The Sun. — London, England, 1835-05-19 00:00:00

.day at Justice and g with ::h was ! corder is cha ;sariat- towiug ellant , ia rbam, I bop of pose of )eal 0f he 2P n The , r left, at Act' et di' evaile a re IN v hich ,e otbe le 'JP° bo w ' ros ftg ° u of 111,F 0 4 P $ll 4 curt eo pet ir° l tb 1/1 Of iel• pot' ft° lsh , . 0 14 iiris" 0 4 Ors . fot 100°,:d0 OA ' S. E."' eh nch° be Wir her i tlie f A XI of air( I b e t i ; or 11 , r b Vsic .11 t 1 1 019 VC tit / id t r ita COURT CIRCULAR. lett 'r b e.,l 6 Duches s o f K ent gave a concert at K ens i ng t o n Palace The to a sma ll party o f N o bili ty an d G entry . I, 4 "'e Duke of Cumberland returned to town yesterday from residence at Kew. His Royal Highness and the Duke of kss ez visited t h e D u k e and Duchess of Cambridge. The D uc h ess of Kent and the Princess Victoria wal k e d an d wove in the Parks yesterday morning. IMessrs. Nielson and Walker, from Canada, accompanied kr. Gillespie, had an interview ' yesterday with Lord Glenelg B eti Colonial Office. t : 1810 11 Bulow, the Prussian Minister, visited Viscount Pal iiirst°4 yesterday at the Foreign Office. Mr. Vail; Charge effaires of the United States, and Earl Granville, transacted L ne ss/esterday at the Foreign Office. damson Suffield and a deputation visited the Right Hon. P. v! 11301 1 yesterday at the Board of Trade. ?count Morpeth visited Viscount Melbourne yesterday. vitt Pupa,Trico the Greek Minister, had an interview yesterday Mr. hson. F ASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. sa ARRIVALS. Matthew Tierney, Bart., in Bruton-street, from Pet fr;l4; Lord and Lady Willoughby de Broke, in Hill-street, Compton Barony, Warwickshire ; Mr. and the Hon. g4 L eY, at L or d Y ar b oroug h' s , A r lington street, from P oN : l esbY Hall ; Lord and Lady Bingham and family, in We'ill-square ; th e E ar l and Countess of Orford, Lord wore, and the Ladies Walpole, from Woollerton Hall, l ate ° k,' Madem o i se lle D'Este, in South-street, from Rams ' Right Hon. C. W. Wynn, Mr. Croker, Justices Pat- Gaselee, Hons. R. Cust, R. Curzon, R. Curzon, jun., of Hereford, Archdeacons Cambridge, Jones, Bayley, Vg A l l t° ll , Colonels Powell, M.P., Delap, Messrs. Egerton, 14 4 tolte, Price, Bonham, Bayley, Gaskell, H. Hobhouse, Iti st et end Messrs. Ward and Norris ; Mrs. Haffenden and the Haffenden, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish- Pi; Mrs. Hammond and Miss Hammond, at ditto; J. F. r, Esq., at ditto ; J. W. Smith, Esq., at ditto ; Rev. Les, at ditto ; J. Gambler, Esq., at ditto. P, p DEPARTURES. ; O'Kelly, Esq., Mrs. O'Kelly, and Miss Maher, from OAPThomp' son's Hotel, Cavendish-square R. C. auto: Esq:, from ditto ; R. Townley Parker, Esq., COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. sad w - "la made her appearance last night at Covent-garden, e lks received enthusiastically by an audience as crowded te, , e b l e l°ll se would permit. She looks quite as well as when fore, and acted and sung in the part of Amina with all accustomed spirit. In considering the general merits of kthP er fcrmance we should say that, of the two, its acting th.. e rslistain s its singing than the converse ; and further, that ligh7 l „ ° cs and melodramatic portion is much finer than the sitit,; ° , 4l edy with which it opens. The latter appears almost ittizZ a ,_ l in its abounding traits of gaiety and naivete. The it i t : 23 'unequivocally natural and fresh from the heart • and kor e " a believe Madame Malibran was never more beautiful or tI P o werful than she was last night. At the conclusion of 6 ki:t scene i n th e first act the applause was so enthusiastic tall e - " llti cued that she came forward after the curt ain had pit 4 la receive and acknowledge it. Great numbers in the stood up and received her with waving of hats and !N et : e ,_,tiefs. There was an encore of this complimentary s'iltai at the termination of the opera. Templeton, as lip to e, sustained the part of Elvino in a manner highly to his IDs The perfect sincerity which stamps his performance til e :is its f ew bl em i s hes. In the scene above mentioned, at itli t .: s e of the first act, his passion was a little outrageous, a breach of Hamlet's rule touching " the torrent, , B, c. There is so much that is good, that is excellent kt or i t Templ e t on 's singing, that we wish it w ere wholl y '44'eC L "ni ?ghat we twist consider provincialisms of tone, "...e brought with him to London , and of which he has c lste got rid. It would be salutary for him to bear in O perk icathe is singing the same music as R übini at the Italian Vph o .zquin and Miss Betts took their old parts of Ro and Liza, and acquitted themselves creditably. ENGLISH OPERA HOUSE. W e 4 1) . Th eart only award praise to the getting up of Th e Female 'den Mr. Hawes is the adapter, and has followed, eled to us, more closely the original Somnambula than ether piece before the public. In this respect he has acted h tat t arid good discretion, and the instrumentation, while th e threne;out vigorous, evinces his thorough knowledge of of g s ources of the orchestra. The cast included the names 1'i0v,4 1 , 88 Romer as Amina ; Miss P. Horton, as Lisa ; Miss it od - 7; as Theresa ; Wilson, as Elvino ; Giubilei, as Count oft e : 94o ; and J. Bland, as Alessio. The plot has been so t, Presented er in various shapes that it would be tedious to tki e into details. Miss Romer, as it will be remembered, great impression last season at Covent . Garden in . the last night of the Somnambulist. Her acting and sing :LlkJ' night exhibited visible and audible signs of con ;we ot e improvement. To institute a comparison be -44(4.,,her and the prime donne of the King's Theatre itsti t ' cl 'ent- Garden would be as absurd as it would mani tbe unj ust . We are sufficiently elated at having an ktsh vocalist who can effect so much, and we are quite *k _ the most fervent admirers of Nlalibran and Grisi, amongst k IQ e reckon ourselves the most enthusiastic, could afford k r but e of strong eulogium on beholding the exertions of Lig Romer. In the first sleeping scene she met with well- Oerved applause, which became enthusiastic during the Zfuggle with her lover at the end of the first act ; but it was tthe last scene that she displayed the greatest histrionic Z:r. Her glad r ecogn i t i on of Elvino, when s h e awa k e s her i'leep, was replete with impassioned feeling ; and the i i Zt en spring into his arms, with the hysterical burst of affee -4 Was in admirable keeping. Th e a pp ro bation bestowed m her execution of the finale, was well merited ; and the 7rsal call for her re-appearance, at the fall of the curtain, i4l liPlY testified the impression which she had made. Miss P. 1h t4141 is entitled to much commendation, for the very delight kttitn. d effici ent manner w ith w hi c h s h e gave the music of her th e Wilson, as Elvino, was in fine voice, and sang with ktenlost intense expression. Giubilei made his first appear -10, , 01 1 these boards in Count Rodolpho, and was most fa- WY received. The house, at half-price, was well attended. VAUXHALL GARDENS. W e k e , Were last night gratified with a p rivate view of the Ik e and material alterations which the " Royal Property" ii ht k lergone since the close of last season. The Rotunda`asp et. re- i decorated in a new and t asteful style, in which ,ip t ,y4of which the ornamental part is entirely composed) f ft r 1 to novel purposes, inasmuch as Corinthian columns l a r „ttod -trn „ ati of that material. Two excellent views are here ‘ke ea d , which do great credit to the pictorial skill of Mr. MD R The first represents a faithful portraiture of the town ,'gay ° t„.. /er, its harbour, and castle, at sunset, as seen at mid 'ate - "ra Calais which is the subject of the second, a e • t c atoepi 'penlight. In the theatre, where the ballet was . Zta i l t i o Y ii represented, a splendid view of Amsterdam and its - vs•iii • -se are exhibited ; and at the end of the long walk a "Iktov star, supported on either side by gladiators, after aotA-6 Th e Apollo Belvidere enlighten s the dark walk ir n. to the hermit of old, who is r e p laced b y a new one ; atte t r Poor Exile" of St. Helena is on the fo rlorn look . " top f the southern avenue. The Pavilio n has been eri lbelli Po • ot e „... s in a most splendid manner, after designs from for au, and will be differently and more conveniently arranged ,I!or; lt iir t hments than it has heretofore been. The Fete of N oi l 8 ' the concluding scene of all this most eventful nis en Premises greatly for the attractions o f the coming MR. MORI'S CONCERT. tliel Mori h e ld hi s Annual Concert on Friday evening-, at Ntsisreat Con cer t Rooms, King's Theatre. The prog ramme, to twenty-five, of an inordinate number of pieces , no less indeed i e t renty-five, attracted a numerous audience, the greater . 11 of which, we much suspect, had but a slight know- Ce tt ;) and took but little interest in what was performed. The of j,, e it tt : opened with the new grand characteristic Sinfonia 1, 8 Spohr which was introduced to the musical ama ivoue, this country, for the first time, at the Philharmonic litit h — ,, tts of this season. It was on this occasion curtailed of its tl e ;,'". Portions, cut up into two movements, and but indifferently Itilf tt i et i- The orchestra gentlemen appeared to be either ii,ki I I or innocently ignorant of the composer's intentions, le le, a n% Mori took care that the audience should know still by abstaining from subjoining to the programme for the t eli qrg the usual explanatory matter prefixed to this corn _.,V ( °I I.' Mr. Moscheles performed Hummel's Rondo in aitl l l,, 4 -'e Retour a Londres,") in a manner at once asto kriit and delightful, and from his hands so many hidden Its ;and beauties were discoverable, that it came upon 1 4% 11 all the charms of novelty. A fantasia for the 11,0;i claiming considerable pretensions to merit, the corn- ZI of the celebrated • Nicholson, was entrusted to th e - g pupil of that gentleman, a Master Richardson. odicovements abound in the most unimaginable and unheard oeulties, and the youthful candidate for distinction got et 1 1 1 - 16 them in a manner which reflected the highest credit 414 abilities and industry. Lablache ag ain deli g hted the k e nee with his wonderful performance of the extrao rdinar y t en l A of Mephi s t o ph e l es from the Faust of Spohr, and to 4 with Tarnburini the comic duet ' Un segreto d' impor- Ithi c a b ''' fro o f L a C ene rentola of Rossini , a co m p osition Z n A, ° Pens veinr similarly to the introductory scene in the 4dtle specimens di Figaro of Mozart, and is one of the most favour the A - Icirnens of Rossini's ~1-enius. Rubini's performance of kid Telaida of Beethoven -was highly finished and effective, te rit o aracterized by great feeling, purity, and a perfect con is ri O n of the beautiful ideas of the composer. Miss Masson of Z ec lttal to the task of doing justice to the great song ozart from the La Clemenza di Tito of thai miter'_'ez t i e _ and we only mention it to remember Willman's t o , tilsite performance of the obligato accompaniment th e t° eorno basetto. If Madame Stockhausen will look into p itt tst act of Der Akhymist of Spohr, she will find the nteh e li g, ° she sings exquisitely arranged with a chorus and Wi l k: 4l a accompaniment. It occurs in the ballet scene tile tames place in the palace of Don Ramiro, and is one of si4rtost elegant movements we are acquainted with.. The grioncluoafnthis lady with Grisi and Begrez, ta the trio from the of Mozart, was all that could be desired. Grisi, die tr , .. °lll ', Brambilla, Ivanboff, and a host of artists came _obe 1104._n‘othe command of the enchanter ; and a detail of the Afe;:ris)tecal absurdities of such Irxiteis as Donizetti, d ellini, Leaders, time; S'., would take up too inucii of °I -1 r 0w.111.:,n 1r 'ed if but we really hope we may never age... 11 ° - Ith t 1 4 ,4 skyrocket cadenzas attached to that dull rice of inanity, the " Oh nume benefico," from the Gazza Ladra of Rossini. Mr. Mai performed the ninth concerto of -Spohr (op. 70), omitting the movement in E minor, which is the best of the three. His performance is characterized by a defiance of all difficulties, and the brilliancy and strengh of his bow hand is beyond praise. But, alas he is utterly destitute of feeling, and fiddles the music of Louis Spohr as he would that of Mayseder, or any other writer of that calibre. He introduced also a new fan tasia for the violin, described as his own composition, embracing an olla podrida from the Operas of Il Pirata, Robert le Diable and La Cenerentola, and appearing under the sonorous and fashionable appellation of " Souvenir de Paris, Milan, et Londres." There is certainly no 53 mpathetic feeling between the " Le Retour a Londres" of Hummel and the " Souvenir de Londres" of Mr. Mori; these writers, happily for the credit of the first, have no one idea in common. Mr. Mori's Fantasia was a tissue of variations upon the "Tu Ve drai" of Bellini, the " Non piu Mesta" of Rossini, and the " Drinking Song," from Robert le Diable. The only at tempt at harmony was in the coda towards the close, and such, as we trust no pupil from Tenterden- street will imitate. In sheer fiddling Mori need not fear Spohr or De Beriot, but in all other respects he is their inferior, and we regret that the imperfect system of musical education which unfortunately ob tains in this country should have done so little for this gentle man, great and varied as is the talent which he undoubtedly possesses. Justin bsero,,i7 em "-solci• h ° lAO I,I II of tP' aftit A es to 313.- s CO ,11010 1 t opine dingir AV , f t eefr • orth! the I t:- Auall lP don for f O s. of P ar : • at 141. s w err v;11011 i f IL . IT ( int - 0' Itng_,,,, to r sel"' tea t If° p ot. Fayt a• da ce o p pv eu ui , is loe& o.i_tb9j; cow- At d rep, scf effect se °cril- c o met_l alleo g ° 14b, ST. ANN'S SOCIETY SCHOOLS. • On Thursday the Anniversary Festival of this Society was celebrated at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, when nearly a hundred and fifty friends of the Institution sat down to dinner,—the Right Honourable the Earl of Ripon in the, Chair. After the cloth had been removed, the Noble Chairman gave " The health of his Majesty the King," which was re ceived with the customary acclamations, and drunk with three times three. On proposing " The health of her Majesty the Queen, and the Princess Victoria, and the rest of the Royal Family," the Noble Earl successively announced that her Ma jesty and the Princess Victoria had desired that their names should be added to the patrons of the Charity, with an annual subscription of ten guineas, which announcements were re ceived with continued applause. " The health of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex" was received with similar marks of approbation, and was followed by " The Navy and Army," and the usual patriotic toasts. During the evening the children, who are educated, boarded, and clothed by the Institution, were introduced into the room, when an appropriate address was creditably spoken by one of the senior boys. The appearance of the children was particularly in teresting, and rendered not less so from its having been men tioned that several of the principal present supporters of the Charity had received the rudiments of their education in that establishment, the Institution of which they had met that day to celebrate. " The health of the Right Honourable the Earl of Ripon" was afterwards drunk with the warmest applause, and elo quently acknowledged by the Noble Lord, who remarked, that although the present was the first occasion on which he had appeared before the Society, still he assured them that in him they would find a zealous supporter and strenuous advocate. These observations were further confirmed by his Lordship with a munificent donation of twenty guineas. The Health of the Treasurer and other Officers of the In stitution" successively followed ; after which the meeting separated. We learn that Lord John Russell subscribed 5001. towards the expenses of Lord Morpeth's election. LEVEE OF THE LORD LIEUTENANT.—Thursday his Excellency Earl Mulgrave held his first levee at the Castle, which was attended by upwards of 400 persons. Considering that the close of the season is fast approaching, the attendance was much more numerous than was expected. _ Since the opening of a portion of the Regent's park, considerable discontent has been manifested in conse quence of the gates being closed daily at half-past six o'clock in the evening. Shutting up the gates at such an hour, it is contended, is converting the delightful lawn into an exclusive parade for the gentry before dinner ; while the mechanic and the middling classes are debarred from the enjoyment of its benefits, the gates being closed before they finish their daily avocations. On Sunday evening, numbers of persons, not being aware of this arrangement, were locked in, and several very respectable women were obliged to climb over the rail ings, exposed to the insults of a mob of blackguards assembled opposite the entrance by the York and Albany Tavern. The elopement of Miss Grant, daughter of General Sir Colquhoun Grant, with Mr. Brinsley Sheridan, has created a great sensation in the fashionable circles. The young lady has 40,0001. of her own, settled upon her, besides expecta tions of a considerable fortune, in addition to this. The absence of Sir Colquhoun Grant from London was chosen to carry into execution a plan, it is said, long since matured; and, we fear, under circumstances not very creditable to some of the female parties accessary to the transaction. Three fashionable ladies are said to have been cognizant of the whole transaction, and rumours are afloat of an intention to prosecute for a conspiracy to carry off the lady. An extem pore wardrobe for the fair fugitive is said to have been pro vided for her by her female coadjutors, among which was in cluded a celebrated nightcap, to which it is to be hoped the same accident will not again occur as befel it on the first occa sion on which it was worn by its lovely owner.—Morn. Post, It is said that a bal costume is shortly about to be given by one of the leaders of the haut ton, which is to exceed anything of the kind ever before given in this coun try. It is reported that the characters and arrangement of this fete will be much the same as those adopted at the celebrated entertainment of the same kind given by Sir Henry Wellesley, when he was Minister at the Court of Vienna. BRUSSELS, MAY 15.—The following affair has just been pleaded before the Second Chamber of the Tribunal of First Instance, in Brussels. A lady, calling herself Mrs. Long Wellesley, obtained authority to cite Mr. Wellesley, that he might be condemned to receive her into his house, and to treat her as his wife. Mr. Wellesley replied to this demand by positively denying that the person in question was his wife. He does not deny the possibility of his having had some ac quaintance with this person ; but he denies that she is his wife. Mr. Wellesley maintained further, that the tribunal of Brussels is incompetent to decide on such a questiqn between foreigners. Mr. Berbaum, as counsel for the lady, and Mr. Verhaegen for Mr. Wellesley, spoke at great length in favour of their respective clients. A great number of persons were present at the trial. M. de Schepers for the King's Attor ney-General, called on the tribunal to declare itself incompe tent. The declaration of the sentence is put off for a week. SUDDEN DEATH OF A PHYSICIAN. —An in quest was held yesterday to inquire into the causes of the death of Doctor George Pinckard, of No. 18, Bloomsbury-square. The deceased was 67 years of age, and fell down dead in the act of prescribing for a patient. Ossification of the heart was proved to have existed for a length of time, and the Jury found a verdict of, " Died by the visitation of God." LYME REGI S.—T. B. Hardwick, Esq., has been can vassing our borough on Conservative principles, in anticipa tion of a general election, it having been ascertained that Lord Burghersh will not again offer himself. It has also been rumoured that Captain Henley, the Lord of the Manor, in tends to offer himself on the same principles. At the last Court-day, held last week, by Mr. T. Clarke, of Chard, the steward, the tenantry were given to understand it was the intention of Captain Henley to oppose our present member at the next election, he having voted with Lord John Russell to oust Sir R. Peel; many, if not all, of the tenants are deter. mined to adhere to the principles of reform, as did their late much respected landlord, H. H. Henley, Esq., whose exer tions were unabating to get the present member elected in the first Reformed Parliament.—Sherborne Journal. On Monday last, as the York and Sheffield coach (the Ebor) was leaving York, about half-past one o'clock, the axletree broke just without Micklegate Bar, aid the coach was thrown on one side, flat upon the ground. It was dragged by the horses several yards ; but providentially no very severe consequences ensued. There was not any inside passengers, and but four outside—viz, three gentlemen and a lady. The former all escaped unhurt; but the lady was so severely agi tated and bruised, that she had to be taken into a house, and medical assistance procured. No blame, however, can be attached to the coachman, for he was going very leisurely at the time.—Sheifield Mercury. A small flock of Saxon Merino sheep were lately landed at Hull ; they were detained nearly a month at the Custom-house before an order could be obtained from the Treasury, as the importation of sheep is prohibited. The wool was beautifully fine, and the sheep were of a better form than those imported from Spain. Their docility in following the person who had the charge of them through the streets afforded much amusement.—Yorkshire Paper. In the " Annals of King George the First," year the fourth, the following account is given under the head of " An odd motion in the Irish House of Peers:—A very sur prising motion was made in the House of Lords by an Arch bishop, viz.—' That for the honour of religion, and for the propagation of the reformation in Ireland, he was willing to divest himself of part of the revenues of his bishopric, to aug ment the incomes of poor livings in the country, and for the encouragement of the inferior clergy to do their duty,' but it was coolly seconded, and lost in a few days." Had this example been generally followed the Irish Church would not be what it now is—a disgrace to religion. HELSTON FLORA -DAY.--This strange annual ju bilee, which has existed from time immemorial, and which it is supposed originated from the Roman custom of paying an early tribute of respect to the goddess Flora, was kept up with great spirit on Friday, the Bth instant. No infringement whatever is allowed on the rights of the day i and should any persons be found at work, they are set astride on a pole, and carried away amidst a thousand buzzes, and made to leap over a wide part of the river—but there were no delinquents on this occasion—it was a day of universal festivity and fun, and all the elite of the neighbourhood graced it with their pre sence. Dancing through the streets commenced about one o'clock, and the assembly rooms in the evening were crowded to excess.— West Briton. LAUNCH.—On Thursday last the Hindoo was launched ; she is intended for the East India trade, and is 800 tons burthen.—Belfast News Letter. THE BAR.—In Spain, tho har holds a high and privileged position in society, which it is almost difficult to re concile with the despotic character of the Government. As a proof of the rank yielded to it, it may be mentioned that a member of the bar is priviteged Troia r,-;:!.st for debt, and is also entitled to claim to die the death of o n e of th e nobilit y , in pi e event ofr i m s L av in:, incurred a capital punishment. The British bar WthertO atooct high in piAblie estimation; THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, MAY 19, 1835 but it is not to be denied that the want of some check upon the admission to it, as well as of some judicial correction, has been the means of introducing a class of low uneducated practitioners, greatly to the injury of the honour and character of the profession at large. BERWICK MARKET.—.--The attendance of servants at high market was limited. The demand was chiefly for women servants, who were readily engaged at 5/. ss. and 5/. 10s., and we heard of some few instances of 61. being given. The wages for men were generally 51. is. We are called on at length to announce the death of Judith Long, alias Mendham, the wise woman of Walpole, at the advanced age of 84. She was the oracle among the credulous of the neighbourhood, and not a few have been her dupes in the necromancer's art.—Lincoln Gazette. A company of agriculturists have taken the great forest of Brecknock (a few years ago sold by the Crown), con sisting of 16,000 acres of land, which they intend to stock with Welsh ponies and sheep. The Sultan's decree against smoking causes great discontent not only in the capital, but in the provinces, espe cially Bulgaria. CHARD.—A few days ago Thomas Moore, a noto rious poacher, who, it is stated, used to kill, on an average, 500 hares a year, was committed for trial, by the Rev. J. Clarke and Captain White, on a charge of setting fire to a young plantation in the parish _of Churchstanton.—Bath Journal. Died, on Saturday evening, at the advanced age of 98 years, William Evans, who has swept the crossing at Buck ingham-gate for nearly 30 years. It is suspected that he has left a considerable sum of money behind him. He had been engaged at the battle of Alexandria, and lost a leg, besides being seriously injured in the head, and he was, up to his death, in the receipt of a pension of a shilling a day. The deceased enjoyed good health up to a few minutes of his death, and was on Saturday seen at the gate following his avocation. Ipswicx, MAY 14.—0 n the 29th ult. the Ccesar, of Colchester, on her way from Newcastle, whilst off Aldbo rough, was struck by a heavy sea, which filled her mainsail, and completely cleared the deck, leaving the vessel a perfect wreck. The crew, four in number, were seen on a mast by a schooner at some distance from them, the captain of which got sufficiently near to hail them, and ascertained the cause of the catastrophe, but the wind was blowing so strong at the time, that every effort to save them proved ineffectual, and the poor fellows all met a watery grave; they were all natives of Colchester, and some have left wives and families to deplore their loss. ATHENS, APRIL 18.—The banditti Chief, Kon tobernisios (who was lately captured, after a desperate resist- ante, in which all his comp - anions were killed or taken) is dead of three severe wounds which he received, without having been prevailed upon to make any confession. It is said that the brothers Chondrojanni are also taken, so that the Pelopon nesus is freed from banditti. But some instances of robbery have taken place on the Turkish frontiers, and in the Thermo- pylm, and pirates have appeared in the Greek seas ; but our means of defence are so well organised, that we may expect all such cruises will be speedily put an end to.—Swabian Mercury, May 12. POPERY.--Last week, 226 acres of land, situated on Charnwood Forest, in this county, was sold to the Rev. Mr. Hulm, a Roman Catholic priest, residing at Loughbo -. rough, for the purpose of founding a Roman - Catholic mo nastery of the Jesuit Order. The land was the property of Thomas Gisborne, Esq., M. P.—lt was also currently reported in Loughborough, that Charles M. Phillipps, Esq., had em braced the order, and that he intended to end his days in the new monastery.—Leicester Herald. On Sunday morning about 8 o'clock, the neighbour hood of Broadwall, Lambeth, was thrown into a state of great excitement and alarm, by a current report that a woman had been found dead in a shed behind the Bull in the Pound public house, Broadwall, and near to the late Mr. Henry Hunt's blacking manufactory, and supposed by appearances to have been murdered. The body was conveyed to the bone-house, and subsequently to the vaults of St. John's church, Waterloo road. A gentleman, one of those whom curiosity had led to view the body, declared her to be a married woman, and re spectably connected. He gave the name and address of the deceased, and every information in his power, to further the elucidation of the affair, to the police. MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—On Saturday last, Coney, weaver, Girvan, loaded his gun, and put a percussion cap on it, for the purpose of shooting sea-fowl ; but not hav ing fallen in with any, he returned home, and placed the gun on the bed head, without firing off the contents. On the Sunday, while the family were preparing for breakfast, M'Clelland, observing the gun, took it down, and while han dling it, it went off, and the contents entered the right ear of Mary Ann Wilson, a young. woman of about twenty years of age, who instantly fell down dead.—Ayr Observer. TORNADO.—A most furious tornado was expe rienced at Columbia, Tennessee, on the night of the 21st March. Its entire duration is said to have been but a few mi .. nutes, in the course of which houses were torn from their foundations, trees uprooted, and piled together, fences prostra ted, and every thing within the scope of its fury beaten down, and destroyed. Eight persons were killed, and fifteen or twenty badly wounded. The account says that " a negro girl, belonging to a family in which four persons were killed, was blown into the fire, and there confined by a beam until the storm was over, when, directed by her screams, assistance was afforded. In this excruciating situation she lay literally roasting for nearly an hour. She is still alive. Some con. ception of the velocity of the wind may be had from the fact that in a green lynn tree, near Mr. Lusk's dwelling, is to be seen sticking about twenty feet from the ground a broad piece of poplar plank, firmly driven in to the depth of four or five inches, and at an angle of about 45 degrees, across the grain." HYDROPHOBIA.—A case of this dreadful disease occurred within the last week. The unfortunate sufferer was a young woman, a native of Ballyneen, who had been bitten in the hand three months ago by a strange dog in her own house. The violent symptoms began on the afternoon of Sun day, and after horrible snffering and excruciating agony, she expired within sixty hours from their first appearance. We are informed that in this case the tobacco enema afforded the only relief; every possible means were used, but the tobacco alone appeared to quiet the spasms. This young woman was induced to eat the liver and heart of the dog by which she was bitten, as soon as they could be got ready, a prevailing custom, and looked upon as a sure antidote among the lower orders. —Dublin Mail. The incendiaries now seem to direct their vengeance against farming buildings rather than ricks. On Sunday night last the farm buildings of Mr. William Whorrah, in the parish of Burton Dassett, near Warwick, were fired and destroyed, together with farming stock therein to the value of 300/. ; and on Friday last, at midnight, a fire was discovered in three places on the farm buildings of Mr. Knight, at Donhead St. Mary, near Shaftesbury, by which a dwelling-house, barn, stables, carthouse, and their contents, were entirely destroyed. The buildings and stock were fully insured in the County Fire Office. A Coroner's Inquest was held at Welbeck, on Mon day se'nnight, on the body of James Smith, apprentice to Mr. Reynolds, cook to his Grace the Duke of Portland. On the morning of the 9th he was found in his bed-room in a state of complete exhaustion, produced, as appeared by the evidence given, from the effects of a pan of charcoal, which he took into his bed-room on the night previous, with the intention of de stroying himself. It was clearly ascertained that disappoint ment in a love affair was the cause of his committing the me lancholy act. Verdict—" Febo de se." Yesterday Alexander Somerville, formerly of the Scots Greys, and whose flogging made such a noise in the world three years since, was brought before the sitting Ma gistrate, charged with being drunk, and breaking the door and several articles of furniture in a house in the Canongate, on the morning of Tuesday last, also with biting or cutting the hand of the watchman who went to seize him. The case being clearly proved, Somerville was sentenced to pay a fine of 2/., and, in default of payment, to 30 days' confinement, besides finding caution in the sum of 201. for his future conduct, or failing which, 30 days' further confinement. From the noto riety which the offender had acquired, the case excited some interest; but his appearance, which was rather simple and clownish, certainly did not bespeak that shrewdness and talent for which his zealous partisans had given him credit.—Edin burgh Observer. MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF THE LATE PRINCE DE COND=. — In a very interesting cause in itself, which came on lately before the Tribunal of Senlis, the following inci dent occurred :—lt may be remembered that in October last, Madame de Pontalba was the ivictim of an attempt at assassi nation committed on her person by the old Baron de Pontalba, her father-in-law, who afterwards committed suicide. This lady applied to the Court, that she might not be obliged, at least for the present, to cohabit with her husband in the same chateau which was the scene of the horrible catastrophe, or in an apartment proposed for her in Paris, and which was the very same occupied by M. de Pontalba the father. Among other grounds for the application of Madame de Pontalba, was a certificate of M. Marjolin, the celebrated physician of the capital. This document, after having been severely criticised by the Advocate of M. de Pontalba, afforded the Procureur du Roi an opportunity of making some observations upon the at testations of Doctors, and the little confidence that should be placed in the certificate of M. Marjolin. Upon this subject the magistrate felt it his duty to recal to the mind of his audi tory a frightful event which, about five years ago, left among all the population of the town and its vicinity most deep and sincere regrets. He cited the tragical end of his Royal Highness the Prince de Conde, the benefactor and pa tron of the whole of that arrondissement, in which the Castle of Chantilly, and the greatest part of his immense inheritance are situated. He said that at the moment of that melancholy catastrophe, this same M. Marjolin was called to examine the body, and ascertain the sort of death of the unfortunate Prince. M. Marjolin certified under his hand that the death was caused by an act of suicide. " Well," added the Procureur du Roi, " notwithstanding all our .respect for a judicial verdict, and whatever may have been the cause of that dark and mysterious event, we feel it our duty here to state, gen tlemen, that there is not one of us who believes that the Prince de Conde committed suicide." These words, thus publicly spoken, have produced an indescribable effect. Received with approbation as they generally hre in these countries, the words of the Procureur du Roi, are, as it were, a public and se, lemn suction pf the religious respect attached to the memory of the last of the Condes, and of the well-established opinion that this Prince perished the victim of assassination. Every eye was turned to the Honourable M. Hennequin, the Advo cate of Madame de Pontalba, who was present at the hearing, and who appeared M be singularly affected by an argument so unexpected, and an acknowledgment so important, from the lips of a Magistrate 9f the present Government. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Mundig (taken) 8 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle colt (take 10 to 1 17 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Leopoldine (taken 20 to 1) 20 to 1 nest Lord Jersey's Silenus (offered) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Grant's Knobstick (offered) 1000 to 10 agst Sir 1 Heathcote's Valentissimo (taken) Even on two against the field. Nothing said about either of the favourites. OAKS. 5 to 4 agst Mr. Greville's Preserve (taken) No others mentioned. NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING. Newmarket, Monday afternoon. The races commence to-morrow instead of Monday, as hereto fore. The will be confined to three days, but of the quantity or character of the sport it is impossible to form an opinion at present, as the list contains only the skeleton of stakes and plates, which have not yet closed. The Whip may be challenged for to-morrow or Wednesday in the usual way. Taking advantage of the fine weather, the horses have moved for Epsom rather earlier than usual. Lord Jersey's lot started on Friday. It consisted of Ibrahim, Silenus, Glencoe (for the Ascot Cup), Musquito, and Sir F. Johnston's Merlin filly. On Wednes day Lord Orford's left ; they were Ascot, Bodice, Stargazer, and Paris. Mr. Greville's Preserve, Mr. Ridsdale's Coriolanus and Luck's All, Mr. Bowes's Mundig, Lord Chesterfield's Fergus and Eva, and a few others have also departed. The Duke of Cleve land's go on Tuesday. Trim, Pelops, Leander, &c., are already there. The Ascot Oatlands closes on Thursday. Amongst the company here are the Duke of Rutland, Lord Charles Manners, Lerd Lich field, Sir Sandford and Lady Graham, Mr. and Mrs. C. Wilson, and a few others. Lord Lichfield and Mr. Wilson are still suffer ing from the gout. It is now reported that Lord Berners does not relinquish the turf altogether, but will keep a few horses in training. John Doe is understood to be engaged to Lerd Lichfield as private trainer. No betting here. York Spring Races commence on Monday neat. Liverpool Summer Races are altered from the 7th to the 14th of July, in order not to interfere with Newmarket. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £4 5 to £4 10 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and file grass Hay Clover Hay i ,at Straw. £2 oto .ii 2 4 I Wheat Straw 2 6 2 8 SMITHFIELD. Coarse hc.avy Lowland Meadow Hay -C4 Now Meadow Hay Useful Old Intto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Ha Clover flay (extra line 6 0 , Oat Straw £2 oto f.. 2 2 A\ he HUNGER/ O to £4 5 O 0 0 10 4 15 O 5 5 10 5 15 4 2 5 • 4 11 ay .Generally 4 1 , !at Straw ... 2 FORD. Coarse Meadow Hay New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Mead Clover Hay Oat Straw ....... £4 0 to .£4 5 0 0 0 ki 4 10 4 15 50 5 5 , 4 15 5 15 22 2 5 low and Rye gi :rass H ly „XI 18 to £2 0l WI ARRIVALS OF LON heat Straw 'G LAST WEEK, GRAIN IN k e " I I t 2 From Whence. 0 r F.' ,;-• • Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Sacks Aldborongh 255 115 111 Alemouth t3oston Bridlington lOO 280 30 Bridport 360 0 2 ,- Colchester B6 697 620 `.,? Harwich 9i 470 rt Leigh 535 14 • Nlaldon ..... 895 15 9 395 Exeter t lull. - 40 Ipswich 373 - 9 :2 24 5 5 799 Kent Louth Lowestoft 35 420 180 Lynn 960 98 380 Newcastle — 50 543 146 Poole - 135 Southampton Stockton — 50 623 Sunderland — 11 5 120 Weymouth — 9 265 Wisbaael) Woodbridge 330 320 Yarmouth 125 59 1275 1215 Aberdeen Banff nerwick Dundee Glasgow Leith — 48 15 Montrose 6649 111 5789 4549 20 661 67 742 IRISH. Bally sodare Cork — 2416 Donegal — 760 1546 lialway Kilrush — 515 1481 l a mer ick I.ondonderry 1350 Newry Sligo Waterford 3819 77 Westport — 1260 Wextbrd — 721 Youghall 2208 FOREIGN. Calcutta C G. Hope Neustadt Rotterdam 3OO 6989 108- 6 5789 39.145 20 061 648 7119 AGGREGATE QUANTITIES OF OTHER KINDS OF PULSE. Tares, :2;i:2 —Linseed, 440—Rapeseed, o—Bran k. o —Mustard, 81—Seeds, 160 PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Brcad in the Metropolis is 7d. for There are others who sell from a half-penny to three hal, that rate. PRICE OF S: EDS.—May 18. Per Quarter. Per Cwt. New English Red Clover42s. 50s. 53s OW Ditto Ditto —s. —s. —s New Foreign Ditto —s. —s. —s.' Old Ditto Ditto 425. 50s. 525. New White Clover sos. tiOs. tills. Old Ditto Ditto New Trefoil lSs. 20s. 225. Oki Ditto —s. 14s. 17s. Rib Grass l4s. His 20s English Carraway —5. 60s. 655. Foreign Ditto —a. 58s. 62s Coriander —s. 12s Rapeseed, English fine (per Las PRICES OF H K...it Pockets (per cwt.) Choice ditto Kent Bags.... Sussex Pockets Superfine ditto St. Foin 12s 365. 425. Rye Grass gas. 30s. 455. Pacey Grass —s. 40s. 50s. Linseed, for feeding —s. 48s. 56.5. Ditto, for sowing —s. 70s. 80s. Ditto, for crushing —s 50s. 565. Canary —a. 46s 545. Hemp ... . Per Bushel. White Mustard Bs. Od. 10s. 6d. Brown Ditto (Tares 4s. 6d. 6s. Od t) 301. 33/. Foreign 21)1. 311. :he 4th. Loaf :pence below rON DURI 08, Os. (.. 5, 0, WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—May 16. day 9ss Od. to 110 s Ord Clover 9ss I.d. to 115 s Od Straw 3Bs. .t 1 to 425..1d PRICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS Kidneys (York) from vessel 1/. 10s. to W. Os. per ton, Scotch Reds ditto . ll. 10s. to 21. lOs ditto Common Reds y. 15s. to 0/ Os. ditto !,haws V. 10s. to 21. Os. ditto Chats 01 15s to 11. Os. ditto PRICE OF OIL Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 511 106 —Refined, 53 .Os.—Linseed Oil, 48/ Os. Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (1000 , 91. 103 --Rape Cake, per ton, 51 10s. PRICES OF LEATHER Per lb d. to d. Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b 11 each 13 111 15 • Bull Hides Butts, Vitriol English l4 23 Poreign Foreign Hides lO 12 Dressing Hides Shaved Bed Saddlers Hides Horse Hides, English • If rounded 2d. ti Per lb. d. to d. Horse Hides, German l4 '23 Spanish Calf Skins, 30 to 401 b. (doz ) 1, 14 21 40 54) •17 54 -- 50 00 •2.1 24 -- 70 leo .13 21 Seal Skins, large ........ ...... 11 15 --- sln,all l6 18 Kips Basils 8 12 Bellies Shoulders 7 l 4 io Id per lb more PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of Sib. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ls. 10d. PRICE OF TALLOW, Town Tallow 4os. 6d. Yellow Russia White —s. Od. Soap Ditto s Od. Melting Stuff' Ditto Rough l7s. Od. ', SOAP, &c per 112Ib Yellow Soap Mottled s Od• Curd —s. d. Graves l6s. Od, Good Dregs PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store Candles in the Retail Shops is as follows : Candles, per dozen, t's tid. ; inferior, 6s. td.—Moulds, Ss Od. Sixpence per dozen discount for cash. COAL M A ET.— May 18. Per Ton. a d l - Per Ton. S. d. Chester Main l6 0 1 Walls End Heaton 2O 0 Holywell l7 ti' Walls End Hilda 18 6 Ord's Redhugh l4 6 i Walls End Hotspur Pontop Windsor l6 0' Walls End Killingworth Picton l4 91 Walls End Newmarch lB 0 South Hartley Shipcote l4 9 Walls End Hetton 2l 0 Tanfield West Hartley Dixon's Butterknowl . l7 3 Walls End Adelaide cowpen Walls End Bewicke and C 0... 19 6 Walls End Tees Ships arrived since last market day, 21 MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Qrs. Quantity of Copper Ore sold 4,126 0 0 Quantity of fine Copper 290 0 0 Average Produce 9 14 Amount of Sale, 20,742'455. Od.—Average Standard, 1011. 16s. Od. INIALTON.—In compliance with a requisition, signed by 105 burgesses of the borough of Mallon, the borough bai liff called a public meeting of the electors, at which it was resolved that Sir Charles Pepys (who has vacated his seat by accepting the Commissionership of the Great Seal) is entitled to the confidence and support of the constituency at the en suing election, and that they will dispense with his attend ance.—Leeds Mercury. INCENDIARISM IN SUSSEX.—Thwsday night a fire was discovered in a close on a farm, the property of the Earl of Chichester, occupied by Mr. Chambers, at Chinting, near Seaford, but owing to prompt assistance, and the night being still, the fire was got under without material mischief. Saturday evening another fire was discovered in two very large barns on a farm at Sutton, near the above farm, the property of C. Harrison, Esq., occupied by Mr. Buckwell. The fire when discovered appeared to have broken out at the same moment in three distinct places. An alarm was instantly given, and great numbers of persons attended to render their assistance. The live stock and horses were taken out of the yards and stables, but two pigs were burnt. The great exer tions of those present succeeded in preventing the fire ex tending along the sheds, and thence to two stacks of heath, adjoining the dwelling-house, the whole of which must other wise have been destroyed. The two barns were entirely con sumed, with their contents, consisting of a stack of wheat each, six hundred bushels of potatoes, machine, harness, and agricultural implements. One man is in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the fire on Mr. Chambers's property, and two others on suspicion of being concerned in the letter fire.—Sussex Parr. - JOYS —May 18. 51 58. 51. 15s. to 01. 61 Os. 6/. 6s to 01. 41. 108. 01. Os. to 51. 0/. Os. 51. Os. to 51. 51. 108 51. I2s to 0/ SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The speech of Lord Brougham in the House of Lords on Friday last, upon the presentation of a peti tion from the Corporation of the City of London, praying for the abolition of the taxes on knowledge, leaves nothing to be desired by any unprejudiced inves tigator of the subject, and must bring conviction to the minds even of those, if any there were, who were not previously blinded by fears for their own interests. These taxes consist of the stamp duty on every news paper that is published—of the duty upon advertise ments—and of the duty on paper. The first of these is fourpence upon every copy—being more than half of the cost of the article upon which it is imposed— the second, upon an average of three at least out of every ten cases, bears with the same pressure, and in these cases, which form the exceptions, the tax is so unjustly arranged as to furnish a bonus to the rich advertiser at the expense of the needy-- while with regard to the Excise tax upon paper, it is so enormous, as not only to defeat its object—that of swelling the amount of the Treasury receipts—but, along with the greatest of all the evils inflicted by it upon the community—we mean the prevention of the dissemination of useful knowledge—to encourage the production and importation of foreign works at the expense of the British author, the British printer, the British binder, and the British paper-manufacturer. Thus these taxes are characterized by every feature by which a bad tax, intended for bad purposes, could be marked. They injure the revenue—they press with a leaden influence upon the industry of the country, and, in the language of Lord Brougham, who stated his case in the most admirable manner, and with an energy and devotion to the cause which could leave no , doubt how much his feelings, as well as his thoughts, were concerned in the matter, not only operate as a " tax upon knowledge of all descrip tions, civil, political, and religious," but as a premium upon the dissemination of works of an immoral and de moralizing tendency. "My Lords," said he, " hav ing so lately had an opportunity of stating my opinions upon this subject, and the reasons why I concur in the prayer of this petition, it would ill become me, upon the present occasion, to enter at any length upon it ; but I may remind your Lordships, that the tax upon the raw material imposed by the stamp duty is two hundred per cent.—there is a tax of two hundred per cent. upon the prime cost of the newspaper, and this, it is evident, must have the effect of preventing the dis semination of knowledge, and of keeping instruction of various kinds from those classes of the people to whom it is of the greatest importance. It is a bar to the good government of the country, to the moral improvement of the community, and to the proper administration of justice ; while, on the other hand, its dissemination would tend to elevate the character and improve the conduct of the people, and promote the stability of the Government. This knowledge is, therefore, kept from the great mass of the people, to the great loss of the community, and to the detriment of the Government, and the in stitutions of the country. I would particularly call the attention of your Lordships to the fact, that the effect of the stamp duty is not only to prevent the circulation of useful information, but to encourage that of a dangerous kind—of sedition, libel, illega lity, blasphemy, and obscenity of all descriptions.— While the legitimate and useful newspapers are sold —(in consequence of the stamp duty)—at seven pence each, bad men publish their bad wares at a penny. The same tax operates against the man in trade, who wishes to publish advertisements ; and it affects—more or less—all matters in which pub licity is required. In addition to this, these newspapers are the only vehicles for conveying political intelligence, the proceedings of Courts of Justice, and the execution of the punishments awarded for offences, which should be known to all classes of his Majesty's subjects. The amount of the revenue obtained from this tax is as nothing compared with the importance of having the Parliamentary proceedings, the debates in the House of Commons and of your Lordships' House, and the alterations that may be made in the laws, generally known. And yet these papers are burdened with a stamp tax of 200 per cent., while the unstamped publications, which disseminate sedi tion and incendiarism, and in one instance, to my knowledge, recommended assassination, escape—the bad wares are free, while the dealer in the whole some and sound article labours under a tax of 200 per cent. The injury which results from this state of things to the country, and to the proper ad ministration of the laws, is, to my mind, incal culable." Nothing can be more logical—nothing more just than this reasoning. We defy the most in veterate adversary—the most deadly opponent of the spread of knowledge—the most timid of Churchmen, and the most inveterate of aristocrats, to furnish an answer to it. Upon another point, however, we happen to disagree entirely with his Lordship—we allude to that in which, as an additional argument against the continuance of the present system, he mentions the supposed monopoly with which it in vests the daily metropolitan press. There is as great a mistake in this matter as there was, some years ago, respecting the alleged monopoly of the brewers and publicans. Neither of these classes en - joyed any direct or patented monopoly sanctioned by the Legislature and Government of the country — their monopoly, if monopoly there was, or is, was in their superior capital, their superior intelligence, and their greater experience, as has since been amply proved ; and so, we take it, would be the case with the reduction of the duties upon newspapers. That reduction might bring a host of competitors into the field, some of whom might prove successful, but the majority the re verse ;—and for this reason, that the arena is already occupied by superior capital, by greater experience, and by a more thorough knowledge of the business of newspapers than could be brought to bear against them. Indeed we spurn the idea as an insult to the daily press of the metropolis, and hold steadfastly to the opinion, formed after long and mature consideration, that the advantages which are certain to result from a proper reduction of some, and total abolition of the duties to which we have been referring, would form a more than adequate compensation for any risks to which the supposed competition would subject either this Journal or any of its morning contempora ries. But what is the reduction prayed for by us ? We answer, the reduction of one half of the duty on paper—an _equalization, so far as it may be found practicable, of the duty upon advertisements—and either the reduction of the stamp upon newspapers to one penny, or, which would be infinttely better, its total abolition. Let the Government do this, or let it disgrace itself, as that of Lord Grey did, by main taining the present obnoxious system. There is no middle course, the adoption of which would prove of any benefit to the community, or afford any satisfac tion to the promoters of education among the people ; while the carrying out of that which we have pro posed would insure confidence in the Government, add to its stability, and stamp it with a moral power, naturally resulting from such a manifest act of justice to the people, greater than that ever enjoyed by any preceding Government, and which could not fail to smooth the way for the passing of those great mea sures of ecclesiastical and corporate reform, to the introduction of which all classes are now looking for ward, with such eager expectation and intense anxiety. —Morning Advertiser. Inverness-shire, as public opinion had for some time anticipated, has returned a Conservative candidate. Mr. Chisholm, of Chisholm, has a majority of 28 over his antagonist, Mr. Grant, of Glenmorriston. A statement which we have received from the spot repre sents the state and progress of opinion in that county under very striking colours. At the election of 183:2' Mr. Grant, the late Member, carried the county by a majority df 47, the numbers being 257 and 210. In January, 1835, under Sir R. Peel's Administration , Mr. Giant's majority dwindled down to seven, his own voters remaining nearly stationary, but the Conserva tives having increased by 58 electors ; while, in May, 1835, the recent occasion, the Grant interest declined still further, numbering no more than 240 votes, and that of Mr. Chisholm retained the exact power whir',: it exhibited at the January election—viz., 268. Now, if ever there was a record satisfactory and convincing upon any specific fact, it is that which we hay just referred to, in proof of the steady re-action which has taken place among the freeholders of Inverness shire within two years and five months, to the detri ment of Whig-Radicalism, and in favour of the Conservative policy. Let us recollect that the Whigs were those with whom the Reform Bill hdd origi nated—that it was they in whose supposed favour that bill was carried, that by virtue of it they hoped always to - obtain a large majority in Parliament over the Con servatives who had opposed it, and a perennial pre dominancy throughout the whole kingdom over their ancient rivals. It is very plain, that as authors of the Reform Bill, a measure decidedly and extensively popular with the nation, the Whigs stood on 'vantage ground. It is manifest that, ceteris paribus, the Whigs might reckon on being more acceptable to the people of England than the Conservatives, by reason of the vast boon which they ascribed to themselves the merit of having bestowed upon the country, and the odium which they boasted of having entailed upon the Tories, by the opposition of the latter party to the bill. What then has happened ? We find that so ill-qualified have the Whig politicians proved themselves to hold • the advantage which cir cumstances had given them, so completely had the means and opportunities of recommending themselves to the nation by their beneficial use of ministerial power been neutralized by the obvious in-• capacity and unfitness of the Whigs for the business of Government, and for the direction of the State, that at the very first moment, viz., in January, 1835, in which an appeal was made to the sentiments of the constituency created under this Whig Reform Bill, the Whig returns were reduced one-half, and the Conser vatives more than doubled. The authors of the Re form Bill will scarcely say that the constituency which they themselves called into action does not express something like an approximation, at least, to the pub lic feeling of the country. They will not call the 300 Conservatives a horoughmongering body. They cannot allege that the people have not been consulted with all the fairness which the Whigs themselves could devise, and the result in January was strong evidence of a growing distaste throughout Great Britain, as a whole, for the Whigs, with a proportional turning towards the Conservatives as more worthy of public confidence. The sentiment of dislike towards the existing Ministry appears to us ro be a mixed one, made up in some degree of contempt for the intrinsic weakness of the party to which they personally belong, and for the rest, of the dread and disgust inspired by the more vigorous but more desperate men, upon whom the Whigs, in their conscious feebleness, are forced to lean for sup port within the walls of the House of Commons. We observe that the Ministerial journals boast that Colonel Anson has not actually resigned the contest for Staf fordshire. It is a subject of rejoicing to us that he has not. Nothing ought to be taken for granted on such occasions. The feeling of a great county ought to be demonstrated, not assumed. For such a purpose there is no test so desirable as the poll-books. If the men of Staffordshire will have a gentleman of Colonel Anson's politics to represent them, it is right that they should have the means of making manifest their desire, and after a fair stand-up fight, whether it shall end as in South Devon or the West Riding, no taunt can be afterwards thrown out that "if the can didates had gone to a poll, so and so would have been the result." There is one thing, how ever, which cannot be enough insisted on. It is, that there shall be no overweening confidence in Staffordshire on the part of Sir F. Goodricke's friends, as there was unquestionably in the West Riding—that there shall be no reckoning of chickens before they are hatched, no hallooing be fore the Conservatives are out of the wood. Let every man hasten to the poll as if the election depended on his single vote. Let no elector listen to foolish, and very . often treacherous tales of " sure majorities" in favour of the candidate to whom be stands pledged. The object is not more to return a particular candi date than to put on record the largest possible majority in his favour, which may serve for an indisputable standard'of the amount of re-action in the general mind. We perceive that the Ministerial prints of last night were busy in contradicting a positive statement made by a morning scribe and associate of their's, which had asserted the resignation of Lord Albemarle. Whether the story be precisely true or premature, there is something rotten in the state of things, or no such se cret would have been played with in such quarters. — Times. The commencement of the speech of Colonel Leith Hay last night in the House of Commons, on bringing forward the Ordnance - Estimates, is worthy of atten tion, as a testimony, proceeding from the most unex ceptionable quarter, of the sincerity, ability, and zeal with which the late Administration laboured to econo mize the resources of the country. We have great pleasure in transcribing the words of the Gallant Colonel:—" These estimates .had, as they all knew, been drawn out under peculiar circumstances ; they had been prepared by the late Government, and it had been his duty since his accession to office to investigate them thoroughly. He had carefully gone through the various items contained in them, and the conclusion to which he had come was, that they had been drawn up with equal regard to the safety of the country as to the principles of economy. He was perfectly satisfied that in the preparation of these estimates, both these im portant considerations had been duly attended to ; and in his opinion, therefore, the estimates were such as the House ought to agree to." We quote this passage because we think it is proper and useful that the coun try should know what it has gained by the Russell and O'Connell exploit of displacing the late -Administra tion. It is confessed that, upon the score of economy, so far at least- as the Ordnance Estimates are con cerned, the gain is absolutely nothing ; and we venture to say that the result will be the same with respect to every other branch of the public expenditure. The nation, it is plain, will save nothing by the change of Ministers in any department of the public service. This is a circumstance which would have implied no dis credit to the present Ministers of the Crown, had they never pretended to be exclusively or peculiarly the ad- • vocates and promoters of economy ; but it undoubt edly serves to show that as much may sometimes be done by public men who do not make a great parade of their merits as by those who do. But the nation has been told by the Whigs, the Radicals, and the O'Connellites, and by their organs of every class, that it would be an im mense gainer, not only on the score of economy, but of Reform, by the substitution of the present for the late Administration: The delusion, so far as economy is concerned, is dissipated already. The estimates for the present year were framed by Sir R. Peel and his colleagues. And it is already apparent that, with all their anxiety to surpass and discredit their political rivals, and with more indifference than they dare to show to the welfare and safety of the State, the Whig- O'Connell Ministry cannot effect any reduction in the Estimates which the Conservative Administration thought it their duty to submit to Parliament. If we are not greatly mistaken, the people of England will find, before the close of the present session, that, upon the score of Reform, the professions of Whig-Radical Statesmen are still more fallacious than upon that of economy. The least that can be expected of the pre sent Ministers is that they will introduce and complete measures of amelioration in the various institutions of the country in which amendment -is required, as beneficial and satisfactory as those which Sir R. Peel, during !iis brief period of office, presented and explained to the House of Commons, and which, had lie remained Minister, there is no doubt whatever he would have carried into effect. Less than this the Whig-O'Connell Ministry cannot do without incur ring the imputation of having defrauded the country of having interposed their power to obstruct and de feat practical improvements in its laws and institu • tions—of having assumed the cloak of Reformers, in order to promote sordid and selfish purposes of their own, to the hazard and the detriment of the cause of Reform. Yet less, and much less, than this we are persuaded they will either do, or even attempt. It is not concealed, indeed, that their chief object now is toget through the session as speedily as they can, leaving all the abuses they have so fiercely denounced, and all the evils they have so plaintively lamented, just as they found them. This may seem incredible, but so we believe the fact to be, nevertheless. The re jected of South Devon, the elected-Of indeed he is to be elected) of Stroud, will enter the House of Com mons a dispirited and downcast man. Mr. Spring