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LITERARY NOTICE. II OW to be RID of a WIFE, and THE LILY of AN NANDALE: Tales, by ELIZABETH Is',BELLA SPENCE, Author of " Letters from the North Highlands," " Old Stories," &c. &c. In Two Volumes. The works mentioned in the title-page of these -.colonies have made the name of the fair Author known to the Public, and the present will tend rather to increase than diminish her reputation. .;:me descends, we understand, from an .ancient family in the North, and her numerous and re spectable connexions enable her to become ac quainted with the passing world, and with human life in general. The first of these tales is said to he founded on what actually occurred in a noble English family. The story is well-told, the in cidents are ingeniously expanded, the characters are various and well-drawn, and though it is im possible not to anticipate the catastrophe, yet the several impediments in the way of that catastrophe are introduced so judiciously as to keep up the in terest with unabated curiosity. Time style of the .fair Author is easy, sometimes forcible, and in - general correct. It is evident that her own amiable feelings tempt her occasionally to be a little too - . lavish in p ra i s i ng f ema l e b eau t y , an d in describing its decoration's. Iffr love of nature, also, at times, induces her to be too descriptive of rural and romantic scenery, but these pas sages fall in with the course of the story; and do not impair its main acti o n. We object to the title of the first Tale, for, instead of teaching hus bands how to get rid of bad wives, ns it implies, it merely relates to an individual case, in which a low-born ruffian treats an amiable wife with the utmost cruelty, at length sells her at open market, according to a false notion, only pre valent among time vulgar, he dies, and her imutr:.rings Li:cl virtues are finally rewarded by her mar riage with a nobleman of high rank and great wea him, who had originally protected her from the barbarity of her tyrant, but who had too much honour and delicacy to make any gallant overtures to her till that tyrant is no more. The eharacter: of the hero and heroine of the tale are drawn with great delicacy, and are uniformly well sustained. Our readers will perceive, from what we have now said, that the title is much too .g,neral, and that unhappy husband;„ rchomay read the work in the hope of obtaining an effectual remedy to get rid of a connubial clog. will start. a disappointment. The second Tale, " The Lily (if Annandale," is of a more melancholy, and somewhat of a terrific, description. The Heroine is persecuted by a brutal chieftain, who addresses her with the sanction of her father, yet she is secretly attached to a lover of quite an opposite' character, but while she -is on the eve of being happily united with the latter, slur falls a victim In the ferocious vengeance of the former. As this tale takes place among the Borderers, whose characters have been brought into notice by the Poems of Sir Walter Scott, and the Romances attributed to him, the Author has assumed some thing of a more poetic style which is better adapted to the nature of time story, and of the incidents which it comprehends. Upon tine whole Miss Spence has provided an agreeable and in teresting amusement for female Readers, in par tirnlar,and has really added to the credit-of her is Tents. 111FH II U.ILOUR. M - 11. lIL.rIE and !?re " WATERFORD MERCHANTS IN RE SIR JOHN NEWPORT. It iy said that previous to the Easter Rectsi, umn triTang to move in the House of Commons, that proper officer or officers be ordered to metre out a return ;C,7*:': With to that Honourable House of the number of herrings, s nratS. cockles, muscles, and of all kinds of fish, whether tes taeecus or otherwise, setting forth whether the same shall have been taken in the open sea, or to estuaries—and in fresh water, whether in river, brook, lake, or pond—and whether same have been salted cr dried, or how otherwise disposed oF;—and the number of polarols of cheese and of butter, whether fresh or saited—and number of pounds weight of potatoes. And also, that a retain-. be made of the number of eggs, specifying and parti cularising such as had undergo tic incubation, and setting forth • the auecies of incipient poultry contained therein respectively, and their probalie value.; and of the quantity of wheat, oats, barley, and rye, and of the number of hundred weights of hay and straw, and the number of toads on car., on horses, mules, and asses' backs respectivel7, and the number of pounds of bread, and of what quality of four or meal mad stating the average of white, household, and brown ; and . a rem!, of g i nger b rea d . b uns, and cages of every descriptom ; and the number of onions, leeks, cebbages, carrots, parsnips. and turnips, and other vegetables ; and the number of quarts of milk, 101etl3r sw..et or sour, or of buttermilk ; and the number of brooms, and the value and amount of all vecsels and utensils, wooden, or made of earthen ~are; and of brogues, either in pairs or i n s i ng l e shoes, with the number of nails beta in the soles and heels thereof, distinguislllng between those made of cast metal, and those made of iron ; and of every article of brass or tin ;nano facture, whether new or old ; and of all cutlery ware, and japanned articles ; and the names of all Imxters, fish .;olters, hawk pedlars, farmers, gardeners, or person 4 employed by them, who, have, within tae City or Liberties of AVaterf , )H. exposed for sal', the above, nr any other commodi- , ties by retail ; and who have paid the tolls, duties, and customs, for the entry or sale of sftrnz, to the liT . eigh Master of said y, or for his use to the Deputy or deputies nominated by him— to collect and receive the same—since the appointment to the said oze of the Right lion. Sir John Newport, Bart. M.P.— uo to the first of March, instant. —(Dublin Evening. Mail, I March 8.) PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. /MUST: OF COMMONS. Mercurii, 10° dic Martel, l 524. ROADS—Shipley, Langport, Glasgow and Yoker, and Dun church—Bills read a second time, and committed. Red brook—Report on Petition for Bill read, and another Bill ordered to he brought in. Stow-on-the-Wold—Rill read a third time, and passed. - Newent—Debate on bringing up Clause to empower the Trustees to defray the expences of making a Road to Aston Glebe Lands resumed : further consideration of Clause put off' till this day six months : Bill re-committed to former Committee, with leave to sit and proceed on Friday. Glasgow and Portpatrick—Petition for Bill reported, Report to lie on the table. Radnor and Here ford, and Teddington and Evesham—Reports or Petitions for Bills re-committed to former Committees. Wetherby and Knaresborough, and Carlisle and Cockermouth—Bills reported, to he ingrosscd. 1 HirarrwaYs—Wedmore lßiils read a second time, and 4nrert TRINITY HOUSE committed. (GAOL—Ayr HARBOUR AND POLlCE—Greenock IPetitions for Bills re- PAVlNG—Margate , ported, Reports to lie CANAL—Thames and Medway ) on the table. ComPANY—General Gas 1 Bills read a first time. VESTRY—Southwark (St. John's) J - FEMALE OnPnAN s' A al - J.17:4—8M reported, to be ingrossed. FIRE INSURANCE—Kent—BiII ordered to brought in. P tr R r. ICAN s—Petitions of Licensed Innkeepers and Victuallers of Hertford, and Wisbech, for the repeal of the increased Duties on Licences . • to lie on the table. FISIIRIIIES (Scotland)—Petitions from the Lord Provost, &c. of Edinburgh, and Merchants, &c. of Montrose, for the re gulation of the Laws applicable, to the Salmon Fisheries, to lie on the table. Fn E MASON s—Petition of Freemasons of Coleraine, complain ing of Act of last Session, which prohibits the meetings of certain Societies ; to lie 00 the table. COAL DUTlrS—Petitions against the Duties on Coale, from Tevistock (Two)—to lie on the table. llizenoo Wtnows—Petition of Inhabitants of 'Paristock, against the practice of widows burning themselves upon the funeral piles of their husbands ; to lie on the table. WrxDow TAlL—Petitions of Inhabitants of St. Nicholas, Bristol, for the repeal thereof; to lie on the table. EXCITEQUER COURT (Ire-1 Bills read a first time ; to be land) >. read a second time to-morrow ANNITAT, DITTIES I (this day). 8 mit —Petitions of Manufacturers of Ribbons in Coventry, against the importation of manufactured Silk; to lie on the table. PosTaar. RATY.s BlLL—lnstruction to Committee to make provision to allow the President of Revenue Commissioners to send and receive Letters free of Postage ; also to prevent the embezzling certain Papers sent by the Post. PUBLIC NoTArtrEs ACT—Petition of Attornics and Solici tors or Manchester, for the amendment of 41 (ho. 3 ; to lie on the table, and to be printed. 31Aules:T Tot,r.s (Ireland)—Heturn ordered, "of all places where Customs, Tolls, or Duties, are levied at Markets, Pain, and Ports, in Ireland." 31ESSAGE FROM TIIE Loans—That they have agreed to Revenue Inquiry Bill, and Kidwelly Roads Bill, without amendment. That they do request, .that this House will he pleased to communicate to their Lordships, a Copy of the Report made from the Select Committee appointed by this House, in Ses sion 1822, to consider of the L a w s w hi c h regu l a t e th e Li nen Trade of Ireland ; together with the Minutes of Evidence taken before the said * Committee, and the Appendix.—Cory delivered. COMBINATION 07 WORKMEN . LAWS—Petitions of.Tournev men Tin-plate Workers of London, and Boot-makers, Sic. of Woolwich, against, referred to the Select Committee on A rtizons and Machinery. VALUATION OF ll:ELAND—Resolved "That it is expedient, for the purpose of apportioning more equally the local bur them collected in Ireland, to provide for a general Survey an'! Valuation of that part of the United Kingdom :"—Se -1:•ct Committee appointed, "to consider the best mode of ef fecting such valuation :"—Mr. Spring Rice, Mr. Goulburn, Sir J. Newport. Mr. V. Fitzgerald, Sir IL Parnell, Mr. G. Dawson, Mr. Abercromby, Mr. Plunket, Mr. Trench, Mr. T. Courtenay, Mr. D. Browne, Mr. I). Gilbert, Sir G. Dill, - Mr. S. Bourne, Mr. Hutchinson, Mr. James Browne, Mr. Agar Ellis, :►lr. Brownlow, Mr. G. Lamb, Mr. Grattan, and Mr. Stuart (of Armagh) :—power to send for persons, papns, and records ; five to he the quorum. • CottrortATlC RIGHT, (Ireland)—Petition of Inhabitant 4 of Drogheda, for the restoration thereof ; to he on the table. THE ARM V. It is understood that Lieutruant-General Honourable Sir Alexander Hone, G.C.fl. will act. pro frmporr, as Governor of the Royal Military College, till the successor to Major-General Sir George Murray, G.C.IL shall be ap pointed. _ A detachment belonging to the 40th od Somersetsbire) Re giment of Foot, is ordered to embark to-morrow, at Deptford, on board the Pkoenix conirict-ship, to act as guards during the voyage of that vessel to New South Wales. A detachment belonging to the same corps has embarked on board the Countess of liareourt, convict-ship, off" Woolwich, to perform a similar duty during her voyage to the above dea tination. The Countess of Harcourt, with /Apt on board,will sail on Saturday or Monday next from Woolwich. NEW Focus.---A Meeting' was held on TuP5- (lay, it the Three Tuns, in the Borough, for the purpose of dis cHssing the subject of the New Docks, which are proposed to he built in the parish of St. Catherine in the precincts of the Tower. It was the unani mous op i n i on of the Meeting that there were sufcient docks in the City to answer every mercan tile purpose, and that the building of additional ones would be useless. Several Resolutions were entered into, and a subscrip tion to defray the exprnces which might be incurred by any future prcceodingt of the Committee. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR THIS DAY. 1. Lord Visenunt Althorpe—Correspondence between Richard Newton Bennet, Esq. and Mr. Gregory, in the year 1823, respecting the suppression of an Amnesty to the Ribbon Lodges in Ireland ; eho, a Memorial from Messrs. Lubie and Yore to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on the case of Thomas Hughes; also, any Correspond ence b etween t h e Irish Governm en t and he Magistrates of the Counties of Mayo and Galway, respecting an Amnesty to the Ribbon men in 1820. 2. 2,1 r. Goulburn—Bill to amend the 3d Gco. 4, c. 103 (Irish Constable Act). 3. Mr. Goulburn—Bill to provide for the application of the monies vested in Irish Government Securities under 56 Geo. 3, c. 122. 4. Mr. Martin (of Galway)—Bill to prevent unnecessary ex pences in the prosecution of Actions at Law in Ireland. 5. Mr. 31aberly—Motion on the Laws relating to Beer and Malt. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1. Game Laws Amendment Bill—Second Reading. 2. Judges in Wales Bill--Second Reading. 3. Exchequer f',ourt (Ireland) Bill—Second Reading. 4. Annual Duties Bill—Second Reading. A. Mutiny Bill—Report. G. Four per Cents. Bill —Report 7. Qualification of Jurors Bill—Second Reading. Gaol Act Amendment 13M—further consideration of Re port. 9. Weights and Measures Bill—Report. iO. Marine utiny Bill—Report. [I. InsoLvmt Debtors Bill—Second Reading. 2. Postage Rates Bill—Report. Sin Le,unties Acts—dteport thereupon. NOTICE GIVEN YESTERDAY. Tuesday, April 27. Mr. I);:minick Browne—Select Committee on Local Tolls and Dues in Ireland. PRICE 0 TDIS DAY AT F STOCKS Two o'ci.ocK. !IA:1k Stock slntt 3 per ('ent. Red shut per ( 'en t. Cons. 92i 93 3i per Cent India Stork ................ 80nd5.................. 70s. South Sea Stork Old Annuities T. Bills 52 54 Ditto Small Bank for Art. India for Con. Acct. Cons. fcr Act. ( 4 per tent. 1 New 197 s _per Cents. 1797 Long An n shut imp. 3 per Cents. PRICE OF FORE IG N STOCKS x LONDON, MAncit 11 Al ONE O'Cl.ocx. French Five per Cents. 101. f 1 Scrip, 12i pm. Six per Cents. 00. Five prr Cents. (Metallic) 00. ( Ditto New 94. Fire per Cent. Bonds, sai. Scrip, 12 prem. Five per Cent. Bonds, 1820, 00. - Spanish Ditto 1821, 20. Ditto 11123, 17. Prussian 1 Five par Cent. Bonds, 08. 1 Ditto New, 98i. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, Portuguesef Bonds, 93i. 1 . Scrip, 41. Peruvian 00. Chili Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 63. Maxican Scrip, 71:prcm. {OO. 1 New, 00. ( ll:lnca's, 1 prem. Mexican Mines 1 Anglo, 5 parr,. 1 ; ', prem. Bank Shares £2-1 Or. Od. Seven per Cent. 95. American 1 Six per C-nt. 94 —lO2. Five per Cent. 100-102. Three per Cent. 77. Russian Nenpoli!an Aurariall Poyais Gra& WWI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. norning, .0 minutes after 11. 1 Evening, 0 minutes after 0. iili ~voy O fi : * -'---- r ~,,‘ , ...44 -7 -..- - -; -;-,-;:- ft '''‘ * ~ Nrr ~,,, ._,--. -- -- fri , .7... ~ od / 1 " kii*, '. % le * " ! ~..4 \ MASONIC NOTICES FOR NETT WEEK. • ENGLAND. Monday, March 15, Lomoom. Nos.l, 13,. 14, 15, 22, 234 293, 308. Cyr:my. N0..20, 72, 97, 102, 219, _ 231, 311, 368, 423,. 425, 43', 509, 510, 521, 524, D 54, 558, 583, 643, 630, 7 . - 16, bompox. Not 33, 42. 263, 309,316. GOUNTRT. No. 87, 127, 1:40, 151, 117, 170, 184, 199, 235, 210, 38.5, 477, 532, 544, Zl, 592, 640, 649. Wednesday, - 17, boxroom. Grind Steward's bodge, }utak Night. Nos. 36, S, 92, 134, 223, 296. COUNTRY. No. 54, 95, 105. 121, 124, 146, 164, 207, 229, 291, - :39, 342, 465, 472, 480, • 'B7, 529, 543, 563, 381, 1 78, 711. _ 18, LONDOX. 1•4(.. 65, 123, 152, 274, - - 388. House Com. Fern. • Sch. at 11. COUNTRY. l'os. 45, 48, 31, 57, 113, . • 115, 171, 238, 384, 416, 420, 451, 453, 481, 466, 469, 483, 500, 511, 545, • 556, 561, 586, 587, 65 7, 6 70. 717. _ 19, LONDON. -No. 493: • - COUNTRY. Nos. 28, 30, 55, 193, 4 7 0 , .600,-648. _ 20, LoNoom., ' • Couxyny. Xos. 64. • 1 R ELAND'.: Moniay, March 15, CORN; No. 67-. Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, LEICESTERSHIRE. On Wednesday, March 3d, a' 0 - invocation of the Chapter of Fortitude, attached to the St John's Lodge, (52.5), was held at the Bell Hotel, in Leicester, Sir FREDERICK GUSTAVUS, FOWKE, Bart., &c.,- when the Right Hon. Earl Howe and George Pochin Esq., were installed in the Chairs of H. & I. ; after which the members belonging to the Lodge and Chapter sat down to a banquet served up in Brother Amick's best stile, —Brother Wm. Cooke, the Worshipful Master of the Lodge, presided, supported by Earl Howe, Sir F'. G. Fowke, Bart., George Pochin, Esq., Laurence Thompson, Esq., Brothers Macre, Thos. Cook, )wston, Macaulay, Alston, Musson, Hester, Morris, Birdsall, Lang, Stallard, Parsons, Cape, G. S. Kirk, Marius, Frer, Chamberlayne, &c., &c. After the cloth was drawn, and the health of the King, the Grand Patron, was given, the national anthem was sung by the whole of the Brethren present. The health of Ilia Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, M. W. Grand Master, the Duke of York, the Marquis of Hastings, Sir John Doyle, Earl -Howe, D. G. M., and Sir Frederick Fawke,—Lord Howe rose, acid in a short but elegant address proposed the health of the Worshipful Master, which was received with the most heartfelt joy by all present. The W. M. returned thanks in language expressive of his feelings on the occasion, which can he better conceived than described. After many other Masonic toasts were given, the Brethren separated, highly gratified. IRELAND. To the Right Honourable and Honourable, the Knights, Citi zens, and Burgesses of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. The humble Petition of the Undersigned MeMbers of the Ancient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Ac cepted Masons of Ireland, Humbly slieweth--,That an Act having passed the Legisla ture in the last Session of Parliament, for the suppression of 1 Societies connected with a secret botid of union, the Freemasons of Ireland, ever prompt to obey the laws of their country, irn ' mcdiately decided upon a suspension of their meetings. until an appeal could he made to the Iniperial Parliament on their behalf ; tbat, notwithstanding they might hare continued to 'netts witlout the probability or ineurrin— the penalties of the law, yet as they were of opinion that a full opportunity was not afforded to Pailiamentt to appreciate their principles anti their conduct, they have preferred to avail themselves of the oppor tunity of addressing the Legislature of the country on the object of their Society• That the Frremarons• have from: time to time immemorial, existed as a charitable, hmevolent, and peaceable Institution, disclaiming all rzligiOus or political differences, and by their fundamental princiPle:' , they are poltibited from even the con sid,!ration of such subjects:. That the Freemasons of the British Empire have had the ho nour to have enrolled amonizst their :limbers his Most Graci ous Majesty, and we believe all the hale Branches of his au- King ~eorge 111., gust Family, with CO many of the Nobility, and of the Magis tracy in general, as becomes. an ainPL - _ , guarantee, not only for the purity of their principles, _but for the general conduct of the Society hereafter. • . That those principles were so fully felt and acknowledged by his late Majesty the Legislature, when P,,"'ing the English Act of the 9th3 of for the prevention of ille , al Societies, that the freen?a'nns of Great Britain are particularly exempted from the Pr ° 7 l , 3i ons of that A c t, an d certa i n regula tions are therein 0 ; 1 0)13:led for their conduct. The Freemasons of Ireland, therefore, not yielding to any class of hi s Majesty's anbjeet, •in, loyalty to the Throne, or in obedience to th e laws of the Realm, roost respectfully entre a t your Honourable house of last t hat they m a y b e exem p t f rom t h e s e , 4 provisions of the Act I , ,'ion of Parliament, respecting Secret Societies in Ireland, and i placed in a similar situation with the Freemasons of Great Britain. z surisr L • so tE 31 I• • Die ` 1 ; PALS (I 31 A 1; DLIAT ? LONIDoN 771URSD .11.1RCTI 11 , 1 524. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. At a late hour this day, we received the Etude of yesterday. The followin g a re Extracts : (From ti' Etoile ~, yesterday. ) [The above Paper contains the remainder of Mr. Canning's Paperl, laid before the House.] The Duke of Bourbon Went yesterday to the Temple, but his august sister did not know him, who still remains in a derldrable state. They write from Bayonne, Nlarch 2. The 4th squadron of Chasseurs af•Maine, and the 4th squadron of Ch2sseurs of Dordogne, arrived to day at Bayonne, they will march for Madrid the irth inst. The Swiss reghiwnt of the Guard who are at i\l'adrid have received order.; to re-enter France they aro to be replaced by the first regiment of swiss Infantry ; this regiment is corning from N;11ItP.;, and will arrive at Bayonne the 30th March. The Puke of Cambaceres died yesterday even- iiig, at a quarter past nine o'clock. CONSTANTINOPLE, Fen. 5.—(14 the way of . Bucharest.)—M. Minziack sr, has not as vet been able to open his negociations with the Ottoman Minister,owing to the illness of the Reis Effendi, but Lord Strangford has had a preparatory con ference on that subject with the ancient Minister. Groat curiosity is excitedy to know what part the Ottoman Porte will take relative to the evacua tion of Wallachia and Moldavia, upon which the Christian Powers more strongly insist than ever. The Porte will endeavour to make peace with tlh• Persians. BUCHA EiT, FEB. 17.—Letters from Constan tinople announce that the Persian Schah has at length cdnsented to ratify the Treaty of Peace concluded last year with the Ottoman Porte; but this news seems very doubtful, and can only be looked on as a trick of the Turks. OnEssA, FEB. 16.—We have just received news from Constantinople of th• 7th. The Divan seems to profit by the ;line's of the Reis F. lien di, to put off the negotiations with the new Russian Plenipotentiaries. TRENCH IFUNDS. French Rentcs on the 9th of March opened at, for money, 99. 40. ; end of the month, 99. 70. ; Ducats, 801. Spanish Bonds, 24.—The private letters by the above Express bring the Rentes after Change at 101. Unfavourable intelligence is said to have been received this morning from India, relative to the old dispute with the Chinese, which is not yet settled. It is stated that our ships have not been permitted to take their loading,--The price of India Stock was, this day at twelve o'clock, 281. o'Clock.—Consols opened this Morning at 01, went up to for the Account, and up to this hour they are 031-1-;, with some business doing, as the panic of yesterday has en tirely subsided. FOREIGN MARKET.—AII Foreign Securities rave improved this morning, and have again the appearance of advancing. There is at length a probability that the Spa nish Bonds, so imprudently as well as unjustly repudiated by FEnntNANn VIE. will be acknow ledged, and received at 30, in part payment of a new Loan. Some highly respectable parties in London, are, in fact, now negociating a Loan with FtintuniAxn's Government, on the basis that the Bonds of the Constitutionalists shall be received at the value we have stated ; and confident expectations are entertained that the affair will be brought to a satisfactory conclu sion. Indeed, the Cabinet of Madrid must be convinced that an act of justice towards the holders of the Bonds is not only necessary to the re-establishment of its own credit, but that such a measure, in as far at least as the interests or British subjects are concerned, is likely to be ultimately extorted from it by the renio►i. strances of the English Government. Hobert Town Gazettes rrere received this morn ing- at the New England Coffee-house, to the sth October. By the arrival of the Regalia, from Sydney, we derive the following information :—The ship Recovery, had arrived with 180 male convicts from Ireland ; the guard comprised a detachment of the Ist Royals, commanded by Capt. GILL, who is accompanied by his Lady. From what took place last night in the House of Commons, it appears that the arrangements which have been made with the Silk Trade, for enabling them to receive the allowances of duties on their stocks in hand, have given perfect satis faction to the parties interested. The Manufac- turers, therefore, will now resume their labours, under the great advantages accruing to them 'rom the reduction of the duties on the raw ma terial ; and during the interval till the 25th of July 1826, when the home market k to be thrown open to foreign competition, we may expec to sec the Silk Manufacture make rapid ad •ances hi prosperity. We are happy to s ee that Mr. Husxissox has declined to bring in a Bill for the repeal of the Spitalfields' Acts ; and unless that impolitic measure, therefore, should he renewed in and carded through the House of iords (by which it was thrown out last Session), the Spitalfields Weavers escape a calamity which they view with unmitigated dread. Why should there be so great an anxiety for placing the Silk Manufacture on the same footing al the Cotton Manufacture' Would it not be much more rational rather to keep the Silk 'Manu facture on ifs present footing, and to endea vour to apply the same regulations to the Cotton Manufacturers which have been prac tically so highly beneficial to the Manufac turing population of Spitalfields ? Under their existing regulations, the population of Spital. fields have been prosperous, well employed, well remunerated for their labour, well satisfied with their condition, and well affected to the Govern- ment, even in the most critical times of po pular discontent. _During iast Session, the Earl of ll,tiu and the Lord CHANCELLOR, in opposing the Spitalfields Acts iteptal Bill, took a most Statesmanlike view of the question as respects the danger to be apprehended from the existence of such a population as that of Spital. fields, in the very Metropolis of the Empire, if that alterna population sh ou ld be e x p ose d to t h e usua l t io nso distressf under suffering the operation t o which large. of bodies of Manufacturers,the free trade system in their labour, have alwaY. s hitherto been subject ! The arguments of the Earl of llAnnowny, in particular, even on the admission of the general principle, were con clusive as respects this particular weight, and are entitled to the most serious consideration of his Right Honourable Colleagues, and of Parliament. The Cotton Manufacture, SO f ar from presenting a desirable model for the Silk Manufacture, is, notwithstanding the rapidity with which its gigantic extension has been o. ' fected, far from being in a state of prosperity fo r all the persons concerned in it. In spite of its present unprecedented activity, the w ages of the Cotton Weavers are scarcely sufficient fo r, the bare sustenance of them and their The most dangerous spirit of disaffection has mere than once manifested itself in the important and populous districts in which the Colton Manufac ture is carried on ; and, if similar causes had been in operation to produce the same spirit of insubordination and discontent in Spitalfieldly there is no saying to what calamities the coun try might have been exposed. A mantifac - :' tune, as has been too frequently and too fatal ly exemplified, may be prosperous for the capital ists einbarked in it, and yet most unprosperous ror the great majority of the persons concerned in it, viz. the labourers. The liability to this anomalous state of things has been happily teracted, during the last fifty years, in the Spital fields manufacture, by legislative enactments, and why those enactments should be repealed for the sake of putting a truly prosperous manufacture upon the same footing with another manufacture whose very prosperity is often fallacious, is to to, we confess, quite incomprehensible. E ver y ea largement of foreign commerce, which is obtained from a diminution of the wages of labour, is neces - - sarily accompanied by at least an equal and corre sponding contraction of the home market for every description of produce,• and ought to be regarded as a heavy national calamity rather than as a national benefit. A Mail has arrived from Holland with Papers to the 7th instant. An article from Stockholm states, that on the 18th ult. Sir B. Ihoommr.l7 made a notification to the Foreign Ministers there to the following effect :—" In case Spain, confining itself to its own means and resources/ shall make an attempt to recover its lost posses' sions in America, Great Britain will remain a tranquil spectator. On the other hand, should any Power join with Spain for that purpose, and afford her assistance, either by actual a" nutmeats or by subsidies, or pecuniary aid, Great Britain will depart from the passive system it has hitherto followed, and will hasten to recognize the new Governments which have established themselves in the other hemisphere, in the place of the Spanish Government." Usbon Papers to the c2fth tilt. have comp to hand. The Gazette contains long extracts front oar Parliamentary Debates on the Opening of the' Session, from the tenour of which it collects, that British Nlinisters were satisfied that the recent " odious innovations" in the Peninsula could flat last while even the Opposition did not " censure the happy restoration of his Most FAITHFUL MAJESTY, because it was national." llumE.---We have inserted this day an ef fusion of pleasantry which appeared in a respect -- able Dublin Journal, chiefly on account of its in trinsic and appropriate humour, for we realli think that such active and vigilant Members Of Parliament as the Gentleman in question are really of great use to the country. Ilis objects are generally well directed, but if he were to econorni:e his efforts, and not so frequently to appear on his legs, he would give more weight to his efforts, and manifest m o re taste, a qua li ty, though of very sub " orlinate consideration, yet of some consequence in the general estimation of a public character.- - e doubt not that I'dinisteri are themselvel anxious to relieve the country by the remora: tY all abuses, but the multiplicity and importance of their duties must necessarily preclude thcqn from an opportunity of attending to every 111; , 'X necessary to so laudable a porpo , :e.. It„ t ►~:r, therefore, be satisfactory for !he people at large L' find that there are, among their Representatives, some who are always upon the watch to discover whatever may tend to mitigate the • public bur' thefts ; and it is but fair to Mr. Hums to admit that he has been useful on many occasions, and it is honourable also to Ministers that they have, g t times, readily acknowledged the utility of his labours. Letters from Bahia, of Dec. 27, have been re ceived at Gibraltar. The Government at Bahia had sent two Commissioners to the Emperor, d* - ploring the necessity he had been under of dig" solving the Legislative Assembly, but that the. should continue faithful to him so long as he proved himself constitutional. A police had been established in Bahia, and more order reigned amongst the lower class►s, C itIME.- - ---Aslioernaker, of LPeds, drowned his infant child, a boy about eight months old, in a tub of water, in the cellar of his own house, on Saturday last. He fled as soon as he had committed the murder; but, on the following evening, overpowered with the agony of remorse, he surrendered himself to the civil officer.