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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. Peals, Aram 9.--The King set out ten o'clock to laic the fortifications of Paris, which are now erecting shove St. Denis, and then the Bute St. Chaumont. The Puke of Orleans, the Duke of Nemours, the Minister of War, Marshal Gerard, the Aide-de-Camps of the King and the Princes, accompanied his Majesty. We have a letter from Toulon of the 4th of April, which says—" For some time past increased exertions have been made to fit out the ships of the line, frigates, and brigs in commis .ion. A great number of men-of-war are already in our roads. It is said that the whole will form a squadron under the command of Vice-Admiral Rigny. A number of wag gons and carts, loaded with gun carriages, cannon, &c. daily arrive in our department: 200 field-pieces are to be collected Great numbers of troops aro expected every mo ment—report makes them amount to 5,000 men. The great vessel, the Luxor, which has been built in this port, And is to take on board and bring from Egypt to France ,lne of Cleopatra's Needles, has just received pressing orders to proceed to its destination. This vessel is one of un speakable dimensions; it has three keels ; it is destined to overcome one of the greatest difficulties of maritime trans port that have occurred in the annals of navigation.— Constitution/rel. The news of the dismissal of M. Bouchotte, Mayor of. Metz, which was brought to its by Monday's Moniteue; caused groups instantly to form in the streets, when abont WO or 700 citizens proceeded calmly to the housa of M. Bouchotte. M. Briard, Captain of the National Guard, expressed, in the name of all, their regeet at seeing theif Mayor no longer iu office. M. Bouchotte replied, that in :01.11111°6)g functions which he had never solicited, he only n , zretted being deprived of the opportunity of doing good :o his feilow citizens. lie assured them he shoill never depart froor the political principles he had avowed. lie was then escorted home iu the midst of loud cries of " Long live liberty."--Courricr de la Moselle. PARIS EXCHANGE, APRIL ]o.—The patriotic subscrip tion continues to receive numerous signatures, and already amounts to a considerable sum. This happy idea, and espe cially the eagoerness with ivhich it has been taken up by the public, is a great cause of the rise in our funds, and the re storation of general confidence. This confidence may, how-' 4Ter, be exaggerated, when it causes in ono day, as it has, done to-day, a rise of more than Ike francs. M. de I s Oliptae has just made an attempt to escape from the fortress of Ham. For the last fel%, days, the person %rho was in the habit, of taking his dinner to him, no;; finding him in his room, waited a short time ; and during the delay, heard a noise in the chimney. He looked op, and saw a man in the aperture ; the Governor was inforimd of die fr.ct, and instantly repaired to the prisoner's chamber ; he' was made to come down from his hiding place. In order to prevent another attempt of the same nature, the Governor ;ent for a mason, and directed him to place two iron bars across the chimitey.—La Tribune. POLAND. AFFECTING APPEAL FOIL SUBSCRIPTIONS.—The fol lowing is an extract of a letter from a person living amongst the Poles. It is addressed to a noblo lord, equally distin guished by his talents and benevolence. 6urcly our read ers, especially those of the fair sex, will not peruse un moved, the detail of the sufferings of wounded lm.ccs—for those who fight against such disproportionate numbers, well deserve the name ; nor will they be less touched by the sacri fices made by the ladies of tVarsaw to relieve them. No doubt large subscriptions will be immediately set on foot for that purpose : Pawl POLAND, MARCH, 1831.—Imagine, my Lord, the state of Warsaw : the houses of the persons of the fits: rank are filled by the wounded that are brought In after each day's battle; nay, even the streets are filled with them, and ladles of the highest rank, in the midst of the inclemency of the winter, have attended, and still attend them, and dress their wounds, for surgical aid is greatly wanting, and give them all that consoling assistance that female benevolence alone perhaps can suggest ; and what is still more beautiful, the Russian wounded that fall in the neighbourhood of Warsaw, receive the same humane attention, for with the Poles, as with the English, a fallen foe is no longer an enemy. The ladies of Warsaw have said all their rings, plate, &c. have renounced all their accustomed luxuries of life, living prita.is pally upon Kassika (hollt.d grain, treparttl with milk or butter) and making every sacrifice worthy of Roman matrons, to relieve their soar ing countrymen. But conceive, my Lard, what must be their dread. surrounded b.: so powerful an enemy, should Warsaw fall into such barbarous hands. On each day of battle the women of Warsaw, of all ranks, prostrate themselves, with their faces to the ground, within and without the churches, to chtain the protection of Maven. Let our country, my L rd, be the Land of Providence to rave those who so well deserve protection." GENERAL. IhEnursca.—A Polish pentr gives the following article, which it attriinces to the pen of a retired Prussian officer now in Poland:—" It will belong to the illustrious 'officers, so numerous in Europe, to judge it Marshal Diebitsch has developed, under the ramparts of Pre.ga, that profound knowledge dile) the German la lms are pleased to recognize In him. These Captains will also judge if the laurels won so easily at the font of the Ltalcan have not been swept away by the thunder of the Poles. What is certain is, that the hero of site north does not respect much one of the finest vir. rues,—l mean truth, and that he transforms, without the least scruple defeats into brilliant victories. stranger, hat no, Madill-et.; to the cause of Poland, and at' eye.witnesl of the battle of (hallow. 1 will rectify with the must conscientious impartiality the report of Ge neral Diebitsch. The General says, Prince Szaehowski made a vi gorous attack v. itit the bayonet on the left of the Polish traps, ;intl. it was only to effectuate a junction with the grand army that he made his I retreat.' ro this first assertion I answer, that I saw, .tier a battle of eeve cal hours, Count D.ebiteeli himself übandon tie field of battle and retreat. I completely routed before General Krukowleclei, whu continued pursuing him, and who succeeded in -,p.iruting the dussian corps into two uhf ferent divisions, mid carried ctl' several pieces of cannon. his Is the first victory of t h e R uss i an army . A t t h e centre, note ithstanding the great superiority of the Russian forces, and their artillery twice its numerous a. ours, the two armies remained in the same posititors. On ' the right of the Poles, and consequently on the left ot the Russians, the combat was most tierce. The wood was taken and retake' , hs both ar mies. 1 saw the Russian criunine often renewed, march up to the attack, while the Puns,' hatailans remained always the same. It is true that the cuirassiers of Prince Albert advanced a bale; but it is also true that the fire at the Polish infantry, and the attack of two squadrons of the secord Lancets. and of the regiment of £amuoyski, lately organized, completely extermineted all that regi ment. This is the sec.i.d livery the Russians gained on the 25th. The Poles were certainly unable to maintain this potition, attacked as . they were ;1 fo-ce so much superior, protected by a destructiv e fi re tat upwattls of lull rime., of cannon. But the Russian chief had not the satisfaction of seeing clic national troops put to iiight, and much less of seeing them lid: themselves within the walls at Preen; for they retired in the geates, order, and only t o t h e di s t ance o f a verste. How, lin, is it, that the genius of Marshal Diettitsch Zahalkanski was unable to derive any advantage from a victory which he calls tleeitive ? There arc answers in abundance. It is because he could not, because he had gained no victory, be cause he had I,imsclf sun a great chance of being completely defeated. If General Krukowiccki, after having routed the corps of Prince Szachoweki, had ;Identical against the sigh , wing of the van, y, that same day the chewy of Poland would have been ceeided, and the Polish eagle would now fly triumphant far beyond the Bug. filtirehal Diebitech complains of not having been able to curry off any standards front the Poles: hut he says nothing (probably through modesty) of the four flags the Poles have taken dur ing this thou casnnaign. From all I have ecen since the invaidon of the Russians, I must confess that what I lately heard a distin guished Polish officer seems to me very judicious. " Let us thank Providence,' said Le, ' that Marshal Diebitsch should have been chosen to command the Russian acitty.' lie is one of those chiefs, now so nu merous, who are able to pursue an enemy in metres; and who know how to place their sold lets in a line, and snake them tire until there be no more soldiers or certouches. Were those immense forces directed by another chief, the supernatural bravery of our troops would be, per haps, useless. As to the judgment one may form respecting a General who has the boldness to deceive his master, Europe will pronounce it.' " M.a retired Prussian Miter." ITALY. AJACCIO, APRIL 3.--The iialian refugees, whom we have here, are in the greatest distress—they are without food ; fifteen, we hear, have just arrived from Rome ; they have been thrown on our coast in a dreadful state of destitution. They excite compassion, but that is all. As for distr us t, w h y s h ou l d they inspire auy ? In truth, they are but very little to be feared ; for Naples or the rest of Italy, it is indeed very doubtful whether they will ever be tempted to show themselves there again. The trial by jury answers to the hopes of the friends of that great institution. The sentences hitherto pronounced have given general satisfaction, not only to the public, but to the ma gistrates and the lawyers. This happy essay will have great influence on the civilization of Corsica. The jury and the national guard will, in time, make Corsica one of the good departments of France. ANCONA, MARCII 26.—1 n consequence of the occupa tion of part of the United Italian Provinces by the Austrian troops, and the declaration of their commander, that he in tended to take possession of the remaining provinces, the persons who bad assumed the provisional government of those provinces, finding themselves involved in an unequal and hopeless contest, thought it advisable to make proposi tions, with the view of sparing the effusion of blood, and guarding against further disorders. They accordingly de puted General Armandi, Count Cesar Bianchetti, and two others, to treat with Cardinal Benvcnuti, the Pope's Legate a-latere. The negotiation soon terminated in restoring the provinces (in the words of the treaty) " to the arias of the Holy Father." The following are the conditions : " 1. The Members ,of the Provisional Government of the United Italian Provinces surrender the Government of all the provinces, at present occupied by national troops, into the hands of Cardinal Benvc nuti, who receives the same in the 11.1111 of the Holy See. " 2. The Cardinal pledges his sacred word that no individual in the pon•ifical state, of whatever class or condition, shall be prosecuted, molested, or in any way troubled, in person or property, on account, of past conduct or political opinions. "3. The Cardinal also promises, on his sacred word, that his Holi ness will allow to all foreigners. who have in any way taken pant in the revolution, the period of a fortnight to depart unmolested from the Papal territory'; and that for this purpose passports will be given gra tis to all such parsons. "4. The Cardinal farther pledges his sacred word, that all the civil officers arid placemen, employed and in pay on the 4th of Feb. through. out the provinces, shall sustain no injury In their rights on account of their having served the Provisional Government, or of taking part in the revolt. " 5. With regard to the miiltia, and the troops of the line of every d.scriotion, they are to resume the pontifical cockade, on notification given by .he and will be continued in the service. " 4. Passports to be given gratis, if desired for any foreign country, to any of the persons included under articles 2,4, 5, if dernaufaal within the period of a fortnight. " 7. As soon at the present document shall Ire signed, and the sur render stipulated in the first article completed, orders will be trans. mitt, d to the pontifieal army to suspend hostilities, and to grant a ten days' trove to the revolted troops. "8. The members of the provisional Government shall transmit orders w the suf crier officers of their troops for the execution of tic articles agreed to. "P. The Cardinal sill on his part interpose his good offices with the Commander of the vanguard of the Austrian troops to grant sufficient time to the troops of the Provisional Government, to prevent licentious. nets autl preterve order. " JO. The Provisional Goverment will give dui orders to the na tional troops to lay down their arms, and in the mean time to take up such petitions at the Austrian Commander may point nut. •' 11. The national troops and volunteers, who arc to be di-banded, shall receive a written route, assuring them provisions and the expenses of their joorney to their homes. " 12. Whoever shall contravene these conditions, or shall not obey the orders i•tued in conformity therewith, besides being respontihle for such contras ention, shall not enjoy the cdvantages conceded, and shall be unworthy of the Sovereign clemency." Three original copies of the above document were signed, one for the Cardinal, a second for the President of the Pro visional Government, and the third for the Deputies who negotiated v.ith the Cardinal. These copies being delivered to the respective parties, the members of the Provisional Government made a formal resignation of their authority to Cardinal Denvenuti. GREECE. Extract from a letter received via Otranto, dated Zante, March 6 :—" The Morea continues in a most disorganized state, and the Mainotes have revolted against the supreme authority .of Capo d'lstria, who has sent a Rumeliot force into MaMa, to put down the revolt. It is also stated, that the Hydriots and Spezziots have openly declared their opposition to the acts of the President ; and that they have seized the Greek frigate, and were quipping an armament, with which to enforce their demands. The Philhellcnist, Mr. Gordon, has quitted the Morea, and is at present at Zante. In the lonian Islands orders have been received from the Government at home that the Lord High Commissioner should insist on the islands paying the expense of the British troops stationed there for their pro - tection. Two regiments hare been sent away, and it is ex pected another will follow, when there will be 3,000 men distributed through the seven islands. The lonian flotilla is paid off."—Messager des Chambres. PORTUGAL The following extract of a letter from the Portuguese ca pital will he read with some interest : Lisnox, APRIL 2d.—The post arrived from Oporto h.,s been but partially delivered, and many of the letters were opened. It is presumed that something has occurred in the province of Minho, or Traz os Mentes, because ninny per•ous who are in the habit of receiving regularly com mercial and political intelligence, by every post, received no letters by this; and it is presumed that they were de tained by the letter inspector—an officer appointed at the Post-ot'ice, with several clerks, to open all letters.— In the atsence of this intelligence a thousned remount are afloat. It is, however, ascertained that a lar ^ zueeilla party has entered various places to liberate the persons im prisoned fur political offences, and one of these pikes is Guintaraens, the third city of the province of Minho, con taining about 18,000 inhabitants—a circumstance which clearly shows that the patriots are strop-- in number. The wine vintage is larger than we have 'known it for many years past; but such is the state of this unfortunate coun try, that the growers cannot obtain means to purchase the casks for the wine. A French corvette has arrived from Brest in four days, with despatches for the French consul, not of a very agreeable nature to Don Miguel. Whoever the new electors may choose, they must be on their guard against all who talk of making society subser vient to capital, for that means legislating for wealth and not for poverty—but honest electors may distinguish the cunt of a political economist as easily as that of a despairing ranting methodist. The French papers are at present half filled with the tiials now pending against numbers of young men, who !min i : suc ceeded to a certain extent in July last, have displa3ed their principles since by speeches or acts, in opposition to the sub sequent government, and chiefly for taking part in the De cember riots, when Polignac and the ex-ministers were tried. It seems to be a conduct marked by fatuity to be combatting against public opinion in regard to abortive acts; and it be trays a littleness of feeling no way creditable to a really po pular government not to have set such parties at liberty as soon as the sentences were passed on Polignac, &c. It would almost appear that the government were so well in clined to Polignac, that the hatred of the people against that minister was a crime the last to be forgiven. Why does Louis Philippe allow the laws to be rendered subservient to the personal spite of parties ?—All foreigners must regard these prosecutions as frivolous and vexatious. Governments are either sound and stand on a broader basis, or they are un sound and cannot stand. SPIRIT CF THE JCURNALS'. Tratzs.--Lord John Rusell has announced it as the intention of His MAJESTY'S Ministers to propose a considerable departure from the scheme of reform which has been submitted to the House of Com. mons. To the plan, as first stated, the nation has, we may well say unanimously, given its entire, and cordial, and moat grateful assent. On it the hopes of the country have rested, and because of that noble prospectus of our future representative system, and for the sake of it alone, the confidence of the people of England has been repotted in I Lord GREY'S administration with a breadth and fulness of ge. nerosity which no other G overnment w i t hi n memory h as ever enjoyed. From the beginning the independent press has called for the bill—and nothing but the bill. The people of England have joined us in calling upon those Members of Parliament on whom, as its delegates, the nation bad any claims, to pass the bill, presented by Lord John Russell. At small matters or detail, incol, ing only such modifications of the original arrangement% as local convenicice, and still less at such as particular equity might require, we should have no thought of murmuring. Nevertheless, with a view to the firm support and continuation of that national reliance on the consistency of his Majesty's Ministers , deprived of which they never be z , ble to any Reorm whatever in the face of the great borough c e rjederacy,—or, indeed, to retain office at ull,—we think it right to express our regret t any symp toms of yielding on a point of certainly no mean importance. If we rightly understacd Lord John Russell, the Cabinet are content to surrender the point of reducing the number of the members of the house, "if there should turn out to be a strong feeling upon it in the house." Why, of course there will and must be a strong feeling. Of course every unit by which the muster roll of the house may be augmented affords one additional chance of being again returned, to every indivilual at present a sitting member. It is but candid ta declare ai once, that if Lord Grey's Cabinet falter but for 6:lc moment i t their allegiance to " the bill" of Reform, we would not gyaranice their power for a second moment, not the redouptioa of their charnet.r by the Whig party in an hun. dud years to come. But we readily allow dint they bare not furnished sufficient cause Mr such an appreheit , ion. Poste—lt is with heartfelt satisfaction we refer our readers to the proeeLtlings of the House of Commons last night by which It will be seen that the monstrous project if Revolution, insultingly mia.called Reform, is likely to full to pieces in the hands of i s framers.— Already have the (Inns of the fri<nds of the Constitution so far prevail tl, that the intended abandonment of some of the principal provi ,i.ms of the measure was unequivo cally proclaimed in the course ttf the evening by Lord John Russell; and having thus palpeoly shaken the odious fabric of Revolution, we have rely steadily to petserere in the stntggle ell:dually to domn7.sh in To what, it will naturally be asked, arc we huLbtell these pnonisinet prospects to our long revered and happy Coasti; 0 tion ? Primarily, e r iii fsarL sal,* answer, to the effect of tie ex..rti ins of the friends of good order in the State ; and s,co , tlarily, In the tears, not to the justice of the ministry. These imbes silt insa le; :itent-elves totterini in their situations ; they saw that the toad s rn • :.eol real feeling of the people were tivo‘e to their ruinous projects ; tit.. it aas impossible . to carry the revolutionary measure: that even a dismi.ttion or Parliament would nut scree their unhal lowed porposes ;—and therefore, miler than fall sacrifices to their' fearful tlssi,ms, tied re-I.m the places they so unworthily fill, they, in the OW spirit of have determined to abandon the' princip :1 parts of the atterious plan, by which they hcci solemnly decided to abide, and to a:and or fall nith its fate. Hcast.D.--lir e do 'in i t.! tont, It tit; _vent of the success of the Re form Bill, the good se..se and independent spirit of the people of this country will ton tolerate the dictation of such things as self-constituted societies, to select tend rccu motvd candidates for titeir adoption. Thls would be only to excliati 4e the. domioation of ,he boroughinongers for another sort of doutioetion, pretty nearly as injurious to the freeduin of elec.ioti. Nothing, indeed, ran be oso absurd, or es,raragant. not to , be made a subject of " suMeription" now-a-slays ; but it would surpass, all ordinary bounds of the rt..iculous in conduct, if the peopl' were to take ezeessive trouble to get rid of the venal influence of one set of per ens merely to place themselves under that of others. If Periiato.mary Candidate Societies" should suc c,ed In the metropolis, we should soon . npect to see, in every town having ,be right of returning represenanive . a register-office for candi dates of end where t eery body of electors may be suited, according to their taste., Iv-Lb candidates, and, perhaps, on a. comparatively " cheap and terms as families are supplied by other r,„-ister.oilices with Wigan* of servant*. To be sure, in this way, one of the great ohjec dons to reform will be removed—we mean that which an -es out of the apprehension that the colonial, commercial, and some other in terests, will rot he sufficiently represented in a Parliament de pending solely upon popular representation, and admitting no persons through the wickets of close boroughs, which hitherto aflordet;, by means of a golden icy, such a convenient mode of access to East or West Indttut I:spirants to Paliamentary lionnurs. Much op. prehension has indeed been entertained and exptessed lest such persons, and others, whose money may be their only merit, s hall n e ve r b e a bl e to make g ood their appro:.eh to the green morocco seats of St. Stephen's Chapel through the broad gateway of popular suffrage; but, by making a bargain with a " Parliamentary candt,tate office," and having their names duly registered, they luny find their way into the Senate with es much facility as if the close boroughs, and their scales and weights for estimating the pecuniary merits of candidates, had not been swept away. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. As the amendment of the British Sanguinary Code of Penal Laws is a point which we consider more than perhaps any other, involves the good repute of this country, we shall, on all occasions, as a matter of conscience, insert whatet er conies under our observation, which may have a tendency to expose the flagrant, anti-christian, and truly disgraceful defects of that code ; and which may keep alive the attention of the public to a subject, which calls so ur gently for the united exertions of all, who have the cha racter of their country, and the general interests of hu manity, at heart. With these views, it affords us peculiar pleasure to insert the following expression of sentiment, from a City in Scotland, for the good fame of which, we have more than usual recrard A Petition, of w;tieli tellowie:.; is a copy, is now in the course of signatine in Abetile;ii. It has already received the subs:tap:ions of many most respectuhl; and influential individuals ; and w trust will meet with that attention from the legislature which its truly philatithro. phic and benevolent idijeet doseri-..s "To the Right Ileetturable tic Lords Spiritual atul Temporal of the United Kaigilum of Great Britain ~ t d Ireland, in Par. !lament assembled, the humble Petition of the un..ervigned Inhabitanta of Aberdeen and vicinity, " SIILWETII. _ "That your pc. itioliers . beg leave to call the a:tention of your right honouraWe house to the numerous crimes of very different degrees of moral turpitude to which the same punishment of death is affixed by various statutes. That, although in some crimes, such cs those affecting property , a c a pi ta l punishment does not follows capital conviction more than in the case of one out of 14) or 14, a strong imputation, never theless, is thrown on the parity of jnsiee, in the C11: 4 2 of the one who suffers ; and the efffeiency of the law h at the same time destroyed, by the statutory penalty being remittal, not as the exception, but as the general nile. '• That your Petitioners consida that rite law, as it stands, from its wientainty, defeats the very end of its being—the prevention of crime ; and that a less severe, but a tenni.: punishment would b e more beneficial to sock l, whilst it would r.iievc the Judge of a deep and painful resrai-ibility, and unitive from Jurors. anti IVitnesses the strong temptation, wind' at pre-env is pui in their way, of doing vio lence to their etoncience. totsare rite life of the delinquent. 0 . Your petitioners, therefore, respecttully, but most earnestly, pray your right honoutatt house to revise .be P.nal Laws, by which capital punishments :tre entxted, with a view to the substituthm, in ruch cases as may stem advisable, of other per—hits as eirsctual for the purpose, but less awfully vieiliclve than th.: uninitipted and tinforgiving pe nalty of dm:ll—which has often the effect of abridging the period of a criminal's probadoo t m,d ce nog shot t his opportunities for repentance a nd improvemeth. .ital )101T petitioners ah.ll ever pray."—Aterdeen Chronicle oj . 91/s As we hear no 'lime of the earthquake in China, which had destrlyed twelve provinces and half a million of people, we may culiclude the story ma: , one of those inventions, which those chevaliers diarlastrie, the penny-a-line para. graphist3, invent before they dim). The chief part of the Austrian armies are composA of descendants of the ancient Hans, men who, for 1,500 years, have been the scourge of Italy. The only successful oppo nents of the Huns mere the Gauls, who utterly defeated ' Attila in his invasion of Gnul. It is curious to see the same races opposed to each other even to the present day. The Anti-Reformers bow to popular opinion, and are its votaries ; but they call aloud, and it wont answer. Sugden may plead, and Weymouth may vote— the Percys, Sey moure, Beauforte, and other names of ancient renown, may beg and pray that they have lost their power of cheering the people. The Printing Press is the ally of Reform ! " The age of chivalry is past"—alas, is gone for ever ! It appettrs that the heavy duties on boracic acid and tincal force the manufacturers of earthenware to use, in glazing, preparations of lead, which prove destructive of the workmen. Seventeen medical men in the potteries have certified this fact, and we hope regulation will follow the statement. TIIE KING'S GRAND E‘TERTAINMEN7' TO THE KNIGHTS GRAND CROSIEs Or sIIC ORDER OP Tut: BATU• His Meeeetv gave a grand than ‘r last evening, at his Palace at St. James's, to the Knights Grand Cie, of the Most Hoeourable Military Order of the Bath. Kell the enlre and general enlrnnces to the palace trete opened for the rece"tiou of the company. The serjeant potter and the gentlemen porters were on duty in their full Court dresses, and the KING's peges appeared in their state uui forms. The entertainment was given in the banqueting room ; the table was laid for 54. The gold and silver SO'. vices of plate were displayed with great taste; nine plateaux were avenged in the middle of the tale ; the centre piece, which was larger than the others, represented in the untie part the Drapn in the Garden of the Hesperides ; the hie er division had groups of Bacchauti. The room was lighted with five splendid onnollt chandeliers, and also by a number of candelabras with wax candles: the other state routes in which the company assembled were also brilliantly lighted. The company began to arrive at half -past six o'clock. At seven o'clock the KING, accompanied by the Duke ofCu at. BERLAND and Prince LEOPOLD, entered the State Rooms from his private apartments, and proceeded to the Ball room, where the Members and Officers of the Order were assembled. At half-past seven o'clock dinner was ROCOCO ced. His MAJESTY, preceded by Sir F. WATSON, the Master of the Household, passed through the Preeene,. Chamber and the Guard Rolm, which was lined by the Yee men Guard to the Banquetting Room, followed by the 1)111;0 , of CUM BEILLAN D, Prince LEOPOLD, the Duke of Go It the Duke of WELLINGTON, Field Marshal Sir A. Cee Kee, and the other Knights, eccording to their seeierity. A, the KING enacted the eallery which joins the by.: staircases, the Band of the Cold:Are:en Regiment of Foot Guards, t+h ' were in attendance in their state uniforms, stiock up " 0 the Roast Beef of Old England." The KING took his seat in the centre of the table. The band were stetieael in the. ante-room adjoining the Benquctting Room, and played at. interval , . during the evening. The party included the Civil Knight Grand Crosses as well as the Naval and Military Knights Grand Crosses. The Knights appeared in the Star, Riband, and Jewel of the Order, but did not wear the Collar. Tito following were the Knighte Grand Crosse present : The Duke of Cumberland, Prince Leopold, Field Marshal Sir Ainred Clarke, F.arl Donoughmore, Sir J. Sa=intarce, Lord Ilowden, the Duke of Wllington. Earl Northesk, the Hon. Sir A. F. Ue.hranc, Sir George H. Barlow, Viscount Strangford, Viscount Beretford, Lord Lynedoch, Lord Hill, Hoa. Sir &Irani Paget, Sir G. Nugent, Sir J. Doyle, the .11:=rquis of Lontlorl.ny, Sir Alexaraicr Hope, Sir George Murray, Sir W. Clinton, l'at Earl of Clancarty, Sir James Kempf, Sir Robert Lisw. Sir G. Cockburn, Sir Thomas Hislop, Sir John Malcolm, S=r Throws Fel , y, Sir Charles 11. Knowles, the Earl of Rossiya, the Detre of G0.d. , 11„ Lord F.asiborough, S.r George .lortin, Sir Edward Thornton, S'f J= hn Oswald, Sir Edward Tbornbrough, Sir Henry Fane, Sir Archibald Campbell, Sir E. Codrington, Sir Frederick Limit, Sir Stratton' Canning, Sir T. Malin, Sir Janus Hawkins Wiiiishcd, Sir PhirpChas. Durham, sod Sir Wm. Houroun. OFFICERS OF TUC ORDEII.-Tim Dean of the Order; Sir George Nagler, Garter; Ger.miazi-t of the Order, A. Grevillc, Esq. Path King of Arms, Captain Michael Seylinior: Registrar and Secretary, Gcor.te F. Reitz, Esq.; Critical:Al U•her, James Pulman, Esti; W. Woods„ Esq. Secretary to the KniAlits Commanders and Companions. NAVAL I‘TELI.II ENCE. Maas Amato Tuts Dar—Dublin,l ; Waterford, i ; Sweden, 1. DIAL, APRIL 12.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Joven Enrique, Mayor, from Bilboa, and John Pirie, Wlhon, from Berbice. PORTSMOUTH, Aram 12.—Wind N.E. to S.E —Arrived the Mount Stewart Elphinstone, ---, from London, for Madras and Bengal. Sailed the Vibelia, Thompson, for Van Diemen's Laud. PLYMOUTH, Aran ft.—Sailed the Sir Wm. Bentinek , for Bermuda, and Terra Neva, Kelso. for the Cape of Good Hope. FALMOUTH, APRIL 11.—Wind variable, light airs. Doves, Aran. 12.—Arrived off the port, the Dorothy Foster, Hen. dereon, from &. Ander°, and James and Archibald, Gowan, from Galway. Cow . m, Armr. 12.—Arrived the Arrow,Prichard, from Rio Janeiro. ToeLly, Arm. 12.—Arrived the Waterloo, Blackler, from St. Michael'., with damage. - The Queen and th e L an d grar i ne o f H esse flomberg dined with the Princess Augusta last evening, at her resi dence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Duchess of Cumberland and the Duchess of Glou cester visited her Majesty yesterday. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, atteLdeil by Lady Charlotte St Maur, and Sir J. Conroy, visited Mr. and Lady Georgiana Agar Ellis yesterday, at their house in Spring-gardem , , when her Royal Highness sto:Al Godmother to their youngest son. .The Marquis of Chandos, and Mr. Burge, agent for Ja maica, hail interviews yesterday, with Viscount Goderich, at the Colonial-ollice. Lord John Russell had an interview yesterday, with Earl ' Grey, at the Treasury. ' His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester is o far recovered from his recent disposition, as to he able to leave Gloucester-house yesterday, and take an airing in the neigh bourhood of Hampstead and Highpte. The rain is said to have :mind its way throtigh the roof of the new Palace, to an extent likely zo be highly iejurious to some of the costly carved ceilings. We have somewhere seen it rem , irked that '.laashal Diebitseies name, when tianslati.d into plain English, mesas nothing more nor less than Thievish ! Why do not our translators translate the German names as well as news. How well it would read at the end of a despatch—" dith every respect I have the honour to remain, at yew. ser vice, Thievish !" In a reformed parliament we here there will be more prac tical knowledge, and less of closet theory, which, in late parliaments, utterly ruined the public character of those assemblies. It was the preference of capital to of the subtle means to a plain and ; of a sublime something un definable, over the vulgar objects of human life, which long rendered parliamentary d seussions Qo hateful. :%leu, in the estimation of these persons, were made for :za ney, not money for men—men were made for si.eiety, not society fur men—min were made for governments, not governments for men. Such finciea pick& dup from essays on political economy, utterly destroyed the ancient parlia ment, and their flippant adoption proved that a e eq. oration of such parrots was in its dotage. Slow but sure is the old maxim, but in the basins s of the British Parliament it is not varied—fur thoie;h it is so slow, it is far from sure. Witness :he Truck S)tem Bill, the Select Vestry Bill, the loud-pending Deter and Creditor Laws, the Criminal Reform Laws, the Slave Trade Question, &c. etc. &c. They are pr,poended in crib generation, discussed in the next, and forgotten, or frittered away, in the third. What has become of the thousand and one petitions in re gard to public distress,—are they to be considered in the Anna Domini in which debtor and creditor law is put on a rational footing? A private bill is pushed on by a Solicitor; but the people seem to ba without their Parliamentary Solicitor. The Rapid steam-boat v, as totally destroyed by fire on the morning of Friday last. This unfortunate vessel, in the space of an hour, drifted on shore at Kirkaldy, and has since gone to pieces. —Scotsman. THE RECORDER'S REPORT. — The Recorder attended his Majesty in Council this day to make a report of the convicts tried at the February Sessions, and now under sen tence of death, viz. 25 males and two females. We regret to state that the Report contains several cases of very se rious magnitude. The Council had not broke up when our first edition went to press.