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After which a Nautical Drama in Four Parts, called POOR JACK; OR THE WIFE OF A SAILOR. In which Mr. J. P. Cooke, and the entire strength of the •Company, will perform. To conclude with the Operatic Drama of PAUL CLIFFORD. Paul Clifford (with all the Original Songs), Mr. Collins. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. :morning 47 minutes after 0 (Evening 15 minutes after I. the Publication of the Evening Edition of Ting 51124 corn• meneed at 30 winiites after Three. . u , 44 , 4',A74(4 • o 0 s a.xrw tor p r Ztit ,§nlx„ LONDON : FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1841. The House of P,!.ers was almost exclusively oc cupied last night by the Bishop of EXETER, who made a speech, which lasted two hours and a half, on the sub:ects of San Sulpice and Canada, and the growth of Popery. To give a succinct and full analysis of such a lengthy oration, on such a subject, is beyond our power. The Bishop began by presenting a petition from certain inha bitants of Montreal, praying their Lordships to address her MAJESTY not to give her as sent to the ordinance for settling the claims which the Seminary of San Sulpice has to the seignories of Montreal. The Rev. Prelate asserted that the consent of the Council of Canada to that ordinance had been obtained by extraordinary means. He hinted at bribery, and he affirmed intimidation. The Governor-General, contrary to custom, in a most extraordinary and unheard of manner, had presided over the Council. The ordinance was petitioned against by two-thirds of the British Pfotestaots resident in Montreal, and it did what it was contrary to the Constitution, contrary to the duty of the Sovereign, and beyond the moral power of Parliament. The Right Rev. Prelate endeavoured to prove; by the history of the Seminary, by the laws of the co lony, by the capitulation of Quebec, by the Act of Constitution, by the Act of Union, by the Crown having resigned all Its rights to the State of Canada for a Civil List, that the Seminary had no legal right whatever to the seignories, and the Crown had no power to make, as was done by the Governor-General, any ordinance of the kind. The Right Rev. Prelate declared, too, that if Ministers had meant to confer the property on the Seminary, they might have done so without constituting it into a corporation and he instanced the Col lege of Maynooth but they had consti tuted it into a corporation, and had thereby violated the fundamental principles and laws of the Constitution, both as they existed before the Reformation and since the Reformation. A corporation was a perpetual body, and it was a great offence for a Protestant Government to create a perpetual Romish corporation. The Rev. Prelate might have tolerated it for nine hundred and ninety-nine years, but not for a per petuity; though in the market there is not a fraction of difference in the value of property held for only ninely-nine years, and perpetual possession. The Right Rev. Prelate concluded an elaborate speech, full of research, and by no means destitute of bitterness, by calling on their Lordships to stand between the country and the danger to which it was exposed front the en croachments of Popery, which the Ministers encouraged, which was everywhere making great strides, and which the ordinance of the Go vernor-General was calculated and intended to promote. Viscount MELBOURNE defended the conduct of the G overnor-General, and stated that no such measure was- ever passed without giving oc casion to such remarks as those made by the Right Rev. Prelate. The Noble Viscount said, as to the right of San Sulpice to the seignories, it had been in undisturbed possession of them for upwards of 70 years ; that successive Govern ments, successive Governors, successive Assem blies, had never questioned the right; and if their lon,; pcssesiion, sanctioned by all that ga ve Sec ar ity to property, did not confer a right, there were no i ights which could be considered safe, and nothing in the affairs of man which could be considered stable and permanent. To the accu sation that the Romish Church was encroaching, the Noble Viscount replied that the ecclesiastical spirit was encroaching everywhere, and he in stanced the Non-intrusionists in Scotland, and the arrogance of the priesthood in England, as proofs that other Churches were as rapacious of power as the priesthood of Rome. With respect to the Ministers encouraging the Romish aggressions, he could only give such an assertion an absolute and peremptory uenial. H e entreated their Lordships, as they valued justice and the eace of Canada, n o t to support the Right P Reverend Prelate in opposing, an ordinance which was the best settlement that could be effected of a diffi cult and perplexing question. As a proof that it was so, many of the persons who had signed the petition had since gladly accepted the terms, and agreed to the seignorial rights claimed by the Seminary on the terms prescribed by the ordinances. The Duke of WELLINGTON complimented the Bishop of EXETER very highly for his instructive speech ; blamed Lord MELBOURNE for his in sufficient answer; and described the ordinance as a blow struck at the Reformation and at the rights of the Crown. His Grace called on their Lordships to consider, in the next few days, whether they would allow this ordinance to be come law or not. No motion was submitted to their Lordships, but the petition was laid on the table, and a motion will be submitted by the Bishop in a few days. No doubt, with the support of the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Lords will address her MAJESTY to refuse her con sent to the ordinance, which will set it aside, and the affairs of Canada will be again thrown into some confusion. The Tories seem bent on renewing a religious contest with their Catholic fellow-subjects. Their error lies in considering that ours is now a Protestant Go vernment and a Protestant nation. Both Go vernment and nation are now party Catho lic; and it is the duty of the Govern ment to treat all its subjects, whatever may be their religious creed, with strict impartiality, and without any reference to one Church or another. By departing from that wise principle the Tories will add religious broils to the com mercial, manufacturing, and currency distress, which threatens us and fills society with deadly disease. It seems as if they were anxious to rea lise their own diabolical theory. They propound the notion that man is essentially a wicked animal, destined to plague and punishment here; and they mean, if they are allowed, to prove that they at least are very wicked, and they will make the earth very like the hell with which they threaten mankind. We trust they will be stopped. The renewed suspension of cash-payments by the United States Bank will affect England as well as America, and is calculated to make the public look with some alarm on other banks. Nor are there wanting circumstances of no plea sant nature amongst ourselves to excite suspi cions of banks and bankers, both private and pub lic, while the recent conduct of the Bank of Eng land has not increased the public confidence in that establishment. In a second pamphlet lately published by Mr. LEATHAM, the Wakefield banker, "Letter to William Rayner Wood," whose first pamphlet setting forth the amount of bills in circulation obtained considerable notice, there are some passages which may now be appropriately quoted. The following refers not only to the conduct of the Bank, but points out a very heavy loss sustained by the commercial community in* 1839, by its conduct in making money first plen tiful and then scarce, which the mercantile classes will be slow to forgive Had you examined the published low rates of interest by the Bank, for the discount of Bills, the loans granted on the p'edges of Stock, and ether securities, for the years 1834 and 1835, up to the middle of 1836, all of them years of high prices compared with the years following, of ruinously high rates of interest, panic, and low prices, as well as with the enormous fluctuations in the Currency of Bills of Exchange and Acceptances in both periods, your case would h ave b een fully proved, and made out to demonstration. The Bank of England at all times acting upon the focus of the money market in London, has the power to rule the rate of interest for the kingdom ; and when she offers low rates of interest, the market for all other lenders of cash is still lower ; and, when she arers high rates of interest, the market for all other lenders and borrowers is a still higher rate :—this may be taken as the rule. When money is abundant, and would naturally soon be corrected if the market were not interfered with, she steps in with large sums, and makes it worth nothing; and then follows a train of events full of excitement, with a delirium of prosperity, succeeded by periods of depression and langour. " Thus in the former years, of a rise of prices, the Bank of England ruled and depressed the rates of interest and the money market, by her endeavours to find employment for her surplus funds, to enable her to keep up a seven per cent. divi dend to her Proprietors. She then departed from the practice and rule of more than a hundred years, in taking for the first time a loan from the East India Company, at two per cent. in terest, with which she opened accounts with the leading Bill Brokers ; and although professing inher advertisements and no tices, that she would make advances and grant discounts at three per cent., she was at the same time privately lend ing very large sums to tiqe Bill Brokers at two and a half per cent. It is a curious fact, that although the Bank first took this loan from the East India Company at two per cent., the interest was raised ultimately to four per cent. in the pe riod of a drain of bullion, as money became more scarce. Now, what did I find to be the effect of these measures, as a Banker, on the money market, where, by the nature of my business, I am always a lender of cash ?—..that while the Banker was allowing two and a half per cent. on deposits, he could not make even that rate in London, for a time : and at last infor mation came from the Bill Brokers, that cash could find no employment at all on bills. The bills of the old highly respect able American houses in London, thus encouraged and created, were scrambled for by the Bill Brokers at that time, though soon to become victims, and to be placed in jeopardy, and ex posed to dishonour, by the altered measures of the Bank millions of money were lent on foreign securities with broad margins, and millions more were actually invested in them, especially Dutch and American." I must beg to draw thy attention to a fact that involves the charge of overtrading, and shows a great error of the commer cial body ; though previously allured out of the safe path, by the glare of the false and delusive prosperity, created for them by the conduct of the Bank of England, in making money cheap or of no val ue , prec i se l y s i m il ar to the events preceding every other panic (and there have been four), since the storm 0f1825 and 1826, though less destructive, because there was no internal discredit. I find then also, in 1839, the very singular fact, that the enormous sum of 40,000,000 of Bills of Exchange and Acceptances were discounted at six per cent. by the Bank of England, in the last six months of that year ; and I can safely infer from inquiry, that not less that 60,000,000 sterling more were discounted in the same period by the Bill Brokers, at seven, eight, ten, and even twelve per cent., to meet, I pre sume, or take up, principally, other bills coming due. If the commercial world had not departed from sound principles of business, and from making their capital the measure of their transactions, this astounding fact could never have existed. It is no wonder the Bank securities increased, when I agree with thee they ought to have decreased, with a large export of bullion ; but what an awful and curious retributive punishment is inSicted, on all concerned in this erroneous course ; for, had the Rink refused to discount even one-tenth of this sum of 100,000,000, what would have been the extent of failure,—and how far would her own existence have been compromised ? for there was only wanting panic, and general discredit, to finish the work. What a powerful argument have you gained in proving, that the Corn-law has recently imposed on commerce a ruinously high rate of interest, for nearly two years, and has robbed the country of more than twenty millions of gold and capital; and has actually endangered, —yes, imminently endangered, the Bank, and driven her, not to pawn, as our kings in " olden times," the Crown jewels ; but really to pledge a security of the English Government (the Dead Weight), to obtain from France, her old enemy, the loan of two-and-a.balf millions of her gold, when on the eve of a war with this country. I find in the 10th month (October), 1839, the bullion is re turned to the Currency Committee, at 2,525,0001., from which, if I deduct the gold due to France, not then repaid, there is left a balance of 25,0001. for the Bank, and the branches, to meet a circulation and liabilities by law, payable in gold, Lf near twenty-four millions. Men are extremely sensitive and acute when their own interest is concerned, of which Mr. LEATHAM, in fact, furnishes a notable example. This gentleman is a Member of the Society of Friends, and he tells us that " I have taken no part hithert o i n t h e abstract question of the Corn-law, but the investigation into the subject of the currency has few fully imp resse d the con viction on my mind that unless a change be made to a fixed duty the prosperity of our commerce and manufactures, now languish ing, will ere long expire, and, when ena tornbed, the prosperity of agriculture will be followed to the grav e , an d ta k e a niche in the same vault." Here, then, is a humane and kindly man, like all his co-religionists, who has probably taken a deep interest in the emancipation of the blacks, but he has been quite unmoved by the mass of distress he has seen around him, and has taken no interest in the abstract question of the present Corn-law. He has seen at Wakefield, and all t'..rough the manufacturing districts, men hungering for want of employment, females perishing, and children dying for lack of that food their half-starved mo thers had not to give them. All the frightful scenes which have been exhibited in our manufacturing districts during the last ten years have made no impression on this good and intelligent Quaker; but the instant he perceives that his pocket is touched, the instant he is aware by his investiga tion that the trade of banking is rendered less lu crative or dangerous by adverse exchanges caused by the necessity to buy food, he becomes interested in the repeal of the Corn-law, and ad vocates a fixed duty. His blame of the Bank of England smacks of a similar origin. He has suffered in his own pecuniary concerns by its conduct, and he de clares that , c not all the wealth of India would induce me to pass another thirty years of such anxiety unless a change can be made in the future management of the currency." Mr. LEATHAM the represemntaaytiv ien f t h t i i s le re b s u p l e k ct of be the tak m en idd a le s classes, who have " had their property de stroyed by the operations of the Bank," of those Merchants and manufacturers who, calculating on a rate of interest equal to 4 per cent., when the Bank made money plentiful, had to give 8 or 10, on a sum amounting to 100,000,0001.; thus sacrificing amongst them at least 4,000,0001. at the pleasure of and for the aiety of the Bank ; and all these suffering classes, like Mr. LEATHAM, tracing their distress to the Bank—for they will never suppose that they have been in error themselves—will probably be so angry with that establishment that it will be brought into great peril. As long as the mercan tile and manufacturing interests are prosperous, the Bank monopoly may be continued; but un just in its nature, and pregnant with mischief as it has been, whenever those great interests begin to suffer the maintenance of the monopoly will be impossible. It cannot, therefore, be otherwise than that the money derangement in America, producing distress and derangement here, should bring on something like a crisis in our own money affairs. The picture which Mr. LEATHAM has drawn of the resources of the Bank as above quoted, is dark enough to make us tremble for the conse quences. A little panic in our money market, caused by the stoppage in America, and by the conduct of banks and bankers at home, creating, in ever so small a decrree, a demand for gold, would obviously shake the Bank of England to its foundation, and leave nothing be twixt a stoppage and almost irremediable confu sion, but an Order of Council to suspend cash payments. We know not, we say, not, that such an evil is coming ; but with a stagnation in our trade, with an expenditure far exceeding our re venue, with a people living fully up to their means, and now saving little or nothing, we look forward to the future, unless some bold and vi gorous measures to relieve our trade be speedily adopted, with much apprehension. At the meeting of the Town Council' of Edin burgh, on Tuesday last, a letter from the Marquis of NORMANDY was read, stating that he had thought it right, as well for the interests of the Universityas for the promotion of sound Biblical learning in Scotland, to recommend her MA JESTY to institute a chair of Biblical criticism in the Edinburgh University; and to the astonish ment of the inhabitants—of all classes—a Com mission has been issueilby the Crown, appointing the Rev. R. S. CANDLISH, Regius Professor, to fill the chair. This Mr. CANDLISH has been one of the most active in preaching and practising open rebellion against the law of the land, and was commissioned but the other day by the non-intrusion demagogues at Edinburgh to open a new church in the Presbytery of Strathbogie, in utter defiance of an interdict of the Court of Session, and in direct contradiction to the law laid down by the House of Peers. Thus the LORD-ADVOCATE (for, AS LORD ABERDEEN says, he is supreme in Scotland), under the influence and advice, probably, of his brother non-intru sionist, Mr. Fox MAULE, has conferred a pre mium on a rebellious priest, and thereby encou raged other reverend agitators to follow his example. The friends of law and order in Scot land are in utter amazement at this outrageous proceeding. HOW TO EVADE A JUST CLAIM; A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS. Only thirty-seven Members assembled in the House yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, while thirty-eight Members waited in the Library to abide the event ofa House, or no House. What excellent jockeyship ! How worthy of liberal men, who would be honest but for their neces sities. Enough for the day is the evil thereof, but trickery will not avail in the long run ; and the Danish claims will continue to haunt the Exchequer until justice, too long deferred, be done at last. Your " thorough Liberal" makes an excellent mock-Reformer, but a very sorry Legislator. In our City article of this afternoon will be found a rumour of preparations making by Lord PALMERSTON to enforce the liberation of Mr. AULEOD;' still in confinement in the United States. Ten sail of the line are said to have been ordered to assemble at Gibraltar, and thence to pro ceed direct to the American coast, prepared to act in case of emergency. We further understand that Lord PALMERSTON has sent instructions to Mr. Fox, our Ambassador at - Washington, to demand peremptorily the imme diate release of Mr. M'LEOD. The affair begins to wear a very serious complexion. We have much pleasure in directing attention to some excellent resolutions passed yesterday at the Hammersmith Reform Club with refer ence to Lord MORPETH'S Bill. We cordially agree in the sentiments expressed by the meet ing for doing " justice to Ireland." Until real and substantial justice be done to that unfortu nate country, the word Union is but mockery, and equal laws and equal rights but gall and wormwood superadded to oppression. The Paris Journals of Wednesday have all reached us. The Moniteur publishes two Royal Ordinances—one authorising various changes in the judicial appointments of the interior of France ; the other ordering promotions in the - Marine Artillery. The National has a fierce at tack upon Marshal SOULT'S circular to the army. In the Journal des Debuts we find some corre spondence from Affghanistan, in which the writer predicts a collision between England and Russia, and expresses his conviction that whenever it takes place England will be beaten in Asia. The in habitants of our Indian empire are, he says, dis contented, and wholly destitute of that spirit of nationality which the Russian boors displayed when their country was invaded by NAPOLEON. In the event of an invasion of India by Russia it is not to be supposed that England would trust to the valour of native troops for the repulsion of aggression. And in truth from the very necessities of our position, we begin to suspect that there is a greater chance of our invading Russia than of Russia invading us. We must conscientiously admit that we are as aggressive as our neighbours. According to the U,sivers, the report which 'was circulated of pretended negotiations to render Syria independent is without foundation. That journal says, however, that the French Go vernment has entered into negotiations at Vienna, London, and Constantinople, for the purpose of securing to the Christian inhabitants of Syria all the advantages and all the guarantees of the protection of France. We may easily foresee that these negotiations will end in nothing. The expedition to New Zealand has decidedly failed. The Aube returns to France. Wherever Captain Lavaux appeared he found English settlements and officers of that nation, who were instructed to announce to him the sovereignty of Eng land in that country. Se% cral settlers who arrived on board the Comte de Paris were landed, and resolved to remain, con senting to become British subjects. We find the following notice in the Eco del Comrnercio of Madrid of the 24th of February : e t i h v eg e a g d rgair t nsa n h tt reeaddde crossyat o y . p b eofnof Marshalrtßeii.l,3e m e sot ordernesra i d G a do y aef ,nr Charlesahf? a r d o o m , s t t h h olen e n s. h te hn a rhp s eoo o ifsn f at t tm h ho e e ef Marshal Saldanha, th e A m b assador Extraordinary of Portu io e g Q a u l ee r n ec , h S as pan be ish en M leaving this city to return to Lisbon. Baron Mortier, the Frenclipmbassador in Switzerland, has arrived at Paris. Great interest is felt at Alexandria respecting the person who may be chosen to succeed M. Cochelet as Consul Gene ral. We know here that Mr. Roman Chabot is to succeed him. We - doubt whether he will be thought at Alexandria to possess the necessary qualifications. " Whoever may he the person sent," says a letter to us, "we hope that the Govern. ment will feel the necessity of sending a man versed in com mercial affairs. The moment is come when it is more needful th tu a ni n t e o ve a r for ecounyall c th e e to re h so a u v r e ce a s w Co hie n h su t l hi a s bl c e ou t n o tr d y isc m ov ay er op at e i n d to commerce."--Le Commerce. Behr' , elgian and. Wednesday's date, have 13 Journals, the former of g extracts from II e T i lle ll f .s ol t l i o le w y in contain of any frie.oeme interesti v t e h d ein this: include_m or morn ing. - b 3 e . en given i all n g t . a rd r e , r 3 s lA h a av c e ir are assured that within these few A L T ; E o to binder foreign workmen of ever to the officers on the frontier Belgium. Those who tray come by description from entering the first opportunity. We find difficultitysare to be sent back by Government can have taken such a arbitrary, and if it should be taken might leadeasure, which is quite by way of reprisal, of the great number to the dismissal, now employed at Paris, London, &c. of Belgian workmen Bituss.u.s.—Mr. Mter, editor of the Toll: der Vryheid, a Groningen journal, who has been condemned to four years' im prisonment, has sought refuge in Belgium. The Minister of Finance informs the public that day the interest of the Tr easur y B onds of 1,000 francsfrom and above is fixed as follows -- Of one year's date air per cent. per annum. Of six months' date 3 ditto Of three months' date 2 ditto Farm THE UKRAINE, FEB. 3.—The Commander of the regiment of the 4th division of Cavalry, stationed in the Go vernment of Kiev, has received orders to increase the number of their baggage-waggons from 32 to 48. We hear that all applications to be discharged from the service are refused by the Minister of War, and many young men have been unex pectedly promoted to the rank of officers. All these circum- stances indicate the possibility of war, and have greatly ex cited the hopes of the army. Hitherto, however, no particular preparations are observed here ; the Russian army is so admi rably organized that it can be ready to take the field in a shorter time than any other. It is said that in March a great expedi tion will be undertaken against the mountaineers of the Cau- casus, in which one officer from each of the regiments can toned in this country will take part as a volunteer.— Silesian Gazette. FRONTIERS or TURKEY, FEB. 16.—Accounts from Con • stantinople say that the numerous enemies of Redschid Pacha are still indefatigably intriguing to overthrow him. His most determined opponents are Held Pacha, the Sultan's brother in-law, Riza Pacha, the Member of the Imperial Household, and Sarim Bey, formerly Ambassador in London, and lately in Persia. He left his post without orders; but to keep him at a distance from Constantinople, instead of beinE called to account, he was appointed Deftordar at Aleppo. This did not hinder him from coming to the capital to intrigue against Red schid Pacha. It is affirmed that Sarim has very powerful pro tection, and the great forbearance shown towards him seems to confirm this statement.. If the disgrace of Red:chid Pacha is decided on by the Sultan, there is little probability of saving him, notwithstanding all the intervention of the Diplomatic Body in his favour. DUTCH FUNDS.-..AMMRDAM, MARCH 2. actual Debt, 2% per Cent ..... M s oney. 1110 s. 0% 50% 3itto, ditto 5 per cent. Amon Sarndic,4% per 87 6734 Ditto, ditto, 3)4 per Commercial Company, 4% per 160 1601( Ditto (1835 and 1837) 5 per cent. ..... Loan 1637, 5 per cent. 95% 95% Exchange on London, One 12 02% Twomonths ..... 11 92% Dutch Papers, March 3. BELGIAN U NDS—Baussing, MARCH 2. Actual Deist, 254 per Cent. ........... ..... 5 0 % Rothschild's Loan, 5 per ..... 1 , 9 , 4 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent......„„, 89 -- - 3 per Cent.......... Thirty aaven 09A (1 .441) 9l Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. B7 Society of Commerce, 4 !v per Cent Bank of Belgium, 5 par C ent FEN NationalSeciety. ••••••••••••••••••• Exchange on London (shoa)' ... . ............. I 95 —Brussels Papers, March 2. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Visnrsa, FE8.22 Five per Cents. Metalliques 105% Four per Cents. •••••01••••••••• ” •••••••• • • •••••••••••••••••••• 99 Three par Cents. ..» ........ Bank Shares Zeitung, Feb. 2tl HAMBURG BORSENHALLE, FEB. 27. - Bilfs. Money Austrian 5 per Cents. ..... ............ .. ....... • 10i% 10134 Rank Shares llllO IWO Anglo-Russian Loan IO6N 10634 Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate Inscription, Ist Series lol3i Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th Series ... ... 9634 -- Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Debt, 234 pei Cent .ft' 45% Ditto 5 per Cent — - Polish Bondi New ticket Anglu.Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 73 74 7334 Norwegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Cent... WI _ Spanish, New 5 per Cents. ld34 EXCHANGES ON LONDON. PETEABBURGH, FEB. 19.—Two - months, 383 3 pence. _ -...._. . - - PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Beaiim[ins. 27. ._, 13111 s. Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4S„ per cent. ..."...."..10.3 103% Prussian English Loan, 18,10, 4 per cent. 10( 04 100 IC Ice 11a n g e on Landon, three months... 6 17% —Prussian State Gazette. Feb. 24. SURREY ELECTION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—The Tories are as sharp as sharpers can be—teo much for Reformers. May I beg to call your attention to one of the printed poll books at the last- Surrey election, where you•will see 74 votes made out of shares in Putney-bridge ; this bridge is part in Surrey, and part in Middlesex. Wi 1 not this at another election apply equally to each county? As a speci men you will see, viz.:_ For 1-20th of a freehold share in Putney-bridge, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, No. 7, Bedford-square. To another person, 1-20th of a 30th of a freehold share; another 1-10th of one half of a 30th freehold share : again, half of a 1-10th of a 30th freehold share, and so on. A FREEHOLDER IN SURREY. N.B. There are more equally curious matters in this printed poll book, but one thing at a time. March 4, 1841. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,—You would oblige at least one of your readers by in serting the following short paragraph in your paper. I am, Sir, your obedient 'servant, ANTI-SECTARIAN. TILE ONLY TRUE RELIGION IN THE WORLD. Sole Consignees, Dr. Pusey and Company, Oxford. The consignees have a very anxious desire that the public generally should possess the a.lvantages, both present and prospective, accruing from the possession of this commodity, and are there for e determined to spare no trouble in order to secure for it a large and wide circulation. A liberal allowance to Agents. Manufactured at the University, Oxford, where orders must be addressed prepaid. N.B.—An . immense stock of bigotry, intolerance, and sec tarianism always on hand, and sold at a moderate price. DEATH OF A LADY BY POISON, TAKEN MEDICINALLY.—Yeiterday afternoon a tery lengthened investigation took place before Mr. Wakley, M.P., and a Jury, at the Old Parr's Hear', Upper-street, Islington, t inching the death of Miss Sherer, aged sixty, a maiden lady, of independent fortune. It appeared in evidence that the old lady not having been able to obtain any sleep for several nights, last Friday she sent to a druggist for a composing draught ; on the following morning she was a corpse, not because the draught was an overdose in ordi nary c ises, but, owing to her nervous-and delicate frame., no such draught was suitable. Verdict...—" That the de.. ceased, from the mortal effects of a certain dose called Batley's Sedative Solution, administered at her own de sire as a medicine, remedially, then and there died." MANUFACTURE OF SILK.—The Cour Royale, in Puri gave judgment in the cause of an Englishman, Mr. Neville, against two persons named Doninelli and Ye zeggi, for I iracy of an invention for an improvement in the manufacture of silk. It appears that Mr. Neville had a patent in France, but was in Italy at the time, when Do ninelli and Vezeg4i formed an association for carrying on the process here. Thu Tribunal of Commerce bad a!- ready condemned them to a fine ald damages for Lb, piraq, viz., Vezeggi to 100 fr. fine, and Doninelli to 5001., and both to 200 fr. damages. This sentence, appeuled against by the defendants, has been confirmed by the Cour Royale. _ MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--Ou Saturday last, at St. James's church, Westminster, the Lady Amelia Laura Waldegrave, eldest daughter of the late and sistcr of the present Earl Waldegrave, to Colonel Archibald Money, C. B. An elegant defeuner was given after the ceremony by the Dowager Countess Waldegrave to the Ea•l and Countess of Euston and Lady Louiea Fitzroy, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Hon. Miss Sourer: et, Mr. Hicks, the Ladies Waldegrave, and a select circ'e of r, - lativcs and fiends. After the solemnization the happy bride and bridegroom left town for Crown Puha, their scat in Norfolk. The Speaker will hold his second levee to morrow evening, at ten o'clock, at his residence in Eaton square. The Earl and Countess of Listowel, towards the close of the season, take their departure for Germany, with the intention of making a tour of the spas. The Earl and Countess of Ranfurly, with the Ladies Knox, and Mr. H. and Lady Louisa Alexander, are at Brussels, where they have been pa ss i ng t h e w i nter. Viscount Jocelyn arrived in town on Tuesday last from Ireland. THE LATE COUNTESS OF SHELBURNE. WII.TON noun, THURSDAY.—The Earl of Shelburne re turns to-morrow . from Lansdowne House, and on Saturday the mortal remains of the deceased Countess are to be re moved from thence to Bowood Park, previous to their in terment in the ancestral vault of the Lansdowne family in Bowood Chapel. The Dowager Countess of Pembroke and the Earl and'Countess Bruce, leave on Saturday or Monday for their town residence in Grafton -street, where the Countess of Clanwilliam, and Earl and Countess of Dunmore, are staying till after the obsequiep. The Earl of Shelburne, Hon. Sydney Herbert, and Earl of Clan william, are to be among the mourners, and it is not yet known whether the Marquis of Lansdowne will attend or not. Immeiiately after the funeral all the members of the family go to town. DIt — URY-LANE THEATRE.--Mr. Eliason took his benefit here la•t evening. The house was crowded in every part ; indeed, the promenade was a perfect squeeze, and a concourse of persons at the doors, anxious to gain admittance, were unavoidably refused. Shortly aft r eight o'clock, an extra gallery, the old sixpenny one, was opened, and afforded such accommodation as the case allowed, to a portion of the crowd. This; however, was soon filled, and then no seats were left vacant. The over ture tl Don Giovanbi, and the celebrated music to Mac beth, by Locke, was finely performed. The effect pro duced by the instruments was vary grand. There will be one more performance to-morrow, and then the season will be closed. A petition to the French Chamber of Deputies for a Post-office reform similar to the one adopted in this country has been noticed at great length in those of the Parisian papers that would advocate the reform proposed. The petitioners appear to be chiefly persons connected with commerce, and thei r d eman d is for an uniform and low rata for all letters, wha*ever be the distance they are to g t o; s and, in the ca t e o f t h e pet i t i on not being granted to this ext ent, they urge another measure, which would merely be a reduction of the rate and the adoption of a new system will regard to the we'ght of letters, without involving any change tf principle. Admitting that the uniform method is the only one that ought to be adopted, the journals observe that the lowest rate paid at present should be adopted as the basis of the system, since, if oue of the higher rates were taken, great injustice would be done to those accustomed to pay a lower rate , b y raisin g that rate to promot e un if ormity. Admitting the same principle, the French Administration is considered to be rather hostile to the reform, on the ground that the dimi uution of the rates would not be counterbalanced by the augmented number cf the letters, and that the amount of business transacted in the kingd om , and not the rate alor.e, determines the amount o f correspon dence. This reason ing, as it takes no account of domestic letters unconnected with business, is regarded as arbitrary; and, to show how much the poorer classes who live in the remote provinces stand in need of some reform in the portages rates, re. ference is made to the case of soldiers, which is considered so urgent that for them an uniform rate of 15c. is fixed, to enable them to receive letters frem their famLies; and what would be expedient for them v.ould seem likewhe so for working men on small wages. It is strange enough that this law in favour of soldiers merely refers to the let ters they receive, while those they send have no such pri vilege, so that the anomalous distinction is created, accord ing to which a soldier may receive letters from his rela tives but cannot answer them. In referring to the reform in England it is observed, that a reform in France will be much less hezardnus, since the present average rate is 45c., and the reduction claimed would only be to 20c., or rather less than half. The Belgian Government is already oc cupied with the consideration of a similar reform, and the French journals urge their Government to lose no time, or foreign nations may outstrip them. LORD MORPETWS BILL-JUS- TICE TO IRELAND. A meeting of the Reformers of Hammersmith, convened by the Hammersmith Reform Club, took place at Mr. Hether ington's, the City Arms Tavern, on Thursday, Robert Wat son, Esq., in the Chair ; at which the following Resolutions were moved by Mr. Teale, and carried unanimously : That this meeting deeply sympathises with its brethren of the sister kingdom of Ireland, upon the unjust and cruel griev ances with which they have been afflicted for so many years— grievances, which, as free men, living in a free State, and united with a free country, ought long since to have been re dressed—grievances which have hitherto exposed Irishmen to the taunts and jeers _of wicked, unprincipled renegades, once the pretended advocates of liberal and enlightened measures. That this meeting hails with gratitude, and heartfelt thanks, the introduction into the House of Commons, by Lard Mor peth, of a Bill to define the franchise of the Parliamentary elec tors of Ireland, without subjecting them to harassing, vexa tious, and expensive proceedings, and offers its best and wannest acknowledgments to the 301 honourable, indepen dent, and patriotic Members, who diligently attended in their places, from night to night, and recorded their votes in favour of this very excellent measure of her Majesty's Ministers, the success of which this meeting considers of paramount import ance to the safety and well-being of the State. That this meeting earnestly implores the Reformers, of all grades and classes throughout the empire, to forget all minor differences—to look upon th;s progressive step of her Majesty's present Government to explain and define the Electoral Suffrage, as a strong proof of their desire to bring back the people at large to that universal feeling for sound and constitutional liberty, which existed at the time of the passing of the Reform Act—to watch with jealousy the un ceasing efforts of the Tories to seize the reins of Government, their only chance of success depending on the supineness of the great body of Reformers, who, by union, may safely secure their freedom from invasion by their inveterate enemies, and to rally round the throne of her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria, in order to preserve the c i v il an d re li g i ous r i g ht s o f her attached and loyal subjects. That these Resolutions be inserted in six London News papers having the largest circulation, and that copies be printed and forwarded to the Honourable Members of the House of Commons who composed the Majority on the late division to do justice to Ireland. WILLIAM WICKENS, Hon. Sec. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY. CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of most kinds of English Grain this week have been good, and of Oats from Ireland considerable. The Wheat trade, except for very dry parcels, had a downward tendency. Barley, Beans, and Peas, as last quoted. The large quantity of Oats for sale made the trade very heavy, and Monday's terms were hardly supported. Flour has met a slack sale during this week. SMITHFIELD MARKET. The supply being short, and the demand brisk, the best sorts met with a ready sale at our quotations, while the mid dling and inferior sorts met with a good trade, and everything was disposed of at an early hour. Beasts, 544 ; Sheep, 2,660 ; Pigs, 427; Calves, 123. Beef, 3s. Bd. to 4s. 10d. ; Mutton, 4s. to ss. Bd. ; Veal, ss. to 6s. ; Pork, 4s. to ss. 4d. COLONIAL' MARKET. The demand wa: limited by private treaty, and the public sales went off heavily at rather lower rates. The arrivals were to a fair extent from most parts. TEA MARKET. There wis little done in Free Trade, but prices were firm for all sorts. Company's Congou, however, was in good re quest, at Is. 7id. cash. TALLOW MARKET. , _ _ Prices firm, but the demand for I 3.V.C. was limited, al 465. 6d. on the spot. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY Lownow, MARCH s.—Wind this day at noon, S.W. DEAL, MARCH 4. —Wind W. S.W.—Arrived the Wood mansterne, Hinderwell, from Calcutta ; John and Ann, from the westward. Arrived from the River and sailed, the Persian, ALllman, for Hobart Town; Briton's Queen, Knell, St. Mi chael's. Sailed the Recfrewshire, Burns, for St. John's. DOVER, MARCH 4.—Sailed the Eliza Russell, for Grenada. FALMOUTH, MARCH 3.—Wind W. N.W. to N., fresh gales and squally.—Arrived the Emiheden, Branstrom, from Lilies.. and, for St. Übes ; Favourite, Silk, London, for Cork. Sailed the Lapwing packet, for the West Indies. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 4.—Wind variable.—Arrived the United States, Britten, from New York ; Two Sisters, New Orleans •, Neva, ditto. Sailed the Blakely, Downs, for Can ton ' • Johnstone, Spence, Calcutt a; Pilgrim, Rawlins, ditto ; Warlock, Pagan, ditto ; William Akers, Nicol, La Guayra; Cameron ' Cockton, Trinidad ; C essnoc k, A t h erson, B er bi ce ; Oswego, Wood, New York ; Clyde, Reid, Boston ; Minerva, Durk, ditto ; Coromando, Pearse, ditto ; Zuleika, Holmes, Con stantinople ; Packet, Beyrout ; Sylphide, Malin, Trieste ; Centaur, Fox, Gibraltar; Jane, Pennington, Charente. Off port the Horatio, Barbadoes ; Susannah, Cumming, Mobile. RAMSGATE, MARCH 4.—Arrived off port the Vriendshap, Sap. from Riga. Sailed the Johanna, Clasin, for Hamburgh. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 4.—Wind N.W. to W.—Arrived the Romulus, Morton, from Demerara, with loss of b oa t s , bul warks, sails, &c. ; Betsey, Woodcock, Youghal ; Recovery, Western Islands to Liverpool, 26th ult., lat. 48, lon. 11, was spoke by the Romulus. COWES, MARCH 4.—Arrived the Maria Francisco, Hob bert, from New Orleans. PENZANCE, MARCH 2.—Arrived the Elbe packet, Croft from London to Cork, with loss of 'mainsail. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—The Ezin, from Liverpool to Barbadoes, 28th ult., lat. 50, lon. 10 ; Margaret, from dn. 25th, lat. 49, lon, 9, by the Lyra, arrived at Liverpool. Niagara, Liverpool to New York, 22d ult. lat. 49, lon. 18; bii.; Algonquin of Warein, bound W., lat. 30, lon. 73; Maria, of Providence, lat. 36, lon. 74 ; bar q ue Dela ware, of oston, three days from Matanzas, for Philadel phia ; brig Cathelena. from Philadelphia, bound to St. Jago de Cuba, lat. 36, lon. 70; the Amazon, from Suri nam to Bost ')n, lat. 31, lon. 71 ; the barque Brothers, from Boston, ,13th ult. with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c., le. 29, lon. 52 ; the Pncenix, from Province Town, on a nhalihg voyage, lat. 32, lon. 68; British brig Congress, to Ne.v Orleans, out twenty-two days, lat. 21, lon. 57. :STONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—The sales of Ct tton to-day amount to 4,000 bales, chiefly American de scriptions, all to the trade. Prices have undergone no change. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—The transactions at the Stock Exchange this day compri=e—Grand Junction, 205 ; ditto Half Shares. 1021; Great Western, Fifths, MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 4.—The fol lowing are the quotations of the day :—Manchester and Bir mingham, 25, 24L and 244 ; Bristol and Exeter, 30i ; Bank of Manchester, 81. IN ; Manchester Insurance, 9* ; London and South Western, 58; London and Birmingham, 171 i 173. The Augsburgh Gazette states from accounts received from Poland, that 75,000 men, who are to unite at Kalisch, are to remain there as long as the peace of Europe is completely se cured. The same letter adds that at Warsaw and the Eastern parts d the kingdom, considerable forces are assembled. The Russian army now concentrated in Poland amounts to 150,000 men. The Dutch mail has arrived of the 3rd of March, as well as the papers of the same date, by which we have the Amsterdam prices of the 2nd of March. Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 5O to 7-16th; Five per Cents. 971; Ardour's Spanish, 22 1-16th. Baron Rothschild, of Frankfort, has been created by tl.e King of Holland, a Knight of the Netherlands Lion. We have no arrivals this morning of consequence. THE FUNDS. The British market continues to be affected by the late un favourable intelligence from the United States. We also hear a report that a fleet, of ten sail of the line, is ordered to as semble at Gibraltar, in consequence of the trial of M'Leod for murder It is also stated that Lord Palmerston has sent out orders to our Minister at Washington, to demand the imme diate release of Mr. M'Leod. Consols, which left off yesterday at 881 89 for the Account, opened this morning at 88 3 / 4 ; for money 88 / ! ; Exchequer Bills 9 11 prem. ; Bank Stock shut ; India Stock, 247 248. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is rather lower ; left off 24/ ; at present 24/ ; Deferred, 12a a ; Passive, 5/ 6h ; Portuguese left off 31* ; rather better at present, 31/ 32 ; Three per Cents. 19/ ; Brazilian, 71/ 72/ ; Colom bian, 234 a ; Mexican, 284 i ; Buenos Ayres, 24 26 ; Dutch Tvvo- and-a-Half per Cents. 54 ; Five per Cents., 99/ 100. Shares.—Great Western, 23 24 prem. ; New, 11 12 prem. ; London and Brighton, 7 6/ dis. ; Blackwall, 6 5/ dis. ; Bir mingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 55/ 54 per share ; Croydon, Ili 12i per share ; Greenwich, 84 per share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 16 15 dis. ; South Eastern and Dover, 16} 15i dis. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. lull and Selby London and Birmingham 9O Ditto New Manchester and Leeds Northern and Eastern North Midland York and North ..... 50 HALF-PA ST ONE. The British Market continues heavy at the early morning prices, with scarce anything doing. Consols for the Account, 884 ; Money, 88 have been 88} in the course of the morning. Exchequer Bills, rather lower, 11 8 prem. India Bonds, 14 15 dis. ; Bank Stock shut. In the Foreign Market little doing. Spanish Active, 24 ; Deferred, I2i ; Portuguese nothing done ; Brazilian, ditto ; hilian, 60} 60; -Russian, 110} ex. div. ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 50i ; Five per Cents. 991, Shares.—Gosport Junction, 42i ; London and Birming ham ( Thirds) 22i ; Manchester and Leeds, 70 ; North Mid land, 70 • South Eastern and D over , 80. Th e U n it e d S tates Bank Shares havebeen done at 4i ; at present may be quoteds. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date. THE BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 2.--Our Bourse has again been insignificant is-day, the prices of the national funds have not varied, and have maintained the prices of yes terday. In the Actions of the Society of Commerce some business has been done—they have got up to 160} a ; Spanish rather weaker; the Coupons were firm. Ardoin's, 22 1-16. INQUEST.—On Wednesday an inquest was held at Windsor on the body of Lieutenant Ellis, of the 60th Royal Rifles, who expired at ti.e Infantry Barracks that morning. It appeared in evidence that be had long laboured under extremely bad health, suffering severely from chronic disease of the liver. He was always on good terms with his brother officers, and no cause could be a-- signed for his committing the ac'. Verdict, " That de ceased destroyed himself in a fit of insanity, caused by taking an ovt r-dose of laudanum for the purpose of alle viating the pain of a complaint under which he was then labouring." BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, MARCH 2.-- The disinclination t'r purchase on the part of the trade continues, the market is extremely dull—indeed the trans actions are so limited that they are not worth enumerating. The few sold have been at prices in favour of the buyer. We are without any further arrivals. The stock of West India Sugar on the 31st ult., was 669 hhdt. and tierces against 571 at the same period last year.—Bristol Gaz. Mr. Montefiore entertained his Excellency Prince Esterhazy, his Excellency Baron Bulow, his Excellency the Rassian Minister and Baroness Brunow, Countess of Tankerville, and a large circle to dinner, on Wednesday evening, in Great Stanhope-street. Viscount Combermere, after a short stay in town, retart ei to Brumels to join Viscountess Combermere. Tl.e Noble and Giallar.t Viscount, with Viscountess Com.. bermere, intends leaving that capital at the close of the month for this csuntry. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)' CASE OF THE DRYAD. Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Justice Bosanquet took their seats on the Bench at Ten o'C'ock, and immediately after Michael Shaw Stewart Wallace was put to the bar, and having pleaded Not guilty to an indictment for being acces sory to the destruction of the ship Dryad, for which offence his brother Patriek Wallace was convicted yesterday, and whose case will be found fully reported in this Morning's edition of The Sun, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opened the case for the prose cution in precisely the same manner as in the former case, to the report of which, the facts being the same, we refer our readers. The Learned Gentleman said, in addition, he would only say that when the Jury should find that the prisoner at the bar was in communication with Looe at Bristol, that he ef fected the fraudulent assurances, and participated in the pro fits derived from them, he thought there was no exercise of Christian charity by which they could conclude that the pri soner was innocent of the offence for which he stood indicted. He would, therefore, only further state that this charge was first made on the 27th of Novemb,r, when an attempt was made to take the prisoner into custody at his residence in Tredegar-square, but he was not found until the 27th of De cember, when he was arrested at a little village on the sea coast in the county of Lancaster. It had been said the pri soner had gone there fur the benefit of sea-bathing, but it was for the Jury to consider how far it was probable at that season of the year the prisoner had gone there for that purpose. Before he sat down, he wished to say one word with respect to a misre presentation that had been made with respect to what he (the Attorney-General) had said respecting the Prisoners' Counsel Act. It was said yesterday that he had said that Act 'was a curse tol the country. Now, he had never said so, nor any thing that would bear that construction. The facts were, that in a case for forging a will, which was a disputed will, anal which ought to have been tried by way of ejectment, his client had been indicted for a criminal offence, in order to prevent him (the Attorney - General) from reply ing to the prosecutor's case, upon which he "had said that if such abuses were to be tolerated the Act, which was a most excellent one, would become a curse to the country. He had assisted in carrying that Act through Parliament, and he had never entertained any other opinion of it than that he had now expressed. Mr. JERVIS said he would now, with their Lordships' per mission, take an objection he had to make with respect to the jurisdiction of the Central Criminal Court in this case. He would merely state what had fallen from the Court on a previous occasion with respect to the proper time to take the objection, that in the • - King and Easterby, re ported in Russell's Crown cases, the objection was taken by Mr. Erskine, when the facts were before the Court. In that case the offence was a principal offence. By the lst Vic.,' c. 89, an accessory was made guilty of felony, and subjected to the same punishment as the principal offender ; and by the 114th section, offences within the jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty might be tried in the same way as they were before the passing of the Act, that was without reference to the Cen tral Criminal Court Act by commission, and it went on to state that the offences of being accessory, procuring, or con niving at such offences, might be inquired of, tried, and pu nished by any Cowl that should have jurisdiction to try the principal felon. ffhe jurisdiction, therefore, conferred on the Court for the trial of an accessory was a jurisdiction at tached to the person of the principal felon, and not to the ac cessory. The Act said that any Court that should have juris diction to try the principal felon, might try an accessory in the same mariner as if the offence of the principal felon had been committed at the same place. In that section the words were important, as drawing a distinction between the principal felon and the person on his trial. By the Central Criminal Court Act, 4 and 5 Wil. 4, c. 36, s. 22, it was enacted that it should be lawful for the Judges and Justices of Oyer and Ter miner, and for the Commissioners under the Act " to inquire into, hear, and determine any offence committed, or alleged to have been committed, upon the high seas," and it went on farther to say " and to deliver the gaol of Newgate of any person detained therein for any offence committed, or alleged to have been committed, on the high seas." So that the Court had the power to try any offence committed on the high seas when the offender was in custody. But Loose was not in custody, and the jurisdiction of the Court over the person of the offender depended upon the cus tody of the party. In the King v. Easterby, it was decided that the mere fact of a party being an accessory on land to an offenn committed at sea would not make him liable to the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, and therefore the 14th section of the statute by which the offence sys constituted could not give that Court jurisdiction to try the offence as an Admiralty offence. There was another point. It might be said an ac cessory might be tried in the county in which the acces sorial act took place ; but he (Mr: Jervis) took it from his Learned Friend's statement that Michael Wallace was at Liverpool at the time of the sailing of the vessel ; he appre hended, therefore, that on this point also the Court, as at pre sent constituted, had no jurisdiction "to try this case. He would merely mention one other point, namely, the doubtful construe. tion of the Act as to the distinction of the ship being the pro perty of the party charged. Thek Lordships knew that by the Act repealed by this Act, in 'the case of wilfully setting fire to a dwelling-house, it was not an offence, provided the house was the property of the party who set fire to it; but, by the 3d section of this Act, it was made felony whether the house was in the possession of the party or. not; but with re ference to ships it said nothing of the kind. He therefore sub mitted these objections for the consideration of the Court. Chief Justice TINDAL said the Court would take the ob jections into consideration if the result of the trial should ren der it necessary. Mr. Herring, ship-broker, No. 12, Bishopsgate-street, Within, produced the charter-party for the ship Dryad, signed by Michael Wallace, on behalf of the owners of the vessel. Witness was an attesting witness, and saw the document signed by Messrs. Zulieta and Michael Wallace. _ _ Howden deposed to the same effect as on Wednesday, as to his part-ownership in the brig Dryad with Michael Wal lace. An insurance for 2,0001. was effected on the ship, and Michael Wallace had a copy of the policy. In January, 1840, the amount of that assurance was paid to him, of which Mi chael Wallace received his share. He also effected a policy of 3001. at Lloyd's, on the freight, by desire of Michael Wallace. A total loss was claimed on both policies, and three fourths of the amount was paid by Michael Wallace. Mr. Shepherd, of the Alliance Assurance-office, Mr. Quickly, the insurance broker, who effected the insurance on the freight at Lloyd's, and Mr. Stott, the ship.broker, who ef fected the insurance in the Maritime-office, for Michael Wal lace, were severally examined and deposed to the same effect as in the former case, to the report of which we refer our readers, no new facts having been elicitet'. Mr. Stott cross-examined by Mr. Jravis.—l became ac. quainted with the prisoner when I hied at Messrs. Selden and Johnson's. I lived with them for twelve years. They are well known, and carry on a respectable business. Ido not know that I have any business to tell you why I left them. I decline answering that question. I do not like to answer it nor do I intend to do so. I left there in July or August 1837. After I had left them I lived with my father. After that year was expired I was employed in the Metropolitan Gas Company's offices. I was employed there for four months. I left intending to take a situation in an attorney's office, but he declined employing me, and be tween the two stools I fell to the ground. After that I did nothing for three or four months. I then commenced busi ness in Lower hames-street as a Custom-house agent. I lived there four or five months. I was in partnership there with another person. I gave it up because it did not answer, and then went into business in Seething-lane as a ship broker and Custom-howe agent. I remained there from the time I left lhames-street to the March following. I gave up business there because I obtained a situation with John Nicholl and Co., with whom I remained until I was taken into custody on this charge. I was kept in custody five weeks. I was not examined by the solicitor before I went before the Magistrates. I had no communication with any one but Mr. Hobler, my attor ney. I slated to him what I knew. 'the Magistrates then shifted me from the bar to the witness-box. I paid 2001. to Patrick Wallace as the balance of his accounts. 11Iy charges were 53/. He paid premium and duty on insuirance. By Mr. CLARKSON—The business in this case was more than usually difficult. The greater portion of the money was paid to me for other matters. When my place was shifted as Mr. Jervis has said from the bar to the witness-box, the Magistrate expressed his regret that I should have been placed there. I did not leave Messrs. Selden and Johnson for any dishonest act, or any thing affecting my moral character. It was respecting a lady. Mr. Lendall, Mr. Secretaire, Mr. S. Marshall, Mr. Lodge, and Mr. Bahr, gave similar evidence to, that on the former occasion, with respect to the effecting the insurances on the Druid, and the payments thereon to the prisoner. Mr. Frost, in addition to his evidence in the former case, said he knew of the death of Loose by having received his effects from Captain Cuddy, of the Premier. He received in July the whole of his clothes, a bill for 4001., and cash amounting to 971. On the 27th of July he deliveredthe papers to Michael Wallace. He was then carrying on business at Crosby Hall Chambers. He had known Patrick do business for Michael on other occasions and for other slips; one was the Delta, and another the Lucy. The Court then adjourned for a short time. (NEW COURT.) Henry Jones was indicted for ftealmg a jacket and hat, the property of Abraham Harris, clothes-dealer, in Rateliff Highway. Simon Simons deposed that ,he was standing at his own door, near Mr. Harris's residence, and observed the prisoner, in company with another .lad, who took the articles named in the indictment from Mr. Harris's shop, and handed them to the prisoner. The former made his escape, but witness followed the latter, and gave him into custody. The prisoner, who had been several times previously con victed, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard labour. Thomas Roser was indicted for stealing two live fowls and a copper, the property of . John Sellers, of the Torrington Arms, Poplar. A policeman deposed to having taken the prisoner into . cus tody on the night of the 27th ultimo, with the stolen property in his possession. Miss Emma Sellers identified the property as belonging to her father. • The prisoner said this was his first offence. The RZCORDER said that it was a bad beginning. Had he suffered a previous conviction be should have been sent out of the country. His present sentence was that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve calendar months !bV !he DOW , Gazette contains a proclamation, offering a reward of one hundred pounds for the dis. covery and conviction of the murderer cf the Italian at Ratbfarnham. EXTRAORDINARY PRESENCE OF MIND.-- The Rouen Journal recounts the following terrible acci. dent which happened a few days ago to M. Napoleon Gallet, Member of the Council of Prud'hommes, of that town :—" Observing a trifling derangement in part of the engine at his establishment, at Mont-Riboudet, he tried to rectify it without stopping its motion, but was caught by the sleeve of his blouse, and his left arm was instantly wrapped like a ribbon round the axle, and his body whirled round repeatedly, receiving the most sc v. re con tusions, particularly in one of his legs, which was i i con stant friction. Although the machine made fcrty eyolu ti ms in a minute, M. Gallet retained sufficient presence of mind so too bend his head as to save it at each turn from being crushed between the machine and the ceiling, where 'the space was too small to allow it to pass. One of the workmen made as attempt to release him, but was also caught, and would have suffered the same fate had not the engineer, hearing their cries, stopped the movement. M. Gallet was taken away in the most deplorable condi tion, his arm being broken into four or five different parts. Notwithstanding the number and extreme gravity of the injuries, his surgical attendants ent nein hopes not only of saving his life, but of restoring him to the use of all his limbs." We understand that his Grace the Duke of Not fvlk has been pleased to appoint Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, of 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, his Grace's Opticians. It is stated that John Bowes, Esq., one of the Members for South Durham, has been seriously ill. The Hon. Gentleman is now somewhat Letter, and has been removed to Richmond, sear London, for change of air. Tyne Mercury. NEW. AGRARIAN SYSTE.3.I. It has long been a matter of surprise, and Oen of reproach, that the great mechanical powers which are now the servants of mankind are so little employed in cultivating the ground. Til e great use of all machinery is to save human la hour. There is more labour employed in agri culture than in any other art. Whatever poets and young gentlemen who have assisted once in their lives at hay-making may say, this is ill', some labour, as the bent bodies and shriv elled limbs,, as the rheumatic pains and weather-beaten forms of the agricultural labourers sufficientlf. prove. It very generally implies exposure t o all seasons, and if that be wholesome and plea s " ti why do the opulent take so much care, and incur so much expense, to avoid it? There is no delu sion about the matter in the country, and rural labours are not voluntarily undertaken except those who are compelled to earn their brea Why is it, then, that the powerful and p a 7 tient servants who never complain, and who have been found so eminently useful in weaving and working iron, in spinning, and impelling ships, have not been much employed as cube for the irksome labours of the field think this a very curious problem, and a gentle man, by the name of Pink us, already know n amongst engineers, has undertaken practically' to demonstrate that it does not arise from o nature of the art itself, but from the backward ness of the agriculturists in applying to their own uses the inventions which are the common pro' perty of the world. His contrivances are exhibited at the Colos seum, and they consist of two distinct and veil different species of inventions; first, of some P e a ", culler agricultural instruments; and, next, 0 1 power, different from animal power, to set thee" in motion. Of the former, it is not pecessary to sal t much, because there is, as is well known, a number of agricultural instruments in use, whi,e" , by slight adaptation, may be wor k e d by a liven s : • meal power, and because thos e w hi c h Mr. Pink s ,: exhibits appear to us i n th e i r i n f anc y susceptibi d e of great improvement, and requiring much ga varied improvement s t o su it them to the labou rs of the farm. Inde e d, it i s h ar dl y to b e expec ted that the same man sh ou ld h ave th e sonieWit opposite talents of the emine n t en g ineer and t he practical agriculturist—that h e s h ou ld both find out a moving power and invent the nice instru ments, it is to set in moti on . W e think Mr' Pinkus's plough, and his machine for perforni; ing spade labour, or g a th er i ng up s tones O u t acting as a harrow, though very ingenious, 1)11 „ important t very secondary parts of his sch eme . The gr e ," and suggestion, if it can b e practical l y worked out, is the application of a cheap 'I le ; chanical power as a substit u t e f or an imal pop e at every part of the farm. We shall, therefore; confine our description to it, leaving it to th reader to fancy the-ploughs and the harrow's' and the self-filling and self-emptying dung cart it may set in motion. At Hyde-lane Colliery near Manchester the re is a pneumatic machine attached to the stews" engine which draws the coals up from the wi ne• The engine works an a i r pump, w i t h w hich 81 air-tight receiver and air-tight main are L . e° , ll / : fleeted. At the end of thi s main, 500 yards ir, ° ,", the steam-engine, a vibrating pneumatic der is placed, which is worked by the rarefuetT e produced in the ma i n , an d b y t h e pressure of t atmosphere. Now, this machine working at ,e distance of 500 yards from th e sea t o f the nie, — r „ l ea power, draws coal-waggo ns u p a s t ee p ine , e f plane, and is a demonstration that a power t that kind can be con ve y e d or ma d e to ope rate least at the distance of 500 yar d s . M r . Pin,, has taken up thi s id ea , an d proposes to llPP t ' s , such a machine to agric u lt ure . H e i s to eree steam-engine in the middle of the farm, , e where water power ca n b e obtained he employs a water-wheel, and he sets it sit work on an a i r pump, to exhaust the ,er from a conti guous rece i ver. Wi t h this reee i ,' i t t are connected a series o f a i r -ti g ht ma ins, 'a t down under the ground, as may b e co nvenies so ' in different directions from the central sPot, r l b e as to extend to the e x t rem iti es o f t h e f a rm- 7 „g• , he mains are supplied with va l ves , so as t o shat or or open the communicati on a t pl easure with fr a s exhausted receiver. At Various distances, d°*to may be convenient, br anc h pi pes are laid 0 . 1 from the mains, and at different parts of the . ,.. also, where convenient, th ere are apex es oroP%", ings, by which a co mmun i ca ti on can be alder tamed between a vibrating p neuma tic cyllithe placed on an ordinary locomotive engine, and de r 11 exhausted receiver. It i s c l ear th at th e eYl' which, being stationary at Hyde-lane Collieqi gives motion n to a umber of coa l wage° s 'ic placed on the top o f w h ee l s , can be ma d e to W itt ' r . them by cranks, and this is the power which r , Pinkus proposes to su b s ti tute f or animal Poi"..t It is a pneumatic mac hi ne wor ki ng by the weled of the atmosphe re an d a part i a ll y exhaus receiver. The ingenious part of the invention cons is t , mainly, we think, in the method of co mmuni efi , ing this power to the loco mo ti ve engine. Ages ible tube, composed of a combination of le ather by and India rubber, kept i n a cy li n d r i c al fore' ir strong. rings of spiral w i re , an d per fectly 3 e h tight, is connected by one end with the brai l le pipe at one of the apexes we have 11 , f ie . tioned, and by the other w ith th e v ib ra ting 01 1 a der which gives motion to the wheels, throng be hollow axis, and a fixed stuffing box. The W or k is 100 yards long, so th a t th e eng i ne may 1 :", is that distance from the a p ex , t o w hi c h the tu d " $ fixed, out and hom e . O n tie l oco inotiv. e a drum is fixed, which is made to revolve .111 is given time with the wheels, and around it o f coiled the flexible tube, the two ends, which are fixed as d escr ib e d, and whic h ways preserves the co mmunica ti o n heto the vibrating cylinder and th e ex h a usted ins' o , As the engine goes fro m th e apex t h e druili. ti winds the flexible tube an d i s w i n d e d on agai n e$ to the engine returns. It i s scarce ly n ecessar), remark that it is easy to mak e th e ma chine i‘ t o'Eg he both ways. Nor is it necessary to dwell 641 , 4 e.. fact that to this engine diff eren t ki n ds of in ments may be attached or removed. The Pi n ie fact is, that Mr. Pinkus di s t r ib u t es a inecli a ,, o , power over or rather unde r th e l an d in the 1 0 ; y ner we have attempted to d escr ib e , which l i ve r be called into operation w h enever a nd whe re the farmer pleases. o As to the great benefits to be derived fro apt this invention, we are incompetent to , s „r t ieo without a much more extensive eXatil,' ll- fi kiii than we can bestow on it. Ofcourse, Mr. ,L ' n - „er t is ready to demonstrate that it is much che'r of and more convenient, than animal power* o .ig that, practical men al one can j u d ge , by bi.riAlttri it to the test of e x p er i ence . Th e id e a ot ' t he buting a mechanic pow er a t command o ver be land seems a happy one, and may firoha bl Y successfully worked out hereafter. Its advantl• or 1- in preference to generating the power on an ~ht nary locomotive steam-engine, is, that the we I T i$ of the furnace, boiler, water, &c., of the la rte oth e 3 so great, th a t•th e same eng i ne, w hi c h moves s no t the rapidity of the wi n d on a railway,,,, At move its own weight on a pl oug hed the same time, we are by no means doll e cor, that Mr. Pinkus has yet f a ll en on the Mr, t he, nomical method of generatin g or conve na tli . power. He has, however,-struck out a ne w re r e eb in which he or others may, by and bye, great ends. t nOY . We cordially wish that e m i nen t success lie attend his exertions. We understand °l o wa has been commissioned to erect and lay .ive his apparatus by a M r . W a lk er an exteit7le agriculturist in Mid L o thi an , which will B o t h e r the world to judge of its utility. For 11° a f te r, art are slaves now m uc h requ i re d or sough t d to but for field labour. They are not adaP, t t e ,, ve te the skilled labour o f towns. It is to en'"„tfee the sugar cane, or th e t o b acco weed, oreuvir, plant, that the slave-owner of Cliba,ieh ginia, or Brazil, commits th e atrocities wh i c h every humane and good man reprobates, T or y destroy his own peace, and degrade the iweerba beings he condemns to toil for him. A nical motive power to be applied to agric: l it t e ur s a vi l purposes, cheaper than slave labour, wetil". s bing effectual and certain mean s of extinlubty slavery, and the slave tr a de. It would no es in too, be attended with many advantages It temperate as well as in tropical would probably add much to our means °f toil, sistence, increase the property, spare The and augment the happiness of all classes:_ an d object, therefore, is of great importan ce worthy of the attention of inquiring 0 . an '`, ooe d ing men. this account we have inentisolo climatofs•sob. the scheme, considering that if some r a dar apply themselves to the improvement an, be st tation of implements, and others to tile: d means of creating the motive power, the ell be more speedily attained. ----- Mr. Joseph Pease, jun , M.P., has been 0 1 ' of f om his Parliamentary duties' in Lonon, in eonsevinven7 the death of his mother-in-law, Mrs. Gurney, of •-°-. %kb. Lord Northland, M.P., who has been mak in g No first tour in Egypt, Persia, &c., i 3 expected ' home th e in the ensuing month. Baron and Baroness Dimsdale have left gill° Hotel lor Devonshire , . We hear that the Earl of Tankerville's sightfp: much affeoted, the ouer:tion his Lordship underwentrl• months back lia%ing completely failed. We belie Lordship has nearly lust the sight o one eye. vp,Nri T ED ITI TRH AM, LONDON, FR/DAY, MARCH 6, J!4l. ZVENING HOMO lii , P I(