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6PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Mr. Cobbett w mid seem to have taken it into his head that we have some idea of encroaching on his monopoly of infallibility. One Pope in the political world is quite sufficient at a time, and we know of no man better entitled to the Chair than Mr. Cobbett, for no man is more thoroughly satisfied that it is impossible for him ever to err. For our part, • a more extended ex perience has not unfrequently led us to change or modify our opinions; and we never, from any supposed necessity of appearing c ons i stent , make a show of supporting an opinion, when we no longer sincerely entertain it. In the f o llowing passage, which we extract from the Register of Saturday, Mr. Cobbett reproaches us under the title, for which we are indebted to his courtesy, with having been fallible on a sub ject in which he was not : " Now, Doctor, I directly accuse you, in the face of the public, of being either the most inconsistent or she dirtiest of writers; and this charge I make good thus :—in 1823 (I think it was, for I hare not the book before me), 1 said, and I repeated it several times in print, that the only way to prevent occa sional starvation in Ireland; the only effectual way of restoring that country to anything like a peaceable and happy state, was - , to establish Poor Laws in Ireland similar to those in England. I related, that when the collectors for Irish relief came to my house at Kensington, my ansWer was, I punctually and &eel-folly pay rates for the relief of the poor of my even parish—let Irish Gentlemen do the same, and where would he no starvation in Ireland. Whatever you were to receive from me, would be so much given to the Landlords of Ireland, and therefore not one farthing shat, you have.' I afterwards published a somewhat elaborat Essay, reproaching the Land iords of England with s t ',"roidity as well as cowardice, :Or not compelling the Irish Landlords to maintain their own poor. you, impunt, flippant, and shameless Doctor Black, published ViL7t you called an answer to my essay, in which you abuslqd ti proposal in the grossest manner; an ,said in si7b stance, although I cannot recollect th precise words, that the Irish Landlords had a right 'to their rents, and that the Irish poor had no rignt to relief. 1 :n?erted your paper; I knew the day would come, ;when you would be compelled to recant, and to seem to forget your Scotch barbarity. I will find the paper one of these days; and when 1 have it, 1 rill thrust it up under your nose." We have always, since the time of our ad dresaina the public on the subject, been a n ad ocate - for Poor Laws, though we confess that at one time we thought the Scotch Poor Law System preferable to that of England. We do not hesitate to state that we have seen reason to change our opinion in this respect, and that we are now satisfied the English system is -decidedly the best of the two. That we had at one time doubts as to the practicability of introducing Poor Laws into Ireland. we do not deny, and in the state to which the population of that coun try has been reduced, the task of introducing Poor La eve, will certainly be one of peculiar dif ficulty. But ifeee recollect right the answerto which Cobbett refers, as having been written by as to one of his Essays. was directed to a pro position. advanced by him, that the population of a country never could be excessive, - as for every mouth brought into the world there were a pair of hands, and the hands would always provide food for the mouth. We endeavoured to sa isfy Mr. Cobbett of the possibility of a redun dancy of people, and we hope we did not do so flippantly. One great reason for our pre ferring the English Poor Law system to that of Scotland, for Ireland, is that the former would compel the landlords to check the growth of a pauper population---the great source of the misery cf that country. Even an Irish family cannot live wholly. in the open air, but require time shed or cabin to put their heads in at time.. Now if the people were charged for their maintenance on the land, the Landlords would be obliged to prevent the erection of huts. We know that all political writers, till of late nears, agreed in making it an accusation against the Poor Laws, that they tended to depopulate the country. Dr. Burn, in his History of the Poor Laws, published in 1764, in speaking of the Overseers of the Poor, expressly says, that they consider it their business " to move Heaven and earth if any dispute happens about a settle ment, to pull down cottages ; to &flee out as many inhabitants, and admit as few as pons sly they can ; that is, to depopulate the parish in order to lessen the Poor Rate ;" and, if any faith to be placed in the table of the growth of the population_in England during the last century, the preliminary observations in the last Pilau,. iation Return, the efforts had been tolerably successful : for, from 1700 to 1750, the popula tion had only increased from 5,175,000 to 6,736,000. But even now, after the principles of the Poor Laws has been tampered with by Parliamentary; relaxations of the strictness o f settlements, we have only ie look to the Marriage Returns, in the Population Abstract, and compare them with wkat stated regarding other countries, to be satisfied th a t the Poor Laws even now keep down e ery considerably the number of inhabitants. _in an excellent work on the Mendiciay of East Flanders, by the Baron Keverberg, the Governor of that popul ous p rov ince , a work to which we have several times alluded (we have it not at hand at present), we were struck by the circumstance of the marriages being more nu merous in the country than in Ghent and the nther towns, and consequently the poverty &um superabundance of children being ,. muc h th e greatest in the country. Now directly the re verse of this takes place in England. In the agricultural districts, marriages are much less frequent than in -the manufiicturing districts. Iu Hereford, the marriages to the population are Ito 170 ; Hertford, Ito 17 9 ; ?routh, Ito 154 ; Northumberland, 1 to 145 ,• Rut land, 1 to 145 ; Shropshire, ! to 155 ; SUSSEX, .1 to 151; Wilts, 1 to 145 ; Worcester, 1 to 1 43 ; Essex, 1 to 150 ; Dorset, 1. to 154, &c. Now in Middlesex, the proportion is l to 106 ; Lancashire, 1 to 126 ; Warwick, i to 123 ; Stafford, 1 to 128 ; West Riding of York, 1 to 131. If, therefore, we find in England, not withstanding the dissipation in great towns, and ahe strong disposition of our agriciltural popu lation to early marriage, that marriages are yet much more frequent in the towns than in the country, to what are we to attribute this but to c hecks which lp t i l l i oi e sor P al the wholesome Lomoaor:, almost v rrim pose on the amounts population ? to a demonstration that the land, by restraining t h e operation of the great n cause of poverty, have coat tributed greatly to t h e prosperity of the country .—Mornzng Chronicl e . As the Finance Committee are about to re . assemble after the Easter adjournment, and ac it most desirable that they should receive as little obstruction or delay as possible in official qu arters, we think it right to inform them, that in many instances the orders which they have :issued for the production of accounts from the puplic offices have hten returnedto the Trea 2urv, •,;, unintelligible to the parties to whom ;hey ere addrec . ,,e(l. In the very numerotr orders which have been issued to the public de partments for information, it was to be expected that some obscurity or intricacy would arise ; but the complaints have been reiterated, we believe, from all the offices except One or two, and the Committee, when they meet again, will have to re-Issue orders for information, which, had the first application been perspicuously expressed, they would have now before them. It cannot reasonably he expected that Sir Henry Parnell, the Chairman, should be so conversant in the mode of doing business at the difierent Govern ment offices as to know exactly the precise form in which their accounts are kept, or the manner in which an interrogatory should be framed so as to he applicable to their pla'n of arranging their documents ; but it is not too much to expect that Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Ferries, who must possess the requisite knowledge, would suggest the form in such instances, in which the requi site information is to be sought, so as that the offices may have no excuse, but feel compelled to pay implicit obedience to the orders. When it is considered that the fate of many of these departments must depend upon the ultimate de cision of the Committee of Finance, it is na tural to expect that they will n o t eagerly afford facilities to lead to their own undoing. No delay, however, ought to arise in taking from them the reason or the pretext of the want of perspicuity in the applications for information.—Times. We insert a copy of the Bill for the repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, as it has come from the Commons for the discussion in the Lords. The declaration is extremely brief, and is, therefore, the better. But what surprises us most is the introduction of the Church of Scot land in the third clause. " Whereas the Pro testant episcopal church is established in Eng land and Ireland, and the Protestant Presbyte rian church is established in Scotland, therefore the test" (which was never used in the last uanzed iiagdonz) " shall be abolished in the other two, and a declaration used instead thereof. It is certaL.lv very invidious to introduce the of Scotland here ; as if she Presbyterian lOrk had required 4 ever ha:. l a test, upon the pretext that it wa, necessary for her I ;Teservation. Scot. land has no test or corporation acts : she never wanted any such ; and it is therefore a libel on the Church of England to say that she requires an artificial support, of which another church, founded, like her own, on Gospel truth, has 1 - ,o Deed. " Whereas an Act was passed in the 13th year of the reign of King Charles the Second, entitled, An Act for the well-governing and regulating of Corporations ;' and whereas another Act was passed in the 25th year of the reign of King Charles the Second, entitled, An Act for preventing danger which may happen from Popish recusants :' And whereAlknother Act was passed in the 16th year of the reign of King George 11., entitled, ' An Act to indemnify persons who have omitted to qua lify themselves for offices and employments within the time limited by law, and for allowing further time for that purpose; and also for amending so much of an Act made in the 25th year of the reign of king Charles 11., entitled, 6 An Act for prevent ing dangers which may happen from Popish recu sants,' as relate: to the time for receiving the sacra ment of the Lord's Supper now limited by the said Act: And whereas it is expedient that so much of the said several Acts of Parliament as imposes the necessity of taking the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites and usage of the Church of England, for the purposes therein re spectively mentioned, should be repealed; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Ma jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that so much and such parts of the said several Acts passed in the 13th and 25th years rof the reign of King Charles the Second, and of the said Act passed in the 16th year of the reign of King George the Second, as require the person or persons in the said Acts respectively described to take or receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the rites or usage of the Church of England, for the several purposes therein expriiss,ed, or to deiiviir a certificate or make proof of the truth of such his or their receiving the said sacrament in manner aforesaid, or as impose upon any such per son or persons any penalty, forfeiture, incapacity, or disability whatsoever, for or by reason of any ::eglect or omission to take or receive the said sacrament, within the respective pekiods and in the manner in the said Acts respectively provided in that behalf, shall, from and immediately after the passing of this Act, ii and the same are hereby repealed. I _ " And whe:eas the Protestant Episcopal Church of England and Ireiand, and the doctrine, discipline, and government thereof, and the Protestant Presby tcrian Church of Scotland, and the doctrine, disci pline, ar4 government thereof, are by the laws of this realm ci.vcrally established permanently and inviolably : and whereas it is just and fitting, that on the repeal of such parts of f4e raid acts as impose the necessity of taking the sacrament of th,f.! Lord's Supper f ; ,.cording to the rites or usage of the Church of England, as a qualification for office, a declaration to the following effect chould be substituted in lieu thereof; be it therefore enaetd, that every person r. 40 shall hereafter ha placed, elected, a: chosen in or to the office of mayor, alderman, recorder, town clerk, common councilman, or in or to any office of magistracy, or place, trust, or employment relating to the government of anv city, corporation, borGuh, or cinque port, within Engiatn: and Wales, or the town of J3erwick-upon-Tweed, shall, within one calendar month - ;text before or upon his admis sion into any of the aforet;W offices or trusts, make .Ind subscribe the declaration follow:nr?--- " f, A. 8., do solemnly declare, that I will never exercise any power, authority, or influence which I may possess by virtue of the office of to injure or weaken the Protestant church' as it is by law es- tabfisbed within this realm, or to d:zturb it in the possession c,r any rights or privileges to which it is by law entitled: " And be it enacted, that the said declaration shall 6,e made and subscribed as aforesaid, the presence of such parson or persons respectively, who, Ly the charters or usages of the said respective cities, cor porations, boroughs, aixd cinque ports, ought to ad minister the oath for due ek;opition of the said offices or places respectively, and in defult of such, in the presence of two justices of the peace of the !corporati ons , b oroug h s, an d c i nque ports, if such cities, t i- dl tre be, or otherwise in the presence of two justices of the peace of the respective counties, rid ings, divisions, or franchises wherein the said cities, corporations, boroughs, and Ci nque ports are ; wh i ch a t records i n s aid declaration shall either be entered i n a b oo k, roll, or other r ecord, to h e ke pt for that purpose, or s hall be tilersmg? tigst the of r the s o city, placed, cor poration, t A i o n n (i borough, i)eit ot. enacted, cinre poi any p ort. elected, or chosen int o an y of the afore said offices o places, shall omit . or neglect to make and s u b scr ib e the said deciatatmn in manner above-mentioned, such placing, election, o;.' :mice shall be void. " And be it enacted, that it alO4l and may b e lawful for Liz Majesty, his heirs and successors, t o require any person who may be appointed to any civil office or trust whatever, or who may hold any commission from his Majesty, Ilk heirs and suc cessors, and who would, by any of the acts above mentioned, be required to take or receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, to make and sub scribe the declaration above-mentioned previously to his admission into such office or trust, or to acting under such commission. " Provided always, and be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs and Fle from time to time, by order in Counril, to direct and declare by what persons, and in respect of what offices, trusts, and commissions, and in what manner, and at what time, and under what regula tions, the said declaration shall be made and sub scribed ; and that in case any person appointed to any office, trust, or commission, shall neglect or re fuse to comply with the several directions and re quisites so as aforesaid made, the appointment of such person to any such office, trust, or commission shall be void. " Provided nevertheless, that no act done in the execution of any of the corporate or other offices, places, trusts, or commissions aforesaid, by any such person omitting or neglecting as aforesaid, shall by reason thereof be void or ypidable as to the lights of any other person not privy to such omission or neglect, or render such last-mentioned person liable to any action or indictment."--Ibid. The Meeting of the inhabitants of the ward of Bishopsgate Without, to take into consideration the best means of being relieved from the effects of the gas monopoly within that ward, would not have been necessary, if the Common Coun cil were as right in their principles as they are " patriotic" in their species. Here is a mono poly granted by the civic body to a Gas Com pany, which causes the inhabitants to pay for the supply of that article, as was shown by Mr. Cor dell at the meeting, a price '25 and even 30 per per cent. higher than is paid by their neighbours in other districts, and than they could procure it for if no such monopoly existed. By this means, a sum which we cannot call by a more appro. priate name than that of a monopoly-tax, amounting to 1,500/., is raised, for the benefit of what is called the Chartered Company, upon the inhabitants of the ward, that sum being about the excess of what they are now charged for gas above what they could be supplied with it for if the trade in that article was left to find its own level by free competition. Is this the way in which the Corporation of London supports within their own jurisdiction those principles of " free trade" of which we heard so much in their speeches whenever the ques tion of the " Corn Laws" was taken into their consideration ? We recollect how they charged the landlords with maintaing a monopoly injuri wus to the interests of the manufacturing classes, by exercising their influence to keep up the re 3trietions upon the importation of foreign corn. They were shocked at the very idea of any re striction at all being put on the principle of a " free trade" in cont. Look to their Con sistency ! The same " liberal and patriotic" body give a monopoly in gas to a favoured Com pany, which costs the inhabitants of a single ward a tax of 1 ,500/. per annum ! We should like to know what consideration the corporate jobbers received for this privilege, which has cost the inhabitants of Bishopsgate Without so dear. Ore public principle and the money of the public saerilce4 in this business to no indi vidual interests ? What did Mt. Arpthorpe say ? He reminded the Meeting that a petition had been presented on a former occasion, for the purpose of causing an inquiry to be made ; and the Commissioners of Sewers, in conse quence of this petition, appointed a suveyor to examine into the grounds of its allegations. What was the result. ? The petition was dis missed.—Why so ? Because the surveyor was a member of the chartered Gas Company ! Morning fierald. There is art unhappy wretch—a woman—to be executed to-day, under circumstances the most extraordinary that ever a criminal suffered. She was indicted for child-murder, and the only proof that was offered was, that she was seen passing near the place where the hod' was ,found. There was no evidence that the woman had had a child at all, except her own admission to the apprehending officer, which was coupled with the assertion that her chill had been buried in Marylebone church-yard, If the miserable cul prit was worthy of credit, all her story was to he believed; if she was not, the first part was as little evidence where on to build a verdict as the last. She had no Attorney—no Counsel. She said truly, she had not a fr i end in the wide world . ! wonder of what stuff the hearts were made to which the poor creature in her agony made this simple and affecting appeal— whether in their pilgrimage through life they had ever Lnown the charities of sons, or brothers, or fathers The ;fury which condemned her re commended her to mercy—why, it may well be ask.ed A murderer, under circumstances of the utmost atrocity —a murderer of unresisting innocence ! Was mercy fit for such a one ? They recommended her because of her youth—she was a mother—and because the evidence was cir cwnstantial !! ! We asked, what were the hearts—the world will ask, what were the heads of these men ? The evidence was strong enough to warrant a verdict of murder, and yet so weak as to warrant a doubt of guilt ; and the com passionate and enlightened Jurygave the hangman the benefit of the doubt, and the accused the benefit of the verdict ! Really, in our country, the poor, who have no friend in the world but the intelligence of a Jury, hold their safety by a slender thread, The cruelty of denying to the poor wretch whose life may depend on the issue, that legal assistance which he may have by ones, by twos, and by threes, when a sixpence is at stake, wil r l never be removed by reasoning. It is only by a few terrible proofs of its consequences that such a blot will be wiped out from our cri, minal judicature.—New Times. THE FA lit.—On Monday the influx of strangers was immense, The streets of the town might be said to present a moving Panorama; immense crowds of persons being in perpetual action in every direction. The chew cf cattle was not, we are informed, either so nume rous or of such good quality as has been known on some previous occasions ; but prices, upon the whole, are rather improving. Several shows are exhibiting their " wonder some" performances on Blakeley Moor. On Monday evening, at a temporary place erected there under the de signation of a " Circus," an event occurred which inighs have proved awfully calamitous. The people were leaving the place, when from the rush and pressure against the sides of the slight erection, the principal joist, which had not been properly supported gave way, and striking a " sa gacious poney" killed it on the spot ! This was a fortu nate circumstance, for otherwise it is probable several lives would have been lost. As it was one woman was most severely injured, being struck on the back of the neck. Blackburn Mail. THE TIPPERARY OUTRAGES ACCOUNTED FOR. BY THE 1191•1. JUSTICE Alf/ORE.-A person named Daniel Gleegon was charged with having stolen a cloak ; but by order of the Learned Judge acquitted,lthe case being no more than a common assault. The remarks of Judge Morita, on the discharge of the prisoner, are worth gold, because they account for the demoralization of the Tippe rary " Boys," as the Evening Mail jocosely designates the peasantry of that county. " This was a case," said the enlightened Judge, "that ought not to be sent there (to the Assizes) at all. The ctee did not even amount to a petty larceny; twol yet upon this trivial case there was a great waste of public money. 4 was greatly to be wished that Magistrates had some discrimination. If any saga. city were exercised, it must be immediately seen that such a trivial case as this should never he sent to the As,izes.— But Magistrates tumbled every thing into the Assizes; they crammed the gaols full, and then they had the whole empire talking of the magnitude of crime in Tipperary, when one-third of the prisoners were generally turned out without there being any cause for their prosecution."— Thus are the Tipperary outrages accounted for by the lion. Justice Moo RI. Unhapliv Ireland !--Dithlin Fireman's ,Journal. RUSSIAN MILITARY FORCE. WARSAW, MARCH 21.—Several German journals have published statements respecting the military force of Russia, which are more or less inaccurate. We have procured on this subject information drawn from documents which merit entire confidence, and we lose no time in transmitting it to you. It will give your readers a more correct idea of the force which the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh has on foot. The army of Georgia, or of the Caucasus, had suffered at the very beginning of the war against the Persians, considerable losses, caused by the insalu brity of the climate, but by the reinforcements which it received in July and August last it has been completed to 75,000 men. The troops in the military colonies are between 60 and 70 thousand men, of whom only 30 thousand could take the field. The amount of the garrisons in the several for tresses of Europe is estimated at 75,000 men. The first army, of which the head-quarters are at Tulczyn, and which is 90,000 strong, consists of the corps cantoned in Courland and Livonia, of the Guards, and the first corps of the cavalry of reserve. These troops will require twenty days to concentrate themselves, as their cantonments extend for 140 leagues, from Polangen to Pleskow. The army of the west, nearly 100,000 strong, had its cantonments from Choczym,- on the Pruth, to Czerkasy on the Dnieper, an extent of about 110 leagues. It is this army which has been on the march for this month past, to take up a concentrated position. It has furnished numerous reinforcements to the army in Bessarabia, now 80,000 strong, which waits only for orders from St. Petersburgh to pass the Pruth and enter the Moldavian territory. We have now to speak of the army of the centre, amounting to about 250,000 men. Its cantonments are very extensive, for it is 240 leagues from Karzin to Jaralow, and nearly 300 from Ostrog to Nourom on the frontier of the Government of Wladamir and Nishnei Novogorod; this army would require •tw@ months to aszemble in Volhinia. In 1812 the Russian army amounted to only 411,000 men including the Guards, of which two thirds were opposed to the French under Bnona partc. The Polish army, inch tding the corps of Lithuania, is between 60,000 and 70,000 men. Thus the whole force of the Russian empire is about 700,000 men, of whom about 300,000 are at prffent ready for action.—Germaa Paper. lIIIaPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, APRIL 11.—High water 4•t min. past eight o'clock._Wind. S.—Arrived the Princess Charlotte, M‘Kean, from New Orleans, with cotton ; Cornet, Phil lips (steamer), from Dublin, with the mail ; Exchange, Sievewright, from St. John's, New Brunswick, with tim ber, arc. ; Albertina, Hoyer, from Norway; Counte.rs of Lonsil de, Marshall (steamer), from Whitehaven, with sundries; Crown, Richardson, from Dublin, with ditto; Lyra, Drysdale, from Pernambuco, sailed March I, with cotton; Isabella, Shimming, from New Orleans; Emu lous, , from Belfast ; Margaret, Rirrowby, from Africa; Sisters, Longwell, from Dublin, with sun dries ; Jane, , from Waterford; Enterprise, Crawford (steamer), from Glasgow; Experiment, Irving, from Newry ;. Jane and Mary, Cummings, from ditto ; Thomas, Holmes, from ditto ; Solway, Hudson, from Westport ; Dundalk, Goodly, from Dundalk ; Sheffield, Richards (steamer), from Belfast; Lady Newborough, Owns, from Waterford ; James, Webber, from London derry • Caroline, Cubben, from Isleman ; Isabella,—, from Charleston, with cotton ; Lima, Fife, from Leith ; Senhouse, --, from Dublin ; Swallow, --, from Newport; Swan, Cringle, from Glasgow ; Bee, Al'Griffie, from Wigton, with oats; Crown, Richardson, from Dub lin; John, Pugh. from ditto; Ann, Gleister, from Mary port ; Duchess of Athol, Christian, from Isleman ; Clytus, Collins, from Poole, with clay. CLEA RED OtrrwAstos.—The Nearchus, Dobson, for Bay Chaleur ; Hope, Nicholson, for Dantzic ; St. Patrick,. Gelling, tin• Derbyhaven ; Gleaner, Robertson, for Douglas ; James Wilson, Quilback, for ditto ; Harriett, Staggle, for Emden ; True, Blue, Foster, for Miramichi ; Harbinger, Harland, for Newfoundland and Quebec ; Jane, Holmes, for New Orleans ; Planter, Nesbitt, for ditto ; London, M'Neill, for Nova Scotia ; Fisher, Kay, for Richebucto ; Tamerlane, Johnson, jun., for Savannah ; Globe, Dixon, for Valparaiso, Arica, and Lima, Telegraph Office, Friday, April 11. At 30 min. past nine, two ships passed Holyhead, home :: ward-bound ; have net shown their numbers. Wind at Holyhead this morning W.N. W. blowing fresh. At nine a.m., Messrs. J. Fletcher's private signal, a brig west of the Floating Light. Two brigs off. At 10 min. past 2, wind at Holyhead W. S.W., blow ing fresh. At 20 min, past 10, passed Point Lyna3, homeward bound, supposed to be No. 205, Isabella, American ship; but the vessel is too far off to he certain of the number. Pilot-boat, No. 9, off Lynas. At 45 min. past 11, a ship off Point Lynas, homeward boo nd. No. 1, iilot-boat, off Great Orrns' Head. No. 11, pilot-boat, west of the Floating Light, a ship off Point of Air, homeward-bound. Neither of the ships have shown their numbers. At 16 min. past 1, a ship west of the Floating Light, with Messrs. W. and S. Brown and C 0.74 private signal. Passed Holyhead, outward bound, Na. 177, Montreal British ship at one o'clock. At 35 min. past 3, passed Holyhead, outward-bound, the Britannia (steamer), for Dublin ; and at 2 p.m. the Lee (steamer), from Cork. No. 9, pilot-boat, off Point Lvnas, has boarded all hands, and is homeward-hound. No. 3, pilot-boat, on her station off Lynas. At half-past 4, a brig, homeward-hound, off Great Orms' Head. A ship with Messrs. Welsh and Hudson's private signal, west of the Floating Light. Messrs. W. and J. Brown's ship off, has bright sides, with figure-head, and is a large ship. APRIL H.—High water, 37 minutes past nine o'clock, Wind S. S. W.—Arrived, the James, Reynolds, from Charlestown, with cotton and lohood ; the Henry, Jefferson, from Waterford, with wheat and flour; Margaret and Agnes, M'Cullock, front Dublin, with ditto and ditto ; Dasher, M'Carter, Killough, with ditto and oats ; Britannia, Hamilton, from Westport, with oats ; Perthshire, Dunning, from ditto, with ditto; Molly, M'Kin lay, from Ballina, with ditto; Wellington, Lashlen, from ditto, with ditto; Experiment, Edgar, from ditto, with ditto ; Harmony, Robertson, from Sligo, with ditto ; Mary Ann, Bonfield, from Tralee, with ditto; Pelican, Jones, from Newport, with iron ; Earl of Roden (steamer), Spencer, from Dundalk, with sundries ; Town of Drog heda (steamer), Owens, from Drogheda, with ditto ; Bir mingham (steamer), Head, from Dublin, with ditto ; Fency, Crosthwaite, from ditto, with ditto ; Lee (steamer), Chapman, from Cork, with ditto ; Dolphin (steamer), Smithett, from Dublin, with the mail ; Ann, Harding, from Waterford, with wheat and flour.-1 brig off at half past six o'clock. CLEARED OuTwAßDg.—Alary, M'Mina, for Antigua ; Eliza, Delany, for Douglas; Briton, Burnett, jun., for rape Breton ; Deveron, M'Amley, for Savannah ; John Francis, Miller, for Quebec ; Ivanhoe, Roderick, for New Orleans ; William Rugg, Davidson, for Madeira, Deme rara, and Cayenne ; Caledonia, Shernmer, for Bombay ; Swiltsure, Caddie, for Bahia. Telegraph Office, April 12. At 42 min. past 1, p.m., the vessels that sailed this day are West of the Floating Light, all well. At 45 min. past 2, passed Holyhead, outward-bound, at 11 o'clock, No. 618, the Arrow. Wind at Ilelybead S.S. W. light breeze. At 35 min, past three, 1 ship off Great Orms' Head, outward-bound, has not yet shown any number. Pilot-boats, No s . 3 and 1, off Point Lynas—nothing more to report from this station. MAcREADYII; made his debut as Macbeth, in Paris. His reception was extremely flattering, and his acting, particularly in the supper scene, was much ap plauded. Miss SMITHSON'S Lady Macbeth, the Fve!lcli critics say, wanted energy; and ABBOTT was a correct but cold Macdutr. The Duchess d , OaLEANs and Duchess de BEant, were present at the representation. A traveller in a Mark-lane house has just re turned from a tour in the Midland and Western Counties, and says that, for the 17 years he has been out, he never saw a season marked with greats; slaughter amongst the hares than the past. In four cases out of five they have had no chance of escape front the greyhounds; this is at tributed chiefly to the excellent feed they have had, render ing them more than usually Leverets are already plentiful, Om! strong on the leg, lONIAN ISLANDS. On the Bth, the third Parliament of the lonian Islands was opened by the Lord High Commissioner, Sir F. Adam, who in his speech on that occasion expressed himself as follows During the comic , of the last five years, the desolating warfare has been carried on without inter ruption on the neighbouring continent and the islands of Greece. His Majesty the protector of these islands, animated by the ardent wish to put an end to the cruelties with which this ‘var was carried on by both parties, had, in concert with his allies, proposed an armistice to them, with the view of bringing about a pacification. In the pursuit of this object a scene of bloodshed occured, which excited great regret (profondo rincrescimento), but his Ma 3esty confidently hopes, that nothing more of this kind will occur to those who are engaged in the diffi cult task of reconciling the contending parties, and that thus the Treaty of London, of the Gth July, will still attain the object desired. " The most efficacious measures have been adopted by his Majesty and his allies to put an end to these scandalous excesses, which have been so long practised in these seas, and in the Archipelago, and by which the navigation and commerce of these Islands have suffered very considerably. At the same time the most vigorous measures have been taken to inflict merited punishment on the criminals who have been so active in promoting these shameful abuses. " The strict neutrality which has been observed by these islands since the beginning of the contest in Greece, has been constantly maintained, and his Majesty, the protector of these islands, is firmly persuaded that the same wise policy will be p6rse vered in." When the Lord High Commissioner came to speak of public instruction, he mentioned the great loss which the lonians have sustained by the death of the illustrious Chancellor of the University, Lord Guilford, whose active zeal in promoting the edu cation of youth had not been confined to the islands, but had extended over all Greece. Deprived of his enlightened support, the Government and the Par liament must now endeavour to prosecute the work now begun with those modification s and reductions in the expenditure which the present state of things and the finances required. Especial attention must be paid to the elementary instruction in the lower schools, which has made much progreess in the island of Cerigo in particular, through the exertions of the Bishop. MADNESS OF A WHOLE FAMILY. A very singular case of sudden and unaccountable madness, in an entire family of the Commune de Treverree (Arrondissement Brieux), has excited much local interest, and has even created an ineffec • tual inquiry into its cause on the part of the most celebrated physiologists of Paris. Jean Lepage, a farmer and proprietor of lands, the produce whereof enabled him to support, in comfort and respecta bility, his wife, his sister-in-law, a son, and a daugh ter, and whose conduct, as that of every member of his family, had been marked by regularity and inof fensiveness, who had lived on the most kind and friendly terms with his neighbours, some time since wholly withdrew himself from all communication with his acquaintances, and, imitated by the sreoestietyof than ns thatfam family, red his own wholl) ;oo f f ro s in heit o e t r i e l t e 4 r . They refused to reply to any one they met, they spoke not even with each other—as they passed aloag, signs were the only medium by which they convey ed their sentiments. The hitherto well-cultivated farms, holden by Jean Lepage, were abandoned and neglected, and laid open to the ingress of every species of cattle : his grange, which was well-stored with corn, was never resorted to ; and, finally, after long indulging in their gloomy reserve, the characters of himself and his relations assumed all the marks ©f highly-excited derange ment. Whosoever was met on their passage, as they walked forth in company, was certain of being assaulted. They visited the church of their parish, but not for the purposes of devotion; on the con trary, their irreverent and riotous behaviour inter fered frequently with the due celebration of its rites ; and at length, in an excess of frenzy, Jean Lepage struck the curate, even while he was in the per formance of his sacred functions at the foot of the altar. Repeated violence offered to their neighbours, coupled with this last outrage,induced an order for the arrest of the family; they were conducted to prison; and subsequently brought up for examination before the Magistrate; but they refused to reply to inquiry— treated exhortation and remonstrance with disdain, and were wholly inaccessible to reproach or intreaty. The two women and the children were called sepa rately before the Magistrates, without the latter being enabled to induce them to speak. They were as a necessary precaution, reconducted to prison, but every attention their singularly unfortunate state demanded was shown them. Lepage here refused all nourishment; for eight days he never suffered aliment of any kind to pass his lips; his strength decayed rapidly; he sustained all the horrors of voluntary starvation with the courage of a martyr; and it was not until it became too evident that his existence would be speedily terminated by his obstinate refusal of nourishment, that he and his family were released from confinement. They re turned to their now wretched home, but the former violence they had exhibited was not repeated; a deep and settled melancholy seemed to have possessed them. For the last 22 months, they have daily wandered forth, the father in company with his son, and, at a short distance behind them, the three • females. They speak not amongst themselves, nor do they address others ; and the only offensive pecu liarity in their manner is that of never diverging from their nc u path,r l e them, tthem however, from humanity move from their way ; aiel tiers or fear, may. u s they pursue their encounter miserable career to the astonishment and pity of th ose who, not long since, beheld the balf-faruished, ragged All who n and unhappy wretches whom they uow see, the most contented and the most respected members of their small commune.—Athenceunz. The LORD CITANCELLOR and Miss HART gave a splendid ball and supper, on Tuesday evening, at their mansion in Merrion-street, to the Lokn LIEUTENANT and the Ladies PAGET, and all the rank and fashion Nf the capital. The suite of apartments were remarkable for their brilliant illumination, and for the profusion of the choicest plants, flowers, and exotics with which they were ornamented. The corridors and stairs were decorated with fruit trees in full blossom, and the supper consisted of every delicacy the season aftinds.—Dublin Alopting Register. • ANGLING. - -The beautiful trout streams at Driffield, and in the neighbourhood, are likely, this season, to afford excellent diversion to gentlemen anglers, more large fish having come up in consequence of the abundance of water, than have been observed for many years before.— Doncaster Gazette. JEWS' HOSPITAL.—The anniversary dinner given by the supporters of this charitable and highly praise worthy institution took place on Thursday at the City of London Tavern, his Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, Patron, in the chair. At half-past six o'clock, 200 gen tlemen, chiefly of the Jewish persuasion, resident in London, sat down to a sumptuous dinner. The m eeting did not break up until a late hour. • ST. LAWRENCE'S CHURCIL—In excavating a large vault for the reception c.f the remains of the late Mr. GArtatArt:ra, father of our respected fellow-townsman, Mr. 6ARRARD, brewer, of Friar-street, the workmen came in contact with the remains of a wall, at the depth of about three feet from the surface, no doubt forming part of the monastic buildings of the Abbey, anterior to the erection of the Church. The wall is composed of stone and flints, and cemented by a composition as hard as the materials which it unites—similar to that used in the building of Reading Abbey; it is nearly parallel with the piers which support the great tower, on the north side, and probably is the remains of the west gateway which communicated with the spacious area in front of the Abbey, now called the Forbury. In the same excavation were found some rather singularly large human bones, more especially those of the thigh and leg. -Jerks Chronicle. SHERIFF'S COURT-CHESTER, APRIL ” THE GAME LAWS. ROGERS V. SHAW AND COTTS. Mr. TEMPLE stated that the action was brought to recover the value of a dead hare, and a certain gun of great value, Ivhich the defendants had seized and taken, and other wrongs to the damage of the plain• tiff 100/. The Jury consulted together for a short time, ai found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 75/. There is a motion befor e the Court of King's Bench, to be heard in the course of the next term, for a criminal information, arising out of this trans' action. OLD BAILEY, APRIL 1 2. Richard Ilannnynd was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-hone of Joseph Fernanie2 Madrid, the Colombian Minister, and stealing there• from 14 silver forks and other articles hi: property. —The artic►es were identified. Mr. Baron GARROW having summed up the evi dence, a verdict of " Guilty" was returned. The city Grand Jury, previous to their dismissal. observed, that the bedding of Newgate was in condition unfit for use, and required to be renewed• The establishment in other respects had met with their approbation. Lord TENTERDEN said, that the suggestion should be attended to.—The Jury, after long deliberation. acquitted the prisoner. The Court rose at nine o'clock. LENT ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, Aram 1 1• Charles Taylor was indicted for assaulting Char lotte Smith, at Aylharton, in this county, and Throw ing her into a river. Mrs. Charlotte Smith, on the 10th of January last, went to the Hare and Hounds public-house, in search of her husband, when the defendant seized her round the waist, carried her out of the house► and plunged her into an adjoining brook; he threW himself in with her, and ducked her head under water. She called out " Murder" several times• At last the prisoner left her; he at the same t i m e calling out "Murder." Mr. Baron VAUGHAN having expressed his opi nion that there conk! be no excuse for the assault committed by the prisoner, the Jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to three months' im prisonment. The circuit closed here this afternoon. Eliza Young, aged thitty, was charged with the murder of her illegitimate child by exposing it to the inclemency of the weather. Mr. JusTicE conducted the prosecution. Mrs. Anne Jones said—l reside at Henbury. The prisoner was in my service. I observed an altera tion in her appearance. I told her I believed she was enceinte, but she denied it. On the 15th of November 1 went to look after the prisoner, and 1 found the body of an infant lying on one of the garden-borders, about twenty yards from the house door I soon after saw the prisoner, who appeared very ill. I told her she had had a child, but she denied it. On the next day, Mr. Perry, the surgeon, was sent for, and I accompanied him to the place where the child was. The child was lying on its back, with its eyes shut, and its mouth a little open. The child was plain to be seen, and not hidden in any way; its feet were a little splashed with dirt, and the bands were bent, but not qu ite closed, and in one of them was a leaf, but it had been a very blowing stormy night, and the leaf might, I think, have got into the child's hand after death. I think that a child born alive out of doors on such a night as that would and must have died in a minute or two. The child bore no marks Of violence whatever. Mr. Henry Perry, a surgeon, said—l am a men' ber of the College of Surgeons. I was sent for to the house of Mrs. Jones to attend the prisoner, who at first denied having a child, but she at length ad mitted that she had. I remember that it was a blowing stormy night, and I am quite satisfied that a child born in the open air on such a night as that must have died in half a minute, even if it had been born alive; but whether this child was born alive I have some doubt. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner on the charge of murder, and to con sider the case as one of concealment. Verdict—" Guilty of a concealment only." Sen- tence one year's imprisonment. It was understood that the prisoner had previously had two illegitimate children. BIRTH. On the 12th instant, in Connaught-square, the Horn Mrs. William Rodney, of a eon and heir. MARRIED. On the 12th inst. at the parish church of Linton, Kent, Charles Wykeham Martin, Esq, eldest son of Fiennes Wykeham Martin, Esq. of Leeds Castle, Kent, and Cha combs Priory, Northamptonshire, to the Lady Jemim3 Isabella Mann, only daughter of the Earl Cornwallis. On the 12th inst. at St. %lary'e Church, Marylebone, by the Rev. Dr. Perkins, Colonel Brown, of Amwell Bury, in the county of Hertford, to Mrs. Beville, King street, Portman-square. On the 9th instant, at Chatham, Walter Hills, Esq., of Maidstone, to Sarah, daughter of William Jefferys, Esq., of Chatham. On the I Oth instant, at West Hackney, Lieutenant William Tills, R. N. to Miss Charlotte Augusta Brown, Sliacklewell. On the 10th instant, at St. Mary, Stratford, Mr. Fre derick J. Barnes, to Miss Sophia S. Raker. On the 12th instant, at St. Luke's, Old-street-road, 3, F. Gill, Esq., of Lower Grosvenor-street, to Caroline, eldest (laughter of C. Widder, Esq., of Finsbury-square. On the 10th instant, by the Rev. Thomas Wintle, the Rev. Bradford Denue Hawkins, Fellow of Pembroke Col lege, Oxford, to Sarah, only daughter of Robert Hopkins, Esq., of Tidmarsh, near Reading. Ou the 13th instant, at George's, Bloomsbury, J. C. Schetity, Esq. Royal Naval College, Portsmouth, to Miss Charlotte Trevenen, of Helston, Cornwall. On the 10th instant, at Bartlow, Lieut.-Colonel Francis Le Blanc, to Elizabeth Harriet, second daughter of the late Thomas Porter, Esq. of Rockbeare House, Dover. DIED. On the 12th instant, at the house of S. Skinner, Esq., in Portland-place, Mrs. Read, relict of the late George Read, Esq., of Crow-hall, Suffolk. On the 12th instant, in Surrey-street, Strand, George Brucker, Esq., aged 68. On the 12th instant, in his 65th year, Jos. Vandewall, of South Lambeth, late of Tower•street, one of the So ciety of Friends. On the 11th instant, at Brighton, Frances Wright, wire of Thomas James, On the '7th instant, at Tunbridge Wells, Daniel Webb, Rig. aged 63. On the 11th instan t, o f convulsions, Francois Alphonse Ce sar, the infant son o f Francois Alan,. Esq., of Great Portland -street. Esq. aged 31. On the 11th instant, Mr. Robert Fisher, Blandford, Dorset, aged 83. On the 12th instant, at the house of M. Chalie, Esq., W a ndsworth-common, Mrs. Catherine Sarah Roper, in her 61st year. On the 11th instant, at his residence at Turnham-greerr, Thomas Neill, E sq . On the 12th instant, Mrs. Cartwright, of Belle Vue, Hampstead, a ge d 85 . On Wednesday, in the 106th year of his age, Mr, Thomas Scrape, father of Mrs. Lovell, of the Lobster Inn, St. John's Madder-market, Norwich. This patriarchal inhabitant of our city was a native of Statham, in this county, aad was born in 1722, in the 9th year of the reign •f George 1. Ile has teen often beard to speak of re membering, as a child, the illuminations on the occasion of George the Second's accession. At the age of 105, this extraordinary old man presided at a large convivial party at his grandson's, and appeared fully to participate in the happiness of the company, and sung several songs on the occasion. his pipe was his constant companion, and be was often to be seen smoking and enjoying it at his daugh ter's house, where his latter days were rendered comfort able. 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