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. /~ b•r for Salford, himself the representative of a great English constituency—by doing justice to Ireland.— (Cheers.) It appeared to him that the notion cf ju tine to Ireland, is the of inion of Hon. Gentlemen opposite, depended far less upon the plain principles of justice than en those events which seemed to affect the right; of one courts) , in t , e same measure in which they affected the interest and the safety of the other. Witless 'what had taken place.—(llcar hear, hear.) His Hon. Friend the Member for Liskeard had glanced a' it. Look at the circumstances under which the eectire fran chise was first granted to the Irish people in the year 1792. A petition presentel by the Roman Ca•bolice of Ireland te the Irish Parliament was flung under the tall-, and seornfally reeudiated. Six months elapsed, and Mr. Pitt, Or was not so bold a , the R:ght Hon. Gentleman who ha I list a tdreved the House, but who was too brave not to shriek f -ern the horrors of a cavil eas—Me Pitt saw that the m of the Roman Catholics of Ire land—they were then there milieus, there are now seven millions- - --was required for the security of the country, and he granted the franc+i4e to the Irish people. The raise of the Delved Weliirgt n bad I e n introduced that night lay the flee. aml Learned Member for Bunion, who called him, and justly cailsO hlm, a great and surpass ing man.—( Cheer.) He was a great argil.. torpes leg man, attached to his party oa ordinary exert , i nr, hut who for got those connections when the great interest; of the country reqrrirsri it. Th.at distingtoshed man lea: himself a member of the hist: Parliament. Ile r erseeded the ad dress for the Catholic El aecipation Act of that day Young as he was then, and c wnparatively ineeperienesd, he could not look to I eland without seeing that the re conciliation of the R man Cstholics r£ that couunl was indispensiblo fir the safety of the country. Ills speech 03 the occasion was coefieed to a few words. He sail thst " rel augmentation of f,,ree was bade 'd necessary as me itioned in the sacesh from the circumstances of the time. I 1 urge 1 what had he,n recommended in the sprech from the Throne, and re specting as he did his Ca,holie fellowasubjects he ceeld not help expressing his aperobati an of it. it bad obser e I the loyalty of his Catholic fellow-country race, anal he hoped that al animosity between all parties would disappear." The man who used these words, 33 yeere efterwsris gat up in the House of Lords. and said that be 1 )0k ed v i:h apprehension on ciril marl* re, and he asked the Leeiala- Pere to adept that great measure of concession.--( Cheers.) As lose- a 3 the Csthol'es of Ireland used the franchise as a trust for the Protestant interest, so long as their state of subservency existed, as long as the landlord was held t ) 1 e as much entitled to the vete as to tie rent, no complaint was made against the exercise of the franchise by the 40s. freeholders ; but when the people became conscious of their eglita, when Oe influence of that Great - Assoei,ttion which the Noble Lord seemed so solicitous should survive. was in existence, and when the elections of Waterford, Louth, and Clare, affu-del evidenct that as the numbers in Ireland increasid, her moral energies expanded, then and not ti 1 then, the 40 , . freehold was abolished, and the 10/. Tralidcation was established, with the solvent tenant tts".—(Cheers.) He denicd the statement of the lion. Member for Exeter, who had stated that there was a condition, and be hi that fact from the speech of the Hon. Member for Tamworth, in which he stated that there was no condition. That speech proved 'that t +ere was was no communication, and therefore no contract. ,But if th, re was a condition; were they not bound to adhere to the qualification? The lion. Baronet had refused to grant a double appeal, and in that be was jAned by Lord Lyrellyarst. But then it was said if the qualifi cation sat insisted upon, the machinery must be ehaeged. Now, if the machinery was °hanged, the engine would work in an entire'y dirt. Tent way. But there were nit wanting men of talent to renonstrate against the so'vent tenant test; there was at that time a young patrician who stood forward as the champion of the people's rights. —(llrar, hear, and great cheering.) He remonstrated against the solvent test ; the speech that was made by that Noble Lord seas extent, and he would not trouble the House with it ; it was read last night, and when the Noble Lord was tainted with it, and the lion. Member for Exeter came to the rescue, be did not deny the speech —he did not deny that the Noble Lord hail denounce.d the solvent tenant test. No, but he said it was before emancipation. —( Cheers.) And accerlingly the Noble Lord struck out of the Bill the solvent tenant test. This was the speech of the Noble Lord--" Mr. Stanley con ceived it was sufficient to prove the freeholder had a benfii ial istssest of let in the laid, without calling on him to show that the solvent tenant could afford 10!. a year. '— (Chre-e.) The Noble Lord said he wishel to make no real cha-ge in the Reform Bill, but four Judges cf the land had said he did—(Circers)—and this fact ought to be impressed on the House, that the NoLls Lord had the appointment ofsixty Barristers, and under the provlsions of the Bill sixty names veer) rrgi•tered in favour of the Noble Leeel, under the lastaelicial intsrpretation, and not under the advent tenant tsst.—(Cheers.) When did the Noble Lord first eempl,in of this? DA they hear one word from him from 1832 to 1835 ?—(Cheers.) 0: as long 'as he re.rained in office ?—(Contiaued aced , g.) NJ, until he changed his party he Lever changed his mind.—( Cheers.) But when the Noble Lord and the Memb.!r for Pembroke went over—when the Right Honourable Baronet, the Member for Pembrcke, s who in 1835 declared it would be disgraceful to him to Join men to whom all their Eves they had been opposed— ((ireat cheering)—they might call him Repealer as much as they pleased, but when they went over—when they joined themselves to the men who opposed them in revery shape—when they oohed themselves widi the Tories, and something more—and when they became the confederates of a faction they had denounced as miserable and expi-ing, then the Noble Lord found it necessary to give proofs of the siecerity of his conversion, and to mak". compensation fur agreeing tl sw amp the House of Lords, and accord ingly the Noble Lord conferred upon his party the great services he had to be t )w. Ile found that his party would be destroyed by the Irish Reform all, and he therefore took it no and airce-1 at it a blow not less mortal because it was insidious.—(Cheere.) He says the laedlords shall once a year have the opportunity of dragging the tenants before the Assistant Barrister for the purpose of ripping up their tit'r. Th.: Noll: Lord still adheres to his Bill, and why should he not ? The greater the cenfusion, the greater the obstruction.—( Great cheering.) He would not use, in designating the purpose of the Noble Lord, the expres sion which that 'Noble Lord had himself made use of in designating the 811 of his Noble Friend. He would not say that the Noble Lord's purpose was false and fraudu lent; he would not use language so coarse. (Loud re.) He was restrained by courtesy from giving that designation to the purpose of the Noble Lord which ought to be given to it.—(Cheers.) But who mild doubt the purpose of the Noble Lrri who had observed his conduct, had read his Bil', cr listened to his declaration en Monday night as to the relatite duties of landlords and tenants ?—( Ci care.) On that subject le Lai given ut'e alee to sentiments os I ieh the holeel of tl e Tory party would have shrunk from uttering.— ( Cheers. ) But what he had then !aid ought t o show the people of England what manner of man it w a s who was now t'te standartl-bra er of the Tories of this country.. It ought to show them Or t the time was come whet those aggtessi,e strides must be re.isted, and whet sense method must he devised to protect from thre._t med the hbeity ufEag!itharr. The Noble Isar I l.a i endea vented to Ina'ae it aepear that as regarded tl.e rcgi-- t the Bel of his Noble Friend ressrubled that of the Mille Lore. You have a ravision, said the N tae Leta!, and oe have a rcvisinr. We have an eppod. and you have al appeal. Bills reaemble one ancther.—( Elena brat.) But here the Gote•nmeat gave a revision More registration; the ail of the Noble Lord gave one arttr. The Gave:tam-it Bat gave an appeal on questions of law only ; the N 'hie Leru's 8,1 l gave an appeal on questions of fact.—( Loud cheers.) The Nul hi Lord had scald too much on their crcdu'i y and simplicity in endcasouring to impress upon tl eat theve re. emblances.—( Loud cheers.) Now, will le.pect to the rr.f ng as a test. It had been chosen as a test by Ilea. Get tlenten opposi . e. You give us a rati.tg Larder the Poor-law as a test, said they, and we will g've you municipal ref Loon ? The test of retieg had been given to them as a tea fir the municipal franchise. and now they ob:rcte Itoit as a test for the elcct:vo franchise If th were sincere ia freir anxiety for the scttlerneAt of that question, w hy not take the Poor sac as the basis, leaving the cre•- tion of amr‘ent ? Oh, but sail the Hon. and Learned lalember fir Exeter, we take the sol , ent tenant test • tie are bound to do so by the Eatanelpstim Act. Doubtle.s he thought so ; but the Judg , a of Ireland differed front him in opinion, and his ergurn,nt s i t the R.:taie of CM mons tt e. - c of little use, since It:y could not find to en talce into the Court of Excheque r i n D e b lin. Four of the Judge.; had daclarcd they would not he bound by the a te i i,n of the majosito, and at that tl.:elaration the Hon. hkrnLe: far Exeter bad declared himself Perketly h orr i - Zed. Savo away half of the constituency of I eland, sod the Hono urable and Learned Gentleman re o tnaked calm and unmo ved ; but vi late a rule o f but (Hear, hear.) law, and his indignation teas a to Lord Marisa -Id, ." Striae," said Ch itham, i I r 4 ‘ (mile the *tile Constitution to it b s u c t et a t e ;in a g n e a c l: b w ,, y ( e b r as:li sit tra: quit and ct lea_touch so( Westminster-hal', and the spider will it irt out I:ivnl its venom." (Loud cheer r .) lie would read th e 9 . p ‘ ; Chit f Boron O'Grady on the stol W ject of ail C . r o if n rerce. h; The g:it fur. Gentleman then r; al th e & p int om sashlch it appta el the Chief Baron consiee that, s l t e -Clog in a Cunt of App2al, he was net bound by tt construction of hi.s breteren, and the only remedy fir tl is evil was the: creation of a sugeri n. Court of Appeal. It was the duty of th it Ilau.e to consider, not if this were wet!, but what they ougi,t to de. What was their reason , for not defieirg the franchise ? Why had they adeptea all the poison of Sir Michael O'Loghlin's all, and omitted tee antidote? It was right the • House should know that in Sir M. O'Loghlin's Bill there had been ic trocluced a clause expressly defining the franchise; now why had that clause beer, omitted from the Noble Lord's :Bill? Why, because it was adverse to their party interests. —( Loud cheers ) They would not iotreduc2 the clause .—they would not put a stlo to the wrangling of the Ju,lg -a ;bay acknowledged the case to be scandalous, end set t h ey would not apply a remedy. Sir Michas; O'L tgh fn's Bill had Onta ined a claim deliaing the franchise to be n , bcr,efiej3i i nw oest one, and not a solvent tenant ore. that clause had bee ' c ,r ! tained in the N o bl e Lord's 13:11 it : would not have been ndi joaed It was didaorenuous to rely on ti.o authority of Sir M. e'Loghlin, and to concea l such an iniportar.t fact as that.—(l.oul ch , m-.1 W ou ld t h e Noble Lord tell them now what Le would do? He bad heard that question put again acrd ag -in, and it had been answe:eci. He admitted the evils 11 Id existed, yet he refused to define the fiarenia ,- , and all the profligacy which was the consequence l ily at their own doors.. Now what was the constituency whi ch I reland sought to possess ? He had remarked that the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Pembroke, bad grid that he should regret if the gentry of Ireland should - be forced into a combination to refuse leases to their tenants, The Noble Lord the Member for North Lancashire, on Mon day night, had explained the reason of the falling off itl the- numbers of the' constituency, by stating that the landlords bad found that the tenants did not agree them in political opinions, and had, therefore, nu turally refused them leases.--( Hear, Lear.) It was quite clear that the constituency was meltieg away, that - there was a eaailaination against the Reform Bill to turn the . lash counties auto Pyrouglip, retuning EVENING EDITION• U Members in the nomination of the gentry. The people of Ireland were uneducated. The Noble Lord should recol lect this when I e attempted to take the franchise away. Did the Neble Lord when he issued the Education Com mission for Ireland, despite the bowl which had been raised .gainst it from Caithness to Exeter, forget the identity between knowledge and power? Did ho thiek he could =fine the education of the Irish people to the mere ele ments of letters ?—( Cheers.) The people of L eland knew their rights—the people of Ireland knew the history of heir country's sufferings- ; .thepeople of Ireland knew by what means Catholic 'Emancipation had been ob. tained—( Loud cheers)—and they knew that those means could be again resorted to if the necessity should arise. The people of Leland knew that after Catholic Emancipa tion the Tories had relapsed into their former courser.— ( Cheers.) They knew that after the granting Municipal Reform to England and Scotland they had r.:fesed it to Ireland.—( Cheers.) They ki.ew the history of the Spottiswoode gang—( Loud cle ers)—and cf that history the Noble Lord's Bill was the postscript.--( Loud and lon g continued cheelieg.) They knew the Noble Lord, and shay f It de t it was necessary to force him, sot only to rsi,e the edge, but to le event him again at tacking them. They knew the Noble Lord well _it was a pity the knowledge was not re ciprocal, or tl e Noble Lord would feel that he would net with impunity be allowed to pt.raue his c enee. t them look at the Effect which the Ncble Lord had already voduced by brit g:iig fear., arl the questior. A year ago Ir lard was tranq there Vai no agitation, the qt,e,tion of repeel was Lot mete ; suddenly the Noble Lord's Bill is b:ought forwar , , and t'• e whole cou, try is thrown into confusion.—( Ilea-, hear.) He we'l remerete..ed the warn:ne given by the Hon. Mem ber f. r Drogheda to the Hon. Baron, t, that if ho came into (Zee upon thit [lll, he must givens In l tad by some other weason than publ:c spit i n; and be implored the Rig! t II n. Baronet, if lie had the power, to st sp the Noble Lord in his mad course. If he cline in on such a pi inciple, those norm -tl schools of ag'tatien would be thrown open—the reps eseLt t've.s of the peerle thrown out by the Bill of the Noble Lord would find so.ne pl ice of !lieu' gathering, and a confederacy of four-fold the power would le raised to that before which his prudence quailed before. (Cheers. ) He was greatly struck by a que,tlon put at the Le s iening of the Session by the Noble Lord to the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs. He then thought his mind was engaged on something more important than the de struction of the Irish franchise—it was a most delicate question. But was net the Noble Lord afraid that the agitation would be carried farther than Ireland ; that it might be carried across the Atlantic, amongst those faithful Irish who had lean so loyal in times of great difficulty ? Was he not afraid that they might sympathise with their insulted countrymen, and their loyalty become less chivalrous than it had been ? Turning t s events nearer borne, be said at once that any outbreak on the pert of his countrymen would be to him utter ruin—be did not speak in menace, but was it not monstrous:, that while France was arming, they we-c disfranchi.ing—.while France was raring ramparts, they weie undermining the rest moral bulwarks which bound Ireland to this cone try.—(Cheers.) He feared no invasion—what he feared was, that guest majestic England would not be able to main tain that high station to which she had beef, red ed by a streeaman—that, divided at home, and exci ed, and en gaged, and crippled by Dish agitation, she might be com pelled to recede from the maje tic position she now oceu pi etl.—(oh, oh.) It would be amu compensation far them to say, that although foreign Cabinets have not been baffl2d, they had managed to put down Irish agit:tkin —that they bad succeeded in putting under coercion Popish multitudes—that they obtained verdicts from martini Jurires, and that their ensanguined banners were floating oven the towers of Dublin Castle.—(Cbeers.) 'l'qe debte was then adjourned. The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'Clock. VICTORIA THEATRE. Last evening was performed the new domestic drama of Paul the Rover, from the pen of Mr. Courtney, who is al. ready favourably known as an author and actor. Although the drama is styled domestic, it is highly romantic, and abounds with well-contrived and striking incidents, bordering on the melo-dramatic. No expense has been spared, the scenery and decorations are costly and effective, and the piece was vehe mently applauded throughout. It was followed by the In credibles of Paris, in which Laroche and Noel exhibit the most astonishing feats of strength and agility. A more fitting name could not be given to those wonderful per formers. Only think of a man lifting with apparent ease upon his shoulders a common coal waggon, which weighs about a ton and a hal and is loaded with serenteen adult persons ! This is the most easily described, but it is by no means the most wonderful of the teats, some of which are beautifu land interesting for their grace and dexterity. The applause of the audience was enthusiastic, and we should think that the " In credibles" will prove as popular as any of the " wonders" that hare ever been exhibited in London. The House was crowded in every part, and the boxes had a most fashionable appearance. THE MAREETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. The public sees went off heavily, and the bulk of the goods put np was bought in ; prices, however, did not show any material variation, except for Sugar, which sold upon easier terms. Little demand for Rice, which may be purchased on lower terms. '1 he prices of Pepper are now very low, but purchasers are with difficulty met with, even for prime parcels. TEA MARKET. The demand dull, and the public sales went off very heavily, a small part only Leing disposed of, and at rather easier prices. TALLOW MARKET. The demand for Russian sorts very dull, and prices set ex • hibited a downward tendency. P. Y. C. on the spot can be purchased at 465. per cwt. WHII ECHAPEL HAY MARKET. The supp'y of Hay was moderate, and the demand being brisk higher prices were paid. Clover, 41. 12s. to 61. 6s. ; Meadow Hay, 4/. 15s. to 51.55. ; Straw in short supply, and demand good at 38s. to 40s. per load. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THiS DAY.) toNnow, Res. 25.—Wind this day at noon N., hazy. Da A 1., Fxa. 24.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the North Bri ton, Fyall, from Java. Sailed the Bombay, Kitchin, for Ho bart Town ; Mina, Grant, Valparaiso ; James Holmes, Head, Bartadoes ; Julia, Rees, River Gambia ; Torch, Bain, st. Michael's ; nex ter ous, Pryke; Constantinople ; Ajax, Thomp son, Nap:es ; Spy, Farrant, Malta. LIVERPOOL, Ixn. 24.—Wind, N.E.—Arrived the Lord Althorp, Sprsules, from Calcutta; Robert James, Hayne:=, Laguona ; Calder, Porto Cabello ; Monektm, Charente. Sailed the Matilda, Scott, Sydney, N.'.. W. ; Venus, M‘Donald, Val paraiso ; Village Girl, Wolf, Monte Video; Jamaica, Pratt, Pernambuco ; Diad m, Sinnop, Hayti ; Rising Sun, Christian, Gulf of Mexico; Peri, Davey, Azores; Blomiden, 01 feur, Venice ; Torrijos de Fellus, Almeida, Lisbon ; Covington, Hall, Bordeaux. Earl Powis, Mauritius to Liverpool, 7th inst., lat. 34, long. 30, by the Lord Althorp, arrived here. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Brig 4 ton Gazette.) POILTSMOTII, FEB. :14.—The Impregnable, 104, Captain Forrest, and Belleisle, 78, Cap'a'n Nicolas, are ready for sea in Plymouth Sound, with the exception of want of men. These ships will not wceeeil to the Mediterranean until the spring. The Indus, 84, Captain Sir James Stirling, has been removed from her hulk, preparatory to going out of the harbour to Spit head. The corvette Tweed, 20, Commander Douglas, is ready for sea, awaiting orders. There is a rile-lour that the flag-ship Queen, 110, Captain Montagu, is forthwith to be despatched to the Mediterranean, to relieve the Princess Charlotte, 104; and that the St. Vin cent, 120, is to bcar Admiral Sir Edward Codrington's flag at this port. The Satellite eorvet'c, IS, GAnmander Robb, recently ar rived from the West India station, is put nut cf commission, and her crew ordered to join the flag-ship Queen, 110, on their return (rum leave. The full , ,win,g ships are on their homeward voyage from Malta to be paid off, namely, Oil Asia, 84, Captain Fisher ; Bellerophon, 78, Captain Austin ; aid Pique, 36, Captain Boxer, the latter to be new masted and refitted. The former ship will go to Sheerness, and the two latter will come into this harbour. M T The flag frigate, Commodore Sullivan, and Rose, 18, Com mander Christie, were at Rio de Janeiro on the 15th Decembi r The former was expecting to be shortly relieved from En_tland Tha steam frigate Dee, Commander Sherer,is ord.red home. from the Wt st Indies to le paid off, and may be daily looked for. The corvette Iris, '26, Captain Nurse, destined for the Coast of A frica, is gone into It mouth harbour for temporary re pairs and docking. The Crocodib., 26, Commander Jchnson, by a private letter of 31st Decernler, was at Jamaica. Her crew had been suf. , fering from yellow fever. She was to leave the station in July, to be paid off. 'I here are no orders arrived yct to put into commission the new brig Bittern, 16. She mill come into the basin previ ously to the pendant being hois'ed. The brig Pelican, 18, Commander Napier, remains at Spit head, ready for departure, when ordered. AT SPICHEAD.—PtIeaII, 18. IN Hanaouft.—Queen, Victory, Indus, Tweed, Royal George yacht, Excellent, Rapid, Satellite, and flag tenders. KING'S COUNTY ELECTION, TULLAMO.RE, MONDAY EVENING. --Tho poliing commence I this morn ing, • and from the start Mr. Armstrong IA the way, hooey increasing his majority. The Bill of Lord ftdor peth has rai ed the enthusiasm of the pe yle to the highest P • 'ter as they now see they bop." something to hve and' 9 t) stria:We for. At the close on Monday the numbers were declared as folio:vs Armstrong 204 Bernard AL.jority o% or the Stank) ---75 - - We ivefe di own, a few days since, some writing paper, with maker's name, and dated 1842. Persons drawing up documents of impotence should be c.reful net to U3O any post-da'ei paper, a 3 it may lead to unplea sant naist6kes in future. We remember an instance within our knowledge, where a msn went to prove a debt of Gol. uncer a bankruptcy, but was unable to do so. in come qt..enze of the paper bearing Oat: subsequent to the t-ansaction.-- Cheltenham Examiner.. On the 11th of February, 1840, three English men were ualideg on a heatm path across the send-liiri in Cavectne geio the sea side. Ore of them sai I 'bon jour to a man who saw them approachilg, and who I eturred the civility. No sooner had they crossed, than be ran up and demanded their nan eJ. Tao refused tl g'vc them; cnc, knowirg that he had done no harm, gave his ramc,and this man who turned out to be the guardian, makes out a proccs-verb,l against the party fir trespa sing on the F.tablissements du Port de Boulogne, which is duly krwarded to the PrefA of the Department, who fine: the Party, without hearing a word in his defence, in the sum of ten francs I Of this he gets notice on the 25th of itat January of this year, and is very politely requested to pay the Bureau des Domaines to avoid expenses: How 1s:. hick a ie fth‘eigner to know which sand-hill is openfor his walk? ' is not? F or ourse l ves , we h ave b i en he r e o ff a n d on for It years, but we had no idea it was defends'ed to walk upon the Capeeure sand-hill?.—Boulogne Gazelle. 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Translation. Messrs. Leech, Battye, and One Hour with Death ; sug- Slug's Managing Chancery gested by a Picture by Sir Clerk. Joshua Reynolds, in the Oa Galatea. By Gotthold Dulwich Gallery. Ephraim Lessing. MERRIE ENGLAND IN THE OLDEN TIME; Or, PEIIEGRINATIONS with UNCLE TIM and Mr. BOSKY of LITTLE BRITAIN, DRYSALTER. By GEORGE DANIEL. Wanted a Widow. By Charles Modern English Dramatists. Whitehead. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd. Chap. I. The Prologue. National Deficiencies. Chap. IL The Advertise- Epistle to Fanny Elssler at New ment. York. from " the Omnibus" Chap. 111. The Result. in London. Chap. IV. The Dispersion; the Widow ; the Wind-up. HO-FI of the YE) Illustrated b Richard Bentley, Neu 'LLOW GIRDLE ►7 LEECH. :w Burlington- street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME YESTRIS THIS EVENING, FEB. 25, Will be repeated Shakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, il. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley ; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ;- Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; 011eren, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss ilainfarth. After which will be produced a New Farce, in one act, entitled THE C A PTAIN OF THE WATCH. Captain of the Watch, Mr. C. Mathews ; Baron Vander potter, Mr. Bartley ; Adolph de C.urtray, Mr. J. Vining ; Kristina, Mrs. Walter Lacy ; Katryn, Mrs. Hamby. To conclude with A COMIC SCENE between MI% CHARLES MATHEWS and Mr. KEELEY, entitled TWO IN THE MORNING. To-morrow, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The White Doers to be owned at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 35. 6d.; First and Second (ireleg, ss. ; Second Price, 'ls. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2g.; Gallery, ls. Tiekes and places for the 80xt.2 to be taken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may no had upon application. Private BOIL/ to be had se!elv of Mr. Ands e yrs, bookseller 167. New Bond-street. Till SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, F.I4IBRUARY 25, 1841. nrudential considerations required that it should be passed. Mr. THESIGER followed Mr. Serzeant JACK - ;ON in Lttacking Mr. MACAULAY'S law. He de tied that the poor-rate test would afford a proper lualification, and entered into many details to show that employing the 51. test would lead to many frauds. Mr. CHARLES BULLER picked some large holes in the coats of Messrs. THESIGER and JACKSON, and made an able speech in favour of the Bill. _ Sir JAMES GRAHAM was more bitter than ef fective against it. He declared his own lofty de termination to oppose it to the last. His strong est points were personal hits and adjura tions. He 'described the Government as going down the bill of concession,' and called on Lord JOHN RUSSELL, `rho had declared in his Letter to the Electors of Stroud, that he would not lift the anchors of the Monarchy when ,me saw a storm in the horizon, to say at once penly what he meant to do and where he neant to stop. The Right Honourable Baronet made a great hit for his par:y, when he drew forth out of his pocket a list of the division on Repeal, and pointed out, one after another, concluding with Mr. O'CON NELL, who affirmed in the House that he had been offered the Chief Baronship, which he would not accept because there should be no suspicion that justice was polluted in his person, some seven or eight persons who had voted in that minority, and since received appointments under the Crown. The Right Hon. Baronet thought that was truckling to Repeal, while in fact ex cept in the case of Mr. O'CONNELL, who would not accept the offer, every one of those Members has been won from time cause of Repeal, and now strengthen the Government. But time To ries, contrary to Lord BROUGHAM, regard tile agitation for Repeal as a crime, and they cheered the list vociferously, as if it were no merit to convert an opponent to a friend. The Right Hon. Baronet dwelt at some length, too, on the relative respectability of the electors in the two kingdoms, and pointed out the greater wealth of those of England. He forgot, however, that it is the boast of his party that the county elec tors of England are the very serfs of the landlords, while the reason urged by Lord STANLEY and others for his Bill is, that the poor cottars and ten pound tenants in Ireland refused to submit tothat degradation ; they are to be disfranchised because they had a will of their own, and yet Sir JAMES objects to a poor constituency, that it will be de pendent. Sir J AMES GRAHAM'S speech was powerful and impressive, when he referred t ) Mr. MARSHALL'S letter to Earl FITZWILLIAM, to the progress of democracy, and to the avowed necessity of keeping it down. They will put down the aristocracy. He declared for the former, and the Tories, being landlords, cheered him. We were not sorry to hear such language. It will make an impression on the country—it will awaken reflection ; but it will tell more against than for the race of the bread taxers. Mr. SHIEL followed Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and concluded the debate. The speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman was rich in sarcasm ; and in turn Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Lord S TANLEY, and Sir WM. FOLLETT winced under his burning words. In reminding Sir JAMES GRAHAM that he had called Sir JAMES SCARLETT a re negade Whig, he (Mr. SHIEL) observed that the Right Hon. Baronet now felt in his own person all the bitterness of that reproach. The young Whig Lord (STANLEY), the advocate of the peo ple's rights in 1829, who then objected to the solvent tenant clause, and engrafted his ob jection on his Reform Bill for Ireland in 1831, appeared to no advantage under the re miniscence. Neither did the Noble Lord like a proof which Mr. SHIEL brought of his dis increnuousness in adopting the whole of Sir M. O'LocuLlN's Bill, leaving out, and telling the House nothing about the omission, the qualifica tion clause. But we have not time nor space to, analyse one of the most telling and caustic speeches that ever was heard in Parliament. Nor was it deficient of the higher and more searching kinds of eloquence. The appeal which Mr. SHIEL made to the Tories to observe, after he had deScribed Lord STANLEY, what manner of man is now their standard-bearer, to note the preparation for war abroad, while Lord STANLEY was exciting insurrection at home, and to remember the confederacies which have existed in Ireland, were most powerful and impressive. They made a great sensation in the House, and will produce a great efiect on the country. The debate was again adjourned at a Quarter before One o'clock. A writer in the nines, under the signature of " LcEmus," on the 12th inst., said.--" This, my Lord, is an aye of recurrence to, rst principles a period 'unexampled in the annalS- of the world. The shackles of ages are falling off, and the thoi; sctfiyaammrml human intellect is, rising up unconscious of its strength, and likely, in pure ignorance how to restrain and encontage that strength, to rend asunder the bones, the muscles, the ligaments, which are alike its prison and the necessary in struments of its energy and activity; in other words, to burst through and destroy the whole framework of (political gy.) society." The journal in which that sentence appeared is a gua rantee that it is no'radical or revolutionary ex aggeration. We believe that it falls short of the truth, and that the deep-laid foundations of po litical-society are now actually removed. They were laid in . the public mind of a past age-- is the customs of our ancestors—in preju ' dices and theories; all of which have passed or are passing away. The knowledge and intel lect of the present time afford them no solid bed ; they cannot be underpinned or fresh piled; arOnnd them is one mass of moving, bottomless quicksand, and, as LCELIUS says, the whole framework of political society is rent asunder and destroyed , ta:p b nnaa e knot c idri a i giluekdassie: into nz s a, so ciety, by the activity and energy of the human intel lect.etiioenty; : W hhee e gri a io d ait d viti iit.taholefreetprietlltideoityf, the males and females, —the population of the world, with all ts it , s co w n a v i e it n s ien c c o e nz se ct i i e rs e , 'Age, constituting natural society, —ca n never be destroyed, but is destined by its own laws to increase, and expand, and absorb political or ar tificial society in . itself. We add the epithet political, because there are many writers and Inany statesmen who never distinguish between political and natural society, and are overbear ing, reckless, and arrogant, from attributing to political society, Which is weak and changing, the permanence and the indestructibility of na tural society. - • y• My Lord STANLEY is obviously one of those statesmen who has never looked for his rule of . conduct beyond the statutes at large and the de bates of the two Houses. He means to govern the nation by Parliamentary documents, and while he finds in. 'them a precedent for folly, however enormous, he discards as utterly un 7 worthy. of study the opinions and the affections of the human beings lie is resolved to coerce if they will not submit. But arrogance naturally excites resistance, - though the arrogance be ex hibited by a lawful authority; the gorge of man as certainly and as naturally rises against cruelty,, though it be in a law-maker,qas • the running stream rises and bounds over gibe rock in it.; course ; and while men are everywhere recur ring to first principles, this HOTSPUR of legisla tutors arrogantly and . cruelly provokes the Irish to inquire into the very foundation of his claims to settle the franchise for them. To what do all his assertions - and all his arguments amount? -To this, and• nothing, More than this :—" We, the law-makers, the landlords of Ireland and Eng land, being Protestants, have, no confidence in the Catholic Irish ; they shall have neither votes nor leases; We. can trust our English Protestant farmers, and therefore we will give them votes and leases; - but - the Catholic Irish shall have none,' or only a mockery, while we will take care not to allow them any power, and will hold in our hands all the organized mi litary means of ,the empire, ready to tram p l e them into nothingness if they stir to claim their rights or resist our will." Such, translated into the language of common sense, rejecting all the verbiage with which every passionate man can gloze over and hide even from himself his crimi nal or foolish motives and objects, is the sum of Lord STANLEY'S arguments, and he is fool enough to expect, in this of the world, that, the Ca tholic Irish will bend their necks to his intoler able legislative yoke. *Not to misrepsesent the Noble Lord, let us quote a passage or two from Iris speech : It is the pride and satisfaction of a landlord in England to believe that, in the main, his tenants will be guided by Ids wishes.,—(Hear, hear, from the Ministerial benches.) We do not seek to disguise or to deny it, and every gentleman knows perfectly well, in a contested county election, though he would condemn an extravagant and oppr essive exercise of au thority, he may calculate upon the' .re!ult of the election . by the number of landed proprietors and th e p art y to winch they respectively belong.7--(lronical cheers from the Liberal benches.) No English lindlord would think it proper to in terfere, if upon his estate he found that one, two, or three, or half his tenants were, in the exercise of their own independent judgment, differing with him in his poli tical views, and taking •a course wholly independent of and adverse to his; but if an English landlord found that there was upon his estate a systematic influence habitually exercised over ail his tenants, to prevail upon them as a body in ever y in stance to put themselves in opposition to him, and that that influence was one which he could neither avert nor control, I ask, what would be the natural course for an English land lord, and in such circumstances, to take ? You would not think it very unnatural if he sought to obtain tenants over whom that influence was not exerted, In titi, country, where there is less of hardship than there is in Ireland, in getting rid of one tenant and substituting another, I do not think any great animadversion would be poured upon the landlord who should say, " I must have tenants who will not be habitually subject to an interest and ilfluenco which they .exerciso against me." . . . . .. I ask if in England that would not be considered a kind, and a mild, and a liberal course?-{lronical cheers from the Liberal benches.) Would not any landlord be, in the opinion of Ron. Gentlemen opposite, justified in saying " I will be contented to neutralise the influence of my property altogether, I will be content to sacrifice any influence and political right which I may derive from the possession of property, but I will not sub mit to hare the influence of my property habitually turned against myself, and I will not of my own free will place instru ments in the hands of others for the purpose of effecting that." That is the whole secret of Lord STANLEY'S conduct. The .landowners.of Ireland are Protes tant, the tenantry are Catholic, and . the end and aim of the opposition to Lord MORPETH'S Bill is covertly, but really, to re-enact the exclusive laws, and put down the influence of the Catho lics in the elections. Of course, putting it. down in the constituencies, would pat it down in the Legislature and in the Government of the coun try. Hen2e be is supported by rabid parsons, whO have avowed a desire to procure the repeal of the Emancipation Act, and have called meet ings of Protestant operatives to petition against Lord MORPIZTII7S Bill ; and hence he is supported by all the Orangemen who have put their names by hundreds to papers to encourage their new Grand Master. Passing over the temporary effect which this may have on the Government, let us look for a moment at the possible effect of such conduct, in this age "of recurrence to first principles," on the Catholics. What if they should ask Lord StANLEY "by what rigilt do you Protestant landlords presume to make laws for us? We are not your slaves. Every people and- all people have a right to Choose their own governors and law-makers. You English established that principle at your own revolution. We honour you for it, and mean to imitate your noble example. We have not chosen you. To disobey the laws after they are made is, we know, rebellion or treason ; but there is neither treasoh nor rebellion in resolving. to choose our own lawmakers, and in declaring that We will not have your Lord SrANLEY and your bigoted Orange associates for our lawmakers. We will choose for ourselves, wO will not obey you; we will determine, too, in what manner we will choose. • We will consult the priests whom we love, the Catholic gentlemen in 'Whom we have confidence, and we will organize our own mans of choosing our lawmakers. When you talk of arranging the franchise, we tell you that is our business, and we will not allow you Protestant and Orange landlords to dictate' to 113 how we • shall elect our Representatives, nor whom we shall elect. We claim, like all free men, the right of choosing our lawmakers in the manner we please, and only such as we choose willingly will.we willingly obey." - _ _ What will Lord STANLEY and the Orangemen say to the Catholics if they use that language ? But in fact, they use language to the same effect. In a letter dated London, 20th instant, addressed to Mr. RAY, in Dublin, and read in the Repeal Association, Mr. O'CONNELL says—. The crisis is at hand. Every man must make up his mind either to stand for Ireland in the peaceably and strictly legal struggle, or to counsel disgrace and crouch beneath Orange-Tory misrule. Shame on the deserters of their fa therland Olcry to free and firm spirits whose love of country beam only the more btightly the more the sacred flame of patriotism is trampled by the hoof of Orange despotism ! My mini is full of the coming contest. I anticipate de feat. I pass by the struggle, and, standing as it were after it was over, on the 'vantage ground of recent insult and injury, I call upon every Irishman to make up his mind at once either for Ireland or against Ireland. There will immediately be no medium, no neutral ground. When this blow is once struck, whoever is not for Ireland is against bis native land. Hui rah for the Repeal 1! 1 That is a call on the Catholics not to submit to Lord STANLEY and the Orangemen, should they succeed in passing their Bill into a law ; that is a call to choose their own representatives, and to throw off submisSion to the Protestant landlords. We cannot blame the insulted, in jured, maddened Irish. We wonder they have not before now taken to their hills and bogs, invoked the aid of their_ countrymen in the United States, and the oppressed millions in England, and bid defiance to the insulting Protestant—and that we should be obliged to add, plundering—landlords, and rapacious Pro testant priests, telling them plainly they would obey no laws - except those they had a voice in making. Such are the thoughts and deeds of which the ideas rise in the minds of men at witnessing the unblushing arrogance with which, by means of sorry legislation, Lord STANLEY pursues his way, and drags along his party to an odious and re volting tyranny. Re is blinded by passion, and knows not what he does. - He is bringing into question the rights of property, of which he insists on straining the power and the influence. Men are beginning to ask, at last, in Ireland,-by. what tenure the land lords hold the soil, and with that claim a right to annoy, vex, and oppress all other men ? If they answer, by the sword, they will have to fight for it. If they answer, by political expe diency, they will have to prove that the pub lic welfare is promoted by degrading and impoyerishinr , the mass of the people. if they answer, frotr . GOD, the Catholics will tell them they profess a different creed, and though they worship the same GOD, they interpret his oracles differently front them. If the gentlemen ofEng land do not wish to make the intellect of this age suddenly burst through and destroy .the whole framework of society, let them, as speedily as possible, withdraw their confidence from Lord STANLEY, and send him to drive a steam-engine. lie may pozsibly govern a loco motive; his attempt to govern the nation, will speedily blow all up in one vast and terrible destruction. The Morning Herald of Tuesday introduced a bitter attack on the factory owners by declaring I that it was desirous to promote good feeling in I all classes. We will not, in endeavouring to set the mill-owners right, imitate its hypocrisy, for we boldly avow that our object is to excite, if we can, animosity and hatred against the landowners, because they insist on robbing the community. We do not assert that the mill-owners are not greedy, exclusively desirous of gathering riches, acid getting as much work for as little wages as they can. That is the principle of their exist ence—the end and aim of their being. Why should a man trouble himself to buy and sell, to keep accounts, and to haggle with work men•and with other traders, except for what he can gain? But in this the mill-owners resemble all the rest of mankind, the landowners amongst them, and are only to be condemned if the am - bition of rising in the world—the very soul, we think, of social improvement—is to be extin guished as a mere cheating will-o'-the-wisp. It is in favour of the mill-owners, however, that their pursuit of wealth is open and undis guised, and their practice of getting as much la bour as they can for as little wages as possible, is avowed, and can deceive only those who wish to be deceived. : They may be met and counter acted by those who deal with them; and if the other parties to the bargain suffer from it they have probably : themselves to :blame, quite as much as the mill-owners. Between the mill-owners and the land owners there is one palpable distinction. The former are struggling to make a fortune—the latter have made or inherited theirs. The for mer are yet contending with the world—the latter are placed above it for admiration. We have no right to expect the same works of charity and benevolence from those who know riot whether they will from day to day have any thing justly to bestow, as from those who are as, sured of a bountiful income. Nevertheless, it is not true, in spite of the Herald and Dr. HOL LAND, that our mill-owners have contributed nothing to the comfort of the people. To men tion only a single instance, the most splendid and useful gift of modern times, the public garden and walk at Derby, was bestowed on the people by Mr. STRUTT—a mill-owner. Because the millowners want something them selves, they • are instrumental in - providing for others. They are the authors and improvers of, many useful inventions. Their exertions have. called into existence the extensive factories by which the people are employed and fed. If there be not employment and food enough, the fault is more the landowners' than the mill-owners'. The former prevent the latter from giving em ployment and wages - to the people. The land owners, wanting nothing, are very little instru mental either in providing for others, or pro moting improvement. They live to enjoy, not to traffic. They have no settled labour. They are emphatically the idle classes; and if not a bur den to themsdves they are to others. They do nothing fir society, except consume its produce without any equivalent. At.the same time the owners of rent pretend to do a great deal for the public. The 11 ml -owners make no • such pretence. They avow that they study their own interest; the land owners swear they act for the good of the country, whether they convict poachers or make Corn-laws. They received their estates originally for the performance of certain duties, which have all merged in making and adminis tering the laws. The monopoly of the soil im poses on them the duty of taking care of the people; no such duty devolves on the mill-owners. Their workmen must take care of themselves. The. mill-owners dO their duty towards them as I masters, when they honestly, -and in full, pay them their wages. It is the duty of the law-makers to provide for the welfare of the workmen employed by the mill-owners, .as well as others. They should make and enforce just laws between masters and workinen, so that the former may have as little power over the latter as possible. They have acted quite contrary to their duty. They have made laws for placing the workmen at the mercy of the mill-owner. They have excluded the labourers from the franchise and from Parliament; they have doomed the workman to be a slave, when he ought to be as free as his employer. The wretched condition of the labourers is, then, far more the fault of the law-making landowner, with his bread-tax and his monopoly of repre sentation, than of the mill-owner. It must be noticed, too, that the mill-owner does not undertake to provide either for the in struction or the comfort of the people. He.. only employs them. The Church is their hired and. largely paid instructor ; they are made to sup port it. The Government is their endowed pro tector; they . contribute to its taxes. On the Executive Government and the Established Church, the debased condition of the people, their icraorance, their destitution, their improvidence, their immorality, reflect indelible disgrace, because, these institutions have for their objects to promote the welfare of the multi tude ; the mill-owners'have only to make money to carry on their private business, each for him self, and they do their duty to their workmen when they honestly pay them. When the mill o-,vners gain wealth, their object is attained; but as long as the bulk of the people remain in their present wretched physical and moral .condition the Government and the Church must be deno minated failures. To the disgrace of the London University, Mr. WILLIAM Tooxp has been re-elected Treasurer by a majority of two votes over Mr. TAYLOR. The Proprietors, therefore, identify themselves with the man who used his influence as Treasurer to the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge to turn out one or the other of the Members for Finsbury, who, with all the faults that even the pious Mr. TooKE imputed to them, have never been charged with the crime of backbiting a friend, or playing into the hands of the Tories under the sacred name of religion, while professing contrary political opinions. We are forced to admit that this decision creates a very unfavourable im pression as regards the present state of the Uni versity, and the morality of those who.superin tend this establishment. Mr. WARBURTON, one of the main pillars of the Institution, and Chair man of the meeting, proposed Mr. TooKE, and by a strange mode of reasoning came to the con clUsion that, though he might have been -guilty of misdeeds in another Institution, matters of that kind should not be brought forward against him in the London University. There is no ac counting for tastes, but certainly it will not afford Lord BROUGHAM much satisfaction to learn that he has been elected President by the same men who reinstated Mr. TooKE as Treasurer. Madrid Papers of the 16th inst. have come to hand. In the Gazette of that date we find the following circular addressed to the Political Chiefs of the Kingdom by. Senor CORTINA, Minister of the Interior. It is dated the 14th inst.:— The Regency, informed that there exist in certain towns in the kingdom patriotic clubs, where newspapers are read and political questions discussed, and considering that these clubs are not authorised by law, orders you to dissolve immediately every patriotic club that bas been formed in your province. Should others be formed, you will have applied to the delin quents the penalties decreed by the laws. This measure is in dispensable for the preservat'on of public order, which the Re gency is resolved to have respected at any price. The Opposition Journals assert that ESPAR TERO will meet with powerful opposition in the Cortes, who will not sanction his appointment as sole Regent. Some affect to believe that Es- PARTERO'S ambition is not bounded by the sole Regency; and hint that he looks to the Crown as fairly within his grasp. There are acts . which it is wisdom in a nation to regard as impossi bilities, and any attempt to deprive Queen ISABELLA of the Crown of Spain is one of them. • Senor ANTONIO GONZALES, and his Secretary, Senor LUIS FLORES, set out for London on the 15th. They had 10,000 dollars advanced to them froni the Treasury. The Five per Cents. were at 28 for cash, and 29 at 60 days. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us. In the Journal des Dcbats we find the fol lowing observations respecting the levy of French troops for the years 1841 and 1842 : The Chamber of Deputies voted yesterday, with a majority of 220 against 15, the project of law relative to the annual levy of 'BO,OOO men. Several Journals affect to misconceive the plans of the Mi nister of War, and to forget the consequences that must arise from the new law respecting the duration of military service and the reserve. The facts speak for themselves. The Committee of the Budget of 1842 has examined with the greatest care the credits allotted to the administration of war. These credits, founded on an effective force of 493,741 men, exceed the primitive Budget of 1841 by 113,178,610 f. Ihe Committee has inquired of the Ministry what would be the consequences of the new system of reserve, lately presented to the deliberation of the Chamber, re'ative to the effective force of the army. Marshal Soult declared that he had no certain data to produce ; that he awaited the discussion and voting of the new law in order to draw up definitively his plans of execution. Nevertheless, he added that, according to his calculations, by classing in the reserve of 1842 those men who have served four or live years, an approximate diminution of 60,000 men might be made in the effective foree of the army, and 23,000,000 f. saved to the country. Thus in 1842 the army would consist of 433,000 men, and might be reduced the following year to the nominal amount of 370,000, with a reserve of from 120,000 to 130,000 men, which would form a force of 500,000 men ready for service. It should also be observed that this nominal effective force of 370,000 for 1843, includes 53,000 men and 12,000 horses more than the effective force of the army previous to the events of last July. The effective force of the year 1841 will amount to 493,711 men, and will be rigorously kept up to that number, un less the Chambers should judge otherwise in the discussion of the supplementary credits. It must be kept in view, respecting the armaments, that as the law on the reserve, and on the duration of service, has not yet been voted, the Committee and the Minister of War can dis.:uss but hypothetica'ly, and that this new reserve system, if adopted, must necessarily modify the effective force and the reserve of 1842. This does not look much like disarmament, and yet France must disarm if she Would maintain the peace of Europe. With her National Guards and her Reserves, she has at this moment a mil lion of soldiers ready to take the field--..a force quite disproportioned to the necessities of.a pa cific policy. _ _ The Itiladiteur Parisien has the following re marks on the Fortifications Bill, now before the Chamber of Peers : The Committee of Peers on the Fortifications Bill will re assemble to-morrow and resume its labours. Numerous docu ments have been submitted to it by the President of the Coun cil, Minister of War. It appears that the members of this Committee have ascertained to a certainty that if the Chamber of Peers votes an amendment leading to a suppression of the continuous wall, such amendment will be passed without diffi cul y by the Chamber of Deputies. A numerous meeting has, it is said, been held, in which were several of the most influ• en hl members of this last-mentioned Chamber. A discussion was entered upon as to the conduct to be adopted in the case— sufficiently probable—of the Peers sanctioning the modification which the Committee will propose in the Bill; and it results from this discussion that these modifications will meet with success if the Bill be sent back to the Palais Bourbon. The Committee of Peers will, besides, we are assured, take the greatest care to keep its amendment clear of those characteris tics which, to many of the Honourable Members of the Cham ber 'of the Deputies, rendered the proposition of General Schneider inadmissible. The clause fixing the minimum of the distance of the external works at 4,000 metres will com pletely disappear. It is known that it was this clause which raised objections among the partisans of an • efficient fortifica tion of the capital. The ttloniteur publishes a return of the produce and con sumption of domestic sugar 'during the year 1840, including the month of January, The number of manufactories existing in France on the 31st of that month was 398, of which 155 belonged to the department of the North, and the lest were divided among 41 other departments; 31 had ceased working during the year, but had still some sugar on hand. The quantity manufactured during the above period was 18,612,870 kilogrammes, and that sold for consumption 12,733,429 ; leaving 9,982,027 unsold, including the 4,102,656 lying over since last year. The dutie s l e vi e d in January, 1841, amounted to 569,988 francs. The diplomatic changes which have long b een prepar i ng were settled, as it is said, yesterday. The Count de St. Au!aire is to exchange the embassy at Vienna for that of London; the Marquis of Dalmatia to go to Rome, as successor to M. de Latour Maubourg, who is to go to Naples, to take the place of M. de Montebello ; and the latter to go to Constantinople, as successor to Count Pontois, who is appointed Ambassador to Spain. Lastly, M. de Bussiere, Minister in Saxony, succeeds the Marquis de Dalmatia at Turin, and is succeeded. at Dres den by M. Bourqueney, Secretary to the Legation at London. It appears to be agreed upon that these changes will not be made public till after the close of the session of the Chambers, in order to save the Marquis of Dalmatia from the reproaches which this scandalous promotion could not fail to draw upon him from his colleagues. M. de Flahaut, who after four years' efforts, at length ob tain:, an embassy from M. Guizot, was scarcely five months ago one of the faithful adherents of M. Thiers, and periodi cally denounced to bias in his letters, dated from London, the treasons (les trahisons) of M. Guizot, whose ptace he then aspired to obtain. It must not be forgotten that M. de Flau haut is an English Peer by right of his wife. The order (which, to say the least, is extraordinary), for a part of our Toulon fleet to put to sea at a time of the year when the fleets of all nations seek .th?, best stations, is judged of at Bordeaux as we ourselves judged of it. See the spirit of disorder, unskilfulness, and imprudence which directs our af fairs. To make people believe that the French Government intended to oppose the execution of the Treaty of London, a levy was made of all our seamen, millions were expended, and the finest fleet that France has possessed for a long time, was equipped in the Mediterranean. Well, what was the result of all these expenses of all these preparations, of this splendid and formidable squadron, manned by so many brave and able sea men ? What was done with it? Nothing at all ; and after having rendered it the humble spectator of the triumph of the British navy, beheld twelve ships of the line sent to sea for no other purpose than to make a promenade in the Mediter ranean; at the very worst season, only exposing them to the Chances of damage and loss in some horrible tempest, while the ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Entire Change.—Greater attratien than ever.—Engagement of Mr. Collins. Second time these Four Years of " Paul Clifford, with the splendid Romance of " The Tower of London ;" the most powerful attraction that can be offered. THIS EVENING, FEB. 23. _ Will be acted the Operatic Drama of PAUL CLIFFORD. Paul Clifford (with all the Original Songs), Mr. Collins. After which the Domestic Drama of MARTHA. WILLIS, THE MAID SERVANT. To conclude with the Grand Historical Romance, funded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. NEW STRAND THEATRE. Increasing Popularity—Raptures of Applause—Gratified Audiences. OPEN EVERY EVENING DURING THE WEEK. The celebrated Mr. JACOBS, the Royal Ventriloquist, Modern Magician, and English Improvisatore, continues to at ract very large and highly respectable audiences, who nightly testify their approbation in the most marked and decided man ner. The Press has unanimously pronounced him the best Ventriloquist since the days of Monsieur Alexandre. Ths Tricks surpass all that have been introduced by the Wizards or Magicians who have preceded him ; and the Exsemporaneous Song, on subjects proposed by the audience, elicits thunders of applause. Boxes, 2s. 61; Pit, Is. 6J. ; Gallery, 15... Doors alien at Seven o'clock, and commence at half-past. Second price at a Quarter to Nine o'clock—Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 3d. Carriages to be in waiting twenty minutes past Ten. Mr. Seguin, 12, Ilegent-street, Pall Mall, is appointed sole Agent for disposal of the Private Boxes. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Nlt.rnnig 17 minutes after 4 I Evening 53 minutes after 4. The Publication of the Evening Edition of Tits Sus corn • menccd at 20 minutes after Three. tysts &), _ 4 6; 4,z2.4y0i v VIAL LONDON : THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1841. The Peers adjourned over yesterday. The Commons met as usual. A considerable number of petitions was presented, chiefly on the Irish Bills, and against Lord STANLEY'S Bill. In answer to Sir D. WILMOT, the ATTORNEY GENERAL stated, that he should recommend that a. Bill be introduced to remove all doubts as to the right of the Corporation of Manchester, to appoint quarter sessions, and to put an end to the disputes at present existing between such corpo rate towns as Birmingham and the counties. Mr. HUTT gave notice of a motion on the Sound Dues for March 9. In reply to Mr. HAMILTON, Lord J.RtrssELL stated, nathw atshatgitvheen by thepower Ac toe t xamine persons to the Poor-law Assistant-Commisssoners, but he declined to state whe p tl n i w er er it in were expedient or not to exer aewieldnics3uvlipatnhrstcLpaoosnerd.e cise that should on Friday dictiEllANFEri,s -:Loarndno:ionßcepdiTtill,isatßliilel Lord STANLEY ' S an l 3 3 and adjourned Lord 3: ' debate uSs . o E RUSSELL Fri day, registration and franchise in Ire- Annuity Bill. for settling the re s la u i p id por m t 'a e s d i t • h e i s e a l i 3 n i e ll ii , a.,nd in : 1; 43 1 7 so n E s ß a T i d ON iie l e t pressed the sentime n n p t l s m o s t e ' d l 1 constituents. . he s 0 chose i,lt ‘, I I t , L o tsl Mr. M. MILNEs introduced supported it, and dwelt because Sir l v the measure, chiefly mistrust and misrepresent the motives of those who td the Bill. emphatically and effectivel p y i the vast mischief which had been already caused by the_ lanpage used in that House concerning e Catholics, to which the debate would add, and which Lord STA NLEY'S success would consummate. The Hon. Baronet made, as usual, a sensible and conside rate speech, giving his zealous support to the Government Bill. Mr. Sergeant JACKSON exposed Mr. MACAIU LAY'S ignorance of law, and entered into nume rous details to show the poverty of the Irish, and that the Bill of Lord MORPETII would supply a constituency of paupers placed under the influ ence of the Romish priesthood. Mr. SLANEY supported the second reading of the Bill, but recommended a compromise, as EVENING EDITION., victorious English have carefully brought their f ri"nlP ; bn ) 1 2 ships into a safe port. No, never was such confu sion of seen. So that we may see our feet disabled w ithout 1 1 ,1 ' 1 1 served, and the English fleet entire after having $11" 1 cJuntry anti triumphed under our eyes.—Le Connarce• . BRUSSELS, FEL 21.—An English manufacturer has commissioned an agent to purchase, in the neighbourhood- Courtray, 1,040 bales of flax. ' a ted The Cologne Garette publishes a letter from Berlin a " , the 16th of Feb., which says, " The Countess o f Oultrertio accompanied by one of her brothers, arrived here the day hef °l4 yesterday." A report prevails here that the Count of Nassau (the King of Holland) is going to marry the Countess ; it i4affi rn ' that during his visit to the Princess, his daughter, he hag Per suaded hur to approve of this marr:age. BOURSE.—Paais, 'TUESDAY, FEB 23. Last l';e• ch rer cents I P ! i i r ' ? 2 e st w e Hi g hes t .. P l r i a ice Pricy i l o 2 s : 30 219 g 4 per Conti! 102 :10 ••• 11 0 31 MI ••• 1 -- 4 pc , Centd 9O 20 •.• 99 50 ••• 99 50 ... "3 per Cents 76 13 . :6 65 ... 76 45 ••• a lit or France L thus sank I,ooof. Sh._.• _lO5O ...I C•5O ••• I ', l . 9 ? ‘ll 504r 1 t. St arcs 5152 .(') -.515' 50 ...5152 50 4ian S ter Cent: u9s. 10 I 9e 4% ..l 0 3 vet cents 69 4 69 40 ... ` ,O 1 0 "' .;1' New Loan 1,9% 99% 91 , 16 *" - . 2 AcAve ...... 7: 25' : 5 "' • NUM 6% ••• fi r :fi••• 6 '" 90 IA 90 is: ..• 10' 90 • ••• „ <n r:au 101!4 101 1 ,i lt:1 ••• "' ' „, _ PAIL WA Y 3EI ARES..., St Germain 7725 ... 725 ... 7 2 i ”' :,2 Do Ve:sailles,R. It 425 ...425 ... 4 24 '''' •§,r, LB, ..... Orleans ..., 49.) ... 490 ... I SS '.' •• ,- .4 3 75 'Or Ishtar , o Rate 2ll 75 ... s4l 75 ... 9: 3 • , 2 00 Nlontpellier to Cette ftELGI AN l• UNDS—Buustist.a, I.Eu. 2 3 . Actual De14t,2 1 ,4 per Cent. Rothschild's Loan, 5 •per Cunt ......... Lean of Thirty ;Zillions, 4 per Cent B9 3 per Cent.......... Thirty.seron— _— .. ; ..... (19 (14:t) 9711 Loan o! ('its, 1832, 4 per Cent Society ot Cownuce, 4 5,,,per Cent lO2 Bank of tittgiuni, 5 per Cent ...... ............- ` g 4 National Society • — Exchange on Lonaok (slim t) Brussels Papers, Feb. 23. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visnml, Fes. 15 i ", live per Cents. Mctalltques •••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• I'. Four lee Cents.99ii Three pa' Cents. .. ...... ................,................... 66 Bank Sham 1(22 --Allgemeine Zeilung. Feb. 20 JAMES WOOD'S WILL.—At the ;letting o f the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Ye s s i ; terday, it was agreed that the appeal °f for Matthew Wood and others should come ", ro . hearing on the 6th of Ap r il nex t. The l'it perty left by this wealthy m i ser m ust be ing away rapidly. Six trials by Special JA rl w . are set down for hearing at the ensuing 0 .. cester Assizes, in which the first Counsel aNi o .. gaged. In the Arches Courts the 31 .:.ht merits lasted eight days; probably. ° h e days more will be occupi e d i n hearing • same . arguments • before the Privy Cou Some six days may be spent at Chucesterfter hearing the six actions of ejectment; an d : t he all the enormous fees paid to Counsel, useless waste of time, the lawyers no doub t find some fresh argument for starting the g 5 anew. While all this plunder is•going the vultures are gathered about the carcas e ' ca o are only astonished how the old man's bones rest quietly in the grave. The Canterbury Election P e titi o n, withata, last night, was only the first of two pre2fllo/1 The second petition is d u ly p rocee di ng - Ad will bring home the grosses t corruption - bribery. of Mr. Baker, the late i n d e f a ti ga bl e manag e i 66 , the Olympic, in consequence of the abra9t., e ' o o, ing of that theatre during its recent brief s e n ''' n ,o takes a benefit this evening at the English t ol House. As we have often Lad occasion to el ity this gentleinan's conduct in his two-fold cal he of actor and manager, and as we understa nd f o r has been a great sufferer by untoward 0' 0 " re . some time past, we hope the public, on the P. 1 15 sent occasion, will not be unmindful of his c; a l e g to support, especially as his bill of fare ine' d ti or a some of the most attractive names that ti— the stage at the present day. BANK OF ENGLAND. NOTICE POSTED AT THE BANK - ENGLAND. • 4 04 " Th.e Governor and Compa n y o f the B a nk of Ent i ty are ready, until further notice, to receive applicati °ll , o pt Loans, upon depoir, of approved Bills of Exchatigeloy, having moue than six mot.ths to run ; Exchequer and East India I3ondi. Such Loans to be repaid 7 i be before the 21st of April next, with the' ii.trest. a s ot rat: a5l. per cent. per annum, and to be for " Pi less than 2,0001. each." " Bank of England, Feb. 25, 1841." MONEY and COMMERCIAL 10 WS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOC I I;te• We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday?, ' O O Accounts from Karia of the 15th;F e b ruar y s tate, "A l " i t i o us the report of war is dying away still the armaments Onestot here : convoys of horses arri v e c o n ti nua ll y , an d the g r of t he activity prevails in the military departments ; the uhe le army will be ready by the Ist of April to march. a p i a g . t o Letters from Cracow announce that several co e° - 60 0 have manifested themselves at Tiflis, and that had adopted measures of precaution. 11 0 BOUBSE of AMSTERDAM, FEB. 04.--.3 he fi tinny - . 0 0 cont l eot . prevailed yesterday in the. rice of the National Fund° this day, but the transactions have not been to a grea t 1 0 4' The Foreign Funds, although no business has been - beef , nevertheless continue firm ; the Coupons of Ardoin's ha ve ,, wss sought after, and have got up : after the closing Ardoin 22b 3-16ths; Coupons 21 7.l6ths. fat' 133 Accounts from Frankfort state that tl.ey are waiting f answer from the French Cabinet to the last note 0 . n g. trian Minister. The Confederation continue their prep . ,trat w o , -- L.- MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 24.--L oo ‘ l ,l o o ; South Western, 571 58 ; Ditto, Tenthe, 195. 20s. Pr e '') . jaw Manchester and Leeds, 75 76; Ditto, New, 321 33 .; 41 33; chester and Birmingham, 25 ; Lancaster and resto" , - the authe . Ditto, New, 191 ; North Midland, 73} 74k. THE ' , us. VA .° This being settling day in the rn British Funds, the g ioes and jobbers were ch.efly occupied in arrangi n g their ' 7 0 . 0 0 balances against to.morrovr, which is pay day. The e l . c ot. fluctmtion during the Account has been about 24 P et •Q go There does not appear any doubt b u t th e sett l e ment off well. Y er Consols opened this morning at the leaving-off priee' L terday, 888 a for the Account ; for th e 15 t h April, 69 . es ; 10 14 chequer 8i115,5 7 prem. ; Bank St oc k, 165 167 ; India 247 248. (1, P l In the Foreign Ma r ket Sp an i s h A c ti ve, 24 ; Deferre ce o , % ; Passive, 5L ; Portuguese, 31i 4 ; Three pe r 0 1 / 4 19i ; lit aziian, 71i 72i ; Colombian, ; ChiliteP een ts , Buenos Ayres, 24 26; DutchTwo.antl-a-Half per 591-4 ; Five jer Cents. 99i. , T "! ShShare,.—Great Western, 24 25 pro m . ; N e w, 11 Li; eo London and Brighton, 7 3 / 4 di,. ; Blackwall, 51 4,4 share; Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 571 5 1 1 I -er j hare i Croydon, 111 12i per share ; G reenw i c h , F er Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONLY RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Sho" Eastern Counties - Ditto Debentures 8 9 Gee:'. Western - ...... to Ditto New 5O Ditto Fifths London and Blackwall to 24...... 17i.....• to of London and Birmingham 9O 169 ...... to i Ditto Thirds North Midland .. JOINT t;TOCC BANKS. --- Colonial HALF-PAST mt- We are sorry to announce a commercial failure of 11 °1; t ook portance, a Hebre w ho use , i n th e A ustra li an tra d e , win' ere place this morning, and we understand that a meeting t ' f eot ditors is railed for an early day next week, when a ° te a s t° of their affa:rs will be exhibitel calculated to satisfy th el , l) age' the means of the house honourably to pay all their elia ments in full in a short time. • ic The settling of the British Accounts to the presen„t i ,T l going off well • it turns out to be a bull account. ;""" , c° 4 tinuation 4 about 1 „ per cent., owing to the bulls not cotn't'o to the scratch until the last moment. Accou nt. t 4 9 0: Consols at p resen t may b e quote d , f or the for Money,'BB4 ; E xc h equer Bills fa 7 prem. ; in Bal k St° • nothing done ; India Stock, 248. , 3 0: 0 4 In the Foreign M ar k e t Sp an i s h Active, 24a ; LA7I I- . 11sP 22i ; Danish, 78* ; M ex i can , 27i • Dutch Two-an.":; the per Cents. 50,1 In the above market very little delne set" attentiox is to the. British M ar k e t, ow i ng to it s bei „ " tling day. New' 61 In Shares a little doing.—Great Western, 89; Fifths, 9 ; I3lackwall, 17 ; London and Bi r minght' • 174 ; Ditto Quarter Sh ares , b 7 ; N orth Mi dl an d, 73 . W hat the e are glad to fi n d t Brisiol Mecu a i ," ni jag Institution is w e ll supporte d b y men of all partie• n • .7; 1 09 the list year 151 v o l u m e s have been p r esented L ' itt ion library. J. K. [libel-M.l, Esq , made t!:e I ngt n6g the ‘aluable p resent o f ihe Encyclopedia Britanni cs r volume!, and among the other tiontributors arc Si r pr.. bert Peel, the Bishop of Chester, Colonel Nel 3l °, 6 1, 5 0- Lee, of C a mb r id ge , an d the Vice-Chancellor, SP,,p:i celot Shadw,ll. It is refreshing in these timer e ' cal animosity t o see suc h names mingled togethe r. ee t.. • TEMPERANCE IN IRELAND.—At a la te , — ,Ol ing i I C or k, M r . K cnnag h, S ecretary to the y es e s .. ' Tem, erance Society, stated that they had 8 goi lla° sei tholic pr. la'e3 enrolle(), 700 of the Catholic doll, of the population altoge:ber not less than 4,647,q° ° ' t Mr. Sheridan K now l es hay, i t i s sa id, conse n o., to write a new play, for the purpose of iatroducilios Chitties Kean in an criginal part, whenever be 6111" sins'' entered into an eng agement at Ct.vent-garden o r the market. - ___.-_,---- ,„__ SPOONS, FORKS, Scc, superior to Silver for_o.7 rability, equal in appearance. Table Spoons or , Forks. IF:kg, 6 inches high, is. Dessert, 10s. ; Tea Spoons, ss. 1 dozen; Table Cantu ' bl eb these articles are made is like silver, that .c can oisil :till ' s' per pair; tier particular metal of u g - t to ld from it by the stamp; every article made in silver s 3 " 1 " lured in this material by hIPPON and BURTON, Wells-street Who, to preve n t i mpos i t i on, O x f o rd.stre e i o i. Catalogues of prices gratis. • '!"...•.......................—.........----............, 4 confine the sale , of it to thentss • BIRTHS I i gies At Bucklind Abbey, D evon , on BIRTHS. 41st inst., Mr.' " I Yennin, of a son. (I A 1 ' On the 15th inst., Mrs. T. V es p er , o f the Conimer,,,--r° east, of a son. --------7- DIED On the 20th inst., at his house, . Robert-street, Ira x° l s tes Os' road, George Comb, Baptist Minister, of Soho ag e ' # ford-street, aged 59. tor 01 On the 19th inst., at Diss, the Rev. P. Bull; nee Elvcden, Suffolk. __....... . _ 11111111.11 7 - ,,,,r of • London : Printed and Published by MURDO YO u 'a • in No. 112, Strand, at 2%e Sun O ffi ce No. 112, Sli, the county of Middlesex,—,Thursday;February 18 • Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo , • THE ENGAGEMENT. A 1\ OVEL. Henry Colburn. Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. To be had at all the Libraries.