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irm t h r ee members of the board appoi nted . required to pay the ad. ;oat vaccinators proposed to bep The 3001. thus saved et ield go to furnish six individuals at 301, per annum each. Cat ty] t he talente of the gentlemen engaged, this was a very too. inter- Theemunration amte duties they had to perform greatly w e d with their priv practice. Agr eed to. sum of 3.0001. met then voted in support of the institution geed The Ketuge for the Destitute, for the year 182 e. Tye the sum of IMMO/. tor the relief ot American loyalists. The sum or 3.3061. for the expenses of Criminal Luneties, Tea t h a greed to. The v en ote of tilt:. 7s. 1041. being then proposed for the usual &flowers to Protestant Dissenting !Mters in Elieland, poor frenc h Protestant Refugee Clergy, poor French Protestant Re. Alec Litt', and sundry small charities. Mr. 11l 3IE thought it very strange that there should have been so diminution in the annual expenditure requisite for the French Protestant Refugee Clergymen. They appeared to him to be itn „ en d. He wished to know whether those Clergymen who were non the objects of the vote were the remnant of those persons who one to this country in the year 1520? (A laugh.) Ile thought that such must positively be the fact, for it was di ff icult to conceive shy t hee did not decrease in a fair proportiou. The Refugee laity hel irdeed diminished according to what aright be considered a * w a t t le average of mortality. Ile could not account fur the ten acity with which those Clergymen adhered to life ; at least he was armour to understand how it was to be made a matter of ne meshy ter that House to vote annually the identical sum that was & emu ! v i s isaMe in the preceding year.. If they could exist on at that rate, there would be no end to the Continuance of the pr.i seat vota Iik;RRIES mid that he Mem ber stht even the laity 'eve found pleasing to the Honourabl by the quickness of thew departure. It WWI to be hoped that-the clergy would hence (reword follow the laudable example. They had lot a long time been determined to live as long as they could, but now they had weed to depart according to the most approved ruler. of mortality. They had eonsultrd the prescribed periods of existence as the ave rages were csiculated at the Assurance offices, and the Ilonourable Member (Mr. Hume) would in Route find that the Refugee Clergy heel cormented to die in due time as well as the Laity. (A laugh.) The difference which had existed between the Clergy and the Laity vas occasioned by the different mode in which the parties acted for the I Any had received their relief Individually, but the Clergy %imposed that the relief was so the Church generally, and not to the individual clergyman. Mr JOHN NEWPORT expressed his regret at the great delay which had occurred In respect to the Report of the Ci m uni a siunere of Registers and Deed& in Ireland. This was a valuable matter, but n was strange that it was not given before the present time. It wee in fact a dead letter. and the delay was of moat ruinous comm. ;pence to the public. These Commissioners did not think that • they bad rewired sufficient remuneration for their services by the stelae, and they resolved to s upply the deficiency themselves. w W M r . Ifril asked whether attything had been done in respect e Board of 31anufaetores in Scotland ? Mr. HERRIES said something of which we could not, on ac. taunt of the noble in the gallery. collect the purport. Mr. MABERIN thought that when a commission for an inquiry vs. instituted two years ago there was good reason to expect some benefit from its labours; but he was now apprehensive that the mat ter was got upas a means of aupplying situations foe a few idle per sons in Edinburgh. Sir RONA LD FERGUSSON thought that the proceeding had all the appearance of a job. The Honourable Secretary opposite knew very well, at the opening of the Insitution. that nothing could be done satief riaetom ly. for the Government could dispose of the matter without the uof any of these Commissioners. Mr. HER RIES wished to assure the Honourable Member for Abingdon (Mr. 3laberly) that every facility would be afforded in the matter to which he had adverted. Th• report had been re. mired, and would won be submitted for his inspection. 'The House then resumed, and resolved itself into a Committee en the MUTINY BILL. Lord PALMERSTON rose, and (as we understood) wade some observation respecting the reciprocity which ought to pre vail in this country toward, the French. In foreign territories the Carewls of this country had been exempted from all those annoy ances that were attendant cat military arrangements. anti it was only just the the foreigner should be treated here with equal indulgence. There was a clause in the Act, that if an officer destroyed game without a licence from the lewd of the Manor, he was subject to St. peralty. But if a private soldier should commit the same offence, his superior officer was to be fined 21 for every head of game which was so destroyed. That was a remnant of laws which were now gLing out of fashion. He therefore meant to propose to abrogate the first part of that clause. Mr. ROSIE thought it would be advisable of the Noble hoed to reconsider the whole of the Mutiny Art, for there were many ob jectionable matters contained in it. From a clause in that Art it might be inferred that the soldiers of this country were slaves. But it was a principle of the law and of the constitotinn that from the moment sty man arrived in this country he became free. He wished to know if there my negroes now purchased for the pun. pose of betotrine soldiers. anti it so what was the number ? Lord PALIERS'I'ON said that he was surprised at the obser vations of the Hoe. Member who had yesterday voted fur two black regiments. 11r. f/VMrebservol, thee anew ail the expense which had been incurred in the formation of barracks throughout the country, it was very strange that they wen not found to relieve the community front all the annoynnemtwhich they were intended to obviate. It was extraordinary that the deficiencies should prevail, and that it was requisite to compensate It by billeting soldiers on different persons who ought to be exempted. In such a case the fair ex. penses incurred ought to be allowed to the individual. He knew the caw of a man in Edinburgh who had been put to an unpleasant expense in this way by six men who had been billeted en him. lord PALSIERSTON said that it sometimes happened that barracks were too full, end in othet instances soldiers were obliged to be sent Where there were no barracks. In such cases innkeepers were unavaidably burthened with billets i but it could not be coo lidera a Tay great hardship, as they entered the trade with a knowledge of their liability to such contirgencies. M. HUME thought that publicans, who paid all taxes as other peters, should not be subject to this species of annoyance, and particularly as it might be made the engine of private pique and atelier'. They ought at all events to be allowed the fair remune ration of the expense.' incurred. Lord PALM EASTON said, that if any publican was unfairly treated, he could easily obtain redress against those who had ba bied an undhe number on him. Two cLsoses Were then agreed to. ABOLITION OF FLOGGING. Mr. HUME rose fur the purpose of inserting a clause in the Bill to put an end to the practice of flogging soldiers in this country. It was a most pernicious mode of punishment, as it directly tended to dentorallie the sufferers, and eventually to produce the same effect on the spectators of such punialmtent ; both parties became of less value—the one as citizens, the other as soldiers. Ile thought that all punishments which were not absolutely necessary nuoto to be avoided; and the system of flogging, instead of being irdispen. 'ibis was highly injurious. lie knew that many officers were of the aspic opinion as that which he entertained on the subject; in deed, it had beery practically proved in foreign armies that flogging might safely and creditably be diapenoed with. lie had on a former occasion alluded to the ease of the Wirteniberg army, in which the practice of flogging prevailed. An alteration had been regarded as a matter of dubious and questionable benefit, but when a diffivent syment bad beets 'dowel, the result was found to be favourable to discipline. Men who had been considered too hardened from the previous mode of treatment, became much better soldiers when emulation became the principle of their conduct. The whole imps was considerably improved, and so continued to the latest accounts which had been received by him. That was an example which ought to be followed, as its fruits were found so ad vanrageous. He did not know whether &similar course might not be adopted here to that which was pursued in Wirtemberg. There in stead of flogging the following mode was substituted. There were two regiments of a condemned character into which those persons who, according to the old regime should have been flogged, were drafted from these regiments. if still refractory they were seut into a third, yet more ineligible. The consequence of that arrangement tees found to be Igen beneficial. and he did nce see why a similar plan should not be pursued in this country. liming heard from the Right 1100. Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and from the Colo- Secretary to night, the liberal measures contemplated for the Colonies, lie hoped that the site of the lash and the stripe would nut gte motioned to England alone. The stimulus of the lash should be dispensed with every where. I;ut more pattictilarly in the land 'which boasted of its freedom. Ile was no advocate for the reduc tion of discipline, but he did not see how it could be injuriously affected by the removal of flogging. The time of peace. such as at present prevailed in this country was most favourable to the expe riment. Emil a trial of its efficacy was heat made here, he was con test that It should not be applied to any dependency of England; but in a time of peace there enuld be no danger of a relapse of discipline. At the same time, however, thaq lie would limit its operation ,n England; he felt convinced that a species of punialmient which harrowed up the feeling as flogging did should not lie permitted to exist any where—to the East In dus or in the West. lie should therefore propose two clauses to remedy the evil, The first clause would be to person the infliction nt corporeal punishment by lash or stripe on any soldier in Great Brit:tin. The second claim was, that if any soldier be guilty , of theft, it shall be lawful to his Majesty to send him to the Colonies. The lion. Member then instanced the case of the United Statea of America, In the armies of which flogging was customary until the war in the )ear 11112. It ceased in that year on the 6th of May, and 4111:good effects were visible of dispensing with stripes and lashes. .!bolll . r?!at . present interfere with the Colonies. .. . .......—...,....... SIT. J. SM IT II did not think that the subject had been brought before the Muse in proper time and manner. He had hoped that the Hen. Nietnia r (Mr. Hum.) or the lion. Baronet (Sir Francis Burdett) with whom the principle originated, would have appointed li day for the special4liscumion of thelsubject. lie was fart arable to the peo . mire, and wan tinny to think that in England the tor t- tent , was inflicted nn the soldiery. Ile did not think that at that late hour he should be livened to if he went ito a detail of argu roues. He should, thereture, restrict himself. Ile knew an officer of dragoons, who vsceerofully rer tecered in the plan proposed. After a great deal of watching hest. reed No far, with the exception wh lit e tit two or th ree re f ractor y men. Ono his troop, at an ins n. were highly praised, when all the o th er . i n t h e reg i ment cored. A man once brought to the h a lb er d idist ail . Ind would continue to deserve a repetition of the punishment. lie wan rejoiced that the syriem in the Ira of this country was receiving many improvements; and he hoped that the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. Peel), who had so much disthigula.htd himself in this retpeet, would persevere in the glorious career of reformai inn. Ile hoped to live to see the day when corporal punishment wouLl be abolished. It had been said-- " God fixed it certain, that whatever day Mule man a slave took half his worth away." but a soldier loses all hie value in such an emergency, Sir R. FEROUSSON (as we understood) said that reagent' should be reported, or that the lion. Member (Mr. home ) should bring in a sprite on the report. Sir J. BRI'D(IES fully appmved of the abolition of flogging in the army, for honour war the essence of the soldier's profession, and when lost to shame he was deprived of the great incentive to merit. Besides. flogging did nut answer the purpose of preventing the mischiefs which it Vial intended to counteract (hear), for he thereby became callous to the punishment, and more emboldened to persevere in those acts which had occasioned its infliction. Sir O. MItRRAY said no one could be more alive than he to all the sufferings of humanity. Ile could not survey more than others even the unavoidable calamities of men without shedding tears of tonipassion ; nor did he claim any merit from the posses. thin of such feelings, for every man possesses such feelings of com passion. Even among the meanest of the rabble am b sentiments are called forth by the sight of punishment of extraordinary seve rity, and no greater pleasure can be found than in the indulgence of such feelings. But it is ore thing to possess these sensations and another to legislate under their impression. It is impossible to legit'. late, even in civil matters---and still less fa it tangible In military punishments. to legislate with propriety under the influence of such principles. In Well cases it is necessary to call to counsel the soundest feelings and the most sober judgment. No army ever existed without punishment, whether in ancient or modern times. He believed that the very system now practised in the English army was the system which regulated the discipline of the Roman armies; and that was not the only point in which the English army resembled that of the ancient Romans. None ever resembled it an nearly in valour, none was ever more similar to that army in . the lustre of its exploits. The Honourable and Galileo General (Sir It. Fergusson) had alluded to foreign armies; lie had mentioned the American army as one in which corporeal punishment was dis used, but for his part lie denied that there was any army at ail in that country ; what few troops it possesses are scattered over an immense continent, and are therefore never embodied in any re gular corps, as in the armies of Europe. America has no need of an army ; he has on foreign possessions to defend, no powerful entity in her vicinity, against whose invasions she has to defend hetself. Vse natural obstacles of the country, even if she had such an waemy.mould be sufficient to secure her against every danger (Matt, hear, bear). She is not, therefore, an example for us on such a subject. Nor is France by any means to be considered as a model for our imitation. Since the return of the present family to the throne of France, and previ. oils so that return, there was everything in their armies but a re laxation of punishments. Their punishments before the return of the Bourbons were far more severe than oure. and their men were sacrificed with a prodigal waste of life, which in our army would hive been deemed the height of barbarity. He had received from a German friend an account of several of the German armies, and it appeared from that information that there were few countries in which discipline was so atnct. The Hon. and Gallant General proceeded to read several extracts. By the articles of war In 1808, for regulating the Prussian armies. the cane was universally allow ed. end that in a manner wholly arbitrary. An alteration had since taken place in the Prussian armies. They should call to their recol lection the circumstatice that the constitution of the Prussian unties was entirely different from the English. Every man in the coun try was there subject to serve his country in the army, and conse• quently the rules by which they mum be regulated mum he very different. The whole Prussian army wits divided into timed:ones. Every soldier on entering the service wits placed in the lino class, and that class was entirely exempted from corporal punishment ; but if in that class the lighter punishment were found inefficient to check offences or unsoldierliko conduct, the soldier is then trans ferred to the second class, and is then liable to such punishment ; but his being in this class is not necessarily attended by punish ment, though it is sometimes inflicted at the time when the trans fer into this class is made. The punishment of the cane is in flicted by a non-commissioned officer, and never in public. Private and secret punishment had indeed been recommended ; but such a system element' more of the cruelty of despotism than of the true epiritormilitary punishments. As to theextent to which thiepunieh ment was allowed to be carried, forty blows with a stick were al lowed to be inflicted w ithout a Court-martial. Was that (asked the Gallant General) a system to be recommended for British soldiers ? The lion. Gentleman (Mr. Hume) had said that every thing like confinement was banished from every service but the English. But so far was this from being the case, there were two or three different sorts of confinement particularised for different degrees of delinquency in the third class of the soldiers in the Prussian service. There was, in the first place, solitary confine ment simply, in a barrack or otherwise; there was alto solitary confinement on bread and water; there was a species of confinement in which the prisoner could not lie down without inconvenience. The soldiers were sometimes deprived . of their rations, Inc. for a certain number of days, at the same time that they were thus con fined. In still more aggravated cases they were bound to a tree, with their face towards the trunk, and in such a position that it was impoesilSle for them to sit or lie down for several hours. These are pnnishmenta which existed in the Pros. sien war, whose system of discipline hat been extolled as the mildest of all codes. If the House did not think that hi wl>t trespassing too long on their time, he would read some entrants About the Saxon army. `The ban k he held in his hand on this subject contained accounts of higher punishments than threw of which he had hithetto spoken. The punishment of detdh, it seemed, was inflicted in that army sometiroes simply by shooting—a punishment frequently increased and embittered by the previous stretching of the culprit on the rack. Disgraceful crimes were aim punished by confinement in irons, and for thta purpose leg Irons were frequently used fixed by chains. Prisoners are often also confined in the gaols in their quarters, where they wear a par. titular dress and are fell on bread and water. They are employed in the most disgraceful offices, and rendered incapable of return ing.into the ranks of the army. There is also a species of solitary confinement which is only inflicted on great criminals, who are kept in a dark cell, without bed or bedding, fixed either to the wall or to the ground, their hands and feet fastened, and their body fixed in a bent position. The longest duration fixed for the first punish. merit is eight months, for the second six months. Ile would next proceed to make a few observations on the system which prevailed in the Ilanoverian armies previously to the reoccupation of that country by his 3lajesty. Ihe use of the cane was then universal in that PerviCe, and we see in this instance that the English system, on its introduction into that country, was hailed as • more hu mane code than that which had previously been in force. The number of lashes was then limited to NO, and all crimes except those of the smallest order should be tried by • Court-martial. We see from this circumstance that the Hanoverian army, pre viously to the return of the Guelfs, had been governed without Courts-martial. It would not be difficult for him to show that the practice of other armies was regulated by the same principles as those of which he had given these details. The Hon. Gentleman with whom the motion had originated had suggested that the milder system should be confined to England, and troops on the colonial service should not be permitted to participate in its advantages but no system could be more enoneous—rione could be more calculated to produce injurious consequences, than • system which should introduce a difference in the service of the Colonies from that which prevailed in the ;Mother Country. Nothing contributes so much to the high tone of military discipline in the British army, which rendered it so greatly superior to any other in ancient or modern times.—(Hear.)—nothing had contributed so much to establish in it that moral discipline for which it was now so much distinguished, as that liability which every man was subject to of being forced to go to any quarter of the globe where his Sovereign might please to order hint. This hardens and prepares the mind to undergo every turn of fortune ; it not only prepares the mind to aflioat death in the field of battle, hin to prepare for it in every variety of form which different climates or diseases present in any part of the globe. It was that which raised the British service to the height which it had attained. It was that which had rendered it so distinguished, aril wound continue to render it distiaguished, unless the Honourable Member succeeetled in getting his system adopted, that system by which the ser vice of the Colonies is to be separated from and rendered entirely distinct from that of the Mother Country. The constant Inlet chsuage of troops is that circumstance which contributes to the tin ' provement of the soldiers in any service. This country is not the whole of the British empire; its boundaries are far more extensive. Its heart is indeed in this country, but its limbs are scattered over Asia, Africa, and America. It had been asserted that the measure of tee Hon. Gent. OIL Hume) was approved of by the army ; bet so far from this being the case, if he might he allowed co speak for the part of the army to which he belonged (Hear,) they rejected the boon thus proflired to them. The army is sensible that it is to discipline that they owe all their successes. It is not breast. plates or harness, it is not even courage, it is discipline alone that forms the heart anu the soul of an army—it is that which leads to success—it is that which renders it useful to its country, and re.' specter] and feared by its enemies—it is from that very quarter now that this boon is presented to us from which those attempts pro ceeded, which did all that their nuthors were capable of doing to tarnish its laurels in Spain and Portugal—it is from that quarter whence we have heard it so often branded as a niece instrument in the hands of Ministers to coerce the people—it is that same hand which is now stretched out with the boon, which has been so long stretched out " with desperate hook to cut dowc" the armies of the country, to cut off the means of the education provided in our mili tary schools, and oblige our officers to seek professional information in foreign countries (Hear, hear,)—to cut down the whole of the establishments which have been formed for the support of those veterans who have spent their strength in the service of their coon. try, and are now left without a friend to comfort them in this last stage of their career. " I cannot accept the boon, and lam re minded of that lesson ; that strong but just and true lesson Timeo !Mown et dons ferentes." Sir R. WILSON said he would state facts on this subject nether than any abstract reasonings. He would not. however, give any exemplification of a painful nature. The Hon. Baronet mid he regretted that such punishments should be continued in the service for such a length of time. The Honourable and Gallant General had cited one or two powers in Gemiany ; hot the system of car. pont punishment does not exist in many parts of Germany. It does not exist in any shape in America. In Holland it was cont. pletely abolished by a decree, made by the King on his return to that country. An opinion might beformed of the effectsof the system in that country, for it has not been found that it has there had any effect prejudicial to the service. The Honourable and Ga:lai.t General had adverted to France at the time preceding the re turn of the Bourbons, when there was a waste of life which would have shocked the British people. But since the return of the Bourbone, thediscipline of the army had been by no means relaxed ; and is that must unrighteous acid most unholy expe- THE BRITISH PRESS. ditinn which they made into Spain for the purpose of replacing Ferdinand. they had, under eircumwancea when there were very great inducements to relax their discipline, displayed a degree of torbearance and atteniion to the rule• of war which would have done honour to any service ; and he had not on that occasion heard a ail. gle instance of gross misconduct on the part of the French. Notwith• sitandim; this. it was a certain fact that the French used none of dur e corporal punishments which were pretended to be absolutely intik rotsible in this country. Ile was glad to hear that even in the Prus.tan service—a service which wan always understood to be one of the most severe in Europe—there was still a data who were en. I tire) y exempted from all immoral punishment'', and in that respect he should led satisfied if our Government would imitate their ex ample. There could not be a more honourable distinction con ferred upon a man, whose length of service would render it pro per that some distinction 'should be conferred upon him, *ban an exemption from punishment of the nature of that which had been mentioned in the Prussian service. The Gallant General had in atituted a comparison between the Roman and English armies; hut he by no means saw that there was any reason to draw those conclusions front the parallel which had been drawn from it. The Romans were a nation remarkable for their cruelty, and It would he unfair to draw any conclusion from their conduct. The (Snliant General had also talked of the cane, but was the cane a punishment to be compared with the cat.o'-nine-tails. He was quite satisfied that the flogging kept out of the service many per mini at a Much superior description to those of whom it is now principally composed. Many persons would have no objection to see a little service and geeing a little knowledge of the world, if it were to be acquired without running the risk of being disgraced for life. Ile was satisfied, at least, that some progress had been made in the last fifty years—nay, in the last ten years—in the views which men took on the subject ; and he was persuaded if this law were adopted; that in twelve months there would not be a man who would not see that the service would be conducted equally well without punishment. Mr. Alt. SMITH said he should be satisfied if they established confinement or any other punishment whatever hut that of flogging. Colonel JOHNSON observed that the motion did not go far enough ; he wished it to extend to all parts of the world. When he had the command of a regiment in Ireland, he had no occasion to use corporal punishment, and be was happy to perceive that it was every day getting out of use. In times of war there might (tie some necessity for a power to inflict corporal punishment ; but he could not think that it was at all necessary in times of peace. Lord PA LMERSTOIN could not agree with the Gentlemen on other side of the House. trisivlind advocated the abolition of all corporal punishment. He did 'set ocean to enter upon a defence of, that particular punishment which . 'sras the subject of debate; nor would he deny that it had a tendency to harden the fkelings, par ticularly when accompanied with exposure; but the danger was. that in abolishing the punishment of flogging there was a danger of admitting a greater evil; and it should be recollected that no army ever existed without corporal punishment. It was a practice which the Commander-in-Chief discouraged, and had communi cated to certaid regiments his opinion that the necessity of inflict ing corpofal punishment had partly arisen from the neglect which the Commander-in-Chief had sometimes attributed to the officers. The Noble Lord could not agree to the distinction which the Honourable Member for Aberdeen wished to make be tween trooj* at home and those on foreign service. Sir R. I.EROCSON said the Noble Lord agreed in the opinions of the Right Hon. Member for Aberdeen, but his situation would not allow him to adopt those opinions. From his own knowledge he would assert that those were the best regtinents in which flog ging was least practised. He would therefore vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend the Member for Aberdeen. General TOWNSEND said he had been thirty years In the practice of regimental duty, and that he thought corporal punish. ment necessary to preserve discipline. Ile had known it prevail to a greater extent than at the present time. The abolition of it, bethought, would put officers in great difficulty. • The House then 'divided, when - their appeared, For the Motion 47 I Against it 99 I Majority, f. 2. The House then resumed, and the Report was ordered to be brought up on Monday. The (louse then resolved itself into a Committee upon the Law of Merchant and Factor, the Report of which was ordered to be brought up on Monday. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Om E OTLOCI. PRICES OP BRITISH Bank Stock Ditto Acet. 204 3 per Cent. Cons. 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Provincial Portable ...... .......... 100 11 41 dli issec•Lt.Ammuut. British and Foreign Paper Inipratal Distillery ..... 60 8 16 Ms 60 10 4 die gite SrittOlt WOO. KING'S THEATRE. THIS EVENING wiliVeperilons ed (fur the debut of Signor Pellegrful, of the Italian Opera at Paris) Roeslnl•s Condo Opera, in Two Acts, entitled IL BARBIERE 111 SIVIGLIA. lirsi principal Characters by Madame Caradori, Miss Willis, Signor factual, Signor Pelleg.inl (his dent appearance In this couotry), Signor Porto, Signor Deville, and Signor Ire Been's. Between the Aets the Divertissement Ballet of JUSTINE ; ma LA CRUCIIE CASSE E. After the Opera the favourite Divertissement of LE HAL CHAMPETILE. On THURSDAY, the 6th of April. a GRAND MASQUERADB. Applications, tic. as usual. - --- • ---- - DRUItY-*NE THEATRE. IV* Evening, !SATURDAY, h 11, will be performed the Weedy of TB • WONDER. Don Yells, Mr. Weßook tCuipfd Briton, Mr. Bennett .'late of Covent garden Theativ, hit lot appearante here); LLaardo, Mr. Barley. 'halal& Viulaute, Mi.: Foote Flora, Mite Nicol. To vonclumle with the Open of DER FRLISCHUTZ. Adolph, Mr. T. Cooke; Caspar, Mr. Born ; Bernhard, Mr. Bedford; 611100, Mr. Fitzwilltam ; &until, Mr. U. Smith. Graddon ; Roar, Ilia Furey. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE._ Thta Erentu:c, sATURVAI : . March 11, will be performed the Opera of ARTAXERXES. Ariazersos, 11311 Mil Vettrill Art:thane., Mr. Phillips ) Adams, Mr. lirshum. Mandsne, Miss Paton. After which the new Operatic Piece of 'TWA3 L The prlnctpel Characters by Blestre. Durnaet, Keeley. Fella., end Barnes litre Jviter, Madame Vectris, and Mn. Davenport. 'to conclude with the Nelo-Drstus of ALADDIN. Aladdin, Mrs. ; Easrack, Mr. 3. 9. °timid& . .. - ENGLISH ()PI.:HA-HOUSE. The Public aro respectfully informed that Hwy srlll find MR. MATHEWS AT 110 M& This Evening, SAWA - DAV, March U. with m entirely OM/ Ontario's mote, founded on his Olmervutions on Characters, Manners, and Peculiarities, enured Ma. MATIIEWS' INVITATiONS. NOVA 111 Pent. I ope "Twnny Post"—"Cipaying Esonnnon and Qoadrilies"—"ViAt to the Italian Opera." Snvua in Pt trf II —" London at Wive In the Monting.—. A Bunch of Keys"—" General election." PART I.—A 1110ftopolyloput to be Galled THE CITi BARGE Seven different Charinters by Mr. Mathews. Doors open at Seven ; the Performances to coinownce to VIOL The Pa cgs commenced publishing yesterday morning at • guerter.med al: o'clock. LONDON, SATURDAY, Mmtcts 11. 1924. The contents of the French Papers of Wednesday are unimportant. They are filled with the debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the indemnity to be given to the colonists of St. Domingo. _ _ _ Those of Thursdaycontain accounts extracted from the Austrian Observer, which seam to confirm the faeoursble FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. intelligence before received from Greece. Miseolonghi been provisioned by the Greek fleet. Another aval vie- The Marquis of Lansitswo enaertrikeis distinguished party ma elloaer tory on the 3 , 1 February is mentioned in the Cannier yesterday, Lansdown Howse, Berkeley-square. Mrs. Benyou entertained air/elect party yesterday, at her florae la Haug • Francais of %Vs:tines:lay. In this MINIMS and Catiaels venue-square. Lord Bexley enterteinect dbitlagutshed p arty dinner yesterds a succeeded in setting fire to le sail of Turkish VerWelet hls honor In Urest George-street, It - eatable's,. Ti tr , t , h . n i r w -Szhope, Eat. had, a &ruler party yesterday, at his house aa among which were three of their largest ships of war. Mr. Mrear tennis CANNING had several interviews at Hydra Lord and Lady King had a grand dinner party on Thursday, *their . house In Dover-street, among.whour were—We Karl of Caroarvoa, Lodi with MittlaoCiiirDAT6. Immediately after the departure and Lady Elienborough, Lord Suffield, the Karl and Countess of Bode of the English Ambassador, a flotilla put to sea with 0 000 Wan beery , Lard l)udley and Lord Howard, Sir Jame 6:dam alb troops on board, destined for Negropont, where a general by 'r t t li t e . Coun tess of Sit. A it r l r b i a n n ' s, ear L dj y arp . , ,t o e n , Tharsday ed, Lady E ezrjuz was danced ad insurrection has broken out against the Turks. Another Wrottesley, Lady Hamilton, Lord*. Helens, the VicelCisern m l a to e y,,eact y r Deering, the Countess Poulett, Lady June Houston Sir Charles Bowie division of 11)00 men has sailed for Athens, to reinforce air W: Burroughs, Miss Hamilton, 211.* Wrottraley , Mrs. S. Oweg. 11111' Long, Mr. Taytor, &e. Ste. the corps of Col. FA net en. The Honourable Aln. Hope had an elegant assembly yesterday rimming (Frotri the Etoik dated Thursday, March 9.] • au her house in Mansfield-street. PARIS. 31 aami 8. Thy Countess of Charleville entertained a large party of the haat toe Yesterdaylthe Baron de Pedro Bianca. appointed Charlie d'Af- yesterday eeenlng, at her house in Cavendish-enparr. Theln Saturdaymkeand Duchess chestio m f Nzu k Cast l e.rtwlttucutherlaitd and retells, are expected la faires from his . Majesty' the Empero: of Brazil to the Court oft ow n o France, was presented in abet quality' to his Majesty and their Mt Duke of St. n St. Al ban's ban's left town yesterday, fur Earl Ilaroutirt'w Highnesses by Ramo de Lalive. seat IS Berks. The Andrian Illwerver announces, that according to letters from Lord Grantham has left town for Paris. Corfu, dated the 9:h ult., the Greeks succeeded at the end ti' Jan. Mr. quid Lady Caroline Capel have arrived at the Duke of St. /Mame in St. James's-square, Prom. orfolk. in throwing provisions into the fortress of 3lissolonehi, which has ArNvals at Fenton's New Hotel, St. James's-street :—Colonel Dal.- been defended with tacit remarkable bravery and perseverance. On rymple,' from his seat In Surrey • Colonel Mateo from his seat In Kent a first attempt their fl eet was repulsed, but the second time, the Departures i—Colunel and Litly ' Augu. a Pltsclarence, yesterday, for the 27th January, being favoured by the wind, they burnt a Turkish continent ; Hobert Vansittart, E sq. "tb s e t bk *at in Berks. ' corvette ; and on the ',Nth detached !against the Turkish fleet six Henry Trevanlon, Esq. arrived yesterday at Jordan's Hotel, St.Jasnee's- Ore ships. which threw it into conet.'s.on. The Greeks took &dram, street, from Bath. James Wylie, El. arrived yesterday at Gottler Hotel, Jertaya-stellet. tage of this opportunity to land both provisions and ammunition at I Wassiladi, a small inland under the pins of ellissolongli.i. The front a tour ;and G. Macdonald, E.q. from Scotland. cent &li s t:ll e :6g. left Miller's Hotel, Jermytt.street, yesterday, for tda' a, - counts from Prevesa say that on the 2teli January great damage at in was done there by en earthquake. Departures from the British Hotel, Jermyn.street..—Thomas Bernard, In order to destroy among the students at Tobingen the recol- Esq. M.P.', Johit Getfiln, Esq., and M. Hamilton, Esq., for Ireland; Joho lection of the associations which have been notice of the King of %Virtemburg has just forbidden hats, caps, as the Royal Hotel, St. James's-street :—W. Bernahh, Esq., prohibited, an Ordi. Ha A w n tr i ts li , , Ease for his neat in Sussex. ernainents of pipes &c. the colours of which recal the gasociations f i T t il e l c rut . d , from t f l i t a ti r t l e e t y t , ,tt E7 6.o and J. Bourn, tsq iita tronA t t t egrs; Major which have been ' dissolved. All such snide' shall he forfeited, Stevenson, liar. from tours. Depart ' ures rn . — The ' Bev. Ateyf D: @lr and the student wearing them subject to 24 hours' impriamanent. neage, Esq. for Exeter ; thence. 0. Dealtry, for Oaltudatrougla. (From the Courtier Pronto:: of Wednesday.) TRIESIS. Fea.22. Accounts from Corfu of the 12th of this month, which &aeons,- dered here at official, state that on the ed February a decistvaactioo had taken place between the Turkish feet; commanded by alseride pitan Pasha, and the Greek fleet, under NI iaulls. Among the Greek combatants was the brave C anaria. They succeeded in set. tang lire to three of the largest ships of war, a cut-down frigate, and I I smaller Turkish vessels. The Capiran Fears, the remainder at whose fleet was much damaged, retreated from Waasiladi to Pa tten. eltssolonghi is completely provisioned, and the ammuni tion, of which the garrison had made such good. use, but which was nearly exhausted. has been replaced. Mr. Stratford Canning stopped three days at Hydra, where he was received with the greatest honours. Prince eleurocordato, with whom he had long conferences, went to meet him with a numerous 'mite. Inimeliately after the departure of the English Ambassador, a flotilla, armed and equipped at Hydra and Napoli di Romania, put to sea with two thousand troops on board. It proceeded to Negropont, where, it. is affirmed, a ge neral insurrection against the Turks has just brokerroat. Another division of Woe teen has sailed for Athens, and it is to reiaforce tho corps of Col. Fahvier. All the Greeks at Corfu were kited with joy, and congratulated each other on this good newt. (From the Pilote.) Faison°. FE*. 27. A discovery of great importance to the history of Switzerland is announced. It is a manuscript lately found in the Castleof Pegoet„ in the Canton de Vaud, which contains the moat interesting parti culars of the war between the Swiss and the Savoyarda, and of the campaign of Henry IV. of Savoy. PASTS, Maitow 7. A gigantic project is said to have been formed by some mercan tile houses at Milan. It is nothing lets than to replace the long anti difficult road over the Spulgen by s gallery through the font of the mountain between Spulgen amt Isola. According to calculation it would be a league and a half in length a new idea is to light it by gas. The elilanese Houses are said to have writ. ten to the Government of the Griaons, which will do nothing till it knows the opinion of the Emperor of Austria. It is affirmed that before the petition on the subject was transmitted to the Emperor, subscribers to the amount of three millions of francs had been ob. taMed. It is believed that five !tailbone in all will suffice to exe. cute thle extraordinary project. 111301.pc ;enNtse.a96por.. 40 } C . . K ; E N T c h li ree } :p u e x r n ein — t Cents. A I ;V. 11 65(. 3 % 1 r t l C Sa li n k B. S — to F ck iv , e litan Rents,.;2f. ; Spanish Loan, vri.. Exchange on Lon don :—.One month 25f. We. Three months 25f. •Lic.—Coors CITE' OF LONDON LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION. On Wednesday the ludf.yearly meeting of the rnernbettel chit Institution was held at Albion Hall, Moorpte, Dr. Black hi the chair. From the Report of the Committee, it appeared that the In. atitution had gone on prospermody—that extensive premises had been taken in Aldedgate-street; where reading rooms, with a library of reference, had been epened for the use of the Members. A library of cireulition would, it announced, be opened for their use in the course of a few days. The bahnce in the hands of the Treasurer was 1,3(rb1., ar.d the present :name antounted nearly to 1,0001. per annum; but it was expected that as soon as all Me departments were in operation it wood . )e nearly doubled. Courses of timaslng philosophical lechircs had been given gra tuitously daring the last six months—on physiology by Dr. Spier ; on botany and natural history ; by Dr. M•lntyre, of Stockwell.. ' park • on education and taste, by Mr. Bankes ; and on topography by lr . Cromwell. Mr. J. Black had given a gr atuitous course iof instruction to a class of nearly 300 pupils n the k'reuch language, upon a system which had perfectly succeeded, and whiet had proved that large classes might be instructed in much loss time than ryas usually now ocrutriett. and that the attention of the learners Might be kept cip solely by Me interest and amusement derived froni the mode of teachirg. A GENTLEMAN addressed the meeting at some length on the injurious nature of the amusements resorted ti in the evenirg by the great body of young men of t: c. re resyeeable classes in the City ; and expressed his hopes that inch Anstitutioot, which at_ forded rational entertainment end the best instruction without fatiguing the mind, smell be formed in every part of the kingdom. After epeeches from Mr. J. A. Smith, of the firm of Smith. Payne, and Smith, and several pristine of eminence- in the City, thanks were voted to the Committee; to 'Mr. Black, for his syatetu. of teaching languages; and to Dr. M•lntyre and the other heed tunes, for their gratuitous and able services. The meeting theu , separated. We are happy to say the Duche2s of Gloucesier is in the enjoyment of mach better health than her Royal Highness was some time since. Yesterday Lord Bexley and Mr. Iluskisson transacted business at the Foreign-office. The remains of Viscount Carleton were interred on IVeiltiesilay in llawstead church, rivir }fury, where they remains of the second Lady Carleton were deposited in 1810. Ilis Lordship was appointed Solicitor-General tot' Ireland in 1779, and Lord Chief Justice of the Irish Common Pleas in 1787, created Baron Carleton, of Ames: county of Tipperary, in 17..39, and Viscount Carleton its 1797. He was one of the reli.esentative Peers of Ireland. Has Lordship was twice married, but has left no issue. Liston has been engaged by the Taixotou rogiag,er for a few nights. He will make his appearance oif ourloards, in the course of neat week.—Dorset Corotly Chronicle. Dr. Lushington has been appointed by the Bishop of London to the Cominissaryship for the Fins of Essex and Hurts within the diocese of London. _ Great credit is due to Mr. Pest. for having turned his attention to the consolidation of our Criminal Laws; it is a task. of great labor`, but it is one which, if effectively ex ecuted, will entitle him to live in the grateful remembrance of posterity. Centiiiies ago the great Lord BACON said, addressing hitaself to his Sovereign, " year people are so ensnared in a multitude ot e renal Laws that, the excettaion of them cannot be borne." This great Judge complained of the excessive accumulation of the Statutes in his day, and yet they were then compri6ed is two volumes! The 'mere enumeration of the offences to which our penal enact ments relate would at present occupy more space. To ex tricate them from the confusion in whitli they now lie dis persed, and to reduce them, not only into a reasonable compass, but into a rational order, is a labour from which a mind of ordinary strength would shrink with dismay. But great, however, as this service of arrangeinent will be, there is a task of not less difficulty, but of infinitely greater' importance, still behind—the revision of the Criminal Laws themselves, the imperfection of which have long been a subject of complaint by all our leading lawyers; statesmen, and moralists, who have made our system of Penal Legislation the subject of public comment. BLACKSTONE, after re marking strongly on the defects of our Criminal Code, goes on to say, " these have chiefly arisen from too scrupulous an adherence to some rules of the ancient Common Law, when the reasons have ceased upon which those rules were founded." When we consider how much the security of property depends upon the perfection of this branch of our Laws, it is manifestly of the utmost consequence, not only that they should be methodized, but that they should re ceive that amendment which they so essentially require, and which the welfare of the community has so long and so urgently called for. We trust it is Mr. Net's inten tion to submit them to this philosophic survey. The task cannot be entrusted to better hands. We arc requested to state that the signature of Mr. Maiming, M.P. Agent for Grenada, was attached to the Colonial Agents' petition, presented by Lord Dudley and Ward to the House of Louis on Wednesday evening, though omitted by mistake in the copy fiirMalled to us. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Henry Alexander, FAN. took the usual oaths, and his seat as a Director, in clip room of John II udleston, Esq., who bad disqualified. Cast mune E.—The Chancellor's gold medals for the two best proficients in classical learning among the commencing Bachelors of Arts, were on Friday last ad- , judged to Mr. Thomas Stratton and Mr. John Hodgson, of Trinity College. The Rev. Henry Anson, M.A., bas been licensed to the perpetual curacy of Bylaugh, Norfolk. on the nomination of E. Louibe, Esq. The Rev. J. Bow• man, second minister of St. Peter's Mancroft, Norwich, was last week elected to the office of first-minister of that parish, vacated by the death of the Rev. C. J. Chapman. A meeting of the friends of A. Baring, Esq. took place yesterday evening at the Bell Inn. It is supposed thas that gentleman, after declining to become a candidate at the next election for the borough of Taunton, will not now be induced to come forward at the solicitation of a few individuals.—Dorset County Chronirle. Mr. Shepherd, of the Botanic Garden, has received a splendid present from the Emperor of Russia, in acknow ledgment to him of certain kindnesses and obligations con ferred on Dr. Fisher, who, in the service of the late Empe. ror, had paid a visit to England for the pitrpoSe.of inspecting the Botanic Gardens of this country, and who in his Bo tanic inspection had visited the Liverpool garden, under the care of Mr. Shepherd. The present is a diathond ring of very considerable value.—Liverpool etrfeertrver. N. C. Daniel;• Esq. of Westbrook House, Cpway, has communicated id the most handsome tenni; to the Com mittee in the island of Portland for erecting a bridge at the ferry, his readiness to advance 1,0004 towards this import ant and desirable work.—Dorset County Chronicles. There are at present upwards of .10 masons employed In the carving of stone for the splendid addition.. to Hempen Palace. The labourers are employed in levelling and trenching the grounds in the vicinity of the Palace. Hi• Grace the Duke of Hamilton is to arrive in the month or May, to observe the progress of the building, and super intend further improvements. PoTATOES.—This useful and necessary vegetsble,which has hitherto been at an exorbitant price, has fallen in the wholesale market within the last week upwards of 21. pee ton. lininense quantities are now warehousing at the water side, and as there are but few buyers, a further re duction may be calculated upon on the next ioarket day, Monday.—Globe. The Directors of the Chamber of Commerce, at Man chester, are authorised to act as agents in this district, to receive deposits of goods or personal security, and to all- Vance the necessary sums, and we doubt not that we shall soon see this town resume its usual busy and active appear ance, and the poorer classes wear contented and happy countenances. Indeed, although we learn with regret that one of the most extensive printing establishments in this neighbourhood has this week reduced the number of its hands, yet some of the cotton spinners have rather increased the hours of labour at their factories : and we understand the intelligence of the Bank having consented to extend relief, arrested the purpose which one or two manufactuftrs in this town entertained of still further decreasing the em ployment of their weavers. It would seem that the de pression is at this moment most severely felt by the printers and bleachers ; for, in additicm to the circumstances above noticed, we are told that the village of Damen, which him within the last few years, been extremely prosperous and increasing both in extent and opulence, is now in a melan choly state ; a great part of its inhabitants, wbo were em ployed at the printing and bleaching establishments there, tire unemptpyed—the weavers in a most wretched condi tion—and, in consequence, the shops, almost entirely de eer ted.—Blackbarn Mud. CITY, FanmY Evexixo. As the City has been without reports, so has the Stock Exchange been withoot agitation. Consols have varied but little during the morning. They opened at 78i, and closed at the same price, having once, in the course of the day, reached I ; but the transactions were extremely li mited. Bank Stock for the Account was 2041 ; Exchequer Bills is., 25., Is., premium; and India Bonds par to 2s. dia. Tho letters from the country received to-day vary according to the different opinions of the writers as to the actual sta►e of the commercial community. Some think a little improvement has taken place, others that business is stationary ; but all agree that it is not worse. The busim as in the Foreign Market was nearly at a stand, and prices a shade lower. Brazilian Bonds were 53, 6; Chilian do. 46 ; Colombian do. 471; and MexiCart 6 per Cents. 62i.; Creek Bonds were itili; and Spanish do. 10. 9i. Real Del Monte Shares were IS dia.. end the Share Market still continues in a state of stagnation. We are sorry to have to announe" the failure of one of our large Manufacturers, Mr. G. T. Lister, of Shipley fields, against whom, we understand, a commission of bankruptcy has this day been issued.—Bratifitrd en4trier. MISSRS• SIKES, SIKES, AND 'WILKINSON'S BANK nurrev.--,Thursday being the day appointed for the extra proof of debts, the creditors to the estate met in consider able umbels at the Commissioners of Bankrupts' Court, Basingitall-street. The Commissioners were the Hon. R. If. Eden, John Pensam , and Na t haniel C la y t on , Esqrs. The Asaigneett, Messrs. Wray, Adams, and Powell. The outstanding debts are computed to exceed 350,000/.; to meet these are general assets to the amount of about 200,0007. providing the securities shall ultimately realise the value at which they were estimated when this balance was struck. A new banking company has been opened at Chelms ford, under the firm of M'Lachlan and Gepp, for deposits and agency ; they do not intend to issue any lams,