The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-25 00:00:00

PORTUGAL. LisaoN, APRIL 13.—Portugal is tranquil. The def.th of I Prince Augustus has not occasioned the slightest disturbance, though it at first seemed calculated to re-kindle the embers of Miguelitism. But the fact is, that the whole nation, and Don Miguel's former adherents in particular, have suffered so much from him and on his account, are so tired and sick of him, and have so little confidence in his talents, that they are quite in different respecting his future success, and wish nothing more than to remain quiet. Besides, his principal resources in former times, the Church, convents, and ecclesiastical pro perty--the high nobility, their commendas, military orders, tithes, and sinecures, are cut up root and branch, have passed and are passing into other hands, so that the very elements of resistance or rebellion against the legitimate Government, and the nerves and sinews of civil war, are totally paralysed and destroyed. The monks are dispersed, powerless, reduced to beggary, and without any influence—the nobility is partly exiled, partly beggared, or apprehensive of becoming so. The usurper's former officers and soldiers remember to have been invariably defeated, when they were embodied, united, and disciplined, furnished with arms and equipments, and had pos session of all the strongholds of the kingdom. They are now scattered, abandoned, dispirited, and utterly incapable of form ing at any point in sufficient strength to prevent their being im mediately crushed and exterminated. Both sides of the Chamber of Peers and Deputies support the Queen, and have voted the perpetual exclusion of Don Miguel. Another secret Session was held on Thursday, on the motion of M. Barjona, to consider the Queen's new mar riage, and to fix the succession, in case of her demise without issue ; when only Princes, not connected with the Holy Al liance, or with powerful States, were declared eligible candi dates for her Majesty's hand. On Friday a mixed Committee of the Chamber of Peers and Deputies sanctioned the sale of national property, and the ad mission of titulos, founded on the grand principle of fidelity to the Queen and Charter. It approved the Ministerial plan of indemnities, and rejected that of M. Sanches, by 68 votes against 29; approved the substitution of the Home Secretary by 93 votes, and rejected the second part of M. Sanches's amendment, by 63 against 31 votes. The nation will have to pay all the damages caused by the war, even in uncertain cases. The Cortes likewise dispensed with the 90th article of the Charter that the Queen may marry a foreign Prince. M. Leonel moved an amendment that the Cortes should approve the choice of the personage, which was rejected, and M. Bar jona's original motion approved. It is also reported that a partial change of Ministry will take place after the breaking up of the Cortes—that the Duke of Palmella means to retire, and, as a Minister of War must be appointed, there would be two vacant portefeuilles. Saldanha is said to have refused the War Office. M. Freire has gained much popularity since he filled the Home Depart ment, both in the Chamber and out of doors. having dismissed 17 Provedores in one week, who had misconducted themselves in their office, which is a very important one, a Providor having more power and influence than even a Capitan Mor. All exequatur and municipal acts must be countersigned by him. He has the superintendence of the passports, police, the in spection of priests and parsons, of charitable institutions, the registration of civic processes, depositions in criminal matters, and is the right hand of the Government. On Saturday, Count Taipa moved in the ,Chamber of Peers that a humble message be sent to the Queen, soliciting her Majesty to adjust her marriage, which was agreed to, and the Marquis de Loule, Fronteira, Valenca Carnet, Paraty, Lin hares, and Luniares, Viscount Serra do Pillar, Messrs. Mar giochi, Brancamp, Machado, Gamboa, and Liz named for that purpose, to supplicate her Majesty to overcome her repug nance, and for the benefit of the kingdom, to contrnct another marriage. . . A project for a new coinage on decimal principles was also submitted and approved, after a careful examination at the Mint of the weight and value of the coins. This was the work of a Member of the Opposition. A message has also been drawn up by the Deputies to the Queen to remove all Miguelites from their employments and public functions, as the Ministers have neglected to accom plish this desideratum, notwithstanding their constitutional re sponsibility. Count Farroba (BaronQuintella) is the richest Peer in Portugal, having besides large landed estates and pro perty in the funds, an annual income of 25,0001. sterling from the tobacco contract, which he has sublet at this profit without the slightest trouble or risk. He obtained it by advancing several considerable sums to Don Pedro during the blockade and siege of Oporto, in 1832 and 1833—when the Exchequer was empty, and credit low, and the Baron himself obliged to fly from Don Miguel's persecution, on board a British ship of war, he being deeply interested in upholding the Queen's cause, as the Usurper was about to confiscate the whole of his property, and outlaw his person had he triumphed. Baron Quintelia, acting on the principle of self preservation, as well as of liberal ideas, supplied Don Pedro in his greatest need with money to pay the army and Sartorius's fleet, after it had mutinied, and was rewarded for these services with the tobacco contract for a number of years, and reised two steps in the peer age, receiving the rank and title of Count Farroba. He formed a corps of Volunteer Lancers, and was appointed their Colonel. However, a degree of coolness having arisen between him and the Government, the Count joined the Opposition in the Chamber of Peers. The corps of Lancers was dissolved, with -nermission of forming itself into Volunteer Dragoons and the privilege of choosing their own officers. But the Count had latterly lost the good opinion and esteem of his officers and men by compelling them to do duty outside of his country scat of l'Arangeira at Bemfica, where he gave his private theatricals and bails, without periritting them to participate in the entertainments. The corps resented this cavalier treatment by offering to his Lordship the rank of a corporal in the new cavalry, they were permitted to form, which Count Farroba declined ; but, not choosing to serve in the infantry of the National Guard, he preferred to be a privata in the volunteer cavalry, and accordingly on the occasion of the funeral of Prince Augustus, turn.:d out, for the first time, as a full private, mounted on a superb English charger, with a star glittering on his breast. On the Queen's marriage, the Count is said to have ap plied for permission to sport a carriage drawn by six horses ; the request was refused ; and I sac- him, accordingly, drive four beautiful grays only, with two outriders, mounted on fine English steeds of the same colour, which at a distance looked like a coach and six. I know not whether the application, the refusal, or his mode of resentment, were the most child ish, for the Count having been disappointed in the exhibition of his intended splendour and gorgeousness at the Prince's marriage, would not put his servants into mourning at his funeral. Those petty sumptuary laws and regulations of etiquette, are unworthy of a liberal Government; a commoner, and not even a Baron, I believe, is allowed here to drive four horses, nay, I have heard that an English merchant (Mr. F.), once presuming to appear in a carriz..ge and four, had actually his leaders taken out of their harness by superior order ! ! To at tract wealthy foreigners, and establish a four-in-hand club, these Gothic regulations should be abolished. The King of England's dignity is not lessened, by his subjects driving four or six in hand ; why, then, should that of the Constitutional Queen of Portugal suffer by such an invasion or approximation to the privileges of Royalty ? Brewers, distillers--nay, black ing manufacturers—exhibit their four bloods in Hyde-park, or on the road to Salthill; but here, where you carriages drawn by oxen stand at the palace gate of Necessidades, la morgue Aristocratiquc et .Royale, cannot endure plebeians, or even the lcwer nobility's using an additional pair of horses. If Portu gal means to advance in the career of civilization, these anti quated notions must be exploded. Account of paper issued and cancelled, during the Ministry of his Excellency Jose da Silva Carvalho, commenced on the 4th of December, 1832: ISSUED. Loan of Oporto, and contribution denominated National Loan Loan of Jose Henriques Soares, of Oporto... Loan of Lisbon, of the 9th of August, 1833... Warrants for Half-pay, and Salaries Certificates admissible for duties in the Cus tom-house, at Oporto Bonds issued in London, by the decree•of Oporto, of the 13th of June, 1833, 200,0001. at ex. 60d. Loan of 1833, 2,000,0001. at par Loan of 1834, created for the operation of the paper money, 1,000,0001. at par. Paper money, some ready, other printed, but not completed for issue 487,61011797 44,00011000 802,0 C 011000 373,09811437 218,95611038 960,00011 000 8,333,33311 333 302,54811 800 15,688,21411121 CANCELLID. Amounts, according to the Map of the Com mission of Public Credit, dated the Ist of the present month, and published in the Government Gazette Paper money, burnt at Oporto on the 26th of March last, according to a note of the same Map Bonds cancelled in London and in Lisbon, of the creation of the 13th of June, 1823 200,0001. at ex. 50d Bonds of the Foreign Loans, 164,9001. at par 687,08311333 400,00011000 9,157,38411 306 By comparing these two sums, there appears an increase of the debt of 6,530,929,815, during the whole Ministry of M. Carvalho, extending over a period of nearly three years of vicissitudes and misfortunes, which have few parallels in history. This amount is about equal to 1,600,0001. sterling, and is rather less than the sum that has been applied to the extinc tion of paper money, which furnishes the most conclusive an swer to those declaimers who paint Portugal, in consequence of the operation of this Ministry, as being plunged in the most overwhelming ruin. The national properties, which have been valued with a view to their sale, as soon as the law authoriz ing it shall be passed, are of immense value. Those in the province of Estramadura, of which the map is already pre pared, amount to 8,400 contos ; and with the Lezerias of Rabatejo, which are not included, as well as many convents which are now occupied by troops, some of which will natu rally be sold, the national property of this province may be cal culated at 10,000 cantos. It may be observed, that the whole of the national property at the disposal of the Government, is estimated at 10,000,000 at the present low price, the natural consequence of a long civil war. ARCHITECTURAL MAXIM.----When the first im pression made by a building is of an undecided character, so that we feel at a loss what to say of it, the presumption is that it is bad. There is evidently, in such a case, a want of unity of effect and of decision of expression which always accompany real beauty.--Architectural Magazine. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1835. Sir JOHN HOBHOUSE has been elected for the City of Nottingham. This is the first of the elec tions rendered necessary by the Ministerial arrange ments, and we hail it as a good omen—as an earnest of the success of those which are to follow. The Tories, no doubt, will say, with their usual impudence, that there is no great cause of triumph in the return of the President of the Board of Controul, because the Right Honourable Gentleman was not opposed. But why was he not opposed ? We want an answer ,to that question. Was there any want of incli nation to oppose him ? Is he so great a favourite with the Tories that they could not think of disturbing the peace of his mind, or lighten ing his purse by a contested election ? Or do they rate his character and talents so low that he can add no ',strength to the Reform Administration, and therefore did not consider it worth their while to make a stand against him ? They had, doubtless, substan tial reasons for the course they have pursued, but it must not be imagined—Heaven forbid that such a sup position should ever enter a human brain—that weak ness—conscious weakness—had anything to do with the exemplary forbearance which they have exercised on this occasion. Sir JoHN HOBHOUSE'S Speech from the Hus tings—after his election—will be read with un mingled satisfaction by the , Reformers of Great Bri tain. The Right Hon. Gentleman does not disguise from the electors of Nottingham, nor from the people of England, whom he addresses through them, the vast obstacles which the new Ministers have to sur mount in the powerful opposition of the Tories and their abettors in the House of Commons, and in that hostility to every thing liberal, which is so deeply rooted in the majority of the Upper House. With a candour worthy of himself, he points out the full magnitude of the danger. But does he shrink from it ? Does he skulk behind any pitiful subterfuge to avoid it? No. Sir JOHN was not educated in the Tamworth school of politics. He is no disciple of those " juggling fiends, who palter with us in a double sense." He and his colleagues pay some regard to principle, and set some value on charac ter. He therefore honestly and boldly declares that they expect to stand only by the support of the people —that their measures will be such as shall merit that support, and redeem their own pledges to the country. Hear his own emphatic words :—" How are we to contend with that Opposition ? I will tell you how the present Administration intends to make head against that formidable minority, and why we hope to succeed.—(Cheers, d hear, hear.) In the first place we intend to be true to our own characters, and those assurances which we have given to the people, WHAT EVER MAY BE THE EVENT. By pursuing such a line of conduct, we hope to secure from you and our own consciences, that approbation which, after all, must be the proper reward for those honest public men who shall endeavour, uncompromisingly, to do their duty. I can assure the Noble Lord who proposed, and my Honourable Friend who seconded this nomination, that we do not intend TO TRUCKLE TO ANY PARTY IN THE STATE WHATEVER—(Cheers)—.but we shallfearlessly propose good measures, carry them if we can, and if we cannot, let thefault anafailure rest upon the heads of our adversaries.—(Cheers and Hear)." This is the true way to demolish Toryism, and we may venture to say, that if the determination here an nounced be carried into effect—if the MELBOURNE Administration persevere in bringing forward un pared—undiluted—unstinted . measures of Reform, PRICES 0:: SiOC lank stock 3 ocr 9134 :3 i::r i'e,t. Cons 92. ,- ; 3s l'•' ? per Cent lO O l. li I ,'„ oiti, P.e.:l 99 % i :ew 3',„', per Cent 4 per Cent. i E ' Be " ted LOissented — Bank Long Annuities to expire Jan. 5, !so° l6 15-16 17 Oct. 10, 1859 l6l:i Jan. 5,18 fin ---- Jan. 5, 18.80 — April 5, 183(` — Jan. 5, 1870 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 1 Seigian Bonds _ Ditto Account ' — 1 Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account —, Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account — Chillian Bonds 54.74 V, 514 , ii Ditto Account 54 N 0,2 Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account Columbian 80nd5,15.24 SIU 50 Ditto Account: .50'% 1:50 ti Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1825 Ditto Account Mexican Bonds ' 5 per cent—, Ditto Account Dit'l, fi per cent. Ditto Account 49 y4 1 43 !,,Teapolitan PRICES OF' SHARES 'MI Bolanos Mining Company Brazilian Imperial Mining to. (issu, DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK New 5 per Cent India Stock 18 :20 pm. Ditto South Sca Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, n 51... - Exch. £l,OOO 3(1 37 36 Ditto .5011 36 37 36 Ditto Small 36 37 .di pm. Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised pm. Bank Stock for Account 218 1 ,- It India Stock for Account 2601 Consolr for Account 2M THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLoCK. Peruvian Bonds 39 DIV° Account Portug!iese Bonds 9844 Dittra Account T)itto New Bonds 9 , 1 3 4 ?, Ditto:Account 99% 100 79 3 3 Prussian Bonds Ditto 80nd5,1622 Russian Bonds, 182:2 Ditto Account Ditto Metallic Spanish Bonds 71% 2 1% Ditto Account• 71% IN 1% Ditto Bonds, IEI I)itto Account — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. 4 per cent. —f. —c. 3 per cent. —l. —c. Exchange — f. —c- Dutch, 2!.4 per eent. 51%4 Ditto Account 57 ili Ditto, 5 per cent 101%% Ditto Account DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. 150 MO 150 at 5/. pm.) 29 20 25 444 4 5 20 ll% Ditto Macaubas Cocaes Bolivar Copper Mining Company" Real del Monte Mining Co., Register Ditto Unregistered London and Greenwich Railway Company l3 National Provincial Bank of England !ed 63/. 10. 6d, 35!‘ c ; 36 15•,( 14 25 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 22. 3 per Cent. Consols 9l /8 Grand Canal Debs. 6 per cent. 92% Ditto Reduced — Ditto, 4 per cent 6114 3% per Cent. Stock 9 8 14 Hibernian Bank Ditto New, 1830 314 per Cent. Debentures 9l National Insurance Company 30 Rank Stock 225% City Debentures, 4 per cent... 804 II oyalCanal Stock _.... 0, Grand Canal Stock per cent T.l AILS. ..-_. Arrived. Due. Arrived..-. __ Due. Arrived. Due, 0 America 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 1 0 P.razi: 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg 0 1 Mexico 0 0 Cnrth:igena 0 0 Elolland 1 :)üblin oi 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders HIGH W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. Morning 8 minutes after 1. I Evening "9 minutes after I. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the New Comedy, entitled PATRICIAN AND PARVENU. Sir Osbaldiston de Mowbray, Bart., Mr. Warde ; Percy de Mow bray, Mr. Cooper; Sir Timothy Stilton, Knight, Mr. Bartley; Dick Moonshine, Mr. Harley; Ruby, Mr. Webster. Ellen Rivers, Miss Lee; Mary Stilton, Miss Taylor; Miss Sally Sanders, Mrs. Glover. To conclude with the Original Domestic Drama, called THE NOTE-FORGER. John Brasstoun, Mr. Warde ; Cressfleld, Mr. Denvil ; Walty Ducket, Mr. Harley; Edward Glebeland, Mr. Vining. Diana Brasstoun, Miss E. Tree; Phillis Trimbush, Mrs. Humby ; Dame Glebeland, Mrs. C. Jones THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT-GARDEN. THIS EVENING will be performed Auber's Opera of LESTOCQ ; OR, THE FETE OF THE HERMITAGE. Lestocq, Mr. E. Seguin; Count Goloffkin, Mr. Giubilei; Dimitri, Mr. Templeton. The Princess Elizabeth, Miss ShirrefE After which the entirely Original Melo-Drama, called CARLMILHAN; or, THE DROWNED CREW. Carlmilhan, Mr. Bennett; Magnus Spiel, Mr. Cooper; James Sharks _ _ head, Air. Webster. Uda, Miss Taylor ; Norna, Mrs. Fitzvrilliam, LORD JOHN RUSSEL'S ELECTION. SOUTH DEVON. AT a PUBLIC MEETING, held at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, on Wednesday even ing, the 22d inst. Colonel EVANS, M.P., in the Chair, It was unanimously Resolved, That it was the duty of every sin cere Friend to Religious Liberty, and efficient and peaceful Reform, to exert himself to the utmost to raise subscriptions, in aid of the expenses of the Right Hon. LORD JOHN RUSSELL'S ELEC TION for SOUTH DEVON. The Committee then appointed earnestly call upon the public to send their Subscriptions as promptly as possible to the British Coffee house, where they sit daily, or to the Banking-houses of Messrs. Grote, Prescott, and Co., Threadneedle-street; Messrs. Ladbroke's, Kingscote, and Co., Bank-buildings, City , and Messrs. Bouverie and Co., Haymarket. By order of the Committee, W. WEST, Hon. Secretary. April 24, 1835. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 25 minutes past 3 o'clock. (Ftt, • tol e ..-r," 4 TUE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1835. and throw the odium of rejecting such measures upon the Tories, it will be the most popular, and therefore the strongest, Administration, that ever swayed the destinies of Great Britain. The desperate efforts which the Tories are making to supplant the Ministerial candidates, whom the ac ceptance of office has sent back to their several con stituencies, ought to warn the Government in time of the necessity of introducing immediate measures for purifying the Representative system. So long as it continues in its present state there will, and can, be no security against the attacks upon the freedom of the people, which the Tories, by the strong arm of corrup tion, will never relax in making. Let the Reformers look to this in good time while the hour is their's. The purity and freedom of Election, shorter Parliaments, and a less intolerant restriction of the Suffrage, are not yet a forgotten song. The more speedily these important subjects are ad justed to the wants of the people, the sooner will the corrupt influences of the Tories be effectively crip pled, and the unshackled liberty of election—the only means by which public opinion in its real force and undoubted truth can be ascertained—be established. Hope still lingers with the Tories, and their resto ration to place they yet believe to be neither improba ble nor distant. There is but one certain mode that can be employed to defeat their attempts to perpetuate the stagnant condition of Church and State affairs, and that mode is by carrying into instant effect those salu tary improvements in the Representation of the people which have been so long the ardent desire of every true Reformer. What avails it to speak of this or that question—the Church, municipal Corporations, Ireland—the settlement of which is agitating the public mind ? How can any question of such magnitude be finally disposed of, whilst the Tories are possessed of the means of procrastinating and de feating its decision, by holding seats in Parliament obtained mainly through corrupt influences. To neutra lise those influences is, or ought to be, the first, the prime, object ; when that is done, and not till then, we may hope to see errors acknowledged, abuses corrected, and misgovernment prevented. For the sake of the people, then, as well as, for its own sake to the MELBOURNE Ministry, it should be a point of paramount importance that not a day's un necessary delay should intervene between the inten tion, and the act, of rectifying the abuses which now prevail. Who shall declare, in times of political commotion like these, how long the present or a succeeding Government shall continue ? If the Reformers would protect the public liberty against Tory aggression, let them begin at the begin ning—let them reform the electoral law—and then the Tories, aye, or the Prince of Darkness himself, may be defied. There is not one question of the many that press for consideration—not even that of the Church—which should take precedence of this :- keep them all in abeyance till the law of Election be purified. Again we say, Reformers, look to it instantly, while the hour is your's. The Report of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the laws, regulations, and usages relating , to the education and practice of the Medical Profes sion, and parts 1 and 2 of the evidence given before the Committee, have been laid before the House of Commons. In consequence of the extent of the evidence, which obliged the Committee to continue the examination of witnesses until the latest period of last session, the Committee state that they had not time to bestow on the evidence that consideration which was necessary to lay before the Haase their conclusions and opinions thereon ; and they ecommand the re-ap pointment of the Committee during the present session for that purpose. It is our intention to quote or con dense the most important parts of the evidence ; and we are only prevented from inserting the commence ment of it to-day by the press of matter relating to the re-election of the Members who form part of the new Ministry. The evidence given before the Committee exposes a system of selfish, narrow-minded monopoly and fla grant injustice that is in perfect keeping with those abuses in close Corporations, in the Church Establish ment, and in various departmems of the State, to which the hand of Reform is now about to be unspar ingly applied. Patronage, not talent, has been the key to medical honours ; a pro forma ch gree from Oxford or Cambridge has gained ad mission into the College of Physicians, while it has -been refused to the most eminent professional merit. It will be seen from the evidence, that the ad mission into the College of Physicians is almost en tirely restricted to the Graduates of the two English Universities ; although no difficulty was found in de parting from the usages of the College when his late Majesty requested the President to make his physician a Fellow of the College I Will it be believed, too, that the College refuses admission to any one who prac tices midwifery—one of the most important and necessary branches of the profession—because they consider it as " a sort of manual occupation," and, therefore, "as disparaging to the highest grade of the profession" I It appears, that at Oxford and Cambridge, those precious schools for the study of medicine whose degrees alone can enable a candidate to be admitted into the sanctum sanctorum of the College of Physicians, there are no Lectures on Physiology, none on Pathology, none on Materia Me dica, and the Learned Professor explains and illustrates the process of incubation by means of one-and-twenty eggs of different ages ! It will, of course, be imagined that the candidate is strictly examined at the Uni versities, before conferring so important a degree as the one which is to admit him into the Col lege of Physicians. But, deceive not yourself, gentle reader, for it is clearly stated in evidence by one who went through the farce himself, that on ar riving at Oxford he entered his name at St. Alban's Hall, went the next day to the Senate House, read some syllogisms, took the oath of allegiance, and was dubbed an Oxford Doctor of Medicine, without under going any medical examination whatever, and not re maining in Oxford twenty-four hours altogether The exclusive use of the latin language in examina tions, and the bye-law of the College which compels surgeons to be disfranchised as such before admission as physicians, instead of requiring candidates, on the contrary, to have studied surgery, are also among the absurd and injurious practises which are exposed in the evidence. Madrid Papers to the 16th inst. have been received. The Chamber of Procuradores continues to discuss the settlement of the internal debt, this being now a question of paramount importance. The fist article of the Bill was passed during the sitting of the 14th. It simply suspends all payments to ecclesiastical corpora tions now vacant, or which shall become vacant, until the Legislature shall have determined the changes about to be made in the disposal of Church property. The QUEEN has determined not to leave Madrid for Aranjuez, until the effect of VALDEZ'S appearance in the north is fully ascertained. General MINA has addressed a despatch to the Mi nister of War, dated the Bth inst., from Pampeluna, containing the reasons which induce him to seek to re tire from the command in Navarre. These reasons are —want of health and the necessity of a General being placed in command able to take the field in person. He states that he did all in his power to conceal his illness,while the QUEEN'S forces were weak, and so long as there was no other person to whom her MAJEsTY would entrust the command of the Army ; but now that the troops are sufficiently numerous, and that approved officers can be found to supersede him, he cannot with justice to his Queen, his country, and himself, with hold the fact of his incapacity,. from bodily infirmity, to discharge those functions which constitute the ne cessary and imperative duties of the Commander-in- Chief. The Paris papers of Thursday have been received. In the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, a long debate took place on the subject of slave emancipa tion, which was finally adjourned to the sitting on the following day. The debate arose on an item in the Bill for granting 900,000. francs to defray the expenses of the Marine and Colonial Departments for the pre sent year. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, Arum 23. Five per Cents., 107 f. 85c 55c./50c. Four per Cents., 92f. 10c. Three per Cents., 82f. Bank Actions, 1,960 f. —e. Rente de Naples, 98f. Mc. 70c. Roman Five per Cents., 102 , 4 ;4 103. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 50 50U. Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 32. Royal Spanish Loan, 49;4 Itente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 49 40%. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102%. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cent., 98%14. Haytian Loan, 432 f. 447 f. 50e. ExcitaNne ON LONDON. Oraa month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 251 457. Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 3234 c. —Cours Authentigne.' BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK.—The Rentes are stationary between 82f. and 82f. sc. ; little business is doing. Spanish securities are in demand, and notwithstanding the articles in the Messager and Journal du Commerce about the Differes, they have only declined about per cent. There is much spe culation in the Haytian bonds ; they have risen to-dayto 4501., and a further improvement is expected. QUARTER TO Foua o'CLoex.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 75c. ; Three per Cents., 821. 10e ; Five per Cents., Spanish, 491 ; Three per Cents., ditto, 311; Cortes, 504 ; Coupons, 32 ; Guebhards, 491 ; Differes, 221; New Loan, 68-:} ; Ducats, 98 80 ; Romans, 103; Belgians, 1022-; Pedros, 981 ; Dutch, 37 90 ; Haytians, 450 ; Brabant Bank, 20i prem. Advices from Athens to the 12th of March have been received. They bring us long, but uninteresting accounts of the state of the army, and the proportion between the number of native and foreign officers and men. The Government Journal states that Greece has thirteen battalions, consisting of 728 Greek, and 36 German companies, or 2,400 Greek, and 3,290 German soldiers, with 533 Greeks, 54 Philhellenes (who received their commissions under former Govern ments), and 144 German officers. The number of officers of the former light corps is 200, and the total number of officers in the Greek army is 731. We have just received a letter, which will be found in another column, relating to the practical operation of the principle of the new Poor Law. We have not time now to enter into a discussion of the subject, but the facts there mentioned speak volumes in reply to the absurd and unfounded objections so constantly made against the new Act. Here is a parish in which the rates for maintaining the poor amounted formerly to from 1,2001. to 1,3001. per annum, be sides incurring debts ; and now that the new system has been introduced, the expenditure for that purpose, last year, was only 524/. 3s. 11d./ SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, APRIL 24.—Wind N., moderate.—Arrived the Pallas, Green, from Dublin. Arrived from the River and sailed the John, Dixon, for Sidney ; Majestic, Carr, for Bordeaux ; Duchess of Kent, Lamb, for Quebec ; Rambler, Hail, for Cadiz ' • Ilusco Castle, Murray, for Constantinople ; Mitf,rd, Taylor, for Mogasiore. Ar rived and proceeded the Arcade, Wilson, from flannelly to Lon don ; Success, Wheeler, from Arundel to Newcastle ' • Camilla, Anderson, from Portsmouth to Sunderland ; Mary Ann, Carpenter, from Arundel to Shields ; Venus, Harvey, from Arundel to Shields ; Columbine, from Shields to Alexandria. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Wind N. DARTMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Arrived off port the Emerald, Paul son, from St. Croix. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 24.—Arrived the Robert, Hamilton, from Savanilla; Propontis, Pratt, from Mobile ; Globe, Micuhen, from Savannah; Grace, White, from Virginia. Off port the General Gaseoyne, Fisher, from China; Higginson, Gillesrie, from Bar bacloes ; Martha, Greaten, from New Orleans; Susan Ann, Car gill, from Bahia—sailed 21st ult. ; Margaret Forbes, King, from New Orleans ; Hamilton, Balls, from New Orleans ; Snowden, Gemmill, from Charleston, sailed 24th ult. ; and Ambassador, Upton, from New Orleans. DUE LIN, Arm'. 22.—Arrived the Atlas, Pearce, from London. COUN, 22.—Arrived the General Coffin, Andrews, from St. John's, New Brunswick. Off port the Pacific, Gardner, from Monte Video ; and Emma, Nelson, from St. Domingo. FA LM O U TIT , A PRIL 23.—Wi n d N., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Opossum Packet, from Vera Cruz—sailed the 11th ult., and Ha vannah the `2lst; the Fenwiek, Kyle, for Santa Martha; and Poledora, Huckfield, for Rio Janeiro. The Robert, Gardner, bound to Montreal, put back to Liver pool on the 23:1 inst., with only her lower mast standing. The tAleajet:ohttis,niiiiti. leaky.iler,bound to Amsterdam, put back to Charles ton on h Extract from the Agent to' Lloyd's at Vera Cruz : " On the night of the 24th ult., the soldier:; in the castle of San Juan Ulica mutinied, and, joined by the prisoners whom they re leased, arrested the Governor. Early on the following morning they attacked the town, but were repulsed. They contmued in a state of mutiny until the 9th, when their provisions running short, without hope of succour, they surrendered to the Government Commander. Between mid-day of the 25th and morning of the Bth, no vessel was permitted to leave this port, but no outrage was committed on any foreign flag, and a Government vessel anchored in the Bay, to order all vessels entering to anchor at Sacrificios. " His Majesty's ship Arachne is now here to take in specie, and will sail for Tampico and England 14th inst." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL CK. The prevailing north-east winds prevent any arrivals of import ance. We have received this morning one French mail and one Homburg. Yesterday the Opossum brought a mail from Vera Cruz, from which place she sailed on the llth March, and from Havannah the 21st. No ship letters. THE FUNDS. A singular circumstance is reported to have taken place yester day between the Bank of England and the Treasury, which is sup posed to have occurred through mistake on the part of the Bank : three bills drawn from abroad on the Treasury, and duly accepted, were presented yesterday at the Bank and refused payment, the answer of the clerk to the party being " No effects," but in the course of a few minutes after, notice was sent to the owners of the bills, that if they were again presented they would be paid, which wns done in the course of the afternoon. Money was more plentiful yesterday, and Consols left off firm at 924 93 for the Account, and 921 for money. Exchequer Bills, 36 37; India Bonds, 18 20. Consols opened this morning at 921 for money, and 94 93 for the Account. In the Foreign Market yesterday, the South American securities considerably declined in the early part of the day, but towards the close of the market rallied. Still they were in a feverish state, but Spanish and Portuguese Stocks maintained their prices. They opened this morning at the following prices :—Spanish Bonds 714 72; Spanish Scrip 10 premium; Portuguese 99,1 100; Columbiun 50 to 1. By the Express from Paris, we have Madrid accounts to the 16th inst., but they do not bring any news from the Theatre of War. Great anxiety prevails for despatches from General Valdez. Latest French prices—Five per Cents. 107 f. 70 c.; 3 per Cents. 82f. 10c.; Coupons 32 ; Cortes Bonds 50. In the Commercial affairs in the city, great activity prevails. There is a great demand for Cotton. The Foreign Exchanges were firm yesterday, and the demand for precious metals has decreased. We have received the New York Price Current of the 27th ult. It is void of news. Bank Stock, 109 3 4-110. Exchange on Lon don, 8% 3 %. HALF-PAST ONE. At length the bets which were pending to a considerable amount, from sixteen to twenty thousand pounds, both at Lloyd's and the Stock Exchange, that Portuguese Stock would not be done this Account at par, have been lost this morning, and we hear that some of them have already been paid. Consols continue firm at 92 93 for the Account, and 92-Z for money, with little doing. At present, Exchequer Bills are 36 37 ; India Bonds, 18 20 ; Bank Stock, 214. In the Foreign Market, Mexican Stock receded to 49&, owing to the accounts received Spanish from Scrip,V eir.oa prom. r. ; e m th . a ; otherport Portuguese, 100 I secu rities 93. T THREE O'CLOCK. remain at much the same prices as in the morning. Spanish CBoolnodms'bi7anl! Li ; 51 ; Dutch, 57f 1;i .USING PRICES. FUNDS. S ock D';:o Sou: .h F,a Soak DA'CI O d Ar.toit'es D:tto N.w Anna—les Ex. Ellis, p Ditto s'll 3q pm. Ditto at. Bank Stock for Op;. 2lB India Sock ior Act. Consols for Act. Consols for the Account, 92- THE FUNDS.—C] BRITIS Bank Stook 3 per Cent Red 91% 3 per Cent Con 4 9:2% "”,, per Cent. lOO :”4 per Cent. Red CJ% New IW, F er Cent 100;a 4 per Cent. Assented Dissented ........... L o ng Annuities to expt, Ja.a r) l6 15-16 Oct. 1E59 Jan, 10 0 lit,„; 1 013.E1G3 UNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent _ Belgian, 5 per cent _ fizilian Bonds rz 83 13iienos Ayres, 6 per cant — Cliilnin, 6 per cent 5 3 1,i Columbian, 6 per cent. — Ditto, I S• 2 ; Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent..9'N Dtto, Now Ditto 9994 Prus , ian. 5 per cent. I?uss;an Bonds, 5 per cent 103.1:, Ditto, Metz.l.lic Spa n ;,i',ll, 5 per cent 7 1 , , ,, Ditto, 1 :431 7 O. French, 5 per cent ... ...... —I. —c. Exchange ... —f —C. French, 3 per cent. —f. c Dutch, 2 3 per ....... Ditto, 5 per cent 102 . . Danish - Gree; 13011LIS, 16:!:). 5 per cent Mexican, 5 per cent., 18'25 _ Ditto, 1812.5, 6 per rent.— Peruvian, 6 per cent CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY). The Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal sat in the Court of Chancery this morning, and took motions. Thier Lordships, on taking their seats, read and subscribed a declaration that they would not use any influence they might possess by virtue of their office, as Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal, to injure or weaken the Protestant Church, as by law established. After this ceremony the Vice-Chancellor retired, for the purpose of sitting in his own Court. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL v. THE SOCIETY FOR THE INSTRUCTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF SLAVES IN THE BRITISH WEST INDIES. Mr. WIGRAISI, applied to the Court for leave to put this case in the paper on Monday to be spoke to. The object was to have the direction of the Court as to the application of the funds of the So ciety, in consequence of slavery having been abolished in the Bri tish' West Indies, by the Act of last session.—Leave given. Their Lordships then proceeded with motions. VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the VICRXHANCELLOR was occupied the whole morning with the arguments on the part heard case of Deacon v. Deacon, which had not concluded when we left. KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY). COX v. WALKER. This was an action to recover damages for an alleged breach of warranty of the soundness of a horse, tried at the last Surrey As sizes before Lord Chief Justice Denman, in which a verdict had passed for the plaintiff, damages . 9o/. 13s. Mr. PLATT now moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had, or why the verdict should not be reduced. The grounds upon which he made the ap plication were, first, that the verdict had been against evidence ; and, secondly, on the ground of misdirection of the Learned Judge. The horse had been purchased for 1001., at Horncastle fair, by the plaintiff, from one Wilton, who acted as agent of the defendant. The sale took place on the 16th August, 1834, and it was observed at the time, that the horse had a slight swelling, against which the vendor warranted him. The plaintiff was about to sell the horse to Sir John Johnstone, for 1401., when it was discovered that this swelling was a callosity of the bone, and the plaintiff lost his bargain. The first intimation the defendant received of the un soundness was on the 20th of October, and the horse was ultimately sold at Tattersall's, for 491. 7s. Three grooms who had the care of the horse deposed, that he had received " a rap" in hunting, in the year 1833, which produced a swelling, but was quite uncon nected with the bone—the horse had never gone lame, and had been regularly hunted to the end of the season. He contended, on these grounds, that the verdict should have been the other way. Lord DENMAN observed, that two or three veterinary surgeons, who had been examined at the trial, had stated that the horse was decidedly unsound. The Court thought there was no ground on this point for disturbing the verdict. Mr. PLATT said he now moved to have the verdict reduced. The Learned Judge had told the jury that the measure of damages should be the difference between the sum for which the horse had been sold, and the sum which the plaintiff could have obtained for him from Sir J. Johnstone. He (Mr. P.) contended that the damages should be reduced to the difference between the sum at which the plaintiff had bought the horse, and the sum for which he had been sold. COURT—You may have your rule on this latter point BAIL COURT--(THIS DAY.) Sir Was. FOLLETT moved, on behalf of the Metropolitan Law Society, for a rule to shew cause why an order of this Court for the re-admission of an attorney to the Rolls, should not be discharged. The person in question had been struck off the roll in consequence of having been convicted of some offence, and imprisoned for 18 months. Affidavits had been put in, stating that the proper no tices had been served on the part of the attorney, but upon search being made, it was discovered that no notice had been served, On these grounds he contended that the order of the Court should be rescinded. COURT.--Take a rule nisi. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) HUBER v. STRINGER.. In this case, which arises out of an action against a French gen tleman, for the amount of certain bills of exchange, and which will involve the question as to how far the Code Napoleon applies, Mr. Serjeant BOMPAS applied for time to prepare himself for the arguments. The COURT ordered it to be postponed for a week. • DUGDALE AND OTHERS v. BROCKBANK. This was an action brought against the defendant upon a policy of insurance, and a material witness in his behalf being a seafaring man, and at present at Greenock, in Scotland, Mr. WHITE moved that the said witness be examined on interro gatories, before his departure from this country.—Granted. ANTHONY FINNERTY v. W. CARMICHAEL• SMYTH. The defendant appeared in person, and moved that the rule in this case be made absolute. The COURT told him that his object ought to be to refer the case to the Prothonotary. The defendant was proceeding to quote Magna Charta, in which there was a solemn promise on the part of the King that no delays should take place in the administration of justice. The Loan .CHixF-JusTlCE—Why, it is down to be heard before the Prothonotary at 6 o'clock on Monday evening next. Your ob ject seems to be delay. The defendant further addressed the Court, stating that the ac lion had been hanging over his head twelve months, and that the result had been vexatiously delayed. The COURT refused the motion, as there was an appointment to hear it on Monday. Defendant—l don't admit that. Mr. JUSTICE PAux:--Do as you please. We do not give direc tions : you must take the consequences. Defendant—ls the rule enlarged till Tuesday morning ? COURT—No, it is enlarged, but not to any given day. It is for benefit. Defendant—Oh, no, no ! The LORD CI-liar JUSTICE—Then let it be discharged. EXCHEQUER COURT-(THIS DAY) The COURT was occupied the whole morning with motions of no public interest. Many motions for new trials were post poned in consequence of the absence of Mr. Baron Parke, occa sioned by the loss of one of his daughters. As the whole of the Judges met to-day at two o'clock, for the purpose of considering the Crown cases (cases reserved by the Judges from the Criminal Courts), the Barons rose at one. WEST INDIANS. Liierpool, Friday (yesterday) afternoon. By the arrival of the Higginson from Barbadoes in a remarkably quick passage, advices from that colony have been received to the latter end of March, and also from all the neighbouring Colonies to a late date. The accounts of the conduct and industrious habits of the apprenticed negroes are extremely cheering. The Barbadian of Mardi 18 says, " after all the gloomy antici pations and predictions of a large majority of slave proprietors, of ruin to West India property by the abolition of slavery, the prospect of future prosperity brightens every day. There may be, here and there,trifling exceptions, but we can safely say that the apprentice ship is working as well as any reasonable man could expect. The crop of sugar is advancing as fast as ever it did. The crop this year has commenced unusually early ; already there have been shipped up wards of 5,000 hogsheads, 300 tierces, and about 500 barrels of sugar, besides a considerable quantity of molasses. As a proof of general confidence, several estates have been lately sold in this island at a considerably higher price than they would have brought at an earlier stage of the emancipation scheme. The editor of the Barbadian goes on to state that the prospect is brightening throughout the colonies generally, with the exception of British Guiana, where the outcry against the new system is merely factious. The Barbadoes Papers add that the places of religious worship in the island are now insufficient to accommodate the negro population, and call upon the local authorities to provide " additional accommodation for these now well-disposed people." A splendid regatta took place at Barbadoes. Large parties assembled on board of the men of war and merchant ships lying in the bay. Captain Turney gave a superb dinner on the occasion on board of his vessel to the Speaker, several members of the House of Assembly, gild about 200 of the leading men of the Island. A report of Cholera having made its appearance at Martinique, was prevalent. The Antigua Herald of March 15 asserts, how ever, that there was no rumour of its existence, and that vessels of different countries were freely admitted without quarantine re strictions. The papers from Martinique via Barbadoes to the 13th ult., make no mention of its existence. From St. Vincent's we learn that the Legislature is sitting, but the'only Bill of importance before the House of Assembly is a Tax Bill, levying an impost of two per cent. upon all imposts. This, as may be imagined, was exceedingly unpopular with the merchants and others, and a petition numerously and respectably signed was about to be presented to the Council against it. On the subject of the emancipation money for the services of the lately emancipated slaves, the following details are given : " The free estates will be able to obtain their proportions soon after April, it is hoped, subject to the appeal being decided, and the returns all received. The rest, according to the opposition offer ed, will be delayed indefinitely for such period as may be required by the Commissioners to investigate the merits of the cases respec tively. The cases of counter claims, where no litigation is con templated between the parties, will be decided upon, and the money paid before the end of . next year. It is proposed to pay the claimants for small sums on the spot, in British money, to be sent out for that purpose. It is stated that the slaves are esti mated, as far as an estimate can be formed, at about fifty mil lions sterling ! The recent importation into Jamaica of nearly 800 European labourers, who received a bounty of 151. per head, consisting of carpenters, masons, ploughmen, &c., and for whom an Act had been passed, granting 5,0001. "in order to establish townships," appears to have given great satisfaction to the planters in the neighbouring colonies. They express a hope that the same in dulgence will be extended to them. This is a matter pregnant with importance. The Marquis of Hertford will give his first grand banquet since his return from the Continent, on Saturday next, to the Russian and Austrian Ambassadors, &c. MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK. MONDAY Royal Geographical Society TUESDAY Zoological Society / Society of Arts . i p. 7, r. at WEDNESD. Geological Society Zoological Society (Anniversary) One, P.M. Royal Society ... i P. S, r. as. Society of Antiquaries THURSDAY Royal Society of Literature (Anniver sary) Horticultural Society ( Anniversary) One, r. M. FRIDAY {Royal Institution (Anniversary) —Athenceum. P ERSE CUTION.—Can it be true that certain under strappers of the Duke of Devonshire, in Dungarvan, in the absence of Colonel Curry, in London, on Monday last gave notice to a few poor freeholders, with large families, to quit their dwellings next day upon ejectment processes, the only reason being their votes for the popular interest on the three last contested elections ? We feel satisfied if such be the case, that - it must be without the cognizance of the Noble Duke, the whole tenor of whose life proves that he would neverper-. secute men for the honest expression of their political opinion _....„Waterford Chronicle. SOUTH DEVON ELECTION. The Westminster Committee formed on Wednesday even ing, at the British Hotel, Cockspur-street, to assist in return ing Lord John Russell, free of expense, are receiving the most substantial proofs that the public are fully alive to the importance of securing the Noble Lord's return. The amount received up to this morning is 6001., and there are besides se veral subscription lists circulating in the clubs at the West end, which have already many names attached, but will not be .sent in before Monday or Tuesday. Books have likewise, this morning, for the first day, been opened at most of the City bankers. Mr. Michael Shipley, of Devonshire-place, this morning sent the Committee a draft for 201. The following letter, received from a gentleman on the Stock Exchange, shows how much good a single patriotic gentlem an may do.a ; and also how the public' respond to any direct appeal made l this glorious cause T o the Secretary of the Committee for receiving subscriptions for the expenses of Lord John Russell's election for South D: von. " Sir—l beg to enclose you a cheque for 611. 55., which I have st collected for the fund above-mentioned, in the amo unt stated again the names of the gentlemen in the next fly leaf. " I am Sir, your very obedient servant, (Signed) " JAMES HUTCHINSON. " Stock Exchange." The subscribers are thirty-nine in number, and Mr. frut-_ chinson called personally shortly afterwards with 71 . , obtained from as many additional subscribers. It is not the intention of Lord Ramsay and gr. Learmonth to contest the representation of Edinburgh on occasion of the present vacancy. DROGHEDA ELECTION.—The polling commela—cd this morning (Wednesday). No words can descri be the en thusiasm of the people. At the close of the poll this day th e numbers were— O'Dwyer Plunkett Majority for O'Dwyer 86 The It is expected the election will close to-morrow evening. Orange candidate has not the slightest chance of s ued ' About 200 remain to poll, of whom two-thirds will atIPP ° Mr. O'Dwyer.—Dublin Register. NORTH EssEx.—Mr. Elwes, is we believe, 'et present the only candidate in the field for the honour of repre, ofsenting this division in parliament. The hou. gentlanh; friends have been very active in his behalf, in the course of week meetings of the Conservatives having been held a t Cast s - ,ire Hedingham and Dunmow, for the purpose of taking teens to secure his return. The Reformers have also been Br parently busy during the last few days, and it is not i m pro i ; bable that a Liberal Candidate will be put in nomination 0 Monday.—Su f folk Chronicle. The Yarmouth address to Sir Robert Peel, (wh ich unfortunately for the forlorn hopes of the Tories, was 1 3 'e a : vented going to London, by the news of the Right whic h it ronet's resignation arriving here on the very day on was to have been sent,) received a few more than 300. ign:" tures ; while the address to the House of Commons, aP1311); ing their conduct, obtained in a very few days near 2,000 nab of persons in every grade and condition in life.--4 5 V" Chronicle. The Tories at Mansfield and neighbourhood ara: getting up an address to the King, following precisely the en of that which has been manufactured at Nottingham• v tbe the shoe pinches it makes one complain • so it is With Tories. Their system of public plunder has been carried.% so long, that they appear to have absolutely considered " vested interest." They may complain, they may a buse, vl ie all their might ; they have at last been caught, brought to t bar of the public, and their sentence is pronounced.- -I*ltisr ham Review. NOTTINGHAM ELECTIONS.—During tne re ti re of his present Majesty, a period of less than five years , ti At, have been no less than seven Parliamentary elections.-•-• tingham Review. TORY DINNEIG-011 Wednesday last, the reur t i, to Parliament of Thomas Baring, Esq. and W. M ackw° ll Praed, Esq., as Members for the borough, was cele brated a public dinner given to those gentlemen by their friends .ar supporters, at the Town Hall, Yarmouth.—NorfolkChrontc; The electors of Stroud, grateful for having b , e n e Ot brought into political existence by the Reform A ct, g a te " of forgetful that Lord John Russell was the principal advo, ch that great measure, and also the framer of those details voila gave them their proper places amongst the constituent{ of England, have placed one hundred pounds at the disP s° f o r Lord John Russell's Committee for ensuring his electioni Devonshire. This was done in a very short space of R ill, and we hope that the example of Manchester and Strou if necessary, be followed by every borough created by t he c bire, form Act. At the same time, for the honour of Devee' rine we trust that such exertions will only prove that a good f ee tto a exists, but is not necessary for his re-election. We "CierS this that the gentlemen of Stroud who have come forward ee f o r occasion, contributed an equal sum at a former electio ° n or Cambridge ; and we hope the result will be as successful 11 as it was at that time. e, The Coventry Herald informs us that Mr. El li • r ous e Member for Coventry, on Wednesday, addressed an nn assembly, from the Craven Arms in that city. He °ni t of mented the Corporation on the appearance of th e repor o g the Municipal Commissioners, and predicted that a brief r t o f would terminate their corporate career. 448 y t he reP er the o Commissioners appointed by his Majesty to inquire int the state of Municipal Corporations, you will there see that Corporation of Coventry have, not opposed us for nothq ; t h a t I shall have occasion to introduce names, I beg to rerna r :ibnta Ido not take up this subject as a personal affair. at c ", - s ten the malpractices to the villany of the system itself--- 4 , - J o st. under which it is next to impossible for, ny man to be That the Corporation of Coventry was bad I alwaYs ".,„ e s and I thought that what I knew was bad enough, but, " t b s n looking into this report, I believe it to be ten times wors e sr. any in England, or, I will say, than any in the w orld." re . H. L. Bulwer, Captain Ellice, and Mr. E. El lice, al° spectively addressed the meeting. a Sir Robert Peel, upon being made acquaints so f the distressed situation of Mr. Banim, author of "the Ta-ear the O'Hara Family"---a Roman Catholic and a Liberal-I—zit mediately transmitted the sum of 501. to that Paris. A subsequent application was made to Sir it: t he requesting that Mr. Banim's name might be Plac ed l a te-' Literary Pension List ; the application was made too ve Sir Robert was no longer Minister ; but he instantly P ail for rections that his bankers should honour Mr. Banim's cl e . ng to re turra• - .• 1001., in order to provide him with the means of Ireland. tde rs gentleB;o4 The beautiful walks of the grounds on the bo of in of the Virginia Lake, and the fishing temple, have been P n l e st order, and that part of this rural retreat which waser P g ai° year to the public, will be accessible in the same manli in the summer. a " The Duke and Duchess of Northumberlel.lvive passing the recess at Sion-house, where their Graces 1;, afetc champetre, on a splendid scale to the Royal Fag° f' when the Spring is farther advanced. Ater , The Countess of Coventry, whose only dal!? 0014 Lady Augusta, was married to the son and heir of Lordin is° land, is now settled permanently in Italy. Her LadY s 94nrin; present on a visit to Mr. and Lady Augusta Fox, a t ar e Her Ladyship and the Earl of Coventry have been s l e ss many years. Lady Coventry is sole daughter and het% Aubrey, Duke of St. Alban's, uncle to the present D"' r ot GREAT Tom OF LINCOLN.—This bell 19 ' 3 ,, : ea1; at the Great Bar-gates, on Monday, by an immens e . 3 air blage of people, with colours and two bands of rau l t, s ?%, was drawn in procession through the town. On arrivigiall the Cathedral, " God save the King" was sung, andi,s,,tl e after, the nine horses which had pulled it up wer e ta's, - to th and our" old friend with a new face" was drawn allibies'• Cathedral by all who could possibly get hold of the nye° The assembled crowd in the Cathedral received him vrit" hearty cheers.—Boston Herald. Dello A man of the middle class of society at , lately took it into his head to abandon his ordin ar y tions and set up for a fortune-teller, and attracte d cr°oooge credulous persons to listen to his prognostications. ' t sb the rest was a female servant, to whom he predicted scith should die on a scaffold. The girl became so depres' rrois' the apprehensions of her fate that it was remarke d by heoded tress, who, having extracted the secret from her , reconnteised her to try her fortune again, going to the soothsayer dis7ortaer as a lady of rank and wealth. This second time the 60'4 prediction was repeated. The poor girl now was censtieidlle• struck, and confessed that she had been guilty of int° ta lte Upon this the pretended prophet, as well as herself, vi 5 5 .0 the into custody, he being suspected of having been Privy crime. t O f PROSPECTS OF THE VINTAGE.--E letter of the 17th inst., from Bordeaux :—" Thew eet„ne, the last two days has been extraordinary for the sent een at' there is great reason to fear that serious injury has " foe? ready done to the vines. Last night there was a sh er P ri ee which, in the (opinion of some of the growers in the , been bourhood, would have been fatal to the vines if there hn,`, dey• previous wet ; but fortunately the ground was per fect vas As it is, however, much mischief has certainly been don.* tto morning there Was a fall of snow, and, we have altogethe' appearance of winter." xtrac r A handsome cannon, a 32-pounder, whic h floga l raised by means of the diving-bell from the hu ll of _Boat George, at Spithead, and which formed part of the ani.otverf of that noble and ill-fated vessel, has . arrived at the oblief and is placed on the wharf for the inspection of the P ot tbe who flock in crowds to take a view of it. Several potleto gun are encrusted with sand and limestone, but thel g. 40° not corroded in its ornamental and most prominent Pnnts, Royal Arms of England appear in two of its compar,tnl ° oie is an excellent state of preservation. Near the touch-0,, To following instription :—" A. Schalch, fecit, 1749;1ie. 5 piece is to be deposited in the Royal Armoury as a r n in A TRUE CHARACTER Clergym a n ef pe rso lo ot neighbouring county, who is well known for his centricities, as well as for his sterling worth, on be ing -, gor e applied to by a parishioner for a certificate of charaetel op the following curious and candid statement: — " o Whe t - re p -1i plication has been made to me to give a characte c e rtify er R—, slat er , i n th e p ar ish of —, I hereby s o' declare that h e i s o n e o f the most infamous charaetejruotcui knew--notorious for lying, swearing, cheating, a h n a d ra eter , b t b u o ness. lie is not only a young man of bad c , rou gh id, glories in his wickedness, and is well known t", p o uaL country by the name of Donald Eageorach, or v' resolved .4 and if Ire had not lately left our bounds, it was rel o bid me, and by my Session, to apply to the civil power Co • him as being a pest to society."—lnverness .......„..._, His c ( Thursd received 114 'a' sal ili s G c mnrnis, to • i r ,, on Ar at r. A T , / 4 . c , r o wh '4Stle, k r. , Jr l , T.sel ktieb FA B I , I 1 "arbor 11/s