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•••, said. if not entered ix printed schedules. creep, sleek es are required by taw. awe the anionnt whereof could mot be ascertained previously to the Quarter Stasis is. Now here, said the Hon. Gentlemen, was ■ complete and mischievous blunder. and it occurred this : this clause was taken. as many others were, from hi. Bill of last year, but it referred to a pros sinus clause, which in this Bill hod been unfortu nately omitted. The clause was this, and appears s.t the top of his Bill, page 7. The lion. Gentle man here quoted the clause, by which it appeared, that all applications for Wanes, fees, poundage, or other coutingencies whatsoever. were to be lodged with the Secretary of the Greed Jury upon a certain day, in order to their being en . erred 'in the printed schedules. After this clause, eke one i.►serted in this Bill, for preventing any applicatiousfor any of the purposes aforesaid being token into cousideration except what were entered in the schedules, came in properly; but in this Bill de pupates aforesaid being merely fur public ero►ks, this n►ischief followed, from the exception no the clause, that any public works which could not he oscenamed as wanting repair at the time of thische. elutes hong printed (namely, the Quarter Sessions in January), but which subsequently may need repair, can by this exception be presented for at the As • although they be lint entered in the printed - schedules. Thus the value of the prii►ted ache 'dales is altogether set aside. Another clause he would allude to, was that relative to Grand Jurors lescluenio evidence as to presentment*. To this lie would not object so far; but the inference which followed was most mischievous. He well knew what the effect of having persons (who were inte rested in applications) present at the discussions of Greed Juries would be—what effect a look or a nod had on these occasions. If such was allowed, the House might rely upon it, many more pre• sadn►eets would pass than do now. and matty of those improper. On the solidity of this objection hr appealed to those present, who were in 'the habit of attending Grand Juries. Theft were messy other ►t►ong objections to this Bill, 'to which be would not at present advert. As the Act of last Sessioa was now to be repealed, he would not Isere said a word upon it, except fur one circumstauce, which was, that he thought the Gentlemen who had been candidates for the si tuation of county surveyors, had been hardly dealt with, in having their rejection ascribed to their nut being qualified. What was the true and candid state of the case ? The Government found themselves on that occasion in possession of un Act which was impracticable: they were. however, bound by it to appoint civil engineers, to examine candidates for the office of surveyor; end what was the tie. tu►al course for these civil engineers to pursue? most certainly to examine the Act, in order to see the duties pointed out for these surveyors, and when they found these duties impracticable, of course they very properly refused to certify ? But was it fair on this account to proclaim the surveyors to be incompetent men ? He would instance one case: No accounting affidavit (by that Act) could pass without tl►e execution of the work being certified by the surveyor; now as the law stood. tt was not accessary. Poe were works commonly finished till the 6th day before the Assists. Thus was the.sur veyor expected to traverse a county (say the county of Cork, which is near 100 miles lon. and 70 broad), is eix days, and examine and certify all the public works which were executed—a thing which was impossible. • Mr. Valley FtveneneeD directly denied that he entertained any wish to elude discussion. If it was the sense of the House that it would be expedient to postpone the third reading for the present, he would consent to adjourn it till Monday next, or► condition that it should be then brought on at an early hour. Lord JOCELYN said, that feeling the force of *hat had been said by the Member for Sligo (Mr. Cooper) in opposition to the measure, and seeing the errors and contradictions in it which the unite Ho►►. Gent, had clearly pointed out, lie was dee cidedly of opinion that something should be done to obtain a measure more practically useful and con eistent.—This Bill had been taken Antrim entirely from the same Hon. Gent letnao's Act of last year— an Act very generally reprobated. The sentiment* of most of the Grand Juries of Ireland had been 'Amiss to it, and he was particularly anxi. ous that those of that body in the county of Louth on the subject, should be ►i►ade known to the House. The Noble Lord then quoted the resolution of the Grand Jury of the county of Louth, entered into at the last Summer Assizes, crusteing the principal parts of the Act of 1817, and il.structing their irpresentatives to oppose any sith.r measure founded on the same principles with it. Much reliance. the Noble Lord pro reviled to say, should be pieced on die formally exert-steal opinion of such ■ body of men—men resident ►n the county, conversant in its business, and therefore, in the natural course of thine. best qualified to form au opinion on a measure framed for its manageu►eut. To puss this Bill would be to load the counties with an Act cloddy, if not mole el 1111 l slims than the last—and lie would ac• curchnoly now beg leave to propose an amendment. !fere the SPEAKER stood up to explain the ►tate of the question, which was such as to preclude any other amendment. an amendment fur adjournmeut till Monday being already before the House. Mr. V. ferzoeaseo said the treatment he ex perienced was unfair; and as gentle►nen lied thought eroeer to rote► 11110 the merits of the Bill 110 M, he • with the leave of the House, withdraw the ii i+iiriimrut. lite motion for withdrawing the adjournment, ea: thee put and cerried. Alf. Ilitto;DEvi raid he never seen • ITIPOSUre CCM. ducted , Attle greater deliberation. It bad been eon,- toitir,l three times. Sir J. Nrits rota supported the Bill, not as a friend to the drool Jury ',stein, but because it was the only result of three years, labour to hod a remedy for the admitted abuses of that eyottiii—a *system .trader whirh it was allowed that large yoltions of the money levied of the pcitionitry 44 114.140"1 *err oselersly dud rxtrasagasitly expended. Ile hail twee' surprised iu wits ei' g the , opposition 4 ,r g e01e,,,,, friendly to That system to flint Bill, beeasise it W3S itarsided to trotove its defect►. Not ',s l og c.odil hr more Upshot's to the . people rf lithos, thou rompnniug the Bill from Srs•iou tat tseopiun, because 11w expense unde► the y•reotot r)stcon had italtaseil w pioportton to the appro. hellion of refarin, and aclon4 as they delayed they kept up the stimulus to rapacity. The ohjec hone of the Member for Sligo were proper to he urged in a Committee. The errors he ctnnplait►ed of might hive been remedied there ; and it was his duty to attend at the regular stage. The Resolu tions of the Grand Jury of the ca•nty of Louth were emitted to great respect ; but he could not forget that the Member for Louth had o►►ce asserted in his pl.ice. that the Grand Jury system woe a most perfect one. Mr. DEN IS Bonwse wished to. knot► whether the lion. Baronet (Sir J. Newport) meant to coo deo►u him and those Gentlemen who thought with I on that occasion, for opposing this Bill, when the very first act of the present Session was to re peal au Act precisely similar to it in its enactments. One clause, indeed, relative to county surveyors, laid been omitted, a clause found inconsistent wills the other parts of the law, in order to cover which► mistake, it was alleged that sur veyors could not be obtained properly quali fied, and a censure altogether unmerited had been thrown on that class of men in Ireland. roattrvey county works did not require any su perior -degree of skill—many men competent to it coUltrbe easily procured. Fur iustauce, could any one imagine drat the Gentleman who surveyed and constructed that map of the county of Mayo, which had 'justly received so much praise and admiration, was nut qualiged ? But the fact was, that the defect was not in the candidates, but in the Bill under 'which they word to act—and the boasted measure that was to be a blessing con• (erred on Ireland, was on the first examination found to be a Male, ill-digested thing, neces sary to be got rid of the earliest moment. -- O►►e of the greatest boon ever granted to Ireland was the old Act, describing the functions of Grand Juries. It bad been the source of improvement to the coun try ; it had produced direct roads equal to, and cross reeds, he had no hesitation in saying, superior to any in England ; it bad given employment to the pea santry, and was the germ of prosperity before Ireland had either trade or comu►erce—yet this was the Act now decried and exclaimed against. He did not Mean to say the system founded on it was perfect o° system was perfect—but so unlikely was the 'preach 'Bill to give birth to any thing epprooching to perfection, that it comprehended within itself • mass orcodfusion and inconsistency, not possible to he removed, us the Ho►►. Baronet had asserted, by the alteration of Words it► a Committee—nut trivial and verbal, but strong, vital, and inseparable. He was persuaded that one of the first acts of the next Session would be to repeal a Bill so framed. In the county lie had the honour to represent (Mayo) he had never heard a gentleman but one, ap prove of the Act of last Session. He was ready to admit that there were errors in the aid system— one in particular was, that laud was 'not taxed acreably. He was not against remedying abtises— a solid, useful, effectual measure, would not find a more cordial supporter than himself. The way to at tein such a one was, to suspend all further proceed ings at present, to continue the law as it stood till nett Session, and mean time to be employed in forming a well-digested Bill, consulting the Judges and all other competent persons before it was introduced into the House. He would accordingly propose as an amendment, that the Bill be read the third time this day six mouths.—(We believe this amendment was afterwards withdrawn.) Mr. T. COURTIIN AY would not agree in the posi tion that Irish Gentlemen solely should take a part in the discossion of Irish affairs. The subject un der discsission was one that ought to be interesting to Englishmen—it related to the mode in which money raised of the people was expended. Be sides, it was not so locked up in mystery as not to be open to the understauding of any but throw ia 1111 l ediately concerned. The first prin ciple of it was intelligible to any one. It was for the more deliberate investigation of the anodes in which the money ►aised of the coun ty was proposed to be expended. It seemed that that principle had been objected to by the Grand Jury of the county of Louth, and lie would grant that that was prima facie strong evidence ►gainst its utility. A certain part, however, of the eautctinents in pursuance of the principle, had been acted on in the county of Limerick with very be iselicial effects. lie alluded to the clause providing in certain cases for the division of a Wool.. By means of that it had been then discovered that the Grand Jury had presented three times over for the same work. if that had been found useful then, it should be acted ou in other counties. These was nothing tit it lie saw in the constitution of Ireland to prevent that being put iu practice, or any other part of the Bill, except the non-attend. mice of the Magistrates at Quarter Sessions. But he had no doubt that when they understood the ins p ortaot duties that by this Bill devolved on them at those meetings, they would attend. He thought that the clause permitting a Grand Juror to disclose evidence given before him relative to presentments, did not interfere with his other oath, as the latter had relation to criminal business. He pitied the condition of the peasantry of Ireland, if it was to be maintained that the p iple of more deliberately investigating preseuttnents, was one not proper to be acted mi. Sir F. FLOOD was the first to oppose the Act of alt Session, because it went to impose 95 surveyors on Ireland, at a salary of 300/. a year each—on poor Ireland.—(A laugh.) —lt was with pleasure, therefore, lie gave his hearty assent to the loan of tins Bill repealing the clause to that effect, in the List. lie gave his hearty approbation to the whole of the present measure, because it did out subvert the old Grand Jury system, founded on that ex. cellent Act the 96th of George 111. but regulated and amended ii. The duty of an Irish Grand Juror was much more difficult and complicated than that of an English one, because the former had civil as well as criminal business to massage. The seine observation applied to the Judges respectively. %Vali the view of rendering that duty more easy, the Bill was extremely useful, because it enacted that the first applications for the execu• tion of public works should be made to a Bench of AlaAistrater, possessing a certain qualification in Puna of property; and after their approbation oh. applicittoni was to be matte to the Grand Jury, who, however, were not colic/tided by the uuuuuuu of the Magistrates at Sessions, but only received a great eraistisoce in forming a correct ju , lgintsit thew rhes . The Bill did nut go to sub• - 1 vent, but to perpetuate the uld and heneficiaiGrand Jury system. lle felt great doubts as to the prn. priety of the clause, providing for the accounting of expenditure at the October Sessions, but he thought that the clause empowering Grand:furors to disclose evidence, did not at all touch their other oath. After • conversation between Mr. VEJEY GERALD and Mr. D. B•OWNR, Mr. E. S. C'o;sea.aid, that, for the reasons he had already given, he begged for - leave to hung up a cleave for exempting the counties of Slip and Leitrim from the operation of the Act. This clause, after a few -observations from Mr. V. FirtoessLo, was negatived without a divisicite. Lord JOCELYN than moved as an ameudiuent to the original motion, that the whole of the Bill be repealed, except the clause repealing the Act of 1817—which, after a'few words from Mr. V. Fax- GERALD, was also negatived without a division. The question having been put on the original motion, Mr. DENIS BROWNE said that the present Bill hsd two objects in view :—the first, to give pub licity to all proposals for preventing money of the country ; the second object was, to Bemire a better mode of investigating presentments, and tic :collating for the public money. To secure the second, the Bill provided that proposals should be sent into a bench of Magistrates at the Sessions in January or nearest totaster. Theiedtity, however, was, by the Bill, merely to examine the proposals sub mitted to them ; and the Grand Jury wait not at all bound by what they might say. The Hon. Gentleman then entered into a minute detail of the present mode of transacting the business by the Grand Jury—and in conclusion, contended that every pur pose, whether of publicity or investigation, visa equally well attained under it, as by the proposed Bill. It was therefore no improper tenacity in Irish Members to cling to the old law in preference to the measure under discussion. Mr. PARNELL said, that there was a most scan dalous neglect of Irish business observable in that House.—(Hear, hear,)—but as that wilt en un pleasant topic, he would pass it over, and pro ceed to the question. The Bill brought ull the petty detail of busiuess before the House, and left nothing to the discretion of those who were to put it in execution—and he was sure that in its very particularity it would be found vexatious. It certaioly contained very great incon sistencies, as the Member for Sligo had explained. The Gentleman would do more credit to his talents by introducing a measure grounded on more ge. neral principles. He thought that the county works, like all public works, should be performed by contract. Mr. ODELL said a few words, not audible in the gallery. Mr. V. FITZGERALD said, that the clause for accounting at the October Sessions, had been in troduced in compliance with the wishes of Gentle men connected with the North of Ireland, appre hending that otherwise persons who executed pub lic works might remain unpaid. The gallery was then cleared for a division on the original question, but it was subsequently carried without a divisiuo.—The Bill was accordingly read the third time, and passed. The House then adjourned till Monday. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PARIS PAPERS. Faith, KAY Qt. The King presided yesterday at a Council of Ministers. According to an estimate taken in the kingdom of Naples, the state of the population presented the following results :—ln the year 1817, the total population amounted to 5,117,362 ; the births to 153,987 ; the marriages to 36,859 ; the deaths to 305,547. According to a comparison made with other years, the number of births was in 1817, 50,709 less than in the preceding years, mid that of the deaths 122,782 more than in ordinary years, although in 1817 there prevailed in that country neither famine nor any epidemic malady. A furious wolf has committed frightful ravages in the environs of Marianne (Drome). He covered with wounds seven or eight persons who were in his way, and tried to stop him. He at first threw hints self on a flock of sheep, and two young girls who kept them, and who would have been devoured but for a brave peasant, Jean Laurie, who ran at the furious animal, seised him, and flung him on the earth. A second person fired at him and wounded him. Lmarie, thinking him dead, loosened him, when the wolf rose, rushed at him anew, bit him iu the arms and shoulders, and tore his face. They succeeded, however, at length in killing the wolf, and the wounded men was conveyed, with other sufferers, to a house of refuge. A letter from Whin gives us the following details respecting the criminal lately condemned to death by the Court of that town ; Since his condrtnuation, Vallet has confessed that lie was one of the authors of the assassination Kith which he was charged, and has given information of his accomplice. He states, that two of his aunts had just gone out of the house to give the cows something to eat, as he and his accomplice were entering it. Vallet pressed forward to the chamber which his third aunt was preparing for him, and he struck her the mortal blow, at the moment she was opening her arms to embrace him. This crime being perpetrated, Vallet penetrated to the chamber where his grandmother was in bed, and plunged a knife in her throat. The two assassin• then proceeded to the stable, and murdered the two remaining victims whom their rage had to sacrifice. The accamplim•e held one of the aunts while Vullet murdered the other. Ile refuses to appeal from his sentence, and desires immediate death. He evinces much repentance. Telma has returned from Toulon to Marseilles, THE BRITISH PRES S. LONDON. MONDXY, MAT 25, Ism A Flanders Mail arrived last night with Papers from Frankfort to the itittlt, and from Brto.sels to the Sad instant. They excite our fears for the life of her Royal Highness the Princess of WALES. The following are extracts : ROME, APRIL 26. Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales hes danger. Dusty ill at her country seat near Pesaro. Her affliction at the loss of her beloved daughter had greatly impaired her health, which has been anew severely shaken by later vexa tions, in respect to the bills of exchange, pretended to be forged, payable ?gill of the property of the last Duke of • Brunswick..elagenteine ZeiSung, lllay IS.) 1110,0111t1,11, NAT it. Yesterday arrived here his Grice the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Army in France, coming from Cambray, he alighted at the Hotel le Belle Vue. His Royal Highness the fluke of Cambridge and his illustrious Consort arrived in this city Ibis tuarning. They alighted at the Hotel d'Angleterre. His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent arrived here on the 19th. It is affirmed that M. Cambsceres, and lateral other rrench exiles, have received permission to return to France. FRANKFORT, MAT The Consul of the United States of North America at Genoa has rectived the official news, that the Dey of Algiers has prohibited his corsairs from visiting the American yes. eels, as lung as the plague prevails in his dominion.. The son of General Arrighi, Duke of Padua, who bad been arrested at Genoa, bas been sent to France ander an escort. IMU6IEL.II, MAY 22. The Duke of Wellington, who arrived yesterday evening, Is gone this morning to inspect the fortifications of Mons and Charleroi. His Grace is citpecttd to be back In this City tirmutru*. The Paris Papers of Wednesday and Thiirsday last have arrived at our office. An article front Berlin uotices the favourable effect produced upon the financial affairs of Prussia; by the arrival, in specie, of a part of the luau lately contracted in this country. The sum already received amounts, it is said, to a million of crowns, which raised the value of government paper from 10 to 15 per cent.—These Papers notice the occurrence of some serious accidents by tire. The hotel of the interpreter to the French embassy et Constan tinople was burned ou the night of the 4th of April, on winch occasion seventeen peresus attached to the ersibanl lust their lives. An article from Augsburg also states, that the summer resiiitoce of the King, at Piblitz, has been totally consumed. The conduct of the Saxon Diet is much applauded on this occasion, in having presented the King, of their own free will, a gift of 80,000 rix dollars, to wards re-building the palace. The second process resulting from the murder of M. FVALDES, will not be tried, it is thought, for at least two months. With the circumstances of this murder our readers are, no doubt, well ac quainted ; but horrible and revolting as they are, they assume a more dreadful character, as every day continues to add to the long catalogue of the assassins. Seven or eight persons, of whom souse are far above the lowest classes of society, have been already twice convicted as principals in the assassination, and now we are prepared to witness an equal, perhaps a greater number accused of the same c r . What must lie the tone of socioy, the state of moral feeling, in a country where so large • number of persons, without even the fusser able excuse of ignorance or poverty, could be fimnd to conspire in the deliberate murder of a fellow creature, with whom even some of the a ins were united by consanguinity This dreadful crime, at which humanity must shudder, was, however, found by one of the thea trical managers of Paris, to possess such dramatic effect as to induce isitn to exhibit it on the stage; sod the people of that guy metropolis flocked in crowds, for two nights, to the 1 7 a. eirites, to witness the representation of 11161411mA- Mg spectacle. The Journals declare, that it was received with a disgraceful eagerness ; hut they hasten to throw a veil over the revolting !Ornate, Atari add, that it was, after a second exit lotion, sup pressed by authority. We feel it distressing to add, +~ twat dim Papers recotil *anther dreadful instance uf murder in France. A young man, named V A t.t.s.c, is represented as having murdered, with most unrelent ing ferocity, his aged grandmother, and his three :Rims. lie has confessed his crime, and rt fusing the chance if escape which an appeal might afford him, prays for death as au act of mercy. Some of thr &toils will be found among our French ex tract,'. The plague is said to be extending its ravages an I lir ena.t of A fries, and to rage with violence as well ill 01411 and its environs as in Algiers. The French Five per Ceuta. are 68 f. 25 Batik Actions, 1,545 f. Government yes►terday received dispatches from the expedition hound to the North Pole. They are dated riff Shetland, May 3. The officers and crews were all in excellent health and spirits, and preparing to prosecutetheir voyage on the following day. The Harriet, MOoRE, arrived on Friday at Ports th, from Calcults, bound to Loudon. She sailed on the 6th of January, when there had been no recent news 'received from the armies. The Olive Br-wick, M'MILLAII, of Belfast, bound to London, pat into Portsmouth on Friday, frotu Jamaica, by contrary winds : left Kingston on the 26th of Febrnary. When off the Havanoah, she was spoke by an Indepewlent privateer brig of 16 guns, from Buenos Ayres, under American co lours, which, however, she changed for nn English ensign, on seriog a Spanish brig of war ; and im mediately gave chase to the brig, and obliged her to seek protection under the guns of the forts. Yesterday the LORD ( . 11ANCILLOR and Count MUNSTER had audience, or the PRINCE REGENT. Saturday the Austrian, Pru,siiin, and Hanoverian Arnhaii,ador, had audiences of the PRINLE REGENT, at Carlton Howie. A entice was posted at the Stock Exchange on Saturday that the interest on the deposit and io staltnent Exchequer Bills will commence payment this day. On Saturday the dispatches were cloyed at the East India House, and delivered to the Pursers 01 the following ships, viz.—General Hewitt, Captant P. CAMERON ; Warren Hustings. Captain T. LAR KINS ; and Asia, Capt. T: F. BALDERSTON—rot Bengal and Madras. Passengers per General Hewitt— _ _ .- - Fur Bengal—M C. Lindsay, writer ; Capt. E. T. Ellis ; Mesars. H. Beecher and P. Ray, free mariners ; Mr. H Al ston. free merchant; Lieut. R. Ed d+; Mr. Wright, clerk; Mr. Robert M. 'Thomas, antorney ; Mistresses Tkumrs and Ellis; Miss Huss. Passengers per Warren llctstings For Bengal—Major-General Garish, nod daughter; Lieu tenant -Colonel Fitigersld; Mrs. and Mi.% Fitzgerald; Cap tains Bowyer and Slye •, Mr. O'Brien ; Messrs. Alexandre and Archer; Maui F. H. Colebrooke; Messrs. Vanzetti, Whaler, Toone, Fittgerald, Walter, White, and Anstruther, cadets. Passengers per A sia— Fur Bengal—Hon F. J. Shore; Mews. Young and Sim ms'', writers; Mrs. Honey; Misses Patton and Swiulun ; Ali. H. J. Frellerup ; Messrs. Ornery and Thomson, cadets. The Duke of RICHMOND, who is at present in the neighbourhood of Chichester, is about to sail, with part of his family, to his government of Ca-. nada. On Wednesday afternoon Admiral Sir GEORGIC CAMPBELL, K. C. IL arrived at Purtetnotith, nod hoisted his flag in the ll'ochrpri, and salutt , d the flag of Sir E. TiIDENB!tOUGH, which was fly ing in the Queen Clo.rlotte, Captain BRIGGa: the salute, was retitrue , i by that ship: at , Int-set, the flag of Sir EDWARD THORNBROUG , . was struck. Next morning Sir GEottoE shifted hie flag to the Queen Charlotte, when all the ships at the port sa luted the flag of their new Commander-in-Chief. — Sir Elm/tan awl Lady THOBNBROUGII art tiff early that morning for Bath. The Dotterel, is. Capt. J. GonE Oh sailed on Tuesday, and the Sappho, 18, Capt. PLEMKIDGE, eat Saturday afternoon, front Portemouth, for the Cape and St. Helena slatlOD. Capt. F. STANFELL takes his passage to St Helena, to take- illy command of the Corertfror. in the Tees, ' , Ai, Capt. RENNIE, from Ph : moo:h. On Tuesday the ltlinerra transport went out of Portsmouth harbour, and sailed for Plymouth, to take on board part of the 38th regiment, for the Cape of Good Dope. The other transports des tined to take this regiment to the Cape have been fitted out at Deptford. The leer, 42, Cipt. FORRF.ST. C.B. is arrived from the Leith station. She is for the flag or Vice-Admiral Sir C. HAMILTON, Vail. 14 the Newfoundland station. Rear-Admiral Sir B. [IA r.t.owsmr., K.C.B. was expected to arrive at Plymouth uil Saturday. iii the Tont:ant, 80, Capt. 'l'AlLoua, from Cork. to take the command of the crusing squadron of gustil ships. The Rochefort, SO, Sir A. Dtcsisota, and the Vengeur, 74, Captain MA:x.ounit, sailed Irons Portsmouth on Thursday evening. to join the squadron assembling at Plymouth ; the Promeheor. Capt. Moortsom, will sail this day ; the Greciou, Lieut. JewaY, sailed on Saturday evei.ing. Rear-Adiniral Sir P. 111Ai.cotrd. K.C.D. it is said, i 4 to relivve Sir W. J. HON:, iii the command at Leith. At Spithend—lxier and Carnation, fnr New foundland ; Grasshopper, for Ilalifax ; and //um'. refitting. Five vestiels from flollind and two from Boom& arrived at l'intsmouth la►t wet k, laden with what. The 25th regiment (or King', Own linriltrele; will march into ililsea this day from Chat baring been relies ed there by the 90111 retztmet:t from Plymouth. It i 4 said they are to embark f o r the East Indies., Tiie first division of the reginsetit marched from liiista on Saturday Audi.- tug fur Ciiielisstcr. . S anti Nis appeared on the theatre or that lawn in the character a Coriulutsus. He will immediately ter minate his representations, and hid ndiro to the KomiHair in the parts of Absifar and ShaLpease Antotear. .PUBLIC MONUMENT TO THE iIEMISRY OF THE LATE LAMENTED PR'INCF.SS CHARLOTTE OF WALES AND SAXE COBURG. The Cenotaph Committee, after maturely eoissiderine the various communications they have received, and its cnufur• mity with what they have reason to Lehere is the wish of the Public, beg leave to state that it in their intentiou, should their funds be adeqUate, to construct the prontsed Temple of the Cenotaph on a scale sufficiently exteit,ire to admit of its being appropriated to the purposes of Divine IYorabip, and constituted a Free Church. (Fur the Committee) BENJ. ROTChI, Jun.