Star. — London, England, 1830-03-30 00:00:00

• 5.., `,~ ",~' • , his toiljeity's government had made reductions in all the depart , lients,. '1 he office of..l4ent..General of Ordnance was retained be , Mee it W.. 3 considered necessary. What were the duties of that office? Why, they were most important, and they would not do their duty if they impaired theservice of the country. They did not vindi retethe maintenance of the office for patronage, but from a know. iedge that it was necessary for the public service. He denied that the government looked, as the hon. baronet had stated, to the mrtice in the days of Sir R. Walpole. The hon. gentleman had said that the office was retained to support the influence of the creel , . He left it to the house to consider whether the appointments to the eke had not been dictated by 11 desire to reward in peace .hose who had made themselves most conspicuous in war.—(hear.) The cir,ce becoming vacant its 1822, by the death of Sir Hildebrand 1. it was given to Lord Hopetoun. It was not considered a slner.-re. Lord Hill took It nest, then Lord Beresford. It was tt yen to Sir George Murray, and after that pliant officer to Sir H. Clieven —(hear, hear.) a Mr. C. GRANT said the right hon. gentleman had been elo quently silent upon the real point of diFirssion, namely, the utility of the office. Every other topic had been introduced—they had been treated with a display of the heroic exploits of the Duke of Wellington, and certainly no one could feel more respect for that noble duke than he did, hut he felt the encotnium bestowed on that occasion quite ...r. ,, cessary. Then in eulogium was expressed with respect it) the illustrious officers who had filled that office. Every heart beat in waiters upon the service of these great men, but it appeared to be a sort of presumption to dispute the diets= of the Duke of Welling. ton. He admitted the authority of the Doke of Wellington, and that of the right honourable gentleman, but that house amid re. cut every argument which declared any pester to be greater than the power possessed by the house itself.--(Hear, hear, hesr.)—.on the use of the office he would say, that there could be no doubt of the efficacy of it, if the Master-General of the Ordnance was absent. At the time the Duke of Wellington gave his evidence upon the ne cessity of the office, he had been absent from it six months at the Congress of Vienna. lie agreed with his honourable friend te^,t the question derived great importance from the distress of :ee c: entry. There never was a period at which that house had i3e'') •o narrowly wa:ched. Every member in that house was closely ...,:Klted. Such was the march of intellect and intelligence, that in a ,tor: time after their decisions, all they did was canvassed all over re eswntry, not only by the enlightened classes, but the labouring Commissioners were then engaged upon the task of seeing Rat might be reduced in the clerks' salaries; and he might ask, hat would be the public opinion, if the clerks were reduced or dis charged, and this useless office of lieutenant-genend suffered to re main ? He should support the amendment. Colonel WOOD opposed the amendment. No man could deplore the general distress of the country more than he did, but his opinion was that distress was giving way.—(A cry of "Where ? where ?") He could name one place, Mark-lane. Upon the whole he considered it necessary for the public service. Mr. C. W. WYNN could not avoid stating, as shortly atipossi. ble, the opinion he entertained. He admitted that economy was ne cessary, but the best economy was to provide for the efficient per formance of duties necessary for the public service. When he found the opinion of the Duke of Wellington and the Marquis of An. glesey favourable to the office, he did not know how to abandon it. Sir J. GRAHAM said he liked a strong and an united govern ment, and, as long as such a government acted boldly, it would have his cordial support. But cashiering was in fact become the order of the day. Sir W. Clinton, Sir C. Wetherell, and others, were dismissed, and that for a manly exercise of their re presentative character.—(Hear.)—But his main position was not yet answered ; and he defied It to be answered satisfactorily to the public. He meant to east no slur upon the government, but to be strong it should he bottomed upon public opinion, otherwise the go vernment would have to deal with a different ma norial. Hear.) Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, when a division took place— For the resolution Against it Majority —76 Upon our return to the gallery we found the house proceeding in committee, when several resolutions were agreed to, and the report was ordered to be received on Wednesday next The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adjourned at One o'Clock. THE EVENING STAR. LON DON . TUESDAY, MARCH 30. PRICE OF STOCKS AT FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock shut 1 DaDo. Jul.& 'mite 4 per Cent. Red. shut per Ct. Cons. 921 1 1 1 21 per Ct. 1818, shut 51 per Ct. Red. shut 4 per Cent. 1021 4 per Ct. 1826, ►hut Long Ann. shut Do. SO Years. FOREIGN FUN Brazil Bds, S pr Ct. 71131 Ditto Acct. 711 Colons. Bds. 6 per Ct. Do. lids. 1624, Do. Acc, 211 11.111.11 lid..:, p. Ct. 75# # Greek Bonds, 5 p Ct. Do.B. 1825, 591 40 594 India Bondi Si I South Sea Stock £lOOO Ruch.Bills 77 £5OO Ditto 77 4'loo and 4200 Do. 77 Rank for Acct. 219 India for do. Coal. for Ace. 92i , TWO O'CLOCK. Do. Aac. 511 40 Peru. Bd.. 6 pr Ct. 90e Port. Bds. Spr Ct. 591 60 Pruss. Bonds, S p Ct. 1031 Do. Bd.. 1622. b p Ct. 101 Russ. Ms. 1822, S pr Ct. 110 kt flp.Bds. S per Ct. 141 DO Account l i::1 The Resolutions which Lord KING brought forward in the House of Lords last night, for the avowed purpose of placing upon their Lordships' journals a statement of the views which he took upon the CORN LAWS, are well worthy of public attention. The speech, in which he ex plained those views, is distinguished not less by the per spicuity of its details, than by the sound principles which it asserts ; and the positions advanced by his Lordship appear to us perfectly irrefutable. In pointing out the prejudicial operation of the Corn laws, and the manner in which they affected those profits which he consi dered the best criterion of national prosperity, Lord LLs c observed, that—" The level of profit on all ca pital was determined by the return for capital em ployed in the cultivation of the least productive soils : if, therefore, bad soils were cultivated, the profit on capital was reduced. What, then, were the disadvantages to which the country was exposed by the Corn Laws ? In Great Britain, coals, machinery, and capital, gave great advantages ; and the produce of four Englishmen might ho said to be equal to the labour of eight Russians. Why not, then, exchange the produce of the labour of the four Englishmen for the produce of the labour of the eight Russians ? If, on the other hand, English labour were exhausted upon the cultivation of bad soil, the result must be less beneficial in proportion to the bad- noes of the soil and the quantity of the labour. He— Lord KlNG—was satisfied that if English landlords knew their true interests, they would admit foreign corn without restriction, and allow every thing fair play. It was said, indeed. that the Corn Laws were established for the protection . ,of the landed interest ; but if that word " protection" were followed through the history of this, and other nations, it would be cecina:that it meant only oppression and checks to industri.• In France industry had been checked from the time of COLE ZIT to the present. The history of Spain was nothing but a history of op preision,miscalled protection. Little Holland was the only country where the system bad not been adopted; and where, accordingly, industry had met its just re- ward. England bad been 'injured by supposed protec . Lions ever sincs.the reign of CHARLES 11. and the Corn Caws had been a most fruitful source of f011y.".-In the discussion of snob a question—and in such an assembly— it is not less rentarkabie than chseriag, to find bow in telligibly the voice of *Oar opinion at length begins 04 fek, end tmilerstood—within doors, ; . is well es without.. 1,44 Kuro bore testimony long siti; tb the progress 'of the' ." larch *et s" eat .-- •~ ~ now Lord MALMISBURT—aye, even Lord MALMES uu T—acknowledges that " The march of intellect, out of doors, had made the people competent to understand and discuss all matters •of State, and Government, and among them the Corn Laws."—We must notice, paren thetically, a similar tribute paid to the intelligence of the people, by Mr. C. GRANT, in the debate on the Ordnance Estimates, in the House of Commons. " There never was a period," be said, " in which that House had been so narrowly watched. Such was the march of intellect and intelligence that, in a short time after their decisions, all they did was canvassed all over the country, not only by the enlightened classes, but by the labouring classes."—The Resolutions proposed by . Lorin Kiw• were negatived, it is true, without a division ;—but the advocates of the present system may rest satisfied that " the Question will never be et rest, while the Corn Laws are in force :"—and on turning from the discussion in the House of Lords to the proceedings in the " lower House," we find Sir FRANCIS BuRDLTT giving notice of his intention to bring forward a motion for the repeal of these laws, soon after Easter. In doing so, he declared " that not only for the general prosperity of the country, but for the particular advan tage of its land owners, these laws ought to cease." There is an unworthy selfishness at the bottom of all the Hon. Baronet's recent efforts for " the country's good," which he cannot disguise, or conceal ; and which has de stroyed his popularity and marred his usefulness :—but whatever his motive may be, he speaks truly, when he says " The Corn Laws are a real bar to the prosperity of the country." Elated as we were by the success of Sir ROBERT HERON'S attack on the Pension and Superannuation System, we did not suffer our exultation in the country's triumph to betray us into any very sanguine anticipations as to the result of that motion which Sir JAMES GSA RAM, last night, declared be 4' felt to be demanded of him in times like the present, as a public duty ;" and 1 " feeling it to be a public duty, he would fearlessly dis charge it." And he did so; by moving, in the Commit tee of Supply on the Ordnance Estimates, an amendment to the effect that " the Office of Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance be abolished." When" we admit that we did not entertain any very sanguine expectations of the favourable result of such a motion ; we must add , that our misgivings arose from the consideration of influential mo tives totally apart from, and even opposed to, the merits and the justice of the case. If we doubted the issue of the struggle, we had no doubt whatever of the propriety of the measure ;—if we were hopeless of its success, we were not the less deeply impressed with the necessity that called for such an act of retrenchment at the present mo ment, nor with the conviction that, even if the distresses of the country did not, in the words of Sir JAMES GRAIIAN, " cry aloud for the reduction of all public establishments, with a view to the removal of public burthens," the re commendation of the FINANCE COMMITTEE should have rendered the abolition of such an office imperative on a Government, pledged, as our Government stands, to a solemn engagement " that every possible saving should be effected, without detriment to the public service." The unqualified recommendation of the Committee was given under circumstances that entitled it, in this particular instance, to the cheerful, or, at least, the unhesitating, concurrence of the Ministry ; for it was . the result of a patient investigation of the details and duties of the Ordnance Establishment; and it was conscientiously and deliberately founded upon grounds which the Committee held to be sufficient to warrant them in rejecting even the opinion of the Duke of WEL. LINGTON—who, after stating that " he considered the office of Lieutenant-General essential to the well-being of ' the Army," admitted that " the Lieutenant-General, having important duties to perform, he did not mean to say that the Master-General could not perform these duties ; for in point of fact he had done so, in the absence of the Lieutenant-General." To be sure his Grace added that " the Lieutenant-General had a great deal to do ;—he had to inspect the troops at Woolwich, and to examine the men that were to be discharged : he had a great deal to do that could not otherwise be done." And yet, it appears, that the holder of this indispensable office, who has a great deal to do that cannot otherwise be done, has been occasionally absent, not only from the Board, bet from England; and that his duties have been quite as satisfactorily and as conveniently performed whilst he was in Portugal, as if they had essentially con stituted a portion of the Master-General's functions. Nay further, the Committee arrived at the knowledge of facts still more important, and still more conclusive, in enabling them to form a just estimate of the Master-General's ser vices, and of the manner in which they were performed; for it was stated in evidence before them, that" when Lord CHATHAM-..0f course no one can possibly mistake the Lord CHATHAM here referred to—was at Walcheren, and when Lord CORN W ALLIS filled the office of Lord Lieute nant of Ireland, the duties of their situations at the Ord nance were efficiently discharged in their absence." So much for " the groat deal" that the Premier tells us " could not otherwise be done !" And now we are in the fifteenth year of peace, we find a far more expensive establish ment than ever, maintained at the Ordnance for the per formance of duties that were suffered, in the time of the most momentous war in which England was ever yet en gaged, to devolve upon the inferior officers of the depart ment. With these facts before us, we might perhaps have very pardonably indulged in the hope of seeing Ministers obliterate the disgrace of Friday night's defeat, by the voluntarily concession of so trifling a boon to the public as the salary of the Lieutenant-General :—but we recollected in whose peculiar patronage the office lay; and we knew that it was little less than what Mr. Gotrz.- ' Dunn would call " a misprision ef treason" to calculate upon the surrender of any of the privileges or prerogatives of onr. Military Premier. The speech of Mr. Pus. is es extraordinary a poodolgotion of parliamentary doctrine as we have read fir many a day. Sir Janos GIIIANAN'S _ esotidn Wm lest by aujerity of seventy-six. • TO MR. GOULBURN. AN ADDRESS OF THANKS FROM THE I MPORTUNA TES. Oh, blest benefactor—our true friend in need— Whose name to the Country must ever be dear ; Oh, you are a brilliant financier indeed, And save us at last with—three farthings on Beer ! We were naked, you clothed us—were starved, and you fed— You have soothed every grief, and have dried every tear— Your Bill rains down plenty—all sorrow has fled— The Nation is saved with—three farthings on Beer ! 'Ti, true we drink water—and long have forgot Every beverage once wont to comfort and cheer, What of that ? 'Stead of bread, you have cheapened the pot, And rescued us all with—three farthings on Beer ! Our Landlords and Parsons are free now to call For their rents and their iythes kept so long in anew, And Taxmen and Bailiffs—a fig for them all ! We are saved from their clutch with—threefa rains. on Beer ! Wise heads of the Senate---whose wisdom we bless— Complaining of times with snug thousands a-year— How well you conceive and relieve our distress— When ye seek to redeem with—three farthirgs on Beer ! Oh, wsre ye condemn'd to our fate but one day— Forel to feel all the pangs of privations severe ; Ah ! then you would know all our transport—and pray For the sages who save with—three farthings on bar! Then cheer ye, my Countrymen ! trim the fire-side— Discontent, rags, and famine, no more must appear ; Hurrah ! for our Solomon--Oracle—Pride ! The Man wot saves States with—three/art/tinge on Beer ! THE KING. WINDSOR, MONDAY—His MAJESTY again resumed his airings this afternoon, and left the Castle at two o'clock for that purpose, accompanied by the Lord Steward of the Household. The Ki No proceeded through the private rides by Frogmore to the Royal Lodge, and from thence continued his drives to Virginia Water, and returned to the Castle by Cranbourne, after an excursion of three hours. His MAJESTY has entirely recovered from his slight indisposition, and will continue his airings daily in the Great Park when the weather proves favour able. His MAJESTY is not expected to leave the Castle for the metropolis until the 21st or 22d of April, when the Kixo is expected to continue five weeks at Saint James's. HOLSTEIN, MARCII B.—M. de QUALEN, Minister of Denmark at Oldenburgh, was assassinated at Eutin, in the night of the 21st of February. His body was found the following morning in the garden, bathed in the blood which had Rowed from several mortal wounds in the bead. The assassin has not been dis. covered. 111. as Qusr.2x, who was univetsally esteemed, has left a widow and children, who are now gone to Kiel. Prince Lintz); gave a grand dinner on Friday, at Ashbumham House, Dover-street, to the Bavarian, Prussian, and Hanoverian Ministers, and Countess lilt UWITZR ; Chevalier BART. noun x ; Count Cout.ex, tht Hamden Chaplain, az. On Sunday his Excellency entertained another distinguished party ; among whom were Priam and Princess Erman the Duke of DE. VONSHIRS, the Lord CHANCELLOR, Duke de LAVAL, the Earl, Countess, and Lady EMILY COWPER, the Earl and Countess Moaxxv, the Earl of Cgtwrzartzxw, Lord VALLETOET, Lord DVSLOP, Mr. and Mrs. AEBOTENOT, Mr. EOGERII, &c. DRURY' LANE TUEATILL—DEAN last night sup ported Sksieek, in a manner worthy of his great fame, and indica tive& the full possession of his extraordinary powers. He was re. °rived with tumultuous applause on his entrance, and the perform. once was loudly cheered throughout. In this character he never had an equal in our day; and we think any attempt calculated to induce a comparison between his talents and those of any other existing performer by whom the vindictive Jew" has been un. dertaken, injudicious and Imprudent in the extreme. Miss Puri.. tars sustained Portia, not only with great intrinsic talent, bat with the happiest and the meat impressive effect. SUICIDE OW SIR C. BARlNG.—lntelligence was 19.• ceived in town last night that this gentleman had suddenly ter. minated his existence at his estate, Foot's Cray, Kent. The dis. tensing event was discovered early on Monday morning, and ext• mt. were instantly sent off to the members of his family re. in town. Nothing which can be relied on has yet transpired as to the cause of this rash act. The deceased was of advanced age, and the father of the present Members of Parliament of the same name.—[The foregoing paragraph appeared in Tke Morning Jour nal of this day, from which we have copied it. Although we find no corroboration of the statement in any other Moaning Paper, we are convinced that our contemporary would not have hazarded its Insertion, if the intelligence had not been derived fro.n a source of too unquestionable a nature to admit the possibility of a doubt of its authenticity.—En. Srait.l - - EXTRAORDINARY STIPULATION......OOIOIIeI Thomp son, on being urged to take off4o per cent. from the rent of his land at Cottingbam, on account of the ;pressure of the times, has coo. sented to it on the condition that the tenant shall give a memorans dum in writing, agreeing that if any alteration shall take place in the corn laws, in the way of removing or diminishing the duties on foreign corn, the tenant shall, on the next following Lady-day (not being less than six months atter such alteration in the law shall have been in operation ' ) return to the original rent, or else give no. tier to quit.—Hull Rockingham'. The National (a new Paris paper) has the following article printed in capitals: we believe the story is true :—" We have just received from high authority the following communica tion, which appears to us as of the greatest importance. It has been sent to us direct from England, and we be liev e we may war. rant its authenticity It is certain that the Master of the Rolls, Sir Jona( Leams (who, by his office, is better acquainted with the jurisprudence of Parliament than any man in England) has been charged by the Government, in consequence of a question addressed to it by the French Ministry, to search the rolls of Parliament for cases in which the supplies have been refused, and to ascertain what measures were pursued by the Crown in consequence of such refusal. Sir J. Lzace replied, that no such case has presented itself since the reign of Ktmo WILLTANy all the Kings of England having yielded to the opinion of Parliament in sufficient time to prevent matters corning to such extremities." Captain RUSSELL, who has lately been dismissed the service fat the loss of his Majaty's ship Wolf, by the sentence of a General Cou is said to be a brother of the Marchioness of C LLLLL AND, throw n which connexion he obtained the rank of a Commander in the Navy at an age (17) when few are promoted to that of a Lieutenant. But for this circumstance it is generally thought the sentence would have been less decisive, and more in unison with that of the master of the said vessel. This 'creditable to the Members of the Court, who had the ind thus to mark their disapprobation at the exercise of su - cru7l; influence! Mr. Noun ' of the Grecian Coffee-house, near Tem ple-bar, expired under railer curious circumstances on Sunday evening. His wife, who bad been for sans time ill, died on Satur day roaming, and Mr. Mows, who was also mash indisposed, feeling a sort of preseatiment that be could not king survive, ac tually told the undertaker, who came to arrange the burial of Mrs. Hewn, to keep her as long as possible, as the seine grave would serve fa both g this prognostic proved but toe teas, Mr. Bows harks( expired as When stated, the day after hit wife, and they will be both intend at the same time. Tnz LATE DUEL IX DUBLI3I.—The July which had been =pulled to inquire into the eiretunsemmue of the duel in shish O'Grady was mortally wounded, have, after the wasoina. des Owed wham's, returned the following verdict We Ind het awash huwar O'Grady came to his death by a pistol boll, hod id lint by Oquein John Smith, of the Regiment on the ussedne of sho Ittli inst. at a held near the "rug 4.4 ' near Xibriehms Owsnow, in the aunty at Dublin i and that the said Ouplaht J. R. liehi she sCi e r ica me=aud the do further Fad that of the owe regiment, woe elPing _er dia shatike the said Jaim Nebo& ihnith,aad that Lissionsed liteiseick Mussismea, at the Oh Rome% was pro. sent, se hind to the deceased; sad that the add parties me set heehaws's', mail tut the who st the said pistol is hile." There will not, ifis sail in the Irish popes, be any pesseuides 17 du Mends of the deemed. Thew we, however, drealesiosse in the case width soma to sign. a Watery investigatiem It should be ameeldwi 'Whir Osplob ONO was or wee not the WOW a gressor, wil it he was, wilst is die military opinion wesomming hie whole widset in this Behideoly ethirl.alorning Parr. MAILS Altßl' • . D. 1 Dublin .. o 1 Waterford..... 0 O Guern. & Jersey 0 O Buenos Ayres... 0 O Brasil 0 CITY, Twit 'ED AND DUE Tlll A. D. I France . 0 O Flanders 1 Holland O Harnbursk .. O Mediterranean :LYE. O'CLOCK. 18 MORNING. a. a. O Lillian • 0 Jamaica 1 O Sweden S O Malta O Mexico a Accounts have been received from Chili to the 10th January : they give a very unfavourable account of the state afar:airs in that country. We have no arrivals of ship letters this morning, consequently we are very barren of information. Consuls which left off yesterday at 92 1 for the Account, opened It the same price ; sines which, the market has improved to 22 and 92 j for money : there is no business doing. They state from Paris, that the grand work for the new elections are prepar. log by the Minister of the Interior. Circulars have been sent off, and new ones are despatched daily to the different Prefects with in. 'auctions in what manner persons are to be chosen for the approach• ing elections. In the Foreign Market it is settling day, and they are busy in making up their accounts. Greek Bonds are rather higher owing to an improvement. H A IS. PAST ONE. The Consol Market continues without the least variation, and the fluctuation during the morning has been from 92.1 i to 92i for the Account; at present they are 92i Sellers. We have no political information, and every thing appears dull in the City foe want of arrivals. In the Foreign Market the settling of accounts is going off favourable. Up to the present hour we do not bear of any express from Paris. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Dora, Maecn 29 —Wiod South —Arrived from London, the George, —, for the Mauritius._ PORTIMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind S.E.—Arrived from London, the Eclipse, Davis, for the Cape. PLYMOUTH, Ithaca.' •iB.—Wind S. R —Arrived the Marshal Blucher, --_,..front St. Michael's. Famouxu, Maecu 2e.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Alliance, Tullock, from Leghorn. Ltvaaroot., Aram 28.—Arrived the Dunlop, Gowan, front Virginia ; Jane, Baird. from St. John's (N. B.):Maritter, from Alexandria ; Thalia, Hammond, from Trieste ; White, from Marseilles ; and Lady Amherst, Miller, from Leg horn. Sailed the Ardent, Timmons, for Rio de Janeiro; Richard Hill, Morris, for Grenada • Allenon, Gill, for Jamaica: Antioch, Rich, for Vera Cruz ; Congress, Lightbody, for Barbadoes ; Peppel, Rees, for Africa ; and John, Adair, for Naples. Arrived off the port, the Nereid, Jay, from Gallipoly. BILPAST, MARCIA 27 —The Anne, Camel, from Liverpool to Larne, ran on share oo Wallace's Rocks this morning, but is ex• pected to be got of, without damage. CORK ELECTION. TRIDAY-TWELTTH DAY. At three o'clock the numbers were— Freemen. Freeholders. Mr. Callaghan lB Mr. Newentuun GROSS POLL. Mr. Callaghan Mr. Newenham Alajority for Mr. Callaghan .... —l3 TO THE EDITOR OF THE STAR. Sta,—As the Members of both Houses of Parliament have not speed respecting the cause of the existing distress, and as the majority of them state that there is no remedy for it exctpt pa. dente, ad a partial diminution of taxation, which will make no real darner beyond a very slight temporary Improvement in the coodkle• of the working classes; I deem it a duty to all parties to amt to explain the reel cause of the evils under which the coun try win, sad the only practical measures by which they can be remold, and their future tocurranoe prevented. For this purpose. it Is my initiation to hold a public meeting, on Easter Monday, at twelve o'clock, in the City of London Tavern, when these subjects shall be explained, and resolutions will be submitted to the cond. desertion and decision of the meeting. As, upon this occasion, I intend to develops the outlines of the edam of society, and of a new universal system of morals and practice, derived from the laws of human nature ; I trust the foundation will then be laid for a great moral, political, and commercial revolution throughout the civilized world, effected without violence, and perfected by universal consent. Bedford-square, March 26. ROBERT OWEN. DRAMATIC WRITINGS.—MT. LLSNARD gave no tice bat night, that on the Bth of May he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to Repeal the Act relative to the licensing of dta. made writings. Lady KING and her daughter were in the House of Loa' last night to hear Lord Kum on the subject of the Cora Laws. Count PHILIPPE DE SIIGUR, author of several excel lent historical works, k elected to the place in the French Academy vacant by the death of the Duke de Levis. Sir George Hill is appointed Governor of St. Vin cent's ; Mr. Maurice Fitzgerald is to be his successor In the otEce of Vice-Treasurer of Ireland. _ _ _ Monday the Amphitryon transport arrived in Leith Roads, having on board a company of the Royal Artillery from Woolwich, to relieve a empany of that corps at Leith Fort, which proceeds in the Amphitryon to Woolwich. A strong detachment of the 78th Highlanders will also sail in the same transport for the Thames, on its way to join the regiment at Ceylon. On Monday evening an affray took place in the parish of Fairlight, near Hastings, between a body of smugglers sod the boat officers in that town, amompanied by a:number of the coast blockade, when the officers succeeded in taking 36 bags of tobacco, and sundry pieces of handkerchiefs. One of the smugglers woo shot, and seven made prisoners; and one of the boat officers was wounded. On Tuesday night, at Bexhill, another affray between the smugglers and the coast blockade took place, on which occasion one of the smugglers was shot (mince dead), and six taken prisoners. Only three casks of spirits were taken. The death-warrant has been received for the execution of John and Margaret Murphy (husband and wife), on Wednesday next, for the murder ofthe keepers at Ballinahinch, county Limerick. Their daughters (Honore and Mary Murphy), for the same offence, hays been respired; al'o, John Maher and ud Ryan, who were found guilty at last Assizes for seizing arms.—Lisnerak E. Post. NEW FARRINODON MARKET, Maims SO. Prices per lb. Bur—Finest Roasting, tled. Ditto Boiling, 4jd. Equal lean. tity of each, Ad. Rump Steaks, od. Beef Steaks, ed. Rump of Beef, id. Wessau Durrou—Leg, Hama, 741. Shoulder. ed. Saddle, 61d. Neck, aid. &east 4ed. VEAL—Leg, 7/1. Fillet, ed. Breast, std. Loin, Sid. Sh oulder, id. NU, Ad. to 7W. Lame. eid. to 10d. ST. JAMES'S HAY-MARKET, Miner 50. Cane Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, 42 Ss. to £2 ISs. Useful ditto, .112 12s. to £5 14s. Floe U Meadow;aod Rye Gnu Hay, .43 lis. to .24 Os. Cover Hay, £4 Os. to AS Ss. Oat Straw, £2 Is. to AV Ss. Wheat Straw, At M. to .42 as. per lead of 34 yawn. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKET. Maus n. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Harr, 42 6s. to it 13e. Useful Meadow H, AS 3t. to RS 114. Flee Upland Madww and Rye Grass Hay, 44 Os to a Os. Clover Hay, generally, .21 to AS b. Extraordinary Ilse. ditto, 15 10s. Oat Straw, AS so. W N. Wheat Straw, 42 6s. so 42 10s. per load of Si wastes. DIED. Yesterday, in the Bth year ofhisap, Major Rannell, after seven the twelve weeks, in consequence date &astute of the neck e che th h bone. Th y se:knight, at Buckingham, aged 7*, the Rev. Wm. Eyre, M. A. Vicar of Padhawy, nod Perpetual Curate of Mars den, both of Ruckinght. The of Hillesdna is ia the giA et the Dean and Chapter of C hrist Church. Mr. Eyre was fersierly of Luca; Whip, and took his degree of M. A. Inns sth, 1776. 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