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aping from the divisions of the Greeks. If O&M:on; bas fallen, and the Christians are united, the force of their enemies will melt away before theta as in former years; they will have little to apprehend froso the few Janissaries who have earolind their names to nerve against t hem at Constantinople, or the rabble of Asiatics and };g ) pt►aaa, furnished by the Egyptia► Pacha, who has been artful enough to decline the dangerous command in itenutlits, Albania, Natulia, and Syria, offend him by the Porte, and which Maltutned Ali transferred, with the title of Seraskier, to his run liffahatts. According to the Vienna Journal, the Paths assists the Porte with 20,001► infantry, IY,OOO of them organized in the European manner, and 5,000 cavalry, with 10,000 Druses from Mount Lebanon and that neighbourhood. Now there i l l n►o force of this amount or character in Egypt ; and the Drusts will not quit their country to march with the Egyptian contingent through Syria and Aria Minor, fur the purpose of a desperate war fare against the Greeks. If any unhappy divisions still unfortunately exist among the Christians, they will vanish at the approach of danger. The Albanians were the best troops the Porte possessed in the former campaigns, and their Palikaislis.ve now refused to serve against the Greeks. By the time the forces from Egypt reach Gallipoli the cam paign in the Afore* will probably be over, and the efforts uf the Ottoman be confined to provihioning and strengthen ing the fortreosis of l'atras, Lepanto, and the few remain ing places still in Isis bawls. The Giei la, ill provided a► they are, still are more than a match for the 'Turkish rab ble. Greece fortunately affords the finest local advantages for defence, which the Christians availed themselves of in the former contests, and they will dispute every inch of ground now, and are infinitely better prepared to meet their oppressors. A few months will, we trust, dispel all the dark forebodings of the Austrian Journal, and chew the Christians united and triumphant. V►exNA, MAT & Tbs An:trios Observer of this date miaow the following a tack : ago the hands of this ambitious woman and her profligate son. But the Ministers being aware of their designs, took instant measures to defeat them, and when the last accounts left Lisbon, on the lit of May, the King's authority was re-established, and comparative tranquillity restored. The soldiery arc said to have seized on the person of the Queen ; and wirers! of the Foreign Ministers, it is also said, were placed under temporary restraint in the first moments c f agitation, but when the courier left Lisbon they had been released. The French, Austrian, and Russian Ambassa dors are mentioned as those arrested. lion Miguel, it is added, was alio, seized by the troops, who positively refused to embark for the Brazils. Lisbon has long been a scene of great agitation, and never will be tranquil while the pre sent wretched Government endures. The great increase of Friendly Societies, through the me dium of which the poorer classes may make some provision against the casualties of illness, and procure relief for the support of old age, deserves to be numbered among the most advantageous and serviceable improvements of the age. The common people of this country have been too generally taught to look up to their respective parishes as haunt/ to support them, and to maintain their children, if they have no means of livelihood. The natural tendency of this is, to make diem improvident, thankless, and dissatisfied. it is important that their notions on this subject should be rectified ; and the more we consider this subject, the more forcibly shall we ha' convinced that the levying a compul sory rate on any mauls r of individuals in any parish, for the purpose of maintaining any other number of individuals in that parish, is in itself a stretch of authority to which I custom has made us familiar, and against which the bene volent tendencies of our nature do not prompt us to con tend ; but when the rate is augmented, as in many parishe l it is, to an amount most oppressive to those on whom it is levied, the nature of the exaction, and the authority under which it is enforced, becomes more palpable. It is with a view of contributing its utmost towards remedying this evi that Parliament has been induced to aid with its authority the institution of Fcietony Societies, and to surround them with every possible precaution which might ensure the be nefits sought to he obtained by means of diem. The ex istence of these Societies may be traced as far back as the year 1772, when Baron Masc a ra, who closed his life of active philanthropy but a few days ago, published " A Proposal for establishing Life Annuities in Parishes, for the benefit of the Industrious Pour," with alterations sug gested by Dr. Price. 'the public attention was from this time-strongly drawn towards this subject; and at length, after an interval of twenty years, a Bill was introduced into Parliament by Mr.( Rose, which, in the year 1793, passed into a law, " for the encouragement and relief of Friendly Societies." Establishments of this kind require to be perfect ed by experience ; and it was soon found that the rules and regulations were in many instances perverted to fraudulent ends, and other Acts were from time time passed to remedy the defects of the former, but they failed of their purpose. An attentive investigation of the causes of their failure led to the comprehensive remedial provisions of the Bill brought into Parliament by T. P. Courtenay," for the further pro tection and encouragement of Friendly S cicties, and for preventing fraud and abuses therein," which received the sanction of the Legislature on the 12th of July, 1819. Since the passing of this Act, Benefit Societies have been progressively increasing in number, and gaining ground in public confidence, from their known security, and the inte grity of their management. Many have been established in different parts of the kingdom under the faith of this Act, by which they are empowered (sec. xi.) to pay their Ands into the Bank of England, on debentures, bearing in terest at the rate of about few and a half per cent., in the same manner as is allowed to Saving Banks. But by a Bill now passing through the Douse, entitled, " A Bill to amend the several Acts for the encouragement of Banks for Saving in England and frettraJ," it is expressly en acted, that " it shall not he lawful far any Fair NDLY So• CI ITT, established under the authority of this Act of the 69th, to pay money directly into the Bank of England, nor for the cashiers to receive any such monies." This prohibitory clause is the more extraordinary, as it is imme idiately afterwards followed by an express enactment, that " 7't asters of SAVI NU BANKS shall incest all money in Me Think • England or Ireland aNi v, and not in any other security." This indirect repeal of the Ilth section of Mr. COI: N AA's Act will he productive of serious 00001 e. quences to the many existing Societies established tinder it, not merely by reducing the scale of interest, but by their being thus compelled to invest their stit•scription stock in the Funds at their present high price ; and should the ne cessities of the contributors make a heavy call on any ore, or on all of the 13 wieres, the Stocks may be low, and the consequent loam maiden the melt calamitous sacrifice. It will have besides the effect of disturbing the rules and regu lations under which these Societies exist, and under whiet they bare legally bound themselves to set, as they con tain, the greater pa-t of them, a sp.cific undertaking oa the part of the 'trustees, that " as soon and so often as the sums deposited a vomit to Sul. the same AM be paid into the Bank if ten g ia3s, on the account of such Institution"- 59 lico. 11. c. 128, reserving such stuns only as the Trustees may deem necessary to satisfy the current demands upon the Institution. We would press this clause upon the serious attention of the Conimittee. loVe are quite at a loss to discover its policy, while the disastrous consequences that may arise from it are obvious. In any event it ought nut to be made to apply retrospectively to existing Benefit Societies ; the less so, 93 it is introduced into an Act which purports to concern itself only with the encouragement of laein; Banks, and ought not therefore to interfere In 00' serious a manner with Friendly Societies, which, as the parties belonging to them have no suspicion of any such in terference, they cannot of course he prepared to represent their case, or to show the extent to which, under their existing engagements, they may be made to suffer from it. Co IXOPLE, Aran. 10. The numerous armaments which have lately been made, have been executed with admirable order ; not the slightest excess has occurred, and the rlciest discipline was observed even at their em barkation, by the land troops as well as by the sailors. Entire 11401ih1C000 consequently prevails among the inhabitants of the ca end- The Capitan Pacha took leave of the Alinistere of the Porte eel the 6th instant, and having received his final instructions from the Grand Vtsir, went 011 board 11111 Admiral's ship of 71 guns. On the 7th, a division of the fleet, consisting of a frigate, two no vena, and two selimeicre. sailed for the I/ardent:lles. Of the 12.000 Janissanes, who, in consequence of the Sultan's appeal to diem, had enrolled their names for active service, only 3,000 have for die present been accepted ; partly not to leave the c timid too dertitute of troops, and pertly fur financial reasons ; as each 1111010 f this corps received twelve experts daily, besides his regular pay. These troop:. are dietributed on board twenty 'rang ports lying in the harbour, and are to sail with the fire fair wind. The taunt profound secrecy is preserved respecting the ediate destination of the troops and the fleet ; and the reports eireuluting among the public are 101111 ed 1/11 mere conjecture. According to accounts from Alexandria of the 9th March, Nide chib Effendi, the agent of the Paclui of Egypt, was received on his snivel at Cairo, as Envoy from the Pone, with great pomp. Accounts front Cairo itself of the 27th February, represent his retry into that city as one of the meet iplentlid occurrences that had ever be e n sera at t he Viceroys Court. Ile was acconipanied to the tent prepared or him by tile Kiej• Bey, with an escort of 4.000 cavalry and 300 infaiery. When Mehemet Ali Puha, and hie sun Ibrahim approached his tent. they alighted hlllll their horses and kissed leideritib's garment, as • sign of their respect for the commission entrusted to hint. The Envoy then presented to the l'acha two richly -ortiamenteil sabres, with the Pelisse of 110: our, *Mat the same 11111 e the 111110:rigi ICI( V, appointing him Genteel. in-Chief of the troops in Rowel's, Albania, feiatolia, Syria, lee. Ibrahim Paella received a snuff-box ornamented with 'bentonite. During the ceremony a eadote was fired by cannon all round the walls of Cann, and the 110101111 filed off in parade before the ollendid tents erected 111 the plain, and retuned to the city. The Porte was already informed that Mehemet Ali Peclut would not take the command in peewit, and nobody could expect him who is ac quainted with the nereesity of his presence in a sphere of an so extensive as his ie. Ile has given all the full powers received (ruin Constantinople to his rum Ibral , who will have the rank of Streakier. As usual there are numerous exa,rgerated and tabuloes accounts of the rumor of troops that lie will furnish. According so the most citelible statements, hr had destined for this great ex pedition 20,000 infantry, 1.2,000 of them organized in the Eu ropean manner, and 2,000 revelry. The facia of Acre is to fur. nigh 10,0011 Dement. The Egrmien cavalry is to go by land througlisyria suit Natalia to the liaidenellee, and to cross the sea at liellipolt. It had already at out on its march when the last ac counts Caine away. Mehemet Ali ban also further 'Mired to furnish 0,006 :orasuree et corn fur the supply of the Turkish fortresses, and those empty vessels which sailed from Coostanii nople six weeks ago, unit respecting the deetination of which so many mysteriuue anal alarming repuets were circulat-d, were intend ed to fetch this supply of corn. The difference. anomie the insurgents in the Mores' daily become more serious. Colecotruni, Nikite, Panto Bey, and the Captains united with theni, have fixed their remlenee at Tripoli -lea, and openly bid defiance to the new government which has been smminied chiefly by the influence of the islanders. This govertmemt is re mewed to take the field against them with a corps of 10 000 men. A remarkable proclamation signed by the Primates of Hydra, bpeuia, and Ipsera, contains the following passage et We are at length obliged to break silence. After we hare for three years together sacrificed our property, our %lupe, and our blood, to oppose the formidable naval iorce of the 'lurk, and other barbarians, a 11001/ of banditti has caused in all parts of the country disorder, discord, and cunfueion, and to setiely their own Imo*, plunged unhappy Greece into an abyss of misery. Under thtlr tyrainy the roVellUell of the State have been shamefully squan dered, all good citizens discouraged, and the people so entirely ex hausted, that it will be difficult for thin to Ind means to combat Mei: external, and no lees dangerous, internal enema*" " In the sequel of the picture, the criminal condiurt of tbk Regency, now proscribed, it is said, had neglected and deadet.d Eastern Greece, aliesteloaed Western eireree to its fate, and that 3liesolonghi, die bulware of the Pektienisseaus, was indebted fur its safety entirely to the molehill proceedings of the 'rurks, and the rigour of the last winter." It is certain that the great majority of the insurgents, ant all those who have any regard for the public good, take part at leas in secret with the new Government, but the greater moon of power is in the hands of their adversaries, and a ra:ooCilia• lion between the two parties would not only be encoder, with innumerable dieicultice boat be of short duration. The appmehing campaign wadi she's how he their common danger may unite 'hem fur a time; meantime nothing was noire natural than that as thi igs • oal, the returoent. could too execute any im portant mil nary operation. Except the inglutinua act of cruelty on the Coat of Ithackwhich will be an eternal disgrace to their lau rel., they have not, shire the conclusion of law years' campaign, done Mu Torks any mate. i*l injury : they have not taken either the fortresses of Ne e reopont Ile l'atraa, or leepanto, w l.oron. The attempts of some we sk haide,subsieting only ou plunder, ap pear to have had no *enema Traub% in Aeaniania; and if they have 'rally petetrwed foe a liniment (which is however doubtful) as far as Arta, they have nut bre a m able to take the citadel, sad still less to threaten Prevesa. In Cunha the Turk. ars again moment. The late attempt of the heave 'rointueti, who is abisailonal on all siaes, p p psis' as fatal to him as die preceding. After an obstinate battle he bee been obliged to give upthe fortress of repack ie, in the meth pm t of the Island, his most important point of defence; and except the funs of Cheraw° end Schots, the Insurgents have no refuge left, except the high mountains in the inteetor, whose inhabitant, I:ke ~tbe 3lainotes in the Moma, have at all times defied the Turkish power. The Porte middies the -satire eubjectionlll the island so Mere at bead, that the (Week Highop of Candle, *merited by the Patriarch, haa received orders to anew* 00 board the Capital Pacha's Notwithstanding all these facto, it wadi be preottniptuous to think of deterintoeig the future fortunes or the imu: of the strug gle, in which so many heterogeneous elements, so dirlieult to be connived, are at 01Irk. 'Phis, however, 10 have become quite the custom iii Etetipe. We 11111 , 0 dm the Turks the jun ice to say, that they, tee their side, do nut contribute to misleed the opinion of their contempoterits. In spite of the o.•ieetal style in their public discourses and wri angle vain boasting it tot their fettle : they always look forward to their future fate in proeperity and adversity with resignation, end never with self conceit ; anti entltsre a ith much paltrier the daily expresaioos of that haired to them, with which they are not unacquainted, which trellis to animate all European writers. hit if people will not entirely lint sight of the truth, they must re at in gl ee to the extravagant report,' of line* (correspondent. , that W irer which, to our great stirprise, they seem to have met site in many places. • The correspondents of the Jonrnerl its Ilehals, the Coestifo floret. I, and other French Jourtetbt, have indeed taken all thew plates long ago, and even stated the day and the hoer when some of them were neettpie.l. 'the moat remarkable rirettmAtat us. that not e of the filer reports spread in this manner are Veer recalled or ever , t orrected.--Note of the Eder of the tool • f „ Pies xa , MAT 4.-31etaIl qmo,97e; Rank Shares, 1,106 lei. On the Customs Excise Report having been brought up last night, Mr. Huakisson rose and said, he wished to advert to what had bevn stated on a fonner night, relative to the Island of Mauritius, when he (Mr. Iluskimon) was absent from the !louse. The alteration of the existing law, 'fleeting that island, had (the Right lion. gentleman said) been alli ll milverted upon, and he wished, in consequence, to ex•dain in what that alteration consisted. It placed (Mr. Iluskimon sad) the Mauritius on a footing with the other British Colonies, with respect to the duties paid on the pollution of sugar into this country. Hitherto this island had been liable to the payment of the same duty as the sugars imported from the East Indies ; but the greater expense consequent tip n the importation of sugar from the Mauritius, from its distance, and the far greater &Mb ' tits with which sugar was brought from the West India . . Let CIS from Paris, received )esterday by express, brought Islands, induced the placing that island on the same most ,mportant intelligence Irani Lisbon. Sciioies die- fooling as our Western Colonies. There was (the Right tarbances, it appears. have broken out in that distrackil Honourable Gentleman went on to say) a still stronger cripitaL The intrigues of the Queen and her son, Don reason for such a change, which was the maintenance of Miguel, had, it is stated, at length produced a sudden in- g tot faith by this country, which, at the time the Man. survectiunary movement. itittstitlol to overturn the t;overn. ritius was wiled to his Majesty, was pledged to place mint of the raoii•ating Dun J o hn, a nd transfer all power •hat island on the saute footing in this retpect as our other Colonies. The only colourable objection (Mr. Truskisson added) that could be made to this regulation, was, that the Isle of France was not subject to the same restrictions as the West India Colonies, as far as regarded the impor- 1 tation of slaves. But though there was no positive law on this subject, it was almost novo:4%0)1e for slaves to be, imported into the Mauritius. This explanation (Mr. Dos kisson said) he hoped would satisfy the House as to the propriety of extending to that island the same advantages as our other Colonies possessed ; and a clause to that effect was then read awl ogres d to by the Douse. The Island of Mauritius lies in the Indian ocean, 400 miles east of Madagascar ; it 'vas originally discovered by the Portuguese, but the lira settlers were the Dutch, in 1590; they called it by its present name in honour of Prince Maurice, their then Stadthulder ; but on their acquisition and settlement of the Cape of Good Hope, they deserted the Mauritius, and it continued unsettled until the French landed and took possession in 1720, and gave it the name of the Isle of France. It was captured by the British forces in 1810, and ceded to this country by treaty in 1814. Higher duties, it is generally known, are imposed on the introduction of East Indian than West Indian produce into this country. Coffee from the latter pays an excise duty of one shilling per pound, while East Indian coffee is assessed at one and sixpence. The great disadvantage, however, under which East Indian commerce at present labours, is the protecting duty granted to West Indian sugar of ten shillings per hundred weight. While our commerce with British India is necessarily narrowed by these restrictions on the import of her raw produce, we also refuse to admit a large proportion of her manufactured goods to consumption in this country at all, and the rest only on paying a duty whia is in fact prohibitory, and which varies from 31/. 101. to 61t. 10s. per cent. ad valorem. We at the same time import our own rival manufactures into India at a low duty of only per cent. ad valorem. British manufactures, it is true, must go direct from this country to the West Indies, while in the East Indies they may be imported circuitously, paying, however, double duties when imported in foreign ships. To enable the West Indians to carry the surplus of their sugars to a foreign market, a bounty of os. 3d. is also allowed them on every hundred weight of sugar exported in a refined state, under the name of drawback ; this is so regulated as to amount to 335. 3d. on each hundred weight of Muscovado sugar that has been refined, the original duty paid being only 275., thus giving the difference as a bounty to the West Indiana. During the Session of 1841, Lord Liverpool 'stated to a deputation of East Indian merchants, that the ground on which he deemed it to be an act of justice to the West Indies to continue this protection was, that they were subject to restrictions from which India was free. Many of these restrictions have since been removed. Vessels built in the West Indies are entitled to all the privileges of British registry ; those built in India have not the same privilege, and the intercourse between the East Indies and Great Britain is liable to restrictions on East Indian ship ping, w which the West Indian shipping, from its being entitled to British registry, is not subject. When Dutch Guiana was conquered by our arms in 1796, and the island of Trinidad in 1797, the market of Great Britain was thrown open to their produce on the same terms as the produce of our own colonies was admitted. The same course was pursued in 1803, when Guiana was re-occupied, and the conquered colonies of Denmark enjoyed the same privileges also. In admitting the produce of the Mau ritius to a British market, on the same terms as the sugars of Guiana, of Demerara, Berbice, Trinidad, and St. Croix were then admitted into this country, we are only per forming an act of common justice to the colonists of the Isle of France, and redeeming, as Mr. Huskisson stated, the pledge originally given on the permanent cession of that island to the British Crown in 1814. It is rumoured in the ltgal circles that Mr. Sergeant N'AUUIIAN will shortly be raised to the Bench, in the room of Mr. Justice RICHARDSON, whose state of health affords no expectation of his being able to resume his seat in the Common Pleas. Mr. ADAMS, of the Midland Circuit, is, we learn, shortly to be raised to the dignity of the cuij: We are assured, from a high authority, that Mr. Elliott arrived on Sunday night at the Foreign Office with de spatches from Madrid, bringing the ultimatum of the Spa nish Court. The answer given to our proposals is, that the independence of any State in South America will not be acknowledged urder any circumstances. Letters from Constantinople, of the 10th of April, state that the Turkish squadron, with the Capitan Pasha on board, was only waiting a wind to sail from the Darda nelles. It was to be accompanied by a considerable num ber of transports, with troops on board; their destination was kept a profound secret. There is no confirmation u to the rencontre with the Algerine vessels. From returns to the 'louse of Commons it appears, that the passing Irish " Vagrants" last year, cost a few coun ties upwards of 6,0001. Bucks, ?27/ ; Chester, ♦l4/. ; Glouces:er. 720/., Sic. There were 1,122 Irish vagrants sent from Bristol alone. 7.4SHIONABLE INTRLLICENCL hol tord .c in ßA r rn m a n r l d sn en . Lertai reet ned a large party at dinner yesterday, at hr Mr. and Mrs. J.:hermit had a large party at dinrur on Sunday, at their house in St. Jaines's-square. Lady Hulse has issued cards of invitation foe her first assembly on Moodier next, at her Nome in New Burlington-street. Mrs. I lop. has issoed cards of invitation for a rout tau Thursday, the 27,1, i , .szant, at her house in Mansfield-street._ Mix* borne lls issued cards for a ball on the ith June, at her house in Portland-place. Lady licigrave will give a splendid rout on Friday next, at ber house in Grosvenor-square. M. A. Taylor, Esq. M.P. bad a dinner party yesterday, at biz house, Whitehall-yard. Arthur Stanhope, Esq. had A dinner party yesterday, at his house in Taney-street. The Duke of Gloucester enterta:ned a large party at dinner yes terday, at Gloucester House, Park-lane. Montague Burgoyne, Esq. had a large party at dinner yesterday, at his house in tiloucester-placc. The Countess of Arran entertained a select circle of fashionshles yesterday evcnaig, at her house in Dover-street. The Duchess of Itutland and timid) left illeh9ir Castle !ester• day, ism! Newmarket, and are expected in town on Friday next for the remainder of the season. _ _ _ The Duke of Grafton has left town, for Newmarket. The Earl of Surrey left town yesterday morning, for his seat, Worksop AlllllOlll, Notts. fiord and Lady Suffield have arrived at Vernon House, Park place, from their seat, Gunton Hall, Norfolk. Douglas Ktnnaird, Ertl. left town yesterday, for Scotland. The Countess of Cerhamplon has arrived at her house In Bru ton-street, from her seat in Kent. Mr. and Mrs. Elliot and family hsve arrived at their house ill Orchard-street, from their seat, ihnfieM Park, Berks. Arrivals at Fenton's lintel, St. James's-weet :—Sir Wm. Par ker, Bart. from his seat in Suffolk ; W. Ilinchcliff, Esq. from the , (_Arttirtent ; and the Rev. C. F. ‘Vyatr, from Oxfordshire. Mr. and Mrs. Stratford and family left the Pulteney Hotel. Albemarle•atreet, yesterday, for their rest, Stratford Park, Lan ' esahire. . . Departures from Gould's Hotel, Jermyn-street:—Sir Andrew Cathcart, and General Hominy, on a tour ; Mr. Alexander, for lnd'a ; and Mr. Nude, for Bath. The Countess Itothts and the Ladies Leslie have left die St. Petenintrgh Hotel, Dover -street, for their seat in Kent. Lord Wm. Lennox left town yesterday, tor Windsor. Mr. and Mrs. Conyers arrived yesterday at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from their seat, Copped Hall, Essex. Arrivals at Long's Hotel, Bomlsarreett—James Salon, Esq. from Paris; Captain Scobell, R.N. from Portsmouth; Wm. Scare, Esq. from Brighton ; and P. Tatham, Esq. from his seat in Nor folk. Departures I—Colonel and Mrs. Howard, for their seat, Castle Howard, Deland; J. C. Tatleton, Ell. on a tour; Colonel and Mrs. Ellis, and M's. and Mrs. Rubinson, for Brighton; and Captain Selby, for Cheltanham. Sir Robert and Lady Wigram have arrived at Connaught-place, front a tour. IruliolllE.—We can state upon authority, th-• the Ex , Emperor of Mexico, lturbide, who has been s 4 nionths in this country, sailed from S outhampton, for A. vico, on Tuesday last, in an armed vessel, accompanied by a staff of fourteen persons. We understand he is assured of being joined by a numerous party in Mexico, when he arrives, who will assist him in recovering his abdicated throne. His departure was managed with the greatest secrecy. The persons who have accompanied him are all of them foreigners, and the greater part of them, we believe, Mexicans. Among them is an aid-de-camp who had served with him in all his Mexican campaigns. lie has taken his wife with him, and two infant children. Six other of his children have been placed at school, in Eng land, where they are to remain. The vessel, we are in formed, had arms on board, and ether military stores ; also a printing press, with its apparatus complete, for the purpose of printing and circulating proclamations upon his landing. We have nu means of precisely knowing what may be his chances of success; but one thing seems certain, that such an enterprise would not he undertaken without some supposed adequate grounds, and the result, therefore, is likely to be, what al must deplore, a renewed civil war in that country.—Carrier. Some friends to religion, we understand, in Edinburgh and Leith, are collecting subscriptions to assist our coun trymen in Van Dieman's Land to build a Presbyterian church, of which they stand much in need. Money has also been raised in the colony, and the Governor has granted a piece of ground in Hobart Town for the site. Two hundred pounds have been already sent out; the clergymen who superintend the subscription expect to re mit another sum by the next ship despatched by the Aus tralian Company.—lrteerness The Lon! Justice Clerk, we are sorry to hear, was absent from the opening of the Court yesterday, in conse- I quince of severe family distress—the death of a laugh . , Cdedunium MrrrNry. Mr. Justice I/ay, from Ireland, was present in the ('ourt of Session yesterday, and on the invitation of the Lord President, Pat within the bar.—Edinburgh l'aper. Dust. Potvoneon.—Two Gentlemen lroeeedcd to Clontarf yesterday morning, to settle a difference respect ing setae imaginary point of honour. The pistols were prepared, and all ready for action, when the police inter ' tred, and brought them away in custody.—Dublin p i It has been erroneously stated in some of the papers, that the title of Byron becomes extinct by the much lamented death of the Noble Peer and poet. The title I descends to George Anson Byron, a Post Captain in the Royal Naar COBURG THEATRE. This theatre has been famous for the production of historical pieces, which have generally, to use a green-room phrase, " told well." The Management of the present season has continued the practice, and last night brought out a melo-drame of a more than ordinarily splendid descriptioa, touter the title of William Site Conqueror, or the Days if Me Curfew Itch. Saxon and Norman blood have been so longionsed together, that the epochs in English history, familiarly denominated " the Conquest," has for many centuries ceased to excite heart-burnings ; but still it is not a period that calls forth the national pride of our countrymen, like the chivalrous deeds of "the henries and the Edwards ttf our isle ;" and on that account we do not think it the best subject connected with the history of England that could have been selected for melo-dramatic representation. It is, how. ever, a point of history which laid the foundation of many of our laws, customs, and Institutions, and in that view is a period of deep interest. To give a history of the plot of this piece would he only to give s well-selected epitome of the various circumstances connected with that eventful transaction; and the author has, with great address, shown up Bunk, as • usurper, and Edgar Allirliug, the rightful heir to the throne, as the supporter of William's views, and anxious for his acceptance of the crown ; nay in the last scene he is even made to place it on his bead. No opportunity is lost of putting into the Norman's mouth such s.niences as this--" If I were to act unjustly I should not be a lit king to rule over Britons." So that the awkward word con quest is never used ; and every circumstance in allusion to it is so completely softeried down, that if pure Saxon blood should by possi. bility How in the veins of any of our contemporaries of the nineteenth century, it could not be inflamed in witnessing the representation of this piece. The scenery of the melo-drame would du credit to either of the national theatres ; but our limits will not allow us to notice a small part of it. At the er.d of the first act there was a niaguilicent banquet scene, which we really thought could riot have been surpassed even at the finale, when we know managers and scene painters endeavour to make a favourable impression on their audience, but it was only the first of a series of scenes of extreme splendor. In the second act there was a fine 'cereal a storm, a view of the Forest of Itotherwood, and the entrance of William and his equipage, a very exellent representation of Ely Cathedral, with a general attack of Normans on the monastery at tached to it. In the third act there was • very beautiful view of the interior of Westminster Abbey ; and the whole concluded with the ceremony of Wit/tunes coronation. We have never seen • piece that excited more powerful interest. The costume of the penal was strictly attended to, and the properties were equally as splendid as the scenery. The house was crowded, and the meio-dranie was announced for repetition this evening amidst universal applause. The music, by Mr. T. Hughes, we had nearly to:gotten to nodes it was very beautitaL Yesterday, at two o'clock, the Duchess of Clarence, the Duchots of Gloucester, the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Kent., Prince Leopold, and Prince Leiningen, attended by the Baroness Despaedth and Captain Conroy, honoured the British Gallery in Pall-mall with their presence, to view the exhibition of ancient Masters, together with some paintings of deceased British artist*, for which one room was set apart. The Royal party continued their inspection for about an hour. They were attended by some of the Directors of the Institution, the Secretary, and the Keepers, Lord Napier is appointed to command the Diamond, of ♦6 guns, fitting at Chatham for foreign service. Captain Parry left Mr. Graham's, Regent-street, at nine o'clock, on Sunday morning, in a coach and four, accom panied by his brother, Dr. Parry, of Bath, and Josh. Mar tineau, EM. of Stamford-hill, to join the discovery ships at the Nore. _ _ _ THE LATE LURE WHITE, ESQ.—The night before the death of this highly-gifted and truly patriotic gentleman, he took up a pen, and wrote on a slip of paper the following words :—Catholic Emancipation must be grantA —there is nothing else by which Ireland can be tranquillized."— This memorandum he placed upon the chimney-piece, where it was found the next morning.—Dublia .3fmrn img lIUNTINcnox ELECTION.—FinaI state of the poll, in eluding disputed votes, to be 'ruled by a Committee of the !louse of Commons : Mr. Stuart Mr. Wellm Majority for Mr. '.ells - —1 The works at Eaton-house, the seat of the Emil Gros venor, are now nearly completed. The north wing is en tirely finished and occupied ; and the workmen are putting the stained glass into the windows of the south wing, and finishing the gilding of the roof. One room in this wing, nearly one hundred and forty feet in length, is to be the library ; a number of fine paintings, by the old masters, will, we understand, ornament this noble apartment. — Chester Chronicle. _ _ _ The Literary Gazette says that Mr. Macready, the actor, speaks of changing his profession. SoNB or THE CIE no y.-11n congequence of his Majesty's Drawing Room being fixed for Thursday the 20th instant, the Music advertised to be performed before this Society at St. Paul's on thLt day, and the dinner at Merchant Taylors' are unavoidably postponed till Friday the 21st inst. The Rehearsal of the Music will take place at S!. Paul's, this day, as mentioned in former advertisements. Dinner Tickets for Thursday the 20th instant, will be admitted on Friday the '2l st instant. The doors of the Cathedral will be opened at 11 o'clock ; but no person can be admitted without first contributing to the ('harity, and all persons contributing thereto will be admitted without tickets. The Duke of Gloucester intends dining with the Uni versity Club to-morrow, and the Duchess has an nounced her intention of visiting the Club (louse un the same evening ; on which occasion the rooms are to be bril liantly lighted up, and a large assembly of the members and their friends are expected to meet their Royal High nesses. Si PAY VESSELL—From an artitle in the last number of the Supplement to the rowyelnpadia Britanxica, just pub lished, we learn that the number of steam veaseli now em ployed in Great Britain is 160. Tlv largest in size are the packets which ply between Leith and London, and next to those are the packets which sail between Liverpool and Greenock, and between Liverpool and Dublin. _ . At the a ithg of the Institute, Academy des Sciences, on Alorilay the 10th, M. Cinder read a treatise, which, though rather too long, was very interesting, on the anatomy of the brain. A second trea tise was read, which, with the fiwitier, occupied nearly the whole ' sitting ; the writer (and orator) proved by his own experience that since the cessation of the ■lave trade in a part of the United States, the yellow by wholly disappeared, which fact justifies the conjectures of M. Andouard, and almost proves that the slave ships are the original reuse of this dreadful scourge to Europeans— Ll:stitt juatiliain ~via! What a lesson for the merchants of bu ms blood 1 !--Paris Paper. PORTUGAL. The Courier of last evening says—" ft has been repotted in the City this morning, that another revolution taken place at Liebon, instigated by the Queen's y; that the Ministers had been seized and impriaottbi I but that the troops, alto in the first instance had united with the Queen's frien d s, turned again, and the King's sutler ray war. re-establis hed. Such are the reports cur the City; but the accounts received at the Foreign Meet which are to the tat of May, merely state, that a rewahs* Lion, or rather some insurrectionary movement, Was is& tended to take place towards the end of April, by the party of the Queen, and of the Infant Dort MigueL hut that it was timely repressed." Ativices from Lisbon, on whidi Vie tar rely, arialaiss an account of an insurrectionary movement made in Ilselotter days of April, by the partisans of the Queen of Pasiairid and the Prince Miguel, to overturn the present Govern ment. The Ministers being apprised of it, took the twos eary means to counteract the designs of this Ultra party and when the last accounts left Lisbon, on the Ist of May, the King's authority, which had been enlawitstred, was re established, and tranquillity restored. At ilbperfett moor of this intelligence on 'Change to-day had maw effect on the funds.—Star. DUTCH MAIL. Dutch and Flemish Papers to the lfsth inst. arrived yea* terday, front which we select the follohing IiAOCZ. MaY IL. The Government has given to the Second Chamber limns exp a. nations relative to the treaty concluded with Great Britain with aspect to the East India possessions. The treaty, stipulating tie erat,:nti of some territories in Bengal, and of Malactm, is laid before the Chamber. In these explanations it is observed, that, with the except inn of the spice trade, a Metal system of navigation is Audi by this treaty, and the necessary measures arranged to prevent say fraud with respect to the duties; that the possessions in were formerly of Importance on account of the linen traelL e t this branch of comment has so greatly declined, even in the possessions, that the English rather think of sending cottoth me nufanured in Europe for sale to India, and the Netherlands Wood to follow that example; that Malacca has fiat its Importance Elko the establishment of the English at Pelo-Penang, and partienbrly at ttinga-Poera (Sincapnre), that the occupation of the latwEhad indeed been protested against t but that the point of right town OW well be decided, as the English then made a claim to Hillis* the possession of which is indispenaable for the ten mines Of Bases. It is then shown that the cession of the above countries comcap considered as fully peatiated by the acquisition of the possessions In Sumatra, and the exclusive establishment er the authority of the Netherlimds in that island, which will give Wafted value to the possession of Paltinbang, Padang, and the Liampenga I the more so, as the very hi g h c l a i ms o n th e British side, for the at tire liquidation, wen fixed at the sum of a hundred thosened pounds sterling; and it is possible, that on • more minute eakvb lion of the reciprocal claims, the balance might have been tonsil to be still mote to the disadvantage of the Indian treasury. lo the NOt-Yethr.t have been ex-hanged on this suhject, Mews. N'ynti and Canning, the Width Plenipotentiaries, have &Dojos. rice to the frank declantions of the Netherlands Government, MA to the enligated sentiments of his Majesty the King of the Nether lands, and at the tame time expressed their willingness to assist In putting an end to the differences which have arisen chiefly ham the conduct of subordinate officers ; and they have expressed their enn- Action, that after this convention no other rivalry can exist in the Emat between the two nations than in the consolidation of the liberal principles of policy which they have thereby manifested to the whole wield. AIisTEIDAY, MAY 11. Hilt Majesty's stip the Waterloo, of 74 guns, was lasnehri to-day, amidst the acclamations of a numerous assemblage of spectators. Ba MAT 14. (EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM THE HAGUE MAY IlL) The motion made the day before yesterday in the:in:ond Chair. bet, by Al. Barthelemy, and more fully developed by him year • day, relative to our corn laws, has made • great impression. A multitude of facts, carefully selected and compared, support the clear and precise arguments of the movers; the whole will be printed and distributed among the members, to be examined in the sections, on the motion of 31. de Gales, and in conformity with the unanimous wish of the Assembly. This great question will be again debated, and the Government will be able to judge of ou^ actual wants, which are so different even from those which engaged its solicitude a few months ago. In fact a perpetual tendency tc• wards a decline gives rise to a well-founded apprehension that is will no longer be possible in our agricultural provinces to derhe from the sale of their grain a sum equal to the previous disburse ments, the price unabour, and the amount of the taxes. Wits! then would remain to the proprietor, and would be the teal value of the property subject to taxation, *bids had become unproductive to the possessor ? M. Barthelemy, a ft er a preamble in which he showed the reams which, in his opinion, had hindered the question from being fair! discussed, said,-1 recognise no theory nor universal rules on th'e subject. I will prove, as far as we are concerned, if the Chamber will allow me. 1. That the consequence of unlimited liberty of trade is 'times • racily to give us, by turns, the highest and the lowest prices Kurope, with the difference of the expenses of carriage; and tit.; the fact at this moment proves what the natural order of thbq ► indicated. 2. That the lowest price of Europe would be insufficient to iv pay the advance of the fanner, and the interest of the capital engaged in It. 3. That the present price is not yet the lowest pike possible, ores that it is, however inferior to that which, by a prescription of two centuries, has fixed the value of landed property ; which is ate tient to call the attention of the legislature. 4. That it is our duty to represent to his Majesty this state of things, and to request him to take it into consideration. And seeing that the speech from the thtone, at the opening of dos Sessioo, has not answered on this head to your address of the month of October last, because the communication of the docitnienw relative to it could not be made to you till after your etkioUni- Ment, I formally propose to the Chamber to make known to Ca Majesty, by another edema, the opinion which it may think 11l to adopt on the necessity of certain restrictions, or of certain ineeenres which may be prescribed by the interest of agriculture, or at have to petition him to take this matter into further consideration 41 and for the developentent of this propotition. I request to be based esa any day that the Chamber duty please to appoint for the purples.— Brussels. Papers, May lb. BENEFIT SOCIETIES. TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE BRITISH PRESS. Sit —ln consequence of a Bill which is now in progress throsiiii the House of Commons, intiouled a Bill to amend the al:est.! Acts for the encouragement or Hanks fur Savings in England aio.i Ireland," in which there is a clause that affects the intermits u: Friendly Societies, a general anxiety prevails among the witemliets of those Institutions. and the following is the copy of • petiate.i which is bring handed about for signature in great haste, ks NW having been ordered for Committee to-morrow evening. " To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom to Parliament assembled. The humble petition of the several perms whose names are hereunto subscribed ; _ _ liheweth—" That your petitioners are members of the Benefit Society, and that by an Act, fill George 111. " far the further encouragement and protection of ' , timidly Societies, sad fur preventing frauds and abuses therein," the advantages which hag previously been confined to Banks for Saving!, relative to the ye) - inent of their funds into the Bank, and receiving interest at the sow of about 4' per cent. were extended also to Benefit Societies, " That in consequence of this, many Societies have been esti., bhshed, and others altered in their plans, the calculations telteeeof have been rounded upon the aforesaid rate of interest. " That under the motet-non of the aforesaid Aet e Bens* Societies have been improving ever since it was passed. t• That if the advantages held out by . the aforesaid Act be with. drawn, many Societies will be ser iously injured, sad these security endangered. " That your petitioners have found, with concern, that • BIM Is now before your Honourable House, • to amend the several Acts for the encouragement of Banks for Savings in England sad ht land,' containing a clause, which, if pasted into a law, pill de prive benefit societies of the aforesaid advantages. " Your petitioners therefore pray, that so much of the said Rill as shall relate to the alteration or amendment of the aforesaid Act fi9 Geo. 111. • for the further encouragement of friendly eeineties. and for preventing frauds and abuses therein,' nal net peso inter ns law. " And your petitioners, Res" Now, without making any observation as to the expediency of t such a measure, as regards all societies not at present enrolled, or all future societies, I would put it :o the justice of the Right Ho. nourahle proposer of the clause in question, how he can turn r(14111•1 upon those societies', whore , plan, and rules and regulations, ha been founded upon the faith of an Act of Parliament, withdrai. the condition, and deprive then' of the promised assistance? I ass doubtful if the Right llonounible mover has considered the exits's( of the evil which his contemplated measure will create; and I be;. permission to inform the numerous members of societies, who may be ignorant of the tact, that each of them individually, or M. number of them collectively, may petition the House upon tho . subject; and that, contrary to the opinion generally entertaineu bib::working classes, a petition may be written upon papa. are few Members of Parliament who would refuse to present a petition upon such an important subject, and it is the duty of societies to point out the evils of the measure. I am, Sir, yours, ax. Y. L May IS. A Valenciennes Paper mimes the following cetrious anecdote A celebrated preacher at Madrid having lately expatiated on tlis outlining' of the wicked in the next world, ex clair.ted, •' Is it tut sunniving we should continue to sin ? Oh (Intl ! why aufferest the rt the wicked and the ungrateful to live ?" In pronouncing/ tlit,e words, he struck his forehead with greet violence, which the whit andience imitated; in an instant several thousand slaps on the t: •v head remanded throughout the church. This fact nay give an lucu of the stri.kinic effects of the pulpit eloquence in Spain. I la.vot been an eye-witnevi of this sycopaitic slapping the face is sec nvi churches in Lisbon, at the Kt low tie isgrizaws (sealant of Iticusy„ es Good Friday, 11