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I CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. great Statesman, in his tract entitled Thaughtr and Details en Scarcity :—" it is a perilous thing to try experiments on the Farmer." We would impress this concise admonition constantly on the minds of those who would legislate upon the corn market. Agriculture, from the very nature and value of its produce, must ever constitute the solid and durable basis of national revenue. AB the strength and power of the state—ill the interests of commerce and of manufactures --are inseparably bound up with it. As to the largeness of a farmer's profits, Mr. Boas e has said enough to disabuse every candid nand of this error, which m any, without any ill intention, have taken so much pains to propagate.—" It is very rare that the most prosperous farmer, counting the value of his quick and dead stock. the interest of the money ha turns, together with his own wages as a bailiff or overseer, ever does make 12 or 15 per rodent by the year on his capital. I speak of the prospe • rous In most of the parts of England which have Wien within my observation, I have rarely known a farmer, who to his own trade has not added some other employ ment or traffic, that, after a course of the most unremitting parsimony and labour (such, for the greater part, is theirs), and persevering in his business for a long course of years, died worth more than paid his debts ; leaving his posterity to continue in nearly the same equal conflict between in dustry and want, in which the last predecessor, and a long line of predecessors before him, lived and died, Observe," he adds, "that I speak of the generality of farmers, who have not more than from 150 tog and 400 acres. There are few, in this part of the country, within the former, or much beyond the latter extent. Unques tionably in other places there are much larger. But lam convinced, whatever part of England be the theatre of his operations, a farmer who cultivates 1,200 acres, which I consider as a large farm, though I know there are larger, cannot proceed, with any degree of safety and effect, with a smaller capital than ten thousand pounds ; and that he cannot, in the ordinary course of culture, make more upon that great capital of ten thousand pounds than twelve hundred a year." (Thanghts and Details, &c. p. 20.) Brat E wrote thus in 1795; since that period taxes, poor rates, and the charges and out-goings of almost every de scription, have nearly doubled ; and the diffieulty of legis lating on the Corn Laws is infinitely increased, more espe cially when we take tnto consideration the unsettled state of the currency. The transactions in the Money market to-day have been of a very monotonous description, but there has still been an elasticity apparent in British Securities. Consols opened at last night's quotation, and closed at 79j j, which our readen will recollect is an improvement. Exchequer Bills were Bs. 101. premium, and India Bonds 3s. 6s. premium. The Foreign market was without interest, and nearly without business, and there was nit even the shadow of a foreign report to give temporary life to the Royal Exchange. the following prices were reported of Foreign Stocks:— Colombian Bonds, 40.1 II; Mexican Six per Cents. 61! 62 ; Peruvian Bonds, 21 ; Russian ditto, 76i; Greek, 143 IS ; and Spanish, The Exchequer Bill market was improved, by reason, as it was reported, of the Batik Broker buying largely of these Bills. The puree Zings in the House of Commons on the Corn questi .n. had no effect nn the tnarket yesterday. The re sult had been fully anticipated. . . It is stated list Gov . ernroent are a')out to abandon the settlement of Cape Coast Castle, on the coast of Africa ; and that transports are about to proceed from this country to remese the garrison. Trieste and ';nice papers to the sth of April have been received in town, but they do not contain a word of in- ' triligence from Greece. Some extraordinary circumstances are reported respect irg Hayti. Mr. Canning. it is said, look the same steps wah France, regarding Hayti, which he did with Spain and the South American States—sending a formal despatch to declare that if France did not recognise the independence of Hayti, England would. This, it is stated, led to the acknowledgment of the independence of the Republic. If the Ilaytian Government had been aware of this circum stance, France, perhaps, would not have received any pecuniary compensation for the gracious act of acknow ledzment. Private letters have recently been received in London, from the Duke of Wellington, announcing that his Grace purposes being in England within a fortnight from the present time. The letters are datrtl from St. Petersburgh. It is also reported that private accounts were received yes terday, statine that Admiral Greig, commander-in-chief of the Russian Sect at Cronstadt, bad been called to St. Pe tersburgh, to receive instructions to put the fleet to sca, and that since the beginning of the present month various movements have taken place in the two grand armies of Generals Wittgenstein and Sacken. It is said also that the cavalry has Ikea reinforced. With regard to the Russian fleet, we do not believe that any preparations have been made for its equipment beyond such as are necessary at this season of the year, for the squadron usually exercised in the Baltic during the summer months. The .ifercare deLondres gives an amusing anecdote of M. Auger, a Member of the French Academy. This gen tleman, who, it seems, has published an edition of Mo liere, with his own notes, being accidentally in company with a Russian Nobleman of the first rank, a great encou rager of literature and the arts, availed hi:naelf of the optortunity to offer to his acceptance a copy of what he' railed his " humbl e p ro d uct i ons . The promised present was most graciously accepted, and a splendidly-bound copy regularly transmitted to his Highness, who in a few days returned a letter; addressed " To Mons. Molloy," full of acknowledgments and declarations of the pleasure be had detivel from reading his " admirable comedies," and only regretting that he should have thought it necessary to inenniber them with " those rillanows notes," by M. Auger, explanatory only of passages in themselves as clear as the day, and all equally useless and absurd. His Highness goes on to recommend the publication of a new edition, Mum, of these abominable excrescences, which he says he shall have great pleasure in presenting to his imperial master, who will, doubtless, acknowledge the compliment by a handsome snuff-hox for the author. The mortified feelings of the unlucky commentator at this unfortunate unmake may be better imagined than described. NkCiCASTLE.-11'e understand that the receipts for duties at the Custom-house, in the quarter ending atli 111110Untd to nearly 100,000!. SPIT•LIIELDS. l i r i;AVEllll.---I'he distress of this in dustrious and quiet class has already excited the generous pity and drawn forth substantiai relief from the benevolent and humane. Still much remains to be done for them ; and we rejoice to see that the proprietors of Astley's Am phitheatre have kindly set apart Friday next for a benefit at their popular place of amusement, which we sincerely hope will be highly productive. Gs BRA tTAX, MANCH 27.-116 Majeityll surveying ship Mastiff has been twice off Tarifa, searching for the sap posed Thisbe rock, in the middle of the Straits, but dis covered none; Itcinier, the author of a Chart of the Straits, denies the existence of any such rock. IVe draw the attention of the public, and especially of Members of Parliament, to the bridge now about to be thrown over the Serpentine river in Hyde Park, close to the embankment which retains the piece of water in Ken sington -gardens. A bridge alongside of an embankment is surely an absurdity in itself, at least as great as if a ferry-boat were to be established at any of the bridges across the Thames. If a bridge is to be erected there, to render it even in appearance useful and proper, the em bankment ought to be removed, and t he two pieces of water r-duced to the same level. If this is not done, the bridge will be a reproach upon public taste. FASHIO.NARLE INTELLIGENCE. • The Countess of Arran entertained a s .'eet party of fashionable.' on Tue.day evelainin m l'ef o , nes-strent, among whoin sysre—Thu Doke of St. Alban's, Lord Itrresf,..d. Lady In•erlrag, Lady Puller, Lady De Ciiir.ard, Sir Gory sod Lady Onsrlsy, Sit Charles and Lady Ogte, Conn., Mrs. Giles, Mr. Taylor. &r. The lit*hop of Exeter entertained a da-tlntrill.hed party at dinner yrs tei thy, at hi .1 , 01, In Meat :1. t• eet, tt'e.tntin.ter. The Earl of 'Pamiry enicrtained the Direcuar. ..f the Ancient Music and a lame party nt dinner ye.reiday. Id hi. In Berkeley- A part. The Margin. ..if Cholmondeley Its 1 A dinner party yestettlay, at his h..u.e la Piccadilly. . The Earl 'of Aberdeat htul a 'ante party at dinner yeeterday, at hie hnuae in Anrvie-itr, et. Henry eller, r. 1.1. M.P. had a dinner party yekterday, at hit house la New-lii feet. Suistir.fratrienA.. The Earl o ltarttnrath left fawn yertertlay, (,r hi* seat, Sandwell. Staff wtb.hire. George P.n. arrived yegterdny at the Lon lon Hotel, Albemarle. street, from Park. John Jlowley, Esq. n.ts left Fedor 's New Hotel, St. James's-taree•, for Brighton. The Rev. Mr. Towers has arrived at Feu!on's New Hotel, St. Jamm's. street, from a tour. _ _ . 111rv., ao,l the ATI ;rer Campheil left the Waterloo Hotel, Jermyn street, ye.terdol. C.r Harlow. Depart', Lltaa . 4 Hotel, Iriond-itreet Captain MA Mr.. Cald well, far the Continent ; Mr. und MI,. Eyre, for their veal In Oxfurd;hlre ; Captain Hall, t,i; Arrival at Mille,', hotel, Jermyr •• treet ,--Capt. Heekford, from a tour. Departure. ;—Mr. and Era. Howard, for their seat in N3rfolk y Captain Osborn, for lirlahtnn. Arrivail at the f :arendon Hotel, Bons .street :—Sir W. and Lail Conper, from their real In Surrey • Jelin Summers, Eoq. horn Melton loirbray, Leice+ter+hore ; Mr. and Mr+. Perry•on, frum sr,tland. Arrival+ at the Both Hotel, Arlinoir.u.alreet o—Mra. P.•nienge and fa mily, from Park; Mr. and 31r+. Smith, from their a-oat In Devon+liire; Mr. and Mr.. Hermon. from Rath. Departure+ :—Lord George Lennox, tn. • tour ; Mr. rod Mr+. llinge+ton, fur Part.; Saunder+, EN. for his seat in Hants. Arrival. at Hat. hett's Hotel, Dover..lreet, Piccadilly :—Puivrar Craven, Req. from Newmarket ; Sir John Whitford t and Colonel Wilkie. from Bath. Departure.:—Sir H. Seyntoor, for Soothampron ; COlOll,l Bruce. for Bath ; Lady PitiNorn and the prier, for ch..!; en b arn ; General Lewlv and CIIIOtICI Kin.% y. fur Wlndior ; Captain Lyons, for I.)tnine. ton. Hant.; General Shrapnel, for Doreet.hire ; and the Rev. Dr. to Vindon„ Sussex. DRURY-LANE THEATRE. On Tuesday the tragedy of Brutus, with a divertisement called The Camp, and the farce of Tars Oat, were announced as the en tertainments for the evening. Mr. Pelby, who recently appeared at this Theatre in the character of hamlet, undertook the arduous part of Luria: Juirims. His representation of it certainly did not zoom up to what we had expected after seeing him in flanks: nevertnelesa he was highly respectable. Atter he had thrown off the assumed character of the idiot, the thought of revenging his country's wrongs appeared to animate him; and although his oration over the dead body of Lucretia was not what we should have altogether wished it to have been, still the imerview with and condemnation of Titus, chewed that the actor had redeeming qualities. The conclusion, where he gives the signal for the execu tion of his son rirea, was admirable ; and the curtain fell amidst the enthusiastic applause of the audience. At the conclusion of the play. Mr. Mercer (we believe) came forward to announce the performance for the 'following evening ; but the loud applause and repeated calls for Mr.Pelby were so great, that he could not obtain a hearing. The overture to the ballet then commenced, and the curtain rose for its performance; but the c.:11 foe Mr. Pelby became again so loud and universal, that at length Mr. Wallach came forward, and, after in vain attempting to be heard, was about to retire, when silence being partially recored, he turned round and said Ladies and Gentlemen, am Ito understand that it is your wish that Mr. Pelby should appear before you ?" He was answered by loud cries of " Yes, yes," and applause. Mr. Mrallack then retired, and shortly after returned and claimed the indulgence of the audience to allow the ballet to proceed, observing that, at the conclusion of it, 31r. Pelby would be ready to obey their call. With this the audience were ash-lied, and the ballet went on; but at its conclusion Mr. Pelby did not make his promised appear. once ; nevertheless all passed oil' quietly until the curtain rose for the farce, and Mr. Home and Mr. J. Russell made their appear ance, when considerable tumult arose, and loud cries for Mr. Pelby again were heard. Shortly after which Mr. Pelby appeared, and addressed the audience in the following words " Ladies and Gentlemen, this is an honour which I really did not expect, and allow me again to repeat to you, the sense of gra. titude I feel for the manner in which I have been received in this country. If it ia your wish that I should again appear before you, (cries of " yes, yes," " bravo," and loud applause). then I must tell you that is a question which rests entirely w ith t h e managers . If they are willing that I should do so, I assure you most sincerely that nothing would give me greater pleasure." proceed Air. Patti then r w e'nred amidst pinch applause, and the farce ed. Yesterday morning early, the Doke of York l e ft t own and proceeded to Hounslow-heath, where his Rnyal High ness, attended by his Staff Officers, inspected the nth Regiment of Light Dragoons, previous to their leaving the King's duty at that station, from which they are to be relieved by the 12th Regiment of Lancers. The relief of the nth Regiment takes place two months sooner than the usual time, the regular period for such a station being twelve months, which would not have expired till next June. This exchange of duty two months before the usual time is, occasioned by the unexpected removal of the 10th Regiment of Hussars from Exeter between two and three months before the expiration of twelve months. The Princess Augusta visited the Princess Sophia on Tuesday. Yesterday about two o'clock the Duke of Devonshire had an interview with Mr. Secretary Canning at the Foreign Office, which lasted about half an hour, to make arrange ments for his Grace's Embassy to the Emperor Nicholas at St. Petersburgh. It is expected the Duke will leave Eng land on the let of May. Although his Grace's livery ser vants are very numerous, as the Duke proceeds upon the Embassy with much splendour, he takes with him four additional footmen. The Dukeof Ragusa (Marmon* who is appointed by the King of France upon a similar mission, left Paris a few days since, to proceed overland to St. Pe tersburgh. The Duke's splendid equipage left Paris about a fortnight previous. Yesterday Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador, and the Hanoverian Minister, transacted business with Mr. Secretary Canning at the Foreign Office. The Cabinet Ministers dined yesterday with Mr. Secre tary Canning. His much to the credit of Mr. Canning, that in an ap plication to him from the friends of one of the parties implicated with Gregor M'Gregor, the soi-disanl Cazique of Poyais, he required from the French Government that the parties should be instantly brought to trial. But for his interference they might have remained in prison several mon tbs.—Northern Reporter. The several candidates for Worcester, Lord Deerhurst, Colonel Davies, and Mr. Robinson, have cone/tided their canvass of that city. There are said to be four candidates for the representa tion of the county of Galway—Messrs. Martin and Daly, the sitting Members, and Mr. St. George and Mr. Lam bert. They all start on Catholic principles, because it would be quite absurd to address such a county as Galway upon any other. Not only are all the freeholders, but a moiety of the landed gentry, Catholic.—Dablin Evening Post. We are happy to ace that our national gallery of pictures is daily becoming of more interest and importance. Yes terday the additional pictures, lately in the possession of Sir George Beaumont, were exhibited. Amongst them are two exquisite Wilsons, one the celebrated Niobe, three Claude', a Gaspar Poussin, an admirable landscape by Rubens, and one of the finest Rembrandts in existence. Li aet..—On Friday, the Grand Jury found a true hill against Mr. Thomas Sowler, the publisher of the Man chester Ginirkr, for a libel on the Rev. J. Blundell, the Roman Catholic priest, at Edgley, near Stockport. A foreigner once asked Lord Chesterfield what was meant by the word scoundrel. His Lordship replied, " Any thing you please. It comprehends every thing : it is the genus generolissimum of abuse." Ilumpliry Parsons was in his day a brewer of great w.ilth and repute, as well as a sportsman of notoriety. When on a visit at Paris he was one day hunting with Louis XV. The King's curiosity being excited to know who he was, he inquired of one of his attendants, who gravely replied, that he was " Chensticr de Matte." The fact was, the attendant had often heard him wittily designated by his English friends as the Knight of Malta, and, not understanding the joke, took it literally. Lotto NORUUUY•-1t was once our lot to hear a cele brated Barrister of the Irish Court, who had been a short time before horse-whipped at the foot of Nelson's Pillar, in Sackville-street, so severely as to be carried home bleed ing with the severity of his punishment, cross-examine a man who had indicted another for an assault. " Pray, Sir," said the Counsel, with the usual barristerial insolence, e , were you well beaten ?" " Yes, Sir," said the man, " quite as well as you were at the foot of Nelson's Pillar." The Counsel turned pale with rage and mortification, and turning to Lord Norbury, " My Lord," said he, " I ap peal for the protection of the Court against this imperti nence." " The Court," cried Lord Norbury, " can never refuse its protection to any one who has bled under the im mortal Nelson."—(From the „fir.it number of a weekly pub lication just commenced, entitled "The Brazen Head.") THE BRITISH PRESS. LITERATURE. GRADUAL FORMATION OF THE PRESENT CON. STITUTION OF PARLIAMENT. (From " Spence's Inquiry into the Origin of the Laws and Institutums of Modern , Eurnpe.") The constitution of Parliament under IVILLIAM I. and his immediate successors, has been considered at some length. There is reason to think that it was the intention of EnwaßD THE FIRST or his advisers to have confined the office of the Commons to the presenting petitions (a liberty which the Roman provincials, in theory at least, enjoyed to the fullest extent), and that of the Lords to offering their advice (the office which the Roman Emperors as signed to the praetorian prefect and his companions), and to have rest reed to himself the sole power of making the laws. The statutes of Gloucester, 6 Edw. I , are prefaced with these words : " The King himself providing for the I amendment of his realm, and for the fuller administration of justice, as the good of the kingly office requireth." The statute of quo warrant° is expressed to be made " by the King of his especial grace, and for the affection he beareth unto his Prelates, Earls, and Barons, and others of his realm." Most of the other acts of this reign are drawn up as concessions front the King to the people, and in lan guage which might well have been used in an imperial constitution. However, in the succeeding reign, the Cow moss asserted their right to be put upon an equal footing with the Lords ; and by a statute of the 16 Edw. 11. it was declared that matters established for the state of the King and of the realm and of the people, shotild be done in Par liament by the King, and by the assent of the Prelates, Earls, Barons, and Commonalty, according as it had been theretofore accustomed. In this reign, too, it was ordained that Parliaments should be held annually . In the reign of &roam, 111. th e Commouttodv in their preten sions, and claimed to join in enacting the laws. But, though this claim was n o t es t a bli s h e d, or i n d ee d at t h at time persevered in, their right to interfere in matters of legislation cppears to have been Intablisittd in the reign of EDWARD 111. The right of the Counnons to originate money bills was finally settled in the reign of Hewer IV. So long as the statutes were drawn by the clerks of the Chancery, and entered on the statute roll, from the peti tions of the Commons either in writing or by the mouth of their Speaker, and the answers of the King and the Council, without the Commons having any control over the terms on which they were framed, statutes very dif ferent from what they had petitioned for might he, and often actually were, enacted. To provide against this evil, in the beeond of II LriltV V. it was granted by the King, at the instance of the Commons, that nothing should be enacted on the petition of the Commons that was contrary to their asking, whereby they should be bound without their consent. But the due enactment of the laws, as assented to by the Lords and Commons, Was for the first time effectuarly secured by the practice which obtained in the reign of Enwa tin IV. of reducing all petitions into the fore. of acts, and presenting them in that slate for the royal assent. This practice also enabled the Commons to insure their being consulted in regard to the acts origi nating with the Lords. NOVEL AEROSTATION. In compliance with an application from many of the inhabitants of Mile-end, Stepney, Bow, and Stratford, Mr. Charles Green, the aeronaut, agreed to make an ascent with his balloon from the bowling-groen of the Golden Eagle, Mile-end-road, on Tuesday afternoon. On Monday Mr. Green exhibited th e b a ll oon an d i ts appendages. To Ilford a few aspiring friends an opportunity of taking a short aerial excursion, ropes were affixed to the car, and the balloon made a number of ascents to given altitudes, with two, and sometimes three, voyagers. During the greater part of Mon. day, these excursions were confined to a height of one hundred and fifty or two hundred feet, owing to the roughness of the wind ; but on Tuesday morning, the weather being more propitious, many ladies and gentlemen a s cend e d to t h e h e i g h t o f five hund red feet, and had s sight of famtion and its environs for many miles round. This pleasing divertisement was continued until nearly twelve o'clock in the day, when the process of inflation was resumed, and fully completed by two o'clock ; but owing to the great influx of company, Mr. Green was induced to postpone the time of his ascent from four own six o'clock, at which time he took Isis seat in the ear, and WAS followed by Mr. C. T. Hill, Secretary to the British Gas Company, as his companion in the voyage. Mr. Green then gave the signal, and the machine rose with graceful and gentle motion, almost perpendicularly, to the height of some hundred feet. lt then took a direction N E., but ova a fresh current of air wafted it due N., and again N. W. The following are some authentic particulars and data respecting the voyage, and the various altitudes and temperatures to which the teronauts arrived and experienced during their voyage in "thin air," for which we are indebted to the gentleman who accompanied Mr. Green : Started at 6. 18. Barometer 30. 3. Thermometer 53. 0. at 6. 22. ditto 28. 0. ditto 0. 0. at 6. 30. ditto 2C. 5. ditto 0. 0. line the balloon was ascertained to be descending, and at 6. 36. Barometer 27. 0. Sand being thrown out, again rose. 6. 37. ditto 26. 8. 6. 49. ditto 26. 0. Thermometer 48. 0. 6. 45. ditto 25. I. ditto 46. 0. 6. 55. ditto 25.0. ditto 35. 0. This was the greatest altitude from which a card was despatched B. G. L. and Co., An terreatial objects indistinct, and sounds lost—motion perfe:tly imperceptible throughout. 7. b. Barometer 21; 0. Thermometer 35. 0. 7. 10. ditto 28. 0. ditto 40. 0. descending rapid)—and landed at 7. 16. in a field adjoining the residence of 51r. Bolt White, Enfield Chace Green. . _ . . . .. At first rising. the Wilton; passed in a direction towards Lee Bridge, and exactly over the London Orphan Asylum, crossed the North-road, &little southward of the Seven Sisters, and continued parallel with Tottenham, westward of the North-road, to the end of that village; than passed north-westerly towards Barnet, for a short time, and got into a current which armed us nearly west over En field. At 7. 16. dropped in a field adjoit , ing the residence of Mr. Molt White, as before stated, where every polite attention was shewn by the family. The promptitude with which the inhabitants rendered their assistance, contributed much to the preservation of the vehicle. Not the least damage was sustained. The few memoranda annexed were taken at the time, and will serve to compute the altitude by. The distance travelled was about 13 milt*. and the time nearly one hour. The bz.lloon was inflated by the British Gas Light Company, and the necessary preparations made, under the direction of their Eil,ineer, &e. proved amply powerful, and completely successful. The concourse of people to witness the ascent was immense, and by the loudest cheers testified their gratification. The whole affair went off in the best style, and served to compensate the public for the disappointment recently experienced regarding another aeron au t who had pretended to exhibit, and deceived them. lVednes lay last the Reverend Thomas hlcthold was in stituted to the Rectory of Kilverstone, on the presentation of the King. _ _ . The Dean and Chapter of Durham have presented the Rev. G. Townsend, one of the Prebendaries of Durham, to the living of Northallerton, rendered vacant by the death of the fkv. G. Bouyer. FATAL DURL.—E %tract of a letter from St. Lucia : " On the 213th of February, a dud took place between Ensign French, of the .sth Foot, and Ensign Ward, of the 95th (the latter regiment had arrived the day previous to relieve the Sth), in consequence of a quarrel whi c h h a d oc curred between them. They tossed up for the first shot. Ensign Ward fired first, and shot French through the head; be died immediately. We are requested to state, that the suicidal murderer in Marylebone, named Pollard, a butcher by trade, was in no way related to a respectable man of the same name and trade in Forhes's-passage, Regent-street. The remains of Pollard were interred on Tuesday night at eleven o'clock, in the new burial ground, St. John's Wood, in a very private manner. But few persons were present on the occasion. The body was borne in a work house shell by eight paupers. and deposited in a grave. without the religious ceremonies. Stephen Cole, the milltnan of 0. E. Browne, of Nails worth, clothier, a bankrupt, was on Friday last committed to Gloucester county goal, for refusing to answer questions put to him by the Commissioners, relating to the dealing of the bankrupt.—G/ou resit r Journal. A few days ago, J. Davidson, engineer at Grandholm works, near Aberdeen, in his anxiety to rectify some part of the machinery, while the workmen were at breakfast, incautiously approached too near the engine, which making a half revolution from the accumulation of steam in the cylinder, bruised him so much as to occasion his death al most immediately. Friday last, as a servant of James Barton, Esq. was shak ing a bottle containing aqua fortis and quicksilver, for the purpose of making plate powder, he incautiously corked it up, when it ex ploded, and flew over his face, and injured him dreadfully. It is feared lie will lose the sight of one, if not of both bis eyes.-B N ry Gazrtle. Thursday last, as a poor woman was gathering morells in a plantation in the ocrupstion of J. Moseley, Esq. of Rush. brooke, she was unfortunately shot by a spring-gun. IVe under stand that upwards of fifty shots ha►e been taken out of her legs and thighs. This is the fourth accident, within a short time, in the same occupation. COLONIAL POLICY. We extract the following from a well-reasoned and ably ! written pamphlet, entitled, " THE WEST INDIA LEGIS- I.ATCRES VINDICATED from the charge of having resisted the call of the Afother-Country for the —ELioit•TioN or SLATERS , . By. Alexander M'Donnell, E'q." s' An opinion has gone abroad, that, from Oovemment having taken the question out °rifle hands of the abolitioniass, the coloniel party are possessed of sufficient influence to control the measures of the Administration. This notion has been enlarged utadi by Mr. Stephen in the last °finis pamphlets; and the community are again and again exhorted to raise their voice to countered what is de scribed as the pernicious influence of interested individuals. No person can mingle in society without being sensible how strongly this feeling his acted in raising an outcry against AVed India pro, prietors. I;nglislinien are hostile to the exercise of undue power in any shape; the idea of its existence goes boniest once to their pas. sions, requiring no fonhrr argument to enlist them against those who appear to have engrossed it. The observations already thrown out. show how totally inapplicable is aurh an imputation in the present instance. So far from the West India party 'masking of influence. I do unhesitatingly affirm that the Nattily of this noun. try affords no parallel instance of men, possessed of equal property, having so weak a hold on the State, and being so mercilessly run down by the force of unjust accusations and rancorous calumny. To speak nothing of their misfortunes in owning properties connected with a term which, like that of slave, ffirestals investigatitm, and marshals every feeling against them ; of the difficulty there is cf making men perceive, however obvious the Met, that It is one thing to denounce a bad system, and quite a no t h e r to d ev i se m ea n s f or its abolition; together with the injurious delay which must take place before charges of cruelty, however groundless, can be con futed : to say nothing of these disadvantages, it may be moat truly said, on the other hand, that they neither possess those numbers, nor that intrinsic weight in the Senate, that could for a moment promise them the preponderance in any. great ques tion of national policy. Let any person investigate the proceedings of Parliament, and he will at once be sensible how insidious has been the appeal to the people to exert themselves to overcome West India influence. Detached, disunited, acting without concert, it is notorious that every other party in the senate has expressed sue. prise at the Inexplicable conduct of West India Members, and wondered at their passiveness, when inroads the moat fatal were making on their properties, entitled as they are on every principle of justice to receive protection. If the weak ought to be assisted against the strong; if Englishmen haves constitutional hatred of undue power in the direction of their councils, and wish to give protection, where, from weakness on one aide. protection is re. quired—it is not more than the plain truth to assert, that it is the West India party who claim the aid of the intelligent portion sat the community. It is the force of public opinion which at the pre sent moment governs the nation. As, then, it is apparent that the people at large will always exclaim against slavery in the gross, without any attempt at analysis', it is the bounden duty of the better informed to interfere, to examines little closer into the cir. cuinstances or the ease; and to enneavour to protect the sawed rights of property.on behalf of their tellow-subJects, lest a prece dent may arise, of which the destruction of their own may be the ultimate coaseirence." • • • • • " With all reasonable men, it is true, the principle of national protection to the slave proprietor has been unequivocally admitted ; but as there still prevail doubts and open dread that the broadest claims of jrcice may be stifled in the existing clamour, it is pro per to weigh* fully and impartially the reasons which hays mainly tended to produce a spirit of opposition in those who direct colo nial legislation. Inseparable trona the feeling excited by those contemptuous insinuations which members of the British Petite merit have permitted themselves to throw out against public char ters granted to the Colonies by the British crown, must be the ap prehension that, where privileges lung in possession are thus openly violated, the spoliation of individual earnings will speedily suc ceed. " Another circumstance which has heightened the hostile feeling in the Colonists, is the belief that the entire substance of the pro ceedings against them is the personal affisir of Mr. Wli.ase- FORCE, Mr. BUXTON, and the party which they head. When they have heard of the artifices employed to get up and multiply petitions to Parliament ; when the internsl evidence of these peti. stone, e xhiblting the same style, the same sentiments, the same phraseology, proves them to be the wholesale manufacture of a well-organized association; when It is known that itinerant speech makers are employed in journeying from parish to parish through. out the British empire, to catch the notice, to inflame the feelings. and to abuse the credulity of persons, not ill. intentioned, but ill informed ; of persons rendered highly suitable to the purpose of such partisans by their novelty, and their thirst after the import ance of having something to do which borders on popularity ; the Colonists can never recognise, in such a spurious appeal, the legi timate voice of the country ; nor can they hold themselves bound to regulate their conduct by its bigoted demands. Justifiably viewing these men as their determined enemies, dig. ingenuous as they are in their accusations, and unrestrained by prudence in their projects, the West Indians trurally resist everything emanating from such a party, as designed to ensnare them into difficulties and mischief." • • • • • " No circumstance more strikingly deserves attention than the well-attested fact, that the intemperate discussions in this country inspired the negroes with the belief that their unqualified freedom Ind been decreed. " It was stated by Mr. BROUGHAM Arid by Dr. Lunn NGTOX, in the House of Commons, that the revolt of the slaves proceeded from the refusal to carry the new regulations into execution. Per haps the whole controversy dowse not exhibit an asserion more at variance with fact. In all the trials of the conspirators, and in every instance in which it was possible to ascertain thcirsentiments, either from white persons who were confronted with them in the moment of their rising, or from the evidence of the slaves themselves, it was evident that one conclusive idea, that of exemption front labour, possessed their minds. Not a solitary word was urged in regard to an altered system of coercion,. admissibility as witnesses, or the power to purchase their own manumission, which were the points of chief importance in the plans of amelioratiov contemplated by Go vernment. Objects of far greater importance in their eyes were ex pected, and it was essential that this fatal delusion should be en tirely dispelled before sober and rational plans of amendment could be properly appreciated. " The first step was to show the negroes that no gond could be obtained by violence, mid to allow some little time to crake ma nifest the gross error, that the mother cotintry had decreed their liberty. Let such considerations be sufficiently weipited, and I think it will be acknowledged that the Colonial Legislatures have had exceedingly little time to study the wishes of the parent state with temperate deliberation. In addition to their own apprehensious of injury to property, we hare to consider the state of negro excitement, and to judge whether a period of disturbance, or one of peace, be the must advisable for making in novations. " When it incontestibly appeared, from the proceedings on the trials of those implicated in the revolt, that to Mr. Wilberforee's party In England were to be attributed all the losses and mischief incurred, It would be supposing the Colonists devoid of the or dinary passions of men, if they did not express the strongest indig. nation st anch pernicious interference. In conjunction, theretore, with the knowledge possessed by the Colonists, that with this party originate all the calumnies under which they labour in Eng land, are to be taken the fruits of that conduct produced in the Colonies, beirg uo other than a direct destruction of properly. By ibis plain fact, the community must see the danger of allowing themselves to be guided, on a popular theme, by mere declama tory s-ateroents." NORTH WEST LONDON AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. Yesterday the 13th Annual Meeting of this Society, was held at the Argyle Rooms, Regent-street. Sir T. B ARING , Bart. 31. P. in the Chair. The CHAIR HAN said, before they should proceed w business, he would trespass on the meeting fora few moments, in directing their attention to the great and important objects which were contem plated by the Society. What he was going to state might appear exaggeration, yet it was not so, but it was the tact, and a very im portant one, that there at present existed, of Parent and Auxiliary Bible Societies, upwards of 3000, and that they have circulated five millions of Bibles, and translated it into 140 thflirent lan guages; and if they would but reflect furs few moments on the very short period since the first establishment of a Bible Society, it would be a matter of surprise the great success which has at tended it, being only twenty-two years since its first formation. The Report was then read, which stated at considerable length the exertions of the Committee, and concluded by stating, that the Society had circulated 13,416 Bibles, and that they derived con sidemhle assistance front the Ladies' Society, from which they re ceived, in aid of the funds of the Society, a sum of 1311/. I Is., but they still had to express their regret at the low state of their fonds; in low were they, that they were only enabled to send 601. to the Parent Society, and warmly appealed to the meeting in supportof the funds of the Society. The Report was ordered to be teceived and printed. The fourth Resolution, of thanks to the Ladies, was proposed by the Rev. 1)r. Waugh, in a speech of considerable length, in which he took occasion to pass a high panegyric on the female character. lie observed, that they were the fairest part of the creation, and though their bearded lords of the present day usurped a superiority of intellect, yet such superiority they did not possess. It as there in this world an object more to be admired than a lovely woman— (a laugh)—with a soul inspired by Christianity ? And he would appeal to the Meeting, could there be any thing so influential in the cause of charity as an appeal made from the lips of a lovely woman ?—(great laughter from the ladies)—and he trusted that the beautiful assemblage now before him—(continued laughter)—would give the objects of this Society the powerful and irresistible force of their persuasive eloquence over those who were blessed by the rela tive connexion of husbands, or aspirants to that sacred and enviable character—(much laughter). Ile concluded by making a strong appeal to the liberality of the Meeting, in aid of the funds of the Inatitution. _ _ The Resolution wax seconded by the Rev. Mr. Smart. Thank• were then voted to the Chairman, and the Meeting broke up. ECI.IPSE or ?NE &x.—There will be an annular eclipse of the sun, visible in England, on the 13th of Ala;•, 1526, about three o'clock in the afternoon. There will be another annular eclipse on the 9th of October, 1527 : it will be annular in all parts of England of which the lati tude does not exceed 31. LAW NOTICES. CO(IRT O F The Lord Chancellor ilia tidy day la the Hou CHANCERY. se of Lords of Appeals. VICE-CR A NCRLLOR'S COURT, • VICS-CKAACJILLOiI. THII DAT A AT WAIF - PAST TB* ••• Ca!wardloe •. Carwar• dine !loaner v. Scott Gnode,ungh v.Oodboid lindun v. Atway Cair+es. Atterney-general ♦. Sergeant Arkwright T. Steren. rehearing Davit T. thenny DISTV.,II v. Knight Attorney-Gemara! v. Fitzgerald Driairwater v. Nash" Sallis v. Wake Adams v. Castles TWNAq rlttgerold v Yield. Judgment ',nine . . ROLLS COURT. 'ER OW THE ROLLS ?EIS P.:cey v. Rheppard, do. Milne v. Grien,yelft i•IININCI, AT as. Turner v. Turner Harris v. belliagtom tenting v. Burrow, Weston v. Wrlubi, fur- I Bryant V. Busk ditto ther directions, part Bach r. Jones lones v. bfackilwain, beard Tainer v. Dian ditto Lamb v. Ferrer, ditto Scott v. Houghton Hughes v. Wynne, pet. Attnrney-Geueral v. Goadiellow v. Need Fryer v. Talbot, to be Talbot lirodabaw v. Tease mentioned Ditto v. Norman Goddard v. Snow Batten v. Harrieon, do. The Mmter.of the KO in will bear cause% furl r directions, sad pit tlon. by ...unmet. on Saturday nest, at nine in the morning. Gomm and petitions mubt be set down by two o'clock to-morrow. COURT OP COMMON PLEAS. SITTINGS •FrOINTID TOR TDIa DAY, AT TWASTII,, fmnrintt COMNI.Gi Juries iNard v. Hallintore Orrin v. Knodmm Lloyd and another v. Haynrs Smith v. Dawkins Berry v. Parker Wharton v. Pe 'vet Monism' and others v Chapp.ll hisser v. Smith Nirrton v. Warren deitroyd and others v. Green Hauney and ar.other v. Mott v. Mott Ryon v. Neely Melville and macaw V. Selby and anotha V. *den W:nkfield i. Marsh Wat,un v. Earl iflihi• kcalek v. Jacob, u ridail v. Wright. MP OP KING'S RENCH. , DIVTICD TNIII DAY, AT •ALA , PAIIT IP. Middlesex Common Juries. Itofyin.un v. Milford Palermo v. °TIMM, Greenwood v. \Priest Howell v. Trotter Stein v. Mayon Henman v. Wilmer Evelyn v. Wrigld .Boyle v. Green 4.. prey v. Covens Coiller v. Wows :Rivera*, v. Orme. Curtis v. Elliott Willis v. Condro Slater v. McNeill Meyer v. Perrend Jeffery' v. Champ° Bond v. Evans Rockland v. BaLLor.lr, tries, appointed for to4norrnw, at half.pa.t 12. Berridge v. Compton Walton v. Chauiier firewd,on v. C.0./plead 'Thomas v. Clay l.oxley v. Ratliff Barri.; v. Carter Ford v. Hughes Wow' v. mu Cute v. Blenc wee ' Shenirtori v. Bridose O.WID v. Turner Bunter v. fi,wnperle Pocket v. Gm din..? TocLi v. A. siert Avinall v. Footer Horwltl V. %. bibs Wileuxon v. Wontnv Fenton v. Woollen Welsh v. ti'llhanis Same v. Same Cartington v. Bicknell laOY. v. Deacon K Whir v. Moody Rrotherton v. Otbof • , Lake v. Itub,on Gribble v. Payne. CO' R. ICIFF OF EXCHRQCE vats OAT. AT TAN. Ward T. Boy(le Reid ♦. Robertson Wollaston T. Marsh Godden T. Chintziest Day T. Mead TO-119A ROW. !dock T. Maddock, except! Medealre T. Meeirsite Paatidge v. Fieckituf Gale Ir. Luttrell Prebble ♦. Femur. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COI 6ITTINOIII API Parson., y. Moroi - Beverage v. Crodejt Doe, ke. v. Dowling NlrJrola. v. Webber Dent v. Bounce Bedford'''. Bedford Manua r. Ralph 'Naive' v. Gi.thri Harmon v. Shearn London Common Jul Could v. Cre'ker Payn v. Gurney Sparkball r. Kearney Wilkins v. R.rwiit , " Wright V. Evans Frost e. Brsikut Willienta v. Cook ?Cotton y. Bentley Barns V. Crosfurd Slntson v. Le Cren Benjamin v. Gylby Lutvythe v. ill'Oregor Tayka v. Trott Onion v. Ittrhy, report Pritchett v. Honey: bourne, part I:est -' d Ripley v. St.ckley Itar..r t. Mau° PREROGATIVE COURT, WIDNESDAY, APRIL 19. I.79TICKE v. BADWEN. Sir Joint NICROLL proceeded to deliver the judgment of the Court in the above cause. The Learned Judge observed that it had been argued at length during the 3lichaelinas Term ; and had stood oter, at the recommendation of the Court, to give the parties concetned an opportunity of entenng intoan amicable arrangement. None, however, having been effected, it tetanal his duty to prod flounce the decision of the Court. The quests:en plate respecting the validity of a will, executed in 1007 by Stephen Usticke, vain died in the year 1823; it wait get up by Frances Plisebeth Badwen or Usticke, and opposed by the brother of the deceased. The ie. strument was attested by three witnesses, and the other formal:tint of the Law had been complied with, The ground of opposition rested on another will, executed by the deceased in the month of January 1821, similarly attested, but subsequently cancelled by the testator; and it was contended by the brother of the deceased, the heir at law. that this latter deed revoked the one previously made. and left the property to the disposition of the law, as if the deceased had died intestate. The questions therefore which the Court had to consider were,—lat„ whether by the cancellation nf the latter will s the former did remain unreroked ? and 2d. whether the facts met circumstances of the case implied an intention, on she part odd,* deceased. entirely to revoke and set aside tbe firm will ? With re. speed to the first question, the practice of the Eeterateatical Courns had been different from that of the Common Law Courts. In the former, eviderce had been required in order to whew that the tea. tator, by cancelling a subsequent will. intended to revive that which bad preceded it ; whereas, ii( the Law Courts, it had been held that a former will remained unrevoked Upon the cancellation of a latter deed. The Learned Judge then proceeded to illustrate the practice of the Court, by a reference to various cases of that character which had undergone a very ample discussion ; but he thought it right to remark, that as to most of these it was impose bible to ascertain the exact grounds on which they had been decided by their respective Judges, as no reports of their judgments were to be found. The only exception was in the case of Healer v. He. flier, decided by Sir George Lee, who had laid it down that when a second will was destroyed, scene act of revival was necessary in order to set up the firm will; and that r ep ublication or an express act of the testator could only render the first will operative. With out meaning disrespect to the memory of that most able Judge, be (Sir J. Nicholl) thought that the soundness of the dictum might be doubted, especially from what passed in the Court of Delegate., in the case of aloare v. 31oure, where the question et* the testator's intention came under consitreration. There (said the Learned Judge) it was affirmed that that intention alight be proved by various means other than by express declarations ; because in many instances the facts of the case proved the intention more conclusively than any declaration whatever. Still, however, it was not held in the Ecclesiastical Count', that the mere existence of a former will.in an uncancelled state, coull necessarily and alone give effect to a will, where it was clearly proved, by the subsequent will, although cancelled, that the testator's intentions had entirely changed. On looking into the precedents of the Common Law Courts, he had not been able to find a case in which the cancelling of a second will was held to imply the revocation of the first. The presumption, at least, was held to be favourable to the revival of the previons deed ; and it lay with the opposing party to rebut that presumption by facts and circumstances. If a man had two wine in his possession, one of which he destroyed while he kept the other, that circumstance raised a prima .facie inference and probability that he intended the paper so preserved to be his genuine will. But thecase before die Court did nut require to be eked out by inferences or probabilities, iq order to establish the real intentions of the tee_ tator. It appeared that the deceased, who was the proprietor of a brewery is Falmouth, had formed an attachment to Frances Elizabeth Badwen, but which attachment was offensive to the feelings of his pnee, Sir Michael Newell. who, dying about that time, bequeathed his property to the deceased, on the condition that he did not marry ilia Badwen. Soon after that event the - parties left Faimunth, cohabited together. and gave themselves out as man and wife. The consequence was, that, in 1809, Robert Catirke, the brother, brought an ejectment against the deceased, in order to get possession of the property, on the ground that he had violated the condition in his uncle's settlement by marrying Miss Badwen. The case was not brought to trial, it being generally 'supposed that the marriage had not taken place, In 1809 a sort of reconciliation took place between the two ore-. theta; but so little cordiality did there -,eem to be on either side. that no intercourse subsisted up to the period of the deceased', death. Between the time of bringing this ejectment and the ream. ciliation, the will propounded was executed; and even supposing that no quarrel had taken place between the brothers, it did not seem improbable that the deceased should have provided for .Lea Badwen, by giving her a life.interest in his estates, with the residue of the personality. In that deed an annuity was bequeathed to her, anti the reversion of the property vested in her sister's son. It remained unaltered till the year 1821, but the new will was tot more favourable to his brothers or sisters, than the former one. As far as respected the disposition of the property. it did nut appear to be the deceased's intention, at any period, to let in the heir-at-law ' or the next of kin, by dying i ntestate ; an d on t h e port of the brother, intestacy could not be relied on. The circum. reams under which the second will was executed were equally on. favourable to his claim. The deceased was naturally of an ini. table temper, and very passionate, although generally reatly to for. give. Towards the latter end of the year 1820 he had a severe at tack of laxity of the bowels, a disorder to which he had been long subject; and it so happened that the prescription of the phyla. cian disagreed with him, owingehietly to the state of the weather. Yet the impression on the mind of the deceased, which remained till his last hour, was, that the medicine which bad been given to him was the cause of his death, and so strongly did that delusion keep hold of his mind, that he imagined the food given to him • was poisoned, and actually :tent to Falmouth for his provisions. Under such an impression, he. in 1821, executed another settle. ment, by which he bequeathed an annuity of 4001. to Miss Bad. wen ; and subsequently appended a codicil, by which that sum wits diminished one half. That will he afterwards cancelled alto. gether, by tearing off his name frcm every sheet of the instrument. In deciding on the effect of these acts and instruments, the Court would not be over-alert in preservi ng t h e t atter will under such cir cumstances, so as to operate as an absolute and total revocation of a will deliberately executed in 1807, remaining so long without al. teration, and so constantly recognised by the deceased. The first will was revoked by an error of fact as to the effect of the medicine, but that very act tendered it not improbable to suppose that, when. ever the deceased had freed himself front the false impression, he would have departed front the revoked instrument, and reverted to that of 18117. Under all these circumstances, the Court pronounced for the validity of the will of 1807, propounded by Miss Badwen. Decreed accordingly. INSOLVENT AERTORS' COURT, APRIL 19. Zachariah Oarbut, a mister-builder, IFI.I opposed by 111 r. PRLNDISORST, on Wulf of Waugh, Esq., and a creditor A ii 1 1~