lauderdale, both invalids, are likewise pressed to be in the House, whilst the Bill it in the Committee. The Earl of Donoughmore, the old and tried friend of Earl Grey, has, we understand, written to his Lordship, offering, at the greatett personal risk and inconvenience, because of his extreme ill. health, to leave his seat at Knocklofty, and come to London, should his vote be deemed essentia 1 to the passing of the Reform Bill in the House of Lords. PRINCE PAUL ESTERHAZY.— Tnis Nobleman it expected to return to this country in about two months. The chief object of his journey was to arrange the financial affairs of a near relation, which had fallen into disorder ; but, on his arrival at Vienna, he was requested by the Emperor to lay before the Cabinet his views of the Belgian question, and of the general politics of Europe ; and it is to his urgent remonstrances that we are chiefly indebted for the ratification of the Belgian treaty by the Emperor of Austria, at the advice of his Cabinet. Some very absurd statements have been made as to the domestic business on which Prince Esterhazy was required to return to his native country, lt has been even said that the family was in a state of ruin. So far from this being the case, the net income of the relation alluded to now far exceeds 100,000/. per annum ; and, through the arrangements proposed by Prince Paul, it will, probably, in the course of two or three years, be near dtuble the amount of that sum. — Court Journal. As a proof that the most unpopular and unpleasant duties may be performed in a manner to afford satisfaction and to elicit respect, a dinner was given on Thursday last at the Crown aud Anchor Tavern, by the parishioners of St. Mary- le- Strand, to Mr. Parish, on his resignation of the collectorship of the parish rates, an office which he had filled more than fifteen years ; and a valuable piece of plate was preaented to him on the occasion, bearing an inscription expres. sive of the high sense tbey entertained of his services and character. Count Orloff is expected to return to town to- day, from a visit to their Majesties at Windsor, whither hit Excellency proceeded on Saturday afternoon, accompanied by Prience Lievcn, having previously paid an official visit to Earl Grey, at the Treasury. The Noble Earl, Vitcount Palmcrston, Prince Talleyrand, and Baron Wessenburg, were amongst K select party invited to meet the Envoy, on Thursday, at Ashburnham, Houte. Count Woroniow also gave an elegant dinner to the Count and a distinguished party, on Friday, at his house in Mansfield. street. The Marquis of Wellesley, Viscount Sydney, Lord Hill, Sir Robert Peel, Sir James Kemp, and M. Falck ( the Netherlands Minitter), were among the persons of distinction who inscribed their names in his Excellency'^ visiting- book, at the Clarendon, on Saturday. There is reasou to believe that the Count's stay in this country will be more prolonged than was at first anticipated, in consequence of the King of the Netherlands persisting in his demand of modifi • cations of the treaty ; and the refusal of Lord Palmcrston and Prince Talleyrand to allow any modifications to be made in the present treaty, will render it necessary for Count Orloff to wait for fresh powers from his Court. The only son of the Duke of Hamilton, who is just of age, will, it it said, be immediately created a Peer. The Noble Duke and thit highly promising youth arrived in town a few days ago from Hamilton Palace. The late Robert Scott, Esq., of Grosvenorplace, Bath, has bequeathed the following legaciet, viz., 1,000/. to the British and Foreign Bible Society ; 3,000/. to the Wetleyan Shetland Mission ; 1,000/. to the General Wesleyan Mis. sions ; 1,000/. to the Itinerant ditto Preachers' A nnuitant Society ; 300/, to the Naval and Military Bible Society ; 200/. to the Strangers' Friend Society in London; 200/. to tbe School* at Great Queen- street Chapel, ditto ; 200/. to the General Sun. day Schools, ditto; 200/. to the Baptist Missionary Society; 200/. to the Strangers' Friend Society in Bath; 100/. to tht Tract Society at New King. street Chapel, ditto; 200/. to th « Strangers' Friend Society in Bristol; 100/. to the Tract SocietJ at King- street Chapel, ditto; 200(. to the London Missionarj Society; 200/. to the Hibernian ditto ; 200/. to the Moravian ditto.— Oxford Journal. Among the merchants connected with the Peninsula, or with the Mediterranean, there is an almott total suspension of businets on account of the precautions adopted against tke cholera. Spain it particularly strict on this head, and has recently extended the prohibition to Liverpool as well as London, through the tutpiclon that goods might be forwarded thither for shipment, for the purpose of evading the operation of the quarantine lawt. Many houset in extensive businesa have not sent out a single thlp t » that part » f the world during | the last six weeks. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Convocation at Oxford lias, as might be expected, agreed by a swinging Majority to petition the Lords against the Reform Bill. Ol course the white wigs of Oxford WOuM not disparage the convocation history of ages past by any less orthodox decision. 11 it were put to the vote bv their reverences, whether the revolution of 1688 should be Unravelled, and James I I . recalled from the sepulchre, for the set- Vice of true Toryism in Church and State', who doubts that the affirmative of both propositions would be carried by a swinging majority ? It is Fail! by a Sunday paper, in its simpleton defence of the Bishops and the Universities, that these grave bodies have refuted the slanderous imputation too often cast upon them, of their subserviency on all occasions to the Minister of the day; for that, with regard to the Reform question, they have " preferred the Constitution to the Minister." Yes, when the question is between a Constitution full of vices, by which they hope long to profit, and a Minister bent upon the purification of those vices, whom they reckon on ousting from the Government by opposing him, it is easy to see which they will " prefer," as well as their motives for the preference. Yet this is ascribed to the superior " education and intelligence" of the reverend convocators ol Oxford. Why, if education be college discipline, and if ail useful intelligence be summed up in ill- learned Greek, stale port wine, and furious hatred of amendment, to be sure the people of England ought at once to accept the votes of a convocation as a basis for all Acts of Parliament in this country. But the obvious truth is, that the habits of our Oxonian residents, connected with, and aggravated by, the prevalent corruptions of the church, have little to do with the acquisition of that species of " intelligence" which fits men to judge upon matters affecting our political constitution. Their large majorities against " Reform" are neither no mote nor less than so many measures of inferiority to the bulk of their countrymen in the most important branches of general knowledge. The larger their majorities in opposition to the general voice and determination of the people of England, the more palpable and more offensive is the brand by which they are separated from the rest of the community, and stigmatized as foes to the com • mon rights of Brisons. If they can see an inch before them, they must be satisfied that Parliamentary Reform is out of their keeping, and invulnerable by their wretched cabals. If facts, notorious to all the rest of the world, speak still a tongue unknown to them, let their advocates boast with somewhat less assurance of the " education and intelligence" of these recluse intriguers. Let them stick to their schoolbooks, and not meddle with subjects beyond their comprehension.— Times. The sufferings of the poor and oppressed factory children are not likely to be soon alleviated. Though Mr. Sadler's Bill to emancipate them from a state of bondage as painful anil degrading as negro slavery was carried through a second reading in the House of Commons, its further progress has ( seen stopped, at least for a long time, if not defeated, by being referred to a Select Committee, instead of a Committee of the whole House. The only ground for sending a Bill before a Select Committee is to collect evidence to enable the House to legislate upon an accurate knowledge of facts. We should have thought that so much of Mr. Sadler's statements as was indisputed would have been sufficient to warr; yit the House of Commons, without further inquiry, in adopting the provisions of his Bill. It is not— it cannot be denied that children of a tender age are worked in our factories 12, 14, and 15, and sometimes 16 and 18 hours a day. Let us take the smallest number of hours— namely, IS, and we may say this alone, as an admitted fact, foims a groundwork for legislation. God and nature never intended that half the period o( existence of a child of tender years should be consumed in constant drudgery ii; unwholesome air. We care not how light the labour may be, in one sen. se of the word— that is, how little muscular power it may require; the constant attendance upon it for such a lengih of lime deprives ch. idliood of the necessary hours of recreation, without which disease and infirmity must take possession of the human frame at the verv time when it ought to be braecd and invigorated by open air and healthful pastime. It also deprives it of the hours necessary for instruction, whether moral or intellectual; and thus, whether the human being be regarded as a mere animal or as a being of higher powers and destinies, it is, by this cruel system, in the first years of lifecut off from the attainment of the physical energies of the one and the moral improvement of the other. Besides the number of hours in the twenty- four to which it is obviously re quisite to restrict the labour of children, it is equally imperative on the Legislature not to al low children of a certain age to be worked the factories at all. In regard to both these points what does Mr. Sadler's Bill propose ? It goes to enact that children under nine years of age shall not be employed in the factories, and that the labour of children above that age shall be limited to ten hours in the day. Now it is not denied that children under nine years are at present employed in the factories, and that children are, in general, woiked considerably more than ten hours a day. To know these two facts was all that Parliament needed to prove the existing necessity for passing Mr. Sadler's Bill. What sort of a House of Commons is it, either for intelligence or humanity, which requires specific evidence to show that it is improper and inhuman lo place children under nine years of age in the harness of fatiguing and unwholesome labour, and that it is equally improper and inhuman to condemn children above that age to a continuance of toil beyond ten hours in tbe day ?— a duration of labour which has been considered too oppressive even in regard to adult felons. The production of evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons is attended with great expense. How can the poverty of the poor workmen contend in such a place against the resources of the rich masters? It is with pleasure we refer to an advertisement in our Paper ol to- day, from a society which has just been formed to meet the difficulties of this case, of which his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex is Patron, and the philanthropic William Allen the Chairman. That society purposes to collect lunds necessary to prosecute this great contest, to advocate the cause of the helpless children, and " remove the reproach of infant slavery from this Christian land."— Morning Herald. It may not be in the nature of some people to learn wisdom even from experience.- We hope, however, there is nothing in the unassuming character and modest deportment of the present Irish Chief Secretary, that could place him within such a description of short- sighted, obtuse morta!^ who cimnot see beyond the pre- i cihot of themselves, nor mark the signs of the time we liVe in. Indeed, we should hope better things of Mr. Stanley, and that he hat by this time learned from the patriot^ resistance of the small but firm M y of Irish Members, in what manned his system of coercion without concilia-' lion will be received in Ireland. He may possibly recollect the unhappy Tate of his Arms Bill, for wln'ch lie has acquired in that country an unenviable notoriety, and with Which his tithe measure seems to b'e so nearly allied— and he should pause in his wild career before he attempts legislating for a country that has been but too long blessed with having a " Secretary with eVeVy season, and a sys tem with eVery Secretary." We Understand, however, that another effort will be made this evening, in the i^ ouse of Commons, to enlighten Mr. Stanley on the tithe question, U'nd that a set of counter- resolutions will be moved on bringing up the report of the Committee, than will place the subject in a right point of view before the public, and caution them against the dangers that will be likely to arise from the folly and fatuity of til ® teoereive measures which Ministers still seemed disposed to adopt against the Unfortunate peasantry and land- owners in Ireland.— Morning Chronicle. The declarations of Lords Harrowby and Wha'rncliffe, that they will not oppose the second reading of the Reform Bill> have hot afforded much satisfaction to the ton ntry. Tile great fear is, lest Lord Grfrey should be out- manoeuvred by this apparent defection of these two Peers ft- Otn the out- and- out Anti- Reformers. The fear is, that his Lordship will be drawn on till he has no longer power to extricate himself from the critical position in which he may find himself. The Leeds Mercury of Saturday last observes:— " From all that we can tearii, Ministers have no security that they will eveb carry the second reading. They reckon, indeed, on a small— a very small majority, includ ing tfi'e votes i, f the Harrowby and Wharncliffe party but in contest of such vast importance, on Wliith we may truly assert that ttie safety of the thipire is slaked, is it the part of a good General to give batile with tbe chances so equally balanced, when he has it in his power at once to command the victory by increasing the strength of his army? Lord Grey is leading en & party, of which not a few are reluctant supporters of this measure, and some are possibly treacherous allies. Why not insure success, when it may be secured, and when failure would be so disastrous? What would be the consequence* of a defeat on the second reading, or of the destruction of the Bill in the Committee? As h- gards the peace of the country, there'would be imminent danger; an explosion of popular violence, however much to be deprecated by every true friend of his country, would be too probable a result of so grievous a disappointment " In a well- written article in the New Monthly Magazine for April, the Ministerial plan of operations is, we think, satisfactorily shown to be full of hazard Lord Grey ( says the writer) positively declares— at least i « i wc tire assured by those who would not deceive us — that he is ready, the moment hie ioresees any obstacle in the Committee thai requires greater strength than the Government possesses at present in the Upper House, to make tbe necessary creation. But who denies— titifet my L" rd Grey even doubt— that these obstacles will be found, arid the creaiion, therefore, hece. ssary ? Why not, ti en, we ask, as plata mefa, wfcy not make it at once ? ' Because,' reply Lird Grey's friends and confidents, ' it is better that no Peers should be made for th< s ItSCond reading, though it may be necessary to make Peers for the Committee. Let the Ahti- keformers pasR tbe principle, and then they ran scarcely blame us if we call in new forces to tarry the details of this measure, the principle of which they themselves have sanctioned. Nor Is It likely that so large a number would then be necessary. Several Peers who will be Reformers if the creation be not made will be Anti- Reiormers if It be. They are delicate logicians' and do nut Care much for a small swamp at one stage of the Bill, if they escape a great swamp at enotltVr.' To me, however, this argument seems but & pi lusible sophistry. How can my Lord Grey foresee with so unerring an accuracy tbe exact portions of tbe Bill which will be objected to in the Committee? May he never be taken unawares I It is easy to say, if necessary, Peers shell he ihade. But the necessity may come betore the tl-- ition ! Tee Bill is read a second time; no Perts are made. Well I Schedule A is to be | ias » d » That clause will be stoutly opposed. No one denies that the Harrowbys who vote for tl e second reading will oppose schedule A. My Lord Drty is now, therefore, called upnn to make Peets 1 he makes ( according to the principle by which he is reported to be actuated) the sum test number possibii — he just pours enough deron. eidry into the old ch innel to fl . at off schedule A. Blit next comes schedule B. It is well knUWn tiiar many, very many Peers who will swfiil- av the camels of schedule A. will strain at the gnats of schedule B. If jour first little batch has been a moderate one, we shall now want a lew more votes for schedule B. So. presto I off with a second batch 1 Then comes tbe 1 Of. Frahthise. May you not want a third batch Sir that? And, lastly, the Metropo litan districts; may not a fourth batch be wanting Tor them ? So that, instead of making ohe batch for one purpose, in a schularlike and cleanly manner, we may he obliged to go oh blundering; and sprawling, and sputtering out little batchkins of a dozen at a time, making use of the same violent struggles for three or four occasions which would have sufficed for one, and swamping, at it is called, the House of Lords, not for one great and majestic end, but for a strictured and tedious series of events. Either Peers are necessary or they are hot. The whole juggling and legislation oT ' Not lor the second reading,' and * Certaihly for the Committee,' may do very well for tbe metaphysical Sit ellites of a college of schoolmen, but it is not the broad aud stern line of argument that becomes a great statesman. New Peers are ileCessary or uot. If they are necessary, as it is universally allowed, it is better to make thetn at once than at any subsequent stage ; and fut these simple reasons, which plain men can understand. By making them now, you remove anxiety* fear, suspic'on among the people. By making tliein now, you put yourself beyond the pewer of surprise. You delay making you dependeht on the caprice— the humour ( or even be it said) the honour of your enemies. Your firmness would make these enemies dependent on you." Our weekly contemporary ( The Examiner) places the arguments against Earl Gfey's policy in a very striking light 1— " Here the danger is laid in Lord Grey's chart, and it is one against which he cannot he secure, except by acretion. If he carries the Bill to a third reading, without a reinforcement to be relied on, he, tor no adequate olject ( for there is no objetct adequate to such a risk) runs a hazard of mischiefs IhCalculaide to the country, and thus proves hhntfelf, in any event, favourable or disastrous, unworthy of the great task he has undertaken. There are acts of rashness, which success itself wili not sanction. If he succeed, having placed himself at the mercy of faction, he wili have done With difficulty and danger which be might have done with security and ease: he will have played such a trick as ./ Eneas would hare done, had he danced the tight rope with Ancbises on tit's shoulders. But if he should fail through the Craft or wilfulness of the Tory Lords, or the versatility of the Trimmers, what then ? The stroke would be final as regards tbe Ministry, and they know it; and the indignation of the nation would run mere against the imbecility that had given the opportunity, than at the treachery with which the advantage of it was taken. If the stork will thrust his neck down the wolf's throat, why the stork is mol- e to be blamed than tbe wolf for what may happen." From every quarter, then, we hear Only the lan guage of despondency. No man doubts the honour of Earl Grey ; but all seem to question his possession of the energy demanded by the present crisis. We confess we have no faith in the skill of the Whigs in manoevring. Their opponents are ten times more dexterous than they are at that work. Earl Grey's strength is in his great cause, with which the nation identified.— Morning Chronicle. The present Ministers of the Crown seem to entertain notions so flexible and accommodating as to the validity of the obligation contracted by public men when they give pledges respecting the policy they mean henceforth to pursue, that we should not be much surprised to see them drop by one or two at a time into the C onservative ranks, and become as decided Anti- Revolutionists as ourselves. An amusing illustration of this peculiarity in the character of our Rulers occurred t) ie other night in the House of Commons, in the debate upon the subject of Irish tithe. Mr. Sheil maliciously quoted the resolution rejected by the House on the 6th of May. 1824, viz.—" Resolved, that ii be referred to a Select, Committee to inquire into tbe Revenues of the Church ol Ireland, and whether they were not more than sufficient for til's. payment of the Clergy." He stated that nine Members of the present Government voted for this resolution, that he did not see how the Lord Chancellor and the Noble Paymaster of the forces could escape from, this resolution, and, that a Jiers'tiasidn ' existed in Ireland, that the M& isVers were pledged to abolish the tithes, and lessen the amount of the clerical property in that country. Certainly Mr. Shiel was right enough in this. The resolution implies the confiscation of Church property, and he putting the clergy Upon the '^ uimluiA meruit, for work and labout d » ne. But how did Mr. Stanley efctridate himself from the difficulty in which he was involved by this mischievous quotation? Listen. Mr. Stanley declared thatiioiieof the Ministers Wo'iild be found to depart from the fair Interpretation of any pledges they had ever given." Indeed. Is there then to be at once confiscation and no confiscation ? Or is this tithe question to dissolve tlie Cabinet? Or are Lord Goderich, Lord Palmerston, the Grants, and the other Canuingites who are deeply pledged to no confiscation, absolute nobodies? Or are pledges given by public men for the future to be considered as words " without meaning: 1 W'e take it fdr granted that the last must haVe been what the Right Honourable Gentleman intended to convey, for any other construction of his language would make it revolting to some of his Colleagues, and this makes it revolting only to men of principle and integrity! It i « , no doubt, a great misfortune to a country when its leading politicians cultivate the habit of pledging themselves to specific measures, for no other purpose than to serve the party purposes of the moment. When the nine Members of the present Government voted in favour of the confiscation of Church property in Ireland, they little imagined probably that the time woUld come when they) being iii power, the recollection ol this pledge would be one of the main causes of a tithe rebelllion, accompanied by the most horrible circumstances of outrage and bloodshed in that country. Neither is it probable that Mr. Henry Brougham; when, to gain the Votes of the Quakers and other dissenters in Yorkshire, he promised the speedy emancipation of the blacks, foresaw very distinctly that in a few months he would be Lord Chancellor of England, and that his pledges, coupled with his elevation, would in Jamaica operate as a firebrand, consign numerous plantations to the flames, produce the destruction of an incalculable amount of property, reduce some hundreds of families Irdtn independent affluence to sudden and fearful ruin, condemn large bodies of the negroes, whom he affected to patronize, to death by famine, by the sword, and by the hands of the exeCUtidnef. But they did give thfcsfe pledges; they, did sow the dragon's teeth ; and they did this while they were striving with all their energy, and not without hope; to bring about the state of thitigs in whifch the armed men Were sure to spring up, in which it was morally certain that the natural harvest of blood and fire must be produced. The present Ministers have cost the country much— incalculably more than their utmost services can ever repay. But why do we speak of repayment or of services ? The highest talent, the purest integrity, the most ardent zeal in the public service; could never repair the mischief which these too eager and too successful hunters after place have occasioned. What compensation then is to be expected from the future services of men who have already shown tllethselves so Utterly destitute of at least one of the most essential qualities of a Statesman, prudence or integrity ? Can it excite surprise that the Ministers; whose accession to pcAer, in consequence of the symathies they had evinced, the doctrines they had encouraged, and the promises they had made, while desperately struggling fbf power, was a signal for insurrection in half the dependencies of the empire, and of democratic turbulence in its very heart, should be compelled to increase that standing arrtiy, against the maintenance of which they had always been the most violent declaimed? It can excite none. It will be a just subject of astonishment indeed, if, even with this increased military force at their command, they should be enabled to restore the empire they have disturbed and endangered to security and peace. We do not dehy, far from it, that the increase is necessary ; but this necessity is the opprobrium of the present administration Would an increased army have been necessary to their predecessors ? No man believes it. Their constant cry when out of office was that the standing army is an unconstitutional descrip tion of forcet Were they factious in opposi tion ? Or are they unconstitutional despots now that they are in power? Let them make their choice.— Morning Post. — 2 lJLlJLB.' LB.': j- l! I « lUim LADYE CHAPEL, SOUTHWARK. WARWICK, MARCH 30. DINNER TO CELEBRATE ITS RESTORA TION. On Saturday the friends to the restoration of the Ladyethapel dined together at the London Tavern About 250 sat down to dinner, amongst Whom we recognized Mr. Charles Barclay, M. P., Mr. Etry, R. A., and Messrs. Wallace, Savage, Nash, Co' « tingham, Allen, Gwilt, Rhodes, and Anson, architects. JOHN IVATT BRISCOE, Esq., M. P. for Surrey, in the chair. After dinner, the usual loyal toasts having been gi veltj The CHAIRMAN gave, " Success to the rfieasUfes then in progress for the restoration of the ' Ladye Chapel.' and the opening of the view of the Church." Mr. SAUNDKRS read a lotrg list of subscriptions, at the hSatl bf which was the Chairman, ten guineas, and Mr. Denison, his colleague, the like sum. About 300 guineas were collected in the course of the evening, and the subscription was announced as amounting to nearly ' i. 000/. The next toast given was, " The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the other Members of both Houses df Parllameht who had supported the restoration of the Ladye Chapel, which the Chairman observed was equivalent to drinking the healths of the Members of both Houses of Parliament, as he could safely say he had not heard anv individual Member of either House express himself unfavourably to that object. CHARLES POTT, Esq. ( treasurer), said, that by he indulgence of the chairinan he would propose a toast, " The health of those Members of the House if Commons who had supported the cause of the Ladye Chapel in the House and in the Committee." The toast was drunk with much applause. Mr. LEADER returned thanks, and concluded by proposing the health of the chairman, which was Irank with the customary honours. The CHAIRMAN briefly returned thanks. After several other toasts, the Chairman and the note distinguished members retired at half- past ele- / en, but a large portion of the company remained ill a late hour. John Hanks, a farmer's labourer, aged 47, was indicted for the wilful murder of Mary £ rreen. The deceased Mary Greeny . who more commonly went by tile name of Polly Button, « as a single woman of loose character, residing at Nuneaton, and had had several illegitimate children, some of whom were grown up, the youngest of them, about two years old, she had sworn to the prisoner; and she \ va', at the time of her deutli, far advanced in hei pregnancy of another child, , of Which he was also the fa'her. On the evetiing of Saturday, the 17th of March, the prisoner came to the house of the deceased, and called her out, saying lie wanted to speak to her. She went out, and they had some conversation together. She then, seeing her nephew go in, went in also, and in a little time the prisoner • hrew something against the window, as a signal for her to go out to him, which she did. and he took her across isdme fields, called Burgage- fields; to hove! which they had been in the habit of frequenting, and sometime afterwards two neighbours heard the voice of a woman in distress pioceeding from that direction, and exclaiming, " Oh, oh loose me, loose me;" The sounds ( 1 ed away, and nothing further transpired until the following mornng. On that night the prisoner, who was a married man, returned home about nine or ten o'clock, and went to bed. The daughtel- of the deceased whd had gone out with her cousin, upon returning home at ten o'clock, found the door locked: and having knocked up her brother, got in through the window. Not finding her mother at home, she sat up for her all night, but could learn no tidings of her until next morning) when she was Carried home a corpse, with lief throat eut in a dreadful manner An investigation immediately took place, and blood was traced from the hovel to Where the deceased was found, a distance of several yard-, with a gate between, on which also there were maiks of blood Prints of a shoe were found in an adjoining field which corresponded with ihe shoe of the prisoner in addition to which) he confessed to tbe Constable thut he had knocked down the deceased in the hut by a blow of his fist on the remple, and when she was down he fell upon her and cut her throat. The Jury having returned a verdict of Guilty, The Learned JUDGFE sentenced the prisoner to be executed on Monday morning, and his body to be dissected. John Coleman, a farmer, about 60 years of age, was indicted for the murder of Edward Goode. The prifcoflet was a tenant of Lord Bute's, of whom he rented from 200 to 300 acres of land at Shotteswell; but having failed to pay up his arrears of rent, his crops were distrained last summer, and person placed in care of th m, to get them in aud ihahage them. Ever sihee Iheti the prisoner has been extremely irtitabie and disturbed iii his mind.— On the 8th of Ocober las', the deceased and another man, and his son; were employed in tha ching a rick of hay, and the prisoner objected to allow them to take water from his pump. Having observed the boy fill a bucket of water he went out and kicked it down; and Subsequently emptied another bucket full oVfer the lad's persdh, who thereupon went to his father and complained of this treatment. The deceased, the boy, and his father, then went all three to the pump, and the deceased took the bucket to fill it wilh water* The prisoner said he should have no water thefe. the deceased, wfio had his pitchfork in his hand, said he should have his bucket and water also. He and the prisoner I hen struggled for the bucket, which the deceased succeeded in wresting froth the hold of the prisoner, who immediately went into his house and discharged a gun, loaded with shot, through the window at the deceased) who was within about three yards of him. t h e shot took effect in the deceased's forehead, entered the brain, carried off some of the skull, and killed him on the spot. The prisoner received a goud character for kindness of disposition down to the time when ihe distress was levied on his farm j which, together with some contradictions on the part of the witnesses for the prosecution, induced the Jury to find a verdict of Manslaughter only, M H Justice P A R K E sentenced the prisoner to be transported for life. Saturday, March 31. John Garmonsway, aged 33, was indie'ed for the murder of Thomas Wortoti. The prisoner and the deceased were both journeymen in the employment of Mr. Knight, clock- maker, at Birmingham. On the 21st of October last, the prisoner having taken it Into his head that the deceased had injured his work and spoiled his clothes, took Up a sharp instrument called a scraper and plunged it into the deceased's breast. The wound penetrated to tbe heart, and the deceased died in a few minutes. It appeared that the prisoner had laboured under a delusion fot twelve orjthirteen years past, that where ever he went, whether in London or Birmingham, there wa- a conspiracy to injure and persecute him by spoiling his W o r k and injuring his clothes, although there existed not the slightest foundation far such an idea. His brothel died insane about ten years ago. The Jury acquitted him, on the ground of insanity i he will therefore be confined at the pleasure of ihe Cr' » wn. Eliza Maria Jones, aged 30, was indicied for the murder of her new- born illegitimate child, at Birmingham, on the 20th of October last. The Jury returned averdiet of Not Guilty. Henry Parker, aged 19, Robert Tutigger, aged 20. John Ealy, aged 22, Henry Ashley, aged 22, Thomas Squelch, aged 26, and Joseph Squelch, aged 22, w ere indicted for shooting at Simeon Clay, with intent to murder him, or do him soms grievous bodily harm. The Jury found Parker and Twigger Guilty, and acquitted the other four prisoners. Ealy, Ashley, and the two Squelches were then arraigned upon an indictment, charging them with being found in the wood at night, armed with guns, for the purpose of destroying game. Ealy and A « hley pleaded Guilty. The Squelches pleaded Not Guilty, and attempted to prove an alibi, in which they failed. They were found Gu lty. Judgment will be pronounced upon them on Mon day mofuing. RATUHONI: V. PIERCE. This action, w hich excited great interest in this part of the country, was brought by the plaintiff, the messman of the 3d Dragoon Guards, against the defendant, an officer of that regiment, to recover compensation for the seducilon of ihe plaintiff's daughter After the cause was called on, the parties came to all arfangeffieftt, and a verdict was taken by consent for 150/. dairtagesi None of the particulars were stated; but we understand that the cause of action arose in Birmingham, when the ri! girtfent was quartered there, about three years ago. ber last I met the pnsonero n the road to Tewkesbury ; it was about twelve or one o'clock in the day, we went as far as Tewkesbury, and stopped at the Farriers' Arms, and had two pints of beer; whilst I was drinking a part of one of them, prisoner lef the house, and said he was going to see a girl; when he returned we left the public- house together; when we came to the Bell and Bowling- green, I asked him the way to Forthampton : he said, " I hall not go there to- day." I asked him the reason ; prisoner said, " I'll tell you what," and laughed ; 1 then a$ ked him what it was he had t » tell me. He said " that he had broken open a letter and had taken a 10/. note out of it." I said " I would not believe it;" he then pulled out of his pocket twelve sovereigns and a- half, and offered me six sovereigns and a half; I said that I would no take them. I then said to him, " instead of going to see a girl, you went to change the note." H' said that he did) and when in the bank the clerk asked him his name, he was in such a " Buster," he gave his own,— he could think of no other; I then advised him to go back to the gentleman • o beg his pardon and return the money; prisoner said that he was just thinking of doing so; I went with him to Cheltenham, and saw him go to Mr. Radnor's; I stood outside the door and saw him go ' » • Mr. Philip Radnor of London— I was in Cheltenham in November last, and lodged at 439, Highstreet ; I recollect the prisoner calling oil me on the 19th; I brought him into my private apartments; he immediately threw himself on his knees, and implored my pardon, for he said that he had robbed me; I asked him to explain: he said that he had opened a letter of mine, and look a 10/. note out of it, and changed it at the Tewkesbury bank : he then gave me ten sovereigns. Several highly respectable gentlemen gave the prisoner a most excellent character. The prisoner was found Guihy, but stronely recommended to mercy. His Lordship said, from the excellent character which he had received, he thought the ends of justice would be satisfied in giving his case a most indulgent consideration. SATURDAY, MARCH 31. BUBB tl. ESSEX. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a poor labouring man, against the defendant, an opulent farmer, to recover compensation for the breaking of the thigh- bone of his ( ihe plaintiff's wife) by the defendant's wife. The plaintiff and his wife are in a very humble station ill life, and reside at Avening, in this county near the residence of the defendant, who is an opu lent farmer there. T he plain> iff and his wife were employed by the defendant in agricultural business, and it appeared that in the forenoon of the 17th of August last, being a wet day, ihe plaintiff's wi'e ( Mrs, Bubb) did not go to work for the defendant, but employed heiself in gleaning in one of his fields. About mid- day, the weather having cleared up, Mrs. Bubb returned to labour, having left her gleanings near the gate. The defendant's wife ( Mrs, Essex) came down a lane, and there saw the gleanings, which she seized. The plaintiff's wife, having heard of her doing so, directly followed her down the lane, and demanded the gleanings. M. s. Essex refused to part with them, and Mrs. Bubb forcibly took two or three ears from Mrs. E- sex. It would not be denied that the plaintiff's wife had committed an assault upon the defendant's, in forcibly taking the ears of com; yet Mrs. Essex could only be justified in defending herself; but, not content wilh doing so, being a very powerful woman, she knocked Mrs. Bubb do. vn, and so tremendous was the blow, and so severe the fall, that it broke Mrs. Bubb's thigh- bone. The unfortunate woman endured the most excruciating agony. A thunderstorm came on, and she lay under a hedge for a considerable time, exposed to the effects of it. She was at length carried home, and kept her bed four months, and ultimately was obliged to use crutches, one leg being shorter than the other, and beyond all doubt she would be a cripple for life. Before the present action was brought, Mr. Houseman, the plaintiff's attorney, wrote a letter to the defendant, Mr. Essex, seeking compensation for his client, but It remained unnoticed. The plaintiff was undoubtedly entitled to a verdict, and the only question was that of damages. After hearing other evidence, the Jury returned a verdict of 601, damages. n ler Hood, of the Mars, when that officer lost hia life la e. tion with La Hoche. By the demise of Captain Henry John Hatton, R. N , who died on the 11th inst. a Gentleman Usbership of his Majesty's Privy Chamber has become vacant. The sin iti- in, we believe, is in the gift of the I) uke df Devon- . hire, the Lord Chamberlain. The Duke of York packet, Lieutenant R. SneH, sailed from Falmouth, on the 26th ult. for Jamaica and Mexico, vitb a mail of the 21st. His Majesty's packet brig, Goldfinch, 6, Lieutenant J. Walkie, sailed from Falmouth on the 26th ult. for the Leeward Islands, with a mail of the 21st. His Maj sty's brig Onyx; 10. Lieutenant A. B. Howe, t- nder to the Royal George yacht, which sailed from thU part on the 20th ult. arrived on thp 23rd at Plymouth, nd sailed again on the same day for Cork i! 1',. His Majesty's ship Stag, 46, Captain Sir tl. T. Trouhridge, Bart, has been ordered from Plymouth to the: Az nvs, to afford protection to British merchants during the present unsettled state of affairs in that quarter. His Majesty's ship Briton, 46, Captain J. D. Markland, C. B., is now on. thfe lite service at Madeira. The Hope, transport, Lieut. Ryder, Agent, which Sliled from this port for Plymouth) oii the 15th ult. wilh government stores for that Dock- yard, arrived at Plymouth on the 22d ult. Ships in Plymouth Hamoaze— San Josef, Romney, Echo steam - vessel, Dili ence, Industry, and Hope transports In the Sound— Ciledonia. Aithe Island— Leveret. His Majesty's tevenUe cruiser, Hornet, Lieut. Aldred, experienced a mttst Viol.- nt gale In Str George's Channel, on the 6th inst. and after lying twelve hoard under doubleree'ed trysail with her hatches battened down, was obliged to bear away and run for. the Lough of Belfast, a distancn of upwards of eighty miles, where she arrived en the following day. After a succession of heavy gales, she arrived at George the Fourth's Harbour, Kingston, near Dublin, on tbe 10th ult. in company with the Diligence, revenue cruiser, Sir John Reitl, Bart. Commander. The England, convict ship, arrived at Sheerness on the 23rd ult. to embark convicts at that port for New South Wales. She received forty convicts on board from the Retribution, in that harbour. The brigantine Viper, 6, Lieut. James, arrived at Sheerness « n the 24 h ult , from a cruise, and sailed again on Wednesday list. The Salamander, steamer, of large dimensions, trill be 1 lunched from Sheerness Dock- yard during the present month, ar. d the Vestal, 28, to be built on Capt. Symonds's plan, will be immediately laid down on her slip. The Fiiry, 10, was hauled out of the basin at Sheerness on Wednesday last, alongside the Shannon hulk, prepantoty to her proceeding on surveying service, in the North Sea. A splendid breakfist was given at Chatham, on tbe 21th ult., on board tbe Royal Sovereign yacht, by her Commander, Captain Charles Bullen, C. B., who has been recently appointed Superintendent ol Chatham yard, to the chief officers of the public departments and principal inhabitants. Ships at Sheerness— In dock, Hercules and Alert. Io has n, Ocean, and Lion, sheer- hulk. Building, Salamander steamer, and Ca liope packet. In harbour, Fairy. The Naval Captains at present employed » s Inspecting Commanders in the Corst Guard of Ireland, are about to be superseded by Cotnmandeis. It is ascertained, beyond all doubt, that there fre at present n » less than eighteen hundred Mates and Midshipmen unemployed! Sir Robert Seppings visited Chatham Dock- yard last week on a prof ssional survey. A series ol packets has been engaged by the Portuguese Regency to run regularly every ten day. between Terceira and Falmouth. Four vessels of light construction and good sailers have been taken up for that purpose. The first was to sail on the arrival ot last Thursday's mall at Falmouth. We are hippy, in testimony of the presence of mind and gallint conduct of Mr. Benjamin T. Fox, a midshipman on board his Majesty's brig Brisk, to record that the grateful thanks of a general c. iurt of the Royal Humane Society, held on the t l t h of January last, were unanimously voted and transmitted to that gentleman, for hia - ourage and humanity in jumping into the Rapids of the river Chagres tn the relief of his late commander, Henry Foster, E- q., of his Majesty's sloop Chanticleer, who hat unfortunately fallen ovei board, and for bis gallant and meritorious efforts to save his life. This flittering resolution was communicated to Mr. Fox, signed by the Duke of Northumlrerl. nd, as president of the society, and by Colonel Clithero, chairman ol the meeting. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS n u a i N Q LAST WEEK. Wheat. Baric). Ter Quarter. Carlisle YORK ASSIZES, MARCH 29. Joseph Brooke was indicted for uttering two forged UL notes, of the Dewsbury Bank, of Hague, Cook, and Co., knowing the same to be forged, with intent to defraud Brian Abbey. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The same prisoner was then tried upon another indictment, charging him with a similar offence, and found Guilty. John Sutcliffe was then put to the bar, and tried upon a similar charge of uttering a forged 51. note to Mr. Dyson. It appeared that the prisoner had expressed a desire to turn king's evidence, and had said he could get a hundred such notes within five nvles. Verdict— Guilty. FeiDir, MARCH SO. James Bradshaw and John Bradshaw were charged with having, on the morning of the 3d of March last, unlawfully and maliciously cut, bruken, or damaged, with intent to render useless, ceriain machines called grinding machines, the property of John and Henry Sanderson, of Sheffield. The jury, after hearing evidence, found the prisoners Not Guilty. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Morpeth Penrith „ ™ . Sheffield Winchester — Per Bushel. Carmarthen. Coventry Newcastle ( Sta8.) Northallerton —. Swansea Warwick Per Boll. Barnardcastle Durham — Richmond Stockton i s. to 8. 60 57 : 54 65 62 s. to s. 30 60 s. d. 6 3 7 0 9 0 7 0 H 1 7 6 9 0 15 0 14 0 115 0 114 6 64 — 68 30 s. d. s. d. 7 0 3 6 9 0 9 2 9 3 9 3 8 0 10 0 17 6 16 3 18 0. 18 Oj 35 36 33 43 36 s. d. 3 9 5 4 6 4 4 6 6 0 4 0 5 0 10 0 10 0 9 6 10 0 s. to s. 23 22 i. d. 1 6 3 6 3 6 3 3 3 9 2 0 2 2 5 S 4 K 5 0 5 0 24 25 23 22 24 s. d. 2 0 4 0 3 9 4 0 4 0 2 4 2 6 6 0 7 0 6 8 7 0 42 s. d. 0 0 5 6 4 9 5 6 7 0 fl 0 7 3 0 0 9 0 9 0 0 0 40 38 39 46 S.< L 0 0 6 0 5 0 8 0 8 0 0 0 7 6 11 O 10 0 10 0 0 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.— March 30 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk...— s. 53s. to 58>. tine Sis. Lin. and Cam — s. 53s. to 58s fine 61s. Yorkshire — s. 55s. to 58s. fine 61s. White — s. 56s. to 62s. fine 6os. Foreign, Red — s. 47s. to 52s. fine 58 « . White — s. — 3. to — 3. fine 63s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 30s. to 33a. tine 38ss — Lincolnshire 33s. to 3Ss. fine 42si, — Yorkshire Wold 34s. to 38s. fine 41 » . — Foreign — s, to — s. fine — s. Beans, Small 37s to 39s. fine 41s. — Tick 32s. to 34s. fine 36s Oats, Potato 22s. to 25s. fine 26a. — Poland — s. 20s. to 24s. fine 2M. — Friezland and Small — s. 17s to 22s. fine 24s. — Mealing tO& d. to 12^ d. per Stone. Shelling .26s. to 29s. Od. per Load. Malt 32s. 40s. line 44s. per Load. Rapeseed 221. 0s. 251. 0s. 261. 10s. per Last. COKNWAL1 MARKET. 22s. 3d.— Barley, to 23s.— Barley,- 1' auRO— Wheat ( average) Its. 3d — Oats, 9s. ST AUSTELL— Wheat, ' " ' GLOCBSTER ASSIZES, MARCH 30. — — - Business commenced here on Thursday. Tbe Grand Jury was sworn in late on that day. There are 200 prisoners fdr trial, but no ease of any peculiar interest. There is one for murder, and three or four of the Bristol rioters to be tried for pulling down the toll- house at Bristol, which is in this county. On the Civil Side there are 36 causes, but they are generally of local interest. Thomas Newman, a very interesting genteellook ng young man, aged 19, was charged with having on the 18th of November last, in Cheltenham, destroyed a certain letter which was delivered into his possession as a letter- carrier, and feloniously stealing thereout a 10/. bank- note, the property of Thomas Radnor. Mr. Henry Lucie, postmaster of Cheltenham The prisoner was a letter- carrier on November last; he had been so for about ten months previously ; I recollect the London bag arriving on the 18th ; it was properly tied and sealed up ; I opened it ; I put the letters out on the table ; they were given in charge to the clerk, Mr. Cousins ; the prisoner was a letter- carrier of one of eight districts; the house of Mr. William Radnor is in the prisoner's district. Edward Allen Cousins— On the 19th of Novem- ( From the Portsmouth Herald of Sunday.) PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 31— His Majesty's brig Pantaloon, 10, tender to the Royal George yacht, Lieut. Dawson, returned from a cruise on Sunday, and came into harbour. The Gossamer, tender to his Majesty's ship Victory, sailed on Sunday for Falmouth. His Majesty's gun brig Leveret, 10, Lieut. W. F. Li. pidge, arrived' from Plymouth on Monday, with supernumeraries for ships at this port, and Marines belonging to this Division, lately paid off from his Majesty's ship Ferret, and returned the same day. His Majesty's gun- brig Recrui', 10, Lieut. Hodges, returned on Monday from hei cruising station, and is making good some necessary delects. His Majesty's steam- vessel Meteor, Lieutenant Symnns came in on Friday irom the River, on her way to Falmouth, where she will receive on board the next Mediterranean mail. Lieut. M. Clive, appointed to his Majesty's ship St. Vincent, went out passenger in the Meteor, which proceeded on the same day. The er w of his Majesty's ship Ganges, which was paid off last week, subscribed the sum ol upwards of bl. io aid of the funds of the Seamen's Hospital- ship Dreadnought, in the River. At Spithead— Britannia, Talavera, Recruit, and Arab aud Recovery transports. In Harboar— Victory, Royal George, Pantaloon, Emerald, and Confiance steam- ves- el. PROMOTIONS AHD ArroiNTMEHTS.— Lieut. C. S. Bo- . inquet is a^ po nted to his Majesty's ship Dryad. Mr. R. Pipon, Midshipman, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Talavera. Mr. James M'Bean, Supernumerary Assistant- Surge m of his Majesty's ship Victory, doing duty at Haslar, is appointed to his Majesty's surveying- vessel Investigator, at Woolwich. Mr. Spencer Stirling, Mate of his Majesty's ship Victory, is appointed to his Majesty's revenue cruiser Eatle. Mr. W. Harries, Clerk, is appointed to his Majesty's ship Ocean, vice R. S. Stokes, appointed to his Majesty's ship Conway. Second Lieut. Thorn s Fraser is appointed Irom tbe Woolwich to the Portsmout Division ef Royal Marines, vice Colliss, promoted. Mi. Roger Wright Hawkes is appointed a Second Lieutenant > f Royal Marines at the Woolwich Division, vice Fraser. The officers of the Royal Marine Artillery have presented Colour Serjeant Kilbie, on his discharge, with a very handsome silver tankard, to mark their sense of his zeal and unwearied attention to the duties of his station, during a long course of honourable service. Mr. Houston, late Midshipman of his Majesty's ship Stag, recently promoted, had the honour to receive a gold medal at the Royal Naval College. Lieut. Edward H. Butterfield, whose promotion to th. rank of Commander, for his gallant conduct at the capture of the Velex Passagora slave- ship, is the son of Cap tain William Buttertield, of tbe Royal Navy, so well known as the gallant supporter of the late Captain A! exto lis.— Oats, Os. tn 8s. Od. BOIIMIN— Wheat ( average) 22s. 0d.— Barley, lis. Od.— Oats, Si HELSTON— Wheat, 23s. 0d.— Barley, lis 6d. PENZANCE— Wheat, 22s. to 24s.— Barley, — s. to 12s.— Oats 0s. to 8s. 0.1.— Beef and Mutton, 5d. to 6d.— Pork, 3Jd. to 4d.— Butter, 12d. per lb. I. ISKEARD— Wheat, — s. Oil. to 23s.— Barley, lis. Od.— Oats, Of. to 7s. 6d. l. AUNCESTON— Wheat ( average)- 27s. 0d.— Barley, 10s. 4< l— Oats, 7s OJ.— Beef, 6d.— Mutton, 6d. ST. COLUMU— Wheat, 22s. to 23s.— Barley, lis. to 12B.— Beef, and Mutton, 4d. to 6d.— Veal, 0d.— Lamb, Od. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Owl. Quantity ol Copper Ore soldst Redruth lastThurday 3,291 O Quantity of fine Copper — 268 17 Average Produce 8}£ O Amount of Sale, 17,611/. 8s. 6d.— Average Standard, 99'. 5s. Od. S C O T C H M A R K E T S. Wheat. I Barley Oats. | Beans. Oatmeal. 31 38 44 The siie of the measure varies throughout the country. BIRTHS. On the 30th ult. in Clifford- street, the Lady Janet Walrond, of a daughter. On the 31st ult the lady of Thomas Morgan, Esq., Upper Brook- street, of a son. On the 31st ult. in Brunswick- square, the lady of John Davis, E- q., of a son. On the29th ult. the lady of Alexander Elphinston, Esq., of the Hon. East India Company's Bombay Civil Service, of twin daughters. On the 29th ult. at Woolley Hall, Berkshire, the lady of the Rev. Augustus Philip Clayton, ot a still- born son. On the Ist inst. in Buckingham- street, Adelphi, tbe lady of William Jenkins, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 31st uit. at Remenham, Berkshire, James Moring Green, Esq., of Torrington- square, to Louisa Elizabeth, eldest laughter of Reginald Graham, Esq., of Remenham Lawn. On the 31st ult. at St. James's, Clerkenwell, John Scott, Esq., of Claremont- square, to Miss Elizabeth Purse, of Cowley House. Oxon. On the 29th ult. at St. Giles's, Cripplegate, Anne, fourth daughter of Mr. Aaron Staflbid, of Fore- street, to Mr. W. Lamb* of Islington. On the 31st ult. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, John Curtis, Esq., of Hunter- street, Brunswick- square, to Sarah, youngest daughter of Benjamin Hawes, Esq., of Russell- square. DIED. On the 30th ult. at Pointers, Surrey, Catherine, wife of Thomas Page, Esq., On the 31st ult. in her 23d year, Anna Maria, the only surviving daughter of William Huaiby, Esq., of Upper Nortonstreet, St. Marylebotle. On the 31st ult. aged 12 years, after a lingering illness, Hannah Jane, third daughter of Mr. George Jennings, of Spital- square. On the 2< ith ult. in St. Swithin's- lane, Lombard- street, James Alley, Esq., aged 71. On the 3lst ult. in Montagu- street, Portman- sqnare, Susannah Catherine, wife of James Rust, Esq., and only daughter of IJeuenant- C'olonel Rowles. On the 25th ult. Harry Bridger, Esq., of Buckingham- place, near Shorehain, Sussex. On the 28th ult. aged 18, Catherine Ixiuisa, third daughter of the Rev. Fred. Anson, Prebendary of Southwell, after a fort- | night's illness. On the 30th ult. at Feversham, Kent, John Bax, Esq , aged 86 FXINTXP ND PUBLISHED BV M U R I ) O Y O U N G , AT THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.