The Sun. — London, England, 1837-11-20 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. 11 e « 11 , 6 Q ueen held a Court, on Saturday afternoon, at the palace in St. James's Park. lv,tjnpunt Pezzo di B orgo , A m b assa d or E x t raor di na ry and itlsst!ter Plenipotentiary from the Emperor of all the erter ts, had an audience of her Majesty upon his return th e ternnorary absence. His Excellency presented to RD • M. niri s ki n i, Ch am b er l a i n t o the Emperor of A sia. lajesty held a Privy Council, which was attended t ri ne. Lord P res id ent, t h e L or d Ch ance ll or , the Lord t ar i ll Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secre ,th of State for the Home and Colonial Departments, th Ai r l r ,d ir h a r ty c , ei t !, , : e r of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the p_asident of the Board of Control, the President of the the Lord of Trade, the Secretary at War, the Lord Steward, ueLord Chamberlain, and the Master of the Horse. ter Earl Spencer and Sir Charles Vaughan, G.C.H., mem thes of his late Majesty's Privy Council, were re-sworn of b llle nn's most. Honourable Privy Council. k a ."'gns for various new seals were submitted to her f. / .O t Y in Cou nc il an d were a pp ro ved of. n er M ajesty's Speech to both Houses of Parliament bt, -I)r lning the Sessions thi s d a y was arranged and agreed -rote ellThe‘tn; William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Coun in Marquis Queen 'g. gave audiences to the Lord Chancellor, the lnis of L ans d owne , an d t h e E ar l o f Albemarle. L ady Barham was the lady in waiting. to The following officers of her Majesty's household at- T 'ded the Court :—The Marquis of Headfort, Lor di Waiting ; Lord Charles Fitzroy, Vice-Chamberlain ; the Carl o f Surrey, Treasurer of the Household ; the Hon. olonel Cavendish, Clerk Marshal ; Hon. C. Murray, W ° ." l in Waiting; an d C o lonel Wemyss, Equerry in The Court broke up at three o'clock. 141.,0rd Hill and Viscount Melbourne h a d au di ences o f h er a A l e stY on Silturday. sioall party, including her Royal Highness the Duchess 'ent, the Countess of Mulgrave, Lady Barham, Lady r. a q Stopford, Hon. Miss Pitt, Miss Spring Rice, Lady !Ireline Barrington,- Baroness Lehzen, the Lord Chamber lll°' ~ ae the M arqu i s o f Il ea df ort , Hon. C. Cavendish, Hon. iyturray, d Colonel Wemyss, dined with the Queen saturd • • ay evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and the Dies and gentlemen of the Queen's household, attended th "le service yesterday morning in the private chapel of beSi, nen' pal o ace don red the servßi shop ofice was per Nor wform ich, assisted ed by the tv ' „ 10), of Ln *L a e Dean o f Ch es t er , D e puty Clerk of the Closet in aitin g . Tln th e even i ng Viscount Mel b ourne, L or d Alf re d P age t, e .Hon. W m . Cowper, and a small party, dined with her aJesty at the palace. a„, T he Duke an d D uc h ess o f C a mbridge, accompanied by ;nee Geo rge an d t h e P r i ncess A ugus t a of Cambridge, L 'ended Di v i ne serv i ce yester d ay morn i n g in Grosvenor "aPel, South Audley-street. th At th e Ch ape l R oya l , S t. J ames ' s , yes t er d a y mo rning, e Rep. Dr. Scott preached a sermon from the 7th chap ter of St. Matthew and the 19th verse. The anthem was Turn thee, 0 Lord, at the last," composed for the fu neral of the late Princess Charlotte, by Attwood, and was Performed for the first time exactly 20 years ago. Geor ge Duke an d D uc h ess o f C a mbridge, and Prince and the Princess Augusta of Cambridge, attended by M iss Kerr, Colonel Cornwall, and Baron Knesebeck, floured the Op e ra Buffa, at the Lyceum, on Saturday evening with their presence. u ne Duke of Cambridge went on Saturday to Coombe " od, and returned to town in the afternoon. v. Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell gave Par tniittnentary dinners to large parties on Saturday evening ; e form er at his official residence in Downing-street, and a l atter at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. All the ;Vess appear e d e i t h er i n un if orms or i n cour t-dress. After t q lniter, on " The Queen " having been given, both m i n i sters :ad to their respective parties her Majesty's speech on o p e ning th e sess i on of Parliament this day. 11 0 1 he Peers p resen t a t Vi scoun t M e lb ourne ' s were—his 3 ' 41 Highness the Duke cf Sussex, the mover, and Lord A rt m __ o , d the seconder of the address ; the Dukes of Norfolk, Somerset, Sutherland, and Cleveland ; the tLord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne ; Earls of •"%.,.into, Albemarle, Ilehester, Lichfield, Errol, Uxbridge, ni nigrave, Durham, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Camperdown ; Vi scounts Torrington, Falkland, Duncannon ; Lords Mont fort, Vernon, Se.riraye, Gardner, Foley, Glenelg, Holland, a nd Byron ; and G. E. Anson, Esq. Captain Harward, and a deputation of the Anti-Slavery Society, had an intervew with Lord Gicnelg on Saturday, at the Colonial-rfice. 1 , 2 11 - Bail and Countess of Lichfield arrived in town on e l ? night from their seat, Shugborough Park, Lichfield. of i3 oke and Duchess of Terceira visited the Duchess nt Yesterday. B e i gr ! C ountess of Dunmore arrived at Farrance's Hotel, net I " v e-street, on Saturday, from Herne Bay. Lady Har 'dlle and family also arrived from Newark. Lor d Lyndhurst has arrived in town from the Continent. 4 l ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Duke of Ru'and, in Bolton-row, from Belvoir C astle ; - "Ike of Devonshire and Mr. George Cavendis h, M.P., at Devonshire House, from Chatsworth ; the Duke of Leeds, in " James's-s ' ware f m Hornb Castle, Yorkshire ; the Earl ri d c q TC, CO the E Ountess Grenville, at Devonshire House, from Paris; arl and Countess of Chesterfield, at Chesterfield House, Sa r k the s ea t o f t h e E ar l o f Li tc hfi e ld ; Count Survillicrs, i e t rk- ereseent, Portland-place, from a tour ; Lady D udle y i vart in Wilton -crescent; Lady Honeywood in Portla nd- L a " ; the E ar l o f Shelburne, at Lansdowne House, from I. r/ ( 7 ) ;_/ood Park ; the United States Minister and Mr. Henry f I "fr in Portland-place ; Lord Seaford, in Audley-square , rom Kent ; Viscount and Viscountess Sydney from a tour; %t °r4 find Lady Gardner, at Lord Dinorben's in South Audley reet, from Melton Mowbray ; Mr. Nathaniel Edmonstone in e r tiand-place ; Mr. and Mrs. Meynell, in Gloucester-place, N... .-° O 4l l Paris ; Sir Richard Paul Jodth - ell, Bart., from Paris ; ofiir tenel and Mrs. Elwyn, in Grosvenor-place, from York- M e ; Captain Cotton, in Arlington-street, from Plymouth; st r • Charles Elliott in Portland-place ; Lieut.-Col. Scott, on George's -terrace, from Paris; Mr. Charles Mundy in park-crescent; Mr. and Mrs. Heathcote, in Piccadilly, from It k t i °ll r ; Captain Hill, in Albemarle-street, from Paris; Lady street in Park-crescent ; Mr. and Mrs. 'Metcalfe, in Hertford p.":", Mayfair, from Paris Countess Saint Germains in o:rk-ereseent ; the Hon. Thomas Grenville in Cleveland ; the Earl of Sheffield in Portland-place; Captain and 1 ) a Bon. M r . M arlyn i n Alb emar l e - s t ree t ; L o rd an d Lady 444 a5. in A r li ng t on -street, from their seat, Aske Hall, Rich "cl,cl, Yorkshire ; the Archbishop of York, in Grosvenor soillare, from Bish o p s tl mi p e , Y or kshire ; Lord and Lady Mon tpg.:'e, in Hamilton-place, from Scotland ; the Earl and Conn -6- (-1 Radnor, Lord Folkestone, and Lady Jane Bouverie, in t °s-v enor-street, from Longford Castle, near Salisbury ; Sir l e t , .Pben Glynn, Bart., M. P., at the Carlton Hotel, from his Flintshire ; the Marquis of Granby, at ditto, from d 4 colashi re ; Mr. C. Codrington, in York-place, from Dod wingtno Park, fidoucestershire ; Lord William Bentinck, at Vernon House, from Paris ; J. Bailey, Esq., M.P., f V . James'street, from a visit to the Duke and Duchess of L' .Deaufort, at Badminton, Gloucestershire ; R .Townley, t 4 . 1 " hi. ,in Conduit-street, from Fulbourn, Cambridge ti ; Lord Fitzalan, M. P., at Hyde Park-corner, from lLit free 4 MPt°ll, SUM ; the Earl of Euston, in Grosveno N r-p acr, t o -r r n it Ruston Hall, Thetford, Norfolk ; Mr. Maclean,. h l.P., in I3 er k el r-square, from Oxfordshire ; Viscount Vi ers, in the eY-square, from Middleton Park, Bicester, Oxfordshire ; Ilerr all of Verulam, in Grosvenor-square, from G orhambur y , H eo -3 ; Sir William Pole, Bart., at Hill's Hotel, from Gey's Potel:finear Nlaidenhead ; Lord Macdonald, at M ivart's • ern a 1 . 1 , 1 r to the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, at th e - , er 'Majesty and the Court have fixed Tuesday, 2 8th inst" to to Windsor Castle for the season. I'6 • • n -e r vyaLlarin was visited yesterday by the Russian juusador Count Pozzo di Borgia, and Count Ludolf. n th e St G "ening General Sablenkoff dined with his Highness, 91.11 d's Hotel, Albemarle-street. 114 se irs viscount Palmerston was absent from Lord John . 4111 1 Parliament ar y Dinner, owing to the domestic ea 'tY Which his Lordildp has sustained. th The Earl an d C oun t e ss of Jersey will not commence dinner parties and soirees until Easter, which will fall oti s Year in M arc h. Middleton Park and its mansion have continued to receive select parties of the nobility, in sue °n, durin g the last three months. L o l lo he Earl o f H ow th ar rived on Saturday last at the n Hot e l, f rom t h e C on ti n ent. -,;in he i ron Duke of N or thumberland has arrived in town 4ro Alnwick C ast l e , N or th um berland, to take his. oaths u seat in the House of Lords. arri The 'Juke o f b uce l euc and Ithe Earl of Selkirk f ro ,2..ed at Montague House, Privy-gardens, on Friday, iq , brurnlanrio• Castle, Dumfrieshire, to take their s c a t s th e Ho. use r of Peers. e Earl and Countess of Granville arrived at eorri cinshir e H ouse on Saturday a f ternoon , from Paris, ae tarj44ied by the Hon. F. Leveson Gower. The Noble L or l s sitortly a f ter h i s arr i val, procee d e d t o the House of V; , to tak e his oath s an d hi s seat. Bth, Brabazon, the eldest son of the Ea rl of ter a is a b out to be married to M i ss B roo k e , the daugh o`i! 8. s ir R. Brooke, Bart., of Norton Priory, Cheshire. William Pole, Bart., has arrived from Gey's Spri e' near MAidenhead, at Hill's Hotel, New-street, carg,,rderis. actaeus, with al its splendid preparations, will to :: ; !! 3 'ed at h a lf- pr i ce this evening, at Drury-lane Theatre "C due support to Mr. Otway, who arpears in Hamlet WEST KENT REFORMERS-DiNNER TO T. L. HODGES, ESQ., M.P. On Saturday evening the Reformers residing in the Black heath district entertained at a public dinner their patriotic representative, Thomas Law Hodges, Esq., M.P. The dinner, which was intended to celebrate the triumph of the West Kent Reformers at the recent election, was also made the celebration of Mr. Hodges's return for the fifth time to Parliament. There could not, we suppose, be less than 180 gentlemen present at.the dinner, which took place at the Mitre Tavern, Greenwich. Joseph Jackson, Esq., pre sided as chairman ; he was supported by Lord Nugent, the Hon. T. Fiennes (son of Lord Saye and Sele) ; E. G. Bar nard, Esq., M.P. ; George Pryme, Esq., M.P. ; Thos. Hobhouse, Esq., M.P.: Charles Harwood, Esq. ; Colonel Faed, D. Barnard, jun., Esq. ; G. W. Norman, Esq. ; George Page, Esq. ; Ch. Perkins, Esq. ; Josiah Hargrave, Esq. ; Captain Bags ; George Smith, Esq., &c. &c. &e. We also observed in the room Mr. 0. Holmes, and several other gentlemen who had materially served the Liberal cause by their active and zealous attendance at the regis tration courts. Upon the cloth being removed, the CHAIRMAN, after proposing the usual toasts, gave— " Lord Melbourne and her Majesty's Ministers, and may they long continue to be so !"—(Loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said he had next to propose to them the health of Thomas Law - Hodges, Esq., the representative of the Western Division Of that County.—(Hear, hear.) If ever there was a time in which all men, particularly Re formers, should be united together for the purpose of sup porting and encouraging all honest men who were their re presentatives, that time had now arrived. It was certainly their duty to take care of such a representative when they had got him—such as they had then before them ; and it was because they all knew his virtues, that they were now advised to stand forward as his firm supporters.:—(Cheers.) They ought to do this, because they knew how firmly, faith fully, and honestly Mr. Hodges had served them in the last five Parliaments.—(Cheers.) The only instance in which he had ever heard of a complaint being made against his honourable and worthy friend was upon the occasion of the lust election. In the course of his canvass he met with a gentleman from whom he asked a vote for Mr. Hodges. 'The answer of that gentleman was, " I'll not vote for Mr. Hodges ; I'll vote for Sir Edmund Filmer." He asked him (the gentleman) why he refused to vote for Mr. Hodges ? and the answer was, that " he never could find Mr. Hodges any where but in the House of Commons"— (Loud cheers.) He believed that the gentleman on that occasion spoke what he felt. He considered it to be a grievance that he could not find Mr. Hodges out of the House of Commons, while, perhaps, if he wished to play a game of cricket, he calculated he might discover some other representative at home—(Laughter).—He begged then to propose to them " Their worthy and honest repre sentative, Thomas Law Hodges, Esq." Mr. HODGES, M. P., rose, amidst enthusiastic cheering from all parts of the room, to return thanks. The present occasion, as their excellent Chairman had stated, was in tended to celebrate their triumph at the late election for the western division of the county—(Hear, hear) —and a great triumph it was.—(Cheers.) It was the triumph of mind over money—of principle over unfair influence. When they were about to enter upon that conflict the array against them was most formidable. He had heard (but it might have been a mere rumour) that the sinews of war had been collected to a large amount upon the other side, and he was perfectly well aware that if the battle was to be fought successfully, it could only be through the indivi dual exertions of the men of Kent—of the men of Kent, whom he had never yet known to fail. He wished them now to look at the state of affairs as they were presented to them. He could not regard the dispute now going on as a dispute between two political parties. He had long re fused to enter into Parliament, and he so refused at a time when he felt that little good could be done ; but he yielded to the call made upon him when he saw a political crisis arise—he yielded to it when the time had come that the people of England were called upon to interfere in their own affairs—when the people of England were necessarily called upon to vindicate before the world the advantages of the education they had received—of the political institutions they inherited—and of the patriotism they possessed— to check the progress of pestilent principles, which had well nigh involved them all in one common ruin.— ( Loud cheering.) The Press upon the other side—the Tories—were treating this as a mere party matter ; they would not, indeed, confess this ; yet the effort was made by them to treat it as a party matter ; but the people of Eng land saw—and would to God they had seen it earlier ! and that they had not become wise when it was almost too late —that the Government and the interests of the people should be identical ; they wished to verify the maxim that " Go vernments are made for the people, and not people for Go vernments."—(Hear, beef.) Knowing this, then, it was impossible for them not to be disgusted with what they had read lately from writers upon the other side ; they could not but be disgusted with the tone of exhortation to the public which the press upon the other side had adopted.— (Hear.) They were now for calling it a 'religious question. —(Hear.) A religious question ?—(Cheers.) Why, he asked the gentlemen present, could there be hypocrisy mere base than that ?—(Cheers.) What was it that had spread crime in this country ? What had made men irreligious ? Why the acts of the former Governments of this country— the acts of such Governments for many years past—to them they were indebted for existing immorality and vice. It was they who had filled their gaols with criminals, and stained with guilt the name of Englishmen.—(Cheers.) He remem bered that in the quarter sessions of their county the numbers of persons on the calender were not more than six or seven ; and afterwards he, as chairman of the quar ter session, had a calendarkeresented to him frequently with the names of 100 prisoners ; and this, too, happened under the uncontrolled reign of the Tories. If they wished to make the people religious they must give to them some por tion of time and leisure to devote to the sacred offices of religion ; but the measures of the Tories, now displaced from power, went totally to deprive the working classes of this country of any leisure at all—(Hear)—for they all knew, as he certainly knew, that such was the intenseness of labour now demanded from the working classes, that it required every hour of a man's existence to enable him to make out a common maintenance. The measures of the Tories had pressed upon the poor man so as to deprive him of the time that he might gladly devote to religion, and yet now they said that the present was a reli gious question.—( Hear, hear, bear.) If they believed it to be a religious question, why did they not think of religion years ago ? Why did not religion check them in their career of extravagance, and before they had re duced the people to the condition in which they were now to be found ? These were the questions to be put to a party who now spoke of religion, and did so with such masked hypocrisy upon their faces. He trusted that no credit would be given to them for one moment.—(Hear, hear.) He hoped that all in that assembly were unani mous in their, support of the present Ministry.—(Loud oheers.) It was of immense consequence with reference to the measures that they desired to see carried that they should give credit to the Goverment for intentions which they were told were cherished by them. The people should too, in their unions, in meetings like the present, and by their political organization, make preparations for the con test whenever it might happen. They naturally supposed that he was going to introduce the subject of the Ballot.— (Long-continued cheering.) They could have no doubt of what was his opinion upon that subject, as he had had the honour of seconding Mr. Grote's motion.—(Hear, hear, hear.) It was absolutely necessary, as the first step that they could take to realise the blessings of good government for the country, that the voting should be free. —(Cheers.) He knew of his own knowledge—he should not name them—but he had been told the names of men in a high station of life, aye, and professional men too, who had taken the bread out of the mouths of their washerwomen for the votes of their husbands— (Hear, hear, and loud cries of " Shame.") This was a state of things which could be no longer endured in England.—(Hear, bear.) It had, indeed, been said that " an Englishman ought to vote independently," to which it had been well replied, " but the majority of English men are not independent"—they were connected with trade, and they bad their bread to get. If all the electors were independent, then the Ballot would be un necessary.—( Hear.) He knew that the popular feeling was in favour of an extension of the suffrage. Now, h e told them frankly, he was against an extension of the suffrage if the voters had not the protection of the Ballot. —(Cheers.) If they could have the protection of the Ballot, and take a larger circle, such as would include men of property and intelligence, he could hardly know that it could be extended too widely. He proposed to them the health of " The Chairman, Mr. Jackson." Mr. J A CKSON, in returning thanks, remarked that their late triumph was indeed the triumph of mind over money, and a portion of influence which was unprecedented and almost unknown. In his opinion, they ought all to be united together—they ought to be determined to have the full measure of Reform—to give full effect to that Bill which they had won, in order that they might have, as they and their friends expected to have, " the whole Bill"—they ought to have the full measure of Reform to all intents and purposes, as nothing short of that could ever satisfy the country, or serve its interests. He could speak from experience of the influences used over the poor man to deter him from his vote. He had canvassed the neighbourhood, and he could repeat instances of this which could scarcely be believed. Mr. Jackson proposed the health of the honest Representative for the borough of Greenwich, a gentleman so well known to them for his determined support of the 1 cause of Reform—E. G. Barnard, Esq. Mr. BARNARD, amid loud cheers from all parts of the room, rose to return thanks. With respect to the Ballot TILE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1837. he wished to say, that he believed no other means could be found for affording protection to the voters. He believed that the Tithe and the Poor-law questions would be satis factorily settled this session, if not impeded by persons in a certain place.—(Hear, hear.) He, for one, trusted that the high aristocratic feeling in the place he referred to would so far relent as to think upon what was beneficial to the country. He hoped, at least, that they would do so upon questions respecting which the Government and the people were all unanimous. He differed from his honour able friend in his . opinions as to the extension of the suffrage ; for he thought that the more the franchise was extenled the more expensive did bribery become, and the more difficult was corruption. The CHAIRMAN next proposed the health of a Noble Lord, for whose character they all entert tined the deepest respect—. Lord Nugent, and the free and independent exercise of the elective franchise." Lord NUGENT believed that the great Bill of Reform could be of no benefit without the Ballot.—(Cheers.) Without the ballot he was quite sure they were only giving to their enemies the free use of arms which must make them successful, and they were allowing their opponents to bring secrecy into the field against the overawed and borne down opinions of the voters.—(Cheers.) He believed that there was no other great domestic question likely to come before the Commons' House of Parliament of so much importance as this. He believed that in the course of the next Session there would be no subject of domestic legisla tion of so much importance as the Ballot. They ought to unite in pressing such a measure, so that in or out of Par liament, public opinion respecting it might not be mistaken. He said that there ought to be union amongst Reformers ; for there never was a time that so much demanded, and so loudly called for, and invoked them to cultivate it ; there never was a time in which union was so much required, and combination so demanded, upon the part of Reformers ; for on the one hand there was arrayed the remains of a staggering, desperate, and corrupt Aristocracy, and upon the other a people struggling for freedom and the Queen— God bless her !—(Enthusiastic cheering for several minutes.) How often had he, in meetings of that sort drank, and how often had his heart responded to the toast—" The legiti mate source of all power—the people." It was legitimate ; but God bless the spring which, rising from that source, flowed in an ample current through the Royal heart of a Princess to her people, and from which all might draw life and happiness, as from a noble river fertilizing the land from which it rose.—(Cheers.) He said now to the people let them do their duty, the Queen had shown that she knew how to do her's.—(Cheers.) The next toast proposed was that of " George Pryme, Esq., and the Reformers of Cambridge." Mr. PRYME recommended constant association amongst Reformers—he recommended district unions, as he thought that they ought to have a nucleus round which men might gather, and that they might be prepared for action when the occasion might call it forth. He hoped that good would be done in the next session ; their majority was a small one, but it was a firm majority. They had now no wa verers amongst them, for the waverers were gone. He hoped that the Ministry would be able to do justice to Ire land, and to carry other practical measures, in the progress of Reform, which ought to be the effect of the Reform Bill.—( Hear.) The CHAIRMAN proposed " Thomas Hobhouse, Esq., Ralph Bernal, Esq., and the Reformers of Rochester." Mr. HODHOUSE for one felt that he was returned by a popular constituency, and lie would therefore do everything in his power to take care that the Democratic principle should be in the ascendancy.—(Cheers.) It was not merely England that was interested in the contest that was now taking place, but every part of Europe was interested in it, bat all the nations that were struggling for freedom were looking to their efforts, for by their efforts each hoped to obtain freedom in his own country.—(Cheers.) With re gard to the Ballot, he held it to be the sovereign remedy above all others for the evils of which they now com plained.—(Hear, hear.) Several other speeches were delivered in the course of the evening. The company separated at an early hour. TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE DAVID PRENTICE, ESQ The Committee of the Glasgow Emancipation Society having resolved, in conjunction with the other anti-slavery associations throughout the kingdom, to send delegates to an anti-slavery congress, to meet in London on the 14th of November, for the purpose of concerting measures for ob taining complete freedom to our negro fellow subjects in the colonies, in 1838, by the total extinction of the apprentice ship system, a public meeting of the members and friends of the society, to invest these delegates with their sanction and authority, was held in the Rev. Dr. \Vardlaw's chapel on Wednesday evening week. The meeting was numerously and respectably attended—indeed the church was crowded. The Rev. Dr. Heugh was in the chair, and Gtorge Thomp son, Esq., made a powerful address to the meeting. Mr. James Beith, in proposing a resolution recording the socie ty's sense of the valuable services of the late David Pren tice, Esq., said :—" I do not know that it is necessary to say any thing to you, a Glasgow anti-slavery audience, for the purpose of inducing you to adopt the sentiments con tained in this paper as a tribute of respect to the memory of a man who did so much, and sacrificed so much in the cause of negro slave emancipation as the late David Pren tice. That this generous friend of the liberties of the human race, whether black or white, did much in favour of the oppressed negro will be disputed by none who know anything of the readiness, and frequency, and ability, and unction with which the monstrous evils of slavery, and the cupidity and heartlessness of those who profited by its con tinuance, were discussed and denounced in the columns of the Glasgow Chronicle, for a period of not less than twenty years ; during the whole of which this journal, under the editorial superintendence of Mr. Prentice, was always open as his own heart to the cry of suffering humanity. Possessed of a head as clear as his heart was warm, a strong sense of justice was Mr. Prentice's constant companion, which he cherished into such practical activity that no crime against its sacred claims - escaped his burning censure. Some men and women, too, aro so constituted that the distress which comes within the range of their own personal observation readily ccmmands their warmest sympathies—nay, some are so ner vously constructed that they are ever on the point of going off in a fit of hysterics at the sight of a scratched figer, while the most intense distant misery, however vividly placed before them, is regarded with indifference as no concern of theirs. Such was not the temperament of our deceased friend. True,- he saw and deplored, he felt and did all he could to amelioratethe politically-degraded condition of the millions of his unenfranehised countrymen at horne. None laboured more assiduously, or with greater consistency and constancy to renovate and consolidate the British Constitu tion, by conferring upon the people the privilege of self government, than did David Prentice. But he did not stop here. Through the roar of the Atlantic he heard the clank ing of the chains and :the'r , roaning of the negro prisoners in bondage. He beheld the physical and mental, and moral degradation in which they were sunk : and knowing that no human power save that of public opinion could redeem them from their low estate, and raise them to the enjoyment of the common birth-right of their species—liberty and the pur suit of happiness—he gave publicity to their wrongs, and pled their cause with a perseverance and earnestness which, along with the labours of other philanthropists like himself, powerfully contributed to the rousing of that national sym pathy in farour of negro emancipation which embodied itself in the sublime spectacle of 339 delegates from all parts of the country presenting themselves before the then first lord of the treasury, Earl Grey, demanding that the oppressed should be allowed to go free, and which we cannot but believe enabled that minister to at least fix the day when slavery should be banished for ever from our transantlantic depen dencies. Are you grateful for this ? Forget not, then, the claims of David Prentice. But to all this, and much more than this—had I the tongue of a Thompson to express it — we must add, that Mr. Prentice, in uniformly and boldly maintaining his integrity in this noble clause, made immense pecuniary sacrifices. Great and wide-spread interests were supposed to be involved in this question. The planters raised the shout of spoliation. What they called their pro perty—the bones and sinews of their fellow-men, sprung from the same root, and destined to the same immortality — was reckoned to be in danger ; all, therefore, they could do they did do to silence their supposed Glasgow enemy, but in reality their best friend. They withdrew their advertising support and reading patronage from his paper, and left him, as his reward, to console himself with the sentimentalism of his own humanity ; and here I cannot but with sha me ob serve that, although this was well-known to the Glasgow emancipationists, yet, strange to say, they did not individu ally bestow on him anything like the countervailing support which he had a right to expect at their hands. But such was his firmness, which lays us under an everlasting debt of gratitude..to his memory—such was the deep-rooted con viction in his mind of the paramount claims of justice and humanity, that, in the face of this positive loss on the one I n ia ei nd, and still therstagge mredoirnenporrodviokveirnggednegfrloeon the m et tile path ot o h t er—lie duty. To the last hour of his connection with the Glasgow Chro nicle he remained the enlightened, incorruptible, unbending friend of freedom all over the world ; and that the base slave-holding professing Christians, of America well know. With these few and, considering the subject, very tame re marks, I beg leave to move the resolution."—Manckeste r Times. We are sure it will give great satisfaction to the country to be informed that the representation lately made to the military authorities by Lord John Russell, relative to the general practice of soldiers wearing side-arms when not on duty, has been successful ; and that in consequence of his interposition the practice will in future be discontinued. —Morning Chronicle. MONEY MARKET-SATURDAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) There has been an unusual degree of business transac tions to-day in the English Stock Market, and Consols. as well as Exchequer Bills and India Bonds, have sustained a considerable depression. Consols, which left Off firm yester day at 934 buyers, for money, opened this morning at 92f, receded to 94 but afterwards recovered themselves a little, and ultimately closed at 923- to and 931 to for the January Account. Exchequer Bills have receded to 445. to 465. premium, and India Bonds to 31s. to 335. premium. Various causes were assigned for this sudden gloom in the market,. and it was at first thought that a revolution had broken out in Hanover ; but as this was not confirmed, it seems almost entirely attributable to the fall of 1 per cent. which has taken place in the French Rentes, under an im pression that a loan will be shortly required by that coun try to meet the additional and heavy expenses which France has had to sustain lately. Shares sustained themselves better than the other mar kets. Birmingham Old, however, are 11. lower, but South ampton and Great Western are higher. Birmingham left off at 56 to 58 prem. ; ditto New, 16 to ; Southampton, 16 to 15 dis. ; ditto New, 101 to I 1 prem. ; Great Wes tern, llf to 124 prem. ; Brighton, 2 to L per share ; Croy don, 3 to 2 dis. ; ditto New, 4i to 5 prem. ; and South- Eastern, 4 to 3 dis. The official return of the weekly liabilities and assets of the Bank of England for the quarter ending the 14th in stant, by a comparison with the report for the quarter end ing the 17th of October, shows a decrease in the circula tion of 372,000/., the difference between 18,344,0001., and 18,716,0001. ; a decrease in the deposits of 259,0001., the difference between 10,242,0001. and 10,501,0001. ; a de crease in the securities of 1,331,0001., the difference be tween 23,985,0001. and 25,316,0001. ; and an increase in the stock of bullion of 576,000/., the difference between 7,432,0001. and 6,856,000/. The same cause which has occasioned'a decrease in the circulation, deposits, and se curities, and an increase in the amount of gold and silver in the coffers of the Bank, for the last several returns, has produced the present results. Money, in fact, is so ab un dant out of doors, and being obtainable on much more easy terms than at the Bank, there are no applications for loans on the part of the merchants, which necessarily causes a falling off in the deposits and securities ; and bullion not being in demand for exportation, while confidence is rapidly recovering itself throughout the country, it naturally aug ments at the chief moneyed institution. The . position of the Bank of England has not altogether been so favourable for a very long period, and the quantity of gold in their hands, as compared with the circulation, ought to remove all apprehensions from the minds of the Directors, lest the monetary system should be deranged by an extensive de mand upon the Bank for the precious metals. (From the Times.) Something of the character, at least, of the operations to be carried on here by Mr. Jaudon, the late cashier, and now agent in England for the United States Bank, .bas at length been disclosed. He is to deal, it seems, in the stock of the various American States, adapted to the form in use, which is found so convenient for speculators, with the Continental foreign funds. There are to be bonds, not registered as certificates, but transferrable from hand to hand, with dividend coupons annexed, and a payment in London at a fixed rate of exchange. Some of these, for the state of New Jersey, have already appeared in the market, and they have this remarkable feature about them, which would imply that the project was not one of any recent adoption, that the dividends were made payable at the office of " agency of the United States Bank in Lon don," the site of which is at this moment not yet fixed upon. At least, if Mr. Jaudon has settled his place of business, he has not in any way yet made it publicly known. There is other evidence, however, of the project itself being by no means of recent origin, for those who had the confidence of Mr .Jaudon during his visit. to London in the early part of 1836 will recollect perfectly the desire he expressed that American State stocks could be do miciled at the Stock-exchange in the way that some of the European funds are, and his surprise that no market could be found for the securities of his country, while even Span ish and Portuguese stocks could be dealt in, at a price, to any extent. Mr. Jaudon, will now, it is evident, by the matured appearance his plan presents, be able to make a market equally good for the securities in which he is to deal, and with such an overflow of capital as ha now finds amongst us, from the diminished operations of commerce, and the reduction of East Indian debt, there really seems to be no power which can arrest his career, if he only ren ders his commodity in point of price sufficiently tempting. Of the power thus acquired let the Bank of England in the first instance beware. The merchants, as a class, will care less about these than the operations he is supposed to have in view with respect to the exchanges between America and England, but they too will probably be soon included within the range of them. In either case, the hope seems to be on the decline, that his transactions will be of any use in hastening the settlement of the American debt to this country. The intelligence received this morning of a fall in French Rentes at Paris, operating upon a market somewhat feverish with the recent advance, had the effect of causing a decline in Consuls to the amount at one part of the day of I per cent. Sales were made to some extent, and rumours were in circulation to account for the fall in the French funds, of certain untoward complications of the African and Spanish questions as between England and France. The fact pro bably was, that the anxiety of the jobbers to realize was only increased by news of the depression of the French funds. Consols finally recovered, and left off at 93f to for Money and Account, and at 93- to for next Account. Exchequer Bills, 445. to 465. ; and India Bonds, 31s. to 335. premium. Foreign securities have generally been heavy, with a ten dency to decline, following the appearance of the Consol Market. In Brazilian this has amounted to s per cent., the closing prices being 84 to ; Mexican, 27i to 28 ; Colombian, 24,1- to 2.51 ; Peruvian, 19f to 20f ; Spanish Active, 20i- to t, with Coupons ; Portuguese, .5 per cents., 32 to the 3 per Cents., 21 e 1 to 224 ; Dutch 5 per Cents., 101-g- to the 2i per Cents., 54 to 4. The business in shares has been exceedingly limited, and yesterday's prices are barely supported. The usual average return of the liabilities and assets of the Bank of England, embracing the period from the 22d of August to the 14th inst., which appeared in last night's Gazette, gives the following results—viz., that the average of the month ending the 14th inst. as compared with the average of the month ending the 22d of August, shows a decrease o in f t 7 h 7 e o c ,o ir o c o u l l . a , t a io n n d o a f n l , i l n l c 6 re ,o a o se o/ i . n , atdheecsrteoacske of tbd bul lion of 1,728,0001. Wherefore it appears that the decrease in the liabilities is 1,893,000/., and this represents the decrease in the total quantity of money in the month ending the 14th inst. as compared with the month ending the 22d of August, in so far as regards the administration of the cur rency by the Bank of England. The yearly comparison is as follows :—The average of the month ending the 14th inst. as compared with the average of the month ending the 13th of December, 1836, shows an increase in the circulation of 234,0001., a decrease in the deposits of 2,838,000/., and an increase in the stock of bullion of 4,059000/. Wherefore it appears that the decrease in the liabilities is 2,604,0001., and this represents the decrease in the total quantity of money in the month ending- the 14th inst., as compared with the month ending the 13th of December, 183 G, in so far as regards the admi nistration of the currency by the Bank of England. The variations in the stock of bullion have taken place in ,he following manner and proportions . En the month ending the 7th of March, 1837, as compared with the month ending the 13th Dec. 12136, there is an increase of In the month ending the 30th May, as compared with the month ending the 7th of March, there is an increase of . 699,000 In the month ending the 22d of August, as com pared with the month ending the 30th of May, there is an increase of 1,584,000 And in the month ending the 14th inst. as compared with the month ending the 22d of August, there is an increase of .. 48,000 Being a total increase of £4,059,000 The changes and fluctuations in the circulation will appear rom the following statement : In the month ending the 7th of March, 1 837, as compared with the month ending the 13th of De cember, 1836, there is an increase of ............ In the month ending the 30th of May, as compared. with the month ending the 7th of March, there is a decrease of In the month ending the 22d of August, as com pared with the month ending the 30th of May, there is an increase of And in the month ending the 14th inst., as com pared with the month ending the 22d of August, there is a decrease of which leaves upon balance an increase of 234,000/. The following are the changes and fluctuations that have taken place in the deposits : In the month ending the 7th of March, 1837, as compared with the month ending the 13th of December, 1836, there is a decrease bf £2,910,000 I n the month ending the 30th of May, as compared with the month ending the 7th of March, there is a decrease of In the month ending the 22d of August, as com pared with the month ending the 30th of May, there is an increase of 999,000 And in the month ending the 14th inst., as com pared with the month ending the 22d of August, there is a d ecrease o f Which leaves upon balance a decrease of 2,838,0001. The following are the average amounts of the circulation, the deposits, and the stock of bullion, during the period from the 13th o f D ecem b er , 1836, t o the 14th inst., inclusive :- 1 Circulation 18,350,75011 Deposits 11,232,25018u11i0n 5,414,250 930,000 183,000 130,000 made : On this return the further remarks following arc to be 1. That the average circulation of the three months ending the 14th inst., being 18,341,0001., while the ave rage circulation of the whole year is 1 8,350,7501., the dif ference between the average of the last three months and the average of the year is only 6,750/. 2. That the average of the deposits for the three months ending the 14th inst., being 10,242,0001., while the average of the whole year is 11,232,2501., the difference between the two averages is 990,2501. 3. That there being a decrease of 1,893,0001., in the liabilities in the month, ending the 14th inst., as compared with the month ending the 22d of August, while upon the same compare there is an increase of 1,728,0001. in the stock of bullion, it is manifest that the intervening period the Bank of England must have cancelled paper money to the amount of 3,611,0001., and this by means of a diminu tion of its securities to the same extent. 4. That there being a decrease of 2,604,0001. in the lia bilities in the month ending the 14th inst., as compared with the month ending the 13th December, 1836, while upon the same compare there is an increase of 4,050,0001. in the stock of bullion, it is visible that in the intervening period the Bank of England must have cancelled paper money to the amount of 7,154,0001., and this by means of a diminution of its securities to the same extent. And, therefore, the difference between the two periods is this— that instead of 7,154,000/. of paper money which in De cember,lB36, rested upon securities, there is now 4,050,0001., of money founded upon bullion. And here it is to be noted, that at no period since the 31st of December, 1833, have the securities of the Bank been at so low a point as at present. By the return of that date the securities amounted to 23,576,0001., and the stock of bullion to 9,948,000/., whereas the amount of securities by the last return is 23,985,000/., but the stock of bullion is only 7,432,0001. At the period of the renewal of the charter in August, 1833, the amount of securities held by the Bank was 23,592,0001., and the stock of bullion was 11,005,000/. With respect to the entire paper currency of England and Wales, this is what may be said on the subject : By the last return in the Gazette of the 3d inst., it appears that the average of the country cir culation for the three months ending the 30th of September, 1837, was And the average amount of the circulation and deposits of the Bank of England for the three months ending the 19th of September, was 29,907,000 £40,049,049 And, therefore, the total amount of paper money in Eng land and Wales for the three months ending in September of the present year was 40,049,049/. On the other hand, the average of the country circulation for the three months ending the 24th September, 1836, was And the average amount of the circulation and deposits of the Bank of England for the three months ending the 20th September, 1836, was 32,265,000 £43,998,945 And, therefore, in the period between September, 1836, and the same month in 1837, the total diminution in the quantity of paper money in England and Wales is 3,949,8961., and of which diminution an amount of 2,350,0001. is in the paper money of the Bank of Eng -land, and the remaining 1,591,8961. in the paper money of the private banks and joint-stock banks. And note here, that at no period during the last four years has the country circulation been so low as at present. (From the Morning Herald.) It will appear by the subjoined analysis of the bank re turns, that that mismanaged corporation has emerged from the greatest difficulties they ever experienced, or with which they ever were surrounded since the panic of 1825-6. To us, as the sincere and ardent supporters of the vast and various industrial interests, which have tended so materially to the aggrandisement of the British empire, this is a sub ject of true gratulation. But with respect to the panic of the last year, and that of the year 1825-6, there is, as regards the position of the Bank of England, a most es sential difference. In 1825-6, the difficulties of the Bank of England were brought on by the influence of our new Currency 1361, for which the country was not then prepared, rather than by any system of overtrading. In 1836-7, the difficulties of the bank originated in the attempt to force a circulation, which the Corporation had not the power to sustain, for the sake of profit, and from which they have only been able to back out with loss to them selves, and by hazarding the welfare of our vast commer cial community. It is well for the bank that the true commercial enterprise of this country has been based upon capital and conducted by men of principle. The monthly return of the quarterly average of the lia bilities and assets of the Bank of England has created ra ther more than the usual interest which that important, though :very imperfect, statement always excites amongst our ,monied and commercial men. By comparing this with the like return for the quarter ending the 17th October, we obtain the following results :—lt appears that the cor poration have reduced their circulation in the sum of 372,000!., and that the deposits have been reduced in the sum of 259,000/. ; these are two most important features in the state of the affairs of the Corporation, and certainly indicate that they have exercised more than the usual dis cretion of late—than could formerly be concaed to the bank directors. The most important portion of the return is the fact that the securities in the hands of the Bank have been reduced in the sum of 1,331,0001., which is satisfactory, inasmuch as from this circumstance it may be inferred that a large portion of the paper held by the Bank, directly or indirectly, from the suspended American firms, and other parties, have been run off ; to which may be added, that the amount of bullion in their coffers has increased in the sum of 576,000/., the present aggregate amount returned being 7,432,000/. against 6,856,000/. in October, an increase of 2,499,000/. on the year, and, as compared with the return for February, the lowest ever made, the increase amounts to 3,400,000/. The mean amount of bul lion held by the Bank of England during the three past months appears to be 6,593,000/., and as the circulation has been reduced within the month, on the aggregate of the three months in the sum of 372,000/., it may he assumed (for nothing more than assumption can be advanced), that the Bank at present have in their coffers about 7,000,000/. of bullion against 18,344,000/. of circulation—a situation in which that Corporation have not been placed since they commenced the last attempt at an abuse of their power in the middle of 1836. The amount of the "rest," or sur plus capital of the Bank, has diminished in the sum of 24,000/., which is loss than on the last return by 122,000/., and on the October return by 170,0001. ; in fact, through out the year the " rest" has gradually decreased, but the Bank Corporation have had their " whistle," and most de servedly have paid for it. Having explained the result of the Bank returns, it may be well to show the actual position of the Bank Corpora tion, as a would-be monetary body and commercial regu lator, in reference also to its bounden duty the Govern ment. The Bank, by its constitution, is bound to consider the interests of the Treasury, with which, in fact, it is iden tified, as superior to that of the commercial interests ; because they receive a certain annual consideration for transacting the public business ; therefore, however well they may perform their duty to the state, they look and act upon commercial matters in a secondary point of view. This accounts for the reckless manner in which they hare for years managed their busine - ss ; at the one time, forcing a circulation not required ; at another, contracting it when most needed, an evidence also, that they conduct their bu siness rather with a view to save themselves, without the slightest consideration for any given portion, or even the whole of the commercial community who may have been misled by their apparent operations. In making these remarks we may safely say, that it is the opinion of the best practical monetary men that it is to the interest of the country at large, that the Bank of England should conduct the Government business ; but that, as none can well serve two masters, they have no power to aid the mercantile interests perfectly or permanently, be yond being a mere bank of issue. We believe that the Government is sensibly alive to the merits and defects of the Bank of England as a Corporation, and that measures arc in contemplation to repeal that portion of the Bank Charter which compels the Bank to receive Deposits, and which, doubtless, have often given such unpractised bankers, of which the bank direction are usually formed, very false notions of their power to regulate the currency : in fact, monopoly has been the idol of the Bank parlour, and Heaven must have helped the country which has sur mounted its grinding influence. (From the Morning Pest.) The English securities have been less favourably quoted to-day. Consols, for the Account, were done at 93i or per cent. below the closing price of yesterday. This change seems to have been produced in a great measure by the re port that the French Government have it in contemplation to raise a loan for 200,000,000 francs (8,000,000/. ster ling.) We are aware that the expenditure of the French Government more than keeps pace with its revenue, but for what particular service this sum of money is required, if it be so at all , has n ot been satisfactorily explained. One of the objects named is the prosecution of the war in Africa, which, however, we thought had been brought to a success ful termination ; another the internal improvements now in progress in various parts of France, or under the considera tion of the Executive. It seems, moreover, that rather extensive sales of Stock have been made within the last two days at Paris, under the impression that the Govern ment will once more attempt the reduction of the Five to a Four per Cent. domestic Stock, though it is well known that great difficulties stand in the way of such a conversion. There was some improvement towards the close of the Mar ket. Consols left off at 93i to for Money and for Ac count, Exchequer Bills 445. to 465. prem., India Bonds at 31s. to 335. prem., Bank Stock 212 to i a and India Stock at 2684 to 269. 603,000 DUBLIN-SATURDAY (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike, Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike."—POPE. Sir Robert Peel's manifestations on the election of a Speaker were not more expressive of the application of this distich, than is the conduct of his party in this country ; and I am sorry to be obliged to ssy, that even Courts of Justice are not impervious to this fce!ing. A very signal instance occurred this morning in the Evshequee, when the Court pronounced its decision in the case of Greene v. Hogan. The Dublin Journals will have inforreed you, that this was a motion, on the part of the Crown, to have the affidavit of a process-server made in a tithe case taken off the file, in order that he might be prosecuted for per jury. An application had been made some time ago for a conditional order ; and the Solicitor-General and Mr. Pigott applied, within these few days, to have the order made ab solute. It appeared that the process-server's affidavit, stating that he had in the year 1835 served process of this Court on several parties, had been negatived by nine affi davits on the part of the persons said to be served, and their servants, ins the most material of its allegations. At tempts had been made by individuals, and by the Crown Counsel on the Leinster Circuit, to bring this functionary of the law to justice for the supposed perjury ; but from technical defects in the proceedings, the matter was necies sarily delayed till this year, when it was brought under the special attention of the Law Officers of the Crown. Now, the practice of the Exchequer in Ireland differs from that of all the other Courts, here and at Westminster, in ap plications of this kind. When a private person applies to have an affidavit taken off the file, the Court invariably inquires into the merits of the case, lest there should be some oppression intended against the swearer. The ma jority of the Court, on this occasion, accordingly showed a strong disposition to refuse the motion, for the reason just mentioned. Mr. Pigott, in reply to Sergeant Jackson and Mr. Smith on this point, admitted the practice of the Court, and the propriety of such practice ; but contended, that as the application was on the part of the Crown, who could have no improper object in view, nor intend op pression from those motives which sometimes influence.in viduals, nor from any other motives, and who, actuated solely by a sense of public duty, were alone responsible for any proceedings that might be adopted, the rule ought to be made absolute as a matter of course. The Court hesi tated, however, and deferred its decision until this morning, when the Chief Baron entered into the whole transaction with his usual ability, shrewdness, and caustic observation. He dwelt upon the time allowed to elapse since the sup posed offence—railed at the injustice of the proceeding on the part of the Crown—designated the whole affair as a transaction of intended oppression—and after impressing upon the audience a sort of conviction that the motion would be rejected in despite of the Crown's prerogative, and the reasons assigned for their interfirence as of public duty, lo and behold his Lordship declared the rule abso lute !! It is said the Crown Solicitor left the Court before his Lordship had ended, under the impression that the Crown would be scouted out of Court ; and after wards could hardly be persuaded that his Lordship had pronounced the order precisely as it was rcqrtired. When the Chief Baron had concluded his commentary, the Soli citor-General stood up, and in a tone and temper strongly contrasting with the language of the Bench, suitable to the position in which he stood, and becoming a functionary of public justice, stated, that from what had fallen from the Court, and from everything that had been insinuated or disclosed in the course of the arguments on the question, he felt it to be his duty to state, on the part of the Attor ney-General and the Crown, that, before further steps were taken, all the facts of the case should be carefully examined and weighed ; and if it were found that the individual im plicated in the object of the motion was as free from any imputation of gross misconduct as it had been alleged he was, or if he was exposed to undue suffering, the Crown would abandon further proceedings. But if, on the other hand, there should appear ample grounds for the steps al ready taken, the Crown would persevere in vindicating the law, and in affording, by an uncompromising discharge of its duty, a moral and salutary protection to the community. I cannot describe the sensation caused at the Four Courts by this incident. An extraordinary effort was certainly made to cast an imputation on the administration of justice under the present Government ; but, like other similar at tempts, the blow in this case has rebounded, producing re action and ridiculous discomfiture. It will hardly be cre dited by your English readers, that, under any circum stances, a court of justice could become the scene of such a dcvclopcment of Tory spirit and feeling. But the names of the advocates of the process-server, the arguments they used, and the circumstances just mentioned, corroborate my statement. Never was the sun, in a November fog, more anxiously looked for, than will your Express Edition of Monday next. In a few hours after the receipt of this, you will be able to inform us whether or not our anticipations are reasonable and just. We do expect that her Majesty's Speech will announce a determination, on the part of Government, to regard the condition of Ireland as primarily demanding their attention. That they will boldly call upon the British Le gislature no longer to demur or procrastinate the period Fe:. reforming all our national institutions. That the tithe system must be adjusted in conformity with the appropria tion principle, though we shall accept any modification of that principle, which the present Government may be dis posed to offer. Corporate Reform is of equal importance, and we have no fears for its success this session. The questions of Poor-rates, and an improvement of the elec toral laws, will be acceptable to all classes of politicians in Ireland. There is very little difference of opinion on these subjects amongst intelligent persons. The former demands experiment ; the latter improvement. BRAINTREE CHURCH-RATE. The rule nisi granted by the Court of Queen's Bench stays the proceedings of the Ecclesiastical Court until the question of the validity of the rate has been determined, not by a single Ecclesiastical Judge, but by the Judges of the Queen's Bench ; and no proceeding to enforce that rate can now be had until their judgment is given. The is as follows : the Queen's Bench, Friday, the 17th day of Novem ber; 1837, in the first year of Queen Victoria.—ln the matter of a certain Suit for substraction of Church-rate, promoted by Augustus Charles Volcy and Thomas Joslin, against Joseph Davey Border, now defending in the Consistorial and Episcopal Court of London. " Upon reading the affidavit of William Henry Ashurst, gentleman, and another, it is ordered that Augustus Charles Volcy and Thomas Joslin, in the said affidavit respectively named, upon notice of this rule to be given to their procter, and the Worshipful Stephen Lushington, Doctor of Laws, Vicar-General and Official Principal of the Consistorial and Episcopal Court of London, upon notice of this rule to be given to him or his deputy, shall, upon Wednesday, the twenty-second day of November inst., show cause why a writ of prohibition should not issue to the Consistorial and Episcopal Court of London, to prohibit the said Court from further proceeding in the suit between the parties, and .hat in the meantime proceedings be stayed. " Upon the motion of Mr. Attorney-General. " By the Court." rule The following Address has been sent to Mr. John Reid, late bookseller, Glasgow, from the Poles in the West of Scotland :—Mr. John Reid being about to leave Glasgow, we seize the opportunity of expressing our gratitude for his valuable exertions on behalf of our fellow-exiles and ourselves, during the time ha was Secretary to the Polish Association here. It would be im possible for us to enumerate all that he has clone to promote our interests in ill's country ; but suffice it to say, that our cause has very few equally zealous and disinterested votaries, whilst the Polish exiles have no better or a more sincere friend than he is. IVe regret that circumstances oblige Mr. John Reid to leave us, but we hope that the change of residence will not affect his noble sentiments in the least, and that he will ever r emember his Polish friends. A. GREGOROWICZ, JOHN P SALZTNIAN, CAP. JABLONSKI, STANISLAUS IZDRIJDWSKIJ, FELICIAN A. WOLSKI, ANTON STEFANISKI, JULIAN PORAZINSKI, FRAN. KUSZELL, THEODORE WEBER, LORETAN DYDYNSKI. --- The grand tragic melodrama of Walsha was per formed at the Victoria Theatre on Monday last, and was rapturously received, notwithstanding the drawbacks ne ecssarily attendant on a first representation. The piece has been performed every night during the week, and is destined to run a long course of attraction. SATURDAY, Nov. 18, 1837.—The under-men tinned gentlemen were yesterday called to the bar by the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple :—Samuel War ren, Esq. ; William Gledstanes Ponsonhy, Esq., ; William Davy Watson, Esq. ; Edward Walker, Esq. ; Thomas Dickinson Hall, Esq. ; Francis Hastings Doyle, Esq. ; John W hitehead Peard, Esq. ; George Cha rles Allen, Esq. ; Anthony Miguel Jones, Esq. ; Esq. ; Thomas Coxhead Marsh, E,q. ; Henry Se d g wiek Wilde, Esq. ; James John Fitz-Jame s, Ei q . ; and Robert Pashley, Esq. John Inglis Ch almers, ELECTION PETITIONS.—The Liberal Members are not at all daunted at the preparations making by the Tories for attacking their scats,—they have lost no time in convening a Meeting- in London, for raising Subscriptions for defence, and to detc:rnine which of the Tories they shall a ssail ; they have retained Mr. Austin and Mr. Roebuck, the late Member for Bath, as their Counsel, and Sir Robert Sydney as their Parliamentary Agent : both i • sicl;is are preparing in earnest for the conflict.