The Sun. — London, England, 1837-03-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our Morning Contemporary, the Times, in its eagerness to excite in the Royal mind suspicion of the Duchess of Kent, and the establishment of Kensing- ton, seized with avidity a paragraph from the Tyne Mercury, copied into most of the London papers, connecting the return of Lord Durham with the ma jority of the Princess Victoria in May next. It so happens, however, that the Princess Victoria is not of age till she attains the age of 21, except in, case the Crown should descend to her. The Bill introduced by Lord Lyndhurst, in Nov. 1830, was merely to provide for the administration of the government of the coun try, in case the Crown should descend to her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandrina Victoria, daughter of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, being under the age 9f eighteen years, and for the care and guardianship of her person. On her Royal Highness attaining the age of eighteen she will merely be qualified for the sovereignty in case of the lamented death of his Majesty. She is now merely heiress presumptive, and not with drawn by special legislation from the ordinary law, but in the precise situation of any other British subject. If the Princess of Victoria had been, as Heiress Presumptive, declared major at 18 without reference to the contingency of the death of the So vereign, if his Majesty had subsequently to such de claration had issue, in consequence of which she would have ceased to be Heiress Presumptive, we should in that case have witnessed a still more striking anomaly respecting the law of majority. We cannot imagine that the Times will, attribute any treasonable inten tions to Lord Durham in returning at this time. And yet so long as his Majesty lives and reigns there can be no room for the interference of Lord Durham for years to come. His Majesty is in the enjoyment of excellent health, and the Times has not informed us whether Lord Durham has had the opportunity of consulting any persons gifted with second sight at St. Petersburgh. Though we conceive our Morning Contemporary will hardly venture to throw out malicious insinuations against the Duchess of Kent on the ground of Lord Durham's expected return, yet the animus displayed in the number for Thursday last forbids our indulging the hope that the matter will not find some other vent. The wolf is never with out a pretext for assailing the lamb. " There was an attemptmade a few months back," said the Times, (and an impudent attempt it was) " to obtrude upon the people of England, and on the young Princess herself, some foolish notion that the'choice oT a con sort for her Royal Highness was an affair in which n e ther she herself, nor the King, her Sovereign and uncle, who has stood towards her, both naturally and politically, ever since he came to the throne, in loco pa- Iris, had the least particle of concern ; but that it must lie in the supreme dictation of a Prince and Princess of the foreign house of Saxe Coburg to settle, without her free consent or that of the Vonarch of these realms— Jo impose upon her, the heiress to the British empire, wi.ltever husband it might suit their purposes of fainiiy aggrandisement to provide. We exposed at tfie time the mercenary audacity of this revolting pre tension." We have seldom read a more malicious at tempt to create dissensions between near and dear re latives than the above. That the Duchess of Kent ever entertained a thought of sacrificing her daugh ter's happiness by forcing an improper marriage on her, or that she could be so ill-advised as to imagin; that ,the King would consent to any unsuitable mar riage. no one acquainted with the affectionate re:a-rd of her Royal Highness for her illustrious daughter. and the uniform prudence of her conduct, will for a moment believe. The people of England are too gene rous to witness with any other feelings than those of disgust such ungenerous attempts to sow dissensions between parent and child, and between the King and his sister-in-law. Surely it cannot be the intention of the Tories to countenance an ungenerous system of warfare against the Duchess of Kent and her illustrious daughter, in order to poison the happiness of that fa mily. We are sure, at all events, that his Majesty cannot behold with satisfaction these assassin-like at• tempts.— ,Morning Chronicle. The public is now informed ex cathedrel that the IVliniaters have nearly made up their minds to go no further with the Irish Tithe Bill—and why ? Because " there is no chance that the House of Lords will have yet learned any thing more of wisdom or moderation than they possessed last year ; " and we are asked, " Why introduce a measure yet, which, under pre sent circumstances, is not likely to pass ?" Very well, if these be good and sufficient reasons why the Irish Tithe Bill ought not to be brought forward, are they not equally valid reasons against the perseverance of Ministers in the two other measures which they have designed for engines of subversion to the Church ? If they consider it ridiculous to bring forward a Bill for the settlement of Irish Tithe because it will not pass, is it on the likelihood of passing the Church, rate Bill that they attempt to justify its introduction on the 21st of April ? Or is it the prospect of getting their Irish Municipal Bill passed into a law th a t induces Lord John Russell to propose it for discussion on the 7th ? No—the fact is that they are ashamed of the wretched figure they have made with their cele brated appropriation clause, which was declared last year to be " vital" to their Ministry, as the Munici pal Bill is now. They dread its re-appearance as the signal for an uproar of derision from one end of the empire to the other. It is not the commutation of tithe that they want or wish for, or the settlement of the tithe question, or the relief of the poor clergy from poverty and persecution. It is the cursed spolia tion principle to which they have pledged themselves, and for which they are anxious, as a means of still further unsettling the Church, and it is the affinity which the so-called Municipal Bill, and the anti- Church-rate Bill, bear to that other project, which drives them onwards with both. The Irish Papists will not suffer Lord Melbourne to retreat from the Popish Corporation Bill. The turbulent Dissenters tie him down to the English anti-Church-rate Bill. But if consistency of argument were to do, what it has never yet done—determine the conduct of the Noble Lord and his colleagues—the despair of carry ing any one of those measures ought to act equally .against the introduction of them all.—Times. Lord John Russell appears to have been determined to give eclat to the temporary close of the Parliamen tary Session at Easter. His notice of motion for the Rs4orm of the Criminal Law, on Thursday night, was a brilliant and useful effort which is calculated to illustrate the finale of the first act of the Parliamentary drama. It is calculated to rally round the Whig Ministry the good wishes and applauses of all the best friends of philanthropy and of human improiement. The measure was equally unexpected as it was laud able. His speech, in moving for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish the punishment of death, in certain cases, which bf! stipulated, was admirable in every respect,—both to regards the deliberate and conscien tious spirit of pract;cal research which it displayed,— and as regards the high ground of broad and philoso phical reasoning which it assumed in concurrence with the spirit of the age. Although he does not go so far as we have ourselves gone while recently and repeatedly ,advocating the advantage,expediency, and safety of abo -14. hing the punishment of death, we hail the proposition o f ,r.ord J. Russell,—coming as it does from a high func tionary of the Crown,—as one of the most gratifying earn es.'s of that general Reform of the Criminal Code of the country, to which we and some of the most honourable and eminent of our Contemporaries have devoted steadiest energies, and dearest aspira tions. Lord ..John Russell proposes to act upon the recommendation 01 the Report presented to Parlia ment last Session, by the Comoissioners appointed to inquire into the state of the crimina. l law of the coun try, in which the Commissioners statel that capital punishment ought to be limited to a sma;. l number of offences. His Lordship proposed that it s hould be removed entirely from the crime of forgery, as w - ell as .from burglary and theft under certain stipulated cir e,,unstances. He was not prepared at present to sugges. an entire alteration in the definition of such crimes as In , sho mid leave subjected to the punishment of death—but he stated that he was prepared to introduce a number of . Bill a, specifying the number of crimes which he wanted to rt !move from the description of capital offences. We s t, all!. at once admit that the progressive process which h ip L,,,,rl.lship adopts in carrying out his reform is the most pru ujntial course; although we may be inclined to regret that he does not extend his ultimate views beyond the limitation of punishment of death to a certain num ber of specified offences. Nothing can be more statesmanlike, nothing more philosophical, than the view which his Lordship takes of the crying griev ance which at present besets the frame-work of our criminal code. That grievance may be expressed in a few words—namely, the want of due mitigation and certainty of punishment. His Lordship justly argued, as we have done, that the infliction of the pu nishment of death never was intended to wreak revenge upon the culprit, but to deter from crime by the terror of example. He argued, as we have done, that this object was entirely frustrated by the present uncer tainty of the law, which renders the chance of punish ment for crime so problematical, or so distant, as to produce no deterring effect upon the mind of a practised criminal. The proofs which he adduced in the cases of burglary and theft from the person, from official returns during the last eight years of committals, convictions, and executions, were most curious and most convincing: the proportions of executions to convictions being an ave rage ratio of one to two hundred. What deterring example can there be in a law which places before an offender the distant chance of 199 to 1 in his favour, against being punished for his present gratification ? Lord John Russell might have carried his argument still farther by urging that the law, so far from deterring, by making punishment a mere game of chance, often directly prompts to crime and encourages its perpetra tion. We have said enough on this subject lately, and need not repeat our arguments. We have appealed alternatively to the mitigation of the criminal code in France, Prussia, and the United States. Instead of the punishment being limited to the few cases desig -1 nated by the recommendation of the Commission last year, on which his Lordship bases his present motion —it is our settled conviction that it might be limited advantageously and safely, as in Pennsylvania, to the single instance of murder in the first degree. In that State the system of silent seclusion and solitary con finement is effectually applied to all the other class of *crimes which are generally visited with the extreme punishment of the law. But if it be effectually applied to them, why should it not be applied to murder in the first degree ? It is admitted on all hands that the ex treme penalty is awarded for the purpose of deterring by example, and not for the purpose of inflicting revenge. Now it has been proved over and over again that solitary and silent confinement for life would have more terrors for criminals than the punishment of death ; and there fore would be more effectual for deterring by example. We want to know what reply could be made to the logic of this inference. We see none but one ; namely, a mere superstition founded upon an axiom of Jewish legislation which can have nothing to do with Christian jurisprudence, nor, indeed, with that of any society, except the Theocracy under which the law was passed. We mean the axiom that "he who sheds man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed." But that axiom is superseded by the explicit and ex press prohibition of the second chapter of Genesis,—a prohibition addressed generally to the whole human lace,—not to shed the blood of the murderer. His crime, like parricide in the Roman law, is unrecog nizable, ineffable, acd unpunishable. He is by that - prohibition to be left to the punishment of the pursu ing furies of his own evil conscience; and sevenfold vengeance is denounced upon the head of man inch • vidually (and therefore socially) should lie dare, by takiw , his life, to usurp a privilege of punishment which belongs to his Creator.—Morning Advertiser. Lord John Russell, in moving for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish the punishment of death for those cases of forgery which still remain capital, to be fol lowed by other Bills to remove the capital penalty from various other crimes, has taken occasion to make a long and elaborate statement to prove the necessity of a very extensive revision of the criminal law, with a view to its mitigation. The reasoning upon which the Noble Lord supported his general proposition to limit the punishment of death to a small number of crimes, as compared with the present amount of capital offences, was strong and conclusive. His arguments were strengthened by powerful statistical evidence, showing that laws, with moderate punishments, arc more efficient in repressing crime than laws that are intemperately severe. The House to which the Noble Lords address upon this most important subject was made, was unusually thin, and a Morn ing Journal, oppcsed to Government, that con tains a sharp and sarcastic commentary upon the speech, would have it be supposed that it was the want of ability in the orator himself, and not the want of interest in his subject, that had failed to " draw an audience." During the many years that we have laboured to impress upon the Government and the legislature the necessity of an extensive reform of the criminal law, we have never treated it as a question of party-polemics, and shall not do so now. We have had to reprove the narrow views—to refute the fal lacious reasonings—to combat the prejudices and ex pose the errors of both Whig and Tory Administra tions. We no iv feel bound to say that Lord John Russell treated the question of criminal law with a good deal of ability, although, as we shall presently show, the conclusion at which he arrived upon the consideration of the whole subject, was not one lo gically deduced from the premises, which he had is placed beyond the reach of refutation, by his argu ments and facts. The thinness of the House we attribute partly to the circumstance of a great num ber of Members having left town, as is usual at this season, for the holydays, and partly to a cause more discreditable to the " reformed" House of Commons— viz., that the question not being one of party politics, was not deserving of much senatorial attention. In this respect the enlightened public—all that class of the community, as numerous and persevering as they are intelligent, who are anxious for such a reform of the criminal law as a Christian people can honestly approve and conscientiously execute, have great cause to com plain of the reformed House of Commons. The scent of a job, the command of a Minister, or an opportu nity for the display of political empiricism, will induce the attendance of a considerable proportion of Mem bers, who are apt to shun those questions of social improvement which are really the most useful and be neficial to the community of all the labours of legisla tion. But a day of reckoning will come, and some of those questions that have been shunned in the House, will make their appearance in a shape in which they cannot be eluded at the hustings. The public feeling upon such questions will not allow itself to be without adequate representation in Parliament. We have said that the premises of Lord John Russell were ably reasoned, and supported by convincing evi dence, but that his conclusion was not logically drawn from his premises. His premises went to show not only the uselessness of the punishment of death, as a protection to society against crime, but even the perni cious influence that it has on the interests of justice ; yet the conclusion at which he arrives is, that the punishment so useless and pernicious should be retained not only for high treason and cases partaking of the nature of high treason, but for a variety of crimes affect ing the person, and which are to be all confounded in punishment with actual murder. Does not Lord John Russell see that his arguments for removing the capital punishment from the offence of rick-burning— arguments which we had repeatedly placed before the public, and which at one time drew upon us the re peated, but impotent attacks of a journal known to be an organ of ministerial opinion—does not Lord John Russell see, we ask, that his arguments on the sub ject of rick-lnirning apply with equal force to burglary and robbery, attended with a certain degree of personal violence, but not destructive of life ? Will juries be disposed to devote to the doom of the merciless mur derer the man who having it in his power to silence perhaps the only evidence against him, by adding the greater crime to the less, abstains from destroying life? Does riot Lord John Russell see that he really eri dangers the lives of the inmates of houses, or of tra vellers on the highway, by confounding what are called aggravated cases of robbery and burglary with mur der, because, as it has been well expressed by Dr. Johnson, he " provokes the commission of a greater crime to prevent the detection of a less," the robber and the burglar knowing that if they destroy life they may escape conviction altogether ; and, at the worst, can incur no :greater punishment ? Would it not be a more :rational way of viewing the subject, and a efficient protection to life, that aggravated cases of rob bery and burglary should be punished with the severest cess. degree of secondary punishment, and so a clear distinc- ' tion be drawn by the law, as there is in fact, and in morals, between them and murder ? As to high trea son, it is one thing ; but cases partaking of the nature of high treason, are another. We should like to see the crime of high treason, whether the punishment of death be retained for it or not, somewhat better de fined than it is at present ; but, under all circum stances, we protest against annexing a capital penalty to " cases partaking of the nature of high treason. " By such cases the Noble Lord must mean cases of constructive treason—the scandal and disgrace of our system of political justice. It is monstrous to apply to cases of constructive treason, which the ingenuity of Crown lawyers may stretch to most extensive limits in evil times, the punishment of death, and call it a re form of the Criminal Law. This retention of the worst part of a code of blood we will resist to the ut most, and we feel confident we can resist it with sue ___ _ Again, is it to be tolerated that, under pretence of mitigating the Criminal Law, the Lansdowne Act, al ready only worthy of some country far less civilised than England, shall have a fresh infusion of the spirit of le gislative barbarism poured into it, by the introduction of a sweeping provision to extend the punishment of death to every conceivable offence against the person which may be supposed to constitute an attempt upon life, and in which actual injury is inflicted ? What is the principle of such an enactment ? The confound ing personal injuries with murder, while, in other cases, unnecessary to name, a distinction in punishment exists very properly between the attempt and the actual com mission of the offence. What is the policy of such an enactment ? It is to cause the person who is insti gated by revenge to make sure of his victim—it is to urge him to the completion of the crime, once he has began it, by taking away the locus penitentice. Will juries co-operate with the Government in enforcing such a law, or will they not oftener sympathise with the offender, and will not the inordinate severity of the law thus cause many guilty persons to escape with impu nity, who, under a more reasonable law, would be sure to be visited for the exercise of their violent passions with coercion and punishment? Besides, all vague and indefinite enactments against crime are fitter for a tyrannical Government than a country of free institu tions. The crimes to be punished should always be clearly defined. To leave them vague and obscure is disgraceful to the Legislature and dangerous to the sub ject. We protest against applying the penalty of death to constructive attempts to murder, as well as to con structive acts of treason. We are aware that, in the course which Lord John Russell has taken, he has acted upon the recommendation of the Commissioners appointed to revise the Criminal Law. Like the Home Secretary, the Commissioners have argued well, and laid down premises wholly irreconcileable with the conclusions drawn from those premises, and which are embodied in their recommendations. This monstrous proposition for extending, instead of diminishing, t h e ensanguined provisions of the Lansdowne Act is theirs. They have even gone further than Lord John Russell has thought proper to follow them, in advising that the capital punishment, in all cases in which it shall be retained or newly enacted, shall, if possible, be in variably executed, thus cutting away from the Crown its most beautiful prerogative—the saving attribute of mercy ; but we must defer other remarks upon the Ministerial plan and the recommendation of the Com missioners until a future opportunity. Let us only add that in the case of forgery, that plan for reform ing the law is in perfect unison with the reasoning wi t h which it is introduced, and the facts which give to that reasoning the advantage of experience. Would that we could say the same of the whole Ministerial mea sure, and then the punishment of death would be re served for murder alone.— Morning Herald. When we look back to the scenes which have take s n place on the Cantabrian coast, from the morning of the 10th instant, when the ill-fated Legion, British mercenaries, and their Spanish allies, along with the British Royal Artillery, Marines, and rocket brigade, issued from the gates of that fortress, in confidence of victory, until the evening of the 16th, when they re turned in dismay and disorder, flying before the enemy, whom they had expected to exterminate, we 'Can find no language adequate to express our indignation at the conduct of a Government which has produced events so dishonourable to the British name, and so afflicting to humanity. On three of the seven days which inter vened between the attack upon the Ametng.ina-hill and the retreat from Hernani, viz., the 10th, the 15th, and the 16th, we find that, according to the admission of Christino writers, not less than 3,000 of Gen. Evans's troops have been killed and wounded. The casualties on the 10th being about 1,000 men ; on the 15th, 500 ; and on the 16th, 1,500. We have yet to bear what the Carlists state as to their own loss and that of their enemy. There was some fighting between the 12th and 15th, but it was of a less serious character, and what the loss was we do not recollect to have seen stated. All this bloodshed, terminated as it was by most dis astrous defeat, rests upon the heads of our peace-pro fessing Ministers. It is true Lord Palmerston has been more particularly the " getter up" of the Canta brian tragedy—he is the stage-manager, who has startled the repose of Europe with these spectacles of blood. We observe that one of our Contemporaries calls loudly for his dismissal, asserting that the King, whose flag he has dishonoured, ought not to keep him in his service twenty.four hours longer. We concur, as we believe the majority of the British public do, in that sentiment, but we think it applies to the whole of the Ministry, or to none. However absurd, sense less, and mischievous the political enterprises and military speculations of Lord Palmerston have been, they have received the full assent and concurrence of his equally sapient and consistent colleagues. Why, then, should he be selected for punishment, and his accomplices escape with impunity ? As long, as the King pleases to keep any of the present Minis try about him, we trust he will .keep all. Their criminality is common, and their common downfall will be accelerated by avoiding all partial change in the composition of the Cabinet. Not one of those Ministers who have assisted to bring upon England the indelible disgrace of the iniquitous non-interven tion war, in addition to the dishonour of the British flag in Portugal and the east, should be allowed to remain in the Councils of the King, if Lord Palmer ston were dismissed for lowering the foreign policy of England into its present depth of humiliation. Be sides, it is only right that as long as we have a so called Whig Ministry, the " juvenile Whig" should be allowed to bear the responsibility of his own foreign policy—" bad now appears, but worse remains be hind." Lord Palmerston's policy has not yet been worked out in all its absurd and injurious conse quences. Why should any one be compelled to work out that policy but himself ? Unless our foreig n policy be changed altogether, we should be much disappointed if the author of our present system were not allowed to bring it to its consumma tion. Shall he be allowed to escape from the- case of the Vixen into the irresponsible security of private life ? Shall he be allowed to th row ow upon the shoulders of any other man the „ of the two unfortunate Queens of the Peninsula, who have both had a loan of the " royal marines" to guard their interest, and have both been dragged captives by victorious mobs—the victims of a false confidence in British assurances of support ? Shall any but the to the great protocolist himself b e re quested once more " settle" the Belgico-Dutch question, which by years of diplomacy,he brought into a state of " most admired confusion ?" Really, unles s i the o the political of thosealexistengcereaotf the Whigs be cut short altog ether, we do not see w hy any other artist should fill u) plans of foreign policy which this distinguished master of the diplomatic art has sketched. Let him finish his work, by all means, that the offspring of his peculiar genius may have no disputed parentage. But turning for a moment from the great author of the non-inter vention war to the chosen champion for ca r rying ryisnc its peaceful principle into executio n with. fire and sword, let us ask how its happens that the ( cause, which General Evans informed the electors of Westminster several months ago, was " irretrievably and hopelessly ruined," has been strong enough to drive into disgraceful rout his 12,000 or 13,000 men before Hernani, with the co-operating Palmerstonian force of the royal marines, royal artillery, and rocket brigade ? Let those most arrant simpletons or most shuffling tricksters, who take upon themselves to save the body of Westminster electors the trouble of thinking for themselves, take General Evans's letter in their hands, and ask him that question. Why should we take credit to ourselves for having warned the Government and the public all along of the disgrace and disasters that would follow from the wanton and impertinent in terference of England in the internal concerns of Spain ? It required only common sense to under stand the false position in which our Government placed itself by such interference, and independence of opinion, to warn the Government and the nation of the consequences. Our warning, if attended to, would have prevented much unavailing slaughter—much waste of British treasure, and deep dishonour to the character and military reputation of England.— Morning Herald. We are very glad to learn that Sir James Graham intends to call the attention of the House of Com mons to the principle of the Registration of Voters Bill before it is allowed to go into Committee. It is difficult, indeed, to say what is to be understood by the " principle" of a measure which, of course, is but a series of enactments upon various points of de tail. Many however, of these particular enactments are of sufficiently prominent importance to claim a more deliberate consideration than the conversational dis cussions of the House in Committee would give to them ; and we presume that Sir James Graham, with this view, intends, upon the motion for the Speaker's leaving the chair, to take a comprehensive view of the several clauses to which we allude. No man is better qualified to deal with a subj ect of this nature, which requires much patient industry, much practical know ledge, a good deal of discernment, and not a little courage ; for by the timidity or by the carelessness of the Conservatives, stupid prejudices and preposses sions have been suffered to grow up upon all matters connected with the registration of voters, which render sound legislation upon it now extremely difficult. It is hard to overrate the importance of the ques tions involved. The Reform Act may (we assume it for the sake of argument) have been a necessary and a salutary measure, in so far as its extension and its curtailment of the elective franchise are in their turns concerned. But the machinery by which its provisions are to be carried into effect must be per fected before its operation can approach to perfection. It is not enough to have determined in what hands the vote shall be vested. There must be a process for claiming the vote, an opportunity for proving the vote, and a facility for giving the vote. If in any of these stages the machinery introduced should be defective, an election will still present anomaly instead of regu larity, error instead of certainty, and corruption instead of purity. We shall notice successively the different features of the proposed Bill to which, we suppose, Sir James Graham's attention will be directed ; but, in the first place, let us briefly recal to the recollection of the Conservative Members of the House of Com mons the steps previously taken by Parliament for the amendment of the Reform Act in this respect. In the observation of the gradual changes by which the Registration of Voters Bill assumed its present hue and shape, we cannot help thinking that they will see cause for a more diligent attention to its pro gress in the present Session that they seemed inclined to apply to it in the last. In 1835 the House of Commons appointed a Select Committee, to inquire into the defects alleged to exist in the system of the registration. That Committee laboriously investigated every part of the subject, and agreed to certain recom inendations, upon which, we believe, little difference of opinion was exhibited. In 1836 a Bill was intro duced into the House of Commons, founded upon the recommendations of the Committee. It was intro duced by the At,,orney-General, as the legal adviser of the Government ; and it contained, as might have been expected, after the diligent researches of a well selected Committee, little that was objectionable, and many provisions of great and obvious utility. If the Bill had been left in this state it would probably have become law with little or no opposition, and would have been distinguished as nearly the only measure of the Melbourne Cabinet calculated simply for the production of practical benefit. The Rp.dicals, how ever, and the Dissenters saw betimes that - in so lengthy a statute there was room for plenty of jug gle and plenty of job ; and they proceeded to sug gest and recommend to the plastic judgment of his Majesty's Attorney-General a number of alterations which Sir John Campbell, " nothing loath," approved and adopted. Of these alterations some had never been proposed in the Committee ; some, having been proposed there, had been almost unanimously rejected ; some were grossly erroneous in their principle ; some were evidently pernicious in their effect. The result of the whole was that Sir John Campbell's amended Bill no more resembled Sir John Campbell's original Bill than Sir John Campbell's ultra-Radicalism when he last canvassed Edinburgh resembled Sir John Campbell's ultra-Toryism when he first can vassed Stafford. The Bill, thus transformed, still called by courtesy the Bill of the Government, but in fact the Bill of IVIr. Warburton, the Bill of Mr. Hume, the Bill of Mr. Buller, went up to the House of Lords. Their Lordships removed from it the interpo lations of the Movement, and returned it to the House of Commons in nearly the form in which it had been first introduced there—the Bill which was recommended by the Select Committee, which was prepared by the Government, which was brought in by the Attorney- General. It-suited the petty and dishonest malignity of the Cabinet to represent the Lords as obstructing the course of practical improvement ; and, therefore, the Bill for the Registration of Voters was abandoned by the Ministers tv/so had framed it ; because the Lords had restored it to that form in which, by those very Ministers, it had been originally framed. In the Bill now before the House of Commons the Radi cal legerdemain of last Session, with some slight va riations, is again attempted. Once more let us ex press our gratification that Sir James Graham has un dertaken the task of exposing it, before its knavery is obscured by the mass of uninteresting and unimportant talk with which a Committee of the whole House con trives for so many hours to amuse itself.—Morn. Post. TIIE ANTIQUARY.—WiIIiam Clerk (son of John Clerk, of Eldin, and an intimate friend of Scott's) well re members his father telling a story which was introduced in due time in The Antiquary. While he was visiting his grand father, Sir John Clerk, at Dumcrieff, in Dumfriesshire, many years before this time, the old Baronet carried some English virtuosos to see a supposed Roman camp ; and on his exclaim ing, at a particular spot, " This I take to have been the Prae torium," a herdsman who stood by answered, " Prwtorium here, Progorium there; I made it wi' a flaughter spade." Many traits of the elder Clerk were, his son has no doubt, embroidered on the character of George Constable in the composition of Jonathan Oldbuck. The old gentleman's enthusiasm for antiquities was often played on by these young friends, but more effectually by his eldest son, John Clerk (Lord Eldin), who, having a great genius for art, used to amuse himself with manufacturing mutilated heads, which, after being buried for a convenient time in the ground, were accidentally discovered in some fortunate hour, and received by the laird with great honour, as valuable accessions to his museum. The most remarkable of these antique heads was so highly appreciated by another distinguished connoisseur, the late Earl of Buchan, that he carried it off from Mr. Clerk's museum, and presented it to the Scottish Society of Antiquaries, in whose collection, no doubt, it may still be ad mireel—Lockhart's L. NATIONAL BENEFACTORS.—The names of those who have enriched our gardens with useful and valuable plants are deserving of record and remembrance. Sir W. Raleigh introduced the potatoe ; Sir Anthony Ashley first planted cabbages in this country—a cabbage appears at his feet on his monument : Sir Richard Weston brought over clover-grass from Flanders i n 1645 ; figs were planted in Henry the Eighth's reign, at Lambeth, by Cardinal Pope— it is said the identical trees are still remaining. Spilman, who erected the first paper-mill at Dartford, in 1590, brought over the first two lime trees, which he planted, and they are still growing. Thomas Lord Cromwell enriched the gardens of England with three different kinds of plums. It was Evylin, whose patriotism was not exceeded by his learning, who largely propagated the noble oak in this country, so much so, that the trees he planted have supplied the navy of Great Britain with its chief proportion of that timber. NATIONAL DEBT.--Mortgaging the property of our posterity that we may be better enabled to destroy our contemporaries. —New Monthly Magazine. [Taking the na tional debt at 8:30 millions sterling, which is between 6 and 7000 tons weight of sovereigns, this enormous sum would take a person 43 years to count it over, allowing him to count 100 sovereigns in a minute, and to work ten hours every day, Sun days excepted. It would also pave a foot-path a yard wide, from Manchester to London; load as many waggons as would extend forty miles in a direct line, allowing each waggon to carry one ton of sovereigns, and to ()occupy a distance of ten yards. The interest to be paid annually, allowing five per cent., would consequently amount to 41 millions, whiell would load as many waggons with two tons of so vereigns,_ and 20 yards to each waggon, as would extend on e mile and a halt in a d'rect FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE WHITEHALL, MARCH 230837. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Adam Cairns to the charge and office of First Minister of the church and parish of Cupar, in the presbytery of Cupar and shit e of Fife, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Lawrance Adamson. WAR-OFFICE, Maacn 24. 2d Regiment of Life Guards —Lieut. T. Gardner to be Captain, by purchase, vice Ricardo, who retires ; Cornet and Sub-Lieut. F. E. Freke to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gardnor ; Lieut. C. H. Drummond, from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Freke, March 24. 3d Regiment of Dragoon Guards—W. Squire, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Campbell, who retires, March 24. 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. G. Forbes, from the 26th Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Miller, who exchanges ; Gentleman Cadet J. F. Fitzgerald, from the Royal Military Col lege, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Routh, appointed to the 16th Light Dragoons, March 24. 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieut. G. M. Fullerton, from the 14th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Yelverton, who exchanges, March 24. 15th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet 14. L. Cocksedge to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Drummond, appointed to the 2d Regiment of Life Guards ; E. Connor, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Cocksedge, March 24. 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet R. Routh, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice MacGregor, who retires, March 24. _ . 11th Regiment of Foot.—Lieut.-General Sir R. S. Donkin, K.C. 8., from the 80th Regiment, to be Colonel, vice General Sir H. T. Montresor, K.C.B. deceased, March 15. 14th Foot—Lieut. Hon. C. B. Yelverton, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Fullerton, who exchanges, March 24. 23d Foot—Major W. Ross to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by pur chase, vice Harrison, who retires ; Capt. W. Fenwick to be Major, by purchase, vice Roes ; Lieut. W. Alcock to be Captain, by pur chase, ♦ice Fenwick ; Second Lieut. H. G. Anderdon to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Alcock ; A. W. W. Wynn, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Anderdon, March 24. 24th Foot—E. Wodehouse, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Moore, who retires, March 24. 26th Foot—Lieut. J. Miller, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Forbes, who exchanges, March 24. 36th Foot—Lieut. A. Trollope to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hibbert, who retires ; Ensign A. Thistlethwayte to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Trollope ; W. W. Abbott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Thistlethwayte, March 4. 80th Foot—Lieut.-Gen. Sir J. Taylor, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-Gen. Sir R. S. Donkin, appointed to the command of the 11th Regiment; Major N. Baker, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Cassidy, who retires ; Captain J Bowler, to be Major, by purchase, vice Baker ; Lieut. J. Scully, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bowler; Lieut. J. Lightbody, to be Adjutant, ' vice Black, who resigns the Adjutancy only, March 24. 82d Foot—Lieut. C. E. Nugent, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice Holmes, appointed Pay master to the 35th Regiment, March 23 ; Ensign W. R. Cazalet, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Nugent, who retires, March 24; Ensign and- Adjutant J. Stoodley to have the rank of Lieutenant, March 25 ; E. R. W. W. Yates, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Cazalet, March 24. 97th Foot—Ensign H. Russell to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Henry, who retires ; J. C. Strode, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Russell, who retires, March 24. UNATTACHED. _ . Lieut. G. S. Fitzgerald, from the 26th Regiment, to be Captain, by purchase, vice G. J. Lenon, who retires, March 24. STAFF. • Brevet Lieut.-Colonel C. C. Dixon, from the half-pay Unat- tached, to be Major and Military Superintendent of Hospitals al Chatham, March 24. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Renfrew. Renfrewshire Yeomanry CavairV:--Captain H. Stewart to be Major-Commandant, vice Sir M. g. Stewart, deceased; Lieut. J. Hamilton to be Captain, vice H. Stewart promoted ; Cornet D. Mure to be Lieutenant, vice Hamilton, promoted ; J. H. Max well, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Mure, promoted, March 3. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. CHARLES BRENCHLEY, auctioneer, Old Jewry. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. JOSEPH GREEN, grocer, Liverpool. BANKRUPTS. ISAAC SOLLY and ISAAC SOLLY, Jun., merchants, St. Mary Axe, to surrender April 4, at half-past eleven, and May 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Gatty and Garth, Angel-court, Throgmorton-street. WILLIAM CATLIFF, draper, Wisbeach, Cambridgeshire, April 5 and May 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tur quand, Copthall-buildings, official assignee ; Ashurst and Gains ford, Cheapside. JOHN STIRLING, silk-mercer, Conduit-street, Bond-street, April 4, at two, and May 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Gibson, Basinghall-street, official assignee ; Turner and Hensman, Basing-lane. WILLIAM FRIBOURG EVANS, coal-merchant, Millbank street, Westminster, March 31, at one, and May 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Goldsmid, Ironmonger-lane, official as signee ; Miller, Duke-street, St. James's. JOHN WILLIAMS and ROBERT WILLIAMS, copper smiths, Houndsditch, April 4, at eleven; and May 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee ; Hilleary, Lime-street. EDMUND SALMONS MERRINGTON, flour-seller, Down h m-market Norfolk, Apri 10, and May 5, at twelve, at Beckwith and Co.'s offices, Norwich. Cktrke and Medealf, Lincoln's-Inn fields; Beckwith and Co., Norwich. HOLMES, silk-dealer, Derby, April 5, at two, and May 5; at eleven at the New Inn, Derby. Capes, Raymond buildins, Gray's-Inn, London ; Williamson, Derby. JOHN EVANS, cordwainer, Kidderminster, April 11, and May 5, at twelve, at Messrs. Hill and Daniel's offices, Worcester. Smith, Chancery-lane, London ; Hill and Daniel, Kidderminster. THOMAS LEWIS, cheesemonger, Glanginwidd, Montgome ryshire, March 29, and April 5, at twelve, at the Royal Oak Inn, Welchpool, Montgomeryshire. Clarke and Medcalf, Lincoln's Inn-fields ; Wace, Shrewsbury. LOUISA BIGGS, shopkeeper, Goodrich, Herefordshire, April 8, at one, and May 5, at eleven, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Perkins and Frampton, Gray's Inn-square, London : Smith, Bristol. WILLIAM ROSTILL, caddy maker, Birmingham, April 8, at one, and May 5, at two, at the New Royal Hotel, New-street, Bir mingham. Harrison, Birmingham ; Norton and Chaplin, Gray's- Inn-square, London. DAVID MATHER, merchant, Manchester, April 8 and May 5, at two, at the Commissioners'-rooms, Manchester. Avison and Son, Liverpool ; Adliugton, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bed forct-row, London. JOSEPH SUMNER, carpenter, Edgbaston, Birmingham, April 1 and May 5, at one, at Radenhurst's Hotel, New -street, Birmingham. Taylor, Turner, Sharpe, and Field, Bedford-row, London ; Ryland, Cherry-street, Birmingham. JONATHAN WARD, innkeeper, Greta-bridge, York, March 31, and May 5, at ten, at Mr. Fryer's, innkeeper, Catterick-bridge, York. Tilsons, Squance, and Tilson, Coleman-street, London ; Allison, Richmond Yorkshire. JOHN BREARLEY, JOHN SAMUEL WOOD, and JO SEPH WOOD, corn-millers, Rochdale, Lancashire, April 13, at eleven, and May 5, at two, at the Sessions-house, Wakefield. Ad lington, Gregory, Faulkner, and Follett, Bedford-row, London ; Taylor, Wakefield. ABRAHAM NICHOLDS LEA, builder, Birmingham, April 8, and May 5, at one, at Dee's Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Tooke and Son, Bedford-row, London : Melt and Sons, Birmingham. RICHARD TARLETON, split-merchant, April 7, and May 5, at one, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Norris and Allen, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, London ; Toulmin, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. W. L. Grace, orange-merchant, Eastcheap, April 14, at eleven —J. Osborne, cheesemonger, Bishopsgate-street Within, April 14, at one—O. J. G Hawkins, boarding housekeeper, Upper Belgrave street, Belgrave-square, April 14, at eleven—W. Pennycal, grocer, Rosemary -lane, April 15, at eleven—J. Woollet, merchant, Gould square, April 15, at twelve—J. R. Yates, publican, King-street, Westminster, April 14, at eleven. In the Country. J. Turner, cotton-manufacturer, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Manchester, April 15, at ten—ll. Cleall, painter, Poole, at the Ang - el Inn, Poole, April 14, at eleven—J. C. Borwell, baker, Oxford-street, Manchester, at the Commissioners' Rooms, Man chester, April 19, at ten—J. Hall, builder, Barton-upon-Humber, at the Red Lion Inn, Barton-upon-Humber, April 14, at two— J. Jeffreys and W. Barton, wine -merchants, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool, April 17, at one. CERTIFICATBS.—A.TRIL 14. T. Greenfield, victualler, Roebuck Tavern, Chiswick—F. G. B. F. Stodart, manufacturers, Carlisle—G. Moore, wholesale wcollen draper, Basinghall-street—J. Woolly, wholesale woolen-draper, Ba singhall-street—J. J. Cole, brewer, Chelsea. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. Knight and H. Pring, painters, Dorchester—R. Wainwright and S. Halpin, tailors, St. James's-street—J. Chapman and W. Painter, glovers, Fleet-street---W. Dalbv and E. Shardlow, black smiths, Sutton Bonnington, Nottinghamshire—R. Poole, W. H. Boult, and R. H. Spence, newspaper proprietors—M. Silvester, C. Silvester, and J. Beeson, cutlers, Sheffield—J. G. Forster, E. Forster, E. Jones, and W. White, hatters, Aldgate High street —C. Hobbs and G. Fay, wine-merchants, Rodney-buildin gs , New Kent-road—E. Early and C. Carter, blanket-manufacturers, Worsham Mills, Asttral, Oxfordshire—T. Needs and J. Couston, bakers, Regent street, Westminster—R. Marriage and J. Mar riage, millers, Woodham Walter, Essex—G. P. Lloyd and C. A. Newby, chemists, Leamington Priors—T. Mitchell and A. B. Dean, engravers, Manchester—Joseph Shaw, George Shaw, James Shaw, John Shaw, Joseph Shaw, jun., and George Hodgson Shaw, woollen-manufacturers, Stainland, Halifax—W. Stanford and R. Edden, tailors Holborn—C. Duncan and B. Smith, shipbrokers. Liverpool—J. Kidd and 11. Joshua, colliers, Brownlow-street, Drury-lane—W. Bradley and I. Gibbs, wool-staplers, Gun-alley, Bermondsey—E. Balls and F. Bare, drapers, Queen- street—W. Brown, W. Blundstone, and J. Blundstone, warehousemen, New gate-street--R. Bromiley and J. Horrocks, cotton-manufacturers, Preston—A. Lilwall, J. Courtney, and M. Courtney, milliners, Brecon—A. Kidd and J. Locke, carpenters, Breams-buildings, Chancery-lane—H. Varley, J. Littlewood, and M. Rhodes (so far as regards M. Rhodes), tool-manufacturers, Meadow-lane. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the New London Price Current of March 24.) SI:CUR.—In the British Plantation Market much langour has prevailed this week ; the request from both the refiners and grocers having been extremely moderate at a reduction on former rates of Is. for the brown and soft yellow descriptions, and 6d. decline on previous prices for the good and fine gro cery qualities ; the only parcel offered at public sale has been that of 38 Mids. and 13 barrols Demerara, which was taken in at 545. for good brown ; the deliveries for home use have been on a large scale. The business done yesterday afternoon was again very moderate, and rather lower prices accepted for brown and low soft qualities, but in the value of good and fine yellow descriptions there is no change ; the purchases since our last have not exceeded 1,000 hhds. and trs. ; the Market is closed until Wednesday next. For Refined Sugars we must continue to report a very d u ll mar k et, both home and ex port buyers having purchased sparingly, and although there are few goods in the Market ready for delivery, yet a further reduction of Is. has been submitted to for the good descrip tions. Lumps that would pass the standard selling at 775., and double Crushed at 365. od. ; in the value of low pacts there has been no change. Treacle commands a god sale at fully previous prices. In Bastards little business has been done. Dutch Crushed Sugar is eff:n.el.l at 345., but without finding buyers. MAURITIUS,—.W e have again to report 4 (1141 Market ! and lower prices have been accepted ; the request by private con tract has been extremely limited, and the public sales of 6,920 bags havo gone off heavily at ls. decline for the ord. and mid. descriptions ; the good qualities went generally at about last sale's prices, low to good brown sold at 425. to 555. 6d., mid. and good grocery yellow 565. to 595. 6d., and yds. 6d. to 603. for strong quality for refining ; there have been no arrivals. The public sales yesterday afternoon of 5,671 bags went off at a further decline of 6d. to ls. on all descriptions, low and mid. grey sold at 525. to 575. 6d., mid. and good grocery 565. a 595. 6d. EAST INDIA.-Bengal has fully supported last week's rates, and in the absence of public sales a good demand has existed privately from the grocers, and for shipping there has been ra ther more request ; 3,300 bags, which were to have been offered at auction on Tuesday last, were postponed. In Ma nilla and Siam there have been no transaction ; the latter of strong white quality would still find a ready sale at previous rates, but there is no supply. FOREIGN.-The supply at market of white Havannah and Brazil of strong grain being still scanty, the inquiries have again led to little business privately ; for all other descriptions a good request has existed, and the public sales have gone off at fully former rates ; 940 boxes Havannah went at 335. to 365. 6d. for low to good mid. white, washed 295. to 355. 6d., ord. to fine yellow 245. to 265., mid. and fine brown 21s. 6d. to 235. 6d., washed 225. to 255. 6d. ; 70 hhds. Havannah Muscovadcs sold at 19s. to 20s. for good and fine brown ; 80 chests Bahia fetched 17s. to 19s. 6d. for low and mid. brown, ord. white 265. 6d., soft 225., and ord. yellow 21s. 6d. to 225. ; on the 31st. instant, 500 chests and barrels Brazil will be offered at auction ; the private purchases have been 500 chests mid, good yellow Havannah at 245. to 365. MOLASSES.-The transactions in West India have been limited ; in the prices no change has occurred. COFFEE.-The British Plantation Market has been much in the same state this as last week ; the clean descriptions continuing still in good demand from the grocers, and fully fouler rates have been paid, but the unclean sorts have been taken very sparingly. At public sale 214 bags, sold 60s, to 61s. for ord. unclean Berbice, and 70s. to 755. for good and fine ord. clean Demerara; .in the prices of the export descrip tions of East India there have been no change, but the market continues extremely quiet. Of Ceylon admissible for home consumption at the 6d. duty there have been no public sales ; by private contract there has been a good request from the grocers at fully former rates, good ord. selling at 765. ; the holders of Mocha requiring stiffer prices, have prevented much business privately, 62 bales at auction went at 655. to 735. for mid. and good ord. yellow. In the prices of Foreign little change has occurred; there has been rather more business doing, but the demand at present has been only partial, and the private purchases have been confined to 700 bags Brazil at 435. to 50s. for ord. to very fine ; 2,245 bags 10 hhds. St. Domingo at public sale went at 425. 6d. to 465. for good and fine ord., and 40s. to 425. for low ord., sea damaged first and second class 38s. to 425. The public sales yesterday afternoon consisted of 62 casks Berbice and 372 bales Mocha, the former went at Is. advance, mid, and good at 935. 6d. to 995. 6d., broken 603. 6d. to 675., fine ord. 87s. ; the latter sold at stiff prices, mid. yellow garbled 695. 6d. to 725. 6d., good mid. bold yellow 80s. 6d. to 81s. 6d., sea damaged 455. 6d. to 739. Cocoa.-There have been no public sales of British Plan tation, and the private purchases have been extremely limited ; Foreign is fiat, and 2,410 bags Guayaquil at auction were bought in at 355. for fair gray. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-In the Rum Market we have few transactions to report ; the demand for Leewards has much atated, only 50 puns. having been taken at rather lower prices, 1 to 3 per cent. overproof selling at 2s. 2d. a 2s. 3d. In Jamaica nothing has been done, Brandy has met with a heavy sale. For Geneva a steady request has prevailed at ls. lod. a Is. 11d. TALLOW. -In the prices of P Y C on the spot little change has taken place ; the demand for consumption has been very moderate at 445. 9d. ; for forward delivery there has been rather more doing, and the price for October, November, and December, has advanced to 425. SPICES.-There has been no improvement in the demand for Cassia Lignea, and 817 chests at auction were all taken in ; good middling thin at 58s. to 595., ordinary and good or dinary 545. to 563. Pepper is held with much firmness, but there has been little doing privately ; P 5 bags Malabar at auction sold at 3*d. to 3,id. for good light. Nutmegs con tinue on the decline, and of 37 chests at public sale only a small portimi was sold at ss. 3d. to SF. 4d. for good and fine consumers. In Mace and Cloves few transactions have taken place; four chests os the former at auction sold at 7s. 4d. to 7s. sd. for good. In the absence of public sales of Pimento little request has existed privately. For East and West India Ginger the demand has been limited. LAC DYE.-The holders continue to require full prices, but there has been very little business done, and 59 chests at public sale were neatly all bought in ; ordinary mixed at wid. a 1 td. ; a few lots went at 2s. 4d. for good quality. CCCIIINEAL.-In the prices there has been no change, but the demand has been moderate, and 62 bags Honduras at auction were only partly sold ; ordira.y and middling Silver; at 6s. 4d. a 6s. 10d. ; low Blacks 7s. 4d. a 7s. iod.-A public sale of 75 bags is announced for Tuesday next. TURPENTINE.-In Spirits a fair business done. In Rough little done, the holders generally still refusing to sell at I3s. LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET, MARCH 23. Our Cotton-market this week opened with a very gloomy appear ance, the pressure to sell on Saturday being very great, and in some instances, to effect sales, a considerable reduction from current rates was submitted to. On Monday we had less cotton offering, but still more than sufficient for the demand, which, however, after wards improved, and the pressure to sell has diminished daily, so, that the market closes with less irregularity, though at prices barely equal to our quotations of last week. Brazils are heavy of sale, and in the lower qualities of Maranhams and Pernams lAd. decline may be quoted. Sea Islands, except the finer qualities, are barely sup ported, we accordingly reduce our quotations. Egyptians are in li mited request, but unchanged in price. In Surat there is but little doing, and current prices are with difficulty obtained ; 800 bales Surat and Madras were, to-day, offered by auction, but were wholly withdrawn ; 3,000 American have been taken on speculation, and 350 American and 100 Surat for export, namely— d. d. • a. d. ' 4 , 0 Sea Islands 22 to 32 30 Demeraras 13i to 0 10 Stained ditto 15 0 Peruvians 0 7,100 Uplands 6i 8 Laguayras o— 0 1,160 Mobile, &c. 6k— 7L 670 Surats 5,890 New Orleans... 5 —lO 100 Bengals .340 Egyptians 9i —1 , 4 670 Pernams, &c 8? —lO 610 Bahias 390 5 Alaranhams Si 9 Bovveds 7i— 8 Carihagenas 0— 0 Manilla 0 0 West India 0 0 - Barbadoes Bahamas Bales. Taken on speculation this year ... Same in 1836 ... Forwarded to the country unsold this year ...... 16,360 Same in 1836 Increase of import this year compared with the same date last year Increase of stock Decrease of quantity taken for consumption 46,300 Decrease of quantity taken for export Comparative View of the Imports and Exports of Cotton into and from the whole Kingdom, from the Ist of January to the 18th inst., and of the Imports and Exports for the same period last year : Bags. 224,571 37,056 546 28,577 3,835 Into th• Kingdom this year. American South American ... West Indies, Demerara, &c East Indies Egypt, &c. Total of all descriptions Sarnia period last year. Bags. American South American West Indies, Demerara, &c. ... East Indies Egypt, &c. Increase of Imports as compared with same period last year Exports in 1837. American, 3,020 ; Brazil, 295 ; East India, 10,293 ; West India, —; Other kinds, —. Total in 1637 same period last year Stock. March 23, 1837 250,100 Same time, 1836 ---„ SUITES OF EAR-RINGS, NECKLACE, AND BROOCH.—A variety in the latest taste, varying in price from for 101. to 20/. the Suite, are arranged in the upper Show Room selection. They consist of Pearls and other real Gems, Amethyst, Topaz, and other stones. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and kVatchm'A er ? 47, Cornhill, London. N.8.-_A Pamphlet, conta i n i ng a List of the Prices of Plate, Plat e d G oo d s, W atches, Clocks, &c., maY. h had gratis, o will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid applicato"" BIRTHS. On the 21st inst., in Delahaye-street, Westminster, the lad! of C. F. F. Wordsworth, Esq., barrister-at.law of a son. , On the 21st i ns t . , at Hampstead, the l a d y o f W m . B ro oks, EA** of a son. . o On the 23d i ns t., M rs. H odgk i nson, of Upper Thames-street, f a daughter. On the 22d inst., in Hunter-st r e e t, B runsw i c k- squa ,;(., the lady of 11. E. Kendall, jun., Esq., of a daughter. ----- MARRIED. On the sth of J anuary , i n t h e BritishCba el d e Jane ir o ' at Rio Robert llesketh, Esq.. his Britannic I V7,:jesty's Consul, t• " Esq. ana, youngest d a u g ht er o f C. Rayns.":,rd, l On the 13th inst., at Ore enwich ED. , aged 15, Fanny, Y•° finest daughter of C. Pearson, - Esq., of Maze-hill. Ornl e ' On the 6th inst., at th e h ouse of his son-in-law, Wm' es Edward Oli ver , E sq., late of Wollescott Hall, Wore' shire, aged 74. 4/ ti ()n the 21st in s t., a t Maze-hill, Greenwich, Mrs. Ba lla ' * ' 87 on the 20th of January last. e ' ir On the 21st in s t., at W oo l wich, Sarah, relict of the l a te A laY .‘h Dailey, Esq., of Syston, Leicestershire. In February last, in Belgium, John Walker, Esq., Park, llants. On the 20th inst., at Kitnocks, near Motley, Jar,e, relictNonelate Thomas Woalls, Esq., and last surviving daughter a the aies, William Lewis, of Cornwall and H 1 • '' Island Of Jai °a ey, in ~,ie aged 1)0.Is Ng- On the 20th inst., in Merrion-squar e , Dublin, Edward Hug thaniel, second son of T. J. Bar:,;,, Es aged 7 weeks. t _four On th , 4 `?lst inst., aged 8 ° ''• • q.' ' d for twen Y tre et, .., NI , ilham 'War en, II lw ver-' earl the faithful servant of Wm. Money, Esq, of a of Hanover-square, of Y;urbre°lg solicitor On the 20th inst., at Dorking, aged 67, Mr. Hart, 0 —,s , that plr;co London: Printed and Published by MU111)0 YOUN G ; 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11", Strand, in tb Qf Alkl(ilesex,—Saturday, March, 25, 1837. ,n . THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 25,