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uh:ie of this atrocious ourrage. The children were thrown into ninon the offi cers gave rece i p t s f or th em , j us t as f or s o of jo h d goods t o b e d e li vered i n some part of Russia--( Cries ! to ignation)—" Three hundred and forty children e received utthe Emperor's order in Warsaw."—( Great sensation.) di_ ace d by poor children being deprived of all maternal care os e ct by tens upon the road ; and the officers, being obliged to :'c . mant for the complete number ordered by the ukase, sent tot detachments through the country and seized ten children, r a a dt”ke up for every ten that died under the hardships of the E ngland c h eers. ) A n d t h ese t hi ngs are p a lliated in I—( Shame, shame.) Yes, there are men in England Who .s defend the Emperor of Russia, and are not ashamed to 'oLraind forward as the partisans of that monster.—( Loud e es of " Shame, shame !") Nay, in some of the news : this this conduct is justified. But let us now look V the Lemberg Gazette of the 10th of September last. of ti ,s at do we find there ? Why, that a conscription is ordered Young - women for the use of the army !—( burst of as nation from all parts of the room.) The young women ; . e . n to the mountains—their fathers, husbands, and ° brothers ' l !mpted to defend them—they armed themselves with scythes anci forks, to rescue their wives and daughters and brides Fens the soldiers of the Emperor, but it was in vain. Six hundred young women were torn from their children, their f arc nts, and thei r h us b an d s , an d were exposed to the soldiers silent sel ect i on. —(Tremendous cheering.) Oh ! can we be :sit under these things ? Oh !if the young blood flowed in reel myself degraded if I did not raise my arm to prevent such outrages on h umanity. —( Vehement cheers.) But I am here in my elde r d ays, but lam not shrinking from that duty. I at i here t o say to t h e wor ld—f or w h et I s ay will be car lied to the world on the wings of the press—Arise ! and 411 t 1 blot out t hi s v il e sta i n f rom t h e f ace of the creation ! Arise You are created in the image of God, and let not su ch an a t roc i ous b lot d i sf i gure hi s wor k s. —( Ch eers ) A r i se , and let the tyrant of the earth know that there is a limit be yond Which human forbearance cannot ge, and that there are °tit tles too atrocious for human pardon.—(Cheers.) Let every one w h o h ears me sprea d t hi s f ee li ng o f indignation-"" oeee him, and let us raise such a cry of horror from all T O ta of th e eart h as w ill bl ast t h e tyrant on hi s th rone . Th e t tt. and Le arne d G en tl eman sa t d o wn amidst the most en mnsiastic and long-continued cheering. General DIVEP.NICKI then rose to address the meeting. If ev er he regretted his limited knowledge of the English lan "age it was upon the present occasion, when he was so t an atous to e x p ress hi s grat it u d e to t h e p eo pl e o f E ng land for : fl e a sympathy they had evinced on behalf of his unfortunate entry- e`( Ch eers.) But were he possessed of t h e e l oquence of the most celebrated living orator, he could not adequately ex p r ess the obligations of the people of Poland to their friends L I ? that country, or to detail the sufferings and persecutions of 18 Uni laPPV cunrymen —( Hear.) They had met, not to Com m ss • • . emorate the i st uggles of a single people for liberty, but to endeavour to establish the first principles of liberty all the the world. The time lie hoped was at last come when nations of Europe, and the people of England in particular, • 0 were th e a d vocates o f lib ert y i n ever y coun t r y, were abort to arouse themselves on behalf of unhappy Poland._ (Cheers.) Th e genera l vo i ce o f h uman i ty was at l eng th r°lll ed against the oppressor of his unhappy country. Her so us Tie bee n ere excited in their defence, and men whose names had We re always foremost in the assertion of liberal principles, h er e now arrayed in its behalf. When he saw that—when on e o l l o w members of all parties and all ranks coming forward -"u he doubt for a moment that the independence of his ..nountry would ultimately arrive ? There could be no doubt of'Pdon that point (Cheess ) Ile would now take the liberty ad easing a few words to his countrymen in their native a e n g n age•—[General Dwernicki then proceeded to address t " Poles, of whom a great number were present, in their native language, at some length. We regret we have not room for the translation to-day.] • Mr . S. KOSMIAN, another Pole, then addressed the meet lg* lie was conscious of his inability to do so with effect , elt he could not omit •oining in the tribute of gratitude to the o quent appe a l which j had just been made to them by their distinguished Chairman on behalf of Poland. h n this great country, so alive to the blessings of liberty, this allowe.d day could not pass without the liveliest sympathy.— a?nd cheers. ) The Poles had unfurled the same standard -glc hr in England, had been emblazoned with the sacred name Was Of liberty.—( Loud cheers.) The existence of Poland ea 3 • • but written in characters which might indeed be obscured, never destroyed by the power of Russian despotism.— (Loud cheers.) When again the Poles stood up for inde- Endence, he hoped they would not be ruined by the sickly e lvarmness of friends—that they would not be deserted by en , gland, under the altry retence of exediency—( Loud e crs)—that there would not be reason to e p xclaim, "Oh ruthless heaven, shall freedom find a grave, While sleeps the sword of Britain in its hallowed cause ?" Lord DUDLEY STUART said, in rising to move a r esolution, it was his duty to make some apology for address ing th e meeting, after the eloquent and magnificent harangue Which they had heard from the chair—(Cheers)—and the two noble and spirit-stirring addresses which had been delivered ha his Polish Friends—he thought it was the duty of every Englishman, in the proper discharge of his duty, to do all in his power for the re-establishment of Polish liberty. Therefore it was that he appeared before them. It was the duty of every Englishman to remind his countrymen that the 29th of November was the anniversary of the glorious revolu tion broke out in 1830. —( Cheers.) He felt it was his duty to come forward to do all in his power to break the bonds of ty ranny i n wh i ch Poland was bound.--( Cheers.) Looking ba ck at the history of th a t p er i o d, wa s th e re an Englishman rege nt whose heart would not beat with emotion at the noble ":Oi • tn a ',P.leeet to all oppressed nations by the glorious and brave 'DLit i t . C . ,(P.heers.) The revolution had unfortunately failed , th e ha d not been useless, for it tended to keep alive the down i a cred love of liberty.— (Loud cheering.) Ground to t h:Y long oppression, the Poles had too long submitted th e t,Yranny of Russia ; but on the 29th November, 1830, arid: Polish patriots rose as one man, to vindicate their rights, and s + o , wreak reveng upon their tyrants—their end was noble, e "le brilliant manner -e in which it was carried out de ired the thanks of all f lends of freedom.—( Hear, hear.) would not detain the meeting by recapitulating the many ta ,, e o s of that campaign. They knew that sacrifices had been W i l -- e by men of all ranks, and he knew the deprivations wrs ic h even the women had been subjected to, and that the e L l nen had sold their jewels for the purpose of procuring s i l 'ns and assisting the war ; they had come forward and ared the di s t resses of the fight , and wh e rever the wounded Slid_. distres se d were, t h ere were t h ey to b e f oun d per f orm i ng ac t s of hemanity and patriotism. Their attempts had been unsuc c"ful; but would they f a il t o l o ok at them with admiration. t ould they p ronounce t h em use l ess ? N o ; b ecause they served so °l *,:eep alive the sacred l o v e o f coun t r y, an d it also served to What were the feelings of the Polish nations.—( Hear, bear. ) 0b, 0 3 , knew that the Polish people estimated liberty at it; true ' a tne--they knew how to appreciate it, and they felt that „, en that coun t r y wa s a ga i n r e generated, they would see a '` at e of things established in that country which would give aatisfaction to all who loved liberty, and such institutions as Would receive the sanction of the wise and sage of all nations. ' (Cheers. ) lie felt it was his duty to came forward upon te present occasion, and he would repeat that it was the duty of every Englishmen who loved not alone Poland, but who a o ''ld his country, to do all that he could to afford energy a n f u e support to the cause of Poland. All the friends utsmanity must eventually come to the conclusion that until p i e Peace of Poland was established in such a way as would i l4 ' b e . satisfaction and contentment to twenty millions of its in- Itnnt St it was impossible that the peace of Europe could be In'utished on a firm and lasting foundation.—( Loud cheers.) pal might the Autocrat attempt to grind down the WI nation—in vain would that country bristle with to e, fortr e sses and bayonets—the spirit of the free was not ene subdued by any physical means—until their liberty ns achieved there would be always war and always discon , as them, had been since 1830 ; and although the people ao • r e not abl e to str ik e w i t h e ffect, still peace never would ar :sn until the Russians were expe ll e d f rom th a t t err it or y, h Poland was i ndepen d ent.— (L au d cheers.) For that day ele,ercLord Dudley Stewart) ardently sighed—for that day Y true E ngl i shman was mos t desirous—when Poland ltkl be rest ore d t o i n d e pendence, and when , in the a n g u age of th e reso l u ti on t h a t had been placed in his hands , s s, i n ue Polish republic would recover every rig ht and posses of%owhieh she had." He would not enter into the question Pon: s t a t government it would be best to administer to the t w ould nation, but still he was satisfied that no gover nment by th e b e satisfactory, unless it was chosen and ado p ted Ihereforunanimcus voice of the Polish nation.—(Hear. Matter re' what Government that country may have, is a to see ,°` Minor consideration with me. What we all d esire rend e „? Poland completely free, and one compact and inde the „:arnass.—( Ch ee rs.) You have been harrowed up by :'"nn of tae H. n. and Learned Gentleman, whom we ra p iT, a d to s ee h ere t hi s d ay .—(Ch eers .) He has drawn a oera_out terrible picture of the cruelties of the Russian Go- I d o tn eot, and th e stiff rings of the unhappy but noble Poles . ~_ th e wish to use violent or personal expressions towards the governors in Poland, but I detest and denounce policy th e which they have pursued, as without a parallel in h ave orrors of Russian history.—(Creat cheering.) You heir, heard a statement with' respect to Polish children carried ou th on, and you responded feelingly to that statement. T ao ought perhaps, this was done by the Autocrat in a Merit f • of 4 , 1 , 0 Violent excitement—that it was a sudden ebullition that h e a e s r, i, but I tell you it is no such thing. It is a practice Old , t been regularly and systematically carried on—it is an this °I7 at every Polish meeting that has been held in e ape ,c o nntry, and I wou ld not h ave been surprised if it had es asig r g a nimadver s i on . I wou ld as k y o u, however, who watch Of sera e fi e ect on p ass i ng events, if we do not, day after day, hear tia ssin newly invented piece of tyranny, on the part of the Pre eti g e n Government. You have only now heard of the to sh e ,? of carryin g off Polish women, to expose them the R or atality of the Ru s sian soldiery. This, by new horrors, hilat e u e s 'iati Government endeavours to degrade and to mini - tha t 4 . 1 " Polish nat i on, an d I now say , an d h a ve always said, t hat ti t he Emperor of Russia means to preserve his sway in Naa r ~.."try, he is r i g h t to pursue suc h a system; for by no °lee s i ti '""ns can he h o p e t o accom pli s h his object. With the tl aYi st g • as r God, :h owever , h e w ill no t and shall not. The • ••'‘vh :ti aPPrOßChing WC know not how soon it may a rriv e !d e th , eland shall be again a free and independent nation. eve e 'scan of th i s mat be brought about it is not easy to foresee. rt tne: a ßussia t i telf there would arise brave spirits to .t3r oust system rotten at the core.—( Loud cheers.) That e ndsi et 7 r: c?ane ; it was not in the nature of despotism to go on %vet ) Cheers.) Let us look to the attempts that een f :Peud en - made by noble and gallant Poles to recover their rn rteidahice ; each has been, though unsuccessful, more than its predecessor, and the last was the most asasn'ine - w , o f a11.._: I.- Cheers.) Let us hope that a day is th e ' poi nen ther e w ill b e another and a success f u l revo l ut i on a lin e Chose e)---tliat thee a ill bens: a be ties unhappy ce that they have had—that they will take the excel- THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1837. fried to freedom.—(Loud cheering.) He also much regretted the absence of the gallant General Evans, who was the hope of the country, should they unfortunately be driven to use the strong arm, in order to obtain their rights. But he was not afraid—we would never require more than moral force for the great masses of the country were now full of intelli gence. In the town from which he had the honour to be sent to Parliament the people had been called the uncombed and the unwashed by an insulting vagabond, but he fearlessly said that from among those same artizans he would pro ?nee as much intelligence as was to be found in either House of Par liament.—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) He assured the Poles of the deep sympathy of the people of England, but they must rest upon their own energies for the regeneration of their country. In the words of the Resolution, he per fectly agreed, for all history proved that it was not among the lower classes that men were to be found who would sell their country for a mess of pottage—it was in the higher classes that such vagabonds were to be found.—(Cheers.) He called upon the people of England to look after their own liberties, or they might soon be another Poland.—( Cheers.) The resolution was then put and carried unanimously. Mr. T. ATTWOOD, M. P., said that he stood before them as the advocate of both the cause of liberty and humanity. He was coiled a political agitator, but be never attended a po litical meeting except in the cause of Poland.__( Hear, hear.) He felt the utmost shame and indignation at the apathy of the English people with respect to Poland. How long was their country to endure the degradation which their indifference towards Poland cast upon her. The English people had for 700 years preserved their honour untarnished, they never yet received a blow without returning it, or ever made an apology.—( Loud cheers.) Were thee, then, content to suffer such a sigma to rest upon them.--( Hear.) They had been shamefully treated. 'with respect to their foreign relations. Let them look to Circassia. See what had been done there? Without the possession of that country Russia could never penetrate into Asia, but here we were standing by, contentedly watching her encroachments. (LEFT SPEAKING.) The following were the resolutions proposed and adopted at the meeting : Moved by Lord DUDLEY C. STUART; seconded by CHARLES BULLER, Esq., M. P. " That the Polish Revolution of the 29th November, 1830, to be justly appreciated, should be viewed as a struggle, not merely to burst asunder the Russian fetters imposed upon a part of ancient Poland by the Treaty of Vienna, but to vin dicate and recover every right and possession of which the Polish Republic bad, in defiance of all ►aw divine and human, been deprived by force or fraud, through a series of iniquitous partitions—as a great and glorious struggle in behalf of the inviolability of the rights of nations, the sanctity of the rights of man—for the triumph of civilization over barbarism—know ledge and science over brute ignorance—pure and enlightened justice over lawless violence and the wild rapine of licensed oppression—of civic equality over caste and privilege—of all the blessings of freedom over the horrors of the most debasing slavery : and that it is entitled to our affectionate remembrance and lasting admiration, as well for the exalted and benevolent objects its real promoters contemplated and its success in volved, as for the generous self-devotion in which it more im mediately originated, and the heroism with which it was Ion; conducted." _ Moved by RicuARD SHELL, Esq., M.P. ; seconded by General EVANS, M. P., " That to our first deep sentiments of grief at the ill success of the glorious efforts of the patriots of Poland in 1830, is now added bitter indignation at the savage policy and brutal spirit of revenge and persecutions which have, up to this hour, marked the career of their country's foes and enslavers ; and that the contrivances of Russia since 1830, to consummate the subjugation of Turkey, and her direct and indirect re sistance to the principle of liberty and self-government, wherever it has reared its head among the people of Europe, amply justify, on the grounds even of policy and expediency, the sorrow which, springing from the higher sources of patrio tism and philanthropy, sas felt by the friends of Poland at the failure of her revolution ; and the sense they entertain of the great value and urgent necessity of her restoration." Moved by THOMAS ATTWOOD, Esq., M. P. ; seconded by EDMUND BEALES, Esq., " That tile Refugees who form what is called the Polish Emigration, and who consist in a great measure of the best patriots and the most valiant defenders of their country, &I not emigrate fur the mere selfish purpose of avoiding the murderous persecution which awaited them at home, but with the view of protesting against the invasion of Poland, and vindicating her rights before Europe and the world, and with the hope of en listing the active sympathies of all free nations in their favour, and paving a way for the future delivery of their country from the heavy yoke beneath which she now lies crushed ; that they have, therefore, exalted claims to be considered and treated as a political body, the lawful representatives of their country, and advocates of her cause before the tribunal of mankind ; and that such of them as have found a shelter on these hospitable shores, are entitled to that earnest and active political support from the free and generous English nation, without which every demonstration of sympathy for Poland will be as useless to her as inglorious to Great Britain." [We shall give the Conclusion of the Meeting in our Second Edition.] LITERATURE. THE HISTORY OF PARTY. VoL. 111. Br GEOI;GE WINGROVE COOKE, Esq., Barrister-at-Law. _London, John Macrone, 1837. Mr. Winzrove Cooke has concluded his " History of the Whig and Tory Factions, from their rise, in the reign of Charles 11., to the passing of the Re form Bill"---a work which, though far from perfect, forms, nevertheless, an invaluable addition to the li terature of this country. The sins of the author are principally those of omission ; and as they are more important than numerous we shall state them at on ce . In the first place all reference to the developement and progress of party opinions, and party combinations in Scotland and Ireland—an important part in a com plete history of faction—is entirely omitted. The great object of Mr. Cooke's solicitude—the barometer by which he tests the gravity of the political at mosphere at every given period in our historyis the House of Commons. He frequently speaks of the people in conjunction with the Whigs—he occasionally notices their growing power and intelligence—but he does not particularize, as he ought to have done, their various crude and often unsuccessful attempts t-.) influence the exercise of that dominion which they now exercise so judiciously, and claim so authoritatively, as their own. We admit at once the great difficulty of accomplishing such a task ; nevertheless, we cannot forget that on the part of the learned author it was one self-imposed. On the other hand the work has. many Peculiar excellencies to recommend it, and emanating, as it avowedly does, from an able Whig Lawyer, details the struggles of the Whig and Tory factions with praiseworthy impartiality. Brief, but luminous, biographical notices of all the leading political chiefs precede the accounts of their career in Parliament ; and no opportunity is omitted of pointing out the occasions upon which they either swerved from their party or their principles. With the triumph of the Reform Bill in 1832 Mr. Cooke concludes his History of- Party"—expressing his regret before- hand, that the nature of the work so imperatively re quired that it should be brought down to so recent a period. " Contemporary History" he well observes, " can seldom be correct, and can never be satisfactory. Each person sees only one phase of the events of his time, and the great majority of readers will think that the events they remember are slighted if they are di minished, until they harmonize with the general scale of the historical picture." But notwithstanding the admitted correctness of this passage, we know of no contemporary historical writer who stanch in less need of public indulgence upon any of these points than Mr. Cooke. Where he fails to do justice to the opinions and the zeal of any party, the objects of his error have only to look into his work to be satisfied that such omission or oversight was very far from being intentional. His style is clear and elegant, rather than condensed and forcible ; and the moderation of his opinions has enabled him to content himself with the bare narration of many events upon which an ardent partizan would have hazarded pages of vituperative declamation. We marked, in the course of a careful perusal of this volume, several pas sages to be given as extracts, but they so swelled upon us that we reluctantly find ourselves obliged, in the present crowded state of our columns, to reject them • all, with the exception of the following sketch of the educational labours of Lord Brougham. It may be taken as a fair specimen of the work : " One noble means by which the Whigs undertook to re store the democratic principle to the Government, was the general diffusion of education. A party depending for its existence upon popular support could not be too anxious for the enlightenment of the people—they could not be too dili gent in preparing them for the comprehension of the argu ments they addressed to them—i 5 conferring upon them that knowledge which is power. Jo this department laboured Henry Brougham, a man whose prodigious talents and un wearied industry, whose multitudinous acquirements, indomi table perseverance, and enlightened philanthropy, rendered l;:rr. ...:rti; to .:o. 011; apostle of tho Lew creed of univerz.al education, At first he was feebly supported and fiercely op- lent advice given them by the Chairman to -day—that they will be united—and, throwing aside all minor differences, see nothing before them but the independence of their country, and move forward, united and irresistible, at the voice of liberty. Did they not remember the language of the poet and of truth : " Freedom's battle once begun, Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son, Thu' baffled oft, is ever won." The N0b1,3 Lord concluded amidst loud Cheering by moving the first Resolution. Mr. CHARLES BULLER, M. P., then came forward to second the Resolution, but was interrupted by lOud cries of "Mr. Shiel." The CHAIRMAN said that as yet Mr. Shiel had not ar rived. He knew that he was at present afflicted with a se vere fit of the gout, which had attacked him for the last week, but he kne . w if he was able to come he would. Mr. C. DULLER was exceedingly sorry that after the ex pectation of the meeting had been raised that they should hear Mr. Shicl, they should have so bad a substitute as himself. But even if he were disposed to give way to Mr. Shiel they could not hear him because he was not there. It must be grateful to the feelings of those Poles who were present to witness the sympathy the meeting took in their sufferings ; it must be grateful to the Hon. and Learned Chairman, who had all .along been the consistent advocate of their cause—it must be grateful to the Noble Lord who had last addressed them, and to whose efforts he would say it was mainly owing, the sympathies of this nation had been excited. But he must say that there was no one to whom the sight of that meeting was more grateful than to himself; as be was one of those to whose culpable silence much of the apathy of the Parliament on this subject might be ascribed. Ile was most glad to find that an opportunity would be given to all those who had been equally negligent to make amends for their past misconduct.—( Hear, hear.) It was of great importance that meetings of that nature should be held in every civilized country, to express the feelings of the civilized world respecting the wrongs of Poland. He (Mr. B.) cared not for the disputes which had been raised about the political institutions of Poland, nor whether' their aristocracy was as liberal as it should be, or anarchy sometimes dis graced their freedom. Ile did not enter into these questions of government, for there was one' considera tion which alone was. sufficient to interest every man of whatever political opinions. It was this—that the cause of Poland was in truth the cause of civilized man against the savage.—( Hear, hear, hear.) They all saw with what a spirit the tyrant of Russia was obliged to rule the natives of Poland. No human tyranny that ever was exer cised could be compared with the atrocities which had been detailed to the meeting by the previous speakers—( Cri...s of Hear, hear,")—and he (Mr. B.) did grieve for human nature, and for the nineteenth century, that such outrages were unreveut,,Ted.—(Cheers.) He repeated that lie thought it most important that meetings such as that should be held. They testified to the Poles the sympathy of the British public and of whatever little avail that sympathy might be, it was still something to the poor exiles.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") For the expression of such sympathy could not fail to cheer them in their hopes of future restoration and redress. There'was still another reason fcr which such meet ,igs were most important on this anniversary.—( hear, and loud cheering.) They kept in the memory of the ritish public the outrages that had been perpetrated, and the heroism and merits of the gallant people upon whom they had been committed, so that when the proper time came they might be prepared to act as well as to speak.—( Great cheering.) Freedom could not be kept down for ever, and no man ever saw nationality completely destroyed by any tyrant. The next time when a war took place in Europe, Poland would would have a chance.—(Loud cheers.) He trusted that all present in that room would live to witness the day when a quarrel would arise, as quarrels, fortu tunately for civilization, do now and then arise amongst the tyrants—( Cheers, and a laugh)—when England, having a good and popular Government, would speak the language of our forefathers to the tyrants of the Continent, that whilst England is free, no part of Europe shall be enslaved. Mr. N. F. ZABA, a Pole, then addressed the meeting. He could not but be proud at seeing so great and so respectable a meeting of Englishmen met for the purpose of commemorating the great and glorious struggle which bad been commenced on the 29th Nov. 1830, for the purpose of attempting to regain her lost liberties. That day was the starlight of Poland, and however cold it might appear now—that meeting was such a glimpse of glorious light as would keep burning until it burst out into the blaze of full daylight. That great meeting would strike fear into the heart of the tyrant, if he had a heart.—_ ( Loud cheers.) It called upon the Poles to ponder upon and to imitate the glorious example set before them by the Revolution of 1830, when the Poles made a glorious attempt for the recovery of their outraged rights. The mind shrunk with horror at the recital of the outrages which were daily inflicted upon his unhappy Country by the great Ty rant Czar,—outrages which were attempted to be pal liated by the cringing flatterers of the Tyrant --(Hear, hear, hear.) Many of those flaterers praised the Tyrant, for what was called his clemency. His elem-rncy l What a mockery of words. A clemency which exalted itself upon the ruins ofa country—( Cheers)—clemency which bestowed chains for ornament—( Cheers)—an infernal clemency, which gave birth to such calamities.—( Cheers.) Did not the fate cf Pc land give a warning to other civilized countries of what they were to expect from the ambition of the tyrant Czar. Let us inquire into the subject without partiality. The ques tions to which I wish to direct your attention are—what he eefits,would have been conferred on Europe had Poland been allowed to continue as an independent State? What are the consequences of the influence of Russia? and what are the press pects of the people now groaning under her oppression ? These propositions, though they offer a vast field for thought, may be condensed into a statement of facts which speak for themselves. History skews that Poland, from the earliest times, nurtured within her bosom the strongest attachment to liberty.—( Cheers ) After she merged from her rude politi cal state of existence at the end of the fourteenth century, and on the 15th and 16th centuries her Diet, that is, her Parliament was constituted on the purest principles of lihert:C.—( Cheers. Her Constitution, promulgated in 1791, differed little from the British Constitution ; on the one band, every person, whether foreigner or native, who set his foot - on the territory was declared free.—(Cheers.) And, on the other hand, extraordinary Diets were to be frequently called, to improve the social system.—( Great cheering. ) In the cause of their unhappy country the people of Poland had bled in 1792 ; again, in 1795 and in 1796, the Polish legions followed the victories of Buonaparte in the hope of regaining their rights and liberties. Its late unhappy fortunes were known to all, and such was the history of the career of the Poles, and no one could deny taking even the most unfavourable view of its regeneration, that Poland contained ithin itself the seeds of improvement, and the means of esta blishing its Government on the independent principles of liberty and justice.--( Cheers. ) Had that change been effected which is likely to conduce so much to th-e prosperity of Poland, it would have been a throne on the sides of the neighbouring despots, and as soon as Poland showed her de termination to go through reforms, promising much for the good of the people, the tyrants entered into a secret league to prevent it, arid Russia, Austria, and Prussia combined thrice rent asunder that unhappy land. The former still exercised an unhallowed controul and dominion over it at which hu manity shuddered and mourned. He would now turn to the prospects which Russia now offered .to Poland. It was known that the very law which recognized the people to be tree and independent beings had been abrogated. Such were the prospects which that people had under the Government of Russia. Such were the humiliations which Russia introduced into the social state of Europe. He would ask them, was man ordained to toil with the beasts of the field?—was he ordained to be yoked to their side with fettered limbs? No, forbid it justice, forbid it independence. Better to suffer at the shrine of freedom than to sleep in security and chains. lie would not take up their time by the enumeration of the cruelties inflicted by the Russians on his unfortunate country men, for they had been feelingly described by the gentleman who preceded him. He would content himself with ex pressing a hope that the spirit which he saw displayed by the assemblage before him, would infuse itself into other nations, and that with the aid of the press, that powerful or gan, which had already given them such efficient assistance, they would be speedily restored to the enjoyment of their rights. M. Zaba concluded amidst great applause. Colonel TatotirsoN then presented himself on the platform, and was received with loud cheers. He stood there for Po land. He knew of no prospect he could hold out to them except it was on that great inference from the pages of hu man history that there was an influence, a power of provision, a God who had decreed there should ever be a tendency in human actions to bring punishment on the guilty.—(Loud cheers.) There was a time when much might have been done towards liberating Europe from the fear of that despotism which now hung over it.—(Loud cheering.) France might have done much, but he would now say, let them strive to make themselves a citadel of European free dom, and be ready to do their part whenever that moment should come.—(Cheers.) Were there no internal reasons why they should not feel en interest in Poland? Was there no party in England who looked to Russia? There were many present opposed to him in politics, but who felt as he did in regard to Poland, and therefore he did not wish to give offence to them; but be must say there was a party in this country that did avowedly look to Russia for its aid. —( Cheers.) He would sav—trust not in princes, but still less in Princes' Ministers.—(Cheers.) They might live to hear them say they always considered the preponderance of Russia as necessary to the stability of this kingdom ; but they must look to themselves, and to their allies, the people, every where. Wait a little—the game was already on foot, and they would go on pressing the popular feeling too closely, till at last it wouldstart into a flame. What would they do when France should be drawn into resistance. Germany was going on slowly but surely, and ilanouer—why not fianoxer ? why might not Hanover do ?_(Tremendous cheering.) It did not matter how small the plan might be. I ( Laughter and cheers.) Italy, perhaps, might be the first, and Italy would give employment (as we understood) to a large arm y . —( Hear.) When the time came the Batavians would be driven back to their frightful deserts.--( Loud cheers.) Amidst all the evils with which the wars of Bonaparte had been attended, there had sprung from them one blessing, for which the people of the West of Europe had to be grateful ; for they bad been taught to drive back the barbarians of the East.—(Hear.) In tht one thing (as we understood) there was hope for the majority, and despair for the oppressors.—( Cheers.) Let them (the meeting) go forward then with the hope that the time would come when the wrongs of Poland and of suffering Europe would be redressed, and they might have the pride of saying that they were amongst the agents.---( Cheers.) Mr. ScuonFiEno, M. P., rose to second the motion which lie had. much pleasure in doing. He would not detain them long, because he could add little to what had !van already better said 'oi l otli3rs. fc the of Mr. Shell, who was not only an eloquent, but a staunch posed. Many Whigs thought his views chimerical—all Tories thought he was demoralizing the people. Still he pressed on, and light remained upon the track he had trod. Alarmed at his progress, the Tories (although such arguments are still heard in private) no longer talked publicly of the danger of education to the people. They attempted to rival the course they could not stop. The National Society sprang into being —schools multiplied, and education spread. But while the Tories were obliged to follow the movement, they execrated its author. His design had been to spread education among every class, among the followers of every creed ; to treat it as an affair utterly distinct from religion, and to remove it from the custody of those who had carefully confined it within the pale of the Church. Their maxim had always appeared to be, Ignorance or orthodoxy ;' his was, Universal educa tion.' Mr. Brougham objected to the admixture of religion in a national plan of education, because it must render the operation of that plan partial instead of universal. lie would teach the children of the poor to reed and write, and leave their religious instruction to their parents : he would teach men to think and reason, hut leave to them the choice of sub jects upon which they should exercise their powers. The To ries have always looked upon education as an instrument of proselytism in the hands of the establishment. They thought the Church in danger from the new theories of education, and instituted schools in vahich it was rendered subservient to the dissemination of the doctrines of the Church of England. Thus, from the opposition of the parties arose an important public good ; and while the Edinburgh and Quarterly Re views, the organs of their several parties, were exchanging the epithets bigot' and infidel,' the general cause was ad vancing, and the public attentien was fixed upon the subject. " But the labourers were still far from equal to the extent of the vineyard. In 1816 the metropolis alone contained 120,000 children destitute of the means of education_a promising mass of ignorance to act as an incubus upon the advance of civili zation among their contemporaries I Brougham now obtained a Parliamentary Committee, which laid open instances of entire misappropriation and bold embezzlement of educational funds, such as no man could have imagined who had heard the declamation of the Tories upon the sacredness of such insti tutions, and upon their vital importance to the prosperity of the Church. He carried through, against every opposition, a Bill for a Commission of Inquiry into the abuses of Public Charities ; but his discoveries had already been too embar rassing, and the Minister preferred the odium of excluding him from the Commission he had originated, to the exposures which must infallibly follow his appointment. Still, however, the subject never slumbered in Brougham's active mind ; through the press from his place in Parliament; through the Edinburgh Review, by popular and widely-read pamphlets, the object was kept before the country. Without abandoning fir a moment the education of children, he comprised in his endeavours the improvement of adults ; he resuscitated an idea, which owed its origin to Dr. Birkbeck so long ago as the year 1800, of forming classes of labouring mechanics, and lecturing them in the rudiments of natural philosophy and mathematics. Societies, under the title of Mechanics' Insti tutes,' were formed, libraries were collected, laboratories pro cured, professors appointed, and cheap publications on scien tific subjects were publed, and found extensive sale. The Tories saw the cleerige with alarm ; and their oracles, unable openly to denounce the abandonment of sensual for mental enjoyment, turned their violence upon the author of the change. Party abuse, unless it degenerates to private calumny, in it. injures any m an . B roug h am a pp eare d to luxuriate !t. His powers of ready eloquence, fierce invective, and withering sar casm, left him nothing to f e ar f r om an opponent. When the barking of the pack which has so long surrounded him is for. gotten, and a future generation comes to analyse and com pare the powers of mind of those who have preceded them, Brougham will probably be placed at the head of contempo rary statesmen ; he will certainly be regarded with admira tion, as the leader of the little band of pioneers who first entered the forest, and cleared a space through which the sunbeams, that had hitherto rested upon the topmost branches, descended to dissipate the darkness that reigned below. " While Brougham was teaching his countrymen to reason, Mr. Hume was diligently supplying them data. The neoessity of covering corruption and concealing extravagance had led to a designed confusion of the national accounts. Items of ex penditure could never be obtained, totals only were brought forward, and these were communicative of little more than the extent of the Minister's demand. Perhaps there was not an other man in England, except Mr. Hume, who could have reduced these accounts to an intelligible state. Gifted with no extraordinary talent, although a shrewd and sensible speaker yet by no means an orator, he discovered nevertheless an im perturbable perseverance, an indifference to defeat, a disre gard, appearing like unconsciousness, of the invective by 'which he was assailed, and of the wit by which he was ridi culed. Equally undisturbed by the jeers of Canning, the indignation of Huskisson, and the majorities of Castlereagh, he was nightly at his post, calling for explanations, and de manding returns. Whenever his importunity was success ful—to perseverance like his, all things are possible—and he was admitted to inspect the details of a suspicious item, he almost invariably discovered the grub, around which the mysterious web had been woven, in the shape of a sinecure, a pension, or something equally desirous of concealment ; and picking it out and holding it up to the House of Commons he passed on to the a pext. At first the House laughed, and the public echoed the laugh ; but at length the aff,tir became serious, the examples became nume rous—an impression was made—the agriculturist, who felt present distress were inclined to listen to tales of extraval gance—in the debate upon Mr. Curwen's motion for a rcpea of the agricultural horse-tax, Mr. Hume's laborious exertions became the subject of praise instead of ridicule, and Castle reagh, after a vehement opposition to the motion, was left in a minority. These successes afterwards became frequent, Cas tlereaeh was beaten upon many minor subjects of economical reforms, and he at last was compelled to form a compact with Mr. Hume, by which he granted him all the returns be imme diately wanted." LIVE AND LET LIVE. BY MISS SEDOWICK. London, John Green, 1837. This is a reprint of a Tale published in America, from the pen of a most popular female author of the New World, Miss Sedgwick. Its object is to im prove the moral condition of the middling and lower classes, by giving them, through the medium of a fic titious narrative, correct notions of their relative social duties. We especially recommend it to the admirers of Miss Martineau's Tales, to the most popular of which it bears a. strong resemblance. There are few housekeepers who may not profit largely by its atten , tive perusal. THE SQUIRE.—IN 3 VOLS. BY THE AUTHOR OF 44 THE HEIRESS," 6-C. London, Bentley, 1837. . . This novel is more likely to become a favourite in the nursery than in circles where a maturer judgment is exercised upon the merits of works of fiction. It abounds in the wonderful and the improbable—its pages are spiced with startling details of midnight love flights, jealousy, and murder. An old lady, long thought dead, re-appears, on the stage of mortality when her presence is most wanted—a lost brother is suddenly foth - id to rescue his only sister from disho. nour—and a venerable gentleman, by no means re markable for the sweetness of his temper, is relieved from a load of remorse, by discovering that a shot which he fired many years before, with the most fell intent, had wounded nothing but his own peace of mind. We are sorry for the author's sake that the incidents selected were not more natural, as we find in these volumes several passages of a highly redeeming character. The time when a novelist might have taken the " Castle of Otranto," the " Mysteries of Udolpho," or the " Children of the Abbey " as a model of fictitious narrative, is de parted for ever. This is a truism with which the author of the " Squire " manifests either a non-ac quaintance or a disregard. LETTERS FROM AN ABSENT GODFATHER. BY TILT lbw. J. E. RIDDLE,, London, Longman and Co., 1837. We cannot too strongly recommend this little work to all parents, desirous .of bringing up their children in the religious principles of the Established Church. While care is taken to avoid all reference to the tenets of Dissenting religious communities, the highest eccle siastical authorities are quoted to fix and define the doctrines of the Church of England, upon all the lead ing points of faith and observance taught and main tamed in th e Ch urc h ca t ec hi sm. Th e st yl e is simple, the sentiments pure, and the design and execution of the work w or thy o f a devout minister of the Gospel of Christ. HINTS TO MOTHERS. Br THOMAS BULL, M.D. London, Longman and Co., 1837. This little work is addressed to married ladies on the management of their health during the period of pregnancy, by a medical gentleman of undoubted ex perience. It appears to us to be well calculated to effect the benevolent object designed by the author. WILSON'S TALES OF THE BORDERS. VoL. Wilson, Berwick, 1337. We are glad to find that this miscellaneous collec tion of Border legends andlraditions is growing in fa vour with the public, for it deserves to become popular, being written in a bold, easy, and vigorous style, some thing after the manner of Hogg's " Winter Evening Tales." The late J. Mackie Wilson is the author — an intelligent and industrious man, who spared no pains in collecting materials for his Border narratives. The present work is pOilisliecl for the benefit of his widow and children. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen gave audiences to the Earl of Mulgrave, the Earl of Albemarle, Viscount Melbourne, and Lord Hill, yes terday, at the new palace. Her Majesty had a dinner party last evening. The com pany included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke and Duchess of Somerset, the Duke -and Duchess of Sutherland, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl and Countess of Charlemont, Viscount Duncannon, Lord Brougham, Earl and Countess of Albe marle, the Duke of Argyle, Marquis of Conyngham, Lord Byron, Ho Colonel Cavendish, Sir F. Stovini and Colonel Wemyss. The band of the Scots Fusileer Guards attended, and per formed, during the evening a variety of favourite pieces. The Duchess of Gloucester and a select party dined with the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, on Monday, at Cam bridge House. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duke of Sussex. yes terday, at Kensington Palace; and the Duchess of Gloucester, at Gloucester House. - The Earl of Albemarle and the Hon. Colonel Cavendish had an interview yesterday in Downing-street with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. Sir Richard Philipps, Capt. Hamilton Earle, R. A., and Mr. Roebuck had interviews with Viscount Melbourne yester day in Downing-street. The Bishop of London had an interview with the Chan. cellor of the Exchequer yesterday in Downing-street. Messrs. Colville, Irving, and Patrick Stewart had an inter view with Lord Glenelg yesterday at the Colonial-office. Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, transacted busi ness yesterday at the Foreign-office. Capt. Melville Grindlay had an interview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday, to present a letter from the Nuwab of Noorshedabad. Mr. Roebuck transacted business yesterday at the Colonial office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Cotricil had their firs meeting this season, yesterday, in the Council Chamber. T' n ct Lords present were—Lord Brougham, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr. Justice Bosanquet, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Chief Judge in Bankruptcy. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Court was occupied the whole of the day in an appeal from the Arches' Court, " Sherwood v. Ray," which was re-argued on certain points, Mr. Austin being heard for the appellant, and Sir William Follett for the respondent. Their Lordships ad journed without giving judgment. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Lord Middleton, in Montagu-street, from his seat, Walton Hall ; Count d'Orsay, at Lower Kensington Gore, from Mr. Maxse's seat, Woolbedring, Sussex Lord Sandon, in Gros venor-street, from Staffordshire ; Lord Grimston, in Gros venor-square, from a tour ; Sir William Molesworth, Bart., M. P., from his seat Pencarrow, Cornwall ; Mr. Holland, M. P., in Pall-mall, from St. Leonard's-on- Sea ; Lord and Lady Bolton, at Thomas's Hotel, from Hackwood Palk, Ba singstoke, Hants; Lord Brougham and Vaux, in Berkeley square, from Hastings; Mr. Hagart, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street ; the Marquis of Bute, at Camden-hill, from Cardiff Castle; the Marquis of Anglesea, in Burlington street, from Paris ; Lord Beresford, from Tunbridge Wells; Lord Amherst, in Grosvenor -street, from a tour of visits in Derbyshire and Staffordshire; Lady Mary Stopford, in Park street, Grosvenor-square ; Lord Munster, in Belgrave-street, from Petwortb, Sussex ; Lord Donoughmore, at the Pulteney Hotel, from his seat Knocklofty, Tipperary; Lord Encombe, in Hamilton-place, from Shirely House, Croydon; Lord Stanley, from East Sheen, Surrey ; Admiral Sir Josiah Row ley, at Stevens Hotel, from a tour ; Mr. Rowley, at ditto, from ditto ; Lord Glenlyon, in St. James's-street, from Blair Athol, Perthshire; Lord and Lady Southampton, in Carlton-gardens, from the seat of the Hon. Mrs. Fitzroy, near Swaffham, Nor folk ; Lord Onslow, from Crawley. Surrey. DEPARTURES. Prince and Princess Gagarin, from Gould's Hotel, for the 'Continent; Lady Huntingtower and the Hon. Miss Tolle mache, for Dover ; Sir John and Lady Huntingdon Honey wood, for ditto ; the Marchioness of Lansdowne, from Berke ley square, for ditto ; Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, for the seat of the Duke of Grafton, Euston Hall ; Mr. Algernon Wodebouse, for Lady Mary Hussey's seat, Hillingdon ; Sir Alexander and Lady Ramsay, for Boulogne-sur-mer ; Major- Gen. Sir James Caldwell, for Paris ; the Earl of Hopetoun, from Steven's Hotel, Bond-street, for Leith. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Last night Joan of Arc, " a grand, historical, legendar y romance," as the bills styled it, was produced at this theatre, with plot dramatic and action almost wholly spectacular. t opens with a scene in Argues, or Arc, her native village, n which the cruelties of war are brought home to her own family, and here also she saves the life of Sir Lionel, an English knight, and entertains a lively interest for him in her heart. Next, urged by a sacred impulse to save her country, she ap pears in a ruined gothic church, and at the feet of her patroness saint has visions of her destiny ; she at the same time binds herself to renounce all earthly attachments for the one great purpose. Thence she proceeds to her introduction to King Charles, has her divine mission recognised, and, armed with her sacred sword, hurries off. at the head of her re-inspi, ited country men, to save Orleans. Then follows the coronation of the King, and in the cathedral she once more saves the life of Sir Lionel from an infuriated mob. Meanwhile Queen Isabel of England conspires against her with sp-cial malignity, and through the aid of an &A nizard, Colarabert, makes interest with the fiend of fiends to inveigle her into a peccadillo, and, at the same time, into the hands of her foes. And so it turns out. Poor Joan, in surrepititiously giving her lover, Sir Lionel, his liberty, also commits the sad indiscretion, having no other weapon at hand, of presenting him with the sacred sword which was wont to flame in the front of French battle. Having thus spared an enemy through love, and given up the heaven-sent weapon, her compact with the saints is all over, and her fate sealed. Accordingly, in the hope of surprising the English lines, she allows herself to be led by the devil in person, disguised as a black knight, into an ambush, and sud denly she finds herself surrounded in a very wild and appro priate spot, with precisely such a heather-born host as obeyed the whistle of Rhodzrie Dhu. From thence to a dungeon, and thence to a stake, is the remainder of her journey. Lionel. cannot save her, but charitably furnishes her with " a bare bodkin" to end her woes in place of fire and smoke, and just as this catastrophe occurs, a victorious assault of her country men 'enables them to witness her death, and vainly tear the faggots from around her. The chief scenes were all striking tableaux managed with happy attention to pictorial effect. The success of the piece was great—it was loudly applauded at various scenes, and ended amid very general cheering, with which also its re-performance was announced. Miss Huddard was the Joan, and exerted herself with her usual zeal and success. COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court was held. THANKS OF THE COURT TO THE LATE LOUD MAYOR. Sir C. S. HUNTER rose to propose a vote of thanks to the late Lord Mayor. for the admirable manner in which the Right Hon. Thomas Kelly had performed the duties of the office. Alderman SCHOLEY seconded the motion. The vote was then unanimously carried, and ordered to be presented to the lste Lord Mayor, and to be published in the usual morning and evening newspapers. TAE POLICE PREPARATIONS FOR THE QUEEN'S RECEPTION. Aldeiman VENABLES brought up the report of the Police Committee as to the arrangements made in the City on the day of her Majesty's visit. The report was unanimously agreed to. GRAND PAINTING OF THE ENTERTAINMENT TO THE QUEEN. Alderman FAREUROTHER introduced the subject of the draw ing which Mr. Dighton, the artist, had been commanded by her Majesty to make of the entertainment of the 9th of November in the Guildhall. The sketch, which was drawn with great sPirit, was then exhibited, and the Lord Mayor and Aldermen put their names down in the list for copies of the engraving. THE NUISANCE OF THE CITY OLD CLOTHES MARKET. The inquest of the ward of Portsoken appeared before the Court, to make a presentment of the old clothes market in Cutler-strcet, which had become a mat intolerable nuisance. Alderman FAREBROTHER suggested that the matter should be referred to the Police Committee. The suggestion was unanimously adopted. SUNDAY DINNERS TO THE JUDGES. Sir C. S. HUNTER was induced to submit a motion to the Court on the subject of the practice of entertaining the Judges in the City on the first Sunday in Trinity Term. Upon the last occasion the dinner had been given at Fishmongers' Hall, and a great offence had been there given to the Sabbath of Almighty God, so that the newspapers alluded to it in terms of reprobation. Sir C. S. Hunter submitted a motion recom mendatory of altering the day of entertaining the Judges. The question was then carried. After some business of no public interest, the Celia adjourned The expenses of the mess of the Officers of the Life and Foot Guards, on duty at St. James's, have been reduced from 6,000/. to 4,0001. per annum ; the mess at St. James's and that at Dublin Castle are supported at the expanse of Government. Miss Burdett Coutts made her entree in fashionable life o; Sunday last in the Parks, in the late Duchess of St. Alban's landau and four grey, with outriders. By the demise of the Earl of Clancarty, his Lord ship's diplomatic pension of 1,7861. per annum reverts to the Crown. In the Sheriffs Court yesterday a verdict, with 211. damages, was ' ( - riven awinst Mr. Villiers, his wife having mutilated some v olumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica which had been lent her by a friend, by taking out severe, plates. 1 Last night a highly respectable meeting was held M the Waterloo Rooms, for the purpose of considering the propriety cf calling a public meeting to petition Parliament for the adoption of the Vote by Ballot ; Lieutenant-Colonel Skene in the Chair. The meeting, which was attended by gentlemen of various sections of the Liberal party, unanimously resolved that a requisition should be immediately prepared, requesting the Lord Provest to call the public meeting. — Scotsman. On Friday evening last an important meeting took place at Peterborough, on the subject of the Ballot. About 300 electors assembled.. The resolutions were carried unani mously. A petition founded on them was read, and is to be presented to the House of 'Commons by Sjr R. Heron, sup ported by J. N. Fazakerley, Esq.—Stamford Mercury. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. \VAR-OFFICE, Nov. 23, 1837. fith Regiment of Dragoon Guards—Lieut. E. T. H. Chambers to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hunter, who retires; Cornet J. Conolly to be Lieutenant, by purchase, v ice Chambers ; G. L. Robson, Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Conolly, • 10th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. W. 11. Duff, from the 21st Foot, to, be Lieutenant, vice Huale, who .eithangss, Nov. 23, 21st Regiment of Foot—Lieut. R. Hume, from the 10t1i ) Re giment of Light Dragoons, to be Lieut., vice Duff, who exchanges, Nov. 28. 34th Foot—Lieut. W. E. James to be Adjutant, vice Horton', whose appointment has not taken place. Nov. 20. 36th Foot—Ensign A. Kinloch to be Lieutenant, by 'purchase, vice Primrose, who retires, Nov. 28 ; Ensign and Adjutant N. Hynes to have the rank of Lieutenant, Nov. ; Gentleman Cadet R. H. Carew, from the Royal Military Celle; e, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Kinloch, Nov. 28. 37th Foot— Lieutenant J. Harvey to be Captain, without pur chase, vice Mas;y, deceased; Ensign 11. R. Dreden to be Licate nant, vice Harvey, Oct. 9 ; Serjeant-.Major R. Hamilton to be Ensign, vice Breden, Nov. 28. 44th Foot—Ensign R. Stuart to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Halfhide, deceased, June 11 ; Ensign A. H. Ferryman to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hadfield. appointed to the 3d Light Dragoons, June 30; Gentleman Cadet H. Cadets, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Ferryman. Nov. 23. 61st Foot—Captain C. Campbell, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice E. M'Donnell, who exchanges, receiving the difference, . Nov. 28. 62d Foot—Lieutenant V. L. Lewes, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Gwynne, who retires ; Ensign J. Grant, to be Lieut. by pur chase, vice Lewes ; C. Young, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Grant, Nov. 28. 70th Foot—Lieut. O. Darnford to be Captain, Ly purchase, vice - Holyoake, who retires.; Ensign. T. C. Timens to b L ut nant, by purchase, vice Durnford, Nov. 28. 73d Foot—Ensign A. W. Murray to be L'euter an+, by pur chase, vice Green, who retires; J. F. Murray, Gei.t., t, b. , En sign, by purchase, vice Murray, Nov. 28. 76th Foot--Ensign M. S. T. Dennis to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Jones, who retires ; H. W. Dickenson, Gent., to be Ensign, by puschase, vice Dennis, Nov. 23. Ist West India Regiment—Sergeant-Major D. Cantrell to be Quartermaster, vice H. Cornwall, who retires upon half-pay, Nov. 23. UNATTACHED. Lieut. J. N. Frampton,.frojntli;Rifie Brigarle, to bs Captain, without purchase, Nov. 24. BREVET. _ Captain J. Patterson (Fort Major at St. John's, Newfound land) to be Major in the Army, Jan. 10. GARRISONS. _ _ Captain J. Patterson,bn the half-pay of the York Chasseurs, to be Fort Major at St. John's, Newfoundland, vice Griffiths, who resigns, Nov. 28. MEMORANDUM. The half•pay of Cornet C. Weitemever, of the Ist Hussars King's German Legion, has been cancelled from the 28th instant, inclusive, he having accepted a commuted allowance for bis com- mission. The half-pay of Lieutenant Z. Bally, of the 9th`Foet, has been cancelled from the 29th October, inclusive, he having accepted a commuted allowance for his commission. BOARD OF ORDNANCE, Nuv. 27. Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant F. W. Ptttingal to be Second Captain ; Second Lieutenant J. H. Pipon, to be First Lieutenant, vice Pettingal ; Second Lieutenant T. R. Llster, to be First.Liieutenant, Nov. 20. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Somerset. North Somerset Ilegiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.—J. It. A'Court Gray, Gent., to be Lieutenant. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. WILLIAM BEAVER WALKER, victualler, Drury-hue, Middlesex. BANKRUPTS, ROBERT SMITH SHARMAN, groccr, Mincing-lane, Lon don, to surrender Dec. 8, and Jan. 9, at twelve , rt the Court of Bankruptcy. Clark, official assignee, Saint Swithin's-lane, Lom bard-street; Whitelock, Aldermanbury. NATHANIEL fl AMES, bookseller, Piccadilly, Dec. 8, and Jan. 9, at• eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Clark, official assignee, Saint Swithin's-lane ; Thompson and Hewitt, Great James-street, Bedford-row.. . JOHN DARBY, builder, Wilton-mews, Gro;;Yenor-place, Mid dlesex, Dec. 5, and Jan. 9, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee, ; Wingfield, Great Marlborough-street. THOMAS FLOWER, jeweller, Conduit-street, .11fiddlesox. Dec 5, and Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, Official Assignee ; Boyden, Devonshire-street, Queen-square. RICHARD PALFREY, fringe manufacturer, Wardeur-street, Oxford-street, Dec. 6, and Jan. 9, at' twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Meredith, Mecklenburgh-square. THOS. JAMES HOWARD, licensed victualler, Fitzroy square, Dec. 8, at one, ark Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, official Assignee, Ironmonger-lane. Willoughby, Clifford's Inn. JOSEPH SIMPSON, grocer, Bawdeswell, Norfolk, Dec. 8, and Jan. 9, at nine, at the Angel Inn, Maneroft, Norwich. Jay, Toll's-court, Norwich ; Helms, Raymond buildings, Gray's Inn, London. JOSEPH BEARDMORE and JOHN WALKER, lace-ma nufacturers, Waterhouw, Chesterfield, Dec. 11 and Jail. 9, at twelve. at the Castle Inn, Bakewell, Derbyshire. Clarke, Ches terfield ; Chilton, Chancery-lane, London. THOMAS TOWNSEND, innkeeper, Trowbridge, Dec. 5 and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Georgt Inn, Trowbridge. Dax and Bick nell, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; Radney, Trowbridge. WILLIAM COATES, bill-broker, Nicholas-lane, Lombard stree', Dee. 9, and Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee.; Temple and Bonner, Furnival's SAMUEL TRYZER, brick-maker, Tewkesbury, Dec. 12, and Jan. 9, at one, at the Office of Mr. Anthony Sproule, Tewkes bury. Bell, Bedford-row, London ; Sproule, Tewkesbury. RICHARD MACDONALD SHOULS, plumber and glazier, Cullum-street, London, Dec. 9, and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, Aldermanbury, offijal assignee ; Hilleary, Lime-street. CHRISTOPHER SAYERS, money scrivener, Great Yar mouth, Dec. 7, and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Bear Inn, South Town. Holt, Great.Yarmouth ; Swain, Stevens, Maples, Pearse, Hunt, and Stevens, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry, London. BENJAMIN WORSWICK, victualler, Clayton, Lancashire, Dec. 14, and Jan. 9, at ten, at the Commissioner's-rooms, Man chester. Barrett, Ridgway, and Ford, Manchester. WILLIAM PITT, grocer, Kidderminster, Dec. 7, and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Black Horse Inn, Kidderminster. Dangerfield, Lincoln's-inn-Fields, London ; Brinton, Kidderminster. JOHN DAWSON, cloth manufactur r, Leeds, Dec. 7, and Jan.. 9, at eleven, at the Court-house, Leeds. Edwards and Wormald, Great. James-street,Bedford-row, London ; Booth, Leeds. JOHN WOOTTON, coach-maker, Blandford Forum, Dorset shire, Dec. 7. and Jan. 9, at eleven, at the Greyhound Inn, Blandford Forum. Fincham, Blandford Forum ; Stone, Chancery lane, London. . WILLIAM SHEPHARD, manufacturer of biehromate of pot ash, Manchester, Dec. 12, and Jan. 9, at ten, at the Commissioners rooms, Manchester. Bower and Bark, Chancery-lane, London ; Barratt, jun., Manchester. JOHN HOWARTH, druggist, Rochdale, Lancashire, Dec. 11, and Jan. 9, at ten, at the Commissioners'-rooms, i‘lanchester. Johnson, Son, and Weathcrall, Inner Temple, London ; Lord, Rochdale. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Ba3inhall-street. W. Devey, coal merchant, Holland-street, Christchurch, Jan. 15, at twelve—J. Viney, tailor, Cornhill, Dec. 22, at two—W. Jeffrey, dealer in horses, Little Chester-street, Belgrave-square, Dec. 21, at eleven—H. Upward, wine merchant, Great St. Ile len's, Dec. 21, at twelv.e—T. Ha victualler, Bell yard, Grace church-street, Dec. 19, at ten—R. Jewesson, merchant, Fen church-street, Dec. 12, at eleven—T. Clarke, bootmaker, Lamb's- Conduit-street, Dec. 19, at half-past eleven—R. Felton, licensed victualler, Victualling Office-square, Dec. 19, at twelve—J. Saun ders, butcer, Watford, Hertfordshire, Dec. 19, at half-past twelve —T. Maltby, lead merchant, Lawrence Pountney-hill, City, Dec. 19, at one—W. Boosey, miller, Chatham, Kent, Dec.l9, at two— D. Morphew, druggist, Dover, Kent, Dee. 20, at eleven—G. Bal lard and Co. merchants, Montagu-square, Dee. 21, at eleven—E. Bryant, merchant, George-yard, Lombard-street, Dec. 19, at half past one—A. Knox, tailor, Maddox-street, Hanover-square, Dec. 28, at half-past twelve—G. Cocper,-victualler, Barbican, Dec. 20, at half-past one—J. Laughton, linen draper, Lisson-grove, Pad dington, Dec. 20, at two—R. Morgan, linen draper, Southampton row, Russell-square, Dec. 21, at onc—J. Williams, draper, Car diff, Gla.morganshire, Dec. 21, at half-past oue— W. Hayward and C. Heller, carriage builders, Long-acre, Dec. 19, at two—F. W. Harris. general hardware factor, flatten garden, Dcc. 10, at half two—W. Parker, lead merchant, Steel-yard, Upper Thames street, Dec. 21, at twelve—E. Cackett, grocer, Blackheath-road, Deo. 19, at. one—H. Hutchinson, master mariner, Cowper's-court, Cornhill, Dec. 19, at twelve. . . . In the Country. E. Brown and to., woollen manufacturers ' Cullompton, Devon shire, Dec, 20, at eleven, at the Old London Inn, Exeter—T. Roach, linendraper, Manchester, Dec. 22, at twrive, at the Com missioners' Rooms, Manchester--J. Chiesrnau ' victualler, Leeds, Yorkshire, Dec.: 19, at eleven, at the Court House, Leeds—T. Fowler, butcher, Market Decping, Liocolashire, Dec. 19, at eleven, at Standwell's Hotel, Starnfo:d, Lincoleshire—G. Wtight, merchant, Birmingham, Dec. 20, at eleven, at the Plough and Harrow Hotel, Edgbaston, Warwickshire—G. Godlier, woollen draper, Liverpool, Dec. 22, at three, at the Commissioners' Rooms, - Manchester—J. Coombe, ironmonger, Exeter, Dec. 21, at twelve, at the Old London Inn. Exeter-1? , . :Tom's, coda dealer, Bristol, Jan. 12, at twelve, at the Commercial Booms Bristol—J. Hiam, Temple 13alsall, Warwickshire , Dcc. 20, at twelve, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham—J. 'Wright, jun., currier, Stockport, Ches hire, Dec. 21, at three, at the Commissioners' Rooms, \lanehcrter —J. Burrell and H. Crookes, cloth merchants, Huddersfield, Dec. 01, a t twelve, at 'the George Inn, Huddersfielii—J. V. Jose, Poughill, Cornwall, Dec. 28, at ten, at the Bideford Inn, Stratton, Cornwall—T. Howard, tailor, Burnley, Lancashire, Dec. 27, at one, at the Bull Inn, Burnley—W. 11. Sugden, linen draper, Leeds, Dec. 20, at two, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester. CERTIFICATES, l)ic. 12. W. Hale, scrivener, Bath—D. Smith, corn miller, Addle-cum- Eccup ' Yorkshire—G. S. Davenport, wo o llen draper, Chester— J. Hickman-, merchant, Bitterly, Shropshire—P. F. Chitty, scri vener, Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire—T. Ilrufc;rd, coach builder, Bristol. • PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. M: Hewitt and Co., joiners, West Derby, Lancashire-I. Hudson and Co., silk manufacturers, Chapel-en-le-Frith, Derby shire—J. Champ and 'l'. Galley, t,bacco dealers, Bristol—J. Lewis and R. 131muly, corn-millers, Royston, Yorkshire—S. Wrigh , .. and D. Wright, bobbin turners, Leeas—J. Eden and Co., coachmakers. Devizes, Wiltshire—R. Lon hale and Co., hosiers, Regent-street, so far as concerns Jane Lonsdale —N. Rogers and Co., provision merchants, Grey Eagle-street, Spitabields, se far as regards N. Rogers—T. Allinson and H. .Bailey, boatbuilders, Hulow, Lancashire_ f. F. Dickinson and J. Fletcher, general commission agents, London—J. Rathbone and J. Nap"' k' china manufacturers, Tunstall, Staffordshire—N. Bannatvne and(, so., calico printers, Manchester—R. Aspinall and Co.,' Liverpoolo far as regards T. U. Ryder—J. Day and Co., mill owners, Batley Carr, Yorkshire, so far as regards R. ar.bell— Heay nd and J. J. Davis, ironmongers, 13rixton-hill, Surrcy—E. Tomlin Shepherd, cutlers, Leicester — IV. Gouistoane and J. F. Castle, shipwrights, L i ver schoolmasters, Brieol—J. Antier'''a and Co '' pool—J. Wragg and Co., mustard manufacturers, Norton, Lin colnshire, so far as regards J. Wragg. kiCOTCH SEQUI;sI ItATION. R °BERT and JAMES MATTHEW ' merchants, Dundee, D ee land 16, a t two, at Sinclair s Hotel, Dundee. . The Duke of Hamilton and Lord .Lincoln, have authorised their agents in Paris to pay the Prussian and Polish doctors, Koreff and Walowski, the sum of 1,5001., so that legal proceedings will be, it is said, stopped.