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SUIPPIN G INTELLIGEN Cli.--(T HI S DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, AUG. 10.—Wind S.W. by W.—Arrived fr ont London, the Sir Boucher Wray, Vagy, for Lisbon ; Christopher, Knight, and Elai, Wood, for Quebec; Morley, Harrison, for New South Wales; Abeona, Warren, for Cadiz; Ada, Guttery, for St. Aodero ; Neleus, Hutchinson, for Cadiz; and Eman cipation, for Quebec. Arrived the Marmion, Wright, and William Harris, Tury, from Quebec; and Isa bella, Packer, from the Mauritius. PEystouTit, AUG. 9.—Wind W.—Arrived the James Liou, Turner, from Amsterdam. PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 10.—Wind W.—Sailed the SUrry, for New South Wales. Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Rainbow, from Trincomalee, sailed the 3 0th of April. - LIVERPOOL, AUG. 9.—Arrived the Paragon, Austin, from Jamaica ; Beceles, Howes, from Trieste; —, Simon, from Cephalonia ; Brown, Barnes, from Palermo; and Hogarth, Bury, from C harleston. COWES, AUG. 9.—Arrived the Isabella, Haven, f rom Matanzas. ABERDEEN, AUG. 6.—The Grace, Hutchinson, 401 4 Sunderland to Macduff, was totally lost, with the crew, near Rosehearty, during the gale on Mon .: d aY night. The Endeavour, of South Shields, f oundered, with all the crew, on Tuesday, off Nairn. The Success, of Scarborough, bound to Lossie, was totally wrecked on Tuesday, near the Burn of . r.°Yridee ; crew saved. The Active, M'Culloch, of was bound to Port Gordon, and the Catha ' c r% Roxburgh, of and from Inverkeithing, were riven on shore near the same place as the Success; c rew saved, TRIESTE, JULY 27.—8 y accounts from Ancona, th e Perseverance 'Greek steamer has been sunk in t - Port de Volo by an English man of war. Arrived at the Cape of Good Hope, the Edward i i"lbe, Freeman, from Bombay. Off the Port, the Malvina, -, from Bombay. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) COURT OF CHANCERY. JUDGMENTS. In Pratt v. Wil son , on th e a ppli ca ti on o f M r . 4 i; I CKERSTETH, and in Harding v. Pratt, on that of PEPYS, the LORD CHANCELLOR promised to give judgment on Saturday. IN THE MATTER OF DAVISON, A LUNATIC. Mr. ROUPEL appeared on the petition of William S 3 ll , of the city of Aberdeen, praying the Court to oUfirrn the Master's report, directing the lunatic l a t rustee and mortgagee) to make a reconveyance of a mortgage estate, under the Act of Parliament passed For that purpose. The petition also prayed at the c osts o f t h e procee di ngs m i g h t b e or d ere d to b e Paid ou t o f t h e l una ti c ' s es t a t e . Th e secur i ty "as a Scotch security, but the Learned Counsel conceived that the same principle would have to be applied to sucip case, as if it had been an English security. The LORD CHANCELLOR saw no objection to the o rderin g of the reconveyance, but he could not see why the lunatic's estate should have to bear the •, expence. Mr. ROUPEL considered that according to a simi lar case, decided by Lord Eldon, it was the course o f the Court so to deal with the subject of costs. The LORD CHANCELLOR said, if the lunatic had the beneficial estate in him, then it would be rea sonable that he should pay the costs; but here was an individual, who was simply a trustee, who had un fortunately become a lunatic, and it was the desire of those beneficially interested that the trusteeship should be transferred ; under such circumstances ad ditional expense was to be incurred, but it could not be consistent with good principle that that exp e nse sho u ld come out of the lunatic's estate, he having no interest in the property. The Court, therefore, refused to order the costs to be paid. TILE MATTER OF KING, A LUNATIC. Iv'Ple Solicitor -General, Mr. Roupel, and Mr. p it roarsh appeared for the petition ; and Messrs. e P,,,Ys and Parker were on the other side. :the petition stated, that the petitioner, the com inelttee of the person, had for many years past been in P i e habit of supplying money, without the order ofthe Z - curt, for the maintenance of the lunatic, and prayed Qat the C our t wou ld re f er i t to t h e M aster to in to Whether such sums h a d b een p ro p er ly a ppli e d Ih",• t he maintenance of the lunatic; if so, that they ta ut ,be allowed to him in passing his accounts, and ni t ; t ue Master might be directed to specify a defi th ' l e 'e sum to be paid to the Committee quarterly for p : titure maintenance. In the Master's office, the little now opposing the petition objected to every item contained in the Committee's accounts, iti ll .'ess verified not only by the affidavit of the Coln -I,ttee, but by other vouchers. e mt. PEPYS denied this. The Committee of the state had never passed his accounts, and it was im itic:lsible for the Master to name any particular sum at h ad ou ght to be allowed for maintenance, until he ba ; There was already an order r e qui r in g th e te rres to pass their accounts, and there could be no as ° l l why there should be any irregularity in this e ase. or T he SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, the Committ eeg te peron had from the treatment he had ex etienced,s come to a determination not to advance rI Y more mon e y out of hi s own poc k et , so t h at he me such order as was n ow p ra y e d wou ld e i t h er ;he to be made, or a new Committee appointed. The L ORD C HANCELLOR di recte d t h e M aster to enquire whether the sums the Committee had ex tied had been properly expended for the tuna -4,2 and to state r e tr o sp ec ti ve ly w h a t s h ou ld b e t h e Zh.lnt of the provisional interim allowance for --Ai ntenatice. 111 THE MATTER OF THE HON. MR. JERVIS, A SUP . POSED LUNATIC. Cou r t S OLICITOR -G ENERAL b e li eve d t h at if t h e rourt should be of opinion, his client (the supposed e ' 446 03 mother) should be at libe r ty t o a tt en d t h e eelt • ition of the commission, ther e w ou ld b e no further difficulty. k v i V ir. HORNE (for Lord St. Vincent, the father) Communicated with his client, and found that h2 t iling could be so painf u l t o hi s L or d s hi p as to Bible` it suppose d h e was not anx i ous that every pos -1 d e p rotect i on t h e Court m i ght think proper to or et should be thrown around his son. Under such 11 ft ° or ,c"ng he only sued for the commission, with ou t L'Posing any thing the Court mi g ht d eem ex p e di ent d er. %The LORD CHANCELLOR granted permission to ti e Soli c i tor -G enera l' s c li ent to attend the execu :ttl of the commission, hoping that every possible i p e ntiott wo u ld b e p a id to t h e avo idi ng o f every u e t o , e oi expence that was not absolutely necess ar y Incurred. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. BUSINESS OF THE COURT. Q' t kt the sitting of the Court, the SOLICITOR said there were a great number of Solid -111,8 I 'n attendance, and he had been reques t e d b y tto ask his Honour if there could not be some 4 Nements made when motions could be heard. ti o ! t eat number of these motions were for injunc it L -8 to stay trials, and the Assizes being now on, h e , 4 7,eame exceedingly important they should be ttii,;`,!. In fact, the expence already caused to seve th„LliiB clients by the delay had been very great, as A N 'i• had been obliged to go down to the Judge of Q 4 14 to try if possible to induce him to postpone 4141, on the ground of not bein g a bl e t o b e eG or 'n the Court of Chancery in time to obt a i n . I , }l uer.. VICE-CHANCELLOR—I am aware of the ex 4nd inconvenience,but what is to be done? If 1 144 11 en b eg i n mot i ons t h ere w ill b e no o th er b us i ness 1 .hefore the Court rises, and there are many 1 The i ns and causes of a very pressing nature. SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, he was at a loss what plan to adopt, but it was of the last import ance that injunctions should he heard. The VICE-CuANcELLon—Let me be furnished with a list of all the motions for injunctions, and I will appoint a day before the Court rises for hear ing them. SANDYS V. SANDYS. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL a few days since ob tained an order directing the Governor and Com pany of the Bank of England to transfer the sum of 4001., Four per Cent. stock, into the name of the petitioner, Mr. Sandys. The short facts of the case are as follows :—Mr. Sandys married a lady of the name of Long, who, at the time of her marriage, had 4001. stork, which had been bequeathed to her by her father, and after her death to her children.— Mr. Sandys obtained the consent of his wife that this fund should be transferred into his name; arid upon application to this Court, they granted an order to that effect. When this order was served in the usual way, the Bank refused to comply with the order, and denied the jurisdiction of the Court to make such an order. The Solicitor-General, on a subsequent day, gave notice of a motion to com mit the Governor and Company of the Bank of England to the Fleet prison for contempt. Mr. HORSE then said he was instructed to appear for the Bank, and state the grounds of their refusing to comply with the order of the Court. It was not contempt for its authority, but in this case it was clear his Honour had no jurisdiction. The stock was standing in the name of the lady and her chil dren. The children were infants, and therefore could not consent to the transfer, and the Court were bound to protect their interests ; in fact it was clearly an order made contrary to the Act of Parlia ment. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, before he made the order of committal he would carefully look into the Act. This morning, his Honour informed the So licitor-General he was of opinion that he had ex ceeded his jurisdiction in making the first order. Under the circumstances of this case, after attentively perusing the Act, he was convinced he had no au thority to order the transfer. Of course, that order must be discharged, and it was almost needless to say the order for committal could not be made. The Court was afterwards engaged in hearing petitions in bankruptcy. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY). BOW-STREET. Henry Hail, a smooth-spoken youth, who de scribed himself us a varnish-manufacturer, charged two very dashing females with robbing him of fifteen shillings, in a brothel somewhere in the vicinity of the English Opera-house. The complainant stated that he just left the thea tre to breathe a little fresh air, when he was ac costed by Sarah Reynolds, whom he was ultimately induced to accompany to a house in a court, where she told him she had lodgings. She rapped at the door, which was opened, and directly he had entered it was closed again. He accompanied Reynolds to an upstairs room, where, after chatting a short time, for he assured the Magistrate most seriously that nothing further took place, he prepared to bid her good night, with a promise of bringing her a nosegay in the morning. The servant of the house, however, demanded five shillings for " the use of the room." This lie paid, and was proceeding to the door, when the landlady (Allen) presented herself, and would not let him depart until he had given something to Reynolds, who loudly complained of the difficulty of living on air, and losing time without being paid for it. He gave her five shillings more on Allen promis ing him, "on her honour, as the mistress of the house," that directly he had paid her he should be at liberty to depart. When, however, he had paid her, he found that they would not then open the door, which he kicked till the watchman came. He then gave them in charge. When he felt he found that he had lost a third five shillings, he did not know how. Mr. Harmer appeared for the defendants, and the girl Reynolds told quite a different story from the complainant. She gave him credit for more gallantry than modesty, except in the disagreeable operation of paying. This quite shocked the complainant, who, in his confusion, contradicted several important facts. Mr. MINSHULL ordered both defendants to find bail. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). HAY MARKETS.—( At per Load of 36 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to XS 0 New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 10 Useful Meadow Hay 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and nye-grass Hay 4 0 4 15 Clover flay 3 15 5 10 Oat Straw £1 18 to £2 0 1 Wheat Straw... 2 0 2 2 Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 4 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 2 13 2 IS Useful Meadow Hay 3 3 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 5 4 10 Clover Hay (extra tine)....Ss 5... Generally Oat Straw £ 1 14 to £1 IS I Wheat Straw 1 18 2 2 A good supply, and a very dull trade, at Saturday's prices. CITY MARKETS.-(TWO O'CLOCK.) SUGAR.-There is but a limited demand this morning for Plantation or other Sugars, and the prices are nominal. The delivery from the West India D',cks last week was 3,400 hogsheads and 184 tierces. The stock is above 45,200 hogsheads. In Mauritius there is mere doing, and 5,184 bags were delivered last week, leaving the stock above 57,000 casks. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S SALES.—This morning the sales of Saltpetre have been gone through.—There were declared 250 tons of Company's, and 449 of Leeward. The former sold from 245. 6d. to 255. ; and the latter from 245. to 24.. 6d. and 255. per cwt. The sale was well attended. Sricr.s.—The East India Spice sales also commenced at the India House this morning. There were declared a large quantity of White Pepper, Nutmegs, Cloves, Mace, Cassia Ligmea, &c. The sale was looked forward to with interest, fixing as it does the market prices for Spices.-- The White Pepper went off from 4d. to 6d. per lb. ; Cloves, from 10d. to 15d. for good, and from 16d. to 18(1. per lb. for fine qualities ; Nutmegs sold from Is. 9d. to 2s. 9d. per lb. ; Mace, from 3s. 4d. to 4s. Id. for fair, and 4s. 4d. to ss. 9d. for fine per lb. ; Cassia went off heavily, about the taxed price. Rust.—The purchases fin. exportations continue. The delivery last week was 650 puncheons, of which 340 were for the Continental markets. The stock in the West India Docks was yesterday 23,163 punchs., and 1874 hhds. Prices as last quoted. The SILK trade remains dull, and East India Silks heavy. The stock in the East India Company's ware houses, sold and unsold, is above 14,000 bales. RUSSIAN Paonucx.—The following are the compara tive stocks for the last two years :--At present the stock is only 3,687 casks ; at the same period last year it was 22,406 casks; and, in the corresponding week of 1827, 19,773 casks. The deliveries last week were 1,094 casks against 3,236 casks in the same week of last year. Prices are firm, at from 38s. 9d. to 395. per cwt. Hemp, Flax, and Bristles are unaltered. Coz ['mg.—Stead . ) , business is doing, and the speculators being out of the market, quotations are unaltered. The Earl of ABERDEEN came to town yes terday morning from Tunbridge Wells. The Duke of WELLINGTON also arrived in town yesterday: his Grace was visited at the Treasury soon after his arrival by the Earl of ABERDEEN. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The grand wedding of the Honourable Miss FREDERICA LAw with the Honourable Captain H. RAMSDEN, took place on Saturday, at the splendid mansion of Lady ELLENBO- Royal', Cambridge-house. The ceremony was performed by the Reverend Mr. FULLER. Covers were laid for one hundred. The plate and desert service were magnificent. The refreshments consisted of everything in season. The ladies' dresses were superb, displaying, for the most part, a profusion of diamonds. Immediately after dinner qua drilles commenced in the drawing-rooms to IVErerEivr's inspiring strains on the harp, and were kept up with great spirit. The bride and bridegroom left town at four o'clock for Sunninghill. _ REYNOLDS, the dramatist, has stated, that during his theatrical career, he admitted gratis into Covent ' garden Theatre above 15,000 persons, who evidently con sidered the accommodation paper more as a right than a favour, and that the only token of orderly gratitude be ever received was from a pastry-cook's boy, who, for a ! double gallery admission, presented him with a raspberry puff and a little pigeon pie. TRADE WITH THE LI,ACK SEA. In consequence of the prejudice experienced by English merchants connected %yid' the Black Sea trade, by the interruptions met at Constantinople by English vessels coming from Odessa, a memorial has been presented 011 the subject to Lord Aberdeen, through Mr. 1111:A71 , s:in. From the folkAving r. ply given by his Lor(i,hip, hopes are !lox entertained that no difficulties gill be in future thrown in the way of the Odessa trade with this country t " Foreign Office, July 29. " have laid before the Fart of Aberdeen your letter to Mr. Backhouse of the 21st inst., enclosing the memorial of certain merchants of London, Liverpool, and Bristol, interested in the trade of the Black Sea, praying his Majesty's Government to interfere with the Turkish Government, for the purpose of preventing the evils which at present arise to British commerce, from the refusal o the Porte to grant to British vessels lade❑ with goods the proporty of his Majesty's subjects, &awns to pass from the Black Sea into the Mediterranean; and I am directed by his Lordship to acquaint yoti, that instructions will he forthwith transmitted to his Majesty's Ambassador at Con stantinople, to afford his best support to the prayer of the memorialists.—l have the honour to be, " Sir, your most obedient Servant, (Signed) " DUNGLAS. " To the Right Hon. William Huskisson, M.P." FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE CHANGES. Lord and Lady Manners, for Yoxford, in Suffolk; Baron Bu. low, for Sussex ; the Hon. Edward Foley, for Stoke Edith Park, near Hereford; Sir John and Lady Ramsden, from Hamilton. place, yesterday, for Yorkshire; Lady and Miss Trollope, from Cumberland-place, on a tour; the Duke of Grafton, for his seat, Wakefield Lodge, Stoney Stratford ; the Duke of Manchester, for Cheltenham ; the Earl and Countess of Harrowby and family, for their seat, Sandon Hall, Staftbrdshire; Duke and Duchess de Coigney and suite, at the Burlington Hotel, from Chelten. ham ; the Countess of Radnor and family, at ditto, from the Continent; Lieut.-General Sir Robert and Lady Macfarlane, from Cumberland-place, on a tour; Sir George Duckett, Bart. for Roydon, near Ware, in Hertfordshire; Sir Samuel Fludyer, Bart. for Felixton, in Suffolk; Capt. Sibbald, in Park.place, from Minorca; Major Meredith, in Waterloo-place, from Ce phalonia ; the Hon. Mr. Stanley, on a tour; Sir John and Lady Maria :Stanley and the Misses Stanley, for Adderley Park; Lord Farnborough, from his seat, Bromley Hill, Kent ; Lord and Lady G. H. Cavendish, for their seat, Eastbourne, Sussex; John Dowdeswell, Esq. M.P. Mrs. Dowdeswell and family, for their seat, Poole Castle, Worcestershire ; the Hon. and Rev. George Bourke, from Simmons's Hotel (late Jordan's) St. James's-street, for Cottles House, Wilts ; the Earl of On slow, from the St. George's Hotel, for his seat, Clandon, near Guildford; Lord Cranley and Lady Augusta Onslow, from ditto, for Clandon ; Sir John and Lady Anne Beckett, to the Earl of Lonsdale's sea!, Lowther Castle, in Westmoreland; the Countess of Mansfield and Lady C. Murray, from Richmond, for Wansford, Northamptonshire; Henry Morton, Esq. and Miss Laura Morton, from the Lisbon Hotel, Dover-street, for the Continent. ARRIVALS AT BROADSTAIRS. Sir John and Lady Conroy, Captain Spooner, Colonel Hanmer, the Rev. Montgomery Campbell, the Hon. Miss Montague, Mr. John Campbell and family, Mrs. Maitland, Mrs. Foster, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Mr. Brown and family, Mr. and Mrs. Nichol' and faintly, Miss Dunne, Mr. Kelly, Mr. Hore, Mr. and Mrs. Watts, Miss Paddon, Mrs. Gregson, Mrs. Yates, Mr.7Forrester, the Rev. H. G. Keane, Mr. John Ware, Mr. W. Wynn, Mr. Huck shaw and family, Captain and Mrs. Isaacks and family, Mr. H. Burnett, Mr. Gordon and family, Bransby Cooper, M.P., Mrs. Armstrong and family, Mrs. Forsyth, Miss Martin, &c. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. In consequence of the Goodwood Meeting taking place this week, the muster of subscribers was numerous, and highly respectable, the Gold Cup having created en un usual interest in all the sporting classes. From the num ber of crack horses already arrived there, the betting will be heavy. The following statement of the odds up to yesterday evening will be found correct. GOODWOOD CLIP. Even agst Mr. Gully's Mameluke 5 to 2 agst Duke of Richmond's Rough Robin 4 to 1 agst His Majesty's Fleur-de-Lis 5 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Varna DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 3 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Voltaire 5 to 1 agst Hon. E. Petre's Rowton 10 to I agst Lord Longford's Sir Hercules 11 to 1 agst Mr. Forth's Frederick 15 to 1 agst Mr. Gibbeson's Lady Sarah 16 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Clotilde 18 to 1 agst Mr. Theohald's The. Exquisite 20 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Apollonia 20 to 1 agst Duke of Leeds's Rhodocantha colt 20 to 1 agst Mr. Scott's Felt 22 to 1 agst Mr. Riddell's Lawn Sleeves 22 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Pilgrim 22 to 1 agst Lord Cleveland's Stotforth 30 to 1 agst Mr. Gibbeson's Wandering Boy 40 to 1 agst Lord Milton's Hidalgo. After the room closed, many of the subscribers started for Goodwood Races. STOCKTON RACES. FIRST DAY.—Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each, with 20 added, for all ages. Two miles. Lord Wilton's Arachne, aged 1 Mr. Wetherell's Whisp, 4 yrs 2 Maiden Plate of 50 sovs. for all ages. Two miles. Mr. Scott's Wodenblock, 3 yrs Mr. Robinson's Bolivar, 3 yrs 0 2 1 2 Sir .1. Beresford's bl. f. by Reveller, 4 yrs Mr. Rowntree's Romeo, 4 yrs 3 0 4 0 Mr. Wilson's Arrow, 3 yrs 0 4 dr Mr. Russell's b. Iby Blacklock, 3 yrs 2 3 dr SECOND DAY.—A Gold Cup, value 100 sovs. with 20 added, for all ages. Three miles. Lord Wilton's Arachne, aged Mr. Golden's Robin Hood, 5 yrs 2 Mr. Steel's Wellington, 3 yrs PLYMOUTH AND DEVONPORT RACES. SECOND DAY.—The Gold Cup of 100 gs. value, given by his Majesty. Heats, twice round. Mr. W. Ley's Omen, 4 yrs 1 1 Mr. Wilson's Upas, 6 yrs 2 2 A Sweepstakes of five sovs. each, with 25 sovs. added, for horses not thorough-bred. Heats, twice round and a distance. Mr. Wreford's Warbler, 3 yrs 1 2 1 Mr. Wilson's Counsellor, aged 2 1 2 Mr. Nattle's Trooper, aged THIRD DAY.—A Handicap Plate of 100 sovs. given by the towns of Devonport and Stonehouse. Heats, once round the course and a distance. Mr. Wilson's Upas, 6 yrs 1 1 Mr. W. Ley's Omen, 4 yrs S ., 2 2 Mr. S. Trelawny's Orgar, 5 yrs . ..... A Handicap Plate of 50 soya. given by the Officers of the United Services of Navy and Army at Plymouth. Heats, about a mile and a half. Mr. Baillie's Gros de Naples, 5 yrs Mr. Wilson's Upas, 6 yrs 2 dis A Handicap Sweepstakes of one soy. each, with a Purse of 10 added, for hacks. Heats, once round. Mr. Nattle's Trooper, aged 1 1 Mr. J. Daw's Little Bickleigh, 6 yrs 3 2 Mr. Wood's Staring Tom, 6 yrs 2 3 The Duke of CUMBERLAND, accompanied by his son, Prince GEORGE, left town about eight o'clock yesterday morning in a carriage and four, and proceeded to the Royal Lodge in Windsor Park, when the young Prince was presented to his illustrious uncle, on his arrival from the continent. Their Royal Highnesses remained with his MAJESTY till past twelve o'clock, when they took their departure and returned to the Duke's residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Duchess of CUM BERLAND received visits yesterday from the Russian Am bassador, and Prince LIEVEN, the Princess ESTERH A ZY, and the Prussian Minister, who all of them had interviews with the Royal Duchess. Some of the Foreign Ministers and their ladies, and many of the nobility and gentry, called yesterday to make their inquiries after the health of the Duchess and Prince GEORGE. After the return of the Duke of CUMBER LAND from Windsor, his Royal Highness, accompanied by his Duchess, took an airing in the Parks, and some of the environs of the metropolis, in one of his Majesty's open barouch es. The French Charge d'Affaires had a long conference yesterday afternoon with the Earl of ABERDEEN. MUNICH, AUG. 2.--The act of betrothing of the Princess AMELIA of Leuchtenberg with the Em peror of BRAZIL took place to-day by procuration. Prince CHARLES was the proxy of the EMPEROR upon the solemn occasion. She sets out on the 4th. The young EMPRESS, now in her 17th year, has been since her espousals dili gent in acquiring a knowledge of her new country and its language, with the aid of the Counsellor MARTINs, our former traveller in that region. She was able already to surprise the Ambassador of her Imperial husband, by an swering him in the Portuguese language. The Minister of his Imperial MAJESTY, the Marquis BAnnscznA, has established in his MAJESTY'S name a foundation of 40,000 florins; from the product of which the expence of outfitting of poor orphans is to be defrayed, to take place every year on the betrothing day in commemoration thereof. LEICESTER REFORM DINNER. (Abridged from the Newark Mercury of Saturday.) On Tuesday the friends to Parliamentary n c r,,,,„ dined together at the Bell Hotel, Leicester, R. 0. CAVE, Esq. M.P. in the Chair. About sixty respectable gentlemen sat down to the tables, whit: i were well filled with choke and substantial fare. After the usual loyal toasts the Citantsi" in proposing the next—" Reform in the Commons' House of Parliament, and a full, Lir, and free Re presentation of the People,"obserVed, that it al' , forded him grew pleasure to appear amorigst them to give some account of his stewardship, and he thought it would be a most excellent measure, if every Representative was to meet his constituents once a year, to point cut to them what had been done during the sessions of Parliament, and to ask their advice and guidance for the futures He con gratulated them on the rising spirit of Reform, not only in Leicester, but throughout the country; and though there were some who urged that the present was riot the time for advocating such principles; yet he considered that it was seasonable at all times,and on every occasion, to try and effect a practical good. No exertions would be thrown away in the cause, else had the patriot and the martyr died in vain. They had now got rid of that bigotted aristocratical question, Catholic Emancipation, and the road was now open to amendment and re form; and when he considered the financial and commercial distresses of the country, and the avowed inability of Ministers to grapple with the difficulty, he felt convinced that a favourable result to the cause must be produced. lie called upon his con stituents to use their best exertions, and though he would not lay down to them any precise form for their adoption, yet he considered there were three things which ought to be embraced : first, extension of suffrage; second, a shorter duration of Parlia ments; and third, the vote by ballot. Either one of these would go very far in securing the blessings of a good government. What had been done dur ing the last session of Parliament ? The removing Catholic disabilities was certainly a great point gained, but it was followed by a base, cowardly, and illegal act, the disfranchisement of the forty-shilling freeholders. Through those very men Ministers had carried the question of Emancipation, and then deprived them of their rights. But the evil was pro spective, and would serve as a precedent for future measures. Who now could talk about vested rights, and claim the privilege of non-resident freeholders when men having committed no crime, having no ban upon their names, were punis'sed by the for feiture of the elective franchise. Who could boast of the enjoyment of civil rights, whilst Ministers were enabled to appeal to such a precedent ? He next cams to the base jugglery of expelling Mr. O'Connell from his seat, and it certainly presented a lamentable picture of a House of Commons that Mr. O'Connell should suffer expulsion for refusing to take an oath which that House had only a few weeks before repealed. He next came to Mr. flume's di vision on the Corn Laws, and called the attention of the meeting to the fact, that only twelve members voted in favor of the motion. Another instance was, the .division on his own resolution respecting the Emancipation of Negro children, in which he had chiefly adhered to the words of that great commen tator of the law, Blackstone. His arguments were not met either by lawyer or politician in the House, yet forty-live members had voted that Blackstone was ignorant of British law. Indeed, there was no hope that Government would change its measures, unless there was a strong ex pression of feeling from the whole country at large : for how could they expect redress to be spontaneously offered by men who had declared that they yielded to Catholic Emancipation, not as a measure of justice to seven millions of their fellow subjects, but because they could withhold it no longer, and if they could, they would have done so; but worse than this, after they had carried the questioa, by a most unconstitutional Act, they di rected-the thunder and lightning of the - Legislature against one single man, whom they had declared to be free. He would next advert to the cowardly blood-stained crime committed at Terceira, which, though justified by Ministers, made every honest Englishman hold down his head with shame and re gret. On the opposition side of the House there had been intrigue and coquetry for office, which, however much to be regretted, he trusted would end in good, for he hoped that when the Whigs had attained their ends, they would once more return to consult the prosperity of the people. The question they were now to consider was, what would be the best mode to obtain reform ? and he would answer, it could only be obtained by the strong force of public opinion, combined with cir cumstances. Questions of reform should be agitated in detail; and then, having successfully levelled the outworks and shaken the tower of corruption to its very base, it would tumble to the ground of its own ' accord. Every subject of reform should be taken and attacked separately. They should contend for reforms in the law--for reforms in the church—for reforms in corporations, and for reforms in the Co lonies. The delays of the law ought to be obviated. The expellee reduced; its meaning so clear and in telligible as not to admit of being distorted ; and it should no longer be a reed to the poor and a two-edged sword in the hands of the rich. He would point attention to the church, parti cularly of Ireland, when there existed a perfect anomaly. The revenues were supplied by men pro fessing another religion; and in some places there were ministers, but, literally and truly, no congrega tion at all. Let the meeting examine the manners and conduct of the clergy of England, particularly the high dignitaries in the House of Lords. The one had got up petitions, and the others made speeches in the House of Lords, to prevent the shackles of restraint being removed from the civil rights of their fellow countrymen. Nay more, the Duke of Wellington, a soldier who had passed his early years in the tented field, and had grown grey in victory, read a lesson of humanity and religion to the bench of Bishops, who ought to have been fore most in recommending conciliation, peace, and good will to all men. The Duke declared that he would willingly sacrifice his life to save one month of civil warfare. But the men who were robed in the eccle siasticarraiment, and whose great Master had taught them, " If thou art smitten on one side, turn the other also," these cried out to blow the trumpet of civil warfare in their native land ; and instead of raising their prayers for discord to cease, they uttered blasphemous aspirations for vengeance on the Ca tholics. They trampled ow their sacred obligations, they perverted the doctrines of the altar, to secure their own aggrandisement and personal privileges. He felt convinced that the merciless conduct of the Orange faction in Ireland would recoil upon that body, and he trusted that the laws would be impar tially enforced upon all. He looked upon Mr. O'Connell (who had been a second time returned for Clare) as an honest, bold, powerful, and eloquent co-operator in the cause. There was yet another in strument working for general good, which was more powerful than all—he meant the spread of educa tion, which was enlightening the mind of man and elucidating his natural right. The schoolmaster had already taught that English Protestants never could be free whilst Irish Catholics remained as slaves. The principles of liberty were triumphing in France—in South America—in North America, and it was that liberty which was founded in reli gion, reason, and justice. Many nations were still under despotic rule; and it showed this great moral lesson, that freedom was not to be gained in a day— it was a mistress not to be lightly won, or cheaply purchased. He would recommend the establishment of a Club, or Committee, resembling the Catholic Association, to take advantage of every favourable opportunity for working Reform. He should alWays be happy to render his services as long as they were found available. Mr. MILLER said that himself a Catholic, he felt bound to advocate reform. He wished for annual Parliaments, such as his Catholic forefathers had in stituted and found to prosper; he desired universal suffrage and election by ballot, as it would put the I x, r e.. 11.11 beyond the reach of the rich man's thumb 11 , 1 d ;;:;bl e him to enjoy the ekctive franchise. The carrn ? ;,oa •1,.• ',rouse of Commons w: ail!f necessary, and b ut r ;ediczd e..luld remove the 211 r. S. Covnu....x proposed the health of their worthy representative Mr. Cave, with three times three. The CIIAIRATAN bricfly, warmly, retuncd thanks, and proposed the health of Mr. Paget, who replied at great length, in a speech which we re gret that our very contracted linnets will not ;know, us to insert. The CHAIRMAN then gave " Mr. O'Connell and the reformers of Ireland."—Song," Hurrah for the Emerald Isle."—" The London University. ° —. " Prosperity to all Institutions that have for their object the improvement of mankind." (In giving this last. toast, the Chairman again urged the neces sity of forming a Chib to protect the local interests of the town, and animadverted very strongly on the taxing of pensioners.) T. B. PAGET, Esq. after some clever allusions to the change in the principles of parties, gave " Suc cess to the proposed measures of the Martinis of Blandford for political reform," to which the Chair man requested to couple " Lord Winchelsea, and success to his efforts for Reformation in the Church." Several other toasts were given, and the Chair man quitted the room about eleven o'clock. THE BENCHERS of the INNER TEMPLE, AND THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. have only this instant read the article of the Times. newspaper, on the late regulations of the Inns of Court, and am surprised at the nature and tendency of observations which appear to me at variance with the usual spirit of that Journal, which seems to have allowed itself to be misled by argu ments drawn from the enactments and practice of the College of Physicians. The many melancholy public exhibitions which that learned body has made of the trading and corporate spirit by which it is actuated, might have saved the Times from such a mistake. It is the failing of this country to be too lenient to the errors of corporate bodies. But Ido not mean to deal in general assertions, but confine myself to a few f►cts concerning this corporate body in particular, by which you may judge whether the example of the College of Physicians ought riot rather to urge on the practitioners of law to more strenuous opposition to the obnoxious, and, as they appear to me, very bad regulations of the Inns of Court. When you learn that three-fourths of the phy sicians of London are excluded from the College ; that the only two physicians* of London, who have held the highest scientific honour conferred by this country, that of President of the Royal So ciety, would have been excluded from the College by its present laws; that about fifty of the practising physicians of London, at this moment, are Fellows of the Royal Society, though excluded from the College; that the only English physician elected to be a Member of the National Institute of France is excluded from the College ; that such names as those of Fothergill, Hunter, Beddoes, Askew, Saunders, and in our own times Blane, Babington, Prout, Roget, Armstrong, and a host of others, well known to and highly esteemed by the public, have been excluded; that the greatest ornament to the science of medicine this country ever produced, the glory and boast of his own age and all succeeding generations, the liberal benefactor to the College itself, the immortal Harvey, would have been excluded by the present enactments of the College; when you learn that while a few attornies of merit have been called to the bar, a multitude of apothecaries have been admitted physicians by this much praised sys tem, and those too not by any means generally de serving that honour; you may perhaps think right to advise the Benchers of the Temple to adhere to a system which, though not perfect, has at all events been productive of peace and concord, rather than adventure on one which is unwise in its institution, seldom fair in its application, and has involved a liberal and learned profession in tumults and com motions, which have degraded them in the eyes of the public, and even made them despicable in their own. But the Times says, that confidence may be placed in the honourable feelings and integrity of gentle men practising a liberal profession. Alas! Sir, it is sad to observe how little gentlemen of li beral professions are exempt from the paltry mo tives by which corporations are actuated. lam in habits of daily intercourse, and the most friendly communication, with the greater number of the Fel lows of the College ; and I am proud to say, that there are very few of the number to whom indivi dually I could not confide with ease and safety any thing in which my honour and interest were con cerned, however strong the inducement might be to violate the trust; but so powerful is party and Cor poration spirit, that there is hardly one of them in whom I dare place the smallest reliance in his corporate capacity. It is curious to hear and wit ness the ingenious arguments and curious devices by which they excuse themselves, for a total de parture from those rules which influence their com mon conduct. Nay, there are some of them who in the affairs of other associations and companies, and in the daily politics of the country, carry their opi nions the whole length of radicalism, whose spirit nevertheless, in the affairs of their own College, creeps within the narrow circle of that which is ex pedient and comfortable for themselves. - But, Sir, this though matter of public notoriety, must not rest on my assertion, I will therefore chuse two examples among many, by which the other mem bers of the College may be very fairly judged, since the two persons to whom I refer were chosen by the una nimous voices of that learned body to the very honourable office of its President. The late very learned and much regretted Dr. Wells was proposed by Drs. Pitcairn and Baillie for examination, to be a Fellow of the College. By a law of the College, such an examination to a person so proposed was a matter of right, not of favour. The candidate was so highly respectable, that his name had been en rolled in the lists of almost every scientific body in the kingdom. He would have conferred honour on the College of Physicians, as he had upon other learned associations. Yet, to the everlasting dis grace of the College, and the bitter disappoint ment of its best friends, the proposal of Drs. Pit cairn and Baillie, then the most eminent physicians in London, was rejected, and the votes of Drs. Gis borne and Sir Lucas Pepys were counted against it. It will hardly be believed that the former of these last named gentlemen had proposed and re commended D. Wells to be a Member of the Royal Society, and the latter had, on a public occasion, thus expressed himself. "Dr. Wells is no mean person ; he is well known to the world, both as a gentleman and as •a scholar." Now, Sir, if Drs. Gisborne and Sir Lucas Pepys, who were both Pre sidents of the College, could, on two occasions, which will appear very similar to the rest of the world, con duct themselves in a manner so different, what re liance is to be placed on the liberal feelings of the other Fellows ? I trust that these observations will deter those Benchers from following the example of the other learned professions, and that they will rather adopt truly English feelings, and promote and assist the views of the other members of their profession, who are desirous of uniting themselves to them. If they are determined to persevere in their present line of conduct, let them be aware that the publiegenerally, and learned men in particular, look with most ineffa ble contempt on rules which would make a bad and imperfect knowledge of Greek and Latin, the quali fication for entering upon the practice of a profession .whieh deals only with the wants and necessaries of Englishmen. A PHYSICIAN. * Sir Hans Sloane and Sir John Pringle. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The important intelligence which we commu nicated to the country yesterday, in our second edition, of the total change of the French Mi nistry en masse, is confirmed to-day. We con fess we view the change with satisfaction, as likely to facilitate the intercourse between the two countries, which can have only a common interest. But when we describe any feeline whatever as excited by the acts of the French people or their Government, it is of course only .as neighbours that we speak. We have nothing to do with their internal administration. The Constitutionnel, in speaking of the rumours of that change in France which we now know to have taken place, says—" If this news (of the change of Ministry) be confirmed, we shall certainly pass under the yoke of the policy of the Duke of Wellington. Melancholy destiny!" Why so ? we ask. Is that an illiberal or narrow principled policy which has broken the yoke of religious bondage, whereby millions of our fel low-creatures have been needlessly bound for Ages ? With respect to the affairs of the East also. When did a conqueror ever practice mo deration ? And the Emperor Nicholas we now know to be in the high way of victory. Yet, if he should be induced to halt in his career, and to suspend his successful operations against a falling enemy, through the united and friendly intercession of France and England, in how sub lime a position would those two nations be placed ! But we return to concerns locally nearer home, and hazard a discussion on the im portant change which - has taken place in the French Ministry, and which may consequently produce a modification in the future policy of that powerful nation: Of Prince Polignac, who is now placed in the eminent situation of Chief of the Cabinet, we have already had frequent occasion to speak. In his external policy, we believe that Prince to be a firm and consistent friend to an intimate alliance between England and France. No doubt, to a certain degree, the views of Austria, personified in Prince M e t.. ternich, are those of one who endeavours to main tain the statu quo of Europe as established at the Ipeace, external bot relationsh as regards o t e the v s internaleeseveral sgovernmenttates of pi a and the . rope. But we cannot help thinking that the states man who has avowed his resistance to the most minute change in the institutions of that coun try has failed of duly reflecting that other na tions as well as the French must, to a certain degree, participate in the wants of the French people when the Bourbons returned to France-- wants so well expressed in the preamble of the charter given by Louis XVIII. We hope we shall not be thought to mean that the new French Cabinet will become the ally of the discontented spirits throughout Europe : far from it ; it will rather lean the other way ; but the chief mem bers of it, in their antipathy to governments formed like the popular ones of Madrid, Turin, and Naples, will, perhaps, be brought to the ne cessity of acknowledging that a change similar, or somewhat similar, to the_ one that has taken ' place in France, must sooner or later take place in nearly every European State whose civiliza tion keeps pace with that of its neighbours. But we repeat, that the experience which the Prince de Polignac has had of the ad vantages of a representative form of govern ment in England, from his long residence amongst us, and his recent declaration in the Chamber of Peers respecting his conscientious prayers for the perpetuity of such institutions in his own country, convince us that he will turn the influence of his powerful counsels towards the gradual adoption, in every surrounding state, of institutions, moulded not upon English, not upon French, constitutions or charters, but growing out of the feelings, habits, and, to a cer tain degree, prejudices, of every individual state. Prussia, gradually rising towards a constitutional form of government, represents pretty well what we mean to indicate. As regards the East, the question becomes more complex and delicate : we believe the Prince de Polignac to share to a certain and just degree the repugnance wit') which our Government would see Russia in pos. session of the Turkish Empire, or even humbling that state into abject submission. All his efforts will be directed, as to a point of paramount im portance, towards the speedy re-establishment of peace. But the Prince has signed the treaty of Lon don, and the protocols : he will raise his voiee in favour of Greece, without reference, perhaps, to classic allusions, but to the dictates of huma nity. We believe the Prince will agree in the opinion we have before expressed of the pro priety of obtaining from the Sultan the limits of Arta and VSlo. What is known of M. de Po lignac's character is, that it unites firmness with moderation : he will urge earnestly upon the Sultan what he thinks just, fair, indispensable. Should a blind obstinacy continue to actuate the Divan, why then, with the just confidence mu tually subsisting between the Duke of 'Welling ton and Prince Polignac, we have strong hope that some plan will be adopted which will at once cut the Gordian knot, and place Greece in a proper attitude under the protection of the two Powers. Of Portugal, we would say little : we have no doubt the Prince will cordially join our Government in urging upon Don Miguel the necessity of moderation and justice. As regards the internal policy of France, it would be vain to deny that the leaning of Prince Polignac is towards the principles of policy which distinguish (as far as the two countries may be compared) that party which is vulgarly called here the Church and King party. We may therefore expect to see the famous ordinances respecting public instruction repealed ; but if it be true that the Minister intends to substitute the unrestricted liberty of public in struction to the present monopoly of the uni versity, perhaps, after all, a progress will be made. Let him remove, in the same spirit of consoli dating institutions, the present laws as far as re gards the transmission of real property—not as the Villele Ministry would have done it, in a feudal spirit, but in the real wish to confirming estates in the hands of families disposed to up hold such institutions. Let him do away with those parts of the law which, framed by the re publicans for the avowed purpose of preventing the the formation of families, and the accumulation of wealth in the hands of i oe n i d lrti i s v e ii t l ia u nt a e l t s h , eo h f" a . and too well, attained their end, at the same time that they have become a serious source of evil in parcelling out land, destroying families, But in de stroying an him antiquated dc a r i , i ae d az w i eil e sgs a a r e i nse n edv g e n t so h h ta e ali c edk l r e l sehislrs:eluoctl leth which checks honest enterprise. av oid forms,d7-eits whose effect is to scare the people from an ho nest consideration of these topics. Let every man dispose of his own property as he likes; but, as the law of England allows, with those salutary checks upon the immutability of land, and its great accumulation, which have been from time to time added to it. Let him reduce the age of