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FZNI:IONADLE INTELLIGENCE. e - 'The Duke of illiairester had a grand dinner party on Saturday, a; (thrums's' . Ilcuse. Omit-lane. The Duke Novi lit entertained a distinguished party at dinner vesterday, at his Lase in St. Jammer-square. lion. Agar this, 11. P. had a grand dinner party on Saturday, at his house its Mrs. Wpm %ate a tall and supper on Friday evening, at her home, which was attended by upward. of 200 .distinguished 'shies; the three drawing-rooms were elegantly fitted up; dx.ceig commenced at eleven o'clock, and finished after the. The Countess f riindwich entertained a large party at dinner, on Satimlar, at h, r h.n w in Dovermtreet ; among whom were Emily, March u mem oe lii , idiinderry, Lord John Russell, Lord Crewe, Lair E. Edgeemiiiie, 3lr. and I.a ly Harriet Ilarlet Baring. Count Frtnchall, tile 4. hdocullor of the Exchequer, Sir George -Warren_ elan, laird and Lady Holland entertalued Lord and Lady Kips, and • a large party ut hishionatiles, at dinner yesterday, at Holland Moose. Lad Moxicy gave his first dinner party yesterday, at Kent. lies.., Kaigf.tiliri. ge. Charles Ellis. Esq. 31. P. had a dinner party yesterday, at his home (,'barks But. hod u large party at dinner yester. deli:his bows: in (!,.per Brook-street. Earl of Aboideon entertained a large party at dinner, on satmhiy, at Ins Innate in ,Irgylc.sireet. rb. pith as at Northimiberhutd, who has been much indis- Mee btr arrival iu town, we are happy to state, is much The Dako of Grillo:1 has left town for his seat, Wakefield Lodge, Stoat, Stratford. lad sod Lady forester have arrived at the Dowager Duchess of kodand's. 1.1 Siekville.street, from Belroir Castle. The Marquis of Chandos left town yesterday evening, for his met, Vow" Ducks. Lad a ss ',tidy yarn R isiell have arrived at the Marquis of Tevistorles, In ArNospon.street, from Woburn Abbey. The Him. Duarte.% Kenyaa has arrived at Warren's Hotel, It Iran a tour. Lord Moiy.:cua has left town for Melton Mowbray, Leices tershire. The Earl and Countess of Itulingtoi and family left their seat, Newton Home, Yorkshire, on Friday, for acrd Harvey lei . . town yesterday for Brighton. J o h n Aware, L's.. has kit town tor Bath. Unload Itiidy Ju has arrived at Jordan's Hotel, St. James's stesetefeenetaintr, Colonel rinerd has arrived at his house in Audley-square, from his seat. Kral, Newcastle. Arrivals at ikt.t's Hotel, Dovcrmtreet :—Mr. and Mrs. Coke, from Brussels; Aix Mrs. and the Misses //union. front Scotland; Mr. and Mrs. rfnonapson, from Paris. Departures :—.llr. and Airs. Chat., and family, and Miss Chafy, for Sir John Sykei's seat near heseing ; Sir James Saumerier, for Beth ; Reverend Mr. Saunicria, tor ditto ; 31r. and Mrs. James for 'teem:shire. Arrivals at Me reheat" , Hotel, Albemarle-street :—Mr. and Dirs. Torino, titan their seat in Kent; Mr. and Airs. Li very, from their seat in Yorkshire. Departures :—Captain and *es. Selby, t r Brighton; and Jonas Thornton, Esq. for Paris. Count Pit poi armed yesterday at the Clarendon hotel, Bond. street, from ht. be •' ard the Earl and Countess Clancarty and fitenily, an satiimay. from Ireland. Arrivals at Iti.dt:••• Hotel, Jentlyn-street :—The Hon. Charles Veiny, from Ireheel ; Mr. and lady Elitabeth Inge, the Reit reed Hawse ard the Miami , Inge, from Stafiiirdshire. Departures tot ; li. O. %Vaud, Esq. for Bucks ; James Steuart, FA* and ilr., Airs.. and Alias Stewart, toe Sunningdale ; and the Earl t 'liostordaud Lord Acheson, tOr Brighton. Departurt-. train Holme's lintel, l'arliament-street r—Caprain, Jim and Miss Cabin, for Cambridge; sad Montague, Esq. toe Scodat.d. Tut Ku:cr.—His Majesty, we regret to state, had a sev.re st:ack ,f the gout on Thursday, Mr. Canning called at Craton House on Friday, but the King was nut sufficiently no:oyard to honour him with an interview. II s Mije.ty is, however, now, we rejoice to say, some what conval. sent. Yesterday h:s Majcsty received •isits from the Duke of Ycrk, the lluditss of Gloucester, and ti.e l'rincess • Friday, the Duke of York bail a numerous dinner party, to meet his R,yal Sisters. the Duchess of Gloucester and Cie Princas Augusta. The party conaisu dof twenty-six. The Duke o: o.outes:er was to have been of the party, but L's Royal IliOniest continues confined to his house, with a bed cold. Yesterday the Prin:ess Augusta attended Divine Service at the C9tar.l Royal. The Pr.Leoss Augusta visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterda). Saturday afternoon, the Duchess of Gloucester and the Princes,. Augurts, honoured the Ccuniess Dowager of Ilarnieel with a visit, at her Louse in Portman-Lquare. Lore Francis Conyngliam, we understand, is shortly about to lead to the hymeneal altar Laly Jane Paget, daughter of the Marquis of Angelary. This lady, it was ruruoar, d inmse time ago, was to have been married , o a wealthy ccinnoner, who has since funned a matrimonial &Wane.: with a distinguished professional lady; but her hared, for which there has bean, we believe, more than one suitor, has been nr rved for the above accomplished young Nobleman. The marriage takes place immediately after Easter. The period of adjournment for the Easter holidays will be from Thursday neat to Monday the 31 of May. A report has been in circulation for some days past, that Parliament is to be dissolved at the end of the present Ses sion. We can stste, upon authority, that there is not the slightest foundation for this report.—Courier. BRIGHTON P•I'l I. I 0 N.—S.nce his Alajesty's departure, the doors of the Pavilion have been closed, and no visitor whatever admitted to se, this splendid eslitice. The strict ness with which this order is enforeAl has created a serfs:a tm in the minds of the inhabitants of Brighton, that this favourite resort of the King is not again to be ho r.ourtd by his august pet sence. We cannot undertake to explain, or perfectly understand, why the inhabitants of Briglitin have arrived at this conclusion from the renitence of such an order. To us it appears a circumstance merely orbe regretted, incense it takes away one of the principal attractions 1.1 strangers who visited this sequestered retreat of the gay end fashionable world. We understand that a sloop of war is fitting out at Ply month, to take out the Governor of Ncw Brunswick, Major-General Sir Howard Douglas, Bart. to North Ame rica. Tbc 31ajor-General, it is supposed, will in the first instanee proceed direct ter Halifax, Nova Scotia, to take the commend, Fero temper in the absence of Lieutenant -G,:n. Sir Ja•nel Kfisapt, wh o is expected home on leave for a sheet time. The Hea. Mr. Justice Bayley has been on a visit, this week, to James 'rorkinr s ion, Esq. of Stukely Hall. Mr. Scarlett has arristri in London, from off the York circuit, in better health than when he quitted town. Tbat inimitable comic setw, Mundell, is going to retire from thestage, and preparatory' to his final departure, in tends to wit, in succession, all those characters of which, during many years, he has en the unrivalled representa tive. This admir able comedian will close his the:mit:al career, whilst his professMnal talents are as high and as un impaired uat any period of his life ; —but the resolution he has tskw is quite judicious, following the example of *Widens, Mwssible, and Lewis. Mr. Charles Taylor, of Covent-garden Theatre, is con fined by severe indisposition. Salinas Watts.—From the extensive alterations mikiog in this eslablishment, it will open on Easti r Mon day, next week, with the greatest spirit and liberality. In the list of the company we ace the names of sonic of our uld sod dratvved favourites. :slat t •at Tit e.v.r a c.—This pleasant place of 'nuts' ment closed its season on flatur,!sy, on which occasion the fol!ow ing address was 'poker) by Jlr. Lee : Ladies and Gentlemen, This brim the las: night of our present season. the pleasing duty devolves au me. of eilTering to our patrons and friend', our mum grateful a. ktiowleernents, for the continued prosperity with which Ms Theatre ha. uniformly been honoured. Our success will siiir.ulite us to renewed exertion. During our reeve, every effort of unwearied preparation will be made by the Management of this Eie.nblishment, to dcrerre a continuation of Gnu patronage, with which it has been honoured. In Cie name of the Propriet sr,d every Member of this The atre u •ted; I beg to offer you our best thanks, and sincerely wish kg you every possible happiness till we shall again have di:: pleaaure of meeting your smiles in October next. I most respectfully, Lvelies Oen:len•en, bid you adieu. - - - - la. CoNou.v.—We are informal that this unfortunate gentleman ha, cincted his friends to supply him with a complete set of surgical instruments, with all the new in ventions, and a elinplete chamber medicine chest. There is no doubt that he will be of the grertest utility to the colony from the gnat want of medical men there ; but there is less doubt that lie will be one of the first in the 1 " 1 , 3111 7. going u he is, covered with misfor t u ne, and un pa tired by crime.—Medicol i tr. At the Ruthven Assizes, in two out of three prosecu none for gearing voods from tne wreil of the ship Horuby, conviction folawed, and sentence of transportation was Pea* upon the prisoners, all of %Mum were jimaks FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRRNCII PAPERS. We received list night, by express, the Paris Journals of Friday, from which we extract tile following : ] From the Court ice Fraticatt. ] Pati Aram 8. To-day, at t we l ve o'clock, H n, is Royal Highness Monsieur de-' livered, in the liana of Spain's name, the Collar of the Order of the Golden Fleece to AIM. de Villele and de Chateaulriand ; M 31. the Prince Talleymnd, the Ambassadors of Spain, of Itus , sia, and the Grand Master of the Ceremoni es . The Dueirllavii. I the (tut de Lavanguyon, and all the Grandees of the Order actually in Faris, were present at this ceremony. N. de Rothie *is appointed First Secretary of Embassy at Lor i don, in the mom of Viscount Lodoisde. Marcellos is appointed, it is said, .Minister at Lucca. M. the Marquis de Caraunan, sets out towards the end of this week to resume his functions as Ambassador at Vienna. The Emperor of Russia has lately granted the Dread Cross of St. %Vladimir of the First Class, to the Marshals the Due of Co. negliano, commanding the .1:h corps in Spain ; the Due of liqgrio, commanding the Ist corps • the Marquis I,suriston, commanding, rive rith corps ; Count Molitor, commanding the *2d corps ; and the Licutenant-Oeneral Prince Hollenlobe, commanding the 3d !cents. His Imperial Majesty has sent, at the sante time, the de coration of 6...llexander Newsky to the LieutenantwOeneral Count ltordesoult, Count Guillentinot, Viscount Tirleh ' Viscount prate, Count Curial, Count Bourke, Bar o n Damao, a nd Count Lov'rrdn: Lastly, the Cross of the Order of St. Georgeof the 3d Clam, has been granted by the Emperor to the Lieutenants-Ge neral Viscount 1 alitt.ind Viscount de I'ricst. I The .llomitnir contains, in its official part, the following decree: •• Louis, he. • "Considering the judgments of the ('curt of A satire of tha De partment of the Vienne, of the 17th of September, 1823, by which the accomplices of Merton had been condemned to correctional penalties ; bring disposed to manifest our clemency in favour of those convicts, whose repentance announces and guarantees an en tire submission to the laws of the state, and a sincere return to the fidelity they owe us. On the report of our Keeper of the Seals, Secretary of :kale tire the Justice Department, we have ordained and do ordain as follows : " 'Art. I. Full and entire pardon is granted to Methuen' Curai, Pierre Cornuan, Jun Michin, Pierre Louis 31illeason, Henry Lndeau, Jules Louis Ales Nartinatidm, Jacques Meunier, Henri prier Hyacinthe Ledein, Josekth Iticquc, Hobert Augustine Lam bert, Joachim Pierre 3larie Fcpttl, Louis Sanzaigs %61°uarti Beau- Ills, Vincent Louis, Armand Coudray, Henri Nonet, and Augustin 3lalecott. In consequence of which they shall be released imme diately, on condition that they shall eminent during fire years under the care of the High Police, conformably to the Loth Article of the Penal Code. '• • Art. 2. Our Keeper of the Seals. Secretary of State for the Justice Department, is charged with the fulfilment of the present decree.' Given in our Palace of the Tuileries, the 7th of April, in the year of Brace, one thou and eight hundred and twenty-four, and in the twenty-ninth of out reign. " By the King, LOUIS. " The Keeper of the Seals, &c. "Count DE PEYRONNET." [From the Journal des Ikbats.] HOME, AIMINCH 31. The Duchess of Devonshire, so well known for the protection she granted to aws, died at Route on the 30th instant. The body of the unfortunate Miss Bathurst has been discovered. The Tiber had carried it across the ruins of Rome, almost as far as Ostia, a few miles from the sea. [From the Correfitatiowerel. I TRIPOLITZA, FCII. 24. The remainder of the Society of the Hiteristes, Will; had contri buted by the false direction they wished to give to a ff airs, to delay the public organisation, has lately been entirely annihilated. In ,he prinaitiae establishment of the Provisional Government of Greece, t::is society had been solemnly abolished ; but shortly after, some of its members availed themselves of a favourable opportu nity of joining some disaffected, headed by Theodore Negria. With this reinforcement, they had won over to their party sonic distin guished Military lihiefs, and tinder pretence that the torus of a civil government were unbecoming during a war, upon which de pended the regeneration of the nation, or its entire annihilation, they required for the Government of Grace modifications tending to make of it a Government quite military. The Senate contented itself with opposing to this party a calm, though unshaken firm netts; but the latter, mistaking this moderation for weakness, be came more daring, and having recourse to all possible means, they stocecded in bribing three Members of the Executive; and elevated by this ephemeral success, they thought that they could depend upon the Military Chiefs to rule the Senate, and wrest from him the modifications they wished for. The Supreme Power then displayed all its strength, and in vir tue of the 50. h Article of the Corstitutio, tornied out of its own Members a Committee woo indicted Peter Marronnehale, Andre Metaxas, and lair . Cliarahunpis, all three 31embers of time Exe cutive CounciL The Executive Council was then dissolved, and lianmediately recomposed by the Senate. The Members appointed to the New Council are—Wants Conduriotis of Hydra, Presi ; Botassis„ of Swazis ' Vice-Prerideot ; Jean Weds, of Emma, and Nicolos Londos, of Peloponnesus. This energetic as well as legal measure proved that the Senate was conscious of its real strength, which it holds front the nation it represents, and confounded certain malevolent strangers, who, ...rand the moderation of the Government into weakness. Co.. locotrosi, Met t is, Phleasse, and the other t.iilitary chiefs upon whom the disaffected thought they could depend, were the first to eompli inent Govemment for its resolute behaviour, and the appointment of another Executive Council capable of re-est.blishing harmony.' Since the restoration of tranquillity the attention of Government has been particularly directed to the dispositions relating to the next campaign. One of its first pit.ceedings was the enacting of a law for the levying of taxes in the islands of the Archipelago. It contains many important ameliorations, founded on the experience of the three last years, and it is hoped that the income of the Archi pelago alone will suffice for the equipment of the Beet- Fazwcat FUNDS—Five per Cents, 101175 e. Neapolitan ' • Loan of 1823, 15f ; Bank Stock, 1161fff. • Five per Cents. in ducats, 9,54—in francs, lOU 50 ; Elates trr.spagne opened at 16 the high est—lowest, 14—closed at 15,1 ; Royal Spanish 1,01111 of 1023, 64; Exchange on London, ate month, 251. 25c.; three months, ffff. lik—Cossrs Art.'wetique, April IL The Mueller , of the 9th April, and the Etoile, dated the do not contain a single article worth extracting. NEW COLOMBSAN LOAN.—Saturday afternoon it was announced in the City that the New Colombian Loan had been taken by Mr. B. A. Goldsmith and Co. No printed prospectus has as yet been circulated, but eve are given to understand tit:Le the amount of the Loan is 3,000,0001. and that the contract price is t'9. It has been reported that it was 90. Tl.ere was some speculation in the Scrip on Sa tutday, in anticipation of the contract. At one hour it rose to It premium, but, at the close of businetts at the Foreign Stock Market, declined to 3 per cent. premium. A letter from Trieste of the 23d ult. received by a com mercial house in the city, mentions the receipt of advises of the 11th ult. from Corfu, which state that the govern mlnt there had laid an embargo on all British and lonian vessels, in consequence of an Algerine squadron havit ,; ap peared in those seas. Lisbon papers to the 23d ult. state, that Royal decrees, hail been issued for re-uniting the ministerial departments of the Interior and of Justice, appointing thereto Senor Jose Antonio d'Oliviera Leite de Barra; and conferring on the dismissed Minster* of the Interior and of Justice, pensions of one thousand six hundred milret s each. The law of the II th June, 1821, abolishing the taxes on pro visions for the court and city of Lisbon, has been extended to every part of the kingi:om. Letters from Amsterdam state that the new Trading Company established there with the sanction of Govern melt, is likely to be a great favourite, as eminent capita -1 lists of all tl'e leading cities of Europe have written for shares. The bidding, were to be made this day. The Emperor of Russia has been very liberal of his honeurs to the generals of the French army in Spain, the bravery and discipline of which, tays the Mona/tam, has been admired throughout the whole of Europe. " His Imperial Majesty," adds this Journal, " appreciating the servi7e3 that this army has rendered to the world, in =haling the Revolution from its last asylum, and ensuring the rights of legitimacy, has conferred the Grand Cotdcu la 14% %Vladimir of the that class on— Marahala--The Dukes of Conegliano and Reggio, M. de Lau fatio, Comte Molitor, and Nina de llohenloe. The Order of St. Alexander Nesaky. on Lieutenant-Generals Comte Guillemenot, Comte Bourdeacoulle, Visconite Titlet, Vi,rointe Dale, Comm Curial, Caine Bourke, Damon de llamas, and Comte tie Levan°. And the Cram of the Order of St. ()gorge of the hint clini—on Viaeonites Vallio and Saint Priat. The fol owing is the House List of the Governors and Directors of the Bank of England, for the year ensuing. via:— , TOR GOVERNORS : COR:4ELII/11 HULLER, Esq., Governor. JOHN BAKER RICHARDS. Lsq., Deputy-Governor. 1Q& DIRECTORS: Dana Barclay, Esq. Sir Thomas Neave, Hart. John Bowan, Foe. Ueorge Warde 'lnman, Usq. Jones Campbell, h.q. John flordey Palmer, Esq. 1 John Coeksall, Esq. John Pears', Esq. Timothy Abraham Canis, Esq. Charles Pole, Esq. Samuel Drewe, Esq. Henry Poretter, Esq. lieorge Iberia), Esq. Rithard (lea Railtes. Esq. Jeremiah Harman, Esq. Sir John Rae Reid, Bart. John Een;.,min Heath, Esq. Andrew Henry Thomson, Esq. Thomas Langley, Esq. Samuel Thornton, Raci. William 3lannieg, Esq. William Ward, Esq. !William 3lellish, Esq. Moves lVigram, Esq. I The Election for Governor and Deputy Governor will I be held at the Bank, on Tuesday, the 13th; and for Di n ctors, on Wednesday, the 14th lust., from ten o'clock in 't!. forenoon, till tour in the afternoon. TO THE EDITOR OF TIRE BRITISH PRESS. SlR—There never yet was an establishment fraught with service to the public but it was sure to rouse a host of irreconcileable enemies with when interests it cnmes in' contact. It was not, therefore, to be expected that such an' institution as the EQUITABLE Loss BANS should be in stituted without assembling the whole corps of PAWN co E as, who, representing themselves as about to become "an army of martyrs," appeal to all powers, high and low, against this encroachment on the privileges and pro fits of the;r end/. A Meeting has accordingly been sum moned at the Korn Tavern, in Ilwtors' Commons--s very awkward association this, but, no doubt, a very appropriate', one--and a certain set of resolutions passed unanimously against all projectors who, wandering near their three balls,' molest their ancient, though not solitary reign, and disturb them in the sacred exercise of their franchises. The first of their resolutions—Jiturs 11'llowm.t. in the chair—is, " That this Meeting learn, with equal consternation and surprise, that a 1)1811 is organis.d, and a vast sum of money raised. expressly to operate, , not simply to the pawnbrokers prejudice, but to their ruin. Ep.al consternation nod surprise!! "Give us a glass of hay 'awl hqp," says MATH EWS, "and don't mix it." But, however nicely these compound quantities of alarm were divided, there was certainly no dash of truth iu the mix ture. Quite the contrary. It, indeed, the protection of the public from fraud and extortion is necessarily connected with the ruin if the pawnbrokers, their consternation may he accounted for, but it was hardly discreet in them to de- • clare this: the fact may be true, and I have no doubt it is; but it was not a wise resolution that disclosed it. What ever tends to encourage lawful matrimony, tends, in the same proportion, to lessen the contraband commerce of the sexes ; and, could the latter be effectually sup pressed, we j might soon exre..t a coj*cil to be summ o ned of all who lived on the wages of prosiltution to declare their roaster- nation and surprise on finding a plan organized expressly to operate, not simply to the prejudice of their ogling, but the main „/' their had( It would be nncandid tetkindemn any class of persons in the aggregate. Sonic pavinbrekers there are, and it would be very hard if out of such a swarm there were not a few, who conduct themselves with honesty and uprightness. Such persons, neither the Equitable Loan Establishment, nor any other, will at all affect. In this Metropolis, no man, dealing honestly, need fear ruin from any competitor. honesty is too scarce an article for any one to cease dealing with the owner of it, when once he has found him. But too many of the class lam adverting to,—l fear the great majority,--should they fortunately be swept bum the circle of competition, would find their account in besting hemp, and the poor would be great gainers. The faeilitks afforded ' Ly the pawnbrokers to raise money, and the prods exacted from those whoseilistrtis or profligacy compels them to raise it, is sufficient of itself to male us grateful to any persons of character and capital who will embody themselrasfor the purpose of relieving the public from so prolific s source of evil. Mr. Cotme not: N, a Magistrate, whose testimony on such a subject is beyond all exception, when detailing in his " twine on the l'oliee of the Metropolis," the various tricks and devices of the different description *reheats that obtain the means of living in idleness, and upon the in dustry and property of others, begins his list with— " I. SHA UPERS who obtain licences become eswx aßO LIGs, and bring disgrace upon the reputable part of the trade, by every species of fraud which can add to the distresses of those who are compelled to raise money this way ; for which purpose there are abundance opportuni ties. Swindling pawnbrokers of this class," be adds, are , uniformly receivers of stolen goods, and, under the cover of their licence, du much mischief to the puldic."—P. 144. When it is estimated that upwards of a million sterling in value of the property of the most dis tressed portion of the community, and, in consequence of their distress, least able to protect themselves against imposition and injustice, is in their possession, can we want any stronger appeal in favour of the utility of such an establishment as the Eourrases Losn Bans? Is it possible to render the community a more essential and lasting benefit than by withdrawing the more wretched of its members from the cruel grasp of such extortioners, of whom they are the defenceless and perpetual prey "Al !bough it is of the utmost consequence,' says the en lightened and intelligent Magistrate, whose work we have just quoted, " that this class of persons, above all others, should be honest, correct,- and even humane, characters, — and it is to be hoped many of them are of that desnriplon,— yet, certain it is, that any person, even the most notorious rogue and v•igabond, who can raise ten pounds to pay for a licence, may at present set up the trade of a pawnbroker ; and it is even said that some have got licences who here 'act molly been nn board the hulks !—s thing unacoidabk ander the present cireamtstances." The body of pawnbrokers then, who met in council at the Horn '1 avern,are manifestly not borne out in assuming that their personal profit is identified with the good of the commonwealth. The description given of them as above us but too correct, and the most candid cannot add largely to the exception. To rescue the indigent from the fangs of sordid self-interest, is of itself a great public good, and whatever the establishment of an Equitable Loan Bank may reform of this wide-spreading misery, is so much gained to the increase of private happiness, and of public prosperity. I an, Sir, yours, Rec. • LOOKER-ON. The Declaration of Independence of the Paella of Egypt is confidently affirmed in the most recent !etters from Trieste and Leghorn. PA LM SUNDAY.—In consequence of the numerous atrocities and depredations annually committed on Palm Sunday, on those who resort at an early hour on that morning to llornsey wood, for the purpose of palming, a great number of police officers. rtish constables, and Bow-street patrol, well armed, took their stations in the wood, and on different parts of the road leading thither. before day-ltght appeared ; and although the warning was very unpropitious, the snow falling very thick, the road leading thither was crouded with groups of young men and women, some carrying baskets with refreshments. The light lingered gentry, and other gangs of ruffians repaired thither, also for the purpose of plunder. Some few robberies were committed, in spite of all the prseaution used to prevent it. Several ruffians were apprehended, and will be brought to Ilatton-garden office this day for examina tion. The public-houses all along in the neighbourhood were filled with young tqlks, who returned to town entssfied with obtaining a sprig of any kind of green in commemoration of the day. Co KO len I NQIVIEST.--PotiON.—OM Saturday evening last an inquest was held at the Primers' Arms, in Broughton-road ! Sidford, on the body of Lathes Wood, a young woman about lri years of age, who had died at the house of Mr. Jinn Nadin, in Dmughton, under the following circumstances ;—The father o f deceased had been a lam t in Lincolnshire, but being unfortunate had removed to klancliener, where be was employed by Mr Nealin as gardener, &c. and his daughter occasionally assisted in Mr. Na tlin'a house. On Thursday Ipornhig she rose early, and took some brimstone and treacle. fn short time afterwards she war seized with sickness, and on being questioned by Mrs. Nadin, said site had mixed with the brimstone and treacle some cream of tartar which she got out of a bag at home. As the symptoms became more violent, • surgeon was called in, who suspected that she had taken something deleterious; and on examining the remains of the medicine, it was found to be strongly impregnated with arsenic. Emetics were ad. ministered to the unfortunate girl, but in vain ; she died on the Friday morning. Her body was opened, and a considerable quern. tidy of arsenic was found in the stomach. When the father of the deceased watt examined, he stated that he recollected bringing with hilts from Lincolnshire a quantity of corrosive sublimate (as he be ' lieveds, but which no doubt was arsenic, which the deceased had 'mind, and taken instead of cream of tat tar. There was not the slightest ground foe supposing that she had intentionally poisoned ! herself. TM Jury therefore returned a verdict of " Accidental Death." It was extremely fortenste that the deemed rose tonsi -1 derably earlier than the rest of the family on the intoning on which she took the fatal minute. Another servant and Mr. Na. din's children were to have token a part of the medicine ; hut be_ fore they came down stairs she had begun to feel the effects of the poison, and they prudently abstained from tasting ft.—Mune/utter ' Guar dial,. DULL PCIVENTET.—At an early hour on Thursday morning, a meeting took place in a field about three quarter of a mile beyond Lambeth, between F—C---, Esq. and Captain ID—, late of the Royal Navy ; the Water eman attended by J— ll—, Esq. the latter by F.— L.—, Esq. When the parties were assembled, very considerable delay occurred in the adjustment of the preliminaries as to ground and distance, which, however ?limpet-able to the combatants, ultimately prevented any resort to hostilities, at least fot the present. The ground having been laid down, In what is called French drain, Captain s friend objected to the gentlemen lighting along the ridge, which would, he justly observed, ^re a n shiest onerrity director. This point being conceded b the opposite pasty, the distance was me.. cured across; the combatants agreed to tire by signal, and had actually received their pistols, when 14r. Stamford, a Magistrate for the county of Surrey, leaped Isis horse Into the field. attended by some or the patrol. who had suspected the gentlemen's hostile inten. dons, by seeing diem oat at so early an hour. Captain D-- .nd ha wor d attempted night. bat were Intercepted, and the principals and won & at iettr side wen eventually bound over to keep the mai. A difference at petal's on a gams at billiards is said to bate Ars: nosed the taut& kEr. DR. MORRISON. (raow A COMIRESPONDENT4 Among the presentations at the Levee ' on Wednesday last, was that of th e R ev . D r . R o b ert Morrison, by the, Right Honourable Charles Wynn, on the occasion of his return to England, and for the purpose of presenting to his . Majesty a copy of his Chinese translation of the Holy' Scriptures. This great and difficult work has been one of the chief occupations of its distinguished author, during the last seventeen years of his life, and certainly reflects upon him the highest honour. When we consider, that the people whom, under the blessing of Providence, it may be the means of enlightening, are probably not less than a third of the whole Lumen race, we must at once admit, that this work clone would place 1)r. Morrison upon the very first rank of the propagaors of the blessings of Christian knowledge among mankind. He has not, however, con fined himself to the exercise of his personal talents only, in this great and good cause ; but has, with a degree of t lity quite unexampled, appropriahri out of his own very slender means, the sum of no It as than two thousand five hundred pounds, to the foundation of an Anglo-Chinese college at Ma!acci, for the cultivetioa, in that c ntral spot, of Chinese and English literature, and the diffusion ulti mately, by such means, oi . Christianity among the natives of China. This institution, which his since received many subordi nate contributions, and which coutinnis to flourish under the patronage and protection of our Govorinnent, is highly interesting to the public at large, net only in a religious, but also in a literary, political, and even commercial point of view. If there is anything which the wit of man can con trive, by which (safely and henelleiahy to all parties) that moral barrier ma y be gradually removal, which at present excludes us, on the one part, from a complete knowledge of the institutions and resources of China; and which, on the other, blinds the Chinese to the advantage of our sci entific discoveries, our higher pitch of civilization—and, most of all, our possession of the records of religious truth, it is this An„ 10-Chinese college, the foundation of which this country owes to the Rev. Dr. Morrison. In the character of Dr. Mo. rison we have also before us a most gratifying proof, that the wannest zeal for the inter ests of religion, is net incompatible with the most perfect discretion, ar.d the most sober employment of our talents in the promotion of the public good, in matters merely or chicly connected with our temporal welfare. Throughout his big residence in China, Dr. Morrison has so conducted himself as to secure the perfect approbation and confidence of the East India Company, and to be chosen by them to be their confidential interpreter in all their transactions with the Chinese government. In this capacity he has, on various occasions, been extremely useful in reconciling differences, and especially on a late occasion, in assisting that able and excellent servant of the Company, Mr. Unn ston, who is now at the head of our affairs in that quarter, in the re-establishment he has effected of our Chinese com mercial intercourse, on the most honourable and satisfac tory footing. The East India Company have also taken under their munificent patronage his very extensive and valuable dic tionary of the Chinese Language, and have printed it in China at their sole expense. It is to be regretted that this important work is not more known ; for it is, in fact, not only the most perfect exhibition of that most curious and singular langtag, in any European medium, bu! it actually conveys, under t h e foram of a dictionary, such a mass of new and curious information respecting China, as to ren der it a valuable acquisition ev.m to those to whom the mere language itself is a matter of indifference. The last instance which we shall quote of the liberality and public spirit of Dr. Morrison, is Ms collection and an portation into tliis country of a most complete and valuable Chirese Library, of not less than 10,000 volumes, which he designs fur the use of the literary public of this coun try. It is to be hoped that this important acquisition will be secured to the nation by purchase, and &peace' in the British Museum. MR. BATTIER AND THE TENTH HUSSARS. ' Mr. Bank' hss publisd reply to Sr: Herbert Tay lor's lett,T, which he analyzes with great spirit. Ile gives fiat contradictions to the statements of Colonel Quentin and Lord Londonderry. We subjoin three principal passages of Mr. Hittites stEetnent • • ilitary readers dq not require to be told, that the Commander. in-Chiet sedate *restrict and peremptory aith regard to the in. struction and the drill of young officers joining regiments. Win it test then excite sem little surprise when they are told, that Colonel Sir Charge Quectin, the then contninding office at the 10th hum sars, orders+ ire on two diferent occasions to attend no drills, no parades, no duties whatever? lf, on joint:lg the regiment, I could not beast of touch proficiency as a cavalry officer, was it to be ex. parted that I should attain it by inspiration ? Or was it likely that the small portion of knowledge which I could lay claim to would be improved and augmented by an order horn the cominarding officer to do no duty whatsoever, and to attend to no drill, nor in. structlon that might enable me to learn that duty I call upon Illajor-General Sir Colquhoun (leant to corroborate the assertion have just made. He, at least, permed judgment to seal:trough the conspiracy formed against ore, and feeling and principle to des pise it. I appeal to him, by his frankness as a soldier, by his ho nourable feeling as a gentleman, and by his candour and truth as a man, to confirm n.y statement. 1 bring to his recollection, that on the last of the two occasions alluded to, I called on him at his apartments in the Rryal Barracks, Dublin, and that then and there, in the presence of Major England, his aide-de.camp, I distinctly reported to him the fact I have just related. I stated, that for two distinct periods, each comprising the space of six weeks and up wards, I was expressly ordered by Sir George Quentin to attend to no drills, and to do no duty with the regiment ; and I now, for the purpose of impressing this event more forcibly on Sir C. (hint's mind, recall to his memory the conversation which he held with me in reply. Ile signified his intention of inspecting the regiment in a few days, and stated that he would examine me along with other officers es to my proficiency in my riding drills, and my other duties. 1 then took my departure. • • • • I now ofer some remarks on the defence set up by Lord London derry for his conduct on the evening of the 24th, when his Lord ship dined at the mess. In the first place, his Lordship states his entire ignorance of the proceedings whic:i had incurred his Royal Highness's displeasure, and of the reproof conveyed to the officers concerned. On this heal I have to observe the very great impro bability, not tosay the utter inipoesibility, of his Lordship's • en tire ignorance;" the proceediegs alluded to were matter of public notoriety ; they were as priming as the noon-dey sun ; they were freely discussed in places of public resort ; they were the topic of conversation in the circles of private society; they were made the theme of ribaldry anicng the very outcasts of society. wh the I officers of the 111th on these occasions patronized as their selected coolidents, and the chosen depositaries of their secrets. But, how ever, as the must noble Marquis professes total ignorance of cir cumstances that occurred in his own regiment, and that were so plain and palpable to all the world beside, I beg to ask him a few questions. Previously to his Lordship ordering me out of the_ mess-room on the '24th, did not Sir George Quentin submit for his Lordship's perusal the entire of the documents relating to me • and which comprised my report to Sir C. Grant, together with the me; and reproof to the officers concerned? Did not hi Lordship retain these papers in kispossession foe an entire day ? and oat the following morning, when he returned them to Sir Um.' Quentin, did lie not state that ke lid made himself master of their contents 1 Verbal*, sapittel. • • • • • With regard to the efhcera of the 10th at large, I have little to • add. Sir Herbert Taylor has admitted that their conduct was • most unjustifiable, and his Royal Highness has more than once ' expressed his disapprobation. Why the Commander-in-Chill should have occasion to express his displeasure at the conduct of any of his offices more than once, is a question that will perhaps remain for ever unanswered. The Military Secretary bas endea voured to establish, that the officers of the 10th, at length con vinced of their impropriety of conduct, subsequently endeavoured to atone for mistaken prejudice. 'Tis true, that by the command of his Royal !lignites, the) mode their formal and affected obei sance; they honcured me with their official salaam! But where was the altered conduct that might have redeenied past error ? Where WWI the courtesy that might have allayed wounded feelings ? 14'h7re the genuine politeness that marks the gentleman, and might have given some pretensions to humanity, to honour, and to sense ? The mandate of authority enforced the ceremonious a.:- ktiowledgment ; the hind of power compelled Cee bps to move, while feeling was friisen in the heart. It was, indeed, a laughable and pitiable sight to see these high sp' d gentlemen, whom their own good feeling could not induce to act with common decency, forced at last to obey a power, which yet they had not sense to respect . • • • • • • • • • • Advice' were receivtd on Saturday from Pernambuco of the 24td of February, and from Bahia of the 11th. They supply no intelligence of the least importance. General Filisberto Brant was waiting at Bahia, from whence he was to take his passage for England in a few days in an English ship of war, for the purposeof nego . cutting the loan for the Government of Brasil. Another Cottunissioner, who share:: with General Brant the autho rity for that purpose, has already arrived in this country. ' A melancholy accident happened on 'Tuesday last by the falling of a bridge at Bowling Ilyke, between Halifax and Northowrant, owing to a concourse of spectators who hail col lected on the spot for the purls:he of hunt-hang • procr , tion which attended the ptrambulation of the bounder" of the pariah of Ilahlax ; when from the prehiure against one of the bettietneut walla, it gav^ way, and precipitated a great number of persons into the brook which it t hissed . Upward* of twenty-five tastoirtcd some injury, and from seven to twelve rcettyt• br.ban li nba , acd the lint of our us: two crc tissoaitco of. OR THE LIFR AND OPINIONS OF A BOVERRIOX This book belongs to a dui of literature,—We will sot say book-takking,—that is somewhat popular at the present moment. It is s callection of anecdotes and observatieee thrown together in short essays, and embraces *description of public place* public characors, national peculiari ties, &c. &c. A facility in sketching a litely ticcount of every-day occurrences and e v ery-clay people—a few Com.: mon-places of reflection and friendship--auel a little tad in discussing topics of mere prattlement, are the only requi site qualifications in a writer of such a book tut that now before us. Original and serious opinions, elaborate rea sonings, or classical literaturi, Would be deemed ile intro; sion in such a performance, and the author has therefore (Ore presume purposely) abstained from bailing what is rennet! " light reading" with such indigent incumbrancea. " The Opinions of a Sovereign" is the whimsical title chosen to des; ;nate a work Written after the manner of " Chrysal's Adventures of a Guinea." It possesses less wit, vivacity, and range of observation, thaj that perform lance, which it is pleased to term " its renowned ancestor.' Like eve: y author who lertakes to write "de omnibus rebus et palmetto'', aliis," there is a great difference in the manner which the author before us &unities the variant topics on which he has thought proper to enlarge. With some of the topics in the volume he appears ptitty well acquainted—of others manifestly ignorant. Of the latter description is an essay on " Editorial Vanity," for which we must be excused . foi being somewhat in dudgetin with him. Ile has thought proper to introduce us into very ob-. jectionable company, namely, in an interview with a keeper I of a gaming -house in the welt end of the town, where a bargain is struck between the keepei and the editor, the conditioue of which are, that the edit'ar receives five buns", deed guineas for abstaining from the ineertion of an artlele in his paper, on soinemst-practices committed in this dein of thieves. This dull story concludes with this duller pieed I of wrong inference and mawkish sentimentality This transaction panel to .hew. how tine of the bnghteit legts of • free countrY, the liberty of the press, is sometimes abused. The best gifts of Heaven may be perverted, though of their easel hence we cannot be insensible. It is, however, no small portion of the glory of Great Britain, that such roes and culpa b le venality al this is exceedin g ly ra t e , an d never to b e f oun d except emetic *the Journaltsts who have no reputation to bastard. And is the author simple enough to think that e` a jou:- • nalist who has no reputation to lose" is worth a bribe of five. hundred guineas ? Or frum the knowledge of what real fad is he induced to intrude this heavy detail of a most Wpm battle event on the attention of his readers ? There aft a more frequent illusion to gaming than we eould wish to 7 see in a work of this kind. It is a topic on which it alt little creditable to any person, and least of all to a literary • person, to be very conversant. One Of tl'e beet-told nut most readable anecdotes in the book turns on this c vice. It is an o ccur r ence a t A sco t races, and hos a di eZ • air of strong probability about it:— It am a delightful day, and the glo*lng Clan of *An me exhilarated my sphita. But, on a rare-eourse, theisiihe sad concomitants not calculated to seder the pinky it alt real being, of which one i s , t h e aide field that it epees me, foe ganibling,—and the other, the baneful impbTse that parts to the prince and the ;,loughinan. Neither could reason why .such numbers of E 0 tables shotild hi iv= eel : at sonic of them, boys of fifteen, wits clothing dent to cover then], were seen winning their guinea whit indifference. At one of these tabled I noticed a tittle dandy sir! strtaw=s• than a keen years old, sportin g hi s money w alla experience of a veteran gamester. The boy's countasseed meltingly beautiful, but his youihkl features *ere • cording to the variations of he fortune, and be will game, regardless of tidierie consequences. lily speruer to prevent the further loss of his mope; ; alien whom he belonged, fie discovered chat he was grim to ous Major D., whose fancy it is to receive into pia maple, dieardilf beautiful lad he can find, to einip him in a dais/ ameerneeleatle to his own, and to have his clothes made by his tsar ef the Omit materials, with no variation by which todistingeWe hie as a ate: vant except a small crest, engraved On the bought if his Moir • jacket, that is generally turered irtfb • emparkwird, white rest coat. This practice has now become yaks the math among the smirants for celebrity on the turf, and a eldthill man of tea ran scarcely be seen is them days Widest es pretty equivocal miaboures of himailf tented a his di.* dp bury or baroodee. . Air. Brisket bed Jost learnt theme pMfridete. Mahe bee= was raised, sod stall for Major ra's mum eaebeatitheet • quarters. This dt* sweeke of the herws.lrthatia, had bailie* is charge of the seepiais, whilat the *won of it itiettbed so the= . or walked op lode . The bey thatialtr • equally te avow gameful ' and required Wittig., • %tuition to quit hilitilearge and join in the emeasolealr around him • , in the !mend, a c om p uy of those ingenieme atis INTOISMIS, Awe sews who make as imposing part is all large con:; mums, borrowed the ilajor'a homes and eurdele, anti melishiti from the course, whilst the boy *as aererly engaged at the E CY table, to which he had best purposely allured by one of the ganef depredanm. Information was monied, gives at Row -street, bee without effect ; for the horses were speedily swerved• nicked, and metamorphosed in such& jockeyisls style, as* render k impossible to rementse them. The colour of the niarlage was likewise area ditiously transfotmed from a King's and tea dove t body was placed upon new whe e ls, and the Major's uhsti mom at... tithed to another body. newt changes rendered die Amity of the curride exceedingly ambiguous, so that it meld net be mimeo: ly called es oil flirted with a arse fere, but "an old Mead with o acw body." Though the alterations which it received were obi: namely Cell ascertained, yet no one could undertake to now to the property, sod the Ylajor thus became seises a condole old -4 UNIVERSITr INTELLIGENCE. CAN:gimes, Awl. IS* Tbe following gentlemen of St. John's Casey al paeleabgaff allS e agi Arts, Imre on Monday last elected loundadafF if cier t—Thomas Ty'ereoc, Henry Jobs Rem. Jobs • Edward Kenossay, Joseph Taylor, Chsaisalailips, At a congregation on Thursday, des folbserbsi dupes Wei farad:— ZACHILLOILS OF LAW. ef. Tritaly Hall.—D. Clarke. Triers, Cuikee.-0. Sivewright. NIASTEIIit or AMTS. ' ' St Jolttes Coitege.—C. Garen ; R. R. Xmas • . BACHILOO OF MIT& • s Cairns Cabgc.—J.D. II 11:114 • Z • At a congregation yesterday, the following gesibms Me . . admitted to their several degrees s DOCTOR OF DIFIXITT. Clare Ball—J. S. Hewett, Hector of Itotbahldik ski a Gila puunder. WASTERS OF ART& Trinity Cidlege.—J. Carysfort Proby ; C. Barker J. J. Rig !Moon ; :f. K. Arnold. St Joha'a—A. Browne; J. (lark (compounder); L. pah„,.... P. M. Somber. Chrhet Col/cp.—J. Curtis. Clare Power. Jesus eqlc4er—C. Green. The following Gentlemen were cc Friday aimed UreitlEd4 Scholars on DT. Da's foundation : St. Jollies Colkgs.—Samuel Rea, try. Queea's College.—John Venn, ay. The examiners being unanimously of opinion Mut tba Merest sno. vita of Peacock of St. John's, Rees of St. Joesn'a t and Was of Quecn'e, were pearly equal, thought it right to MN. Mot pot of the foundation deed, which directs to wheat la wadi OW preference shall be gives—Cambridge Cheswick. RIOTS AT MAGllift.4. LONDONDERRY ASSIZES, APRIL I. ; • Samuel Clark. James Slam Charles Rainey, Hvls J seple Slots (brother to James), Cheek, Kennedy (the kohl. James llf•Ckery, James Scott, Jake Arasstsitag, George art s and ..fintra Ilipeon, were charged in two indictments; Ist, fur aiding and asitstiag in the murder of Drank 11qpirty. at Maestro, on the 12th of June last, the said Ilegerty hexing been killed by a shot Emu a gun Fred by John Downie, rafts Downing ; also, for aidinp and assisting in the murder of Patrick Bagley. at Machina. on the above day.—These privonas weft of the Orange ;any. After a lung trial they were ft-quitted of this charge, but detained rioting. Fainar, Arnit.L, John flagon, Pat. Lias,Josrptls inmate, Peter Mime, Moltke Glass, James M'C'hiedy, sen. Bernard ('Neill, Francis Al'Lalsse, High illfrana, theta Al•Shatte liPltesaa, spa. Mg Neil N . &time, were arraigned for riOtattaly ausambling at hloghosa. on the LAI of Jsne last. These prisoners wen of the ether party. The trial was postponed till the next day. ties • Aram L After his lordship had taken his seat, • Mr. ROLLEOTOX stated that be had bens informed, this saran ing. and lilt great pleasure in making the osinmunicatkn, dist dm prim:len, of both the partici, to he tried kr being concerned hi the fatal riots at bleighers, In June last, who were arraigned last night and sent to gaol, bad, in the prison shaken hands, and sera mutually willing, for the future , to abstain from all display at party feeling, and live in good fellowship and neighbourhood, and hoped the Court would allow them to return home without being brought to trial. Atter some conversation between the Couned .in both aides, and a suitable admonition from the Judge, the prisoners were dia_ charges. The utmost satisfaction with this *nag result was exptussed by all present : the intelligence aeon spread through the city, and pre every• here received with feelings efigasinins pleasure. In ihr ereaing the individuals of threw pastas jelled asgother in little as's:amour circles, !slid, over the !Milli gbas, lbws* mt. forgot ;lieu roma.? am=asses.