The Sun. — London, England, 1837-03-27 00:00:00

COUItT CIRCULAR. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria and suite attended divine service and received the holy sacra ment at the chapel in Kensington -palace, yesterday morn ing. The Dean of Chester and the Rev. Joseph Jackson officiated ; and divine service was performed before their Royal Highnesses and their h ouse h o ld i s t h e even i ng b y the Dean of Chester. The Swedish and Spanish Ministers, and M. de Bour fluency, the French Charge d'Affaires, transacted business on Saturday at the Foreign Office. Messrs. Crane and Wilmot, from New Brunswick, had an interview with Lord Glenelg can Saturday at the Colo nial Office. Sir John Hohhouse had an interview with the Chancel lor of the Exchequer on Saturday in Downing -street. Dispatches from the Governor of Ceylon were received yesterday at the Colonial Office. Lord Glenelg had an interview with Viscount Melbourne on Saturday in Downing -street. WINDSOH.-SUN.DAY. His Majesty took a carriage airing in the Great Park yesterday. This morning their Majesties attended divine service in the private chapel of the Castle. The Queen, it is ex pected, will attend the service in St, G eorge ' s Chapel this evening. The musical service is Dr. Cook's in C. The anthem " If we believe that Jesus died," (Boyce.) His Majesty took his usual drive to-day. After the investituro of his Excellency Prince Esterhazy with the Grand Criss of the Bath, on the 15th of next month, his .Mai-sty will gi ve a state b anquet, at the Castle, to the pm-lc:pal Knights of the Order of the Bath. ORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER, THUAIDAY. CHESTER TRADE CUP, P.P. 7 to 2 agst Si r J. Boswell's General Chasse 7 to 1 agst General Yates's Sylvan to 1 agst Mr. Peel's Tamworth 12fr to 1 agst Mr. J. Day's Bubastes—taken 13 to 1 agst Mr. Robinson's Whaley —taken 13 to 1 agst Lord Eglinton's Black Diamond—taken 14 to 1 agst Mr. Giffard's Traveller . 17 to 1 agst Mr. Nanney's Friar Tuck—taken 18 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Philip—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. R. Price's Master of the Rolls—taken 20 to 1 agst Mr. J. Allen's Vesper 20 to 1 agst Mr. Barrow's Catharina 20 to 1 agst Mr. Peirse's Elizabeth —offered 22 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Japhet—taken 22 to 1 agst Sir J. Boswell's Sunbeam —taken 25 to 1 agst Mr. I. Day's Diana 50 to 1 agst Mr. Farmer's Latona URNT WOOD SPRING MEETING. A Match for 200 sous. p.p. was won in three heats by Mr. Pratt's b. g. Flat Catcher (Mr. J. Pratt), beating Mr. Bealey's Woodley (owner). Match for 50 sous., half a mile.—Mr. Shaw's b. g. Bolus (owner) beat Mr. Cordvv ell's Straw Yard. Match for 10 sovs., half a mile.—Mr. Chawner's ch. g. Cornet (owner) beat Mr. Franklin's b. g. Currier. The D;-- ne Diss and Scole Steeple Chase [took place on Tuesday last. The first !ace was won by Mr. S. Smith's Little John (Mr. Wil liams), 'beating Mr. John Wilson's Habis (owner), Captain Wil liam.s's White Surrey (owner), Mr. S. Clement's Sportsman (Mr. Thorne), Mr. B. Land's the Briton (owner), and Mr. E. New ton's Gulbeyaz (owner). The next match was won by Mr. Nurse's Predictor (Mr. Land), beating Mr. R. 0. Fuller's Champion (owner), Mr. S. Smith's Mesty (Mr. D. Bett's), Mr. Williams's Moses (owner), and Mr. Dodd' s Sp ecu l at i on (owner), The race was given topeculation, Predictor having gone on the wrong side of the flags. CATTERICK BRIDGE RACES. These races take place on Wednesday and Thursday next, under the stewardship of J. Bell and R. Sheftoe, Esqrs., Mr. J. O rton, of York, ma ki ng hi s d e b ut as Judge. The followig are the entries for the Craven Stakes—Darling, 3 yrs—Pompey, 3 yrs—Theano, 4 yrs—Black Diamond, 4 yrs—The Hind, 3 yrs—Galewood, 4 yrs—Dernsid, 3 yrs—c. by Falcon, out of Variell, 3 ys—Wedge, 4 yrs--Zebetta, 4 yrs—and Burletta, 5 yrs.—A good meeting is expected. There will not be any Hoo Races this year, but we are g i ven to understand th a t E ar l V erulam intends to establish a Club Meeting in his park on the same plan as the Goodwood. CHURCH-RATES. (From the Hereford Times.) TO THE EDITOR OF THE HEREFORD TIMES. Sta—l wish to put my fellow -countrymen on their guard against being entrapped to sign petitions which would per petuate Church-rates. During the present week two per sons have been in this part of the country, endeavouring to obtain signatures by persuading simple country folks that the petition is to prevent the Catholics getting a head, pul -Ing down the Churches, and destroying us all! Many easy believing or ignorant people have thus been frightened, and have written their names, not being at all aware that they have sig ned petitio ns t o cont i nue the payment of Church rates by the farmers. Such imposture should be exposed. I send my real name with this letter, and am ready to prove what I have stated above. Marden, March 23. PA A FREEHOLDER. .RLIAMEITARY DIVISION. BELFAST WATERWORKS BILL. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.) THURSDAY, MARCH 23. Motion made, and Question proposed_" That the Bill be now read a second time ;"—Amendmetit proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words upan this day six months :"—Question put, " That the word `now' stand part of the Question :"—The House divided:— MINORITY—AYES, 24. • Greene, T. Robinson, G. R. Hardy, J. Sheppard T. Hope, H. T. Trevor, Hon. A. Inglis, Sir R. H. Vyvyan, Sir R. Johnstone, Sir John Williams, Robert Noel, Sir Gerard Wilmot, Sir E. Pease, Joseph TELLERS. Poulter, J. S. Tennent, J. E. Richards, R. Sinclair, Sir 0. Alsager, Richard Baring, F. T. Benett, John Buller, Sir J. B. Y. Compton, H. C. D'Albiac, Sir C. Ewart, W. Fleetwood, H. Graham, Sir James Adam, Admiral Angerstein, John Attwood, 1. Baines, E. Bentinek, Lord W. Bridgman, Hewitt Buxton, T. F. Callaghan, D. Dalmeny, Lord IFazakorley, J. N. Gordon, R. Grey, Sir G. Hay, Sir A. L. Rindley, Charles .JORITY—NOES, Langton, Col. G. Leader, John Temple Lennox, Lord G. Lynch, A. H. M'Leod, R. Macnamara, W. Methuen, P. Morpeth, Viscount Murray, J. A. O'Connell, J. O'Ferrall, 111 ore Palmer, General Parnell, Sir H. Roche, W. Russell, Lot d John Rtithven, E. Sanford, E. A. Scrope, G. P. Smith, Vernon Stanley, E. J. Stuart, Lord James Tooke, William Tynte, C. J. K. Vivian, J. H. Warburton, H. 'MLLE//. Belfast, Lord Pechell, Captain The King has, we understand, signified his pleasure to occupy Buckingham Palace as soon as its fittings-up shall be completed. The most active progress is now making to- Wards the completion of the little that remains to be done in that respect ; and we have no doubt that, within three weeks or a month, this splendid residence will be fit for the reception of his Majesty.—Sunday Paper. We regret to hear that the venerable and excellent Bishop of Norwich is so severely indisposed that his medical attendants at the last consultation yesterday scarcely expected that he would survive the night. The Ramona steamer arrived from a cruise on Sun day, to replenish her coals, having fallen in with only one 40 ineiryard bound English vessel. The wind still keeping to the eastward, the steamer started again on Monday, and re turned to port the following afternoon, having boarded that Qa,rning at half-p ast 7 o ' c l ock, about 25 miles off the Land's ,,„ k ly his Majesty's brig Seagull, and brought her mails in here, the P.m., thereby saving that night's post both to London and eross-roads. The packet arrivedWednes -"q* and had not the wind veered round to the north-west, she epuld nat _possiblitony have beat up till severa l h ours a f ter t h at tun e-- Wes t Br. 411 13 ARous MURDER.—An inquest was sitting doctor,)esterday afternoon at Hibberley, upon the body of a quack named Knight. On Monday night the deceased was seen in compan with a man named Alford, and on the follow ing Morning KnYight's body was found at the back of the Hib berlY Arms Inn, in the parish of High Brickington, with his lelre.ad nearly severed from his body, and the pockets rifled. 1 2n inquest has been sitting the whole day, and Alford has -`-`1 apprehended on suspicion of having committed the horrid deed.. --North Devon Advertiser. S atur OUTR AGEOUS COND UCT OF A M ANIAC .-On day e vening, about six o'clock, a gentleman called in mgreat haste at the station-house, Marylebone-lane, and stated aide idspector (Mr. Thomas) there on duty, that a madman, s ing in thsecond floor of the house of Mr. Willis, music layeller, Lower otreet, had nearly killed his medical endant. Police -sergeant Harrison, and constable Brad itkinvg, of the D division : were immediately despatched to the u ull, and, on their arrival, found a mob collected round the c ° e _ ll3 , They entered the shop, and, on making inquiries, as .) Ltained that the name of the deranged person, who is a gen nn-, of property, was Broadly, and the injured party Mr. wabe e L , surgeon, of Sackville-street, Piccadilly. A keeper bill keen provided by the friends of Mr. Broadly to watch him, %Jilt s , Streint ma d ness not being of a violent n a t ure , n o personal re was thought necessary. That afternoon ance as usual c a ll ed to see his patient, who, on his reaching the htleynd-floor landing, came out of his room to meet him, and r s::ing out his hand, said, " How do you do, doctor ? r ," I Y, however, had the latter time to reply, ere he was histett by Mr. Broadly, who (before the keeper could arrest _earms) lifted him off his feet, and hurled him headforemost Z_rfthe bannisters, and then, pushing his keeper into the room, _Ei. elbowing himself, barricaded the door. The constables, n.. pen obtained assistance, and authorised by Mr. Willis, burst eeethe door, when, after a desperate struggle, they sue in securing the madman, who continually vociferated th _ Marie Taglioni I" Messrs. Sutherland, King, and Earl, EMedical gentlemen, who were sent for, shortly attended, innea:uAtitri.lo,Broadly, nodding at the former, said, " Doctor, I figure 8." After staying with him a short time he he w rne calm, whey a hackney-coach was procured, in which *l.; _, as conveyed to a private madhouse at Kensington, of I.2_e: Mr. Sutherland is proprietor. In the meantime Mr. (1 ; w.as taken in his own carriage to his residence, where, wisrsnieination, it was discovered that, besides being other- I b i eri ?uslY injured, his skull was severely fractured, and he es In a very precarious state. SPAIN, Prom the Madrid Ga;;:ettp . of March 16.) " WAR-OFFIcg---,PORTUGUOSE AUXILIARY DIVIe.ION STAFF. Most Ekcellent Senhor—The military commander of Balmaceda, in a despatch of this day at noon, writes me— ' I have the greatest satisfaction to communicate to your Excellency, that the sth eotnpany ) and the grenadiers of the 7th battalion of Biscay ) have been made prisoners on the heights of Santo Domingo, near Bilboa, in the action of the 10th inst., the rebels having besides lost more than 200 men, between killed, wounded, and deserters. Our army slept at Gualdecano that night, and must this day have entered Durango. A complete dispersion took place, in consequence of which the young men who were in the enemy's ranks belonging to this neighbourhood, returned to their homes.' " At this moment a confidential agent arrives from Ochandiano and Villareal de Alava, and tells me that the army left Durango, and marches over the mountains to Onate. " Viscount DE LAS ANT AS, General of the Portuguese Auxiliary Division, Villarcayo, March 12, 1837. " To the Minister of War." The Minister of Grace and Justice has sent the Minister of War a communication from the Regent of the territorial audience of Pampeluna, dated the Ilth instant at half-past ten in the morning, stating that at that very hour the army of General Saarsfield, consisting of 10,500 infantry and 400 horse, were defiling by the road of Irurzun ; adding, that the said General, with his troops, was going in search of the enemy, who was within two leagues of Pampeluna. The Baron des Antes, under date of the 12th instant, writes from Villarcayo, referring to advices he received from the commanders of Balmaceda and Villanueva de Mena, stating that the army left Bilboa at seven o'clock in the morning of the 10th, marching in the direction of Gualda• cane, where it encountered ten or twelve batallions of rebels, that th• battle immediately began and lasted till night, when in the evening some wounded and fifty rebel prisoners entered Bilboa. (From the Madrid Gazette of the 17th of March.) WAR OFFICE.—" The marching out of General Saars field, which I announced to your Excellency in my commu nication by express of the 9th, did not take place till the day before yesterday (11th of March). His corps of operation, composed of forces enumerated in the annexed statement, began its march on the high road to Tolosa with admirable order : the van, consisting of the tiradores and flankers, under the brave Colonel Leon Iriarte, opened the march ; next came the brigade which belonged to Alaix's division, under the command of Colonel Urbina ; next fol lowed the cavalry of the French Legion, and a squadron of Bourbon, in all 350 horse ; and after that the division of six battalions, with General Saarsfield at their head ; and the French Legion formed the rear. " In the village of Sarasa the enemy made some slight resistance with two companies, who were dislodged by the tiradores without the column stopping its march. At the position of Erica, a little more formal resistance was made by two battalions of rebels from behind their parapets. But they were presently driven out of it by the tiradores, some companies of Cacadores, under the command of Gen. Saarsfield himself in person. Twenty men were wounded in this skirmish, and amongst them a Captain of tiradores very severely. The army continued its march without opposition as far as Irurzun, and encamped that night, leaning its left on Echavarri, at the entrance of the Borunda, on the high road to Vittoria, as far as in front of Irurzun, beyond Las Dos Hermanas. The night was terribly snowy, rainy, and windy. The General passed it in the camp, setting a proper example worthy of the gallant veteran. Yesterday morning being without any accounts of Gen. Evans, and doubting whether he had sus pended his movement because of the heavy storm that was experienced, having likewise no intelligence of the Com mander-in-Chief for several days past, nor of the intentions and the direction of the seven battalions and 200 horse who with Don Sebastian had marched to the rear-guard on his left, he fell back upon Erica and Sarasa, whither I sens him the communications of Evans, which I will apprize him, that he attacked the enemy's lines and redoubts the day before yesterday, and succeeded in taking the same ; and he will likewise know that the expedition of Don Se bastian passed at nightfall of the 11th in front of Puente, marching in the direction of La Ribera. " This day a fresh convoy of provisions is being forwarded to him, for if he detains himself in these positions on ac count of the unfavourable weather, which continues, be keeps in this manner away from St. Sebastian all the forces that are in front of him. " General Saarsfield, in grand uniform, decorated with all his grand crosses and ribands, directed and ordered the march, and both officers and soldiers displayed the greatest satisfaction, veneration, and the most complete confidence in their General. The whole population of Pampeluna, notwithstanding the rain which fell at that moment, beheld this imposing spectacle from its walls. " Within these last few days we have had a diminution of six hundred men, gone to the hospitals, attacked by the grippe, which continues to make ravages, and inundates our infirmaries. " Brigadier Van Halen could not accompany the expe dition, being indisposed with a pulmonary complaint, which distressed him, but he is now much relieved. " ANTONIO MARIA DEL VALLE. Pampcluna, March 12. To the Minister of War." TALAVERA, MARCH 12.—Small parties of robbers, to the disgrace of the Government, traverse the countty, and molest the inhabitants by their excesses. At Pusa those (Carlist) Vandals surprised some inhabitants of Santa Olal lah, inspecting their herds, carried them to the mountains, and demanded 2,000 reels for their ransom, but compounded for one half. Three, calling themselves Faccicosos, en tered the house of the curate of that place, and not con tent with robbing, cut off, with the greatest inhumanity, one of the ears, and one of the breasts of the mistress. At Bermuy they carried off the brood-mare of the patriot Don Joaquim de Coca. At San Martin de Pusa and San Bartholome de las Abiertas they exacted money from the justices, and sacked some houses. - (From El Castellano, Evening Paper, March 18.) REQUENA, MARCH 15.—At five p.m., an express ar rived from the Alcade of Sietiaguas to our Commander, that the rebels from Chiva had moved against the town with 8,000 under Cabrera, and at this moment the general march is beating. MARCH 16.—1 avail myself of a Government express to tell you that the rebels who marched yesterday from Chiva consist of only 4,000 men, and that they went towards Rivera ; that Cabrera, with four battalions, remains at Chiva, giving out that he will unite all his forces at Utrie to attack Requena. Our columns from Liria have re treated to Murviedra. CARLIST INTELLIGENCE. " GENERAL ORDER OF THE 17TH INST. " Soldiers,—You have just given Europe a fresh proof of your courage and of the weakness of the multitude of rebels, who, assisted by vile mercenaries, wish to rend the bosom of our country. Your heroic valour has been the shield against which their designs have fallen harmless. Neither long marches, nor the inclemency of the weather, could arrest your progress. Soldiers, lam proud of you—proud of being at the head of such brave troops ; and in the name of the King, I thank you for your good conduct : the events of yesterday will be handed down in the pages of history as the most-brilliant in our glorious struggle. You have con quered the rebel Saarsfield by your presence alone, the ad venturer Evans by your valour. When the King placed me at your head, I told you that victory would crown your efforts ; at present facts speak for themselves. Generals, chiefs, officers, and soldiers, you have left me nothing to wish. I shall have the honour of proposing to the King the recompenses which you have so well merited. Soldiers, 1,2 t us march against the enemy, and wherever we meet them, rest assured that the God of armies, who so visibly fights on our side, will crown our efforts with complete success. Yeu will destroy your enemies, you will deliver our unhappy country from the miserable yoke which op presses it, and you will place on the throne the legitimate successor of Pelage and of San Fernando. " D. SEBASTIEN GABRIEL. " Head -quarters, Hernani, March 17." Carlist Bulletin of the affair of the 16th inst.:— ROYAL ARMY-CAMPAIGN SECRETARYSHIP OF HIS ROYAL lIIGIINESS. " The enemy, master of the position of Oriamendi, since yesterday, notwithstanding the resistance of a few Guipus coan battalions, menaced Hernani about six o'clock this morning. The arrival of his Royal Highness with several battalions decided the fate of the day. The fight was maintained, with unequal forces, until that moment, by General Sanz, Aide•de-Camp of the Infante. Seeing the enemy direct their principal attack against our centre, his Royal Highness ordered them to be assailed on the flanks. Brigadiers Don Pedro Isturiza and Don Prudencio Sope lana executed the movement on the right, with three battalions of Alava and the second of Guipuscoa. The enemy, dislodged from all its positions by this unex pected and vigorous attack, fell back on the adjoining heights. Don Jachim Quilez and Bernardo Iturriaga, who made the attack on the left with their brigades, carried several houses and batteries, obstinately defended by the enemy. On this point the ground was well dis puted, and remained covered with dead. The enemy lost 62 prisoners. General Bruno Villareal, aide-de-camp of his Royal Highness, witnessing the success of those ma noeuvres, attacked the centre at the head of the battalions of Grenadiers of the army and the first of Alava. The enemy, after keeping up the fire during nine hours with great spirit, thought proper to abandon the fort and height of Oriainendi, leaving the artillery taken on the preceding. day, and flying in the utmost disorder. Our loss cannot be Compared to that of the enemy. His Royal Highness direetsmei in the lively : satisfaction with which he i s e l a t e d, to abquaint ythi With those fat fs, He fkortithends, in a special manner, to the King's solicitude, the General-in- Chief of the staff and his aides-de-camp, Villareal, Sanz, and Zabala (the latter was wounded at the head of hib brigade), together with Brigadiers Iturriza, Sopelana, Quilez i and Iturri%aga. His Royal Highness will recom mend to ydu late', and *heti h 6 shall liitve received the par ticulars of the affair, the officers who have most distin guished themselves in this glorious day. " God preserve you. " JOAQUIII ELIO. " Fort of Oriamendi, March 16. " To the Minister of War." GERMAN AND BRUSSELS PAPERS PALACE OF LAEKEN, MARCH 24,4 P.M. This afternoon at half an hour past one o'clock, her Ma jesty the Queen was happily delivered of a Prince. The mother and child are as well as possible. (Signed) MOREAU, RIEKEN. LEBEAU, SOMMER. _ _ —Monitcur Beige, March 25. Two couriers were dispatched yesterday with the news of the happy delivery of the Queen of the Belgians, one direct to Paris, the other to Lille, when the telegraph would imme diately convey the news to the Royal Family of France. Most of the public offices, the hotels of the Ministers, and a great number of private houses, were illuminated on the occasion. Spring commenced on the 21st March, and the severe cold that prevails, the fall of snow, and the ice that covers the streams, is ould make us think that we are still in the depth of winter. We do not, however, hear that increase of cold has caused any increase of sickness. A letter from Arlon says—" For some years past the German Confederation has been constantly adding to the fortifications of the fortress of Luxembourg. That town is now in a complete state of defence compared to what it was before. The works have been _ recommenced for 1837, and to judge by the materials that are heaped up .hey will not be soon finished. HUNGARY, MARCH 13.—The pleasing news has been spread on the frontier during the last week that his Majesty the Emperor Ferdinand, with his Consort, will in the course of the summer make a journey through Hungary to Tran sylvania. The account says that their Majesties will stay a fortnight at Pesth, and return to Vienna along the Southern frontier of Hungary by way of Styria. The re port of this journey has universally excited the greatest joy. It is said likewise that the two Ministers of State, Prince Metternich and Count Collowratt will accompany his Ma jesty. It is added that his Majesty will set out on his journey in July, and perhaps be present at the closing of the Diet of Transylvania. King Ferdinand has not been at Pesth since 1820, and the Queen was never further in the interior of Hungary than Presburg. The impression which the Queen made on the assembled Nobles when she was at Presburg is still fresh in their memory. MARCH 14.—1 t is said that on account of the intended visit of the Court to Hungary this summer, the Archduke Palatine will not come here in the Spring. FRONTIERS OF POLAND, MARCH 14.—Hopes are en tertained at Warsaw of a visit from the Emperor and Empress in the course of the summer. It is expected that on that occasion, his Majesty will give his Polish subjects further marks of his favour. The situation of Poland con- tinues to improve, in particular t':e German colonies esta blished by several landowners are very thriving. FRANKFORT, MARCH 22.—Exchange on London (money) 1514 ; for two months, 1501.—Frankfort Paper, March 23. MITAU IN LivoNzA.-- While the more northern coun tries are, during this winter, almost buried under snow, while accounts of the extraordinary colds in Spain and Portugal fill the papers, and even North Africa expe rit nces wintry weather, we have hardly had any snow at all ; we have had the ground covered with a thin ice, which affords a tolerable sledge-road ; neither have we had any severe frosts. Some publications tell, 10 and 20 years ago, that our climate deviated from its usual course. Last year the farmers began to plough in March. BELGIAN I. UNDS—Baussate, Ma ROW 25 Actual Debt, 2y s i per Cent. 52% Rothschild's Loan, S per Cen.t. looq Loan of Thirty Millions... 92 Loan et City, 1 8 32, 4 per Cent 99 Society of Commerce, 4ii per Cent ......... Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 135% Brussels Papers, ilarch 26. DUTCH FUNDS—Ameretteaks, Marc, 24. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 234 per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. A mort Syndic, 434 per cent 92% 93 1 4 Ditto, ditto, 33.4 per cent. 75% 764 Commercial Company, 434 per cent 18 2 154 153 5 54 Ditto (1532 and 1833) 5 per cent. Exchange on London, One month l2 82 , 4 Two months AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vlzirta, Maßcil 17. Five per Cents. Metalliques Four per Cents. Three per Cents. Bank Shr Aares 1368 —4llgenteine Zettung, March 22. RAILWAY BILLS. (From the Bristol Journal.) The Legislature, as it was bound to do, is exercising a severe scrutiny into the various Railway Schemes which have been projected in the last eighteen manths or two years. In some cases, as in that of the Bristol and Glou cester Extension Line, the merits of the undertakings have not been got into, but, in the very outset, the trickery of parties haring private counter-interests has delayed the accomplishment of lines whose advantages were not merely limited to a district, but were almost of national import.. ance. Still the vigilance of Parliament, however it may in some instances have operated injuriously, and even un justly, will in the result have a beneficial effect in weeding out schemes that had no better origin than cupidity, called into action by the premiums which legitimate undertakings commanded in the market, and also in establishing those which, for the increase of trade and facility of intercourse, are obviously necessary. Within the last days, two projects, of considerable ex tent as to amount of capital and intended range of opera tion, have been extinguished —at least they cannot be brought again before Parliament for two years, by which time circumstances with regard to other lines of railway, will have completely annihilated all hope of their suc cess in Parliament—we mean the London, Salisbury, and Exeter Railway Bill, which has been thrown out on the Standing Orders, and the South-Western Rail way Bill, which on account of the great number of dis sentient land-owners on the line, and one decision of the House of Commons against it, has been withdrawn. The length of this railway was to have been 87 miles, viz. from • Kingsworthy on the Southampton line to West Monckton on the Bristol and Exeter line ;—throughout its whole range of 87 miles the Company had the assent of the land owners on only 7 miles—the dissentients having a controuling power over the remaining fourscore miles. In point of execution also, this railway would have been extremely difficult and costly, inasmuch as the gradients on 76 miles are from 10 to 20 feet per mile, and four tunnels are required. Taking these circumstances into account, and recollecting too that in the Southampton line the gradients vary from 6 to 22 feet, we are not surprised that the land-owners have felt dissatisfied with the prospects held out to them, and that Parliament has given the preference to the Great Western and the Bristol and Exeter lines,Aiik works on both of which aro in active operation. Ha g stated the gradients on the South= Western line, we should mention, that of the 161 miles from London to West Monckton, by the Great Western . and 4 Bristol and Exeter lines, 100 miles have less than feet rise per mile, and 53 miles are under 6 feet—in other words, about 153 miles are very nearly on a level. By these lines, it is true, the distance from London to Exeter will be 192 miles, while by the London and Salisbury, and the South- Western, it would have been but 182 ; but this difference of ten miles on so long a journey will be more than compen sated for by rapidity of travelling ; for considerable delay to passengers and goods, as well as expense to the shareholders, must have been occasioned by the South-Western Company having adopted the old width of rail, 4 feet 8 inches, while the Great Western and its colleague have secured a width of 7 feet—a variance which would have rendered necessary a change of carriages at the junction of the South-Western line with that of the Bristol and Exeter. We have noticed the failure of the London and Salis bury and the South-Western Companies more at length than we otherwise should have done, because it must be in the recollection of our readers, that at the last general meeting of the Bristol and Exeter Proprietors, an enquiry was made as to the probable success of what were called the conipetiny lines, and Mr. Brunel stated that the Bristol and Exeter Company had nothing to fear from them. The answer of the Engineer might still have been taken as an interested opinion ; but we are now enabled to say, that the Great Western and Bristol and Exeter will be the ONLY MEANS OF RAILWAY COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LONDON AND THE WEST ; and consequently, that the shareholders in these lines have secured another advan tage in addition to the numerous ones they before pos sessed, and which rendered their prospects superior to most, and inferior to none, of the lines either completed or in formation. *MONEY MARKET.—The Stock Exchange has presented a good deal of animation to-day ( Saturday); not, however, with the quantity of business transacted in the dif ferent public securities, but in consequence of a ballot for a committee of management for the year. A list was formed in opposition to the existing committee, but which, however, con tained the names of some of them, and at the termination of the time allotted for the election, these twenty-four gentlemen were found to have been chosen by a considerable majority. It is, therefore, generally expected that quite a radical change will take place in the administration of this establiAment.— Corning Pape•. CHURCH PROPERT Y. No. 11. TO THE RIGHT t s ,ON , ,JURABLE THE CHANCE LOR OF THE EXCHEQUEIi, tit: Sir—ln my former letter, I gave you a specimen of the estimation in which the sacredness and inviolability of cur Church property is held by the trustees who at present watch over it ; and I must add, that it was not their Emit, as I shall presently convince you, that the noble estate of Finsbury was not sacrificed in gecula seen/Drum. It is to our good and pious citizens we owe this saving, who made no scruple of leading the wanderer astray in the wilderness during ninety-nine years, having satisfied their consciences with the reflection that they should here after restore it to the arms of its mother. The case lam now about to lay before you alike exemplifies the senti ments and conduct of these reverend guardians ; and, at the same time, is an instance of what may be expected from the higher orders, with respect to this property, when their own interests are involved. But let facts speak for themselves. In the year 1768 the Duke of Grafton was Minister— I mean the man whose memory and character have been preserved by Junius. Dr. Richard Brown was at the same time Prebend of the stall of Tottenhall, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, and in right of such was entitled to the fee and inheritance of ,the prebendal manor and lord ship of Tottenhall, in the county of Middlesex, and in divers lands, &c., thereunto belonging, subject to a pre bendal lease, which he had a short time before, on a re ceipt of a large fine, renewed to the representatives of the then late Duke of Grafton, for a term of three lives, at the nominal rent of 461. per annum. The estate commences at St. Giles's pound, extends some distance on the north side of Oxford-street, and in other directions embraces a large part of St. Pancras parish, Kentish-town, and up to Highgate, including coppices, woods, and grounds lying beside Highgate, of great extent, and from its situation equal in value to any land round the metropolis. Very considerable buildings were at that time erected upon it, the ground was in great request for building on, and could then be disposed of in leases at a considerable rate per foot. D. grown having pocketed the emolument attending the renewal of the lease, and there being little chance of any further advantage to him from the estate, entered into the views of Mr. Charles Fitzroy, the proprietor of the lease (to whom it had been bequeathed as a patrimony by his father, the late Duke of Grafton), and these two, in conjunction, petitioned for, and obtained, by the influence of Mr. Fitzroy's brother, the Minister, an Act cf Parlia ment, which, from the 25th of March, 1768, divested the estate, with all its rights, privileges, and emoluments, out of the prebendary, and conveyed the fee-simple entire and without reserve to Mr. Charles Fitzroy and his heirs for ever. The Act states it to be " with the consent of Richard Lord Bishop of London and the privity of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's," and for the following reasons, viz. 1— That " a full equivalent is given to the Church for he estate." __ 2. That "it will be very advantageous to , the succes sors in the prebend." 3. That "it is desirable on public grounds." The estate was thus, and for these reasons, conveyed from the Church to Air. Fitzroy for ever, with full power over all that it contained, which is stated to have been " brick-earth, clay, gravel, sand," and many other very valu able building and improving materials, and also all the "coppices and woods?' The Act consists of twenty-seven pages, and is nearly all made up of family circumstances of the Fitzroys, which appear to have been introduced to di- vert attention from the real object (the plunder of the Church), and it succeeded, for no obsereations were made in its progress through Parliament. A fair estimation may be made of the value of the land by Mrs. Fitzroy's settlement of 4001. a year being suffi c►ently secured on only twenty-three acres, and the estate consists of some thousands. The full equivalent and compensation given to the Church is a rest-charge on the estate of 300/. per annum, which, as 46/. of it was receivable under the lease, makes the amount given for the fee-simple 2541. per annum, and this was stated to be " a much greater revenue than could pos sibly arise to the successors in the prebend, either by fines on the renewal of leases, or by any other means whatever." The possession of this estate in twelve years (1780) caused Mr. Fitzroy's exaltation to the Peerage, by the title of Lord Southampton, by which name the estate is now known. " Tottenhall" is kept out of view, and this Church plunder is probably all the title possesses. Upon a mo derate calculation of all the advantages obtained by this Act of Parliament, Mr. Fitzroy and his family have received from the estate upwards of £1,500,000 The "full equivalent," which has been paid to the Church, amounts to 17,78 Total of which the Church has been plundered up to this time 1,482.,9.16 What was paid to the Bishop of London for his consent, to the Dean and Chapter for their privity, or to the Rev. Dr. Brown for his assistance in this most wicked and fraudulent transaction, does not appear ; but it is another convincing proof of the viciousness of that system which has placed the immense property of the Church under such a guardianship, as not only gives the power, but makes it the interest of every one connected therewith to desecrate and despoil it. I commend to your most serious consideration the two cases I have laid before you ; they are of the utmost public importance at the present- moment , and I shall in a few days convey to you the opinions of others who are well qualified to judge, and I feel confident of your inclination to assist by every means in your power to do justice to the Church and the public in respect. of these transacions. I am, &c. &c. &e. A CHURCHMAN. EARL FITZ WILLIAM ON THE NEW POOR-LAW. (From the Leeds Ilfercury.) The following letter from Earl Fitzwilliam, in acknow ledgment of a petition against the new poor-law, sent to him from Rastrick, will be read with great interest, as proceed ing from one who has practical knowledge of the subject, and whose kindness of heart and feeling for the poor arc be yond all possible doubt : • " Milton, March 16, 1837. " shall he very willing to present the petition from Rastrick for the repeal of the Poor-law Amendment Act, or any other petition which my old and early friends may entrust to my care. 'Whatever reminds me of the long connection that bound us together is grateful. I hope, however, they are not impatient for its presentation, as I shall not be in town for some time. Still more do I hope that they will not expect me to support its prayer ; for of all the measures that the British legislature ever passed, I am inclined to think this is the most beneficial, as I am sure it is the most successful. Upwards of a year has now elapsed since I have been en gaged very assiduously in the administration of the new law, and, from constant and minute observation of its effects, I can bear the rriost confident testimony to its beneficial tendency. I affirm' this, not merely with respect to the interests of the rate-payers, which I deem the least impor tant consideration, but more especially with respect to those of the labouring classes, whose habits, characters, and com forts are of far- more value in my estimation ; and it is in this point of view that I more particularly prize and admire the operation of the measure. In addition to my own tes timony, I can say with truth, I know of no man, endued with a kind heat t and a sound head, who has witnessed its effects, who does not disagree with the petitioners. All who know the law approve of it ; the disapprovers arc, without exception, among those who know it not. " I cannot help suspecting that the genius of the mea sure is entirely misconceived in the West Riding—the real and important change, the change from which the new law derives almost all its efficacy, consists in the substitution of the board of guardians for the magistrates in petty sessions, that is to say, of a body of Representatives, popularly elec ted and responsible to constituents, for two or three.eirre tnoverible and irresponsible gentlemen. " This is a change which, I am sure, will not be disap proved in the West Riding ; and yet as this is the great practical alt era ti on that habeen made, this is what makes me suspect that the very genius and spirit of the measure are misunderstood among you. " Willing as I am to present the petition, but feeling a great interest in the wisdom, or otherwise, of the course pursued in the West Riding, I could not refrain from making you acquainted with the opinions of one who has devoted a great deal of his time to the administration and observation of the measure. If they should induce you to withdraw the petition I shall rejoice ; if you persist in it I shall still hope to be allowed to present it. " I remain, Sir, your most faithful servant, FiTzwILLIAm. " Mr. Edw. Jackson, Toothill, Rastrick, Huddersfield." It is reported that a marriage will shortly take place between Mr. Strutt, the member for Derby, and Miss Otter, the young and lovely daughter of the Bishop of Chichester. At the Insolvent Debtors' Ccurt, held at Lancaster, on Tuesday week, the discharge of James Augustin Ladbury was opposed by Mr. Greatwood, solicitor of Birmingham. It appeared that the insolvent formerly held a highly confidential situation in the establishment of Mr. Peters, the detaining cre ditor, liquor merchant, of Birmingham. The defendant abused the confidence of his employer by seducing his wife, arid the husband consequently brought an action against the insolvent. To this action no defence was made, and the jury found a ver dict for the plaintiff, damages 8001. The insolvent being un able to pay this, claimed, the benefit of the act, and the.present opposition was the result. The Court remanded Ladbury for the period of 12 months from the date of filing biz petition. IRELAND. DUBLIN MARCH 4 2 5 . E GUSH DISSENTERS-GENERAL ASSOC ATION. There was tiis day a full meeting---Mr. O'Connell's en try was loudly cheered. The Learned ,Gentleman handed in 5/. from Mr. Yates, and on his motion that gentleman was admitted a member. Mr. O'Connell next handed some money from Mr. Childs, of Bungay, which lie had received a month ago, but the desire which be felt of paying a marked compliment to the English Dissenters for their advocacy of civil and reli gious liberty, and to Mr. Childs, who is one of that body, induced him to hold it over to the present occasion.—( Hear and cheers.) Mr. Childs was the first Dissenter who suf fered a long incarceration sooner than pay Church-rates, and thereby caused the very general opposition which now exists to them. • Mr. O'Connell moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Childs, which was carried. Mr. Finn, M.P., was left speaking. JUDICIAL INSOLENCE.—It is true, Mr. Keogh is a Li beral in politics, and Mr. Doherty is a Conservative. But, then, they are both in the rank of gentlemen, and one of them, certainly, is a gentleman. At all events, they are both high officers, bearinc , the King's Commission ; and, certainly, one would think it was a matter of course . , if not of common decency, that for the sake of the commissions they bear, and of the supreme authority under which they acted, that the ordinary courtesies r f society should not be violated by either. Nay, for the sake of the country, with a view to impress upon the people that there should be no passion, prejudice, or politics, in the administration of justice, it would seem to be expedient, that de corum should not be violated by the one or the other. Certainly, by the High Sheriff of Carlow it has not_ been violated. Whether the Judge stands equally clear in the account, depends upon the accuracy of the statement. If it be true—if Chief Justice Doherty had the indelicacy —what do we say ?—the absurd and ungentlemanlikc im pertinence, to command the High Sheriff of a County to quit his own carriage, and, on the quiet refusal of that gen tlemean to obey the insolate mandate, to menace him with the infliction of an enormous fine, then, we do think, that the matter should be made the subject of Parliamentary in quiry. We know, indeed, that the fine was not, laid upon the High Sheriff—we know that the intemperate gentle man, who gave utterance to the threat, was not able to screw his courage to the sticking place, when the time for action came. This consideration, in our opinion, does not alter the case very materially. No pecuniary injury, in deed, occurred, but an insult—a gross and saucy insult— was offered by the King's Judge to an Officer of the King. If the High Sheriff was guilty of so strange an outrage, there can be little doubt that fie would [be visited by severe animadversion, and, perhaps, receive, on the representation of the Judge to the proper quarter, a Supercedeas, by the returning post, from the Secretary of the Lord Lieutenant. We know, indeed, that Doherty cannot be removed but by an address ; but there is a middle course, which would have the effect of teaching such rantipole gentlemen, as he is de scribed to be, a little manners.—Dublin Evenin Post. ORANGEMEN.—NearIy two hundred Orangemen were tried at the close of the Armagh Assizes, for walking in procession. We notice the fact as another corroboration of Colonel Perceval's solemn assurance in the House of Commons, that there was not a single Orangeman in Ire land. Upwards of one thousand have been tried for vio lating the law during the present Circuits. MARQUIS OF CONYNGHAM.--IS the Most Noble Mar quis a sincere Reformer, or is he nal It will be acknow ledged on all hands that he could, if he chose, secure the return of two Liberal Members for the County Donegal at the next election ; yet is is no less certain, that not only has nothing effectual been done by him to advance the cause, but great impediments have been thrown in the way of its progress by his Lordship's agents. Mr. O'Connell declines the honour of dinip.g with the citizens of Waterford, owing to the shortness of the Recess. ABDUCTION.-At the Kerry Assizes the following curious case was tried :—Denis Coffee stood indicted for the ab duction of Ellen M'Gillycuddy, on the 4th of September last. It appeared from the testimony of prosecutrix that the prisoner, upon the night in question, came to the house of prosecutrix, accompanied by a man of the name of Daniel Kerrisk, and a strong party ; they broke in the door of her father's house ; Kerrisk, who has absconded, came over the bed where she was in at the time, and made her get up and dress herself; he had a lighted candle in his hand ; the father of prosecutrix got up and struck prisoner with an iron bar ; prisoner had a pistol, and Kerrisk desired him fire ; prisoner said he Would not do him any harm ; prosecutrix was then taken out of the house by the party, and placed before Kerrisk on a horse ; the party then took her away about twenty miles from her house to the east of Newmarket ; two men she did not know put her on a fresh horse, as she was going towards Newmarket ; prisoner was with her all the way ; she did not know the names of others of the party ; Kerrisk said he wanted to make his wife of her ; they left her at the house of a man named M'Auliff, near Newmarket ; was kept there four days; slept there with Kerrisk ; her friends then came for her and took her home ; Kerrisk tied her hands and made her go to bed ; is now in the family way. Several witnesses were examined, when it appeared evi dent that Ellen was taken away by mere voluntary com pulsion. The Jury did not come to a decision ; the prisoner, lerefore, was remanded to the next assizes'. It is now ascertained for a certainty that the Hon. G. Langdale, brother to Lord Stourton, and Mr. Rich, who has already contested the borough of Knaresborough twice, will he the candidates in the Liberal interest for that borough, with every chance of success.—Leeds Mercury. CAMBRIDGE.—In the course of Thursday evening there was a very heavy fall of snow in this town.and neigh bourhood. The thermometer on King's parade, at 6 o'clock on the morning of Good Friday, stood at 15, being 17 deg. below freezing point, and the greatest degree of cold registered this winter. BRIGHTON.—The cold weather has been extremely severe for the few last days, and the fall of snow was abundant during Tuesday night. It has, however, fallen more heavily up the road, and so great a quantity had accumulated during Wednesday that the mail did not come in on Thursday morn ing till considerably after its usual hour. During the night of Monday the thermometer on the Steine fell to 24, eight de grees below freezing point. WARWICK ELECTION.—Here we are, once again, in the midst of active preparations for a Borough Election 1 On Saturday morning the Tory Candidate (or rather he who professes to be a Tory), Mr. Sergeant Adams, left his head quarters, the Warwick Arms, and accompanied the usual lead ers of the party in a canvassing excursion through the town ; in about two hours afterwards Mr. Collins, late Mayor of the borough, the well-known leader in the cause of liberty and the rights of the people, accompanied by a small party of indepen dent electors, followed the example of the Sergeant. The two parties continued the canvass for three days. KENDAL ELECTION.—Mr. Wood's return is con fidently anticipated by the Mercury. The principles pro fessed by Mr. Wood deserve the support of Reformers to ren der him a fit and proper person to represent the independent electors of Kendal. Mr. Moorsom, it is said, fully approves of the measures which have been adopted to avoid divisions. POST.OFF IC E.—A paper sent through the Chelms ford post-office to Alaldon, a distance of ten miles, goes free of charge. A paper conveyed to Great Baddow, only two miles on the same road, and to which a bag is made up, is charged one penny. At Danbury, a distance of five miles, and to which a bag is also made up, a charge of one penny. These two villages are on the road between Maldon and Chelmsford, and the mad-cart in neither case deviates one rod from its course. But this is not all; a paper sent from Bury, Ips wich, or London, averaging a distance of 35 miles, will reach Baddow and Danbury free from charge. We contend that the public have a right to expect that the stamp should frank a paper to every post town to which a bag is made up. The post-office regulations are at this time under consideration in the House of Commons; we therefore entreat the Members to exert themselves in the removal of this partial and ob noxious impost.—Cheinisford Chronicle: So many of the most inveterate cigar-smokers of the large towns having been detected in robbing their masters' tills, the boys of Leeds, Blackburn, and other towns, call out, on seeing these worthies on the coach-boxes on Sundays, " There go the till robbers." On Thursday an incendiary fire was discovered at Great Totham, in the farm buildings and ricks of Mr. T. King. A barn, studs, 20 quarters of unthrashed oats, with a considerable quantity of fowls, pigeons, farming stock, and utensils of husbandry, were totally consumed. No portion of the property is insured.--Syffollt Chronicle. On Saturday morning between six and seven o'clock, the body of a young woman, apparently about twenty years of age, was discovered floating in the New River, near to Stoke Newington. She had on very decent apparel, and about her person was found a letter addressed to a relative at Green hithe, from which it appears that the name of the deceased is Sophia Gurling, and that she was induced to destroy herself by the unhappy state of her feelings, but from what cause is not explained. The body had evidently been in the water many days. The new theatre in Norton-folgate was lighted on on Saturday evening. The interior is very rich, the prevail ing colours being " straw and chocolate," with gold moulding: and ornaments, the ceiling panelled in concord with the fronts of the boxes, &c. The stage is 80 feet deep, and possesses all the latest advantages for the pr,duction of striking effects. The house; when filled, will hold $OO/. Wilkinson appears in Sa►n Weller, of the Pickwick Club, dramatised by a Mr. Embdcn. A correspondence has taken place between Mr. George, the highly.respectable surgeon, and Mr. Whitehurst, the Learned Counsel, who, on the trial of Dimpsey for the murder of A.,rarshall and his sister, accused the surgeon o I ignorance and imp4derice., Mr. George called on the Learned Counsel for an_explanatioh, in answer to which he says it is for the Judge and Jury alone to decide if his remarks Lc well. founded.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Standard, alluding to the paragraph to which such absurd importance was attached by the Times, observes— ‘. We would not willingly suspect Lord Durham himself of such a piece of impudence and folly ; and we do not suspect his Lordship ; .least of all can we think it.necessary to defend the excellent and , exemplary mother of our fu ture Sovereign—a Princess to whom this nation owes the deepest debt that can be conferred upon a country—the assurance of a pure-minded, high-spirited, and pious suc cessor to the Throne—least of all can we think it neces sary- to defend the Duchess of Kent against countenancing. the ridiculous imposture. Indeed, we feel that we owe an apology to her Royal Highness for naming her in connec tion with this absurd affair. But we will trespass one step further, in the hope that our doing so may preclude a re petition hereafter of the offence that we have already com mitted. We are persuaded that if all the arrangements of the Duchess of Kent's family, and the characters of all the members of her establishment, were fully known to the people of England, they would command the unanimous and enthusiastic approbation of the country. The simplest family in the humblest cottage in the kingdom is not more free from ti acasserie or Court intrigue." Having made these admissions, which satisfy us that our Evening Contemporary disapproves of the wicked attempt of the Times to sow dissensions in the Royal Family, he would' have added to our obligation to him, had he informed us at the same time that the abuse of the Duchess of Kent, and the malicious insinuations against her Royal Highness and the Kensington Esta blishment in the apostate journal, were not countenanced by the Tories. It may be very generous in the Standard to cover their retreat by his honourable admissions ; but we suspect the Times was not alone in its abuse of the Duchess of Kent, and the people about her. We do not wish to dwell on the blunder of the Times, " that the Duchess of Kent will, on or after, or in con templation of, the 24th of May, have no shadow of title to interfere at all in or with the Princess Victoria's household." We have shown that the Princess Victo ria's situation will not be changed on the 24th of May next. But what did the Times mean by saying, " there was an attempt made a few months back (and an impu dent attempt it was) to obtrude upon the people of Eng land, and on the young Princess herself, some foolish notion that the choice of a consort for her Royal Highness was an affair in which neither she herself, nor the King, her sovereign and uncle, who has stood towards her both naturally and politically ever since he came to the throne in loco patris, had the least particle of concern ; but that it must be on the su preme dictation of a Prince and Princess of the foreign House of Saxe Cobourg to settle, without her free consent or that of the Monarch of these realms—to impose upon her, the heiress of the British empire, whatever husband it might suit their purposes of family aggrandisement to provide. We exposed at the time the mercenary audacity of this revolting pretension." If this be not levelled against the Duchess of Kent and the establishment at ensington, we do not know the meaning of the plainest words. It is quite impos sible that these charges of the Times can be true, and yet that " the arrangements of the Duchess of Kent's family and the characters of all the mem bers of her establishment" are such as, according tc the Standard, ought " to command the unanimous ant! enthusiastic approbation of the country." The ca lumny of the Times is, we are certain, utterly ground less ; but the Times must have had an object in giving circulation to it. Can the Standard inform us what portion of the Tories 'seek to fill the King with un founded distrust of the Kensington establishment ? It is no light matter to state,' in this audacious manner, that those who are entrusted with the care of the Princess Victoria consulted only the aggrandize ment of the foreign House of Saxe Cobourg. But the Times of Saturday having made this malicious charge, attempts to escape from it in this cow ardly manner—" Every one is willing to take for granted the decorum and prudence of the Duchess of Kent. We can go beyond this general as sumption, for we know, and are now, and have always been ready to acknowledge to the full est extent, her Royal Highness's anxious de sire to manifest that respect and deference which she sincerely feels towards his Majesty ; we know and ad mire, and have always admired her Royal Highness's wise and conscientious retirement within the limits of her own proper duties, and her ready recognition of her daughter's future and absolute independence of that po litical as well as social authority which has hitherto been exercised over her. No ; it was not against her Royal Highness that our remarks were aimed; and most. deeply grieved should we be if we thought that, to any reasonable mind they would bear such a con structive application ; it was, against that intriguing clique which seeks, end has long sought to domineer at some time over the councils of the heiress pre sumptive, that our arrows were shot, and we ap prehend that our shot has told among the subor dinates, and will yet terrify the principals, of a long meditated, but most shallow enterprize." A fine sample of the respect entertained for the Duchess of Kent, and the readiness'of the Times to bear testimony to the decorum and prudence of her conduct, was given in the insulting article of Thurs day last, in which it was insinuated that " she was so little cognizant of her own station in this country, and its incidents, as to entertain the preposterous am bition to play a great part in politics, and become a species of imaginary Queen Mother or Regent after her daughter's maturity, and before his present Ma jesty's demise." But we waive this, and ask our morn ing Contemporary how it can reconcile with the de corum and prudence it now says it has always allowed the Duchess of Kent to possess, the attempt to im pose a consort on the Princess Victoria without the consent of the Princess herself, or that of the Monarch of these realms, merely to aggrandize the foreign house of Saxc Cobourg ? Does the Times mean to say that such an intrigue could he carried on with out the cognizance of the Duchess of Kent ? Does it mean to say that those about the Princess abused their trust, and that all the prudence of the Duchess,did not enable her to discover the intrigues ? The Times should not be allowed to escape in this manner from its foul slanders. If the Duchess of Kent was the prudent and careful mother which it at the twelfth hour admits she has always been, .an in trigue of this kind could not have been carried on with out her cognizance. This indirect way of eating its words will not do. It must plead guilty, and express contrition for having most foully calumniated a virtuous Princess by holding her up as wanting in due respect to the Sovereign. The Tories will reap no laurels in this mean warfare against the illustrious mother of our future Queen. His Majesty has had a most instruc tive specimen of the lengths to which the Tories and their organ, the Times, will go, and of the little re liance to be placed on their statements.---Morning Chronicle. The Commissioners appointed to inquire into the practicability and expediency of consolidating the dif ferent departments connected with the civil adminis tration of the army, have laid their Report before his Majesty, and by his Majesty's command that Report has been presented to both Houses of Parliament. We shall, on examining this document., have occasion to contrast the conclusions of the Commissioners with the evidence given by officers of the very highest rank and professional experience. But, first, we would ex press our opinion as to the real object proposed by Whiggery in advising the appointment of this Com mission. It is the same object which, in every one of their almost countless Commissions, they have pro posed, and by one means or another pursued, v:z. the aggrandizement of their own faction at the expense of the public interests. Of course economy, efficiency, regard for his Majesty's service, are the pretence's on which they proceed. But that these are nothing More than pretences, is clear enough to the most careless observer. indeed, it were an insult to the genuine spirit of Whiggcry to attach any other than the diame trically opposite meaning to the fine phrases which it t lc long and dreary days of opposition became to them familiar as household words, and now naturally . come to the tip of their official tongues whenever a new trick is to be tried. Let any man in the three kingdoms remembering Lord Grey's solemn declaration that he assumed the government of the empire on the intelli gible principle of reform, retrenchment; and non-inter vention, look at what has past, partly under that Noble Earl himself, but chiefly under the persons whom he first invested with the powers of mischief, and then say THE SUN S LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1837.