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THE LONDON JOURNALS. ff‘.7I4ACTS FROM THE DAILY NtOIIN I G PA PEII,Si February 7, 18'2.3. . , [stottsresio posT.] Paris; Papers to theLtleinst. arrived yesterday by express. Their :contents, are highly impel-- luta and deeply afflictine; for it appears that the voiee of justice and moderation, whether uttered by the Any to whom the Bolo:1)0114 owe their Crown, or by the same part of the lAgislature by w hom the real interests of France ought to be protected, is treated with equal disregard. — the Tifinkters are evidently carried away by the vieletfee of the Ultra Faction. After having long resisted and : frequently exposed; in their own journals thts . ;*ngers of the policy which that infatuated party ,attempted to 'prescribe, they now yield pct :Ldopt its language, and run counter to all the strong represere tatiens Which they _made themAlves In their hour' of prudence and of wisdom. In the Sitting of the Chanitier of Peers on Monday last, acct AddrestewaS Proposed, echoing the sentiments of the Royal Speech,. and breathing the same hostility' to the independence of Spain, and throughit , to the peace of Europe. The spirit of justice, however, was not quite absent on this occasion, and to the honour of France and of her Legislature, Peers were found who Lett sufficient courage end patriotism to expose the iniquity of the war proposed, and the perils with which it could not fail to be attende4 and to move an amendment, embodying their salutary, views and sentiments. It was,then that . Messrs. de Villele and Cliateaubriat* shaking off that moderation by which they had hitherto deep distinguished, and espousing those Vito principles w Melt they had hitherto combated„ boastfully proclaimed' ofthat France Would act us France 'Ought to act;- and that slikwould not lay doWn her arms till order was ruatored in Spain." [srottsitNocuaoNicrE.l . It will be seetq front the extracts which we haVe given from the Paris Papers of Tuesday,. that appearances are more and more warlike in that capital. No doubt the report of the una nimity 'of the British Parliament: has not yet reached the ,French Government. Louis has not yet learned‘that the 'conduct of liiiliinisters has received from all rants and conditions, in this country the Most unqualified condeirmation that the Prime Minister has unhesitatingly pro.' nouneed their pretexts for war false and unjust, and their policy pregnattiwith danger to France and to Europe. I the Government and 00 . , union felt in the satin:• manner, their pride mighrl take the alarm at the severe moral lesson read to their, on Tuesday evening;. but as the Govern., meet .are ‘i'e are rattierindittiOto think that their fears will gain a victory overtheir pride.—Wejti common %c hit most observers, hesio,•! long observed that things on the Continent were ati; . !l 'vaneing tOwardeacrisis. The Governments have al- mostevery where mistaken the course which it was proper forthem to follow.Titere is in the present age an ir4'esistil4e tendency to advancement in know ledge, Industry, anti eivilization'i and they ought to have placed themselves in' .11armouy With it. The Government which allows to this tendency a free scope, reposes necessarily on a solid foun. -dation. Art intelligent, induatrious, and wealthy people are lovers of order, and tranquillity, an d can with difficulty be induced to recur to violent measures, while a poor and ignorant. people are, on the other hand, easily excited to disorder.— , Nothing astonished so meth the natives pf the misgoverned countries of the Continent as the ease with which order was maintained by night and day in Holland prior to the Frenchltevole. Con and in England ,tt constable's staff has al most always been , foutid more effective in tenor.. ing-obedience than a numerous grits d'armerie In other States. Nothing, in short, but the most Ile. grant wrongs will ever stimulate an intelligent and industrious people to Insurrection and rebellion ; and when earth:Li distress leads to riot or tesistance to the laws, the great body of citizens, interested in the preservetiee of, order, will always rat g.e themselves . of the side of au. • tbority. But, most of the Governments of the Continent seek their security, not in the industry • Isola intelligence of the people, but in their igno rance and debasement ; and the very instruments On whirls they rely for keeping the people ender, constitute the chief danger to Thrones in all times of difficulty. If suCh is 'the state of a country that the people have little or nothing to dread from convulsion, the soldiery will form but a very precarious support to a thronfs 111 0 May easily be:induced to assist in overturning it. [KEW TiMES.] We know nor that we can add much to our iesterdny's remarks. Ministers are placed in a delicate and trying sitUation. They are no doubt animated by a true English feeling to resist any views of aggrandizement w hich may be appre hended•from the Continental Powers ; nor would it b e co m i onaitt with policy or with truth for them to admit that Britain is incapable of sustaining with a udiwinished effort the great cause of national in. dependence, should such an effort on her part be come necessary. But the immense interests of our commerce and manufactures are not to be rashly put to ba4ard. Dreadful indeed would be the consequence, if to the agricultural distress now proailing should be added the ruin of our European trade, which forms full to o-thieds of our exports. Neutrality, therefore, we repeat, as long as it can be preserved with honour, is the obvious policy of Great Britain ; but we will add, that it should be a neutrality firm, fearless, and prepared for any contingency. [nityrisu mass.] The first object of attention to, the whole world at the present moment i, Spain. Revolu tion, by which is meant such a change in the *fairs of a nation as takes place in those of an individual when he renounces habitual inebriety and becomes attentive to his interest, active, discreet, or when lie dismisses riotous and dis. bonest hervauts, and employs persons of good character and conscientious vigilance—revolution, I thus rightly understood, is an object of the deepest solicitude to every human being whose heart is not cold and callous as " Tomeo's hoary brow." Let not the intelligent among men be cheated out of their reason and their 'conviction by the hired cant of the ignorant or the selfish, 4vho denounce the use of the fire be catlse there have been destructive conflagrations, and reprobate water because we often read of drownings. The Peninsula excepted, there is not a nation on the Continent to whom a revolu tion, with its worst possible evils, would not be incomparably preferable to the regular rotation of human life in their present condition:: If Great Britain is superior to every continental nation (and that she is, bear witness all that is peculiarly characteristic of humanity), it is be -cause we achieved a revolution more than a cen tury ago. Spain now claims our respect be cause she has effected a revolution; she claims our admiration, because she has had ttke magnanimity to avoid irritations and extravagances to which she was peculiarly exposed ; she claims our warmest sympathy because she is calumniated, insulted, and threatened by the vilest, yet most mischievous combinations which human society can admit. Spain then claims the liveliest and kindliest Interest of all enlightened and good men, as being engaged in the great work of revo lution. [MORN! NG HERA LD.] Accounts of Tuesday were received yesterday from PUris. The war party appears at the top of its wishes and of its speed. The march of regiments, or battalions, from Paris and other garrisons continues with„ if we may trust the Journals, increased activity. The Nuke of An.. gouhaniti:s baggage had left. Paris eight wag gonS`t at is not at all unreasonable that he, should provide himself for a compaign, whiCh may not, be very• speedily concluded. 50 .. , heavy a personal train, however, may some what encumber considering the face of the countryy , and the sort of warfare upon whist he is about to eater. Possibly the Consti tuthinal Guerillas may have an opportunity of unburdening him before long u it does not appear who- is to be the real and effictive Commander-- in-Chief. If it be Marshal Victor, the Minister of War, he is not without some ominous remi niscences of the late Spanish war, and in the same capacity in which it is said he is now toact. The battle of Talavera, as well as we remember, was lost by the French, under the nominal command of the intrusive King Joseph, with this Marshal for his monitor. It is not alone by land that warlike preparations are going on. A naval armament is to be immediately in readiness at Brest. The Ultra enthu siasm seems:to have seized even the King of France. shall be with you in heart, not being able to be so otherwise," said he to a suptrjor Officer, named Castelbajac. The name is familiar in Ultra politics--but it has not yet made a figure in the French armies, As to the sally itself ) it is not of,the happiest—and only lays the august person who uttered it .open to malice and derision. A Sovereign who had fought many battles, but was now infirm and old, might so express himself with . propriety and with effect, or it might have teitte with §eme gra c from.some of his predecessors. But it is the mis fortune of the ruling party and the Royal Family in France to speak and, act us if ideas, habits, and sentiments had retrograded two centuries at le restoration. . . [IIIE TIMES.] A calm, a momentary calm,- has succeeded to the general stern, 'of indignation which was showered down when Parliament met, on the violent measure denounced by France against the unoffending people of the Peninsula. We are unwilling to interrupt this repose : - would it May be of geed omen ! Tranquillity, at least, it is said, affords opportunity for reflection. We suppose the Opposition abstain for a while from pressing measures upon .the House of Ceinmons,. hi order that the effect of the late general expression of feeling may be ' lcnowri before (if we may use so homely phrase) . the dose is repeated. This conduct, on 'the part of Opposition, will appear. considerate and prudent. Never, however, did such unani mity prevail upon any question whatever in this country, as upon the iniquity of the principle pro. mulgated, and that of the course threatened to he pursued by the French Government against the Spanish nation. The cry of indignation was universal,: and 'C the sound of it is gone forth .to the ends of the earth." The King of France possessed many friends in this country, there was a favourable opinion respecting his personal character, the qualities of his head and heart. - What could his wicked counsellors mean —....„ by putting such a , speech into his Majesty's mouth ? %irks it really their object to snap asun der all the bonds of alliance which he bad formed during bis residence among us, and to cast his friends and admirers into a perfect destitu tion of , all the means of defendiug bins when ever his character was assailed, or Iris claims impugned ? If so, they have succeeded' to a marvel ; and it is only in his own power to right himself in the public opinion, by casting such counsellors from him. These are the hopes which we cherish perhaps—with futile fondness : for we must not disguise that the French papers speak incessantly of the activity with which pre, parations are making for war; how regiments are marching (whose hearts are but ill-af fected to the cause), and ships put in commis sion. The Spaniards, we trust, are equally (were we going to say ?) ay, ten times more than equally active : for how great is the object for which they are conteuding, compared to that which may have moved the wicked Ultra Royalists to attempt the invasion of the Peninsula.? The British Ministers, it is said, would have declared their opinions with much more freedom—wonld have spoken out with newly more frankness cagainst the conduct of the French Government, in the invasion of Spain, if they had been fully a ware of the extent to which they would have been supported by the nation at large, That spirit which they have wanted in the Senate, we hope j they will transmit to the saloon, and inferm, through their Minister at Paris, the Counsellors and Ministers of France, of the deep interest which the British nation takes in the fate of the brave Spaniards—an interest which we are sure will not long suffer us to remain tranquil spectators, while the Spaniards are massacred in their homes by foreign invaders. The sentiment against the injustice of t 4 French is most intense and universal among tka at present. What will it be when the Gazettes begin to an. flounce to us the , first temporary successes of the enemies of freedom over our late Allies, our fellow combatants and friends ? Witb what groans, pf agony will every victory of the French, if victory they do obtain, be greeted among us! What self-reproaches shall we not utter, that we were absent, when by some little aid of ours the battle might have been saved ! Happily, also, the maxims of policy coincide with the feelings of humanity : for, how injurious to the public in. terests of this country would it be, if France were todiverrun `id retain Spain ! 1 1 4 .11,ELAND: te. . TRIAL OF THE CONSPIRATORS. KING'S BENCII, DUNLIN, FEB. 3. The trial or the several traversers for the out rage upon the Marquis WELLESLEY having been fi xed for 9 o'clock this morning, the most intense anxiety was created.— The four Judges were seated upon the Bench, and to their right were observed Lord Meath, Lord Combermere, Sir Colquahoun Grant, the Knight of Kerry, and several other persons of distinction. Some degree of order having been obtained, the Sheriffs put in their panel, subscribed with their names. The Attorney- General objected to this mode of return, as a very extraordinary proceeding ; and wished. the Court to inquire whether all the Jurors who. had been summoned were returned on the panel.— The consMaration of the subject was deferred till the Counsel for the traiersers should appear. Shortly after Messrs. Driscoll, Johnston, Foster, and Blackburrw, K.C. and a host of others (making altogether 10 Counsel) speare d the traversers. The traversers were able to 'obtain admittance into Court shortly after, and were placed at a side bench on the left of the bar-benches, in the following order, viz.---James Forbes Wm. Graham, Geo. lirownlow ' Wm. liantheitch, George G r aham, and Henry Ilamlreiteb. They appeared to enter the Court with considerable confidence; the three former appeared to be per sons of respectable condition ; the others were not so much so. Mr. Sheriff Thorpe interchanged smiles of recognition with some of the traversers. ' . 31r. Joitstarok as Counsel for Forbes, intimated to the Court that lie learned that the panel had been delivered in, signed by the Sheriffs, and that it now appeared with their names. erased. Omer JuSTlCr—The signature has been removed: by wish Of the Court. . . Mr. JeirmsTos.e-On behalf of the traversers ; I demand that the names of the Sheriffithe signed to it before the jurors be called, otherwise, if the panel be kept open for . enlargement, the Crown can cneverbe put to , challenge upon cause„ at it it .the right of the traversers to require the Crown to do. The Avreinwrir-Grstnat.—lt it plaits that the Court .may direct that the Sheriff Shalt not close the panel till the Court is satisfied that there iit a sufficient number summoned and in attendance wallower it due administration of justice. The object here is to prevent the panel' being eularged, in ease it shou ld be thought necessary to require it. Mr. &RIVEN and Mr.- Ileacerunalt pressed the argu. meets of Mr. Johnston on behalf of the travertine, CIUEF JpsTrct.--There Can be naobjection to calling the panel before signed ;, we have judicial knowledge of the return. The panel having been called over, and several persons not attending, though called upon finer, the Attomey.General pro posed that they should he sent for. The Court, upon considers. tion,, refused to accede to this proposition, adding, that as to those individuals, they could not then proceed to any ulterior measures, but would, if it were required by the Attorney.Gc 'lend, direct the Sheriffs -to ",enlarge their panel; The Chief' • jrtatice added, that he must express the surprise of the Conn, that in a case of so much consideration its it appeared to be; and Where six persons were put upon trial, a panel of 4.4i1y silty jurors should be returned. • . After some pause, the Avr 01144 E:Y-01;$111fAt. 'applied that the Sheriffs should be examined by the Court as to the confor mity of' the panel with the number of jurors summoned, and at to the shortness of the panel. The Court, upon deliberation, reserved the inquiry till the Sheriff's. should bring in the en larged panel'. Mr. Dalscou., on behalf of the traversers, abserved, that there 'were two informations filed against the traverse* and required that they should be tried upon them severally, and' that the Attorney-Generid should now select which should be tried first. 'l'lie ATTonsale-G E N I;,' It AL insisted, that as the circum stances on which the two inforniations were grounded were the same, the two informations should go to the Jury together.— This was the uniform practice on circuit. CHIEF JUSTICE.--This Court has not a right to deprive the Crown of its right to put them on trial for the tWo infotmations together, when . grounded upon the same circumstances, as up-. pear by the copies of the informations laid before us. After much dlocussion a Jury was tOrmed out of the original and enlarged panels; there was not any Boman Catholic on the panel, nor any ostensible member of the (*potation. The Jury having been, sworn, the Judges retired , to take refresluneut • , and on their return td the (.701.11ii • The AT T 0 mon! -GEV): eel., at icquarter past twelve o'clock, commenced his addreos to the Bench and Jury. The counts of the two informations for the riot and conspiracy to riot having been previously detailed by Mr, Green, who opened the plead. inge for the Crown, the Right lion. and Learned Attorney ad dressed the Court and Jury for two hours and a quarter, to the course of which he .displayed the most happy combinaticin of juridical talent, official zeal, sound discretion, and manly de. portment, that ever was witnessed in our Halls of .Iwitice. lie offended no one, he yielded to no one, he injured no one. It is Itnpossible to Convey, in a hasty sketch, the splendid excellence of this address, The Learned Advocate detailed the evidence he proposed to adduce, but it will be better to give the evidence itself. 'l'he first witness called was Richard Lowther, box-keeper to the Theatre.Royal, who deposed to the purchase of several pit-tickets of admission to the theatre for the evening upon which it was published that his Excellency was to honour it with his presence. The tickets were purchased by the tra versers Forbes and William Graham,. and another person. Geo. A eo. Atkinson, examined by the 'rTOnifEir-GErrEttAL.— Knows of the endeavoura made to produce disturbance in the theatre. They were planned in the Orange Lodge, No. 1612. Forbes belongs to the lodge' N0.'1660, and Mr. Graham to the Woe ; cannot tell the number of the bodge to which:George Graham belongs;; the two flandwitches belong to the lodge 780, and Brownlow to No. 1612. An assembly was held on the Friday evening before Lord Wellesley went to the threatre, at the public-house; in NVerburgh-street, belonging to P. Daly.— Lodge No. 1612 met there; it is a purple ledge % which is the next higher lodge above an orange lodge, and it is required that site member should be eight months an Orangemen be fore be could be admitted, There were about 20 people there; witness is a member; some were members and some visitors; Forbes was there. Robert Fletcher, the master of the lodge, stood up, and proposesl that a subscription ehoeld be raised for defraying the expense of men going to the theatre who &Mid not of brd to pay for themselves. The purpose he men tioned was, that they should hiss and groan at his Excellency, end also the Lord Mayor ; they did not like Lord Wellesley, and it was on that account that they intended to try, if possible, to force him to leave the theatre. It was understood among us all what was ' the Purpose for sending the men there. Ward from the persons. there that there had been a prior meeting at the Slialtepeare Tavern : it was there mentioned, that if they could force his Excellency to leave the theatre, it would stamp, on the minds of the Ministers on 'the other side the unpopularity of his, Excellency'a government; the pereont for whom thetieleets were ptircluteed were to be sent to the upper gallery, because it was. considered that the members of lodge 11112 would be enough for the pit, to which they were appointed ;_that the members of that lodge should attend early, and when the doore would be open they should force into the pit, and go t on the left side near the box of the Lord Lieutenant, for the same purpose es they sent the other men to the upper gallery, Brownlew, the traverser, is mem ber of lodge 1012; and while they were Vimking or the matter, after thy play, hv, said h e ,was in the pit, with - numbers of the ledge 1612; and that there were numbers of them there, but not altogether in the spot appointed for diem. Those members of the lower lodges who could not afford to buy tickets for them selves were to be sent to the upper gallery.. 'Neither of the Hand niut)i!ualitsetioanweeivoiraen-i-xdatneft toew : oolpo e igne: t d h s a we t that. r night. brotg rt t e til l e i n a l et b e y st j th e s h e n ri A bed t. kintion'l the brother of witne int ss. rd i a n m o e rd P e u r r t i r a e d. t ~. ndt three persons there, w ha t p alt t r . d t l i e ck d e lci ts :i tint per sons t 4) the upper, itailerf;aii every pit.ticket would ad. li'itriest went with his -brotlier John, on that day,' to. where 'W. Ilandwich works ; saw him there; ' Jultil to-41m to send 11. liandwitch to Ship-street, where the r 'other Orange Lodge was held that evening, and ebto to bring as many as he could get of the poorer classes of ()rangeinen, who Child not provide tickets, to the sign Of the Black Bull in that street. At 40r5 in the afternoon. saw Forbes, a person mined I4l l Culloch,,witnees's brother John, Henry liandwitch, George Graham and several others, at that hoist: m Ship-stieet : one pit ticket was given to every three, to give to the poorer class to admit them to the upper gallery . ; from 20 to 30 tickets were given, which would admit from sixty to ninety-person. There were about thirty persons present at the time: all that were at Ship-street went to the theatre that night; there were full as many in the theatre as left the lodge; they had sticks with them. It was then mentioned, that after the tune of " God save the King" should be played, they should insist on the " Boyne Water" being played by the musicians; and that if they would not play it, they were not to let the play go on for the remainder of the evening until it should be played. This was to be effected by their making as much noise as they could. \Witness Certainly commenced taking some steps to prevent this. He was cautioned that these proceeding's might be unsafe, and was afraid that their passion weld& carry them to acts of.violence. On Saturday morning went to the Park to inform the Lord Lieutenant of the facts, but did not give the information to his Excellency, as the sentinel at the Lodge-gate stopped hint as he was going up there, and he had not any op• portunity of making the communication, and then gave up the intention of making the communication g did not tell the senti nel what his business was. It was arranged on Saturday evening, that they might know one another by the words " Look out," which were to be used as the watch-word of the night. The men had got some spirits and porter to drink ; there were some spirits left, and they brought it with them in a vial, or large bottle such as is made for a quart bottle. When Handwitch was going away, he said to the men that were going to the theatre, Boys, be wicked." Witness saw that party afterwards in the upper gal lery, on the opposite side to Lord Wellesley : witness assisted in placing them in the gallery, along with Forbes, 51'Culloch, John Atkinson, and Henry Handwitch ; witness left them in about twenty minutes, and saw them after towards the centre of the gallery ; saw Forbes in the house that night in the upper tier of boxes : he had a small whistle in his hand, and whistled with it—he was within half a yard of the gallery, and was speaking to some of the patty in the gallery. This was after the first part of the riot. Saw hand-bills golng about in different parts of the house —they were printed. Saw them before in manuscript with 31'Culloch (they were produ.ced and identified); saw 31‘Culloch dispersing them through the house, from the part of the house immediately over the Lord Lieutenant's box, and one of them fell on his cushion. Knows a person named Kelly ; and did not see him at the theatre that night, but saw bins after the play at a house in Essex-street, belong ing to a person named Flanagan ; saw Forbes throw some of the hand-bills on the stage ;,,heard whistles and shouts from the gallery ; some cried out—" A groan for the Popish Wel . lesley !" someone also cried out—" Bald-pated Wellesley, you May go home." At that time there was much noise, and the performance interrupted sometimes : it was after those exprea mons were used he saw Forbes speaking to the people in the gallery ; knows nothing of a bottle having been thrown ; saw at Essex-street, Forbes, W. Graham, and Kelly, for short time, and several others. A gentleman, named Smith was there, and Brownlow and John Atkinson. There was a good de al of conversation. Forbei made use of the expression—" The devil mend him" (Lord Wellesley), when speaking of the bottle ,having been thrown; that he did not care if he himself were transported, so as lie could raise an orange lodge wherever he should be sent. There was no particular conversation, but . a mere running conversation among themselves ; they were speak ing as to' sandwich being taken,. and who was to go bail for him. Forbes asked some of them who had been In the pit way they had not been more active? He said this to Browniow,- who answered, that those in the pit did as much as those in any ether part of the home. They said that Hand: witch was charged with throwing the bottle. They expressed themselves in terms that they were sorry in fact that the bottle did not take effect, Forbes, Brownlow, ',il'e:lll°6, and several others were present clueing the whole of this. The witness here identified all' the traverser% On his cross-examination by several Counsel for the era venters, he said lie never gave information of what he now deposed to, to the Government. This was his first public discloinire of them. His father is first clerk in Mountrath-street Police...of fice, and his brother John a clerk in the Costom-house. No deadly weapons were ever proposed to be brought to the theatre —that is, the arms; never heard any directions given to assault or insult any body . ; never remonstrated with any one against going to the theatre ; does recollect perfectly well that FletCher did make use of the Lord Lieutetrant'iname, as well as the Lord Mayor's, and in the presence of Forbes, when raising the sub scription; first haVe the whistle with Yorbesat the Lodge in Ship street; witness had got one also, but did not buy it at all, as there were several handed about in Ship-street; cannot say p os i t i ve ly it was Ida brother handed them about. Forbes was certainly very warm, and somewhat tipsey, when he carne to Flanagan's ; recollects his given toasts after supper, viz.— " The King,:" " -r." The glorious Memory,"— The Protestant Ascendancy." They separated at half-past one in the morning. There were strangers in the room, wheal none of them knew. Forbes summoned witness to the trial in Green-street; doei not recollect havink told any body that he could give material evidence for Forbes, provided it did not injure his own brother. Did not hear any intention mentioned of throwing a missile at' any body e dui snot hear Forbes give any such direction . ; does not think ' the words, " Boys, be wicked," could be intended to apply to the insisting of playing the " Boyne Water ;"hi* . no office • now ; was in the Custom house, but was reduced about two years ago. Ite-examined.--..Was sent toe to give information in this matter ; and did go tp the person• who sent for him ; no threit or promise was held out to him. At half past four o'clock the Court adjourned to nine o'clock next morning. It is expected the trial will not conchide before Wedneiday afternoon. • ACCIDENTS from the LATE STORMS. The numerous melancholy accounts which haye reached us from almost every great town in the southern part of the kingdom, of .accidents having happened during the late violent storms, from the falling of houses, chimney-tops—eyo of wharfs, piers, bridges,' and other aquatic works, from which many lives have been lost, and much valuable propertytie stroyed, seem to us to call for the immediate and most serious consideration of Magistrates, Engineers, Surveyors, Architects, and others. To the Magistrate belongs the duty to enjoin that the Engineer, Surveyor, or Architect, shall construct all build. ings under hiedirection in such a manner that they shall be capable of withstanding the effects of any storm to which there is a probability of their being subjected. From past experience, ' it is much to be feared that due consideration has not been given to the strength and quality of the materials used ; and as we cannot doubt the great ability of the artists of this eoun try, to construct works of every description, we must attri bute the whole of the numerous failures which have taken place, to the inferior and improper quality of the building materials. Under these circumstances, we beg most earnestly to call the attention of the Legislature, and all others interested in the construction of buildings of whatever kind, which have to sustain the action of stormy weather, to the more extensive is use of Granite Stone, which much better calculated for eistance than any other • kind, as will appear from experiments lately made by men eminent for scientific knowledge, when it was found that a cubic inch. of beet brick was crushed by a weight, of only 5621b5.; that a cubic inch of, best Portland stone was crushed with a weight of only 3,7291b5. ; and that a cubic inch of Aberdeenshire granite bore a pressure of 10,91011i5. That when water is 1000, the specific gravity of brick is:only 1041, and best Portland stone only 2113; whereas Aberdeenshire granite is 2625 ; hence the superiority of the latter, both in its resistance to pressure, and also to its greater specific gravity, renders it greatly superior for aquatic as well as all other exposed works; as much less built will answer the tut pose, and its quality being almost of the indeitructible kind, works built with it will last for ages, without any change of appearance, which is completely evidenced by many of the works of the ancients; which are built with this kind of stone. it should, therefore, at least be used in all churches, bridges, and other national and public works, where stability and safety are required. We are informed that the granite stone, of su perior quality, is so abundant in Aberdeenshi re , an d the work. men so expert in procuring and working it into any shape, either plain or ornamental, that it can be delivered in Lmdon, or any of the ports On the coast, cheaper than the Portland, or any of the other soft sand stones, which decay's° rapidly. The arrival of the northern mails is still im. petted by the state of the roads, rendered im passable by the snow. T he mails from Scotland did not reach Newcastle on the 3d and 4th. T}..e bags from Newcastle and the road to York, alp .o those from Shields to York, did not ArilVe y es . Were dve. No letters terday. The letters from Carlisle awl, eastward, of the gd, were received ye:;, ter d av, plitees but 3 a ( f l t e ve 3( a l ;r w i :e li d e htrom Whitby.---(Morn ing Paper.) The heavens were beautifully illuminated on not sinc e t h t o h s e e S un d a y evening last, a few minutes afwr six, by the appearance of a m eteor in the western hemis phere, which, during its continuance for a few ,seconds*, threw a most brilliant light over the earth.—(Porlsni with Paper.) FOR THE SUN. being an Ma. EDlTOR—Having last week seen in r" intelligent Paper that George Elliot, i guard t the H ig h Flyer York coach, had dropped 0 from behind, being benumbed with the told, little to the north of the Newark Trent ldgi smiling to go northwards, I have to c oalman impediment to the Radicals, cate to you, that the Muskham Bridge, tw miles to the north of Newark, has been so cli waged, by the ice, as to make a large Ong! and is very dangerous to passenffers trave.l a liug de iT ora th b e ly N b o a r d t h a t R a t o e a , d . a o d This a lir e id t i l l g i l l e e s t o l g i la e s i l the lives of many.. A coachman, ne t long sin° lost his life by falling through the railing of it , This wooden bridge now gets us rotten as pear, in comparison ; were it in any other cou.V in England it w ould h av e b e en a stone NI 'ere now, but it belongs to the ho lder of the 54 , joining est a tes, who is charged and chargol n with the support and maintenance of the sial,e, , there are now horn lanthorns placed on it forr gpuosidtsa,u cpeileosf andt passengers and carriges 10: 1 1 o tu v t e e r ait stone.; but bridge t wa n t at s the or r near i. e g i ; the l a e t ure samet o p I: c h s e . 31, IL P. S. This Bridge is supported by o° , di ii the parish of Muskham ; the railing sonta; wide es-posts and rails do on a new inclas.are s land, and is neither tarred nor painted ih tc l that the water frequently frightens 1101"s' iur pillars acrosi the river Treni,_, in passing on either side . Newark, Feb. 4, 183. _ CORONERS' INQUEST. .Itc. cups taktli DREADFUL SUICIDE.--.Act Inquisition on ,ice o c n oron Wedn er, esd a t theaY af t ernoo n Grave Put sl4rl s t the body of Anthony Angel, aged about 53, tch°P m b or ef r o i r s e , Jots that the deceased, who was by birth a Greek, Nye • ;DIP ; orlf back observed to be in low desponding state of o' n 0 his existence alter the following frightful manner i f — or l o t l r o , at" ing, as alleged by himself, from the many disaPP °l reduce' w had experienced through life. He indigence, through his inability, fret mind, to gain a livelihood, that he an inmate of Whitechapel Workhouse, dement ; and his admission there - day se'nnieu, he was in such a state it was found absolutely necessary waistcoat. This restraint was rout i h t i st tee l h i r a n pe irl i. i ros t T when the unfortunate man, finding taking advantage of the absence Of jumped out of bed, and throwing plunged out into the street, from' falling with his head foremost on an extensive fractiire of the scull, , on the following day (Sunday) at VII Coroner and Gentlemen of the Jury satisfied, from the evidence adduced, of sound mind or intellect when he 4 : returned their verdict to that effect. DEATH BY 13CPROPER held yesterday at the. Lion and Stil STior.iNG, Esq. the Coroner, at officers of St. Cides's parish, on the whose death was occasioned by imp while being removed from Northam Elizabeth Bolton, eaturse in the Giles's workhouse; said, deeeast been removed from the country and three weeks: At the time very bad condition, and told witness , amptonshire in the waggon; that lu three nights, having only one meal cover his feet, and alleged that his by riding in the 'waggon. The di Northamptonshire in good healtl bu b t " ne received. witness when m Pv promised obstly erved the y to : n en s ed n hye k n i ntoasihore m or ning, arrives ne apothecary, was sent for, who atte. huh, but without efi'ect.—ThomaS same ward as deceased, said, he • complaint arose from coming up but one meal per day, he seemed on account of his death. Vitus c w i ft:u s : sed i co g n es n il iw s e p , lisi di a a i ed po nbt : o: th w w ec i h ri a i hi c e r t h i y lin a u h t: th :S e P ai e n : i t Gll l t by-cold; he had , n o, with a distreising rough , difficulty of breathing, tiou, denoting great disease of the l ungs jit f a r ti t air drops aff as icr icti P sw o l n eu - o i f n ;th - j e - n - I,7ii t l,' of t=t a quantity of blood into the vessels head : deceased was a very lusty man of Ple, t .".`„; 0 ;101:, witness is of opinion he died i n conse quence "' Theife, was likely to have been occasioned by C°7l,,,ier" ne No v rt er han hin n t l eil ton a sh ny ire. thing to him of the nutnner want of attention to the deceased on his j 0 " 111 " ' 4 0( 01' 0 ° their verdict—" That he died of an inflainmstiuniot4 occasioned by the inclemency of the weilthe r ,lr , Aids' passed from Aye, in No rt hampton shi re, to '" •1 eih j A young Lady, named GaAncen),fileill' of Mr: 'l'. COOKE of. Drur lane y eto syl Y" I,lin 110 "s s has recently performed at . the Concerts with d ir i h s e tg y ui w s e" hed of° a P p in p i l til :l' lt ,:: youth and modesty o f deporlooo IP vg, to her vocal abilities create • c ost r urest in her faVour ; s and , PIP"' nrn fi t purity of her taste, correct t off 0 flexibility, and sweetness, there' it /0 P l 4/ son to hope that , I she ttot ut a d o e red her talent ' s in her profession. She certainly etit , credit to Mr. COOKE, who has been r t , successful with his pupils.---(, _ 0 ,0 0. 1111tTlIS. a llo tl rtl ahAl:te i gi t n t lfrt o j i hr ei tY E 4l : 3l :. t " o la f .7ll a C tl 'i a tch t v i e . e gi ll t L te : r du . Yseb ' rletr. et: itti-eew"' °l ' l'lli h P a l _ 111AltRIEV. it ~..0 X On the 6th instant, at St. tieorge's Church , fr ott , :, 04, by the Rev. S. John's Knight, :Ntajot s ca or,,, d ß a it t r i t- gh (l te f r Bt. of j° t h he ll'B l( l44xl ev. g ß e '. ll l. e ' rt it s z;:i: l ' .4 '' '' . :" '*:; :1 111 1.6 1 $ 1 : 1 r if i : Richard's Cattle in the I)locesP I , r " tan _A - ri latlV l .o of the late llishop of Si. i i , d ea f ; kg i'e htt o pp n y l pa veti ir i se le t w oll o ' . fo .t r i. :J .„,,,ro,..r,slasthir.e. Alter - - no,i 500 ,,,:,' A • Tarltrop, ti .„ .e sth inst., at St. CIiITIC I l i r di g Anoretrs 0 , r ..e Loren •it to Ann) d ali gr l 0 4 ! 1 . F. , ', ~ On 7 .4 ,er .11, e; • a A l° , thee,lfiky -. 04 4, the 6th inst., at a n te dnire,,,ers ° f ) ts - West, Rictor of rterwick,', ‘3 , l "- - 1: el " ./ r ‘llkffilY of Stissex, to Louisa, ditur te ...cnbtrt Barker, Ilart. - 0117 - 1). f age O d n ia the . nth instant, Mr. Thomas Shute' `) 1"4514. ,0- 44 'A k+ 1 Al • Lately, at Stoke Fen A eged i e ••^ I. Al draper. .6 e a I° l ll4A 30 1 It- * --1' 1 " W: On Thursday morning the :111 • li, ? he . 1 "` at illness, in the 44th ymr of his agN,„_, l ,t ~, of i M.A., rector Gr Earl Stonham, in Sturnw! .. .„.lillafdit From the effects of a violent cold, si. r e mr, ' 1 ,ly days, Nit. Samuel Ihrecins son of the j a i toteol Una, of Hart. , palish of RelltoStlef• h i t sgo , 00* At Hereford, in the 22d year of it Atti ~, rmwther, Esq., only son of the Rev. A ..,. ~ Spratton, .Northamptonshire. --'-111/1 st , Printed and rubliflted for the lse3P#ll:l,ol4 Office, No. 112, strandl WAS 'Rainy rCdUCcu - Oa tom the distut bed 0 10 ,4 e was necessitated to v . ,1 1 1, °use, that being itil i fr i cio le on the eveningt',' oil ate ofd errateo r to con ne hitn in,l oil I.t.inued up to Sstuon 0 g himself once more to If the nurse front t he a 1 ; up the sash of the s i. v t 'l r ,i r ee considerable he,iilyeci the pavement, re cen,o as to produce bill t . liir u pt olei the London IluspitsP 60 y expressed shall Ti t s xl, that the decco h . ... t , 0 1 D comm"ed the Th — -- ' G At iro AT :%1 ENT.-- An in,,,,, 1 r Toe; ill, Drury- liine,,,bliv;o 0 the instanced we rijor he body of Theinsi P . ri , he rec, iproper trestag , iii ms , "Ptonshire"to 4 ',, r ,i of !i , li to twenty 4 w*r,:t I‘ ll4l I :, Aimi w:ts a P l4-- ' e el ; - to St. Gaol I' l e, * A L o: he came thet e *e1,4,t0". *A r P r i eau he b a d c ent .--% ale travelled atte, 0 per day, withee "tAtit would it t , ..,0 leceased also itsl4,W th i 'he had no. , A ,trit o ed in London, if 11; 0 ' let o a , about a gaoler ° Ai - 1 07 i; ig up stairs, anti w-il t si: - arms appnofilio,,, . ,ver spoke. Ai r ' . o ended, and attcd,,, in 01 as Smith, a erf thll ll ' ' ' A ',,n Wkgel 111 I. "east „ia IA ho, ' p in the we ;11.44 I tip ne sea a salwayssil u :a l r e r wo W i na Bad. 'the t: k c I)4b:cer::ll:llstti,47o,o ,: i $ 181_. „t LI 1 1: :' • - toirh ^ A ii: