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9a~! - pNIMMINIIIII r........- . i ~ • 1 • ;•v•iiA 111. TO TRi•PROPLE OF ISILAND. ' n 't fluplsen-etreet, Am. 7th, 1130. Nniteravnam-t-Illy object, in 'obi into Parliament, has been always avowed and single. It is to form a party there for the-pipe. ' I have said before, and I repeat it, that the people AM have no party there. The Tories, a most baneful ram of bad Politicians, have a powerful party in Parliament ; the Whip, sassy of wham are bed Towles out dpeee, have a strong petty le Parliament ; the West Indigos, who audaciously call human beings property, these execrable West ladling, have a strong party; the antiAlavery society have also a respectable party there; the East loam elsonapolists, who insist en sailing tea at double its valve to the progeny of wise Jaw Hall, and to alibis DMA subjects, and who also inquire to be allowed to coutkungto peers, with ems- , • ciasing. rapacity, upwards of one hundred millions of souls. they have &large party in Parliament; the enemies to this monopoly and usultitodinous iniquity have also theirlarty ; the High Church has its party. numerous, merle/idly, and unyielding.; the Low Churekror Dissenters have their party ; the army haspowerful par. tisane: eves the navy, neglected as it may appear to be, has some supporters, who recollect that it was, and may yet be, the pride as well as the protection of England. In fine, every thing and every body has a party, save only the . people. Igo to•Parliantent to form o The Party of the People." by motto is, &oddball be," For Goo and the people." I know that there are many neelleat men in the House of T.ontatens, who will heartily join with me in working for the .people. But our strength must be derived from the people them selves. They most, in order to enable us to succeed, assist us with ,petitions—by public meetings—by open mods:ions and popular vial's, and by the due use of whatever remains of the elective franchise. With all these aids, our progress will be slow and painful. The powerful phalanx of conoptionists in a thousand and one grades will assail us. No matter—we shall suffer many a defeat. I expect to be its more minorities than any man before me ever was in ; but again I say—no matter. Each defeat will bring us n earer to victory. Discussion will give us increasing strength—discussion wl I espose and weaken our adversaries. The people, by degrees, will perceive that they have honest and disinterested friends In Parliament; and that despair, which now Slop into apathy and irlaCtiVl so many friends of rational measures, will give way to the activity of hope, and to the enthusiasm which bespeaks and insures approaching success. For my part, I am resolved to brio. :Ise following subjects before the Hesse of Commons during the ensuing Session of Parliament. I will endeavour to attain the following objects : I+t. The repeal of the Sub-letting Act—l mean its total repeal. It is unjust in its enactments, and founded on the worst possible principle. ed. The repeal or modifiation of the Vestry Bill, 110 that every person who pays parish cots shall have a vote at the Vestry, and that no one man shall in future have leave to put his hands into the pocket of others in the name of religion. 3d. The total alteration of the present Grand Jury system of jobbing. My plan Includes a small annual savable cuss, to be cal culated en the actual value of each acre, and to be payable by the kndlords, and deducted from the occupiers' rents. in the manner of the Tithe Composition Bin. The mooey, when raised, to be under popular cootroul, that is, of a Grand Inquest, to be chosen by BALLOT, and to coedit of two or mace for each parish. 4th. I will apply for leave to bring in a Bill to declare that TAM( Is sot a libel, or a crime. I say, to deciere—because, as a constitutional lawyer, I have always denied that there is any law to punish theistinting and publiddly of truth. There could not be any part of the common law, as it is called, directed against such polgleatioes. The genuine source of common law ceased before the &vendetta printing. There 'lea statute law: there is nothing but a star-chamber decision--adopted and enforced by time-serving prerogative judges. This judge-made-law has been tie curse of England—and Is is oonsoktory to perceive that every body now admits that the most proligate, shameless, tools of power, that the world ever saw, were the successive judges of England, " in bye-gonedoses ;" yet, bow each set of them was, In Its day, bepralsed and helmeted !!! Verily, verily, John Bull has bees, and still la, a shott.sighted animal. Stls. I shall promote an act to render the charitable insdtudose of Protestant Dissenters and of Catholics perfectly safe; and to secure such property for its proper purposes, without costly litiga tiOtt, or the expensive and clumsy machinery of renewal of trusteeships. Ctb..kly next object will be the correction of the enormous in sulting and oppressive weight of corporation monopoly and exec tides. I look foe in the first instance the repeal of the new rules sad regulations, as they are called, annexed to the &at. 17th and le* chap. e. These rules were Intended to destroy popular in hume, in twenty.one principal corporations In Ireland. 7th. The precoriog an act to punish more dikaciosaly all. attempts to levy illegal toll, and to reduce the amount of all legal tails and define their nature—la tact, to abolish all tolls but these fee which the owners give value or suildeutly compensate the etb. To extend the freedom of all the corporations to all red dest householders, and to take away such freedom from all non risidents, so as to identify corporadeos with the inhabitants of the towns and cities. "etti. totally to Abend' tythes In Ireland. The church lands are mast abundantly suEcient to support the clergy of the Established Church, provided an equal distributionshal be used/ of them, re gulated In seek a way as to give ample but not profuse incomes to all orders of that clergy. The abolition of tytbe la Ireland is tbir;fore an object not only of great national importance, bet of video *eke and propriety. • tOtk.' Tett* to abolish all sinecure Alms, and all pensions net eut god by public services. 11th. to diminish all such public salaries as have been raised Ping the war, orb consequence of the depreciation of the paper emccoep. The salaries of the ledges have been twice railed in that way, andepught, is My. °pluton, be the first to be reduced. P&L The subject of law reform shall engross my most anxious dosagins. And sly most streams. resedens. This is, indeed, one 4411611fr0t and lead* purposes of nay pontia.llife. I intend to introduce a motion to procure a draft. or drattsof as all-compreiseedve code of legislation and procedure. The slily expense to the public to be that of printing and dls. wilawiem . • ; 14th. The present system of legal proceedings is mkt' with utism. deity. sammein 'sponse, sod mach injostke. TM date is mow whoa die law ahead be reodered simple and pia —the oak of proceeding shay. distinct. sod espeditiossi and redress • wowed fee every wrong, wits *goal facility by the partisan es by the rick 'Noma comes Mow to men's doors. and neat sisips. Josue *aid be - egally accessible and' peimassent—crime is at regehted by stated adjournments, neither should tbp repression of ildllisit-4eathe shahl take no vandal. iSth. The principle plats of detail fee which lab* waggle.' see these The abolition of die brespasible pow pieced la &healed somitable Made of sapid. Magistrates. I truly believe. 'kat &ea it we' Tielley any thing men radically despotic • than the *rake systems of auglatedal kw--abet It is dwindle sewardi 'the' pbw. ad. The shad= of Ike prevent system of sada ilsiding..** brim the meet Mtge ears.., ?alibied. bealliery. 'lid. The shades of the aliesid distiocties kw sit imay. '46: - 114 *Maks a ter dais itliaaelernere piste of tele... essupsiling a decision to kW 'moillails die maktwely. ll*. The abeildena all mchiskel elaW he abe nil.*of evitlearo. sod the empellieg. Mese to receive evigeeee tree every resew eapable of Valle It. *h. The pre emies if aot she being budgeted tastes both parties appear hi ~.. •+:•r., ;4', peeper peresaalbeelleislggb wharves web etteedisee eta be W. It will dies be pereetedt tbst lan a dwreeeb Beedieedle. and entirely ewer in the benevolent pions of that Olnadnewlfita. This is sot the place for further details of kw rehere. sad I been emended ibis topic too muck as the aka* preferdis tie Berstbainke weed slaws my 4/revoked's to weleaveet be make the law rational, cheap, and expedidens. • lath. My efforts in Moment wM be directed lllMMlledly reader law rational. cheep, mid expeditiees. Wilms se ameba kW one's property more staple sad valuable. rod every man's lb sad liberty more secure and more comfortable. There remain one other great Impose of my Partamenter, weer —k bto obtain a radkal reform of the Howse of Ceessine. My plea is ceeeprebeerive and simple—that every more Amid lave a right to vote. with no exclusions but these three; Ist. persons under the age of gt ; ad, persons convicted of crime made punishable with this eaclaslon by the cods 3d, pet eons declared incompetent by the verdict of a Jury. This, in other words. can be called univsnal suffrage. Tbe mode of voting should be by ballot. I take these two things to be essential, and not to be dispensed with or broken in up= by any qualification—universal suffrage and voting by bal lot. The duration of Parliament should be limited to two yeah. This experiment has succeeded weU in America. L would follow that example. though lam not wedded to It. But I never can qualify or abandon my view of universal suffrage and voting by I have said nothing of the provision for the aged and the desti. tote poor—and yet there cannot be any one subject more intensely interesting to my feelings and judgment—but the troth la that the 01011? I consider this important matter the more does It appear to me to be surrounded with difficulties. The unfitness of the Irish jobbers to manage the machinery—the want of confidence Is the wisdom or disinterestedness of many of the Magistracy— start up IN formidable dangers, requiring much circumspection and the greatest caution. Again, the terrific immorality— the loss of all female notions of purity produced by the En glish Poor Laws. The measures Indicted by the cold hearted under-banded managers on the wretched paupers themselves. —The temptation to a more mad recklesonesa, of bidding for land which would be induced by a certainty of a provision for the family from the parish if the speculation failed. These and many other considerations make me to pause with apprehension, and to determine not, prematurely, to commit myself to the details of a plan which may drive chastity from the lower clause. and harden the hearts of the higher. I doubt, therefore. how far it may be safe to proceed during the present Session on this point• much as I approve of the principle. if it could Sod sußelently sacred bands to manage and mould the detail, for purposes of utility and genuine charity. There is one great resource to which i think the poor of Ireland dearly entitled, that is, to ■ per ammo on the lemmas of ab• sestet's. Twenty per cent. on such income would place more than one million sterling at the disposal of proper trustees for the Irish poor. It is clear, that whatever is taken away from resident land lords, in the shape of a poor-rate, would diminish their means to that talent of giving employment, and thus take away from the in dustrious poor an independent livelihood, whilst it gave the money which the labourer was thus deprived of to persons, perhaps, merely indolent. Indeed I much fear that the paupers generated on the estates stablemen would render the landed property of the resi dent gentry of little value ; and then the agents of absentees ate, In general. and with a few amiable suceptions, such a harsh and unfeeling crew, that I am unwilling to give them any dominion over a poor rate. In short, the only present resource lam is the per manage of a fifth at least on the humans of the absentees. This, however, is a subject of which I shall not lose sight. It will be to me a sacred duty to use ail my faculdes to discover the means of some resource for the Lisle poor, which may be adminis tered without madly every gem of individual independence, and destroying every trace of private morality. I am for the present &tient on the most important of all topics— the repeal of the Union. I will Dot bring that subject before Par liament until the combined wish of the Irish people shall demand that repeal In a voice too distinct to be nalsundentood, and tou for midable to be trifled with. 1 It will take some time to reconcile the Irish people. We who were Injured readily forgive, becaufe forgiveness belongs to an lint time* who did the wrests" have not yet forgives either them selves of us—" reeentibies coals:* Perfecticonciliation is difficult ; bet when these hatreds have grown stale sod antiquated. the kind lier feelings will have their natural play, and a community of suf fering will produce In good time a combination of exertion. It will be perceived that I do not intend to be an idle, though I may be an unprofitable, servant. I cettainly shall nut place myself to the attitude of regular opposition to the 'Unfurl, though I deem it right to add, that I ant in my conscience must deeply con vinced, that there Dever was en Administration composed of more miserable materials than the present. It seems to me to be alto gether a Ministry without principle, system, sagacity, or Informa tion; kept together by a rec►less love of power and emolument, and incapable of appreciating the difficulties, and mucb.less of dis covering the suitable remedies for the national distress and misery which are growing around us at every side. I have the honour to be, fellow-countrymen, your devoted ser vant, DANIEL O'CONNELL. ..,,.~ THE EVENING STAR. $•.•,,-...,,,,--, ..•„,, , --....-- t r. i _ldip, :., ,%,•, , 0 ,-..... .., ~• *-' - • __ r 4. ... i • 44,..- ft _ _ 1 DER 'CAT IS ss" 4 LONDON. -MONDAY, J . PRICK OP STOCKS / rANUARY 11. . AT FOUR 0 CLOCK. India Stoei shot India Deeds 71 3 Old Anstelties £lOOO Raeb.ellis (id) so .1500 Ditto no £lOO and £2OO Ditto ati Advertised, India for Ace. Sisk Steck 11176 iob per emit. Red. 941 paw Ct. Cnos. 41v. 911 6. 96 par Ct. 1819, Si per Ct. Red. 1001 6 4 pc, Cast. es. (We. 1016 per MI6, 1051 Los Ada. 191 De. SO Yet; 19 7-141 tbs ► Cos& fee Acc. OS II * TO CORRESPONDINTS. . t. Tam Out Laernm—Me ham receiml nmmomenieadon front this steady (rind and champion of Ramey ithostiaboare far tiM public good have bees long watehed—and idiftily appreciated by us—in the columns of the RelloborghiCaaminon ala Leiter ahall appear to morrow. The expedient of adjourning the meeting of the French Chambers till the 4th of March, a measure unprecedent ed since the restoration, is of the highest importance, and calculated more than any other sign to show . the alarms of the Court. It win add greatly to the irrita tion of the people, without preventing the inevitable fats which awaits. the POLIGNAC Sinishy. The 'political horizon of our teeighbours becomes hourly men glessuy. Some intercede* dUtalis have reached us by the 'Lis bon mail, but too WO fa/nannies to-day :• we lave also sera a friend who arrived in the packet. He describes the situation of the Capital and Provinces to be most do pbrable. The whole country is, in act, only waiting for ilie . execodon of those =wares, which are looked for with, the greatest impatience, in order to throw of the yoke of the Apostolicals,. now become equelly bagful and intolerable. The continued predilection and furious • inal. of a cer tain Individual, in favour of the ruling factios, nod to which we have more than wee called the attention of Lord ABILZDILLIT, is still II subject of loud and bitter complaint. The valuable letter of our Correspondent shall appear to-morrow. We have received a letter signed Civic, on the sub ject of the representation of the People, for which—al though a rues of other matter does not admit of its publi cation—we desire to thank him. Many others, besides Civic, have been roused—and will be—by the perusal of SI DN CT'S letters. " I ask you'—says our Corre spondent—" in the solemn voice of truth, in the simple character of a plain citizen of this great empire deploring the prostration of my Country's energies,—whether the present House of Commons is a Representative Assembly of her aggrieved, afflicted people ? and I anticipate your - - No r' In sooth. it needs no powers of a cos- juror, to have anticipated this, to whomsoever the ques tion had been addressed : but it is gratifying to find how universal the conviction is become, not only that rotten ness exists at the very core of the Constitution, but that this rottenness must be cat assay, or we shall politically perish. Our Correspondent continues : " The present system of Representation cannot—we might almost declare—shall not last. The nation will no longer be hoodwinked. Such boroughs as Lmersham and d Wendover—two out of two hundred such—must not be permitted to mock the great pri vilege they hold. The dignity of the assembly of a great people is not to be insulted, by the thrusting into its councils and debates mere straws and stubble—while such cities as Manchester and Birmingham are without any representation at all." Assuredly not: but the extinction of such boroughs as those above named—whose case has long been hopeless even with those, whose best hopes are entwined with corruption—would go but a short way towards the remedy. The entire borough system must be cut away root and branch—it must be superseded by one of district, instead of town, election—and the elective pri vilege must be very greatly extended. The franchise must be conferred on copyholds and leaseholds : for after all, the respectability of the mass of the people is lease hold in a large majority—and it is the mass of the people, or it ought to be, who compose the constituency of England. This farther popularisation of suffrage will do much to diminish the mischief arising from individual corruption, which will naturally grow dispirited, when it perceives the great extentof surface over which its no longer sufficient bribes must be spread, and their propor tionally hazardous application, and uncertain efficacy. We said a long time ago that we were not the advocates —and that we never should become such—of Um t v e as AL SUFFRAGY : but, without departing from the spirit in which we made that declaration, we do here profess ourselves friendly to the principle of the greatest possible extension of the elective privilege, as one of the surest safeguards of purity in our Parliamentary returns. Even BEN TII AM —the pure, the radical, the unqualifying— excepts whole classes from this important exercise, in his plans of reformed election: it may be predicated, therefore, of UNIVIRIAL SUFFRAGE, that it is a mine seer originating with the distinguished and learned Reformer himself, who means no more by it than a judicious generalisation of the right of voting. For it is a self-evident proposition, that in the same ratio as our elective constituency shall be limited or nu merous, the power, or incapacity to corrupt that consti tuency, will be found always to correspond. We advo cate, on these grounds, the principle of a greatly ex tended--but discriminate—delegation of the right of suffrage. The rumours of an embryo RICHMOND administration have died away, but the ministry of the Duke of WEL LINGTON is affirmed—with greater confidence than Oyer —to be in its mortal agonies. We this day conclude the second series of the letters from Columbia. It is unnecessary to observe upon their importance, and the ability with which they are executed. The third series, however, which we have received, will establish still more solidly the reputation of the writer, as an Historian, a Statesman, and an Administrator. Hitherto that class of readers must have felt most in terested, who attend chiefly to the political transactions and general events which mark the career of nations : but the third series will, towards its conclusion, particu larly merit the attention and study of every one connected with the industry, commerce, and financial resources of the New World. CITY. TwaLvx o'CLocs. Cansols, which left of on Saturday die 9Si to i for the Account. opened at the same price this morning, with Usk or so business doing as yet. The Cables' Ceased held yesterday, es well as the keg interviews of the Doke of Combatted with hie Majesty, easels seem ezeitement le the City, bed it is new gemsally be- Mewed that a change M the Adedasteatien le probable. In the Portrip Market nothing deleg—pails enatinal. Our aerials this monsing are few, and not of mach impeetance. The Was& Mail reemaine due. Madras Papers to dse lath of August. and Cape of Good Hope papers to the rid of October, have bees received at the North and South American Odike-lieese, and in the Madras papas of the 15th Awe, we dad that the absdect of Captain Corhya, of the ship Roberts, towards hit pamengen, has bees abject to a judicial leastigation. and Mr. Cuilnore, the vadat= complaining, has obtained damages 9( SOO rupees. with cow. liveasees., Jam 6.—The "also of cake this day .mount to 1.006 begs, with a steady market. The import this week is LIM bogs, and the sales only 5,150 begs. et searetly the prises of loot week. In apt, 550 MA. of British Plantatios agar have hoes dispels* of tble wash at /area eases. Is amigo and last Isis se transactions. The trade his take. to subs at airs. We have had for IsetTneeday's smaket a geed simply of whist sod eats sake HALT-PAST ONZ. The Centel Market, whisk was stadesery is the wady pert of the sesaing at 11/4 to b, ass takes s tun, nod Cassels bass km proad a U. Ikr the Asteset: This hmaseement is attel. l bask it M sell. a basistere halm Sealy aloe te a reededee to pry et the Veer per Caw im o sti m itr atla tir the whole of the 101 mania they assist of. We Met 66 allions see is taw. nod 42 mallow in the Mprivate Cm "' at tffsfe WM& ir-ia die %nip Nieto Area NOM bee ewe per int. lirsoll Ike* II ill!* boner. 1... THI KING. WINDSOR, JAN. 10.—Yederday forenoon the Duke Ot CUM EIRLAND arrived Si the Castle, and had a long conference with the Kz wo, with whom his Royal High ness partook of some slight refreshment, and left the Castle at half-past three o'clock, on his return to This forenoon the Ktwo, with the distinguished Mem bers of his Household in Waiting, attended Divine Service ih the Castle ; the Rev. Mr. SEYMOUR Offi ciated. This day the Earl of Wwftwlcw arrived at the Castle, and had the honour of an audience of his MA JESTY, after which his Lordship left the Castle on his return to town. His MAJESTY is in excellent health and spirits, and honours his distinguished attendants daily with his company to dinner at seven o'clock. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. r - ARRIVAL& Lord Seaford, in Audi - square , from Isis mat in Susan ; Lord Downes, on Saturday, in Pall-mall, from a tour ; Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, in Cleveland-row, from Woburn Abbey; Sir George and Lady Murray, in Beigrave-square. on Saturday, from Susses; Mr. Otway Cave, M. P. in Upper Grosvenor.street; Major and Mrs. Deacon, in Mount-street, from Paris; Sir Coutta Trotter, Ban. in Grosvenor-square, from Lymlnginn, in Ramp. shire ; Mr. Mrs. and Miss Frederick Campbell, In Gloucester place, from Bath; Major and Mrs. Hamikon. in Piccadilly. from Dublin ; Captain Manby In Great Cumberland-street ; Captain Townshend in Clifford-street; Lieutenant Colonel Smith and Mrs. Joshua Smith. ha Grosvenor-place. from the Netherlands; Capt. Bingham, in Pall-call, from Paris ; Major Mackenzie. In Bond street, from Naples; Colonel Vanbeythusen, in from Berlin ; Mrs. Corwin in Bryanstone-square; Count Mandalay& in Somerset -street; Lieut. Colonel and Mrs. King, in °stays street, from Brighton : Major Gatton, In Cocksper-street. from the West Indies ; Captain Locke in Gloucester-street ; Major- General Barton in Mootagu.square ; Mr. John Feller, M.P. in Devonshire place; Major-General Scott in North Audiey-street ; Captain Sowerby. R. N. in Pall-mall, from the Mediterranean ; Mr. and Mrs. Bawdier in Park-square ; Captain Stevenson, In Waterloo-place. from the lonians Islands; Captain Salisbury.hom Prerstield, In Bond-street; Mr. Williana Curtis in Portland-place; Major and Mrs. Alfred Long, in Mount-street, from Dublin; Linn... Colonel Bilis, in Pall-mall. from Florence. CHANGES. The Rail of Wilton for Eaton Hall, the seat of Earl Grosvenor ; Lord and Lady Howard de Walden, from the mat of the Duke of Ponlanil. at Welbeek, for Brighton; Lady Caroline Graham, on a visit to Sir James, her brother, at his seat in Yorkshire ; the Hon. Captain Vaughan, of the 60th Rifle Corp., to join the Regi ment in Dublin ; Colonel Dawson Darner for Sptotborough, near Doncaster; Sir Lucas Pepy, But. from Upper Brook -street, to Juniper Hall in Kent; Gen. Sir Harry Clinton, Bart. for Ashley Hall, Lymingtgo. Hants; Lieut.-Gem Sir John Macleod, from Canterbury, for Woolwich Warren ; Mr. Edward Pratt for Downbam Hall, la Norfolk ; Lord and Lady Foley, for Whitley Court in Worcestershire ; Capt. Fells Broughton, from Rochester for Dublin. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Maui AMMO Tins Dar.—DebNa 2.—Wagerford 1-13sernsey and Jersey ,—Pleaders I—Hollaad 1. Mum, JAW. 9, Wind N.N.W. and 10, W.N.w.—Arrived the Poosooby, Carlton, from Alexandria; Arab. —, from the Mo. &sermons ; and Alb's% Wild, from Bs. Sebastian. Arrived from ..106. the Hebe, Waller. for Hooduru. and Hibernia. Rogers, Mr Jamaica. Postmen:a, Jan. 9.—Wind N. W.—Arched the Lord —, from Batavia. Arrived Irons Landon, the Medina, Pam. for Swan Ritter. Sailed the Lord Was. Bentinek transport, t Deptford ; Alert, for Cape Coast ; and 'Livelr i ror f tt, for Smyrna. ltarartmeir, Jan. S. Wind N.B. and 9, N. W.—Sailed the Duke at York packet, for the Mediterranean ; Magee, packet, for Us. ban ; and Camden packet, for Ha ifa& Arrived the Canker, —, from Malaga. Psvasoarn, Jar. 9. Arrived the Sams, Nei& front Lisbon; Warm. Hutchinson. from Cadiz; Johns. front Qoebee; and Betsey Marianne, Roderick, front Bahia. Doves. Jut. 9 and 10.—Arrived at the port, the Kant, Mock, from the South Seas Summonses were issued on Saturday morning for the assembling of a Cabinet Council yesterday afternoon, st three o'clock, at the Foreign Office. The Ministers as sembled accordingly about that time. There were present the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Duke of WELLINGTON, Earls RossLYN and ABERDEEN, Viscount Mzi.vitur, Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Mr. Secretary PEEL, Sir G. MURRAY, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr. HERRIES. The ATTORNEY and Souctroa-Gt !mita Ls were in attendance at the office during the sitting of the Cabinet, and were introduced into the Council Chamber for some time during the meeting. The Minis ters remained in deliberation for three hours. Despatches were sent off by a King's Messenger on Saturday evening, from the Foreign Office, for the Con tinent. Mr. Secretary Pest entertained a select party to din ner on Saturday, at his residence in Privy-gardens. The Earl of Alliiiiilf visited the Duke of WEL- Liwovos yesterday at the Treasury. The French Ambassador had a long conference on Sa turday afternoon, with the Duke of WELLINGTON and the Earl Of ABERDZEN, it the Foreign Office. The Colombian Minister, and the Brazilian Charg4 d'Affaires, had interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN on Saturday, at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. The Counter of Eau a through Sheffield on Monde last, from Wortley Tiii:l7, d on her way to London Lady WIIARECLIFFE and the Han. Miss WORTLEY, on Tuesday, from Wortley Hall, for London. Lord Wm A un czar's and the Hon. J. S. WORTLEY left Wortley Hall on Tuesday for Newcastle-on-Tyne. Lady GeoRGIAN A Wowmait and flintily passed through this town on Thurs day, on their way to Seodon.—Shefeld Courant. Despatches were sent off on Saturday evening from the Colen,ial Office to the Earl of &Limns, the Gover nor of Jamaica, and the different Governors of the West India Islands. Th. Earl of ABEILDEZN, Mr. Secretary PEEL, Led the Cu•NCILLOI. of the ExCHIQU ER, had interviews with the Duke of WELLINGTON On Saturday at the Tresimq Tb. Earl UXIIILID6I, Marq uis Don 11.0, Lord FITZ ROY SONZRSZT, and Colonel Yzai., have been spend ing the Christmas holidays _at Goodwood. A remarkable shot was made by the Do ke of RICHMOND the other day. His Grace on bie shooting pony, was crooning field at full speed, when • here was started, which hie Gael) Sind at and killed. The Marquis et HIRTIFOID and his extensive suite are papa to leave &Amu, in Suffolk, for Italy, where hi. Lordship's health was exceedingly benei tied by his tour last year. The unfavourable and very severe weather has hitherto prevented the Noble Marquis from relinquish deg the supreme comfort of " an Englishman's in-aids." Lord Dununis still continues in the North with his fetidly. His Lcudship has been on a visit to hie relation, Mr. LAIIATOIII, and his father-in-law, the Earl ORLY. The widow of a worthy biscuit-baker having intimated her intention el lamb* a carrier, inquired of sus of her young friends, where she was passing Twelfth Night, minable she meld think of a good motto for it ? gm whiee the run Lady promptly replied, she mold think at nose mere appropriate .than—" me seders it Fancy I #