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PARLIAMENTARY LVTELLIGENCE. PRICES OF lIRITISIi 5' Bank Steck 2421 3 per Cent Reduced.9si j 3 per Cent. Curt, 06iki OW 3 per Cent. lth2t New 3i re Ccnt. 101 i 103 4 Pei tent. lavi long Annultie. 22 15-16 33 Intperkl 3 per Cent.. Bank far Act. 342 f ens. far Act. WI 1 Inds Week rielvEs OF FOREIUN Austrian Scrip la pen Ditto for Acct. 171 1 j prn Ditto paid in full, Do. for Acct. c Pitn lids. 83} I Ditt> for Acct. tolosnb. Bds. 89 j t. 3 9 Do. Act. 999 9 Do. Scrip 31 2j 1 pm Ditto for Acc. 2,2, pm Danish Bonds 1011 Do. Marks Bancolno Greek Scrip. lj dig Ditto for Acct. l j dig Mexican Bonds till) Ditto Scrip IP} 491 ion r. Do. Ate. i• 10 4 pm Neapolitan 8415. 904 Peruvian Bonds' 794 Do. Scrip, 1 pm a j Cs Ditto foe Acct. ' I ~j . ORDERS OF THE DAY. Wool Importation and Exportation Bill--Committee. Exchequer Court Fees Inveetment Bill—Second Reading. Game Laws Amendment Bill—Farther Consideration of Report. Law Expenses (Ireland) Bill—Seccaid Reading. 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Exchange Zite Stettioh Wroo. NEW THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. TAW Evening. MONDAY. May 10. will he performed KIND RICHARD THE THIRD. IK!ng Henry. Mr. Pope; Duke of Oldster, Mr. Ketn: Duke of Burk. Ingtmes, Mr. Penity t Earl 4 RlAmond. Mr. Archer. The Queen, N. W. Weft: Lady Anne, Miss Smithson. To co:triode with ZOTIOASTFR ; or, THF. SPIRIT OF THE STAR. 'Fo-morrow, The Merry Wives of Windeor. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDFM Eve%lng, MONDAY, May 10, will be performed the First Part of KING HENRY THE FOURTH,. Rine Henry the Weirth, Mr. Egerton: Prince or Wales. Mr. Cooper o .4pur, Mr. %mane; tar John rabitstr Mr. C. Kernble ; Foinp. Mr. Parlay: French. Mr. [Penchant. Le:iy Percy, Illas F. H. Kelly; Hoste.l. Mrs. Davenport. To conclode with THE SPIRITS ttir TOP MOON; Or. THE INUNDATION OF Tilt NILE. To.nrarrow, Native Land. THEATRE ROYAL. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. 11R. MATIIEWN AT tinwz! This Evening. MONDAY, May 10. his ANNUAL LECTURE on PF.CULIAItiTIF.S, CHARACTER. 1•11NN ENS: Founded on Obeervsi inns Find Adventures during his late TItIP 4' h o r 4 itrgt • Prate 111.—A llonopolylogue. called ALL WELL AT NATCHITOCIIEU. All Use Clearactsrs of the Evening's Vote rtaintuent to be regengentoti by Mr. NATIO:Ws. Doors to be opened at Seven—Perfornisnve begins at Eight °flick. Boxes to be taken of Mr. sieve:soon, at the Box °rife., strand En trance. from Ten till Five. Pisces cannot possibly be kept after half-past Eight o'Clock. Overflowing !louses i—Tbe Greatest Number of Men and Hones ever Introduced on en Stone !! ! DAVIS'S ROYAL A3IPIIITIIRATRE. EVERY EVENING the new Grand Military Spectacle. ealled THE. RATTLE OF WATERLoo, With Mr. Dart. and Monsieur Ducrow ' s united Stud f Honors. Eeu: .trine .4 . '1101 In the Circle. by Moreactir Thwrow. particularly his Grand Feat of Riding on Two Unrapariconed drat time here, a Comic Iturletta. cal led THE SECRET. The BRITISH Puss commenced publishing on Saturday morn ing at bait-past fire o'clock. _ ....= LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 10, IS2 t. The French Papers of Thursday and Friday are almost wholly occupied with the protracted debates, which closed in favour of M. deYillele's projct fee the reduction of the revytes. The number of thputics who voted it appears was of which there wore white balls, 23n,—black balls, 111. The decision in the Chamber, from the lateness of the hour, had no effect on the French Funds on Wedues day, but on Thursday it was sensibly felt. The motes opened on that morning at loaf. soc. for money, and 104 f. sktc. for account ; and they fell, at the close of Thursday, 3f. 10e. lower. This, however, was to be expected, and the decline was by no means serious under such circum stances. The debate on the Septennial Law was resumed in the Chamber of Peers on Wednesday. The Duke de Doueleauvilk and the Marpis D'Herbouville supported the proposed change, and the Duke de Choiaenl and de Roehcfoucault spoke against it.—The Ifewrial Bor t/ kis of the Ist of May states, that the Spanish -prisoners of war, who formed part of the garrison of Pampe lona on its surrender to Lattrinton, arrived there on the 21st. The regular soldiers, on their arrival, were sent home, but the militia were conducted, first to the-I citadel, and subsequently received orders to shut them selves up ist their novelise baton. On the evenins of the 2tth the latter were arrested by order of the. Spanish Authorities, and again immured in the citadel, and pro ceedings, it appears, were to be instituted against them, as' not coming within the regular class of Spanish soldiers.— A Flandtra Mail, with Papers, reached our office yester day. Frankfurt Papers to the 3d of May, contain letters from Pen, stating that the Janiasaries had refused to serve against the Crests in the coming campaign; and on the Aga of this body offering large rewards to such of these mer cenaries as would volunteer against the Christians, the appeal almost wholly failed, not thirty individuals having offered. The Greeks have made themselves terrible to the infidels by their intrepidity and successes for the last three years. Account,. were stated to have been received from Ma ranham to the 19th of March, on Saturday, according to which s.•rinus ilisturLances had taken place in the Govern ment of Brazil, and the province was on the very brink of a serious convulsion. The Military Commandant, it was "aid, apprehensive of the Imperial Government being ' a Republic substituted for the treacherous ledro, had seized on the persons of the cretarica of the Provincial Junta, tumults had in consequence take n troops, consisting almost wholly of natives of added, had refused to obey the orders of the lilitary Commandant, and. according to this statement, the latter himself was 'cited on and divested of all autho rity, and sent to Rio Janeiro. Now this commotion is mentioned as having occurred at the close of February, and we have at this moment before us letters to the IGth of .I!arch, which are wholly silent upon it. The whole account, therefore, moat be considered a mere fabri cation, intended for the Stock Exchange. Maranham is , one of the most northern provinces of the extensive country of Brazil, comprehending a populous island of the same name, 119 miles in circuit, lying at the mouth of, three i.rreat rivers. The French settled there in 161 V, but were soon after expelled by the Portuguese. Quantities of rice and cotton are produced in this province, the chief town of which is St. Louis. Scarce a day has passed for some months that the tale of some new commotion or some alarming rumour has not been brought to these shores from Brazil. The fact is, its present government is not stable; it is hemmed round with treachery and distrust; Don Pedro is vaccillatir.g and faithless. Brazil is now the only empire in the New World, and it will probably very soon change its government, and, following the examples of Colombia and Mexico, become a vast and energetic Republic. From recent accounts received from St. Domingo it would appear that all the intrigues and attempted negociations of the French Cabinet, respecting that once valuable de pendency of France, had failed ; and that, despairing of ever recovering that fine island by force, or of retaining it, even if partial success should attend the effort, the French Ministry had at length unwillingly resolved on ac knowledging, of necessity, the independence of St. Do mingo, and establishing a commercial treaty, on a favour able, and, if possible, an exclusive footing, with that island. An extract from a paper, called Le Proragateur, published at St . Domingo, thus refers to the subject—" Private letters confirm the intelligence that a commission has been insti tuted, with 111. Lamm at its head, to regulate the amount of indemnities, and the Treaty of Commerce, which France may propose to Hayti, previous to the recognition by the former of the independence of the island. M. Laine has always shcwn the most pacific and conciliatory feelings in our favour. It appears, therefore, that mild and equitable sentiments towards the Republic of Hayti, begin at length to prevail in the Councils of his Most Christian Majesty. It is probable that France, apprised of the resolute deter mination of the Ilaytian people to repel all attacks, of their unanimity, and the energy of their Chiefs, will rather ap peal to negociation than the sword. The acknowledgment of our independence would be a concession that would place us at once in the rank of the sovereign nations of the earth. That France should for this benefit seek to obtain advantages in her favour, is what we were to expect. It remains to be scan whether her proposals will be com patible with our interests and honour, and our future security. This is the question which our political Chief must resolve, and he will resolve it, doubtless, equitably to our glory and his own." Frarce lost St. Domingo by the' insanity of her political visionaries, in 17.91 ; and every succeeding effort, like Le Clerc's, was only attended with disaster and failure. Since the restoration of the Bourbon Family, new attempts in the way of regulation and in trigue were made, but also failed. The present French Cabinet had, therefore, no resource remaining, but to ac-' knowledge the independence of St. Domingo, and thus obtain a favoured commercial footing. It is the wisest policy France can pursue, and should have been adopted long sinec. We give insertion in our columns this morning to a long nnei rorreomondenee between Dr. Phillpotts, of Stanhope, a most enlightened and respectable Clergyman,' , and the Committee of the Darlington Anti-Starer/ klociety. Dr. PhiUpotts' long and excellent letter deserves the best attention; it places the abolition system in its teas light,l with equal ability and discrimination; it points out the , fallacy, both on political and religious grounds, of the resolution of the abolitionists at Darlington, " that the state of slavery is repugnant to the principles of the British Constitution and of the Christian Religion." I cannot forget (Dr. Phillpotts says) " that the principles of the British Constitution had their origin, at a period when a large proportion of the people of this land were slaves; that some of its main bulwarks were reared in the distinc tion between the free and servile classes of Englishmen themselves ; that even its last glorious perfections were given to it in times, when the state of slavery in the British Colonies was recognized and enforced by law; nor can I readily believe that those illustrious men, to whom we owe the final establishment of our liberties, were so ignorant or so regardless of their own principles as to permit them to be thus openly violated, not only without justification, but (from the little interest this country then had in colonies) almost without motive." Ag,in, Dr. Phillpotts writes— " If the principles of our holy religion are appealed to, I am struck with the glaring fact, that its Divine Founder himself, when the relation of master and slave was speci fically brought under his notice, or became, as it oftcu did, incidentally the subject of discourse, not, only did not condemn it, but seems to have given to it his implied, at least, if not his express sanction. The fact is, the motives of the numerous abolition party in this country are humane and philanthropic, but they have not considered the im portant and dangerous question sufficiently, and an ardent zeal leads them much too far. They wish to legislate for the African population of the West Indic: as they would for the people of this country, forgetting that the negrocs arc yet unprepared by education, by habit, by moral or even religions feeling, for the great blessings of emancipa tion ; and that sudden liberty, independent of the destruc tion it would bring with it to the lives and properties of thousands of Europeans, would be a curse to the unpro- . vides' Africans themsch•cs. Seven hundred thousand indi viduals would be thus act loose throughout the British islands, without provision of any sort, with their minds inflamed, their passions in a state of effervescence, with an indisposition to labour, and no settled plan but that of in surrection, conflagrations, murders, and wide wasting plunder, realizing again the shocking scenes that took place in St. Domingo, at the commencement of tha French Revolution, when the sable philanthropists of the Convention pursued their wild plans of universal fraternity and liberty—emancipating the negroes by one decree, and recalling the destructive gift by a subsequent measure. That fine and productive island u•a: the garden of the West Indies; wealth and elegance reigned in its cities; commerce and industry had diffused universal com fort and happiness all through the French possessions. Its trade in eofee, sugar, indigo, tobace', cotton, and drugs, was immense. The country, from the hand of nature, was most fruitful, and beautifully diversified with hiU and dale, with woods and rivers ; the latter and its coasts were Profusely supplied with fish and turtles : all the domestic animals brought from Europe had multiplied beyond num ber. The city of St. Domingo was the finest in the West Indies, and distinguished by the luxury and refinement that prevailed there: but the philanthropists of the French Convention extended their fraternity to the negroes of that unhappy island, and a s...rne of horrors sueceeth tl, impos sible to describe. In 1791, an insurrection broke wit si multaneously all through the French part of St. Domingo, and in a few weeks not less than I Woo° negrot s were in arms. The scenes of murder, violators, and rapine that succeeded, arc too horrible for narration. The manufac tures and plantations, wherever the eye rested, appeared a wide and general conflagration, and the plains and moun tains were covered with carnage and blood. The city of St. Domingo was nearly laid in ashes, amid excesses too appalling for repetition. All this was the dreadful result of measures such as the abolitionists in this country have been long pursuing; such also would be the frightful con sequences in Jamaica and the other British islands, if their plan of legislation was unhappily adopted. We are our selves as wann friends as either Mr. Wilberforce or Mt. Buxton, or the most devoted of the party of which they are the leaders, to the amelioration of the condition of the African race in the sugar islands, and to every prudent and rational measure that can secure their happiness and com fort; but the blessings of ultimate emancipation can only be gradually and cautiously extended to them, and they must be prepared for the gift to make it either valuable to themselves, or consistent with the safety of the white in habitants around them. Such a course the Government of this country have adopted, and the Legislature has given to it its solemn sanction. The inestimable advantages of enlightened religious instruction, and of a mild and bene ficent rule, will now be universally extended to the ne groes. By the one, their feelings will be chastened and improved ; and by the other, they will experience all the protection and comfort consistent with a present state of slavery, and be gradually prepared for the great boon of final liberty. What more do the abolitionists want? and why are they still agitating the community by their ap peals ? Ruin to the West Indies would be the certain re sult of the unreflecting measures they are pursuing. The letters on this important subject, which we publish this' , morning, place the question in its true light, and will, we are sure, do much to dispel unthinking prejudice, and pro-' duce a just and rational feeling on the condition of the slave population in the British West Indies. The Duke of York strived in town on Friday evening from Newmarket. Yesterday morning the Princess Augusta attended Divine Service at the (lapel Royal ; afterwards her Royal Highness. took en airing in Hyde l'ark, and walked in Kensington Gardens. Yesterday the Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Kent visited the Duke and Duchess of Clarence; the, Royal Duke, we arc sory to say, has a alight cold. Prince Leopold, accampaniedliby Sir Robert Gardiner,' attended Divine Service yesterday morning, at St. Phillip's, Chapel, Waterloo-place. Yesterday, at a quarter before three o'clock, Prince Leopold, Prince Leiningen, the Duchess of Kent, Princes.; Feodor, attended by Captain Conroy, and the Baroness Despadeth, went to a private view of the Exhibition at Somerset House, whee the Royal party were received by Sir Thomas Lawrence, the President of the Royal Academy, and Mr. Howard, the Secretary of that Institution, who, conducted their Royal Highnesses through the different, rooms sA apart for the display of the Arts, with which' their Royal Highnesses expressed themselves highly grati fied. At a quarter put four o'clock the Royal party left the Exhibition. Yesterday Divine Service was performed by the Rev. 1)r. Blomberg, to the King's Household, at the Palace, in Pall-mall. Earl Bathurst is confined by indisposition. The Duchess of Bedford, we are sorry to hear, is much indisposed at her house in St. James's-square. It is expected that Mr. Baron Graham will retire from the limch at the close of the year. The Annual Spring Meeting of the Scottish hospital Charity wa% held on Saturday, at the Preennasonte Tavern. Ili:Foam IN Pmareste KT.—The night Hon. the Lord Mayor, in %moque:lee of-a:requisition for that purpose, Las ap pointed a Special Court of Callimon CoUncil to be' Iteld at the Guildhall, on Friday . next, to take into con sideration " the propriety of petitioning Parliament forth with to institute an inquiry into the state of the representa tion of the people in the House of COMMONS, and of repre senting more especially the glaring inequality that now exists in the representation of the tlistrict comprising the city of London, the county of Middlesex, the city of %Vest minster, and the borough of Southwark, compared with that of ihe rest of the kingdom, as it regards population, property, or taxation, that district returning only ten Mem bers to Parliament, while the rest of the kingdom returns two hundred and forty-eight ; and to obtain such reform as may be founded upon the true principles of the British Constitution." _ The Huntingdon Election takes place on Thursday next. The naval promotion spoken of, we understand, will take place on the anniversary of the King's coronation, in July next.—ldarnpshire Telegraph. SSII ING or TIIE DISCOVERY SHlPS.—Saturday being appointed for the sailing from Deptford of the liecla and Fury, on the voyage of discovery, every arrangement was made to facilitate that object by the superintendent of the dock-yard, but on Friday night the Fury was ordered to remain until yesterday morning's tide. The officers and crew of the Hecht mustered on board on Friday night, with many friends, among. whem were several females, who could not be prevailed upon to depart until the last moment. At five o'clock in the morning the anchor was raised, and the Ilecla swung upon the buoy with the tide, and at seven o'clock the signal for sailing was hoisted ; the Comet steam-yacht was then lastly moored alongside to tow her down. Captain Parry, a few minutes after seven o'clock, came on board iu the pinnace, with several Ladies and Gentlemen, who were received by the First Lieutenant, Mr. Wynn. At this moment the river and shore presented a very animated spectacle; several boats filled with coo. ppny, bidding adieu to the crew of the Heels, were visible, and many of the ships of war's crews were out, cheering the hardy adventurers. If he final orders for getting under weigh were given at twenjy-five minutes past seven o'clock, and a very affecting scene took place on hoard the transport : several sailors at one time Twilled into the arms of some females, and, snatching a hasty embrace, jumped into the litchi, in a manver that n-say who have taken such fare wells caunatforget. Tbc Comet got under weigh and pro. ceeded, with the Heels in tow, down the river, sud was BOOR Out of sight. The crew of the Gripe r gave three cheers as she passed, which was answered by the Ifecla'a crew. This incident ki,arery intertating, as the Griper is taking out the Land kapeditism, and- he next intercourse of those brave men will probably be in regions of desola tion and niiscry. MR. SADLER S ASCENT ETIOM ROCIIT•LE.—On Thurs day last Mr. Sadler, accompanied by Mr. Platt (the gentle man from Liverpeol who attempted in vain to am-nel with Mr. S. from this town, when Mr. Peel was oblired to re linquish his scat in the balloon), made a very successful and imposing ascent from the yard of the new gas works at Rochdale, his balloon being tilled (we believe gratuitously) from the gasometer of the works. The morning being beautifully fine, the process of inflation was commenced at an early hour, and the balloon was ready precisely st the time appointed, two o'clock. At a quarter past two, Mr. Sadler and his companion stepped into the car, and the bal loon ascended slowly and majestically from the ground : the day was beautifully serene, with a very light air from the southward, and the progress of the balloon was extremely slow. After having been for thirty-five minutes in sight of the place whence he arose, Mr. Sadler dehceaded at Raw chile, near Hamm, having, in the time we have mentioned, travelled only seven miles. Owing to the balloon being loaded to nearly the extent of its buoyant power, it did not rise very high, but we have not heard the precise elevation estimateol. The descent was effected in perfect safety ; but the inhabitants of the populous neighbourhoe d where it took place, to whom thesight was perfectly novel, crowd(%) around in such large numbers, and with inch hetense curiosity, that some trifling damage was done to the balloon. Mr. Sadler and his companion arrived again in Roc h dale the same afternoou.—Murichester Guardian. overturned, and a nilc of Don Pet] President and and alarming place. The troop Brazil, it Was adds POE TAY. STANZAS TO PUNCHINELLO. From the New Mooed% Magazine.] Thou bgninn.vitse Roscius, who That the obi 'avant stage renew, Peerless, inimitable Punchinello! The Queen of smiles ht quite outdone Bt thee, all-glorious king of fun. Thou grinning, giggling. laugh-extorting fellow! At other dynes mine ear is wrung, ll'hene'er I hear the trumpet's tongue, Taking astociatitms melancholic; But that which heralds thee retails All childhood's joys and festival*. And makes the heart rebound with freak and frolic. Ere of thy fare I get a ,match, 0 with what boy•sh glee I catch Thy twittering, cackling, bubbling, sqdeaking gibber-- Sweeter than syrcn voice.—fraught With richer merriment than aught That drop% from willing mouths, though utter'd glibber ! The upturn'd eyes 1 lore to trace Oi wondering mortals, when their face Is all alight wish itnexpecrant gladness ; To mark the flickering giggle lint, The growing grin —the sudden burst, And universal shout of merry madness. Sometimes Innis. a hen-peeled wight, Enjoying thy mari!al might, To him a ',radii- bean id w ; He counts each crack on Judy's pate, Then homeward creeps to cogitate The difference 'twixt dramatic wires and real. But, Punch. thous% ungallant and rude In plying thy persuasive wood ; Remember that thy eudgcl's girth is fuller Than that compassionate, thumb-thick, Establish'd wife-reforming stick, Made legal by the dictum of JUDG E BVL I. Ea. When the officious doctor hies To cure thy spouse, there's no surprise, Thou shouldst receive him with nose-tweaking grappling; Nor can we wonder that the numb Emcees.: each crack upon his nob. When thou art feting him with oaken sapling. As for our common enemy, Old Nick, we all rejoice to see The c‘imip de cr,,re that silences his wrangle ; Rat, 10. Jack Ketch !—ah, well-a-day ! Dramatic justice claims its prey. And thou in hempen handl:iv:bier must dangle. Now helpless hang those arms which once Rattled such music on the sconce ; flush'd is that tongue which late out-jested Yorick ; That hunch behind is shrugg'd no more, No longer heaves that paunch before, Which swagg'd with such a pleasantry plethorick. Rut Thespian deaths are transient woes, And still less durable are those Suffeed by lignum-Titre malefactors ; Thou wilt return, alert, alive, And long, oh lung may'st thou survire, First of bead-breaking and aide-splitting !won ! H. DRURF-LANE THEATRE. The frinte?'s Tale was performed, for the last time this season, on Saturday evening. The production of it did not, we should think, prove a rrofitable speculation ; for on the previous night of its performance, we did not see the house filled, or well attended. On Saturday, before half-price, there was a truly " beggarly account of empty boxes, ' nor could the other parts of the house boast a more thronged attendance. The truth is, that although this is one of the best acting of Shakspeare's plays, when it is well acted, yet the mediocrity of the performance of it at Drury-lane, caused it to go off very heavily. klacready, as Leo sirs, es livers sonic of the beautifully poetical passages with a spirit of ardent and enthusiastic declamation ; indeed sometim e s with an enthusiasm bordering on violence ; for this gentle man "is not anything if not pushin /1.." Mr. Kemble, who had many admirers of his performinee of this charac ter, played it in a tone of suppressed jealousy, and smothered indignation, 111 if the feelings with which his soul was har rowed were " thoughts that lay too deep for words." I Kemble conceived (we think rightly) the character to he a despondent and heart-broken, rather than a had or re vengeful one ; his declamations, therefore, partook of a fierce classical henry, above which he did not soon Macready seems to think ',cosies' mind to have been stung with all the furies of Orioles, works himself into a per- Tictuid paarioll, and threatens momentarily the acting of an hysterical fit. Mrs. Bunn played Heentsoise with very ad mirable effect ; we would only take exception to a moo. rosy in her tones, that renders it not very pleasing to listen to lie, delivery of a speech of any length. In the last scene she acted, even to excellence; there was true dignity and passion in the statue-scene—she stood erect " a beau teous bust of monumental marble." This was the best acted, as the play is to be performed no more it would be gratuitous censure to add the only well acted, scene in the play. Mr. Archer made Po(sixenes a very difFerclit sort of personage from what Shakspcare intended he should be. It is not easy to tell often what character this gentleman personates, or in what tragedy he performs, for he mouths his part so egregiously that it might be a speech in Othello or Ifamlel he is speaking for aught we are able to judge from any distinct or articulate sounds that reach the car. Mrs. West was very spirited in her remonstrances against the injustice done the Queen. There were some passages in her part, which at no distant period in our political his tory would have created a very lively excitement in the minds of an English audience. Zarnaster followed ; like the Cataract it continues to cause an overflow at half-price, P‘tSIIIONAnLE INT!? L LICENCZ. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEER. THIS tre\ts c. The duchess of Wellington's first grand assembly, A ps: ey I leniv. :qrs. Thorns. Chaplin's mot, Ornftem-street, ]load, y. Mrs. Iteilbv Thotriron's rout. Mrs. lin Mr . % rout. King street. l'ortnin-square. I.ser assembly, Berlt.ler-stittews. Mr. Mts. i:gerttoet patty, at. Janoe's-stittste. TO-xoßßow. The Honourable 3lrs. falrert's concert. Graftorstraet. Alnt. John Capers party. Russell-sr:hare. The Countess of Arran's assembly, Dorer.street. IV i DNE SDA V. Almatk's grord hall, Willie. Rooms. Lord Saltoun's party, Great Cumberiand.plare. TTIrIISDAY. The Cou"te•s of Catodllies *inn rout, Privy-gardens. Mr. and Mrs. Camse's party, Manatield.street. FRIDAY. The 'Nebr.% of Northumberland's second grand assembly,. No-thumterland flame. Mr. and 3lra. Blackburn% mut. Park Amen, Weetuineter. The Honourable Mrs. William Gosling's assembly, Portird Mrs. General (hr's concert, Giourreer-place. Rir Robert 31acfarlane's party. Cumberland-place. Lord and Lady King's party, Dover-street. SATIAID•Y. NYC EvelynNfete at Riehroond. The Doi of WcaunoriZd'a — pa - rty. Grosvenor-Knape lewd James Stuan's party, Whitehall-place. Lord mad Lady King's party, Dover-atrcet. ICNDAT. The ennntetts St. Antonio's assemhly. Hinover.squars. The Honourable J. Abcreromby, .M.P.'s party, New-Ereer, Spring-gardens. Sir W. A hdy, Bart. has issued cards of invitation fora concert, on the 22d inst. at his house, flilhatreet, Berkeley-sqpare. The Archbishop of Canterbury entertained • Lege party at dinner yesterday. at Lambeth Palace. Countess St. Antonio entertained a nnmerous party of the had ton yesterday evening. at her house. lianorer-square. Lord Ellenbomugh entertained the Earl and Countess of Fal. mouth and a large party at dinner yesterday, at his scat at Itwhatrpton. Dowager Lady Anson had a dinner party yesterday, at her house. in Curzon -street, May-fair. Sir George IVarrender. Bart, had a dinner party yesterday, at his house, Whitehall-plitee. Owen F:sq. M.P. had a large party at inner yester. day, at his house in Berkeley-square. The Duke of Grafton entertained a distinguished party at dir.ner yesterday, at his house in Clarges-street. Viscount Hampden had a dinher party yesterday, at Ills house in Green -street, Ornsvettor.square ; ChM) W. H. Fellows, Esq. M.P. at his house in Lower Derkeley-strect. The dlarquis of Lansdown, Lord Sherhorne, W. H. Fellowes, Esq. .M.P. and M. A. Taylor, Esq. M.P. had dinars parties on Saturday. Lord and Lady King entertained, on Saturday, id dinner, the F.ari of C.:manor. Lord Cawdor, Lady E. F3rtestue, William Fortescue, Esq. Miss Fox, Mr. Bruce, &e. at their house in Dover-street. Mr. and Mr*. Hope hare irrtied cards of invitation fora dinner party on the :7th inst. at their house in lilansfield-street. The Duke of Norfolk hat left town for Paris for about three orrkg. . 1 he Earl and Countess of Hardwick and family arrived on Sa. turday at their house in St. James's-rquare, from their seat, 'trim. pole, Cambridgeshire. The Countess of Sandwich arrivni on Saturday,i her house in Dover street . from her seat. inch in hmoke. Hunti a nkdon. Lord and body Arundcl left town on Saturday, for the Duke of Buckingham's seat, Stowe. The Earl and Comte.% Sefton and the Ladies Molrneux, left town yesterday. for their seat. Stoke Farm. near Wintisur. Mr. and Mrs. Eyre hare arrived at the St. Georges Hotel, Albe nvarle-nreet, from a tour. The Dowager Country , ' of Lismnee has left the London Hotel, Albemarle -street, fiw Hastings. Sussex. The Countess of Effingham left the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle. tarry, on Saturday. for her seat in Berks. . . Lord and Lady F. L. Gower and family are expected in town to. day, from the Continent. Arrivals at FLauag's Hotel. Oaf , 1-street :—The Earl and tens of Roamer?, from Ireland : E. B. Impey F.Fq. from Nev:ck ; ft. !tontheote, Esc. fmtrt Newengle, Staffordshire; K. terx.rv. Esq ;ran Norwich; H. hharp. Eui. from a tour; Warrlogton.Col. ditto; die Rev. Mr. Allen, ditto. Dr. partur.3 t—Sir 11. and Lady Fit:herbed and family, for Derby. shire; .4r. and Mni. Peva. fe. litlebrcend ; Capt. and Mrs. Hal. main and family. for Ireland • T. Atitildr. Esq. for Henley-upon. Thames; and E. railer. Ea; for Baxmundham. 7 r jfARQT`IS O F VllO A . DERR' 41VD .thirrlg pky..l tc fad. whew, an *tat OKI . XO,l toriwaiu her daft, to be settl y the law rt , that the *wwil is r.„,./. without being • fatal an t b:) , 11 parties to the ref.-renee have procured .:;ntual Tedrcssot gnetarces, sod ,et remain on this side the mom, A intgilr.g bus within •c-. days taken place be tween the Al:.ry:is of to. fly and Cornet BAT -1 I Lit ; the former nttenartt by bit . H. Flartlinge, Al. P. and the latter by Colonel Wodchoose. The Cornet's pis tol, as if the trigger had been for the moment endow-et' with a glimmering of reason, refused to perform its office —it missed fire, and by so doing placed its unoffending owner at the mercy of the Marquis. The Marquis, how ever, with that manliness of spirit which is honourable to his character, refused to avail himself of this accidental advantage, and offered his own pistol to the Cornet, with a request that he would resume his position and fire again : the latter, with a feeling equally honourable, declined the offer, and both parties, with their seconds, left the ground. We trust that this rcnrwdre will operate as a restorative to those better feelings which will in future supersede all personal enmity, and that the Tex 1 it will manifest here after less of that offensive pride of aristocracy, which has made them so unpopular. Our parting wish is, that they may deserve to stand as high in the public opinion as they do in their own—and higher they cannot stand. AMBITION INT Tilt TTNTH.—TiIe Tullio Freeman's Journal contains the following paragraph :—The Tenth, who are outer in almost everythir.g, have likewise in their band a giant, who frequently prided himself in the belief of his being the tait-st and handsomest man in the empire, from the circumstance of baying measured with, and ex ceeded in height, the persons formerly exhibited as giants in this city. A few evenings ago, he visited the French giant, Mor.s. Jaques, who is now exhibiting at the Royal Arcade, with the hope of putting an extinguisher also on his pretensions to great-xis, and thereby keeping thelidd to himself ; but be soon found a mistake in his calculation, for on stretching himseljup by the aide of this petit maitre, his head only reachca the i•A in of Monsieur, when be quaintly declared, he " would ncver think 'himself gre,:t affo i 1 . Letters from Cons'antinople, dated Apni 2, state that the Pacha of Egypt lies abaadoood all proasesliog against the Morea, but that his son, who is reckoned an able leader. will be sent thither with a force. GA NA I. IN I'll A.— From the western part of the city of Saigon, in Cochin China, a river or canal has been re cetitly cut, twenty-three English miles long. connecting with it branch of the Cambodia River, by which a free water communication is opened with Cambodia, which is called by the Onamese Coantaigne. This canal is twelve feet deep throughout, about eighty feet wide, and was cut through immense forests and lIMOTIiEti, in the short space of six wecks. Twenty-six thousand men were employed, night and day, by turn, in this stupendous undertaking, and seven thousand lives sacrificed by fatigue and eonse qnent disease. The banksof this am( arc already planted with the palmitia tree, which is a great favourite with the Onaniese.—Lit, rare, Chronicle. Ca: revere.—Ott hursday morning a child about nine yenta old was sent by his father with a bundle. containing two pair of boots and a pair of shoes, to a gentleman in the Temple: he was met in Middle 1 ernpledane, next Temple-bar, by a fashion able dressed personage, wearingmnstachion, who stopped the boy. and desired him to go to the fishing-tackle shop directly opposite the lane, and ask for a fishing-rod in the name of Thomas or Tbompoon. at the same time giving him a piece of paper, which , he represented as containing a sovereign, telling him he had to pay ! as., and he was to bring back ISs. change. and wits promised to be rewarded with a penny. The child immediately turned back to go on the errand, the person offering to take care of the bundle, which the boy relined : the fellow, however, succeeded in forcibly taking it from him, and the boy, without suspicion, crossed over, and delivered the message. Mrs. Pompon received the paper. which, on opening, she found contained a halfpenny g and suspect ing the child had been made the dupe of some artful villain, ques tioned him if lie had bad a parcel, to which he replied in the utile motive. Mrs. Vstonson told the boy he had bee, imposed nye. and on his returning in search of the mustachioed g irdetnan, found h e had decamped.—A similar trick had been played upon &amber boy, who had lost a down umbrellas in the neighbourhood of Lincoln's inn-lipids, by a person answering the as Ix nictiptioo. MR. GRATTAN'S PICTURES. We have been favoured with a private view of this Ex hibition, which opens this day to the public, et the ' Western Arcade, Bond-street. The Exhibition principally consists of the works.of an Artist, who gave early promise of superior and original talents in landscape and historical painting. He died at the early age of twenty-seven, so that as he could net well have the advantage of " sigisfi anroorani lurribratimees - for the completion of his several performances, it is not to be wondered at if some of them present a somewhat imperfect and unfinished appearance, It is impossible, however, to visit this interesting collection, without being struck with the great and ver/ creditable industry by which a man at so young an age painted a whole gallery of pictures, 'comprising almost all varieties of styles of drawing, with decided success in some, and with a promise of success in all. There is a novelty in this exhibition, as presenting the most accurate views of Irish scenery, which hare hitherto, perhaps, appeared in London. There is a series of paint ings in the collection, consisting of the most attractive and prominent landscapes that abound around t be romantic lake of Killarney, which are sketched with admirable fidelity. The best painting In - the collection is, fie rrisA Peasant's Feet filer. The despondent and heart-broken visage of the peasant—the affectionate assiduity with which the poor partner of his wretched roof attendsro her children, who in gay light-heartedness around her, and the poverty that oppresses them, as exhibited in their little furniture, their covering, &c. is a just representation of the condi tion of the Irish peasantry; nay, more—it is a powerful and erecting commentary on that condition, sail " Speaks mere eloquently for pity Than all the preachers of the city." In the management of aerial perspective, Mr. Grattan seems to have arrived almost at the perfection of his art. There is a very pleasing landscape Of shefy in perspective, and of a peasant-boy and girl iu the fore-ground. reposing in the summer shade. The figures are painted in small ilitnen. *ions, but beauty,lwalth, and rustic simplicity, are happily blended together in the female figure. There are several historical pieces in the collection, which exhibit great originality in the design: the artist did not the to complete the execution of many of thew. The prevent collection has been brought over from Ireland by the surviving brother of Mr. Grattan, who is himself an artist, and we understand 'misted in the painting of some of these ; be has placed sonic performances of his own in the exhibition. Ile has placed them, as well as the paintings of his brother, before a very fair and a very discerning tribunal—the London public, a tribunal that not only judges justly, but that impartially patronizes and liberally rewards real merit. Mr. Dowton, w•e understand, is about to visit the United States. Mr. Price, the American manager, offered Mr. Braham ten thousand pounds, secured on the Dank ofi Ettclan4l, for twelve months engagement. Mr. Webb, the Irish comedian, has received an etier for America. Y ; i'