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White-inns. wha 7f, WM tefriars, eamLnst rehant—J. Creswell, Hu& York. woolstapler—W. Hargreaves, White Ash within, Oswald t w isle, Lancaster, cotton-spinner—W. Dorrington, Conshill, broker—J. Naish, Bristol. tanner. PARTNERSHIPS DIWOIX ED. J. Collins, W. Whiting, and T. Savage, Woolwich, roach pro prietors—J. Roach and J. Ileadford. Upper Easton, Gloucester, briCk..maters—G. A. Rigg and W. C. Rtng Li , tpool and in the Staftbrdsf-ire Potteries, brokers—J. Beddall, P. Heddalt, and R. Haws, High Holborn, carpenters—E. P. Bishop and G. B. Wil kinson, Towing, Surrey, tailors—W. Cork and 11. Cock, Bungay, :.-ull5l l / 4 . Vaudrey, E. l'andrey„ and kl. Bates, Stayley Bridge, Cheshire. nianufacturers—J. H. Brown and S. J. Brown, Billiter-street, cm-factors—J. Drakeley and J. Rigby, Smithy Door, 3lanchester, drapers—J. Baxter, J. IVigglesworth, R. Unlit, and A. Standing. Skyram-mill, flumsal, - York, cotton. spinners--W. Shorthose, J. Wood, T. Wood, W. Wood, W. Smith i R. Port, H. Cooper, H. Port, and F. A. Port, Burton.upen. Trent, serew.manufacturers,Staford-0. Dahiel and J. Holiday, Manchester—C. fluting and J. Kenyon, London, merchants— G. B. Hartigan, 'F. Bichl, and J. F. Klee, (ireat Garden -street. Whilccharl, sugar-refiners—D. Ash, and C. Sheppard, Red-lion cohrt, Watling-street, London, engravers. T e average price of Brown or Mumovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending the 21st day of April, lte.t, is 31s. lid. per cwt. exclusive of the Duties of Customs timid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. Average price of Corn from the Returns received in the Week ending April 17. 11124. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Rye. Beans. Peas.9l a. d. . LI. s. d. a. d. s. d. s. d. 67 2 35 6 24 6 4 7 39 2 37 1 PRICE; OF BRITISH S' Bank Stock 215 3 par Cent IL:due:A.9si 4 per Cent. Cone. 98f ItS 4 Jld 3{ per Cent. New 3', per Cent. 1111 i 3 102 4 per Cent. lOtq g New 4 ptr Cent. Long Annnitio,. 23i 1.16 Imperial 3 per Cents , . Bank tor Ac‘ . .nit Cam. for Act. ..1.;.! # 4 'OCRS ON SATURDAY. India Stock, India Bonds, 83 84 Pr. India for Account, South Sea Stock. South Sea Old Annuities South Sea New Annuities Ex.8i11a,1,0601. 56 56 54 55 pr. Ditto, StIOL 55 36 54 35 pr. Ditto, Small, 36 56 64 65 pe. Indorsed ditto Lottery Tickets, 351. 19s. PRit'ES OF FOREIGN S Austrian Scrip, 171 1 pr. Ditto for Account 13 pr. Ditto paid in full. tr.ll II:Ulan Ltd*. 331 roi Ditto for Acct. I* 51 Colomb. 931 4 31 Do. Act. 94 34 Di. Scrip 4314 31 pr. Ditto for Ace. 3, 7 , Danish Bonds 1112 Greek Scrip. 11 dis. Ditto for Acct. Mexican Bonds. Ditto Scrip. 101 1 f 1 pr. D.. Arc. In q ' 1 4 pr. Neopotitou Ilds. 971 8 71 1)1:to fir Acct. Portuguese Docds, 951 1):::o fur Art. Ditto Scrip Dian fur Acct. iTOCKS ON SATURDAY. Peruvian Bonds 81 Do. Scrip 2 4 14 2 14 pr. Ditto for Acct. Prussian Bonds 284 Ditto (1822) Russian Ills. 974 Russian f rr Aect. 0/4 Suan. Cons. 18 A 174 18 174 18 Ditto for Acct. 184 Ditto 170 & 253 Bda. Ditto 85 Bonds Ito. 5 per Cents. (1823) 164 18 Ditto lOW. ss. Bonds Anglo Mel. Nines 8 pr. Alliance Fr. Bente.. lirlf. 50e. 25c. 75c. Dn. Ex. 4tie. 4.ic. 30c. Do. Scrip. 1114 18 4 174 14 pr. Ditto for .Icet. 18 pr. Bosnian Inscription 82 Ditto Escharge, 134 d ZUe ZritiOlt Preoo NEO"I7IE.ITRE ROYAL, DRURY-L:IXE. Eres:ing, 'WIND %%". %mil 26, will be performed Tun: WINTER'S TALE- Leontet. Mr. Nlucre.nly: •ntle..tito, Mr. Terry: Autulycus, Mr. Nun den: Mre. Dunn. To 04nelittie with • new (Rand Eity'pthon Tall. "1 Enchantment. called ZOROASTER • • THE SPIRIT OF THE STAR. THEATRE ROTA!„ COVENT-GARDE.V. Thin Evening, MONDAY, April will be performed II 111,E1'. Hamlet, Cr. Y011111r:!milts.. Mr. Blanchard: First Crave-Digger, Mr. Fawcett : Ophella, Me.. M. Trer. Ater which a new i;rm. , l M..1"-Dranwir Egyptian Romance, called Titt: sPlitiTs Or 'fill: Or, TOE NOtTION OF TFIE NILE. 7'IIEATRE no) . .11„ ENGI,ISII OPERA-HOUSE. MH. pdv itii:%S HOME! Tint Evening. MOND %V. April 2ri. his ANNUAL LECTI RE on PECULIARITIES, CHARACTER. and MANNERS; Founded on Observation. ant Vlventures during his Lite TRIP To AMERICA. In Three Carts. Pt- - —A Mommolplogile. called All. %%Ell AT NATCHITOCHES. Al. tat Cbaraeles sof the Erenim i 's Entertainment to be represented by Mr ARTHEMS. Do o ^. to be opened a• Sever --Performance begins at Eight &Clock. Sexes fis ire rAiseis of Mr. Stet etoon, at the llos Otte', Strand En• Mg.:a, lion] Ten till live. Platecs esnnot poitsibly be kept after half-pn'tt Eight o'Clock. .• The Proprietor reme-tfully Inform. the frequenters ..f the Theme,. •nit their comfort hats been fin titer studied by the addition it one of Mr. Perking's moot powerful %arm air-stoves. 711,7.1" S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. C:i.itwiteil "louses Every Night— Novelt y- Mr. Dacia and Monsieur Ducrow'pititlted of The unpr - e4 7 ;detit.ril, ~, „Ift r t , ....etaele, el:Wed THE uvrri.r. OF 11 A lEHLOO, THI fiat her notice. Alons!eor Dorrow'it i . o . ;hilieicrf:riiii;elce of Seem., in the Circle, Graitrl Feat of Hiding un Tice Clic:mowlmbued Horde& exichule with Tile: FEUD 11. LAN. NFW SURREY THEATRF. The Twn New Ph-ce.. Inter4t. 'Ned Musle. Comhatt, Procession., dm being u•ghtlt Y. nuttreA w ith enthusiaatic appenhation, will be re;tated Cl] turth..r Mr. Huntley la enraged, and will olinrtly appear in a new Romantic Drama, 110 A In aetl.n. prep:eat:nig. THIS Ft/101ND, and duritr. the Week, 7.iZ FIRE-WORSHIPPERS: or. THE PARADISE OF THE PERIS. After ‘i hirh, TIIE BIBTII 1 1 %V OF MARIAN. To !Oneida!, With rilE TING Angtretort. Mr. H. Krwblr; Alariette, Mr..w. Cif 'ford. Stage Matutger. Mr. Auld. .SADhi WELLS THEATRE. 11-1, Etminr, MoND , April DI, t grand Romantic Melo-Drarna, ealhd %; or, THE AERIC‘N SLAVE. Cato. Mr. 11. Kentble. After whirl.. THE SAIOKEO AflsF. , t; or, THE BENEFIT OF HANGING. the new C,.ntie fei •its r.ts.n::t lIARI.Vor I VS I.:OLDEN HARVEST LOA= OF GREEN CLOTII,ST-I.4IIIES'S PALACE. 24TH APRIL, 1824. fly COMMAND OF DIA NIA.JESTY. Xvtise. is rcf.n g4.en, That all Carriages going to his ?thirs ty** Drawing Room at St. James's Palace, on 'Thursday the 29th of April. are to tall into the line at the top of St. James's-street in Piccadilly, go down the left hand aide of the Street, round the cur ve: of Pall-wall, and enter at the Imn.gatr nearest to tha Palace; aet dorm at the Arcade. and come nut of the Palace-yanl by the on.a'ate eenetst to Marlborough !louse, and pass through Pall. r:111 imoSt..l:coes's.aquare: in taking up, thee are to conk-dog!' St. Jsaies's-street in like manner. paw ing through the same Oates as wiirst they sat down, and go Lwav through :No II mckney Coaches will he permitted to come within the Iron. wares, but must sa down at the outside thereof,and go away through fhe Gate at thn top of Constitution-hill will be open wily fee 4:stringer ni Pernms basing the Entre, which are to proceed door! Corpoietition-hill, and enter the Palace at the Stable-yard Cert. turn into the Ambss‘ador's Court ut down at the Arcade, and ;:ci out at the Catewar in Clerela”d-row ; turn to the left, and unit in elevrland-row. the Sulhle• yard, or St. Janies's Park, till called for ; then to take up in the same order as they had set clown, rILIVI away through the same liAteway, and go up the left hand side of St. JomesN-oreet. The Carriages of Ailiblissadors' i the Minis. tees, and Great rtficers StJte, may remain iu the Anhassador's Court till called for. Tickets for Carriages belonging to Persons having the Entri., going in at the I :ate on the top of Constitutiooal-hill will be de.' livered at the Board of Green Cbth, Sr. Jane's Palace. on W t;: auAY next, between the hours of Gae and Three o'clock. Chairs are to come down the right hand side of Kt. James's street from Piccadilly; Me.% Chairs are to enter at the Great Gate of the Palac.., end pass under the Colonnade into the Ambassador's Court, set d •an there, and wait in Engine Court till called for. Hackney Chairs cr.te: at the new Footway Iron-gate nearest to the Palac.:, set down under the Areada, and pass away Oh the ut<ide of the I arrim4e4 through the new Footway Iron-gate, next to Ma:lborough House. The 8R1T1414 l'nESt r.mitenred pullything on Saturday morn. at Fire o'cluvk. LONDON, MOND.IY, Arun. 26, /821. Jamaica Papers the 7th reached our offiee on Satur day. The htwricane that hung over that island end our other West India possessions some months since, has passed away, but its constnucnc.s were still before the eye in fearful every-day review. The trials, the executions, and the worse than executions, of the wretched negroes implicated in thit. latt: , conspiracy, were going on, and con summated a: etc gallows and the halberds. The blood runs cold at the not ration of scenes so horrible! In reading them over, w..! coact only exclaim, like Cratnwell, " Dread ful necessity'" We tlo sincerely trust that the recent re solutions adopted by the Legislature, and the prudent and conciliatory measures recommended and enforced front the Colonial Offic,2, will succeed in cabning for ever the dan gerous discontents that have prevailed in the West Indies, tied that we shall hear no Inure of anything half so shock at unhappy men led under sentever to receive a thou sand lashes, and then condemned to work in chains for life. At George Town, in Demerara, the militia, who hoped to • be dismissed to their homes, were, it appears, still in arms. and martial law was yet in force. On the 14th of January , three of the miserable convicted insurgents, Cobino, Sam , my, and Cudjo, were brought to the halberds, to undergo the full measure of torture and human sufferance. The first, as we stated, was to receive a thousand lashes, and if he lived junder the agony, condemned to work in irons for life.l The second was doomed to the same dreadful punishment, and to be worked in chains for seven years; and the third i had the same fate to undergo as the first. The wretched I men all suffered as far as the limits of life would permit, and several more yet remained to undergo the torture. We have no words that can express our deep indignant abhor rence of these barbarities—they are revolting, shocking, and inhuman. It would have been mercy to have shot these wretched men before they were bound to the hal -1 herds ; but, to let loose the drummers at them, in succes sion, with cats soaked in their blood, until they fainted from torture and thirst, under a scorching um, within the walls of a barrack, to shut out their shrieks of agony, with mos quitoes settling on their mangled flesh—Good Gad! the mind turns sick at the horrid picture ! It is disgraceful to humanity, and a foul reproach to this country, under whose jurisdiction atrocities so horrible have been perpetrated. Deeds of this sort cannot, will not, be sanctioned at the Colonial Office. Every feeling of Lord Bathurst's will, we are sure, revolt at them. We have, all through, opposed ourselves to the wild and unreflecting plans of the aboli tionists in this country: their schemes of Utopian enfran chisement led, we are convinced, to the conspiracies and half-formed revolts that have been planned or broken out in Jamaica and Demerara ; but we never can lend our sanction to any thing half so horrible and inhuman as the shocking retaliation that has followed. Examples such as were made at Georgetown, in Demerara, can have no effect but to plant deep and deadly vengeance in the breasts of the whole negro population. The execution of Henry Oliver, at Buff Bay, in Jamaica, appears to have been legitimate and deserved. In this sacrifice to the laws there was nothing to outrage humanity ; but the military tortures at Demerara were revolting. We are astonished that any in dividuals, with the common feelings of men, could stand round, and calmly assist at these slow murders. George, another unhappy negro, was executed in Jamaica on the 13th of February, attended only to the gibbet by Maroons. I Jack, the celebrated practicer of Obeah, was tried and condemned at Buff Bay, justly, as appears, on the 19th. The lives of these deluded beings seem to have been legitimately forfeited ; but the victims who were man gled in Demerara might have been doomed to work in chains, or transported from that island for life: any fate should have been awarded them but the series of agony under which they suffered. Such scenes are enough to entail a curse upon these islands. We shall not be sur prised, if, roused by such enormities, petitions from every part of England crowd the tables of both Houses, even before the present Session closes. It appears from the last Jamaica papers, that, in consequence of the Committee of Correspondence at Kingston having thought proper to pub lish a report of the communications which took place in the personal interviews between. Lord Bathurst and Mr. Hib bert, the agent for Jamaica, the Colonial Secretary had, of necessity, been obliged to decline any further personal meetings with Mr. Hibbert, and to restrict any future inter course to written documents, as less liable to incorrectness and misrepresentation. We are not surprised at such a decision on the part of Lord Bathurst: his Lordship ham acted all through with the greatest attention to the in terests of the Colonies, and with the strongest inclination to reconcile the prosperity and welfare of these settlements with the great principles of justice and humanity. But if every casual conversation of the Colonial Ministers was to be noted and reported, and subsequently published in the Jamaica Gazettes, in such words and colouring as suited the purposes of the party giving utterance to it, it was high time for Lord Bathurst to be on his guard, and de cline any dangerous intercourse of the same sort for the future. Mr. Ilibbert, we are sure, reported to bis con stituents, faithfully and honourably, what occurred; but discretion should have sealed their lips, and prevented the worse than indiscretion they have committed. No sew disturbances appear to have agitated the West Indies; and tranquillity, we hope, will at length be assured through out the islands, by the prudent and conciliatory measures emanating from the Colonial Office, and sanctioned by the Legislature in this country. Ministers are now receiving, on every opportunity, the high return of general gratitude and support throughout the country; the concession is made them by even their oldest political opponents. The domestic and foreign policy of his Majesty's advisers are such as disarm censure, and leave discontent powerless. No Administration, in the proudest era of the history of this country, stood so high as the present. Great and influential with foreign Cabi nets, it is equally respected and popular at home. The country is now prosperous beyond all former example, and its influence amid universal peace is preponderant and de cisive throughout the civilized world. At the Hampshire meeting on Friday, Lord Caernarvon, whose life has been one of opposition, declared " that it would be injustice, were he to deny that the policy of the present Government appeared now to be more liberal than it had been fur a long course of years ; and he congratulated the meeting upon the change." The Noble Earl added, " that he should be ashamed of the name of a Whig, were he, upon feelings of general political riirsent, to withhold praise where praise was really due, and to deny the merits of a partially good system, although he disapproved of the general political acts of those from whom it sprung." This is fair and manly language, and such as we would have looked for from Lord Caernarvon. Ministers, by a policy worthy of the country, have purchased the weed of ap probation from even their avowed opponents, and the con ' cession is horourably made. The Opposition will not suffer in character by a conduct such at this; it will pur chase additional respect throughout the empire. Could the Whigs of England, if called around the Throne to morrow, enter on a more enlightened or liberal career than has long distinguished the present Ministers? or were their measures, when in power, one half so economical and conciliating? They cannot, therefore, disapprove the system on which Ministers are acting, and not dis approving, it is candid and honourable in them to make the avowal. We thought Mr. Hunt's occupa tion was gone; his trade in politics we imagined had completely merged in his new cherisanse as a whole sale dealer in roasted corn; but it appears he has not given up old calling as yet. Ile was at the Hamp shire Meeting, to the dismay of Mr. Carter and his ' friends, as gay and vociferous as ever. When all was I going on most comfortably and smoothly, he presented him ' self like an evil genius, and cocused th-in "of getting up a Whig requisition, and trying to get Radical signatures to it." This was met by loud and general denial. The Meeting assembled for the legitimate purpose of petitioning for the repeal of the Assessed Taxes, particularly those on windows and inhabitxl houses : but nothing would content "the great Radical" but a sweeping demand for the aboli tion of " the malt tax, the salt tax, the soap tax, and those on coals and candles." Thus Mr. Hunt remw.dhiscidpolicy of uniting all parties against him, and ea:ling for so much, that in the end he raft mire to obtain nothing. Lord Caer narvon, as a Whig, sensibly disciaimed all cormection with Mr. Hunt and his followers : such a union would indeed be a disgrace to any party. But Radicalism, in truth, is now no more ; it has stink in the same grave with the distresses that gave it birth. The people are no longer unemployed; their hands and their stomachs are full; the trade of Messrs. Hunt, Wool, r, and Cobbett is therefore at an end. The Window and the House Tax will not, we are convinced, be of long duration ; the next Session of Parliament will probably witness their repeal. Ministers cannot reduce all taxation at once ; but a continuance of peace, and the rising prosperity of the country, give omen of the fairest promise: both will enable the Finance Minis ter to meet all public demands, without the continuance of the Assessed Taxes ; and the repeal will, we are sure, be as gratifying to Mr. Robinson personally, as it will be beneficial, when it takes place, to the country at large. We rejoice that the animated and eloquent writer to whose pen the public are indebted for " The .3fentoirs of CAPTAIN Roca," has taken the field in favour of that en lightened system by which alone the blessings of good go vernment can be gained to Ireland, and those warm senti ments of affection and attachment cherished, which are sure to follow in its train. Great Britain ought not, for shame, to boast the freedom of her constitution, and the excellence of her laws, while she excludes so great a por tion of her people from the enjoyment of their civil rights, and holds up to Europe an example of intolerance which turns all her professions into a gross and glaring contradic tion. We have ourselves no predilection for the Catholic faith; but we have strong predilection for the principles of common sense and the maxims of common justice. If the Catholic is in error, we would leave him to the operation of his own reason, and if, in the interval, he becomes a dishonest man or a bad subject, we would then, and not till then, deliver him over to be dealt with by the law, and to be punished as it would punish any other individual "in the like case offending." But we cannot bring our selves to declare a matt a culprit because he is a Catholic, or bring ourselves to believe it just to punish him here, from any supposed likelihood that he may perish hereafter. We cannot stir up our godliness to this pitch of zeal ; and as we are not called upon to subscribe to his creed, we think we have no concern with it. We would maintain the Church of England as by law established, but we would also maintain those rights which belong equally to all BRI TISH SUBJECTS, and which belong to them as such. These rights we hold to be " prior in time and para mount in title" to all laws, and to all establishments, because it is in virtue of these rights, and for their preservation, that all laws are made; that organised system of public authority which we call government, is ordained and submitted to solely for the protection of those rights. It was nut instituted to arm one sect against another, or to give this or that class of persons in the state the means of forcing their religious opinions upon any other elass. All disfranchising laws, therefore, all laws enacted in the spirit of exclusion, are fundament ally unjust. In this enlightened era our rulers cannot fail to know this, and they ought, and we trust they soon will, be then and boost enough to act op to their conviction. The good feeling of the greater part of the country is with them. A more tolerant and liberal system of thinking has long been gaining ground amongst us, and has pre pared the public mind to go along with the Government in relaxing the demands of orthodoxy, and relieving the State from the necessity of taking charge of the consciences of those who live under it. There is just ground to hope, that under the Administration of his Excellency, the pre sent Lord Lieutenant, a mutual good understanding among the better informed of both religious persuasions will gradually extend itself. Much has been already done to give an easier reception to those principles of conciliation in which the Marquis laid the basis of his system. In direct counteraction, and the ascendancy of the Orange faction, has no doubt done much, and will do much more, to defeat his object, and to strip his power of its energy. But the views of this party are becoming every day more developed ; and the number of reflective and enlightened Protestants in Ireland are hourly increasing, who feel a deeper interest in the prosperity of their country than in the perpetuity of aristocratic patronage, and who have a dearer stake in the general welfare of its people, than in the exactions of its Clergy, or the exorbitant w.:alth of its church. The Earl of Liverpool, since his arrival here, has re ceived such material benefit from the use of the waters, that he has dispensed with the attendance of Dr. I>rever. The high reputation of our salutary springs has thus re ceived additional lustre from their having contributed to the relief of so eminent and respected an individual. Ills Lordship and Countess have taken up their residence at' York-house, from whence the Noble Earl is in the habit of walking to the pump-room so early as half-past eight o'clock in the morning. The Countess has also used and received great benefit from the waters. On Tuesday they were visited by Lord and Lady Harcourt ; and yesterday morning the Right Hon. George Canning arrived. It af fords us the greatest pleasure to be enabled to report so fa vourably of his Lordship's health—a pleasure in which all classes of his Majesty's subjects will pat ticipate.—Bath Her uld. We are happy to state that the health of our illustrious countryman, the Duke of Wellinton, has derived every possible advantage from his use of the Cheltenham waters. His Grace drinks them regularly every wonting, a n d rides out every day. He condescended to attend a ball last Monday, and was to be present at another on Friday night, given in honour of his Majesty's birth-day. II is Grace has' not any of his suite, but Lord Apsleyis with him. Tut MANCIViI WY CCM:EY:We are enabled to state, upon competent authority, that the arrival of this inns- I trious personage in this city may be looked for some time in the ensuing month. We believe Lord Colville has re- I ceived an intimation, that the Vice-regal yacht will be des patched for this harbour about the period to which we are alluding, and that Excellency will embark here, and I sail for England, where he goes on business connected with his private affairs, which will detain him on th, other I side about a month, when he will return to a country over retich he has presided in the spirit of wisdom and benignity since he assumed the government of it, and where Lis administration is justly appreciated by every friend to that growing liberal policy, which we rejoice to see daily getting into favour, even among the former advo esti sof exclusion and ascendancy. The Noble Marquis, we have reason to believe, will honour Lord Colville with his company for sotne days previous to embarking. Whe ther it is his present intention to stop in this city we do not know ; but, of course, the inhabitants will seize the op-1 portunity of paying the moat marked tribute of respect to one who is so eminently entitled to every distinction that can be conferred.—Cork Somthern Repot ter. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 21.—Yesterday being Saint George's Day, on which his Majesty had ordered the c:•le bration of his birth to take place, it was observed here with every demonstration of respect and affectionate attachment. A party of gentlemen assembled at the Audit-house, on the invitation of our worthy Mayor, for the purpose of drink • ing his Mojisty's health. The Southampton troop o( Yeomanry paraded, and dined together at Whitchar's Fountain Inn. The Freemasons dined at their L'Age in Bugle-street; Sir W. De Cr;sipigny presided. . I FASIIiOX.IDLE INTELLIGEATE. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. TIII4 EVLS:INCI. The Conntess of E.sex's bell, 111 ill-street. The L'uutitem of Arran'. assembly, Dnyer-street. Mr. and Mrs. 31M:hell's entertainment, thanes-street, Berke. ley-square. _ W DNI st)A v. Almack's grar.cl')all, i. ' K rona.h. His 3lajetoy's The Ihtke of Altmtritse'a dinner party in Grosvenor-square. The fluke of l)oraet'a party, Marley-atreet. 11 T. Secretary tainting 's grand entertainment in honour of his Maitsir's birh-thy, Gimlet >ger btalge, lirompton. Sir Alum Witte, liart.'s juvenile bail, hill-street, Berkeley square. Gialfrey AVent worth, Esq.'s entertainment in lianoversquare. Lord Grantham's party, St. James's-allure. Flit DA V. Lady 3larguerite quadrille halt, Groavenor.street. Mrs. Fremantle's rout, Stanhopesrreet. The Marquis and 31archionciss ut lAnsdown's entertainment at isansdoten House. Viscountess Itlel%iile's rout at the Admiralty. Godfrey %Vent urth, Esq.'s enttrtnintuent m Hanover-square. Su NDAV. Peron ‘Veriher, the Prussian Ambassador's grand entertain• meat in 3lansiield.street. The F:arl and t'onnt.-ss of Lonsdale's entertainment in Charles street, Berkeley-square. The Countess of Wemyses rout on Friday evening in Stratford , place, was attended by upwards of two hundred distinguished fashionables. Sir Thomas I,ennarc!, Bart. entertained a distinguished party at dinner on Saturday, at his house in Contherland-place. ' Arthur Stanhope, Esq. had a dinner party on Saturday at his house in Tilney-street. General told Mrs. Ross entertained a large party at dinner on Saturday, at their house in Portland-place. The Duchess of Kent entertained a party of distinguished fa shionably, yesterday evening at Kensington Palace. Lady Holland has issued card* of invitation for a musical party on the 3d May, at her house in The Earl of Westmorland has issued cards of invitation for an entertain nent on the 3d 31ay, at his house in Grosvenor-square. Mrs. 11. Chambers has issued cards of invitation for a rout on the 17th May, at her house in Stratford-place. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond have arrived at the Duke of Argyll's, in Upper Brook-street, from their seat, Goodwood, Sussex. The Duke of Grafton has strived in town from his seat, Slake. field Lodge, Stoney Stratford. The Marchioness of Handy and the Ladies Montague arrived in town on Saturday from Kinibolton Castle. Emily 31arthioness of Londonderry arrived in town on Saturday, from her seat, North Cray, Kent. The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury arrived in town on Sa turday front Mr. and Mrs. Egerton and family arrived on Saturday at their house in St. James's-square, from Brighton. The Earl and Countess flow: have arrived at their house in Up per Brook -street, from their st at in Leicestershire. Mr. and Lady Jane Peel hve arrived at their seat at Fulham, from a tour. Mr. and Mrs. Eden have arrived in town from Sir Robert Peel's seat in Staffordshire. Lord and Lady Mandeville have arrived at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook-street, ti mi Kimbolton Castle. Sir Thomas Acland, Bart. has left Warren's Hotel, Regent street, on a tour. Arrivals at the British lintel, Jermyn-street :—Sir William and Lady Inglis, front Bath ; and :gator, Esq. from Oxford. Lord George Cavendish arrived in town on Saturday, front New maket. 1/epartures from Holmes' lintel, Parliament-street : —Mr. and Mrs. Ballantyne, for Scotland ; Mr. and Mrs. Hogarth, fur ditto; Buchanan, Esq. hir ditto. Captain 31arkhani has arrived at the Waterho Hotel, Jermyn streia, from the Continent. Lord and Lady Arbuthnot have left ditto for Surrey. Arrivals at Gould's lintel, Jermyn-street :—Rapt. Walker, from Cheltenham; Mr. and 311 s. 'Willis, from Bath. Arrivals at the Landon Hotel, Albeinarle.street :-3fr. and Mrs. Childers, from Yorkshire; Mrs. Hewicker, front a tour. T. T.l)rake, Esq. M.P. has left ditto, for Bucks. Mr. and 3lrs. Keith and family have arrived at the St. George's Hotel. Albettiark-Ereet, from Eton. Lady .Itin Beckett arrived in torn on Saturday, from Brighton. The Honourable W awn and Lady Caroline Powlett have ar rived in town front Newmarket. 1/owager Lady Floyd had a dinner party on Saturday, at her house in Upper Seymour-street. Saturday the Duke of York arrived in town, from New market. Yesterday morning the Duke of York and the Princess Augusta attended divine service at the Chapel Royal, and heard a sermon by the Rev. Dr. S:anier Clarke. On Saturday the Duke and Ductless of Clarence arrived in London from Bushy Park. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence dined with the Princess Augusta on Saturday. Yrsterday"morning the ftucliess of Clarence attended divine service at the King's Royal German Chapel, and beard a sermon by the Rev. Dr : Kuper. Yesterday the 'Duke and Duchess of Clarence, the Duchess orKent, the Princess !Fodor, and the Prince of Leiningen, attended by Captain Conroy, went to view the exhibition of Water Colours in Pall-mall East. lis Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence has become a member of the R.N. tlub in Albemarle-street. Last evening the I'rinc.2A Augusta drank tea with the Duchess of Kent, whre there was a select party to meet her Royal Highness. The Duke of Gloucester, being in a state of conva lescence, his Hoyal Highness rode out yesterday in his car riage, called on the Duke of York, the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, and the Princess Augusta. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia visited the Princess Augusta; the Royal Sisters afterwards took an airing together in a carriage. Prince Leopold came to town from Claremont on Satur day ; his Royal Highness dined with the Duchess of Kent, at the King's Palace, Kensington. Yesterday morning Prince Leopold attended divine ser vice at St. Philip's Chapel, Waterloo-place. l'rince Leopold visited the Duke and Duchess of Glou cester yeebrday. Yesterday l'rince Leopold and the ranee of Leiningen, took an airing in Hyde Park. Yesterday Divine Service was perfonned to the King's household, at his Palace, in Pall-mall, by the IL:v. Dr. Blomberg. Saturday afternoon the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Sarah Robinson left town on a visit to Earl Spencer, at ‘Vinabledoon. On Saturday the Gallery of the Society of Painters in IVater Colours, was visteil by a very numerous party of th , .• patrons and amateurs of the fine arts, previously to its being opened to the public. Among the most distinguish ed w.:re thyir Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Clarence, her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Kent, Princz Leiningen, and the Princess Feodor, the Mike of Norfolk, the Duchess of Montrose, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, Sir G. Beau mont, the Danish, Prussian, and Hanoverian Ambassa dors. &c. &c. NI AR at Ann Lire.-011 Frlday afternoon, be tween five and six o'clock, Lady Jane l'aget, the daughter a the Marquis of Angles• a. and Lord Francis emyugham, were married. by special license, at the house of the Duchess of Argyll, in llpp.a. Brook-street. After the ceremony the Duchess gave a sumptuous entertainment. The happy pair left town soon afv.nwards for Cumberland L•alge, Windsor Park, to spend the honeymoon. It stated that Cliarle:: John Br:nulling, Esq. the pre smopti vo heir to Bran:i.ing, t.f GoitOrth Douse. Northinnhttland, wiil shortly lead to the altar Miss Artnita . 4e, danglikr of Sir 14 urge Armitage, Bart. of Kirk lees, in this county. Colonel Brandling, it is rumoured, presents his nephew With the mansion of Middleton Lodge, near Leeds, ta a temp Crary rosideoc.:.—Fork It is said Ein Dalhousie is to succeed to the command of the troops in India. It is slid that Stephen Gasolee, F.l. King's Counsel, is to he a Judge in the Court of King's Bench, vie, Mr. Jus- : rice Best, promoted. On Saturday the It':val Company of Archers shot for the I silver bugle horn, at hope Park, at five score yards dis tance, when, after a very close contest, it was won by John colio Wilson. Esq. ; the titre highest competitors marked 33, 31, 36.—Ediabur ; •h P.,1 r. W. M. Baylv, Esq. and Pierce S. Butler, EN. intend offering themselves as candidates for the re` rewntation of Kilkenny, at the nest general election. The county will also be contested. In addition to the present I..y.nbers, the following Gentlemen Sre spoken a as likely to start:—the Bon. P. Butler, the Ilun.A. knee, and Mr. Tighe, of IVoodstock.—Duldin Para '. We belLve it is tat generally known that persons emigrating to ‘'an Lind tat st obtain pre%ious pernitssion from th, ()tilt; or they will nut be re ceived by the GOVCI zwr. NIXG'S TIIEArnE. The curtain at this splendid theatre rose last night to a brilliant house, full almost in every part. Tire pit was choaked almost to suffocation, and not withstanding the re. cess, a galaxy of fashion and beauty filled the boxes. The opera might have hi en b •ttr r *retract,. The Nlarchece Se ri() s distortion of the tub's. tragedy of Offrell o , for which the genius of it issini has (lone almost all that could well he accomplished, was selected for the first appearance of Madame Pasta, who was the great attraction of t h e n i g h t; she appeared as Pradenurria, after several y ears o f a b sence from this stage, and was greeted on her entry by the loud_ eat testimoni, sof welcome. lier app e aran ce , we think, is little changed, but in voice and power she i s decidedly MI.. proved ; her execution is now Most finished, an d nothing could be more touching, than the path os w i t h which she as t t h ica ird liyact. a ppla nth d. Asvis a a pie d' un n a li ce , Ininterpa nel dolore sung in many of th.: szenes in which she app ealed. The beautiful " aria," Palpita incerta I' alms ; Dal ow mini la calms, T wa h s e charming l yin pll g i t utire and il delicious i gi ci v o e u n s , ballad arien th e Genes tratitta Isaura Dal pin crudcle amore, which she sung to the harp, was poured out with the most enchanting tenderness; her cadences were most finished The conclusion of this charming " aria," stanca akin di spargere Mesti acekniri e pianto, Mori I' atilitta vergine Ahi ! di quel sales ammo, was enthusiastically encored. Madame Pasta's voice is I very fine ; but her expreasion and execution rue ev en superior to her power. With the excirtion of Madame Catalani, and perhaps Feoelor, she is the first singer that has appeared on this stage for years: great expectation was excited by her announcement, and she fulfilled every anti cipation. At the close of the opera the curtain fell amid loud and lmig-continued applause, and Madame Pasta was as loudly called for. She appeared with dishevelled hair, as she had closed the part of Desdesvogra, pale, and evidently agitated, led on the stage by Garcia as Othetki; and, attic making her acknowledgments to the crowded audience, she retired amid deafening plaudits. Garcia filled the part of ()thrill) with great ability ; his acting and singing were both very fine ; his powerful voice and execution were dis played to the greatest advantage throughout every scene ; as the jealous Moor. The song in the first act— Ah ! si per voi psi some° Nuovo valor Jul petto : Per vni d'un nuovoaffetto Sento infiammarsi it an: was finely given ; so was the subsequent one, in the second act, with Roderigo— br or redral quad ehiudo Giusto furor nel servo; Si, vendteartni appieno Di lei, di Sc We wish some other opera had been chosen; this of Othello is a wretched paraphrase of the great original, and though the music m some parts is very fine, as a whole, it is much inferior to Tuneredi, and other compoW.. turns of Rossini. Noblet, after two years absence, whether allured by ancient attachment, or the persuasions of a great northern Thane, again appeared with Albert last night, and was warmly greeted. The latter is about to return to Paris. The seamm at the Opera as yet has redeemed little of the promise held out. Madame Pasta may effect a change. Rossini's operas should not monopolize the stage to the utter exclusion of Mozart. We are tired of Othello, Zelmirit, and the endless repetition of the same compositi 111 l s for weeks together, brought out without change of any sort. It does not say much for the new management. The season will now, however, we trust, close more brilliantly than it began. EXHIBITION - OF TIIE SOCIETY of PALVTERS in WATER-COLOURS, .. (THE TWENTIETH,) AT THE UALLEIT. No. 5, PALL.BIALE EAST. Much as we have been delighted at the former exhi bitions of the members of this society, we think the present exceeds any which they have hitherto submitted to the public. It is natural that this should be the result of each successive interval of improvement ; but it is not always that public expectation, in this rest:wet, is so fully realises! : and it must be extremely gratifying to the patrons of this department of the art to observe the distinguished prows it has made under their encouragement. In water-colour painting this country is without a rival : it has bees brought to its present state of perfection solely by the genius and perseverance of British artists; and in every branch of painting but the historic, it possesses many advan tages over oil painting. It cannot, of course, put pictures of equal dimensions upon the easel ; but in /aartseape it j produces a transparency of eff e ct, and a d e li cac y an d sweet ness of tone, which oil, from its thickness and tenacity, can never attain. Both branches of the art, however, have their respective and appropriate excellencies, and we have no intention, by preferring the one, to depreciate the other. The admirable productions of GAINSBOILOCGH and Wit : sore, and of other names of celebrity which we could enumerate, would rise up in judgment against us, and would presently extirpate our prejudices, if we felt them j too strongly ; and the names o TURNER, &INSOLE, RICHTER, NASIII"rH, Horta:en, and a whole host of the modern school, would put us to shame, were it possible that we could undervalue their admirable and extraordinary talents. But the water-colour art we cherish with a peculiar, but, we hope, a pardon able attachment, as a child of our own; and we point to the performances of II E• PII Y, ROBSON Fl El D t l'aor T, it/ hii ions Mu ll is etx, with a feeling of national pride, because their excellence is of our own gr o wth ; it is indigenous, and as such is mixed up with our prepare sessions in favour of our country, and of the talents, of whatever kind, which adorn it. We think that the great advancement which thisbranch of the art has made within thcse few years (for its birth is but mode rn), may be mainly attributed to that freedom from servile i 11l tat ion, which the absence of old masters has pre cluded, and which has of necessity left every artist to follow the lead of his own conceptions, and to act from the impulse of his own genius. Hence the originality and freedom from manor, ism, which may be observed in the different styles which the exhibitions of this Society pre.. sent. We have always been of opinion that much ill effect has been produced in the progress of the art of painting in this country, by the impressive injunctions of Sir Joshua itryiulds, in his Di.wourses, which, on this subject, have been received with a reverence which his authority, and not their extensive utility, has obtained for them. " I would chiefly re commend," says he, " that an implicit obe dience to the rules q . art, as established by the practice of time great Nlasr Efts, should be exacted from the young students; that these models which have passed through the approbation of ages, should be considered by them as per/ el and i, ! frittihte guides; as subjects for their imita tion, not their criticism." This is certainly requiring a much too rigid ad berence to the practice of the forefathers of the Art, and re pr...ssing all those eflOrts which always follow the aspirations of an original and superior mind. To affirtn that they should be subjects for imilaliun, but not of criticism. is to say, in other woi IN, that students should be servile copyists, and should never exercise their judgment on tit,. merits or defects of the subject before them. This tone 0: instruction is, to say the least of it, injudicious. If tl-r ardent genius of the student should tempt Win to deviate. and he should even fail to carry such deviation to any suc cessful effect, it is hater that experience should thus correct his judgment, than that its suggestions should be for ever overrultsl by exacting, in what ou;ht to imitate naiure, a tight adherence to the rules of art. The gallery was so thickly crowded with select visitors as to prevent our examining the rictuses with that atten tion which would justify us in pas:sing any judgment on their merits in detail ; we shall therefore postpone our re marks till we have examined them more at leisure. • First Discourse, p. 11. Miss Paton and Mr. Sinclair sang last week at the Musk Hall, Liverpool. MIL lONIAN, OR WOMAN IN TIIE N:NETRENTII CENTUR v.—This is a work of unquestionable merit, replct e with correct sent itncti a high tone of morality, and sound religious instruction. Few female writers have acquired the nervous mi. rgy of diction, and classic elegatic^ of style which di-tint uis a tit' writings of this Lady. The w.sk atounds with scenes of lively and intense interest. i t~ t 1 1 ~.