The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-05-05 00:00:00

41: WatILLT Rewrite, of the Weather. The last week toilmeeced with the same kind of clear sod cold weather which had prevailed during the week preceding. On Mon day morning, the hoar frost was very thick: but in the course of that day the temperature rose, and the two fellow hag days were mild and pleasant. Os Thursday, a still more complete and seasonable change took place, and on Friday at I o'clock, the thermometer was no Igas than ill degrees higher than it had been at the same hour on Sunday. ' The nights however continued cold ; end none of the days have been warm since the end of the week. Yesterday at noon, the thermometer was as low as at the same time on "Mobiles and, in the evening, the East wind was very keen. NO rain has fallen here since Saturday se'nnight. Strand. May Wt. THERMONETZR. . 8 1 1 111 IllAtillirrit. o'clock. o'clock. at night. A r a 27. J • • 4O 47 41 30,10 Fair 29, M. 4l 64 47 ,16 Cloudy 29, T 41 67 43 ,34 Fair 30, W 44 67 44 ,49 Fair May 1, Th 40 66 63 ,47 Fair 2, F 63 us 66 ,40 Fair 8, 8 66 06 46 ,36 Fair Tar SEASON.- The delightful change that took place the latter end of last week in the temperature of the weather, impelled our thoughts, if not our steps, from town to country, and directed our attention to the genial influence the alteration shed upon the face of nature. It is obvious that the present season Is a backward one; but it as cer tainly appears so, from being contrasted with that imme diately preceding, which is the freshest in our recollection, and which was among the forwardest of which we ever had experienced. The state of vegetation at the early period of MC yell,' may be sufficiently inferred from the state of the thermometer: and on comparing our ob lions on that instrument during the several months of this year, with those of the corresponding months of the last, we find the following results :- Average at BA. M. Avenge at 1 r. M. April 823 41 deg. April 1823 b 2 deg. 922 43 1822 64 March f'23 39 March 1823 46 Ste 44 1821 64 Feb. 813 37 Feb. 1823 42 222 39 1422- -.48 Jan. Ma 30 Jan. 1823 ,33 221 38 1822 43 In the first three months of this year, it is plain that vege tation could have made tut little progress; and though the average of April was only 2 degrees less than that of April, 1822, yet most of the mornings of the week before last were frosty, and the advances made by vegetation in the day time were checked at night. The backwardness of the spring wes ruanifest,as ackuowledged by the provincial pepersdn the scanty decorations of the garlands of the May-day 1 . On May-day,indeed,there was a sudden glow of genial wea ther, which continued for three days, sod appeared to rival the warmth and brilliancy for which the preceding May had been for the most part distinguished. But. as In that month a sharp easterly wind returned, so In this we have expe rienced a similar tisitation. In the mean time vegetation had taken an extraordinary start, and, in the course of Ave days, the branches of the cherry, plum, and pear trees be came covered with blossoms. There has been a saying, we understand, among the market gardeners in the neigh bourhood of London, that whatever the weather may have been In the beginning of the year, they seldom found any difference in the appearance of their crops in the middle of May. This must be owing to the rigour and rapidity with which vegetation usually advanees when the beginning of this month is warm ; but the saying Is not exactly true.- We noted (for instance) in our Register of the month of May last year, as a proof of the forwardness of that season, that on the 30th of May. the price of a quart of green peas in Lon don was oily lets pence ; and that on the 31st of May, 1817, the price of the same quantity was ten shill fags. We re marked, at the same time, that peu had never been so cheap in the mouth of May, since the year 1794. We are aware of the small advance made by vegetation in the early months, and that the difference of some weeks in the time of sowing cer tain seeds, wilt not occasion the difference of as many days in their coming to maturity. We are also aware that in a climate so changeable as ours, a variety of unexpect ed circumstances will frequently occur to retard or pro mote vegetation ; yet no inference can be drawn from the unre•tainty of climate to encourage indolence In the gar dener or husbandman. As Instances, however, of the irre gularity of the interval between seed time and harvest, may be curious and useful, we extract the following statement from an Edinburgh Magazine of the year ISM : Seed time commenced at Harvest commenced for each Carnwath, the following of these years, on the same dates, for 21 years :- farm, as follows :- 1793-March I. - September 12. 1797-February 27. - September 10. 1798-March 29. - August 16. 1799-March 13, - September 20. 1800-March 21. - September 21. 1801-March 9. - August 24. ISO? -March 17. - September 10. 1803-March id. - August 31. 1804-March 12. - September 11. 1803--March IP. - September& 18116-March 24. - September 6. 1807-March 20. - September 7. 1808-March 7. - August 22. 18t9-March 9. - September 13. 19 1 0-March 27. - September 12. 1811-March 18. - September 10. 1819-April 3. -- September 26: 1613-March 18. - September 4. 1814-March 28. - September 6. 1815-March 21. - September 12: 1816-March 26. - September 14. 1817-March 18. - September 22. NATURAL/518' CALENDAR.-TO enable our readers to judge of the season, we select from the calendarsof the !toy. Mr. White of Selborne, and Mr. Markwick, of the neigh bourhood of Battle, the dates of de following familiar oc currences, which have been observed daring a course of years, and which may usually be expected about the present period :- (Where two dates are given, they denote the earliest and the latest times at which the occurrence was observed. The letters ii'. ansleii. ate the initials of the names of the oh le .) ; Laburnum flowered.- W. May IS, Jane 6.-11. May I, June 23. -'cony 6.—W. May 20. June 15.-11/. April 18, May _ Morse Ch •snat 11.—W. May 21, June 9.-61. Ap r il 19, June 7. Lllae fl.—W. May 21.—M. April 15. May 30. Columbine O.—W. May 21-27.—A1 . May 6, June IS. Medlar fl.—W. May 21, June 20.—April 8, June 19. Tormeatil fl.-IV. May 21.—M. April 17, June 11. Lilly of the Valley 11.—W. May .22.—M. April 27, June IS. (To be continued.) AUSTRALASIA. The arrival of his Majesty's ship Bathurst brings let, ters and papers from Sydney, to the 23d of September Captain King, t Commander, has returned to Eng land to lay before the Admiralty the full results of his voyages and discovery on the western coast of New Holland, in completion of those performed by Captain Flinders. It must I.e gratifying to the many respectable families who are looking to our possessions in this Antipodean territory as their future residence, that almost every ar rival frum Port Jackson brings information that the more the researches of the inhabitants extend inland, the more are t'.ey rewarded by ascertaining an indefinite ex istence of fine country; and perhaps it is net sufficiently lnown that the interior of New Holland yields in no in stance to the beauty, excellence, and richness of the finest soils of Van Diernau's band, with the difference of a climate that will ripen the orange, the lemon, the olive, that invaluable grain the maize, and similar boun ties of nature. It is a singular, but not generally known fact, that a century h■s elapsed since Colonel Parry, in a memorial to the Duke of Newcastle, then Secretary of State to TH George T., laid it down as a postulator:to, " that there is a certain latitude on our eerth,ao happily tempered between the extremes oiliest and cold, viz. 33 deg. whether north or south of the Equator, that it will ever be found to be more productive of the choicest gifts of nature, than any other part of the terraqucons globe: it is a latitude" he continues, " which sheds such fruitfulness on the earth, and happiness on mankind in general, that the further they atedistant from this degrre, so much are they the less happy! Tbus Barbary, Egypt, Syria, Persia, In dia, China, Japan. and in short all other countries are found to excel in proportion as they approach it; upon this principle, Carolina, and New Mexico, in North, and Chili, and the teiritory bordering on the Rio de la Plata, in South, are countries preferable to any in all the Ame ricas; and thus Andalusia is the best in all the pro• vinces of Spain, as are, for the same reason, Languedoc and Provence the best in France and Naples, and Sicily the most superior of all the Italian Domin►ons. It ap pears that so far back as 1723 Colonel Parry wished to induce our Government to form a settlement in New Holland, and that he subsequently addressed the Ditch and French Ministry en the same subject ; his applica tion to the latter was referred to the Academy of Sci ences at Paris. who coldly replied, " They could not judge of countries they hail not seen;" and nearly 70 years after, when Captain Conk returned from circumna vigating the Globe, it was left for Great Britain to add tl►e vast acquisition of Australasia to the empire, and by the settlements in New South Wales to confirm the . position and realize the anticipations of that enter prizing man. The last Sydney Gazettes bring only general local in telligence, but they bespeak by their appearance activity in all the movements of the settlements. An Agricultutal Society has been formed, promising much advantage to the territory. Sir Thomas Brisbane is its patron; and some idea may he formed of the increasing number of respectable colonists, from eighty gentlemen having set down at Paratnatta, at the first dinner of the establish ment in August last, when upwards of 1,5001. was subscribed, to carry into effect the purposes of the esta blishment. The new-formed settlement at Macquarrie Harbour, established as a secondary place of transportation for the offending convicts, had continued to make successful progress. The coal here is found good and easy of ac cess, and the timber, both in quantity and quality answer every expectation. As a proof that the increase of luxuries keep pare with the more solid improveinecs in all the comforts of life, an advertisement in one of the Sydney papers invites masters of vessels to pick oranges for their sea•stores from the trees of a settler, at 6ti. dozen. A very few years since this estimable fruit was only attainable in thecolony at 6d. each ! The same payer says, a house in Sydney is now sell ing colonial tobacco fully equalling the celebrated American negro head in its strength ■nd peculiar sweetness. The bee-bives taken ont by Capt. Wallis, of the isa. bella, fortunately arrived ask, and four of their quickly populated habitations are now in the neighbourhood of Sydney, where the valuable little colonizers seem to lose none of their forces from their change of climate, but ra ther to increase is thrift and hardihood. The owner expected to extend his four to twenty hives in twelve months, so conger ial to their prosperity and nature is their newly acquired land. Those cultivators of the vine who have selected proper situations have every prospect of being amply rewarded. Mr. Illasland brought over some samples of Australasian wine in the Shipley, for submission to the Society of Arts, who have awarded him the silver medal, in token of their approbation of its quality. While every minor source of wealth is obtaining due attention iu the territory at large, the principal feature that distinguishes New South Wales, more immediately as it regards the interest of this countr : , is the peculiar fine wool of its sheep. The favourable Prices it obtains here, and the high opinion entertained of its qualities by our most experienced manufacturers, continue to stimulate the growers to increased exertion. On Colonel Purry's principle of the fruitful character of the 3.3 d degree, the latitude of Port Jackson seems to be that in which the pure Merino breed delight and prosper more than in any other; for, although perseverance will ultimately im prove the flocks of Van Dieman's Land, the settler in that island finds in his attention to the fine-woolled breeds, difficulties to contend with unknown in their more con genial climate of New South Wales. MAI ARR. nvz. 2 ...Dublin S....Waterford.. • 0 0.... G dr Jersey. • 0 0.... Lisbon ..... 0 U....dottenborg•• 1 PRICE OF STOCKS THU Bank Stock II per Ct. Red.... ..... .76 I p.Ct.Cons i• 36 per Cent 4 per Cents...... —974 New Fours.. .994 lOU 90j Long Ann. —204 5-16 7-16 Imp. s per Ct. Ex. Div... ♦RR. DUE. 1....H011and 0 o....Hambro I I.... France 0 (....Flanders ..0 o....Matta .O IS DAY AT ON O'CLOCK I India Stc•A 2494 IDitto Bonds —s. -s. 38spm. Es.Bill.2d * 16s lOs Os pm. 10004 __ _ 600[.164194 spm. Small 16s II s —s pa Lottery Tickets ..... —I. —5. Coa.forAact .....79 781 791 Xite sbtatcontan. MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5,1823. Paris papers to the 3d inst. received since our last, have brought a Telegraphic Despatch, which confirms the reported entrance of the French on the 25th inst. into Saragossa. That place, it appears, had been previ ously evacuated by the Constitutionalists, so that it op posed no resistance to the enemy. The same despatch announces that the citadel of Jaca was in possession of the French army. From the manner in which this in telligence is given, it might be imagined by those not conversant with the geography of Spain, that the acqui sition of this fort was another step in advance. Jaca is, however, a small place near the foot of the Pyrenees, of no strength or importance. The private accounts, given in the Journal de: Debuts, intimate that Count Abis bat, (who is represented as having only 8,000 troops of the line with him, although others letters say 15,000) will nut maintain the fortified position which he bas ta. ken at the Prado, in front of Madrid, but will fall back on the Tagus, at the approach of the French army. If this be the case, the capital will be entered without any opposition. The same letters inform us, that Morillo was marching with 1,600 men into the province or kingdom of Leon, while Espinosa led back his corps to_ wards Madrid. Mina, it appears, is at the head of a considerable force in Catalonia, which may be much aug mented by its junction with that under Ballasteros, who retires slowly before the invaders, observing their pro gress, and gemming or destroying all that could be turn ed to their use. The castle of Burgos bad been ertirely destroyed, so that the plate was untenable. The Provi sional Junta of Spain .was recognised at the bead quarters in the town of Oyarzon by the Duke d'Aneortlerne, in the name of the King of France, and has sent a despatch to Baron d'Erolles, that be and his army and the places under his jurisdiction, should recognise them in the ac• STATESMA customed form, and with the requisite solemnity. The! title which required to be g iv en t o th e J u nt a , in a body, is " Most Serene Highness." It would appear, by a speech made by Mr. de ekIATZAUDRIAND in the Chamber of Peers, that one of the chief objects of the French irovernment in attacking the independence of the Pen insula, was to try the fidelity of the new French army. "The experiment," the Noble Peer tells us, "has per. feetly succeeded. The cannon fired on the Bidassoa has dispelled many illusions, dispersed many phantoms, and overthrown many hopes. Eight years of peace have done has to consolidate the foundation of the legitimate Throne, than twenty days of war have done." FRENCH FUNDS, Thursday, Mav I.—Five per Cent. Consols opened at 85.; lowest, 81; 05.; elosrd at 85. IS.; Bank Stock, 1,532. 50.—Exchange on London, at one month, 25. 70.; three months, 25. 50. STOCK Excnswoc, 12 o'cLocc—Consols opened this morning at 784 to 79, and got up to 4 4, at which price they remain steady, with a good market. An Express has arrived from Paris, but does not bring the price of , the French Funds of Saturday, owing to that day being a great holiday in the above Capital, (the entrance of Louis the 18th) ; but we are informed that the dosing price of Friday's Rolla was S 7. All persons seem to be; surprised at the rise of the English and Foreign Funds, —lt is attributed to various causes—Spanish Bonds being very scarce, and no selling in the market, and a negocia.l tion being supposed on the tabie. Foßstas FVND9.—Spanish Bonds continue on the rise. They opened at 362, and got up to 371, 3811 i, with I a good deal of business doing. Chill, 684 to 69—New Spanish, 3844—New Prussian, 81 ! to 63-old Prussian, nothing done.—Russian, 794 to at— Danish, 87—Colombian, 67. HIS MAJESTY'S ANSWER.-SPAIN. Th. following is a copy of his Majesty's Answer, pre sented at the Bar of the House by Mr. Secret try Can ning on Friday, acknowledging . the Address of the Commons relative to the Negociattons on the subject of Spain : " lientlemen of the . House Commons, " I thank you for your loyal anti dutiful Address. " I receive pith satisfaction the expression of your gratitude for my rarnest endeavours to preserve the PEACE or EUROPE, and the assurances of your ready and affec tionate support in any measures which I might find it necessary to adopt for maintaining the heuour of )(I' CROWN, and the interests of MT PEOPLE. (Signed) " Geoeoz II." BATONNR. APRIL 26.—An express Ins arrived here, coming in the grratrst baste from Paris, to carry, it is affirmed, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Angonleme directions, to suspend the march of the troops, till the return of an Envoy Extraordinary, who is to go to make new proposals of peace to the Corms. If it is true that M. de Martiguac IS to go on this mission, it is said he will have to go to Cadiz, because the King and the Cortes were to go, for their security, to that city, as soon as information should be received of the actual invasion of the Peninsula by the French. This news, though it is very possible, does not agree with the dismissal of the Constitutional Consul, and the public recognition of a succrssor appointed by the Junta. It is noon, and the mail from Madrid, which we expected with impatience, is not yet arrived. Lettersfrom Madeira, dated the 21st ult., communicate the unpliasant tidings of a serious accident having be fallen his Excellency Lord Amherst, which at first ex cited considerable apprehensions for his Lordship's life. His Lordship's embarkation on board the Jupiter, at Ply mouth, was delayed some days by an illness, from which he had not entirely recovered when the Jupiter sailed. On his arrival at Madeira his Lordship felt the benefit of his voyage thither, and was so much a convalescent as to be induced to ride on horseback. It was on this occasion, that in pawing a horse which had been tied up, he re ceive.' a severe kick from him on his leg, which was alarmingly lacerated. His Majesty's ship Jupiter, with Lord Amherst and suite on board, sailed from Madeir4, fur Rio Janeiro and Bengal, April s.—(Hancpslare Telegraph.) Yesterday at three o'clock a Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign Office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Harrowbyy, the Earl of Liver - pool, the Earl of Westmorland, M r.i Peel, Mr. Canning, Earl Bathurst, the Duke of Wellington, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Viscount Melville, Mr. Wynn, and Viscount Sithuouth. The Cabinet continued in delibe- ration till near five o'clock. The following law-officers were in attendance during the greater part of the time of the discussion of the council :—The Eines Ad vocate, the Attorney-General, and the Solicitor General. The drawing-room, which was postponed on the 23d ult., will be held, it is stated, on Thursday next; but no official notice is yet issued upon the subject, least any relause should unfortunately take place in his Majesty's health, and again prevent Inns from being present. LORD GLIM HEIM e.—This nobleman (who originally distinguished himself as Mr. Sylvester Douglas), died at Cheltenham, on Friday la , t, in the 130th year ut his age. Before his elevation to the peerage. he was for some time principal Secretary to the Earl of IVestmorland, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; and a few years afterwards, was appointe4 one of the Paymasters-Ueoeral of the Forces. We learn that a motion was unsuccessfully made in the Non Regent House (Senior Members), of the Uni versity of Cambridge, to petition the Legislature against the Irish Tithe Bill. Two defaulters at the Stock Exchange were declared on Saturday; one a Mr. 6—, an initividual of great respectability and a Member of the douse; the other a Mr. N—, whose concerns are on a more limited scale. Several otner parties are expected to follow on or before the settlement of the present account. The late Mr. Kemble's Will has been registered in Doctors' Commons ; probate hating issued on the 2fith ult. Priscilla Kemble, widow, the relict, and Mr. Chas. Kemble, the brother, the executors; the etfceis being. sworn under 10,0011/. The settlement of 1,000/. per ann. secured by the testator in his life-time for the life of him I self and Mrs. Kemble, and the survivor of them, is made I over to her, and she is also made residuary legatee for life, and is empowered to dispose by will of the principal sum of 1,000/. ; at her death th e residue is vested stbso- lutely in his brother Charles. 61/1. per annum fur life, to Mrs. Hatton of Swim :ea, and 20/. per annum, to Mrs. Mason of Edinburgh (the testator's sisters) are the only I other legacies. The Will is dated the 22d Nov. 1620. A Correspondent wishes to obierve, he thinks it a strange contradiction to the practice of most Courts, that a person who way be enforced to attend as au evidence upon a Coroner's Inquest should not be entitled to some remuneration for his loss of time. I n the cage of a pour man being obliged to sacrifice a day, or part of a day, to attend upon any case of accident, it is a severe loss, and may probably be a reason to prevent his tendering assist ance when be has once experienced that he shall receive nothing for his loss of time and trouble. This subject may be of greater public impor:ance than at first ima gined, and the writer is induced to the observations by a recent case which came under his immediate huowledge SPA • X. Madrid and Seville jonruale have arrived, the forentbe from the 2lst to the Nth of April ; the latter front the 17th to the 20th inclusive. They are the first communi cations received direct from those quarters sine intelli gence of the invasion of the French had reached them. The following are extracts from these papers:-.. MADRID, APRIL 24.—An extraordinary courier passed last night through this capital, with despatches for the Uovernment from lietteral Mina. Nothing ha* trans. pired of their contents. The messenger only said that that Galvinl was still in Figueras,aml that he had under his orders many and excellent troops. The Political Chief of Burgos in the despatches in which he states the entry of the French into that cite says, "In all the villages 1 receive indignation acain7t the French, on accoant of the eagerness with which they repeat the evils of the last war, and among the t mid alone, I observe a certain apathy. I doubt not. hos - ever, that at the moment they commence the work of vio lence, violation, and plunder, they will rinse alrainst them the anger of the most p ass i ve , an d w ill pay 'itearty for the temerity with which they have invaded our tern tory. Sartm.c, APRIL N.—Yesterday the King, and other Members of the Royal Family, took an airing. About the place called El pm de las Bruges, the coach in which his Illojesty was, stuck fast, and so firmly, that a good deal of torte was neces-ary to extricate it. Some of those Andalusian', who are naturally quit k and hu amorous suddenly observed, • that if his .je•ty 114 always kept the good road his carriage would not hate stuck fast." The consort of the Infant Don Francisco de Paula 114 happily given birth to a fine infant boy. Two Deputies of the Cortes attended to recognise the birth. SEVILLE, APRIL 20.—The Uovernment has receive! officially the news of the entry of the French into our ter ritory. lieneral Morillo, as anon as he heard the invasion bad really taken place, adopted the most expedient measures to maks'war (tilese are his own words), " agaixst the enemies of our country and liberty." He has chosen Benaventa for the basis of his operations, where lie has arranged that one member of each of the provincial de pntations of the third and fourth districts, shall meet him. RUSSIAN POLICY IN THE EAST. (FROM THE ALOSMEINE ZEITLNG OP THE 23T11 AND 2371101 APRIL.) CONSTANTINOPLR, MARCH 24.—The letter from Reis Effendi to Count Nesselrode must have long since reach ed its destination. Many of the Turks flatter themselves that Russia will now deliver up the Asiatic fortresses, which the Porte has so perseveringly demanded, esprei• ally as the accounts leave no doubts of the present looliry of the Russian Court, and have clearly convinced the Porte of the sincere and noble conduct of the Einpsror Alexander. The Russian ambassador at Teheran, M. Mazarevich, a friend of Count Capo d'lstra's, and proba bly instructed by him, who is supposed to hare promoted the Persian war, is recalled, on which the Persian Coen!, convinced that the Russian Emperor sincerely wished well to the Porte, immediately opened a negociat;on for peace with the Porte. Whoever is acquainted with the relations that have subsisted of late years between Persia and Russia, will be sensible of the importance of this step. It was hog since conjectured that Persia had com menced the war chiefly at the instigation o the above mentioned Russian Ambassador; and that the Persian Ministers often said, since the last unfortunate war with Russia, that if an Emperor fond of war, reigned in Rus sia, Persia would be ruined. It should seem, therefore, that Persia began the war with the Porte at the breaking out of the Greek insurrection, partly for its own interest, and partly at the instigation of the Russian Envoy, and that it now acts quite in conformity with the wishes of the Russian Court. This event is a great blow upon the Ureeks, as turkey may now direct its whole force against them. Their fate now depends on their own efforts and the will of Heaven. TJIE ARllY.—Letters have been received by the Dr, hire, which has recently reached England from India announcing that the 17th Lancers had arrived at St. He' lena, on hoard the Ueton castle, from Bengal. The ar . rival of the 17th in England, way, therefore, be short . ly expected. It appears by the last muster, which took place the be ginning of March last, that the strength of the ;time corps does not amount to more than 160 men. The Ist division, incluil-ig the head-quarters of the 72d Foor, which embarked at Woolwich un the 26th ult. has sailed for Guernsey. The 24th, 34th, and 534 Regiments of lnrantry, are shortly expected to arrive in England from India. Tus NAVY.—His Majesty's ship Fly, sailed from Ma deira, for ltio Janeiro, March 9. The Falmouth arrived at Nassau, N. P. Marc h 1 ; the Pyramus at Barbadoes, March 14; the Liffey and Curlew at Bombay, Dec 5. The Carnation sailed from Jamaica on the 14th of March, for Santa Martha, Cartlitgena, and Chagres; the Hype rion from Jamai;a, Fels. 23; the Scout, March 2; the Tamar and Speedwell, March 4 —all for Cubs. The Camtlion is to he paid utt and re-commissioned by Captain James Burton (9—Lieutenant P. P. Bagwell is appointed to her. Lieutenant Milbourne is removed from the Apollo to the Royal George; Lieut. F. Boyce is appointed to the Jasper ; Lieutenant James Anderson is removed from the Albion to the Revenge; Lieutenant R. Fair is appointed to the Albion; Mr. IV. Price (I), to he Surgeon of the Ordinary at Plymouth, vice Kirkwood, deceased; Rev. J. Briggs, to be Chaplain of the Superb; J. Sebastian Wilkinson, Esq., F.R.C.S., is appointed to the Britannia. _ _ UATIIOLIC Ar►uas. —There was another Preliminary Meeting of the Catholics, at Denipsey's Tavern, Dublin, on Weslneaday last, when it was agreed unanimously, that an Address should be drawn up and presented to the King t and that a Vote, expressive of the entire confi dence of the Catholics of Ireland in Mr. Plunkett, and of their gratitude fur his past services, should be prepared for the Aggregate Meeting, which %ill take place on the lOth inst. _ STarg OF IRELAND.—We intiq content ourselves ;At the totals of the outrages by which Cork and Limed , k are torn since our last accounts :—Cork, one house and oneollice burnt; two fields totned up, and three cows bonghe.f. In Limerick, two houses and one ()Ike burnt, awl five cows manned or houghed. Souse prisoners have been made in Cork, five men, for cutting trees. Threat ening notices as nttruerons as ever. Serjeant Totrens has opened the Special Session under tke insurrection Act at Cork.—(Driblia Even. Post of Thursday.) ROROUGII OP CAMELIOAD.—The report of the sale of the Earl of Darlington's property in the thorough ofCainelturd, noticed in our paper of the tisk ult. is, it appears, wholly unfounded ; no such intention having been entertained by his Lordship. We also deemed it necessary to observe, that in the observations we mule on the eircurrstanzes which have occurred at Causelford, we had no intention of convey ing any personal redaction upon the Earl of Darlington, or upon any individual, our remarks being solely directed against the abases naturally arising out of the Borough-sys tem, of which Camelford has latterly aforded such abundant proofs.— ( An unfortunate sailor, whose ill stars had led hint to the commission of an offense which consigned him to the tread-mill in the Douse tif Correction, on- day enquirrd of a fellow labourer what they were grinding log." renpondell tie; " why nothinK at all; they.et.l?: keeps us at this tun, to set that there thing a goola• Poor Jack turned his head to view the thing as was and sullenly exclattimrl, " This k a pretty joker d—u mC eyes: to keep us here to grind 'rind." 1 the on art Ito] frie Thi t tar but this Fioc Bet. r ers< arge (6111 3 Fella sever hoe ( was I Dead ili