The Sun. — London, England, 1835-03-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. Ward, it is stated picks up the lost cudgels of Mr. Hume, and is this evening to take his revenge for failing to stop the supplies a few days ago, by now persuading the House, if he can, to refuse the Army Estimates. The hon. gentleman must know very little about Ireland if he fancies that there is magic enough in his abstract principle, touching the contingent con vertibility of Church revenue in some possible and spe culative cases to restore peace to the turbulent pea santry of Ireland, and so dispense with a standing arm) for the protection of property and life. Will the pea sant find his landlord easier to deal with than the clergyman ? Will he not pay more rent in proportion as he pays less tithe? Will agitation be put down by this measure, however politic ? Will the conspiracy of the Popish priesthood, for the unsettlement Of all property, and for a system of retaliatory confiscations ? Believe it not, Mr. Ward, and put your motion in your pocket. Should you, however, persis!, in it, we call upon the House of Commons to consider calmly what the proposition is which that motion substantially in spirit, though not in letter, impli. It is this : "No money shall be voted for th es e atmy : in othe r words, the army is to be disbanded unless the King will govern by Whig Ministers. True it is, that the measure produced by Sir R. Peel is quite as good— nay, in some respects better than that introduced by the Whig Government last year ; but it must be re jected. No measure, however important—no business, however essential to the welfare—even to the existence of the State, shall he done, till the Whigs again are seated on the Treasury bench." If we understand the the character of English g entlemen, those are not mo tives with. which, either in or out of Parliament, they sympathize.—Times. It is understood that the motion of which Mr. Ward gave notice on Friday night, for postponing the con sideration of the Army Estimates till after the discus sion on Lord John Russell's motion on the subject of the Irish Church, will not be persisted in. It is also understood that the Opposition do not mean to divide on the bringing up the Report of the Resolutions on Irish Tithes. As the time fixed for the main battle, the 30th, is so near at hand, it has been thought by persons, whose opinions are entitled to great respect, that it would be better for the Reformers to avoid un necessary trials of strength, but to reserve themselves for the great struggle on the Appropriation. In the debate on Friday night, Sir Robert Peel stated that the queStion with regard to appropriation ought to the settled before proceeding with the Tithe Bill. This may be said to furnish another rea son why the debate and division should take place on the motion of Lord John Russell on the 30th, rather than on the 'Report of the Resolutions. Mem bers, however, ought to be most assiduous in their attendance the whole of this week. The Spectator has published a list of no fewer than 121 Members who voted in the Majority on the Address, absent on Friday night ; and it is quite obVious that but for the circumstance of the absentees being so very numerous, and a few decided Reformers voting with Ministers, instead of having a majority of fifteen, they would have been in a considerable minority. Throughout,l the whole week the business before the House will be . of the most interesting character. This day the Orange Societies form the subject of debate. To morrow the case of intimidation, brought before the House by the Chatham petitioners, will form the principal question. The conduct of Colonel Tremen heere is loudly reprobated in every quarter. We trust the lesson to be react to this officer will not be thrown away on other men in command.—Morning Chronicle. The Sunday organ of the High Church party still fights shy of the important subject of Church reform a subject which might justly be called peculiarly its own. This week its readers are again subjected to dis appointment, to another put-off, and that from a cir cumstance, as is alleged, over which the expectant writer " has no control." Our contemporary. however, ventures one suggestion on the composition of the Church Commission, from which we must dissent. He does not think the Commission half clerical enough, and says that " the Church and the country would feel infinitely more secure, and much better satisfied, if some members were added to the Commission, to be selected from the inferior grades of the sacred profes sion." We, on the other hand, are of opinion that were there more laymen upon the Commission its la bours would, probably, be both more searching, and in the end, perhaps, to the full as effectual and satisfac tory. The contrary opinion proceeds upon the mis taken idea that Churchmen alone are qualified to judge of Church matters, and on this occasion on the subject of Church Reform. Were the object one of Church discipline merely, we could more readily fall into this persuasion. As it is, the subject falls rather within the axiom which defines men as bad judges in their own cause. Besides, it is an evident mistake to sup pose that the great bulk of the Laity are not quite as much interested in the welfare and integrity of the Establishment as the Clergy can be; or are not, for the most part, quite as well informed as to its true interests, as well as the nature and extent of those Reforms by which those interests are most likely to be upheld and perpetuated.—Morning Herald. The motion of which Mr. Ward gave notice on Friday last, to the effect, " that on Monday (this day) he would move the consideration of the Army Esti mates be postponed until after the decision of the House on Lord John Russell's motion relative to the Irish Church," will, we have every reason to think, be either withdrawn or not pressed to a division ; the Hon. Member, upon more mature reflection, being aware that it would be not only unfair to the liberal side of the House, to bring forward a motion of such grave im portance in the absence of so many of its Members, but that a small majority upon it might prejudice that of Lord John Russell, which stands for the.3oth, and which will form the final test of confidence, or no confi dence, in his Majesty's present advisers. That the Tories will sincerely, whatever they may profess, rejoice at heart at this withdrawal, we do not believe. They know their position too well, whatever they may affect, to have any cause for just triumph—they are aware that in the space of eight not very long days, they will re ceive that for which they have professed themselves to be so eager, their just reward—they know that on the 30th the battle of freedom, of consistency, of ho nour, and not only of English but of European freedom, is to be fought, and that an army is mustering, and will be mustered against them, upon which they can not bring any force of equal numbers, courage, or ho nour to bear—they feel that even on Friday night— when they had a whip of their party, and a majority of fifteen, in consequence of no fewer than 121 of the Liberal Members being absent, and of Mr. Spring. Rice haying taken his supporters by surprise by mov ing an unexpected amendment—they were virtually beaten, and that there does riot exist the slightest , chance of a victory for them ; they know that the day of their dissolution is at hand, and can neither be evaded or postponed; and, therefore, however their organs may be directed to assume the semblance of joy, our readers may rest assured that no beam of light brightens the hearts of their leaders, and that whether their minds be made up or not for a re signation of the offices which they so shamefully usurped, and for the retention of which they have re sorted to such inconsistent, and, consequently, disho nourable expedients,—their defeat—certain defeat, if but two-thirds only of the Liberal Members do their duty—will be celebrated as a national triumph. In the meantime let us impress on these Liberal Members the absolute necessity of not only being present in their places on the 30th instant, when the great battle is to be fought, but of being present every day during the present week. Although no great motion may be brought forward, nor any important division take place in the course of the week, yet it is most important that the Liberal Members should be in their places, not only in case of any sudden division, but as a proof that they are not betraying the interests of their consti tuents. The absence of 121 Liberal Members is a - rather disagreeable pill to swallow. The 121 had better take care that the carelessness of the public interest which they have exhibited do not recoil upon themselves.—Morning Advertiser. In the last Political Register of the Honourable Member for Oldham, we find the following passage relative to the Marquis of Londonderry's resigna- Lion : " The Marquis of Londonderry must have been very cer tain that if he did not offer to decline they would have re quested him to decline, they well knowing that the House w ould not suffer him to go to Russia. And the lofty Wel lington and the lofty Peel, authors of the sublime Bourbon police, have thus crept out, not walked out, but crept out of the difficulty." We believe there are few better writers, and few abler men, in or out of Parliament, than the Honour able Member for Oldham. Had his moral been equal to his intellectual pre-eminence, he would have been a blessing instead of a bane—an honour instead of a shame —to his country. The vulgarity and the virulence of the above passage we shall pass by. They constitute the " essential difference" of the able and Honokrable Member, and mindful of the maxim naturam expellas, &c. &c., chassex la nature, elle revient an galop, or, in the vernacular of which the Honourable. Member is so admirable a master, " There is no making a silk purse," &c. &c., we shall take them as matters of course, and merely notice the malignant and unquali fied falsehood of which they are the appropriate vehicle. " The lofty Wellington" in the House of Lords, " the lofty Peel" in the House of Commons, neither " crept nor walked out of the difficulty," but firmly and mo destly declared their determination to maintain the ap pointment. Lord Londonderry, with a feeling of chi valrous delicacy which we are not unreasonable enough to expect the Honourable Member for Oldham either to understand or appreciate, resigned. If by the phrase " the House would not suffer him to go to Russia," the Honourable Member for Oldham means to insi nuate that the House could have prevented him, we should recommend the Honourable Member in future to eschew politics, and stick to , agriculture.—Morn ing Post. SECOND EDITIO SUN OFFI CE, Seven o'clock. THE PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presided in the absence of the Lord Chancellor. The NOBLE EARL presented a petition from a parish in Stirling, praying for protection to the Established Church. Petitions to the same effect were presented by Lord Wham cliffe ; the Earl of Roseberry, from Dumfries; and the Duke of Richmond, from Dundonald. The Duke of WELLINGTON moved that there be laid upon the table a copy of Correspondence between Sir Henry Hardinge and the Board of Education in Ireland.—Ordered. NEWSPAPER STAMPS. Lord BROUGHAM said he had a petition to present, which being of a different nature from that he presented on a former evening, as it contained no charge against any person, but merely attacked a system—as it merely stated opinions, in all of which he most cordially concurred—he would resume his old practice, and open the matter of the petition to their Lordships. The petition was signed by hundreds of the most respectable inhabitants of Lon don. In looking over it he found the names of Pro fessor Seuthwell and Birkbeck, Mr. Grote the Banker and Member for the city, and many others of that class, and it called their attention to the Stamp Laws as affected Newspa. pers. The Stamp upon such property was the largest of any now in existence—the Salt tax was the only one which could in former times be compared to it. The paper, however, was virtually sold for twopence, and upon that a si amp duty of 4d. ; certainly there was upon that a small drawback allowed, but that was counterbalanced by the difficulty often found in getting in that money which had been laid out in one sum for the stamps. Taking that into consideration, he was justified in taking that tax as one of 200 per cent. Papers were very useful things— they did not contain mere gossip. Dr. Payley had stated them to be both agreeable and advantageous to the public; but the poor man had no chance of deriving any of the ad vantages, and was therefore deprived of the gratification by the heavy price of 7d. being charged for a daily paper that put it entirely out of the power of the poor man to purchase it. By a calculation which he had made, he found that the number of papers stamped and sold throughout the whole country amounted to only 30 millions, including papers of all sorts, daily and weekly, town and country. That was a proportion amounting to not so much as 1-25th part of those sold in America, where the people had the same taste for reading, for knowing what was going for ward amongst their representatives in the courts of justice, &c. The proportion of the readers of newspapers in America was 1-25 or 1-80 more than those in England. If they took the Northern Islands, Alderney and Jersey, the proportion was between 16 and 20 times more newspapers sold there than in all England besides. That was a proof the heavy burden of the tax, and of its effect in curtailing the consumption of news papers. Another proof, and the only one he would mention in addition to those already named, was, that during the last 15 years of the history of France, where a very small stamp only existed, the increase was from 27,000 or 28,000 of the numbers of the newspapers sold, to 57,000 or 58,000, consequently the sale of newspapers was increased there to more than double, and that during the comparatively short period of fifteen years, although the habits of the people of that country were more averse to reading newspapers than those of England. Not only was this the cause of great loss to those engaged in preparing newspapers, but particularly to those who had a right to enjoy the privilege of knowing the political features of the day ; and he would add that it was a great loss to the country in reference to its best interests ; it was aloss also to the Government, and to the cause of good, lawful, and constitutional Government. That was his free and candid opinion. He did not think there was one thing better calcu lated to -promote the interests of the people and truly Conservative principles, he used the word Conservative in its best sense, and not in its offensive snnse, but in its strict sense, and in that sense there was nothing more conser vative than a constant, regular, and accurate knowledge of what was done by the Government and Legislature of the country. Nothing could be more conservative than that the people should from day to day see the reports of both Houses of Parliament, and have access to the full intelligence of what is said by their Representatives, and by their Lordships. They ought to be fully, constantly, cheaply, and instantly supplied, and that would be one of the most certain recipes that could be devised for the purpose of carrying on the Government with safety, and for the purpose of enabling the Legislature of carrying along with it the approbation of the people, because it would secure their intelligence and knowledge of what was doing. It was, in his humble opinion the duty of the Govern ment, and one of its highest and most imperative duties, not only to let the people judge of their acts, but to let them know the laws by which they were to be governeed, especially when a Government thinks proper to legislate, he might say by the gross, rather than by the score, although the former laws exceed 500 thick volumes, a Government that legislates from the highest subject, and taking in the most general subjects, those affecting the Constitution of the coun try, making that punishable which was not before so, and that criminal which was not so before, going down from these high subjects to the most minute matters even to legislating upon the dimensions o; a pan in which a man must per form certain operations—( Great laughter)—and providing for making the sides equal as well as parallel (he would produce an act to prove that) and for enforcing the mathematical truth by a penalty of 5/.—( Cries of " Hear, hear.") He mentioned these things only to shew the ne cessity of these details going forth to the people who were to act upon them. He did think he had a right to ask the Government to let the people know the dangers to which they would be exposed by violating any law, which they might easily do in ignorance.—( Hear, hear, hear.) A man ought to know wherein ho wus likely to become an offender. What means had they of teaching . the people law but by afford ing them an opportunity of following these laws from their em bryo state, and learning the details of their Lordships' debates from day to day in the public papers ? Another important use of these vehicles of publib information was this. The Courts of Law were, next to the procedings of the Legislature, the most important objects to which the public attention should be directed, and happily, it was a subject, which, so far from being averse to, the people were almost universally and most warmly attached. Nothing fur nished more matter for their perusal than the proceedings of Courts of Justice, and next to making the laws known,_ it was the duty of the Legislature to make the examples, which their violation occasioned, known to thel public. What use, he would ask, was there in hanging a person in the court yard of Lancaster Castle, before five or six hundred persons, and forty or fifty Westmorelsnd peasants, which was the system observed throughout the county palatine of Lancaster? What was the use of making such an exhibition in a place where the public could not see it, and when the criminals were mostly from Salford, Manchester, Liverpool, and Oldham? What object could be attained by making the punish ment of these malefactors a spectacle for the West moreland shepherds? What could be a greater absurdity, and what could be more effectual in putting a check to crime, than by allowing the public to read the details of crime and its punishment. These executions should take place in public, and although the number of persons who would attend them might be still comparatively small, yet the moment the details were published in hundreds and hundreds of newspapers, they would be in possession of all those particulars as well as if they had been present. It was almost as necessary that the public should be warned by the fact that punishment followed conviction, as that they should be invited to attend Courts of Justice, and advised to flock, throng and rcquent, on all civil and criminal trials.—( Hear, hear.) It was impossible that all his Majesty's subjects could be accommodated in these Courts, but the publication of the trials in the newspapers afforded the means of in troducing and making present all the King's subjects whom these Courts could not accommodate, or whose various avocations could not permit them to attend. This was another and prodigious advantage, which would civilize and bring into subjection those parts of the population—humanize them, if he might make use of thatl expression—by making them understand the princi ples on which the laws were administered , reconcile them I to harsh, necessarily harsh, provisions of the law, and give them hat sort of feeling and respect for the Government, for the Legislature, and for the laws, which would result ffom a more universal reading by the people, of those articles of intelligence which referred to the proceedings in Courts of Justice. Of that he believed no man who took the trouble for one moment of drawing his mind to the subject would entertain the slightest doubt. Last of all, he would beg leave to mention what he took to be a very important argument in favour of these publications. Many of the most zealous of those who had been for the last twenty or thirty years exerting themselves, in all parts of the country, in endeavouring to improve the education of the people of England, that was, by providing for them the means oflearning the elementary branches of education, and afterwards of providing for them cheap useful, innocent, and cheap publications for their several instruction and entertainment. He had found in all their proceedings, that up to a certain point they would go, but that beyond that point they could not go. Wherever men were gregarious, wherever they flocked together in large towns, it became tolerably easy to obtain admittance for cheap and useful publications, whether religious or moral ; but then was one class of the community, and one which formed a great part of the whole population, among whom he, for his part, had given over in despair all attempts at attaining the great end which he had sought, and this was neither more nor less than the peasantry part of the population. They laboured, they lived in cottages, they were farm servants, and they did not associate themselves with persons more civilized than themselves, but they laboured among persons of their own situation in life, and there fore it was impossible to gain access among them. ( Hear, hear.) It was found that, make those publications as cheap as you would, they got into the manufacturer's house into the town labourer's cottage, but across the threshold of the farm or the peasant's houses they did not enter. This applied chiefly to the rural population, but it appiied also to persons resident in small towns. But a newspaper might get into a farm-house, a country paper, or a town paper, but particularly the local paper, at all events the news would get there, for very often the door of the farm-house was closed against the paper, because the Chancellor of the Exchequer had his hand on the latch, and would not take it off so long as a tax of 4d. remained on the newspaper. Well, then, perhaps they get once a month a magazine, or once in three weeks, which they did not read much, but anything like a regular supply of papers they could not get. Hear.) Now he would say that if papers could be circulated among them, they would not only read what went on there in Parliament, but among other things, there would not be such nonsense talked as was frequently the case among the peasants. If the peasants could get those publications to read, they would not only be improved, but by and bye you would be able to send among them a reading of a still higher kind, and very soon they would get such a taste for literature, as that, if you were to reimpose the tax, which you had previously abolished, they would not, reien then, abandon their reading—that had been the result of his observation and experience.—( Hear, hear.) These were, generally speaking, the grounds on which the petition was presented ; they were very shortly stated—very clearly and very distinctly, though somewhat in different terms to those which he had stated in a sort of abstract. Now as to the objections raised to this proposition, he was persuaded that the revenue, by the post-office, by the ex cise of paper, and above all by the increase in the number of good publications which it would occasion, would be greatly benefitted. The revenue would be no loser, and according to the calculations which the late Chancellor of the Exchequer had in his possession, that it would receive a very great encrease in the article, if the whole stamp duty was taken off—( Hear, hear, hear.) It was said that the consequence would be an encrease of the number of the irreligious, immoral, seditious, illegal, and obnoxieus pnblica tions. There could be no greater mistake than this, though a very natural one, if adopted without proper examination. These immoral, seditious, and contemptible publications were now pub lished without a stamp. The late Attorney-General brought several such publications under his (Lord B.'s) attention, to have his judicial opinion respecting them. He showed him ( Lord Brougham) 163 such publications, and, hor rible fact 1 99 out of 1000 of them were unstampnd. and this was easily accounted for ; when a man pub lishes a libellous newspaper, in which ho recommends assassination, and as he ( Lord B.) saw one, actually lecturing the best means of setting fire to a hay stack— when a man can brace his nerves to preach murder and arson he requires but little additional courage to brave the Stamp Laws. The cheap articles are sold for a penny—the cheap, the obscene, the immoral, and licentious pub lications are supplied at a moderate price, while the continuance of the stamp duty makes the respectable article dear. The blasphemous paper pays nothing —the contraband deleterious article is made accessible to the public, and the wholesome one is unattainable by them._( Hear.) Suppose a Dutchman brought into this country deleterious contraband spirits, would an increase of the duty on the domestic spirits prevent its importation, would Rot the removal of the duty, on the contrary, remove the temp tation for smuggling the deleterious and unwholesome article? He ought to state that there were other cheap publications which were perfectly innocent and useful. He had made enquiries of two newsmen, and found that the propor tion of these cheap publications—he meant the bad ones— were as 16, 18, 32, and the utmost 56, whilst that of the:Sa turday Magazine, a more excellent publication, in stead of 56, was 750, and that of the Penny Maga zine, during the first year was 18,00. The tendency of these good publications was to drive the bad ones out of cir culation. This showed that if the Stamp Duty, which tied their hands was taken off, the success of good publications would be assured, and proportionally greater than it was at pre sant. These were the grounds upon which he had formed his opinions. He had known many who differed from him, but who, upon considering the matter amongst themselves, came over to his opinions. He hoped the House would give the subject further consideration—there was not one upon which attention could be better bestowed, and which tended more to the enjoyment, the character, and the improvement of he people. The petition was then laid on the table, and the House ad journed at a quarter to six o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at half past three o'clock. Mr. WALTER presented a petition from an individual, named Charles Jarman, against the Islington Market Bill. Mr. HODGE S presented a petition from the graziers of Sevenoaks, and another place in Kent, against the Islington Market Bill. Major BE AUCLERK presented some petitions from places in Surrey to the same effect. The following Members took the oaths and their seats : The Hon. C. E. Law (Recorder of the city of London), for the University of Cambridge, in the room of the late Speaker; Dr. John Nicholl, for Cardiff; James Mangles, Esq., for Guildford ; and another Hon. Member, who was unknown in the gallery. SPIRIT LICENSES. Mr. H. HUGHES presented a petition from the spirit retailers of Oxford, complaining of the extra duty of fifty per cent. charged on spirit licenses. As the Right Hon. Baronet the Chancellor of the Exchequer had promised to take the grievance complained of into his consideration, he (Mr. H.) would confine himself to a brief statement of the allegations of the petition. It alleges that while the large importers pay only 101. a year, publicans pay 15 gs., and that what are called gin. palaces are exempted from the h - nposition of the extra duty. The petitioners complained that in addition to this grievance, they were liable to have soldiers billited upon them. Such was the con sequence of this alteration, that out of 140 licenses in Oxford, 30 have been discontinued. So it appeared that the revenue was not benefited by the change as respects Oxford. He moved that the petition be brought up. Mr. MAC LE AN supported the prayer of the petition. Lord EBRINGTON presented petitions of a similar nature from Chumley and Appledon.—Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. TOOKE moved that the copy of the Charter of the London University, the return of which was ordered on his motion of the 17th March, be printed.--Agreed to. SEIZURE FOR MINISTERS' MONEY. Mr. O'D WYE R presented a petition from the Rev. T. Burke, a friar of the order of St. Augustin, whb was ap. pointed to officiate in the convent Chapel of Drogheda in the year 1832. The only support the Rev. Gentleman had was from the voluntary contributions of persons attending !lie cha pel, which seldom exceeded twenty shillings a week. Out of that sum were to be paid the wages of the organist, the bell ringer, town taxes, and other expenses. The chapeli it ap peared, was too small for the people, who were obliged to congregate for divine worship at the most inclement season of the year in the open air. Many of these poor, half-clad people were deprived of their last blanket, in order to defray the expenses of erecting a stately edifice for the purposes of a religion which they did not profess.—( Hear.) The peti tioner further complained that his dwelling-house had been entered by order of the Rev. Mr. Magee, and a portion of his scanty effects distrained, and were now under seizure for Mi nister's money. The petitioner thought it hard, that a clergy man of our religion should be compelled, out of the common necessaries of life, to contribute to the comparative taxing of the clergy of another religion, which had scarce any hearers.-- (A laugh.) He had read the petition, and was at a loss to know what was in the petition to excite the laughter of the Hon Member for Sligo. He (Mr. O'D.) thought it a case of extreme hardship and oppression. Colonel PERCEVAL was surprised at being taxed with laughing at the details of this petition—he was incapable of doing so—he merely laughed at the manner in which the Hon. and Learned Member pronounced a word. INTERFERENCE WITH ELECTIONS. Dr. BOWRING gave notiee that on Wednesday next he would call the attention of the House to the election for Blackburn, and the very despotic interference with the freedom of election in that Borough. The Hon. Member presented a petition from the hand-loom weavers, complaining of distress ; and a petition from Greenock praying for an uniform system of Weights and Neasures. Mr. NV. ROCHE gave notice that he would to-morrow present a petition from the Chamber of Commerce of Limerick, praying (as we understlod) that the restrictions in the port of London upon the shipping, and sale, of corn might be removed. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. Mr. WEYLAND presented a petition from some place in Devonshire, against the Great Western Railway. SPIRIT LICENSES. Mr. GULLY presented a petition from certain innkeepers of Pontefract, against the duty upon spirit licenses. He was happy to hear that his Majesty's Government intended to take the subject into consideration.—( Hear, hear.) CANTER - BURY ELECTION. ' Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a petition from Canterbury, denying all the statements in a petition pre sented a few evenings ago by Mr. Villiers, complaining of the THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1835. conduct of the cl erg y men in tampering with the electors t- o describes hinielf there as of No. 6, Cursitor-street, but now, it that city, in endeavouring to forward the election of the Mi- it seems, has gone back to No. 5. This was a fact totally nisterial candidat e . Th e Ri g ht Hon. Baronet had been in supprehssetd in the petition, and was it not manifest from formed that had it n o t b e e n f or the fact of several Clergymen this refusing to v o t e , th e H on . M em b er o pposite would have been tO'sCotnna there existed some collusion? Why he (Mr. O'Connell) could arraign that affidavit as a perjury in a minority. He believed it was the general rule were persons were led into After some observations from Mr. VILLIERS, in explanation, a mistake by others who had authority, then the House would and Mr. ROEIIUCK, th e p e titi on was ordered to lie on the table. give relief, but when a man made a mistake, as the agent or FACTORY BILL. party, that was a case in which the House would Mr. HARDY presented a petition from Bradford against not give relief. Under these circumstances, on the part of the Factory Bill. the sitting Member, he called upon the House to reject the tition. Mr. BAYNES h o p e d th a t the measure alluded to would be pe Mr. N. FITZIMON objected to the petition being read. acted upon by all parties in a spirit of conciliation and good- Major HANDLE Y had no hesitation in saying that Mr. will. Pers ons connec t e d w ith the trade were now directing Maclaren was totally incapable of doing that which had been their attention to that question with a feeling, and in a manner attributed to him. which he was sure would lead to a satisfactory conclusion. Mr. SHAW knew nothing of Mr. Maclaren, but he was sure He did not wish to say anything against this petition ; but he the House must be satisfied of the imp ossibilt y of brin g in g so should hav e b een b e tt er pl ease d if it had proceeded from indi serious a charge as peijury against any person who had acted viduals connected with the trade, instead of from clergymen as Mr. Maclaren had done. who had no practical acquaintance with the subject. Mr. Sergeant O'LOUG HLIN thought the House ought Mr. HARDY said that this petition had been chiefly got not to receive the petition. up by persons who had attended all the meetings on the sub- After a few words from Mr. Freshfield, Mr. Bridgeman, ject, and that their only motive in petitioning was that of advo- Colonel Evans, Mr. C. Wynn, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Warhur eating the cause of humanity by protecting defenceless children. ton, Sir R. Peel, and Mr. Spring Rice , Mr. H. L. BUL WE R presented a petition from a number Sir R. PEEL thought that it would depend entirely on of licensed victuallers against the amount of spirit licenses, and the fact of those circumstances being able to be substantiated. Col. Sibthorp supported it. Lord STANLEY support of the Established Church of Scotland. inquiry should be made at the Bar of the House. (LEFT SPEAKING.) ORANGE SOCIETIES. Col. VERNER presented a petition from the members of the Grand Orange_ Lodge of Ireland on the part of that Society, praying th e House to appoint a Select Committee and examine witnesses, as to the origin, progress, and tendency of the Institution known by the name of the •' Loyal Orange Institution of Ireland," or to appoint such other means of inquiry as to the House might seem meet. The petitioners also prayed that the inquiry might be extended into the cir cumstances which rendered necessary the formation of such a society of the Protestants of Ireland, because they felt con vinced it would appear they had associated together for self defence, and for the support of the Established Church of Ireland. The Hon. Member then moved that the petition be read. Mr. SPRING RICE felt indebted to the Hon. Member for presenting this petition, particularly as it referred to a motion that was to be made to-night, and he trusted that the inquiry would be made not only into the origin and progress, but into the consequences of those societies.—( Hear, hear.) Any thing short of that, he considered, would be partial and unfair. PARLIAMEN TARY BUSINESS. HOUSE OF COMMONS ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Carlow County Election (Letter to Mr. Speaker)—Adjourned Debate thereupon. Deputy Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper in Ireland to attend. 2. Tithes (Ireland)—Report thereupon. 3. Bankrupts' Estate Bill—Second reading. 4. British Territories (India) Bill—Second reading. 5. Illegal Securities Bill—Committee. 6. Supply—Committee. 7. Ways and Means—Committee. 8. Ennis Borough Election—Petition of Mr. Baker to be consi dered. Mr. H. MAXWELL said, that holding one of the highest situations in the Orange Societies of Ireland, he begged leave to say, that he fully concurred in the prayer of the petition which had just been presented. This was precisely the course he had intended recommending the Orange Societies throughout Ireland to pursue, but they had anticipated his intentions by the present petition. When the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite brought forward his rctotion, as he hoped he would do, for a Select Committee, he trusted that the appointment of that Committee would not be opposed by the Government. CITY OF DUBLIN ELECTION. Lord J. RUSSELL rose to present a petition of consider able importance as affecting.the election for the City of Dublin, and which might also materially affect the Committee which was to be appointed on Thursday. He did not think it proper at this moment to deliver any opinion on the subject, but should content himself with stating the prayer of the petitioners. The petitioners had sought the opinion of a very high legal authority ( Sir T. Esdaille) on the nature of their re quest, and in accordance with that, they had requested him ( Lord John Russell) to lay before the House the 3 petitions he now had the honour to present. One was signed by 1,400 elec tors of the City of Dublin ; another by 13,000 householders and inhabitants of the county ; whilst the third had received si,gnatures of 4,000, living in the parish of St. James, in that city. The statements of the three petitions agreed in substance. They state that they do not wish to interfere with any election petition as disposed of by this House, but as they understand it is the intention of this House to inquire into the validity of the registration of electors at the late election for Dublin, as well as to call in question the right of certain persons to vote, in not having paid their cesses, they are anxious to lay before this honourable House their sentiments on this oc casion. They state that in order to ascertain the validity of these parties, and to go into this scrutiny, the Com mittee as now established would render it necessary to bring over not less than one thousand witnesses, and that the ex pense would average five pound each individual—an amount which would involve the City Representatives in a ruinous expense. They therefore pray that the scrutiny may be conducted by a Commissioner in that city, appointed by this House, instead of by a Committee, as now constituted. The Noble Lord then continued—That though he had con sented to bring these statements under the consideration of this House, as he had before observed, he did not feel it his duty to offer an opinion on the subject. Whether they were rounded in justice, or not, he did not pretend to say ; or if there were any legal remedy, now was not the time for enter ing on the subject. On the petition being brought up, Mr. SHAW said it was not in the power of this House to interfere with a petition affecting its representation, and as lie thought it was only a Committee of the House to enquire into it. So far as the expense of which they complained, 8 would be sufficient to prove the case on the part of the petitioners. Lord J. RUSSELL said that certainly eight witucti.-4.3 might be possible to establish the case as far as the petitioners were concerned, yet it might in all probability be absolutely necessary to subpoena them all on the part of the parties more immediately implicated. MANNING THE NAVY. Mr. BUCKINGHAM gave notice of a resolution relative io the encouragement of the enlistment of seamen for his Ma jesty's fleet, the purport of which could not be heard in the gallery. IMPORTATION OF CORN. Mr. BARING brought up the Report of the Committee on the illegal importation of corn into the channel. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in moving that the Report be printed, made a few observations which were quite inaudible. Mr. SPRING RICE trusted that the report would afford the necessary information to the House._ EXECUTION AT WATERFORD. Mr. O'CONNELL gave notice that on the Capital Pu nishments' Abolition Bill (as we understood the Hon. and Learned Gentleman) he should call attention to the case of a man who had been executed at Watetford by mistake for another person.--( Hear, hear, and a laugh.) Mr. MAXWELL presented a petition from the handloom weavers of some town in Lanarkshire. COUNTY OF MEATH. Mr. H. GRATTAI;I ;eingtheßight Hon. and Gallant Officer, the Secretary for Ireland in his place, begged to ask two questions; the first was respecting a grant of money, the object of which was not heard in thcii gallery ; the second was whether it was the intention of Government to appoint the Noble Lord, the father of the late unsuccessful candidate for Meath (the lion. Mr. Plunket), to the Lord Lieutenancy of that county. Sir H. HA RDINGE, in reply to the first question, as it involved the rights of the Crown he could not give any decided answer to it. As to the second question, he believed it was the intention of the Government to appoint the Noble Lord (Dunsaney) to the situation of Lord-Lieutenant of the county of Meath. A Message was received from the Lords. CARLOW ELECTION PETITION. The Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper Office (Ireland) was then called in. On appearing at the bar of the House, in re ply to a question from the SPEAKER, he stated that his name was John Hart, and that he had held his present situation, as Clerk in the Irish Hanaper Office for six months. In answer to Mr. Spring Rice, he proceeded to state that he had received a petition on the Carlow Election from a gentleman whom he believed to be Mr. Wallace, and that he told that gentleman, that it was customary, according to the rules and usage of the office to lodge a copy of every petition. It was the chief clerk who informed him that such was the practise. The office closes at three o'clock, but kept it open till half-past three on the day in question to accommodate Mr. Wallace ; did not, in fact, leave the office on that day till near five o'clock. had heard that Mr. Wallace attempted to present his petition at a later hour ; only knew this from a letter published by Mr. Wallace ; that letter was true except that it did not mention that I told Mr. Wallace that the olce closed at three o'clock; the office was regulated in that respect by Plunkett's rules ; has heard of the orders of the House of Commons for regu lating the receiving of petitions, but was not aware of them at the time Mr. Wallace's petition was presented ; has since seen the orders, and finds that it is the duty of the Clerk of the Crown in Ireland to receive petitions and make a copy of them himself, and transmit the petition to the Speaker—the day in question was the last day for ieceiviny petitions—there had been tea petitions presented that day—if I had been aware of the orders of this House at the time, I should have felt it m y duty to receive the petition at the time it was tendered, but I could not make a copy of it. In answer to Mr. F. SHAW, W. Herl said :that it was his duty to send the petition by that night's post. Mr. SPRING RICE thought, under the circumstances that had been stated, the House would think there was no difficulty in the way of receiving the Petition. It was, however, evident, that Mr. Wallace had done everything - that was required of him. He (Mr. Spring Ri ce ) thought, therefore, that he ought not to be de prived of his rights in consequence of a misunderstanding by the Office of the routine of the House. At the time he moved that the Clerk of the Crown should attend, it was not from any difficulty he felt that he had pursued that course, but from a desire that the House should hear from that person himself what he had done. If the officer had not performed hhis duty, it would have been for the Aouse to have pursued the matter further. But as that was not the case, he ( Mr. Rice) was not disposed to move anything with respect to that ques tion. Justice would be answered, in his opinion, by merely laving the petition upon the table. 'Mr. SHAW thought the suggestion of the Right Hon. Gentleman perfectly reasonable. COUNTY OF CLARE ELECTION. The Hon. H. MAX WE L L presented a p et i t i on f rom M r . Baker, of Ennis, county of Clare, against the return of the sitting Member for that burgh. Mr. O'CONNELL—The House ought to be apprised of the real facts of the case. Th e p e ti t i on was f rom a M r. B a k er , o f Ennis, in the county of Clare, and vet it appeared the party referred to, was a Mr. Macl aren o f C urs i tor -S tre et, Chancery La'ne. . Now he should lik e t o k now h ow t hi s perso n con ld be interested in the city o f E nn i s . Th e s i tt i ng member had instructed him to say, that h e h a d cause d no e nquiry to be made, and that this report was without foundation. He thought it right the House should kn ow some thi n g of this i n consistency. The notice is given by this person Maclaren, who TURKEY. (From the Augsburgh Gazette of the 15th inst. ) CONSTANTINOP4E, FEB. 26,—The negotiations between the Porte and the Members of the two maritime Powers are relaxed ; the answer to the late proposals is expected from Paris. It is doubtful whether the French Cabinet will act exactly in the spirit that the Rees Effendi wishes. It is rather probable that one of the opinions expressed by Admiral Roussin in the Conference will be maintained. The Porte would . then be in the same situation as it was six months ago. These are the fruits of an armed state of peace, nothing is gained by continual procrastination and half measures. Unless a favourable answer comes from Paris the tribute to be paid by Mehemet Ali may perhaps be looked for in vain. No news, indeed, has lately been received from Alexandria, and it is possible that Mehemet may have changed his mind and resolved to pay, as the foreign envoys have exerted all their influence to induce him to do so ; but if he should not be persuaded, and if, as may be feared, the maritime Powers do nothing to compel him, what must follow ? This is the question that every body asks, and nobody, not even the Sultan, venture to an swer. The resort to the sword, now that the most favour able opportunity has been lost, may be very dangerous. It will, therefore, be necessary to wait again, and let chance determine ; nothing more will be done. What the artful Pacha in Cairo really means, why he seems to act without any consistency, and contrary to his own character, seems sometimes easy, sometimes difficult to guess. Either their is some extensive plan which does not originate with him self, but the execution of which is entrusted to him, but ander some controul, so that he cannot precisely follow his own will or mistrust not of himself, but of his friends and soi-dsant allies embarrasses him. The Orientals even now are always resolved to be mistrustful, and Mehemet never had implicit confidence in anybody, not even his own son Yet it can hardly be supposed that the vacillation which Mehemet's conduct has lately manifested can have pro ceeded from mistrust alone, and we may rather ascribe it to some secret idea (arriere pensee ) which slumbers in him, and is supported by others wno have less firmness, less perseverance than himself ; so that the poor Pacha is obliged to deny himself, and to degrade himself—to play a kind of political slight of hand. PERSIA. The following is an extract of a letter from an English officer forming.one of the party of English now in Persia, and dated from Tabriz : " Nearly every individual comprising our party has suf fered severely from illness. A great part of the country we travelled over was low, marshy, undrained land. The fatigue of riding from sunset to sunrise, and the unhealthy miasma atmosphere we passed through, were, J think, the principal causes of 'our suffering. One of the strongest and most healthy of the serjeants, an artilleryman, was carried - off,suth . denly ; and on our arrival at this place there was scarcely an officer or serjeant fit for duty. " On entering Teheran I was much struck with the sol dierlike appearance and the excellent order of the Persian regiment. No troops in the world could have made a bet ter show after so long and harrassing a march. I was not prepared for this ; the many instances of Persian humbug that had passed under my observation had led me to doub the truth of all that had been said or written on the subject of the army of the late Abbas. " I was present .at the proclamation of Mohammed Mirza as Naib i Saltanus (heir -apparent to the Throne), by the late Schah. The old Monarch had shown on this oc casion a vigour and decision that could not have been looked for. Besieged and pestered on all sides by his nu merous kin, and by the hundred mothers of the Princes in his Andarun, he withstood, alone, their various interested entreaties, and kept manfully to his determined purpose of nominating to the vacant dignity the eldest son of the for mer heir apparent. On various occasions Futteh Ali Schah had pretended to hold communication with, and to re ceive advice from his late uncle, Aga Mohammed Khan, in dreams ; the circumstances well authenticated attending some of these visions of the night, would make many a man hesitate before he refused credence to these stories of su pernatural agency. At the crisis above named, Futteh Ali declared that Aga Mohammed had stood by him in a dream, and had sternly commanded him to appoint his grandson heir-apparent, promising to assist and direct him, as lie had assisted and directed Futteh Ali. All this was firmly be lieved by the Persians, and it produced on the minds of many the desired effect. " The appearance of Mohammed is much in his favour ; there is an openness of expression in his countenance, and a frankness of manner about him which none of the other Kajar Princes possess. His character is as yet unstained by the horrible and unnatural vices to which all his rela tions, without exception, are addicted. He has however great difficulties to contend with, an empty treasury, and an army four or five years in arrears. " The Prince has shown several instances of personal intrepidity, of which the following is one instance A few days before ascending the throne, a disturbance broke out at Teheran, where some monopolists had hoarded grain for the purpose of raising the price, and creating a scarcity before the new wheat could be brought in in sufficient quantities. In consequence, the bakers could not supply bread to the people, and a popular tumult was raised, headed by a Mullah, who made himself most conspicuous in exciting the people to acts of violence ; this Mullah forced his way into the presence of the Prince, and behaved in an outrageous manner, abusing the Prince to his face. Mohammed did all in his power to.meet the emergency of the moment ; he ordered his own private stores of wheat to be thrown open to the people : but the conduct of the Mullah was considered as deserving death ; he was accord ingly strangled, and his body, with the crime for which he was punished written on the breast, was exposed in the public square. " A few nights ago, at the dose of the entertainments at Old Drury, an elderly and infirm gentleman, accompanied by a young lady, to all appearance a daughter, was leaving the theatre in quest of a carriage, when two gentlemen (per sonally known to me, but who shall be nameless) planted them selves in the middle of the pathway and accosted them in the grossest language. The young lady, as was natural, shrunk back much terrified. Her companion seemed to be bewildered. At this moment a gentleman who was passing, and had ob served what had occurred, stopped and expostulated with them, attempting to explain the impropriety of their conduct, and the respectability of the parties whom they had so infamously in sulted. This was only answered by an attempt to thrust him away made by the taller of the ruffians. A short struggle ensued, which ended, to the infinite satisfaction of all who had witnessed his conduct, by the taller ruffian being deposited in the gutter.—Morning Paper. LORD CASTLEREAGH s PARLIAMENTARY TRUTH.—The (Belfast) Northern Whig, in a very able and conclusive manner, exposes the falsehood of an assertion lately made by his Lordship in the House, respecting an alleged petition from Down. "We have never heard," says our con temporary, " of such a thing as a petition from any part of Down, in favour of keeping up tithes ! But, on the contrary, we have had to publish strong petitions, of a directly oppo site description, from almost all quarters of the county L This young Lord has high claims on the kind consideration of the Ministry. He shows a readiness t o fi g ht their battles, with a recklessness of consequences, which ought to earn for him their special gratitude and favour. We beg leave to suggest that he shall endeavour to obtain a few parish petitions from Down in support of tithes. Let his Lordship make the at tempt ; and, if he succeed, we shall confess that we are in error. We now tell him, that we defy him to get so much as one public tithe petition from awl part of the county. If he cannot (and once more we challenge him to the trial), what shall we say of his attempted contradiction of Mr. Craw ford—what of his own accuracy of assertion—what of his misrepresentation of the feelings of the people of Down? THE MARKETS t,OUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST w: yeas e Wheat. I Barley. Oats. " Bean•, to e• 26 S. to s. R. tO S. 8. tO a. 41 '25 19 32 40 25 28 116 22 32 38 26 28 17 23 42 —• 28 i — 19 41 :36!- 21 Per Quarter. Hex ham Morpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchester Per Bushel. Cowbridge---- Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea Warwick S 0 9 Per 8011. ' Barn ardcastle Durham t , _ Richmond 9 6 13 0 8 0 86 i Stock!on 9 0 10 0 8 6 9n; s. S. 33 -.--:, 3 0 Sz 32 34 ;is _ • 32 45 27 34 18 22 S. (1. s.(l. b. d. F. CI. S. fi. S. d. 53 60 29 :3 6, 1 4 23 56 6(1 3 0 0u; 2ti 80 89 466 50, 3 0 34 70 93 36 4 3 3 40 80 S 6 40 48; 30 34 69 7 0 3 9 40, 2 4 26 42 44 F. ,t 00 o t' 56 50 53 6 6 6 0 6 0 0 00', 56 6 g d . 00 t ) ° 0 „ no p 0 0 ,, °, 00 0 0 00 „ 0 (I n 00 v 3 0 4 6 2 0 3 3 80 86 ti 9 BOt 90 116 4S 50 1 49 731 8 6 10 11 77 90 1 96 106' S 0 6C 00 00 70 80 00 6 ; 1i 0 °- 44 So' 40 5 4 -•--- ----- WAKEN lELD CORN MARKET.-March •.:0 Wheat, Red, Nortclit and Sutiblk -s. 365. to -s. fine 38s. ----- Lin. and Cam. --- Yorkshire -s. 365. to -a. fine 47 5. -- N'Ohite --- Foreign, fted - -s. -a to -I. fine-s. White -s. -s. to -so nne ...S. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ..... 30s. to 335. fine 37a -- Lincolnshire .`s --- Yorkshire Wold - Foreign Beans, Old 3ss to 365. hue 375. --- New 31s. to 35s tine 35s Oats, Potato l9s. to 9.25, fine ..:4s. - Poland -s. this, O to s. fine 9.52. - Friezland and Small -s. 16s to 18s. fine 20a. - Mealing Shelling 375. 380. tine 41s. per Load. ~. '271. its QB/. Os. '' Malt 191. 08.-Per Last. Rapesred SCOTCH MARKETS. 0,..-/ 1,11 ivi.rxavas....• .. v• Wheat. Batley. Oat, Beam t , ann ual. Aberdeen 4O to 51 24 to 26 19 to 22 —to 30 to ; Berwick 25 27 17 21 14 17 20 22 30 ..., Coldstream - ... Omar (l• ife Dundee VI V) 2 ° 4 ' ' t l 3 '2l 0 f() . 1, 3 VI -:-. - i Elgin Inverness 33 44 25 26 20 22 2..3 1.. I Kels., - 4 4 Ki r k a ldy ..... Perth ILI,- The size of the measure varies throughout the country. ~...... EDINBURGH CORN MARKET:—March IS. . ..,,,,.. .., .__a 1 - l., of nil kinria of a rain to.dav_ and the sates ~- ED We had a lam rather heavy. INBURG e supply of CORN .11 kinds o A RKET:—March It. ' Grain to-day, and th Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 47.. Od. 31s 6d. 26s 4d. 265. Od 42 0 39 0 22 0 3.1 0 39 0 28 6 19 8 27 6 !rage price of Wheat 2.i. 3s. 6d. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. 11,,, 19•1' Beef, per lb. „.,.... Os. 4d. to 0..6d.' Freshllutter,lb........oa 0.1. to , Mutton ...--.—... 0 4 0 6 Salt Ditto— ......... 0 0 0 ",, Veal ---..---....... 0 0 0 9 Ditto, per ex t..... 66 0 I l i 6 P0rk........---- , 3 4 0 6 Eggs, per d0z...., 0 6 10 o Lamb, per qr. ... 8 0 12 0 OatStrawkkp .),.._ 9 0 . , 0 - Fallow, cwt..,,-- 0 0 :34 0 Wheat Ditto—. 9 0 1 ; Quartern Loaf ........ U 6 U6l Barley Ditt0....,. 0 8 9 0 10 Potatoes, 1711 b —.,. 0 3 0 0 Hay, per 5t.......... 9 Rev , . 36L 32 27 6 'First 5ec0nd....... Third Ave] EDINBURGH MEAL There was a middling supply of a sale,. were rather heavy. Per Sack of 2801 t). Imp, First Oatmeal Second dittn , Barleymeat... ...... 1 6 0 Peas era eat . 1 4 0 Pot Barley—No. t, per cwt. 103.-2 a . MARKET.—March 17 latrrical at this day's market, a nd O. Per Stone of 1.11 b• ln:p. • 11 0 First Oatmeal . .to . Second ditto C I " Barleymeal (I 1 ", l'easemeal i 10* 19.8.-30.14 s —4th. ISt —_1:.622,:.:-....--' GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—March 18. Our Grain market was firm, and more demand for good Oats. ii. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2641 b. I . d. 14 0 British, old 220 to 2 4 0 Irish l6 o to .A 0 --- new Canada, free "'i 0 27 0 Beans, 1.0 2601 b. 0 -"° Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish 16 6 English — 0 e l'ease, Scottish ..... 15 6 0 I/ Scottish 22 6 26 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b ... 14 0 ~,, 0 Irish CORNWALL MARKETS. - ulated at 4 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. d. to b e - 0 0 6 _ 0 9 0 9 0 _ 0 0 10 ° 7 0 _ 0 , 0 70 0 7 6 ...... Fle!stone St. Austell... Bodmin Liskeard Launces.on Camelford Penzance g. d. to s. (I. 0 17 3 0 17 t. 0 17 6 0 18 0 0 16 6 0 19 6 16 0 18 0 16 0 17 0 s d. to s d. --. 0 10 9 —0 9 6 0 J fS —0 9 6 0 10 —0 9 0 9 0 10 0 —0 8 6 MINING INTEL Quantity of Copper Ore sold Quantity of fine Copper Average Produce Amount of Sale, 20,7451.45. 6d.—A, LIGENCE. Tons.Civtiv 3,063 0 A 290 16 9'4 gv. .verage Standard,lool. 10 ". MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COO' BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW. is. .11 (From the London Gazette.) ... "11 W. Cairns, saddler, High-street, Whitechapel ........................ o A. rt. Smith, grocer, Newcastle-up.n-Tyne ..............................y j 1 R. Stirling, brewer, High-street, Poplar ............. ........... . ...... ••• 1 1 . 1 H, llowch and Co., tailors, New Bond-street ................. I 11 J. P. and C. E. Hicks, clothiers, Easington, Gloucestershire ..... W. E. Browne, merchant, Brompton-grove, Middlesex ...........•• • A retired Captain in the French army, M. Lemarechal, upwards of 60 years of age, living at Saint . '" f ing put an end to his existence on the 10th instant, by thvn.ttea himself into the Meuse. A few minutes before he cone the the act he passed an acquaintance, named Hauzelot, la ops stfeet leading to the bridge, and observed to him, "ff ari/ asks after me, say that I have just passed by." 6r let THE WE A T IrER.--Never was there 3 1 100, change in the appearance of th e coun t r y, t h an the ', A ife days have brought about. We noticed last week, iv"' j e4 went to press, that a heavy shower of snow was falling:a Ist certainly it was such a shower as has not b ee n witness`--pd this part for many years. It commenced about iint )P ' b ioat lasted nearly till midnight, and though, from the e it 14 state of the earth, a large portion melted as it fell, t hsn for miles round at an average depth of probably not les s to twelve inches, and in the districts . nearer the mountainwoe a much greater depth. As it blew pretty fresh duriloill fall, the snow was collected in many places hi el l° c ote• drifts, blocking up the roads, and almost intercepting 41 0 munications. The mail did not arrive until fourteen : p oi after due, and the Carlisle, Kendal, and Dumfries P f rol• contain numerous accounts of the dangers and j o i o ar ties incurred by the detention of coaches in the tit i o o, tain passes. Some damage was done in the Pla n io dsef and shrubberies by the enormous weight which aO l , in the branches of ever-green trees and shrubs, id, be particular several fine laurels about sixty years longing to Thomas Hartley, Esq., of Gillfoot, were :00 down and completely ruined—at least for almost anothel fief century. The range of the storm seems to have exteude:ol, the whole of the north of England and the south of S et ogi but it is somewhat remarkable that the Diamond, whic h c 0 1° on that day from Dublin to this port, encountered not a Paper of either snow or rain, though the storm fell so thi ck ° English shores—a fact for meteorologists to explain' effect of the storm on the feathered creation was rena l ; 0 0 4 The birds, which had generally began to pair, a l : f; broke up their domestic arrangements ; the ar s,"" scended in large flocks to the seabrows, and the ti oo for and black-birds, deserted the glens and mountain r fi rer the farm yards and shrubberies. Since Monday, tu e diser ther has been mild and general, and the snow hastiso pa peered so completely, that scarce a trace is left, e%c e P be ta l29 very elevated spots, and so gradually that there have th , l floods worth naming. The change in the appearal lce ;s 4 roads is most conspicuous, and in one little week, i n tr being beds of mire and snow, they are in many Pla e l, s g covered with that proverbial valuable commodity , gy bes dust." The larks are singing over head, and the tb the thickets as merrily as ever, and th e roo k s bn#Zler; their habitations for the opening spring.— Whitehal _.....—_7.- - ---- •• BIRTHS. y., ° In Berkeley-square, the lady o f Ab e l S m i t h, E sq ., daughter. , f J. At Lee, Kent, the lady of Rob er t Boyd, Esq., of a 114 ,_, 1 n , o f J ' On the 17th inst., at Linden Hill, Berkshire, the ow t i l e Bulkeley, Esq., of a daughter. of On the 20th inst., in Duke-stre e t, W es t m i ns t e r, the I°4 Solicitor-General, of a daughter fO t MARRIED. ' fog' On the 21st inst., at St. James's, T. Hodges, Esq. , Ne , e-l e Middlesex Regiment, to Ann, widow of the late Tborna_,,' d 13t Esq., of the Island of St. Bartholomew's, West Indies , Mornington-crescent, Hampstead-road. „ r i t e, ost e On the '2d ir.st., at ••"-°' Berne, at the house of D. 11. .'tzer ., :oll , his Britannic Majesty's Minister Pl en ip o t en ti ar y for l a the r ' James Dennistoun, Esq., of Dennistoun, to Isabella tie . 0, eldest daughter of J ames W o lf e Murray, Esq., of Cring i , e I‘ D' o a f ai On the 10th of D ecem b er l ast , at St. George's Ch off IkD ie r Lieut. Henry Ch ar l es G os li ng, o f t h e 7 t h Regiment ° i'oloo f e i : Native Infantry, secon d son o f J o h n G os li ng, Esq., of ft at ' place, New-road, Marylebone, to Anna, eldest daughte, r „ g ioe t Colonel William M on t e ith, K . L.S ., S uper i nten ding °t ot that Presidency. gee e On the 19th inst., by th e R ev. H ast i ngs R o binson , by elite I : e at Great Warley, the Rev. Joseph Clay, of Stapenhill , D er o f Agnes, eldest daughter of Lieut.-General Bonham , Warley-place, Essex. rs i Gen e do D lE. Lie t. ' ,r On the 19th inst., in Lanswne-c D rescent, Bath , p . Sir William Cockburn, B ar t., o f C oc kb urn an d RYsl a.. • ter °` li in his 67th year. tl a On the 2lst inst., aged 15, S usan Eli za b et h, sec°a E irili°ti• the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, 8.D., Rector of St ' the-King and St. Ni c h o l as Aeons, Lomb ar d-street. . On the ' 2 oth inst., at Brailes House, Warw icks lol. d P' 0 4e. Edward, elde s t son o f Ed ward Sheldon, Esq., M. g .. r C e 1 :1 tic' ) On the 20th inst., in Harley-street, Cavendishsq% Wentworth, secon d son o f Sir Gregory and Lady L e ` ci years and seven months. On the 9th in s t., i n B at h- p l ace, G eorge , Kialltnar" poser of music, aged 55. SA!' n I - 1 0°6 , 19 ( On the 19th inst., at the house of James Deact,n, Russell-square, Charlotte, the wife of Whitlock Nic“,,, a, On the sth inst., at Rimpton, Somersetshire , I t t -- o r e ce 9te. the late William Sandford, Esq., of Rainbow Villa, story On the 19th inst., Caroline, aughter of W. H. So; street, in her 13th ear. 'll-bi ll 't te ) f On the 18th inst y ~ in his 73d year, at Winarnt Edward Jeremiah Curteis, Esq., Magistrate, and Wlt j rs N' A for the counti e s o f S ussex and Kent and for ma n) : Y .- Olt" the former county. , J .place' te € On the 20th inst., in Weymouth-street, Port Lan 0 h.- Stone, Esq., in his 78th year. ' la 5 33. n ot fg e On the 19th inst., Charlotte Barlow Hurlbat'; , f urreP "'Ste' of the late Francis Hurlbatt, Esq , of Newington , t`-'_ rne rly da gia' On the 14th inst., the Rev. ' John Stewart , f",- i t tle " Master of the Charterhouse, and 23 years Rector of 0 010 , bury, Esse the wife On 17th inst., in her 78th year, Sarah, e jun., of Bury -court, St. Mary-axe. of 1441 ; London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOTTI 03 ; 041 34 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strantlo of Middlesex. C,t pl. ( dal ( tlitt tot Per 1