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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A petition was last night presented to the House of Lords, on the occasion of.the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, of a nature which we confess we had not anticipated, claiming for the Jews an exemption from the operation of the clause recently inserted in the Bill, which clause requires the person accepting office to declare, &c., "on the faith of a Christian." We know not whether the removal of this clause in favour of the Jews would leave them the "champ are" for municipal and other offices; hit if such should be the case, we ask—why not ? We have ourselves, in some particulars, a great re- spect for the Jews. They are certainly a li v i ng miracle in proof of the truth of Christianity. They are a visible fulfilment of that prophecy, uttered and re corded eighteen hundred years ago, and said,—' " Their house should be left unto them desolate;" that is, they should he withowt a home or a country till they should be converted to Christianity. They are also the conservators of the prophecies, and other records of the Old Testament, of which Christianity is the fulfilment. We therefore -,vould not exclude the Jews from office by the new Act, if they are not excluded by their . own faith. We have inserted in another part of the paper their pleadings and reasoning in support of their claim. They must not take the municipal fasces to the synagogue. While we are upon this subjec`, -ve may mention an amusing conversation which ook place recently in " an - illustrious assembly." " I wish," said a certain venerable personage, dis tnguished by his opposition to the proposed change, and addressing Lord K., " I wish those the whole bench of --, were hanging together at the Tod of another Brunswick Theatre ; their weight would bring it to the ground; and if not, were I another Sampson, I would wrench down the pillars of it." '6 Ah, all, my Lord," was the reply, " I hate the B—s as much as you ; but you are no ''_ , :ampson now ; you" (pointing to the absence of the grasse perruque)—" you are shorn of your locks,—you have lost your strength." Lord Eldon fought hard last night, to carry two amendments. The first was rejected : the second is to be re-con. sidered this evening. We confess we see no im portant point in either of them.—Time•:. It is rumoured—and we hope the rumour is well founded—that Mr. Spring Rice will not go out to India. fl would be a pity that any circumstances Aould deprive Ireland of the parliamentary services of ono of her warmest and most intelligent friends, and whose industry, as well as knowledge, make his labours no less useful than they are zealous and sin- The discussion in the House of Lords, last night, exceedingly instructive. We have more than once remarked, with reference to the legislation of this country, that as those who frame new laws are almost all cases utterly ignorant of the existing state of the law, it is quite impossible that they should he able to foretell the alterations which any new law will effect. Neither the Legislature by which the new law i; passed, nor the proposer of nor the public, know the operation it will have. The new law is thrown into the heap; and in the ranrse of time it is found out that the Art or Acts which it was intended to repeal, were connected in some way or other with a variety of other Acts, of which it or they modified the effects; and which now come to have an operation that was never anticipated. Law in England may thus, for she most part, he termed ex post facto; for, as they who pass the Act, can seldom know the r-omequences it will have, any more than the public in general, the actual state of the Law comes gradually to be ascertained from the in stances of individuals, whose sufferings in person or property serve to draw attention to the effects. Lord Eldon proposed last night, before the passage, " And whereas it is just and fitting," &c., that there hoold be inserted the following words :—" And whereas the true Protestant religion, as professed and established by law in the United Church of England and Ireland, and the doctrine, worship, discipline, and government thereof, should be, effec tually and unalterably secured; and whereas the true Protestant religion, as professed and established by law in the.thiirch of Scotland, with the doctrine,- ',.yorship, discipline, and government thereof, should h effectually and unalterably secured; all the Acts o f Parliament for the establishment and preservation of the fait] Churches, in force at the time of the union with Scotland, are hereby declared to be in full force fee ever." " What he intended," he said, was to require as a part of a Declaration, that persons who became Members of Corporations, should state that they were Protestants ;" for " he pledged himself as a lawyer, that if this Bill passed, there was no law to prevent Roman Ca tholics from becoming members of Corporations un less the Charters expressly provided against it." This Declaration of what would be the effect of the Bill, without the guard of Lord Eldon, immediately threw the House into consternation. The Bishop of Chester was for a while unwilling to believe the f.'hurrh on the brink of such an imminent danger; but, he yielded up his faith to Lord Eldon's -solemn pledge. The Duke of Wellington disclaimed all intention of favouring the Catholics by admitting theta into Corporations under the Bill, and thought their Lordships were bound not to suffer the Bill to pass without at least requiring an assertion, that the members of Corporations were Protestants. The Lord Chancellor also received a new light front. Lord Eldon, who doubted whether a mere member of a CorporatiOn was hound to take the Oath of Supremacy, and recommended to their Lordships to take some time to consider how they should men, this danger. It would appear that Lord Eldon had' , insinuated, that the clause to which he moved his amendment was the fruit of a Popish plot. It was stated by Lord Holland, that the individual who drew the clause was as strongly opposed to the clause as Lord Eldon himself. A division took place on the amendment, when the numbers were 31 for it, and 71 against it; but the Duke of Wellington became alarmed at his victory—he was doubtful whether or not the word - Protestant ought to be introduced ; and on his motion the fur- - t hn consideration of this question was - postponed to This day. Lord Eldon expressed himself detertniti ed to offer every opposition to the success of the Bill, which could n ot pass, he said, without produc ing a mighty effect on the Catholic question ; and, as froM his minute knowledge of the law, we have not the slightest doubt he will bother, if we may use such a word, their Lordships exceedingly he fore all is over. As for the Bench of Bishops, who, to do them justice, came to the question with a dis position to conciliate, we really pity their condition, exposed as they are to the experiments which Lord Eldon is making on their fears. " But, after all, if we should be duped into an act of friendship to Popery ?" We should not be surprised if our s piritual Lords put such a question to themselves in iio little anxiety. The proceedings, however, are chiefly valuable, as serving to illustrate the glorious uncertainty of the Law. We should not be at.all surprised if the diligence of I.ord Eldon be rewarded other notable discoveries.—Morn. chronicle. •'~ J~ .'.fr. illicit:lel Angelo Taylor brought forward last night his motion for further reform of the Court of Chancery. Among the reform ; suggested by the Hon. Gentleman was, the obvious oiie o f the sepa ration of the bankruptcy causes from the business of the Court of Chancery —and the makin g the Lord Chancellor merely a Judge. of Appeals, and the or..- copier of the Woolsack in the House of Lo r d s . Th e motion was lost by a majority of 91 to 42. Mr. Peel stated that the Comm Commission to inquire into the State of the Law was appointed ; and from th e terms used by Mr. Brougham, in alluding to the appointment, we fear little benefit is to be expected from it. Mr. Peel intimated a readiness, on the part of Government, to appoint the other Commission to which expectation has been directed ; and Mr. Eyougham intreated him, if he wished that any good should come of the labours of the Commission, .to keep from it all Judges, Chief or Puisne,-and all professional men, who had risen to distinction under ;he existing' system, and who could not help view ing with uneasiness any attempt to sweep away the legal cobwebs which they had been employed in spinning. This is a subject of immense import ance; and if Mr. Peel thinks that the country will be satisfied by such reforms as will serve merely to perpetuate abuses, by divesting them of some of their most offensive appearances, he is much mis taken.—lbid. As we long since said, we think the way is pre paring for the Commandership-in-Chief by the Duke of Cumberland. Sir William Knighton's journey to Hanover, 14.:c. had reference, we believe, to this object. The Crown would then have under its immediate control the Army, Navy, Church, and Law.—/horning Herald. We are glad that Mr. COurtenay is likely to lose his Bill for the benefit of Benefit Societies ! It is surprising that Members of Parliament cannot let the people take eare of themselves in matters of business. Mr. Courtenay might as well bring in a Bill to regulate our Newspaper concerns. Such gentlemen as Mr. Hobhouse, Sir Francis Burdett, and others, who have plenty of time on their hands, could not better employ it than in watching the Bills that are foisted upon Parliament every Session. We never saw this Bill of Mr. Courtenay's, but we dare to say that it has been thrust into his hands, by some one to whom a Secretaryship and salary of some kind would he desirable. The public are much indebted to Mr. Hobhouse and Mr. Brougham for their opposition to this The assertion of the Stock Exchange Bulls, that the Russians, at the remonstrances of our Govern ment, have postponed for a month their invasion of Turkey, we do not believe. That the weather has put off the practicability of such invasion for a month is likely, but not the remonstrances of our Government ; for if the Russians had cared one farthing for the remonstrances of our Government, the Persians would not have been so mulcted of both territory and money as they have. Our Govern ment, in this Turkish affair, would not, we should think, remonstrate, except they had 100,000 men to oppose to the Russians. Now we have only 100,000 men for all parts of the world Altogether we could not muster a larger disposable army than 20,000; but what would they be, opposed to 200,000 Rus sians ? Besides, the debt precludes the possibility of one Government going to war, and remonstrating, unless we could go to war, would he useless. We can hardly get on in a financial respect as it is : what would it he if we were to go to war, and ex pend an extra fifty millions a-year ? The latter might knit the moneyed men, that they might lend their money at the rate of 50/., with 31. interest on the 501., or 6 per cent., and take a bond for 1001. for every 50/. lent. A war upon such terms would be popular among the moneyed men.—lbid. NEWMARKET MEETINGS.—We desire to call the attention, not" so much of the public at large, as of the Noblemen and Gentlemen by whom these meet ings are patronised in particular, to a leading vital point connected with them; and we venture to in-• - dulge a hope that such attention will not be unpro ductive of a proper result. Why, we beg to ask courteously, but firmly, are these meetings convened on a Sunday.? Wh y , during the hours of divine worship, in the afternoon, is the High-street of NeWmarket to he Made an High Exchange for betting on the next day's racing ? lf, during the week, there must be a dies non, why should not that day be Monday and not Saturday? We will explain ourselves—for the benefit of the unlearned these matters. The Races be gin on a Monday, and usually leave off on the following Friday. Now, why may not they begin on. Tuesday, and terminate on Satur day afternoon.. Were this to be the case, both tra velling and gambling on the Sabbath-day would be avoided ; but if, from the lateness of the day's sport on Saturday, the company must leave and travel on • Sunday, it is better they should do so, than do as 'they now do :—both travel and bet on, the same sa cred day. Among those Noblemen and Gentle "men by whorn this sport—excellent, and in many respects invaluable of itself, is patronised, _there are many who are exemplary for the fulfilment of all the more important duties attached to, them as Magistrates, fathers, a;:d husbands ; and we are persuaded that the present order of things is one in which they do not cordi ally mingle. Let such bring forward the amend- Merit which we here recommend, Let the com pany assemble on Monday, and bat till midnight if they please; but let not Senators and rezponsible public characters unite in giving what may be termed a profligate air, Of tone of colouring, to one of the most sacred Institutions of their country. We are neither Canters nor Ranters, but trust we may avow sentiments, of which the most pliant and high ?nettled Englishman need never he ashamed,—New Times. THE ARMY. LORD HILL% LEVEE. Lord Hill, as Commander of the Forcee, held a Levee yesterday at his Office in the Horse Guards. The following Generals, and about thirty other Officers, paid their respects to his Lordship : Lieutenant-General , Dyatt, Lieutenant-General John Fraser, Lieutenant-General Sir John Byng, K.C.B. and •G. C. H., Lieutenant .Genetial G riffithz, Lieutenant-Ge neral Widdrington, Lieutenant-General Hodgson, Lieut.- General Sir John Oswald, G.C.8., Major-General VoT,O, Major-General Sir Edward Blakeney, K.C.8., Major- Gen. Blackwell, and Lord Wililam Russell. The Depot of the I et Battalion of the ; st or Royal Regi ment of Infantry has been removed fr,om Glasgow to Paisley. A Company ,of the Royal Staff Corps, stationed nt hasiheen ordered to hold itself in readiness for em barkation for Foreign service. A detachment of Recruits for the Regiments serving in India, marched from Westminster yesterday morning for Chatham. The 3forning Star Fast India Company's slip, arrived at Gravesend on the 18th inst., bringing several detach ments of Invalids, belonging to the Regiments serving . i 1) Ceylon. A Detachment of the Depot of the 71st Regiment of Infantry, at Chester Castle, has been ordered to hold it self in readiness for embarkation to :pip the Service Com panies in Upper Canada. Detachments of the 6tth, or 2d Staffordahire Regi ment of Infantry, marched on the 15th and 16th instant from Buttevsnt for Galway. Sill PPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WEinasnay.,.—High water . 8 min. past Wind W;'N.W.:-Arrived the Fanny Connell, Joy, from Lisbon, with fruit; Duchess.of Athol!, Christian, Isle of Man, with flour; 'James Wilson, ditto, with ditto; Greyhound, Cochrane, Londonderry; with oats; Telford, Pierce, Bel fast, with ditto; Nancy, Dublin, with ditto ; Flint Castle, Griffiths, do. with do. ; Pericis, Dewy, do. with wheat ; Lune,'Prowse, do. with do., &r. ; ham, 'lead (steamer), 40. with sundries ; Chieftain, Owens (steamer), Belfast, with do. ; Swift, Aitkin, Glasgow, with d o , ; Rosina, Little, 'Carlisle; in ballast ; Comet, Phillips (strainer), Dublin, With the A. holiday at ' the Custom-house to-day ;no vessels cleared fig sea. Telegraph Office, Wednesday. Passed fi n i y h t , g d . , inward hound, at 12. 45. supposed to he No. 97, Westmoreland, from Pernambileo. Wind W., ;mean] bound, No. 103, Pacific, light breeze. fr -ZN 9e e ,,.. P ytT ( 1 1; S a m cl a :e ' t ship) : she his a pilot on board. At M p.m. passed Point Lynas , inward bound, No. 233, Crisis, British brig, from Saugor. and N.. l pilot-boat. No. 2pilopt-booat.tooafft. Point Lynas. I brig inward bound, N.E. of Vointpf Air. At 10. 43., sc innne - 1,1 • r • of the Floating Light, with ai - . .. )c) Messrs. J. Bibby and Co.'s privaP s4/441. 4t Nothingls., pilnt-b off oat a s toefl'atPooirimit,sLyriikesa,d.;; pilotl , _ and off Point of :iii'. A Farmer's servant, not long since, went to the Plough and Harrow public-house at Alceston, in this "unty, where.. he got royally drunk : as he was going home h r met his master, who naturally enough enquired where he had been?" " Been ?" said the countryman, " whY,-top/ough and liarrer all day to be zhure." " Ye.," replied his master, "and now, I Fee, you're rolling home." —llriyhtou Gazette. PARLIA MENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF .CO M MONS. ORDERS OF TILE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Freeholders Registration Bill—Committee. 2. Freeholders in Districts Bill—Committee. 3. New South \Vales Bill—Committee. 4. Stamps on Cards and Dice Bill—Committee 5. Crown Solicitors Bill—Committee. 6. Promises and Engagements Bill--Third reading. 7. Records Variance Bill—Third reading. 8. Linen :Manufactures (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 9. Larceny Laws (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 10. Sheriffs (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 11. Malicious Injuries (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 12. Cities and Towns Improvement (Ireland)Bill—Second reading. 13. Corn Lawn Acts—Committee thereupon. i 4. Madhouses (Scotland) Bill—Second reading. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOIL THIS DAY. 1. Mr. Home—Petition from Inhabitants of Upper Canada. 2. Lord Viscount Morpeth—Petition from the Parishioners of the Union of St. Mary's, New Ross, in the county of Wexford, referring to proceedings in the Consis torial Court of Fearns. 3. Mr. Moore—Petition from the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs, and Commons of the City of Dublin, against the Roman Catholic Association in Ireland. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. Tuesday, April 29. 1. Sir John Sebright—To call the attention of the House to the decision of the Standing Orders Committee on the St. Alban's Court House Petition for a Bill. 2. Mr. Sugden—Bill to amend Act 3 William and Mary, c. 14, " for the relief of Creditors against fraudulent Devises," and similar. Act 4 Anne, c. 5, (Irish). Thursday, May I. Mr. Secretary Huskisson—Select Committee to in quire into the present state of Civil Government in the Canadas. Thursday, May 22. Sir James Mackintosh—To refer to a Select' Commit tee Petition from Mr. O'Reilly, complaining of loss from the insolvency of Mr. Ricketts, Keeper of Registry Office at Madras, and from the negligence of the Treasurer of that Government. LA PEROUSE. The following postscript to the Sydney Gazelle of the sth December, throws some light on the fate of this imfortanate Navigator. By the schooner Herald, arrived yesterday from New Zealand, we have been favoured with the following extract of a letter received from Capt. Dillon of the lion. East India Company's ship Research : " HOBART Tows, JAN. 2.—1 take this opportunity of informing you of my sate arriv d, on the sth instant, from the Solomon Islands, where 7 have been successful in pro curing some of the altar and mass-plate 'belonging to the expedition under the command of Count de La Perouse. —I have also procured the ship's bell, a brass mortar, five brass guns, several copper kitchen utensils, the greater part of which are marked with the arms of France, viz.— three fleur-de-lis.' I have got the rudder-irons, the brass shieves of the frigate's topmast, a.nd many other things too numerous to mention. The crew of the Research were attacked with an inter mitting fever, and the vessel was obliged to go to the Bay of Hands for refreshment, whence she may he expected to arrive shortly for provisions, as they are all expended. The above communication was brought from Sydney to Hobart Town, by the Euphemia, two days ago. HOBART TOWN PAPERS. On the 18th of December, the ship Astrolobe, Captain Dumant Duville, belonging to the French Government, arrived at Hobart Town. After coming to, and making up her sails, she fired a salute of 15 guns, which was re turned in style by the Mulgrave battery. The officers had been handsomely entertained by the Governor. From Larinceeton, we learn the natives are still troublesome, and they had murdered an old man named Rutter, within five miles of the town. Other persons had been chased and speared by them near the settlement in the course of the week. Wheat was six shillings per bushel ; Rum, retail, per gallon; Tea, 51. per chest ' - Sugar, 301. a 401. per ton. The market is glutted with all kind of merchandise,- and still great importations are expected. A Banking Company, under the style of the Directors and Company of the' Derwent Bank, has been established at Hobart Town, with a capital of 15,0001. in shares of 100/. each, and it is to be conducted on the most liberal principles, and was to commence operation on the let day of January. The following Gentlemen were elected Directors and Office-bearers. Directors Joseph. Hone, Esq., Chairman, William Barnes, J. Dann, J. Kerr, J. H. Reby, P. A. Mulgrave, and Patrick Wood, Esq., for one year only. Resident Direc tor and Cashier, Stephen Adey, Esq. ; Accountant Mr. J. Leake. In addition to this establishment we are also enabled to state a Branch will be established at Launces ton. Few bush rangers and robbers had been latterly taken, but a plan of operation was going on by which the public would be shortly relieved from this dangerous' nuisance. Some apprehensions bad been entertained of Van Dieman's Land being considered a penal settlement ; but these fears had been quieted : it had the effect of doing harm, although the idea was ridiculous enough. Some of the Editors had the intention of putting their papers in mourning, in consequence of the stamp dirty of 2d. each number, which is a measure bitterly complained of, mad a hope is expressed that the Governor will shortly be aware of the evil effects that will result from this =mtge. The black natives, headed by Black Tom, had appeared in great numbers at Curryjong Springs, about three miles and a half from Sorel! Springs, and had com mitted a number of outrages against the residents in that neighbourhood. It is well observed, something ought to be done to put a stop to these barbarities. A number of boys had been sent to Macquarrie Harbour to learn the art of' shipzbuilding. Letters from Launceston mention Mr. Hone, the Attorney..-General, as unwell, which is ascribed to excessive fatigue, arising Icon; his 4r4goas duties. The first linnet ever brought into Van Dieman's Landarris-ed in one of the last vessels froin England. Ten men had been tried for the murder of a 'constable at Macquarrie settlement in the Cri tnitnyl Court and convicted,--the sentence had been - put in earectioe qn nine of them. The inhabitants had held fre quent meetings in .different parts of the Colony to form armed associations against the annoyances of blacks or whites, particularly the . former, Cieneral ?sleeping of the proprietors of the Bank of. Van Dieman's Land was held on the 10th December, when the following gentlemen were elected Directors—W. A. Bethune, G. F. Read, C. Vkachlan, De. Lord, W. F. Kemp, G. Butler, and J. Bell; G, F. Rev], Managing Director; at the same time the officers of the present Think were npminated to similar situations in the new establishment. 4 field police had been established, and also a horse patrole, which'it is elated if kept up by proper regulation, was likely to be ex tremely useful, and would prevent the frequent robberies of sheep and ethee cattle, which has been not only frequent but alarming. Saul Relr4co, of pugilistic fame, had ar rived, per the Layton, at Sydney. • An extended survey and plan of Hobart Town had commenced, and it was intended to erect a pier or breast work from the Australian Store to Batting Point, to enable chips of burthen to load and unload at all times. It was also in eoniemplatien to build a new Custom-house, a dry dock, together with a slip for the repair of ships, which may draw more water than the dock would contain. The Governor is said to have employed an engineer, for the purpose of reporting on these matters, and it is pleasing to hear of so many improvements in this valuable as well as rising Colony. A Female Orphan School is established, and a farm near _dew Nprfuly, on the River Derwent, is pointed out as a suitable situation. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIA.RY.—MovnAY, APRIL 28.—At the Court of Commissioners, Basingliall-street. Brown, J., Bath, draper JO I.awranee, .1., Park-place, tailor COUNTRY DIARY.—Momnav, , APHIL 28. Bacon, J., Stratford-on Avon-,Shakspeare inn, Stratford. on-Avon Duncan, E. and W., Brecon and 'Merthyr Tidiril—.Castle, Brecon ll Fewster, J., Knaresbrough—Mr. Anderson, York Hamby, J., Liverpool—Clarendon, Liverpool Mather, G. Leek—Roebuck, Leek 2 Ilevill, R., 'Newark-on-Trent—Queen's Head, Mansfield Ring, J., Long Ashton, Somersetshire—Rummer taveni, Bristol Scott, la., Brotherton—Horse Shoes, Brotherton ll w mlleY, J., Denby—Ring's Head Drittield ll INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO RE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lineobt's-innlields, April 28, at Nine. Hinehliff, James, Whitechapel-road, broker April V, at Nine. alien, Mary Ann, Waterloo-road, spinster Archer, John, Blackfriars-roati, bread-dealer Cocker, Robert, Regent's-square, shoem a ke r ' Keen William, GoswellAtreet, cork-cutter Lea, Samuel, Bermondsey-street, plumber Lockwood, Richard, Scarborough, draper Matthews, Charles, Holborn, painter SUMMARY !.VIEW OF. THE PRESENT STATE of the ANTI-SLAVERY QUESTION. EFFECTS OF BOUNTIES AND PROTECTING DUTIES. (From the Anti-Slavery Monthly Reporter.) The sanguine hope which the parliamentary resolutions of the 15th of May, 1823, justly excited that early, effectual, and decisive measures would be taken to ameliorate the condition ofthe slave population of the British Colonies, and to raise them to " a participation in those civil rights and privileges which are enjoyed by other classes of his Majesty's subjects," has been most painfully disappointed by the result. Year after year has passed away without the adoption of those effectual and decisive measures for this purpose, to which the Government and the Par liament were then solemnly pledged. No ade quate remedy has yet been provided for the great and acknowledged evils of. slavery. Five years have been wasted in fruitless negociations with the men who conceive themselves interested in upholding those evils, and the prospect of their removal seems, at the present moment, as dis tant as when the pledges in question were first given. In none of the Colonies have adequate means of education or instruction as yet been provided for the slaves. In none of them but two, Bar badoes and Tobago, has an end been put to Sunday markets . ; without, however, appointing any other market day for the slaves. Sunday labour has been no where precluded by giving equivalent time in lieu of Sunday to the slave, who is still forced to toil either for his master or fox his own subsistence and that of his family during seven days of the week. The testimony , of slaves is not yet admitted in the King's Courts to any beneficial purpose. The sacred institution .of marriage, though with some nominal recognition of it, is still almost entirely neglected. Families are still allowed to be separated, by all but judicial sales, except in St. Lucia. The power of redeeming themselves by the fruits of their own industry at a fair appraisement, as well as the real and effective rights of property, are still generally withheld from the slaves ; while little or nothing has yet been done to pre vent the abuse of the master's power of punish ment. The practice of flogging females, and the use of the cart whip in the geld are obstinately retained in all the chartered colonies ; while in none of them have independent and impartial guardians been appointed to watch over the exe cution of the laws for the protection of the slaves. The presumption of law is still, except in the Colonies of Trinidad, St. Lucia, and Grenada, in favour of the slavery, and against the freedom of all who have not a white skin, And in all the colonies, the administration of justice is most defective ; while the laws themselveS are harsh, oppressive, and unequal,. denying to the slaves even the common rights of humanity, and to the free people, whether black or coloured, any fair participation in the civil and political privileges of British subjects. This injurious policy commenced in 1815, in favour of West Indian sugar, and has since been made to embrace, by an unhappy partiality, the only slave Colony possessed by his Majesty to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, the Mauritius, while the sugar grown by free labour, in all other parts of the British dominions, is loaded with additional duties for the sole benefit of those who hold 825,000 of their fellow-sub-1 jects in cruel bondage "frk. • Such a course of proceeding is wholl).incon-,i sistent with those principles of, sound , c,omrner-, cial policy which have been recommended - from. the Throne, and recognized and sanctioned • by Parliament, It is both unjust and oppressive towards more than 80 millions of our Asiatic fellow subjects, whose interests are sacrificed to a few hundreds of West Indian and Mauritius sugar planters. It is attended with serious in-. jury to the British commercial and shipping in terests connected with our eastern empire ; and it is highly prejudicial to the whole population of the United kingdom. • The extensive distress which has prevailed among the labouring classes of this country, is admitted to have arisen from a want of adequate employment ; and for this evil some effectual remedy is now anxiously sought by Parliament, in emigration, or in some other expedient equally costly. But what remedy is likely to be more easy and effectual for alleviating its pressure, than that of obtaining a Beer vent for the pro ducts of British industry among the swarming population of His Majesty's Asiatic dominions ? This obvious and practicable source of relief, however, is in no small measure precluded by , our refusing to admit the produce of those domi nions into the markets of Great Britain, on fair and equal terms. If the proposed changes in the sugar duties have been correctly stated to the public, and should pass into a law, their effect can only be still more to favour, at the expellee of the British public, the interests of the growers of that ar ticle by slave labour, to the injury of all his Ma esty's subjects who raise it by their own free labour. The bonus thus given to the growers of sugar by slaves, will amount to a very large sum.— Even on the existing scale of duties and draw backs, it is moderately estimated at more than 750,000/. ; and if the former boundaries shall be restored, it will amount to above 1,200,0001., indepeOpntly of the sum annually expended in the naval, military, and cilil establishments of our slave colonies, and which is calculated to amount to about two millions sterling. But whether the sum which is to be divided annually among the growers of sttgar by slave labour be 750,0001., or 1,200,0001., to such an appropriation of. their money the people of this c ountry will ever entertain objections of the gravest kind ; nor will they perceive any essential difference between 4 Parliamentary vote of that sum to the growers of sugar by slave labour, and a fiscal arrangement which shall secure to them the same amount in some other way; for under w hatever complexity of arrangement the trans aptiCM may be disguised, its real effect is the same. _ That the factitious rise in the price of sugar, for example, which is caused by monopoly, or by bounties tending to enhance the planter's profits, instead of being beneficial, is most in jurious to the slave, may be established not only by reasoning, but 'by facts drawn• from the offi cial documents furnished to Parliament by the colonists themselves. Of these facts, one of the most striking is the increased waste of s l ave lif e which occurs - in e very .colony where the superior fertility of the soil increases the profits of slave labour, and adds to the quantity of the article on which the bounty operates. The Bahamas, from the poverty of the soil, The misery and the mortality of the slaves in the Mauritius, we believe greatly to surpass what takes place in any of our other. Slave Colonies. This has partly arisen from the extraordinary cheapness with which, from its vi rinity to the slave market, the waste of the human sunk can there be repaired. produce no sugar aor any, other article of export, able produce. entitled .to protection in .the British market ; but the slave population his there increased more rapidly than in any other , colony, namely, at the rate of from 2 to 21- per cent. per annum. The colony of Barbadoes, containing 80,000 slaves, produces on an average only about 280,000 cwt. of sugar annually, being only about 31 cwt. - for each slave, and there we have a small increase of the slave population amounting to from to pTerhececnotiopneyroaf Trinidad, mlum. containing a ppp u l a tion of . only, 23,000 slavesonaltes annually nearly as much sugar as Barbadoes, namely, 275,000 cwt. being at the rate of nearly 12 cwt. for each slave ; but the decrease of the slaves in that island amounts to the enormous rate of 2f per cent, per annum. Now, if it were true that the greater prosperity and the higher profits of the planters tended to promote the greater comfort as well as the in-. crease of their slaves, then the slaves of Trinidad would be much better off, and would increase faster than those who cultivate the inferior soil of Barbadoes, and still more as compared with those who cultivate the Bahamas; but the fact is di rectly the reverse of this assumption. An attempt indeed has been made by the planters of Trinidad to account for the large de crease among their slaves, alleging a great dis-. parity of the sexes as the cause of it; but this allegation is contradicted by the population returns of 1825, from which it will be seen that the sexes are nearly equal, the male slaves amounting to 11,908, and the female slaves to 11,209. • And while the negro slave population in Tri nidad is thus rapidly wasting away, though the sexes are nearly equal, it appears that a body of free negroes brought thither in 1816, from ; the United States of America and the shores of Africa, with a much better disproportion of the sexes,.have, since that time, increased at the rate of 2i per cent. per annum, so as to form a sin gular and instructive contrast with the rapid de crease of the negro slaves around them. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, APRIL 25.—At a Congregation on Wednesday List the following degrees were con ferred : BACHELOR IN DIVINITY. Rev. Robert Walpole, Trinity College 'MASTERS OF ARTM. John Bisbton, Trinity College Frederick Solly flood, Trinity College Winthrop Mackworth Praed, Fellow of Trinity College Henry Davis Ward, Trinity College Rev. John Fred. Isaacson, Fellow of St. John's College Rev. Charles bleary Hartshorne, St. John's College Rev. Win. Christopher Twice, Caine College Edward Hyde Cosens, Catherine Hall. BACHELORS OF ARTS. Henry Davis, Trinity College Charles Hayes, Trinity College Michael Le Mann, Trinity College George Roe, Trinity College Thomas Rotton, Trinity College Albert Way, Trinity College David Bristow Baker, St. John's College Richard Chapman, St. John's College John Clay, St. John's College Thomas Fawcett, St. John's College Charles Fisher, St. John's College James Fitzmaurice, St. John's College James Hamilton, St. John's College John Saunders, St. John's College Fenton Tuckett, St. John's College Francis Sacheverell Wilmot, St. John's College William Wynne, St. John's College Phelipps ilanharn, St. Peter's College • Frederick William . Maltby, St.!Peter's College James Macdonald, Caius. College Nicholas Bennett, Queen's College Robert Lee Bridge, Queen's College James CoghllM, Queen's College Thomas Edmund Hiscock, Queen's College Charles Langdon, Queen's College Henry Murray, Queen's College Jackson Musprat Williams, Queen's College John Cordeaux, Catharine Hall Alexander Annand, Jesus College Benjamin Chapman, Christ College James Robertson, Christ College Joseph Foster, Emmanuel College. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Plymouth Journal of yesterday.) , The Wasp, 18, Commander Dickinson, C.B. sailed on Friday for the Mediterranean. The Bramble, cutter, 10, Lieut. W. H. Haswell, sailed on Thursday, from Falmouth, and returned again yesterday. The Frolic packet brig, Lieut. F. C. Barron, from Halifax, last from Falmouth, came up on Saturday 'night, to be repaired and te-fitted. . His Majesty's ship Windsor Castle, 76, Capt. E. I). King (now Commodore), arrived on Mon day evening from Margate, having been round to the Eastward w ith troops from Lisbon. The Car ron steam-vessel towed her into the Sound, where she anchored a little after two o'clock, and again took her in tow on Tuesday morning, and moved her to her moorings in the harbour where she is now preparing to be paid off. The Vigilait Retch, Lieut, Meredith, came in during Monday night, and sailed again for Falmouth on Tuesday. She anchored again at the Island on Tuesday night. The Nightingale schooner sailed on a cruise to the Eastward the same day. Ibis Majesty's ship Briton, 46, Hon. Capt. Wil liam Gordon, sailed on Tuesday morning on a cruise to the Westward, in search of some piratical vessels said to have appeared off the Western Islands, In Hamoaze—Windsor Castle, Britannia, Me dina, Pylades, Pike, Frolic, Rinaldo , Leveret, Rey nard. At the Island—Vigilant, Royalist, Bramble, Capt. King, of the Windsor Castle, has hoisted' his broad pendant as Commodore, being the senior Captain, Lieut. George Patey Trounsell, of Stonehouse, is appointed to the Preventive Service at Newport, Isle of Wight. Lieut. H. B. Richards, of Stonehouse, is appointed to the Asia, at Portsmouth, fitting for the Mediter ranean. Mr. James Henderson, late of the Bri tannia, to be Purser of the Ordinary at Portsmouth; Mr. Samuel Crowley, of Torpoint, to the Ordinary at this port, Mr. Walsh has been appointed Second Lieute nant of this Division of Royal Marines, in the room of Mr. Gascoyne, whose commission has been cancelled. The brig Liberty, of Poole, Stephen Bore, master, from St. Lucia bound to Dublin, out 49 days, with a cargo of sugar, coffee, Ste. put into _Lisbon on the 11th inst., by stress of weather, having been struck by a heavy sea on the 26th March, in, lat. 46. 3. long, 25. 27. wind N.W., which made a clean sweep, and washed every thing overboard, and carried away the statmchions, anchors, &c.; in a severe gale was obliged to throw overboard part of her cargo, her stream-cable, Sze. The ship labouring, and making a deal of water. The Ipswich, Motley, from London for Miramichi, came in yesterday in distress, She left London on the 22d March, and on the 9th inst. in lat. 46. 50. long 25. 20. experienced a very severe gale of wind, which so disabled the vessel in her hull, that she was obliged to bear up for the first port. The damage is so great, that it was a miracle she reached here. We are informed that the Authors of the highly popular Work which has just appeared under the title of "Tales and Legends," are three sisters of the name of Conagrr. They are already known as the Authors of the "Odd Volume;" but their present Work has placed them in a much higher walk in the paths of literature. THE MARKETS; 1 - 43 . ' . 41 , 1 1#41: SOUTHALL MARKET.—.ApriI 21— • . This day's market having been for theitimo °Lyle so" derately_well supplied, and the buyers assembled 1191 44 ±, means numerous, e a c h ki n d o f meat nut' , witlins• astir sale, at the following prices per stone of Bib. to 6d. to 4s. 6cL I Veal 41.. e Mutton 8 4 8 I Pork 4. 6 ,S.: LaMb 6s. ed. to' s.' Ott si The foregoing quot a ti ons are, Beef 2d. per atone b,oea * and Polk from 2d. to 4d. beyond those of that day se'anisitt. 8 which Mutton, Lamb, and Veal, Were stationary. A eottaid!rt ble proportion of the supply left the market unsold. HAILSHAM 141 ARKE1.—April 23. • 1 .`, .8eef......—......... 4s. Od. to 4s. 4d. 1 VeaL..,..L,;;_,, '-4i. 4d; to '4c.. 0 . Mutt0n........... 4 6 410 1 Pork - .:4 ..ly ,:: or- - 0 Lam b Lis. 106. to 41s. 4d. ' "; '''' • A moderate supply; trade with prime Mutton imd Lamb - 1 0 ' lerably brisk, with ot her kinds Of meat' depressingly dna, ::11.,- ; good many Beasts and Calves left the market unsold. '• ' _ STEYNING MARKET.—ApriI 21.- •" Beef 4s. 2d. to 4s. 241. Vaal 4s. 41d. to ss. a• Mutton 4 4 50 I Tork=—.... 0 0 0 0 Lamb a 6s Od: to 6s. 6d Supply rather limited, and trade somewhat dull. ARUNDEL MARKET.-April 22. 48. Od. to 43.8 d. I Veal 4e. 4d, to 4p. Mutton 4 2 410 I Porlc—=—...— 4 2 4., , Lamb ' 55.'241: to 6s. 4d. A moderately fair supply, and a - sluggish trade: - CHICHESTER M ARK ET.—April 23. Beef 3s. 10d. to 4s. fid. Veal 41( 4t to 41;101' I Mutton 4 4 4 8 P0rk...,. .. 4,.(1. 4 4 lamb.. ss: Bd. to tia 4d, Store Pigs were dear, and trade'with Store Bear*, 'Mach Cows Calves, and Couples, brisker than oti the last market day, but with Fat Stock very, dull. Supply tolerably good. RUMFORD MARKET.—ApriI 23. a. d. to s. d. s. cl, tos. de , • Beef ' 3 8 4 4 Veal ' ‘ 6 5 Mutton 3lO 4 6 Pork 4 8 5 4 . Lamb ss 4d. to 68. 4d. a Seuckling Calves fl•om 12s. to 368 ; Quarter old Pigsl6B. to2os, eac h. Supply moderate, and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEKK•,,, Wheat_' Barley: ' Oats. Beans. Per t/darter. s. to a. s. to s. s. to a. tO Blaniford 58 28 25 58 55 24 28 18 21 35 Si of 58 30 18 Chard 56 66 32 38 24 30 444 v HuntingdOn....:—. 50 56 30 33 22 26 . Long Sutton-- • 50 GO 16 25 38 4 0 Louth 50 58 26 30 15 20 94 95 Lynn,.... 48 CO 31 33 18 24 96 4 0 ' Newarli: 53 GO 26 36 20 SO 42 .47 Nottingham 58 62 35 42 30 ' 40' 41 59 Peterborough 40 GO 26 30 18 . k - Plymouth 50 59 26 28 19 21 —. Pontenset------ 53 30 20 25 " !ilea ford 52 55 22 28 18 20 38 41 Uppingham ---- 54 58 28 32 22 30 42 4 4 Wibbeeh--- 48 CO 28 32 16 23 56 50- LEEDS CORN MARKEl':—April 22. We had a good supply of Wheat and. Barley, but .tual,' middling of other Grain. Wheat met dull sale, and.,€)& to Is. per quarter lower. Barley of good quality , itup ported last week's prices. For Oats and Shelling was scarcely any demand, and prices nominally the yam! , ' Beans; unless dry and hard, were difficult to quit.. No thing doing in Rapeseed. Wheat; 'Northlk and Suffolk, 60Ib. ... 56a. to ags. - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 32e. to Yorkshire and Lincolnshire • 21i4.; to 311. •t. - 'Grinding Beans ' Oats, Potatoe • 2tlB. CO 294 Ti'• • ----111ealing, Foreign l Id. to 12d....Englisli lld. to 12}id. per It. Shelling ' 275. to 2Sa per load. Rapeseed, English, 21/. to 271 Foreign, —l. to per last MANCHESTER ShIITHFIELD.—ApriI 23. At per lb. sinking the Mild. 5,753 Sheep-- sd. to 7441. 21 4d. to 60. 419 Cattle 4i 6k 112 Pigs 4k 6 42 Lambs at ud. to Ocl. MANCHESTER, POTA', Potatoes 33. 6d., 43.• &1., am t 121bs. • New ditto, Os. Od., Os, ils. Od., )13. 6d. and 16s. Od. per 383. Od., and 40s. per 12 score. .• L'OE MARKED'.... 191 1 6s. 611. per load of 12 score arte Od:, and O. per ditto; toad of 16 pecks ; Onions, 376.-od., MANCHESTER YAR No. d. d. lb raid e Twist, 20 10-1 to 11 no 13 40 ...I:4 17 Mule cop Twist/ ill: 12i for warp ,,... 40....13 15 50 20 60 —2O 22 70..23 26 50.27 30 MARK ule Cop Weft.., Weft f rom waste GLASGOW RETAIL Beef per lb.. 04. M. toCi. &t. Hutton. • 0 6 0 8 Veal • 0 9 0 10 Hams - .0 5 0 7 Lamb age. (4 . O. ttt er rier stone 2 . 0 2 8 Rye -April 22: • 30 to-I 4 40 11 l : g I 4 15' • 60 15i 16 • 76 19 -20 22 • 100 2S 90 ; 120 • , 14 if! 18 - 24 10 RKETS.--April2l. • Oatmeal, per st. ls, 04. t 025.121. Peasemeal 2 0 3 .4. r Pot Barley, cwt 12 0 17 , Q Pearl,oltto..., 2O 0 25' • Grey Pease... T 12 0 a • • - WhiteNtato' - 13 =0 14.4 . . Blue<littO• 13 0 14 HOP INTELLIGENCE. .. i. WOR( EMIL, APRIL 23.—1 n Our market oa Sathrdak 56 pockets were weighed. The report of the appeafisktii; of the pl int is favourable. , . The late Bishop of CHICIIESTSR, WhO.Whers •'' first elected to that Bishopric, resided on Star Green,;'"' ." the. Palaco wa.s ready for his reception, sent to a fishmonger.- in London an order to supply him with a dish of fish twice* a week, dating his letter from Star Green, and signing it-at bottom, J. CICEST. The fishmonger, not comprehending the rank of his customer, and to save himself the trouble of writing, had the underwritten direction stamped roogbly 11 on a label, to be tied to the packages ; and several won sent, directed in this manner,before a better mode of direr tion could be pointed out to him : J. CICEST esq m p • Stargreen Battle SUSSEX Brighton Qari The venerable Lord ELDON was dining lately in company, where he was asked how he contrived to em ploy his time, now that he was out of office. " Oh, . iety, well," replied his Lordship ; "I read papers (referring to, Chancery papks) till four or five o'clock, and then walk. out, look in the print shops, and hear what the people an: , of 'Old Bays."—Brighton Gazette. • 000/. in est a t es an d moneyi oli A young gentleman, ecea t se h d e , w g h ra o n b d y so h n is o paisi f a gi s t ; entitled when of a ge , e l o p e d nn w c i h t o i r ch a t accumulatedthe Braintree, y out haiv 1 livt l i s 1 7 5 1 b y e 0 • the 9th inst. with the slaughter of the landlord' of the. Horn Inn. The lady is said to be about sixteen, and the' young man is a Ward in Chancery. They are supposed to have reached the opposite coast.—. Essex Herald. COMFORTS OF TRAVELLING.—A traveller entered a hedge-public-house, and desired to be served with - a dinner. Landlord—Got no dinner, Sir. Traveller.-- Well, then, let me have some tea and coffee. Landlord... Cot no tea and coffee. Traveller—Some brandy and water, then, and a biscuit. Landlord—Got no brandy andwater no biscuit. Traveller—Give me some beer, th...n. Land lord—Got no beer. Traveller—No beer ! why, you've got , nothing in the house. Landlord—Yes, ;re hale ; we've got an—execution 1 BIRTHS. On Tuesday the 22d inst., at Bolton Hall, Yorkshire, - the lady of the Hon. Thos. Orde ;lowlett, of a son. , , ; ' Oa the 24th inst., in BedfortlL . row, the lady of Charles Morgan, Esq., surgeon, of a son. On the 23d inst., at No. 69, Gower-street, Bedford square, the lady of George G. Hill, Esq., of a daughter. , On the 21st • inst., in the Fulham-road, Mrs. E. A. Hoffay, of a daughter. On the 22d inst., at Dover, the lady of S. M. Latham, ' Esq., of a son. At Stanley House, in the county of Gloucester, the la 4 of D. Maclean, Esq., of twins, a boy and girl. On the 22d inst., at the Moor, in Herefordshire, the lady of Captain Lambert, R.N., of a son. MARRIED. On the 2 4 th i nst., a t St. Martin's-in-the• Fields, by the Henry Mapleton, (; oorge R enn i e, E sq., o f Whitehall place,ltv . oAargaret Anne, only surviving daughter of the late Sir John Ja ck s on, Bart. At St. Dunstan's, by th e R ev . S pencer rden, Mv. Thomas Bird, of H unt i ngdon, to Mary Anne Allpness, only daughter of the lat e R o b er t Allp ress , E sc, ., o f Albe marle-street, Rev. PIED. On the 14th inst., Charles Broderip, Esq., of Spring gardens. On the 16th inst., Robert Crosby, Esq., of Lackhara stead, near Newbury, Berks. On the 20th inst., at the Fron, the Rev. Henry Hughes. aged 85, for 50 years the highly-esteemed Recto' of the pa rishes of Llangefni and Llanfacthlu, in the county 01 Anglesea. On the 14th inst., at Hampton Wick, Middlesex, Mr. Wm. Parkhurst, sen., aged 86, late of Kingston-upon 7 Thames, Surrey. On the 28d inst., at h:s house in Upper Montagu - ' street, Montagu square, Joseph Gaillard, Esq., surgeon, in his 62d year. On the 19th inst., at North-end, Fulham, Ella OP' stantia, second daughter of the late Henry Green, Esq., in the 12th year of her age. • amd PUBITSIIED by Al. YOUNG, at the tJN OFFICE , No, 112, Strand, I union. " VI 1 r „ ceiva dennent *Aing ab ~coco) 1 3 14 Ta zr.Qiftu . PsAsi SUGAI SQO. SALT SLOps Satap m i tt , The Offie e . "ul i tica ft ll l . the bis' 7 c 3 T il t am lier aft FOr I CO. o. ‘,........,_. ALI e l eg , Ric ph. apa ct rattrtfm: • Mor e tit% an 4)11 the Loc ,Nb n.ke, Thor P 4 54 "11 %., t4t0e , 44 4415 i 41 44 co y __ wa tia!d