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.0 11( Ale.. HUAI E ceesldered the:Arrange nen!, as far as regarded the gal ` lint oaces,, as a stigma on:the whole corps. DOUGLAS objected to the appointment altogether. hlf EITAIR expected something would be done in the matter when the report was brought up by the noble lord (the Chancellor of the Exchequer.) Lord ALTHO RP said that the arrangement proposed with respect n the paymaster of marines, he considered to be for the public benefit; if his hon. friend, the member for Middlesex, and the house chose ra ther that superannuation should be adopted, of course his Majesty's ministers had nothing to do but submit. After a few words from Colonel DAVIES. Sir .1. GRAHAM said he was satisfied the best course had been adopted ; stigma on the marines there was none, nor was any intended. Some conversation then took place between Sir G. Cockburn, Lord llotham, Col. Sibthorpe, Mr. J. Wood, Lord Palmerston. Mr. Gis. borne, ;Ir. R. Gordon, Mr. Hume, Mr. Alderman Waithman, end Sir J. Graham, when the gallery was cleared for a division, but no division took place, and the original motion was agreed to. The SPEAKER having taken the Chair— Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that when the question relative to the stamp duty on English newspapers came before the house, he should move that a similar arrangement also apply to Ireland. The 12,000,0001. exchequer bills bill was read a third time and passed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned ;at half-past one o'clock, till twelve o'clock this day. e MONTHLY RETURN OF CORN, PUBLISHED BY T HE COMMIS SCUSTOM IONERS OF HIS MA JESTY'S S. Custom House, London, Feb 21. An Account showing the Quantities of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour, imported into the United Kingdom in the Month ended the lit of Feb. 1531 ; the Quantities upon which Duties have been paid for Horne Consumption during the same Month ; and the Quantities remaining in Warehouse at the close thereof. (Published in conformity to the 6th sec. of the Act 9th Geo. IV. C. 60.) !Quantities Imported to the United Kingdom to the Month ended Ist Feb. 1831. Species of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour. Wheat • Barley Oats .. Rye Peas • Beans.... Maize or Indian Corn Buck Wheat. Beer or Bigg.... Total tit Core and Grain.... Wheat Meal or Flour.. Barley Flour.. .. Oatmeal. Rye Meal Indian Meal. Total of Meal and Flour .. Species of Corn, Grain, 3leal, and Flour. Wheat. Barley .. Oats .. Rye Peas Beans.... • • Maize or Indian Coro Buck Wheat.. Beer or Biu .. .. Total of Corn and Grain Wheat Meal or F100r... Barley Meal Oatmeal Rye Mea1....... Indian Meal.. Total of Meal and Floor •• Species of Corn, Grain, Meal, and Flour. ~. ~,~ ! t 1 : F' The Produce of, sod im. ported from, British Pos. sessions am of Europe. Qrs. Bus. 24,712 9 3 4 24,755 7 Cwt. qrs. 3,941 0 2 0 I 833 0 1. Imported from Foreign Countries. Qrs. Bus. 25,403 6 10,529 0 1,035 4 , 202 7 2,118 7 63 7 125 0 563 5 42,672 5 Cwt. qrs. lb. 68,324 0 22 Qrs. Bus. 53,136 1 14,344 0 1,033 4 608 7 1,134 3 83 7 12/ 6 56 S 67,608 4 Cwt. qrs lb. 72,265 1 20 to 0 0 853 0 15 68,524 0 22 4,816 1 1 73,140 2 7 'Quantities charged with Duty for Homo Consumption in the United Kingdom in the month ended let Feb. 1831. Imported from Foreign Countries. Qrs. Bus. 245 4 11,550 6 S 2 I 6 1,444 1 7 6 530 4 565 5 12,607 4 Cat. qrs. lb.l 55 0 W Wheat Earley Oats - Rye Nag Beane.... . • Maize or Indian Corn.. Buck Meat... Beer or Biu .... . Total of Corn and Grain.... Wheat Heat or Flour.. Barley Meal . Oat Meal Rye Meal ....... Indian Meal... ..... Total of Meal and Fleur ....... ... BY .61 55 0 Qsantities rei United King 'The Prodneel of, and ill- reeaion• o of Europe. 188,517 8 er of the Co 1.856 I T. WHITMOR 190,373 3 4 Secretary. CUMBERLAND HAY.MARKHT—THIS DAY. Coarse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £2 Ss. to £2 10s. Useful ditto, £2 10s. to £.3 ISs. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Grass Hay, £4 Os. to £4 10s. Clover Hay, £2 15s. to £5 ss. Oat Straw, LI 12*. to LI 14s. Willem, Straw, LI 18t. to £2 Os. per load. SMITHFIELD HAY-MARKEr —THIS DAY. Corse Heavy Lowland Meadow Hay, £2 Os. to £2 10s. Useful ditto, £2 15+. to £3 15s. Fine Upland Meadow and Rye Gnu Hay, £4 Os to £4 10s. Clover Hay, .es Os. to £5 10;. Oat Straw, £1 14s to X 1 16t.. Wheat Straw, £1 1111. to £2 Os. per load. NI ViTGATE AND LEADENHALL—THIS DAY. By the Carcase.—Per stone of albs. Bed is 2d 46 pd 4s 4d Mutton 5,4 d 4$ Od 4s 6d Veal 4s 2d 5s 13d 6s Od Pork 4s Od 51 Od 5s 6d FARIUNGDON MARKET—THIS DAY. Bur—Finest Roasting, 8d to 10d per' lb. Boiling, Sjd and 6d. Wermaa MUTTON—Leg, ad and 94d. Shoulder, 6tl and 7d.— VIAL—Leg, 8d tollod. Fillet, Iod to 11d. PORK, 8d to 9d. COVENT-GARDEN MARKET—THIS DAY. A very handsome marble fountain has been erected on the top of the Bedford Conservatorie', which are now open to the public. They tbis morning presented a beautiful appearance, being finely supplied with lowers, and rare and exotic plants, &c. in bloom. In the mar. ket underneath, there were a few very fine Cucumbers, which were selling from 151 to 25s per brace ; Asparagus, 121 to 21s ptr bundle ; White Brocoll, 4s to 81 per bundle. (X fruit, the supply was only moderate. Spring vegetables were in abundance. Hamm. tizaserraau—Wbeat, per load (Ilse bushels), 441 to 48s; Beans, 23. to 23s ; Peas, 264, to 295; Barley, per qr. 42. to 48s; Oats, 27, to 30s. U'lllZlDGll—Wheat, per load (40 bushels) £l6 to £2l lOs ; Barley, per quarter, 37s to 48s; Oats, Ws to 33%; Beans, 11. to 434 Pas, 43s to 465. Romeo's's—Wheat, per qr. 68s to 795; Barley, 40s to 48s; Oats, 28s to 334 ; Beans, 34s to 444; Peas, 30s to 48s; Bye, 30s to No. Foreign Countries. Qis. Bus. 137,957 0 147,439 7 21,839 6 16,596 5 'll4 1 884 4 4,387 S IS7 4 529,397 1 Cwt. qrs. lb. 188,515 5 4 1 3 ( of, and sessions 01 of Europe. Qrs. Bus.l 51,553 3 S 4 ported British 31,566 7 Cwt. qrs. lb 14,772 2 21 Total. Qr.. Bus. 31,849 7 9,550 II 0 6 1,867 S ? 6 850 9 565 5 44,194 3 Cwt. qrs. lb. 14,827 3 13 14,772 4 21 114,827 3 13 ng in Warehouse in the on the Ist Feb. 1531. Qrs. Bus. 130 4 17. 0 4 iit . qrs. lb. 9111 0 13 10 0 I 855 0 1 Total. Qrs. Bus. 138,087 4 147,439 7 21,839 4 16,596 5 __ . - 114 1 1184 4 4,317 5 137 4 $29,527 5 Cwt. qrs. lb. 189,496 1 17 20 0 0 855 0 I 5 1 3 0 PARLIAMENTARY REFORM. ROXBURGH PETITION FOR REFORM. -- The petition which was agreed to be presented to Parliament on this sub ject, at the County Meeting held at Jedburgh on the 25th of last month, is, we understand, to be presented by the Lord Advocate (who is expected to make it the subject of his mai den speech), in consequence of the refusal of Mr. Henry F. Scott, the member for the county, to present it, and support its prayer. Mr. Scott not having, as we think was his bounden duty, ( whatever course he might think proper af terwards to pursue,) met his constituents on that occasion face to face, a conduct very inconsistent with the profes sions he originally made, 41 acting as an independent coun try gentleman, naturally led to some remarks on the part of some of the freeholders present, particularly Sir William Elliot, which Mr. Scott seems to have taken in great dud geon, judging by the two letters which he addressed to Sir Thomas Brisbane, the chairman of the meeting, the first de clining to present the petition, and the other vindicating his conduct since he has been the member for Roxburghshire. The Kelso Mail of the 14th contains the following letter from Sir William Elliot, occasioned by this correspondence,' in which that gentleman says, that during the four years that Mr. Scott has been member, he has uniformly sup- ported the four successive administrations which have been in power—that he has never attended the county meetings, and that he has been uniformly neglectful of the duties which a county member is understood to perform to his constitu ents. Supposing this to be true, and we have no reason to doubt it, we fear that the conduct of Mr. Scott is only like that of most of his colleagues, the Scotch county members, who are only the representatives of certain great interests, and not at all of the people at large. It is high time that an end were put to this mockery of representation, and it is fortunate that we have at last an administration which is determined to undertake the task of making the elected and the electors understand each other better than it appears the Roxburghshire member and his constituents have hitherto done.—Caledonian Mercury. ROXBURGHSHIRE. — We publish the following letter, by Sir W. F. Elliott, to Sir T. M. Brisbane. BIT Dzaa Sta—l have been much surprised at seeing in the last Kelso Mail a letter signed " Henry Francis Scott," addressed to you as Chairman of a late Meeting of Heritors of the County of Roxburgh, in which that individual, after having adopted the novel and extraordi nary course of thus commenting in a letter to you on what took place at a public meeting (from which he admits that he purposely absented himself), has made allusion to me in a manner not to be misunderstood, which demands my immediate attention, and, I am happy to say, af fords me an opportunity of animadverting more particularly on his pub lic conduct, as the Representative of Roxburghstite, which his absence prevented me from doing at the Meeting. I do not consider myself answerable for the correctness of newspaper reports, but the one alluded to in the Kelso Mail is, perhaps, in sub stance, though not in words, tolerably correct, and is very much in uni. son with what I stated at the last General Election in his presence, which' I believe to be an echo of the sentiments of die County from one end of it to the other, and which the cheers of the most numerous as. semblage I ever witnessed in the Town Hall of Jedburgh will abund antly corroborate. The unanimity of his last election, to which he makes such self complacent allusion, may be ascribed (as well as my own vote on that occasion, which i explained at the time) to the absence of any other candidate, and the paucity of the freeholders who attended (not above SO or 40 out of 150 !) strikingly evinced the general feeling of lake. warmness in his favour. I need only mention, as proofs of his want of attention to the busi ness and interests of the county, that, during the last two years, L have regularly attended the county meetings, where I have seldom or ever seen him, and he has been so forgetful of his most obvious duties, as not to furnish copies of Bills pending before Parliament, of the greatest consequence to his constiiuents, the inconvenience of which was seriously felt, when the County met to consider the Scottish Judicature Bill, no copy of that important Bill having been transmitted by him ; and the same neglect has, I understand, been evinced in regard to the Infeft- I ment and Hypothre Bills. During the four years he has sat in Par liament there have been no less than four Administrations, all differ ing more or less in political sentiments, each of which, if I am not much mistaken, he has supported in all their measures, in cluding the memorable question of the Civil List. As to his being " on terms of intimacy and intercourse with the most of his constituents," this is new to me, anti, I imagine, new to the greater part of his constituents residing in Roxburghsltire, who, I believe, seldom see him, excepting on the unavoidable occasion of the usual round of calls previous to an election ; and as to myself, I shall only say, that the absence of any intimacy in that quarter is " a consummation devoutly to be wished" by one who holds such a posi tion in the county as I have the honor to occupy. I shall consider myself fully entitled on all occasions to make any remarks which his public conduct may seem to call forth, so long as he continues the representa tive of Roxburghshire. I feel that an apology is due to you, my dear sir, for having engrossed so much of your time by this communication, which was rendered ne. cessary, by the letter to which I have felt it due to myself to make this reply ; but I am happy in having an opportunity afforded me to express how much I feel gratified at the support which the cause of reform has esoolvtd from one so justly and cordially esteemed, wherever public wolves and private worth are duly valued. I am always yours, very truly, WILLIAM FRANCIS ELLIOTT. With disputes between individuals we never concern our selves, but there is something in this letter, and the one which gave birth to it, that touches a public principle, and calls, we think, for a word or two of animadversion. A meet ing of the county of Roxburgh was held about four weeks ago, and a petition in favour of reform unanimously adopted. Mr. Scott, younger of Harden, the member for the county, was at his usual residence within five or six miles of Jed burgh, the place of meeting, yet did not choose to attend.— Why was he absent ? If he thought reform a good, why not go and give it his support ? If an evil, why not attend to oppose it ? Had he no opinion at all upon the one great question which engages the thoughts of every man ? This is passing! strange in any person who pretends to think for himself," I and especially in one who " resolved to maintain the cha racter of an independent country gentleman." Does the character of an independent man consist in the negation'of all positive ideas—in ignorance of what every body else knows —or in entire indifference to matters in which the whole I people feel deeply interested ? What motive kept Mr. Scott from attending the meeting, must be matter of conjecture. Perhaps, as an independent country gentleman, be did not like to run the risk of being catechised by some of his constituents, as independent as himself. Perhaps trouble some questions might have been put to him—such, for in stance, as these : Did you divide with one ministry against Catholic,Emancipation, and with another ministry in its favor ? Did you as an independent country gentleman, vote in sup port of the useless pensions granted to two scions of noble houses,—commonly called the " Dundas and Bathurst job ?" Did you vote against retrenchment in November last, by op posing the motion for referring the Civil List to a com mittee ? We do not say that the possibility of being so ca tecised kept him away; but we say these questions related to his public duty, and might have been put with great propiety ; and one who scouts the idea of being a " nominal representa tive" should have been able to answer them without com promising his dignity. Mr. Scott, however, chose to stay away. His absence naturally created surprise and disap pointment, and led to a very few animadversions on the part of one freeholder, relating strictly to his public conduct, and which might be called courteous, when compared with the unceremonious language used by constituents to their repre sentatives in England. This troubles Mr. 'Scott's repose, and lie writes a letter to the respectable chairman of the meeting, and publishes it in the " Kelso Mail," couched in such terms as, with a heady and inconsiderate opponent, might lay the foundation of a personal quarrel. It bespeaks, indeed, a very " independent country gentleman"— so inde pendent, as to intimate by his acts, that if his constituents question his conduct, or seek explanation, they must do it at their personal peril. This, we think, is the fair inference from Mr. Scott's letter. We do not say that he meant it to be so received. The letter inserted above is Sir Wm. Elliott's dignified, and very proper reply.—Scotsman. 5 2 PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. GLOUCESTER JOURNAL, Fits. 19. We observe with great pleasure, the practice of appropriating small plots of land, for the purpose of garden ground, amongst agricultural labourers, promises to be extensively adopted. But the benefit which such a plan is capable of effecting, may be set at nouot, unkss the cot tager, wgetber with the opportunity, acquires the knowledge of fully nail ing himself of the advantages thus placed within his reach. The means of obtaining such knowledge, are now readily offered, in a small pamphlet written by Mr. C. Lawrence, of Cirencester. The conversion of the river and harbour of Swansea into a float has long been a subject of much interest and speculation among nautical men and those connected with the trade of the port. The project has been revived, and Meetings of the different interests on the river me 'about to be held. Mr. Telford, in a report in 1827, pronounced it to be "singularly situated for the purpose." Should the proposal for a !rot be rejected, it will be incumbent to provide, by some other ussales, a place of safety for laden vessels, as this deficiency of the port has long been a subject of complaint, particularly since, in consequence of the embankment of the sides of the river, the strength of the current has been increased, and the recesses in which the vessels formerly found shelter have been filled up ; whilst the layers at the Mumbles, owing t eg u rsit of ballast, improperly discharged within the anchorage and an accumulation of sand, are no longer covered with that i soft mud which is so important to vessels when they take the ground. The Duke of Beaufort has expressed his readiness to concur in any measure that may be expedient for the welfare of the port. A ballot took place at Dowlais among the workmen, with respect to the shop established there for their accommodation, the result of which was decidedly in favour of the same. It appears the shop has been some time established by the Dowlaia Company, to supply the neces sities of the workmen, on the principle of the truck system. The pro. victors of that shop being anxious to ascertain the feelings of the men, with regard to the continuance of their establishment, employed two disinterested persons to take a ballot upon the question, whether the workmen were satisfied or not with the principle upon which the shop is carried on. This question was decided in the affirmative, by a ma jority of 1,029 votes. By a solemn deposition made before a Magis trate at Merthyr, it is stated that the ballot was fairly and impartially taken, without the possibility of its being known what vote was given by any of the parties. We have been told that an individual of this city, one of the " free and independent" electors of the great mercantile city in question, who conferred upon one of the candidates the "honour of his vote and in terest" during the late contest, returned home a better man by eight, ponds than he went I—Worcester Herald. CIRENCESTER, FYN. 14. Wheat, 04s to 80s—Barley, SOs to 42s Gd—Oats, 24s to 29s—Beans 33s to 40s. D 1 ED.Mrs. Sarah Darke, sister of the late John Darke, Esq. of Bredon, near Tewkesbury—Euitt Petty, aged 72, of Brok relict of the late Rev. J. Pelly Raw of Weston Subedge—Anna Je mima, relict of the late J. Lane, Esq. of Hertford.—at his baronial mansion, Mangenbury Park, E. J. Chamberlayne, Esq. Lord of the Manor of Mangersbury, Deputy Lieutenant , and Justice of the Peace for tiloucester, Oxford, and Worcester. A conscientious regard to principle always distinguished the public and private acts of this gen. tleman. Asa scholar, he yielded to none of his cotemporaries in clas sical acquirements. Mr. Chamberlayne was the last lineal descendant male of the Faris of Tankerville, who came to England with William the Conqueror, and whose name was changed to that of Chamberlayne [by letters patent from King Stephen, in consequence of that family having held the office of Chamberlain in three successive reigns; and from the wealth and political influence which they enjoyed in the coun cils of succeeding Sovereigns that occupied the British Throne, became allied and connected with the leading nobility of this and the sister kingdom, as well as the house of Nassau. TYNE MERCURY, FEB. 22. A public meeting is called in the Guildhall, of the inhabitants of Newcastle, Gateshead, North and South Shields, on the 24th, for the purpose of establishing a Society to be designated the " Widows and Orphans Temporary Relief Society in Cases of Shipwreck," and appli. cable to persona residing within the limits of this port. A meeting of the merchants, sliipowners, and other inhabitants of the port of Sunderland, interested in the commercial prosperity of the coun try, held a meeting in the Exchange of that town, on Monday last, for the purpose of framing a remonstrance to be forwarded to his Ma. jesty's Ministers against the projected duties on Baltic and Camel= timber. On Friday last, a numerous and respectable meeting of shipowlsem and others was held at North Shields on the subject of the parsed al teration in the duties on timber. Resolutions were passed, stringly de. Ipreeating the change intended to be introduced by the (Antietam of the Exchequer. A petition has been forwarded to the legislature by the MUNI ft Sunderland, praying for the immediate abolition of the tax of M. psr month, now levied on Btitish Seamen for the support of Grewwidt Hospital; and that such sum may In future be appropriated to the re lief of destitute seamen in the ports to which they respectively belong. The Mayor, we are happy to observe, has a petiole moving nightly l about the streets of this town, in addition to the ordinary watchmen. — His Worship is resolved to put down the system of young men standing at the corner of the streets, and annoying Rersons passing. He has given l orders to the police also to put an end to the practice of firing guns in the suburbs of Newcastle. On Saturday a meeting of those persons favourable to the establish ment of a corn market in the Middle-street, was held in Mr. Fletcher's Turk's Head Inn, Bigg Market, Newcastle, Anthony Easterby, Esq. in the Chair. r. Carr reed over Mr. Green's report and survey 'which he bad made of the site, in which it was stated that the expense of carrying the design into effect would amount to 51,482, from which was to be deducted 8,8721. 5000 L of which was expected from the Corporation—as the Town Clerk himself had told them they would not be rash in expecting such a sum from that respectable body—and the rest the value of materials on the site, thus leaving 42,610 to be raised by shares of 501. each, and the rents to be derived from the premises would be quite sufficient to pay 5 per cent on this sum. Six- Men thousand pounds had already been subscribed, and the subserip don paper was then lying for the signature of any of the gentle. men who were present, that wished to forward the undertaking by liking shares. We observed in the Tyne Mercury' of last week that it could never seriously be in the contemplation of his Majesty's Ministers to subject the port of Newcastle to the payment of one shilling for every chaldron of coals sent out of it, while every other pert in the kingdom is free from the impost. Lord Althorp states distinctly that he has not over looked this odious and oppressive tax, which bears exclusively on the Coal Trade of the Tyne; that he intends not to give it up this year, at all events, and that he conceives it is not a regular government tax, but a part of the property of the crews. The inhabitants of Newcastle have received this intelligence with the indignation which becomes then,. They addressed a requisition to the Mayor to call a public meeting on the subject, and his Worship, with equal promptitude, has fixed to morrow, Tuesday, for holding it. Sir M. W. Ridley has expressed his determination now to have the opinion of Parliament on the subject. If this had been done at first, when Lord Althorp distinctly stated that he meant to take the duty off all sea-borne coals carried from one part of the kingdom to the other, with what decency could he have said, " No, I will keep the Richmond shilling : I will liberate the trade of every other port in the kingdom but Newcastle, and 1 will shackle it with a shilling a chaldron for all the coals sent out of it." For the administration to pretend that this tax of the Richmond shilling is not a government tax but a part of the property of the crown, is to add insult to injury. We say in conclusion, that we trust the c oal owners, the ship owners, and all who wish well to the trade of Newcastle. will never rest till they see an end of the Richmond Shilling, for till that tax is removed, it is folly to say that all the coasting duties are repeal ed : the most obnoxious and the most iniquitous remains untouched. Sunderland and other ports are freed at the expense of this ; and we know that many respectable coal owners of the Tyne would rather that all the duties were still paid than that this invidious tax should be left, as it deprives them of the power to compete with other places. MARRIED.-- At Kendal, the Rev. Thee. Aircy, M.A. to Isabella, only daughter of the late Rich. Holme, Esq. DIED.—At Norton, near Stockton, the Rev. John Paulsson, aged 70. CALEDONIAN MERCURY, FEB. 19. The Council met yesterday by adjournment for the purpose of fur ther considering the subject of the new churches proposed to be erected at the Castle Hill, when the Lord Provost stated that he was more cos firmed than ever in the opinion he bad formerly expressed, that the neighbourhood of the site proposed for these churches was by no means such as to all for the erection of so costly a building as that designed by Mr. Hamilton, however much he admired it ; and that the churches to be erected in the Old Town should not be of such a kind as to prove an attraction to the wealthier population of the New Town, but of that description that was most suitable to the parishioners, for whose accommodation alone they were provided. A long and desultory dis cussion now followed, in which perhaps more than a dozen of the mem. hers took a part, but at length, the question seemed to be narrowed to the mere matter of expense, and of good faith towards Mr. Hamilton, and as it seemed to be a very general with not to go beyond 12,0001. it was at length resolved, without any division, to instruct the Church Committee to procure from Mr. Hamilton such new plans, or modifi cations of his present plans, as would bring the total expense of build ing, inclosing, and finishing these Churches, to about 12,0001. The public have a great treat in store in the contents of the Scottish Academy's fifth Exhibition, which opens to them this day. The num ber of subjects, including architectural drawings, miniatures, and enr graving., is 358, of which rather more than a fourth consist of permit% more than a third of landscapes, a few historical 'pictures, and the re mainder of domestic and fancy subjects ef dogs, horses, b..c. Ames the historical subjects, these which will attract every eye are, the Gow nsman' Baptism, by George Harvey. a most admirable comperidos. Mr. Harvey has also given us two admirable single portraits of Core. neuters. We have Mr. Lauder's admirable picture of the Bride of Lainamose, whose merits have essently gained the paintut.the SOL pries at the Liverpool exhibition ; as well as his small scene from the lageed of Montrose, already engraved. Mr. Watson Gordon's picture funs, the Tales of the Crusaders, is a powerful and effective composition. Duncan's picture of Lucy Ashton, at the Merinaiden's Fountain, ex . bibits the artist's powers of conception and execution. From the nu minous landscapes, many moot admirable specimens, it is really difficult ea select. We must content ourselves with referring to the Solway, by Williams ; Stranded Vend, Ewbank ; Dean Castle. Rev. John Thorn, sea ; Kinfauns Castle, and Vale of the (laces,, by D. 0. Hill ; Dorn, Castle, by Williams; Woody Scene, by Benjamin Barker; Mouth of Firth of Forth, by Ewbank ; and the Cathedral of Rotterdam, by Roberts. Such was the fury of the late storm, that • large quantity of shell. fish, oysters, and clams, were driven on the beach at Caroline Park, with the flab in them alive—the shells bearing marks of great abrasion iron the action of the shingle with which they were accompanied. We bdleve this is a very rare circumstance, as none of the people in tlo =bourhood ever remember to have observed any thing of the kind At the fourth evening meeting of the Society of Antiquariuns tat Scotland, twenty-three small silver coins, with inscriptions in an on. ental character, from the Ruins of the Tartar Settlement of 'Bulgaria on the Wolga, were presented by John Gregory, Esq. advocate. Au account by Captain Jr. E. Alexander, was then read of the discovery in the wall of the palace, Castle of Edinburgh, of the remains of a child, which were wrapped in a shrowd of silk and cloth of gold. Several of the bones bate been presented to the society by the Reverend Mr. Chapman. One-fiftieth part of the grain, the produce of Scodand,has never been sold In bulk—in point of fact, there are not more than ten markets ir. Scodand,where grain is sold in Scotland. By stuffing a leg of mutton with spinach, you give it the taste of venison. We regret to announce the death of Mr. Robert Brown, late farmer in Markle, and well known to the world as author of a Treatise on Rural Affairs. He died at Drylawhill, East Lothian, on the 14th inst. after a few hours' illness, at an advanced of life. Mr. Brown was born in the village of East Linton, an d I n was intended for a different profession, but the bent of his genius soon led him to agri. cultural pursuits, which he long followed with singular success. He was a contemporary and intimate acquaintanse of the late George Rea de, Esq. of Phantassie, and to both individuals modern agriculture is greedy indebted. Mr. Rennie confined his attention chiefly to opera tive agriculture, and his fine estate bore ample traces of the skill with which his plans were laid, and of the accuracy with which they were executed. While Mr. Brown followed close on Mr. Rennie in the field, the energies of his mind were directed more particularly to the literary department of agriculture, and his "Treatise on Rural Affairs " contains imperishable evidence of the admirable system followed by the two friends, and of the vigour of the writer's mind. Mr. Rennie's ob servations had to be viewed personally. We announced in our last the death of Mr. Robert Tullis, the printer and proprietor of the Fife paper. Mr. Tullis, as a man of hostiles-, was known in a very wide circle, in which the calm and steady punctu. ality of his conduct made him at once valued and respected. He was long the proprietor of an establishment connected with bookselling, larger than most that are to be found out of the metropolis; and his enterprise and good sense gave to its various branches an extension and stability, greater, we believe, than was anticipated even by his warmest friends. He was the first who established a printing-press in Fife, and being appointed printer to the University of St. Andrew's (his native city) he engaged in the publication of a series of the Latin Classics, edited by the celebrated Dr. John Hunter of that place, which, from their correctness, as well as their typographical beauty, will perpetuate the names of both editor and printer. MARRIED.—At Viewforth, Mr. Geo. Anderson, of Gladswood, to Miss Christina Beatrice Patison,—Alexander Buchanan, Esq. Slate. field, Glasgow, to Catherine Gairdner, eldest daughter of Stewart Jolly, Esq.--Jobn Ramsay, Esq. of Bans, to Susan, second daughter of the late Alex. Jones, of Piunedden.—At Fortrose, George G. Mackinnon, Dto Miss Barbara Madman, of Btoomhill. lED—At Wick, aged 81, Alex. Miller, Esq. DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER, FEB. Yesterday evening, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant held his first Drawing-room for the season, and it was numerously attended. There were present — The Lord Chancellor and the hon. Miss Plunketts, the Master of the Rolls, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Baron, Mrs. and the Miss Joys, the Attorney-General, the Com mander of the Forces, Lady and the Misses Byng, the Commander of the Garrison and the Lady Blakeney, the Misses Magee, the Under. Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant, the Adjutaat-General and Mrs. D'Aguilar, the Quartermaster General and Lady Campbell, the sere. ral members of his Excellency's Household, Earl and Countess of Roue. Ladies—Lamb, Meyrick, Cloncurry, Fitzroy, Jane Parsons, Hod son, Lees, Burke, Morgan, Louth, Gore, Booth, Butler, C. Fitzroy. Lords—Clanmorris, Fitzroy, Louth, Lovaine. Bishops—Down and Connor, Killaloe. Many thousand of people assembled near Ballina, on Tuesday, the Bth instant, and were proceeding towards the town. Several anis tates went out to meet them, but their intresdes that they would dis perse produced no effect ; upwards, It is said, of five thousand per sisted in proceeding, upon which, fearing fatal consequences might re sult from such a large body of people entering the town in a tumul tuous manner, the magistrates hastily returned and ordered out the mi litary, and the people finding the approaches to the town thus occupied, after some short delay dispersed. It was expected that a similar ga thering would take place near Crossmolina on Tuesday Int. The be.. rosy of Tyrawley has also been kept in a constant state of alarm during some time past by the nocturnal outrages of armed parties of men. Se veral pounds, in which cattle under distress foe rent were confined, have been levelled with the ground. In consequence of the recent address from Newry to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, • declaration has been published in the Newry Settetiner, to which upwards of five hundred respectable signatures are affixed, disclaiming that address, lest it should be construed into an approval of the recent prosecutions. There are no fewer than five branches of coal tax in Dublin, viz ; The Ballast-office tax, the Wide-street tax, the Corporation tax, and (the most Impudent and intolerable of all) the Guild of Merchant's tax. The mat justifiable of these taxes are, no doubt, three times be yond the necessary amount. An extremely numerous and highly respectable meeting of the friends of Parliamentary Reform in Cork, took place on Monday. The entire building, galleries and all, was crowded to excess, and hundreds had to go a way for want even of standing room. At half-past twelve o'clock, F. B. Warmish, Esq. was called to the Chair. Dr. Baldwin came for ward and addressed the assembly in a long and brilliant speech ;he was followed by Messrs. T. Lyons, Stawell, Dowden, Ronayne, and J R. Barry,—when half-past four o'clock having arrived, Doctor Baldwin proposed an adjournment, which being put from the Chair, was carried, and the assembly, first giving three cheers fora repeal of the Union, separated. Archdeacon Smith died on the 30th of January instant, and on the 31st his place of Manner of St. Patrick's (8001, per annum) we , filled up by the Rev. J. Magee. Rector of Drogheda, by the sign ma nual of the Archbishop of Dublin. On Sunday last, the inhabitants of Kilcooney, in the Union of Head ford, assembled for the purpose of petitioning for a repeal of the Union. MARRIED.—Michael Bayne, Esq. of this city, to Catherine Maria, eldest daughter of the late James Biggs, Esq. North Wall.-- T. Conan, of Cove, Esq. to Frances, second daughter of John O'Con nor, Esq.—M. A. Beecher, of Hollybrook, Esq. to Eliza, daughter of the late D. Sheeran), Esq. of Cork.—T. Hamilton, R. N. to Anne. second daughter of John Millet, Esq. of Ballintra.—ln Clogheen, Mr. Thos. Rudkin, to Ellen, second daughter of Francis O'Brien, Esq. DIED.-At Rathmines-house, Aquila Kent, Esq. of College- Rev. Dr. Hales, Rector of Killeshandra and Chancellor Mallow, C. Haines, E'q —ln Cork, Joshua Carroll, Esq.—ln Killarney, Lucy, relict of Samuel Sealy, of Dingle, Esq. BIRTHS. The 23d inst. in Wiginort-street, the lady of John Jacob bu:ton• Esq. M.P. of a daughter.—The 19th inst. at Mershanrhateh, the lady of Sir E. Knatchbull, of a son.—The 24th inst. in Harley-street, Mrs. Berkeley Maxwell, of a son. IidARRIED. At Trinity Church, Sr. Marylebone, on the 15th inst. the Rec. Stair Douglas, only son of the late Rear-Admiral Stair Douglas, to Maria Edith, youngest daughter of Woodbine Pariah, Esq. of Upper Har ley-street. DIED. 'the 23d Inst. in the 26th year of his age, Henry Hamlin, eldest nos of Mr. H 1 eete, surgeon, Thrapstone. Northamptonshire.—The Od inst. in Finsbury-square, at the house of his son-in-law Dr. B.:0 bington, Benjamin Foyle, in the 80th year of hie age.—Thc 22d inns a: his father's, Church-street, Kensington, J. Bell, jun. EN. formerly ( ' Bordeaux, and lately of New York.—The 12d inst. in Bruton-street Dowager Lady Scott, aged 82.—The 19th inst. In Lower College-greer. Bristol, Catherine Elizabeth Biabton, wife of W. Owen Jackson. F l .9' barrister-at-law.—The 19th inst. at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Capt. .I. l ` • Cairnes, R.N. youngest son of the late Major W. Cairnes, of his Ms. jesty's 36th regiment.—The 24th inst. at Stratford-place, in the 61 . 1 .. year of her age, Mrs. Drummond , relict of the late C. Drummond, kol. of Charing.crou.—At Cupar Fife, on the 3d inst. It. Tullis, bookseller. —At Edinburgh, on the 12th inst. Dr. J. Hare, jun. late of Calcutta.-- At Edinburgh, on the Bth inst. Mary Gordon, wife of T. Abercromby Duff s Rs + arm:att.—At Edinburgh, on the 9d inst. Mrs. Eliatke'h Waugh, relict of C. Scott, Esq. of Woll —At Edinburgh, on the 1.1 inst. Isabella Heron, and, on the 9th inst. Jane Christiana, daughter' of the Rev. C. Watson, Minister of Bumtisland.—At Edinburgh. on the Bth inst. J. Walker, jun. Esq. W.S. I . T 2B L . O I N S D w IN Af B ie R rn I oon DGE____ ........ TO4. IOII : W 3IO . • HIGH WA' Morning 111.91 P LONDON z Mated ma k'ubllsborl by JOHN MAYNE.% at the Etna Orrzcz, No. 1, Pickett.pbox, Tswple Bar.