JOHN BULL. " FOR GOD, THE KING, AND THE PEOPLE!' VOL. XVII.— NO. 842. SUNDAY, JANUARY 29, 1837. Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE.— Concentration of MU- SICAL TALENT, for One Night only.— The Lessee has the honour of announcing that, with the co- operation of the Directeurs of the Italian Opera Buffa, he is enabled to offer a combination of attractions never before submitted to public patronage on anv stage, at the present REDUCED PRICES.— TO- MORROW, Jan. 30, will be given A GRAND CONCER 1' of Sacred and Miscel- laneous Music, in which will appear the following eminent Foreign and Native Artistes:— Madlle. Blasis, Miss Fanny Wyndham, Mad. Giannoni, Sig. Ronconi, Sig. Bellini, Sig. Catone, Sig. Torii, Sin. Ruggiero, Messrs. M. W. Balfe, Se- guill, Giubelei, and Wilson, Miss Fanny Woodham, and Miss Romer. The En- tertainments will consist of the first part of Havdn's Grand Oratorio, The Crea- tion. Between the first and second Parts a Grand Septetto— Beethoven, by Messrs. Mori, Puzzi, Lindley, Dragonetti, Willman, Moralt, and Baumann. Between the second and third Parts, " Parto," Miss Fanny Woodhain, from Mozart's Opera " La Clemenza di Tito;" Clarinet Oblinato, Mr. Willman. Parts II. and HI. Miscellaneous. The splendid Drury- lane Band will be augmented by the as- sistance of Messrs. Mori, Lindley, Dragonetti, G. Cooke, Willman, Harper, T. Cooke, Sig. Puzzi, and M. Benedict. The Double Chorus of this Establishment, assisted by the Young Gentlemen of St. Paul's Cathedral and Westminster Abbey, will be under the superintendence of Mr. Harris. rTIHEATRE ROYAL, DRURY- LANE — Unprecedented attrac- _ M_ tion at reduced Prices! Stalls, 7s. ; Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Galleries, Is.: Half- price, Boxes, 2s.; Pit, Is.; Galleries, 6d.— To- morrow will be given a Grand Selection of SACRED and MISCELLANEOUS MUSIC.— Tuesday, a popular Opera. Followed bv the New Grand Pantomime.— Wednesday, The Siege of Rochelle. Michel, Sir. M. W. Balfe. npHEATRF. ROYAL, DRURY- LANE.— Mile. DUVERNAY JL TWO NIGHTS MORE.— In consequence of the extraordinary demand tor places to witness the performance of this eminent Dancer, she has been prevailed upon to repeat THE DEVIL ON TWO STICKS next Tuesday and Thursday, being positively the last nights, as she sails for France on Friday morning. The New Pantomime of OLD GAMMER GURTON every Evening— the greatest hit for years. flHHEATllE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN.— To- morrow there • will be no performance, being the Anniversary of the Martyrdom of King Charles.— Tuesday, Shakspeare's Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIRD. Duke of Glo'ster, Mr. Macready. To conclude with the New Comic Pantomime of HARLEQUIN AND GEORGEY BARNWELL.— Wednesday, the Original Drama ol The Country Squire. With the Grand Romantic Spectacle of Aladdin : or, The Wonderful Lamp. To conclude with the New Comic Pantomime.— Thursday and Friday, the New Play of The Duchess de la Valliere. To conclude v.- ith the New Comic Pantomime.— Saturday, King John. With Petticoat Go- vernment. And Aladdin. j^ HE ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.— To- morrow, being the An- niversary of King Charles's Martyrdom, will be perlormed a SELECTION peace," the Miss Smiths. " Lord, to thee each night and day," Made. Sala, & c. < tc. & e. After which, the celebrated Artistes, MM. Boleno, Deulin, and Simon, - will appear in their wonderful Exercises as performed by the Athletae in the Olympic Games. Popular Mock Italian Bravura, '• Johnny Bond," Mr. Harley, and, with Miss Smith, " When a little fimn we keep." " Mad Tom," " Bay of Biscay." Mr. Eraham. " Angel of Life," Mr. I. efller. " Ombra adorata," Made. Sala. " My pretty Page," the Miss Smiths. Popular Ballad, Mr. J. Parry. Con- certo Violin, Mr. Eleason. A Series of " Tableaux Vivants," illustrative of the Passions, by MM. Bolena, Deulin, and Simon. To conclude with " The rale Mr. O'Donnell, and no mistake" ( his first appearance), and other miscellaneous Entertainments.— Tuesday, THE LORD OF THE MANOR; THE ENCHANT- ED HORN, and other Entertainments.— Private Boxes, Tickets, and Places to be had of Mr. VV. Warne, at the Box- office, from Eleven till Six. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPH I.- To- morrow, the Perform- ances wilt commence with an Entertainment, called LOVE'S LABOURS LOST. After which, AN'ARABIAN FESTIVAL, in which the REAL BE- DOUIN ARABS, from the Surrey Theatre, Messrs. Sidi Ali, Abdullah, Ahmed, H ossein, Mohammed, and Hassan, will go through their Wonderful Performances. Mr. T. D. Rice will •• Jump Jim Crow," and sing Six New Songs. Mr. John Reeve will sing the " One Horse Shay," " Staty Fair," " Mutton Chops," and " Merry Month of May." Mr. Yates will, for this Night only, give his celebrated Imitations. The celebrated GRECIAN STATUES, by Mr. T. Thompson. To con- clude with THE ARTIST'S DREAM.— Box- office open from 10 till 4, where Private Boxes may be had ; also of Mr. Sams, Royal Library, St. James's- street. /• IHEATRE ROVAL. ADELPHL— Second Week of the astonish- _ JI ing Bedouin Arabs ; and Return of Mr. Rice, the not- to be imitated Jim Ciow.— Tuesday, and during theWeek, will be presented fin one Act) the Comic Burletta of FLIGHT TO AMERICA. After which, THE REAL BEDOUIN ARABS, from the Surrey Theatre,' Messrs. Siiti Ali, Abdallah, Ahmed, Hossein, Mohammed, and Hassan, will go through their Wonderful Performances. With a New Drama, of intense interest, in'Three Acts, called THE DUCHESS DE LA VAUBALIERE. Characters by Messrs. Kuckstone, O. Smith, Yates, and Mrs. Yates. After which, anew Local Bnrletta, called THE HUMOURS OF AS ELECTION. Mr. J. Reeve and a Gentleman from Ireland.— Box- office open from 10 till 4, where Private Boxes may be had ; also of Mr. Sams, St. James'- st. NEW " MUSIC published at MORI'S.— The New Opera Scaramuccia; L'Elisir D'Amore; NinaPazza; Chiara di Rosenberg; and Benedict's New Opera, Un Anno ed un Giorno, for Voice and Pianoforte. Also Select Airs from the same, arranged for the Pianoforte. A New Album by Donizzeti, consisting of Arietta, Duets, & c., 1.5s., or singly 2s. and 2s. fid. each. Meyerbeer's chef d'oeuvre. The Huguenots. All the above Operas, arranged for the Harp, ar. d Harp and Pianoforte, by Herz, Bochsa, F. Hunten, & c. & c. Les fleurs d'ltalie, in three Nos. by F. Hunten. Pianofortes, Harps, Guitars, & c., for sale and hire.— MORI and LAVENU, Musical Library, 28, New Bond- street. " ISfEVV" MUSICT^ ublisliedbyR7" MiLLS~( late Birchall and Co.), X^ l 140, New Bond- Street.— Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, Pianoforte ( Flute ad lib.) in Two Books, by Truzzi.— Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore, Pianoforte Duels ( Flute ad lib.), in Two Books, by W. Watts.— Moves"- Egli rie- le ?" from Donizetti's Gemma de Vergy.— Potter's ( C.) brilliant Duet on two favourite Airs in Gemma de Vergy. Also, New Editions of the following Glees, by W. Horsley, Mus. Bae., Oxon, to which are added a Pianoforte Accompaniment, by the Author:— By Celia's Arbour— Cold is Cadwallo's Tongue— Mine be a Cot— — See the Chariot— The Traveller. CHIARA DI ROSENBERG, by Ricci.— The favourite Airs in this Opera, arranged for the Pianoforte, will be ready in a few days. Just published, Three favourite Airs by Pacini, arranged as Duets, with Flute Accom- paniments ( ad. lib.), by W. H. Calleott. Also Bellini's " Beatrice di Tenda" si- milarly arranged. " Ah s'estiato," and " Io l'udia," arranged for one performer by Meves. The last notes of Malibran." A second Set of popular Country Dances, and all the best arrangements of the new Operas, Vocal and Instrumental. — LONSDALE'S ( late Birchall and Co.' s) Musical Circulating Library for Town and Country. 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TO VOCALISTS and PIANISTS," studying for the Stage, the Concert- Room, as Teachers, or as Amateurs.— Mr. JOSEPH DE PINNA, Composer of the new romantic Opera, " The Rose of the Alhambra; or, The En- chanted Lute,!' begs to announce, that he continues to qualify professional as well as private Pupils in the various department? of the above branches of Education and Accomplishment.— No. 164, Albany- street, Regent's- park. GEORGE'S CLUB.— Gentlemen desirous of becomingJVIem- CT bersof the ST. GEORGE'S CLUB are informed, that the time forlhe ad- mission of Original Members is limited, and will expire the 16th day of Fe- bruary next. Entrances and Subscriptions received by Messrs. Drummonds, Bankers, Chairing- cross.— By order of the Provisional Committee. 57, Pall Mall, Jan. 27, 1837. FOSTER OWEN, Hon. Sec. W EWISHAM GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Founded 1652. _ ILl HEAD MASTER— Rev. JOSEPH PRENDERGAST, B. D. SECOND MASTER— MATHIAS FORREST, B. A. 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LIFE. may be speedily cuicu * - - • vnV fchemist, No. 86, Whitechapel, in boxes, at Is. 1 § « L ; 2s. 9d.; 4s. 6d.; andlls- each; and may be had at the principal medicine venders in town and country. Ask for Stirling's Stomach Pills. - H T. N " IT W L I G To highly polish Boots and Shoes, Warren's brilliant Blacking use, From well- known Mart, at 30, STRAND, The most renowned in every land. Fam'd ROBERT WARREN always adds a grace To understandings of the human race. January 22 JOHN BULL. 722 TUESDAY'S GAZETTE. e Whitehall, Jan. 21.— The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to b passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of an Earl of the Unijed King- dom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Hon. Kenneth Alexander Baron Howard Effingham, in the county of Surrey,' G. C. B. and General in the anny, and the heirs male of his body, lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Earl of Effingham. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignities of a Baron and Earl of the said United Kingdom unto the Right Hon. Thomas Baron Ducie, and the heirs male of his body, law- fully begotten, by the names styles, and tifles of Baron Moreton, of Tortworth, in the county of Gloucester, and Earl of Ducie. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to be nasspd under the Great Peal, granting the dignities of a Baron and Earl of the said United Kingdom unto Charles Baron Yarborough, and the beiis male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, styles, and titles of Baron Worseley, of Apuldercombe, in the Isle of Wight, and Earl of Yatborough. The King has also been pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baron of the said United Kingdom unto the following Gentlemen, anil the respective heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten, viz. :— Edward Berkeley Portman, Esq., by the name, style, and title of Baron Portman, of Orchard Portman, in the connty of Somerset; Thomas Alexander Fraser, of Lovat, in the county of Inverness, Esq., by the name, style and title of Baron Lovat, of Lovat, in the said connty of Inverness; and William Hanbury, of Kelmarsh. in the county of Northampton, and of Shobdon, in the county of Hereford, Esq., by the name, style, and title of Baron Batemau, of Shobdon, in the said county of Hereford. Whitehall, Jan. 23.— The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. George Baron Abercromby to be Lieutenant and Sheriff- Principal of the shire of Stirling, in the room of James Duke of . Montrose, deceased. Whitehall, Jan. 16.— The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Carrnthers, of the city of Carlisle, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. W. BROTHERTON, Liverpool- street, sadler— J. SAYRE, Shadwell High- street, cheesemonger— T. NOTTAGE. Green Dragon- yard, Worship- street, coach- jnaker— J. BURKE, Golden- lane, St. Luke's, soap maker— W. LONGSTAFF and W. H. LONGSTAFF, Bury- street, St. James's, tailors- C. WHITE, WiUingale Spain, Essex, goose feeder.' BANKRUPTS. J. BAKER, Melbourne, Cambridgeshire, grocer. Att. Philipps, Sise- lane, Cannon- street— C. BAKER, Merton Milts, Wimbledon, Surrey, miller. Att. C. M'Duff, Castle- street, Holborn— J. H. FARMER, Abchurch- lane, painter. Atts. Gresham and Co., Castle- sireet, Holborn— F. SPARROW and R. SPARROW, Ludgate- hill, wine merchants. Att. Wadesnn, Austin- friars— T. GREENFIELD, • Roebuck Tavern, Chiswick, victualler. Atts. Poole and Co., Gray's inn- square— T. TULLOCK, Wiinbome Minster, Dorsetshire, bnitder. Atts. Parr; Holme and Co., New Inn— J. CLARKSON, Nottingham, currier. Atts. Norton and Co., .'(, Gray's Inn, London ; Stubbs and Co., Birmingham ; Swann, Nottingham— T. WHEELER, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, grocer. Atts. Clark and Co., Lincoln's Inn- fields; Teece, Shrewsbury— R. CUMING, Plymouth, Devonshire, shipowner. Atto. Surr. Lombard- street; Loekyer and Co.; Edmonds, Plymouth— W. ALSTON, Loio^ ster, spinner. Atts. Taylor and Son, John- street, Bedford- row; Luck, Leicester. FRIDAY'S GAZETTE. Office of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England, Dec. 21.— The Eccle siastieal Commissioners for England have appointed Charles Knight Murray, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister at Law, to be their Treasurer. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. E. BURN, St. Helen's- place, merchant— A. TULLEY, Church- street. Hack- ney, grocer— W. FOWLER, Upper Tooting, Surry, grocer— H. PEGG, Tun- bndge Wells, hotel keeper. BANKRUPTS. W. WATLING, Arabella- row. Piinlieo, eatinghonse keeper. Att. Bigbie, Clement's Inn, Strand— J. COLLINS, South- row, New- road, Somers- town dealer. Att. Njale, Threadneedle- street— E. JOSEPH and E. LEVI, Ratcliffe High- way, merchants. Att. Patten, Hatton- erarden— D. MORGAN, Hedge- row, Is- lington, butcher. Alt. Reyroux, Old Broad- street— J. HOPTON, E. W. PE- RISTON, J. I'ENISTON, and C. ROSE, feeds, dyers. Alts. Smilhson and Co., Southampton- buildings, Chancery- lane ; Dnnning and Co., Leeds— T. and N. ARMSTRONG, Caldcoats, Cumberland, tanners. Atts. Grey, Staple Inn; Law and Co.. Carlisle— J. H. H ETHER1NGTON, Whitehaven, Cumberland, brewer. Atts. Stubbs, Staple Inn ; Perry, Whitehaven— S. and J. READING, Birming- ham, gilt toy makers. Atts. Alexander and Co., Lincoln's Inn- fields; Lefevre, Birmingham— T. WOOTTON, Bognor, Sussex, grocer. Atts. Balehin, Arun- del; Freeman and Co., Coleman- street— J. NIELD, Midse- hill, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, woollen manufacturer. Atts. Milne and Co., Temple ; Whitehead and Co., Oldham— R. W LSON, Liverpool, tallow chandler. Att. Vandenboff, Liverpool— I. JOHNSON, Sheffield. hatter. Alts. Milne and Co., Temple; Whitehead and Co., Oldham— J. JENNINGS, Canterbury, hotelkeeper. Atts. Constable and Co., Svmond's Inn, Chancery- lane; Lassaux, Canterbury— C. JAUNCEY, Sponend, Herefordshire, cattle dealer. Atts. Douglas and Co., Veru- Jam- buildings, Gray's Inn; Jones and Co., Ledbury— J. ARMSTRONG, New- castle- upon- Tyne, common brewer. Att.-. Printrle, Newcastle- upon- Tyne; Meg- gison and Co., King's- road, Bedford row— W. ROBERTS, Newport, Monmouth- shire, shipwright. Atts. I'rotheroe and Co., Newport; Venning and Co., Token- house- yard. THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST is progressing gloriously, nnder the new editorship of Mr. Theodore Hook. No less than three editions of the first Number for 1 37 have been re- quired ! The forthcoming Number, for February, promises to be even more attractive than Ihe first, as it will contain, besides the con- tinuation of the inimitable Gurnev Papers," by the editor, more than twenty contributions from some Iff our most popular writers, including the Authors of The Rejected Addresses, Paul Pry, and Rattlin the Reefer, Leigh Hunt, H aynes Bayly, Douglas Jerrold, Alfred Crowqnill, Hamilton Reynolds, J. R. Planche, the Hon. Mrs. Norton, Miss Landon, < fcc. & c." This phalanx of talent must be irresistible. SATAN AND HIS PEERS.— The Miltonian Epigraph to the New Novel of The Gambler's Dream, which is now before the public, need not have created so much uneasiness in the minds of certain parties to whom it has been said to refer. As far as we can as yet judge of this remarkable production, no immediate reference to persons is intended, and_ we could almost affirm that " Satan and his Peers " do not assume in The Gambler's Dream the semblance of A— s— n, P— ye, and G— v— e, as it, has been secretly and maliciously reported. STUART'S ADVICE TO PURCHASERS OF HORSES, a small half- crown book, published by M'Phun in Glasgow, but ALWA YS kopt on sale by N. H. Cotes, Cheapside, London, is spoken of by the Stirling Journal ( an agricultural paper), in the following terms:—" This manual, though of small size, is far from being of small value, and cannot fail to be useful, not only to farmers, innkeepers, and others engaged in posting, but also to every onq who may have occasion to purchase a useful and serviceable horse. If a person make himself master of the maxims it contains, he will be fully prepared to select a sound ani- mal, as well as to detect and prevent the imposition of ordinary horse- dealers. It also contains an expose of the laws relating to sale and warranty of horses, which cannot be too well known, because, to borrow the motto of the work, ' the buyer hath need of an hundred eyes, but the seller of only one.' " A pamphlet is published, containing a detailed list of the cost of the different patterns of silver spoons and forks, with drawings of the prevailing shapes of silver tea and coffee equipages, also the price of silver mounted plated goods of every description. It may be had free of cost, on application to A. B. Savory and Sons. Goldsmiths, 14, Cornhill, London, opposite the Bank of England. The show rooms of the establishment are extensive, and contain a choice selection. THE INFLUENZA. The influenza, or the prevalent disease, has caused, and is causing, great mortality. Dr. Johnson, at the last meeting of the Westminster Medical Societv, stated that it has been far more violent in its character and universal in its extent than the epidemic of 1833. In the populous district of St. Pancras, Somers- town, there are numerous factories and workshops, and upon an estimate which has been made, nearly one- half of the workmen are unable to continue their regular em- ployment. The funerals to the burial grounds in the St. Pancras road alone amount to at least 20 daily. On Wednesday the number was 31. The epidemic seems to have proved destructive, not only in its own natural form, but at Guy's Hospital, in the wards, where a free circulation of the air existed", it has in many instances run into bronchites and pneumonia, and has even induced symptoms of typhoid or yellow fever; in all which cases it is easy to guess what were the consequences. So very fatal indeed has it proved in this way, that tie managers of several Hospitals have set apart wards exclusively for patients with influenza. The following is the number of burials which took place on Sunday afternoon in the following burial- grounds:— St. John's- wood, Re- gent's Park, 46; Paddington- street, St. Marylebone, 28; Paddington Churchyard, 31 ; St. James's Chapel, Hampstead- road, 41; St. George's Uxbridge- road, Hyde- park, 38 ; in the same ground, mili- tary funerals of the household infantry, 14; St. Pancras Old Church, 29; St. Mary, Islington, 53; Christ- church, Blackfriars- road, 24. Between 3 and 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, St. Pancras- road was crowded with funeral processions ; no less than 47 coffins were borne alona during that time, attended by a vast concourse of persons. Dr. Kenny, Rector of St. 01aveV( a very small parish), in the course of hi3 sermon on Sunday morning, informed his parishioners that he had that dav the painful duty before him of reading the funeral service over 11 bodies— a greater number than had ever oc- curred iu one day since his being appointed Rector, 1(> years ago. At Greenwich Hospital the mortality amongst the pensioners has been very great; and the disorder has spread to an alarming degree amongst" the household infantry, cavalry, and royal artillery at Woolwich. . The physicians, it is said, in reference to the prevailing influenza, have discovered that thev had committed a great mistake in lowering their patients; and now, after the first attack, prescribe a more generous regimen. The provincial papers teem with accounts of the extensive spread of the prevailing influenza, accompanied by numerous instances of its fatal results. Fifteen gentlemen who were present at the Glasgow banquet are reported to have fallen victims to the epidemic. In the week ending on Saturday last, there were 139 funerals, a number considerably above the liiehest week when the cholera was at the worst.— Aberdeen Journal of Wednesday. This epidemic, spr ading as it has been, through the country, for the last fortnight or three weeks, has not failed to visit Southampton; although from what we hear, not quite so severely as some of our neighbours have experienced it. In but few instances has it proved fatal; and in those chiefly aged or asthmatic persons.— Hampshire Telegraph. The mortality which has happened in Banff, during the last three weeks, has been more extensive, sudden, and unexpected, than we remember to have taken place within so short a period ; where indi- viduals laboured under other diseases, particularly of a chronic nature, and wereattackedwith influenza, ithas in most cases proved, fatal. The aged and infirm in particular have fallen victims to its ravages. Tlie mortality of Brechin and suburbs, during the last 10 days, has been greater than in the memory of the oldest inhabitant. Influenza has cut off many in advanced years, and it has also paved the way for the ravages of other disorders.— Inverness Journal. Altogether, the form in which the influenza has manifested itself in this town and neighbourhood appears milder than in any other locality of which we have heard:— Manchester Guardian. The influenza has, at length, found its way to the South of Devon, and is raging with great severity. In Torquay, and all along the coast it has been very violent, the number of persons attacked with it being calculated at seven in every ten. In Exeter, great numbers are now labouring under it. Yesterday several of our churches were closed in consequence of the indisposition of the Clergymen, caused by this wide- spreading epidemic.— JVestcrn Luminary. The epidemic now raging throughout the empire has been felt with great severity in this town. We believe that scarcely a house has been exempt from this visitation, and in most instances nearly all the inmates have been attacked. The mortality arising from this and other diseases has been greater than can be remembered at any previous period. The prevalence of the influenza is not confined to the town, but is felt equally in all the villages in the neighbourhood. — Dorset County Chronicle. The influenza is dreadfully afflicting our city at this moment. We believe there is not a single household without one or two of its mem- bers ailing. It is with the utmost difficulty we can issue our paper in proper time, from the number of our printers who are ill. Not a day passes without the melancholy sight of hearses continually pass- ing through the streets; but we have not ascertained whether ihe mortality is more owing to the influenza than to a bad fever which is very prevalent here'.— Londonderry Standard. COUNTY COURT, KINGSGATE- STREET. CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES.— A sturdy little Radical, belonging to the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, the proprietor of a beer- shop, was summoned by a tailor named Scott for 12s., for work and labour done, in converting an old coat into a new jacket for the boy, and a new waistcoat for the, father. The case assumed a thoroughly poli- tical aspect.— Commissioner ( to defendant): Do you dispute the debt ?— Defendant: I should think so. 1 only ' greed for IOs.. and this'ear tailor charges 12s.— Plaintiff: Look at the cut. I've made the waistcoat on Conservative principles. ( Laughter.)— Commis- sioner: Conservative principles! how's that?— Plaintiff: Why. Sir, 1 means respectable.— Defendant: And I didn't want none " of it. I'm known werry well, and you hort to have made my westkitt like this'ear. I don't want to be respectable. ( Laughter.) I gits my living by ' ard vork !— The tailor assured the Court that he had trans- lated a very old and greasy coat into a most excellent waistcoat and jacket, and if the garments were too respectable he was perfectly willing to alter them, and make them look as much like the Radical principle as possible. ( Laughter.) The Jury ordered the sum to be paid immediately. A horse doctor, named Johnstone, summoned a horse- kaeper for payment for medical attendance on a mare which had been dan gerously ill, and which, by the judicious exhibition of drenches, balls, and bleeding, had become perfectly convalescent.— Com- missioner : Pray what was the matter with the horse ?— It had the influenza, Sir. ( Laughter.) Defendant: Now that's a reg'lar good un. Now, vere d'ye think my oss conld get sich a complaint ? Vy you might as well say as how it had the scarlet fever.— Plaintiff: The horse was very ill, and you know very well I saved its life.— De- fendant: I don't know'no sich a thing, and I shan't pay you nothink.— Commissioner : Yes, but you will. Pay it in a month. Sir.— Defendant: I'll see you first. I'll go to prison first.— Commissioner: Oh, very well; then we'll bring the matter to an issue at once. Pay it directly, Sir, or an execution shall be issued immediately. ( Laughter.)— Not relishing the idea of going to prison so speedily, the defendant paid the amount forthwith. A NOVEL WAGER.— A coalheaver, with the usual appurtenances of huge knocked knees and round herculean shoulders, known at the City Basin as Yaffling Billy, summoned a brother coalheaver at the same wharf for 10s.— Mr. Dubois: What's it for?— Plaintiff: Vy, my Lord, I'll tell you. We chaps as likes ' ard work likes lots o' beer and wittles, and sometimes we wies ( vie) which on us can heat most, and drink most beer, and you'd be astonished if so be as you com'd among us some night " and seed us. ( Laughter.) Well, I makes a wager as how, arter we'd unloaded Lord Melbourne.— A Juryman: Unloaded who, Sir ?— Plaintiff: Vy, Lord Melbourne, and a precious big barge, too, I can tell yer, only precious leaky. I expects we shall all go down in her some day ( laughter) ; but that's neither here nor there. Howsomdever I hetted a bet as how I'd drink 20 pots of heavy all to my own cheek, in 20 quarters of hour. ( Laughter.) Veil, ve gets rid of old cranky ( the barge), ai and I goes regler to work on the beer, and I vun it, my Lord ( laiighter) : Idrink't every drop on it, and ' ad a quarter of an Iiour to spare ; and then this here unhonourable feller said he hadn't got no money, and so I took legal advice, and took the lor on him.— Commissioner: What do you say to this ungentleinanly transaction ?— Defendant: " " ' ' ' ' ' t you two to one you'll sartinly fall overboard one of these ' ear days ( the latter observation was made very sig- nificantly). You ' nose hour rules, yer warmint. ( Laughter.)— Commissioner : Order, Sir, and don't threaten the poor man. The Jury cannot entertain the case. It is dismissed.— Defendant, waving his genuine fan tiler in triumph, turned to the plaintiff and said", " Now who ' nose the lor, haye, my little yaffler ?" ( Laughter.) The smutty liligants left the Court highly complimenting each other, after the highly approved fashion of Puddle Dock. THE MURDER IN RATCLIFF HIGHWAY.— Wednesday, John Pegs- worth, the murderer of Mr. Ready, was brought to the Thames Police from Clerkenwell prison, for final examination. The office was crowded to excess, and a great multitude of people flocked from all quarters to obtain a sight of the assassin. When placed at the bar, the prisoner's demeanour was very different from that displayed on his last examination ; on the present occasion he frequently shed tears, and evinced by his conduct that he was fully aware of his awful situation. The depositions ( which fully proved the facts as they have been already before the public) having been read over, Mr. Ballan- tine asked the prisoner if he wished to sav anything ? If he did that was the time. Any remarks he did mulce would be written down, and might be used " for or against him. The prisoner: No, Sir, I have nothing to say. Mr. Ballantine then said he had gone through the examination, and he was not inclined to give any pain to the unhappy prisoner at the bar by any commentary. It was now his duty to com- mit the prisoner for trial for tbe wilful murder of Mr. Ready, and he hoped he would make as good a use of his time in Newgate as he had Wednesday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, a decently dressed female, about 23 years of age, carrying an infant in her arms, was observed staggering along Hunter- street, Brunswick- square, in a state of intoxication. She had proceeded but a short distance when she fell with great force on the pavement. The infant fell from her arms, and had its right thigh broken. The woman was found to be insensible, and on being removed to the hospital it was ascertained that she had received a concussion of the brain. Wednesday morning, a lighterman picked up the body of a voung female, apparently not more than 20 years of age, in the River, opposite Queenhithe stairs, and conveyed it to the Surrey shore. From the appearance of Ihe body it is supposed to have been in the water for a considerable time. Wednesday morning a female, about 30 years of age, whose ap- Jiarel was indicative of extreme want and' misery, was discovered ying in the area of an unfinished house in White Conduit- fields, Islington, in a state of insensibility. She was removed to the work- house, where every necessary assistance was rendered her, but it was found impossible to restore her to a state of consciousness, and it was expected that death would speedily terminate her sufferings. SINGULAR REVENGE.— Two workmen having quarrelled in a sugar refiner's, at Valenciennes, one of them threw his comrade into a cop- per of thick molasses. The latter scrambled out, covered from head to foot with the sugary stuff, and. angry at his adversary, rushed into the streets just as he was to make his way to Ihe King's Procureur to obtain legal redress. It was freezing verv hard at the time, and the sugar became so firm that when he arrived at the house of the magistrate, he looked like a substantial stick of barley sugar. His arms were glued to his side, andhe was compelled to ask a by- stander t° ring the bell for Ifim. This curious exhibition attracted crowds of spectators, and excited much merriment. Thursday information was received at the diffeient police offices and station houses that, about six o'clock on the evening of Tuesday last, as Mr. Francis Tanner, an opulent farmer, residing at Thaydon Mount, near Abridge, Essex, was returning home from the latter place in his cart, he was stopped by three men, who with horrid im- precations demanded his money. Mr. Tanner attempted to force on by urging his horse, but they prevented his doing so ; when one of them sprang into the cart, and throwing a cloth over Mr. Tanner's face and head, held him down while the other two robbed him of 12 sovereigns which they took from his trousers pocket; after which they allsucceeded in effecting their escape before Mr. Tanner could extricate himself or call for assistance. Owing to the darkness of the evening Mr. Tanner is unable to give any description of the ruffians. Wednesday afternoon, between three and four o'clock, the follow- ing dnmdful occurrence took place at the residence of Mr. Common Serjeant Mirehouse, Upper Seymour- street. While the Learned Serjeant was absent from home two of the domestics, named George Havenard and William Lees, commenced quarrelling in the kitchen, when each collared the other, and in his rage Lees seized a dessert- knife, with which he stabbed Ilavenard twice in the side and once in the arm ; the housekeeper bearing a noise below, and finding the blood streaming from the sufferer, rushed into the street in order to obtain medical assistance, and at the door was met by Parke, of the T division, who, learning what had occurred, took into custody Ihe man Lees, while in the act of hastily packing up his things, with the view, it is supposed, of making bis escape. He was then conveyed to Marylebone station- house. The wounded man received every atten- tion at the hands of a surgeon, but, from the nature of his wounds his recovery is extremely doubtful. Lees underwent an examination at Marylebone office on Thursday; but in consequence of the dan- gerous state of Havenard, the prisoner was remanded for a week. An inquest was held on Wednesday at the Railway beer- shop, High- street, Deptford, before J. C. C'arttar, Coroner tor Kent, on the body of W. Sadler, who lost his life on the railway on Monday afternoon, in consequence of a concussion which threw the carriages off the road, and tbe deceased fell, and was passed over by the train. He w- as killed on the instant; and the evidence tending to show that the death of deceased was caused by accident, a verdict to that effect was recorded. Wednesday evening an inquest was held at the Grey Coat Boy, Grey Coat- street, Vincent- square, on view of the body of Charlotte Blunt, who died under the following circumstances :— It appeared from the evidence of her son and a woman named Atkins, that the deceased was a widow, and about sixty years of age. Some years ago she became very reducedin circumstances, and obtained a trifling relief from the parish, which was latterly withheld, and she has gone for weeks together without a fire. She was much afflicted with spasms, and for some days before her death she expressed great anxiety at not being able to redeem some articles which she had taken in to wash for a neighbour. On Sunday night last her son called to see her, but finding her door shut, and no answer being made to his calls to be admitted, he burst in the door, and found her on her bed, quite cold and dead. A phial, which had contained laudanum, was found in her room, which excited some suspicion that she had poisoned herself, but there was no evidence of the fact, and the Jury returned a verdict of " Natural death, from an attack of spasms." EXTRAORDINARY BIRTH.— Thursday morning the wife of a labour- ing man, of the name of Goodridge, residing in John- street, St. Luke's, City- road, was safely delivered of four children— three boys and one girl, all living and healthy. The mother is in a fair way of recovery. ot Lis rsewga in Clerkenwell, and prepare for a fate which most probably awaited him.— The prisoner, who covered his face with his hands, and trem- bled excessively while the worthy Magislrnte was addressing him, at the conclusion of Mr. Ballantine's remarks endeavoured to regain his composure, and taking a paper from his pocket, said, " Will your Worship allow"— he here paused—" will you, Sir, allow this to be read?" Mr. Ballantine : Ifyouwishit I can't refuse it; but what you do put in will be evidence.— The prisoner: Thank you, Sir, I know it. 1 am prepared, Sir, for the worst, and am sorry for the crime I have committed. I mean to plead guilty before a jury of my country. If you will allow it to be read, I"— the unhappy wretch here appeared to be quite overcome with his feelings.— Mr. Ballantine: Certainly it shall be read.— The paper was then handed to Mr. Sy- mons, the chief clerk, who read the document, during which the pri- soner often cried, and leant his face on the bar. The statement was as follows:— " I wish to address a few words if your Worship will permit me, and have committed them to paper, as my memory is very absent through the state of excitement I have been in. It has been rumoured that this dreadful occurrence was committed through jealousy. I now declare most solemnly that nothing of llie kind induced me to com- mit the dreadful act, nor had I any idea of it. I state this In justice to my wife's character, whose conduct is beyond reproach, and in justice to the memory of the unfortunate deceased, whom 1 hurried into eternily. At tlie same time it has been stated that 1 was per- fectly cool and collected and sober at the time. I declare to God, at whose bar I must shortly appear, that 1 was not sober, and can say, to the best of my recollection, that I did not think of the horrid act at all until about twenty minutes before it was perpetrated. Mrs. Cad- man, who sold the knife, made a mistake in stating that it was about four o'clock. I did not leave the St. Katharine Dock until half- past four. I then went straight to my house, and I believe I had some tea; hut I don't exactly remember whether I had or not. I certainly meant to call on the deceased in the evening, to tell him, as 1 fancied, of his ingratitude towards me ; and it was stated that I did not show the least remorse tor the horrid deed that 1 had done, which I fear may have an effect on the minds of the public at large, and particu- larly young persons, by thinking that murder is not so monstrous a. crime as ifappears. I should wish them to know that 1 feel it very deeply. I do sincerely hope, by the assistance of my Redeemer, the Almighty God will pour upon me the spiritof prayer and true repent- ane'e for the innumerable sins I have committed, and hope that He will, by His divine grace, abundantly pardon me, without which I know I shall be a lost man to all eternity. I shall now give up all thoughts of worldly matters, and shall, with- the Divine assistance, prepare for life eternal.— John Pegsworth, JaiiHary, 1837." The witnesses having been bound over in the usual form, the pri- soner was then removed to the surveyor's room, and afterwards he was taken in a hackney coach to Newgate. On Wednesday an inquest was held at the Royal George, Green wich, on the body of William Corhet, who for the last seven years held the office of assistant- overseer of the parish of Greenwich. James Sherwin deposed, that on Wednesday last the son of the de- ceased came to his house, and asked him to come to his father's. He did so, and found the unfortunate man hanging in an outhouse in his nightshirt, and quite dead. John Farmer, a constable of Green- wich— Had known Mr. Corbet for the last thirty years. Of late he was always lamenting the reduction of his salary from 1501. to 1001. a- year, by order of the Poor- law Commissioners, and that his duty was more than it had ever been before. By a Juror— Has his duty been more laborious since the introduction of the new Poor- law Bill? Witness— It has, Sir. Adam Young, the Magistrate, had known the deceased for many ye are. He was valuable servant, and he regretted his untimely end. Several of the Jury—" So do we, Sir." The Jurv, after short consultation, returned a verdict of— • " Temporary derangement, brought on by an increase of duty," 38 JOHN BULL. January 22 FOREIGN. The Paris papers of Monday and Tuesday are chiefly occupied by the acquittal of the accomplices of Louis " Bonaparte by the Stras- burg Jury. Immediately after he had been liberated, Colonel Par- quin crossed the bridge to Kehl, whence he sent a challenge to Colonel Taillandier, in consequence of the evidence the latter had given on the trial, one point of which ( his allegation that he had taken Parquin by the collar) had made on that pefson a powerful impression. The challenge was accepted, and the parties fought, not on the German side of the Rhine, as Parquin had requested, but in the vicinity of Strasburg, on the French bank. After a few passes Parquin was wounded slightly. He insisted on renewing the combat, and was run through the body. Hopes were nevertheless entertained ofhis recovery. All the accounts that reach us speak of the vast sensation produced throughout France by the acquittal of the Strasburg revolters and conspirators, to which a new, although foreseen, incident had im- parted additional interest. This was an announcement in the Mo- niteur that on Tuesday a message from the Crown would be brought down to the Chamber of Deputies. Report having described this communication in advance as going to require that the Chamber should forthwith discuss and enact two new penal laws, the Opposi- tion Journalists declaimed loudly against the proceeding. The projefs de loi thus anathematized by anticipation would, it was un- derstood, provide that persons cognizant of a plot against the life of the King should be held bound to reveal it to the authorities on pain of death ; and that in prosecutions for sedition or treason, where the accused should happen to be mixed civilians and military men, it should be competent to the Government to send the former for trial before the ordinary tribunals, and the militairesbefore a Court- mar- tial. Laws of a similar and even more comprehensive character had already existed in France. That which applied to misprision of trea- son was abolished in 1832. That which empowered Government to send political offenders of all classes for trial before a Council of War, and which was the offspring of the Republic ( enacted on the 13th Brumaire, An 4), was virtually annulled by the Charter of 1830. The Chamber met at two o'clock, according with the announce- ment, and was termed an extraordinary Sitting, the Chamber having adjourned till Thursday. The projet de loi, however, for punishing " non- revelation" was not presented, the Minister of War confining his proposition to sending accused military men before Courts Mar- tial and civilians before civil tribunals.— The Minister of Marine also presented a law establishing the Isle of Bourbon as a place of banishment for criminals condemned to that sentence. Letters from Toulon mention that Admiral Hugon will, after his squadron has been refitted and reprovisioned in Brest harbour, assume the naval command of the fleet of transports destined for the African expedition. By the Paris papers of Wednesday we learn that arrests continued to take place every day, but it was not believed that Meunier had implicated any individual in his crime. It was said in the Chamber of Peers on Wednesday that Meunier would be brought to trial im- mediately; that the proceedings would be simplified and reduced within the dimensions of a Swiss Court- Martial, which rarely occu- pied more than an hour, although the execution of the culprit— for no doubt of his condemnation could be entertained— would not take place until the morning following the day of his trial. The Gazette de France states that on Monday the prisoner refused all aliment, and declared his preference to die on his bed, to death on the scaffold. Government was unremitting in its surveillance of the army. The dismissal of Colonel Brice, of the 3d Regiment of Cuirassiers, in con- sequence, it was said, of something equivocal in his conduct at the period of the revolt of Strasburg, had created a considerable sensation in the army, but the nature of which does not appear. The Chamber of Peers sat, for the first time during many days, on Wednesday, when M. Persil ( Minister of Justice) presented a projet de loi for re- establishing the three articles of the Code Penal, respect- ing" non- revelation ( misprision of treason), which had been abolished in April 1832; also a projet de loi for defining the authority of the Chamber of Peers as a Criminal Court; and a third to regulate the judicial mode of proceeding by the Chamber when so constitued a Court of Justice. The grippe ( influenza) was daily extending itself in Paris, but was yet comparatively mild. These papers mention the disappearance of the managing partner or clerk of a great banking house in that capital, leaving debts to the amount of five millions of francs ( 200,0001.) SPAIN.— The most recent advices from the Spanish capital bear date the 17th inst. They represent the Cabinet to be in a precarious position, although not actually dissolved or disarranged. From the frontier we learn that the Christinos, on the morning of 18th, made a sortie from Bilboa, in a body of 3,000 men. They directed their attempt upon Munguia, but were repulsed by four companies of the Biscay troops, and driven into the town again with loss. The Carlists maintained all their posts of observation on the town, and were in good heart. Late accounts from Bilboa represent it to be suffering still from want of provisions: the troops within the walls were disorderly, and the shopkeepers were afraid to open their warehouses for fear of being pillaged. A sortie of the British Legion had been repelled by the Carlists. Sarsfield's inactivity had created a belief that the combined attack said to have been planned between him and Espartero had been abandoned. The head- quarters of Don Carlos were at Durango on the 18th. The Carlists were displaying activity in fortifying Irun. A new levy of all the men between the ages of 18 and 50 years had been ordered by Don Carlos. The nomination of Don Jose de Morejon as Minister of the Council General of the Affairs of the Kingdom had given satisfaction, inasmuch as it evinced regard for the late univer- sal Minister, Erro. A flag of parley arrived at the head quarters of Don Sabastian, at Zomosa, on the loth, with an offer on the part of Espartero to effect an exchange of prisoners. The Commander- in- Chief of the Carlist forces accepted the proposal, as he has 2,000 rank and file, and 200 officers, of the Christino army, in his depot. TURKEY.— Letters from Constantinople, dated December 28, men- tion the capture of an English schooner ( the Vixen) by a Russian brig of war. This intelligence had been received from the Captain of an Austrian vessel which had just arrived from the Black Sea, who declared, that having been forced by stress of weather, to put in to Caffa, an officer from the Russian brig sent to him to inquire if he had met the English vessel at sea. On receiving an answer in the negative, the Russian Commander sent an express over land to Kertch to ascertain whether the prize had entered that port. A question arose in consequence at Constantinople, whether the En- glish Government would put up with this fresli insult to the British flag. Not more than two years ago ( observes fhe writer) another vessel, the Charles Spencer, was stopped at sea by a Russian man- of- war, visited, and taken into Kertch, but no reparation for that insult was ever demanded. The Russian tariff' has been published; and we observe that the services of Lord Durham, in rendering its terms favourable to Eng- land, are most boastfully insisted upon by the Ministerial journals. His Lordship, it appears, has caused the report of the absolute pro- hibition of a great number of articles, hitherto altogether excluded, only substituting for that prohibition, prohibition in the shape of enormous duties. One. example will serve as well as a dozen. The import duty upon cotton goods stands in the tariff at from two rubles to two rubles rive copecks per lb. The ruble is of variable value, but we shall not deviate from a fair average; at least we shall not under- rate in fixing this duty at more than 5s. per lb. Such are Lord Durham's magnificent diplomatic services. An official account has been published of the capture of the Vixen. According to. the Russian statement she was violating the Customs and Quarantine laws of the Russian empire. New Yorkpapers to the 31st of December containsome intelligence from Mexico, by which we learn that General Bravo had resigned his command of the army against Texas, and many of the other officers were against proceeding. The troops at Tampico had, how- ever, proceeded as far as Martamoras. The advices from Rio Grande state that the rebel troops under Gonsalvez were totally defeated on the 4th October, losing in killed 280 men, aud 950 men being taken prisoners. The city ot Port Alegrehad been illuminated inconse- quence of this victory. We have a confirmation in these papers of the intelligence that Santa Anna was on his way to the United States. He had arrived at Plaquemine, on the Mississippi. GREAT PROTESTANT MEETING IN DUBLIN. A young female, a servant to Mr. Watkis, of Abbev Foregate, Shrewesbury, was accidentlv shot by the footman on Thursday, and died the following day. The footman was examining a fowling- piece, without knowing it was loaded, which he held in the direction of the deceased, when by some accident it went off, lodging the con- tents in the poor girl's abdomen.— Salopian Journal. On Tuesday, the 24th, the great Meeting of the leading Protestants of Ireland was held in Dublin, It took place in the King's Room, at the Mansion House— the largest chamber, perhaps, in the kingdom. A large platform was erected, capable of containing 500, on which the Peers, their sons, the Baronets, Members of Parliament, pro- posers and seconders of resolutions, and a few of the leading and mfluentia] gentlemen from every county in Ireland, were seated ; but, in point of fact, their being placed there formed no criterion by which to judge of the respectability and wealth of the meeting— for there were individuals in the body of the house possessing income averaging from one to ten thousand a- year. The gallery was filled with about 500 ladies of the first rank, who took an active and lively interest in the proceedings of the day, and encouraged the several speakers by their plaudits, the waving of their handkerchiefs, and other inspiring demonstrations. At no period of the day were there less than 3,500 persons in the room— the forms having been removed, the crowd presented a con- densed mass of human beings closely wedged, each occupying no more room than the space upon which he could stand. _ Throughout the provinces the meeting was regarded with an inten- sity of feeling not to be described; and the various counties, east, west, north, and south, poured their contributary streams to augment the great reservoir, which was that morning full to overflowing. The call of the eight patriotic noblemen upon their insulted, oppressed, assailed, and despised brethren, to make known their injuries to our gracious Sovereign and the two Houses of Legislature, could not fail to elicit a response, the sound of which will be long remembered. Among the noblemen and gentlemen present on the occasion were: — The Marquess of Downshire, the Marquess of Waterford ; the Earl of Rathdowne, Earl of Charleville, Earl of Donoughmore, Earl of Roden, Earl of Bandon, EavlofGljngall, Earl of Courtown ; Viscount Castlereagh, Viscount Jocelvn, Viscount Cole, Viscount Haberton, Viscount Doneraile, Viscount Corry; Lord Hawarden, Lord Rivers- dale, Lord Muskerry, Lord John Beresford, Major- General Lord Downes, Lord Clanbrook, Lord Crofton, Lord Claude Hamilton. Lord Clarina, Lord Hill, Lord Ferard, Lord Blaney ; Hon. General Pack- . enham, Hon. General O'Neil; Colonel Percival, M. P., Colonel Cle- ments, Colonel Palliser, Colonel Maxwell Close, Colonel Pigot, Col. Blacker, Col. Acton, Col. Hawkshaw, Col. Pratt; Anthony Lefroy, Esq., M. P.; Honourable Colonel Wingfield; Right. Hon. William Saurin; George Dunbar, M. P.; Hon. and Rev. C. Beresford ; Hon. T. Vesey. M. P.; H. Maxwell, M. P. ; Hon. Henry B. Beresford; Hon. the Dean of Ossory; Hon. and Rev. J. E. Maude : Hon. W. H. White ; Hon. T. Knox ; Hon. R. H. Hutchinson; Hon. Henry Waller ; Sir Robert Bateson, Bart., M. P.; Sir Michael Cusack Smith, Bart. ; Sir Erasmus Burrowes, Bart.; Sir E. Hayes. Bart., M. P.; Sir John K. James, Bart.; Sir Henry Jervis, Bart.; Sir James Bunbury, Bart.; Sir E. Weller, Bart.; Sir Compton Domville, Bart.; Sir Robert Shaw, Bart. Letters of apology were read from the Lords Abercorn, Donegal, Thomond, Westmeath, Londonderry, Mayo, Bantry, Enniskillen, O'Neill, Castlestewart, Clancarty, Norbury, Hillsborough, De Vesci, Castlemaine, Oxmantown, Dunlo, Beerhaven, Carbery, Dufferin and Claneboy, Farnham, Fitzgerald. The Marquess of Downshire was called to the Chair. The Reso- lutions were proposed and seconded by Lord Rathdowne and Lord Hawarden ; by the Earl of Roden and the Earl of Glengall; by the Marquess of Waterford and J. B. West. Esq., M. P.; by the Earl of Donoughmore and G. A. Hamilton, Esq., M. P.; by Lord Cas- tlereagh and Cha les Fox, Esq.; by the Rev. Mortimer O'Sullivan and Mr. Litton, K. C.; by the Earl of Courtown and J. B. Smith, Esq-.; by Lord Crofton and Dr. Longfield; by Lord Gort, Lord Powerscourt, & c. < fec. It is impossible for us to give even an outline of the eloquent addresses of the various speakers ; we shall best forward the objects of the Meeting by copying the resolutions in which their sentiments are embodied. RESOLUTIONS. " 1. That the Marquess of Downshire do take the chair. " 2. That Sir George Rich and Thomas Hamilton, Esq., be re- quested to act as secretaries to this meeting. " 3. That the Protestants of Ireland, from their numbers, wealth, intelligence, and position, are entitled to as ample a consideration and protection of their interests as any other class whatsoever of his Majesty's subjects in the realm. " 4. That at no period since the reformation have the Protestants of Ireland, whether by lack of industry, immoral habits, anti- social doctrines, or by failure of due allegiance to the Crown, forfeited the respect and confidence of any Government. " 5. That with grief they now witness, on the part of the Irish executive, a line of policy adopted towards them indicating the un- merited withdrawal of that countenance which, as loyal, peaceable, and industrious subjects, they conceive it their right to expect from any Administration conducting his Majesty's councils. " 6. That, with the exception of two disastrous periods, namely, in 1641 and 1687, the Protestant Churches_ have never been exposed to so fierce a persecution from their enemies, nor so utterly deserted by those who, as Ministers of a Protestant King, and the executive officers of a Protestant Government, should be their friends, as they are at the present crisis. " 7. That for the period of three years a practical penal code— worse, because more undefined, than a penal enactment— has been in operation against the Church, the privileges, the lives, and pro- perties of the Protestants of Ireland— abridging their civil and religious liberties— sapping their industry— endangering the security of their possessions— and exposing their persons to persecution and violence. " 8. Tha t a body, styling itself ' The General Association of Ire- land,' has for some time held, and now publicly holds its meetings in Dublin, and is actively and seditiously engaged in exciting and organising the people of this country, for the purpose of resisting the just prerogative of the Crown— for the spoliation of the Established Church— and severing the Union between Great Britain and Ireland ; and that such proceedings are connived at, and wholly unrestrained, by his Majesty's Government in Ireland. " 9. That the Act of legislative union was carried on the Jkpress, essential, and fundamental condition of the perpetual maintenance of the Protestant religion and Established Church as then by law existing in Ireland, and the further implied consideration of its affording an indissoluble guarantee to the Protestant institutions and settlement of Property in the country, and that all subsequent in- vestments of money in land and other securities effected here have been made on the faith of this international compact. " 10. That we view with the deepest regret any violation of this compact in ecclesiastical matters, and we would especially protest against the contemplated extinction or misappropriation of Church property to secular purposes. " 11.' That with respect to civil affairs also we feel that we have grievous cause of complaint— first, by reason of a national system of education, which, in its working, is so diametrically opposed to the first duty and highest privilege of Christianity that the Protestants of Ireland cannot conscientiously avail themselves of the advantages of the national endowment— and, secondly, in the projected abolition of existing municipal corporations, originally chartered for the encou- ragement of the Protestant religion, and the maintenance of the British interest, for the avowed object of transferring them, with all their power and privileges, to a party at once hostile to the Protest- ant religion and the British connexion. " 12. That in, the administration of justice the bias of an unfriendly Government is evident by the setting aside of the fit and competent gentlemen nominated for the office of High Sheriffs in the constitu- tional and legal mode by the Lord Chancellor and Judges of the land, and the arbitrary substitution of others in their stead, supposed to be more favourable to the objects" of the democratic party, and more pliant to the. will of the Irish executive. " 13. That the patronage of the Irish Government and its prero- gative of mercy have been abused, to the furtherance of purposes in- jurious to the peace of the country, the administration of its laws, and the stability of British connection— that partisans have been placed in office as assistant barristers, as magistrates, as officers in the constabulary and police, whose recommendation in some in- stances has been their unscrupulous attachment to a faction; and that appointments made in this spirit lave been subsidiary to the creation of fictitious voters, and have greatly prejudiced in public opinion the administration of justice. " 14. That the question of the Repeal of the Union, apparently abandoned by the leaders of the democratic movement, is still che- rished by them with a zeal and anxiety which only awaits an expe- dient occasion for renewed and still more decisive agitation; and that whilst the breaches of that national covenant already effected may justify that dangerous view of the case which would treat the compact a* avoided by the voidance of the ' essential and funda- mental' article, namely, the perpetual maintenance of the Protestant religion, the measures still menaced with respect to Church property, and municipal privileges ( if carried into law), may greatly strengthen the enemies of British connection, at the same time so weaken and disgust its friends in Ireland as to leave them unable to stand up effectually in its defence. " 15. That an humble and dutiful address be presented to his Majesty, praying him to take into his gracious consideration the condition of his Majesty's loyal Irish Protestant subjects in respect of their religious rights, their civil privileges, the education of their children, and the security of their lives and property ; and to take such measures, in his Royal care over the administration of his Government, that Ireland '" maybe neither lost nor given away;' and that these his faithful subjects may not continue to be exposed to the attempts now making to undermine and destroy their religion ; that they may be neither depressed nor peisecuted in, nor driven from, that land which they and their ancestors, ever since their first con- » ection with it, have preserved for his Majesty's Royal predecessors, and hitherto for his Royal Majesty himself, and this against his foes and theirs. And that the address be presented to his Majesty by the Marquess of Downshire and the seven Peers who have summoned this meeting. " 16. That the dignified and constitutional position assumed by the House of Lords, in reference to the encroachment sought to be made on the rights and liberties of the people, entitles them not only to the thanks and gratitude of the Irish Protestants, but to the admiration and respect of all his Majesty's loyal and faithful subjects, and more especially for the rejection of the clause for the appropriation of Church property— one admitted by the Prime Minister of the Crown to be a f heavy blow and great discouragement' to Protestantism in Ireland, as well as for their integrity in refusing to yield up the mu- nicipal corporations of this country to the enemies of our religion and the foes of British connexion. " 17. That the expression of our admiration, and of our heartfelt gratitude, is due to Lord Lyndhurst, for the high principle and con- stitutional wisdom with which he aided in exposing and frustrating the pernicious designs of those who, professing themselves advocates of the people, were their real enemies, and for the surpassing elo- quence by which he triumphantly vindicated the acts of the House of Peers from the aspersions cast upon them by fhe leaders and the slaves of an unprincipled faction. " 18, That the thanks of this meeting are eminently due to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor for the use of this splendid room for the great occasion which has this day called us together, as well as for the accommodation afforded by his Lordship to our Committee and Secretaries, by appropriating chambers in the Mansion House for their meetings, and for the issuing of tickets. " 19. That petitions in accordance to these resolutions be presented to both Houses of Parliament— that to the House of Lords by tho Marquess of Downshire and the seven other reuuisitionists of the meeting, and that to the Commons by the Representatives of the city of Dublin, where this great meeting has been held. " 20. That we cannot separate without expressing our grateful thanks to the eight Peers of Parliament, who, seeing the dangers with which we are threatened, in our properties, privileges, and lives, have convened us at this awful and important crisis. " That the thanks of this meeting be given by acclamation to the Most Noble the Marquess of Downshire, for his dignified and im- partial conduct in the chair." A " protest" has been got up by the Papist and pro- Papist Peers and Commons. For a description of the affair we are indebted to the Standard:— It is to be remarked, that of the subscribers to the protest, many are English non- resident landlords. The Duke of Devonshire, the Marquess of Anglesea, Earl Fitzwilliam, for example ; and some like the Earls of Ludlow, and Essex, Lords Rancliffe and Strafford, are men not connected even by property with Ireland; and who probably never put a foot in that country in their lives. By the way, according to Lodge, and Lodge is generally pretty accurate, Lord Essex is not even an Irish Peer, nor as far as we are able to discover, is the Mar- quess of Anglesea, but he has Irish property. On the other side, all the noblemen who attended the meeting, are rosident Irish landlords, and either Irish Peers, or Peers created since the Union. It is neces- sary fo remark this, because the protest issetoffasa protest of Irish Protestants, though in fact, the whole number of Irish Protestants who have signeditis but 18. Thus, as far as wehavegone, wehave 38 Protestants Peers, resident Irish landlords, against 18. But the matter will not stop here. Meanwhile as the pretence is set up that a pro- Papist Protestant party still exists in the sister island, let the Duke of Leinster, by all means rejecting the " hole and corner" system " Once so scorned by blue and buff," as Mr. Canning sings— let his Grace call a public meeting, of such pro- Papist Protestants ( a small room will suffice.) Three or four of the mangiest joints of Mr. O'Connell's " Tail" with the 18 dirty coronets, dragged after the manner of old kettles by that " Tail," will make up the array. Monday evening as Mr. Lovecamp, an egg- merchant residing at Pentonville, was proceeding in his cart along the New- road, the horse took fright, and the reins fell to the ground. In attempting to reach them Mr. L. overbalanced himself, and pitched head foremost into the road, when the off- wheel of the vehicle passed over him, crushing his leg and thigh in a dreadful manner. He was conveyed to his own home in a very alarming state. ATTEMPT AT MURDER.— AS Mr. James Esdaile, hat- manufacturer, of Oxford- street, Manchester, was proceeding along the Stretford new road, on his return home, at a late hour on the night of the 14th inst., he was suddenly attacked by three men, with the most horrid impre- cations, who demanded his money. Finding Mr. Esdaile hesitate, one of the villains seized him by the throat, and made a most determined attempt to strangle him by thrusting his hands between his stock and neck. Mr. Esdaile struggled violently with his assailant, when he called to his companions, who instantly knocked him down with iron bars. They then all three fell upon him, and beat him with the bars in the most inhuman manner, inflicting several deep wounds on his head, and also a number of severe bruises upon different parts of his body; and after robbing him of a silk purse with ivory slides, containing 20 sovereigns, which was in his pocket, which they tore away, they decamped, leaving the unfortunate gentleman for dead, in which state he was discovered some time afterwards by some persons who were returning along the road to Manchester. They immediately conveyed Mr. Esdaile to the nearest house, when on the application of proper restoratives he revived; and after the wounds were dressed he was conveyed home to Manchester, where he lies in a very precarious state. The only description Mr. Esdaile is able to give of the villains, for whose discovery a reward of 501. has been offered, is, that two of them wore short coats, such as are worn by carters, and the third wore along light- coloured coat. On Thursday evening an inquest was held at Ancoats, on . the bodies of Catharine and John Orrell, who had both been found dead in bed that morning. It appeared in evidence that the mother was afflicted with cough and asthma, and Mr. Oilier said there was every probability that she had died suddenly from their effects. From the position of the bodies, it is supposed that in the agonies of death the mother had ulasped the child's mouth to her breast, and thereby suffocated it. The Jury returned a verdict accordingly.— Manchester Courier. SINGULAR CREDULITY NEAR ROCHDALE.— A poor man and his wife, at Belfield, near this town, have been greatly alarmed by the following circumstance:— On Thursday last, when the husband went into the hen- roost for the eggs, he was astonished to find upon one egg the following words:—" Repent, for the hour is nigh." Under these words were a death's head and cross bones, besides some other hieroglyphics, resembling Hebrew characters. On Saturday and Sunday hundreds of people went from all parts to l< jok. at this won- ful egg. Any one who hazarded a suspicion that the hen had not laid the egg such as it now appears, was unceremoniously classed among infidels. The engraving upon the egg is ingeniously done, and appears to be the work of an artist. Of course, the use of a little acid will explain the whole mystery.— Manchester Guardian. A ludicrous incident occurred a few days since in one of our Churches. A pair presented themselves at the hymeneal altar to be united in wedlock's holy bands. The ceremony was proceeding, when smoke was discovered issuing from the person of the bride- groom. Alarm being given the parish clerk ( not the engine) was at hand, and, with the assistance of the wedding party, extinguished the conflagration.— Cause and Effect.— The depositing a short pipe, charged with bacca half burnt out, and the remainder igniting the smalls, which caused no small merriment, and was considered of small importance, although the premises were not insured.— Norfolk Chronicle. January 22 JOHN BULL. 55 NAVAL AND MILITARY. WAR OFFICE, Jan. 2,1837. The names of ( he undermentioned officers were omitted in fhe list of those promoted by Brevet in the Gazette of the 10th of Januaiv instant, viz. :— To be Major- Gens, in the Army— Col. H. Shadforth, h.- p. 10th Foot; Col. P. J Parrv h- u 6th Garriaon Battalion ; Col. J. K. Money, h.- p. Armstrong's corps. To ll Cob il " * ' - * c. i d:_ it it v. nim, u I. I.' . t : . c. i i the Army— Lieut.- Col. Sir T. H Browne, h.- p. 23d F. ; Lieut- Co). T. W. Forster, h.- p. 24th F.; Lieut.- Col. A. Maelachlan, h.- p. 69th; Lieut.- Col. P Burke h.- p. 96th ; Lieut.- Col. J. Wbetham, h.- p. 1st Garrison Battalion ; Lieut- Col. T. Wildman, h.- p. 9th Lt. Drags.; Lieut.- Col. H. Standish, h.- p. 39th Foot; Lieut.- Col. J. W. Aldred, h.- p. 60th Foot. To be Lieut- Col. in the Army— Major G. Quill, h.- p. Unattached. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Jan. 21. Royal Reg. of Artillery— Second Capt. J. Romaine Hornsby to be Capt.; First Lieut. R. Shepherd to be Second C'apt., vice Hornsby; Second Lieut. A. G. Bur- rows to be First Lieut., vice Shepherd. Commission signed by the Lord Lieut, of the County of Warwick— Warwick- shire Regiment of Militia— W. J. Hooper, Esq., to be Capt., vice Braitsford, resg. WAR OFFICE, Jan. 27. 1st Drags.— Lieut.- Gen. the Rt. Hon. Sir R. H. Vivian, Bt., K. C. B., from the 12th Lt. Drags., to be Col., vice Maj.- Gen. the Hon. Sir F. C. Ponsonby, dec. 12th Lt. Drag*.— Lieut.- Gen. Sir H. J. Cumming to be Col., vice Lieut.- Gen. Sir R. H. Vivian, appointed to the command of the 1st Drags. 8th Foot— Capt. R. Westenra, from the h.- p. Unattached, to be Capt., vice W. Calder, who exchs. 48th Foot— Ens. and Adjt. H. Wheeler to have the rank of Lieut. 50th— Lieut. H. Gunton to be Captain, by pur., vice M'Lean, who rets.; Ens. H. Staple- ton to be Lieut., bv pur., vice Gunton; H. Hill, Gent., to be Ens., by, pur., vice Sfapleton. 55th— E. Pitman, Gent., to be Ens., by pur., vice Fraser, prom, in the Royal African Colonial Corps. 69th— Gent. Cadet T. J. Kearney, from the R. M. C., to be Ens., without pur., vice Geddes, prom, in the2d West India Reg. 95th— Lieut. W. Newhouse to be Capt., without pur., vice Fraser, dec.; Lieut. J. F. Sparke, from the 2d West India Reg., to be Lieut., vice Newhouse. 2d West India Reg.— Ens. A. Geddes, from the 69th, to be Lieut., without pur., vice Sparke, appointed to the 95th Foot. Royal African Colonial Corps— Ens. W. Fraser, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieut., without pur., vice Hely, who rets. Hospital Staff— Brevet Deputy- Inspector of Hospitals Thomas Kidd, M. D., to be Deputy- Inspector- General of " Hospitals, vice Skey, prom. Commissariat.— To be Commissaries- General to the Forces— Deputy Commissaries- GeneralH. Cocksedge, W. Petrie, J. H. Adams. To be Deputy Commissaries- General— Assist. Corns.- Gen. N. Malassez, H. J. Wild. C. Palmer, W. Miller, W. Laidlev, W. Auther. J. Laidley, W. Hayward, H. Hill, F. E. ICnowles, A. Moodie. To be Assist. Corns. Gen.— Deputy Ass'ist. Coms.- Gen. T. Rayner, M. Bailev, J. Woolrabe, J. David, son, J. Leggatt, W. Bailey, C. W. Beverley, E. Eyl, J. Lane, G. Swinney, W. Ragland, G. Elliot, A. Chalmers, W. F. Bowman, J. D. Watt, J. Slade. To be Deputy Assist. Corns.- Gen.— Coin. Clerk T. J. Lamprier, Com. Clerk G. Shep- heard, Com. Clerk R. Neill, Com. Clerk E. T. Grindley, Com. Clerk W. Maturin. Com. Clerk J. W. Bovell, Com. Clerk W. Dalrymple, Com. Clerk R. Routh, Com. Clerk A. Edwards. Memorandum — His Majesty has been graciously pleased to permit the 72d ( formerly 78th) Regiment to bear on its colours and appointments, in addition to any other badges or distinctions heretofore granted, the word 11 Hindoostan," in commemoration of the meritorious services of the regi- ment while in India, from the year 1782 to 1798. This distinction has already been granted to the 36th, 52d, and 71st ( formerly 73d) Regiments, which were employed in India about the same period, and on the same services. OFFICE OF ORDINANCE, Jan. 26. Royal Artillery— First Lieut. G. H. Hyde to be Second Capt., vice King, dec.; Second Lieut. M. C. Marston to be First Lieut., vice Hyde. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Ayr.— Royal Ayr- shire Militia— Maj. W. Neill to be Lieut- Col., vice G. Farquhar, dec. NAVAL PROMOTIONS, APPOINTMENTS, & Q. Captain— C. Paget to the Howe. Commodore, 2d Class— T. B. Sullivan, C. B, Commanders— Hon. F. T. Pelham, to the Tweed ; Lord C. Paget, to the Pearl, vice Maitland ; F. Harding, to the Pelorus. Lieutenants— Hon. S. Carnegie ( from the Castor), to the North Star ; H. T. Laye, to the Stag, vice Worth, pro- moted ; W. H. Dore, to the Semaphore station, Kingston, Surrey, W. T. Grif- fiths, to the Britannia; V. A. Massingberd, to the Pelorus; — Villiers, late mate of the Ringdove ; J. Lodwick. Surgeon— P. Suther, to the Victory. Purser— A. Frame, to the North Star. Mates— Villiers, of the Ringdove, to be Lieut.; T. , H. Lysaght ( college) to the Britannia; T. L. Provost, to the Favourite. Assist- ant- Surgeons— P. Reilly ( additional), to the Britannia ; W. Orr ( supernumerary), to the Royal Adelaide ; T. Reid, to the Pelorus. Volunteers, 1st Class— F. La- pidge, to the North Star ; Smith, to the Bellerophcn. Boatswain— E. Aldridge to the North Star. Carpenter- D. Peas, to the North Star. Gunner's Mate— J, Sawyer, to be gunner of the Falcon. PORTMOUTH, JAN. 26.— His Majesty's ship, Sparrowhawk, Com- mander Charles Pearson, arrived on Monday,' in forty- two days from Rio, eighty- one days from Valparaiso ; she brings home 250,000 dol- lars on merchants' accounts. Mr. Beercroft, master of his Majesty's ship Blonde, came home passenger in her. She has come into har- bour to be paid off. His Majesty's ship Edinburgh is dismantled, and will be paid off early in the next week. His Majesty's ship Hercules arrived on Monday from Plymouth ; she is now under weigh, having been ordered round to the eastward. His Majesty's ship Pelorus was commissioned on Thursday. The following officers have been appointed to her:— Commander Francis Harding; Lieutenant V. A. Massingberd; Purser C. T. Thornton ; Assistant- Surgeon T. Reid. Captain Sir Richard Grant is appointed Flag- Captain to Rear- Admiral Sir Charles Paget, for the West Indies. His Majesty's ship Griffon, for the coast of Africa, remains at Spilhead. Arrived on Monday, from Lisbon, last from Plymouth, H. M. S. Hercules, 74, Capt. Maurice F. Berkeley. She left Cadiz on the 5th December, and reached the Tagus on the 1st January, where she left the Hastings, 74, Pembroke, 74, Minden, 84, Russell, 74, and Malabar, 74. The whole of the French line- of- battle ships had left the Tagus for Brest. The orders for the Castor frigate, to come info this harbour to be paid off, having been countermanded, that ship sailed for Chatham on Saturday for that purpose. H. M. S. North Star, 28, has been commissioned at this port for service on the North Coast of Spain. Capt. William Robertson and Lieut, the Hon. S. Carnegie ( son of the late Earl of Northesk), have been appointed to her. She is intended to bear the broad pendant of Commodore Lord John Hay. Orders have been sent to Woolwich to prepare for embarking more of the Royal Artillery for the north coast of Spain. Lieutenants Warburton and Dickson, and 50 men, are in readiness the moment one of his Majesty's steam vessels arrives from the westward to con- vey them to St. Sebastian, where they will be under the orders of one of their Field Officers, who left here some time ago with 30 men. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE. PREFERMENTS. Lord Cartaret has appointed the Rev. WILLIAM YORKE DRAPER, Rector of Brooke, Kent, to be one of his Lordship's Domestic Chap- lains. The Rev. JAMES APPLETON, M. A., to the Vicarage of St. Neots, on the presentation of the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. J. FERNIE, Head Master of the Devonport Classical and Mathematical School, appointed evening Lecturer at St. Aubyn Chapel. The Rev. JOHN BLATHWAYT, Clerk, A. M., to the perpetual Curacy of Leiston, with the Chapel of Sizewell, Suffolk ; on the nomination of the Master and Wardens of the Company of Haberdashers in the City of London. OBITUARY. In Grosvernor- street, the Right Hon. and Rev. the Earl of Plymouth. In Halfmoon- street, the Rev. Alexander C. L. R. D'Arblay, M. A., Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, Minister of Ely Chapel, grandson of the late Charles Burney, Esq., Mus. D., and only child of Madame D'Arblay. Aged 46, the Rev. Francis Freer Clay, M. A., fourteen vears Minister of Wrox- hall, and upwards of twenty- four years one of the Assistant Masters of the Free Grammar School of Birmingham. At Crickhowel, Brecon- hire, deeply and most deservedly lamented, the Rev. Henry Vaughan, aged 34, Vicar of that place, and late Minister of Park Chapel, Chelsea. In the 87th year of his age, the Rev. Thomas Finch, M. A. Vicar of Barrington, and Hauxton- cum- Newton, Cambridgeshire. Aged 69, the Rev. Edward Harbin, of Takeley Vicarage, in the county of Essex, Vicar of that parish 35 years. Atthe Rectory, Stathern, Leicestershire, the Rev. Wiiliam Greenwood, Vicar of Hose, and Curate of Stathern. He had been Vicar of Hose 36 years, and Curate of Stathern upwards of forty. The Rev. W. M. Heald, aged 70, for three years Curate, and subsequently for 35 years Vicar of the Parish of Birstal, Yorkshire. At Standlake, Oxfordshire, in the 83d year of his age, the Rev. James Stopes, M. A., 42 years Vicar of Worminghall, in the county of Bucks, and Curate of 1 ,7- 1/ t il... ... f. r i J Standlake* and Yelford, in the county of Oxford. "* IB " " ' ' he I Mr. S. held also the* Rectory of Great Poring- After an illness of five days, the Rev. John Stevens, Vicar of Swalcliffe with Epwell, in the county of Oxford. " ' " -- - land, Norfolk. Aged 63, the Rev. Middleton Onslow, Rector of Bradford Peverell, in the county of Dorset. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, Jan. 28.— On Saturday last J. Thomas, Esq., of Trinity coll., was admitted to the degree of Bachelor in Civil Law. In a Convocation holden on Thursday- last, the Rev. T. Stone, M. A., of St. John's coll., Cambridge, was admitted ad eundem. In a Congregation holden the same day, the following degrees were conferred '.— Doctor in Divinity: F. C. Plumptre, Master of Uni- versity coll.— Bachelor in Divinity: C. Williams, Fellow of Jesus coll.— Masters of Arts: D. Butler, Rev. O. Fox, Lincoln coll.; J. G. Domville, Christ Church; R. Blackburn, Fellow of Brasennose coll.; T. Prothero, Brasennose coll.— Bachelors of Arts: G. Mel- lish, University coll., grand comp.; F. M. Rowden, Waaliam coll.; W. C. F. Webber. VY. G. Penny, Students of Christ Church; J. R. O. Gore, Christ Church; R. Kent, Brasennose coll.; W. Robbins, Worcester coll. MISCELLANEOUS. ^ KING'S COLLEGE AND THE LONDON UNIVERSITY.— The Council of King's College, we are informed, are about to print and circulate the following:— '• His MAJESTY having been pleased to incorporate a University in London by a charter, which includes the students of King's College in the number of those who may be candidates for Degrees, the Council of the College think it right to make a declaration of their adherence to the principles upon which the institution confided to their management was founded and has been conducted. The Council retain, unqualified and unmodified, their deep and thorough persuasion that there is no other sure foundation for national edu cation, than the doctrines of the Christian religion. In the imme- diate conduct of the institution committed to their charge, they have never ceased to feel, and the experience of every day confirms them in the conviction, that, by educating in the principles of the Church of England that portion oftheyouth of the country entrusted to them, they are maintaining and advancing the best interests of the nation at large. So long as means are placed in their hands, they will endeavour, with GOD'S blessing, to carry this principle into the fullest operation. " By order ofthe Council. " Jan. 20,1837." " H. SMITH, Sec. The funeral of that benevolent, beloved, and venerable man, the Rev. G. HATCH, M. A\, took place at mid- day on Saturday the 21st inst. Prior to the service, theoody was borne in procession, preceded by parochial and ward- officers, round the streets of the parish; all the shops and warehouses in which were closed, and the population attended the Church, St. Matthew's, Friday- street, and Peter's, West- cheap ; all who had the means being attired in mourning, and those of a less wealthy class joining them in " the mourning of the heart." One of his oldest servants, to each of whom he left 501., died two or three days after him, and was interred in the same Church, and on the same day. One of the new schools at Liverpool, for the erection of which a sum of upwards of 11,0001. was subscribed in consequence ofthe Town Council haying introduced the Catholic system of education into the Corporation schools, was opened on Tuesday. It is only four months since the first stone was laid. CAMBRIDGE BACHELORS' COMMENCEMENT.— It results from the recent examination for degrees at Cambridge University that the following individuals are the first men of this year at their respective colleges:— Griffin ( Senior Wrangler), of St. John's ; Green, of Caius; Gregory, of Trinity; Raven, of Magdalen; Pullin, of Corpus; Reynolds, of Queen's; Craufurd, of Jesus; Elwyn, of Pembroke,- Dalton, of Caius; Holmes, of Catharine; Bell, of Clare ; Osbourne, of Sydney; Routh, of Christ's ; Heath, of Trinity Hall; Gilbert, of Emmanuel; Freeman, of Peter's. We hear that St. James's Church, Piccadilly is to be re- opened for public worship on the first Sunday iu March, and that the Bishop of LONDON is expected to preach on the occasion. It is the intention of the Lord Bishop of BATH and WELLS to hold a general ordination on Sunday the 9th of April next, and candidates are required to send in their- papers on or before the 1st of March. A circular has been issued by the Bishop of WINCHESTER re- lative to the intended formation, in his diocese, of a Church Build- ing Society, similar to those which had lately been established, in other parts ofthe kingdom. The Archbishop of YORK has placed at the disposal of the Church Commissioners the sinecure prebend of Strensall, in the Cathedral Clfurch of York, the incumbent having voluntarily resigned it, in order that its revenues may be applied towards the augmentation of poor livings. The Rev. Dr. DONNE, late Head Master of Oswestry Free Gram- mar School, has recently gone to reside in his parish of Llanyblod- well, to which he was inducted in 1798. The Venerable Vicar, a short time ago, gave a bountiful feast to all his tithe payers, at the Vicarage, and the Rev. Host intimated that his tithes due at Michaelmas would not be called for before March; at which time it was his intention to make an abatement of 151. per cent. He has made a considerable allowance for several years. CHESTER CHURCH BUILDING SOCIETY.— The handsome donation of 1001. has been received by the Rev. H. GUNNING, from MERRICK BANKES, Esq., of Winstanley- park, in aid of the Chester Church Building Society, which togetherwith the sum of 2521. 7s. collected in the town and vicinity of Wigan, has been transmitted to the bank at Liverpool.— JVigan Gazette. On Wednesday se'nnight a vestry meeting of the parishioners of Chelmsford, Essex, was held in the parish Church, for the purpose of making a Church- rate in lieu of that made in August last, which was deemed invalid. The Rev. C. A. St. JOHN MILDMAY took the chair. Mr. GEPP, one of the Churchwardens, stated that they should require a rate of7d. in the pound. Mr. BARTLETT proposed that a 7d. rate should be granted. The Rev. J. GRAY, a Dissenting minister, opposed the rate, on the ground that a national Church was unscrip- tural, and moved as an amendment that no rate be granted. Mr. WELLS seconded the amendment. After a long discussion the chairman put the question, when there appeared a large majority for the rate, and he declared it to be carried. Mr. COPELAND then on behalf of the opposers of the rate, intimated that as they did not con- sider themselves in a position to resist it they should not demand a poll. A poll on the question of a Church- rate has taken place at Taunton, which continued through a portion of two days, when at the close the numbers were for the rate, 274; and against the rate, 218; giving a majority of 56 in favour ofthe rate. SOCIETY FOR PROPAGATING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.— The 24th Anniversary meeting of the Chichester branch of this Society was recently held in the library ofthe Cathedral. The statement of the operations of the Committee for the past year, submitted to the meeting, was most satisfactory. Many new subscribers' names were announced, and the funds were in so flourishing a condition, that a donation of 581. 19s. 3d. was ordered to be transmitted from the funds to the Parent Society. The number of books dispensed by the Committee in the course of the year, was 556 bibles, 437 testaments, 1,242 prayer books, 921 of the larger bound books, and 12,005 tracts. THE CHURCH COMMISSION. The Gazette of Tuesday contains two Orders of His Majesty in Council, ratifying two more of the schemes ( the fifth and sixth) pre- pared by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. The main objects of the first order are, to charge the See of Durham with its proposed contribution towards the smaller Bishoprics, and to endow the newly constituted Bishopric of Ripon. The contribu- tion from Durham is to be made partly by a transfer of estates be- longing to that See but situate in Yorkshire, and partly by a fixed money payment to an account opened by the Commissioners at the Bank of England. The annual sum thus charged upon the revenues of the See or Durham, so as to leave the Bishop the annual average income of 8,0001., allotted by the Act, after allowing for the value of the abstracted estates, is 11,2001. By this arrangement the order carries out the evident intention of the Church Commissioners in their original propositions, to retain to the contributing Bishops the independent management of the remaining property of the respective Sees. A similar plan, e converso, has been adopted in endowing the Bishopric of Ripon. The estates abstracted from Durham are trans- ferred to the new See, with some other property from the See of York; and a fixed annual sum of 2^ 001. is to be paid to the Bishop by the Commissioners, which, together W'ith the estimated value of the transferred estates, is to provide him with the allotted average income of 4,5001. The effect of this form of endowment is to place the Bishop of the new See as nearly as possible upon the same independ- ent footing as the other Bishops of England and Wales. The estates conferred upon the Bishop of Ripon from the See of York are situate within tbe limits of the new diocese, and part of them appear, from their description in the Order, to be conveniently situate for an episcopal residence. The order recites the consent of the Archbishop of York to this voluntary and immediate surrender of property, the transfer of which, however eligible, could not, with- out this consent, have taken place until the See became vacant. The patronage of five livings is also assigned to the Bishop of Ripon : four of these are tranferred to Durham, and the other, situate within the limits of Ripon, is also voluntarily surrendered by the Archbishop of York. There are some minor provisions, the general effect of which is to make the episcopal jurisdiction co- extensive with the diocesan boundaries. The second Order in Council carries into effect the greater part ofthe territorial changes proposed bv the Commissioners relating to the dioceses of Lichfield and Coventry and Worcester. The whole of the Archdeaconry of Coventry is transferred to Worcester, and the name of the former Bishopric is consequently changed into that of Lichfield. Attending upon this arrangement is the tranfer to the Bishop of Worcester of two hvmgs in Birmingham. It may be well here to point out the distinction, apparently not fullv understood, between the Commission issued bv His Majesty for considering the state ofthe Established Church, wh'ich has still under consideration the measures affecting cathedrals and the parochial Clergy, and the " Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England," ap- pointed by the Act of last session, for carrying iDto eftect, within pre- scribed limits, such recommendations made under the former Com- mission as relate to the Bishoprics. Although the two bodies consist of the same individuals, their duties and the powers under which they act are entirely distinct.— Times. IRELAND" DUNG ARVAN.— The hoys of this borough are likely to have a repre- sentative. Master Power will do them the favour to give them the benefit of his matured experience and tried integrity in the protec- tion of their interests, conjointly with those of the state. We thought that all their swagger about changing the assizes and bringing fresh water into the town, was mere moonshine. But now, faith, the as- pect of affairs looks rather serious. With the will, they will soon have the Power ; and then— God help poor old Waterford ! In the mean time, is this little boy to walk over ? • P. S. We learn that Master Power has got leave from school, and may be expected on his new hobby- horse to canvass the electors.— ( Faterford Mail. A tithe sale of agricultural produce was attempted on Wednesday last, at Ballyfad, confines of the county Wexford. Plaintiff was the Rev. Ralph Cummins, and the defendants were Miss Margaret Ford and Mr. Michael Doyle. No bidder could be procured, out of an at- tendance of twenty thousand people. DUBLIN, Jan. 21.— The Master ofthe Rolls was buried this morn- ing at Rathfarnham. The funeral was quite private, as requested by the deceased. Some particulars of his will have transpired ; I give them as I have heard them. His eldest son, Sir Beresford MacMa- lion, has been left 1,0001. per annum; the second eldest 3001. per annum. Lady MacMahon has a jointure of 1001. a year. The rest, residue, and remainder of his property, amounting to between 200,0001. and 300,0001., is willed to the younger children bv the second marriage, under what conditions I have not learned.— Private Cor- respondence ofthe Morning Post. Not less than six of the persons who voted for Mr. Fox have been attacked in their houses and persons on Sunday and Monday night last in the county of Longford. At the chapel of Legan on Sunday, as the Priest was ascending the altar arrayed in his vestments, one ofthe ruffians roared out, " I smell a Fox";" another said, " I smell another." The Priest forgetful of his sacred office, turned round, and, joining in the yelp, said, " Hunt them out." A scene of con- fusion ensued, and the objects of their hatred had to retire, from fear of further violence. LONDONDERRY CONSERVATIVE ASSOCIATION.— On Tuesday a most numerous meeting of the gentry of the city and county of London- derry was held in the Council- chamber, Corporation- hall, for the purpose of forming themselves into a Conservative society, Sir R. Bate- son, Bart., M. P., in the chair. The proceedings occupy seven columns of tliQ, Londonderry Standard. Colonel Conolly, M. P., Capt. Jones, M. P., and a great number of the gentry and Clergy were in attend- ance. Resolutions were adopted and a Committee appointed for the purpose of securing an effective registry of the bona fide electors. DEATH OF THOMAS KAVANAGH, ESQ.— With feelings of deep and unfeigned sorrow we have to record the death of the above estimable gentleman, at three o'clock on Friday, at his residence, Boms House, from the effects of gout, which had reached the stomach. Accounts of this melancholy event reached this town on Saturday morning, most unexpectedly, as we had heard on Friday that he was recovering. We cannot find language to convey the regret we feel for the loss of a high- minded gentleman, the best of landlords, an im- partial M agistrate, a true Conservative, and throughout every relation of life, a kind friend, a munificent patron of the poor, and a devoted Christian.— Carlow Sentinal. A duel was fought on Friday last near Sligo, between Capt. Faus- sett and a Mr. J. P. Somers, who has identified himself lately with the Radicals in that county, to try to get a seat in Parliament. Captain Faussett's bail struck his antagonist in the side ; it was for- tunately turned off by the buckle of his suspender. THE MURDER AT DENVER.— Downham, Jan. 24.— The suspected murderers of Hannah Mansfield were brought here again yesterday for further examination. A host of witnesses came from various places to identify the persons of the prisoners, and to trace their course after the murder. It will be recollected that they were seen at three o'clock on the morning ofthe 3d of January about a mile from the scene of the murder; and at daylight they were observed passing through Wisbeach St. Mary's, seventeen miles off; thence, through Parson- drove, they arrived at a small retired public- house in the ; ton St. Edmonds', called the Mother, Red Cap, where parish of Sutton , ... they remained two hours. From this place they proceeded to another house, about a mile further, called the White House. At both these places they paid their reckoning with bright and apparently new silver, ofthe dates of 1816 and 1817. They then went to Whaplode- drove, about 4j miles, where . they stopped two days. Here two of them destroyed their old boots and bought two new pairs. They were afterwards observed to drop from one of their pockets some silver tea- spoons, a pair of sugar- bows, and a glass. They next pro- ceeded through Thorney, to Whittlesea, where the relations of one of them reside. Here they offered some melted silverfor saletoa whi'e- smith, and desired him to sell it for them, which he not being able to accomplish they took it away again, except a small piece, which they gave him for his trouble. They then passed through Peter- borough to Stamford, where, most likely, hearing of the reward offered for their apprehension, they decamped with all convenient speed until they arrived at Doncaster. Amongst other things found at the dwelling ofthe relatives, and belonging to one of the parties, were several silk handkerchiefs, a single gilt ear- ring, and a silver watch ; two of the handkerchiefs were selected by the neighbours of the deceased as having belonced to her. They gave the whitesmith three keys which were put upon a bunch with many more, and the same three were selected from the whole by a nenh'iour of the deceased as having belonged to her. The evidence agairst them is in so connected a chain that there is little doubt of their ultimate conviction. They were again remanded to Swaffham, to be brought up once more for further examination previous to being fully com- mitted. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE FROM A GUN- SHOT WOUND — An extra- ordinary instance of escape with life occurred on Sunday, the8; h inst. at Newport Pagnell. Some young men were amusing themselves with a double barrelled gun, and being alarmed by the sudden ap- pearance of a gentleman, to whose grounds they were contiguous, the owner of the gun endeavoured to take it to pieces, with the inten- tion of secreting it in his pocket. By some means the trigger was pulled, and the whole contents of the gun, consisting ot a very heavy charge, passed through the body of a man named John Smith, who stood as close to the muzzle as he well could without actual contact. He was knocked down, and rolled into a ditch, but such was the in- stantaneous passage of the charge, that he merely thought himself stunned by the explosion. When, however, he was extricated from the ditch, he was horror- struck to find that he had received a wound in the abdomen of apparently so serious a nature as to lead him to con- clude that he had received his death- wound. He walked home ( a dis- tance of a quarter of a mile,) ledbetweentwoofhis companions. Mr. Dannell, the surgeon, of Newport, was instantly sent for. He found that the contents of the gun had entered about half an inch from the navel, had passed in an oblique direction along the right side, and made their exit immediately below the short ribs, bearing towards fhe back. The wound in the front was about the size of half- a- crown, and the one in the right side somewhat smaller. From the hue which the charge took, it must have passed immediately under the right lobe of the liver, anterior to the great arch of the colon, and within a little distance of the ramifications of theepigastric artery, the material injury of either of which parts would have involved con- sequences fatal to life. From the symptoms it would appear that these essential parts have not been injured, and it is a curious fact that it would have been impossible for either an instrument or the contents of a gun to have passed through the body at the same depth in any other part without injuring organs essential to lite. I he poor man, though not entirely free from danger, is ma lair way ot recovery.— Northampton Mercury. 38 JOHN BULL. January 22 TO CORRESPONDED U S. In answer to our old correspondent at Newcastle, we beg to say that no change whatever has taken place in the Editorial department of this Paper. The Influenza must be blamed f « r the absence of our Literary aV ticle to day. H e shall, next week, give a lengthened review of several interesting works, including Major SCOTT'S Egypt. Flittings of Fancy, tlie Rev. SIDNEY SMITH'S Letter, all the Periodical works of the month, and of some graphic works which deserve particular attention. *,' The TITLE- PAGE and INDEX to the last year's Volume will he published on Saturday next. JOim BULL. LONDON, JANUARY 29. THF. IR MAJESTIES are in good health ; and on Friday the KING and QUEEN took a drive. The KING held a Privy Council yesterday, at which the Speech for opening the Session was decided upon. Parlia- ment will be opened by Commission, by which arrangement his MAJESTY will be spared the painful ceremony of deliver- ing the sentiments and opinions of his imbecile Ministers as his own. It is much better thatone of themselves should read their manifesto, and no obe is better qualified for the task than Lord MELBOURNE'S housekeeper. We are extremely glad to hear that her Royal Highness the Princess AUGUSTA is convalescent. THE effect produced upon the newspapers, and we fear upon the Foreign Stock- holders, by the falsification of the intercepted letter from Mr. STEPHENS, has been some- what counteracted by the intelligence which has been received from Spain. It will be seen, by a reference to the foreign news, that so far from the " game being up" the Carlist troops are in high force, and are proceeding on a new system of organization under the personal inspection and command of the INFANTE SEBASTIAN. The KING'S troops certainly sustained a considerable loss in prisoners taken by the Christinos at the time of the sur- prise by the English navy at Bilboa, and amongst them were several officers of distinguished merit, whose services were essentially important, and whose absence was severely felt, This difficulty, however, has been most unexpectedly got- ten over by the arrival at Don SF. BASTIAN'S head- quarters of a proposition from ESPARTERO for an exchange of prisoners. This was most readily accepted, for every possible good rea- son. It restored the efficient officers, whose abseuce was so injurious, and it got rid of the encumbrance of more than 300 officers and 2,000 men, whom the KING'S Government was compelled to maintain iu the depots of Ataun, Lascano, Mar- guina, Mungea, & c. From St. Sebastian we hear that Colonel EVANS, after having declined moving from that place, and after having re- fused to lend any of his force to ESPARTERO, is at length about to procced to attack Fuentcrabia; according to the stock- jobbers1 accounts he has taken it already. We are glad that the gallant officer will soon have an opportunity of reap- ing laurels in a new field: when a new election comes on, we suspect carrots and cabbage- stumps are more likely to be the tributes he will receive in the old one. Aud we are glad of it, because it seems most probable that when once the gallant Colonel is clear out of St. Sebastian, the KING'S army will take good care that he never gets into it again. With respect to the extent of his force— and we mention its amount to justify his refusal to part with any of it— there does not, of the 10,000 deluded men who entered the Legion, remain 4.000 fit for service ; and it may be calculated that before their two years' term of service has expired, not less than 8,000 will have sunk into their inglorious graves. All we have to say is— Parliament meets on Tuesday. those grubby ones, there is not one of the slightest import- ance in the whole catalogue, as regards interest or influence in Middlesex, always excepting the following distinguished persons The Duke of NORFOLK The Duke of BEDFORD The Marquess of TAVISTOCK The Earl of ESSEX Earl SPENCER Lord YARBOROUGH Lord DINORBEN Lord NUGENT The Duke of DEVONSHIRE TheMarq. of WESTMINSTER The Earl of BURLINGTON Earl FITZWILLIAM Lord SUFFIELD Lord SEGRAVE Lord STRAFFORD, aud Lord KENSINGTON, who stood at the head of the list of Stewards, and added greatly, by that circumstance, to the interest of the concern. As the best proof we can give of the feelings of those noble personages towards the party-- the cause— and the company expected, we have only to observe that, after permitting themselves to be advertised as the principal performers iu the show— the puffed paraders outside the booth— not one single individual of the xchole sixteen made his appearance inside the Theatre— not one; nor did any one of them deign to assign any reason or offer any excuse to the people for their absence. In fact— and we speak under the correction of a vast many people— the dinner of the Middlesex Reformers to Mr. BYNG and Mr. HUME was a complete failure, in every sense of the word. If it professed to be a dinner of constituents to repre- sentatives, it failed, because not oue- quarter of the people who were there, have votes. If it professed to be an evidence of the importance of the Radical party, it was a failure, because every name advertised as likely to give weight to the affair, produced a separate disappointment; and if it were intended to prove to the country the congeniality of feeling which exists between the Ministers, w ho made their way to office by duping the Ra- dicals, and the Radicals at present, it failed, inasmuch as when the healths of these Right Honourable and Honourable per- sonages were giveu ( not one single individual connected with them being present) Dr. WADE ! rose— we presume, to cut short the oratory of Mr. CLAY— who undertook to propose the toast, and created a confusion which happily rendered it im- possible to ascertain whether the disapprobation, which was universally expressed, arose from the Doctor's interference, or the citizen's oratory. Well, indeed, does the Doctor deserve to have himself distinguished by a paraphrase of the well- known couplet, for having put a stop to the speaker— " If you had heard this speech, before it was made, You would down on your knees and bless Dr. WADE." The thing went on till about half- past eleven; the people getting sleepy and uncommonly tired of hearing all the hack speechifyers go over the same grounds as usual, until Mr. HUME, seeing how matters were proceeding, rose, and judi- ciously put au end to the affair, by giving " the Ladies;" coupled with some equivocal joke about helping their husbands to make Reformers, which, as the gentlewomen present were exactly of that class which considers anything it does not exactly understand, to be " wastly hindecent and iglilv liindelicate," drove the whole of the well- dressed " females" to their " humbrellas" and " ackney coaches," in a scramble of confusion, for fear something worse might follow. Then chaos came again, and the " unwashed" separated rather hungry, and not half so drunk as they might have been if they had got their guinea's worth for their guineas. It was remarked as extraordinary, that scarcely any robberies were committed during the evening— a fact which, however creditable to the Middlesex Reformers, will be found not alto- gether so complimentary as it may appear at first sight, inasmuch, as nobody of the party had anything to lose. feeling, and cannot fail to have a powerful effect upon the Protestant population of Ireland, and upon the Roman Catholics too— at least as many of them as are able, or per- mitted by their Priests, to read them. By way of set- off' to this splendid display of Conservative feeling, a protest against the necessity of any such declara tions as were to he made upon the occasion, was put forth by the Popish Ministerial party, signed by thirty- four Peers— of whom eight arc English Peers, and " five Roman Catholic Peers; and the brag and consolation of the Ministerialists is, that, although forty- one Irish Peers gave their names to the requisition for the meeting, only twenty attended, whereas the protest, was signed by thirty- four— and upon this, the Morn- ing Chronicle is in raptures. " For the rest," says the Chronicle, yesterday, " thirty- four Peers signed the protest. Of these, thirty are Protes- tants, four Catholics, and twenty- one Residents. Ouly twenty Lords attended the Orange gathering. We make the Stand- ard a present of these facts." We dare say the Standard will accept them with great pleasure. All we have to say is, that we suspect the Middlesex Reformers and Messrs. BYNG and HUME will notbe quite so nfuch gratified by them ; because, if those great men who are announced as Stewards of a great political meetiug and sup- porters of a political party, and who are somehow prevented from attending, are to go' for nothing iu the scale of import- ance or popularity, the absence ofevery Duke, Marquess. Earl, Viscount, and Baron, who was advertised as a Steward of the Middlesex Reform Dinner, leaves the " great cause," as far as Middlesex is concerned, in a very deplorable position. To the Noble Chairman of ' the Dublin Meeting every absent Peer wrote to communicate the cause of his absence, aud to assure him of his cordial support and co- operation ;— not one of the Noble absentees from the Middlesex Reform Dinner took the trouble to say one word about their defection en masse, nor did anybody else of the party think proper to supply the omission. AFTER reading the numerous accounts of the liberality and charity of such men as the Dukes of NEWCASTLE and NORTHUMBERLAND, and a host of Conservative noblemen,, at this inclement season of the year, we cannot but believe, although we extract it from the Morning Chronicle, that the following statement must be erroneous. It is copied by the Chronicle from a Leamington paper:— " On Monday, THOMAS GUBBINS, an old man of great re- spectability, a debtor at the suit of the Earl of DENBIGH, died in the Warwickshire county gaol, at the age of one hun- dred and four years. There had been a disputed lawsuit be- tween the Noble Lord and the poor of Railton, for the costs of which the old man became answerable. About six weeks ago he was taken on attachment for costs, at the Earl's suit, and died from the effects of confinement.'''' THE Reformers of Middlesex gave a dinner to their two representatives, the venerable Mr. BYNG and the veritable Mr. HUME, in Drury Lane Theatre, of which a report will be found elsewhere iu our paper of to- day. The proceedings connected with this display are of the highly comic order. First of all, the arrangements were so made, as far as the feast was concerned, that there could be no change of plates, so that every guest was provided at once with two— two knivesand forks between three, and one tooth- pick amongst six; with spoons, the contrivers of the feast were not weak enough to entrust the company. Then there was a split amongst the managers as to who should be Chairman— one party insisting upon it that as the Duke of BEDFORD was ground landlord of the playhouse, the Marquess of TAVISTOCK should preside; the other party being equally clamorous in favour of Lord BROUGHAM. The dispute ran so high that for decency's sake it was agreed upon, by way of compromise, that Lord RUSSELL, Lord TAVI- STOCK'S son, should be Chairman of this great meeting, which, as we have not seen his Lordship's name registered amongst the Russell- street voters, and therefore believe him not to be an electorof Middlesex, seemed paiticularlyjudicious. Lord RUSSELL, who is a remarkably gentlemanly, amiable, and agreeable person, aud as fit for the office to « hich the arrangers appointed him as a baby, arrived when dinner was half over; and Lord WILLIAM RUSSELL, his uncle, who is one of the forty- shilling constituents of the two guests, took his place pro tem— not that Lord RUSSELL was one minute too late, but because, exactly as in the case of Lord GREY'S feast at Edinburgh, the great unwashed could not endure the sight of" wittles" any longer, and accordingly fell to upon the four- shilling ordinary without waiting for grace or chairman. Four shillings a- liead was the contract sum for the dinner, whi h, according to the accounts of those who are skilled in such matters, was a great deal too much, which, with a bottle of wine per man, constituted the whole charge for the creature comforts, the balance of the guineas received being appropriated to defray the costs incurred by the degra- dation of a Theatre Royal to such a purpose. The speeches were extremely flat; Mr. GROTE'S was of the grotesque school, and occasionally excited some mirth. Mr. HUME'S was decidedly bad— Mr. BYNG'S excessively painful — Mr. DUNCOMBE'S, as usual, entertaining upon many accounts. The best, speech was Mr. CHARLES BULLER'S ; but speeches or no speeches— the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and a cursory perusal of the names of the Stewards, not one- third of whom are Middle- sex electors, will speak more clearly, distinctly, and plainly than volumes would convey, the utter hopelessness of JHr. HUME'S condition as candidate for the county at the next election. With the exception of two or three names, and THE Ministerial papers have been thrown into consider- able consternation, and have exhibited a proportionate degree of irascibility by ( he important Protestant Meeting which has been held in Dublin. An event which, coupled with the strong symptoms of insubordination to O'CONNELL which have, within the last few daj'S, manifested themselves in the ranks of his quondam followers, has naturally enough made them feel the holiowness of the ground upon which their masters persist in standing. We refer our readers to the report of the proceedings of this great and influential meeting, which was attended by thousands ofpersons, and presided over by the MarquessofDoWNSHlRE. The Peers present were— Marquesses, DOWNSHIRE WATERFORD Earls, RATHDOWNE RODEN BELMORE CHARLEVILLE DONOUGHMORE BANDON GLENGALL COURTON Viscounts, HARBERTON DONERAIL FERRARD Lords, HAWARDEN MUSKERRY DOWSES CLONBROCK CROFTON CLARINA BLAYNEY. And the following prevented from attending, sent their excuses and adhesion to the cause:— Marquesses, DONEGAL TBOMOND IVESMEATH LONDONDERRY Earls, MAYO BAWTRY ENNISKILLEN O'NEIL CASTLEREAGH CLANCARTY NORBURY HILLSBOROUGH Viscounts, DE VESCI CASTLEMAIN OXMANTOWN DDNLO Barons, FARNHAM CARBERRY DUFFERIN and CLANEBOY FITZGERALD. The speeches delivered, and the resolutions proposed, at this great Meeting, are replete with sound constitutional IT seems to us that the proceedings of Ministers are mark- ed by a blind fatuity or audacious recklessness such as never have characterised any previous Cabinet in this country. Lord PALMERSTON in Parliament, denies that anything has been done with regard to Spanish affairs, which the conditions of the Quadruple treaty did not call for: he explains away, with the* greatest apparent earnestness, the unjust allegation that the British Marines are acting as land forces at St. Sebastian; and he most indignantly repels the idea of any thing like intervention on the part of England in the civil war. Having done this, with all his wonted grace and eloquence, he publishes the despatch of the Commander of an English naval expedition, in which are detailed all the circumstances connected with the relief of Bilboa, which the Christino General, over and over again, declares could not have hap- pened without the active intervention of a British force, the same statement and declaration being again officially repeated in a despatch to his Lordship from Colonel WYLDE. When Lord MELBOURNE is questioned as to the connexion existing between the Government and Mr. O'CONNELL, he, in the most positive terms, denies any such compact. Mr. O'CONNELL, at a public dinner, declares, on the contrary, that he has complete power over the Ministers ; and we know in evidence that he offeied a Baronetcy to Mr. RAPHAEL. Whatever Mr. O'CONNELL suggests is done— places in Ireland are filled up on his recommendation, and by his friends; and yet we are gravely told that no compact has beeu con- cluded between him and the Government. But more than this— we are told that it is the basest and vilest calumny that Protestants can cast upon our Government, to say that they have any intention to advance the cause of Popery, beyond what is called doing justice to Ireland. Mr. O'CONNELL tells us that Ireland never shall be tranquil until Protestant ascendancy is demolished and overthrown ; aud at this junc- ture we find a gentleman of the name of BROWNLOW made a Privy Councillor, which, as the Ministerial papers say, he is known to have struck the severest blow to the Protestant interest in Ireland which it ever received, will, in their opi- nion, be received with universal satisfaction in that country. At this particular juncture too we find Government, having just made a Roman Catholic Judge aud a Roman Catholic Peer iu the person of Mr. ERASER, the descendant of the rebel Lord LOVAT, whom the Morning Chronicle calls "> an ill- fated Peer," selecting a Roman Catholic Earl to move the Address in the House of Lords. These things, and hundreds like them, they go on doing, aud yet declare their resolution to main- tain the Constitution at home, and abstain from interference abroad. Whence this discrepancy arises, or whether from ignorance or insolence, it really seems to us impossible to surmise. IV seems as if the great object of the present Ministry were to render every class of his MAJESTY'S subjects dissatisfied, and to hasten, by every means in their power, a crisis to which, whether through ignorance or wickedness, it is per- fectly evident they are hurrying the country. There can be no doubt, we suppose, that the people o. England are at once proud of, and attached to their gallant Navy, without which their nation could not exist, and which for ages has been her glory and protection. After a most tedious delay, a Brevet promotion of her officers is an- nounced, which, taken at the best, gives flags to no Captains not of thirty years' standing. These promotions, scant and unsatisfactory as they are in themselves, are not felt at all below that standing; and yvhat is worse than the total neglect of all the lower ranks of officers, is the " shelving" of excellent, gallant, serviceable Captains, in the characters of retired Admirals, because, under a new aud most invidious regulation, they have not completed a certain period of service in sea- going ships. The result of this regulation is, that one- half of the senior January 22 JOHN BULL. 57 Captains are made Admirals nominally, but are in fact re- moved from the service, merely because, with every testimo- nial of skill and courage, and every attribute of zeal and honour, they have not been able to obtain ships and active employment. We are not saying that every Captain in thenavy, especially duriog a long peace, is to expect a ship ; but, what we do say, is. that it is a seri& us grievance because there are so many more captains than ships, and that their constantly- repeated applica- tions to the Admiralty for active service in any part ofthe world could not be gratified, that these zealous and effective officers — passing long professional lives, without a blemish on their honour, conduct, or character— should, after having attained their post rank, and having held it for thirty years with the same zeal and the same energy which had always actuated them still burning in their bosoms, be placed upon the list of retired Admirals of the Fleet, because they had not previously had interest enough to get afloat for a certain period of time. To those who look at the Captains now in commission, and compare the names of those young noblemen and gentle- men with those of his MAJESTY'S Ministers and their con nexions, exclusion from an active flag upon such grounds, we think, will appear somewhat preposterous. Every one of the men who are now insulted by that exclusion, entered the navy under the impression that if they survived the hazards of war, of climate, and the elements, and attained the rank of Post Captain, nothing but the worst of conductor dere- liction of duty could possibly prevent their gaining active flags when the time for a naval promotion should come. The thing itself is mean, low, and ungracious; but it is worse than all these, for it establishes a precedent upon which all manner of injustice will creep into the service, however much it may serve the turn of the people at present at the helm. What next do we see done by these Ministers— After deny- ing the just rights of the gallant veterans who have fought and bled for their country, we find Commander LAPIDGE made a Post Captain, and Lieutenants Le HARDY and OT- WAY Commanders, for fighting against the King of SPAIN, with whom we are not at war. What does the navy feel about that outrageous proceeding ? Why, we will tell Minis- ters what nine naval officers out of ten think of it— that it disgraces the country, without honouring the officers who are the objects of the promotion. AVhat Lieutenants who fought at Camperdown with DUN CAN, with HOWE on the glorious 1st of June, with NELSON at the Nile or Trafalgar, got such promotion for their services in those glorious days? And when this new Post- Captain and these new Commanders grow old, and fight their battles over again, and tell their children how they came to their post rank, and how they were long enough employed on active service to entitle them to their flags, will they look bacli with pride and satisfaction to their exploits and say, " this w got for BILBOA?" " Against whom was England fighting, then?" asks one. " England was at peace," is the answer. " What service were you in ?" says another.—" In the service of England." Then comes the natural question, " How come you there?' and then we would recommend these gentlemen to refer their inquirers to the speech of the King of the FRENCH, made from the Throne during the very week in which their ser vices were preferred:—" Fiance reserves the blood of her children for her own cause, and when she is reduced to the painful necessity of summoning them to shed that blood in her defence, it is only under our glorious colours that they march to battle." Now, in order to show the distinction between the avidity of Ministers to mark their admiration of the active inter, ference of our navy against a Monarch with whom we are not at war, and towards whom we profess a strict neutrality, and their backwardness to do justice to the veteran heroes who have fought and conquered again and again for the country, we only beg leave to remark, that while they deny the flags to which these heroes have been for years looking anxiously and confidently forward, they make Captain LAPIDGE Post— he being a Commander of only three years' standing— and two Lieutenants, Commanders, who, it seems to us, never could have seen any legitimate service at all; inasmuch as during the whole period that they have been in the navy, England has been at peace, with the exception ofthe glorious affair at Algiers, and the untoward event at Navarino. And this is done while there are upon the list Commanders and Lieu- tenants by scores, any one of whom has seen more service in the legitimate defence of his country, in one day, than the three gallant gentlemen now promoted, can have seen in the whole course of their lives. Politically speaking, the promotion is ruinous to Lord FALMERSTON, inasmuch as, coupled with the reiterated de- clarations, not only of General ESPARTERO, but of Colonel WYLDE himself, in his official communication, that without the aid of British sailors, British cannon, and British officers Bilboa could not have been relieved, it decides the question of his Lordship's sincerity with regard to his equally often rei- terated protestations of non- intervention. But it does even more, for, coupled with the mean and heartless neglect of our old officers, it excites a spirit which we never expected to find in the British navy, more especially when we are governed by a SAILOR KING, whose heart is with the service, who is devoted to its interests, and alive to its deserts, but who in this, as in every other department of the State, is ridden and driven by his Whig- Radical Ministers, who, to gain a paltry popularity with tlie mob for economy, will risk, or even destroy that of his MAJESTY with a people ready to give him credit for every kind and affectionate feeling towards them. The appointment of Rear- Admiral GEORGE ELLIOT to a command, three days after he attained his flag, is scarcely yet believed— it, probably, is not true. It was Rumoured that Sir CHARLES ADAM was to have it. Thii seems to have been a mere mistake as to the family connexion. Sir CHARLES ADAM is only brother- in- law to Lord MINTO, the first Lord of the Admiralty. The new Rear- Admiral ELLIOT is his brother. We caunot conclude these remarks without noticing some circumstances— certainly not very characteristic of British fairness and candour, hut which induce us to believe that the Lords of the Admiralty are quite aware of the weakness of their own conduct, and their total unfitness for the offices they hold, or for carrying on the ordinary duties of the depart- ment. They have resorted to a kind of gagging system, quite new to Englishmen; but which very distinctly points out their consciousness of their own demerits. We are told that their Lordships have actually issued the following order to the different Dock- yards:— " No clerk, assistant, inferior officer, or any other person, shall, on any pretence whatever, communicate, either by writing or otherwise, to any individual, the docking or uudock- ing of any ships, any equipments, or anything connected with the service; nor shall it be made known to any person in the yard, excepting where the service may require it; but that everything shall be done with the greatest secresy.'''' Although this order comes to us through an unques- tionable channel, we will not yet suffer ourselves to believe it geuuine— we will not believe that the officers of the Navy, let them be connected how they may with the service, are to be gagged and thumb- screwed in such a manner as this. If this order has beeu actually promulgated, and our naval departments are, like the felons in our jails, put upon the " silent system," we think nothing more can be wanting to prove the regard for the PEOPLE entertained by the Govern- ment, and their anxious readiness to afford them every insight into their upright and honourable course of conduct. MR. IIARCOURT, ot Aukerwyeke House, has accepted the invitation ofa numerous body ofthe electors of Buckingham, to come forward as a candidate for the representation of that county, in the room of the late Mr. PRAED. Mr. HARCOURT, in his address to the electors, declares that, feeling as he does, that there is no country in the world in which there is so much practical liberty, and protection to life and property, as in our own, he 16 determined to support the British Constitution in all its integrity, and determined to support the KING, the Church, and the Constitution of his country with every energy at his' command, but at the same time ever ready to redress such abuses as may be proved to exist. Mr. HARCOURT has for sometime past taken great interest in the agricultural question, to which he promises his most vigilant attention in Parliament; and this evidence of his zeal for the farmer, coupled with the circumstances of his per- fect independence and general popularity, renders it most probable that lie will be returned for " the county without opposition. THE advantages derivable to Mr. HUME and the rest of his friends by the empty performance of Monday at Drury- lane, may be calculated by the fact, that all he said upon that occasion has tended to increase his unpopularity. The matter of his speech— the manner of speaking it— his coarse- ness and his quibbling, have opened the eyes and ears of hun- dreds ot men and women, who, till they actually saw and heard him, fancied he was something. Let Mr. HUME convince himself of the real position in which he and his friends, the Ministers, and Mr. O'CONNELL, actually stand in England. Let him take for instance the following speeches made at the combined meeting of various Surrey Radical associations, and then let him calculate" upon the chance he has for Middlesex, which, although the river Thames divides it from Surrey, is in point of fact much the same as the suburban portion of the latter county. This meeting took place on Thursday evening at some auc- tion rooms in the Waterloo- road. Mr. WHITE, a working- man, was called to the cliair, and observed1 that time had shown that very little had they to expect from their Whig rulers. They passed the Irish Coercion Bill, for which Mr. O'ponnell called them " base, brutal, and bloody Whigs." ( A voice—" He has changed his tune.") He ( Mr. White) knew it, but the Whigs deserved the epithets. ( Hear, hear.) Then let them re- member the C'althorpe- street slaughter, led on by a Noble Viscount at theheadof tlie Government. ( Hisses.) Then they exacted 20,000,0001. from this country as 1 he price of emancipating the negroes of the West Indies. Then let them look at their conduct in that barbarous and diabolical measure, the New Poor- Law Act, by which they had made poverty a crime, and suffered the poor to perish in the streets and pigsties. ( Hisses.) Everything, in fact, showed that they had nothing at all to expect from the Whigs. ( Hear, hear.) Mr. WELFORD adverted to the reform dinner at Drnry- lane, and expressed his surprise that, Sir. Hume and other good Radicals should talk so much twaddle about gratitude to the present Ministers for their poor, petty, paltry measures, called reforms. ( Hear, hear.) His notion of gratitude was a keen sense of favours to come. ( Laugh- ter.) He saw no ground of gratitude to the Ministers. ( Hear). They had not even done their duly. As to a reform of the House of Lords, which was now so much agitated, he thought it was their first duty to seek the entire reformation of the Commons. That would be the only cure for Whiggism, which was a kind of half- and- half liberalism. ( Hear, and laughter.) Mr. F. O'CONNOR seconded the motion. Mr. Hume, at the new farce played on Monday, had thrown Radicalism overboard, and exhi- bited himself as the down of JVhiggism ( Hear, and laughter.) He did not attempt to make Mr. Byngcome down to Radicalism ; but, finding that the mountain would not go to Mahomet, Mahomet went to the mountain. ( Hear.) There might be men in the House of Commons who could vote black was white, but he wished not to be of the number. There might be those who wished for the preserva- tion of Lord Melbourne's Government, but he was not of them. ( Cheers.) " Reformo) the Lords was the greatest claptrap and stuff that ever was put forth by Lord John Russell, or supported by Mr. O'Connell, who, however, burked it in Ireland. ( Hear, and laughter.) No, no, they must go on with the reform of the Commons. ( Hear) Why, when he was in the House, and moved for the liberation of Mr. Bell, who was then in prison for a libel which had been uttered by Mr. Brougham, not a Whig would second the motion, but it was seconded by Sir Henry Hardinge, a Tory. ( Cheers.) He had spoken against the New Poor- law Act, and he would continue to do so. He had organised five committees to agitate that subject, and he would go on until he had obtained a petition so numerously signed as to make the Whigs tremble for the existence of their darling measure. ( Cheers.) They cheered that, but would they act with him? ( We will.) ( trould they oppose the rural police, which was an adjunct to the I\' eiv Poor- law, who were to be armed in order to force tow and un- wholesome food down the throats of the once " bold peasantry of Eng- land? ( We will.) As water meet* its level, so would starvation come down to the lowest minimum of wages; therefore let the Eng- lish remember that there were 2,300,000 starving men in Ireland, whose necessities would bring their labour into competition. ( Hear.) Let them beware, then, of the Whig Poor- law grinders, and trust them no more. ( Hear.) Parliament was about to meet, but if at- tempts were made to gull them by the claptrap of " Reform of the Lords," or the cry of " Justice for Ireland,'' let them pay no regard to such nonsense. ( Cheers.) Mr. BELL supported the motion. He said the policy of the Whigs had always been marked by two courses— one against the old feudal aristocracy, and the other against the rights of labour. ' Ihey had supported trades' unions to use them for their purpose, and they put them down when they had obtained their object; and they had passed a Poor- Law Bill to beat down wages. At present the Irish labourer could earn not more than 4d. or od. a- day, and in five years, if Whig- gism prevailed, the wages of the English labourer would be reduced to the same miserable pittance. ( Hear.) No man was more deadly and dangerous towards the working classes than Lord Melbourne. ( Loud cheers.) Let them render no assistance to the Whigs. He would fight against these " base and bloody " men as long as he had - voice to lift up. ( Cheers.) The resolution ( which had for its object the petitioning of Parlia- ment for a redress of their grievances) was passed unanimously. Now, this is all true— in point of fact— we certainly do not adopt the phraseology of Mr. BELL ; but that the Whigs courted and fawned upon the Radicals— corresponded with them in their corporate character as members of Unions, which they themselves had cried down and denounced— promised thein everything which they knew they could not grant, up to a certain period— and that when found in their seats, and leagued with the Popish faction, they felt they could shake off their troublfesome supporters in England, they turned round upon them, as we always foretold they would, aud having by this most unfair aud shameful conduct disgusted Lord GREY, and the high- minded portion of the Cabinet, they have patched up a Ministry out of all the odds and ends of society, and have the assurance to expect the Reformers to support them by their voices at elections, and by their representatives in Parliament. The Radical Reformers, all over the country, are now convinced that they can safely trust a Tory when they cannot believe a Whig; and they have arrived at this conviction because the fact is, that all the essential measures of relief to the Papists and Dissenters were carried by the Tories, and because when the Tories denied tlie measure of reform the Radicals sought, they denied it boldly, and did not attempt to conciliate their support by professing to do what they never had the intention, or legally or constitutionally the power, to perform. The Surrey Radicals appear very much dissatisfied with our most popular patriots, for the same party, a few nights before, had Mr. O'CONNELL under discussion, and when a Mr. READER endeavoured to defend the great DAN, " Mr. 1' LRCELL wished the defender of the big penny- grinder to un- derstand that he was among working men who were not to be hum- bugged. ( Hear.) What was the conduct of O'Connell with regard the Newspaper Stamp Act ? The new Bill was read a third time in the presence of only fifty- five Members. But where were Dan and his tail ? ( H ear, he'ar.) " H e had pledged himself to vote for the total abolition of the stamp, but when the lime came he skulked away, and forgot his pledge to the working classes. ( Hear.) Then, again, did he not, in two hours after he had pledged himself to Mr. Fietden to vote for the factory children's cause, turn round and vote for their masters? ( Hear, hear.) The fact was, that O'Connell was nothing better than a Ref ormer in disguisfe— a mere shuttlecock, and the peo- ple of England had found him out. ( Hear.)" Some folks are pleased with nothing. OUR readers will recollect the publication a short time since, by the Courier newspaper, of a private letter written by Mr. STEPHENS from Durango, which had been intercepted by General EVANS, aud handed over to the agent of the Courier at St. Sebastian, for the purpose, as it seems, of being given to the public in England. By a communication received from Mr. STEPHENS— the alleged writer of this letter— it now appears not only that a letter ot his was intercepted, but that after it had been so intercepted, it was re- written, so as to produce effects never contemplated by the writer. Mr. STEPHENS thus explains the circumstance to the Editor of the Morning Post:— TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING TOST. Bayonne, Jan. 21. Sir,— I have just seen, with considerable surprise, a letter, to which my name appears attached in the columns ofthe Morning Chronicle of the 14th lust., extracted from those of the Courier of the previous day, and purporting to be received from the correspondent of the latter at St. Sebastian. In this letter, which bears date " Durango, Tuesday, Dec. 27," I can recognise sufficient to enable me to declare that another, of which I was the writer ( and which it appears was stolen from the mail- bags between Durango and Bayonne), has been taken for the ground- work, but so warped and overlaid with partisan falsehoods and vulgar absurdities, that it is now in spirit and in truth the very opposite of what I wrote on the majority of topics it em- braced. The letter as it now appears is in all its essential parts, personal and political, a calumnious forgery— the stock- jobbing per- petrator of which deserves to be expelled lor ever from the society of gentlemen. 1 now call on the Editor of the Courier to demand from his correspondent, or from General Evans, the original stolen letter, which, it appears, is at present in their possession, and of which the said correspondent writes—" I have the pleasure of sending you a copy." I demand, as an act of simple justice, that all who are per- sonally interested shall have an opportunity ol inspecting that letter at the Courier office, and of tracing the malicious fabrications to their source. I never, in speaking of tue affair at Luchana, wrote, as the published copy sets forth. " We have had a most infernal drubbing." " What has become of the army, Heaven knows ! it has been a com- plete debacle." I never used the word in my life. I never wrote, *' Kntre nous, the game is up, and I shall out my stickor, " 1 have had quite enough of this cut- throat work," & c.; and I cannot suffi- ciently express my regret at the discovery that any portion of the London press has become so subservient to the influence of the Spanish Stock Exchange as to lend itself to such a violation of private rights and public confidence. Not satisfied, it appears, with having converted my unimportant letter into a lying despatch of the first magnitude, the literary felon, while he had the pen in his had, endea- voured to sow discord between me and my friends, by infusing the poison of individual calumny into the composition. Jn this, however, I am happy to say that he has failed, and I am proud of the oppor- tunity of inclosing you a letter, which I have just received, in reply from one of the excellent individuals, assailed iu this very scandalous compilation. We have not space to insert the rest of Mr. STEPHENS'S letter, nor his letters which he has addressed to Colonel EVANS, and to Lord RANELAGH, nor his Lordship's answer, in which he not only contradicts the absurd falsehoods which were inserted in the letter, but entirely exonerates Mr. STEPHENS from any participation in their construction. AVe have heard Whig gentlemen and Whig officers holding places of importance under Government, justify the conduct of the Commander at St. Sebastian, iu having seized and given a private letter to a newspaper for publication. What will these high- minded gentlemen say now? WE have no doubt that the forthcoming Ministerial mani- festo from the Throne, will contain some flourish about " abolition of slavery;" not by Mr. MARTIN VAN BUREN, of America, but by the QUEEN, " by courtesy" of the kingdom of Portugal. Well, be it so. But as the slave trade at Manchester is at present of more importance than the slave trade in Texas, we trust the Honourable Member for South- ampton, will pardon our predilection for our countrymen, and allow us to consider their case as one of priority aud of " JUSTICE TO ENGLAND." In the mean time, we humbly suggest to that Honourable Gentleman, that a notice of motion by him, entered as soon as possible ou the Journals of the House of Commons, may facilitate the transfer by mortgage of the island of Cuba, to the British Government. Should my Lord PALMERSTON, however, make any " hemming and hawing," on this subject, aud pretend, as he did before, that the " abolition of slavery," by Portugal, is of " vast importance," we beseech Mr. HAY, or Mr. BUXTON, will read, to his Lordship, a statement, as follows:— SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES OP NORTH AMERICA. 697.897! 893,041!! 1,191.364! ! ! 1,543.36S !!!! 2,< X) 9,043!!!!! 2,760.371 !!!!*! In the year 1790 .. .. Ditto 1800 .. .. Ditto 1810 .. .. . Ditto 1S20 .. .. , Ditto 1830 .. .. . Ditto 1835 ..... Thus we see that, in spite of the singie- blessedness of the Ladies of Clapham and of Peckham, and of the " crack- skull" county of York— in spite of the late Mr. MALTHUS, and of the present Miss MARTINEAU— iu spite of the late Mr. WIL- BERFORCE, and of the present Mr. GALLY KNIGHT— in spite of the speeches that have been spoken, and the volumes that have been written— iu spite of the blood that has been spilt, and the money that has beeu spent ou this subject— in 38 JOHN BULL. January 22 spite of everybody, and of everything, our dear brother JONATHAN'S practices out- run by a rail- road speed, the " humanity- mongering" of the whole world! By leave of the " humanity- mongers" we drop this subject for the present, and come at once to one more important— the most important of all. From the month of May last, when we " astonished" the Morning Chronicle, by detecting and exposing its blunders about the American tariff, it has been floundering six days a week in blunders more and more gross, until on Wednes- day last it actually overcharged, and burst its blunderbuss, loa'ded with Lord DURHAM and another tariff, not of Ame- rica, but of Russia. Every tyro in politics knows, and has long known, that my Lord DURHAM is the great Pan elect of that dairy for sour- milk in Downing- street, which Irishmen only can digest, and hence the flourish of trumpets harbingering his Lordship in the columns of the Chronicle of Wednesday last. But here, without intending the slightest offence to our ancient friend the Chronicle, we beg leave to inform it that in the exact ratio as " merchants" at Petersburg, or Penzance, gain by any tariff at all, the producers of the goods on which duties are imposed are IMPOVERISHED. If the Chronicle doubts this, let it consult its friend Colonel TORRENS, who says that deposits in Banks, ESDALE'S for in- stance, are part of the medium of exchange ! It was well observed by the Times oil Thursday, that for an old country to resort to first principles was dangerous. No doubt about it. But as the Whigs, by their hypocrisy of all sorts, and the Poleetical Economists, by their humbug of all sorts, have compelled us to resort to first principles, we must endeavour to direct their operation to good effects instead of to evil ones. With this object in view, we beg leave to ask the Ministerial organ, whether the Emperor of RUSSIA'S allow- ing English broad- cloths to be imported, even duty free, will pay for broad- cloths burnt at New York, the duties of which can only be paid by the importations of other broad- cloths ? We pause for a reply. Does the Emperor of RUSSIA propose to lend to importers of foreign merchandise his protective duties, as an American- Hibernian mode of encouraging DOMESTIC PRODUCTIONS ? Again we pause for a reply. Does the Emperor of RUSSIA, by lending his protective du- ties, create joint- stock bankers, as Sir JOHN CAMPBELL'S late constituents at Dudley do hob- nails, by the gross, and thereby obtain a balance of trade against him, and a " course of ex- change" IN HIS FAVOUR! Again and again, we pause for a reply. When the Emperor of RUSSIA shall, at Petersburgh, or even at Constantinople, with the machinery collected at No. 8, Grafton- street, Bond- street, by Mr. URQUHART, do any injury whatsoever to British manufacturers, we shall be the first to denounce him; but at present our business is with JONATHAN. HE, whatever the Chronicle or the Portfolio may utter, or not utter upon the subject, is the Goliath against whom we shall hurl our stone. And when the Times can show that the Bank of France, and all the merchants and manu- facturers of France, are implicated with America, as the Bank of England and all the merchants and manufacturers of England are, we, also, shall perhaps take up the same view of the subject as our straightforward contemporary has done; but, until Havre and New York shall be tied by a huge rope of sand, such as Liverpool and New York are tied by, we respectfully hint to the Times that comparisons will be odious. If Lord DURHAM be really the great man in commercial affairs that the Chronicle would fain make us believe he is, let the AVhigs, instead of obtaining his Lordship's countenance in the House of Lords during the approaching Session, send his Lordship at once to Washington to soften the heart of Mr. MARTIN VAN JBUREN, and show him the way to convert honestly dollar- notes into " SPECIE," SO as to PAY the balance of trade to Europeans, and make the " course of exchange" what it ought to be; viz., the difference between exports and imports, and not the difference between REPUB LICAN RAGS and BRITISH SOVEREIGNS. Let his Lordship accomplish all that, aud we, and the whole family of BULLS will shout, " Long live LAMBTON- may LAMBTON live for ever!" Every school boy in Am erica knows, and if his Lordship will be pleased to go there, he w'. ll, besides curing bilious affections by sea- sickness, disco\ er th it there is no common interest be- tween the Southern and Northern States of the United States, except the common interest of plunder; and every school- boy inAmerica also knows that in 1832, when the " nullifiers" in Carolina rode a high horse, it was the mere fact of ANDREW JACKSON'S riding a higher one at Washington that postponed the self- strangulation of the gingerbread Republic. At that time Mr. CLAY— not he of the Tower Hamlets, but lie of Kentucky— proposed a " compromise," and a Bill relating to the American Tariff was subsequently passed by Congress, and obtained the name of " CLAY'S Bill," in imitation of a bad practice, that of designating an Act of the Legislature as the act of an individual. This Bill being laudable for brevity— being of vast importance to British subjects— and not being likely to be found in any other journal in Europe than this one, we will insert verbatim et literatint. But first let us preliminarily observe, that although this Bill does bind Congress prospectively, yet it is stated by AN- DREW JACKSON in his " veto" on the Bill for re- chartering the United States Bank, that any Bill which fettered future legislation was UNCONSTITUTIONAL ! Such is the Govern- ment ( so called) under which some of our fellow- subjects risk their ALL in MERCHANDISE or in MONEY. But now for the Bill, which reads thus:— MR. CLAY'S NEW TARIFF BILL, TO MODIFY THE ACT OF THE 14TH JULY, 1832, AND ALL OTHER ACTS IMPOSING DUTIES ON IMPORTS, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That from and after the 31st Day of December, 1833, in all cases where duties are imposed on foreign imports by the Act of July 14, 1832, entitled, " An Act to alter and amend the several Acts imposing duties on imports," or by any other Act, shall exceed twenty per centum on the value thereof, one- tenth part of such excess shall be deducted; from and after the 31st day of December, 1835, another tenth part thereof shall be de- ducted : from and after the 31st day of December, 1837, another tenth part thereof shall be deducted; from and after the 31st day of De- cember, 1839, another tenth part thereof shall be deducted; and from aud after the 31st day of December, 1841, one half of the residue of such excess shall be deducted; aud from and after the 30th day of June, 1842, the other half thereof shall be deducted. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted. That so much of the second sec- tion of the Act of the 14th of July aforesaid, as fixes the rate of duty on all milled and fulled cloth, known by the name of plains, kerseys, or kendal cottons, of which wool is the only material, the value whereof does not exceed thirty- five cents a square yard, at five per centum, ad valorem, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed. And the said artieles shall be subicct to the same duty of fifty per centum as is provided by the said second section for other manufactures of wool, which duty shall be liable to the same reductions as are prescribed by thefirst section of tit is Act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That until the 30th of Septem- ber, 1842 the duties imposed by existing laws, as modified by this Act, shall remain and continue to be collected. And from and after the day last aforesaid, all duties on imports shall be collected in ready money, and all credits now allowed by law, to the payment of duties, shall be and are hereby abolished, and such duties shall be laid for the purpose of raising such revenues as may be necessary to an economical administration of the government; and from and after the day last aforesaid, the duties required to be paid by laic on goods, wares, and merchandize, shall be assessed upon the value thereof at the port where the same shall be entered, under such regulations as may be prescribed by law. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the articles now exempted by the Act of the 14th day of July, 1832, and the exist- ing laws, from tKe payment of duties, the following articles imported from and after the 31st of December, 1833, and until the 30th day of J une, 1842, shall also be admitted to entry free from duty, to wit:— Bleached and unbleached linens, table linens, linen napkins. and linen cambrics, and worsted stuffgoods, shawls, and other manufactures of silk and worsted, manufactures of silk, or of which silk shall be the component material of chief value, coming from this side of the Cape of Good Hope, except sewing silk. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said 30th of J une, 1842, the following articles shall be admitted to entry free from duty, to wit:— indigo, quicksilver, sulphur, crude saltpetre, grindstones, refined borax, emery, opium, tin in plates or sheets, gum arabic, gum Senegal, lac dye, madders, madder root, nuts and berries used in dying, safron, tumeric, woad or pastel, aloes, ambergris, Bur- gundy jlitch, cochineal, camomile flowers, coriander seed, catsup, chalk, coculus indicus, horn. plates for lanterns, ox horns, other horns and tips, India rubber, unmanufactured ivory, juniper berries, musk, nuts of all kinds, oil of juniper, unmanufactured rattans and reeds, tortoise- shell, tin foil, shellac, all vegetables used principally in dyeing and composing dyes, weld and all articles employed chiefly for dyeing, except alum, copperas, bichromate of potash, prussiate of potash, chroinate of potash, aud nitrate of lead, aquafortis and tartaric acid. And all imports on which the first section of this Act may operate, and all articles now admitted to entry, free from duty or paying a less rate of duty than 20 per centum ad va- lorum before the said 30th day of June, 1842, from and after that day may be admitted to entry subject to such duty not exceeding 20 per centum ad valorum as shall be providedfor by law." Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That so much of the Act of July 14,1832, or of any other Act, as is inconsistent with this Act, shall be, and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the passage, prior or subsequent to the said 30th day of June, 1842, of anv Act or Acts from time to time that may be necessary to detect, prevent, or punish evasion of the duties on imports, imposed by law: nor to prevent the passage of any Act prior to the 30th day of June, 1842, in contingency either of excess or deficiency of revenue, altering the rate of duties on articles which by the aforesaid Act of the 11th day of July, 1832, are subject to a less rate of duty than 20 per centum ad valorem, in such manner as not to exceed that rate, and so to adjust the revenue to either of the said contingencies. This, then, is at present not the bombastic pettyfoggery of one of the " sovereignties" of the United States, but the su- preme law of Congress, composed of all the " sovereignties." We therefore appeal, not to the Morning Chronicle, not to his Majesty's mummers, not . to Lord DURHAM, or even to a much greater man, Colonel TORRENS— we appeal to none of these, but to the merchants of Great Britain, whether they have any protective duties, the loan of which is to be ( Oh, illustrious humbug!) put an end to in the year 1842! Moreover, we appeal to the manufacturers and their workmen throughout Great Britain, whether they would have believed, unless we had told them so, that " the people" at Newr York, and in all the states of the ginger- bread Republic, were to pay, after 1842 next, twenty per cen- tum taxes on the cost price of boots or bedding, and that hi- therto they have paid much more than that, the " extinguish- menV of the NATIONAL DEBT NOTWITHSTANDING! ( To be continued.) HIS MAJESTY'S Ministers are in a sad dilemma. In Eng- land, they are obliged to profess to be sound Protestants— in Ireland, they are represented as the favourers of Popery. By the influence of Mr. O'CONNELL, they have now obtained from the Professor of Equivocations at Maynooth, a Confes- sion, written in verse, which, according to the different read- ings, may indifferently suit either Protestant or Papist:— Pro fide teneo sana Affirmat quae Romana., Supremus quando Rex est Erraticus turn Grex est, Altare cum ornatur Populus turn beatur, Asini nomen meruit, Missam qui deseruit, ; docet Anglicana, Videntur mihi vana. Tunc Plebs est fortunata, Cum Caput fiat Papa. Communio fit inanis, Cum Mensa Vino panis. Hunc morem qui non capit, Catholicus est et sapit. This has been done into English at Dublin Castle, for the use of those members of the Cabinet who are unacquainted with the Latin language:— I hold for faith What Rome's Church saith, Where the King is head, The flock is misled, Where the Altar is drest, The people are blest, He's but an ass Who shuns the Mass, JVhat England's Church allows, My conscience disavows. The flock can take no shame, JVho holds the Pope supreme. The worship is scarce divine, IVhose table is bread and wine; / I 7io their Communion flies, Is Catholic and wise. WE have received West India papers up to the 16th of last month; they contain nothing of any great importance. Some most infamous placards had been posted up at Spanish Town, on the King's House and other buildings, containing the coarsest libels on the Governor, Sir LIONEL SMITH, who has received the appointment of Governor- in- Chief and the Grand Cross of the Guelphic order. A considerable sensation had been created in Jamaica by the following message sent down by his EXCELLENCY to the House of Assembly, with regard to the case of Parson TAY- LOR— a case which we are told is not likely to be found an insulated one. The Kingston Chronicle, of Dec. 3, says :— The following is a copy of the Governor's Message to the House, on Thursday, on the subject of Parson TAYLOR, and it conveys a severe censure on the conduct of the Marquess of SLIGO, who, it appears, failed to bring the facts of the case accurately under the notice of the Secretary of State:— " Mr. Speaker, ' I am desired by his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor to ac- quaint the House, that having called upon the Attorney- General to report why Mr. Taylor, the Baptist Missionary, who was convicted during the February term of a misdemeanor, has not been brought up for judgment. That officer has reported that the argument of the motion made by Mr. Taylor's Counsel in arrest of judgment, did not come on till the last October Grand Conrt— that, by that time, it was within his official knowledge, that a despatch had been addressed by the Secretary of State to the Marquess of Sligo, which would have rendered it impossible for the Lieutenant Governor to carry into execution any sentence which might have been passed on Mr. Tay- lor, without a previous reference to the home authorities, and that he has not therefore called Mr. Taylor up to receive judgment of the Court, because he deems ' that the calling up a person to judgment, and instantly pardoning him on the pronouncing of sentence, would not tend to add dignity to the administration of justice.' " His Excellency commands me to acquaint the House, that he has transmitted to the Secretary of State a copy of the Judge's notes of the trial, and of the indictment against Mr. Taylor, in order that his Lordship may be made acquaintedwith the facts of the case, which it would appear by the despatch alluded to, have not been accurately brought under his notice." We could adduce a great many instances of a similar na- ture, to which our attention has been called; but the editor of the same paper has rendered most of our observations un- necessary, by furnishing the following instructive summary:— SUMMARY OF EVENTS' Since the departure of our trusty and well- beloved Cousin, the most imbecile and meddling Howe Peter, commonly called the Marquess ofSlig o, especially arranged for his Lordship's edification, as also for that of our Dormouse Secretary, Lord Glenelg, and for the British Public. 1. Fracas between the Speaker of Assembly, the President of the Council, the Bishop, and Sir Joshua Rowe, at the inauguration of Sir Lionel Smith, as previously arranged by Howe Peter. 2. A clean sweep, and a change of petty officials at the King's House, by which some loathsome vermin were got rid of, to the great satisfaction of the community at large. 3. Presentment of the Grand Juryof the county of Cornwall against Sir Joshua Rowe, for not presiding at the Assizes of that county, and leaving the important duties to the direction of lay Judges, who, al- though as respectable as to character, and eminent in their profes- sion, can know little of law. So much for his Honour's seat in the , Council! 4. Official notification to the Special Magistrates from Government- House, respecting absence from their districts without leave. 5. Official notification from the Government- House respecting per- sons signing petitions, memorials, remonstrances, & c. 6. Amended Police Bill passed the Assembly, in which the office of Inspector- General was abolished. So much for Buckingham ! 7. Commission issued by the Lieutenant- Governor to inquire into the administration of justice in St. Thomas in the Vale, which led to the suspension of Dr. Palmer. 8. Christopher, Jamaica, suddenly awoke from a trance, and sent a Shepherd into St. Dorothy's to look after the- stray sheep, but Par- son Taylor had already secured them. 9. Message of the Assembly to the Lieutenant- Governor respect- ing Parson Taylor's conviction, when it appeared that Lord Sligo had been again at his dirty work. 10. Official appointment from the British Government of Sir Lio- nel Smith, as Captain- General aud Governor- in- Chief. POOR LAWS. TO JOHN BULL. Sir,— The attention you very properly give to the working of the new Poor Laws induces me to call attention to an Act of the last Session, passed so late as the 20th August, 1836, giving the power of extending payment of yearly instalments off loans upon the rates over a period of twenty instead of ten years, the obvious tendency of which must be to give a fallacious appearance, where adopted, of a reduction of rates erroneously favourable to statements of expendi- ture under the new Act over previous periods, and may tend to pro- pitiate not a few of the selfish in favour of the new measure, having thus yearly but half to pay off their loans. This postponement may be expedient; but must be scrupulously watched to form just conclusions in comparing past with present or future rates on this momentous question, involving the humanity of the British nation. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, G. D. C. TO JOHN BULL. Sir,— I consider you an enemy to humbug in all its ramifications, 1 therefore send you the following HOMEOPATHIC SYSTEM. One billionth part of a grain of sulphur is said to be given for a do « e of medicine !!! Our minds cannot rise to the magnitude, nor descend to the mi- nuteness of numbers or parts expressed by millions and billions. Let us therefore endeavour to express this wonderful dose by some- thing within our comprehension. Suppose a large cubic warehouse, whose height is 148 feet, the breadth and depth of course the same. Suppose this warehouse filled with wheat flour: let one grain of sulphur be thoroughly mixed in the whole of this flour; then take one grain of this flour, and it will contain the said billionth part of a grain of sulphur. The proof of this calculation is as follows :— 7000 grains make 1 lb. 56 lbs. of wheat flour make.... 1 bushel. 2218 cubic inches 1 bushel. 1728 cubic inches 1 cubic foot. 56 7,000 7 = * 8 1000000000,000 = 1 billion grains of flour. 142857142 lbs. 20408163 2551020 bushels of flour. 2218 cubic inches in a bushel. 20408160 2551020 5102040 5102040 1728 ^ 5658162360/ 3274399 cubic feet of flour, the cube root of ' .4741 \ which, or the height, breadth, and depth of 12856 .. 7602 .6903 17196 .16440 the . building containing the flour, is rather more than 148 feet. Also, the above one billion of grains of wheat flour would, in the hands of the Poor Law Commissioners, make bread enough to BIIOW two four- pound loaves of bread per week to 3,434 persons for a hun- dred years. Now, if 1 grain of sulphur be thoroughly mixed in all this mass of bread, who can conceive the extremely minute particle of sulphur which will be contained in one little piece of this bread, not bigger than half a sweet pea !!!! Calculation of the above:— 8142857142 lbs. of bread in 1 billion of grain. 52, 17857142 weekly portions. 1,00! ^ 3434,06 annual portions. I 3434 the number of persons who could be supported from the above one billion of grains of flour at the rate of 81bs. of bread per head per week for one hundred years. Oh, that the combatants of Spain and the belligerents throughout the world would adopt the Homeopathic system in their use of sul- phur and steel! Your constant reader, MATTER OF FACT. The Address in the House of Commons will be moved by Mr. SAN- FORD, M. P. for Somerset, and seconded by Mr. VILLIERS STUART.— Lord FINGALL moves, and LordSuFFiELD seconds, the Address in the Lords. The Reformers of Leeds, who have adopted the motto " Union is strength," are sadly divided on the subject of Sir WILLIAM MOLES- WORTH'S desire to represent them in Parliament. One party " re- solve" that his dignified silence upon certain topics is complimentary; another, that it is contemptuous; and a third, that it is at least im- prudent. At a late meeting of his " friends," the following resolu- tion was proposed, but not adopted:— " That it would be expedient before any further steps are taken with regard to the representation of Leeds, to wait until the next session of Parliament shall have developed the line of conduct wh} ch Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH will pursue, and also the policy which the Ministers themselves may adopt. This meeting also entertains January 29 JOHN b u l l; 59 a strong hope that Sir WILLIAM MOLESWORTH will, in the ensuing session, so act as shall induce all shades of Liberals to give him their support as a candidate to represent this borough in Parliament." TOTNESS.— On Thursday week the long- expected gathering of the Conservatives of South Devon took place at Totness, and on no for- mer occasion was there a muster of the Conservative party in this district of the country so distinguished for the numbers, the rank, and the respectability of » those assembled. The dinner was given to Sir J. Y. BCLLERand Mr. M. E. PARKER, Members for the southern divi- sion of Devon, by their constituents, and the opportunity was of course selected to make a demonstration, certainly a most imposing one, of the strength and power of the Conservative interest in Devon- shire. The entertainment took place in a large room fitted up for the occasion, and which, though it afforded accommodation for 1,100 persons to dine, was yet insufficient for the numbers who poured into Totness to the grand political festival. The remainder, amounting to not less than 700 or 800 persons, dined at the different inns in the town, and were afterwards admitted to a large gallery prepared for them at the end of the banquetting hall, previous to the removal of the cloth, and before the " speechification" had commenced. The chair was filled by Lient.- General Sir G. P. ADAMS, K. C. B. Some admirable constitutional speeches were delivered on the occasion. A Mr. MORRIS has addressed the electors of Carmarthen: he has, however, been studiously vague and inexplicit as to the complexion of his political principles, so that he may be either an intense Radical or ultra Tory. The Conservatives, therefore, were not to be caught napping; as soon as they ascertained that this " equivocal" candi- date was " on the move," they put an address in circulation expres- sing theif approval of Mr. LEWIS'S parliamentary conduct, and pledging themselves to support him in. the event of a contest; the result of which cannot be doubtful. Mr. GIBSGN has acceded to the call made upon him by the Conser- vatives of Ipswich to become a candidate for the representation of that borough in the event of a dissolution of Parliament. The other candidate is Mr. KELLY. ^ DINNER TO LORD CASTLEREAGH AT BANGOR.— On Friday week this dinner took place in the old Meeting- house, Bangor; about 400 of the electors of the county sat down to dinner. The Hon. Col. WARD, Castle Bangor, took the chair, having on his right Lord CASTLEREAGH. The noble guest, and several other gentlemen ad- dressed the meeting, the spirit of and proceedings at which fully sustained the high character of the county of Down. The Duende Liberal of the 16th instant, attributes much of the pecuniary embarrassment of the Spanish Government to the heavy expense incurred by the foreign auxiliaries taken into its pay. The paper in question states thatthese corps have cost no less a sum than 1,000,000 reals ( 730,0001.) per annum, and which is thus set forth:— The British Legion .. .. 43,000,000 reals. The French Legion .. .. 2- 2,000,000 do. The Portuguese Legion .. .. 8,000,000 do. The total force of these corps had never exceeded 9,000 men, and the principal service rendered by them was the performance of the garrison duty of certain fortified towns. The Duende observes, that that sum would have sufficed to support 30,000 national volunteers, who would have done more service to the cause of liberty than those equivocal auxiliaries. CONSERVATISM IN Scnnn v.— The Conservatives of Surrey are, we are happy to find, bestirring themselves in all quarters. At a numerous and most respectably- attended meeting of the Guildford Conservative Association on Tuesday last, it was unanimously resolved to invite the Hon. D. W. BEST to offer himself as a candi- date for that borough, as the colleague of Mr. BARING WALL. On Saturday a meeting of the Conservative Association for the Eastern Division of Surrey took place at the Greyhound, Croydon, when it was stated that Mr. HENRY POWNALL had consented to offer himself as a candidate for the county, in the event of a dissolution of Parlia- ment, and that Captain ALSAGER highly approved of the proceeding. Mr. G. H • WARD has received his summons to Newcastle; a meet- ing of Radicals has been held there, but the gathering was, nume- rically, so contemptible as to prove that the abettors and advocates of " organic changes" in this town grow " small by degrees, and beau- tifully less." It is affirmed that the Hon. Gentleman has even a better chance at St. Albans than at Newcastle,— and had better " try his luck" there once again. Another joint has dropt from the tail of DANIEL O'CONNELL ; Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN, the Member for Limerick county, has fallen under the ban of the great manufacturer of Parliament men; and of course, therefore, will be summoned to resign, and make way for Master SPRING RICE, who has recently been appointed High Sheriff of the Shire. The Carlow Sentinel reports a speech delivered last week in that town by Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL to the rabble that had been as- sembled to hear him. We extract the following passage, " without note or comment":— " Boys, the names I call your enemies, do you call every friend of theirs you meet in the streets. Girls and women, when you meet the Bruenites spit on them— spit in their faces, particularly if they are Catholic Conservatives. Write traitor on their doors with chalk, and tell your friends at home to do the same. You who are wives of the Catholic electors, if your husbands do not vote for their religion, bless yourselves, and then swear on your prayer- books to separate from your husbands it they don't obey your commands. You who are their daughters, I tell you if your fathers vote against you, spit in their faces!! and call them the names I taught the boys to call them. I will send you two Reformers for your connty— honest VIGORS and ASHTON YEATES ( not RAPHAEL), of London, who, with Mr. HUME, sent me 9,0001. to defray my expenses in Dublin." ' REPRESENTATION OF PERTHSHIRE.— Lord Stormont has definitively announced himself a candidate for Perthshire, in the event of a disso- lution. The noble Lord had previously received an invitation from upwards of 1,000 electors. His Lordship's seat for Norwich, which will thus become vacant, is quite safe— it will certainly be filled by a Conservative. We stated last week that we shouldleave Mr. O'CONNELL'S defence, of the charge of selling his vote against the factory children in the hands of the Radical journals. The London Mercury thus concludes an article on the subject:— " The guilt of O'CONNELL is now established by his own state- ments ;— and that guilt is of a kind so monstrous as to constitute him a public nuisance. The man has long been known to be the most mercenary of political adventurers. His countrymen have bought him to fight their battles. He would sell his countrymen, and all that he professes to hold dear— if, by the sale, he could secure a Rent, larger and more permanent than that which he now wrings from the poverty of Ireland i" Mr. J. BAILEY, jun., is again in thefield on the Conservative interest for the Monmouthshire boroughs, in the room of Mr. HALL, and Mr. BLEWETT banker, of Newport, is spoken of by the Reform party.— Cambrian. ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPELS.— It appears from comparing the Ro man Catholic Directory for the Laity ( published under the authority of the Roman Catholic Bishops) for the year 1832 with that of 1837, that there has been an increase of twenty- six in the number of Ro- man Catholic chapels in England and Wales during the interval between the above years. The total number now is 426, of which there are 87 in Lancashire, and 53 in Yorkshire, being more there than in any other counties. It appears that three which were open in 1832 are now closed, otherwise the increase would have been twenty- nine. The French chapel in London derives no support now from the French Government, its assistance having been withdrawn since the Revolution of 1830, Many of the chapels in the Directory are mere rooms used for the purpose on Sundays, and some not exclu- sively so, but used for common occasions during the week. It also appears that the Roman Catholics are much in debt in many places for building chapels, & c., and the priests have great difficulty in ob- taining support; and one might suspect, from some observations in the Directory, that their congregations consist in many places of merely Irish labourers. The number of persons named in the register of electors for the Eastern Division of Somersetshire for 1835- 6, was 8,504, and in the present register is 9,561, so that there are now 1,057 persons more qualified to vote than there were under the former register. As re- gards the Western Division, it is a curious coincidence that, notwith- standing the numerous changes that must have taken place, the numbers in the registers for 1835- 6 and 1836- 7, are precisely the same, viz., 8,854. The Conservative dinner by the electors of Stratford and Alcester, in commemoration of the triumphant return to Parliament of EVELYN JOHN SHIRLEY, Esq., of Eatington- park, took place at the Shakspeare- hall, Stratford, on Wednesday. The meeting having been the subject of intense and universal interest in the immediate neighbourhood for some weeks past, the demand for tickets was most gratifying, and there is no dobut that, had the committee been able to accommodate more than a limited number at dinner, a more numerous company would have assembled to express their respect for their deservedly popular representative, and demonstrate their attachment to the great principles of Conservatism. Most of the influential gentlemen in the Southern Division of the county were present, and the dinner displayed a greater assemblage of rank, wealth, intelligence, and respectability, than was congregated in this district on any former occasion. The annual dinner of the members of the North Warwickshire Conservative Association has been held at Coleshill, the President the Earl of AYLESFORD, in the chair. The assembly- room was completely crowded, and had there been any place sufficiently large for the accommodation of the company, the numbers would have been fourfold. For the last fortnight the whole of the tickets had been disposed of, with the exception of a few reserved for distinguished visitors, and the number of applicants frotn whom the Committee were compelled to withhold tickets was great beyond all expectation. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland have commenced their usual splendid banquets, balls, musicale soirees, & c., to the fashion- ables of Paris. Their Graces are likely to stay longer in the French capital than was expected. The Earl of Aberdeen has arrived at Argyll House, from Brighton. The Countess of Cadogan and her two daughters arrived at their mansion, in Piccadilly, from Paris, on Monday evening last. The Countess Dowager of Guildford, we are sorry to state, has experienced a relapse. The Earl of Waldegrave left Farrance's Hotel on Wednesday for Essex. The Earl of Minto gave a grand dinner on Thursday at the Admiralty. Tho Earl and Countess de Gray, and Mr. and Lady Mary Vyner, intend leaving Wrest Park, in Bedfordshire, on Monday next, for the season. Lady Albert Conyngham is in Hill- street, daily improving in health. Lord and Lady Rivers are on the eve of leaving their seat, at Mistley- hall, formerly occupied by Viscount Canterbury, when Speaker of the House of Commons, to visit Earl and Countess Gran- ville, at Paris. Lord De Saumarez, who has arrived, with his Lady, at Bath, from Cheltenham, will take the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords on the meeting of Parliament, having succeeded to the honours of his father, the late venerable and gallant Lord. Lord Ellenborongh has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave- street, from his seat, Southam, Essex. Lord Lyndhurst arrived at his residence, George- sfreet, Hanover- square, on Tuesday night, from Paris. We are happy to state that his Lordslup is in excellent health. Lord Stanley was expected in town yesterday. His Lordship^ residence in Carlton- gardens, which has undergone extensive alter- ations and embellishments, is now ready for his reception. Count Bozzo di Borgo gave a sumptuous dinner on Wednesday evening to a select party. Covers were laid for twelve. Prince Esterhazy and his son, Prince Paul Leiven, Baron Maltitz, Count Tolstoy, M. Hummelauer, M. Benkhausen, and M. Petre, were amongst the distinguished guests. Some of our contemporaries of last week circulated a report of the death of the Earl of Dalhousie. How such a report originated, or what could possibly give rise to it, we know not; but we a. re happy to be able to give it a most unqualified contradiction. This amiable and distinguished nobleman enjoys his wonted health. Accounts from the castle were received in town on Saturday evening, at which date the family were all well. The funeral of Lady Farnborough took place on Saturday last, at Wormleybury, Waltham- cross, Herts, the seat of Sir Abraham Hume, her father, where a superb mausoleum had previously been erected. Lady Brougham and her daughter, Miss Brougham, are at pre- sent residing at Worthing, for the improvement of the health of the latter. Lady Malet, her Ladyship's daughter by her first marriage, has arrived at the Hague, where Sir Alexander is Secretary of Legation. There is no truth in the report that one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Lethbridge is about to be united to E. A. Seaford, Esq., M. P. The marriage alluded to by the papers as being in contemplation, is that of Lord Glandine, son of the Earl of Norbury, with Lady G. Russell, daughter of the Duke of Bedford. The other intended mar- riage is reported to be that of Lord Marcus Hill and the beautiful Miss Blake. Dr. Thornton, the botanist, died at his residence, Howland- street, Fitzroy- square, on Saturday, after a painful and lingering illness. On Wednesday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, the mortal remains of the much- lamented Marchioness of Exeter, were removed from her Ladyship's town residence, in Privy Gardens, Whitehall, for interment in the family vault, at Beckenham, in Kent. Died, at No. 4, Chapel- street, Park- lane, on the 18th inst., in the sixty- first year of her age, and most sincerely and deservedly regretted, the Lady Prudentia Charlotte Emily Coote, second daughter of Charles last Earl of Bellamont, and of his wife Emily Mary Margaretta, late Countess of Bellamont, and granddanghter of James first Duke of Leinster, and of his wife Emily late Duchess of Leinster. Died, on Friday, the 20th inst., at her residence, No. 9, Promenade- terrace, Cheltenham, most deeply regretted and sincerely lamented by a large circle of relatives and ( friends, after a few days'illness of influenza, the Dowager Lady Ford, sister of the late Viscount Anson, and aunt to the Earl of Lichfield. Mr. Gait was on Monday last visited with another stroke of para- lysis, which for some hours deprived him of the power of speech. His friends and admirers, however, will learn with pleasure that he has now in a great measure recovered from the effects of this last attack, and is once more able to resume his literally avocations.— Greenock Advertiser. We regret to state that Joseph Sabine, Esq., died on Tuesday, after a short attack of influenza. He was a man of extensive know- ledge, and of the most amiable manners. STOCKHOLM, Jan. 10.— The venerable Field- Marshal Count Ste- dinyk died on the 7th of this month, in the 91st year of his age, a victim to the prevailing sickness. His Majesty has issued an Order of the Day on this occasion, ordering that the army shall put on mourning for eight days. BERLIN, Jan. 18.— His Excellency Baron Von Bulow, Prussian Ambassador at the British Court, has set out to return to London. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe arrived in Curzon- street, on Wednes- day, from visits to the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, and the Earl and Countess Brownlow, at Belton House, where the Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury, the Earl and Countess of Darlington, and Lady Augusta Poulett, Lord Rokeby, Right Hon. Henry Pierre- pont, < fcc., have been on a visit to the Earl and Countess. The Hon. and Right Reverend Earl of Plymouth, who died on Thursday se'nnight at his house in Grosvenor- street, enjoyed the family honours only a few years, having succeeded his nephew, Other Archer, sixth Earl of Plymouth, in 1833. The Noble and Rev. Earl dying unmarried, is succeeded in the title and estates by his only surviving brother, the Hon. Colonel Henry Windsor, youngest son of Other Lewis, fourth Earl of Plymouth. Lately, at the theatre of Weimar, during the representation o^ a German tragedy, the public, consisting of seven spectators, who oc" cupied a portion of one of the benches of the pit, thought proper hiss the actors most unmercifully. The latter returned the compli- ment with interestj emboldened by the feeble numerical force of their opponents, and reinforced by the machinist and bill- sticker of the theatre, and also by a personage who combined in his single person the offices of prompter, candle- snuffer, and scene- shifter. The audience, having the second- best of the contest, were ultimately ob- liged to evacuate the theatre. It is not true that the Duke of Cleveland has raised his rents. Lord Brougham has withdrawn his name from the J oint Stock Cockney College Company. Many are the kind and charitable actions we have had the pleasure of recording of the Earl of Lonsdale, but we have much pleasure in publishing one which has gained for his Lordship the warmest thanks of a body of the community whose sincerity cannot be doubted. His Lordship has, for the last few years, caused the Beacon plantation, near Penrith, to be thinned of larch and Scotch firs, and selling the trees, and tops, and toppings. At the last sale, however, the trees only were sold, and the chips, toppings, and tops, given to the poor of Penrith. This present, at this time of the year, has indeed been very seasonable, in consequence of coal and other fuel being at so very high a price. We understand that the poor people intend to presfent his Lordship and his steward an address of thanks, which, we have no dcubt, will be signed by several hundreds of the poor of Penrith.— Carlisle Patriot. The Earl and Countess of Mansfield have postponed their depar- ture from the Palace at Scone until the middle of February. The postponement of the marriage of the Earl of Winchelsea to the Hon. Miss Bagot is owing, it is said, partly to the visitation of a domestic calamity in the family of Lord Maryborough, and partly to the illness of the Duchess of Gloucester. The marriage was to have been celebrated at the Palace early in January, but we have not heard of any fixed period for its celebration. On Sunday morning died, at her residence in Hertford- street, to the inexpresssible grief of lierfamily and friends, and after a long and melancholy illness, which she bore with Christian fortitude and re- signation, the Right Hon. Lady Frances, wife . of Mr. James Webster Wedderburn, Bart., in the 42d year of her age. Her Ladyship was sister to the Earl of Mountnorris, and sister- in- law to Lord Farn- ham, Lord John Somerset, < fec. Farinelli, the composer, died at Trieste on the 13th ult. His Grace the Duke arrived at Apsley House on Thursday evening. We are authorised to state that one of the amiable and accom- plished daughters of Lord and Lady Briiport will shortly be led to the hymeneal altar by Henry Hall, Esq. of Holbrook House, in the county of Somerset. Died at his seat, Keddleston, near Derby, on Thursday morning, Jan. 26, the Right Hon. Lord Scarsdale, in the eighty- sixth year of his age. He is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, Nathaniel Curzon, now Lord Scarsdale. The Marquess of Tweedale has let his mansion in Belgrave- sqnare to Mr. Tracey Leigh, for the season. The Viscount and Viscountess Deerhurst left town on Thursday last, on a visit to Lady Cockerell, at Sezkicote Hall. Lord Leveson Gower, the son and private secretary of Lord Gran- ville, arrived at Hanover- square, late on Thursday night, from Paris, with most important despatches from his Excellency to our Govern- ment. Lord Mahon is labouring under a severe attack of influenza. Count Demidoff, after a tour of the most celebrated German spas, has arrived in Paris, and will shortly resume his brilliant fetes in that luxurious city. General Soublette, one of the Columbian Envoys, has left Mivart's Hotel for Sheerness, on a visit to Admiral and the Hon. Mrs. Fleming. General O'Leary is still at the above hotel. The remains of the wealthy W. Fulke Greville, Esq., the father of the Viscountess Combermere, and uncle of the Earl of Warwick, were removed from his residence on Tuesday, for interment in the family vault at Eastry. We are glad to hear that Lord Farnborough is much better. The following singular circumstance is published in the Quotidienne of Monday last. Our Parisian contemporary must have been hoaxed. " We have already announced Mr. Green's arrival in London with his monster balloon. The Duke of Brunswick, whose adventurous spirit is well known, went immediately to visit the spirited aeronaut, and offered him a large sum of money to at- tempt a passage to the United States. The answer of Mr. Green has not yet been communicated." TH K THEATRES. The drama has this week afforded no topic for our pen. The actors, as well as the public, have been suffering from influenza. MACREADY, among others, has been compelled to leave the board and take to the bed. Anew appearance at the St. James's— a Mr. LEFFLER, in the Quaker— has been successful; he sung and played with considerable talent and effect. Jim Crow has gone back to the Adelphi. On Monday the anniversary of the Martyrdom is to be commemorated by an Oratorio at Drury Lane. COSTA'S NEW OPERA OF MALEK ADHEL. The nnjust opponents of " the Theatre Italien— those who dispute its vast superiority, and accuse the direction of ill- timed economy in its spectable, will cease their attacks when they witness the represen- tation of Malek Adhel, for the production of which no expense has been spared either in the decorations, scenery or costume. FERRI, the scene- painter, has surpassed himself in the magnificent delinea- tions of the Camp of the Soldiers of the Cross, and of Mount Carmel, and great praise is also due to the artists who designed the costumes worn by LABLACHE, TAMBURINI, IVANOFF, and ALBERTAZZI. The opera of Malek Adhel has obtained the most brilliant success, a suc- cess in every way commensurate with its merit; it is a work replete with highly- wrought dramatic situations; and musical morceau of the highest order; it will not only remain a standard piece in the reper- tory of FAVART, but will no doubt be speedily introduced on the boards of the principal theatres of Italy. The subject chosen by the accom- plished dramatist treats of that portion of history when the European powers leagued together under the banners of the Cross for the deli- verance of the Holy City from the barbarian hand of the Saracen. 38 JOHN BULL. The principal scenes described by the elegant pen of Madame COT- TIN, are introduced - with the happiest effect; indeed, it would be dif- ficult to select a fitter subject to test the talents of the composer and the dramatist. The former has most felicitously and powerfully described the contending feelings of love and hatred which agitate the breasts of the rivals, while the latter has succeeded in producing the most striking dramatic situations ; his libretto is distinguished by a vein of high poetic feeling, which pervade| the whole, and by in- genious conduct of the plot, the interest, instead of flagging, progres- sively increases with the merit of the music. Signor COSTA is al- ready favourably known amongst the musical circles of this metro- polis as the Director of the King's Theatre, and as the successful composer of several pieces which have been frequently given in our public and private Salons de Concerts; his talent, to a degree, is therefore not strange to ns, and we congratulate him upon the bril- liant accneil which the critical Parisians have just bestowed on him ; and while the frequenters of FAvART have reason to think themselves fortunate in having so talented an artist associated with their establishment, so may the Neapolitan Conservatoire be justly proud of their countryman and pupil. The opera was most strongly cast, having the support of Mesdames GRISI and ALBERTAZZI, and Signori RUBINI, IVANOFF, TAMBCRINI, and LABLACHE. Their unrivalled performance, and the merits of the com- position, succeeded in alternately fixing the breathless attention of the andience, and exciting the most deafening applause. We may cite the following pieces, as the most remarkable of the work :— In the 1st Act— Aria, sung by LABLACHE, " Quici accampo ;" romanza, sung by Madame ALBERTAZZI, " Mi fit in citna ;" Rubinis cavatina, n lo vo incampo trionfadothe duet between GRISI and RUEINI, " Vinta in gioir quest ' anima an aria sung by Mdlle GRISI, " In- gaunata el cor che spera ;" and the choruses and finale, which are redolent of melody and masterly instrumentation. In the 2d Act, TAMBURINI'S air, " Ofuric tremendi;*' the duet between TAMBU- NIM and ALBERTAZZI, " ATei deserti del ' Arabia ; duet between RUBXNI and GRISI, " Vienifuggiam" and the magnificent trio be- tween the preceding and LABLACHE, " Ferisce sbranami." 3d Act, the air sung by GRISI, " O/ nbra che voli," and that by KUBINI, " Terai/ no cadrai," both of which were marvellously executed, and were required a second time. We confidently look forward to the production of this highly- meri- torious and successful work on the boards of the King's Theatre during the approaching season, where a reception equally enthusi- astic awaits it. January 22 METROPOLITAN PRESS. ThE " MIDDLESEX" DINNER.— The great Whig- Radical display, the result of many weeks' preparation, of boundless prospective boasting, and intense labour with our Whig- Radical contemporaries since the beginning of December— the grand set- oft'against all the Conservative demonstrations since the close of the session— the vast filtration of the Whigs and Radicals of 2,500,000— in a word, the Drnry- lane festival has come off, to use a sporting phrase, and come off in a manner which must, cause its authors to repent, bitterly, that they ever brought it on. Never was there a more deplorable failure, as regards the magnificent purpose <- f the celebralion ; scarcely ever, indeed, has there been a more wretched failure in the case of a festival, got up with no other purpose than to prove the local ascen- dancy of a particular set of principles. But, as we have said, this was to have been a national/^— it was to have been the demonstration of Whig- Radical power, on the eve of the session, that should efface from the minds of the Members of the two Houses, the deep impression produced by meetings like those of South Lancashire, Liverpool, Halifax, Bristol, Oxford Northamp- tonshire, Nottinghamshire, West Kent, Glasgow, and a hundred besides ; and what was it ? According to the Times reporter, about 800 persons were present. Of the 16 Dukes, Earls, and Viscounts, whose names figure so conspicuously at the head of the list of stewards, not one was there, or sent an apology for his absence ; and when the health of his Majesty's redoubtable Ministers was drunk, not even one solitary understrapper could be found to acknow- ledge the compliment. None of his Majesty's servants ventured to present themselves to the audience. And they acted wisely: the assembly would not have f- uited them, nor would they have suited the assembly; for the meeting at Drnry- lane consisted chiefly of persons who'seem at least to mean > nmething, and, what is more, who seem to be fully aware that llie King's servants mean nothing but to keep themselves in place. Some delay arose in consequence of the non- arrival of the Chair- man ( Lord Russell, eldest son of the Marquis of Tavistock), and for a time his place was occupied by his uncle, Lord William Russell, hut before the dinner was concluded Lord Russell arrived, and was received with a shout of welcome. Mr. Byng sat on the right of the chair, Mr. Hume on the left., Amongst the persons of some distinction present were— Lord W. Rus- sell, Sir Ronald Ferguson, M. P., Colonel Thompson, M. P., Mr. Pat- tison, M. P., Mr. Crawford, M. P., Mr. Grote, M. P., Mr. Williams, M. P., Mr. Ward, M. P., Mr. Charles Buller, M. P., Mr. Warburton, M. P.. Mr. T. Duncombe, M. P., Mr. Waklev, M. P., Mr. Cloy, M. P., Mr. Kwart, M. P., Mr. Tulk, M. P., Mr. Bish, M. P., Sir S. Whalley, M. P., Mr. Lynch, M. P., Mr. Wilks, M. P., Mr. B. Hall, M. P., Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, M. P., Mr. Alderman Hariner, Mr. Ovenden, and a multitude of other " gentlemen of Liberal opinions." In commenting upon this list the Standard remarks :— " And this was all that could be exhibited of that imposing list of stewards, that has figured in the columns of the Radical newspapers - for so many weeks. No Dukes— no Marquesses— lio Earls— no Viscounts— no Barons— of all that were promised ; not one Peer of all the Peers so pompously announced; not one Baronet; the two county Members the only county Members present— the four City Radical Members— three Mem& ers for the metropolitan districts, and about a dozen representatives of the least respectable boroughs that still retain the privilege of Parliament. Thes « , let it never bo forgotten, with their 800 compofators, constitute all of the 2,500,0W of the metropolitan population, cities, " and counties, that could be collected, to eclipse the Conservative celebra- tions of the last five. months, and to beard the one- half of the House of Commons, and nearly the whole of the House of Lords. Deeply do we lhank the authors of the display for a manifestation of their utter weakness so unequivocal. Their expectations, we admit, were modest; they prepared tables for no more than 1,100, but they prepared tables for 300 more than attended. It was not as at Oxford and Maidstone, and 50 other places, where the Conservative overflow so far exceeded expectation as to fill all the inns and taverns in the neighbourhood. It was not as at Glasgow, where a building erected to accommodate more than 3,000— more ihan four times the number collected at Drurv- lane— was found utterly inadequate to its object. Now let us still remember, that while a Glasgow population of 240,000 gave 3,500 Conservatives; the metropolitan population of 2,500,000 mustered no more than 800 Whig- Radicals. But were the 800, indeed, all Whig- Radicals ?" PROVINCIAL PRESS. The Leeds dinner and Lord Morpeth's speech have been com- mented upon by the Doncaster Chronicle. The absence of Sir Wil- liam Molesworth was a great relief to the Irish Secretary, and Mr. Baines, " the getter- np of the affair;" inasmuch as- no actual " row" took place. " The Radicals of Leeds, as is well known, have been, for some time, taking steps to obtain that position in the borough, which, they say, their numbers warrant theminassuming: and they have pitched upon Sir William Molesworth as their future candidate. The fVhigs do not like Sir IViltiam, and will prevent him coming forward, if possible, but they dare not openly oppose him. However, in a packed meeting, they contrived to get certain resolutions passed, requiring the Baronet to support Ministers. The sturdy Cornish Radical refuses to give the present Cabinet an unqualified support. and declines, in consequence, offering for Leeds ; and he also, on the plea of ' pressing business' in London, refused to attend the dinner, to which he was invited. This dampei to the hopes of the Rads was kept secret as long as possible; and when announced, it excited no little consternation in the camp. An orange placard was imme- diately issued, calling on the Radicals, as Sir William Molesworth would not come forward, to lose no time in bringing out Fenrgus O'Connor! This was followed by another, attributing the first bill to some ' impudent scoundrel,' and stating that ' Molesworth' ( the Baronet's prefix being dropped) would come to Leeds, as soon as the Radicals assured him, that ne would not be required to sacrifice his independence ; and the second placard was signed bv several ' stewards' of the ' Grand Reform Festival.' However, it was too late to get Sir William Molesworth to the dinner ; and thus the deli- cate ea/ s of Lord Morpeth were spared hearing some home truths ; bnt the occurrence has widened the breach between the Whigs and the Radicals in Leeds ; and unless the usual cunning of the former is again successful it will end in an open rupture. " Adverting to the character drawn of the Ministry, by several speakers at Conservative dinners, Lord Morpeth tauntingly asked, 6 why are ice the Administration ?' We can tell him, because the Libera! representatives of Ireland, returned under the influence of the priests, and the death's- head and cross- bones intimidation of O'Connpll. have enabled Lord Melbourne to out- vote the majority of Conservatives returned by England to the Legislature; and be- cause the present Cabinet ho'ld office, not only by making a measure which they formerly opposed, a bond of union with their Irish allies ; but by other sacrifices of principle, and professions more disgraceful than were ever made by men in the same situation, since England was a ' ation.— Lord Morpeth declared, that so far from the Ministry being enemies of the Protestant Church, they had offered her more than she could now retain.— After the repeated declara'ions of O'Con- nell on this subject, we cannot repress the feeling of contempt which instinctive'v rises in the mind of every honest man, at hearing it again asserted, that the Ministerial measure of the last Session would have satisfied Ireland. Lord Morpeth would support Popery in Ireland, because it is the religion of the majority. On the same principle, as the Leeds Intelligencer observes, we might support Hin- dooism in India." ^ We copy the following piece of badinage from the Bury and Suffolk Herald; there is matter in it:— Some few months ago the Tories were said to be dying of atrophy. Since ' hat they have changed ; and it is remarkable bow strong, and healthy, and vigorous, they have all of a sudden become. Instead of being those constifutionle'ss, sickly souls it so delighted their enemies to think them, they are now— so says the Spectator— • inspirited with a degree of enthusiasm and activity of which there has been no example since Lord Liverpool's death.' If the accounts of the revolutionists are to be. relied on, the Tories are perpetually playing off the burlesque dramas of Bombastes Furioso and Tom Thumb. That is to say, they never die but they are sure to come to life again. At one moment they are pining from a bullet- wound in the thorax, and anon from the gash of a small sword in the stomach. The disputants on Tory wounds are never agreed as to the part wounded: their agreement goes no further than that Tories must die. Some have carried thvir hallucination so far ns to say they are dead already, whilst others have pointed out the means and manner of their death. Yesterday they were said to be killed by the Reform Bill; to- day by the new " Corporations. The tripping up of a Con- servative candidate at an election, by a Reform opponent, was said to have broken his neck ; and not only his neck, but the necks of his constituents generally, and the neck of Toryism in particular. It is wonderful how cat- like Toryi- m is in it* propensity to live. Its dying here, and dying there— its giving up the ghost on this occasion, nod taking it hack on that, are nothing but sham- Abraham. Let Toryism he tossed into the air by a mad bull of a mob, and see if it doesn't alight npon its feet, again ! There is no such thing as killing it— and yet it is always dying. How odd! Some folks have been malicious enough to use poison— thinking, with the Dane, that a ' leprous distilment' mighteffect the deed. Acting from this notion, they were busied for some time pouring within * the porches' of the public ear ' the juice of cursed Hebenon.' But all was of no avail. Toryism would not die; and now—' alas and alack the day!'— it is as thriving and lusty as ever. Those who will not believe us, let them listen to our enemies. The Spectator says—' The Tory party is stronger than if has been for many years.' That is to say, the dead people are all come to life again ! * What a disappointment this must be to the quacks and undertakers who presented the poison and had prepared the coffins ! Who shall say that, by the time Par- liament opens, the Tories may not he strong enough to run a race with their foes, and in the end win it?" ODDS AND ENDS. M. Thiers said in the Chamber that, he desired to enter Spain at the head of 50,000 French. He would have spoken more truly if he had said " at the head of 50,000francs."— Charivari. The jury of the Basses Alpes has just pronounced a verdict of a singular and rather important character. A young woman was brought to trial before them on a charge of infanticide. Her guilt was fully proved, but the Jury acquitted her because of their convic- tion, that " had not the cradle hitherto kept in every hospice for the reception of children about to be abandoned been suppressed by a late order of the Prefect, the prisoner would not have destroyed her infant !" RANDOM SHOTS.— The Bath Gazette states tiiat the keeper of a gentleman at Nettleton, Wilts, having observed an extroardinary number of starlings alight on the branches of a small plantation, went in the night, accompanied by some men and boys, with a lan- tern, and firing 26 shots at random among the branches, brought down no less than 802 birds, which completely filled a four- bushel sack, and their weight being IfOlbs. In the morning upwards of 100 more were picked up w- ounded— making little short of 1,000 birds at 26 shots. PRINCE FERDINAND OF PORTUGAL.— A very extraordinary disposi- tion has lately manifested itself among persons apparently in a re- spectable sphere of life to ridicule his Royal Highness Prince Ferdi- nand. During the past week he took a ride into the Rocio- square, better known by the name of the Inquisition- square, but now called Bra fa do Dom Pedro, where a statue is about to be raised to his me- mory. Some stone posts were here inadvertently lying about, over one of which he leaped. This was no sooner observed than cries of " He's mad ! he will leap over the house directly ; he bad better be sent to 1he lunatic asylum," were heard. His Royal Highness took no notice of it, and passed on, but has refrained from coming into the city on horseback since. Only a few days previous to this affair, wliilepassing through the Boa Vista, soon after mid- day, a quantity of clean water was thrown out of a widow, no doubt intended for his Royal Highness, but fortunately had no worse effect than taking out the stiffening of a well- plaited frill of his Aide- de- camp ; and on crossing the bridge of Alcantara, a decently- dressed but ugly mis- creant approached him closely, and doffing his hat with a low bow, deliberately saluted him with " Como esta, Senhor Jose Nabo ?" a quaint term for " How do you, silly Joe ?" Epithets of a highly in- sulting nature are sometimes applied by the canaille to the youthful Queen as she passes, but happily not loud enough to assail her Royal ears.— Lisbon Correspondent of the Times. LK PERE ENFANTIN.— Father Enfantin, ex- Pope of the St. Simoni- ans, who, after he was released from prison went to Egypt, has just landed at Marseilles. He remains in France only a short period, and then returns to convert the Pacha. HANDEL IN CORNWALL.— Charles Dibdin, in one of his entertain- ments, used to relate a laughable story of some Cornishmen whom he met as he was travelling to the Land's End, bearing music books and instruments.—" Where are you going ?" said Charles. " To church, to practice our music for Sunday," was the reply. *' Whose music do you sing ?" asked the poet". " Oh Handel, Handel ry of the Ocean " threw them a crown niece, and bade them drink the health of the author of " Poor Jack/' — Musical World. AMERICAN CARICATURES.—" Before the late amicable adjustment of the difficulties in France, a caricature was published in America, representing General Jackson shaking his cane at the King of the French, while in the left hand he was holding- a bag of money bearing the inscription, ' 25,000,000 francs;' with the words in his mouth, ' ' Tis well that you paid me, or by the Eternal ;' to which the King was represented bowing ' and waving his hapds, with the vyords, t Not another word of apology, my detir General, I beg you.' It would perhaps be difficult to make a better comment on the con- duct of either of these distinguished individuals than is contained in. that print."— Grand's Americans, in their Social, Moral, and Political Condition. The followinglines are extracted from Moore's Almanack, for the year 1770 •.— God bless the King, direct him what to do, God bless the Peers, God bless the People too : Those Peers I mean that, with an inbred zeal, Seek Britain's peace, pursuing public * real; That dare be honest, tho' at any rate, That stand prepared to meet the worst of fate: That laugh at threats, and flatteries despise, That won't be knavish, to be counted wise, That scorn the timorous fool, whose feeble mind Is whirl'd about with every blast of wind; That to self- interest lend no list'ning ear, Nor suffer reason to be led by fear; That of no faction are, but do profess, To King and Country with true heartedness, Both loyalty and love, with an intent Division and disunion to prevent. Division ! O ' twas that unhappy word Did once more mischief than a Popish sword Conld ever do. Oh! that a sweet communion Of peace and love may but complete our union; Then shall we all escape the Scorpion's claws, And dread no power but what's deriv'd from laws. Elizabeth, relict of Julian Pithardo Hitchcock, of Bungy- honse, Camberwell, having met with a fatal accident, the following epitaph' is inscribed on her tombstone:— " Sad was her death ! she met it thus: She was drnv over by a bus." A STAUNCH " NO- POPERY" MAN.— When a pauper applies for admission to any of the union workhouses, it is customary to ask of wdiat religious persuasion he is. A short time since a man presented himself, and ' he followins dialogue took place between him and the governor :— Of what religion are you ?— I don't know. Do yon never Eo to church ?— I never was there but once, when I was married. > o you never go to chapel?— No, I was never in one in my life. Well, what are you? Are you a Roman Catholic ?— No, hang it; no, I beant quite so bad as that, neither.— Brighton Gazette. A few days since, when Meunier's dinner was brought him, con- sisting of some pea- soup and two mutton chops, he refused to take any nourishment whatever, and declared to the gaolers that he would rather die in prison than on the scaffold. He frequently speaks of Morey, who attempted, as it is well known, to starve himself in prison. Paris Paper. The following is another specimen of the gross ignorance of English manners and customs even among the educated French r it is in the speech of M. Leichtenberger ( the advocate of Mrs. Gordon and Col. de Bruc), at the Strasburgh trials :—" When Rubini went to Lon- don to sing, the King of England ordered the drums to beat ajix champs ( the salute for a General) as he passed along," If M. Leich- tenberger believes this stoiy, he will certainly not give credit to a joke which appeared in the Corsaire the other day, and which repre- sented an Englishman at the Italian Opera in Paris tying a knot in his pocket handkerchief, in order to remind him that he had been pleased with a la of the said Rubini. Such a subject could not possibly have had M. Leitchtenberger's King of England for a sovereign. But both stories are equally absurd, and though one is but a joke, and the other serious, they are alike characteristic of the ignorance of the French, in all that relates to the English and English manners. The distinguished orator of Ivelmarsh, the late Mr. Hanbnry— kicked out of Northampton, and twice rejected for North Northamp- tonshire— is now Lord Bateman. " You'll be bate man," said an Irishman prophetically, when Mr. Hanbury stood forward to prevent the farmers from electing Mr. Maunsell. CHURCII RATES.—_ A f, a meeting on Wednesday last at Chelmsford, to consider a Church Rate, Mr. KING, surgeon, a Dissenter, spoke as follows :—" I think that great good arises in this country from the the existence of a Church Establishment, and if any one has opposed a rate on the ground of profuse expenditure, they have now aban- doned it. From the observations made to- day, it seems that they have taken what may be considered higher ground. Mr. fJray says he opposes Chnrch rates because he considers them anti- scriptural, and my friend Mr. Wells opposes them because he considers them almost a tax on the consciences of the Dissenters. Now, I will beg to make a few observations on both those points ; the first, of Church rates being anti- scriptural. Mr. Gray maintained that there is nothing in the Bible to countenance a Church- rate, Mr. Gray says that we do not now live under the old dispensation. I grant that' but if he turns to the Bible he will find that occasional calls were made on the property of the Jews for the maintenance of the temple. We read in Ezra, that under Cyrus all were taxed for the rebuilding of the temple, and that this was not an act of which God disapproved, is shown by the language of his pro- phet, when he calls Cyrus his servant. It is said that we do not find in the New Testament any mention of a National Church; the. reason of this is obvious; none of the governments of the earth having been then converted into Christianity ; but reasoning from- analogy, if any of them had been converted, they would have been, found maintaining a national religion, and Kings would have become its nursing fathers, and Queens its nursing mothers. ( Hear, hear.> I argue this the more, because the other day, in reading the last book of the Bible—( that of Malachi)— I there saw a curse pronounced on the people of Israel, because they had not paid those rights— those tithes— those contributions towards— the maintenance of the religion of the country, which they otight. ( Cheers.) Here the old dispen- sation was about to expire, and the last prophet who wrote under it, had spoken of the coming of the Messiah; and yet the duty of supporting a national religion was as much enforced by that prophet as it was by Moses, who was the first wrote on the subject. So much for Church- rates being anti- scriptural. And now with regard to the act of injustice in compelling us Dissenters to pay for the support of a national religion : I am at a loss to know what is meant by it. Living in a country professedly Christian we expect that the Government will be Christian ( cheers): and that they should consider it a duty to provide such religious instruc- tion for thfe people as they deem most expedient, the best calculated to promote their eternal happiness. So far from the Dissenter saying this is an injustice, I will say that the moment a Government ceases to make this provision, it ceases to be Christian. ( Cheers and hisses.) It leaves the discharge of one of its first duties to others, and betrays the confidence placed in it by the friends of peace, order, morality, and religion. ( Great cheering and- some hissing.) 1 am at a loss to understand how individuals can think it right to spt up their own private judgment as to the payment of taxes for religious instruc- tion; why, they might, by the same rule, think it very wronsf to - pay - any tax which had for its object the promotion of social order and the defence of the country. ( Much cheering.) This is all involved in the same principle. That which demands obedience to one law, demands it to all. If I admit to- day that a person may refuse payment of a tax for promoting religious in- struction, because it is not precisely the sort of instruction which he best approves, 1 can see no reason why I may not be called on to- morrow, to admit that he might refuse to pay* a tax for the defence of the country, because it is not conducted on the manner most accordant with his feelings. ( Great uproar among the opposers of the rate.) If a man refuse to pay a tajs for religious instruction, be- cause it is not in accordance with his opinion, I repeat that I see no reason why he should not be permitted to refuse to pay a tax for the support of social order, and the adminslration of justice, because it is not administered in the way most pleasant and congenial to his feelings. ( Renewed uproar.) 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" The luminous views taken of these diseases, together with the important warnings against excesses, entitle this work to great praise ; and we may add, as a further recommendation, that it is written with much delicacy and morality/ — Inspect and Literary Review. 38 JOHN BULL. January 22 STOCK EXCHANGE.— SATURDAT EVENING. The chief subject of public notice during the week has been the reported intention of the Bank of England to dispose of a part of the " Dead- weight." but nothing has finally been decided on. Consols for the Account have been as low as 89%, but they closed this after- noon at 89% %. The unfunded debt has declined, large Exchequer Bills having drooped to 18 pm. and the small to 22. India Bonds are also lower, the premium having been 15 at the close of business yes- terday. The Peninsula Bonds have been rather buoyant as regards Spanish Stock, the Active Stock of which is 26. Portuguese Securities are ery inactive, 48. is the quotation of the Five per Cent. Bonds and Oi that of the Three per Cent.— The Republican Securities are almost, neglected; Chilian Bonds are nominally 45 to 47 ; Columbian are at 25% ; and Mexican at 24 to 25. Northern Stock also evinces little animation ; Belgian Bonds are at, 101% to 102^ ; Dutch Five per Cents, are 103X, the Two- and- a- Half per Cents, are 53%, and the Russian Five per Cents, are at 109% 110%. In none of the other Securities is there anything to notice, and the Share Market is completely neglected, most of the prices being entirely nominal. • 3 per Cent. Consols, 89% % Ditto for Account, 89^ % 3 per Cent. Reduced, 90% 90 percent. Reduced. 98^ % New 3% per Cent., 97% % Bank Long Annuities, 14 15- 16 % Bank Stock, 206% India Stock, Exchequer Bills, ^ 1,000, 21 18 pm. India Bonds, 4 per Cent., 17 15 pin. The arrivals from Paris yesterday state, that laws have been pro- posed to the Chamber of Deputies for providing an appanage for the Duke of Nemours, and a dowry lor the Queen of Belgium. The for- mer is to have an income of 600,000 francs ; the latter is to receive a million. The Bill for trying hy Courts- martial persons belonging to the army who may be implicated with other individuals in plots against the King or State is not the only measure which the late attempt upon Louis Philippe's person, and the more recent acquittal of the Strasburg prisoners, have afforded the Doctrinaires an opportunity of introducing. On Wednesday's sittings of the Chamber of Peers the Keeper of the Seals presented a Bill, reviving the provisions of the Imperial Code, by which severe penalties are awarded to such as do not denounce plots against the State or Sovereign. These penal- ties were abolished in 1832, as being immoral and inefficient, and it is now proposed to re- establish them, as far as regards plots against the King or Royal Family. We hear nothing further of the accomplices of Mennier, who it now appears either had none, or he resolutely refuses to betray them. We find it stated in a Madrid opposition paper that, it results from a statement communicated by the Finance Committee of Spain, that the operations carried on by M. Mendizabal have occasioned the necessity of an emission of bills to the amount of 415,471,000 reals of Active Debt; bearing an annual interest of 20,773,500 reals; of Pas- sive Debt, 51,238,000 reals, and of Deferred Debt 20,400,000 reals. These large sums have loaded the country with an augmentation of foreign debt to the amount of 487,109,000 reals. Notwithstanding the vote of confidence, this 487,109,000 reals has produced no more than 156,376,300 reals ; and even this has not been finally obtained, because it is calculated that the titles deposited in the handsof Messrs. Ricardo, in compliance with the convention of May 14, 1836, will be negociated at a higher price than the real rate. Whence it follows that, after having expended in the first period of his administration all the ordinary revenues, a part of the loan of 400,000,000 reals, the 40 millions which procured the levy of 100,000 men, the resources of the Havannah, the Philippines, and Porto Rico, the advances on the imposts. Ac. < fec., M. Mendizabal has also expended the product of 487,000,000 reals. We do not vouch for the correctness of these details ; but it is unquestionable that the financial embarrassments of the Spanish Minister are almost insurmountable.— Standard. On Friday the Conservatives of the Northern Division of Hamp- shire celebrated their devotion to the cause and their attachment to the Constitution, composed of King, Lords, and Commons, in the an- cient and loyal city of Winchester. The occasion taken for this demon- stration of Conservative feeling was at a dinner which took place at St. John's House, when upwards of five hundred gentlemen sat down to a very excellent feast, which had been prepared by Mr. Clarke, of the White Hart Hotel. Numerous as was the attendance, it would have been move so but for the prevailing epidemic, which has, to use an emphatic expression of a gentleman present " laid up half the country." The arrangements were very complete, and the large room where the principal guests were was tastefully fitted up • with banners, inscriptions, & c. Amongst the mottos we noticed " The King and Constitution," " Liberty and loyalty," " Respect for public and private rights," " Commerce and trade," " Church and State," " Fear God and honour the King," & c. & c. Amongst the list of stewards were the following:— the Duke of Buckingham, the Marquess of Douro, Marquess of Chandos, Lord Ashburton, Lord Rodney, the Hon. F. Calthorpe, the Hon. W. B. Baring, M. P.; James East, Esq., M. P., Sir W. Joliffe, the Hon. F. Legge, Sir J. Pallin, Bart.; Sir Henry Rivers, Bart.; Sir Richard Rycroft, Sir L. Curtis; C. B. Wall, Esq., M. P.; the Rev. W. Baxter, Warden of Winchester College. Of all the Conservative celebrations which, in the discharge of a most gratifying duty, we have announced to our readers, none has occurred, as we believe, which can afford more pleasure or encourage- ment, than the meeting at Winchester. Sir Wm. Heathcote, former member for the county, occupied the chair; he was supported by the Marquesses Chandos and Douro, Lord Ashburton, and a very great number of distinguished noblemen and gentlemen. The speeches delivered upon the occasion were admirable, both in their spirit and their style of eloquence ; and in neither respect did any of the'several addresses of the Chairman take the second place. To us the most gratifying incident of the celebration was the announce- ment, most enthusiastically received, that Sir William is to be put in nomination for the North Division of Hampshire. Hampshire owes a large atonement to itself for having thrown away the honour reflected npon the county, and the benefit it conferredupon the whole nation, in having such a representative as Sir W. Heatbcote. How- ever, the opportunity for obtaining that atonement willsoon be given ; and if worth f- nd talent, urbanity and sound principles, the most brilliant purity of private life, with the loftiest public spirit, can command success, Sir William Beathcote will once more place the electors of North Hampshire in their proper position, as represented by an able, upright, and independent English gentleman. The Conservatives of Northampton dined together on Tuesday. The increasing strength of the Conservative Association of this town is of the greatest importance, as it is to a great extent a close borough, under the dominion of a few Liberal wholesale shoemakers, who deprive of his subsistence any artisan who dares to vote for a Conservative, and thus possess Ihemselves to a great extent of power to return Radicals to Parliament. The register for East Kent has been completed by the Clerk of the Peace for the present year. It contains the names of 7,293 electors. The number in 1832 was 7,026. UNION OF ALL THE PARISHES IN THE CITY OF LONDON.— The Poor Law Commissioners have transmitted to the Lord Mayor and the city authorities an order for the union of all the parishes in the city of London and the liberties. This union is to be called the City of London Union, and it is to be formed and come into operation on the 30th of March next. The union will comprise 108 parishes and dis- tricts. The number of Guardians to be appointed is one hundred and twenty- seven; of which number four are to be elected for each of the parishes of St. Botolph Without, Bishopsgate , and St. Giles Without, Cripplegate ; three for each of the parishes of St. Botolph. Aldgate ; St. Bride's, Fleet- street; and St. Sepulchre Without, New- fate- street; two for each of the parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, , ondon Liberty; St. Bartholomew the Great; St. Botolph Without, Aldersgate; St. Dunstan's in the West; St. Anne, Blackfriars; Christ Church, Newgate- street; and St. Katherine, Coleman- street; and one for each of the other parishes in the Union. The day of election for Guardians is to be the first Thursday after the 25th of March in each year, but the Guardians going out of office are eligible for re- election. The qualification of a Guardian is the being rated to thepoor- rate in any parish of the Union for a rent not less than 401. Ttie Commissioners have directed their Assistant Commissioner to report on the temporary districts into which it may be expedient to divide the City for the attainment of the object of the new Act for the Registration of Births, Marriages, and Deaths. A Court of Aldermen has been summoned to assemble on Monday, to take into consideration the propriety of voting sums of money to the Recorder, the Common Serjeant, and Serjeant Arabin, the Judge of the Sheriff's Court, in addition to their salaries, on account of the additional labours which they have had to perform since the Central Criminal Court Bill came into operation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.— SATURDAY. HATTON- GARDEN.— The Rival Lovers.— A sprightly and well looking young woman, who was dressed in " widow's weeds," appeared before Mr. Bennett, to complain against Mr. John Robinson, on old man, residingin High Holborn, for creating a dis- turbance at her house.— The complainant, on being sworn, said that her name is Owen, and that she occupied the house, No. 40; Saint John- square, Clerkenwell, where the defendant had visited her occasionally for the last three months as a lover. He eventually offered to marry her, and she, foolishly, gave her consent to a publication of the banns of marriage, at Saint Andrew's Church, the instant he '' popped^' the important, and to some, the " longwislied- for, question," and the third time of asking expired oil Sundav last. She had, however, since become acquainted with a more youthful swain, to whom she intended to be united on Monday next, and this had caused the defendant to annoy her.— Serjeant Davis, No. 8 G. said he went to the complainant's House, hearing the cry of police at the door, and as the neighbourhood was in much uproar, he was under the necessity of first taking into custody the defendant, and afterwards his rival, whom he should presently introduce to the worthy Magistrate, to restore quietness in the district. The defend- ant, it appeared from what witness had heard, was rather to be pitied, the complainant having suffered him to purchase a wedding- dress, and go to other and greater expenses, leading him, up to ' Friday night, to suppose that her hand and heart were his. The disturbance, he had ascertained, arose from the following cause:— The old man ( the defendant) had been accustomed to pay his custom court to. Mrs. Owen in the fore part of the day, the complainant persuading him that she had some female visitors every evening, whose company she knew he would like, and, more- over, that, it would be better for him to stay within his own doors in the evening, during such cold and unhealthy weather. The de- fendant thought better of his love for so advising him, of course believing that it was from a sincere regard to his well- being, but other motives were whispered to him by a " friend," who said that if he went to her house any night between the hours of 9 and 10 he would find her enjoying the society of a rival. The defendant took her by surprise about that time on the previous evening, and found another man with her, and for the first time found that he was to have the " cut." A row commenced between the lovers; and, finally, the defendant was bundled neck and heels into the street. The defendant, who appeared very indignant, and looked scornfully at his " gav deceiver," while tears kept trickling down his " furrowed cheeks,'' said he had been treated most shamefully by Mrs. Owen and her favourite one.— Mr. Bennett: Well, I think so too. I don't think any man would quietly submit to be pitched out of a house. You may go.— The old man having thanked the Magistrate for coming to that decision, hobbled out of the office " sighing like a furnace." . Sergeant Davis then brought before the Magistrate a man about 28 years of age, a dyer, of the name of Nicholls, living in St. John- street. The officer " said that three quarters of an hour after he had locked poor old Mr. Robinson np, he returned to Mrs. Owen's house, and finding the defendant at the door and that the tumult had not abated, he conveyed him to the watch- house.— Mr. Bennett: Well, what have yon to say for yourself?— Defendant: Mr. Robinson came to the house of thislady ( pointing to Mrs. Owen) to whom I am paying my addresses, and kicked up a bit ofa bother, insisting that he and not me, had most claim upon the lady. He challenged me out and made so much confusion that 1 was driven to eject him from the premises.— Mr. Bennett said he should leave them to settle their differences, and set him at. liberty.— The defendant crossed over to Mrs. Owen, and the " happy pair" walked arm- in- arm from the office. QUEEN- SQUARE. — ASSAULT.— Yesterday, John Beadle, an old pensioner, who had fought at Waterloo, but who is at present a supernumerary at Drury- lane Theatre, was charged before Messrs. Gregorie and Btirrell, by James Blaney, with " wringing his nose " at the Feathers in Great Chapel- street, Westminster. The com- plainant stated that he had been compelled to dismiss the defendant from the theatre for insubordination, and the latter thought proper to wring his nose in consequence of that circumstance. — Mr. Gregorie : You are an actor, I suppose ? The complainant, ( who stood in a military attitude) said that he was not, but that he was a Serjeant of supernumeraries.— Mr. Gregorie : What do you mean by that ? — The complainant, after a long discussion with the Magistrate, explained to him, that a certain number of men from the guards were engaged, at the rate of one shilling a- night, at Drury- lane Theatre, to personate senators and official authorities of every description, and, upon necessity, to • carry a banner upon the stage. William Croft, of the Grenadier Guards, one of the parties engaged in the same profession, deposed, that the defendant had called Mr. Blaney a rogue ; but this he thought only a joke, until he saw the defendant drag him round the bar by the nose, and then he thought the affair was becoming serious, particularly as he said that he would serve him worse the next time.— Mr. Gregorie asked the defendant what he could say to thecharge ?— Defendant: Why, he has cutme out of my business. Magistrate : And what is your business ?— Defendant: Why, for seven years, your worship, I have sat on the stage as one of the " Council of Ten," in Venice Preserved, and I have carried a banner with the immortal John Kemble, when he played Macbeth, butthis man ( the complain- ant) has always tried to cut me out of my business.— Mr. Gregory: Did you take him by the nose ?— Defendant,: I did, your worship, hut I was exasperated. I have carried the Roman Eagle before Mr. Kemble, when he played C'oriolanus, and this man's conduct to me has been so gross that I could not put up with it.— The Magistrate said that as he could not deny the assault in the present instance, they were compelled to fine him 20s. and costs. He was locked up in default. THE RECORDER'S REPORT.— Yesterday the Recorder of the City of London made his Report in Council at, Brighton, of the prisoners who were capitally convicted at the last two sessions of the Central Criminal Court, snd were confined in the gaol of Newgate under the sentence of death— viz. James Turner, aged 18, Daniel Turner, 22, John Smailes, 21, Henry Heath, 15, for burglary ; George Jamaison, aged 21, for highway robbery; Thomas Mead, aged 21, William Garcia, 19, James Lapham, 20, John Welch, 17, William Roe, 25, John Turner, 26, for burglary; Francis Freake, aged 33, for mali- ciously cutting and wounding his son, John Freake, with a felonious intent to do him some grievous bodily harm ; James Riley, aged 18, William Death, 24, for highway robbery. JANUARY SESSIONS.— Martin Nolan, aged 18, for burglary ; Thomas Goddary, aged 33, for highway robbery; Thomas Pardon, aged 22, for maliciously cutting and wounding a person with an intent to do him some bodily harm ; Henry Smith, aged 22, for robbery,— all of whomhis Majesty was, after some consideration, graciously pleased to respite during his Royal pleasure. ADULTERATION OF BEER.— At the Excise Court, on Friday, the following defendants were fined for adulterating the beer they sold with salt, sugar, water, and other ingredients, not malt or hops :— George Temple, of the Cock, Chalton- street, Somers- town, penalty 1001.; E. J. Denton, of the Dundee Arms, Wapping, 751.; James Flack, of the Maid and Magpie, Stepnev, 501. The body of the man who died suddenly a few days since whilst waiting fur a Greenwich stage in Gracechurch- street, and which was taken to Allhallows Church, was buried after remaining there three days, and proved to be that of Pemberton, whose evidence tended principally to the conviction of Thistlewood and the Cato- street conspirators. He resided at Woolwich on a pension granted to him for his services on that occasion. EXTRAORDINARY HIGH TIDE.— Friday afternoon an unusually high tide caused considerable inconvenience and damage to the inhabitants of Shadwell, Limehouse, and Wapping, living near the river Thames. Several of the cellars in Wapping were completely inundated, and in many instances the water reached into some of the passages. Nor were its effects felt only in the places above- named, but also in Bishop's- walk, near the Palace, where the road was im- passable, and many persons who wished to pass that way were put to great inconvenience, by being compelled to take a different route for the parts of Lambeth they desired to reach. Some of the boat3 near Serle's boat wharf were floating near Stangate- street. Friday morning, Mr. Edward Kneeves, greengrocer, No. 21, Au- fustus- street, Regent's- park, terminated his existence by cutting is throat from ear to ear with a razor. It appears that the deceased, who was 27 years of age, was formerly a gentleman's coachman, and left his situation about ten months ago to be married to the house- maid. They, then, with the money they had by them, set np in the above business, but had been unable to establish a connection, and consequently their money was nearly all gone, and about a week back they were obliged to discontinue the trade, and shut up shop. This preyed heavily on his mind, and, it is supposed, induced him to commit the fatal act. COUKT OF KING'S 14ENUH.— SATURDAY. • THE KING, V. THE CORPORATION OF OXFORD. The Attorney- General showed cause against a rule for amanrlamug obtained on a former day commanding the Mayor and Aldermen of Oxford to restore a gentleman named Towne to the office of Town Councillor, of which office he had been deprived on the ground that his name was not on the burgess list at the time of his election, as required by the Municipal Reform Act. The affidavits of Mr. Towne stated that he was fully qualified to have his name inserted in the burgess list, and that it not appearing there was a neglect of the overseers, who made out the list. Mr. Towne swore also he was not aware of the omission at the time, and on his being elected he naturally presented himself before the Mayor and Aldermen to be sworn into office, but he was not only refused taking the oath, but denied admission into the Council Chamber. The learned counsel admitted that this might, be a hard case on Mr. Towne, bnt whether his name was omitted from the burgess list by accident, design, or non- qualification, did not. alter the question ; the Act was imperative, and unless the name of any person elected be a municipal officer was on the roll, the election was to all intents and purposes null and void, and therefore the Mayor and Aldermen did right in rejecting Mr. Towne, and pro- ceeding to another election to fill the vacancy. He trusted, therefore, the Court would discharge the rule for a mandamus.— Mr. Amos followed on the same side. Mr. Bingham addressed the Court in support of the rule, and con- tended that his client Mr. Towne ought not to be prejudiced in consequence of the neglect and omission of the overseers. The Court was of opinion that Mr. Towne had misconceived the proper mode of applying for redress; his application ought to have been for a quo warranto, as under the circumstances it was clear that a mandamus could not issue.— Rule discharged. Last Wednesday, at a house in Stepney, the influenza proved extremely fatal to a family of the name of Edwards, a master brick- layer. Of his three children, two died from it on that day, and on Thursday the remaining one, eight years of age, went oft" from the rupture of a blood- vessel, caused bv the incessant coughing which usually accompanies this disease. The mother is likewise slightly affected. ^ JOME of the Policemen ( as was admitted by their Inspector) im- kr bibed and propagated a misconception, injurious to a highly resectable In- dividual, who informed Colonel Rowan of it, and he opposed to the falsehood a complete refutation ; but it must be redressed, for the sake of others as well as the Individual alluded to ( who is happily so constituted as to sustain it well in- variably ; but it must be contradicted speedily and effectually, and that. too under the direction and responsibility of the Comptroller, otherwise stronger measures will be resorted to.— Col. Rowan consented to the discharge of a man in this case in 1834, but the communication of it was intercepted, and not known till within a few months, since which time he and another man have been discharged. By perseverance the Force have been defeated, and are taught this lesson, that, how- ever useful they maybe when acting under proper direction and control, t bey fight against a host, even in an individual, when they fight against truth and justice, and the consequent protection of Heaven. This statement is upon oath, and can- not in any one point be disproved ; it is actionable; and is advertised in order to prevent the public from implicating themselves in it.— N. B. A party ( the names are too numerous for insertion), who had implicated themselves in it two months before it was known to the advertiser, refract the same absolutely and entirely and apologise for it, both on their own behalf and on that of the Police. London, Jan. 21, 1837. FURS. FOREIGN FUR WAREHOUSE, 92. Oxford- street, London. RUSSIAN SHAWL CLOAKS, SABLES, KOI. INSKI, & c. Mr. SNEIDER, having returned from Russiawjth his Stock of Furs for the Winter Season, invites tne attention of the Nobility and Ladies of fashion to a larpe and most beautiful assortment of RUSSIAN SHAWL CLOAKS made entirely of Fur. This modern and comfortable winter envelope now so fashionable at Paris, Vienna, and St. Petersburgh, on account of its elegance, warmth, and lightness, must su- persede every oilier description of cloak. That beautiful and much admired Fur, the Kolinski, introduced into this country bv Sneider and Co., can only be seen at their Warehouse.— REAL RUS- SIAN SABLES, SAISLE- TAIL BOAS, rich Furs of every other description well seasoned and beautifully finished, are also on sale at their Foreign Fur House. PEERS' and PEERESSES' ROBES carefully preserved, and Furs cleaned and repaired by SNE1DER and CO., 92, OXFORD- STREET, Established 55 Years. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN, per Quarter. Computed from the Inspectors' Returns of the Six preceding Weeks. Wheat— Average 59s 4d— Duty on Foreign 27s Rve 42s 5d 6s Barley, Maize, 4c. 35s 1 Id 9s Oats 24s 9d 10s Beans 42s 4d 6s Pease 41s Od 8s STOCKS. Mon. Rank Stock 206} India Stock — 3 per cent. Consols 89| 3 per cent. Red 90| 3} per cent. 1818 — 3} per cent. Reduced 983 New 3} per cent. • 98 Bank Long Annuities 14f India Bonds 4 per Cent 22 p Exchequer Bills ^" 1000 27 p Consols for Account I 89* - from British possessions 5s. 6d. 2s. « d. 6d. Tu. 1 Wed. Thur. Kri'tav. 205 205 204} 204} 25S — 258 — 89| 89| 89} 89 § - 90J 90 90 90} 99} 99} 99} 98| 98} 98J 93} 98| 97| 9/ 3 97} 14f 15 14| 15 20 p 16 p 18 p 19 p 25 p 1 24 p 25 p 23 p 89f 1 89} 89} 89S Sat. 2061 89| 90 98? 97! 141 15p IRp 89} BIRTHS. In Albion- street, Hyde Park, on the 28th instant, Mrs. Octavius Greene, of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Coptfold Hall, Essex, the lady of Henry Arundell, Esq., of a son— On the 24th, at Leyton, Essex, the lady of the Rev. C. J. Laprimaudaye, of a son— On the 25th inst., at Tor Abbey, the lady of Henry George Carey, Esq., of a son— On the 25th inst., in Montagu- place, the lady of Frederick Thesiger, Esq., of a son— On the 24th inst., at Dundee, the lady of Colonel Chalmers, of Glenericht, K. H., of a daughter. MARRIED. At Fillongley, by the Rev. William Thiekias, Samuel Heath, Esq.. of Frank- ton, to Charlotte, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Thickias, Viearof Fil- longley, in the county of Warwick. On the 24th inst., at St, Michael's, Lewes, the Rev. Henry Watkins, perpetual Curate of t? outh Mailing, to Frances, second daughter of the late George Court- hope, Esq., of Whiligli, Sussex— At St. Paul's, Bedford, on the 24th inst., Thos. Wiliiins, Esq., of Ringstead House," Northamptonshire, to Augusta Sophia, eldest daughter o'f the late James Dy'son,' Esq.— On the 21st inst., at Llandudwen, the Rev. William Crawley, Rector of Bryngwyn, Monmouthshire, to Mary Gertrude, third daughter of Col. Sir Love Jones Parry, K. G. H., M. P. of Madryn, Caernar- vonshire— On the 24th iast., at, Brotherton, Yorkshire, William, second son of the late Robert Gladstone, Esq., of Liverpool, to Charlotte Louisa, thiid daughter of George Watkin Kenrick, Esq., of Woore Hall, Shropshire, and Mertyn, Flint- shire— On the 24th inst., at Richmond, Sir Walter Palk Caiew, Bart., at Hac- combe, in Devonshire, to Anne Frances, daughter of Col. Taylor, of Ogwell House, in the same county, Groom of the Bedchamber to his Majesty— On the 21st Inst., at St. Martin's- in- the- Fields, Wm. Vizard, Esq., of New- street, Spring- gardens, to Mary, daughter of the late Philip Cipriani, Esq., of the Treasury . DIED. ~ On the 22d inst., at Hastings, Frances Hooley, only child of the late Joseph Hayes, Esq. On the 24th inst,, in Hanover- square, Neill Malcolm, Esq., of Polfalloch, Argyllshire, and of Lamb Abbey, Kent, in the 68th year of his age. On the 22d inst., in Hertford- street, the Right Hon. Lady Frances, wife of Sir James Webster Wedderburn, Bart., in the 42d year of her age— On the 24th inst., in Mill- street, Hanover- square, Joseph Sabine, Esq., F. R. S., F. L. S., & c., in the 67th year of his age— On the 21st inst., Elizabeth, wife of G. A. Legh Keck, Esq., of Staughton Grange, Leicestershire, in her 64th year— On the 25th inst., at Brunswick- place, Regent's Park, William Pitts Dimsdale, Esq., of Cornhill, banker— On the 25th inst., in Upper George- street, Bryanston- suuare, Margaret, relict of Col. Robert Armstrong, of the Bengal Native Cavalry— On the 25th inst., at Nottingham House, Kent, John Auldjo, Esq., in his 78th year— On the 22d inst., in Duke- street, St. James's, Josephine Lach Szyrma, a Polish lady, in the 33d yeaT of her age, the wife of Dr. Lach Szyrma— At Rolleston, Staffordshire, on the 23d inst., Em aid, youngest son of Sir Oswald Mosley, Bart,, M. P. for North Staffordshire— On the 23d inst., at Brighton, Elizabeth,' the wife of the Right Hon. Sir John Bayley, Bart.— On the 23d inst., at her apartments, Ken- sington Palace, Mrs. James Strode— On the 24th inst., Mrs. Ruffy, of Charlotte- row, Walworth, in her 75th year— In Upper Baker- street, Pentonville, on the 24th inst., Owen Ellis, Esq., aged 43— On the 20th inst., at her residence, No. 9, Promenade- terrace, Cheltenham, after a few days'illness, of influenza, the Dowa- ger Lady Ford, sister of the late Viscount Anson, and aunt to the Earl of Lichfield — On the22i inst., in the 81st year of his age, Sir Richard Borough, Bart.— On the 24th inst., Mrs Sarah Price, of Pengsworth House, Hammersmith, aged 64 years— In Chapel- street, Park- lane, on the 18th inst., in her 61st year, the Lady Prudentia Charlotte Emily Coote— On the 21st inst., at Snaresbrook, Essex, A. D. Welch, Esq., in his 58th year— In Bath, Sir Patrick Doherty, C. B., K. C. H., for many years Colonel of the 13th Light Dragoons— In the Minster- yard, at L''<*> 1b, aged 56, Elizabeth, the wife of the Rev. J. Penrose, Vicar of Bracebridge— At his residence, near Bath, Sir Richard Dacies, G. C. H., Vice Admiral of the Red, in his 76th year— At Achnreh Rectory, of asthma, aged 58, the Hon. Mrs. I - Fow- ys, sister to the late Lord Grey de Ruthyn, and aunt to the Marchioness of Hastings. LONDON : Printed by EDWARD SHACKELL, Printer, of No. 14, Amwell- street, Pentonville, in the County of Middlesex ; and of No. 40, Fleet- street, in the City of London- and published by the said EDWARD SHACKELL, athlsPnntmg office No. 40, ( Fleet- street, aforesaid, atwhieh last place alone- gommumcatiolls for the Editor post- paid) are received.— Sunday, January 29, PW7.