The Sun. — London, England, 1841-03-27 00:00:00

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The Kto:;hts Grand Crosses assemble i and wrre robe in the Mantles and Colars of the Order ia the Gaiter !!` ( ")tn, and afterwa r d s p asse d t o th e G r e en Dr;..eiig Room where they were called over by Bah King of Arma. The Knights Grand Crosses present were, Lord Hill, ' • visc-unt Palmerston, Earl of Nlinte, Sir Hussey Vivian, o.„ and the Earl of Clarendon. The Officers of the Order tesent in th ir Mantles and carrying their Badges were ass th King of Arms, Algernon F. Grey lie, Esq., Offi cer of Arms, attendant on the Kr ights Commanders, Sir William Woods, K H., and the Deputy Registrar and le ,,, cr i 'tarY, Albeit Wiliam Woods, Esq. "Q Queer: and Prince Altert, her Majesty wearing the 1 1 , 1 " 1 - 2 and Collar of the Order, her train bring borne 1 Masters Byng and Wilson, Pages of Honour in Wait ing; and his Royal Highness, wearing also the Collar and i 'laLtle of the Oder, having been conducted by the Lord Chamberlai n to the Throne-room, the Knights and 0 ifi te" of the Order were ushered to the Royal presence Then, by liar Majesty's command, Sir Frederick Adam, 84 Andrew Barnard, and Sir Joseph O'Halloran, were le-nve r o , , ayintroduced to the Royal presence, between Sir Hussey Vivia n an d th e E ar l o f Cl aren d on , the two Junior "'ghts Grard Crosses present, preceded by Bath King ti t Arms, bearing the Ribarrd, Badge, and Star of a Knight Grand Cross upon a crimson I el% et cushion. „ t'he Rahand and Badge having been presented to the "c'vereigr, her Majesty was graciously phased to put the Parse over Sir Frederick's right shoulder; Sir Frederick b ai hßt had the h on ou r f kissing the S..yereign's band, and, basing received from her Majesty the Star of the Order, teli red. Bath Ki!ig of Arms having again presented the Riband Bid Badge, h er M a j esty was g ac i ous ly pl ease d t o i nv est Andrew Barnard with the same, and her Majesty also Itivested Sir Joseph O'Halloran with the ensigns in like rnall hert and also presented both Knights with the Star of the Order. g l44 int-General Sir Jeremiah Dickson was conducted to —e Queen by Sir William Woods, K H., Officer of Arms att,!,ndant no .thes Commanders, and received fro hK - h c of mer Majesty Sas s of a nig t omman er the Beth. l o • L L William Fitzroy was conducted to the Sword manner, and her Majesty havirg receivAl the a ' State fr.us Sir William Martins, Gentleman Usher, W4B pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood upon him, kand kfterwards invested his Lordship with fre ensigns of a ni ght Command e r o f the Bath. His Lordship rising, d the horn ur to kiss the Sovereign's hand. ; Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart., was conducted to her Ma ' t fa tY by Sr W. W oo d s , an d re ceived from her Majesty the gls of a Knight Commander of tie Bath. orde r , i4hts G-and Crosses, with the Officers of tie urder, retired from the presence of the Sovereign with th e u dal reverence , . Her Maj. s - y's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at 'rras lined the Throne-Room at the ceremony, corn katided by their St indard-bearer, Mr. Henry Robinson. • The Court was rtteneed isy the Countess of Mount Idgecumlyo Lady in Waiting; the First Lord of the T reasury, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the SLord Sc. xsrd, the Lord Charnt erlain, the Captain of the uerahle Corps of Gent'emen at Arms ; Viscount Tor "agton, Lord in Waiting •; the Treasurer of toe House bold n ; S'r &dein Pearson, Lieutenant of tbe Yeomen aa rd Ead of Morley, Gentle:nan in Waiting on Prince Albert;tiv Major the Her,. George Keppel, Groom in A l a jtiog . Captain Francis Seymour, Groom to Prince J i t ' v rt; ' Lord Alfred Paget, Equerry in Waiting ; Mr. (5 ,.. 41, 9 Bunco Curling, Clerk of the Cheque of the Hon. -° ,, r13 , 8 of Get Vemen at Arms; and Sir B, njan,in Smith. The Yeomen of the Guard tired the Grand Hall. coin ittanded by Captain Parker Nuttall, the Exon in Waitirg. d„, T he Queen's 13and of the Coldstream Guards was an nut ter on the P a l ace lawn, and the band performed a num er of pieces during the afternoon. T he Ashantee Princes, the Prince William Quanta. thissall and the Prince John Ansel' accompanied by the Re,. Thomas Pyne, had an audience of the Queen. The j e l l ne.ea were introduced by Lord John Russell, her Ma . • 7,1 Y it Secretary of State for the Colonies. 'orhe Royal dinner party at Buckirglram Palace on , l. eursd aa i nc l u d e d h er R o y a l Highness the Duchess of LZen% Lady Anse Maria Dawson, Viscount Melbourne, ord John Russell, Viscount Morpeth, Baron S:ockmar, gad Lord W r i o th es ley Russell. 1. 50 Band of the Scots Fusilier Guards attended. G 0 eel Royal Dinner Party last everi ig included M. 'oa:iea, General A'av?, Marquis of Normanby, Vis runt Palmerston, the Right Hon. F'. T. Baring, and Co nel Wylde. i The band of the Second Regiment of Life Guards was II a ttendance during dinner. The Duch e s s of Kent visited the Queen Dowager ye?- t e "LtY at Marlborough House. Yesterday was the birthday of his Royal ighness ri 'Re George of Cambridge. Many of the nobility called n • Cambridge House, and left their names for the Duke c Cambridge. The Duchess of Gloucester visited his k° Yal Highness. DThe Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anne Maria r ikt ylon and Colonel Couper, honoured with her presence at night the performance of Haydn's oratorio, " The Creation " by the Sacred Harmonic Society, at Exeter of Mr. George Nicholls had an interview with the Marquis A i rnrreanby yesterday at the Home-office. Admiral W u en had an i n t e rvi e w on Thursday with the Marquis of rinanby at the Houle-office. SHAKSPERE . S SIGNATURE—The curious in it if h , matters may remember, that about three years ago V b en interest was excited by a book being brought to the p h il "ler at Evans's) with " Shakspere " inscribed its title-page : it was the first and folio edition of the j„ k `glisk tradslation of " Montaigae's Essays," by Florio, printed 1603. That sold for 100/. Was botosht by P!ckering, as was understood, sftne British - Museum Previously to the di:c :Nary of that and autograph, according to Sir F. Madden's ob ttl'ations on that autograph of Shakspere, and 4 orthography of his name, communicated to the to el eiY of Antiquaries, by Sir F. Madden, in a letter Mr. John Gage, director, there were only five ac eb"wledged g enuine signature; of Shakspere, in exist kee; of those, three are attached to his will in the ' r egative Court, executed on the 25th of March, 6 :5 , -16 ; the fourth is written on a mottga g e deed, dated th 11th of March, 1612-13, of a small estate purchased Shakspere of Henry Walker in Blackfriars; and w e ill afth on the counterpart of tke deed of bargain and sale It ; e same property, dated the 10th of March, 1612-13. in A good state of preservation, except in the folds, s o tr e V- , ,e writing is slightly Injured. It is in the • Qiirossing band of the p:si iod. The parties are " Henry 4, 1 1k- ert citizen and minstrell, of London, on the one part; William Shakspere, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the Zilritie of Warwick, gentleman ;" William Johnson, citi- F t : and sintener," of London; Henry Jackson, of Lon tjtki tentleman ; and John " Hcmynge," of London, gen , tj. 1 4 „ 81 N9ULAR CASE OF LOCK-JAW.—On Friday ti tan, inquest was held on the body of John Hill, a boy le7,`' S .Years old, who died of lock-jaw, under the follow :e4 singular circumstances :—Another boy and the de -4,12," Were playing tegether the Friday prec . eding, in of -street, Toxteth-park, on some balks, and, in the act Ili run ning over one of them, a piece of wood stuck into s t : foot. The deceased pulled out the splinter, and the bled a good deal ; but, by putting some oakum to 1%7e Was ena'aled to walk home. His mother saw his 1 4 ' swelled the next day, and, on asking him the CallC, h a aai d a piece of iron had fallen upon it. On Saturday ts t teared t o get worse, but the boy was sill able to about• On Tuesday night he went to bed quite a pt ' • lt but the next morning tie became sick, and could lail dtet up. F rom nine o ' c lock on Wednesday morning one o' c l oc k on Thursday afternoon, be had a constant ce ssion of fits, which terminated in his death. The te r ,s l luau, Mr. Leech, when called in, found a slight th, ,:e 'en on the instep. The usual medicine was adrninis- Isi t r i t but it was unav ailing ; the disease was lock-jaw, of he died.—Liverpool fercury. ti t p-RLIGION OF THE CHARTISTS.—On Sun- Sh,:eerning last, Mr. Bairstow, the Chartist delegate, sts er ed a funeral sermon, in the market-place of this til e4 7 ll ßhs on toe death of John Clayton, a Chartist, who ;.tape in Northallerton gaol. After singing two verses of list of Watts's Hymns, Mr. Bairstow offered an extern sdlYer, in which he implored God to bi about the lk i l"en of the CLarter, to iemove all tyirnas and the ,t qt etutor s o f Ch art i sts f rom power, and to bear witness tsi o r- sufferi ngs an d privations of the poor. The text qily k t erl for the occasion was from John, C. xix, V. 6: ili s i ue . ri the chief priests, therefore, and officers saw hire, 'I li cri ed out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him." Christ ni s i;:ePresented as a great religious Reformer: All 1 1% 4 Priests, Wesleyan:, and Dissenters, %sere de . stre b e ed as hypocrites, who persecuted the poor, and Aill s j from them their hard earnings. The prelates and 4 4 41 ,:cif the Establishment were represented as living in itta s .' - "us palaces, and fattening on the land at the ex th,,iif the peopl e The only remedy, he urged, was 'i , s aarter. At the conclusion of the . service the sum of '`Jet 8 ;d. was collected for the %view of Clayton.— Reporter.; Al 4 TRUCTIVE ENGINES IN WARFARE.— towcent invention for blowing up and destroying ships 44 142 4 has of late excited considerable curiosity, the ' e ti extract from the travels of Count Falkenstein g•s ph reat. •, Emp , ,:rcr of Germany), will be read with in •••••...,‘ i stl A native of Dauphiny, by name Dupre, who ilverent his life in cultiveting the science of chemistry; e °4ld e dll kind of fire, so rapid and so devouring that it Of A ejth e n be avoided nor extinguished : water, instead `=er e .. ° Ying it, gave it new force: Various experiments sti t i e See'6 f Qt t i h with . it on the canal of Versailles,. in the pre ass, ,e King (Louis XV.), which were repeatyd at trepid of Paris, and in several seaports. The most :sts pe t i o soldiers trembled at the offccts of so diabolical an and considered it with the same horror that the PrWi r 'eights felt at the discovery of gunpowder. Being 4 Sst -eeti that • a ro y ore man, assoteu by -such an art, could I fi sPr e Let or bui n a city, them King commandrd 3 til et 7 Ar e.: - .mmUnlCa.o hiF..,e,ret, and pa'd hint for Vrged in ee • His MFjesty, bowel er, was at that time en riseep a ruinous war ; the English braved him in his e oel s c i and every day li suffered loses and disgrace. f ed essay hays d 'st o d his enemies, but he pre tat t, - (• ryt .Nl.l rather than to augment the evils f hums_ stied '', Pre is since dead, and his dangerous secret lies with him." fi Übe ty e, estpludiln tl nd 'E r ourde. Mercury states that Kun,ap po,n9d !er of the Bishop of Frauenburg, has N o , low t_o broken al.va on the v:Ii• el, bi.ginr s, i) ir th e me " , limbs. When asked if he intend() i to un s, L eY of the King against this sentence, he y n ot • I have frequetnly the troth ache, and I iit,d 'tail more more pain on the Kurapfel is ~,.„1 1. _ e a Priest, and Licher. s ith prt,prict as th,FLe!ent, but makes a mockonv of r*.digion as 'mitt has quitted Mes- FRENCH LAW OF COPYRIGHT. REPORT OF M. DE LANIARTINE ON THE FRENCH COPYRIGHT BtLL. " Gentlemen,--In constituting Frop , ry society had three objects in view. The remuncraiion of I Amur, the per petuation of a farni.y, and the increase of the pubiie wealth. Justice, forethought, and interest are Vie three bases of all possessions. Why should they, therefore, not have a place in the constitution of li.crary or artisticel property ? This was the first and most important ques tion for the consideration of your Committee. In this, as during the whole course of its labours, it could derive no advantage from the experience of pre-existing legislations. All was to be discovered and created. Antiquity was si lent, and modern legislation had only spoke in an arbi trary, confused, and frequently contradictory language. An outline of the law of Jan. 19, 1791 ; a cherce of the Convention of July 19, 1793; another decree of Feb. 5, 1810; an admirable project of M. de S alvandy ; and a di , _ cession in the Charnbcr of Per rs, were the only landmarks to point out a path to us. " The only c ide to which your Co:nmis.ion could turn was natural eqq,ty. " Some men live by the sweat of their brow, others by that of their brain. The results of these labours are dif ferent, but the title of the labourer is the same. These struggle with the land and the change; of season, and reap Vie visible fruits of th it labours. '1 Le others have to con tend against ideas, ignorance, and prejudices. Their pages are watered with the t il-wrung sweat of hit lli g,mee, too often with tears, sometimes even taith ;hair blood, and thns, at the sport of time and fortune, they reap misery or putLc favour, martyrdom or gl ry. palpaile and incontestibe results of mote ial labour la ve appeared in their most striking form to the legislator. Ho said to the labourer who tilled the ground, This fie:d shall be thine, and shall be inherited by thy offspriag, and all thy succeeding generations shall reap the reward of thy labours.' And thus was instituted territorial property, the b asis of families, the foundation of permane4 and enduring society. Ly virtue of a just and natural induction, the day must come when the work of intelligence will be consi dered as an useful labour, and the fruits the! c3f a pr.,- perry. But by a generosity worthy of its nature, the idea which had created all forgot itself. It only asked to hand down a glorious name to posterity, whilst the family of the poet and philosopher, whose works formed wealth of a whose nation, were pining in want and misery. The idea came from God, was useful to man, and returned to God, leaving a bright furrow on the brow of him on whom genius had lighted, and on the name of his sons. " Is it just, is it useful, is it possible, to leave the pro perty of their labours in the hands of authors or their fami lies ? These are the three questions on which we have to dehberwe. Aid have not thee c t uestions boen answered beforehand? What is justice but the propy r ion between cause and effect, betwten labour and retribution ? As man employs some portion of his powers, a few short easy hours of his lire, aided by a capital transmitted to him by his fathers in the cultivation of his estates, or in some lucrative trade, he heops up riches upon riches, and partakes largely of all the joys and luxuries of life. The possmion of all this is ensured to him for the term of his natural life, and after him to his chil dren, or those whom 1r:! shall point out by wilt. Another man passes his whoq. l fe, consumes his moral powers, enervates his physical forces, forgetful of hirnsAc, his family, and friends, to e:;r:ch mankind with one of those noble works of intaect, or some of these ideas, which cause millions cf men to think. He di , !s, but he succeeds. His noble work and sublime ideas have gone foal, and have been seized upon by the intellectual world, as 81.0 by the trading and speculating portion of mankind. It becomes a slow and frequently poAhum rus source of wealth. It throws millions into cireulaii-m, and is ex ported as if it were a natural producti.m cf the soil. All men have a right to it, exce, , ting he who crated it, and the widow and childr.ol of this man may wards r about from door to door in toe midst of public wealth and vast private fortune, cur:iog the ungrateful country which re fuses remuneration to the labours of their father. In the name of conscience—by that ineffacea'rle c..de of a quity traced by the hand of God himself, shall such a state of things continuo ? " - Civilizaii is the daughte• of books. The work which can, as it were, cr att., destroy, or transform► tine world, shall it hecome.an object of indifference to mankind? " And, lastly, is it possible this eventual and fugitive wealth which results from the materialized propagation of thought, trom impression, and horn books ; is ►t of a na ture to be seized upon, fixed, and regal-red into a form of property ? To this question we have merely to point out facts for a reply. This property exists, and is bought and sold like any other property. We bad only to study the prcceeds, and regularize its conditions, in order that it might wholly enter into the domain of things possessed, and guaranteed to their possessors. And this we have done. "The real interest of society is to see the profits of a use ful work remain as long as possible in the possession of those who created the work. Moreover, society has an other interest, which is this--that the private property of a work remaining fur a longer time in the hands of v:gi lent and interested possessors, the longer will the pirated foreign editions of this book be prohibited, and thus will the commercial wealth of the nation be insir,taine d. But greater than ail these, there is another reason. It has been asked, of what is composed the moral unity, the abstract being of an author. It consists of the author himself, his wife, and children. Lie father, wife, and sons are one. This may be called the family in its first degree. Since you wish to continue literary property for a certain num ber of years, do not take thirty years after the death of the author, a period at which his widow may still be livieg, and his eh ldren have scarce crossed the threshold of life. But take half a century, which embraces the mean probability of the eventualities of life and death, the entire circle of the t h ree existences which represent and immediately follow up the author himself. Break not up this one moral being into two or three portions ; let not the son be brought up in the lap cf luxury, and then be consigned to indigee.ee. The term of thirty years would day of er day present to us the scandalous spectacle of the public domain being enriched by the spoils of genius, in the very teeth of the widow and children of the man of genius, who would be living in want and misery. And ►ast!y do not forget that that which you enact by law will not be realised in fact. If you enact thirty years the family will not actually inherit more than twenty years, and if you enact fifty, they will not reap the hem fi!s for more than forty. Such is the fate of commerce. When it is advertised by the law of the fatal period at which the pro perty ceases—when it falls into the private domain, it sud denly stops and awaits." After entering into some statistical details concerning sacred books, M. de Lamartine turns to dramatic littrasure. On this subject be says— " The legislator would not pass over the fruits of tl:at noble art which was raised by antiquity to the dignity of an ins iAatian, which is a atched with extreme vigilance by the police of modern States, on account of its vast power and influence. The noble creations of dramatic literature have done much to hropsg:►te our language and our civili zation. Our theatre is identified with our patriotism. Ca❑ we disinhe it it? " A dramatic composition consists of two distinct parts —the composition and the representation. It is a mere writing as long as it restarts in the author's hands. It is an action from the time when it passes into the hands of the actor. Dees, therefoie, this double and complicated quality of theatrical pieces constitute a double property ? Wi.hout the author the theatre can have no drama—with out the actor the drama cannot he represented. The theatre and the author, therefore, being both proprietors, ought to make an equitable adjestment of this their com mon property. Such wan the law ; but usage went be yond the law. No piece could be represented without the permission of the author. A retribution for the author was fixed according to dramatic regulati.ins, and we have merely added that their right to tnis retribution shall exist for fifty years after the death of the arch " The same princidlc shall he applied to musical corn posers, whatever be the farm in which their musical crea tions be published. " We next turn to the brilliant results produced by the chisel, the brush, and the pencil. We have treated with all the respect they deserve these arts, hal mechanical, half intellectual, by which ideas are personified in marble or on canvas, and by which genius is materialised in the hand of man. •We have entered into a minute investiga tion concerning the property of those works of are, but have not passed the lierits, seemly detirable, in which the art is absorbed in the profession. The remuneration of the profession is by money alel patent, the remuneration of the art is the glory and property. " But here again rose a serious controversy. To whom shall belong the right of reproducing by engraving or moulding ? in the purchaser of a picture or statue, or to the artist ? We have received on this subject numerous eloquent protestations, some of which were dressed in the authority of that very institute whose name alone ex cites our respect and veneration. We have received the opinions of the first painters and statuaries of the age on thin subject. s These groans from genius heve found in your Commission sympathising interpreters. The ar tiee has been maintained which was presented by the Got eminent, voted by the Peers, and admitted by the Commission in 1826. The right of artists, in order to be etercised, must be duly inscribed. We have not con sented to bestow upon them a privilege which, whilst it condemned the sole object to an onerous strsi:ude, they might even refuse to declare in the contract. " Article 6 refers to pains and penalties. All laws with out guarantee are fictitious. The law requires the aid of force, which is punishment. The Commission has been unanimous in their wish to arm literary property with suffi cient moral and penal force to eneble it to repel the attacks of irternal piracy. A fine of from 300 to 2,000 francs (12/. to 80/.) has been fixed, toge; her with damages equal in amount to the value of the counterfeited edition. An increased fine and imprisonment are inserted in the event of a repetition of the offence. If too strong punishments discourage the Judge in his administration of justice, even so do light punishments teed to discourage commerce and depreciate property. Placed between these two dilemmas, we helm decided that a severe punishment should be in flicted on a crime which is so frequently committed in the dark, and that it should be punished with the dishonour which it has braved, d also by the reparation which it has sought to avoid. The law has, therefore, fixed the damages at. the \elite of the counterfeited edition. This is the exact weight of reparation when placed in the ba lance against the crime. " FOREIGN PIRACY OF COPYRIGHT. " But whilst we have been forming a code for literary rr Terry in France, the crying urgency of an international law for the protection of this sort cf prof erty has made its&f heard from one end of Europe to the other ; in fact, thr,ughout the whole world has this become a scandal to civilization. As soon as a book is printed at London, Vienna, or Paris, it is immediately pounced upon by foreign pirates, who reprint it in all possible forms, regardless of the sacred rights of author?, the ex;enses incurred by the original editors, and thus are Europe and America inun dated with countless editions of works, which become a certain source of profit to their piratical publishers, who never speculate in works save such as bate already ac quired a repu:ation which will ensure a co taro asle. Thus the literary commerce of a great nation despoiled of its rights...thus has it become the privilege and monopoly of a cosmopolite commerce, through the carelessness and in justice of the nations of the earth. " In a commercial point of view France loses, by this ! crying injustice, from eigl:t to ten millions yearly (from 320,000/. to 400,0001.) This abuse, which is alike fatal t ;:wriors as commerce, is felt by al nations, but he stroller Stat , s are the grc a:est sufferers the - eby. A property is merely nominal the right to which ceases at a frotiti2r dis . tant perhaps but a fe.% peer. What remune ration can he expected by an author or bookseller at Rome, Florence, or Parma, whea his works arc shamelessly re printed at Naples, Turin, Modena, or Milan ? In G er many the evil might be still greater. All unite in crying aloud for an international law on this subject. The States of Italy. with the exception of Naplee, have decreed the perpetuity of literary property to authors and their heirs. Moreovor they have decreed the internationality of Ut'- rary property. Tars publisher who prints counterfeited edit.ons of a work published by any of tly,r_e States shall be prosecwed by all and punished by all. Germany has f•Tosved in the same track. Intr-Germanic piracy is there prohibited. " Ergland, Austria, Russia, and Fiance, excited by f.eligs of justice more than by those of similar and r qual interests, all unite in their wish for an jot mational law. " The whole of Europe is at present inspired by the same sentiments ; let F, ante, then, gloriously take the lead. A high place has teen ass;gried to her in the list of na tions by the hands of her artists, by the pens of her writers, and by the swords of her soldiers. Can she con tent to leave in negligence and spoliation those domaias of thought which have procured for her so bright a stmion in the empire of human intellect ? Lig; witude may be useful to glory, as it tends to render it the more striking, but it will never enrich a nation. [low greatly are we in ch bted to those whom we have so long despoiled of their birthright I Five or six immortal names in the nationality of the past—poets, philosophers, orators, artists, stwes men, historians—remain fixed in the memory as the landmark of ages and of a people. Montaigne, as a scep tic, plays with ideas, and then gives the circulation in a modern garb—Paschal and Bossuet both have turned our thoughts to God—Racine, Corneille, Moliere, and Vol taire, have given us pictures of the workings of the Inman heart—Montesquieu discusses the institutions of emp res_ Rousseau, Fenelon, and Mirabeau have each immcrialised our literature in their respective walks. Morals, civiliza tion, influence, government—France owes all to these men. And perhaps our children may be as deeply in debted to those who may come after us. The everlasting and inexhaustible patrimony of France is her intellect. Is not the moment now come for constituting as personal property that useful portion which mares the dignity of letters, the independence of authors, tie patrimony of families, and the retribution of the State ? " Allow me to aid, that the serious and legal consf tu- Con of literary, a , t'stical, and commercial property, will be eminently conformable with those democratic princi ples which are the necessity, of our times. This nature of property bears in itself all that is wanting for democra cies. It is respect wi hout restraint-- grandeur for some without debasement for the many. Nobility has been suppressed, but not glory. Tnis glorious gift, like other gifts of God, is open to all. Genius is a grand leveller, but it is a leveller who raises the general level of man kind. Literary property is the fortune of democracy— glory is the nobility of equality." HARBOUR IN THURSO BAY.—A Bill has jest been brought into Parliament tor constructing in the Bay of Thurso a commission harbour, the trustees to be several of the principsl proprietors and leading indivi duals in Thurso and its vicinity, together with all lenders of holders of stock to the amount of 100/. It is reported that.one cr two of our leading banks are lending a most efficient support to this useful undrrtaking. The Bay of Thurso Les exactly at the western entrance of the Pent land Firth, and is in the (lite:A course of the /sbrth Sea trade with our American possessions. It is a capacious slid secure roadstead in all weathers, and naturally adap ted far the construction of a most complete and convenient harbour, more so indeed than almost any other point on the coast of Scotland.—Scotch Paper. FATAL ACCIDENT AT EARL SEFTON'S MANSION —Yesterday morning, between ten and eleven o'clock, a must serious and appalling accident occurred (and which in a few hours afterwards proved fetal) to Thomas Crow, a journe'“nan painter, who was engaged cleaning the ext, nor of the !comid fl ior windows in the front of Earl Sefton's mansion, No. 10, Arlington-street, Piccadilly, when the machine, on which the unfortunate man stood, from being improperly affixed within, suddenly gave way, and he was precipitated on the stone paving in the court-yard. Assistance being procured, he was re moved to St. George's Hospital, : where, after lingering a few hours, death terminated his sufferings. Yesterday about twelve o'clock, as a poor woman was proceeding along Gower-street, where she hid been to get a recornmendati"n to the Lyit,g-in Hospital, she was suddenly taken in labour; a cab was immediately procured, in which she was placed and driven to the Uni. versity Hospital, but before she could be removed front the cab she was safely delivered of a fire ROYAL SPORT.—The King and several of his coot t'ers were stationed on horseback, in the pl , in in front, with large spears in thtir hands. A body of bunters drove all the game from the hanging woods which line the sides cf the immense crler, to the spot where the King was placed ; a n d this was the best part cf the sport, for it was a cheerful scene to see such crowds beat the thicket, and to hear their continued firing, shouting, and balloting. The bears ran down into the open grounds, and there large hounds were let loose to stop them, in crier that the horsemen might come up and spear them; but as the dogs were too large and too numerous for these tame animals, the poor beasts generally tqlnu!ei about sprawling, for the Royal hero to drive his spear into them at his leisure. Stet/I/un ' Courts of Europe. _ _ EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Thursday Inspector Wiggins and a sergeant of the D division of police were employed in ii.vestigating the circumstances connected with an extensive robbery of jewellery, &c., at the resi dence of Sir George Rose, No. 4. Hyde-park-gardens. About eight o'clock, Sir George, who was accompanied by Lady Rose. went to the Hanover-square Rooms, and returned between ten and eleven. He soon afterward en tered his dressing-room and found that several of the drawers and boxes contained in them had been forced open, and a gold watch, together with some valuable geld rings, brooches, and otl.er articles of much value, abstracted therefrom. The property was all safe at eight o'clock, and, from an examination which has been made of the premises, it does not appear that any forcible entry had been made either by any of the windows or doors. TRIAL OF SPEED.—On Tuesday last an in teresting race took place between two of the fastest sea going steamers in the world, the Orion and the Orwell. These vessels (both built of iron), in consequence of a friendly proposal made by the owners of the former to Captain Wit.g, commander of the 0, well, to try their re lative speed, joined at Gravesend at ha f-past ten, and started elf for Ipswich at a masterly pace, the 0:ion abt.ut 200 yards a head ; they both had a foresail hoisted, and during the passage the Orion had gained about six miles on the Orwell,lwhen, unfortunately for the former, she carri , d away her foreyard, by which she lost some of ber advantage; but notwithstanding this drawback, and the fact of her engines not being y , t got fairly up to their full working condition, she arrived at Ipswich twenty minutes Mere the Orwell, which, on a run of five hours and a half, and against FO fast a boat, must be ad issved to be an important victory ; aad it may be safely affirmed that when her machinery gets into proper work ing order, she will do better still. The difference already establi,hed would, on a voyage from the Thames to the Humber, give an advantage of nearly two hours. The ferns of the Orion is said to be very prrfect, combining y at sea, with good I.nes for speed, and shy may now be considered the 11:test sea-going steamer in world. _ . FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday, the Bth cur rent, Alf. arvid Wi!son, a gentleman residing ai Castle- Sanquhar, much attached to field sportF, having had occa sion to order a new ramrod, was in the act of putting it into its place, when, by some inadvertency, the butt-end of the fowling-piece came in contact with the floor, and being loaded at the time, primed, and cocked, a discharge ensued, to the utter consternation cf all within heariog distance. The shot passed between the root of the lett hand thumb and fort-finger of the unfortunate gentleman, and from thence entered his breast oppostte to the left ventricle of the heart. The shock was alike sudden and severe, and, having the parlour in which he stood, he entered another apartment, excldming to his wife and two children "lam a dead man !" Shortly after this he sunk on the floor, and although medical ci i was promptly pro cured, it was of no avail, life in the interim having Lecome extinct.— Scotsman. CHURCH-YARD OF CILLIE-CHRIST.--- An in closure is much wanted for the salt ay and Leautiful bury ing-ground of Ciilic-ehrist, pariah cf Urray, Ross..shire• The chinch-yard of Cillic-chr i•t ( Christ's Church) was the scene of a very sanguinary and cruel occurrence in the daAs cf feudal violence, which is thus described. in " Anderson's Guide:"—" In the early part of the seventeenth century, Angus, eldest son of Glengarry, had made a foray into the Mack enzies' country; on his way borne, he was intercepted by a gallant little band of Mackenzies, and slain, mils a numLer of his followers. Sometime thereafter a strong party of Glengarry's men were sent, under the command of Allan tlacßaonuill of Lundy, to revenge his death. Allan led them to the parish of Urray, in Ross-shire, on a Sunday morning, and aurpriscd a numerous body of the Itlackenzes, assembled at prayer, within the walls of Cilie christ, neat Beauty, for so was their little chapel calks]. Placing his followers so as to prevent all possibility of es cape, Allan gave orders to set the building on fire. The iniserahle victims found all a'tempts to escape unavaiing, and were, with a single exc,ption—man, woman, and child—swallowed up by the devouring clement, or indis criminately massacred by the swords of the relentless Mac donells, whil,t a piper marched round the church, playing an evernperary piece of music, which has ever since been the pibroch of the Glengarry family."—lnverness Courier. SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN.—The Rev. J. Marshall, vicar of Ovingclean, nasr Brighton. commuted suicide by hanging himself. Various causes arc assigned f or th e eummission of the decd. He was much attached to his family, and previous to going out kissed his children m( , st ,ffeLtionately. but th re wss nothing in his conduct to excite at the time any suspicion of his dreadful inten tion. Deceas , d was about forty years of age, atA wa4 much respected by the parishioners. He was presented to the living by his father. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.-All In quest was held on Thursday last, at the Montague Arms, ter Slough, on the body of a woman, whose name and connections were unknown, who was discovered two days In fore sitting in an upright posture, under the archway cf a large drain, which crosses the old Bath Road, near that village. There was a bundle of clothes lying by her tide, and nearly two pounds in gold and silver found in her pocket. She was decently attired, and appeared about 60 years of age, but greatly emaciated. She was imme diately taken to the Montague Arms, and Mr. Adams, Surgeon of Colnbrook, sent for, who upon examining the body, found no marks of violence upon her person to ac count for her death. The Jury returned a verdict of ‘• Found dead," but there was no evidence as to the cause of her decease. THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1841 ECON D ED tTioN. THE FUNDS—(CLOsENG PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock lndia Stock 3 per Cent Red Ditto Bonds ... dis 3 per Cent Cons BBl Ditto Old Annuities ... 31 per Cent Red — Ditto New Annuities... 86* New 3* per Cent 97i Ex. Bills, 1,000/....20 7pm New 5 per Cent Di tto 5001 7pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 9pm Jan. 1860 ... _ :Bank Stock for Opg. "'— Oct 1859 — India Stock for Opg. ... Jan. 1860. — Consols'for Acct B9 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuo-uese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent...... 101* I Ditto,'New Ditto 324 Brazilian 80nd5.......... Prussian, 5 per cent. Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 23 RusSian, 5 per cent Chilian, 6 per cent__ Ditto, Metallic — Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent — Ditto, 1824. Ditto, Deferred ... Danish, 3 per cent French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18:45, 5 per cent —j Exchange —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 30 French, 3 per cent —f. --,e. Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. !Dutch, 21 per cent. ... 501 Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. !Ditto, 5 per cent — SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 78* Bristol and Exeter (60 paid) Great Western Railway (65 paid) ... 90 Ditto New Shares (80 paid) 62 Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and B r i g ht on (50 pa id) London and Blackwall Railway (25 pd) London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) 152 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid). 231 Lcndon and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) Ditto Scrip. (3 paid) 4a London and South Western ... 55 Ditto Tenths London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) North Midland Railway (100 paid) ... 731 Ditto New Shares (40 paid) . South Eastern and Dover (33 paid)... .-• 17 ' York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 79i WALSALL ELECTION COM MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our First Edition. ) Witness then detailed the attack upon his house, which he described as being of a very violent character. They even tually succeeding in repelling the mob,_ who were armed with bludgeons. Patch represented himself as a Parliamentary Agent, and gave me his card as such. He told me that he came from the Carlton Club, and 1 believed him to be a true man, and guaranteed his bill at the hotel, and gave him 41. to take him to London. Mr. Barnett said I might lend Patch the money. I have no claim against Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Barnett, but I drew up the bill in the form it now is at Patch's request, who told me I could not otherwise be paid. Mr. Wilkins, the barrister, was brought there to be heard against the r. peal of the Corn-laws. Ile used to make speeches in favour of the Corn-laws, and Acland against them. To Mr. AusTrw---I live chiefly by my inn. I act from im pulse, and have often given large treats, but I never gave away 1501. Patch did not promise that I should be paid by the Carlton Club. I never intend to ask Mr. Barnett or Mr. Gladstone for a . penny. Mr. Barnett has never held out any hope of payment to me. He told me he would not sanction any expense at my house. When the attack was made upon my house, between three and four in the morning, there were a great number of 3lr. Gladstone's fri en d s inside. I dont know whether there were any of them voters or not. Seven or eight persons, including myself, were seriously hurt. The persons who were hurt were all friends of Mr. Gladstone. The ma jority of the Corporation and Magistrates of the Borough were opposed to Mr. Gladstone. Sir. AUSTIN said it was half-past three o'clock, and he was very tired. He wished to know whether the Committee had any objection to an adjournment? Tbe CHAIR3IxN said the Committee had arranged to sit till four o'clock. Elizabeth Taylor, examined by Mr. AUSTIN—I was a waitress in Mr. Kilner's employment, at the last election, at the New Inn. I recollect the night of the nomination. There was a great number of persons, at least 100, going in and out during the day. I should say there were about 40 during the The CHAIRMAN inquired if there were any material facts as to the parties by whom Kilner was employed, to be stated by the witness. Because he thought he could say for the Committee th t they were satisfied that there had been a good deal of treating and drinking there during the day. Mr. AUSTIN was perhaps satisfied with what had been stated on that point ; buit he feared he and his Learned Friend might not agree as to what might be admitted as proved. After some discussion it was decided that the examination of the witness should be proceeded with. Examination resumed.—l saw ten or a dozen persons eating and drinking on Tuesday. I saw 'Mar;ow on the Monday evening. I did not wait in the long room at all. There were two or three strange waiters employed. I saw Mr. " Barnett come to our house several times, but he did not stay f Mr. AUSTIN said he did not intend, after the expression of the opinion of the Committee, to call any further witnesses of the same class as the last. Mr. Sergeant \lin/.NcitAm said the Learned Counsel should be prepared to state whether he intended to close his case then or examine further witnesses on Monday. The Chairman said that the Committee did not think that the Learned Counsel should be then pressed to state what his course of proceeding would be, and the Committee adjourned till Monday. ST. ALBAN'S ELEUTION COM- MITTEE.-(THIS DAY.) The Committee met again this morning at Eleven o'Clock, when Mr. John Brookes was cross-examined by Mr. AUSTIN. Witness said I was at the hustings on the day of election. The hustings occupied a large space; they were sometimes very full, and at others nearly empty. ( A model of the hustings was here produced.) They were never quite empty during the day. I was one of the tally clerks for Mr. Cabbell, and was anxious that he should succeed. The Mayor is a Con servative. By the CHatalitax.—When Hardy came up t o vote h e was required to take the bribery oath ; he did not object to tako the oath, but. refused to take his hat off, and, therefore, the Mayor refused to administer it to him. This circumstance led to great confusion, during which Mr. Edwards addressed the Mayor on the subject. Hardy was strongly urged to take his hat off, but he refused for a length of time, but at last con sented, took the oath, and polled. The Rev. James Brogden examined by Mr. TALBOT—I am a clergyman of the Church of England; I was curate of St. Michael's nearly three years ; I voted at the last election at St. Alban's for Mr. Cabbell, and was one of those who signed a requisition to the Mayor to admi nister the bribery oath as the electors presented themselves to poll. I perfectly remember a man of the name of Adams coming up ; it was before 12 o'clock. Adams when he came into the booth was close to Mr. Cabbell. He (Adams) called for the returning officer, which excited great attention. I left my place and went close to Adams to learn all he had to say. Adams made a statement in a very distinct tone of voice, and in a very firm manner. Mr. TALBOT. —'Then now tell the Committee what it wa that Adams said. Mr. COCKBURN objected to the question. The resolution o the Committee, that a similar question could not be put to Adams, applied to the present. case. His Learned Friends had failed to prove the agency of Mr. Webster, and therefore any statement of Adams could not effect Lord Listowell. This was only an attempt to give the go-by to the resolution of the Committee, and could not be entertained by the Committee. lie repeated, that if the agency of lir. Webster was not proved, anything that Adams said or did could not affect Lord Li,towell. '1 he room was then cleared, and the Committee remained in deliberation upwards of half an hour. On the re-admission of strangers, The CHAIRMAN said—The Committee are unanimously of opinion that the question cannot now be put. Mr. Brogd. n recalled. Mr. HILLYA RD —You have said that what Adams stated must have been heard by Lord Lord Listwell ? IWitness—Yes. Mr. HILL Y ARD—After that, what was it you said to Lord Listowell ? Mr. COCKBURN objected. The Committee decided that the question might be put. Witness recalled, and the question repeated. I said to Lord Listowel, " Here is purity of election and freedom of conscience." I made this remark in a hind voice close to his Lordship. When Adams came to the hustings he brought with him a small paper parcel which he gave to the Mayor, and made a statement. The Mayor afterwards opened the parcel. I saw the contents of that .parcel ; it consisted of two 5/. notes and two sovereigns. The notes were of the bank of Mr. Muskett. Lo d Listowell was present when the parcel was opened. The Mayor inspected the notes, which he took out of the parcel. Mr. HILLYARD Did the Mayor in the presence of Lord Listowell ask Adams, from whom he received the notes and the sev, reigns ? Mr. COCKBURN addressed the Committee against entertain ing the question, which shortly afterwards adjourned. ROLLS' COURT-(THIS DAY.) FENNTIVO V. HVMPITERY. The arguments of Counsel upon this motion, which oc cupied the greater part of 3esttriay, were resumed this morning. It was a motion to discharge for irregularity an crier directing the plaintiff, Mrs. Fcnnings, to elect whether she would proceed in her suit in equity for the specific petfoi-mance of an agreement entered into with her by the defendant, Alderman Humplicry, M. P., or in her action at law for damages oecasiocel by the non-performarce of the agreement. The agreement was entered into in May 1837, by which Alderman Hum phery agreed to let to the plaintiff, at a certain yearly rent, a cellar under the warehouses at Hibernia Wharf, on the Surrey side' of London-bridge, and to excavate and form a vault contiguous to the same, within eighteen months, from the 24th of June in the same year. The defendant having violated his agreement, the plaintiff prayed by her bill for its specific pc. formanee. Each party had brought actions at law against the ether—the plain tiff for damages for the non-performance cf . the agreement, and the defendant for rent due to Lim from the plaintiff. Mr. Pemberton rind Mr. Jommett appeared for the plaintiff in support of the motion, and Mr. Bothell and Mr. Dunn far the defendant. ---•• Ai the cone:uAion of the arguments this day the Master of the Rulls stated lhat he w i-h e d to l oo k i nto t h e pleadings, and would deliver judgment on Wednesday. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PArEES OF THIS DAT. (From the Globe.) All is changed in the Tory Camp since 1835. Then the Tories prof:ssed themselves Conservatives of the broiled mem elly against a democratic republic—of the Hope of Lords against the abolition of hereditary legislators, and of tie Establi•hed Churches against voluntaryism. All is changed. Alonarchy, if attacked at all, is assailed only by the wildest of the Chartists. Not a murmur is now beard from the middle classes against lawgiving lords. Voluntaryism, only mutters feebly in out..of•the-way Dissentiog meeting houses. But the aggressive. Tories are aoressiv if heard at all, e. They have put the Whigs into a defensive—a Conservative position. The success cif the adverstisements of Conservatism put forth by Sir Robert Peel in adduced by his an mirers as proof unanswerable of his skill as a party leader. He has increased the numbers of the Tor:es., until their present stiength encourages them to assume the aggressive. In 1835 they were 310, in 1841, they claim to be but 325—an Opp nE i.i, fil which in six years has gained, even by their own account, only fif teen votes. We take our data from the author of the pamphlet—" Peel shall lead us." The slowness of this progress, and be f ear lest the Government should throw itself on any of the great popular questions which lie at its hand, produces the impatience of the leadership of Peel which " a Conservative Member" expresses, and which throws the party on the bolder courses pointed out by Stanley. Ysar after year rolls by, quarter after quarter comes, and no Tory finds any alleviation to his quarterly struggles against duns from any official sources and salaries. Ten years of salaries have been cut out of the life of the Tory place-hunter. A gloomy sense of de sertion and privation, therefore, makes his life a desolate thing, of which that of Mariana in the moatod grange is only a fit emblem : " He only said, ' The day is dreary,'- 1 Place cometh not,' he said : He said, ' I am aweary, aweary, I would that Peel were dead.'" Sir Robert Peel has been more effectual in swelling the numbers of the Tories than in fulfilling his Reform promises of 1835. " Let us disclaim all interest in the maintenance of any abuse —let us declare that we are willing to redress any re .1 grievance—and concur in the application of the best remedy which can possibly be devised for that purpose." Six years have elapsed s i nce every clause of this sentence elicited applause in London and hope in the country ; and yet Sir Robert Peel has not t von tried to remove one single abuse, to re dress a grievance, or apply a remedy. The paltry frank ing privilege was an interest in 'he extortion poscage too strong for him to disclaim it. The ardent Reformer of 1835 has not as yet attempted a re firm iu 1841. (From the Standard.) Mr. Colquhoun's Bill resiessing the C 'liege of May nooth is now printed, and we perceive that it accomplishes two important objects—it puts an end to a legislative fraud, and it takes from the College of Maynooth a legis lative sanction. The fraud is, that the Act of the Irish Parliament of the year 1800 (40 Gee. 111., c. 85), while it professed to subject the College of Maynooth to a visitation by the Lord Lieutenant, and by five of the chief judges in Ireland--which, had it been real, would have afforded to the public some sort of security for the cha racter of the instruction in the College—dil, in fact, exclude these functionaries from all knowledge, still more from all power to interfere with the only part of the instruction which it was material for the State to know. The act, there fore, places in the eyes of the public an ostensible visita tion, by which the State is deceived. It is of importance that this deception should cease, and that the public should know, what has been for forty years the truth, that the State exercises no control whatever over the College of Maynooth. Mr. Colquhoun's Bill takes from the official visitors their pretended powers, and places the matter pal pably before the public. ( From the Courier.) We we glad to observe efforts are making to obtain a more equitable adjustment of our fiscal arrangement as regards the importation of Brazil sugars arid c,.ffee into this country for home consumption. Mr. John B. Moore and Mr. SaundeN, from Liverpool, have been deputed specially upon this subject, and have had interviews with Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Presi dent of the Board of Trade, Lord F. Egerton, and other influential Members of Par:iament, relating to this important and interesting topic. It is fearful to contempl to that a trade of such magnitude, anti so important as that carried on with Brazil, should be jeopardised for the want of timely and just cone-ssions to bring the dut'es dawn to such a scale as to admit of those products being ad,nitted for home consumption, which might be done, and a t t h e same time afford ample protection to our colonial interests. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE, MARCII 27.—BELL'S SCHOLARS.—The fol lowing gentlemen were yesterday elected University Scholars, on the Hey. Dr. Bell's foundation :—Thomas Field, St. John's College ; Henry Keary, Trinity College. The following are the names of the Inceptors to the degree of Master of Arts at the congregation held yesterday : —W. H. Guillemard, Fellow of PemiToke Colege ; Matthew O'Brien, Caius College; William Marsh, Trinity Hall; James Geo. Mould, Fellow of Corpus Christi Colloge ; Joseph Town son, Fellow of Queen's College; Richard Potter, Fellow of Queen's College ; Thomas Hack Naylor, Queen's College ; Samuel Blackall, Fellow of St. John's College ; Nicholas Mortimer Manley, Fellow of St. John's College; Henry Foster, St. John's College ; Joseph Edleston, Fellow of Trinity College ; John Alex. Frere, Fellow of Trinity Col lege; Duncan F. Gregory, Fellow of Trinity College; Dun bar Isidore Heath, Fellow of Trinity College ; George Thos. Kingdon, Trinity College ; Thomas Atwood Walmisley, Tri nity College; Joseph Woolley, Emanuel College. At the same congregation the following degrees were con ferred : DOCTOR IN THE CIVIL LAW,—Rev. Samuel Horatio Banks, Trinity hail, Vicar of Dullingham. DOCTeR IN PHYSIC,—Samuel William John Merriman, Caius Ciiliege. HONORARY MASTER OF ARTS The Hon. Dudley Francis Fortescue, Trinity College. BACHELORS OF ARTS,—Thomas Henry Benjamin Bund, Trinity College. Henry Christopher Barker, Caius College. The Rev. Henry Calthrop, 8.D., Senior Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, in this University, and Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, has been collated by his Lordship to the Prebend of Longdon, in the Cathedral Church of Lichfield. 'I he Rev. Thomas Sharpies, M.A., late of Emanuel Col lege, in this University, has been instituted to the benefice of St. Peter's Church, Blackburn, Lancashire, on the presenta tion of the Rev. J. W. Whittakar, vicar, the patron. On Wednesday last, the 24th instant, the Venerable Wil liam Strong, D. D., Archdeacon of Northampton, was insti tuted by the Lord Bishop of Peterborough to the Canonry in the Cathedral Church of Peterborough, lately void by the death of the Rev. I. S. Pratt—the Canonry having been per manently annexed to the Arehdeaconry by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. THE FOUNDER, OF GREVILLE- STREET HOSPITAL. On Monday evening a numerous meeting of the fi icnds of the Grevilic-street Hospital meet at the Committee room in Greville.street, to consider the propriety of voting some tribute to Dr. Marsden, the founder, on which occa sion the Rev. Dr. Rice, High Master cf Christchurch School, was unanimously called to the chair. The CnaiesiaN said that his first connection with the great charity of Greville-street was on being called upon to preach for it. On their investigating its claims to public support, his principal feeling was regret that he had been previously ignorant of its existence. The Rev. Gen ' tleman then alluded in very affectir.g terms to an incident which had given rise to the establishment of the hospital— that of a poor girl who bad been found sitting on the steps of St. Andrew's Church desolate and diseesed, and in a dying state. The other hospitals could not receive her at the moment for want of a Governor's recommendation, which, could it have been obtained with sufficient celerity, would still have been unavailable for admission until the regular admission day. Moved by so afflicting an instance of suffering in the heart of this immense and opulent me tropolis, Dr. Marsden determined that if his exertions could avail, London should not be without at least one institution for the reception of such cases, the only tile to admission to which should be the want and misery of the applicants.—( Hear, hear.) For thirteen years he devoted his time and his pro fessional skill, and exertions, to the accomplishment of the benevolent purpose, with what success, the present pros perous state of the Hospital sufficiently malifested, although he had had many and great difficulties to surmount, nut only those incident to all such undertakings, but others, the result of personal prejudice.—(Cheers.) He (Dr. Price) felt assured that the friends of an institution which had accompli,hed so much, and who took so deep an interest in the exten'ion of its benefits to the afflicted, would not he slow to record their grateful sense of such services on the part of its founder. The Rev. Dr. KNAPP, of St. Paul's, felt gratified by having had intrusted to him the honour of moving the first resolution, which was to the effect that the gentlemen pre sent bad determined to obtain subscriptions for some tribute of respect for, and record of, Dr. Marsden's valuable ser vices, to be presented to him in some suitable farm, to be afterwards agreed upon, lie passed a very warm eulogium upon Dr. Marsden for th t humanity which had led that gentleman to conceive, and the diligence and perseverance by which Inc had at length, with the aid of public benevo lence, placed beyond all ordinary chances of failure, the scheme of Christian charity which the hospital was de signed to promote. Thousands of the suffering poor had in each year of late received the best medical assistance under the most severe of human maladies, and many of them an asylum in the hospital, with every proper care and nourishment until restored to perfect health. Nor had the example been lost on similar establishments, many of which bad relaxed their regulations, and are now affording facilities to admission considerably approximating to those of the Greville-street Free Hospital.—(Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. W. PRITCHARD, fully participating in the general sentiment of admiration for the services of Dr. Marsden, and of satisfaction to see the growing prosperity of so pre eminently useful an institution, proposed the second reso lution, the object of which was to give practical effect to that which had been just adopted, viz.— the appointment of a Sub-Committee to take the necessary step, and report from time to time, to the general body. He felt a difficulty in addirg to the eulogies so properly bestowed upon Doctor Marsden. The interesting incident which had first attracted the humanity and afters vds directed the efforts of Doctor Mars len had been well alluded to by their respected Chairman. Happy it was that that lamentable instance of destitution ami:lst surrounding luxury had fallen within the observation of one so alive to the better impulses of our nature as Doctor Marsden, and still better was it that to such feelings there was joined in Doctor Marsden the skill and perseverance necessary for giving them com plete effect.—( Cheers.) Mr. ALEXANDER ROGERS seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. After some addresses from other supporters of the institution upwards of 100 guineas was subscribed in the room. A considerable sum is expected. SHAMEFUL AND UNFEELING FRAUD. A day or two prim. to Saturday the 6th inst., an adver ti-ement was sent by post from London, for insertion in the Guardian, and, being paid for by means of a post (Ace order, was of course inserted on that day. It was to tt,e following effect " To Engineers, Engravers on Copperplate, Joiners, and Cabinet Makers.—Wanted, good hands, to proceed to New York and Philadelphia. A free passage and mess, with capital wages. Parties must forward age, particulars of family, if any, present rate of wages, B.:c.—Post free, with a stamp, to Washington Percival, 11, Southampton street, Euston-square, London, who will communicate all particulars." In consequence cf this advertisement, so tempting at a time when employment is generally scarce, many persons made applicLti.,n by letter, as di:ected in the advertise ment ; and, in the course of a post or two, each applicant received a reply, id, rming him that his services would be accepted, at a very handsome rate of wages ; but rcqu:ring from each a remittance of 1/. " to ensure registration, and prevent disappointment." The general character of these answers may be gathered from the following copy o f one addressed to a mechanic who bad made_ application:- 2, Oxford-street, London, March 16, 1841. Sia,—ln reply to yours, I beg to say, that you will be required to enter into an agreement to serve Messrs. Graffe and Tompkins, of New York, for three years, at the weekly sum of 60s. English money ; week sixty-six hours, including two hours per day for meals. Your two sons shall also be engaged, and receive proportionate wages. Your and their passage, with beddinx and provisions of the best kind, will be free. Your wife will he charge] 10/., and your youngest son 5/., the child under two years of age will not be charged. You must remit IL by return of post, to insure registration on board, and prevent disap pointment, which will be returned to you on your arrival up here, together with 11. 153 for your expenses. The passage money for your wife, &c., 151., you will have to repay by instalments of 10s. per week, on your arrival in America You must be in town on the sth of April. As your application has been so late, you ha i better remit the registration money to the above address (No. 2, Oxford street) by return of post, provided you make up your mind to go, as our list is nearly complete.—. 4 am, &c, WASHINGTON PERCIVAL. Thomas -- On receipt of the IL you will be considered engaged. Several of the parties who received these letters had the prudence to make a little inquiry before sending their money, and were advised to have nothing to do with Mr. Washington Percival. Others, however, were not so careful ; and we have reason to believe, that a number of sums were forwarded as directed, and some of them, no doubt, fell into the hands of the scoundrels who had devised this nefarious scheme of plunder. Amongst others, the party to whom the preceding letter was addressed, who bad been some time out of employa ent, and was in very poor circumstances, pledged his watch to raise the neces sary sum, and sent it by post as directed. He would also have incurred the further expense of conveying himself end his family to London, if he had not, fortunately, had his suspicions awakened by what he heard from an other applicant, who, instead of sending the money required, took the precaution of writing to a friend in London, and requested him to make some inquir:es about Mr. Washington Percival, at the place indicated in his letter. The party entrusted with this inquiry found that No. 2, Oxford-street, was a public-house, the landlord of which knew nothing of Mr. Percival, except that became there occasionally for letters. On further inquiry it was found that there were. then two mechanics in the hove who had come from Manchester with the view of procuring enea4ements. A third person in waiting at the same place, turned out to be a policeman in plain clothes, who was waiting for Mr. Washington Percival, with the inten tion of giving him an opportunity of explaining his conduct before a Magistrate. Mr. Percival, however, had most pr Thably received some intimation that " hawks were abroad ;" and he did not make his appearance, though a number of letters, some of them evidently containing money and money-orders, were waiting for him. We un derstand that tke attention of the police had been called to the matter by the landlord of the public-house, who sus pected, from the conduct of his visitor, that all was not quite right, and very properly communicated Lis sus picionsto an officer. We hope that the publication of these facts will operate as a warning to all parties in this neighbourhood on whom any similar attempts at fraud may be made hereafter. No honest man wanting servants or workmen will ever requird them to advance money; and, whenever any demand of the kind is made, the applicant may be quite sure that there is a design on foot to defraud him.—lllanchcster Guardian. SLAVE TRADE. We have just seen a private letter from the Ha vannah, stating the arrival there of a slave-trader prize to her Majesty's ship Ringdovc, Captain Keith Stewart. This vessel, called the Jesus MAria, with the alias of the Tres Hermanas, is represented as of not more than 25 tons burden, Spanish measurement, and yet to have had not less than the almost incredible number of two hundred and fifty.two slaves, besides a crew of tweh e men and three passengers, on board at the time of the capture, which took place on the 29th of De cember last, about seven miles from the Danish island of S luta Cruz. Through the exercise of distinguished humanity and care by Lieutenant Tarleton and his prize crew, who brought this wretched vessel into the Havannah on the 9th of January, she had only lost eleven of the victims between the date of the capture and the time of her reaching the Spanish port. In the act of entering the harbour, the man who had exer cised the compound functions of master, owner, and supercargo, by name Vincente Morales, and by birth a Spaniard, made his mope from the prize by jumping overboard, but his papers had previously been t iken from him, so that this circumstance would pro holly not even cause any delay in her condemnation. It is not easy, by the way, to suppose any adequate mo tive on his part for incurring such a risk, since it would be contrary to all former preccderit to imagine that the Spanish authorities, to whom he must have been de livered over in the ordinary course of proceeding, would have given themselves the trouble of subjecting him to any sort of punishment. Such is the boasted co operation of that proud and high-minded nation in the suppression of the slave-trade ! The letter referred to further states, that the Jesus Maria was fitted out in the Danish island of St. Thomas ; that she took in her human cargo at the R o Zebra, about a degree to the south of Sierra Leone ; and that her destination was Ponce, in the island of Porto Rico. In the temporary absence of her Majesty's Commissioners at the Havannah for the suppression of the SI lye-trade, immediate measures are said to have been taken by the Consul for the relief of the unhappy victims, most of whom were totally unable to stand or stretch their limbs for many hours after the time of arrival, in consequence of their extreme ema ciation. A further melancholy proof of the remissness shown in that part of the world in putting down this diaboli cal traffic, is derived from t•.ze faq that this is the first instance of any slaver being carried into the Havannah for adjudication by the mixed Court at that place during the last two years.—Times. EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Some weeks ago a communication was made to Mr. Wakley, the Coroner, to the eff ct that a man named Arzoni, a marine colour manufacturer, of No. 28, Chalton-street, Fitzroy-square, bad, with his youngest child, a little girl, two years and a half old, died under very suspieilus circumstances, and been buried in the burying-ground attached to the Taber nacle, Tottenham-court- roa d. Mr. Wakley, on the receipt of such information, although they had been buried above three weeks, issued his warrant to Carter, the beadle of St, Pancras, in which parish Arzoni had resided, for the ex humation of the bedics, for the purpose of holdrfig inquests thereon. After a protracted inquiry, the Jury in each case returned a verdict of " Natural death." A week or two afterwards the eldest boy, aged thirteen, died, and on the body b. ing opened, death could not be a'tributed to any , other than natural causes. About ten days ago Mts. Ar zoni gave birth to a mate infant, valid' died a few hours after it was born. That has likewise been opened, but with no sati,factory results. In the early part of the pre sent week Mrs. Arzoni died, and the deaths having fol lowed in such rapid succession, Mr. Wakley was apprised of the circumstance. Yesterday, in the course of an in quest held at the hospital, Mr. Wakley told the beadle that be had been made acquainted with the death of Mrs. Ar zat.i ; but a post mortem examination of the body having been made, and the precise cause cf death not having been aseertaice 1, ho thought it useless to hold an inquest. Mr. Hensley, the house surgeon, said the mother, son, and in fant all went off in the same way, gradually, as though going to sleep. Mr. Wakley strongly suspected poison bad been imbibed. It was a very suspicious and myst.,ri ous occurrence, and the faculty having been unable to dis cover in either case the close of death made it the most remarkable on reccrd. The only remaining child, under ten ears of age, is hourly expected to die. Gall discovered each organ and its faculty either by meeting with individuals very remarkable for the later, so that he was led to examine their beads; or by noticing a peculiarity of formation in the head, which induced to ascertain their talents and character. He did not exa mine remat kable persons according to the siews entertained of the faculties by metaphysicians ; but according to points in which the world at large pronounced them remarkable, —accordingly as they nere courageous, avaricious, kind. hearted, cr excelled as poets, mimics, linguists, philoso phers. He would Lever have made his discoveries bad be not met with persons remarkable in these respects. Some times the relation between the remarkable faculty and quality and the local development was tolerably oblious, but gene rally he had to make numerous observations before he found himself right. After having found two indisidusls remark able in the same point of character, and cast their Leads, he sometimes examined the casts daily for months before he could discover the precise spot in which they agreed. The discovery being now made, a good orgaaologist will give judgments upon character which must aconi,h, and incontestably prove the truth of phrenology: but the diffi culty of making the discovery when all was utter darkness must have been extreme. —Elliotson's Human Phystioloo. FRENCH LEVITY.—There is a " bal abormc, ' as ith Rotert Dillon at the head, called '• Les mks de la Guillotine." None arc admitted but femmes presentees, and fits de pendus. Femmes presentees arc those who had been presented at Court prior to the Revolution; fils de pendus —eons of those who had perished by the lantern, guillotine, &c. A more painful instance of French levity can scarcely be adduced.—Swinburne's Courts of Europe. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, MARCH 26. POOR.LAW COMMISSION (IRELAND.) On the motion of the Earl of GLENGALL , Mr. Pcdder was again called to the Bar. By the Earl of GLENGALL—I have read the are printed evidence as taken by the short-ha n d writer. There some mistakes in it 1 wish to correct. ' The witness then corrected them b y r epeating his cvi. deuce. We Could not learn their effect, but underst oo d them to relate to his evid e nce respecting Mr. Butler. The witness was th en desired to withdraw. Mr. Earle vrai then called in and sworn. Examine,' by the Earl of GLENG ALL—Was Com mhsioner of Pocr.laws in Ireland. Was in Dubli n i n Fe bruary 1839. Received instructions from Lord Morpe that persons to be selected for the situation of returning officers i should be impart ial men, if such could be found, already connected Pith country office;. The selection was not to be confined to them ; but they were to te pre ferred, whenever they were men not connected with party politics. Did not recollect that in the unions cf Cashel and Clonmel, in the county of Tipperary, the high con stables, Mr. Farnell and M r . M aunse ll, app li e d f or t h e - o ffice and were rejected. Did not recollect the particulars .of the correspondence which took place relative •to the appointment of Mr. Butler. He should have no recol lection whatever 01 the transaction, if it were not that he EVE'NING EDITION ' saw a minute signed wi h his initials, on the back of a letter from Mr. Farnell; but he had now no recollection whether a httzr was written in conformity with that mi nute. Mr. Stanley was justified in departing from the instructions of witness, if there was any thing in them erroneous, or not consistent with the fact. Oa the 18th of Febrtry witness was absent from the office, and he supposes that the apparent irregularity was occasioned by his absence. There was nothing extraor dinary in a letter written one day not being despatched till the next. Stich a delay was not uncommon in public or private offices.—(A laugh.) From his experience of public offices, he should say, that it was " good luck" when a letter dated one day was despatched the next.-- (Hear and a laugh.) To say the truth, he had never thought it a matter of any importance in what terms such letters were written, when the Commissioners had deter mined upon the appointment of the person recommended by the Assistant-Commissioner. He should think any deviation from truth improper, and an adherence to truth on all occasions important; but there never appeared to him anything in the circumstances of this case with which it was necessary or worth white to charge his memory. He merely performed the very humble dnty of directing Ilia clerk to writ., the answers. He would not consider it an improper liberty for any of his brother Commis sioners to make alterations in the draft of a letter written by him on the business of the office, if he happened to be out of the way at the time, and the alteration was required by a regard for truth and accuracy. He was in no respect superior to the other Assistant. Commissioners, although, in the absenco. of Mr. Nicholls, he was generally looked up to by the others for advice, in consequence cf his being bitter acquainted than most of them ail the opinions and vi:es of that eentleman. To Lord FITZGERALD—I t taa3 quite possible th t witness Should have alterel his minute for the draft of a letter upon such a case as this, and not remember after wards that he had done so. He did not think the altera tion was o' any importance. To Lord GL ENG AL L—Did recollect having some conversation with Mr. Phelan on the subject of Mr. Butler's appointment; but knew of nothing which could give him implicit confidence in the affidavit of Butler that Mr. Phelan took any more active part in promoting the appointment than merely writing the letter which ap peared in the returns before the House. To the Marquis of NORMANBY When Mr. Nicholls was in Dublin, witness had nothing to do with matters like that now under the consideration of the House, ar,d complaints might be made of the conduct of Mr. Butler and other officers without his bearing anything whatever about them. In the month of February, 1839, the business of the Irish branch of the Poor-law Com mission was excessive, and beyond the means of the office to discharge with perfect adequacy. More duty was done in that month, in that office, than be had ever known to be done in a public office in the same time during the experience of his whole life. To Lord FITZGER ALD—In several unions, wit ness and Mr. Phelan conjointly had recommended indi viduals who were not county officers, to fill the situation of returning officer!. They never passed over the county officers unless they found them to be stupid men or par tisans. The stupid men gave more trouble, and caused more confusion and annoyance than the partisans. Witness believes that he did inquire of Mr. Phelan whether Mil Butler was a person of strong party feelings, and that the answer was that he was not. Witness had now reason to believe that Phelan was so. To the Earl of GLENGALL —Mr. Stanley bad a perfect right to make any alteration in the draft of the letter, in accordance with the facts required. To Lord MONTEAGLE—Practically, be believed the recommendation of the Assistant Commissioner and theap pointment of the returning-officer were practically one. Previous to his appointment to the Irish Commission he had been engaged under the English Poor-law Commis. sion, in several counties of England. Had been pre viously private secretary to Lord Stanley. To the Earl of GLENGALL—He could see no mo tive for the variation in the letter sent to Mr. Fennell from his draft. It was very important that, the returnirg officer shoeld he an impartial man, so as to give satisfaction to all parties in the election of guardians. To the Marquis of NORMANBY—It was a matter of the greatest difficulty to find men in the unions of Clonmel and Cashel, who were not party-men. Those who applied were generally men who leaned to the party of the Government. Mr. Nicholls and the Assistant. Commissioners congratulated themselves over and over again, that the Government did not interfere in the ap pointment of rcturnirg officers or in the election of the guardians. To Lord REDESDALE—BeIieved that the Corn. missianers did their duty in appointing Mr. Butler upon the recommendations which they received from Messrs. Hawley and Hancock, and from the Assistant-Commia sioner, Mr. Phelan. The witness was then ordered to withdraw, and on the motion of the Marquis of Normanby, was excised from further attendance. Lord DLTNCANNON presented a petition from Ti verton, praying for certain alterations of the Poor-laws. Their Lordships then adjourned at Seven o'Clock. ROUSE OF COMMONS, MAzes 26. POOR-LAWS. (Continued from our Second Edition of last night.) Mr. WAKLE Y thought that if the proposition of his Hon. Friend was contrary to the rules of the House, then he would be wrong to persevere in it, but if it were merely contrary to the practice of the House he would be right to persevere in it, because the more frequent the practice of the House was violated the better it would be for the public. The CH A IRMAN was very sorry to hear %that had just fallen from the Honourable Men-,bcr. He ought to be well aware that unless attention was paid to certain rules and regulations—( Hear, hear, from Mr. Wakley)—their proceedings must ine%itably become a scene of confusion,—( Loud cheers.) If he were asked if there were any rules for the government of Committees, ho would reply that there were none, but such as could be gathered from the Journals and printed proceed ings of the House ; but that there were rules for the go vernment cf Committees could not be doubted, which rules were to be gathered from the experience of attentive Members, who had been in the habit of attending those Committees; and so long as he had had the honour of filling that char he had !lever heard a doubt expressed that there were regulations on the subject, nor had such regu lations ever in the slightest deg.-cc been questioned. Mr. FIEL DEN—There is no rule then.—( Loud cries of " Chair, chair, orde-, order.") Am Ito be allowed to address the Home or not? if not, steal I go down to my constituents at Oldham and tell them that I am net to be allowed to do so ? 1 was sent here as a representa tive of that borough, every man of which objects to this law; there is not one but what is indisposed to the law; so much so, that not one of them would carry a votirg paper fur guardians ; they could not rven get the bum bailiff to carry a voting paper for guardians. Lord J. RUSSELL rose to order. The Hon. Gen tleman was out cf order in discussing the question.-- ( Cheers.) The rule of the House had been stated by the Chairman, and it was not of the least importance whether the rule of the House appeared printed with the regula tions of the Standing Orders, or whether it was a rule de duced from the constant practice of the House ; in either case it was equally binding ; and the Hun. Gentleman had no right therefore to bring forward the amend ment of which he had given notice, or to proceed with the discussion on which he had attempted to enter. The Hon. Gentleman endeavoured to create a prejudice against the House, by saying that he would have to go and tell his constituents that be was not allowed to Le heard on that occasion. The Hon. Member was perfectly at liberty at any day that he thoug ht p ro p er to mote f o r leave to bring in a Bill totally i different from the Mole the House. If he succeeded n carrying that Bill, and the HoUse of Lords agreed with him, the Poor-law Amendment Act would be totally repealed. The Hon. Gerdeman's constituents ahocld be informed that the Hon. Gentleman would hare a perfect and fair opportunity, whenever he pleased, upon a regular d a y, an d upon regu lar notice, of bringing forward that question. But the Hon. Gentleman had no right to set aside all the rules of the House, and to proc ee d e i n a course w hi c h h e oug h t t o know was irregular ; and th en , b ecause h e was p re vented from oohing at defiance all the rules of the House, and throwing the wh o l e o f t h e d i scuss i on i nto con f us i on , to tell his constituents th a t w hi c h was not true ; namely, that he had not h a d an opportun i ty of a dd ress i ng t h e House on that subje c t. Mr. FIELDEN sa id a f ew wor d s i n explanation. We understood the Hon. Member to say that he bad intended to state his reasons for altering the rule of the House. Mr. WYNN said the Hon. Member was not at li berty to assign reasons at that time for altering the rule of The Committee House. The rule in such cases was str in g ent. Committee of the whole House was no lest subject to the orders of the House than a Select Committee. Mr. FIE LDEN then withdrew his amendmen t , and Clause 2 was agreed to. On clause 3 being proposed, amendment of con-. a few moments, while bo submitted an Mr. H. HINDE begged the attention of the House for that II r ib eNtVA clauseK L E b e Y p r o o s s t e p sidetable importance to this clause. intendedotaoorder.geflet,omovee ; notion had priority to any amend -, replied in the affirmative, and apprehended that his °A ;roceeded. He believed from what went of this clause. The CHAIR not to interfere with the parishes whic h Mr. WAKLEY ' the Noble Lord bad said the other night it was his inter,- had understood the language of the Noble tion bona fid e were under tbo government of Local Acts. He believed that effect, and certainly it had been so under stood out of doors, and he had been one of those who said the statement of the Noble Lord would give satisfaction. Since that time clause 3 had been examined by various local authorities connected • with parishes which were under systems of kcal government, and in several of these parishes a fear existed that the Poor-law Commissioners L th o e rd il to ouse would be enabled to interfere with their government, i not under this clause, at least under the Pocr-law Amend n.ent Act itself. A great number of these parishes had not only Lad great apprehensions on the subject, but had been put to considerable expense in consequence of legal proceedings having been instituted against them by tho Commissioners. Now be was anxious to learn from the Noble Lord whether the local boards were still to exercise the powers they had exercised, or whether the powers o f the Poor. law Act were to be strained against them. He was the more anxious for this statement on account of the contradictory opinions of the Courts of Law. He did not know what kg.-. 1 gentlemen called contradictory, b ut w h en tine: things were opposite, he ( Mr. Wakley) ca ll e d t h em contradictory, and thus it was with the opinions of the Courts of Law. Legal proceedings had been instituted against the perish of Sr. Pancras with respect to the government of that parish, which ended in the go vernment of the parish under the Local Act being confirmed ; but proceedings were instituted against other parishes, and it appeared that the law was laid down in thi; manner—that althouph the Commissioners could not interfere where the guardians were elected in a single parish under a loc a l A c t, y e t if the parish became united with other parish es , and a union was formed, then the Com missioners could interpose their authority. There were `►a }