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•:- parcels of low goods bare bee. lake. off fur @rushing sod il&ort. The eNtsort of relined goods last year is csicuialed at 20,000 Ishth. 15,000 kle•lderrauttan; 12,000 Han ; 10,000 Reverted awl caber Pnris. l'areigs Snapp CONtilltle inquired after. Catitt —There are no fresh snive4 et market : the par. rt.! of Chest's. Raisins meld last reek, 67.. a bbs. were tilt Wire% oblaisted. Currants cominue iu &lowa sem:rt.—There is no alteration in Spices, except its East India Gilmer, which continues in great request; a OAF , ' by public sale yesterday, resheed 13a. sod I3a. 114. COTTON.—The Cotton market nroosios iu an onarttled state ; yery, few paerehi offer selsiirer prima. bet white soles actually have beat effected, lower prices have been submit. All to. The purchases since sew last consist of 153 Mines, I.i ;42 Smyrna', 111.1. a 20 Sands, 10. h. bond; awl 300 Bengali, 641. a 6N. Importation of Cotton silage our last :-437 bad" Ben g al, b 4 ditto Madras, and lb ditto Boverbon. Total Importation of Colton ia-1810:.-637 hales bengal, 171 .litto Sorel, 84 ditto Madras, LS ditto Bourbou, and 795 ditto Brasil. RUIA, 11112 ANDY, AND HOLLANDS....Tbf mirest f o r Ram, which bad in some measure subsided early in the week, ap. pears to.day to be resewrd. The demand appears partici,. holy to he directed to shoo( Jamaica, which Easy be quoted ld. per gallon higher. A parcel of Lerwarda, soder proof, has beets ',Ohl at 2.. Brandy or Geneva we believe no sales have heels effected since our last report. TALLOW .—The prices of Foreign Tallow are quoted higher, slot very prospect of a further impruremtut : 545. 6d. and 5Sa. few earl! arrivals has been paid. The Town minket is to.ilay quoted 635. 6,11 which is id, higher Ils.ies last week. ROYAL COBURG THEATRE, very conduct which he then so highly approved of, that lie inimedistely borrowed from' his worthy' and trusting friend, Mr. Thomas Ihbdin, his adaptatiou of Fast., and produced it at his wen Thestee, clearly chewing bon little he deemed the lb.ehrearsatigiog a tragedy!, hle-otersySetsue any oi l: trent egoista the law swill, Potent thraires. But all .1 441. 4 hfis eenniteka ;. ir is thorke consoirests u p on th e eind sof hi. now, I presume, • trorap colleagues and Weaker Managers; the Patentees of C.ovent•garderi Theater. 4 Mortified," he says, " by the popularity which the mielo .Xliair;wirke mum, Wife loot iirquieekty the manner to which it had been performed at the Surrey Theatre, and in which it was preformed at the Olympic Theatre; , raviolis of the little advantages which were supposed to' spring from that popularity; piqued that they had lint hut so such of di:renter/it, and of theatrical jodymeol, as to perceive that Faris was a drama they ought at least to have given a chance to on their own stage; awl arriving at last at this discovery, by the good effect of the perform ance of a garbled porton' of the text, under the ilisallvautsges of a melo-dramatic form. they resolved (that is, the horde tors of coveut.Garders Theatre resolved) to produce the tragedy of Fazio; and it has been said, without consultation Stith' the author, and without any tender of comp. illialiall to him for the materials they were adopting; it is now, after the long sod determined apathy 01.. y had .titan to wards the fitness of Fazio for represental at all, that they talk of the misapplication of ' Filch a tragedy as Fazio; moaning rimier the conseionsoess of the fart, that if there be dramatic talent in rain, that merit was nut of their detection—that they , 11NC their intelligroce to the better judgment of the Propriptor of Ili! Kerrey Thea tre, and to the information tiny have gained from the modified performunce of the piece at that Theatre, and the Olympic Theatre, tiny avenge themselves by the attempt to entrap your Lordship into A 11, 7 ,ef, that' the Tragedy of Fa:in,' had been weitialuna yorfirtned at the i 11,oupie Thew..., while they know it never was so perform. d; and they talk to your Lordi.hip of 'such a Tragedy as Fazio,' to create an impressiou, that this so. lesoled violation of privi lege was of the most I . . lescription, while they know that Fazio was a sort of outcast" What excellent semi. mettle would these have been had lbry possessed site slovenly ! but, as Lear says, a change situations, and, handy dalltlYi which is the justice and which is the thief!" Po Mr. Booth in the place of Facia, and how admirably does this passage apply to the preient dispute between Drury-lane mud my Theatre. " Mortified at hie popularity, emulous of the little advantages that were Papimisi•ti to spring from that pupal*. ✓ity, piqued they had not MO touch of diseerouseaf, and of theatrical judgment, as to perceive that Mr. Booth was SO Regal, they ought at least to have giver a titmice 11l un their own stage," etc. Ser. They (that is, Mr Elliott's, and his agents) talk of ail unlawful performance, and 0 wish to create as impressioss that the pretended violation of privilege is of the t henioue description, while tht y know that Mr Booth was a sort of outcast from theinsalves." o But more delial lively to decide tlo• right of ...Inure Theatres to pl sy a norlsw dramas i zed tragedy. Mr. Ellittios goes on to Moe. as, that " ati the suitablenes. of The Italian Wife for reprerenlation at the Olympic Theatre, in its writ) dramatic form, I harm um doubt. It involved music, both rocr;l roil in the way of ete coroponimeof to action, 41,1111.111 Z, mini sp.:elude. It eillialleed, Ilirrelare,seceral of the different descriptions of perform ance perm/Met by my license, end which were not employed, to eambination with words, in Ike regular 111'11140k' form. It ass NOTHIN• MORE THAN THE DISCRIPTIoN OF MIX ED TERWORM•NCES LOCO IXIIIRITCD AT 7HE MINOR THEATRES, AND AT Tilt SUMMER ; and which deseript . of perforsawice, sale it capable of !wing regard. td in the nature of the' regirfar Drama; ought. of rourot, to have been long since detainnced by the Conductors of the Vitiates 'Royal, from the anxieties they profess to feel fist the prevention of all encroachments on the dignity of the ' National Drama.' To the morale, the dancing, the action, mid the general spectacle, of The Italian Wife, I defy these Gentlemen to rsdranee an objertion—and if it he the infec t/0k of the words to which they dissent, I would ask .our Lordship, and, little MS I rely ow their condone, I would ask the Ifemoriali.t. themselves, 1.1 what quarter it is the Pro. prielor of a ;tenor iheofre ought to go for the wimps lie is to use! What wools would they give him seven to'— Neither Ihoyc, it seems, which they do efrw.e to rise, nor those whirl. they .1.• nut choose to use. 'lle plain fact a, they would deny him lA. use of all words—ikey would shot him out from every resource." . . . . As every word of this applies so strongly he my adapta tion of Richard the Third, ,1 is needkss for me to expend many more words on the subject—Pas eat at hod. dereri.— But my enemy nut only teaches me, but executes my task for me Tutu the bargain ; lw insists nod I have a right to play Tragedirs its a siieloahamatized form, involviog music both vocal and instrumental ; action and apt emelt beim: the mixed species of performance lung exhibited at the Mmur and Summer Theatres, 1 can desire no more f• bi a, lie will not surely attempt to unsay wh■t he has said, now that I pare this. reminded him. It he dews, let lons call to mind an anecdote in Eastern mit:alit, which, as it has lw.ti trans planted into several of the tenfre:ilers of the day, Mr. Ellis ton may possibly have seen, oleo author who, ',cawing his published seatinienis for gala, was made, by trrallatriug his I.loh, literally to eat his hies words. My third Letter will contain Mr. Ettilbilln's jUd.CII.IIIS remarks on tlw Frs. iii high prices of the Royal Theatres, their improvident cal...intorno., mid many other points, whirls, ■t the same tune they assist ate, materially concerti ani, Sir, Your obedient obliged S. result, J. It Proprietor of Ile Royal Coburg Theatre. • Since Mr. Booth's appearance at the Coburg Theatre, Mr. Elbaton is understood to have applied to loin un the most advantageous terms fur Drury-lane. TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS. .January 1840. Sin—As I yesterday promised, I reenme my ours. of Mr. fllimon's pamehlet. This pamphlet, as the title pur ports, ir, for the principal part, a reply to a Memorial pre- seined by Ile Royal Theatres to the Lord Chamberlain agsiod the Olympic and Sans Pareil Theatres, praying his I lordship to 'suppress them. th-y having become Theatres tor 11w performance or the Ilidiotait DRAMA, which asser tion the) att•sni.:ed to prove by instancing what they called 0 ' The Tragedy of Fazio, performed at the Olympic in a meluedramatiaed shape, the performance of this and similar pie' es, they conleuded, bad destroyed their pa tent rights, upon the faith of which a million of nosey hail been of late years embarked in their two Tine- Ws. That these pieces were not Barletta:, but neither more nor lets than pieces of the regular drama," with ollser allegations equally liberal aid correct. As these are the imputed grounds of grievance now brought wont use by Mr Vinton. it is very clear I cannot du better than furuiah him with his own answera to theta when brought agniint himself, moil if a marls own words do not satisfy and rotivinee himself, lie mint certainly be Iraq satisfied with I :toself than I apprehend to he the case with Mr. lEllistoo, oho has never yet been suspected of Matt using his own I.cvrr, of persuasion. I must Mr. Allston the justice t, , say, he his most ably and effrctively combated the as. soil ions of his opponents. In answer to the charge of per pouting the regular drama, the charge he now twinge against me, Mr. Ciliaton says •• instead of complaining that the Minor Theatres have become Theatres fur the performances of she 'rental' drains, they should leave told your Lordship (1. c. the Lord Chamberlain) that the Patent Theatres have I•er'ne Theatres for the display of the irregular drama. the encroachnsent was, in truth, contained by the Fnient Theatres on the .Minor Thealr.s, and not by the :nor Theetres un the Potent Theatres; and it was in the else of eogroasing the whole store of stage exhibition, from ere deepest p ills of tragedy to the highest flights of tight rope daneiag, from the ambling. of the po r t to the ambling. of the tidier/Amuse, from the splendid illusions of the scene painter to the slopping, of the stage with c Real Water,' Una" the attic pinyfultiess of • Congreve to the more con genial playfulness of Pass its Boots, that the memorialists 1 , 3,1 on this occasion resolved to call in question your Lord ship's; genii conduct and good sense; to ask your Lordship id 'nullify and to mollify you, own acts ; to beat dotes, alto. ,ether, if they could, their eighbaure fences ; and, at aAi ram, to try to strip Ikon neighbours of the slight rk s,riptions of attraction they possess, which, homely as they are. ate nut too homely 16 lie an of of jealousy and emu legion to the pelf-evilest sisp,nrters ' nod dispensers of • re dignities of the !Carlo:vac DRAMA." {HI smother part of his work he has ulau the following ad. etional observations un this point : " If I thought fit, I 'might fairly protest against any evidence attempted to be fimanded on the names given al 'lllwatres•itOyal to pieces pro duced at these Theatres. Patent' pieces, my Lord, arc not vorreqsently likes patent notalicines,' the names bestowed au each are those which may stake them most current and profitable. la both 411148 opiates are sometimes dispensed as enliveners; sad things are dealt out as tunics which tease no effects but those of languor and exhaustless. Under the WSW remedy; the 'customer shall ales' get !nothing hut • broodforee;' and seen sunder tne name of tragedy,' he shall souttelimes find no small quantity of the same spe cific." All the pieces hitherto produced under Mr. Ellisiou's management, at Mary-lane Theatre, must admirably illus trate and confirm these observations. I should hope the deep domination of their taking ill" will sharpen Mr. -I.lliaton's future judgment, aid thus bring good nut of evil. Of the first, Ike Fisherman ' s lint, auncoueced 'surely by mistake, as coming from the honoured pen of lamented Tobin, what was " presented to us under the mime of drama," did, indeed, " turn out to be broad Imre," enclosing the dress of ribaldry, while " its serious wits furnished no small quantity of the same specific ;" of oho farce, the Disaltestabk .surprise, ear Salem top and taken in, the reception of which, no doubt, moved a !nay d.sagreeable surprise to the great )tanager—the pubic were indesol " taken in," for " shat was dealt out to them as a tunic," most certainly "left no effects but those of lanesoir aoil exhaustion." But this subject has been " taken up" by mooch abler pens than mine ; I will, therefore, pass on o u the last striking instance, the comedy of Gallantry, dispeus. eil to the public as au enliretter, when, in point of fact, it turned out to be the must determined and inveterate opiate that ever stretched the jaw. of a yawning suffering audience; hot it as gone to sleep for ever—it has descended to the tomb of all the 112apulen, so peace be with its ashes. It has served most Strikingly to prove to Mr. Clinton his tame is not so pa ranoia ~,,, ,uur is his judgment so infallible as lie had supposed, and the' fruit it has not* been played is rain; it win more to him too, on dispassionate reffectiou, that it is not su dlr. scot to judge of the merits of a comedy, as he last Satur day, in one of those gratuitous oratorical fourishea lie so often favours the public with, laboured to convince then,. But to smarts to Mr. Elliston's published wink. The prio ems! !fathom...l:e at my Theatre, which that Gentleman has cdusen to consider as an offence against the law, and for 'attach be is row so actively calling down on my devoted loud its heaviest penalties, is, it will be recolketed, the nielo-dratuatiziog Richard the Third, by Mr. Muncrief, imitation of Mr. Elliston's adaptation at the Seoul' Theatre. Of the propriety of wielo-dramaticog a hardy at a Minor Theatre, this convepiert pamphlet (in .eply to the charge of playing the regular drama) furnishes a variety of unanswer. able argument. Speaking of the melo.draina formed from the tragedy of Fazio, Mr. Ellioon remarks--" the tragedy of Fazio was written sad published some time ago, by an ingenious gen ilensau, seal, although entirely at their command, remained long roused and ithootieed by the conductor, of the Theatres Royal. Another ingenious gentleman, my worthy Mani, Mr. T/40IIIIUS panne, lke Proprietor of the Surrey Theatre, sew merits in the piece, which the Conductors of the Theatres Royal could taut see, end, with his usual adroit. sews, combined panages from this neglected publication, with musical symphonies, with deice, and with otberalseb appendages, so as to hem am elegant sad tuterestiapundo• dramatic pion, adapted tons style of performances of hie era Theahn. " Mr. Elfish/nes misditoutts towards his worthy filmed, Mr. Thomas DibOln, whom every ass dist keens • most esteem, sprees. to have changed most osantoontolOy slept the stied period of the poblinattnerre this poseMsloti for by his attempts Mob" suppressing.' a War; and eoliiirgeondy metier mimic Theatres, it is clear he is doing all•is his power' I. redoes his worthy fries/ to beggsryiond that too for the THE BRITLSH PItE,SS. •I:1 t!. LON DON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 22, 1220. The Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday ar rived at a late hour last night. The Multitesir an nounces a new revolt in the Cadiz expedition so long preparing at that port for South A metier. The first symptoms of it broke out on New Year'. Daly. and extended through the whole of the quarters of the army in that vicinity destined for this service. On the id the troops seized the person of the Com mnrider-m-Chief, who was protected only by a guard of honour. On the 3,1 they attempted to surprise the magazines; but finding the in 'rims mid militia of Cadiz under arms to oppose them. they dispersed, and their leaders threw iloonselves into the neighbouring mountains, apparently with intent to seek refuge at Gibraltar. We have often expressed an opinion that this Cadiz expedition will never sail. It is a matter of little conterquesice.—• The Patriots of South America have nothing to fear frosts troops that liaise displayed so great au aver sion to that service.—The Chamber of Deputies was expected to meet on Wednesday to receive a report from the Committee ol Erections. Tkie Five per Cent. Consuls were ou Monday 73 f. 15 e.--Iliak Actions 1,4i5 f. • The following are extracts PARIS, JANUARY 18. We remarked _yesterday that the. health or his fifii,jesty is so cao6rtged that be no longer uses a stick when walking. His Majesty transacted busi• ness this Morning until one u'elock with M. Pas rion-r, and frorn one till two with M. !toy. The Hoglish Journsls did not arrive yesterday. If the severity of the senior, *should cuntitise, it is proposed to estalili.lt m each of the twelve di9 , - trich. of Maio a rapacious warm place fur the re ception of three ur fuar hundred persons. MADRID, JANuAttY 8. The steeds of insubordination which the agents of the rebels of America had sown in the expedi tionary army, and which give birth to plans of insurrection, which the activity Of government and the firmness of the chiefs stifled in the, month of July .it, appeared anew on the first day of the year, and produced some disorder iu the troops of the expedition contoned in the intermediate villages between Cadiz, Grenada, and Seville. The mo►ement commenced with a battalion of isrfsntry posted at Las Cebrz•s, awl communicated itself to a part of the troops stationed between Esprra and l'illsmartin. These latter proceeded on the 2.1 to Arco'', where Ott head•quurters were established, and seized upon the person of the General-in-Chief, who had no troop■ except Lis guard of honour. Ou !hi• 3d they made un at tempt to surprise the Forerdero (near Cadiz), where the magnatines of the expedition are farmed; but having found the marines mid militia of Cudix under arms. the insurgents found that they had missed their blow, and began to divperse. Their chiefs threw themselves into the mountains of Rondo, apparently with intent to effect their escape to Gibraltar. The troops of the expeditionary army burin joined tl►ose cantoued in Andalusia, under the command of Lien'ensot•General Don Manuel Freyre, have been iu motion since the Sth, to secure tranquilli►y. ____ La•t evening, about six o'clock, the Pam& REGLNT armed at Caritas. Noose from Brightest. We ►egret to state that the latest accounts from Sidmouth represent the illness of his Royal High. ness the Duke of KIM? as having assumed an alarusiug character : M Woolbronk Cottage, Sidnioulio, J•nitary IS. 11110, 9, a. at. " Ills Royal Higbeess the Duke of Kra* experieseed lest night eeosiderable increase of his complaint, but we Rod Me Itu)al Highness somewhat better this morning. (Sighed) " .1. WILSON, M.D. " W. G. MATON, M.D." " Woo!brook Collage, Sidmouth, January IS, 1820 —b, p. w. " His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent his loot soma comfortable sire'', and is at present in a inure fscrinsrable (Signed) " J. WILSON, M.D. " W. G. MATON, 31. D." Sidannistli, Devon, January 23, 1820 a. as. Since the 1131 e of our last Report, his Rnyal Highness the Duke of Kent is become ninth worse, sod his danger is wonsidtrably increased. (Signed) " J. WILSON, M.D. " G. MATON, M.D." Several of the Officers belonging to the Irish Le gion' raised by General D'EVEREUX, who lately went out to join the Patriot army in South A nie ries, have returned from the Island of Margarita, where they were landed, and published stateMents censuring his conduct, and the powers which lie bas exercised in question. ‘Ve understand that Grit. D'EVEREUX has prepared an •tiower for pub lication in the 1)ulilior Papers, in which these charges torigiinited, sod we own that we will feel surprise and regret if lie shall lint prove, AS his numerous friends have always considered him, a man of honour, principle, and humanity. The See of la-t night is finite facetious in its strictures es; our construction of the Act of the present Session, respecting the security required to be given by • certain class of literary publications. The Sun ridicules nor fears that the present daily Alorning rod Evening Newspapers. such as 1416 BRITISII PRESS, T:ie GLOBE, 'I HE SUN, &C. •re comprised within the class of publications from which this extraordinary guarantee is required. We did not suggest these doubts to invite this visitation of the law, but with a vie"; to have the point settls-sl, and the public press protected against the consequent es of an involuntary error. Happy shall we lie to find our fears groundless ; but spots have been recently observed upon the sun's dick, avid it will not surprise us to find that in this in. stature they have cast a shade upon the literary evening planet t h at bears its stains. It is not very difficult to collect from the reports of the proceedings at the severil Quarter Seavions, now holden its various parts of the country, as well as from articles of intelligence occasionally stop pile', by the I'roviui•ial Vipers, that the existing l aws , f rame d avowedly for the preservation of game, are not surticirot to prevent the crime of nightly poaching, and that not even the terrors of seven year►' transportation to Botany Bay, with all the horrors of its " Middle Passage," C4ll save hares and pheasants from dying ignobly by the unquali fied 'muds of plebeians. None can feel inure sensibly than we d o th e De _ crsaity of checking, by every proper means, the crime of nightly marauding, sod we are quite ready to admit that Ilse serious character of the offence, ■nd the importance of preventing or punishing the offenders, might be fairly pleaded in justification of those who contributed to frame and uphold the present villein of nor game laws. To the far greater part of mankind no rating of correcting so evil habit presents itself so resdily as severity, mid when the first experiment fails, nothing seems to their so proper or Su natural for ensuring the suc cess of the nest as to increase the measure of severity, and they flatter themselves with escaping the ■taiu of inhumanity and the charge of im policy, by cligisilyhow their impetuosity and obsti nacy with the amiss of firmness and consistency. To those, however, who have tried the experiment in its amended state, and again find it unsuctessfel, no excuse remains ; and if they act with honest intentions, or be sincetely desirous of effecting the object they profess to have in view, they will depart from the principles on which they have hitherto proceeded, but which experience has taught them to be erroneous. The Game Laws seem now to be wound up to the highest point of penal rigour to which they can possibly be strained ; every means which ingenuity end power, interested in the preservation of a during monopoly, could suggest, have been idopted for the prevention of intruders. No man can lawfully kill game who is not possessed of a certain landed property, arid if his fortune be one shilling less than the amount prescribed, lie it not entitled to kill ■ partridge or a hare, even upon his stern lands, although such partridge or hare may have been bred within his own fish's, and fattened by his own property : no amousit of personal property can authorise the pawnor to enjoy the amusement of shooting, or even to purchase the luxury or game far his table. The punishment of seven years' transportation is denounced against the uufurtunate man who should plenum to invade the preserves, of game; and yet, notwithstanding the accumts Lotion of penal statutes, mid the energy with which they are enforced, the pooches. still braves the fire-arms pf the keeper and the terrors of the Net the dried of being shot in the very moment of his guilt, or of emorniniog murder in defence of I►is own person and liberty, in the probable event of bring attacked, not even the assurance that if discovered he will be torn from his home and his Family, and reduced in a distant country to a state of slavery, can deter him from this dangerous pur suit—the preserved are invaded, the game is killed, and the phoning, and partridges nod their way to the tables of the rich and luxurious, to be most devoured by persons who perhaps never had an acre of land in their lives, nor had ever been prevent at the loading of a gun. In the report which on Wednesday we laid be fore our readers of the charge mode to the Grand Jury by the Chairman of the Norfolk County Ses sions, the prevalence of poaching in the courtly of Norfolk was strongly noticed, and some cases of very desperate conflicts between the keepers and poachers were to be found it their calendar. The Learned Chairman seemed to feel the insufficiency of the existing laws to suppress the crime, and therefore very naturally, according to his notions, suggested a wish, under the shape of a supposi tion, that " the Legislature might interpose, and make the buying of game subject so some strong penal enactment." We do not know the precise degree of strength which the Learned Gentleman would recommend in this " penal enactment," but we presume that as he nods the existing " penal enactments" not sufficiently strong fur his purpose, nothing would satisfy him but that the buyer should accompany the poacher to assist in the colo nization of New South Pales. It is not improba ble that this Gentleman speaks the opinioas of many other Gentlemen, some of them, perhaps, Members of Parliament, and we should not be sur prised if an attempt were made in the next meeting of the Legislature to extend to the buyers of game the same penalties that are now denounced against those who supply it to fend their guilty appetites. It would be well, however, if the Members of the Legislature, feeling that some alteration is tweets airy in the Game Laws, should reflect how little they have gained by the severity they have hitherto pursued, and possibly they might at length feel the propriety of retracing their steps, and altering the principles on which they have acted. The pur chase of game, we agree with the Learned Chair man of the Norfolk Sessions, is the stimulant to the crime of poaching; but does lie entertain a hope that any laws, however severe, will debar the rich and luxurious citizen from enjoying game ut his table ? The demands of luxury and wealth meat and will be supplied, and witless sonic lawful means be devised of bringing game to market. it will be brought by illegal runup., no nuttier at what ri►k. Game cannot now be imported from France, and to be procured to tertisfy the claims of luxury, the game-covers at home must be invaded. The difficulties interposed in the way of procuring game render the acquisition more valualde, for the reward will always Ilse in proportion to the danger and difficulty of the enterptise. The law must counteract the ordinary effects which► luxury on one part, and the desire of gain on another, have ewe r produced, before it can confine the exclusive enjoy meat of partridges and pheasants to the blister of the Lords of Manors, and other persons qualified to he sportsmen. What, in fact, has hitherto been the consequence of the severe laws now in operation ? Have they attained any one of the objects which their framers contemplated ? We cannot Nippon any chess of men so selfish as to desire m monopoly in the enjoyment of game; but even if this were one object with the country gentlemen, they have failed in it. Have they deterred pinie.liers Iron ) nightly marauding? Se much the contrary, that, if we can judge froth the state of the calendars at Sessions, and from the statements that nce-itionally appear Iti the •rdiosry sources of publi:: intelli gence, the crime of poaching seems to have a t . awned a darker and more desperate churacter that we ever before remember it to hove fliliced. We do not hear now so much of a s a g o poacher being seen lurking behind a !ledge, sa d parties bring fumed, well armed, with desperoa eonfidenze invading • gentleman's estate, and sh nat , tug his game almost within sight of his Should the poachers be attacked, they are re.u s . batik, and wesconstantly read of desperate and .se. goinary altirmishes ncourring between tn.- krepere sod the poachers. This evil is far front closm 4 h'ere: such aceoes harden the minds of those en gaged in them, and prepare them for It'll more des perste und wicked courses, and the man who cora menet' a poacher soon becomes • burglar aid highwayman. Such, however, most be the ease long as the principle now pursued continues to 1, the basis of legislative proceedings. Every irkerra,r of severity has only added to the desperate charac ter of the offenders, and while Parliament hav hTen striving to save the blood of the hare. and ;then ' sante, it has only sharpened the sword to Ire direct ed with more desperute courage against the lives of our fellow men. Our limits will not permit us to pursue thus sub ject farther at present. A pocket is arrived at Falmouth from New York, is. 45 days, bet the letters and papers 611 , 1 Dot readied town yesterday. Yrotonloy a Coed of Directors woo held st the Emit India Hou•e, when the natlee•eeetitianeil were taken up (or one voyer in the Cosopsey's ►ervice, and thus stationed, vi t.... • Brothers, 42 toss ; Citadels, 329 toms; Asia, 4"06 toes; Hyprrims. 414 loss.; and Regret, 3 tnea—for Bombay direct. Coromandel, 643 tons; new Ship, 47R ion.; W. rtno, 416 lows; Woodford, 644 tom; Noses, 630 imp. : Hann. ton, 432 tong; Lady Wks, 647 tons; sew Ship, 470 inns. Lady Carrington, 396 inns; Asia, 410 tons ; TinvindrJ, tons; Providence, 472 tons; James Sibbalil, 667 ice, Klrketts, 409 toast Richmond, 466 tons; sad Miceli's, 4." t tuns—fur Demgal direct. The Jamaica Courant of the Bth of November, says—" We learn by recent accounts from Car thagena, that an American schooner had arrived et that port ufier a short passage from Porto Bello, and communicated information that the insurgent privateer, who had bean erff Panama, bad proceeded from thence, and that there was a free ingress into the port for traders; she also states, that a packet had arrived with letters from Lima, saying, that the Spanish vessels of war from Cadiz had otf the port of Callao, and two leesurgesit.privateei., which annoved the Royalists' vessels, immediately made off% information is derived from the Victory, of Lord COCHRANE having taken at brig, celled the Nose, from Lima, hound to Panama, 'edit 400,000 dollars en board. General Hoax, on un derstandiug this circumstance, sent the information to Captain HART, of the Sapphire, at the time lying in the Rio Chagres, to request that he would *end and demand the restoration of the vessel, which his Lordship refused to deliver up, soiyilig thut British vessels should never be a cover for enemy's property." The herald, lIADAWAT, and the Diana, herb from Honduras bound to L lost, were totally last near Honduras during a heavy gale, previots..io. the sth November. The cargoes were expected tir be saved. The Admiralty Sessions will commence on 11 7, i. day next. There •re several charges for trial 01 4 very sggr•vated nature. A letter from Bristol, dated January 19. sayt " Either owing to • barge striking agatiistli. or to the sudden breaking up of the frost, or prrhttps to both, one of the Iron ribs of tiarford's bridge, leading to Totter:down. gave way this - morning about eight, and carried with it the font pavemert. iron railing, gar pipes, kr. on the eastern side. Ti e crash was tremendous ; a man and woman we re passing at the time, both escaped without inju,y, Inn of course extremely frightened. The moron. ing coaches from Beth and London were obstruci. ed in their passage, end obliged to turn through a new and unfinished road, which lead, over Bed 'Moister-bridge; here Fun-tna's Express cold', outward., from the unevenness of the road, asset the obstinacy of • wa.;gon-driver, upset on the river side, and two outside p teseegers and 11, coachman were thrmin down the steep bank, used would probably have perished in the river, which was swwwinic with increased velocity from she thew, if • sack of oats, also thrown from the top of the coach, and which was impeded in its progress by a stone, had uot provident Silly formed an &num:- dots within two rum of the %viler. No material in jury was however done ; the crowds that wrre !oohing at the bridge immediately ran so render as sistance, and the coach was raised sad proceeded nit its j uurory.—The weather has been extremely st vere here ; and the float continued • scene of amuse ment. On Sisturiley the 15th hid. and Seinday, :r novel sight drew additional thousands. A large We t India vessel, she Stedfast. belonging to Atiterms.. Daniel. was released from her coulinemest bv cu - ting a canal iu the ice; the process was perform." by making sections of td t o 18 feet didsfire, .4.1 drawing thews emilernentli the main body. was choose by the mess standing nn the detached piece and by the help of lever*, forcing it below the let .1 Jf die surrounding ice.—The Jame and Bar/hoe. another West India vessel, woo else cut out e moo taken through Bathurst basis; hut the' pilotage 1.. r the Med i reat eras cut all the way so sir Doek kit the Ilutereti•-44 , It is an ill wind that blowsy miaow auy good," and by the above contrivirevew • dumber of urea were oesployed who otherwise *ssM Mae hart no mesas obtatuing by labour their reqer,itit food."