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Lord ASHBURTON required the Government to state its decision on the subject of the treaty with China. Viscount MELBOURNE said it would be prema ture to form a conclusion on the infbrmation the Ministers had at present. The Duke of WELLINGTON assured the Minis ters that all the mischief arose from their not having followed his advice, and having made war with a reduced establishment. Whoever may be in fault, it is plain that the war is not terminated to the satisfaction of the inhabitants of Bombay. The Ear - 1 of GLENGALL havitl announced his intention of calling their Lordships' attention to the falsification of the Poor-law returns, the Marquis of NORMA NBY deprecated the intention, by announcing that Mr. STANLEY, the person blamed, had resigned his situation. The Earl of HA DDINGTON inquired whether the intention of appointing Mr. CANDLISH to a Professorship at Edinburgh had been finally abandoned. The Marquis of NORMANBY declined to state how he should act, till the legal question concern ing Mr. CANDLISH was decided ; and he refused to be taunted by the Duke of ABERDEEN into immediately filling up the vacancy. Earl FITZWILLIAM, on presenting several pe titions for the repeal of the Corn-laws, drew their Lordships' attention to the declining state of the revenue, and assured their Lordships that they must have a property tax. We ar e inclined to agree with the Noble Earl. It is ;m -possible to keep up our present large estP:olish ments, and pay the national debt and ti".e bread tax. idlers to The industryury. of the country h as too many i The Earls of WARWICK and S7:ANRoPE, and Lord ASHBURTON, were of a different opinion. One said we could go on withnut a property tax ; the second, that the prohibitijry system was bene fical to the county ; and the third, that the Report of the Import Duties Committee Was shallow, 'vague, and partial. The Earl of STANHOPE announced his inten tion of moving to reject the Poor-law Amend ment Bill, should it be sent up from the Com mons. Their Lordships adjourned at Seven o'Clock. Agin in the Commons, the chief business was the Irish franchise . and registration question. At an early hour the House was crowded, and on the motion of Lord 111011PETH went into a Com mittee on his Bill. The Noble Lord addressed the House at some length in support of the motion, that the sec and clause stand part of the Bill. He showed that the valuation was not so uncertain as it 'aad been stated, and concluded an that able speech by rem i n di ng t h e Tories they .had f ormer l y res i sted the just claims of the lrisl4. till they had been forced to con cede, and, h e l oo k ed forward to the time when, i n spite of their present opposition, they would gladly adopt some such principle as that con tain,,,a in the clause. lord STANLEY made a heavy and confused speech against . the Bill. He was a little suc cessful at first in exciting the applause of his friends, by talking of .the Government bringin g - forward a measure of which they knew not the hearings, and could not calculate the results, which he called reckless statesmanship. What a mass of bad laws would be suppressed if states men never prepared any but those of which they could accurately foresee all their consequences. With the exc e pti on o f t hi s hit against all states manship, at which th e very ignorant 'Tories laughed, the Noble Lord's speech was notwelcome to his friends, and did no harm to his opponents He seems to be as much in the dark about the beneficial interest now as he was in 1832, when the poor reporter of the Mirror so grievously misunderstood him. He thought he had done well, too, when he attempted to show that under the Bill there would be 450 qualified tenements, and it was because it would give an extensive franchise to the Irish that he opposed it. The oble. Lord . avowed hi mse lf to be the enemy of the liberties of the people, and by the same reasoning he demonstrated that his opponents were their friends. We have heard Lord STANLEY make Sir R. PEEL defended himself from the charge of not having explained the round of his oppo sition to the Bill. He most distinctly accused Lord J. RUSSELL of being the enemy of Ireland, because he raised his proposed franchise from 5/. to, 81., which was what the Tories did in the case of the Municipal Bill. The Right Honourable Baronet forgot that the Tories did that wan tonly, and for the purpose of inflicting an injury, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL raised his pro position in order to get something fbr the Irish. He knew he could not carry the Si. and he pro posed 81. as the next best thing he was likely to obtain for them. The astuteness of Sir ROBERT PEEL is far greater than his sincerity. The House shortly after resumed, and ad journed. The Ministerial Bill is now at an end, the Ministers have come to the point which we recommended them to jump to on Tuesday, and had they then stopped the Bill they would have saved themselves from the mortification of this additional defeat, and from the taunts of Sir R. PEEL. We are heartily glad that the worthless discussion is at an end. 'We presume that Lord STANLEY will now try to carry forward his Bill ; but he cannot succeed, and the attempt will only give rise to angry, useless talk. There remains the question what are the Irish to do to protect their liberties from the assaults of the Irish landlords and the Imperial Parlia ment. We wish that every Irishman could have been present in the House of Commons during the debate ; and, were that possible, when they had witnessed the unseemly manner in which the debate was conduCted, the groans with which the speakers were greeted, the ob vious impatience of the Tories to go to dinner,—when they had witnessed what we witnessed, they would have returned home resolved to appeal to anybody, but not to the mob called the House of Commons. They would reflect that it is for the people to decide who shall make laws for them, and no other power. "The question," they would say, "who ,hall be our representatives, and how we shall choose them, is a question for our decision and not yours. You are the chosen, the deputed, and have no right to prescribe how we shall choose, or whom we shall depute. You exceed your power by attempting to enfranchise or disfran chise us. We were made freemen by na ture, and we will not be made slaves by you.g s If the Irish were to so re resolve, it could surprise no man. If they were all to say, " The Union was accomplished by an authority which we disown, a Parliament which was not elected by us,—we have tried it for a long period, and, as it is not good of itself, we will have a revision of the contract," we could not blame them. Like all compacts, the Union, to be lasting, must be founded in justice, which is not the case with the present Union between I Ireland and England. We could not find space yesterday to express our deep regret at the election of Mr. W ALTER for Nottingham ; not that we have any enmity to Mr. WALTER, but we had a high opinion of Nottingham, which has, we think, disgraced itself by the election. A gentleman, as far as we know, every way worthy of their support, offered himself on the broad principles of abolition of the Corn-laws, Freedom of Religion, Extension of the Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot. They have re jected him, and chosen a gentleman who is a de clared friend to the Corn-law, an enemy toFreedom of Religion, for he is a staunch friend to the Church, and who laughs at Extension of the Suffrage and Vote by Ballot as vain theories. The electors of Nottingham have lent their aid to bolster up those monopolies which are the sinews of the Tory strength and the ruin of the country. If they should continue to suffer from want of trade, if starvation should still haunt them, they will henceforth have to add to their physical sufferings the poignant regret of self-accusa tion. They have inflicted the injury on them selves. We are grieved at their want of know ledge, and their disregard of principle. Mr. WALTER is an active, zealous man, but he ap peared at Nottingham as the champion of a party and principles which are opposed to the prosperity of Nottingham, and it was a disgrace to the el ectors to choose him. We mourn over the lost character of Nottingham. The Tories represent the division of Monday night as one of principle. Thus the Times, em bodying the observations of the most distin guished speakers on the point at issue, stated-- But in truth, it is of little consequence what may be the exact amount of Lord Howick's amendment, verbally consi• dered, inasmilch as it was distinctly understood during the debate, and upon the division, by the admission of all parties, that the point under consideration was really a question of principle — no l ess a pr i nc i p l e t h an w h ether property should be the future basis of the qualification of voters in Ireland— vitAether a tenant who did not possess a clear beneficial interest over and above his rent and other outgoings, should be entitled to the Parliamentary franchise. This was the view taken by all the chief speakers on both sides of the House. Sir R. Peel said, " He considered the Noble Lord's amendment to he tan tamount to an abstract resolution of this kind—" Resolved, that it is the opinion of this House that mere occupancy ought not to constitute the franchise, but that the profit of the land ought to he the county franchise." But with all deference to the Times, to the Tories, and the Whigs, it is quite impossible that any such point could be at issue between the Whigs and Tories, as whether property should be the future basis of the qualification of voters in Ireland. The Whigs acknowledge the prin ciple of property as the basis of representation as well as the Tories, and would shrink with ter ror from acknowledging the opposite principle They prove this by their Bill, which requires not mere occupancy but rating to the poor at a certain sum, and the possession of a lease. The way the Times and Sir R. PEEL put the question implies that the Ministers were the advocates of the noble principle of population exclu sively as the basis of representation, not th e de grading and servile principle of wealth, or what a part of the population possesses. That questi on has never yet been brought to an i ssue betwe en the two aristocratic parties ; that is the question at issue between the Chartists and both parties ; and the Whigs are as stanch defenders of the right of property to be exclusively represented as the Tories. The statement of the point at issue is incorrect, and it is so put to gloss over the miserable party disputes which the gentle men of the House of Commons dignify with the name of the business of the nation. But as the Tories put the question —represent ing themselves as the great and exclusive defend ers of the principle of pelf against impulation, of the superiority of the clod on which man treads to man himself—it becomes a most in structive lesson for those who have been beguiled into believing that the Tories are the friends of the people, by the Tory assertion that " if capi tal arid poverty be let alone, capital will make poverty its slave." While they say that, they are fighting, as they avow, for the purpose of giving political power to capital, or keeping politi cal power in its hands, to the utter exclusion of poverty, in order that capital may do its will on poverty unrestrained by any laws but those of its own making, which it cunningly substitutes many speechr.s, but we never heard him make a worse or Mr. C. amore blundering speech. 1- ifoon defended his consistency and the consi A ency of Lord HOWICK, by attempting to shoNv, that the proposed 201. occupancy fran chive would have added to the constituency, tvad that the leasehold franchise would destroy ' it. He opposed the clause because it continued the leasehold franchise. He and Lord Howicx have an odd way of showing their love to Ireland. Mr. HUME explained why he should vote for the clause, and showed Mr. Woof) and Lord Howicx that they who declared that the Tories would allow no good measures to be passed for Ireland ought also to vote for it. They were deaf, we believe, to his admonitions. Mr. O'CoNNELL made a short, neat speech, in which he pointed out, for the especial use of the Ministers and the people of Ireland, that Lord STANLEY had said—though his saying was an exaggeration—that the Bill would give a very ' large constituency to Ireland. After some shuffling talk by Lord STANLEY about beneficial interest, and a kind of promise on his part that if the constituency were much narrowed he should be ready to adopt the occupancy clause of Lord Howicx, and a few words from Lord JOHN RUSSELL, to the effect that he did not understand what the Noble Lord meant, nor why the Tories opposed the clause, the Committee divided, and the Ministers were defeated by a majority of 11. For the clause, 289; against it, 300. Lord JOHN RUSSELL then announced that it was fruitless to continue the discussion on the Bill, and moved that the Chairman report progress. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 80, 1841. trict which the charitable and Right Honourable DAVID BOYLE would hold up as a model to the Irish people. Has his Lordship forgotten, too, the murder of Mr. ASHTON—has his prejudices blinded him to the notorious fact, that a number of Englishmen bargained to murder, and did mur der, a fellow -creature for the price of 101., and expiated the horrible crime on the gallows? Some of the workmen employed by this manu facturer had vowed vengeance against him for some cause like that which led to the death of GREEN; but, in place of committing the murder themselves, they hired a man of the name of GARSIDE, and two of the name of MOSLEY, brothers, to perpetrate the foul crime, which was ultimately discovered by one of the MOSLEMS. This man appeared in the witness box, and gave evidence which consigned his brother to an ignominious death. Did the maligned Irish ever commit such mercenary, cold-blooded murders as this, or was Dublin ever so disgraced as Lon don has been within the last few years by tra gical deeds, one-half of which, as the Lord Jus tice Clerk says, have escaped the strong arm of the law ? A Judge who can thus malign a whole nation, and encourage dangerous prejudices against his fellow-subjects, is not fit to sit on the Bench ; and Irishmen may therefore say with truth, that, in some instances at least, they have no chance of being dealt with in Scotland as they would be dealt with in their own country, or among men of their own religion. The sudden death of GeneralHAßßisoN, who had been nursed in the cradle of the great American Revolution, and who throughout an honourable life boldly supported as a soldier, a citizen, and a chief magistrate, the principles of Government consecrated by that Revolution, has naturally produced an impression of deep sorrow throughout the United States. If General HARRISON was not what is commonly called a great man, he was at least a good one—a man who regarded political power as a trust in which only villains trafficked to advance their own in terests, or those of their friends. He had not, like the majority of modern statesmen, two consciences, one for his GOD and him self; the other for his country. The bitterest of General HARRISON'S opponents never denied him the merit of being an honest, self-denying man, who dreaded nothing so much as the growth of an aristocracy either of wealth or of political influence, and whose policy, had he lived, would have been directed to the putting it out of the power of any future President, by the help of a corrupt majority in Congress, to overturn or undermine the free Constitution of the United States. This course, it will be re membered, the late PRESIDENT indicated to Congress in his inaugural address, only delivered thirty days before his death. The alarming crisis at which the financial state of the country arrived under the Presidency of Mr. VAN BUREN, and to which the sub-Treasury and banking policy of that Magistrate was supposed greatly to contribute, naturally directs all eyes to General HARRISON'S successor, Mr. JOHN TYLER, who, as Vice-President, succeeds ex-o f ficio, by the lamented death of his chief, to the direction of the government of the United States. That gentleman has lost no time in publishing an address to his fellow-citizens, setting forth his principles, a copy of which will be found in another column. We profess our inability to comprehend in what sense strictly to understand it. President TYLER does not profess much admiration for the political principles of hi s pre d ecessor, and holds out no pledge to carry on the Government in the spirit which he had intended. He agrees with General HAR RISON in thinking that a constant vigilance should be exercised to prevent the growth of unconstitutional power in the hands of the Pre sident ; and he condemns sinecures and national debts. But while he is for dividing the sword and the purse, SD that one hand may not grasp both, he is IHrnivicn fnr innvoctOn g tnb ii.ty y , and for putting the country more upon a war footing than he finds it. About banking and currency he is silent, although these are by far the most important questions which can occupy the atten tion of the American Government. Some of his expressions are singularly infelicitous, as where he says, " Freedom of opinion will be to lerated.' There are countries where freedom of speech is not allowed, but we should like to hear of the region in which the freedom of thought is not tolerated to those capable of thinking. Before thought has found a tongue it is as much opinion as after it has been shouted by a thousand mobs; but to assume the right of tolerating it at so early a stage is to assume a function to which human authority is riot compe tent. But if by opinion the PRESIDENT means the voice of the Republic, how is it that he dare to propose tolerating that of which he himself is but the creature ? Such language, as we said be fore, is very infelicitous. CLAY, WEBSTER, and FORSYTH will consult the dignity of the high office of President of the first Republic in the world, by affording Mr. TYLER their literary as sistance in the discharge of his present arduous duties. We are not here attempting to prejudge the career of the new President. His address fur nishes no materials from which we can draw other than " most lame and impotent conclu sions." But, among his countrymen, he enjoys a high reputation for honesty and talent. We have not space for the extracts to this effect, which we might glean from the American papers, of every political hue, now before us ; and, therefore, we shall only quote the following ex tract, from a letter dated New York, April the 10th, addressed to a Contemporary : By the Constitution of the United States, the succestorship devolves upon the Vice-President, John Tyler, of Virginia. In many respects his political opinions differed widely f rom those of Ge ne ral Harrison, and of the party by which he was elected. Mr. Tiler is a Virginian, of the state-rights party, di-posed to construe the Constitution strictly, and opposed to a national bank, a tariff, and the prosecution of internal im provements, by the General Government. He is also opposed to the exercise of the veto power by the chief ma gistrate, and believes in the right of the people to instruct their public servants in the policy which they shall pur sue. He is a man of unbending integrity and unsullied honour, and would refuse to exercise any power placed in his hands in a manner adverse to the wishes of those from whom he received it. During the canvass for the Presidency, many important questions were before the people, on which General Harrison was fully committed. He was understood to be friendly to the distribution of the proceeds of the public lands, to a moderate tariff, to the re peal of the sub-treasury, and to a national bank. His opi nions on these subjects are assumed to have been approved by the people in his elevation to the Presidency. To this extent, therefore, President Tyler will doubtless consider himself in structed by the people, and called upon to carry out their will. If a national bank should be chartered by the next Congress, he will doubtless give it his assent. He has already given in dication of his intention to pursue the policy of his predeces sor, by retaining all the 'Members of his Cabinet, and exhi biting a general acquiescence in all his arrangements. On all new topics, undoubtedly, President Tyler will Le guided to some extent by his own peculiar politi ca l doctrines sod vie ws o f th e C onst i tut i on. O ur Virginia Presi d,rits have always been the most popular and successful in their administration. Of ten Presidents—Washington, Jeffers son, Madison, and Monroe, were natives of Virginia, and served two terms of four years each; the two Adamses, from .Massachusetts, father and son, and Van Buren, from New York, served one term each, and failed of a re-election ; Ge neral Jackson, from Tennessee, south-west of Virginia, en joyed the common popularity of our southern Presidents, and served two terms. Harrison and Tyler were both natives of Virginia, and both pl ?Aged to the one-term principle. On this ground Mr. Tyler will not be a candidate for re-election ; but I have no doubt that his administration will be al strong and popular as that of any one of his Virginian predecessors. The Madrid Journals received are of the 19th instant. If the Puseyitcs in England are actively co-operating with the Rmnish clergy in extend ing the Papal power in these kingdoms, the Constitutionalists in Portugal and Spain are not less active in diminishing the influence of the Holy See throughout the Peninsula. The .11a drid Gazette of the 19th publishes two decr ees of the Regency, having for their object the sub jection of the spiritual to the temporal powe r i n Spain. In the preamble to the first it is stated that the attempts of the Roman Catholic clergy to usurp temporal power, and exercise a lu crative influence over the civil and political affairs of Spain, have been frequent at dif ferent periods; and have always been maintained with ardour, tenacity, and even with dAnger to the public tranquillity, The national records of Spain tefitify to the °natant uggles of the Let us grant that property has, if not always, for a long period been the sign of representation ; but then let us look at the circumstances of so.. ciety when it was established, and at the present circumstances of society, and we may discover whether it were reasonable then and reasonable now. When this principle of our Constitution was established, society consisted mainly of four classes, the great barons or landowners, the smaller franklins, the landowners—serfs, and free inhabitants of towns. To give the serfs the fran chise, would have been absurd ; the barons had it by right of their swords or as a feudal privilege ; and as the serfs did not own property, and, above all, not property in land, the possession of' that was held .to be the sign of a freeman. The franchise, then, was not conferred on the property, but the property was held to be a sign of freedom, and freedom was en dowed with the franchise. We deny, there fore, that property was the original principle of representation, it was freedom ; but, as in other cases, the sign of freedom, property, has become of more importance than the thing signi fied ; and freedom is trampled under foot that property may be exalted. A principle similar to that which made our ancestors assume property as the test of free dom in the counties, operated in making them select the residents of towns, or the freemen of corporations, as voters. They were emphatically enfranchised and emancipated as compared to the landlords' serfs, and it was not the possession of a 101. house, or a house of any size, that gave the man a vote, but his quality of a freeman, contributing to the burdens of the town. We maintain, therefore, in opposition to the assertion that property has always been the basis of our representation, that it was not property, it was freedom, (as con tradistinguished from serfdom), of which the possession of property was an in fallible sign. The Tories are very fond of adhering to the wisdom of our ancestors. We wish they would adhere to it according to the spirit, which giveth life, not according to the letter, which killeth. At present serfdom is abolished. We are all equally free. Property, instead of now being a sign of freedom, is a sign of power and oppres sion. It enslaves poverty. Our ancestors, who acted on circumstances, and were not bound, as we are, by the dead words of their predecessors, were they in our situation,would infalliblyestablish the representation on the basis of population, with a view of enabling poverty to resist being enslaved by capital. Our Tories all talk about it, and yet insist, like the Times, on capital and property being exclusively represented. Nay, they resist every attempt to give a re presentative to the present race of freemen as a violation of the wisdom of our ancestors. Want of modesty in a woman is not half so offensive as a wanton display of party or na tional prejudices by a Judge on the bench. In civil cases this is sufficiently disgusting ; in criminal trials it is absolutely revolting. Without any wish to palliate the dreadful crime of which three Irishmen were capitally convicted at the Glasgow Assizes, on Friday, we call the atten tion of our readers to some remarks made on the occasion by the Lord Justice Clerk, the chief Criminal Judge in Scotland. Before quoting the words, it may be proper to mention a strange feature of the trial. Three or four accomplices were examined, and the evidence was considered conclusive, whereupon the public prosecutor simply asked a verdict of guilty against all the prisoners, on an intimation being made by Mr PATRICK ROBERTSON, the Counsel for the un happy men, that he would not avail himself of the privilege of addressing the Jury in their behalf, hut leave their case in the hands of the Court and Jury. This certainly was a strange departure from the English practice, and from what, hitherto, we believed was the universal practice in Scotland. When three of the principal wit nesses were accomplices, and to a certain extent guilty of the crime which they were called to prove against their countrymen, there were sufficient grounds at all events for the Counsel addressing the Jury, without throwing up his briefs, and deciding the fate of the men at once. Lord MONCRIEFF summed up very fairly, but, possibly owing to the circumstance mentioned) judged it prudent to make the following re marks:— " These men are strangers in our country ; they are of a different religion from us ; and I dare say it may be in their imaginations that they are not in safe hands with us ; but they know little either of the judicial seat here, or of a British Jury, or a Scottish Jury especially, if they think there is the slightest chance that they shall not lie dealt with with the same impartiality as if they were of our own country, of with such our own religion." Possibly this is true, but prejudice often gives a gu b i i d a e s t t o h t e he judgment ; and no man could eon- Bider himself fairly tried if his jurors were imbued ~dsraaidwhnis se L n o t r i d me jnutsstaicse thcolseerkw.hiTelhleszmioewdinto his remarks, the first part of which certainly g oi a sf i , . sufficiently e ‘atis a characterr me, intelligible —the other reminds us bLyordShH.p,AK,SIPIA happyaE : crime by no means rare in anothel part of her Alaj rare ineeed in this part of her All e s t t o y ,s say, d o v i n e r i y . justice aa i cio s o ceo m luit a n bs h e e a y r r sa e c tt , e o h b u e a n have crime murder, es is, theand to m 0 carry r e un e it x a into i Majesty's dominions, but it is a nions, from which these three prison have d lately issued; and nocfotuhraatgzu themnt ry, a tro , dn enter many. theict they see exhibited i zi nt z o eac t s h u is io mzst ß fo u u t l thi t i r r eis s I am too much afraid that the prisoners escapes from i r n es t s h ed is r uty . in country, the more necessary is it that it should with the arm of the law. The Jury have done regard to this case ; and, painful as that duty is, it only for us to do eur duty to the country , in order toceremrs „ ot era from crimes of a similar description in all time coming." This was pronounced in Glasgow—in a p l ace notorious for the most alarming combination that ever existed, for murders but a short time back that made the blood run cold, and possibly in the presence of Sheriff ALI SON, who, in his evidence before the Com mittee of the House of Commons, drew such a frightful picture of society in that very dis. for the laws of GOD. Their gross and grievous inconsistency may perhaps be accounted for by some blindness to the consequences of their own assertions and principles, or it may be referred to arrant and wilful hypocrisy ; but on either principle they proclaim themselves the dire ene mies of popular rights, and the champions of the abominable principle that the work of man's hand is more worthy of estimation than man himself. The Tories contend that property is to be represented and man not. But while they give this great power into the hands of the capitalists, or into the hands of men of property, they seem to look to some regula tions to be made by capital which will prevent it encroaching on poverty. They first invest capital with unlimited power over labour, by placing legislation exclusively in the hands of the former, and then they expect that it will make laws to restrain its own wishes and desires. They remind us of the Right Hon. Gentleman referred to by Mr. BURKE in his speech on Mr. Fox's India Bill : That is, he would appoint the old offenders to correct the old offences; and he nould render the vicious and the foolish wise and virtuous by salutary regulations. He would appoint the wolf a. a guardian of the sheep , but he has invented a cu rious muzzle, by which this protectin4 wolf shall not he able to open his jaws above an inch or two at the utmost. Thus his work is finished. Mr. BURKE was not disposed, like Tory Jour nalists, to place the power of controlling abuses in the hands of those to serve whose interest they originate. He added— But I tell the Right Hon. Gentleman that controlled depra vity is not innocence, and that it is not the labour of delin quency in chains that will correct abuses. Will those gentlemen of the direction animadvert on the partners of their own guilt ? Never did a serious plan of amendment of any old tyrannical establishment propose the authors and abettors of abuses as the reformers of them. Our Tories, however, would confine the power of restraining the tyranny of capital in the hands of capital itself. We accuse them less of malig nancy than ignorance. They are led astray by false analogies, by a reference to words instead of things, and they deem themselves to be main taining a principle while they are perpetuating an abuse. They say, in common with many Whigs, that property has always been the prin ciple of representation in England, and they only propose to preserve the principle of the Constitution. Spanish Government to repress the insolent pre tensions of proud and ambitious ecclesiastics. CHARLES M. Ordained that no papal bulls, re scripts, warrants, or other Pontifical documents. should be published in Spain without the Royal exequatur first had and obtained, and all priests violating this ordinance were severely punished by the civil authorities. The Regency goes on to state that the intrigues of the priests will no longer suffer the Government to remain silent, as they aim at nothing less than the overthrow of the Constitution by the publication of a Papal allocution, in which the Regency is denounced as guilty of sacrilege, and the acts of the Spanish Legislature for the last seven years, touching the church and conventual property, declared by the Bishop of ROME to be of none effect. The Re gency, therefore, decrees as follows: .‘ 1. In conformity with the tenor of the laws, and espe cially with paragraph 14, chap. 3, book '2, of the Novissinut Recopilacion. the Judge of First Instance, and the Alcaldes, are not to allow any use to be made of bulls, warrants, re scripts, monitories, or other documents whatever from R o m e , mhich have not been laid before the Government, and ob tained its authority. Otherwise, these documents are to be seized, and sent without delay to the Minister of Grace and Justice. " 2. The tribunals and Political Chiefs will give the neces sary orders, and will wat c h ov e r t he exec utio n o f this measure with zeal and assiduity—by repairing the el tors and omissions which might have been committed by the Judges of the First Instance, and the Alcaldes. " The archbishops, bishops, diocesan governors, proviso ry, vicars, and other ecclesiastical authorities are to obey punctu ally and to conform to these laws, and not to allow any use to be made of bulls, warrants, and other documents from Rome before they are communicated to the Ministry, in order that it may grant or refuse authority to publish them, under the pe nalty of incurring the responsibility established by the said laws against those who infringe the same. " By order of the Regency, " Madrid, April 19." " AL VARO GOMEZ." The next decree refers to a Society for the Propagation of the Faith, having its head quarters at Lyons, which has enlisted among its emissaries a Spanish Bishop, and a number of enthusiastic priests. As all members of such societies, whether in communion with the Ro mish or the Anglican church, are expected to subscribe more or less cash to promote the object of the institution, they become conduit pipes for dissipating the pecuniary resources of their weak but well-meaning members. It is by fostering such societies, under the denominations of Scapu larians, Franciscans, Augustinians, Sodalities of the Sacred Heart, &c., that the Church of Rome so powerfully maintains its influence over the poor, and that the regular clergy in the church are supported. Every mendicant order has some badge in the shape of a bit of cloth, a heart, a ring, or a cord, with which.to invest lay orders, and these in return contribute periodically, in proportion to their means, in support of the dif ferent orders. The only check to the rapacity of the mendicants, or friars as they are usually called, is found in the parochial or secular clergy, who are seldom friendly to this system of poach- ing upon their manors. And but for the co operation of this useful, respectable, and generally well educated body of men, few Governments in Catholic countries would ever be able to make head against the influence of the Holy See. Hence it is that we find the POPE always so te nacious of the rights of convents, and hence Church Reformers in every country began with recommending the abolition of monastic esta blishments. JOHN Kivox maintained that the surest way to scatter the crows was to pull down the rookeries—nor was he mistaken. But though the convents are abolished in Spain, the Govern ment deems it necessary to guard against the machinations of the Society at Lyons. Accord ingly, it has issued tile following decree : " 1. The Society for the propagation is not to be tolerated in Spain. `• z. The civil and ecclesiastical authorities arc to prevent the members from mewing together. " 3. 't he circulation of its pamphlets is to be put a stop to. " 4. The Judges and Alcaldes are to seize the funds belong ing to the Society, wherever they may be found. " Herein fail not.—God preserve you, " Madrid, April 19, 1841." " ALVARO GOMEZ." These decrees will widen the breach between the Spanish Government and the Holy See. This is all the better. In the course of the con test we may expect that some rays of light will break in upon the priest-ridden population of Ulu:: line country. nijscrip tures will he appealed to, and the more inquisitive minds will set them selves to inquire into the origin of that papal ascendancy, which the greatest nations in Europe have ceased to recognise. Such inquiries cannot be pushed hail way, and must produce import- ant results. GOD grant that in the issue the i tellectual, moral, l and physical happiness of Spain may be promoted ! The Regency question is likely to occasion the Cortes some trouble. The Senate is for a single and the Deputies for a triple Regency. It was expected that the debate would be very animated. At the Madrid Exchange on the 19th, forty bargains were effected in the Five per C. nts. for 26 mtlions of reals. four of which were for cash at 26 per cent., and the remainder fur the Account at 27i, with premium—the last at 26 3 / at sixty days date. Iu tne Five per Cents. arising from the conversion of the debt abroad, there were tvio operations for a million of reals at 2q, per cent. at sixty days date, with premium. Exchange on London at ninety days 36 11-16. The French Journals of Tuesday have all reached us, but their contents are of no political importance, as they have not yet exhausted the subject of the LOUIS PHILIPPE correspondence. The KING'S birth-day will be celebrated on the Ist of May. The Archbishop of PARIS and the clergy are to be received ia state on the 30th instant—twenty-four hours before any of the other great dignitaries cf the kingdom ! The Archbishop of Paris has addressed the following letter to the parish priests of his diocese on the approaching chris tening of the Comte de Paris : " PARIS, APRIL 20. " Monsieur le Cure—The Church prays for Princes, in or der that they may reign for the welfare of the people. We implore that grace with the greater anxiety, this year, as the King has resolved on consecrating the day following his fete by a solemnity very dear to his heart. On the 2d of May the ceremony of the baptism of his Royal Highness the Count de Paris is to be celebrated. We will pray the Almighty to bless that august child ; to bless the Monarch, to protect him ; to send him a•ct from Heaven, to defend him and support him in all his designs tor the peace arid prosperity of France. Such arc the f Tvent wishes we will address to the Lord in singing the canticle of the Royal prophet." Next follow the list of prayers which are to be chanted on the Ist of May, in honour of Louis Philippe. The Chamber of Deputies received some Re ports on Tuesday, but no business of importance was transacted. The Journal des Debats invokes good faith in the affair of the letiet s, and states that the Royalist party went to London for those letters. We declare that nothing is more false ; that the persons of whom the Presse speaks did not know the exist ence of the letters ashen they arrived in London ; that it was merely by accident that they heard of them, and that they learned that the letters had in fact been offered to ill. Guizot for 4,000 francs, and that M. Guizot had answered, What do these letters prove? that Louis Philippe was an emigrant Prince. We know that very,well, and it is for that reason that we have chosen him. We have received a summons from M. Franck Carre, the Attorney-General, to appear before the Court of Assize on the 301 h of this month, on account of the conzple rendue of the affair of the letter. Then the threats of M. Guizot. The Messayer is already retained. 'the acquittal of La France has been considered by the Re presentatives of the great Powers as a fact of sufficient im portance for several of them to despatch couriers to their re spective Courts.—La,Gazette de France. A letter from 'I unis of the 24th of March states that the Bey had just given notice to the foreign Consuls that he in tended to prohibit the exportation of cattle for two months. The Bey by this general communication desires to take from the measure the appearance of being designed for a specialpur pose, but it is evioent that it has in view our possessions in Africa, to which considerable exportation of cattle has been latterly made. Great inconvenience will result from this measure, the execution of which wi 1 coincide with the renewal of hostilities against the Arabs by General ilugeaud.—Le Commerce. -BOURSE.--PARIS, TUESDAY, APRIL 27. _ First Highest Lowest Last • Price Price. Price. Price Fre. h 5 per Cents ll3 70 ... 113 75 ... 113 85 ... 113 85 r Cents O9 30 99 40 911 30 ... 99 40 3 per Cents 79 30 . 7 i, 30 ... 79 25 ... 79 25 Bank oi mince' 3105 .3195 ...3195 Lltitte !lank I,lrilUl. 5 arcs ...V 85 ...1085 voit Shares 5157 5U —.5157 5C ...5157 SO ...5157 50 5 per Cents. New Loan llO% ... 1 1% 10,% 11 , 1% 815 ... 815 ... 815 ... 815 1040 ...1C4.1 , ...1040 ...1045 . 1.4% .! Pass,re ••• ••• ••• . Roman lO4 104 ... IC4 ... 104 SHARE 6, Versnilles,ll. B 265 307 50 ... 385 ... 387 50 Lit. ...... k 4.0 . 240 . 237 511 1, 37 s' l louen Bel;ian Av:{z:811 Spanish Ui team Strasburg to Bale— . 237 50 238 75 237 50 75 PENITENT IA RY.—The number of prisoners confined in the Penitentiary, Milbank, in the course of the last five years, was 4,255. Tie numbers were respec tively as follow, commencing with 1836: 617. 736, 780, 715, and 1,407 of these thirteen were removed to Beth. kin Hospital, on the ground of insanity, five of whom were derange:] previous to their admission to the Penitentiary. BRUSSELS, APRIL 27.—A letter from Arlin announces that the Baron de Steenhault, Governor of the province of Luxemburg, died on Saturday afternoon of an apoplectic stroke. The crisis was over in five minutes. All endeavours to restore animation sere entirely fruitless. The aronexpira vv 'thou; being able to utter a iingleword, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. ( From The Sun of Last Night. ) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 28.—The demand for Cotton to-day has again been exceedingly limited, the sales not amounting to more th to 2,000 bales. For export or spe culation there is nothing to report. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 28.—T0-day there has been considerable improvement, and almost all descriptiuns of Stock have advanced. The transactions comprise Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 28 ; Great Western, 95 ; Du. New Shares, 63 3l ; London and Birmingham, 160 ; Ditto. 321. Shares, 54%; New Ditto, 254 ; London and Brighton United Company, 48 ; Midland Counties, 90; New Shares Ditto, 22 1 1, ; North Midland, 794 ; Liverpool Bank Company, 8 1 / s . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 28.—There is very little doing in Shares :—Manchester and Birmingham, 25 1 ; Manchester and Leeds, 64 ; Lqndon and South Wes tern, 584 ; Bank of Manchester, 7 / 1 ; Manchester Assurance, 94. BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, APRIL 26.—The national funds were freely offered to-day, and the prices were weaker. In Ardoin's business was animated, but the prices were luwer, owing to some sales. We learn from Papers brought by the British Queen that on the 23d. tilt his Excellency Sir Joan Harvey was waited upon by all the members of the New Brunswick Legislature, inform ing his Excellency of the intention of the Legislature to pre sent him with a piece of plate of the value of 1,5001. sterling. The intelligence received of the death of the Pre,ident of the United States, has not had any effect on the British market, as it is the prevailing opinion that the new President will adopt the same politics as those of General Harrison. Consols opened this morning at the same quotations they left off, 90i fur the Account, Money, 90,1 ; Exchequer Bilk, 13 15 premium ; Bank Stock, 169 171 ; India Stock, 254/ 255/ ; India Bonds, 2 4 premium. In the Foreign Market the prices are nominal as yet, same as they left off, Spanish Active, 234 ; Deferred, 'l4 ; Passive, si 3 i ; Portuguese, 334 34k; Three per Cents.. 20%; Brazilian, 69 70 ; Colombian, 22-i 23; Chilian, 59 62 ; Mexican,a29i 30i ; Dutch Two- and-a-Half per Cents., 54 ; Five per Cents , 99/ 100. SHARES.—Great Western, 29 30 prem. ; New, 14i prem.:; London and Brighton, IN dis. ; Blackwall, 54 i dis. ; Birmingham, 69 71 prem. ; Southampton, 58i 59/ per share ; Croydon, 14% per share ; Greenwich, Si Si per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15 14/., dis. Posted at the New South American Coffee House : " New York, April S. " Arrived the Lady Chapman, from Bermuda, in eight days (No intelligence of the Pre,ident. )" PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 - to Eastern Counties - Ditto Debentures Great Western Ditto New ... 50 Ditto kifths London and Brighton London and Birmingham ... 90 ._. Ditto New .. London and South Western 3 Bl — ..... to Ditto Tenths Midland Counties lOO - to South Eastern and Dover k'ork and North Midland 5O — to Ditto New Shares JOINT STOCK BANKS. Colonial Union of Australia. ... 23 ...... 34i...... to Union of London lO ...... 10 PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 27. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 97i Grand Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1830 Si per Cent. Debs. ißoyal Canal Stock In respect to the British funds we have again to repeat what we have stated for several days past, inactive, with steady prices, and up to the present time there is not a feature in either of the markets worth notice. No account is as yet given for the fall of Bank Stock which took place yesterday afternoon. By some it is supposed to re late to the "Joint stock Banks. Money is at the rate of from 3 to 4 per cent. in the house. Nothing is known at present respecting the Budget, fur which the speculators and money interest are anxiously waiting. Consols are at present 904 for the Account; Money, 90k; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 12 14 prem. ; Bank Stock, 169 k ; India Stock, 2544 ; India Bonds, 2 4 prem. In , the Foreign Market little doing; Spanish Active 23*; Portuguese, 34; Three per Cents., 204; Brazilian, 694; Mexican, 30k ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 5i3 ; Five per Cents., 993 3. Snares rather better. Birmingham, and Gloucester, 74k ; Great Western, 96; Ditto, New, 654; Ditto, Fifth., I`2 ; London and Brighton, 484; Midla n d C oun ti es , 8n ; South Eastern and Dover, 183. Consols, Acc,.unt, 904 buyers ; Mexican, 29L 301 k ; Portu guese, :344 ; Spanish, 233 %. Nothing doing. CLOSING PRICES, BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 1691 India Stock 2541 3 per Cent Red. BBB Ditto Bonds 4 pas 3 per Cent Cons 9oh Ditto Old Annuities ... - 31 per Cent Red 971 Ditto New Annuities... New 31 per Cent 9Bl Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d 14 pm New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001 l2 pm Long Annuities to expire i Ditto Small l2 pm Jan. 1860. l2 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct 169 Oct 1859 l2i India Stock for 0pg.... Jan. 1860. FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto, New Ditto 34A Prussian, 5 per cent Russian, 5 per cent ll•2i Ditto, Metallic Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, Deferred ... French, 5 per cent. —f. —e. Exchange French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 2i per cent. ... 52a Ditto, 5 per cent 99g FOREIG Austrian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent IO3A Brazilian Bonds 684 Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 23b Chinon, 6 per cent Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, I Z , 2 Danish, 3 per cent 7B Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Mexican, 5 per cent. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 — Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et 174 SHARES. Birmingham and Glouqester Railwav (100 p) 744 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) Ditto Debentures ( 4 paid).... Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway(4o paid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) .. Ditto New Shares (50 paid 65 .)-- Ditto Fifth (4 paid) 1 q- London and Brighton (50 paid). London and Bt mingham Railway (90 pd) 162 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid).... 241 London and South Western Ditto Tenths... Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. ...... 90 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) South East,rn and Dover (33 paid)... 18i North Midland Railway (100 paid) Ditto New Shares (10 paid) tir:LiiiAN t. UNDs—Baursai.... APRIL 24 Actual Debt, 2!.,', per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOO% Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent 91% 3 per Cent. --- 70% (1,40) lOO% Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent Si% Society of Commerce, 4 % per Cent lOO Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent .......... National Society. . — Exchange on London (short) —Brussels Papers, April 27. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMBTECDAM, APRIL 27. 1 Money. Bills. lanai Debt, 0% per Cent Ditto, ditto 5 per cent. /ono* t Syndic, 4%, per cent 9,,% 91% Ditto, ditto, 3% per cent 74 74% Commercial Company, V, per cent 166 166% Ditto (1e,35 and 1837) 5 per cent. Loan 1837, 5 per ccnt........... Exchange on London, One month l2 05 Two months Dutch Papers, April 28. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIH'INA, APRIL 19. fire per Cents. Metalliques - 107% Fear per Cents. US% Three per Cents. Thirty.eeven• Rank .hares.. —AI/rerneine Zeitung. April:2l HAMBU KG BURSENHALLE, APRIL 24. Bills, Money Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank shares 166 1665 A thlo-ltussian Loan lon% 108 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, CGrtilicate Inscription, Ist Se. ies lO. Russian 5 per Cent. Hopa and Co. 3d and 4th Series Ditto in Certificates New 4 per Cent. (1840) 87% 67% Dutch .sctual Debt, 2;4 pei Cent • 51% (1 Ditto 5 per Cent Polish Bonds New ticket Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 75% 75% N twegian Loan, 1531, 4 per Cent.... Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16% PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, APRIL 24. Bills. Money, St. Schuld. Sch., 4', per cent. 103% 103% Prussian English Loan, 18.30, 4 per cent 101 100% Exchange on I, radon, three montks 0 M t ', —Prussian State Gazette. April 25. SERVILITY OF THE LIBERAL PRESS.—For years the conduct of the priesthood in thwarting the removal of burial places from the midst of the population has been a matter of complaint. Had they discountenanced burying in churchyards the practice must have been discontinued ; but they have claimed a property in mortality, and have refused to allow decent interment beyond the churchyard, unless a sum was paid to them. No sooner, however, does the Bishop of London intimate, on the part of the priest hood, that their opposition to burying the dead out of large towns may be got over, by a due con ,dderation, than some journals, called Liberal, instead of feeling their indignation renewed at the scandalous conduct of the clergy, break out into a fulsome strain of eulogy, and cannot enough admire the .wisdom of the Bishop of London. Can the continued arrogance of the priesthood surprise us, when such is the truth less servility of the press. Traitors are worse than open enemies, and Liberal journals which thus pander to the pride of the clergy, betray the best interests of the people. On Tuesday the attention of the promenaders directed to her Majesty's brig the Rapid, about three fades to the eastward of the town, which was discharging her guns. It appears that some French boats were fish ing within the limies prescribed by the Convention, viz., 4iree miles of the headlands, and that the brig was warn :ng them of their trespass.—Briyhton Gazette. question oe. MURDER A S A HELP TO MEMORY. —On a trial at Cambrid g e, r e lative to the liability o f the inhabi t,nts of Duddington to repair a highway , a copied the Cou r t f or fi ve d a ys—viz., wheth er the road re. fi rred to was a pu bli c hi g h wa y o r not. No amusing in cident occu rre d t o re li eve the tedium of t he cause, y et t h e interest was such, that dining every po:tion of it the Court and all the avenues leading to it were crowded with persons anxious to hear the details of a case of such va , t impor tance in the fen districts, where many hundred miles of si milar roads, there called " droves," exist. Several of the old witnesses dated from an event which, in their younger days, seems to have cawed universal interest, " the year Solomon Tuck was hanged," " so many years btf ire or liter the year Solomon Tuck was hanged" (which was 60 : ears since), was their common f orm o f expression. Teis Solomon seems to have murde , ed his wife and :children ”der eireurnstaeces of no inclusion atrocity,—lpteich .Expreas, MORNING EDITION. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court at half-past two o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. t o f Chekib Eff•mdi, the T ur ki-h A m b assa d or , h a d an au dience her Majesty to deliver a letter. M. de Mavrocordato, the Grecian Minister, had an audiecce of the Queen to take leave. General Alava, the Spanish Minister, had an audience of her Majesty to take leave. o f Their Excellencies were respectively i n t ro d uce d by Vi 2e( !' f Palmerston, 0. C. 8., her Majesty's Prin c ip a l S e cretart,s State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert (fey' ter, Master of the Ceremonies. Her Majesty was attended by the Earl of 'Listnwel, Waiting ; and Sir Fred. Stavin, Groom in Wirltiv. After having had audience of the Queen the Sottish clgin's" ter and the Grecian Minister were presented to his.RoyalSigr ness Prince Albert by Viscount Palmerston. ~ :s His Royal Highness Prince Albert received addressB9.° l congra'ulation yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace iro ll the following places and public bodies:— • From the Legisl a ti ve A ssem bl y o f St. Cliristopiter,_l2' Royal Highness's marria,te, presented by Mr. Colquhotni— the Synod of the Presby erian Church in Erglan!':' on the birth of the P r i ncess R oya l, presente d b y the nes' Alexander Munro, Moderator of the Synod of the Presbyt e rian Church in England in connection with the Church s' Scotland, accompanied by the Rev. Dr. Ralph, Rev. Alexander Murdoch, Rev. John Park, Rev. Hugh Campbell, IteY.''!„ Sawers, Rev. John Watson, R ev . 1% stnGrant, Rev- Gardner, Rev. Alexander R enn i son , an d t h e R ev. Charles Forbes Buchan. From t7st. Alban's, presented by the Mayor. • From Sunderland, presented by a deputation. . • From the Corporation of Reading ; also from the lOW tants of Reading, presented by Mr. Rickford the Mayor, accoA l d " panied by the Hey. George Hulme, or, and Chaplail4an Mr. Mandy, Town Clerk for the Corporation, and weir' panied by Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, M.P., the Rev. S. - WO' man Yates, and Mr. H. F. Letchworth for the Inhabitanti•: , From Great Yarmouth, presented by a Deputation. From the Vestry of St. Marylebone, presented by Ai r ' Waymouth. From Guilford, presented by the Mayor. His Royal Highness Prince Albert was attended by Lordlt . ' Grosvenor Groom of the Stole, Mr. G. E. A nson , reasureb Lord G. Lennon, Gentleman in waiting, Captain Francis &or mour, Groom in waiting, Colonel Bouverie, Equerry in WO ing, and Colonel Godwin. Gentleman Usher in waiting. Viscount Melbourne had an audience of the Queen 3,T - terday. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal was taken an ing yestet day morning in a carriage and four. The Russian Minister and the Baroness Brunow visited tb6r Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Leiningen Yes" terday afternoon at Buckingham Palace. The Queen, accompanied by the Princess Leiningen, too an airing yesterday afternoon in an open landau and fold. Colonel Bouverie attended her Majesty on horseback. •Pril° e Albert and the Prince of Lei n i ngen ro d e out on horseback 2t the same time. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by th e PriVe and Princess of Leiningen, an d a t ten d e d b y t h e ConitterV r k Mount Edgcumbe, Lady C. C oc k s , L or d B yron, Si r F r i t lq'' Stoven, Captain Francis Seymour, and Colonel Botirei', , e' honoured the Italian Opera with their presence last evening The Royal dinner at Buckingham Palace on Wednescg evening included their Royal Hi g h nesses th e D uc h es ses °J . Kent and Gloucester, and the. Duke of Cambridge. L e i n i nge n, Highnesses the P r i nce an d P r i ncess L e i n i nge ' A Archbishop of York, the D u ke o f W e lli ngton , L a d y A.:114•- Dawson, Lady C. Legge, Baroness Spaeth, Earl of Uxbridg e j Lord Burghersh, Lord R. Grosvenor, Lord G. Lerma, A n Major Stevens. The Coldstream Band attended during dinner. Her Royal Highness the . Duchess of Kent received Ad dresses of Congratulation on th e Bi r th o f t h e P r i ncess yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's, from the following Towns and public bodies : From the Mayor, Aldermen, Councillors, and inhabitan t ' of the Borough of St. Alban's—presented by the Mayor, comnanied by the Earl of Listowel, M.P., and Mr. Musket , M.Y. From the Vestry of St. Marylebone—presented by Mes srs. Waymouth and Daniell. From the Inhabitants of the Borough of Great Yam° ll— r' county Norfolk ; also from the Mayor, Aldermen, and 13 gesses of the Borough of Great Y armou th— presente d by . 41e Mayor and a Deputation. her Royal Highness the Duchess or Kent was a ttended: l l Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Lady i n W a iti ng , an d Celaresi Couper, C. 8., First Equerry and C o mpt ro lle r o f h er RO - s Highness's Household. The Prince of Leiningen visited the Duchess of Kent ft!' terday. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at 1 4 2: Foreign-o ffi ce. It was attended by most o f t h e Minist e r s ' The Council sat an hour and a half. A Deputation from Manchester on the Import Duties, c,,.1‘ . sisting of Mr. Robert Hyde Gr eg . M r . J o h n B. S m ith, i7.i; Robert Gardner, and Mr. He nr y A s h wort h, h a d an inter7l-: with the Chancellor of the Exchequer in Downing-street.. • a A Deputation from Liverpool he a d e d b y L or d S an don an . Mr. Cresswell, had an intervi e w w ith L or d J o h n R u ssell Y e :, terday at the Colonial-office on the subject of the k ie Poor-law. A Deputation of the Rectifying Distillers . of London , el: sisting of Messrs. James Lys Seager, Henry Pigeon, Browning, William Nicholson, John Gaitskell, Hodges, had an interview with the Chancellor of the •E; 1 e. `" quer, in Downing-street. • A Deputation from the Americ an Ch am b er o f Commerce at o - Liverpool, in support of a revi s i on o f t h e Import Duties; co sisting sisting of Messrs. N. Roskell, Thom as Todd, and W .l Maury ; and a Deputation from th e T own o f Liverpoo l in ors . support of a revision of the Import Dutie s , cons i s ti ng of T o i l J. Hornby, Richard Harrison, William Earle, and es ter- Harrison, had an interview with Vi scoun t M e lb ou rne: - . day, at his official residence in Downing-street. . Mr. Flood, the Vestry Clerk of St. M a ryl e bo ne , had H o me terview yesterday with the Marquis of N orman by a t the 00 Office, and delivered an Address to her Majesty from the Rat e payers of that Parish against the Poor-law Bill. A Deputation of Glass-makers, headed by Messrs. ThortiS s Hawkes, M.P., Oswald, M.P. Benjamin Hawes, M.P., Ben' jamin Wood, M.P., and Sc holefield, M.P., and incluclifig, Messrs. Rice Harrison, John Christie, and Ap s l e y P e ll att ,ha° an interview with Mr. Labouchere yesterday at the Office, ' 2f the Board of Trade. Mr. W. Barron, M.P., and Colonel Anson, had intervieol yesterday with Viscount Melbourne in Downing-street. Despatches from the Governor of the Honduras, were re ceived yesterday at the Colonial-office. A Deputation from the American Chamber of Commerce a t Liverpool—consisting of Messrs. J. Hornby, R. Harris° n ' W. Earle, H. Harrison, N. Itoskell, T. Todd, and W. AlaurY , had an interview with the Chancellor of th e E xc hequer °11 " Wednesday, in support of a revision o f th e I m p or t Duties. ROME, APRIL 13.—Monsignor G. 13ata,55,.. 6 Bishop of Bagnorca, Internunci o , an d papa l d e l ega t e in Grenada, is recalled to go to anoth er d est i na ii on , an d 31°n signor Savo, Canon of St. Peter, is appointed his successor' Among the numerous strangers who lately arrived here , ice remarked the Marquis of Lond on d err y, who however set °st for Florence before Easter, and Lord Brougham, who went en to Naples, where one o f hi s near re l a ti ons is said to be taken ill. The Admiralty have issued regulations respec t. ing the supply of cabin furnitu r e t o capta i ns a nd othe r commanding officers of her Majesty's vessels, of which the following are the principal :—The articles of furniture consisting of plate, in forks, spoons, ladles, fish sli ce. ' and sugar tongs; linen, bed and table; glass and chins' in decanters, glasses, dinner-sets, breakfast and tea acts; and chairs and tables arc to be considered as the e gta. blishment, to be supplied from the naval stores to 0°1 : mending officers who may demand the whole or a r "; part of the establishment as may suit their own con' venience. 101. per cent, per annum w ill b e charger,d on'the value to officers for the use of the f urn iture. the event of the death of an officer, or of his being stire' . seded, his successor is to he at libe r ty t o use th e ca bin fur : niture on board the ship, on taking a su rve y o f th e rem" n ,"; and of their actual condition, f o r th e i n f orma ti on of the Admiralty ; but if officers should not make use of `: cabin furniture of their predecessors, a survey is t° made, and the stores delivered into the charge of me purser, as public property, to be returned i n to st or at the first naval yard at home or abroad, at which th e ship may touch. If an officer succeeding to a c° 11 !; mand shall require the use of the furniture after it given in charge to the purser, it may be sepplied, v n the refit of a ship at any of H. M. dock-yards, furniture may be obtained to replace any which may have been lash or rendered anfit for use by the casualties of the service. Officers removing from one ship to another are at liberty to take with them the furniture from the ship they ic ewe. If the furniture of a predecessor i s on b oar d t h e ship i which a commanding officer removes, and his successor 11 the ship he leaves desire s to h ave it, it i s t o b e transferr ea to him, not exceeding the proportions allowed to tle: e lss : of the ship. A transfer of a proportion of furniture fro n t , larger to a smaller ship may be made, the remainder to ,„ left in charge of the purser of the ship from whence transfer is made. Officers promoted may complete the, stores from the furniture of their predecessors. The v aluati ° ll of the stores, on which 10 per eent.is to be charged. W e l d, be regulated according to their actual value when ist o _„, and their valuation will continue until they are ri; e turned. The officers to whom stores are supplied are to _ liable to the full cost of aoy of the articles missing when the ship is paid off, except the deficiencies are atm is! I . In n ar a r l y t to the casualties of the service, and not to nee ct. to cases of special service when officers be di , spe . stiono w f .h t 'c he ' are required demanded, passenger!, an increase of articles may tion of the seniee. are to be returned into store at the exP-r: In every instance of alteration 1 0 t" i to tie forarded t° stores or any part of them, a report already arrived from the Admiralty. A box of Ph" ral service, lice, and the oilier London at this dockyard for a i i ene measure will be an Advil , '" articles ;till soon follow- Le e rs availing themselves of it, tage to the commanding °have no doubt, prefer :taking their_ but most officers will, we , the are not debarred.—Ve" own plate, &c., from which that from a r country, betwe ,,, this town and C von i p t or i t s T r e e l p ey o r r a L p ed h• e ir e e e ti o c t e„ s e t7 a ey li o n f e t h h a e l Railway, which m w i h rl i e c t h ion pr o e l se t n h t e s los Cheltenham engirwe r a i : 1 ; Great Western that by been selF fan inclined plane the existing obstacles may b e difficulties than the one originally proposed, and means e easily surmounte d Cheltenham Examiner. GREEN OLD AGE.--tin Easter Monday last, a ball, which took place at 0.6 Crown Inn, Canon Pi°, n ' was g raced by danced out his seventy-sixth year, and met his seventy; the agile presence of one old man, via ° seventh, poised on "the light fautas:ic toe,'' his fair partwnel was sixty years ctteedrnfoßrati Ma} -eay and December can never agiee ? -"- Cheltenham Ex • younger than himself. Who after t his say that Examiner. We of the other sex should delight in seeing the intellect and taste of women cultivated to the utmos t not their e ipabilities ; but it is clear that woelan is h er tended for the rough business of the world, .andth teie_ perft ction is best displayed in quiet in and tellectua. l h g a a p n i t .in c e e s c s u o p f a t t h i c o m s s e , i a n a d d i i i d n u c a a l s r e t o a n w d h a o c m t iv s i h t e y is a t directed tac i i,... t a , ° . t " " For nothing lovelier can be found In woman than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. r ho _ Won - .en ill appreciate the nix loveliness of the ir fel wish to resemble man in their mind and occupations. •1 All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degrade:: Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows. —Elliotson's Human Physiology. 3 , 5 T0 THE CHARGE OF AN AMERICAN JV D " ... the A JURY AT KENTucKy.— Gentlemen — In this cass:ence couitsa at ho h sides are quite unintelligible , the 071 de of the witnesses is. quite incredible, and plaintiff Ai u g u ero s fendaut are such.bad Characters, that it is quite in" to ale which way you giVe your verdict, I , .. 0 UNITI The folio, published in Papers of till FUNE This fune leen in this horses, and a dressed in a by a black c Mack crape. appearance. 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