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LUXEMBOURGIL It appears certain, says the Courrier Francais, " that :lie entrance of the troops of the German Confederation into the Duchy of Luxembourg is postponed. It was fixed for this day, (April 16), but has been postponed to May 18. If we may give credit to accounts from Belgium, this de lay will not be lost by the friends of the national inde pendence. Every means will be employed to render the in vasion more difficult. Troops are to be organised in the Duchy, and intrenchments raised at every point susceptible of defence. POLAND. The following prayer was read in one of the churches of Warsaw, on the 25th of March, the day of the Annunci ation :—" Holy Virgin ! Mild mother of mortals ! One thousand eight hundred and thirty-one years have already flowed past, since you 4 ear rejoiced to listen to the words pronounced by the angel—' Your Infant will be the SA• lOUR of nations.' Intercede this day that your divine ion may send also a consoling angel to a people faithful to his law, since so many ages. Let Poland, which calls you its Queen, let Poland, which was so often the most firm support of all Christianity, become again flourishing under the shelter of the Holy Evangelist, and be also the shield of the liberty of nations. Holy Virgin ! Should the All powerful decide, in his profound wisdom, that our all Christian country must suffer, like your Divine Son, the death of a martyr, let its glory form part of the eternal irlory of the world !" WARSAW, APRIL 3.—The Echo of Poland contains the following extractof a letter, dated March 10th, from the district of Rialystock "We are here witnesses of the horrible consequences of war ; a prodigious number of sol diers die daily in consequence of their wounds, whilst the pest and dysentery make still greater ravages in the Russian anal-, and communicates even to the peasantry on the side of die Narew and the Niemen. The officers sent to bring in horses, of which the camp is very much in want, assure us that the Russians have already 50,000 men hors de combat, and that the cottages and the granaries of the villages and boroughs, situated between the camp and the frontier, are crowded with sick, the number of which is computed at 20,000. We cannot regard these sick in any other light than dead, unless Count Sabalkanski has a second army of physicians, and which must be followed by a train of officers equivalent to the immense number of waggons of which he is in need to provision his army in victuals and forage. The same officers reckon fifteen Russian Generals killed upon the field of battle, besides those which are wounded and put hors de combat." We have received letters from Warsaw, dated the 4th in stant, announcing that the Russian army had been com pletely routed ; that it was flying in all directions for the four preceding days, and that the Poles were then 24 leagues distant from Warsaw. Eight thousand prisoners, of which 50 were Officers, several Colonels, General Lewandowski, .t pieces of artillery, five stand of colours, and a great quan tity of ammunition had fallen into the hands of the Poles. A considerable number of prisoners had offered to take ser vice against the Russians. The loss on the side of the Poles was inconsiderable, whilst the corps of the army, of Rosen and Geismar, were almost annihilated. —National. APRIL I.—(Extract of a letter dated Schirwinty, March 30.)—" I have the honour to inform you that the whole population from Memel to Wilna, and beyond it, is in open insurrection. The passage of the Niemen, by the Russian guard, was the signal for the rising. The depot of arms of the arsenal of Wilna is in the hands of the patriots The plan of the latter having been betrayed to the authori ties, they were obliged to hasten its explosion. The first members of the Lithuanian Provisional Government are Messrs. Stankiewick, Romikley, and Plater.—Le Temps. A letter from Memel states that the insurgents of Lithu ania are still scouring the country of Samogitia, in the en irons of Polangen, and are cutting off communications with the interior of Russia; they have already burnt the bridge of Mittau; Old Polangen and a neighbouring village hate been reduced to ashes. However, the Konigsberg Gozelte states that the 5,000 peasants who revolted in Sa mogitia have dispersed ; but the insurrectional party still continue their contention with the garrison of Wilna. WA RSA W, APRIL 4.—Our army is now placed between the corps of Marshal Diebitsch and the Imperial Russian Guard, which has arrived to reinforce it. Our general quar -11 ters is this day at Siednice. On the 2d, at noon, the tro- 1 phies of the victory were five flags, 7,344 prisoners, twenty- 1 six pieces of cannon, thirteen dicers of all ranks, two gene rals (Lewandow ski amt: in.). and a great number of carriages and waggons. It was Colonel Romarino who, at the head of two regiments, commenced the attack : it was so lively and so obstinate, that it promptly decided the vic tory. The Colonel knew but one word of Polish by which to command his troops ; it was napizod—forward : he was named General of Brigade, upon the field of battle. The number of prisoners increases every moment ; they walk freely in the city; the greatest part take service with the Poles. When we saw the entry at Warsaw of the prisoners made in the battle of the 21st March, followed by several pieces of cannon wrested from barbarians by the army of liberty, enthusiasm was at its height; but it was mixed with little surprise. The Polish troops were accus tomed to prodigies. It was not the same at the passage of the officers who carried the conquered flags. Sentiments of delight seized all the friends of humanity on hearing the Russian officers, prisoners, cry " Long live European liberty." It has then pierced the ices of the North, that vivifying spark which despotism vainly endeavours to extinguish. The Russian soldiers in the power of the Poles, hearing these last speak of their late victories, say that it is not by them that they have been conquered, but by the Holy Virgin - We are abandoned by her," they repeat sadly. "We always see her hover above the Poles, and never above us." Le taking by Dwernicki, of their chapel, and an image of the Virgin to which they attached great value, has infinitely discouraged them. A member of the Diet went yesterday to Minsk, which he found devastated ; we were nut astonished that the Russians had destroyed the superb idrniture, and the machines for thrashing the corn, este n:ished at great expense ; burnt for their diversion, the mag nificent granaries, annihilated all that an opulent proprietor Lad obtained around him, the produce of European industry ; but that which is revolting, that which we refused to believe, in spite of the evidence, is, that nothing which even draws the respect of an enemy is sacred to them. Forced to aban don Minsk, they caused a Cossack to set fire to the palace, hich they had converted into an hospital, and, unleu a faithful domestic had extinguished it, this dismal firebrand m mild have consumed a great number of sick Russians and Poles. They fired upon the domestic for his humanity, but :ailed in killing him. ITALY. A merchant vessel, having on board 91 passengers, others say 140, all respectable citizens, who had more or wss figured in the insurrection of Bologna, left on the 29th of , Nlarch last the port of Ancona, where it had been f - eighted by them. Cardinal Benvenuti, Legate a latere in the marche of Ancona, had signed the passports of these Illustrious refugees, who, at his instigation, had laid down their arms ; and, rather than imbrue their country in blood by a longer resistance, consented to fly to a foreign land, in consequence of the armistice concluded between bis Eminence and the insurgents. The vessel which ehel tered so many unfortunates, sacrificed by the political in humanity of France, should have been regarded as a herald, and, as such, sacred by all men. The exiles directed first upon Greece, but the ultimate destination was France. After six hours navigation upon a sea nearly always inhos pitable, and still in the latitude of Loretto,was boarded by an Austrian brig. The commander summoned all the pas sengers not to lay down their arms, since they had none to defend themselves, but to come on board the brig as pri soners; if not, he threatened to sink the merchantman. At the summons of the Austrian brig, these men, the chosen of the free cities of the Italian insurrection, were brutally torn from the vessel which had served for their asylum, and thrown with barbarity to the bottom of the hold of the brig of the imperial marine. Civilized Europe will refuse to be lieve, in the nineteenth century, that such an outrage was committed which violates at once the rights of men and the laws which should govern the universality of empires. It will be sufficient without doubt to expose these facts, in or der to interest all men in favour of these unfortunates, to call against the commandant of the brig, revengeful spoli ator, public and general indignation. What right can this political pirate invoke to authorise the capture of an inof fensive vessel, which quits a friendly country, protected by the authorities which command it, and which is proceeding towards the land at peace with Austria ? The Gazette of Augsbourg informs us, that the Austrian brig carried away to Venice General Zucchi, and his com panions in misfortune. We must accuse the French Go vernment for not having sent in the Adriatic a cruiser to receive the insurgents, and protect their flight. When Ibrahim-Pacha devastated the Peloponesus, and when the Grand Vizir burnt the isle of Chio, the Government of Charles X, who was always frightened at the single word liberty, sent in the seas of Greece vessels, of which the commanders were charged to force away the victims from their persecutors. At the moment when the Italian insur gents approached Rome, and appeared about to seize it without resistance, a frigate and a French brig cruised be fore Civita Vecchia, to receive on board the Cardinals and the Pcpe, if they were obliged to quit the Vatican. Why then, since Austria has intervened, in spite of France, in the Roman States, why then, we say, have not the Mi nisters, born of the revolution of July, reserved a part of their solicitude for the unfortunate less powerful ?—Le Na tional. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. TIMEII.—We do not shut out from our observation the fact that considerable alarm has been expressed in various quarters, during the week just expired, respecting the disposition of certain personages towards the Reform bill; and likewise with regard to the question whether hie Majesty's Ministers resolution enough to qualify them for a contest, not with the ing, but with the Court, if necessary, secure as they have a right to consider themselves of the staunch, thoroughgoing, and unflinching adherence of the whole British nation. We have treated with disdain the gossip of intriguers who would avenge themselves for their failure to poison their Royal hlaster's ear with misrepresentations both of his loyal subjects and of his upright and prudent Minister*, by again misrepresenting to the people the enlight ened sentiments and honest consistency of their King. The Duke of Wellington, in spite of all the opposition, carried triumphantly the bill of Catholic emancipation. Lord Grey, on the other hand, has had his Majesty's full and formal permission to accomplish this great measure. He has with him , beyond dispu.e and almost without so much as individual dissent , ' the whole body of the English, Scotch, and Irish nations, wrought up to a pitch of eagerness and enthusiasm of which there is no example in modern times. Can it be that Lord Grey. as compared with the Duke of Wellington, does not inspire the same full conviction of his lofty, firm, and index. ible purpose, to execute what (under auspices so infinitely more favour. able) his lordship bas attempted? If this be the view which timid or ilinformed men have taken of Lord Grey's character, and of that of his colleagues, we do not h es i tate t o express our belief that it will turn out to be most fallacious and unjust. Our persuasion is, and we do not speak at random, that Ministers will be found to act in a spirit of manly and unsullied good faith—that they will maintain untouched and in its purity, the great principle of substituting a real for a nomi nal representation of the people of England—that they will not lend themselves to any wretched system of party partiality, although their political enemies, themselves the ,paramount jobbers of the country, have accused them of it, or to any false and mischievous plan for set ting up one class or interest of society to the detriment of another. POST.—This night the question whether England shall or shall not be made the victim of a democratic revolution will be submitted to the decision of the House of Commons; and we should feel all the awful. ness of the crisis, if hlinisters had not relieved us of all apprehensions as to the result, by showing that with the temper and principles of re volutionists they possess nothing of the intellect, the energy, the ad. dress, the devoted fidelity even to the cause in which they have madly embarked, which are always necessary to render the enemies and as sailants of an established Constitution in any degree formidable. Any thing weaker or more absurd than the manner in which the Reform Question has been managed by these persons, who forsooth think them selves qualified to pull to pieces and then to reconstruct the whole frame of Government in England, has never been exposed to the deri sion and contempt of mankind. HeRALD.—in the interval which has elapsed since the second read. ing of the Reform Bill passed the House of Commons the opponents of the measure have not omitted any action which disappointment, ma lignity, or craft, could suggest to defeat it at the next stage. Insi nuations respecting a change of opinion in the highest quarter have not been withheld ; direct assertions of interference on the part of other Il lustrious personages have been hazarded ; and, last of all, a re-action among the people of England towards the maintenance of the traffic in their representation bas been proclaimed. We firmly believe that the insinuations, the assertions, and the proclama tions, are alike unfounded. It may be irregular and unconsti tutional to use the King's name in either House of Parliament, but we belonging to the people, being out of doors, or elsewhere, and not needing any customary evasion, may say that our confidence in his pre sent Majesty is unlimited; we believe him to be • man who would not lightly give his assent to any measure of State policy; but, having given that assent upon conviction, we believe him to be the last man wt.o would be misled into not following out the constitutional comm. quences of an assent constitutionally given. We believe, also, that, incapable of intrigue himself, he is pertady alive to the conduct of those who, while in office, attempted to govern by the gos. sipping intrigues of society, and who hope to effect their return to power by similar manseuvres. When the Member for Pres. ton, returning from his professional and political circuit, declares that the people are undeceived about this measure of reform, and, having discovered that it brings with it neither universal suffrage nor cheap bread, they are resolved to reject it, the gentleman is cheered by the two Sir Roberts, and by the gang of ex-ministers, ex-secretaries, and, we had nearly said, ex.boroughowners. But whence comes :his cheer P—From the same feeling which induced the Carlists of France to delight in the unreasonable demands preferred immediately after the revolution in July last by the class, ouvriere of Paris. The member for Preston is as oracular in his line as the Duke of Wel lington in his, and, as we distrust the authority of modern oracles, we affirm both their Graces to be equally wrong. They, however, think alike of the people of England. In their opinion "the people are blind and mat: ;"—they cannot see their obvious interest, and they are ready to rush upon ruin ! Neither the Tories nor Mr. Hunt are in office, and in the atom they have crept "under his gaberdine ; for misery m akes ' men acquainted with strange bedfellows;" but we rely on Mr. Hunt's abandonment of the dirty connection. TIMES—As the time for bringing the grand question of Reform to its consummation approaches, the rumours of tricks and treacheries in crease. It is now, we find, again asserted, that the Ki ng w ill not con sent to the dissolu tion, should the present Parliament vi o l ate i ts d ut y to the country by reje c ting the bill. Are they the friends of the me. narchy,we as they the friends of the King personally—who have raised and circulated this report to his prejudice ? We say to his prejudice, for even they who who would rejoice in the defeat of the bill by any means, would still not fail of blaming the Sovereign for having suffered it to be carried thus far by his own servants; whilst the rest of the country, who are wrapped up, as it were in the success of the measure, would vent all t h e ir indignation against the author of the defeat. The King's ministers have brought in the bill with his con sent and approbation: with his countenance and under his auspices (for he could have discharged them at any time), they have fought it through its first stages. Is it to be believed that William IV. is capable now of deserting the pledges which this conduct gives to his people of his sincerity in the cause of reform, and defeating the bill with which he is thus identified, by refusing to allow of a dissolution of Parliament, should that be , for the com pletion of the work ? Oh no : William IV. incapable of any thing like this. In repelling this calumny upon His Majesty's fair fame. his consistency, or sincerity, it will be ob served that we speak of the dissolution of parliament as necessary to the MIXON of the measure. The power to dissolve is undoubtedly neces sary; and this the adherents of the boroughmongering system see. The power, unexerclsed, may be as efficacious as the dissolution itself. In the same manner the report that the power has not been granted may be se injurious as the positive refusal of the power; and theme his that a re port has been raised by those who are reckless of the effect which it will have upon the King's character. We would wipeoff the false aspersion from his Majesty's reputation, and thus remove a considerable obstruct don to the success of the bill. THEIR MAJESTIES. WINDSOR, Am 17. The two regiments of life guards and the coldstreams were this morning inspected by his MAJESTY, and afterwards went through the regular parade morements, in the grand quadrangle of the castle. There were present— The Queen, Prince George, Lord and Lady Errol. Miss Wilson, Miss Eden, (Maids of Honour) Sir Augustus D'Este, Captain George Fitzclarence, R. N Hon. Mrs. Erskine, Mrs. Fox, Mr. Wood, and Sir Frederick Watson. The KitiTand QUEEN, with the whole of their suite, afterwards attended Divine Sei vice at St. George's Chapel. The Rev. C. DIOBY, canon in residence, officiated. There are no arrivals at the Castle to-day ; indeed little company is expected before their MAJESTIES again leave for town, which will be on Tuesday next. They will re main in London twelve days, after which they will return to the castle, and make it their permanent residence during the summer. There are no orders for either the carriages or saddle horses to be at the Castle this afternoon. Her M A JEST I', with her attendants, honoured the company on the Terrace with her presence, and afterwards walked from thence by the Slopes to Adelaide Cottage and back. The KING did not leave the Castle. Their MAJESTIES arrived on Friday evening at the Castle, in their travelling carriage and four, with outriders, and under an escort of the Life Guards ; a second carriage fol lowed, containing Prince GEORGE, Mr. WOOD, Miss WILSON, and Miss EDEN. Saturday morning, at eleven o'clock, his MAJESTY, in his pony phaeton, accompanied by Sir JEFFRR WIIATV ILLE, inspected the various improvements in the Great Park, and retired to the Castle at one o'clock. At three their MAJESTIES took an airing in a single bodied pony phaeton, and on their return walked over the Upper and Lower Mews. Prince GEORGE, Mr. Wool), Colonel FITICLARENCE, and Mr. COEMER, attended their MAJESTIES. As the Kixo and QUEEN were walking through the Upper Mews, we observed a respectably dressed female in mourning ; she appeared greatly agitated, and was evidently watching for a favourable opportunity to present a petition. She seemed, however, not to have the courage to do so, and walked away in great emotion. Lord and Lady ERROL, Sir AUGUSTUS D'ESTE, Captain FITZCLARENCE, and remainder of the Suite, arrived this day. The Landgravine and Princess AUGUSTA remain in town. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent entertained the Duchess of Gloucester and a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday, at the King's Palace, at Kensington. The Duke of Cumberland honoured I oid Kenyon with his company at dinner on Saturday evening, at his residence in Portman•square. A numerous party of the nobility and gentry were present to meet his Royal Highness. Prince Leopold honoured the Earl and Countess of Tanker vine with his company at dinner last evening, at their resi dence in Grosvenor-square. The Duke of Sussex, the Landgravine of Hesse-Hom berg, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at her residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. Prince Leopold honoured the performance at the Italian Opera-house, on Saturday evening, with his presence. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, which was attended by the whole of the Cabinet Ministers, with the exception of Lord Holland.— The Council sat in deliberation about two hours. A conference of the Ambassadors and Ministers of the great Powers, on the affairs of Belgium, was held on Satur day afternoon at the Foreign-office. There were present the Russian, Austrian, French, and Netherlands' Ambassa dors, the Prussian Minister, the Baron de Wessenburg, Count Mastucewitz, and Viscount Palmerston. The Minis ters were engaged in deliberation about three hours. The Spanish, Mexican, and Brazilian Ministers visited Viscount Palmerston on Saturday, at the office of the Secre tary of State for Foreign Affairs. A Deputation, among whom were Mr. Briscoe, M.P. Mr. Gordon, Mr. Watson, and Mr. Moore, had an inten iew with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Saturday at the Treasury. A meeting of the Lords of his Majesty's most honourable Privy Council was held on Saturday morning at the council office, which was attended by the Lord President, the Master of the Rolls, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Lord Foley. Their lordships were occupied in hearing appeals from the decisions of colonial courts. Three cases were disposed of. The Queen and Prince Leopold se at donations of 101. each to the Choral Fund, the annual concert of which charity took place on Friday evening at the King's Concert-room, iu Hanover-square. Some of the first rate vocal and in strumental performers lent their assistance. Lord Althorp, on Saturday nuaning, further postponed the Committee on the Stamp Acts, with the view of bring ing forward his proposed alterations of the Newspaper Stamp and Advertisement Duties, till Friday next. DEM.—Suddenly, at the seat of his brother-in-law, Sir Archibald Campbell, Baronet, near Glasgow, the Right Hon. Sir John Connell, Knight, Judge of the High Court of Admiralty in Scotland, and Procurator for the Church of Scotland. __-------- DRURY-LAN a.—The new tragedy of the Pledge, or Castilian Honour, was repeated before a crowded house on Friday. It is without doubt the finest, and the most intensely interesting effort of the tragic muse within our recollection ; and so pleased are we in being able to discharge honestly the most agreeable part of a critic's task (whatever authors think), that we shall waive for the pre sent, any notice of some slight defects in the thread of the tale, and merely make a few observations on the nature of the interest it excites. This one play embraces all the stormy passions of love, jealousy, revenge, ambition, in their utmost purity, and made the sole principles of action. It exhibits a state of society very different indeed from that in which we live, but ntivertheless so true to nature, that every heart admits the probability of the tale in all its particulars, and a slight acquaintance with history enables us at once to recognise an exact deli neation of the manners, %hums, and vices of the proud nobles of Spain, and indeed of Europe in the most chival rous period of history—the age of Charles V. The Ten centre between the King and Hernani, in the second act ; the bold defiance of the one, and the haughty sense of roy alty in the other ; the Duke's resolution to preserve his hospitality inviolate against a host of passions and especially the appeal to his own picture already ranged among his ancestors ; the pledge ; the conspiracy, the first sparks of that boundless ambition which throughout his life burned within the Emperor's breasts, all this softened with the devoted love of Donna Zonate, and brightened by the joyful consummation of her wishes, is no ordinary pic ture. But thenceforth an overwhelming sense of woe, almost too oppressive, attends the spectator up to the tre mendous catastrophe. We have not room to say wore than that the acting is throughout excellent, and that Miss Phillips, of whose merits we have a very high opinion, is decidedly gainig a hold on public favour. Nettlewig Hall, which followed, was deservedly hissed by those who were not paid for clapping. NOTI( }I TO THE EAST IND:A COMPANY. Mr. C. rant. just as the house was about to rise on Sa turday morning, brought forward his promised motion re specting the notice to be given to the East India Company (pursuant to the 53d Geo. 111. c. 155), preliminary to the termination of their Charter. The following are the resolutions moved by the Right Hon. Gentleman, and adopted by the House : " 1. That notice be given (io the Rest India Company) that the -unt of 1,207,5591. 15s. and all arrears of annuity payable in respect thetee, being the remainder of the capital stock debt, or sum due from thz Public to the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the East Indies, will be redeemed and paid off on the 22i of April, !MI. agreeable to the power of redemption contained in the la't•nar:a.aw:ed Act. •• 2. That Mr. Speaker do, on the 22.! day of April 1831. ‘igt;.!y, by writing, to the United Company of Merchants of i;:i414:41 riding 10 the East Indies, the said Resolution of the House.' SCOTCH HISPITAL. Oa Saturday last the friends and support:Hl of this excvlient ;n.ti tution held their anniversa►y spring festival, at !he Freemasons' Ta vern, Great Queen-street. The Duke of Gordon presided on the oc casion, by the express command of his Majesty. His Gina: %as sup ported on his right by Lord Colville and the Lord Advocate of Scot land, and on his left by Lord Montague and Lord William Graham. Among the other guests were observed Baron Oraliarn„ the retir,,d Judge, the Hon. Charles Douglas, Sir Gabriel Wood, Ban. the Hon. William Fraser, General M•Donncl of Glengarry, Sir James M Grior, Surgeon General to the Forces, Sir Peter Laurie, Sir ittelard the Bev. Edward Irving, it.c. The Noble emotassmr, in proposing the King's health, with tour times four, announced a donation of one hundred guineas from his MJ. jesty. This communication was received with loud applause. a• v,as aho the announcement of 251. trona the Queen, and 54.11. from Prince Leopold. Several other liberal sums followed, and the whole atmou .t contributed was upwards of 0001. In the course of the toasts, the health of Baron Graham was given was given with great cordiality, and that venerable person paid that he owed to t.ngland his birth, his shoes, and his stockings, and mom other portion of dress, to which he needed not then more particularly al lude; but to Scotland be owed that vigour, both of constitutioa and mind, which now enabled him, at the very advanced age of 86, to njoy so gratifying a scene as the present. ',Great applause.) The next toast was "The Lord Advocate and the Steward," The LEARNED LOAD chiefly expressed his acknowledgments. He had hitherto found the office of Steward a sinecure; but he hoped that, when, In the reforming spirit of the day, h was proposed to abolish all sinecure offices, this would not be included in the number. Among the other tosets was the " Corporation of London," and Sir PETER LAURIE. while returning thanks, stated, aa an instance of the benefits resulting from this ihs , itution. that, out of 10 000 persons who were relieved last year, in the pat ish of St. Marylebone, not more than 20 were natives of Scotland. Mis► Hughes, of Covatt G tarn Theatre, sma from the gallery se veral airs, in so exquisite a ►tyle as to call forth the animated plaudits of the whole come any, and m.ke even the stern countenance of tL e Rev. Edward Irving himselt confess the influence of " dulcet ante•." Mr. T. Cooke was varticul illy humeurous in a mock Italian air. and it were needless to observe, th .t the melodies of Caledonia were given in all their native sweetness by Mr. Broadhurst. The scene altoge ther was peculiarly gratifying, blending as it did the cause of benevo lence with all the most inciting attributes of festivity from " air. n song" to the pibroch of the mountain strath. The company did n..t separate till a late hour ; and there was not an individual present who did not appear to enjoy the Sitting moments under the auspices of his Grace 01 Gordon. DUBLIN; FRIDAY, April 1.3. TRIAL OF MR. DILLON FOlt THE VIOLATION OF MISS IItIZCLL. This extraordinary case, which has attracted ao modt pdnful ante don was opened yesterday at the Commission, by Air. Bennet, who stated that both the parties were of the greatest respectability. The prosecu trix, Miss Frisell, became acquainted with Mr. Dillon, about tao years ago. The prisoner was then ab se n t for some ti me from Dublin, and returned there about October last, and soon after met Miss Frisell, at a party where the intimacy was renewed. Next day be visited her at the house of Dr. 0' R:ordan, in biolesworth- street, where she resided with her cousin, Mrs. O'Reottlan. lie continued to pay her considerable atten tion, and made overtures of marriage. The lady having the greatest eon- Pence in him, and being much attached, agreed to take a walk with bin, N Friday the Sth of Nov. last. They walked towards the suburbs, when, es the day became very wet, they were obliged to take shelter in a Mall house for some hours, during which rime he renewed his tares likes of attachment. At last a coach was sent for, Into which they pt ; bat instead of bringing her home, he directed the coachmin to go to a house in Capel-street, which turned out to be one of bad character. The lady suspecting nothing, was induced to enter to dry bet clothes. The parties were shown up to a back drawing room, They had dinner, and that being ended, she expressed her anxiety to go neter suspected that any thing improper could inter the Bled of this gentleman, and he said, wait for a few mint Les, and I will and procure a coach, and he then left the room, and remained oat about fifteen minutes. He did not on his return bring u coach. What he was doing, or where he went during the time, we of cour.e have not been able to discover. He returned into tho room where Miss Frisell was, and said, " the evening is very fine, and suppose we walk bone to. godlier." They had no wine, and he ordered a bottle of port, which was accordingly brought up. Having drank wine of the wine, and filled wine in a glass for her, he said to her that it had a particular tame, and that she should allow him to mix some wine and water. She complied with reluctance ; and she bad not taken the wine and water many mi nutes, when she found herself become exceedingly sick. " Oh," said he, " there is nothing the matter." This happened at eight in the evening, and she had not drank it for many minutes, when she fell into a state of unconsciousness. The learned counsel proceeded to state, that . . whilst she was in this condition die prisoner at the bar effected his purpose ; and that when she recovered in the course of the night to a state of consciousness, he repeated his outrage, and succeeded by violence. —This case was established by the evidence of the young lady, which we cannot now detail. The jut,' found the prisoner Guilty, with an earnest recommendation of mercy. The learned Judge, atter stating that the Court could not comply with the recommendation. passed stn. tence of Death—to be hanged on the 7th of May, and the body to he handed to the surgeons for dissection. REPRIEVE OF ELLIS. It was proved before the Secretary of State on Saturday. that EEL., who was ordered for execution on Tuesday next, was not guilty rif the offence of which he had been convicted. The two Sheriffs, Sir Chap. man Marshall and Sir William Poland, having received certain in. telligence concerning the Convict, proceeded to examine witnesses, and to investigate the case in every particular. The convict had been tried, along with three others, for breaking into and rubbing the house of Mr. Chambers, an eminent tailor, and he wax emus victed upon proof of the recent of the goods alone. The Morning Papers copied from an vening cotemporary a paragraph art very mischievous character. in which it was asserted that the unfunnuare man had been long known as • desperate housebreaker. The hheritts have avertained beyond* doubt, that, alibi ugh he ha, been meant] JI• a receiver of stolen gootis for the last two years, he has never been know n or supposed to be a housebreaker. Fifteen or sixteen witnesses *ere ears mined, and from their evidence, it appeatt d that he bad commitied the minor offence merely. It was proved, both upon positive and circuit'. stantial testimony, that he knew nothing of the robbery until after it had, been perpetrued; that four young men went to his house on the morning ter the robbery, and invited him to a house in the Sessu Dials to see the goods ; that he there bargaieed fur them ; that Frattei. Coy, who had been convicted along with him, but whose as runlet: was commuted, and a young man not in custody, were of the party, aid sere sent by him with the money for goods, which they treasured, and accordingly paid for, and that Coy then went by his dine. lion to sell the goods to a piece broker, on whose premises die properly was found. When tl.e order far the tame son came down, the inquiry was followed up with a seal which did great credit to the Sheriffs, and (intuitively the person who gave the information to the officers was discovered, and he CORBflnt4l the evidence adduced of the part which Ellis had tali.° in the trea t ise. lion. Upon application to the Magistrates and afficers at Marlborough street, the statement of the informant was corrobotated as to its exact resemblance to what he had communicated to then,. Seventeen affi. davits and statements were prepared, and hod at en early hour on Sit turday morning before Lord Melbourne, who entered hum:44loi, i1..11 the investigation. Copies of all the documents were sent off by espies* to the Lord Chancellor, who had not attended at the Council. Between 7 and 8 o'clock on Saturday evening, a respite during pleasure was re ceived for Ellis at Newton& Toe convict, upon being irfurmrd that he mu not to die, fell down upon his knees, and appeared ready to fait with extacy. It is remarkable that Woodward, one of the persons tit. il with Ellis for the offence, but acquitted, has been since broudo in o Newgate on a charge of robbety, convicted last studis, and emu net ti to be transported for life. Two miter moots, whose names sod per. sons are well known, and who have been cone: ed in the robbery, are still at large. All the prisoners convicted fur the burglary and robbery at Mr. Chambers's, kept dashing women ; and they acknowledged is Newiets that the extravagant habits to which that son of ildulgesice led, wen t the immediate cause of their destruction.