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The two first volumes of this work have been published an d we have pleasure in stating that a handsomer edition °f Cowper's life and poems has never yet appeared. The illUstrations are really beautiful—worthy of the artist, /'loden. The subject of these volumes is the biography of the Poet, chiefly drawn from his letters, some of which have never before been published. We believe it is generally ft irnitted t h at among religious people, Cowper's Letters are the most popular in the language ; nor is it possible to Peruse them without being imbued with increased venera tion for a faith which could render a human being so amia ble in every relation of life. The occasional gloom which overshadowed the mind of Cowper is not reflected in his lett ers. Their general tone is cheerfulness, and a full and Perfect re li ance on the mercy and goodness of God. Ita bag be en stated very frequently that Cowper ' s gloom :se out of religious doubts and fears. This is wholly 4: rt , e• The p oe t' s g l oom i ness or i g i nate d i n causes en mrei f y PnYsical. His organiza t ion was d e f ec ti ve , an d h ence "° n il habi tua l gravity of character was added, the constant rec urrence Aol of imp ress i ons d rawn f rom acu t e b o dil y su ff er i ng. °n g his friends he was one of the most amiable tis k h uman bei ngs . Hi s b enevo l ence was unbounded, and of social ch eer f u l ness the emanat i on o f a heart incapable wr ong• He was , i n d ee d, a man i n w h om th ere was no ~,,, °""e• It is, therefore, with the sincerest pleasure that we a n n o pe , unce aperfect edition of the whole works of this ex ,,1 —h, 1541 r3* Christian poet. The edit o r i s de c idedly one of the j il ° , Bt competent p ersons t h at cou ld b e selected'; w h et h er we g 'l e from his religious character, his high literary reputa won Zion the excellent manner in which he has prepared the nn les now before us. That the sale of this w or k exceed that of any mclern publication, we can have no doubt. The poet is one of the most popular the language, an d th e cos t i s comparat i ve l y no thi ng , if ; e a take into consideration the elegant way in which the m, ,„ is got u p. Th e ensu i ng vo l umes w ill b e pu bli s h e d 0 0 ,1 " 41 Y, so as to be ready for delivery with the maga ti g la a w or d, t hi s e di t i on o f C owper ' s wor k s oug ht t o 1 ' 7, 11t1e54 ) 4 way into ev er y d raw ing -ro o m and e ve r y co tt age th e United Kingdom. 7'1144 S of the BORDERS.—Parts 1., 11., 111., IV. J. M. WasoN. Tweedmouth, 1835. T hese tales are an embodying of many of the historical, tzltio nal, and i mag i na ti ve anec d o t es th a t s till li nger ki the rec esses o f t h e B or d er count i es o f t h e N ort h, b are J be en co ll ecte d an d arrange d i n su i ta b le f orm b y ( 1.„, 011 0 Mackay Wilson, with whom the task has evi ‘47l): been a l a b our o f l ove. Th e sty l e i s roug h , b o ld , t ll g ° r ( als, as best accords with the subject, without the il.atest attempt at ornament. Some of the tales we have tqlul recollection of having met with in the Berwick Ad v,Ziler, but the majority are original ; and even those Ad v); are not so, will bear republication. 77 i -E MUSICAL LIBRARY, PAM' XIIL W o h With Supplement.—C. Knight. th e h ave so frequently recommended this publication to farol). at rons of mus i ca l t as t e , an d more es p ec i a lly to mus i ca l h , fil es of li m i te d i ncome, that we cons i der further com ,emat' t on ,on as q u it e unnecessary . Th e par t j us t p u bli s h e d L 7 113 Hand e l' s ce l e b rate d c h oruses " W or th y o f th e s ev ah :'," and the " Amen " from " The Messiah," with In ' 4 ' 4l other admired pieces from the most celebrated ti 4s n t e,". The genera l c h arac t er o f th e mus i c o f th e " nt ° l 7 Part for April is plaintiveness. jT I 7 , 7 : 11 E WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPE, 4 -2fam ont AND NOTES, By THE REV. G. CSOLY, LL.D. W Valpy, 1835. e have received the first volume of Valpy's new and N tl Zt edition of Pope's works, illustrated with two en -11 I D by Warren, from designs by Wetherington ; and k a ttn , c laerne portrait of the poet himself, executed in Free 0411:best manner . Th e l e ft h an d, th e f ore h ea d, an d th e of ' are carefully finished ; and the general expression tr e , e face is that of great intelligence, combined with ex tair worldlin ess . Th e l earne d e dit or h as enr i c hed this ex v ia a With an a b un d ance o f i ngen i ous notes , cr i t i ca l an d e 7 l , at arY• A memoir of Pope offers no scope for the to, of more tha n a sound judgment and a proper de p r eciation o f poet i c f ee li ng ; an d we l eave th e pu bli c t o qtlritliae wheth er or not D r . C ro l y h as b roug ht th ese re te iait„ t vi to the execution of his task as a biographer. Our :irleiPinion is the most favourable. k ot . e work is intended to range with the latest editions of B Yron, Burns, and Crabbe. 408COE'S WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH WALES. Part I. C. Tilt, London, 1835. lle . a t t he idea of this work is a good one ; and, from the pre eat. teeimen, we augur that it will be worthily worked p erha here i s no country i n Europe—with the exception, no bap of Spain —that can furnish the antiquarian, the eisevust, and the artist, with richer materials for the exer :f their t a l en t s t h an W a l es . I n pi c turesque beauty it th e massed only by S w it zer l an d, and in traditional lore It% bor der counties are peculiarly fertile. Innumerable tray be legend s th at may b e p i c k e d up b y th e i nq uisitive t:er--some of a humorous, others of a wild, stern, th e r e chara c t er — respect i ng Ll ewe ll yn , Gl en d owe r, and Aob.aracus outlaw Twm Sion Catti, the rival of England's 4 i n Hood and Scotland's Rob Roy. Mr. Roscoe, VV ‘i tr Ust, will no t con fi ne hi s W an de r ings to North N A el . but cross the Cardigan boundary, and e b , e I lia way among the secluded recesses of the — "althenshi re Black Mountains, where he will be sure, ti i , ver Y step, to find abundant subjects for the pencil and p f3e ,.P e n . --old, ruined castles " covered", to use Burke's ( 14 7 expression, "with the awful hoar of innumerable 'sylv an l an d scapes, qu i et , c h eer f u l, an d p i c t uresque ever d ept Claude p a i n t e d— savage g l ens , f rom w hose profound l s, and walls of frowning perpendicular crags, Salvator es pB Would have drawn inspiration—and green, sunny p, ro e s , such as t h at w hi c h c l ot h es t h e c h eer f u l summ it o f th,engar Hill. The illustrations of the part before us, are e in number. The first is a view of the Vale of 11 4go llen ; the second, of Caunant Mawr, near Dol 0r,1.41 and th e thi r d, a s k e t c h o f th e D ea th o f Llewellyn. 1 3t ``'elle the first is the best, though were we disposed to y e ver-criti ca l , we m i g h t o bj ect, per h aps , to t h e ar tifi c i a l Il i , e o f the trees that crown the stately terrace of Wynn- Te literary explanations are penned in an easy, un "ling—" h style. to o , NER'S CABINET CYCLOPCEDIA. No. 65. Th Longman. London. 183:.. O l s Number forms the first volume of a history of Ire tt f rom the pen o f Mr. Thomas Moore. It is carefully tb en ; shows more research into dry, recondite chronicles : 4 We should have expected from the author ; and in ti e erY s Page exhibits an imposing parade of learned authori vA We congratulate Mr. Moore on his having so com lehrid himself of that highly ornamented language be used so profusely in his " Memoirs of Sheridan." hi, I N can be more simple and familiar than the style of (it p r esent history. We can scarcely, however, say, that it h as a ff or d e d us muc h enterta i nment or i ns t ruc ti on , t u i r t !t treats only of Ireland in its primitive state of bar ssin, and nothing can well be more useless or uninviting t fgn the half historical, half fabulous traditions of a king :lll in such a condition. It is not till a people have made : e advanc es i n c i v ili za ti on th a t th e i r hi s t o ry becomes of , i t 1 ?* Till th en , th oug h it m ay serve to " adorn a tale,' ic e never point a moral." We care nothing for the e traditions of savages, whether in the old world or the eW • They are a ll equa lly wor thless, exhibiting but so tn l a nY disti nct i ons w i thout a diff erence. M r . M oore ' s ta kes, as an h is t or i an cannot b e f a i r l y t es t e d by thi s vo lume. nits not yet got character to deal with—motives to ' -- or actio ns t o s p ecu l a t e on . He is here simply a Pai n s-taking, elaborate chronicler of events, half fabulous, l ‘ is gi eh have nothing but mystery to give them piquancy. He 16 1411 . ing abroad on a sea, apparently without shore or t , f - I , it, with neither rudder nor compass, in a leaky vessel, .1' 44 he can with difficulty keep afloat. When he comes to the tirzcs of Henry the Second of England, about ‘ ‘ lle li Period Iri s h hi s L ery b eg i ns t o ass ume something like L ori. at:l substance, and chili...l:7f or, we eball then be better 41 5 discu s - 1 his qualificdtions for tlle new task he has 41I te pose n .' on l a c nise ; i t'. We glean from . his presc - of introduc- IY volu le little moreenthusiast all introduc e th a n that lie is an Iris' iis full of fait.t.:' her antiquity as a great .. _ ~.n-~ nation ; and vehemently wroth with M'Pherson for having assigned a Scottish origin—in his spurious poems of Ossian— to certain well-known Milesian songs and legends. The volume forms the sixty-fifth number of Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopcedia, and is embellished with an engraving, by Finden, from a spirited design, by Corbould. TALES OF THE WARS OF MONTROSE. IN 3 VOLS. BY JAMES HOGG, Esq. London : Cochrane and Co. The Wars of Montrose ! What surprising scenes of deadly feud, religious rancour, blind bigotry, stoical firm ness, and indomitable resolution, rise before the mind's eye as we pause after reading these four little words ! It reali zes in us all the fabled effects of a magical incantation. In a moment we find ourselves in the midst of some wild glen, surrounded by a body of brave Cameronians resting on their matchlocks in the act of listening to the sublime outpourings of some " God-fearing" apostle of a per secuted faith, whilst in the distance is seen, rapidly ad vancing, a band of well mounted troopers, headed by the bloody Claverhouse. And yet in the midst of these scenes of awe and terror, the Shepherd has exorcised visions of beauty, gentleness, and love. It is true that his work is not faultless, but the faults are so pecu liarly the author's that we question if the public would think so highly of it, were it totally divested of them. The occasional coarseness that occurs never belongs to the sen timent ; the idea is most correct, but the mode of expressing it is sometimes not well chosen. There are several tales in these volumes, and all have the merit of being very inte resting. That the work will be popular we can have no doubt, although we cannot say that we regard it as quite equal to some of the Shepherd's earlier productions. It ought to be remembered, however, that he had to contend with great disadvantages in writing the pre sent series of Tales. Sir Walter Scott was before him in the field, and but little remained to be known of the habits of the Scottish people, during the reigns of Charles the Second and his immediate predecessors on the Throne of England. The following extract from the Life of an Edinburgh Baillie, details a Highland mode of feasting a Lord very different from any which appears in the Waverley Novels. The personages entertained are the great Marquis of Huntley, his family and retainers. The feast is given at the Castle of ono. of the Marquis' friends, who receives him, a guest, on his return to the Highlands, after suffering a long imprisonment in the Tolbooth of Edinburgh, for professing the Catholic religion : "To return to the dinner. The two officers with white sticks havireg returned back to our host, he inquired at them if all was ready, and then a chaplain arose, and said a homily in Latin. Still nothing was presented save a few platters set before the nobility, and David Peterkin being placed within my view, I looked at him, and never beheld a face of such hungry and ghastly astonishment. Presently, two strong men, with broad blue bonnets on their heads, come in, bearing an immense roasted side of an ox on a wooden server, like a bar ter's board, and this they placed across the table at the head. Then there was such slashing and cutting and jingling of gul lies, helping this and the other. " From the moment the side of beef made its appearance, David Peterkin's tongue began to wag. I looked to him again, and his countenance was changed from a cadaverous white into a healthy yellow, and he was speaking first to the one side and then the other, and following every observation of his own with a hearty laugh. The two men and the broad bonnets kept always heaving the board downward until it came by the broad part of the table, and then there were no more wooden plates or knives. At first I thought our board was sanded over, as I had seen the floors in Edinburgh, which I thought would be very inconvenient, but on observing again, I found that it was strewed thickly over with c o arse salt. Then a carver-general supplied every man with his piece, with a dispatch that was almost inconceivable, and he always looked at every one before he cut off his -morsel. When he eyed Peterkin, he cut him a half-kidney, fat and all, with a joint of the back. How I saw him kneading it on the salted board ! After the carver and beef, came one with a bent knife two feet in length, and cut every man's piece across, dividing it into four, -then leaving him to make the best of it he could. A board of wedders, cut into quarters, was the next service, and the third course was one of venison and fowls, but that passed not by the broad table. After the first service, strong drink was handed round in large wooden dishes with two handles, and every man was allowed as much as he could take at a draught, but not to , renew it ; the same the next service, and thus ended our dinner. The party was uncommonly facetious, owing, I was sure, to the Marquis's good humour, which never for an instant forsook him, and convinced me that he had often been in similar situations. I enjoyed it exceedingly ; but every thing came on me by surprise, and the last was the most dis agreeable of all. No sooner had we taken our last sup above mentioned, than the two imperious constables with the long white staves came and turned us out with as little ceremony as they set us down, hitting such as were unmindful of their warn ing a yerk with their sticks. They actually drove us out be fore them like a herd of highland cattle ; and then the nobility and gentry closed around the broad table for an evenings' enjoyment." THE .RESOURCES AND STATISTICS OF NATIONS. PART IV. Bailey and Co., Cornhill. The present Number of this work contains two ca pital articles on the Laws and Constitutions of France and the United States of America ; explaining, in the simplest form, the whole machinery of the Legislative and Executive branches of the two Governments. This work is extremely useful, comparatively cheap in price, and highly deserving of becoming popular. BOSWELL'S LIFE OF JOHNSON.—VoI. IL J. Murray, London. 1835. The present volume commences with the publication of Johnson's Dictionary, and carries down his biography to the period of his introduction to the family of the Thrales, to whose unwearied friendship, continued for many years, and broken only by the marriage of Mrs. Thrale to Piozzi, the Italian dancing -master, the great lexicographer owed some of the happiest moments of his life. The volume is embellished with two admirable engravings—one of Pem broke College, of which Johnson was a student ; and the other, of Lichfield Cathedral, in which city he was born. Both engravings are by Finden, and as clever as any in Crabbe or Byron. CRITICAL, and PRONOUNCING DICTIONARY. PARTS 3, 4. This useful and elaborate production is by James Knowles, Esq., the father, as he himself states with honest pride on his title-page, of the author of " Virginius." It needs no such recommendation, for it is a careful, well digested compilation, the result ofvears of incessant labour. It is dedicated, we perceive, by permission, to the King. PROVINCIAL SKETCHES. BY THE AUTHOR OF THE USURER'S DAUGITZR, Churton, Holles-street, 1835. This is a light, pleasant, and amusing volume. The satire is abundant and obvious, but, at the same time, so harmless, that none will laugh More heartily at it than its especial objects. The sketch on country newspapers is inimitable ; and those on itinerant lec turers, artists, and amateur concerts are scarcely infe rior to it. The author possesses an inexhaustible fund of humour, with great powers of observation. He has opened a mine which may be worked to great advantage. THE SKETCH BOOK OF THE SOUTH. Churton, Holies Street, 1885. The contents of this volume are expressed in the title page. It is a sketch book, but not of the Geoffrey Crayon School. The scenes are principally laid in Italy, but the object of the work is rather to throw a light upon certain traditionary legends connected with the decayed convents, churches, and such relics of past ages, than to dwell upon either the actual appearance of the country, or the passions of the people. The descriptions are vivid and eloquent, although not suf ficiently brought home to the bosoms of ordinary readers. The hole and corner address to his Majesty in favour of his Majesty's Ministers, said to have been signed in Lewes and its vicinity, was presented at the last levee by the rejected anti-reforming Member, Sir John Shelley, Bart., father of Mr. Adolphus Shelley, who so lately declared that he was sure " the army would shoot every radical." This ad dress may have come from Lewes; but as it was not publicly exhibited, and as no one that we can learn ever saw it, we arc rather inclined to doubt the fact.—Brighton Guardian. A subscription was raised among the inhabitants of Llanfyllin and its neighbourhood, on the occasion of the marriage of Mr. Hugh Bibby, of Llanfyllin, surgeon, and Miss Margaret Broughton. A fine ox and sheep were pur chased with the subscription, and the beef and mutton, as well as a considerable quantity of bread, were distributed in Llanfyllin on Friday last, among the poor of the town and parish, this being considered by the subscribers a reasonable and beneficial mode of showing their respect to the worthy coople.—Courier of Wales. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1835. FINE ARTS. FINDEN'S BYRON BEAUTIES. PART Y. C. Tilt. London. 1835. For grace and sweetness of expression, we know not when we have seen a more charming countenance, than the artist has here given to " Inez, the Girl of Cadiz," to whom, it may be remembered, Lord Byron addressed some impas sioned stanzas in the first Canto of his " Childe Harold." The symmetry of the head, and white, swan-like neck is perfect, and there is a voluptuousness in the languid, full, black eye that it is perilous for any one but a critic to look on. Of course the picture is ideal, for in our colder climate, whatever may be the case in Spain, it is but seldom that a painter can find such a face to draw from. The engraver has executed his portion of the task in a style worthy of the subject. He seems, like Sir Roger Gresley, to have been " inspired" by it. The small mouth and rounded chin are handled with extreme delicacy of touch, and the black lace veil which flows down either side the neck, has a transpa rency about it that none but a graver " cunning in his art" could give. The remaining ideal likenesses afford no sub ject for comment, if we except that of Gulnare—the heroine of the " Corsair"—rhose countenance, though beaming with expression, is not much to our taste. We dislike ferocious beauties. FINDEN'S LANDSCAPE ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BIBLE. J. MURRAY. London. 1835. The present number consists of four Engravings, of which the " Ruins of Tyre" is the only one that presents any claims to attention. The warm, sultry atmosphere of Africa is well delineated in this sketch, which represents a vast plain, bounded on the east by a low range of hills, and in the centre of which, right in the foreground, stand the massive fragments of what once constituted a mighty com mercial city. A few Arabs stretched lazily among the fal len columns, with a camel or two grazing in the distance, just suffice to break the still life of the picture, without di vesting it of its forlorn and melancholy character. FISHER'S LAKE SCENERY.-PART XIX. The views in this Part are four in number, of which the two best are those of Rydal Hall from Fox How, and Grassmere from Loughrigg Fell. The former is a rich, cheerful landscape, full of all those picturesque effects, which wood and water, hill and lake, rock and mountain, when harmoniously massed together, are ever sure to pro duce. The sight of the poet Wordsworth's cottage, which stands on the sunny slope of a hill in the foreground, greatly heightens the interest of the scene. MEMORIALS OF OXFORD. PARTS 28, 29. Parker. Oxford. 1835. As this work is expressly superintended by Dr. Ingram, President of Trinity College, with whom it is, no doubt, a con amore task, we take for granted that it answers the purposes of all parties interested in it. At any rate, it deserves to meet with success, for the engravings, though not first rate, are yet carefully executed, and the literary explanations display much antiquarian research. We fear, however, it is growing rather too voluminous for so necessa rily restricted a subject, and that the purchasers, by the time the thirtieth part makes its appearance, will be apt to exclaim with Childe Harold, " something too much of this.' HIS MAJESTY'S LEVEE. The King held a Levee yesterday afternoon at St. James's. Earl Amherst was presented to his Majesty by the Earl of Aber leen on his appointment as his Majesty's High Commissioner in the province of Lower Canada. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, G. C. 8., was presented to the King by the Duke of Wellington, upon being appointed his Majesty's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to con gratulate the Emperor of Austria, and to take leave. The Levee was attended by the Austrian, Russian, and French Ambassadors ; the Neapolitan, Prussian, Wurtemberg, Nether lands, Danish, Spanish, and Saxon Ministers ; the Prince de Leich tenstein ; M. de Flad, the Bavarian (Special) Minister ; M. Lich tenberg, Privy Councillor of the Hanoverian Legation ,• M. de Bourqueney, First Secretary to the French Embassy ; the Secre tary to the Spanish Legation ; the Lord Chancellor, Sir Robert Peel, the Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Wharn cliffe, Mr. Secretary Goulburn, Earl de Grey, Lord Ellenborough, the Earl of Aberdeen, Sir E. Knatchbull, Sir H. Hardinge, the Right Hon. C. Wynn, the Right Hon. J. Herries, the Right Hon. A. Baring, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Horse, Lord Hill, old Stick in Waiting; the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Vice-Cham berlain, the Treasurer of the Household, the Comptroller of the Household, the Master of the Robes, the Master of the Ceremonies, Sir Wathen Waller, extra Groom in Waiting ; Marquis of Tho mond, Lord Saltoun, Colonel Sir C. Thornton, Colonel Sir R. Gardiner, Colonel Sir A. Dalrymple, Colonel Smelt, C. 8., Colonel Arnold, Royal Engineers, and Colonel Gibbs, Aides-de-C amp to the King ; Sir A. Barnard, G. C 8., Principal Equerry ; Colonel Horace Seymour Equerry in Waiting ; the Captain and Sir Samuel Spry, the Lieutenant, of the Honourable Corps of. Gentlemen at Arms ; Lieut.-Colonel Reid, 24 Life Guards, Silver Stick in Wait ing ; Master Graves, Page of Honour ; Lieut. -Colonel Sir F. Smith, Gentleman Usher in Waiting. Lord Ernest Bruce and Sir Robert Otway were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. Amongst the general company were— Duke of Richmond. MA ISEs—Graham, Wellesley. EARLS—Hillsborough, Sandwich, Shaftesbury, Amherst, Mayo. \risco UNT S—Cole, Sydney, Melville. LORDS—Ernest Bruce, M.P., Gardner, Francis Egerton, Prud hoe, William Graham, Colville, Granville Somerset, Bingham, Heytesbury. Bishop of Bangor. _ _ Ittoni• HONOURABLES—Sir Gore Ouseley, Sir Charles Bagot, Lord Provost of Edinburgh. HONOURABLES-Chat : ies E. Law, Win. A'Court Holmes, T. Dundas. SlRS—Wathen Waller, Richard Plasket, Minto Farquhar, T. Cochrane, G. Murray, John Walsh, Hedworth Williamson, M.P., George Talbot, Bart. Dean of Chichester. REV. MESSIEURS—P. Stanhope Dodd, E. Lewis, J. Morgan. MESSIEURS—BarIow Hoy, W. H. C. Plowden Kemp, M.P., F. Elliot Brande, J. Wilson, R. H. Appleyard, J. C. Wood, W. H. Stone, Gore, Dottin, Wyndham, M.P., Tubbs, W. F. White, F. W. Mullins, M.P., Bradshaw, Lowther, M.P., Hopkins. ADMIRALS—Sir D. Gould, Sir R. Stopford, Lord Colville, Sir T. Rodd. CAPTAINS (R.N. )—Ryder Burton, Richard F. Rowley, Wal degrave, Sir Henry Leeke, Bowles, Rous, Skipsey, Sir A. Far quhar, Frankland, Thomas Dickson. Commander Sir Thomas Thompson. Lieut. Thomas Leigh. GENERALS—Sir Charles Colville, Sir George Elder, Sir Chas. Doyle, Sir Loftus Otway, Sir Wm. M'Bean, White, Clitheroe, Cumming, Gascoigne. Col.oNELs—Reeves, Bowles, Chaplin, M.P., R. Wallace, Cald well, Hay, Birch, O'Donnell, Barnard, Broughton, Harris, Booth. MAJORS—Luard, Vivian, Mercer, Falls. CAPTAlNS—Mansfield, W. Egerton,.. Craven Berkeley. LIEUTENANTS—Pitcairn, W. R. Holiday. Ensign John Wallace. The following presented addresses to the King Joseph Carter Wood (Chairman), Lord Francis Egerton (proposer), General Gascoigne (seconder), and Sir Thomas Cochrane, from a numerous body of the city and liberties of West minster, expressive of their alarm at the attempts now made to augment the power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church a. at the expense of the established religion, and curing his Maj es ty of their zealous support in such measures as his Majesty may deem best calculated to avert so imminent a danger. Lord Ernest Bruce, M.P., from the Mayor, Burgesses, Clergy, and inhabitants of Marlborough, Wilts, in favour of the present Ministry. Mr. Dottin and Mr. Barlow Hoy, from the inhabitants of the town and county of Southampton. The Duke of Richmond, from Brighton. The Earl of Sandwich, from the Gentry, Clergy, and yeomen of the county of Huntingdon, in favour of his Majesty's Ministers, and the preservation of the Church of England and Ireland. Earl of Shaftesbury, from the borough and hundreds of Cricklade. Admiral Sir R. Stopford, from the borough of Marylebone (nu merously and respectably signed.) Lieut.-Colonel Chaplin, M.P., from the inhabitants of the borough of Stamford and St. Martin's, praying his Majesty to maintain inviolate the privileges and property of the Church of the United Kingdom, and expressing their conviction that these ob jects will be most effectually obtained by continuing his Majesty's present Ministers in office. The Right Hon. Sir Gore Ouseley, from the parish of Beacons field, South Bucks. The following were presented to his Majesty:— The Earl of Hillsborough, on going to Canada. Mr. R. H. Appleyard, on going abroad. Capt. R. F. Rowley, on appointment to his Majesty's ship Sap phire, by Vice-Admiral Sir C. Rowley. Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir C. Colville, G. C.B. and G. C. H., on his appointment to the sth Regiment. Mr. W. H. Stone, on his appointment as Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Berks, by Lord Norreys. Mr. J. Wilson, on appointment to be Chief Judge at the Mauritius, by the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen. Hon. W. A'Court Holmes, on his marriage. Rev. E. Lewis, by Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence. Mr. F. Elliott, oil being appointed Secretary to the High Com missioner proceeding to Canada. Rev. P. S. Dodd, cit. being appointed one of his Majesty's Chap lains, by Lord De L'lsle. Mr. Gore, Secretary of Legation at Buenos Ayres on his return, by the" Duke of Wellington. Sir R. Plaskett, on his appointment as King's Civil Commissioner at St. Helena, by the Earl of Aberdeen. Lieut. W. R. Holiday, on appointment to the 93d Highlanders. Lord Heytesbury to take leave, by Lord Ellenborough. Capt. Sir H. Leeke, R.N., on receiving the honour of Knight hood, by the Right Hon. Earl de Grey. Capt. Frankland, R.N., on his promotion. Lieut.-Col. Booth, on receiving the third class of the Guelphic Order, by General Lord Howden. Lieut.-Col. Bowles , on appointment as Military Secretary to the Governor-General of India, by Lord Heytesbury. Major Mercer, by Colonel M'Cleverty. Major Vivian, on promotion, by Lord Hill. Sr M. Farquhar, by the Duke of Wellington. E n sign J. Wallace, on appointment to the 94th Regiment. Lieut. Pitcairn, by Major-General Sir C. Dalbiac. His Majesty gave audiences yesterday to the Duke of Wel lington, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Heytesbury, Earl Jersey, the Duke of Dorset, and Sir Charles Bagot. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and the Duke of Cumberland visited their Majesties yesterday, at St. James's Palace. The King gave audiences yesterday to Baron D'Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister, and the Earl of Mansfield. The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg and the Duke of Cum berland honoured Lord and Lady Rolle with their company at dinner last evening, at their residence in tipper Grosvenor street. The Duchess of Kent entertained a distinguished party at dinner yesterday. In the evening her Royal Highness had a small party, when Madame Duleken'and Mr. Bochsa attended. This will be the last dinner before Easter--after which period dinners and assemblies will be given. The Duke of Cumberland honoured the entertainment given by the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland on Tuesday evening, at Northumberland-house, with his presence. The Queen honoured the Concert of Ancient Music with her presence last evening. Her Majesty, attended by Laity Clinton, the Countess Denbigh, Miss Hudson, Earl Denbigh, Hon. Mr. Ashley, and Mr. Hudson, left St. James's at half past eight o'clock, for the Hanover-square Rooms. The King went last evening to visit the Duchess of Glou cester, at Gloucester-house. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday morning at the Fo reign-office. The Duke of Devonshire, in consequence of the serious indisposition of his noble relative, the Dowager Coun tess of Burlington, has postponed his Grace's intended ball this evening, at Devonshire-house. The Countess is at present at Eastbourne. The Marquis and Marchioness of Lansdowne will see company at Bowood Park during the Easter recess. The Marchioness and Lady Louisa Fitzmaurice are on a visit to their mother, the Countess of Ilchester, at Abbotsford Castle, Somerset. The Duke of Wellington, Prince Esterhazy, and the Earls of Wilton and Mount Edgecumbe, and the Earls and Countesses of Clanwilliam and Denbigh, were among the com pany to meet the Landgravine, at the Earl and Countess Brownlow's on Monday. AL ACK'S.—The Countess of Brownlow has been elected one of the Ladies Patronesses of this distinguished circle, vacant by the departure from this country of the Duchess de Dino. The other Ladies Patronesses, are the same as last year. Lord Yarborough, and his sister, the Hon. Mrs. W. Tennant, arc gone to spend the Easter recess at his Lord ship's seat, Appoldercombe Park, in the Isle of Wight. The family are in mourning on account of the recent demise of W. Tennant, Esq., at Kemptown. RUNAWAY MATCH IN HIGH LIFE.—The gossips of Edinburgh have experienced considerable excite ment from the circumstance of an Englishman having eloped with the fair daughter of a Scottish Peer. The young lady is the beautiful Lady A a A r, only daughter of the Earl of S g (who has recently claimed the title), and the bridegroom is W e P n, Esq., a person of good property in Cheshire. The parties were married yester day at St. James's by the gentleman's brother, and instantly departed for Paris. QUEEN'S THEATRE.—Mrs. Nisbett's benefit on Monday was a bumper; the boxes were filled with nobility and persons of fashion. Her bill of fare was highly attractive, and all went off excellently. The new petite Comedy, called " The Queen's Jewel," (an excellent title by-the-bye), was most favourably received. Indeed it is one of the neatest little pieces we have seen at this theatre ; and, when played for a few evenings, to allow the performers to get well up in their parts, it cannot fail to prove highly attractive. It is an adap tation from the French by Mr. Collier. We never witnessed anything finer thanthe dresses of the ladies. Mrs. Nisbett's was particularly magnificent, and her acting was excellent. We never saw Elton to half so much advantage at this theatre. Parry, Miss Vincent, and Miss Mordaunt also deserve favour able mention. Such pieces as " The Queen's Jewel" have long been wanted at this house. It does great credit to the taste of the managements It will be remittpd tip evening. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 8. At a quarter to five o'clock the Earl of SHAFTESBURY took his seat on the woolsack in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. At that time there was no member connected with the Ad ministration in the House. The Duke of GORDON presented petitions from Portsoy, Fordyce, Ruthven, and other places in the counties of Banff and Aberdeen, for an increase of Church accommodation. Lord BROUGHAM gave notice that he would bring for. ward his motion on Education on Tuesday next. RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS. The Duke of WELLlNGTON—Circumstances having occurred in the other House which have induced Ministers to tender their resignations to his Majesty, I beg to inform the House that they now only hold their offices until their succes sors are appointed. ..... _ _ Lord IikOUG HAM would still bring on his motion on Education on Tuesday next, as that question did not depend on political events. The House then adjourned. ("OUSE OF COMMONS, Ariuz 8. The SPEAKER took the Chair at half-past three o'clock. ISLINGTON ➢IARKET.. Mr. WILLIAMS presented a petition from a person, whom he designated as very respectable, residing in Smithfield, against the Bill for Establishing, Islington Market. NORTHFLEET PIER BILL. Sir W. GEAIZY presented a petition from the town of Greenwich against the Northflaet Pier Bill. CHURCH OF SCOTLAND. General SHARPE presented a petition from the Royal Burgh of Annan, praying that the House would not make any grant of the public \money towards the support of the Church of Scotland.—( Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") IRISH CHURCH.-SUN EXPRESS. GLORIOUS NEWS.—We have just received (4 o'clock) through the Messrs. Johnston and Co., of Eden Quay, the express edition of The Sun of Thursday, containing fifteen columns closely printed, of the debate in conclusion on that night upon Lord John Russell's motion.—Dublin Evening Freeman, April 4. The division of Thursday night, with the entire debate, was expressed to Shrewsbury, by half -past 7 o'clock on Friday evening, in The Sun newspaper —to the proprietors of which establishment we are indebted for the first information on that, as on many preceding occasions.—Salopian Journal, April 8. - - - We are indebted to an express edition of The Sun, pub lished at five o'clock yesterday morning, and transmitted by the Messrs. Johnston, newspaper agents, for the result of the division which took place at 3 o'clock yesterday morning.— Dublin Evening Packet, April 4. We have received, through the strenuous efforts of our news-agents, the Messrs. Johnston, an extraordinary express of The Sun, bringing the result of the debate, with the divi sion. It is most gratifying, most important to Ireland and the empire.—Dubling Evening Post, April 4. SUN EXPRESS.—The proprietors of The Sun Newspaper continue their spirited career in forwarding the earliest intelli gence on all extraordinary occasions to Scotland. We an nounced in our last that Messrs. Smith and Co., St. Andrew's Square, expected an Express with the result of Lord John Russell's motion, which was looked forward to with great anxiety during the whole of Saturday ; but it not having ar rived at a late hour, they kindly made such arrangements as that we should be furnished with it, at whatever time it came forward. Scotland has often experienced the advantages of these extraordinary exertions, and we are glad to learn that they are duly appreciated by an increasing circulation of that Newspaper throughout this part of the United Kingdom.—Edinburgh Advertiser, April 7. We are bound both in courtesy and justice to acknowledge the extraordinary exertions which the proprietors of The Sun Evening Newspaper unsparingly employ to put the public in possession of the earliest intelligence on all questions of inte rest. An express edition of that paper, containing fourteen closely printed columns of the proceedings in the House of Commons on Lord John Russell's motion, on Thursday eve ning, with the division, reached our office within twelve hours of the termination of the debate. The morning papers di d not arrive here till the following morning by the ordinary course of post.--Bury and Su f folk Herald, April 8. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The liberal portion of the people on this side the Channel have never desired an exclusive privilege in the manu facture of bulls ; and as our trade in those articles is a thriving one, we can well afford to acknowledge the excellence of an indigenous English bull, dropped, full-grown, by the Standard on the 31st of March. Here it is—horns, tail and all. The Standard says, speaking of Irish legislation, "by restricting i political power to Protestants, that power was, to a great ex tent, reserved to the property and intelligence of the country,. l the surest pledge of peace and good order among any people." —( Here we have the Protestant horns to gore the Catholics withal)—" Alas ! in the case of Ireland too sure a pledge ; for being able to dispense with the support of the lower orders— being enabled, by the power of England, almost to defy the discontent of the poor—the legislators of Ireland learned to neglect the wants of their humbler countrymen," (this repre sents the carcase of the beast—the tail follows) " the circum stances of England, at the commencement of the American war, excited apprehensions that England could not support the Irish landowners against that jacquerie already commenced in Munster, and extending through the island." " That jacquerie" (a universal war of the poor against the rich) is naively represented by the ingenious writer, as the direct consequence of a restriction which he recommends, as "the surest pledge of peace and good order among any people—alas ! in the case of Ireland too sure (vulgo-cocksure) a pledge." We " barbarians" of the brogue, albeit so much despised by this learned person, have too quick a perception of the ridiculous, and a taste for humour too correct, to com ment on a confusion of ideas so delightfully ludicrous ; but we may seriously ask the Standard, what he would be at, when he says, " the fatal election was made, to give political privilege instead of bread ?" Can he dream that the privileged few would legislate for the good of the " barbarian" many ? It was Protestant ascendancy that denied bread to the people. The Irish landlords had exclusive power, and they starved the unrepresented " barbarians." They would do so again; ex clusive power acts for its own exclusive advantage, in Ireland, England, Russia, or Turkey—the principle is universal, and the people have found it out—they would never have troubled themselves about matters of legislation if they had not disco vered, by the experience of their stomachs and pockets, the necessity of uniting in self-defence, to keep the old man of the mountain from bestriding their necks. The Standard, more in sorrow than in anger, gently up braids the Irish landowners for spoiling a good ing, by their excessive cupidity, which drove the " barbarians" to demand political privileges. He is one of those philosophers who are not content to take men as they find them—to speculate on human nature as it is. As men are and were, things could not have been otherwise than they were, under the exclusive system, the invasion of which he so pathetically deplores. An enlightened despot will carefully sustain the people a degree above the point of starvation or desperation, but the power of a privileged caste cannot be so wisely exercised ; each individual is a partner in the monopoly, with a particular interest=:-the responsibility is general, and nowhere to be found ; the " election" was therefore the working of necessity, and "fatal" in that sense. The constitution of human na ture prevented the landlords from giving the one—they bad not power to withhold the other. I shall not seek to trespass further on your time by any remarks on the suavity of tone that distinguishes the journal quoted from, or the good taste it displays in resorting to French history for a term of con tumely, when occasion offers, to revile millions of men, each of whom is A CATHOLIC TITHE PAYER. Killashee, April 4. The Duchess of Northumberland's second assembly on Tuesday night was attended by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, the Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, and several hundreds of the principal nobility and gentry. Viscount and Viscountess Beresford's dinner party yesterday was attended by General Alava, Lady Heytesbury, Lord Burghersh, Hon. William Bathurst, &c. His Lordship will entertain another grand party this day in Cavendish-square. THE CLERGY AT ELECTIONS. Mr. C. BUL LE R had a petition to present from Canter bury, respecting the interference of the Clergy at the late elec tion. A similar one had been presented by the late Member for that city before he had been unseated. The Right Hon Baronet, the Paymaster of the Forces, had denied the state ments that had been made by Mr. Villiers respecting the im proper interference of the Clergy; but it appeared that these petitioners considered those statements to have been perfectly true. The petition was signed by one thousand and forty four inhabitants of Canterbury, who prayed that the House would appoint a Committee to enquire into the case. He would not ask the House to enquire into individual cases of anything so common as the interference of Clergy in elections. If they enquired into every case of improper inter ference on the part of the Clergy, they would have nothing to do but to enquire into all the elections where a liberal candidate was opposed.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") The exertions of the Clergy were not merely confined to can vassing, in the most indecent and disgraceful manner, before and during the election ; but they had, since the election, exercised an intimidation disgraceful to any class of men, but more particularly disgraceful to Ministers of Religion. One Dignitary of the Church had paid off his butcher, because he would not vote as he thought proper—another had paid off his grocer—and intimidation had been carried on to a most frightful extent. He did not refrain from mentioning the names of those persons from any delicacy or fear ; they were Archdeacon Cross, the Rev. Mr. Molesworth, the Rev. Mr. Peel, and the Rev. Mr. Crowther ; nor did he do so, because no persons were present, and it was therefore his wish not to occupy the time of the House. The petitioners wished for vote by bal lot, which they believed was the only remedy that could be de vised. The Clergy in the City of Canterbury had applied the wealththat had been given them, not for the purposes of religion, but for the purposes of faction.—( Cheers.) The City of Canterbury was not singular upon this paint, fur in almost every town and city in the country, Clergymen bad been not only the most active electors, but the most unscrupulous agents of the parties : the indecency of such conduct on the part of the Clergy had been admitted on all sides of the House. He (Mr. Buller) considered it most unbecoming on the part of a Clergyman to interfere in election matters. It was their duty, whatever right the Legislature had given them, to exer cise them in a manner becoming a Christian minister. He trusted that petitions like the one he had presented would make an impression on the Clergy of this country, and induce them to pursue a very different course from that which they had adopted.—( Cheers.) While he was upon his legs, he would just state that he had received a handbill, which had been cir culated in the City of Canterbury, calling upon the citizens to do everything in their power to oppose the course pursued by the Members who sat upon the Opposition side of the House. —( Cheers.) He was sure that the proceedings which had taken place in the City of Canterbury would excite the disgust and animosity of every well-thinking man in the community. Mr. PR AED said that he believed the instances of unfair interference were more numerous on the part of those who sat on that side of the House, occupied by the Hon. Member who presented the petition, than on the part of those who sat opposite to him. He had actually written to the m i n i s t er o f the place, who was a relation of his by marriage, requesting him to take no part whatever on his behalf in the election, and the consequence was that he had not even given him his rote. of those affairs as long as it is possible. Ido feel that no in terference with public life--that no disgust to the labours it imposes that no personal mortifications—no reference to private feeling, should sanction a public mas s on lightounda, in withdrawing from th a t p os t to w hi c h t h e f avour of his So vereign had called him; but, at the same time, there is an evil in exhibiting to t 1 e country the want on the part of Government of that support in the House of Commons which shall enable it satisfactorily to conduct the public business—which shall enable it to exercise a legitimate and necessary con troul over the proceedings of this House—( Hear, hear) a controul conferred on it by the position of that confidence.— ( Cries of " Hear, hear.) I repeat, Sir, there is an evil in that exhibition of weakness to which limits must be placed.— ( Hear, hear.) I must say that, reverting to all that has occurred since the commencement of the present Ses sion—looking to the little progress that we have been ena bled to make from the want of that support and confidence— looking to what has occurred on each of the last four nights, in which his Majesty's Ministers have had the misfortune to be in a minority on each occasion—on Thursday last, on Friday last, on Monday, and on last night, although that minority was a smaller one than that with which we commenced this Session--advert ing to the fact that on that occasion we received the support of those who not having general and unlimited confidence in the Government, yet still have given to that Govern ment a cordial and honourable support—( Great cheers) on every question on which it was necessary to give it7-ad vesting to all these considerations, I must say, in my ?pinion, the time is come, when it is incumbent upon us to withdraw from office. In addition to these considerations, the vote of last night--that vote I conceive implied a want of confidence in his Majesty's Government, because it was not necessary, in my opinion, for any public purpose to come to that vote.— —( Great cheering.) It was tantamount to a declaration on that part of the House, that the House had not that con fidence in his Majesty's Government which entitled the Members of the present Government to submit to the consideration of the House the measures of which it had given notice. (Ch eers. ) The Noble Lord had signified his intention, if the vote the House had came to last night should meet with its approbation, that he would follow it up with an address to the Crown. Sir, I conceive, as great embarrassment of the public affairs would have arisen by the presentation of that Address, and as I had no right to think the House would take a different view with respect to it, I thought it incumbent upon me—and in that view I have acted exactly in conformity with my col leagues—l thought that my public duty was—l thought that a public duty was imposed upon me, which I sincerely felt—l thought that -the time was fast approaching when resig nation was inevitable, and that I ought not to persevere in a useless struggle, which might involve his Majesty and the country in additional difficulties and inconveniencies. Sir, we consider that vote was not merely tantamount to a declaration of a want of confidence, but the vote of last night implied the necessity of a full change of the system in Ire land, so far as the Church revenues were concerned. Sir, we considered that that would impose such difficulties in the way of the practical administration of the Government in Ireland, as to render it incumbent on us to enter no farther into the consi deration of that question. In addition, Sir, to the fact of the vote being tantamount to a want of confidence, it also imposed on us the necessity of undertaking the practical execution of the laws in Ireland, when a majority--a con siderable majority of the House—had approved of a prin ciple at variance with the principle with which he set out. Sir, the vote of last night is not an abstract principle, the practical execution of which could be carried into effect by us. —( Loud cheers.) There may, Sir, be points on which the House of Commons may come to a different opinion to that of the Government upon some abstract principle of great importance, but still there might be such a case wherein the Government might govern even in opposition to the House.---( Cheers.) But, Sir, the vote of last night places things in a very different position. You cannot leave the question of tithes in its present state. At present you are in a position in which you cannot remain. In the uncer tainty which prevails, you cannot by any possibility enforce the collection of tithes.—( Cheers.) Nothing would be more dangerous than to leave the question in its present state. Pro perty of all sorts would be placed in the utmost jeopardy. We could not carry out your principle—( Hear, hear)--and there fore we considered your vote of last night as tantamount to a vote of no confidence. Sir, under these circumstances, if we had remained in power—if we had continued in the Govern ment—we would have been pressed for an immediate settlement of that question upon the Tithe Bill of which we have given notice, one of the principles of which was to be the remission of our 'claim upon the Irish clergy, for the instalments due under the Million Act.—( Cheers.) Sir, I cannot see—l can not for a moment suppose—that the House would' have come to a different conclusion. I cannot anticipate that the House would have sanctioned that principle—that it would have given up its right to those instalments without the recognition of the principle of the vote of last night.— (Hear, hear, hear.) Under these circumstances, and having reason to apprehend the delay of a few days, would make no material difference; considering also that we must have shortly proceeded with the Tithe Bill, on which we must have again clashed with the House, we did consider that the vote of last night was tantamount to a resolution of no confidence in the Ministry.—. ( Cheers.) Being firmly resolved to adhere to the principle of that Bill—( Loud Ministerial cheering, continued for some minutes)—.being firmly resolved not to admit the principle , of the vote of last night, under a ny circumstances—( Reite rated cheering)---under all these combined considera tions, we feel it to be our duty—to be incumbent on us as public men, respectfully to request his Majesty to accent:. the resignation of our various seals.--( Great cheering from the Opposition.) Sir, I have therefore to state that we hold our offices for the execution of public business only—and to pre vent public inconvenience—until our successors are appointed. Perhaps the best course I can take will be to propose a short adjournment. I shall not propose it beyond Monday. I should have made the motion for adjournment at once, but that there would be an objection to it until another matter had been disposed of. Perhaps the House will feel at this present moment, and in the existing state of public affairs, that any public discussion of other business will be unnecessary, and I trust that the motion will be agreed to almost, if not quite, unanimously.—( Loud cheers from the Opposition.) If inconvenience should be likely to arise to the par ties interested in the Election Committee, for which a ballot is fixed for to-morrow, the House will, perhaps, meet for the purpose of making that ballot in order to prevent such inconvenience, consenting at the same time to the ad journment till Monday. It is with a vies:, to preserve the public interests that I move the third reading of the Mu tiny Bill, which I hope will be as unanimously agreed to as the motion for adjournment.—( Hear, hear.) I wish to give this explanation as briefly as possible, and in a manner the least likely to excite any angry feelings.—( Tremendous cheering.) The whole of my life has been spent in the House of Commons, and I desire that the remainder may be spent there ; and what ever may be the conduct of others, I shall always be anxious to stand well with the House, whether in a majority or in a mino rity.—( Renewed cheering.) I well know that under no circumstances of censure or difficulty would I ever have advised the resignation of that great source of moral strength, which consists in a strict adherence to the principles of the spirit of the Constitution of the country ; for I am sure that adherence will be the surest safeguard against any impending danger, and that is why I believe myself and my colleagues ought not to persist in carrying on public affairs, after a fair trial, and against the decided opinion of a majority of the House of Commons. It is because I have that conviction deeply rooted in my mind, although I do sincerely regret the ne cessity which has compelled me to abandon the King's service at this moment. Yet upon the balance of public feeling, I con fess that I shall most directly promote the ultimate interests of the country by retiring, than by persisting in a fruitless attempt to carry on public affairs. The Right Hon. Baronet sat down amid reiterated cheering from all sides of the House. Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished only to state that, with regard to the course which the Right Hon. Gentleman had proposed to pursue with respect to the adjournment, ho believed there could be no objection to that. With regard to the rest that he had stated, he believed that the Right Honourable Gentleman had only acted in uniformity with those feelings which had actuated the gentlemen on his (Lord John Russell's) side of the House.—( Hear, bear, hear.) The Mutiny Bill and Marine Mutiny. Bill were then passed, and the House adjourned at half-past five till to-morrow. CANTERBURY ELECTION. Mr. C. BULLER then presented a petition from Canter bury, complaining of the decision of the Election Committee lately appointed to inquire into the election of tkat city. He was sorry to bring forth the petition in consequence of the absence of several Hon. Members who had been on the Committee. He had given notice to the Sitting Member for Canterbury, not knowing the interest he might take in the matter. The peti tioners stated that they had been put to great expense, and were prepared to prove that Mr. Villiers was duly returned, and pre pared to meet the case of Mr. Lushington, but were pre vented from establishing their case, in consequence of the decision of the Committee, which they had stated was contrary to the Act of -Parliament providing for such cases. The petitioners prayed that so mischievous a decision might not be drawn into a precedent, which would be alike destruc tive -to the rights of the petitioners and the elective body in general. All he wished to call the attention of the House to was the excessive hardship the petitioners had been subjected to, 'by the very incomplete decision which was given by the Committee.—( Hear, hear.) He had received a statement from Canterbury, which seemed to him so rema r k a bl e th a t h e w ished to draw the attention of the House to it. It mentioned that as the names of the Committee, to whom the decision of the election had been referred, were known, they had been marked with the letters C and R, for Conservatives and Reformers ; and so sure an indication was this considered of what would be the decision of the Committee, that the triumph was celebrated there beforehand. This showed what was the public opinion as to the justice of Parliamentary Com mittees. Mr. LU SHING TON rose, but was for a considerable time almost totally inaudible. He was understood to complain of the allegations of the petition, which he said were totally un founded. The petitioners complained of being aggrieved ; for his own part, he conceived he had the greatest reason to com plain, inasmuch as he had been kept for nearly two months and a half out of his seat. Mr. SPRING RICE did not think this the proper time for entering on a discussion on the merits of an election pe tition, which ought to have appeared before the Com mittee. No one could deny but that it was possible for Committees to make mistakes, and in those cases it was perfectly justifiable to bring the circumstances before the con sideration of Parliament. He remembered, in his own case, a friend bringing forward a petition on his behalf, with respect to a legal construction ; but though he did this as far as the law was concerned, it was the furthest from his mind to appeal against the decision of the Committee. After a few observations from Sir E. KNATCHBCLL, Lord SANDON, and Mr. AGLIONBY, , Mr. BULLER wished that Hon. Members would take the trouble to listen to what he did say. He did not impugn the decision of the Committee by any means, but merely stated what the opinion of the people of Canterbury was. It was his intention to move that no Committee shall have the power of deciding upon a portion of a case, instead of upon the whole. Sir C. LEMON presented a petition from a town in Corn wall against the increased spirit licences. Mr. POTTER presented a petition from Wigan against certain clauses in the Dissenters' Marriage Bill. Lord JAMES STE WART presented petitions from Ar gyle, and other places in Scotland, in favour of the Bill for the abolition of Imprisonment for Debt. Petitions (of no public importance) were presented up to five o'clock. Sir R. Peel entered the House at ten minutes before five o'clock, and was received with cheers from both sides of the House. He was followed by upwards of 100 Mem bers, who were most anxious for seats, but they were obliged to content themselves with standing at the back, and places in the gallery—the House being then quite full. Mr. RICHARDS rose to present a petition from James Nicholls, of Lincoln's Inn, attorney at law, against the Bill for the Abolition of Imprisonment for Debt. The Hon. Gentle man persisted in reading the petition, though repeatedly inter rupted by loud cries of " Oh, oh !" and other expressions of impatience. RESIGNATION OF MINISTERS. The SPEAKER went through his daily list of Members in turn to present petitions. Amidst the continued anxiety of the House not a word cou'A be heard until Sir R. PEEL rose, and immediately the utmost silence was observed in every part of tile House, when the Right Hon. Baronet proceeded as follows:—Sir, it is my intention that the Mutiny Bill be read a third time, and in making that motion, I wish to avail myself of the opportunity which it affords me of signifying to the House, that I, in conjunction with all my colleagues in his Majesty's service, and in conformity with their unanimous opinion, have felt it incumbent upon us, upon combined consideration of the vote to which the House came last night, and of our position as a Govern ment, to signify to his Majesty that it was our duty to place the offices which we held at the disposal of his Majesty. Ido not hesitate to say that I have taken this course with the utmost reluctance, and not without the deepest sense of its necessity, because I felt that being in possession of the confidence of the King, and having received from his Majesty the most cordial and unremitting support—looking at the pre sent position of public affairs, and at the present state of political parties—looking also at their strength—the numerical strength of that great party by which we have been supported—l have felt it my duty to continue the attempt of administering the public affairs, as the responsible adviser of the Crown up to the latest moment consistent with the interests of the public service. Sir, when Ido not hesitate to avow that reluctance, I believe I shall have credit with a great majority of the House of Commons—(Loud cries of " Hear," from the Opposition)—that that reluctance is con nected with public principle.—( Reiterated Opposition cheers. ) I have a strong impression that when a public man, at a crisis of great importance, undertakes the public trust of adminis tering the affairs of the Government of this country, that he does incur an oblivion of penevering in the administration HANOVER, APRIL 2. A discussion on the projected Railroad from hence to Hamburgh took place in our Second Chamber, or the House of Commons, on the 31st ult., and furnished one of the most ludicrous exhibitions of German pride, prejudice, and igno rance, which it has ever been our lot to witness in this aug us t assembly. A London Company - have offered to lay down a Railroad front Hanover to Hamburg at their own cost and risk, and merely seek from the Government an appropriation of the ground to be traversed—a nearly barren district--for which the fullest remuneration is agreed to be paid. It is estimated that the construction of this work would cause a sum of not less than 800,0001. to be expended in the country, besides giving employment to various classes of the population. This favourable offer, one might conclude,, would be eagerly accepted ; but Credat Jadrcus! some of our sapient orators have actually exerted all their powers of prolixity to oppose the measure ! And what are their arguments ? Why, for.. sooth, that the projectors are English I " What I" vociferates one of these liberal law makers, " shall we Germans suffer an innovation to be made upon our, connexions by English mer chants ? Will a true Hanoverian tolerate these English spe culators? No, we are, thank God, Germans"—and such like ebullitions of " sound and fury, signifying nothing." It is wonderful how these sensitive senators, with all their national pride, can be prevailed on to tolerate the annual inroad into their country of sundry English pounds sterling, which, in the shape of half-pay and pensions, are transferred from the pockets of not only the English merchants, but the English nation at large, to their officers and soldiers—a brave band, certainly, and who, doubtless, nobly earned this liberal remuneration, but who, if unprotected by these said English merchants, in 1803, would have been abandoned ? at was their country, by the protocolling patriots of Hamner, to the tender mercies of the French, It is satisfactory, however, to 'see that this stupid opposition to the Railroad has not been exhibited by the majority of the Chamber, but is solely the flimsy froth of some two or three democratic advocates, who think thereby to win the plaudits of the mob, and gain the name of patriots. Poor Lord Sandon seems to have been in a sad plight after the division on Friday morning. He craved re pose after four nights attendance in the House of Commons, wishing, no doubt, to sleep on the untoward decision of the House. The majority, he thought, ought to show some re spect for the feelings of the minority—" the large andresvec table minority ; " of which he formed orm.—Liverpciet4anvn. 7777 - r 7" ~-