The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-17 00:00:00

;--' s, and ;eh of Porn t Bill. i ve to Lords, House many ression left the cck. Jection stating In thio canna's; le, and :t y,~nie 1 Com ;tewart, Com' himself s.ve, a ll 18th of up thoe, Leith' prth, ill desirotls • les CO Id be at t i put be t treat C ; of °P after t a g °Si t see ths ;ted wsi lee an s oon All the TornoterS prooee, nm reren` he co to i readi l S adopt's" kula l37 l r tbe !stigatl°- ound for 14 dal"; orilini t" e x ches7o-11, 1, Olt 0 t i oo to t e ndive ° ( e, 4th (), ho. Way, P r , 5u t o givenj ; that ) the s ti ; ion. a !ct.% ..1 it ?bat / " - 6 1 coo rea ni " 0 Sd be . t of We r' of m stwo n the parne llf p c ptf° 4 a d a '' ot W B9 ,it• Conl' Mr Idle'', ouse ° o js t? farce n g ited ; b a t anY the elies fe, ec , recc 3l „,a ,siotro , .. - bet be“ ) ifor . i ,ote to o '4o ised to mo v i ar ea ter ' those: o 0' f o rm, Nere for4 i v ing roe io i‘fc'iw t ,;o the 11° m otion , do a or t ! o bln " anY t pe of 11 pre°4lo d i ss v le F 3 'o o l 5 1 i 00 no s" l e 6 0 , ut 1 Ic ed, oa t th era' e G fo oll° o , 0 a e Whig•• lit glg tpe ,trY , , e cou. l , 0 in b i— Do 111 that C' TO apt, e lide ° pi a t o , f )r rnio will s 0 0 , 09 ,C C ., ' bo o e th I .)°`a t for Leo t ° The ;ice bct" .ceoo f , C Pt' rel •sz ir reel the, r " - D ot; I a ° atit hc naens PI, up PI o urile ' COURT CIRCULAR. Th K. Be 4 rar , in g gave audienee yesterday, at St. James's, to Sir e. th e he of Cumberland, the Duchess of Gloucester, anti T h eir Sophi a v i s i te d t h e i r M a j est i es yester d a y. to vit . Maj est i es l eft town at a quarter-past five o'clock y es -1.54437 aft ernoon in a ca rr i age an d f our , w ith an escort of the 411 Dragoons, for Windsor Castle. ces j: s h v e l e r t ßuyal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent and the Prin t one, left Kensington Palace yesterday, with their i t T‘e, on a visit to the Earl of Liverpool and the Ladies Jen tun, at Busted Park. _o:the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, attended by Made- MRSQiIe left town yesterda afternoon on a visit to their f i ties at Windsor Castle. y th e Queen, before leaving town, paid a visit yesterday to jrincess Augusta. Landgravin e o f H esse H om b urg , P r i nce G eorge o f S lll . l i a tri dge, and a se l ec t party , di ne d w i t h t h e i r Majesties at mess,Th' on Wednesday evening. li erro e Duchess o f Gloucester and the Landgravine of Hesse ~,ourg visited the Princess Augusta yesterday. sell i ' m e Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Holland, Lord John Rus- IN, Spring Rice, an d M r . Ed war d Elli ce h a d interviews Sir with Vi scount Me lb ourne. /40;,1ir Rrame l obe r t P eel returned to town yesterda from a visit to P • T h s Egerton, at Oatlands. y e Bishop of London, as Dean of the Chapel Royal, held kelifirroation yesterday, Maundy Thursday, in the Chapel We „ It was attended by a very numerous party of the juve read:obility and Gentry. After the ceremony the Bishop T h : n very impressive address to the juveniles present. at the "cue en and Prince George of Cambridge were present His performance of the ceremony. Majesty's Royal Maundy was distributed yesterday, in I , ll3 °ra:y building at the back of Whitehall Chapel, to as ' tged and infirm men and women as the King is years di et . • L "'lleß and stockings, woollen and linen cloth, were first or:looted to the inLn. To the women, 11. 15s. each were cov ered li a s all equivalent for the cloth, A gold salver guard with purses was then brought by the Yeomen of the Des t , (lll d a purse containinr , ore sovereign and seventy silver sti fle ' r'eces was given to both b men and women. A cup of th, was then given t o ea c h Maundy person to drink the f is h's health. A l oa f of b read and a p i ece o f b ee f , a b ow l o f w oril a nd four loaves were then distributed to both men and al e. enii_wbo afterwards drank the King's health in a cup of rd Sub_ Almoner and Mr. Hanby, Secretary to the L o T he 'gb Almoner, assisted at the distribution. s ere lee was given to all the recipients, that if the provisions Dart sold, such an abuse of the charity would entail on the bow:the entire withdrawal of any participation in the Royal S. 4 S IIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. Lad ARRIVALS. s} Lady Y e wood and Miss Wood, at Coxon's Hotel, Mount- Ir ° lll the Continent • Sir Trayton Fuller, Elliot Drake, Piit ai i n ild Lady Ellio t Dr ' ake, at the Green-park Hotel, 103, ir ts , 7, from Devonshire; Mrs. Hall Dare, Miss Dare, and I tl'eeta D are, at Nerot's Hotel, Clifford-street and Cork " 3 1111 Cranbrook. DEPARTURES. oft c astle, and Lady Mainwaring, from Grosvenor-street, for /i r epo , ~a stle, Herefordshire ; Lady Hawkins Whitshed, from li on 'A Rotel, Cliff or d -street an d Cork-street, for Holbrook ; 14 rlt ; ':,,Pt• Hen n ik er a nd family, from ditto, for Ashdown rleimir,rs• List er an d f am ily, from Green-park Hotel, 103, ditto f "Y , for W orces t ers hi re ; Sir A. Leslie, B ar t., from isle °f Dublin ; Si r Ri c h ar d Si meon , Bart., for Swa in ston, t ta ; w bt ; Lord Marcus Hill, on a tour ; Col. Sir John tr. ft l i dol' Brigton ' ; Captain Mangles, R.N., for ditto; dit t T, '"„ra• Bromley, for ditto ; Lady Williams and family, `gotit -; Miss Bolton, Sir Joshua and Lady Mordaunt, from Ti kra - b.,,,a - squar e ror St. Leonards on Sea ; Mr. and Mrs. litto and family, for ditto; Mr. Fleetwood and famil o r Milli 0. J. K. Tynte, Esq., M.P., for ditto ; Admir a l . Sir I ,* j l e r fr a nd Lady Duram, from Hill-street, for Brighton ; i r re Y yatville , for Windsor Castle; Sir Watkins and loiriih,arriet Williams Wynne, from St. James's-square, for th e ;A. E. F u ll er , E sq ., f or B ox hill Park, Sussex ; qatit s -v ' i ,lit and Mrs. Langford Sanisbury, for Frayle, 4 ree t ; 4 . Alston, Esq., M.P. and family, from Harley e a , f for Brighton, Mr. and Mrs. Crawley, from Portland arrie'RlF ditto ; Col. Sir James Reynett, for Hanover ; Mrs. 'rota di t ool Gordon's Hot e l, Alb e m ar le-street ; Miss Vyse, kick it°, for Stoke-place, near Windsor; the Earl of Brack 'r°l/1 Camden House on a tour ; J. Grmme, Esq., for gs; A. Burton, Esq ., for ditto. DEVON ELECTION. S t , TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. sZ ,e" - You who live in London, where to some extent all ' 4 R 6 ,7 are neceoarily brought into a connecting line approach .to 1 0 14. 4 1. 14 y, can form but an . inadequate . idea of the extent qty o r caste or clans is carried in the country. The autho the aristocracy is absolute—and the provincial aristo t4 the many more persons than the term imports. clic/ gentleman's gentlen'an is either a Whig or Tory aristo ef f o l b o ut alway s an aristocrat, and generally has his hundreds v ery wers. A great man in the country is often thought a 'ttle on e in London. Whmi measured at his own seat, P.Pitli: t t s Tit an ; but a metamorphosig, quite as strange as any Tra °Y ever created, takes place' as soon as he gets to litoit/41:Y a sort of metropolitan magig you reduce our rural f it 4 11 e "Puny dwarf ; but the misfortun e is, that no sooner ``6,get back to his acres than he swells' out again d t . o his I,6,ullnatural dimensions, and, like the bloated iagli de , 11%; With his largeness measured much land, ...mid made w $O O 4 , under his huge waist," he destroys many a ,germtatin and of uproots many a social stem, that but for IlkiS tree o et 4-;-the defence and the glory of the people, the tectmen st Vr e , of the country, and the happiness of thehuman rac'e. " b a've very many of these dragons, Sir—myriads " mon , pint7i ° f rli ble and v - ast"—the country is full of them. The to not the f orm ) o f aris t ocrac y reigns universally then 414 the not and f eu d a lism exists in all but name, whilst, a Peri t rY to say, that the rural population, debased for so long I ° !it s °4 by the old rotten representative system, retains many . • ite,,,°lllpt habits. This is a great evil; it taints the poll '? inru°sPher e we breathe, and . if a remedy be not applied . v i -40 . tows w,, t u cing an infusion of liberal sentiments and juster ad, "u regard to the ballot, we may not only see the de mDlol.:),4 of the peasant, 44 his country's pride," but have to his death, and the death of all political freedom in the Nvo e t a Y t • It will then be too late for Lord John Russell to %• lko t e , th ° Ballot. Why, in the name of common sense and pi t - prudence did he at the Honiton dinner last January teeareetenst.tha; measure of . prote . ction, of which it is to be ees s i t , will, in his own individual case, soon . show the ;. t tlital,,, ) : This outbreak was very injudicious. His so called' wound must against the Ballot are mere cobwebs of his upper n iY Voust be swept away—as they assuredly will. Take ▪ lor it, th e B a ll ot i s even now o n its road to St. t _t th °` s, for will it s arrival be at a distant da6y. 7,1110i-tient I am writing, the echo of opposition to the t t• ae Lord John Russell reaches my ears. lam stunned p,Poseless shouts of a half-drunken and wholly stupid 4 ' 1 4t1,1 in after shouts by one of the little-great men t ele ct " f t° before. A dinner it seems has just been given to a %e ltsl l ' eW • The poor ignorant creatures Alike sensual and ittl t i b ese ele c t ora l E saus wo uld sell their birthright for a iv a b ottle. l am l e d to b e li eve th a t th ere are many such a nd independent electors to be found amongst my Cs til -4s tituency. It becomes therefore imperative uponw e ret ti e L al3l °Y activity and organization, in order to secure !t0 °f a man who has achieved so much already, and : . 0-• ope now no doubt move wisely with the movement. is 'cll r i a t l i°ll Was never more called for by the actual condi use t country. The Tory enemy is, I repeat, very strong 4i e r° vinces and the hydra-headed aristocracy is no mere ( g en ' fiction. Every district has its Squire, that Squire Ate at ,111441 e) r allY an aristocrat—the range of his nfluence is all Eat it has numberless ramifications— i its boundaries Qxtensive with those of the country in which he lives. t„,'Y branch numerous and influential as they a . r . e, form %,,'• l ghty of the Tory tree. There is the Nobility—the „'4 ar,P°ll4rChB of the laud, the hereditary legislators, the pe ''' Wealth - by and from creation, the senators and rulers ti s " e i r ° P, l e's de 3 ' • 3 d b 'des these magnates there are he re • the st ir in- n r u ; m a b n erles e s si connections and dependents ; : ' t nitt e a d re '. too, all those Who either are or . aim . at being 4 the ri into their circles. The rural aristocratical body tent 11( ;t a shadow, but a substance, at once the most Gconand Pernicious in some of its influences, that can hat e clued. Th ere are many N ewcas tl es — m any w h o do 1 / 4 111 4 . erC me Y choose with their own—many who think they a " do actually avow the right to intimidate, °lt tkver flowing naturally from their property. How 11 4 4 4 .1 ," Ruglistimen submit to this debasing thrall? When ~,,'4 e tie4:e rn ecly be applied to the unwholesome aristocratic in ,7lver;s2 These are questions which, I trust, will soon be . Y 4r l i — * When I consider the servile condition of the agri 'i' constituencies ity for the poor slaves is succeeded . taceAVignation that would immediately hurl from their high nted. e °Ppressor s o f th e people. But their days are num "ie Let them repent and be just, or, in the bitterness of Il oan e e „ ° l;le's wrath, they will with one hand and one voice de - ue ath and destruction to the political wrong doer. I am, Sir, your constant reader, `° " Clyst, Devon, April 16. PLEBS. ." Tales homines. ,e are happy to learn that the Earl of Egremont i clt ered from his late illness.—Brighton Gazette. , j ° cIN G s.—The boundless joy, excited hereby tti r ,, he -Irtation of the Peel ministry, was unequalled by any Shin's the rang e o f o ur memory, except the news of Mr. 0 \rick, 4S u ry over his enemies in the House of Commons.- 141 1 es I , l ,uaY evening large fires blazed on all the hills for many vtared tirr oun .,• ng ul this town. An immense flame, that ap )ex 4L'e the fi rs t eruption of a volcano, ascended from the bro w Slievnaman the and seemed to kiss the skies. Its " a4 e was in a moment studded with a hundred other a T he Irish mountains, which run from Slievnaman chain nearly to the sea, were shown out in cpposl4l relief by t h e fires that were lighted on them. The ktion,tlte m ountains of the county Waterford were also illu- Liinee. ck u - --4nd the Galtees, in this county, and the county as well as the Kilworth mountains, in the county !N po. . It ; inVOSSibie to conceive anything more grand or 14 ex t '„ ll g than the effect produced by this, scene. But what r , -°r dinary, the fires were simultaneously lighted—some jrloe v % - , were sixty miles from others. We should hope, -; may be our- future rulers, that they will take a riiiars . uch eircurustance! . as these. With the strong ctl i feeling, there is a spirit of constitutional comhina hc this country which is too frequently manifested to istaken.--Tipierary Free Press. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES. Yesterday a general meeting of the Magistrates of Middle sex was held at the Sessions-House, Clarkenwell, Mr. B. ROTCH in the chair. The minutes of the last session were read. The Chairman announced that one of the sureties of the County Treasurer was deceased, and another must be proposed ; but he thought the amo;_nt of the required bond (20,0001.) was excessive, and quite disproportionate to the case, as the treasurer seldom had more than 4,0001. at one time in his hands. The subject was referred to the Committee for general pur poses. The CHAIRMAN announced that the present system of re moving Scotch and Irish paupers had caused a great diminu tion. Up to this period last year 141 were passed, but the number for this year was only 69. The claim of Mr. Cope, the governor of Newgate, for fees and expenses of removing prisoners, amounting to 2,1291., was referred to a Committee. COUNTY LUNATIC ASYLUM. Colonel CLITIIEROW moved that the following regulation, recommended ,by the visiting Justices, be adopted :—" That Dr. Ellis be directed to regulate the number of patients re ceived into the lunatic asylum according to their rental. The asylum being cap Ale of containing 570 patients, about 70 of which are chargeable to the county, 500 would then be left for the parishes; the rental of the county being about 5,000,0001., would give one patient for each 10,000/. ; in smaller parishes, where the rental does not amount to that sum, they should be allowed to have one only, according to' riority of application." Captain Actmom seconded the motion. Mr. Wax s, M. P., objected to the regulation, and doubted the justice of the principle. The poorest parishes might happen to have the greater number of lunatics. Sir P. LAURIE regretted that parishes tampered with their insane patients and suffered them to become incurable before they were sent to the county asylum. Mr. BROUGHTON asked whether it was intended to enlarge the asylum ? Colonel CLITIIEROW said there was no intention of the kind. The motion was agreed to nun. con. The 31st report of the visiting justices was then read. Since the commencement of the year, 27 patients had been received, 7 discharged, and 19 died. On the 31st of March, 246 males and 324 females remained in the asylum. All ex penses up to that day had been paid, leaving 319/. in hand. The report then proceeded to notice the charges urged by the vestry of St. George's Hanover-square. The building was originally erected for 300 patients, at a cost of 124,4821. Os. Bd. ; but it was afterwards made capable of accommodating 570, at a further expense, which made the whole cost only 130,0001. Every care was taken to prevent jobbing. This parish had not had one-tenth of the number of patients in the asylum, and if a county-rate had been levied, that parish would have had to pay a much larger sum. That parish has at present fifty-three patients in the asylum, and but for the al terations of which the vestry complained, twenty-eight only could have been received from this parish. The report justi fied the allowance of IL to Dr. Ellis, and fees to Mr. Allen, the clerk, for attending the Committees, as being no more than just and necessary. It was right to include the price of cows and cultivation of land under the head of housekeeping, because the milk and vegetables were consumed by the pa tients. Out of the 570 patients, 320 were employed in various ways, and a piece of ground had been levelled by them, which would have cost 1,3001. The item, " clothing, 4,0001.," in cluded the expense of bedding, table linen, and other articles, of which a reserve supply was necessary in such an establish ment. The accounts of all the proVincial lunatic asylums had been examined, and it was found that the cost was much greater at all of them than at Hanwell, except in the case of Wake field, where, however, the charge for attendance and salaries was even more than at Hanwell. _ . _ _ The report was ordered to be printed for the use of the Ma gistrates, and to be considered at the County day in July. COUNTY RATES. Mr. FYLER rose to - Move, " That no new rate shall be levied on any parish while the amount of money in the treasurer's hands, together with the sums due for uncollected rates, are sufficient to meet the estimated expenditure for the ensuing quarter ; and that, prior to a rate being levied, a due estimate be made of what may be the probable expenditure of the county until the next quarter, or period of the next rate being levied." He grounded this motion upon the act of the 3d of George IV., cap. 107, which provided that such estimates should be mae. The 9th section regulated the period of the rate from quarter to quarter; if the period of making the rate was always fixed, and the rate enforced, as it could be under the Act, within 37 days, there would be no difficulty in calculating the required rate to be next proposed. For instance, the present expenditure for the quarter was 18,000/. On Monday last 3,3081. remained in hand, and the arrears amounted to 5,616/. A halfpenny rate for the next quarter, including these sums, would give 19,9211., being quite sufficient to meet the approaching demands. The motion of which he bad given notice he now wished to withdraw, be lieving that it would be sufficient for him to move that com pulsory means be taken to enforce the payment of the rate within 37 days after levying it, which would answer his object. Mr. GIBBON seconded the latter motion. _ NVILsoN thought it would be premature in the Court to decide upon the question without further consideration, and hoped it would be postponed. Captain Acimou thought the scheme proposed by Mr. Fyler would be impracticable. Mr. BROUGHTON was of opinion that the Court could do nothing in the matter beyond the Act of Parliament, which was imperative, and authorized the County Treasurer to en force payment. Sir R. BAKER said he could only summons the party before a Petty Sessions of Magistrates, who disposed of the affair as they pleased. Mr. FLOWER said, he had attended at a petty session with other Magistrates, for the purpose of assisting Sir R. Baker, and they had succeeded in reducing the arrears from 11,0001. to abont 3,000/.—( Hear.) Mr. BALLANTINE and Sir P. LAURIE opposed the motion. Mr. FYLER said, his object was to take off the odium to which the county treasurer was subject, by making the enforce ment of the rate the general act of the Court. The Court divided, when there appeared 15 for, and 20 against, the motion. Mr. FYL'IR proposed that an arrangement be made with the bondholders to defer the time for paying the interest due to them. Sir J. S. LILLIE moved, and Sir W. CURTIS seconded, that the question be postponed sine die. Sir P. LAURIE moved the previous question.—( Laughter.) After some desultory conversation, the amendment of Sir J. S. Lillie was agreed to. The report of the committee on the county treasurer's ac= counts stated that on the 3d of January last the balance in hand was 3,368/. ; since which, to the 4th of April, 14,944/. had been received, and 15,176/. paid, leaving a balance of 3,308/. The committee recommended a halfpenny rate for the next quarter, arid that a printed estimate of the expenditure of 18,900/. be sent to each parish with the order. The rate was agreed to, and the recommendations adopted. NEGOTIATIONS WITH THIEVES. The report of the evidence has been printed. It is of great length. Mr. Williamson affirms positively that it was at the suggestion of Vickery that he took 500 sovereigns in a bag, for the thieves, to an attorney, giving . the latter a 501. note for himself, inclosed in a letter, " as being a more genteel way of doing it." Mr. Vickery positively denies this, but admits an attempt at negotiation with Barnet Lepman, a dealer in jewellery, but keeping no shop, and whom he first knew from from his being in his custody as a passer of bad money, and Lawrence Somers, a coffee-house keeper, in Aldgate. Hia object, he said, was pure and disinterested, but wholly failed. It is right to state that none of the statements are on oath ; although Mr. Williamson bad offered to give his on oath, and take all consequences. The report contained no recommen dation as to future proceedings, and there appearing some evi dent reluctance in the crowded Court to be the originator of any substantive motion. Sir W. CURTIS moved that they pass to the next notice of motion. Dr. ROBINSON said it was a matter in which the Court could not act. The pension bad been granted for past services, and could not be taken away. If anything wrong had been done it was a misdemeanour, and the parties interested ought to be prosecutors. Mr. BROUGHTON agreed with Dr. Robinson. Mr. LAURIE said the Committee, of which he was a mem ber, had unanimously agreed to a resolution declaring there could be no moral doubt that Mr. Vickery was guilty of the act of assisting in negotiating a compromise. They had not, however, embodied this opinion in their published report, as they wished the matter to come without prejudice before the entire Magistracy. Air. AI‘WILLIAm complained that a report so seriously stigmatising Mr. Vickery, and consisting of statements not taken on oath, should have been published, and vet the Com mittee now shrunk from proposing a definite course of proceed ing. He must say if the matter were to be passed, after pub lication, thus sub silentio Mr. Vickery had been hardly dealt with. Sir W. CURTIS moved that a case be submitted for the-opi nion of the Law Officers of the Crown. Mr. LAURIE seconded the motion. Several gentlemen spoke pro and con. The question was put to the vote, when there appeared For referring the matter to the Attorney-General 23 For passing it over Majority for ulterior proceedings, if possible THE SILENCE SYSTEM. Sir PETER LAURIE inquired whether it was intended to en force the system of silence in the House of Correction ? If so, it must be adopted in the City, for it had had the effect of driving the greater number of offenders into the City prisons. —( Laughter. ) Mr. HOARE believed it would be continued. The Court then adjourned. DINING IN A STORM AT SEA.—The table itself screwed down, is first prepared, by laying along it two sand bags, which run its entire length I between those are placed several smaller bags, like the rungs between the sides of a ladder, and in the spaces thus formed are deposited the dishes. You then take your seat at table, holding on as well as you can ; when all is ready, the se: vast brings your plate and knife and fork, and you eat, holding on at each roll, and take a cut and a bit in the intervals. Despite all these precautions, however, you sometimes find the dishes change places as if by magic. A gentleman just above me was taken all aback, and suddenly found himself sprawling on the deck with a lady, one tureen of soup, one ditto of apple sauce, two small children, a bed-steak pie, and a cruet-stand, all piled like a monument over him. •• • TUE SUN, LONMON, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1835. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LOI•;DON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. FOREIGN-OFFICE, ArsiL 7. The King has been graciously pleased to nominate and appoint Michael Linning Melville, Esq., in the room of Walter William Lewis, Esq., promoted, to be Registrar to the Mixed British and Foreign Courts of Commission established at Sierra Leone, under the Treaties and Conventions between his Majesty and Foreign Powers, for the suppression of illegal Slave Trade, and in pursuance of the several Acts of the Legislature for carrying the said Treaties and Conventions into effect. WAR-OFFICE, Aram 17. 1835. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieut. George Viscount Deer hurst to be Captain, by purchase, vice Sir T. Hare, who retires ; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant. H. Vyse to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Deerhurst ; the Hon. S. Strangways to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Vyse, April 17, 1835. 6th Regiment of Dragoons--Cornet J. IC. James to be Lieu tenant. by purchase, vice Cole, promoted ; G. Ferguson, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice James, April 17. 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Cornet W. E. Leeson, from the half-pay of the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Cornet, vice Jones, deceased, April 17. 9th Regiment of Foot—Major A. B. Taylor, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice A. Champion, who exchanges, re ceiving the difference ; Captain J. Hammill, from the half-pay Un attached, to be Captain, vice W. S. Dalton, who exchanges ; En sign A. W. King, from the 94th Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Vaughan, who exchanges, April 17. 29th ioot—CaptaiifF. Keogh, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice W. H. Sheppard, who exchanges, April 17. 35th Foot—Lieut. C. Loftus, from the half-pay of the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Moore, promoted, April 17. 44th Foot—E. S. Cumberland, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Atherton, who retires, April 17. 56th Foot—Quartermaster Serjeant T. Debenham to be Quarter master, vice Copsey, deceased, Feb. 17. 60th Foot—Second Lieutenant H. W. Ellis to be First Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Eaton, who retires ; C. E. Phipps, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ellis, April 17. _ 69th Foot—Lieutenant E. Gardiner, from the half-pay of the 38th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hill, promoted, April 17. 82d Foot—Captain B. Bender, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain Thomas Stopford, who exchanges, April 17. 87th Foot, Captain J. R. Hay, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice J. S. Doyle, who exchanges; Captain J. Camp bell, from the half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice E. Cox, who exchanges, receiving the difference, April 17. 89th Foot, Captain T. 0. Jeiries, from the half-pay of the 3d Regiment of Foot, to be Captain, vice H. R. Gore, who exchanges, receiving the difference, April 17. 93d Foot, Ensign G. Black to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Campbell, promoted; A. Agnew, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Black, April 17. _ . 94th Foot—Licut: W. Murray, from the half-pay of the 93d Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Hartley, promoted ; En. sign E. Vaughan, from the 9th Regiment of Foot, to be Ensign, vice King, who exchanges, April 17. 95th Foot—Ensign C. A. Brooke, from the 99th Regiment of Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Metcalfe, April 17. 99th Foot—D. M. Bethune, Gent., to be Ensign, without pur chase,vice Brooke, promoted in the 95th Regiment of Foot, April 17. her husband and the prisoner came from the same Owe,: the county of Mayo, Ireland, and had known each other from their infancy. When information was given to her of what had occurred she fainted away twice, and her husband was , so violently exasperated that the neighbours were obliged to place him under restraint to prevent him from committing personal violence on the culprit. Mrs. Baugh added that when the prisoner was questioned about the charge, upon being taken into custody, he laughed at it, and treated it with the greatest indifference. Mr. WHITE regretted to 'say, that during the present examination the- prisoner had treated the charge with the utmost levity. (The fellow had frequently laughed during the time the Clerk was taking the deposition of the child.) William Hanks, 185 V, was on duty in the Fulham road, when he observed an immense number of men and women running after the prisoner ; he took the prisoner into custody. The prisoner was fully committed to Newgate for trial. UNATTACHED. To be Captains, without purchase—Lieut. F. Moore, from the 35th Regiment of Foot ; Lieut. B. Hartley, from the 94th Regi ment of Foot, April 17. HOSPITAL STAFF. Assistant-Surgeon W. H. Fryer, from the half-pay, to be As sistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Robert Dyce, who exchanges, April 17. . MEMORANDUM. The Christian names of Ensign Mackie, of the 14th Regiment of Foot, are Edmund Phipps, and not Edward Phipps. The Christian names of Ensign Walker of the 89th Regiment of Foot, are Charles Montagu, and not Charles Mostyn. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. THOMAS LEIGHTON TERREY (and not TERRY, as stated in last Gazette), vintner, Cornhill. GEORGE BARWIS, scrivener, Crowland, Linc•lnshire. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. SAMUEL TIPPER, paper-manufacturer, Landogo, Mon mouthshire, April 21 to May 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. WILLIAM BROADBENT GUNNING, bricklayer, Egham. JOHN PARMENTER, linen-draper, Melbourn, Cambridge shire. BANKRUPTS. THOMAS KIRTLAN and WILLIAM BRUCE, drapers, Blackman-street, Borough, to surrender, April 27, at half-past eleven, and May 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Parker, St. Paul's Church-yard; Lackington, official assignee, Basinghall-street. GEORGE PELL, victualler, Buttock's Booth, Northampton shire, April 30, at 2, and May 29 at 11, at the Peacock Inn, North ampton. Blackstock, Bunce, and Vincent, Temple, London, and Cooke, Northampton. JOHN SHRISIPTON WILSON, coach-proprietor, Ports mouth, Hants, April 29, at half-past eleven, and May 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, Paucras-lane, official as signee ; Smith, High-street, Borough. WILLIAM GORTON, fishmonger, Gutter-lane, Cheapside, April 23, at half-past one, and May 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee ; Horsley, Berner-street, Commercial-road East. ELEONORE TARDIEU, lace-dealer,' April 30, and May 29, at eleven, at the Coui tof Bankruptcy. Whitmore, 2, Basinghall street, official assignee; Walker, Beaufort-buildings, Strand. RICHARD WILLIAM JOHNSON, merchant, Gloucester, April 28, and May 29, at twelve, at the Roe Buck Inn, Oxford. Flexney, New Boswell-court, Lincoln's-inn, London ; Looker, Oxford. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-STREET. Yesterday Henry Snow, who has been in custody since last Thursday night, on suspicion of having murdered his wife, by stabbing her in the throat, was brought before Mr. MiNsHum. for re-examination, having been remanded by the- worthy Magistrate from Saturday last. An additional witness, named Mary Fitzgerald, was called, who swore that some months since the deceased•had fallen down stairs when drunk, and on the following morn ing, had accused her husband of having forcibly pushed her down. Witness believed the deceased to be mad. Emily Duggan lived opposite to the prisoner, and saw him come out of the shop at half-past nine, and lock the door, putting the key in his pocket. He looked very pale at the time. John Callaghan, an Irish labourer, living in Snow's house, went out on the morning of Thursday, when he saw Snow at the door of a fellow-lodger named Newton, with whom he went out. Witness went out, but returned shortly, and went up stairs, when Snow came up with the man Newton. Some quarrel arose between the wife and Snow, when she reproached him with taking out her husband to drink, and said he had better go and open his shop. She then asked where was his wife ? to which he replied that she was dead, and that he was going to bury her at five o'clock the next morning. At half-past two, witness was going up stairs, when he saw Mrs. Snow standing at the door-way of her room, apparently very weak, and endeavouring to call Mrs. Hawkins. At this period of the inquiry, which had lasted several hours, the case was postponed, and the prisoner was re manded for a week. He said nothing. MAR YLEB ONE. William Hall, butler, and Martha Handcar, lady's maid in the service of Mrs. C. C. Collins, No. 26, Man chester-square, were placed at the bar for final examination, charged with stealing jewels to the amount of upwards of 2,0001., the property of their mistress. The prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial, to which place Mary Sumpter, the housemaid, was also conveyed for safe custody till the sessions. QUEEN-SQUARE. Thomas Cross, a milkman, residing in Orford-street , Chelsea, appeared to answer the complaint of Lord Clan william for wilfully driving against his Lordship's carriage while passing through Belgrave-square. William Noseworthy, his Lordship's coachman, was driving the' carriage from his Lordship's house, in Belgrave square, when, upon turning the corner near the church, he came in contact with the defendant's cart, which was not on the right side of the road. The polo of the carriage was broken by the collision. Mr. Lousada, a gentleman residing in Belgrave-square, corroborated this statement. On the - part of the defendant it was alleged that the affair was entirely accidental, and witnesses were called to prove such to be the fact. Mr. GREGORIE, however, considered that the evidence of the coachman had not been contradicted, and the de fendant was fined in the penalty of 40s. and costs, Lord Clanwilliam foregoing his claim to the amount of repairs for the carriage. Yesterday a brutal-looking Irishman, named Patrick Col lins, was brought up in custody,.charged before Messrs. White and Burrell with attempting to violate the person of Margaret Baugh, a very beautiful and intelligent child, nine years of age, the daughter of a respectable tradesman in South-street, Chelsea. The poor little child stated that yesterday afternoon, about half-past five o'clock, she was playing near her father's house, when the prisoner, whom she knew as having lodged at her mother's house, came up to her and asked her to go with him to see his sister Sarah. Witness innocently con sented to accompany 'him, when, after walking with him to various places, he at length took her into the Fulham-road, and turned down a narrow lane leading to Kensington, where he attempted to commit a serious offence. The poor child then said that some girls came up at the time and pre vented him. She added, that on the road to Kensington lane he bad attempted to " meddle" with her, but she had run away ; he, however, caught her, and behaved in the manner already described. Mrs. Baugh, the mother of the child, deposed that both MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday, a Gentleman, who gave his name George Gandell, and who stated that he resided at the Piazza Coffee-house, Covent-garden, appeared before Mr. CHAM BERS, charged by policeman C 67, with having wrenched a knocker off a door in Regent-street. The defendant paid 20s. for the damage, and 55., the fine for intoxication. The driver of a hackney-coach, named Lane, was sum moned by Robert Haswell, Esq., of Piccadilly, for abusive language, and for having wilfully driven against and injured a valuable horse. The full penalty of 40s. for abuse was inflicted, or two months' imprisonment, in addition to which Mr. Haswell intimated his intention to proceed against the owner for the damage done to the animal. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday as the Magistrates were about to retire from the Bench, after having disposed of all the public business, an old gentleman, whose powdered head, and neatness and precision of dress, betokened a good deal of worldly comfort, presented himself in the outer office, and expressed much anxiety to see their Worships to consult them on business, as 'he said, of the utmost importance. The officer in at tendance took him into the Justice-room, and, after making a formal bow to the Bench, he said he wished to have their Worships' advice on a subject of " detraction." " You must know, your Worships, that I have latterly met with a lady, a widow lady, of some considerable property, to whom I have been paying particular attentions, and with whom I wish to form a closer connection." MAGISTRATE—I perceive you wish to make her your wife ? _ _ _ Applicant—Precisely so. I have had two wives, and I purpose making the lady I allude to my third. My name, gentlemen, is Young ; I am a sugar-broker, and am well known to the trade for the last thirty years. MAGISTRATE—WeII, about the " detraction." What is it you complain of ? Applicant—Then, Sir, you must know that there is an old woman, who has told the lady to whom I am paying my addresses, that I am not constant, and have two illegitimate children. So the next time I called, the lady, who before this was, I can assure your Worships, most kind and attentive to me, taunted me about the woman and children, and showed much coolness, and all I could say would not dissuade her that such was not the fact : so I want to know if I cannot bring this woman to book for using such gross " detraction ?" I would have no objec tion to expend one hundred guineas in punishing her, for I can assure your Worships it is not every day that such a chance as that I speak of is to be met with ; and, besides, I candidly confess that I am exceedingly attached to the lady ; and, to do her justice, she returned my affection until the improper interference of the old mischief-maker I wish to punish. MAGISTRATE--I fear we can afford you no assistance. Pray, how old is the lady whom you state to be the object of your attachment ? Applicant—Only forty-five years of age, Sir. MAGISTRATE — And how old may I ask are you ? Ap plicant—Only sixty-nine years of age, Sir; and I can walk twenty or thirty miles to-morrow with any young man you can find me. MAGISTRATE—It is really a pity that any interruption to your anticipated happiness should take place, but I fear we can do nothing whatever for you. Another MAGISTRATE—With many females that which forms the ground of complaint against you, namely that of having illegitimate children, would be a recommendation, and I have no doubt if you persevere in your suite you will find this to be the case with the lady in question, and that in a short time you will accomplish your object. The applicant, whose manner excited much laughter, ap peared much flattered at the favourable opinion entertained by' he bench of his pretentions, said be would act on the suggestion of the worthy Magistrate, and said be was far from desponding of success. The applicant then handed his snuff-box to the Magistrates, and, having expressed himself grateful to the bench for the patience with which he had been heard, made a very low bow, and left the Jus tice-room. SHERIFF'S COURT. TURNER V. MILBURN. The circumstances of this case were peculiar. The plaintiff, Mrs. Ellen Turner, carrying on the business of a butcher, in Lamb's Conduit-street, sought to recover of the defendant, Mr. Alexander Milburn, at attorney, resi ding in Millman-street, Bedford-row, the sum of 1/.118.8d. for meat supplied. The defendant pleaded a tender of 1/. 7s. 4d. which he had paid into Court, and the question for the decision of the Jury was, whether the sum of 4s. 4d. was legally due. The defendant had dealt some time with the plaintiff. In December, 1833, a bill was delivered to the amount of 11. 11s. Bd., and amongst the items was a piece of beef, weighing, it was alleged, six pounds and a half, for which 4s. 4d. was charged, the sum now in dispute. The beef in question was returned a few days after the delivery in a salted state, on the ground that it only weighed five pounds. The plaintiff's two sons and a shopman named Crofts, stated that a steak had been cut off, and agreed that it had been done in a very " unprofessional" manner. The beef had hung in the shop for six months and was then thrown away. The defendant had been summoned to the Kingsgate-street Court of Requests for the money, but he pleaded his pri vilege as .an attorney, and the plaintiff to recover her debt sued him in one of the superior Courts. Her witnesses stated that the beef had been diminished after the delivery, and it was admitted that Mrs. Milburn had, by her servant, offered to pay for it if the pound and a half were deducted. For the defence, it was contended that the action was brought merely to create costs. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages —Four shillings and fourpence. The trial lasted upwards of four hours. The verdict was not delivered till nearly six o'clock. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' S. Yesterday being the last public betting day previous to the Newmarket Craven Meeting, which commences on Monday next with every prospect of first-rate sport, the room was fully attended, and a good deal of highly important business trans acted. For the Itiddlesworth, which possesses little interest beyond the moment, Lord Tavistock's filly was backed with such extreme avidity that at the close of the room no one would back the field against her at 6 to 5 ; as a necessary con sequence Operator, although quoted as low as 5 to 2, was not in much favour. The Derby betting produced results of much greater magnitude. Ibrahim was backed at 7 to 1, and at one part of the afternoon was so much fancied in one or two quarters that two sovereigns were given for the choice of him in a bet of as many hundreds between him and the Yorkshire horse, Coriolanus. At the close of the room, however, the latter had the call, 6 to 1 being tak en a b ou t hi m , an d o ff ere d in vain against the other. The alterations were not confined to these two. Ascot, who till within the last three or four days, was almost out of the market, opened at 15 to 1, gra dually improved as the afternoon advanced, and at its finish was backed at 9tol in a good quarter. Darioletta and Luminary retrograded several poi n ts, a nd a t the prices quoted below were entirely friendless at the termination of the betting. There were no other changes Worth notice. The Oaks betting was, as usual, exceedingly dull, but was not without importance, inasmuch as 6 to 1 was taken about Eva, and 15 to 1 laid against Hester, exactly seven points more than she stood at on Monday ; it is right to add that the first-named odds were af terwards offered, and that the gentleman who backed Hester was ready to go on at the same price. Closing prices:— 'RIDDLESWORTH, P.P. (NEXT MONDAY.) Even on Lord Tavistock's Oak Apple (take 6 to 5) 5 to 2 agst Captain Grant's Operator (offered) TUESDAY'S RIDDLESWOUTH, P.P. 6 to 4 on Lord Jersey's Ibrahim (taken) DERBY. 6 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Coriolanus (taken) 6 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ibrahim (offered) 8 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Ascot (take 9 to 1) 10 to 1 aest Lord Jersey's Silenus (offered) 12 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Pucelle colt (take 14 to 1) 20 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Luck's All (taken) 25 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Darioletta colt (offered) 30 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Gladiator (taken) 33 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Bee-in-a-Bonnet (offered) 33 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Luminary (offered) 35 to 1 agst Colonel White's Cameleopard (offered) 35 to 1 agst Mr. Payne's Philosopher (offered) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Free Will (offered) 40 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Marcian (offered) 40 to I agst Mr. Walker's Curtius (taken to a small sum) 1400 to 1000 on Ascot against Pucelle (taken) 1500 to 1200 on Operator agst Knobstick (taken) 1200 to 1000 on Ascot agst Silenus (taken) OAKS. 6 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Eva (offered) 15 to 1 agst Mr. Mills's Hester (taken) The St. Alban's races commence on the 27th of May, and not in June, as stated by mistake. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—ApriII4. WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. Red -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx -- Irish, White. 6 6 7 0 -- Red Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 8 3 0 Irish Foreign 0 0 0 0 BARLEY, Enghsh, Malting, per Imp. quarter f6 0 31 0 —.— Scotch and Irish, per 6011:s. Feeding 3 4 3 6 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 34 0 41 0 Irish, Bre. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 46 0 - Foreign FLOUR, English, per 280Ib. 49 0. 42 0 ......-- Irish . OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 44011 u 2O 0 22 6 18.:IAN CORN, pt r 4401 b. RYE, per Imper al quart', MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF Grows for the Week ending April 13 Wheat. 1 Oats. I Barley Flour. O a t mea l, firs. firs. Qrs. Foreign, )3rls. Irish,&c. 'cks . Loads 6 1.%;3 13,0 6 11 , 550 1,099 8,823 3,863 SOUTHALL CATTLE ISIA 11.KET.—April l 5 The supply of Seasts, Sheep, Caves, and Porkers ' to th.s day's mar ket was moderately good. There was rather a good attendance of town and country buyers, and the trade was dull, at the foliow lug priers per stone of Slb, to sail: the Gffals : Beef 2s. 6.1. to 4s. Od. Veal ... I Nlutton 3 2 4 2 Pork 3 0 4 0 Lamb ss. 4d. to Os. 4d. _ ... Beasts, 192; Sheep, 4,350; Calves, 60; Pigs, 74. A small portion of the supply left the market unsold RKET.-A pril 15. ROMFORD MA s. d.ios. d. v..). to ;..1. Beet.. Mutton 3 0 4 0 Pork 2lO 310 Lamb ss. 4d. to 6a. 2d. Suckling Calves, .255. to 205.; Quartet old Store Pigs, 8.. to 12s. Mitch Cows, with their small Calf, 11/. t ts. to .31. 10s. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull HAILSHAM Beef 3s. led. to 4s. 4d. Veal 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d. Mutton 4 0 4 6 I Por Supply short, and tiade very dull. CHICHESTER MARKET—ApriI 15. Beef Mutton 3'2 4 2 11'ork 3 0 3 4 I amb Supply of fat stock rn,derately good, and trade rather dull, We hear that our first tragedian, Mr. Macready, has taken the Richmond Theatre for the ensuing season, for the ex press purpose of ascertaining the effect of several pieces which he has altered and revised prior to their production in London. HA NOVE R•SQUA RE Roo MS .—COnSidCrahle sen sation has been created in the fashionable world by the an nouncement of a series of balls to take place at the Hanover square rooms after Easter, on the same plan as Almack's, but to be held on Mondays instead of Wednesdays, and once a fortnight instead of once a week, so as in no way to clash with those at Almack's. The ladies who have already consented to become patronesses, are—her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, her Royal Highness the Landgravine of Hesse Homberg, the Marchionesses of Aylesbury and Worcester, the Viscountess Beresford and Burghersh, and Lady Ernest Bruce, &c. LITERATURE IN 1835.—Many valuable books have been published during the present season, in the enter taining department of voyages and travels. At the head of these we may rank the Narratives of two Voyages undertaken by direction of the Lords of the Admiralty ; viz. that of Capt. Foster, in the Chanticleer, to the South Atlantic Ocean, in 1832, 33, and 34 ; and that of Captain Boteler, in the Leven, to Africa and Arabia, in the important expedition under the command of Captain Owen : productions full of entertainment and information, and which reflect the highest credit upon these distinguished officers. Mr. Bennett's " Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, China, &c." an amusing work, and additionally valuable as presenting us with the latest ac count of the Celestial Empire—" Three Years in the Pacific," well calculated to give a vivid idea of the scenery, society, and manners of the South American States—Mr. Forbes's " Orien tal Memoirs :" the most sterlingly valuable work which has been written on India—Lieut. Moodie's " Ten Years in South Africa; including Descriptions of the Wild Sports of the Country." To emigrants this book will prove of the utmost practical utility. On the United States of America three new works have appeared :—Mr. Arfwedson's Travels in that country and Canada : a very impartial account, and full of anecdote—" The Stranger in America," by Dr. Lieber : as amusing as it is solid ; and " A Winter in the Far West," a vivid description of the vast American solitudes. These are not ephemeral works, they unite information - with amusement, and are valuable additions to modern literature. EXTRAORDINARY DEATH.—Yesterday forenoon an inquest was held at the Castle Inn, Harrow, before Mr. Stirling, on view of the body of Mr. John Greon, rged 72, a respectable farmer, whose death took place. Ll:A . ler. the follow ing melancholy and singular circumstances :—Mr. Benjamin Bowen, surgeon, depssed that he knew the deceased, in his life-time, but la.d never attended him professionally. Witness was called in to attend the deceased on Monday afternoon about two o'clock, and found him lying on the floor insensible; and extremely black in the face. He expired immediately after witness's arrival. On examination after death witness discovered that death was caused by suffocation, a large piece of pudding having made a lodgment in the gullet, which pre vented respiration.—Mr. Thomas Walker knew the deceased, who resided in a cottage adjacent. On Monday afternoon witness was in his garden, when he heard cries of" Assist ance" from the deceased's residence; and immediately after wards a servant woman came out and exclaimed that the de ceased was choked. Witness went into the house, and found the unfortunate man lying on the floor apparently in the agonies of death. Witness immediately sent for Mr. Bowen, the last witnesa, who promptly attended. Other witnesses were exa mined, from which it appeared that the deceased was partaking of his dinner when the unfortunate accident occurred which deprived him of life. Verdict--Accidental Death. 4, /V) ~~ TEE MARKETS--(THIS DAY). D MARKET. aly good, and the trade was some- • SMITHFIEL 'This day's supply was moderate what brisk, at the following PRICES PER STONE OF 8L 4 TO SINK THE OFFAI.S. s. d. to s. d s. d. to s.d. interior Beasts 2 0 2 2 I n f er i or Sh eep ' 4 2 6 Second quality ditto 2 6 210 Second quality ditto Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Coarsa.waolled ditto..... 3 Si 310 Prime Scots, &c. 3 8 310 Southdown Wethers ... 4 ii 4 4 Large coarse Calves 3 6 4 6 Large Hogs Prime small ditto Suckling Calves each l4 t 31 I Quarter old Pigs each. 10 t; 14 0 Lamb SUPPLY, AS PER CLERK'S STATEMENT. I Sheep 8,60 ) Calves, Pigs 245 2JO Beasts. NEWGATE AND LEA: At per stone, t s d to s d s d to s d Beef, inferior 2 0 2 2 Mutton, inferior 2 2 2 4 - middling 2 4 2 6 - middling -- prime large 2lO 3 2 -- prime 3 8 310 -- prime small ..... .... 3 6 310 Pork, large 2 2 210 Veal 3 2 4 6 -----small 3 4 4 2 Lamb ss. 6d. to 6s. Od. DENHALL MARKETS. by the Carcass. (From the London New Price Current.) SUUAR•—The Sugar market has again been heavy all the week, and such has been the languid state of trade, and the anxiety of several of the holders to sell, that the prices gene rally have been giving way for some time. The general re duction in prices may be stated at Is. per cwt. during the last two weeks, but on a careful inspection of the samples, ;'ac Sugars formerly sold at about 535., with some colour but no strength, are at a greater reduction than w e have stated—sell ing now about 51s. Yesterday at public sales about 8,200 bags of Mauritius Sugar were offered ; the prices gave way in most instances 6d. per cwt., and nearly the whole sold. By public sale yesterday afternoon 539 bags of low mid. white Bengal, 295. a 305., former prices; 97 bags and 35 baskets of Java brown, 245. 6d. up to 265. 6d., former prices. The only sale of Foreign Sugar reported is a paled of white Ha vannah at 335. WEST INDIA MOLASSES.—The late sales of Molasses are very low; Berbice 215., ord. Demerara 225. 6d., good ord. at 235. 6d.,. fine quality of West India Molasses a re h e ld f or 24 5 . a 245. 6d. ; the latter paid yesterday for fine Antigua. COFFEE.—By public sale this day 431 bags East India : the ord. Ceylon sold at 555., the good Malabar 60s. a 60s. 6d.; 78 bags African, 48s. a 495. ; 37 bag: ord. Brazil sold at 48s. a 48s. 6d. ; 561 bales Mocha, chiefly 72. a 755., the latter, previous prices, all sold. The answer of the Lords of the Treasury to the trade respecting Coffee has been received in the City; it is merely stating there is no existing Government at present. The trade prayed that all duties on Coffee should be reduced, the West India to 4d. per lb. for home consump tion duty; the East India to 6d. per lb. The Lords of the Treasury state that the memorial will be considered, but they can give no opinion as to the propriety of recommending such a change, or the expediency of it. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.--The Rum market con tinues without any general variation, but the few actusl sales reported are at rather lower rates. Demerara, 27 and 28 over, at 2s. 9d. ; 37 and 38 over, at 3s. Id. In Brandy or Geneva there is no alteration. It is reported that a parcel of proof Leewards sold at 2s. 1 d., and 6 over at 2s. 2d. TALLOW.—The market is still improving in price. COTTON.—The Cotton sales since Friday last are exten sive, and at rather higher prices. They consist of 6,500 Surat, ord to fine, lid. a 81. ; 500 Bengal, good Bd. ; 230 Madras, mid. 70. ; 350 Bowed, fair loid. Market very animated ; prices of East India id. a id. higher. American and Brazil, id a d. , TEA.—The trade are recovering from the alarm they felt at the announcement of so many large sales, as it has been dis covered that many of those advertised were not really in exist ence and that it was a measure of certain parties to create a panic for the purpose of speculation. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. W heat. Per Quarter. glandford L to L 40 43 40 52 S. S . 8. to a. s. to s 23 43 15 22 30 35 .22 ! 20 ` O - .?2 j 32 37 19 24 37 40 22 24 !! 35 37 18 23 32 36 23 24 !32 31 18 24 32 35 19 28 35 42 21 26 36 42 20 23 . 27 1 43 22 28 141 43 20 30 ; 36 46 33 30 36 Chard Huntingdon...—. Long Sutton Louth _ 40 46 42 50 34 44 35 43 31 49 31 42 40 45 31 40 40 50 24 28 28 34 Lynn--. Newark 28 32 26 32 26 35 28 37 28 " 37 30 34 - 4S 3ti 38 25 22 Nottingham ri.terborough Plymouth ilea fool loin 65 70 34 39 LEEDS CORN MARKET. April 4 Wheat, Norfolk and Sidhill( ) 601 b. -- York. and Lincoln. 60Ib. Barley, Norfolk and Sufßilk . • 285 to 3•2 i " Yorkshire and Lincolnshir e ~, Grinding Beans 631 b.... Oats, Potatoc . —!‘i calms, For. 121 to I3d Eng. 9.1. to 10%d. per stone Shelling Rapeseed, English, 2.5 t: EC 27.....,.. ... Foreign, —/. to —/ per last. J ! f 1 Barley. Oats. Pease. 9 * 0 9. - - 40 - CO 48 32 34 UN ICIPAL CORPORAiIONS. PROTEST Of Sir Francis Palgrave, one of the C omm i ss i oners for in quiring into Municipal Corporations in England And Wales, in the matter of the Report presented to his Majesty by the said Commissioners. (Pursuant to an Address to his Majesty, dated April 3, 1835.) 1. His Majesty having been pleased to issue a commis sion under the great seal, dated the Bth day of July, in the fourth year of his reign, (grounded upon the address of the, Commons' House of Parliament therein recited) authoriz ing John Blackburne, Esq., Sir Francis Pa'grave, Knt., George Long, Fortunatus Dwarris, Sampson Augustus Rumball, George H. Wilkinson, Thomas Jefferson Hogg, Peregrine Bingham, D. Jardine, Richard Whitcombe, John Elliot Drinkwater, Edward John Gambier, Thomas Flower Ellis, James Booth, Henry Roscoe, Charles Austin, Edward Rushton, Alexander Edward Cockburn, John Buckle, and Daniel Maude, Esqs., to proceed to inquire as to the existing state of the existing municipal corporations in England and Wales, and to collect information respect ing the defects in their constitutions ; and also to make sues other inquiries as are-therein directed ; and also signifying his Majesty's pleasure that. the said Commissioners, or any three or more of them, should, under their hands and seals, to his Majesty what the said Commissioners should find touching or concerning the premises in such inquiry as aforesaid ; and also that any one or more of the said Com missioners may have liberty to certify their several proceed ings from time to time, as the same should be respectively completed and perfected ; the Commissioner whose name is hereunto subscribed loth hereby state his objections to the report addressed to the King's most excellent Majesty by the said John Blackburne, Esq., and certain other of the Commissioners in the said commission named, protesting against the same. 11. (1.) As theundersignad Commissioner differs in opi= nion from the other Commissioners upon points of great importance, it is proper to state that the objections to the report have not been hastily raised. (2.) The undersigned Commissioner having been informed in the month of October last, that John Blackbrane, Esq., the Chief Commissioner named in the said Commission, was collecting materiels for the general report, he shortly afterwards delivered to the said Chief Commissioner a state ment containing a summary of the opinions which appeared to him to be the results of the evidence, so far as the same had come to his knowledge, and in which, amongst several other matters, were contained observations to the follow ing effect : In whom is the elective franchise for corporate pur poses to be vested ?—ln considering and discussing this question may it not be proper to pause and inquire, whether Conservatives and Reformers do not respectively overrate the dangers as well as the advantages of an extended po pular franchise ?—With the fears and apprehensions of the former, i. e. the Conservatives, which I firmly believe to be erroneous, we have no concern. But if the last, i. e. the Reformers, trust too much to the beneficial effects of popular election ; and if, so trusting, they are thereby induced to neglect the elements of good government, they will assur edly inflict the most serious evils on the country. Popular suffrage is not a panacea for all the diseases of the body politic. Popular suffrage, taken by itself alone, affords no security against the incompetency, corruption, jobbing, or despotism of the ruling body ; nor does the establishment of a popular constituency in anywise relieve the Legislature from the necessity of providing every possible check against mal-administration. The most open borough must be watched as jealously by the law as the closest oligarchy. The vices may differ in feature, but they will be the same in nature. Popular suffrage is a most powerful engine, which may be rendered the means of removing causes of offence. It may tend to premote security and political cheerfulness, but it cannot be received as the basis and foundation of political virtue, political integrity, or political order and prosperity. Municipal suffrage must not be surrendered to the mass of the people as a right which they are entitled to demand, but treated as a free gift, bestowed upon them out of a spirit of conciliation, restoring confidence and harmony be tween the governors and the governed, and thus contribut ing to the general Welfare of the community. Of course these ob serva ti ons cou ld not • be applied to a report then not in existence, but it will be seen that they involve a main principle of the objections hereinafter taken, that is to say, that in examining the evidence it is proper to discriminate between those defects which may be removed by laws applied to the acts or defaults of individuals, and those that may require a change in the political constitution of municipal corporations. (3.) On Thursday, the 25th February, 1835, the under signed received from the Secretary of the Commission a printed draft of the report, with instructions to return the same on Saturday, the 27th of the saw, month;vchich the undersigned Commissioner accorqilcyy did, together with his observations thereon (the said observations, owinc , to the shortness of the period between the delivery and the return of the draft, being very hastily written) contain ing amongst other matters, the following remarks upon pas sages in the draft, stating the "general unpopularity of the municipal magistracy, (and which passages, with some alte rations, are substantially retained in the report) : " This is to a certain extent true, but we must, nevertheless, ex amine the position a little more closely, and distinguish be tween the classes amongst whom this dissatisfaction or dis respect is found, * * * and it is our bounden duty in admitting the facts to ascertain how far such disatisfaction or disrespect arises from just and reasonable causes, or from feelings which the Legislature should seek to calm." And the said observations contain the substance or spirit of the several objections hereinafter taken ; but, being, as before mentioned, written with great haste, they are in a loose and unconnected form. (4.) On Friday, the 6th of March, 1833, the under s:gned Commissioner received a second or revised printed draft of the report, corrected and altered, but not so as to meet any of the suggestions in the before-mentioned obser vations, together with a letter from the Secretary: requesting him to attend the Board on the following day, and the un dersigned attended the Board accordingly, having previously written a letter to the Secretary, stating various objections to the report ; and, amongst others, an objection, " That the report, so far as it extends, does not permit a pertinent, full, and accurate summary or digest of the evidence relating to the subjects into which the Commissioners are directed to inquire ;" which letter was read to the Board. (5.) On Wednesday, the 11th day of March, the under signed Commissioner received a third revised proof of the printed draft of the report, with instructions to attend a Board thereon on the following day, viz., on the 12th of March, which he did accordingly ; and the Board having sat till a late hour of the evening the same was adjourned until the following day, the 13th March. When the Chief Commissioner had read the paragraph cf the report, headed " Corporate Body" (p. 32, sec. 71) the undersigned stated verbally, that he had certain general ob jections to make, which, if valid, affected the whole of the report from that paragraph to its conclusion, viz. that the report did not sufficiently distinguish between those abuses which could be remedied by Courts of Law, or which muni cipal Magistrates might, as individuals, commit in common with all other Magistrates ; and those defects and abuses which in terms of the Commission were to be considered as defects and abuses inherent in municipal constitutions ; and that for want of this distinction the report, taken as a whole, made assumptions not sufficiently warranted by the evidence, inasmuch as it laid charges and affixed imputa tions upon the municipal corporations which did not pro perly belong to them. And, further, that with respect to the state of public feeling, the report (in his opinion) con tained statements couched in stronger language than could be supported by the evidence, as would appear by an ana lysis of that evidence ; and the undersigned Commissioner, in support of his opinion, tendered to the Commissioners a tabular analysis of the - cases reported in the southern cir cuit, and proposed that the other circuits should be ana lysed in similar manner, requesting that a Commissioner who had bestowed great pains and attention upon the re port would assist him in making such analysis. The general objections thus made, by the undersigned Commissioner were over-ruled by the Board, and declared not to be valid ; and the offer of analysing the evidence was also declined by the Commissioners. The Coinmissioners then proceeded to consider the report (as in Committee) ; and the under signed (as in Committee) offered various suggestions, some of which were adopted and others rejected. At the con clusion of the sitting the undersigned then again declared his intention of objecting to the report for the reasons which he had before stated to the Board. But the Com-a missioners stated that they should decline allowirg the said Commissioner to sign the report lir e.cr protest, or to annex his objections thereto, an intimation to the same effect having previously been made to him. On the 14th March the undersigned received from the Secretary a further re vised proof of the general report. On the 16th March he addressed a letter to the Secretary requesting information as to the course which it was intended to pursue with respect to the objections. And on the 24th day of March the Secretary replied that he had not received any answer from the Chief Commissioner, and informed the under signed Commissioner that the report had been transmitted - o the Secretary of State for the Home Department, 111. (1.) The general objections to the report are the following, viz. that in the statements professing to be enu merations of the principal abuses and defects found in the constitution and management of the municipal corporations of England and Wales, the report does not clearly and per tinently discriminate between those abuses and defects which are or may be remedied by law in municipal corpora tions as they now exist, and those abuses and defects which cannot be remedied without an alteration in the constitution of municipal corporations ; and that by thus refusing to ad mit the broad distinction between adventitious defects and inherent defects, and .Iso between the acts of individuals and the acts of communities, the report contains Various ~ 4 .~ •,.i )f tha r past ms in ,use Of . fr. = 111