The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-04 00:00:00

EVESTIi4G. EDITION in 9 vOli. sinall Bvo. with Portrait. 2h. bound , 1100 K iVITHOUT A NAME. BY SIR CHARLES and LADY MORGAN. IS NOW READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. Now ready, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Portrait, THE COURTS OF EUROPE, At the CLOSE of the LAST CENTURY. By the Late HENRY SWINBURNE, Esq., Author of "Travels in Spain, Italy, &c." 1. A most amusing and intelligent account of the habits, manners, and modes of living of the Kings, Princes, Minis ters, &c., into whose close intimacy the author was ad vaitted."—Me.senger. Two more delightful volumes it is scarcely possible to meet with. They form the most perfect picture of the Conti nent towards the close of the last century we possess. Such a gallery of illustrious characters as we are introduced to, com prising the Royal Families in all the principal Courts of Eu rope, with almost every person of rank or celebrity in the Church, the profession of arms, diplemacy, literature, art, and science, then living, no single book ever before exhibited."— New Monthly. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. U NiDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING, MARCH 4, Will be produced a New Comedy, in Five Acts, entitled LONDON ASSURANCE. Sir Harcourt Courtly, Bart., Mr. W. Farren ; Max Hark away, Mr. Bartley; Mr. Charles Courtly, Mr. Anderson; Mr. Adolphus Spanker, Mr. Keeley ; Mr. D azz l e , Mr. C. Mathews ; M ar k Meddle, Mr. Harley ; Grace Harkaway, Madame Vestris ; Lady Gay Spanker, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mrs. Pert, Mrs- Ilumb‘. • After which, The GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, Mr. C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; pantaloon, Mr. Morelli; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Dress Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 61; First and Second irees, ss. ; Second Price, 23. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, Gxllery, ls. Private Box.. to be had solely of Mr. Andra ws, bookseller C 7. New Band-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Amazing attraction.—Fourth appearance these Two Years of Mr. T. P. Cooke—Re-engagement of Mr. Collins. Two New Dramas and " Paul Clifford," which has been attract ing crowded houses. THIS EVENING, MARCH 4. Will be acted an entirely New Drama, entitled THE KING OF SPAIN AND HIS BARBER. After rhich a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called POOR JACK ; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. Jn which Mr. J. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the Company, will perform. To conclud2 with the Operatic Drama of PAUL CLIFFORD. Paul Clifford Oath all the Original Songs), Mr. Collins. CORitEBPONDENTS. We are much obliged to a " Railway Broker" at Bristol. J. S."—The second son of Edward I. was created Prince f Wales in 125 t, when the Principality was fully annexed to the English Crown. It gave from that period a title to the eldest stns of the Kings of England ; and if our Correspondent is materially interested in ascertaining the number, he could n'tt do better than study the hieury of his country for the last SCO years. MOH WATER AT LONDON aItIDGZ To-mortnow. Nl , Trung 0 minutes after 0 I Evening ......16 minutes alter 0. :the Publication of the Evening Edition •f Tata Sum torn menecd at 30 ►minutes after Three. 41 , ,4 1 4. V ‘ ' • `1 ' * cote Antx4 LONDON: THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1841. The PEER'S did not meet yesterday. in the Commons the Chelsea Poor Bill was read a second time, after a division called for by Mr. T. DUNCOMBE. Amongst the numerous petitions presented was one from Tring, in Hertfordshire, praying that the J urors of that place might be summoned to Aylesbury, six miles off, instead of their own county town. 'Our present county divisions, con secrated as they are by a high antiquity, will scarcely answer modern purposes. Our parishes are already ascertained to be very unsuitable. Even fixed boundaries of space, which politi cians might suppose would for ever answer the iatended purposes, become, by the progress of ~opuhti.nl, that al:-powerful instrument Gf change, uns _I table to our circumstances; and even such a Conservative cs Sir 11. PEEL presents a pt.titicn to break up the ancient divisions of counties. • Lord Jonil Itu.:sELL's - Bill fur making further provision for cecuring the rights of voting for Members of Parli moot was read a first time. Mr. WALLACE save notice of a motion, in substance to limit the right of the Crown in bestowing Peerages except on men of fortune, which, we apprehend, the House of Lords will scarcely entertain. Sir C. -DOUGLAS announced his intention to move in Committee on Mr. KELLY'S Bill, should it be read a second time, that capital assaults on females under twelve years of age should be exempted from its provisions. On Mr. E. TEN NENT moving the second read ing of the Copyright of Designs Bill, Mr. WILLIAMS denied that pirating patterns was extensively practised. He asserted that the Bill would give rise to endless litigation ; he exa mined at some lenrsth 'the evidence given in favour of the Bill, and concluded by moving that it be read a second time in twelve months. Mr. GI3BORNE seconded the amendment. Mr. SHIEL, the Vice-President of the Board of Trade,. gave his support to the Bill. He re ferred to the contradictory views entertained by the reprentatives of the manufacturing districts and by manufacturers themselves, reprehending , the introduction into the Bill of the word " imi tations," and announced himself a friend to ex tending the copyright for six months. He also re commended that the five Acts which already exist on the subject. should be consolidated into which, though atte n d e d w i t h some expense , h a d corresponding advantages. After a short conversation the Committee was put off for six months, on a division of 58 to 36. The Abolition of the Punishment of Death Bill was read a second time, with an understanding that the principle should be debated on the mo tion for going into a Committee, which was fixed for next Wednesday week. The County Courts Bill went through a Com mittee, Mr. MAimn having stated in Committee that the salary of no Judge would exceed 1,5001. a-year. The House then adjourned. By the arrival of the George Washington at Liverpool yesterday we have received New York Papers, of the 9th ult., bringing the painfully Interesting intelligence of the stoppage of the United States Bank, as also of several other banks throughout the Union. We have given in another part of The Sun the details of these sus pensions as reported in the New York journals. Mr. M'LEon was still in custody, and his trial was to come on in a few days. United States Bank Shares had varied so much for some days previous to the sailing of the packet, that it is difficult to ascertain tLeir real price. At Phila delphia, for instance, on the 9th Feb., they sold at 30, on the 11th at 28.1 291, and on the 12th at New York they brought only 26. In the debate on Mr. COLQUIMUN'S motion, _ _ _ the Catholic priests were censured by that gen tleman and others of his party, for using their influence to attain political objects. " They de _ _ nounced men from the altar," he said, " in con sequence of the votes they had given. That was a system which the House and the people of this country could not allow to continue." Why not ? is a question we beg leave to put to Mr. COL QUHOUN and his friends. Why are the priests not to use their influente, and the influence of religion, to subserve a political purpose? We cannot, in the spirit of party or faction, confine the question to Catholic priestA, but to priests of every denoraination, and they are all equally in terested in the answer. If the Catholic priests may nr,t bring spiritual terrors to bear on the Catholic voter to promote a political purpose, TIC ither may the priest of the Establishment nor the Dissenting minister; and the same rule which would exclude politics from the Mass house, would also exclude them from the Parish Church, the Presbyterian Kirk, and the Dissent ing Chapel. We apprehend that no priesthood will support Mr. COLQUHOUN and hi; friends in this sweeping exclusion, and we shall state why we think the doctrine quite untenable. It cannot be denied that politics, though a man may have to vote but once in five or six years, is an important branch of moral duty. The more seldom the vote has to be given the more circum spection is required in giving it. If it have to be given but once in a man's life it becomes ofas much consequence as a marriage, and needs the best counsel of the best friends. To others than the voter or the contracting party it is of more im portance than a marriage, for the good or evil of that is confined to a man's own family, but his vote may have a powerful influence on the public welfare. In general, a man's public duties, the performance of which affects others far more than his domestic duties, are considered the proper object of praise, admonition, or reproach. To summon youth to arms to defend their country, has ever been held to be the duty of the aged, and those who advise or guide society. At present the priesthood of different denominations are the moral guides of the com munity, and what reason can be assigned for withdrawing from their influence the public du ties which affect the welfare of all ? Shall they be called on to reprove a man for drunkenness, and be told they are to be silent when he accepts a bribe or gives a dishonest vote ? Are they to admonish him against stealing a penny or a loaf of bread, and acquiesce in his forming one of a band determined to rob the nation of its freedom ? But it is easy to conceive that the votes of an elector may have a powerful influence on the priest and on religion 7 • and is his pri es t no t t h en to admonish him? Suppose Mr. HUME, or any other honest and upright patriot, looking back at the past, and over every part of the land at present, coming to the natural and just conclusion that the Church of England, as a political engine, is I an utter and complete failure, and therefore moving in Parliament that it should be abo lished, would not the clergy of the Church use their spiritual influence, and their friends would think them justified in using it, to make the electors vote against Mr. HumE's project ? When the Dissenters were struggling for the repeal of the Test Acts, or in their present struggles for the abolition of Church-rates, why should not their ministers use all the spiritual influence at their command to secure success? Lord STANLEY'S Bill is avowedly in tended to remove the electors from under the influence of the Catholic priests, and reduce them to dependence on the landlords. It is idle nonsense to say, under such circumstances, that the Catho lic priests are not to use all their spiritual influ ence to defeat the hostile project. It is palpa bly ridiculous and absurd to constitute an order of men the guides and mentors of the nation, to submit to them as the ministers of the DEITY, and then to tell them, when their own interest is deeply concerned, that they are not to use their spiritual power for their own protection. Mr. COLQUHOUN may be assured that he cannot withdraw political duties from the cognizance and control of the priesthood without at once degrading them to be mere po litical tools. Neither can he deny the Roman Catholic priesthood the use of their power in politics without forbidding the priests of the Establishment and Dissenting ministers from performing some of their most sacred and im portant functions. Mr. COLQUHOUN and his friends have, in fact, no objection that spiritual thunder should be used to slay their political enemies. They only only object to its being directed against themselves. Messrs. M'NEILE and M‘GEE, and that batch of Church Missionaries, have been dealing " their damnation " out pretty handsomely against the Catholics. To what but the use of the spiritual thunders of the Anglican priesthood are the Tories indebted for being so powerful in Parliament? They use the weapon, but they will not allow others to use it. Their conduct in this respect is consistent with their usual hypocrisy. They desecrate the altars of GOD for their own factious purposes, and de nounce those who use them for the defence of liberty. Belgian and German Journals of the latest dates have reached us this morning. The fol lowing extracts from them contain all the news they bring of any interest : innssEts, FEB. 28.—The clerks in one of the o ffices of the Minister of Finance are busily employed in draw ing the general Budg et of the recei p t and ex p e nditure f or the uP y e ar 1842, to be laid before t h e Chambers during th e pres ent Ses., ion. It appears from a statistical table laid before the Chamber by the Minister of Public Works , that the number of com munes which have no school houses is 1,040. There are about 2,500 communes in Belgium ; so that it appears that two-fifths of them have no school-houses. BRUSSELS, MARCH 2.—On the Ist of this month Senor Quadrado was received by the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and delivered his credentials as Charge d'Affaire of her *Ma jesty the Queen of Spain to the King's Government. Poszsr, FEB. 18.—We received from a quarter worthy of credit, that within these few weeks the march of troops in the kingdom of Poland to the frontiers of Prussia has recom menced, and that a considerable number of fresh regiments has arrived very recently in Kalisch and the neighbourhood, so that it is difficult to find quarters for the troops. Accordingly to a rough estimate 50,000 men have already arrived, and it is said that more divisions will follow, so that the whole number may be seventy-five thousand men, so that unless the aspect of political affairs should change, of which there is little probability, while France continues its military preparations, those troops will form, in the spring a camp rear Kalisch, where they will remain till the continu ance of peace in Europe shall be fully secured. At least an equally considerable number of troops is said to be already assembled in Warsaw and the eastern provinces of the king- 000 position m of en t . he lt tso is king dom, , so that the Russian army at this moment amounts to p s evident, , tha t suh a especially fu w re h e en is w u e otmansssiedmerbtlhede merely on account of the facility of subsisting them, as was at first asserted. —Allg • Z • Fe b. emezne ettung, eb. 26. CRACOw, Fmn. 22 .—The A • • e Austrian garrison evacuated this city on the 20th inst. -- Mle Commander, Colonel Walter, had intimated to the authorities that his Government expected that a farewell entertainm en t, the officers previ ous to their ball or banquet would be given to willing to gratify eir departure, but the former, how evercould not succeed in those gettin g from whom they held their offices, of regret on the up even the appearance of a de monstration Austrian troops marched gut of of the Cracovians, and the the place amidst ex pressions of joy from the entire military occupation of this `° fr j o iop , ulation. Although the oppressors cont inue to be as effectuall y 'ci city is ma s ters in t an end, its s ever. The direction of affairs isnowin t he sit a Ca tholic clergyman, named Spindler, the of the Senate, a man justly detested and despised by the in habitants. He was formerly attached as chaplain to an Aus trian regiment, was imported and imposed on the people by the Austrians, and has not only been elevated to the highest post in the republic, but to the best benefice in the city—the Cathedral of St. Stanislaus. All the patriotic public fenction arias have been superseded in their functions, which are now in trusted to creatures and tools of the soi-disant protecting Powers. The Senate is filled with the dregs of the nobility, and seats in that once-respected body have at present fallen into such oisrepute, that several were offered to wealthy merchants, who r.fused them, not wishing to be c at Iminated by the association Madrid Papers of the 23d ult. have been re ceived. Spain is at present tranquil, and it is hoped that if the next year prove abundant the peasantry will recover from the effects of the ravages committed during the civil war. It was reported that the QUEEN and Court would visit Aranjuez before the opening of the COrtes. Little business was doing at the Bourse. On the 23d the Fives were done at 28 for cash, and 29/ for sixty days. The Paris Journals of Tuesday have all reached us. They publish a proclamation of the SuL- TAN, relative to the settlement of the Eastern question, which will be found in another column. Several officers in active service having recently published letters and pamphlets condemnatory of the pacific policy of the Government and of the discipline of the army, Marshal SOULT, as Minister of War, has addressed the following circular to the Lieutenant-Generals commanding military divisions throughout France : " Generals—lt is the duty of the army to give an example to the country of their respect for the laws which govern it. Nevertheless, some criticisms, more or less severe, against the constitution of the laws which govern our military organiza tion, have been inserted in the public journa's, and published in pamphlets signed by officers on active service. I have seen with a profound feeling of dissatisfaction this violation of the circulars issued on the 17th of July, 1835, and 13th of March, 1937, the strict observance of which circulars is so essential to military d:scipline. "_The officer who wishes conscientiously to perform:the du ties of his profession, may find sufficient food for the activity of his disposition in the attention which the welfare of the soldier, and the practical instruction of those under his com mand, incessantly demand; and if, after having faithfully performed all his du' ies, he ihould still find some leisure time, should he not employ it in adding to his acquirements in the art of wai., and thus rendering himself worthy of filling a su perior command ? " I trust that it will be sufficient for me to refer to the evil in order to arrest its progress. Should, however, military men persevere in new publications without the formal appro ba'ion and permission of superior authority, I shall not hesi• tate to apply to them the provisions of the law of the 19th of May, 1834, upon the officers of the army, by immediately re quiring the King to deprive them of their employments, inde pendcnt of the severe penalties which they may incur. " I invite you, Gene ra l, t o p ay attention that the orders which I hereby transmit to you be strictly executed, and to report to me on the instant the slightest infraction of them. " You will likewise have the kindness to acknowledge the receipt of the present communication, and to insert it in the order of the day of your division. " THE MARSHAL DUKE OF DALMATIA." Marshal VICTOR, Duke of Belluno, died of an attack of gout in Paris on Monday. During his illness he was daily visited by Peers, Mar shals, and the most eminent men of all ranks in France. He received all the rites of the Catholic Church with much seeming devotion. Private advices from Paris speak confidently of the success of the negotiations now going for ward, with a view to restore amicable relations between France and the Great Powers. Already has some progress been made in the formation of a-treaty for securing the independence of the Ottoman Porte, which France is to sign in con junction with Austria, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain : The Committee on the Fortifications of the Chamber of Peers yesterday appointed 111. Mother reporter by a majority of 4 to 3. The Committee decided by the same majority that an amend ment to the project of law voted by the Chamber of Deputies should be proposed, the object of which amendment should be the suppression of the continuous wall. It is probable that the public discussion will not take place before the 25th of this month. The Univers says, " Numerous complaints have been re ceived at the War-office respecting the late purchases of horses for our cavalry regiments. " The Minister of War has just ordered an extraordinary general inspection. Six Generals of Cavalry have received orders to set out immediately to inspect all the horses lately added to the regiments." M. Lucien D.---, a literary man, was arrested the day be fore yesterday at his residence, in the Rue Nntre Dame des Victories, accu , ed of belonging to a secret society, whose ob ject is the overthrow of the Government. A young student was also arrested yosterday on suspicion of being concerned in a plot. 'the National says The Chamber of Peera has sum moned us to appear at the bar on the Sth of this month. Five days later we shall have to appear bt fore the Court of Assize. It Kill be recollected that on account of the illness tf M. Delaroche and the indisposition of M. Marie, tte Court had adjourned our affair ti:l another Session. We have now received summonses for the 13th of March."—Le Con stitutionnel. The accounts of the inundation of the Rhone are more fa vourable. The letters from Avignon announce that the waters had begun to subside.— Le Commerce. BOURSE.—PAnix, TUESDAY, MARCEL 2 t irst Highest Lowest last Price Price. Price. Price French 5 per Cents ll3 45 ... 113 45 ... 113 25 ... 113 30 4 per Cents lOO ... 10) ... 100 .. 100 3 per Cents 77 10 . ;7 10 ... 76 83 ... '76 85 Bnni. o: trance eclgian Bank 5 per Cent,— lOl% ... 10116 ... 101!‘ ... mg 3 per Cents 7O ... 70 ... 70 ... 70 New Loan.... ..... Spanish Active... TS ... 25% ... 25 ... 25 Passive 6 ... 6 ... 6 ... 6 Portuguese 3 per Cents . 1 9 % ... lil% ... 19 5 4 ... 195 Neapolitan lOl 80 ... 101 60 ... 101 80 ... 01 80 RoMan • 100 k, ... 101,4 ICOII RAILWAY SHA RES. St. Germain Versailles.R. B 422 50 ... 422 50 - L. 8..... ....... Orleans . . 4BB 75 ... 400 488 75 488 75 Strasburg to Bale 243 75 ... 143 75 ... 24 - 2 50 . 24? 5e Montpellier to Cette Rouen 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 455 FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARR IVA LS. G. G. OuEeley Higgins, Esq., at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's street, from Ireland ; F. H. Cornewall, at the Cavendish Ho tel, J.?rmyn-street, from his seat, Delbury Hall, Ludlow ; Miss Fanning, at Ditto, from Bath ; Hcn. John Kennedy, at ditto, from Scotland ; William Featherston, Esq., at ditto, from ditto ; Mr. and Mrs. Morris, at ditto, from Paris. DEPARTURES. Captain and Mrs. Stratford Best, from the Cavendish Ho tel, Jerm)n-street, for Barbadoes ; Sir Montague Chapman, M.P., from ditto, for Southampton ; Thos. Redington, E'q., M.P., from ditto, for Ireland ; Messrs. R. and T. Nicholson, Esq., from ditto. for Liverpool. one. Mr. GIVI3G opposed the Bill. Secrecy, dis patch, and moderate prices were, he said, the best protection. He thought that the persons who supported the Bill would become the vie thus of the law, should it pass. lie agreed in the opinion that it NI/mild promote litigation, and on the whole, do a great deal more injury than good. Sir ROBERT PEEL thought the present exten sion of the copyright for three months was suffi cient, but, though he voted for the s - >cond reading, his opinion was not made up as the extent of , pro tection which ought to be afforded. Ile will con sider that, the main point, on the next stage of the Bill. Mr. WARBURTON would vote for the second reading, .but expected that in passing the details of the Bill they would encounter great difficul ties. As the authors and owners of patterns were not known, he suggested that they should estab lish a record of inventions, in order to enable the Judges to determine what was piracy; and that one or two years should be given to enable par ties to register their inventions. But even then the Bill would not be complete unless an inter national copyright was established. He objected also to the Bill, that it did not pro-vide a cheap method of trying the issue, and unless that were provided he should oppose the Bill in its subse quent stages. Lord F. EGERTO.T supported the Bill, because the majority of the respectable manufacturers of Lancashire was in its favour. Mr. LABOUCHERE thought a case had been made out for extending the term of protection, but at the same time he was afraid of injuring the export trade. He was for the period of six months; , and for sending the Bill into Committee. Mr. Hymn contended against the doctrine tha IGovernment and law could protect or pro mote trade. The French, he said, had more taste than our people, because th e y stud i ed pictures and statues from their infancy, w hil e our popblation were refused admission into We: t minsterAbbey or the Royal Academy, unless they paid for entrance. An Act of Parliam ent bad been passed to encourage the use of shoe_ buckles, and in five years afterwards the use of buckles was unknown. He could not understand Mr. WARBURTON'S distinction between copyright in books and copyright in designs he agreed, however, with him that the details of the Bill could not be worked out, and he therefore ould vote against it. In the end Mr. WILLIAMS did not press his amendment to a division, and the Bill was read a idad time, secon to be committe vro forma, on y. 11 )% On Mr. HODGES moving tO commit the Con stabulary Bill, Mr. F. 1114ixLE moved that it be committed in six months. There was already an Act of Parliament for vr9viding rural police, rt THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1841. LORD CARDIGAN'S TRIAL. ExrENsa of Fitting up and Furnishing the House of Lords for the TRIAL of the L•wfL of CARDIGAN, on Tuesday the ltith of February, 1841. Total Expense £990 2 0 DUNCANNON: A. MILNE. CHARLES GORE. COMPARATIVE MORALITY OF THE ENGLISH AND TRISIL—It was to be expected that Lord Morpeth's praise of the sobriety of Irishmen, of the chastity of Irish women, and of the patient endurance of all classes of the Irish, would ex cite the severe animadversions of the Protestant parsons' journals. Accordingly the Herald and Standard fall foul vehemently of the Noble Lord; the one satirizes him, and the other abuses him as a filthy slanderer. Softly, good Corn-law advocates; remember that you are stout assertors of the principle that an agri cultural population is much more virtuous than a town and manufacturing popula tion ; that the population of Ireland are almost exclusively agricultural and rural, and that the population of England are town and manufacturing, and then confess that your satire and abuse of Lord Morpeth are unfounded, or that you have asserted what is not true of the town population to uphold the iniquitous mono poly of the landlords. For our part, calling to mind the assertion of the Bishops, that our people are sunk in heathenism, while, accord ing to them, their religion alone can make men virtuous —remembering, too, the bad example set by the English clergy and the English land owners —having no faint recollection of the pic tures drawn of the morals of rural England by the Commissioners for Inquiry into the operation of the old Poor-law—and of manufac turingpafH oandie. reet tu.tahniiliesdheha: England iaipognpnandionithonour ooai olobnbferayEi obliged r t nett h agdh e lenaatadtotse:u:rdisNpev. ,Factories'phcsoilowsscan Commissioners—we etdm C N hvef o jeael s. m teeswrliL m oes aonrisreesadsrdrisecom_en taughtpto e wy ee s to prize from our very infancy, as the writers in the Herald and the Standard, but we cannot deny the accumulated evidence of fadts, and without pretending to judge of comparative morality, which is extremely difficult—for what is re sisted, as well as what is done, must be known— we are constrained to assert that the morality of England, under the rule of our honoured priesthood, and our worshipped landlords, is as low as it well can be. -scree', lincndia cr. EXTENSIVE FORGERY UPON THE BANK ENGLAND. —lt has been lately discovered that a robbery oir to the amount of 6,250/. bad been committed by means of a forged power d attorney on the Bank of nalannesl otfheFNriedwayThree-and-a it is said, a trustee. The forgery by lih e C s t h o r c is k t o takenpt er 0 u P t i c w a a r s d , in Half P per Cents , and Picard was, was committed some months ago, but aas not discovered until within the last few day?. On Thursday Picard was in town, and in such a state of health as to ly , unfit t 3 leave his room. He was, however, doctored up is such a manner as to be able to go out in a coach, and it is gene rally supposed that be h now on the Continent. The money was taken out at two different limo , . The delin quent also resided at No. 6, Highbury-green. A ward of of 1001. has been offered for his apprehension. . LLOYD'S SIIIPP;NG-(TiriS DAY. LownoN, Mancit 4.—Wind this clity at noon, N.W. Dx AL, MARCH 3. —Wind N.W. to N.N. E., moderate.— Arrived the Cora, Melville, from Rio Janeiro ; Orien, Pernam buco ; Harriet, Dobson, Milrush. Sailed the Royal Saxon, Lodge, fur Port Philip ; Glenelg. Biles, Bombay ; lame, Dron, Grenada; George Canning, Mustart, Savannah ; Rhode Island, Charleston; Neptune, Miller, Halifax ; Westmoreland, Whitehead, Saint John's, New Brunswick; Renfrewshire, Barnes, ditto; Superior, Dinning, Sierra Leone; Favourite, Brooks, Gibraltar ; William Brodrick, Hindmarsh, Sydney New South Wales ; John Graham, Cape of Good Hope. DOVER, MARCH 3.—Arrived the Wasp, Groves, from Limerick ; Edward and Mary, Wright, Westport : John Shel by, Bruchan, Yarmouth ; Agenoria, Shields, Bordeaux. PLYMOUTH. MARCH 3.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Eng land's Queen, Tulloeh, from Shields, for New York ; Charlotte, Muys, Antwerp ; Caroline, Williams, London, for Port Phillip, without rudder, and was damaged. Sailed the Sophia, An derson, for Amsterdam ; Agnes, Cobb, London. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 3.—Wind N.N.W.—Sailed the St. James, Sebor, for New York. DARTMOUTH, MARCH 2.—Arrived the Perseverance, Lewin, Shields, for Alexandria. FALMOUTH,MARCH 2. —Wind S.W. to W.N. W., strong and squally.—Arrived the Star, lnries. from Port-au-Prince. Sailed the Orientals, Log, for Alexandria. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 3.—Wind W. N.W., fresh —Arrived the Madonna, Miller, from Bombay ; Lyra, Swan, Demerara ; :Uinta States, New York ; John Taylor, Mallett, New Or leans; George Washington, Burrows, New York; Lady Falk- Tier, Halifax; Saracen, Dunkirk; Minerva, Ostend; Augusta, Jaghire, ditto ; Augusta, Kirkhouse, ditto ; Mary Ann Peters, Africa. A brig, with loss of spars, apparently abandoned, was passed on the 22d ult., in lat. 49, lon. 10. The wreck of the Governor Fenner was pas, , ed:yesterday near Holyhead, bear ing N.E. by E. 9 leagues, by . the Madonna, arrived here. TORBAY, MARCH 2.—Arrived the Nymph, Shields, from Oporto ; Avance, Hultman, London, for Mahawab. ` WHITSTABLE, MARCH 2.—A furth er quantity of wheat, about 30 quarters, has been landed here from the wreck of the Amelia. SCILLY, FEB. 24. Arrived the Gazelle, Laky, from Liver pool, for Naples, with loss of jib; Barbara Catherine, Un rough. Cork for Louvain ; Pomona, Davis ' London f o r Dub lin, Sailed the Gazelle, for Naples, March 2. The Barbara, Catherine, Unrough, from Cork to Louvain, which arrived here Feb. 26, drove into Sillary's Pool, struck the New Pier head on the beach, where she is beneaped. NEW YORK, FEB. I2.—Arrived Virginian, from Liverpool. DEMERARA.—Arrived previous to Jan. 21.—The Cam bridge, Dixon, from Liverpool ; Isabella, Thorpe, ditto ; Lady of the Lake, Stewart, ditto. Ready to sail the Sandback, for Liverpool ; Salys, ditto : Robertson, Clyde ; Isabella, Lon don ; Mary, ditto. NEW ORLEANS.—Arrived the Burlington, from Liver pool ; Barbara, Dixon, ditto ; Queen, I - Jameson, ditto. THE MARKATS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. There was little done, but prices were supported for all ar ticles. The arrivals were only to a small extent. Some large public sales have been declared. TEA MARKET. The operations were on a smallsCale,but prices were firm: In Company's Congou a good business has been done at Is. 7id. cash. TALLOW MARKET. The demand was dull, hut prices were maintained by the few holders of the larger stock in hand. P. Y. C. on the spot 46s to 46s 6d per cwt. WHITECHAPEL HAYMARKET. The supply was good, the demand brisk, and prices were well supported. Cover 41. 155. to 61. 6s. Meadow Hay 31. 14s. to Si. Si. per load. Straw in short supply, and prices firm at 40s. to 425. per load. MONEY and.COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. New Yot k Papers received this morning to the 14th Feb ruary, by the United States and Washington. M‘l.Eon ItinicrEn.—An extra from the office of the Lock port Democratic and Ballance, confirms the statement pub lished in our paper of yesterday, that the Grand Jury after being engaged two or three days in hearing the evidence against Alexander M'Leod, came into Court on Saturday last with a bill against him for murder. The Democratic adds that M•Leod will have to remain in gaol until the Court of Oyer and Terminer, to be held on the fourth Monday in March, unless a Special Commission may be issued by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. A Justice of the Supreme Court, or Court Judge, must in all casts be ap pointed to preside in such Special Court. Extract of a letter posted at the North and South American Coffee. house : " Office of Commercial Advertiser, Feb. 8. " I have unpleasant news to communicate to you. The United States Bank suspended payments last week, and other banks in Philadelphia followed the examp'e. Delaware Banks have also suspended. The United States Bank paid a large sum before its stoppage." SMALL NOTES.—" We are extremely glad to be able to state,". says the Philadelphia Standard, " that we have ju t learned from a gentleman direct from Harrisbourg, that not only every sound Harrison democrat, but also a large number of the friends of Governor Porter, are in favour of granting to the banks the privilege of issuing one, two, and three dol lar bills. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. THE BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH I.—The Bourse has been but little animated, without business, or variations in the funds. In Ardoin's some business has been doing, and it has improved ; it remains at 22h 3-16 ; Coupons, 21i. HAGUE, MARCH I.—Prices at Amsterdam—Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 50 7.16; Five per Cents. 971. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 3.—The trans actions in our Market to-day have been very limited. London and Birmineham, 17l ex div. ; Manchester and Birmingham, 241, ; Manchester and Leeds, 74 ; Ditto Halves, 32i ; London and South Western, 58; Liverpool and Manchester, 186; Union Bank of Manchester, 83 Bft; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 11. THE FUNDS, The important intelligence r?.C;ivcd this morning by the New York Papers of the Bth and 10th, of the suspension of the pay ments by the United States Bank, with several others in Phila delphia, which (=Fed a great decline in the Bank Shares, to 26, as well as a great confusion at the Exchan ge th ere , h as a l so had the effect to create a great sensation in the City, and more particularly amongst the American merchants and Shareholders of the United States Bank, who did not anticipate th e bl ow so soon, inconsequence of which they will be great sufferers The British Market, left off yesterday at 89a 1 for the Ac coun t ; Money, 88i 89 ; opened this morning at 891 for the Ac count ; Money, 88a a. with little doing as yet ; E xc h equer Bill s, 10 12 prem. ; Bank Stock shut; India Stock, 247 248. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active as it left off, 24* F, ; Deferred, 12g- ; Passive, 51 E;h ; Portuguese a shade better, 311 32 ; Brazilian, 711- 72i; Colombian, 231 4, also a shade better; Mexican, 281 29; Dutch Two-and-a -Half per Cents., 514 4 ; Five per Cents. 991 100. Shares.—Great Western, 24 25 prem. ; Ditto, New, 11 12 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 6* dis. ; Blackwall, 6 51 dis. ; Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 54 56i per share ; Croydon, 11 3 / 4 12* per share ; Greenwich, 8* 4 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 die, PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great Western Ditto New 50 62 Ditto Fifths lull and Selby London and Brighton London and Birmingham London and South Western 3Bi 55i... .. to fork and North Midland... PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN. MARCH 2. 3 per Cent. Consols , i Bank Stock ...... .. ......... _ Three and Half Stock 96J i Grand Canal St oc k ...... ... Ditto Reduced ... ... ... Ditto Debs. 6 p er cent. .••• Ditto New, 1830 97i Ditto 4 por cent....... ... 31 1 per Cent. Debs. HALF-PAST ONE. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WEDNE9DAY.—We have had an animated demand for Cctton to-day, chiefly for home consumption. The sales realise 5,000 bales, at Friday's quotations. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 3.—The following transactions comprise the business of the Stock Exchange this day. Eastern Counties deb. 4i ; Glasgow and Paisley, and Greenock, 20 ; Grand Junction, Half Shank:. 89 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares 27 3 / 4 ; ditto New Shares, 57k; 321. Shares 21 ; London and South Western, New, 18. According to the accounts from New York it appears that the United States Bank closed its doors at two o'clock in the afternoon of the 4th, on a demand of $lOO,OOO for specie ; the first demand of any considerable amount was f or $lO,OOO, which was paid. It is added, that the suspension of specie payment was caused by their continued disappointment in the receipt of large amounts of specie. The run was brisk tl.e whole of yesterday, and everything was promptly met until a few minutes before three, when a broker appeared with a de mand for $lOO,OOO in specie. Up to the present time we do not hear of any business doirg in the United States Bank Shares in the British Market, the holders being afraid to sell at present. A broker offered Si. for one hundred shares. • The British Funds, which left off yesterctty 891 I for the Account, have receded to 89 ; for money 84 in consequence of the intelligence from New York this morning, a 3 well as the Grand Jury having found a true bill against M'Leod for mur der Exchequer Bills 11 10 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; little done. _ _ _ In the Foreign Market little has been doing. Spanish Active, 24j 5 ; in Portuguese, nothing done ; Colombian, 2:35 ; Mexican, 285 ; Dutch Tw- and-a-Half per Cents. 505 ; Five per Cents., 100 995. In Shares also Lttle doing. Great Western, ex div., 89 ; New, 62 ex. div. ; Fifths, 95 5 ;I London and Brighton, 43 5 ; London and Birmingham, 170; South Western, 35/ ; York and North Midland, 80. HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.--The ordinary meeting was held on Tuesday afternoon ; Dr. Henderson Vice-President, in the chair. A communication was read from Dr. Horn, on a simple mode of destroying slugs by ga'- vanie action, consisting merely of a plate a copper and zinc in contact, and which was found very destructive to them wLen they touched either. The show of flowers was very good, amongst the most prominent being a collection of hya • cintbs in pots, planted in charcoal and sand, which had been watered by solutions of different salts of ammonia and other salts. These bulbs which had been supplied with' distilled water flourished well, whilst all the others wer: stinted in the growth of their flowers or leaves, showing that this bulb does not improve under artificial treatment. A very fine ccllection of camellias was exhibited by Mr Lumsden, gardener to Henry Bevar, Esq. The only frsi exhibited consisted of some fine lemons from Mrs. Har vmod, and some cf the phytalis eiulis fr an Mr. George Dow deswell. COMMERCIAL CODE.—A public meeting of the. inhabitants of Liverpool is called for Monday next, to take into c ons id erat i on the restrictions and prol,ib't,ons of our Commercial Code, and to determit.e upon all proper measures for obtaining such alterations therein as may ap pear expedient." It has been convened, purauant to requ - sitior, by the Mayor. WINDSOR.—It is rumoured here that it is not improbable her Majesty will either remain at Buckingham Palace, or proceed for a few days to Claremont , to s p end the Ea s t er h o lid ays. It was expected that the Court would h ave v i s i te d W i ndsor a f ew d ays before Easter Sunday, and have remained for a month or six weeks. Should the rumour prove correct, it will be a sad disappoipt m"gettonurnerous parties in the town. Notwithstanding out" stay the expense s which have been incurred by Princ e Albe.-t 1n the hunting department f f hi s s t gat Cumberland Lodge, it i s not expected that his Roya l Hi g hness wi 1 hounds. more this season with her Majest)'s buck- ROLLS COURT-(THIS DAY.) MOUSLEY V. CARR. This case came before the Court upon further directions. 'the bi'l was filed by the :representatives of Thomas Hard castle. There had been great litigation in the case, and the questions now argued were—first, whether with respect to the balance of 4 300/., which had been found due from the defen dant Mrs. Carr, who represented Mrs. Hardcastle, her estate ought to be charged with interest at the. rate of 51. per cent. The other question was with regard to the costs of the suit. The MASTER of the ROLLS said there had been no wilful misconduct on the part of the defendant. She had only acted upon an erroneous cons!ruction of a will, and could therefore only be charged with interest at the rate of 4 per cent. With respect to the costs, his Lordship could not say that she ought to be charged with costs, but did not think he could allow her any. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY. (OLD COURT.) (Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS. ) LOSS OF THE DRTAD. The Judges took their seats on the Bench at ten o'clock this morning, and immediately afterwards Patrick Maxwell Stewart Wallace was placed at the Bar. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then called Rowland Max well—l was mate of the brig Dryad, on the voyage from Liverpool to Santa Cruz. Captain Loose engaged me at Liverpool on September, 1839, for the voyage from Liverpool to Santa Cruz, from thence to St. Jago de Cuba, and from thence to Swansea. I was brought up to the sea, and have commanded a ship in the South American trade. I have often crossed the Atlantic, and am acquainted with the navigation of the West Indian Seas. I was in the ship's hold on the 4th September. There were a few cases of hardware and a few kegs of paint taken in that day ; they came with Zulieta's bills, and I signed them as ma'e. No goods were received from that time to the time the ship sailed. I am quite confident of it. I locked the ship up myself every night, and saw her again in the morning. Vi hen these goods were taken on board, one-third of her re mained unfilled. There were no crates of earthenware loaded on board after the 4th. There were no cases of any kind ex cept Zulietas goods taken on board, nor were there any tierces of beef, nor barrels of pork, nor firkins of butter, except what were for the ship's use, and they were on board previously. I saw the hold every day, and I am sure there were no more goods but on board except what came from Zulieta's. She was ready for sea on the 4th. We had two tierces of beef and four barrels of pork for the ship's use. It was scanty even for the outward voyage. It is usual for ships going such a voyage to be provisioned out and home both. lam sure the Dryad had not provisi ins for the homeward voyage. We went out of dock on the 6th and anchored in the river, and sailed on the 7,h. We had ten hands on board in all. We went round Ire land through the North Channel. We took Curlingford Light from the Irish coast. It is not unusual to go by the North Channel. Captain Loose directed me to get tackles rove and coiled into the long-boat, so that if she were wanted she might be got quicker into the water., We had not a long line when we sailed. I en d eavoure d to rep l ace it by making one of spun yarn, but it was too heavy. We had no proper log line during the voyage. I found the larboard pump was choked, the first time I endeavoured to sound. This was a short time after we were at sea. I tried to clear it out, but could not. I told Captain Loose of it. He said nothing particular. That pump was never made to suck. I applied to the Captain to be allowed to make use of the chro nometer, but was not allowed. It would have assisted me in ascertaining the ship's longitude. W e pursue d our course to the West Idia Seas. I had never been at Santa Cruz. There is generally a track laid down on charts as a guide. Captain Loose deviated from it about longitude 59 west. He then steered to the northward. We first made land at Virgin Guards. I saw the land there. I told the Captain. He came on deck, remained about five minutes, and went below again. Shortly after I saw breakers ahead, denoting a reef and low land beyond. We were about five miles from the breakers. I went down and told the Captain. I found him in bed. It was between six and seven in the morning. Benjamin Shultz was at the helm. I told him I could see breakers ahead and low land He got out of bed and went up on d ec k. I or d ered the man at the helm to put the helm down to let the ship come round, and keep her off the breakers. The Captain ran to the wheel and hove the helm up again. It put the ship direct on for the breakers. Captain Loose was himself at the wheel then, and remained a short time. Hunter and Simpson, two of the crew, came into the waist, and complained to the Capt&n. They said if he would not put her round, they would take charge of her and put her round themselves—they were not going to be lost. The Captain on that left the wheel. shultz again took the wheel and put the helm down again, and the ship came round. The ship just cleared the breakers, and Dolling more. In a few minutes she would have been on shore. When she came round, the Captain said he did not think she was so near. He told me at first to mind my own d --d business, and take the studding sails in. That was when he first came on deck. When she came round, he said he would have me tried for mutiny for taking charge of the ship from him. This was on the 17th of October. On the 19th we were on the Silver Keys. This was on the north of St. Domingo. The way I have generally gone is by the south of St. Domingo, between Antigua and Guadeloupe. It is the usual way. Supposing a ship going to the north, she ought to have kept near the shore to have avoided the Silver Keys. When there I saw a rock between six and seven in the morning, on the larboard bow. I mentioned it to the Captain, who was below. He came on deck. I printed out to him the rock—it was easily to be discerned. He said he could not see it. He had his telescope in his hand. The water a, head was discoloured, which indicates a shoal in those seas. One of the crew from the fore-yard called out, " Rocks 'under the fore-foot." I Tan forward, and the Captain likewise. I saw the rock. Captain Loose said, We are lost, we are lost, we are all lost." Immediately after this the ship struck. She remained fast for about twenty minutes. He ordered the jolly boat to behove overboard, and we got tackles to the long boat to save ourselves. After about twenty mi nutes she dragged off. She had suffered no perceptible in jury; she made no water. After going a short distance, she struck another reef, and dragged last that. The Captain was in the cabin during the time putting a life preserver on. From the second rock we dragged off the rudder was disabled. We then pinned the sails to keep her before the wind. I ap plied to the Captain for the main-boom or the spritsail-yard to make a temporary rn 'der, which he refused. We had no spare spars on board. He said we were in a nice pred , carnent, a ship at sea without a rudder', and that it would have been better to have gone on shore at Ann Guarda. The carpenter made a temporary rudder of studding sail-booms and plank. It assisted in steering her. On the 20th we made St. Do mingo, the harbour of Port au Plat; we proceeded close along the land until the 22d. It would have been better to have had a better officer, as we were sometimes so near as to be elmost among the breakers. On the afternoon of the 22d Oct. we were close in with a reef that lies off the harbour of Cape Hayti. The jury rudder unshipped. The Captain gave ordsrs to keep her out to sea again. He asked me what I thought was best to be done. I told him there was no danger to run into the harbour. The wind was fair for it. He told me to go forward and call Davis, the second mate, and Shultz, the carpenter, to know their opinion. They said the harbour was before us, and they thought we might get in. The Cap tain said he would not—ho had no pilot on board, and if any thing happened to the vessel he would lose the insurance. I told him the only plan then was to keep to sea that night, re place the jury rudder, and to stand in in the morning, and get a pilot with the sea breeze in the morning. The Captain went to bed at 8 o'clock. I saw a sail on the larboard quarter at nine o'clock. I told the Captain, who came on deck. I said she looked like a large ship, and was probably a man of war, who could give us assistance if we were to run down to her. We could have easily done it ; we could have gone down before the wind. The Captain would not allow it; he said we wanted nothing with her. He went to bed again, and told me to call him at 12 o'clock. At day break we were to the south east of the entrance of the Port. We saw a ship a little to the larboard of the entrance at day break. We were then steering towards the reef. I could see the breakers a few miles off. The Captain was on deck about 7 o'clock. The Dryad was then steering the course he had ordered when he left the deck previous. The ship we saw to the northward fired a gun. She was the Bencoolen, Captain Fike. I un derstood the meaning of the firing the gun to be to warn us that we were in darger. The Bencoolen had a signal flying for a pilot. We had none. I proposed to hoist one, and Captain Loose said that if they were toe lazy to come off without a signal :et them step where they were. The Dryad kept on the same course until a pilot came on board. It was almost a calm. I told captain Loose the ship to the north had fired a gan and hoisted a signal. He said that was nothing to him. He was below at that time. It was about eleven o'clock in the forenoon when the pilot came on board. The captain called him aft, showed him the jury rudder, and asked him if he would take charge of the vessel He said he would if the crew would work the ship in. lhe pilot came from the Bencoolen, and waived a flag all the way. It was about three miles. The meaning of waiving a flag was for us to bear down towards her. We did not do so. The cap tain was on deck, and saw the signal, but did not alter his course. The pilot hailed, and asked where we were going with the vessel. We were about half-a-mile from the breakers, but we went very little through the water, it was so calm. On the 23d of October we went into port. I left the Dryad at Hayti, on the 2,1 of November. I assigned a reason to Captain Loose. I went on board the Bericoolen. I was paid my wages all except 2/. by Captain Loose, which 21. ought to be paid in Liverpool. he course the Dryad took to port Hayti was a deviation from what I consider the proper track. The track she took was dangerous in many places, and by keeping the proper track she might have avoided these dangers. There was nothing in the wind or weather to force her so near the shore. There was no occasion or necessity for it. I was not afraid, but I had always my suspicions. Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS—I did not sleep any last night. I passed the night in a room in a house. I did not inquire if it was the station-house. I rather doubt that it was. I think it was, but I did not inquire. I had no curiosity about it. It was an unusual thing for me to find myself in a strange room. There were men and women there. The men had coats and trousers.—(A laugh.) Some of them had blue coats with figures on them. Mr. PHILLIPS—Were they policemen? I did not ask them.—( A laugh.) Mr. PHILLIPS—Do you know who the gentleman was who came into that passage yesterday shouting as loud as could be ? —I have been told Mr. PHILLIPS—Do you know who it was ?—I am only very sorry that I should have taken an extra glass of wine. I took it in a public-house by myself. I paid for it myself. I got nothing from any friends of the prisoner. I was nut taken up on this charge myself. ➢lr. PIIILLIPS—Were you not taken into custody by the prosecutors ?—No, Sir. Not on the 2il of November ?—I was on bail. Mr. PHILLIPS—Were you not in custody of an officer before that ?—I was never in confinement. I do not know whether I could have gone away. I never tried. Bail was cfrerod for my appearance before it was asked. 'Mr. PHILLIPS—Did you come in a state of drunkenness to the Mansion-House to give your testimony ?—I might have been a little merry. Mr. Pitiwrs —Merry before Sir Peter Laurie, cracking jokes wi h the Magistra'es, hey! Were you nut confined all night for your merriment ? I was taken fb the Compter. Aly belief would Le that the Captain is alive. I hale heard several times that he was dead. There are authorities at Cape The Dryad remained there under repairs two or three weeks. PIIILLIPS—Did not the Captan when on the Silver Keys c,ll out to clear away the boats ?—lfe did. The jolly boat was then bottom upwards in the long boat. There was no tackling in the long boat ; we had to get it in. I told the Cap tain we could easily get a jury rudder made that would take us into port. We were th en a b out 200 m i les from Cape Hayti. I gave my opinion to the Cantain that Cape Hayti was the best port for its to go to. I asked the Captain what we should take to make a jury rudder of, as there were no spare spars. The Captain said that I should not take the boom, but that if the car penter could make anything of the studding-sail booms he should have them • and the carpenter made a jury rudder ac cordingly. O n the 22d the straps of the jury rudder gave way. 'We %%ere close to the reef then. We trimmed the sails so as to keep her off and get her head to sea, by the Captain's or ders. We were then about four miles from the harbour. We hart not a signal flying for a pilot when we made the harbour in the morning. If I ever said so, it was not a fact. I do not think I ever did s ay so . I saw Mi c h a el Wallace at Liverpool. He was very seldom away from the Dryad. Loose was often in hie company. I should not judge the Dryad to be capable of carrying 300 tons dead weight ; she might of measurement goods. . _ - Re-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—No chasge was ever brought against me o f b e i ng concerne d i n cas ti ng away the Dryad. I was taken into confinement because having ' taken a glass of wine before Michael. Wallace was taken, I, in a jocular way said, I thought 1 knew where he was. I was tipsy yesterday. When at sea I never taste either wine or spirits. I was never the worse for liquor from the time I left Liverpool until I reached Port. Hayti. I have heard that Cap tain Loose sailed from Montego Bay, in Jamaica, to America. When on the Silver Keys, if the Dryad had not got off, there would have been no difficulty in getting off in the boats, and going to Hayti.— We 'could have got the boat s a fl oa t i n from ten to fifteen minutes. The studding sail booms were not fit naater:als for making a jury rudder, the main boom or the sprits sad yards would have been best. 'f hey could have been spared for that distance. The Bencoolen was not in a position of danger, and the Dryad might have been where the Bencoolen was at daylight in the morning. We were two miles from the breakers, and going towards them when the Captain refused to allow the signal to be made for a pilot. By the JUDGE—I was asked by the Captain to take brandy with him in his cabin, but I did not. Benjamin Shultz—l was carpenter on board the Dryad in 1839. I arrived about 17 days ago in England from the coat of Africa. I was engaged by Captain Loos* for the Dryad. She was poorly found in point of provisions. and in point of spars and gear generally. The Captain tad me to keep the long-boat always in good order, so as to be ready for sea at once. I always kept two too's in the boat by the Captain's orders. I was at the wheel when she hove in sight of Anne Guarda. I saw breakers, and called Maxwell. He ordered me to put the ship a',out, and then he went to the Captain. I put her head round ; before that she was going right towards them. The Captain came on deck, and cursed me, and asked me who gave me orders to put the ship about He pushed me away, hove the helm up again, and brought her head towards the reef again. I told the Captain I took the orders myself, and that I was not going to run the ship upon the reef in broad daylight. The crew then came all aft upon the quarter deck, and inquired of the Captain what he had a mind to do. He went to the cabin ; I went to the helm, and the crew braced the yards that I might put the helm down again. She went away, and cleared the rock very closely. If she was two minutes longer she would have gone fast on the rocks. Two days after we saw the Silver Keys. I told the mate, who called the Captain. The Captain said he could not see the breakers or rock; they were plain enough to be seen. The man on the foreyard shouted oat. The Captain was on deck. About five minutes after the man shouted the vessel stuck. The Captain was very frightened at the time, and was shouting out, " What shall we do lads? we are lost." 'I he trial was proceeding when we went to Press. GOMPERTZ 77. ANSDELL.—The Vice-Chan cellor yesterday granted a rule to change the venue in his suit from Exeter to London. in crler that the plaint ff may have the testimony of the metropolitan physicians. When the last trial (for there have already been three) took place at Exeter, some of the London accoucheurs re fused altogether to go down, and others required enormous compensation. Sir J. Clarke and Dr. Arnott declined at tending. Dr. Locock required 100 guineas a day, and his at tendance would be necessary for not less than seven days. Dr. Davis, Dr. Merriman, and others, made simile , ee. mauls. The suit involves property of a vast amount, and tie point to be ascertained is the legicimacy or illegif mccy of Henry Gulling Isaac, born about the year 1783. It is a fine subject for the lawyers, and they will to sim pletons it they allow it to be settled without at least Ore; trials mire. MACKAREL SEASON.—A mackarel boat came into Brighton on Sunday evening with a cargo of up wards of 12,000 mackarel. They were immediatdy pur• chased for the London market, by M. Griffin, a fishmon ger here. The lucky fisherman is John Andrews, who, about a month since, drew upwards of 15,000 I The present cargo fetched upuards of 150/. The ve.scl is a new one, making her first voyage, and so quirk a sail r that she male the passage from Plymouth in about 24 hour , . She brought very satisfactory news from the litt e fleet, most of the beats having been pretty succes4al. One, however, had been doing a little in the " free trade," and the adult portion of the etc', were committed to prison. This circumstance has induced a very sharp look-out here. It is stated that the mackarel fleet con sists of about 45 from Hastings, 26 from Brighton, the same number from Worthing, and about 20 from the Cornish coast. The litter, hoe ever, do not make the best hauls. LETTERS BY RAILROAD.—One of the most interesting portions of this lung chain of vehicles is the huge caravan-looking machine which follows in the rear of all the' carriages, and which reminds one of the old days of Cross and Exeter change. On peeping into it, an oblong square, well lighted and fitted up with g ieon.holel on every si le, she Ives and tables, presents itself, the di ect purport of which is very soon made manifest, by the irttfo duction of unwieldy and foul leathern bags, crammed full of letters, which are being dragged in by men in the post office liserirs ; while the oFeretion of sorti , g the sail letters is going on within. Mating the progress of the train, smaller letter-bags are krined out of the larger ones, which, being afterwards hung outsile the caravan in some opportune plat pro'ec ed by a net-work, are, upon alival at certain ix' ts on the road, snatched off without any detentim by a simple machine, whose alertness is ne.er at fault ; and they are conveyed t the le:pectin offices in the r.eighbourhood fur distribution.—Granville's Spas of England. FRUITS OF GOING TO LAW.—The Thack wray spring, or No. 5, has acquired a notoriety far supe rior to its c!lebiity, from the circumstance of its having been the subject of legal contention between certain pro prietnrs of lintels at Harrogate, and the person who claimed to be sole owner of it. That contention, for which great preparations had been made in t:•;e way of seentific evidence on both sides (never use i, and lightly paid for), and a still mere. formidable array of legal talent brought up (too much used a ‘cl too heav ly paid for), ter minated, as such cases generally tern iva e, in tie men at law gaining everything, and the litigants noth.ng. The plaintiffs, who gai.ied the cause, hid to disburse 1,325/. 7s. 3d. fir the it victory, towards which sum the visitors, who, the lawyers contended, must feel the deepest interest in the cause, contributed the magnificent quota of 14/. 2s. I And the defendant, who secured the nominal ownership of the well, died (probably cf broken I.en-t) a few months after the assizes I.—Grano/Iles Spas of England. LIBERALITY OF THE QUEEN.—There is in the Phoenix Park a Military School for the education of the children of deceased soldiers. This school had been It:therto conducted upon ah it the Orangemen would call " true Protestant principles." It appears, as the sequel showed', that many of the boys were unhappy at the esti angement fom that form which they wet e taught to lisp, and worship even in infancy ; and that occasion was taken by one of the most intel igent of them to communi ewe with a cle gpmer f the Catholic Church, who there.. upon applied to Lord Ehrir won, who promptly ordered an inquiry into the consii , ot on and practice of the schod. Tt.e Rev. Mr. O'Sullivan, brother to Ilittrly, refused to admit the Catholic boys to ccmmunica'e with a Popish of course, and insisted on the original charter. Lord Ebrington wrote directly to the Queen, and hcr Ma jcsty--God bless her--r yoked the old charter, granted a new ore ia aceordaece with the spirit of the Emat.c . pation Bill, the consequence of which was that Mass was cele brated in the ary School yesterday, fir the first time since its establishment. --Dublin Pilot. FIRE AT TIIE VICTUALLING YARD, DEPT FORD.—Between the hours of twelve and o. e on Tue day forenoon considerable sensation eat created amongst the inhatitants residing at Deptford by the outbreak of an alarming fire in her Majesty's Victualling Yard, which for a time threatened serious consequences. It come e.tced in a large kiln, a brick building about thirty feet in he'ght, used in preparing oats for oatmeii. The instant the di.- covery took I lace the abler) bell was rung, and the whole of the military, police, and labourers engaged in the yard, as well as in the Royal Dockyard adjornieg, were ordered immediate) , to the spot. The engines belonging to the establishment, eight in number, were instantly brought to p'ay on the flames. The Victualling Yard gates were closed on the discovery taking place, and the greatest re r .cy was manifested, but the hews of the fire soon spread all over Deptford, and hundreds of persons hastened to the spot immediately. On its bring known by the metropo litan police, a mounted express was despatched to London, and in the course of an hour returned with the brigade engines from Southwark-bridg, -road and Watling-street and other stations b, loegiog to that force. In the interval, however, the fire was got under, and its ravages confined to the kiln. The fire was caused by the overheating of the furnace under the kiln, and the building is not insured. FIRE AT COLNBROOK.—AII alarming fire broke out I), t ween two and three o'clock on the morning of Monday last, at the Crown lan, at Colebrook. The ft IaWS were first discovered by the police issuing from the eindows of a bedroom on the first floor, in which, it subsequently appeared, some sheets and other linen had been left to air before a stove when the inmates retired t rest. The landlady, Mrs. Pike, with the family and several lodgers, had just time to effect their escape. In the alarm which prevailed at the first outbreak of the fire, two men, who had engaged a bed for thainight, jumped out from an upper window, one of whom escaped with only some sl , ght bruises; the other fell upon a horse water-trough beneath the window, and broke two of his rib., he s:des sustaining other injuries. An express was imme• diately sent to Windsor (a distance of nearly six miles) for the town engine, and within less than half an hour the engine was at Colnbrook, where it rendered the most essen tial service in storping the prog. ess of the flames. The fire was fortunately confined to the centre of the inn, which was completely gutted ; and the roof fell in about an hour after the tire was discovered, leaving the two wings unconsumed. The flames were got under about five o'clock, and shortly after that time all danger was over. Some portion of the furniture was saved, but a sum of money, consisting of SOL in notes and 30 sovereigns, which was in a chest of drawers, was steted to have been lost by the landlady. The drawers were found after the fire, filled with a quanfty of linen partly consumer', but no trace of the money could be discovered. The whole of the stabling , fortunately escaped. The stock of beer was likewise preserved, and also the prncipal portion of the wines and spirit:. The property is insured in the Sun Fire Office to the full amount of the damage sustained. HATTERS' TURN-OUT.--On Friday and Satur day last the finishers, roughers, and dyers in the hat menu facto. ies established at Oldham, AAston, Stcckport, and the vs hole neighbourhood of Manchester generally, turned out, as a consequence of their not agreeing to the terms proposed by tl.e employers in their line of busineig. The reduction, they assert, would be equivalent to 4d. per hat, or 2J. 61. per week, or about 16 per cent, on their earnings. There are about 300 hands out in Ashton alone. They repreieht themselves as having a strong fund, to which upwards of 5,000 hands have been contributing 10d. per week each during many years, there being about 7,000 in the trade in this neighhbourhood. They bad best take care of their fund, for if the Chartist spouters get to hear of it they will flock towards it as surely as ravens crowd around rian.—Manchester Chronicle. HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAG2R.---It is the intention of her Majesty to give a seties of dinner parties at Marlborough House, before her Majostj'a depar ture for Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire, where that amiable ornament to Royalty purposes to pass the Easter hclidayp. Cards have been issued by Earl Howe, Chamberlain to her Majesty, for grand dinners to-day and on Saturday se,k. —Morning Pose. EVENING EDVI4IOI4. PAItLIAMEN TA ItV DIV) sioNs (From:the Yates and .Proceedings of the flomro y Co "" as.) WY .11ESDAY, RCSI 3. CHELSEA POIJII, 6.c BILL. Motion made, and Question proposed, 4 , That the Bill be now read a second time :"—Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at t .e end of the Question to add the words " upon this day three weeks :"—Qu.stion put, " 1.14 t the word now' stand part of the Question."—The House divided : Alton, R MAJORITY-AYES, 32. Estcourt, T. G. B. PhlMptrlT, J. P. Fiizalan, Lord Rolleston, Colonc i Freshfield, J. W. Round, C. U. Gr.:ham, Sir J. &union, Lard Hill, Lord kM. C. Shirley, J: E. Hodgsoir, F. Stuart, W. Wie' H Imes, W. A'Courll Tennent, J. E. Hope, 11. I'. Waddington, H. g. Hughes, W.B. Kelly, F. Lockhart, A. M. Neeld, Joseph Bannerman, A. Barnard, E. G. Ileacley, F. H. Broadwood, H. Chichester, J. P. Chute, W. L Clive, R. H. Conoily, Colonel Dalrymple, Sir A. Denison, W. J. I)undas, F. TELLER!). Rvng, Ceirge Wood, Colonel T . Banbridge, E. T Baldwin, C. Blur) , Brocklehurst, J. limthertoti, J. Po t ; John Gi.bortie, T. :NORITY-NOES, G ring, H. D. crinisuitch. 1. • He.•tor, C'. J. Hoskins, K. Lennox, Lord A. Roche, W. Rundle, John T ,riser, W. TILLER 9. Pechell, captain Daliconabe, 'l'. S. CONSTABULARY BILL. Order for Committee read ; Motion made and Question pTio postd,—" That Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair : -- Amendment proposed, to leave cut from tho word , 4 Th a t," to the end of the Question, in order to add the words, " this House will upon this day six months, resolve itself into the said Committee," instead thereof Question put, " That the. words proposed to be left oui stand part of the Question The House divided : Bailey, Jos ph, jun. Bethell, R. Bolling, W. Briscoe, J. I. Broadley, H. Broadwood, Henry Bruges, W. H. 1.. Q. Egerton, W. T. Godson. R. Grimsditcli, Thomas HaWord, H. Harcourt, G. G. NORI TY-AYES, 36. Hepburn, Sir 'l'. B. Richards, It . rindley, Charles Rolleston, L. H idgson, Richard Rushbrook, Colonel Hughes, W. B. Sinhorp, Colone Hurt, Francis Tennent, J. E. Jervis, J. Thompson, Aki Johnson, General Turner, Edmund Knatchbull, Sir F.. Wilbraham, G. 'lnc Kenzie, W. F. Williams, W. Muntz, 0. F. Worsley, Li.rd Palmer, Gecrge TaLI.ERS. Parker, It. 'l'. Hodges, T. L. Pechell, Captain Miles, W. Ahercromby, G. R Aglblitty, H. A. A nswort It, Pe er .rchbuld, Robert Baker, Edward Barnard, E. a tt wee, 'l. , JORI T Y-NOES, lleathcote, Sir W. Hodgson, Frederick Hoskins, K. Howard, I'. H. • Hume, J. Humplery, J. Hutt, W. James, IA illiam Jervis, Swynfen Kelly, Fitzroy Lennox, Lord A. • Lushington, Hun. S. Marsland, H. Morris, David Murray, A. Morpeth, Viscount Noireys, Sir D. J. Power, James Pryme, 6. Rice, E B. Roche, W. Roche, Sir D. Rose, Sir Georg* Round, C. G. Stanley, E. • Stansfieltl,tlW. R. C. Stewart, James Style, Sir Char les Tanered, H. W. Thornely, Thomas Turner, William Wak ley, Thotato Warburton, IL Wemyss.. J. C. White, A. IVinnington, sir T. Wyse, Thomas TELLERS. Maule, Hon. PO Sanford, E. A. Bowes, J. Brotherton, J. Buller, Sir J. Y. Campbell, Sir J. Chichester, J. P. B. Clay, W. Collier, John Duke, Sir James Evans, W. Ewart, W. Ferguson, Colonel Gisbor Ile, T. Gordon, Robert Hastie, A. Westminster Sewers,—Address for copies "of a Decree on the Counter's Creek District, and a Decree on the Ranelsgh District, as signed, sealed, and delivered, in and by the Court of Sewers for the City and Liberty of Westminster and part of the county of Middle, , ex, on the 2d day of March 1841. " SETTLEMENT OF THE EASTERN QUESTION. PROCLAMATION BY THE SUBLIME PORTE. o It has been announced, in No. 216 of the Official Gazell e, that Mehemet Ali had offe re d hi s su b m i ss i on to the Sultan. His Highness, with that goodness, proofs of which be n ever , refused giving to the Pacha, sent Atasloum Bey, Member of the Supreme Council, with a Government steamer, to si r onlY to the Pacha, that if his submission was real and immediate' his Highness would deign to confirm him in the governaleb of Egypt. " Yaver Pacha, invested with powers to receive the fleet , accompanied Masloum Bey. " They proceeded to Alexandria, and full explanation was given to Mehemet Ali Pacha, in a despatch addressed to Ili° by the Grand Vizier. " The Viceroy, agreeable to his engagetent, consigned the fleet v t Masloum e and Yaver Paell the day after the'r arrivao er l ; he o then despatched the necessary a written orders fel delivering up the ho:y cities to the Turkish authorities, and furnished every means in his power to make the fleet leave the port of Alexandria within the allotted time. Ibrahim Paella , on his side, has also totally evacuated Sy r i a . " These facts having been make known to his Highness on the return of Maslcium Bey, and Meheinet Ali Pacha havleg, renewed in his reply to the Grand Vizier in the s.rongest an u most solemn manner the assurance of his submission and 0 10 :: dience, the moment for the execution of the promises of his Highness has arrived. This ready compliance with the order: of Ins Sotereign relative to what was agreed on lla y bean satisfactory to his Highness, who takes delight to giving proofs of the kindness of his disposition hi treating all his servants with proper consideration, and who' considering past circumstances as hating never - existed, bar deigned to grant a generous pardon to Mehemet Ali Paella, le well as to his whole family, servants, and adherents; and, siring that the effects of his clemency should extend even to-at e children, his Majesty the Sultan has been pleased to confer on the said Pacha the government of Egypt for him and his helve' " However, as the grant of this heirship must naturally b• subject to certain indispensable conditions, and as the Sultan , the Governor, no less than the inhabitants of Egypt, bAng st.ll the subjects of the Sublime Porte, must still continue he watch over the tranquillity and welfare of that G overnment,h e has thought fit to adopt just and proper measures to attain that ea' These essential conditions, and all the causes arising there from, have been decided, and, with the help of the IMe t High, within a few days an Envoy froth the Sublime Porte will be charged with the execution of the resolutions adniltr d on the subject. " The Egyptian question having been happily terminat ed ' the Imprial fleet is now performing quarantine in Marmoriee Bay, and will proceed hither with the first fair wind, as soon a s that ceremony, which is almost over, shall be terminated. " 1 his affair having b ee n, t o a cer t a i n d egree , a cause 01 uneasiness for some time past, the present Proclamation has issued, in order to inform the public that the affair been arranged in a suitable manner. " Feb. 4, 1841." THE LATE FIRE AT WYN.YAIip HOUSE. --- Immediately on the arrival cf Lord Seaham at Wynyard, hursday last, an investigati on was i ns tit u t e d f or th e purpose,. of ascertaining th e t rue cause o f die destruction of that ancre e ' and prince'y . mansion. The head gardene r , it seem s, had the fires alight in the conservatory or, the day previous but a° more so than ritual, and at the time of leaving the ' buildiflg there were no indica'ions of a fire raging in the flues. On Friday last Lord Seaham, with several gentlemen, we nt . over the ruins and examined the walls of the chapel and Or servatory, in the hopes of disco vei i ng some p roo f o f t h e re el° origin of the fire ; but none could be found. ll , s LordshiP' however, learnt that a short time since one of the flues eon' netted with the conservatory was either cut into or blocked U P to admit of the alterati ons i n th e c h ape l, an d t h e gener al ifi l pressiun entertained i s th a t some tinicer had been felt expo sed in the flue, and had caught fire by tho action of the heat frog the furnaces und er th e conserva t ory , an d h a d smouldered untu reaching the rafters that supported the gallery near the orgel loft, and then b urs t i n fl ames . Th e d estruct i on o f C am berwe old church some few weeks back was under precisely simi lar c:rcumstances. The amount of property destroyed is estimated at Letweg i l 100,0001. aid 150,0001., and we hear th a t it w ill be a tot al loss to his Lordship, he being, it is stated, wholly uninsure d- ' The fact, however, cannot be precisely known until his Lora: ship's retu r n t o E ng l an d, w hi c h i s expecte d i n t h e l a tt e r en? , of the present month. Some idea may be furmed of the ex tent of the mansion from the following description :—The tut e gallery was 145 f t et lo ng an d 60 feet in breadth, and uPi wards of 40 feet in height ; the principal dining-room was 5 ,, e feet in length, '2O feet in depth, and Z-0 in h e i g ht ; the lar drawing-room was 60 feet long, 56 in breadth, and 28 high ; and the second drawing-room was about the saP dimensions. The different apartments mere most gorgel'; fitted up. The decorati o n s a l one cos t 40,0001. Among l ; choice e xo ti cs th a t were it, the conservatory, and which le pe sacrifice to the flames,_ were several splendid o r ange trees, 0 ,,°"„ the favourites of the Empress Josephine, p resen t e d t o the Nis' chioness a few years ago. THE COMMISSIOIIERSHIPO F THE CIT Y POLICE. —We are authorised to contradict in the most quallital manner, the report thr.t M-. D. W. Haney wt • about to te:ign the office of Commissioner of the C' t i Police, and to stata that Mr. Harvey never contempla t ' - such a thing as the. resigns Lion of the office. It has bt come necessary ti make tt.,is statement from authority, a s several gaatlemen have been t ansas:ing . very acthely fit the situation, The Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital hal determined to "remove," a li as a b o li s h, th e f e male svh9 ° attached to that hospital. No doubt the.e are good 0 6 " sons for so doing. A circul ar lette r h as b een se nt to a ls • parents or rela'ives of the children, requiring theta t 2' state it they are willing to withdraw the child nag ss therein on receiving the sum of 121. a y ear f or t h e time 1, " „ .. ; girl wculd be allowed to remain in the school, and give 7,„ undertaking that she shall be sent to a school in the nog bourhood of her residence. This wo consider a l ei f sn 'i liberal allowance and prop er regu l at i on ; for t h e fieuv",, charges of a child of a sailer or marine would prob abl y not cost more than 40s. a year, and the rest of the Moil will go towards food a nd ra i ment. W heie a g i r l vlOu l „ be entitled to be in the school four years, this allowan c : will he a great boon. In the circular it does not, bore!" say what will he done with the child if the offer of 1 24 $ year is not accepted.— United Service Gazette. THE BOOK W ITHOUT A NAME.—There o re s few books which appeal so e ff ectua lly to a ll t as tes as Ta e Sir Charles and Lady M o r gan — o ddly en titled Book without a Name 1" The lovers of good eating w l f find their favourite subject di scusse d w i t h t h e r esearch ° a scholar, and the spirit of a gourmand. To those wh o delight in pictures of society, the work offers the amu sio i Memoirs of the late Dowager Lady Cock's celebrated Macaw, and several other " bits"' equally entertainieg! whilst such as find peculiar att rac ti on i n su bjects of " ti e quarian interest may turn to several chapters wherein sou: of the most attrac:ive are pre s ented to the reader r e p lete with the most valu a bl e historical illustrations. In sl t r i; these clever writ ers seem d es i rous o f prov i ng n ot only I v readily they c an t urn " f rom grave to ga y, from liv e to severe," but how pleasaotly they can make their I;r'"''' vity gay, and th e i r severity vely. The reader will b° sure to find in the volumes a great fund of ammiernent.. Lord Vent r y h as o b ta i ne d t h e Q uee n's perfil ls : 7 si'rn to reassume the ancient family name of " De Moleyes, a which the name of " Mullins" it a corruption. 'rb e family trace their descent from Sir Guiscard de Molengv Lord of Henley, in Oxfordshire, in the reign of Henry lb and afterwards of Burnham, in Oxford: In reference to a paragraph in the Court Circular of this day, we a r e t o ld that the objects of the deptLfat • from the Western Australian Company, and the `call mince of the Aborigines Protection Soeictv, were to the attention of the Cclot ia!-ctliee to the jus tice sad necessity of providing for the natives cut of their l an e. ceded to the new c.ilony, a sufficient roe,ve to St i l . the means cf their peaceful existence; and to ask the duly tion cf Lord J. Russell to the appointment of a press at P"tl..l"Ft sate ens :e to inquire on the ot into the " state of , he AborOrei, their rsLtions with the set and 'he security of tl.eir rights and welfare. Members of Parliarocot for the city. —Times. Lau i r l i E e P w ß il E l s be EN pu T t A i . n r InOotNninTionLaOtNtpheONne—xt ScilreCtroeol