The Sun. — London, England, 1837-02-03 00:00:00

TUR Letters from Persia, received yesterday, mention that the Schah was expected on the Ws ef December at Te heran, on his return from the camp at Astarabad, where the army has taken up its winter quarters. The picture given of this camp is far from flattering. It is represented as being a perfect wreck, and even making every allowance fur the gasconading dispositions of Persians, it is difficult to con ceive how they can venture to talk of marching with troops in so wretched a condition against Ileraut early in Spring. The coffers of the Schah are empty, and ,ac provinces so completely exhausted, that it will be beyond the compe tency even of the most ingenious extortioners to raise the ordinary revenue. Arrears of several months are due to the army. The general opinion is, that without foreign subsidies it will be beyond the power of the Schah to carry OD the war. Before coming in the presence of the enemy the Persian troops have already experienced severe losses, and these within their own boundaries. In the numerous encounters they have had with the nomade tribes, the dis. advantages have been generally on their side. The Schah is said to have been delighted with the miners brought out to Persia by Sir Henry Bethune, but has not as yet em ployed them, not having the funds necessary to defray the expenses of the first works. ,Mira Giaflir, one of the Persians brought up some years ago at Woolwich, has been appointe.l Ambassador to the Sublime Porte, and left Tabreez in the beginning of De cember for Constantinople. An Ambassador from Bokhara to Constantinople had also left Persia at the same period. Letters from Aleppo mention the Euphalles having left Bussorah with the Indian mail of September. Col. Chesney bad written from Mauls and expressed his confidence of being able to reach Bir. St. Sophia's dome because three days ago the theatre of a highly tragic scene. During t ravers, a Turk, whom the Director of the Mint, Riza Effendi, had dismissed from his service, rushed upon his master, and seizing him by the beard stabbed him with a pionard, and left him lifeless on the pavement. One of his fellow servants, who attempted to secure the assassin, met with the same fate. Brandish ing his bloody weapon, he opened himself a passage through the affrighted crowd, reached the outer gate of the mosque, wounded three soldiers who sought to arrest him, and was on the point of making his escape, when a blow on the temple extended him on the ground. On his recover ing his senses be was led into the presence of the Grand Vizier, and, after a short interrogation, condemned to be beheaded on the spot. Alli Bey, the ex-Defterdar, has been appointed Director of the Mint. The ravages of the plague, according the opinion of every Turk with whom I have spoken on the subject, have not been at any period more extensive than dur ing the week. Whole families have been terminated by this dreadful scourge within the space of a few days. Europeans who judge of the intensity of this distemper from the report of the Greek Hospital, have, upon see ing the number of patients entered in this establishment reduced for several weeks to one-half, concluded that it was decidedly on the decline. This, unfortunately, is not the case. The reason of fewer patients being received into this hospital than before is this—within the last two months upwards of 35,000 Greeks belonging to the work ing classes have fled from Constantinople to return to their homes. Hardly 10,0001. have remained in the capital ; yet, out of this number, 80 and more have, for the last three weeks, regularly appeared on the hospital's list. The city of Constantinople continues to be the principal seat of the disorder ; Pera and Galata, quarters of the town chiefly inhabited by Europeans, are, comparatively speaking, exempt from its ravages. We regret to find that the Earl of Lincoln has been compelled to postpone his attendance in Parliament by the serious indisposition of his Countess. The Gibraltar Chronicle gives the following extract of a letter from Mogadore, dated the sth of January : —" Bear ing in mind that I left in the garrison many who wore anxious to hear of Mr. Davidson's progress in Africa, I subjoin some particulars which I believe to be correct, as they have been communicated by the interpreter who went with him as far as Santa Cruz, and who is now in this town. According to his statement Mr. D. set out from Tangiers on the 31st of De cember, 1835, and reached Morocco in twenty days. The Emperor was in that capital at the time, and granted him two audiences. Mr. D. stayed about a month and a half at Mo rocco after which he came to this place over the Atlas. Here he continued one month more or less, pursued his journey to Agadeer, where he remained twenty-two days, and left for Wadnoon on the 18th of April. In that town he tarried till the 19th of November, on which day he started for Timbuctoo accompanied by 30 horse and 100 foot, and was expected to arrive in forty or forty-five days. His Majesty's brig Scorpion came in here on the 24th of November last, with orders to proceed down the coast to the latitude of Wadnoon, and to have an interview with the Sheik Beyrock of that place ; but the state of the weather rendered it impossible for any one to go on shore, and accordingly she first came back to this port, and subsequently returned to England." Wednesday morning, about half-past nine o'clock, as a youth named Harper was walking across Hyde-park, he dis covered a human skull lying on the grass, within 100 yards of Cumberland-gate, and owing to the extraordinary circum stance, a crowd of persons quickly collected at the spot. Police constable Pooke, 82 D, who happened to be passing at the time, took the boy before Superintendent Lincoln, at the station-house, in Mount-street, where the skull, which had been taken possession of by the constable, was examined by a surgeon, who found that it contained but three teeth, all of which were in the lower jaw, and in a tolerably good state of preservation. There were no marks indicating that the de ceased had been the victim of any murderous attack, and the skull is imagined to be that of a middle-aged female, whose remains had been many years interred. The circumstance is at present enveloped in the greatest mystery, but the parochial authorities are instituting the most diligent inquiries, and in the course of a short time some light may probably be throe n upon the singular affair. The destitution which prevails in the Highlands and Isles at the present moment is of the most alarming and fearful character. Famine has commenced in various district`. Many hundred families are destitute of fuel, and the very ne cessaries of life. At a public meeting held in Edinburgh on Wednesday, our respected townsman De. M'Leod attended, and proposed the Resolutions which will be found in our co lumns. The result, splendid as it was, in a contribution of 1,050/., will do little to meet the awful crisis.—Glasgow Herald. The certificate of the return of Lord Hawarden as a representative Peer for Ireland, in the room of the late Lord Dufferin, deceased, was on Tuesday delivered in un oath to the House of Lords. The Lord Chief Justice is dangerously ill—he did not preside in his court on Saturday. —Dublin _Freeman's Journal. It is now clear that no amicable settlement can be brought about between the city and its creditors. This point was decided at the last meeting which took place on this sub ject ; at which the offer of the Magistrates may be considered as finally rejected ; the dissentients among the creditors having increased in place of having diminished in number and in the amount of their debts. Any further consideration of those complicated affairs is therefore useless, as the several parties have made up their minds, and must be left to contest their respective claims in a court of justice.—Edinburgh Courant. The weather has again become cold and stormy. After about ten days of mild weather, frost set in on Satur day morning, with a keen wind from the east ; in the evening and yesterday we had several showers of snow, but the fall is not so great as to impede travelling. The thermometer last night was at 30 degrees. The cold on the 11th instant was so very intense that, by an observation made at Hanley, about six miles. west from the city, the thermometer at a quarter be fore nine in the morning stood at 11 degrees, and at a quarter past nine in the evening it was at 10 degrees.—Edinburgh Courant. An issue of shillings and sixpences is much wanted in the metropolis, particularly among retail dealers, as the chief silver coins in circulation are crowns and half-crowns, the fourpenny pieces having seemingly vanished altogether. The scarcity of the circulation of shillings and sixpences in the metropolis is chiefly occasioned by the demand for them to pay the labourers in making railroads, and those employed in other works in the country. For more than a fortnight past the weather has been more variable than we have almost ever known it at this season of the year. One day it is intensely cold, with a strong breeze blowing from lie cast, and followed at night by a heavy frost, and thick ice upon standing pools of water ; next day it moderates, and the temperature of the atmosphere assumes a comfortable and healthy standard : on the third day, perhaps, the heavens are obscured with dense clouds, and torrents of rain descend to deluge our watery land, and then, while the system is relaxed, and the pores of the skin opened by perspi ration, the wind veers to the north-west, and the fierce blasts of Boreas sweep, with an unceasing and relentless violence, along our unprotected shores, and threatening to freeze the shivering wanderers in their very traelz s. Christmas was no thing but a continual shower of rain, and yesterday, as usual, was freezing, cold, an d s t orm y ; catarr h s an d pl eur i s i es ar e be coming frequent in consequence of the sudden and severe changes, and you sca rce mee t a c i t i zen w h o i s not coug hi ng or croaking. We ea rnes tly pray f or a c h ange s h ort l y, an d f or a return of the warm, settled, and clear weather which we usually enjoy at this season—New Y,rk Paper. From an official statement of the list of pensions chargeable upon the Treasury, it appears that they amount to nearly 56,000,000 E, and are divided amon g 139,000 pensioners, making upon an average 400 f. a-year for each pensioner. Galignani's Messenger. THE INFLUENZA.-Since our last this most dis tressing visitation has been spreading over every part of the county ; and, although it has apparently abated in the metro polis, it has been much on the increase in the south of En* land, and particularly in Devonshire. In Tiverton, Tavis tock, Barnstaple, Plymouth, Devonport, and this city—in fact in all the principal towns of this county, its ravages have been very serious and alarming, as a great number of deaths have taken place in consequence, as during the time of the cholera; and not a village, or even a house, has escaped it in some shape or other. In Newton it has been so bad that at least one-half of the inhabitants were calculated to be ill at the same time.— JlTestern Luminary. =.IIUBRY, the HUNGARIAN ROBBER. The German papers contain the following details regard- ing the robber Shubry, in Hungary : Sliuhry was born at Funt-Kircher, in Hungary, where his father possessed an extensive tannery. From his earliest childhood he betrayed an audaciousness which inspired his parents with serious apprehensions. The frequency of the Moody quarrels in which he engaged with the children of the Noblemen induced his father, Francis Shubry, to send him to the school of Gotha, in Germany, where he distin :;aiished himself by his application and talents ; though even there he vexed his fellow scholars by fits of violence, but !hey were always ready to forgive him, in acknowledgment ror his other good qualitis. Shubry was a poet, and wrote ballads, which he himself set to music, and which sere sung by his comrades in chorus. On these occasions he never failed to become quite furious against any one who sung false, or mispronounced his verses, from having the misfortune to be born in a province where no pure German is spoken. He was compelled to leave the town in consequence of a fray which he caused, by first ma king the students drunk, and then leading them with burn ing torches to an attack on the Numismatic Cabinet of Gotha. Pursued by some police officers, he plunged into the Leine, and after having gained the other bank he succeeded in hiding himself in a stable near the castle of Friedenstein, and went to Hanover, Holstein, and Lubeck, from whence lie embarked for Upsala in Sweden. A prevailing passion for the fine arts and studies decided him to a change in his habits, and to exert himself seriously in scientific labours, which he continued until the beginning of 1836, when he ceased to receive money from hi:father. Wanting the necessary resources as well for living in Sweden as for leaving it, he quitted the town every evening to dig traps on the high-road, which lie covered over with dry branches and snow. Whoever fell into the hole was robbed by him. One day, however, passing over the mar ket•place, he had the misfortune of meeting with the dog of a farmer whom he had plundered eight days before. The dog, upon seeing him, assailed him and tore his clothes. From a fear of being found out, he went away immediately, and passed through Germany into Hungary. From Jo sephstadt he wrote to his father a letter in which he frankly confessed his crimes, which he attributed to necessity ; and, without asking pardon, announced that he would never sco again a father of whom he felt himself to be unworthy. From that moment he never ceased occupying himself with forming a band of robbers, to whom lie endeavoured to give both a military and poetical organization. By his entrancing eloquence, he persuaded a number of students, uncommissioned officers, and youths, ardent, profligate, and burdened with debts, to enrol themselves under him ; and in a short time he found himself at the head of one hun dred men, who, sometimes together, sometimes in small di visions, executed the boldest enterprizes. Shubry always led them on to the combat, after having fixed on a place of rendezvous in case of dispersion. In the month of last June he had a serious engagement with a squadron of hussars. Shubry was wounded, and pursued by two hussars, but without success. The same evening he had the audacity to go to Seyed, where the very same hussars were garrisoned, and to dine at the table dhote, where the conversation very naturally fell upon the famous robber. "Do you know him, gentlemen ?" said he in a loud voice. " No," was the general answer. " But I, I know him." " How does he look ?" "He is thirty-two years old, five feet seven inches high, and has shoulders strong enough to carry you all, gentlemen ; a soft and melancholy coun tenance to seduce you all, my ladies ; one arm in a sling to-day, but sufficient strength in his other to upset this table and overthrow it. He wears a large velvet riding-coat, with black loops, and Hungarian boots." " Then he is almost like yourself . ..?" exclaimed some person present. " Undoubtedly ; for it is Shubry himself who drinks to your health." And after having replaced his empty glass calmly on the table, he disappeared. A number of other anecdotes are related about him which equally denote a courage and mind of the boldest and strongest nature. His band is not composed of starved peasants, beggars, and common thieves and ruffians, but of persons whom vice alone, and not misery, has degraded. Shubry has established a very severe discipline amongst his troops. To exercise and excite the zeal of his soldiers he has founded prizes for the best riflemen, and the most successful in gymnastics and tours d'addresse. Shubry has found amongst his companions a Lieutenant worth of him, William Karpfen, a native of Regensburgh, an actor. To-day the whole band has taken refuge in the Carpathes, in Silesia. The band counts five hundred men well-armed and disciplined, who have already had several engagements with the Imperial troops. The band is di vided into battalions, each of which carries a knapsack furnished with provisions. The booty is deposited and secreted in the forests, until they find an opportunity of disposing of it at fairs and markets. A. regular treasurer pays to each man his pay, and a medical service is insti tuted for those who are wounded or sick. Shubry has an intention of adding a squadron of armed men to his force. Robert Otway Cave, Esq., M.P., on Saturday last, discharged all claim on him for tithe and costs in the Barons' suits. The amount paid by this gentleman for tithe for three years is three hundred and seventy-seven pounds, sixteen shil lings and nine-pence; and for costs five hundred and sixty six pounds, fourteen shillings and two pence, exclusive of the claims of his own attorney. Ten suits had been instituted, and in one case where a decree had been obtained, he was obliged to pay the costs of the entire suit, which embraced de mands against nine other parties, who have been also com pelled to pay their tithe.—Dublin Mail. The Bishop of Durham gave a grand dinner to the warden, professors, tutors, and other members of the Univer sity, at the Castle of Durham, on Wednesday last, and a nu. merous party of clergy and gentry of the counties of Durham and Northumberland was invited on the occasion. After the cloth was removed the usual loyal toasts were drunk, amidst great cheering. The Bishop of Durham then rose, and pro posed, " Success to the University of Durham," in doing which he entered at great length into the incalculable advantages of education ; and showed the high importance of founding an University in that county. The principal officers of the Uni versity followed in a similar strain, after which the meeting separated. The barber-ous race of surgeons who flourished in days of yore seem likely again to start into existence under the patronage of the Poor Law Commissioners. The low rate of remunemation allowed to the " Union doctors" has driven many of the more respectable practitioners from the field, so that the practice has at times fallen into the hands of the un scrupulous and incompetent. As a specimen of the acquire ments of one of this class we insert verbatim an extract from an official return made by a district doctor to the guardians of a union at a snug village in the north of Devon. The return, which is before us, gives the name, age, and disease of the patients, to which is appended the following remark by the learned doctor respecting the treatment :—" This man have not been here lately, but have been trying a parcel of old women's fancies."—Annals of Medicine. The Influenza in Dublin continues, as far as we learn, without abatement. There is not, we believe, a fa mily in Dublin, in which some members are not afflicted, nor an establishment which is not suffering in consequence. Six persons in our own establishment are laid up, and we believe that a similar calamity is shared in other offices. Such is the pressure that we have found it difficult to get our paper to press.—Dublin Paper of Saturday. INDEPENDENCE OF AMERICAN SERVANTS.— " I heard, myself, an American servant tell of the gentleman he lived with,' ' that he lihed him very well, but always crossed him in politics.' His master knew this, but kept him in his employ, because he was, in every other respect, a trust-worthy servant —Grand's Americans, in their Social, Moral, and Po litical Condition. The clerk in the Post-office at Besancon, whose duty it is to put the stamp on the letters, had recently a narrow escape from the result of an explosion, caused by some fulmi nating composition, which had been enclosed in one of the letters. The letter was blown to atoms, but the clerk fortu nately escaped, with only a slight wound in the hand. It ap pears that the composition was put into the letter by a lady, in order to punish the curiosity of her brother-in-law, who was in the habit of opening his wife's correspondence. An article from Vienna states that Prince Esterhazy will be succeeded in the Austrian Embassy to our Court by the Prince de Schoenburg flaartenstein, the present Minister of Austria at Stutgardt. A FELICITOUS TRANSLATION.—One of the Parisian Papers some time ago made "Love's last shift " into " La derriere chemise de l'amour." The Edinburgh Review's interesting article upon a race of assassins in India, says that " two Thugs are employed in the murder of each individual, one of whom h o ld s hi s l egs or h an d s, w hil e t h e ot h er ap plies the noose." The passage is thus given in the Charte of Sunday :—"Il faut deux Thugs pour assassiner un indi vidu ; l'un le prend par les jambles et les mains, et l'autre Freud par le nez." On Monday evening last a new lodge of the Grand Protestant Confederation, in connection with the Warrington Lodge, was opened at the King and Queen, in Padgate, near Warrington. Mr. Malley, the Grand Secretary, presided, and the vice-chair was ably filled by Mr. Greenhaigh. The meeting was addressed by Mr. Malley, Messrs. Houghton, Mr. Lythgoo, and other gentlemen, and about 30 individuals were enrolled as members. —Manchester Chronicle. Another ball was given at the Tuileries on Satur day evening ; though not by far so numerous as that of Wed nesday it was splendid. Their Majesties and Royal Family entered at eight o'clock, and immediately afterwards dancing began, and was kept up with great spirit till two, when a magnificent supper was served up in the Gallery Louis Philippe, on a number of separate tables, each containing from eight to twelve covers. The Queen and Princesses re tired at three o'clock. The King had withdrawn at an earlier hour.-- Gatignani. Lord Granville s eldest son, Lord Leveson, (who is attache to the British Embassy at Paris), has left town, ac . companied by his cousin, the Hon. Captain Howard, R. N., and the present representative of Morpeth in Parliament, for the purpose of canvassing the electors of that place, it being understood that the present Member accepts the Chiltern Hundreds, being about to leave oz foreign service. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 2. The House met at a quarter before Four o'clock ; but no tiring was done till the LORD CHANCELLOR took his scat on the Woolsack, at five minutes past Five. Lord KENYON presented a petition from Dr. Sharpe, on the subject of a claim which, as we understood, the Noble Lord said, had been improperly made against the Gravesend Pier. Lord STRAFFORD presented a petition from the Borough of Stratford, praying for the total abolition of Church-rates. EDUCATION IN SCOTLAND. Lord NIINTo laid on the taidetitcslep:rt of the Commis sioners on Education in Scotland. Ile had not had an oppor tunity of attending to the progress of the proceedings on which that report was founded. Therefore he considered it more decent to abstain from signing it, more especially as it would come before him hereafter in another character, as a mem ber of the Government. At the same time, having looked into the Report, he found nothing there that he would not have been perfectly ready to have signed. The Report contained no recommendation. It was a mere statement of the facts which appeared to the Commissioners on the evidence. PUBLIC CHARITIES. . Lord BROUGHAM laid on the - table 278i1l which he had brought in in the course of the Session before last, for pro n.:ilia; education and regulating charities. It was not his intention to enter at all into this important subject at present, but he thought it convenient to state how far this Bill dif fered from the 13111 that was originally before their Lordships. The whole of that Bill and the plans of that measure were retained in the present Bill, and two material additions were made. Their Lordships would recollect that the object of that Bill was to provide a Board for the purpose of super intending the distribution of funds from time to time voted by Parliament, for promoting the education of the people, and also for regulating the administratior., and to prevent the abuses of charities generally. The constitution of that Bill, with a very trifling exception, was retained. By the former Bill, three of the individuals to be appointed as Com missioners were the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, and the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment; and in the absence of the Secretary of State for the Homo Department, one of the Under- Secretaries for the Home De partment. By the present Bill, the Under -Secretary of State was left out. No inconvenience would arise from this omission. Besides those three, there were the Speaker of the House of Commons and three Members of that House. There were some changes to be made in the powers of• the Commissioners with respect to the superintendence of the schools, and also with respect to the powers vested in the charitable Boards, but these were the only ones of any import ance necessary to be made. Their Lordships were aware that the principal objection to the National System of Education was the fear of substituting for the very large amount of education provided from charitable and private funds the public funds of the country. But upon the principles laid down by him there was little fear of any interference, and its only effect would be to aug ment and extend the benefits of education generally among the people. The plan would_ also give a power to the Town Councillors, assisted by one of the responsible Ministers of the Crown, to establish schools within the bounds of their Corporations, and to levy rates for that purpose. That, in his opinion, would be a most material improvement. He (Lord Brougham) was very sanguine as to the safety of the plan,. and there was no doubt that it would be most ef fectual in extending the benefits of education. He trusted, under those circumstances, that their Lordships would give their sanction to the measure which he was about to submit to them.' There were other considerations, to which he should not now advert, and which were noticed in the Report of the Commissioners, and he should be content with having the Bill now printed, so that ample time would be afforded for the full consideration of its details. PLURALITIES.-LOCAL COURTS. The NOBLE Loan next gave notice of his intention to bring forward two measures ; the first abolishing, as far as practicable, the evil of non-residence of the clergy, and the holding of pluralities, the other for the establishment of Courts of local jurisdiction. Ha should not press either mea sure if those of his Majesty's Ministers were as beneficial, or nearly so, as his own. He had made no change in the Bills which were before introduced, except a few verbal altera tions. The reason he had made no alteration whatever was this, that a great difference of opinion existed as to whether the measure ought to pass at all or not ; but if the measure were to pass, he had understood the House to have given an opinion that it was in the form in which he wanted to intro duce it, that it was expedient it should pass —( Hear, hear)—because the House had gone into a Committee on the Bill, bad thoroughly discussed all its details in that Committee ; and it was only in its last stage that it had been rejected —on the third reading. At that time the difference of opinion was not great, one half thinking it ought to pass, and the other half that it ought not ; and he believed it had only been thrown out by a majority of one or two. He hoped, however, the balance would now be turned the other way, and he had thought it necessary to adhere to the former details, as having received the sanction of their Lordships. The Earl of SHAFTE SBU ay moved the adjournment of the House. NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OP IRELAND. Lord CLONCURRY said that before the House adjourned, he wished to say a few words in reference to what had been touched upon the evening before last during the debate upon the Address. In the course of that debate, allusions were made to Ireland, particularly to an Association that had been formed, in that country. No man more lamented than he did the ne cessity for the formation of that Association, and no man more lamented than he, that it should be looked upon by any Noble Lords in that House as an illegal Association. He was speaking candidly and justly when he thought it ought to be called the association for the vindication of Ireland, for repelling and counteracting the most improper feelings towards that country. He had no other object or wish but for the good of that country if possible, conjointly with its Sister country, the most happy and splendid empire in the world. It was im possible that union, affection, or mutual interest could be maintained, if persons were allowed to libel an honest and generous people, who wore only struggling for those rights which had been withheld from them. (Great cheering.) The National Association, like other public bodies occasion. ally started long before, had for its object the procuring justice for Ireland—its great object was to get rid of one of the greatest misfortunes which destitution had brought on—the combination of the industrious classes in Ireland.—( Hear.) They had in all parts of the country, as far as he understood, instituted a class of persons to preserve the peace—( A laugh from the Tory Lords)—to give good advice to the people ; and if peace were not preserved, to give information to the Deal authorities. He would be very glad if he could laugh with the Noble Lords opposite—( Hear, hear)—but when he thought on the subject of Ireland, it was no laughing matter, and it might become very much the contrary if respect were not paid to their just claims.—( Hear, hear.) That As sociation would, he was quite convinced, have dissolved them selves, if his Majesty's pleasure had been signified to them. But there was another Association to which he begged leave to call attention, which lately held a numerous and very illegal meeting in Dublin, for the self-evident pur pose of causing divisions amongst the people, if not causing disturbance and injury. That Association had been called by a certain number of Peers, and they call themselves a meet ing of Protestants. It took place in the Mansion-house of Dublin, and their Lordships might imagine what kind of a gathering was expected, when the Lord Mayor of Dub lin—a Corporation which felt as strongly as all the other Corporations of Ireland did—that Lord Mayor, who happened to be a gentleman in carriage and in manners, refused to preside at the meeting, though he allowed the meeting to be held in a room attached to the Mansion-house. That meeting, as he undeistood, had given demonstration of the most violent Orangeism—Orange colours and flags were carried about, and it was even contemplated to wait on the King's Representative in a tumultuous manner, if it were not suppesed that another body of the people were dot strong for these soi disant Protestants of Ireland. But they had done one good—the Protestant Noblemen proprietors and Commoners of Ireland had come forward to protest against this indecorous meeting. There was the Noble Duke of Leinster, who could not be supposed to wish that his country should be put into a state of ferment, nor did he wish to injure any man—he called upon his fellow Peers to protest and remon strate against the violent proceedings, and he was answered by 40 or 44 Peers. There were many noblemen and gentle men of great respectability on the other side, but he thought they were merely the tools of others. He understood that they had put down the names of Peers of thirteen or fourtren years of age, merely for the purpose of swelling the numbers, and many who used to be violent on the other side had joined them from mere facility.—( Hear.) The Government of Ireland had simply done justice, and therefore it was they were spoken disrespectfully of, and abused in the grossest language by those who had only lived by denying justice to Ire land, and on the spoils of bad Government.—(Flear, hear.) He was ashamed to allow his feelings to run away with him, but lie did not trouble their Lordships often, for he was not frequently in this country ; and he would ask them for the sake of mankind—he would entreat the House of Lords to do that which was right—the people of Ireland asked for no more ; but if it was thought that Ireland was to be reconquered by the sword, there never was a more mistaken idea. If such an attempt were made, e hear.) Th e many of the countries of Europe , and certainly Ame r i ca , would speed to the relief of the oppressed.—( H ' ear hear.) He thought it to be his duty to warn their f Lordships could agai be kept nstletting withinloose properalieent ho iou n s nd s s oLdi ( er Har, y ;nr they never people had hitherto been rendered almost mad by bad Govern recut, and the want of education. — ( Hear , hear.) That had been withheld from them by the most unfair and unjustifiable means. Let them give the Irish people employment—let them give them an adequate interest in the management of their own concerns—he meant an ample and full measure of Cor porate Reform, such as had been extended to Scotland and England. (Loud cheers.) Let them give them an equi table and fair system of Poor Laws, or rather a labour rate, for what was wanted in Ireland was, that the landed proprietors, many of whom were absentees overwhelmed with debts and difficulties, should be compelled to maintain their own properties by imposing a labour -rate upon them. Let them give the people of Ireland employment, and thereby render them a source of wealth to the empire at large, and which would be the means of rendering England indepen dent of foreign countries for the necessaries of life. He thanked their Lordships for the attention with which they had heard him. ..... Lord BROUG HAM wished his Noble Friend (Cloncurry) an opportunity of explaining an expression in his speech. He alluded to where he said that the present was the first Go vernment that had endeavoured to do justice to Ireland.— ( Hear.) Now it would be recollected by the Noble Baron that Lords Wellesley and Anglesey had not long since held the reins of Government in that country, and lie was sure he would rejoice in the opportunity of stating that in his place, which he fully expressed in a letter lately seen by him (Lord Brougham), namely, a full acknowledgment of the great anxiety of the Noble Lords to whom he alluded to do justice to Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) .Ho thought an expla nation due to the Noble Lords—due to his Noble Friend then at the head of his Majesty's Councils, Earl Grey. To the Noble Lord who then held the office of Chief Secre tary for the Home Department, ( Lord Melbourne) and to those who held the office of Chief Secretary in Ireland, as well as to himself, who, at the time, held a place of high trust as a servant of his Majesty. He was sure his Noble Friend ( Baron Cloncurry), would be glad of the opportunity of doing justice to those of whom he spoke. Perhaps the matter might be considered trilling ; yet it would be well to correct any apparent errors, and not to allow any evil effects to follow. Lord C L 0 NC IT RR Y said that if there was one man whom he more admired than another for the Governor of Ireland, it was the Marquis of Anglesey.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Nu man could see more clearly what was necessary to be done for Ireland—( Hear, hear,)—nor be more disposed to put that in execution than his Lordship, but he was unfor tunately counteracted in his efforts. It was impossible for 'trim to govern Ireland as he would have done, when he received counter orders from his own Secretary in the Government at home.—( Hear, hear.) He believed that the Duke of Northumberland, who was one of the intermediate governors at that time, and who differed i❑ politics both from Lord Anglesey and Lord Wellesley, had the greatest anxiety to do his duty, and to administer a proper government in Ireland. As to Lord Wellesley he had always looked upon him as one of the first men of his age. But he was sure that Noble Lord would feel that he was counteracted in every measure that he himself endeavoured to prepare for the good of that country.—( Cheers, and Hear, hear.) In saying what ho did in justice to the present Government of Ireland) he should be sorry to detract from one of the excellent names just mentioned by his Noble Friend; but there certaihly never had been any thing like a uniformity of intention arid determi nation to promote the ends of justice, and administer strict im partiality to Ireland until Lord Melbourne came into office.— ( Cheers. ) The House then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEnRU4RY 2. The SPEAKER took the Chair at a few minutes before four o'clock. Mr. Campbell, from the India House, presented papers. Mr. HousTos, the new member for Itenfrewshire, in the room of Sir M. S. Stewart, deceased, took the oaths and his seat. CHURCH RATES. Petitions praying for the total and unqualified abolition of Church Rates wore presented by Mr. M"Faggart ; Mr. Fox Maule, from Buchan, Blairgowrie, Nairn, and three other towns in Scotland ; by Mr. Baines from a Congregation in Leeds; by Mr. Hutt from an Independent Congregation in Leeds, and by Mr. Wilks, signed by the inhabitants of sixteen parishes in Suffolk. The latter Gentleman said he was very glad the Government had taken up the question of Church Rates, for he never knew any question, except that of slavery, which had excited so much interest. Ho had yesterday and to-day attended meetings, at which 400 gentlemen attended, who represented the opinions of upwards of 600 congregations of Dissenters. Mr. HARDY presented a petition from a person named Dillon, praying for an inquiry into his case. The Hon. Gen tleman'gave not►ce that he would mako a motion on the sub ject on a future day. BOARDS OF TRADE. Sir JAS. GRAHAM presented a petition praying for the establishment of Local Boards of Trade. MUNICIPAL REFORM ACT. Sir F. POLLOCK presented a petition, very numerously signed praying for an alteration in the Municipal Reform Act. He begged to observe that as his Hon. and Learned Friend the Attorney General had given notice of a Bill to amend the present Act, he (Sir F. Pollock) would ask leave to introduce a clause which would answer the object of the petitioners. DUTY ON SOAP. Mr. R. WALLACE presented a petition from Greenock which was numerously and respectably signed, praying for a Repeal of the duty upon soap. He hoped that they would be able to beat the Chancellor of the Exche quer on this question. The duty had been partially reduced, but unless it were entirely put an end to, the people would not be content. When the duty on any article was only par tially reduced, there was always a recurrence of the prayers of the people for its total repeal. He hoped that other Hon. Members would join him in the proposal to repeal this tax, and that they would be able to beat the Chan cellor of the Exchequer upon a division. Mr. F. MA ULE presented a petition to the same effect from Perth, but could not promise to give the same opposition to his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer. REMOVAL OF PRISONERS. Captain PECHELL moved for a return of the number of prisoners who had been removed from one prison to another for the nurposes of trial, specifying the distances of each pri son, with a description of the manner in which the prisoners were conveyed, and the expences thereof.—Agreed to. NAVIGATION LAWS. Dr. BOWRING gave notice of his intention to postpone his motion respecting the reform in the laws relating to navi gation until the 11th of April. CHURCH-RATES. Mr. HUME presented three petitions calling for the total abolition of Church-rates. One was from the Mayor and Corporation of Leicester, in public meeting assembled ; the second from a parish in Suffolk ; and the third from the mini ster and members of a Baptist congregation. lle hoped the present was the last session in which it would be necessary to present any petition on this subject. CANADA. The HON. MEMBER next gave notice of his intention, on an early day, to move for the returns from Canada, which had been ordered by the House, but which were not yet presented owing, as it was said, to a delay in preparing them. FACTORIES. Lord ASHLEY moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Factories' Regulation Act of last session, and also to limit the hours of labour in factories. CHURCH ACCOMMODATION (SCOTLAND). Lord JOHN RUSSELL brought up the Report of the Commissioners appointed to enquire into Church Accommo dation and Religious Instruction in Scotland.—Laid on the table. RAILWAYS. Mr. HAWES moved for leave to bring in a Bill to extend the Great Western Railway. The Hon. Member also moved for leave to bring in Bills to make two other railways, the names of which we did not catch. THE DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES BILL. Lord JOHN RUSSELL moved for leave to bring in a Bill to suspend the operation, till the Ist of July, of the two Acts which had been passed in the last Session of Parliament, for the regulation of Marriages, Births, &c. The Noble Lord made a few observations, which, from the noise which prevailed in the House, we could not hear. Sir ROBERT INGLIS believed those two Bills had al ready been suspended for some time, and that the object with which they had been originally introduced was to conciliate the Dissenters, but that object had not been attained.—( Cries of " No, no.") Mr. WILKS must be allowed to state as to the opera tion of those two Bills in the estimation of Dissenters, that he believed hundreds of meetings had been held in the country, in which the Dissenters had expressed their grati tude to the House, and also to his Majesty's Ministers, for the liberality which had been manifested in the introduc tion of those Bills.--(Loud cheering.) Although there might be some few objectionable provisions in the Marriage Bill, yet they were only like spots in the sun, and those spots he was sure the intelligence of the House would very speedily obliterate. Mr. WLEAN made some remarks, which were in audible. Mr. BRINES had never before heard that these Bills had not given satisfaction to the Dissenters. He had heard much of them, hut be had always been informed that the Dissenting body had been well pleased with them, and felt deeply grate ful for them. That some party might have some objection to parts of the Bills, was likely enough, but in his opinion, as a whole, no Bills ever passed that House which had given such general satisfaction to those interested in them. __ - Mr. POTTER could assure the House that the Unitarians of Manchester had met expressly for the purpose of thanking his Majesty for these Bills. No Bills had ever been received with more gratitude, and he was certain that it would be a cause of deep disappointment to many who were waiting to be married—( Laughter)—if the Bills were postponed. Mr. O'CONNELL had had an interview that morning with four Prelates of a religion which was much affected these Bills.. They expressed themselves perfectly satisfied with the Bills generally, but there were some details which by being altered would be improved. He alluded to a religion which he believed was much on the increase in this country-. the Roman Catholic. Mr. E WART said, the instance cited by the Hon. Baronet opposite must be singular indeed, for he bad never heard any thing but the greatest satisfaction expressed by any Dissenter with respect to the Bills. Lord JOHN RUSSELL was glad to hear that the Bills had given such general satisfaction. He hoped the Hon. Baronet might long appear as the organ of Oxford; but ho trusted be would not again see hiin acting as the organ of the Dissenters. The motion was then agreed to. SINECURE LAW OFFICES. Mr. Sergeat G OULB URN then moved for leave to bring in a Bill to abolish certain sinecure offices in the Court of King's Bench, Common Pleas,and Exchequer, and to make a more effective and uniform establishment of officers in those Courts. As the B►ll had passed this House last Session, and did not pass the other House, it was not necessary on the present occasion to go at length into the reasons that induced h►m to bring in the measure. He would simply state that he brought forward this Bill to carry into effect the recom mendation of a Commission that had been passed by the Crown, for the purpose of inquiring into the foes of the officers of the Courts of Common Law. This subject had long excited the attention of the two houses of Parliament, and many attempts had been unsuccessfully made to correct the evils that prevailed. The house was.jiware that in the year 1830 the Right Hon. Bart., the Membel- for Ta►nworth, introduced into that House a Bill for the purpose of ascertaining the value of all offices held by officers in the superior courts of common law. He did it as an experiment, for the purpose, as he stated in his very able speech, of preventing at any future period the progress of law Reform, by their being constantly told that the rights of the offi2ers interfered with legal reform. His (Sir Robert Peel's) Bill, therefore, was to ascertain,. once for all what at that period was the value of those offices, in order that in all times to come there should be a certified value, which should be then paid to the holders of those offices, intimating to any future holders of those offices who should be appointed subseqqently, that their rights must not stand in the way of legal Reform. These offices had undergone much inquiry—their value had been ascertained, and the purpose of the Bill which he was then seeking to in troduce was to get rid of, and to abolish them. Ile was quite sure that ,he needed no argument to induce that house to adopt a measure of such great importance —a measure which he believed had the sanction of all persons conversant with the subject. It was time they should net rid of all thos e offices that incumbered the Adrnioistration of Government, and that the Courts should be put on a better regulated system. There was the greater reason to adopt this course, as the experi ment had been tried in the Court of Exchequer by Lord Lyndhurst, who had introduced a Bill for the better regu lation of that Court, and the effect of that experiment had been of the most advantageous description: The object of the pre sent Bill was to carry into effect the report of the Commissioners. It would not be necessary fur him, on the present occasion, to dwell at any length upon it, as there would be many other op portunities of discussing it. He would, therefore, content himself with stating the grounds on which it had been rejected last Session by the other House of Parliament. The House would recollect that, up to a late period, it was the custom to pay certain fees to the Judges of the King's Bench, and they were allowed to dispose of, and make, the subject of family arrangements certain offices in the Court in which they pre sided ; but by a Bill passed in the reign of George IV. fixed salaries were named somewhat commensurate with the dignity of the station in which they were placed. In that Act the rights of certain officers then living were reserved, and the power of appointing to subordinate situa tions was still continued to them. ( Hear.) In the Bill which he introduced there was a clause still reserving those rights ; but an Hon. Gentleman objected to it, and proposed, whenever a vacancy occurred in the offices, compensation should be made to the persons having the right of ap pointment, in such amount as the Lords of the Treasury might think fit ; and it was settled that the Treasury should be compelled to give the right of appointment to those who then held it, or three-fourths of the value of the offices themselves. On going into the House of Lords, Lord Ellenborough objected to the clause, as it would place him, who held the office of Chief Clerk in the King's Bench, in an invidious position. Owing therefore to his opposition, and to the absence of Common Law Lords, the Bill was thrown out; but he had hopes that during the present Session it would meet with a more favourable reception, as he introduced the clause as it had originally stood. Mr. HUME did not rise for the purpose of giving any op position to the motion of the Learned Member for Leicester, but he would avail himself of that opportunity to ask whether any steps had been taken for the purpose of abolishing the si necure office held by the late Lord Rosslyn in the Court of Chancery in Scotland, as was recommended by the Com mittee. Lord JOHN RUSSELL--The Lords of the Treasury had taken the opinion of the Lord Advocate upon the law of the case, and he believed that they had now under their considera tion the abolition of that office.—( Hear, hear.) MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL rose for the purpose of bringing forward the motion of which he had given notice. He had to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Muni cipal Corporations Act. Ho had endeavoured to bring forward these amendments last Session but unsuccessfully. Tkere were certain irregularities in the elections under that Act which he anxious to remedy, more especially as they were cases in which the merits of the appointment were not called in question. There were two boroughs, those of New port in the Isle of Wight, and Rochester, in which the number of votes on either side were equal, and great litigation had been the consequence in many instances.— (Hear.) It was his intention also to propose a clause, that after two hours had elapsed from the election of the municipal officers, the Court of King's Bench would have no power to grant a quo warrant° t for these rules had been obtained against unfortunato councillors after having been a year in office, and although bound to serve under a penalty. It was not now necessary to discuss the subject further, and he would there fore move for leave to bring in a Bill to Amend the Municipal Corporations Act. Sir W. FOLLETT said there was one particular clause to which he wished to call the attention of his Hon. and Learned Friend, namely, that making the decisions of the Revising Barristers final. He hoped if that clause were reintroduced, the constitution of the Revising Barristers' Court would be altered. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. Mr. 11 , PL EAN moved for a statement of the amount o f military and naval stores, &c. furnished to the Queen of Spain, with the amount of payment received for the same by the Government ; also of the number of vessels of war and steam boats employed in the co-operation granted by his Ma jesty to her Catholic Majesty. The Hon. Gentleman stated he believed there was no opposition to this motion ; and the returns were accordingly ordered. LIBkARY COMMITTEE. _ . Sir R. INGLIS moved the re-appointment of the Library Committee. CRIMINAL LAW. Mr. M'LEAN said he had to ask the Noble Lord oppo site if it was in the contemplation of Government to bring in any measure for the amelioration or reform of the Criminal Law. There had been Commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject who had been in office for two years, and he now saw by the returns which had been made that the cost of those Commissioners to the country had been 10,2934 —( Hear, hear, from Colonel Sibthorp.) He there fore begged to ask the Noble Lord whether, upon any reports which they had furnished, it was the intention of Government to bring in any measure for the reform of the Criminal Laws ? Lord J. RUSSELL said he would endeavour to answer both the question and the subsequent remark of the Hon. Gentleman as to the cost of the Commissioners.—(Hear.) In respect, then, to the first part of the Hon. Gentleman's observations—his question as to whether Government intended to introduce any measure to reform the Criminal Law—he begged to state that by the report of the last Session the Commissioners had recommended many alterations.—( Hear.) Especially—and he would beg the attention of the House to this, which was of the utmost importance —the Commis sioners had recommended that the punishment of death should be taken away from many offences, and he ( Lord J. Russell) thought that this was not a subject which ought to be left long in debate, or dispute—( Hear)—that it should not be left till the whole law underwent an alteration, according to the recommendation of the Commissioners ; but that it was a subject which should have the early attention of Govern ment, and if they could frame any measure regarding it, that it should be introduced to the early attention of the Legislature.—( Hear, hear.) He had, therefore, on re ferring to the reports, brought a measure under the consideration of the •Commissioners, and requested them to frame an alteration of the criminal law according to the opinion they had stated that the punishment of death should be taken away ; the Commissioners had accordingly met at the end of October, in order to consider his (Lord J. Russell's) letter. They had fully considered the subject, to which they had given a great deal of pains and attention. Since then he had been in frequent communication with the Lord Chancellor and Lord Denman, the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench on the subject of the criminal law, and he hoped soon—indeed in a very few days—to give notice of the Bill he intended to introduce, and the alterations in the law. Although they might not go the entire length of the recommendations of the Commissioners, he trusted would prove beneficial and sa tisfactory.—( Hear.) In respect to the other part of the question of the Hon. Gent. as to the cost of the Commissioners--( Hear) —when he came into office he found there a report from them. He also found that his predecessor had awarded a certain sum for that report. Another report had been made, and taking it that it was as valuable as the former, to follow the precedent set by his predecessor, he recommended to the Treasury the same sum as had before been awar d e d. H o h ad no doubt but that the Commission, like others, might be found expen sive; but he would say that there was no question more impor tant for the consideration of the Legislat ure th an t h e making of a good criminal law, and it was certainly much preferable that the Legislature should take up the subject, having before them the opinions formed, after long consideration and inquiry b y professional men, than to take up the subject of themselves. Mr. M'LEAN had merely alluded to the sum which the Commission would cost, because two years had elapsed without any report having been received. He did not think that any sum which could be spent would be thrown away upon such a subject. Lord JO H N RUSSELL brought up a Bill for suspending the Registration of Births and Marriages for four months. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL brought up a Bill for amending the Municipal Corporation Bill of last year. Mr. H UME, before the House adjourned, wished to give notice to the Lord Advocate, that to- morrow he would ask him a question, relative to the sinecure office of the Ranger ship of Ettrick Forest, held by Lord Dundas. The LORD ADVOCATE was understood to say that it would be his duty to advise that no future Ranger should be appointed. The House then adjourned. It is now currently reported that Sir R. Wilmot Horton is about to return to England before very long. It is said that his Excellency has tendered his resignation as Go. vernor of Ceylon, to take place in November, 1837 ; and that Lady and Miss Horton leave Ceylon at the beginning of the present year. ST. BRIDGET'S DAY, FEB. I.—St. Bride, other wise St. Bridget, confers her name upon the parish of St. Bride's, for to her its church in Fleet -street is dedicated. Butler says she was born in Ulster, built herself a cot under a large oak, thence called " Kill-cara," or " cell of the oak," was joined by others of her own sex, formed several nu nner i es, and became patroness of Ireland. " But," says Butler, " full account of her virtues has not been transmitted down to us, together with the veneration of her name ;" yet he declares that " her five modern lives mention tittle else but wonderful miracles." According to the same author, she flourished in the 12th century, and her head is now kept in the church of the Jesuits at Lisbon. On Sunday a very fine boy, aged five years, the son of a lady in Norwich, in the absence of the servant, went into the store-room, and took from the spice -box a phial, con taining twopenny worth of the oil or essence of almonds, drank a part of it, and almost instantly fell into a state of paralysis. The poor little fellow died in about half an hour. An inquest was held before Mr. W. Wilde, coroner; and in answer to questions put by the coroner, the servant said that she had been sent by her mistress to purchase the essence for the purpose of puttin g it into cakes t o g i ve t h em an almond flavour, and that she had never heard that it was poisonous o r hur Out... Suffolk Herald. SPORTIN G INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S-- YESTERDAY. TIIE DERBY. _ Mahometan was the lion of the afternoon, which, without him, would have been a dull one. He was backed in one quarter to win a large sum, commencing with 42 to 1 in fifties, and proceeding in hundreds at 40 to 1, until all the layers were choked off; no one, we believe, will now bet more than 30 to 1. Lord Jersey's lot was backed for a pony at 6 to I, the Phantasima colt for a hundred and fifty at 14 to 1, Clifton for a small sum at 28 to 1 (the taker offering to go on), and Sambo first at 33 and afterwards at .30 to I. As we have stated above, the betting was brisk only as far as it re lated to the new favourite, 8 to 1 agst Colonel Anson's Jereed—offered 9 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Bro. to Bay Middleton—offered 14 to I agst Captain Gardner's Phantasima colt—taken 22 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Flare-up —offered 28 to I agst Colonel Peel's Clifton—taken 30 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Sambo—taken 35 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Troilus—take 40 16 to 1 agst Glider and Troilus—t.aken 3000 to 30 agst Mr. Theobald's Tredville colt—taken 16,100 to 400 agst Mr. Osbaldeston's Mahornetan—taken 2500 even on Caravan agst Mahometan—taken 2500 even on Caravan agst Pocket Hercules—taken COURSING. ASHDOWN MEETING.—FiasT DAY. The Cup and Sovereigns. Mr. Squire's Salute beat Mr. Morant's Mouse. Mr. 11. Fleetwood's Firefly beat Colonel Newport's NoWonder. Mr. Etwall's Eisler beat Mr. Cripps's Chapeau d'Espagne. Mr. Pettat's Preserve beat Mr. E. Cripps's Eagle. Mr. Goodlake's Gala beat Lord Moreton's Mingo. Mr. E. Cripps's Emsdorif beat Mr. Goodlake's Garland. Colonel Newport's Nicol Jarvie beat Mr. Etwall's Elfwitch. Mr. Pettat's Paine beat Mr. Cripps's Consul. Claret Stakes of 5 sovs. each. Colonel Newport's Wat Trick ran a bye. Mr. Goodlake's Glee beat Mr. Cripps's Cressida. Mr. Pettat's Philomel beat Mr. Etwall's Nymph. Mr. Squire's La Sylphine beat Mr. E. Cripps's "Etna. NEWMARKET NEW MEETING.—WEDNESDAY. Allington-hill Stakes, for Bitch Puppies. • Mr. Dunn's Bellona beat Captain Daintree's Kathleen. Mr. Saberton's Silkworm beat Mr. Vipan's Viola. Mr. Dobede's Dirce beat Mr. Dunn's Belle. Mr. Baildon's Lovely beat Mr. Fyson's Fay. Mr. Gillett's Gaiety beat Mr. Vipan's Violet. Mr. Edwards's Ann Page beat Mr. Dobede's Delia. Mr. Baildon's Lisko beat Mr. Finch's Gem. The Cup. Mr. Fyson's Fra nc i s b ea t Mr. Finch's Grenoble. Mr. Vipan's Verity beat Mr. Baildon's Lily. Mr. Saberton's Sophy beat Captain Daintree's Kidnapper. Mr. King's Royalist beat Mr. Inskipp's lon. Mr. Dobede's Daisy beat Captain Daintree's Kindle. • Mr. Dobede's Diamond beat Mr. Baildon's. Lunardi. Mr. Dunn's Baronet beat Mr. Saberton's Sovereign. Mr. Edwards's Assassin beat Mr. Gillett's Gavotte. Chippenham. Stakes, for Dog Puppies. Mr. King's Rupert beat Mr. Saberton's sulky. Mr. Dunn's Blucher beat Mr. Vipan's Vulcan. Mr. Inskipp's Idris beat Mr. Gillett's Go-cart. Mr. Bryant's Election beat Mr. Dobede's Dolphin. Mr. Baildon's Levite beat Mr. Finch's Geder. Mr. Edwards's Adam Brock beat Mr. Saberton's Swap. Mr. Dobede's Dillamore ran a bye. his Majesty's Stag Hounds hunt in the Aylesbury country on Wednesday and Friday next. A person shooting last winter on Mount Lebanon, when near the summit, on the side of a deep declivity, put up a. bare, which took a downward course, and which he immediately shot ; but the impetus of running caused her to roll over seve ral times. The snow stuck to the skin, and formed a ball, which increased every turn. Dragged down by its own weight, which kept augmenting, it rolled to the foot of One mountain, and was so large and so hard that the chasseur was obliged to call some peasants to " cut it open with their alcvs and spades" to get puss out of her shroud.—Sporting Chropicle. Heberle, the celebrated danseuse,, leas arrived in Paris. Wedne day an investigation took, place before Messrs. Commissioners Phillimore, WhitmarF;a, and Winslow, at the Cadogan Arms Hotel, Sloane-street, Chelsea, for the pur pose of ascertaining whether or not Robert Rice Lynn, Esq., late of Chelsea Hospital, and of: Dorking, Surrey, was of unsound mind. The commission, was promoted at the in stance of Miss Lynn,_ and the pr ocee di ngs exc i te d consider able int erest. Mr. Hardy appeared as counsel in support of the commission, and addressed, the jury at considerable length. In the course of his speech he detailed numerous instances of the insanity of the unfortunate object of the inquiry, and these were so fully and palpably borne out by the evidence, as well as from the answers of the lunatic himself, and his general de meanour, as to leave no possible doubt of the correctness of the conclusion which the jury arrived at. Verdict---" That Mr. Robert Rice Lynn was of unsound mind, and had been so since the 3d of Decelnber last, and was incapable of managing his own affairs." The mild and moist weather of the last few days has brought with it a return of the most violent attacks of the in fluenza, which now more generally assumes the typhoid form at an early stage of the disorder, proving more rapidly fatal, death often supervening within twenty.four hours of the at tack. As its effects aro very quickly developed upon those who are convalescent from a former attack, all such should par ticularly avoid exposure to the moist atmosphere of the last few days, and particularly at night time. Our accounts from Ceylon state that at Colombo arid its vicinity considerable sickness prevailed. A severe epidemic cold, attended with high fever, had been prevalent, attacking persons of all ages, but proving fatal only to chil dren, a very considerable number of whom had died. Latterly however, a still more formidable disorder had made its appear ance, i, e., the small pox, which had s p rea d w i t h i ts usual ve.. locity,'an attended with all the horrors of that awful pestilence:. Notwithstanding the fatality, the great majority of the natives refused to allow their children to be vaccinated. Two shocks of an earthquake were felt at Geneve, on the night of the 23d ult., which were sufficiently violent to awaken most of the inhabitants. The last was peculiarly severe. The quantity of raw silk worked up into manufac tures at Lyons during the period of ten years, extev ding from PM to 1831, is said, in some official returns recently pub lished, to amount to 14,000,0001 b., and in vain'', unmanufac tured about 60,000,000 f., or 2,400,000/. Of Late years the Chinese silks have driven those of Lyons airc of the North American States; and so great is said to be. the abundance of Oriental silk in the American stores, as to, tompel the mer chants to export them at a loss. The following of the 7th inst., from Rome, is from the Augsburg Gazette. Several. foreign families havo left Rome, as there is to be no Carnival. The inhabitants complain loudly of this determination, and intend to petition the Government to revoke the prohibition, and with the greater hope of success, as several prelates b•ave declared themselves in favour of a Carnival I !! The cannon-ball foundries at the Toulon arsenal are in full operation, casting fifty kilos a day, preparatory to tho embarkment of the materiel of the Constantine expedition. ESSERT FRUIT KNIVES AND FORKS. Plated on Silver Steel Blades. Blades. Plain Ivory handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair.. Z 3 3 0 Zs 18 Carved ivory handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair 3 13 6 9 • Plain pearl handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair... 4 4 0 11 11 Carved pearl handles, silver ferrules, per dozen pair 5 6 0 19 12 0 King's pattern or Queen's pattern, silver handles... 616 8 14 14 0 T. COX SAVORY, Working Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B. A Pamphlet containing a list, of the prices of Silver Plate, Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis, or will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid application. II 111 7 1 11 S. On the 26th ult., the lady of T. Ware, Esq., of Kingsland-road, solicitor, of a daughter. On the 27th ult., at the Vicarage, Thurleigh, the lady of the Rev. J. Brereton, of a son, still-born. On the 29th ult., the lady of Captain H. Wilson, of a man. On the 27th ult., in York-place, Edinburgh, the lady of 11... G. Booth, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIRD. On the 14th of September last, at St. Thomas's Mount, near Madras, Captain Prior, of the 23d R eg i ment of Madras Infantry, to Eliza beth Leather, eldest daughter of Sir J. C. Mortlock, Com. micsioner of Excise. DIED. On the Ist inst.,.in Great Portland-street, Francis Franco, Esq., aged 83. On the 31st ult., in Bryanstono-square, John Rolls, Esq_ On the 30th ult., at Witehampton, Dorset, Augusta, wife saf the Rev. Carr .1. Glyn. On the 26th ult., at Bedford Lod ge , B r i g h ton, Charlotte, relict of the late Major Marsack, of Caversham Park, near "Reading, Berks, aged 69. On the 29th ult., at Lyme Regis, Dorsetshirc, Jane Ancrum, re lict of J. S. Ancrum, Esq., of Canonbury-grove, Middlesex. On the 24th ult., at llorsthall-hall, Minster, Slieppoy, Kent, John Swift, Esq., aged 81. On the 30th ult., aged 33, Thomas Peake, jun., Esq., barrister-. at-law, second son of i Sergeant Peaks. On the 29th ult., William Henry Child, Esq., of Herne Hill, aged 53. On the 27th ult., in Bath, aged 88, Eleanor, relict of the late James Sutton, Esq., of New Park, Devizes, and sister of ViScount Sidmouth. On the 28th ult., in the Brixton -road, Mary, widow of the late W. Pollard, Esq., aged 62. On the 31st ult., aged 2.1, Alatilda Sophia, wife of J. D. Spry son, Esq., of Lincoln's In n -ti e ht 4, and second daughter of William alleckett, Esq., of Golden,square. On the 29th ult., at Ituddington, near Nottingham, John Grey, Esq. Lieutenant-Gen era l, aged 76, formerly Inspecting Field-oft eer of the Nottingham district. On the 29th ult., at Brighton, Andrew Pinner, Esq., aged 74, formerly an eminent miniature painter. On the 31st ult., in Upper Charles-street, Northampton-square, Elizabeth M., wife of Mr. J. Petheram, aged 30. On the 30th ult., at St. Paul's-place, Wandsworth-road, George Smith, Esq., aged 68. On the 31st ult., Mr. Peter Bertram, of Alfred-street, Bedford square, aged 41. On the let inst., Cuthbert Stephen Romilly, Esq., barrister-at law, of Gray's Inn, aged 47. On the 31st ult., in Cable-street, Whitechapel, aged 71, Mary. widow of Mr. Joseph Budge. On the 29th ult., Mr. James King, of Wardour-street, Solos aged 44. On the 29th ult., Mr. Thos. Dickens, of Remenham-hill s war Henley, aged 70. of Fleet- s t ree t, age d Blackfriars, Uta h third lst ult., in Chatham-place, daughter On the of 3 London: Printed and Published by MURDCI YOr .i NG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun. Office, No. 112, MI% 1; - in the coun t ' of Middlesex.—Friday, Feb ruary 3, 18;17. -- ~~ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1837.