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that the present period was way &rateable to all kinds of improve- Linn. it was t:Ot many days since he heard an linntntrabit lien. Henan state in the ilwese„, that the delays in the Court of Chan coy would speedily be rectified, anti that it would be followed up ty other improvenit nts. And why should not the Principality of aisles be included, when improvement was so much wanted there The pigeon Bill appeared to him both useless and pernicious, and he would therefore propose that it be read a second time tnis day 6 1: months. 11i. JONES observed, that the lionourable Member had stated the Bill to be both useless and pernicious, yet he had attended tile Committee which had considered that Bill, and had formed an acute member of it. He (Mr. Jones) thought, that the lionutte able 31enitter had not read the Bill with attention; if he hail dime so, he must have perceived that all die evils of which he coin plefued were proposed to be remedied by it. Two county ineetitigs, and many other minor places, bad petitioned the House in favour attic Bill, and the ditlerent Grand Juries of the Principality had expressed similar sentiments ; and surely, alter this, his lion. /friend had said too much in saying that it was a Bill marked ort tor abolition by all classes in the country. The lion. Member had aimed that be had a plan--and this plan was to divide the Princi twiny into two circuits ; but was it tag to expect that two Judges should travel north and south over the country, to try perhaps forty cause %to the number to be tried seldom exceeded this ? Can It be supposed that any professional man in England, ut a.y emi nence, would think it worth kis while, to come down and traverse these six Welsh counties, for the sake of any honour or emoltintent they would produce him? The lion. Member, after a hew other erbearations, concluded by giving his support to the Bill. Mr. ALLEN rose to expla in. tit C. COLE thought, as representing an extensive Welsh rouniy, that be should not be doing his duty if he guttered the (he rniation on this Bill so pap without expressing his full conviction that the Welsh Judges had ao right to seats in that House. lie *idled to s:e the system of judicature conducted in Wales o t the same principle as it was in England ; and he considered that the saute teeliap of jealousy and independence that excluded English Judges front seats in that House should operate to the exclusion of Welah Judges. Mt. W VNN stated that he was as desirous as any man of assi milating the ~alicature of the two countncs ; but he telt that there were obstacles in the way of this which were almost innunnount shle. lie had hituseit known, in three counties on the Welsh circuit, where there was not a single cause, but still he was anxious that the Bill shouhl proceed to a Conuniuee. 'lle Gallery was mew cleared for a division, when there appeared rur Oe second reading It lot the annweinest . IV SI iderieg The 11111 was then read a sieonal time, anal ordered to be cow tr.itted on Monday neat. MUTINY BILL. _ _ Mr. T. COURTESAY fwattihtmiTtli; Report on the .31utioy TD.. . . On the question that it be agreed to, Mr. Ut ME said that he would postpone his observations on it till the thitd reading. /Ir. SYKES expressed his abhorrence of military dogging, and said, that It was a barbarous relic of a barbarous time ; that it was not sanctified by usage, and ought to be abolished ; it was nothing mere than an anatconind experiment as to bow lir the human body was capable of laceration ; its effect was to deter men of honourable feelirgs from entering into the aroty. Men were tempted by drink to enter into disarray, and then this punishment was indicted for tie repetition of that offence by 'illicit they were seduced. It very frequently bappeas that in cases of courts martial, the prosecutors foe the judips : tan an instance that was within his own knowledge, where a item was actually Bogged to death fur stealing spoon, ibis was the case i—a verdict of wilful murder was retursed against the parties on the Coroner's Inquest, but this verdict was never acted en. Ue thought solitary confinement might be effectually substi tuted foe this species of punishment. He under food, and wished to be informed further oil the subject, that when a soldier was fagged, his pay was not only stopped but that part of it rent to I provide dinners for the officers. Colonel DAWKINS begged to correct the representations of the Non. Member for Aberdeen, who had stated that the inhabitants of Westminster were cisturbed by the cries of the soldiery while suffering from cermet punishment. He had inquired into the cir cumstances, and bad found that for the last six months there had been but une instance of the infliction of corporal punishment, and sliat for the six months previous there had been no case at all which bad been visited by it. ho much for the statement of the lion. Bendier (Mr. flume). But be (('olonel Dawkins) did nut wish to court popularity, and he would nu: Lis opinion, that ate discipline of Me Army 'could not be kept up without it. iet tau mischief could result (rout it, as his Royal Highness, the Com- Ounder-M-Chief, had died limitations to it, her which the whole frit the army felt towards him the greatest gratitude. 31r. lICJIE said a few word', m which he denied that the credit of limiting corporal punishment was due to the Duke of York, but It was properly owing to his Honourable Friezd the Member for Al iddkaex. stir H. HARDECOE begged to sty a few words on what had dropped from the lion. klemustr opposite, respecting the stoppages from the pay of the soldiers being applied to furnish dinners tOr the ollie.as. This money never found its way into the stock purse. The lion. Member must have received his instructions trout sonic military informer, who bad furnished him with falsehoods. lie despised, for hiinselt; the charge. On the subject of punishment, he admitted the annoyance to an officer of witnessing it, but u ntil some eubuitute was discovered on the other side, he could not con sent, pirtienioeiy on arnica, to rink (heaths:johns of *regiment by abandoning it. He might on a future night airs some Aux micas in support of the system. Jr. .1. siM ITil congratulated the House upon the prospect be fore them, since they were hereafter to learn from the biallant Otti ceruppostts some lessons upon the adva:nages of flogging, which no military officer had is yet condescended to afford ir.em. lie CM. testi-A that in no cameras corporal punishment the most CffiCaCIOUS punishment. Sir 1!. lIAIIDINfIE explained. ..........- . Mr. OLNNET said, it 'did happen to him last year to have remised the same infomudion as tile lion. Member for Aberdeen, and from the saute person. Colonel TOWNIMIEND said, that for six months the reveil les had rot beat. Mr. B. MARTIN said that as he had been accuser! of incon. sisoency on this subject, he wished to explain the cause of the vote he then 010131 t to give. Had corporal punishment been as preys. lent as It was formerly, he should have voted against it, but it was sow of very rare occurrence. Lord PALMERSTON said, that in this instance the legisla ture bad assigned the sofecommand and government of the army to the Crown. The preventive discipline was always the best ; and one tmt Mthe excc lencyofarcgiruent'sdiscipline , istheunfrequency of such a punishment. Mr.llOllllOl'SE explained, that on a former night he had rot complained of the beating of the reveilles, but the people of %Vest minimr wore induced to believe that it was adopted in order to drown dispels. that arose from the eels of the soldiers. Sir A. HOPE observed. that military flogging ►as neeesairy to maintain the dimipline of the army. The Report was read and screed to. INtiOliVkiNT DEBTORS. The amended insolvent beinsrs' Juli was read a second time.— Ordered to be committed en Tuesday next. CUSTO3IS DUTIES BILL. The Report of the Silk Customs Duties Bill was brought up acd Teed to. 'fie ,liWusz adjourned at half-past Twelve o'clock, LIST OF THE Of Nineteen, ,ho voted again►t the Second Reading of the Bill to continua the system of IVelsb Judicature. Aldsorp, Vise. Kennedy, T. F. Smith, Robert Bennet, Hoe. IL Q. Lennard, T. B. Webb, Colonel Buxton, T. F. Lamb lion. U. Whitmore, W. W. cronmion, B. Mona, J. B. Enns, W. Ito/sell, Lord J. TS LLLLL . Grattan, James Rice, T. M. J. H. Allen. llobhome, J. C. Sykes, D. Joseph Hume. Janes, W, botidi, Jobs ORDERS OF TIIE DAY. County Oads' MlL—Further consideration of Report. I:61111 JAWS ItSped Bill—Committee. Vap and 31eans—Conalellton. J4lllOl (Scotland) Bill ;—Second Reading. County Courts Bill ;—Connuittee. Clergy Residence (Ireland) Bill ;—Further conaiderath n of Re port- PRICES OF BRITISH Bonk stock 3 Pte Cent Reduced. pee Cent. (uus. 924 "2/ h pee Cent 4 Per Cent. Near 4 per Cent. 1071 ca Lxig A nnts hies, Imperial 3 per Cents. Rank tor Aeration' Coss. for Act. 931 India *ix! iTOCKS YESTERDA Y. India Muds, 79 76 pr. India for Account, • South Sea Stock, - South Sea Old Annuities South Sea New Annuities Ex. 11111%, 1,011111. 62 64 41 pr. Ditto, 6001. Iht,o, Small, as 49 jw., Indorsed ditto Lottery Tickets, 211: 11s. PkICES OF FOREIGN Austrian Scrip, 113 12 113 3 123 12 r . Dion for Account 113 123 111 123 pr. Ditto *Sin titto for Arc. tal 3 23 .3 Loitrobion !fonds, 873 Do. for Acct. 873 4 8 Penult Dino Alarks gluten, 953 5 Dark Scrip. 2i. 33 14 2 pr. if t " jean s er i i , n tisi W .,. for Ac. 70. I 3 pG N apoiitan Builds, 884 Ditto for Account i 'mtuillitto Death 1113 3 Ditto raip hessian /intuit, 98 Ditto for Account D ili° lion& 911 f 3 MAILS. •laalvrn-1 Brazil, Flanders, and 1 Fren:h. tioucnburgb and 4 Ilawburgh. STOCKS EST 1. it DA Y. Russian Eds. 831 4 41 3/ ./ f Russian for Acct. NI 33 Russian Inscription Eutuinge per ruble Ditto Metallic Stock (Baring) Ditto (Nillines) Opinitili Cons. 204 /4 4 4//I Ditto for Account 204 Hato 170 &83 lids. Ditto 83, Do. sper C:s. 03A 1 74 17 Ditto for Acct. 174 Anplo Me-. Blinks b / pr. United Ditto 1 pr. French !testes, 100 f. 60e. 7k. Do. Ex. 26f. Do. Scrip. 13i es. diy. Ditto for Aect. 13 i pc. az, div. Peruvian Scrip. 77 fe'ite Writtott 313ritO: NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. T, morrow Events's, SATURDAY, March 13. will be parivenaed. NERRY nibk.s ►ais ta f WINDSOR. Ir:at.si, 31r. Radium: air Jahn Faistatt. /Ir. Dow lon. Mr.. Feed, Steohcia. t Mrs. Page. Madame %teals. ettuelude with the Melo-Drums 01 TENELI. Ow Mettdq, The Merchant of Venice; with TekelL THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. To-tisorrow Erasing SATCKDAV. Meech 13. will be performed PRIDE ',HALL PIAVE A FALL. Count Ventage, Yr. N. Murat; Stamm., Mr. Enigmas Lorenzo, Mr. C. fumble. %Worn., Mies Pawn i Leonora. Mai Lure. To conclude with the Buertis 44 beIIJAS. On Matador, Pride Shell Heves Fall; with the Pantomime. TM AI RE R111:41„ COVENT-GARDEN. TIM' Enrol,. Emmy, March IS. A GRAND PERVORSIANCE oh ANCIENT AND MODERN MUSIC. I TAR DIRECTIOX Of Na. ROC ULU PART I. Fr.. 111 thc most unbounded Appleton on VHdny laid, from all parts of the Theatre. And to efoRIINT With the very 1111/11PPRUA appileatkins. the Iron, Hinder,. SereisatA, MIA slid GALA'r LA. will be re yeatee. piaitne:y fur the lest time this season, In CUGLITRUeIIee UI the production or several novelties 14 bleb are now lit prelonitwo. betweeu toe drat and seeond Parts, Duet, Mr. Sap:. Ana Mr. Sinclair 1 Emitada, French Horn. Mr. PuzzL PART 11. ' A SELECTION of SACRED M l'siC, In which all the principal will perform; to rod trvh tfor the dist cline at thaw Per t,, manceal a loiLi NO trOlt i MS.), euinpased t. Dr. cruteh, to honour of his ',recent Ilitjeat''s Avec...Arun to the Throne; in Is Inch will be anr,Alueen nn int-a:atm tit hal pa. iletween the second end third Parte, Flatmate on use latuas.-do Mariatan, begun, VinnTella PART ht. A MISCELLANEOUS ACT. winch will commence with tin entree , wiener ot ste beillaust encomia OR erettity lam it, the Descriptive Overture to the Chase of henry the Fourth, by Mehul. Mr. o:window) vs. the eltee. rod Mr. Roches on the Harp, will ae e..iiipeny )Ira Salmon ul some favourite :tore. Pnticipal Pe:forams—Mrs saloon, Mho Stephens. Mies Paton. Mho M. 'I rm. eon Mn. tnsontul ; Mr. tr.alikeen, Yr. suicide, Mr. saps..., Mr. Seamy, Mr. T. %rob, Mt. T. Conic. Mr. Hanes, aim Master Lonehunit. THEATRE ROTAL, ANGI.ISIIOPERA If OUSE. uu Went/.lays and Fraitya In Lent. LECTURE on ASTalnletyllV Ned the I'Hignitr3LlVLA at the HEALI,ENS sad of 1110 linHTl4. Tlee flied Lecture to be delivered by Mr. Hartley, THIS MIMING. To twin at Seven; Nuti conclude at Ten. Tickets of Adnueeson for lant.tie.• to be nod on moderate terms at the Duaartnec. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. ay reentries or Taa ioars Mr. TRELWALL'S ORATO,IICAL and CRITICAL LECTURES on bilmtbrk:ANl and tn. DRAMS, we. Tills kr LoillNtl. Introductory Reeltatiuns. The Melo•Mutiu•Drarwitte Prologue, and Collhers Ode onthe Passions. PART I. (In the ROMAN TRAGEDIES of SHAKSPLARE, ADDISON. and Nome modern Drama( nits ; w.th Critical Notice+ of the late AMIN EMBLE and Mrs. bIDLIoNS, and on the merits and detects of the Ke,nbie school: with a word, by the way, on Messrs. YOU All, KEAN. and MAuItEADV ; and ou tne Moto-Driusiatie rage of venal* Actors. PAST 11. RECITATION!: of the oitsrouicAL PORTION of JULIUS C.E.tAR ; to eularlude with ANToNrs ORATION. Doors open at seven. Begin at Half-past Seven. Boxes As., Subscriptain for len Tweets, :IL as.; Pit as., Stitenip tion tor Ten Ticketn, 11. 41.1 iiallery 9a Subecriptlone reemred :nut Tickets to be procured at Mr. El.ers, Bond-.tract; Mr. teats, rail-Mau; Mr. Mldicway. Pandlilly ; Mr. Baklwyn, Newsatestreet; %Weer*. Bowdery and Kerb). and Mr. Reynolds, Oxfordetreet ; Mr. I. cosign', M. Strand; at Bolles Court Guide °Mee, 1, Leicester square; and ot the Lecturer, Meth Brixton Cottage, where Private Instructions wintinue to be given, in Cal .uf inlyeuniient, and in Lite Eweutivu ut the Pulpit, Oar, and Senate. The 811 l TIMM PIES/ commenced publishing yesterday morning at hi lf-past Fire o'clock. LONDON. FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1841. Lord Althorp brought forward a very weak and ill advised motion last night respecting a convict of the name of Hughes, transported from Ireland some time since for administering illegal oaths, and seducing indivi duals to become weinbers of the Ribbon Lodges in Ireland. The motion of the Noble Lord went to charge Lord Wel lesley's Government with a breach of faith, in the depor tation of this inrn ; as if a treaty could have been enter ed upon by the Government of the Noble Marquis, with a body of men ur their delegates, engaged in secret associations of the most illegal tendency, and a dangerous conspiracy against the fundamental laws and institutions of the land. It may be unfortunately neces sary sometimes, in dangerous exigencies, for a Government to treat with traitors, and let an individual go unscathed, for the purfose of getting to the bottom of a secret league, and thus timely preventing the consequences that might otherwise follow without prevention. But what Govern dient could he weak and infatuated enough to listen to such propositions as those strangely made by a gentleman of the Irish Bar, on the part of a convicted felon, whose Counsel it appears be was ? The object of the Irish Government, in the prosecution of Hughes, the Ribbon Leader, was to extinguish, if possible, all dan gerous secret associations, among which the Ribbon Lodges were conspicuous; and was Lord IVellesley's Government, after he had been convicted on the strongest evidence, weakly to free this man from his sentence, that he might make a mock procession through the county of Kildare, ~n 1 the neighbouring ones, where the haunts of the Ribbonmeu were established, and while he (Hughes) openly affected to preach submission to them, secretly take every measure to confirm these deluded individuals in their worst prejudices and engagements ? Any such act on the part of the lr.sh Goveniment would have been most weak, and deserving of the strongest ridicule and emidem widen. If any well-founded charges can be brought agaibst the broad, general policy or integrity of Lord W lesley's Government since he went to Ireland, let them be made, and they wall be fairly met, and as fully refuted; but paltry skirmishing of this sort, with a few convicts and Ribbonmen in the Hanks of the Noble Lord and his party, only chews the utter weakness of those who would be serious enemies, if they bad the means or strength to enable : them to act with any real efFect. Had the Irish Government or any of its members been so weak as to enter into a treaty with the convicted Ribtoa Latlrr, and loose him in his hopeful mission to furtl e • eilisch'ef, like au tannuzzled blood-bound, then indeed Lord Althorp's motion of censure, in dif ferent language, and with better grounds, might justly be brought forward, and call down well-deserved censure from a large majority ou the beads of that Administration who could be so culpably infatuated. All secret Asso ciations, particularly in Ireland, are most dangerous and i ll egal ; and that of the Rib:women, though in-1 ferier in guilt and atrocity to the Orange Societies, is et criminal and alarming in a very high degree. I'he Ribbonman, on being initiated into this Asso ciation, swears as follows:—" I, Thomas Hughes (the " convict in question), with the sign of the Cross do " declare and promise, in the name and through the mist " once of the Blessed Trinity, that I will endeavour to keep inviolate all the secrets of this Board, or Fraternal " Society, from all but those whom I believe to be the " regular numbers, 'and bound in the same fraternal ties." This is a most fo.unielible oath. If there be nothing im proper in the spirit and object of this combination, why this foieinn abjuration and pledge of secrecy? Can the Government of Ireland suppress the Orange Asso ciations with one band, and with the other let a RibH Lou Council loose? Would this be equal and impar tial justice? Would it be excused by the mockery of a general surrender, and the suppression of the entire con federation on the deputed in ssiou and summons of the felon Hughes? There is no Government of sense or fii4.- action but must have laughed such a proposition as Lord Althorp stated to utter scorn. The Noble borers motion had the fate we expected ; it fell dead-born before the entire House ; it hail nothing to give it support, and was negatived even without the formality of a weak invitation. The late changes made in the commercial system of this great country are already felt, in the benefits they have brought with them, and their consequences arc likely to be every day more important. The discovery of America, and a passage to the East Indies by the ('ape of Good Hope, are, perhaps, the two greatest events recorded in the his tory of mankind : their results have already been very great, even in the three centuries that have elapsed since these magnificent discoveries were made ; but it is now only that the lull consequences can be anticipated, and all the expectations originally attached to them realised. With India, throughout its vast extent, from Cape Comorin to the Himalaya mountains, tranquil, and subject to the power, the laws, and influence of Great Britain ; and all America, front the falls of Niagara to the Straits of Ma gellan, increasing in freedom, industry, and commerce ; the mighty discoveries of the fifteenth century, in the Old anti New World, at length are unfolding the *met un bounded proapeete, and present an extended view of fu ture greatness and wealth, which may surpass, in half a century, the utmost dream of ambition, and throw around! this country a greatness and a glory, to which no other nation in the history of past ages ever yet attained. The first consequences of the discovery of America and the pas sage to the East ladies, were the extension, generally, of the manufactures and trade of the commercial cities of Europe. England had then scarcely laid the foundations of her present immense trade and empire ; the European tmderte—in place of being manufacturers and carriers for that limited portion of the world, to which commerce was then difflised, comprising that part of Europe washed by the Atlantic Ocean, and those countries which lie round the Baltic and Mediterranean Seas—became at once the ma nufacturers and merchants of the vast and rich coun tries of Asia, and had to supply the growing dementia of the romantic conquerors and rising settlers of Southern America. Two New Worlds were suddenly thrown open to speculation and industry, each of them richer and ' more extensive than the Old ; and the market of America, with increasing population, and resources every day growing greater, and affording, even under the no- I nopoly of Spain, an immense,. consumption for the manufactures of Europe. For . 8 :while monopoly fet tered the commerce of both walk aun tngtaPd enjoyed buta email participation in the bAtellis of trade to either. During the greater part of the 16th century the Portuguese, to whom the enterprize of De Gams and Albuquerque had given the trade of Asia, endeavoured to exclude all other nations from the intercourse, and claimed, from hay big the merit of the first discovery, the sole right of sailing in the Indian seas. On the fall of the power of Portugal, the Dutch, soon after their sudden rise into independence and maritime greatness, succeeded to a temporary ascend ancy in Asia, and monopolised in particular the trade of I the Spice Islands; but the ports of India, and the numer ous islands around that country, gradually became open to the ship* of all countries, and the trade to the Indies was restricted to exclusive Companies in almost every country in Europe. Colonization in the East ne►er was extended as in America; the people of these countries were not so uncivilised and defenceless as the Americans, and from the fertility and ancient settlement of the Eclat, it was much mere poeulous. The natives of every part of America, except Mexieb and Peru, were wandering hunters; and the , difference is most essential between the number of shep herds and that of savage hunters, whom the same extent of fertile territory can maintain : in Africa and the East Indies, therefore, it was more difficult to di,place the na tives, and extend the European settlements over the lands cf the original inhabitants. The genius of exclusive Com panies, as a profound writer on the subject remarks, is un favourable to coloniration and the extended growth of new settlements. The Portuguese were the only nation who carried on the trade, both to Africa and the East In- : dies, without any exclusive Companies ; and their establish- 1 metes at Congo, Angola, and Benguela, on the coast of, Africa, anti at Goa in the k ast Indies, now the only rem nant cf their once extensive, power in Asia, however de based by bad government and superstition, present some resemblance to the Colonic, of America; and are inhabited . ... . , foundation of British power in !Adis was laid by Lord Clive, within the short period of ao years. England soon after lost America ; but her empire in the East is now su preme; the possession of the Cape of Good Hope is of the fait importance to her ; it lies almost mid-way be tween Europe and the East Indies, and affovela both to her own shipping and that of other nations Erring and re turning, in fresh provisions, fruit, and other neces saries, the moat important supplies. Batavia, when in our possession, should not have been resigned; it is as important a station between the principal countries of the East Indies, as the Cape of Good Hope is between them and Europe. Batavia lies in the most frequented 'passage from Hindostap to China and Japan, and Is placed in that navigation nearly mid-way. The greater part of the ships that trade from Europe to China touch, on the passage, at Batavia ; it is, besides, the centre and principal mart of what is called the country trade of the East In ches. Vessels navigated, not only by Europeans, but by the natives of China and Japan, of Tonquin, Alalacca, Co chin-China, the Island of Celebes, and other places, are constantly to be seen in its ports. Batavia, now in the 1 hands of the Dutch, is therefore a colony of first-rate im portance, and the policy that resigned it out of our hands at the close of the last war, is universally regretted and re probated. The system pursued by the Dutch throughout their settlements in the East Indies, has been equally de solating and oppressive. In the spice Islands, for the pur pose of preserving the monopoly of this profitable com merce, they formerly burned all the produce of a fertile vason, beyond the quantity which they calculated would bring with it a large profit in the markets of Europe. By their tyranny they desolated the alolucca Islands, and re duced the population of several of toern to a number barely sufficient to produce fresh provisions and necessa ries to supply the:r trretehed garrisons, and the vessels that came there for a supply of spices. The policy of Great Britain in the Bait never was conducted on the same system ; her first acquisition of empire may have been marked with sonic flagrant crimes, but her government, as strewn, existing through the wide extent of Ilindostan, bungs aecurit end tranquillity in its train. The fabrics of India, former so abundant in Europe, have nearly been de li stroyed by Bri ab machinery and speculation's and the heavy duties on East Inuit' sugars, prevent our trade affording that relief M the peaceful cultivators of the soil which they would otherwise receive. It is the principle of all compa nies, to keep out as much as possible all mumetitors from 'the market of the countries subject to their government, and to reduce at least some part of the surplus produce of those countries to what is barely sufficient for supplying their own demand, or to what they can expect to sell in Europe with that profit they may think sufficient. As sovereigns of the country they govern, and as mer chants trading there, their interests arc different. We have settled no colonies iu !Lille to this clay : those who go out to Asia, do fro only to make as large for tunes as they can, and their return ; their children are carefully recoovtd from the enervating taint of Asiatic manners and customs, and sent to Europe to ba educated. There are, thus, few permanent residents in India; hut one generation of temporary settlers succeeds another in govern ment and office ; the half-castes alone remain, and arc growing up in alarming numbers. Our power and com merce in the East are magnificent as at present existing: bow long the basis on which they rest can be main tained, is another question, and nue that futurity alone can answer. But our manufactures anti industry are now also finding a vast and rising market in the IVesteni world; a subject which, with the restrictions that formerly fettered our trade through the Navigation Act and other prohibitory statutes, and lately in a considerable degree repealed, will form interesting matter for future articles. The subject is one of pre-eminent importance, and cannot be too fully canvasst d. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. The Duke of Nap&lk entertained adistinguished party at din ner yesteidat, at hhi house in St. Junes's-square. Count Ideven vvil! give a grand dinner on Surday next at Ash bumhani I lot:se. The 3larguis.of Lanadown has issued cards of invitation fur a dinner party, on Tuursday, the 18th lust. '1 n Dawager Alsrchioneas of ilevrord gave her first rout fee the smison yseitentay evening, tither house in Manchest er -square r which was very fashionably attended. Lady lillenborough entertained a large party of distinguished fashionable' on Wednesday evening, at Cambridge House. The Dowager 3larchi oness of Salisbury had a dinner party yes terday, -at her house in Arlingion-street. Lindy Marchioness of Londonderry had a grand dinner party yesterday. at her house in St. James's-square. Mrs. Benyon has issued cards of invitation for an entertabbient on the 23d inst., at her house in Grosvenor-square. The Dowager Marchioness of Lanadown and Miss Gifford have arrived at their house in Albemarle -street, for the season, Rom Hampton Court. The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith left town yesterday for Relvnir (:astle, on a visit to the D u ke and Duchess at Rutlaml Earl Burford has arrived in town from Hatton, Surrey. Lord and Lady Langford and 1.-nily have arrived at their house In Berkeley-square, titan their seat, Englefield-green, Surrey. The lion. W. 0. Powlett has arrived at his house in Curzon street, from his set in Leicesteshlre. Sir George Rose, M.P. has arrived at his house, Old Palace. yard, ft?n:ihissest in Hants. sir H. 31artin, Bart. has arrived at his house in Upper Harley street, fram his seat in Berks. The Earl of Rosalyn is expected in town in a few days, from his seat in Scadand. Eiihi;4liotris , Esq. has arrived at the Pulteney Hotel, Albe marle-street, from his seat, Engle&ld Green. Mr. and Mrs. Price have left for the Continent. Arrivals at tirillon's Hotel, Albemarle-street:—Count Fun ehidl. from Worthing; and T. lionnar, Esq. from BrighuM— The Marquis of Huntly left for liiiiibulton Castle; also Lady Shelley, for her seat in Sussex. Sir Charles and Lady Monck and family arrived yesterday at their house in Wismvole.strem, from their seat in Yorkshire. Departqms from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street :—D. Brown, Esq. M.P., for his seat in Ireland ; IL F. Hineheldf; Est for his in Clain betland and M. IVyvill, Esq. M.P. for his seat in YAire. The Duke of York, Prince Leopold, the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, visited the Duke and Duchen of Clarence yesterday, and partook of a dejeutti. The Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia, visited the Duke of York yesterday. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester had a grand even ing party on Wednesday, to meet their Itof i ll o l p l:gneasee the Duke and D uc h eui of Clarence, Wce in hl, the Duchess of Kent, &c. The company were gratified with the performance on the grand piano-forte, by young Aspull, the musical child, only eight years of age, who lately had the honour of performing before the 'King at Windsor. Prince Leopold honoured the Duke and Duchess of Somerset with his presence to dinner on Wednesday. The Duke of Argyll, Alderman llev gate, and a number of others, were too l a te f or t h e !Zi ng a Levee. They ar ived at the Palace after his Majesty had left the Levee ooro, and the door was closed. LOrd Granville, the British Ambassador, arrived at the Hague on the 4th. Dr. Meyriek had the honour of presenting to the King, at the Levee on Wednesday, his splendid work on Ancient Armour, when his Majesty was pleased to express his ad miration of the book. Monday last, the Sth of March, the remains of Sir Thos. Reid, Dart. were interred in the family vault at Ewell. Seldom has been witnessed so general a demonstration of grief as was evinced on this occasion. The funeral was attended by a long list of relatives and friends ; every house in Ewell was closely shut up ; and, notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, the inhabitants, in deep • mourning, joined in the melancholy scene—thus proving their sincere regret for the loss of a beloved friend and benefactor, and the respect which they universally felt for departed virtue and benevolence. It is supposed that the Austrian Courier who arrived here on I uesday, was the bearer of very important despatches from his Government. lle arrived in Calais on Sunday evening last from Vienna in six days, but was de tained until Tuesday by the violence of the gale. Such was his anxiety to cross, however, that he offered a largo sum of money for that purpose, but no person could be hisad 111 teasers eel. . FAIL:I PAS IN HIGH LIFL—The lady of Mr. resident in one of the squares of Dublin, recently eloped with the Captain of a dragoon regiment. She is the mother ' of three children, one an infant, which she took with her, and is about twenty-five years of age. Avesta or Mem , it.—A misunderstanding took place between Mr. Edward O'Grady, jun. of Stephen's-greets, East, and Mr. Edmund Casey, son of Mr. Casey, of Ely place, Police Magistrate, when leaving St. Peter $ Church, alter divine service, on Sunday last. The affair originated, it is said, in some remarks respecting the late affair between Mr. Spring Rice and Mr. Waller O'Grady. Warm lan guage produced blows, and arrangements were subsequently made for a meeting yesterday morning. The police bay ing heard of the affair, however, Mr. Goodisson, chief peace-officer of College -street office, succeeded late on Sun day night in taking Mr. O'Grady into custody, when he was bound over to keep the peace, himself in one thousand pounds, and two sureties in five hundred pounds each. The united ages of both gentlemen do not amount to hirty -eight years.—Dublin Freeman's Journal. At Or present time there is a very great want, in the port of Livelloool, of shipwrights. Every one in the town has fu'l emph.vment, and we undetetand that hundreds more might be einployed—indeed the want of more hands oc casions serious inconvenience. In Chester, although there are a consideraitle number out of employ and even in dis tress, not one dare come to Liverpool, because it would be contrary to the revilations of the Liverpool Shipwrights' Soeiety.—Lirerrool Parr. The General Committee of the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church, held their meeting at St. Martin's Vestry Room, on IVednesday. Eight fresh schools were united to the Society, and several grants of money were made towards the establishing of schools; amongst others, a very liberal donation for building schools upon an enlarged plan, to meet the increasing population at Brighton. Several German journals have stated that the Emperor Alexander was indisposed; the St. Petersburgh Gazettes, to the date of the 11th of February, make no mention of it. Yesterday intelligence was received that the Chinese have refused permission for the English vessels to load tea at Canton. India Stock, which on Wednesday was 284, was yesterday 280. The business done is for time, as the India Stock is closed for the dividend. It ought also to be mentioned, that one reason for the falling of the India Stock is a report that the dividend, which is now, we be lieve, 106 per cent. per annum, will be reduced to a much lower rate. In the Annual Government Contracts for Hemp, the Navy Board has advertised for tenders of 2,000 tons of St. Betersburgh, 1,300 tons of Riga, and 1,004 tons of Chi lian, or of Italian hemp. This is the first time that the traders to Chili have had an opportunity offered to them to supply a part of the consumption of the hemp by the Bri tish navy. Russia is not in future to have the exclusive supply of the British navy with this article, but henceforth it will be purchased in America, Italy, or in the Baltic, ac cording as the interests of Great Britain arc best promoted by the cheapness of the supply. By an arrival Nester day from the Havannah we have advises, slated January It, which state that the Spanish squadron had returned to that place from the Castle of St. Juan de Ulloa, at Vera Cruz, after landing some provisions, of which the Royalists in the Castle were touch in want. The inhabitants of the Havannah were much disappointed at the return of the squadron, as it was expected that they would have remained to blockade the (..ea t. At the date of these advises the news from Mexico was tranquillizing. On Friday night last, the silk factory of Messrs. Henry Barlow and Co. at Macclesfield, took fire, and was entirely burnt down. This unfortunate event will cause from three to five hundred hands to be thrown out of employment.— Derby Ilf ercury. The number of new churches built or in progress, with the looney already voted for this object, is ninety-seven, viz.:—ln the diocese of London, 2t ; of Chester, 23 ; of York, 17 ; of Winchester (which includes part of the vici nity of the metropolis). 12; of Lichfield, 7 ; in eight other dioceses, 11 in the whole. These churches will accom modate 131,000 Itersons,_inclutling ftee seats for above 101,000. . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. We last night received the Paris Journals of Tuesday, with the Etode of Wednesday's date. The following are extracts:— (From the Et Ak.) PARIS, MARCH 10. The Duke of Cambaceres died on Monday evening at a quarts pannin! o'clock . The Assizes about to commence at Toulouse will be signalised by a criminal pmceediog, of which the annals of these Courts scarcely "dim, an example. A mother of a family Is accused or having burnt to death a child of which she had just been delivered. in such • manner •s rot to leave a vestige remaining. She com mitted this crime with the lire on her own hearth. She Must has: taken a considerable time, as the whole body was Consumed, ker. ing only a heap of ashes. Fne: act' Et' RIIII.—PA II IR, :Waren fl —rrenela Rends closed at lel f.; Scrip, le t. • Bards Stork, ; rfeapnlitan, f. ; Spanish, dn. Exch ange on London--One Month, 2SE aic three ditto. 26f. 364. It aliment from Tuesday's Journals that the Celions contirne with the same result. M. Kocchlin, the great manufacturer, who has been elected for the Upper Rhine (Alsace), Is the only Consti. tutionalist who is noted am o n g a dozen Denude'. (From the Coarrier Prat/talc] MAtth Our correspondent at Perpignan writes, under date of the Ist of March, that Elston d'ErnlSs, CaptalaGeraral of estates*, is to be replaced in the command of that principality, by Lilo Mar quis Campo Sacrado, who is daily expected at Bard/font. We do not recommend our readers to pay attention to tile Cdra munication made to the English Parliament (respecting South America). The importance of the question, the 'vim •of the documents connected with it, and the explanations of I Rr. cum* on presenting them to the Gothic, command the greatest ument. We confine ourselves at present to a remark On the uet *hick in this instance, the Ministry pursues towards the Pnlissoett and the nation. Scarcely has the Minister been quretionte uses the 'opening of the Session on the affairs of America Lord Nagent spoken nd the state of the rid/likes ipf and Prance on the *object of die Spanish Colonies, *bin aster for Foreign Affairs immediately submits to Poliement the official document' which might prove what is the terpective don of the two powers on so important a point. flow differsiat is • shls hex and communicative ootal*ct of the British Ministet to the haughty disdain which our Ministers openly craws towards the Chamber of Deputies whenever an etplenatiod Is demanded of them, touching our politic ! relations! This dif f erence is tint calmed so much by the haughtiness of me Statesmen, as by tiled ignorance of the true nature of a representative °overman. BRUSSELS PAPERS. Bruesele Patient to the lath instant reaehesl tilt yeffief• day. The following are extracts : Batts/late, MaaCrl L ' Recent letter' from the Archipelago state, that the Greeks have again made a landing twenty leagues to the inwth of //myna # that they levied large contributions, and required r: large Tummy of provisions, after width they re.embarked. Other points on the coasts of Asia Minor have likewise been disturbed by the Greeks, who, being masters of die ses, seize the richest Tusks in Natoli*, who are obliged to pay large ransom". Yesterday diernoon an Austrian Cabinet Messenger passed through this city, on his *ay from Vienna to London. Mercantile expresses are continually passing through this city, between Pun and Amsterdam. A I.7olllltißan, lxtt. 28. It is affirmed that OA the arrival of the Emperor of Austria at Milan, which will be about the middle of next month, Vet chose, will be made to the highest departments of the admereee trades* of the kingdoms of Lombardy and Ventre. On the other hand, it seems that the journey of the troperor hag a political ooe!, the Cabinet of Vienna believing that the roe ..., senor of his Majesty In his Italian States will produce a favourable impression on the minds of the people of that country, puttinitae end to certain Measures of severity which the Government of Milan had thought it netasary to adopt, against a multitude of person! suspected of uttering opinions contrary to the system by which the country is at present governed. THE BRAZILS. Yesterday we received a Dread Mad, which bring* DO the following interesting intelligence:— Rio DC JANEIRO, bee. 22. The new Constitution is pulAirbet: !'n a separate pamphlet t it it dated December If, 182:I. A Proclamation of the Senate of the Capita? signifies to the pub. lie, that in examining the project of the Constitution, dillire tip by the Council of State, on the basis offend by the Emperor, whirs was sent to the Senate by a royal order of the 17th, that it might make its remarks upon it, that body declares that it has no obtuse ' thins to make ; that the project ts a proof . of the liberalism of his Majesty, and of his humanity ; and considerrog that a new assembly could do no mere than accept this project, that it iv of the hishate hosselasests ihe Emperor to avoid the delity . ellch would Wine AVM waiting for the acceptance of the Conetitutmn by a taw As. amiably the Senate has therefore resolved to collect the general opinion of the citizens, by inviting them, withotft any constnunt, sign their opinion in two books prepared for the purpose —one fei those who approve, and the other for those who disapprove it; die books to remain open for twelve days; by which, she Henske, key,. trig the general opinion, w ill b e able to petition kis Majesty. in the name of the people, to put the project in force at the Constitution of the empire, and convoke the Assembly in the form prescribed by this project, which shall romain the Political Corminnion ofthe imperor of &sail. Vie Worw of the 27th of January, 1824, contains another Pte. rlamation from the Senate, announcing that it had asccriainal be yond a doubt, that the Constitution proposed was agreeable to the general wishes of the people; it had therefore requested the Ma jesty to fix a day when a deputation might wait on him with • petition that be would give orders to have it sworn to, and ctrerved as the fundamental law of the Eirpiter. Hai Majesty had fixed the ittli of January. The Diarto of the beginning of January contains various order* from the War Office, for the purpose of obtaining a precise know ledge of the state of the arsenals of the navy, an is short, ell the means of defence possessed by the Empire ; also, for the assembling and marching of troops, &c. du. One of these orders, dated the 2d of January. says, " His linos. tied Majesty hopes that this order, which L of the most pressing nature, will be executed within • few days, in order that effectual and indispensable amours* may be taken for the defeacc and emu rity of the Empise." An order dated the gth of January says, " It being necessary to assemble in this capital as groat • number of creeps as possible, to be employed in the defense of the eoustry, which is threatened with a new invasion by our cruel enemies, the Emperor orders the hlnjor.leenecal comminding the troops in Minas Ceram, to have 3,10/0 of the militia of that province ready to match at the Inc summons to this ramital." A similar older is addressed to the government of the province of St. Paulo, to have militia ready to oppose any attempt of the enemy upon the emit of that province. Boats are mimed to be got ready to serve as gun-boats, tele graphs to be erected from the city to die coast, workmen of all descripticos lo be engaged to labour is she arsemels and at the fortifies:ions, &c. We have also received a letter from Rio Janeiro, frosts which the following is an extiaet:— _ _ UM .4%21110, JAIL " Mires are fir from settled lit this ementry. In eunsequaned tithe arbitrary dissolution of the Assembly by the Emperor, dis turbances hare broken out in the northern provinces. of so alarming a nature, that the gt'vcrnmer.t soa raisirg an sorry to quell them, and recruiting right and left for that . parpose. They are taro lining out vessels for the same destina:ion. Letter from Bahia, of December 47, have been received at Gibraltar. The Government at Bahia bad sent two Commissioners to the Emperor, deploring the necessity b. had been under of dissolving the Legislative Assembly, bar that they should continue faithful to him so long as be proved himself Constitutional. A police had been estab— lished at Bahia, and more order reigned samegst the lester classes. Letters from Gihraltsr, dated the 19th February, Ma* that an American vessel had arrived at that garrison, the captain of which reports that he spoke two Algcrine frigates off Cadiz. Letters from Constantinople of the sth and 7th of Fe bruary, by way of Bucharest and Othssa, state that a Hal ti-scherif has been sent to the Scraskier of the army in Greece, to execute the Pasha of Scutari for not baying con quered the Greeks at Misholonghi. Yesterday, the first meeting of the subscribers to the Isle of Thanet Gas Company, tolight Margate, Ramage*, the Government light-houses, and other parts of that county, took place at the ,office of Mr. liedley, in the Poultry, 4e proprietor of the establis h ment - when a committee for managing the affairs of the Company was appointed, and other arrangements were made for the works which are RP he completAl to light those fashionable paces of resort the ensuing seasag. The following rather curious note was handed to tb. precentor in one of the places of worship in Ounfennline : —" Itember in praer owre Elder, deein by his air desire."—CC/,-I,,ian creel ry. A KIND SON.—(' inmate(' to the County /rouse of: Correction at Derby, John Hayworth, of Helper, charged with violently as-lulling and beating his mother, Axe Havworth. the Sessions Ilor.se in the Old Dailey is now imilerps. Mg a complete repair, and • cleansing from its dirty EDW. The new Court will be got ready for business by the nest Session of Oyer and Terminer. The in!erior of (be Cuero , - - is fitted up with every accommodation for the Bench, die Counsel, and the Public ; for the fatter, there isoMP ags, dons gallery, which will oontain 800 perm& . • th rg Da Flo be Cy Ise cd 1