The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-23 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. • The Duches.s of Kent and the Princess Victoria returned to town on Tuesday, from Butted Park. T he Duke o f C um b er l and honoured the No b lemen and Gentlemen's Catch Club with his company at dinner on Tues day evening at the Thatched House. ~ V isc ount Melb ourne gave t h e fi rst C a bi net di nner to t h e ,Tembers o f t h e new Ministry last evening, at his residence in v z o is uth-street. There were present the Marquis of Lansdowne, the cou nt Ducannon, Lord John Russell, Viscount Palmerston, How ß ic ig ic h . t lion. Charles Grant, Lord Auckland, and Viscount Count Sebastiani, the French Ambassador, and Namick Ocba, on a spec i al mission from the Sublime Porte, visited vis count Pal merston yesterday, at the Foreign Office. M. d a ric° uPi, the G ree k Minister, also transacted business yester- Y at the Foreign Office. Withe Marquis of Convngham had an interview yesterd a y Viscount Melbourne. The Ea r l o f Albemarle, Viscount Duncannon, Lord Hol ,ll n ,l , and th e Right Hon. Charles Grant, visited Lord John ussell vesterd 4 , aom .at the He Office. "e Right HOn. Poulett Thomson left town on Tuesday evening for Manchester. The Earl of Belfast visited Viscount Palmerston yesterday. Sunimonses were issued yesterday to th e C a bi ne t Mi n i s t ers m 4,1,11(1 Ga . 7, at reat O Jafficers of State to attend a Privy C o u nc il thi s St. mes's. Lord Durham arrived in town last night, at his hoo • ; se in Cleveland -row, and we rejoice to learn that his health suite restored. The presence of a nobleman of his Lord- IthalP's talents and character, possessing in so high a degree c confidence of the country, is very opportune at this period. L'IV ERNESS-Sli I RE.—Mr. Grant, of Glenmoriston, „ 4 te wn yesterd a y morn i n g f or I nverness - s hi re . W e under ;lllEl that th ere are the best prospects of his success as a can 'de for that county. T h L ord Palm erston i s a b out t o b e marr i e d to Mi ss Wai t", the rich heiress.—Hampshire Telegraph. W h ad I were in error i n s t a ti ng th a t L or d Tullarnore ak left town for Falmouth. The Noble Lord is yet in Lon toehere will b e, we un d erstan d , no oppos i t i on o ff ered tc return of Mr. Spring Rice for Cambridge. 1,• 4% ir John C am pb e ll w ill b e re t urne d f or Edi n b urg h 'l4 opposition. tu Ti 'F Earl of Albem ar le will be presented at th e !led to-day as the new Mastar of the Horse. O , Tl e Earl o f C aw d or w ill g i ve a gran d di nner t o hi s th la t ,l Highness the Duke of Cumberland, Earl Howe, and bireeters of the Concert of Ancient Music, on Wednesday, the 6th of may, in South Audley-street. ~e ' rhe Duke and Duchess of Buccleugh and family I x Peeted to arr i ve t o -d a y a t M on t agu -h ouse , f rom at teki 4011 -house, near Kettering. His Grace comes up to . the grand banquet to be given on Saturday next by . his liio‘ Insta stY, llatito the Knights of the Garter, for the first time since on. b4Earl Amherst and the Earl of Hillsborough em frigkmat Portsmouth on Saturday next on board the Pique rill ) ; rj : 110 11. Capt. Rous, for Quebec. All the luggage was the p'.'ed at Woolwich on Saturday last, to be conveyed to 1 20 e. Th c o , . e Earl and Countess Gro s v e no r are go i ng on a 'nen tAkiittai tour for one year. They depart early in June, • o g :with them th e i r f our e ld es t c hild ren . Th e s i x younger the will be left at his Lordship's scat at Motcombe, where family now are. dis k e Dowager Duchess of Richmond has bee n i n - A tee sed for some days at her Grace's residence in Portland tylol2l"3 LYNDIIURST.—The countenance of Lord bp,urst is singularly expressive of his character. His go od . ,L'as all the power of the Phidian Jupiter; while the letni„" l lmoured sneer that ever hangs about his mouth strongly cap a " 4 one of a laughing Mephistopheles. Great intellectual th e jtY, with little or no moral earnestness of purpose, would %Tue a brief definition of his character.—Printing Machine. h e writ for the election of a memb e r f or th e tith ern Division of Devonshire, was received in Exeter on lst o r a Y afterno on . Th e nom i nat i on w ill ta k e p l ace on Fr i day A la.!, and the p o lli ng on th e M on d ay an d T ues d ay f o l- Ply l o' , We are told on th e aut h or i ty o f pr i vate l etters f rom hi e nth, that Lord Borringdon accompanied Mr. Parker in exp„ n vass on Saturday in that town. Lord John Russell is 1 11% 1 Led at Exeter either this ( Monday) evening, or to-morrow le tt . l eg. The number of voters polled at the contested metes in 1832, was 6,660. The registration has been much Ik to - l as ed, and the number of voters now registered is 8,200. ,"0 Luminary. , , . *,,sos o S PART:.—Nothing can more strongly ri t i t `, llO prop r i ety o f t h row i ng open a st ill l arger part o f t h is a , lread %s e public, th an th e eagerness w ith w hi c h th ousan d s N o - y availed themselves of the mall or space, which I thro ID ,,wn open by his Majesty's special command on Sunday 41 11 b -14 in Proportion as we are convinced of the propriety lnbieecessity of public convenience being consulted upon the t ens ) et ,' must we condemn the paltry, cribbing, exclusive sys • i l i !ueh is still going on and encouraged. In addition to 1 ‘.41 1 4 ; ce assigned to Sir Herbert Taylor, as Master of St. to•C, I le's Hospital, the Toxophilite Society is in the act h Nit i ,' n f g another acre which they have just obtained the b r t lbli 'and - Is that in the part of the Park most essential to the •,;eillg that nearest to the town. Indeed, the impro it• ' . O l a IIY grant at all to such a Society in the part where . pinavi_e obtained it, is manifest from the fact of the Society g een recently obliged to erect a large wire screen to Instit"`atheir arrows reaching persons passing the most fro blact„ lon e _ f t.hc public wa c lks which, aer awkward is no pro- Astti,ll7llnst the random shot of an cockney C A , ,` l4 ll PECHELL, M. P.—The Hon. and a tember was present at the High Constable's dinner C i ght o l L e venino- and on the health of the Members for • o 'elng evening, referred to the statements which had t - h "e in the public prints on the appointment he held - 41 r i o -- e Queen. lt as true, he observed, that the statement tlitt4ten c ontradicted, but not by his (Captain Pechell's . ) li kt ia , for knowing that there was not a word of truth in it 08, ought proper not to answer the charge through the i'ed • "in t'hPreferred reservinn• himself till a fit opportunity of d denial. presence of his constituents, to give it a most un- Yeste„:, oTh e 11 0 u r aY morning, about half-past eleven o'clock, i"k '-ady Agnes Meadowes was riding on horseback o 9 teffe, w ' t ? r ge-street, Portman-square, ac . compamed by Co d . a I . LTO her Ladyship's horse took fright, and galloppe f t itsf lo tal ° ll s rate. The animal proceeded as far as the broilje-iload, when lady Meadowes, who was nearly fainting 'essive terror, threw herself out of the saddle, and fell the st ones , on the left side of her head and shoul- P • Rag er Ladyship was instantly carried to the surgery of it 2e w as ke en, in Berkeley-stfeet, where every possible .assist -110,74 f o „P r oulptly rendered her. On a surgical examination t' lef t - "nd that her Ladyship's skull was fractured, and that e klv ed ,Wrist was broken. Her Ladyship was afterwards re- Is Y•4 l a Carriage to her residence in Berkeley-street, Ber- It hai A L Hu of 2 e tot MANE SOCIETY.—Since the esta t44,ooo qthis institution rewards have been paid to upwards Lt -I)l o,,s_ c hlinsants, who have nobly risked their own lives for eq tes'uvation of others ; and more than 6,000 persons have k cued from apparent death. Aleh • 0 „ Is the accelerated speed of some of the steam 14 1 1 1 4 1 e, -; t he Dov er s t a ti on , th a t th e vo y age t o an d f rom k k e i' ltt i B frequently ma d e i n littl e more th an t wo hours -1%1'914,. c time previous to the introduction of steam vessels, Packet, with passengers on board, was four days per -4i c 1,4 tile same passage, and at sea the whole time.— t o 0e Gzette. tk tti ! h ki NG.—On Tuesday the Grand Falconer I tt it,Al ) 6 4 v,klng entertainment on Newmarket-hill . , a place b It ig sti a dapted for the sport, situated about midway e -014, ti ghton and Lewes, and as the recess has brought to 1, 6 1 's , -11 a large influx of visitors, some hundreds of fashion s,c„..nThied. His Grace rode on horseback, and was in to k Ag e °: ' of Grand Falconer ; the Duchess drove up in her 1 1 1 .aler le acc ompanied by a host of fashionables. The sport e d, about one o'clock. A carrier pigeon was sent up, Olis, ° ° l c• to Windward and escaped her pursuers. Two Ip,,, t ePr a ac ceeded the first flight, which were speedily brought li t ;' f or firma by the falcons, when a desperate struggle en -6e e n toastery. They were at length separated. A third le n ta ll t t it as sent up, which was speedily struck. A fourth th e ‘4 more sport ; the falcon struck the bird, but at th?, f ought desperately, and the heron appeared rather oetter of his antagonist. They both bit the dust, Ale o ' ll gth the former got away, pursued immediately by 1 1 , In tb n, till both were lost to view. The Duke gallopped lie d irection the birds took, and in a short time the kl l s , l l tlit t t w ered to hi s ca ll, b ut not t ill h e h a d once more " heron t o eart h . Af ter t hi s t h e D u k e an d D uc h ess, ttArkeral fa shionables, whom they had invited to a public tfive o'clock, dr ove off the hill ; but the sport, by Tr f,; ( ;,_ 11 of the G ran d F a l coner , was continued some time amusement of the company. W t •• F RIENDS, BY LADY BLESSINGTON. i: 4 4 7 d,~adinirable novel, the character of Lady Walmer is t he ( . vr e• It is a startling and recognizable identity, 0 1 1 s •,;°„TcPlete prototype of a class that we fear is too nu llsglnvoli. this country Without a particle of heart we see L •tits th v : t he rself and others in all those miseries and dcgra k4 t i are justly attendant on those who sacrifice all to ges, tl er fate is one of the finest lessons for inordinate 11 4 4a' e i s os v anity on record ; and we cordially recommend f these vo l umes to our rea d ers. ': l4 t t he eCCurt - martial assembled at Chatham for the kil o a A gin Cresswell, 48 t h R eg i men t, f oun d hi m gu ilty 81 1 - 4 Char ge,--viz., of calling Captain Mathew a mean to ' c uing hi m he took presents of a sergeant ; and bar d tc , - sec ond charge, —viz. of telling Mrs. Mathew to 11t 0 ,1e,„..., 1 p the dr ummer ; and acquitted him of the third to Gp niy og sll z., of striki ng M rs. M at h ew an d us i ng certa i n ex -6ot„114, ertt W ards her therein charged. And the Court, as a trip s m L dii of tihsee list Ca taro Cresswell to be placed at the Neristio o f captains of his corps. But the King, in ° Captain Cresswell's s:rvices, has granted him alissio,°ll,f and reinstated him with the full benefit of his ''.--A.taidstone Gazette. DEVONSHIRE ELECTION. ELECTION FOR THE SOUTHERN DIVISION. Plymouth, Tuesday Evening, April 21. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) This afternoon a placard made its appearance on the walls of our town, bearing the name of George W. Seltan, '• Esq., the Chairman of Lord John Russell's Plymouth Dis trict Committee, announcing that the Committee, having nearly completed their labours, congratulated the electors on the result of their labours, and that, from the fact of a con siderb.ble number of voters, who at the last election were in favour of their opponents, having now decided to support Lord John Russell, together with the strong feeling which prevailed throughout the county, to prefer a Government that shall'insure just and liberal measures to one whose sole object is to perpetuate a system of misrule and injus tice, the Committee are convinced that their exertions will be crowned with success. This morning information reached us from Exeter that the day of nomination is fixed to take place next Friday week, the 1 st.of May, and the election on the Monday following, being the 4th of May. This being so, the friends of the respective candidates have to-day been exceedingly active. To-day Mr. Parker, the Tory candidate,. issued a second Address to the Elec tors, assuring them of his intention to offer himself as a candidate at the ensuing election, and that he should de vote the short time that has to elapse, previous to the day of election, to paying his personal respects to them. To morrow, we understand, Mr. Parker is to be at Kings bridge, to harangue the electors. Lord John R usse ll, however, has a decided majority of the electors resident there and in the neighbourhood in his favour. Lord Seymour, one of the Members of Parliament for Totnes, is, we are informed, at this moment in the county using all his exertions in favour of Lord John. Jasper Parrott, Esq., the other member for Totnes, is also there doing the same thing. J. C. Bulteel, Esq., of Lyneham, near this place (Plymouth), formerly M.P. for this division of the county, is favourable to Lord John's interest and will render him his support. The Earl of Morley, too, we un derstand, will aid Lord John Russell as far as he can. At Tavistock, Modbury and Okehamptom we are informed from good authority that his . Lordship has a majority in his favour. Lord Viscount Ebrington, the M.P. for the northern division of this county, is now at Exeter, further ing the interests of Lord John. He intends being at New ton Abbott to-morrow, at this place (Plymouth) on Thurs day, at Tavistock on Friday, and at Okehampton on Sa turday next. His Lordship, it is expected, will address the electors on these several occasions. Despite recent occurrences, Mr. Dawson, the unsuccessful candidate at the last election for Devonport and Stone house, intends dining with his friends at the Town Hall, Devonport, on Friday, next, the 24th inst. It is reported this evening that Mr. Parker, the Tory candidate for the southern division of Devonshire, intends being present on the occasion. TE WKE SBURY. ELECTION OF CHURCHWARDEN. CLOSE OF THE SECOND DAY'S POLL. Mr. Joseph Smith, a Reformer Mr. Rich. Rickford, formerly a Reformer, but now a Tory Majority The poll will close (by consent) at three o'clock to-morrow. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. General and Mrs. Butler, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford street, from their seat, near Newbury ; Sir John Bateman, Bart., and Miss Bateman, at ditto, from ditto ; Rev. G. Bon ner and family, at ditto, from Cheltenham ; Mr. and Mrs. Bowen, at ditto ; - Lamb, Esq., at ditto ; Haughton She rard, Esq., at ditto ; Rev. Mr. Wright, at ditto ; Dr. Bade ley, and Mrs. John Badeley, at the Waterloo Hotel, from Southampton ; Major Barrett, 86th Regiment, at Paine's Bath Hotel, Arlington-street, from Portsmouth ; Captain Mangen, Royal Navy, at ditto ; Major Nicholson, at ditto, from Jersey; Mrs. L'Estrange and Miss L'Estrange, at ditto, from Brigh ton ; Mrs. Shaw and family, at ditto, from Havannah ; C. Simmons, Esq., at ditto, from Cheltenham ; Sir Robert Gun ning, Bart., from his seat in Northamptonshire ; Mrs. Lane Fox, in Great Cumberland-street, from her seat in York shire ; Dr. Hawtrcy, at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle street, from Hastings ; James Corry, Esq., from Cheltenham ; Mr E. V. Harboard, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Norfolk ; Mr. and Mrs. Gibson, at Batt's Hotel, Dover street, from the Continent ; Mr. and Mrs. Moore, at ditto, from Brighton ; Josh. Ashton, Esq., at Dover and Albe maile-streets, from his scat in Lancashire ; Captain Knox, in Brook-street, from Cheltenham ; Lord Sussex Lennox, at the Green Park Hotel, Piccadilly, from Brighton. DEPARTURES. Lord Monson, from the Carlton Hotel, Regent-street, for Warwick Castle ; Mrs. Fitzherbert, for Brighton ; Major Tuste, to join his Regiment, the 3d Dragoons, at Cork; Sir Francis Burdett, Bart., for Brighton ; Lady Clinton, for Brighton ; Captain and Mrs. Close, for Chatham ; Mr. and Mrs, Baker, from Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, on a tour ; Major Golding, for Brighton ; Captain Macdonald, for Ireland ; Mr. and Mrs. J. Dodd, from Grosvenor-street, for their seat in Essex ; Lord and Lady Ward, from Mivart's Hotel, Brook street, on a tour; the Hon. General Upton, from the Albany, on a visit to the Duke of Rutland, at Cheveley Palace, near Newmarket ; Sir William Chatterton, Bart., from Seamore place, for Cheltenham; Lady and Miss Wood, from Mount street ; the Hon. Colonel and Mrs. Leicester Stanhope, from Hanover-square, for their seat, the Cedars, Surrey; General and: Mrs. Spencer, for Italy ; Colonel and Mrs. Rolt and family, from Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, for their seat near Windsor ; J. F. Earle, Esq. and the Misses Briscoe, for Hol ton Park, Oxon. ARRIVALS AT CHELTENHAM. Lord Bo ' ------- Countess Julia Parry, Hon. James Dutton, Sir Edwaid Scott, Sir Thomas Warrington, Sir George Teas dale, Sir John and Lady Nicholl, Col. Cardiff, Col. Foote, Col. Renk, Rev. Dr. Fox, Rev. C. Lesingham, Rev. Mr. Jelf, Rev. Mr. Biggs, Capt. Molyneux, Capt. Manley, Capt. Johnson, Capt. Jerard, Capt. Stephenson, Dr. Jones and family, Capt. Inigo Jones, Capt. and Mrs. Sinclair, Mr. and Mrs. Watkins, Mr. and Mrs. Rashbotham, Mr. and Mrs. Wes ton, Mr. and Mrs. Green, Mr. and Mrs. Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Lindow, Mr. and Mrs. Wcstbone, Mr. and Mrs. Rath bone, Mr. and Mrs. Dodd, Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs. White, Mr. and Mrs. Downe, Mr. and Mrs. Croome, Mr. and Mrs. Dowdy, Mr. and Mrs. Rowe, Mr. and Mrs. Greaves, Mr. and Mrs. Poulton, Mr. and Mrs. Revelley, Mr. and Mrs. Spenceley, Mr. and Mrs. Gordon, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Lee, Messrs. Joseph Martin Parry, Tuder, Roberts, Baillie, Saunders, Or mond, Johnson, Freemantle, Addison, Jeffreys, Bloomfield, Roberts and family, Thornton, Watts, Deane, Kelson, Holmes, Moore, Helm, Casey, Morris, Camplin, Seeker, Fulljames, T. Gwynne, Richardson, Barton, Harrison, L. T. Flood, Martin, W. Chute, Stubbs Wightwick, Browne, S. Browne, Becher ton, Quadrington, Dare, Ives, Powis, Strand, Turnbull, Murray, Miers, Queen, Sylvester, Genders, Drysdale, Walton, Bennett, Horncastle, Bowen, Burke, Shims, Hall, Dryden, Torrington, Weller, Watson, Crowder, C. Fox, Meadows, Croose, Warton, Mistresses Ingram, Morgan, Dilkes, Jones, Downey, Fordham, Jackson, Graham, Simmons, Wilkins, Freeman, West, Triader, Misses Fraser, Cooper, Collier, Green, Lloyd, Reeves, Henson, Young, Graham, Turner, Morris, &c. &c. FASHIONABLE CHANGES. Captain Riddlestone, for Brecon.—Capt. Pcchell, for Bath. —Mr. Beeber for Builth, Breconshire. GERMAN PAPERS. BRUSSELS, APRIL 18.—The Queen and the Prince are now so well that no further bulletins will be published. It seems that the great trial of the iron railroad will not take place till the 4th of May. In spite of the fatal issue of the expedition of the ship Robuste, which was lost off Algiers, it was to be desired that our merchants should make another trial to open a direct intercourse with Egypt under the Belgian flag. This trial will soon be made. The Meteor is to sail from Antwerp about the end of May for Alexandria, in Egypt, and to touch at Algiers. APRIL 21.—We hear that it has been decided that the young Prince shall be baptized on Sunday next without pomp in the chapel of the Palace, and that the Queen of the French will leave Brussels the next day. Te Deuin is ordered in the diocese of (Then', on account of the birth of the Prince. Royal. In the towns it will be on the same day as the baptism, and in the country on the Sunday fol lowing. Yesterday was published a supplement to the Moniteur of the 16th, containing the decrees relative to the Iron Cross, with the names of the persons to whom this Cross has been assigned, and the grounds upon which the persons so distinguished have boen thought worthy of the honour. The number is 1,031. A Supple mentary Decree confers the Cross on twenty-nine per sons, who belonged to the Committee for deciding on the claims presented, and, of course, would not adjudge the Cross to themselves. The whole of it occupies 26 pages of the Moniteur. BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussims, APRIL 21. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent , Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent MN Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 9:l Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent 11,912 Bank of Belgium, Five per Cen- —Brussels Papers, April 21. THE HAGUE, APRIL 21.—1 n the sitting of the Second Chamber a Message was received from the First Chamber, stating- that it had agreed to the projects of law for paying the full interest and the public debt due on the last day of June next, and for providing for the deficit of the preceding • years. The Central Section made its report on the proposal of M. Van Dam Van Isselt, for appointing a Committee to inquire into the state of agriculture, and likewise the report on the project of law for amending the law of the 18th of April, 1827, on the organization of the Courts of Justice. Both reports are to be printed, and the discussion of the TilE SUN, LONDON, TtIUASDAY, APRIL 23, .I§Z, proposal of M. Van Darn Van. Isselt is fixed for Thursday next. DUTCH FUNDS--.AMSTERDAM, APRIL 21. Money. Bills. Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. 56 53 Amon Syndic, 4% per cent. 95 94, a , Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent. 79% 834 Loan (1830) 5 per cent. Ditto (1832 and 18.33) 5 per cent. Commercial Company, 4', per cent IOSN 106y4 Exchange on London, One month 12 15 to 12 15-16. • Two months Dutch Papers, April 2. VIENNA, APRIL 12.—His Majesty the Emperor is much better to-day, and in a few days will be able to give au diences as usual. Her Majesty the Empress has to-day given private audiences to several foreign Envoys. The Duchess of Berri left Vienna yesterday. ROME, APRIL 9,—The French Ambassador the Mar quis de Latour Maubourg has received orders from his Government to return without delay to Paris, to take his seat in the Chamber of Peers during the trials. He will perhaps set out to-morrow ; but we hope to see him here a.rain when the trials are over, as his family does not leave Rome, and the First Secretary of the Legation will act as Chargé d'Affaires. Monsigneur Campodonico goes to Turin as Papal Internuncio, in the room of Monsigneur Grizzi, who is appointed in the same capacity to Brussels. VIENNA, APRIL 13.—Five per Cents. Metalliques, 1021 ; Four per Cents., 951; Bank Shares, I ,3 2 B.—Allgemeine Zeitung, April 18. FRENCH PAPERS. TOULON, APRIL 15.—Orders arrived yesterday to take into the roads the Montebello and Scipio, of the line, and the Iphigenia frigate. Admiral Mackau, commanding in the Antilles, learning the new disturbances at Para, hastened to send the Orestes brig to that port, to protect, and, if ne cessary, take on board the French merchants and seamen who were in that part of Portuguese Guiana, at the time of the late massacres. A frigate belonging to the Brazil station was despatched from Rio or Bahia, to cruise on those seas, and second the Orestes, but when Captain Born, who brings this informa ton, left Martinique, intelligence bad been received at St. Pierre, that all French property and French citizens had been respected during the troubles. Our naval division in the Antilles is composed of the Atalanta frigate, of 60, (Rear-Admiral Mackau,) the Astrea frigate, the Heroine corvette, the Orestes brig, and the Dordogne transport. FR.ENCH FUNDS. 7 -YA RIM, APRIL 21 Five per Cents., 107 f. 50c 55c. 70c. Four per Cents., 99f. Three per Cents.. slf 75c. 80c. 85c. Bank Actions, 1,90 f. —c. National Loan, 107 f 50c. Bente de .Naples, 98f. 70c. 80c. Roman Five per Cents., 10215 102 101%. Bente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 49 411 1 i%. Bente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 31!..i. I{oyal Spanish Loan, 48 48 Brute Perpet. tPlispagne. Five per Cents, 48 1 ,4 3 ,. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 102 1 4 . l'ortugue e Loan, Five per Cent., 9J 93. Ilaytian Loan, 43;T. 427 f. P.XCILiNGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, —f. —c.; money, 9.. if 45c. Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, `.lsf. 34ic. —tours Authentique. BOURSE, THREE O'CLOCK.—The Three per Cents. opened at 81f. 80c., rose to 82f., and are at present 81f. 90c. to 95c. Very little business is doing. A report, which was circulated yesterday, about a revolution having taken place at Lisbon, is the cause of the slight depression in the different securities. Spanish stock is also generally offered, except the Differes, which have been done as 234, and are present at 23. QUARTER TO FOUR O'CLOCK.—Five per Cents., 107 f. 75e. ; Three per Cents., 81f. 95c. ; Five per Cents., Spanish, 481- ; Three per Cents., ditto, 311 ; Cortes, 491- ; Coupons, 311 ; Guebhards, 48fr ; Differes, 224 ; New Loan, 681 ; Ducats, 98 90 ; Romans, 1021 ; Belgians, 1021 ; Pedros, 98 ; Miguels, 261 ; Dutch, 57 70 ; Haytians, 430; Brabant Bank, 201 pm. PRUSSIAN FUNDS.. , -.BERLIN, APRIL 16. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent. 'oo 11-12 100 5-12 Pru,sian English Loan, 1830,4 per cent. 9t!4 tiSN, Exchange en London, l'wo months 6 10 —Prussian State Gazette, April 17 SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S, DEAL, APRIL 22.—Wind N. E.,—Arrived the Portland, —, from Zante ; Matilda, Perkins, from Bordeaux; Arina, Rich ards, from Dublin ; Friends, Staple, from Waterford ; Zorilda, Croft, from Cork ; and Quebec, Davis, from Westport. Ar rived from the river and sailed the Swift, Cocks, for Smyrna; Swift, Way, for Lisbon ; London, Gender, for Liverpool ; and Queen, Robertson, for Halifax. PonTsNIOUTII, Arm, 22.—Wind N. E. FALMOUTH, AARIL 21.--Wind N. N. W. to N. W., moderate. ISLE OF WIGHT, APRIL 21.—Arrived off port the Chieftain, Moor, from St. Vincent's. POOLE, APRIL 21.—Arrived the Faith, Moor, from Lisbon. WEYMOUTH, APRIL 22.—Arrived off port the Ann, Wood, from Lisbon, dismasted. DARTMOUTII, APRIL 22.—Arrived off port the Permei, Har ris, from the Mauritius ; and the Brazilian, —, from Cepha lonia. GLOUCESTER, APRIL 22.—Arrived the Rose. Steel, from Barbadoes. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.—Arrived the Ewen, Peacock, from Maranham; Friendship, Mossop, from Jamaica ; Carrall of Carralton, from Mobile; and Flym, Davis, from Tarragona. Off port the Hardware, —, fi orn Porto Cabello. The Four Johns, Coulson, London, from St. '✓assts, with Loss of sails and leaky, bound to London. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PLYMOUTH, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 21.—Arrived the steamer Shannon, Mills, from London, and sailed for Fal mouth, Dublin, and Belfast. Orders were received here yesterday to get the Romney :roop-ship ready with all possible speed, to embark troops for Ireland. Sailed the Lady Mary Pelham packet, for Falmouth. In Hamoaze—The San Josef, Champion, and Rochester Lighter. In the Sound—The Romney troop-ship. THE TIIItEE HUNAWAYS.—Lord Camelford, when once dining with Burdett and Tooke, lamented that his edu cation had been greatly neglected, adding that " he regretted exceedingly that he had run away from the Charter-house." On this Sir Francis observed, with a deep sigh, that he had also to lament that " he had run away from Westminster." Mr. Horne Tooke, however, consoled them both by observing " that be, too, had run away from Eton." After a long interregnum, the National Scottish Church, in Regent's-square, has received a pastor in the place of the Rev. Edward Irving, deceased. The Rev. Mr. M'Murland, of Paisley, was elected to that office, and on Sun day delivered his first sermon to a crowded audience. In the course of his sermon he mentioned that there were at this mo ment upwards of 100,000 Scotsmen in London! The Stirling Journal of Friday last contains a re port of a late public dinner at Donne, in honour of the tri umph of Liberal principles in Perthshire, the Hon. Colonel Abercromby in the Chair, supported on the right by Captain Houston Stewart—Dr. Stewart, of Dunblane, Croupier. A number of liberal and patriotic toasts were given, and among others the health of the Hon. Fox Maule. POLITICAL CREED OF A MASTER OF THE CEREMONIES AT BATH.—" I am implicitly resigned to the will of 'every Minister; it is an article in my creed that every King chooses the wisest and best of men for his Ministers; that their sole assertion constitutes truth and falsehood. In conse quence of this prepossession, if the Minister were to assert that the Pope was a methodist, a man a four-footed beast, and that a cow had wings and feathers, I would subscribe to the belief." JACOB FAITHFUL, BY THE AUTHOR OF PETER SIMPLE."—In this genuine English production, Captain Marryat has certainly struck into quite a new walk of litera ture, and though it be upon our own Thames, it is not the less true, as the spirit of his novel actually " walks the waters like a thing of life." Every page, nay almost every line, breathes of reality—his words are acted things. This is the best style to fix the attention of all readers, but a style as difficult to at tain as it is good. The gallant author gives the truest pic tures of real life that have ever appeared, through the medium of fiction, the best works of Fielding and Smollett not ex cepted. THE NEW CHANNEL, LIVERPOOL.—We saw, the other day, a striking proof of the importance of this com paratively new discovery. As usual, during spring tides, the Rock-channel was, at low water, nearly dry. At the same time, the Post-office steamer, with the Dublin mail, was sailing down the Formby Channel, and getting to sea through the New Channel. Before the discovery of this channel, the packet, when low water happened early in the evening, used to drop down with the tide, and anchor off Wallasey, the mail arid passengers being conveyed thither by another conveyance, causing both expense and delay.—Liverpool Paper. On Thursday, a painter, occupied in painting the front of a house in the Rue des Petits Augustus, resting on one of those ropes so constantly seen in use on such occasions, lost his balance, but caught by his feet, and thus remained sus pended midway between the roof and the ground, with his head downwards, for nearly three quarters of an hour, while his comrades and other persons used every endeavour to re. lease him, but in vain ; till a young man, more active and cou rageous than the rest, climbed the same rope, knot by knot, and succeeded in saving him from an impending death, at the moment when he was on the point of losing his senses.— Paris Paper. The taxes upon an estate in Virginia of 100 acres do not exceed one shilling a year ' • this will stimulate and give encouragement to th e bidders at George Robins's auction to day of the lots in America. PREVALENCE OF THE SMALL-PDX AT HOUNS- Low.—A great deal of alarm prevails at Hounslow and its vicinity in consequence of the small-pox having made its ap pearance there in a more than usually virulent manner. The Rev. Dr. Benson, the officiating minister of the parish, has issued a circular recommending the parents of families to keep their children within doors, and where vaccination has not been already adopted to have immediate recourse to it. Several families have already left the neighbourhood owing to the con sternation created by the dread of the disorder. A number of cases of a similar nature (though not to such an alarming extent) have taken place at Isleworth. CAMBRIDGE.-WEDNESDAY. Mr. Spring Rice made his entrée into this town yester day afternoon at half-past four o'clock, and was most warmly greeted by his old friends. The lamp-posts that line the Trumpington-road were decorated with laurel, and a large body, some on horseback and many on foot, went out to meet his carriage, with the intention of dragging him in ; this gratification, however, was not reserved for them, as the Hon. Chancellor of the Exchequer came by a different road to that which they had taken. In the evening the large room at the Hoop Hotel was crowded to excess, to hear the speech of this eloquent and true friend to his country ; it is needless to add with what unbounded de light it was received, although I regret to say that some undergraduates who attended the meeting behaved in such a manner that they were obliged to be handed out of the window. It was truly ridiculous to see these Tory strip lings attempting to disturb the general harmony by their puny cries ; but indeed they had their reward. The Tories are in a perfect frenzy, and placards are circulating couched in the venomous language of disappointed rage. Had they found anybody mad enough to have come down and op posed Spring Rice, they would have gotten a pretty drub bing, for the Reformers of Cambridge set an example worthy of imitation to their fellow-countrymen, in the unity, activity, and undaunted perseverance which they display to promote the good and glorious cause. LIVERPOOL ADDRESS TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. An address to Lord John Russell, containing upwards of ten thousand signatures, has this evening (Tuesday) been sent up from Liverpool. This address was not put into a course of signature until Thursday afternoon, and though, from the circumstance of two of the days which have since intervened having been Good Friday and Sun day, there have only been two days and a half for receiving names, the signatures amount to the number already stated. As an additional testimony of respect, a deputation has been sent up from Liverpool with the address to Lord John. The following is the address : TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. " We, the undersigned inhabitants of the town and neigh bourhood of Liverpool, addres your Lordship at this impor tant and eventful period, for the purpose of expressing the admiration which we feel for the perseverance, energy, and talent which have characterized your Lordship's Parliamentary career. " The Resolution which your Lordship has succeeded in carrying in the House of Commons, relative to the appropria tion of the surplus revenues of the Irish Church, has our most cordial concurrence, and claims from us the warmest expres sion of our gratitude. " We congratulate your Lordship upon the happy prospects which (through your efforts) now begin to dawn upon our country, and, in common with the majority of the people of this great empire, we ardently hope that your Lordship will be speedily recalled to the councils of his Majesty." HOLE AND CORNER MEETING. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,--The late Ministers of the Crown having, through the avenues of a rueful experience, at length arrived at the irresistible conclusion, that the mere shadows of sham mea sures, aided even by the sophistic eloquence of Sir R. Peel, will not suffice to satisfy a spirited and independent House of Commons, nor to allay the expectations, and calm the anxieties, of an insulted and indignant people ; and the resig nation of Ministers necessarily resulting from that conclu sion, has spread universal horror and dismay throughout the Conservative camp. It has excited feelings of pious alarm for the safety of the Church—of patriotic loyalty for the stability and dignity of the Throne—and of the most in tense anxiety for the preservation of every thing that is morbid and corrupt in the existing institutions of the country. No where have those feelings of pious horror and disin terested loyalty found a more unanimous response than in the breasts of the Tories of this town and neighbourhood. Those men who are loudest in their declamations against the sacrilegious appropriation of Church property—those pious hypocrites who shudder at the very thought of the slightest interference with the Established Church, have, with a daring and unblushing effrontery, openly violated the fundamental principles of the Sabbath, by summoning on that day a hole-and-corner meeting, to be held the fol lowing morning, in an obscure village, called Felton, nine miles distant from any town, where no opposition could possi bly be offered to their intended resolutions. They have not dared to convene a public meeting in Alnwick, as they well knew the success that awaited such an imprudent adventure. They were fully assured, that even under the walls of Aln wick Castle nothing short of a final, a total discomfiture wouldbe their inevitable fate. It is perfectly in accordance with their professed principles to avoid the inconvenient results of a public meeting, and skulk with the utmost pri vacy into a secluded village, where they may, without fear of interruption, carry such resolutions as they may think proper to propose. _ _ Such was the hole-and-corner meeting lately held at Felton, consisting of fourteen individuals, and professing to be a meeting of the Nobility, Clergy, Gentry, Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the Northern division of the County, at which an address to his Majesty was adopted, praying his Majesty to re-instate his late Ministers in the various offices of State, and representing thenCas possessing the full and unbounded confidence of the country ; and the only persons in his Majesty's dominions, with the necessary talents and integrity, for carrying on the Government with credit to themselves and advantage to the people. From what has already been said, and considering the general degradation and debasement of the Tory character, need I add, that the most dishonourable—the most dis graceful means have been resorted to, to obtain signatures to the address. On this, as on all other similar occasions, the hirelings—the mercenary despotic hirelings of the Duke of Northumberland—have used their utmost endeavours to augment and swell the numbers to the address. They have employed every stratagem within their extensive and bane ful influence, to attain that end. The opulent tradesmen, and the meanest menials, have alike been subject to their scrutinising avidity. But for the active exertions of those venal slaves of a noble non-entity, the address (in point of numbers of least) would have merited all that contempt, which has so justly been thrown upon the meeting where it originated. Those are the men who have used every m eans of lordly intimidation—att em pt e d to stay the pro gress of popular opinion —to crush the youthful bud of free dom, ere half its glories could be disclosed—to rivet on the necks of their fellow-townsmen the degrading bonds of feudal dominion, and sink them to a depth of degradation deeper, if possible, than the internal baseness of Tory de pravity. But happily the diffusion of knowledge has achieved a signal victory, over their most active endeavours to quench the vivid spark of liberty. That latent spark still exists, and will yet rise in a triumphant blaze, and eclipse, in a stream of glory, the dying embers of Tory despotism. Alnwick, April 17, 1835. SCRUTATOR. PAROCHIAL REFORM IN CHELSEA. OBVIOUS EFFECTS OF THE NEW POOR LAW BILL. The parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, like most other populous parishes had been long governed by a set of men who were fully satisfied of their own inherent capacities for managing the affairs of their neighbours, and who, as a quid pro quo for their gratuitous services, drew largely upon the paro chial purse to defray the expenses of their management. For many years there perhaps was no parish more care fully governed than Chelsea—at least the same care was annually taken by those who were then in office, to keep all others less experienced than themselves out. But at length, —whether or not it was owing to the schoolmaster getting abroad—the good people of Chelsea resolved to look at home. A few spirited individuals called upon their dis spirited fellow-rate-payers, and invited them to attend a Public Vestry and carve for themselves. An immense ma jority of them did so, and retired muttering Caesar's dispatch to the Senate. They lowered their rates, cut. down salaries, and encouraged by their success, talk loudly of reducing more. At the annual Vestry, a few days since, a most satis factory statement was made by Mr. Goderich (who has for the last few years been one of the most active opponents of parochial nzis-management) from which it appeared that two years since the " Reformers" of the parish had succeeded in unseating a picked (if not a packed) committee, who seemed to think they held a life inheritance of the Board room in accordance with a local act of Parliament. The annual expenditure of these gentlemen amounted in 1820 to 14,0001. of their neighbours' property, and which sum they felt it " expedient" to encrease every year, until it amounted (in March 1833, when they were obliged to re tire), to 21,7631. Their successors immediately set about pruning these enormous expenses, and in March 1834 had reduced them to 19,1824, and now having fairly carried into effect the principle of the New Poor Law Bill, the statement laid before the 3 V .e e a s r. try upon the occasion referred to amounted to 15,8751., a reduction of 5,5801., as compared with the preceding Mr. Goderich quoted at much length from the pamphlet of Mr. Leslie, shewing the great benefits arising to the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, from working in the spirit of the New Poor Law Bill, and strenuously urged the adoption of the plan therein suggested, as advantageous to both paupe r and rate-payer. He instanced the satis factory results of the introduction of religion, and conse quently moral instruction, to all the paupers of St. George's establishment, and of which, he said, he bad been a daily observer for the last two years and contrasted it with the total neglect of classification in the poor-house of Chel sea. He recommended that clergymen should be ap pointed to administer daily to all the sick within the walls - - of the poor-house, artd to introduce such 'a system as I; be deemed most beneficial to the moral improvement of those in health. Any extra expense attending such a plan Wand ; he contended, be much better laid out than in taking journeys of pleasure at the parish expense, under the contemptible pretexts that had been urged for such shameless proceedings. He trusted wherever practical improvements had been tried with success that Chelsea would readily adopt them, and proposed (as was the ease in St. George's), that paid and responsible officers should be appointed who should be accountable for all monies ex pended on behalf of the parish, and act under the direction of the Parochial Committee. By an arrangement, the cases of the necessitous would be promptly relieved, and the impostor detected, nor the rate-payers be again subjected to contributions for supporting the undeserving. The address of Mr. G. was most cordially received, and his suggestions unanimously agreed to by the Vestry ; and, judging by what has been done in Chelsea of that which remains to do, there is little doubt but it will soon be one of the easiest rated parishes in the country. It is evidently to the New Poor Law Bill that much of the late improvement in parochial affairs is owing. Many Magistrates are opposed to its salutary provisions, and perhaps as many of old overseers, publicans, and gin spinners are not to be enumerated among its friends, and it is decidedly opposed to the interests of parochial jobbers, generally. By the way, has any im partial enemy to the Bill ever coolly sat himself down to calculate how much of the cash of the industrious (say in a parish whose annual poor's rate is 20,0001. per annum) is annually expended in gin alone ? Allowing it to be but a twentieth of the sum, it is somewhat hard that labour should be thus taxed to the amount of 1,0001. a year for gin to those who say they cannot obtain bread. Let them be supplied with work, and the really deservinr , and able bodied poor will thank you. But certain speculative land lords of small houses, will not thank you for this—their humanity but consisted in placing their own tenants on the parish books, and receiving their rents out of the rates. To enter into a general detail of the objects for which bard workinc, people have been compelled to pay large sums to others who needed it (in many cases) less than themselves, would occupy more space than we can at pre sent afford. Parishes which seek to remove long-standing abuses must cease to be favoured with gratuitous overseers. Let those who have duties to perform, which require much of their time and labour, be paid for what they do, and be held accountable to the representatives of the parish. This will be a great step towards further improvement ; and as there must always be applicants for parochial relief, let that relief be justly apportioned, according to the charac ter and circumstances of the applicants—and not, as it bas been too long, according to favour and self-interest. A great number of persons who have improperly re ceived relief for many years, are now found well able to, and do support their families, by productive labour, inde pendently of the Poor Rates. Impositions of the most glaring character have been discovered—heavy sums of money had continued for some time to be paid to indivi duals for and on behalf and for the maintenance of paupers long since dead. Mans other abuses could be mentioned, pointing out the necessity of some remedy. Paid officers (to be immediately turned out on any neglect) seem the best means of prevention—and a recommendation was made at the last vestry to adopt the plan of St. George's parish in appointing only nominal overseers—and delegating the active duty to paid officers ; and this proposal was well received by the rate payers present, but was frustrated, by the want of firmness, by the Magistrates. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. PETITION from the INHABITANTS of the CITY of LONDON AGAINST the NEWSPAPER STAMPS. (From the Edinburgh Review of April.) It is not easy to over-rate the importance of the question which this petition brings before the public. Much discus sion has, indeed, at different times, taken place upon it ; and the motions of Mr. Bulwer in the House of Commons have had an excellent effect in calling the attention of the country to the subject. But, after all, little interest has yet been excited, and none in proportion to the magnitude of the question. For this, several causes may be assigned, but one is quite sufficient to explain it. The Newspapers themselves, - and above all those published in London, with one or two honourable exceptions, are against any repeal of the tax, and have taken care to discourage all discussion upon the matter. We should like to have seen a proposal to repeal any other tax of two hundred per cent. upon the prime cost of an article in universal demand, spoken of in Parliament at intervals for four years, and made the subject of public meetings ! What an outcry would all the libe ral journals have raised against it ! What appeals would they have made to the peope ! What arguments and what invectives would have filled their columns! How would any minister have been attacked who ventured to maintain the tax ! How sharply would any opposition have been rebuked that remained inactive against it ! Yet the tax of two hundred per cent. upon political intelligerice, upon the very commodity in which these newspapers deal, never obtains one word of blame or complaint ; and although it is not reckoned prudent to write in its support, yet cold water is thrown upon the discussion in every way, and all who attempt to get rid of it are loaded with' constant, though certainly very harmless abuse. Whence arises this apparent opposing of their own inte rests in a body of men far from ignorant ? The answer is easy. The great newspapers have a direct interest in main taining the tax. It tends to keep a multitude of competitors out of the field ; and, above all things, it preserves to them the power of charging a very high, almost an arbitrary, price for advertisements. If there were twenty or thirty papers in London, instead of five or six, it is plain that ad vertising would be reduced to perhaps a tenth of its present exorbitant cost. It is also possible that the sale of the old papers would fall off ; though of that there is much more reason to doubt. The more respectable of the London Journals, indeed, have had the honesty not to disguise this truth. One or two, with a most praiseworthy disinteres tedness, have supported the repeal ; others have kept a sig nificant, but comparatively honest silence upon the subject; while one or two have actually avowed that the removal of the tax would he a benefit to them, and yet that they op posed it upon public grounds, against their own interest ! To the country it is quite indifferent whether the producers of any necessary or useful article are pleased to prefer a tax on it which raises its price three or four fold to all the consumers of that article ; and the interests of the country are what alone ought to be regarded by the Government and the Legislature. The petition from a most respectable por tion of the citizens of London enumerates the evils of this tax ; and we shall state them with some illustrations, the rather because the newspaper press will continue for some time to keep this important subject as much as possible out of public view. The price of a common newspaper, without stamp, is three pence to buy : but the publisher sells it to the news man for twopence, and the tax is fourpence ; therefore the necessary of political life—political intelligence—the very staff of political life—is taxed two hundred per cent. To the landlords who tax the staff of natural life twenty or thirty per cent., perhaps more, this burden may appear un important ; to every reflecting man in the country it must appear quite intolerable. The petitioners most justly remark, that a Government is bound to make all its acts generally and speedily known to its subjects. Chiefly is it bound to make the proceedings of the Legislature known. What can be more necessary to good, or indeed to just and fair Government, than that the subject should have early and accurate notice of the laws he is to obey ? Those laws are changed from time to time ; and what to-day is permitted is to-morrow made an offence severely punishable ; or the civil right which this year can be enforced at pleasure, is the year after not to be enforced at all, because time has been suffered to run, which but for a change in the law was quite immaterial. Can any thing be more grossly unjust than to punish men for what they cannot know to be crimes ; or to confiscate their pro perty without giving them a chance of saving it ? Yet this must daily happen as long as laws are made without any pains being made to bring the people ac quainted with their provisions. Many devices have been suggested for effecting this publicity. None but one can be adequate. Newspapers, if cheap, are sure to be universally read, and in them all the people may see, from day to day, each act of the Legislature, and many acquire a thorough acquaintance with the rules laid down for regulating their conduct, and disposing of their rights. The Government says—newspapers shall only be read by persons in easy circumstances, who have the least occasion for such information, because they can receive it through many other channels ! If you would reconcile men to new laws, there is no such efficacious expedient as letting them see every step in the progress of a measure, from its being opened and defended against the objections first taken, to its being finally passed into a law. The Government, whose interest it is beyond that of all other parties, that its measures should thus be made palatable to the people, says, that all such information shall be confined to those whom it is useless, or impossible, to reconcile by such means—the rich—the professed politicians —those who have a variety of other means of knowing all that passes at the seat of power I Nothing, as the Petition well observes, can be more use ful for the people of any country than to assist in person— hut as that is impossible beyond a limited extent—to read in the newspapers, all that passes at Criminal Trials. This sort of knowledge affords one of the best lessons of practi cal morality which the people can learn. It inculcates a reverence for the laws' to see them administered with in flexible justice—it begets an affection for the judicial system to observe how these laws are administered in mercy —and it conduces to a dread of violating them, that the subjects of the realm should witness the trial as well as the I plinishment o f o ff en d ers . H app il y th ere i s n o kind of re;dinir so great a favourite of all classes, as trials, whether criminalor cavil. But this useful, this instructive reading, is withheld from the portion of the people which has the greatest occasion for it. Noblemen may read trials for theft, and ladies of quality may see the details of proceed in s against murderers and incendiaries ; but day-labourers , , an common soldiers and sailors, can no more afford to buy i f a tamped paper than to eat off plate. But it is not merely in teaching the people the laws that are made to govern tl4ni, or the trials that are held under these laws, that the newspape:s conduce to good Government, and to the ad vahtage of thesubject as well as fibs rulers. All matters of ;a public natinT—the acts of the Govnrnment--the con duct of the public servants—the occurrences of moment abroad as well as at home--all that we learn of the course of !events, interest, and ought to occupy a portion of the people's attention. It is even the duty of free subjects to consider these thin ;s, and to form their opinions upon them; but the price of papers, raised by the stamps, keeps this intelligence from them ; and the monopoly enjoyed by a few papers, owing to the stamp, prevents the people from hav ing access to that full variety of opinions, arguments, and statements of fact, in which alone free discussion can con sist ; and which can alone prevent deceptions from being daily practised upon the country. That the people should he habituated to political discussion, no man in these times is hardy enough to deny. It is too late to prevent then: frqm thinking on such sujects ; and the only question being whether they shall think soundly and like well-informed men, or ignorantly and lightly, and after the model of others interested perhaps in misleading them, it is clear that any impediment to the fullest political information, is both un just to the people, and dangerous to our institutions. Perhaps the greatest of all the advantages of repealing this tax remains to be told. Nothing can more completely obstruct the progress of general knowledge than the stamp on newspapers. Far the most efficient of all the means of diffusing information among every class of the people are as to be found in the newspaper press. The news papers furnish by far the best vehicles for disseminating im portant truths and useful information. Other works are 1 repulsive to ignorant men ; therefore they are closed books to those who Most stand in need of being instructed. Books, how cheap soever, and however popularly written, are not. likely to be read by the uninformed. To buy, or to get, and to begin.reading a volume, indicates a certain progress in improvement to have been already made. But all men will read the News ; and even peasants, farm servants, farm servants, country day-labourers, will look at, nay pore over the paper that chronicles the occurrences of the neigh bouring market-town. Here then is a channel through which, alongst with political intelligence and the occurrences of the day, the friends of human improvement, the judicious promoters of general education, may diffuse the best informa tion, and may easily allure all classes, even the humblest, into the paths of general knowledge. Every man of good sense must at once perceive what an engine this would be in the hands of the Educator ; but at present it exists not for any purposes of his. The stamp paralyses that arm, which, were it re moved, might easily bring learning and science into the ha bitation of every man in the country. Can we wonder that. the friends of education, not the mere advocates of political knowledge, should have risen up against a tax which ob structs all their enlightened and humane efforts ? Can we any longer sneer at the name given to the stamp—and which designates it as a " tax upon knowledge." Why, then, should this impost he continued any longer ? There were two reasons stated by Lord Brougham in pre senting the London Petition, and which he appears to have fully answered. The first is, the loss apprehended to the revenue—the second, the encouragement supposed to result from the removal of the tax to the production of noxious papers. 1. The revenue could suffer little, if it did not rather gain. No free country has so few newspapers in proportion to its population as Great Britain. The Islands in the Channel have fifteen times as many, and the United States thirty times—there being no tax on newspapers in either. No one can doubt, then, that the repeal would multiply papers tenfold at the least ; and that instead of thirty mil lions of papers a-year, or less than six for every adult male —fifty or sixty for every such adult would be printed and sold. This would greatly augment the excise upon paper— the revenue of the post-office—and above all, the advertise ment duties. It is, we are told, the opinion of persons the best informed upon the question, that the revenue would on.the whole gain considerably by the change. 2. The fear of increasing sedition, profaneness, and im morality is altogether chimerical, and the argument drawn from thence is exposed at once. 'Those vile publications, at present having no stamp at all, ninety-nine in every hundred of them, are printed wholly without stamps, and and therefore sold at a penny or twopence ; while the more respectable papers, which pay the stamp, must be charged sixpence or sevenpence. Thus the wicked and un wholesome article enjoys a monopoly at the expense of the innocent and beneficial commodity—the contraband dealer i s su pported and encouraged by a premium—while the re gular and honest trader is loaded with a duty of two hundred per ee;:t ! Never yet was there a more absurd and iniquitous tax imposed—but the argument employed in its defence is, if possii;!e, more absurd still. Let us hope that this evi: will soon be removed, and the incalculable advantages secured to us of cheap and uni versal information. But our wishes will certainly be alto gether fruitless if we do not bestir o urselves ; and havin g already shown that the existing newspapers are not very willing to assist in obtaining this reform, it is the more necessary for all other periodical publications which favour the cause of improvement to exert themselves ID its sup port. MR. BURKE'S HISTORY OF THE LANDED GENTRY. —This original and important work, of which two vo lumes have now been published, has been undertaken by Mr. Burke as a sequel to his well-known and established " Dic tionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the United King dom," and upon a somewhat similar plan ; so that, when completed, the two publications will embrace the whole body of the British Peerage, Baronetage, and Gentry, and will furnish such a mass of authentic and available information in regard to all the Principal Families in the Kingdom, as has never before been brought together for general reference and utility. The two volumes which have already appeared con tain detailed accounts of about 800 eminent houses, and em brace particulars of nearly 20,000 individuals connected with them. The Roman Catholics are inclosing with a stone wall the large piece of land which they have purchased near St. Leonards, Hastings. It has an imposing appearance. The report is that they are going to build a college ; but it is not positively known.. There can be no doubt, however, that it is intended for a very large establishment.—Brightou Gazette. The anniversary meeting of the Southern Unitarian Fund and Tract Societies was holden at Chichester on Friday last, when the Unitarian cause was powerfully advocated.— Brighton Guardian. A SIGNIFICANT REPLY.—" Thomas," said a sponging friend of the family to a footman, who had been lin gering about the room for half an hour to show him to the door, " Thomas, my good fellow, it's getting late, is'nt it? How soon will the dinner come up, Thomas?" "The very' moment you're gone, Sir," was the unequivocal reply. The first case in which Lord Brougham (then a very young Advocate) was engaged before the circuit court of Justiciary at Ayr, some time, we believe, about.lBo3, was that of Kate M'Lean, who the embryo Chancellor volunteered gratuitously to defend from a charge of blanket stealing, ap parently from a desire just to get his hand in. A friend of Mr. Brougham, in Edinburgh, wrote to Kate's agent here, (from whom we had the anecdote the other evening), stating that Mr. B. would undertake the defence of any case, free of charge, in which the agent might be professionally engaged- Mr. Brougham delivered the letter of his friend to the Agent, but his excited appearance and vehement manner did not im press the collector of evidence with a very decided opinion in his favour ; but, willing to oblige his correspondent, he waited on the young Barrister at Mrs. Simpson's, then hostess of the Black Bull, and put the statement of facts in Kate's case into} his hands, accompanied with such arguments as he thought likely to promote the cause of his client, and which, he re marked, he was afraid might not occur to so green a practi tioner as Mr. Brougham ; to which observation Mr. B. re plied,—" Give me the facts, Mr. —, and leave the arguments to me 1" a remark, the independence of which led Mr. to hope better things of the "flighty looking chap ;" nor was he mistaken, for next day Mr. B. made a most able defence for Kate, before Lord Henderland, and the result of his exertions was the acquittal of Kate M'Lean, which seemed very much to gratify the young man.—Ayr Observer. WASHINGTON IRVING.—Our distinguished fel low-citizen, Washington Irving, has purchased a small pro perty of about ten acres, eminently romantic in its location and appendages, on the banks of the Hudson, near the resi dence of his nephew, Oscar Irving, about three miles south of Tarrytown. On the premises just mentioned there is still standing an old stone house, built in the ancient, Dutch style of architecture, during the French war, by Wolfred Acker, and afterwards purchased by Van Tassel, one at least of whose descendants has been immortalised in story by the racy pen of its present gifted proprietor. It is the identical house at which was assembled the memorable tea party, described in the le gend of " Sleepy Hollow," on that disastrous night when the ill-starred Ichabod was rejected by the fair Katrina, and also encountered the fearful companionship of Brom Bones in the character of the headless Hessian. The characters in this de lectable drama are mostly known to our readers ; but time, that tells all tales, enables us to add one item more, which is, that the original of the sagacious schoolmaster was not the in dividual generally considered as such, who still resides in this country, but Jesse Martin, a gentleman who bore the birchen sway at the period of which the legend speaks, and who after wards removed further up the Hudson, and is since deceased. The location is a most, delightfully secluded spot, eminently suited to the musings and mastery of mind ; and it is - jibe:4 sign of the proprietor, without changing the-style or-nipeeCtif - the premises, to put them in complete repair, and ocsnpythem,- .. as a place of retirement and repose from the 'Business and bustle of the world.— Westchester Herald. , . •