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

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We hear that the Tortes are to have a grand meet ing at the Duke of Wellington's. The Conservative Peers are to consult how they may best destroy all seeds of local government in Ireland. No Commoner, we believe, except Sir R. Peel, is to be admitted. Lord Stanley and Sir James Graham may kick their heels in Piccadilly, and ask the Duke's porter or Sir R. Peel's coachman what is going on. But they will hear nothing ; they are excluded ; they are as yet only proselytes of the gate. This, with a cold north easter blowing in their teeth, may be unpleasant enough ; but there is no disputing about tastes, so we will leave them to the cutting wind, and enter our selves. There, within the holy precincts of Apsley House, we shall find Lord Roden and Lord Alvanley, Lord Lorton and Lord Hertford, Lord de Roos and Lord Winchilsea, the Duke of Newcastle, the Bishop of Exeter and Simon of Gloucester, Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Wynford—all surrounding the Duke of Wellington. "So should desert in arms be crowned." There are the sage, the noble, and the virtuous pil lars of our Church and State upon whom the fate of Ireland is to repose, and before whom the inde peed, nee of the House of Commons, is to bow down. With cap in hand, and bended knee, Sir R. Peel will appear before this august assembly, full of apologies for th.: sturdy perseverance of the plebeian assembly to arb'ch be belongs, and for the incurable plague of its increasing majorities. " What is to be done with it, my Loids ?" the obsequious Baronet will say. " And what is your Lordships' good will and pleasure with regard to Ireland ?" " Reconquer it," will exclaim the mighty Lord Orford. " Put down the Commons who support these Irish, and who fancy themselves the true representatives of the people, which in fact we are, and not they," will advise the sagacious Lord NA - harncliffe. " Call them aliens, and transport them" wilt be the law of the two ex-Judges. " Callthem perjured traitors, and burn them," will be the charity of two reigning Bishops. "Leave thefi Inds of their Coiporations to our joint management," will suggest Lad Alvanley and iLord de Roos. " Make -- me their Lord-Lieutenant, and I will let them know, and ,feel too, that I can and will do what I like with my oTii," will endeavour to say the Duke of Newcastle ; but the torrent of his Grace's ideas will probably drown the flood of his eloquence. These are the councillors and this the spirit which are to overthrow the Commons, and rule the country I Are they ? Are they so indeed ? What said Lord Stanley in May, 1532, when the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel, and the above aulic council of Noble Lords ran their heads against the Reform Bill, and when they thought the mere fiat of their high and mighty and ir responsible wills could kick out reform, and make Cabinet 24 in isters of them? He jumried on the table at Brookes's, and, with clenched fist and livid eye and ribald tongue, calital the Duke of Wellington, not, indeed, " a stunted corporal," but—" a . fool ;" ay a fool! There was inurmur of disapprobation ; but he .not the less pur sued his high argument. " Fool No, he is. not a fool. Yes, he is a fool, if he thinks to govern this country in spite of the Commons I" These were his words ; he may recite them in front of Apsley-house, or if his patron Sir Robert let him in at a side door, trod tell him that it is decided they are to take office at ati risks, he may recal the closing words of that stormy oration at Brookes' s, when, denouncing the Tory grasp at office, he exclaimed to the friends of his youth, of s house, of his party, and of ids principles, " Yes, g'ntlemen, we will retire without a spot, and without reroach,awl leave, fur gem (his now friends) infamy place." He may remember these words, and go and weep bitterly. Passion, arrogance, and dis aa..ointed ambition are as sore tempters as gold.— Joionzing Chronicle. The education of the poor of Ireland needed not to 11,,ve been, and therefore ought .not to have been, at :my time, made a topic for the indul.f_;enee of faCtious biiterness, and we have never been disposed to eon :iider that subject as properly furnishing occasion for Ihe display of such a spirit. But unfortuoately, . how jt.st and benevolent so ever may have been the views eluertained by the framers of the system which was sibstituted for that of the Kildare-street schools, a vary strong and extensive impression has circulated throughout the Protestant world, that although the funds whereby the proceedings of the Board of National Education and the schools under its guidmce are sup ported, have been granted ostensibly for purposes of use ful education, the fruits derived from them have not by any means corresponded with the intentions of Parlia- Ment. It has been more than suspected that the public Money and the public authority vested in the Board of Education have been in practice diverted to political rather than to moral uses; that the superintendence of the schools has in fact devolved, with few exceptions, -upon one class of ecclesiastical functionaries —viz., the Roman Catholic priesthood ; that the teachers have been selected with an undue regard to the wishes and preferences of the Romish priests ; that they have been in many cases persons who had made themselves conspicuous for the most indecent party violence, and whose efforts had been in furtherance of those schemes whic!, had notoriously for their object the overthrow of the Protestant Church ; that Protestants, deterred by the teeatment to which pupils of their creed were ex posed, either in the form of corruption to their prin ciples-, or of tyranny and persecution inflicted on their persons, had declined to take advantage in any con siderable numbers of the opportunities professed to be held out to the people generally by the esta blish' Gent of the Education Board, and that the latter had become in consequence a source of be nefit to the Roman Catholics exclusively, although instituted by the Legislature for the purpose of administering conjoint instruction to Irish child ren of all sects and denominations. It has indeed been a general complaint among Protestants, the truth of which it would be presumptuous in us to pronounce upon, that in this new projeet for educating the Irish po r the Priests have worked themselves into a com plete ilorninion over, and direction of, the whole sys tem, and have perverted its machinery into a formid able imstrument for the spread of agitation and sedi tion throughout the land, and for training up the Ro mln Catholic youth of the lower orders in a fixed sentiment of hatred against all Protestants, of dis affection to the State, and hostility towards Great Britain. We do not aver that the allegations above referred to are, without exception, true. It is pos sible that some of them may have been exaggerated, and that others are capable •of being answered in a way consistent with the just, or at least the inevitable, administration of its powers by the Board, with the integrity of the priesthood, and with the public in terest. But we do submit, that the very exist ence, much more the prevalence, of such state ments, proves that there is a spirit abroad incom patible with the success of the Government scheme, regarded as one of combined education for the children of Protestant and Catholic. We are not among the monopolizing bigots alluded to by the Archbishop of Dublin in his uncouth and ram blit2g, speech on Tuesday evening, who would appro pr:ate the whole of the annual grant from Parliament to Protestant children only. Even in proportion to their numbers, the Protestants of Ireland are less de pendent on public money for the education of their offspring than the Papists, being for the most part further removed from want. But, without offering a positive opinion, now that a Committee of Inquiry has been appointed by the House of Lords, we do not scruple to declare our fear, that the plan which leaves to Protestant parents no option but that of sending their children to the care of schoolmasters approved of by the Roinish priests, is a plan for excluding Pro .' testants altogether from any share of the fund applied nominally to " national" education. Upon such points, .however, we once more repeat, that the public ought tv reserve its decision for the result of that inquiry :rich, on every account, we rejoice to see authorised b‘ the Upper House of Parliament. In the debate of Tuesday it will be observed that the able speech of the -Bishop of Exeter was throughout a vindica tion of the Right Reverend Lord's own credit for troths-w.l accuracy, wrung from him by an official 116 p oft bf the Commissioners of Education, who took that extraordinary and not quite decent method of inventgning the authenticity of his Lordship's state &limed from his place in Parliament. The l aintruent of the Committee prevents us from o int, r i n g :a... more direct judgment upon the specific f acts • roitglit forward by the Right Rev. Bishop than we have done, with regard to the truth of the charges generally current against the effects and consequences of the system to which we had previously adverted. It is quite plain that the King's Ministers must hare serious misgivings as to the practical utility of the board, or of the principles on which it is proceeding, since Lord Melbourne comes forward with apparent readiness to propose of his own accord this year what he had doggedly refused twelve months ago, when pressed to it by the Bishop of Exeter, namely, the in stitution of a Committee to inquire. Whatever the report of this Committee may be, we trust the Noble Lords composing it will not find themselves compelled by the evidence laid before them to shut the avenues of even imperfect or in some respects unwholesome know ledge, to the poor of Ireland ; for, after much consi deration, we are disposed to think, that, although the priest may labour to mismodel and distort the instruc tion administered to Roman Catholic children, for the sake of rendering it subservient to his own purposes, gross and entire ignorance is, generally speaking, worse than even ill-directed knowledge, because it leaves the unhappy multitude no chance or prospect, ever so remote, of emancipation from their spiritual thraldom.—Times. " Disguise thyself as thou wilt, Slavery, thou art a bitter draught," said a distinguished writer ; and though all respond to the sentiment, none but those who have experienced the bitterness of bondage or captivity can truly appreciate the intensity of the agony inflicted by the loss of liberty. It is usual for Eng lishmen to revolt at the very mention of slavery : how often have we seen the countenances of assembled thousands flash with exultation at the iteration of that line in our national melody, " Britons never shall be slaves !" How often have we heard the proud boast of " freeborn Briton ;" while the speaker, however lowly and miserable he might be, erected his person, which seemed to expand in the conscious dignity of at least belonging to a nation of freemen ; yet, when we look into the laws under which we live, how vain will appear this exultation, how ridiculous this pride ! We refer not now to the exclusion of the majority of the people from the pale of the elective franchise, which majority, by the rule, that every man governed by laws in the enactment of which he has no voice, is a slavehave not even the semblance of freedom ; nor do we refer to the various other means and ways con tingent on this exclusion by which the liberty, of the British people is curtailed of its just proportions ; but as Sterne, when lie wished to depict the horrors of captivity, pourtrayed an individual prisoner, and made the encaged starling sing, " I cannot get out, I can not get out ;" in humble imitation of his example, we shall take an individual instance of the laws which ex clude the people of this realm from the enjoyment of their liberty, and we shall select that of imprisonment for debt, as well worthy of this infamous distinction. It will furnish a subject of astonishment to posterity to learn that a people who voluntarily paid twenty millions sterling for the abolition of slavery in their Colonies, were themselves individually liable to be incarcerated by any person to whom they might owe, or who might swear that they owed to him, a few pounds. Yet such is the fact. We enact laws against a traffic in human beings in other countries, and we tolerate it in our own. The statute law of Great Britain gives one man the power of peremptorily depriving another of his liberty, in consideration of a debt legitimately or illegitimately contracted, which debt, when so en forced, can be regarded in no other li!;lit than as the purchase-money of such debtor's liberty. Nor is this atrocious enactment a protection to the creditor ; on the contrary, the. fraudulent debtor may submit to im prisonment, and, retaining his property, live in splen dour—converting his prison into a palace, and, as is done every day, scoli'at his duped creditor, whose•pro perty, perhaps, at the very moment is supplying the luxuries of a saturnalia. Chi the other Irind, the vinaictiye creditor way incarcerate a well-meaning, but unfortunate debtor, tear him from his family, deprive him of the means of exertion, extinguish his hopes, and make, as has occurred in numberless instances, the prison the pathway to his grave. So that fraud on the one hand, and vengeance on the other, and not the security of credit, appear to be the objects intended by the existing law. But for the House of Lords this law would have been abolished two years since, so that, with its other evil deeds, that branch of the Senate is responsible for all the misery which, during that time, has been inflicted by the operation of imprisonment for debt—an operation which, as may be seen by a parivraph in another part of our journal, is, in one prison in Dublin, attended with thirty-four deaths annually ! .It is notorious to all acquainted with the variety of ways in which property may be screened from creditors while the person is incarcerated, that the present law is almost totally ineffective for the protection of credit ; but even if it were not so, is a man's liberty, and not alone his liberty, but his life, to be yielded up in liquidation of his " bond." 'When we see Shylock whetting his knife, preparing to cut the pound of flesh from his victim's heart, the soul shrinks with horror ; but how many, by the law of imprisonment for debt, have endured a mutilation even worse than this, and experienced the protracted tor ture of having every fibre of the heart stretched upon the rack, and successively . snapped—every connection broken, and at last met death, not as an aggravation of, but as a release from their suffering ! Let the fraudulent debtor be imprisoned, as is provid e d f or i n the proposed Bill, but let not misfortune or poverty be punished as a crime. On going into Committee on this Bill last night, the House of Commons was in flicted with a silly speech from Mr. Richards, oppo sing its progress, which we are gratified to perceive met with—the reception it deserved—contemptuous si lence. The lion. Member, however, divided the House, but had the gratification of standing alone in his glory, not a single Member dividing with him, so that the division stood thus— For the Committee.... 95 Against OO Teller—Mr. Richards. Who after this will say that Knaresborough should not be proud of the distinguished and conspicuous po sition in which her Representative has placed her self ?—Morning Advertiser. If it be true, as the correspondent of a Morning Paper states, that the brave and enterprising Gomez has been shot by order of Don Carlos, no language can be strong enough to reprobate the conduct of that Prince. We doubt the fact, not only because it ap pears to be improbable in itself, but because our intel ligent correspondent in Guipuzcoa has said nothing about it. If, indeed, it should unhappily be true, Gomez must have fallen a victim to the jealousy of some of the military chiefs in favour with Don Carlos, whose miserable envy was excited by his brilliant achievements, which, if properly seconded by Villareal, by marching upon Madrid, instead of stupidly laying siege to Bilboa, and there allowing himself to be sur prised and routed by a thrice-beaten army, it is probable that long before this the Carlist standard would have floated over the capital. The Standard, in commenting upon this reported assassination, says, and says truly, "That it was the murderof Porlier, by Ferdinand, which led to all the dangers and distractions of that miserable Prince's reign. The crimes of the humble sometimes escape punishment in this world ; but the crimes of men exalted in station rarely, if ever, pass without even a temporal vindication. Providence is too merciful to mankind to allow a long apparent impunity to conspi cuous wickedness." But greater is the crime of Don Carlos if Gomez has perished as described than that of Ferdinand. We never liked the favour which Moreno appears to receive at head -quarters--it boded no good to the cause of Don Carlos. The " monster Mina" and the savage Rodil were not more unfortunate in struments of barbarous warfare in the hands of the Queen's party ; but they exterminated only their ene mies, and the connections of their enemies, not their friends. We ask, is this a cause in which English men should be induced to shed their blood on either side ? Let Lord Palmerston answer that.—Herald. 'F he discussion in the House of Lords on Lord Melbourne's motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the progress of the new plan of education in Ireland, may be referred to with much gratification ; but the gratification in this instance, as in all other sublunary enjoyments, is not without alloy. We cannot but rejoice, in common with the entire Protestant community of the three kingdoms, that the zeal, perseverance, and talent with which the Bishop of Exeter has directed public attention to the Government system of education is Ireland, has at length had the effect of compelling the First Minister of the Crown to move for the appointment of a Select Committee of the House of Lords to inquire into and report upon the subject. It will be recollected that the Right Reverend Prelate moved fol a similar Com mittee in a former session, and that Government re sisted the motion. That motion was withdrawn, al though there is little doubt that, if it had been per sisted in, it would then have been carried by a large majority, because it was felt that, to adopt such a mo tion, in opposition to the Government, would have pre judiced the question to be submitted to the Committee, and would have amounted in effect to a premature con demnation of the system. The opinions maintained by the Bishop of Exeter have, however, steadily wrought their way, and have by degrees acquired so much strength, that Government no longer think it wise or safe to withhold the opportunity of a full in quiry. Much is gained for the cause of truth when the ' party which has hitherto resisted inquiry are compelled to acknowledge the necessity of submitting to it ; and for this gain to the cause of truth it is scarcely too much to say that the country is indebted exclusively to the Bishop of Exeter, whom we accordingly find the object of bitter hatred, and rancorous fury, and malig nant aspersion to all the enemies—high and low, eccle siastical, legal, and lay—of inquiry and of truth. But, as we have already said, there is no gratification with out alloy in this world, and it is certainly painful, in retracing the discussion of Tuesday night in the House of Lords, to find so much of what is positively irre concilable in the statements of facts put forth by per sons of the class of Bishops and Judges. - Into these details we will not enter now. Such discrepancies as they present, vouched on either side as they are by the highest authorities, or by persons upon whose testi mony the highest authorities have thought it pru dent to rely, prove the necessity of a full and searching inquiry into the subject ; and engendered very natural suspicion that those who have only consented ter such an inquiry at the eleventh hour, and under the corns pulsion of a moral necessity, which has gradually grown too strong to be any longer resisted, do not anticipate, whatever air of confidence they may think it politic to assume, that the result of the investigation will be triumphant or creditable to them, or to the cause they have espoused. There are, however, one or two collateral topics connected with this discussion upon which, without in any manner prejudging the question submitted to the Committee, we may be per mitted to remark. It was contended !by the Ministe rial party in the House of Lords that the Irish Edu cation Csmmissioners had clone rightly in presenting a report, a large part of which consisted of a direct and undisguised attempt to refute a speech delivered by the Bishop of Exeter in the House of Lords, and sub sequently published in the form of a pamphlet.. W e at once admit in favour of the Commissioners that they had an apology for swerving in this par ticular from the usual practice. Their opponent was one of extraordinary power. He had made an impression upon the public mind which it must re quire extraordinary efforts to efface. Neither in the House of Lords nor through the press had any adequate reply been yet offered to his statements and observations, although none of the usual opportunities of reply had been wanting. The Bishop of Exeter was, indeed, an antagonist to justify, if any antago n ist could justify, a departure from the ordinary modes of defence. If the Commissioners so far flattered them: selves as to imagine that they could give a satisfactory answer to the statements and observations of the Right Reverend Prelate the temptation was, no doubt, ex ceedingly strong to present that answer to - the public in the most conspicuous and authentic form, and to provide for its printing and extensive circulation at the public expense. If these reasons would he good in airy case they must unquestionably be good in a case in which the controversy was to be maintained against such an antagonist as the Bishop of Exeter. But we insist that in no case could these reasons be good. Why should any body of Commissioners be dissatis fied with such reply as their advocates in Parlia ment can make to their Parliamentary accusers, or their pamphleteer champions to their pamphleteer assailants ? The country pays dearly enough for the printing and circulation of the reports of its innumerable Commissioners. But if every Board of Commissioners, when it feels itself powerfully at tacked, and apprehends I hat it - has been feebly de fended, is to become a board of controversy, and to print and circulate its polemics at the national ex pense, it is evident that, costly and noisome as too many of those Boards now are, they will speedily be come more expensive and revolting nuisances than ever. This is what we chiefly dread in the example of the Irish Education Commissioners. With the homage which they have paid by the adoption of so new and irregular a mode of defence, to the eloquence, the authority, and the power of their vigorous, accom plished, and conscientious opponent, we cannot be ex pected to quarrel. It shows how effectually they had been stricken, and how deeply they had felt the blows. And this consciousness would have been a redeeming quality, had it led to honest self-correction, instead of an unfair, disingenuous, and abortive attempt at self defence. Another topic was lugged into the discus sion by Lord Plunket—for the purpose, apparently, of making a point, and not, as it appears to us, a very clear or a very good one—which had little, if anything, to do with the subject before the House. His Lord ship cast the full weight of his censure, whatever that may be, upon the Bishop of Exeter, for having spoken, as it deserves, of the manner in which many of the Roman Catholic Members of Parliament observe the oath which they are required to take before they enter upon the duty of legislation. Lord Plunket will have it that the charge of perjury against Legislators who swear not to do a particular thing, and immediately set about doing it with all imaginable diligence and zeal, is false and indecent, not because lie has any construc tion to give to the oath which can reconcile it to the conduct of those who take it, but because those who take the oath and break it, generally vote with the majority of the House of Commons ; and to charge the former with perjury is to charge the latter, who accept the aid of their votes, with subornation of per jury. This is the sound and wise morality of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland—this the principle upon which he charges a Prelate of the Church of England with audacity and falsehood. We hope it will be long, very long, before Lord Plunket will find a Bishop of the Church of England to whom, in conformity with his own Liberal principles, he could ascribe the quali ties of modesty and truth. To " prophecy smooth things" to the possessors of power—to be obsequious and devoted to the existing majority, whateVer may be its composition or its conduct—to believe that all who contribute to its strength are immaculate and infallible, suits well the supple and convenient conscience of Lord Plunket ; but we believe the Protestant people of the three kingdoms will concur with us in thinking that it is not unseemly in the heads of the Church to be guided in their estimate of the conduct of mankind by principles somewhat lessflexible and accommodating. What has the Bishop of Exeter—what has any other Bishop—what has even any honest man—to do with I Lord Plunket's ingenious induction that to charge the Roman Catholic Members of Parliament with per jury is to charge the majority of which they form a part with subornation ? Are the guardians of a nation's faith and morals to call falsehood truth, and perjury religion, in deference to the majority, for whose character Lord Plunket manifests so disinterested a jealousy ? Are all the feelings of honour and good faith among mankind to be stifled because the votes of the O'Connell tail are convenient and advantageous to the Administration of the day ? The Earl of Fingal came in aid of Lord Plunket, but with scarcely better success than his leader, upon the question of the Ro man Catholic oath. This intelligent Peer thinks he may, without imputation, disregard the oath he has taken, not to employ his Parliamentary influence or authority to the injury of the Church of England, be cause he refused, some years ago, publicly to renounce his religion, for the sake of obtaining a seat in Parlia ment. If this satisfies Lord Fingal himself we must frankly tell him that it will not satisfy the Protestants of Great Britain. They could imagine the possibility, even although they did not daily behold the proofs of it, that among men who would be ashamed to re nounce publicly their religion for the sake of a tem poral advantage, there may be some who do not re gard an oath generally as a very binding obligation.— Morning Poet. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1837. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK STOCKS, ASURANCE COMPANIES, &c. etc. &c. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEB. 28. Number Dividend _ _ - Price --- ;31 -- - "i;i - CANALS. per Shares. Annum. Paid. Share. 1,760 7 pet cent. Ashton and Oldham....Average 97/. ISs. sh. 135 1,482 4/. Ashby.tle-le-Zouch Average 1131. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 51 1,005 5!. Brecknock and Abergavenny 150.. sh. 100 8,000 I-16sh. 91.9.. Birmingham, 1.16 th share 41. & 711. 217 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool Junct...l2s/ eh. 100 pd 31 600 Bridgewater and Tatmton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 4/. Chelmer and Blackwater WO/. sh. 102 500 48/. 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Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh 75 14`6 .... . Wisbeach lO5l. sh. 45 905 17. Wey and Arun llOl. sh. 221 DOCKS. 2 ' 600 ar B P. C. Commercial - .100/. sh. 56 I,oosjsh. 491,06711. 6 per et. East India • Stock 114 3,2:13,31011. Pis. p. ct. London Ditto Bonds 1,330,000/. 51. per ct. West India Stock 103 2,'.:00 21. 19s. Bristol 08,324/. 5L per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll4 1,332,751 4 per cent. St. Katharino Stock 1:1 500,000 41 per oent. Ditto Bonds lOll 200,000 4 per cent. Ditto Bonds ha - 10 years lOO Shoreham Hai hour 2.500 „....... Deptford Piet 0 0/. sli. 2/. pd BRIDGES. __ __ 1,600 111. HaminersinAl! 501. sh. 221 7,231 Southwark, Old Av. 601. .'s. Sd. sh. 2 1,700 11. 15s. Ditto, Now, of 1" per cent. 5O/. sh. " 14 5,000 Waterloo lOOl. sh. 5 5,000 ISs. id. Ditto, Old Annuities of Sl. l3Ol. pd lS 5,000 16s. 4d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 151 60,0001. &I. per cent. Ditto Bonds DS 6,1.100 17s Vauxhall Average 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 101 o s ooo .... •SiURANCF COAIPANIES. 2,000 2110 s Albion 500/. sh. 50/ pd 79 60,000 1 5 9 1 :;V i e i r a t i Alliance, Br itis h & Foreign 1001. sh. loil. pd 121 5 0 ,0 0 0 6 per cent. Ditto, Marius 106./. sh. 51. pd 51 24,000 il per sh. Atlas 1,200 ish. 5/. Birmingham 1 ire 250/. sh. 55/. pd 105 20,000 41 percent. British Fire • 2iol.sh. 501. pd 40 12,000 Gt. percent. British Conmiercial 504 sb. 5/. pd Cl 5,01)0 51. per cent. Clerical, Meal. al, &c. Life, ICO/ sh. 12/ 105 pd 31 4,000 21 10s County 1001. sh. 11)1.1x1 4-2 90,000 _ Ss. _ Eagle , - 00 l a s ri P:r 3o c i e b. O. . / Economic Life 2,271 225. percent. European I,i, 2O!. sli. all pd 0 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 2Ol. sh. 21. pd r 1,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe 20,000 31. Guardian lO O l. sh. 07 3 1 pd :131 40,000 6s. ed. Hope 50/. sh. 5/. pd 51 0,400 3/. 73. lid. Imperial Firc 5001. sh. 501. pd 125 7,500 Us. Imperial lale 100/. sh. 10/. pd 91 1:1,45$ 12s. per sh. Indemnity 111,1ine 100/. sh. Si. pd 1( 2,020 31 103 Kent Fire 501. sh. all pd ¶l2 31. Ditto 1.ii , .. 7!) 10100 - in.. Law Life 1001. Lb. 10/. pd !28 5,000 104. d Lonon , Fire 9il sli Pll. 103. pd 10 . __ _ 3,900 10s. Imiidoii, Ship .5/. sh. LI. 10s. pd 16 30,0 s'i IL per cert. Palladium laic 50/. sh. 21. pd 218 s Od 50,003 Protector Fite .01. sh. 21. pd :is 6d 2,500 11. Pro•,. l .ent 1.1:e lOO/..h. la/. pd 2 , i 100000 51. per cent. Rock Life .04 sh. 21. pd Of 199,2201 51. percent. Royal Exch., Il ge 5t0,.k... 220 11,000 5 per cent. University I.i:e lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United kitil;•lom Life . . 5./. pd JOINT SIOCIC BANKS 25,000 A,gric. and Comm. of Ireland 25/. sh. 10/. pd 14 5,000 A nit rala.ia 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 54 10,5)01 10 percent. Bank of Birmingham .sel. sh. IN. pd 10 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .. . - 50/. sh. 5/. pc! 14 8 ,1 ,000 4 percent. London and Westminster...loo/ sit. 20/. pd 22 3,000 4 per cent. LancAster r.. 5,. Of) Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. 14.1 22 50,000 C per sent. Manchester and Liverpool/ 100/. sh. 15/ pd 21! Discount 21,000 7; percent. Manchester 100!. sh. 25/ pd 281 20,000 Provincial !lank of Ireland-100/. eh. 25/. pd 79 20, CO National Bank of Ireland 5Ol. sh 17V. pd 141 10,000 1r per cent. National Provincial Eng. IOW. s h. 25/. pd 231 10, OfX) Gloocesterdiire 5O/. Rh. 10!. pet 20 0,000 10 per cent. I f ampsh ire _._ _____ ___ .___ ) ( - . q..5 . 1 . 1 , 5/. pd 9 GAS I.:WM . I' AND COKE COMPANIES. 2,500 1/ Cs 6d Bath 2Ol. sh. Ir/. pd 24 5,000 British 4Ol. s!i. Ii)!. pd 21 1,000 r l ai ir i l e y: . ? s t s. l Ditto Provincial 201 sh. 19 pd 23 92 5110 s Birmingham 4,250 2/ Is Bristol 1,500 $1 lOs Brighton 2O/. sh. 13 750 Si les Ditto, New 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/. sh. all pd 17 4,000 4/. Continental Consolidated lOO/. 62y. pd 95 1,000 10/. City of London 'OOl. sh. all pd 180 1,i;00 01. Ditto, Nrw 4,000 4/. 108. Equitable -- ill 10,c00 n per cent. Imperial 5Ol. sh. 41f 800 Si. per cent. Isle 4 Thailet 25/. sh. 204 pd 20 2,050 6/. per cent. : nilepemlent 9Ol. sh. all pd 50 0,0(4 V. per cent. Phrenix ... 5O/. sh. 39/. pd 21 1,000 41. per cent. Itatclitr 1001. sh. 80/. pd 4,000 South Metropolitan 59/. sh. 10!„ pd 17 6,200 Si. per cent. United L;eneral 5O/. sh. 46/. pd 29 240 51. per cent. Warwick 501. sh. 50 400 V. per cent Wakefield 12,04,0 31. W es t m h, s tcq' Chartered 6,001 12s. Ditto New 5l/. :h. 10/. pd 10 861 Yarmouth 201. :h. 18/. pd 9 WATER WJRKS. 4 ,900 Is. Birmingham 25/. sh. p5l. pd 241 4,443 Bt. Bait Londo❑ lOOl. sh. 159 5:00 2/ 106 Una., Junction ....Average 411 13s. .141. sh. 50 2,000 2/. Kent lOO/. sh. 43 372 101. Liveiplol Bootle 2201. sh. 3•2.6 1 ,500 21 lOs Now River London Bridge Water Annuities Nil 6 , 1 3 1-1 11 lb* Manchester and Salford :'OO 4 per cent. South Loition lOOl. sh. 81 8,204 -31. West Middlesex ....Average 081. 12s. 90. sh. 78 1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop. .... —lOO/. sh. 35 IRON RAILWAYS. 6,000 Birmingham and Derby lOl. pd 10 9,5(10 Birmingham and Gloucester 101 pd U 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Of 150)0 ... 660 Calcutta and Saugur 5Ol. sh. 2/. pd 7,590 Cheltenham and G. Western... 1001. sh. 711. Ti 3,000 Clarence lOO/. sh. 100/. pd 441 12,000 8,000 Dublin and Kilkenny 1001. sh. 21 pd 1 60,000 _ ..... Eastern Counties 251. sh. 21. pd 1 Grand Junction 1001. sh. 50/. p.I It 7 ...... ... Great North of England 7l. pd 51 25,640 Great Western lOOl. sh. 40/. pd 441 2,090 Hartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. p4l 100 8,000 Hull and sell)) , 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 2 10,000 Leeds and Manchester 1001. sh. 5/. pd 14 7,100 Leeds and Sclby 100 sh. 41 1,500 Leicester and Swannington ....501. sh. all pd 48J 5,109 10 per cent. Liverpool and Manchester-10(1.81i. 100/. poi 585 Ditto Quarter Shares '2s/. pd 61 10,000 London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 51 pd 6 45,000 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') -20/ sh. 11. pd 01 16,000 ... ...... Ditto ditto (Itennie)...so/. sh. 31. pd lii 8,001 Ditto ditto (Cundy)...lool. sh. 31. pd 11 12,000 London and Blackwall 50/. sh. 3/ pd 11 20,000 3 per cent. London and Greenwich .......201. sh. 204 pd 2-2 25,000 London and Birmingham ...1001. sh. 75/. pd 104 20,00 7,000 ...... 12,000 London Grand Junction 5 1. sh. 3/. pd 1 10,000 Manchester South Union 100/.sh. 5/. pd 5 North Midland 100/. sh. la pd 12 Northern and Eastern lO9/. sh. 3/. pd 21 2,600 Preston and Wyre .501. oh. 81. pd 28,000 South Eastern and Dover 7l. pd 5 . _. . -. . ._... 1,000 6/. per cent. Stockton and Darlington .-. .. ......1001. sh. 240 0,000 ... . . Tlia , i:ea Haven ..-. .... .....5111..5h.21. 10s. pd 03 1,400 , ' Westminster and Greenwich 501. sh. 2/. pd If 6,000 MINES. • , . , . 6,0811 Albion Copper ' 51. sh. 3/. pd 01 4,000 Alten . l5/. sh. 121. 108 pd 13 10,0011 Ditto Subscription .25/. pd 3i 2,001 Bol.mos .. 1501. sli all pd 120 10,000 11. IN Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 35/. sh. 'lO/. pd 20 6,0; () Macaubas & Cocaes United...2s/ ch. 231/. pd 7 11,000 Ditto St. John Del Rey ..... ....20/. sh. 831. pd 23 10,000 Bolivar Copper Company,..... 201. eh. 2W. pd Si 10,000 .......... Ditto Scrip 101. eh. 8/. pd 9 20,000 British Iron 501. sh. 50/ pd 403 6,000 British Copper Cate Branca... 63/. pd '7 Candonga 74/. Pd 7 3 10,000 IL Copiapo ' 201. sh 12i/ pd 15 3,500 2,850 31. English 12/ Ks. pd ~ .., 2 20060 (1,155 Mexican Company 1001. sh 5414 pd 11 3,000 Polherou Consols 10/. sh 0!. pd 7 11,500 Real del Monte Unregistered l6 Ditto Loan Notes l5O/. pd 150 30,000 „ ..... ... United Mexican, iss. 2 pin ....401. sh. all pd 2 Dab- Scrip 2t Ditto New Scrip 5l pd 3 West Cork... 50/. sh. 50/. pd 38 LITERARY . 1 STITUTION S. 1,000 ..... ... London, with Bronze Ti c k e t 75 gs. sh. 201 1, London Univet sity ' lOOl. sh. all pd 231 500 Russell 25gs. sh. 7OO King' College 100/. IA 32 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,0011 15s. Australian Agricultural...AUL sit. 2f3/. pd 35 6000 61,_ per cent. British American Land Company 23/. pd 17 10,000 61. per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 24/. pd 38 200, 000 5/. per cent. Upper C ana d a L oan 9s • City Bonds, 4 per cent lOl 15,000 •11.66. General Steam Navigation ...151. sh. 131. pd 24 • 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock - . _ . _ - - --- 2 ,000 . 11. London Com.. Sale Rooms Av. '75/. sh. 12 8,001 ........ Caoutchouc Company 25/. sh. 24/. pd 2* New Brunswick Land Company 281 pd 2.5 i 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 130 2,033 5/. per cent. Ditto New 100/. oh. 451. pd 801 4,000 10,000 ' Van Die.neh's Land 100/. sh. 171. pd 131 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, FEB. 22, 1837. BANKS. /,500,0011. 61. p. ct. itan'c of Scotland 83/. Gs 1341. sli. all pd 2011/. 2,000,010. 51 p. ct. 'Royal of Scotland 100/. di. all pd 1647. 500.0)(1, la p. ct. British Linen Company lOW. sh. Al pd 2367. 3,000,00 t. 6/. p. et_ Commercial .5001. sh. 1001. pd 174/. 5,000,00 W. sp. ct. National lOO4 sh. 10/. pd 1544 2,000,0001. 51. p. ct. Glasgow Union 230/. sh. 50/. pd 68/. 4,000,0004 4p. ct. Western et Scotland 2001. sh 301. pd 361!. INSURANCE COMPANIES. 256.0005 h. 61 p..ct. Scottish Union 20/. sh. 1/. pd 25s - ,502 sp. et. Hercules 100/. sh. 10/. pd 15155. ine,ooo sp. ct. insurance Co. of Scotland, .10/. sh: all pd all pd 50,000 (i p. ct. North British 260/• oh• 10/ pd 151. - . . . OM sp. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 101..1id 1610; 5,000 fi p. et. Edinburgh Life 1001. sh. 101. pd 1415 s 100,000 ISCEL NEO US. 4,810 . ..... ... FAlin. and GI as: tin. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 921. I)itto Allncatcd .96/. ah. all pd 651. 45,400 5 per cent. Ediiih...loint Stack Water.... 251, sh. all pd 3 0 4 Carron Iron Company ......2501. sh. all pd 4 6 1. 2,0005 h 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Fotuntery 501. sh ssl. pct 4617 .10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 201, sh. 16L pd 7il. 4.51)0 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd CO/. 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas 251. sh. all pd all. 750 71 per cent. Leith Coal Ca. 2O/..h. all all 45/. 1,2011 ... Edinburgh and Dalkeith RailwAy,..so/.011 55/. 3.000 5 per .... .. cent. EqUltahle Loan Company 254 ah. 01. pd 101. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Fin. 28. TROWER V. CHADWICK. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover com pensation in damages for a loss which he alleged himself to have sustained through the negligence of the defendant, which occasioned the falling in of the arch of certain wine cellars in Tower-street, belonging to the plaintiff, whereby wine was lost to the value of above 500/. On the part of the plaintiff the accident was attributed to the fact of the defendant havino made certain excavations at the foot of a wall adjacent to the cellars, the arch of which, it was alleged, was thereby weak ened. The defence was, that the accident was not attribut able to the act of defendant, for that the foundation of the wall remained to the present time in its original state, but must be attributed to the weakening of the arch by the removal of part of the abutments, and that the immediate cause was the falling of a large piece of timber, for which the present defendant was not at all liable. A great number of witnesses, consisting chiefly of surveyors, were examined on both sides ; but their statements were wholly at variance. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up, and the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 3501. a ARCHES' COURT, FEB. 28 TREVANION V. TREVANION. This, which was originally a suit for divorce in the Consis tcirial Court of London, is promoted by Mr. J. C. B. Treva nion against Charlotte, his wife. An allegation was, in the course of the primary proceedings, offered for admission, ex ceptionable to the credit and testimony of a witness named Henry Shepherd, who had been examined on an allegation brought in on behalf of the husband, pleading further acts of adultery to have been committed by the wife in the neighbour hood of Dover. Particular parts of this allegation were re jected by the Learned Judge of the 'Consistory Court, and an appeal on behalf of the husband was now entered in this the superior Court. 'Dr. ADDAMS was heard this day on behalf of Mrs. Treva nion, and supported the decision of the Court below. The COURT would take time to consider its decision. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARCH 1. Edward Kelly was opposed by Mr. WOODhOFFE on the part of the London Marble Company, Millbank, Westminster, as also by Mr. Edge, a lamp-manufacturer, and Mr. Phillips, carpet-manufacturer. He was unsupported. The insolvent had been in partnership with another person as proprietors of " The Lounge," No. 14, Clifford-street, Bond -street, which he said was a club-house. His debts in the aggregate were stated at 4,6761. The debts for which he had received consi deration amounted to 2,1701. He had no credits or property. The case was adjourned sine die. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—HERTFORD, MARCI 7 1. The commission for holding the Assize for the county of Hertford was opened here this morning by the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and Mr. Justice Vaughan. The Learned Judges, after attending divine service, pro ceeded to business, Sir N. C. Tindal presiding in the Civil Court, and Mr. Justice Vaughan in the Crown Court. There were fifty. five prisoners in the calendar, and seven cases at Nisi Prius. MIDLAND CIRCUIT..--NORTHAMPTON, FE, 28. The business of the Assizes for this county commenced this day, Lord Abinger presiding in the Criminal Court, and Mr. Justice Littledale at Nisi Prius. The business on the criminal side is heavy as respects numbers, but is light in regard to the crimes of which they stand accused. On the civil side there are but four causes in the paper, one being a special jury. MARRIOTT. V. BRODRICK. This was an action to recover the " Farmers' Stakes," which were run for at Newport Pagnel races, 1835. This case, which took up a very considerable portion of the time of the Court, arose briefly out of the following circum stances:—The plaintiff, a gentleman, the owner of some small property, had entered in 1835 with the present de fendant, he being the clerk of the course for the Newport Pagnel races, a horse called Leeway, to run for the Farmers' Stakes, one of the conditions being that the horses entered should be thorough bred. Two other horses were also entered, named Cricketter and Epaulette ; the race to be run in heats.. In the first heat Cricketter came in first, Lee way second, and Epaulette third. In the second heat Crick etter was again first, Epaulette second, and Leeway last ; therefore, supposing Cricketter to have been a thorough-bred horse he would have been the winner. But Mr. Marriott objected to him, saying he was not thorough-bred, and insist ing that Leeway and Epaulette should be started to decide the race; but the owner of Epaulette refusing to start him, Mr. Marriott was weighed, and walked Leeway over the ground; whereupon he claimed the stakes, which were not, however, given up, and the matter went before one of the stewards, Lord Charles Fitzroy, General Grosvenor, the second steward, not having attended to any portion of the business of the races. Subsequently it was referred to the Jockey Club, and by the Club sent back to the steward. Subsequently a paper writing was sent by Lord Charlesjitzroy to Mr. Marriott, the plain tiff, and which paper writing was contended by him to be an award in his favour. The Learned JUDGP. directed a nonsuit, reserving liberty to the plaintiff to move, if he should think proper so to do. WESTERN ClRCUlT—Wrivenßs.rEzr, FEB. 28. CROWN COURT.—James Chick, John Flux, Wne. Coontbes, Charles Flux, and George Rogers, were indicted for being in an enclosed ground on the night of the 28th of October, armed, with intent to destroy game. On the night of the 28th of October last, as the game keepers were going their rounds, they came upon the prisoners in Friedland's Coppice, in the parish of Ca'bourne, in the Isle of Wight. They demanded their names, which the pri soners refused to give. The keepers then followed them ; upon which Chick asked his fellow for a gun, and he would fire at them. The gun, however, was not given to him, and ultimately the parties separated ; but the prisoners being known - to the keepers were afterwards apprehended. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty. Chick V4as then sentenced to be imprisoned eight months, and the others six months, with hard labour. NORTHERN CIRCUIT, NEWCASTLE, Fzs. 27. WALTON V. RICHARDSON. This was an action on a promissory note made by the de fendant, on the 24th July, 1832, for the sum of 671. 175., payable two months after date to the order of the plaintiff. There was a plea of no consideration, on which issue was joined. Verdict for the plaintiff. Elizabeth ,Dixon was indicted for the murder of her ille gitimate child. The offence was in one count alleged to have been committed by strangling it, and in another by casting it on the ground. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. George Scott and William English were indicted for, on the 22d of October last, committing a highway robbery on the person of Thomas Abbott, at the parish of Newburn, and taking from him his watch and hat. On the night in question, the prosecutor was proceeding to a place called Frenchman's-row, and on the way he went into a public-house, where be met the prisoners in company with two others. They said they were going poaching. On leav ing the house two of the party followed him, and after going a little distance one of them came behind and tripped him up, when both rifled his pockets. The night was moonlight, and the prosecutor swore positively to the identity of the pri soners. English was one, and Scott belonged to the party in the public-house, but was not engaged in the robbery. Verdict, Guilty, sentence of death recorded ; but with an intimation that in consequence of the robbery having been committed without any wanton violence, his Lordship would recommend them to his Majesty's mercy. William Gair, Thomas Nicholson, Thomas Legg, Thomas Lodge, and William Stewart, were indicted for stealing a purse, the property of Maria Mountain. Stewart is the mas ter of a schooner belonging to North Shields. The other parties are part of the crew of a steam-boat, plying between North Shields and Newcastle.—Not guilty. The Court was engaged the great part of the day in trying a numerous list of cases, arising out of petty depredations committed in the Newcastle Depot of the Cross Fell Lead Mines, which appear in the gross to have been carried to a considerable extent. CRIMINAL COURT--(WEDNESDAY.) Charles Lamb, aged 36, was indicted for stealing a ewe, of the value of 21., the property of Stephen Morgan, Esq., of Harefield Grove, Herts, near Uxbridge. Lamb, in his defence, on the evening of the 17th of Fe bruary was returning home, when in passing by a hedge he saw in the bottom a leg of mutton and some suet lying, which he took up and conveyed home. Mr. Justice PARK summed up the evidence, when the jury found the prisoner Not Guilty. A degree of interest was excited in the Court by its being known that the prisoner was one of the individuals who were supposed to have committed the murder at Uxbridge. COn siderable surprise was, however, manifested in Court on find ing that, instead of the prisoner being the ferocious and brutal looking man as described in the papers, his appearance was that of a simple-looking countryman. At seven o'clock the RECORDER took his seat on the Bench. Thomas Wayman, C. Hayden, Hannah Hawkins, and Jane Jell, were indicted for stealing 213/. from Mr. J. Dunn, at Dartford. After a lengthened investigation, the prisoners were found Guilty, and sentenced to seven years' transportation. The following facetious occurrence took place at Stanton, about ten days since. Under the regulations of the New Paor-law Amendment Act, it is customary for the names of all parties receiving relief, at certain seasons, to be exhi bited upon the doors of the parish church. This regulation was, of course, duly complied with in that village. Some wag, however, hung by its side, as a fit companion to the list of working paupers, not a fellow document from some neigh bouring Union, bat a list of State Paupers and Pensioners, as recently published, in a cheap form. The appearance of the double list, and the large sums attached to the names, excited the greatest wonder and astonishment in the minds of the sim ple congregation on the following Sunday. Many could not oe persuaded but that the list in " high relief," was, with that' in " low relief," equally a Union document. Things remained in this state until the clergyman arrived, who, seeing the trick, ordered the obnoxious list to be pulled down. Inquiries were made how the list got upon the church door, but no one could tell, and the sly rogue who perpetrated the joke is yet un known. The remark of a lady pauper in " low relief," who was present, deserves notice. On being asked by a companion what had caused the hubbub, she replied, " Oh, I hear some body has set up a hopposition against us—but it won't do.", Suffolk Chronicle, AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR FEBRUARY. We have little to add concerning the progress of farming operations ; for, indeed, to the end of the third week the grow ing corn has made little progress since our last report. It is a singular fact that, although the winter has passed over nearly without frost—at least of a severe character—so great has been the quantity of rain, that, coupled with the almost total absence of sun during a period of nearly three months, nature has been without a stimulus. But this torpidity cannot long continue, unless the weather greatly deteriorate. We have lately been blessed with three or four splendid days, and these have possessed a springiness which have furnished more than a hint of what may shortly be expected. The periods of old and new Candlemas (2d and 13th ult.) have passed over ; and, according to a saying of olden time, " The snow will now lie on a hot stone." Some bit ds also—as the chaffinch, marsh titmouse, skylark, blackbird—have given occasional assurance that bleak winter is rapidly passing away. Let us hope that the criterion month of March may not, as it unfortunately did last year, destroy the prospects of the farmer, by deluging the earth with cold rain, at a season when the experience of all time has proved that drying winds and clear sun afford the surest testimony of future abundance. It is entirely premature to hazard an opinion concerning the future progress of the wheat. We have made inquiries con cerning, and have endeavoured to investigate its present con dition ; and from the testimony of every person who has spoken or written to us on the subjec', collect that it is very backward, extremely short, hut not at all injured—retarded as it has been by the nature of the season; but farmers, with consentient voice, declare that mere tardiness is no defect. Some complain of the tryhlium incarnatum ; others find it in very excellent condition. This plant has been considered as a capital pre paration for wheat ; but we were surprised to have it remarked to us that the contrary, on some lands at least, is the fact; while broad-clover is known to be always propitious to that grain crop. We suspect that the habits and treatment of the trifolium are not as yet duly appreciated or understood. The weather continues to improve, and the sun acquires more power ; thus the lambing season, tardy in common with every thing that belongs to the farm, is likely to prove favourable. Notwithstanding the very great volume of rain, and the swamped condition of the land, we have not, as yet, heard any complaints of disease. We shall recur to the weather again, after waiting a few days to enable us to give a summary of our meteorological observations. Another wee k has nearly elapsed and it is very gratifying to be able to announce progressive improvement. The average temperature of the month has been rather too low; in fact, it has scarcely equalled that of January. Still there has been more sun and very little actual frost. The 18th was a day to be remembered and recorded. The atmosphere was gloomy, and the sky was overcast with clouds till six in the evening, then a brisk wind from south-west sprang up, attended with three hours of close rain. At nine it veered to the west, its violence abated, and the clouds col lected gradually into masses, and dispersed. It became per fectly clear, and the moon, high in the heavens, approached the meridian. The planet Jupiter was close to her, but Mars, his immediate companion, was lost to sight. He was occulted, or eclipsed by the moon, and the occultation continued till nearly midnight. At half-past ten, just at the period of the most perfect brilliancy, a splendid aurora borealis took place. A broad beam of crimson light darted up from the horizon, a little to the north of the east, and a similar beam ascended from the west. They did not meet, but an intermediate effulgent red mass, separate from, but approaching to, both, was ex tended to the north-west of the zenith. From this mass pointed rays of pale light darted occasionally toward the north, and produced a temporary corona of great beauty. These northern lights (if the term be admissible) did not continue (to our observation) above half an lemr ; they then entirely vanished ; and on the following day wind with profuse rain was the result. Subsequently the weather has been subject to al ternations—one day being extremely wet, the next brilliantly sunny. The wind has been strong and very keen from north west for three days, and the night of the 24th was frosty, pro ducing a thickish pellicle of ice in the morning of the 25th. This was nearly the only keen frost of the month, and the day, though cold, proved sunny and vivifying. We think it may be safely concluded that, in nine cases out of ten; the aurora borealis is a precursor of wind and rain, of snow occasionally, but rarely of frost. Upon the whole the season is favourable ; great quantities of rain have fallen, which at length have reached the roots of the largest trees, and supplied the sources of water-springs, which during several seasmis had become very various occasions, seen much larger breadths of water over the low lands in the vallies of the Thames. Every species of produce, we repeat, is back ward; but a period of seasonably-genial weather will afford convincing proof that no serious injury has resulted from the late peculiar autumn and winter. Feb. 27. The Magistrates of Arran-quay Police-office have been these few days engaged investigating a case of a surrep titious introduction of gunpowder into the Grand Canal stores, for carriage to the south of Ireland, under the name of hard ware. Leaving the danger of explosion out of the question, the disastrous consequences of facilitating the means of gun powder getting into the hands of evil-disposed persons, and without the usual clue of tracing to their possession, must. be felt by all without a commentary. The magistrates have con sidered the facts which have been disclosed of sufficient impor tance to have a statement of them drawn up, and transmitted to the Castle—they have no summary jurisdiction in the trans action. There is an Act making it penal by fine of 5001. to send a quantity of powder exceeding one pound from one place to another, without the cask containing it being legibly marked with " gunpowder ;" but whether the person who sent the powder in question has subjected himself to the penalty is a matter of legal subtlety, as the actual powder cask had the re quisite mark, but certainly not " legible" to those who, it wall intended, should have the carriage of it, as both cask and mark were concealed within a larger vessel.— Saunders' News Letter. FAMILIES RESIDING IN THE COUNTRY are supplied with TEAS and COFFEES at the WHOLESALE PRICE fur CASH : 81ack...25. Od. ts. 4d. Ss. td. 31. is. dd. 4s. 4s. 6d. ss. Green..3s. &I. 4s. Od. 4s. Bd. ss. ss. 6d. 6s. is. Od. 85. Coffee, Is. 6d. ls. Bd. ls. lOd. 25.. ..Finest Mocha, Es. When the order ex cee d s £lO, the Carriage is Paid. G. T. M ANSEL L, and CO., Wholesale Tea Dealers, 2, Bucklersbury, Cheapside. PATENT LEVER WATCHES, With silver double-bottom cases £6 fl 0 With silver hunting cases This celebrated construction (the most accurate on which a watch can be made) is offered, with the latest improvements, i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four holes, capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and maintaining power to continue going while windinc , up, at the above price, by T. COX' SAVORY, Working Silver and Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill, London. N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. BIRTHS. On the 22d ult., at Stecle-1;i11, Kent, the lady of John Fraser, Esq., of a son. On the 28th ult., in Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars, Mrs. Jog. Rose, of a daughter. r , On the 27th ult., in Woburn-square, Mrs. T. F. Gibson, of a daughter. On the 27th ult., in Suffolk-lane, Mrs. T. Theobald, of a son. On the 26th ult., the wife of Mr. J. Clifford, of Pimlico, of a son. On the 21st ult., the lady of G. A. R. Rowdier, Esq., Lieute nant in charge of Bere Island, county Cork, of a son. MA RR Ili; D. On the 27th ult., at Barwell, Leicestershire, George Wm. Key, Esq., 15th Hussars, to Jane Frances Matilda, second daughter of J. Pearson, Esq., of Tettenhall Wood, Staffordshire, and Advocate- General of Bengal. DIED. On the 28th ult., at the house of G. Burnell, Esq., Park-squarot Regent's-park, Mrs. Rovvdon, aged 93. (in the 26th ult., aged 71, Mr. Wm. Rose, of Myddleton-street, Spa-fields. On the 2Sth Jan., at Paris, Caroline, youngest daughter of 11f. Chaigneau, late of Brest. On the 28th ult., aged two years and two months, Mary Geor- giana, youngest daughter of the Rev. J. N. Pearson, at the Church Missionary Institution, Islir.gton. On the 26th ult., in Rupert-street, aged 74, Mr. Gaspard Eti enne Vital, a native of Calais. On the :26th ult., Miss Syms, of Camberwell New-road, daugh" ter of the late J. Syms, Esq., of Ashtead, Sul rey. On the 13th ult., in Paris, aged 80, Felicite Adelaide Duval, formerly of London. On the 25th ult., aged GS, Mary, wife of E. Woodhouse,,Esq" of Leominster, Herefordshire. On the 28th ult., in Burton-street, Burton-crescent, Miss Elea nor Cook, younger daughter of the late B. Cook, Esq., of Ne , " castle- opon- Tyne. _ On the 25th'ult., Joseph Slater, Esq., of Newman-street,'aged 55. On the 24th ult., at Liverpool, John Bolton, Esq., aged 81. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUARY. Generals—Sir J. Hay, K.C.H., Edinburgh; Sir R. Blair' K. C. B. , E. I. Camp. Serv., Harley House, Bath. Lieutenant-Generals—John Grey, Ruddington, near Lougll" borough ; Sir G. Cooke, K.C.B. • Hon. Wm. Stuart, C. 8., fr°n l Gren. Gds. ; Sir J. Arnold, K.C.8., E. I. Comp. Serv. Major-General—Hon. Sir F. C. Ponsonby, K.C.B. G. C. IVI. K.C.H. Colonels—John Johnson, Unatt., Sawbridgeworth; Bromho d ' C. 8., late of 77 F. Lieut..-Colonels--Purdon, 41 F. ; Perceval, C. 8., late of 67 C l ', Captains—Hare, R. Art., M aur i t i us ; M orrice, h. p., R. Yf r Rangers, Edinburgh ; C. Marq. of Drogheda, late R. Irish A% Lieutenants—Arnold, 11 Dr., Meerut, Bengal ; Sewell, 1 3 ,_„, ' Landour, Bengal 1 do. ; Spill er , it. Air. Col. C., L on d on ; ~ cis, Adj. of Bristol Rec. Dist. ; H. Munroe, late of 5 R. Vet. ,e a t i: London ; Baker, late of E uropean Gar. C 01111). Sir C. liew e i t Bart., h. p., 21 Dr. ; M‘Ph erson , b . p., 1 F ., Thurso; Bess',. . A• h. p., 4 F. ; Griffithes, h. p. 23 F . ; D enny, h. p. 35 F.'; Grant (Adj.), h. p. 42 F., Montreal, Canada; G. Chantry, 11 ' 71 F., Birmingham; T. M. Browne h. p. 79 F., Rockboroug near Cork ; Fyfe, h. p 89 F. ; Goakman, h. p. Waller's CorPs, De Verna, h. p. Indep. Cos., Mulhausen. Second Lieutenants and Ensigns—lrving, IL M. ; Poe, h. P.' 14 F., Dublin • Burnell, h. p. 35 F . Paymaster—Colberg, h. p. Rec. Dist. Quarter-Masters—Hughes, h. p., 5 Dr. Gds, Lloyd , b. P. 10 Dr. Medical Department.—Dep. Insp. Gen. of Hospitals-- - T• r°l'. bes, h. p. Surgeons—D r. B a d enach, Staff, Edinburgh; Travis (Di'• h. Apothecary —Phillips, h. p. Dr• Assistant-Surgeons —Hamilton 43 F. St. John's, B. Is Black, 84 F., T orquay, D evon ; ' Goodwin, h. p. 1 Life u u * --4 Goodison, h. p. 25 Dr. ' Purveyor —Whyte, h. p, Barrack Departmeirt...Barrack-Master—Anquetil, Gj_1f...,1t42;0w0• Loncicio Printed and Published by MURDO YoUNG , 'L un y 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 11° I "', Strand,in dig of Middlesex..—. Thursday, March 2, 1837.