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O iah \Var a :, Ininteres UP : a late 130' LY.) ,etvis, ofill i4 n dants in tt: stody of t n The act of i ßll s two s o busines s e d iad been sto sel statec l l% ) , been use u de , ne of the, t he plying dant Hu n s 4 which tb st PPeareci out w here a .4 : e, or v" cued nit of cu s `a in b ee n use op , ::ase he c t be therefore Cottaded tb I t the • ti ot had been i : 1 0 q uestwo bo o (WC bad I b' _ i had beell to ; 00 but //' ,n the se c o :: .es, who u ce Ist her nwfore, „ n bea4 A o nateli'ed. she alig ht So' idle c" A wintersLr t zon,w hhe i Th e • n ight. f nt n ckg - ° f e wiligh% h o e, and `-„cer , _ a co. e yoii. _ t Jupit e r cha'; o o -lish The a° ea itbe Ortn in e it si f og le •• „itbr mh th e the of ter opribo o n; arts bout en e ter a a „dbo cold ° : 0 113' only b e elle* finast ne,beo tshes, t t he ,loyea , eo o° ,en. -- 7 0 4-St n" le LITERATURE. BRIGHTON. SKETCHES in PROSE and VERSE, By G. F. RICHARDSON, London. Cochrane, TVaterloo-place. 1835. This book is comprised of a collection of short Pieces in prose and verse, some of which the author states, in the Preface, to be reprints from the annuals, and similar publications. They are now given to the World in consequence of the favourable opinion enter tained of them on their first appearance, with others not before published in any form. The book is dedi cated to the Duchess of St. Alban's, and seems to have been published by subscription, judging from the list of names which appears in it under that appellation. We cannot say much for the talent which it displays. Some of the verses are pretty, and some of the prose sketches amusing ; but higher praise we cannot give them. We think the author was much mistaken in supposing that a paper which is favourably received by the public when it appears in an annual, accompanied, Perhaps, with beautiful illustrations, is likely to meet With a similar reception as a reprint. Besides the least degree of merit is magnified in periodical publi cations, by being taken in conjunction with the general bearing and character of the entire ww : k. We by no means wish to discourage e.. 1137 aspirant for literary fame ; but the public iy cloyed with such productions. Let the author attempt something worthier of a gene rous ambition, and we shall be among the first to offer our meed of commendation. After Divine Service, on Sunday, his Majesty gave audience to Lord Sydney. The Queen, accompanied by Prince George, Earl Howe, Miss H. Johnstone, and Miss Bagot, attended Divine Service on Sunday afternoon, at St. George's Chapel, Kemp-town. The Rev. James Anderson read prayers, and afterwards deli vered an excellent sermon with his usual ability. Her Majesty and attendants occupied a pew in the body of the chapel: The congregation was exceedingly iiiiiterous and highly respect able, comprising most of the elite of Brighton. The King, accompanied by his daughter, Lady De Lisle and Dudley, took a carriage airing along the cliffs, passing and repassing several times, between Hove and Kemp-town, pre vious to his return to the Palace. On Sunday evening their Majesties entertained at dinner the Landgraviae of Hesse Homburg, Marquis and Marchioness of Conyngham, Earl and Countess Howe, Lord and Lady Falk land, Lord Sydney, the Rev. F. F. Foord-Bowes, and the Royal suite. The band of the Fusilecr Foot Guards were in attendance. Lord C. Clinton and Lord Sydney are amongst the latest arrivals. Both those Noblemen paid their respects to their Majesties on Sunday. LEAMINGTON SPA. The very severe weather of the past week has prevented our company, which is very numereus, from visiting the prome nades and public lounges ; notwithstanding the town has pre sented a gay and animated appearance, and our arrival list in cludes many distinguished Members of le beau monde. Mrs. Hay Drummond's bail and supper on Wednesday night was fashionably attended. Several balls are announced for the next and following weeks. ARRIVALS.-Lady Cockerill, Hon. Mr. Mid Mrs. nushout, Mr. and Hon. Mrs, Grieve and Miss Cockerill, from Siezen cote, Gloucestershire ; Hon. W. Vaughan, Captain Chet wynd, M. P., from his seat, Brocton Hall, Staffordshire ; Ma jor Jervice, from Leicester ; Mrs. A. Chancellor, from Chel tenham ; Sir Samuel Whalley, M. P., ; Hon. R. Browne, and Captain Sewell, Bth Hussars ; Captain J. Russell and Lady de Clifford, from Woburn Abbey ; Captain Wollaston, 6th Dragoons ; Colonel Harding ; Captain and Mrs. Mantell, from New Brunswick; Mr. Roome, from Cheltenham. DLeAttiTkgs.—The Earl and Countess of Uxbridge, Lord and the Ladies Paget, for Bruton-street; Hon. G. Berkeley, M.P., W. Williams, Esq., M. P., Captain and Mrs. Sive wright ; Loid Macdonald, for Melton Mobray ; Mr. L'Estrange, for Ireland ; Colonel Gough, for town ; Mr. Hayes, for Cheltenham. FACTS AND FICTIONS. Smith, Elder, and Co. London, 1835. A volume of agreeable stories, the production of a cultivated mind ; the incidents are natural, if not Powerfully worked out, and the language throughout simple and unaffected. The best tale is the " Found ling," though we could have dispensed with the slip -Bhod, hobbling rhymes, beginning with " Over the Wild wave," which are thrown into it, we suppose, by Way of make-weight. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. PENRUDD 0 CK, A Tale by the Author of " IValtzburg."—ln 3 Vols. London. IVAittaker and Co., 1835. We recommend the perusal of these volumes to the disciples of Doctor Don Pedro Rezio de Aguero, as a most suitable dessert after a dinner of wafers and two thin slices of marmalade, and to the patients of his no less learned brother Sangrado, they having previously cleared their stomachs of all crudities by an abundance °f hot water, and their veins of blood by the frequent a pplication of the lancet. To such persons we should Presume labour, whether of the mind or body, would Present few temptations to engage in it, and so we re commend them this tale, over which they may nod at leisure—nay, should they in their sleep fancy them selves in the perusal, and so mechanically turn over the leaves, w e assure them the mistake will be one which t hey will lose little by leaving unrectified. Readers w ho, like our friend Sancho the Governor, prefer an °l ler podrida, or dish of stewed meats, to a wafer diet, are not likely, unless when taken by surprise, to spend Much time over the pages 'of " Penruddock." They a re apt to think some k now l e d ge o f men , or ho oks, necessary to those who write for the amusement, or instruction, of others ; and in the volumes before us, we promise they will find t hroughout a boundless disregard of both—that is, provided they can make their way through them, w hich we are inclined to doubt. If the absence of th ought, reflection, knowledge of the human heart— human passions—human inte,:cest—knowledge of na ture, acquired through tlie agency of books, or from Personal observation—lf want of probability, and the e hoice of tnaterfials for a tale, which, however treated, Co uld hardly be rendered interesting—if an utter ab en" of all these requisites to success in romance wtiti'ng, be considered no drawback on the excellence of a work o f fi c ti on , t h en may " P enru dd oc k" c l ass W ith th e first imaginative productions of the age—but U otherwi se . Th e o ld romances , o f t h e very worst Cl ass, had b aron i a l cas tl es , d on j ons , t rap -d oors , slid iPannels,ls, haunted towers, supernatural noises, and no w and then a res p ectable-lookin g g host, with a h ° ody shroud and red dagger, to recommend them ; tla that at least they claimed the merit of invention, an d the power of terrifying overgrown children in the ti ar k• But modern novels, of the same class, want a ll the se means of creating excitement, and if they display ll e ither a knowledge of men or books, are worse than h.Useless, because they lead to a sacrifice of time, and a vu llagatio n o f th e a b sur diti es w hi c h fill e d th e m i n d s or the misguided authors. Tlt is evident, from the above, that we consider the ale of " Penruddock" a failure. We know nothing Wha tever of the author—we are not aware to what sex the auth or b e l ongs , an d, t h ere f ore , we stan d acqu i tte d o f all p o ersonal motives in pronouncing this judgment. hur sole o bj ect i s t o di sc h arge our d uty to t h e pu bli c giving an honest opinion of the work. We know ' Painful it i s t o an au th or to h a v e a wor k, w hi c h d ust ha ve occup i e d so many h ours , an d cost so muc h trouble, thus unceremoniously rejected ; but having i e s kiered hi mse lf amena bl e to suc h mortification, there e ll 3 help for it ; and all that can be done is to guard against its repetition. We have expressed ourselves h o u ngly, ut not more strongly, than in our unbiassed `4ginent,b the case merited. Mr. and Mrs. Granville Berkeley, in Wilton-crescent, from Warwickshire ; Lord iTh.cdonald, at Limmer's Hotel, Con duit-street, from Melton Mowbray; the Baroness Montague, in Portman-square, from a tour; Col. and Lady Caroline Wood, in Stratton-street, from Littleton House, near Staines ; Lady Foley, in Portman-square, from St. Leonard's on Sea ; Mrs. Wynn and family, in Grafton-street, from Wales ; Lady Elizabeth Bankes, on a visit to the Earl of Eldon, in Hamil ton-place, from Corfe Castle ; Sir J. de Beauvoir, M. P., in Connaught-place, from Windsor ; C. Morris, Esq., in Port man, square, from Liverpool ; Countess of Bridgewater, in Grosvenor-square, from Ashbridge Castle, Herts ; the Duke of Richmond, in Cavendish-square, from his seat, Goodwood, near Chichester ; Lord and Lady Eliot, in Dover-street, from their seat, Port Eliot, Cornwall ; Hon. Rob. Smith, in Bel grave-square, from his seat, Gayhurst ; the Earl and Countess of Harrowby, in Grosvenor-square, from their scat, Sandon Hall, Staffordshire ; Sir Roger Gresley, Bart., from his seat, Drakelow, Derbyshire ; Col. and Mrs. Paske, at Batt's Ho tell, Dover-street, from Madras ; Col. Wildman, at ditto, from Newstcad Abbey, Notts ; Sir William Lumley, Bart., in Green-street, from Windsor ; H. Seymour, Esq., from Bedfordshire; Mr. and Mrs. Attwood, in Regent-street, from their seat in Norfolk. DEPARTURES. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL' O. h est erd ay DERBY. Il Udred Sil nu " and Ibrahim were backed for two or three bi ati ,Pounds- Junds each separately, and to about the same amount con war Y, but instead of springing on last week's prices left off a shade % u se * Several other horses were backed, but the business, like Wi s h t ransacted on every bettin day for some weeks past, was ° at any i m p or t an t resu l ts . The closing odds were as under :- 9 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Silenus (9i to 1 taken). 11 to 1 agst Lord Orford's Ascot (tak e n) 1 8 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ibrahim (taken). 20 to 1 had been betted previously 2 0 to 1 agst Mr. Batson's Luminary (taken) 2 2 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Damietta colt (taken) 2 5 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Leopoldine colt (taken) 28 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Bee-in-a-Bonnet c. (taken) 35 to 1 agst Lord Verulam's Varennes colt (taken) 1,,, 3 5 to 1 agst Mr. Grant's Operator (taken) JO to 20 agst Mr. Wreford's Free Will (taken) to 1 a gst M r. Ridsdale ' s lot 22 to 1 agst Captain Grant's lot (taken) No others mentioned. tityofcA i St. Alban' s S teep l e Ch ace i s fi xe d to ta k e p l ace on t h e sth t in 4 m arch. It will b e f or 10 sovs . eac h, f ree f or any h orse car -rs or ''st. four miles acro ss th e cou ntry without a n y i m pra c ticable fences The entry closes on the 2d of the same month ' - aPected to be very numerous. ° last P ar li ament were d ecr i e d by the sticklers 1),,i 'le Aristocracy, on account of the ungentlemanly and tur -B,uit Co nduct of' some of the Members ; but should the obfe changed, the Tories say there will be a still greater good Manners. ttild„,7E E LECTIONS.—The To r ies are smarting oi oh c,the defeat of Sir George Murray, in Perthshire. It :oirteu_ej„udtbieeye,reuveelrtyo quote the gibes which they uttered against . •-• "u Campbell when he was disappointed of his election one of which is now applicable, with tenfold d of 1 ,, to their friends. Sir George Murray is " the rejected v44rerthshire"—Mr. G. R. Dawson, " the rejected of De •-tr,t,"---Sir Edward Owen, " the rejected of Sandwich," .. oe i t i b t-• Rowley, " the rejected of Portsmouth,"—Sir G. th urn, " the rejeeted of Plymouth,"—Lord Tullamore, ts: rejected of Falmouth,"—and Mr. Stuart Wortley, " the titztted of Forfarshire,"—all Members of the present Admi iol The assertions of the Tories that intimidation, ex (l, Al' t, dealing, and corruption, have caused the defeat of Sir r raY and the return of Mr. Fox Manic, arc gross and ittio-41(led calumnies. Sir George owes his fate to his own vio /ht,„!l of his pledges. Mr. Maule charged this home at the P- He s a id — . As I was on these very hustings at the I . s kiN p ; Could not be mistaken as to the statement which Sir 4. has ge Murray made, that be was a friend to the admission of . ent ers into th e E ng li sh universities ;" and he quoted the 11 40 -411 uf one o f S i r George's own supporters at th e l as t eke % i;; lt hu, by way of consoling b Mr. Manic, for the defeat of I ' 4 ( l Mr. G ra h am, said—" I believe you will find o u r these good a Whirr as your own." It was the recollection tllttsir Pl George edges, aturthe contemptuous breach of them, th a t Murray his seat.— Scotsman. The Duke of Devonshire, for his seat, Hardwick Hall, Der byshire ; Captain George Wyndham, for the Earl of Egre mont's seat, Petworth, Sussex ; S. Sapt, Esq., for his seat in Herts ; Sir Charles Saxton, Bart., for Clifton ; Freeman Eliot, Esq., from the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Southampton ; Col. Gore Langton, from his seat, Newton Park, near Bath, for Cheltenham ; Lord Acheson, for Suf folk ; the Rev. John Dawson, from Ellis's Hotel, St. James's street, for Surrey ; Mrs. Evelyn and family, from ditto, for Wooton ; W. Cunningham, Esq., from ditto, for Dublin ; Lord and Lady Sydney, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley square, for their seat, Frognal, near Foot's Cray, Kent ; Cap tain and Mrs. Roberts, from Brook -street, for Brighton. SOCIETY OF BRITISH MUSICIANS. FIFTH CONCERT. On Monday evening the Fifth Meeting of this Association was held at the Hanover-square Rooms, on which occasion a brilliant audience, including an unusual number of professors, testified by their presence the lively interest excited by these successive displays of native genius, and by repeated plaudits their just appreciation of the general merit and excellence of the compositions submitted to their notice. In the scheme for the evening the instrumental pieces were a Symphony by T. Cooke; three Overtures, respectively composed by J. F. Burrowes, John Goss, and F. G. Tinney ; a Concerto for the Piano-Forte performed by Miss Pyne, the production of the celebrated pianist, John Field ; and a solo for the fourth string of the violin, written and performed by E. Thomas. The vocal part of the entertainment consisted of a Quintett by W. Horsley, Quartett by J. H. Griesbach, Duct by J. M. Harris, and Scene, Song, and Cavatina, severally written by H. P. Hill, John Barnett, and J. Clifton. Mr. T. Cooke's sym phony is constructed in the modern French style, which may be found in the works of Boildieu, Auber, and Herold. The motivos, harmonies, and general instrumentation, were inferior in taste and elegance to the minuet and trio, in which latter the com poser appears to have selected a more unexceptionable model ; the trio especially reminding us of Mendelsohn. In the over tures were no surprising novelties, either of melody or design ; and they certainly did not rise above the class of agreeable compositions. Miss Pyne's performance of Field's Concerto in E flat, reflects great credit on her talents and industry, and on the excellent tuition of her master, J. B. Cramer. The author displays but little of the elegant melodies of Mozart, the rich harmonies of Beethoven, or the exquisite sequences of Hummel; but there is a refinement and elegance of phrase which denote the practised writer. The solo executed on the fourth string of the violin by Mr. E. Thomas (a pupil of the late S igno rSpagnioletti) was an extraordinary performance ; and if this gentleman plays equally well on the four strings of his instrument, he has attained a very high rank in the art. The vocal quintett of Horsley is more remarkable fur length than for novel delineation or musical expression. Mr. Hobbs by his clear enunciation of the words in the short solo sung by him in the quintett, proved that, however polished may be the style, or correct the singer's intonation, the first charm and most essential requisite in vocal performance consists in a proper expression and distinct utterance of the words. Miss Hawes was encored in the canzonet, " If music be the food of love, play on." The words are in the highest strain of poetry, and to have failed in their expression would not have been discreditable to any composer. Mr. Clifton is entitled to the great praise of success. Mr. Hill's scena, from words of a most terrific character put by Mrs. Hemans into the mouth of a ferocious Guerilla Chieftain, was, to us, unintelligible ; and Mr. Morley's performance, we must do him the justice to say, heightened the mystery in which both the poetry and music were enveloped. The quartett from " Belshazzar's Feast " will, we trust, terminate the selections from this oratorio. The composition is of an inferior description ; and, in this in stance, the singers had, we presume, agreed to perform it in different keys. Mr. Leoni Lee sang Mr. Barnett's pretty canzonet in a very agreable manner. THE THEATRES. OLYMPIC. A new burletta of the French school, entitled Not a TVord, was produced here last night, and was extremely well received. The main feature of the plot is of a more sombre character than generally belongs to the pieces represented at this house, where the great object, from the beginning, has been, not to excite tears or terrors by tales of mystery, but to tickle the fancy through the agency of smart and sprightly vaudevilles. There is, however, in the drama of last night a sufficient por tion of whimsicality and drollery to throw the most serious part very much into the shade. It is perhaps the best piece that has been produced here this season. The story possesses inte rest ; the incidents are well-managed ; they follow each other in quick succession, and arc by no means deficient in spirit. There are in the dialogue many neatly-turned points. Mr. Liston's acting was exceedingly humorous. His expression of astonishment, of grief, and ultimately of rage, when his wife's supposed early frailty is narrated to him, was the be au ideal of broad comedy. The part of Baron Sombroni is far removed from that class of characters which Mr. F. Mathews ordinarily supports. He has scarcely breadth and force sufficient to de pict with due boldness, tempered at the same time with a cer tain degree of outre gravity, the extravagant folly of the half crazy veteran. He, however, played cleverly. Miss Fitz waiter sustained the part of Louise very prettily. Mrs. Grif fiths, from the English Opera-house, made her debut here as Madame Tricolore. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1835. SURREY. There was, to use the words ofthe bills, " an entire change" in the performances at this theatre last night, by the produc tion of three new pieces (new at least at this house). The first was a drama in two acts, called Wealth and Want, or the Village Politicians. In many of its incidents it is like a piece some time ago produced at one of the smaller houses, called the Rick Burners. It contains some stirring incidents, aris ing from mistaken views of society by the frequenters of a vil lage club of politicians, whose wrong notions and prejudices the heartless and oppressive conduct of a few magistrates in their neighbourhood tend rather to strengthen than remove. Davidge was very happy in the part of Luttrell. Mr. W. Smith was also very good in the character of the country jus tice. The other parts were well filled. The second piece was the ballad opera of the Shipwreck, in which there were some well-executed songs, duets, and glees, by Misses Somer ville, Martin, and Shaw, and Messrs. Edwin, W. Smith, and C. Hill. The latter showed himself quite " at home" in the character of Harry Hawser. The concluding performance of the evening was a melodrama called Broadsea Cliffs, or a Tale of the Sea. It is worthy of mention only as having given an opportunity of making " her first appearance in pub lic" to a young lady, Miss Harrington, in the character of Lucy. Allowing for the timidity natural to a first appear ance, Miss Harrington appeared possessed of many requisites for a good actress, but she had to struggle against the disad i,aitage of a part for which the author had clone—nothing. The house was filled in every part. Q UEEN' S. Mrs. Nisbett is determined not to be behind her contempo raries in the production of novelties. Last night a new farce, in two acts, by the prolific author of the King's Word, was produced at this house, under the title of The Moon's Age, or the Coroner's inquest: The plot has little to do with the re volutions of the moon, or the verdict of the coroner's jury. The piece was well acted in every part. Miss Mordaunt was most eminently successful in doing what sLe had to do. It was given out for repetition amidst the unanimous plaudits of a very crowded house, GARRICK. We last night for the first time, saw the Last Days of Pompeii at this house. The scenic effect was capitally ad justed throughout the range of voluptuousness, crime, and deceit, until the awful termination, when the warningless extir pation came in the devastating form of the eruption of Vesu vius• The grouping, the incidents, and the machinery of the whole were very clever. The Interruption followed, as an in terlude, which is another version of the several things of the same sort in which the actors are mixed up with the audiency, and take their parts in the passing scene. The effect at this theatre was rather comic. The Ruined Chapel of St. Mark followed. SADLER'S WELLS. A new historical drama, called the Idiot Queen, or the Chapel of Miracles, has been performing at this theatre for the last week ; it is adapted from the French of Victor Du cange, by Mr. Milner, of prolific pen. We shall not give the plot, which is possessed of much interest, but merely state that it arises out of the intrigues of the Courts of Spain and France to obtain the succession to the throne of Navarre, and that it contains a striking picture, if correct, of the machina tions and plots upon which the fates of nations were formerly made to depend. The piece, though not very probable, is highly effective and dramatic, and was repeatedly applauded. A laughable burletta succeeded, called the Barber of Clerhen well, in which Mr. 11. Williams sustained the principal charac ter with great spirit, and sang a comic song which was encored. The last performance was Redmond the Rebel, a tale of the Irish rebellion. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sts,—l am sorry to be obliged to make a few remarks upon the report of a speech made by me at Croydon, and given in your paper of last night, which, I trust, you will do me the justice to notice. Apart from the vanity of wishing to see my maiden speech fairly reported, I would observe that, not only has it been so condensed as to have deprived it of the little ornament it possessed, hut in several parts there is a total per version of the sense. lam made to say, that "it was my opi nion, that while some had picked the pockets of the country, others were perhaps too rash ; that by such opinion, whether right or wrong, I was ready to rise or fall." The following is what I did say :—" That while on the one side the Aristocracy of this country had benefited by a long course of pillage, on the other hand the Reformers were accused of going too far ; that I was one of those who had been so accused, but that while I thus professed myself ready to push on, I begged no one would consider me as compromising with the political tenets of any party present; that I stood alone in the opinions I had formed, arid if wrong, I was ready to pay the penalty by • falling with them, but, if right, I was determined to rise." I am then made to say, " I am a Christian, and a friend to the Established Church." Now, as there is nothing I more despise than the common Methodistical cant of boasting in public of being a Christian, &c., I beg to say that I, on the contrary, " begged the electors not to conceive that because I had in my energy called on the name of the Almighty, that I was anxious to advocate to myself a large share of sanctity; that, on the contrary, I hated such boasts, and was ready to say that I was not one whit better than my neighbours, but, that while I professed myself no enemy of the Established Church, I blushed for the conduct of the ministers of that peaceful religion, whose meek Founder rode through the proud city of Jerusalem on the humble animal whose back still bore, according to the vulgar opinion, the mark of the fearful engine on which he died a painful and ignominious death. That when I thus remarked on the unfriendly conduct of many of that Church Establishment, I trusted no one would imagine the stricture as general; for, that I well knew, there were thousands of meek pastors scattered over the country, who were wholly and nobly employed in their peaceful duties." In conclusion, I would remark, and I feel proud in being able to do so, " that, after the eulogium I passed upon Lord Brougham, I proposed the health of him who had taught this country that knowledge was power," all of which has been omitted. lam the more ready to ask this justice at your hands, for I am sure that accident, not design, has been the means of my speech appearing in a mutilated form, since every attention and compli ment was paid to the press and its officers by the company, and amongst those who rendered your reporter every possible con venience and comfort, I think he will own was Your humble and obedient servant, 23, Grosvenor-street West, G. BEAUCLERK. Grosvenor-place, Jan. 26, 1835. SHIPPING—(THIS DAY). (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, JAN. 26.—Wind W., light.—The Lord Cochrane, for New Orleans, put back, and remains with the outward hound. Arrived the Perseverance, from Shields, for Plymouth. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 26.—Wind W.—Arrived the Swallow, Davy, from St. Michael's. Off port, the Swiftsure, from the Cape of Good Hope; sailed the Ist ult., and was dismasted on the edge of the Soundings PLYMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind W.—Arrived the Reliance, Waller, from Sicily. Off port, the Swift, Foulstone, for Lisbon. FALMOUTH, JAN. 25.—Wind W. to W. N. W., moderate,— Arrived the Frances Ann, Sau I,for Nlogadore. POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—His Majesty's ship Meteor, for the Lisbon mail of this day, the 27th inst., detained. Letters in time on the 30th. PENZANCE, JAN. 25--Arrived off, the Johannes, from Bal timore ; Breeze, Robinson, from Tarragona. MAP.GATE, JAN. 26.—Arrived off port the Ann, Kapp, from Nassau. BRISTOL, JAN. 26.—Arrived the Echo, —, from St. Michael's. MILFORD, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Pyrenees. Bush, from Leghorn, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having shipped a sea ; and the Advance, Ball, from Ancona. LivEurooL, JAN. 25.—Arrived the George Canning, Henry, from the Mauritius ; Margaret, Taylor, from the Cape of Good Hope ; William Mulvey, Jones, from Alicant ; James Hadden, Cobb, from Marseilles. Off port the Balfour, —, Bombay. WATERFORD, JAN. 24.—Arrived the Clonmel, Davis, and Regulator, Angel, from London. HULL, JAN. 25.—Arrived the Isabella, Paseley, from St. John's, N. B. ; Albion, Byrom, from Shelburne ; Balder, Host, from Gothenburg. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUS TOM-HOUSE, JAN. 26. Ramona, Strannack, from Rotterdam ; Catharine, Walford, Cape of Good Hope ; Royal Oak, Masters, Seville; Tam O'Shanter, Dyer, St. Michael's; Colyton Union, Good, Villavieiosa ; Vectis, Parsons, Mauritius ; Vrow Theresa Josepha, Simon, Antwerp ; Cornelia, Schonooahen, Wor corn ; Union, Clench, Trieste; Dolphin, Hampton, An cona ; Tallyho, Mitchell, St. Michael's ; Onyx, Chambers, Demerara ; Charlotte, Daniels, Calais ; Williams, Aiken, Havre. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, JAN. 26. Osbert, Dalrymple, for Dominica; London Merchant, Mown, Rotterdam; Philadelphia, Morgans, New York ; Hope, Boxer, Rotterdam ; City of Hamburg, Whittingham, Hamburg ; Vrow Freminginia, Braam, Amsterdam ; Le Bonne Mere, Scott, Demerara. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, JAN. 26. Albina, Gurney, for Demerara; Prince of Waterloo, Page, Ostend ; Lavinia, Cain, Sydney, N. S. Wales ; Adelina, Walton, Gibraltar ; Isabel, Chesser, Lisbon. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. Penyard Park, Dec. 9, midway between St. Helena and Ascension, by the Egham, arrived off Margate. Robt. Burns, sth inst., lat. 29, long. 41., by the Sybilla, arrived at Bristol. Lancashire Witch, from Liverpool, 10th inst. 40. S. E. off Cape St. Vincent's, by the Tyro, arrived at Stangate Creek. Emerald, of Bristol, 22d inst., lat. 48. long. 10. ; Delight, London to Alexandria, sth inst., off Malaga, by the Union, Clench, arrived in the River. Royal Saxon, Liverpool to Van Diemen's Land, Oct. 3, lat. 5. long. 15. Hector, Bombay to Liverpool, Oct. 3, lat. 25. S. long. 54. E. Sher burne, London to Bombay, Dec. 18, lat. 3. N. long. 22. W. Juliet, Greenock to Calcutta, 19th, lat. 5. N. long. 23. W. Malcolm, London to Bengal, lat. 8. 30. S. long. 38. 30. W. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. ARRIVALS AT MADRAS.—The Swallow, from Masulipatam, Aug. 17 ; the Isadore, from Coringa, the 18th : the Fame, from Calcutta, the 18th ; the Triumph, from Bombay, the 19th ; the Mermaid, from Bombay, Sept. 1, and sailed the 14th for Penang ; the Camilla, from Liverpool, Oct. 5. DEFARTUREs.—The Broxbornebury and s Juliana, Sept. 17 , the Orontes, the Africa, the Coromaudel, and Edmond, the 20th, for Bengal. ARRIVALS AT BATAVIA.—The Malcolm, from Liverpool, Sept. 19 ; the Napoleon, from Singapore, the 20th ; the Jane and Henry, from Sydney, the Samarang, from Manilla, the 22d. DEPARTURES.—The Courier de Manilla, for Bordeaa, Aug. 17_,- the Palinure, for Amsterdam, Sept. 21. DEPARTURES FROM SA MARANO,—TIIC Calcutta and Madras, Sept. 13 ; the Numa and Jane, the 17th, for Canton. ARRIVALS AT TIIE CAPE.—The Elizabeth, from Liverpool, Nov. 2 ; the Duke of Argyll, from Portsmouth, the 12th, and sailed on the 16th for Calcutta; the Antelope, from St. Helena, the 17th ; the Larkins, from the Downs, the 18th, and sailed the 20th for Madras; the Warblingtou, from Rio, the 19th. DEPARTURES.—The Venus, for Batavia; the John Stamp, for London ; and his Majesty's Rose, for Bombay, Nov. 11 ; the Britannia, for the Mauritius ; and Palinure, for Cowes, the 13th ; the Margaret, for Liverpool ; and Leda, for New South Wales, the 15th. MARCH OF REFORM.—The notion of some of the Tories of making a stand against the further progress of Reform is preposterous enough, judging - from the augmented size of the " Black Book " and its - Appendix. and Sir R. Peel would have inspited far more confidence in his future in tentions, had he,iu lieu cf thi vague promises of his Tamworth address, distinctly pledged himself to the reform of only one half of the political and Church abuses set forth in this extra ordinary volume. CHURCH REFORM. (PROM A CORRESPONDENT. Whatever may be the disposition of Government in the work of Church Reform which now seems to be agitating their councils, or the quality of compliance to be gained from the Bishops, the country can scarcely expect from such hands much effective pruning. The present Ministers are themselves so intimately associated with the perverted hierarchy of the Church of England, their patronage so extensive and valuable, their interests, personal and familiar, so interwoven with the misapplication of the Ecclesiastical revenues, that it is not to be supposed, auguring from the ordi nary tenor of human propensities, that a thorough and sweeping purification, such as to impartial, because disinterested, judgments will appear to be required, can be meditated by minds thus prejudiced. Of the Right Reverend the Spiritual Lords we de sire not to speak in terms unbefitting their holy loca tion. That there are many honest and sincere Chris tians among them, desirous of reform, it is not for us to dispute ; but we cannot help regarding with feelings of extreme jealousy any Church corrections which they could either propose or yield assent to ; the more especially, because their judgments must necessarily be biassed towards that fatal system which they have long erroneously considered as being recog. nised by Divine sanction, to modify which to any large extent must be deemed by them an act either op posed to the direct authority of Heaven, or assertive of a long previous course of self-condemning error. Of all Reforms that of self-purification is the mast gentle, the task most leniently imposed, the accom• plislnnent most soothingly limited. On a tender back the penitent can scarcely be expected to deal the mor- tifying stripes too heavily ; however contrite the mis doer, he would hardly pronounce against himself the same severity of sentence as the impartial functionary who is appointed to award the legal penalty ;—justice would be as feather-weight contrasted with the money which preponderates in the other scale. It is for reasons such as this that we suspect the inadequacy of Church Reform to be proposed by such self-tasking cor rectors. Without stopping to challenge the sincerity of their desire—which if not charitable, is at least not necessary—we doubt their fitness for the employment ; we have, however, the satisfaction of knowing that labourers to the full, equally zealous, of clearer vision, and less warped minds, will cheerfully assist them in the good work of expurgation, and Heaven send them all a good delivery MEMBERS RETURNED. IRELAND.—COUNTIES. Louth, Jan. 24.—Sir P. Bellew and R. M. Bellew, Esq. Cork, Jan. 24.—P. O'Connor, Esq. and J. S. Barry, Esq. STATE OF THE POLLS. -COUNTIES. Wexford, Jan. 43. IRELAND. Kerry, Jan. 23. M. J. O'Connell 1222 F. W. Mullins The Knight of Kerry Ponsonby DUBLIN. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) The letters which have arrived in town this morning (25th January) from Weiford, Cork, and Kerry, leave no doubt of the termination of the " Irish Elections" in favour of real, honest, unsophisticated, and unapostatized Reform. The his tory of this country, since her connection with England, affords no example of calm and cool determination, equal to that furnished by the result of the struggle just now ended. With a few exceptions, which only prove the general proposi tion, those candidates supposed favourable to the old Tory system of misrule, have been everywhere beaten. Never was a triumph more signal obtained, than that just achieved by the principles on which the Whigs have been conducting the Go vernment of the country for the last four years. A few weeks only have elapsed since Sir Robert Peel, the head of a Tory Ministry, proclaimed his determination to adopt in as full and comprehensive a manner as rational Whig ever contemplated, those principles which public opinion demanded, and which his opponents have been endeavouring to carry into effect against all the m clrinations of himself and his party. This would have been in itself the most unequivocal proof of the necessity for that Reform which has been going forward ever manifested, had not Sir Robert accompanied the declaration by a sort of entreaty, that his friends would not set him down as an apostate till after that " fair trial," which he insinuated would reconcile such seeming contradictions. " Pergis pug t- a n b a l l eitiaansdecum, influentialftibron p u e s rso a n d s v i e n rsi t s hi c s on c l o p u o n n t e r r y e :;re M d a o n f y ag re it s a p t e io c and apprehensive of the extremes to which some of our politi cians seemed inclined to push Reform, sailed this manifesto as a sincere indication of the policy of the new. Ministry. But they were soon undeceived. The dissolution of rZ liament removed the delusion which had nearly pervaded the count;; The people became fully sensible of the ruse practised for the purpose of reinstating the old faction, and they have through out the land recorded their determination never again to sub mit to the domination of a party which has, by its policy in Ireland, almost barbarised the country, and rendered the people disaffected to British connection. The Dublin and county Wexford elections prove this to demonstration. Nothing but the dread of Toryism returned O'Connell for this city. You may be assured that his thwartings of the late Government, and his indiscreet appeals to the people on recent occasions, had greatly alienated from him all peaceably and well-disposed persons; and if any Liberal candidate, not the nominee of the Orange clique, had set up for this city in opposition to O'Connell, he would have been returned. Some hundreds of electors re fused to vote for him, and even went to the other side ; and were it not for the patriotism of a few Liberal men, who came forward on the last day of the poll, more from hatred of as cendancy than love of O'Connell, that gentleman would not now be Member for Dublin. — The same feeling actuated the people of the county of Wexford, which has long felt sorely the sad effects of Tory ascendancy. Lord Loftus, son to the Marquis of Ely, was expected to offer himself; and as his family are Tories and have great influence among the gentry of that county, the people became alarmed, and in order to pre serve their independence, pledged themselves to Messrs. Power and Mayer, almost strangers to the county. By this means Mr. Cliff, brother-in-law of Lord Carew, and Mr. Redman, a Catholic, both respectable men, supported by a very intelligent portion of the constituency, have been de feated. It is a mistake to say, however, that popular excite ment, the influence of O'Connell, or the priests, prevailed in hese two instances. Victory was won solely by negative merit—hatred of Toryism. The return of Mr. Ronayne, in despite of wealth, power, and Tory influence in Clonmel proves the same thing; while Mr. Wyse's representation of his na tive city of Waterford proves two important facts—that the people of this county are beginning to appreciate talent and integrity, and that they will not be imposed upon by old ene mies with new professions. O'Connor and Bally have been returned for the county of Cork by a majority of upwards of 500. Maher and Power have 500 over their opponents in Wexford, and there are not 300 more electors to be polled. There is also a great majo rity for O'Connell and Mullin in Kerry. The latter more than 200 over the Knight of Kerry. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, JAN. 24.—The Bordeaux journals say that Mina left Pampeluna on the 17th. On the following day, a strong detachment of the Queen's troops went to Iran to receive a convoy with money and ammunition, sent from Bayonne, and conducted it to St. Sebastian. Zumalacarreguy, on his side, displays great activity, and the Sentinelle says it will hardly be possible to put an end to the struggle without foreign intervention. On the 14th, at two o'clock in the afternoon, Zumalacarreguy set out from Alegria (Alava) with some battalions, some wall pieces and a 12-pounder, to attack the fort of Maesta, in which there are 800 Christinos. This entrenched barrack is at the junction of the roads of La Riaja and of Biscay, to Arragon. The Christinos have 6,000 men at Zat ella. The Christinos intend to fortify Lumbier. Several journals have announced that the tribunals at Paris did not sit on the 21st of May. This is wholly in correct, as any one may convince himself by casting - his eye on the Gazette de Tribunaux of the 22d January,. which contains several sentences pronounced the day before.. It is certain that the Courts and Tribunals at :earls sat and passed sentence on the 21st as on other days, and we can not conceive how it should be otherwise after the formal abrogation of the law of 1816.—Messager, Jan. ,25. The London tradesmen are looking fo .rward to a productive and protracted season, as-there can b e little doubt of a more than usually numerous assemblage of the Members of both Houses, and of the sitting of I'arliamen reacLirp; late into the stuniucr. • EDINBURGH. MEETING of the SPECULATIVE SOCIETY. (Abridged from the Caledonian Mercury.) On Tuesday evening, the members of the Speculative Society residing in Edinburgh, celebrated the seventieth anniversary of its institution by a dinner in the Hopetoun Rooms, to which about seventy gent:amen sat down. Lord Jeffrey, supported by Lord Gillies and Nir..J. A. Murray, was in the chair ; and Sir George Clerk, supportetihy Lord Moncrieff and Professor Wilson, acted as croupier. When the cloth was removed, Lord JEFFREY rose to propose the toast of the evening, namely " The Speculative Society." They must all feel that it would be idle in him to detain them by any explanation of the value of such an institution, and the benefits it was calculated to be stow. But at the same time, having an advantage, not certainly much to be envied, in having to look back to his own experience from a greater distance tban almost any other person in the room—having also had longer op portunities than most of them of observing in others the ad vantages and disadvantages of having belonged to such an institution, he might be permitted to say, that all his observation and all his reflection had tended to enhance, in his estimation, the value of its advantages, and to di minish his fear of any dangers or hazards which it might be supposed to produce.—(Cheers.) But he could not take leave of the subject without also saying a word or two on what had been represented, and perhaps not without some colour of reason, to be the dangers and disadvantages of such an institution. He would not deny that an institu tion of this nature was not freed entirely from such ob jections ; but they were aware how natural it was in the early aspirations after philosophical pursuits, for young and ardent minds, to run into error ; but he verily believed that it was the safest and best course 'for its ultimate eradication to let such minds fairly exhaust themselves at an early pe riod of life. He believed that in the intellectual and physi cal, as well as in the moral nature, there was with ambitious and ardent spirits a liability more or less to excesses and outbreaks ; but which were best and safest to occur in early life. It was a common phrase that young men should sow their wild oats early ; he believed there were wild oats of the intellectual as well as of the moral nature, and the sooner they were sown the better—(Cheers.) The ground was thereby sooner cleared, and in the crop of after-life the tares were less likely to be mixed with the wheat. Thus the mind was enabled to extinguish the glitter of paradoxes by the application of principles early engendered—was armed against the deceptive influences of scepticism and error, and accustomed to look back on them as among its early puerilities, which in its yet untried youth it had com batted and overthrown—( Loud cheers.) Snch, he conceived, were the chief advantages of the Speculative Society in a moral and intellectual point of view ; that it not only tended to extend and enlarge the charities of intellectual life, but in reality it encouraged and enabled its members to form a justcr estimate both of themselves and of other men. And though last, certainly not among the least of its advantages, he was inclined to place the actual enjoyment and enuo- Wing gratification which it produced. For his own part, in looking back to that period of his life when he had expe rience of this Society, he could hardly conceive anything in after-life more to be envied than the recollection of that first burst of intellect—(Cheers) —when free from scholastic restraint, and throwing off the thraldom of a somewhat ser vile docility, the mind first aspired to reason, and to question nature for itself—(Cheers)—and, half wondering at its own temerity, first ventured without a guide into the mazes of speculation, or tried its unaided flight into the regions of in tellectual speculation—(Cheers)—to revel uncontrolled through the bright and boundless realms of literature and science. —(Great cheering.) True it was that all those hopes were not realized—that those proud anticipation: , were often destined to be humbled ; but still, could it be doubted that they were blessings while they lasted, or that they tended to multiply the chances of their being one day realized? The Learned Lord concluded by giving " Pros perity to the Speculative Society," which was drunk amid enthusiastic applause. Sir GEORGE CLERK proposed " Prosperity to the Uni versity of Edinburgh."—(Cheers.) Professor WILSON rose and returned thanks in his own name, and in the name of his brother Professors. It had, he said, frequently been his lot to return thanks for the same toast, in various meetings, but he had never been pre sent at any meeting where the toast was given in a manner more to his satisfaction and pride than on that occasion— where he was surrounded by men of the highest education, who took their stand upon knowledge as the only ground upon which they would condescend to stand—when he re collected, considered, reflected, and felt, that they must have warm hearts to the University of Edinburgh—when he considered that there they had laid up these stores of knowledge—where they had first cultivated the germs of feeling and thought—where they had pro duced beautiful flowers, which had since ripened into substantial fruitage. His friend, Sir George Clerk, had alluded to the great men of former times, who had filled the Chairs of that University. That allu sion, he was sure, must have awakened many tender, many lofty recollections in the hearts of those present. The most distinguished men there had lived in habits of amity and friendship with no less men than Stewart, Playfair, Leslie, Gregory, and others, who bad spread the fame of the University of Edinburgh over the bounds of the civi lized world.—(Cheers.) It would be ungenerous, unjust, and unphilosophical, and showing an ignorance of human affairs, if they expected that, at every particular period of our history, the University should present the same con stellation of genius as the past. It would be hard, indeed, if we should be eclipsed by a comparison with the lustres of our predecessors—it would be hard if the glory of the Seminary should be thus turned against itself—and if it should be said that we were small men, because these were giants. This would be unfair, unless it could be shown that we were not willing from the same golden urns to draw light, and to hold it up to the generous youth who attend our prelections. He concluded by returning thanks for the honour which had been done to the Professors of the Uni versity, by so many of her chosen and most distinguished sons.—(Cheers.) k larofessor WILSON again rose, and begged to propose Th e h t ,lth .. of Lord Jeffrey."—(Great and continued cheering.) T h je was no man living who respected Lord Jeffrey's pr i va t e e b ar izter more than he did—there was no man living who admired int: various and transcend:rat ta lents and great genius more than be did. Ho w ould sa y so boldly ; for h had expressed that _respect and that asi miration in private more than a hundred times when ne cessary, and he would again express it hundreds of times before the world. In early boyhood, when a student at the University of Glasgow, he well remembered the vivid impression made upon his mind, and the high in terest excited among the students there, and of himself for one, to see something of the light of that then rising star.—( Cheers.) He was pleased to remember those days, because they brought back to his mind the generous en thusiasm of youth—those thoughts and feelings of which he then largely partook, and the recollection of the deep impression made on his mind by the various interesting anecdotes which then floated about, concerning Lord Jef frey's brilliant though short career. At that period, lie well remembered with what impatience he hurried to the Courts of Justice, to hear the eloquence of that astonishing pleader. He remembered how he was used to look askance at the pale, quivering look of the cul prit at the bar, when all the evidence seemed to condemn him, until he rose, the culprit's friend, the friend of the wretched and the destitute, and when they heard from his lips that commanding eloquence and power of argument, learned at a higher school than the University—those gene rous emotions of the heart, and those brilliant scintillations of the heart and of the reason. Speaking as he was to some yet young, those sentiments would not appear to be misplaced : for there and had been many instances of bright promise in youth which has not been fulfilled—where mis fortune or disease had nipt the bud of promise, and ob scured the dawn before it could break forth into the glare and sunshine of meridian day.—(Cheers.) But that was far from the case with the distinguished person who now filled the chair. His reputation waxed brighter and brighter, and it was not many years before strangers came from afar to listen to his eloquence, and to carry his fame into distant countries.—(Great Cheering.) His eloquence was as remarkable for its power as for the warmth of colouring which his heart threw over it, and fo i s fancy combining the richest energies of political, imagination. He (Professor Wilson) trusted that he had shown in his own life, obscure as it was in many respects, that he had a heart capable of feeling such things. He hoped he had a fancy equal to understand and to go along with him (Lord Jeflrey) at whatever distance—at all times free from jealousy and envy, and still more so at that mo ment when lie was called upon to express those emotions. At the time when Mr. Jeffrey flourished, the Bar of Scot land had never been stronger in its strength ; and he (Lord J.) was one of a constellation as bright as any that ever shone, though many had shone there, and many of them were present at that hour. He (Professor W.) pre sumed that he might say, that when that bright career, in the natural course of things, was clothed with the higher honours of the profession, and when lie was made to sit on that Bench which he had for so many years, and for hun dreds and thousands of times astonished with his matchless eloquence, it was the universal feeling of the country that he was well entitled to sit there.—(Cheers.) No false delicacy should prevent him ; not even the presence of the illustrious man himself should prevent him fiom ex pressing his admiration of the great and original genius which had extended the fame of Scotland, and added dig nity to its national character.--(Cheers,) It was not of Lord Jeffrey that he wished to speak. He was anxious to place before their notice that highly-gifted person who was endeared to the Society, and known to the civilized world, as Francis Jeffrey.--(Tremendous cheers.) The Learned Professor then uttered an eloquent eulogium o the literary and critical labours of Lord Jeffrey ; freely expressing, at the same time, and in a strain of most ins• passioned and stirring eloquence, a decided dissent from some of his critical dicta, especially with regard to the poets who had been classed together as constituting the Lake school—(Loud cheering)—in the course of which he alluded to the manner in which he had brought into notice the writings of Crabbe ; and, but for whit,'-,, the works of that eminent poet would not perhaps at this day have been so highly appreciated. He alluded also to his criticisms on Burns, and remarked that it was a calumny to say that Lord Jeffrey had libelled the character of that poet. • -After some further remarks on his Lordship, in his character of critic, and after a series of observations, as beautiful as we ever listened to in panegyrical oratory, on his virtues and amenity as a private man, the Learned Professor concluded by proposing the health of Lord Jeffrey, which was drunk with loud acclamation. Lord JEFFREY said that he had long thought eloquence might be best defined as the art of exaggeration—(Laugh ter) —and in the speech of his eloquent and Learned Friend, he was not surprised that his ardour had betrayed him into an exaggeration of which he (Lord Jeffrey) hoped he was a little more sensible than some others of his auditors. He really had not anticipated the very kind and undeserved compliments which the Learned Profesior had just bestowed upon him ; but he begged leave to tender his most sincere and heartfelt thanks for the honour done him ; and while he must make a large discount from the tribute paid to him, he was still willing to believe that, in their cooler moments, and when the excitement caused by the powers of the orator had subsided, there would be a sufficient residue of good opinion left to gratify the most craving appetite for praise. —(Cheers.) He beg g ed to be allowed to propose a toast which had been assigned to him. The name which he had then to utter was one which had for many years been more before the public than any other man in this country,forpraise • and for blame ; and he hoped so to present it to them as to insure their universal and cordial approbation. The high ta lents and extraordinary powers which the individual to whom he alluded had brought into public life, had early arrested the attention of the country. But they who ascend into high places cannot hope to escape unscathed by the light nings, or unruffled by the storms which prevail in those exalted regions. In the wars of the giants., heavy blows must be given and received. It was not, however, in this more imposing and polemic character that he now begged to offer to their notice the name of Henry Brougham.— (Cheers.) He wished them to consider him now not only one of the brightest ornaments of this Society, but as the unwearied and distinguished friend, from his youth up to the present day, of education, of literature, of science, and of general instruction--(Loud cheering)—and he recom mended him to their kind consideration as the most dis tinguished advocate of all the great and important branches of human culture and national improvement this or any other age had beheld. From the time ut which lie had first delighted his contemporaries in this Society—from the time when yet in his nonage he pro duced a work of profound science, which strongly attracted the attention of all the learned then in Europe, from Se racuse to Copenhagen--from those periods down to the time when, seated on the woolsack as Lord Chancellor of England, amongst his multifarious avocations, and amidst the toils of State, he still found leisure to lay the founda tion of Societies for the instruction of the lower orders; and to write elementary works for their instruction.--(Cheers.) During the whole of that time he had never ceased to pur sue, with untiring zeal, the same great object of promoting the education and intellectual and moral improvement of every order in the community. Whether, in his earlier efforts, he combated narrow prejudices against the admir able improvements of Bell and Lancaster (since carried to a far higher pitch of perfection by our excellent townsman, Mr. Wood), or, in his place in Parliament, underwent Herculean labour in endeavouring to reclaim the funds which the wisdom of our pious ancestors had dedicated to the purposes of education, from the perversions of after in dolence or cupidity—whether by encouraging the establish ment of Mechanics' Institutes and Schools of Arts, in every part of the empire, and that not merely by giving and so liciting large pecuniary contributions, but by procuring for them the still more invaluable benefits of safe and zealous intellectual guidance, and actually furnishing them with pat terns and models of the sort of discourses and expositions with which they ought to be supplied, or by afterwards organizing the publication of cheap and useful treatises upon every subject of useful and entertaining knowledge,and actually, in the midst of the infinite toils, and cares, and distractions, of the last. four eventful years, writing with his own hand treatises of this description, and making large contributions to new editions of works, in which religion and philosophy were blended. During that long period of more than thirty years, he had never rested nor paused, nor turned aside for an hour from the great task to which his life had been de voted, and for his efforts in which he knew that be was most desirous to be remembered. Among the many won derful things that belonged to him, it was not the least, that of him only it could be said with truth, that in the midst of all his avocations, he had done more in support of literature, general instruction, and philanthrophy, than any other individual whom he (Lord Jeffrey) could name or call to , his recollection had done, who had devoted his whole life to nothing else. He could not propose Lord Brougham's health without recalling to his own recol lection, and to that of some present, the effect which his early appearances had upon this Society—their ad miration of the versatility of his talents, his fertile -and exhaustless fancy, his intrepidity and even apparent rashness, but which was proved in the end to be but in stinctive consciousness of power, encountering all subjects, that power of illustration, that ardent and somewhat fero cious eloquence with which he scorched, and blasted, and overthrew all those who dared to give him battle.—(Leid cheers.) Having adopted, with the enthusiasm of his cha racter, a decided political course, it cannot be surprising that his efforts should have not been pleasing to those who differed from him in opinion ; but he (Lord Jeffrey) trusted lie might say this, that a man of such a stamp and such a character, the Speculative Society must be proud to claim as a member.—(Great cheering.) • He doubted not that the meeting would acknowledge him' their most distinguished member ; and it was in that ehii racter that be (Lord Jeffrey) now proposed his health . ..-. (Long continued cheering.) Lord GILLIES then gave " The memory of Sir Walter Scott," which was drunk in solemn silence. Several other excellent speeches were afterwards deli vered, which our limited space will not allow us to give. ; stfter which the company separated, having passed a delight ; ful evening. '.THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY).' ptAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trussei.) CU MBERLAND. Coal's'. beavy•;•owland Meadow Hay L 4 u to Z 4 . 6 'Zew Meadow lial , 4lO - 5 5 Useful Old Dittir,.. ..... 4 10., 5 2 0 Fine Upland sleadeo,w and Rye grass Hay . 5 5 5 0 Clover Hay - 5-;4 Cat Straw. .... ...... :,71 10 to Cl 121 Wheat Straw II4 . 1 1 - SMITHFIELD . . .. Coarse heavy Lowland geb;:dow Hay £3 15 to £4 . . 0 New Meadow Hay .. 4 I(1 .5 • 5 Useful Old Ditto ye_g,. rase Hay - 4-15 Fine Upland Me { low and R 50, - • 51.:5 (lover Hay ( extra line .........5 lb. Generally ~ ..... 40, 5 5 Oat Straw ......... x l6to £ 1 8 • heat Straw ... 110 113 HUNGEL I FORD. Connie Meadow Hay ..... ........f3 lb to £4 0 40 4 1 New Meadow Hay ... 4 10 ... 3 Useful 01,1 Ditto ..... 4 5 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye grass Hay .;.. 0 0 5 0 Clover Hay 12 lb 5 Oat Straw £0 0 to £0 0 I Wheat Str.'q r MINING INTELLIGENCE''. Tons.Cwt.Qrs. Quantity of C o pper Ore sold ~ ...,r23 0 0 Quantity of fine Copper ..... •.:7; 15 0 Average Produce B% ...... ......., . Amount of Sale, 20,5 ifi . 1 7s. 6d.—Average Standard, !CPI 4s. J. ( COLONIAL MARKETS.—( THIS D AY. ' BRITISH ' PLANTATION SUGARS.—The del Tories last week were 2,200 hhds. The demand is steady. Further accounts from the West Indies are looked for most anxiously. East India and Foreig n Sugars and Coffees are in dema nd, and British Plantation Coffees arc also in good request, at last week's, advanced. Low mid. Jamaicas fetch 975. 6d. to 98s. 6d. per cwt. Good to fine ord., 80s. to 965., and ma to good Berbice, 100 s. to 106 s. 6d. per cwt. Rest.—The delivery has rather increased both for exporta tion and home use : it amounts to 700 puncheons, at last week's prices, all firm. TBA.—The small sale announced for this week, by the Co lumbian, has produced no effect. The speculation demand is not so active. The deliveries continue steady. RICE.—The accounts from India represent that injury had been done to the crops, and the markets here are firm. About 4,000 bags have been sold at improved prices. CorroN remains inactive, but WooLs are more in demand. Taf.tow.—A further decline has taken place in Tallow thi morning, and sales have been made at 385. per cwt. A good deal of merriment was caused at the Kil dare election by. one of the agents sending up an ob j ection to the assessor against James Fitzgerald, on the grounds, as stated in the objection paper , of b ein g an infidel and insane:—.Dublin Evening Packet. CIIURCII REFORNI.---NON-RESIDENcE.—The following are some of the pleas for non-residence admitted by the present act, 57 George 111., c. 99, s. 15 Serving as stipendiary curate of another parish. 2. Being master or usher of any endowed school. 3. Being master or preacher of any hospital or incorporated charitable foundation. 4. Being endowed lecturer of any other place, or chaplain of any endowed chapelry, or preacher of any endowed preachership. 5. Serving as preacher in any proprietary chapel. 6. Be chaplain of any garrison ; of the Military Asylum ; Military Academy ; Military College ;• Greenwich'Hospiver 41VOlvia Hospital ; Hasiar Hospital ; Vlymouth 4,41',1,19L1 .P eni t e ntiary r". • Asylum ; Navy ; Newga te ; pr any British Factory abroad. 7. Being teal Academy. 8. Being principal surrogatqar clesiastical court. 9. Being librarian to the or o r Sion College. 10. Being one thp Crewe's charity. . ' 011/T: "e