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test the States are untlerttootl to have toted as follows :- I.w A:r. Ansiate—.Maine. New Hampshire. )Iwrachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, Maryland. Ohio, Ken- Sw:%•, Illinois, Missouri, Louisiana. Oxw. Jacieort—Nee Jersey, Cenosylvisnia, South Carolina, Tennessee. :Vitiates, Missippi, InOtana, ;IL CliAlrFOßD—Delaware , Virginia, North Carets', (Georgia. Tho Sprfnr Guns Bill went thrcuzb a Cammittte pf the House of Lords last night, snit w.is &tiered to reported to-day. On the motion of the F.orl of List!- root an Amendment was intrcduectl, prohibiting, the vise wring guns and steel traps in all gartlins anti arcllarils. In the House of Commons tEscussion arose on the waliject of the projected Thanks Quay. Th-re was a . _ anther singular diversity of opinion among the Memliers ; Mr. C.actart, Mr. 1-loanoese, Mr. Crimea, anti Mr. Secretary Past e formed a phalanx in opposition to the intwetuetion of the Bill; and Colonel TRENCH, Lord P.. rises, Sir R. WILSON, and Mr. BARINM, were sitegeri on the other side in its femur. (t:1 a division, a majority of 83 against 43 decided that the plan should at least have the benefit of further consideratZon. CITY, WEDSFSD'AIf ETPNINfr. The gloom which has heen hanging over the Money Markets for the last four or five days was in no de glee abated at the opening this morning. However, to ot -aide the middle of the ckay Securities of alinest every asseriptlen became lighter. In the English Market Con sulsewere done at 9311, and fur the Account at 93 1 i. II was settling day in the Foreign Market, but it passed off vetylateadily ; and as a proof of this fact we tray state that prices improved towards the close. South American Securities were better ; Colombian Bonds- were 914 ; Mexican Scrip 31; Brazilian ditto the same. OM Spaniiii • Bonds were light, at 2411; and the new were equally light at 104/. Greek Scrip materially improved toward s' the close of the Market. In the early part of Cue day it was as low as 61 discount; but it lea off at 44 3, with every prospect of a still greater improvement to-morrow ; for we have reason to believe that the confederacy formed :rat it is breaking up. Indeed, the satis r actury state tek affairs must ultimately destroy the projects formed against the Loan, if letter feelings, which we un derstand are now beginning to prevail, were not likely to operate. • Nothing certain is yet known as to the new Danish • Loan. The real state of the cue, we have no doubt, is, that the ratification of the contract is not yet arrived, and therefore neither Messrs. Thomas Wilson and Co. nor any one else, can at present declare that the contract is made ; W.l believe it is not a bargain that capitalists are very emtious about. The Share Market improved towards the close of the day, as well as the Money Markets. Pasco Pet uvian, which had been as low as 21, got up to 24, 23. The Colombian Agricultural Association Shares were at 15 premium. The Mexican Company at Li, 7. There was very little doing in Bait-roads. There were some bargains made in the Mend:est( r and Liverpool at 18, 30 ; they were bought by persons for permanent investment. as it is considered one of the best projee:s of the day for that purpose. Everything was exceedingly dull in the Calonial market . Sugars must be quoted a shade lower. There were several sa7es of Coffees, which ware bought in. There has been tamely anything doing in Spices, and whai purchases hare been made have been effected at lower prices. Two new Companies were announced this morning- viz. tike Central American Mining Association, and tit_ South American Gem Company. By the Mexican from Havannab, we have accounts from Mexico to 24th December, at which tiitv all was tranquil. - - FR E NCII PAPERS. [From the (toile, dated Monday.) CONSTANTINOPLE, F 13.2. Last Friday ten persons were arrested, and most of them executed on the spot. Ali Pacha, the Ex-grand Vizier, who has retired to Philoppelis, has just received orders to raise the inseey for the extenordinary wants of this year; similar orders have 'teen sent to Asia. Each of the continents is to furnish thirteen millions of ).:enters. The forts in the channel are being repaired, and put in a better elate of defence. The children of Ali Pacha, of Jeannine, have been sent for to the Grand Vizier. It is supposed this family will be again called upon to art a part. A Firman of the Sultan has toot granted to owe of the wives of that Saints, &house on the chan• eel, acd a pension of 750 piastres per month FEBRUARY 3. Tie banishment of several persons arrested some time since ex cites sensation. Antorg them are four Ortas of the Janissaries. The corps of the Redjegahl is eupposed to be secretly implicated in the intrigues of that body. A project of the Sultan is talked of, subjecting to colliery regulations all those Janissaries whose pay is above forty aspens per day. The Government has ordered the exile of an ancient Interdant of a Sultana, of two persona employed in superintending the distri bution of most to the Janissaries, of a superior officer of the staff of the Jargesaries, and of four of the principal tans. About 40 persons belonging to the different corporations in the city have been strangled. 'this execution took place in the Castle, under the lospectino of the Aga Pacha, Commandant of the Boephorus, 'he has often shown his firmness in repressing disorders. Measures of vigilance have been adopted at the sum: time. Very emit enders have been read in the mosques and in the Christian clutches, prohibiting meetings in the coffee-houses, especially at rdght, and forbidding any person to go out without • lantern aster evening prayer, and even to leave his house on any pretext at the Ear of' yatai (curfew ),about three hours atter sunset. The great people and respectable citizens have been also enjoined to keep this:ha:lves armed, and have their people ready for whatever may blpr e 1. • Otaltt Paella is still at Gallipoli ; the presence of this much regretted Grand Vizier, whose name has been imprudently pro rourerd by the Chiefs of the Janissaries, has doubtless made the Parte ensesy. 'lt is reported that Ghalib Pacha will go to Adatia or Satali (an ill-omened place for exiles) unless means are previously employed tp jet rid of him. as same accounts would give reason to suspect. The Ex-Aga Paths has received orders to come in the Porte on Friday. He had a long convessation first with the Aga of the Jos ntsaartes, and then with the Hiaja Bey. Measures have been taken to wake ante of the Janissaries. For this proem the Elders were sent for as bang in genenl the depoldtones of the secrets of the companies. They swore that they were not concerned in wry trovetnents, and that they knew nothing. It is said that et:- deavours are made to weaken the Giles, by sending the most tut. bulent of the Janissaries to different provinces, for instance 2,1.00 te'grrritto the Derdthelles. It is added that orders hare been war to Osbarilrali Muatapha Paths to come and encamp near the capital to support the efforts of the Government in the creation wf new voltam institutions, such as the use of ret-ular corps, &é. PIR.ZORAY 10. The partial troubletwhich called for the vigilance of the Go - vemment continue. Three Janissaries who resisted the Guard on Sunday the 6th Feb. were embarked in -en vie le the arsenals, which are to sail as won as possible. Eight others, who also re lined and woonried a sentinel, was carried before the Jsoissary Aga and executed on the spot The Clvief of the Market of itilalta has been reizod in the night in his house and put on board a boat, which it is supposed did not wary lies fa. . 1 welvc Ones are spoken of, said to be suspected by the 1.110- .verernear. Though the Aga of the Janianries has shown the greatest acti. vity it. his duty he was deposed this iriouilir at three o'clock. There are persons who pretend thst ?II this agitation is only a trick oh the persons holding the reins of Government to alarm the 'What, who dreads oothitig so uni.h as a revolution, and to attri. Lute these troubles to Glialib Tarbes Others niaints'or that the conspiracy I. real, and that in eject tends to a complete catas trophe. 1 hey found their opinion on the fact that Coitetantineple presented • similar scene of partial disorders on the dethronirg of the Sultan Alustapha In 10011, and that the real focus of the revolt is in the body of the Ultimo, who collect the complaints of ad the branches of the State which are perishing from want and tniecry. They wention on this subject the 72,000 purees which the Sultan has ca'ostol to be levied this year for the extraordinary wants of the State. The die vat le Asia is so great that a father, prosecuted for debts, has beci obliged (a thing unheard of among due Munultnans) ro • eiee his dongl.tt , in pion 4 A poor peasant has been forced to isell the tiles off the roof of his house to pay his creditors. FEBRUARY 1 1. Various reasons are assigned fur the deposition cf the Aga of the Janissaries; some swells it is his exertions, others to the in trigues of the Janissaries. ?the repairing of the forts on the Bosphorus continues. The same will be done with those of the Dardanelles. Barracks are go' to be built on the point of the Nagare. a to son.in -l a w of Callimachi has been tectilled from his banish meat in Asia. (,trout the Journal des Debate of Sunda sty.) ocsrroc, FEN. 22. By an artiste In one of our papers we I JAM that the States General of Ponserrolia have expressed a sash that the Prussian Government shootil cat.clutle treaties of commerce with the States of Southern Americe, on account of ths advantages likely to result therefrom to Phiesia. 0-4 ~~ lIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFIItIIPI T 4 ~...... lONIMIONIMERMI •~er.~_...., TRADE OF SINGAPORE. irrent the By the statement now furnished the aggregate exports of Singa pore from January to Lcsamber, /813, appear to be 5,6138,3611 Spani tit dollars. The trade of Si consists of five distinct branches, viz.:— that with Great rrtZ, that with Bengal and other parts of ‘yestern Lidix, that vrith China Native and European, that with Siam and CLchin China, that wilt the distant eonimetclad tribes of the Archipelago itself. and that with our immediate neighbour hood. Upon each of these a few eusaory remarks may be useful. In 1222 Caere cleared out for London 4sitips only—in 1323 nine. Tn this year the ciports amounted to 1,613,3132 Spanish dollars. according to the trailifrats sworn to before the Local Authority. I In 1822 the value of British Piece Goods imported was, Spanish dolhas. 2133,0:3 ; in 1023 the iwiparts were, Spanish dollars, 1,061232, and the exportations in proportion. The native trade with China in 11W consisted of five Junks; in 1103 of eight Junks importing, and :wren exporting. The value 1 , Of The comr.mdities exported in this latter year, according to the Jetail.tl statements furttished to us by the most respectable of the merchants of the place, was 1d13.700 Spanish dollars: Opium, with European piece g oods and wuollena, constituting 230,000 dollars worth of this sum. A !similar increase has taken place in the intercourse with Siam and Cochin ellina. In 1322, the number ofJunks importing from nod export:nu to those countries amounted to 12 ; in 1112.1 it was 61. In this latter rear the value of the imports has been estimated at ZOO,OOO dollars. TheStigar in :822 amounted to 11,600 piculs, the Sttclac to 268, and there was tin Sapan wood. In 11123 the Sugar was coo piculs, the Sticlac 2,151, and the Sapan wood 7315 The experts in Opium were reckoned at Llt4 chests for Siam, and 40 for CoshinChina ; and the value of exports for both in cotmns and wcoll;ns at about 20,060 dollars. 'lin native made of our immediate neighbourhood has kept pace with the other branches of our commerce. The Pepper of 1822 air.ounted to 17,431 piculs, and the Tin to 13,6213. In 1813 the firm reached the extent of 33,801.1, and the second 18,616 pietas. ELECTION OF THE PItESiDENT OF THE UNITED ST.II ES. CONG ES.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, WEDNZSDAY, FEL 9. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. At twelve o'clock precisell, the Members of the Senate entered the Hall. preceded by their sergeant at Antis, and having the Pre sident of the Senate at their head, who was invited to a scat on the tight hard of the Speaker of the House. Seats were then assigned the Senators, who took their seats to. gether, in front of the Speaker's chair, and toward the right hand of the entrance. The President of the Senate (Mr. Gaillanl) then rose, and stated that the ceetiticates, forwarded by the Electors front each State, would be delivered to the tellers. Mr. Tazewell, of the Senate, and Messrs. John W. Taylor and Philip P. Harbour, on the part of the House, took their places, as Tellers, at the Clerk's table. The President of the Senate then opened two packets, one received by messenger. and the other by mail, containing the certificates of the voice of the State of New Hempel:he. One of these was then read by Mr. Tazewell, while the other was compared with it by Messrs. Taylor and Barbour. The whole having been read, and the votes of New Hampshire declared, they were set down by the Clerks of the Senate and of the House of Representatives. seated at different tables. Thus the certificates from all the States were gone through with. The Tellers then left the Clerk's table, and presenting them selves in front of the Speaker, Mr. Tazewell delivered their re port of the votes given ; which was then handed to the President of the Senate, who again real it to the two Houses as follows : For President For V. President * z < g p, g ts. —•-• 6§ o^ 6 t 5 >. G X to ••• < •-• Z X 31aine . . 0 0 0 0 New Hampshire . 8 0 0 0 Massachusetts - - 15 0 0 0 Rhode Island - 4 0 0 0 Connecticut - 8 0 0 11 'Vermont 7 0 0 4 - - - New York - - 2ti 5 1 4 New Jersey. - - 0 0 8 0 Pennsylvania . 0 0 28 0 ..1 2 0 0 Maryland - - 3 I 7 0 Virginia - 024 0 0 North Canslina - - 0 0 15 0 youth Carotins -.0 0 11 (leorgia - - 0 9 0 0 Kentucky - 0 0 0 14 Tennessee - U 0 11 0 Ohio - = : U 0 6li : . - 20 3 0 Mississippi - - - 0 0 3 0 Indiana . - 0 0 5 0 - I Illinois - - - r 0 2 0 Alabama - - - 0 0 3 0 3lissouTi . . . 0 0 0 3 Total . 84 41 99 37 900 0 0 0 701 0 0 0 15 0 0 0 U 01 300 0 0 0 008 0 0 0 700000 29 0 0 7 o 0 800 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 0 0 100 0 2 0 10 0 1 0 0 0 021 0 0 U 0 15 0 0 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 0 0 000 0 0 9 700 7 0 0 11 0 0 0 U 0 0 0 0 16 U 0 500 0 0 0 300 0 0 0 500 0 0 0 3 U I) 0 0 U 000 0 o u 0 3 .0 0 0 11112 24 13 30 2 9 The PIMMDENT of the Senate then rose and declared, that no person had received a majority of the votes given for President of the United States ; that Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and William H. Crawford. were the three persons who had re ceived the highest number of votes, and that the remaining duties in the choice of a President now devolved upon the House of Representatives. He further declared, that John C. Calhoun, of South Carolina, having received Ifl2 votes, was duly elected Vice. President of the United States, to serve for four years from the 4th day of March. The 'Menthe's of the Senate then retired. The SPEAK Ell directed the roll of the House to be called by States. and the Members of the respective delegations to take their seats in the order in which the Sates should be called, beginning at the tight hand of the Speaker. The roil was called accordingly, when it appeared that every Member of the House was present, with the exception of Mr. (hr. nett, of Virginia, who is known to be indisposed at his lodgings in this city. The del egates took their places accordingly, ballet boxes were distritured to tacit delegation by the Sergeant at Arms, and the Speaker directed that the ballot should proceed. The ballots having been tell deposited in the boxes, the following tellers were named by the respective delegations, being one from each State in the Union:-- lilessr. Cushman, Livermore, Webster, Eddy, Tomlinson, Buck, Taylor, Condict, Ingham, 111. Lane, Kent, Randolph, /looks, Ciunpbell, Forsyth, Trimble, Allen of Tenn, Sloane, Livington, Rankin, Jennings, Cook, Owen, and Scott. Webatcr. of 31assachwietts, war appointed by those tellers who sat at one table, and :Ur.•Randolph, of Virginia, by those at the other, to announce the result of the balloting. After the bal. lots were counted out, _ _ Mr. Wens ern rose and Raid:—" Mr. Speaker—The tellers of the votes at this table /lain proceeded to count the ballots contained in the box set before them. The result they lira to be, that there ate—For John Quincy Adams, of Slassachusetts - 13 votes, Andrew Jackson, of Tennessee - - . 7 votes, Wm. H. Crawford, of Georgia - . 4 votes." Mr. RANDOLPH, from the other table, made a statement cor responding with that of Mr. NVehster, in the facts, but varying in the phraseology, oas to ray that 31r. Adams. Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Crawford, had received the votes of so many States instead of so many votes. The SPEAKER then stated this result to the House, and an nounced that John Quincy Ailarns. having n majority of the votes of these Uhited Stares, was duly elected President of the same for four years, commencing with the 4th day of March nest. On the motion of MT. TAY Lon, of New York, a Committee was ordered w be appointed. to notify to the President of the United States, and the President elect, the result of the ballot. The House then adjourned. When the fact of Mr. Adams having 13 votes was announced by the Tellers, someelappiag and exultation took place in the galle ries, and some alight hissing followed. When the House sus pended Its proceedings wail the galleries were cleared. Sim Jeors sty Pauszn.—This lawyer was the first Attorney-General after the Restoration. Dating all the troubles of the times he lived quiet in the Temple, a pro- Nara and known Cavalier; l3tl no temptation or fear ever shock his principles. He lived then in great business of conveyancing, and had no clerks but such as were strict Ca valiers. One, 1 have heard, was so rigid, that he could never b^ brought to write Oliver with I great 0. And, it was said, the attorney chose to purchase the manor of Charlettu, because his master's name sounded in the style of it. S telt amusements may be allowed to please and di vert it zealous old gentleman that lived to see and enjoy all the fruits of his honest ambition. When be was first made Attorney-General he had means, by the universal re newal of grants, and the floating of all manner of 'concerns of the Crowp, tvhich settling must pass by him, to auras vast wealth, as others have done and do. But he was mindful of his old friends the Cavaliers, and generally gave them their fees, and not only w such as he knew poor, for a sort of charity, but to others that had less need, out of geLorositY, and as a mark of his friendship and recognition of their merits. It was affirmed that the patents granted to Gen. Alonek passing his office, came to nearly Y,snot. io fees, and for honour and gratitude he took not a penny for biroself.—.4areelotes of the Bur. SOCIETY FOR THE RELIEF OP THE IRIS!! PEASANTRY. - Yemenis y a POO Meeting was held at the Ring's Head, Poul. try, for the purpose of considering the most effectual means of seeming to the English peasantry the benefit of the Statute of 89 George III.; and also to consider some measures for the relief of the lower clas►es in Ireland, sod to petition Parliament thereon. At one o'clock a number of gentlemen hrd assembled, when it was street , . in corsequence of the inautfieiency of the notice given, and of the smnllness of the room, to adjourn the :11-eting to twelve o'clock on Friday next, on which day it will be held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. Ainongt4 the persons present were 3lessra. OT wined and Finn, as well as several other Irish gentlemen, who eLpressed their in• motion of attehding the 3leetiog on Irtday. LAW INTFLUGENCE. COURT OP CHANCERY, Tuc.D•r, Mmign 13. - REAL DEL MONTE AND ROLANOS 311NL5. EINDEtt v. TAYLOR AND OTHERS. The SOLTCIT oß...Orwra At. applied to the Court for a dissolu tion of this partnership ; that the defendants might be matie to ac count, and be restrained from proceeding in the management of the mines; and that managers b.: appointed to doao, ant to wind up the concern. The plaintiff was Mr. Thomas Kinder, jun. and the defendants were Slows. John 'Payler. Francis Bally, Michael Bland, Thomas Brown, Thomas F. Burson, J. F. Colby, William Fry, John Martineau, Joseph Martineau, J. H. Thiers, and F. T. Wilde. This motion was made on behalf of the plaintiff, who is a pro prietor to a very considerable extent of the Real del Monte, Bola- nos, and several other silver mines in Mexico, against 31r.•Taylor, die raanagfr, and the other defendants, the directors of the Reel del Monte Company, for an injunction to restrain them from com mitting. what Mr. Kinder considered, a fraud on him, namely, from withdrawing and caking away from the Company, through Mr. Taylor, the extremely valuable Bolanos mine, and to restrain all the arras, servants, and workmen of the Real del Monte Company from working the Mamas mine, if disposed of; end likewise, the bill prayed for a decree to dissolve the partnership, the Court appointing a manager in the meantime till the concern was wound up. The injunction sought embraced all the mutters in the bill, and if the allegations in it were true, which were sup ported by affidavit, he (the Solicitor-General) hail to contend that Mr. Kinder was entitled to ask of the Court a dissalut'am of the Real del Monte Company. with a!1 the relief consequential upon that dissolution, part of which relief would be the restoration of the Bolanos mine, which had been withdrawn from the Oompany. The bill stated that the plaintiff had become acquainted with Signor Don Juan Garcia and General Paroissien, Plenipotentiaries Extra. ordinary from the Government of Mexico, a few years ago, from whom he acquired certain infuriation with respect to the mines in question. It stated that the plaintiff, through his agent, Mr. Pon. sonby Staples, residing abroad, became the purchaser of Count Regia's shares in the heal del Norte mines, prior to which he had been introduced to Mr. Taylor, of Bedford-row, for particular knowledge respecting therffines. Ilia Lonrisine wished to know how many shares there were to be in the whole? Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, there were 500 at 4001. each, and Mr. Kinder was the proprietor of 71 shares. Two hundred shares were put into Mr. Kinder's bands to be disposed of, and 300 put into Mr. Taylor's hands for the same purpose. Early in the year 11124 a meeting was called for the purpose of forming the proprietors into a body. Ills LORDSHIP wished to know whether the deed that was exe cuted err that occasion was In Court? Mr. A MOR Y (Mr. Tinder's solkitorysaid he had a copy of the deed. His LohOSHIP said, it rested entirely with that very respect able solicitor whether or not he would show that deed to the Court. Mr. Altollr had not the least objection to it. His Loansitip said, he would tell him candidly, that if it came within the tith Cleo. 1., he would send the case to the Attor ney-General. The SOLICITORMENERAL then proceeded. The lease of the Real del Monte mines was to last for twenty years, and a contract was entered into with General Murphy for the purchase of the Moran mine. In the deed that was executed the Directors were empowered to make large purchases of steam engines, carriages, quicksilver, Jet. &c. to transport across the Atlantic, for the pur pose of working those mines; the Directors here were also em powered to--a term which hitherto had been generally used in a political sense- denounce any mine the Company might have which might be considered a bad mine. The deed also appointed Capt. Vetch and Mr. Rule Commissioners to act for the Company at Mexico. Those Commissioners were subsequently directed by Mr. Taylor to take whatever mines they might think proper, and par ticularly to acquire a lease of the Bolanca mine, as being a mat important and most valuable mine—and this he was to acquire for the Real del Monte Company. The bill then stated that 31r. Tay lor and his friends had projected having a new Company, which the Holmes mire was to form the subject of, and in which Mr. Kinder was only to have fifty shares, each share being worth at pre sent not less than 8001. premium, and therefore (a s the Solicitor (ien. had said) just taking out of plaintifra pocket at least 25,0001. by refusing to let him have 71 shares. TWA transaction led to an Interview between the plaintiff and Mr. T. and also to an epistolary correspondence, with a notice to the Directors front Mr. Amory, that the plaintiff could not consent to b e d e p r i ve d o f hi s f a i r an d equal proportion of shares. Subsequently the Directors of the Real del Monte Company tame to these extraordinary Resolutions : first, that the proprietors of the Real del Monte property divested them. selves of all claims to shares in the Bolanos mine; and secondly, that the servants of the Real del Monte Company should give every assistance in their power, as desired, to the persons interested in the Bolanos mine. This he (the Learned Solicitor-General) considered to be in the teeth of all sorts of justice. Then a new capital was I directed to be raised for the purpose of working the Bolanos mine. An indirect tender had beat made to Mr. Kinder of twenty-one more shares, provided he would relinquish all right of claim to seventy-one shares. Another circumstance worthy of being men tioned was, that Mr. Taylor had never set up any right to the Bolanos mine, or given nn intimation that it was to be considered in any way but as belonging to the Real del Monte Company until this newfangled Company was suggested. Whether they had nick-named themselves or not the Learned Counsel (lid not hnow ; but however that might be, certain he was that the Company would not stand long, because in fact, in the prom sense of the word, no new Company had been formed. The Loan Caranekr.Toa threw down the copy of the deed (which had been handed to him), and asked if it was a deed that could be acted upon at law ? That it seemed to him, that although it was declared that the Company should not act as a corporate body, yet that it appeared they did so act, and there was a clause in it that if parties should become bankrupt the shares should be forfeited unless the assignees executed. Could a Court of Equity interfere where there was such a provision ? Although a Company might not conic within the Bubble Act, yet it was not the policy of the Court to support a Company which, though without the letter, came within its spirit. Mr. HEALD followed the Solicitor-General, and endeavoured to Impress upon the Lord Chancellor the importance of the plain. till a interests, and the necessity of the Court's immediate iueer ference. _ The LORD CHANCELLOR—This being a partnership I mist have all parties before the Court, and I must have the decd in Court to ascertain if there are now sufficient parties before the Court ; and it must be shown to me that I can intaefereconsistendy with the policy of this Court In former decisions. And it is another question, not whether these Companies call themselves corpora tions, but whether they act as corporations And you (addressing himself to the Solicitor-General) town show me that it is a deed on which a Court of Equity ought to act. Mr. WALKER submitted that this Company cenld not be ob. noxious to the doctrine regarding corporations, and assimilated it to Mining Companies. In this country. The LORD CHANCELLOR —Let this matter stand over until Friday, and let the other parties have notice given to them of this member of the Druid Society, their u p the procession to ridlcul• him. I have read the libel, an thi n k it is intended Iti!MPIT partly to the Ridgway,: I real it to the looming of das fess den, and thought au then : I understood them to be 11)1111111a carder , the terns " Radical Saints," sod the " Twelve Apostles" t wader stood to mean the twelve proprietors of the Methodist pivot or Afercury. I understood the Ridgways to be includsi ar4bulit PP. pellation in regard to the charge of defrauding the Itssostwa• • Several witnesses were examined to show that the WWI aPPIWII to the prosecutors. The Rev. James Aikins said, I am the incumbent of *Chapel of Ease in the parish of Shenton ; I spoke with the defoliant I about taking away of licenses ; in consequence of reading a para graph, 1 told him that he had charged two gentlemen with trying to get his license taken away, but that that was unfounded as the Magistrates had done it themselves ; the permits wbo at tended Use Magistrates were Mr. John Ridgway, Mr. Alms, and myself. Mr. JEavis addressed the Jury for the defendants, and con tended that this libel was not in reality directed at the prosecuttirs, as it was merely written. concerning Mr. Abbot, the publisher of the rival paper. and those persons who were the proprietors of It— , the prosecutors having, as was proved, no concern directly or indi. reedy in that paper ; and he argued that the witnesses understood the libel to taloa , : to the Messrs. Ridgway, not from the reading of the libel itself, but from circumstances or rumours that they hail heard elsewhere; but from the contest of the libel itself it would be scen that they were not the persons meant. Mr. Baron Gan ROw.iin charging the Jury said, that there cool,: be no doubt but that the libel in question was published by the t • mart : and the question titer lc s ; whc b s this was a libel. ar.t: there could be little doubt that it was so, and he should insult then by tiotnting out the different parts of it; that was his opinion ; but deer had been told that they might find for the defendant, if they, believed that the libel was a mere squib of the day ; but if this way written of men of respectability and probity of cor.duct, they would very, from the tore and manner of it, whether it was riot • very atrocious libel ? They then wore asked wheelie* ibis was applied to 3lesirs Itidgv sy, and aley wt It'd find by the fair consiruction,as well as by the strong extensive evidence, that it did very manikistly 'poly to them ; but that was matter for their eonsiderat:on. I There had been several respectable witnesses brought forward, who all if them prose! tine they were the persons meant, and the de letalsn 's Counsel, as they must have observed, could not even mg est :Mit it applied to any one else than Messrs. Ridgway. They had I cm told, too, that none of the facts charged in the libel ap plied at all to Messrs. Ridgway. This reminded ltim of a etr e-on:stance that occurred very long ago, beture he (the Learned Judge) was called to the Bar. A person was tried for libelling the late Marquis of Salisbury ; on that occasion the late Lord Er skine hit the case for the defendant, and he well recollected that the junior C.:unsel for the defendant was a person of *hose talents, as a Statesman, lie could not speak too highly—he meant the late Mr. Pitt. In the libel, the Noble !tturquis was not . mentioned by name, but was denominated the tallest and pp pro eniro u voe dF m t t hea P at z inu i po n b ohueriilricißhotle:.liirto.he;" Pitt got witness the agroqtutiisp oaf w n called ::lais a aiia s bdutryo wthue ness, I know the Marquis is • tall man (which was the fact:, but do you think him the proudest Pecr in the realm ? To this the shoots answered—" I have the good fortune to know the Marquis of Salisbury very well, and am therefore aware that he is not at all a proud Nobleman ; but among those who do not know hint as I do, he is so considered. Atter this answer. tit, great Statesman he alluded to sat down, and neither of the Counsel thought it prudent to ask the witnesses any more description was a true one, but whether it was such a one as showed who was the person meant. The Jury immediately found the defendant Guilty. LI VERPOOL, MONDAY, ILtacu 14. Wind S.E. to E.—High Water 8 min. put 7. Arrived the Minerva, Kinnear. from Greenock. One ship cff; but up to seven o'clock not known what ship it is. DUKE or Yoaa's Lavac.—Yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, the Duke of York held a kvee as Commander in -Chief, at his office, in the Horse Guards, which was attended by the Earl of Oxford, Viscount Templeton, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas ilislop, Montgomery, and Strickland ; Major. General Sir John Dalrymple, Bonham, Darling, Widdrington, Murray, and Burton, and about forty other officers. Yesterday the Duke and Duchess of Clar.mee came to town from their residence at Bushy. Their Royal High nesses returned to Bushy in the afternoon. The Duke of Clarence, the Duke of Gloucester, and the Duke of Sussex, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. Four young noblemen of illustrious families are ap pointed to attend the Duke of Northumberland at the Coro nation of the King of France. 'fhose selected for this proud office are, Lord Pelham, eldest son of the Earl of Chichester; Lord llarvey, eldest son of the Earl of Bristol ; Lord Prudhoe, brother of the Duke of Northumberland; and Lord Lcvecon Gower, son of the Marquis of Stafford. A letter from Sierra Leone of the Ist of January states that the trade in the timber of that colony far exceeds that of any former season—not less than 8000 tons of shipping were expected to sail before the end of February. A great many slave ships were still trading under the Whi te Flag. Cetters have been received from the Havannah, but they do not contain intelligence of much interest. The en couragement given to piracy by the authorities of Cuba appears to have attracted some very strong remonstrances from the Government of the United States to the Governor of the Havannah, accompanied, as it is said in one of the letters, by a threat that, if something is not done to repress the practice, steps of a more decided nature will be taken. We understand the Diamond frigate had arrived at the Havannah, with specie from Mexico, on her way to this country. The Oriental Spectator of the 20:h of January emtains an article on the atfairs of the Greeks, which it; as veracious as its statements usually are. We arc told that the typhus fever prevails at Napoli di Remania, " owing to the rebel lion of the Greeks, and the scarcity which it has produced ;- that Colocotroui was entrenched between Motion and Ar gos, and was approaching Napoli ; that sixteen of the Egyptian fleet bad arrived at Motion, and thirty-six had sailed for Patras; that the Viceroy of Egypt was fitting out a new expedition against them ; and lastly, that a con siderable European naval forco is on the point of appearing before Napoli, for injuries done to the commerce of its nations—all of which the Editor of the Oriental Spectator will find some difficulty in making any one believe. Loss or rite KENT.—The officers of the troops have resolved to present an elegant cup, of the value of fifty guineas, to Captain Cook, and another, to the value of twenty guineas, to his mate, as testimonies of their sense of the humane attention paid to them on board the Cam bria. It is also intended to have a medal struck, to cotn memorate the heroic conduct of the miners, to whose spirited resolve, in refusing to allow the seamen of the Kent to enter the Cambria until they had rescued those left on board the burning vessel, the preservation of the lives of the far greater pact of those saved is to be attri buted.—Wert Briton. A letter from Liverpool of Saturday states, that the fourteen soldiers saved from the Kent East Indiaman landed that afternoon. There was a great crowd collected to welcome them ashore, when the Caroline came down from quarantine ground. 'I he India Company arc stated to have sent a 1,0001. Bank-note to the Captain of 'the Cambria, who so hu manely rescued the passengers and crew of the ship Kent. *The Courier of last night positively denies the relit that the opinions of the Earl of Liverpool have undergone sotee alteration with regard to the Catholic Qin stion. Mr. Lawless has written a long letter to the Editor of a Morning Paper in which he decl a r es hi s regret t h at Nit O'Connell, in his letter which we published .;,n Saturday should have expressed himself so favourably of the pro posed Bill for Catholic Emancipation, which Mr. Lawle,. considers wholly inadetinate to meet the wishes of the. great body of the Catholics. Mr. Lawless also expresser great doubt of the sincerity of Mr. Plunkett. We regret to hear that Mr. Macready has had a relapse. and his life is again pronounced in great danger. It is, at all events, supposed that Mr. Macready will never be able to resume his professional duties again.—Carlisie Journal. Mr. Arrowright, who was wounded in a duel with ' Mr. C--e, died on Monday night from fever. The meeting took place on Hurst Common, near Oakingham, and Mr. A. received the ball of his adversary in the left breast, in the second round. The Fives Court, St. Martin's -street, Leicester-square, this day (Wednesday, March 13) wiil be the seat of attraction in y, attended liu tis n b o y w al l I :fr the lir first-raters ing ud e: a the sporting world, for the beneht o f Harry Harmer , a brave man, who o fec of wont alt n gh The his battles C m :r t t m w a i n ll fu be ll in the ring, and White-headed Bob's (Baldwin) money will be there to tight any one. From the arrangements made for the sets-to a bumper is wished for, as a reward to manhood. Operations to commence at two o'clotk. Printed at THE 131, Sitrand, and published by H. Csatatow, same place. - _ THE BRITISH PRESS. SCOTCH MARRIAGES. A case of ejectmeot of considerable importance was tried at Lancaster on Saturday. The plaintiff, en infant of under age, brought by his friends an action to obtain possession of certain pro. perry in Manchester which had belonged to his deceased tither, 31r. Peter Davenport Finney, and which was withheld from the plaintiff by the defendants, Boylance and others, on the ground that he was not the legitimate son of Mr. Finney, his mut her never having been legally married to him. It was also contended, as a ground for resisting the claim of the plaintiff; that his father, in his own will, had described him as an illegitimate son, and had bequeathed bim a property of 20,6001. as such, he being fully aware that his son could not succeed to his estate in law. In the case of the plaintiff, his mother and 'eventl other witnesses were called to prove that a marriage had taken place in Scotland some time after the parties had cohabited, and before the plaintiff was born. The mother, and Mary Wilmot, the servant, deposed that the deceased had read the marriage ceremony from the Book of Common Prayer, and desired the servant to bear witness that they were fairly married. Several persons proved that subsequent to this c.ereutony the father of the plaintiff had acknowledged his ma. they as his wife, and eau this alone, according to the law of Scot. land, was sufficient evidence of marriage. Mr. Campbell, a Writer to the Signet in Scotland, on being ea. emitted as to the received law of Scotland on the subject of mar- I nage, stated that the mere expression of the consent of the parties bet Ors witnesses was sufficient to render a marriage valid, and a passage from Mr. Erskine's Institutes* to the same effect was read in Court. Th. Learned Judge, in summing up, said he considered the va. trilby of the marriage clearly estahltshed, and that the impression upon the mind of the deceased that his son was not legitimately born could not set aside the received law of Scotland, which recog nised his legitimacy. The Jury without hesitation found their verdict for the plaintiff' • The passage read Imputed " that the consent of parties was essential to marriage in Scotland ; that such consent might be either express or tacit; that the ceremony might be repeated by a clergyman, but neither was it essential that it should be repeated by a clereyntan, nor repeated at all ; that the consent of the parties given before a civil magiatrate, or witnesses, was sufficient ; that it might be expressed in a written document ; that the subsequent acknowledgment of the parties themselves was suffi cient, if not jocularly node ; and that marriage was to be pre sumed from cohabitation, where ths parties were reputed to be tray and wisp." R:... w--fir ailegieabiiAkita‘t. ROME CIRCUIT. hints row, MAtcx The Anise.' for thin county eommeneetl here to-day, before the LOll.ll HIEF BARON on the Civil side, and Mr. Baron G MAHAN on the Crown Sick. Cn'ri, slog. /WITH U. GORDEN. This wit an action of assault wish battery. Plea, Not Guilty. The plaintiff's case was conducted by Mr. GURNEY and Mr. CIIITTY. and the defendant's by :Dr. MARRYATT. The plaintiff is a labourer, and the defendant a man of substance residing at Chesney. On Easter Monday last, the plaintiff', iu laxising through the tkleudant'; premises, was dencted by the tter, as was alleged, in stealing some pieces of wood. The de r rentlsm, who was lame at the time. seized the plaintiff by the cal. far, for the purpose of tailing him before a Magistrate a strug gle ensued, atid in the cgert* to get away, the plaintiff' fell down. He ultimately made his escape. On his return home he began to spit blood, and in a few days afterwards It was necessary to call in medical assistance. The plaintiff had been tubj.rcted to tits, and had spent sane portion of his life in the workhouse. When the defendant laid hold of him he set his dog at the latter, whose knee was bit:en by the animal. These were the circumstance of the ecse. The Jury found their r ' nlict for the plaintiff—Damages Sl - w.is co other catt , e worthy of notice. oxPona CIRCUIT. STAFFORDSHIRE ASSIZEtS—STArroaD, 514acm 14. CIVIL SIDE. Befbre Mr. Baron GAnstow. GREEN V. GIBSON. Mr. CITAWOOD stated that the plainti,i was a druggist at Wol. verharupton, and that the action was brought to recover a compen sation for the breaking of the plaintiff's wit. lows by the negligence of the defendant's servant. The facts were these:—ln the plai:.• tiff's window were placed a variety °Ebonies and glass jam, and a cart was standing at the door of a person of the mune of Theek, when the defendant's waggon came up, and the waggoner being negligently loitering behind, the waggon caught the cart wheel - , and drove the cart through the Doctor's window. This of course made a terrible jingling among the bottles, and about seveu pounds worth of bottles were broken, and their contents ran about the streets. However, the plaintif only asked a verdict for the bottles and the windows, and did not mind the loss of the physic. John Sakes and IVm. Wilcox proved these facts, and stated that the accident arose wholly from the waggoner not being in Lis proper place attending to his hOrses. The Lesrned JUDGE left the amount of time dattlag:s to Jury.— Verdict for the plaintiff—llatnages 151. CROWN COURT. Before Mr. Justice 1.1 TI. EDAI.I. The whole of the cases in the criminal calendar having been gone through, except a use of murder, which wan specially Bp; pointed for Tuesday, his Lordship procerued with the trial of civil cases. WRIGHT AND AWOTITER v. BRYAN. Mr. TALFOURD opened the pleadings. Mr. CUJIWOOD stated, that this was an action brought to re cover back front a stakeholder the plaintiff's share of a wager laid on a foot-race. It could hardly be said that a foot-race was illegal, tnr he believed that foot-racing was one of the exercises taught in our military academies; and it would be difficult to suppose that the pm.ila in those academies were taught illegal practices. Thia action, however, was not brought to recover the whole stake as it ' the wager was sun ; but only the plaintiff's share of it back again, as no person won the race, it being a dead Mat. Illr.CA stank IA wished to know whether his Lordship would try such a question as this. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALT thought this was a case fit to be tried, because this wager was not either of eriatiaal or immoral tendency. 31r. Cast ' , HELL in addressing the Jury for tie defendant said, that the defendant had really paid the money over; he had paid it to the person whom he believed to be the winner. A foot race was certainly not a wrong Cling, and he could see but little harm in a bull baiting, or even in bear baiting; he would contend that this was not a point bet by Warilow and Wright, on one side, but that Warilow alone made the bet. Wright not joining in it. But besides that, he was in a condition to prove that Shaw actually won the race decidedly, and that nobody could have a doubt of it. However, though the race was so won, there was a dispute about it, and the next day Warilow said, Shaw should not have the money, but it was agreed that on the next day, before nine o'clock, a witness should make oath that it was a dead heat, but that it C 5 witness came forward to do that, Shaw was to have the money ; no person, however, coming to make that oath, the money was paid to Shim. . .. . A witness proved the agreement between the parties, that unless the plaintiff brought a person to swear that it was a dead heat, the money was to be paid to Shaw, and that no such person came for ward to swear that it was a da d heat. 3lr. Justice Ltr7t sntr e, being of opinion that this subse quent agreeincat put an cod to the ease, ordered the plaintiff to be nonsuittd. LIBEL. THE ZING v. ♦HPBLETT. Mr. John Eeaus opened the indictment, and stated that by it the defendant was charged with blishiog a libel in a newspaper called the Pottery Casette; refit ing on the character of Messrs. John and William Ridgway. Mr. Casienest, stated that the prosecutors were eminent china manufacturer+, residing in the Potteeies of Stafiardthire ; they were dissenters by religion, and interested themselves in matters of politics, as it became the subjects of a free country to do. The defendant was editor of the Pottery Gazette, wrists was an ultra Tory—an ultra High Church paper. The defendant had at different times published different papers : he had edited the !Nieman, the Dissenter, and Birmingham A rgns, papers of very different principles. It would appear that in the coun:y of Stafford there was a Society, called the " Venerable Druids," and that Society had Lodges in a stile something masonic, and that the apprentices of Mtwara Ridgway mute a procession in ridicule of the Venerable Druids, which were of themselves suffi ciently ridiculous diind these lads instead of wearing long beards as the Druids did, tied cows' tails to th e ir c hins to make game of the Druids; this, however, he believed was not the real cause of the li bel, but a paper was started called th e Pottery Mercury, which was edited by a blr. Thos. Allbut ; that gentleman had made the usual affidavit at the Stamp Office that he was the mole editor, printer, and Proprietor of that paper, and the prosecutors had nothing to do with it; however, the defendant asserted that Messrs. Ridgway were the proprietors of this newspaper, and that they had set forward 31r.A11- but as a man of straw to make a false affidavit and screen them ; and in the l'ottiry Gazette of Saturday, the lOth of July, 134, a paragraph was inserted, headed " The Newspaper Miseries of die Twelve Apostles." By this term (the Twelve Apostles) ass meant the prosecutors and several more ; and it charged them, under the name of the Radical Saints, with cheating the revenue, by publishing a Supplement to their paper (the Pottery Atertory), at the price of 3d. without i:s hung stamped; and it stated. that that paper bad accused the defendant of being per sonal in his paper, but that the supposed personality was really only a fair exposure of the duplicity of the Ridgways. [The Learned Counsel here read and commented on the terms of the l bit. width was of immense length.l His clients, however, had nothing to do with the Pottery Mercury, either as proprietors or otherwise. The libel, in conclusion, said, that they bore false witness against their neighbours, and committed adultery in their very Chapels. Could this be any but a moat scandalous libel ? It imputed every crime to the prosecutors that could possibly disgrace human nature. The defence he understood was, that by all this the Messrs. Ridgway were not meant, and that it only meant all hypocrites in general. But he would allude to the first dotice the defendant took of this prosecution, which was in the defend ant's paper of August 14. In that t he defendant appeared to have gloried in what lie had dote, but did not at all preterit to deny that the Messrs. Ridgway were meant. The libel was headed " The Newspaper Miseries of the Twelve Apoatles," and he was in a condition to show, that by that name was meant the prosecutors, and some others. To the Messrs. Ridgway the libel did not in any respect apply, for it was false ; hut would be enough, if he convinced them that the defendant meant by this libel to injure the characters of the prosecutors. In anothe- part of the libel it was asked who were the saintly informers whe tied brought up a poor man for amusing himself with a game at bagatelle, which all the while they played in their own houses? And he was in a condition to prove, by the testimony of the very respectable Clergyman of that parish, that the defendant had said, that the Messrs. Ridgway were the instigators of an information against a poblic.an for allowing unlawful gambling in his house. They conk' not for a moment doubt who was meant, even from the read ing the libel itself, without his calling a single witness; but he would call persons of all religious denominations, and he would call persons of t: s highest rank, and of more moderate rank, to prove, that though the imputations of the libel were unfounded as they regarded Messrs. Rrttgwny yet they had net the slightest particle of doubt but that they were the persons meant. The only remain ing topic for the defence would be, that the proper mode of pro. "muting was not by indictment : but Messrs. Ridgway did not want to put damages into their pockets ; all they wanted was to bring a public delinquent to a public punishment. The libel was read. It filled considerably more than a column of the Pottery Gazette. Mr. Phillips was then cross-examined by Mr. ..Travis—The Pottery ttfercury is a Wednesday paper; the defendant's is pub hatted on Saturdays. Ralph Stephenson, Esq. said, I am acquainted with Messrs. Ridgway ; I am a china manufacturer, and so are they • they carry on business at Caldon-place. near Sher.ton ; I have known them upwaids of twenty years; they arc in extensive business, and em. ploy about 4.7.0 or MN men; they are Protestant Dissenters or Methodists ; I am a member of the Church of England ; I have spoken with the defendant three years ago respecting Messrs. Ridgway ; I said to him that he had attacked the Ridgways and the Dissenters in general; he said 3lessra. Ridgway had given it out that he was the printer of a scurrilous hand-bill circulated in the neihbourhood, and he declared that it was not so, and that be would easily convince them or me of that fact, as he knew who the printer was; I urged upon hint that it was desirable for him, setting up a paper, to conciliate all parties, and particularly the Disaentets, as they were greater readers than any other description of persons • and I proposed going with him to Messrs. Ridgway to explain the circumstances; this he declined dating, saying that it was contrary to the whole habit of his life to publish scurrilous dander; and at another time the defendant chargetl the Ridgways with getting up a mock procession, and :hat knowing tht he was a I 1 4 . IT 44 4 ~.~:.._