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SCOTTISF I WIDOWS' Pt. ND AND LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY. THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL COURT of the SOCIETY, which was numerously and respect ably attended, was held in the Waterloo Tavern on the 15th of January, 1828. Sir JAMES MONCRIEFF, Bart. Vice President, in constituting the Court, and taking the Chair, stated that he did so in th e unavo id a bl e a bs en ce f their . noble Preses, the Earl of RosEHERY • he Manager read to the Court the Report made to the last Extraordinary COvrt of Directors, held on the sth inst., showing the present state of the So ciety's affairs, and the business done during the by gone year. He also laid before the Meeting a progres sive view of the transactions of the Society, and .of the inerease of its fund and revenue since its corh mencement —all of which Were highly satisfactory to the Meeting. Mr. Coottnteee, the Auditor, then addressed the Meeting.—}laving alluded to the very perspicuous statements that had been just read by the Manager, the erstire accuracy of which he begged to confirm, he said it did not require him to say much to satisfy the gentlemen present of the very flourishing situa tion of the Society's affairs. He only begged leave to call their attention to two circumstances which proved that the prosperity that had hitherto marked the e progress of the Society continued to increase, and that the security thus afforded for the fulfilment of the expectations of the Members was put beyond a doubt. One of these circumstances was, that in comparing the amount of the Fund as it appeared from his Report made upon the periodical investiga tion of the Society's affairs three years ago' ' with the amount at tare end of last year, it a pp eare d that the amount of the invested stock and capital of the So ciety had somewhat MORE THAN DOUBLED during tliat period. The other circumstance to which the Auditor re ferred was, that in comparing the actual amount of the claims th a t had em e rge d by d eat h w i t hi n th e last three years, with the calculated amount, accord. ieg to the rare of mortality assnmed in the Tables of the Society, the actual amount of the claims did tine nob exceed one-third of the calculated amtunt. This statement he was enabled to I/18 ' J e from a me thod of calculation- which, from the experience he had acquired in the investigation hes re alluded to, he coo , itlered sufficient for the pulp, seof affording, by apprqximatiOn, a comparative vie.v of the claims onrhe'Ssicieey, wi t h th e ca l cu l at ed va l ue t h ereo f. I n , poeiting out this deviation from the law of mortality exhibited by the, Northampton Tables, which had been assumed as the basis of our Tables of Contri butions, the Auditor did not mean to impeach the accuracy of the Northampton Tables. - These Tables had been formed in relation to the rate of mortality in the communitv at large - ; but the persons admitted into an . AsstPrance Society suck as this, are all selected tive9; - all, persons who are not proved, to the satisfac tion e; the Directors, to be Tne-ood health, and of 3 "rid - ';:onstitution, being excluded. From this eir c'Linstance of taking select lives only, it must be evi e dent that, in an Assurance Society such as:this, the annual number of deaths must always 'be leis than among an equal number of. iridividuals: taken indis criminately from the community. The favourable deviation, alluded to only proved the great prudence and caution with which . the- Directors, acting with the able advice and assistance of their medical officer, had exercised the important power of exclusion ; and . Mr. COCKBIJRN remarked, tlrat if any additional - proof of this fact were wanting; it was only ne'ces - sary for each individual present to look about him and see the healthy countenances of the MeMbers by whom he was surrOunded... The CHAIRHAN then addressed the Court. In regard to the principles upon which the Society was formed, he had no doubt that every Member had con sidered them; so r.bra- itzvvas seareely aseceasary for him to matte _ any observation on this head. • Indeed, were he .disposed to snake, any remark, he-ceuld not do so in more appropriate language than had been used by our. Noble President, at a former. General Court. The Earl of Roschery had then observed, that whether we regard the. principles of this Insti tutisere and others of a'siiinilacuature, merely as bene jitial in so far as they make provision for surviving .familiee and relatives who might Qtherwise be left destitute,—or whether we ltiok to their moral effect, i n so far as they discourage all- tendency to avarici tilt& hoVding,—in one or other of these views, there could be no question that the system of Life Assur . since was one of the most valuable ,inventions of modern times. There was, however, another most important point which he wished'to bring under the notice of the General Courts relative to the manner in which the advantages of Life Assurance may be most effectually secured, and which: was applicable in a particular manner to our Society, though per hips to very few others. He alluded to the fact, that with this Society the WHOLE FuNDs contributed are applied to the SOLE benefit of the contributors, no part thereof being divertedfrom this, its legitimate channel, to any separate class of individuals as their share of profits in compensation of a nominal guaran tee, which, whether requisite or mot in Companies conducted upon different principles, was perfectly • unnecessary in this Society. -From this heavy bur den, therefore the Funds of this Society always have been, and wilicontinue to be kept free. 'Having made these few remarks, the Chairinan had now the highest pleasure in , congratulating the 'r'lembers on the present most ,favourable aspect of their affairs. This was now the 14th Annual Meet nig, and when he contrasted the smallness of our beginning with the present large accumulated Fund, end considered the magnitude of our annual income, and the gradual but sure progress that has been made in the state of our finances, lie could only say (and he had possessed many opportunities at its outset of personally bestowing much attention on the princi ples of the Institution) that it had more than fulfilled his most sanguine hopes of success, and not only so, but, he was sure, that of every individual who had at all paid attention to the matter. No one could for a moment doubt that the success of the Society, and the excellence of the principles on which it was con stituted, were now indisputably established by the snot unquestionable of all tests--:experience. In re gard to the very favourable difference between the actual and calculated amount of the claims on the rnral within the last three years,he could add nothing to Mr.Cockbuen's very satisfactory statement. The So cieq, had throughout been benefited by the able pro fessional assistance of hii friend Mr; Cockburn ; and he felt: - confident, that to the sound views, and profound - Skill - of that gentleman, much of the pre -sent welfare anti prosperity of thO SOStiety must be ascribed. It was quite clear that,' as sh e ear lier Members advance in age, the contingencies by death will becomegreater ; but then the resources of the Society foe enabling them to meet these Con tingencies inc reas e d. ' in a greater ratio; aridWiing r one year with t mother, es ,. . .found, for the reasOns:: Cockburn, CAleulations still always -stated by '.Nlr. to _exceed the actual The conseqtiencte of thiS the svoiilValt u n der s t an d-- a s there would thus larger sum to seta to the benefits; and these Adi _...stioes, according to the rules that have beers established, would be allotted teif the - benefit of each individual" in proportion to the, tith e he may .chalice to live. The prosperity of theestablishnient was no dOubt in a great measure to be to the careful selection of liven; and this brought' the' to an _important feature in the IVliniagee'e Repent, which be thought worths' of remark, as it showed, in. the clearest light,-the prudence and caution with which the Directors discharged the duties committed. to them ; lie elided to the large amount of Assns.- - ances which had been offered to them for accept ance, (particularly during the. last year,) which they had thought it right to decline, because they were rot of that safe kind of risks which are considered to b e pru dent for the Society to take. He considered this as another.gratifyim proof that they had placed the administration of their affairs in the hands of Directors whose caution is a guarantee for the care ful accumulation of their capital, and for the skilful management of their concerns. - • He would conclude by saying,' that he knew no institution for Life Assurance which presents and an aspect of prosperity and steadily increasing bene fit to all its Members. _ . The Court afterwards proceeded to the election of the Directors for the ensuing year, of whom a list will be found advertised in this day's paper. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEBRUARY 1, 1828. • The House met this afternoon at three o'clock and adjourned till a quarter to five. The Duke of WELLINGTON entered the House at ten minutes before five. Earl STAN_ HOPE moved for the return of the quantities of wool imported into the United Kingdom in 1519, and every subsequent year : also for an account of the official and net value of the cotton and linen goods exported from London, from January 18, and every subsequent year, up to the present time. Lord TEYNIIAM moved for various Returns respecting foreign Hops and Wool, and the Duties paid thereon. _ . Lord KENYON presented a petition from cer tain Maltsters and Brewers, praying for an alteration in the Malt Laws, and for a Free Trade. CATHOLIC QUESTION. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said—My Lord, I have a very few words to address to the House with respect to his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Ireland, and I assure your Lordship, that I hope I shall approach that Question with all the delicacy that becomes the subject. My Lord, as a friend to the Catholics of Ireland, it is quite impossible that I should see the public journals of this country and those of Ireland, teeming to such a monstrous extent as they do, with statements from bodies calling themselves meetings of the Roman Catholics of Ire land. Your Lordship knows that a Bill was introduced last' Session to suppress the Roman Ca tholic Association, bit notwithstanding the passing of that bill those meetings still exist, and from the resolution I have seen, it is impossible, feeling as de; that I should not allude to it, and here publicly declare, that if that is supposed to be the resolution of his Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects in Ireland, I shall, though one of their sincerest sup porters, feel it a strong reason for opposing their claims. I said the same thing two years ago .on the other side of the House. I said, if the Ca tholics would by intimidation endeavour to carry their objects, rather than by waiting the due course of time awl the change of sentiments upon their case, I should certainly be one of the first to de sert them. 'My Lord, the Resolution I allude to, is this—" Resolved ; we feel it a duty we owe to the Irish people to declare that we should consider every Irish Member of Parliament an enemy to the freedom .and the happiness of Ireland, who will support the ptle of Wellington or any Administration of which he is the head, or any other persons professing his principles, and we call upon all the counties, towns, and .paxialies in Ireland. to assemble and pass re solutions to the like effect:' It is impossible to uppose - that :this is not an intimidation, though there are those whom it would- not affect. But there are dirtorant people in Ireland, who would certainly be 'influenced by it. It --is, therefore, on behalf of the true spirited 'Catholic people of Ireland who would yield in loyalty to none, that I do consider if this intimidation goes forth to the public, it will be the means of injuring their canse.. I take this, the earliest, opportunity of making this declaration; and Thope my Noble Friends on the other side, as well as on this side of the House, will join me in reprobating steps being taken, so much calculated to injure the Catholic cause. Lord CLIFDEN. My Lord, I cannot but coin cide with the opinions expressed by the Noble Marquis on the other side of the House, at the same time allowance must be made, for " hope deferred rriaketh the heart sick." No man is less disposed than myself to justify speeches like what have been alluded to, but though I agree with the Noble Mar quis respecting many things that have been said, some of the Associations, or many of them, are grie vously displeased, I would say, on this side of the House, I am very sorry for it. (fleas.) But, my Lord, it is a great question, and your Lordship is not to look at it, upon the unreasonableness of a speech of this man or the other. The Noble Mar quis must be aware. that those things called resolu tions are often carried perhaps by a very few; but it is a question of such vast importance, I trust your Lordships will not look to it upon this state ment ; at the same time, I see speeches made at the Associations with respect to the Sub-Letting Bill—which I believe wants amendment,—some of which are very unwise. At the same time it is a most awful question—turning out such an im naense number of persons. I can only speak as to ' what I have done myself. It has been necessary in some cases for me to displace tenants, but in doing so, I have given up the rents of two years, the crops and the cattle that have been on the lands. There was no merit in that, humanity required it; at the same , time, the speeches are very objectionable,abusing indis viduals, for instance, in this House, I lament to ob serve, as much as the Noble Marquis ; but again, I say it is a most important question to the state, and, as T before said, pesiee _._.can never be had in Ireland, and real union with thiW 'country, till that Question be set at rest.—(Hear, hear, hear.)—lt is impossible there can ever be an opportunity given, but at which I would repeat this simple fact. My Lord, the wisest King of the Netherlands —the wisest Prince in Europe—(a laugh)—except our own; see what he has done : he has made ar rangements with the Pope. Well, I . do - not want to go into that; but with respect to what I heard from the Noble Marquis, I only mean to say, " Hope deferred maketh the heart skis." When for twenty-seven years people have been kept in this way, it is not wonderful, that they should break out and use intemperate language : .it is not for human nature . to resist such injustice.. Lo . HOLLAND did not rise with the intention of justifying the use of intemperate language, but he c°4 l -d -not help observing to, the _Noble Marquis, that the wisest way of preventing arepetition. of such in temperate' - langnage Was not -the provoking long discussions upon a question when nor regularly be fore their Lordships: - His. (Lord H.'s). -object in . rising was 1 ° give' notice of a motion. • The Noble Lord, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; had made some communications" to their Lordships re s specting the naval transactions in the Mediterranean, but, notwithstanding such communications, it ap peared to him (Lord H.) that in order fully to un derstand those transactions, some further infoima tion was necessary. It was his intention that evening, to rise and put some spiestions to the Noble Lord upon those transactions, but upon reflection he felt satisfied that it would be more respectful to their Lordships, —more convenient to his Majesty's Go vernment, and more advantageous to the public, to put the intended questions in the form of a notice, 4nd he therefore rose to give notice that he should on Monday next move for certain papers connected with that transaction, and he should put into the hands of the Noble Lord opposite a copy of the motion, in order that they might not have to say that he had taken them by surprise ; at present it would be sufficient to say that his motion would relate to t*o distinct objects—first, the ex isting relations between this country and the Otto man Porte, and secondly, the instructions given to the Admiral commanding the combined fleets in the Mediterranean. PRIVILEGE.' Lord SHAFTESBURY moved that a message be sent to the House of Commons requesting that House to permit Sir Thomas John Wilson to attend arid give evidence before their Lordships relative to the arrest of Lord Haywarden.—Agreed. ARREARS.-SCOTCH APPEALS. Tile LORD CHANCELLOR said it was his intention • to sit three days in each week to hear appeals—two of which would be devoted to hearing Scotch Appeals, and he trusted that that would be sufficient to keep down the arrears. He had com municated this arrangement to the agents of the par ties concerned, and they agreed with him that the time proposed would be sufficient for the purpose, but if it should not be found to be sufficient then sone other arrangement must be made. By the standing orders of their Lordships it was ne cessary to ballot for those Noble Lords whose atten dance was necessary upon such occasions, but as he felt satisfiedthat there would be a sufficient attendance of their Lordships, without proceeding to a ballot, he intended to make a motion,which he hoped would meet the approbation of their Lordships ; and he should therefore propose that the Standing Order, which required that the House should be called over the first Monday of the Session, should be sus pended. Lord ROSSLYN.—He thought the Noble and Learned Lord was rather premature in proposing to suspend the Standing Order, as pos. ble that ,after the suspending of that Order there would not be a sufficient attendance of Noble Lords for dispos ing of the Arrears. The LORD CHANCELLOR.--The Noble Lord misunderstood him. He did not inte44l.i if there should not be a sufficient attendance no, .11::eiicerae the Standing Order, but his object•was not. t o ':.t: enforced unnecessarily. He repeated tbat he iutentiv. to devote three days in each weekovbieb was as nuell time as he could consistently with his duties in thr Court Of Chancery, apply to the bearinz_of appeals. He should therefore move ring , tanding nrdqr No. 203, be repealed, and that the other Standing Orders be suspended.—Agreed to. Their Lordships adjourned at Half-past Five o'clock to Monday- next. • • - % 44 HOUSE OF COMMONS, Titisku•AßT 1. The SPEAKER took tile' Chair to-day at four o'clock. On the motion of Mr. CLINTON, leave was given - to bring in a Bill for . the Incorporation of the Imperial Gas and Coke Company. SURREY NEW ROADS. Mr. C. PALLMER brought up the report on the Surrey New Roads' Petition, and a Bill was ordered to be brought in. The same Hon. Member presented a petition from certain persons connected with the Southwark Bridge Roads, which was re ferred to the Committee. Mr. WM. DUNDAS presented a petition from the Members of the Chamber of Commerce in Edin burgh, praying for the repeal of the laws, reqttiri•ng that receipts should be stamped. Sir JOHN NEWPORT, in presenting petitions from several parishes in Ireland, praying for the re peal of laws affecting the Roman Catholics in that country said,. that it would he idle to attempt to diguise from the House, that until all his Majesty's subjects were placed on the same foot ing no permanent tranquillity could be expected in Ireland !—(Hear.) The petition, in respectful -language, but in a very explicit manner, stated their grievances, and prayed for redress, adding, that until that redress should he granted, dissatisfaction must prevail. The petitioners humbly submitted that all the existing disqualifications ought to be re moved, and that Emancipation, unaccompanied by restrictions of any sort, ought to be granted to them. The petitions, three of which were from parishes in the county of Down, and others fritim Aglisb, Four-mile -water, and Newcastle, in the county of Waterford, were then brought up. On moving that they be laid on the table the Honour able Baronet stated that they•had all been agreed to on the same day-•in fact, all the parishes in Ireland assembled on the same day, and although that vast population met smarting under the sense that their rights had been withheld from them, not a single outrage could be laid to their charge.— It was ordered that the petitions should be printed. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Pro vost and Magistrates of Arbroath, against the duty on two-penny Scots. . On .the motion of Mr. LITTLE.roII and Mr. COOPER several orders respecting private bills agreed to last Session, were revived. Mr. LITTLETON moved for an account of the composition made by the Government with the Bank of England, instea of stamps, and of the amount of notes issued by the Branch Banks. Mr. PLANTA moved or new writs, for the elec tion of a Member for the Borough of Cambridge, in the room of Lord Grahamorho had accepted the office of one of the Commissioners of the Affairs of India. Also, for a new writ for the election of a Member to serve for the porou g h of P ympton, in the room of Sir C. Wetherell, who had accepted the office of Attorney General ;—and for Woodstock, in the room of Lord Ashley, who has been appointed one of the Commissioners for the Affairs of India. THE ESTIMATES. Lord PALMERSTOS gave , notice, that, on Monday next, he should move that the House take into its consideration the Estimates to be laid on the table by order of his Majesty. Mr. HUME inquired whether it was intended to ' move for any particular sum. Lord PALMERSTON said, his object merely was, that the estimates should be received, in order to found on them a motion for a Committee of Supply. Mr. ,HUMB said, that if it .was intended to ap ply any part of the estimates to the support of the sinking fund, 'such a proposition would meet with ' his decided opposition. • Mr. MABERLY expressed his hope that the estimates would be made as low as possible ; for although a - Committee of Finance was about to be appointed, it etas quite clear that the exertions of that Committee could not be productivd of any re duction in the Estimates fo rthe current year, which depended entirely on his Majesty's Government. Mr. CALCRAFT said, if he understood rightly, there was money in the 3 Ixchequer to defray the current expences ; but this money could not be so applied without the formal license of the House. He took it for granted that the estimates which would be proposed, were those prepared by the late Go vernment, - as the present Ministry was so lately formed that it could not be expected that they should have had time to make out new estimates. . Lord PALIVIERSTON said that the circumstan ces under which he intended to move that the - House should take the estimates into consideration on Monday next, were exactly those stated by the Hon. Gentleman. Of course, in the absence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was impossible for him to lay down any financial principle.—(Hear.) Mr. EDWARD DAVENPORT begged to ask the Noble Lord when Government would move for the long promised Finance Committee; and wished to know of what names that Committee would be composed, before any further motions were made for going into the Supplies. Lord PALMERSTON said the House must. be aware that it would be impossible for him to take upon himself to say who the House in its wisdom might think fit to appoint as Members of the Finance Committee. It was then agreed the House should resolve itself into a Committee for the consideration of the estimates on Monday next. COMMUTATION OF TITHES. Mr. GREENE rose, pursuant to notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to enable Rectors and Parishioners to commute for corn rents the tithes within their respective parishes. The Hon. Gentle man said, that the subject to which he was about to call the attention of the . House was one of very great importance. The experiment, however, was tried before, and had been found to answer; and he did not desire now to press the Legislature for its interference until every Hon. Member had an op portunity of being satisfied with the advantages which would accrue from the measure which was proposed, which would enable parishes to effect, at a small expense, that which they were now enabled to do by private bills, at a very heavy expense. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. Sir J. NEWPORT gave notice, that on an early day he should bring forward a motion on the subject of the Irish Court of Chancery. Sir ALEX. GRANT brought up the Report of the Committee on the Expiring and Expired Laws, which was laid on the table. The lioute adjourned at Five o'clock to Mon thly z",txt. ' P'A_R,LIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS, NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS. OF TUE DAY, WHICH NaW STAND IN THE ORDER BOOR FOR THE ENSUING MONDAY, FEB. 4.--ORDER OF THE DAY. 1 1 3 ; Motion for Supply—Committee thereupon. • NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. George Bankes—Bill to relieve Roman Catholics from double payment of Land Tax. 2. Mr. Bankes—Papers relating to the Proceedings of the Board of Works. TUESDAY, FEB. J.—NOTICE OF MOTION. Sir John Newport—Returns relative to Admiralty Court (Ireland). THURSDAY, FEB. 7.• NOTICE OF MOTION. • Mr. Brougham—Motion touching the state of the Law in this Country, and its administration in the Courts of Justice, with a view to such Reforms in the same as time may have rendered necessary and • experience may have shown to be expedient. PROTOCOL RELATIVE TO THE AFFAIRS OF GREECE, SIGNED AT ST. rETERSIIIIIIGII, AralL I, 1826. PIMSENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT EY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY, 1828. His Britannic Majesty having been requested by the Greeks to interpose his good offices, in order to obtain their reconciliation with the Ottoman Porte—having, in consequence, offered his mediation, to that Power, and being desirous of concerting the measures of his. Government, upon this subject, with his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias ; and his Imperial Majesty, on the other band, being equally animated by the desire of putting an end to the contest of which Greece and the Archipelago are the theatre, by an arrangement, which shall be consistent with the principles of religion, justice, and humanity; The undersigned have agreed :- 1. That the arrangement to be proposed to the Porte, if that Government should accept the proffered media tion, should have for its object to place the Greeks towards the Ottoman Porte in the relation hereafter-mentioned.:_ Greece should be a dependency of that Empire, and the Greeks should pay to the Porte an annual tribute, the amount of which should be permanently fixed by common consent. They should be exclusively governed by Autho rities to be chosen and - named by themselves, but in the nomination of which Authorities the Porte should have a certain influence• In this state, the Greeks should enjoy a complete liberty of conscience, entire freedom of commerce, and should, ex clusively, conduct their own internal Government. In order to effect a complete separation between indi duals of the two nations, and to prevent the collisions which must be the necessary consequences of a contest of such duration, the Greeks should , purchase the property of the Turks, whether situated on the Continent of Greece, or in the islands. 2. In case the principle of a mediation between Turks and Greeks should have been admitted, is consequence of the steps taken, with that view, by his Britannic Majesty's Ambassador at Constantinople, his Imperial Majesty would exert, in every case, his influence to forward the object of that mediation. The mode in which, and the time at which, his Imperial Majesty should take part in the ulte terior negotiations with the Ottoman Porte, which may be the consequence of that mediation, should be determined hereafter by the common consent of the Governments of his Britannic Majesty and his Imperial Majesty. 3. If the mediation offered by his Britannic Majesty should not have been accepted by the Porte, and whatever may be the nature of the relations between his Imperial Majesty and the,Turkish Government, his Britannic Ma jesty and his Imperial Majesty will still consider the terms of the arrangement specified in No. 1 of this Protocol, as the basis of any reconciliation to be effected bytheir inter vention, whether in concert or separately, between the Porte and the Greeks ; and they will avail themselves of every favourable opportunity to exert their influence with both parties, in order to effect their reconciliation on the above-mentioned basis. 4. That his Britannic Majesty and his Imperial Majesty should reserve to themselves to adopt, hereafter, the mea sures necessary for the settlement of the details of the ar rangement in question, as well as the limits of the territory and the names of the islands of the Archipelago to which it shall be applicable, and it shall be proposed to the Porte to comprise under the denothination of Greece. That, moreover, his Britannic Majesty and his Im perial Majesty will not seek, in this arrangement, any in crease of territory, nor any exclusive influence, nor advan tage in commerce for their subjects, which shall not he equally attainable by all other nations. 6- That his Britannic Majesty and his Imperial Majesty., being desirous that their Allies should become parties to the definitive`arrangements of which this Protocol contains the outline; will communicate this instrument, confiden tially, to the Courts of Vienna, Paris, and Berlin, and will propose to them that they should, in concert with the Em peror of Russia, guarantee the Treaty by which the recon ciliation of the Turks and Greeks shall be effected, as his Britannic Majesty cannot guarantee such a Treaty. St. Petersburg'', April 4—(March 23), 1826. (Signed) WELLINGTON. NESSELRODE. LIEVEN. We understand a tradesman, very respectably dressed, was seen late on Sunday night, wheeling a barrow through the streets, which he had taken into custody : be gave it into the chatie of the watchman.—Brighton Paper. BOILEAU being asked, by Louis XIV., his opinion of some verses which the Kiac had just composed, replied, " Nothing seems impossible to your MAJESTY : you have attempted to make bad verses, and have succeeded." FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France of Jan. 31.) Rom, JAN. 30.—We extract the following from the Augsburgle Gazette : " The pr.otocol of the conferences on the question of intervention between. the Ministers of Russia, France, and England, was finally agreed upon, oil the 21st of December, and the measures were con certed which are to be taken, not to delay the paci fication in the East. The following are the stipula tions of the new Treaty : " All the efforts made to induce the Porte to adopt the intervention of the three Powers having been fruitless, the Contracting Powers will make use of the means which are in their power to require with energy of the Porte to attend at length to the pro posals which have been made to it for the goad of humanity, and for the security of the commerce of all nations. Though military operations by sea and by land, says the votocol, may perhaps become ne cessary to attain this object, every thing will be done in the spirit of the Treaty of the 6th of July, and no one of the Contracting Powers shall have the right, under any pretext, to seek an aggrandizement of ter ritory, or any other advantages whatever. The ex penses caused by carrying the .measures into execu tion shall be subjected to a common estimation, and the nature of the indemnities shall be stipulated." CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 2.--Whoever has atten tively followed the negotiations respecting the Greek question, since the time which preceded the depar ture of the Ambassadors, must be convinced that the Porte has found the line between , the necessity of its preservation, an attitude full of dignity; and that at a moment when its continual refnsals made the Am bassadors lose their patience, it had contrived, with an ability which it was not suspected to possess, to resume the broken thread of the negotiations, and has lent itself to an arrangement proposed with mo deration, but without humbling itself. If it was not able to produce a favourable result, incompatible per haps with the delicate situation of the Ambassadors and the peculiar constitution of the country, it has at least g ained by vindicating itself from the rf , - preach of being irreconcileable. It has matte one step towards a pacific arrangement, and must "now expect from the wisdom of the Christian Powers that they will answer to friendly advances to .cele brate a feast of reconciliation in the interest of the European alliance; for all rancour must have disappeared with the announcement of the victory, and the vanquished must have acquired a friend, and even a protector. The Porte is willing to recognize the Greek islands anti the • Morea ; to grant them the right of governing themselves; to convert the capitation tax into a general tribute'; to withdraw the Turkish troops, and to retain only some for tresses in New Greece ; in a word, to approximate to the Treaty of the 6th of July ; and it must expect that it will not be repulsed, when it acknowledges itself morally vanquished. No unfavourable inter pretation ought to be put on the conduct of M. de Ribeaupierre, to whom the Porte had transmitted, through the Sardinian Envoy, the proposals relative to Greece some days before his departure, for not having entered into any negotiation after the depar ture of his colleagues, and having considered him self, from that . moment, as absent from Constanti nople, and without any diplomatic character. But, on the other hand, we cannot blame the Porte, which considered the refusal of the Russian Ambas sador to receive its proposals of conciliation as an unfriendly act, and thought itself obliged to resume the attitude which it had quitted. The sentiments of the Allied Sovereigns, who, doubtless, will not have less regard for the honour of the Porte than the rights of oppressed humanity had to expect from them, are a pledge for the main tenance of peace; for they must consider the pro posals made in the last instance to M. de Ribeau pierre as if they had received them, and act in a spirit favourable to the friendly relations which have not yet ceased to exist. The. neutral Powers, whose disinterested views have been constantly manifest in the course;a these important negotiations, who had not only to attend to 'the object of these negotia tions, but also to remove the prejudices of irritated minds,—these Powers will certainly continue to em ploy their good offices, and will thereby convince the world that they desire, no less than the parti sans of philanthropy, the pacification of Greece and that they consider no effort as too great—no means as too expensive--to stop in a truly Chris tian manner the effusion of blood, and to establish on durable foundations the peace of Europe.--Augs burgh Gazette. VIENNA, JAN. 21.—1 t was on the 12th of January that an English courier brought the supplementary Treaty concluded on the 21st of .December last, at London, between France, England,•and Russia. Sir Henry Wellesley, though ill, immediately enclosed the additional Treaty to Prince Metternich. - Three days afterwards a courier brought the news of the fall of the English - Ministry which signed this con vention. Every body is naturally impatient to know what effect this circumstance will have on our affairs. ------- On the 21st of February Tve shall have grand fetes, it being the Emperor's birth-day, who will at tain his 60th year. There is au improbable report that the Crown Prince 'Ferdinand will be declared by his Majesty joint Regent. Metalliques, 89i ; Bank Shares, 1,039. Faxxcir Forms, JAN. 30.—Fire per Cents, 103 f. 60c. ; Three per Cents., 69f. Ssc. ; Bank Stock, 1,900 f. ; Naples Rentes, 76f. 10c. ; RoyakSpanish Loan, 73f. ; Haytian Loan, 675f.—Exchange on London, one month, 25f. 10c. ; three months, 25f. THUNDER STORM IN THE HARRIS Isr.xs.—On the evening of the 20th, and morning of the 21st ult., these islands, lying westward of Skye, were visited by tremendous peals of thunder, accomp anied b y vivid flashes of lightning, in the valleys of Ben Totum and Ben Clisham. The ef ,rnrfionredd bJeofourle.naAl., 0 0 sTu s frets were felt in many of the cottages, but fortunately no lives were lost. The sloop John of Stornoway, while at anchor, had her mast shattered, and sustained some which had an awful appearance da mage in her hull. During the storm, the barometer of Island Glass Lighthouse vibrated from 28. 70. to 28. 80. —Edinburgh Weekly Chtonicle. LEITM—A number of respectable indivi duals dined on Friday, the 25th of January, in the Golf-house, Links, in commemoration of the birth-day of BuoNs, the poet. The second anniversary of the Leith Burns' Club was held in the Exchange Hotel, the same day, when upwards of twenty gentlemen, members of the club, sat down to an excellent dinner. Upon the cloth being removed, the president, after an appropriate speech, 4 , gave the memory of ROBERT Btu:Ns." After which a number of other toasts were given, and many of the poet's best songs were sung.— Caledonian Mercury. SINGULAR CIRCITMSTANCE.—About a fort nightbehind what 1 / 4 1ittle ago a young woman, named HANNA': GRISSOLD, who had been living servant in the family of Mr. COP PUCK, at Walton-place, near the Oxford Canal, for seven weeks, left her service about six in the evening, without any n pa o i ti e c i e t , ha a n nd w h h a a s t n s o h t e si h nc a e d beoenn, leaving of, notwithstanding age, and very every inquiry , has been made. Her' mistress gives her an 'excellent character, and says that 'no disagreement had n o F as i s lO st A an C t li g E a ß m S e , ''taken place between them. She took away no other ap_ she was possessed of: She is about 20 years of fresh-co u lo e u e r been ed ex: Wells A A P P R E II E e N ha S r l ge O d lC w o i t .A sh G oo A ti N ng G a AND THEIR COMMITTAL IVOR SHOOTING A GAMEKEEPER. SHUTE, Esq., a Berkshire Magistrate, at the Sunninghill keeper of G. H. CRUTCHLEY, Esq., of Sunning-Hill Park, Berks, on Sun d a y night the 6th of January. During the examination, so very audacious were some of the poachers, that they said to TulthEß, (King's evidence against them) " Corse thee, if we had got a rope round thy neck, with the end round a brain, we would pull it tight enough to do thy business." The prisoners were fully committed to Reading Gaol for trial at the ensuing Assizes. As they were leaving the inn, some of them hallooed to the crowd, and pointed to their necks, intimating that they would he hanged. It appears that some of the gang, on the Thursday after they were at Mr. CauTcamax's Park, went to Prince LEOPOLD'S, at Claremont, and beat one of his gamekeepers dreadfully, and as the man lay senseless on the ground, they robbed him of his gun, his jacket, and hat. The hat was afterwards found at a short distance from the place. PRICES OF IRISH STOCI Bank Stock Console, 2 per cent 85%1 Gov. Stock, 3 1 4 per cent 92% Ditto, New 4 per Cent. 104 2 4 Gov. Deb. per cent. Royal Canal Stock ' 38? Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 4 per cent Ballast Office Deb. 4 ts. et --- COURSE OF EXCHA Amsterdam C.F. 12 2' Ditto, at sight • .11 ip . Rotterdam 9 U. 12 Antwerp l2 .3 Hamburgh M. B. /3 11 • A ltona 13 111 Paris, 3 days' sight Ditto 2 U. 25 55 Bordeaux 25 6:, Berlin — Frankfort on Maine, Ex.m.thoi Petersburgh, rble... 3 Us. 10 Vienna, effective 11. 2 M.. 10. 2 Trieste do. Madrid 35% Cadiz 36 - Bilboa Barcelona 31% Seville 35 Gibraltar 16 MA Arrived. Due. O America 0 O Brazil 0 O DuenoA Ayres I Dublin O Flanders 0 O France O Gottenburgh 2 O Guernsey& Jersey 0 t ~,,„. ......4114„.„.,,....„.,,,. ..... r i lf ~...,. ..,,,,t,,,..,,,, . - LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1929. , . Writs for electing Burgesses to represent the following places in Parliament, were issued this. morning from the Crown Office, viz.,. the Borough of New Woodstock ; Borough of Cambridge : BoroUgh of Plimpton Earle. The Election of: a Burgess, to serve Par— liament for King's Lynn, in the room of Lord W. BENTINCK, will take place on Monday next the 4th ingant. The Election of a Knight, to serve in Par liament for Monmouth, in the room of Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET, is fixed to take pt on Tuesday the 12th instant. The Election of a Burgess, to represent the University of Oxford in Parliament, vice, the , Right Honourable R. PEEL, will take place on Monday next the 4th instant. Mr. HosicissoN leaves town for Liverpool at three o'clock this afternoon. The connexion between the Right Honourable Gentleman and that great commercial city is highly and mu tually creditable, and should of itself put to silence those prejudiced and ignorant persons who have the assurance to assert that the doctrines of Free Trade are the offspring of rashness and innovation, and are calculated to bring ruin on the commercial and maritimeh4e rests of the nation. We have already heard. of some great _Capitalists, who have ,candidly confessed that the result of tbo,-application , of those principles to the silk trade, has wrung from them an unwilling but irresistible assent to doctrines which they had long regarded -as re plete,with ruin to our commerce ; and we hays no doubt, that the rest of the commercial. world will soon follow the example of those distill.. guished individuals to whom we have alluded. Mr. HUSKISSON hits published the following address : " TO THE VV'ORTHT AND INDEPENDXNT FREE.IWEN, Lxvz,Rpoor.. . , "'Brother Preecaen-L-At the meeting of Parliament this day, r e presentation of your town, by , ret.it , rting a memb e r for a writ will be issued to. enable ..you to complete the the vacancy caused by my 'ac.ceptanCe of the seals of the a ff or d me' to find myself again ' iestored you had upon two former occasions Colonial Department,' and relying . upon the already, expressed , to you the .gratifiCation cordial 'invitation, so numeroizsly respectably signed, which I received from You in the month of Sep tember last, I now hasten to inform you, that in t h e perfect confidence that nothing has since occurred c i t v oo lii n ' icf re a i e v t tl in ti w g .u o tp o ow i n ( ui l me, earnest and which can justly deprive me of the friendly sentiments of a pprobation with which you then honoured my public con duct, I shall present myself to you on the day which may be fixed for the election, in the full assurance of meeting with the same _zealous support which I have before expo' rienced at your hustings, " This assurance rests on the consciOusnesi that the principles which have guided my public . conduct,. both 0 11 a servant of the Crown and as your Representative since 1823, remain unaltered, and that the measures which I have, from time to time, brought forward in Parliament, founded on those principles, continue to meet with your concurrence. " I have the honour to.be, brother Freemen, your. Teri faithful and obliged servant, " W. HUSKISSON. " Earthatn, Sussex, Jan. 29." coo' . The breach of Parliamentary privilege, mitted in the arrest of Lord Viscount HAwAst• DEN, will no doubt be visited with all due seve rity oil the offending parties, by. the Order to' , which his Lordship belongs—for, to say; the with an truth, neither Rouse is slow in asserting and t: t a b: vindicating th e pr i v il eges w hi c h they have assumed for thems e l ves . 'their worst enemi es ean not• charge th em with tohr vigilance eir n s score, and we only wish that th e y had a little more anxiety to shhare w with the country at large, some tuose ad' vantages w hich they so highly an d -justly ay preciatC• For' instance,• sacre O ne ss Peis ° ''' or freedom from arrest, is a boon Which. vq,e are sat i s fied the nation would gladly accep t at t he hands of sour tiksidors; thou g h e9O individual would, of course, thereby forego the c hance of recovering his claims' against h' neighbour by 'the imprisonment of his persoe' We suspect that few would be found to, dissent; and as neither King, Lords, nor CO . minions, Pee 4l be thereby affected, surely the unprivilegedshou° be allowed voluntarily to forego their poiver'ofe f each other. We are not aware that the syste ° works ill amongst the Members of Parliame o or that they owe more as a body than ot her people of equal fortune and expenditure. o d ou bt many of them are in debt, and find that • !..i.• 0 1 5 privilege 'vastly useful ; but the same incliviu' :Ks. , ouBLIN, JAN. 30. St. PXtfiCk Insur. (per sh.) Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto Hibernian Bank -- Provincial Ditto 'loyal Irish Mine • ImiTrld Mine • Mining Co, of Ireland • Corruncrcial Blaidings ••• - _ • .24G z YEs.nritriAle , Leghorn ~..•...4 $ ~,„,,,„ 25 50 tenon ....- Venice Malta. +."""” Naples V Palermo per oz. 111i . _ , Lisbon - ' . 46q. • Oporto ...... 463i Rio Janeir0................. - ‘2 2 Bahia - 37 Buenos Ayre5.:......;. .4.. Dublin, 21 days' sight ... P . Alic Cork .... 'lyv i BULLION, PER 08. X. S.di Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 • Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 New Doubloons 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 Silver. bars, standard 0 0 0 Arrived. Duo. O Hamburgh 2 O Holland O Jamaica ' O Leeward Isl ands 0 0 Lisbon— ...... 1 O Malta 0 O Mexico 0 I Waterford llO woulc --th, vileg tutpi sur-7 rtipt ver;: • 4UT bwo Ipro ;leo] . 1 t; auji Ace aruu 701 400, -4 12 Q • afte 40 the mat :zinc ivea -arre of', agai heir, to Part ku a , talte the. mer by If e : paci TiICI] trau !owl gritt we , Joys Qrie, geoi esti '1 bee' Ga tive the the In% =thit dize wha Ga; nou Pari rece and 1 the r the that Med] the Tut.) Ctn . ( be a Five 69f. Zeii Ale the will for t after and thre migl wou prof Eby Pad be ft to t 1 of 61 had Suffe Sard varii ' embi j 3 from Mali ral c don turn stro , pira Ztos 0 118 four