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HOUSE OF LORDS, MONDAY, FEB. 20. TITHES— Petitions for the abolition of Tithes were presented from Dundalk, Tring, Cavan, & c., in Ireland. TUESDAY, FEB. 21. CHOLERA— The Bishop of LONDON wished to correct an error into which he had fallen the other night. He then stated that the Central Board of Health established in tbe City of London had strongly recommended the closing of the national schools, for the purpose of converting them into cholera hospitals. This was not exactly the fact, and as some misapprehension had gone abroad in consequence of his remarks, he wished now to state that the re- commendation alluded to proceeded from the Medical Board of Health, and not from the Local Board. He had seen the papers on the snbiect, and believed that the recommendation had been adopted in some instances. THURSDAY, FEB. 23. Lord KING, on presenting various petitions for an alteration of the tithe system in Ireland, expressed a hope that Ministers would not adopt coercive measures for the recovery of tithes in that coun- try ; if they were adopted, he felt assured, aftsr the determinations come to by the Irish people on this subject, that they would be de- feated. The Earl of LIMERICK doubted the accuracy of this representation, and, at all events, the policy of making it, especi. ally as by possibility it might reach the ears of a wild peasantry, already sufficiently disposed to acts of violence. He scouted the idea of legislating upon church property, or, as his Lordship thought proper to phrase it, '* of destroying and making away with the re- venue of the church, because the people of Ireland, or any portion of them, thought proper to say that they should." Lord CLON- CURRY said he willingly complied with requests forwarded to him, aud supported the prayers of these petitions. Lord KING thought the Ministers would do well to make the best compromise they could for a system that was indefensible. The Earl of ELDON called on the Ministers to take care how they legislated to affect the rights of acknowledged property, which tithe undoubtedly was, Lord WYNFORD held that if this property were once touched, it would soon go altogether: that if the Irish Church property fell, the English would soon follow, and the monarchy of the country would, at no distant day, be exposed to a like fate. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE strongly defended the petitions, and the Iiis'i people, declaring that they did not call for an extinction of chu eh property— they only required a better system. Lord RODEN postponed till Monday, at the request of Earl Grey, the presentation of petitions on the subject of national edu- cation in Ireland, in consequence of the absence of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland— his Lordship being absent on account of a domestic calamity.— Adjourned till Monday. HOUSE OF COMMONS, MONDAY, FEB. 20. SIR GEORGE HILL.— Mr. G. DAWSON rose to complain 6f a report of a speech, purporting to have been made iirthat house, which had appeared in one of the public papers. It was in the re- collection of the house thai a debate took place respecting the Es- timate of the Civil Contingencies on Friday last. He ( Mr. Daw- son) had objected to some of the votes contained in that estimate, and had been replied to by the lion, member for Middlesex, who took a different view of the subject from that which he entertained. He found in a report of a debate attached to the speech of the lion, member for Middlesex, a passage which was not only offensive to him, but to the character of that house, and of an individual holding an office in his Majesty's service. The passage alluded to ran thus:—" And did the right hon. gentleman recollect the case of Sit- George Hill, in his new- born zeal for economy and good- faith ?" ( Hear, hear).— Mr. HUME begged to assure the right hon. gen- tleman, that so far from alluding to the case of Sir George Hill, he did not at the time of making the speech in question recollect the circumstances. He had only to observe, that he had not uttered the < vords attributed to him, or in any way alluded to Sir George Hill. CHOLERA.— Mr. ROBINSON begged to ask whether the government conceived it any longer necessary to impose restrictions on ships leaving the port of London?— Mr. P. THOMSON was convinced it would not be necessary to assure the house that his Majesty's ministers would be most anxious, if they thought they could do so with safety, to issue clean bills of health to all vessels leaving the port of London. The government, however, felt that until they were perfectly satisfied of the non- existence of cholera in the town they would be incurring a breach of faith if they were to do so. The government was placed in a very difficult position;— Mr. HUME could assure the members of his Majesty's govern- ment that the people placed very little reliance on the opinions of tbe Board of Health as to the existence of cholera. The members ofithat board were generally believed to be incapable of giving an opinion as to the cases brought before them, and he thought that government should satisfy the public mind as to the competence of these individuals, more particularly when on their decisions directly depended the daily maintenance of thousands of beings who de- lived their existence from the happily flourishing state of the com- merce of London.— Sir R. PEEL concurred in the propriety of refusing to give clean bills of health until the question of the exist- ence of the disease ( if any such question could be asked) was placed beyond doubt. REFORM BILL.— Lord ALTHORP moved the Order of the Day for the House to resolve itself into a committee on the Reform Bill.— Mr. CROKER opposed the motion; and was unwilling to proceed wilh the schedules without further information.— After a short discussion the House divided— For the motion, 112— Against itj 44— Majority 68. The Chairman put the question that Old Sarum should be substituted as No. 1 in schedule A, in the room of' Aldborough, in Yorkshire. Several members stated objections to proceeding without more certain information.— Mr. POLLOCK entered into an elaborate investigation of the calculations made by Lieutenant Drummond. Shortly after the papers containing these Calculations were before the house he applied his best attention to their examination, and in doing so was assisted by others . whose ability and accuracy could not be questioned in such a matter ; aud the result of his labours had been a clear and undoubted conviction that Lieutenant Drummond had fallen into very considerable error, ami that his calculation, illustrated in bis own statement hy the supposed boroughs A, B, C, D, E, was founded uptinan- erroneous principle, not applicable to the subject, and had consequently led to an erroneous conclusion. There were, then, two questions be- fore the committee— whether there was an error in the calculation, and what was the extent of the error; or whether it had not worked an erroneous result in the division of the lists. His object in calling the attention of the committee to an examination of the details was to show that the system adopted led to the question of whether one ontwo boroughs, according to the objects professed by the govern ment, in their instructions to Lieutenant Drumniond, should be placed in one schedule or the other, or whether they might not be exempt from both.— Lord J. RUSSELL replied in an able speech, and justified the employment of Lieutenant Drummond. The hon. and learned member ( Mr. Pollock) said that great absurdities pro- ceeded from the mode adopted by Lieutenant Drummond. For instance, that though A was much lower in houses than B. and D much higher in taxes than A, yet that A stood above B and above D. That was the natural effect of combining the two elements which formed the basis of the calculations. The number of houses was to he considered with reference to the amount of taxation, and, therefore, the position of the boroughs was regulated, not by the number of houses or the amount of taxation alone, but by the two combined. Such was the foundation and real nature of the problem, and he was quite confident that a more accurate or satisfactory mode of solving it could not have been adopted'than that chosen by Lieut. Drummond. The learned member complained of the absurdities the scheme of Lieut. Drummond gave rise to. Sup- posing the houses of half a borough to be valued at SOi. and the assessed taxes at 501. hy pursuing the method of multiplication pro- posed by the learned gentleman, the houses and taxes so valued would be represented by quarter instead of half. That was a consequence nut only to be deduced from the plan of the lion, aud learned Gen- tleman, but which had actually been remarked upon. He said not this upon his own authority, but upon the authority of one of the ablest mathematicians in this country. The noble lord then read a letter from Proiessor Airy, of Cambridge University, approving of the method pursued by Lieutenant Drummond, and stating that to adopt the mode of simple multiplication would be to show that the sum of two halves of a borough were not equal to the whole borough. He had also the authority of Professor Walker, of Edinburgh, in support of the principle adopted by Lieutenant Drummond. Pro- fessor Walker had given much attention to the subject, and had gone much into detail, and his opinion was decidedly iu favour of the plan pursued, and upon which the government had acted. He had the authority of Captain Beaufort for saying that Sir John Herschel entirely approved of the system followed by Lieutenant Drummond. ( Hear.) He thought he had said sufficient to satisfy the committee that the principles adopted by Lieutenant Drummond had not been adopted upon light grounds, or in ignorance of that knowledge which might be expected from one who had long and seriously turned his attention to the science to be acted upon.— Mr.. I)." GILBERT, though inimical to the principles of the bill, would still do justice to the calculations of Mr. Drummond. He had no pretensions to stand forward as any authority upon the sub- ject, especially after the names which had been mentioned by his noble friend, but he felt it his duty to say that he was decidedly, most decidedly, of opinion that the calculations had been made upon the most accurate and satisfactory principle.!— Mr. GROKER took the same course as Mr. Pollock, but the motion was finally carried without a division. The question was then put upon the following boroughs, and it was agreed that they stand part of schedule A:— Newtown ( in the Isle of Wight), St. Michael's, Gatton, Bramber, Bossiney, Dunwich, Ludgershall, St. Mawe's Beeralston-, West Looe,. St. Germain's, Newport ( Cornwall), Ble- chingly, Aldborough, Camelford, Hindon, East Looe, Corfe Castle, Great Bedwin, Yarmouth ( Isle of Wight), Queeuborough, Castle Rising, East Griustead, Higham Ferrars, Wendover, Weobley, Winchelsea, Tregony, Haslemere, Saltash, Orford, Callington, Newton ( Lancashire), Uchester, Boroughbridge, Stockbridge, New Romney, Iledon, Plympton. Seaford, Heytesbury, Steyniug, Whit church, Wootten- Bassett, Downton, Fowey, Milborne Port, Alde- hurgh, Minehead, Bishops Castle, Oakhampton, and Appleby. SUBLETTING ACT BILL.— This bill, after two divisions, was carried through the committee. TUESDAY, FEB. 21. DISTRESS IN THE SILK TRADE— Alderman VENA- BLES presented a- petition from the silk manufacturers of the me- tropolis, stating thaeir extreme distress, and that the situation of Spitalfields was in a worse state than at any former period ; that there were upwards of six thousand paupers at present in that quar- ter of the town ; that they had a very large capital employed in the manufacture of silk, which, owing to the depressed condition of trade, was far from being productive ; that they were in the habit of employing not less than one hundred and fifty thousand persons in the manufacture, the majority of whom were, owing to that de- pressed condition, in a state of great privation ; ami that, unfor- tunately, they saw no ether chance of amelioration than a revision, hy- the legislature, of the laws regulating the importation of foreign silks, as the silk trade all over the country was in a similar condition to that of the metropolis. No observations were made by any of the ministry on this petition. REFORM BILL.— The house resolved itself into a committee on this bill, and after a lengthened conversation between several members, the house divided on the clause which placed* Appleby iii schedule A.— For placing it in schedule A, 256— Against, 143— Majority for ministers, 113, Lostwithiel and Brackley were likewise placed in schedule A. without a division. When the ques- tion was put that Amersham be placed in schedule A, Mr CROKER moved as an amendment, that the word Midhurst be substituted. A division ensued. There were 254 for the original motion, and 153 for the amendment. Aniersliam was finally placed in schedule A. Mr. SHEIL proposed that Petersfield should be transferred from schedule B to schedule A. Lord ALTHORP thought it would be most impolitic to increase the number of disfranchised boroughs at the present moment, ( Hear, hear, from some hon. member.) He understood the cheer of the hon. member, but he should state now, as he had stated before, that it would be more prudent not to create unnecessary opposition to the great measure of reform, by carrying the principle of disfranchise- ment further than the list had now carried it. He should, therefore, oppose tbe motion of his hon. and learned friend.— Sir R. PEEL observed, that the short speech of the noble lord op- posite had given rise to most important reflections— to reflections of an opposite character. What did the noble lord say ? That the addition of Petersfield to schedule A was not prudential at the pre- sent moment. ( Cheers, and cries of no.) The noble lord did not wish to save Petersfield itself, but only for the present, for pruden- tial reasons ( cheers, and cries of no) ; which was as much as to say, that he would take advantage of the earliest opportunity to carry Ihe principle on which this bill was founded a good deal further.— ( Loud cheers from the Opposition.) He rejoiced to hear from the noble lord that no violent interference with the conduct of tbe House of Peers would be attempted. ( Cheers from the Opposition.) If the votes of the House of Peers in opposition to the bill were to be overborne by a great addition to the peerage, he saw no reason why tbe noble lord need fear creating unnecessary opposition by putting Petersfield into schedule. A. ( Loud cheering.)— Mr STANI. EY said the right hon. baronet had misinterpreted the speech of his noble friend. ( Cheers.) The right bun. baronet had assumed that the bill would, nqt be permanent ; it would be so-— and government had lent its aid to make it so, by adopting one grand principle, and asking the House, to confirm that, and in considera- tion of that principle to pass over minor details. No doubt the right hon. gentleman and his party were prepared to compliment the hon. and learned member, whose proposition so much tended to assist them in embarrassing the passing of this measure. He should not follow the right honourable baronet, in introducing the question of the creation of peers.— he should only say that it was not their wish to raise more opposition to the measure than was absolutely necessary.— The motion uf Mr. Sheil was negatived. WEDNESDAY, FEB. N. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that on Tuesday next he should propose the re- commitment of the report on Irish Tithes, and that five members should be added lo such committee ; and that on the same day he should move for a statement of the day of. Mr. Stanley's appointment to the Secretaryship of, Ireland, the amount of his emoluments, and the number of nays during which he had been in Ireland, since such appointment.— L. nd PALMERSTON inquired whether Sir R. Vyvyan intended in bring forward his Belgium mo- tion on the 28th instant, according in previous notice oil- the subject 1 — Sir R. VYVYAN replied that lie had waited for the promised ra- tifications ; had they arrived, or were they likely to arrive ! He also asked whether government > ad- information respecting French forces in the Mediterranean .'— Loul PALMERSTON answered that though he fully expected the exchange of the promised ratifi- cations, he feared they could not arrive so soon as the 28th. As to the French armament, he was awuie " t its assemblage; but he could not give information as to the inten Inquiry was then made by an Inn intended to submit any papers tu p. who had been put to death by tin > JV1ERSTON replied that they n < i called for; and added, that the all.' of government. Mr. RUTflVEN asked whether there was likely to be any set- tlement of the affairs of Greece.- Lmd PALMERSTON said that negotiations were still going on, aud he hoped that they would soon be brought to a satisfactory conclusion. Mr. KNIGHT then moved tlmt the house go into committee on the Master of the Rolls' ( Ireland) Bill— a bill to enable the right of. that judge to appoint his secremry, to be tried at law. It was opposed by government, and supported by the opposition, aided by Mr. O'Counell, Mr. Hume, & c. The- house divided, when there appeared— For the Bill, 84— Against it, 88— Majority, 4. The announcement of the division was received with cheers by the Op- position. GENERAL REGISTRY BILL— Mr. CAMPBELL post- poned the second reading until the 16th of April, aud moved for a select committee on the subject, which was opposed, but was ulti- mately carried in a division of 8ft against 30. THURSDAY, FEB. 23. Mr. HUNT presented several petitions , praying for inquiry into the proceedings at Manchester on the 16th August, 1819; and, a' a subsequent part of the evening, he postponed his motion for a Committee of Inquiry into those proceedings till March 15, Colonel EVANS presented a petition from 73 medical gentlemen of the metropolis, praying an inquiry into the disease called cho- lera morbus, in order that delusion on the subject might be dis- pelled. He afterwards ( the Ministers being then in their places) again called attention to the petition.— Mr P. THOMSON con- sidered that so long as there was doubt whether or not the disease be contagious— and the Ministers had endeavoured to collect the opinions of the most experienced men on the subject— they felt justified in using all practicable precautions; that to declare the disease to be non- contagious might have the most injurious effects ; and that as to the influence on commerce, though we might say the disease was not contagious, foreign countries would still have their own regulations and precautions. On the motion of Lord NUGENT, leave was given to bring in a bill for amending the very defective state of the registration of births and marriages throughout the united kingdom. Mr. M. O'FARRELL moved for the appointment of a select committee- to inquire into the state of the roads and turnpike- trusts of Ireland, including their accounts. Leave given, aud a committee appointed. The House resolved itself into committee on the English reform bill. The committee proceeded with schedule B, which was got through with the exception of the borough of Dartmouth, and the motion respecting that borough was postponed for further discussion. The borough of Helston called forth a good deal of warm discussion, in the course of which- the merits of the yeomanry formed part of the debate. The house divided on Ihe question, and the numbers were, 256 to 179 ; majority for Ministers, 77. The House ad- journed over to Monday next. SENTENCE ON CAPTAIN WARRINGTON. •• of. a foreign Government, . member whether Government - I'niment respecting Mr. Boyd fiauisliauthorities? Lord PAl.- uot, unless such papers were i was under the consideration The Court Martial presented their decision for the ap- probation of the King on each of the charges oil which Captain Warrington was tried. FIRST CHARGE— That he being between 11 and 12 o'clock on Sunday night, the 30th October, applied to by Mr. Thomas King- toil, a merchant in Bristol, and informed by him ( as the fact was), that the rioters were about to fire the Custom- house of Bristol, and that the presence and services of the troop were urgently and im- mediately required in Queen- square, where the Cgstom- liouse then stood, in order to save that building, and yet not only did he re- fuse to order out the said troop or . any part thereof, or to take any step for the purpose so stated, but used no means of carrying the information so received by him to Col. Brereton, or of obtaining from Col. Brereton any orders applicable to the occasion, thus leaving the Custom- house at the mercy of the rioters, by whom, in fact, the same was shortly afterwards set on fire and totally de- stroyed— Guilty. SECOND CHARGE— That afterwards, on Monday morning the Slst'of October, 1831, he being in the personal command of the 3d Dragoon- Guards, then the only military force in Bristol, and when the riots were raging in that city with increased and destructive violence, a letter being about half past three o'clock on the said morning delivered to him, from Charles Pinney., Esq., the Mayor of Bristol, and addressed to Lieutenant- Colonel Brereton, or to the officer ' commanding his Majesty's troops,' which was to the effect that he should take the most vigorous, effective, and decisive measures in his power to quell the existing riat, and prevent further destruction of property; but that he neither acted on- the said letter, nor transmitted it or its contents or purport to Colonel Bre- reton ; but, on the contrary, retained it in his possession without taking any step whatever in reference to, or inconsequence of the same, until some time afterwards, when he was applied to by a magistrate in person ; by reason of which conduct on tbe part of Captain Warrington, the. troop remained inactive in its quarters for upwards of an hour after his receiving- the letter, during which in- terval of time the rioters, being left without opposition or controul, sacked and fired several houses, and destroyed a. great amount of other property.— Guilty. THIRD CHARGE— This contains Four Counts. First Count:— That Captain Warrington, about four o'clock in the afternoon of the 30th of October, when a detachment of the troop, consisting of two- thirds of the disposable part, was ordered out to the city gaol, which was then attacked and threatened with destruction by the rioters, permitted such detachment to march to that service under the sole command of a young Cornet, he ( Captain Warrington) meanwhile remaining inactive in quarters.— Guilty. Second Count:— That he, in the course of the- 30th October-, the troop being then in its quarters, . altogether absented himself from quartern, and from the neighbourhood, and remained absent from the same for a very considerable time; during which time, at eight o'clock in the evening, a detachment of the troop, being called out to protect the palace of the Bishop of Bristol from a violent attack made thereon by the rioters, such detachment prooeeded to the said palace under the command of the young Cornet before men- tioned.— Guilty. Third Count.— That having returned to quarters during the absence of the detachmeut on the said service, he, in place of pror ceeding to join the same, or of awaiting its return, did, before the return of the detachment to quarters, which was about ten o'clock the same evening, retire to bed.— Guilty. Fourth Count.— That between four and five o'clock in the morning of the said 3lst uf October, when the detachment was again called out to stop the progress of the rioters in destroying the buildings in Queen- square, he did again permit the said detachment to proceed on such service under the sole command of the said Cornet, while he himself remained in quarters.— Not Guilty. And such conduct on the part of Captain Warrington, evincing a want of the vigour and activity requisite in the situation in which he was placed, being unbecoming his character as an officer, and in breach of the Articles of War, the Court doth, in virtue thereof, sentence him, the said Captain William Henry Warrington, of the 3d Dragoon Guards, lo be cashiered. ( Signed) H. FANE, Lieutenant- General and President. ARNOLD THOMPSON, Deputy- Judge- Adyocate. The Court submitted to the Throne an earnest and forcible recommendation to mercy in favour of Captain Warrington. We understand that the following are the terms in which Ihe sentence has been confirmed:— " His Majesty has been pleased to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court. In consideration, however, of the unanimous and most earnest recommenda- tion of the Court, as conveyed in a letter from the Presi- dent to the Judge Advocate General, which accompanied the proceedings, his Majesty was further pleased to extend his most gracious clemency to tbe prisoner, so far as to restore him to the service, for the purpose of retiring from it by the sale of a troop." By the regulations promulgated from the War- office it appears that the full price of a Captain's commission in the Dragoon Guards, Dragoons, Lancers, and Hussars, is 3,225/.; the difference in value between the several com- missions in succession to that of Captain is 2,035/.; and the difference between full and half pay 1,034/. Captain Warrington was promoted to a troop in the 3d Dragoon Guards in June, 1830. He bad previously had the rank of Lieutenant in the same corps for three or four years. The 3d w as much distinguished in Talavera, Vittoria, and other places in the Peninsula. Among the simple remedies for an attack of cholera our old housewives would have recommended a parting glass well spiced. One of our friends calls our attention to his ginger wine as a preventive. This, he assures us, is to be- had genuine at his warehouse, No. 17, Lower Holborn, at the very low charge of 18s. per dozen. To the younger branches of families this will be found invaluable. MISCELLANIES. Their Majesties will leave fown for Windsor Castle on Thursday or Friday next; fires are kept in the different apartments, and the preparations for their reception, completed. The Duchess of Gloucester is somewhat better. The duty for 1831 on 47,129 acres, the entire of the hop farms in England, amounts to 304,149/. 4s. 8d. The number of bushels of malt that paid duty for 1831 was— England and Wales, 30,622,921; Scotland 3,997,076; Ireland, 1,780,180. SLAVERY— The Brazilian Government, to its immortal honour, has passed a severe law against the slave trade, from which it drew a large revenue. Coffee and Sugar are' rapidly advancing in tile Brazil market, and the demand for hides is also great. SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES.— Aberdeen has 240 bursaries, or one for every third student at its two colleges ; St. Ant drew's has 52, or about one for every fourth student; Glas- gow has 71; Edinburgh has 70, including three of the value of 100/. each— in all, there are 449, averaging pro- bably from 15/. to 201, each, and yielding a gross sum of about 3,000/. per annum. MALTHUSIAN SOCIETY.— Among other societies talked of in Cupar, is one to encourage Bachelorism and Maidism. The evils of a redundant population becoming every day more manifest, it is to be hoped the benevolent of all classes will patronize so useful an institution. ANCIENT ENGLISH DANDIES.— Varied and ridiculous modes of dress were much in vogue. What could exhibit a more fantastical appearance than the English beau of the fourteenth century. He wore long pointed shoes, fastened to his knees by gold or silver chains, a stocking of one colour on one leg, and of another colour on the other; short breeches, which scarcely reached to the middle of the thighs ; a coat, one half white, the other half blue or other colour ; a long beard; a silk hood, butloned under his chin, embroidered with grotesque figures of animals, and ornamented with gold and precious stones. COST OF ARMIES.— The whole expence of feeding, clothing, & c. each man in the French army is 291. ; in the English 98/.; in the Prussian 40/.; in the Austrian 26/. Each general officer costs, on the average, in France 600/.; in Austria 602/.; in England 1280/.; in Prussia 960/.; in Bavaria 800/. WORKHOUSE GARDENS.—- In the greatMarylebone work- house, which has a front that, for length, and the size and number of the windows, might he compared to a Russian palace ( and indeed it closely resembles that of General Aprazin, at Moscow, of which we possess an elevation,) there are constantly from 80 to 120 very old men and wo- men, who are led or carried out, one by one, every morning, and set down utider a shed in the garden, or when the wea- ther is fine, in the sun, where they'remain, almost in a state of torpor, being unable to help themselves, and having no one to attend to them, till they are led or carried, one by one, back again, at the time appointed for their next meal. SEEDS.— It is truly astonishing how long the vital prin- ciple can he preserved unextinguished, though dormant, in seeds, when they are placed under such circumstances' as will prevent either putrefaction or germination. Corn was found at Herculaneum, which had lain buried for more than seventeen centuries; and was then in good preserva- " - Seeds brought from Hereulaiieum have sinoe grown tion. in Great Britain. ANECDOTE OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY.— Shelley had a pleasure in making paper boats, and floating them on the water. He once found himself on tho north bank of the Serpentine river without the materials for indulging tho se inclinations which the sight of water invariably in- spired, for he had exhausted his supplies on the round pond in Kensington gardens. Not a single scrap of paper could be found save only a bank post bill for fifty pounds; he hesitated long, but yielded at last; he twisted it into a boat with tho extreme refinement of his skill, and com- mitted it with the utmost dexterity to fortune— watching1 its progress, if possible, wilh a still more intense anxiety than usual. MR. STAPYLTON.— Mr. Stapylton is considered much, better. As jet no attempt has been made to extract the ball, but should Mr. Strpylton continue to increase in rccovcring his strength, it is supposed an operation will take place. SELLING A WIFE.— On Monday, at Smithfield, an elderly man tied a halter round his wife's neck, and put her up to auction. He asked 10s. for her, and a young man, a favourite of the lady's, immediately paid the money, and walked off with his bargain. The Rev. Mr. Whewell, late Professor of Mineralogy at Oxford, has offered to the University his collection of minerals, a collection of books on mineralogy, and the sum of 100Z. on condition of the University providing a room for their reception. PAPER FROM WOOD.— Shavings or planings of wood have been wasted, or at best burned or curled for fire- grate ornaments, ever since the invention of carpenters., Now, however, it is discovered that the best papers for wrappers, writing, and printing, may be produced from wood shavings boiled in mineral or vegetable alkali. One hundred pounds of wood and twelve pounds of alkali will produce a ream of paper. ANECDOTE OF MRS. MUSTER?.— A cousin of the deceased lady's, Miss Rudt'ord, was educated with the young heiress and treated as her foster sister. She was unprovided for' and the generous lady's first act upon attaining her mat jority, was to settle 10,000/. upon the companion of her early days. The object of this, splendid munificence is still living unmarried in London.— Stamford. Bee. THAMES TUNNEL.— To an application from the pro- prietors of the Thames Tunnel, for the loan of 150,000/. to complete that undertaking, a refusal- has been given by the Commissioners for the issue of Exchequer Bills in aid of public works. CHURCH AND STATE.— We are informed that a: new periodical, entitled the British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical Information, will appear on the first of next month. Such a work will be hailed by all tbe honest adherents to the true interests of the Church and State. It will doubtless attract tbe talents of a variety of able writers in their defence, and act as a rallying point to unite their exertions. Such a work is; most necessary at a period when factious division distracts the realm, aud when infidel and latitudinaiian principles overwhelm us. It will also present much scientific lore, and afford general amusement from biographical works and annals of antiquity; together with parochial documents and local knowledge which expressly come within the pro- vince of the ecclesiastical portion of society. We have reason to believe that a great number of well known writers are already engaged to support this enterprise. i A. Feb. 26. THE TOWS. 257 FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. A singular incident has occurred before the Court of Assize in Paris, in tbe conviction of the editors of the Gazette de France, the Revolution, the Cowrier de VEu- rope— A\ Set\ ng as these papers do as widely as the Poles in politics— of the same libel, and being sentenced to the sine— a rather severe punishment— three months' impri- sonment, atid a fine of three thousand francs. The charge against the defendants was— An excitement to hatred and contempt of the King's Government— An attack on the rights which the King derives from the will of the nation— An offence against the person of the King— And a pro- vocation, not followed by acts, to the overthrow of the King's Government. M. Thouret, editor of the Revolution, has been condemned to six months' imprisonment, and fined 2000 francs, for a seditious libel. The Messager des Cliambres mentions as a singular proof of the necessity of extending and ameliorating the system of primary instruction, that in a Commune in the Department of the Nievre, contaiuing six hundred inhabit- ants, there are but four who can write. ,. An accident occurred on the 19th inst. which rrfija; lit have been of serious consequence to the King. His Majesty, accompanied by M. Delaborde, was returning from the Palais Royal to the Tuileries on foot, when a cabriolet was driven near him with so tnuch violence, that he had but just time to take refuge in the nearest gateway, and tijus escape blows both from the shaft and the wheel. The two young men who occupied the cabriolet by which the King was very nearly ridden down last Sunday, in the Rue St. Honore, were arrested the next day. The party who held the reins was a M. Berthier, a reputed Carlist. On being asked to account for his conduct, he attributed it to accident and awkwardness. " Awkward ?" said the police Magistrate. " Yes," added the prisoner, " There is nothing surprising in that, my father not having been a coachman !" * The Carlists have, in some parts of the western and southern departments, advanced upon towns and hamlets, and torn down the national colours, r- ithey have threatened mayors and magistrates, in the discharge of their duties,— they have robbed public chests,— they have forbidden the payment of taxes,— they have organized resistance against the laws of conscription. They appear, however, only to act in small bauds, and seem rather formidable from the passive manner in which their excesses are viewed by the people, than from their own numbers or organization. The expedition to Civita VecChia has sailed. Gen. Cubiers, who was expected at Toulon to take the com- mand of the brigade for Italy, . arrived thereon the 15th, and, after remaining not more than two hours, embarked for Civita Vecchia on board a steamer, which had been got ready for his reception, in pursuance of a telegraphic dispatch from tbe Government. The General will proceed immediately to Koine, with very urgent dispatches for tbe Ambassador. This expedition has for its object lo exact from the Pope the performance of promises made or im plied by him to France, England, and Austria, it being the sincere desire of that government to preserve peace by securing to the Italian legations, without any actual war, those improvements iu their institutions which, without giving umbrage to the Austrians, will better their condi- tion, and diminish the danger of those disturbances that would infallibly put to the hazard the tranquillity of Europe. M, Casimir Perier, the minister, has been placed in a sad moss. A man named Boutard, who was in some way connected with the banking- house of the minister, was employed by a German Princess to raise some money on jewels. Boutard pledged them at Perier's establishment for 1000/., their real value being 8000/. After some time be became insolvent; and the Princess, anxious about her diamonds, and knowing the place where they had been pawned, sent to inquire about her property. Her agents assured her that all was right, and that she had several months to pay up the loan and get back her diamonds. At the time appointed she tendered back tlie loan, but was informed that the property was sold for a sum scarcely equal to the amount of the debt! The Princess proceeded against Perier as a swindler; but, as he had nothing to do with her ill the business, the charge was dismissed. The Princess then brought a civil action against MM. Perier and Boutard for the sum of 8,000/., at which the diamonds were priced. It was, however, impossible to prove any of the allegations connecting Perier wilh the Princess. The letters promising delay were written to her by her agents, after verbal communications with M. Perier, and those the French law will not admit as evidence. M. Perier ad- mitted tlie sale at a low price, but would not give any satisfaction as to how or to whom they were sold, and said he looked on Boutard as the proprietor. The law was in his favour: be was acquitted, and Boutard sentenced to pay the 8000/., which of course he could not do. The French government have lowered the transit duly on English ships iu French ports from about 3s. 5d. to Is. 3d. per ton, ourowu being 9d. per ton on French ship- ping in English ports. A Paper called the Mouvement gravely charges the at- tempt of the medical men of Paris to get up a cholera case there as the result of a medico- political conspiracy, in which they are associated, not very creditably, wilh some of the lowest agents of the police. The Paris plot cer- tainly deserves castigation, if it was only for its clumsiness. According to tho Messagcr des CJiumbres, it has been announced that within a very short period there will be great changes in the Diplomatic Agents of France. CASE or THE WILL OF THE LATE DUXE DE BOVRBONO— JUDGMENT. WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, 4 O'CLOCK.— The following is the decision delivered this day of the Court in the affair of ihe Duke de Bourbon's will, which. declares inadmissible, and not pertinent, - the articles made by the Princes of the Rohau family :— " In consequence, the Court rejects the fierce opposition formed by them to the ordinances rendered by the President of the tri- bunal on the 7th of September, 1830, and by which the Duke d'Aumale is declared entitled to the possession of the entire legacy contained in the will of the Prince of C'oude, which ordinance is to have its full and complete execution, and prohibits the Princes of Rohan to interfere iu the administration « r the liquidation of tiie said succession. " Condemns tlie said Princes in the interest and damages to be reimbursed to the heirs, in the person of tlie universal legatee,— in all the expenses Which have been occasioned by them and their agents in the operations of the inventory taken of the sale, and the valuation effected on their account, which expenses are to be regu- lated on the statement of M. Lancy, whom this tribunal commis sions for this purpose, and who is, in case of difficulties, to make a report thereon. " Orders, that Baron Borel de Bretizel shall deliver to Baroness de Feucheres the private legacies left to her by the wills of the 1st of April, 1824, and 30th of August, 1829. • This silly attempt at severity refers to the story told of the late Duke of Orleans, who ( as is said) declared at the Hotel de Ville that he was not entitled to the surname of Bourbon, for that he was the son, not of the Duke of Orleans, but of a coachman. " 1. Consisting of the sum of 2.000,000 of francs in money. " 2. The chateau and park of St. Leu, with the furniture it contains. " 3. The chateau and lands of Boissy. " 4. The forest of Montmorency. " 5. The domain of Mortfentaine. " 6. The pavilion inhabited by the Baroness in the Palais Bour- bon, with the furniture it contains, together with the horses and car- riages belonging to the use of the said Baroness. " And, moreover, all interest, proceeds, and revenues accruing from the said legacies. " Declares the demand of the Baroness de Feucheres not to be admissible, and ill- founded in its conclusions, tending to obtain the suppression of the writing published by the Princes of Rohan, en- titled, Answer for the Princes of Rohan to the Replies heard in the Audience nf the 7th of January, 1832 ; decrees that the Baroness Feucheres must apply to the judges, to whom it appertains to decide upon her demand for the suppression of the other publication of the Princes of Rohan, under the head of Observations respecting the Death of the Prince of Conde, in regard to which the tribunal declares itself incompetent; and, finally, condemns the Princes of Bohan to pay a fine of 50 francs, condemns them to all the expenses incurred, and to all costs." In the Chambers at Paris ou the 21st, discussions of the most interesting nature took place. The Chamber of Peers decided, on a division of 82 against 59, wilh two blank billets— that is, of two peers who did not vote— that on the anniversary of the beheading of Louis XVI. the public ollices of the courts, and the tribunals should do no business, in token of mourning. In the Chamber of Deputies, a warm debate ensued on the passing of the budget of the interior, in which the leaders of the Liberals declaimed against the conduct of the Government relative to the Poles, many of the chiefs of whom were not allowed to approach Paris. M. Mauguiu declared his intention of presenting a petition on this sub- ject, which he had ready lo lay oil the table of the Chamber. The President of the Council, M. Casimir Pe- rier, defended his conduct, and said, that he esteemed and loved the Poles as much as any of those violent leaders of the opposition ; but he was bound to have the laws ob- served in their respect, as also in respect to all others. PORTUGAL. The young Jules de Lasteyrie, grandson of General La- fayette, who was one of his grandfather's aides- de- camp during the General's command of the National Guards, has joined the expedition of Don Pedro as a volunteer. Between Spain and Portugal, there can be no doubt of the existence of a treaty, offensive and defensive. The Portuguese Government, indeed, has made known that a treaty was entered into with the King of Spain, for the protection of the dominions of each against the threat- ened invasion; and just before the last packet, which left on the 6th, quitted the Tagus, despatches were re- ceived from Madrid, which were supposed to relate to the amount of force which Ferdinand has promised to place at the d sposal of Don Miguel. A letter from Madrid, dated the 13th inst., and which came to hand by way of Paris, states that already large sums of money have been furwarded from Madrid to Lisbon, by order of Ferdinand. The latest advices from Lisbon, denote a state of things which is becoming daily more favourable to the hopes of the Constitutionalists. The usurper con- tinued lo be unceasing in his preparations for defence, but his forces, though numerous, could not he relied upon, and he was much embarrassed from the want of funds. The impression in Lisbon was, that the cause of his op- ponent must triumph. The accounts received from Belleisle state that the re- mainder of the fleet of Don Pedro, wilh the excepfion of the Juno and two transports, have left that place, and with them two thousand troops, many of whom were Poles, all in the highest degree of enthusiasm. The immediate place of their destination is not positively known, but it is suspected that they will proceed direct for Madeira. BELGIUM AND HOLLAND. The principal manufacturers at Brussels are about to emigrate to Holland. Leopold is taking precautions against the Cholera. No vessels arriving at Antwerp, or at Ostend, from any ports between Yarmouth and Plymouth, will be admitted; and those coming from any other ports of England will be sub- jected to a few days quarantine. The King is encouraging the rural industry of his sub- jects, by holding out premiums to successful cultivators. Three Doctors were sent from Brussels to London to ob- serve the cholera. The King of Holland w ill not ratify the Belgian Treaty. Count Orloff', the Russian agenl, could make no impres- sion upon him : and his Majesty continues his warlike pre- parations, supported by the eulhusiasm of his people. Sir Robert Adair is to be superseded. The Supreme Military Tribunal of Belgium has annulled Ihe sentence passed by a court- martial of Ghent against M. Steven, the editor and proprietor of the Ghent Messen- ger. This paper and its partisans had insulted the exist- ing Government in language almost past endurance, and hail preached a crusade in favour of the Orange family in words amounting to sedition, if not treason. King Leopold has issued official instructions prescribing the costume which he wishes his diplomatic servants to wear oil various occasions. His Majesty has condescended to cncourage and give aid to the subscriptions for the Polish Refugees. Several of them have been at the Belgian Court, and have been treated by the King with the utmost kindness. M. Charles de Brouckere, Hie Minister of War, and a very popular orator, has sent in his resignation. He has hitherto been constantly attached lo the French party. GERMANY. The accounts from Berlin give a sad picture of the seve- rities exercised towards some Of the Polish refugees in the Prussian territory. Several of Ihe Polish officers, who had formerly served in the Prussian army, have been placed under military arrest, and were to be tried bv Court Mar- tial. A report is circulated that the King of Prussia is about to resign his crown iu favour of his son. Ou digging the foundations of a new covered market at Melz, several bodies of men, with chains round their feet, hands, and neck, were found twelve or fifteen feet under ground. They appeared to have been thrown alive into niches, which were afterwards walled in. This punish- ment was not uncommon in religious establishments during the middle ages. The Allgemeine Zeituvg of the 16th inst. gives a very afflicting account of the ravages of the typhus fever in Gal- licia; and particularly in those districts which had suf- fered most from the cholera. Thousands of sick crowd the hospitals, and nearly eight hundred soldiers had already died of this fever. That hopeful young German Prince, the Elector of Hesse Cassel, has just made a remarkable use of those privileges which place Sovereigns above all moral rules. The worthy father of this noble Prince not only gave upthe Government to him, but even the whole of his civil list, with the exception of a. small reserve of 60,000 thalers. This unfortunate young man, however, cannot possibly live upon means so small, and consequently is labouring, by the aid of his Ministers and States, to tear from him the pittance of 50,000 thalers he has retained. God bless the endeavours of the Ministry and the States. ITALY. A letter from Bologna, of the 11th inst., - says:—" Last night a great many proclamations, containing throats against the Pontifical and Austrian troops, were posted up in different quarters of the town. The police is very active in tracing the authors and printers of these placards. Hitherto all researches have proved unsuccessful." FOLIGNO, FEB. 3.— The earthquake which destroyed our unhappy town continues its ravages, and has again thrown down several buildings. Last Friday the aspect of the atmosphere was not less threatening than on the fatal 13th. All our population, struck with terror, were awaiting new disasters. A peasant of Cannaro, a short time before the catastrophe, on going to draw water from his usual well, found that the spring was impregnated with salt to the very brim, and that in the surrounding cultivated country rivu- lets of turbid water had made their appearance. He was retreating in alarm, when he felt a severe shock of earth- quake. Returning in a short time to the well, he found it dried up, and the surrounding earth parched, and with numerous fissures. GREECE. Extract of a letter from Napoli di Romania, dated Jan. 26:—" The Constitutionalists are gaining ground, and ate already masters of nearly the whole of Eastern and Western Greece. Missolongln is in their hands; and, two days ago, they gained possession of Eleusis. General Rougin has just been made prisoner; ami several oilier Captains of Capo I'lstrias, having been taken with arms in their hands, are in confinement. There is only one Capfain remaining on the Greek continent, against whom the Constitutional Government has sent a powerful force, under the command of Diovounioti. According to the latest accounts from him, his adversary is so close pressed that lie must shortly surrender. The Constitutional forces, which are 8,000 strong, will then enter the Morea, where people are well- disposed to receive them." A project has been advanced by the Russian Cabinet to offer the Throne of Greece to Prince Otho, second son of the King of Bavaria. This Prince is under age, and it is proposed to govern the country till his majority by a Re- gency, composed of the Residents of the three Courts, over whom is to preside the Count Augustin Capo d'lstrias. ALGIERS. M. Philibert Deluy, a Frenchman, has established at Algiers some coru mills, moved by steam— an establishment which will not only prove a great economy to the public treasury, in preparing the flour for the troops, but be an en- couragement to agriculture. Hitherto the mills of the country have beeu upon a very rude construction. UNITED STATES. The Senate of the United States, after a long debate with closed doors, and by the casting vote of its presiding officer, has refused to concur in the President's nomination of Mr. Van Buren as Minister to this Court. This, however, does not invalidate tbe actual situation of that gentleman ; on the contrary, his appointment remains in force until the end of the present Session of Congress, unless he should be previously recalled by the President. M. Girard, a banker, of Philadelphia, recently deceased, has left ihe enormous sum of one million two hundred thou- sand pounds for the foundation of schools, the construction of rail roads, and other public purposes ; also two millions of dollars for a college in Philadelphia, for the residence and accommodation of at least three hundred scholars, and the requisite teachers, the supplying the college with fur- niture and books, and incomes to the professors and in- structors. WEST INDIES. Wc have Bermuda Papers to the 10th ult. A terrific storm of hail, wind, and rain, accompanied with thunder and lightning, passed over the island on the 28lh Decem- ber, and the frigate Ariadne was struck with lightning. Several vessels had put in there in distress. St. Thomas was one- third destroyed by fire on the night of the 31st December, and that one- third by far the most valuable. The buildings on the Main- street, on both sides, occupied by the heaviest merchants were destroyed. The fire broke out in the dwelling of Mr. Gill, merchant; and in consequence of the strong winds, spread with such force, that all the houses in Commandant- street and the so called garden, with a few exceptions, are burned. The damage done by the recent conflagration there is estimated at from two to three million of dollars, and the number of houses destroyed at 1200. Many persons were destitute of a home ; but owing to the charity of the Government, rations had been distributed. Subscriptions had been set on foot at St. Croix. DREADFUL REVOLT OF SLAVES AT JAMAICA.— It ap- pears by despatches from the Governor- General of Ja- maica, that a partial insurrection of the slaves ( who seem to have had an impression that a general manumission had been agreed upon), principally Hiose of St. James's, Port- land, and Trelawney parishes, has taken place, and many of the plantation buildings have been set fire to and de- stroyed. On Ihe 30lh of December martial law was pro- claimed, several corps of militia were called out, and Sir Willongbby Cotton, Commander of the Forces, proceeded with three or four hundred troops of the line to Montego Bay. In the meanwhile two conflicts had taken place between the militia corps and the insurgents, who had lost, on one occasion, about twenty- five men killed ; on the other, about ten killed with twenty wounded:— with the loss of only two men on the part of the whites. The arrival of Sir W. Cotton, however, seems to have had an imme diate effect in discouraging and suppressing the insurrec- tion, and, at the date of his latest despatch, tranquillity was fast returning. Several of the ringleaders had been shot. The correspondence of officers and others employed in the rebellious districts, addressed to the seat of Government, forms by far the most important part of the Gazette, and is here and there ofa nature to throw at least some glimmer- ing of light upon tlie motives with which this formidable conspiracy was undertaken. That it was of a serious character is unfortunately too clear, as well from the length of time which elapsed between the first open proofs of in- subordination, and the despatch of the Governor, Lord Belmore, bearing date the 6th ult., which represented the slaves to be then only returning• to their duty, as from the vast and fearful extent of country over which the system of devastation was carried, it appearing from a letter of Mr. Barrett ( custos), near Montego- bay, that, according to the general supposition, " an hundred plantations and settlements were already ( Jan. 3) in ashes!" The measures which have been taken to cut off the parishes in which the slaves were ill a state of revolt from the other districts, with the losses the Negroes have sus- tained, will, in- all probability, so dishearten them, that the insurrection which seetns to have been caused by a delu- sion that liberty had been granted to them, and that the, King's troops would not act against them, will come to a speedy termination. The Negroes cannot long suppoit themselves in the woods, and this impossibility to subsist themselves without depots of provisions, with the know- ledge that all but the ringleaders will be pardoned, will lead them to surrender themselves. Sir Willoughby says in his dispatch of the 6th, that the negroes are coming in in all directions, and he hopes in a few days to have negroes bringing in provisions, and supplying Montego Bay again. The language of the Governor with regard to the Mis- sionaries is remarkable, " If it should appear to be that Englishmen, men of sense and education, have been wicked enough to excite the slaves to rebellion, it cannot be supposed that they shall escape, because they are also ministers of religion. But his Excellency directs me to impress strongly on your mind the great discretion which, in such a case, should be adopted to endeavour, by every means in your power, to divest Tribunals from all feelings of prejudice, and, above all, of prejudice on grounds of religion ; for, in civil commotion, the evil is never so great as when it assumes an appearance of religion." The ob- servation " has reference to a person of the name of Box ( says Lord Belmore in his dispatch), a Missionary from the Baptist Society, who is in custody in Kingston ;" but his Lordship, very properly, declares that he would not hurry him to trial when so great excitement must necessarily prevail. In consequence of the accounts received of the great de- struction of property by the insurgent negroes in Jamaica, almost all holders have withdrawn their stocks of West India produce from the market, waiting the result of fur- ther information. CALCUTTA Calcutta papers to the 4lli of October have been received. It would appear from their contents, that no particular course had yet been fixed upon by the Supreme Govern- ment with regard to the Chinese affair. A great number of rumours on that subject were in circulation, and the Calcutta,/<*/ « ( Bull says that the estimates of expenses for fitting out an expedition of 15,000 men had been ordered. It was also affirmed that a commissioner was to be sent to Canton. CHARGES AGAINST LORD PONSONBY.— The Belgian Ge- neral Baron Van der Smissen, having in a letter to the Duke of Wellington, charged Lord Ponsonby with having, through the Hanoverian Consul at Antwerp, eucouraged him to organize a popular movement ill favour of the House of Orange, but which movement, when 011 the point of breaking out, was discouraged and discountenanced by his Lordship; to this charge Lord Ponsonby has given the following unqualified denial— Sir,— A letter signed " Baron Van der Smissen,'' first published in a German Gazetle, and copied into The Times of the 20th of February, contains charges against, the conduct of Lord Ponsonby whilst he was diplomatically employed at Brussels. Those charges are wholly unfounded. PONSONBY. On Wednesday a warm discussion took place in the Chamber of Deputies on the passing of the Budget of the Interior, in which the leaders of the Liberals declaimed against the conduct of the Government relative to the Poles, many of tbe chiefs of whom were not allowed to ap proach Paris. M. Mauguin dei'lared his intention of pre- senting a petition on this subject, which he bail ready to lay on the table of the Chamber. The President of tbe Council, M. Casimir Perier, defended his conduct, and said, that he esteemed and loved the Poles as much as any of those violent leaders of the Opposition, but he was bound to have the laws observed in their respect, as also in respect to all others. He should soon have to ask for 2,000,000 of francs ( 80,000/.) to aid them. M. Mauguin and others spoke of the utility of embodying the Poles in legions, and allowing them to carry their own flag ; to which M. Dupin replied, that Trance allowed but one sort of colours to be carried 011 her soil. An effort was made by the Opposition to deprive M. Lobau, the General commanding the National Guard and the military forces in Paris, of 2,000/., allowed for his an- nual expenses, but the question WHS carried in favour of Ministers on a division of 190 to 169. By accounts from Macao we learn that a dreadful storm had been experienced there on the 23d of September, which had caused a great loss of human life— 110 less than 1,405 dead bodies having been picked up along the coast, according to ihe official document published. Such a scene of desolation had not beeu presented for the last 30 years. The largest stones and slabs of granite were hurled against the doors of the houses on the beach and soon burst them open. The quay before the English factory was completely washed away, as well as to the westward. The devastation in and around Macao seems to have been universal; many houses wcie unroofed and blown away, in addition to the damage caused by the influx of so vast a body of water as was forced into the bay; the crop of rice in the ground was swept away, and the injury would be felt for a length of time. In the Austrian States, which, without including Trann- sylvariia and Hungary, contain a population of 22,372,756 souls, there have been 1,993,522 children who have yearly received the benefit of elementary iustruction. In the Gymnasia, or schools for the more advanced classes, there have been 28,963 pupils.— French Paper. Ten printsellers have been brought before a jury in Paris for exposing to sale various lithographic and Other portraits of the Duke of Reichstadt, thereby encouraging a spirit of rebellion, and tending to disturb the public peace, more particularly by the emblems engraved beneath them ; amongst which the Advocate- General pointed out an eagle, holding in one of his claws a sword, with the other grasping a globe, on which was inscribed " France," at the same time turning the head towards the Prince, and pre- senting to him a laurelled crown. The prisoners pro- tested thatthey were free from all evil intentions, and con- ceived that, since the revolution of July, tliey were at li- berty to sell the portrait of the young Duke. The jury were of the same opinion, and delivered a verdict of ac- quittal, and the Court ordered the prints to be delivered np to their respective owners.— Galignani's Messenger. M. Thouret has been again brought before the Court of Assize, in Paris, upon two accusations of libel and sedition, contained in two articles inserted in the Revolution, on tbe 18th and 27thof November last, but both indictments failed and he was acquitted. These make the 36lh and 37th prosecutions to which this journal has been subjected sinoe its institution.— Ibid. According to the most recent official accounts, the effective force of the French army to the 1st January, 1832, consisted of— Infantry Cavalry Artillery Engineers Waggon Train 276,000 54,000 34,000 8,000 4,500 J Veterans . Gendarmerie General Staff Total 14,000 16,000 4,020 410,520 The expense of this force is set down in the Budget at 250,475,( 900f,, which gives the annual expense per man, 607£ 73c. « « THE TOWM. Feb. 26. In a few days will be published, by Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange, the Two concluding Volumes of THE TOUR OF A GERMAN PRINCE, ( WITH A PORTRAIT), Containing his Route through Germany and Holland, his Descrip- tions of the External Aspect of England, and his Observations on the Society and Manners of the Metropolis, and of other places of fashionable resort. These volumes have been consigned to the Translator of the former portion of the work, ( which has been so favourably re- ceived,) who is preparing them for immediate publication. A New Edition of Vols. I. and II. is just published, price 18s. boards. Country Booksellers are requested to transmit their orders promptly. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Many of our correspondents must excuse vs for not making them any particular teply, as they will find a general answer in one of the leading articles. We are much obliged to A Sincere Friend, but it is not often that we shall be aide to admit any purely literary composition, or any essays, however beautiful in themselves, of mere fiction and imagination, Men— men, and the deeds of men— the realities of life, actual or possible— the structure and habits of society— the world as it is, or may be— these are the subjects which must occupy our attention ; and on such topics we shall always be happy to accept from our corres- pondent tight essays, or playful satires, or pungent and humourous conceits in prose and verse. Our study must be to have much variety in our unity, and. still some unity in our variety. The literary facetiae— the very fun and frolic of a newspaper— must have a con- nexion with the rest of the matter, and tend to some political, or prac- tical purpose. To Alpha and R. T. we are compelled to say « no." The flittering, but very irregular lines which Juvenis has sent us for insertion, put us in mind of ihe joke which has been recorded by Fre- deric Reynolds, as having been made upon a similar occasion: " Our friend is determined to go all lengths to serve us." All possible care will be taken; but we may inform J. S. that misprints wdl occasionally occur, whatever attention may be paid to the correc- tion of the press. For instance, in the Morning Herald of Friday last, we find that a very extraordinary change has happened, as we are told that Mr. Jacobs is now India. And, what is still more curious, at the end of an advertisement about a charity sermon to be preached at St. Clement's Danes, by the lie v. H. MeLvill, M. A., it is added, by a most unhappy blunder, " Vice to commence at half- past six o'clock." THE T « WH. grounds the members of the existing Cabinet have We take it for granted that some caricaturist of the hitherto acted; and on such grounds, unbought, un- day will depict the elongated visages of the Dublin pledged, unshackled as we are, our own principles call Corporation, as they were receiving his MAJESTY'S upon us to support them. At the same time, we reply on Wednesday last to their extraordinary ad- proudly state, that this support is perfectly inde- dress. The subject is well worthy the best skill of pendent; inasmuch as it is conditional upon the pre- HOOD or CRUIKSHANK. sent and future course of the Ministers themselves. The wise man has said, " A soft answer turneth Again, as to the exact position which we would away wrath:" but, unquestionably, there are seasons take up, our answer is this :— We would stand between and circumstances which rather demand a firm one the democratic orators, or republican writers, on the The occasion of which we are speaking was empha- orie hand, who, from mercenary motives, flatter the tically among the number. We are, therefore, rejoiced prejudices, and inflame the passions, of the multitude; that the sages of the sister island have met with a and, on the other, the poor paltry creatures, who sneer little wholesome correction, which probably they did at their supposed inferiors in station as low and vulgar, not anticipate. As a rap on the knuckles it was cer with a detestable affectation of gentility. We laugh tainly pretty sharp. We trust that it will have its effect at the behind- the- world school; but we are no friends — that it will abash these Orange heroes themselves, to such of its adversaries as are merely headlong, and prevent similar addresses from being presented and reckless, and theoretical innovators. In a word, by other civic bodies in either kingdom. It is quite we would be liberal and conservative at once. We are necessary for certain parties to be taught that, al sure that, properly understood, the liberal principle though every man in the empire is at full liberty to and the conservative principle are one. We hold, entertain his own opinions, and express them in proper that we are conservative in being liberal; because language, at a proper time and place, still he must nothing is less conservative, than to risk the whole for not attempt to bully his Sovereign by hectoring dic- the sake of keeping a part, or, rather, to endanger tation, couched in a form of mock humility, or to carry that which is sound, by obstinately refusing to sacri- impertinent insinuations to the foot of the throne, fice that which is rotten. We hold, too, that we are We have inserted in another part of our Paper his liberal in being conservative; because nothing is / ess Majesty's reply, as really a fine example of dignified liberal, than to make sweeping and savage attacks upon feelings, which, even if mistaken, are connected with the most valuable qualities of the human heart— upon opinions, which, even if erroneous, have been conse- crated by custom— upon institutions, which, even if imperfect, are interwoven with the very frame and structure of our social life. Such are our own sentiments; and we address rebuke. LONDON: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26. In the accounts which have been published of the Qtieen's Drawing- room, held on Thursday last, due notice is taken by the public prints of the presentation of a congratulatory address to her Majesty by the Archbishop of Canterbury. No mention, however, is made of the very remark- able reply which fell from the Queen on the occasion, and which was delivered extemporaneously, and with a degree of emphasis and energy which bespoke the truest sincerity. " I thank you, my Lords, for this address. I trust that you will strenuously exert yourselves, as you have hitherto so honourably done, for the preservation of our Church and State. Believe me, that I am in heart and soul devoted to their maintenance." The tone and gesture of her Majesty during the recital of this brief speech were remarked by every one who was present in the private drawing- room at the time. Since the commencement of our undertaking, we have been favoured both by friends and enemies ( and we say favoured by our enemies, because " fas est et ab hoste doceri") with a multitudinous variety of re- marks and communications— many full of praise, and a few of censure; some of advice, and some of dis- suasion— contradictory in their nature, and, indeed, almost laughable from their contrast. Now, let it be understood, that, as our course is fixed, we neither court these observations, nor reject them ; nor should • we, probably, have taken this notice, but that it may save much future trouble and inconvenience both to ourselves and our Correspondents, if we collect and consider, on the present occasion, under a few heads, much that we have heard and read of " the sayings and doings" of " The TOWN." We are asked, then, what is the exact ground which we would take ?— what is the precise system of po- litical and social philosophy, which it is our intention to uphold ?— who are the parties, to whom we would especially address ourselves?— what are the opinions, of which we would constitute ourselves the organs ?— what are the classes, of which we would aspire to be the representatives? Of course, it is impossible to return any very de- finite answer to questions so wide and vague ; because much must always depend upon circumstances as they arise, and the exigencies of the particular moment. Generally, however, we would say, that we are in- clined to side with the present Ministers, because they are opposed to the artifices and mystifications of the red tape tribe of hackneyed politicians— because they have at least that frankness in their conduct, and that explicitness in their statements, which will throw a full light upon the actual condition of the country, be that condition what it may— because they have iden tified their own fortunes with the feelings of the bulk of the community, and have chosen to depend, not so much upon patronage as upon public opinion; and because, whatever errors they may have com mitted in details, they have adopted that broad system of policy, which the age itself, speaking with the voice of many myriads, imperatively demands. The late accounts from the West Indies are truly lamentable, whether considered in themselves or as an addition to the already grievous mass of heart- burning and distress existing in those Colonies. *' On horror's head Horrors accumulate." It would be premature to form any positive judg ourselves to that vast, and most respectable, and ment with respect to the insurrection of the Negroes most influential class of our countrymen by whom as full information has not yet been received; and the same sentiments are entertained. They are we may expect many criminations and recriminations the persons— they, the very strength and honour between slaves and owners, planters and missiona- of the empire— of whom we are, indeed, ambitious ries— higher and subordinate officers connected with to become the representatives and the organs— the administration of affairs. Enough, however To them we would appeal: with them we would known to make it certain that there has been a con stand or fall: by their aid we would endeavour to siderable loss of property and life, while it is but too promote improvement, and prevent revolution: of probable that the seeds of mutual hatred have been their cause we shall be found the firm, unflinching, sown afresh, and that a new stimulus has been given uncompromising advocates,— ready, we are sure, to on the one side, to the severe exercise of a fatal au dare more— and able, we believe, to effect more— than thority— on the other, to a desire of sanguinary and if our tenets were the most violent, and our language terrible revenge. That the measures of Sir WrL the most blustering, that could be conceived:— and LOUGIIBY COTTON have been effectual in quelling the if they are true to themselves, we may yet be saved rebellion for the moment, must, however, to all men, the horrors of a bloody, though unequal, struggle be- and on all accounts, be a subject of congratulation, tween the hundreds and the millions, which we pray For the rest, we much fear that these melancholy God to avert! occurrences will be only another source of exacerba- But, assuredly, neither any desire to assist the tion and exasperation to parties at home;— and what, Ministry, nor any wish to make things appear smooth, under such circumstances, is to be our own course ? shall ever induce us to conceal, or misrepresent the Hatingfrom the very depths of our hearts the instiiotion real state of affairs, and the actual difficulties under of slavery, as containing in its essence that inherent which the State is labouring. We will falsify nothing; and inalienable evil which no modifications whatsoever and we will disguise nothing. We would not be can remove, we yet see the necessity of the utmost alarmists; but we cannot be blind or careless to the caution and moderation both in speech and act; he- signs of a convulsion, which, if not stopped in time, cause it is evident that hasty and intemperate zeal in may shatter the fabric of our power and safety to its even a righteous cause can only have the effect of very centre. Society is disorganised: confidence is| driving an ignorant, and excited, and most inflamma- unhinged. There is the swell of the ocean, which may, perhaps, announce the storm ; and the heaving of the ground, which may, perhaps, but precede the earthquake. The complaints of individual ruin ring often in our ears. The waters of discontent are boil- ing and bubbling up from thebottom of the cauldron. England is out of joint: and Ireland is a very proverb of wretchedness and disunion. The two great sources of prosperity— Capital and Credit— are both impaired. Throughout all the interests and dependencies of the empire— throughout all ranks, and orders, and pro- fessions of men— there is a pressure of embarrassment and privation, most painful from its intensity, and almost overwhelming in its extent. Such is the truth : and one mighty reason why we are anxious for the passing of the Reform Bill is, that the real evils of the country may be sifted and probed, so that whatever the Legislature can do— whatever the Press can do— whatever individuals can do— maybe done without delay. For ourselves, we are determined to carry a strict scrutiny into all the alleged circum- stances of distress, and to examine all the proposed remedies ; such as, for instance, the alteration of the currency— the reduction of public burdens— the plans of emigration and colonization— the allotment of lands to the poor— and many others ; to say nothing of schemes which would resolve society into its elements, and entirely re- mould it in other combinations. With respect to the Church and its concerns, we shall take an early opportunity of entering upon a se- parate discussion ; and our impartiality shall be as strict, as our sources of information are numerous and sure. Having thus, once for all, given a general exposition of our principles, upon points where they appeared to us either misunderstood or unknown, we shall, for the future, apply them to particular men and measures without troubling our readers again with any such pro- ble race, into attempts of absolute frenzy, equally criminal and abortive— equally injurious to their sup posed oppressors and to themselves. For the sake, therefore, of the planters, who have rights and feel ings like other men— for the sake of the unfortunate slaves— for the sake of the integrity and strength of the British empire— for the sake of peace, and hu manity, and religion— we would solemnly conjure both parties to pause in the madness of their animosity, and to act together honestly and cheerfully in the spirit of the resolutions carried by Mr. CANNING, as an amend- ment to the motion of Mr. FOWELL BUXTON, in the year 1823. The terms of these resolutions are as follows :— 1st, " That it is expedient lo adopt effectual and deci- sive measures for ameliorating the condition of the slave population in his Majesty's dominions;" 2d, " That, through a determined aud persevering, yet, at the same time, judicious and temperate, enforcement of such measures, this House looks forward to a progres- sive improvement in the character of the slave- population ; such as may prepare tlicm for a participation iu those civil rights and privileges w hich are enjoyed by other classes of his Majesty's subjects ;" 3d, " That this House is anxious for the accomplishment of this purpose, at the earliest period that shall be compa tible with the well- being of the slaves themselves, with the safety of the colonies, and with a fair and equitable consi- deration of the interests of private property." Something the Legislature must do. The present state of things cannot continue long. For, assuredly, nothing can be so deplorable as the condition of the owner, whose very existence is in danger, while he can neither dispose of his property, nor derive any benefit from it, unless, indeed, it be the condition of the Negro, who is at once irritated and enslaved, dis contented and unenlightened— and who, impatient TOWN TALK: BEING OUR WEEKLY BUDGET OF WIT, FUN, AND FROLIC. How TO SELL ONE'S WORKS.— The Examiner ( a very plausible fellow) announces that more of Jeremy Bentham's works have been sold in the last year, than since the date their publication before. But the rogue never told us who was the trunk- maker that bought them! Consi- dering that great weight was always attributed to the writings of the philosopher, we shall not be surprised to find that he made by the purchase. His dinner to Talley- rand and Ihe Polish Chief last week, are some of the most mportant results that we have yet heard of the sale. A STAGE MORALITY.— Some of the serious journals, in a sort of holy glee, announce that a Jew of the Coburg Theatre, has solemnly adopted Christianity. " Oh de turn- coat," exclaims Moses. But where's the crime? May'nt an actor play a popular character for his own benefit— Eh Moses? What vil you give for de man's beard? INHOSPITABLE HOSPITALITY.— The King of Naples, in a conversation with Sir Waller Scott on the wonders of Herculaneum, very condescendingly told him that be would order " any excavation in the earth" which his visitor might desire to have made. When we remember that the poet was looking for health instead of a grave in Naples, we may imagine the effect of the King's hospita- ble offer 1 A MASTER NEED NOT WRITE HIS NAME UNDER HIS PICTURES.— Captain Frankland, in his Travels just pub- lished, has a pleasant hit at " little brief authority." He says that little states are always more punctilious than great ones ; therefore the King of Denmark sticks up a large crown upon a column in his arsenal; whilst his Majesty of Wurtemburg does the same upon his palace at Stutgard ; and so it is everywhere. Thus Sir Richard will have to tell you his name before you can suspect that be is a man of authority ; whilst the King of England ! dang it!— the very linn can scent him at a mile's distance ! A NOMINAL REASON.— If Lord Bolingbroke had a son, we should imagine that the boy would very much love to be raised to the Peerage in the next batch. Why so? Because at present he would not like to be St. John, Long. A BAD CASE.—" According to Pliny," observes a Journalist of the day, " Rome subsisted 500 years with- out a Physician." More shame for the Romans ! say we. But as the benighted creatures " subsisted" without Sunday Papers too, there could be no hope of them. A PARLIAMENTARY MEASURE.— Sir Robert Inglis, with the sanclion of the House of Commons, has called for an account of the area, or number uf square feet of surface of one copy of each of the daily newspapers printed in London during the year 1831, including supplementary or extra sheets; together with the amount of stamp duty ac- tually paid on one copy of each newspaper, and the rate of such payment for each one hundred square feet of area. This is only a middling specimen of Sir Robert's metaphy- sical waggeries, and not to be mentioned in the same day with his solution of that exquisite problem proposed by one of the Christian Fathers—" How many angels could dance at the same moment on the point of a Spanish needle !" GENERAL FAST.— The Proclamation enforces the devout and reverent observation of the General Fast, upon pain of such punishment as may be justly inflicted on all such as may contemn and neglect the performance of so religious and necessary a duty. As we have some hope of an op- portunity of turning King's evidence some day after the Fast, we are desirous of ascertaining the nature and ex tent of the punishment ere we proceed. A CUNNING HINT.— The Council of the Political Union, at their last meeting, resolved to consider, on a subsequent occasion, tho Anatomy Bill and the Tithes ; a very broad hint that, in the minds of those w ise gentlemen, dismem- berment and the Church are very closely associated. GARRICK'S SUCCESSOR.— When Garrick retired from Drury Lane Theatre, there were hundreds of candidates who sought to replace him in the management: one of them was a man- midwife! which circumstance made old Molly Clive to say that she supposed they wanted to guard against miscarriages ! THE SHOOTING DAYSOVER.—" Wednesday the 16th inst. was the last day for shooting partridges and pheasants." See Newspapers, passim. Why, in tbe name of common sense, is there not a " last day for shooting" human beings for duelling, we mean ? Are birds of the air more precious in our eyes than our own fellow- creatures? ORIGINAL ANECDOTE.— Who would be a Manager ? A London Star, on entering the Treasury of the Theatre, and demanding the arrears of his enormous salary, a proprietor thus addressed him—" You really, Mr. M , ou°- ht lo remember that you have not drawn during the whole season." " Very true," was the reply ; " and, therefore, as it is high time to begin, 1 come to draw now!" AWFUL'I ' IMES.— The last Maidstone Gazette announces that a public dinner was held in that town on Tuesday last, to celebrate the marriage of the Earl of Romney and Lord Viscount Marsham ! Is this a new cure for the cholera ? This strange ceremonial is not more wonderful than the recent dispute at a parish meeting in Monmouth, as to whelher St. Mary's, or St. Thomas's Over Munnow, was the mother church of the parish— as if St. Thomas could have been a mother ! ! Awful times ! A CONVENIENT CREED.— Mr. Goulburn is said to be a devout believer in the Turkish doctrine that when Allah finds a place for his favourites, he finds the necessary talents too ! Heaven deliver all our tribe from such fanaticism ! A CIVIL GENERAL.— Tbe director of one of the Crown alike of restraint and labour, can neither endure servU I Hospitals in St. Petersburg!! is an Englishman, to whom On such j tracted or abstract dissertation. tude nor make use of freedom. j the Emperor gave the title of General without any sort of Feb. 26. THE TOWS. 6 9 connection with the military. Strange as the wish may appear, we sincerely hope that he is not the only civil General in the world. Who was the most unreasonable of upholsterers ? Pro- crustes ; for he fitted the bodies to the beds instead of the beds to the bodies. ON MRS. EYES. To call her eyes blue is all shades to confuse— They're not only a black, but a black most profuse ; For besides her own two she has plenty to spare, ' Twas but yesterday ev'n she gave her husband a pair. GALLERY OF " ILLUSTRIOUS" LIVING FORTRAITS. SKETCHED FROM WHITE'S BAY WINDOW. ( No. VII.) " Every dog lias his day."— PROVERB. Stern Time how vainly hast thou toiled to quench The youthful fantasies of gallant Trench ; For all unmindful of the varying hour, His well wigged head defies thy bleaching power. Still in tight boots he crams his gouty feet, And shuffles careless down St. James's- street : Lisps ' how d'ye do ?' with interested air, Switches his whip, and hovers round the fair; And still, as wont, on easlle- building bent, Harangues the House on mortar and cement. Alas ! his schemes receive no kindly fate, For both himself and plans are out of date. Farewell t lone relic of a day gone by— Time honoured beau— and wingless butterfly ; In some great coat thy worn out figure hide, Forswear the town, and dwell by the sea side. MR. SNUG AND FAMILY. • THE SENIOR WRANGLER. " In his figures," says Warburton, " Pollock is wrong, Tho' of Wranglers the first in his Cambridge degree." " Nay," cried Croker the meek, " tho' in science not strong, Not a wrangler in Europe shall come before me." EPIGRAM ON MISS - I own thy beauty— but, alas ! I fear thy heart's unsound : It's oft within the marble mass A venom'd toad is found. RECIPE FOR MAKING A UNIVERSITY PRIZE POEM. Take rhymes ' bont the light of the sun, Some juris from Herodotus pigeon; For the end, should your muse be hard run, Wind up with a bit of religion. THE GENERAL Versus THE COLONEL. Says Colonel Trench, " Whate'er the charge, The Commons' House we must enlarge By many another bench." The Colonel's an ingenious man : But now a mightier leads the van— The General Re- trench. THE ALDERMEN. A report has been going about the newspapers, that some of the Aldermen refused the Lord Mayor's invitation " to the Mansion- house on Saturday, the 18th, and that they were much annoyed at their error, when they discovered that they had missed not merely a good dinner, but the company and countenance of the Premier and his Lady. The fact is otherwise— but that is nothing— as the words, " To meet his Majesty's Ministers," were conspicuous upon the cards. The story, however, reminds us of an epigram made upon that jolliest and best humoured of Tories, the late Sir William Curtis, on an occasion when he boasted of having made some laborious inquiries, the result of which proved altogether wrong. Oh, Alderman Curtis, thou man of research, Thou'rt in need of correction from Alderman Birch. SIR HENRY HALFOKD AND THE SPECTATOR. One of the most unjustifiable abuses to which the press has yet been perverted lies at the door, we regret to say, of a respectable Sunday contemporary, The Spectator. This paper published in one of its late numbers a pair of letters, which were stated to be the production of Sir Henry Hal ford, and which, if really written by that gentleman, would have reflected the greatest disgrace on his moral character Sir Henry has declared, on his honour, that he never wrote these letters, or any letters of the kind; and yet the Spec- tator of yesterday talks as if the contrary were tho fact, though it acknowledges that those published were written by some forging knave, who, of course, has the honour to be the Spectator's correspondent. An intimation has been just communicated to our Go- vernment from France, that the cholera has made its ap- pearance at Paris. Their Majesties will shortly visit the two Metropolitan Theatres; they have likewise intimated in tbe proper quar- ter, that at no distant period they will visit the Italian Opera House, and the Philharmonic Concerts. The English Reform Bill will be expedited without any intermission, and will be presented to the Lords by the 12th of next month at the latest. Ministers have come to the determination of not pro- posing any committee on the Bank question, and the way, consequently, is clear for a renewal of the charter, without any modification of its provisions. Government has sent instructions to the British Ambas- sadors abroad, to use their influence with the different Courts at which they are resident, to have the restrictions repealed with as little delay as possible. Since the accession of his present Majesty twenty- four Generals have died, and in the same period twenty- six Admirals. The negotiations for the marriage of King Leopold with one of the King ot France's daughters are very far advanced Madame Adelaide, it is said, is charged with all the ar- rangements. It is said it will take place immediately after the ratification of the twenty- four Articles by the Great Powers. The manner in winch the following letter fell into our hands can be a matter of little interest to our readers, provided that they are amused with its contents. Suffice it, therefore, to say, that it probably forms only the begin- ning of a correspondence, the whole of which will he submitted to our inspection ; that the authenticity of the document is at least as certain as that of many others which the world has taken for granted ; and that we have used no farther liberty with it, than to make a few altera- tions in the names. As to the apparent violation of con- fidence in printing it, we can only say that we should be most sorry to hurt the feelings of the very respectable Mr. Snug; but " our duty to the public," & c. & e.; for the rest, vide the Newspapers, passim. " I- Iatchett's Coffee- house, Feb. 23, 1832. MY DEAR KATE,— Sad times for the Snug family. Matters have gone on very ill with me since I came to London— very ill, indeed. Only think what the country must be come to, when I, who, as you know, was the chief agent in putting Mr. Promise into Parliament lor the borough of Crumbledown, cannot even get a nice, comfortable, little birth in the Customs for our son Jack. In fact, I do not see what is the use of having members of Parliament at all, if they cannot provide in some gen- teel and quiet way for their best friends, who voted for them, and canvassed for them, and told all sorts of white lies for them, and took them upon trust. But, my dear wife, you will hardly understand me, if I vent my feelings of disappointment and vexation without telling you the reasons. I, therefore, sit down to explain every thing as it happened. Well, here I am safe, after, I must say, a dangerous journey in the inside of the stage— dangerous, I repeat, because during the whole way from Cornwall we had scarcely time to stop for dinner; and the horses, poor things, were driven so fast that it is a mere mercy we were not overturned. How different from the safe, steady, respectable mode of travelling in the good old times! However, thank Heaven, we have not yet come to steam- carriages in the south ; for they, as I could take my affidavit before myself or any other magistrate, are an absolute tempting of Providence, and only fit for the vulgar, radical, irreligious manufacturers and workmen ( operatives, forsooth 1) of Manchester and Liverpool. When I saw London again, after twenty years' ab- sence, I was quite astonished. Such changes, and all for the worse ! No Carlton- house— no Swallow- street— no Fleet- market— and all that pleasant part at the top of the Strand, opposite Northumberland- house, absolutely taken down! Then, they have built, instead, a parcel of broad stupid streets, where you cannot make out who it is on the opposite side. But more of this by and by— I must now go on with my story. I put up at Hatchett's, as before ; but the house, I am sorry to say, is not half so comfortable as it used to be. Not a wink of sleep could I get; and, then, how I missed the watchmen, who, before, never failed, except when they were asleep in their boxes, to comc > » tid call out the hours and half hours so sonorously under the window. Just fancy, Kate, instead of our vene- rable friends, with their rough white coats and lanterns, a set of fellows in dark blue, who let neither honest men nor thieves know where they are! " The next morning I called early, as you told, me, on Mr. Promise ; and I almost thought that I saw him in the parlour; but that could not be, as his servant told me he was not at home. However, as good luck would have it, I met him afterwards, by accident, in the streets. ' Ah I Mr. Snug,' said hey ' how delighted I am to see you ; you can have no idea how annoyed I was at being out of the way, when you did me the honour to call. What are your engagements in London 1' ' Why, Mr. Promise,' said I, ' I have no engagement in particular, except that on Wednesday next, I intend to pay a visit to an old friend at Fulham.' ' On Wednesday;'— he answered ; ' how exces- sively unfortunate I that is the very day when I was in hopes that you would come and dine wilh me, to meet some staunch Tories, and some of the most rising young men of the time.' Being desirous to oblige him, I deter- mined, at once, to put off our cousin, Pringle, for another opportunity, and so told him, I would accept his invitation. He was so considerate as to beg that I would not inconve- nience myself on his account; but I, on my part, anxious not to be outdone in politeness, assured him that I would not willingly bo a cause of disappointment ; but that he might depend upon my company, and my punctuality.— And so the matter was settled ; although I really think that Mr. Promise was half vexed at my taking the trouble to alter my arrangements. I then endeavoured to enter upon the subject of Jack, and the Customs, but Mr. P. had scarcely time for a moment's conversation ; and shook me very heartily by the hand, as he was obliged to hurry away in the opposite direction from mine. He dropped enough, however, to let me understand, that the business will be by no means so easy as we anticipated over our fire- side in Cornwall; and his last words, as we parted, were—' But, be the difficulty what it may, Mr. Snug, you may set it all down to this mischievous Ministry, and their abominable Reform Bill I' " For the present, therefore, I have nothing to do, but to wait patiently till Wednesday ; after which, you may depend upon having a full account of the dinner, and the guests. In the meantime, I suppose I must go and see the sights— such as the New Palace at Pimlico, and the Gigantic Whale, and the British Institution, and the Co. losseum— which, you must know, is a great round building, in shape, something between a bee- hive and a Dutch cheese ; standing in a place, where I remember, in former and better times, only fields and butter- cups. " Pray, my dear Kate, write to me as soon as you can ; for I feel myself very lonely in this wilderness of men and houses. I read the Tory papers— advertisements and all ; but then they are rather dull ; and, of course, my princi- ples are too staunch to allow me to look at any which are hostile to the good cause. For, in the first place, to read the Times, or the Globe, or the Chronicle, would be a breach of political faith ; and, in the next place, it is exceedingly unpleasant to have one's notions disturbed, particularly, late in life ; so I am, of necessity, confined to the John Bull, and the Standard, and two or three more. The even- ings, too, I shall find deplorably long, until Mr. Promise has the opportunity of taking me under the gallery of the House of Commons. I sit moping and fretting in the coffee- room at Hatchett's, fori cannot understand the Opera, and the waiter tells me that it is vulgar to go to the play. Would that I were once more in the quiet, borough of Crumble- down ! But whether I am here or there, believe me, my dear wife, with kind love to all at home, and best remem- brances to our friends in Cornwall, ever an unflinching enemy to the progress of Reform, and the march of intellect, aud the new- fangled doctrines of political economy, and always your most affectionate husband, " JOSEPH SNUG. " P. S.— You will have to pay for this letter, as Mr. Promise could not spare a frank to- day ; but he assures me that I shall have plenty at my disposal another time." CHOLERA MORBUS. serving the anger of Omnipotence than Naples; tliey who escape would be supposed better men than they who aro infected; and they who recover than they who fall victims Thus good living and good clothing would be virtues- nakedness and pinching hunger the most heinous of crimes. And what a dreadful load would be added to the present calamities of the most pitiable among our population! as if the miserable and destitute poor were the objects of Heaven's displeasure as well as of man's contumely— as if their wretchedness were an offence iu the sight of Infinite Mercy— as if their disorders were more abominable than the transgressions of the rich— as if drunkenness were a worse sin than adultery— or uncleanliness of person than pollution of mind! The question of trade and quarantine we may well leave to the merchants and the daily press versus the ministers and the physicians. REPORT OF CHOLERA CASES. COUNCIL- OFFICE, FEB. 2.5. Date Feb 23 The accounts of Cholera, during the week, have been decidedly favourable, as far as the metropolis is concerned; though, according to the official returns, the disease, be it what it may, cannot be considered as altogether extinct.— The panic, however, is passed ; and it may be well, if it is not succeeded by the opposite extreme of total careless- ness. Now, therefore, as the public mind has grown calm, and the subject may be regarded through a truer medium, and with a less disturbed vision, we take tbe op- portunity of saying a few words upon it, both in a medical and a general point of view. In a medical aspect, the matter, which cannot but strike every man, is the strange discredit which is thrown upon physicians, and their science. For what one point is there npon which the " doctors" do not " disagree?" Not only have they failed to discover any certain treatment, or spe- cific mode of cure ; not only are they yet in the dark about the exact cause and origin and seat of the malady, bnt they cannot ascertain whether it is a new disease, or an old one ; whether it be contagious, or non- contagious ; they cannot even determine the symptoms which constitute it ; they cannot decide whether the diseases which have appeared in Asia, and Russia, and Great Britain, are identical or dif- ferent ; and, in short, volumes upon volumes have been written, of which the bulk would fill a library ; while at last, uninitiated persons, like ourselves, are only more bewildered in a maze of uncertainty and error. What stuff, again, arc too many of their communications. Asa speci- men of good sense and good English let us take the official letter, which announced the confirmed appcarance of the Cholera at Glasgow :— To WILLIAM M'LEAN, ESQ.. SECRETARY CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH, LONDON. SIR,— With reference to my letter of yesterday's date, I have to state to you, for the information of the Central Board of Health, that ihe suspicious case of cholera therein alluded to expired yester- day afternoon. It is farther my painful duty to announce to you, that spasmodic cholera has been this day identified in two cases— oneal Partick, three miles west of Glasgow, which has curried off in thirteen hours' illness,— the other in the Goose Dubs— the St. Giles's of Glasgow— and at present in a very dangerous condition ( query, the case or the Goose Dubs ?) It is a consolation, under this awful visitation, that active and ex- tensive arrangements are ready to be called into operation to arrest its progress, and avert the calamities likely to arise from it, in this great and important community. I have tbe honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient humble servant, JAMES ARTHUR, M. D. Deputy Inspector General of Hospitals We have— we can have— no desire to disparage a most noble and useful profession, or to hurt the feelings of any one among its practitioners ; but we do wish that medical men would examine, and collate, and communicate, all the facts which can possibly be observed, instead of enterin into perpetual squabbles amongst themselves, by which tltey excife the derision of the people, without seeming to instruct each other. In a general point of view, we would only state, that if Cholera, or the fear of Cholera, can bind the various classes of society more closely together— can unite the rich and the poor by the ties of a common interest— can induce the former to look more narrowly into the diet, and habitations, and con ditionof the latter, to relieve their wants, and augment their comforts— and the latter to be more sober and more cleanly, less idle and less dissolute in their habits— or, if it can teach us all, that our land is not that charmed circle ( as we have long imagined it) within which the scourges of Providence cannot presume to enter— then we have no scruple in affirming, that the national visitation may he turned into a national blessing, and that, assuredly, the Dispensation will not have been in vain. We have used the words Providence and Dispensation, because God forbid that we should not recognise an Al- mighty superintendence over the affairs of mankind. So much a Christian Legislature is bound to do; but in going farther there is too often uncharitableness as well as cant. The manner of the Divine agency must ever be among the inscrutable mysteries of a Power and Intelligence unfa- thomable to man; and surely, therefore, we ought almost religiously to abstain from rashly thinking or speaking of an epidemic distemper as a punishment or judgment— or, at least, from applying such a general principle to any in- dividual case: for, in this way, to what absurdities— and worse than absurdities— might we be pushed. Thus, for instance, Edinburgh would be supposed a city more der 25 Newcastle .... North Shields, Merton Township, & c. . . South Shields . . . Westoe Haddington and vicinity Tranent Preston Pans . . . Musselburgh . . . • Edinburgh .... Glasgow and suburbs Paislev Mary Hill . . . . Total . . Total from places where the disease has ceased, and no returns made . Grand Total . . LONDON. Limehouse .... Afloat in the River Whitschapel . . . Southward .... Lambeth Bermondsey .... St. Pancras .... Rotherhithe .... St. Giles's Total 51 17 132 U 959 334 473 132 282 117 435 27 78 74 2982 2202 5184 68 301 95 96 60 78 21. 193 15 30 27 24 9 949 389 1538 7 6 3 16 4 3 1 4T 2 46 ( Signed) W. THE DRAMA. MACLEAN, Secretary. THE KING'S THEATRE.— The opera of Otello has been revived at this theatre for the debut of la Contessa Lazise, it being also her first appearance on any stage. Though this attempt was rumoured as likely to produce a sensation, the result has been very far from realizing the anticipation.- Madame Lazise, with a pretty face and figure, and lady- like deportment, sufficient to inspire interest and soften criticism, has yet, we regret to be obliged to say, so few, and these in so insufficient a degree, of the other essential qualifications of a first- rate singer, that we fear she is not destined to take permanent rank as a prima donna. Wo shall express no judgment upon her acting of the part of Desdemona ( it would be unjust to one so unused to the stage, and so unpractised in the histrionic art) further than to state, that it w as characterized by gentleness and grace- fulness of demeanour, subsiding into almost powerless timidity from the novel and arduous situation in which she found herself placed. Willi regard to her vocal perform- ance of the pari, it will suffice to mention that her voice, though sweet and pleasing in the middle notes, becomes, when forced to attack the higher ones, shrill, loses its timbre, and jars, rather than thrills, upon the ear. Not to go into ungracious detail, where we are unwillingly obliged to announce a failure, we shall confine ourselves to stating, that, in that prime and indispensable quality of a good voice— intonation— that of Madame Lazise is for the pre- sent wanting. The audience were good- naturedly indul- gent. Another debutante, Signora Albertini, put forth her claims to public notice in the part of Emilia. She sung with sufficient taste and propriety the little allotted to her, but rather lessened this favourable impression by an air from some other opera which she introduced. Winter sung the part of Otello with considerable spirit. His acting was energetic, though probably here and there bordering a little on the " high Cambyses' vein." Mariani and Curioni were excellent in their respective roles of Elmiro and Rodrigo. DRURY- LANE.— The town, or at least the play- going part of it, has been for the last week under the influence- shall we dare to sayit?— of tbe devil. Start not, gentle reader, it is only a theatrical devil— a foreign one— in fine, an English version, or imitation, of the grand opera of Robert le Diable, which for some time back has been attracting the Parisians to the Royal Academy of Music, and sending them away in a frenzy of admiration. On Monday night Drury- lane brought forward its version of this French opera under the title of The Demon, or the Mystic Branch. It would be idle, even if our space allowed, to enter here into an elaborate detail of all the absurdities and monstrosities of this tale of diablerie and superstition. The outline of the plot may be given in a few words. Robert of Normandy is the son ot a devil, who, like Belphegor, ascended to eaTth to seek a wife, and proved a thriving wooer, The old gentleman, folr ? o THE TOWS. Feb. 26. lowing tiie impulses of his devilish nature, is anxious to entitle his son, through crime, to the enjoyment of his birthright in the lower regions, after having accomplished all the evil in his power in this sorry world. Robert is sadly perplexed between his human and diabolical natures — the one urging him to the commission of every atrocity, whilst the other excites him to continue in the path of virtue. Though often yielding to the suggestions of the fiend, his better nature in the end triumphs, partly through the advice and warnings of a damsel, who had attended his mother on her death bed, and who conveys to him her dying injunction to avoid and baffle the infernal designs of his satanic father. The Opera concludes by the marriage of the reformed and regenerated Robert with the Princess of Sicily. This story, eked out with demons, resuscitated nuns dancing in their grave clothes, magnificent costumes, picturesque grouping, splendid scenery, aud the music, or soi- disant music of Meyerbeer, forms a very extraordi- nary, and in some parts interesting exhibition. The prin- cipal vocal parts were filled by Phillips, Wood, and Mrs. Wood, and Miss F. Ayton. Ifit be fair to judge of Meyer- beer by this foreign and unsanctioned arrangement of his opera, this composition will not add to his reputation as author of the Crociato. Some of the concerted pieces were striking, but there was an obvious want of melody pervad ing the whole. The piece was well received, but it is not likely to be popular for any great length of time. COVF. NT GARDEN.— What we have said with regard to tbe new piece at Diury Lane, will equally apply, with some modifications too unimportant to mention, to the version of Robert le Diable, brought out at this house, and entitled, The Fiend Father, or Robert of Normandy. The casting of the principal parts here ( they being entrusted to Brabant, Miss Inverarity, and Miss Shirrcff,) was superior to that at Drury Lane, with the exception of Mrs. Wood On the whole, both as a spectacle and a musical and dramatical entertainment, the piece at Covent Garden is, we think, entitled to the preference. Two amusing trifles have been produced at the MINORS during the week; one at the New Strand Theatre, en titled, Spring Guns and Man Traps; and another at the Olympic, under the homely denomination of, Tlie Proof of the Pudding. • • THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.— The Times of yesterday expresses great surprise at the conduct of his Grace of Wellington at Ihe Levee last Wednesday, in having so in- judiciously suspended the usual c'ouVse of proceedings, by reading an anti- Reform address to the King. " We really hardly know," says that journal, in what terms we are to speak of such a proceeding. But the Times should have remembered, that the Dyke was at the moment with the Dublin Corporators about him, surrounded by the com- panions of his most enthusiastic No Popery days, and that under the influence of the associations which their presence produced, it is not unlikely that lie would have lost for a moment a sense of the more dignified portion of his career. The wife of an Englishman in Paris, of some celebrity at home, eloped from him about a month since with his bosom friend, a Lieutenant of a regiment of cavalry in the East India Company's service. The criminal intimacy seems to have been ripened at Harfleur, where the husband and wife had been residing for some months previously. The injured party is better known for the pea- greenness of his inexperience, and his association with certain large penalties for inconstancy, Ihati his dexterity in extricating himself from the entanglements of gallantry. Mr. John Maberly, the Member for Abingdon, who lias represented that borough in five Parliaments, is, for the present, ineligible to sit or vote in the House of Commons; and as Abingdon returns but one Member, the constituents of Mr. Maberly are virtually without a Representative. The news of Ihe cholera having manifested itself in London had reached Rotterdam by the Batavier steam- boat, and appears to have caused considerable alarm in Holland; more, indeed, than it has created here. A qua- rantine of 40 days had been ordered for all vessels coming from places alleged to he infected, and those from suspected ports arc to he in quarantine ten days. A meeting of the friends of the drama took place on Friday at the City of London Tavern, for the purpose of discussing the expediency of petitioning the Legislature for a removal of the restrictions enforced against the minor theatres, in virtue of the exclusive privileges conferred on the patent ones. The meeting, which was very nume- rously attended, was presided over by Edward Lytton Bulwer, Esq., M. P., supported by Colonel Evans, M. P., and many gentlemen of literary distinction. Several able speeches were made, tending to show the absurdity, as well as the monstrous injustice, of the monopoly which the managers eif tlie principal theatres are exerting them- selves to secure, and also tbe little benefit they would be likely to derive shbulel tliey succeed. Resolutions, ex- pressive of similar sentiments, were proposed and carried unanimously; and it was agreed that a petition to the House of Commons do lie for signature, praying for a re- vision and alteration of the old acts of Parliament, oil which the monopoly is claimed, and lias been hitherto enforced. The entertainmeuts at Ihe Dublin Theatre, on Tuesday night, were honoured by the presence of the Lord Lieu- tenant aud the Ladies Paget. When his Excellency entered the house there was considerable applause, accom- panied with hisses. There was much disturbance created in the house by a lew persons in the pit wearing their hats while " God save the King" was being sung. One person ill particular persisted in keeping his hat on; but it was taken off his head by one of his friends, and this put an end to the uproar.— Saunders's News'- Letter. A STRONG ARGUMENT.— A person connected with tbe management of the Theatre lloyal, Covent- garden, some years ago, was pointing out to Mr. Harris ( the then direc- tor) that an individual in his employment, he thought, was making money rather too fast, ( i. e. he was taking a leaf out of the ostler's book, who, in furnishing his weekly ac- count of expense to his employer, charged him with two- pennyworth of whipcord— fid.) and that he thought it would be advisable that he ( Mr. H.) should look to it, for that the person alluded to had certainly made his fortune from the proceeds of his situation, and he strongly recommended his immediate discharge ; to which Mr. H., with his natural good humour, replied, " Why, my dear fellow, if he has made his fortune that is the very reason why I should not change, for were 1 to get another in his place, he probably would have hi6 fortune to make." LITERATURE AND MUSIC. •—— The Geographical Annual for 1832. 12mo. London : E. Bull. What is more remarkable throughout the physical world than the constant union of beauty and utility? There is nothing useful which is not also beautiful, and scarcely any thing beautiful which is not also useful. This is an admitted axiom among all philosophers with respect to nature; and the same union ought, it is likewise agreed, to he a paramount object in all works of literature and art. Now, viewed ill this light, the Geographical Annual pre- sents a stronger claim upon attention, and, we would add, admiration, than perhaps any production which has ap- peared during the season. In the getting up, and all other externals, it is elegant in the extreme ; and as to the utility of its contents, it is very far removed from the somewhat namby- pamby and dilettanti character of the more literary publications of its class. Prince Puckler Muskau tells us of an Irish gentleman who asked in what part of Europe the United Stales were to he found; and although we certainly receive tbe Prince's assertions with several grains of allowance, we yet believe that the state of geographical knowledge among us is not exactly what it might be, and ought to be. For this reason, therefore, as well as others, we heartily recommend the work before us, either as a private purchase, or a present to a friend? to all, in fact, we recommend it, or, according' to tbe poetical classifica tion of Stcrnhold and Hopkins— " Old men and maids, " Young men and babes." Clarke's Instructions for the Piano Forte. London : Cocks and Co. This appears to us a desirable little addition to the nu- merous introductions to the study of the piano forte— de- sirable, not as presenting any thing really new, but as getting rid of that heaviness of machinery which pervades most of these works, overwhelming the mind of the more youthful debutante, and even affrighting the eye with its bristling noles. The arrangement is simple and explicit, but not wearisome, and well adapted to the tender age at which children are now put to the instrument; enticing them on by degrees until, at a more advanced period, they may be enabled to dive with judgment into the depths ol the science. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.— In a convocation holden on Monday last, the Kev. William t'orsler Lloyd, M. A. and Student of Ch. Ch. was unanimously elected Professor of Political Economy, in the room of his Grace the Arch- bishop of Dublin, who had resigned that office. On Thurs- day last the following degrees were conferred :— Rev. S. Hooper Whittock, St. Mary Hall; William Brown Clark, University ; Rev. Wm. Monkhouse, Tabarder of Queen's; Edward Davies, Jesus. In a convocation holden the same day, the Rev. Benjamin Parsons Symons, D- D, Warden of Wadham College, was unanimously chosen one of the Curators of the Shcldonian Theatre: Candidates for the Professorships of Political Economy, fouuded in the University of Dublin, by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, open to the higher graduates of Oxford, Cam- bridge, mid Dublin, are required to send in their applica- tions to Dr. Pliipps, Registrar of the University of Dublin, before ihe 1st of June. ' The regulations respecting the duties, salaries, and tenure of this Professorship, are similar to those of the Drummond Professorship of Political Economy, Oxford. CITY AMATEUR CONCERTS.— The Grst of these concerts for the present season took place on Thursday night, at the London Tavern, in the presence of an exceedingly nume- rous audience. The programme stated, that the directors had not been able to complete their arrangements for the engagemen: of vocal performers; as it was, however, the audience enjoyed the pleasure of hearing Madame Meric and Winter. Mariani and some others also contri- buted their assistance. Madame Meric's brilliant voice and pure intonation produced ail impressive effect iu Morte ah pria from the Esule di Iioma; and Winter sang a composition by Costa, which was loudly en- cored. Notwithstanding the want of a greater variety of singers, the vocal part of the concert was excellent: the instrumental part was, perhaps, even more gratifying. The orchestra was led by Mori, who, in the course of the evening, performed a most difftcithfan tasia, by Rode. The execu- tion of Mozart's Jupiter was highly creditable to the or- chestra, many of the performers in which are, we believe, amateurs. The sccoud part of the concert commenced with the overture to Spohr's opera of the Alchymist,— a fine composition, opening with some splendid passages for the wind instruments. Nicholson played one of his favourite fantasias on the flute, which afforded all ( he pleasure which his performances never fail to excite. It would be highly desirable if all the parishes would fellow the good example of the Hans Town, Chelsea, in erecting posts marking the distance of three miles from the General Post- office. IRELAND.— The O'Connell tribute and tithes are the chief topics with which public meetings and the conversa- tion of all classes are now principally occupied. The Earl of Koden carried tbe address to London, he having been one of the noblemen deputed to present tbe same to his Majesty. This document contains the solemn declaration of two hundred and thirty- six thousand persons. Moore, the poet, is to be invited to stand for Limerick. ARMED STEAMERS.— The large steam- vessels which are now in progress of building in Sheerness, Chatham, and WOolwich dock- yards, are to carry two bomb cannons, mounted on pivots, so as to swivel and command a wide range without altering the course of the vessel. This will enable a steam- vessel to be - put iu the best possible position, relatively to an enemy's armed vessel, so as to protect the paddle- wheels free from shot. One cannon is to be so situated on the aft- part of the deck as to range entirely over the arc of the stern, and asfarforward asthepaddle- boxes will permit. Tlie other is to be mounted before tbe wheels, and will com- mand an arc on each side, from the bow tothefore- partof the casing of the wheels: the latter prominence will, however, interrupt much of the service of this piece of ordnance. The calibre of the cannon is 10 inches, and the weight upwards of 84 cwt. By a letter from Rome, we learn that two cardinals ( Mazola and Mazio) have recently died there, one on the 29th of January, the other on the 4th Inst. A third car- dinal ( Gonzago) has been struck with apoplexy. COURT^ NEWS. The King held liis first Court and Levee for this year, at St. James's Palace, at two o'clock on Wednesday. His Majesty, dressed in a Field Marshal's uniform, took his seat on the throne, surrounded by the Cabinet Ministers, the Great Officers of State, & c.. and received the Members ofthe Corporation of the City of Dublin, who presented an address against the contemplated alteration in the Dublin Corporation, and objected to the proposed Parliamentary Reform. Sir Thomas Whelan ( the Lord Mayor) Mr. Semple ( the High Sheriff) Alderman Morris, Mr. Shaw ( Ihe Recorder) the Earl of Roden, Mr. Dawson, & c. were introduced to his Majesty by Mr. Mash and Mr. Martins, the Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting ; and the ad- dress was read by the Receirder, and replied to in the most gracious terms by his Majesty. We do not mind letting the man of the Court Circular indulge his taste in his own way, and therefore we do not strike out the " gracious terms" attributed to his Majesty's reply to the Dublin Corporation, which, in our humble opinion, was quite sufficient to have set tbe Corporators quite crazy:— " I have heard with deep regret the sentiments expressed in the Address which has now been presented to me. I shall always be eady to listen to representations of such grievances as may appear to any of my subjects to give them just cause of complaint; and to afford redress to the utmost of my power. In this wish I ara firmly persuaded that 1 only share the benevolent feelings which prevail in my Parliament. On their wisdom and equity, and on the integrity of my constitutional advisers, I rely with a confidence which forbids me to suspect that they can ever be induced to expose any portion of my subjects to injury and injustice. Neither was' it necessary to : claiin for me ' a vigorous and impartial administration of tbe laws, and equal protection for all classes of my subjects.' These have been, from tbe period of my accession to the Throne, and ever will be, the constant and unceasing objects of my govern- ment." At the Levee the King was extremely jocular with many ofthe noble lords and gentlemen who were presented to him; and although the Court was so extremely numerous, his Majesty expressed himself free from the slightest fatigue when the presentations had terminated, aud the Court closed. On Friday, the day appointed for the celebration of her Majesty's birth- day, who on the 13th of August next will have arrived at the age of 40 years, the bells of the various parish churches were rung, and at the usual hour the Park and Tower guns fired a tlouble royal salute in honour of the occasion. Her Majesty afterwards proceeded to hold a Drawing Room. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria came in state, with three carriages, escorted by the Royal Horse Guards. The dresses of their Royal Highnesses were composed entirely of articles of British manufacture. DRESSES. IIER MAJESTY— Dress of rich white satin, with a splendid diamond and pearl stomacher, tlie skirt richly ornamented with diamonds and pearls forming a wreath; train of sky- blue Zerry velvet, lined with white satin, and trimmed with ermine. Head- dress, a magnificent diamond diadem, necklace and ear- rings en- suite. The whole of British manufacture. THE DUCHESS OF KENT— Dress of white satin, richly em- broidered with gold ; the body and sleeves elegantly trimmed with blond and diamonds ; train of purple velvet, embroidered with gold to correspond, with gold cord and tassels ( all of British manufacture). Head- dress, diamonds, turquoise, and feathers. PRINCESS VICTORIA— An elegant Honiton point lace dress, over rich white satin ; the body and sleeves trimmed with point lace. Head- dress, diamonds and pearls. The subject of dramatic copyright is now, we are happy to say, in the hands of a nobleman distinguished for literary talent— Lord Viscount Malum. ORANGE^.— Of this cheap luxury, those chiefly used in England are from Portugal, Malta, the Barbary coast, and Seville; but by far the greatest number are from Seville, the export from which equals that of all these other place; FEMALE FASHIONS.— Mrs. Huntley, of 294, Regent- street, aiear Portland- place, has now at her Rooms entirely new patterns of Parisian and English Corsets, extremely elegant in shape for the present style of English and Pari- sian costume; also her much improved Parisian Corset, and fashionable full- honed Stay, suited to the most delicate constitution, being a general support without particular pressure in any part; aud her newly- invented Washing Elastic Stay, expressly to prevent pressure at the chest, so destructive to the health of youth. These Stays, we under- stand, are particularly recommended by Sir Henry Halford Bart., and the most eminent of the Faculty. Superior Likenesses in Profile taken in a sitting of five minutes! by J. Field, 11,' SfVaiiid, near Charing- cross, Profilist, by special appointment, to her most gracitHis Majesty the Queen ; to H. R. H. the Princess Augusta and, by Royal permission, of his most gracious Majesty the King; thirty years sole profile painter to the late Mr J. Micrs, and subsequently in tlie late firm of Miers and Field. Mr. F. respectfully informs the nobility and public that his numerous specimens now ill their possession will fully illustrate his woiks as a profile paint, er, having, by his long practice, executed not less than twenty thousand likenesses, which for correctness, character, expression, and finishing, have hitherto been without competition. Those who have once sat can be supplied with copies without the trouble of sitting again! These profiles are reduced upon the most mathematical, unerring principle, for lings, brooches, bracelets, lockets, Sec.; also for frames, cases, and frontispieces, to correspond with his original per- formances. Profiles copied from outlines, busts, Sec. Mr. F. has executed the likenesses of the following persons:— Marquisses Lothian, Douglas, and Sligo. Lords Audley, Burg- hersh, Colchester, Cremorne, Caltborpe, Darnley, Erskine, Errol, Farnbatn, G. L. Gower, Hereford, Kenyon, Milton, Mexborough, Onslo- w, Petre, Pomfret, Pembroke, Fitzroy Somerset, Shaftesbury, Stowell, Strathallen, Spenser, Stanhope, & c. Sirs T. Acland, F. Burdett, G. Cornwall, G. Denys, D. Duiidas, H. Englefield, T. Frankland, F. Laforey, Ross Malion, E. Wiles, J. Shore, C. Sulli- van, J. Sebright, J. Smith, R. Wigram, sen., & c. Admirals Sir F.. Berry, J. E. Douglas, Duckworth, Lord Exniouth, Fox, Hallo- well, Hollinshed, Peyton, H. Sawyer, F. Saumarez, WJiitshed, J. York, See. Majors- General Coagreve, Cookson, Cuppage, Eyre Coot?, Douglas, Garth, Houston, Lloyd. Lieutenauts- Colonel M'Gregor, Macleod, J. and Sir T. Murray, Nelson, Sherriff, We- thcrail, Wynyard, M. Woronzow, & c. Archbishop of Dublin, Bishop of Barbadoes ( Ifttg). Bishops Gloucester, Land all', Lime- tick, Salisbury, Winchester, & c. Archdeacons Prosser and Sheep- shanks. Doctors Foster, Pigott, Maltby, and late llaine. Rev. W. Smirnove, & c. Counts Romford and Woronzow. Hon. K. Craven, Warren Hastings, J. Home Tooke, J. Bentham, Account- ant- General Harvey, Mr. Justice Gaselee, Counsellor Gurney and Mr. Sergeant Lens, late Sir A. Cliambre and S. Le Blanc, Sir John Pattison, late R. Burns, the Ettrick Shepherd, R. SouLhey, T. Moore, and J. Taylor, Alderman Wood, W. Corbett, W.- Fawkes, Rev. G. Wakefield, Col. WardJe, J. Craddock, J. Nollekins, S. H: Wollaston, & c. Doctors Ainslie, Battye, Croft, Cline, jun., Curry, CUeston ( of Bath), Hulme, Hunter, Hcberden, Jenner, La- tham, Lettsom, Lister, Money, Marcet, Pearson, Pitcaime, Pett, Pole ( of Bristol), Ring, Turtoo, Sims, Woedville, and . Vaugban, Messrs. Quick and Munden. Mrs. Siddons and Powell ( comedians), D. M. Arnold, Haigh, and Haydn, & c. & c. & c. SPORTING. • It was stated at Tattersall's on Monday that a match had been made to come off on the 1st of March between Messrs. Osbaldiston and Payne; the former to trot one of his American horses in harness against a horse of Mr. Payne's and to stake 1,000 sovs. to 500. The distance is five miles. Mr. O. is the favourite. MELTON MOWBRAY.— The last week's hunting has been somewhat impeded by the severe frosts, which prevented the hounds throwing off till a late hour; the sport, however considering the circumstances, has been superior to what might have been calculated npon. Amongst the latest ar- rivals, we have to notice those of Lord de Roos, and Prince Lieven ( the only son of the Russian Ambassador at the Court of London.) We are in expectation that so soon as the weather becomes more auspicious, we shall have a con- siderable increase to our already overflowing list of visitors. YORK RACES— Lord Scarborough, Lord Kelhurtie, and R. O. Gascoigne, Esq. have accepted the office of Stewards for the present year. The Spring Meeting is fixed for Monday, May 28,; and the August Meeting for Tuesday. August 7. Tin BIT FOR THE SPORTING MAGAZINE.— On Friday, the 13th ult., Mr. Murray of Broughton's hounds unken- nelled late in the day a fox atKnockliill; but, after a short run to Kirkwood, the huntsman, observing that the shades of night were fast closing in, was compelled to draw off the pack. Still a few ofthe dogs continued the chase, until Rey- nard gave one and all of them the slip in a somewhat novel and peculiar manner, as will be seen by what follows. On the side ofthe great road to A nlian, aud within a fewyards ofthe gateofWbitecrnft- house, stand two cottages, one of which is occupied by an elderly couple, who cultivate be- tween them a pendicle of laud, keep a cow, feed pigs, rear poultry, and thus jog through life as they best can. Attached is a barn or byre, or rather both together, which, like Goldsmith's chest of drawers, has divers additional debts to pay, in the way of lodging hens, hay, straw, and ac- commodating all sorts of lumber. Beneath - the frail door is an open space of about four inches, through which tlie hens make their exit and entrance, and which, on the occasion alluded to, seems to have served'Monsieur Rey- nard right well at a pinch. The hunt, as we have said, took place on a Friday, and on Saturday morning the' good woman of the house, on repairing to the byre to see perchance how Crombie was faring, observed an animal of the dog species stretched at length on the cow's fodder. The stranger merely raised his head, and eyed her in return, as much as to say " I hope I don't intrude." Honest luckie, like the man in the play, " is a friend to the dogs," and for the same reason; and in the simplicity oMier heart mistook the animal before her for some luckless collie that had lost its master, although she confessed " it had the queerest gray head aud funny tail she had ever seen."' A breakfast to the beast" could na hurt her sair," and with this view she repaired to fhe house, and returned with a supply of porridge and milk, which the stranger seemed nothing loth to accept. But the wife's description roused the gudeman'- suspicion" so strongly, that he followed her to the barn,- and left the fugitive little time to enter on, far less finish, his repast. At a single glance be knew " what w as what fu' brawlic," and seizing Ihe first thing that came to hand ( a light broom with a short shank), let drive at an old dog fox, which, not relishing such rough treatment, bolted out at the dour as well as lie w as able, and, though hotly pursued, finally ensconced himself afriong the woods of Greencroft. What is rather remarkable, the poultry were in the byre the whole night; were located very near to the fox ; in the morning, w hile seeking the open air, had to pass very near his nose, and yet not one of them was harmed* Whether this abstinence proceeded from exhaustion, a dis- inclination to violate the laws of hospitality, a wish to keep his hiding- place clean, and thus establish a character for honesty which might serve him in his extremity some other time, are points we refer to the decision of others. We may, how ever, add, that our information was derived from an ex- tensive landed proprietor, who is connected with Mr. Murr ray's pack of hounds, and took particular pains to investi- gate the case. We recollect a scrap of verse which says, '• When man has shut the door unkind Oil Pity, earth's divinest gnest, The wanderer never fairs to find A blest abode in woman's breast." — Dumfries Courier. A itcfll. RY.— The gontry of the Eastern part of Somerset have lately formed a society, called the " Selwood Fores- ters," the principal object of which appears to be tbe amusement and practice of archery. The Countess of Cork is patroness, and Sir Richard Colt Hoarc, Bart., is patron of thissocicty. DYING IN THE LAST DITCH.— We have been favoured with a list of subscribers to Lord Ashley's cause. Six thousand pounds have been obtained from London, and two thousand five hundred Irom Dorsetshire. This amount is in liquidation of thirty thousand pounds, expended at the election, and for the provision of tw elve thousand more, which will be required for conducting a defence ef the petition. We shall content ourselves with putting txur readers in possession of these circumstances, and tlie nary ration of one fact— that Mr. Wollaslon's servants stand on the list as donors of 31. 7s., which is a pretty good proof that the Tory resources are drawing towards the dregs.— Sherborne Journal. We have lately heard of a specimen of the " March of Intellect,'' equal to any thing that has readied us before,, and which leads fo the beliefthat Ihe general distress of tlie country has not yet extended to one class at least of the community. A gentleman in this town, wanting a foot- man, was applied to by a man who, after agreeing as to wages, and all other minor points, begged to make one further enquiry—" What was the colour of the Livery V'— " Brown, with red breeches," he was told, " Then, Sir," said he, '* I cannot lake the place ; I would rather take three pounds a year, less . than wear red breeches!" And be actually called a second time, although unbielden, fo say that, " on consideration be could not make up his mind to the breeches!!" Thus it appears there are degrees of dignity in a livery— a distinction of w hich we confess ourselves to have been previously ignorant.— Brighton Gazette. On Thursday evening, a female, about 25, with a baby in lier arms, was chargedat Queen- square with attempting to drown herself aud her infant in the Reservoir in the Green Park. She was prevented by a constable. She said her husband had been in the Guards, and received a pension, which he gave up on receiving a sum- of money for the purpose of enabling him to emigrate. He changed his mind, spent his money, and the family were starving.— She attempted to drown herself and baby, that she might rid herself of her misery, and render the latter happy. The Magistrate ordered the constable to take her home. - Feb. 26. THE TOWS. 71 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH. ALLEN V. JACOBS.— This was an action to recover com- pensation in damages for criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife. Sir James Scarlett stated the case of the plaintiff, and tbe facts appeared sufficiently in evidence. James Patrick McDougal, Esq., an Officer in the service of the East India Company, who proved the marriage, stated, on his cross- examination, that Mrs. Allen came to his house on her arrival in Calcutta. Her behaviour was that of a flighty girl— a hoyden. After she was married witness visited her husband and herself, and certainly heard strong and very broad expressions, so much so that he once left the house. Witness alluded not to any per- sonal peculiarities, but to double entendres which he had heard. He admitted a dispute had originated between the plaintiff and witness about a parrot. Captain Charles Timmins examined— I am a Captain in the East India Company's service, and in the years 1828 and 1829 had the command of the Company's ship Reli- ance. The defendant was chief officer, and is about 40 years of age. Was at Calcutta in the month of August, 1828, when my ship was bound for China. There was no vessel at that time going direct to England, and the plain- tiff's wife became a passenger on board my vessel. We were detained in China 10 weeks, during which time she stayed at the house of Dr. Morrison. Mrs. Allen dined at my table, and so did the defendant; and in the evening she amused herself with promenading the deck, playing, & c. We arrived in England in the month of May, and up to that time I had observed nothing remarkable in the conduct of Mrs. Allen. I did not hear of anything having occurred until we had made the land. Mrs. Allen left the ship at Gravesend. When on board Mrs. Allen slept in the round- house. Adjoining my own there was a quarter- gallery, and the cabin had a window and blind, but which could not be entered from the outside unless the person inside opened it. The defendant occupied a cabin immediately below, and could get to the window of her cabin by the chains outside. Cross- examined by Mr. C. Phillips.— I saw no fami- liarity between the defendant and Mrs. Allen. The de- fendant had nothing to depend on beyond his situation on board my ship. Mr. John Cornish examined by Sir J. Scarlett.— I was steward and Captain's servant on board the Reliance when Mrs. Allen came passenger. After leaving China her health was much better, and she dined regularly at the table on board. The defendant dined there also, and at the latter end of the voyage Ihe witness noticed some fa- miliarities between them. Mrs. Allen's female servant occupied a cabin connected with her mistress's by a door which could be fastened at Mrs. Allen's side only. There was a window near the door, looking into Mrs. Allen's room. In consequence of something that Mrs. Allen's ser- vant told me, and hearing in her apartment Mr. Jacob's voice, I went to that window. 1 had seen Mr. Jacob go in by Mrs. Allen's window, and I am sure that it was his voice that I heard. 1 went to the window. There was no light in Mrs. Allen's cabin, but there was light enough from the stern window to sec both Mr. Jacob and Mrs. Allen there together. The witness distinctly proved the criminal conversation. I had seen Mr. Jacob go in there twice before about the same time, at about eleven o'clock at night. Cross- examined by the Attorney- General.— I had leave of the maid to allow me to stand in her room. I saw Mr. Jacob very distinctly. There were six officers on board, but I am sure it was nobody but Mr. Jacob. I told Cap- tain Timmins of this the day before we made land. The Attorney General commented strongly on the case ; and directed the attention of the jury to the evidence re- specting the light conversation which it was deposed used to be carried on between the plaintiff and his wife in Cal- cutta; and also to the manner in which the plaintiff had committed her, with all her fascinations, about which they bad heard so much, in a vessel in which, for ( he greater part of the voyage, there was not one lady but herself, and which had six officers in it, all of them younger ( ban his client, who ( hey had heard was ( hen 40 years of age. He would ask the jury what brought Cornish into the cham- bermaid's room ( laughter), and he would direct their atten tion to that part of his testimony wherein he deposed that they had been in her room together looking at the fun going on : ( much laughter.) The jury had heard much from this witness about ( lie defendant running up the quarter gallery and down the mizen chains, and out at one port hole and in at another ( laughter); but he would entreat of ( hem to bear in mind that he had admitted that lie had had a dispute with Mrs. Allen on the voyage; and also Ihe loose kind of manner in which he gave his moonlight testimony. He would also request llieir atlen( ion to ( he testimony of Loveridge, who, for aught he knew, was as thick wilh Mrs, Allen as his client was said lo be ( loud laughter); and to bear iu mind that he ( Loveridge), after he stated lie had been requested by the defendant to call on Mrs. Allen ( while defendant took his watch), did not inform Captain Timmins of the confession whieh he alleged was then made to him ( they being then about the Land's- end), until two days after it was made, when they had reached Blaekwall. The Learned Gentleman concluded by hoping, as his client had already been punished in being dismissed from his situation, and, under all the circumstances of the case, that the jury would not give the plaintiff more than nominal damages. His Lordship then summed up the evidence, and the jury, after a short consultation, found a verdict for the plaintiff— damages, fifty Pounds. out having his bowels moved ; lie being of opinion that so | as he brings ; and if talking won't do, I'll try what my fists long as the patient endured no inconvenience from it, and can ; and that's my spirit, had no fever, it was better not to have his position disturbed. At the end of that period, however, circumstances in the patient's system of an injurious nature took place, and re- quired a disagreeable operation to be performed, which ilisturbed him a good deal. Upon this occasion the land- lord of the house observed to the defendant, that if the " If you strike any one, you'll he sent to prison," ( the magistrates observed.) Then I shall go there very quickly," Ellen readily replied. It was at length agreed that the parties should appear before Mr. Warrener on the following day; and having patient had had proper attention paid to him, this operation I disposed of the case, the magistrates conceived they had would not have become necessary,— an observation which | also disposed of the woman's tongue ; but the alarum still was resented in very angry terms by the defendant. The visits of the latter were by no means numerous, and took place at intervals of several days. The patient was not a month altogether under his care. At the end of tbe third or fourth week, a servant woman, belonging to Mr. Abbott, asked the defendant if the patient might be removed to his father's house at Somers- town, as he would there be more quiet than in the ostler's room at the King's Head, where he was subject to considerable disturbance. Mr. Blicke said that at the end of another week he might be removed in a spring cart, but he must be treated with great care. He was taken home to his father's house accordingly, and for some time the leg went on very well, but the swelling did not go way. In fact, the connecting matter, called the callus, had grown too large ; a tumour appeared; and in the month of December, an eversion of the foot took place, which obliged him lo walk lame ever since, the toes being turned out, and the side of the foot partly on the ground. In consequence of this lameness, he has been unable to obtain a situation ever since. He therefore brought the present action to recover damages from the defendant, for not having paid him due attention whilst under his care ; and also for not having set his leg skill- fully ; Mr. Tyrrell, Mr. Key, and some olher surgeons, giving it as their opinion that the leg had been set without reference to the small bone having being broken, which had consequently become shortened in its re- junction, and thus occasioned an eversion of the loot. On the part of the defendant, it was proved that the plaintiff had expressed himself to a fellow- servant as per fectly satisfied with Mr. Blicke's treatment, and grateful lor his attention. He was met out by his master on two occasions, once on horseback, and once in a cart, when the latter expressed his astonishment at seeing him out so soon. In the second week in May, Mr. Tibley, of Euston- square, was sent for, and found him in bed with his splints on, and continued ; and orders were at last given that the woman with the tongue should be forcibly ejected from the office. POLICE. MANSION- HOUSE. On Friday Benjamin Mark, and Herman Wilhelm, were charged by Mark Williams with having obtained fonr dozen fur caps under false pretences. The parties are all German Jews, and from what could be gathered from their odd sort of gibberish, it appeared that the defendants had given an order for the caps, for ready money, and, taking advantage of the prosecutor's absence, Mark had per suaded the wife to let him have them, but under such a clumsy pretext that he had clearly made a swindle of it. As Herman was the partner of Mark, though not present when he got the goods, the prosecutor had given both into custody. Knowing, therefore, the charge could not be brought home to him, he made a prodigious cackle, and, in broken English, asked " For vy he vas charge vit de poiisl" " Ask your conscience 1" said Mr. Holder. Ax ma conscience !— s'help ma Got I vil ax ma conscience, said Herman. " I puy de coots in de regular vay— en for vat you pring a me here. De prosecutor, Save, be von rogue bigger dan me." ( Laughter.) Mr. Alderman WILSON, however, being about to commit Mark, the defendants consented to allow the officer to pay 31. 2s. out of the moneys taken from them. " Hah, hah," said Herman, shaking his fist at the officer, " I shall damage you all vit my action, vich I pring against you, for you have prove me a rogue." It was here intimated to the Magistrate that the defendants had been taken to Lambeth- street office last week on a similar charge, and that there were two parties outside who had been defrauded out of their goods in a similar way. The defendants no sooner heard this stated than they bolted, with great expedition, out of the office. MARLBOROUGH- STREET. Wednesday six men, named Croft, Mtilby, Freeman, Lloyd, saw that the leg was in every respect as it ought to be, it I Fisher, and Rhodes, were charged on suspicion of being concerned being both properly and skilfully set. He did not then | in an extensive robbery at Mr. Owen's, New Bond- street, On disturb it, but called again in a week, when he advised him to keep the splints on. He examined the patient, and found all right. Tiie patient went afterwards to Sir Wm. Blizard, Mr. Earle, & c. The latter gentleman, Mr. Law- and Mr. Brodie were called by the defendant, and declared Iheir opinion that the tumour and eversion of the foot had been occasioned by the plaintiff's having walked and pressed on the leg loo soon; and also that the le; would be as strong and as serviceable as ever, although a slight lameness would remain, owing to the premature pres- sure on the foot before the connecting matter had been sufficiently consolidated. The Jury remained in deliberation for half an hour, when they returned a verdict for the defendant. The trial occupied the whole of the day, and to an ad- vanced hour of the evening. A WOMAN* TONGUE ! Amongst the cases which were tried at the Devizes Petty Sessions, on Tuesday last, says tbe Gazette of that town, there was one, Noyes v. Driver, alias Noyes, which afforded a pretty good proof that Dame Partington, ridi- Monday, some thieves effected an entrance into the house of Mr. Owen, and carried off property valued at between 150(. and 200. consisting of plate, with some shawls. Information was forwarded to this office, and Schofield and Avis instituted inquiries. Schofield received information that several individuals had proceeded to public house, with the intention of having some ducks cooked for dinner, and from their manner, added to the circumstance of their being very profuse in their expenditure, the supposition was, that a robbery had been committed. The officer visited several public, houses in the vicinity, and, at length", entered one in Bond- street, where he found three men in angry conversation among themselves. Schofield, determined to ascertain whether they had been at the duck dinner, addressed them by saying that he Supposed the ducks did not agree with them. Their reply convinced him they had par- taken of the poultry, and he made them his prisoners. They gave their names Croft, Mulby, and Freeman. On searching them, several sovereigns were found 6n Freeman, and on Mulby a hand- kerchief, which Mr. Owen identified. A key was " taken from Croft, and on searching his lodgings, in Blenheim- street, immedi ateiy in the rear of Mr. Owen's house, a trunk was found which the key appeared to belong to, and on opening the trunk, the whole of Mr. Owen's property was found with the exception of a large silver waiter. The three other prisoners were apprehended as accom- plices, they having been in the company of the others, and had culed as she has been, had at least as good a chance of dined with ihem. Croft was identified as an old servant of Mr, "" ~ " ' ' ' Gregory, the Queen- square magistrate, and was discharged fr his service for robbing bim. Croft, Mulby, and Freeman, were remanded for a week, and the other prisoners discharged. success in her attempt to stay the rolling of the Atlantic, as their worships had in endeavouring to stop the progress of a woman's tongue. The plaintiff and defendant are sisters, both particularly waspish, and, like most waspish people, continually in search of an opportunity to emit their venom ; the former had the complete ascendancy with re- gard to tongue— the latter, tbe more dexterous use of her hands. Each had the good fortune to marry a husband of | the most tnild disposition, and both named Noyes. The plaintiff was accompanied by her loving spouse. The de- fendant would not suffer her's to come to sitch a place. In the present case, she with the longest tongue was also the aggressor with her fists; but before the complaint was half gone through, such a torrent of words was let loose from the defendant, that the Court was in an instant over- whelmed. QUEEN- SQUARE. On Friday, a lad, apparently about eighteen, was brought before Mr. White, charged with attempting to gain an admittance into St. James's Palace, for the purpose of having an audience with his Majesty. The constable saw the prisoner at the palace, where one of the sentries was endeavouring to keep him back, buthestill persevered and endeavoured to force his way in. Witness went up to him and asked him the reason for such extraordinary conduct, when he replied that he had a message to deliver to his Majesty, and he had come a long way out of the country for that purpose. Mr. White asked the prisoner who and what he was.— The pri Ellen Driver! Hold your tongue!" said the Magis- soner replied that his name was John Rogers, that he was by trade whitesmith, and iltal he arrived in London on the previous even ing, from Chichester, having been two days iu walking to London Mr. While asked him what his business was in London ?— The pri soner replied that he had lately had a call, and the spirit had come over him. A few days ago lie had a vision, and the Lord had di- rected him to come to the metropolis and seek the King, and inform him that at the end of tbe present year the world would be at an end, and to recommend him to advise the people to repent of their sins and wickedness ! For this purpose he had walked from Chi Chester. He was a> ked how old he was ? and replied that he was exactly two hundred months last Sunday 1 Mr. White told l. im that he also had a call, and if he did not go about his business and make the best of his way to Chichester, he should send linn to the House of Correction. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FRIDAY, FEB. 24. A SURGEON IN TROUBLE.— HORSNELL v. BLICKE.— This was an action brought by Ihe plaintiff, a gentleman's ser- vant, against the defendant, who is a surgeon, for an alleged want of due care and skill, when attending the plaintiff, after he had tbe misfortune to have his leg broken. The facts of tbe case of the plaintiff were these:— On the 28th of April last, the plaintiff, who was in the ser- vice- of Mr. Abbott, of Walthamstow, when getting over a stile accidentally fell, and broke both the great and small bone of his leg, a few inches above tbe ancle. He was carried to the King's Head at Walthamstow, and the de- fendant was called in to attend him. Mr. Blicke set the leg, and left directions for the patient to be kept quiet. On the following day he saw him again, and finding that a swelling had taken place, be ordered it to be fomented wilh warm water for nine hours, tho water to be as warm as could be borne without flinching when applied to a per- son's cheek. The fomentations were applied, but without the precaution of applying the test directed by the defend- ant to prevent their being too hot; and upon Mr. Blioke's calling on the following day he found the leg blistered from the heat. The defendant omitted to give the plaintiff any opening medicine, but allowed him to remain 14 days with- trates. " Ellen Driver! ( reiterated the officer of the Court, raising his voice to the highest pitch, and at the same time giving her no very gentle tap on the shoulder) Ellen Dri- ver! attend to what tbe magistrates say to you." It was to no purpose, however; Hercules himself would have failed in the task. If her tongue was impeded for one moment, it acquired fresh vigour during the cessation, and again it carried all before it, " Sitch is my spirit ( said Ellen Driver) that I'll never suffer myself to be put upon; no, not if I go to prison for a whole twelvemonth for it Mr. Warrener ( one of the sitting magistrates, and who re- sides in the same parish) said that both women | iossessed the most violent temper; the plaintiff, in particular, was so I On Monday se'nnight, a fatal duel took place in the given to quarrelling, that no one liked to live in the same neighbourhood of Bordeaux, between M. Ferrier, a Peru house with her. vian, and a M. Abret, in which the former was killed. " There! ( interrupted Ellen Driver) there's a pretty Some doubts having been expressed as to the regularity of sort of a character for you! Why the people that I the proceedings at the rencontre, the two seconds have live with would rather pay me twenty shillings a week than published a joint statement to the following effect:— The lose me," two principals having declared their mutual determination " Then the Lord have mercy upon them !" piously eja- to fight till one of them fell, the seconds arranged that culated another overseer of a neighbouring parish. they should advance to within six paces of each other, " Do you hear her tongue, gentlemen .'" ( simply asked whether either of them fired previously or not. This dis the husband of the plaintiff, when scarcely any thing else tance was measured and marked out by handkerchiefs. At had been heard for the preceding half hour.) a given signal, the combatants marched forward, and " Do we hear it? ( responded the magistrates)— aye— and when w ilhiu ten paces of each other, M. Ferrier fired and say, that it is impossible there can be any quietness within a moderate distance of it; such a tongue is enough to ] disturb the peace of a whole parish, instead of a family. After various other interruptions, tbe magistrates thought | it best to hind each over to keep the peace ; and asked Ellen Driver where her husband was? " I be sometimes called Ellen Driver ( the defendant replied)— but my name is Noyes ; and with regard to my husband he don't come to sitch places." missed his adversary, and wished there to receive his shot in return, but,- according to the previous agreement, he was madr to advance to the line laid down. M. Abret then drew bis trigger, the capsule ( the pistols having de tonating ot ks) did not explode, and the seconds changed it for another, when M. Abret fired, and M. Ferrier fell.— In opposition to an opinion that had been given by some persons, that M. Abret had no right to a second fire, the seconds maintain that nothing can be deemed a fire unless " He dare not,"—( said the husband of the complainant the ball be expelled from the barrel, and that in this case — slily insinuating that he was one of the henpecked brood ; and that Ellen would not let him— at the same time for- getting that he himself had a shrew by his side, not yet tamed.) " Dare not!" reiterated Ellen, wilh a look of fury. " Dare not!" she repeated, whilst almost choking with rage; then turning to the magistrates, continued—" I tell you what, gentlemen, it is no use whatever for you to think of binding my husband over that I shall keep the peace ; for if any person say any thing to me, I'll give him as good THE LONDON GAZETTE. ( FROM THE GAZETTE OF TUESDAY, FEB. 21 ) Whitehall, Feb. 18. Tbe King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, for granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to William Russell, of York- place, Portman- square, in the County of Middlesex, Esq., M. D., and tbe heirs male uf his body lawfully begotten. Downing- street, Feb. 20. The King has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint John Treraayne Rood, Esq., C. B., and the Honourable Thomas Bladen Capel, C. B., Rear Admirals of the White, to be Knights Commanders of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Batb, the room of Admiral Sir Richard Hussey Bickerton, Bart, and Vice- Admiral Lord Henry Paulet, deceased. INSOLVENT. William Richard Chaulk, Blackmore, Essex, farmer. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Samuel Brett, Manchester, merchant. BANKRUPTS. Charles Mosley, Tower- street, victualler. William Jackson, Maidstone, jeweller. Henry Addenbrook, Eve Hill, Worcestershire, druggist. Edward Ashton, High- street, Whitechapel, cheesemonger. George Duplex, Pleasant- place, Pentonville, chymist. Joshua Robinson, Park- plaee, Paddington, builder. Joseph Osborne, jun. Colchester, common- carrier. Paul Sylvester, Fulbrook, Oxfordshire, grocer. James Steele, Newcastle- under- Lyiue, Staffordshire, ironmonger. Joseph White, Marlborough, Wiltshire, innkeeper. George Turner and Robert Hyslop, Liverpool, merchants. W. N. Clay, St. Helen's, Lancashire, nianufacturing- chymist. William Pollard, Manchester, commission- agent. William Thomas, Union- street, Bath, woollen- draper. J. Ward, W. Statters, and J. Statters, Mellor, Lancashire, cot- ton- spiuners. D. Logan, Quebec, merchant. ( FROM THE GAZETTE OF FRIDAY, FEB. 24.) At the Court of St. James, the 22d day of February, 1832, pre- sent the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council:— This day the Right Honourable Sir William Garrow, Knt., was, by command of his Majesty, sworn of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Coun- cil, and took his placeattlie Board accordingly. [ This Gazette contains the names of the following gentlemen, on whom the honour of Knighthood was conferred at the Levee on Wednesday :— Dr. J. Gibney, Physician to the Sussex County- Hospital; Henry Edmund Austen, Esq., one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber iu Ordinary; Robert Smirke, Esq.; Mr. Sergeant Russell, Chief Justice of Bengal; Colonel George Whitmore, of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order; Dr. Samuel Rush Meyrick, of Goodrich Court, in the county of Hereford, Knight Companion of the Royal Hano- verian Guelphic Order; Colonel Leonard Greenwell, Aide- de- Camp to his Majesty; Colonel Frederick Trench, Aide- de- Camp to his Majesty ; Major- General William Patterson; Lieutenant- General James Hay; Major General Sigisrnund Smith; Captain William Augustus Montagu, of the Royal Navy; and John Gurney, Esq., one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer.] Crown Office, Feb. 24. Member returned to serve in this present Parliament. Borough of Ennis— Major- General Sir Augustine Fitzgerald, in the room of William Fitzgerald Vesey Fitzgerald, now Baron Fitz- gerald and Vesey. War Office, Feb. 21. 2d Regiment of Life Guards— Captain J. W. Cuthbert, from the half- pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice C. Bulkeley, who ex- changes, receiving the difference. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards— Lieut. L. Kenyon to be Captain, by purchase, vice Heathcote, who retires. Cornet Hon. W. F. Cowper to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kenyon. 3d Regiment of Light Dragoons— J. Green, Gent, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Conway, promoted. 17th Light Dragoons— Cornet and Adjutant D. Hanson to have the rank of Lieutenant. 4th Regiment of Foot— Major J. K. Mackenzie to be Lieut.- Col., without purchase, vice Creagh, appointed to the' 86th Regi- ment. Capt. J. Hovenden to be Major, vice Mackenzie. Capt. II. P. Hill, from half- pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Ho- venden. 22d Foot— T. Chute, Gent, to be^ Ensign, by purchase, vice Vereker, promoted. 42d Foot— Lieut. G. M'lver to be Captain, without purchase, vice M'Eay, deceased; Ensign A. Inglis to be Lieutenant, vice M'lver; and Gentleman Cadet A. Cameron, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Inglis. 59th Foot— Lieutenant J. M. Stronge, from the half- pay, to be Lieutenant, vice C. Coote, who exchanges, receiving the difference.. 62d Foot— Lieutenant H. Dauvers, from the half- pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice J. T. Best, who exchanges. 65th Foot— Lieutenent J. T. Westropp, from the half- pay, to be Lieutenant, vice Elton, whose appointment has not taken place. 85th Foot— Captain F. J. St. Quintin, from the half- pay of the 96th Regiment, to be Captain, vice R, Cole, who exchanges, re ceiving the difference. 86th Foot— Lieutenant- Colonel M. Creagh, from the 4th Regi- ment, to be Lieutenant- Colonel, without purchase, vice Mallet, deceased. 97th Foot— Lieutenant H. Handcock to be Captain, by purchase, vice Nolan, who retires ; Ensign R. O. Jones to be Lieutenant, by- purchase, vice Handcock; A. F. Welsford, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Jones. Unattached— Ensign J. Vereker, from the 22d Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase. Memoranda— Lieutenant Richard Hicks, half- pay 10th Foot, has been allowed to retire from the service, by the sale of an Unat- tached commission. The name of the Captain appointed to the 12th Regiment, on the 8th of May, 1828, is Douglas, and not Mackenzie. The name of the Lieutenant appointed to the 15th Regiment, on the 19th of September, 1326, is C. Cooke Yar- borough, and not Cooke. The name of the Ensign appointed to the 68th Regiment, on the 7th of June last, is Douglas, and not Mackenzie. Royal East India Volunteers— Ensign II. Dickinson to be Lieu- tenant, vice Parish, who resigns; J. D. Close, Gent, to be Ensign, vice Dickinson. INSOLVENTS. W. Robinson, Hartley Castle, Kirkby Stephen, Westmoreland, butcher. John Ed mans, Strand, cheesemonger. William Henry Humbleby, Borough- market, plumber. BANKRUPTS. Richard Basil Strugnell, Basinghall- stree, boot- maker. J. and J. Waring, Lepton, Yorkshire, fancy cloth manufacturer. Henry Walker Ratcliffe, Wrexham, Denbighshire, grocer, William Roome, Liverpool, ironmonger. William Ellis, Norwich, maltster. Edward Hunt, Sale- street, Paddington, slater. William Finch, Rochester, coal- merchant. John Mackay, Broad- street, city of London, insurance- broker. John Charles Schwieso, Tottenham- street, piano- forte- maker. J. Townsend, Castle- street, Holborn, dressing- case- manufacturer. William Marsh, Warrington, Lancashire, flour- dealer. even that which may be called the priming was not burnt, M. Ferrier litis left five children to lament his loss. M Abret has made his escape, but both the seconds are in custody.— French Paper. A vain and pert prater was boasting at his club last week of the great impression which be made in a certain assembly whenever he spoke, and supposing that one of the persons present nodded assent, the orator quickly said, " but did you hear my last speech ?"—" No." said the other drily, « I wish I had!" ABOLISHMENT OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.— The ope- ration of Ihe Bill for the abolishment of imprisonment for debt in the state of New York having fully salisfied all parties that the interests of commerce have not been affected, by it, a Bill to extend the measure over the whole Uniott has been reported in the House of Representatives, and was under the consideration of a Committee of the whole House. What a commentary does this important legal reform afford upon the crowded state of our numerous debtors' prisons! 72 THE TOWS. Feb LATEST INTELLIGENCE. One of the Evening Papers of yesterday contained a letter from Paris, received by express, stating that on Thursday evening, as the Exchange was closing, a report was current of the receipt of a telegraphic despatch, announcing that the Pope had given notice of his intention to oppose the entry of French troops into the Papal States. We have taken some pains to ascertain whether this information was well founded, as we should consider it, in that case, of infinite im portance. Up to a late hour last night nothing had been received at the Foreign Office to corroborate the statement, and the French Ambassador was also with- out any intelligence of the sort. It would, therefore, lie fair to set the account down as a mere Stock Ex change rumour, if it were not for an article in the Messaecr des Chambres dated Friday, in which the probability of a circumstance of this description is insisted on, and also the positive assertion of the Constitutionnel, a paper of high character as to its foreign correspondence, that the Pope had declared Lis intention of preventing the contemplated French intervention. Now, if it be true that the Pope has made a formal intimation to the French Government of his deter mination to oppose the entry of French troops, we may ascribe such a proceeding entirely to the Aus- trians, for the Pope would not have dared to make such a manifestation except at their suggestion. If the orders of the French General are positive, and the Papal troops should attempt a resistance, the latter • will be worsted, and the Austrians will be required to do that which the Pope himself cannot do. This will be actual war between France and Austria. We cannot imagine that the French have made their movement upon Italy without some previous under standing between the Pope and tbe Austrian Cabinet The President of the Council, M. Perier, would hardly have spoken in the Chamber of a good understands between France and the other Powers, which rendered the maintenance of peace certain, if he had known at the time that the contemplated intervention of the French in the affairs of Italy was so contrary to the wishes of Austria as to threaten collision. The rise in the French Funds also, indicates a confidence • which could hardly have existed if there had been the slightest doubt on the question of the intervention For these reasons, we must regard the report as un founded— at the same time, however, we are bound to observe, that the statements of the Constitutionnel having remained uncontradicted by the French Mi- nisterial Journals, is rather a suspicious circumstance. We have been favoured with the perusal of letters from an officer in Don Pedro's squadron, dated off Terceira. The expedition was in good order, and the crews were in high spirits. The Austrian Cabinet have proposed to Don Pedro, that in the event of Austria being able to induce Don Miguel to abdicate, he shall be allowed to retain his estates as a Prince of the House of Braganza. This has been agreed to ; but Don Pedro has declared, that if any resistance is made by the Usurper, he will be dealt with as a rebel. We have this information from authority on which we can rely. The accounts from Lisbon are favourable. The officers of four regiments have signified their intention « f declaring for Don Pedro, on the moment of his arrival. Many of the privates also are similarly dis- posed, as they have taken offence at tbe employment ofSpaniards, who are acting as spies on the Portuguese soldiers. The mission of Count Orloff will, we imagine, not be so successful as some persons seem to anticipate. The King of Holland has again declared that he will not accept the Twenty- four Articles, as they now stand ; and there is a new difficulty in the refusal of the Prince of Orange to relinquish his claim to the succession of Belgium. From the Hamburg Papers of the 17th instant, • which arrived yesterday morning, we extract the fol- lowing startling article, dated Frankfort, Feb. 11: — " The strangest reports are here in circulation. The whole country appears to be in a stale of insurrection. From Wisbatlen the Minister, Von Marschall, has fled to Mentz. In the capital of Nassau every thing is in the greatest confusion, and artillery has been planted in the market- place. In Hanau the soldiers have made common cause with the people, throwing away their arms and uni- form, and returning to their houses ; about 50 of them passed through Frankfort yesterday. In Vilbel and Gloss Garben the peasants have gathered together with a view to attack the Custom- houses." TO THE NOBILITY and GENTRY FURNISH- ING HOUSES.— PRATT and SON, by appointment to their Majesties, encouraged by the univetsal adoption of their Patent Wire Stuffing, harve enlarged their Show Rooms, 47, New Bond- street, where they solicit an inspection of a varied assortment of New Patterns of their much- admired Recumbent, Lounging, and Library Easy Chairs. Patent Wire Bed?, Sofas, Chaise Lounges, and Ottomans. Drawing and Dining Room Chairs, and Invalid Reclining Beds. Mahogany Dining and Drawing Room suites of Rosewood Tables. Mahogany Four- post and French Bedsteads, with metal joints. Patent Metallic Bedsteads, in brass aud iron,. impervious to in- sects. Improved Military ditto; Canteens, Marquees and PleasureTents Dressing Cases, with plated, silver, and gold mountings. Modern Parisienne Bedsteads, Toilette Tables, Secretaires, & c. Ancient Buhl Furniture, Carved and Gilt Chairs, Damasks, & c. of the time of Louis XIV"., the prices of which will be found affixed on the most moderate scale. Invalids and travellers lo the Indies will derive much comfort from the Patent Sofa Beds. CHOLERA.— IMPROVED HOT AIR BATH. Extract from the ' London Medical Gazette,' of December 3, 1831.—" We must not omit to mention the Bath for Hot Air or Vapour made by Mr. Rippon, of Castle- street East. It goes into an extremely small compass, is equally efficient, and much cheaper than any of the others we have seen."— The Bath alluded to by the Editor of the Medical Gazette HAS BEEN MUCH IM PROVED, and is strongly recommended for the cure of Cholera, Colds, Rheumatism, & c. It is so extremely portable and simple that it may be applied in one minute by the most inexperienced person, without removing the patient or clothes from the bed, at the expense of three- pence. Price of machine, with spirit lamp, & c. 10s. ; portable frame for bed, 10s. ; packed for the country, at 2s.^ d. extra. Letters, post- paid, enclosing a remittance, imme- diately attended to. Address I. J. Rippon, No. 63, Castle- street, East, Oxford- street. Of whom may be had, Stomach Warmers for 2s, 6d.; Feet Warmers, 6s. ; also a new invented utensil for cook- ing potatoes, superior to those boiled, steamed, or roasted, price 6s. DUTY OFF CANDLES. MATTHEWS, 41, Long Acre, and at Ham- mersmith, respectfully submits to the public his prices of Candles, & c., and in doing so guarantees every article to be of the very first quality :— • T. NO. 20, BE11NERS- STREET, Oxford- street— Mr. E. BYRNE, SURGEON- DENTIST, respectfully announces that he has been induced to dedicate two days in each week ( Tuesday and Thursday) to visiting at their residences Families requiring his Professional Services. He devotes an hour to each visit, for which his charge is a guinea, whatever may be the number of patients relieved. Executing himself the artificial pieces he sup plies, lie has been enabled to fix his charges in the mechanical de- partment at one half the amount of those usually made. The following Tariff is submitted to the Public :— A Set of Teeth made of Ihe best materials, and finished in the highest degree, usually charged double the price, only 181. Ditto, less perfect, 15(. A single Tooth, 1/. A Piece, composed of several Teeth, is only charged ( per Tooth,) 15s. Each Operation performed at Mr. Byrne's house, 10s. If on a child, half- price will be received. No additional charge is made for the Terro- Metallic Teeth, so much approved of, which Mr. Byrne particularly recommends, for their exact imitation of nature, wholly uudistiuguishable from the original, and for their great durability, resisting the effects of the strongest acids, and even of fire. Their imperishable nature, toge- ther with their peculiar freshness in the mouth, not imparting the slightest odour to tbe breath, render them decidedly preferable to any other description adopted by the Profession. Finest wax Palace ditto " Finest sperm caudles Composition ditto Finest wax wick moulds Best store dips Old brown Windsor soap White and palm per lb. 2s Od Is lOd Is Is 0s Os Is Is 6d 6d 7d 5d 4d Od per cwt. Curd and mottled • • 70s Od Best pale yellow .... 64s Od Strong ditto • • • 60s Od per imp. gall. Best sperm oil • • • 7s Od Pale seal 3s 6d Delivered in town, and carefully packed for the country. Cash only. M ECONOMY IN DRESS. ITCHELL and CO., Cheap and Fashionable Elegant dress coats, cut on the Mitchellto- nian system .... Yeiy best West of England blue or black ditto • • Frock ditto, faced with silk • • • Fashionable great coats • • • Prime cloth or Cassinieretrowsers • Extra milled ditto, blue or black Shepperd's plaid and Brougham striped do. Fashionable Summer ditto Real Anglo Merino ditto • Superfine black Cassiiuere waistcoats Valentia ditto .... Rich silk ( newest patterns) ditto Ditto, ditto, faced with velvet Morning gowns .... Military and travelling cloaks • « T. M. and Co. beg leave most respectfully to return their sincere thanks to their friends and the public in general, for the very liberal support they have received for the last seven years, and assure them every attention will be paid to the qualities and Workmanship of the above articles, ill order to ensure their future patronage and support. Mitchell and Co., No. 90, Strand, ( exactly opposite Southamp ton- street.) £ s. d £ s. d. 2 8 0 to 3 5 0 3 5 0 to 3 10 0 2 15 0 to 3 15 0 2 10 0 to 3 15 0 0 18 0 to 1 1 0 1 5 0 to 1 8 0 0 15 0 to 1 0 0 0 7 6 to 0 16 0 0 12 0 to 0 16 0 0 IS 0 lo 0 14 0 0 10 0 lo 0 12 0 0 14 0 to 0 16 0 0 16 0 to 0 18 0 0 14 0 to 0 18 0 1 10 0 to 2 2 0 CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. 24. There is nothing whatever doing here, and Wheat is quoted nominally as on Wednesday. Barley and Oats are also given as on last market day. THE AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, For the week ended Feb. 17. Imperial Weekly Average Six Weeks' Average, which regu- \ lates duty ^ Duty on Foreign Corn £ s. d. 3 16 6 3 6 0 4 13 0 1 14 0 1 10 6 0 18 0 0 15 6 THE ABSOLUTE FACT why the Nobility and Gentry have submitted to pay the very high charges of a few eminentTailors, who have monopolized their patronage for so long a period, is, that until now no one had succeeded in producing Clothes which a gentleman could wear. But this monopoly can be now but of short duration, as FLETCHER, of 33, NEW BOND STREET, has produced Coats, & c., & c., which cannot possibly be distinguished by the critical eye, even of a Bruutmell, either in make or materials, from those of any eminent Tailor in the neigh- bourhood of Clifford . street or St. James's, and at a very little more than half their charges, yet obtaining a fair Tradesman's Profit. H. FLETCHER begs leave, in returning his grateful thanks to the many Noblemen and Gentlemen who have honoured him with their support since his commencement in business, to assure them that the same assiduity aud exertion, which have gained him so many Patrons ( whilst under an engagement to a very eminent West- end House) will be persevered in, thereby maintaining his esta- blished reputation as the only first- rale Tailor who has boldly stepped forward lo destroy the monopoly by which Gentlemen who do pay have for so long a period been taxed for those who do not. The following Scale of Prices is respectfully submitted, for prompt payment :— Dress Coat, Blue or Black Ditto — any other colour . , Frock, do. Blue or Black, Skirts lined with silk Trowsers, Blue or Black .... Ditto — any other colour . . Ditto — White Drill .... Waistcoats Regimentals, & c. upon equally reasonable terms. VERY BEST LIVERIES. A Footman's Suit, complete, with sleeves to waist- coat, and velveteen breeches . . . 4 A Suit, with kerseymere breeches . . .4 A Ditto, with hair'plush ditto .... 4 A Stable or Working Dress • . . .1 A Footman's extra double- milled Drab Great Coat, with large Cape 3 13 6 Gold or Silver Lace, and Crested Buttons, charged the whole- sale price. Officers' Coatees, & c. & c. lower than any other House in 30 Guineas. H. FLETCHER, Military Tailor, & c., 33, New Bond- street. Copy of a letter from Sir Gerard Noel, Bart., Deputy Lord Lieu- tenant of die county of Rutland. " Chandos- street, Cavendish- square. " 12th July, 1831. *' Sir— I ain very well pleased indeed with the good fitting of the Deputy Lord Lieutenant's Dress, and your expedition in preparing that and the other outfit belonging to it, and otherwise, when bring- ing it home, to the adjustment of it: with high approbation in all these matters, am gratified in sending the elieque ( enclosed) in pay- ment of the account. " Yours, & c. ( Signed) " GERARD NOEL. " Te Mr. H. Fletcher, 33, New Bond- street." 5 10 15 4, London. DEPUTY LORD LIEUTENANT'S COAT Diito ditto ditto Pantaloons * Ditto ditto ditto Epaulettes * Ditto ditto ditto Sword Ditto ditto ditto Swoid Knot Ditto ditto ditto Sash Ditto ditto ' ditto Sword Belt. Ditto ditto ditto Cock'd Hat- To his Majesty' last New Regulation. SUPERIOR NEW ORANGE MARMALADE, in Jars, 61bs., 9s.; 4lbs., 6s.; 2lbs., 3s. 6d.; and lib., 2s, Also fine Muscatel Raisins, Smyrna Figs, and Imperial Plums ; Dried Fruits for Dessert; fine Preserved Ginger, Limes, and Tamarinds; Bottled Fruits and Cranberries for Tarts, and a variety of Compotes, Marmalades, Jams, and Jellies. LIQUEURS of FIRST QUALITY; Curasao, Maraschino, Dantzic Ratafia and Gold Water, Alkermes, Noyau, & c. LARGE SMOKED and PICKLED TONGUES; Small Tongues for Side- dishes or Breakfast; Russian Ox and Rein- deer Tongues; Dutch Beef for Grating; Russian Caviare; Anchovy Paste; Westphalia, York, and Westmoreland Hams ; Bath Pigs' Chops; Honeycomb Parmesan, Gruyere, and Stilton Cheeses; Foies Gras de Strasbouig, and P& tes de Perigord. FINE LUCCA SALAD OIL, free from rancidity; French and other Vinegars ; a variety of Sauces and Pickles ; Curry Powder of fine qualify ; genuine Cayenne Pepper. GENUINE BERMUDA ARIIOW ROOT, in Boxes, 2s. and 4s. each ; fine Tapioca ; Pearl Sago j Sago Powder ; Genoa Maccaroni, Yermacelli, and Semolina ; Italian Paste for Soups ; Osmond's Grits, and Patent Barley and Grits. Also, for flavouring Puddings, & c.— Ess. Bitter Almonds; Ess. Lemon ; Neroli, Ce- drati; Orange- flower Leaves; French Orange- flower, Rose, Ma- raschino, and Peach- flower Waters ; Liquid Cochineal, & c. The KING of OUDE'S FAVOURITE SAUCE, genuine only by SAMUEL IIICKSON, 72, Welbeck- street. Orders for the country or exportation, for any of the above Ar- ticles, executed with care. VALUABLE MEDICINES Adapted for the present period. TOWERS'S STOMACHIC ESSENCE.— As the Essential Oil of Peppermint and Sal Volatile are recommended, by official Authority, as remedies which should be immediately re- sorted to in the first stages of attack of Cholera Morbus, this pre- paration is earnestly recommended as one of vital importance to families. It contains the essential ingredients alluded to, and in a form so comprehensive and efficient, as to enable any one to take or administer a dose of any required strength, without any loss of time, which may at once arrest the progress of the malady. The Essence does not contain any opiate, but it will readily combine with Laudanum, and when that is deemed needful, can be taken in conjunction with great advantage. In Bottles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. BUTLER'S CARDIAC TINCTURE TURKEY RHU- BARB.— A warm and pleasant Laxative, adapted to Gouty Con- stitutions, and recommended in the Winter Season to all delicate persons, in preference to Saline Aperients; it is also a most valuable Medicine for those complaints of the Bowels so prevalent during the Summer and Autumn. In Bottles at 2s. 9d. and 4s. 6d. DIXON'S ANTIBIL10US PILLS.— As a mild and effectual remedy in those affections which have their origin in a morbid ac- tion of the Liver and Biliary Organs, namely, Indigestion, Loss of Appetite, Head- Ache, Flatulence, Heartburn, Constipation, & c. these Pills ( which do not contain Mercury in any shape) have met with more general approval than any other Medicine. In Boxes at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., lis., and 22s. GREGORY'S STOMACHIC POWDER.— This Composition was a favourite remedy of the late Professor Giegory, of Edinburgh, for affections of the Stomach ( such as Indigestion, Acidity, Flatu- lence, & c.) and torpidity of the Bowels, consequent upon an im- paired state of the secretions necessary for the process of Digestion. Its effects are antacid, carminative, and gently aperient. It is par- ticularly serviceable to Gouty and Dyspeptic Invalids, and may be taken without any restraint. In Bottles at 2s. and 3s. 6d. JAMES S FEVER POWDER.— Is universally approved by the Profession and the Public, and is administered with equal suc- cess in Fever, Inflammatory Diseases, Measles, Pleurisy, Sore Throats, Rheumatism, & c. When given in Colds, Catarrhs, & c. it is generally found to check their progress, or shorten their duration. In Packets at 2s. 9d. and 24s. Observe, R. G. G. James on the Label. BUTLER'S STOMACHIC AND DIGESTIVE CANDY.— Of w hich the principal ingredients are Turkey Rhubarb, Ginger, an Antacid and Carminatives, in such proportions as render it a plea- sant Aromatic, Stomachic, and powerful Digestive. It will be found most serviceable in those affections originating in an impaired Di- gestion; and also an agreeable gentle Aperient for Children. In Boxes, 2s. and 4s. 6d. TOWERS'S CHEMICAL SOLUTION OF CAMPHOR.— This elegant Preparation of pure Camphor unites instantly with water, thus affurding the means of making use of it as a Draught of any required strength, or as a wash or lotion. If then Camphor is to be considered as essential, if not a specific in certain cases of infectious or epidemic disease, what must be the value of a prepara- tion which will enable the practitioner or private individual to ad- minister it internally or externally, in a form wherein it will exert Ihe greatest energy, and without a moment's loss of time? In Bot- tles at 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., and lis. HENDERSON'S STOMACHIC VEGETABLE ELIXIR.— The unprecedented demand for this Medicine, and the flattering accounts daily received from all quarters of the Empire, as to the beneficial effects experienced from its use iu all cases of Derange- ment of the Digestive Organs, are the strongest proofs which could be given of its efficacy in every variety of Stomach Complaints. In Half- pint Bottles at 2s. 9d., and Pints, 4s. 6d. BUTLER'S FLUID EXTRACT OF SARSAPARILLA.— For making the Decoction as it may be required, in a superior manner, instantly and economically. It is used as an alterative in Scrofula, Scurvy, Secondary Symptoms, and other cutaneous Dis- eases, and as a remedy to correct the improper use of Mercury. In Bottles at 4s. Cd., 7s. 6d., and 20s. DALBY'S CARMINATIVE.— For preventing and removing those disorders of the Stomach and Boweis, such as griping pains, Convulsions, Flatulency, Acidity, Looseness of the Bowels, and the distressing symptoms which attend the period of Teething. In Bottles at is. 9d. Observe " Butler" on the Government Stamp. CHING'S WORM LOZENGES.— The extraordinary efficacy of these Lozenges iu cases of Worms, as well as in the Obstructions of the Bowels, aud every disorder where cleansing physic is required, is so universally known, and has been publicly acknow- ledged by so many persons of distinction in society, that i[ is un- necessary here to enlarge on their peculiar virtues. In Boxes at 2s. 9d., 5s. 6d., lis., and 22s. BUTLER'S IMPROVED DAFFY'S ELIXIR.— This Pre- paration ( made wilh the finest Brandy) will be found much superior to any other. In Half- pint Bottles at 2s. 9d. Sold by Messrs. Butler, Chemists, Cheapside, Corner of St. Paul's; Sackville- street, Dublin; and Princes- street, Edinburgh; and by their agents in the country. Wheat. Barley. Oats 59s 9d 35s 4d 21s 7d 59s 7d 35s 7d 21s 7d 27s 8d 9s 4d 15s 3d PRICE OF HOPS, FP. B, 24. Kent Pockets - - 41. 15s. — Sussex ditto - . 4/, ios. Essex ditto - - 41, lOs. Farnham ditto, fine - 91. os. Farnham Pockets, seconds 01. Os. Kent bags - - 41. Os. — Sussex ditto - - 41. 4Sl Essex ditto - - 31. ] 5S. 81. 0s. bl. 14s. 61. 15s. 01. 9i. 61. 51. ol. 0s. 0s. 10s. 0s. 12s. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the returns made in the week ending February 24, is 24s. 7d. per cwt. exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the 1 Importation thereof into Great Britain. SMITHFIELD, FEB. 24. There were but few beasts of good quality in the market this morning, and for the best kinds the prices were somewhat lower The supply of sheep was greatei than on this day se'nnight, and the number of calves larger. Beef, on the average, was 2d. lower than on Monday, mutton 2d. higher, veal 2d. lower, and pork as on that day. Per stone of 81b. ( sinking the offal.) Beef 3s 4d to 4s 2d I Veal 5S od to 5s 8d Mutton 4s 4d to 5s Od | Pork 4s 4d to 5s Od Head of Cattle at Market. Beasts • 444 | Calves • 144 | Sheep . 2,630 | Pigs • 90 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL, FEB. 25. The supply of meat was good this morning with rather a sluggish trade. ( By the carcase, per stone of 81bs.) Beef - 2s. 6d. to 3s. 6d. I Mutton - 3s. 4d. to 4s. Od. Veal - 3s. 8d. to 5s. 4d. | Pork - 3s. 8d. to 5s. 4d! PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows: Candles, per doz. 7s. to 8s. | Moidd, per doz, 9s. 6d. HAY MARKETS.— FEB. 24. SMITHFIELD.— Meadow Hay, 3/. 0s. to 41. 4s.; inferior ditto 2i. 10s. to 21. 15s.; Old Clover Hay, 31. 15s. to 61. 0s.; second crop ditto, 31. 10s. to 41.15s.; Rye Grass Hay, 31. 15s. to 41.10s.; Oat Straw, 11. 5s. to li. 8s. ; Wheat Straw, ll. 10s. to 11. 16s. per load of 36 trusses.— The supply was plentiful at marketto- day, and in some instances higher prices were asked, but generally no alte- ration in Thursday's prices can be quoted. CUMBERLAND.— Meadow Hay, 31. 3s. to 4/. 4s. ; inferior ditto, 21. 8s. to 21. 15s. ; Clover, 41. Os. to 61. Os. ; second crop, 3(. 5s. to 41. Os. ; Rye Grass Hay, 01. Os. ; Oat Straw, 28s. ; Wheat Straw, 33s. to 37s.— A good supply at market and a fair trade. COAL EXCHANGE, FEB. 24. Prices of Coal, per ton, at the close of the market. Killingworth, 19s Od.— St. Lawrence Main, 18s Od West Hartley, 20s Od— Wall's End, Bell, Robson, and Co., 18s. Od Northumberland, 19s Od to 20s— Peikins, 19s to 19s 6d— Rus- sell's, 18s— Lambton Primrose, 19s— Stewart's, 20s to 21s 6d Hartley, 21s— New Flocton, Milne, and Co., 17s— Ships ar- rived, 3. PRICES OF THE PUBLIC FUNDS. Bank Stock Reduced 3 per Cents.* • Consols, 3 per Cents. • - — for Account* • • — 3$ per Cents. • Reduced S$ per Cents. • New 3$ per Cents New 4 per Cents Long Annuities India Bonds Exchequer Bills Mon. Tues. Wed. Tliur. Frid. Satu 195$ 195$ 196 194 ® 196 82£ 83 83* 83 83f m 82j 82J 84# 82# — 8i'$ 8 * f 82, t S 82f 90| 90J 90$ 90$ < v . 901 90$ 90$ 90J ea 901 89J 89| 90 89f s 90; 10U — 100 — ffi 16 16| ie| 16 16 2 dis 1 ciis 1 dis 1 dis 1 dis 7 7 8 9 9 COURSE OF EXCHANGE, FEB. 10. Amsterdam, 3 months, 1' Ditto, short, 11 18 to $ Rotterdam, 3 months, 12 4J Hamburgh, do. 13 14 § to$ Paris, short, 25 52$ to 55 Ditto, 3 months, 25 80 lo 87$ Frankfort, ditto, 154 Vienna, ditto, 10, 7 to 8 Trieste, ditto, 10 8 to 9 Madrid, ditto, 36f to $ Cadiz, ditto, 36f to $ Bilboa, 3 months, 36$ to $ Leghorn, ditto, 47$ Genoa, ditto, 25 77$ Naples, ditto, 40 Palermo, ditto, 119$ lo J Lisbon, 30 days' sight, 49 Oporto, ditto, 49f to 50 For. Gold, in bars, 31. 17s. 10$ d. New Doubloons, 31. 15s. 6d. New Dollars, 4s. 9^ d. BIRTHS. At Vernon House, Park place, St. James's, Lady Suffield of a son.— At his house, Bryanston- square, the Lady of Thomas Perry, Esq. of a daughter.— At Coventry, ihe Lady of Lieutenant Colonel F^ wart, C. B. Inspecting Field Officer, of a son.— In Harley- street, the Lady of Le Marchant Thomas, Esq. of a son.— In Montagu- street, Portuian- square, the Lady of James Rust, Esq. of a son.— At Church- road, Brixton, the Lady of Francis Losack, Esq. of a son. MARRIAGES. At the British Palace, Therapia, Constantinople, Charles Blunt, Esq. of Adrianople, to Carolina, daughter of M. M. Antonio Vi- talis, his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Tino.— At Wellinborough, in the county of Northampton, the Rev. Charlton Lane, M. A. Minister of St. Mark's, Kennington, to Jane, eldest daughter of Charles Hill, Esq. of Wellinboiongli.— At St. Pancras, James Dunlap, Esq. M 1). of Baker- street, to Mary Anne, third daugh- ter of William Walker, Esq. of Barton Hall, Suffolk.— At Wands- worth, William Wilson Saunders, Esq. to Catherine, daughter of Joshua Saunders, Esq. of East Hill, Wandsworth.— At East Berg- holt, Suffolk, John Berners, Esq. eldest sou of Archdeacon Ber. ners, to Mary Henrietta Rowley, only daughter of the Rev. Joshua Rowley. DEATHS. Oil Wednesday, Ihe 22d instant, in her 71st year, Ann, wife of John H'idsoll, Esq. of Haverstock Hill, Hampstead. At Clifton, James Graves Russell, Esq. in his 83d year.— At Worthing, Dr. John White, R. N. aged 75 years.— Iu Upper Montagu- street, Russell- square, Philip Hughes, Esq. late Com- mander of the Hon. Easl India Company's ship, Brirlgexuter.— In Berkeley- square, Owen Williams, Esq. M. P. for Mallow.— In Crawford- street, Portman- square, John Mackenzie, Esq. in the 8; idyearof his age.— At Blackheath, James Brittain, Esq. mer- chant, of Buenos Ayres, South America.— At Dutwich, Ann, the wife of Henry Trail, Esq.— At Queen's- row, Pentonville, tbe wife of James Mortimer, Esq.— At the Rectory, Keddleston, iu the 71st year of his age, the Hon. and Rev. David Francis Curzon, Rector of Keddleston and Mugginton, iu the county of Derby. LONDON: Printed by RICHARD NORMAN, Savoy Pre- cinct, and Published by him at ihe Office, 2, WELLING- TON- STREET, STRAND ; where, ONLY, all communications addressed to die Editor are received.