The Sun. — London, England, 1841-02-22 00:00:00

~_ I EVENING _EDITION A LICK AT THE LORDS. (Suggested by a rece nt ‘, Much. ado-about-nothing" 'Lira in the House of Peer.) . Their Lordships went dow n to the Ile.use in paralt', Cooling all, like Solomon, sage and staid, As Lords are so apt to 'do ; And asful J u d ges with perisig,gei pate!, And lawyers solemn as Virgil's Fate', Went down in procession, tio. l Tsas a sight sill:lime as ever was seen And Fancy with rair, excited mien, As around the spot she hevered, And heteld the coronets movirg past, G rew amazed to think what wisdom vast, Thwe glittering coronets covered I Del, See, they 're seated, that lordly elan! And a thrill of profounde.t horror ran Round the House, as in accents crud, The Lord High Steward, a Jude , Exclaimed, " We're assembled t g austere o try a Peer • For winging a man in a duel !" He ee'4 'ed, and s t ra A l a :glit up rose i n a cric k , lag,,. like Sita-, dressed all in black, .e ar l And eqtally grins in fac', s not much lets sly in tongue, `Vim explained in a ape. cb just m e hour long, HWhat he called, " the fact) of the case." osho wed with legal acuirea clearly, the P. er on his trial had very nearly • Celnt.elled to kick the bucket, ArlY hiit.ng him clean lezween the hips) LQCCaptain Harvey, Garnet, PhiPP', ~'hoae tqer name was Tuckett. 4441 be !ktul s h ou t br ought a miler to prove the fact, hat the diabolic act 8 L A Accru e d f rom " malice preperve ;" 11, closed his speech amid hems and haws, TO g~ " I now commit the cause Your Lordships' plain good sense." 1 7-41 ,.' P l ain good sense !—'twas a caustic fling !- 44 e• God knows, is the very thing mostly Th ey Their Lordshipsneed ; .nuti rank, and riches, and honours rare, f r i I for plain good sense—Oh, there A 'heY are tankrepts all indeed ! 454 thtir d ec i..i on proved, for they found 111-4 t the CePtain had never received a wound, Thai h e Ittew it too well to his cost, A E -It f l t a ","" if the fierce P eer h a d s h ot at a ll, -- 4 turner had seen any object fall, Italust have b een a ghost ! d) " °el l Preserve these merciful Peers, elPite their a‘tonishing length of cars A A P Pe ed sh ou l d _ over society shy me so eoPPering—...at what is termed, Honour's call— Tuckett w i t h pi s tol-ball, all they be the men to try me ! te, C OU C OURTRCULAR. t o. ,Puty and Prince Albert and the Royal t ht h 134 aittended Divine Service yesterday morning "t i t Ci e . : 4 ' 4 4l Palace. The Rev. Mr. Vane, De k tier R r :' : °f the Closet in Waiting, officiated. t k k • ° k l Highness the Duchess of Kent visited Their r. • ti lii r t z,toy al Highnesses the Duchess of Gloucester °l t6ei l u i ttt' of Sussex visited his Majesty the King 4 11 all„ 441 1s yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Yal llightiessPrince Albert, attended by Mr. rastntarti l Anson, an d C o l one l Wyld e , a tt en d e d Ner t ;' 4 Y,at th e office of the Duchy of Cornwell in f o t House. °- „,"Sek,": 1 1on and P r i nce Alb er t wa lk e d i n th e gar d en 1 1 . i iluarn Palace. tI Itn yo uehes s c f K ent l unc h e d w i t h h er Majesty. and, ' Right els Prince Albert and his Majesty te e the :Belgians on Saturday in Buckingham 1. 1.' 41 41 G PI High ness P r i nce Alb er t, a tt en d e d by and Colonel Wernyss, rode on horse -Irk a q s t 4 turd 11 1 . 14 tY the King of the Belgians visited her b''°llle; t h e Queen Dowager esterday at Marlborough k tre i liste °f Beat visited her Royal Highness the - 4 •ent, on Saturday, at Ingestre House, ise oh 4 1.0ar e . Sat 'lnt Melbourne had an audience of the Queen 11 14 , 1 1 4 4 Y. hirYal Dinner Party on Saturday evening in ; Majesty the King of the 13elitians, her Royal 13 4 tle l i arn in e Duchess of Kent, the Belgian Minister e t , llk e of tx," Van de Weyer. Baron Nieumann, the to ^F or ? ellington, the Duke of Cleveland, Iris tr, L P tl gtoo Viscount Jocelyn, Lady. Fanny Hu itriq l A 74 l Y ea !, s al:elle. Wemyss, Baron Stocknear , Sir I tdw ard ri i neY, Mr. George Edward Anson. the Hon. knee M a kiust, General Goblet, and Mr. Van act. l i ghe es tY the Queen Dowagi r and her Raps! `t e e ":, le Duchess of Kent attended Divine Ser ats,%ss':-'l',"aY morning in the Chapel Royal, St. hete l ;', L 's he sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. t "e . ki e ," Prayers were read by the Rev. Horsley ' 4ld . the lessons by the Rev. Mr. Haden. The eoy ee ot llls Itessell'a the 'Fe Deum and Jubilate in A, k4 ,„_lher t ; t ‘ tie j ., Sancti; and Responses by Rogers. The (q 4 g " Lord thou bast searched me out," was ‘l4'gle C‘s_srs. Hawkins, Hobbs, and J. B. Sale. Sir i e 4 0 Il i _irt presided at the organ. h si t .,:n.oß of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was Of , i 'lay i- e r. % tier Maj esty was attended by the Countess t i i ;tl Mis s Eden, Hon. Miss Mitchell, and • Her Royal Highness was attended by ' e Howard. ) O t ertle,, uk e of Cambridge attended divine service ,t i t , 4 °mit t ; in Kew Church. Baron Knesebeck i t , r etl ; r i n i g, on his Royal Highness. The Royal it,ep return to towrriip the afternoon. J , v ise „ 4 lestY the Clukeh Dowager attended divi A iee Jetu en r a _. , y after :in the Chapel Royal St. 6 . " W. 11l - % .. Ot t t ;./ ) ,. 4 , 111 NeWtalipLaa the honour of submitting ) 4 , • % 17 0 n Picture to the inspection of the King tp p itst). -40/ los at B uc ki ng h am P a l ace , w i t h w hi c h his t i o 1 1 :1° graciously pleased to express his entire N I. err ALA is e n l e lt.l 7 the Queen Dowager took.equestri . an s te t t 4 ; It ft • -11 ' Saturday, attended by the Hon. Miss " b t the Earl of Denbigh, Earl Howe, ri`'Ydre%7 Barnard. d a ? - a u i ° n our \ eeeney the French Charge d'Affaires -11(Iie n'oe is Majesty the King of the Bel -4"4 Nelsi p . m heba m e ,lesty the Queen Dewar , ;;,. 1 .. 0, 4 i ci t t , N laYe, Hon, Miss Eleo -r attended by the Her. Miss Mit le 'ek t G ewe, and Si r A n d rew B .' l, hono u r ed / se t e • 4rdeo Theatre with her pretence Tt l T6 ' Setur -e Carebrid e honoured the Adel e g ti N .0 h 6 Pr g esence on Saturday evening. Yit tne , cu t ess of Gl oucester vis i ted the Queen Down at cab, n 5 at M ar lb orough House. c • • Dolled was held on Saturday afternoon, t Ittss For t '/•`•° ffice. It was attended by ell the Mi- It o ' 1 ,4 "te vt the Lord Chancellor. The Council sat tls 1414 n• a half • J, lnles „. • bfiti t flint and Mr. C. Powell had an inter e Il e the Marquis of Normauby on Saturday, at 113 e Offi e el thitch., ; • • w are received yesterday at the Colonial 'th e Cos the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. tlle jj' itt °f V nufam had an interview on Satarday, 4 s Uhe juncitni,ei.ol with . the Marqu i s of Norman by. 1 1 4 sturd ‘donturittee of the P r ivy C ounc il sat Cr 1- 10 8 „:!Y• An appeal from Bengal, 't Rajah Dee. ° L 4 st t h e 4ll v. Ranee Zahoor son Nissa," occupied the th e lets r , P o le wh of the day. ,d mberton and Miller, QC., appeared fo r i tt4 l'ear4dtlitor the l'!;z s , .i e ‘r ,\Ligralin and Turner, (Ike Sts 0 "'TING INTELLIGENCE. m 1. t t ,Doli th e CHESTER, FRIDAY EVENING. ktoe return of several parties from the coursing meet -s,l44,sbuty"gagements were made on the Chester Cup. 1, 4 10 7 `‘,..a . s backed at 130 to 20, on Warrington account, , r (: y d i ft.ariiar ai:otsehte teollo4))ise oftl the room freely offered l aga h in n st I G o a oo llip t o n t , rn a o Tneyte r d a , me a 3 n t ( the t First was sup- cha.nnel at 500 to 20, and some other bets; !P:7 t erms " • I.so in favour, and some money laid out on the h t , 114 . bwith a desire to proceed. 2U to 1 was offered 'pa tan ; takers of 25 , The others remain nominally k i c we quoted them oni Tuesday b 41.---14 to I was offered on . the field, and 16 , to 1 WI ,I.IIZ 17 to 1 was offered against the Knight of 1 : m one instanc e 200 to 10 la i d; 200 to 9 was 2?(r to 10Dis' Prince Caradoc, and 20 to 1 against Cameleon ; Zli tl ttst ,i,2s offered a ga i nst ltlaekheatli, and 1,000 to 30 t " 4 i i ,i titi ' goli an ; or ; to t a k e 33 to lon the Duke of tr's 2°4" to " 53 at evens offered Eringo b ea t s th e K n i g ht ; too t o Air that the : / ake does. yr'hs .-- 7 An inqui r y f or 90 to 10 on Kedge, 7 to 1 14 • 1.. t0 , n li tterw axlls • o 3 er oO d. t o 6 against Van . kmburgh (t); 500 to 1 .01/ b „ `nz 11 4r1„ t UNt V ERSITY.—W e leal: 1 from a .°lPrieterPs°ol)fisthied, , th , at the annual general treating of tw , , 113 (.01.ege ie to be held on Vedriesda . y Vi, e 2 i ,n clock precisely, ea the election of PICA.. t'el eet; re 'ideol, and Tre asurer i s to ta k e p l ace . T o 'of s o " of Lord B rougham as Pie ijent, and the 1 11 1 74 T e d i T Qr set as Vi ce -P res i dent, no opposition is to e4 rtl, 4lt ' klpon the p ropr i ety c f cont i nu i ng f or an §tPtk s i es%ices cf Mr. Wm. Tooke as Treasurer, t ts' l tA a e aro Z i edgo and recent disclosures seem to have 'P t : ip', 11 , 0 Qlahle doubmon teemed , in wLich that mu ch e and highly re `l4eal, John T 1 E s q., FS., is proposed tOillra_ Treasures. As 4Y R. the Univer iii V I : I 4O '4Q ‘rdly say that we sincerely desire his success. i l k Its 'Cg q„ v • O RGE OF CAMBRIDGE.—Apart % NW °lle of the. Royal palaces will, we understand, be )i tetitned t o • Royal Highness, and we have reason . i ' l i,s.lee to a t . his one, le the King write residence at St. James's, of Hanover mild be il p°,% ° l 2u r i r:4 ll ,,, h a l i s ns fa u v n ` OL u pied , George would of iher Mdesty's r OCCIVC pOSSCSSIOIII , un der • war e 41 4;64loerxcellent range of ak:artments in qu DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF A HUSBAND TO MURDER HIS WIFE. An occurrence of a tragical character has taken place within the last few days at Mitcham, and which has very naturally created a great sensation throughout the whole neighbourhood. It appears that a young man named Thomas Potts, a calico printer, who has only been married about eighteen months, from some do mestic disagreements conceived the horrible project of destroying his wife, and afterwards committing suicide, and his design was only frustrated by what would al most appear to be an act of Providence. It was ob served in the early part of last week that be appeared to be low-spirited and melancholy, and seem: d much exasperated against his wife ; and on Tuesday he left home and did not return until nine o'clock at night, and he immediately went into the room where his wife was sitting with her mother, and without saying a word he pulled a pistol from his pocket, presented it at his wife, and fired it off, and the greater portion of its contents passed through her check. The shrieks of the women fortunately attracted attention, and a labouring man who was passing, came irate the house and seized hold of Potts, nod, after a struggle, forced him into a chair, and held him there until West, the beadle of Mitcham, arrived, and secured him. The prisoner then said, " 1 have done it—l have done it. I haVe mur dered my wife, and I hope I stall be bun,e." The constable asked him what he had done with the pistol, and he produced the• one he bad just discharged at hi;. wife. West then searched him, and in one of his pockets he found another pistol leaded to the muzzle, and in his coat pocket a razor ; and he asked Pctts what he was going to do with the razor, and he replied that he intended to have destroyed himself with it after lie had killed his wife. Mr. Tipper, a medical gentleman, of Mitcham, had by this time arrived, and he ascertained that the woman had received a very severe injury, and he administered to her the necessary assistance. On Thursday the prisoner was taken before S. El yard, Esq., a Magistrate for the county of Surrey, at his residence at Streatham, upon the charges of feloniously discharging a loaded pistol at his wife, with intent to murder her, but as she was not in a condition to attend and give evidence, the charge was briefly gone into. West, the officer, was examined, and he produced a certificate horn the surgeon, to the effect that the pro secutor had been severely wounded in the chick by a pistol shot, and was not in a fit state to give evidence before the Magistrates, in consequence of the injury he had received. Mr. Elyard, then addressing the prisoner, who was apparently nearly unconscious of what was going for ward, said that he was charged with a most serious of fence. He had heard the statements that were made against him, and if he pleased he was at liberty to say anything he liked in answer to them ; and he thought it his duty to inform him that all he said might be used as evidence against him, and he cautioned him to be careful in what he said. The prisoner replied, " I have nothing to say." Mr. Dyard then said that it was his duty to remand him until his wife was in a fit state to attend and give evidence. He was accordingly remanded for a week. BUSTS OF THE TWELVE C]ESAIIS -SINGULAR RECOVERY OF SPLENDID WORKS OF ART. About the year 1518, twelve busts of the Roman Emperors, executed in terracotta, beautifully enamelled, and nearly the size of life, were forwarded to Cardinal Wolsev, to decorate his Palace of Hampton Court, by Pope Leo the Tenth. Eight of these splendid works of art have elways existed in the first and second courts at the Palace ; but not one of the remaining four, to complete the valuable series, could be found until within the last few months, although many years ago strict search had been made for them by the various authorities connected with Hampton Court. In the reign of George the Fourth the search and inquiries were again renewed, but without any discovery of their biding places resulting from the labours of those to whom the task was confided of endeavouring to trace them. A few months ago, one of the missing four was, by mere chance, discovered in a back room at Hampton Court Palace, attached to one of the private apartments, in a fine state of preservation. Since then another of the series has been recovered, and by the merest chance also, in a small cottage; close to the Stag Paddocks, in Windsor Great Park. It appears that this cottage has just undergone some repairs, preparatory to its being occupied by one of Prince Albert's gamekeepers. The workmen,' in the course of their labours, found a bust fixed in the wall, about ten ft et from the ground ; and upon this dis covery reaching the ears of a gentleman connected with the Court he proceeded to the cottage, when he found it was one of the four long-lost wills, per fectly free from injury, and in a most excellent state of preservation. It was immediately taken down, and soon afterwards forwarded to Hampton Court. Within the last few days another cf . these valuable works of art was discovered by Mr. Jesse, the Surveyor of Woods and Works, at one of the Royal lodges in the Great Park, known as the World's-end Lodge, in habited by one of the park-keepers. It was found let into the external wall, about 10 or 12 feet from the ground, where it must have been for considerably more than a century. It was always considered by the per sons living at the lodge to be a bust of Queen Anne ! Of so little value was it supposed to be, that the boys of the neighbourhood, as they have passed by the house have frequently been known to amuse themselves by pelting it with stones and clay. Notwithstanding the rough and Goth-like usage it has been subjected to for years past, it is but very slightly injured—portions of the enamel being chipped off but here and there. In all other respects it is perfect. It has just been care fully removed from the building, and will be forwarded to Hampton Court Palace in the course of a few days, where, with the other two alluded to, it will be placed in appropriate niches in the first and second courts. There is now the twelfth of the series which rema;ns to be discovered ; and it is hoped in a short time (from the exertions which are being made, and the numercus inquiries set on foot) that these perfectly unique and splendid works of art will be rendered comple!e. It is almost impossible to estimate their value ; but many excellent and experienced judges have pronounced them to be worth several 'hundreds of pounds. Of course, their value wit be very materially en hanced by the discovery of the one, which is no.v miss ing, to render the series perfect. CORN-LAw AGITATION.—TaIk of Church Extension I We want an extension of Walsall. There they are at work like men, organising an Anti-Core-law Registration Society. Let their example be foil awed throughout the kingdom, wherever there are three Corn. law repeaters met together. These Societies will prepare the constituencies for the struggle, if it be deferred till after the registration—if it come sooner, they can act as Canvassing Committees. But come when the election ) 2 . ay, let their cry be total and immediate repeal of the -laws. Every man they can carry is a vote gained for eal. As to the revision of the tariff, nothing can total re).. the attempt. The total repealer, although be lost b outvoted in t;. ('' House , will vote for the best revision of the tariff be c.,13. If he lose his election, both Whig and Tory are anxious t o gain popularity by mending the ta as another.—Manchester Times. riff, so one is as g00 , '.. 1 MEETING AT )(i.‘111( TO PROTEST AGAINST LORD STANLEY'S BILL, ,kNI) TO SUPPORT TIIE 811.1. s OP LORD JOHN RUSSELL AND ~T . 4ORD IVIORPETIL —On Thurs day evening last, a meeting d.f the liberal electors, of Ceitl•gite, Walnigate, and Micklegate wards was held in the Me. chants' Hall, Fossgate, in this city, for the pur pose of ridoptieg, petitions to the Legislature. in favour of Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill, and against the issiglstratioss Bill introduced by Lord Stanley. Although no public intimation ,f the meeting had been giver, the attendance was most numerous • and amongst those present we noticed Henry Redhead Yorke, Esq., the candidate for the representation of this city. Resolutions in cern formity to the objects for which the meeting was called were unanimously agreed tc. The example ought to be imitated. We . have seen with pain and surprise, that the " New Zealand Company" has succumbed to the Bishops. For the sake of pleasing the " Church Missionary Society," whoAe ministers have engaged to a shameful extent in what is called land-sharking ; and fur the sake of Lord John Russell's most unwarrantable condition of their char ! ter, that they should, in connexicn with Parliament at home, support a Church cf Ergland oat there—they have pleeged themselves to run counter to every principle of commercial policy. At the dinner given to Lord John Russell by that Company a few days ago, this object was actually one of the toasts ! And Mr. Shiol was present and said nothirg. The Directors of the Company have no right to make the compact : it is beside their power and objects.. Let them lane-shark as much as they please— but this soul-,harking by such redoubted saints as sonic of them arc, is ineffably disgusting. We are nstoni,h7cl that Mr. E. G. Wakefield, with Lis dernocratic professions, Flouts] have lent his sanction to such a scheme; especially after his experience of the working of ecelesiasical jea lousies in Canada. The friends of the Voluntary Prin ciple must rely on themselves. The treachery of this Co lonization Company is only ancther startling warning fir them. The whole force of the aristocracy, commercial as well as feudal, is forayed against ie The funeral of Sir Astley Cooper took place on Saturday at Guy's Hospital. The chief mourners were Sir Astlev (aches.' of the deceased), and Mr. Astley Cooper. The pall was supported by MeJustice Patteson, Ms, Justice Coleridge, B. Harrison, Esq., Dr. Franks, Sir Robert Inglis, M. P., Sir John Henry Petty, and Matthew Harrison, F.sq. The coffir-plate had the follow ing inscription :—" Sir Astley Cooper, Bart., G. C. H., died Feb. 15, 1841, aged 73." AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN ON WHICH PAY MENva ARE MADE UNDER THE TITRE COMMUTATION ACT. —Return stating, what has been during seven yens, end ing on the Thursday next before Christmas day, 1840, the average price of an imperial bushel of Bri ish wheat, barley, or oats, computed from the weekly average of the Corn Returns. Published, pursuant to an Act passed in the reign of William IV., hit: tuled " An Act for the Commutation of Tithes in England and Wales.—Wheat, 63. I ; Barley, 4s. Id. ; Oats, 9 s. 10P.—WILLIASI JACOB, Comptroller of Corn Returns." The Countess of Shelburne has been (lan • gerously ill during the week, but we are happy to hsar she is beam— Wilts Independent, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1841. dare without contradiction, that the duel in which Lord Cardigan had been engaged—taking it, of course, with all its attendant eircumstat,ces—" did not imply any morel turpitude." This was a volunteer at ar went on the part of Sir John Campbell ; there was no cell upon hisn to make it ; and he made it well know ing the notorious facts of the case, although he did not choose in lead evidence regarding then. The decla ration of the Law Officer of the Crown, listened to in apparently approving silence by the Lords,l amounts to this—A Peer may taunt and tyrannize over the officers of his regiment until one by one he disgusts the whole of them with their profession, and when one of them complains he may silence by shooting him ; white a weaver, half-mad with suffering, must be se ver( ly punished, if, in imitation of the Noble Lord, he • threatens to betake himself to " physiCal force." A Pe,r may shoot a man under the circumstances alluded to, while commoners (see the case of the duel between Elliot and Mirfin) are punished even for acting as se conds. The cases of the two Wimbledon du:!a are not so very different as might at first appear. in case there is more rude blackguardism ; in that of Lord Cardigan there is more cold envenomed despotism ; but both nre examples of an individual, confident in his own superior skill and courage, venturing to insult and out rage others. The Peers claim immunity for such of their number as thus abuse their power, and have thereby done more than enemies could do to weaken their infloo:.ce. No man or class of men can with im punity outrage the moral sense of a nation. " Aristo cracy," says the Globe, "is the element in which we live n 1 it is high ti me we were seek ing to health ifso, by trying a purer a t mo sphere. a ( recruit breathe our ; " —Spectator. f Some of their Lordships have protested against the doctrine since the above was in type. THE STAKE AT ISSUE. The division on Lord Morpeth's Irish Registration Bill must have important results, the great question involved being whether a third part of the kingdom is to be governed upon the principle of the protection of popular rights, or on that of their contraction or sup pression. The choice of Lord Morpeth's or Lord Stanley's Registration Bill is in effect the choice of the system of Government which is to exist in Ireland. It is the choice whether the system of Government is to be continued which has produced a greater share of tranquillity than has ever before been known in that country, and which has allowed of reducing her garri sons, and spa.ing her troops for English exigencies; or whether a return is to be made to the old system of governing in distrust of the people, in dread of the people, and in despite of the people, by the help of mi litary force and the Orange faction. Under the administrations of Lord Normanby and Lord Ebrington, we have witnessed the surest pledge of the improved peace of Ireland in the . diminished number of troops necessary in that part of the king dom ; Lord Stanley's system, too, would have its re duction, and he would see the test of its success is the diminished number of electors. More soldiers, less voters, woul►l be tl.c upshot of his scheme. The te gistration would then be small by degrees and beauti fully less ; but, to make up for that, the recruiting would be en an enlarged scsle, and Irishmen, to con sole them and compensate for exclusion from the elec toral pale, would have the ranks thrown open to them, with handsome bounties for serving to keep down their countrl met;. WlL.teler is taken from the content of a people in the condition of the Irish, must be attended with a tenfcld augmentation of coercive powers, and yo , u must make up in muskets for what you retrench from the confidence of the people in their representative strength. In - the st.►te of Ireland there are Oct two principles for her Government—contentment or coercion ; make your option of the other, and look to your means of carrying them into effect. If Lord Stanley's project and coercion he the choice, let it be borne in mind that the old system will not suf fice ; Ireland has outgrown it; she must be measured anew for her fetters, and touch increased in magnitude must be the restraining powers suited to her present streagtb and state of organization. Io sobriety alone the peolo of Ireland have acquired an element of discipline of in calculable value, and millions, under the leadership of Mr. O'Connell, have learnt the method of combining for their objects, and of acting in vast bodies with tile unity of purpose of one man. But in considering the feasibility of governing Ire land, not as she used to he, but as she is, in despite of the discontent of the great majority of the people, it is ❑ecessary to advert not only to the present state of the country on which so daring an experiment is to be made, but also to the aspect of affairs in Europe, Asia, and America. With five hundred thousand men under arms in France, is it prudent to make five millions of malcontents in Ireland ? For Lord Stanley's miserable object of cutting down the electoral body in Ire:and, is it wise to raise the hopes and encourage the hoqi!e at tempts of the enemies of England in every part of the world ? The foreign foes of this country have always reckoned extravagantly on the disaffection of Ireland, and is this a jirreture for giving them to hope for an illy against us in intestine trouh:es ? The commanding position of England in the eyes of the world is lcwered the moment she has to keep down Ireland. It is not that the people of Ireland would cooperate with fo reign enemies, but that the diversion of so much of the strength of England to the coercion of Ireland is more than the most powerful empire can afford. Arid for what are the hearts of the enemies of Eng land, in every part of the world, to be made to bound with joy ? That Lord Stanley may decimate the scanty electors of Ireland, and again place the Govern ment of Ireland on the apex instead of the foot of the cone, curing the false balance by the prop of bayonets. That the Tories can defeat Lard Morpeth's excel lent project is certain, for in the House of Lords it must be doomed to destruction ; but in disappointing the just hopes of the people of Ireland, and raising a nation against them, they raise a difficulty for their Govern ment, whenever it comes, and however it comes, which it must sink under. They cannot wrong► Ireland as they would wrong Ireland, and hold it as it can only be held under such treatment. Ministers have done their duty, and whatever may b.! the issue of the contest for the second reading of Lord Morpeth's Bill, they will have made good their ground for a stand or fall with honour. Their majority is, we believe, secure, but even if they could be defeated, the triumph of their opponents would he short, and the lost advantage would be recovered with interest. This the more sagacious members of the Tory party are well aware of, and hence their dejection on the eve et the victory on which they profess to reckon. In the course of the week, indeed, their organs in the *press have begun to inveigh against the dissolution which they apprehend will be resorted to in the event of the defeat of Lord Mori:ldles Bill. Why, these authorities have been assuring us for the last four years that the country was against the Government, and that on an appeal to it the Liberal party would be scattered hike chaff before the wind ; why is it then, that they so angrily hold forth against a dissolution which would so serve them ? They are here strangely distracted by their hopes and fears ; they hope for the victory which !Neill compel a dissolution, and they fear the appeal to the country which, instead of scattering the Liberal party, would terminate in the ret urn o f a popular tome, against which a Tory Government could not long stand. It we had to conteropl Ite the possibility of the break ing up of the present Ministry through disunion, we should calculate on the evil of a Tory Government of some permanence Out this is not the turn of things on which, in the worst event, we have new to spec:Ll:ate, the Ministers, to their honour,- having chosen a ground for their pitched bottle which has re-united and ro-ani. matel the whole Liberal party in the hearty support of them, and this union is a mighty reserve of strength for any event that may happen. As to the division on the approachi ng t r i a l o f streegt h with parties so neatly balanced, we know th at t h e trio jor:ty must be small ; but, small as it may be, it will keep the wolf from the door. In the remarks that we have made, however, it has been our object to consider what the position and pro Tacts of the Tories would be if they could carry the point of throwing out Lord Morpetb's measure, without stopping to moot tile feasi bility of the exploit. Give them their best present hopes, and what is the prospect before them ? Sup pose they could pass into power through the stab to lrelarel, what will they do with Ireland ; how do tlicy propose to govern it ? now do they expect to obtain the convent of England and Scotland to the costly coercive system that would become the evil nece;sity of their administration. But there is another more immediate difficulty. Never were the Tory party more disjointed than at this moment. Th e state of the Duke of Wellington's health incapacitates him for office, and the state of S:r Robert Peel's rela tions with his tarty almost does the same. The dislike of Sir Robert is Co !onger suppressed, it has broken out in open quarrel in the very organ which is the m a i n support of the party in the press ; but Lord Stanley'sdemeanour, for the few days that he performed the Dart of deputy leader, during the absence of Sir Robert P ee l, has not escorted the notice of shrewd observers.—Ex aminer. ST. IvEs.—On Tuesday, the 9th instant, our peaceable little town was thrown into confusion in conse quence of some few persons refusing to pay their rates; a numler of sal ors, pilots, and others assembled, and re pulsed the overseers, -insomuch that it was deemed neces sary, for the peace of others, to call into office an evra number of constables, and on the Frilly fillou.incrupwiards of cne hundred were sworn into office, which so rrighteeed the offenders that they confessed their guilt, begged for pardon, and, after a reprimand from the Mayor, and paying tin it fees, they were lip eratcJ. --West Briton. On Friday last Lieut. R. ConThauld, R.N., chief officer of the Langton Sta ion, Weymouth, suet:cc 'el in finding secreted in the Beach under the St .tion, 128 four-gallon tubs of foreign spiri!s, being the cargo of a French smuggling vessel. From ti.e appearance of the tubs, they had but te2..ntly been depositee. They were on Sunday brought in and dave:c.l up to the Custom-house, at Wejmouth. —Hampshire Telegraph. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. (From the Globe.) Tin English Registration Bill, the debate on the second reading of which occupied a considerahle part of the sitting of the House of Commons lest night, is an indication of good things to come to the Reform cause. Experience has long shown that the machinery •of the Reform Bill is inadequate to its purpose. - The cum; brous and complicated nature of its details has impeded its healthful•operation, and impaired its vitality. The ancient " proprietors .of Parliament" have availed themselves of its powers • to regain the influence it was enacted to neutralize. . They have converted the Regiqration Courts it established into arenas of mis chief; where the electors have been harrassed and an noyed, by means of frivolous and vexatious objet= tons urged in vast numbers against them, until, to avoid the annual journey to the Court and their attendance at it, with the trouble and expense by which these were accompalied, many have preferred disfranchisement upon frivolous objections to the - fee= quently-recurring inconveniences of attending to ploduce their titles to the property out of which they cleinted, or, if tenants, to establish their right against parties who were employed by political agents to serve hundreds of notices of objections, in the expeetalion that a - feW would prove successful, either by failure of proof of qua lification, or by the parties objected to neglecting to Ap pian The various interpretations of the law by the re vising barristers was also another source of dissatisfac tion and vexation, and contributed largely to encourage the agents of the political parties in the county or bo rough—who regarded only the interests of their ern - - ployers, and were paid according to their exertions, or, possibly,' in proportion to their success—to mul tiply objections against those who were known to he adverse to their party. The revising barrister of one year applied his legal ingenuity to detect errors in the decision of his predecessor —nay, contra dictory decisions by barristers . sitting under the Same roof at the same time, and on cases precisely . similar, were of constant occurrence. The complacence with which this see-saw mode of deciding cases was practised would have Inca amusing to . the spectators, had it not been associated with reflections which were neither honourable to the law nor creditable to the honesty of its practitioners. The annual battle in the registration courts has been a struggle for local poli tical supremacy, in which the last thing thought of was the .legal integrity of the vote. The effect upon ~the public mind, from this state of things, was big* in jurious, even in a moral point of view. The lesson in .- culeated by it is, that the end justifies the means ; and provided a vote be gained, or a claim destroyed, the way in which the object is attained is a matter the least de serving of consideration ; the ingenuity of the successful party, and not the honesty of the claim, or She val:dicy of the objection, being the subject of 'congratulatior. We therefore cordially congratulate the country on the Bill before Parliament, introduced by Lord John Russell, for emancipating the Reform Bill from some of these obstructions to its free and beneficial working. (From the Standard.) _ _ It well becomes this great 'and highly favoured na tion, which has attained to such an eminence in wealth, in power, and in arts, to take the lead in evary im provement of the human race. The practice of duelling, the last remnant of the Romanist barbarism of the middle ages, which seems to be obtaining new pre valence and vigour in other countriee, as they are receding from civilization and Christianity, is at least put upon its trial in England ; and if the press anti those others who have influence upon the pub lic mind do their duty, England wilt have to add to her wreath the glory of emancipating 'our race from the savage self-imposed slavery of the -codrrof honour, as she may boast to have set the ex ample of dissolving a less hateful and cruel servitude in flicted by man upon his brother. It will be seen by a ,reference to our Parliamentary report of last night, that the Earls of Eldon and Mountcashel, and other Pcerr, have made the proper use of the recent trial, by de mending of the Gevernment some measure, or some exertion to repress the resort to 'private combat, and it will seen olio that Lord Melbourne declared that in his opinion the laws are strong enough to meet :he evil. This is sufficient ; when the First Minister of the Crown, the tepresentative of the executive power, confesses that the ltws arc strong enough to repress a crying tv,l, every hour's permitted existence of the evil is his condemnatioa, for it is his duty to execute the law. A case has opportucely oc curred since Lord Cardigan's trial—will LordMe,bourne make use of the occasion to justify his assertion that the law is s , rung enough ? We agree with his Lordship, that the law is strong enough to drive duelling out of England ; but a law suffered to sleep by its appointed administrators, is equivalent to the absence of all lax. The question is now settled, that to • fight a duel is to commit a felony : will her Majesty's Ministers con- Live at t'r.c commission of felony, and say that it is no effair of theirs, but properly within the pro vince o! the inferior rna;istrate? But such is not the caeca Robt.eriea and ordinary breaches of the peace may be safely lett to the care of the inferior Magis trate, because those offences almost always tall forward a coteplainaet, whose importunity will force the tune tionars- to do his duty.. A duel, however, rarely sup plies such a complainant : the public is the t aqy in jured ; and if the I aid servants of the public do not .excit themselves to detect and punish the authors of the injury, nobody else will. (From the Courier.) The Ralways 13:11 went through a second reading on Friday tee 12th, and was to have been committed on Friday, the 26th; but we have good reason to bdeve Mr.' Labouchere will consent to its being postponed for a week, to allow all the railway companies ample time to consider the effect of the clauses by their experience in working. We know, likewise, that the Committee appointed at the Birmingham Conference are most anxiously doing their duty, and are desirous to ascer tain the feelings and opinions of all the Companies on the matter. 'We sincerely trust, therefore, that none of the Companies will act without previous concert with these gentlemen. Now is the time for the large railway in terest to show its strength and extent ; but to do it effectively, it must be done by combination and a per : feet understanding. Time .Press and use public have most unjustly been condemning thesh . vast-undertakings as monopolies, which most unquestionably they are not, and can only practically became so, by superior accom modation and safety, evidence in themselves against the outcry which has laid the foundation far the present Bill—a Bill we have already expressed ourselves upon, as being the most frivolous and unmeaning, piece el legislation ever concocted, and which shows the diffi culty of interference with the subject at all. WOOLIVICH,• FEB. 19.—Intelligence reached Woolwich on Thursday of the death of Brigadier. General Edward Thomas Mitchell, of the Royal Artillery, on the 25th January, of fever, brought on by remaining too . long in wet clothes at Damascus. This gallant officer entered tie service a 3 second-I'm:tenant Septemlee 8, 1803, and was promoted to be first,lieutenant on the 13th of the same month. He was appointed captain September 5, 1811; brevet major March 17, 1814; brevet lieuteLant-colonel July 22, 1830 ; ,regimental colonel June 11, 1838; and brigad:er-general, on a particular service, October 30, 1840. In 1840, he was detaAed from GP:a-altar and com manded a guerilla division in the Sierra c'e Ronda, and was t resent 'at the capture of Ronda, and the combats cf El Brusque and of &most, and the night attack and capture of Arcos. He commanded the artillery, with the force occupying Terlfa, 1810, 1611, and 1812, and oat engaged in all the affairs and operations et Tardr, Cara; Viejsp, Aleala, and Medina Sidonia; at the battle of Baroasa he was shot through the shouLier, sn 1, mt. Hl!taadicg the severity of the wound, he was present at the final defence of Tarifa against Marshal Victor. In 1812, be was present at the assault and capture of the forts and as the battle of Salamanca, the combat of Casts ejon and many affairs of the out-posts. Served in the Ne.her lands from December 1813, to May, 1814, and was pre sent at the capture of Merxem, the investment aid bom bardment of Antwerp, and, iu the night attack en Ber gen-op Zoom ; conducted one of the columns and was se verely wounded on this occasion in several places. In 1838, be went to Spain, and was, appointed commander of th ; Hoysl Artillery, serving there until the end cf 1840, when he proceede 1 to Syria on particular ie:vice wirh the rank ef Brigadiet-Genetal, and commander of the Royal Artillery engaged in the late successful contests in that quarter. , Brigadie;r-General Mitchell was universally be loved by his brother officers. TITHES AND' CHURCH-RATES.—Some time last summer a eemand of 21. I9i. wait male upon a member of the Society of Friends in Truro, for tithes, and another of 6s. I Id. for a 'Clinrch-rate. Bah of these demands, according to the_ uniform prsctice of the reli gious community alluded to, were, of course, refused, and 'goods of the value ef upwards of 131. were distrained to meet them. These goods were sold .for 81. 14s. 31d., and after all the expenses were defrayed, about 1/. 53. was returned to the party as surplus, which he refused to receive, and it was consequently left upon some part of his premises. Thus, for refusing, on conscientious grounds, to par a sum of 3/. 6s. an hnnet and iadustriaus man is fleeced t 3 the extent of nearly 121 • and this is• done, too, for the maintenance of religion. West Briton lt EC II UI T I NG. - h e F7an4fori Journal of the 13th instant publishes a letter, dated from Upper l-hui gary, which states that the population of that province bad conceived so profound an antipathy to the recruiting service, that several sanguinary collisions bad taken place. At Mestegnego the inhabitants, with the Judge of the district at their head, having opposed the recruit ing party, a squadron of Hulans was ordered to their assistance. The pFople, supposing that the cavalry would not fire upon them, commenced an attack upon the bar racks. The troops immediately charged the populace, and in less than five minutes eight of the insurgents were left dead, amongst whom was the Judge twenty-three were wounded, and fifty-two wee made prisoners. THE LATE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. —HIGH Laos, FRIDAY. —The exertions of Mr. Hcrper the special high constable of Cheshire, to discover Ann, Simpson, the young woman who so suddenly disappeared from Mr. Hewett's farm, have at length been attended with success. About three o'clock yesterday afternoon the body of the unfortunate girl was found embedded in the mud of a marl pit, close to the farm yard, and this morn ing the body of a new-burn infant « as discovered floating on the surface of the water. Mr. Hollins, county cure n r has appointed eleven o'clock to-morrow (this day) for holding the inquest.—Manchester Times. LORD CARDIGAN'S TRIAL. It is hard to decide whether the conduct of the prh secution in this case, of the defence, or of the Court, has bean most equivocal. The Attornaa a General began by protesting that " he was rejoiced to think that the charge against the noble prisoner at the bar did not imply any degree of moral turpitude a and that if he should be found guilty, the conviction would reflect no discredit on the illustrious order to whioh he belonged." After stating the law of the case, and laying before the Court an outline of the faets he intended to prove, Sir John declared, " he should offer no evidence—indeed he could offer no evidence—aS to the quarrel out of which this duel had sprung ;" taking care to aid, that " he ac quitted the Noble Lord of any thing unfair in the course of the duel ;" that "he did not suppose there was any grudge, personal animosity, rancour, or malignity against Captain Tuckett, in the breast of the Noble Earl ;" and that "he had no doubt that upon this oc casion the Noble Earl only complied with what he thought necessary to the usages of society." In short, the manager of the prosecution took care at the very outset to convince the Judges, that the Earl of clarai. gan was put upon his trial for a mere, technical viola tion of the law, more out of respect to forms than for any serious offence. He at the same time restricted the tinge of inquiry within the narrowest possible bruits ; taking care to prevent any ag g ravating circum stances in the conduct of the accused to appear—al-1 though, the crone charged being of that class in which the Judge possesses the power of increasing or diminish- 1 ing the punishment within a limited range, such circum stances were essentials of the case ; and thus laid him self more open to be defeated upon some narrow techni cal objection. The suspicions of collusion on the part of the Prosecution, arising out of this preamble, are rather strengthened than diminished by the subsequent proceedings. Sir John Campbell has the reputation of of being not only a sound, but what the Scotch call a loopy lawyer ; and Mr. Vizard, who had the getting up of the case, is a sagacious and experienced mar of busi ness. If any knowledge confined to the practitioners in the Criminal Courts were necessary, the Crown Law yers could have commanded any assistaece they pleased. Yet, when the counsel for the defence urged objections to evidence which must have been foreseen, the Prose- ' cution was, or pretended to be, unable to supply the deficiency. And lastly, when Sir William Follett ob jected to the validity of Captain Tuckett's card as evidence, and argued upon decisions, Sir. John Camp bell, an experienced lawyer, knowing that the opinion of Lord Denman would guide the Lords, instead of meeting Sir William's argument, talked about " in ferences that would be drawn by reasonable beings out of Court." From beginning to end, the conduct of the Prosecution shows a predetermination to allow the accused t 3 escape ; and the sham fight was not even kept up with sufficient appearance of earnestness to de ceive the bystanders. The conduct of the Defence was, under such cir cumstances, no very difficult task. But the counsel for the defendant went beyond their brief, and indulged in certain Old Bailey practices, which, as quite unne cessary, were in bad taste, to say nothing of their mo rality. For example, Sir IVilliarn Follett, finding in a memorandum of Dann the miller, a note of the num ber of miles he had travelled on the business, remarked, " You seem to have gone about a .great deal after this affair ;" and folowed up the inuendo subsequently by very pressing inqu;ries as to whether be had been paid his charges. Sergeant Wrangham's cross-examination of the miller's son—a boy of fourteen—closely resem bles the account of a parallel process in the " Pickwick Papers." For example : "Do you then mean to say, you could at the instant distinguish who the parties were kneeling:''—" I could see who they were." " That is distinguishing, is it not?"—" Yes.• (A laugh.)" And when the boy attempted to show the Learned•Sereeint that he had misapprehended one of his answers—" Oh, explain your answers in any way you like, Sir." The same system was pursued with Mra Dann ; who was pestered with such questions as—" All the gentlemen, then, had red faces, had they ?"—" Who has been tuning this story ? who has been examining you 'r" and with a silly laugh raised against her when she said, " I can sec better on the Consinon—where I am more prate ised,"—the fact that she could see better on the opus Common than in the dim Painted Chamber being app-e•ent, whatever might be her expertness or awk warlaess in explaining the circumstance. This attempt to - shield the accused by broWbeating honest witnesses, and insinuating charges against their veracity, is com mon enough at the Old Bailey, but we should have ex pected more regard for right feeling among the aristo cracy of England, than to permit such vuraar licence to counsel at the bar of the High Court of Parliament. And now as to the Court itself. Notwithstanding, the care of the Prosecution to withhold the evidence, and of the Defence to divert attention from what could not be withheld, the following facts were established. Mn.s Dann saw two gentlemen knee! and load pistols, then rise, stand back to bask, walk asunder some paces each, place other two at the points thus fixed, put pis tols in their hands, stand aside till they fired at each other, give them fresh pistols, and stand aside till they fired again. Mr. Dann saw the combatants stationed ; saw them fire both times ; never lost sight of them till he reached the ground ; when he sa y one gentleman wounded, and took the pistol from the hand of anataer, that other being one of those who fired, tied also Lord Cardigan, the prisoner at the bar. Sebastian Dann saw the kneeling of the seconds, the 'firing of the princi pals, and the wounded gentleman with a grt at deal of blood on the ground. There cannot exist a doubt that Lord Cardigan discharged two pistols at some indivi dual, and wounded him the second time ; it having been also proved that he said to the inspector of police—" I have been fighting a duel, and have hit My man." Then as to the identity of the wounded antagonist of Lord Cardigan. Dann allowed him to go home with his sur geon, upon giving his address ; thiit address was " Cap tain Harvey Tuckett, 13, Hamilton-place, New-road." Dann called three times ; and each time, on asking for Capt. Tuckett, wes ushered in to the wounded gentle man who gave him the address ; and on one occasion that gentleman sent a note by Dann to the Magistrates, which he signed with the name " Tuckett." Mr. Wal then gave evidence to the effect that a gentleman of the name of Harvey Tuckett had rented business cham bers from him for upwards of a year, who gave his card of reference " Captain Harvey Tuckett, 13, Hamilton place.;" and that he had sent a hamper to the gentle man by that address. It was proved that the Earl of Cardigan deliberately discharged two pistols at a person of the name of Captain Harvey Tuckett, and wounded him. This was the charge against the Noble Earl,—a charge which, as stated by the prosecution, admitted by the Court, and not questioned by the defence, if proved rendered him liable to punishment. The counsel for the accused objected to the production of the card : it was proved without the card that the wounded man gave the name and place of residence above mentioned, that he was repeated y seen there during his convales cence, and that a person of that name and title resided there. If there were anything extenuating in the cir cumstances out of which the duel arose, that was a por tion of the defence. The criminal act was proved, and brought home to the Earl of Cardigan. And yet the Members of the House of Peers, the conservators of the piety, morality, and law of the empire, after commenc ing their proceeding. with a solemn appeal to the Deity, rose up one by one when called upon, and each in suc cession, placing his right hand upon his breast, said, " Not guilty, upon my honour." Alas for the honour of the British nobility ! it is much upon a par with the veracity of the fiery knights, who, in the first part of Shakspere's Richard the Second, thrust the lie down each other's throats.* The conduct of the prosecution, defence, and Judger, has all the appearance of being each a part in a common conspiracy to defeat the ends of justice. The whole proceedings of the House of Lords suggest a predeter mination to allow the accused to escape by some subter fuge or other. Viewed in this light, the Earl's appeal from the Judges of the laud and a Jury to his Peers, was an appeal from a tribunal in which an attempt would be made to discover the truth and punish the guilty, to a tribunal where, guilty or innocent, he thought he was safe.t The privilege of the Pears to be tried by and to try each other, wears the aspect of an exemption from the penal law of the land : it seems to proclaim one law for the nobility and another for commoners. If the mischief coded with now and then allowing a guilty Peer to escape the punishment incurred by his crimes, it would be comparatively venial ; but the tri fling and equivocating with solemn duties, in the la , ,e trial, is worse than that ; for the House of Lords is a Court into which any civil question may be carried by appeal. There is not a case, where there is a sufficient interest at stake to admit of the expense being incurred, but may come to be tried in last resort by the same Judges who, after hearing the evidence recapitulated above, declared " upon their honour" that Lord Cardi gan was not guilty. Nay, this same corporate body has the power, in its legislative capacity, to prevent the pass ing of any legislative Act that would alleviate or amend the evil. As Judges, they have it in their power to twist the law as they please ; as a legislative body, they have a veto upon all reforms ; as the habitual associates of the Sovereign, they influence the Crown ; as large landed proprietors, they decide the elections to the Com mons. In them resides the real sovereignty of Great Britain. And their conduct at the trial of Lord Cardi gan chows how loosely they wear the restraints of moral precepts, and how little care they think it worth while to take to conceal their levity from the public gaze. " Wasps break through the cobwebs in which flies are caught," and make a triumphant buzzing to call atten tion to the fact. The question is between the Peers and the People : Lord Cardigan's share in it. is scarcely worth notice. To be sure, the Attorney-General was allowed to de- From this censure the Duke of Cleveland, of all the Peers present, is alone excepted. In exquisite irony he declared, " Not guilty, legally, upon my honour." t The prisoner arraigned before our Common Law Courts claims to be tried "by God and his country ; " Lord Cardigan claimed to be tried "by his Peers." i t sounds like a disclaimer alike of Divine and human jur:s dietia. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, JAN. 27.—Said Ahmed el-Gharbi, Corn maa4er-in-Chief of the National Guard, President ef the ibunal rf Commerce, &c , is dead, and was buried yes terday, with mingl•d honours and execraiions. An im mense crowd followed him, the priests chaunting hymns for the soul of the good Mussulman—the poor to obtain share of the death-dole, distributed in the shape of 500 piasters' worth of white bread aarl of three buffaloes, which were cut up and distributed at his grave; and the citizens, to curse the man who had givea them such trouble at their daily drill. " Allah la yerhemou !" (May God grant bim no repose !) was the prayer heard among this class of his attendants. Five negresse , -, his doreest c slaves, followed, displaying upon wands held on high the certificates of their emancipation. His single widow (also an Algerine or Mograbrin) stayed to mourn at home. He has left no child to inherit his great wealth, so the Pacha will of course a demaad accounts," probably find him indebted some thousand dol lars more than he has left, will seize the ready money aad forg;v3 his soul the rest. Like many other fr.vourites, he never bad any pay from the Pacha, but then he had the pa tronage of agriculture and the allotment of lands, and it is known helped himself pretty liberally, so that he could afford all the expenses to which he was put as volunteer paymaster of the Redif, and leave immense wealth besides. Ile was one orthe cleverest men in Egypt, thrust in.° svery occupation by the Pec4, had great influence, which reached even to Algiers ; was a good friend, a dangerous enemy, and displayed two remarkable talents as a judge (the very cha racteristies which Byron declares fitted Mitferd so ac- mirably for an historian), v:z., " wrath and partiality.' Certainly he decided causes with wonderful promptitude. He was a true teliever, a good hater of the English; lived feared and respected, and c;io.d ostensibly of dysentery, some say of poison, now that he was no longer wanted. However, nothing has been adduced in proof of the asser tion, and is is but due to the manners and'morals of Egypt to state the fact, that paisoning and decapitation have both gone out of fashion together.- Of course his widow (until she weds again) will visit his tomb every Thursday, when the souls of good Mussultnen may re-ester their badiea and appear to those who particularly desire it. UNIVERSIT )( INTELLIGENCE. . CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 20.—The Rev. J. A. Morti - , M. A., of Queen's College, in this University, has been appointed to the Vicarage of Hampton-ir- Arden, Warwickshire, va cant by the death of the Rev. H. T. Woodington. The Rev. W. M. Hurlock, NI. A., of St. John's Col lege, in this University, has been instituted to the Vicarage of urstbourne Tarrant, with Veroham Dear:, in the county of Hants. vacant by the death of the R. v. P. S. Fisher. The Rev. J. W. Charlestverth, late of St. Peter's CA legr., in thii University, has been presented by the Bishop of Chester, to the perpetual Curacy of Woodhead Cheshire. Toe Rev. Derwent Coleridge, M.A., of St. John's Col lege, in this University, late Ma - der cf the Grammar School at Helsten, and author of The Scriptural Charac ter Vale English C7turch considered, has been appointed by the Committee of the. Naional Society Principal cf their Training Institution at Stan!ey.grove, Chase,. • The Rev. Henry Knapp, B. A., has been presented to the Vicarage cf Swator, with the Rectory of Spanby an rexed, Lincolnshire, vacant by the death cf the R‘v. Thomas Darby. We understand that Earl Brownlow has, in the moat , kind and handsome manner, offered the Rectory rf Salt fleetby St. Clement's, to the Rev. Irvit.e Eller, t f Great Gonorby, quite unsolicited, arid not in the least expected by the Rev. Gentleman. The vacancy has arisen from the awful death of the Rev. Christ. Cholme:ey.--Starn ford Paocr. The Hon. and Rev. Edward Keppel, the Hon. and Rev. Edward Pellew, the Rev. Edward Edwards, and the Rev. Joseph Cotteritl, locumbents teddent in Norfolk, have been appointed Honorary Canons of Norwich CatLe • dral, by the Lord Bishop cf the diocese. HORRIBLE FRATRICIDE IN FRANCE.—On the evening of February 1, as an old man of the Larne of Septier, and his wife, residing in the department c f the Orne, were retiring to rest, they heard some dreadful screams at a distance. The screams soon became more distinct, and a man rushed up to their door, which he en deavoured in vain to open, exclaiming', Help, help; mur der, murder. Father Septier, open in God's name. lam Verdier, of Planche." This appral remained without effect ; the old couple, frightened to death (Septier is 78 years old) durst not open the door. When the fiat moment of terror ha i subsided, Mrs. Septier took her grand-daughter up irt a the loft and concea'e 1 her under some bundles of hay, then hastened below, and by a chink in her cellar door, endea voured to ascertain what was gOing on. The moon ttas shiaiag bright, and thraw her light on a most aaroeious scene. A man was 1) ieg on the gr and moaning occa sionally, while a brute with a long eharp iestrumcnt, was hewing Lim most unmerti'ully. This barb: rous behaviour lasted about a quarter cf an hour, a: which dale the a:sas s-hi, convinced that I is victim was dea t, hurri - A away f:om the fatal spot. About three quarters of an hour after some pea , aatF, atriacteti b% the screams of Ma "arne Seplier, haste ed to the place, and discuvrrel that the 'miner( d mai eal Blaiae Versi r, born at Manche, an adjei...iog village, but who had been settled for some time et Net-illy, near Paris, as a restaurateur. The judicial au hoihieF, anr . seti of ti is horrid murder, soon came up, and found by, the traces of blood visible on the snow, that the murderous attaalt had commenced in a very solitary spat, about 400 )arils dittaat from Septier's house. A bat and stick were found on the fallowing day. Heavy suspieian soots fell upon Jacques Verdier, or e of the tr ther; of the victim, a man about fifty 3ears cf age, and of a very bad cha^stt....r. It appears that the two lA-ethers left Moulin LaTarche together, at seten in tae evee.ing, to proceed to Planche, to the home of their brother, An tony Verdier, where Jacques was to reconcile Antony with Blake. A smock-`rock, sta;aed with blood, proved by the wart of the Verifiers to have been worn by Jacnvel the very day of the murder, has been found at a distant;te. of 500 3 ards from the spot where the murderous deed was &Ye. ted. It is supposed that the assassin was actuated by revcage, although he stripped his brother of his watch and the rt'le money he Lad about him. Since the f..tal deed Jacques has abscondeJ. NEW AMERICAN DICTIONARY.—Cat—An animal that old maids love, because it gives out sparks when it is rubbed. Treadmill—A retired place for the accom. modation of those addicted to appropriation. Bonnet— A kind of inverted coal-hod, in which ladies' heads are carried. Misery—The lire of an unpaid printer. Nothing —The conscience of a thorough politician. Umbrellas— Common property. Independence—A strong determina tion to place yourself where you are not wanted. Tempest—Something that comes to married people after the honeymoon. Merit—That which receives no praise. Money---A fish peculiarly difficult to catch. The Grave—An ugly hole in 'the ground which lovers and poets wish they were in, but take uncommon pains to keep out of. Modesty—A beautiful flower that .flourishes only in secret place. Sensibility—A quality its possessor, in attempting to promote the hap piness of other people, loses his own. A Young Man cf Talent—An impertinent scoundrel, who thrusts himself forward; a writer of execrable poetry; a person without modesty ; a noiay . ,fellow ; a speech maker. Lawyer—A learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemy, and keeps it himself. My Dear—Au expression used by man and wife at the commencement of a quarrel. Watchman—A man employed by the parish to sleep ire the open air. Rural Felicity—Potatoes and turnips. Thin Shoe—An article worn in winter by high-spi hed young ladies, who would rather die than conceal the beauty of their feet.—New York News. AMERICAN SLAVERY.-IVroses Roper, who effected his escape from American slavery some years age, delivered an address to a numerous and respectable audi tory, at the t ierge room at the Bear Hotel, on the evening of Thursday lase Bad as the system of American slavery (and indeed slavery in all its modifications) is, it is to be hoped, for the honour of humanity, that his picture of the abarninable system was too highly culoutel; hot when the cruelties, which even in our own country, were formerly ia 'Meted by man upon his fellow man are recollect2d‘, it must be acknowledged that Mr. Ropea's statereeets might be substantially correct. Deeply harrowing and revolting as was his narrative to the sensit;ve minds of his hearers, he assured them that delicacy would always protect those who addressed a public meeting from exposing- the worst fea tures of the iniquitous system. As an instance be would state—although it w.a. with painful feelings he did so— that Le was the illegitimate son cf a General Roper ; and that he was sold. by his own father when only two years of age. For EC. eral years his mother had acted as housekeeper to his father, upon whose marriage with a white lady, he was sold, and removed to a distant estate with his mother. It was no uncommon thing thus to find fathers dooming their offspring to slavery. Before Mr. Roper cotnmeneed speaking, Farmer Benjamin, of Coate, and a Mr. Wall, a wine-merchant from London, rudely entered the room, and extinguished sonic of the lights. O.r being remonstrated with, they retired, but when the speaker was in the midst of his address, they again re turned, and in a highly indecent manner disturbed the meeting, and interrupted the speaker. Considerable con fusion ensued, and after a while they acre ejected from the room, when they commenced thumping the door and creating a disturbance in the lobby. Mr. Roper requested the landlord, Mr. Davies, to send for a policeman to pro tect him, but for some reason, best known to Mr. Davies, he declined to interfere, although Mr. Roper had hired the room of him for the cventng. Mr. Roper said, that he was interrupted in a similar manner by Mr. Wall when speaking at Caine on the previous evening, but that the good sense of thelmeeting soon put him down —( Frain a Correspondent. ) Wiltshire Independent. A few nights since, two English sailors, accord ing o the Semaphore of Marseisla?, who had taken t J o much grog on, board, picked a qua rel in that t , 0n with tome Frenchmen. Words ran h ; g h, and blows e. ensee 4 . In the 'conflict one of the tars caught the leg of an adversary in his teeth, and held ia as in . a vice, till obliged of ntain to relinquish his held by tee °very. iit•laorg power a _ eature in his hers ; and not then till so h eatea that t nfaacnet couldhis tuen fir rcog treatment,ni sed interposed, . H s brother ende -jack e ro t i g' t ;nce, hlr rushed into the centre o f at least twenty of the assailants of display all his skill and st ren g th in the science -of boxing, hid mess mate, and delivered h i s blows with sub force that he soon made a circle round hire , t he diameter of which was at least the length of his own arm?. Jack cleared his w a y out, and made towards the canal, but was folowed by so many adversaries that he was at last knocked dew:. li' lay for some time, perhaps not stunned, but only to recover his breath, and then, suddenly springing up, fought his way through a whole phalanx, till some police offle•rs took him under their protection, and placed him in safatv. Th e Semaphore concludes its account with blaming the conduct cf its fellow-citizen!:. At a meeting of the Geological 6 0e l et , , held at Somerset Howe cn Fiiday, Sir R o b ert Peel !vr as cleated a member, and took his seat. The Wonillython medal was t a t i t i u a d te ica o t f o dFrtoa Ance, fa d r ol ph hise importantßrogniakr_t, a n d discoveries n d : r o e f d i l n a h n e fo c s h iill botany, on which occasion Dr. Buc giant discourse. E VEN ING EDITION. FLANDERS, MJ:ITH 2 AND 11A14: BURGH MAILS. BRUSSELS, JULY 18.—The average price of wheat last week was 181. Bc., and that of rye 111..52e. per hectolitre. The import duties on wheat 87f. 50e., on rye 21f. 50e. per 1,000 kilogrammes; the export duty on both 25c. per 1,000 kilogrampics. The King has ordered a levy of 16,844 recruits (born in the year 1818 and 1819.) This levy exceeds that of laEt year by 7,644 men. RI.IENISH BAVARIA, FEB. 11.—We learn here with astonishment, from undoubted authority, that the French authorities at Lauterhurg and other frontier 'owns have annoucced that German deserters, who shall go to France with the:r horses, arms, and bag gage, may enlist in any French regiment that they may choose, and not be forced to enlist 'in the Fo reign Legion, and that the value of the d e ects they shall be punctually paid their. Me do not be lieve t' at this. measure will be sery successful ; but it is a prcof of hostile sentimeatq, which we had no rea son to expect front the present Fieccir Goverunwnt. BERLIN, FEB. 12.—1 t seems that all our cavalry regiments are to be increased from 600 ta 800. . 131IUSSELS, FEB 19.—We ',tarp gnat the la,t perfors of the ban has been negoti,t d at :3 per cent. higher than the preceding issue, at 5 per cent. at 100:V. The General Society has taken a third. ANISFBI:DAM, FEB. 17.—According to official fie. count. , , the . popul too of the kirgdoni of the Nuttier lands on the .Ist of January, 1840, was 2,iiii5,731 souls, adding 100,710 for the Duchy of L'aiburg ; the t )tal Is 2,860,450, Lesides 5,209 seamen enzliatked in his Ma, jcsty's ships of war. The account" from the provlace of Z.2aland, of the stitc of the rival are not favourable. Tile same may be said of the accounts from Arnheim and othei places. The Supreme Council has rejected the appeal of tie Attorney-General against the decision of the Tribunal of Gronirireo, in tl.e offal. of the journal, the T o lkd er Vrylicid, and confirmed the scow:ice of the tribunal. By this decision, the Council has determined, among other points, that the printer is not answerable, when the writer complained of is known and presect. FILUNTIELL OF POLAND, FEB. 7.—lt is said that a Russian army of 80,000 men is to be assembled,at Ka lish. So much at IL tut is certain, that measures are taken to form inaozine; for such a number of troops.— IV/hut Gazette. FiI6NTIEIt or POLAND, FLB. 4.—Travellers who lately visited Warsaw affirm that they have ►card there that the number of troops now in tLe• king dom of Poland amoui.t,; to two hunched thousand men (only infantry). This number rosy be exaggerated, but it is certain tliat all along our frontiers not only the tofts in which garrisons arc utually placed, but the small plcecs which can only be called towns, and which in gen.,:ral have no garrisons, are now full of troops. They ere entirely supported, al we learn, at the expeLsc of the Government, by wh ch a great deal of money is brought into circulation. There is but little cavalry in our frontier towns, probably because forage is dearer than in the adjacent Russian pro vinces.--Swabian Mercury. ST. PETERSEUIIGII, FEE. G.—According tckporeleial accounts the popul ttion of St. Petersburgh at the end of 1840 was 470,202, of whom, however, only 132,590 were females. The number of births was— • Male. 5,544 Pcmales 4,47.5 Total 10 019 The number of deaths is not stated. DUTCII FUNDS.--.A.MSTEIWASI, Fra. 10. NionTs. Bli's. actual Dobt, ‘2sa per Cent .),ttn, ditto .5 per cent. A isir,l t Svn.die, .i .'..; pee Cent S $l7 Ditto, ditto, 3 per con' Cmionereiai Company, 4 1 ,ii per rent. 15.4)4 15 % Ditto (ir , :is and 1t,37) 5 per cent. Loun 1h .17, 5 per cont. 94% 93 Lichange on LondoN, One month l2 0 Two mon tits Dutch Papers, Feb. 20. rib:L.OlA D! I. U I , lDS;—friat , StiELd , FEs. 13. Actual I)eSt, 2!4, per Cent. .., ttotlischdd's Loam. 5 per Cynt ,,-,, Loan of Thirty Millions,-.t per Cent. B9 ---- Niter Cent ----Thirty.s2ven .........,.. 6s7; ii .(1. 40) 97 i,4 • Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent. 1;73,,, Sucletyot Corniu.rce, ONipi.. , r Cent 1 1 ,2 Flank of 13c1gitnn, 5 per Ccnt. ....... ......- l. S!,,i National Svciety . Exchange on London (silo; t) —Rrassels Papers, Feb. 19. AUSTRIAN FUN'lTh.—Vtu.;:v.a, Fini. U. Five per Colt., . Zlctalltqucs Fret rer Cents. 11 , rce p.v• Cent,. ILat lc V•ari..s -- , l!lge ,,,, eitte , Zenung, Feb. 16. II A NIBURG BORSEN HALLE, FEB. 16. Bills. Itl^ , ley Austrian 5 per Cents. Bank Snares 1620 1618 A ii,elo.ltilssnot I...G:111 .. RC '•1 le. ~% Russian 5 per Cent, tst semi, 0.0.111e.tte'...... 102% 162 • Inscription, lst Se:i4s.. lOl 100% Russian 5 pc:r Cent. Hop : and Go. 33 zud 4111 Sei 1:$ Ditto in Certificates Dutch Actual Del:t, 2 1 4 pe cent ~; Ditto a per Ceti' 4s 9 _ Polish build: New rieket Anitlo-oznish Loan, 3 per Ce et ST,lwegian Loan, I 534, 4 per Ceiit... Spanish, Ne..v 5 per Cents. 1636 r;XLMANcik; (.), , r I.ON DON. HAMBURG, Felt. 16.-13 .1.4.—Tw0 months - , 13 3. 510CR1101,761, Fko. s.—Scroity-five days, 11. CS. VIENNA. FEE V.—Three months, 9. 4G. CLIIIISTIANIA, IIAL 3.—Ehree months, 4 43. . 96% - kIZUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, FEB. 16. Bills. • St. Schuh!. Sch., 44, per cent. lO'N l'rwsian Eng;*zsb Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 10U lizehAnge on 1.. radon, three months ..,t; —Prussian Slate G.zetle, Feb. 17. Money. 103% DINNER at the .7tIANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday the Lard Mayor gave a splendid en tertainment in the Egyptian-hall to her Majesty's Mi nisters. Although the party was not considered a public affair, there were between sev,lnty and eighty Nrsons present. . Amongst the guests were Lord Melbourne, Lord Normanby, Lnrd John Russell, Lord Clarendon, Lord Morpeth, the Bishop of London, Sir Henry Parnell, Sir Charles Felix ,Smith, of the Royal Engineers, who commanded in Syria ; Mr. Fox Manic, Mr. Under- Secretary Phillips, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the EAst India Company, the Deputy-Governor of the Bank of England, Mr. Crawford, M.P. ; Sir T. B. Lenuard ; the Presidents of Christ's Hospital and Bethlem Hospital ; several of the Aide men, the She riffs, &c. After the usual loyal toast 3 were drank, with very great warmth and applause, The LORD Mayoa rose to propose the health of her Majesty's Ministers, who bad done hm the hrmour of act opting his invitation that day. It es with nigh gra tification he proposed a toast in wh► he knew all wouli acquiesce, as the 'Ministers were those who were employed in protecting this great nation.—(Cheers.) WI rejoiced to say that within the walls of the balding in which they were seated, often brai appeared brilliant associatious of .r&ok, oral talent, and commercial great ness, and he trusted. to see many repetitions of such visits.—(Cheers.) His Lordship then proposed " The he ilths of Lord Melbourne, and the rest of her Majesty's Ministers." Lord MELBOURNE rose amid cheers. It was always, he saii, with the highest satisfaction he came to the city to share in the, hospitality' of, and to pay due respect to, this great city, in the person of the Chief Magistrate. —(l..;twers.) • Ile, however, 'never participated in the civic hospitalities with more pleasure than now that the chair was .filled by his excellent friend, who had been c..lled to fill it under peculiar circumstances, to which he should not any farther allude, and ha-1 entered upon the duties of the ofllee in tile most rcsokite manner, which shusxed him well qualified for the citvated situa it Inust he ad m itted the tion.—(llCar, hear.) Whatever might be the opinion ante. entmt tine I by the citizens of London with respect that the Ministers cf the Crown, there was n: t the lerst doubt of l oyalty the Crown,in whatever citi zens and their attachment to n!a the .l . ,—(Cheers.) He hands the authority and to drink the h.,iitirs of the wh . 1 d The Bishop of begged to return th.unk ' s 7 l The LOUD NIAYOU next proposed I,` - i - i - n c .:c o ' h o a c ri o ( in i h p i o s o c y o . licagues, London and the . Church." returned thanks, and felt LoNnor e Lord Mayor for couVit g particularly t which was ot such vast inipptt his name with a s uN t cc once to the ceum . iu ,, .Y;_ opose returning thanks, expressed a d " The health of the Lord Lord MrotoLliNk; I r that the company by. whom he was ho fervent I wou ld have frequent opportunities of enjoying no urer Ni eThero..'Llßiooipaslolglrilkort,cf:litt,toin t every: l,4 lg that wasgood.—(Cheers.) The Lord Mayor c alled the attention of the company to the next toast very particularly. It was " The health of Sir Charles Fel:x Smith," the hero oho fought and conquered in Syria.' .._ Sir CHARLES FELIX SMITH returned thanks. Ho regrettc.l that Sir Robert Stopford was not present, as that gala commander was well qualified to talk upon a subject on which he had acted so nobly. The merit of the Syrian expedition was, he must say, due to her Majesty's Government, and the activity of the move ments of the troops far outstripped any idea formed by those who were either in or out of ollice.—(Cheers-) Lord NORMANBY proposed " The health of the Lady Mayoress," in a very complimentary speech ; and The LORD MAYOR returned thanks. " The healths of the Magistrates of the City of London,,tlu eas " Scw were several , weres eaalsootherpoposctl , toasts; and and d an t k he with ev enianpg pl was most convivially spent. Mernbe:s of the flocs?. of Cf3re oßlti,grylit:iilninoeFontllesaStuprednakyerevegirnge, h in is E t a i t td . Pail i a h m e S m ci : n 3 s ie di n w c i !d en wi t :h e the Right lion. Gent!eruan :-_Viscount 'Wm. Evans, Mr. Tuffnell, Mr.. Edward liobhouFe, Mr. Mantic CS'C ll Maurice unite . Mr. p. Aiildmay, Mr. Leader, Mr. D. Dundal, Mr. ' , c ynic, Mr. Wyse, Mr. Ev4a.Tt, Mr. Dennistoun, Mr. Clliverzief., Mr. Thos. Thos. French , Mr. Brethertor, Colonel Saltvey, Mr. Barnard, m... Redington. :11r. Tanered, Mr. James, Mr. John Jer vis, Mr. Hutt, Mr. Etwall, and Mr. Fitzpa'riek. ~ y f