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The attention of the reader is directed to the mos 4 striking and brilliant passages by the Index, which forms a complete reference to the Beauties of Shakspeare. 'l•his work may be purchased periodically, commencing at any time it% Vol. I. " r pronounce this edition, for execution and cheapness, to be unir ralleled in the annals of literature. "—John Bull. Printed and published by Valpy, and sold by all Booksellers. The publication of Tim Syr; NEws-pArex commenced Ws day at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock py ----f ) . c ., .. ~,-. W.:31 -.. ... , itall, Z t* - - r.. . . ,'' 4 M 7,.. .fi.c .- s tti .1 , v '4' 4 ,, - ,.,- .. ts Ved " !.,.„.y ,1( -at ' .•.,::,..e * Ziu Wt,. LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 1,1837. In the House of Lords last night, amongst the petitions on various subjects that were presented was one by Lord BROUGHAM, from Birmingham, signed by fifteen thousand persons, praying for the total abolition of Church-rates. The Marquis of SALISBURY then laid on the table a Standing Order for the establishment of a Police during the construction of works by private Companies. After the presentation of a petition by the Earl of Wicszow, praying for the appointment of a Committee to ascertain the result of the operation of the present system of education adopted - is Ireland, and one also differing in •sentiments, by the Bishop of EXETER, from the same places, Lord MELBOURNE brought forward his motion " for a Select Committee to inquire into the progress and operation of the new system of education adapted in Ire land." After a discussion, which occupied the remainder of the evening; (on which we have made some remarks elsewhere), the Committee was appointed : the names of the indi viduals composing it will be found in our Parliamentary report. In the House of Commons proceedings relative to Rail way Bills took precedence. We recommend to the notice of such of our readers as are interested in these Linda.- takings some highly important observations on the subject, officially made by the SPEAKER. Mr. D'EYNCOURT, in giving notice that he will bring forward his motion on the IBth of April for the repeal of the Septennial Act, declared his determination that the souse of the House that day should -be taken on it. The CHANCELLOR of tile EXCHEQUI;it stated that it was not practicable positively- to name the day when the second reading of the Poor Relief (Ireland) Bill would be moved ; but that in any event he certainly should not bring on the discussion of that measure at a later hour in the evening than nine o'clock. Mr. R9BINSON presented a petition for the reduction . of the duty on marine insurance, and said that he shoidd move a resolution to carry the prayer of it into effect. - - in the c ourse o f a discussion on Railway Bills, the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr. HumE, stated that no advances had been made by the Commis sioners of Exchequer -bills to any of the Railway Companies. Mr. LABOUCHERE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to repeal and amend certain Acts relating to the Royal Mint ; aril also the nomination of a Committee to inquire into the sl stem of that establishment. Mr. YOUNG obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law relating to mortgages on vessels. On the motion of Mr. HALL, a return was ordered of all sums of money paid into the Exchequer out of the an nuity granted to his Royal Highness Prince LEOPOLD, now King of the Belgians ; in continuation of the return pre sented to Parliament in 1834. Mr. BAUNEBY obtained leave to bring in a Bill to re move from counties the expense and liability of repairing the highways over bridges, and 300 feet next adjoining to any ends of the same. Mr. F. MauLE obtained leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Acts for the regulation of the Penitentiary at Milbank. The discussion on prison' discipline which grew out of the dun. Ginalen:lan's motion was brief, but interestin—'A will well repay perusal. After a Return relative to the appointment of Recorders 'awl been ordered, and a petition presented for an alteration in the duties on Tobacco, the House adjourned, shortly after eight o'clock. The Bishop of EXETER disburdened himself of the usual amount. of vituperation last night in the House of Lords, on the question of Viscount MELBOURNE'S .motion for a Select Committee to enquire into the progress of the National System of Education in Ireland. The Rev. Prelate did not oppose the motion ; but contented himself with repeating all the often-refuted calumnies which he has from time to time vented against the Commissioners. For just twice the time that Falstaff fought at Shrews bury—that is to say, for two long hours—did this exemplary Bishop inflict on an unwilling House his catalogue of charges against the Board of Education, insisting on each with a spleen and bitterness only to be rivalled by his attacks on Mr. CANNING, in those notorious pamphlets, the principles set forth in which. he afterwards, it may be remembered, made such breathless haste, and saw such good cause, to recant. Dr. PIIILLPOTTS is a wily, dexterous debater ; no man can give to a sophistry such an appearance of sound argument as he can ; but he speaks with invariable acrimony, as if the loss of the rich rectory of Stanhope was ever gnawing at his heart. It is fortunate that his flagrant inconsisten cies neutralize the effect of all his talents, and reduce him to little more than a cypher in the estimation of the coun try. No man who knows anything of the politics of the last few years cares one jot for the opinion of Dr. PHILI, POTTS —thinking it far from improbable that the cause he advocates to-day, he may oppose to-morrow, precisely as ho did on the great question of Catholic Emancipation. But had his influence been even as great as is his rank in the Church, that influence would have been pretty consi derably lowered by the full exposure made of his specious lophistries last night by the Archbishop of DUBLIN and Lord PLUNKET, both of whom controverted all his reason ings, and speculated on his motives in a manner that must have pierced through the thick coatings of his self-conceit, and cut him to the quick. Lord PLUNKET was specially vigorous in the application of the lash, and if the Rev. Pre late be not endued with the hide of an armadillo, he will wince under it for a month to come. Mr. LABOUCHERE last night brought a Bill into the House of Commons, which has for its object to alter the manner of conducting the business connected with the Mint. The Honourable Gentleman has made himself tho roughly master of the details of that department of which he is at the head, and the new regulations which he proposes to substitute for those now in operation appear to have been well digested, and to be every way calculated to effect the purpose of introducing greater simplicity into the management, and imposing greater responsibility on the managers, of this great national establishment. It is to be observed, that the reform intended to be applied to the abuses in the Mint does not ,extend beyond the modes operandi. Neither the question of the currency nor the standard of value is at all affected by Mr. LA BOUCHERE'S Bill. Two of the great questions—the Irish Municipal Bill and the Poor Law Amendment Act—on which the oppo nents of the Government rested their chief hopes, having been satisfactorily disposed of by the Commons, and another added to the list by the Lords last night, the Tories have only one leading topic left—the Appropriation Clause. What a falling off within a few months ! For some time previous to the meeting of Parliament all these topics were urged at every dinner, as proofs of the cruelty and incapa city of the Ministry, and every one of them was considered as a sufficient ground for ejecting them from office ; but when they are discussed in an assembly where vituperation and falsehood are not allowed to pass unanswered, or ad mitted as facts, all the mischief, nay, ruin predicted, dwindles to nothing. What can be a clearer proof of the miserable shifts to which the party are driven ? They make false statements, and raise up imaginary evils, to deceive the unthinking multitude, and when these are brought to the test of reason, they have the mortification to find the leading men of their party either silent or join ing with the Ministry in support of measures so loudly condemned. The New Poor-law was held up to the people_ as a wicked device of the Whigs ; yet when the trial of the question came, Sir ROBERT PEEL avowed his determination to share in the responsibility. The Irish Municipal Bill was fraught with every evil—when brought to the test, the leader of the party simply doubted the expediency of a step which might injure the Protestant Church, and many of the Tories refrained from voting because they did not consider themselves warranted in denying justice to Ireland on the plea of a doubtful contingency. And when the third great source of ruin—the system of Education in Ireland—was di .cussed in that House where the Tories can do as they like even with what is not their own—the Duke of WELLINGTON, and Lord LYNDHURST the calumniator of Ireland, uttered not a word against it—nay more, the Nar cissus of the party, the Earl of WICKLOW, who formerly op posed the plan, admitted that as the measure had been for some years in operation, and it was impossible now to abolish it, lie was anxious that it should be carried on in the best way possible. Never were men so unfortunate in their projects or so deserted in their utmost need. How mortifying to those retainers who, at the dinner orgies in autumn, cheered the rabid speakers to find that the dangers are considered by the leaders of the party in both Houses as imaginary, and that all their long concocted schemes for destroying the Government have vanished into smoke. When so much has been done in only one month, may we not with certainty anticipate that party spirit and disappointed hopes will at length yield to reason, and that a small portion of the vast income of the monstrous Church Establishment may be set apart with safety to educate the poorer classes of our Catholic brethren in Ireland ? The whole of the Paris Papers of Monday have teen received. The Moniteur of that date contains the fol lowing official intelligence : • " Bayonne, Feb. 25, INC-past 5, a.m. " The Infante Don Sebastian, at the head of nine battalions, a squadron-of cavalry, and four pieces of artillery, left Du. range on the 21st, marching in the direction of St. Sebastian. Twelve battalions remained before Biiboa. General Saars field was at Pampeluna on the 23d, with 12,000 men. tie had been joined the previous day by three battalions of the division of Mail. The following is an extract from a letter from St. Jean de Luz, dated 22d ult. " From the latest accounts received this day from St. Se- . bastian, it is Lclieved that the expedition will not take place before two or three days. We are assured that the English have caused the military stores which they had at Passages to be brought back to St. Sebastian. It is also stated that disputes have arisen between Generals Eapartero and Evans —that the latter had been placed by the General-in-Chief, under the orders of Ceneral Saarsfield, to whom he had sent the six thousand men demanded by General Evans. It is, therefore, probable that no movement will take place at St. Sebastian till General Saarsfield gives orders to that effect from Pampcluna. A Spanish vessel, laden with stores, left St. Sebastian a few days since, and has arrived at Socoa, but she has not been allowed to land her cargo." The grippe;or influenza, has made its appearance at St. Sebastian, and caused great ravages among the inhabitants and the troops. There are 1,200 soldiers sick, and considering that 3,000 men are required to guard the line from fiernani to Pas sages, and that 2,000 are indispensable for the garrison of the town and citadel, there _remain no more than 5,000 men for the field ; a number certainly insufficient to break the Carlist lines, and besiege Irun and Fontarabia, where the rebels have a collected force of seventeen battalions. This is alleged as the principal cause of the inaction of General Evans." The Memorial Bordelais of the 23(1 ult. contains the following paragraph : " It is reported that General Espartero has resigned the command of the army of the north, and that General Seoanc is appointed to be his successor. Saarsfield has refused to j , ,in in the attack planned by General Evans, on pretence that his division is sa destitute of necessaries, that it is difilenit to pre serve discipline. It would appear that the Spanish chiefs re fuse to acknowledge the supremacy of General Evans. Con sequently, the long-projected combined attack, from which so much was expected, has been deferred." The Sentinelle des Pyrenees of the same date has also the following account from the North of Spain : " On the 18th clothing and boots were delivered to the lan cers of Isabella 11. The corps of all sorts have received their pay, as well as the Algerine legion. Saarsfield is about putting himself at the head of a co l umn composed of the batt a li ons o f the Royal Guard and of the legion of Algiers. The legion of Algiers assembled near Villava, and the men of the Com panies forming the battalions of the 2d brigade were incorpo rated amongst the corresponding companies of the battalions of the Ist. The 3d battalion, 800 strong, has entered Pam peluna. All the men received their arrears of pay, and, be fore their departure, will receive a supply of clothing. Several battalions from the garrison in the neighbourhood have arrived here. The corps of operation will be from 8,000 to 9,000 strong. Each soldier will carry with hini 89 reunds of am munition and six days' provision." The upshot of all this is that . the jealousies - ofthe Generals present them from attacking the Carlists. As' for EseAa- Tr.no, we cannot understand Wherefore he remains pent up in Bilboa with an army sufficient to expel the whole of the Carlist garrisons within two days' march of that city. Can not he move unless impelled forward by British marines ? There is no domestic ne of any interest in the French papers of Monday. FRENCH FUNDS.—Psats; FEW 27. Five per Cents., lo1;1 71ic 63, 60e. Font per Cents., 1001 95e. Plin.e per Cents. 791 60e, 55c. 60c. Bank Actions, 2,415 f. Retire tie Naples, 981 90c. 70c. 75c. Roman Five per Cents., 102%. Spanish Actives, '.:6!,6 25:X :Al 25&14• 7. ,. Spanish Passives, 7 1 4 7. Belgian Society, 1,53:1 Portuguese Thret per Cents. 31 , 5. EXCHAN.F. OV I.wsiMN. One month, paper, —1 —,!.; money, 25f. SING. 'three months, paper, —f. —e.; money, 251 Authenti2ne. BOURSE, HALF-PAST FOUR.—The French funds declined to day on account of the fall in the British Consols, and the angry discussion to which it is expected the Disjunction Bill will give rise in the Chamber of Deputies. The assurance that the Government had abandoned all idea of undertaking a n ew expedition against Constantine seemed to produce a bad The Spanish Actives fell 11 per cent. No unfavourable news, however, has been received from the frontiers, but the progress of Cabrera in La Mancha, and the inaction of the army of the North, were thought to be little calculated to re store confidence. LAST PRICES, Five per Cents., 7cc. Three per Cents. 79f. Bank Actions, 2,125 f. Rente de Naples, UBf. 70c, Raman Five per Cents., li}2N, Brussels Bank, 1,4-15 f. I'c rtuguese Three per Cents., 32N. Spanish Actives, 25%. Spanish Passives. 7. SpAnith lliitcres, 81.4. Belgian Society, 1,.5556 If the season, which is now rapidly advancing, be al lowed to pass overwithout an end being put to the civil war, which for a period of nearly four years has filled Spain with misery unexampled, and crime the most atrocious, England and France will have cause to deplore a neu trality as inhuman in its immediate results as it will prove impolitic in its consequences. Leaving the Spaniards to cut each others' throats, when they themselves, by the mouth of their Government, implore us to put an end to the sanguinary fratricidal struggle, and when it is perfectly in our power to do so without perilling our own safety, neither accords with the principles of equity, the dictates of honour, nor with the genius of Christianity. It is contended that the Spaniards have an exclusive right to settle all questions connected with their domestic Government ; and that any interference on our part is an infringement of the national liberty of an independent State, whose affairs ought only to be settled by itself. We freely admit the right of Spaniards to regulate their form of the social institu tions ; but we cannot allow that this principle incul cates indifference to the shedding of blood. The consoli dation of the Constitutional throne calls less for our inter ference than the giving peace to millions of innocent and oppressed people, staggering on the very verge of ruin. If we were not convinced, that the success of the QUEEN'S arms is but another phrase for the tranquillization of Spain, we should implore England and France not to adopt the cause of either of the belligerents, but to set about bridling the ambition of both. Forasmuch, however, as the cause of the QUEEN is the cause of liberty and humanity —as it is supported by the suffrages of nineteen-twentieths of the Spanish people, and declared sacred by the Cortes of the kingdom—and as we are bound by treaties to counte nance and encourage it, we cannot without a dereliction of duty remain indifferent to its especial triumph. The vast preparations made by the Government of Madrid, and the Military chiefs, to put a speedy and final termination to the civil war in the Basques, will, we fear, end in smoke and empty noise, unless the French and English Governments adopt measures for superintending the direction of the campaign. The QUEEN has now a noble army in the north, abundantly supplied with provi sions and military stores, but all threatens to go wrong in consequence of the jealousy of the Generals. They mutu ally envy and distrust one another—each preferring the gratification of his own miserable ambition to the welfare of his country. A few of them care not how long the war is protracted, fearing that its close will leave them in a state of insignificance, from which it would have been happy for Spain had they never emerged. It is singular that since the commencement of the civil war, Spain should have thrown up no military character, so fired with a love of freedom and of national glory as to triumph over the vices of envy, of avarice, of treachery, and of weak and divided councils, both in himself and his coadjutors. Extraordinary events have not produced extraordinary men in the Pe ninsula. When SAARSFIELD drew the sword towards the close of 1833, the Carlists could not bring 300 men into the field capable of handling a mus ket. SAARSFIELD iS admitted on all sides to be an excel• lent officer—indeed one of the best cavalry of in Spain ; and yet he failed to put down the insurrection, though at the head of 6,000 good troops. Astonished at this General's want of success,. the Government sent RODIL to succeed him, who for a time did wonders, and well nigh made a pri soner of the PRETENDER, whom he hunted through Portu gal ; but his barbarities soon lost him the confidence of the people, and he too was disgraced. LLAUDER appeared next, and, by his cruelties completed the estrangement of the Basque population from the Madrid Government. VAL DES succeeded LLAUDLR, and, for a time, was rather popu lar; but he failed in effecting anything of importance, and, in his turn, made way for the since unfortunate QUESADA. At the solicitation of the Government, RODIL again ap peared as General•in•Chief, only to be replaced by MINA, whose atrocities were more fatal to the Constitutional cause than the arms of all the Carlists in the Basques. It was now VALDES' turn to re-appear ; but, on finding that for tune attended not upon his arms, the QUEEN, in an evil hour, bestowed the chief command on the braggart Cost nova. His treasonable career, and that of Rolm, who again succeeded to the supreme command in the North, must be still fresh in the memory of our readers. Their treachery more than counterbalanced the bravery and the zeal of an army which, if properly commanded, would, in three months, have for ever rid Spain of the PRETENDER and his followers. Thus, from the very outset, the jealousy, treachery, or incapacity of the QUEEN'S Generals, was the chief obstacle to the pacification of Spain, and we greatly fear will prove fatal to the gallant army now assembled in the Basques, unle..is provision be made against the possibility of such a misfortune. Now, therefo7b, is the fitting time for Eng land and France to interpose their authority. The loss or demoralization of such a body of troops as are now ready to take the field at a moment's notice, would be irreparable in the present state of the QUEEN'S finances; The Consti tutional army in the Basques is now seventy thousand strong—a force large enough, if well officered, to drive every Carlist north of the Ebro into the sea. But no hope can he entertained of such a triumph so long as Generals are allowed to command, who arc less indifferent to every gratification than that derived from the mortification of each other. ESPARTEIIO is jealous Of SAARSFIELD and EVANS, and it is thought declines, or at least de lays to• act, because the plan of the campaign ori ginated With the ex-Commander-in-Chief. ALAIX will not act at all, if not entrusted with a command equal to that of EVANS. SAARsFIELD cannot move, for lie has not a force under him capable of making an impression upon the Carlists. With so little unanimity of action among the officers, it is impossible for any army to be vic torious. Now, then, we repeat, is the proper moment for British and French active interference. .Let them inter pose at once, were it only to enable the Spanish Govern ment' to weed the army of such com manders as ALAIX, and some others whom we need not take the t rouble to name. The Cortes are too factiou s, too loquacious, an d too theoretical to be longer left unassisted in effecting the triumph of freedom and peace in the Peninsula. France and England may soon have other concerns to attend to sufficient to engross all their attention, and to strain all their energies, so that the war in Spain cannot be quickly enough terminated. Should our fears prove well-founded, we know of no calamity that would be "more injurious to us than a civil war in the Peninsula. The Carlist Chief, GOMEZ, has been shot, by command of Don Cantos. The sanguinary and cowardly ruffian could not have committed a more suicidal atrocity than that of murdering the only officer in his service capable of successfully coping with the QUEEN'S Generals. To GOMEZ the Pretender owed his life, and in his fate his fellow soldiers will not fail to see the reward of playing Clytus to the brigand Alexander of the Basques. It is now generally noderstood that ZUMALACA::LLUI was poisoned, if not by the orders, at least with the knowledge, of Don CARLOS ; but the Pretender is now powerful enough to dis pose of the lives of his faithful followers without having re course to indirect modes of execution. GOMEZ was personally a brave man, and his treatment of Brigadier ]LINTER and the garrison of Baylen, proved that be was not destitute of humanity, nor unmindful of the usages of civilized warfare. His conduct towards LorEz, and his fellow-prisoners, is also a redeeming point in his brief marauding, rather than military career. The murder of GOMEZ, will not fail to make a deep impression on the Basque peasantry. We arc happy to say that Dr. Bowring is reco vering from his late severe indisposition, but we regret to state that he is still confined to his bed. A large conservatory, or floral temple, has recently been erected between the palace and the Duke of Cumber land's residence at Kew. A most mischievous attempt was made on Thurs day last to set fire to the Cupar academy. Some wicked enemies of education had gained admission into the class rooms by the window, shortly after the doors were shut for the evening, and put burning coals into one of the desks. Before it was observed the flames had gained conside rable height. The incendiary has not been discovered.— Fifeshire Journal. Petitions to both Houses of Parliament are in the course of signature at Soham, Cambridgeshire, for the better recovery of small debts ; we earnestly hope that similar peti tions will be got up in other places to the same effect.—Cam bridge Press. What may be the nature and constitution of the sun's inhabitants, it were idle to conjecture. It is possible that they surpass the human race as much in physical and moral excellence as that glorious orb is superior to ours : sur rounded as it is, by a sky of ineffable effulgence, where dark ness cannot be known ; not depending, as do all the planets of the system, for existence, on as much light as, in proportion, the point of a pin might catch from the rays of a candle held at a great distance, but surrounded by one eternal blaze of day. —Chester Chronicle. All the present Judges in law and equity, except four, were educated at Cambridge. It has been decided that, is implements of agricul ture, thrashing machines are exempt from toll on passing through any turnpike gate, conveyed by the farmer's horses who have had the same in operation. The last scion of the family of Corneille has just died in Paris without heirs. He was employed in the office of the indirect taxes, and, a short time since, was present at the inauguration of the statue erected by the city of Rouen, in honour of his illustrious ancestor. Some time ago the city of Brussels was infested by a gang of miscreants who went about the streets with sharp pointed instruments, wantonly piercing passers-by of both sexes. The Brussels journals announce that this atrocious system has just been renewed. On Monday the anniversary for the execution of Fieschi, Morey, and Pepin, three individuals were arrested in the act of placing chaplets on the tomb of Pepin, in the ce metery of Mont Parnasse. They were immediately handed over to the civil power. This manifestation of feeling acquires a degree of seriousness from a circumstance which took place the day before. A funeral ceremony in honour of Pepin had been demanded at the French church of the Abbe Auzou. Letters of convocation addressed, as the text sufficiently indi dated, to the " brothers and friends" in the capital, were couched in the following terms :—" You are invited to assist at a funeral service in honour of citizen Pepin, beheaded by the Thermydoricans, in the 44th year of the republic. Health and fraternity." The authorities were informed of the cir cumstance in time, and the service was not allowed to take place. The auditors for all the boroughs in England, and the assessors for each ward, are to be chosen on Wednesday next, the Ist of March. As no burgess can vote for more than one candidate, these elections are possessed of very little interest. Thursday, the manufacture of the longest rope on record, in one unspliced piece, was finished in Sunderland. Is is upwards of 4,000 yards long, seven inches in circum ference, and 12 tons weight, and will cost about 4001. It is for the use of the London and Birmingham Railway. A married woman, of the Shawanee Indians, made this beautiful reply to a man whom she metin the woods, and who implored her to love and look on him. " Oulamen, my husband," said she,• " who is for ever before my eyes, hinders me from seeing you." Mr. Coltman, the new Judge of the Common Pleas, was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts, in January, 1798, as a senior optime. He practised for some years as a special pleader before he was called to the bar, where lie has been much es teemed by his professional brethren, but he has never attained any professional eminence. The new Judge will commence his judicial career next week at the Old Bailey, and in the following-week will proceed with Mr. Justice Park to fulfil the duties of the Norfolk circuit. On Saturday evening, about five o'clock, a market boat, returning from Youghal, in which there were upwards of 30 persons, to the county Waterford, was by a sudden squall upset within a few feet of the Ferry-point, and upward! of 17 persons met with a watery grave. It appears that only eight of the bodies have been as yet found.—Cork Paper. . We have good authority for stating that the Tories, in the expectation of a general election, are busily employed in making arrangements for a secret canvass of the Western Division of Cornwall. Their forlorn hope in this case is to be that " splendid example of the strict union of Church and State," Lord Bosettwen, as Lord Falmouth's " Right Reve rend Friend," Parson Le Grice dubbed him at the late Truro dinner. The result of this silly attempt, if persisted in, may be easily foreseen.— West Briton. On Saturday forenoon last the steam boiler belonging to Mr. Peter Large, spindle and fly manufacturer, exploded. The engine-house was blown to pieces. The top of the boiler, after going up into the air, fell upon the workshop adjoining, going through the roof, in which were several hands at work. The proprietor was so much injured that on Tuesday morning he expired. A boy named Fitzpatrick was so severely scalded that he died in a few hours after the explosion. Another boy named Welsby lies in a dangerous state. An was held on Tuesday, at Mrs. Joggers', before W. Pemberton, Esq., Coroner for the Mancr and Liberty of Prescot, when a ver dict was returned of accidental death on Mr. Peter Large and Fitzp3trick.— Liverpool Mercury. At the Brighton police-office, on Thursday, John Edwards, who recently held the situation of surveyor of taxes at Worthing, was charged with forgery. There' were two cases against him. The first was a charge of having forged the receipt of Mr. Hopkins, of Arundel, a remitter of taxes, and with uttering the same to Charles Reed, with intent to defraud the latter of 171. 2s. 7d. The other charge was of haiing uttered a forged document for 15/. to William Walker, with a view to defraud him. The evidence in both cases was of a conclusive nature, and the prisoner was fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes. The following return appears on the back of an exe cution issued by a justice not far from this place ; the execu tion, it will be recollected, commands the constable to levy the debt and costs on the goods and chattel; of defendant, but for want of sufficient distress to take the body to the gaol of the county Went to house of defendant and found no pro perty, but there being sufficient distress in the family I did not take the body to the gaol. So answers , Constable." —Ticya Gazette. The most afflicting visitation that we have seen re corded, connected with the late epidemic, has just come to our knowledge. In the course of one week in January, a young man, living at Gosfield, named Samuel Everett, lost his father, mother, sister, uncle, and aunt, who were all previously strong healthy people. The person who has suffered this dreadful bereavement is now lying dangerously ill, from a second attack of the same direful malady.—Essex Herald._ The influenza, though not quite extinct, is still ra pidly declining. The weekly account of burials published in the Medical Gazette, states the number of deaths from this complaint in the week ending Feb. 21, at 20 only. The im provement in the general health of the metropolis is even more satisfactory, the total number of deaths in the same week being 210 less than in the week ending the 14th ult. Sir Andrew Agnew has given notice of , his ever lasting Sunday Bills. Will he propose any regulation for keeping the fashionable clubs in order ? We read in the trial of Lord de Roos v. Cumming, that the principal blow-up took place on the 24th of April last. Now, turning up the alma neck, we find that in the year of grace 1836 the 24th of April fell upon a Sunday. But none of our modern saints ever dis cover anything improper in the conduct of persons of high rank. With them " a saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn." Interfere with the gambling clubs I Bl ess your s ill y h eart Their frequenters are both by birth and education the " na tural guardians of religion and morality." Would you judge a Noble Lord or a Baronet who can sauter la coupe, by the sa me rules with a low thimble-rigger, who sits at the road side with a board on his knee ?-__Glasgow Argus. DEATH FOR DEBT.—It is stated in the Pilot that Lord Kingsborough died last Sunday in the Sheriffs' prison at Dublin, and that this unfortunate debtor makes the fourth victim to the system of imprisonment for debt within only the last six weeks. It is even said that the number would have been much greater but for the humane attention of the Go vernor, Mr. Cuoney, whose conduct is above all praise ; he has on more than one occasion given money out of his pocket to relieve the necessities of the wretched beings who arc con fined in the lower cells of the prison. What a mass of misery is created by unwise legislation ! The picture of human suffering presented in this one prison alone is heart-rending. Four debtors doomed to a lingering, protracted, and painful death—suffering from the inclemency of the season, and dying at last, exhausted nature being no longer able to bear up against the privations of the prison in which the victims were entombed. The ratio for the year in one prison alone is upwards of 34 persons thus sentenced to death for debt. On Saturday night something like a S.W. storm was gathering till about ten o'clock. The rain had been heavy and the wind high; suddenly it ceased, and a beautiful clear sky exhibited a nearly full moon with countless stars; a moderate breeze prevailed ; and apparently from the moon diverged a splendid rose-coloured cloud, in a funnel shape, which spread east and west, and for three quarters of an hour lessened and increased, raised and depressed itself in a variety of shapes, and eventually disappeared to the northward. Al though we have called it a cloud, it was so transparent that the stars were unobstructed to the vision.—Bristol Mercury. MAGAZINE DAY. BLACKWOOD' S MAGA ZINE. The heavy press of Parliamentary and other matters compels us to be brief with cur Magazine r;otices this month. A few lines, therefore, must suffice for each. Blackwood's is a Number of average merit, containing, how ever, one article—namely, a review of Miss 13owlcs's " Birth-day"—:which developes critical faculties of the highest order, interspersed with bright gleams of humour, and touches of pathos. We have been struck with the truth and heartfelt earnestness of these sentiments : " 'Tis a cheerful poem the Birth-Day, and the heart of its producer often sings aloud for joy—yet 'tis a mournful poem too, and we can believe that her fair manuscript was now and then spotted with a tear. For. have you not felt, when look ing back on life, how_its scenes and incidents, different 2S they may seem at the first glance of recognition, begin gradually to melt into each other, till they are indistinguishably blended in one pensive dream I • In our happiest hours there may have been something in common with our most sorrowful—some shade of sadness cast over them by a passing cloud, that, on retrospect, allies them with the sombre spirit of grief. And in like manner, in our unhappiest hours, there tra.y have been gleams of gladness that in memory seem almost to give them the character of peace. They all seem to resemble one another now that they are all past—the pleasures of memory are formed of the pains of reality—feelings indifferent, or even distressing, receive a sort of sanctification in the stillness of the time that is gone by, and all thoughts and passions be come then equalized, just like the human beings whom they adorned or degraded, when they too are at last gathered to gether in the bosom of the same earth." Mr. Chapman's Translation of the " Eumenides" is ani mated and poetical, and if not quite so literal, is, in spirit, far superior to either Potter's or Franklin's versions. The translation of a Greek tragedy is an intellectual achieve ment of no mean order. It is something to boast of— something to take one's stand upon. It is not laid aside with the last new fashionable novel, or small poem, in a small Annual ; but is talked of among scholars, and remembered to the translator's credit years afterwards. The " Prospects of the Session" is a most truculent political diatribe, disdainfully regardless of facts. The writer observes that Lord Lyndhurst's last speech, at the close of last session, " withered the Cabinet, and wi thered they have since remained." This is droll enough, considering that it is not a week since that same " withered Cabinet" had a flourishing majority of eighty in their favour on that very question which Lord Lyndhurst so fiercely de nounced! " Leila" is a pleasing, unaffected tale : and the review of " Landor's Works" marked by justness and dis crimination. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The most diverting and original paper in the Number before us is, " Jack Abbott's Breakfast." It is from the practised pen of Leigh Hunt, and evinces powers of broad, racy humour, which we did not suppose he possessed. But there is no speculating on the qualities of a man of genius. Like a glittering ignis fatuus, he is constantly perplexing and leading one astray. We should never have conjec tured, notwithstanding our admiration of him, that Mr. Forrest would have succeeded in King Richard ; and 10, it has proved to be one of his best, if not his best, perform ance ! The " Conversazione" is, like most conversaziones, very tame and common-place. Such talkers would make but a dull " Noctes." The " Phantom Ship," by Captain Mar ryatt" contains some rough, vigorous painting. The " Gurney Papers" are not quite so good as usual. But Homer sometimes nods, and Mr. Theodore Hook may be allowed a nap now and then. The Portrait of Mrs. Gore is that of a very pretty woman ; the eye is soft and ex pressive, and the forehead radiant with intellect. The " History of a Radical" is concluded, and we are not sorry for it, for it is anything but a picture of life. On the whole, the . Number is a good one. We have no space for extracts. FRASER' S MAGAZINE. " Nimrod" is in high glee this month, and contributes a lively Paper full of whimsical anecdote, entitled " Cibaria Memorabilia"—which is, being interpreted, recollections of great gluttons, epicures, &c. These recollections are given in Mr. Apperton's raciest manner, with a bonhommie and evident relish of his subject that carry his reader along with him. The article will be sure to take, for as Johnson—no mean qutbority on such matters—justly says, "people like to talk and read about eating and drinking:" Cervantes and Scott, both men of the world, knew this right well, hence the one has run riot in a Sancho, and the other in a Dugald Dal getty. The following anecdotes are amusing : " Perhaps the following case of gluttony may be rather hard to beat. It occurred a few years back at Boulogne-sur-Mer, and I can vouch for the truth of it. Two gentlemen, one a D. D., and the other a half-pay Captain in the army, both cursed with " a palate," and stomachs well calculated to the indulgence of it, chanced to reside in that town at the same time. Their means being rather slender, they were unable to appear often at first-rate tables d'hote, but were in the habit of now and then meeting at a certain restaurateur's, where they would sit down, tete-a-tele, to enjoy themselves. On one luckless day, just as the master of it had placed on their table two smoking hot oyster patties, for which he was fa mous, down dropped the doctor in . an•epileptic. The usual means of restoration being at hand, Richard was himself again in about a quarter of as hour, when, casting his eyes towards the table, he missed his oyster patty. " What's become of my patty?" said he, so soon as lie was raised. " You have eaten it, Sir," bellowed he to the captain, with a look of much anger and mortification. He was right ; the captain had eaten it whilst his friend lay on the ground. Now, what price would not stomachs like these fetch, if such things could be bought in the market? I shall now touch a lighter string, and relate an amusing tale of the two Boulogne bon vivants of whom I have been speaking. The doctor took a house about four miles from the town, where his kind and sympathising friend was in the habit of now and then visiting him ; and the pleasures of the table being exhausted, the game of backgammon succeeded, at which they were also equally sturdy competitors, or, rather, equally matched. It, however, one night happened that a dispute arose between them as to a particular throw of the dice called size ace, which the captain claimed, but the doctor would not allow. On being called out of the room in the middle of it, the doctor returned with these words in his mouth :—" Now, Sir, do you say you threw size ace ?" " I do say so, sir," replied the captain, little dreaming of the price lie was about to pay for his pertinacity. " Just step to the front door," said the doctor, greatly modifying his tone ; " you never beheld such a night in your life." It was raining and blowing most awfully at the moment. The ruse succeeded ; the captain stood upon the threshold, nearly aghast at the raging of the elements, when the question was again put to him, and the same answer returned. "Now," said the doctor, "do you say you threw size ace ?" " Yes, I do," responded the cap tain. " Then," exclaimed the doctor, " get about your busi ness, for have nothing more to say to you !" and giving him a push, slammed the door in his face, and locked it." The late King George the Fourth, says Nimrod, was particularly partial to a " cold saddle of mutton." This shows that his Majesty had a sounder and more unsophisti cated taste in epicurean matters than his " double" Sir William Curtis, whose palate the insufferable " callipasli" held in unbroken thraldom. But great men arc always simple in their tastes; thus Parr did homage to a shoulder of mutton ; Johnson to stewed veal ; Porson to a veal cutlet ; and Charles Lamb to a roast pig ; Napoleon swore by a mutton-chop ; and the Duke of Wellington, we have heard, slices an " eighteen pen'north" occasionally off his favourite joint, a cold sirloin, at a Club-house. " Greek Comedy— Aristophanes" is a delightful Essay, learned yet far from pedantic, on some late translations of the Greek dramatist. " Whigs and Tories of Old Times" is mere political twad dle ; and " Coffee and Crumpets" a sprightly poem, of the Beppo class, in which the personal allusions, though smart and piquant, are wholly devoid of any thing like ill nature. " Embarking for the Colonies" is a sketchy tale, whose chief recommendations are the case and spirit of its dialogues. . MONTHLY MAGAZINE. The notice of De Beranger and his celebrated songs, which have stirred the heart of France like a trumpet, is very pleasantly written, without any formal parade of cri ticism. It is accompanied by an engraved portrait of the French poet, which is thoughtful, and bespeaks sensibility. " Passages from a Military Journal" is, as the title would import, full of " drums, trumpets, blunderbusses, guns, and thunder." The account of " Constantine is, at this mo ment, very interesting reading. The few remaining arti cles we must dismiss with the remark that they arc neither above nor below par. COURT MAGAZINE There is a picturesque landscape engraving in this Num ber, of the castle of " Steep-hill, Isle of Wight," whose only defect is that the building is drawn on far too large a scale. In a similar spirit of exaggeration, the writer of a clever descriptive article entitled, " My First Visit to the Isle of Wight," talks of the cliff at " Black-gang Chine," rising about 500 feet above the level of the sea, whereas its elevation scarcely exceeds 100. This is what Sam Foote would call " poetical prose" with a vengeance ! " Twelve Flours in the Life of a Nervous Man" is a highly interesting story, which, however, is not concluded=--a great defect in Maga zine stories, which, to be effective, should always he finished in one Number. The " Hindoo Legend" contains nothing worthy of comment, CHANCERY CO ullT._(r HIS DAY.) ....aJp,,r The Lord CHANCELLOR sat in Lincoln's Inn Hall to-day, and was occupied the whole morning with the further argu ments in the part heard case of Ellis v. Goodson. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) MIREHUUSE V. SCAIFE. His HoNona gave judgment this morning in this case, over ruling the demurrer. In consequence of Mr. KNIGHT being engaged in the Lord Chancellor's Cuurt none of the cases in the paper could be proceeded with, and his HoNoun rose shortly after eleven o'clock. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Thomas Comber was indicted for stealing a letter, contain ing a half sovereign and a sixpence, the property of Elizabeth Foreman, he being at the time of the offence (14th of Jan.), in the employment of the General Post-office. Charlotte Anne Foreman—l am a servant in the family of Mr. Townend, Euston-square. I have a sister living with a family in Fulham. In January last, I wanted to send her half a sovereign and a sixpence. I put it into a letter, having placed it in a bit of paper, and pinned it. I directed the letter to my sister, and posted it at Tavistock-place. I gave it to Mrs. Was, who keeps the Post-office there, and I paid the postage. I told her it was a money letter. I heard nothing further about it till the 10th of February, when the officer came to me. Elizabeth Willis—My husband keeps the Twopenny-post receiving letter-box at Tavistock-place. The entry now pro duced is in my hand-writing, and thus all cash letters are en tered. It is sent to the Post-office. On the paper produced was an entry of a letter, addressed to Elizabeth Foreman, at Fulham, received on the night of the 13th of January, and for warded next morning by the witness. William Willis proved having dispatched the eight o'clock letters, among them one addressed to Elizabeth Foreman at Fulham nn the morning of the 14th of January. Styles, a twopenny-post letter-carrier proved having taken the letters from Mr. Willis on the morning of the 14th of January, and having brought them in a bag to the General Post- Office. John Alfred Harvey, a clerk in the General Post-office, proved the receipt of the entry of cash letters from Mr. Willis on the morning of the 14th of January; the letters corresponded with those marked on the bill. Ancither clerk in the Twopenny-post Department proved having forwarded the letter addressed to Eliza Foreman, Par son's-green, Fulham, with a receipt to be signed by her, which receipt was subsequently returned, duly signed, to the Post-office. The several clerks in the Post-office, through whose offices the Fulham letters passed on the morning of the l‘ttli of Jan., deposed to the fact, that on that day the usual course in their transmission was followed. Francis Drake—l am the principal letter-carrier at Fulham. On the 14th of January I received this bill with the London letters of that morning. The signature of the prisoner, T. Cumber, is placed opposite to the entry of the letter addressed to E. Foreman. That is the usual mode of acknowledgment for having received a letter. The receipt for the letter came from the General Post-office, and was taken with it for the purpose of being signed by the person to whom it was ad dressed. Elizabeth Foreman carne to me on the sth of Feb. to make inquiry about a letter. I spoke to the prisoner on the following day, and asked him what he had done with the letter to Foreman. He said his wife found it in one of his coat pockets, and he had been that morning to deliver it. -I asked where was the receipt, to which he replied, that he could not wait for it, as he had to call at Dr. Keats's for some money. I expressed my surprise that the London Office had not sent for the receipt, and he said he supposed they had forgotten to do so. He added that he would make it all right, and from that expression I thought it my duty to see Eliz. Foreman. When I returned I charged the prisoner with having told a lie respecting the letter, as he had never been near the house in which Foreman lived. He said he must have made some answer that he could not find the letter, but he would make it all right. At a subse quent interview with the prisoner, he admitted having never been with the letter to Foreman. Next day I told him my intention to report the circumstance, and I accordingly com municated with the General Post office on the subject. A person came down to Fulham with me for the purpose of in vestigating the matter. We searched for the prisoner, but I could never see him until I met him at Bow-street. Elizabeth Foreman-;-I lived at Parson's-green, Fulham, in January last. I did not in that month receive a letter contain ing a half-sovereign and a sixpence from my sister. I heard that such a one was sent, and I went on Feb. 5, to Mr. Drake the chief letter-carrier to see about it. I saw the prisoner also, and asked him respecting it ; he hesitated. He said he had been ill, and had got his brother to deliver the letters for him. I told him I expected money in a letter, and that I would require him to make it good to me. He answered he would, and I told him I should not trouble myself farther about it. He came to my master's house on the Bth of February. Before I saw him I had been speaking to a gentleman from the Lon don Post-office. I spoke first to the prisoner, telling him it was a sad affair. He acknowledged having done wrong, and was very sorry for it. The receipt now produced for the let ter, which bears my name, is not in any handwriting, nor was it authorized by me. The constable who apprehended the prisoner proved having found him in bed at about two o'clock in the afternoon of the 9th of February ; he had all his clothes on, except his shoes and hat. He said he knew the charge against him related to Elizabeth Foreman's letter, but that he had made it all right, by paying her the money, that nothing would have been amiss, but for his having forged the receipt, and his comrade having given information against him. The constable searched him and found five letters, and two bank receipts. I returned ono of the five letters to him by directions of the magistrates at Bow-street. It was proved in evidence that the prisoner dropped a letter from the Bow-street van while on his way to that office ; it contained a leaf from a bible, on the margin of which there was pencilling in the prisoner's handwriting. It was addressed to his wife, and desired her to inclose a half sovereign and a sixpence to Eliza Foreman in a letter, with no name subscribed, but stating that it was found some time before by a poor person, who being in distressed circum stances then used it ; and now, having heard of the prisoner's being taken into custody on a charge of stealing the letter, was induced to return it. Mr. PAYNE having addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner, Mr. Justice • PARK recapitulated the evidence, after which a verdict of Guilty was returned. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY)• DEAL, FEB. 28. —Wind E. by N., steady fresh breezes.— The Urania, while at anchor in the Downs, was run on board of by the schooner Anne and Mary, and sustained considerable damage ; she will proceed for the River to-morrow morning if the weather permits. Sailed, the Andrews, M`Kean, for Odessa; the Alexander, —, for Waterford. CREEK, FEB. 28.—Arrived, the Snowdrop, Trevavas, from Kurtch. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 28. Arrived, the James Cruikshank, —, from Demerara ; the Gladiator, Britten, New York. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 28. —Wind variable.—Arrived, the Mina, Hall, IN ith loss of anchor and chains. LIVERPOOL, FRB. 27.—Arrived, the Manchester, Patten, from New Orleans. The wreck of a large ship, the after part even with the water's edge, and several timber• forward above water, was passed on Saturday night 6 leagues N. W. by W., by his Ma jesty's Royal Steamer Etna. Several pieces of wreck, supposed to belong to a schooner about 60 or 70 tons, painted black outside and light green on the inside, recently caulked and copper fastened up to the heads, have been washed on shore at I - loylake. FALMOUTH, FEB. 27. —`Vied N. N. \V.—Arrived the Thames steamer, —, fron► MARVPORT, FEB. 26.—The St. George, Poole, and the Ann, Blair, for Dublin, in going out grounded outside the Lighthouse Quay ; the former discharged part of cargo, and they both got off this mo rn i ng ' s tid e and b proceeded, with little damage. The Alexander, from Canton to Singapore, struck on a sunken rock in lat. 1, long. 112 east, and was totally wrecked —crew saved. The Hotining, from Gloucester, was on shore near Nybourg, the 22,1 ult. The Princess Victoria, from Calcutta to Liverpool, has been burned at sea. The Standard, from Savannah to Jamaica, was wrecked on the Caicos, the Ist December. Captain Riley, of the Imogene, reports that, in a typhoon in the China seas, about the 31st January last, near the 1 ,3 ‘ drone Islands, the following ships were totally lost—viz., th e Bombay ships, Almody andTherrnitage—Manilla ship, Gene ral Buskeis—English ships, Margaret Graham and Isabella. The mate of the bark Martha reports, that on the 24th Ve; ember they saw five persons on a reef near Algoa Bay, calk,: Boards Island, app aren tly s hi pwrec k e d, - b ut t h at t h ey did n° succeed in taking them from the reef. THE MAICKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN ENC,IIANGE. There are tolerably good arr i va l s o f G ra i n t hi s we ek, al a large quantity of hour. The Wheat trade is unalterc t from Monday. Barley, Beans, and Pease continue dull a „ last quotations. Oats arc increasing in quantity, and meet very heavy sale, at hardly so good t erms as M on d a y. In r` °- there is little doing. ARRIVALS. Wheat Oats. Flour. cu English Irish . 3_,S9eqrs 7_,'2•20 qrs. I 'L e :2 5 7 8 0 1 rs .a ' l6 l•oreigia 6BO 1,550 :iOO Admiral the llon. George Elliot, and 'the Tory can' h ,. didate, the Hon. F ranc i s S cott , are stea dil y pursuing ribs canvass of the c ons ti tuenc y o f Roxburghshire. So far as t respective inter es t s o f tile different candidates have been as ec to we are delighted to learn that the county is twined, likelY be again r e p resente d b y t h e Lib era l can did ate, i n the l' el ‘ 6° of the Gallant Admiral.—Kelso Chronicle. ritt Some time ag o a person in the vill age of Poh n° n d in Stirlingshi re , p urc hased a ho r s e f or a tr ifling s'i t r: fl : the went about with it in a cart with b irarvies. It seem 9 toa - o ho beast had been affected with glanders, and the young nin n tte r, had bought it became, by conta c t w ith the virulent nlaong inoculated with the disease, and l a st week died in a she ' Sootsman, THE SUN, LONIION, WEDNESDAY, MA ICI 1, 1837