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Mr. Neale's powers are very various, and he sketches character with great freedom and rapidity ; his Dr. Caustic is an excellent specimen of dry humour and singularity. Nor is he less at fault in the more romantic portions of his narrative, happily blending a very in teresting story with the shifting adventures of a naval surgeon's life."--Alorning Herald. Henry Colbern, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. TO BE HAD AT ALL THE LIBRARIES. Now ready, in 3 vols., post Bvo., SCHO OLP ELLOWS; or, A BY-WAY TO FAME. By RICHARD JOHNS, Esq. Author of " Legend and Romance, African and European." "We re ommend The Schoolfellows' to all lovers 14 strong and rhetorical fiction. The author is a vivid and powerful writer, and has produced a work of an original and striking character."—Literary Gasette. Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. T HE THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. UNDER the MANAGEMENT of MADAME VESTRIS. THIS EVENING. JAN. 28. Will be repeated Elsakspere's MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM. Theseus, Mr. Cooper; Quince, Mr. Bartley; Bottom, Mr. Harley ; Flute, Mr. Keeley ; Snout, Mr. Meadows ; Snug, Mr. F. Matthews ; Hermia, Mrs. Nisbett ; Oberon, Madame Vestris ; Titania, Mrs. W. Lacy ; Puck, Miss Marshall; First Fairy, Miss Rainforth. After which, The NEW GRAND CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME will be repeated, entitled THE CASTLE OF OTRANTO; OR, HARLEQUIN AND THE GIANT HELMET. Harlequin, - 11;7 C. J. Smith ; Clown, Mr. T. Ridgway ; Pantaloon, Mr. MorPlli ; Columbine, Miss Fairbrother. ► To-morrow, The Merry Wives of Windsor, with The New Pantomime. _ ----- Doors to be opened at half-past Six—the performances to commence at Seven o'Clock. Titkets and places for the BOXt3 to be thken of Mr. Grogan at the Box-office, from Ten till Four, where Season Tickets may oe had upon application. Dress Boles, is. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.; First and Second Circles. ss. ; Second Price, 2a. 6d. ; Pit, 3s. ; Second Price, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. Private liOxe 4 to be had solely of Mr. Andrews, bookseller 167. New Bond-street. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Engagement of the Celebrated Cask Vaulter , in addition to Ainsworth's triumphantly successful Tower of London, and the acknowledged best pantomime, which are attracting brilliant overflows every evening. THIS EVENING, JAN. 28, Will be acted a Grand Historical Romance, founded on and entitled THE TOWER OF LONDON. The Tableaax Vivans, splendid Costume, and Appointments, from the Designs of the celebrated George Cruikshanks. After which will be repeated the Grand Traditionary Pantomime, entitled HARLEQUIN AND MY LADY LEE ; OR, GOOSEY GANDER AND THE SPELL-BOUND GOSLINGS. En which the astonishing and incredible evolutions of the Cask Vaulter will be given, as well as Brunning's Grand Dioramic Synopsis of Syria ; the Pantomimic Characters by the unri valled Boleno Family; Mr. Southby, the Original Clo.vn ; Miss Sharpe, Columbine ; and the astonishing Gymnastique, Signior Felix Carlo, from Franeonrs, at Paris. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mcrning...... 5 mikutes after 5 I Evening 21 minutes after 5. LONDON: THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1841. The Lords met at Oneo'Cluck to carry up the Address. Lord ARDEN and the Bishop of CHI CHESTER took their seats. The Commons met at the usual hour. Colonel BRUEN took his seat. grant to M. aynooth, for Petitions against the the abolition of Church-rates, and for redress for SARAH YOUNG, and fur the suppression of idola trous worship in InO.ia, were presented by Mr. PHILLIPS, Mr. EA Capt. PECIIELL, and Sir R. INGLIS. A new writ was, issued for Reigate. Notices were given by Sir E. SUGDEN of a Bill, ou Tuesde y, to amend the administration of justice in the }louse of Lords and Privy Council; by Lord ASHLEY to reappoint, this day, the Fac tories' Committee ; and by Lord J. RUSSELL for a Committee, on Monday, to inquire into the state of South Australia. On the Report of the Address being brought up, Sir R. 'Notts adverted to the omission from the Speech and from the debates of all notice of the repeal agitation in Ireland, which the Hon. Baronet regarded as worse than the omission of France. Lord J. RUSSELL laughed at the Baro net's ingie and his fears, and implied that it would be giving the repeal agitation a great deal too much importance to mention it in the Royal Speech. The Report of the Address was adopted with out further discussion. On mos:lng the Sessional Order ; and on the third relating to the ,COMMittee 0 Petitions,lLord STANLEY suggested that petitions containing mat ters reflecting on individuals should not be published till after the Report of the Committee. Spveral Members spoke Oil this suggestion, and an agreed that libellous petitions were requently presented to the House, with a view o have them printed. In general, it seemed to b. agreed that every Member should use his irtvn discretion about 'moving for the printing of petitions, and the usual Sessional Order was pasted without alteration. '** should apprehend that in the , Ittar e ye of the the sending a libellous p etition to the House of tOinmons was equivahent to a publical ion, and we Cannot see what useful privilege would be violated, by making the parties who send such petitions, whether printed. or not, responsible to the law for their contents. Why should, the y House of Commons throw its shield over a slanderer ? If individuals were as liable to prose cution fin• publishing libels in that mode as pub lishing them in any other, they would soon be cautious, and the House of Commons would not be insulted by being made the instrument for disseminating libels on private character. Mr. BROTHERTON moved his usual resolution, that no new business, objected to by five Mem bers, should be brought on after twelve o'clock. Mr. EWART and Mr. O'CONNELL supported the motion. Lord JOHN RUSSELL opposed it. Mr. HUME suggested that no debate should be adjourned more than one day. On a division, Mr. BROTHERTON'S motion was lost by 130 to 31. We can believe that such an order might be at times an inconvenience, but the public will expect that laws should not be made when ho nest men are asleep. Mr. EWART supplied the public with another example of the . purity of those who are to make all others pure, by pointing out that Members who had local interests were placed on all Com mittees on private Bills, so that the Committees were divided into partizans, and contests were prolonged greatly to the injury of the petition ing parties. If the Committees were properly constituted, it is the opinion of a skilful Parlia mentary agent, a bad cause would be frequently dropped. To remedy the evil, Mr. EWART pro posed that the Committee of Selection should choose the Members of Committees amongst those Gentlemen who were personally and lo cally the least interested. Sir G. GREY, Mr. LABOUCHERE, and others, hoped the Hon. Member would not press his mo tion to a division, and would wait to see the re sult of an improvement already made. Mr. GouLuunN denied that Committees were purely judicial tribunals, and advocated the prin ciple of composing them of Members locally interested. Mr. AGLIONBY, Mr. WARBURTON, Mr. HUME, and others, supported the motion, which, on a division, was lost by 22 to 24, and the Commit tees are to be composed, as heretofore, of local jobbers. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the law of Copyright; but Mr. WARBURTON strenuously opposing the motion, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman post poned it to Friday. Mr. HODGES obtained leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of the Constabulary in England and Wales. At Eight o'Clock the House adjourned. There was one very remarkable, and for us ex tremely pleasant, feature manifested in the debate on Tuesday evening to which we must call public attention. Lord BROUGHAM spoke of the French being "jealous of honour, sudden and quick in quarrel," prone to take offence, and he made their disposition a ground for framing and adapt ing to it the policy of England. Viscount MEL BOURNE alluded also to their sensitiveness, and no doubt regarded it as a reason for caution, though he said it was not to dictate the policy of other nations. The Duke of WELLINGTON pro fessed the greatest respect for France, and de clared that he had done more than any man to sustain her honour and integrity, and keep her in her place in the councils of Europe. That Mr. GROTE and Mr. HUME should refer to the feelings of the French as an ele ment worthy of consideration in our na tional policy, is not to be wondered at ; but they professed not a greater deference to those feelings than Sir ROBERT PEEL, whose chief cause for blaming the Ministers was, that they had not sufficiently considered nor con sulted the feelings of the French. Now, this al most universal deference in Parliament to the feelings of a foreign nation, as an important element -in national policy, strikes us as some thing novel, and certainly it is for us something very pleasing. But if so much deference is to be paid to the feelings of the Frencli,—if their sensitiveness to insult, their love of honour, their spirit of inde pendence are to be so much attended to, —if Tory statesmen profess that, why are the feel ings of the people of England and Ire land to be set at nought and outraged by Tory statesmen, as if they were so many dogs ? Their policy proceeds on the prin ciple of disregarding the feelings of our people, and of coercing them into submission. They profess not to take them into account. They will not assil the Grand Turk against a vassal without the greatest precaution, lest the feelings of the French be hurt ; but they will exclude millions from the franchise in England and Ire land, and vex those they admit to it by new re gistration laws, in open and avowed defiance of the feelings of the people of England and Ireland. Abroad they consult the feelings of the people in their policy; at home they despise them, and claim great credit to themselves for magnanimity in doing so. What is the source of this difference ? Is i t that our statesmen regard the French as a nation on an equality with them, which they know they cannot and dare not outrage with impunity, while they regard the people of England and Ireland as servants, or slaves, whom they may treat in any manner which suits their pur poses or their policy? We know no other solution of the difficulty. And hence your Sir ROBERT INGLISES, your Lord STANLEYS, and the whole rabble of ultra-Protestant, and ultra-coercive le gislators, pursue their own peculiar policy, ut terly regardless of the feelings of the Irish Catholics, the English Dissenters, and the great bulk of the working classes. Indignant remon strances, or humble petitions, alike go for nothing, because the religious and political tyrants of the people, enshrouded in a kind of prescriptive sanc tity, know, or fancy, that the irritated multitude will not strike at them, while they do know thr t the French, having no respect for them, will take no insult at their hands, and will pay injury with in jury, and outrage with :outrage. Me gentlemen who rely on the forbearance of the people to make in security the iniquitous laws which serve their own narrow and selfish party purposes, seem, then, to be cowardly as well as tyrannical, and only strike, and only plunder, where they feel confident they will meet with no resistance. Marking these things, we are not surprised that Mr. O'CONNELL—though we do not approve of his policy—should stir up his countrymen to agitate for a repeal of the Union, that they may, like the French, have an independent national existence, be treated on an equality, and be saved from the insults and the injuries which are now heaped on them by Protestant legis lators in the name of religion, and by despotic politicians in the name of the public welfare. Neither are we surprised that the working classes or the Chartists require a Parliament of their own. If they cannot be protected from a wrong by an independent national existence, w ith which to confront airsiisitoncoralcoyn,g longer it r toseemsb e snuba tural that they should tiie wish - ject to injuries • and insults dressed up in the so lemn garb of legislation. • Such a discrepancy strengthens the lesson which similar events have lon g impressed on the 1 people. Those who submit to inju r y • will it will have their rig hts respected • If the always he trampled o n ; those who repel Irish mean to enforce on the Protestant ma jority of the House of Commons a respect for their rights, and mean to scare my Lord STAN LEY, MY. EMERSON TENNENT, and Co. from in flicting a wrong on them by means of an insi dious enactment, they must use strong lan guage, and give them to understand that the Irish are no more to be insulted' a. d injured for the sake of a Protestant policy than the French for the sake of a Turkish policy. he working classes or Chartists desire to make the bread taxing aristocracy abstain from plundering them, they must convince the aristocracy that their feelings and their rights must be respected like ...----/ 4'!:•"" .* •4 . . ,-, (... 4, 4 '. 1 * '''.. e * ,‘%•• . 4 silor -I -N..; , ,4?, -2- - --- 4 •‘.- I L=t --0 . 0 4%;, - , ~, 40 • ~1. ' . 4 ,, ,' Ili rielr • - ni.4 4 .,_ , ,.... • - , ,s. -•:- --.?,..r.k, -- 10 • — A rr. 't , NO , ~ • - ~ , r- , ~,.. A-5 V....., cii .- -'"' '' _lfili,.• 1,.. The, ft.. 44. 44 , . 1 .14 f 4-V THR AID, LONDON, TITURSDAY„JANUARY 28, 041. those of the gentlemen on the other side of the Channel. It is impossible for our statesmen to profess respect for the feelings of the French, and go on despising those of the Irish, and trampling those of the English regardlessly under foot. With Marshal SOULT'S Fortifications' Bill on the table of the Chamber of Deputies, the ex- Ministers can safely taunt the opponents of that arbitrary and, to liberal France, ruinous mea sure, with not proceeding against them by im peachment. As was well observed by M. DE LAMARTINE, in the debate on Thursday, SOULT'S Bill is a bill of indemnity for the Cabinet of the Ist of March. Not that we for an instant sup pose that, had the illustrious Marshal not brought forward his Bill, an impeachment of M. THIERS and his colleagues could be successfully moved in the Chamber of Deputies. The popular and monarchical rage for walls is too strong for even the attempt to be made with impunity. So tho roughly has M. THIERS succeeded in mystifying and deluding - the bulk of the French people, that, forgetful of every lesson which history has taught them, and blind to the most glaring consequences of an adherence to the system which they are now supporting, they really feel persuaded that nothing but walls can save France from dangers which neither exist, nor can exist, save in the crazed imaginations of a people drunk with poli tical excitement. France will yet wake to a so ber sense of what she will have to expect from the fortification of the capital ; but we much fear it will only be when her ears are saluted with the bursting of shells in the faubourgs of Paris. Then indeed will she learn the value of the le gacy which M. TH IERS has left her. Then will she be in a condition to judge of the profundity of his Oriental policy ; if, indeed, his Oriental policy was not from the commencement a maturely designed prelude to the fortification of the capital. More than once has this idea occurred to us, nor on examination will it ap pear so improbable as at a first glance it may seem to many of our readers. The fortifications of Paris has been one of the darling objects of Lours PHILIPPE'S policy since his accession to the throne. The works would have been begun on an extensive scale in 1832 had not the people appeared alarmed at the prospect of the esta_ blishment of a military despotism. A pretext was wanted to undertake them with the po pular sympathies enlisted in their favour, and M. TRIERS, by a course of trickery on the Oriental question, has produced it. By first isolating France, lie made her appear as insulted in the eyes of unreflecting Frenchmen; and by next raising immense armaments, or rather pretending to raise them, he compelled the States threatened by him to arm in self-defence, and thus produced in France the impression that the country was threatened by a coalition as powerful and as hostile to France as that which broke the imperial sceptre of NAPOLEON. When the public alarm was at its height, lie sud denly dropped his bullying menaces about marching on the Rhine, and all at once brought forward his plan for fortifying Paris. A general shout for walls and fortresses followed, and by his manoeuvring he has contrived to keep up the popular excitement. But if anything could immediately open the eyes of the French people to the real object of the fortification of the capital, it would be the speech delivered to, the Chambers on Friday by Marshal SOULT. The gallant Marshal declared frankly that it was detached forts, not walls, that he wanted ; but that rather than lose the forts he would take them cumbered with the walls. The walls are useless in a struggle between the Government and the Parisian mobs, and there fore the Marshal cares nothing about them. On this occasion the gallant Marshal's precipitancy well nigh ruined the schemes of the ex-President of the Council. M. TRIERS became alarmed that the truth would out ; the gallant Marshal was again brought before the Committee which had sanctioned the Report upon which the Bill was based, and when properly schooled in his part, M. THIERS announced in his name that the walls would materially add to the security of Paris. The Marshal has a little too much of the honest frankness of a soldier about him to be altogethe r left to himself in the management of such a deep laid plot against liberty. But in M. THIERS he finds a prompter of whom Satan himself might be proud. We greatly regret the omission of any allusion to our relations with France in her MAJESTY'S Speech from the Throne. Our Government is not unacquainted with the indignation excited in France by such silence on two former occasions. If the navigation of the Douro was deemed of sufficient importance to occupy a paragraph in the Speech, an equal extent of space might at least have been allowed to the expression of regret that France did not concur in our Levan tine policy, but that relying upon the justice and the moderation of the French KING and Cabinet, her MAJESTY felt confident that the peace of Europe would not be disturbed, and that, after the execution of the Treaty of July, the Govern ment would not be wanting in the support of any measures likely to increase the harmony between England and France. Such a paragraph would add greatly to the strength of M. GUIZOT and the peace party, and go far towards softening the feeling of acerbity which exists in the popular mind of France against England. The Paris Journals of Monday have all reached us. The debate on the Fortifications Bill was commenced on Monday by M. DE LATOURNELLE, who supported the plan of a continuous wall. M. JANVIER followed on the other side. M. GUIZOT next ascended the tribune, and defended the Bill as calculated to give stability to the peace of Eu rope. The Minister contended that the forti fication of Paris was not a party question, and that in so fir as forts would repress popular vio lence they merited the Conservative support of the nation. This is hinting pretty plainly the real object of the fortifications. The Parisians will learn the whole truth by and bye. France continues her disgraceful system of war in Africa. The following account of the latest exploits in that quarter is from the Journals of Monday : On the 31st the French troops marched from Cherchell to make a razz*, that is, to surprise, plunder, burn, and destroy a poor Arab village. The success of the expedi tion was not brilliant, for only twenty Arabs were killed, as many* wounded, and some oxen and mules captured. The tribe of Beni Honssa was Burp. iced with more suc cess. It made no resistance, and many escaped ; but the Deccan wah sacked, burned, and its flocks of five hundred 'sheep, thirty-five oxen, and ten calves taken. The capture of ten calves forms an appropriate climax to this record of French valour and hu manity. We are surprised that the French Journals are not ashamed of publishing t despatches in the face of their clamours t c jil the inhumanity of England in China, In , and ' Affghanistan. By the commercial treaty between Holland and France, all articles of Dutch colonial pro duce which hitherto were prohibited from enter ing France by land are now permitted to be entered at Strasburg and Sierck on paying the duties to which they would be liable on entering in French vessels. The duty on Dutch cheese and white lead is also reduced one-third. These are important concessions made to Dutch trade, but those conceded by Holland in favour of France are far more considerable :-Ist. White china-ware, of French manufacture; is only to pay the sante duty as common delft-ware. 2d. The duty on all kinds of French soap is reduced one-fourth. 3d. The duty upon French stained paper is reduced two-fifths. 4th. The duty upon French cutlery, mercery, lace, silk of kinds, is reduced one-half. sth. French wines and brandies in cask are to be admitted free of all Custom duties on their entry into the Dutch territory, and when in bottle the duty on wine is to be re duced three-fifths, and one half on brandies. A reduction of one-half is to be made on the duties payable on French wines and brandies on being and Le e x T p i o l r tee journals d tothe L D a u F te r h an co ce lr Le ies. National, Commerce were seized on Monday at the post office for the publication of some letters stated RAND oAilz 111 1831 by the KING to 1831 and 183'2. We sub join the extracts from them, and the comments d ' them to be a gross forgery. As to the previous scarcely observe that we believe' every wor of bMY . aE thereon, 'r A France i- published LE r by letters, the first history of them appeared in The ;Sun The National publishes some fragments of letters, said by La France to have been written by Louis Philippe, and the originals of which are said to be in the hands of M. de Larochejaquelin. The National considers that as La France has not been seized, these letters may be consi dered as historical documents, and proposes to publish them under the title of " The Policy of Louis Philippe, explained by himself." The first letter is said to contain a promise to abandon Algiers, in the following words : " As to the occupation of Algiers, I have most powerful reasons for faithfully fulfilling the engagements which my family made with Great Britain. Under those circum stances I trust that his Majesty's Government will allow me to choose my own time and measures." _ The second letter treats of the last insurrection in Po land, and is headed by the National, " The French Ca billet claims the honour of having murdered Poland." In this letter the following passage is to be found : " The Cabinet of St. Petersburgh ought to thank us, and not the conqueror of Warsaw, for having crushed this centre of incessant rebellion." The third letter refers to the fortifications of Pads, and is headed by the National, " The Detached Forts and the Dynasty.—A plan for subduing the Press."— This letter contains the following passage Be assured that I do not intend to abandon my plan of raising forts round Paris ; nor that of subduing the Press, our most dangerous enemy. The great part of the public writers are purchased; the others will follow their example. Let the Powers of Europe re_ member what consequences the revolution of July, 1830, might have produced. Let them recollect that it was by our sole and powerful will that wP governed this frightful popular ebullition, and let them judge from that of what we arc capable, and let not any of the Powers forget that we alone could have saved France and Europe, and that we have saved them. Let neither Vienna, nor St. Peters burgh, nor Berlin, forget that." " All commentary," concludes the National," would be feeble after those revelations. Past events are explained by them—future consequences are to come. It is for France, who has supported one, to see whether she will submit to the other." We have the following letter from Toulon, dated 12th January. Nothing has yet been done precisely to disarm the squadron, but the armaments are definitely impeded. A commencement was made a month ago with dismissing some workmen, and now all of them are discharged that had been levied in the bth Maritime district. The Go. vernmcnt seems to have given up the intention of letting the squadron go to sea; this resolution would be fully ap proved in the Port, for in fact our ships would go and get damaged off the Hieres island, and it would have been difficult to repair them, for you must know, and this is certain, that the most essential stores arc now wanting in the Port of Toulon, so that if a ship of the line were to lose a main-top mast or a main-yard, the loss could not be supplied. ELBINO, JAN. 9.—Travellers who came from Poland, report that not only in Warsaw, but in the whole king dom of Poland, especially in the Western parts, con siderable bodies of Russian troops f are concentrated. Nothing has yet transpired as to the object of the assem bling of such a great force in Poland. MONDAY, JAN. 35. first Highest Lowest last Price Price. Pricy Price French& per Cents ll2 110 ... 112 65 ... 112 43 ... 112 50 4% per Cents...— lO.l 50 ... 1112 50 ... 1112 AO ... 102 50 4 per Cents ll9 ... 99 ... 9I .. 99 3 per Cents 77 25 77 25 ... 77 ... 77 50 Sank 01 &lance Gallia* bank I.ooof. Sh lO5O ...1 1 150 ...1050 ...1850 5000 f. Shares bill 50 .4117 50 ...5117 50 ...5117 50 Belgian Bank 3 per Cents ..«.« 6B 65 ... 68 65 ••• ' 46 65 ••• 68 65 New LINN DA % ... 98 1 4 p ... 98% ... 98% Spanish Active ys s‘ ... 25% ... 25% ... 25% Passive... 914 ... 0% ••• 6 % —• 6% The landed aristocracy continually call out that the people want to divide their estates, and to take away their property. In the meantime the landed aristocracy actually take away by a bread-tax, and continually take away, the pro perty of the people. Do the aristocracy make such a pother about an imaginary and appre hended wrong to blind the world to the great wrong which they continually commit ? ROYAL MARINES.—An order was on Tuesday received at the Woolwich division of Royal Marines to forward immediately two recruiting parties, one to Edin burgh, under the command of Captain Philips, and one to Hereford, under the command of Captain Wright. It is said similar orders have been issued to the other divisions at Chatham, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, preparatory to a considerable augmentation of this force. The number of companies about to be raised is twelve, which will give commissions to twelve Captains and twelve First Lieu tenants, and the appointment of sixty sergeants and sixty corporals, five sergeants and five corporals being attached to each company of marines, while there are only three sergeants and three corporals attached to companies of the line. The difficulty which at present exists in obtaining men for the Royal Marines, renders it probable that for the more speedy raising of the number required, a reduc• tion of the standard of height, or an addition to the amount of bounty, will be resorted to. FUNERAL OF MR. TASCHEREAU. This young gentleman, nephew:of the late Judge Taschereau, of Quebec, in whose untimely fate all have sympathised, was wrist/Irons the hospital on Wednesday_last to thk,sSacristy adjoining the church St. Nicholas, where he remained tilt Friday, when be was removed into the church, which was hung with black for the occasion, and the solemn high mass of the Catholic Church for the dead was chaunted. The British Consul and a great number of most respectable English and French families attending on the occasion, and following the funeral precession to the cimetiere. We regret to say that the bodies of one sailor and of Mr. Webster have not yet been discovered. The latter had, we hear, besides two gold watches and chain, upwards of two hundred pounds about him at the time of the accident. We hear that he possessed an annual income of nearly 4,0001, which he inherited by the death of his father, who was drowned two years ago, with his mother and two sis ters, on a voyage from New York to New Orleans. Boulogne Gazette. In the case of Neeld v. the Duke of Beaufort, the Vice-Chancellor on Tuesday decided in favour of the Noble Duke, to whom the peaceable possession of Willey Gorse will immediately revert. Tuesday Mr. Butler, late lessee of the Olympic, was liberated by the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on bail. His insolvency arose from the failure of the Olympic Theatre, wherein the insolvent had expended a large sum of his own, and had incurred various debts now inserted in the schedule. The debts were upwards of 1,2001., and had, with the exception of about 40/., been contracted on account of the theatre. Loss oF THE FAIRY.—NobIy has the public responded to the praiseworthy exertions of Captain Hornby, C. 8., of her Majesty's Dockyard, Woolwich, to alleviate the loss which the widows of the purser and ship's company of her Majesty's ship Fairy have ex perienced—the amount already collected being now up wards of t3OO/. Amongst the most recent subscribers is her Majesty the Queen Dowager, for the sum of 100/ , which has been received here. - On Monday morning a lad named Evans, the son of a labouring man, was placed in the stocks at Watford, under rather peculiar circumstances, and which have created a good deal of interest in the town and neighbour hood. It appears that about seven o'clock on Sunday evening, Evans, the lad in question, was walking down the High-street, Watford, with four wild rabbits in his hand, when he met Mr. Capel, a county justice, who asked him some questions about the rabbits, and he told him he was going to take them to a person in the town. Mr. Capel then charged him with offering them for sale, and laid hold of him, and called for a constable and ordered him to take him to the cage and lock him up, and the after did so, and he remained all night in the cage with nothing but some straw to lie upon. The next morning he was taken to the private office of Mr. Pugh, where Mr. Capel attended, and upon his own view convicted the defendant in the pe nalty of 51. for following his worldly calling on a Sunday, and in default ordered that he should be put into the stocks. The boy said that be would try and get the money, and the officer accompanied him for that purpose, but being unsuc cessful, he was eventually placed in the stocks, and re mained there for two hours on Monday morning before ne was released. The-father of the boy has- for a grcat many years been employed in the establishment of the Earl of Essex, and his mother in that of Lord Clarendon. and it does not appear that he was ever before charged with any offence. PUBLIC REWARDS.—THE LATE CAPTAIN HEWETT.—The situation of Captain Hewett's family is a good example of how public rewards are distributed. " Captain Basil Hall has published an appeal to the grate ful feelings of the nation in behalf of the widow and eight children." The question which strikes every man is, why should Captain Basil Hall have been compelled to do anything of the sort? Captain Hewett was a remarkably industrious man In her Majesty's service ; and although he lost his life in a branch of it in which the man of science has to smother many of the it:dilections of the sailor,lhe has left behind him the fruits of his labour, at the Admiralty, which will save thousands from he sudden watery grave which he met himself. Fortunately for us " Gentle men, who live at home at ease," and think " nothing of the dangers of the seas," as the Burns of our navy once sang, the late Captain Hewett had no chance of distinguishing himself. But look at Admiral Stop ford's despatches. Does he not give to the gentleman who sounded so beautifully every spot where every anchor was to be cast his share of the victory ? The late Captain Hewett was employed in the same business at home ; and he, and his wife's brother, and his eldest son, were l os t one n i g ht while we were s ittin g at ho m e by our firesides I And Capt. Ba sil Hall has " to a pp eal to the g ra t e f u l f ee li ngs o f the nation" for his w i d ow 1 Shame on it. Sh ame on us, if private charity is thus to do publie justice! Shame on us, if the widow of such a man as Hewett is, after privations hardly heard of in romance, to starve with a large family, on a dead Lieutenant's pension. Why do we say this? B:- cause we know (it was quite an accident that we did know it) that the stream of private charity is stopped towards the family, from a conviction that the Go vernment ought to take care of the widow, and that not niggardly, for we cannot rep lace husband, son, and brother. [Th e above remarks wer e su gg ested to the writer by a gent l eman , w ho is a large subsc ri be r t o the fund. Th ey are no t in his own words , but i t is the substance. He is an influential M.P. and F. R. S., and seems to li ve on ly to do good, forgetting politics wh e r e science is conc erne d. Many of his remarks about the pen- Sion, given to Messrs. Somerville, Airy, Faraday, &c., are omitted ; but if the Government, Whig or Tory, does not remember the dead as well as the living, something will be said of these matters hereafter.] —Morning Herald. Gilbert Abbott a'Beckett and Henry Pyne, Esquires, were yesterday called to the bar, by the Hon. Society of Gray's Inn. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS• CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING, To day the Funds were still depressed by the pre vailing- disinclination of most parties to speculate or invest, unless at a turn in their favour, until it is known how the ways and means of the country will be raised. Consols for immediate transfer receded again per cent., being marked 898 to 1, and for time the accurrent value was 891 to The market closed heavily. Bank Stock was rather firmer at 169 i, and East India :Stock was steady at 250. In the heavy Stocks a good business was dune, but it was at prices rather more against the sellers. The New Three-and a-Half Per Cents, ranged from 98 to 971 ; the Three per Cents., from 891 to 90 ; and the Reduced Taree and-a-Half per Cents. from 988. Exchequer Bills were worth 4s. to 6s. premium, and East India Bonds ss. discount. Business in Foreign Market was dull all day. Spa nish Actives were worth 241 to 241 ; Portuguese, New Five per Cents declined from 324 to 31i, but rallied and closed at 321 ; Columbian Stock was without al teration, but Mexican was 281 to 281 ; Peruvian brought 154 ; Buenoa Ayres, 22 to 2l 4, and Brazilian, 734 to 73 ; Dutch Two-and-i-Half per Cents., were at 50k to 49i, and the Five Per Cents at 99k to 98k. The Market for Shares kept up pretty well. Great Western brought 27 ; the Fifths 6 7 1- to 6,1 ; the Bir mingham Quarter 25 to 241 ; and the New 28 prem. 'FI:e cause of the advance in the Birmingham Shares is said to be a plan that has been projected far calling up an additional capital to pay off the certificates, and thus relieve the Ccmpany of these incumbrances at once. The Indigo sales terminated this afternoon. The quantity actually sold was 4,200 chests, being more than usual at this time of year, and the prices realized were fully equal to expectation, and such as give rise to the hope of a brisk trade in most branches during the summer. (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—We have bad a flat market to-day, the sales are barely 1,200 bags, at about yesterday's prices. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JAN. 26.--Eastera Coun ties, Si ; Debentures, 5 / 1 ; Great Western, 921 ; Half_ shares, 63 624 ; Fifths, 101- ; Liverpool and Manchester Half-shares, 91 ; London and Birmingham, 180; Quarter Shares, 304 ; South Western, 58. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 26.—With the exception of en inquiry for London and Birmingham Railways, our market continues very flat. Manchester and Leeds 76 ; London and Birmingham Quarter Shares 311 ; Ditto, New, 32/. Shares, 20 prem. ; London and South Western 571 to 584; Manchester and Birmingham 25 to 251; London and Birmingham 186 to 188; Ditto 321. Shares 60 to 61 ; Bank of Manchester 9i to 94 ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank 10i to 10i. The market left off rather heavy yesterday, at 891 for the Account, Money 891 Consols opened this morn ing at the leaving off prices of yesterday, with little doing to the present hour; but the market has rather a firmer ap pearance, owing to the discussions in both Ilouses of Par liament on the Address to her Majesty's Speech, as well as the friendly disposition of the Government towards France. Exchequer Bills rather lower, 4 6 prem. ; Bank Stock 168 170; India Stock 250 251. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active also receded on her Majesty's Speech being published, from 2q-, 251 to 241 k, at present 241 -1-; Deferred 121 ; Passive 6i; Portuguese left off at 32k, opened the same ; Three per Cents. 201 ; Brazilian 73 74 ; Buenos Ayres 20 22 ; Chilian nothing done; Mexican 281 1; Dutch Two-and a- Half per Cents. 501 ; Five per Cents. 994-. SHARES.—Great Western 26} 271 prom. ; New Ditto 121 131 prem. ; London and Brighton 7 6i dis. ; Black wall 44 dis. ; Birmingham improved, 90 92 prem. ; Southampton 57 58 per share ; Croydon 121 per share ; Greenwich 84- 1 per share; Manchester and Birmingham 15 14 per share. PRICES OF SIIARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Great North of England 70 Great Western ..::. London and Brighton London and Birmingham 9O Ditto New Shares London and South Western 3B& 5B ... .. to Manchester and Leeds JOINT STOCK BANKS. Australasia (New) 4O s4i to -- _. . __ __ Colonial Although the speeches in both Houses of Parliament are of a very pacific tendency, they have not had any effect on the British Funds during the course of the morning, nor have they produced any spirit for speculation. Consols have been fluctuating diving the morning at without a feature worth noticing ; Money 891 ; Exchequer Bills rather lower, 6 4 prem. ; Bank Stock 169} ; India Stock 250; India Bonds 5 dis. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active' has been done at 241, at present 244; Portuguese lower, receded from 324 to 314 ; Three per Cent. 204 4 ; Mexican, 284 4 ; Buenos Ayres also lower 214; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 501 ; Five per Cents., 994, receded to 984. In the Share Market scarce anything doing. Great North of England, 56; Great Western, 92 ;;;London and Brighton, 434; New London and Birmingham, 60; Manchester and Leeds, 76. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Steck .......„..... 169 k India Stock .. 250 3 per Cent. Red 9O Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 89it Ditto Old Annuities 3, per Cent Red ...... .. 98i Ditto New Annuities... New 31 f per Cent .. ... 971 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 4pm New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 5001 6pm Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6pm Jan. 1860. l3 3-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...169 Oct 1859 .. l3 1-16 India Stock for Acct - Jan. 1860 l2i Consols for Opg FOREIGN FUNDS. A ustri an, 5 per Cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian, 5 per cent 9BA Ditto, New Ditto..... 32A Brazilian Bow's .. .. .. 73 Prussian, 5 per cent.... BuenosAyres, 6 per cent 22 Russian, 5 per cent. . . Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 244. Ditto, 1824 ..... 23} Ditto, Deferred .. Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... —f. —c. Greek.lB2s, spercent. Exchange : —f. —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 281 French,3 per cent —f. —c. Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 21 per eent 491 Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. 151 Ditto, 5 per cent..... SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 80 Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)... ..... Si Great North of England Railway ...... .. ... 56 Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92 Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) loi London an Brighton (50 paid) .. . 43i London and Blackwall Railway ( 22 k pd) lti London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) 29i London and Greenwich Railway (20 paid) Ditto Scrip. ( 2 paid) London and South Western S7A Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. ...... North Midland Railway (100 paid) — Ditto New Shares (40 paid) . 3B DESPERATE ATTACK UPON THE POLICE AT GLINDLEToN, NEAR CLITIIEROE:—OR the night of Thurs day week, three of the rural police stationed at Clitheroe, named Robert Whiteside, Andrew Madden, and James Neild, accompanied by Mr. Christopher Lancaster and Mr. William Lancaster, cf Clitheroe, went to the beer shop of Peter Hitchen, of Grindleton, about three miles from Clitheroe, to apprehend a notorious poacher named John Briggs, of Sawley, and James Dickinson, on charges of poaching and assault. On arriving at Hitchen's, the police found both of them there, and they were immediately seized by the officers. They both made a violent resistance. Briggs drew a knife, but it was wrested from him, and he then drew a loaded pistol, ready capped, and this was also seized and taken from him, when, after a desperate struggle, the police succeeded in handcuffing both of them. They would not, however, walk a yard, and Madden, therefore, went off to Clitheroe for a post-chaise. During his absence, how ever, about 50 or 60 ruffians, six of them armed with guns, attacked the house, and broke open the door. They then demanded the release of Briggs and Dickinson, and threatened the lives of the police if they did not obey their commands. A struggle ensued, when the officers were overcome by the force of numbers, and the prisoners were rescued. On leaving the house, several shots were fired, arid the mob hissed and hooted in the most furious manner At this time Madden arrived with the chaise, and on alighting, he was attacked in the most brutal manner with b!udgeons. He, however, got into the house, and the door vu4 again cloud, They then broke the windows, and fired several shots into the room, some of which took effect on Christopher Lancaster's arm and Madden's legs. Sa armed ruffians then forced the door, and de manded ten shillings, or they would take their lives. The money, we believe. was given to them, and the police left the house, when they were attacked at the door with blu3geo3s, and M 4Jen received a severe blow on one of hi.; arms. Oa the follosing morning, Briggs and Dick inson went through Chatbura, armed with guns; and be. twecn that place and Downham they met Mr. Littledale's gamekeeper, whom they knocked down and kicked in a savage manner, and he now lies seriously ill of the injuries he received. These desperate characters, we are sorry to say, arc still at large. They are the terror of the whole neighbourhood, and we trust the police will spare no effort in apprehending them.—Presten, Chronicle. CHARTIST BiPTISMS.—The Chartist places of Sunday convocation, or " preaching shops," as Mr. Moir, the tea-dealer, termed them, continue to be attended by numerous misled tradesmen and their families, and the form of baptism has been gone through on sixteen to twenty children in one day. It is usual to give the children the Nimes of some demagogue orator, or treason able felon, who is suffering in the cause of the Charter. On a late occasion, there were three John Frosts, an Ann O'Connor, and a Mary Vincent, named in the " Noddy" Church, when no fewer than twenty-five ehildr(n went through the form of baptism. —Glasgow Courier. THE INUNDATIONS AT BRENTFoRD.--The sukeripiion in behalf of the unfortunate destitute boatmen, their wives and families, and the poor cottagers, is pro gressing favourably. In addition to the sums already men tioned in the daily papers, the Vicar and Churchwardens have this day received, among others, the following sums :—Her Majesty the Queen has forwarded twenty guineas ; the Duke of Northumberland, 501. ; the Arch bishop of Canterbury, 10/ ; the Duke of Cleveland, 20/. ; George Byng, Esq., 11. P. for Middlesex, 301. ; Colonel T. Wood, M. P. for Middlesex, 51.; Colonel Wood, M. P. for Brecon, Si. ; Archdeacon Cambridge and Mr. Cam bridge, 101. ; Baroness de Rothschild, 101., &e. STRABISMUS.—Mr. Curtis, who has lately vi sited the hospitals of Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, &c., and witnessed Professor DietTznbach operate for squinting, bas. introduced a new mode of curing that de formity without an operation. LITERATURE. MRS. HALL'S IRELAND..Pair how and .Parsons,Londun, 1841. In this Part we have two very superior engravings —one of Youghall Church, which, with its deep wooded back-ground, forms a pleasing sylvan land scape ; and the ether of Bantry Bay, whose gleam ing waters, sunny islands crowned with old castles, romantic headlands fringed with copses, and distant precipitous mountains broken into a thousand fan tastic shapes, and projecting their dark shadows far across the wave, almost realise one of those lovely scenes in fairy-land, which, as Dr.. Johnson tells us, Collins the poet was so fond of dreaming of. In the literary department there are several amusing stories respecting old Irish superstitions— the most whimsical and original in the world ; and copious descriptions of the scenery in the neighbour hood of Cork, where Mrs. Hall seems delighted to linger, as though it were associated with her earliest tecollections. Of the lake of Gougane Barta she says—" A scene of more utter loneliness, stern grandeur, or savage magnificence, it is difficult to conceive ; redeemed, however, as all things savage are, by one passage of gentle and inviting beauty, upon which the eye turns as to a spring-well in the desert—the little island with its group of graceful ash trees and ruined chapel. Down from the sur rounding mountains rush numerous streams." The authoress then proceeds to quote a poem descriptive of this striking landscape, which was written in the year 1826 by Mr. Callanan, who died at Lisbon in 1829. We also have great pleasure in placing it before our readers, for, if we mistake not, it breathes the true poetic spirit, is stately and vigor ous in the march of its versification, and fervid and romantic in its turn of thought. Sir Walter Scott would have been delighted with it There is a green island in lone Gougane Barra Where Alla of songs rushes forth like an arrow ; In deep-valley'd Desmond a thousand wild fountains Come down to that lake, from their home is the moun tains. There grows the wild ash ; and a time-stricken willow Looks chillingly down on the mirth of the billow, As like some gay child that sad monitor scorning, It lightly laughs back to the laugh of the morning. " And its sone of dark hills—oh to see them all brightening, When the tempest flings out his red banner of lightning, And the waters come down 'mid the thunders' deep rattle, Like clans from their hills at the voice of the battle ; And brightly the fire-crested billows are gleaming, And wildly from Mallon the eagles are screaming : Oh, where is the dwelling, in valley or highland, So meet for a bard as that lone little island ! " How oft, when the summer sun rested on Clara And lit the blue headland of sullen Ivera, Have I sought thee, sweet spot I from my home by the ocean, And trod all thy wilds with a minstrel's devotion, And thought on the bards who, oft gathering together, In the cleft of thy rocks, and the depth of thy heather, Dwelt far from the Saxon's dark bondage and slaughter, As they raised their last song by the rush of thy water. gi High sons of the lyre 1 oh, how proud was the feeling To dream while alone through that solitude stealing; Though loftier minstrels green Erin can number, I alone waked the strain of her harp from its slumber, And gleaned the grey legend that long had been sleeping, Where oblivion's dull mist o'er its beauty was creeping, From the love which I felt for my country's sad story, When to love her was shame, to revile her was glory. " Last bard of the free! were it mine to inherit The tire of thy harp and the wing of thy spirit, With the wrongs which like thee to my own land have bound me, Did your mantle of song throw its radiance around me; Yet, yet OR those bold cliffs might Liberty rally, And abroad send her cry o'er tie sleep of each valley. But roue thee, vain dreamer l no fond fancy cherish, Thy vision of Freedom in bluodshcd must perish. " I soon shall be gene—though my name may be spoken When Erin awakes, and her fetters are broken— Some minstrel will come in the summer eve's gleaming When Freedom's young light on his spirit is beaming, To bend o'er my grave with a tear of emotion, Where calm Avonbuee seeks the kisses of ocean, And a wild wreath to plant from the bank of the river O'er the heart and the harp that are silent for ever." SCHLEGEL'S LECTURES. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1841. We have in this volume a - translation from the German of Frederick Schlegel, whose Lectures on the History of Literature, ancient as well as mo dern, have been long generally admired, both here and on the Continent. The Lecturer commences with critical sketches of some of the best Greek writers in prose and verse, and dwells with particu lar fondness on Thucydides, who appears to be his idol as an historian. His remarks on Homer have little novelty about them—but, - indeed, who can say anything new of this great poet ? and of Euri pides he speaks—at least so it appears to us•-••in a style at once flippant and superficial. He expa tiates on the faulty construction of his plays, in terms of superfluous exaggeration ; sneers at what he calls " his long, pedantic, and ill-placed dis quisitions ;" and awards him, as if grudgingly, the coldest measure of justice, when alluding to his pathos, which was exquisite, but too simple and natural, we suppose, for the artificial and somewhat fastastic task of a German philosopher and critic. The lecturer's estimate of Roman literature is, on the whole, judicious, though by no means remark able for any superior shrewdness or originality ; but as regards the French writers of Louis the Fourteenth's times, to this branch of his subject, M. Schlegel brings much subtle reflection, and able analytical criticism. His opinions, too, of modern English literature are worthy of attention, for here he shows himself a thoroughly discriminating scholar, who speaks his mind fearlessly, because he knows that, if called on, he can give reasons for the faith that is in him. ENCYCLOPie DIA B RITANNICA. VOL. XXL PART I. A. Black, Edinburgh, 1841. (SECOND NOTICE ) We resume our notice of this comprehensive and valuable work, which we were compelled to dismiss in a few hasty sentences the other day, owing to the crowded state. of our columns. The present Part, which, agreeably to the alphabetical arrange ment maintained throughout the Encyclopaedia, is confined to the consideration of subjects ranging under the letters S ar.d T, contains several carefully digested memoirs of men eminent in war, politics, literature, and science, together with disquisitions on practical matters, and con densed historical accounts of one or two European States. The treatise under the head " Surveying" exhibits a formidable array of mathematical figures and algebraical calculations, illustrative of the nature of the pursuit, whence we infer that it is one of slow and difficult attainment, argu ing the possession of superior scientific abili ties. Indeed the writer says as much, for the expressly tells us that " as a surveyor has perpe tual occasion for calculation, it is necessary that be be thoroughly master of arithmetic, and understand the nature of logarithms, the use of logarithmic tables, and algebraic notation. As it is his"busi ness to investigate and measure lines and angles, and to describe them on paper, he should be well acquainted with the elements of geometry and trigonometry, and with the application of their principles to the mensuration of heights, distances, and surfaces. In particular he should be familiar with the best practical methods of solving the ordinary geometrical problems, and should be expert in drawing - lines and describing figures. He should know something of the prin ciples of geology, optics, and magnetism, and pos sess some skill in drawing and painting. In other words a surveyor should be a man of remarkable scientific acquirements, and possess, besides, a competent knowledge of the Fine Arts, which is a combination of qualities which, we suspect, not one in a hundred possess. Under the words " Suspension Bridges we find a detailed notice of the late Mr. Telford's master-piece— namely, the Menai bridge, which connects Vie Island of Anglesea with the northern coast of Wales, but which, observes the writer, " has been greatly surpassed, both in length and height, by a far lighter and much less expensive one, though of great strength, which has since been constructed by M. Chaney, of Lyons, over the river Sarine, at Friburg, in Switzerland. This was completed in ISM. The span is S7O feet, and the roadway is elevated 167 feet above the water of the Sarine. The lightness of this bridge is in a great measure owing to its neither being suspended by chains nor solid iron rods, but by four cables of iron wire, each containing about twelve hundred iron wires, the united strength of which could support thrice the load they will ever be likely to bear, or three times the weight of two rows of loaded waggons extending over its whole length." The historical and geographical account under the title " Sweden," of this extenOee northern king dom, which in the reign of Gustavus Adolphus was the chief support of the Protestant faith, and in that of Charles the Twelfth was the bugbear of Europe, is condensed with great tact, for, on MORNING- EI:MON._ , . running our eye over it, we perceive that no one fact of importance is omitted, while, on the subject of the romantic vicissitudes of Gustavo Vasa—whose whole career is one of the most striking episodes in Swedish history—the w riter is as circumstantial as could be desirod• The bio graphical sketch of " Swedenborg," so we l l known for his religious fanaticism, which closely bordered on insanity, mentions a crr' cumstance which we were not previously a wait ' of—namely, that thi . , dreamy entaisiast, who re• yelled in fantastic visions of Heaven and HA and whose imagination was never for an ir-rstantilhe' commenced his literary career by an essay on the , Value of Money," the most practical and matt er : of-fact of topics I We remember meeting wily Swedenborg's works some years since, in a little inn! in a town of South Wales, and endeavoured I" master the contents of one of the volumes; but the task was hopeless, and after gettil perfectly bewildered with the crazy Swedf i e description of spiritual parties, consi s ting wh °11 1: of angels, and of cities and palaces whi ch exist in the other world, and various other absurch' ties, we flung aside the volume in the full c onvieti Jli that it was the most perplexing and ridiculous e ye s penned by mortal hand. In closing our notice ° ` this Encyclopaedia, we must not forget the plate which are executed in the very first style of art. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Court yesterday afternoo n 11 Buckingham Palace, for the reception of the Address° the Throne from the House of Lords. • al Shortly before two o' c l oc k th e i r L or d s hip s arrived the Palace from the Hou se o f L or d s ; th e L o rd Cb s :i cellor in his State Coach, wea r i ng hi s S ta t e Robes, erg attended by Sir George. Seymour. Sergeant-at-Ar °li t Sir George Clifford, Gentl eman U s h er o f the 1316 c Rod ; and Mr. Birch, Clerk Assistant of the Pa r "' ment. • Among the Peers w er e the A rc hbi s h o p o f CO„,, tog , bury, the Bish o p o f Li c hfi e ld, t h e Bi s h op o f Chiebelil Lords Ducie and Lure in (the Mover and Secoed„ . er the Address), th e M arqu i ses o f H ea df ort and P,4104 Earls of Wilton, Fi nga l!, an d Sh a f tes b ury, an d 14 Portman. The Deputation having been conducted to the gr e . e c s ) drawing-room were afterwards ushered by Sir Fred° Smith and Sir William Martins, the Gentlemen Gi ll : 0 : in Waiting, to the presence of her Majesty in the tbr room. His Royal Highness Prince Albert stood blir side of her Majesty, and the Ladies in Waiting, S i l : ters and Officers of State, stood on e ith er s ide. ir o Majesty's Honourable Corps of G en tl eme n-at-' O , lined the room, commanded by their Standard-be ° Mr. Robinson. Sr The Lord Chancellor, having the M ove r an r , A "o conder on either side, and followed by th e o ther P t y advanced to the foot of the Throne, and then resa * Address from the House of Lords, to which her 5 jesty returned a most gracious answer. Their Lorril then retired. O f The Court was attend e d by th e L or d P r i v y SO'y First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretary of Sts te _gr the Home Department ; the Marchioness of NO l by ar.d Lady Portman, Ladies in Waiting ; the t y Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master e° 11'o-se, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of G e ,:al , men at Arms, the Groom of the Stole to Prince lo o ld the Captain of th e Y eomen G uar d ; L or d Hdi, Stick in Waiting ; the Treasurer of the Houge b o y the Comptroller of th e H ouse h o ld, t h e Master of Buck Hounds ; the Earl of Morley, Gentles, Waiting on Prin ce Alb er t ; L or d Alf re d J, 4 Equerry in Waitin g ; C o l one l B ouver i c , Equer"„til Prince Albert ; Mr. James Bunce C ur li ng , e le ' s i the Cheque of the Honourable Corps of Geutlern e ,i Arms ; Masters Wemyss and Wil son , P ages of li ° •s in Waiting ; Sir Benjami n S m i t h, an d M r . ° I. " - , 11 Hancock, Exon in Waiting. The Earl of Listowel and Mr. Rich were the and Groom in Waiting. es° Mr. Alderman Gibbs and Mr. Thomas Far% the Sheriffs of Lond on an d Middl esex , acco ngs niol f the City Remembrancer, had an audience Queen to receive her Majesty's commands rel° ll oo, the reception of the Addr esses o f C ongrat ulati° o l the Court of Aldermen, and also from the C of Common Council. Her Majesty was pleased ° IV point Thursday (this day week) for receivid Addresses. The Queen's Guard of the Scots Fusilier with the band of that regiment, attended Bu tt Court on the Palace lawn. The Duchess of Glouce s t er v i s it e d her '7' yesterday. i, Her Majesty had a dinner party last eve Buckingham Palace. The company consisted V, Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent at:'rl yoo < i e j George of .Cambridge ` s_ nfthaltifigo Countess of Surrey, Lady MarHosrard,t Melbourne, co l Countess of Listow e l, Vi scount v,. : 1 , 11, and Viscountess Palmerston, Lady Fanny c 1 Lord and Lady Portman, Lady F an ny Howar , 2 and Lady Robert Grosvenor, H o n. William C 0 .30 Mr. G. E. and the Hon. Mr s . Anson, 1 1 °,, 11 : 0 0 0 1 Paget, Hon. Miss Lister,.Hon. Miss Murray, , r it ir Lehzen, Hon. C. A. Murray, Mr. Rich, Lev ° Paget, Colonel Bouverie, and Captain S.qmotir!,, o o l , The Sheriffs of Loudon and Middlesex, acee uir t, by the City Remembrancer, had audiences of his. Highness Prince Albert at Buckingham Palseel, i fts' her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent at I ° , House, Belgrave-square, yesterday. Yesterday was the birthday of his Royal els, the Duke of Sussex. His Royal Highness congratulatory visits during the day at his re st g 1,0 in Kensington Palace, from the Duke of C 1 1"" and the Duchess of Gloucester. • The Duchess of Kent took an airing yesteroll carriage. bad poi The Earl of Lovelace and Mr. D en i s on h° terview with Viscount Melbourne yesterday' it ) ing-street. Earl Fit zwilliam and Mr. Perri , had intervi2 the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the 1 4 °r ril t , r i ts0 J The Sultan's Agent in this country, has 131 . 0 1 4 be sent to Constantinople, a set of the newlY 4 r a f r , ? figures invented by Major Wathen, to e lueidatl, movements, similar to those lately made for 13 ' Highness Prince Albert. Colonel Peel, M.P., and Lady Alice pee l 11. rived at Farrance's Hotel, from Marble Hill, The Duke and Duchess of Sutherlan d ' I,e os ponied by the Marquis of Stafford, and the Ladle' if Gower, will leaveLilleshall, Staffordshire, ea r ' , ensuing week for Stafford House, for the se ason. itg l i The Earl of Sandwich has purchased 61 0 # sion in Dover -street, adjoining Vicount Powered? the Earl of Mexborough's. The Earl of Wilton arrived in town on i da lid e e vening from Eaton Hall, the scat o f t h e !T r ' 1 70 i Marchioness . ot Westminster, in Ch es hi re . 1-hoodil Earl has quite recovered f rom hi s i n di spos ition' to/: leave Grosvenor-square ut th e c l ose o f the "e-0 the Countess of Wilton, at Egerton L o dge, Me llo ' bray. the Viscount Lake was prevented attending t , ingof Parliament by a severe a tt ac k o f gou t. THE SETTLING OF THE Kt IUC.--I' e d e bli on good authority, that immediately after th e the Address, Lord Aberdeen arid the Dukc 0f,',0 11 ,0'l will introduce a bill into the House of Lords 10 ' fi r as they call it, tire Scotch Church question .. " ' Correspondent of the Globe. •or We have to record the demise .of Sir Henry Worsley, G. C. 8., which took plac e .. 4 o " in the Isle of Wight. The gallant Genera l 73d year. ni at f 4 * RELIEF OF THE WIDOWS AND OF 1 HOSE WHO PERISHED IN TIIE THAMES ST E T A n 'rj Is ° —Alderman Pule on Tuesday stated to the Jl - 0 0 to od that a distinguished member of Lloyd's had ogjii 00 , ) willingness to receive subscriptions for the 04 4 widows, orphans, and other relatives of the ° t ri be 'V, crew who perished in the Thames steamer 0 1 ' `det6, January, It was, he observed, unnecessary t ° , t 0 4 0 4, particulars, as the public papers had so fully ; 0 11 1711,, nature and horrors of the disaster, but his grc a ler,,,Y, coming forward on this occasion was to assure I P i ne ag and through his Lordship the public, that the "los t i j of the relatives of the poor fellows who v' re r ¢ . very great. The Lord Mayor expressed his g tae at the exertions which the highest characters 1 : for were determined to make to raise a subscriPti°ols' objects, and stated that he had no doubt of the r e ge t ?! THE WALSALL ELECTION.—We tbi9 f' formed that the private accounts received j u ij iit?;f l ; from Walsall are extremely favourable to Mr' it is evident, from %%list appears in the Toil r e g uff on the subject, that Mr. Gladstone's friends bons? alarmed by the present aspect of affairs in th ,:p€ s ,d/ Whether there is any good ground for thy' one party, or the fears of the other, ;s a r l 'i t t we cannot venture to offer an opinion; b ut t,r us great pleasure to find that such is the fee itt,ll eliester Guardians. A his IV Mr. Freshficld, M.P., has announce'. bo 06 tion to resign the representation of the unit ed j Penryn and Falmouth in a future Parliamen t- SETTLE.—Saturday the 16th was s od by a complete hurricane of wind and sn" W ',io , b, afternoon it turned to rain, accompanied by a ; 0 'l' towards night, became a perfect tempest. ~ , IttPlii of this, a poor journeyman tailor and a you',7 Iry ti~ldf house where they had been working. abr,,i 0 0 b ily from Settle, to return home ; they strugg `t:1 ,1 1,04i man's strength began to fail, wren the bO be 3 Le" and almost dragged him along till they re ar fi v e P o n 4 1 of the hill, looking down into Settle, abna t rii sP e je o r yards from home, when the lad, being ne a ,, o , 0° ,,i0 1 4 1' obliged to leave his now exhausted comPa ni ;,3 nrjity down into the town for help. Souse nu , ? tie of," diately ; but, though the poor man was s ee de jo i most immediately. The poor fellows bad, I n ie t ill) the I ouse where they bad been Welling 3Lettl6e in t; e evening, and the boy did not reac h . l ; sno r e in tie morning ; so th:t they had gone lit' ai i,cti: l 7 o 4ii !Idle an hour. There is something yerY a / poor boy having to assist the man..—Ken" , t 4 14 ,‘. Tide L k . et of tiara I to Q k ~ 't th e Pe. At Palac ' 411 1, ii 2 , the z S 10 4. i ld°6e ,Aran e le seat f 7t 4 tY of B for lel Ith w r 41 lilies trurth ei ith, any squir e 11 41 r . E 'Yor, 'tester On th it was Inn of Sir E. shoul Lords Lord luld flee, lia.etoi Lord xt he I ttee to Oath Sir aliv e w Jrtford pLord mmitl 'Ea ir Mr. en till laid , uBe, .r. ta E•4 d ita , \ :;1 1 1410 y, ; "gall,