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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France of Wednesday.) Conau, Max I6.—The English Consul-General at Constantinople left this place on the 12th, on which day he had arrived from Ancona, and went on board the lonian steamboat to Zante. It is sup posed that this vessel carries despatches for Count Carlo d'lstria, to acquaint him with the Proclama tion by which the lonian Government declares it will not acknowledge the blockade of the coast of Prevesa. This morning at day-break the English ship of the line the Asia appeared off this Island. It bad sailed from Naples six days before. Admiral Malcolm, who was on board, came on shore in a boat, and proceeded to the Palace of the Lord High Com missioner, where lie now is, while the Asia still re mains tinder sail; it seems that this vessel will de part again immediately. M. Gordon is not on board. PARIS, JUNE 9.—The Coar;•ier dc Sidyrne of April 26th says, that according to a letter written from Napoli di Romania, dated 20th March, Colonel Schamhorst, son of the Prussian General of that name, had arrived ra Napoli. It is said, that after the departure of Colonel Heidegger, he will have the command tit the regular troops. The President seems resole ed not to confide this post to any French man- l- I .e desires nothing from France but its money. From the Journal du Commerce of Tuesday.) PARIS, JUNE B.—We have a letter from Bastia of 31st May, which says—" The Magistrates have just had two Neapolitan officers arrested, who are said to have been implicated in the political events in 1820, and whom our Ministry has consented to give up. Ten thousand francs have been the reward of the capture of these unfortunate individuals. Will they germ This is what every body anxiously asks. A Neapolitan brig of war anchored in our port yes terday morning: the Captain has orders to take pri soners on board, whom an ignominious death awaits in their own country. In order to delay their de parture, if possible, one of their creditors has had them arrested. Other writs will be taken out against them if the Commander sheuld take upon himself to pay the debt of four thousand francs, for which they are arrested. Several creditors have agreed to exer cise their rights in succession, in order to give time for the Ministry to receive the applications which are made to them in favour of these unfortunate foreigners. FarNCH FUNDS.—PARIS, JUNE 9.—Five per Cents., 108 f. 85c. 75c.; Three per Cents. ea. div. 78f. 60e. 50c. 65c. ; Bank Stock, 1,572 f. 50c. Naples Stock, 85f. 25c. ; Royal Spanish Loan, 77f. ; Haytian Loan, 450 f. Exchange on London, ene month, paper, 25f. 45c. ; money, 25f. 40c. ; three months, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 2M. 25c.—fours Authentique. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(LAST NIGHT.) Lord \Vynford (late Chief Justice Best) was in troduced by Lords Tenterden and Grantley, and took the Oaths and his Seat. Lord Harris and Lord Vernon also took the Oaths and their Seats. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1529. We inserted on Wednesday a letter from Mr. ROBERT GRANT to the Senate of the University of Cambridge. We copy this even ing, from the Cambridge Chronicle, an ad dress to the same body, which is well known to proceed from the pen of a resident, whose ardent zeal for the best interests of the University, and the eminent station he fills in the scientific bodies both of London and Cambridge, must give especial weight to his opinions on thc pre sent question. The subject of a " Free Trade to the East," daily begins to occupy public attention, and must of necessity continue to do so more and more, as its absolute importance becomes to be more considered. Partly connected with this subject, a work has just appeared, entitled, Re flections on the Present State of British India, which we recommend to the serious attention of all those who feel an interest not only in the extension of our commerce, but in the existence of our Indian Empire. The author professes not to enter upon the difficult, and almost unbounded, field of discussion relatively to the affairs of India, but his object is rather to attract public attention to the perilous situation of our Empire in that quarter, with a view to the adoption of such measures as may appear calculated to consolidate its strength, and to prepare it for the eventful crisis which it must at no distant period have to encounter. And, in doing this, we must say that he has effected his purpose with a masterly hand. His work is divided into chapters, treating on the territorial acquisitions of the English in Hindostanthe danger to which British India is exposed from invasion—the con dition of the people of Hindostan—their general character and temper—and finally—the coloniza tion of India. As Russia is the only power from which any immediate danger of invasion can be appre hended, we have selected an extract from the Chapter on that head, which will be found the most interesting, on account of the present display of military enterprise manifested by that ambitious power. In treating of this part of his subject, the only thing of which the author does not seem fully aware, is the decided ad vantage of the route by the Oxus river—a route which a Russian invader would find infinitely preferable to any other. New York Papers have been received this afternoon at the North and South American Coffee•house to the 13th May, but they do not contain any news of particular interest. A New Orleans Paper says, that accounts from Peru state that the Peruvian army had laid down their arms, not wishing to fight against their brethren. As a proof how much the American public is imposed upon about the affairs of Europe, we extract the following account of the Exile. dition flirming at Cadiz for the re-conquest of Mexico : The .21ren, Orleans Mercantile Advertiser of the 13th ult., contains a letter dated Havanna'', April 3d, stat. ing that an expedition would proceed front that place for the re-conquest of Mexico. Information bad been received that twelve battalions of 1,600 men each were embarking at Cadiz for Cuba, and that the Captain-General of that Island had received orders to place all the di.posable force under the direction of Ad miral Laborde, with orders to be off the Cape of San An tonia towards the last of May ; 6,000 foot would embark on board Laborde's fleet, and the expedition from Spain would sail under the convoy of the Hero 74, and frigates Iberia and Pula. A meeting of the Inhabitant Householders of the parish of St. Clement Dimes, Strand, was held yesterday in the vestry-room, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the propriety of cleansing, repairing, and warming the Church. Mr. CLARKE introduced the subject by stating that the Church had been long unfit for the per formance of Divine Service—that the walls and roof were covered with dirt and filth—and that he considered it expedient that the interior and exterior of the sacred structure should be imme diately cleansed, painted, and whitewashed.— During the winter months the Church was so cold that many of the inhabitants had deserted it in consequence, it being almost impossible to re main in it for any length of time. While filling the situation of Overseer, a few months since, he had attended the Church twice, and on each occasion caught such a severe cold that he was confined to his room for some time. Mr. DAVIDSON opposed the motion for :the repairs, &c., of the Church, on the plea that the numerous brothels in the neighbourhood should be first looked into ; to which Mr. COLLIER replied, " that upwards of two hundred pounds had been some time since expended in prosecuting the owners of those brothels, since which they had flourished more than ever." We are strongly disposed to advocate any measure havi»g for its object the rooting out of these detestable. sinks of iniquity, but do not see upon what principle such measure should precede the necessary re pairs of the Parish Church, or how it is in the slightest degree connected with them. Both are measures indispensable to the welfare of the Parish, but surely that which is most urgently and immediately pressing, deserves, and should obtain the precedence SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY. FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JUNE 11.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Ear; of Balearras, Broughton, from China. - „ - PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 11.--Light airs and variable. —Arrived the Perseverance, Morrison, from Da4tzic. Sailed the Chorie, Wheatley, for Antwerp. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 10.—Wind E.—Off Port, the Balticum, Vigt, from St. Thomas; and Elizabeth, Cody, from Baltimore. FALMOUTH, JUNE 10.—Wind variable.—Sailed the Plover packet, for Jamaica. HOLYHEAD, JUNE 10.--Arrived the Three Sisters, from Barbadoes ; and Manchester, bketehley, from New York. DOVER, JUNEl l.—Arrived the Anna Maria, Letts, from Faro. • VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Henry, Take, from Liverpool to Baltimore the 2.46 of April, by the M'Lellan, which arrived at Baltimore the 2d of May ; Vansittart, from London to China the 13th ult., in hit. 44. long. 13; Lady Kinnaird, from Sierra Leone the 4th ult., in lat. 51. long. 14 ; and Crown Prince, from the Clyde to Charleston the 6th, in lit. 35. long. 36. TIIE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O s CLOG'K. We are again in the same dull state as yesterday, with no arrivals of any consequence; but. accounts have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house, from Liverpool, of the New York packet of the 16th May being off Holyhead. The papers and letters are not expected in town until late in the afternoon. Consols opened at the same price they left off at yesterday, 881, buyers, and up to the present time there is not a feature in the market worth observation. The Bank taking Exchequer Bills at four per cent. has not had any effect on the market. It is supposed that this maasure is done with a view to facilitate the payments into the Ex chequer for the revenue. In the Foreign Market not a bargain doing as yet; prices nominal. (111031 A MORNING PAPER.) An expedient for relieving the scarcity of money, which we stated last week to have been submitted to the Di. rectors of the Bank, was adopted yesterday at the weekly meeting of the Board. It has been determined on to snake temporary advances on the deposit of Exchequer Bills from this time till the 15th of next month, to an amount not exceeding 2,000,0001., at an interest of four per cent. By that time it is conceived that the pressure on the money market, to the extent at least that it is connected with the payments into the Exchequer, will have subsided, and the necessity for any such assistance, which is a departure from the ordinary mode of doing business at the Bank, will have ceased. The Directors do not mean, we understand, by this proceeding to establish any precedent for the future, but leave themselves at liberty, according as the experiment shall appear to be attended with useful results, to adopt or reject it any period hereafter. A loan on Exchequer Bills may now be obtained at the Bank for as short a period as one day, or for the whole time to which the accommodation is to extend. The measure has undergone - a good deal of discussion on 'Change, where it has been for the most part approved of, because it is considered to hive at least the good effect of preventing that inequality in the circulation which the payments into the Exchequer generally produce at this period of the quarter, and restoring it to one uni form level throughout the whole of it, The scarcity of money which before existed out of d oors was relieved by it almost instantaneously ; for as it arose in part from the fear of being called upn to an indefinite extent, which made every capitalist keep a supply in hand the double of his actual wants, no reluctance was any longer manifested at granting accommodation, when it was ascertained that a resource was ready in the Bank in case of need. Bence it is imagined that the avowed determination alone of the Bank to give assistance will accomplish all that can be desired, and that few claims to any great amount will be made upon it. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols have remained all the morning at 88i, alternately buyers and sellers. The Fren c h F un d s, Tuesday evening, 1 79-10 cx. div. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for Account, 88i CLOSING PRICES. Danish 66i Greek, 1825 Mexican, 1825 21 3 - Peruvian 12 4 Russian 971 Spanish 8- FOUR O'CLOCK. Consols Do. for Ac. 881 1 Brazilian Bonds 57 Buenos Ayres Chilian Do. Columbian, 1824 Baron ANSELI DE ROTHSCHILD, 8011-iit law to N. M. DIE ROTHSCHILD, Eq., arrived, this morn' - log, from Paris. TRADE TO INDIA. The Earl of CARLISLE presented a petition from the Corporation of Cutlers at Hammerfield, near Sheffield, praying that the trade to the East Indies might be thrown open. COALS. The Earl of MALNIESBURY presented a peti tion from the inhabitants of Redruth, in Cornwall, praying for the repeal of the duty cn sea-borne Coals. SHIPPING. Lord GODERICH, in rising to move for eertal returns relative to the shipping of this country, stated that his object in moving for them was to vindicate the reciprocity treaties. It had been stated that those treaties were negociated, and alterations subsequently made in our navigatiou laws in the spi rit of change, and that they had been productive of evil. He denied that those alterations had been made in any such spirit. To act on principles of reciprocity had been made necessary by the growth of the United States of America, and the principle on which our commercial treaties had been subse• fluently formed had been recognised in our Commer cial Treaty with that country, concluded by Lord Grenville and Mr. Pitt, in 1794. The same principle was acknowledged in our Treaty concluded with the King of Portugal, after the removal of the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazils. The Returns that he should move for would stew that the altera tions made in our laws had not been productive of evil. The first Return he should move for was for an account of the number of vessels, and the amount of their tonnage, built and registered in the several ports of the British empire, from 1814 to 1824 inclu sive. If he were not misinformed, this R e t u rn w ou ld shew that in the fou r years since 1825 the number of ships built had increased beyond the number built be tween 1821 and 1824, 2,260, and to the amount of 341,000 tons. The nextßet urn he would move for was for an account of the number of vessels and the amount of their tonnage, with the number of men and boys usually employed to navigate them, belonging to the different ports of the empire, from 1814 to 1828 inclusive, stating if these numbers had been in fluenced by ally Act of Parliament for regulating the registry of shipping passed in that time. The reason for this latter part of his motion was that an Act had . been passed in 1826 which had regulated the registry of vessels in a manner much more strict than before ; and it would shew that a great number of vessels, principally returned as registered, had been struck off since 1826. He believed that the return would shew that more British shipping were employed in 1828 than in 1827, and than in any former year. The third Return he should move for would be for an account of the number of ships en tered inwards and outwards in all the ports of the British empire, from all parts of the world, from 1814 to 1828, distinguishing the Foreign from British ships. This Return would shew, he was well aware, a great increase in the number of British ships within the last few years, in par ticular during the last year, the number of English vessels employed then being greater than during any former year. The same Return would show that the number of British seamen had increased from 114,000 in 1814 to 118,000 in 1828. The number of foreign vessels, it would be found, had not increased in the same propoftion. To make this matter quite clear, he would add a Return of the same descrip tion, exclusive of all the trade between Great Britain and Ireland. The last Return he should move for , was one declaring the Number of Ships entering and clearing at British ports from the year 1814 to 1828, distinguishing the British from the Foreign ships, and describing the trade in which they were em ployed—whether between this country and foreign parts, or between Great Britain and Ireland. These Returns would prove, to the satisfaction of every impartial person, that the changes which had been made in our system of trade had been founded in good reason, and dictated by necessity—that they were the only means by which we could hope to preserve our trade, and that they had net been made from a mere love of change, but from a sense of their necessity and propriety. The Earl of HARROWBY was glad that all these Returns were to commence with the year 1814, because that would afford the fairest means of estimating the effects of the late changes. The Duke of WELLINGTON had no objection to the production of the documents moved for by the Noble Viscount, and indeed he was sensible of the obligations which the House lay under to the Noble Viscount for having made the motion, on ac count of the result which would appear from the papers when produced. It was net a matter of astonishment that the country was looking with anxious expectation to the result of the intercourse recently established between this and other nations, and he had no doubt that by the production of these ,papers they would find that result was not only not injurious, but was beneficial.—The Returns were then ordered. _ STANDING ORDERS. Lo r d BERESFORD give notice, th a t on Mon- day next - he should bring the Sanding Orders, Nos. 26 and 125, under the consideration of the House. IRISH PEERS. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY stated that the Committee to whom the claim of the Duke of Cum berland, as Earl of Armagh, hid been referred, had reported that he had made out his claim to vote for Irish Representative Peers.—Adjourned. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Rani: 3 per Cent. tied. ..... SiljF4 3 per Cent. Cons. shut 3,4 per Cent..... ........... 4 , 4 I)itti Red. 96 % t per Cent. Ditto, 1 , 1;f1 Ditto Scrip - L. Ann -Itl India ........... shut )itto iknds 5l 55 pm. DAY AT ONZ O'CLOCK. South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto Ex. Bills, .£1,110) 2d. 67 68 pm. Ditto 0 .- ) 2d. 67 68 pm. Ditto Small 2d. f 9 67 pm. Ditto Cemrnercial — pm Bank for Account India for Account ..... Cone. for Account PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds — Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds 57% Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds ...... ... : Portuguese Bonds — Chilian Bone's — Prussian, Old ( olombian Bonds —Ditto, New — Ditto, 1821 2l -7. i ' Russian — Danish Greek Bonds — ---- 1823. — Ditto, 1815 — French Rentes, sp. c. —f. —c. Guatimala — Exchange ...... —5. —c. Mexican Bonds 3 per cent —f. —c. Ditto, 1925 — Exchange —f. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK, Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imp. MM. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 87 SS! TO THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE. R. CAVENDISH'S COMMITTEE respectfully announce that the Day of ELECTION is fixed for TUESDAY, the 16th instant. The Poll will opeu at Eight o'clock in the morning, and close (as has now been arranged at Five) in the afternoon of that day and Wednesday. It wiil close finally in the course of Thursday. Arrangements have been made for facilitating the con veyance of Members of the Senate, both to and from Cam bridge, with all possible expedition. Mr. Cavendish's Friends have provided ample accommodation at Cam bridge for his Out-voters. It is requested that all inquiries and communications may be addressed to Mr. Cavendish's Committee, who sit constantly at the British Coffee house, Cockspur-street. June 8, 1529. CHARLES BABBAGE, Chairman. KING'S THEATRE. MADEMOISELLE SONTAG respect fully begs leave to acquaint the Nobility, Subscribers to the Opera, her Friends, and the Public, that her BE NEFIT will take place at this Theatre on THURSDAY, the 13th instant, when will be performed by Mr. Schutz's German Company, Mademoiselle Sontag, and Mademoiselle Nina Sontag, the principal parts of Mozart's celebrated Romantic Opera Die ZAUBERFLOTE ; after which will be presented Rossini's Opera Seria, in Two Acts, entitled TANCREDI ; the principal characters by Madame Malibran Garc;a, Mademoiselle Sontag, Madame Castelli, Signor Curioni, and SignorZuchelli. To conclude with a favourite Applications for Boxes, Stalls, and Tickets, to be made to Mademoiselle Sontag, 30, Margaret-street, Cavendish square. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. GENTLEMEN who intend to support Mr. CAVENDISH, and who are proceeding to CAM BRIDGE, by the North Road, are requested to apply at the THREE CROWNS INN, at LEICESTER; the GEORGE INN, at STAMFORD ; the INNS, at AL CONBURY HILL; and at HUNTINGDON; where Agents are appointed to facilitate their conveyance to Cambridge. CHARLES BARRAGE, Chairman. British Coffee-house, Cockspur•street, June 12. 412i,z-- - ,„3,0131. THE MARKETS.-(TIIIS-DAY). CORN EXCIIANGE. This week the supplies of Grain are tolerably goed, with a large quantity of Four, mostly American. The Wheat trade is so very heavy that sales cannot be made without submitting to less prices than on Monday. Barley is unaltered. Beans and Peas maintain Monday's prices. Oats are held firmly, as the weather continues dry; but there is not much doing to-day, and prices are unaltered. The Flour trade this week has been very dull. ARRIVALS. Barley. I Oats. flour. 2,059 qrs. 10,21 (its. 4,800 sac ks. 3,'20f) 8,930 English Irish 1 - Foreign 1,t200 7,350 brl. Wheat. 2,200 qrs. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week, ended AMC 5, 1829, made up from the Returns ef the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, pet Imperial Quarter. sd. I Oats 21s. Od. Beans...—. 365: 9d. Barley---31s. Efd. Rye -- Sts. sd. I Pease-- 335. Cd. Imrcatst, AGGREGATE AVERAGES of the Six WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat-695. 10d. I Oats -- 225. Cd. Beans-- 355. Id. I Barley...—. 31s. 3d. Rye 335. 7d. Pease...—. 313. Pd. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Sd. I Oats 13s. )d. I Reans--16s. Barley-15s. 4d. Rye I9s. 9d. Pease 3d, SMITHFIELD MARKET. At this day's market, which exhibited a very limited number of Beasts, but quite as many as were wanted, and but a moderate supply of small stores, each kind of meat 2xperienced a very dull sale, at Monday's quotations. PRICES PE} STONE OF SLIM TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. ti. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 4 Second quality ditto 2 8 3 4 Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Prime Scots, &C 3 JO 4 2 Inferior Sheep 2 '2 '2 4 Second quality ditto 2 4 2 8 Coarse-woolled ditto :3 4 3 10 SoutlidownWethers 3 10 4 2 s. d. to s. d. Large Lambs 4 4 0 0 Prime small ditto 0 0 6 6 Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 6 Prime small ditto 4 8 5 0 Large Hogs 4 0 4 8 Small Porkers 410 5 2 Suckling Calves 12s. to Ai. each Quarter old Pigs 12s. to ISs. each. SUPPLY, AS NCR CIEgleS STATEMENT. Beasts. I Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs. £93 9,700 379 130 With Mitch Cows, which were very numerous, appeared to be unsaleable at any price. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. (two. d. Beef 2 4 310 Veal 3 8 5 0 Hutton 2 2 3 8 l'ork Lainb ..,........................ 45. 4d. to 55.13 d CITY MARKETS.—(TWO O'CLOCK.) PTANTATION SUGARS.-There is evidently a great hea viness in this market, and the business that has been done since the opening of it yesterday (it being kept closed on Tuesday, on account of the Whitsun holidays), has been very limited, and although no decided alteration in the quotations can be made, the disposition to effect sales is very apparent, and purchases could be made on rather easier terms, particularly for the good qualities; the parcel of Barbadoes offered yesterday was with difficulty disposed of, and prices again were rather lower : 1,693 hags Mau ritius were offered by public sale to-day of the low to good brown qualities, but there were scarcely any buyers, and nearly the whole parcel was bought in at about last week:a prices. _ _ _ In Rum and other descriptions of Colonial produce there is no alteration. The Company's Tea Sale is still going on, but will ter minate to-morrow ; licensed goods are now on sale. INinco.—The Indigo market is rather heavy; the sale of 36%5 chests of East India went off from 4d. to 6d. under the prices of last Company's sale. Hon.—There are accounts from the plantations in Kent and Sussex this morning. The blight continues, but as the bines are growing hopes of recovery are indulged. In speculations on the probable amount of duty there is no activity, many of the principal betters having lost large sums during the last two years. In the trade too, money is very scarce, and this tends to keep the prices much more steady than would otherwise be the case. FOREIGN SUGARS.—A parcel of yellow and white Havannahs has been sold this week at steady prices, but in other sorts there is very little doing. REFINED SUGARS —This market has been very dull this week, and some parcels of large and small lumps were on Tuesday sold on rather easier terms, but other parcels have since been sold at the same price as last week; in the good and fine Grocery descriptions there is less doing, but prices remain without any material alteration; in crashed there is scarcely any thing doing. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION. To the EDITOR of the CAMBRIDGE CHRONICLE. Sia,—Before your Journal of next week makes its ap pearance•, a new Member of the University will hare been elected. In a struggle I:ke the present, private interests and party feelings \yin mingle themselves, whatever may be the claims or the professions of the candidates. The University ought, however, to be elevated above vulgar motives, and it may be asserted with the confidence of truth that she now stands on this elevation. The grounds on which Mr. Cavendish was brought for ward are before the public, and are now understood by all who are willing to understand them. He was not put forward by his resident supporters as a man of any party. The organs of our political factions may proclaim the contrary; but what they ignorantly assert, the 3lem berg of the Senate indignantly deny. They support Mr. Cavendish because he conformed himself in the strictest sense to their academic rule during the years he lived among them : because he has proved himself a man of pure principlts: because he has gained distinc tions in literature, and the highest honours'of the Uni versity in those severer sciences in which success is only the reward of continued application and of great talents. I make no invidious comparisons, but I may affirm what is true—that no man graced with an honorary degree could have advanced claims equal to these slim: the Uni versity fixed upon its present studies as a discipline and a preparation for the duties of public life, and of.',red public honours as a reward to the ambition of her sons. I know that men act on mixed motives, and I have no right to set myself up as a judge of others; but I am cer tain that there is no man who has carried off our public honours, or felt for the reputation of the University, who will not acknowledge the claims I have stated to be of an exalted character. A very great majority of th:: resident !limbers of the Senate have already acknowledged these claims, and men of the most opposite sentiments and maxims, and opinions, have united to support them. I have no light to recount names, but I assert what I know to he true. Mr. CAVENDISH has pledged himself to support our ecclesiastical institutions. It is no time-serving or political Pledge. It has been given with his whole heart both in public and in private; and if he could not have given it he would never have offered himself as our candidate. lam ashamed of urging more ordinary motives, but our caudi , &Ito also knows that it is his highest interest to support our venerable institutions. They are woven into the very tissue of the Aristocratic part of our Constitution ; and one part cannot he touched withcut endangering the other. But Mr. C. is very young; we cannot deny it ; it is an evil which will find its own remedy; and amid the grand apostasy of hoary politicians, we turn to him as a verdant spot in a dry and barren land. 'We have watched his progress ; he has honoured us in the spring -time of life ; and we already anticipate from that exercise of his great talents and high principles in maturer life, a rich harvest, which will be for cur honour and for the advantage of his country. These opinions I request you will circulate among the members of the Senate through the medium of your Journal. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your faithful servant, A MEMBER OF THE SENATE. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CA3IBRIDUE, JUNE 1 1.-011 Saturday last the Chancellor's gold medal for the best English poem by a resident under-graduat e , was adjudged to Alfred Tennyson, of Trinity College.—Subject, Timbuctoo. The Porson prize (for the best translation of a passage from Shakspear e into Greek verse) was on Saturday last adjudged to Charles R. Kennedy, of Trinity College.—Suhject :—Henry VIII. Act 4. Scene 2, beginning " This Cardinal," &e. and ending ." Peace be with him." .• At the congregation held yesterday the following degrees were conferred : BACHELORS IN DIVINITY. Rev. Edw. Duncan Rhodes, Fellow of Sidney Coll. Rev. Edward 13oteler, Fellow of Sidney College. Rev. Charles Smith, Fellow of St. Peter's Coll. Rev. Thos. Hartwell Horne, St. John's College. Rev. George Hull Bowers, Clare Hall. Rev. William Thomas, Jesus College, (comp.) Rev. Thomas Jones, St. John's College. MASTERS OF ARTS. R e v. W. Metcalfe, Fellow of St. John's College. J. A. D. Meakin, St. John's College. Rev. C. W. Hughes, Corpus Christi Coll. (comp.) Rev. William Powley, Jesus College, (comp.) R e v. Abraham T. R. Vicary, Jesus College. BACHELORS IN CIVIL LA Richard Cargill,• Catharine Hall. Frederic Trotter, Christ College. LAW INTkILLIGENCE.---(THIS DAY.) COURT OI• KING'S BENCH. KING V. LOW. This was an action by the father of a lad who was apprenticed to the defendant, to learn the trade of a bookbinder, fora premium of 19 guineas, which had been paid. A person named Williams suc ceeded in the business, and after some time he sent the lad home with his indentures, alleging that he had not sufficient employment for him, having two other apprentices at the time. The father then ap prenticed him to a waterman, which was found to agree better with his health. It was contended for the defendant that the lad was not able to learn the trade, his state of health being such as to make him incapable of bearing con finement, and that therefore he had suffered no da mage in being sent home. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 191. 19.:. OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Mary Ann Brown was capitally indicted for stealing a coat and other articles in the dwelling house of George "Wheeler.—Guilty—Death. MURDER. AT KENSINGTON. Thomas Birmingham (aged 21), who stands charged with the murder of Sand] Waite, otherwise Mary Ann Brown, was placed at the bar at nine o'clock, and the indictment against him read, to which he pleaded, in a firm, voice, Not Guilty.— The Court was crowded to excess, and public inte rest appears greater than we ever remember on any similar occasion. His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, Earl Grey, and several other persons of distinction, were on the bench duringthe whole trial. At ten o'clock the Judges having entered the Court, the prisoner (who is a good-looking young man, and dressed as a groom,) was again placed at the bar, and the trial proceeded. Mr. ADOLPHUS (with whom was Mr. CARRING TON) detailed, at considerable length, the facts of the case, and afterwards called the following evi dence. Mr. CURWOOD and Mr. BODKIN conducted the prisoner's defence. William Davis, examined by Mr. CARRINGTON— lam a watchman. On the morning of the 14th of May, about four o'clock,l was at St. Mary Abbots terrace, Kensington. I saw a woman lying on her face in the horse road; she was quite cold and still. On turning her round I perceived a wound on the left side. She was dressed in a dark cotton gown and wore white gloves. Mr. Henry Parkins examined—l am a surgeon. On the 14th of May I saw the body of the deceased. She was at that time quite dead. I examined into the cause of her death, and found it proceeded from a wound in the left side, which I have no doubt was inflicted with a I,.nife similar to one which was afterwards shown to me. The wound in the side was from four to five inches in depth; the knife pe netrated the heart, and must have caused almost in stant death. By Mr. CURWOOD—The wound might have been inflicted with any sharp instrument; is quite sure it was the cause of her death. By Mr. Baron Hull.ocK—l should think, from the position in which the deceased lay when found, that she died instantaneously. Elizabeth Price examined—l knew the deceased, her name was Waite, but she used to go by the name of Mary Anne Brown. She was an unfor tunate female. I lodged in the same house. The deceased had lost one eye. I know the prisoner at the bar; ,have known him five or six weeks, and have seen him in company with the deceased. The pin now shewn to me I saw the deceased take from the prisoner. This was about a fortnight before her death. I went out with the deceased on the 13th May ; she had the pin with her; it was for the intention of restoring it to the owner. We walked towards Knightsbridge barracks. I parted with her at the half-way-house about ten o'clock. The next day I heard of her being murdered, and went before the Magistrates at the workhouse. Mr. Sketchley asked the prisoner if he knew Mary Anne Brown, or Waite ? prisoner said no, he did not. Ile was then asked if he knew Mary Anne, who had lost an eye ? He hesitated, and then said, no, Ido not. I was standing before him at the time, and said, this is a serious circumstance, speak the truth. lie then said, I have a recollection of her. There had been that intimacy between the prisoner and deceased that he must have well known her. Cross-examined by Mr. CURWOOD—The pin was in the deceased's cap after she was found dead. Mr. Sketchley did not examine the prisoner as if he was examining a guilty man. William Bennett examined—l am a watchman, and was sent by Mr. Sketchley to the barracks, to tell the prisoner that he was wanted at the work house; this was about three o'clock in the-after noon ; the prisoner said it was impossible for him to go, he could not leave his master's horse, and when his master went to the club house he was obliged to attend him. .1 'aid, you had better go ; he replied, I cannot ; I said, then shall I say you will not go ? Ile afterwards asked me what be was warded for; I told him to account for where he was last night; he turned round and observed, I do not know any thing about the murder; I had not mentioned the murder before this ; Mr. Sketchley afterwards gave orders to take him into custody. Cross-examined—The conversation with the pri soner was about three o'clock; the whole neighbour hood was in alarm during the morning, and he must have heard of the murder. Richard Trevett examined —I am one of the foot patrol. I saw the deceased about two o'clock on the 14th of May; I had known her for some time; she was then walking along the road ia company with a young man, who appeared to be a gentle man's servant; he wore a plaid coat, and had a cockade in his hat ; he appeared about five feet three or four inches in height. At the time I passed I heard the deceased say, "Do you mean to serve me so ?" They were walking arm in arm. I did not see the deceased• again until after the mur der; I then said, I did not think the prisoner was the man that was. walking with the deceased. I asked him if he wore a cockade ? He said, " I never wore one." I found out at the barracks that he had a bat with a cockade, which when it was put on him, I thought he more resembled the man I had seen the previous evening, but was not then, or am now, certain he is the same. Cross-examined--I thought the man could not be more than five feet three or four inches. The prisoner is five feet eight inches. William Chichester Reynolds examined—On the 17th of May I found a knife, 44 yards from where the murder was committed. (Witness here pro duced the knife—it was a common ease one.) William Leigh examined-1 am a prisoner in the New Prison, Clerkenwell, on a charge of felony. I have been in custody several times.— . I was in prison at the time Birmingham was brought in ; he was taken to the Infirmary. I had a conversation with the prisoner during the time he was smoking a pipe of tobacco. I asked him what lie was brought for ? He at first refused to answer any questions. The next morning we were walking together in the yard, when the pri soner said this is a terrible job. I said " yOu left a penknife in the lodge as you came i n , which ap peared stained with blood. He replied, " No, that is rust." I then said, " the girl was not mur dered with it." He replied, " No, she was not." I then asked him how it was that the deceased had half a crown in her hand. " I know that," said he, " but, so help me God, I did not give her any money that night." " How do you account," I asked, " for the pin being found in her cap ?" " Oh," replied the prisoner, " I shall not own i!, and no one can prove that it belongs to me." I told what had passed to Mr. Kilsby, the Governor. I afterwards spoke to the prisoner on the subject, anti he told. me he was in the habit of getting over the barrack walls at all hours of the night. I then asked him if the murder wsA committed - %% 411 time m fu e i find out v h :l e l a t wasit bayonet ? " No, it was not," he. said," and theY a r ",, s n i o lb t s l e i q k t e te l3 ;it t suddenly in the night and exclaimed with I ,l ° agitation, "by Jesus I hare done ir, MarY".. d asked him what was the matter, lie replied, 1 r - to • only dreaming. On Saturday night we agree club for a newspaper, Birmingham refused. ter eri us. On the Sunday morning, one of the .pris c ' ll ehe said, why Birmingham, here is your case-in paper,—when he appeared very much agitate his countenance changed; when he was taken te a r. office for re-examination, he said that he hoped saddle would be put on the right horse. A ( 1 Cross-examined by Mr. CURWOOD--I first' t°, him not to tell anybody ; what passed b t yen e t v tha was in common conversation ; I forgot to SaP be the prisoner exclaimed,—" If 1 had murdered r larsalesedpo,ne with; at b girl with the penknife, 1 should not have been Ol e o a fool as to have left it in the lodge." I have be e by several names, at the time I was circumcised ol he started US name was Wolfe; I was tried in 1816, for ste in 67 yards of cloth, but was honourably acquitted', was subsequently tried on severa l o ther occasiP ri ' and acquitted. 'cc! • Mr. CukwooD—l b e li eve y ou wer e also (11 with others for a conspiracy ? Witness—Yes, and on th a t occas ion you dr d fended me.—(treat l aug ht er , i n w hi c h theTris°ll" joined.) ip Samuel Arundel! examines]--I am a prison er s the New Prison. O n th e 17 t h May, I retnelli bef o r newspaper being brought in, and when the e 3se • or the murder was rea d, th e p r i soner ' s coun tenance / mediately changed. ell Mr. STIRLING, Coroner—Th e pi n no w peo" -c i was taken from th e p erson o f th e d ecease d; the F Y soner did not then see it. Mr. ADOLPIIUS-011, then, I h a ve been w r° ,,, jlg informed. 1 will not, theref ore , trou bl e you Mr. Stirlinir • _ . • This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. Baron HULLOcK—Prisoner at • the bar, t s the time for you to say any thing you may. wis h , I your defence. Prisoner (with the greatest composure)-1 16111 it all to my Counsel. Lieutenant Ives, of the 15th regiment of 1-4 e Horse, examined—The prison e r h a s lived with 1310 as a servant three years; he had always bor n q excellent character. On the 13th May I se nt te prisoner out about seven o'clock; a t eleven & cle f s I went ouc to a ball; when I returned I believe :t ° prisoner was at home. • Davis, landlord of a public-house DWI. the barracks, deposed that the prisoner was sal house on the 13th 3lay ; he l e ft about nine ocla n; and returned again at eleven o' c l o ck; he We ic; away a second time about half-p as t e l e ven o'cl° - he appeared quite cheerful. am ore John Bryant—l am a private in the 15th A — f re ment. I know the prisoner. On the night•beit/k the murder I saw him about half -past eleven o'el°11; he was then coming out of his master's room. - asked me if he could get a light. I afterwardir' a d him go up stairs to hi s b e d- room . I wa s on goon until one o'clock, when I was relieved. I crier guard again about five o'clock. I saw the prisle come crown stairs the next morning, and g o to , stables. He could riot have left his room &cull' the time I was on guard without my seeing hil n ' t ba Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUs—When: he prisoner came into the barracks he wore a hat vin t m d cockade, and a jacket similar to the one he noW "; e r on. That part of the wallwhich could be get!' was not within sight at the time I was on pow th Thomas Duckworth—l am a private in the I ," e j Regiment, stationed at Knightsbridge. I reliO ne the last witness on guard. My ti me w as from 8 0 to three o'clock. I thick if the prisoner had bee ° the barracks he could not ha ve l e ft without I li ' f knowledge. Jonah Bradley, another private in the same Mt,. ment—Was on d u ty as sent i ne l on the 13th ti t 4 and relieved the last witne ss a t th ree o'clock: . T.,„" witness said he knew th e p r i s o ner 's aleeping.): o P.V and he might certainly have left the barracks NO out being perceived. Ile did not see him g 0..0 - 14• 4 Daniel Davis, sergeant in the 15th, examined": remember on tl:e 14th of May, about a qua rter : e ; 1 ) fore six o'clock, I saw the prisoner come down sue. from his bed-room ; he was not at the time ( I'7 dressed ; he had pat t of his clothes in his- 113 / which was his usual custom. I have .known_ 11 " -- , ' five or six years, and always considered him markably mild good-natured man. By Mr. ApotPuus—l think I once saw the d e : ceased and prisoner together. Richard Edwards examined—l am 'clerk at Al, ton-garden Police-offic e . I h ave o f ten seen - LI witnes. Leigh, and from what. I know of O il ' should say he is not to be believed on his eath. Samuel Gore examined , --I am a linen-draper / h . Tottenham-court-road. I know the witness LS I would not believe him on his oath: Lead better, one of the - City M ar liatale ll „' said he had known the witness Leigh for more. tin twenty yeais, he had h a d himin taiStody spq rs times, and believed him to be a very bad mem: i 1 ,4 Mr. CURWOoD—WouId you believe him oath ? Witness—l repeat he is a very bad man. "- Curtwoop—This is the prisoner's defence' Mr. Baron HULLOCK in the most feeling and c il le l o manner minutely recapitul a t e d th e ev id e nce. ' n Lordship said it was un nec e s s ar y t o i m press te e / the minds of a British Jury the necessity b paying the most p a ti en t a tt e nti on t o a charge of stirco a serious character, and in its result of such ; consequence to the pris o n er a t th e b ar . 1 1 (14/ 1141 r think there was any evidenc e to conv i c t the prisolle; except the Jury thought the testimony of L e Y v could be depended upon, i n e stim a ti ng which ,e would bear in mind the notorious character he b°7: The charge of the Learned Judge occupied, up 4 wards of an hour. • One of the Jury, wished Davis, the serjeirl . " be recalled, and asked if there was more than °- bed in the room the prisoner slept in. . a d Davis was recalled, and stated there was otilY bed, and no one slept with the prisoner. attt j f The Jury then consulted for a short time,. without retiring from the box, returned a verdict. • " Not Guilty. The prisoner, who, during the trial, possessed l t h i ; greatest composure, heard the verdict apparel' without the least emotion. If we except the trial of H us to n , it has treed some years since there has been so great a cr ° ,l, o collected in th e y ar d an d ne i g hb our h oo d 01 , Court. ..„ ; We have the best au th or i t y•f or s t at i n g, ' o3 h r be fercnce to the c ase o f Th omas Bi rm i ng h a m; that t r g accounts which have appeared in the NewsP a r e o p of the sentry ha v i n g b een fl ogge d a t Kelle.irg t ir barracks, and the Barrack-master dismissed, ar e e. tirely without foundation. • - • ALMACK'S Grand Ball on Wednesday O th e ; ninm was elegantly and fashionably attended, rricst °I pe t• present. leading people of rank and distinction in London be prefeut. • I A daring robbery was this morning Corml o r e : in the shop of Mr. RE YNOLDS , go ld s mith, of o°li r f by two genteelly dressed young men, who after ui° l 7h severe blow at the face of Mrs. REYNOLDS, eaCaP ed j some ewelery which ehe had brought-out to show- tht For the most part, the countenance of vc tie : l . in this county is strong, healthy, a nd deep-colitured.i nosing well. —Dorset Chronicle. The Flax market at Yeovil is still in a `,; lj g Y languid state, and sales cannot be e ff e cted- a t renitme r . si prices. Sherborne Journal. • • gr. Coals are remarkably cheap at Dover. • 0., PETaa PorKiss tendered for the supply of the workh°°..; a few days since, at 395. 6(1.. per chaldrou, of 52 bushels. Kentish Chronicle. THE BA L LOON.—AIr. GREEN and .his CO' panion alighted near Kingston-upon- Thames, after n . 00 pleasant trip. The aeronauts returned to the po;ot v!'Y they had set 0 1 0 ullout eleven ia'eock.