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Peruvian Bonds ... . Belgian Bonds ...... ...... ... ..... Dit to Account Ditto Acc0unt................. Portuguese Bonds Brazilian Bonds ..—.... ..... .. -- Ditto Account - Ditto Account ...... ....... .... — 1 Ditto New Bonds - Buenos Ayres Bonds —l, Ditto Account — Ditto Account ..... .........-- —1 Ditto, :3 per cent. 3l 7.4 Chillian Bonds .......,......-.... i Prussian Bonds ......... ........-- Ditto Account , ...... ..... ...... — 1 Russian Bonds, 1822 Cohimbian Rords ..... ..... .. ..... —1 Ditto Account.-- Ditto Account. -' Ditto Metallic Columbian gouda, :£ , c24 Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account Danish Bonds .....»....».»..... , Ditto Bonds, 18:34 2s' Ditto Account ................» —1 Ditto Account 2'.it4 1 , 4 % (keel , . 80nd5.................. French, 5 per cent —t. —%.-... Ditto Bonds, 1525 ...- 4 per cent. Ditto . Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, S per cent Ditto Account ....... Ditto. 6 per cent Ditto Account Neapolitan ..„., 3 per cent. —I —c. Exchange ...... .• —1 Dutch, per ccnit., —. l Ditto Accour,, „„,„ ........ ,„ - Ditto, 5 wcr . —, Ditto Acctfitnt I'R!CES OF SHARES THIS DAY Al ONE O'CLOCK Paid. Per Share. Brazilian Imperial Mining (o. Issued at 51. pm.) :29 20 Great Western Railway Company .................».. 3O 401,i 39?4 COULSE CF Amsterdam C.F. EXCT:I. 12 5 ........__ .. Ditto, at sight ..... l2 3 Rotterdam .' U 12 * 2 Antwerp... Hamburg. Altona.... _ . . Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto ......... ............ 2 Us idarseilles. 25 55 95 85 '25 93 Frank fort of Maine, Ex. M. 153 Pcterstungh, ruble 3 Us. 10 0 Berlin .NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4714 Genoa '..6 0 Milan 3l Venice 47 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 121. Lisbon ..-- M 0p0rt0...... ..... ..... ................ 59ri ' Rio Janeiro 13 Bahia ........... —.—.. ........ ......-- 26 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight 1 Cork... Vienna, effective 11 0 M. 10 17 'frieste......ditto lO 18 Madrid 1.5% Cadiz 31 Bilboa ......... .............. 35 Barcelona Seville 7l Gibraltar - PRI;;E OF BULLION, PER OZ. Portugal Gold, coin -£0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 7 17 9 New Doubloons ...«........ 0 0 0 New Dollars ........... ...... 9 4 10 1 4 I Silver. bar•. standard 0 5 04 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS. DUBLIN. FEBRUARY :2. 3 per Cent. Consols 8 9 , K3 i Grand Canal Deb., ti per cent. S 9 - Ditto Reduced 334 per Cent. Stock 'D, 14 ; Hibernian Bank -..) 79 i:itto New, 1530 97% !City of Dublin Stem Co - 3'; per Cent. Debentures...... On% , National insurance Co Bank 5t0ck........ ......... ...... ... 197 City Debentures, 4 ~ -4, r cent - Royal Canal Stock 3434 Ballast Office Debentures, 4 Grand Canal Stock - per cent - arrived. Due; 0 America 0 Prazil...-- ..... 0 0 Buenos Ayres.. 0 0 Carthagena 0 0 Fkucters MAILS. 1 Arri , e.l. Doe Arrived. Due I 1'rance............ f! 0 Liston 1 0 Guern.&Jersey 0 f) Malta 1 1 Hamburg 1 0 Mexico 0 0 Holland.. 0 0 Ostend 0 0 Jamaica .. 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Lees‘are.lslandi 0 1 Waterford...— 0 HIGH WATER AT LOV,DON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning.—..,...l9rninutea after 2. Evening minutes after 2 NEW WORK BY PIiINCE PUCKLER MUSKAU. Just rea ,. .ly, in 2 vols., post Bvo., ADVENTURES IN ALGIERS, AND OTTER PARTS OF AFRICA. By PRINCE PUCKLER MUSKAU. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street, Publisher in Ordinary to his Majesty. ERRATA.-In our leading article of yesterday, on the London Poor Law Union, th , zwe occur two errors, which were over looked in the hurry of going to press. In the first line, instead of " meeting of churchwardens" it should have been " number of churchwardens;" and in the second line of the second sentence, the words " they passed" should have been omitted. The publication of Tits Sur; NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 20 nr;nutes past Three o' Clock. _ 4f . •""!'"" Y .-4 'i' ' •, -' '" 1 " -; , Th e'' '— ` - ":: --., l'A ~`‘- 4 ,,, , , 11 ., kV ' ' ' N - . ; 4 . y .. fr;?•: 1,,, , - ` - -"0? ~ ..- --..;‘,0;--"!--- 177' • • LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 4, 1837. -- In the House of Lords, last night, several petitions were presented by Lord BROUGHAM, and by other Peers also, for the Abolition of Church-rates. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition for the Revision of the Criminal Laws. Alter a short conversation on this subject, his MAJESTY'S Answer to the Address was brought up. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table his new Bill respecting Pluralities, &c. The Noble and Learned Lord then made a motion—which, at the suggestion of theLORD CHANCELLOR and Lord EL LENBORO UGH, he subsequently withdrew till Monday—for an account of all sums standing in the name of the Accountant- General of the Court of Chancery to the credit of any Public Charities. Their Lordships then adjourned till Monday. Among the petitions presented in the House of Commons were several from various parts of the king dom, some of them signed by members of the Esta blished Church, praying for the extinction of Church rates. Colonel THOMPSON gave notice, that on the Erst motion-day for Supply be should move a resolution declaratory that the present government of the Army was contrary to law. Notices of motion were also given by Mr. BUCKINGHAM, relative to his Public Walks, &c. Bill; and by Mr. ROBINSON on the sub ject of our relations with Portugal. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to a question put by Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN, relative to the National Association of Ireland, said that. ho intended to bring in a Bill respecting the Municipal Corporations of that country on Tuesday, when he should make known his opinions fully on the existence and proceedings of the body referrA to by Mr. GOULBURN. Some ob servations on the subject, elicited by Mr. GouL BURN'S question, were made by Mr. HOME, Mr. O'CoNNELL, Mr. S. O'BRIEN, and by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The LORD ADVOCATE brought in a Bill to mo derate the severity of the laws against sedition and other political offences in Scotland ; another for certain changes in the duties of the Lords Ordinary and offi cers of the Court of Session ; and one for the more effectual recovery of small debts in Scotland. The Bills were severally read a first time. Mr. STEUART, after a short discussion, obtained leave to introduce a Bill for the regulation of certain offices in the Court of Exchequer in Scotland. Mr. BROTHERTON then brought forward his mo tion against midnight legislation. It was seconded by Mr. EWART, opposed by Lord JOHN RussELL, and negatived by a majority of 86. On the motion of Mr. HoRsmAN, a Select Com mittee was agreed to, to ingnirc into the practice of creating and registering fictitious votes in the counties of Scotland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER gave notice that on Monday next, in proposing the renewal of the Joint Stock Banking Committee, he should move that it extend its inquiries to Ireland. The House then, soon after 8 o'clock, adjourned till Monday. Mr. lionsmAN, the Member for Cockermouth, moved last night, " that a Select Committee be ap- pointed to inquire how far the interests of the Reform Bill had been defeated by the creation of fictitious votes in counties in Scotland." The subject which the mo tion of the Hon. Gentleman is intended to investigate is of the deepest importance to the public, and we are happy to say that all parties in the House professed the greatest anxiety that the proposed inquiry should be gone into without delay, and also that a similar in quiry should be instituted with respect to England and Ireland. We were aware that of late the creation of fictitious It has hit the bull's eye. It was intendedto put a check on votes had become a regular branch of trade among the the blustering of the Tory faction, and it has succeeded dirty political jobbers of the Scottish capital—the to a miracle. We shall , bear no more taunt s a b ou t agents and ser van t s o f a ll wor k o f t h e old Dundas I r i s h men being " aliens ; no more threats about re clique ; but until we read Mr. HORS MAN's excellent conquering the country. No, the Tory tone is already speech of last night, we had no idea of the extent to changed, confidence having been exchanged for despair, which this contraband manufacture has been carried. and the language of bravado for that of puling alarm. But first let us look at the mode which has been The faction now fears Ireland ; before, they laughed adopted by the Scotch Tories to work out the Reform her to scorn. True, the Lords honoured the mention Bill. Their first pl an was t o un it e in one lease a of her name with a broad Grimaldi grin the other farmer and as many sons a s h e m i g ht chance to have. evening ; but fools will always be found, even in the Whether they resided with him or not was a matter of most illustrious and enlightened assemblies, and such no consequence. Nor was it necessary that they should " daft chiels" always laugh the louder in proportion to be farmers at all. They might he lawyers or lawy ers ' the absence of all cause for merriment. servants, shop-keepers or shoemakers—they were all But why do the Tories express surprise at the " con duly registered as farmers. tinuanee of the existence of the National Associa tion ?" We can und ers t an d th e i r a l arm , b u t no t th e i r Some inconveniences were found to att ac h t o thi s p l an, an d an ingenious improvement was engrafted on astonishment. Do they not se e th a t it i s th e off s pring it. As a life-rent interest gives a vote, a landed pro- of their own loins ? That its legitimate founder is the give effect to the Reform Bill, " Whig and something more" L YNDHURST ? H a d prietor, who wished to THE SUN, LONI)ON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1837. it not been for his seasonable taint of " Irish aliens," and the histant recognition of its appositeness by his own party, we should never have see❑ such a confe deracy as the National Assoc;iation, ramifying through out Ireland, and acting with a decision—an energy—a promptitude--that have preserved the tranquillity of the country, by increasing its cenisciousness of its own moral strength. " When bad - inc:a conspire, good men must combine ;" and this is the true secret of the origin and progress of the present great Irish con federacy. CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor was occupied the whole morning with the further arguments in the part heard case of Vernon v. Vernon, which came before the Court upon appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls, allowing the demurrer to the plaintiff's bill. The arguments had not concluded when our Reporter left. We are no advocates, in the abstract, for these sort of Institutions ; but cases will occur at times when they are not only justifiable, but indispensable. The pre sent is one of these. The conduct of the Lords towards Ireland last Session, left her with scarcely a hope of redress, except such as she might derive from appealing to their fears, through the medium of a National Association. Hence her present imposing show of zeal—of fixedness of purpose—and, above all, of unanimity. If their Lordships now consent to grant her " equal justice" with England, she will have her Association to thank for it, quite as much as Ministers. The latter have done their best, and we are quite sure will continue so to do, to promote her domestic interests ; but they are weak, so long as the House of Lords continues opposed to Ireland ; and therefore it must be Ireland's own right arm that must achieve her deliverance. The Tories are easily surprised. They were sur prised when the Reform Bill was called for by the country ; when Sir ROBERT PEEL was turned out of office the other day ; and now again they are surprised, because the consequences of their insulting treatment are daily making themselves more and more felt in Ireland. Now for our own part the only thing that surprises us, is the innocent, calf.like wonderment of these men. What more natural than than the perse cuted should combine against their persecutors ? What more obvious, to all but Tories, than that Ireland, tyrannized over by a reckless faction, shout(' seize the first opportunity of confederating to procure redress? Did these men suppose that an en tire people were to accept their curses for blessings — be kicked, and not kick again—be trampled on, and not rise to repel the insult ? If they did, the Associ ation must, long ere this, have dispelled their illusion ; for as Mr. O'CONNELL truly observed of it last night, " that confederacy had sprung from a just sense of wrong, aggravated by insult ; and had this stri king feature about it—that whereas the Catho ' lie Association had not one-fourteenth of its members Protestant, this, on the contrary, had more than one-third of its members Protestant—men of rank, property, and intelligence, and the number was daily increasing." Under these circumstances, we en tertain not the slightest fears for Ireland. Her Asso ciation has already half-accomplished its purpose ; for it has surprised and alarmed the Tories, and there by paved the way for her sure and speedy regeneration. We learn from the Paris Papers of Thursday, that the French Police arc unceasing in their efforts to fill the prisons with conspirators. Unfortunately, th e task is no longer difficult. The dragon's teeth sown by the KING are producing an abundant armed crop. The army is completely demoralized. Accounts were received in Paris on Thursday, stating, that three offi cers, who had taken part in the conspiracy at Stras burg, re-appeared 'in that city on Tuesday, and sur rendered themselves for trial. Before reaching t'ie town, these officers who had previously absconded, were met by the greater part of the garri son, and conducted to prison in triumph. Had they participated in the most glorious action, they could not have been received with greater enthusiasm. Marshal CLAUSEL was to have arrived in Paris on Friday. The solicitations of his friends, not the com mands of the War Minister, determined his appearance in the capital. FRENCH FUNDS—PARR', FEB 2. Five per Cents., 100 f. fx. "I 11,0,er Cents., 7:•f. 45c. 4Cc. Bank Actions, 2,44:1. riente de Naples, ORf. 10c. Mc. 35c. Roman Five per Cetts., 132_ Spanish Actives, -.A 2.4% 26. Spanish Passives. 7 - --- Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 103 Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 31% 13XCIIANG6 on t:orsnort. One month, paper, 25c. 30c. ; money, 254. 07),c Three months, paper, 251. ; money, 251. 10c —Coors Authooliaue. BOURSE, HALF-PAST FOUR.—:—The French funds declined to day in consequence of alarming reports received this morning by courier from Strasburg. It is said that the moment it was known that the three fugitive officers implicated in the insur rection of the 30th of October last had surrendered themselves prisoners in order to stand their trial before the ensuing as sizes, the people laid siege to the prison, literally carried it by storm, took the officers out, and brought them in triumph through the city, crying " Vivo l'Empereur !" and " A bas Louis Philippe !" It was belived that part of the garrison had sided with the people, or had at least refused to aid in putting down the tumult. Little business was done in foreign securities. LAST PRICES Five per Cents., lON'. 30.. Three per Cents. 79f. 65c. rank Actions, 62,14.5 f. Rente tie Naples, 94. GOc. Roman live per Cents., 102%. Belgian Loan, IA Portuguese Three per Cents., 31%. Spanish Actives, s 6. S;•anish Passives, 7. Miguelites, 11%. Madrid Papers to the 27th ult. have been received. M. Lo PEZ, Minister of the Interior, has obtained leave of absence from his office for three weeks. The pre text is the necessity of arranging his private affairs, and delicate health. He will be succeeded, ad interim, by Senor ARM ENDA RIZ. The Christino garrison at Al cantara killed the Carlist Chief ITURALDE for attempt ing to escape from prison. General NA RVAEZ has consented to join the army at Cuenca. The QUEEN was in good health. A third edition of Mr7JopLlN's answer to the Joint Stock Bank Report has just been published by RIDGWAY and Sons. We are glad of this. There are few men whose opinions on matters connected with banking are sounder, and more worthy of being widely circulated, than those of Mr. JOPLIN. It is particularly desirable that this subject should be well considered by those who will, in all probability, be called upon to legislate on it during the present Session of Parlia ment ; and we have no hesitation in sayinc , that they will not come to their important task, duly prepared, without having perused Mr. JOPLIN'S pamphlet. The author's main object is to examine the doc trines insinuated, if not advanced, in the Report of the Committee appointed by the House of Commons last Session, to enquire into the operation of the 7th of Geo. IV., cap. -16—the Act which regulates Joint Stock Banks—and whether it was expected to make any alteration in the said Act. This Report, it will be recollected, laid down thirteen negative propositions for the management of Joint Stock Banks ; that is to say it pointed out a certain number of things which the law has NOT provided for in these banks as at pre sent constituted, leaving it to be inferred, of course, that the law ought in these respects to be amended. Mr. JOPLIN takes these propositions seriatim, and makes them pass through the crucible of a severe exa mination, the result of which is that not one of them will stand the test. The arguments with which the author combats the opinions of the Committee appear ' to us in almost every case conclusive ; and we sh a ll take as early an opportunity as the state of our co lumns will allow us, to lay before our readers a few specimens of his mode of reasoning on this highly interesting question. To the present edition is added a short and clear account of the money pressure in 1836, and of the embarrassment of the Northern and Centra l Bank of E nglafnord. its conduct, statitt.rlibduelt)eadrtitnortlfiremßnantikle original of Eng land terms agreed upon with the Central B ank for render ing it assistance. But we apprehend the facts of the case, since disclos e d, will fully acquit the Directors of the Bank of En g l an d of the charge of driving a hard bargain with the Central Bank. RENFREWSHIRE ELECTION. — Se ver aI circum stances contributed to give victor}' to the Tories, but there can be no doubt that the latter owed more to the remissness of the Liberals at the commencement of the contest, than to all the other causes put together. This, when coupled with the three years' previous neglect of the registries, on the part of the Liberals, is quite enough to satisfy any reasonable politi cian how easy it is to account for the unlooked-for success of the Tories, even in such a Radical county as Renfrew. The idea of re-action, so much dwelt on by the Tory Press, is all nonsense and humbug, though we confess that the discomfiture of so old and consistent a Reformer as Sir John Maxwell, by a mere youth like Mr. Houstoun, may well bear such a con struction in the eye of superficial thinkers.—Scots Times. Nl , :hout depriving himself of any of ',he advantages de ti,.:ed from his property, agreed to d=ispose of a life in terest in a certain portion of ;it, at a price ar ra lged according to a table o.i annuities. This life-interest, be it observed, was not recorded or re- o oistered any where. It was I“.rpt snugly in the pos session of the law agent, unless on the day when purchaser appeared befor e, the Sheriff to have his name entered on the roll, wl-men it was presented to that officer. After that it disapopeared, and was never seen K. or heard of more ! Nil acting reputans than quid superesset agendum is the maxim of a tho',-ough-going Tory—an excellent one it is—and, accordingly, the plan we have just de scribed soon gave place to one still more happily con ti,ved to proraote the views of those who, with Sir ItOBERT REEL, are determined to "take their stand Gil. the Reform Bill." In this beautiful scheme the 'nand of a master-jobber is at once perceptible. Mr. HORSMAN has admirably described it in the following passage of his speech : " The House will scarcely believe that it is a matter of common occurrence for numberless votes to be made on a single tenement, without any right, or title, or interest heing acquired by the persons registering—without any t ransfer whatever of the premises—without the occupation heing changed, or the ownership in any way interfered with, or a single sixpence being exchanged between the amrties. Yet so it is--it happens daily and hourly, and this s the manner in which it is brought about. An individual owns premises worth 100/. a year, on which it is proposed to him to make ten votes; and being a good Conservative, and fond of his party, he has no objection, provided pro per care be taken of his own interests in the transaction. Ten persons are introduced to him as gentlemen who are willing to come to terms, and a political agent is em ployed to conduct the purchase. The price paid for the share of each is be 2001.—(Hear, hear.) But there are two obstacles to the transaction. None of the buyers have got 2001. ; they are not in a situation of life to have it. Some of them are grooms and lacqueys in a neighbouring establishment—some of them are clerks or dependents of the agent himself—nay, some of them are as low as farm-servants. So far from having 2001. a-piece, they have not got 200 pence amongst them ; and even if they had, the premises are essen tial to the present owner for the convenience of his trade, and he cannot let them out of his possession. Here, then, arc two impediments, apparently insurmountable, at the very outset of the business ; but by the intervention of the agent afore said, they are thus nimbly surmounted. He suggests that the purchasers, instead of paying down 2001. a piece, shall give a bill to that amount, and meanwile pay five per cent. inte rest upon it ; and he suggests also that the seller, instead of yielding up the premises, shall continue to occupy them as te nant to the buyers ; the rent he pays each of them being 101. a year. Accordingly he gives them a life-rent disposition of the property, and they give him back a life-rent lease. He pays each of them 10/. a year of rent on his lease—( Hear) —but they pay him back exactly ten pounds a year of interest on his bill—( Hear, bear)—so that for the sum he gives out from his right hand, he receives an equivalent in his left. And thus, by this very fair and honourable expedient, which is afterwards completed by an oath before the Sheriff, that the parties are bona fide possessors of the property, ten additional freeholders are added to the poll, who come forward at the next election to attest the superior purity of Conserva tive principles, and prove to the unbelieving what a re-action has come upon the country. —( Hear, hearer This, we believe, is the system generally acted upon at present, though in the county of Stirling it appears they have proceeded a step farther, and arc granting simple bonds of annuity for 101. per annum over heritable subjects—a method which no doubt greatly simplifies the extension of the franchise ! Now as to the extent of this practice in Scotland, let us hear what Mr. HORSMAN brings forward in support of his motion. Let us examine into the prac tical working of the Scotch Reform Bill, and see how far it answers the purpose for which it was intended : " In the county of Edinburgh, in 1832, the constituency amounted to 1,126 ; non-residents, 61 ; life-rents, 42. In the present year the life-rents had increased to 146.—( Hear) — and the non-residents amounted to 141—(Cheers) —but this county was not a fair sample, because many of those among the non-residents resided in the City of Edinburgh. He would next refer to the county of Heddington, the constituency in which amounted in 1832, to 513 ; the non residents were 27, that number had since increased to 151 ; at first they were but one-eineteenth of the whole.consti tuency, but at present they amount to one-fourth. The life rents in 1832 were twenty-nine ; in 1836 they increased to 75. The present constituency was 714. The next county was Linlithgow : in the year 1832, the constituency was 532 ; the non-residents, 112. The non-residents were now increased to 202.—(Hear, hear.) The life-rents, in 1832, were 23 ; non-residents, 4. This year the life-rents were 66 ; and, out of the 66, the non-residents were 63 —( Hear, hear.) He would then take the county of Roxburgh. In 1832 the number of the constituency was 1,199, and out of this body not one-seventh were non-residents. At the present I time the number of non-residents was not less than 444. —( Hear, hear.) The number of life-renters in 1832 did not I exceed 33, and all these were residents in the county. The number cf life-renters enrolled this year was 89, and of these 87 were non-residents. The total number of life-renters in this county was 112, and of these 107 were non-residents.— ( Cheers.) He should have stated that in the observations he had addressed to the [louse he lind confined himself to six counties in the South of Scotland, because they laid together, and also because he believed that in them the system had been carried out to the greatest extent. He alluded to the three Lothians, Rosburghshire, Peebleshire, and Sel kirkshire. In 1832 the constituency of Peebleshire was 301. Since that time a great number of persons had been enrolled as voters ; for at the present moment the constituency arnoented to 576. Out of the list of voters in 1832 there were 15 non-residents ; the number of non-residents at the present time was 218--( Loud cries of " Hear, hear,")-- being nearly equal to the original constituency. There were only eight persons in the list of voters as life-renters in 1832. The number of life-renters added this year to the constituency was 137—(Hear, hear)—and of these 121 were non-resi dents. The list of life-renters at the present time was 160, and of these 132 were non-residents—( Hear, hear); so that, in point of fact, there were only 28 resident life -renters, and 22 of these were entitled to be registered in consequence of offices they held as clergymen or schoolmasters.—(Hear, hear, hear.) In Solkirkshire, in 1832, the constituency was 180. The number since registered was 444, being nearly double the amount of the constituency in 1832. The whole constituency was now 562, being more than double the number enrolled the year after passing the Reform Bill. In 1832 there were no non-resident voters; in 1836, the number of non-resident voters enrolled was 288—( Cries of " Hear") — being more than the original constituency. In 1822, there were no life-renters, excepting the clergy and schoolmasters, in number about 12. During the present year, 89 life-renters had been placed on the list of voters, and of these 87 were non-residents.—( Hear, hear.) The whole number of life renters at the present time was 112, and 107 of these were non-residents." This is a statement which we recommend to the serious attention of the country. If some means arc not immediately adopted to put an effectual stop to these fictitious qualifications, it is as clear as day-light that the county representation of Scotland will in a very short time be reduced to the state in which it was before the passing of the Reform Bill ; that is to say, there will be no representation at all. Sir GEORGE CLERK attempted a sort of reply to Mr. HORSM AN ; but it was a lame affair. The Hon. Baronet seemed perfectly astonished at some of the statements made by the Honourable Member for Cockermouth ; but he did not attempt to invalidate one of them. He did to be sure try hard to divert the attention of the House from the fact that the prac tice was one entirely of Tory birth, and to insinuate that the Liberals were not quite free from the re proach which they threw upon their political opponents ; but even if this were true, it may be fairly retorted that the Liberals have bee❑ driven to it in self-defence—for actual self-preserva tion. But be that as it may—be this iniquity prac tised by Whigs, Tories, or Radicals, we say let it be put down immediately. It is disgraceful to us as a nation. The National Association, it is clear, has struck dismay to the heart's core of the Tories. The Duke of WELLINGTON ran down in breathless haste to the House of Lords on the very first day of the Session to express his alarm at its proceedings—and well he might, for it was its predecessor that wrung Catholic Emanci pation from him ; and last night Mr. GOULBURN ex pressed the same virtuous apprehension in the House of Commons. The Association, therefore, has struck home. MR. LE , HMERE CHARLTON. As will be perceived from what took place in Parliament last night, notwithstanding every exertion on the part of Mr. Lechmere Charlton to evade the service of the warrant of the Lord Chancellor, for his commitment, Mr. Allen, the active tipstaff of the Court of Chancery, succeeded last night in capturing that gentleman, and has him at the present moment in durance vile in that prison-house of the Court of Chancery 'yclept the Fleet. Mr. Allen, who has been ac tively employed ever since the Chancellor issued his warrant in endeavouring to discover the place of Mr. Charlton's conceal ment, having information, from the best authority, that he was within the walls of his own house, No. 12, York-road, Lambeth, proceeded thither yesterday afternoon, accom panied by another officer, determined if possible to obtain an entry by means of the .area; in this, however, they were foiled by the vigilance of an elderly female, who acts as servant in the house. Nothing daunted, Mr. Allen an d the officer loitered in the neighbourhood, in order to seize the first opportunity of obtaining admission, and securing the person of the Learned Member of Parliament. They waited upwards of an hour, and were almost despairing that the re sult of their efforts would be successful, when the elderly female made her appearance at the door, and, after looking round her, ventured out. Mr. Allen at that time being on the other side of the street, could not make an attempt to gain admittance, but he determined to await her return which took place shortly afterwards; he then, together with his brother officer, after some struggles with the old lady, who vociferously declared that she knew no such person as Mr. Charlton, succeeded in obtaining admission to the house, in which Mr. Allen had hardly set his foot, before he was at tacked by a large dog. which he managed to rid himself of by kicking down stairs. He then went over the house, and discovered Mr. Charlton in the back-room on the first flight of stairs. Upon showing him the warrant of the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Charlton appeared much excited, and denied that the officer had any authority to take him into custody, until the decision of the Committee of the House of Commons, which had been appointed to inquire into the case, should be known. Mr. Allen said he had but one duty to per form, which was to ob6y the orders of the Lord Chancellor. and by those orders he was compelled to take Mr. Charlton to the Fleet. Finding it useless to attempt to alter the de termination of the officer, after writing to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Mi. Charlton quietly stepped into a hackney-coach, and as quietly stepped out again to take his rest for the night in the Fleet—during the ride to which he laughed most heartily at the various attempts that had been made to secure him—especially those of having officers to at tend the arrival of all the foreign steam-vessels, declaring that he had never been out of the kingdom or ever thought of it. The LORD CHANCELLOR, we understand, is determined to enforce his authority to the uttermost, though many consti tutional lawyers are inclined to think his Lordship has ex ceeded his authority. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY, DEAL, FEB. 3.—Wind E. S. E., steady breezes.—Arrived the Conservative, Cousins, from Waterford; Stratheden,Cheap, from Calcutta ; Stentor, —, from Valparaiso ; Norfolk, Gildowing, from Mauritius ; and Hero of Malown, —, from Calcutta. Sailed the Dragos, Dragos, for Trieste ; Echo, for Liverpool; his Majesty's ship Dido, for the Medi terranean ; and Crescent, —, for Malta. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 3.—Wind E. S. E.—Arrived the Aber crombie Robinson, Scott, from London ; and Felicity, Wind sor, from ditto. The Diligence (navy transport) has come into harbour, from Spithead. Sailed the Torento, Griswold, for New York. FALMOUTH, FEB. 2.—Wind E. to E. S. E., moderate breezes and thick weather—Arrived the Royal Tar steamer, Lewis, from London. Sailed the Antigua Planter, Cherry, for Liver pool ; and Herald, Pile, for Cork. BRISTOL, FEB. 2.—Arrived the Paragon, Cook, Mauritius. LIVERPOOI„ FEB. 2.—Arrived the York, Lord, from New Orleans ; and John Ormerod, —, from Oporto. Off port the Magnet, Mayne, from Calcutta; Pekin, —, from De merara ; Mary Queen of Scots, - Paraiba; and Granville, —, from St. John's, New Brunswick. CLYDE, FEB. I.—Arrived the George IV., , from De merara; and Paragon, Frazer, from ditto. DUBLIN, FEB. I.—Arrived the Haymart, Storey, from St. John's, New Brunswick. CORK, FEB. I.—Off port the Renown, M`Leocl, Mauritius. VESSELS SPOKEN WITIL-The Shannon, from Rio Janeiro to Bombay, Nov. 19, lat. 36, long. 24, St. George, from Montreal to London, Dec. 5, hit. 19, by the Mary, Bulmer, of Cork ; Jupiter, from Batavia to Amsterdam, Dec. 25, lat. 6, long. 26, by the Genevieve, arrived at Bourdeaux ; Cognac packet, from Mauritius to London, Dcc. 25, lat 7, long. 15, Sarah Elizabeth, Wheatley, to London, with 150 barrels of o il, Jan. 1, lat. 33, long. 22, and Jane Catherine, bound to St. John's, New Brunswick, by the Harfeld, of Whitchaven. The Rumdahlshorn, from Hamburg to Jersey, fell over at Cuxhaven the Ist inst., and sprung a leak —cargo discharging. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, 7' IF' ELVE O'CLOCK. A very malicious report was spread during the whole of the morning of yesterday, both at the Royal Exchange and in the City, of the failure of a country bank—no doubt for sinister views by certain parties, who, if discovered, will meet their deserts. Accounts received from Valencia state that the fort of Chclou, which was besieged since the 15th of January, by se veral bands of the Carlists, to the number of 1,000 men, was relieved on the 19th by the second brigade of the second divi sion of the army of the Centre. TILE FUNDS. Consols, which closed yesterday at 891 for the Account, and 89i. 1 for Money, opened at the a Bove prices this morn ing —scarce a bargain doing at present. Exchequer Bills, 26 28 ; India Bonds, 20 22 ; Bank Stock, 2071 ; India Stock, 258 259. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active, 25-} ; Passive, Deferred, I 1 g ; Portuguese, 431- 49; Three per Cents, HALF-PAST ONE O'CL OCX. Although this is a very heavy day for payment of commer cial bills, we are happy to state that up to the present hour we do not hear of any failures of consequence. Every thing remains perfectly quiet in the city, with very little doing in any of the Funds. Consols have reached 90 in the course of the morning ; at present 89k; Money, 89 ; Exchequer Bills, 26 28; India Bonds, 21 23 : Bank Stock, 207-, ; India Stock, 2571 2583- ; We have not even a report respecting the dead weight, or advance of interest at the Bank. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active 25 4 ; Passive, 61 ; Deferred 11 II ; Portuguese, 48i 49 ; 3 per Cents., 31i; Colombian 251 ; Dutch 2f per Cents, 54i. Extract of a letter from New Orleans, Doc. 26 :—The Sugar market has improved, owing to the late heavy frosts that have entirely destroyed a large quantity of canes. It is now positively ascertained that at least 30,000 hogsheads will be lost, which will leave the crop about 70,000 hogsheads, and ajgreat deal of the last is bad Sugar. THREE O' CL O CK. Consols for the Aecount, 89k. --- The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and Lady Mary Talbot, who are now at Nice, are not expected to return to England until after Easter. Colonel Wildman, who accompanied the Duke of Sussex to Kensington Palace, has returned to Newstead Abbey, in the completion of which the gallant officer has been indefa tigably employed. The library and grand staircase are now finished. The Hon T. Dundas has been prevented from at tending his place in the House of Commons by the severe in disposition of Mrs. Dundas, who was taken ill while on the road to London, and is still unable to move from Sleaford in Lin colnshire. vV The Earl of Burlington left Belgrave-square on Wed nesday, on a visit to the Hon. C. Compton and Lady Cathe rine Cavendish, at Latimers. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The accomplished daughter of the Earl of Winchilsea was on Thursday led to the hymeneal altar by Mr. Tumour, eldest son of Mr. and Lady Caroline Tumour. A select party were invited to the ceremony. The Duke of Wellington's political dinners to the Tory Lords have commenced, and also those of Sir Robert Peel to the select of the Tory Commoners. Lord Stanley will entertain his little Parliamentary pasty this week, at which his double, Sir James Graham, will be present. The Bishop of Killaloe arrived at the London Hotel, Albemarle-street, on Monday, from the episcopal palace at Kila ; and on Tuesday took the oaths and his seat in the House of Lords as one of the Irish representative Peers for the present Session. The Hon. Captain Howard, son of the Earl of Carlisle, has sailed for the Mediterranean, in command of the Wolverine sloop of war. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry are expected to make a short sojourn at Paris on their return from St. Petersburgh and Berlin. They were at a brilliant masked fete, given by the Emperor, in the palace of Peterhoff, in the latter city, on the Ist of January. The younger branches of the family are at Rose-bank, Fulham. The Anti-Church-Rate Meeting of Canterbury was distinguished by a zeal and unanimity that cannot fail to have salutary influence in that City, which required to be roused to a consideration of the impolicy and injustice of this odious impost. The Hon. Mrs. Norton, we hear, accompanies her relations, Mr. and Mrs. Brinsley Sheridan, in their visit to the French metropolis. Mr. Dennistoun, M.P. for Dumbartonshire, who left Glasgow on Friday to be present at the opening f Par liament on the 31st, was taken so ill on the road that he was obliged to return, and arrived in town this forenoon.—Glas gow Post. The Countess Dowager of Clare and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon have arrived in Belgrave-square from Mount Shannon, county Limerick. The Earl of Clare, since his return from Ireland, has been on a visit to Lord and Lady Willoughby d'Eresby, at Grimsthorpe Castle , Linco lnshire, which has been the scene of much gaiety during the holydays. DUBLIN-THURSDAY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The arrival of the second edition of The Sun, with the con clusion of the debate in the Lords on Tuesday, diffused almost universal satisfaction among the friends of Reform in this city. It confirms the good impression made by his Majesty's speech, which arrived here yesterday, and leads us to hope that the conclusion of the debate in the Commons will have elicited an explanation of the words, "collection of tithes," the only phrase calculated to produce a difference of opinion as to the policy of the Government. The Tories, and some of the Liberals, think they discover in these words something of con cession as to the principle of appropriation, hitherto deemed essential to the settlement of the Tithe question. But the bet ter informed, coupling the expression with the absence of any notice on the subject in the Commons, deem it a judicious mode of adhering to their former policy by Ministers, while they try their strengh before developing their matured plan of settling this most difficult question. Upon the whole, how ever, the friends of Government here think that under exist ing circumstances, the speech has been framed with great candour and discretion, and the more shrewd portion of the Conservative party is despondent and confused. As to the mention of the " General Association " by the Duke of Wellington and Lord Melbourne, there is also some difference of opinion among all parties. The faction say it will be put down, and thus a blow will be given to the expres tion of public opinion, which will prove very favourable to them. On the other ham', I have heard some members of the body declare they expected not less disapprobation against them than has been expressed on all sides ; for, they say, we must no doubt be always looked upon as an excrescence on the institutions of a free state, the removal of which will be ne cessary for the health and stability of the Constitution. Wo deplore the necessity for our existence, and for making those demonstrations which we have made throughout the country. It is an anomalous state of things that obliges us to do so. Let the Legislature remove the anomaly by placing us on an equa lity with England and Scotland as to corporate rights, and al low us peace by the settlement of the Tithe question, and we shall immediately dissolve. But as long as both these mea sures arc withheld from Ireland, so long must our Association and the agitation encouraged by.it, be kept up, as the least of the evils arising out of a denial of justice. Such are the sentiments produced by the arrival of Tuesday's news, and you probably will have had the same, with much besides, expressed by our friends and representatives in Parliament, before these few lines shall have reached you. If, however, it shall appear, that the settlement of Tithes is to take place on a scale less liberal to the people of Ireland than that contemplated by Lord Morpeth's Bill of last session, you may be assured that greater evils than the exisience of a General Association will spring up in this country. The law appointments mentioned in my last communication are said to be ratified: and in adlition to them a vacant Chairmanship is about to be filled by Mr. Tighe, a Protest'ant gentlemen of considerable merit, in the present position of affairs. He is a young man, less experienced in the profession than many other candidates ; but he possesses talent, with much literary knowledge and acquirements; and his selection for the situation is characteristic of Earl Mulgrave's administration, in regarding those qualities which must confer advantages on the community at large. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GAR There was a very short supply t was steady at the following prices s. d. to s. 61.1 Potatfes (cwt.) 2 6 5 6 Caitages, White (12) 0 0 0 0 Ditto Red 2 6 5 fl Ditto Savoy Brocoli 1 6 2 6 Endive 1 0 1 0 Horse Itadish(bundle) 1 6 2 6 Celery 1 0 2 0 Carrots 12bunches) 4 0 7 0 Turnips 0 0 3 0 Onions 2 0 3 V Leeks I 3 1 9 Celewortsor Greens 1 0 4 6 For. Grapes (per lb.) 0 10 1 6 Filberts Melons (each) , EN MARKET. ) this day's market and the trade 8. cl to I d. Spinach (half-sieve) 0 10 1 3 Apples 2 0 6 0 Pears French Beans 0 8 1 0 Sweet Oranges:(100) Seville Oranges 14 0 16 0 Lemons 8 0 12 0 Walnuts 0 10 1 6 Span. Chestnits (peck) 2 6 3 6 French ditto Spanish Hazlenuts French Walnuts 2 1 , 3 0 Brazilian Nuts 2 0 3 0 Pine Apples (lb.) Sea Bail (punnet) 1 6 1 9 HAY Al ARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERI AND. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay..„.. £3 15 t , • £4 0 !qew Meadow Hay . 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 4 5 4 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay Clever Hay Oat Straw £2 sto £2 0 I Wheat Straw 2 10 2 12 SMITHFIELD. Core heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £3 15 to £4 0 NM Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 4 5 4 1 0 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay (laver Hay (extra fine £6 5 Generally Oat 5traw..„..... £2 4 t., £2 8 1 Wheal Straw 2 8 2 10 WIIII'ECHAPEL. Coarse Meadow Hay .£4 0 to .£4 5 'dew Meadow Hay U6eful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and llye.grass Hay ... ...... .... ....... 4 10 4 I:) Clover Hay 5 5 6 5 Old Straw £2 s;to £2 10 I Wheat Straw PftloE OF The highest price of Bread in the Good Bread may be had at Gt(,d. I RE.\ D. letropolis is 9d. for the fib. Loaf rRICE OF Per Cwt. New En;lish Red overs6s. 70s. • 014 Ditto Ditto New Foreign Ditto s6s. 613.75 s Old Ditto Ditto New White Clover 60s. 70s. Sts. Old Ditto Ditto Fliw Trefoil l6s. IS& 21s. Old Ditto --s. 12s, Pls. Trefoil um 17s. 19s 20s, English Carraway —s. 435. 475. Foreign Ditto s' e. 525. Coriander —s. Ss 10s. Rapeseed, English fine (per Las' PRICES OF Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) Kent Pockets .... Choice ditto Kent Bags.... Siissex Pockets Superfine ditto Hops —Feb. 3. 101. Os. 01. PRICES OF POTATO. AT SPITALELELDS York Reds (from vessel) 3l. 15s. to 41 10s. par ton. Scotch Reds ditto 3l. 103. to 4/. 53 ditto Common Reds V. Os. to 3 ISs. ditto Marsh Champions 31. Os. to 4 Os. ditto Shaws 0 .10s. to 31. ss. ditto Middling Ol. Us. is U. Os. ditto Chats ll. 154. to 01. Os. ditto 3EEDS.—Feb.3 Per Quarter. St. F0in...... .............. %4s. 3fis, 41s. Rye Grass 20s, 28s. Sts. Pacey Grass .—s. 38s. 4.25. Linseed, for feeding 50s. 545. GOs Ditto, fol ...., tor sewing Ditto, for crushing —s 465. 52, Canary —3. 443 4Ss Hemp —.. 445. 49, Per Bushel. White Mustard 7a. nA. 9s. Od. Brown Ditto fares 4s. fy.l. ss. Od. 35e. 38/. Foreign att. 3fil. Os. to 111. Os. Oi Os. 41. 0, to 4t 103. Cl Os. 51. Os to Bt. o.s. 41. 103. 51. Os. to Bt. C-. 01. U. 3... 15s. to 4! 53. 0/. Os. 41. 15s. to 01. Os. ,ES PRICES OF LEATHER d. I Peril , 4. to tl. lai !Horse Hides, German l3 22 16 1 Spanish 17 CalfSkins,3o to 401 b. (d0z.)•15 29 13 4O 50 •I 7 24 21 - --50 he e2tl 24 23 --70 100 ilt 21 IS I ' Seal Skins, large ..... .......... 11 15 Foreign Hides - iu 12 ---- small lO 17 13essing Hides - Shaved .... 14 17 i Baslls 7 14 Bc,t Saddlers Hides ... ...... 15 17 : licllies Horse Hides, English •If rounded 2d .to 41 per lb more. 7 1 2 Per lb. - d. t Crop Hides, 30 to 40Th each 12 --------40 50 50 60 ......... 14 Bull Hides .................. 10 B u tts, Vitriol IS - 15 English . - Foreign PRICE OF OIL Rapp Oil, brown, per ton, 471. 101—Refined, 49/. IN.—Linseed Oil, 371. 0, Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (1000 ,131. IN .—Rape Cake, per ton, 61. Os PRICE Of TAL, SOAP, &c per 112113. Town Tallow 49 3 L. 6d. OW Yellow Soap Yellow Russia White —s. Od. Curd —s Oil. soap Ditto —s. Od. Graves l6s al. Melting Stuff `iSs. Od. Good Dregs 5B Od Ditto Rough 2ss. Ocl. PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sib. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) 95. 9cl. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles in the Retail Shops is as follows: Candles, per dozen, - is. Od. ; inferior, Gs. Od.—Moulds, Bs. 6d.. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. KET.—Feb. 3 Per Ton. s. (1. Walls End Haswell Walls End Hetton 24 3 Walls End Lambton 23 9 Walls End Stewart's 23 n Walls End Hartlep00l Walls End South Durham— 22 6 Walls Find Norwood Hetton 21 6 Wall.lEnd St. Helen's Tees 22 9 I Walls End Tees 22 9 Cowpen 22 9 Hartley Howard's Netherton Main Walls End Henderson 2l 6 Walls End Braddyll's .4 3 Ships arrived since last markeLday, 5 COAL MAR Per Ton. L 4. Bensham Felling Main 2O 0 Holywell 23 0 Wylam 23 31 Walls End Clark and Co. 2O 0 Walls End Gosforth Walls End Heaton 22 6 Walls End Hilda 2l 6 Walls End Killingworth Walls End Northumberland Walls End Nrwmarch 2l 3 Walls End Per 2l 0 Walls End Eden Alain 22 6 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. 1 - cr Quarrel . I Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 Pease. -- --- Ashburn..____. 64 63 40 45 28 33 50 55 --.___.--- Basingstoke ...-...... 48 62 ::0 3S 21 28 36 50 :17 4 0 Bath 'sB 64 32 41 24 32 44 58 42 4€ Bridgewater .. 48 56 22 26 20 25 32 34 42 46 Bristol 4B 50 28 32 16 20 :31 38 _ Chesterfield 64 70 36 44 20 28 44 50 _ Derby 62 (34 40 41 29 3/ 44 47 Doncaster 46 60 30 42 17 30 36 42 -_ -- Dorchester-----... 69 30 21 _ 40 -- Exeter 56 6t 40 46 20 , lot ''''' 36 40 Gloucester 56 61 4(1 46 20 32 40 49 40 4 - 4 6 5 1 4 '23 36 4 38 3 r 3 9:7 ;38 40 El 'lnger ford -......... 44 66 30 42 22 30 34 4 37 41 Leicester-........-*. b 3 24 1 44 34 Newbury .......--, . 48 33 '36 50 30 40 ii ("MSC) , . w .varrowo Shaftesbury .............. 54 i ..„, . 2 a •-• ! 7 - • -- 41 -- Shepton Mallet... 51 61 au 42 2 5 28 44 50 ___ Sherborne ...----. 48 56 32 40 24 30 40 45 l'aunton...-..... . 46 29 is _ 36 iartuout h ---..... 56 01 30 39 28 30 34 36 Yeovil .......--...-,-. 54 60 32 36 22 28 38 48 —' Per Bushel. ..... s. d. 5. d's. d. s. (1 s. d. s. (1. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. Shrewsbury -. 64 88 50 57 40 5 0 0 0 00 00 00 DEVIZES CORN MARKET.—Feb. 2 Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. ~ d. c First Wheat......... 32 oto 34 0 Barley s. t. second 2B 0 ro 0 Oats._ 25 oto4o 0 - -„ - - , .. 23 0 n 2 n .EVIZES CORN Per Sack. s. d. s. d. First Wheat 32 0 to 34 0 Second 2S 0 ro o Third 1119 Sacks of Wheat sold 29 4 at the average 0f...... .. 1 MARKET—Feb. 2 Per Quarter. s. d. s. d. Barley 25 0 to 40 0 Oats Beans (per rack) 2O 0 2'7 0 Flour (per bag) Bread (per gall.) 1 2 0 BIRMINGHAM CORN MARKET, Feb 2 Wheat, 62 lb. Barley, imperial quarter Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 391 b. Old Beans, 66 1 A1b l6 6 18 0 New ditto New White Boling Pease, 3 imp. bush. Ditto Grey ditto INFLUENZA.—WC have been credibly informed that at the beginning of the week, as many as forty persons lay dead within the borough. In some h ouses b usiness has been quite at a stand.—Leam ington Chronzcle.—Lsi m il ar ac counts are contained in all the papers throughout the united kingdom.] ANOTHER ROBERT PEEL.---At Arbroath, on the 16th ult., Mrs. John Forrest was delivered o f a son. The father, whose Conservatism is well known, appointed the 13th current (the day of the Glasgow Peel banquet) for his bap tism, and named him Robert Peel. Th e Mi nister who per formed the duty concluded his benedictions on the child with these words :—" May he possess all the virtues and all the talents (talons?) of the illustrious statesman whose name he bears." The father rejoined, "He has one more already ;" the boy having six fingers on each hand and six toes on the left foot—all perfect,—Alontrose Review. MR. lIUME'S COUNTY RATE BILL ADDRESSED TO THE MUNICIPAL AND PAAOCHIAL AUTHO RITIES THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM. On the 12th December last, and, by adjournn:ent, on the 16th Instant, Deputations from the Metropolitan Nrishes as sembled at the Saint Marylebone Court-house to take into con sideration Mr. flumes's " Bill to establish a CouOcil and Auditors in every County in England and Wales for the better management of. County Rates." A general Resolution in favour of the principles of the 801 passed unanimously, and its clauses were discussed seriatim, when several alterations were suggested, and directed to be submitted to Mr. Hume. That gentleman has since approved and incorporated in his Bill the suggestions made by the De putations. The Deputations also passed an unanimous resolution, " re questing the Vestry of Saint Marylebone to call :upon their Fellow-countrymen, particularly the Town Councils elected under the Municipal Act, to convene Meetings and petition Parliament in favour of Mr. Hume's Bill: And also to in structtheir Representatives to give a zealous support to the same." In compliance with the foregoing request, the Vestry of Saint Marylebone earnestly call upon their Fellow-countrymen of every political creed, to examine for themselvrs the mea sure in question, and to give it their support, if they find it based upon the first principles of justice. The leading objects of the Bill are, to place the expendi ture of the county rates under the controul of the payers of those rates. That the constabulary force, or police constables, shall be appointed by, and he under the sole control of the local autho rities of each district ; and To authorize the councils, which it is proposed shall be elected for each county by the rate-payers, to recommend proper persons to act as Justices fir local purposes. In order to further the success of this Bill, no means will be more efficacious, and certainly none can be more constitutional, than those suggested by the deputies from the metropolitan parishes, as before mentioned. And it is earnestly hoped that not only the town-councils throughout England and Wales will feel it to be a proper exercise of their powers to convene meetings for the purpose of petitioning Parliament upon this important subject ; but that every county and populous district will likewise endeavour by their support of this measure to ex tend the great principle of representation and local Govern ment, which, wherever applied, has produced . such salutary and beneficial results. By order of the Vestry of Saint Marylebone, JAMES HUGO GREENWELL, Vestry-Clerk, Court-House, Oxford-street, Jan. 31, 1837. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. COURSING. NEWMARKET NEW MEETING.—TnuitsnAT. The Port Stakes. Mr. Bryant's Elizabeth beat Mr. Dobede's Daffodil. Mr. Baildon's Luck's-all beat Captain Daintree's Knapsack. Mr. Edwards's Actress beat Mr. Baildon's Lyra. Mr. Dobcde's Delight beat Mr. Fyson's Fairy. Mr. Moody's Junket beat Mr. Saberton's Mr. Saberton's Spot (late Killeens) beat Mr. Inskipp's Impetus. Mr. Vipan's Vanish ran a bye. The Cup. Mr. Dobede's Daisy beat Mr. King's Royalist. Mr. Vipan's Verity beat Mr. Saberton's Sophy. Mr. Edwards's Assassin beat Mr. Dobede's Diamond. Mr. Fyson's Francis beat Mr. Dunn's Baronet. Allington-hill Stakes, for Bitch Puppies. Mr. Baildon's Liska beat Mr. Edwards's Ann Page. Mr. Dunn's Bellona beat Mr. Baildon's Lovely. Mr. Saberton's Silkworm beat Mr. Gillett's Gaiety. Mr. Dobede's Dirce ran a bye. Chippenham Stakes, for Dog Puppies. Mr. Baildon's Levite beat Mr. King's Rupert. Mr. Dunn's Blucher beat Mr. Inskipp's Idris. Mr. Edwards's Adam Brock beat Mr. Dobede's Dillamore. Mr. Bryant's Election ran a bye. ASHDOWN MEETING.—SECOND DAY. The Cup. Mr. Edwards's Eisler beat Mr. Squire's Salute. Colonel Newport's Nicol Jarvie beat Mr. H. Fleetwood's Firefly. Mr. Pettat's Preserve beat Mr. Goodlake's Gala. Mr. Pettat's Panic beat Mr. E. Cripps's Emsdorff. Claret Stakes of 5 sovs. each. Mr. Goodlake's Glee beat Colonel Newport's Wat Trick. Mr. Pettat's Philomel beat Mr. Squire's La Sylphine. Handicap Stakes of 3 sovs. Mr. E. Cripps's Eyelash beat Colonel Newport's Nick Bottom. Air. Goodlake's Goneril beat Mr. Cripps's Coxcomb. Main of the same. Goneril beat Eyelash, and won the stakes. The Scrub Stakes of 2 sovs. Mr. Etwall's Presto beat Mr. Fleetwood's Flare-up. Mr. Cripps's Crystal beat Colonel Newport's Tim Neve. First Class of the Craven. Mr. Goodlake's Garland beat Mr. Etwall's Elfwitch. Colonel Newport's Newlight beat Mr. Cripps's Cressida. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. His Majesty's Stag Hounds hunt in the Aylesbury country on Wednesday and Friday next. The Brookside Harriers on Mondays at Newmarket Hill ; Fri days, at Telscombe Tye—half-past 10. The Brighton Harriers on Mondays at Patcham ; Wednesdays, at the Race Course ; Fridays, at the Dyke. The Cheltenham and Cotswold Stag Hounds on Tuesday at Cold Aston; T hursday,,at Beckford Inn. General Wyndham's Hounds on Monday at Cowdray Park Gate; Wednesday, at Graffham, near Bramley ; Friday, at Ifold ; Satur day, at Egdcan Common—half-past 10. The East Kent Hounds on Monday at Swanton ; Wednesday, at Acrise Mill ; Friday, at Petham—half-past 10. The Thanet Harriers on Monday at the Sea Mark ; Wednesday, at Minster Mills-10. Lord Petre's Hounds on Monday at Downharn ; Thursday, at Havering Well Crown ; Saturday, at Mountnessing Hall—hf-p.lO. Earl kitzwilliam's Hounds on Monday at Walcot Park-10. The B. V. H. Hounds on Tuesday at Marsh Coppice ; Friday, at King's Hill. Mr. Morier, the distinguished author of "Hajji Baba,' " Zoltrab," &c., is about to publish a new work of fiction, en titled " Abel Allnutt." In oriental romance the genius of Mr. Morier has no rival, unless indeed that distinction may be claimed for the late author of " Anastasius." But who that has read " Hajji Baba," or " Zohrab," can forget the prodigal display of varied talent comprised in these works, their curious painting of manners and character, their gorgeous descriptions, their animated and contrasted incidents, or last, but not least, their unfailing store of grotesque humour and flashing wit ? The Halifax Anti-Church-Rate Meeting, on Mon day, went off in a most satisfactory manner. Some of the Ultra Tories had threatened to organize an opposition; but they did not make their appearance. They sent out some of their scouts, to beat up for recruits ; but with so little success that they deemed it prudent to abandon their design.—Halifax Express. PATENT LEVER WATCHES, With silver double-bottom cases £6 6 0 With silver hunting cases 6 16 6 This celebrated construction (the most accurate on which a watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improvements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining power to continue going while winding up, at the above price, by T. COX SAVORY, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London. N. B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the t.)3th ult., at Tabley House, Cheshire, the Right Hon. Lady de Tabley, of a daughter, who only survived a few hours. On the 2d inst., the lady of Henry Browning, Esq., of a son.', MARRIED. On Thursday, the 2d inst., at St. Mathew's Church, Walsall, Staffordshire, Mr. John James Melhuish, of Liverpool, to Ann Willett Cox, third daughter of the late Hill Cox, Esq, of the for mer place. On the 2d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square Christopher Turner, Esq., of Stoke Rochford, and Manton House:Lincolnshire, to the Lady Caroline Finch Hatton, only daughter of the Earl of Winchilsea and Nottingham. On the 20th of December last, at Quebec, George Longworth Dames, Esq., Lieutenant 66th Regiment, son of Thos. L. Dames, Esq., of Green-hill, King's County, Ireland, to Emma, only daugh ter of W. Kemble, Esq., of Quebec. On the Ist of September last, at Bangalore, Lieutenant H. W. Wood, 4th Regiment Madras Native Infantry, to Maria Louisa, eldest daughter of A. Conwell, of Moneymore, county of London decry, Ireland. On the 31st ult., at Bromley, Kent, Richard Harvey, Esq. of St. Day, Cornwall, to Susannah, youngest daughter of th e late Rev. H. Marsh, vicar of Manuden, Essex. On the 27th of September last, at Bangalore, Madras, B. J. Everitt, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon, 12th Regiment Native Infantry, to Eliza, third daughter of 11. Burns, Esq., of Dumfries, and niece of Major Burns, 7th Regiment Native Infantry. DIED. On the 30th ult. ' at Woking, Surrey, Jam es F enn , E sq . , age d 91, formerly of Old Swan-lane, Upper Thames-street. On the Ist inst., Arthur, youngest child of C. Cancellor, Esq., of Nottingham- place, aged 9 months. On the 23d ult., at Neufchatel, Switzerland, Captain Charles Edward Prince, Royal Engineers. On the 24th ult., the Rev. John Stevens, Vicar of Swalcliffe, near Banbury, Rector of Porlingland Magna, Norfolk, and formerly Fellow of New College, aged 70. On the 2d inst., Mr. John Robert Brown, of Southampton street, Camberwell, aged 64. On the Ist inst., Sarah, the wife of M r . T . H . D ev it t, o f Beth nal-green, aged 30. On the Ist inst., Mr. George Dowers, surgeon, Assembly-row, Mile-end, aged 75. On the 21th ult., aged 74, John Bulteel, Esq., of Fleet, Devon. On the 31st ult., at Worthing, Michael Morrah, Esq., aged 67. On the 31st ult., at Croft Lodge, near Cambridge, Mrs. Dorothy Spilsbury, aged 82. On the 2d inst., Mr. Robert Chittenden, of Greek-street, Soho. On the Ist inst., at Romford, aged 32, Maria, widow of the late T. Townsend, jun., Esq. On the Ist inst., at Clapham, Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan, late of the :Vineries, aged 76. On the 2d inst., Ann, aged 78, relict of Mr. Francis Fincharn, formerly of Henning Hall, Norfolk, and Charing-cross, London. On the 20th ult., at Peckham, Mr. Thomas Hills, late of Farn hurst, Sussex, and Bromley, Middlesex. On the 31st ult., aged 80, having survived her only son but seven weeks, Elizabeth, relict of the Rev. W. Slater, late of Mill-yard, Goodmansfields. On the Ist inst., at Meerstham, Mina, third daughter of Sir W. G. Hylton Joliffe, aged 4. On the 27th ult., Mr. Thos. Keen, late of Bishopsgate-street. On the 31st ult., aged 63, Mr. Thomas Oldham, con fid en tial clerk for nearly fifty years in the office of Mr. Maberly, road, Bedford-row. London : Printed and Published by Al URDO YOUNG, of ICO* IStrand, at The Sun Office, O. 112, Strand, in the countl of February 4, 1837.