The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. Charles Buller's motion last night, that the Bill for Regulating the Decision on Controverted Elections be read a second time, elicited some remarks on the proceedings of the Committee now sitting on the Longford election. There can be no doubt as to the absolute necessity of an improvement in this re pect. The long experience we have of Committees Las but too clearly established their utter unfitness to discharge the important judicial duties that devolve on them. Prejudice too frequently has superseded the law of the realm, and the elective franchise has been the sport of political predilection. The character of the House of, Commons has thus been materially da r,a_ged in the public estimation. So much so, that in all cases of petition against the return for a county, city, or borough, the usual question is—not what are the merits of the case, but what is the political hue of the Committee. And it must be admitted that the conduct of Committees in too many instances has in some degree justified this:reproach. They des- Fise usage, or rather, by setting precedent at nought, they exclude usage ; they take, each of them, a veculiar view of the law, and the voter's rights lave been made to rest upon no sounder or surer base than the sic vo/o of, it may be', the Chairman. The evi effects of this state of things were remarkably elu cidated in the evidence given by one of the witnesses examined in the Longford case on Tuesday. This gentleman openly stated, in presence of the Committee, that he had, outside the door, impugned their deci sions vnd their motives, and he repeated his imputa tion in their presence. He unhesitatingly denounced their decisions as illegal and unjust. From what Mr. Henri Grattan stated in the House of Commons last right, it would seem that Lord Clive's conduct does not 5,—.10 with the constitutional views of Honourable Mymbers. We say Lord Clive, because he, as Chair mac, has pursued a course unprecedented, we believe, in election Committees. The usage has been; that the Chairman votes only when the Committee divide In the Longford case such a division can never OCCUr, there being but nine, exclusive of the Chairman, now serving.. Instances, few and far betv‘ - een, however, have occurred, where the Chair man has voted with the minority—when his so don equalised the votes—but such a vote ;els hitherto been invariably followed by the casting vane in favour of those with whom the absent Member would, it was supposed, have voted had he been pre-_ :..;ent. Lord Clive has departed, we believe we may state, in - ahnost every instance from this custom. He ; , ot only votes with the Tory minority against the •franchise, but, haying thus equalised the numbers, he d na, throws his casting voice into the scale with • that zirtv, and against those with whose political opinions he absent Member, Mr. Horsman, is known to coin- Why do we state these facts ? is it to throw iscrft.lit upon Lord Chive's motives? Not at all ; we the statement because the facts have given rise to injurious; rumours, and because these rinuours arc an 4 vi:;ence of the necessity that exists for altering the E ' ve ' n. cic: ' in this respect. A new tribimal is .‘vuitin';. Ti:.. , I .,:csAlt tribunal is essentia:ly unfit for it , i)urp.. - se. To opeo the registry is monstryus ; and in the TA nofor , tile evil effects of this monstrous proceec',.,q I;ave ! m en. shown in the disfranchisement of some of the i n os t-. substantial, independent, sod bona Ale. free lloldeis in the United Kingdom.—Morning Chronicle. The debates of last night wero not unimpottant, as wo ; hail have occasion to obServe, neither %vete they entortb.. i ning. The Scotch have a quiet, steady way of (,ine s' r which tends much to the promotion of ;heir objects, but little to animating the discussion of The Municipal Bill and the Royal Burch Bill. tbeo, were father drowsily disposed of. The Contro verted Election Bill was also carried in its second .11Tog, all opposition to it being defer red. until goll: _into Committee. At last came on the Freeman's Ad:- raission Bill. Take what view we may of the freemen e tlf.-iselves, this Bill was a good Bill. Are the freemen corral,*, ?—well, this Bill was to do away with one of temptations to corruption, and a most important one, too. It is on the very threshold of his rights that vow juvenile freeman usually trips. He wants his free ; the money must be paid for taking npitis freedom, at.'l he does not to pay this money. '' Oh but sa:m some good-natured gentleman who has just been addressing the free and independent electors, " it is a great shame that you should not have your freedunn, and a great annoyance that you should pay for it—allow me to settle this matter ; your freedom shad be had, shall be paid for, and all that I ask in return is, that you should use it in my favour ;" and whom could the just-initiated more appropriately oblige than so charming and generous a gentleman ? Now, Mr. Williams, mindful that it is the first false .step in corruption that - subsequently' induces the voter to wallow in it, removes the stumbling block. He takes away the fee—the inducement to he bought, and the occasion to buy, and then some gentleman cries out, " You arc only thinking of the purses of the can &dates ;" and a very proper thing to think of too. " And what," as Mr. Warburton very properly said, " what do all Bills to prevent bribery aim at ?" Why, soring the pockets of the candidates, to be sure— imist they not do so F Who is to bribe ? But the Tories chuckled ; they thought, somehow or other, that Lord Lyndhurst's plait of popularizing Tory i:crn was about to be carried into effect. They have always, from old Liverpool recollections, pa tronised the freemen ; and now, thought they, is a capital opportunity. " We will he all for tire freemen. Those Whigs and Radicals, who ate Always dreaming about purity, and that sort of non stmee, will object to doing anything for the freemen, he,cause they know we have hitherto had a knack of purchasing these excellent men ; and so we shall go forward to the world as the freeman's, the poor man's, champion." There was a smile—the notion was so singularly pleasing—even for two seconds on Mr. Trevor's countenance. When, lo and behold I Lord John Russell rose. Did he reject the Bill ?—did he denounce the freemen ! No ; he drew, very properly, .a distinction between what the freemen had been and were, and what this measure was likely to do for theil bnyrovement. But he did not stop here—that was the cruel thing—had he stopped here all might yet have been Nye 11 , and Sir Robert Peel and himself walked out of the House arm-in-arm together. But he (lid not stop here :—" There are two classes of voters (he said), the freemen, and the ten-pound householders. Now, I will not oppose this Bill, because I thbik it may improve one. of these classes, but if I con sent to a measure which is to increase the freeman's facility of obtaining a vote, I will also bring forward a measure which shall increase the facility of the ten- poand householder obtaining his vote ! and though General Evans is absent, I will adopt his motion of trio Tears ago, and remove, or , considerably liglften, the ob sti7uction on voting , which the rate-paying clauses of the Reform Act impose." That Lord John did just what he should have done was evident by the Tories not knowing what they should do. Cdnfusion was in the midst of them. Sir Robert Peel got up and played off a few of those ponderous levities which he has so happily described. But it would not do. They ended in no decision. His party could come to none. They Would not pledge themselves to one measure if it were to be coupled with another. They like the :freemen, but they hate the ten-pound householders. "Sims, strange to relate, the glorious gemini of the ~-rrt. at constellation were gemini no longer—out of one door marched Sir Robert, out of the other Mr. G ati lborn I ! —Morning -Chronicle.. It is vary little in our way to know aught about the internal corwerns of the Romish Church in Ireland, or, knowing, t o wake them subjects of attention, much less of.public commentary. Where the Popish priest hood keep within thejr own jurisdiction, and meddle .only with the spiritual atTairs of their flocks, or when the higher clergy, -in their treatment of the inferior class. of priests, behave towards them in conformity Avith the known laws and regulations of the Church of Roinc, whatever we Protestants must think of such regulations, it is no business of ours to intermeddle, or trouble our Protestant brethren with questions winch in no manner affect their immediate interests or v:elfare. But it is not, and ought not to be, so, when Roman Catholic priests, of high or low degree, step lbevond their sphere, and exercise powers with which too human authority has invested them ; while, in trans vressing the canons of their own Church, they violate towards members of the Romish faith those laws by which the rights of all British subjects ought to he protected. In that case not merely are the sympa thies of Protestants engaged on behalf of those who may have suffered wrong, but in sound policy and self defence they are bound by all those prudential motives and maxims which usually govern the citizens of a free community, to take an active interest in the quarrel, and for their own sakes, and as a means of keeping aggression from their own doors, to make common cause against individual oppression. The "Most Rev." Dr. Crolly—he who in spite of the Bill for re lieving Roman Catholics from civil disabilities, usurps and rejoices in the title of " Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland"—is already known to the public for certain proceedings, wherein he was alleged to have employed within this year or two his prerogative as a Romish prelate against a clergy man of the same Church, and in a way which savoured at least of oppression, the only crime of the parochial priest being, that he had resorted to the law of the land against one of his spiritual superiors, for • redress of a civil wrong, obtaining damages at his hands by the award of a common law Jury. An evening Contemporary of ours, the Standard, pub lished some days ago a long correspondence between another priest of the Roman Catholic Church and the same Dr. Crolly, who was accused by the former, viz., Dean Lyons, Roman Catholic Dean of Killala, of having inflicted on_ him sundry grievous wrongs, and refused him every kind of reparation. The cor respondence, of which nine-tenths arc from the pen of Dr. Lyons, states a series of acts of persecution, of which the character may be shortly comprised in these words—the direct violation of the complainant's rights as a British subject, ingrafted upon a gross perversion of the ecclesiastical powers delegated to Dr. Crolly by the see of Rome, in the matter of certain discords, which he was instructed to investigate and compose, between Dr. O'Finan, Bishop of Killala, with some of his clergy on the one hand, and with the notorious Dr. M‘Hale on the other. It would appear, if the statements of Dean Lyons can be credited, that Dr. Crolly performed a " visitation" to the diocese of Killala for the ostensible purpose, no other purpose (according to the account of Dr. Lyons) being au thorized by the Roman Pontiff, of examining into the above causes anti circumstances of clerical dis pute, but that he took the opportunity of Dean Lyons's absence at Rome, whither he • had gone to defend himself against some personal charges, of which he was there fully acquitted, to examine wit nesses with regard to the conduct of Dr. Lyons, not merely as to the discharge of his spiritual functions, but in his relation of landlord towards his tenants ; that ha (Dr. (holly) forced himself (the precise me thod-of the intrusion is not stated) into the house of Dr. Lyon s, during the master's absence, employing practice,s of the roost indefensible and disgraceful kind for the sal.e of doing him injury. On this point the complainant, in the comae of a long and formal pro test agains the proceedings of the Romish Archbishop, and in aesignino o the reasons for that protest, expresses himself as follows :—" Because you attempted to violate the sacredness of my own house, and to create disunion in toy- by seeking to examine my lrrotier and sisi - ers, with • a view Of. eliciting from them some acknowled , 7mont that might be construed to my di,advantae. - " Because you have so conducted the proceedings, that if tirey shook' be ratified, it could not fail to implicate the Court of Roma with the British Government, inas much as you exerciscd civil power and authority as the delegate of the I loly See, for in your character of apostolic visitor you administered oaths—inquired into civil contracts letween landlord and tenant—in terfered in private and secular concerns—inspected books of account and other private papers which had nothing to do with eccicsia. , :tical matters, without the permission of the tuner, and committed various other acts of wilful trespass on mq farm of Shanohee, iit violation °I mq temporal rioh ls as a British subject." have not to-day room 'for the whole of the pro test from which the above pithy - paKages are taken, not as conveying charges in themselves more heinous than many others which that curious document con tains, but as addressing themselves more directly and familiarly to those feelings and principles of the Pro testant mind of England which are most connected with the sense of civil freedom, and with hatred of individual tyranny. Now this priest, Dr. Crolly, is at the head of the liotnish Church in Ireland. He displays, we are bound to believe, no harsher or more arbitrary spirit. than that which inspires the whole hierarchy of which he is the chief. Yet if the complaints of Dr. Lyons be well founded, and he has made them in an open and unflinching manner, what a portrait does the whole narrative present of that sort of dominion to which Irish Roman Catholics are subjected ! What a light does it throw upon the truth and honesty of the asser tion, that the power of the priest is coqfined to matters purely spiritual ! What a notion must it impress upon Englishmen of that ecclesiastical corporation, by whose incessant clamours they are tormented, for hesi tating to deliver into their hands the constitutional li berties of their Protestant brethren in Ireland ! What a sample of the sort of forbearance from persecution, or respect for law or right, which animates those who threaten us with " a bloody rebellion," if we do not concede " justice to Ireland," by clothing them with power !—Times. And so, after all, the Irish Municipal Bill has had a second reading, notwithstanding the predictions of our Tory contemporaries, that it would be thrown out ! From•this circumstance we should have been inclined to augur that a better feeling had taken possession of the House of Lords, as well as a stronger sense of jus tice towards the oppressed people of Ireland ; but, alas i the second reading is merely the programme of a civil murder—a mere harbinger of the same cutting and maiming which fell to the lot of the Bill last year, and which also awaits the Church rates Bill, whenever it shall find its way into the place of legal slaughter. The Bill will be again burked in the Committee—its beneficial clauses cut out seriatim—and the insult again offered to the people of Ireland, that they are incapable, and be cause incapable unworthy, of the same corporate rights and privileges which have been so justly ex tended to those of t England and Scotland. What but insanity, or a determination to excite a civil war in Ireland could prompt the Lyndhursts to come to such a determination ? The people of Scot land, and in point of population they form even now but a small portion of that of the British empire, stood forward in past times in defence of their civil and re ligious liberties, and most gloriously achieved them at the peril of their lives—and do the Lords imagine for a moment that their gallant brethren in Ireland, hav ing such an example before them, will not follow it ? They would not be men if they did not—but the Tories contemplate nothing of the kind—their object is to oust the present Administration, and like " Jim Crow," who has had his day of celebrity, to " turn about, and jump about, just so," and having ousted thenn to bring forward, with a few slight alterations of detail, the very same measure which they now declare to be destructive of the Protestant religion, and inimical to the best interests of the country. Are there proofs wanting of this assertion ? Look to the long, ardent, and strenuous exertions of Sir Samuel Romilly and Sir James Mackintosh to effect a reform in the criminal law of the country, and the opposition invariably offered to them in their bene volent labours by Administrations with which a large portion of the existing Tories was 'connected in office-- and then see how Sir Robert Peel availed himself of their toilsome investigations, and attempted to grace h's brows with that crown which would have sat more easily upon their heads ! The robbery of their just fame was open,, though unacknowledged, and the jack daw that strutted for the hour in borrowed plumes, was driven from the flock of the genuine brood into that of creatures of a more ignoble species. The im position was attempted—the imposition succeeded for the moment ; hut, like all impositions, time imposition failed. " The hand felt to be the hand of Jacob, but the voice was the voice of Esau." Again, with r_- bard to Catholic emancipation, need we tell the story of the Tory opposition—of the Duke of Welling ton's " tutoring his back," to use the late Lord Cas tlereagh's expression, upon his own sentiments — or of Peel's sacrificing the dictates of his alleged conscience to the expressed feelings of the public mind ? All this must be fresh in the recollection of THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1837 the English people, as well as another little matter of Tory consistency—we mean the expressed will of the Duke of Wellington, during the temporary re signation of Earl Grey, to carry the Reform Bill out, in all its parts, notwithstanding his previous stern opposition to it, as a measure that would deprive his Majesty's Government of the power of carrying it an. And yet these are the men who aspire to office ! these are the persons who put in a claim for consis tency—these are the men who complain of insults to the House of Lords—these are the men who would unseat the Melbourne Administration, and who arto crate to themselves the name and virtues of Conserva tives ! Verily there are Daniels in our days, as there have been in past times, and dreamers, too, even as there have been dreamers in all ages. Let us whisper a word in their private ear. They Lave no chance of office—they are net trusted even in Me highest quarter, and farther, not only is Lord Melbourne the favourite Minister of the people of England, but he has in one sleeve the Dissenters of the United Kingdom, and in the other the eight millions of Ireland, to combat for him, for his principles, and for his Government.— rizlng Advertiser. The Lords have very properly abstained from offer ing any opposition to the second reading of the Irish Municipal Bill. Their Lordships have agreed to abo lish the Irish Corporations, which are Protestant, and which are complained of by the Roman Catholics of Ireland as being exclusive in their nature, and there "bre injurious in their operation. But the abolition of Protestant Corporations, because of exclusiveness, is so far from being an argument in favour of establishing Roman Catholic Corporations in their stead, that it is an argument on the other side. Ireland can derive nothing but evil by the proposed Ministerial transfer of exclusive corporate power from one party to the other — from the-Protestant party to the Roman Catholic — from the friends and supporters of British connection and British institutions to those who do not disguise their hostility to both, and who at one time cry out for a Repeal of the Union, at another for the destruction of the Church. We believe the more respectable Roman Catholics of Ireland, who keep aloof from the demagogues and their sedition-disseminating associations, have .no wish to see Mr. O'Connell's " normal schools of political agitation" established, for it is not their interest that the democratic faction should become so powerful as it en deavours to be—but they are overawed by popular in timidation, and dare not openly oppose scseheme which, if successful, they know will be ultimately worked to displace the respectable classes permanently from their proper position in society, and give an unnatural and degrading ascendancy to the vulgar traders in popular excitement, the audacious and unprincipled disturbers of their country's peace, the worst enemies of its pros• perity. By agreeing to the second reading of the Bill, the Lords acknowledged that a change must he made as to corporate government in Ireland —they admit that the existing Corporations must be abolished, but they do not admit that the ,nonopoly of corporate power in Protestant hands shall be converted into a Romaa Ca tholic n;onopolii. They consent to abate what has been " a nuisance," but to tranyCi it to the other patty would he nothing more or lees than the restoration of . the nuis ince in another form, and under circumstances likely to be more productive of evil to society than what had previously existed. As to the allegation that it is an insult to Ireland not to le4islate fur it in a mlniner exactly similar to the legislation for England, it applies to several of the measures brought forward by the Whigs themselves in reference to, Ireland, if it have any application at all. Nced we instance the Whig-Radical Irish Constabulary Bill—the Poor law measure for Ireland, and others which will occur to the recollection of our readers? The fact is, the Ministers must endeavour to pay the price of the conpact at Lichfield House, and the Irish Municipal Bill is a part of that price. If tire Ministers cannot carry that Bill as ,they have proposed it, and are obliged to give up the Church-appropriation clause, t hey will be driven to a declaration of insolvency on t heir dishonoured Bills.—Morning Herald. If we may judge - from a conversation which tool: place last alight in the •House of Commons, Lord John Russell, the proposer of the Bill of Parliamen tary RefOrm, neither feels nor desires to inculcate sen timents of reverence and affection for that statute as a permanent part of the Constitution of the country. The conversation to which we allude occurred on the second reading of a Bill now before the House, called " The Freeman's Admission 13i11," the object of which is to relieve persons entitled to the free dom of Corporations from the payment of a certain stamp duty with which they are now chargeable when they claim admission to their corporate rights. The Noble Lord supported the second reading, and in doing so took occasion to intimate his opinion that, as the Bill before the House placed the freemen in a better situation than they occupied before the passing of the Reform Bill, some equiva lent ought to be given to the ten-pound household ers by a relaxation of the rate-paying clause of that Act. It is, we think,. impossible to avoid the con clusion that the statesmen who reasoned thus must have intended to show to the nation at large how little in his estimation the Reform Act is entitled to respect as a solid and permanent part of the Constitution, and how slight the grounds upon which he is ready to as sail and to annul its most important provisions. What has the admission of freemen of Corporations to do with the Reform Act ? Did that Act create or ex tend their rights municipal or political ? It did, how ever, create the elective franchise of the 101. house holders, attaching to the exercise of that franchise the condition that certain rates and taxes, due by the claimant on the 6th of April in every year, shall be paid within a certain period after that time. Why should this condition be dispensed with in the case of the voters who owe their franchise to the Reform Act, because another class of the King's subjects, who do not owe their franchise, and many of whom possess no Parliamentary franchise, are relieved from a certain tax ? Lord J. Russell seems to us to mistake this matter altogether. He should have argued it not po litically,m but financially. •As thus---:if the freemen, who are not necessarily householders, are to be re lieved from a tax on assuming their corporate rights, others of his iVlajcsty's subjects who are householders ought in fairness to be relieved from the window tax, or some portion of it. This would have been better logic than that to which Lord John Russell resorted ; but it is probable that it might not have been a pleas ing kind of logic to the Noble Lord's Right Hon. Colleague the Chancellor of the Exchequer. To sug gest the remission of any portion of the general taxation of the country would, as times go, be a serious matter. To suggest an invasion of the Reform Bill, a contemp tuous invasion inasmuch as it is supported by no solid or adequate reason, an invasion which, therefore, would supply a precedent for future invasions without limit, is, however, the merest trifle. We suppose the time may come when, under the auspices of a wiser and better Chancellor of the Exchequer than the present, it may be possible to remit the whole, or a considerable portion, of the win dow tax. Upon Lord John Russell's rational and enlightened principle of equivalents, we should be glad to know what is to be done in this case for such of the freemen of Corporations as do not happen to be householders. This relief from taxation, whenever it takes place, will unquestionably facilitate to the ten pound householders the acquisition and maintenance of the elective right. Does Lord John Russell pro pose that after this happy event each freeman shall, as an equivalent, have two votes instead of one ? Or to what other equivalent will his Lordship think the freeman class of voters entitled ? It would be well if such Statesmen as Lord John Russell could be taught how much easier it is to disturb tire political relations of society than to arrange or compose them. —Morning Post. The late Mr. Villebois has bequeathed the bulk of his fortune, said to amount to between 300,0001., and 300,000/. to his younger brother, Mr. Frelerick Villebois, the manager of the Craven hounds. Who will take to the 11. 11. country, so many years hunted by the deceased, is unknown.—Jiamp shire Telegraph. The state of the ribbon weavers at Coventry has during the past few weeks, occupied much of the attention of the wealthy population of that city. A meeting was called last week to consider measures most likely to alloviate their present wants, and to memorialise the Queen on the subject, at which a petition to her Majesty was adopted. A deputation was also selected to convey the petition to Lord Howe, with a respectful request that he would with all possible dispatch lay it before the Queen. BILL FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF IRELAND. The Bill brought in on Monday last by the Marquis of Clanricarde,to which we alluded in The Sun of Tuesday, en ables the Lord-Lieutenant to appoint the Commissioners of Public Works, or any two of them, Commissioners under the Bill, and imposes an oath of impartiality, &c. Their duty is to be—to report upon the following matters of public concern when brought before them :- 1. Works for connecting rivers and lakes with each other and with the sea. 2. The rendering rivers and lakes navigable. 3. Cleansing and scouring of streams. 4. Draining of districts. 5. Preserving lands from inundations. Together with the expenses of executing such works—the proportion which each individual interested should contri bute—whether any and how much land should be purchas ed or taken as an allotment for such expenses—whether any and how much land may be damaged, &c. It further directs that copies of the plans and estimates of such works shall be deposited in the district for public in spection—that objections may be raised to such plans and estimates, which objections shall be examined into by the Commissioners. They are to report from time to time to the Lord Lieu tenant, and these reports are to be laid before Parliament. They are further to report whether it is expedient that any and what bogs should be drained, at what expense, and what equivalent by allotment should be made. Powers are given to examine works, enter upon lands, &c. ; to examine upon oath and to appoint assistant com missioners. STATE OF TRADE. At Congleton trade was never known in a more de pressed state than at the present period ; the majority of the working classes are unemployed, and suffering the se verest privations.—Staffoidshire Advertiser. The commercial distress prevailing so fearfully in the north has extended to Taunton. Our principal branch of manufacture, the silk trade, is in a sad state. Some factories are working only two days a week ; others are discharging a great number of hands ; and some have proposed to close altogether for two or three weeks, until the over-glutted markets are a little relieved.—Sonlerset Gazette. The manufacturers of Kendal are not exempt from the present stagnation of trade. Our weavers are about three parts unemployed, or are nearly all at work about three-part time.— Westmoreland Gazette. _ _ _ Never, we believe, in the memory of the oldest inhabi tant was distress more universal among the ribbon weavers of this city than it is at the present time ; we believe that we do not exaggerate when we say - that full three-fourths of the thousands engaged in the ribbon trade are out of employ at the present moment.—Coventi y Standard. A considerable portion of the hand-loom weavers in the neighbourhood are out of employ. Indeed some of the manufacturers here have given up making, preferring this to accumulating a stock which there is not the least proba bility of their selling, except at a loss. Mechanics, ma• sons, bricklayers, &c., are all out of work.—Preston The town of Stockport largely participates in the em barrasment and distress with which commerce and manu factures arc now afflicted. Many factories are working only eight hours per day, with a prospect of still further abridgment. The consequence is, that the operative classes experience considerable distress, On Thursday a failure was announced of an 'establishment of great mag nitude, and one of the oldest in the town, which will add to the difficulties of the town and neighbourhood.— Slockport Paper._ John Runner waS'senteneed in Livingston last week to three years imprisonment in the State Prison, for I.garey. The prisoner confessed to four wives now living. We regret to state, the influenza has again made its appearance in tI is city. Several persons have been severely attacked, though we have not heard of any fatal cases.—Lin coln Gazette. On Monday morning an inquest was held at the Black rlors l e public-house, in liieh street, Poplar, before Mr. Baker, coroner, on the body of William Robins, a policeman of the K division, who committed suicide by swallowing a quantity of nux vomica and arsenic. It appeared in evidence that the deceased, a tall athletic young man, who was much respected in the district for his uniform civility and his vigilance as an officer, had been for some titne past much affected in his mind by the abandoned conduct of his wife, to whom he was greatly attached. She had committed several desperate assaults upon him, and she left him a few weeks ago with three children to provide for. -He had been since much depressed, and had been heard to declare that he - would make away with himself, and that he would part with the last bit of bread he had if his wife would return to him. On Saturday morning he purchased an ounce of nux vomica of a chemist in Poplar, who is in the habit of selling it to agriculturists, and in the afternoon he mixed the powder in a pot; :ind after drinking some arsenic, which he had dissolved, he swallowed a portion of the nux ye mica. His frien-is, observing him drinking something out of the pot, suspected his intentions, and endeavoured to keep him in his mother's house, until a surgeon could be sent for. He got away from them, and ran across a field ; but being pursued, was brought back. Mr. Baillic, a surgeon, and his assistant, were called in, who found him labouring under the effects of poison, and he admitted he had taken nux vomica and arsenic. He lingered until Next morning, when he ex pired. The deceased received an excellent character from the superintendent and his inspector. Verdict—°t Temporary insanity." TILE WEATHER.—Since our last, we have expe rienced in no small degree the rigours of winter and the ge nial mildness of spring. On the evening of Saturday last, a severe frost set in, and during the following day several showers of snow fell, which almost instantly disappeared. Unfortunately, however, this was not the case in the upland districts of the country to the south, along the range of the Cheviots, where the snow accumulated to the depth of nearly a foot. The distress hitherto experienced by the highland stock for the want of pasture has been in consequence consi derably augmented ; and it is to be feared that the mortality which was anticipated among the lambs will be greatly in creased. Since Tuesday the weather has been more mild and genial, and a considerable extent of land has been sown in this neighbourhood with barley and oats under favourable circurn qances.—Kelso Chronicle. --------- STATE OF TRADE.—We are sorry to say that the commercial distress prevailing so fearfully in the North has extended to this town. Our principal branch of manufacture, the silk trade, is in a sad state. Some factories are working only two days a week, others are discharging a great number of hands, and some have proposed'to close altogether for two or three weeks until the over-glutted markets arc a little re lieved. The effect of such a diminution of labour, at a mo ment when the prices of provisions are unusually high, is of course to produce the greatest suffering among the poor, many of whom are almost starving. It is at such a sea , on of want as this that private charity is most usefully employed, and we hope that by calling the attention of the benevolent to the des titution of so many poor families, consequent upon the distress of the times, we shall induce active and immediate exertions for their relief.— Taunton Courier. The following curious and severe conviction under the Game-laws took place before the Bury Commissioners of Taxes on Thursday, against John Challis, at the instance of John Double, of the Sword-in-hand Public-house. Challis met the accuser, having with him a greyhound, which he had borrowed, to whom he said, " I have been trying to find a hare, that has been doing mischief on my grounds, but could not do it." On the strength of this conversation the informa tion was laid against him for going out in pursuit of game, he not being - duly qualified and licensed. Challis admitted the conversation, and said that he did not either kill or hunt any game. The Commissioners regretted the hardness of the case : but, as the Act of Parliament was imperative upon them, they must convict him in the penalty of 71. The Com missioners gave Challis part of the money to pay the fine.— Bury Herald. DARING BURGLARY BY ONE OF THE CHIP STEAD 13c:run-ans.—On Sunday morning, shortly after mid night, the family of' Mr. William Walker, a gentleman resi ding at Cobham, in Surrey, were thrown into a state of the most dreadful alarm by finding that some villians had broken into the lower part of the house, and they could distinctly hear the voices of several men, and also that they were ran sacking the premises. The inmates of the house were about to come down stairs, when a man named Charles Bedser, who was in custody before for being concerned in the burglary at Chipstead when one of the robbers was shot, swore that if. th e y came down stairs or in any manner interrupted their pro ceedings by giving an alarm, that they would murder them. Alarmed at these threats the family were induced to remain up stairs, while the ruffians packed up and removed everything that was portable down stairs. They then broke into the lar der, from which they took a quantity of cold meat and bread, and opened three bottles of wine, and regaled themselves in the house for upwards of an hour, the frightened inmates not daring to give an alarm for fear the ruffians should carry their brutal threats into execution. Shortly after two o'clock in the morning they decamped carrying with them a quantity of plate and other valuable property. Information of this occur rence was shortly afterwards given to Mr. Partridge, the con stable of Cobham, and he immediately felt satibtied that Bed ser was one of the men concerned in the burglary, from the description given by the family of the persons of the villians, and his knowledge of his daring and desperate character. Sus pecting that he might be in company with a gang of gypseys who had recently come into the neighbourhood, and were encamped on the heath, about a mile and a half from the town, he considered it would be advisable to go to their encampment to search. Ile accordingly proceeded thither on Sunday after noon, about two o'clock, and on the constable entering one of the tents he found Bedser lying fast asleep upon the ground, enveloped in two large great coats. He immediately awoke him and told him lie was his prisoner. Bedser appeared quite resigned to go with him, and said that he supposed he would let him take off the coats. The constable consented, and wle❑ he had done so he was about to place a pair of handcuffs on him, when Bedser suddenly rushed upon him and threw him down and sprung out of the tent, and before the constable c,,uld recover himself, he had succeeded in effectually making his escape. No clue has yet been obtained likely to lead to the apprehension of Bedser, although a reward, has I?eerj offered for that Purpose. INDECISION OF A CORONER. Within the last fortnight considerable excitement has existed at Hendon, near Edgware, in Middlesex, arising out of certain proceedings of serious importance to the pub lic generally. It appears, from very minute inquiries made upon the subject, that, on Tuesday, the 11th inst., Jenkin Jones, Esq., one of the Directors and Secretary to the Phoenix Fire Office, a gentleman of highly-respectable connections, left town by one of the stages to proceed to his residence at Hendon, at the time apparently in his usual state of health. A few minutes after leaving the coach,and on his way to his house, he suddenly fell to the earth, and almost immediately became a corpse. The body was re moved to the residence of the Rev. Theodore Williams, the Vicar of the parish, and also a Magistrate of the County, where Mr. Holdgate, the resident surgeon, attended, but all human aid was unavailing. From the circumstance of the deceased gentleman having for some months previous to his demise been in a very poor fluctuating state of health his re latives did not consider it necessary that the usual inquiry should be instituted, and preparations were made for the last solemn rites to be performed. A few days subsequent to the death of Mr. Jenkins an anonymous communication was forwarded to the office of Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, in Chancery-lane, signed, " An Old Inhabitant of Hendon." The contents stated that a gentleman had died under very sudden circumstances at Hendon, but that no inquest had been called—the relatives wishing to avoid it—but that the inhabitants were decidedly opposed to such a course—not only as strictly illegal, but forming a dangerous precedent. The result was that the Coroner, after causing the usual inquiries to be made, issued his warrant for an inquest to be held on the body of Mr. Jenkins on the following Tues day, one week after his death. The relations were no sooner apprised of this step than they took the most active mea sures in order that the inquiry should not take place. Cer tificates were obtained from Dr. Gordon, a physician of emi nence, and Mr. Holdgate, who had attended the deceased professionally for some time before his death, to the effect that there was no necessity for an inquest, as Mr. Jenkins had laboured for a considerable time under interna 1 disease, and it was fully anticipated that his dissolution would be sudden. Mr. Conant, the Magistrate of Marlborough street, a cousin of the deceased's, and Captain Bcechey, R.N., his (deceased's) brother-in-law, were applied to upon the occasion. The former gentleman had an interview with Mr. Stirling at the office, on the morning of the day of the inquest was to be held, which ended in the latter withdraw ing his warrant for the inquest, and there the matter termi nated as was supposed. On the following day (Wednesday) the remains of Mr. Jenkins were interred in Hendon church. In the meantime another anonymous letter was received by the Coroner, insisting upon the exhumation of the body of the deceased, in order that an inquest should be held upon it, the writer charging the venerable gentle man with a great dereliction of duty in withdrawing his warrant, and allowing the body to be buried without the in quiry taking place ; stating that the subject had been dis cussed in estry, and that it was the unanimous opinion that the inquiry ought to be held, as the public mind was not satisfied. Mr. Stirling accordingly issued a second warrant for the inquest to be held on Tuesday afternoon, at four o'clock, at the Greyhound Inn, in the neighbourhood of Hendon Church, and gave an order to the parochial officers for the disinterment of the body. The feelings of the rela tives of the deceased, in consequence of this extraordinary proceeding ,were of a nature the most painful and indignant. They protested against the exhumation of the body, and applied to Mr. Williams, the Vicar of the parish, to exer cise his office in preventing such. The Rev. Gentleman, on becoming acquainted with the whole matter, expressed his decided opinion that the second warrant for the holding of the inquest was unauthorised, and at once determined that the remains of Mr. Jenkins should not be disturbed. Another application was made to the Coroner, who directed his clerk to proceed to Hendon on the morning of the day (last Monday) the inquest was to be held. At the appointed hour of four o'clock most of the jury had assembled at the Greyhound ; soon after which Malkin the summoning officer, acquainted them that their services were not re quired, as the inquest was not to be held. This was sup posed to be the result of a meeting which took place in the course of the morning between the Vicar, Mr. Holdgate, the relatives, and the Coroner's clerk. The circumstance has created a most extraordinary sensation at Hendon, and a vestry is to be held to ascertain the best measures to adopt to detect the writer of the anonymous letters sent to the Coroner. OPINION'S OF LORD BuouGHAM.---The volume score time announced under this tile, is on the eve of appear woe. Its design is, of course, to afford a collective view of his Lordship's opinions and practical objects. It will be found to embody not only the most brilliant passages from his cele brated speeches and writings, but also to unfold to the reader the gradual development of his mind on those great questions in Politics, Literature, and Science, in which learned men of all countries and all ages must ever take a lively interest. To the selections will be prefixed a prefatory memoir which, we understand, will be found more complete, accurate, and elabo rate than any that has hitherto appeared, containing partiCulats of his Lordship's early, and also of his more advanced life, with a philosophical analysis of his mind and writings. Mr. Waghorn, we are informed, has come to a de finite understanding with the Post-office, through which his agents may from the Ist of 'June next send letters from Lon don to Alexandria in fifteen days. The time now occupied by his Majesty's steam-vessels is twenty-five days—thas effecting a clear saving to the public of India and England of ten days to or from Alexandria alone. Mr. Waghorn goes back to Egypt, via Marseilles, about the sth of June. EXTRAORDINARY EEL OF SURINAM.—The Gymnotus is a kind of eel, five or six feet in length, and its electric properties are so powerful that it can throw down men and horses. This animal is rendered more terrific from the velocity of its powers of natation, thus being able to discharge its thunder far and near. When touched with one hand, the shock is slight ; but, when grasped with both, it is so violent that, according to the accounts of Collins Flag, the electric fluid can paralpse the arms of the imprudent experimentalist for several years.—Dr. Millingen's " Curiosities of Medical Experience." _ _ Wednesday morning an affair of honour was de cided in a field near Stivichall turnpike, in the vicinity. of Co ventry, between Col. M'Alpine, unattached, and Lieut. G. 1-1. Stock, of the 2d Foot, the former attended by Capt. Leech, and the latter by Mr. W. Whitby. Two shots each were fired, but no injury was sustained by either, although a coat or waist coat button, belonging to the Colonel, was shattered by his adversary's first fire. The parties then left the ground. Mr. Washington Irving's New Work, entitled " The Adventures of Captain Bonneville," is announced to be published in a few days by Mr. Bentley, of New Burling ton-street. The rocky mountains are the scene of the ad ventures of the gallant Captain, and the narrative is said to abound with wild and interesting scenes and incidents as ex citing, if not even more so, than those to be found in the last work of this distinguished author, " Astoria," which has hitherto been considered his chef d'auvre. RADICALISM.—Thc last remnant of Whic , influence lies in the English counties, where alone, it may be confidently surmised, the party will find a place at the next general election. Whenever a new Parliament is assembled, the power of poli tical Go-betweens—which is the proper description of the Whigs—will disappear for ever.—Hull Observer. The author of " The Subaltern," who now holds so eminent a station at Chelsea Hospital, is about to give to the public a couple of volumes, which arc likely to furnish a fund of amusement for every mess-room. The work is to be called ‘• The Hussar," and contains a narration of the actual occur rences in the life of an individual who has met with the most surprising vicissitudes. We are assured that there have been few recent narratives of military adventure teeming with such extraordinary relations as the present. Mr. Denvil made his appearance at Drury-lane on Monday night, after an absence of two years, as Rolla, in the tragedy of Pizaro. He was received with considerable ap. plause, which was repeated at intervals during the course of the performance. Whatever effect the opponents of the New Poor Law may have produced elsewhere they have made little impres sion in this county, where all parties are inclined to give the provisions of the Act a fair trial, tempered at the same time with that consideration for the poor which ought never to be lost sight of.—Essex Herald. JUSTICE TO IRELAND.—The Reformers of Fine bury, sympathising with the people of Ireland, intend holding a Public Meeting this evening, at six o'clock, at the Hall of Science, Commercial-place, City.road, for the purpose of peti. tioning the House of Lords to pass the Irish Municipal Re form Bill, as adopted by the House of Commons. Thomas Duncombe, Esq., and Thomas \Vakley, Esq., the Members for the Borough, Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., and other influential Members of the House of Commons, friendly to the peace and prosperity of Ireland, have signified their intention of being present upon this important occasion. A few days ago a gentleman, mounted on a very flue active horse, overtook the diligence bet:ceen Doulens and Amiens, and unexpectedly recognized an old friend inside. After congratulating each other on the agreeable surprise, a conversation was kept up between the two acquaintances for a considerable time, but frequently interrupted by the neces sity of the horseman's making room for other carriages passing along the road. At length, another person in the diligence, after admiring the beauty and action of the horse, and observ ing upon the inconvenience and risk the rider sustained, very politely offered to change places with him, in order that he might converse more freely with his friend, and to ride the animal to Amiens. This offer being gratefully accepted, he dismounted and entered the diligence, while the complaisant stranger vaulted into the saddle cad proved himself a skilful equestrian by displaying to the utmost advautaga all the powers and graces of the animal. Sometimes he was gallop pinr, g aily in advance, sometimes pacing beside the carriage, and then, in order to give the horse wind, dropping slow trot, and remaining in the rear. After 11Owever, noither man nor horse were to be seen, z 7, 1 0.1 whether the horse ran away with the rider, or the With the horse, has not been ascertained, no doubts are entertained a7 , to the latter the fact, for exct,i ts ensii.:i t hYve out discovered th e slightest the mosttesttr trace 9f t:t .t'rench P aper, - SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE ENTERED INWARDS T THE CUSTOM HOUSE, APRIL 25. The City of Hamburgh, Hart, from Hamburgh; St. Charles, Lanny, Calais; Jordeson, Jordeson, Deme rara; Martha Caise, Lowther, St. Michael's; Amelia, Queckg , ditto ; Victoria, Osborne, Terceira ; Olive Branch, Adam!, Gijon ; Indian Chief, Hart, Memel; Concordia, Keeper, Flenesburgh; Falmouth Packet, Uren, Lisbon ' • Persever ance, Condere, Calais ; Ann, Burgess, Tobago; Allen, Tan ner, Guernsey ; Florville, Mitchell, Cape of Good Hope; Rapid, Thomas, Jamaica; George, Thomas, Guernsey; Felicity, Windsor, ditto; Jane, Lewis, Charente: Argo , Cunningham, Grand Canary • Calypso, Caranna, Constan tinople ; Bordaster, Macdonald, Singapore. ENTERED OUTWARDS. The Philadelphia, Morgan, for New York ; Kent, Tune, Boulogne; Monarch, Foulerton, Havre; Exquisile, Kerr, Bayonne; Hector, Crisp, Constantinople; Satria, Marger, Jersey; Forager, Deane, Grenada; Vernon, Davis, Madeira; St. Leonard's, Whitnall, Dunkirk. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO. The Britannia, Cheesman, for Hamburgh ; Mary, Sterlt Malta ; Kent, Tune, Boulogne; Columbine, Norwood, Rot terdam ' - Leda, Tape, ditto ; Monarch, Foulerton, Hav re; Eliza, Follett, St. John's, N.B. ; Thomas, Foggart, Riga; Diadem, Bowers, Naples. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST. The Marguarite, Butley, for Gravelines; Marianne, PiPer , Memel ; Charlotte, Dort, ditto; St. Charles, Lany, The Nat'onal Association of Lausanne addressed, on the Bth, a petition to the Grand Council to the following effect :—The petitioners, considering it full time that the Li turgy should be placed in harmony with the republican a m d democratical institutions of the Canton, call the attention or the Assembly to the propriety of expunging from public prayers certain passages therein which are in direct contradiction with the principles of those institutions. We are made," say they , " to pray to the Almighty for all the kings, princes, and ma gistrates, on whom the Creator has conferred the government of nations and the administration of justice. Kings and princes ought, in our opinion, to be omitted from the prayer. Although our country has had much to complain of kings and their vexa tions, particularly of late years, our request is not dictated of a spirit of revenge, contrary to the divine morality of Him wh° recommends us to pray for our enemies, and those who hate and persecute us—it is inspired by an exclusively political cow: sideration. Is it not shaking the faith of the people of Vao in our republican and democratical form of government to im plore Heaven, in an official manner, and from the height of the pulpit, to extend its solicitude to kings and princes by whet s we should not like to be governed ? Is there no contradictio n in ordering to pray in a republic for the monarchical principle, whose triumph would prove our destruction ?" The petitioner ° then contend, that the Liturgy recognizes the doctrine of di vine right, when it states that God has invested the magistrate s with the government of nations and the administration of j lls ' tice. "We do not mean to deny," say they, " that power emanates from the Supreme Being, like everything else. power Him resides almighty power; but, in our country, it is to the people, and not to the magistrates, that God has intrusted the sovereignty ; it is the people who commit to the magistrate the government and administration of justice. The latter de' rive their authority directly from the people, who, in thekturet hold theirs from God himself." The petitioners adduce various other reasons in support of their demand, and trust that the Grand Council will see the necessity of reforming the Liturgy' as far as at least as royalty is concerned. Some months ago we were informed that our neigh' bour, George Crane, Esq., of the Yniscedwin Iron Works, had directed his attention to the application of stone coal to the smelting of iron ore. From our knowledge of the indefa tigable industry and perseverance with which this gentlema n follows up every pursuit in which he may be engaged we en tertained a confident, and, as the result proves, a well-groundeas hope that his efforts w ill prove successful. For many week' past we have been anxiously expecting a confirmation of the very favourable reports which had reached us of the successfu l progress of Mr. Crane's experiments. Undaunted by the failures which had attended similar attempts, Mr. Crane, in the autumn of last year, secured a patent right, and by a method hitherto untried (viz., the application of hot blast to this fuel) he has most fully succeeded ; and the peculiar mil' tation of anthracite coal to the reduction of iron ore is 11°W , fully demonstrated. We were aware of the peculiar properties of anthracite coal, and that the veins with which this district abounds afford from 87 to 93 per cent. of carbon ; it did Ott therefore, occasion us surprise when we learnt that Mr. Crg' . anticipated that, by the successful introduction of this fuel,' description of iron would be produced very nearly resemblini in its quality that formerly obtained by the use of vegetable charcoal. In this also his anticipations have been fully realizear and we cordially congratulate him on the result. That ree°_, important manufacture, the iron trade, has been hitherto 03 necessity confined to such parts of the country where biturej' nous coal prevails ; and a large portion of the mineral district, where anthracite coal abounds, has been excluded from its ad" vantages. Our local knowledge enables us to state that iron' stone in great abundance is found to alternate with this pee l ' liar fuel, and the eventual effect of this most important disc?' very must therefore be to induce the erection of iron-woo l over a large extent of country, from which this manufactur e has hitherto been wholly excluded.—Cambrian. Petween four and five o'clock on Wednesday LOP: i qg the body of a female was discovered in the Caulden Cane" at a very short distance from the high road, and very near t° the Chatterley-bridge, by a boatman. After a short time al b3dy was identified by the friends of the deceased, a nd prove(' to be Elizabeth Hemmings, a married woman, about fort) II years of age, mother of five children, whose r es id ence w as Lane Deiph. An inquest was held at the B e ll an d Be d public-house, Shelton, before Mr. W. Harding, on TherP, day, and from the evidence then brought forward there is eel reason to believe that the poor creature was murdered. ! A appeared from the testimony of the witnesses th a t th e decease' left her house at Lane Delph on Saturday afternoon or eel ing to go to Hanley market, a distance of between two three miles. She there purchased some meat and other Ot i s Iles, which she had placed in a basket, and at a late hour night called at her brother's, in Shelton, who offered to ei with her part of the way home, but she declined the o ffer, ic e went away alone. The last place where she w a s semi .1, was at the King's Arms, in Shelton, at which place she betwixt 1 and 2 on Sunday morning, and inquired if a per' 7 4 was there whom she expected to meet. At this place she a small quantity of gin ; but she stayed a very short time. To went out alone, taking her basket with her. Nothing n l d „ was seen of her until she was found in the canal, a s beforet scribed. When the body was taken out of the water, the r t arm was broken, and several scars were found up o n the °t arm. The cloak which she wore when she left her brother house, and which was buttoned all down the front, was mirk Her basket was afterwads found-in a saw-pit in Shelton, IPA, than a quarter of a mile from the canal, and in an opposite;• rection. After a lengthened inquiry the coroner adjourned inquest. HAPPINESS OF MONOTONY.—After all, ere right in holding that monotony cannot be happy? Do sti t li see thousands passing th r o ug h lif e occu pi e d d a y a f ter clei e chs the self-same employments, only varied by the retnrn el for self-same reliefs ; consisting merely or chiefl in the gra t pt tion of natural wants—eating, drinking, and seeping;. Pe t .. o g oe the very same food every day in the y ear , t rea di n g the 7he round of exertion, and glad o f th e s a me res t ? Th es e fore l 4, bulk of mankind : yet so sweet i s th e ca l m o f t his oleo% that it is seldom we see happier people ; and in my Pe i tif can answer for it, the time never appea r s s o short.-- "—) Illustrations of Human Life. SILVER SNUFF BOXES, of all sizes, and of a g re ee variety of Patterns, either Plain or richly Chased, are offered4rS• from Ten to Eighteen Shillings per Ounce, at T. COX SAi r r olllr Working Silversmith, Golds m ith, an d W a t c h ma k er , 47, C o kd London. Se c°. N. B. —A Pamphlet, contai n i ng a Li s t o f P r i ces o f Silver of and Forks, Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, Bc , be had gratis, or will be forwarded in ansvrert o a post-paic , B I R T H S. ve r , On the 24th inst., Lady Emeline Stua r t W or tl e y, of a da u r a ,• v er , r On the 24th inst., at Southampton, th e w if e o f S. E. 1.3‘.-1 Esq., of a daughter. On the 22d inst. Mrs. Frank Losack, of a son. w a ts o °' On the 16th inst., at Clapham park, the lady of G. -B. " Esq., of a son: • On the 22d inst., the lady of F. Widd er , E sq ., o f a daeg lae i r ie ° I On the 17th inst., at th e R ec t or y H ouse , H o l mp t o n, the sf the Rev. J. May, of a son. , L3 o ' On the 9th of August last, at Hobart-town, Van Dieme n ,! te e. the lady of J. Gregory, E s q., C o l on i a l T reasurer , o f a daug' o f Al - On the 24th inst., at Mitcham -been, Surrey, the lady fred C. Bartley, Esq., of a daughter. _ MARRIED. ,f Wil li ; r On the 25th inst., at St. George's, Bloomsbury, ' r ' O tt ' et White, of Heathfield, Sussex, surgeon, eldest son of N" f " Esq., of Ditton-lodge, Bucks, to Emma, youngest daughter . R. Brown, Esq., of Brunswick-square. v 1i r111 ; On the 25t of St . h inst.. at St. Mark's, Kennington, the ft e ; i clie , e ; Day, Curate Mary's, Lambeth, and Lecturer of Berl' I vo to Eliza, younger daughter of C. Francis, Esq., of Beie l ' ve Vauxhall. to,'' .„., 11, J. Ili, On the 24th inst., at Hamp s t ea d, Ed war d Henry v,_a l.e Writ, Esq., of Calehill, Kent, t o L ucy M ary , d aug ht er of jo wl ~, . Esq., of Belsize-park, Hampstead. e Csen r e On the 24th inst., at Halifax, Francis Oxley, Esq., .„ o ,' ~,. of t well, to .Harriet Ann, elder daughter of R. Smith, -b 54 ' ale , former place. sot; hal' sil'' On the 25th inst., at Battersea Church, the Rev. - -r 'l, of Bovinger. Essex, to Ann, eldest daughter of A. Borra,4l -, ________,--• of Lavender Hill. Wel* DED. .idge .. On the 18th inst., at Ash I urst Lodge ne ar Tunh' olelei l yje Alary Elizabeth, the belov e d w if e o f th e Rev. H. C 1 10 1, 1 30 -11 On the 24th inst., at Bl en h e i m -pl ace (formerly °` ,°a, St. John's Wood, William Baker, Esq., aged 69. ay. ° f 1 On the 23d inst., aged 70, Charlotte, wife of Mr. M CP ' row, Battersea-fields. On the 20th inst., at Jersey, I sa b e ll a Harriet, daught er '' 'f Lewin, Esq., aged 14 months. ; Ea c k of the On the 24th inst., at Trunch, Norfolk, John Aro- e- _% se ll, On the 22d inst., De la Garde, child of Mr. T. ( - 4 ' .ta' P. - ' York-road, aged two years and six months. a lb On the 24th inst., i n B e ll- yard, Lincoln's Lie, s•g e •1° 0 ' 0 relict of Mr. 11. Stevens, law ookseller. J J' On the 23d in s t., Peter Francis, yotlnger s on of ' , ae : Esq., surgeon, of Northampton-squar , :,, aged 1 ( -i• • abe th e'P ' n tlw 11th inst., at Cheltenham aged 32, Ells joel o , , wik ui the Rev. G. C. Jordan, I\l. A., Chaplain of 46)f filoucestershire. Cha rles On the 24th inst., in Cavendish-square, aged 58, or Murray, Ef.4., of Danesfield, Bucks. _._ o , l'' At Wielham, Hants, aged 72, Pitt Burnaby Gree." 1 4 ' %Oa H.N. _____--- --- I, a ,If ..............--...—......- -- ---- Loudon : Printed and Published by Al URD -- 0 -o ,l, l) : o lN tli sv' e e°l'. 112, ‘ Strand, at The Sun O ffi ce, No. 112, Strai t of Middlesex.—Thursday, April 27, 1837.