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, or the hey re the lien tiled, Sul- 61ry— ,erloo ente. from Paley, L Hen trtlett, -, from Bruns- 3, from m St. from stle, is ; sailed Helena 5, front Nov. 3, 3, from n ; the iled tha d sailed he Bth, •om the ng and the Re th, from m Ran a, 29th, Wales's ley, the he Bus- Vladras he 11th, iulmein ; tlereagh, w South r....larnatic, ara and China ; acme, the the sth, 12th, for xporter, 2, for Thames► sth, for Carnatic rummore, Mina. 'rom pou- Madeira ; hich was 3rnorshw , r Wood- .?.r and its': ;ed is, to m harsblY ion to-the and front lons, and he diocese s cliocesao, - BRIGHTON-TUESDAY. L rbl. morning, at twelve o'clock, the Recorder of Lon `l made his r e p or t t o th e Ki ng in Council of the prisoners rider sentence. There were present at the Council Lord lielbourne, Lord Palmerston, Marquis of Lansdowne, id e ° rd John R usse ll, L or d Gl ene l g , Lord Minto, Mr. Pou ,t,t Thomson, the M arq ui s of Conyngham , and the Earl of ? „ 'healarle. The re p or t occupied an hour. After the h ot itneil broke up the Mi n i s ters repaired to their respective Ols, and, ha v i ng t a k en l unc h e on, returned to town. Lord ,clbourne, and L or d J o hn Russell returned together in ro e carriage, Lord Denman and Lord Glenelg in another. tlis Majesty afterwards drove out on the Shoreham road, ,„_ "Zrapanied by Prince Ernest. i k ,"e Queen has not left the Palace to-day. """Y is much better. The di nner party yes t er d ay even i ng wa s increased by the doesen„ce of the Hon. Captain Poulett and Colonel Gray (.toyal Engineers). L T'ne R ev . D r . K u p er qu itt e d the Palace yesterday for . ctdon. The Russian Ambassador will entertain a distinguished 1411 Y to-morrow evening, at his residence on Brunswick- The Officers of the 4th (Royal Irish) Dragoon Guards, 1 7 W stationed at our cavalry barracks, intend to give a ball sUpper at the Old Ship Hotel, on the 29th, on a scale 1 1!ell is to exceed in splendour every thing of the kind tell has preceded it this season in Brighton. Her Ma- COURT CIRCULAR. Majesty held a Privy Council at four o'clock on tidaY afternoon, at the Pavilion at Brighton. th.ttit following Cabinet Ministers arrived at Brighton in ' afternoon from town, to attend the Council—viz.: l ''count M e lbourne, Lord John Russell, Viscount Pal trl'ieraten, L or d Glenelg, the Earl of Minto, and the Right i o neurable C. Poulett Thomson. The Marquis of Lans ‘°'lll e arrived from his seat at Bowood Park; Wilts. C ouncil. the Ki ng gave audience to Lord Glenelg before the Th e M arq uis of ConYng,ham, Lord Chamber m'_ll; and th e Earl of Albemarle, Master of the Horse ; ' 4O attended the Council. The Honourable W. Bathurst was the Clerk in waiting. t° town of the Cabinet Ministers were expected to retur n I t tavn last evening from Brighton, to dine with Lord John ssell, at his residence in Wilton-crescent. 1 , Mr. W. B roug h am , an d Mr. C. P. Cooper, Secretary to ‘ :'e Commi s sioners on the Public Records, had an interview e sterday w ith the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down nff-street, on the business of the Commission. A Deputation of the Westminster School of Medicine , ° 4 sistino. of Dr. Burne, Dr. Todd, Mr. North, and Mr. th e Thomson, had an interview with the Chancellor of Exchequer yesterday. It has been felt as a great annoyance by the whole '' l, l the T or y party, that Sir Robert Peel, who was at Tam all last week, did not attend the Orange meeting W hich was held at Birmingham on Thursday. He did not en send an apology. o rA notice was issued at the Post-Office on Saturday ) ,_tile further postponement of the sailing of the Lisbon r,_eltet, and that letters would be in time by the 21st in ;`'llt (Monday). This caused some considerable degree of excitement in the city, as from the departure of this mail moment a second time 'delayed, it was considered something of was pending. a Accounts from Lyons, of the 15 th inst., state t hat 'qe cold there is excessive, and that the Saone is now frozen. The weather continues to be excessively foggy here ; t,t !, Saturday last the fog was so thick that several pe rsons fell into the water, but luckily no lives ware lost.--Amster 'oh Paper. FIRE AT NEATII ABBEY.—On Saturday morn it& between s ix and seven o'clock, a fire was discovered in l lPattern-store: of the Neath Abbey Iron Works , a nd in few, minutes the whole building was in a terrific b l a ze, pr esenting a truly awful spectacle. The wind was in a ' rcurable quarter, but from the immense body of flame t. Yt was almost instantly kindled, and the combustible na the contents of the adjoining workshops, there was som e time no expectation but that the entire range of building would speedily be consumed. Too much praise tl enot be bestowed on the conduct of the workmen, who ,Ls i Played the greatest energy and fearless promptitude in :lter exertions, wherein they were most ably assisted by their r wives, daughters, and the neighbours generally, who ev.nced a deep interest in arresting the progress of the lees, which, contrary to all expectation, was effected ; led in about two hours the fire was got under, with coin ,nratively little damage to the property , and n o serious personal injury, and the men were able to r es ume their work on Monday morning. The proprietors feel much in debted t o th e i r ne ighbours and workmen for their unremit ting efforts, which were so successful in averting the im peuding catastrophe.—The Cambrian. ts , ATTEMPTED SUlClDE.—Between seven and eight also on Sunday night last, one of the bargemen , who is ao occasionally employed as private watchman at Jones's Zed on Upper Thames-street, heard a splash in the water, 1 , 11 ,4 on looking over the side of the barge (the Emma), st ruggling was lying alongside'of the wharf, he saw a female 4 :,_reggling in the water. The bargeman, with great humanity, _gdnotwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, jumped t `, l after her, and succeeded in reaching her as she rose to :le surface the second time. She was got on shore in an I t'Parently lifeless state, and immediately conveyed to the , g espital, where the usual means of producing resuscitation :ere employed, and she was eventually recovered, but re ains in a very precarious state at present, chiefly, it is pre sumed, f ro m the sudden chill she experienced from the cold ss of the water. It appears that the name of the unfor .e gicate girl is Ann Rich, and that she is only in her 17th Year. About six weeks ago she was inveigled from a situa te she held at a respectable tavern, in Bishopsgate-street, a young man who promised her marriage, but who sub iectuently deserted her, which was the cause o f her attem p t, 1 1 self-destruction. Two months ago the Queen of the Belgians had S ent to her, from Paris, a quantity of dresses and rich t uffs• The box which contained them was lost between V alenciennes and Mons, and no trace of them could be ,ellod until Sunday last, when a peasant girl made her ap- Vearance at the Church of Pierre Bois, a small village about Ileacrue from Valenciennes, invested in a rich and elegant `"aritre, t and a fine Cachemire shawl, and at the same ti me raring a pair of wooden shoes. Astonishment was ex ed, and inquiry, of course, ensued, when the village co luette declared that she had found the box in which they Were contained, with other female apparel, on the high t'ael, and as nobody came forward to claim them , she t hought she was justified in wearing them. The box , wi th e remainder of the articles, was safe in the cottage, and forwarded to their original destination ; the disappointed girl being indemnified by some presents more suited to her station. GRAND PIGEON MATCH FOR A SILVER TAN 10+13D.—Mr. Bowden, the proprietor of the Chalk Farm l ' l vern, yesterday gave a very splendid silver tankard, to be shot f or by gentlemen who had and had not won prizes, giving four yards closer distance to the lat t e r g entlemen. e best shots of the day were engaged in the matc h, and took -their_places in the following order :—Mr. Bloodsworth, b ar.,,„ Taylor, Mr. Smith, Mr. Groom , Mr. G y n g all, and 'lr. Toombs. The gentlemen placed at twenty-one yards mer e Mr. Bromley, Mr. Danby, Mr. Williamson, Mr. Mr. Chantrey,and Mr. Swayne. Mr. Groom killed " ; Mr. Swayne, 8 ; Mr. Gyngall, 8 ; Mr. Toombs, 8 ; kr. Chantrey, 8 ; Mr. Taylor, 7 ; Mr. Bromley, 7 ; Mr. Williamson, 7 ; Mr. Bloodsworth, 7 ; Mr. Ball, 6. One ‘ . O Mr. Bloodsworth's birds pitched on the pa lin g dead, and F ell outside the ground. The ties will be shot off on New Tear's Day. MURDER.—The spirit of evil which caused the fist homicide seems. yet " untired by time."—A man named pl`Carthy was murdered by his brother, in the neighbour 'sod of carrigalinc, in the county of Cork, on Wednesday 11 ,,Ight. The two brothers, who were unmarr ied, lived toge ter, • having a small lot of grou nd divided between them. The: younger of the two, thinking that he would do better by setting up a jingle (a one-horse car), proceeded to dispose of his share of the produce of the ground , an d, accom p anied b y his brother, brought a load of potatoes to market on the day Mentioned. Having sold the potatoes, they left town, but had some dispute on the road, the elder endeavouring. to Persuade the other to abandon his design of the jingle, and remain at home. The bad feeling thus produced was in creased by the deceased, on his reaching the house, turning his horse on the ground that be lon g ed to his brother, who, being enragdd'at it, rushed on him with a spade. The de ceased endeavoured to escape, and made for the potato house • but the other forced the door, and inflicted a severe !'lew ' from the effects of which he died on Friday. The brother has been committed to the county gaol. SUDDEN DEATH OF MR. HOWARD, THE : I ,i€Tort AND AuTuott.—An inquest was held at the White Lio n _public-house, before Thomas Higgs, Esq., and a respectable Jury, on the body of Mr. John Howard, other wise John Rogers, aged forty years. The deceased, it ap pears, was well known in the theatrical world, and was formerly in affluent circumstances, but latterly had been reduced to great poverty, and was, necessitated te . reside in 41 3 humble lodging at the above public-house. At an early Period of his life he formed a peculiar penchant for the Stage, and performed at most of the provincial theatres, and Intimately he became manager himself in the country, where he had .a circuit, and most of the stars and other actors of the. d a y performed at his theatres. His histrionic specula tlous, however, aid not 'succeed to his wishes, and he a few Yoars. ago (lune to London, with the remains of his shat tered fortune, which he soon expended, when he resorted to literary pursuits for a livelihood, • and was in the habit of THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, FRENCH PAPERS. CONVICT SHIPS.-LOSS OF FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-EIGHT PERSONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL. " Stu—Several journals have noticed the report of m departure for Portugal, as a pretender to the hand of Queen Donna Maria. However flattering to me be the supposition of a union with a young, beautiful, and virtuous Queen, the widow of a cousin who was dear to me, it is my duty to refute such a report, since no step that I am acquainted with can have given rise to it. " I roust even add that, notwithstanding the lively inte rest attached to the destinies of a people that has just ac quired its liberties, I shonld refuse the honour of sharing the Throne of Portugal, if chance made some persons cast their eyes upon me. " The noble conduct of my father, who in 1810 abdi cated because he could not combine the interests of France with those of Holland, has not been obliterated from my mind. My father has proved to me, by his ()Teat example, how preferable our native country is to a foreign throne. I feel that, accustomed from my infancy to cherish my country above all, I can prefer nothing to the interest of (From the Morning Chronicle,) In our paper of the 19th inst. we gave a copy of the letter of Mr. Charles Wood, Secretary to the Board of Admiralty, to Mr. Hume, M.P. for Middlesex, with extracts from the Report from Van Diemen's Land, on the melancholy loss of the Neva transport, and we believe the information we then laid before the public has been generally deemed satisfactory. We are now enabled to give a copy of Mr. Hume's letter of the 9th of December, to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to which Mr. Wood's letter was an answer ; and also a copy of Lord John Russell's letter to Mr. flume—by which it will be seen that the attention of the Government had been directed to the loss of the George the Third, and we trust it will be considered by the public, that though there has been An unfortunate succession of severe losses, no blame is nputahle to any department or person. It will recollected that there was an inquiry insti- France. " Persuaded that the great name which I bear will not always be a title of exclusion in the eyes of my countrymen, since it reminds them of fifteen years of glory, I wait with calmness, in an hospitable and free country, that the people recall to their bosom those whom, in 1815, twelve hundred thousand foreigners banished. This hope of one day serv ing France as a citizen and a soldier invigorates my soul, and is worth,,in my estimation, all the thrones in the world. " I am, &c. " NAPOLEON LOUIS BONAPARTE. " Arenenberg, Dec. 14, 1835." tilted by the Admiralty after the loss of the .Am phitrite at Boulogne, although we do not recollect whether the report was published or not. We are, however, satisfied that the attention of the public and of public men to every occurrence of the kind must be productive of future good ; and we think that the Reports of the Committee of Inquiry after each of these melancholy shipwrecks should be published by the Government, that all persons at home and abroad may be informed of the particulars, and satisfied that no lives have been improperly sacrificed. We think there. is a want of attention to the loss of lives by shipwreck, and we shall, perhaps, soon call the attention of the public to the necessity of insti tuting an inquiry, either by a Coroner's Jury, or other competent tribunal, in the case of every merchant vessel where life has been lost. " Bryanston-square, Dec. 9. "My Lord—l deem it necessary to inform your Lord ship, that there is a strong impression on the public mind that there has been some great neglect on the part of the Government, or of their agents, in the hiring of vessels for the carrying of convicts, or the fitness of persons to navi gate them, which have led to the loss, within a short time, of three ships, and 528 convicts. It has been rumoured that the ship last wrecked was a worn-out West Indiaman ; that the George the Third was an old ship ; and the Amphi trite was 21 years of age; that the broker who provides them does not exercise that circumspection, nor the Trans port Board take that trouble which they ought to do, be fore trusting so many persons to the Watery element. I I have been requested by many of my constituents to attend a public meeting to be called on this subject ; but I have informed them that I should first write to you, that you might direct, if not already ordered, an inquiry into all the circumstances, with a view of ascertaining the truth of these melancholy cases, and satisfying the public mind.— And I have the honour to remain your Lordship's obedient servant, It is stated that France and England have addressed together a note to Russia, to remind her that, according to the stipulations of the treaties of 1814 and 1815, Po land must form a State independent of the Russian em pire ; that Poland must have her separate Constitution and peculiar laws ; and lastly, that she must preserve her nationality. This note, it is said, has been communicated to all the Northern Courts. Ori the other hand, according to the English papers, Lord Durham's mission to Russia is far from being of a pacific nature. Russia will be compelled to renounce the advantages it derives from the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, or run the risk of a war with Great Britain. These reports seem entitled to some credit, if we judge from the warlike preparations of Russia. A letter from St. Petersburgh of the 30th of November announces that since the Emperor's return much activity is observable in Russian diplomacy. The Emperor personally inspects all that relates to the navy. Frequent orders are transmitted under his superintendence to Cronstadt, Revel, and Abo, and great preparations are making in the Ochta and St. Petersburgh dockyards. We have always thought that negociations of the highest importance were carried on between the Courts of London, Paris, and St. Petersburgh. We should be sorry that they assumed not a pacific form, and that diplomacy alone suf ficed not to terminate Eastern affairs. This result is desir able for France, because the line she seems willing to pur sue is, perhaps, not the one pointed out by her social in terests. The only opposition that would exist between France and Russia arises from the political form of the Go vernment of both countries. But that opposition is but transient, and vanishes in proportion as the situation of France becomes clearer, and order is restored in her in the direction of its new interests and new ideas. The Emperor Nicholas himself is far from manifesting against France the hatred which it is sought to magnify. If evidence be wished for of the difference which he himself establishes between the French Government and the jour nals opposed to Russia, it may be found in the article of the St. Petersburgh Journal respecting those published in the Journal des Debats.—Moniteur du Commerce. It is affirmed that subsequent to conferences between Charles the Tenth and his emissaries from France, he has ordered all his partisans in the interior to submit to the oath and participate in the general elections, departmental and communal, and to accept, besides elective functions, all such public functions that it may please the present Govern ment to confer upon them.—Constitutionnel. The project of reducing the Five per Cents. continues to occupy the Cabinet. M. Thiers. it is affirmed, shares in M. Humann's opinion. The latter proposes granting to such as shall accept the conversion into Four per Cents. eight or ten annuities, so that others will enjoy for eight or ten years more an interest of five per cent. Two other Mi nisters, dreadinc , the unpopularity of the measure, are par ticularly opposed to them. According to these reports, which seem to be well founded, it is presumable that in the next session the reduction of the Five per Cents. will be agitated. It is not yet decided whether Ministers will as sume the initiative, or will leave it to the Budget Com mittee or some Member of the Chamber.—lbid., The Memorial Bordelais, states that a promotion of Proceres was about to be made by the Queen of Spain. Among the persons intended to be raised to that high station, are Generals Mina, Espinosa, Almodovar, Cordova, Solar, Mirasol, Zarco del Valle, Tacon, Lahera, Alvarez, and Mentes, the late Ministers Encima de Piedra, Ulloa and Canga Arguelles ; the diplomatists Casa Irugo, Ma riano Carnerero, and Llandos d'Alguazas ; Count de Do nadio, President of the insurrectionary Junta of Andujar ; the Marquis De la Concordia ; and Messrs. Andres Cabal lero, Aquilino Perez, Casa Ricra, Gaspar Remisa, Domingo Balmaseda, &c., bankers, merchants, or rich capitalists of Madrid. (Signed) " JOSEPH HUME. " The Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M.P., Secretary of State, &e. &c. (Copy.) " Woburn Abbey, Dec. 11. " SIR-I received this morning your letter respecting the loss of the convict ship Neva. I received at the same time a copy of a dispatch of the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land, stating the loss of the ship, and the result of an inquiry in the colony, which was transmitted to me by the desire of Lord Glenelg. " Immediately upon hearing of the loss of the George the Third, the Board of Admiralty instituted, at the desire of Lord Glenelg and myself, a very minute inquiry into the whole of the circumstances. The Board of Admiralty were satisfied with the report they received. on that occa • sion of the seaworthiness of the ship ; nor did I perceive any ground to differ from them in that respect, although I thought the medical stores for the prevention and cure of scurvy were insufficient. " I shall desire the Board of Admiralty to make a strict investigation into the circumstances attending the hiring, fitting out, and ultimate loss of the Neva. The public mind is naturally agitated and, alarmed by this shipwreck, following so close upon that of the George the Third. "I will not now enter into further particulars, but you may be assured that no effort shall be wanting on my part to elicit the truth respecting these calamitous events. " I have the honour, &c. (Signed) "J. RUSSELL. " J. Hume, Esq., M.." DREADFUL SHIPWRECK. TEN LIVES LOST. It falls to our painful duty to record the entire wreck o the cutter Margaret, Captain Le Scelleur off St. Clement's bay, about three miles from St. Helier's harbour. The cutter Margaret left Granville at 10 A.M., (wind S.S.E.) on Sunday last, with a crew of four men, including the master ; also eleven passenge r s , and a car g o of bullocks and goods. At 6 P.M., she anchored near Chausey till 7, at which hour she proceeded for Jersey. The captain per ceived our coast about half-past ten ; and communicated the intelligence to his men, who expressed some doubts as to their being so near the island. Half an hour after this, the pilot (Benest) perceived lights, which he took to proceed from St. Helier's pier ; but the captain said he had never seen the pier lights so far off, and therefore the pilot must be mistaken in his object. Benest, however, still main tained he was right, and stated that he had often seen the lights of St. Helier's pier from even a greater distance than they then were. The Captain, who doubtless felt very uneasy at the ves sel's situation, went up the shrouds several times ; and, coming down at 12 p. m., being then about a mile from shore, opposite La Motto Point, St. Clement's Bay, be observed the sea breaking close to the cutter, and, just be fore she struck, ordered the helmsman to bring her hard up,. as there were rocks ahead. This caution, unfortunately, vas too late, as the Margaret's keel came in contact with one of the sunken rocks abounding in that quarter. Upon this, the passengers, most of whom were below, immediately rushed upon deck, except a French woman and two young children, who remained in their berths. One of the pas sengers saved relates, " that when he came upon deck, he observed that the vessel was already on one side, and that he saw two men in the shrOlvds, apparently looking out for the coast. The Margaret then struck twice more, and was already beginning to sink, when he climbed up on the off side, as well as he could, and saw a sailor, who had jumped into the sea to recover the boat, which had drifted a few yards off. When this indi vidual bad succeeded in his efforts, he brought the boat c l ose to the vessel ; and two of the tailors, with himself and another French gentleman, then jumped in also, just as the cutter was going down with the rest of the crew and pas sengers. Those in the boat staid a little while, to see if they, could save any of their fellow-passengers ; but, not perceiving any chance of this, they made the best of their way, with only one oar, towards the shore. After some time, they succeeded in landing bn the sands in St. Cle ment's bay, when they proceeded to town to give infor mation."--Jersey Argus. MRS. HALL'S NEW NOVEL, " THE OUTLAW." —" Perhaps the best and the finest remark we can make von The Outlaw' is, that it takes rank next to some of the best novels of Mr. Bulwer—we believe that it will be ound to attract more consideration than any of the novels of the season, and embracing all those that at present occup, general curiosity, with the single exception of Rienzi There is an abundant variety of character in the pages of The Outlaw.' Sir Everard Sydney, eccentric but bene volent ; the kind and guileless Rosalind, the artificial Rachael Brown, the confident and over-acting Margaret, are sufficiently opposed and employed to sustain their in. terest to the end. Touches of exqUisite pathos, and snatches of fresh and graceful humour, are scattered throughout, and help, with a little episodical aid, to create a succession of entertaining transitions, which, like the bustling changes of a brisk comedy, keep the action in a state of incessant motion."—Atlas. In a couple of months Mustafa Pacha, of Adri anople, the happy man who is destined to be the husband of the -Princess Mihrmah, the second daughter of the Sultan, is to come to Constantinople ; and in the spring, I hear, the intended marriage is to take place with great pomp. • As son-in-law to the Sultan, some high post will, of course, be given him, and I see none likely to be vacant for some time. The Seraskier and - Russian party are in triguing very hard to undermine the Capudan Pacha, now out with the fleet, in order to put in his place Halil Pacha, husband of the Princess Salihe. It is hardly likely that they will succeed, because Halil Pacha knows nothing about ships. He was the Capudan Pacha once before, when he proved himself to be a coward, and the fleet was moreover in exceedingly bad order ; whilst Tahir Pacha, the ,present High Admiral, is a complete sailor, and the fleet is kept in beautiful condition. Should the Russian party get him out there will be a vacancy at Topkhine, now under the loose and careless charge of Habil Paella. Mustafa Pacha is a good man, and wherever he has been left to act without control, he has introduced mea sures exceedingly beneficial to the country. If he had his way the exportation of grain would be encouraged, and that • single measure would do more good to the country in ten years than Russia could do it injury in a century. Millions and millions of acres of beautiful land now lie uncultivated, solely on account of the restrictions on the corn trade, and not for want of hands to till it.—(From the Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary.) AN IMPORTANT JUDGMENT.—The most grave Signors" of the Bench in Paris were occupied the other day in deciding on the merits of a question as to whether the body of a gown were in harmony with the skirt—a very fitting question undoubtedly for judicial wisdom. The facts of the case were as follow :—A rich Englishwoman, a Mrs. Graham, had received a beautiful dress of embroidered black lace, but it wanted the body—a deficiency which she could not supply everywhere. In order to have it properly made, she sent it to Messdames Rouselle and Troyes, re questing them to make her a body to correspond with the skirt. This was the only stipulation made ; but a difficulty aros e out of it, for the skirt itself was of inferior des i g n, while the border upon it was far richer and more elegant. The embroiderers followed the dictates of their own taste, and produced a magnificent body, for which they charged 300 francs. This charge was the cause of the present action. Airs. Graham, whether influenced or not by the caprice which all pretty women have a right to exercise, refused to have the dress, declaring that she had desired to h a ve a body similar to the skirt, and not to the border— " a practise which is ,never departed from," as she observed through the medium of her Counsel, who exhibited the dress, a splendid one, in Court. The Bench, unable to.decide so abstruse a question, demanded the ex perienced aid of Madame Ladun , a celebrated lace-dealer, who made a report to the Court on stamped paper, properly authenti cated in all due form and order, to the following effect : " That if it be- true in principle that the custom was to make the body to correspond with the skirt, yet, in fact, good sense and good taste concur in justifying the pro ceeding of Mesdames Rousselle and Troyes, who, emanci7 cipating themselves from the trammels of routine, had boldly dared to substitute, for the happy accomplishment of their object, the rich and tasteful design of the border, instead of the wean and paltry one of the skirt." The Court fully assented to the luminous exposition of Madame Ladun. BETTS'S PATENT FRENCH DISTILLED BRANDY. 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I do hereby give Public Notice, That all persons who may sell any Brandy to which they shall, in any manner, apply " the word Patent,' the wards Letters Pa : tent,' or the words By the King's Patent,' or any words of the like kind, meaning, or import," the said Brandy " not having been purchased from me," or for the sale of which they have not " my license or consent in writing," will, without further notice, be proceeded against for the recovery of the Penalties thereby in, curred. • JOHN THOMAS BETTS. French Brandy Distillery, 7, Smithfield Bars, 4 , , - . . London, Dec , 23, 1635. idZ cs „ writing for various publications, until his powers began to fail him, when he became the dependant of a few .of his theatrical and literary friends in London, who had known him in his prosperity. He was also a lecturer, and deli vered his discourses upon various subjects in the metropolis and the country. He for a considerable time past was in the habit of furnishing a series of articles to Bell's Life in London upon " Practical Angling :" and was author of the " Reminiscences of an Actor's Life," &c., and a few years ago he performed at the Olympic Theatre. For some time past he had been exceedingly ill, which was caused, no doubt, from his irregular mode of living, arising from his necessity ; and he was frequently heard to complain of the want of feeling and ingratitude of the world. On Wednes day night last he requested the servant to call him at an early hour, which she did, when she left him awake, but not hearing him cough as usual, in about an hour subsequently she again proceeded to his bed-room, when she found him quite dead. A surgeon was called in, but to no purpose. A few papers were found in the room, but none of any im portance. The deceased was generally known,in London by the appellation of " Manager Howard," that being his theatrical name, but his.real name was Rogers. .He pos sessed considerable literary talent, and .was frequently heard to say that " his liberality in the days of his affluence had been the cause of his poverty." The -Jury returned a ver dict of " Died.by the Visitation of God." The remains of the unfortunate deceased were removed shortly after his dissolution to the workhouse for interment. ' - • THE JERSEY MURDER.—The examination of wit nesses in support of the charge against Louis Mari r,for the murder of Miss Bethel!, is still pursued in the Royal Court at Guernsey ; but so many delays occur, that some time will elapse before it is brought to a conclusion. After the hearing of witnesses has been finished in the Royal Court, the trial will commence before a petty jury, com posed of the parochial constable and twelve of his officers, seven of whom might concur to find a verdict of guilty. The prisoner has the right of appeal to a grand jury, called La Grande Enquete, composed of twentrfour persons from the three neighbouring parishes ; more are sometimes summoned. The prisoner may, on good ground, object to any of them. Five out of the twenty-four will acquit the prisoner. The verdict, instead of being, as in this country, guilty or not guilty, is in Guernsey either " more culpable than innocent," or " more innocent than guilty." BOROUGH IMPROVEMENTS. —WC understand it is contemplation to form a hop market in the commodious arches beneath the Greenwich Railway, which will have the effect of removing an intolerable and dangerous nuisance now existing in the Borough, opposite the Town Hall, and give a fair competition to the country dealers, as in the case of the corn, leather, fruit, fish, and other markets. A silver seal, of very ancient Curious, and elegant workmanship, was shown in our office the other day, the history of which is somewhat singular. About the year 1780, or a little before, some workmen, ploughing a part of the inclosed Flodden-field, found a solid silver seal, which; from the arms, turned out to have been that of Robert Ar not of Woodmiln (direct ancestor of the Balcormo family in Fife,) who bore the Royal pennon on that day, and fell at his Sovereign's side. The seal found its way, into the hands of an English gentleman of taste and fortune, and Scottish descent of that name, whose arms it so nearly approximated. His successor, a captain in the navy, being a- sister's son, and so not inheriting his uncle's name, in the most kind and liberal manner, transferred it to tha lineal descendant of its gallant owner.—Edinburgh paper. A PATRIARCHAL COUPLE—William Wilson, and Jane, his wife, of Darney, near Dunkancely, county Donegal, have now a living offspring of 130 souls. A few of their descendants died young. The venerable sire is about 101 years old, and still possesses all his senses and faculties, enjoys good health, and constantly superintends the affairs of this house and farm. A most precious relic has just been discovered among the archives of the Theatre Francais—it is the arm-chair in which Moliere breathed his last. It will be placed under a glass case in the gallery of the Moliere Museum, about to be formed under the auspices of the director of the theatre, as is that of Rubens, at Antwerp, which is so attractive to foreigners.—Paris Advertiser. On Sunday night last, six armed ruffians entered the house of an industrious man named Simon Dunn, who re sides at Teinsrath, in the barony of the Slievemaraga, Queen's County, Ireland, and forced him to surrender a written article, under authority of which be held a cabin and one acre of land. After destroying this document, the poor man was inhumanly beaten by those savages ; they snapped a pistol at his head, which fortunately did not explode, and then compelled him to swear on a prayer book they had for that purpose, that he would quit the premises in six days.—Carlow Sentinel. SURPLUS WEALTH OF THE IRISH CHURCH. — The Primate of Ireland receives annually, of ecclesiastical revenue, 17,669/. 16s. 7d. at the most moderate computa tion. It has been. customary to take only one-eighth re newal fine from the tenants on the Archiepiscopal estate, while the other Irish Prelates receive one-fifth. This is an .acknowledgment of one of two things : either the Primate's revenue is too plentiful, or the Bishops exact too much. The latter is not likely to be the case, as the tenants would not renew. The former, then, is the fact. The revenues of the Primacy are too plentiful. If so, to whom should this surplus revenue go ? Should it be permitted to remain in lay pockets to be spent in chariots, and horses, and fine clothes, and rich living, when thereby a worse appropriation —an absolute alienation—is countenanced by the Primate ; by that very person whose satellites unblushingly assert that he was the main cause of the destruction of Lord Mor peth's Bill, as he had the preceding year been the hero of Apsley-house to do a similar work for the Church and the country, in the case of Lord Hatherton's Bill ? The eccle siastical revenues of the Primacy are reduced by this prac tice. from 23,930/. I Is. 0-W.—particularity is desirable—to 17,669/. 16s. 7d., for what reason is best known to the Priinates themselves. It is, however, an alienation of 6,2601. 14s. .51421. annually, to uses which the subtlest Tory ingenuity cannot call ecclesiastical. That the Primacy is too well endowed cannot be denied, because it is acknow ledged, at the expense of the disinterestedness of the whole episcopal bench, by the Primates themselves. But still, on Tory principles, its surplus wealth should not be altogether alienated, nor on Whig principles could it be alienated until the labouring Clergy were comfortably provided for.—Dub lin Evening Post. ALARMING FlRE.—Between seven and eight o'clock on Sunday eveninr , last an alarming fire broke out in a vessel called the Atlas, lying off Davis's Wharf, Horsley down, Captain James Pearce master, from Weymouth, loaded with tallow, which threatened destruction at one time to the whole tier of shipping, but owing to the quick arrival of several engines, .and the daring activity of the firemen and police, the flames were subdued without doing so much damage as was at first anticipated. The cause of the fire is not known. A serious accident occurred in the confusion to Mr. Edward Syers, foreman to the engine sta tion in Southwark .Bridge-road, belonginc , London Esta blishment, vilio fell down- the ship's hold, ' but was imme diately raised up .and conveyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where he now lies in a precarious state. COLERIDGE'S OPIUM-TAKING.—My conscience indeed bears me witness (said Coleridge), that from the time I quitted Cambridge, no human being was more in different to the pleasures of the table than myself, or less needed any stimulation to my spirits ; and that by a most unhappy quackery, after having been almost bedrid for six months with sWoollen knees, and other distressing symp toms of disordered digestive functions, and through that Most pernicious form of ignorance, mediCal half-knowledge, I was seduced into the use of narcotics, not secretly, but (such was my ignorance) openly and exultingly, as one who had discovered, and was never weary of recommending, a grand panacea, and saw not the truth till my body had contracted a habit and a necessity ; and that, even to the latest, my responsibility is for cowardice and defect of for titude, not for the least craving after gratification or plea surable sensation of any sort, but for yielding to pain, ter ror, and haunting bewilderment. But this I say to man only, 'who knows only what has been yielded, not what has been resisted ; before God I have but one voice—" Mercy ! mercy ! woeis me." Yesterday morning, a female of respectable appear ance, a little past the meridian of life, arrived in London by the mail. The object of her visit was to spend the ensuing Christmas-day with her widowed mother, from whom she had been separated nearly ten years. Being fatigued with travelling, she partook of some refreshment in Oxford street, before she proceeded to her mother's dwelling ; and while thus engaged she bad an opportunity of observing what was passing in the street opposite the room she occu pied. A funeral attracted her attention for the moment, but this excited little more interest than other objects. However, having finished her repast, and proceeded to the place of her destination, she found the house occupied by mourners, the object of her affection having a few" minutes before been conducted to the grave. We are requested to state that Mr. BENTLEY will publish, in a few days, the following NEW WORKS In 2 vols. post Bvo., THE MONARCHY OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES; or, FRANCE; SOCIAL; LITERARY, AND POLITICAL. Second Soria. By HENRY L. BULWER, Esq., M.P. IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA, During_ the years 1833, 1834, and 1835. By TYRONE POWER, Esq. 2 vols. Bvo. -NEW WORK, by Mrs. TROLLOPE. IA 2 vols. Svo., with 14 Illustrations, PARIS' AND' PARISIANS IN 1835. By the Author of " Domestic Manners of the Americans," " Trentordyn Cliff," &c. . . THE JEYPORE TRAGEDY. (From tile Calcutta Papers.) Five of the - murderers of Arr. Blake have been executed, and many have fled from justice. A letter, apparently from a military officer on the sta tion, after giving it as his opinion that nothing had trans pired to prove a connection between the attempt upon the residents' life and the murder of Mr. Blake, adds the fol lowing details respecting the latter unfortunate gentleman. Major Alves and Mr. Macnaughten had previously left the palace :—" Most unfortunately," observes the writer, " when Blake came out either he or the chnprassce Luchmun ex posed the bloody sword with which the Major had been wounded. The mob, on seeing this, exclaimed, The feringees have. shed blood in the palace,' and with cries of mar ! mar ! ' began to throw dirt and stones. If Blake had apprehended more than local insult from this misguided crowd, he doubtless would have here turned back into the palace, but he ordered his mahout to push on homeward, and his elephant was accordingly urged alms.. the Chand nec Chonk, for 300 yards, at a 'pace which left the mob behind, and would soon have carried him out of the city, but as he turned into the broad street which leads to the Ajmere or Kishenpaul gate, a guard of the city police attracted by the genbral cry ran up and began to wound the elephant to stop its progress. • Blake now ordered a Suwar who attended him to gallop on to the Residency, and re port what was occurring. The mahout still pressed on, and had got half way down the street, a distance of 800 yards, when another of police meenahs,' joined in the affray, and hacked at the elephant's hind legs ; and .the mob coining up rained stones at the howdah from all sides, exclaiming Kill the murderer ! he has shed blood in the palace.' Blake defended himself from 'the stones as well as he could, and ordered the mahout to drive the animal up to the wall of a mender (or temple) racing the street. The door of this building was closed, but Blake, the chup rassee, and the mahout got in at a window, and were con ducted by two poojarries (priests) to a small room on the ground floor at the extreme end of it, and there locked in ; but the mob soon followed them, and, discovering their re treat, not only battered down the door of the room, but broke a large hole through the middle of the opposite wall from an adjoining court, and another on one side, just under the roof, from an outside staircase,. so as to be able to attack them from three points. Our friend got a sword from oae oe the poojarries just before he wa 3 loced in, and with this he defended himself most gallantly for some time, keeping the door, and warding off sword and spear thrusts ; but - when the dastardly assassins began to fire matchlocks at him through the breaches they had made in the wall and the roof, he felt that resistance was vain, and, forgetting him self, desired the men who stood by him to try the only chance of saving their lives by going out to the assailants. There was a possibility of their being thus spared, for-some of the crowd had loudly sworn by the Gunga and Jumna, that if they would leave the feringee and come out, they should not be hurt. The ohuprassee was the first to go out, and was immediately killed. The mahout was saved by a man who seized his arm and drew him aside. Our friend had once or twice called out to his attackers not to shed innocent blood, as he was guiltless. NoW, seeing that he had done all that man could hope to do against the over whelming force of his mad enemies, lie threw down his sword at the door of the room, and went' out calmly to face the mob that filled a small court in front of it, when ere he had advanced two steps beyond the threshold, he was de prised of life by twenty sword wounds. When the intelli gence of Blake's death was brought to the Residency, it was with difficulty believed ; so little was anything se rious expected from the effervescence of the people, but a few hours afterwards the sad truth of the statement was proved by the arrival of his body, which was brought with all possible respect by the servants of the Rawel. He was buried early the next morning close to the Residency, and a monument is being built over the spot, to perpetuate the memory of one who was as much esteemed by the Govern ment as he was beloved by his friends." We hear that one of the principal Generals Of Nepal has it in contemplation to make a voyage to England, via the Cape of Good Hope, from motives of curiosity, and a desire of acquiring knowledge. For a Hindoo of high caste, this is very extraordinary. We can have no doubt that the accounts of Raminohun Roy's reception in England have led to this desire to travel.—Hurkaru, July 25. We understand that some disturbances have occurred among the ryuts in Rajeshahye, in consequence of which a regiment of infantry, the 41st, has been ordered up from Barrackpore to Berhampore. The scene of the tumult is said to be the north of Rampoor Bauleah. We had not heard any particulars as to the cause.—lbid. The Hon. Sir Edward J. Gambier took the oaths and his seat as Recorder of Prince of Wales' Island, Singapore, and Malacca, at this station, on Monday last, the 29th in stant, and proceeded at once to the trial of a case appointed to be heard that day. PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRADE. JAMAICA, OCT. 27, 1835.—The following is extracted from the Jamaica Herald of Oct. 26 : " Captain Rose, of the schooner Gem, arrived at Salem, from Africa, reports that there were 24 sail of ships and brigs at one place Angola—waiting for cargoes of slaves. Yew York Paper. " Read the above all ye who have the interest of your country at heart—all ye who know how these unfortunate colonies have been treated—who know in what a shameful manner we have been deprived of our property. Will it not cause your blood to boil with indignation to learn that while we have been compelled (although we always con demned slavery in the abstract) to emancipate our slaves, the slave-owning colonies are allowed by the British and other Governments to carry on the horrid practice of man stealing, not only with impunity, but with a golden harvest as the result of their iniquity ? At Angola alone, twenty-four ships were at one time seen for this especial traffic!" The same paper of the following day thus again alludes to this subject " We have learned a few particulars which induce us to state that the negroes from Angola are supposed not to be considered in the light of simply kidnapped wretches, sold by the cupidity of others in the odious- traffic of human flesh ; but that, Angola being part and parcel of the Por tuguese dominions, the negroes from thence are merely ,to be looked upon as changing the scene of their labours un der the same rulers ; that the rulers of Portugal and the Brazils have as much right to ship those people from An gola as they have to bring subjects from Rio Janeiro ; that the ships of Angola arc, therefore, to be looked upon rather as transports for the conveyance of Portuguese subjects from one part of the empire to another, than as slave ships engaged in man-stealing ! We are quite aware that at Angola the Portuguese have a regular clerical and civil Government, with all the usual officials, both in Church and State, and that, under such circumstances, it may be quite competent in the authorities to remove any por tion of the inhabitants from place to place, under the same Government, on one of two conditions—namely, either that they- be convicts, sentenced to transportation for infraction of the laws, or persons voluntarily emigrating from the land of their nativity ; until we can be convinced that this is the case in the present instance, we will, and must, look upon these ships as being engaged, bond fide, in the slave trade! We have every respect for the quarter whence we draw some of these ideas, but, as our impression was that our informant did not look upon these ships as acting nefariously, we must differ from hiM, until it can be clearly pointed out to us that the persons engaged in transporting these unhappy creatures from the scenes of their childhood did not act tyrannically, or from sordid motives—until, in .short, it.shall be shown that these people were to leave Angola voluntarily—that they were not voluntarily sold. It appears to us somewhat incredible that there should be 24 ships at Angola alone, capable altogether of carrying off upwards of 8,000 human beings, without some of them be ing engaged in this frightful traffic. We cannot believe that there would, or could, be 3,000 voluntary emigrants from Angola ; and we know that a vast quantity of sugar is made in the Brazils, and that there must be slaves to make it. Perhaps we misunderstood what was said by our informant ; .but, when we reflect upon every circumstance connected with the subject, our heart waxes warm with indignation, and, in the bitterness of our spirit, we cannot help crying out against the monstrous iniquity of our rulers at home, who, although they have put an end to this hell born trade in the British colonies;take no effectual steps to put it down in other countries ! When we look on the map of the African coast, from Cape Formosa, in about 5 degrees north latitude, exclusive of the Guinea Coast, &c., and consider that if, from about the centre of that part of the coast, from Angola alone, 1,000 human beings may be everlastingly torn from all that is dear to them, and calcu late that from the whole extent of coast we have named perhapS 800,000 may be thus annually sold, and exported as slaves to distant colonies, we exclaim with all the energy of our souls—' away with slavery from the face of the whole earth for ever !' " MISFORTUNE WITH TILE BRIGHTON COMET.-- Yesterday morning, on the City side of London Bridge, owing to the slippery state of the stones, the two .wheel horses of this coach came down and laid for some time en tangled in the harness, owing to the great trouble in disen gaging them. The leaders were taken .off, and, all the passengers alighted, and a great concourse of people soon collected. No accident occurred to the coach or the pas sengers, and the horses did not appear to be seriously hurt. Really horse-keepers should be more attentive to having their horses better shod for the frost, as the lives of the passengers and the comfort and security of the horses themselves are at stake. The holies in Chaplin's Brighton' Van were also both down in Gracechurch-street. We mean the wheel horses, which were not shod for the frost. SPIRIT OF TI The German papers have been lately amusing their leaders with conjectures as to the principal object of Lord Durham's mission to St. Petersburgh ; and, assuming that his Lordship's exertions will b e c hi e fly directed to the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi, they assure us that any effort on his pada() have that Clandestine compact rescinded,. will be attended with certain fai— lure. It appears to us a great absurdity to suppose that our Ambassador' at that Court is authorized t o say a single word 'about the treaty in question, or to . make the most remote allusion to it. We have acted, for the last three years, just as if• that transaction had. had no existence. We have never recognised -it in any way. We have not admitted it Amongst the in ternational laws of Europe. So far as we are con cerned it is a mere nonentity, and therefore it signifies to us literally nothing in what_ light the Emperor and the Sultan choose - to contemplate it, As be tween the two - States. Further, it is now known., upon -evidence which cannot be disputed, that several Russian - ships of war have passed down from-the Black Sea, through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles, within the last six months, to the Archipelago. It is - understood that, should occasion require if, we shall dispatch a ship or ships of war through the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus into the Black Sea—possibly to explore the embouchures of .the Danube—possibly to ascend that river as far as the bar and the sand-banks will permit. All delicacy with reference to the passage of the two Straits by British ships of war has been removed by the recorded example of Russia. 'We have no inforaiation as to the main object of Lord Durham's mission. But the history of events, and the necessity of the case, tend to persuade us that . the immediate evacuation of Silistria , and the real evacuation of the Principalities, will be insisted upon by his .Lordship in the first instance. Ac- • cording to the treaties with Turkey, , the Russian troops ought to have long since quitted Wallachia. Nevertheless, under the pretence of keeping up the military communications between the Imperial fron tiers and Silistria, there are upwards of five thousand men cantOned in that Principality at this moment. With a view, ,we presume, to practice a deception, the garrison of Silistria has been reduced to about six thousand men within the last four or five months. But the fortifications gave in the meantime been ex tended, and Materially strengthened. These works can only have been undertaken with a view to a protracted possession of that place by the Autocrat—an arrange ment which cannot be permitted. We expect that it will be resisted at any hazard. Nevertheless, when We speak of hazard, we have no apprehension of a war with Russia. The Emperor perfectly well knows that the - Nobles, who are the great landed proprietors in that country, derive their revenues from the trade with England., A war with us would pauperize. his Aristo cracy—and sooner than submit to such a change of fortune, to please the ambition of an indiscreet, if not an insane Sovereign, they would take off his head. It must be admitted that the British Government, whe ther Whig or Tory, has too long suffered the Czar to prey upon Turkey. The time has arrived, when de cisive, steps may and ought to be taken, to enable the Sultan to re-establish the independence, and secure the integrity of his dominions. That such measures will be adopted—indeed, that they are already in progress we entertain no doubt.—Morning Chronicle. Reports come crowding on us that Lord Melbourne begins to see that which every one else in the commu nity beyond the misty verge of faction has for many months been convinced of—namely, that with his pre sent associates, and under the embarrassments in which, at their dictation, he has involved himself, it is impos sible for the Noble Viscount to go on, as nominal head of those of his brother galley-slaves, ridiculously called "the Government." . Lord Melbourne, as it has been rumoured for this day or two, flatters himself that he AN - ill recover Lord Stanley and the Duke of Richmond to his Ministry ; and in hopes of being able to realize a prospect so exhilirating, the Noble Viscount has, ac cording to the, pedantic phraseology of office, " put himself in communication," more than once, with the former of the above noblemen. He is now on a visit to the latter. If there is in such " communications" any thing more than a mere renewal of private intercourse—if Lord Mel bourne has been seeking an accession of strength from such a wholesome quarter, irrefragable proof will be at once afforded, that the base and pesti lential alliance with O'Connell is dissolved ; that Lord Melbourne is at length recalled to a sense of what he owes to the British monarchy—of the solemn debt, in the nature of reparation which he owes to the reformed 'church in which he was educated—of his repeated pledges as a British Peer, and as the adviser of his Sovereign, to maintain inviolate the union with Ire land, the civil rights and vested properties, and valua ble lives of his Protestant fellow-subjects in that coun try, attached as they are, heart and soul, to Great Britain, and beset by millions of barbarous persecu tors of their religious creed, and their politicall and so cial existence. We certainly shall not -withhold the due praise from Lord Melbourne and his colleagues, when it shall be 'proved to us that they really desire a , re-union with Lord Stanley and the Duke of Rich mond, - on the only terms on which it would be any thing but immodest madness in the present Cabinet to solicit such a junction, or on- which it would be morally possible for Lord Stanley and the Noble Duke to accede to it—viz., a total, peremptory, and final breach with O'Connell and the Romish re volutionists of Ireland, including a frank and abso lute surrender of that disastrous clause in the Irish Tithe Bill, or rather forcibly patched upon the measure, which with its appendages have mainly caused the ra pid growth of Popish insolence and outrage in Ireland, and such terrible bitternesses of feeling, bad blood, and confusion here. We repeat it emphatically, that an approximation of Lord Melbourne towards Lord Stanley and his friends, is war with O'Connell, and the scabbard flung away. It is a direct sacrifice of the appropriation, or spoliation, policy, on the very suggestion of which, in - a far more mitigated form under cb Lord Grey's Government, Lord Stanley, the Duke of Richmond, Sir James Graham, &c., resigned. As for the vile suspicion of any possibility exist ing that Lord Stanley and his friends, who gave up office because of their disgust at the principls of alienating church property, and their terror at the prospect of seeing such a principle embodied in a bill, and forced upon the nation—that they would now suf fer themselves to be bribed by a resumption of the same office, to vote for the principle and measure which they before repudiated, and to destroy- those mighty interests for which they then devoted them selves, and made a burnt offering of power,—such an enormity is not worth the shadow of a thought. No— if Lord Stanley joins the Ministers, he joins them like a man of honour and a patriot—to save our institu tions, not to subvert them. But the rumour must be altogether unfounded. The " communication to Lord Stanley and the Duke of Richmond" is merely a " ruse," to give the hope of an accession of strength to the wavering ranks of the Ministerialists, who, in structed by late ei'ents, begin to look about for loop holes of escape. Lord Melbourne dares not quarrel with O'Connell ; still less does he dare to propose to Lord Stanley a political junction, while the s poliation Bill and the resolution which was its foundation are daily proclaimed as - the rallying sign of his Cabinet and its principal supporters.—Times. We seldom recollect any event to have caused such evident and deep consternation amongat the hangers on or dependents of any Ministry, as the result of the late Northamptonshire election, followed up by the retreat from Gloucestershire, appears to have done. In vain do the' Ministerial prints assure them and the pub • tie that Mr. Maunsell's victory is Wholly to be attri buted to the fact, that the loweSt prejudices (:,f the Northampton hire " clods" had been excited against Mr. Hanbury's cause, or e that the' majority was coma posed of distressed farmers, tenants at will, who were driven to the poll like swine by the whips of their Tory landlords. The persons alluded - to are far too wise in their generation, and are much too accurately acquainted ] with the state of things, both in Northamptons hire and elsewhere, to be gulled by such rubbishing inventions ; they know the inevitable effect that such an event must produce in an quarters. - They see in it not only chance of their patrons being actually defeated early in the next Session, but, what is of far more importance,- C JOURNALS -Cll- and don, ) be : de ould way. ant's ad a from Drto ; front from