Star. — London, England, 1830-10-27 00:00:00

THE KING'S COURT. BRIGHTON, Ocr. 26. Ile departure of their MAJESTIES has made a blank which it would be difficult to describe. The people, who v..cre accustomed to behold their KING and QUEEN passing A mongst them in the most unostentatious manner, were ,onstantly on the anxious look-out to see them : to-day the ?ieighbourhood of the Palace was quite deserted. Their Majesties' return being fixed for the 22d of Nov. ;.heir arrival will be hailed with the most lively demonstra tions of delight by the community. 'flit! Princess Augusta, accompanied by Miss Wynyard, drove out for an airing to-day. Several of the household, r7ho romained behind to make arrangements, took their de :, attere for town. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Wallington had an audience yesterday of his Majesty. Lord Hill, the Commander of the Forces, had an inter view with the Duke of Wellington yesterday at the Trea sury. The Duke of Brunswick had a conference with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Lord Mayor of Dublin visited Sir Robert Poel at the Home Office on Monday. The Spanish Minister had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Duke, Duchess, and Prince George of Cumberland, attended by their suite, came to town yesterday from their residence at Kew. Their Royal Highnesses will, it is ex -rected remain in town for some weeks. Sir Robert and Lady Peel gave a grand dinner on Monday , :venin;r. at their residence in Privy-gardens, to Prince Tal loci-Anti (the French Ambassador), the Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst, Earl of Rosalyn, Earl and Countess of Aberdeen, Viscount Melville, &c. _ The Duke, Duchess, and Prince George of Cumberland, Prince and Princess of Caroluth, visited the King and Queen yesterday at the Palace at St. James's. Their Ma jesties entertained the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince and Princes:: of Caroluth, to dinner in the evening. among the . Nobility and Gentry who called yesterday at the Palace and made their inquiries after the health of their Majesties were the Duke of Dorset, the Duchess Dowager of Richmond, Marquis of Stafford, Earl and Countess I:tyri, Lord and Lady Ponsonby, Lord Saltoun, Ladies E. Smyth, C. Bury, G. Murray, S. Lenox, Lady and Miss Campbell, Sir C. and Lady Ogle, Sir H. and Lady Black uned, Mr. and Hon. Mrs. Hope, Miss de Roos, Mrs. and the Misses Wheatley, Gen. Wetherell, and Col. Baillie. CIVIC ENTERTAINMENT TO THEIR MAJESTIES. It is the intention of the Court of Aldermen, we understand, to issue instructions to keep King.street from Cheapside to the Guildhall clear on the day of the entertainment, in order to prevent the confusion which Ines.. otherwise be inevitable. Indeed the Committee have been all along of this opinion ; but they have not publicly adverted to it in the consciousness that the Court of Aldermen will adopt the most ser viceable plan. It has been stated, that the City authorities were bound to appoint the nietn.n.rs of the various Companies to post themselves all along the civic line of road to the Guildhall, and to preserve the peace. It is ap prehended, however, that if the Magistrates bad the power to station the Companies according to this suggestion, the plan would; be far teem satisfactory to the resident shopkeepers and the public, as the Com panies would in such a case: have, together with their friends, an exclu sive enjoyinebt of the pageant. We believe that the Court of Al dermen will rely upon the existing police force, with the aid of some extra constables. It is calculated that the King will go straight from St. James's to Guildhall ; and report says, that very few of the mill. tary will accompany him. The Committee have not, u yet, we under stand, received any intimation from his Majesty on this point ; neither have they, as yet, received the list of the visitors he has honoured with invitations. About 700 persons will, it is now said, dine in the Hall, ind the Committee hope, that there will be no occasion to fit up the old o:' King's Bench for the reception of any of the company. A letti.r has been sent, by Mr. Charles Pearson, the Common Coun. I Irmin, to the Committee, complaining, that amongst the contemplated mrangements for the reception of the King, he does not find any place aisigried to the freemen inhabitants, nor any preparations for their enter. t...!nment, although the expenses of the feast, and its festivities are to be thtfreyed out of the funds which belong to the Mayor. Aldermen, and ci tizens of London. The letter then goes on to propose, that instead of sol. diets, freemen shall be ranged along the streets, so that his Majesty would know that his body guard consisted of the substantial tax-paying inhabitants of the metropolis of the empire. Mr. Pearson then recom. mends that the entertainment be economical, and that all freLnien inha. bitant householders be entertained from the same funds. This letter was, we understand. taken into consideration ; but the Committee determined that the object. however ticsirat'le, was quite impracticable. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. Last night Sheridan's sparkling comedy of the Shout for Scandal was produced at this theatre, with a cast of characters which for excel lence has seldom or ever been surpassed, if equalled. FAH ILEX'S Sir Peter Teasle is so exceedingly well known to every one, that it is now useless to say a word on tha subject. On the present occasion, however, his acting appeared to be more than usually rich and racy. Al ACRE/spit'. Joseph Surface was, we had nearly said, perfect in its kind ; nothing could exceed the exquisite manner in which, by his wheedling morality, tic endeavours, and successfully, to gain the consent of Lady ?male, arguing, that the plan she rui;ht to adopt, was to give proper cause for the suspicion of her testy husband; me effect produced by the dis closure the screen see: e. v. as prodigiously great. Thyteale of the fa mily pietures by It'allactt, Clarke Surface, was equally effective, and some of the parliamerirary jokes told well, and elicited consi derable laughter front William Peel and a knot of young M. P.'s, who occupied one of the preszertium boxes. Mr. Dowton played the zharacter of Sir Oliver S . :I rface with great propriety of humour. Pro vably the worst diameters in the play wen: those of Sir Benjamin Backbite and Crablroe ' the RAREFY , who, by As manner, seems to forget that Sirßenjesestiu is a gentleman ; the latter, by BEN. ::r, was a very coarse it.ti,rsovation. Miss CHESTER is the most spl(ntlid Lady Tecate of :hr drty, and tliss 31onnausT as blushing a Muria as one can desire. After the comedy, 3lcsart's comic opera of The Marriage of Figaro r•as pertained, introducing a nrw Page in the persoo of a 11tas Claw. oito ; this young lady is t• pupil, we undentattl, of hlr. A. LEE. w put.sesses a serviceable voice, and her appearance is good. She was r,,rivea ill a very Battering manner. !ie house was crowded in every part, even from the comniencement iw ploy. NAVAL INTELLMENCE. The Abeoca, from Liverpool to Quebec, has foundered at sea. Craw saved. The John, Thompson, from Rio Janeiro, has :Arrived at Cowes, .vith maiomut and bowsprit sprung, &c. Cargo discharging, with DiSt, Ocr. '36.—Wind N.W. to W.—Sailed the transport brig, No. 21. Arrived thr Grate, and John and Mary, from the Medi terranean. PLYMOUTH, OCT. 25. Wind S.W. fresh.—Arrived hi, Majesty's ship Nautilw, from Cork. and St. Jean Baptiste, from Bourdeaul. FALMOUTH, OCT. 24. —Wind N.N.W. to W.& W.—Sailed the Lord Melville packet, for Rio Janeiro and Buenos Ayres. Arrived the Flora, Mewlan, from Marsala ; and Falmouth Packet, &rug', from Malaga. Batsivt Ocr. 24 and :Z.—Arrived the Russell, Whitway, from Quebec; and Ringwood, :nap Newfoundland. OCT. —A/Het d the Enterprise, Le Gresly, from Sierra Lenne ; and Warhawk, Le Ci.rk, from Ariehat. Laysaroos, OCT. vv. —Arrived the John Trnughton, Ravely, from Bahia; Mary Ann, Richards, from Porto Cabello; Frances, Peck, Au] William llynett, Waimea, from New York ; Tiviotdale, Tayne, .tom Quebec; True Blue, Rugi.rsroi. from Miramichi; Brutus, Levi ! -rite, from Smyrna; and Lisa, Watt, from GaWpoly. Also, the Catherine, Young, from Gibraltar, after being on shore on the Broker 'null. Coax, Ocs. 23.—Arriyed nil tb. port, the Highlander, Dickinson, .ram Buenos Ayres; Norfolk, SI ,fer wtn Quebec; Mary, Mahool. :t •m Sn:yrna ; and Dominica, Bowman, Iran Leghorn. Symptoms of disorganization begin to appear amongst the mv.,itsaat Israelites of Ashton.oader-Lyne ; and some of the hitherto I'o brethren are ridding themselves of Their cumbrous beards.— Mon ti PA*, COU I 'ill% PARLIAMENTARY INTELLraENCE HOUSE OF LORDS, OCT. 26. This being tie day appointed toe the meeting of the new Parliament for the dispatch of public business, the Lord Chancellor, in his robes, as one of his Majesty's Commissioners, entered the house ■t ten mi. nutes after two. Tb.t other Lords Commissioners were, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duke of Buckingham, the bad of Rossiy', and the Earl Bathurst. The Cimirnissioncrs hating taken th, it seats below the Throne. the gentlemen of the House of Commons were summoned to attend by the proper officers, upon which about a hundred members of that house made their appearance at their lordships• bar, headed by Mr. ley, the chief clerk. The Royal Commission was then read by one of the Clerks of the House. The LORD CHANCELLOR-1 have to acquaint you that his Majesty has summoned both Houses to be sworn : but before that can I I take plaee, it is r.ecessary that a Speaker of the House of Commons should be first chosen ; anti it is his Majesty's pleasure that you should repair to the place where you usually meet, and there proceed to the! choice of a proper person, to be presented here (if chosen) to-morrow, at twelve o'clock, for his Majesty's royal approbatiou. The Peers present at the opening of the Commission ' besides the Lords Commissioners, were—the Bishop of Oxford, Lord Mayo, Lord Hill, Lord Carrington, the Marquis of Ormond, Lord Blienborough, the Marquis of Sligo, and Lord Strangford. The Members of the House of Commons then withdrew, fur the pur pose of choosing a Speaker (for which see our Commons' lteport,) after ' , which strungers were excluded, and prayer, were read by the Bishop of Oxford. The rest of the sitting of the House was employed in the sweating in of such of theiir Lordships as were present, including those already mentioned. The whole number sworn was not above thing cr forty. Their Lordships then adjourned till Twelve o'Clock this day. HOUSE OF COMMONS. At a short time after twelve o'clock, the Lord Steward attended in th:! Long Gallery to swear in the Members of the House of Commons, and a considerable number were sworn in. At a quarter-past two o'clock, the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod came to the House with a Message from the Peers, saying that the Peers, being authorised by his 31ajesiy's Commission, desired the attendance of the House of Commons in the House of Peers. The Commons immediately repaired to the House of Peen, accompanied by the Clerks of the House, and soon afterwards re. turned. The Cleric informed the Members, of whom there were, pro bably, NO present, that a Commission appointed by his Majesty had commanded the Commons to choose a Speaker. CROICE OT • 'MEM Sir EDWARD HYI)P. EAST rose to propose a Speaker for the choice of the House, The Hon. Member way nearly inaudible at the commencement of his speech. We understood him to say, that when a new Parliament was assembled it was essential to their future proceed. ings that they should obey the invitation they had received, and c! , nose a Speaker. That was the fist act the Commons had to perform. For a Speaker they ought to choose a person of the greatest ability, and pox. seseing a character of the highest integrity--a person who by his worth and talents was fit and proper to represent the House of Commons in all its proceedings before the eves of the country, hi its relations to the other House of Parliament, and its communication with the throne itself. They ought to choose a person who was capable, both by his public talents and his private virtues, to confer dignity on the proceedings of parliament. In calling on the house to make such a choice, he should not have thought himself entitled to claim their at tention, had he not been assured that the gentleman to whom lie should propose that they should do the honour of offering the chair was a person already well acquainted with all the great interests and with all the wishes of the house (Hear, hear, hear); and that he was only giving expression to a desire which must be felt by every gentleman of the house. They ought to choose a person of a high description, who was impressed with a necessity of preserving order in their proceedings, who had abilities to preserve their order, and who had, moreover, eloquence, grace, and dignity, to give effect to the proceedings of the house. He should be a person of great consti tutional knowledge, well versed in the orders and forms of proceeding of the house, able to express the sentiments of the house as well to an In. dividual appearing at theibu as to the other great branches of the legis lature. Besides the knowledge which was requisite to fill this great office efficiently, it was necessary, as every member knew who had been engaged in private business, that the Speaker should be a gentleman of frank, conciliating, intelligent manners, not only able to give effect to the public acts of tite house, but to give that information to individual mem bers which was aecessary to facilitate the performance of their duties. There was no one qnalihcation necessary and proper to execute the duties of this high office which had not been exhibited, as the house and the country well knew, by the right hon.gent.who had filled it for four succes. sive parliaments, and who had in:an exemplary:manner performed those duties, both private and public, which it was so important to the house that he well performed. He might say a great deal more in his praise, but it was unnecessary, when, ftoin long acquaintance, it must be known to every member of former parliaments, that there was not one virtue, nor any species of ability necessary to fill that high station, and ' give effect to the proceedings of the house in the eyes of the country, which that gentleman did not possess. His merits were known to all the members, and the country at large. He would not further trespass on their time, but at once propose that the right hon. C. AL Sutton be chosen Speaker. Mr. N. CALVERT said that the house required as speaker. a gen. tleman able to preserve order in its proceedings, well acquainted 'with constitutional law, and with all the forms of the house, endowed with good temper, and of great impartiality. He should be a gentleman easy of access, and whose gentlemanly manners would ensure hint the support of all the members, and to whom all might with pleasure refer all doubtful points, particularly of private business. He bad looked over the list of Representatives, and be had not been able to find one gentleman so well qualified to fill the office of Speaker as his Right Honourable Friend, Mr. Manners Sutton, and he therefore had great pleasure in seconding the motion. sir JOSEPH YORKE.—If ever there was a time when, from the state of public affairs, it was necessary, in order to gain the confidence of the Members, and give full effect to the proceedings of the House, that they ought to choose a pt..pr person as Speaker, the present was the time. He concurred in all that had fallen from the Mover and Se. conder. Ile was sure that there was not in the House a single person better qualified—that there was ho one equal, he would not say—for amidst all the Me:nhers of the House, men of talents, of different pro : fessions. of great virtue and integrity, some equally proper Fuson might be found; but he must say, that from the great suavity of the indivi. dual named, as well as his great knowledge, he was a fit and proper person to fill the Chair in as tremendous times as ever any man was called to fill it in. Mr. MANNERS SUTTON.—Long as it has been my pride to be the servant of the house, and frequently as l have had occasion to ad dress it, yet it is Impossible for me entirely to divest myself of ember. rassmett, and not to feel some distrust of myself in returning my thanks to my honourable friends who have proposed me to the house us a fit and proper person for the high office of Speaker, as well as for the terms in which they were pleased to express their sentiments of me ; and also acknowledging the speech of the gallant Admiral, and his great kir.dnees and cordiality, I would beg them to believe that I feel the great kindness and obligation with which the house received, and one of them made, and the other seconded tl.e motion, I think it most respecttul to the Douse of e:mnmons at once to declare that 1 am proud to submit to is will. If the house places me in this situation, I shall with pride anti devotedness exert myself to maintain all its rights and privileges ; and to the extent of my abilities I will discharge all the duties of the sta tion. I know, from some experience, that the diffictil: ics of the situ ation are not small, but experience has also taught me that honesty of purpose, and earnest and strict impartiality, will ensure the encourage. ment, the support, and the protection of the House (cheers.) The Right Hon. Gentleman was voted into the Chair by acclamation, and conducted into it by the Mover and Seconder. IViren the Right lion. Gentleman had taken the Chair, he said, I am most am:ions that the House should believe that 1 am not indiffrent to these expressions, and that I am deeply grateful for the honour conferred on me. I beg to assure the House that I am deeply sensible of this mark of its confi dence, and that 1 will do all in my power to deserve it (cheers.) AD3OUIIIII/4ENT-ftBUSINESS or TILE HOUSE. Sir ROBERT PEEL, in moving that the house do adjaurn, begged to take that opportunity of offering to the Speaker his most sincere con gratulations at the unanimity with s hich he had obtained an hotiourhe so well deserved. He begged also to congratulate the house that it was enabled to place in the chair a gentleman of great experience in public business, and well entitled by his conduct in the chair, to the approbation and confidence of the house. In the fourteen years which had elapsed since he had been first placed in that situation, he believed that during those fourteen years there had been only one atingle day in which the Right Honourable Gentleman had asked, or rather con. vented, to a remission of his public labours. (Hear, hear.) No considerations of personal convenience—no consideration of his private affairs—nothing but the claims of private affliction, could make h;m ever consent to abstract that day from the public service. During these fourteen years, whatever might have been the conflict of par. I tics, all his opinions and all his decisions had been given with the strictest impartiality. and received with satisfaction by the House. But the Right Honourable Gentleman's merits were so familiarly known to all the Members, that it was unnecessary for him to say more The unanimous vote of that evening secured the devotion of the House to its Speaker, and it was impossible that the public and 1 1 the country should not find that, in addressing the Members, it would give authority to his opinions and weight to his decision. (Hear.) Mr. BROUGHAM seconded the motion, and expressed his satis faction and entire concurrence in the well-merited encomiums which tie house had respectfully tendered. His object, in rising, however, was to direct the attention of his Majesty's government, and of such members as attended to the public business, to a subject which urgently demanded attention, to which he had on former occasions adverted—he meant the business of the house—that they might turn the matter in their minds during the week which would elapse before the house began the effective business of the country. (Hear, hear, hear.) He had adverted more than once to the necessity of some arrangement by which the private business should be separated from the public business, securing to the latter a sufficient time for its discussion. He only wished, however, to throw out some hints on this subject for resection during the week. He was confident, that unless wine arrangement was made by which the private Lusineas sin.uld he postponed or brought forward on separate and dis tinct nigirs, or by which the time of the house should not he occupied in hearing petitions front individuah on private 'subjects, or ezpreissiag the it individual opinions on public affairs, he was confident, unless something was done to call on public business at a reasonable hour, that they would not he able get through with it. He wished merely to direct the atiention of member. to this abject, and should be tesdy to sop. port any proposition which should secure to the country. that a proper share of the time of its representatives should he devoted to its business. AFFAIR OF HONOUR. From tke DsLlin Evening Po*t. SIR BENNY HAIRDINGE AND KR. O'CONNELL. Mr. EulToa—Tbc following passages are a speech of Mr. O'Connell's, putilis:itAl in the Freeman's Journal of this day, the 23d instant " The Hon. and Learned Gentleman next alluded to the decay of des potism in Europe, aad, adverting to the law abominable Proclamation, spoke as follow.:—In the beginning of this week, you saw an English soldier. a hireling scribe at the Castle writing down the freedom of our country. I had not Wow given my opinion upon that infamous Act—l remained silent until I had counselled the people and obtained their pledge to obey the law--to keep the iieace. Having succeeded in obtaining that promise, I knew the people would rather die than violate it. 'Pall now, then, speak my mini! up t. the act of this English soldier.— (Ht ar, hear.) I arraign that paltry, contemptible little English soldier, that hail tits audacity to put his pitiful and contemptible name to an atrocions I'olignae Proclamation (loud cheers) and that too in Ireland, in my country —ln this green lard the land of Browitlow—the country of Grattan, now in his grave (hear, hem, hear).- r the land of Charictnont and of the 70.000 volunteers.... the heroes the intinortal period of eighty., wit. I'l that (amt.:try it that a wretched English scribe (a chance child of f. stone and of war) urged on by his paltry. pitiful lawyerlings, • pet his vile name to his paltry proclamation putting down freemen (cheers). I would rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than the Irishman who would tamely submit to so infamous a proclamation. I have rot opposed it hitherto, because that would implicate the pc plc, and give our enemies, the English Major-Genemi and his lawyerling stafr, v. triumph (hear, hear). But I will oppose it ; and that tam, not in the way that the paltry Castle scribe would nish—by force. No; Ireland is not in a state for repel. ling force by fence. Too short a period has elapsed since the cause of contention betwixt' Protestants and Catholics was removed: too little time has been given for healing the wounds of factious contention, to allow Ireland to use physical teree in the attainment of her rights or the punishment of wrong. • • • • I never will submit to such audacity; and I here promise that I will never cease to pursue the—miscreants shall I call them ? No, that would be too hard a phrase; but I will call them the despicable, base, miserable, paltry creatures, with bad heads and worse hearts, who h'sued that n.farious Proclamation— (Loud cheering); in that place, where, at that period. when reason shall be listened to. Idu not mean to say that I shall be attended to in the rotten, borough-mongering Parliament. But I trust the day is not tar distant when reason shall be heard, and when flue and imprison. ment shall mark the foul conduct of Secretary Major-General Sir 11. Ilterilinge. (Cheers.) He usurped the prerogative of the Le-d Lieu tenant alone ; greater, I admit, than any that the King is invested with; and I have no hesitation in stating that for this lie is indictable in law. • • • • It makes the will of one man the law. Now, simple despotism is precisely the same ; so that we have in Ireland, in the person of an English Lord, a despot the most complete in Europe. The law which constitute,' this des. pot is a barbarous act of military despotism—an outrageous exhibition of martial tyranny—the force of the cannon, and the bayonet , and the sane —dragoons and military—..horse, foot—and all against reason, right, and justice. It is tyranny in its blackest, foulest shape. The insolent Englishman who used it—and in its use infringed the law—may talk of his prowess—may! boast of his duelling propensities. Oh ! would to OOD the sacred cause of freedom were between us—in some as sacred conflict, where the lover of his country and of Christian charity and peace might appear with lionour—(Cheers.) My blood boils when I twee a wretched English scribe dare, in the face of Heaven, to trample down the people of Ireland with his iron heel. And is this to continue? IC I live it cannot be—it cannot be.—(Cheers.) It is an auda cious insult to this country to have framed such an Act of Parlia ment." • In consequence of these passages I received the following note from Sir Henry Harclinge:— _ Na 1. " Secretary's LoJgc, Oct. 23, 1830. " My dear D'Aguiler,-1 enclose you the Freeman's journal, in which you will perceive that Mr. O'Connell has used expressions to wards me, which, proceeding from a person who may be supposed to have the claims of a Gentleman, if I were to insult him, entitles me, therefore, to call upon him, first, to ascertain whether he avows those expressions, and nest, whether he is disposed to maintain them, afford ing me, in such case, the remedy which one Gentleman has a right to expect from another. If Mr. O'Connell refuses to give me this sada faction, it will be for the world to judge how far that individual who chooses to screen hitnself from the usual consequences of insulting ano ther, can be justified in making use of intemperate language, which would be grossly offensive, processling from the lips of any Gentleman. " I am, my dear D'Aguiler, your's very truly, " H. HARDINGE. " P. a—Mr. O'Connell will probably not be at home at half.past twelve o'clock, and I therefore beg of you to call upon him as early as you can. " I shall be at the castle at one o'clock." Having, in pursuance of the request contained in this note, waited upon Mr. O'Connell at his own house in Mcrrion-square, I read the contents of Sir Henry Hardinge's note amine:ly to Mr. O'Connell, and pointed out the obnoxious passages in the repo:: of the speech, which Mr. O'Connell then petused. Mr. O'Connell disavowed the ex. pression " a chance child of fortune and of war," and then entered into a general conversation on the subject. I requested Mr. O'Connell to put whatever he might have to say in connection with this matter in writing, in order that I might run no chance of misrepresenting him in any way, more especially as I had no alternative but to require a disa vowal of those expressions which were offensis a to Sir 11. Harslinge, :sad which arc recited in the passages above, or to demand that satisfaction which was due from one gentleman to another. Mr. O'Connell then wrote the following r.otc, to which I replied in writing likewise, as will be seen at the foo: of it. No. 2. Mr. O'Connt.ll does not feel himself ealbd ur. either to avow or dis avow any thing attributed to him by the public papers. At die thine time, that if any alhgation of fact be pointed out to hint—attributed to him—which is not tine, he will readily either diasvow the assertion if untruly attributed, or contradict and atone in every possible way for the allegation if he made use of it. No man living is more ready than Mr. O'Connell to disavow and atone for any encr in point of fact, which he may have fallen into. Mr. O'Connell will not receive imy kind of communication with referet,ce to a duel. He utterly disclaims any reftrence to such a mode of proceeding, be the cuns.;:quences of such disclaimer what they may, repeating his r.ailiness to retract and atone for any fact alleged by him not founded in proof. He spoke of Sir Henry Hantinge in his public capacity, as an in strument of despotism. lie did not say one word or him in his private capacity. As a public man. he died speak of Sir Henry as he would of any other man who trampled on the liberties e f Irishmen—and he must say, that fighting u Ode! would le; a bad a•..r to prove that Sir Henry was right or Mr. O'Cithaell N. 3. Miring rectiv.ii Ilia< from ".Ir. and read it in Mt. O'Cormeln. ;Oft 1. rice, it u:.ly rcrouu ler ur+• w ...y, that this is not the disavowal of the r.. t •nsaun. rerpiired by Sir 11coiy Ilardinye ; and I do, tliererore, in that gentkmari's cause, call wpm 11 r. O'Connell for that smiht4tiien. tnr his grove; and intemperate whic!: is due from one gentleman to ariaihr. Mr. 0:Anne:II holing I:carel tut; rcieer, this aloud, thin "tjuiell altv:stly"—beet added, is Liz Gan h3n.l.writ:ng,--.." In :midi:los) su the paustge I :lurked as disAvolved (sir.. a ('luxec Child of Fottsme and of War.) I disavow, using the wurms II itais g tic: Z:V." DAGIL: 1 LLR. Mr. Kean at rived at his Feat, near Rothesay last week. tic is almost quite recovend front his lam indisposition ; and, titter in. haling the halcyon Ineekt of Bute ter a fcw weeks, he will be read, lot another theatrical campaign. itts YA 1. AN EC DOTT..—Th, 4,-King of Saxony, when his late brer her was on his deathbed, was told by his Confessor that if he would vow to mak e a pil gr i mage to t h e ho ly Sepulchre, his brother should die, and he should stand t. c throne. Be made the vow. his brother died, and he reigned. Rut when the time arrived for fulfilling his pledge, he found that his dtries and infirnities rendeted it impo, Bible. After much discussion amongst his ghostly fathers, he compro mised the matter by agreeing to scramble, on his bare knees, up and down the great gallery in his palace, for a certain time every elai, until he should have gone over a space equal to the distance between Dresden and Jerusalem. ills Majesty had performed a great part of his feat when interrupted by his rebellious subjects.—Literary Gauele. ' In several instances mutton was bought last Friday in the streets of Elgin at Id. per pound. This surely is cheap enough. At the Quarterly Meeting of lronmasters, held last week, it was decided that no alteration should be made in the prices of Staffordshire and Shropshire iron, notwithstanding a reduction has par. I day been made by two or three Welsh houses .—The C'aufbrian. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE .entizhip's Oaring for 1831.-Bmtru and ELDZIL The • Annual." area clans of Literary productions of which this country niay just be proud. The idea of an annual volume of poetry and fiction, illustrat.d by engravings, originated on the Continent, and e rentem INT some years ago seeing a volume of thi,t kind of no mean pretensions as to beauty from the Leipaic press. The press v.; Preis, too, haseelways prodeced a supplyof hide Annual Miscollaniesas Birth. di.t• or New I ear's presents of great elegance and lash e• L'Almattach des Muses," a work something of this kind was cortunenced more than forty years and t••iistrtl through the reost stormy periodsof the revolutio.l. We have been surprised and amused at readirg the volumes of this work, which were pios!ished during the early terrific years of the French revolution. We find, about the year 17110, duo 474171 et and the Rm. press Josephine, both figured as contributors of Verses to 'hi.; 111i.cel lany, and that Collor d 'Herbois was then known only a. ateriter of dra. matic pieces and love songs. Fabre d'Eglatt:inr, th e re volution ... r ~e the calendar, was likewise a frequent contributor of Madti,zal., oriel mach in • , cene articles of fabric. As we posses,: the voluntes,we may, per.. baps, se:.•ct a few sitecit-tens from them, by men of after relebtity in the politic l world. This courfrv, although not claiming priority as to the intention of this of literary works, has far—very fat—surpassed all that was ever accomplished in this line by any other ; and as a proof of it, we need only refer to the volume now be fore use—We cannot designate it:as the first rose in bummer, bCC.AI:r it happens unfiirtunately thsit our simile would he out or 8C11114!!, but we may say, as the snowdrop of our winter bouquet. we welcome this new volitive of " Friendship's Offering," being the seventh of that elegant Annual. The embellishovnts of this volume, 13 in number, arc not surpassed by any pictorial embellishments we have ever seen. Not to siircify some of the plates, as pleasing us more than others, would, perhaps, leave an inference that had not closely examined them; but ready when all are beautiful, it is not an e 'sr task to define a Cause of prefi•- renee.—atid attempt it, it will prove ratlitsr a preteretee of subject than a preft.resite of execution. " The plate to illustrai. the 31aid of Rajah:atm. by "'ender," we think is one of the most (ottani :4:ly executed—but when we lo 4: in the fair fax of " Adelaide," it pleads powerfully against any preference. • The Halt of the Caravan," by Bramiard, is likewise a most bees tifully executed plate. St. Murk's PaLce, at Venice," engtaved by Roberts, flan one of Peones drawings is executed most painfully correct. The literary merit of this volume, like its predecessors is of a high cha racter of excellence ; as evidcnce fur which we need only mention, that among its contributors are the names of Alias Matford, Honourable Mrs. Norton, Miss Jewabury, Mrs. Taylor, 31iss Strickland, Mrs. hail among the ladies, and Harry Cornwall, T. H. Bayley, Allan Cunningham, Oak, Ilanini, Pringle, Delta, Kilning, and Roscoe, among the gentlemen. The tabs are all of them intcresting, at,! how coul:1 they fail to be as when froni the pen+ of Miss 3litforil, Mr. Gil!, the author of the O'Hara family, mid other experienee.l eel able writers of epics of do mestic life. It is of r custom gtnerally to extract . . a elatribution front all the works we inaction. and our readvis wilt, wi• are sure ' be pleased by the following ver s es, by u n old torourite, T. Harries Bayley. We will. we could borrow the accompanying beautiful eugraving —of "the accepted" as easily as we din the leuer-press. THE REJECTED. BY IHORAS RAYNE BAYLEY. Not have mc! not lose me ! oh IC:la:pave I said ? Sure never was lover so strangely miller! ; Rejected ! and jest when 1 hoped to b, bh s• You can't be in earnest—it midst be a jest. Remember—remember how often I've krat, Explicitly telling you all that I felt; And talked about poison in accents so wild, So very like torture—you started—and smiled. Not have me ! not love me ! oh what have I done ? All natural nourishment did I not shun ? My figure is wasted—my spirits are lost, And my eyes they are sunk, like the eyes of a ghost. Remember—remember—ay, Madam, you must, I once was exceedingly stout and robust ; I rode by your palfry, I came at your call. And nightly went with you to banquet and ball ! Not have me ! not love me ! rejected I refused ! Sure never was lover so strangely ill used ! Consider my presents—(l don't mean to boast) — But, Madam, consider the money they cost ! Remember you've worn them, and just can it ba To take all my trinkets, and not to take meg Nay, don't throw them at me—you'll break—do not s sil— -1 don't mean my gifts—but you trill break my hear; ! Not have me ! not love me ! and is it then tru, That opulent age is the lover for you! %ain't rivalry's flame I would suive—`tis too in.-cf.: To yield to the terrors of Rivalry's crutch. Remember—remember, I might call him out, But, Madam, you are not worth fighting about ; My sword shall be stainless in blade and in hilt ; 1 thought you a jewel ! 1 find you a jilt. READING SCHOOL MEETING. Tuesday se'unight, being_the daylof the 60th school meeting sines Dr. Valpy became master of Reading School, was appointed for presenting to him the; splendid service of plate subscribed for by his pupils. The office of presenting the plate was assigned by the com mittee to Mr. Baron Bolland, who was one of Dr. Valpy's earliest echo. lays, and who had written the inscription, but he was prevented from at tending by the necessity of visiting some very aged relatives In York shire, and Mr. Talfourd was requested to till his place. The entire area of the spacious school-room was laid out with an elegant breakfast, Ito which 160 ladies and gentlen.en sat down at 10 o'clock. Attar break, fast the plate wu arranged on the desk which has been for 60 years oe ' cupicd by Dr. Valpy at the head of the school; the scholars of the school were all admitted and lined the room on each side, and Mr. Tal. I fourd being called for, to express the feelings of the subscriber, ad vanced to the desk an d addressed Dr. Valpy nearly as follows : In the absence of your distinguished @tholes, who si.ruld have been the organ of our sentiments to-day, but who La. teen detained in a distant port of the country, I have been suddenly called to the high and unmerited honour of representing that large body o f your pupils, who now offer to you this little token of their affection and gratitude. In this pleasure there are more than '250 abaras,--na n scatzered through different parts cf this and of other countries, Litt ..11 acknowledging one home of their early hopes, loves, and joys, to which their thoughts have often delightedly reverted, to which they have them elves been ever welcomed with butt:dies% hospitality ar.d unfailtrig kindness ;--of ages rang;i:g through a lar;;e ;tendon of human life, yet all alike young in the vitid perception of the happy days they ?Tent under your care ; of far different avocations and degrees in this world's wealth and esteem, but all equal in that great treasure of int' erishabk recollections sett. which its chances have no power, and in those principlts of ir.t,6:;() and honour winch have been instilled into them here: of opinions va rious as those of freemen will be in a free country on the grtatest sub jects of speculation, but all animated by presentiment of regard for the institution in which they were fostered, aid for him w1:0 bout raised anti adorned it through 60 years. In 3Lor kind lit.d tia/ cyte (reef tistAl to look indulgently on our impetfect performaitest.), this gif:, els know, wiil not be esteemed lightly ; par we eller it with an alines' jai., ful sense how inadequate it is to 14 Len our I tugs towards you, and how powerless are all words to express them. " if in any place we should feel the insufficiency of words to convey our thoughts and wishes, how must this atet..e press upon minds, in the place where l have the pleasure to atioress uu ! Here, all around lbs a silent c!nquente beynr.d that of tdd flamiline object ha?. a speech and a language ; the years lit , g post are rushing by us, " and more than echoes talk along the walls." Here have your peacefol virteries been wan, here hove we shared in tilt b!e•ssirgs of an education in which learning and charity met together ; le r.. have our minds Leto led On, rot by the straight and barren march of intellect, but its easy. varied, and delightful Journey ; hew, have we listened, on how many Sabbath evenings! to precepts which the virons and labours of the week es: ..tplilitd. and which tell upon the heart of joyous and unthink_ ing boyhood, in tones tit to awaken its first sympathy with Lwow, in firmity e l sorr o w. Here, do we hail and wticoote you en the close Or 50 yeses of honourable tutu on which the seal of time is already set ; a nd ye rejoi, e eta believe, that here that system of instruction, in which the chsrieets of life are interwoven. will yet hang be vital, ur adminis tered by one who is endt and to we by a double tic, as our schoolfellow and your son ; who has emulated your karnirg and your tame and who, we trust. through many years a all here impact to other; those les sons which he has learned so well, at d infuse into our children, and our children': children, the principles and the feelings which be, together with us, has (liana from his fattier. And now, dear and he:loured master, accept with this little ofier;it e e s our earnest wishes and prayers, that you may yet king be spared to us ! As your season of labour has been protracted beyond the usual pet .oel in which wan is called to wore. • so may your season of repose be lonir and happy ! Long, very lt•ag. may you live to enjoy the store of triuniphani recollections which yew long life has gathered ! Long, very lung, may you live to share in v.r successes, and rejoice in our ivy ! Lang, very long, may you exult 's, the consciousnesa that you have done as much good, that you Lave do. fused as much happiness. and, allow me to add, time you have tattoo as much veneration and hive, as ary individual ef your litre ! (ion preserve and bless you ! The plate consists of a set of three silver salvers, chased, an elegant soup.tureen and rover, alter the pattern of the Wm wieashe , y vase. When the cheering which followed .31e. Talfoutu's chap...•t I! r:i I a•