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Owen to invention and talent, and he thought that d e limitation of ilas Dumber of persons to six might be attended wid injury. After a few words from Mr. MAHERLY, the I etition IV3/ or. ♦osed to lie on the table. WELCH MINING COMPANY RI I.L. Ile. P. MOORE brought up the Report of tht Committee on she Welch Mining Company Bin, in which they hs d made several amendments. Mr. LITTLETON said, from what had passe 1 in the Can. mittea,•eo eheluestiott of the Company being allott•ed to sue and bossed in the name of their Secretary, he was den twined to op. pose the further progress of the Bill. The House I iught to reeol. Met that several Bills had passed the House last yie ir for the esta- Mbiesent of companies which had produced mum' mischief; If they slashed to prevent t he establishment of such col npanies , they should check the progress of such Bills as that held e the House. He would draw a diettnetion between companies estal.lished for the =rof working mines of the precious metals .and thine for o e & coal and aron mines, Which could be effecte4 quite as sell by iodividuals. When the Bill was introduced lad' year by the lion. Member for Coventry, that Hon. Member never attended the 4,:antnittee on the Bill, and when it came subsequently before the House, he (Mr. Littleton) moved the House that it should be and in that the House agreed with him, and it was dis. l char sh g e 2. 4 A number of persons considered that the 11'11 was inju. limn to theit interests, and were at corsiderable expeiee in oppos lag it, and as he thought the Bill could not be of aay benefit, he would move as an amendment that it be read d.at day six swaths. Mr. P. MOORE said he thought when the lion. Member knew the news of the Bill, he would withdraw his amendment. The itempany had laid out 100,0001., and would lay out a further sum. He thought it would afford great advantage to the nubile; and thus allowing them to sue and be sued in the name or their secretary, would, In his Opintoo, be a great benefit. Cclonel WOOD said there was no necessity for the establish. sheet of but% a Company in Wales ; they did not want iron in Wales ; the evil was that there was too much there already. They GNU supply as much iron as could be w inted for any purposes ; they could se ly the world with iron, atal he knew the passing of ese MU • di great injury to the bon masters of %Vales, who hell Wm t hen they could find sale for. Camell F AVIES thought the objections juet stated most extra ordinary . they did not refer to the Bill on public grounds, but in the view that they would be injurious to the iron masters; he thought mash objeesioos were not sufficient to Induce the House to throw oat the Bill. If the Bill did not pass, the public would have no remedy to recover debts due by the Compete. AIt.STUA Rl' WORTLEY objected to the Bill on the grounds that the allegations in the preamble of the Bin were false; he could nut imagine what benefit Me Bin could be of ; those mines could be worked by individuals. Mr. P. MOORE explained. lie. CALCRAFT Would oppose the nin ; he thought the Rouse had already given too much encouragement to such Corn. ponies. Ile stood up for thou who traded on their own private ca. pita in preference to Cernpanies. The object of bringing the Bill before the House was to raise the value of shares, and thereby to open a field to gentling speculations. 11r. BARING did not knew whether the Bill would be a benefit or no:. The Hon. Member for Yorkshire stated that, because the allegations in the preamble of the Bill were not true, therefore Inc Bill should not paw. He thntght the difficulty of the House was, that they had passed lest Session aeyeral trumpery Bills fur the establishir.cht of companies, and now they were likely to go to at excess the other way, and would not pass Bills which might be awful ; there ought to be some consistency in their legislation. It was said. that persons in company could not trade as individuals ; they could no: in companies sue or be sued, until ell the partners were known ; there was a difficulty in that respect ; it was difficult Iv a person in England to get the names of those who were in Wales. Lord PALMERSTON said the general law of companies was imperfect. The object of the Bill was to be allowed to sue and be seed to the name of their secretary. The company in question had been a year in operation, the capital had been already paid up. and t'teeefore could not be c lassed among those wile speculations which had done so much mischief. He would support the Bill on the tssound that every encouragement should be given to the employ. meat of capital. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he could net tell whether the allegations contained in the preamble of the Bill were true or not, or whether it had been proved that the pass ing the Bill would confer a benefit en the public : fer these reasons he was reluctant to take any part In the iktcitssion. An Act was passed last Session, which vested in the Crown a power to grant übarten to companies. Had that company availed themselves of that Act, they should have applied to the Privy Council for the purpose. when he would have had an opportunity o; becoming ac. quainted with the details of the Bill, and the allegations of the pre amble ; but as they had not done that he could not tell whether thee allegations were true or false, and that he considered to be the qUestion. Mr. P. SIOORE said the establishment of the company would gm employment to a great many persons. Lssi A. HANIILTON said, after the dishonesty they had seen fur the last two months in the affairs of companies, which had been established by Bills that had passed throtikh that House, they should be veil cautious how* they palmed similar Bills. Mr, lIUSKIRSON said The Hon. Member was under a mistake al,en he asserted that 'he House had given any unction to the babbles to which he alluded. The fact was, that the number of applications for the establishment of companies alarmed the House. and an alteration was made in the Act of Geo. 1., by which the King and Council were impowered to grant charters to licit companies as circumstances might warrant. Several appli. cations were made to procure those charters, but when the merits of the applications came to be investigated, they were in many in. stances withdrawn ; a delay took place in order to ascertain the suture of their claims to those charters, and he believed the appli. LIMO had no reason to complain of want of that despatch which led to the withdrawing of those applications ; some had persevered, sod were now in progress. An application was made to establish • •Mining Company in Scotland; it was highly recommended, and had the sapper% of the greater part of the Nobility of that country; it was at • very interesting nature; it combined mines of coal, iron, and precious meals, if they could be found. (A Isugh.)lThe title of seising generally would apply to the mining of all metals; but he did not think theestablialiment of that company could have effected any good. and the Crown was not advised to grant the charter. To many other applications for tharters to companies, focodell on the =principles, • similar answer was given. He thought that We House granted such privilege as wine sought fur by that 2111. it would be well to incutre whether those speculations could be carried on by private Individuals. The effect oh those cmuptudes sou to increase the price of wages; the workmen. Induced by the ariaiety which was evinced to enter into those speculations, conch. deed their labour of increased value, and demanded an advance of wages. This was one of the evils which emanated from those companies. Such was the "rage far the establishment of coin. panics. that many were formed without the sae-ties of Par- I. anent. and without making any application to obtain it. That House ought to be vigilant and cautious to avoid forward_ tug couch speculations, and allowing them to interfere with the meets of the general trade of the country. The law of part. ' sersitip was particularly inconvenient. Ifs suit was to be eprered aghast a Company, the names of the part rurs should be known; eau if in that suit one of the partners absented himself, an action cositt not be entered against a second partner until an outlawry was obtained against the first partner ; and if the second chose to ab sent himself, the suit should be commenced de *ova; and if in the esti - so commenced the party suing was either ignorant of the names of the other partners, or made a mistake In the Christian name of soy partner, the third partner might plead an abatement, because use of the partners had not been named in the suit, or a Christian name of one of the partners misapplied. The plaintiff in such a ease would find great difficulty to peeve alto were actual partners, far those who were in the company could nut give evidence to that fact. because they were parties to the suit. Such were the in. conveniences which arose out of the present law of partnership, when hs was anxious to see improves! ; whether by a general re gistry of partners, or that en action **sane use power shoold be binding againerthe firm, he wonht net say. He cerainly wished mat some person more conversant with the law than he was would unicrtake the amendment of that law, which would. in his opinion, give security to partnerships, and prove of the greatest advantage to the trade and commerce of the country. ll(r. TRES' A YNE said a few words, the purport of which we could not catch. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw. On our return to the galle‘y, we understood that Mr. Littleton's amendment, That the Bill be read that day six months," was agreed to without a dictator). . . _ Alt. S. RICE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate the laws of Tolls in Ireland... ftWiinusetlieWie;;ived itself into a Committee of Supply. IRISH MISCELLANEOUS ESTIMATLS. Or Mr. HEMMEN'. reading the Resolution, "That a sum au eaceeding 25,0001. be granted to the Society fur promoting the Education of the Poor of Ireland," Mr. HOME rose; he hoped that he should not for the future be accused of detaining the House on Ireduesday, when the Oen theme on the opposite side adopted the same coarse. He thought it was understood that no horsiness of importance should be trans. acted on that evening. Those estimates were Alerted through their whole mune with such celerity, that it was impossible to examine them veldt the minuteness they deserved. He would. however, rail she siltation of the House to one feet disclosed by them, which was smithy of notice. as an Irish curiosity. The Satiety then applying to the country for a grant reckoned among its supporters all the worthy Bishops of Ireland, and yet, would it be 'believed that the sate somruiug to the collector of that Society, who was paid 5 per cent. en the money collected, amounted to no more than theism pounds? It appeared to hiot an insult to levy 25.200/. on the petiole of England to educate the Irish poor, while the vieh Prelates of that country . contributed to the same object only 2'201. There was another point worthy of notice. In the returns of 1:123. th at :society had reptesented the number of their schools to be 1490, and the number of ehildren educated in them to be no less than 102,004, and last year they required only 22, ( 00/. t o sup p ort their elpenles ; they had at present. as appeared from the returns laid no the table, only 52.000 pupils and 800 schools, yet now they asked for an inert eve of 30001. He wished also to point nut a par- titular in the returns of that Society, which would show Ivor easy it wee for a body of that kind to delude the public. If found it staled in their returns of 1824. that the number of schnols l in Ulster wit 489, and that of the pupils 24.238. This a. - count he hound, upon ezamination, gave an average of 70 idiot to to each school. Again, the schools to Lamer were stated at 11/06 $lll the scholars 11,428. which gave precisely the .rite re- Imo. In 51unsver the schools were In. and •chnlars iti.24o). In ( ou . osight the numbers were respectively 135 anti . thus in I each of the four provinces, it happened that the avenge number o f pupils in each school was precisely 70. This coincidence was too extraordinary not to raise the presumption that the whole was a manufactured statement, and he hoped that the House would agree to reprove the prelates who neglected, and the Committee who mis managed that society, by withholding the grant. The lion. 3lem ber then proceeded to remark on the peat amount of salanes paid by the Society : to a Registrar and Assistant, 400/.: to twelve clerks, 1,1741.; there was also a sum of 2,3501. charged for the travelling expenses of ten inspectors; and here he would ask the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Gnulburn) how the returns could have been incorrect, if those inspectors had done their duty. Besides these expenses there was a charge of 9,400/. as gratuities to teachers, who were also paid by salaries. From all these considerations he hoped the house would be convinced that the sum of 25,0001. was altoge ther disproportioned to Its object ; but it was necessary to observe also, that there was • commission In existence to inquire into the education of the pont of Ireland. If he (Mr. Hume) were to ask for returns in similar circumstances, he was sure he would be an swered, Why do you proceed to make inquiries and entail new ex penses during the existence of a contniission. Ile wished that Ministers were consistent, and that they 'timid withhold those grants for societies until the remit of this commission should be known. But to show that he did not wish to cut off abruptly the funds of such establishments, he would beg leave to move as an amendment, that the sum of 22.000/. which was the amount of last year's vote, should be granted this year also. Lord MILTON wished to add a supplementary observation to what had fallen from the lion. Member. What the Hon. Gentle. man had stated with respect to the four provinces, was equally ap plicable to the 32 counties of Ireland—that curious coincidence had all the appearance of imposition. It might, indeed, admit of ex planation, and be sincerely hoped that all suspicious would be even tually dispelled. Mr. BUTTERWORTH observed that the Hon. Member for Aberdeen had made an attack on the Irish prelates, as If the Kul dare-place society were wholly under the mnnagenieut of ecclesias tical persons, which was rot the fact. He hoped the lion. Gentle man's charges would find their way to Dublin, where they would be sure of being refuted. The Hon. Member was then proceeding to make some remarks on what had fallen from an Hon. Gentleman I (the Member for Cork) on a former occasion, when Mr. BROGDEN ioterfered. It was decidedly Irregular, he said, to discuss any expression which had been used on a former evening. 31r. GOULBURN said he was at a loss to know where the lion. Member had acquired his information with respect to the number of schools and scholars. 3lr. 111:31E—From the Report of 1824, appendix 4, page 00, , referred to in the Report of 1824. Mr. GIG . LBURN said he hoped the House would not require him, unfurnished as lie was with documents, to answer the allega tions of the Hon. Gentleman. But the Hon. Gentleman had levelled his censures against the Bishops of Ireland, as identified with that society, while the papers which he held in his hand might show him that there was not • Bishop. nor even a clergyman among its nianagera. With respect to the irregularity . with which lie had been accused by the Hon. Gentleman, of going into the votes on that evening, bethought that this proceeding had been the con dition of his (31r. Goulburn's) giving way on a former evening, and that the Hon. Member foe Aberdeen had distinctly given his assent to this arrangement. Mr. S. RiCE said that he would take an opportunity of calling for the communications that passed between the Kildarc.place So ciety and the Commission of Inquiry. 31r. GOULBURN was net aware of any discrepancy between the two statements. The returns front the Society gave the total number of scholars on the roll, while the reduced returns were only of the average attendance. Mr. HUME condemned the liberty taken in calling his state ments false, while no proof of their incorrectness was adduced ; but if the lion. Gentleman wanted documents to furnish him with proofs, that was another reason why the vote should stand over. Mr. BRIGHT thought the question ought to be deferred, in order to allow time for explanation. Mr. BUTTERWORTH said a few words in explanation. Mr. F. LEWIS regretted that the Report on the Schools of Ire. land, which wee in preparation. could not be immediately laid be fore the House. In that Report was contained the letter from the Society, alluded to by an lion. Member (Mr. S. Rice). In the mean time it ought not to be forgotten that differences would be apparent in the numbers, according as they gave the number of scholars on the roll, or the attendance of three mo•iths. The So ciety bad taken the average of scholars in each school at 70, cud the Commissioners at 61. so that the difference was not material. The Committee of the Kildare.place Society were, he was sure, quite incapable of practising any deception. Mr. HUME said it appeared that the returns of the scholsrs was magnified by half their real amount. It was therefore hardly pos sible to expect a fair return. The former accounts had been framed with the view of making an uncandid impression on the House. The Society therefore deserved to be watched with a jealous suspi cion. He concluded by signifying his intention not to divide the House. . _ The amendment was then negatived without a division, and the original.vote was agreed to. The following votes were also agreed to :- 31.0001. for the Foundling Hospital, Dublin. 20.2.10/. icr die Howe of Industry. 7,200/. for the Richmond Lunatic Asylum. 7,5001. for the Hibernian Society for soldiers' Children. LOU. for the Hibernian Marine Society. 1.0001. for the Female Orphan House. 4,1291. 14s. Id. for the Westmorland Lock Hospital. 231121. for the Lving.in Hospital in Dublin. 1,66:11. for Dr. Steven's Hospital, Dublin. 4.21 W. for the Fever Hospital and House of Recovery, Dublin. 4451. for the Hospital of Incurables at Dublin. 8,0291. for the Roman Catholic Seminary in Ireland. 1,36.31. for the Royal Cork Institution. 7.001.1 1 . for the Royal Dublin Society. io,eittl. for Commissioners of Wide Streets. Dublin. 2.6001. for the Farming Society of Ireland. SOUL. to the Royal Irish Academy. 7971. Mr expenses of Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests. MISCELLANEOUS SERVICES. 19,938/. for the Trustees of Linen Manutacture in Ireland. 24.1101. for the Board of Works. 16,886/. for Printing, Stationery, and other disbursements of the Chief and Under Secretary's H ficers, he. 8,0001. foe Proclamations and other publications in the Gazette and Newspapers in Ireland. 4.,6151 for Printing of public General Acts, 7 Gee. 4. 35,935/. for Criminal Prosecutions and other haw expences. 13,9721. for Nonconforming, Seceding, and Protestant Dissent. ing Ministers in Ireland. 1,0721. for Salaries of Lottery Officers in Ireland. 6.19i0/. for Directors General of Inland Navigation In Ireland. 23,0001. for the Police of Dublin. 7.313e1. for the Commissioners of Judicial Inquiry in Ireland. 1,8331. for Commissioners of frown Lands. 3.5001. for Board of Public Records. 35,0901. for Public Works in Ireland. NATIONAL GALLERY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER stated that he felt great pleasure in being able to inform the House that a valuable addition had been made to the pictures of the National Gallery. A gentleman, who was in possesion of three pictures of great ex cellence, had agreed to dispose of them, for the purpose of being placed in the National (Hillery, to which they would , - he was con vinced, be considered acquisitions of no small merit. These pic tures were painted by Nicholas Poussln, Annil.al Carracci,•and Titian. The three pictures comprised many excellencies. That by Carracci. though on a small scale. was one of the moat beautiful specimens of that great master. The picture by Titian had been lung in the country, and was well known to every person of taste in the pictorial department, for the beauty of its colouring and ex. preador. When it was understood that these pictures could be pro. cured for the National Gallery, 9.0001. was oFered, end the pro posal was accepted by the owner. They were already placed in the gallery, and were considered by judges la the are es be unclog its chief ornaments. He (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) under stood from a gentleman of respectability, conversant in those mat ters, that the late Mr. Angerstein had been strongly urged by his friends to add to his collection by the purchase of the Titian alone at the suns of 5,000/. Under such circumstances the purchase of the three pictures bad been agreed on, and he should propose a vote to that effect. The vote for to defray the purchase of three pictures for the National Gallery, wrot accorilmely proposed and passed. The sum of 24,407/. for the Aldine Estimates was next pro. posed. and, after a short ronvcr.ation between Colonel %Vow) and Lord PAL MEINTOIK4 Wu agreed to. The House then resumed, and Mr. BROGDEW brought up the report, which was ordered to be received tomorrow. Sn:li DUTIES Upon the motion of going into a committee on the Silk Duties Bill, lIRIGIIT wished to know whether, by the operation of this Bill. the importation of silks was 'to be confined to the port of London. slr. C. GRANT said that it was intended to be enly a tem. porary measure of two years' duration, and for that period the nu. portation was lobe limited to the port of London. In answer to another question from Mr. BRIGHT. Mr. C. GRANT said he WaS anxious to give every opportunity for discussion, nay more, to Invite it. His intention therefore ass, that the Bill should go through a committee pro forma at present, and that it should be recommitted after the holidays. The Bill then went through a committee, and was ordered to be recommitted on the ritli April. CHA RING-CROSS IMPROVEMENT BILL. The Charing.cross Improvement 111111 was read a second time. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter before eight. The salutary and unrivalled effects of Rowland's Ka ledor, with respect to one of its multifarious eminent Properties, is daily evidenced. A Lady of hig!t respectability, during the period of suckling, received the moat soothing relief from the use of that invaluable article, which, possessing balnamic and purifying qualities, Is pre.emlnently successful in preventing the attacks of cold winds on the skit). and for effectually excluding and resisting, with a rapid energy truly astonishing, all disorders which disor. ionise the beauty of the cluntenatice ; and for inerming the fair. rests and transparen•y of the skin, excersla oil competition. To fantlemeo. Rowlanea &Odor is an infaltiLle apectlic in allaying the sinariing irritability of the fare. and and render shaving, here tofore painful, now a pleasurable operaticu. STOCKS YESTERDAY. Indio Bondi 3 5 pm Es. Bills IWO!. 5 4 I pm Ditto 504.11. 5 4 5 psi Ditto Small 1 4 4 put Lottery Ticket+ 211. ils. ligtaileslean Angto-Cheltas BeJanos PRICIN OF MU nu 8 COCKS YESTERDAY. Greek Bonds Ditto Muds (1628) 18 1 I Ditto Acct. IS j j j Mezican Ronda Ditto Bonds (182$) Of 6 6 , Ditto Acct. 61:1 61 H G j 6 j 6 Peruvian Bonds 31 Ditto Acct. 814 1 Portuguese Roods 111 2 Ditto Acct. 7$ Russian Bonds 791 Ditto Acct. 78 , 1 Spanish Ronda 10! • Ditto 610, lUI AI Yr.TEIIDAY. 11bare.ld. , 1100 4/ 18 MA 100 1 4 (111 400 60 71 pm 100 10 6dins ......... ........... 100 6 6) die • • ........ . A ..t coo*Asi is*. Brazilles Etritish Iron Chinas . . Pasro-Peravlso 71s1pusabus Alliance Ballah 0 • 41 Pon* ........ 100 10 pm Guardian 100 10 611. m Palladium IRON RAILWAYS. • Liverpool and lifanehestar •••• --•••••-•- 100 12 pen miseitawriloua. General Seam Navigation ..— 100 I 21 dia THE BRITISH PRESS. PRICE 9 OP BRITISH 3 pee Cent. Cons. 771 ;Si 7d Ditto Acct. 771 NI 78 78 New 4 per Vent. NI 913 hula Stuck Ditto Are'. 2t3 citirES 0.1 1 IuREIGN MasiElan Bends 56 Ditto Acct. 55 Ohlllan Bonds 50 Ditto Acct. GO Colombian Bonds 611 Ditto Bonds (1824) 491 60 1 60 Ditto Acct. 491 50 1 50 / 50 Danish Bonds (1826) 051 4 1 Ditto Acet. 561 1 1 1 French Bente* S par Cant. lizehange French Ratites t per Cent. OIL 7k. ilsohanore 215 r. SOc. trustialsjara Bonds 'Ow iti h iprrsz* DRURY-LANI THEATRE. Ow EASTER MONDAY, Meech 27, will be performed the new Operatic Play of BF:NYOWSKY. Benyowsky, Mr. Bennett; Korasto, Mr. Horn; Stephanoff, Mr. Wal lack ; Trktram Stark, Mr. Harley. Athanasis, Mina Foote; Phedura, Mk% Cubits ; Chri•tine. MSS Posey. Aft,r wlitah time) a new Grand Romantic Fairy Tale, called OFIF.RON ; or, THE CHARMED HORN. Parlez—Oberon, Miss Vincent; Titania, Mi•• Macdonald. French—The Dawn.. Charlemagne, Mr. 0. Smith ; Slr Huon of Guyenne. Mr. Ben. nett ; Sltera•min, Mr. Browne; Sir Aubert, Mr. Howell. Arabians—The 14•1iph of Bagdad, Mr. Pope ; the Prince Itablkin, Mr. Penley ; Mr. Fit:whiten) ; Writer, Mr. Mercer. The Princess Amanda, Miss Smith- Sou Fatma, Mrs. C. Jones. Tunialans—The Sultan of Tunis, Mr. Youngs; Kuluga, Mr. W. Bennett; Fisherman, Mr. G. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA-HOUSE. PASSION WEEK. Thl4 Evening, THI'RSDAY, Starch 23, being poaltively the LAST NIOIIT until neat Year of the LECTIJR/11 on ♦STRONOMY by Mr. BARTLEY. Door' open at Half-past 3is , end begin at Seven. The BRITISU Patss commenced oubli‘bing yesterday morning at a quarter past live o'clock. LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1996. The Etoile of Tuesday contains an account of BAZAN'S rash attempt in Spain. The following are extracts from the French Papers which have arrived:— [From the Etoile, dated Tuesday. March 21.1 MADRID., 51ancii 9. The papers seized upon Bazan and the persons of his band, con. tain all the details of the extravagant plan formed by the Revolu tionists. In case of success, the Government was to be confided to a sort of Regency or Directory, composed of Romero Alpuente, and other violent Jacobins. A Supreme Revolutionary Tribunal was to be erected in the capital, and subaltern tribunals in the pro. vinces, to do justice on the enemies of liberty. Models of lists of proscriptions were drown up, and they had even been filled fur some towns in the coast of Valencia, particu. larly for Guadamar, the place at which they landed. A woman was condemned to a fine for having danced with Chambo (a Royalist Guerillero). The estates of the Clergy and of the Nobility were to be confis cated, for the two-fold purpose of remedying the penury of the finances, and of destro►ing claws incompatible with the new order of things. Minute regulations fixed also the details of the intended civil and financial administration. However incredible such mad projects may appear, the pre ceding conduct of Selles and Basin did mot permit any thing more moderate or reasonable to be expected from them, or from those who directed them. Accordingly the news of their defeat has been received with general satisfaction. It is presumed that such a result will cause the project of a se. cond expedition, which was preparing at Gibraltar, to be aban. Boned. It appears besides, that though formed for the same pur. pose, the persons who were to make part of it did not partake in their whole exrent the wicked and sanguinary plans of the com panions of Baran. Several of the revolutionists of the band of Bastin have not ye been shot. They have made important disclosures, which im. plicate in their plot the name of Mina, and of a person of conse quence. It is affirmed that the Spanish Consul at Gibraltar has obtained a positive promise that all the refugees who are at all dangerous shall be shortly expelled from the place, and even from the bay. The Glverntnent has already recommended very strict vigilance to the persons who are charged with the police of the road. The most distinguished of the refugees lodged in the town are forbidden to leave it; they are noted at the gates, and must be at home at eight o'clock in the evening, to expect the pollee officers, who will take a review of them several times in the week. The Board of Health at Cadiz being informed that there are in several towns of Morocco very destructive fevers, caused by the extreme eistress, has just ordered that all persons coming from that empire shall be subject to fifteen days' quarantine. The Infanta Donna Louisa Carlota being in the ninth month of her pregnancy, official notice of it has just been given to the Fo reign Ambassadors and Ministers, the Counsellors of State, the Captains-General of the Army, the Chiefs of the Supreme Coun cils, and to the four Grandees of Spain, who, according to custom, must attend at the presentation of the child Limmediately upon its birth. A great deal has been said within these few days of a duel be sateen two Garden du Corps, both foreigners. One of them, of English descent, was accused by several of his comrades of a disho nourable action. As he could not be legally convicted of it, he de manded vathfaction for the Injurious suspicion of which he was the object, and challenged his accusers. Three of them came forward to settle the quarrel ; the first wounded him very severely us the throat. lie is now under arrest, u well as all his comrades. PARIS, MARCH 20. A letter from Vienna says, Ills Majesty the Emperor had, in the night of the 10th March, an alto* estiever, which. Heaven be praised, was not attended with any Manning symptom. His Ma. Jesty was much better the next morning, and there is every reason to hope the speedy recovery of this adored Monarch. His Majesty slept six hours in the night of the 11th, ar.d is now entirely con. valescer.t. It is affirmed that orders of the day, lately read to the troops, dissuades individuals belonging to the army of the Netherlands from taking part directly or indirectly in the Societies or Corn. mitten, the object of which is to find aid or to collect subscriptions in suppott of the Greeks.—Le Beige. {From the Pilate of Monday.] PARIS, Maslen 19. Letters from Buenos Ayres say, that Bolivar was preparing to Invade PurAguay, hecaur.: it was notorious that Dr. Francis, who governs that country, has a secret correspondence with the Queen of Portugal, with a view to Induce the King of Spain to send troops to Paraguay, and to recomeoce hostilities In Peru. It is added that Bolivar, who has an accurate knowledge of all the projects formed against the new States of South America, hus published in the Gazettes of Pent, that the pretended Colonists who embark from time to lime, at Trieste, for Rio deJaneiro, were in reality old soldiers, who go to increase the army of Don Pedto I. [From the Courricr Prostais.l The King of Portugal in appointing his daughter to the Regency, appointed also at the same time a Council of State to assist her . This Council was composed of the following persons :—The Duke of Cadaval, a Prince of the Blood; Doo Frey Patricio, patriarch of Lisbon ; the Marquis of Valadea, a Counsellor of State; and the Count of Zarcos, also a Counsellor. of State, and formerly tutor to his son, Don Pedro. FRENCH FIINDS.-PAillS, MARCH 20.—Fivo per Cents. 26f. 35e. ; Three per Cents. HU. 73c. ; Bank Stock 2.0001. i Ren!e de Naples 71f. 20c.; Royal Spanish Loans 44i. Exchanges in Lon. don ►nc Ilona' 251.55 c. ; Three dit:o 231. 30c.—Cunt Authrn• ague, 41far ch 20. It appears by the following extract of a letter from the Agent of Lloyd's at Hamburgh, that extensive frauds have been practised on the underwriters, which we are happy to state have been recently detected. seven persons were under arrest at Hamburgll, charged with these crimes. and four at Oldenburgh. In the invt stigation that has already taken place, it seems that a foreign vessel, from Hamburg!' and Altona to London, was sunk by the Master off Borkurn ; on board of which fictitious packages were found, for the purpose of defrauding the London under writers, by whom policies to an immense amount had been subscribed. There are few persons more liable to have frauds practised upon theta than the members of Lloyd's Coff.e-liouse ; and we should say, take them as a body, there are none who less eh serve such treatment. In a large corn, like that of the London underwriters, there must ne cessarily be exceptions to this general rule ; hut we know that the leading members in the room, whose example is followed by the great mass of the subscribers, not only uni formly show a most honourable anxiety to settle any losses on policies that they may have underwritten, where the case is clear, but even to adjust them under equivocal circum stances, when they can do so without grossly compromising their own interests. We do hope that the Committee for conducting this most important branch of our mercantile system, now that they have a tangible case before them, will thoroughly investigate it, and that the same energy which has been so often exerted for national purposes, will be now employed iu defending fbr the future the property of the members of this highly important establishment, as far as the punishment of the criminals who have recently invaded it can effect that desirable object Extract of a Letter from the Agent to Lloyd's at Hambargh, dated 17th March : " In consequence of an investigation attending the loss of the Frau Oretlia, Captain Evert Adieu, bound from Ilamburgh and Altona to London, it has been ascertained ihat the said vessel was bored and sunk on the 7th Dezember, by the Muter and crew, near Borkum. It also appears that the cargo consisted of only fictitious packages, whose contents were of little or no value. The various persons here and in Oldenburgh, for whose account the insurances were effected, were privy to and had concerted the business *hit the Master. Criminal prosecution is now going on through the authorities of police of this place, and seven parties have been ar. rested as principals or accomplices. The Master of the vessel and some others have also been arrested by the Oldenburgh Govern. went. The investigation of the Frau Gretha's business has led to a discovery of an arrangement for a similar fraud, but which, of course, has been frustrated." It is, we think, an admirably good sign of the times, when even the renowned poet of Ma ahrros can dip his classic pencil in all the hues of sedition, without exciting the slightest alarm or creating the least symptoms of ill will. He had no doubt been whirled round on the wheel of popular applause till he was surfeited, and was there fore anxious to get rid of so much of his reputation as might bring him down to the common level. It is difficult otherwise to account for his thus hiding his loyalty all on a sudden under a bushel, and, like a recreant Knight, breaking forth in the spirit of faction—turning short round on all his former sentiments—and, in a word, appearing in complete metamorphosis. On his Majesty's memorable visit to Scotland, who poured forth an unction of flattery more profusely than Sir WALTER? in° lauded that UNION which gave one throne to both kingdoms more loudly, or earned a Baronetcy with a better grace, than MALACHI MAI.AGROWTIIER? How changed is that tone from the one which breathes the following factious hints and insinuations into the ear of PADDY, who, if perchance he should hear the sound of ca ira from the North, is in vited to whistle to the same tune. " Betwixt Scotland and England, Mr. Journalist, there have been, as you are aware, antient causes of quarrel, lulled to sleep during the last fifty years, until of late, when a variety of small aggressions, followed by the present seven-leagued stride, show that perhaps they have not been so fully forgotten by our neighbours, as we thought In our simplicity, and that the English Ministers may not be indisposed to take the opportunity of our torpidity to twitch out our fang-teeth, however necessary for eating our victuals, in case we should be inclined, at some unlucky moment, to make a different use of them. Or, the line of conduct of which we complain, may be compared to a well-known operation resorted to for taming the ferocity of such male animals as are intended for domestication, and to be employed in patient drudgery. The animal becomes fat, patient, sleek, and in so far is benefited by the operation ; but had his previous consent been required, I wonder what the poor Scotch slat would linve said ? " PATRICK, my warm-hearted and shrewd friend, how should you like this receipt for domestication, should it travel your way ? You have your own griefs, an .l your own subjects of complaint,— are you willing o lose the power of expressing them wills energy You have only to join with the Ministry on this debate—you have only to show in what light reverence you are willing to hold the articles of an Union not much above a century old, and then you will have time to reflect at leisure upon the consequences of such an example. In such a cue, when your turn comes (and come be sure it will), you will have signed your own sentence. You will have given the fatal precedent to England of the annihilation of a solemn treaty of incorporating Uuion, ar.d afforded the Repre.enta. tires of Scotland ♦indictive reasons for retaliating upon you the injury which you aided England in inflicting upon us. Whereas— step this way, Pat—and see there is nobody listening —why should not you and we have a friendly understanding, and assist cacti other, as the weaker parties, against any aggressions which may be made upon either of us, for uniformity's sake ?'—Your fathers are called by our Scottish Kings, their antieut friends of the Erischerie of Eirland,' and for my part I have little doubt that Malachi. who wore the collar of gold, must have been an ancestor of my own. Now, what say you to a league grAissine and de. fenthe, against all such measures as tend to the suppression of any just right belonging to either country, in virtue of the Articles of Union respectively?—You ate a scholar, Pat— • Ma rot agitur, Neskins ems wits ardet' " Between ourselves, Patrick, Joust BULL is, not unnaturally, desirous of having rather mo►e than his own share in managing the great national coach-and-six. Ho will drive four-In.hand ; and though he has hitherto allowed you a postilion of your own, yet if you set an example of aiding the gross infringement of the Scottish Union—if you aid England, in her destroying for mere humour— I beg pardon, for mere uniformity's sake,'—eve►y little mark of independence which is left us—if you countenance the obvious desire which exhibits itself to break down all peculiar privileges due to the separate nations of the Union, to engross the whole ma nagement in Boards, which, sitting in Loudon, and begirt by Lag. lishmen, are to dispense the patronage._ snd direct the improve. menu, of IRELAND and SCOTLAND, you will accelerate your own then anpitied degradation. What Is our case to-day will be yours the Instant you have got a little tranquillity —are caught napping—and are in condition to have the aforesaid ceremony prac tised upon you without danger—l mean danger to the operator, fur peril to the creature itself is of no consequence. I see you grasp your 'lintels at the very thought ! Enough; we understand each outer let us he friends. PATRICK aids SeuNDEIS to-day; SALINDERS pays back PATRICK to-morrow, or I will throw away my thistle, burn my St.Antirew's cross, end disclaim my country !" —(Second Leiter of Molcserl Molagrowther, pp. 22-21) There was a time when this attempt to generate feelings of disaffection in the siatcr kingdom would have called forth something very different from the smile, which—thanks to the enlightened policy of our rulers—is all that will follow it. By the way, we think the writer must mistake his pedi gree, when he professes to have little doubt but that MA• Lacitt, who wore the collar of gold, must have been his ancestor. The precious metals could hare made no part of the ornamet.ta of his order. Either the decoration must have been a PA PE a chain, or there must have been a radi cal change in the family ; otherwise we should never behold one of its hereditary standard-bearers carrying a bundle of - Scotch notes before him in triumph, and making all Ca:e. donia resound with "In hoc signo vincer." It is a great mistake to suppose that the capit a l matti by means of paper currency, is, in Scotland, any more than elsewhere, an accession to the general wealth of the kin g . dom. It is oftentimes quite the reverse, inasmuch as the trade of the substantial dealers is, in many cases, redu ce d in the same proportion as theirs is increased who carry en their concerns with this borrowed capital. But Sir Ilr et . T 2 a raises as loud an outcry against the prohibiting th e issue of notes below fire pounds as if the issue of all note s above that amount were in like man na r restricted, and as absolute interdict passed against all paper currency in Scot. land. " Can anything," he asks, "short of the utmost necessity, justify an experiment which threaten, to depor e ,. late a part of the empire, and destroy the happin ew , of thousands?" This exaggeration is truly ludicmus. Wh at is there to impede the operation of mercantile dealing i n the extinction of these minor notes ; or what effect will it have in limiting the rational and prudent extent of commercial speculation ? Will not the same trans, action, for example, which before was ne:ociat,i with fifty-four one-pound notes, be now nego•iaud with ten five-pound notes and four as, Ve'reitini 1 3 oui payment of money, whether in the issue of Bank paper or in ordinary dealings, it is only the fractional diff2renc e b e . low five pounds that need be paid in gotd. And is there wherewithal in this to threaten the depopulation of Scotland! The sons of the thistle are very easily exterminated if this is the case. But MALACHI, we suspect, is filled with alarm without knowing exactly to what to ascribe it. He re' minds us of the perplexity of the Monarch in Ton 'cm e at a— " I feel a sudden pain across my breast, Nor know I whether it proceeds trim kre Or the wind- , hotie--hut time will show." CITY, .: it EDNESDAY EVEMING. Consols advanced from 77 to 81, in const (pore of its being understood that Russia had amicably arranged all her complicated political affairs with the other Eutoptan powers ; but towards the dose of' the day the Market retro graded to 'is buyers, at which price it closed. Exch..Tic... Bills were ss. 4s. pr. ; and India Bonds 3s. pr.; but the business was so limited all day that no interest was excited amongst speculators. The following circular has been issued by the house of Green and Bartley : " London, March 20. 1516.. "S 11 tis mar psinfal duty to acquaint you that we hove heel under the necessity of suspending our payments. This measure, after every effort to avert it, has been forced upon LIF t from the heavy advances which we have made upon manufactured goods consigned to our houses in America, and from the difficulties which our friends have experienced, during the extraordinary pressure of the times, in keeping their engagements with us. " As the losses which we ha re sustained, in conducting an even. sire business through a period of unexampled peril, are very ircoc. siderable, and as the inconvenience to which we have been mond is but temporary, so we trust that a very short interval will enable us to resume, and to continue our payments, with their forma regularity. . _ . , " Ou r property is smply sufficient to discharge all our engage. meow, and to permit us. when realised, to pursue our business on its usual footing, and with resources nearly undiminished. " The pain we feel in making this commur 'cation will be gentle alleviated, if, continuing to us a portion of that confid e n ce sib which you have hitherto honoured us, you should deem it unncces. sary to withdraw from the hands of our establishments abroad, Lb, Property you have been phased to entrust to them ; and while suds an act of forbearance would expose you to no injurious sense. quences, we need not add the , it would be highly apple fated by us. We remain with respect, Sir, your most obedient servants, GIICEN and HARTLEY." The Foreign Market wee also is;;stateof — ioa:t;nty; but the prices for the most part were maintained. Colom bian Bonds were .50; Mexican 6 per Cents. 66; Russian Bonds 784 ; Greek Ditto 1H ; and Spanish 101 d. Por tuguese Bonds receded ; they were done at 72 3. Shares were not noticed. A very extraordinary report was circulated in the City this morning —that a body-guard for the Regent of Portu gal, of 2,000 men, will immediately be sent by the English Ministers to the Tagus. The Ilamburgh papers which arrived yesterday bring accounts from Russia, Sweden, and other countries, by which we regret to perceive that the financial panic has found its way to Sweden, and that it is prcducing terrible eff.!cts among the merchants in that country. Advices from Corfu, dated February Ir, state that Nikitas had recently interrupts , ', in the detile o the pro vince of Leondari, a corps of h Ei yptians on their rout to l'ripolizza, escorting 700 mules laden with provisions and ammunition. Many of the Egyptians were killed, and the provisions taken. Private letters by the mail from Buenos Ayres, persist in the statement that Bolivar will assist' with his forces the cense of Buenos Ayres against the Emperor of Brazil. They add that General Miller, of the Colombian army, was expected at the former place on the 6th of January. LANDED PROPERTY IN FRANCE.—Before the Revolution the value of the landed property in France was estimated at about 16,000,000,000/. From a comparison of the sales of estates before and since the Revolution, it is judged to have increased one-third in value, which makes the present amount about 21,300,000,000/. ; and this increase is attri buted entirely to the alteration in the laws of succession, which took place at the Revolution. It is calculated that the system of primogeniture and entails would destroy one' third of that value, by diminishing the activity of the cul tivators of the soil. The loss in this respect is calculated at 7,100,000,000/. The annual amount of rent in France before the Revolution was estimates' at 160,000,000/. and iN present amount is supposed to be 213,000,0001. French taxes amount to one-fifth of these rents, consequently the loss of the revenue by the droll d'ainesse will amount to one-third of the whole revenue, on about 10,000.00 a Supposing the income of the poorest families to be about 201. a year, a diminution of even 20,000,0001. of thy esti mated rents of land. would thus deprive a million of such families of the means of subsistence, and would sliminidi the population by five millions of industrious inhabitants. who would be sacrificed for the sake of eighty thousand idle noblemen. The French papers sum up the whole, by observing, that the right of primogeniture will cest France 240,000,0001. of productive capital, 20,000,0001. of terri torial income, and 4,000,0001. of public income. Although several parts of the country are still suffering under very severe distress, and although the markets are much depressed, yet there appear at length to be solos slight signs of returning prosperity. The cotton and woollen trade seem to be recovering in some degree from the state of depression in which they have been for seine time sunk, and we have no doubt that the other branches of trade will shortly participate in the improvement. The general want of confidence, and the attendant fluctuation in prices, which were among the principal causes of the stagnation of trade, have, in part, ceased. The weak hay , • indeed been overthrown, but the strong have acquired ad ditional stability, and the demand for goods must therefore! revive. Business will no doubt, for some time at least, be conducted on a safer footing—speculation will be checked — and if less is done, it will be done with greater advantage. Liverpoq Advertiser. CHARTER. SCHOOLS.—On Friday last three C 55 •, in which the Crown Counsel prosecuted, were tried a t Maryborough, before the Chief Baron. They ten rt ic dictments against Thom as E ustace , l ate us h er a t St-.a '.- holly Chart e r S c h oo l, f or crue l ty to t h e three b oys e f the names of Penrose, Fox, and Foster, who were inmates of that school in the year 1824, when it was visited to the Commisssioners of Education Inquiry ; were foIll"It' d chiefly on the report of Mr. Leslie Foster, one of those Comtnissioners, and are i mportant, as b e i ng t h e ti:st in stituted since the re p ort . Th e traverser was acqu itted. The defence was con d ucte d b y Mr. Wallace, K,('., an d M lm*C MP. Cruise. r. Ke K.., and the Recorder pro secuted. The celebrated Rabbi of Brody, braced the Catholi c f a i t h, an d now . performs duty as parish priest in the chur c h o f Sr. Stanislaus.in Galicia, has em braced