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sArd.rms WELLS THEATRE. We were indneed to visit Sadler 's Wells on Saturday night, Car the first time this season. Many alterations mid improvements have been made since last summer. The decorations of the walls and ceiling are well imagined, and have been executed with taste. Some valuable additions have been made to the musical department, and the scenery, taken altogether, does infinite credit to " a minor." The three pieces rerformed on Saturday evening come, we un derstand, from the pen of Mr. Pitslin. They are agree able' trifles. The little Interlude entitle el " Under the Rost; or, the Great Man in the Little Parlour, pleased us rather better than the others. The son of an eminent lawyer falls in love with the fair daughter of a rural tavern keeper, and fearing his father's anger, privately weds her. The lover is domesticated at " the Rose" as a portrait.. pniater, and choose' for his confidant a good-natured gen tleman, who turns out to be a Prime Minister, and lives (br what purpose we know not) in the little par lour of the felbre-mentioned Inn. " he great man" con descendingly interests himself in the affairs of the young cot:plc. To procure the lawyer's forgiveness, he employs him to draw up a defence for a son who has indiscreetly entered into a marriage with a ycung woman of amiable disrosition, but humble rank, without the consent of his father; and at length informs him that the case he has so ably argued is his own. To promote the happiness of the lovers, and ensure the father's forgiveness, the benevolent great man appoints the brill-gloom to a lucrative situation, and " mine host" of the Rose, although enraged at his daughter's marriage with an itinerant artist, feels no die pless.ure when he learns that she is united with the son of a wealthy lawyer. A new piece has been announced for the present week ; and, ott the whole, Sadler 's Wells bids fair to retain this ' season the reputation it has already acquired as an agree tge place of summer amusement. THE CATHOLIC DEPUTATION. On Saturday evening the Catholic Deputation arrived at the St. Prtershurgh Hotel, Dover-street, London. Mr. O'Connell, and his eldest son, Mr. D. O'Connell. as Secre tary to ItLe Deputation, Sir Thomas Esmonde, the Hottoursble Mr. Preston, and a few other Members, have as yet only arrived. The Deputation consists of Eve members from each of the provinces of Ire land, and five from Dublin. They wereappointed at the A , gregate Meeting of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, con vened on Thursday last. Lord Gormanstown presided. An individual rose to propcse that Mr. Lawless be added to the Deputation. The motion fell to the ground for want of an indivit:ual to second it. An Address, from the pen of Mr. "%You're, was unanimously adopted by the Meeting ; it will be presented on Wednesday, by Roman the Catholic Deputation. An address front Baldoyle to Mr. Lawless, approving of the part which he acted in oppc sing Mr. 0 Conned, is, we are credibly informed, a loa.r. Ba'doyle is a parish in the county of Dub!in. which does not contain a single freeholder, and which do a not even contain a single person corresponding to the s'grcures of the address. Mr. O'Connell was re ceived at th • Aggregate Meeting with unbounded applause. He spoke at considerable length, and with his accustomed ability. Not the slightest opposition or objection was ra'.scd at the Meeting to the conditions with which it is pro posed the Emancipation Bill should be accompanied. fhe Meeting was most numerously and respectably attended, and its proceedings were marked throughout by the utmost harmony and most conciliating expression of sentiment. [From Saturday's Liverpool Adrcrlistr.] Yesterday, Mr. O'Connell, Sir T. Esmonde, and others of the Irish delegttion, arrived here by the Emerald Isle steam-packet, on their way to London. A deputation. closisting of several members of the Liverpool Catholic Association and others, waited upon them at their hotel, and an address was read by Mr. John Prest, one oT the artretaries of the Liverpool Association. To which Mr. O'Connell, in the name of the delegation, returned the fol lowing answer : " Gentlemen. scare deeply impressed with your kindness. Con. scions of no merit, save purity of intention, we receive your courtesy with a grateful sentiment of the value of English generosity. It is, indeed, gratifying to us to receive this testiruoniai of your concur. rer.:e with us In that grand principle of religious liberty, which would be equally useful to all persuaMons, and would set conscience free tfrom all human shackles, leaving it bound alone by divine law. AVe are doubly pleased with this invitation, because it enables us in re. . turn, is act e2ting of it, to express our ardent desire to cement and consolidate that cordial union of exertions and affection now so bap. pay established betw.sen the English and Irish Catholics." Before Mr. O'Connell and the other gentlemen started from London, which they did at four o'clock, a numerous body cf friends bad assembled to witness their departure, and on their leaving saluted them with three hearty cheers. Despatches, dated the 3th of February, have been re ceived from Major-General Turner, at Sierra Leone, where he arrived that day. Ile describes the Colony to be in a prosperous and very healthy state. The transports with troops for Cape Coast Castle had arrived at Sierra Leone on ihe 2410 f February, in twenty seven days, from Ports mouth. The transports were to proceed in a short time to their destination. _ _ _ Letters have been received from Carthagena de Colom bia, dated the 3d of Febraary. They mention the arrival there of reseral Commissioners from the Havatinah, to trent with the Colombian Government on the means of effecting their independence. From the manner in which they are received, and the negociations going forward, there is every appearance of the Colombians rendering them the assistance reqt.ired. In the course of some pertinent obsarvations on the mode of recognising a now State by a neutral power, the editor of the Colombian observes, that " When in 1594, the Powers of Europe ha I de:ern fined on recognising the sepa ration of the Netherlands from Spain, the act of recognition was limited to sending Ministers to the Hague, and receiv ing these of the United Provinces. When, in 1640, Portu gal resisted the sovereignty of Spain, and seated the Duke of Breganza on the throne, Charles tl:a First of England, in recognizing that country in the year following, adopted no other formality than entering into a treaty of alliance with John the Fourth. When this very Charles lost his crown and life, and the Commonwealth of England was established under Cromwell, no other recognition of the new government of foreign States was made or demanded, than the formation of sitni;ar treaties. To come nearer cur own days—the diplomatic relations established by France and America, as an independent nation, in 177 i, were not preceded by any formal declaration of the hide pendence of those States: nay, when England herself re nounced all coon ol over th:m, and recognised them as an independent people, no Manifesto of such renunciation was given to the world: a treaty uf alliance and commerce alone marked that conclusive event." AT3OCIOL:11 AS9AII9I9IATION.—A horrible crime has just deprived France of the most inuenious and original writer that it has possessed for a lee g time. M. Paul Louis Courier, well-known for his erudition and for works in. which reason was clothed in such a piquant fortn, the most formidable enemy that has appeat , tl in ou: days to the doctrines of absolute power, of set vitude, Jesuitism, and intolerance, perished four days ago in a tragical manner un his estate in tbe depat :men' of the Indrs. On Sunday, the 10th of this month, M. Courier went out to take a walk in scone wosels belonging to him, and which are not distant from his habitation. As he did not re:urn in the evening, his family felt some uneasi ness, and went to look. fur him. Courier war found stretched on the ground, wilhottt life, pierced with three balls. It seems that the musket must have been discharged point blank. His ly:v was conveyed to his dwelling, La Citavuoniere, arid leered :he next env. The officers of justice being informel of this event, It.,ve repaired to the spot, and are taking the most active measures to discover the author of the crime. M. (Varlet had gone to his de- Five:merit to sell his estate, intending to nettle at Paris, and apply his whole time to his vcientitic alt i literary labours. —C ,, urroer Freercair. _ _ ........... we are requestc:i !) contradict a statement which has in several • Al! ts, Poplar, Ls" peri..•nned rstlia. , i , nt against the Col h,r DJA co• n papy ; ntin,;C. was :zee 'whitely convent,:; est,sli .4 Oh the coht:ary iu raeuur of it. it (1910 appea-s that a pa , ,t: - n against the Ottliolic y o r. a rded th,r, Politer to the fi .It.se ( . (10 we ore request al to deny tt•s: ~ck an instrument PIA publicly knosu in the parish ; the Petting., i: stews, was propose: and signed by a f..w i;.,l7 : Aaa:.: ✓ aspel in Bow.:ane. THE EXHIBITION OF THE SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. Cootinued from the Nritish Prtss of A pril 8.1 184. An Overshot Mill on the Rareliae, near Sh Yoaahire.—F. C. iiOFLA ND. This is a genuine sample of English scenery, and is re presented with all that sweetness of touch end tone, which characterises Mr. flofland's pencil: Its neighbour, I. Scene in Epping Forest, by Mr. G Loy ER, is a scene happily chosen ; it is an animated transcript of nature, and abounds in all those , beauties which have acquirCd him such extensive popularity. The Landscape, 159, by 1. STARE, has many beauties, but the pea-green hue is rather too prominent, and is so cem»pounded with white, as to give the appearanca of hoar frost; but it is, nevertheless, a very attractive and pleasing picture. 194. /...riaegro.—J. Woon. This performance discovers unequivocal marks of genius. and that too of a very high miler. The flesh glows with the tint of Titian ; we could have wished that more arch ness and vivacity had been thrown into the countenance; as it is, it is exc e ll en t as a p ortra i t , b ut i t wants that spright linesa of expression which should designate the Allegro as persot,ified in the imagination of the poetical spectator. Mr. Wood is a young artist of great promise, and it is from this conviction only that we feel induced to notice any defect that his impra%:ing judgment may enable Lim to Correct. Wt. Cristmas Cheer.—G. LANCE. Never was the good fare of sacred festival ever spread upon canvass with so much of reality as in this pic ture. It puts ail our convivial sympathies on the alert ; f.,r truth aml richress of colouring it is a study for a painter. The beef—the red cabbage—the turnips--the onions—not forgetting th:y stone bottle—are inimitable. As to the stub ble goose, it won'tl regale the eve of Dr. Kite Liner himself; the tint of the th.sli from which the feattu rs have been skilfully plucked, is admirable ; no cook could look upon it without preparing to skewer a slip of paper on the breast-lone ; nor an epicure, without serving it up in imagination, with the gravy and gooseberry sauce. The hare is not so tempting; it is too old even for broiling in joints ; it is fit only for jugging; for sole?, it would he hardly worth the seasoning. We do n o t a pp rove th e introtlnction of the Belches handkerchief; it is an accom paniment that does not awn well with eatables ; it is out of keeping too. inasmuch as it can make no part of Christ mas cheer. However, in subjects connected with the . fancy, seine latitude must be allowed. The various objects are grouped with peculiar judgment, and it is, perhaps, upon time whole, a picture that—in its kind—has hardly ever been surpassed. 210. Sc( ne me the Mum ; the Brill Church in the dis tance.-1. B. CROMX. There is an inspiring freshness in the landscapes of this artist, that maker us breathe more freely as soon as they meet the eye. The rural images which break in upon the mind, while we contemplate them, are the result of that animated representation of real nature which his pencil always places before us. 226. ylze Creation.—J. MARTIN. " And the earth was without form and void ; and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the spirit of pod moved upon the face of the waters." " And God made too great lights ; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night : he made the stars also. Any one would do Mr. J. MARTIN great injustice who should refuse him the praise of excelling in all that relates to Witness of foncerion, to richness and beauty of tint, and depth of colouring; he has a fruitful and fine imagi nation, and his manner is original: these qualities, it must be admitted, go a great way towards constituting what is called genius ; but there are other and higher requisites in which Mr. MARTIN is defective, the want of which can neither be concealed nor compensated by these which he possesses. His pictures, from their force and brilliancy, will always attract attention; but, while they allure the eye, they do not satisfy the judgment, and will therefore never rank among the higher displays of art. They are poetical, and discover an exquisite tact, but they bear no marks of a powerful mind ' --they awaken no sentiment— they excite no emotion—they have nothing about them .of that potent spell which attends the contemplation of all that is truly inspired in the productions of the great masters of the art. Mr. Martin has a most vigorous and excursive fancy, but it is by no means so well regulated by good taste as so flighty an attribute ought to he. Fancy, when it disdains all alliance with reason, will always ap- I preach nearer to the absurd than the sublime. If he Lad not himself stocd sponsor to the picture before us, we should have been utterly at a loss what name to give it. The Creation of the World !! What, in the name of cora mon scnse, could induce any mortal to attempt such a sub ject ? The elemental mass of earth and water, summoned pinto the realms of space at the mandate of the Deity ! What intoxication of vanity could urge any painter to imagine he could bring this before our eyes upon canvass? To _give the ALMIGHTY MIND a living form is a presumption only to be excused in an igno rant . age. We have passed it long since. In the pre sent instance the personification of the Great CREATOR of Heaven and Earth, is so full of absurdities, that we forbear to dwell upon them, lest the ridicule which be longs to the painter should mingle itself with the sacred ness of the subject which he has so preposterously bur lesqued. GEORGE. V•IIARI said of TINTORETTO that "he turned the art into a boy's toy." The sarcasm was ill applied to that great master; but Mr. MARTIN would do well to reflect upon it, for with reference to his own per formances it is not very wide of the truth. There is no doubt great beauty of effect to be produced by rich colours finely harmonized; but description which appeals wholly to the imagination, however sublime it may be in itself, would assume a very ludicrous effect, if shown as the subject of a picture. Vtaoit's description of the ma terials employed by the Cyclops, in forming the thunder bolts of Jupiter, we all, as ileaxe well remarks, feel to be extremely sublime— " Tres irc,bris torn ratios, tics nuLiv squowe Addiderait : Haiti tees lois, et anti% Austri : Fillgores none terrifi:os, sotaturntre ntetumque blincebant !Teri. flair nnsq ue sequacibus leas. At the same time no chi,ncra of a madman ever presented a more incoherent subject for a picture than—three rays of twisted showers, three of watery clouds, three of red fire, and three of uinged winds with terrific lightnings, round, Jeer, anger, and pursuing flames mixed up in the work. If Mr. Martin were to choose these iEtneau labours as the subject of his pencil, Vulcan's savants, we suspect, would be seen employed upon very laughable ingredients. The truth is, that even the imagery of the poet, on such occasions, conveys no distinct itlui to the mind ; a kind of vision passes for an instant before our fancy, and nothing mare; how then can a painter attempt to embody and bring before the eye in actual representation, that of which the mind itself can form no clear conception, and which, therefore, cannot possibly be communicated? The into at von attempt to reduce the obscure and indistinct ir•re to visible dimensions, and to bring it within the range of actual comprehension, that instant its sulilim::y disappears, the illusion is dispelled, and instead er delighted with the grandeur of the image, you are rc•volted by its absurdity. 'fake as an illustration, the conception conveyed to us by MILTON, of the stature and strength of SATAN, in the following description : II is ponerrous shield Etheriai •rmptr, mossy. large, and round, Behind him east ; the broad circumference Hung on his %boulders like the moon, whose orb, Through optic glasi the Tuvcin artist views At evening from the top of Fevolo;, Or in Valduno, to dcury new lands. glens, or mountains. on her spotty globe. His spear—to mud 1010! toe tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some g-tart Admiral, am. but a wand-- Ile walk'd with to suppotit uneasy steps Over the burning wade. ' Now here the size and figure of Satan are left to the ima- , ginatie a of the reader, and it will be more or less stupen dous breord'..g as he possesses that faculty in a greater or Ices degree ; but in that celebrateal poem of Ferdnresee, whi h is the delight of the last, the SHAH NANG, and which, though written c:ght hundred years ago, abounds with - e sselg,,s often not inferior to Shakapeare or Milton, yet by towelur I . is debt ?awns in some instances specific, the has made fi.ern ludicrous. We quote, as an instance, has desenption of the ton c: Vkwan-Deo, where, instead of v ri, TTIE BRITISH PRESS. expresaing his immense size by some bold figure, he gives us his exact measure-- " He was one hundred yards hh7h, end twenty hrind." The moment we can thus mature she Giant with a three foot Me, we have done with him for all purposes of itnagi nation, and when Roos,- at cuts of his head—as lie does— with n stroke of his scimitar, we never care to ask how he contrived. to reach his shoulders. Even MI cv•N has injured his dnser;ytion of SATAN, by an injudieiov3 mi nuteness. This is percnired the moment we bring it before the mind in-detail ; had the poet contented himself with baying us to magnify the •. ponderous shield" and its " broad cireuniference,'' the fancy of every reader would have suited it to the bulk it was to protect ; but what it is compared in size to the moon ea seed through an optic A -refs.', we instantly perceive that the size of this object, so seen, is unequal even to an ordinary shield, carried—when defen sive armour was in use—by a man of live feet eight, and the whole becomes confused, and ceases to be either terrific or sublime. Mr. M ANT ix, in this picture of "Ctteati . on," is guilty of *gross anachrionism. He professes to represent the period brhre thefirst day, when The earth was without form, and void ; and darkness was upon the thee of the deep ; and the Spirit of God inured upon the recent' the intent." And lie accordingly introduces the Almighty in the si militude of a man floating in central space upon the sur face of the deep, in the act of creating the sun and moon. " And Gorl made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the hirer light to rule the night : he made the BIM also." We hare accordingly a sheet of light, proceeding, appa rently, from a cave of indi:cro, to pourtray the effect pro duced by this planetary influence. B'tt Mr. MARTIN, while he couples the above two verses together as the srb ject of his picture, forgets that in the interval between the first period and the last, the waters had been divided from the land, the earth had brought forth grass, the fluit treys yielded fruit, the whole scenery of the vegetable world was, in fact, brought into existence, and would be visible in all its freshness and beauty; but nothing, nj which is seen in the chaotic void which reigns in the midst of Mr. MARTIN'S illumination. fie has chosen—we know not why—silently to connect the Frond and sixteeeth verses of the Mosaic account together, as if there were neither any intervening space nor intermediate creation, and to frame his contradictory delineation from them without comment or apology. The Mosaic account stands thus:— " And the Earth was without form and road • and darkness was apes the face of the deep ; and the Spirit of dad moved spun the seaters. " And God said, Let there be light,' and there was light. " And God saw the li g ht, that it was good ; a nd G o d divided the light from the darkness. " And God called the light day, and the darkness he called night ; and the evening and theMornlng were the tint day. " And God said. ' Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters- and let it divide the waters from thowaters.' " And God made the firma;;;;;:anciTiiridedthe waters which were under the firmament from the waters which ware above the firmament ; and it was so. " And God called the firmament Heaven ; and the evening and the morning were the second day. " And God said, • Let the waters under the Heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let thedry land appear eand it war so. " And God called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the water called he Seas ; and God saw that it was good. " And God said, • bet the Earth bring forth gran, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit lifter its kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth and it was so. " And the Earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed 'Pei its kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind ; and God saw that It was good. " And the evening and the morning were the third day. And God said, • Let there be lights in the firmament of the Heaven, to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years. •• • And let them be ter lights in the firmament of the Heaven, to give light upon the Earth ;* and it was so. Aud God made two great lights; the greater light to risk the day. and the lesser light to rule the Met: he made the stars also." The above omission will sufficiently account for the glaring inconsistency in Mr. MArrix's picture. If we had not already extended our observations to a length which encroached too much upon our apace, we should bedisposed to go much further into detail on this performance; as it is, we shall only entreat him to attend more to his own fame, and not fritter away his powers on subjects to which he must always be unequal, because they are beyond the reach of art. HENRY FUSEL!, ESQ. - - This celebrated painter departed this life at half-past ten o'clock on Saturday morning, at the house of Lady Guil ford, at Putney, with whom he had been some short time on a visit. The venerable professor was, we believe, in his eighty-third year. THE CHURCH. CAMBRIDGE. APRIL 15. The Rex. John Brown, M.A. Fellow of Trinity College, was on Tuesday elected a Senior of that Society, in the room of the late Ws. 11 , m. Pugh, The following Gentlemen of Trinity College were yesterday elected Seining of that Society 31ason, Kinglake, Shepherd, Prlckett, Hales, Patton, Stansfeld, polls, Law, Ashington, Goodhart, Carus, Cleasby, Turner, Neste, novenden. Westminster Scholars—Bentall, Chester, Knight. Wednesday Robert Cory, B.A. of Emmanuel College, was elect ed Fellow of tl.at Society. At an Ordination holden by the Bishop of Litchfield and Coven try, at St. Philip's Church, Birmingham, on the lUth inst. the fol lowing Gentlemen were.ord•ined.:.7.- Pitmats—Rey. Christopher 'Hem s Dunn, Literate; Hen r y Howonh, B.A. St. John 's Collee, Cambridge; Henry Withy, M.A. M erton c o ll ege , O x f or d ;'henry Chetwode, Literate, by . letters dimissory from the Bishop of Chester. DEACONS—ttobert Moseley Mitten, B.A. Magdalen College, Cambridge; Joseph Jackson, B.A. University College, Oxford ; Joseph Webb, B.A. Wwlham College, Oxford; Joseph Shutt, M.A. Pembroke College, Oxford. , OXFORD, APRIL HI. Wednesday the Rev. Vl'm. Dalby, M.A. Fellow of Exeter Col lege, and the Rev. John Watts. 31. A. Fellow of University Col lege, were admitted Proctors of the University for the ensuing year; and the Rev. John ‘Wm. Hughes, M.A. of Trinity College, the Rev. Joseph Loscombe Richards, Fellow of Exeter College. the Rev. Fred. Chas Plurnprre, M.A. and the Rev. Wm. (Blaster, M.A. Fellows of University College, were nominated Pro-Proctors. Wednesday last, the first day of Easter Term, the following de. grey were conferred : MASTERS OF ARTS—The Hon. Philip Henry Abbot. Student of Christ-Choy:li; Her. Richard Tawney, Fcllmv of Magdalen College; Wm. Stone, Fellow of Brasen nose C o ll ege; S amue l Madlock, Iluittic's Exhibitioner of Brasenrose College; Charles Sprengel Greaves, Queen's College; Freder;ck Maxwell Hanson, Queen's College; Rev. Richard 'Swett. Trinity College; Gusta vus Ledo% ic Hamilton. Trinity College; Rev. Thomas Hartshorn !larding, Wadham College; Rev. Win. Pyne, Pembroke College; Rev. Wm. !Renard, ,Magdalen Hnll : Rev. Charles Tookey, Mag. dalen ; Rev. Alex. Wm. Schomberg, Magdalen Hall. BACHELORS OF ARTS—Samuel Lane. Exeter College; Henry Erskine Head, St. Mary Hall; Wm. Williams, Magdalen Hal. At the Ordination of the Bishop of Bath and Wells, on Easter Stinday, the following persons were admitted to Holy Orders : Dzacows--Edward Ludlow, B.A. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford; Stephen Oakeley Attlay, 31. A. Corpus Christi College, Oxford; Henry S:oneman, B.A. Pembroke College. Oxford; John Gay Copleston, B.A. Oriel College, Oxford; Richard Edmonds, Mag. dalen Hall, Oxford; John Pemberton Simpson, B.A. Magdalen College, Cambridge ; John Coombe§ Collins, St. John's College, Cambndge; Charles Lloyd, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge. Famsr—Wm. Williamson, Literate. F.CCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS. The Rev. Jameshonss Wt .- Kim', College, has been presented to the perpetual Curacy of Prior's Lee, Salop, by the Rev. N. Diode, Rector of kingswinford. The i bebop of Peterborough has instituted the Rev. Julius Deeds, M.A. to the Rectory of Orlingbury, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Whitehouse. The Bishop of NVinchester has collated the Rev. Douglas Hodg son, his Lordship's Domestic Chaplain, t o th e Rectory of East Woodhey, vacant by the death of the Hon. and Rev. G. Herbert. Sir Charles Macdonald ;Lockhart, of Lee std Camwath„ Bart. has presented the Rev. John W tlry: to the Church, and Pariah of Walston. in the Presbytery of Iligg.r. Rev. W. I'vcdale, B.A. Vicar of Markby, near Alford, has been instituted to the Vicarage of iiirmond, Lincolnshire. on the prelim tai!on of Edmund Tumor, Esq. of yoke Roehforil. The following persoes have been lately instituted by the Bishop of Bath and IVell :—Rev. George Ridout. LL.B. to the Rectory of Lamysf, on his own petition as patron ; Rey. Charles Blatt). wayt, B.A. to the Rectory of Langridge; Rev. Cicero Rabbitts, B.A. to the Rectory of Wanstrow. . . Rey. Archdeacon Wrangham, to a Prebendal Stall in Cheater Cathedral. _ _ Rev. R. C. Packman, Rector of Langdon Hills, Essex. has been appointed one of the Priests is Ordinary of his Alajestra Chapels Royal. Rev. Edward Bulmer, M.A. of the Co'lege of Hereford, hart been presented to the Rectory of Purley, in that county, by the Dean and Chapter of Hereford Cathedral. Rcv. Henry George Talbot, B.A. and Student of Christ Church, Osier& has been presented, by his Once the Duke of Beaufort, to the Rectory of Mitchell Tmy cum Cytnearran, Monmouthshire, void by the cession of the Rev. Richard Bohm% Tomkyns, B.C.L. of New College. Oxford. Rev. Richard Meredith, B.A. or St. Edmund Hall. Orford, is appcicttsl Domestic Chu;lads to the Earl of Ecckswrags.. _..~-~ . CASE OF THE LONDON DOCK COMPA2VE A pamphlet has been published by Mr. S. Cock, the Secretary of the Lontlen Dock Company, under the abov e title, from which, as relating to a topic interesting to the merchants and shipowners of the Port of London, we make the fell )es ing extracts, which seem to us, cn a hasty perusal, to contain the substance of the objections to the projected Docks at St. Katharine's. We lay them before the public without any continent, as what the pamphlet- itself fairly professes be, the case of one of the part'N interested. The pamphlet gives in the first place, the petition for the St. Katharine's Dock Bill, the preamble to that Bill, the petition of the London Dock Company against it, and that of the proprietors of the Wet Docks generally, to the same purport. It then proceeds to state the cause that prevented the Dock Company from being heard against the Bill. " These petitions having been :presented to the Honourable House on the old February, and a motion made that the Bill should be read a aecood time, an amendment was proposed, that it should be read a second time nn that day mix months, which was negatived, and the Bill was read a second time the same day. " A ' Standing Order' of the House of Commons, of the 24th June. 1824. directs, that no petition against a private Bill he re ferred to the Committee on such Bill, which shall not distinctly specify the ground on which the petitioners object to the Bill, or to any of the provision* thereof; :old that the petitioners be only heard on such grounds so stated.' ale. !fee. " With the view of conforming, with the utmost strictnees, to this order. the Directors gave instructions to their Solicitor to pre. pare, under the advice of Counsel, n further petition to the Honour able flouse,• praying to ba beard by Counsel, against the St. liathar!ne's Dore " On t;eca;oliettor impaling at the Frivate Bill Office, on. Friday, the 4th March ' about three o'clock in the afternoon, a nd fi n di ng tbat no ranee of the meeting of the Committee had been given, he wrote to tha Solicitor of the Bill, requesting to be informed of the 'time of meeting as roe" as the same should be fixed; and, on '.Saturday the loth, at or after nine o'clock at night, received an an. swer, stating that it was propoacd to go into the Committee on the Wednesday following. • " This information was, on the next day, confirmed by a letter from Mr. D,rington, the Farlieincraary Agent of the Company. "On fll 'today, the 7th, the Solicitor attetiled at the Dock House, where A petition which had been paepsred, was exunined by the Chairman and Secretary, with the view of ascertaining, with. certainty, that every part of the statements contained in it was capable of proof; and so minute and earefel was this examina tion, that the petition was not finally settled until ten o'clock at night. • „ " The following morning, (the Bth,) it was engrossed, and pat under the common seal of the Company, and the Solicitor attmded in the lobby of the House of Commons, at four o'clock, ft. the purpose of meeting an Honourable Member, by whom it was to hare been presented ; but, in consequence of the lamented event befttre.mentioned, (the death of the Speaker's brother) the Members who had assembled,—from motives of delicacy and feeling,--dis persed without forming a House; whereby the Company were de prived of the opportunity of having the petition presented and re ferred to the Committee on that day. " On the meeting of the Committee the following day, the Coun. eel, agents, and witnesses of the Company presented themselves, but the Committee refused to recognise them as parties having any right to interfere in the proceedings. although it was fully explained that the presenting of the petitiou had alone been prevented by the cause herein set forth. " L'nder theseeirrutnstances„ and other connected with other petitions against the S. Katharine's Dock Bill (which, for the same reason, were prevented from being referred in time), no peti tion whatever against the Bill was before the Committee at their meeting, and therefore no order for the heating of Counsel had been made; yet, three learned Counsel appeared on behalf of the Bill, one of whom opened the cue of the promoters thereof, In a speech, in which assertions to the prejudice of the Company were made, without their being allowed to be heard. The intended Se. cretary, aml the intended Dock Muter of the St. Katharine's Dock, were afterwards examined as witnesses, who stated in sup port of the preamble of the Bill, facts which the Company were prepared, by witnesses then present, to refute or explain in the most clear and eont ircing manner. " On the assembling of the Honourable House the same day, the petition was presented, and ordered to be referred to the Committee. " The following day, the Counsel, Agents, and witnesses of the Company again attended, and the petition hating been read, their Counsel claimed to enter into the investigation of the preamble of the Bill ; but the Committee peremptorily refused to allow them further to interfere, th an by objecting to such of the clauses as had not been gone through on the proceding day. " The C mart of Directors, therefore, presented a further petition to the Honourable House, urging that the Company bad been at great expense in collecting evidence to be submitted on the inves tigation of the preamble of the Bill, and were fully prepared to sustain the allegations in their petition, by disinterested and com petent witnesses ; and to lay before the Committee facts important to the public, as well as to the Company. That they had great in terests at stake ; and that, desiring nothing more than an im partial 011111/iIIIIISSII iato the merits of the question at issue between them and the promoters of the St. Katharine's Dock Bill, the Directors trusted they should not be debarred front a hearing upon the subject, by the casualty which (under the determination of the Honourable Committee), had so unexpectedly intervened to pre vent them from being heard on the first day of the meeting. " The Direc:ors finally prayed the Honourable House, that the St. Katharinc's Dork Bill might be recommitted ; and that they might be licard against the allegations contained in the preamble, as well as against those clauses by which their interests were affected. " This petition being heard on the 24th of 111 arch, was rejected by a majority of 91 to 2U. " In order, as much as possible, to avoid expense, as well as to save time and trouble to the Honourable Committee, the Court of Directors were at much pains to provide evidence of those facts which appeared to be most important, in the shape of " Accounts" and " Estimates." " The first allegation in the petition of tl'e Promoters of the St. Hatbsrine's Dock is, that the commerce of the port of London cannot receive its full share of the advantages , ' of the Warehousing Act (4. Deo. IV. cap. 24.) " unless the heavy rates and charges upon the landing, housing, bonding, and shipping of goods, with which it is burthened, shall undergo material and permanent in duction. " For the purpose of showing how far this allegation is founded in fact, the Directors had prepared the following estimate; showing that the whole of the charges for " landing, housing, and wharf. age," amount to only Bs. 3d. per cent. on the value (exclusive of duty) of wine, spirits, and tobacco, whi c h are t h e three principal articles that, under the compulsory operation of the Glib see. of the 39th and Qui Geo. 111., are required to be landed at the London Dock ; and that upon the twelve principal articles received into the Dock, they amount, upon the average, to only fh. 2d. per cent. " Whatever may be the difference between those charges as they are, and what they are to be when that s open competi tion' shall have taken place which is to arise from the construc tion of the St. Katharine's Dock, is the excess of rates, with which the articles to which they attach are now burthened ; by which excesses, as is alleged, a great portion of the trade in them is driven from the port of London ; and whatever may be the amounts to which the promoters of the St. Katharine's Dock Bill are prepared to assert that they ought to be reduced, are, of course, the rates which they ere content to have inserted in their Act, as the maximum which their Company is to be authorised to receive. " The proprietors of the six existing docks, nine legal quays, and sixty suferauce wharfs (few or none of which are fully employed), who are engaged in a constant struggle to divert business from each other, are perfectly at a loss to understand what is meant by a want of competition: or how, under such circumstances, such a vast addition to,the legal quays is to promote the prosperity of the trade oft he poet. The following are the rates of dividend, which the several docks in the port of London pay to the propretors West India Dock - 10 per Cent. pa Ann. East India - 8 London . 14 Commercial - 34 Grand Surrey Canal - 2 East Country Dock - none." The pamphlet is then occupied with a series of tables compiled from official documents, showing that the pur pose of the recent Acts of the Legislature are not likely to increase the trade of the port of London, and that there already exists much more wet dock and legal quay accom modation than is required. The whole is wound up with the following conclusion : " Such is . the substance of the evidence and observations which the Directors of the London Dock Company were desirous of sub. milting to the Ilogourable Committee, to whom the Bill for making Wet Docks at St. Katharine's was referred ; and which, it is con. mired, establish the following points:— " I. That the Acts of the Legislature relative to Foreign Corn. metre, passed during the reign of his pre.ent Majesty, however well calculated to promote the general prosperity . of the Empire, are not likely to occasion any material increase in the, particular trade of the Port of London. .• 2. That there is no want of competition among the legal quays, or deficiency of accommodation in the Pon of London, at moderate rates and charges, for vessels that will use the existing docks. •• 3. That whatever obitruction may.. at time, have occurred to the River, has been weavioned by the great accumulation of Col lifta and other Cowen, which discharge their cargoes whilst lying at anchor in the trream. " 4. That unfT , is those vessel/ *ell be compelled, when the River is crowded, to discharge their cargoes in docks, or at other wharfs, they will continue to occupy stations in the stream • and that, if so compelled. the existing dock s , an d Mher wharf; and quays, a:e amply sufficient for their accommodation. " And, therefore, that the construction of additional docks, with legal quay privileges, would grievously injure the present Dock companies. and occasion a great and permanent addition to the expenses of Government, withcut producing any public benefit w timerer." Several clumsy piekpockt to make Chatcory-laae the nightly scene of their depredations. ES:n:Mifi LIVERPOOL. rams, v EVENING. Wind W.—fligh Water, 38 rein. p. 9. Art:red the Prince Lropold, Sadler, from Batas; Java from Yew Oilcans ; Lady Gallatin), Perry, and Juno, /Eason). front Savrnnali and New York—nailed the 19:11 March ; Domi nica, Johnston. tram Sirrra Leone'; Adventurer, Horatian.). from Montevideo; Catherine, from Tralee ; Tredegar, Jones, liven ditto; Afary, front Botta:dam t Jane and Betty, from YougtooLl Venus. from Dundalk; Two Brothers, from Tobamory ; and SWIM, from GLAtirow. ETiariaro. Arrived the Mount V ernon . B r i n k er , SATURDAY from Savannah and Neer York ; Eleanor, Blair, from Limerick ; St. George, Hearty, from ihoßheda Ann and Beerwy, from ditto ;* Mersey, and City of Dublin, Iron, Dublin ; Ocean, from Ncw I/Deana—sailed the llel of Morel, and from Belize the 4th of Mardi ; and Amity, Irving, from Sierra Leone. The Mariner, Henderson ; John, Ward ; Commerce, Ray Jessie, Tolli ns ; aid Union Packet, Lloyd, from Lirazpaol,Avre arrived at Bahia. The Isabella, Cameron ; British Tar, Newhey and Hercules, Marshall, from Liverpool, have arrived at New Orleans. The Westbury, Thompson. f ro m Od essa , has arrived. at 14- horn ; Ne s to r , S p urlirp, front New ()deans, at, Clyde; and St- Domingo, Lev, from st. Domingo And Cork, arLondon. • The James, lll`Lean • Charente, M-AlMn ; Datintleaa, Delig hts ; and Defiance, Bourke, front Liverpool, have arrived at Limerick. The James, Rankin. from Liverpool, has, wrived. at Dahlia': Ranger, Savage, fem. ditto, at Belfast; Hibernia, Green, trona dirt), at Cork. The Vittoria, Holland, from Liverpool for St. Petersburgb put into Penzance, with loss of fore topmast and main top-gatlant ' mass - • The Juno, f4ilburn, saild from New York 19th March. An Ist April, lat. 45. 40. lng. 41. passed a ship supposed to be tie Pacific. from Liverpool for New York. (In the 11th irst. Lot. N. 30. long. 13. 30. spoke the Trusty from Liverpool fof The 11ippocampi. Tinnin, arrived 'from Pernamhuto iv Liver pool 4 sailed 19:11 February. On the 10th inst. lat. Stk long. 12.'10. spoke the brig Crea.crin, front Liverpool for North Arnerit..s The Ehenerer, from St. Vincent, for Bristol, sai:ed 2d March. The Eliza, ‘Vinklev. arrivettat Liverpool front Savanna; sailed 9th /larch. Or. the 3th March, lac iO. long. 16. 10. spoke the Li verpool, for Aliramichi. On the 11th March: in lat. 30. 49. hog. 13. 16. spoke the Shanty- front Liverpool to Riehabacto. The Indian, Mathias, sailed fur Montreal 9th' inst., pat back with rudder datbaKei!. The La Plata, Paltia„ for Liverpool, was spoken with 9th March, in lat. 2. N. long. 30. 3. out 26 days. The Hero, Potter, from eliarlsmn ; Atlas, —, from ditto ; Everton, Newscon, frotn tat. Vincent; Scout, Spence, from Water. ford ; Sear, Gillos,;front Portaferry ; Mary Ann, H u ll, f rom W en . furl —have arrived at Liverpool. • SATCRTIAT.. APRIL ac. The light ship sr the Saltees broke front her moorings on Tiles day night last,l2th inst. in consequence of., pin having worked out of one of the shackles of her chain cable. She reached Dunmow on the 14th, and it is hoped would get back to her station on the 14th instant. The Mary Ann, Adams, arrived at Lima tram Liverpool, 2lst Deceeier. The Prinerni Charlotte, 1111`Kean, arrived at St. hieing from Bengal, 23d Feb. The 13;ivliers; Newby, errived at St. Michael's from Liverpool and Terceira. The Venus, Nicholson, from Pernambuco ; Regular Packet, Watson, from Ilarannah ; and Albion, Hodgson, from St. Do mingo, have arrived at Cowes. The British Merchant, Luscombe, has arrived at Bristol front Terceira. The Amity, from Sierra Leone, on 7th April, lat. 49. long. 99. spoke the Hope. Hunt e r, from London for Quebec. The Maria, Hewitt, from Liverpool for Hattfas, was spoke 12th. inst.off Waterford. The Hibernia areen. from Liverpool for !Ventres!: and Caner, Fisher, from ditto for Dominica, sailed from Cork 13th host. The Hannah, Murphy, from Barbadoes, has arrived at the Clyde. The Edithe, Benson, from Liverpool, has arrived at Al:weirs. The Lucille, Candler, from Ncw Orleans, arrived at Havre the 9th inst. The Hope, Walker, from Liverpool, arrived at the river Plato 2.Sth January. The liezia, Riddle, from Liverpool for Vera Cruz, was spikes 14th March, lat. 36. long. 18. Nothing sailed yestenlay or this day. • LIVERPOOL. SATURDAY, APRIL 16. The demand for B.P. Sugar continues, but owing to the arrival of about 2,000 casks thete Is a depression of about Bd. generally. Very little doing either in Foreign or East India Sugar. A small ca-go of St. Vincent's :Molasses. say 177 puncheons, sold at 315.- Nothing in Cocoa or Ginger. For prime Pimento 10d. would bs given. There has been a general Inquiry for Coffee for home uses. Upwards of 100 casks have been sold at last week's prices. On. hundred puncheons Jamaica Rum, 31 over proof, sold at 2a. id. The wind having changed, considerable arrivals of Cptton haws taken place, above 40,000 bags, and alonday and Tuesday's markets were dull, and a decline of course was the consequence, but 'peculators became anxious, and general and extensive pur -1 chase,' were made on 'Thursday, which got the article up generally. I from Ad. to Id. on last week's rice*. The sales have consisted of 11,000 bags, Uplands at 14d. a 17d. 2,900 Orleans at loid. a 18d. 2,000 Alabama / at 13.2 d. a 11.:44. 100 Sea Islands 2s. 9d. a 2s. 1 Id. 150 Stained Sea Islands lad. a 20d. 2,00 Q Pernams 19d. a 700; Bahia lad. a 19d. '2,900 Maranhao:a IRtI. a 19d. 100 31ina Novas 18d. 8,000 Egyptians 160. a laid. 150 Demerara lad. a 194. 50 Laguiras 130. 1.400 Carthagena 121 d. a 13d. 711 Suratslo4d. 1 124., and 360 Ben ga l at 98. a 104 . making • total of nearly 32,000 hags. Ashes are dull and rather lower. Sales are 300 barrels Bloc. treat Pot at 325. 6d. a 335. 50 of Pearl 375. a 335. 40 barrels Boston Pots, fresh landed 395. ad. a 40s. and a few barrels New York Pearl at 40. Dye 1400ds are ectremely dull. Some public sales att em p te d , but without effect. A smal l parcel of Gallipoli Oil, sold at MI. A little more business doing in Grain ; pticcs s t ea dy ; Amercau flour 265. a 265. EAST' INDIA SHIPPING. The Sir George Osborne, Coulson, has arrived of Dover; 21:0 sailed from the Cape the 6th February. The Kambang Jcute, Striven, from Batavia, off hi bridge ; she sailed fmm Batavia on the 20th of September; from the Mau ritius the 2d of December; and from St. Helena in February, bringing the Long's letters from New South Wale, to the 16th. October. ARRIVAL AT THE CAPE.—The Driver, Neilson, from London, en the let of February. ARRIVAL AT VAN Di zatex's LAND.—The Dam n& Hill, Foreman, trout London. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. CUSTOM-HOUSE, APRIL IS. EKTEIRD Atherden, from Rotterdam Active, Ash, from St. Michael's; Hope, Simon, from Fayal; William and Mary, Way, from Li s b on ; Fame, ?ridges.. from Lisbon; lark , Violas, from St. Michael's; Waterloo, Raabe:. from Gravelines t Fanny, Mallon, from Liverpool ; Christiania, Cortaro, from Christiania ; Sprightly. Newton, from St. Michael's ; Robert and Sarah, W illson, trom Hamburgh ; Fox, Fox, from Ostend; Fame, Hatfield, from Harnburgh ; Aima'ble Javotte, Perm, from Havre : Joseph and Ann, Read, from Rotterdam : Japiter, Wiseman, from Havre; Express, Hamilton, train Cha. tante ; Britannia, Fox. from Hamburgh ; Crown Prince Frederick, Lund, from Dram ; Salty, !imam, fawn Calais ; Prince of Saul Coburg, Stevens ; Three Sisurs. Jones; Erin, Arlen ; and Peter and Rebecca, Irateriverd ; Joseph and Fanny, I.oh hers ; and klettitcrranca3, Dare—from Cork ; Zephyr, Thertipsou, from Belfast; Endeavour, Hardin, from Youghall. ENTERED OUI W 1109.- 2 Bridport, Fayte, for Cork ; Argue. Pain, for Illulibitygh ; Sir William Curti, Whittinghain, fog Calais; 'Traveller, Blues, for Elsinore and Rigs; Madeline, Haye s , for the Isle of Frame and Ceylon ; Auriga, Wilford, for Teue.. rifle and Valparaiso; Britannia, Willett, for St. Michaers, Ter ceira, Fayal, and Quebec ; Friendschar, Hatevinkel, for Harm • and Rouen. CLEARED Otr 'MAIMS erwar.t.T'ae Bitavtainh.—Active. (irons for Palau, Koningsberc sod Elblag; Aeeelia. Vadat:o,lk Cape Coast Castle ; Security, Ross, for Van Dlionen's Lend and New South Wales: Rums irk, Thomas, front Elsinore and P.. tersburgh Cottingliam, Mlle, for Elsinore and Petersbiegb; Wat Tell, for Petersburgh. CI.EARING OUTWAILDII.—Good Intent, Curson, for Hata. burgh: Cyrene, Barrett, for Madeira and Tobago; Jane, Itrabys, for Lisbon; Sir Brilliant Curtis, Wbittingharn, far Calais; garet, Jefferson, for Genoa aud Leghorn ; H Mantilla, White, far I'llogadere, Malta, and Ve - tice • Aurora, ellen, for Halifax Mulgrave Castle, Jeffeason, for &Laws Nova Scotia; Harmony, Brown, for Riga. 7ROII LLOYD'S LIST. FALMOUTH, APRIL 1 4.—Sailed the General Phipps, Bastes. for Alexi:it; and the Emporium, Croft, for blossoreal. Wind W. to N.N.W. Moderate and 6ne weather. PLYMOUTH, AVM L Ill.—Arrived the William Spence, front Virginia, in 56 days. Left loading for this port, the Mow ys, Dale; and the llornprtitn?, Godley , . Sailed the Spring, Hodgman. for Batavia. Wind N. W. . . Cow ra. Aral r. IS—A rtived the Caladoetia, Butters, (row As Janeiro. in 17 dlll Wial west. Povramotes, APRIL 10.—Nu arrivals or twitters. WWI west. DEAL. Aran. If —At: .vril the Vittoria, BTOW1). front „Tia. maid ; the !ferry Weltrelry, IViison. from lionderu; theeiree, Ostfrtorrne, from Liam; the Anson. from Viminta ; tee Elennora. Lamb, fr.on Benisons ; the Patience. from Fang; and the Arundel, Came down how the River and remigh the floe. Cormanes ship Charles Want, for India; tbs Awiriba, Padden, foe Cape Coast Cantle; the Castlereagh, WighbauNik Illiramichi ; the Fair Arc Ail eat., Jones, Fee limn Loon: net* Security, for_.. Wind W. au ay ter PilL le.—Arrive3 WeRIT2' yog i the Peas ; Meter, Banker, beat tee ; Daman, how Smyrna; Jack Tas Andaman', (kwJaauggi 4 i• Kitty, Healey, bon Compeadj; kalosnor ranisigamsaillio.* ! .- : ' ..A. -u_ S._ ~~_ .-