The Sun. — London, England, 1835-12-04 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. Sir, Francis Bond Head, K.C.H., Lieutenant-Govern( r ?f the Province of Upper Canada, left town at an early !lour yesterday morning, for the Pavilion, at Brighton, to "ve'an audience "of his Majesty, and to take leave, on his "Parture for Canada. Lord Stanley had an interview yesterday with Lord Glenelg, at the Colonial Office. count D'A g li e , th e S ar di n i an Mi n i s t er , and Noun Ef fendi, the Turkish Minister, accompanied by Reschid Bey, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. • The Comm a nd er o f th e F orc es and Mr. Hanhury Tracy h ad interviews yesterday with Viscount Melbourne, in Downing -street. BRIGHTON-THURSDAY. Their Majesties drove out this afternoon on the Shore ham -road. Pr he Princess Augusta, the Duchess of Gloucester, ce George of Cambridge, and most of the Royal Suite, h ave been in public to-day. , e The R oya l di nner party i t hi s evening,' by invitation, will 15 increased by the presence of the Hon. Gen. Phipps, thniral Thompson, and Colonels Bunbury, Rowley, Wyn- Yar d , Walton, Gooch, and Chatterton. Admiral Sir Byam Martin called at the Palace this 111 "'ing on passing through Brighton.. f or The Commander -in-Chief quitted Brighton yesterday L on d 0.. Sir F re d er i c k L am b , a f ter a so j ourn o f severa l wee k s , t ' 3l t his departure yesterday. Sir Charles and Mr. Lamb arrived at the Bedford to-day, and Sir Felix Booth will arrive to-morrow. Lord Frederick Fitzclarence is among our latest arrivals. Tlie Brighton Gazette of this day states that part of t he establishment of the Duke and Duchess of. St. Albans "e arrived at St. Leonards, and that the Duke - and Du qless are hourly expected. S ir W. Fremantle (Treasurer of the Household) and Ca ptain Symonds (Surveyor of the Navy) were honoured with audiences by the King yesterday. In additi on t o th e R o y a l dinner party yesterday even one, which a pp ea rs this day, we have to insert the names oi , t he Earl and Countess of Jersey, the Marquis and M archioness of Ely, and Captain Symonds. Lord d e Li s l e was accompan i e d y es t er d a y by - Sir Andrew B arnard, on his visit to Lord Beresford at Westdean House. a TH E T HEATRE .-M r. P ower h as b een s t ar ring it here ti ling - the week to excellent houses, and we never remember t ° have seen audiences so much inclined to mirth and a pplause as th os e w hi c h have assembled in the theatre this " e ek• With a benefit this evening he closes his engage -11 0 '. Mrs. Fitzwilliam plays here on Monday. Mr. alfe sings at a concert to be given here on Saturday even by one of our local professors. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. A new drama, with music, called The Carmelites ; or, "ze Convent Belles, was produced here last night. The piece opens with the arrival of Beaudeau (Tilbury) at the d ress of Gold, in Tours, invited thither by Captain Bris (Osbaldiston), on the part of his friend Captain Ernest Webster), to whom he had formerly been tutor, that e might intercede with the Count de Courley (Thompson), 111 favour of his union with his daughter Marie (Miss Tur -11n), whom the Count has devoted to take the veil, in part , at onement of some laxity in duty on the part of his brother, t a ' Cardi na l, spo k en o f b u t no t see n. " Perplext in the ex treme" between.the sanctity of his office and affection for 'Lls form er pupil, Beaudeau is at length prevailed upon to ma ke intercession with the Count, who is Governor of Tours, r l d who opportunely arrives there at this juncture ;. but his , Ilt ° l 'eession is unavailing ; and being threatened to be re ported to the " Cardinal," is haunted by the horror of doing pen ance in a white sheet. About this time arrive at the sam e,,, i place two conspirators, in the .guise of monks, on t °in Brissac places a guard, having heard over-sufficient ° excite a suspicion of the honesty of their intentions. The co nspirators relinquish their monkish habits, of which Bris 'te and Ernest avail themselves, and in that disguise visit i`ii,,,.convent which contains Marie and her cousin Louise (Miss Taylor), and they are about to carry them off, when j i le Count de Cowley arrives and frustrates their inten h°4s. An explanation necessarily ensued, when Brissac is ret urn, to have saved the Count from assassination, who, in 11 'n, promises to grant him any favour he may ask. He alm s, cl therefore,-Marie's' hand for his friend, and Louise's tjhim Self, which, after a slight demur, are granted ; and I :us th e pi ece l eg iti ma t e ly terminates to the satisfaction of Parties—the audience included. The various artistes did 4 e Utmost for their respeetive parts. a Ris Majesty has given orders for a new library on b .!Pagnifi ce nt scale to be immediately constructed al Illridso r Castle. Majesty's dinner party on Saturday evening '°nsisted of naval guests, and among the party were some v eterans in the service. Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, in par 4geular, who is upwards of seventy years old, and suffering knelt from gout, was wheeled in his chair to the Royal droner table. :1 ) T he Duke of Montrose is, we learn, dangerously • His Grace is a Knight of the Garter, and Lord Lieu ant of the counties of Dumbarton and Stirling. _ The Duke o f Bu c kingham is, we understand, some irhat -better, but has been seriously indisposed. His Grace $ alsO . a Knight of the Garter, and Lord Lieutenant of Iteks The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord Brougham, Colin Mackenzie, Esq., , Dr. Birkbeck, Miss L. Sheridan, Miss. Jane Porter, N. P. Willis, and P. C. Forbes, Esqrs. , ere ele c t e d mem b ers o f th e Verulam Philosophical Society 0".. Wednesday. Earl O'Neill has accepted the office of '-resident for the ensuing year. it ., II AMBunG, Nov. 28.—Sir E. Disbrow c and fa . „,_ II Y have landed at Cuxhaven from .the Lightning , and - " ri ved here, and are gone to the Hague by land. Past Sir Charles Bagot has been suffering for some days v4st linder severe indisposition. is There is now no reason to doubt that Lord Segrave (-1; 0 succeed the Duke of Beaufort as Lord Lieutenant of G louceste rs hi r e. MEETING OF THE KING'S COUNTY TO AD "S LORD MULGRAVE.—On Monday last, pursuant to 8 • te te quisition bearing the signatures of many of the nobility , 4 Ilt rY, and respectable freeholders of the King's County , meeting of the inhabitants was held in Tullamore, for the .. 4r iiose of addressing his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant , wi ° l3 account of th beneficent and impartial principles ~4 1e lt hav e distinguished his administration of Irish affairs ince b e became Chief Governor of Ireland." The meet ! %vas convened by this requisition, in consequence of n rd Glandine, the High Sheriff of the King's County, l a vie'rb declined, on application to him by letter, to do so ; t _e also refused to grant the use of the Court - house , w her e i n hold t h e i nten d e d- mee ti ng ; upon which it was adver tised,. that it w ou ld t a k e place in Morgan's Buildings, at the re ar of Purcell' s H o t e l. Shortly before the appointed hour, h oweve r it was ascertained, from the number of persons j w_ho had congregat e d, that these buildings would be quite safficient to afford accommodation to all who were de sirous of being present, and an application was accordingly f ade,„, to th e R e v. M r . O'Rafferty for the use of his chapel , rich th e R ev . G en tl eman most readily consented to afford. the evening the county Members, the Hon. Colonel estenra and Nicholas Fitzsimon, Esq., were entertained w a public dinner by nearly 100 gentlemen. John H. alsb, Esq., was chosen to preside. On his right sat Co- Westenra, M.P., Lord Rossmore, and John Sheil, N' s q. ; and on his left Mr. Fitzsimon, M.P., Sir Richard agle M p and James Power, Esq., M.P. Mr. Robe rt C a • ' • ssidy acted as Croupier.—Dublin Register. Died on the 15th ult., at Tralec, Commander F rancis Edward Collingwood, R.N. This Gallant Officer ed as Mid s hipman on board the Victory at the battle of Tr afalgar, and, being stationed on the poop, shot the man bad just inflicted a mortal wound on the heroic ". The circumstances are thus described by Dr. Southey " t Within a quarter of an hour after Nelson was wounded , A ' T hey 50 o f th e Vi c tory's men fell by the enemy's musketry. 4e y, however, on their part were not idle ; and it was ri';:t long before there were only two Frenchmen left alive tri the mizen-top of the Redoubtable. One of them was the t C a who had given the fatal wound ; be did not live to ),oast of what he had done. An old quartermaster had seen 4 .0 fire, an d eas ily recognized him, because he wore a aed cocked hat and a white frock. This quartermaster, " two Midshipmen, Mr. Collingwood and Mr. Pollard, W e re tho on ly persons left on the Victory's poop. The the m Midshipmen kept . firing at the top , and he supp lied with cartridges. One of the Frenchmen , attemp tin g t make his escape down. the .rigging, was shot by Mr. po llard, and fell on the poop ; but the old quartermast er °re ed oat That's he ! that's he," and pointed at the other, ~21 0 coming forward to fire again, received a shot in his Te.uth from Mr. Collingwood, and fell dead. Both the : 1 11 dsilipmen then fired at the same time , and the fellow h 9PPed in the top. When they took possession of the ':lze, they went into the mizen-top , and fo und him dead, with one ball through his head, and anot her throu g h his - 41 ,? a st." Commander Collingwood receive d his first com sslen as Lieutenant, on the 15th of Janu ar y , 1806,.three bi ' ';' n ths after the battle of Trafalgar ; but his second com- I pssio n was not con f erre d upon him until the 15th of i l a nuary, 1828, 22 years after the Lieutenancy , althou g h was constantly employed during the remainder of the " I r, and had been the avenger of Nelson's death. Com pander C o lli ngwoo d was a son of the late Captain F. Col 'l4'"eda,R.. N., and nephew of the late Admiral Sir W. p arke r , %rt., and the late Captain Richbell, R. N., many 3'4l 's A Magistrate at the Thames Police-office. PERS. ,?ceived by bookseller) writings of ndt, can be ling rooms, fission from ved at the lay evening• Legation at ► his post. yes, a peti triet of Re !nding what their trade, ;mat injury', he duty on 'possible for ittened at a transit duty 'or a heavier it duty, and t, on its en so that fat ged in Bel able during he imports' the Chan" 1, numerous r adjourned PERS. Ly has arisen ne since the f thestw-for ster of W ration of the formity into that service luthern pro- Maestricht, , Lille, and tricts of the mi-op-Zoom , w's, Graos, ein, be reckoned Ind sth dis service done in the field, ace in those designation tral Section be payment ebt on the tories from ly Members ow it thinks m the 30th icy to think to-morrow• commence a o'clock, to 9634 AY.) -ley, but very , 'heat trade IS . slack trade st quotations. Flour. 5,240 sack' la was some' FALs. s. 0. to s di d: • 2 4 .= ...2 6 3 •3 4 3 ... 4 0 4 ...30 44 ...4 6 4 ; 10 0 14 Pigs (1 0 to 2 S. o 0 210 o 3 Z 210 3 4 2 4 WEEK• Pease. S. to 32 32 31 g o 04 3 ‘5 32 ta.. .. .... -.. ..... ..w. (1. s. 0 to :23 u O 25 2 O 93 Y. O 29 to 465.1 Pc to 447 to 353. t~ to 3ls. g to `24s. g. to 37A. r i , to 225. ' I. per stone. a. per load• 4 per last. —.----........• s day's Mar' ace of WO . 'wing prices to 44.10 d. 4 1 0 f 11 portion 0 r. d. to :6 ( 1 7 3 6 4 0 , 34• 4 4 k. to 16s. :c. ion of 0. Luantity of A . the day luring the traced to market. f ter noon, ind, Esq" customary mal, sud the road' Lte-keeper animal 00 )ducing a e le Th of the ra n to his leent ca ves found A toes" ligence to th a car' Bills. 55!¢ 102 951' 794 124% Money. 101 1 ,4 98Sti 75yC 1374 100!4 1054 85 N IFG 73 101 COURT OF ALDERMEN. Yesterday a Court of Aldermen was held for the purpose of receiving the official return of David Salomons, Esq., as Alderman of the Ward of Aldgate. It is the practice of the. Court to hear the account of the proceedings of the preceding Court of Common Council read by the Clerk at the Bar. Just as the Clerk was read ing the censure passed by the Court of Co'mmon Council upon Alderman Winchester the Alderman walked in, and, several of the members having joined in a hearty laugh, turned round and said that he felt very grateful to the other Court for such a flattering notice.—(Laughter.) THE VACANT GOWN OF THE WARD OF BRIDGE. Sir C. S. HUNTER announced to the Court that, as lie lid not wish to be the cause of any confusion in the cor poration, and, as he bad looked into the law upon the sub ject, he had determined to accept the gown of the Ward of Bridge, vacant by the resignation of John Ansley, Esq. THE ELECTION OF DAVID SALOAIONS, ESQ., AS ALDERMAN OF ALDGATE WARD. The Clerk of the Court having read the proceedings upon the election of David Salomons,Esq., as Alderman for the Ward of Aidgate, that Gentleman was introduced to the Court in due form by .several of his most prominent sup porters. ISAAC SOLLY, Esq., addressed the Court upon the occa sion, and said that he felt it to be a high honour' and plea sure toqintroduce to the Court, as an Alderman, a gen tleman whom he had proposed as a candidate for an office which he was in every respect so well calculated to fill. Alderman BROWN -said that he had a painful duty to perform as regarded the very excellent person who was just introduced, but still it was a duty, and he must not shrink from performing it. It was known that at the last Court a petition had been presented against the return of Mr. Sa lomons. Now he , (Alderman Brown) at present asked Mr. Salomons whether he had, within a month from that day, made and subscribed the declaration required by the 9th of George IV., cap. 17 ? . Alderman HARMER was quite surprised that such a question should be asked. Upon his admission no question of the kind had been asked, and if it had been asked, he would have answered in the negative. The LORD MAYOR suggested the propriety of hearing the report of the City Solicitor, containing the opinions of Counsel, that officer having been instructed at the last Court to take advice of Counsel touching the election of Mr. Salotnons. Sir P. LAURIE submitted that the election of Alderman Harmer was not at all a ease in point, as there had been no petition against that return. Mr. Salomon's case was a case per se. If Mr. Salomons would sign a declaration at that _moment, he would be to all intents and purposes as much an Alderman as any man in the Court ; but in order to become a member of that Court, he must subscribe upon the faith of a Christian. Mr. SALOMONS threw himself upon the justice of the Court. He had been acting in his capacity es Sheriff, and he believed he had hitherto acted to the satisfaction of his fellow-citizens. He hoped that any question put to him would be put in a definite shape. He was then under pe culiar circumstances. He had been returned as Alderman, and he was ready to take upon himself the office, and to be sworn in according to the terms of the Act of Common Council. The RECORDER. then, in accordance with a resolution of the Court, read the section alluded to, and the form of de claration, and said that it was his duty to put the declara tion before Mr. Salomokis. Mr. SALOMONS said that when he entered that Court be had no idea that the question would take such a turn. He was altogether unprepared to meet it on the sudden. He had no legal adviser to consult, and the Court must see the difficulty of such a position. He repeated, however, that he was ready to be sworn in according to the Act of Com mon Council, and to perform the duties of the office. Alderman BROWN—We must tender the declaration to Mr. Salomons. Mr. SALOMONS declared that in such circumstances it must strike every body that time was necessary for him. He did not refuse to subscribe to the declaration ; but he asked in justness and fairness for an opportunity of consult ing legal friends. The LORD MAYOR said that before Mr. Salomons was asked to sign the declaration, the report of the City Solici tor, comprehending the opinions of Counsel on the ques tions submitted to the Court, should be read. The Town-clerk then read the following report : "In obedience to your order of the ult., whereby I was directed to consult the Attorney and Solicitor-General, the Recorder and Common Sergeant, together with Mr. Ser geant Mereweather, and Sir W. Follett, upon the Act of Parliament of the 9th George IV., cap. 17, requiring a de claration to be made and subscribed by persons on their ad mission to corporate offices, and how far the same may affect the choice recently made of David Salomons, Esq., to be Al derman of the Ward of Aldgate, and to lay their opinions upon the subject before this Court, " I have the honour to certify that I have consulted them accordingly, and I have added hereto a copy of their opinions upon the subject. I have the honour to be, &c. " W. NEWMAN. " We are of opinion that Mr. Salomons must make and sub scribe the declaration prescribed by the Act of .the 9th Geo. IV., cap. 17, within one calendar month next before or on his admission. " We further think that it will be the duty of the Court of Aldermen, upon Mr. Salomons appearing before them, to in quire whether he has signed the declaration within a month, and if he acknowledges he has not, and then refuses to sign it, it will be the duty of the Court of Aldermen to refuse to admit him, and to proceed as upon a void election. (Signed) " CAMPBELL. R. M. ROLFE. CHARLES E. LAW, Recorder. HENRY ALWORTH MEREWEATHER. W. W. FOLLETT. JOHN. MIREHOUSE, Common Sergeant. " Temple, Dec. 2." Alderman BROWN-4 ask Mr. Salomons whether he has signed the declaration ? Mr. SALOMONS—I do not hesitate to say that I have not signed it. Alderman BROWN—I have no wish to press upon a Gentleman for whom we all entertain - the highest possible respect, and whose conduct we all individually admire ; but, constituted as we are as a body, it is incumbent upon us to perform our duty, however disagreeable it may be. I, therefore, move, that the Town Clerk do hand over the de claration to be made and subscribed by Mr. Salomons. Alderman T. WOOD seconded the motion. Alderman HARMER—He has declared that he is totally unprepared with legal advisers, and he asks for an adjourn ment, that he may prepare himself. I move " That Mr. Salomons do attend the next Court upon the question." Alderman VENABLES said he should second that amend ment, if Mr. Salornons wished for the delgy. - Alderman WINCHESTER said the opinion of King's Counsel and other lawyers was, that the Court had a cer tain course from which it could not legally deviate. The original proposition should have his support. If Mr. Sa lomons refused to sign the declaration, the Court was bound to pronounce the election void. Alderman HARMER said that if Mr. Salomons declared that he would not sign the declaration, the Court might proceed to that extremity, but he had made no declaration of the kind. Alderman VENABLES was decidedly for giving the indul dulgence requested by Mr. Salomons. Alderman TrromrsoN observed that the Court ought to be informed whether it could, consistently with law, allow Mr. Salomens longer time for deliberation. If that should be the case, he was willing to grant the request. Alderman T. WOOD declared it to be his opinion that it was necessary to proceed at once. The question was not one of law, but one of expediency. It was not a new question to Mr. Salomons, as was evident from what had been done in order to qualify that gentleman for the office of Sheriff, an Act of Parliament having been passed to accomplish that object. The Court was bound to decide at once, in justice to the inhabitants of the Ward, who were without an Al derman. He felt it to be his duty to urge this, although nothing could give him greater pleasure or confer greater honour upon him than the fact of being associated with a gentleman in every respect so excellent. The LORD MAYOR said that if the law officers were of opinion that time could be granted. to Mr. Salomons for deliberation without prejudice to the Court, lie should be very desirous to come to a decision to that effect., It was most desirable that all religious distinctions should be done away with, and it would be grateful to see them fall to no thing in the person cf Mr. Salomons. Sir PETER LAURIE said lie regretted to bear the word expediency used by a brother Alderman (T. Wood.) The Court was bound by an Act of Parliament. The question was strictly legal. He thought it might be put to Mr. Sa lornons in this way :—Would Mr. Salomons say that he would sign the declaration if time were given to him ? Mr. Salomons was as much a Christian now as he would be a week hence, and if he refused to sign he could not be an Alderman. Alderman VENABLES said that Sir Peter Laurie was out of order. Sir C. HUNTER—His observations are net very discreet, but they are not out of order.-:-(A laugh.) Aldernian LUCAS said it was quite absurd to ask for time if the Court could not give it.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. SALOMONS called on the members of the Court, whose office it was to dispense justice, to dispense it in his instance. He put it to the Court whether,, situated as he then was, without an adviser, while the Court had the ad vantage of the presence of its law officers, it was charitable to press him on a matter of so much importance ? As for the declaration and the opinions which bad been giVen upon the necessity of subscribing it, he had to assure the Court, as a man of honour, that one of the - most eminent of the Counsel who bad signed the document just rod had . dc- THE SUN, LON_DON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4. i8:):5_ clarel that there was a form and mode in which he ( Mr. Salomons) might subscribe that declaration. He would ask the Court whether that circumstance alone WAS not quite sufficient to warrant it in agreeing to an adjournment for a week ? At the conclusion of that period he should be pre. pared to meet the Court, which would be with respect to the question in precisely the same condition it was now in. He had not said whether he could or could not sign the de claration ; and he now asked those he addressed in justice and in mercy to allow him an opportunity of consulting his distinguished legal advisers on a question which might have many legal constructions ? If before the report of the Test Acts a question of this kind had been put to some of the members of that Court would they not hesitate, and require time for consultation, and was it to be denied to him ? He trusted that there was too high a sense of justice in that Court to permit a hasty determination on a question so deeply important. The RECORDER, upon being called upon by the Court for his opinion, whether the Court would be justified in granting time, said that the question as to signing the de claration ought to be answered during the sitting of the Court, unless a satisfactory ground could be shown for a postponement. He did not think that an adjournment would be illegal. The COMMON SERGEANT expressed a similar opinion. Mr. SALOMONS again forcibly appealed to the Court, and begged that the question should be adjourned until Thurs day week. Alderman FAREBROTIIER said that if the delay were re quired, in order that litigation might be resorted to, he could not think of a delay of a moment. He wished to know from Mr. Salomons whether any advantage would be taken of a postponement to put the Court in such a difficulty ? Mr. SALOMONS replied that he had not the moat remote idea of resorting to litigation. Alderman TnomrsoN gave credit to Mr. Salomons for his candour, but he would ask whether Mr. Salomons would, if the adjournment was conceded, present himself on the Thursday, and give his answer whether he would or would not subscribe the declaration? their appointed hours of sailing, in order to prevent the racing which was consequent en competition ; they specified under• what circumstances one vessel might be allowed to pass another ; one of these regulations required bugles to be used at night. This short statement would enable .this meeting to judge of what regulations would - effect. Those for the navigation of the Clyde had been proposed from time to time as the necessity for them was felt, and they were, therefore, better adapted, probably, to effect their object than any off-hand measures which could be propose:l by Parliament. What was proposed was, that they should wait on the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and press on him to provide such regulations as would put a stop to the existing evil. - It was only by the authority of Government - that a measure could be brought forward with .... _ the prospect of reconciling all the conflicting interests. No one could imagine it possible that the owners of steam vessels meeting others, who had long possessed an interest in the River, could agree with them as to what the regula tions should be. But if they went to the Government, the probability was that a Select Committee would be appointed, and the question would be deliberately determined.—(Hear, hear.) This gentleman, in conclusion, moved the first resolution. Mr. W. J. HALL said that the principal question for all persons to ask who were interested in the navigation of the river was, what was the cause of the obstructions? Be cause, whatever regulations they made, unless the obstruc tions were removed, they never would get rid of the serious accidents that so frequently occurred. He had long con; sidered the subject, and was decidedly of opinion that the only course that could .be pursued successfully, to accom plish the object they had in view, was to remove the col liers into some place of public resort.—(Hear, hear.) Some years ago an attempt was made by a Company to obtain a Bill to erect docks for the colliers ; that measure was op posed, particularly by the coal-owners.— (Hear, hear.) Their wish was to send a certain quantity of coal into the port of London, in order thereby the better to regulate the price to their own advantage. He should like to know why the port of London should be the grand receptacle for coals ? Why should that be the great storehouse for that property, any more than Cheapside for any other property ? Five, or six, or seven hundred colliers arrived sometimes in the river in a week ; in addition there were the lighters. When this was considered, and when they bore •in mind, also, how much the - coal trade had increased of late years, that there should be-obstructions and accidents must be expected. In his opinion, it would be better to appoint a Committee to confer on the subject with the various parties interested, and to draw up some resolutions, after which a public meeting should be called to discuss them:—(Hear.) Mr. SMITH said he could suggest a plan by which it was unnecessary to send the colliers into the port of Lon don at all ; and this gentle Man exhibited a diagram, from which it appeared that there is a dock at Deptford capable of containing 200 ships, besides the necessary number of barges. The barges would then not have to go a greater distance than they had at present. A GENTLEMAN, whose name we could not learn, referred to some cases to prove that the accidents had not been the result of the crowded state of the Pool. If they took the ships from' the river, they would have it fill up, and be come unnavigable. Mr. CRUDEN objected to - their discussing details. He, for one, was most ready to give his sanction to the resolu tions. He thought it essential for them to show that steam-vessels were not the nuisances they had been described ; that they were not the only sinners ; that, in short, they were more sinned against than sinning.— (Hear, hear.) As humane men, they' were bound to in terfere ; and as a class of practical men, he thought that their suggestions would probably have great weight at tached to them.—(Hear, hear.) He trusted that before they parted this day they would carry the resolutions, and thus lay the foundation for a future measure. They could not have done better than come forward as they did, and take the front ground. Mr. CRICHTON said, if they appointed a committee, and consulted other interests, they would impair their strength. The committee would go to the Corporation, who had par- - ticular views on the subject of the Thames navigation : the coal-owners wished to remove the steam-packets, and the steam-packets the coal-owners. Mr. HALL said that there were the East India Docks, for East India vessels ; the West India Docks, for the West India vessels ; the London Docks for vessels of another description ; the St. Katherine's Dock, for smaller craft, but large vessels were found there ; and the Timber Docks, for timber. There had been a considerable increase in the coal-trade ; why then should not that trade be removed, and have its dock ?—(Hear, hear.) A GENTLEMAN said, that he believed next year would lay before.the public three distinct proposals for Coal Docks. Another GENTLEMAN said there would be no further ac cidents, if the proprietors of the steam-vessels would adopt the new paddle-wheels, which avoided the back water. It having- been suggested that it would be better not to express in the resolutions a decided opinion to the effect that 300 feet would be required as passage-room, Mr. TICKNER said he was Chairman of the Committee of the Port of London, appointed by the Corporation to in quire into the navigation. A great proportion of the evi dence offered was decidedly in favour of the passage not being less than one hundred yards. Persons, however, came into the Committee subsequently to the investigation who took a rather different view ; and the question was, whether the free passage should be 250 feet or 300. His opinion was decidedly in favour of the 300, which was the distance prescribed by an old law. He attached great im portance to this resolution. A conversation then arose as to that part of the resolution which referred to an improvement being made in the capa city of the boats ; when one Gentleman said that eight peo ple were allowed in a wherry, and only fOur in a skiff, which was a safe boat, while the, wherry was not. In reply, it was said to be impossible to make bead with a heavy boat against a rough tide. A third Gentleman said he had employed a poor man, named Hawkins, - to-make a safe boat, but the Waterman's Company refused to license it. The poor man, though he had been once fined, continued, in defiance of the Water man's Company, to use his safe boat; and he gloried in it. Mr. CRUDEN said, that in the second year of Philip and Mary an Act was passed, allowing a boat to be used of the exact description of the wherry of the present day. That kind of boat must have been in use since the time he had mentioned. He put it to the meeting whether it was not likely that the number of vessels in the Pool was more now than it was then.—( Hear, hear.) All the resolutions having been agreed to, the Committee was appointed, and. it was arranged that they should hold eir first meeting on Tuesday next. Mr. SALOMONS said that he should take care that if the Court granted him time it should not be damaged by the concession. Alderman BROWN—And at that timeiyou will either sign or refuse to sign? Mr. SALOMONS—I cannot say that : but I shall be here exactly as I am to-day. If you are not satisfied with the course I pursue you can proceed to act. Alderman BaowN said that as Mr. Salomons declined the proposition the Court had but one course to pursue. The question was one, not of law but of conscience, to Mr. Salomons ; and that gentleman must be prepared as well at the present moment as after a consultation with the lawyers. Alderman Am - 11 , 1s said that the objection to sign was in effect a refusal, and the Court must proceed. Alderman THOMPSON said that as Mr. Salomons would not pledge himself either to sign or to refuse to sign the declaration, in the event of a postponement, he had no al ternative but to support Alderman Brown's motion. The opinion of Alderman Thompson was generally as sented to in the Court, and it was decided by a show of hands that the declaration should be banded to the newly elected Alderman. The Town Clerk accordingly laid it before Mr. Salomons. Mr. SALOMONS rose and protested in the strongest man ner against the proceeding of the members of the Court, who had he said, kindness and courtesy on their lips, but were influenced by very different feelings. He little ex pected that those who came forward against him with five or six legal opinions would refuse to permit him at such a juncture to avail himself of the advice of those whose opi nions were valuable. The Loan MAvon—l am bound to ask you, Mr. Salo mons, whether you will subscribe the declaration ? Mr. SALOMONS again requested a few days for deli beration. The Town Clerk again offered the declaration to Mr. Salomons. Mr. SALOMONS—I came here to take the oaths of office, according to the Act of Common Council, and I am ready to take upon me the office. The TOWN CLERK—You must subscribe the declaration. Mr. SALoMoNS (turning away)—Mind, I do not object to sign the declaration. - The RECORDER, on being called upon by the Lord Mayor, said that if the declaration was not subscribed, the election must be declared void. Again the declaration was offered in vain. Alderman BROWN—I move that Mr. Salomons having omitted, neglected, and in fact refused to sign the declara tion of the 9th of George IV., cap. 17, the election be de clared void thereby. Alderman T. WOOD seconded the motion. Mr. SALOMONS again appealed to the justice of the Court. The motion was carried by a large majority. Alderman BROWN next moved that the Lord Mayor be requested to issue a precept for a new election in the Ward of Aldgake. This motion was also carried by a large majority. The Court was crowded during the day, and the curiosity excited was intense. DISTRESS OF THE IRISH CLERGY (Concluded from The Sun of yesterday.) The Bishop of LONDON proposed the first resolution " That the continuance and increase of the distress of the Irish Clergy is such as to deserve the best sympathy on the part of all the friends of the Established Church in Ireland, and to require the most active exertions for their immediate and effectual relief." It was not his intention to trouble the meeting at any great length. This meet ing, lie begged to say, had not been called for the purpose of exciting sympathy on behalf of the Irish Clergy, but it was in consequence of the sympathy which their situation bad already produced that the meetirig had been convened. That sympathy had glowed in every bosom that had heard of their distress, for who could witness a body of deserving and well-educated men suffering unmerited misfortune without feeling a sympathy for them ? The feeling was a natural one, for who could see real misery without stretch ing out a hand to rescue the party who suffered it, espe cially when they knew that it arose from no fault of their own ? The public knew - that the Irish Clergy were suffer ing for the cause of truth, and therefore they sympathised with them. He intended to abide strictly by the rule of proceeding which their Most Rev. President had laid down as to the limits of discussion ;' nor would he allow the unhappy state of the political affairs which distracted that country to induce him to infringe that rule. He knew, however, that the hearts of the British public bled for the suffer;ngs of the Irish Clergy, because they saw that the cause o f Protestantism suffered in their persons.— It was not simply a question of whether they ought to sym pathise in'the sufferings and calamities' of a body of men who were - precluded by their profesSion from obtaining an existence in a different pursuit, like the other classes of so cietys-Tthat was not the occasion of the sympathy enters tained for them, but it was becau - se the Protestant public felt the necessity of coming forward, and evincing in this way their firm determination to uphold the Protestant re ligion in these realms. This was the question which they were called upon to decide. The Protestant people of England were bound to do all in their poWer to prevent the Protestant religion " from being starved out of Ire land," for that in truth was the question at issue—that was the intention and policy of those who withheld their just dues from the Irish -Clergy.—(Hear, hear.) He,as sorted that this was the policy of the Roman Catholics of Ireland, and he said so • because such a policy had been avowed, not by 'an unauthorised organ of that party, but through accredited channels—by men' who declared that they would drive Protestantism from its strong-hold. It was, he freely admitted, the stronghold •of truth ; and, so far as the Protestants of England were concerned, they never would allow the zealous, laborious, and Evangelical Minister's of the cause of truth, for so he must call Protes tantism, to be driven out of Ireland by the species of blockade and starvation by which they had been assailed. As Mi;. nisters of the Gospel they would not be discharging_ their duty if they did not make that avowal ; but beyond this observation he would not trench upon the line which their President laid down for the guidance of the meet ing. It was now rather more than two years since that; in consequence of the reports of the sufferings of the Irish eulogium on their Most Reverend and Venerible - Cha r 'Clergy which had reached this country, a meeting was held man, moved a rase of ti.ars to his Graca tl.e Arclabistop for the purpose of devising means of affording theirs relief. of Cant2rbul y. A subscription was then set on foot, under the auspices of The motion was seconded by Mr. Twining,' and can:ed their Most Reverend President, and that subscription with every demonstration of the most profound-respect. amounted to somewhere about 50,0001. The whole sum His Grace returned thanks, and the meeting separated. had been remitted to the Archbishop of Armagh from time to time, as his Grace called for it ; and be was satisfied that the report of the Committee woull prove that it had been judiciously disbursed. The distress or the Irish Clergy, however, had now become more formidable than ever , and although large sums were due to them they had received little or no part of their incomes. He adverted to this be cause it had been said that they had large incomes. It was true that such was nominally the Case, but three years had now elapsed since they had been unable to enforce their rights ; and the consequence was that they were no longer able to perform those works of charity and Chris tian love in which they had previously expended no incon siderable portion of their means. Their whole receipts had been most cruelly swept away from them ; and it was not merely the incumbents but the Curates who suffered by this injustice. Things had come to such a pass that the incumbents would be obliged to dismiss their Curates ; and if they did not do so under present circumstances their forbearance was so much the more praiseworthy. Many of the Clergy had been compelled to _ send their wives and families for maintenance to their friends and relations ; and in one case a Clergyman had been under the necessity of sending his wife and five children to a remote part of the country, being so reduced as to be wholly unable to obtain even as much as would defray his own personal expenses. This, however, could not go on always. In numerous instances they had been forced to take their children from school, and in some they were without the means of purchasing shoes for them. Where the children were able to work they were glad to get employment, even as labourers; and in a great number of cases the Clergyman and his family had no better means of subsistence than that of the lowest of the peasantry. That he was not exaggerating or Over-colouring the picture, a letter which had been received by their Most Rev. Pre sident, and which did honour to the writer, would prove : " My Lord Archbishop--In transmitting to your Grace some account of the present condition of the Clergy in the above-named dioceses I am aware that I can add little variety to the sad features already laid before our sympathising friends; nor can I hope to do more, within my moderate compass, than notice in general terms the state of privation, mental anxiety, and, in many cases, extreme destitution, to which the incum bents, in number from 110 to 120, have long been, and still are, subjected, through the violent and systematic opposition which have been given to the collection of their income. " In addition to these present privations, distress has driven many to cut off the sources of future support by suffering in surances on their lives to drop, through Inability to pay the annual premium. Children of every age have been with drawn from the course of education which was to fit them for their several stations and pursuits in life, and the conviction how frequently an interruption of this kind proves fatal to the fairest prospects has added much bitterness to the cup of the already afflicted parents. • " I myself know two dignitaries nominally possessing ample revenues, but really reduced to the greatest distress. I know two brothers of Noblemen, one of whom has his benefice at this moment under sequestration for debt ; and the other, at an advanced age, has given up one by one almost every comfort of life, and has the sorrow of beholding his children's progress and prospects interrupted. " I know a Rector whose only cow, affording to his large family their chief support, was lately put into the pound by the collector of county rates, and detained there a considerable time, till released by the kindness of a friend, though at the same time that collector owed him more , than the amount of his debt, but as it was for tithes he would not allow him one farthing of it. " I kow another who has recently been sued for a debt due for a high rent by a gentleman who, at the very time, owed him more than three times the amount for tithes, but refused to pay him one shilling. I know another instance precisely similar. Two days ago a gentleman wrote thus to me I beg gratefully to acknowledge the very seasonable and much wanting assistance (i. e., received through his Grace the Pri mate.) l' have been thirty-three years a humble Minister in God's Church, constantly resident - I have been obliged to sell my furniture and stock to pay debts and obtain a tempo rary supply of the necessaries of life, reserving merely that portion required for a bed-room and sitting-room. I have been obliged to permit my wife, who became so alarmed at the state of the country and threatening dangers, that she was losing her health, to leave Ireland. I have found it necessary to send out six or seven of my children, one being too young, as tutors and governesses, thankful to find board and lodging for them. I have been necessitated to take my son's name off the College books, being unable to pay his bills. lam bur thened with debt, and unable to pay my creditors—debts in curred for the necessaries of life, and due before total inability to pay became apparent. When called from home, or to visit or catechise in my parish, I feel it quite necessary for my per sonal safety to carry arms. My glebe house is closed up, as if in a state of siege. At night it is necessary to have bolts, bars, and bullet-proof planks to the windows and doors. Here is discomfort and suffering. I may write, that I have suffered the loss of all things. My life, through the sparing mercy of God, remains ; though that life has been several times threatened, and, previously to our last persecutions, was at tempted to be taken, a bullet having been fired at me on any glebe land. My difficulties have been a good deal increased by great exertions made to prepare my children for active use ful life, educating them so that they might earn their bread and serve their fellow-creatures.' * * 4t SPANISH MERCHANTS IN LONDON. • We have been favoured with a sight of a copy of the unassuming letter, in which the Committee for receiving private subscriptions in testimony of respect to the Queen of Spain, and to the cause with which her name was identi fied, communicate to the President of the Council in Madrid the fact of the subscription and its resuLs. The following is a translation : _ _ " EXCELLENT Sra,—Several Spaniards resident in this city having met for the purpose of making a public manifes tation of their concurrence in the patriotic spirit which now animates every portion of the nation which gave them birth, _ they determined to open a subscription, the product of which should be incorporated with that which is in a course sof being raised generally throughout Spain, in order to con tribute to the equipment of the new levy of troops now organizing in defence of the national representative system , and of the throne of Isabel 11. " In order to its collection, a Cc)nmittco was named,- composed of the undersigned, who have the honour to ad dress your Excellency, and to whom instructions were given to invite all Spaniards resident within the United Kingdom to join in the subscription, and to admit to it all foreigners who should spontaneously desire it. The CoMmittee have now the satisfaction-to transmit to your Excellency the subscription-lists without prejudice to their making those additions to it which occasion may hereafter require, and to place at your disposal the amount of them, which, if it be indeed not large, receives neverthe less some measure of consideration from the circumstances of the number of national subscribers being very limited, the Spaniards who at present reside in this country being few, and the means oZ the generality of them being not corn- , mensurate with their generous disinterestedness Your Ex cellency will see in this list the names of the few Spanish merchants established in this kingdom, and those of the me ritorious patriots who form the remains of an honourable band of emigrants still existing here. As to the list of foreigners, the Committee, having confined themselves within their instructions, gave it no publicity, for which reason there only appear in it a few of the personal friends of the indivi duals composing the Committee, who requested the inser tion of their names. " Such as it is, this subscription entirely fulfils its essen tial purpose, that of manifesting the conformity of political principles, which unites all Spaniards, whatever be the country in which chance may have placed them, and their approbation of the course which, in order to consolidate those principles, has been hitherto pursued by the Govern ment, which, at the present day, happily possesses the con fidence of her Majesty the Queen Regent, and of the Spa nish people. " God preserve your Excellency many years. " PEDRO JUAN DE ZULVETA. " CRISTOBAL DE MURRTETA. _ 7 " ANTONIO DE RAMONY CAREONELL. • " London, Nov. 21, 1835. 6 ' His Excellency the President of the Council of Ministers, &c., Madrid." _ _ The total of the Spanish list is 2,250/. ; that of the Eng- lish list is 880/. ; in the former are, the following names, among others ; A. de Arroyabe. 2001. ; A. F. Gamboa, 100/. ; S. G. Martinez, 2001. ; C. de Murrieta, 300/. ; J. de Murrieta, 10Q/. ; P. de la Quintana, 200/. ; A. do Ramo ney Carbonell, 2001. ; F. de Tastet, 2001. ; P. J. de Zu lueta, 3001. He was sure that the statement contained in this letter would convince them of the nature of the distress under which the Irish Clergy laboured, and all he hoped was that it would . lead Protestants to understand clearly why they preferred the religion handed down to them by the reform ers of their Church to all others.—(Hear.)—He should now read a few 'extracts from a letter received from the Archbishop of Tuam, who expressed, in the warmest terms, the gratitude which he felt for the aid afforded to the suf fering Clergy of Ireland by the London Committee, and stated that -the funds remitted by them had been distribu ted to his entire satisfaction. This letter was dated the 2d of July, 1835. The tithe property of the Clergy," said his Grace, " is in most part withheld from them, and their wants can easily be conceived ; and I cannot but remind your Grace of their great patience and forbearance under their painful privation,. - Where all are great suffertrs, it is not easy to make a selection of cases standing in need of relief ; but I have a clergyman so re duced that his son has been obliged to plant his potatoes— the almost exclusive and invariable food of his family—a fa mily of 11 in number. Another Clergyman informs me that he cannot well describe the sufferings of his family, a wife and 5 children, for the last two years, on account of his tithe pro perty being withheld. He has not had more than 2 quar ters of mutton used in his house during that time, and the only food. for his family has been occasionally bacon, her rings, and - such like. The rain penetrates several parts of his house, and he cannot procure straw to thatch it. His children could not attend church regularly the whole of the winter for want of shoes.' Much more does this gentleman say, but it is needless to trouble your Grace further upon his case. I have many unpaid Curates of .course in great want from total inability in their Rectors to pay them, and many others have received notice from- their employers that they must not look to them for remuneration for the future, for they have neither private nor professional means with which to pay them. I have Clergymen who have insured their lives in order to create provision for their families ; in the payment of the annual premium (except for very extra ordinary efforts of friends) they must have failed. In short, I scarcely know a Clergyman in my four dioceses that - is not reduced to-much distress. No doubt, comparatively, some are less so than others." Their Most Rev. Presi dent had stated that the subscription now to be set on foot would be applied, as the former . contributions had been, solely for the relief of the Irish Clergy who were in dis tress, and in no other way. Of the sum of 50,000/. which was collected on the former occasion, he could assure them not one shilling had been paid foe law expenses ; but he was, at the sane time, one of those who .thought that they ought to enable the Irish Clergy by some such means to enforce their just claims.—(Hear, hear.) It might not, perhaps, be expedient to mix- up the two questions. It was the duty of the Protestant Clergy of this country to hold out the hand of brotherly affection on such an occasion. Lord RADSTOCK briefly seconded the resolution. The resolution was then , carried unanimously. Sir, ROBERT INGLIS proposed the second resolution. The time had come when the law must be vindicated, and - for his' part he never would consent to see the rights of the Church of Ireland, which were undividable with those of the : Church of this country, sacrificed. — (Loud cheers.) . hie could tell the .enemies of the Established Church that they never should succeed in starving Pro testantism. out of Ireland. The attack against the Irish Clergy was directed, to the overthrow of the Protestant reli gion altogether, and he could_ tell the people of England that if any sect of Protestant Dissenters in this country were to gain ascendancy. in Ireland, the hatred which the Roman Catholics had to the Established religion would speedily, be transferred to them.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Roman Catholics hated the people of England, because they had an Established religion—because they were Saxons —and, finally, because they were P r otestants.—(Cheers.) • Colonel CLITHEROE ,seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously, The Rev. H. i.T.ELvILLE moved the third resolution. Dr. NICHOLAS seconded this resolution, which was also carried unanimously. Mr. MACLEAN, M. P., moved the 4th resolution; for ap pointing a Committee' of Management, and it having been seconded by the Bishop of Jamaica, it was carried unani- _ mously. The SECRETARY announced that up to that hour a sum amounting to between 11,0001. and 12,0001. had been re eeived.--(preat cheering.) Mr. justice PARKE, alter pronouuciug a well-deserved STEAM NAVIGATION. Yesterday was held, at the London Tavern, a very re spectable meeting of the owners and agents of steam- ,- - packets and of wharfingers, and other proprietors of pre mises connected with steam-navigation, to consider the bes means of promotinc , the more safe navigation of the river Thames, below Bridge, ' and of obtaining an enactment of such rules and regulations for all steam-vessels, shipping, barges, and boats, as may tend to lessen the risk of acci dents from collision or otherwise. Sir Alexander Crichton was in the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the meeting, said he supposed they knew the object for which they were assembled ; they had no doubt gathered it from the circu lars which had-been published ; it was to put an end to the degree of risk existing at present of accidents occurring on the river in consequence of the great increase that had taken place in the navigation. He was sure that the gen tlemen present would be disposed to give all the assistance they could towards the attainment of such an object. He was ready now to hear what resolutions there were to be proposed, and any observations which those resolutions might suggest. Before the regular business was commenced, however, he read a letter addressed to the meeting by a Mr. James Wright, ordnance storekeeper, Waltham Abbey. This gentleman recommended a means by which accidents might be avoided—that each vessel should be furnished with a horn or trumpet, and that when it was dark this in strument should be sounded at short intervals. A code of signals might be determined upon this principle—for ex ample, one blast might mean, " starboard the helm," and two blasts, " port the helm." The writer sent a horn with the letter ;it was of the common tin kind. He said that by making a mouthpiece to it, it might answer also the pur pose of a speaking-trumpet. Mr. G. CRICHTON said that some explanation was per haps expected of the circumstance of the meeting having been called anonymously. In consequence of the accidents that had happened of late, such a degree of alarm had been excited as required that notice should be taken of the mat ter promptly. There was some difficulty, under the pecu liar circumstances, in getting people to come forward. It was thought, however, the matter was of such importance, that the names of individuals of great weight and influence were not necessary to insure it the consideration which it demanded. He was one of the parties who took this view ; and having stated that he was connected with the Leith Company, he perhaps had said what would relieve the meeting from any discredit that might attach to it in conse quence of its having been anonymously called. It might appear extraordinary that Scotchmen were the principal promoters of the meeting ; but the fact was, it was known to them that regulations were in force on some of the rivers in Scotland, which prevented accidents occurring there as they did here. If regulations were necessary on such a river as the Clyde, surely they were called for in a tenfold degree on such a river as the Thames, as well on account of the im mense number of vessels as the power of the tide. This would be a sufficient apology for gentlemen from a distance taking the lead. It was evident that things could not go on in their present state.(Hear, hear.) The frequent acci dents that had occurred within the last few weeks must create melancholy feelings in all engaged in the trade, and there was no doubt but they had made a great impression on the public mind. If, under these circumstances, other par ties were allowed to come forwa . rd and make regulations for them, it was not likely that such individuals would be very scrupulous in attending to the interests of the parties here present. If, on the other hand, themselves went to the Government, and stated that they thought regulations might be advantageously enforced, other parties would then have to state their case, and would be expected also to be prepared to make concessions. That regulations might be adopted that would materially reduce the risk of accidents, he would undertake to say ; but that accidents could be wholly prevented in so great a thoroughfare, was out of the q uestion.—(Hear, bear.) They occurred: occasionally in the open sea, and they were sometimes attributable even to the anxiety which existed to avoid them.—( Hear, hear.) In the river Clyde there were as many steam-boats as in the Thames, and the whole breadth of the Clyde was not equal to that of the inner channel of the Thames used by small boat. He held in his hand a copy of the regulations in question ; they had been drawn up by the Parliament ary trustees of the Clyde. They applied to boats and vessels of all descriptions, particularly to steam-boats and ferry boats ; they required steam-boats to be manned in a cer tain way s to have experienced seamen on board, and a proper number ; they obliged the vessels to adhere to COMMERCE OF FRANCE. The Temps gives the following comparative statement of the commerce of France and England, fiorn tables published by the Minister of Commerce :—" The conclusions which may be drawn from these tables, without exaggerating facts, are important, and cannot be too closely studied. It might be believed that the commercial relations of France with England are on a most extensive scale. Separated from each other by a channel only seven leagues wide, which may be crossed in two or three hours, and both countries being in the highest state of civilisation, the exchanges between them ought to be incessant. This, however, is not the case, and England stands the fourth in the rank of nations that trade with France.* The importations from Sardinia into France, in 1834, amounted to 93,899,838 f., and the exports to Sardinia to 36,175,213 f. ; while in the same year the importations from England came to 27,095,066 f., and the exports to 62,431,586 f. The general imports of France, in 1834, were 720,194,336 f., and her exports 714,705,038 f. These sums are considerably above those of the years 1830, 1831, and 1832, and the dif ference between the amounts of 1834 -and 1830 is in favour of the first to ano less extent than 140,000,000 f. But the amount of 1833 exceeded that of 1834 by as much as 52,000,000 f. \V regret that we have not materials for giving a comparisan between the general commerce of France and other nations, but we are enabled to give some particulars of that of France and of England. In Fiance the general commerce of 1834 was as above stated— in England, the general imports were to the amount of 1,016,229,800 f., and the exports to 1,016,004,800 f. The following is a comparative table of the principal ar 7 ticles of exportation in France and England, in 1834 :-- France. . England. Cotton goods and yarn 76,340,000 f 512,814,600 f Flax and hmm cloth and twist 27,786,177 64,491,400 Refined Sugar 3,277,580 22,909,800 Manufactured silks 137,000,000 159,299,700 • ...._ __ Woollen yarn and stuffs 40,830,000 149,385,300 The importations of the two countries, during the same period, present the same difference. The principal articles in England are raw wool and cotton, wines and leather, and in France the same articles except wines. The following table shows the comparative importance of the export trade of France and England, with other pi incipal nations in the indigenous productions of each : France. England. Russia 6,910,547f 34,557,500 r Sweden , Norway Sardinian Statco 36,175,213 Denmark 1,765,173 2 ; 364,620 Prussia Switzerland . . 29,835,960 _ Portugal - - 3,476,594 42,546,330 Austria Germany Belgium ? 5,640,325 18,251,500 Holland Spain The United States.. ...... Brazil British India and New } 4,392,508 82,364,000 South Wales As a last point of comparison, we find that France exported to England of her own natural produce to the amount of 62,431,586 E, and that in the same year the exports of Eng-, lish prodtice to France were no more than 27,922,1201, T We have taken the last sum from English official,doeu ments. That of the table of the Minister of' Commerce differs from it by nearly a million, as may be seen above. However, the limited extent of these importations frptp England must not be complained of, for in 1827 they did nut amount to one-fourth of tb.oso of 1834." • The Temps does not tUto the cause of this limited cont- mercial intercourse b - etweecitwo nations, which. natural posi tion, and the social interests of each, seem to have intended for the, closest intimacy, mercantile and political. it is the unwise and impolitic restrictions imposed upon the importation of English produce by the French Government, in the shape of excessive duties, amounting in many instances to a prohibi lion. Did the narrow spirit of monopoly, to which, we believe, a Minister so enlightened as M. Duchai.el must reluctantly - submit, permit the removal. of these shackles upon the com mercial prosperity of the country, the imports and exports be tween France and England would assume an importance equally beneficial to both nationsr—Eu.. MESSENGER. The Cheltenham Journal, a Tory paper, avers that in many places, as Poole, Southampton, and Weymouth, the Conservatives are able to far outnumber the Whigs and Radicals in the several Town Councils. • • - • Steps, it is said, are about to be taken to compel the Benchcrs of the several Inns of Court to account ar - i nually to tile Barristers and Students, for the diSposalethe• large revenues which come to their hands. A young Haan, named Bitche, only twenty years • age, was tried last week before the Court of .Assizes for the Meurthe, and condemned to death for havinr , kiilcil two soldiers. When arrested, the culprit entreated the • darrnes to grant him only half an hour's liberty,,in order that he n.irlit kill a third. THE JERSEY TRAGEDY.—PubIic excitement . in this affair does not appear at ail abated. On Monday Sir.. John De •Veulle, Bailli, and Judges De St. Croix and Nicolle having taken their places on the Bench, prayers were read by the Greiner, and the prisoner was placed at the bar. Marin's countenance was de]ected, but he be trayed.no emotion whatever during the examination of evi dence, and he occasionally conferred with his counsel . in a cool and collected manner. As usual, he kept - 111SJ)ack sedulously turned towards the gallery, either sitting down or leaning on the bar, and _he displayed no longer the - yellow silk handkerchief, which appears to have become a pro minent object of public curiosity. After a protracted examination of witnesses, the Court made an act of their proceedings, remanded the prisoner to jail, and atitherised the Attorney-General to prosecute. The boisterous state of tile weather has delayed the Government paeketsgina their three last trips, for a day' beyond the general time4fxsb their arrival ; and, in consequence of which, the mail_; - haV6'• Jn not been able to leave Jersey so soon as under ty ordi b mi — ' °: • .ilag bus circumstances. . c ,66 .roa or !Jul 101% SA X 1 7)