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ST.MARY-LE-STRAND-DEFEAT OF THE CHURCH PARTY. Yesterday (Thursday) a very numerous meeting of the pa rishioners was held in the Vestry-room, for the purpose of making a Church-rate for the past half year ; Mr. Jones, the senior Churchwarden, was in the chair. It appeared from the statement submitted by the Church wardens that the expenses for the past half-year amounted to 180/. 7s. Id. There was in the hands of the Churchwardens the sum of 761. 17s. 6d., which left 103/. 9s. 7d. to be pro vided for by the parishioners. Mr. FALCONSE moved the granting of a threepenny rate. On the motion being seconded by Mr. Aeftwi, Mr. SMITH rose to move an amendment. He gave the Churchwardens the full credit which was due to them for the econo mical manner in which they had managed the parochial affairs. That he opposed all Church-rates upon principle, and disapproved altogether of any section of the Christian Church being supported by compulsive measures.—( Hear, hear.) He could not get himself to believe that the wealthy and respectable Churchmen of that parish would endeavour to compel their Dissenting brethren to support a Church, of whose services they do not approve. The parish of Saint Mary-le-Strand should imitate the neighbouring parishes of St. Clement's, St. Paul's, Covent-garden, and St. James's, where Church-rates had been abolished, and where the Church expenses were paid for by the pew-rents.— ( Hear, hear.) In the parish of St. James there had been no Church-rates for four years ; notwithstanding which, the church had been well supplied, and no less a sum than 9,0001. had been expended in repairing the church and building a school-room. St. Paul's, Covent-garden, was in an equally flourishing state : the Church expenses in that parish being paid by the pew-rents and the burial fees, and an arrear of 218/. having been paid off, in the year 1836, by the same means. He would therefore move as an amendment, " that the Vestry being of opinion that the imposition of Church rates is both unnecessary and unjust, the Churchwardens should be instructed not to expend on those rates any more money than they were now liable for ; that in the meantime, and for the putpose of indemnifying them for the sums for which they were now liable, a threepenny rate should be granted ; but that all future expenses connected , with Church matters should be defrayed by the pew-rents." This amendment was seconded by Mr. BROWN. Mr. WESTMACOTT stated that he highly approved of the temper and discretion with which the subject had been brought before the meeting by the opponents of the rate. Mr. Smith's resolution, he conceived, embodied just enough, and nothing more. He begged leave, however, to enter his protest against that part of the motion which condemned Church-rates as being " unjust." Several other gentlemen afterwards addressed the meeting, amongst whom were Mr. Elliott, Mr. Hart, 'Mr. Limbird, and Mr. Thurston. On the motion being put by the Chairman, there appeared for the amendment, 26 ; against it, 18, being a majority of 8 against the original motion for a rate. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCERY, FRB. 16. PALMER V. WELLEYLET. Mr. Wtt.cocx, at the rising of the Court, stated the Court had already made an order for the service of the subpoena in this case on the Hon. Mr. Wellesley, at Brussels. It appeared, however, that gentleman, though resident Lt an hotel there, was denied to all persons coming from England. The Learned Counsel, therefore, now moved, under the late Act, which per mits service on persons out of the jurisdiction to substitute ser vice by serving Mr. Wellesley's servants at the hotel at Brus sels and his solicitor in London. He also applied for an order for serving a subpoena in the same cause on Mr. Wellesley's son, who was resident at Paris. The COI'ItT, after referring to the Act, 4 and 5 Will. IV., c. 82, made the order. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, FRo. 16 ALEXANDER AND OTHERS V. DITCHBOURNE AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, the owners of an Ipswich trader called the William Hildeman, to recover from the defendants, the proprietors of the Gem, Gravesend steamer, compensation in damages for injuries done to the plaintiffs' vessel, by the defendants', on the evening of the 16th of October lad. Several witnesses were examined on both sides, whose accounts of the transaction were, of course, different. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs—damages Sal• as., 281. for the damage done to the vessel, and 21. SE. for the wages of the crew for live days, (luring which the ves sel was undergoing repairs. PREROGATIVE COURT, FEB. 16. WOOD AND OTHERS V. GOONAKE, IIF.LPS, AND OTHERS. This was an allegation in a suit respecting the will of the late Mr. James Wood, of Gloucester, propounding an alleged codicil to the will. The testator died on the 20th of April, 1836, aged 80, possessed of very considerable property, the real estate pleaded in the allegation to be worth 250,000/., but which the deceased is said to have estimated at 10,000/. per annum, and the personal property is upwards of a million. On the day but one after the deceased's death, instructions were given for a commission to swear the executors, who are Alderman Matthew Wood, Mr. John Chadborn, Mr. Jacob Osborne, and Mr. John Surman Surman. The com mission was issued, and was executed at Gloucester on the 25th of April. Caveats, however, were entered on behalf of Mr. Thomas Helps and Mr. Thomas Wood, sup posing themselves to be, next of kin, by which probate was stopped. On the first session of Trinity Term a proxy was exhibited for Mrs. Elizabeth Goodlake, widow, alleging herself to be second cousin and next of kin of the deceased ; upon which Messrs. Helps and Wood authorized their proctor to discontinue proceedings on their behalf as next of kin, having ascertained that they were more remote relations of the deceased than Mrs. Goodlake. The will was propounded on behalf of the executers, and opposed by Mrs. Goodlake. Thus the matter stood, when, on the Bth of June, Mr. Helps received, through the medium of the threepenny_ post, a letter addressed to him at his residence at Balham-hill, enclosing the codicil now propounded, the contents of which have been already given. This document was accompanied by an anonymous letter, written with pencil, to the following effect :—" Enclosed is a paper saved out of many burnt by par ties I could hang. They pretend it is not James Wood's hand ; many will swear to it. They want to swindle me. Let the rest know." On the 13th of July these documents were brought into the registry of this Court, sealed up, and on the 14th they were, on the petition of the executors, directed to be opened. On the 2d of August an appearance was given for Mr. John Phillpotts, and on the 15th of Novem ber for Mr. E. Hitchins, alleging himself to be a second cousin and next of kin of the deceased. The allegation now before the Court consists of 58 articles with 26 exhibits. The Learned JUDGE gave judgment this day, as to the ad missibility of the allegation propounding the codicil. The Court, in considering the objections raised against this allega tion, must recollect that the parties offering it were not living near the residence of the deceased ; that they, therefore, must necessarily have been in ignorance of many of the facts, and that their information must be derived from sources nearly in accessible to them, and from persons unwilling to throw any light on the subject, unless forced by oath. The Learned Judge then went through each article of the allegation, and stated that though the allegation was generally admissible, yet a few alterations, which he pointed out, would be necessary. fie accordingly sent the allegation back to Counsel, to be generally reformed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Several sailors who had worked on board the ship Windsor, on her passage from this country to Calcutta, and had been wrecked in her on her passage from Calcutta to Canton, ap peared before the Loan MAYOR, for the purpose of complain ing against the captain or owners for having refused to pay them the whole amount of the wages due to them. The defendants sailed from the East India Docks with a crew of 116 men, and arrived at Calcutta with a cargo, which they partially unshipped there, taking in at the same time some goods for Canton. In the passage to Canton the vessel and cargo were completely lost, but the crew all escaped, with however, the loss of their clothes. They had received four months' pay, but upon applying for two months' pay more, which they considered to be justly due to them, their claim was positively rejected, notwithstanding the hardships they had undergone, and the loss of every atom of covering. Alderman Plain told the complainants that they were in error in supposing that they had a claim for wages after the 'Joss of the vessel, and it appeared that they had been paid up to the moment she became a wreck. It might appear a very hard case that after such severities as the crew must have ex perienced, their claim fell to nought; but such was the law. The complainants departed, evidently much dissatisfied at the Alderman's decision, but not disposed to appeal from it to any other tribunal. Lady Dudley Stuart will, it is expected, shortly re- Aurae her interesting musical soirees in Wilton.crescent. Yesterday afternoon, while Mrs. Wyatt, a respect able woman, residing in Evelyn-street, Deptford, was absent from her home (from whence she had gone to market but a short time previously, leaving her own two children and a boy, aged eight years, of the name of Mackenzie, locked up in a front room) the neighbourhood was alarmed by a loud explo sion. On bursting open the door of the room whence it pro ceeded it was found tilled with smoke. On its partial dis persion the boy' Mackenzie was discovered on the ground dreadfully scorched, aQd his hand much injured. The sur geon who attended (Mr. Atkins, of Deptford) thought it ne cessary immediately to amputate the thumb. It is feared the fingers will require the came process, but until he is pro nounced out of danger from Lhe other injuries tho operation will be deferred. The accideet arose t',.om a flask containing gunpowder having been incautiously left on the chimney-piece. On Wednesday morning the celerated trotting mare belonging to Mr. Dixon, the proprietor the extensive gorse repository, Barbican, was discovered to h,Ave been de stroyed by poison. The noble animal was found in its stall dead and stiff. She has lately competed with some of tio finest trotting horses in the kingdom, in all of which matches she was successful. Mr. Dixon valued her at five hundred guineas. As yet no one has been taken into custody charged with the act ; but strong suspicion is attached to certain parties. Mr. Dixon has caused the body of the animal to he ,opened by some very experienced veterinary surgeons, the result of which ha; been that a quantity of poison of a very lestructive nature was found in the stomach. Tho proprietor in unediately on the discovery, sent information of the circum sta: see to the different police - stations, offering a reward of loot.. for the apprehension of the perpetrators of the cruel and t intuanly act. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. BISHOPS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of commons.) THURSDAY, FEB. 16. Motion made, and Question put,—" That it is the opinion of this House, that the sitting of the Bishops in Parliament is unfavourable in its operation to the general interests of the Christian religion in this country, and tends to alienate the affections of the people from the Established Church :"—Mr. Charles Lusnington '—The House divided : MINORITY—AYES, 92. Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth Lister, E. Cunliffe—Bradford Bainbridge, E. T.—Taunton . M.Taggart, John—Wigton Baines, Edward—Leeds Maher, John—Wexford Co. Baldwin, Dr.—Cork City • Marjoribanks, S.—Hythe Beauclerk, Major—East Surrey Marsland, Henry—Stockport Bewes, T.—Plymouth Molesworth, Sir William—Cornwall fish, T —Leominster Musgrave, Sir R.—Waterford Blake, M. J.—Galway Nagle, Sir R.—Westmeath Bodkin, John James—Galway O'Brien, Cornelius—Clare Bowes, John—South Durham O'Connell, Daniel—Kilkenny • Bowring, Dr.—Kilmarnock O'Connell, M. J.—Kerry Brabazon, Sir William—Mayo O'Connell, Morgan—Meath Brady, Denis Caulfield—Newry Oliphant, Laurence—Perth Bridgeman, Hewitt—Ennis Palmer, General—Bath Brocklehurst, J.—Macclesfield Parrott, Jasper—Totness Brotherton, J.—Salford Pattison, James—London lirowne, R. D.—Mayo Philips, Mark—Manchester Buckingham, J. S.—Sheffield Pinney, W.—Lyme Regis Buller, Charles—Liskeard Potter, R.—Wigan Butler, Hon. P.—Kilkenny Co, Power, James—Wexford Co. Callaghan, D.—Cork City Pryme, George—Cambridge Chalmers, Patrick—lnverbervie Rippon, C.—Gatestteed Chichester, J. P. B.—Barnstaple Roche, William—Limerick Clay, W.—Tower Hamlets Roche, David—Limerick Collier, J.—Plymouth Rundle, John—Tavistock Conyngharn, Lord A.—Canterbury Russell, Lord—Tavistock )uncombe, Thomas—FinSbury Ruthven, Ed.—Kildare Dundas, Hon. J. C.—York Scholefield, J.—Birmingham l)undas, J. Deans—Devizes Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co. Elphinstone, Howard —Hastings Tancred, H. W.—Banbury Evans, G.—Dublin Co. Thompson, Col.—Kingston-on-Hull Ewart, Wm.—Liverpool Thorneley, Thos.—Wolverhampton Finn, W. F.—Kilkenny Co. Tulk, C. A.—Poole Fitzsimon, C.—Dublin Co. Verney, Sir H.—Buckingham Fitzsimon, N.—King's Co. Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton Glllon, Wm. D.—Linlithgow Walker, C. A.—Wexford /;rote, George—London Wallace, Robert—Greenock Gully, John—Pontefract Warburton, H.—Bridport Hall, Benjamin—Monmouth Wason, Rigby—lpswich Harvey, D. W.--Colchester - Westeura, Hon. J. C.—King't Co. Hastie, Archibald—Paisley Whalley, Sir S.—Maryleborie Hector, C. J.—Petersfield White, Samuel—Leitrim Co. Hindley, Charles—Ashton Wilks, John—Boston Hume, Joseph—Middlesex Williams, William—Coventry Humphery, John—Southwark Hutt, W.—Kingston-up , n-Hull James, William—Cumberland Leader, John T.—Bridgwater MAJORITY — Agnew, Sir A.--Wigtonshire Alston, Rowland—Hertfordshire Angerstein, J.—Greenwich Arbuthnot, Gen.—Kincardineshire Ashley, Lord—Dorsetshire Attwood, M.—Whitehaveu Bailey, Joseph—Worcester Barclay, David—Sunderland Barclay, Charles„—Surrey Baring, W. B.—Winchester Baring, Thomas—Yarmouth Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich Beckett, Right Hon. Sir .L—Leeds Bell, M.—South Northurnberland Bentinck, Lord G.—King'sLynn Bethell, R.—East Yorkshire Bolling, W.—Bolton Borthwiek, Peter—Evesham Bowles, George Rushout—Evesham Bramstoe, T. W.—South Essex Brownrigg, S. J.—Boston Bruce, C. L C —lnverness, &c. utter, E.—North Stafflirdshire Buller, Sir J. Yarde.—Devonshire Bulwer, F.. L.—Lincoln Bvng, Right Hon. G S.—Poole Campbell, Sir H.—Berwickshire Canning, Hon. C. J.—Warwick Canning, Right Hon. Sir S.—King's Lynn Castlereagh, Vise.—Down Cayley, E. S.—N. Yorkshire Chandos, Marquis of—Bucks Chaplin, Colonel—Stamford Chapman, Aaron —Whitby Chisholm, A. W.—lnverness-shire Clive, Viscount—Ludl Clive, R. H. South Shropshire Colborne, Ridley—Wells Cole, Hon. Arthur H.—Enniskillen Compton ' FL Combe—Flampshire Conolly, Edward M. —Donegal Coote, Sir C.—Queen's County Copeland. W. T. —Coleraine Corry, lion. H. L.—Tyrone Co. Crawley, S.—B,lforti Crewe, Sir George—Derbyshire Cur'eis, IL B.—East Sussex Dalbiac, Sir Charles—ltioon Dimcorobt.t, lion. W.—Yorkshire Dick, Quiiitm—Maldon Duffield, T.—Abingdon Dogdale, W. S.—Warwickshire Eaton, It. J.—Cambridgesl!il.e Ellev, Sir John—s.Vindsor Fazakerley, J. N.—Peterborough Fector, John Minet —Dover Finch, G.—Stamford Flees wood. P. FL—Pres' on Folkes, Sir William—Norfolk Forster, Cr S.—Walsall Fort, J.—Clitheroe Fremantle, SirT.—Thicisingliam Ga.skell, J. M.—Wenlock Gladstone, W. E.—Newark-on-Trent Gordon, lion W.—Aberdeenshire Goring, 11. o.—New Shoreham Graham, Sir J ft. —Cumberland Grant, Hon. Colonel—L• I .inshire Greene, o.—Lancashire Grimston, Viscount—Hertfordshire Grimston, Hon. E. H.—St. Alban's ! Halford, Ileery—LeLestershire liaise, J.—St. Ives Hamilton, George A.—Dublin llamition, Lord C.—Tyrona Co. Harcourt, G. G —Oxfordshire }lardy, John—Bradford tTarl ind, W. C.— Du ih am Hayes, S;r E.—Sonegal • ileatheote, G. J.—Lincoinshire Henniker, Lord—Ea t Suflidk Hinde, John liodgsnn— Hobtion;e, Right lion. Sir J. C.-- Nottingham Hogg, James Weir—Beverley Holland, Edward—Worcestershire Hope, H. T.- -Gloucester Hotham, Lord—Leominster Hotistoun, George—Renfrewshire Howard, IL—Wicklow Co. Howard, I'. H.—Carlisle Ilowick, c.—Northumberland Hoy, James Barlow—South ampton Hughes, W. H.—Oxford Hurst, It. H.—Horsham Ingham, IL—South Shields Inglis, Sir It. H.—Oxfiird University Irton, Samuel—Cumberland Jackson, Mr. S2I j. —Bandon Bridge Jervis, J.—Chester Jones, Wilson—Denbigh Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. Johnstone, Sir J. V. —Scarborough 2 el. toe d. „2 6 2 10 ..3 2 2 8 42 4 6 ~ 3 4 4 2 ~4 6 410 WEEK. TELLERS. Lushington, Charles—Ashburton I Hanes. Benjamin—Lambeth -NOES, 197. Kerrison, Sir Edward—Eye Knight, A. G.—Nottinghamshire Knightley, Sir C.—Northamptonsh. Law, Hon, C. E.—Cambridge Uni versity Lawson, Andrew—Knareshorough Lees, John Frederick—Oldham Lefc"re, C. Shaw—North Hants Lefroy, Rignt Hon. T.—Dublin Uni- versity Lennox, Lord J. G.—West Sussex Lennox, Lord A.—Ch ich ester Lewis, yndham—Maidstone Leveson, Lord—Morpeth Long, W.—North Wiltshire Longfield, Richard—Cork Co Lowther, J. H.—York Lygon, Hon. Colonel H. B.—West Wor estershire Maclean, Donald—Oxford M'l.eod, IL—Sutherlandshire Mahon, Viscount— Hertford Martin, John—Sligo Manic, Hon. Fox—Perthshire Maunsell, T. P.—Nortlramptonthire ,Max well, Henry—Cavan Meynell, Capt. H.—Lisburne Mies, Wm.—East Somersetshire Miles, Philip John—Bristol Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwickshire Morpeth, Lord—Yorkshire Mosley, Sir o.—North Staffordshire Mostyn, Hon. E.—Flintshire Neeld, John—Cricklade Norreys, Lord—Oxfordshire North, F.—Hastings O'Brien, W. S —Limeriek Co. iwen, H. o.—Pembroke Palmer, R.—Berkshire Parker, John—Sheffield Parry, Sir L. P. J.—Carnarvon ' P..tten, J. Wilson—Lancashire Peel, Right Hon. Sir R.—Tamwortn Perceval, Colonel—Sligo Co. Philips, G. R.—Kidderminster Pigot, Robert—Bridgenorth Clumptre, John P.—East Kent Pollock, Sir I , ..Huntingdon Poulter, J. C.—Shaftesbury Price, Samuel Grove—Sandwich is logic, A lexander—Selkirkshire Reid, Sir J. Rae—Dover Rice, Right Hon. T. S.—Cambridge Richards, J.—Knaresborough Richards, Riehard—Merionethshi, e RiAford, William—Aylesbury Rushbrockc, Colonel—Suffolk Russell, Lord John.—Stroud Satidoo, Lord—Liverpool Searlett, Hon. Robert—Norwich Scott, Sir E D.—Lichfield 7COUT field, W. .11 —Havertorclwest Seymour, Lord—Totoess Thaw, Rt. Hon. F.—Dublin Univer, Shirley, E. S —Warwickshire - . Si!dhow, Colonel—Lincoln Smith, J. A.—Chichester tatiley, Lord—North Lancashire Stewart, John—Lymington Stormont, Viscount--Norwich Stuart, Lord D. C.—Arundel Stuart, Lord J.—Ayr Sturt, Henry Charles—Dorsetshire 'falfourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading fennent, J E nerson—Belfast fhomson, Right Hon. C. P.—Man chester • Townley, R. G.—Cambridgeshire french, Sir E.—Scarborough t revor, Hon. Arthur—Durham Decor, Hon. G. R.—Caermarthensh i wiss, Horace—Bridport Tynte, C. J. K.—West Somersetshire Vere, Sir Charles B.—Suffolk Vesey, Hon. Thomas—Queen's Co. Vivian, John Ennis—Truro Viviac, John Henry—Swansea Wall, C. Baring—Guildford Walter, John—Berke , ire West, John Beatty—Dublin Weyland, Major—Oxfordshire Wilde, Mr. Serjeant—Newark Williams, Robert—Dorchester 1 Winnington, H. J. —Worcestershire Wodehouse, Edmund—Norfolk 'Wood, Colonel T.—Brecknockshire Worsley, Lord Wynn, Right Hon. C. W.—Mont. gonterysh ire Young, John—Cavan TELLERS. Raring, F.—Thetford ILLlmeny, Lord—Stirling THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. ""The arrivals of most kinds of English Grain this week have been moderate, and of Oats from Ireland considerable. The Wheat trade remains firm at the terms of Monday. Barley, Beans, and Pease, each meet a slack demand. The Oat trade is dull, and the Irish supply being chiefly of very in. ferior quality, such sell at lower rates. There is a fair supply of Flour, and prices remain as last stated. ARRIVALS. Earley. NVh eat. Oats. Flour. 4" sack• English Irish Foreign SMITHFIEL This day's supply was very goo( alteration from the prices last quot PRICES PER STONE OF HL MARKET d, and the sale was dull at little oted ; t. TO SINK Till OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. s. d. to s Inferior 2 2 2 4 Inferior Sheep 2lO 3 0 Second quality ditta 2 8 3 2 Second quality ditto S 6 310 Prime large 0xen......... 3 6 310 Coarso-woolleri ditto..... 4 4 4 5 Prime Scots. &c. Large coarse Calvcs 4 2 4 9 Large Hogs t 6 4 1) Prime small ditto 5 0 5 2 Small Porkers 4 4 4 8 Snckling Calves each _l7 u 35 01 Quarter old Pig t each) 12 0 20 n Beasts, ti:3l SUPPLY, AS PER. CL. I Sheep. 2,'3:3 .Ett.K S STATEMENT. Calves. I Pigs p 110 NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone, 1 s. d. to s ct. -.—. Beef, inferior 2 4 middling ..„, 2 S prime large prime ssrall 3 8 Vcal )ENHALL MARKETS. ,y the Carcass. 2 6 Mutton, inferior ... , 3 0 - middling , 2 6 - prime 3 H, Pork, large 4 6 -small ......... COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE Wheat. flarley. Uats. Beans. Pease. •••••••11.1M, Per Quarter. s. to s. s. S. s. to 1. S. to s. s. to s 111andford 60 36 27 51 52 62 34 40 20 28 38 50 57 34 25 40 38 Chard . 52 64 32 40 24 30 44 48 22 33 thintingdon.--... 46 60 34 38 24 29 38 49 Long Sutton--... 28 38 16 20 30 34 53 62 26 35 241 23 38 44 52 61 22 31 16 21 30 32 32 34 Newark 55 61 29 41 21 28 43 b 1 40 Nottingham —.... 34 59 28 31 19 28 35 42 t'eterboroligh —.... 49 62 35 42 29 29 38 43 Plymouth Pontefract.... - G 7 43 27 43 Sleaforil t 35 70 36 38 II 22 28 41 43 Upningliam 43 64 24 30 18 28 i 32 44 Wisbech._ DEVIZES CORN Per Sack. s. d. a. d. First Wheat 34 0 to 38 0 Second 0 no 0 Third 1817 Sacks of Wheat soil 29 5 at the average of MARK E'f.—Feb. 16 Per Quarter. s. 41. s. d. Barley 29 oto 40 0 Oats 23 0 31 0 Bean 3 (per ,ack) 2O 0 2'7 0 Flour (per bag) 43 I) 46 0 Bread (per gall.) 1 2 LEEDS CORN MARKET.— Feb. 14 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk .. - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans 63lh. 19g. to 41s. ED: Oats,. Potatoe .............. „ .......... ... . ... 238. to 12Vs.) • —Nlealing, Fora—d. to—d Eng. 12(1. to 13d. per stone. Shelling 2 9s. to 31s. per load. Rapeseed, Englisn, 141. to: 61 ...... Foreign, —4. to —l. per last. The letter from Mr. Luke White, read by the Speaker in the House of Commons, does not give up that gentleman's seat for Longford. The petition is to be taken into consideration on the 11th of April, to which time the House only ordered it to be postponed from the 29th instant. Mr. White's object is to have time to collect his evidence, which an approaching quarter sessions in Ireland rendered difficult, and the only result of his letter is to put off the trial for six weeks. We have doubt of his final success. The Earl and Countess of Lincoln arrived the night before last at their residence in Park-lane, from Clumber, the _seat of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle. Lady Lincoln is a delicate state of health, but has recovered from the effects , of ►.er late severe illness. The Count and Countess Bjornstjerna, and family, arrived yesterday evening in Upper Belg,rave-street, from Waterloo -crescent, at D over , w here they have been staying for the benefit of his Excellency's health, which is now much better. The Countess is in mourning for the death of her father, the venerable Field Marshal Stedink, whose funeral was performed with much pomp at Stockholm, the Prince Royal of Sweden being one of the pall-bearers, and the King went into mourning also on the occasion. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock. 20% 3 per Cent. Red. - 90 %% 3 per Cent. Cons. 9034 90 3% per Ditto Red...... .... .98%% New 3g per Cent.. 98 736 New sper Cent-- Bank LongAnnuities7oexpire Jan. 5, IS) l5 1-1. Oct. 10, 1A59 ...... Jan. 5, IE6O ll-i8 Jan. 5, .88. 1 April 5, I8:3e Jan. 5, 1870”.".".. ....... Omnium -- pm. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austnan Bonds . Belgian Bonds ........... Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds ......... .85%% Ditto Account •••••• •• ********* Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account ..... Chillian Bonds .....«....«....... Ditto Account ..... Columbian Bonds ..... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1804 25% Ditto Account Danish 80nd5.... ••••••••••••••••• ••• Ditto Account ........... Greek .......... •••••••••• Ditto Bonds, 1825 ............. ..._ Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent Ditto Account Ditto, 6 per cent. 25% Ditto Account ..... Neapolitan THIS DAY AT ONE O . q • OCK. Peruvian Bonds 18 Ditto Account ..... — Portuguese Bonds. 7O Ditto Account Ditto New Bonds ..... Ditto Account Ditto, 3 per cent 31%% Prussian Bonds Russian Bonds, 1829 Ditto Account ......... Ditto Metallic — Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1634 27,044 % Ditto Account ...27%%% 5i %%Si French, 5 per cent.......... —I. — c• --.. 4 per cenL ...... —.. —L —c. 2 per cent. —f. —c. -- Exchange —f. —c. Dutch, 2 y.i per cent. 5 4 14 4 Ditto Account c4 Ditto, 5 per cent 1 0 3300/4 Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Great Western Railway Company... 3O 39% Brighton Railway Company London and Birmingham Railway Company 7ts 123!..' 2 2 London and Greenwich Railway Company 2O 211.4 2 North Midland Railway Company lO 1314 Colonial Bank London and Westminster Bank 2 O 2li ~,i MAILS. Arrived. Due.' Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due 0 imerica.......... 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 8razi1............ 0 0 Guern.kJersey 1 0 Malta ....... 0 Buenos A yres.. 0 0 Hamburg ........ 0 0 Mexico 0 o Carthagena ..... 0 I Holland I 0 Ostend.. ....... .. 0 I Dublin... ....... 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden .. 0 1 Flanders ..... .... 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 0 Waterford....... I HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. M0ming.........43 minutes after 0. 1 Evening...... 9 minutes atter 1. NEW EDITION OF LINGARD'S ENGLAND, IN MONTHLY FIVE SHILLING VOLUMES. Preparing for Publication, in Monthly Volumes, of the size and appearance of Southey's Cowper's Works, and other similar pub lications, beautifully printed, and richly illustrated with Engrav ings, price ss. each Volume, bound in fancy cloth extra, a HISTORY OF ENGLAND, from the FIRST INVASION of the ROMANS, to the COMMENCEMENT of the REIGN of WILLIAM this THIRD. By JOHN LINGARI), D.D. Fourth Edition. _ lir.* This beautiful Edi;;;;;irlTecOmpleted in the moderate compass of Twelve Volumes, and sold for only 31. It has under gone a thorough revision by the Author. All passages have been examined which have been the subject of animadversion in Histories, Reviews, &c., and where faulty corrected ; but when otherwise, the passages are fortified by addititional authoritie4 and important ob servations. The Author has also introduced, at the proper places, all new interesting matter which he has been able to collect since the first publication of the work, from many of the National Re cords, several recent Histories, and some foreign works bearing on the subject ; besides these some most valuable and hitherto unknown MSS. have been consulted with great advantage. The work will indeed be, in many of its most important passages, almost re-written. A superb Portrait of the Author will be given in the First Vo lume, fiom an original Painting by Lover, and a richly engraved Vignette by Goodall. London : Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock. ~'~ti,~Q ~~`~r t(Lifn LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1937. In the House of Lords' last night, a Bill to suspend the operation, until the Unions shall have been formed, of the Act passed last session for the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths, was read a second time. The Grand Jury (Ireland) Bill was read a first time, and ordered to be read a second time to-day. One petition was presented, from some place in Surrey, for the retention of Church-rates ; and an immense num ber for their total abolition were presented by Lord BROUGHAM and other Peers. The Hamilton petitioners expressed their astonishment, that the law-established Church should be so mean; so unjust, and so obnoxious, as to exact from its poorer brethren a tax which they con sidered they were in no wise bound to pay'. These peti tioners, as well as most of the others, strongly deprecated a commutation, or the transfer of any portion of the rates to a general fund. In the House of Commons, a great many petitions were presented for the abolition of Church-rates. Mr. LUSHING TON averred that one of these petitions alone—that from the 400 delegates—embodied the sentiments of millions of men. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to Sir E. KNATEHBULL, stated that no alteration whatever was contemplated in the Bill passed last session for commuting Tithes. Sir G. GREY, in reply to Mr. EWART on the subject of the corn trade with Malta, said that Government in tended to act on the recommendation of the Committee of 1830. Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that he should move the second reading of the Irish Municipal Bill this day ; and, as Lord F. EGERTON had, in regard to that Bill, given notice of a motion similar to that which he had made last year, in order to defeat the Ministerial measure, he should propose the Committee for Monday. The Church-rate question would come on on Thursday, and the subject of Canada on the following Tuesday. Mr. WYNN brought up the report of the Committee of Privileges on the caption of Mr. LEctistEßE CHARLTON ; it stated that there was no ground for discharging the Hon. Member by reason of his Privilege of Parliament. The Right Hon. Gentleman then moved that the pro prietor of the Morning Chronicle be brought up to the bar of the House, for improperly noticing the proceedings of the Committee on Mr. CHARLTON'S case. The motion was subsequently withdrawn. Lord JoHN RUSSELL obtained the appointment of a Committee to inquire into the rights and privileges of Par liament, as respects its publication and distribution of papers printed by authority Of the SPEAKER'S order. The remainder of the evening was chiefly occupied with the debate on Mr. LusurNoTos's motion, viz., That it is the opinion of this House, that the sitting of the Bishops in Parliament is unfavourable in its operation to the general interests of the Christian religion in this country, and tends to alienate the affections of the people from the Esta blished Church." The numbers for the motion were 92, in a House of 289. Though the motio❑ for relieving the Bishops from their embarrassing political duties was lost last night in the House of Commons, yet still the minority (ninety-two) was so large, as to convince us that the question will ere long be carried. We recognize in it the herald of a future triumph. Last year the minority was scarcely 40 ; this year, it is more than double ; and next year, we doubt not, it will be such as to convince their Reverences of the ex pediency of a voluntary retirement from that bench which they have so long graced with their political presence. But though last night's minority may be considered a large, and so far, a satisfactory one, yet when we come to peruse the speech of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, WO are only sur prised that it was not much larger. A more trite, threadbare set of sophistries, than those urged by the Noble Lord in defence of the Bishops, was never yet palmed on the House of Commons. Its speech was amphibious to a whimsical degree, being half-Tory, half-Whig. Let those screw a sound argument out of it that can ; we have tried, and cannot. Can his Lordship find no better justification for the Bishops sitting in the House of Peers, than that it is a practice sanctioned by the most " ancient" usages of the Constitution ? Is the wisdom of our ancestors all he has to allege on their behalf ? Surely this is a weak argu ment to proceed from a Reformer, who professes to march with the age, and consult good sense rather than the musty precedents of antiquity ! Had his Lordship lived in the days of witchcraft, we suppose he would have resisted its abolition on a similar plea. Antiquity is worth nothing, when it i s at direct variance with common-sense ; yet antiquity is a ll that the Home Secretary has to urge in favour of the aristocratic privileges of a class of men who have ever been foremost to exercise them to the detriment of the popular interests ! " But," continues his Lordship," the Bishop s are that part of the clergy who can be absent from the discharge of their other duties with the least inconvenience." Indeed! Then why pay them in an inverse ratio to their utility ? Why give a paltry stipend to a working clergyman who cannot be spared, and a princely revenue to a bishop who can be spared, from his duties ? If the labourer is worthy of his hire, then the enormous income of the do-little-or-nothin g , prelate should instantly be transferred to the pockets of the hard-working curate. 'Tis rather too much, in times like these, to be called on to pay fifteen thouiand pounds per annum to a Church dignitary who, on a Cabinet Mi nister's own shewing, can " be spared" from those very duties for which only he is paid ! Lord Jona RussELL's argument, so far from telling in his favor, tells strongly and directly against him. But the truth is—and this fact stares through the thin varnish of his sophistries—he had a rotten cause to maintain, and felt throughout his speech an acute, mortifying consciousness of this. Hence his petty cirpings and beggings of the question—hence his constant flyings-off from it—hence his endless circumlocu tions and ambiguities of phrase. As a matter of course, Sir ROBERT PEEL praised his speech in the highest terms ; and well he might, for it was most happily suited to the meridian of the Opposition Bench. We speak strongly, because we feel warmly, on this subject. His Lordship has taken us completely by surprise. We did not ex pect that he would at once express his cordial ap proval of Mr. LUSHINGTON'S motion ; but neither did we expect that he would have given it such a direct slap in the face as he did last night. Was it right to taunt the Reformers with a desire to bring about the " millenium," merely because they were anxious to relieve the Bishops of certain duties, which, to conscientious Churchmen, cannot but be deeply embarrassing ? Was such a sneer becoming in the people's Minister—the great organ of Parliamentary Reform ? Of a far different character was his speech on " Irish Mu nicipal Reform." There, he was as frank, cordial, and straightforward, as here, he is petulant and dogma tical. The remarks of Messrs. LastuNaToN, HUMS, EWART, and BULLER, were admirable ; and those of Sir ROBERT PEEL, but a mere variorum edition of his speech • at Glasgow. By the bye, his flirtation with Lord Jona RUSSELL must have greatly edified the Hotise. He looked languishingly towards his Lordship, as much as to say, " If you have no objection, I'll come over and sit with you I there, one of these days." And so he will, when the sky • falls, and it rains larks—but not till then ! The second reading of the Irish Municipal Bill comes on to-night in the House of Commons. This is the stage in the progress of a measure at which the principal dis cussion generally takes place. In the present instance it N proposed by Lord JOHN RUSSELL that the debate should be postponed till Monday, when the Bill goes into Com mittee. On that day, too, Lord FRANCIS EGERTON is to move, as he did last year, an instruction to the Committee for abolishing the Corporations. The arguments by which the Noble Lord means to sup port his motion, we may anticipate pretty confidently from the few hints thrown out by one of the speakers in the de bate on the first reading. Lord FRANCIS EGERTON will no doubt tell us,. as Sir R. PEEL did on that occasion, that as we cannot have an identity of legislation in the two principal constituent parts of the empire, we have no rea son or right to insist upon placing Ireland on an equal footing with England and Scotland, with respect to her m nicipal institutions. " Before you can avail yourselves," said the Right Hon. Baronet," of the argument about equa lity of rights, you must first show that you will have a perfect identity in legislation." This is the contemptible species of quibbling which Sir ROBERT PEEL condescended to have recourse to on a most important, and at the same time a most simple question of national policy. It amounts to neither more nor less than this, that as you cannot extend the benefit of every Turnpike Act to Ireland, you are justified in denying to the Irish people an equal participation with the English and the Scotch, in the benefits of the British Constitution, guaranteed to them by what has been called by Sir ROBERT and his friends—when it suited their purpose—an incorporating union. If it really is a union of that description, it seems a, necessary result, that the privileges of the united por tions should be equal, and it may be averred with truth that this equality is not more a matter of justice than it is of sound policy. For the most bigoted Tory that ever existed will not have the hardihood to deny, that it is desirable that the three great divisions of the kingdom should be assimilated as much as possible, in habits, feelings, manners and institutions. Some proceedings have taken place at Gloucester with regard to Church-rates, which we think of some importance to the cause of religious liberty. It would appear that cer tain parties in the parish of St. Michael, i❑ that city, had concocted a petition to the Legislature, in favour of the continuance of this irreligious tax, and announced, through the Press, on Satu;day last, that the said petition lay for signature at the sexton's. We understand, however, that signatures came like angel visits, and the worthy Vicar was obliged to undertake the task of hawking it about from house to house, by which means it is not improbable he may pick up a few names. In the face of this reluctance on the part of the public to enter into the views of the Church-rate party, notice was given in Church on Sunday that a Vestry Meeting would be held on Thursday (yesterday) to make a Church-rate. Accordingly a considerable number of rate-payers attended, to hear the statement of the Church authorities, and to take such steps thereupon as might be necessary. A rate of 2d. in the pound was demanded, and an amendment moved to adjourn proceedings for six months, which was carried by a majority of three to one. After this triumph had been obtained, the victorious party immediately collected among themselves a sum greater than that which the rate would have produced, and handed it over to the Churchwardens. This sufficiently proves that the voluntary principle is quite adequate to provide all that is required for keeping up the worship of the Church of England in Gloucester at least. We may remark, as we are on this subject, that the directors of the meeting which is to be held to-morrow at the Freemasons' Tavern, to petition against the abolition of Church -rates, Lord ASHLEY in the chair, have taken the wise precaution of excluding all who are not provided with tickets issued by them. This is the true way to pack a meeting. The Church-rate people are sure of having it all their own way. The Citizen KING has dismissed Marshal CLAUSEL from the command of the French possessions in Africa. The Royal Ordinance announcing the dismissal of the fire eating veteran is dated the 12th instant, and appears inithe Moniteur of Wednesday, followed by a decree appointing General DAMREMONT as the Marshal's successor. M. DAMREMONT is at present in Africa, having been sent there by the KING, previouS to the Constantine expedition, at the head of a body of troops, with secret instructions to thwart the Marshal on every occasion, with a view to provoke him to resign. The plot failed ; probably because CLAUSEL had friends at Court, who gave him timely notice of the in trigue. At all events, when General DAMREMONT arrived in Africa, CLAUSEL so received him as to remove -every ground for a misunderstanding between them ; and when subsequently DAMIREMONT, in accordance with his instruc tions, proceeded to act without consulting the Viceroy, the Marshal plainly gave him to understand that he would exert his authority to the utmost, before he would relinquish tho power entrusted to him. This was equivalent to a decla ration that he would send the General under an order of arrest back to France, if he dared to usurp functions which he felt no disposition to part with. A pretext, therefore, was only wanting for the dismissal of CLAUSEL, and the affair of Constantine came opportunely to supply it. By sending General DAMREMONT to Algiers, the KING plainly intimated to CLAUSEL that his resignation was earnestly desired. The Cabinet did not then think itself in a condi tion to venture upon a more direct act of censure, as the Marshal had many powerful supporters in both Chambers CLAUSEL knew all this, and therefore he determined to re tain a post of which he imagined neither the KING nor his Ministers would dare to deprive him. It is reported that the French Chamber of Deputies would willingly unite with the KING in a scheme for con fining the power of France in Africa to Algiers, Oran, Bona, and Bugia. The opinions of M. DuPIN on the folly of - the African conquest and colonization schemes have made a powerful impression upon the minds of the French Deputies. The KING himself is no longer the enthusiast he was on the subject of African colonization. In the first place, the expense would be enormous, so that the whole of the revenues of France would be swallowed up in a colonial enterprise. Secondly, the prosecution of the war in the interior would involve France in a quarrel with the Porte, whose tributaries the inhabitants are. And, lastly, were the scheme to succeed, France would only have raised up a rival power, whose first political act would be to declare itself independent of the mother country. These are facts which have not escaped the attention of the KING. On Tuesday night the eldest son of M. GUIZOT, Minis ter of Public Instruction, died of consumption in Paris. The affliction of the Minister is excessive. His son was a young man of great promise. In the Chamber of Deputies, on Wednesday, a debate took place on the subject of the French frontier blockade. MM. DUGAGE and MAUGUIN denounced the blockade as fatal to French commerce, inoperative as regarded the Carlists, whom England (!) supplied with provisions, and in every other respect vexatious and iniquitous. Count MOLE and M. GARCIAS defended the blockade, and maintained that since it was more strictly enforced, the Carlists had been reduced to the greatest straits. Letters from Bayonne of the 11th, and from Bilboa and San Sebastian of the 9th inst., have reached us. They add nothing to the accounts received from these places yester day. Operations have not yet commenced, but all is ready for them. PARIS, FEB. 15. —" A report has been spread," says Le Siecle, "but we do not believe it, that the Duke of Orleans will shortly take the place of Marshal Lobau, as Commander in-chief of the National Guard of the Seine." __ . _ _ A Ministerial journal says that Major-General Beurmann, commander in the departments of the Var, will command pro visionally the Bth military division, in the absence of General Denys Damremont. Are we to infer that his nomination to the Government of Africa is only provisional ? This would serve to confirm what we have said of the fate reserved for our pos sessions in Africa. M. Bertier, Sub-military Intendant at Oran, has been dis missed, and M. Sicard, Sub-intendant, appointed in his room. An advertisement inserted in the Journal Generale d' Affiches gives reason to suppose that the project of surrounding the capital with forts is not wholly abandoned. It announces the purchase by the Government of certain property situated in the commune of Belleville, in the place called the Park of St. Fargeau, or Les Tourelles, comprised within the peremeter of the fort, to be erected at the said place, Les Tourelles, Journal du Commerce, Feb. 15. FRENCH } UNDS.-PARI9, FEB. 13. Five per Cents., 109 f. 55c. 50c. 55c. Four per Cent., 100 f. SOc. 90c. Three per Cents., 79f. 50c. 55c. Coc. Bank Actions, 2,400 f. rtente de Naples, 9Sf. 60c. 70c. 230 e. Roman Five per Cents., 152 102% Spanish Actives, 27 2714 1 ,6%. Spanish Differes, 1144%. Spanish Passives, 7%. Brussels Society, 1,555 f. 1,560 E Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 31%%Y,i. EXCIIANGF. ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25c. 30c. ; money, 25f. 27qc. "Tree months, paper, 251. 10c. ; money, 25f. 10c. -Cours Authentiaue. LAST PRICES, Eve per Cents., 109 f. 70c. Three per Cents. 79f. 70c. Bank Actions, 2,400 f. Rente de Naples, 9Sf. 95c. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Portuguese Three per Cents., 31e,. Spanish Actives, 27%. Spanish Passives, 7%. Spanish Differes, 9. New Differes, 11%. Belgian Society, 1,560 f. Brussels and German Journals of the latest dates have been received. In a letter from Smyrna of the 12th ult. it is stated as the writer's conviction, that our Government will take no concern in the capture of the Vixen, as Lord DURHAM approved of the blockade of Circassia, and as Lord PONSONBY caused a notice of the blockade to be posted up at Smyrna and Constantinople. The entire statement is a gross falsehood. Neither Lords DURHAM nor PONSONBY recognized the right of any such blockade as that established by Russia in the Black Sea. The Brussels Papers state that some alarmists had spread a report that 124 women had died of influenza in one hospital in the course of a week. The report of the number of deaths was correct, but the greater part of the poor women had died in childbed, as the hospital was one into which only lying-in women were admitted. The following curious circumstance is quoted from a Frankfort Journal : SWITZERLAND, FEB. 7.—The Chamber of Finance of the Canton of Zurich has submitted a question to the Tribunal, the solution of which may prove highly beneficial to it. An extremely rich Englishman of the name of Matter diedlately, on an estate near Winterthur. This man, after strange vicissi tudes of fortune, fixed his abode in the Canton of Zurich, and had the rights of citizenship presented to hiin, in return for his liberality to the State ih which he resided ; he was a mysterious, reserved, misanthropic character, and with all his wealth, apparently not happy. On his death, an inventory was made of his property ; the Magistrates, ignorant of the English language, were forced to make use of strangers ; and it is believed that in this manner a will was forged which was found some time afterwards among old linen, and by which distant rela tions in England are left heirs to the property. It is said to be null and void, through defects of form, even if it were authentic. The Tribunals will now decide ; should they de clare the will null, the property will come to the State, there being no heirs ab inteskto. If the acquisition is legal, no one will grudge it to a State which boasts that it manages its small resources wisely, and for the good of the people, for, in pro portion, there is, perhaps, no country where so much is done for schools, roads, and other public objects. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) DEAL, FEB. 16.—Wind W. S. W.—Arrived the City of Edinburgh, from Calcutta; George Canning, from Bombay ; Newham, from Shields ; and Nancy, from Yarmouth. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Westminster, Moore, from London, for New York. STANGATE CREEK, FEB. 16.—Arrived the William, San ders, from Smyrna. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 16.—Wind S. S. W.—Arrived the Salva tore, Scotto, from London, leaky, bound to Naples. FALMOUTH, FEB. 15.—Wind W. S.W., fresh breezes, with rain and thick weather.—Arrived the Zior, Ducker, from Odessa; and Sansrepos, from Exmouth, pumps choked, bound to Bordeaux ; the Rainbow, Oakley, from Liverpool for Smyrna, with loss of bulwarks, &c. The Prince George has commenced discharging. COWES, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Flora, Hoage, from Rio Janeiro ; and Aquenet, Mosher, from Matanzas. BRISTOL, FEB. 16.—Arrived the Alfred, from Galipoly ; and St. Antonio, Felis, from St. Übes. GLOSTER, FEB. 15.—Arrived the William, Adams, from St. Michael's. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 15.—Wind S. W.—Arrived the Cocker mouth Castle, from Porto Bello; and Colchester, M'Lean, froth Charleston. CLYDE, FEB. 14.—Arrived the Francis, Griffith, from Mobile. HARWICH, FEB. 16.—The Colliers, from Stockton to Sheerness, was in contact this morning off the port with th e Hero of Blyth ; the former lost main -mast, Sze., the latter pro ceeded, having received but little damage. The William and Mary, from Belfast, was on shore at Mary_ port, on the 15tb inst. The Nithsdale, from Liverpool, has been condemned at Trinidad. The William, Kelson, from Newfoundland to Poole, was on shore near Swanage yesterday. Vessels spoken with—the Britannia, of Peterhead, from Denia, on the 9th inst., off Gibraltar; Mary, of London, with loss of bulwarks, and decks swept, on th e 14th i ns t., b y t h e Otter, of Milford ; and the Cossack, from Odessa to Liver pool, lat. 18, long. 2, by the Zior, arrived at Falmouth. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Arrivals this morning—French, Ostend, and Dutch mails; ship letters from Rio Janeiro, Smyrna, and Mauritius. FUNDS. Yesterday being the usual day for the weekly meeting of the Bank Directors, after being assembled until one o'clock, they broke up without giving any notice to the public of a n increase on the rate of their discounts, and the prevailing opinion now is that they have abandoned the project, in conse quence of which an improvement has taken place in the Consol Market. Consols closed at 891 90 for the Account and Money. Opened this morning at the above prices, since which they have reached 90k ; at present 90k. Exchequer Bills, 27 29 prem.; India Bonds, 23 25 pre • m., Bank Stock, 2064; India Stock, 25.1. i s not s o goo d a t p resent may be quoted 211 ; In the Foreign Market Spanish Active ; which clos e d yes terday at 28, have been done at 27i i; Portuguese 491 ; Three pel• Cents., 21. Commercial affairs in the City are improving, and money is more easy. HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK. Both the British and Foreign Markets have continued in active. The speculators are anxiously waiting the result of the combined attack of the Queen of Spain's troops on the Carlists' positions. Consols continue at 90i for the Account ; M oney , 90. Exchequer Bills, 27 29 prem.; India Bonds, 25 23 prem.; Bank Stock, 2071 ; India Stock, 2561. Spanish Active, 271 1 5- 1 ; Passive, ; Portuguese, 49 ; Three per Cents, 31e ; Colombian, 25k; Dutch Two-and a-Half per Cents. 54 ; Mexican, 25i-. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 90k. OPERA BUFFA LYCEUM.—The Duchess of Kent and the - Princess Victoria last night honoured this esta blishment with their presence. Their Royal Highnesses, who we are happy to state, appeared in excellent health and spirits, arrived, with their suite, before the c ommencement of the performances, with which they were app arent l y fully satis fied, as they remained until near the conclusion. Demizetti's Elisir d'Amore, compressed into one act, and Ricci's Scarra muccia, were the entertainments, for the benefit of Mitchell, the spirited entrepreneur. He deserved the full attendance assembled on this occasion. We believe there will be two more nights before this agreeable and fashionable undertaking finally closes. We observed amongst the company the following dis tinguished persons :—His Royal Highness the Duke of Brims wick, the Duke of Argyle, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Countess of Ashburnham, Lord Burghersh, the Earl of Arran, Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Lord AUgustus Fiizclarence, the Countess of Aldboro ug h Baron and Baro ness de Lagos, the Countes s o f Charlemont, Lady Augusta Wentworth, General Upton, Lady Laura Meyrick, the Duke de Regina, Count Tolstoy, &e, EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY. LARDNER V. SIR JOHN TOBIN. This was an action brought for the recovery of a sum amounting to 45/., for damage done to a barge belonging to the plaintiff, and its detention from work, when under repair, by the Liverpool steamer the Margaret, of which the defendant is owner. The plaintiff's case was not closed when our reporter left, and the case is likely to occupy the whole day. LITERATURE. FLITTINGS OF FANCY. Two Vols. Colburn, London, 1837. These volumes remind us, in every page, of Washington Irving's Sketch-book. They are not, however, the produc tions of a servile copyist, but of a kindred genius. Mr. Sulivan, the author, has all the grace, and tenderness, and purity of sentiment of the accomplished Geoffrey Crayon, and even surpasses him in point of style ; for with all its merits, and they were numerous, the language of the Sketch-book was extremely elaborate. Here, on the contrary, the language is as familiar as needs be, yet is always chaste—always elegant. The story of " Wild Water Pond"—by far the finest thing in the volume—shows very superior powers, both of conception and execution. The sketch of the deso late fenny country ; of the expansive lake with its one soli tary island ; and its congenial inhabitant, Carroll the specu lator, is as vivid a piece of painting as is to be met with in Washington Irving's " Legend of Sleepy Hollow." As a sample of easy, graceful, Addisonian humour, we may in stance the little essay entitled " Insurance and Assurance," which in its way, is quite as good as " Wild Water Pond:" If these volumes do not become popular, we shall think that the taste for light, elegant literature is indeed departing from among us. BEAUTIES OF THE COUNTRY. Van Voorst, London, 1837. This is the work of a writer who has a true appreciation of the beauties of nature. It is a description of the natural phenomena of the various months of the year, partly origi nal, and partly selected from the writings of some of our ablest authors. Mr. Miller has brought to his task all the zeal of an enthusiast, and in many of his scenic sketches, shows himself possessed of much poetic sensibility. His introductory stanzas entitled " Beauties of the Country," arc full of grace and feeling. The illustrative engravings, twenty-six in number, are not among the least recommenda tions of this volume. FINE ARTS. SCOTLAND. Virtue, London, 1837. We have here a series of views, accompanied by brief literary illustrations, of some of the most picturesque scenes in Scotland, which have been taken on the spot, by Allom, expressly for this work. Many of the views are exquisitely beautiful—such, for instance, as the Pass of the Trossachs, Loch Katrine—lnverary Castle, which with its gleaming woods, spreading lawns, and broad, sunny waters might be mistaken for a scene in fairy-land—Benlomond, from In verglass—and, above all, the Vale of Glencoe, which is as wild and romantic a landscape as Ossian ever conjured up. The volume contains not less than twenty-six views, all of which have been engraved by, or under the immediate di rection of, that skilful and practised artist, Robert Wallis. The literary portion of the work contains some interesting and, to us novel, Border anecdotes. The Earl and Countess of Munster and family are expected to leave for Brighton on Monday next. After six years' existence, and perhaps provoked by the recent inquiry of the Committee of the House of Com mons, the Commissioners on Public Records have at last re ported to his Majesty. The worth of the Report may be esti mated by the fact, that the names of the Speaker, Lords Lang dale and Aberdeen, Lord J. Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Edward Protheroe, Esq., are not subscribed with those of the other Commissioners. PICCIOLA ; OR CAPTIVITY CApTivE.---The very soul of poetry breathes through this little romance. But the author of " Picciola" is a visionary, whose dreams are ma nifestly the result of a happy and wholesome frame of mind, not frantic slumbers haunted by nightmare and diabolism.. Lowly and unpresuming as is the heroine of his tale, she has a claim to the protection of the wise and good ; and we defy, says the translator, the hardest-hearted of critics to set his foot upon the humble neck of " Picciola." Mn. BURKE'S NEW AND IMPROVED PEERAGE AND BARONETAGE will be published on Thursday next, by Mr. Colburn. It will exhibit a most unique specimen of the printing art, the whole being comprised in one volume. The numerous additions and improvements made in the literary part of the work, many of which are now for the first time. introduced, together with the engravings of the arms, incor porated, on the new plan, with the text, will' also render it beyond question the most valuable manual for the nobility ever produced. General Lord Hill, as Commander-in-Chief, held a levee yesterday, the first since the brevet promotion, at his office in the Horse Guards, which was attended by General Maitland, General Maclean, General Mitchell, General Bon ham, Lieutenant-General Ramsay, Lieutenant. General O'Cal laghan, Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Brooke, Lieutenant- General Mawby, Major- General Walton, Major-General Caldwell, Sir Geo. Schovell, and a great number of other officers. The Countess of Surrey and family have arrived in town from Littlehampton. Amongst the important news contained in a coun try paper last Saturday is the announcement that " Mr. Payne has paid a visit to Chesterfield during the week, to rec tify the defects of the clock." A bankrupt, who came to this city a few days ago, to pass his examination, charged in his balance-sheet 351. for treating commercial travellers he did business with during the last 12 months I—Bristol Mercury. A calculation was made on Friday that fully one third of the population of the French capital were suffering from influenza. Not a single death from the malady, had, however, yet occurred. Lord De Roos is said to be now on his route to Germany, and intends, it is said, to sojourn some time at Stutgard, where his sisters, the Hon. Mrs. Henry Wellesley, formerly maid of honour to the Queen, and Hon. Mrs. John Boyle (married to a son of the Earl of Cork), are residing; the Hon. Mr. Wellesley being Secretary of Legation to Sir George Shce's embassy in that capital. SUITES OF EAR-RINGS, NECKLACE, AND BROOCH.—A variety in the latest taste, varying in price from 101. to 201. the Suite, are arranged in the upper Show Room for selection. They consist of Pearls and other real Gems, Amethyst, Topaz, and other stones. T. COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B.—A Pamphlet, containing a List of the Prices of Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a po s t-p a id a p p li ca ti on . 1.I•••••Ir BIRTHS. Yesterday, at the Piazza, Covent-garden, Mrs. Edmund Robins, of a son. On the 13th inst., at Lindley Hall, Leicestershire, Mrs. Apple whaite, of a son. On the 15th inst., Mrs. George Allen, of Tooley-street, South wark, of a son. MARRIED. On the 15th inst., at St. illary'7,liryanstone-square, William Johnson, Esq., to Ann, relict of the late Dr. Stephens, of Devon shire-place. On the 14th inst., at Clifton, Robert Graves, Esq., of the Inner Temple, barrister-at-law, to Mary, only daughter of the late Thos. T. Knyfton, Esq , of Wells, Somerset. DIED. On the 11 th inst., in Edinburgh, General Sir Jas. Hay, K.C.H., Colenel of the 2d Dragoons. On the 11th inst., Ellis Henry, the infant and only son of Sir M. H. Beach, Bart., of Winiamstrip Park, Gloucestershire. On the 13th inst., at Sunbury, Middlesex, aged 78, Mary, the wife of John Dobbs, Esq. On the 30th of August, at Calcutta, Mr. W. Mackie, Surgeon of the "Juliana," East Indiaman, and late of Oundle, in North amptonshire. On the 14th inst., at Tollington-park, Hornsey-road, Richard Claxton, Esq., aged 70. On the Bth inst., at Exmouth, Admiral Sir Manley Dixon, K. C. B. , aged 80. On the 28th ult., at Woolhampton, Berks, Mr. Appl e t on , for merly of Ludgate-street, London, aged 85. On the 25th ult., at Tutton, Hants, aged 32, James Young Hay ward, Esq., third son of the late Wm. Hayward, Esq., of Marden, Wiltshire. On the 14th inst., Mr. John Bull, of Worship-street, Finsbury square, aged 63. On the 4th inst., at Hawkhilk House, Dundee, aged 60, Thomas Nicoll, Esq., many years a resident merchant of Kingston, in the island of Jamaica. On the 24th of December, at St. John's, New Brunswick, aged 30, William Hamilton, Esq.. Assistant-Surgeon of the 43d Regi ment, second son of the late C. Hamilton, Esq., of Sudbury-grove, Harrow, and Kensworth, Herts. On the 14th inst., Airs. Louisa Barnett, widow of the late Mr. B. Barnett, silversmith, Hereford, and for seventeen years Mistress of the Jews' Free School. On the Bth inst., George Rance, thirty years head-w a it er a t the Piazza Coffeehouse, an ho nes t, f a ithful, and trustworthy servant. On the Ist. inst., at Kilkenny, Miss Kinchela, sister to the Hon. Mr. Justice Kinchela, of Sydney, New South Wales. On the 2d inst., at Brentford Butts, aged 77, Ann, widow of the late Mr. A. Trimmer. On the Bth inst., at Brighton, aged 30, Samuel, second son of the late C. D. Lewin, Esq., of Crowhurst, Kent. On the 12th inst., at Charing-cross, aged 63, Rebecca, relict of J. Woodmeston, Esq. On the 12th inst., at Ware, Herts, aged 79, Martha, widow 0 1 1 J. B. Dickenson, Esq., of that place. On the 13th inst.; at Loampit-hill, John, youngest son of - gr. W. Carpenter, of Greenwich Steam-mills. London7Printed and Published by 11 . 1111 7 t60 YOUNG of Nu* 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, 19 ' t he county of Middlesex.— r Friday, February 17, 1837. DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK India Stock Ditto Bonds South Sea Stock ....... ....... ;Old Annuities ...... . ........... 88 83 14 1 New Ditto 13 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 SS I Exch. Bills, .Cl,OOO ‘ , 7 1 1 19 pm. Ditto 500 27 '29 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised pm Bank Stock for Acc0unt......... -- India Stock for Account Consols for Acconnt 9OM 90 ty THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1837• I