The Sun. — London, England, 1837-02-08 00:00:00

Ireland ought to defend themselves by constitutional means ; and if those means should fall, still he would not despair of the result. As for the insults lavished upon Ireland, they must bewiped off with blood." Now it was important that this was a mild report. He had seen much stronger reports of that speech, but he had purposely selected that of the paper which the Hon. and Learned Gentleman was under stood to patronise. The Noble Lord opposite would, he hoped, for give him for quoting what followed. It was the "health of Lord Morpeth, with three times three."—(Loud cheers from the Oppo sition.) The speech of the Right Rev. Dr. Nolan followed. He said that he would venture to call O'Connell a man raised up by God for the salvation of Ireland; and the Roman Catholic clergy prayed God to bless him and direct his efforts. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman having quoted some expressions of his the other night, with the object, as it seemed to him, of throwing dust in the eyes of the Noble Lord, he should now request the attention of the House to a letter of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, dated May 13, 1832, to the effect that it was tits conscientious, unaltered, and unalterable opinion, that Ireland would never prosper without a Repeal of the Union. The letter went on to say that he (Mr. O'Connell) never was and never would be content with less; to this he solemnly pledged I hi m self. In January, 1833, he declared that he bad never sub mitted to emancipation, because he had never considered that measure but as a means to an end—the Repeal of the union. He had no . hesitation in saying that he would never consent to enter into a compromise with any set of Ministers until he saw a Par liament sitting in College-green. But once let him sec the Union re pealed, and no foreign foe would dare to set his foot on the soil of Ireland. Was then (said the Right Hon. Gentleman) the calling the calling the people of Ireland aliens a fault never to be forgiven ; and were the people of England to be branded as foreigners.— (hear, hear.) Gentlemen on the other side might depend upon it, that the link com bining the Crowns of the two islands would speedily, on the present system, be placed in the hands of a dictator—that golden link which he firmly believed had received lustre from that day-spring on high, which had shone, and hebelieved would ever shine on the true Protestant faith, and it was that faith which had rendered England unrivalled among the nations, and without which Ireland never would be blessed. Lord CLEMENTS rose for the purpose of recalling the House to the subject more immediately before it. On the present occasion the Right Hon Gontleman had chosen to attribute to the National Associa tion all the dangerato which Ireland was exposed, forgetting the impu tations of partiality, as well as the other charges, which had been la vished on the present Government of Ireland by its opponents. The thing tha' provoked lion. Gentlemen opposite was to find Ireland quiet without their assistance. On this ground he would take his stand, and say that Ireland was more quiet now than ever she had been under the Whiteboy Acts, to which the Hon. and Learned Sergeant had re ferred. After a few remarks on the case of Mr. Cassidy, and on the great disasters brought on the graziers of Ireland by the Tithe Compo sition Acts, the Noble Lord went on to defend the course adopted by the National Association. In conerusion he would assure the House that as a Protestant of Ireland, whose family resided in that country, and as being connected with the Protestant interests,and as representing a large Irish Protestant constituency, it was his firm conviction that he shculd do wrong Vile did hot give his honest and cordial support to a Government whose administration had given a greater degree of peace to his country than that of any other Government that had presided over it.—(Cheers.) Mr; ROEBUCK rose amidst loud cheering. It seemed to him that, standing as they did in the high character of the representatives of a great nation, they ought to conduct their deliberations with that calm ness, soberness, and decorum, that would gain them the respect of all reasonable end respectable men.—(hear, hear, and laughter.) It ap peared to him that the manner—he said it under all correction—that the manner and toneof gentlemen, particularly belonging to Ireland, I ad been tonight, and tonight was not a solitary instance of such a nature—judging with the feelings of an Englishman who had not mixed much with Irishmen—was likely to create anything but respect. It could do no service to Anybody in that House or elsewhere, to in t:u'ge in a species—he was going to use a term, but he would not use it, of " improper vituperation.”—(Laughter.) He thought he came there to discuss a question respecting the Municipal•Corporetiens of Ireland. He must, however, charge it somewhat (for he would be im partial) upon the Noble Lord himself for having introduced this very general discussion. The Noble Lord would have consulted the best in. terests of tl.e Government if he had allowed the attack to come from the other party. Why should the Noble Lord have taken r.otice of tiny resolutions that might have been passed by any Led) , which were not directly before the House ? Why Amid the llcuse go out of its vay to notice resolutions that a small minority of the people had thought proper to pass ? He thought, therefore, tie Nettle Lord was semswhat to blame in this.— (hear, Lear.) At the sense time, be mtnt aeknowlalge that thew was a temper and tone in the speech I f the Nille Lord far dill( res t from what pervaded the speeches of those who had succeeded him. 11. e Hen. and Learned Sergeant 1 ad accused the Hon. and Learned Member for Kilkenny Of has ing used certain expressions, at various times, cf a very violent nature, and therefore that House was to legislate for Ireland in a manner ditlerent farm what it end for any other part cf tile empire. The argument of the Learned Sergeant was, that because the Hers and Leaseed :el- mtg r for Kilkenny had been violent, toile, coarse, in the epi thets he had ereploeed in his language, they were therefore to deny to the people of Irelend—(Loud cheers;—there municipal rights alreacly given to Ergialtel and Scotland. lie wanted to know, if he were in the mime satiation as the Teeple of Ireland, what he should think of any man cemirg into this House and desiring the whole Commons of England tr determine that he should be deprived of his municipal righte— r eh's that were requisite for his happiness and contentment through life—upon the aesertion of the Right Hon. Recorder alai Leaned Sergeant, that there wzs a Learned Gentleman it this House wl.o bed indulged, the greater part of his life, in vio. hnt expr: ssions, . and given vent at various times to very varioes: s pinions ?—(hear) Now, supposing that the Hon. and Learned Mire 'or f,r Kakenny had done what he (Mr. Roebuck) charged every pcti. t cal man that he had ever heard of, either in Ireland or Englund, with sloina—that of never eraitely and completely stating the whole of his ie.tentions ; for he made it a charge against political men genes ally that they were advocates, that they stated only one side of the question, and were cons'antly saying to-day what they meant to unsay to-mot row.— (Bear, hear, from the Opposition.) lie heard Gentlemen on the other cede of the House cheer, as if they were free from the imputation.— (/ aughter.) Good God! He could, if the time were fitting, go threugh lat. life of every political man that he saw open that bench, and show that et et y one of them had been inconsistent with their own aeclara t cna. But supposing all this, and that tie same charge was justly n Lela :g iinst the Hou. and Learned Member for Kilkenny, was that a valid argument to tell his (Mr. Roebuck's) constituents that he had en /n avcured to persuade the Commons of England to deprive them of their political rights ? Suppose, by wry of illustration; the Bight lien Barcnet the Member for Tamworth had ever changed his opinions —, Laughter)—or that the Right Hon. Baronet the Member fur Cum berland had changed his opinions—(Renewed laughter)—or that the Noble Lord who sat bet wem those two Right Honourable Baronets had ellanged his opinions —;Continued laughter)—suppose all these ex traordinary things, would that, he asked, atter having passed the Refoins Bill, juatfy him in saying to the House of Commons," Here are three di tinguished men in the Government of the country, who have most distinctly said aye to-day and no to-morrow, and therefore I call epon ! ou not to give to the people of England the power of governing themselves or their Mnnicipal Corporations.—(louderies of Hear, hear.)' He waisted to know what the people of England would say to that species of argument ? He could not tell what the pecple of Ireland wou d think. It had been said to-night by two Learned Gentlemen on the other side of the House, who represented, as they declared, a large body of the Irish people, that the people of Ireland were unfit for municipal corporations. If they were unfit for municipal corporations, he could only say that it was because they were so much like those two Hon. and Learned Gentlemen. But he wished to lay it down as a general ruse, that the people of Ireland and people of England, and the peop'e of Scotland, were all equally worthy of the right and the the duty of self-government,—(Loud cheers) The Hon. and Learned Sergeant had said that this was the first time that argument had been used, and that it was first stated by the Noble Lord who opened this debate. Why, so far from that being the case, the very same argument was made the ground, and the only ground, of i pposition to the measure of last year. It wai most distinctly stated by the Noble Lord, the Member for Lancashire. Lord STANLEY—I never stated anything of the kind. Mi. ROEBUCK begged the Noble Lord's pardon; he did not wish to impute to the Noble Lord anything which he had not said, but, as far as his recollection went, he could assert that he had heard the Noble Lord state distinctly in this House, that the people of Ireland were in that condition, that they were separated into parties by their peculiar religious feelings, that they could not be entrusted with muni cipal corporate rights.—(Cheers.) That was the whole tenor of the argumentation of the other side of the House. It was on that ground that they sought to cut down, to spoil and ruin, the measure in this Ifouseby piecemeal. They took that course in order to persuade his Majesty's Ministers ; and its passing he would state that he thought his Majesty's Ministers were too easily persuaded by that side of the House to cut down that Bill, on the ground and understanding which was always put forward by them, that there were peculiarities in the Irish people that unfitted them for self government.—(Cheers.) That was the fair way of stating the argument.—(Hear, hear.) Now he wished to call the attention of both sides of the House, more particularly the at tention of the Liberal Members, to this fact, that the Hon. Members opposite distinctly stated in opposition to them that the people of Ireland were not worthy of self.government. That was their prim ciple.—(Cries of " No, no," from the Opposition, and " Hear, hear," f.om the Ministerial benches) .Ay, but it was so. He wished to state the naked truth, but even the naked truth of their own opinions pas not agreeable to them. So apt were they to dress them up, that os hen they came in an unadorned shape before them, they could not re.. etlenise them as their own. Now he would assert that the principle upon which he and those on his side of the House went was, that the pool , le of Ireland were not distinguishable from the people of England or of Scotland, and that they were fitted for self-government. These principles were as light and darkness. As they approached nearer to wards the one, so they receded from the other ; and he entreated his Majesty's Ministers not to lend too easy an ear to the suggestions that raight be brought forward by Hon. Gentlemen on the other side of the House, to militate against the great principle which had been to-night recognized by the speech of the Noble Lord. He must say it had given him great pleasure to hear all those principles with which he com menced and ended his speech. But there was. a lurking suspicion, a doubt, a hesitation in his mind that those wide and sometimes vague generalities were accompanied with a fatal tendency to listen to the suggestions coming from parties who on this question were wholly irre concilable opponents, that attempts would be made to conciliate those who could not be conciliated—(hear, hear)—and that for the purpose of pleasing Hon. Gentlemen opposite, the House would be called upon to cut down, alter, mutilate, ruin, and utterly destroy the value of this Bill. He thought this had been too much the case last year ; and he was sorry to hear that the Noble Lord had not enlarged his Bill—that he had not embraced within it the whole of the Irish people, and so have gained, by one grand stroke, their hearts. their wishes, and their sup port—(Cheers)—and hadArusted to the good sense of England and of Scotland for maintaining him and his colleagues in that position in which they now stood, based as they then would have been upon a great and glorious principle of legislation.—(loud cheers.) What he wanted them to do was to carry out the great principles of self-government, and not to yield one jot to the gentlemen opposite, who declared that the people of Ireland were not worthy of self-government.— (hear, hear.) If the Ministers must listen to suggestions, he would just hint that they should listen to th e suggestionis of their friends, and not of their enemies.— ;loud cheers, and laughter.) He was, however, too well grounded by experience in stating this his hesitation and doubts, which he did openly. He feared there was too great a leaning on their part to listen- to the suggestion from the opposite hi aches, while they turned a deaf ear and a cold shouler to their friends. lie begged to press it on their minds, if wishedthe i y ia I to con_ those Ministers, that this great principle of theirs me to that the People were worthy of selogcwernment was their ' — main stay and sup_ Port—(hear, hear)—and that every step they made in carrying out that great and glorious principle of legislation, was a step to enure and strengthen their own pow e r , a nd that every s single . inch which ' they yielded to false and dangerous suggestions coming from the opposite bench weakened their dominion,destroying the confidence people in them.—(Cheers.) He by shed the them to understand, and he wished the people of England issue with understand, that the two parties in the State were 110 W at i,,ttliii„rtettssihecetit thatto the whole Irish people, upon the principle which distinguished the Honourable Gentlemen opposite belongs 1 :1 ' 131 l t i o e would of England. van the real democracy England.--{hear from opposite party declared that the people were not a w r o ' rt a ti n y d o e f lie s e e r lf s . ) gov . :r h n e . Iris . los.l A hrl_trly declared that they were. They were at issue upon N .f..,ANit liesti o - Ireland—that, however, was but one great instance of -WO Ms, &status of the two contending principles. The Irish mun' j.-- e sipsld..eet_Ctlesette: ' . ere the subject matter, but the principle of demo_l- • . : 1-: „...,..1. r e) *, 1 1,ite f•VVO really involved. —( I cud cheers., Ever, di gges -7' il:Aja e :, , ..etOesy . essilts. came from th e other side ef the tiotoe would Z''rolatoiole"ifsn'llWatto,e,rit. Ire to tieetroy the peokble's political righ , ; es er, c </.,;i'' ' : iiply.;:o,er t sought to be listened to. With r4uti,,,, H e ~„e t ,.l ~• se _..U.L a...... 1... ...., .1%1. 11 S THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1837. beg and entreat his Majesty's Ministers, if they were sincere in the I many declarations they had made concerning the good government of Ireland, and concerning the good government of England, not in any way to abate one jot or one iota of the Bill now brought in. Enlarge it if you will, and make it what it ought to be; send it through this House ; send it up to the other ; and then, if the Noble Lord will say that his Ministry is dependent upon the fate of that Bill, I (said the Hon. Member) am not fearful of the result.—(Loud and long-continuzd cheering.) He for one would be a sanguine combatant in favour of that great principle. He was willing to tight the opponents of it foot to foot before the unshrinking strength of the prudent, honest, gene rous people of England.—(hear, hear.) To the people of England he would trust the issue of this grand and high debate—(cheers) ; to them he would leave its ultimate determination, and certain he was that the victory would be with the right—with those who were fighting in that House for the real, right, clear, and definite rule, that the people of Great Britain and Ireland were worthy to be their own governors.—(Loud cheers.) Let no man say that that was not the fair course of debate ; it might be covered over for the mo ment by the astute and learned ingenuity of others—it might be carped z nd cavilled at, but that was the real principle before them—the real principle which the representatives of the people must decide. Colonel CONOLLY complained of the manner in which the Noble Lord (John Russell) had referred to the resolutions and proceedings of the great Protestant meeting in Ireland, quoting only such passages as suited his own private arid particular views, and inducing the House to put a construction upon them, as they would be found wholly inca pable of bearing, if, as in common justice and fairness they ought to Nave been, they had been quoted at length.--(A laugh, and " Hear, hear.) The Noble Lord had called it a packed meeting. That was , not the fact. It was a meeting open to all, and limited in nnmbers only by the limited space of the building in which it was held. People of various persuasions were present, and every decent person who pre. vented himself at the door was admitted- The meeting was called constitutionally, correctly, and, as he thought, judiciously; and he felt satisfied that the resolutions adopted at it would command the respect of the great mass of the people in the United Kingdom, in spite of the mu. tilations of the Noble Lord (John Russell) and of the ill-timed and igno rant protest that had been made against it. The O'CONNOR DON believed that no person was allowed to have access to the Protestant Meeting, unless he previously signed a certifi cate declaring that he assented generally to the views of the Noble Lords by whom it was convened. With respect to the National Asso ciation, to which so much allusion had been made in the course of that evening, he fairly admitted that he regretted its existence.—(Hear.) It was to be regretted that the people of Ireland, whenever they sought a redress of grievances, were compelled to address themselves, not to a sense of right, but to some apprehension of danger,—(Hear.) On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON, the debate was adjourned. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a quarter past twelve, IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 6. THE COUNTY CART.OW.—WC have received cheering ac counts from Carlow. The Tories appear to be paralised, not withstanding they have managed to parade a candidate. The day of battle cannot be far distant. The people must continue on the alert. It would be well, we should think, if the Asso ciation were to depute a few of its members to urge upon the minds of the people the necessity of a vigorous effort on this all-important occasion.— Pilot. The Mail, as usual on such occasions, assumes a bold and confident tone, telling us that everything augurs well for the cause of Conservatism in Carlow. 'We think there can be little doubt indeed that Mr. Vigors will be returned by a large majority. The result will show whose prediction , is best grounded. The victory of Longford is but the harbinger of a glorious triumph in the county of Carlow. LAW APPOINTMENTS.—Mr. O'Loghlen was this day sworn in as Master of the Rolls, and Messrs. Woulfe and Brady as Attorney and Solicitor-Generals. They were warmly greeted by their several friends. Immediately after being sworn they proceeded to the Levee at the Castle.—Pilot. MR. SHARMAN CRAWFORD. —Mr. Crawford, we believe, leaves Dublin, where lie is this day, to meet his constituents to morrow. We should think the conference of the electors may end thus, without compromising either party. The electors may state their firm opinion, as they did before, that " in case the fell principle cannot now be realized, an instalment, accom panied with the appropriation clause, may be accepted, if, by throwing cut such a hill, the existence of the present Govern ment may be risked." Mr. Crawford will then know whether he can or cannot represent his constituents, and he will have time previous to such a Bill being introduced to consider it in all its bearings, and then either to resign his seat with spirit, or to hold it with honour. We strongly recommend such a prudent deliberative course to both parties.—Pilot. ATTACK UPON TI:E MILITARY.—Tuesday last, between three end four o'clock in the afternoon, a corporal and two privates of the 22d depot, escorting a deserter from Tipperary to Mitchelatown, were threatened by a violent mob of, country fellows on the road near Galbally, who called on the small party to liberate their prisoner (and lie happened to be a na tive of that part of the country ), or if not they would stone the military to death ! The corporal temperately but firmly warned the crowd of the dangerous consequences, should they attack him in the discharge of his duty ; but finding them heedless of the remonstrance, lie_ told them they should not obstruct his progress unless at the risk of life. Observing the assailants still press on his party, armed, too, with stones, spades, and pitchforks, he presented his musket, and cautioned the foremost that he would shoot the pri soner before they should rescue him, and ordered his com rades to prepare themselves. At this ci isis the deserter ob stinately refi'scd advancing another step with the escort, and threw himself on the ground, at which signal the country fel lows commenced pouring a furious volley of great stones upon the military, when the corporal, no doubt under a strict seite of duty, discharged his gun, wounding the deserter in the shoulder. Before the lapse of another minute the corporal was struck to the earth by the blow of a stone, which fractured his skull, and while laying senseless on the ground, the two privates fired in defence of their lives two shot's each, wound ing five or six of their desperate assailants, who now rushed upon the little party in overpowering numbers, and before they could reload, knocked them to the earth, seized their arms, and would have sacrificed them on the spot to their vengeance, after releasing the deserter, but for a gentleman who happily rode up, and with extreme- difficulty prevailed on the infuriate multitude to spare the soldiers' lives. The corporal labours under a severe fracture of the back of the head, while his two comrades are in a hopeless state from bayonet wounds and con tusions. Hogan was the name of the deserter.—Linieriek Chronicle. Tl►e Countess of Essex is convalescent. The at tack of influenza under which she suffered was very severe, but her excellent constitution has carried her through. MONEY MARKET.—The feeling of the City on the subject of the proposed inquiry into joint-stock banking may be very briefly stated. They would infinitely prefer the decla ration of some principle as to the future management of banks to another collection of evidence similar to the last, and they are decidedly of opinion that the recent management of the Bank of England should not be left out of any form of inves tigation that may be resorted to. For the sake of the Bank itself, as well as the country at large, this last point is most strongly urged, for without the confidence of the moneyed in terest it can never go on successfully or efficiently, and that this has been severely shaken, if not destroyed, by events which have recently taken place, any man can testify who has been in the habit of late of mixing in the higher commercial circles. What has occurred within the last three months in the management of joint-stock banks, whose general difficul ties have been matter of public notoriety, will furnish evidence of the most useful kind, and, as the recent investigation by the Bank of England must have sifted the system to the bottom, it is hoped that the full details will be shortly submitted, through the Committee, to the public, that they also may hare the means of forming a judgment upon it. In the opinion of the best-informed men in the city, no public question was ever brought forward in which a speedy decision was of so much importance as in this case. Every department of trade is at this moment languishing, not for the want of demand, or pro pitious openings of all kinds for commercial enterprise, but literally because no certain or steady policy is pursued, or can at present even be hoped for, in the management of the cur rency of the country.— Times. The Vice-Chancellor having, upon an ex-parte application, at the instance of Messrs. Colnaghi and Co., granted an injuuction to restrain the sale of that number of Ryan's Portraits of Conservative Statesmen, which contains the portrait of Sir Robert Peel, the public are hereby informed that proceedings have been taken ; and the proprietor of this magnificent work feels no doubt that the injunction will be dis solved in a very few days. No. 1, containing portraits of Wel lington, Wharncliffe, and Lyndhurst ; and No. 2, containing Newcastle, Sidmouth, and Follett, may still be had of all book sellers—price twelve shillings each Number.—James Fraser, publisher, 215, Regent-street, Feb. 7. MAJOR SKINNER'C OVERLAND JOURNEY TO INDIA. SECOND EDITION.—The reputation Major Skinner acquired by his " Excursions in India" will be increased by the present work, which is the most charming book of travels that the year has produced. Accustomed to rough it through the world, he submits without a murmur to those hardships and privations which would horrify a common tourist ; familiarly acquainted with the remoter East, he enters into the Asiatic character, adapts himself readily to its usages, and transfers to his pages the spirit of its manners ; whilst the skill with which he seizes the distinctive features of persons and things, his graphic and animated style, and the happy art by which he in vests every incident and almost every scene %%lII' a personal interest, would impart an attraction to the most common oc currences and every-day scenes. Our perusal of these vo lumes has been accompanied by something of the spirit of youthful reading, when one turns with enthusiastic delight over a narrative of strange lands, and watches the termination of the book with a feeling akin to that which is felt at parting from an agreeable friend on a dull road. —Spectator. THE DUCHESS OF LA VALLIERE AND MA DAME DE NIA INTENON.—We congratulate the public on the re-publication of these two charming tales. The character of Madame de la Vallire is well known, not only from the interest which the beauty and misfortunes of a royal favourite must always excite, but because the mistress of the most powerful and illustrious monarch of his age, who reigned for seven years in a court, without ambition, and buried herself in a cloister at the age of 28, could not be hated, nor, con sequently, calumniated by her contemporaries. Madame do Genlis has really touched the heart in these moving tales, and displayed a most perfect genius and moral taste in every page of her work.—Messenger. . . " ABEL ALLNUTT."—The popular Author of " Hajji Baba," " Zohrab," &c., has struck into a new line of fiction in his new work, " Abel Allnutt," in which Mr. Mo rier has successfully accomplished an union of the style of Goldsmith and Fielding ; that is to say, of the sly and quiet humour of the former, and the strong portraiture of character aboiandin g in the latter. These qualities arc brought into the service of an English story of modern life, developing the newfangled chicaneries, whether arising in the Stock - Ex change or in th e existing bubble companies, or from the tricks of pettifogging attorneys, or from the mean inanreurres of would-he-fashion Ales, which are too often pot into action to ruin the simple, the unwary, and the confiding. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1837. In the House of Lords yesterday the proceedings con sisted only in the presentation of petitions from Poole, Derby, Chard, Bradford, and Morley, praying for the Abolition of Church-rates. In the House of Commons Mr. It. Bowles (a Tory) the new Member for Evesham, took the oaths and his seat. Petitions were presented from all parts of the country calling for the extinction of Church-rates. Petitions on the following que,tions were also seve r.dly presented :—From Salford for the Repeal of the Poor-laws Amendment Act ; from Linlithgow on the subject of registering fictitious votes in Scotland ; from Bristol for the removal of the soap tax ; from Glasgow to the same effect ; from Limerick for the introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland. Lord MORPETII, in reply to a question put to him by Sir G. SINCLAIR, respecting the Irish Tithe Bill, said that he did not know whether Government would be able to bring it forward before Easter or not. The remainder of the evening was occupied with the de bate on Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion, for leave to bring in a Bill for the Reform of the Irish Municipal Corporations. As we have made some observations elsewhere on the Bill brought forward last night, we shall here only state that the present measure of Municipal Reform does not differ from the Bill passed by the Commons last year, in principle ; nor in its great features is there any dissimilarity. The prin cipal alteration in the details of the new Bill, consists in vesting, under certain regulations, the nomination of sheriffs in the Council, and not in the Crown. At twelve o'clock, after several long and elaborate speeches, one of which, Mr. Sergeant JACKSON'S, was strongly spiced with personal sarcasm, the debate was adjourned. The speech with which Lord JOHN RUSSELL introduced the Irish Municipal Corporation Bill into the House of Commons last night will be read with unmingled satisfac tion by all who regard the tranquillity of Ireland as an object of national importance. That it will be equally gratifying to the partizans of the " Ascendancy" faction we cannot presume to anticipate. It has always been the policy of that faction to keep a spirit of hostility between the two great:classes: into which the people of Ireland are divided—the Catholics and the Protestants. To rouse into activity all the unsocial feelings, to foment every wicked passion that has a tendency to make man the enemy of man, has ever been the object, and the too successful object, of the Orange-ridden Governments with which Ireland has been so long cursed. To the Tories, therefore, the Orange Tories particularly, the dawn of peace is not, as it is to all true patriots, the " day-spring from on high," that is to usher in the full splendour of the perfect day, but the " darkness visible," that shows them their own deformity, and reminds them, at the same time, " from what state they fell," never to rise again. To them we think Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S speech will—dealing as it does in fact and argument, and not in declamation—not be much more palatable than gall and wormwood. The Noble Lord commences his masterly address by stat ing that the present Bill differs in no material respect from that which was brought forward last year. The only point to which he thought it necessary to refer was a change -in the manner of appointing the Sheriffs in such boroughs as have the privileges of counties. According to the Bill of last year it was proposed that this appoint ment should be vested in the Town Council ; by the pre sent it is provided that the Council shall nominate three persons to be presented to the Lord Lieutenant, who may or may not select one of them for Sheriff. In the latter case three others are nominated by the Council, and if the Lord Lieutenant shall think all these also unfit for the office, the unqualified appointment is to be vested in him. The Noble Secretary then enters upon the state of Ireland at present, as contrasted with what it was under the ancien regime, and proves, by a reference to of f icial docu ments, that at no former period was there any thing like the tranquillity and order that prevail in the sister country. Th e test which is adopted to make out this most important point is one which cannot be objected to by the most cap tious opponent—it is the diminution of outrage and crime among the people. Lord JOHN RussELL does not content himself with quoting the addresses of the Irish Judges, congratulating the Grand Juries at the late Assizes on the unprecedented lightness of the calendar (extracts of which addresses a ppeared in The Situ of yesterday) ; but shows, by a comparative arithmetical statement of the cases o f crime at (Efferent periods, the almost incredible improve ment which has taken place in the morals and habits of the Irish people, since they began to feel that they were under a paternat Government. We mn=t refer our read„, to the (.peeelt itself for tie particulars of this highly interesting statement, Merely observing that the only answerLantwer indeed !—which was attempted to this strong evidence in favour of a conciliatory system of rule in Ireland was, that this tranquillity and this absence of crime were occa sioned solely by the absolute influence which the General Association exercised over the people. Now, if this be so— if the Association does actually possess this power, and exercises it so beneficially, our earnest prayer for the As sociation is, es to perpetua. Unfortunately, however, for Mr. Sergeant JACKSON'S quibble, it so happens that this decrease in the number of offences against the laws has been going on gradually. It did not begin simultaneously with the operations of the General Association ; but was going on in a steady progression, when that great organ of a people's wishes, and monument of a people's power, sprung into existence. What must the Learned Sergeant and his clique feel, when they find the extraordinary fact sent abroad through the world, that . the number of crimes in the whole of Ireland last year, was less than those committed in a single county a few years ago ! The next topic which Lord JOHN RUSSELL took up, and which he handled in excellent style, was the defence of the Irish Government from the charges brought against it by the Orange people. - He pointed out—with great force, and exquisite irony—tho mean shifts to which they and their Protestant Association had had recourse, in order to blacken Lord MuLGRAvr. Nothing, in short, was ever more triumphant than this defence—nothing more com plete than the castigation inflicted upon the opposite party. This was felt acutely by the champion whom the Tories put forward to answer Lord JOHN. Mr. Sergeant JACK SON rose in a great rage, and instead of apply ing himself to the question before the House, ut tered for two long hours little else than personal abuse of Mr. O'CONNELL. This indeed was, with the exception of Lord CLESIE NTS' and Mr. ROEBUCK'S excellent ad dresses, the main characteristic of the remainder of the de- I bate. In to-day's Times we find not less than two columns filled with Mr. ENEAS MACDONNELL'S Index to the Let ters lately addressed by him to our Cotemporary, and now republished in one volume. This Index is an exceedingly sprightly affair—as such things are apt to be—and is by fear the cleverest, most amusing, and best written portion of the work. We have a high respect for Mr. MACDON NELL as an Index-maker. His learning and abilities are every way fitted for such a task ; and would he but perse vere, we think we might promise him high preferment as one of the wooden sign-posts of literature. Nay, we will go further and say, that in his present Index he has exhi bited powers singularly and daringly original ; for who but a MACDONNELL would ever have dreamed of' making such a work the vehicle of puffing a MACDONNELL ? WARREN and RowLAND, inimitable self-eulogists as they are, have never yet hit upon a scheme so novel or inge nious as this? Conceive two mortal columns of Index de voted, almost exclusively, to a recapitulation of the various intellectual merits of the compiler ! We extract a few of these egotistical uzorceaux, which, if we mistake not, will both surprise and edify the reader : " Resting, Right Rev. Dr.—laudatory attestation to conduct of writer, as agent to the Catholics of Ireland. Kolar', Right Rev. Dr.—laudatory attestation to conduct o f writer, &c. Loffan, Most Rev. Dr.—laudatory attestation to conduct of writer, &c. Logan, Right Rev. Dr.—laudatory attestation to conduct of writer, &c. O'Shaughnessy, Right Rev. Dr.—laudatory attestation to conduct of writer, &c. Prelates, Roman Catholic—laudatory attestations to conduct of writer, &c., p. 159, et seq. Ryan, Right Rev. Dr.—laudatory attestation to conduct of wrlter, &c." This is only a small—a very small—portion of the "lau datory attestations" which Mr. MACDONNELL enumerates with such complacent minuteness. Let us see now in what terms he speaks of those who refuse such " attestations :" " Sheehan, Rev. John—false and calumnious attack on writer. Trades' Union, Dublin—Their impertinence towards writer corrected." This last moiceau is exquisite. Was ever a powerful fraternity so keel-hauled in an Index before ! ENEAS is the very JUN ius of Index-makers ! His sarcasm takes the skin off, like a blister. But even this, rich as it is, is nothing to what follows. Under the head " Tithe Bill," we find " Lord Morpeth invites suggestions—Writer suggests." " Writcr suggests ! " How terse, and yet how imposing is this ! What an unrivalled sample of epigrammatiC egotism ! Lord MoRPETH expresses a wish to receive suggestions on the subject of Tithe, of course from those best qualified to offer bins advice ; and 10, Est:As steps forth, evidently under the impression that lie was the very adviser whom his Lordship had in his eye ; and that unless lie " suggested," all would be over with the Irish Secretary and the Irish tithe-system ! We should not have noticed these little escapades on the part of the bashful ENEAS, if we did not distinctly see that his Index is drawn up for no other purpose than to give him an opportunity of repeating his own praises of himself. The " Letters of JuNius" have no Index ; why then should the " Letters of MACRO HELL" But enough of this subject. The Paris papers of Monday contain no political intelli gence of interest. The Siecle states that a succession of diplomatic notes are passing between the Cabinets of Lon don and Paris, on the subject of a war with Russia. The negociation is supposed to arise out of a secret treaty be tween the two Powers, by which they mutually pledged themselves to unite against the Autocrat. It is strange that we should never before have heard of such a treaty. We suspect the whole affair to be a fabrication. Ministers anticipate a partial defeat upon the Civil and Military Tribunals' Disjunction Bill ; but they will not re tire in consequence. To break their fall, an amendment is to be proposed which shall satisfy the Chamber, and to which they will give their support. The accounts from the North of Spain are unimportant. General SAARSYIELD is at Pampeluna, with about 800 infantry and 400 cavalry. Brigadiers CONRAD and ESPE LETA command two divisions of this force, the third being under the immediate personal direction of the General him self. Pampeluna is well supplied with provisions and ap pointments for the troops. General IRRIBAREN'S force upon the Ebro has also been reinforced by the arrival at Lodosa of a Christino column, composed of 2,000 cavalry and 900 infantry. The latest advices from Madrid are to the 30th ult. The Minister of the Interior was recovering fast, and it was expected that he would shortly resume his official functions. The Cortes had decreed that all secularized monks and nuns shall be entitled to acquire and hold property, and to enjoy all the common rights and privileges of other classes of Spanish subjects. PARIS. FRB. 6.—We have this morning received a letter from Oran, dated Jan. 23. It announces that it is in contem plation to conclude a treaty of peace with Abdel Kadir. The following are statod to be the conditions :—" The fortress of Tremezen to be restored to the Emir, to whom a port on the coast would be given up, to have a vent for the disposal of the produce of the province. The hostile tribes have long been unable to carry on any traffic ; at this moment there are in the interior of the country great quantities of wool. The Jew Baron Duran, who would be the representative of Abdel Kadir to our Government, would doubtless make all the profits, for the monopoly of the trade would undoubtedly come into his hands. The portion of territory comprised between the sea and the mountains of Bausiri, Jonaial, and Ghelina to remain to France, and the Emir to undertake to render all disorder in that tract impossible. The Arabs in friendship with France to remain under Mustapha." Such is the proposed treaty which is the general subject of conversation, and the Jews, who are usually well informed, seem to be much satistied.—Constitu tionnel, Feb. 6. FRENCH FUNDS.-PARts, FM 6. Five per Cents., 109 f. 25c. 20c. 15e. 10c. Four per Cents., 1011. Three per Cents. 7911 35c. 20c. 2rx. Rank Actions, 2,110 f. 2,105 f. 2,400 f Rente de Naples, 981. 45c. 50c. 3.5 c. 30c. Roman Five per Cents., 102. N. Spanish Actives, 25'14%v. Spanish Differes, 11 1 ,j Spanish Passives, 7. Portuguese 'three per Cents. 31%. Haytian Loan, 375 f. ECNCOANGE ON LONDON. One mouth, paper, 25f. 30c. ; money, 251. Three mouths, paper, 251. ; money, 2511 10c. -['oars Authentrvic. LAST PRICES. Five per Cents., 109 f. 35)c. Three per (*etas. 79f 40e. Bank Actions, 2,100 f. itente de Naples, 91'. 90c. Raman Five per Cents., 102 1 ,.. Portuguese Three per Cent., 31 Haytian Loan, 3791. Spanish Actives, 201's. Spanish Passives. 7. New• Differes, 11. There was an extraordinary attendance of strangers under the gallery of the House of Commons, last night, to hear the debate on the Irish Municipal Bill. We observed among them the Duke of Palmella and the American Ambassa dor. Th.;, , latter tool; his place on one of the seats appropri ated to Peers, by miF,taLe, of course. His. F.Neelleney being reminded of his error by one of the officers of thr House, withdrew behind. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Loan CHANCELLOR in the course of the morning stated, that as soon as the paper of appeals was cleared up to the end of the last Term, which he hoped would be the case in a reasonable time, he should proceed with original causes. It was necessary that parties concerned in the business he should then proceed upon, should have due notice of his intention, so as to avoid any inconvenience from counsel having had their briefs delivered in cases pending in the Vice-Chancellor's Court. After disposing of the few appeals that remained, set down to the last day of term, he should take the paper of original causes. Mr. Wioakm enquired of his Lordship if he had come to any determination relative to the days he would sit in the House of Lords ? The LORD CHANCELLOR'S intention was, unless some sug gestion was made to the contrary, to sit in the House of Lords this Session on the same days he had done last year—namely, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, devoting the other three days of the week to the business of the Court of Chancery. ROLLS' COURT.--(THIS DAY.) BOULTBEE V. BOULTBEE. The MASTER of the ROLLS was occupied with this case the whole of the morning. It came before the Court upon further directions and costs, but contained no point of interest. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY.) (Nisi Prius Sittings before Lord ABINGER. ) lIIVRRA/ V. SCOTT. Mr. CHANDLER opened the pleadings. Sir WILLIAsi FOLLETT stated that this action was trought against the defendant as the registered proprietor and printer of a paper of very considerable circulation, the Morning Ad vertiser, in which appeared a libel upon the character of the plaintiff. The plaintiff was an extensive dealer in marine stores ; he was a most respectable man in that line of business, and dealt with Mr. Alderman Thompson, and others of the most respectable Houses in London in the iron and lead trade. On the 24th Oct., the plaintiff, who resides in High-street, Bloomsbury, sent a cart-load of old lead to Messrs. Maltby and Walkers, in Lambeth, and was to receive in exchange some new lead. When the cart reached Grafton-street, Sobo, one of the Thames police officers seized it, and took it to the of fice to which he belonged, and an investigation took place before Mr. Clarkson, the Magistrate. This occurred on Monday, and on Thursday following a report of the investigation appeared in the Advertiser, as of the previous day. In that report,the plaintiff was stated to have declared that he -was Linable to state from whom he had got the lead, which was false, for with the exception of a few cuttings, he stated to the Magistrate the names of the gentlemen of whom he had purchased the lead—stating particularly that the greater part of it had come from the house which had been purchased and taken down for the purpose of the Greenwich Railway Company. The libel went on to say, that the Magistrates cast reflections upon the plaintiff—that great depredations in lead had lately taken place—and that Marine-store shops gave too easy access to thieves for all kinds of plunder; and it further stated that the plaintiff was fined 51. for not being able to account satisfactorily for the possession of the lead; that four cwt. of the lead was condemned for the use of the Crown, and the Magistrate was made to say that he considered the plaintiff's business as a great nuisance. These charges were very detrimental to the character of the plaintiff; they would be proved to be untrue; and it would be for the Jury to say what reparation in damages the plaintiff was entitled to. The formal proof of the publication was then given, and Sir W. FOLI.ETT was proceeding to call witnesses to prove the re mainder of his case when our reporter left. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONH O'CLOCK. Bank Stock. n per Cent. Red.......... 904, 1 4 91:1 (Ditto Bonds 22 20 22 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons S9Mb 74 % ;South Sea Stock . ••• • — 3% per Cent 98% 9 Old Annuities Ditto Red 98% 4 1 New Ditto — New 3% per Cent cf 7%% ! 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 -- New sper Cent — Exch. Bills, .E. 1,000 9 7 28 26 pm. Bank LongAnnuitiestoeypire Ditto ........ .......500 ......... 28 26 pm. Jan. 5, ISCO l4 15-16 15 , Ditto Small Oct. 10, 18. 7 9 — ! Ditto Commercial • Pm. Jan. 5, IF 60 — i Ditto Advertised... ....... .. pm. Jan. 5, .RB' - j Bank Stock for Account --- April 5, 1880 — i India Stock for Account - Jan. 5; 1870 — !Consols for Acconnt 1 89Mii Omnium . PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds ........ — { Ditto Account ....... Portuguese Bonds • Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds 4B Ditto Account 4B Ditto, 3 per cent. Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 182'1 Ditto Account ........ Ditto Metallic • Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Ditto Bonds, ......... • Ditto Account • French, 5 per cent.......... • , 4 per cent. — c. ; - 3 per cent. —c• • ---- Exchange 2sf. 50e. Dutch, per cent. • i Ditto Account Ditto, 5 per rent IO3 l A ; • Ditto Account Belgian Bonds 102% Accoubt Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account . Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ....... ....... ChilliAn Bonds Ditto Account Columbian Bonds Ditto Accont.t Columbian Bonds, 18.0.4 Ditto Account Danish Bonds 75% Ditto Account Greek 80nd5............ ....... Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent ...... Ditto Account .. Nreapolitan DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share 126 16 , 4, 75 127 9 20 21 31) 18 10 14 10 7 6Y4 20 21 20% )1111;ally ipany... 7ompany k NOE, YESTERDAY. Legtioin 4N Genoa 1.6 0 Milan 11 Venice 47 Naple. 4O Palermo per oz. lill Lisbon 5. 9 34 Oporto 6 : 3 ! .-(t Rio Janeiro 3.3 Bahia 2 6- Buenos Ayres ...... Dublin, ‘2I days' sight i Cork 154 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ Portugal (.old, coin f 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons ----- ---------- ------------- New 1)111li - us Silver. bars, standard, o 5 0 S, DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 4 Grand Canal Deb... ti per cent 69 Ditto, 4 per cent - Hibernian Bank I City of Dublin Steam Co. ll O l9 !National Insurance Co City Debentures, 4 per cent - Ballast Otlice Debentures, 4 per cent - PRICES OF SHARES THI, Copiapo London and Birmingham Hallway Cc London and Creen.vich Railway Corr London and Southampton Railway C god!) Midland Railway Company Colonial Bank London and Westminster Bank LOURSE OF EXCH Amsterdam C.F. 12 5 Ditto, at sight Rotterdam U. 1:2 5}2 5 , Antwerp—. klaml;urg. ........ M.B l3 12. Altona 3 days' sight 25 50 Ditto .....................2 Us 25 fto ........ _ Marseilles. Frankfort OH Maine, Ex. M. 153 Peter,.laugh, ruble '3 Us, 10 0 Kerlin ‘lciina, effective ti O M.IO 16 ... lO 18 Madrid Cadiz 16% Bilhoa Barcelona kt Seville ^6 r.lihraltar PRICES OF IRISH STOCK S per Cent. Consols B9 'Ditto Reduced — fN per Cent. Stock 904 Ditto sew, 19:311 3., per Cent. Debentures 9 `N Bank Stock I97N Royal Canal Stock 21!,,', (irand Canal Stock — M A ILS. Arrived. Due.' Arrived. Dee A rrivel. Dile 0 Arnerics..i. ..... . 0 I France ( 0 Lisbon 0 0 l'razil 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 0 0 Carth4ena .... 0 0 Holland I Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Handel* , ..... .... 0 0 Leeward lslandz 0 I ‘Vaterford 1 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE 10-31ORROW. M0rning....,...50 minutes after 4 I Evening S minutes after 5. UNPRECEDENTEDLY CHEAP PUBLICATION! Published this day, No. 3, of the PILGRIMS of the THAMES, Price One Shilling, containing PIERCE EGAN'S Life of the eccentric Showman, the late MUSTER RICHARDSON—fuII of anecdotes__ droll incidents—Bartholemew Fair in the Olden Times--choice spirits, &c. Written expressly for this work ; embellished with Two Characteristic Engravings by PIERCE EG AN, the Younger, —Greenwich Fair—Kiss in the Ring. Also a beautiful Vignette, containing a view of the Thames, and the Pilgrims in the Tunnel . With a striking Likeness of MUSTER RICHARDSON—the only Portrait ever taken of him. London : W. Strange, Paternoster Row ; and sold by all Booksellers. The publication of THR SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Cluck. - 4- I -4D- t *i"t % e r At cr ,"' : l.' .4- VP ~4 P A /221 ziire,ol4 eibg LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. DEAL, FEB. 7.—Wind S. S. W., fresh.—Arrived the Van guard, from Singapore. Sailed the Russell, Wells, for Sun derland ; Janet, Scott, for Llanelly ; and Admiral Lake, for Tencriffe. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 7.—Wintl S. E., fine.—Arrived the Speed, Wells, from St. Michael's ; and Duke of Manchester, from London for Jamaica. Sailed the Ferona, Godfrey, for London, having been repaired. STANGATE CREEK, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Charles Carter, Christal, from Constantinople. MARGATE, FEB. 7.—Off port the George, Weeks, Limerick. COWES, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Johannah, from Havannah, with loss of boats, &c. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 7.—Arrived the Providentia, (lore, from io Janeiro. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 6.—Arrived the Georgia, Shacktord, from New Orleans ; Neris, Jarvis, from St. Michael's ; Laura Ann, Caseby, from Lisbon ; and Gipsy, Shotten, from Bordeaux. Off port the Ellen, Yeoman, from Penang ; Lexington, from Charleston ; Planter, from New York ; Mary, from Halifax ; and Palmers, from Sicily. The Tallyho, Daggett, bound to Virginia, put back, leaky. Cr;kK, FRB. s.—Arrived the Mary, Bell, from Odessa. FALMOUTH, FEB. 6.— , -Arrived the Telemachus, from Cape Briton; Ann Petley, Champion, from Marsala; Numiller, Caffiers, from Messina ; and Havre, Playnes, from Havre, leaky, bound to Havannah. The Christiana, Lawson, from Figueras, was carried into St. John's, Newfoundland, the sth ult., having been abandoned by the crew. The Cossack, from Cardiff to London, sunk on Margate Sands yesterday ; crew saved. The Orme, Dawson, from Newcastle to London, sunk near Whitby the sth ult. The Margaret and Peggy, Summers, was on shore at Wick low, and full of water. THE FUNDS.-THIS DAY. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have received a Montreal Paper of the 10th January/ which contains the following:— " DOWNING-STREET, Ann. 30, 1836.—Sir—The particular attention of his Majesty's Government has been called to mea sures adopted by v arious Colonial Legislat ures , f or rev i s i ng and altering the rates at which different coins should pass current, and be a legal tender with reference to local monies of account. These regulations have obviously considerable influence upon the transactions of those departments which are concerned in the collection of duties, imposed by Acts of Parliament ; more especially upon transactions of the military chest ; and as material consequences have already been expe rienced in these respects, it is desirable to adopt such measures as may prevent the recurrence of such inconvenience, and thereby avoid the necessity of revoking such enactments as may be deemed objectionable, after they shall have been promulgated and carried into effect. With this view I have to desire that you will not permit any Act or Ordinance, or Pro clamation or Regulation, to come into operation in the colony, under your Government, relating to the local currency, and circulating medium, or to the rates at which coins should pass current, or to be a legal tender ; or to the circulation of pro missory notes, or other paper, either by the local Govern ment, or by any corporate bodies,,or individuals, without hav ing first received his Majesty's sanction conveyed to you by the Secretary of State. ( Signed) " GLENELG." We have received a New Orleans paper of the 24th of December. We extract the following from the Price Cur rent : " Statement of cotton—stock on hand, October 1, 1836 : Bales, 8,702 ; arrived this week, 13,283 ; arrived previously, 199,523 ; exported this week, 23,895; exported previously, 97,929 ; stock on hand, 99,684. " Louisiana State Bank, 121 dollars ; Bank of Orleans, 113 dollars offered ; Banki ng Company offered, at par. -" We have had disagreeable weather all the week. On Thursday it was warm and wet ; and since then the cold has been severe. The Mississippi is .9i feet below high-water mark. ,‘ We observed last week that the Cotton Market closed heavy. This dull character was maintained until Thursday ; the sales to that time being slight, at a reduction on yesterday. But notwithstanding the gloomy accounts received from Li verpool, there was a large business done at full prices." There is a stagnation to the present hour in all speculations in the various funds, and the prices of Consols may be qnoted at the closing of yesterday, 894 4 for Account; 89i Money; Exchequer Bills, 26, 28; India Bonds, 23 ; Bank Stock, 208. Spanish Active, 241 4; Passive, 414 7 ; Deferred, Portuguese, 474 48 ; Three per Cents., 304 31. Accounts of a considerable failure at Liverpool have been recevied this morning. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. The whole of the morning has been very uninteresting in the City—no information of consequence —a stagnation in the operations of the Funds—and not even a single report afloat. Within a short period Consols have improved a shade higher. They continued during most part of the morning at 894, and at present may be quoted at 891 afor the Account ; Money, sq. Exchequer Bills, 27 28 26 premium ; India Bonds, 20 22 premium ; Bank Stock, 208; India Stock, 2571 2581. Spanish Active, 244 8 ; Passive, 7 ' • Deferred, 114 ; Por tuguete, 48 ; Colombian, 2 5 ; Dutch, 54k. The Share Market is still very heavy. The failure at Liverpool is in the grocery line to a large amount —report says 250,0001. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 89 i. The Grippe extends its malignant influence in every quarter. M. Paul Delaroche and several other artists, are at this moment suffering from its attacks. Twb-thirds of the pupils of the Colleges in the capital are also confined by it. Sixty-three inspectors and sergens de ville are likewise among the sufferers from the malady, as well as a number of letter carriers. The inconvenience sustained by the public at large from the illness of the last mentioned humble but useful func tionaries may be easily conceived. The Municipal Guard is almost decimated, and with difficulty furnishes men sufficient fur the duty confided to that body. The grippe also con tinues to play its part at the theatres, many of the perform ers of which have been obliged pro ternpore to resign the sock and buskin. In the departments, too, the disease has made progress, especially those bordering on the channel and the ocean. Vast numbers of the inhabitants of Calais. Arras, Havre, and Caen, have been attacked. As in Paris, the complaint has not assumed a serious character, but it prevails amongst all ranks and professions.—Paris Paper_ Wandsworth Assembly took Place on Monday even ing last, and was attended by upwards of 300 of the haul ton. The carriages began to arrive soon after nine o'clock, and at ten dancing commenced to Adams's fashionable band, who per formed, in their usual style of excellence. The refreshments were of the first order, and the whole went off with brilliant se/at. , His Royal Yacht Quadrilles, and his Laughing Finale were repeated several times, by desire. BRIGHTON.-TUESDAY. Their Majesty's took a carriage airing yesterday afternoon along the cliffs. To-day the King drove out, accompanied by Major-General Sir C. Thornton. The Queen took a carriage airing this morning, accompained by the Countess of Mayo. The Princess Augusta has been slightly indisposed with a cold, but we understand Her Royal Highness was better this morning. The King gave audiences yesterday afternoon to Lord Hill, Admiral Sir P. Malcolm, and Captain Scott, R. N. We understand the stay of their Majesties and the Court here will be prolonged till the 27th; but we understand their Majesties' departure even on that day depends on the health of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Glocester. Earl Howe left yesterday for London. Lord and Lady Wharncliffe had the honour of dining with their Majesties on Sunday ; the dinner invitations last night were the Hon. General Phipps, Vice-Admiral Sir C. Colville, Lieutenant-General Sir T. Bradford, Lieutenant-General Sir Jasper Nicolls, Lord Hal, the Field Officers of the Grenadier Guards, Colonel Madox, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir J. R. Eustace, Lieutenant-General Sir Evan Lloyd, Admiral Sir P. Malcolm, Hon. Captain Paulett, and Lord and Lady Wharncliffe. Names have been left at the Palace by Lieutenant-General Sir Roland Eustace, Sir F. and Lady Hervey Bathurst, Earl and Countess Kinnoul (on leaving), Lieutenant-Ge neral B. Reynardson, Colonel Sir G. Teesdale, Lord James Stuart, Lieutenant-General Sir J. Taylor, Vice-Admiral Sir T. and Lady Rodd, Marquis of Teignmouth, Admiral Sir J., Lady, and Miss Whitshed, Mr. and Lady E. Dickens (on leaving) Lieutenant-General Sir E. Lloyd (on leaving), and Lieutenant-Colonel Sir F. Smith. COURT CIRCULAR. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Richard Vaughan transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yesterday. The Lords present were—Lord Brougham, Sir J. Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Chief Judge in Bank ruptcy. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The appeal fromi the Arches' Court of Canterbury, " Mr. Thomas Mouldcn Sherwood v. Mr. Robert Ray," respecting the nullity of a marriage, was resumed. The appellant in this case has married his late wife's sister, Miss Emma Ray ; and the respondent is the father of the lady. Mr. Sergeant Wilde was heard at great length on the part of the respondent. Dr. Addams commenced his reply for the appellant. The Court adjourned at half-past four o'clock. Despatches for Sir William Nicolay, Governor of the Mau ritius, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Lady Georgiana Grey is staying at the Hoo, Herts, on a visit to Lord Dacre. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. Yesterday James Skreen was indicted for feloniously cutting and wounding George Thompson on the high seas within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, with intent to murder him.. There was another count in the indictment which charged the prisoner with wounding the prosecutor with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Curwood prosecuted, and Mr. Doane defended the prisoner. The RECORDER summed up the evidence, and the Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity. The trials being over, the R ECORDER, soon after 6 o ' cloek, proceeded to the New Court to pass the sentences. The following prisoners were sentenced to transportation for seven years : —Eliza Jakes, Bridget Henry, Mary Fleming, Mary Ann Keith, Ann Ryder, Mary Caney, William Jones, otherwise Myers, William Everett, Thomas Rawlinson, Wil liam Bennett, John Thorpe, James Brady, Felix M'Guiness, Charles Frederick Radford, Joseph Raffley, William Evans, Michael Lalley, Edward Callaghan, Samuel Harris, William Bryley, William Johnson, William Connor, George Cartel., Timothy Crawley, Charles Selsbury, John Warner, Joseph Wooster, Edward East, Benjamin Moss, Dennis Prendergast, John Coventry, James Bullock, William Thurling, John Thur ling, William Hopgood, Henry Skinner, James Godfrey, Arthur Knox, Patrick Crawley, George Jennings, otherwise Wilson, Robert Beale, William Stewart, Frederick Wilson, Thomas Court, John Smith, Richard Hart, Robert Cupid, Charles Jones, Dennis Collins, Henry Chappel, George Walker, Daniel Driscoll, John Hutten, John White, Thomas White, William Powell, John Clements, John Fishington, Robert Spencer Stapleton, John Stapleton, and Chs. Young. Sentence of transportation for 14 years was passed upon the: following prisoneis :—Betsy Simpson, Mary Simmonds, Mar garet Taylor, Robert Coombes (two indictments, seven years on each), Henry Johnson, Frederick Blackwell, John Smith, Thomas Capnell (manslaughter on the high seas), and Dennis M'Carthy, otherwise Green. Sentence of transportation for life was then passed upon William Tucker, Thomas Marshall, John Jones, John Joseph Saxon (embezzling a post-office money letter), Jonathan Bai ley (for the manslaughter of his wife), George Denny, John Wooten, and John Minter Hart (for feloniously forging and altering a bill of exchange for 5001. with intent to defraud Mr. Charles Herbert Jenner. ) The following prisoners, who had been capitally convicted,. ' were then called up and received sentence of death :—James Smith (for aiding others or assisting to shoot a gamekeeper), Thomas Westwood, George All en , William Milts, Henry Livingston, John Jones, and Henry Bates (all for burglaries). When these prisoners were removed from the bar, procla mation for silence was again made, and John Pcgsworth was brought up for judgment. no RECORDER then addressed him in nearly the following terms:-_' Prisoner at the bar, you have been by your own plea, the plea of guilty, established to be the person who ac complished the death of John Halliday Ready by an act of wilful niurder. Let me then, I implore you, remind you while yet I may, of the perilous situation in which you stand. Let me conjure you to think that you are now on the awful brink of eternity and the grave, beyond which you will have no opportunity for repentance, if you do not, while life is yet granted to you, endeavour to employ your few remaining hours in heartful penitence and prayer. By your rash hand you hurried another into the awful presence of his Ma— ker. You suddenly cut him off from• life without affording him an opportunity of offering up a single prayer for mercy, or a wcrd to prepare him for that a w f u l c h ange , w hi c h is fearful to the best, and still more dreadful to those who have a life of sin to atone for. It is necessary, not only for the safety of society, but for the protection of its best interests,. that a crime such as yours should be punished with death.. It now only remains for me to pass upon you the dreadful, the' inevitable sentence of the law, which is, that you, John Pegs,- worth, be taken from hence to the prison from whence you came, and from thence to a place of execution, where you.., shall be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and that drat, pursuant to your sentence, your body shall be buried within the precincts of the said prison, and may the great and just God have mercy upon your soul." The prisoner heard his sentence in the same resigned and becoming manner which he evinced when pleading guilty to the indictment. The sessions were then adjourned to Monday, the 27th instant. --- EIGH T-DAY CLOCKS, to strike the Hours and Half-hours, Five Guineas each. They are in elegant cases, about 7i inches high, suitable either to stand on a. bracket or mantel-piece, and are Warranted, at T. COX Sik.. VORY'S, Working Goldsmith, &c. &c., 47, Cornhill, London. N.8.--A pamphlet containing drawings and a detailed list el the , . prices of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or w ill b e f orwar d ed i n answer to a post-paid application.. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst., at Leamington, the Lady Mary Gage, of a son. On the 6th inst., Mrs. John Coysgarne Sim, of Mecklenburgh square, of a son. On the 28th ult., at Yately Lodge, the lady of W. F. Webster, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 30th ult., at Manchester, Wm. F. Higson, Esq., of the: city of Mexico, merchant, to Maria Rebecca, second daughter of Samuel Barton, Esq., of the same place. On the 31st :ult., at Frankfort, James Rochied, Esq., of Inver leith, near Edinburgh, to Sarah Catherine, only daughter of the late W. Patterson, Esq., of Wimpole-street. DIED. On the 20th of January, at his house in Vine-street, aged 77, Lieutenant Hugh Monro, one of the heroic defenders of Gibraltar, under General Elliot; he was afterwards Quartermaster to the Light Battalion of the Foot Guards, under the late Duke of York, in the Netherlands ; and latterly belonged to the sth Royal Veteran Battalion. He was much and justly respected, and his death is regretted by numerous friends and acquaintances. On the 29th ult., at Williamscote, Oxfordshire, Anne, relict of John Loveday, Esq., aged 81. On the 6th inst., Wrn. Loat, Esq., of Edwardes• square, Ken sington, aged 59. On the 27th ult., at Camden-town, Mrs. Kneller Smart, aged 39, of Princes-street, Leicester-square. On the 31st ult., at Horsham, Sands Chapman, Esq. aged 94. On the Ist inst., at Teddington, aged 83, Mrs. Wyn c l: of Hi-Lup ton Court Palace, relict of Wm. Wynch, Esq. On the sth inst., at Hendon, Francis, youngest son of the late Wm. W. Prescott, Esq., aged 23. 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Horncastle, of the Commercial Docks, aged 77-- At Bourne-grove, Southgate, aged '2l, Cornwallis Ranking, fifth son of Quarles Harris, Esq. On the sth inst., at Canterbury, John Sicklemore, Esq., of Ur nor Castle, Kent, aged 81. On the sth inst., in Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, aged 57 , Mr. Richard Chinnock, late of Frome Selwood, Somersctshire.. On the sth inst., at Frant, Sussex, Captain George Lewis Alinet,- late of the Hon. East India Company's Service. On the sth inst., hi Tonbridge-place, .New-road, James Cervettoo Esq., aged 90. • On the 3d inst., aged 60, Anne, relict of Edward Chambers , Esq., of Deal. • On the 4th inst., at Winchester, aged 91, John Latham, Esq•' M.D. , F. R. S. , A. S. , and L. S. - - -- London: Printed and. Publi,theti by 1111TRDO YOUNG, of I , Strand, at. The OflicP, N u . I 13 , Strand, In the c ount` of INliddletex,—Wedriecila, February 8, 1837. tt . ‘