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rtik p 1 lave I A 1 4ay ft PARLIAMENTARY INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, WEDNESDAY, Arms. 7• BOARD OF WORKS (IRELAND). The Irish Board of Works Bill was read a third time, and Pad . IRISH FOUR PER CENTS. The Irish Four per Cents. Bill was read a second time. ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPULTURE BILL. - The Roman Catholic Sepulture Bill was reported. COAL DUTIES. Lord ROLLE presented a Petition from the inhabitants of Oskhampton, praying for the Repeal of the Duties on Coals carried Coastwise: the Noble Lord presented a similar petition from Ho nitori—which mere both laid net the table. DEER DUTIES. _ . Lord ROLLE presented • petition from the Brewers of the county of Devon, praying for an alteration in the Beer Duties.— Laid on the Table. Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, WEDN2ODAY, Aran. 7. The Speaker took the Chair at four o'clock. and proceeded to mint the House; when, there being but twenty.one Members present, the House adjourned. NOTICES OF MOTION& Mr. Hume—Select Committee on Inc practice of intpresun• g Seamen. Mr. ooulburn—Bill for draining and improving of Bogs in Ire had. Mr. Ctirteis—To move that the Mitmtea of Evidence taken before the Committee on the Manclieeter Light Bill be laid before the 11011Ae. . . Mr. Spring Rice—Bill to regulate Courts of Petty Sessions is Ireland. hlr. Hume—Return of Slaves in the West Indies, belonging to thy Public. _ _ _ _ . ........, Lcra Archibald liamiltou—Return from the Burgh of Inverness, es to the ties demanecd on liberation of prisoners under •• the Act r f Orsce " Mr. Attorney-General—Bill to amend and extend the Acts re. Irt rig to the Humum. Mr. Coulburn—Bill to amend die County of Cork Division Act. Mr. Coulburn—Bill to amend the Dublin Civil Bill Act. Mr. Coulburn—Bill to amend the Dublin Police Act. Mr. Spring Rice—Select Committee on Dublin Local Taxation. 41-.Luthinvon—Bill to repeal the several Acts imposing Finn for Damages arising from the flaying of Hides and skins. ".• ORDERS OF THE DAY. I 'star Lairs ltepeal Ltill—Committee. Quehficuion of Jurors Bill—. Committee. InsolTerst Dcbtuni Bill—TAird Reading. up: Bounties—Committee. County Courts Bill (Compensation to 01Nom of COUT . F of dus ter). the Kirg's Recommendation having been signified—Com. miter thertup..n. Rill—Committee. GastsfActi Act Amendment (Ireland) Bill—Report- Jueke• in Wales Junes (Scotland) Itill--Further Coosiden ion of Report. Records (Leland) Bili—Heyort. County Treasurers ( Irclanu Bill_ committee. Gan,: Laws Amendment Bill—Committee. I:Jston. 6 (Coals and Linens) Bill—Committee. Wool Importation and Expor.atioa Bill—Committee. Rum Duties Act—Committee. PRICES OF BRITISH Beni, Mock 2133 14 3 per C-ent Reduced, 94; 3 r Cent. Cont. :154 3sj 6 3t net Cent. 192 i 14 Iper Cent. 1011 New 4 per Cent- Brii bong Annuities. 23 1-16 Imperial 3 per Cents. Sank for Account tons. for Act. 934 6 Ir.ths Stock iTOCKs YESTERDAY. India Bonds, 90 91 pr. India for Account, South Sea Stock. South Sea Old Annuities 94 South Sea New Annuities 931 Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 54 57 pr. Ditto, 5001. 54 57 pr. Ditio, Small, 54 5, pr. Indorsed ditto Lottery Tickets, 251. 191. PRICES OF FORBIUN Austrian Serip, Lieu for Account 7, pr. Ditto paid in full, Lilian Bds. 82i 2 3 Ditto for Ace.B2f is t 34 3 4:41.0o 4b. Bonds. 94 7i 8} 98 wi D. 3. Act. 08 9i 7i 01 8 0 85 i !tonna Ittli lUtlf Dantsb Marks Banco Scrip. 3 4 dis. 'win for A:count ffiles.scrip,tti sa 1149 i pr. 1.14. Acc. 9IU tot lUt 111 pr. .`..rt,.k:elet Bonds 881 Otto Saip Dttto lilt Account Prussian Bonds, tali Ditto for Account Peruvian Bonds 81 80 111 ITOCKS YESTERDAY. Russian Bds. Vith Ni Russian for Acct. 111.4 Russian Inscription Exchange per ruble Ditto Metallic Stock (Baring) pan. Cons. 19 81 9 Ditto for Acct. 104 9 83 9 Ditto 170 6:233 Das. De. 3 per Cents. 11823) 17 Anglo 31ex. Mines i pr. United Ditto Alliance 14 16j pr. Ft. Rentes,lo3f. 7be. Me. 104 f. 1 Do. Ex. 2.4 30c. 43e. Do. Scrip, 174 113 1 j pr. Ditto for -tett. 164 71 pr. Neapolitan kkls. 904 94 Ditto fur Aect. Dutch Bonds Dice. Exchange Al4l LS. Dos-1 Lisbon and I Ilamburgb. cKEi J( LOAN.. THZ HOLDERS ;Titil,; SCRIP RECEIPTS of this WAN are hereby acquainted, that the SECOND PA Y ASSN r falling due on SATURDAY, the 10th instant, may be bode oo or before that day, from the flours of Ninc to four o't.;:u.sk, at ths Counting-house of 31essrs. Loughnan, non, and O'Brien, No. 19, Colcm.n-street. efette kirttion prefsl3. ADELPIII THEATRE, STRAND. I.AsT NIGHT BUT ONE. FOR THE MENEM' OF MR. J. REEVE. Tli.a Kvewine, THURSDAY, AFII 0, 0111 be performed LOVERS OF ALL SORTS. Itf.ubarb, 111 r. Meredith; hammy, Mr. Wilkinson; Ccurtall. Mr. Mayiett. After which. APULIA, IJAIJOER WOOD. A ,Hollo Daihterwoud (with Imltettuu.atil Peremattuna), Mr. J. Reeve. To eottelude with the teuelt.eittadred ilurliteque. called QUADRUPED& T.-kets to In had of Mr J. Reeve. ti, Craven-bitildhep: end of Mr. t at the Theatre, where Places may be taken. NEW THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE n.. Menthe, THURSDAY. April $, will be valorised SIXRRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. I , .ist‘si, Mr. Swami.: SIP John Faletai, Mr. Dowry°. Mn.i Ford, A... Stephens; Mrs hp. Mislaror %emir. Mier which, DCA! sd A PoS C. eouriasue with. LODONSA. Alsw - THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. I tht fit!: BENEFIT OF Mk. Mt11.4..N. STAGE-MAMMA& On SATURDAY swat will be performed THE STRANt.E.H. he 'grouser, Mr. Kean Soonuora. Mr. Terry; Peter. Mr. Harley. Mrs. Hallo*, Mrs. e 1.1% 1.. the course of the Ennuis a variety of Stoning and Dancing. After which, THE IttVAI. SOLDIEits. o conclude with. F. 11111.% JAtta. THEATRE ROYAL, COYAAT-GARDEN. I mut LeeWu& THURSDAY, April S. will be perbenuel THE MAN Or THE %WELD. p,earog bleeeyeephaut„ Ni. Yeuuirt bvertun. Mr. Cooper. .afy Hodolpba Lumbereourt. ;ere. Cluaterte). After "Hoch. THI HUNTER OV THE ALPS. ROYAL, ENGLISII OPERA—HOUSE. MR. MATI I EWts AT (HOME! This Evening. THU blab.% Y, April H. WAth ttrt ANNEAL LECTEME ou PlicuLi.tita rue.b. CHARACTER, and MANNERS; lisuaded OU Observations and Adventures during his late - 1 HIP AMERICA. In Three Parts. PAP; I:l.—A Idennyolyingue, elated ALI. WULI. AT tistTeIIiTOCHF..S. 44 Ob.! Chiraetersut tiie Evening's rittertatinueLit to be repre•euted by Mr. NIATIIEWs. Dooes to be opened at Saran--Perforineisee begins at Eight o'clock. Y.. tee to be t/4,11 of Ur. btevetteou. at the box Onitm„ Nimble! En tree e. front Tented rive. Ptee,e eatatet ;.sober be kept after half-peat Eight o'Cleek. eeeTb Proprietor feweetfully Informs the fte.ueutert to the Tb ease. Oast then comfort lug been further labeled by We addtttou o. tel.: of Mr. rerklos'e mom; lemerfui aertu thlrAlton The Bitsruit Puma.. corunionceti publtahing yeatereay ing at Six o'clock. IDNIION, THURSDAY, Arun 8, 182:. The Paris Papers of Monday and Tu.-Islay reached our office yesterday. The Ehile stztv,, under the head of Madrid to the :loth of March, that the Spanish tyrant had quitted that capital for Aranjuez, and that all the French posts in the city were replaced by Spaniards, with the Usual assurance of prefouni tranquillity prevailing there. The Addresses of bed, of tbc French Chambers were pre- Nen tell to Louis on Mon !ay. They are eciasts of his speech. Thu, address of this Deput.es talks in one paragraph "of his Msjc.sty in the East stopping the effusion of blood and tears and in America reconciling the interests of Fraue-e, the cA humanity, end the duties of a sound policy." This sentence gosa farther titan the speech, which was more concealed ..ad mystified. France now, however, can do little in the east of Europe, and nothing hostile in , America. The Address on these heads, therefore, is mere' declamation. The Finance Alivister, on MondaT, brought forward a draft of the law fur substituting the Ihree per • Cent. Reaps ter !Lobe of Fire per Cent. now existing; '4: particulars tai which will be found in our columns, awl already been anticipated. Hamburgh Mail brougot Papers to our office yester iron Stockt:olso, to the lid of Alsrcli, from Peters- burgh to the 17th, and from Berlin to the 30th. They contain nothing of any public interest ; not a word is said of the still existing differences between Russia and the Porte. Extracts of any thing of the slightest interest from these Papers will be found to follow. STOCKIMI,M, 31,i,11C11 The State Gazette of tmday contains an Address of Condolence to his Majesty on the death of the Duke of Leuchtenburg, front the Norwegian Government and the Storthing. We hear that the Committee of the Storthing for changes in the Constitution has advised the adoption of the Royal proposals in , this respect, and that the introduction of the absolute Veto be given to the King, but nothing authentic is yet known on the subject.—, Argus. In ctm‘equence of the Address of the Diet relative to the late I Royal Ordinance on smuggling and frauds upon the customs, the Committee of Legislation lias received directions from the Govern ment to draw it up anew. In the course of the year Ifll3, 21112 ships from foreign countries arrived in Swedish ports; sailed 2706. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 27. M. Clausenits, l'rivy Councillor of Legation, is said to have act out for Constantinople, in order to sign a treaty concluded there between the Porte and Denmark, by which our ships art allowtil the free navigation of the Black Sea. The departure of the King ft.r Jutland is said to be fixed for the 20th of May. His Majesty will go in a new steam-boat, which is now building for hint is England, and will be brought hither by Lieutenant Itodenhof, of the royal navy. The Directors of the Asiatic Company have applied for the royal approbation of the resolution of the general meeting, to allow the proprietors for eight years a dividend of four nix dollars per share, and have received for answer that no approbation was rocessary. Letters from Christiania of the hith say, N. Karetin Anker, Councillor of State. and Commandar of the Order of the Polar Star, died on the 13th at Lidos old. BERLIN. MARCH 30. , Orders have been given for the election of Deputies foe the' Assembly of the States of the kingdom of Prussia. Accounts from Batavia mention the arrest at that place of M. Val Doriv (properly Ferdinand Wilt, nephew of M. V. Eckstein, in Path), who passed last year in Switzerland under diffaent , names, and is mentioned as the author of a notorious pamphlet. Os Ike Reralatiosary Istrigsa is Syritzerlswil. Ile travelled under the name of M. V. I korgil, intending, if he found an oppor tunity to go to America. and was Informed against by a nobleman, who h ad succeeded in lemming his secret. HANOVER, MARCH 31. The reigning Duke of Brunswick, and Prince William, his bro ther, have arrived here, on a visit to the Duk. and Duchess of Cambridge. ST. PETFISDUROII, MANCH 17. News has been received front Capt. Kotzebue, who arrived at Rio de Janeiro, on the 10th of November lost, and remained there three weeks, waiting for the favourable season to double Cape Horn. We have also news from Capt. Losarews (who sailed a year earlier), dated from Van Hieman s Land. Another vessel, commanded by Capt. Dostorow, will sail in the summer for the same destination. Capt. Litho, who during the last three sum mers has surveyed parts of the Coast of Nova Zerubla, will sail again front Archangti in the summer, for the same purpose. On account of the ice, it is only for a kw weeks that astronomical and gaophical observations can be made in those high Northern la- EXCHANGES. klawaraon, Aran. 2.—Exehange on London, 36111; two months, 36 84. Sr. PETERSMIURGII, .MARCII 19—Exchange on London, 9 13.32; Warta, 99. out; that with such a Jury, selected from plain and well meaning men, tel en from the ',Odle ranks of every-day life, unaccustomed to mairgetation, and liable to be infiu eneed by the artful and apparently candid statements of ex pc rienced Counsel, arpearing . hr the Crown and voin.ll the I accused, the shrinking and unprotected criminal at the bar 'stands the fearful issue, under the deepest and most hope less disadvantages. The ad%ocatcs employed against him often affect moderation, as the most eloadly weapon they can use ; they dwell on his situation and his crime with pre 'tended commiseration, in a way that effects more with a Jury than the most studied invective could hope to produce, Ara eat (dere artent. The practised pleader in this way does more with a Jury than by the most vehement ha rangues, and the unhappy prisoner too often pinks before it, without the power of refutation, or of the assistance of an Advocate to expose the deadly sophistry which has sunk into the minds of his Jury—without the possibility of any antidote beingapplied. Mr. Lamb, in the course of his speech, made a striking appeal to the case of Lord Loyal, tried for high treason in the reign of George 11. and who suffered on the block with uncommon firmness. The un fortunate old Chieftain, borne down by Crown influence, declared be could make no defence for himself: his guilt, it is true, amid all the art by which he sought to disg,uise it, was but too clear ; but his utterly defenceless situation was so apparent, that Sir William Vounge, who led the impeachment for the Commons a.:ainst him, immedi ately after brought in a Bill to allow persons accused of treason to be defended by Counsel. Those so charged have now the benefit of that statute, and are also en titled to a list of the witnesses and the Jury summoned on their trial. Why should a difference be made between felony and treason? The convict in either case is equally attaimed in property and blood. The goods of a traitor and a felon are alike forfeit, and an inquisition or attaint is equally summoned for the discovery of the property of both. The charge of treason is one that is On general slowly listened to; its consequences are so heavy that the crime of constructive treason is seldom or never admitted. The law requires two unimpeachable witnesses to depose to the commission of overt acts; public interest and public vigilance are always on such a charge awakened for the ac cused ; be is protected at once by the jealousy and the sympathy of the audience around him—feelings in which a majority of his Jury generally participate. If be possesses any means. he can employ able and zealous Counsel; if not, they are of course assigned him. With such safeguards, except in the very worst times, his life, unless on damning evidence adduced against him, can be in no jeopardy. lint how different is the situation of a wretched individual charged with mere felony ! He is brought up to the bar of the Old Bailey, that Hall of Death, or to an assizes; court, from the dungeon where be has been immured for months, without means, without friends, without an advocate or common hope. If Counsel be employed against him, his Jury are influenced by a collected and artful statement, embodying every supposition that can weigh against the arraigned, and even whispering nothing that could tend to his exculpation. The witnesses for the Crown are carefully and ably examined • they come into the wi mess box in general prejudiced against the prisoner, and anything in his favour must be extracted by the molt acute and able cross-examination. In the generality of cases the wretched accused can employ no ('ounsel at all; but even if, by the most melancholy sacrifices, he can pur chase such advocacy, a few questions put to the Crown wit nesses, or a few facts elicited from those for the defence, must limit the efforts of the Advocate who holds a brief, while the Counsel for the prosecution can harangue in an opening statement, and after speak to evidence on a solitary witness to character being called. We ask, is this justice? Is this consistent with the criminal law of these countries? Ought such an aiomaly to have been supported by the eloquence of Mr. North, and • majority io the C.-am mots House of both countries? Sir James Mackintosh, whose effotts are so distinguished on every constitutional subject which attracts the attention of Parliament, brought all the stores of his richly-informed mind, to illustrate and enlighten this most important question. His reply to Mr. North's objections was decisive and incontrovertible. Though Mr. Lamb had the array of the Crown Lawyers against him on this occasion, and was foiled for onees lion, not by argument, but by legal sophistry and num bers, we trust he will not be disheartened from persisting] in his humane end honourable career, and that he will take the earliest oppoltunity of bringing forward the same motion again. Long existence cannot consecrate any abusel of this description; it can be no argument for its ex istehce. The feelings of the country are with Mr. Lamb, and he may rely on it, that the debate of Tuesday night, and his most praise -worthy efforts in a just and consti tutional cause, have conciliated most powerful support and feelings for him, and the ultimate success of his motion, throughout the empire. If he perseveres he is sure to, succeed, with the fullest honour to himself, and the greatest benefit to a large, though unhappy portion of the commu n ty. The Earl of Lauderdale, who has been seriously indis posed, we are happy to hear is getting much better. We are sorry to hear that Mr. Wilberforce has for ten days past been, and still continues, seriously indisposed. He is, however, we understand, a little better, and in the opinion of Dr. Chambers, his physician, his valuable life is likely to be preserved to his family, his country, and mankind. _ _ The anniversary meeting of one of those pious but most mistaken bodies, of which so many now exist in this day of delusion in this country, took place at the Argyll Rooms yesterday—the Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry in the chair. This association is styled " The Irish Bible Society of Lon don ;" and its object—risuni teneates amici—is to extract money from the pockets of those who are deluded enough to contribute to print Bibles in the Irish lan guage, to circulate among the peasantry of that island, and so convert them to the true faith of that island. Why does not the Society circulate them in Hebrew or in Greek? for in either character they would be just as intelligible among the initiated of the Irish P easant r y. Thousands can read English and speak Irish ; but there are not twenty, we venture to state, throughout the entire country, including the village schoolmasters who' can read Irish, or the complex characters in whic h this body print their Bibles. But this meeting answered all its purposes ; it gave an opportunity to a man of the name of M'Ncil, to utter the foulest slanders against the Catholic' clergy. He is called a " Reverend" in our report,—but we cannot suppose any clergyman would suffer such un truths to fall from him, as we find reported to have dropped from the lips of this individual. This Rev. Mr. WISTeil stated, " that the daily bread of the Catholic priests de- ;fended on keeping the Irish people in total igncrance, and that they were consequently sunk into the lowest state of de gradation. To this we have no reply to male, but that the assertion, come from whom it may, is unqualifiedly slan derous and false. If Mr. M'Neil would emulate the purity of character, and the disinterested zeal of' the Catholic Clergy of Ireland, in place of coming over here to prcpa gate atrocious calumnies of this description, his character as a rcrrresd would stand much higher than it does. This North of Ireland parson has been disappointed, we suppose, in his holy expectations of preferment at the other side ; and in all the bitterness of malevolence he comes over here, in consequence, to preach against and slander those amongst whom he failed in his mission of tithe-gathering. This pious " Munchausen" then went on to relate the story of a woman, who (as he said) " on being questioned, said she believed in three Gods, and that as she only spoke Irish, she could receive no instruction, which was given by the clergy in Latin or English alone." The disinter ested missionary hoped " therefore the Assembly would nuke the Catholic pietas the objects of their prayers, and assured them that the conversion of one priest would do more towards emancipating the Catholics from their state of barbarism than one hundred Protestant preachers could effect." Can it be possible, that any public meeting, in such a day as this, could have listened to such trash as that we have reconled, with common patienc.t ? Yet we find it reported that this assembly, with the Bishop of Lichfield at its head, not only listened to it, but that thanks were voted to the individual for his pious efforts. They ought, in common gratitude, to have contributed a supply to the pious orator, and sent him to the place from whence he came, to convert the " Popish priests." Such stuff as was uttered at this meeting would be worthy of the most fa natic followers of Joanna Southcote. We are astonished that Lord Calthorpe and Sir George Rose could have lent themselves to any thing so fanatical and absurd. Disgust is the only feeling that can be excited by the perusal of such garbage. It is a disgrace to this city, in an age so to lerant and enlightened, to have any thing half so vile reL petted. Those who talk of converting the Irish ought first to convert themselves; they should learn to abjure falsehood, and speak common truth. As to the Catholic clergy of Ireland—a body with any one of whom we should be sorry to compare Parson liPl 4 Jcil—contempt and scorn will be their only answer to such calumnies. The whole tenor of their pure and excellent conduct forms their best reply to this man's unworthy slanders. Mr. Alderman Venable.' was yesterday taken suddenly ill at the King Palace, previous to the commencement of the levee, which obliged him to leave the Palace, a gentleman accommodating him with the loan of a carrage to convey him immediately home. The Itecordership of Bristol, held by Lord Gifford, and which it is supposed he will now resibm, is in the gift of the Corporation of that city, and has almost invariably' . been conferred upon some Barrister of eminence on the We tent Circuit. _ The Irish Times, alluding to certain rumours respecting the Tenth Hussars, says—" The regiment is not to be re modeled, the officers are not to be separated, nor any of them obliged to resign • and, as we mentioned in a former paper, the exchange be tween Colonel Quentin and Lieute nant-Colonel Wyndham is simply in consequence of a private arrangement between these gentlemen, agreed on some time since, and not from any recent transactions in the regiment." The assents at the Bank of England to the conversion of the 4 per cents. are stated, to amount to marl 61 millions. The Court of Chancery, and Trustees, are a llowed an ex tension of time for assent. We understand the amount of the former exceeds one million; the amount of the latter cannot be calculated, but as assents have been also re ceived at the Bank of Ireland, we may conclude that the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer has completely succeeded. The amount of old 4 per Cent. Stuck is about seventy-five millions. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Paris, rc ceived from a very respectable and well-in:nnneci quarter, on the recent reports concerning the Loan transactions at Madrid :—" With respect to positive news upon which you may rely, it is that the arrangement inr the Loan of Gmbharil is only incidental. The negociation of an emi nent London capitalist is still going on, and as some houses have had a hint that in this negociation it is intended to reimburse Cue. 'a Loan, or that the holders of his bonds should e the privilege of exchanging them for Id the New Loan, y have purchased, in the double expec tation of negocia g the bonds at a profit, or of exchanging them for those of the New Loan." Mr. Lamb's motion, on Tuesday night, to allow the as sistance of Counsel to persons tried for felony, ought not to have failed: its object was even-handed justice; and its success would have remedied one of the most oppressive evils in the criminal code of the country. Mr. Lamb spoke convincingly and ably on the subject : the introduction of the motion was equally honourable to his head and to his heart; lie supported his arguments, not by the idle and flimsy declamation with which be was opposed, but by the best references to facts and history—by inferences drawn from the past experience of other days, when the agitated and sacrificed accused, standing at the bar of a Court, in pe ril of biz life, felt the weight of judicial authority, the pre judices of a Prerogative Judge, the collected array of Go vernment Counsel pressing at once upon him, with nothing he could summon to bear up against the load, but his own broken strength, and, perhaps, feeble innocence, when his existence hung upon a despairing effint. . We trust the day never will come, when, as Mr. Lamb said, a prisoner's safety way depend on the advocacy of such Judges as a Jeffher, a Page, or an Aysooitgli: but what has been may be: Judges are but men, subject to all the failings and the passions that influence authority in other situations; and the Bench, though now purr, may at some future day be l as arbitrary and tyrannical as in the days of Scroggs and Jr Fries, in the worst times of the Tudors and the Stuarts. A well-meaning and an independent Jury would be, in such a case, the best safeguard of the subject: but we know also that Juries, even in rases of life and death, Icannot divest themselves of the prejudices and passions of men ; that the very accusation of a foul crime, unsupported by proof, carries with it a stain, that even the longest life of irrepreachable character cannot afterwards wholly wash Yesterday a Court of Director was held at the East- India house, when Captain Barrow was sworn into the command of the ship General Hewitt, consigned to Bengal direct. The East laths (7ompany's ship Farquharson arrived off Mounts Hay on the 4th instant. She sailed from ('hina on the 9th of December, from the Cape on the 2d of February, and from St. Helena on the 17th of February. Among the crowd of distinguished visitors at Mr. Bul lock's interesting exhibitions of ancient and modern Mexico, yesterday, we were enabled to notice-- His Royal II iglmess the Doke of Sussex, the Princesses Augusta and Soyhis, the Bishop of London and family, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of Carlisle mid faintly, the Marquis and Marchioness of l.ansdown, the Count and Countess Munster, Lady Bathurst and friends, Lord Bexley, //lapilli' and .Verchionena of Staiford and friends Earl of Shrewsbury, Earl and Countess Tankerville, Lady Dundas and friends, 'tight Hon. Sir Charles Long, Lady Hamilton and friends Lady Clifibnl and :riends, Lady Abdv, Lord Arden and friends , Mr. Robinson, Lieutenant-General Trent, Sir A. ' Crichton arid friends, Sir J. Swinburn and friends, Sir Abraham Hume and friends, Admiral Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke, Sir J. G. Egerton and friends, sir Anthony Carlisle, 1)r. Poynter, &c. &c. —The Exhibition more than realizcs public expectation, highly raised as it may have been. THE KING'S COURT, LEVEE, 4c. DRURT-LANE THEATRE. Yesterday was the day appointed for his Majesty to I We were prevented yesterday, by a press of matter, f rom hold his second Levee this season, which was very nue saying anything of Mr. Kean's performance of th e merously attended, there being near one thousand per- Stranger, to Kotsebue'n play of that name. Refection eons present, whom the King received with his aecus- has assisted us to discover in Mr. Kean's representation 'tomes condescension and affability. A detachment from' that which the immediate impression of the inoment was the King's Guard martin d into the Palace-yard, in Pall- I insufficient to teach us. Taken, as we were, by his power mall, preceded by the band of the First Regiment of Foot I ful display of genius, we had not time to detecttuhreaa;:i Guards, at half-past one o'clock ; and soon after, a detach- mirable dial he used in the trying character sustained by m.nt of the Life Guards, as Cuirassiers, precteLd by a nu- him on Tuesday. To explain--lioteebu e , we Mild:, did mesons hand. I not intend to make the betrayed friend and di a h onourel The Officers of the Court were at their stations, in their , husband a misanthrope: the principles of high hono state uniforine. I the intensity of love with which lie endowed hi m wou l d Two o'clock was the hour appointed for the commence- not allow of this inversion. When our faith in the human ment of the Court; in a short time after, the King en- I heart has been violated, and the chill touch of despair has toed his closet, and held a Privy Council, which was at- I checked the ardent current of our young and eonflding tended by moat of the Cabinet Ministers. I hopes, the transition is not to hate, which is a p ass i on : b ut His Majesty gave audience to the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. all passion is dead ; we no longer feel interested enough C'anning, Mr. Peel, the Earl of Clancarty, Baron Fagel, I with the ways of men or their concerns to hate them ; •the and Baron Langsdorff, the resident Minister of Hesse, who ' sensation that lodges in our cracked hearts is that of a was presented to his Majesty on his return from the Con- dark and dreary void—the blank unimaginative melancholy tincnt. Ile bad also the honour of being presented upon of the soul. This would induce our conduct to be net his marriage. social, but not repulsive; it would bespeak, it is true, a Prince de Polignac, the French Ambassador, came want of harmony or sympathy of mind, but it would not instate. evince disgust, much less hatred towards others: and The foreign Ambassador! and Ministers protein were, here we account fur the reluctance of th e St ranger to the Prussian, Portuguese, Danish, Sardinian, Netherlands, ' receive so much as the thanks of the father and mother of Bavarian, Sicilian, Russian, Baden, and Hesse ; and Mr. I the child, whose life he had saved at the peril of his own. Colgithonti (the Counsellor to the Austrian Ambassador) ' It' this conception be correct, we are justified in ciying for the Henze Towns. I that there was in Mr. Kean's Manger too much toorae There were also present— I and soured impatience shewn towards the world, and His Royal Highness the Duke of York, th th e e Ar .o h n b l isio te p . a ard of . Can the - I I w wh h o ic , h h i a n v a i d og e h ze it ee n iv a el pre wm ar i e n m t i l g ie ht fl y rst io jo t r h y re f :. r . o a t et o s o l n i e k . e o a .it in ii : , rt i it ' S i llas td : i to w • k his sense of it upon all. But mark the art in all tetbury 3iast ,a,indtille.orilko,rsteh,ctilmie the o l f louan do ol n d, and the wreak honour of Knighthood— this . Had Kean been less repulsive to our feelings—had n d te o ll w aes of si t :( P e 3 e l it ter r ° . S l , l ) h s t er t h l e irli r , l d o ,a r ti d u i r 3 W i l e ad a rr or ). iortfhedemiStilliimccompinied by Sheriff his manner gained upon us by carrying to our !mans a l'errin. the Secretary at War, the Under Secretary of State for the sense of his misery, the contrast in the ensuing part of the Colonial Department. character would have been less striking, and the effect pro -Oakes—Leeds, Marlborough, Bk.:arose, Argyll, Athol, %Vel- . portionably weakened. But when the morose man recog lington, and Dorset. lifarosiscs--Conyngharn. Exeter. Downshire, Lanadown, sane. nines in Count Steinhrt his friend, then a light bulge bury, Huntly, Anglesey'. and ltath. ! forth and around him, and tells us that he is not 'that Earle—Liverpool, Roden, Abergavenry, Darnley, Cardiga n, which we had hitherto thought him to be ; that his heart, though shattered, was not seared ; and that nature's kindlier elements still blended with If being. ls Fran s c 6 lF ff ti f o ° l k, rd 'ld, 3 3 1 :1:an:s ti n trc hi ld e :, 3 1 :L a s ; e :La: caroarr j B e Tr Y r; on e l ;: ea lg ‘ i l u i , i c ar , b n am o t iz re i k ' t:h E n 4 to: e r v e r s n ,: l , l3 l adtzort. .ne . 3 r: lc- in , _ ag u in his e friend disi 0 no co u u r l , d Bathurst, Westmorland, Talbot, Harrowby, Morley, Clam:any, th is moment Mr. Kean was all that the most can. t h° lle Pe t . hot T ig h h e t d o t f .ep tb a e nt s i •i i l m la m in ° w vea ho hle dir i se t, Plymouth, and Uxbridge. seemed too mighty for him to endure; and when he told Vircoauts—Eastman. Palmerston, Sydn L ey bri , 12 3 x fo on rpet , h uougizz, , Deer the Count that " the fiend seducer! his ariliq and bore her lguri'lican:df—lkonol,l4l:Siitedvmoue'rezittlioierer,d,3folreivi;allrlPe.:Pirtei,:tftogrstlin.a;ntiifrord, W. Fitzroy, Cawdur, Sherbonw, Montegue William Graham, Eastnor, 'rte. from him," his very heart seemed to burst in telling of eat lamore, Henniker, C. Townshend, Barham, G. Hill, Ch urchill, deed. Then, as it' exhausted by the confliction of an in. Csrbee7, tense love and a profound principle of honour, his spirit Be lla l Y ha ni v n e g o . , Ill'eonrcdble'hesteraT'S.lSeAnYgimutdaue: Prudhoe , T S e taff ig" u aaal ni. ta , Ben - glided into a mod calm but extreme pathos :—a sense of tinck, G. Cavendish, Ravensworth, Gosiord, a. Howard, Holland, St. Helens, Clarendon, Bexley. t h e wor ld' s opinion, and hie injuries, every now and then Right Hommrabicr--Strattorti Canning, Sir G. F. Hill, Charles breaking forth, sufficient to tell how heartless and unlike Wynn, H. Elliot, G. Canning, Robert Peel, Robinson, and the true dictations of nature are the severe prohibitory Arbuthnot. judgments of the world in cases like his. Hostoaraties—W. Scott, —Windsor, T. Liddell, E. Stewart, "Oh ! what a feast would it be for the painted dolls and rennin Captain Cam bell, R.N., Rev. G. Pelle., E. spencer, Captain of the world, when I appeared among them with my runaway site Liddell, A. W ve, C. Shore, J. S. S. Cooke,_ W. Temple, upon my anti ! What mocking, whispering, pointing ! N.rer! 4 7ra Captain S. 31. G ner, H. Lindsay, —lrby, 'l'. A. Erskine, never! never!" Colonel Grant, ALP., and Captain Roux. The asperity with which this was spoken, and the re- Sirs—W. K. Grant, G. Martin, J. Malcolm, W. Sterling, A. . sowed energy with which Mr. Kean uttered the words Cooper, Pocock, &c. t Bisho Bristol. Salisbury, London, St. Aleph, and Lincoln. " Never ! never . never !" betrayed a mind capable cf see- Arclteecou of Dublin. ing the injustice of the world's ways in these matters, yet Drams—Durham and Christ Church. not courageous enough to withstand them. There was also to be discovered, in this bootless sneer, a feeling still latent 111.. Doctors—Russell, Sheath, Morrison, D.D., Baler, Chafy, Bellamy, and Pearson. s m i th, in his heart, to be restored to the beautiful sinner who had su torn it. The last scene was triumphantly effective, 31 s Duct ai rr on kr , u o r i l ou V —Scu eath_ o er d n a z head: res , an P d pre oll E ol er k gh , ' Paris, ,sndT. Robinson. o i rt . on D . " and stamped the completion of Mr. Kean's success in Alderown—Atkins, Venables, Ileygate, Garratt, and Cox. this very trying and interesting character. Mrs. West's Cuants—Worourow and Ludole performance was, upon the whole, very good. Her Admirals—Sir G. Martin, Sir E. Thornbmugh, Sir I. Coffin, Mrs. Muller does not, indeed, partake of the heart rending grief that so particularly distinguished Miss D m i oo gb r y z: Sir sir J T. l4 W .el il i l z i J anis e.c 3l ß. aryhr or , d H R o a n tia S tor ir k es , . I no lot u ti g al , , , S s iLti tt„ . Sir C. Rowley, Sind ' Rowley, Sir P. Malcolm, sir It. 3looesom, O'Neill in this character ; but to us we confess it seems more correct to nature that the grandest emotions of the ToUemache, Sir J. Gore, Plympin, Sir J. Sutton, Sir P. C. S. D. Page. Sir soul should be evinced by the language that speaks in the Generals—Sir A. Hope, Sir W. Hutchinson, Callander, Sir sjiadllei,aciteodeach, eAyi, , LeAshrapnleil , :xidDlNDtanacico n s, ,Blleiyobonw, ,etti.m‘.ea.n.e. K. Grant, look look and tone, rather than by the rage and tumult of sound and declamation ; and for this reason we prefer, and were kiason, Moaheim, Darling. Sir C. Grant, Fraser, Blunder), Moo- happy to witness in Mrs. West's acting last night, that tresor, Pigot, Lord Blantyre, Sir (.i. Airey, Sir W. Anson, Earl quiet repose which breathed forth her anguish without the aid of starts and sobs, and which in general does not Cavan, Sir irsirlLuCa..livnert,gti4l Lethbridge, e S .. ir s T ir . d c e . R w o .al tten e: bu o r , g bogh , Care ian y : belon to this la I.' at • .l of actin t We however think ty s y e e. sir S. Dalrymple. Sir J. Malcolm, Sir J. Lion, Ke nyon, 3los- : II halo, Si, F..Maclean, Thiall, Si- C. Doyle, 1C.C.8., Adais, Sir the failed in some of the parts, particularly when she re- H. Askew, Sir H. Montresor, Burne, Sir G. cooke, sir A. Clarke, ceivca from her lord the casket of jewels. Perhaps, the re- Burton, J. G. Scott, E. I. S., Sir H. Pane, Earl of Cork, bold collections they bring up, ought not to have been told at all, E. Somerset, Sir T. Ilislop, Sandiland, Moore, Sir W. flows- so that the fault is rather that of the author than of the ton, Dyott, Stowin, Finch. The agitated state of her mind would not, in na- Colesels—Hon. H. Townshend, Sir J. C. Smyth, Lindsay, actress. Lord G. Lennox, Sir R. Arbuthnot. K.C.C. &c. ture, suffer such a minute recite/ of the scenes of former Majors—Deere, A. Morrison, Sitwell, W. Forrest, Close, Bowles. happiness, although the circumstance would cause them to Captains—Fitzgerald, 7th Royal Veteran Battalion, Sykes, R.N. strike the ,memory most vividly. After the play, Mr. Alildmay, Hon. Coventry, Bm. Terry cline forward, but the audience called for Mr, Lieutenants—G. Mathias, R.A., Macqueen, Otway. ece. Kean, who immediately appeared, and received the en- C. J C l . e S sit m rs.— oh, Black Nezth. bum F e, ano, T. l l l t od '.R gzoo thiset . 1 1 ,..W F0z . T ter a r or ism , H. Windsor, thusiastie applause of a most delighted and crowded The following were among the numerous presentations audience. lie then announced the Stranger for repe to his Majesty, by Lord Glen' yon, the Lord in Waiting:— tition on Saturday next. Mr. Terry afterwards returned Colonel Sir James Carmichael Smyth, upon his return from the thanks in the name of the Western Philanthropic Instim- West Indite, by the Duke of Wellington. tion, and said, that after every expense was defrayed, there The Right Hon. Stratfonl Canning kissed hands and wss.pre- would be upwards of 3001. to add to its funds. sented by Mr. Secretary Canning, upon his return from America. Major Jollifte, on his return then abroad, by Sir Walter Stirling. Mr. William Rae Wilson, on his return from abroad, and to pre sent his Travels in Turkey, Greece, lonian Isles, Sicily, and Spain, which was most graciously received. Conimissary-Benerad Wood, on his return from Canada. Richard Stafford Cooke, Esq. Sir Thomas Hardy, on his return from the South American sta tion, by Viscount Melville. Dr. Theodore Gordon, on his appointment as Physician Extraor dinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of York. :..n. Pollock, on his return from India. The Rev. Mr. Warren Haynes, by Sir Robert Wigram. Mr. T. C. Bridges, on his going abroad. 31v. Herbert, on his appointment as Fiscal of the United Culo nies of Demerara and Essequibo. 3lr. Laxcelles, on his marriage. 31r.James Williams was presented, to receive the honour of Knighthood, as was Captain G. A. Westphel, by Mr. Peel. Al. Chevalier, Surgeon Extraordinary to his Blajesty, to present a copy tat his lecture, delivered before the Royal Collegeof Surgeons in WM. ORATORIO-DRURT-LANE. We have said so much on the subject of the Oratorios pro duced at this theatre, that we have now little inclination to enter at any length into their further consideration. We have been informed, that stone of our remarks have given displeasure in certain quarters, the which surprises us not a little, as we imagined we guarded ourselves, in every possible manner, from offering either slight or offence to any. What we confidently felt, we honestly uttered; and praise indiscriminately we never mean to beitow. It would be of no service to those on whom it might be lavished, and it would seriously injure the character of the jour nalist who would offer it. We are quite aware that it is unnecessary, nay, we will add, unjust, for the critic to step out of his way in order to indulge in censure ; but artists, of all others, are so keenly susceptible, that really they arc not to be fully credited when they complain smiths: animadversion. They estimate their merits too often by their own standard, and forget that men are not always the safest judges in their own cause. We wish to re spect every class of persons whose labours are useful to society ; lot us only give honour to those to whom honour is due; we are not disposed to feed the vain-glory of those who are pulled up by their own conceit ; but we shall always be happy to notice the exer tions of all, when those eitertions are of a nature to demand approval. The artists who complain should be pleased to remember that " Praise undeserved is satire in disguise." We have sr id that a mania prevailed upon the subject of music, but we did not say that it was either produced or ill-directed by those who teach it. R e have said that moue, if carried to excess, might be productive of mischief, and we have not been guilty of the pedantry of uoti ng those authorities, both ancient and modern, hich would justify our holding that opinion, because our own experience is at all events enough foe us. We have not, however, said that the charucter of our modern music is lowered to what it was, though we might have said so without any breach of truth. We havi not said spy thing in censure of the patch-work compositions which peculiarly nitric the most popular musicians of this day ; of their unseknow- Weed 'Offerings ; and worse, of their perve rted adaptations of this ill-got store. But we ask any impartial man if he thinks tbeoperas of this day will ever become stock-pieces? They never can ; they are writ vii to suit the reigning favorites, male and female, and not constructed with any regard to the subject of the opera. Of the ideas which they ought to clothe. We have distress pictured to us in lyrics and in sprightly measure • sublimity takes its station in tame trumpet ; and harm° .y emanates from the drum. Unity of design and consistency of parts are in a great degree neglected rapidity of transition seems the great end of the composers, and, to own the truth, the apparent source of gratification to nine-tenths of Or auditory. Storacc did little to improve our operatic taste, but tf; operas are still played, and still draw crowded houses; but after season the operas since his time are generally shelved. There are. s'r know, some exceptions; hut the exceptions from the rule prove we are correct as to the inferiority of our modern compo,cr'. They may be own of genius and industry—of industry . they certainly are, for there is not a foreign musician of any eminence, who cannot final a portion of his lahnurs contributing to tine hauls and the fortunes of our popular composers. We feel for the humour of our nation. We know the material of musical excellence is to be found amongst us, if properly encouraged; but we much fear the utility of the Royal Academy, when we look at the nature of ad the other academies in our metropolis. Intrigue, and cabal, ard self-interest, absorb so much of their attention. that merit, pr ticularly if in obscurity, has little chance of seeing the day-bght by their fostering protection. ilowever, of this at wine rather op portunity ; and now to the Oratorio of fast night. We Mlle on not speak in too high terms of the unahating eawWms d 31 _,r• Bochaa, to give satisfaction to his patrons a nd the pobße t Iwo we hope he will not be disappointed of that remit still so richly deserves, though we fear the present seises walls boo as pmperous as our wishes would have it. The sthetiass d night were numerous. and displayed both taste and Nelms is their dunce. The treasures of the ancients and the moderns were poured forth in sbunflanee, and the various performers, v0ca1,....,, nd histrumental, seemed• to feel the power of the melody , wow' they uttered with a truth and feeling that delighted the ear and thnlled the heart. We had in the course of the evening Handel . " Overture to Estila ; the Hymn of Eve, by lh. Ante ; Selections from the Deluge, by Boehm* ; trout th e Prophecy, by that inge nious yoeng gentleman. 51r. Wade; from Rivalries Sacred Mara* of Cyrus in Babylon and Moses in Egypt--with some of the most I.llr. Bingham Bering, on his marriage. Sir George Abercrombie Robinson, on his being created a Baronet. Sir Charles Abney liamings, on taking the name of Abney. Sir James 311iregor, 1/irector General in the .triny, Medical rkpartnient, on his being appointed Physician Extraordinary to his Majesty. Sir John English, on his being appointed one of the Physicians in.(Mlinary to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. Mr. 11. beggatt, on his marriage, by the Lord in Waiting. Davis,lsrut -Cs 1. on his marriage. M. A. W. Des Barns, Attorney-General, late Governor of Cape Breton, un his return troll America. Mr. Capel, by the Earl of Essex, on his appointment to the Life Guards. Mr. Charles Mackinnon, on his return from the East Indies. Lieut. Hon, on his anaintment to the Uth Hussars. Captain James Haldane 'fait, /L.'S., by Vice-Admiral Sir Wil- Liam Johnstone Hope, K.C.B. Mr. William I)unoutribe, on his marriage, by Mr. Duncombe. Lieutenant W. O. Stanley, grenadier guards, on his appoint ' ment, by Colonel Townsend. lasutenant Nugent, grenadier guards, on his appointment, by Colonel Townsend. Lieutenant-Colonel 3legrechi, on his marriage. Alajor, 'Trevor, Bedfordshire yeomanry cavalry, by Lieutenant- Colonel Macqueen. Lieutenanussolonel Moore, grenadier guards, on promotion, by Viscr.unt Sithnou th. Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsey, grenadier-guards, on his promo tion, by Colonel the lion. 11. 'I . ownseniL Lieutenant !tenpin, Bedfordshire yeomanry, on promotion, by Lieutenant-Colonel Macqui.en. Lieutenant !Inward, 24.1 life-guards, by Earl Cathcart, on his apporntinent. Mr. W. Munday, son of 3lr. 3lunday, M.P. for Derbyshire, by his father. Captain W. 11. Sykes. Bombay army, on his return to India. Mr. William Jones Armstrong, on his return front the West Indies, by Alr. Ilulmes. 31:thor Roehfort, on his being appointed Consul-General for East Friesland. Rev. 1/r. smith, on his promotion to the Deanery of Christ Church, Oxford. _ . Ihe remainder of the prexer lotions, which were extremely nu merous, will, if possible, be given to-morrow. MR. BARTLEY'S LECTURE. This Gentleman again delivered his admirable Lecture on Astronomy last night, to a respectable audience, at the English Opera House. Aided by a good voice and correct delivery, we almost lose that monotony of tone which will ever, in a lets or greater degree, be felt in s continual repetition of the lame language, the mind becoming gradually less identified with its subject, proportionately to the familiarity it acquiresreyi i. lbws annual Lectures, on the divinest subjects that can be int as es contemplation of the human mind, deserve to bo Astronomy is a science so well calculated to improve anli alh = lid rsa mind, and, at the same time, so little taught to youth, nage early years are oftener spent in les, important acquirement, that we feel particularly anxious to countenance the Lectures of well.infoned men, and consider it to be almost a duty, with every parent, so in troduce his children to these intellectual and sublime studies. i