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PRIOR of : S l4). KS .%T TWO aci.oCK. 3 p Ct. Comm i 74 81 i , , r rt. i 8'26, Ink 7 4 Coal. for Ace. 781 7/ 81 ' I , • • A , m.Jan.lB6o. 161 MN 1 8 per Cent. Red. 79 8/ / Old Annuities New. 31 per Cr. ma, £lOOO Ruh. 13111. 18 17 31 per Ct. Red. 871 4 "500 Ditto 3/ per Cent. New, 871 (4 7 ' tlOO and X2OO Do. 17 19 FOREIGN STOCKS. Perlman. 13,ip 14. ltonsian, 9212; for Acct, Spanish, 1714. Sp .nish, I stn. 13.1 1 .. French 5 per rent, 92f 20c ; 3 per Ct, S7f 15c. Pais Ezchange on London. 25f 30c. Amsterdam Exchange, sight, 11.18!, ;IT imburgh, 8.13-11. Irish 38 per Ct. /Al PA N I ES. Irish Grand Canal, 7I Forth and Clyde, £625 Dv. & Man. Railway,ll 86 toll 90 Cromford, £45 Guardian Albion Fire, £75 Alliance, £8 Sa County, £4O Bolanm Mince, £lBO Steam Navigation, (iis. 15. 'ISO COMMERCE. CAPS—(9=g.; £9 to £lB Elton—Butts, god to 23d; Buenos Ayres (A.) 9d to lON. Come—Jam. middling, A'sl 14s to ,C 3 3s; Den,. and Berbhe, £2 Ss to £4 2s; Mocha, £3 5s to £6 10s. 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Toescco—Msryland,3o to ; Virginia, 5 to 6; Cuba, 15 to 18. t)u.—Flor. £1 is Od half chest; Linseed, 3s Os Od per cwt ; Pale Rape, £2 104. BRANDT—Bordt aux, 5.1 to 51 6d. Rust—Jam. (14) 24 34 to 2s 54 ; Dem (10 a co) 24 to es 2d. WHISKY, 104 94 to 11% GIUMVA, 2s 64 to 2s 9d. PORT—Good, t 35 to X4O. &may—Good, 825 to £4O. nunnu.—Lonl P. Est) to f4 O. ONE o'CLocit —Barometer,2943 ; Thermometer, 50. Wind N.W. Weather, windy, with Amen. THE EVENING STAR. LONDON. _-..,_. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26. The SPEAKER of the House of Commons took the chair this day at twelve o'clock, when an immense number of Members were present. We will give the proceedings in a Second Edition. This morning, Mr. BURGE, Mr. MEYER, Mr. CoL- 1 cauxot.'N, and Mr. A. BROWN, as a Deputation of Mer chants trading to Jamaica, Barbadoes, St. Kitt's, and Antigua, had an interview with Lord GODERICII, his MAJESTY'S Secretary of State for the Colonies, at his Lordship's Office in Downing-street. This day despatches from Major-General Sir JAMES Lvow, Governor of Barbadoes, dated the 9th of January ; and from St. Thomas's, dated the 26th following, were received at the Colonial Office, in Downing-street. A rumour has reached us from Paris, that Gen. Sour LT has resigned. The Constitutionnel of Thursday, and other Paris Jour malt., were received at a late hour this day, by express. We have time and room only to mention, that official intelli gence has been received in Paris, of the widely ex tended efforts of the patriots in Italy. We observe, by an article from the frontiers, dated the 15th instant, that several Austrian tegiments have received orders from General FRIMONT to be ready for marching; and thirty thousand men from Styria are about to reinforce the army of Lombardy. A letter from Milan, of the 14th, affirms that the authorities there, have officially announced the resolution of the Cabinet of Vienna, not to acknowledge the principle of non-intervention ; and, accordingly, General Nt• Tis to proceed to work, with sixty thousand men. Here then—if this news be true—is an end of the non-in terventional policy ; and WAR must inevitably ensue. The substance of the intelligence in the Brussels Papers, is contained in the following quotations from the Journal des Pays Bas. " The conference of London regard their mission as terminated. Bel gium will continue to deny the competency of these odious mediators, and will re-assume the glorious attitude which she had in September. We are absured that the Provisional Government, referring to the solemn protest of the National Congress, has returned to Lord Ponsonby the new protocol. This will not be enough. h it not time also to leave off negotiations which must conduct us to dishonour and ruin, and bring about a counter-revolution ? Ts not the monu.nt arrived to place the decision of our destinies in the courage of our brave soldiers, and to nitwit all its intensity to the revolutionary movements which diplomacy has endeavoured to paralyse ? Ir is to these important questions that we wish to call the attention of the Na tional Congress. War cannot be more fatal to us than diplomacy ; every protocol is a victory for King William. In the Sitting of the Congress on the 22d inst. a Regency seemed to be determined upon ; and the proposed candidates were M. DE SIEKODE, and M. SURLET DE CHOKIER. No domestic sign of the times has delighted us so much, since Parliamentary Reform has attracted so large a share of public attention, as the universal, distinct, and unambigucus tone, with which it has been called for, throughout all the districts of Scotland. The intelligence of that portion of the British Empire had, during the early part of the first French revolution, not been backward, in displaying those fond gratulations, at the progress of legislative improvement, which that event, in its earliest stages, occasioned, in the ardent and good, all over Europe ; but the unfortunate distractions of the French brought the cause of reform into discredit; and the antagonist forces, all over Europe, were vigi lant, active, and obtained power adequate tocheck evenallpub lie aspirations, for the cause of reform. The laws of Scotland, more effectually formed for restraining popular exoitement, were successfully employed to persecute ; and the result was, that the reformers in Scotland became, as those in Spain now are, quiet, because subdued. But the ex travagance and corruption of the very measures taken to check the progress of improved legislation, has weakened the antagonist forces. The system of influence ceases as industry becomes unproductive, and as the taxes become dif ficult to pay. The new times have brought into power, an administration qualified, and desirous of carrying on to victory, the very banners which had been proscribed ; and we have seen, as might have been expected, that all the po pulation of the British Isles, possessed of intelligence and generous sentiment, have already rallied around it. We have been led into these remarks from perusing the article on Parliamentary Reform, which will be found in our last page. We have thought it our duty to extract it, as it shows the kind of representation which Scothard has hi therto enjoyed. That was, however, too well known to require further illustration, for no parliamentary corruption, or shame less abuse in England, has been equal to that in Scotland ; but it likewise shows, that at last, the respectable gentry of Scotland are taking up the cause of their country with spirit. The excellent remarks of the Scotinern on the tran saction, preclude the necessity of farther observa- , tion,—only we may add, as informati on , th a t Mr. 1 Mr. SCOTT, the present representative, is not qualified for his seat by the possession of land, but parchment ; for in Scotland, under the venni system, the latter is equal I to the former. Lord B ito vo it sat in tl --- 73Wrs, last night, brought in hi:; second bill—that which relates to his improvements in the Bankrupt practice ; and he afforded a prospect, that as I soon as the practice was amended, the principle of the law itself might be corrected. Lord Lv x DIIUItST explained some points on which he differed in opinion, chiefly in i regard to Lunacy and Bankrupt practice ; but not militating against the general principles of his successor. What was said by the Learned Lord, as to the qualifica tions of the Ccmmissioners of Bankrupts for the situations they hold, was not, in our opinion, meeting the principal objection to that species of Court. Were the Commissioners! all fitted for the Woolsack, in learning and ability, they could not do justice, under the circumstances in which, ac cording to the present system, they are compelled to act. The celebrated reply of De WITT, when asked how he got through so much business—je ne fais qu'une chose a Ia fois has nothing in it; or surely the Judge who attempts to decide several causes at one time, and in such a noise and confusion that neither can be heard, requires more ability than the Dutch Statesman would pretend to. Petitions poured in, as usual, on the important subjects which so properly interest the public. In the Commons, Sir JAMES Oa A II A NI, First Lord of the Admiralty, introduced the Navy Estimates, and surprised the House by a statement of various gross abuses, and scan dalous frauds, systematically practised for many years on the House and the public, by falsifications of former esti mates, and misapplications of the sums voted.— , Through a long period, the public have been asto nished at the extravagance displayed in public works, and other jobs ; but no one suspected that the Loyal confidence, with which the navy estimates had boen voted, had been so far abused, as that money voted for plausible objects was, by system, applied to other objects, never sanctioned by Parliament. This fraud appears to have been carried on to the amount of millions, even within few years. Sir JAMES GRAHAM exposed the whole, or, at least, the grosser cases, in a manly manner; and the exposure filled the house with astonishment, as it must the public with indignation. It appears that as expences in this service are often un certain, so credit has been taken in the estimates for lamer sums, for particular services, than that service required ; 1 and, then, instead of the money being carried over to another year to the credit of the public, it has been expended on other objects ad libitum ! Thus, Sir JAMES stated, that the Victualling Board had contrived, in this way, to' expend without any approbation. sanction, or knowledge of Parliament, no less than £155,334 cn certain works at Portsmouth ; and on others, at Plymouth, for which only, £74,000 had been granted, £2 . 29,440 had been expended ! In like manner, £lO,OOO had been expended at Ascension, without the privity of the House ; and £325,980 had been expended at Woolwich, instead of .£184,465 voted by Parlia ment. So £7,908 had been expended at Leith, on works, the completion of which would cost ether £lO,OOO ; and yet the House had not been consulted ! £50,000, too, bad been ex pended atßombay,and only £26,210 appeared in the accounts. Even in the dock yards, no less than 3,100 men were em ployed„ beyond the number sanctioned by parliament, had paid by surpluses from other items. Only last year 3,705,000 was voted for the Dock Yards ; but only 2,675,0001. actually expended in them. Other facts, equally extraordinary, were adduced ; and Mr. H V /dE, and other Members, pledged themselves to institute further rigid enquiry. To the credit of the Administration, it has offered security for the future, in an improved mode of stating the accounts ; but the public will demand indem nity for the past, and will consider such a statement as a proof, that the stewards of the public purse stand in greater need of reform, than was ever previously suspected. But, notwithstanding these very important discoveries, we are sorry to say, that no immediate public benefit results— half a million more than last year being required for the Navy, and a vote for an additional 3,000 men—that ii, 22,000 seamen, and 10,000 marines. Sir G. CLERK displayed much acrimony in his reply to Sir J. GRAHAM ; but the latter retorted, and adduced a new case of misappropriation in the works at Weevil, for which it appeared only 74,0001. had been voted, and no less than 220,0001. expended ; even 85,6001. last year, and without cognizance of Parliament ! Other minor points sink into insignificance compared with these extraordinary statements. A Deputation of the London calico printers, headed by Sir F. Burdett, Sir R. Wilson, Alderman Wood, and Sir R. Price, attended at the Treasury yesterday, and had a con ference with Viscount Althorp. By the arrival of the Dutch mail ice arc put in possesbion of official details of the Polish operations. These will be found interesting. WARSAW Frs. _14.. The Slats Casette of this city publishes the following news, stated to be official, from the head-quarters of the Paoli army:— On the Bth inst. the following movements took place s—General Suchorzewski drove the enemy, at seven o'clock in the morning, from Siedlce. General Zyminiki, with his column, passed over the Liwlec, ass marched forwards to drive the enemy from Wengrow, which was occupied by .two regiments of Hulans of General Wlodek, with six cannon. On the appearance of General Zymirski, the enemy imme• diately retired from Wengrow ; General Zymintki Immediately pursued him into the village of Ponewski, but the enemy effected his retreat to 1 Kosow. Thus, Wengrow is in oar hands, as well as Miedzna and Siedlce with the magazine. In the attack upon Siedlce, a detach ment of the first regiment of Ilulans drove the. whole of the enemy's squadron out of the town, killed two, and made seven prisoners. The enthusiasm with which our Huhn. fought is not to be described. As the enemy has entered the country at many points, the Corn. mander.in.ehief has judged it necessary to concentrate the divisions of the army to wait fir the attack, and not to encourage the inhabitants to resist without supporting them with the regular army. In fact all the movements of the enemy seem to be calculated to divide our force. They no where attack our positions, and wherever our columns appear they do not oppose them. In the same manner as at Siedlce and Wengrow, the enemy having been attacked by our Van guard at Ostro. lenka, retired precipitately ; and, on our further advance, left Lomat. The journals of this city give the following particulars of the position of the two armies : The whole extent of the frontier, from Kasten to Uscilug, which the Russians have passed in many points, is about 70 German (300 Eng.) miles. The Woywodship of Augustowo, which is a narrow tract be. tween Russia and Pruuia, is already occupied by the Russians ; but according to the Warsaw Gazette,' hi. Godlewski, commissioner of the government had excited insurrection in that province.in the rear of the Russians, and advancing from Seyny with a moveable column had passed the Niemen, and made an incursion into Lithuania. Accord in; to the Polish Courier, the authorities with the public coffers had kit Lomu, on the approach of the Russians, and arrived in the night of the Bth in this city. The little town Szezuzyn, close to the Prus sian frontier, has been occupied by the same regiment of Cossacks, under Colonal Grekow, which was formerly stationed there for a long time, but on the breaking out of the revolution, had concentrated itself and fought its way to the Russian frontier town of Gonionde. On the 10th, the Russian advanced posts bad pushed to Aliastkow beyond Ostrolenka, but as the above official report says. had been driven back beyond Lonna. On the whole course of tue Bug, the Russians have alreadyiadvanced from six to eight German miles over the liontier.— On the other hand, the Commander-in-Chief, Prince Radziwill had moved his head-quarters from Okunlew to Itadzytnin, where Prince Crartorvaki paid him a visit on the 10th ; and from that place to Iblonna, where they were yesterday the 13th, when M. Bazy kowsks, Member of the Government, Count Malackowski, Mini ster for Foreign Afialrs ; and Counsellor Plichta, Secretary to the Government, went thither. It same that the Commander in -Chief, us the Warsaw Gaselte says, has expressed a wish to have some members of the government constantly at headquarters as Commissioners in order to give, in the name of the government, the necessary orders in case the communications between the head-quarters and the city of Warsaw should be cut off. According to the Polish Gasellean account has been received, emongst many other reports, of engagements in that quarter, of an action between the Russians and Poles at Jadow, in which two regiments of Russian cavalry are reported to have been beaten, and ten cannon taken ; of 24 wounded who were brought from:the field to the hospital at Warsaw. one is said; to have died on the way. General Chlopicki hats joined the army, and, as the Warsaw Gazelle says, serves as a private soldier in the vanguard. A great quantity of arms is expected in our capital from the provinces. All the troops which were in garrison in the capi tal, or have been newly organised, are said to have now marched out, but regiments from the provinces daily pass the capital. Workmen are still constantly employed upon the fortifications and ramparts of the city ; a number of heuvy cannon are placed upon the eminence before the ruined palace of Dynapowakie. It is not certninly known where the head-quarters of Field Marshal Diebitscb now arc. According to some, they are at Biala, and to others, at Louisa. The Warsaw Gazelle says, that he intended to advance to Paltuak, north of Warsaw, where there is a regi ment of Polish Hulans. The Ruuian corps under General Smuts and General Geismar, which entered Poland from wlodawa, has di rec-ed its march to Lublin, whence it intends to proceed to cross the Vistula at Kazimiers and Janowiee. The regiment of Cossacks in this corps is commanded by Duke Adam of Wurtemberg. On the 9th, in the morning, the Cossacks entered Lublin without resistance, having, as the above-mentioned Journal reports, sent a notice train the vil lage_of Tatary to the President of Lublin, threatening totally to destroy the town if be did not come with a white flag to meet them. The same Papa has the following account from Lubartow, which lies some miles to the north of Lublin. _ On the ' iith, his Royal Highness the Duke of Wurtemburg at the head of 160 Cossacks, entered the little town of Leubartow, and Imme diately took possession of all the letters and papers at the Post-office— They did thel same in all the public offices where those who wore the national cockade, were ordered to lay it aside. Hereupon the inhabitants of the town were summoned to take the oath of allegiance to the Emperor Nicholas, and the Burgomaster was ordered not to suffer any body to be In the town, and particularly most strictly to watch the Countess Malachowsks. The latter, however, succeeded in escaping, In company with several other persons. Ilia Royal Highness thereupon left our town and proceeded to Lublin." The same paper reports from Lublin that General Geismar has sent an officer to General Sierawaki, governor of Lampe, summoning him to keep the oath that he had taken to the Emperor Nicholas, and to deli ver up the kittens. He, however, refused, affirming that hems there, not in the name of the Emperor, but that of the free and independ of nation ; and that he would defend the town with the last drop of his blood. This iottress is now said to be besieged by the Russians, under I General Geismar. The State Gazette' says that the roads are very bad and the operations extremely difficult, a thaw having set in, as the ther mometer is at Meg. above zero. It was reported that in coosequehce of this, the Russian army is retiring at many points, especially from the province of Lublin. On the 11th and 12th, there' were debates in both Chambers. Two laws respecting the internal regulation of the Chambers were adopted, and several communications were made from the diplomatic committee, of documents relative to the supposed intention of Aussie, to employ the Polish army in a war as a vanguard, as has been affirmed in the French Chamber of Deputies. Those documents are to be printed. BERLIN, FEB. 17. St. &hula, Sch. Four per Cent. 87i. Pr. English Loan, 1819, Five per Cent. 974. Do. Do. 1822, Five per Cent. U. Do. Do Bonds, Four per Cent. 734. —Prtusiau State Gawk, Feb, 18. THE HAG E, 20. The 14th anniversary of the birthday of His Royal Highness the eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Orange was solemnized yeste:. ter day in the usual manner. There is a report of an important protocol of the four Powers, England, Austria, Russia, and Prussia, in which, it is said, the French Cabinet is called upon to declare itself explicitly respecting its political plans. His Majesty's frigate the Sambre, Rear-Admiral Van de Sande, arrived on the 18th in the Texel, from the Mediterranean. THE HAGUE, Fax. 22. On the 18th of this month, Messrs. Abercrombie and White ar rived at Maestrecht, whither they were sent by Lord Ponsonby. They received from the Governor of that fortress every information respect. ing the state of things as it was on the 21st November last, and as it now is, the hostilities that had taken place that morning at Smeermaar, induced those gentlemen to go to that place. They were accompanied by St. Zugler, who commanded, the reconnoissance that took place on the morning of the lath. On this occasion, they con. vinced themselves of the falsehood of the positive statement of the Eel. gian papers that that village bad been entirely burnt down. On their arrival at paper, the Post. which left there on the morning hhel withdrawn, probably be had received orders to that effect, in order, as usual, to deceive these gentlemen respecting the real state of things. lien. Debbets ascribed to the ammo cause the disappearance of other post. Gen. Debbets had also received a letter from General Daine, respecting the firing at the reconnoitring party at Smeermaar. He makes some apo. logics, and says that he has learnt with respect to what had passed, and that he is resolved strictly to observe the armistice. Bora Lz Duc, Fan. 20.—For these two days past there have been disturbances at Liege among the workmen without employment, but it does not appear what truth there is in these accounts. CITY, ONE O'CLOCK. This is paying and receiving day in the Consol Market of the differences of accounts. We hear at present of one or two failures in the house ; but they are not as yet declared, These failures are in consequence of the heavy one which took place out of the house. Consols, which left off yester l i - day at 78 to I, opened at the same price this morning, with little doing, and they may be quoted at present 78i to In the Foreign Funds nothing doing as yet. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The French express having arrived, Consols are at present 7811 for the Account; it brings the French 3 per cents. 58-15, which is an improvement on the last prices. It was generally said at Paris that Soult had resigned. One defaulter has been declared in the house, but of minor consequence. In the Foreign market little or nothing doing. SPIRIT OF THE JOURNALS. HZRALD.—There is no part of the Chancery system that more quires reform than that which appertains to the guardianship of lunatics . Of this most helpless class of human.sufferers, it appears, from the Lord Chancellor's statement, there are no leas than 4410 under the ac . tual protection of the Court—if that can be called protection which hi. lows, as we can now affirm, on the authority of the same ex a lt e d l er , sonage, such treatment to be adopted towards insane persons as is cal. culatedito make them less sane. It is a curious coincidence that to e Court, whose practice seems most admirably devised to driv e I , c o, mad, should have the care of lunatics ; and that its mode of providing for the comfort and security of those whose reason it had, in ti.e n ee instance, unsettled, should tend to make them madder than before. Csanwicnn.—The States which have succeeded in teroluiturde nte themselves in Italy contain a population of nearly two millions. n e . , extending as they do, one side to the very frontiers of the AUSOILO sessions, they cut off the rest of Italy from Austrian interference : ;,,.d thus a free course is left to the people of the various States to giv.. to their wishes. It is said in some of the Paris Journals ::..e a„,. tria has announced a determination to put down the revolts:hill . Italy. If there be any foundation for such a report, e, must view it as the signal for war. It ni.ey be very era that a rigid adherence to the principle of non-intervention till the of the rest of Italy should be revolutionised, might render the posse:to w , of Lombardy exceedingly precarious. But, because the people of L , tat. hardy are impatient of the Austrian yoke, ought the rest of Italy to L. condemned for ever to languish under governments they detest ? How. ever, be this as it may, the principle of nonintervention having be e: , made the order of the day, the Austrians, in such a case, would Le, l a course, the aggressors in an European warfare. Trains.—There are various rumours in circulation, and opinien.e formed, as to the stability of Ministers. It is difficult to touch tape.: a subject, whist new facts are starting up every huur which essentially alter its aspect; but we see no reason why the Ministry, as a Mithstrj, should not stand. There is nothing but the Ito:form Bill whin need overthrow it ; and we know that its overthrow, it it were for no other cause than that it would suspend reed put .0 hazard Lord Brougham's great measure of Chancery Reform, would be an infinite national calamity. But the shier of Theseus, at Athens, was changed piece by piece, as the timbers Wen remarked to be unsound, till it was made wholly new, and still :it: identity ofthe vessel was preserved; son partial change might be begun by the removal of sonic members from the present administration, sue the whole, as a whole, would gather strength. Lord Grey knows...- he must know—what the public opinion is wish respect to the number of his connexions associated with him In place, and be ought to respect that opinion, or it will be too strung for him. His Lordship cannot be so sordid as to wish to concentrate a mass of public wealth in his own family; but what might have been inadvertence at first, will assume a different character if per severed in aft r it is exposed, aid the disgust which it occasions stated, There is one person, in particular, unfavourably known in the city tin his connexion with the celebrated Greek Loan. This person should have shrunk from public life altogether; but particularly he should not have been placed in a situation connected with the revenues of the country ! Lord Althorp's financial plan has so ma:.) redeeming qualities in it, by the removal of the taxes in coals and candles, that we regret it should not have been more palatable. But it will be observed that its good parts are obvitiab and simple : they spring from the heart, and not from the head. Tie discovery of them required no particular penetration or sagacity. B e . yond these all is perplexity, obscurity, Crotchets, and Poulett Thou:- son. Our people are to emigrate, and tobacco to immigrate: we woo ti Poulett Thomson would emigrate from the Ministry, and some better man immigrate into his place. Still, were these changes made, the Reform Bill would be the touchstone of the Ministry. Had there been no Reform Bill in agitation, the changes proposed might save tie Ministry. Even with the changes, were there time to bring them about, the Reform Bill may overthrow it. We have heard that the gnut mass of opposition mean now to meet Lord John Russell's bill by some reform plan of a less extensive kind, some minor or partial reform. If so, they can hardly have the Duke of Wel. ling:on with them. His Grace is not very well able to make himself intelligible, when he attempts to manage an argument, or to bind together a train of reasoning ; but nothing can be clearer or more decisive titan his deciarttion that he was an enemy to all reform : he cannot be mistuken in a simple assertion. We contemplate with t e a: the future state of the country, if the people's just expectation of a re. form in Parliament be disappointed. We fear we shall have to &sale something more than the dissolution of a Ministry. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. MANI:MILEY V. MANCIIESTER CANAL COMPANY. _ __ _ This day Mr. KNIGHT moved for an injunction to restrain the de. fendants from prosecuting their petition, at present pending in Par. 'lament for a bill for leave to change part of the canal into a rail.rocd. Sir CHARLES WETHERELL was heard in reply. The VICE.CHANCILLOR.—It appears that the question was agit.a. ed in the company so early if Sept. last, and certain resolutions passed on the 13th January ; and on the 15th of February the petition was presented. On the 9th Feb. the plaintiff purchased five of the shares of a Mr. Fletcher, who had been present at the meeting of the 13th January. It also appeared that the plaintiff' purchased those shares solely for the purpose of thwarting the object of the company, and serving a rival company of which he was a shareholder. Under these circumstances, and as the plaintiff was cognizant of the previous facts, the injunction must be refused with costs. XAV.4L INTELLIGEXCE. MAILS Anne= Tins Day.—Dublin, ; Waterford, 1; Holland, I , Leeward Islaid% 1. Drat, Fn. 9.s.—Wind N.W.—Arrived from the River, the La.'y Nugent, Wimble, for Bombay. PORTSMOUTH, FIR. 25.—Wind N.W. to W.—Sailed his tje-ty' ship Childers, for Lisbon, and his Majesty's ship Onyx, on a crui,e As rived the Arachne, Munden, from Leghorn. TOPSHAM, Fss. 24.—Arrived the Ebenezer, Holman, from St. Se bastian. Hamm., Eta. 25 —Arrived the Portia, Martin, from Odessa , Lady Emma, Dodd, from Denia ; and Hawk, from Genoa. _ _ Livaarooc, Fes. , 2.4.—Arrivid the Olinda, Robinson, from Per nambuco; Vernon, Duffel!, from New Orleans; Murcia, Henson, from Savannah . and SeaHower, from Trieste. Off the port, the Caledonia, from Virginia, and Nies Merrilies ' front Afrlcr. Coleus, Fes. 25.—Arrived the Ranger, Robertson, from Matinzat. Maros!, Fn. 23.—Arrived the Jessie, Wilford, from Charleston. and Triton. Owens, from London. Newer, Fan. 24.-:-Arrived the Billow, Elder, from SG John's, N.B. PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT. FALMOUTH, FED. 24.—Wind N.Y.—Arrived the Camden packet. Tilly, from the Leeward Islands—sailed from Barbadoes January 9th, Antigua 13th, Tortola 17th, and S.. Thomas's the 28th, with mails.— Jan. Bth, his Majtry's packet Emulous arrived at Barbados*, and sailed the 9th for Jamaica. Jan. 24th, his Maimey's packet Orsum ase;ved m St. Thomas's from Falmouth. Doc. 118th, the Cam 1, in lat. 18. 43. long. 32.32. W. spoke the American be* Man, 72 days from Hamburg h for Philadelphia. Feb. 15th, lat. 44. 49. long. 27.33. spoke'the American brig Roscius, of Boston. Feb. 23d, in lat. 49. 40. long. 7. spoke toe hark Asia, of London, for St. Vincent's. Also sr rived, the Andes, Burton, from Dorchester, N.B. in 3 7 days, for Lon don, with:lois of bulwarks, sails, and several things off the deck—boats stovtd, and otherwise damaged, having experienced very heavy gales of wind on the passage. Sailed the Andes. Burton, for London. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from Lord Aylmer, the Governor of Lower Canada. The Prince Talleyratul, the French Ambassador, Prince Fsterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, the Baron de Wessen burg, Minister from Austria (on a special mission), and M. Bermudez, the Spanish Minister, had interviews with Vi-- count Palmerston yesterday, at the Foieign-office. Their Majesties entertained a select party at dinner on Thursday evening, after the Drawing-room, to celebrate the Queen's Birth-day. The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg land the Princess Augusta were present. The Duke of Wellington gave a grand dinner in honour or the day, at Apsley-house, to a party of 26. Her Majesty received visits yesterday from the Duchess of Northumberland, Countess Munster, and the Marchioness of Londonderry. The Marchioness presented her infant child, about seven months old, to the Queen. The Duke of Devonshire, as Lord Chamberlain, gave a grand entertainment in honour of the day at Devonshire house, Piccadilly, to a very numerous evening party. The King gave audiences yesterday to Earl Grey, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duke of Bedford, and Lord Fain. bo rough. THE lalswmAitt.—A new weekly paper appears in London this day, under this title ; and we have every cause to believe that the Conductors of it are well qualified to produce such a periodical with great credit to themselves, and with advantage to the cause which they avowedly ad vocate. They are gentlemen favourably known, for some time, in the republic of letters, and, as Mr. JEFFREY would say, the public may look for something refreshing at their hands. We bear that the first number, on account of its containing Mr. O'Cow eet.L's First Letter to the People of England, is looked for with no inconsiderable degree of interest. it , • y.