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....-----•"'''' DAY)* e of all kinds of ry dull throt!gt of most tion to `b d rdly suPPI t4 c for Grindinga Ted. Beans ' 11) . 1° oue Pease con st meet bu)ers ja not brisk. ) ........ ............ ..... . ,35,•56‘. • • -- .- 19f. 24 ' •s' 4° b 561: 2w) .............. ....... .d).... ...... I 85... sack) •••••• ST W (2 r''. .-- - TILE SUN EXPRESS, (From the Preston Pilot of March 7.) We were again indebted to the extraordinary exertions of the spirited proprietor of The Sun newspaper for the early intelli gence of the division on the address. It was received here eleven hours sooner than we should have had it through the medium of the morning papers, and nearly twenty hours earlier than by those of the evening. (From the Carlisle Journal.) In commo n with most of our contemporaries we have to ex express our deep obligations to the Proprietor of The Sun for the exertions he has made during the last fortnight to circulate the important proceedings in Parliament. On Saturday last an express arrived here from The Sun office with a full report of the debate and division on the Address—being 16 hours in advance of the regular accounts by the mail. A report extend ing to several columns, had been written out, printed off, and Conveyed upwards of 300 miles in less than 36 hours. We trust Mr. Young will meet the just reward of such spirited exertions. (From the Belfast News Letter of March 6. ) To a second edition of The Sun of Monday evening we are indebted for the report which we have given of the important proceedings in the House of Commons on that evening. I experienced, as if Heaven had significantly warned him of the downfall of his house, in the person of his unseemly heir. The head of young Mirabeau was so uncommonly and unnaturally large, that his mother nearly lost her life in giving birth to him ; and subse quently his looks were not improved by the small pox, which made the most frightful ravages in his countenance. From his birth, his father seems to have regarded him as a kind of prodigy ; and with all the appearance of an instinctive feeling, which he could neither eradicate nor suppress, to have both hated and feared him. He was not, however, as has been asserted, without displaying considerable paternal fondness for his son, after the latter's return from Cor sica, where his first campaign made a great and favourable impression on the stern mind of the haughty Marquis. We have an unquestionable proof of this, in the fact that the Marquis of Mirabeau, notwithstanding a previous resolution to the contrary, permitted his son to accom pany him to Paris, presented him to all his friends at Court, and treated him with all the distinction due to the heir of an illustrious house. The young Count was not of a disposition long to preserve the good opinion of such a man as his father. In person gross and repulsive ; in manners, coarse, familiar, and occa sionally brutal ; in morals a debauches and a sensua- list ; in politics, a Republican ; in. religion, an Atheist ; and in general sentiments, a sort of Candide, or optimist—he could not fail to render himself an object of disgust to a feudal lord who treated his chil dren, on principle, as he did his vassals, and who enter tained the most sovereign contempt for those doctrines of political right which paved the way for the first Revolution. The expensive habits, the debauche ries, the impatience under restraint, but above all the large debts contracted b`• Count Mirabeau without the knowledge of his father, confirmed all those horrible suspicions which the Marquis entertained during the minority of his son. Neither is it true, as has hitherto been generally supposed, that the Marquis procured a _ . letire de cachet against young Mirabeau, before the Count's creditors had rendered such a step of little or no importance. That the father's act was wantonly cruel we grant ; but we must make due allowance for the mistaken pride of a high-minded nobleman, who was always placing the conduct of Junius, Brutus be fore him as an example in the treatment of his children ; who abhored his wife and all who ,00k part with her ; and who was, moreover, influenced by the counsels of a mistress who had every reason to dread the exercise of any influence which young Mirabeau would obtain over the mind of his stern parent. We make these observations on the cruel conduct of the Marquis, just as they occur to us, for the purpose of pointing out, why it is that he ap appears less guilty in our eyes than he has done in those of more competent judges ; and likewise be cause in many respects the Marquis was a well-dis posed, humane, charitable man. The erec tion of bake-houses for the benefit of his tenantry, and the establishment of Parochial Committees for the arbi tration and settlement of all disputes, without incurring the expenses of litigation, sufficiently testify all this. It will be easily seen from this that we receive with caution, all that is here set down in favour of Count Mira beau by his adopted son ; let us add, too, that we are as incredulous as Didymus in the existence of the crime of unmerited parental cruelty, notwith standing all that Johnson, in his life of Savage, has asserted to the contrary. We admit its possibility— but nothing beyond that can we bring ourselves to believe on the subject. In these volumes we do not find a word about Mi rabeau, after his release from the Donjon of Vincennes. The history of the law proceedings which he subse quently instituted against his father and his wife, the effect produced on him by the melancholy end of his unhappy victim, the Marchioness of Mounier, his missions and journeyings to Berlin, his election as a member of the States General, his flirtations with the lopular cause, and his sudden death in 1791, just as the first dreadful whirlwind which overthrew the mo narchy of France began to be felt—all these are im portant parts in the biography of Mirabeau, which are not to be found in these memoirs. But up to the period at which they conclude, they are exceedingly in teresting, and will be read with avidity. The freshness of the sources from whence the compiler has drawn his 4ichest materials, and the candid spirit in which he has employed them are alike creditable to his judgment and his integrity. The Durham Assizes commenced on Saturday and the Northumberland Assizes on Wednesday last. There was no business of much public importance at either place.—Car lisle Journal. THE ASSIZES.-The assizes for the county of Cumberland commence here on Monday next, the 10th inst. The Judges, Sir James Park and Sir Edward Hall Alderson, will arrive in town in the course of Monday afternoon, when the Commission will be opened. They will attend divine worship in the Cathedral the following morning, and imme diately afterwards proceed to business in the Courts. The gentlemen of the long robe have promise of only very poor pickings so far as we have yet learned; we scarcely hear of a single case. The calendar of prisoners for trial is more than usually light in n um b er , no more t h an seven cases appearing in the list up to the present time.—Carlisle Journal. At the Petty Sessions of Kilfinan on Saturday, a priest in the neighbourhood of Alitchelstown was fined in a penalty of 201. for shooting on the estate of Lord Kings borough without license. The Rev. Sportsman was proceeded against as a poacher by one of the gamekeepers in the service of the Noble Lord.--Cork Constitution. EDINBURGH POLICE COURT.—On Monday, a person named M'Gillivray, a dull, heavy-looking fellow, lately from Elgin, was placed at the bar, charged with fraud and wilful imposition, in so far as, in the months of March, April, May, and Juno last, he addressed several letters to a respec table agent for a large estate then exposed for sale, with the false pretence of purchasing the said estate for a Major M' Pherson, and did latterly, in the name of the said Major M'Pherson, conclude a bargain therefor with the said agent, at the price of 18,0001., he well knowing that there was no such person as Major M'Pherson in existence; and the said M'Gillivray did, on or about the 16th of Juno last, fraudulently and feloniously transmit, in a letter by post, from Elgin, to the said agent, a false, fabricated, and fictitious draft or order for 201., at 60 days' sight, bearing to be drawn by W. G. M'Pher son, major, H.P., and addressed to Messrs. John Robinson and Co., No. 6, Winchester-street, London Wall, London ; at the same time requesting the said agent to discount the same, and return him IN., which the agent, believing the draft to be genuine, did accordingly, and since the draft became due it has been discovered to be false and fictitious, there being no such persons as either the drawer or acceptor in existence, and the said agent has been defrauded and swindled out of the said sum of 101. by the said William M'Gillivray. Magistrate—" Are you guilty of this charge ?" Prisoner—" Ou, ay, but I wasna compos mentis." Magistrate —" You was not what?" Prisoner—" I didna ken what I was doin'." Superintendent—" You knew what to do with the money though ?" Prisoner—" Ou, ay." Superintendent— And you knew that there was no such person as Major M'Pherson in existence." Prisoner—" I daresay there mayna be sic a person." Superintendent to the Magistrate—" This person has written an account of his life, Sir. It seems he has been imprisoned for a similar offence before. During the period he will have to remain in confinement here he will have an opportunity of writing a continuation of his life." The Magistrate then remitted him for trial to a higher court.— Scots Times. A melancholy case of the murder of an infant by its mother, in an insane state of mind, occurred on Thursday at Purbrook. The child, Frederick Dilloway, was five months old, and the mother being about to wean it, her sister-in-law, Jane Dilloway, had come to stay a few days with her, to as sist her in so doing. After the father, who is a school master, with the mother and sister, had partaken of break fast together, the sister went into the garden to hang out some clothes to dry, and the father into his school-room, to clean it. They had scarcely quitted the unhappy woman, whom they left in the act of washing and dressing the child, before they were recalled by a strange noise, when they found that she had taken a table knife off the breakfast table, and cut the child's throat to the neck bone, the consequence of which was instantaneous death. An inquest was held before C. B. Longcroft, Esq., Coroner, when it appeared in evi dence that both husband and sister had used every precau tion, and had taken every pains to quiet the nervous irrita tion under which the mother suffered. Verdict—" That Rhoda Dilloway, the mother, not being of sound mind, killed her child, but not feloniously of her malice aforethought."— Hampshire Telegraph. LITERATURE. THE MUSICAL LIBRARY. 1 3 .4 RT WITH a SUPPLEMENT. London : Charles Knight, Ludgate-street. Th e high character of this very valuable work, es- Pecially to all musical families of limited income, is well sustained throughout these pages. We have here some of the prettiest words in the language adapted to some of the finest compositions of Handel, Mozart, Rossini, Haydn, and other celebrated masters. The great exertions made by Mr. Knight to extend the be nefit of cheap knowledge, and cheap and innocent amusement to all classes, are deserving of the highest praise. HEINRICH STILLING. P ART 1. Lond on: H amilton and Co. Paternoster-row, 1835. This work, the first part of which has been trans lated from the German by Mr. Jackson, of Herne Rill, Surrey, has been pronounced a " literary curio sity," a n d so i n truth it is to a British public. There is nothing at all res em bli ng i t i n our l anguage ; so that, at first, it appears extremely difficult to give any ° P i nion upon it, as far as regards its style and literary Meri ts. It is a myriad of times more quaint and sim ple than Gesner's " Death of Abel," and " Bar clay's Apology f or th e Q ua k ers " b reat h es not tliTough -43,ut an air o f greater correctness and truth. Stilling ' s ' Li fe is extremely popular in Germany, and was first Published at the suggestion of Goethe; but our opinion Is, that it is too minute and gloomy in its details and g e neral ch aracter to su i t the taste of the majority of English readers. Besides, Stilling's childhood, ex b,°rdinary as it wa s , o ff ers no exam pl e w hi c h cou ld f ollowed i n t h e e d ucat i on o f ot h er c hild ren. As the e work is written in a most religious spirit, we can "'ely recommend it to the notice of all parents and guardians of youth. We are not ourselves among the n umber of those who would put books of a gloomy u escripti on i nto the hand of a child, however excellent the y might be in every other respect. MEMOIRS OF MIRABEA U. 131 ' iiratsF,LF, Ins FATHER, AND HIS ADOPTED CHILD. In 9 Vols. London. Churion, Holles-street, 1835. These Memoirs, chiefly compiled from private and unpublished letters, records, and documents, in the pos session of the Mirabeau family, are given to the world, Partly in compliance with th e earnest w i s h es o f t h e extraordinary subject of th em , an d part l y f rom a lau dable desire to correct some erroneous impressions which had been made on the public mind respecting the cha racter, conduct, sentiments and sufferings of one of the m ost remarkable men of modern times. The author, o r rath er the compiler calls himself, in the IntrodUction, th e adopted child of Mirabeau, and intimates that lie va sesigned from infancy to do justice to the memory of re than parent ; but M. D umon t, i n hi s " R eco ll ec - M° a" states that Lucas Montigny was a na t ura l son o f rah eau, and there are passages in thi s wor k w hi c h : 111 4 seem to corroborate such a statement, albeit of wo k e L ca lside ra bl e i mportance . W e h ave not seen th i s wb in th e or i g i na l, an d t h ere f ore we d o not know f " ethe r We ought to blame the writer or the translator t h e 4 t perf orm i ng some of the f i nest promises made in a Intr QUetiOn. We h ave , it i s t rue , a p re tty f u ll 1.1. - : °li nt of th e ear ly p ar t o f Mi ra b eau ' s lif e , i n extracts 14 i nl l _ le tters of th e M arqu i s t o his b ro th er th e B a illi o f as 44 , ue att, and th e l a tt er ' s answers ; 'b u t o f hi s career in aabeau, legisl a t or an d a statesman—the third point of view 11 w hich the writer promises to represent him—we find Sot a single trace in these volumes. However, the work ie va luabl e on many accounts :—ln the first place it Prek nts Mirabeau in a more favourable light than any in whi c h h e hi t h erto stood b efore the publ i c ; and the next, bec ause i t d oes t hi s w i t h out see ki ng to :ttipal those ex cesses an d cr i mes o f w hi c h h e was rea ll y p - 0 4 : 4 3r , and wi t h out attempt i ng to cast any worse im -"4ti°ns on t h e parenta l con d uct o f hi s stern, unfor ' ~vdig fath er, than those which the defenders of his tri Zery lave laid to his charge. of I : confess, notwithstanding the alleged innocence 4irt i rabeau, and unnatural cruelty of his father, dur ie a cours e of un h ear d o f p ersecu ti on , w hi c h corn hi'leed with his son's birth, and only terminated with °l7ll dftatli, that we see great cause to e xo n erate the gr quis from many of the heartless charges which t i : e b een preferredagainst him—taking into considera kill the family peculiarities, his own early impr ess i o ns, 4 °Pinions preval en t i n th e d a y s o f hi s yout h. Th e hiParation Whi c h too k p l ace, b etween t h e Marqu i s and th s w ife du r i ng w e e the childhood of his son, together with t bick er i ngs b etween t hi s am i a bl e coup l e f or k it lt tY yea rs previously, was not likely to increase the Yo h tt i l liS'S fo n d ness f or hi s o ff spr i ng ; espec i a ll y as a l l g Mirabeau mostly took part with his mother in the family quarrels. We have no wish to screen trit 111 1 e mery of the Marquis from a charge of parental Et „ i e ; t Y , of which happily the world furnishes few ex ,hl34" ; but at the same time, it is but just that we mi ci . lll d submit to the public some of those reasons ti6 leh in our opinion, ought to be taken, not as ins (l4.ti"s, but as palliations of some part of his con lar'st\he Mi ra b eau family (we studiously omit particu of t ) e riginally f rom Fl orence, appear f rom the per i od (iat.heir settlement i n F rance to h ave rec k one d pride, b ea ill g, atta c h ment to feudal institutions, and personal th e . ut Y , as the natural and inherent characteristics of l ast ' ra ce. These prejudices, more especially the two 1,44 w ere engraves on the mind of the Marquis, who the misfortune to be confirmed in all his foolish i 4 , l Press jeos by th e fame which he obtained as a writer Fail:lo i litical economy, and who mistook the compliments h i oo in cons equence o f hi s hi gh rank, for conces te to his great talents and literary acquire literary i earn t !• The poetical proposition of Pope that a tiletho.l.rntgaliiszian,dangerous thing," was well exemplified in caree r of the Marquis, who succeeded in of work b himself by the production of a number fros as unreadable as they have remained unread 1 ,,: their fi rst'appearanc e in print till the present day. i‘vviatteention this for the purpose of sheaving that the confirm possessed just a sufficiency of scholarship to his ancestors, him in all the prejudices he had imbibed from a 4,?cestors, but not enough of genius to penetrate .pets:spel their illusiveness. He was vain of his own 44 :al appearance, which he always maintained had % iit.e .r of nobleness in it ; proud of the commanding vi tt , of the Bailli o f Mi rabeau his brother; and gazed i:eisuarielenetslituosrs. iastic venerati on on t h e state l y portra i ts of This will account f or the shock which iii • eceived from having a son born to him, who hild m!ire resembled a monster than a; 'Jr tha t involuntary revulsion of feeli ng s whi hake entry Qrs. 1592 64 5 rvoj istant, T. 6 0 the trade was HE OFFS 1, 0 5 ; 1 0 n 4. 2 8 ' 3 fi :SO '3! 9' y ditto d ditto 'Tethers 'igs each, Od p. 5 I :w. O road • ab l ' ut ' fromthe"dot Emiti. E5,ex,3,1100, moat of the r Rion. ilia 'mgrs. 0 a toi I 1 9 56 I ' 9 "1 2 4 5 41 ~.1 9 4 1 wi: ........ .9 for (ling. .....• tY -march 7 . 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His Majesty attended divine service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, St. James's. The sermon was preached by the Lord Bishop of Bristol. Mr. Attwood presided at the organ during the musical service (Boyce's in C.); Sir George Smart afterwards presided at the performance of the Sanctus ( Arnold's in C.), and of the anthem, " 0 Lord, thou bast searched me out" ( Croft), which was sung by Messrs. Sale, Vaughan, and another gentleman of the Chapel Royal. The King was accompanied by the Landgravine of Hesse Hom burg, the Princess Augusta, and Prince George of Cam bridge. The Dean of Hereford and the Rev. Dr. Blomberg were in attendance as Deputy Clerks of the Closet. The Marquises of Graham and Worcester, the Earls of Wilton, Jersey, Howe, and Cawdor, and Lord Prudhoe, were among the nobility present. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their Royal Highnesses' Household, attended divine service yester day. The service was performed by the Dean of Chester. His Majesty gave audience yesterday to Sir Robert Peel. The Queen, attended by Miss Hope Johnstone and Miss Hudson, visited the Duchess of Glocester on Saturday, at Glocester-house. The Duchess of Kent entertained a distinguished party to dinner on Saturday, and in the evening Madame Dulcken per formed on the pianoforte before her Royal Highness's guests. The Duke of CuMberland went on Saturday to his resi dence at Kew, where his Royal Highness entertained in the evening a select party at dinner. His Royal Highness re turned to town yesterday afternoon. The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, and the Princess Augusta, visited the Duckess of Glocester yesterday. The Princess Augusta entertained the Landgravine of Hesse Homburg, and a select party, at dinner, last evenin g , at her residence in St. James's Palace. A Deputation (on the subject of the Hand-loom 'Weavers) including the Earl of Euston, Lo r d s F ranc i s E gerton, D. Stuart, and E. Stuart, Admiral Adam, Messrs. Maxwell, Turner, Brotherton, Bolling, Fleetwood, Lawson, Forbes, Gillon, Ainsworth, Fielden, R. Oswald, E. Tennent, Brockle burst, R. Wallace, and Cayley, had a conference on Saturday with the Right Hon. Alexander Baring and Viscount Lowther, at the office of the Board of Trade. Sir Robert Peel, Sir Edward Knatchbull, and other mem bers of the Administration, attended a numerous meeting of Members of the House of Commons on Saturday morning at the Foreign-office. M. Van de Weyer, the Belgic Minister, and General Alava, the Spanish Minister, visited the Duke of Wellington on Saturday at the Foreign-office. Despatches from the Governor of the Mauritius were re , ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. Earl Grey is expected to leave Grimston-house, Yorkshire, the residence of Lord Howden, this day, on a visit to the Duke of Bedford at Woburn Abbey. DUBLIN. (PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) MARCH 7.—Perhaps those Statesmen, whose constitutional feelings are so egregiously outraged by what they think proper to designate a " . factious opposition," would f avour th e wor ld with their valuable opinion as to the merits of a factious " perseverance." The one is quite as contrary to rational free dom as the other ; and there is this materi a l diff er e nce i n th e state of things, that the latter has a real existence, whereas the former is a mere chimera. There is not, nor can be, a factious opposition in the House of Commons sufficient to overwhelm the will of the sovereign people. The reign of faction ceased in that House when the last of the borough mongers was expelled. The stout resolution avowed by Sir Robert Peel, to die in the last ditch, is hailed with rapture by his unreflecting adhe rents in this country as an assurance that he will be suffered to get into that Ultima Thule by gradual approaches, before be is obliged to he down and breathe his last speech as Grand Vizir of Great Britain. The composure with which the poor witless creatures talk of defying the majorities of the people's House is laughable. They exult, because there has not been a positive division against them since Thursday last, and upon that poor comfort prattle about re-action. Unless they are leathered every day, they think themselves victorious ; just as a gamester, in the intervals of mischance, fancies that he is getting on his legs again. But the opposition cannot be com posed of such fools and traitors, as now, with the prize in their hands, to retire from the contest, and verify the infamous and base imputations which have been cast upon their motives by the faction they have all but annihilated. The courage of the Tories is manifestly oozing fast out of their fingers' ends. It was thought that they would have re called O'Connell's " patent of precedency," among the first exhibitions of their vigour. It was, indeed, a point of honour with them to do 30 ; for scarcely a night passed during the sittings of the late Parliament that some one, in either House, did not taunt Lord Grey with having licensed agitation by conferring that distinction. Yet they have not dared to meddle with it, nor does their Bobadil press ever venture to drop a hint about it. Is the Cock of Waterloo a political craven after all ? Does he really fear " Dan and his tail ?" Should the experiment of a dissolution be ventured upon, great must be its success in England, to counterbalance the loss which will be sustained by the Government in Ireland. Nothing can be more certain than that six Reformers, at the very lowest computation, would be added to the Irish troop, if the people had an opportunity of choosing again; and those six would make a difference of twelve in a division. Thus Ministers should gain twelve in Great Britain, to maintain even the hopeless position which they now occupy. ELY CATHEDRAL. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SIM. SlR,—The vacant stall in Ely Cathedral, which, in deference to public opinion, it was expected, would have been left to the disposal of the Commissioners about to be appointed under the proposed Church Reform Bill, has, after long deliberation, been given to Dr. Maddy. The Bury paper, in commenting on a very intemperate speech which this Reverend Divine delivered at a Conserva tive dinner, at Sudbury, about a fortnight since, stated him then to be Rector of Boxted, Rector of Some' ton, Rector of Stansfield, and Rector of Harlist ; Chaplain to the King, and alternate Reader of St. James's, Westminster. He has now an additional motive for his warm attachment to the Established Church. At the Sudbury dinner he is said, not only to have been lavish in his praises of the beauty and order of the esta blishment, but also to have been very free in branding Re formers with the names of infidels, &c. Surely, it would be more consistent with the precepts of the Gospel, were he and some other pluralists belonging to Ely Cathedral, who lately have been making violent speeches at Conservative dinners, first to enter into a little self-examination before they pass such uncharitable judgments upon the creed of their neighbours. Pluralists and non-residents cannot but be unbelievers of the threatenings in Scripture against those pastors who desert their flocks. _ _ In Ely Cathedral there are four other Prebendaries, who are also plu;alists and sinecurists, whose Ecclesiastical preferments must amount to four thousand a year each ; whilst the two poor Curates, who discharge all the duties of the two very ex tensive parishes in Ely, are paid by the Dean and Chapter only forty pounds a-year a piece for their services. As the Pre bendal stall of Westminster has been annexed to the adjoining parish of St. Margaret's, there would have been n o i mpropr i ety in dividing the income f this stall at Ely between these two poor Curates. Sincerely wishing these scandalous acts of in justice towards the poor working Clergy may shortly be reme died, although I entertain but very faint hopes of any real re formation in the Established Church, I beg to subscribe myself your Constant Reader, AN ENEMY TO OPPRESSION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Nous sommes tens de la meme famille I3EAUMARCIIAIS. Sia,—Our own affairs so much engross public attention, that scarcely can we allow time for the consideration of what is passing on the Continent. The position, however, of Louis Philippe is at this moment particularly worthy of notice, for great events are at hand, and matters in Ft ance, as here, are fast drawing to a crisis. It is not possible for the King of the French to continue pursuing that narrow policy which, since his accession to the throne, has perseveringly dictated all his actions and counsels. But for a caution peculiar to his character, together with a certain dexterity in business, and extreme plausibility of manners, he would, long ere this, have been somewhat abruptly stopped in his occupation of breaking engagements solemnly entered into by him at the Hotel de Ville, and afterwards established by the CHARTER. Of all the phenomena in which human nature abounds, perhaps the most puzzling for the philosopher or the philanthropist to unravel, is that obstinate resistance the mind offers to be improved by the past. Events which, as they happen, weigh so heavily, and excite our feelings to such a painful degree, are too frequently robbed of any salutary influence when the mellowing hand of time has swept over them. If you wished to single out a man who had met with the severest trials, and to whom expe rience had read many a terrible lesson, you would almost na turally point to the soldier of Jemmapes, who now wields the sceptre of France ; a long stormy life of dangers and priva tions was his best—l had nearly said—his only title to a crown which the glorious Revolution of July placed at the disposal of a few people : it was this, and this alone, which stood between a monarchy and a republic. It was in the hope that a Prince who, untainted by the nzataria of a Court, would have avoided those Acroceraunian rocks on which so many of his prede cessors split, that the venerable Republican-General consented to throw his sword into the scales, and to abandon those sen timents which were the polar star of a noble youth, and the solace of an honoured old age. Louis Philippe, disguise it as you may, has disappointed the just expectation of his friends ; he has not gained the esteem of his enemies--he has not won over the waverer—he stands alone, surrounded by a people who ask for little, but to whom that little is sternly denied. The ground upon which he is placed is not tenable ; he must either go forward, and then his whole system must be radically changed—or he must retro grade—and then indeed—adieu ! le dernier des Bourbons. Changes of Ministry are become of so frequent occurrence that they cause little else but a shrug of contempt, or a smile cf ridicule. Measures must be altered. The Charter must be kept in its inviolability ; the elective franchise must be extended ; the colonies must be attended to ; the liberty of the press must be a reality, and not a mockery ; the trial by jury must be strictly kept sacred ; extraordinary tribu nals must be abolished : the political prisons must be thrown open ; the friendship of free and not of despotic nations must be courted ; every thing, in short, must begin de novo. Can this revolution be hoped for ? Can the heart that so fondly sips the sweets of absolutism be ever thoroughly Pu rified ? Can ingratitude be forgiven—can animosities be soft ened down,,and the past forgotten? These are 9tiestions on the solution, of which depends the happiness or misery of mil lions of our felloii-men. The position in which the French are placed, is far more delicate and difficult than our's. They are submitting to a punishment voluntarily administered ; and like the frogs of old, are finding fault with the log of wood, for the pos session of which they have none to thank but themselves. We, on the contrary, are resisting a force arbitrarily and capricious ly imposed upon us, and it is easier to annihilate a faction, than to lecture a monarch. The writer, Sir, of these lines, is not viewing the matter before him as it were "through a glass darkly ;" he is not arguing on any fixed rule of right, and applying it, regardless of particular circumstances. He has passed the greater part of a not unobservant life among the French people, and he fearlessly challenges inquiry as to the facts he advances, and the inferences he draws from them. He was at Havre-de-Grace (the Liverpool of France) at the time of the " three days," and well he remembers the delight felt by the people of that large and wealthy town when the Steam-boat landed the English Newspapers ; and they read, in The Sun especially, a glowing eulogium and enthusiastic ap proval of their recent glorious deeds. The kindly and ge nerous feelings that then passed between the two greatest na tions of the world, are to-day, I am sure, as warm as ever : when they cease to exist, it will not be the fault of the people in either. To you, Mr. Editor, much is due, for having zealously lent your powerful aid in removing these prejudices, which, to their shame, so often darken the un derstandings of our countrymen ; but so long as Govern ments are interested in keeping up a system of deception, the greatest vigilance will b e required of those whose duty it is to see that the flame be not extinguished on the altars of Liberty. MILO. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The Parliamentary Inquiries into the intentions of Minis ters, as to a second dissolution, have not been by any means well managed. The candour and generosity of Lord J. Russell's nature have induced him to rest contented with replies, which I am per suaded will not satisfy the public at large. The first omission which I shall notice is, that the disposition of the Premier alone was enquired into ; and he, to a certain extent, denies contemplating such a measure. But, Sir, he may be OUTVOTED in his own Cabinet. The question ought to have been (and I trust still will be) put—WHETHER ANT MEMBER or THE ADMINISTRATION HAD GIVEN COUNTENANCE OR CAUSE TO THE. RUMOURS OF AN INTENTION TO DLSSOLVE PARLIAMENT AT AN EARLY DATE, UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES? The second error was, resting contented with Sir Robert's vague observation, that he could not consent to "place any prerogative of the Crown in ABEYANCE." I shall not stop to comment on the convenient phrase " prerogative of the Crown," used for "power of the MINISTER ;" but shall merely observe, that " abeyance" signifies present non-use—and, as the King can dissolve Parlia ment any day that the power is constantly in " abeyance," while Parliament sits—it has been already in " abeyance" from Feb. 19. But Sir Robert " remembers to forget" that the " prerogative of the Crown" is one thing—a Minister's determination To AD VISE ITS EXERCISE another ! He might have said, " I cannot engage that his Majesty shall not dissolve Parliament this Ses sion, BUT I CAN AND DO ENGAGE THAT I WILL NOT ADVISE IT." He has the power over his own actions, though not over those of his master. Had he meant fairly, his course was, to have said :—" If the House disapprove of any measures, I shall not presume to advise a dissolution, but shall bow to its decision and resign ; or, if he meant to stick to place, I shall endeavour so to alter them as to remove the objections of the majority." A patriot Minister would h ave a dd e d —" Under no circumstances shall I be tempted to so unconstitutional a course, as to advise my Sovereign to prefer the opinion of his Ministers to that of the representatives of his people, and turn them back on their constituents because they do not agree in opinion with the Administration of the day--especially when those representatives must, from their very recent election, be fairly presumed fully to express the sentiments of the people." I cannot therefore help thinking, that whatever may be the in tentions of Sir R. Peel individually, the Tories in general are by no means disposed to abandon the project of a second dissolution of Parliament. This indeed is clearly evinced by the language of their tools, the Times and Morning Post. The former (which by-the-bye now finds the question of the Speakership " signified nothing,' although three weeks back it was to produce a revolution if carried against Ministers) does not hesi tate to state, that— _ _ " We should be among the first to recommend the most fearless use of the powers granted by the Constitution (alluding to a second dissolution, which it characterizes as a strong measure of self-de fence!) were it really necessary to hold the Constitution together;" —that is, to keep in the Tories, whose possession of power it now maintains to be synonimous with the preservation of the Constitu tion ! It moreover asserts, in distinct terms, that— " There is nothing unconstitutional in a Minister continuing to hold the Government, EVEN AGAINST THE EX PRESSED DESIRE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS, THAT HE SHOULD RESIGN HIS OFFICE !" Pretty stiff, Mr. Editor ! The Post says— _ _ " We say boldly, and without hesitation, that it will be the duty of the King's Government to dissolve the present Par- liament, IN THE VERY FIRST MOMENT IN WHICH IT SHALL SHOW A DETERMINATION TO EMBARRASS AND OB STRUCT THE KING'S MINISTERS ON ANY SUBJECT WHATEVER !" Bravo ! bravo! Messieurs of the Post ! And . . • --- I say that it will be the duty of the Parliament which succeeds one so dissolved, to IMPEACH THE MINISTERS WHO ADVISED SUCH DISSOLUTION, within twenty-four hours from its assembling ! This most sapient Print further discovers that " his Majesty's Ministers cannot, as faithful servants of the Crown, surrender political power to the hands of their opponents, without having first laid before Parliament some of the measures of improvement which they intend to propose as an earnest of the policy they have determined to adopt, and without, in the second place, TAKING THE SENSE OF THE NATION as to the value and efficiency of these measures !" I had been accustomed to suppose that the Representatives of the people expressed " the sense of the nation"—but this I find by the Post doctrine is an old fashioned error—on the new and improved system, of course, dissolution must follow the introduc tion of EVERY " GREAT IHEA SU RE"—for even Tory impudence will hardly venture to assert, that the " SENSE OF THE NA TION" is to be held to be TRULY expressed by the House of Commons, if it AGREES with Ministers—and trlcritur.Y if lt differs with them !" The Post tool also holds, that a second dissolution will be necessary should the House give Ministers only " a mock trial"— that is, if it should pronounce against them—of course if a real trial is never to be held to have been granted till the House agrees with Ministers, the second dissolution must be followed by a third, the third by a fourth, the fourth by a fifth, evc., ad infinitum—for I will venture to pronounce that no House will ever be found to support Tory domination. I trust, Sir, that Mr. Hume, Mr. Harvey, Mr. Gisborne, or some other Member who has learned to speak PLAIN ENGLISH, will FoRCE the Minister to a direct answ‘r to the following questions :- Ist, Have any of the Ministry (not limiting the question to the Cabinet), used language calculated to give currency to the report of an early dissolution ? 2dly, Should Ministers be outvoted on any great measure, will they resign ? Or, idly, Will they alter the measure, to suit the ideas of the House? These questions should be put, and replies, direct to the point, elicited, before the supply question be further proceeded with. I am, Sir, YOUR CONSTANT READER AND FRIEND. i The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, who have been absent from this country more than two years, are shortly expected in England. Their elegant mansion in Piccadilly is in a state of preparation to receive them. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria were received with the loudest possible acclamations by the immense populace on their way to and from the Court at St. James's, on the birth-day. The young Princess gracefully acknowledged these popular demonstrations of attachment to the heiress presumptive to the crown of England. The Duke of Devonshire will give the first of a series of grand dinners at Devonshire-house, on Wednesday. Lord Granville, our late Ambassador at Paris, the Earl of Burlington, Lord Mulgrave, Lord Carlisle, Lord Morpeth, the Duke of Norfolk, the Duke of Argyle, Count Pozzo di Borgo, and other Foreigh Ministers will be of the party. Lord Stanley entertained a large party of his Par liamentary friend's to dinner, at his residence at Carlton Ter race, on Saturday. Earl Grey and Lord Spencer are expected to arrive in town to-morrow. Lord John Russell is gone to Woburn to meet Lord Grey, and returns to town to-morrow. The Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M. P. is expect ed in London every day. The last letters received from hint were dated at Rome, and ho intended to quit the imperial city within a day or two of the departure of the post. Mr. Ellice has entirely recovered his health by his journey to Italy, and when he arrives in town, he will immediately resume his very active duties as a legislator. The Right Hon. and Reverend Lord Ward, Lady Ward, and 'Miss Ward have have arrived in town for the sea son, and have taken up their residence at iNlivart's Hotel. We hear, from good authority, that the effect of Lord Chandos's motion will be, to take off one-half of the malt-tax at November next, and the other half at the May fol lowing.— Observer. The poets, Thomas Moore, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, are all at present in London, and each of them preparing to publish a new work. On Monday last, Dr. Abercrombie, first physician to his Majesty for Scotland, was elected Lord Rector of Ma risehal College, Aberdeen, for the following year. Five election petitions were presented on Friday night —From P. W. Redmond, and others, against the return for Wexford county ; John O'Donahue, and two others, against that for Dublin University ; Richard Smith, and others, against that for Lichfield ; Richard Sharman and Thomas Bacheldor, electors, against that for Windsor ; and another against the return for Dublin city. Manchester -house, Manchester-square, has, we un derstand, been taken by the French Government for the resi dence and business of the French embassy. The rent is said to be one thousand pounds a year, unfurnished. The house hold of the late ambassador, Prince Talleyrand, are attached to his successor. The fancy balls, recently given by the Ki ng an d Queen of the Belgians, at their palace at Brussels, have not been exceeded in modern times for their splendour and magni ficence. The English of rank, who are residing at Brussels or in that nei g hb our h oo d, h ave b een constant l y i nv i ted, and re ceived with marked attention by the Court. The Countess of Westmoreland, Lady William Paget, the Scymours, and the Jerninghams, h ave b een present at eac h o f t h ese pr i nce l y en tertainments The approaching meeting of the Bank proprietors, which will take place in the week after next, is looked for ward to in the City with considerable interest. Mr. O'Con nell's having qualified as a proprietor of Bank Stock has pre pared the directors for a more strict questioning on the state of their affairs, and on the principles on which they are con ducted, than they have hitherto been accustomed to. It is said that a good deal of uneasiness exists in the Bank parlour on the subject. An expectation prevails also that some opposi tion will be made to the re-election of Mr. Pattison as Go vernor of the Bank, on account of the part he has lately acted as a political partisan, to which many of the proprietors, even those agreeing with him in his political opinions, deem highly unbecoming in the head of that corporation. These, of coure, look at the matter merely in a pecuniary light, and consider in how many ways their interests may be compromised in the necessary intercourse with the Ministers of the day by having such a chairman. Any proceeding to alter the ordinary rou tine of election at the Bank would be a very unusual step, but a great number of merchants and capitalists would be by no means sorry to see the thing done, were it only to afford a chance for the introduction of a better system.— Times. IfM. ROTHSCHILD.—The Courrier Beige of the inst., states that M. de Rothschild, during his late visit to Belgium, authorised a person at Brussels - to look out for an extensive property, which he might make his residence du ring the summer season. Charles Matthews, the comedian, accompanied by Mrs. Matthews, are expected to arrive at Liverpool from New York on or about the 13th instant. The American packet is due that day, and so extremely regular are these vessels, that it rarely occurs the time is exceeded more than 48 hours. Mr. Bunn went to Paris on Friday last, his princi pal object being, as is supposed, to witness the first represen tation of a new drama by Victor Hugo, under the title of Angelo, le Tyran de Padua. This author's productions, though exhibiting undoubted and singular genius, are sel dom qualified for performance on our stage. It is said that Mr. Bur.n is accompanied by a capitalist, who has recently become connected with him in the management of the two winter theatres. It is stated that they are about also to en gage several new dancers for the ballet department. We understand that it is in contemplation among the electors of Newcastle to call upon Sir M. W. Ridley to resign his seat in that borough—as they have no ambition to permit the votes of their representative to be dependent on the orders of that " pert master," Lord Stanley. The " tail" may depend upon it they are in bad odour in every place.—Carlisle Journal. Brighton, within these few days, has been shorn of nearly all its fashionable visitors, and houses of the first class, in the most frequented parts of that enormously-inci eased town, may be hired for the next six months at a moderate rent. In the " youthful days" of the late King, when he was Prince of Wales, the best house on the Old Steyne, opposite the Pa vilion, could be obtained at half-a-guinea a week from Novem ber to June ; and in the summer months, which at that period were considered " the season," the same house easily produced eight guineas a week. The races at Chantilly this year, will take place on April 26, and, being under the patronage of the Duke of Orleans, will be greatly increased in interest and brilliancy. His Royal Highness has appointed the Mayor of Chantilly steward of the course, and directed that stands may be erected so that the company may be able to view at their ease the whole of the races without interruption. Independent of the three following principal plates, there will be some with leap ing over bars. The first principal plate cf 2,500 f., giver► by the Duke of Orleans, is for thorough bred horses and mares foaled in France or Belgium. The second will be the Aumale Plate, given by the King for thorough bred horses and mares of all ages, foaled in France or Belgium ; and the third, the Chantilly plate of 1,000 f., given by the town for horses and mares of all ages and countries, which have never run before at any public race. GREAT ROBBERY AT THE DUCHESS OF GOR DON'S.—Another of those most extensive and mysterious rob beries of jewellery, which have of late so much occupied the public attention, was committed at a late hour on Thursday night, or early on Friday morning, at the residence of the Duchess of Gordon, No. 34, Belgrave-square, Pimlico. Her Grace on Thursday attended the Drawing-room, on which occasion she was most splendidly decorated with jewellery of immense value, consisting of diamonds, pearls, amethysts, eme raids, and other costly articles, set in fine gold, which were deposited, with other valuables, in the dressing-room of the Duchess, on her return from the Palace of St. James's. Be tween ten and eleven o'clock on the following morning it was discovered that the greater portion of the jewellery, of the estimated value of upwards of 6,0001., had been abstracted from the place in which it had been deposited. Information of the robbery was instantly given at the Bow-street and Queen-square offices, and three of the principal officers of those establishments repaired to her Grace's residence, for the purpose of making the necessary inquiries ; but the whole af -fair appears to be involved in so much mystery at present, as to make it a matter of doubt whether the real facts will ever be brought to light. The officers, we understand, are of the decided opinion that no forcible entry was made into the house to effect the robbery. There is, consequently, no doubt that the act was committed by some person or persons well ac quainted with the premises. Neither expense nor trouble, however, will be spared to bring the party to justice, and a reward of 6001. has been offered by the Duke of Gordon ; 2001. to be paid on conviction of the party, and 400/. on re covery of the property, or in proportion for any part thereof. Her Majesty having heard that the Duchess of Gordon was robbed of her jewels on Thursday last, after the Drawing room, sent Lady Howe to offer her. the loan of any jewels she might require. NEW AND COMPLETE EDITION OF COWPER, BY THE REV. MR. GRISISHANVE.--( From the Literary Ga zette.)—" We perceive from advertisements in the newspapers and elsewhere, that there is a grand affray about the republi cation of Cowper. Southey, it seems, had announced it, or been engaged as biographer and editor by those who did ; but in the meantime, while he is mending his pen, out comes the Rev. Mr. Grimshawe with such peculiar advantages, as almost to annihilate the hopes of any successor. For however admi rably the life of the Poet may be dressed up by one or other, it is from his own correspondence alone that we can look for any new interest worthy of our consideration. And it seems that Mr. Grimshawe is in possession of this attractive adjunct, which even in this (the first) volume before us, is so full of grace and beauty as to force us to think that this edition of Cowper is likely to be widely popular. Cowper's Private Correspondence (which can only be found in this edition) is quite worthy of his highest repute as an epistolary and elegant writer." The returns of imports, exports, and tonnage of shipping, recently printed by order of the House of Commons, and to which we referred on Friday last, to show the consi derable increase that has taken place in the employment of shipping, afford equal satisfactory evidence of the activity in our foreign trade, especially in some of the most important branches of our manufactures, the declared value of which exported from the ports of the United Kingdom during last year having exceeded the exports of the preceding year up wards of 2,000,0001., viz. : . , Declared value exported in 1833 . Ditto ditto in 1834 . .E34,489,:3734 36,541,926 Increase in 1834 It is also gratifying to observe a corresponding augmentation in the imports of the raw material, as exhibited in the returns made of the quantities of the following articles landed :- 1833. 1834. Increase. Raw silk imports ... 2,785,1091 b. 3,663,9561 b. 878,8471 b. Ditto do. waste, &c.. 649,4511 b. 1,012,9331 b. 363,48.511). Sheep's wool 38,046,0871b. 46,455,4221 b. 8,409,3351 b. Olive oil 1,891,918g15. 2,320,638g15. 421,920g1s which articles are chiefly used by the manufacturers, whilst the receipts of the Customs on the latter article, notwithstand ing the great reduction in the duty, exceeded those of the previous year, thus adding another to the many instances in the history of fiscal regulation that a reduction► in duty is frequently followed by an augmentation of the revenue. — Morning Paper. PERSIA.—By accounts from Persia, we learn that Dr. Ross, the civil surgeon at the Bagdad residency, had officially announced that the plague had ceased there as well as through Mesopotamia. It seems to have been very fatal, from three to four thousand persons having fallen victims not withstanding upwards of fifteen thousand Mahometans and four thousand Jews had fled to the desert. The Christians had kept a strict quarantine, and the panic was so great that it was difficult to get persons to carry the dead to the grave. The number of those who died in the villages was not known. At Kermanshaw the infection still existed, and the deaths amounted to thirty daily. The disease is said never to have entirely ceased since its first appearance in 1831, only sub siding in virulence during the cold or very hot weather, and breaking out again in the spring and autumn. Fears were consequently entertained that it would again reach Bagdad, the wretched system of the Government precluding the slightest hope of any measures being adopted to prevent its recurrence. It appears that 2,000 stand of arms and 200 tons of shrapnel shells and other artillery stores had been sent by the English Government to Trebisond for the Per-. sians, but little benefit can be anticipated from this when it is known that the 3.000 muskets sent some years ago from India were still at Bagdad. A considerable sensation has been excited at Market Rasen and in the neighbourhood within the last few days by the perpetration of one of the most dialeolical and daring tffences it has ever been our painful duty to notice. On Friday morning last Mr. John Kirman, of Walesby, a very respectable farmer, discovered a young horse of the cart kind dead in the field, and in the course of the day this sudden loss was increased by the death of three other horses, which had been depastured in the same field. Mr. Hargrave, veterinary surgeon, of Caistor, was immediately sent for, and on opening the horses a quantity of arsenic was found to have been administered to each of them with their corn, and a small portion of corn which had been left in their crib also contained arsenic. The horses were all young ones and promised to become useful and valuable. No clue has yet been obtained to the offender, al though the respect felt towards Mr. Kirman by all who are acquainted with him will insure the greatest exertions in bringing the miscreant to justice._Kentish Mercury. FlRE.—Yesterday a fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Valentine, a dealer in curiosities, nearly opposite to Madame Vestris' Theatre, but was fortunately prevented ex tending further than the shop. It appears that a person called on Mr. Valentine to sell a curiosity, and, there being no light in the shop, a piece of lighted paper was brought in, the sparks from which fell under the counter among sonic rubbish, which speedily ignited. n inquest was held on Saturday at Streatham, on the body of Master John James Worthington, aged 13, of Thornton-row, Clapham New Park. It appeared that the youth had been missing some days, and was last seen near a pond at Streatham amusing himself, with two others about the same age. His body was afterwards discovered in the said pond, but there being no evidence to show by what means the deceased got into the water, the Jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned." SHOCKING MURDER AT BOLTON. (From the Manchester Advertiser.) A most extraordinary sensation has been created in Bolton since Friday week, arising from a rumour that two children on Bolton Moor had been poisoned by their own father. The facts which transpired at the Coroner's inquest on the bo-. dies of the deceased, on Monday last, are as follows: John Orrell, the father of the two children, the eldest, is girl named Elizabeth, aged eight years, and the youngest, a boy, aged six years, removed from Heaton to a cellar is Commission -street, Bolton Moor, on the 17th February last. The mother of the two children was found on the 4th of that month suspended from the staircase railing at their former residence quite dead. On the inquest some circumstances came out which apparently implicated the husband in the death of his wife, and he was taken into custody, but on the adjourned inquest nothing could be brought home to him, and he was consequently liberated. He had then six children alive, but the elder portion of them refused to remain longer with him, and he was left with two whose lives have been unfeelingly sacrificed. As we have before stated, Orell brought the two deceased children to Commission-street on the 17th ultimo. He had no housekeeper, nor was any one seen to visit him except an uncle, who resides in the same street. The children were observed by the neighbours to look well and hearty but about seven o'clock on the Sunday mor ning after their arrival (the 22d) an old woman, Ann Pincock, a neighbour, was sent for to lay out the little boy, who was dead. None of the neighbours, with the exception of the uncle, were aware that the child had been sick, no medical gentle man had been called in, but all had been kept secret. Orrell expressed his sorrow at the loss of his boy, who he said had died of sickness and a relaxation of the bowels. The boy was interred on the following Tuesday in Deane churchyard, and no more was thought of the matter ; but it was remarked by some of the neighbours that on the day the boy was buried the girl was on the cellar-steps, and looking very ill. On 'Wednesday (last Wednesday week) Mrs. Pincock saw the girl several times; it vomited very much, and the father ap peared to pay every attention to it. Another woman, Chris tiana Seddon, a relation to the mother of the children, &so called in on Wednesday, and the girl was then ♦omiting much. Orrell paid every attention to the child, and remarked that it would not be here long, and he should then have only him self to provide for. Seddon was in three times in the course of Wednesday, and always found the child in the state she had described. It complained much of its belly, and asked for some cold water, but the father remarked that it must not drink much water, as it would make it ill. Seddon wished Orrell to send for a doctor to the child, but he replied that it was of no use, as it would not take good stuff, and therefore was not likely to take physic. The child died during the night. Suspicions having arisen, the police went to Orrell's cellar, while he was absent. They picked the lock of the door, and, on entering, the dead body of the girl was laid out on the bed. They commenced searching the premise:, and, after some time, Barrow found a dirty rag in one of the beams near the fire place. The rag was opened, and inside was a small paper package, with the words " arsenic—poison." On opening the package, it was found to contain a quantity of arsenic. Fur ther search was made, and an empty paper , w ith t h e words " arsenic—poison" written upon it, was found. About this time Orrell came up amongst the crowd which had congre gated in the street, and asked what was to d o ? H e was im mediately taken into custody, and lodged in the dungeon. Mr. Heap opened the body of the child, and took out the sto mach ; there was the usual inflammatory appearances when poison has been taken, and on testing the contents of the sto mach, it was found to contain arsenic sufficient to produce death. On enquiry amongst the druggists it was ascertained that the writing on the cover of the package found in Orrell's cellar, was that of Mr. James Horrocks, chemist and druggist, Bradshawgate. He could fix the time of selling two ounces of arsenic on the 10th or 11th of February last, to a man whom he should know again. Mr. Horrocks said that he had seen Mr. Orrell, but he was not the man, nor was the uncle of Orrell, whom he had seen. The man bought the arsenic for the purpose of destroying rats, and had a witness with him at the time, but he only came to the shop door, and Mr. Hor rocks took no particular notice of him. The constables have not been able to discover whose hand -writing is on the other paper found. On Saturday morning a messenger was despatched to Mr. Rutter, the Coroner, and he sent an order to disinter the boy's body, which took place on Saturday afternoon. He was buried in the same grave with his mother, and Mr. Heap, to satisfy the public, took out her stomach and examined it, but it was empty. The body of the boy (already interred) was then opened, and presented the same appearance as that of the girl ; on testing the contents of the stomach it was found to contain a considerable quantity-of arsenic, sufficient to cause the death of three or four persons. The Coroner adjourned the inquest to Friday (yesterday), at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and the bodies of the two children were buried in the same grave with their mother on Monday afternoon. It was expected that the inquest would have been held on Bolton Moor, but from the state of the public mind in that quarter of the town, occa sioned by the belief that Orroll has administered the poison to the children, the authorities deemed it prudent to hold the in. vestigation near to the place of the prisoner's confinement. THE STANDARD NOVELS AND ROMANCES.-- BENTLEY.-With pleasure we point public attention to this popular collection, which has a most p ros p erous career , not more, however, than it amply merits. The fictions of which it is composed refer, with but very few exceptions, to existing conditions of society, and form, therefore, added to their amusement as stories, a series of striking delineations of ac tual life, which may now be studied with great advantage, and will hereafter be appealed to as evidences of former manners and opinions. For a small price (six shillings) the book-lover may here obtain the very best works of the first novelists of our time. To enumerate the names of the authors would be to catalogue the greatest of our modern writers of fiction. Beckford, Cooper, Godwin, Bulwer, Miss Austen, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. Shelley, Banim, Gleig, the Misses Lee, Hook, Galt, &c., have given their best books to this collection. In addi tion to these our native authors, Mr. Bentley has added, with much discrimination in taste and knowledge, the most popular productions of Victor Hugo, Madame de Stack Manzoni, and Schiller, that the series may not be deficient in specimens of Continental genius. The new volume contains Mr. Morier's amusing " Adventures_ of Haiii Baba," complete, which next to Mr. Hope's " Anastasius," and M r . B ec kf ord ' s " Vathek," is acknowledged to be the most perfect picture of the East ever published. Should Mr. Bentley continue to present to the public such works as he has already included in this ele gant collection (and no publisher has equal power with him self in this agreeable department of literature), the marked success will assuredly be perpetuated. UNFORTUNATEACCIDENT ON THE RAILWAY.- We are sorry to state that an accident occurred on Saturday week, on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, near the St. Helen's junction, accompanied by the loss of life to one of the enginemen of the company. Owing to one of the switches, which had been used by a coal-engine, in passing► from the St. Helen's line to the Liverpool and Manchester, being left in an improper position, the engine, which was taking the two o'clock coach-train from Liverpool to Man chester, was thrown off the rails, and ran across to the other side of the road ; the engineman, by the sudden shock, was thrown to the ground, and the engine passing over him, he was killed on the spot. An assistant mechanic, who was on the engine, was also thrown off, and had his foot badly hurt. The coaches, we are happy to say, did not leave the rails, but, after some little delay, occasioned by the above melan choly occurrence, were taken forward by another engine to Manchester. An inquest was held on the body of the unfor tunate man, which ended in committing the gatekeeper to Lancaster for manslaughter.—Manchester Guardian. A LION FIGHT FOR ONE TIIOUSAND GUINEAS. —Saturday, Mr. Charles Wheeler, the Secretary to the " Ladies' Society for the more effectual Suppression of Cruelty to Animals," received information that on the 11th of June next it is intended that another lion shall be baited by dogs in the Factory-yard at Warwick (the spot where similar exhi bitions took place in 1826), for no less a sum than one thou sand guineas ; the match to be decided in four heats, at three dogs a heat ; the owner of the lion, whoever he may be, to receive down before the commencement of the fight twenty guineas, in addition to which a handsome payment will bo made as a compensation at its conclusion. It appears that the match in question was recently got up by first-rate sporting characters, after the fighting of several mains of cocks, at the New Pit, West-green, Tottenham, which is patronised and supported b) a number of noblemen and others, and has been built expressly for the purpose of defeating Mr. Pease's Act prohibiting cock-fights within the distance of five miles from the metropolis. The dogs which are to contend with the mighty and lordly animal of the forest are to be thorough-bred bull terriers, not exceeding 281bs. weight. It is stated that subscription books are already open at the principal sporting and gambling clubs in London, Liverpool, &c., in order that the required large amount may in due time be forthcoming ; the Ladies' Society above named is determined on sparing neither trouble nor expense to prevent the brutalizing spectacle taking place. ALGIERS.—A letter from Algiers, of the 20th of February, says—" During the late hurricane the thermometer marked 8 7-10th degrees below zero, and the cold was insup portable. To-day the sea is perfectly calm, the sun shines bright, and the thermometer is at 10 degrees below zero." Another letter, dated Feb. 22d, states that the cholera is raging with great violence in the states of Morocco, and par ticularly at Tetuan, a town about twenty leagues from Oran. A Mussulman, ex-Secretary of the late Dey of Algiers, who has retired to Tetuan, writes to a friend that he is left alone in the world, the whole of his fanily, his servants, and his slaves, having been carried off by this scourge. ANTIQUARIAN DISCOVERY.—In the Dissenters' burial-ground, near Dover-road, there were recently found a sepulchral urn, fractured pieces of a metallic mirror of ele gant workmanship, the fragments of a glass urn, and some glass lachrymatories in the shape of a tear. A great number of similar urns had been previously found in digging graves there. These relics were discovered in the old Roman Wat ling-street. It was the custom both with the Britons and Gauls to deposit with the remains of the dead the ornaments and weapons which they most esteemed in life, and to fracture them at the time of being interred with the body or deposited in the funeral urn. FATAL ACCIDENT IN HYDE PA lIK.--CORO.• NEU'S IxQuEsT.—Friday evening an inquest was held at St. George's Hospital, Hyde Park-corner, before Mr. Higgs and a respectable Jury, on view of the body of William Clemsey, aged 21, late footman to Lady Buller, of No. 6, York-terrace, Regent's-park, who was killed by falling from behind the car riage. Verdict--" Accidental Death." _,......- C 45 159'2