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THE NEW NAUTICAL ROMANCE. Now ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. , S it HENRY MORGAN, THE BUCCANEER. By EDWARD HOWARD, Esq., Author of Rattlin the Reefer," " Outward Bound," " Jaek Ashore," &c. Henry Colts - urn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, _ The MARCH NUMBER of COL 13 tiIisFgI4iVWIONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST, EDITED BY THOMAS HOOD, ESQ., Contains the following Interesting Articles:— The Schoolmistress Abroad, an Extravaganza, and other Pa pers. By the Editor. Phineas Quiddy ; or, Sheer Industry. By John Poole, Esq., Author of " Paul Pry." A Record of a Police Ofilce. By Laman Blanchard, Esq. Notes on Numbers ; or, Humours of Arithmetic. Graduates and Under Graduates ; or, The Proctor's Note Book. By the Author of " Peter Priggins." Short Rides in an Author's Omnibus. By Horace Smith, Esq. Confessions of an Avaricious Alan. By the late Dr. Inglis. Some Account of the Life and Writings of that remarkable. Child, Miss Margaret Daw. 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ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. THIS EVENING. MARCH 1, Will be acted Lord Byron's Tragedy of WERNER ; or, the IN. HERITANCE.t-Werner, Mr. H. Ilughes; Josephine, Mrs. Vining. After which, THE W ATER MAN.—Tom Tug, Mr. Collins. Added to which, the New Romantic Drama, by E. Fitzball, Esq., with extraordinary effects, entitled OMBRA ; or, the SPIRIT of the ROCKING STONE. To conclude with TEDDY, THE TlLER.—Teddy (with Songs) %lr. Collins, the Vocaliat and Irish Comedian. THE WEATHER.—NOON, FEBRUARY 28. nay' A.L GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 46 Highest 46 I Lowest 29 Barometer 29.97.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Mottling 52 minutes after 4 1 Evening 5O minutes after 4, may perhaps follow the squire to the bench, and see the game preserver, the employer of labour, the owner of property, and the Magistrate united in the same person, sitting in judgment on the man whose wages he has cut down below the level of mere - subsistence, and who, to sup port nature, has taken some of the wild animals, which seem to be equally bestowed by Providence on all ; and he may hold up to public abhorrence this partial Magistrate, swollen with anger, prostituting the judgment-seat to the gratification of his own passions, and hastily sentencing the poor wretch, he has endeavoured to starve, to expiate his desire to preserve life by a year's imprisonment. Let the landlords be assured that a great multitude of such scenes can be set before the country, and if they provoke attacks by encouraging furious assaults on the capitalists, it will not be long before they feel the effects of retaliation. It would be more suitable also to assail them in Parliament, than to assail the millowners. The dif ferenceletween the two is that the landlords use the law to plunder and oppress the people, while the millowners, according to Mr. FERRAND, do the same without the sanction of the law. The landowners can only be effectually attacked in Parliament; we are not sure that the millowner may not be punished by the law as it exists. If that be not the case, Wore l i the Legislature sets about making new laws to re strain the millowners, let it shape its own decrees by the principles of justice. The landlords who make the laws will not be the less able to see the mote in the eye of the millowner after they have plucked the beam out of their own. We alluded very briefly yesterday to the conduct of some Liberal Members ; we,have now to call on the constituencies to do their duty. Had the 108 absent Members, or even the half of them, voted for Mr. VILLIERS' motion, its effect on Parliament and on the country would have been very powerful. As they refrained from voting against Mr. VILLIERS, while their inclinations and personal interest are, it is presumed, generally opposed to the repeal, it is plain that they stand somewhat in awe of their con stituencies, in whose power it consequently is to urge these timid or recreant Members to the upright and zealous performance of their duty. We must remind the constituencies that they have been selected to choose their representatives on the supposition that they form so large a part of the nation that they can speak and vote for the whole. Their welfare, and that of the public, is presumed to be identical. Through and by them the masses are said to have a potential voice in the Legislature. As the unrepresented, however, find no means of in fluencing the Parliament as now constituted, their desire for a great change in the Constitution is strengthened and justified. If the present con stituencies refuse to consult their interest and speak for them, those constituencies must prepare to give up their exclusive privilege, and admit the whole of the people to the privilege of voting. The lower classes are peculiarly interested in the Corn-laws, which constitute a poll-tax, falling with an increasing weight on every man's income as its amount diminishes. The lower classes are the first persons to suffer from a deficiency of food, and the first to profit from its abundance. When there is plenty for all, they are sure to be well off; when the supply is scanty, they are the more pinched. In their behalf, therefore, the constituencies ought now to exert themselves to obtain abundance of food for the people. So will they restore the confidence of the lower classes in them ; so will they lessen, if they can not remove, the prevalent desire for great organic changes ; and so may they, perhaps, reconcile the people to the Constitution, and to the present dis tribution of political power. Not to do this is to justify all the demands of the most ultra-Reformers, and is to place in their hands a lever to wrest the Constitu tion from its foundations. We cannot believe that the town constituencies, weakened and degraded as many of them are by re turning Members who vote with the landlords, have lost the means of saving the State, now rapidly has tening into the Scylla of despotism or the Charybdis of anarchy. A great nation like this, whose popula tion is full of intelligence, must be able, whatever may be the suicidal resolve of its Legislature, to avoid a danger that is foreseen ; and we believe that, with some zeal and some sacrifices on the part of the con stituencies, the vessel of the State might be safely con ducted past it. They must, however, help themselVes rather than call on the unrepresented people. They must meet and emphatically reprimand their negli gent Members—praise those who have acted well, and demand new exertions from all. They must inspire them with courage by the promise of support. They must kindle, in every manufacturing and commercial community, what the Manchester men call a stubborn enthusiasm, by setting a noble, example. If the in telligent town constituencies will not or cannot do that, their Members can at present do nothing, and there will remain only the alternatives of submitting to the plundering despotism of the landowners, or risking the anarchy of revolution. When we remember, however, that amongst the representatives of towns we have open enemies, as well as timid friends, our fear surpasses our hope. Some of the constituencies have been untrue to them selves, and faithless to their trust. Liverpool, for ex ample, returns two men who vote in favour of the landlords. Leeds returns one who has acknowledged that the distress in his town cannot be surpassed, and yet he voted for continuing it. It was heart-sicken ing to see the representative of that suffering town decked out, on the first night of the Session, in the gaudy trappings of a cornet of Hulans, ready to vote for the starvation of his suffering townsmen. But they merit that by electing him ; and if England be not saved, it will be by similar conduct in the town constituencies. - , =, .._.: .!. 131.,..$ .'.O „.. 4 .0" • 4 , ~,,k , I L . 4, .4.. .„ f t.... ....: . : ... *imoritair l itio ifir - -,--„.. 0 ,- ,-..-0 4. 100,,- ..„--...:,• :#,,,,,;_v5],-).- em i t _Suitt LONDON! TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1842. The Tory Journals and the landlords seem much disposed to encourage the boisterous attacks of Mr, FERRAND on the manufacturers. They may not act in alliance with the anti-capitalists, but they will effectually serve their purpose. In 1837, and subse quently, the mill-owners:and the demagogues were at open enmity—they have never yet been reconciled. Mr. FERRAND is said to receive instructions from Mr. OASTLER ; thus the encouragement he receives from the landowners and the Tories may be considered a branch of the general alliance between them and the mob. It Will tend to the same end. Should the mills of the capitalists be injured or destroyed by such an agency, will the roof tree of the landlord's mansion be more secure ? A more vulnerable race of men does not exist, and though bullying in Parliament may not be retorted on them, it ill becomes those who live in glass houses to make it a pastime to throw stones. A brazen faced, large-lunged, impudent young man may yet be found on the side of the manufacturers who will rise in the House of Commons and read anonymous letters, charging some landlords with turning the poor out of their homes, and pulling their cot tages down about their ears. lie may pourtray aged men and helpless infancy, perishing on the wide moor or in the deep ditch, and ring it into the landlords' ears, " Behold your work." He may astound the country by tracing an agricultural labourer from his first rising at dawn to his retirement at dark, toiling the whole of the intervening period amidst the morn ing frosts and the mid-day heat, and creeping home exhausted as the night-dew begins to fall. He may easily draw a picture of such a man, bent and decrepid, and the prey of chronic rheumatism, before he has reached what is the prime of life for a well-fed artisan. He may show that for all this sacrifice the wretched peasant gets from 7s. to 10s. a week, that he has neither a sufficiency food nor half enough clothing, and at the premature close of his painful and degraded career he fancies himself tolerably well off to find an abode for the wretched remnant of his days in a new Poor-lag Bastile. He The news from the East is too limited to call for an expression of either congratulation or regret. From China the accounts are but to the Ist of De cember—five days later than the intelligence brought by the last Overland Mail. Of course the opportunities which occurred in so short a period of judging of the impression which the cap ture of Ningpo and Amoy, and the re-occu pation of Chusan, would make upon the Celestial Government, were too few to furnish matter for de cided political inferences. All that was observed was, that the great Mandarins along the coast manifested no disposition to treat with the officers of the expedition, nor were the common people so friendly and communicative to the northward, as in the vicinity of Hong Kong. Cap tain SMITH of the Druid, who had been left with two vessels and 600 men at Amoy, was apprehensive of being attacked by a powerful and overwhelming Chinese army, and had written to Sir H. POTTINGER for reinforcements. There was a report, but nothing more, that despatches from the Emperor of a pacific character were addressed to the British Plenipo teniary. According to the current rumour they con tained an offer of indemnity for the opium, and a considerable extension of the privileges of trading with China. The Indian Government seems determined to carry on the Chinese war with vigour. Sixteen transports of 11,000 tons burden, were ready to sail from Cal cutta on the 11th January, having on board 10,000 additional troops. It is gratifying to state that 800 of the native troops volunteered for this service. We have received a number of letters from Liberal electors of Bridport, denouncing in very strong terms, the conduct of the Honourable Member for that borough, Mr. MITCHELL, upon the Corn-laws. This gentleman, who now accepts PEEL'S measure with such gratitude, was at the time of his election, a declared enemy of the sliding scale, and pledged himself to support the plan brought forliard by the late Government. Some of our correspondents, who have given their names, but for whose letters we are sorry that we cannot find room, assure us that the votes of Mr. MITCHELL have greatly dissatisfied his constituents, and that nothing could be more contrary to fact, than his statement in the House of Commons, that the people of Bridport were favourable to the giving Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Corn-law project a fair trial. On the contrary, the great majority of the electors of the borough have declared that they will have nothing to do with the Tory remedy, which they pronounce worse than the disease. If they cannot have corn free, they are for a fixed duty, which will prevent gambling, and specify the exact sum of which Parliament authorises the landlords to rob the public. When the clay of reckoning comes, we trust that the electors of Bridport will convince Mr. MITCHELL, that a sliding scale is closely associated with a slide out of Parliament, and public confidence. The usual results of a Tory. Administration are be ginning to develope themselves in Ireland. Secret societies are on the increase, and Ribandme t n once , again on the alert. At the Longford Assizes Mr. Justice BURTON, alluding to these unwelcome truths, observed that " the re-appearance of secret societies in Longford showed but too plainly that there was a want of subordination to the laws of the country, and that there was not that security for life and property which should exist in a well-ordered state of society." Such was not the language held by the Judges of Assizes during the period when Lords EBRINQTON and MORPETH were at the head of the Irish Govern ment. There were then no judicial lamentations over the spread of Ribandism—no strong allusions to the increase of dissatisfaction throughout the country. Ireland, if not wholly tranquil, was in a fair way to become so, for the people had confidence in the good intentions of their rulers. But not all is changed. Distrust has usurped the place of confi dence—discontent has succeeded to peace and subordi nation. The old enemies of Ireland are once again in power, and strange indeed would it be, if with them, did not return also the old feelings of distrust and indignation. The shadow is not closer connected with the substance, than is Irish Orangeism with Irish Ribandism. Like cause and effect, they are in separable. Let Toryism continue in the ascendant but one year longer, and not one Judge only, but a dozen Judges, will be deploring from the Bench the rapid spread of discontent and misrule throughout the sister-country. Of a verity, Sir ROBERT PEEL is in a peculiarly agreeable position ! As if he had not difficulties enough to contend with in England, he is blest with an Irish Viceroy who is doing all he pos sibly can, to increase his difficulties in Ireland, by bestowing his patronage almost exclusively on the Orange faction. The legislation of lawyers is proverbially bad. With a few illustrious exceptions, in the list of which the names of ROMILLY and BROUGHAM occupy a distinguished position, we owe little of the improve ments which have taken place within the last half century, in the civil and criminal code of England, to the gentlemen of the long robe; they have an interest in litigation, and no class of men have ha bitually a more watchful eye to their own interest. But without impeaching their integrity as legislators, we may observe, that their habits and pursuits as advocates, disqualify them for framing the laws by which a great country ought to be governed. In describing the simplest remedy for any evil which afflicts society, they lose themselves in a wilder ness of words, as if the object of laws were to puzzle and perplex men, instead of serving them as moral finger-posts, set up by Government at every cross road in the great highway of life. No law is good or beneficial of which the meaning is not clear and certain ; the command or observance which it imposes just; the execution cheap, easy, and expeditious; the form in accordance with public opinion ; and of which the object is not: thei increase of virtue in, or the removal of evil from, the portion of society affected by it. Now clearness and certainty of mean ing would seem to be carefully excluded from almost every Bill with which lawyers load the table of the House of Commons. But one of the greatest evils in the legislation of lawyers is the want of comprehen- siveness in every measure supported by them. Instead of legislating for the removal of the cause of any evil, they seem satisfied if they can only correct the most immediate of its effects. This is strikingly ex emplified in the short Bill prepared by the Solicitor- General for Ireland for amending the law respecting Presbyterian marriages in that kingdom. When, by a sentence of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench, mar riages celebrated by Presbyterian clergymen between Protestants'and Presbyterians were declared invalid and illegal, it was expected that a thorough revision of the law of marriage in Ireland would be one of the first undertakings of the law officers of the Crown. Accordingly the Noble Secretary for Ireland lost no time in preparing the public for a forthcoming Bill of which his Lordship and the Learned Irish Soli citor-General were to be the joint concocters. That Bill is now before us, but instead of amending the law of marriage in Ireland, it leaves the whole ques tion exactly where the framers of the Bill found it ! Such Presbyterian marriages as have been celebrated in Ireland before the passing of this Act are declared to be valid, unless they have been pronounced other wise in a Court of Law ; but not a syllable is en acted to legalize such marriages in future. As the question to be settled by this I3ill has excited e, very deep and painful interest in the North of Ireland, and as it is one to which the Church of Scotland can not be indifferent, we shall here qaote the text of the proposed enactment : Whereas marriages have in divers instances been had and solemnised in Ireland by Protestant Dissenting ministers or teachers, between persons being, one a member of the United Church of England and Ireland, and the other a Protestant Dissenter, and it is expedient to confirm such marriages ; be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same that all marriages hereto fore had and solem n i se d i n Ireland by Protestant Dis senting ministers or teachers, between persons being, one a member of the United Church of England and Ireland, and the other a Protestant Dissenter, shall be and shall be adjudged and taken to have been and to be of the same and no other force and effect, as if such marriages had been had and solemnised by clergymen of the said United Church of England and Ireland. Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to ex tend, to or affect any marriage declared invalid by any court or 'competent jurisdiction before the passing of this Act, nor any marriage where either of the parties shall, at any time afterwards, during the life of the other party, have lawfully intermarried with any other person. Provided further, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend, or be construed to ex tend, to or affect any act done before the passing of ih's Act, under the authority of any Court, or in the admi nistration of any personal estate or effects, or the exe cution of any will or testament, or the performance of any trust. Provided further, and be it enacted, that nothi ng i n this Act contained halt in anywise affect any marriage had or solemnised In Ireland, except such as had been had or solemnised by and between such persons, and in such manner as is hereiabefore specified. And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended, altered, or repealed by any Act to be passed in this pre sent session of Parliament. Why this is but ,a Presbyterian Bill of Indemnity The Irish Protestant Dissenters are called upon, with true Hibernian politeness, to thank the Go vernment for nothing. But the Bill is worse than nothing ; it is an insult, if it be not in tended as the precursor of a general measure which will settle the question of marriages altogether. Before the decision of the Court of Queen's Bench, the validity of marriages celebrated by Presbyterian clergymen in Ireland was never doubted ; now, how ever, the Bill before Parliament establishes the insult ing judgment of the Court, that such clergymen had no authority lawfully to celebrate such mixed mar riages. Instead of legalising a sacerdotal right, which it is time the Legislature should recognise as belong ing alike to every Christian priesthood, the Govern ment comes forward and graciously shields the blind believers in it from the perils with which a dominant hierarchy may visit its exercise ! The Bill is a short Bill, and yet it bears marks of its legal paternity. The second clause consists of but a single sentence, and yet we have put it into the hands of more than a dozen persons, not one of whom could discover what was meant by the second member of it. The Irish Solicitor-General wished to enact that parties whose marriages had been dissolved by the sentence of a Court of Law previous to the.passing of this Bill, and who were married to, or might marry again with, other persons, had done so, and might hereafter do so with 'impunity ; but instead pf ex pressing this in clear, intelligible language, he has employed phrases which would admit of another action, and the presence of the twelve Judges to deter mine their meaning. There is no political news in the French Journals, now that they have exhausted the right of search question. The following are extracts from them : The Journal du Havre of the 25th has the following article :—" It will be recollected that when M. Lovas • seur, the Consul-General of France at St. Domingo, re solted to strike his flag, and retire on board the corvette Berceau, he sent a statement of this rupture to Mar tinique for instructions and a sufficient force to support his negotiations. By a letter from St. Thomas, via England, we learn that on the 23d ult. a division of four ships, part of the Antilles station, an d among them the Arimdei frigate, Vice-Admiral Anions, Commandant of the station, passed in sight of St. Thomas, on its way to Port-au-Prince. Thi, letter adds that the arrival of this detachment will make the number of French ships off this port to amount to eight."—Ccmstitutionnel. Rodel's troo p s The Phare s P a y r r e en d e r e a s w s in ay :—" It se drawing neare r neare rtotehmesthat frontier.Gene rallt tis reported along the frontier that fresh troops will shortly arrive. We do not know what confidence may g b i e m placed f in in f t a h n e t s r e y r m an f t o s u rt r as , o 1 14aeducraan, thato w n h ly ieh say was oa t n h to e nreed at Alfare, has come to Estella, and that that of B our- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 1, 1842. bon, which occupied Tudela and Cascante, has Tafalla and Agoiz. Three squadrons of cavalry rived at Olite."—Commerce. BOURSE—PArus, FRID A Y, F E B. 25. First Highest Lowest Price Price, Price. trench 5 parfait ..... ..... 119 30 ... 119'30 ... 19 20 4 per Cents lO3 5e ... 1. 350 ... 103 50 3 per Cent; BO 5 „ 80 15 ... 86 Bank of tranceL n n 365 80 35 ... 80 35 ... 80 35 Laffitte Bank I,IK/01. Shares 1020 „Jew _lOllO 5.000 f. Stares 4042'50 ...5018 75 —.5042 50 ttelgian Bank 1841 .. Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 per Cent!., 1840 lO6 ... 106 ... 105% Dutch 2 54 per Cents 5 354 ~ 5334 ... 5336 5p411113 Acuve B5 ... 25 ... 24% Passive.......•••••• geapolitan lO5 50 ... 135 80 ... 105 50 Rowan.... RAILWAY SHARES. Bt. Germain •.................•• 825 ..• 825 ... 825 Versailles, R. H 3'o ... 350 ... 347 50 L.B Rouen ............... .. 517 50 ... 517 50 ... 517 53 orle.ins .. 565 .. 565 ... 580 Strasburg to Bale 242 50 .... 241 50 . 240 have gone atro. Last Prier. . 119 21 103 50. 80 35 _9362 ..,IC9O ...5015 830 ...1057 50 .. 104% 105? .25 ... 05 75 104% - 347 50 _ 215 - 517 50 - 560 ... 240 By a private letter from the Island of Ascension, we are happy to hear of the perfect recovery of Captain William Allen, and the crew of the Wilberforce, from fever, &c. Captain Wm. Allen remains in command of the expedition during the absence of Captain Trotter, who is in England. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday, from a visit to the Queen since Saturday at the Royal Pavilion. The Duke of Wellington has left his seat at Strath fieldsaye, Hants, to attend her Majesty yesterday at Portsmouth during her inspection of the Royal Arse nal. The Earl of Haddington, as First Lord of the Ad miralty, left town to receive the Queen and Prince Al bert, and their illustrious visitors on their arrival at Portsmouth. , S UM MAR A Y ND OF NEWS pubitc opinion. " Who runs Wray read." roIinCIGN. From China the news is of the Ist of December ; the British troops had taken Hong-kong-foo. At Amoy symptoms of hostility were manifested, and Captain Smith, of the Druid, had written for reinforcements. No overtures for peace had been made to the British Plenipotentiary up to the 25th of November. The Emperor of China had ordered Keshen to be be headed. Warlike preparations continued at Canton. The news from Calcutta is of the 11th of January. A reinforcement of 10,000 troops, with a number of heavy guns, was then just embarking for China. An advance upon Pekin was generally talked of as the first grand movement contemplated by Sir H. Pottinger. Accounts from the city of Cabool of the Bth of Decem ber represent the state of affairs there to be much worse than they were before ; provisions were becoming scarce, and the enemy more daring every day. They had closely invested the intrenched camp at Seca-Sung, and, it is said, had made overtures of surrender to the Envoy, the conditions of which were, that he should de liver Shah Soojah over to the Affghans, and leave the country with our troops. Major-General Pollock had received orders to proceed to Ferozepoor, and thence to Peishwar, to assume the command of a force assembling at that point, to consist of 10,000 men, and the object to relieve the troops in Affghanistan. From Egypt the news is of the 6th of February, and from Constantinople three days later. Mehemet Ali continues his exploration of Upper Egypt, but with what object is known to no person. They write from Constantinople that " The departure of the new Am bassadors from the Porte to Vienna and London, will take place immediately, Aali andAki Effendis, these two diplomatists having received orders to hasten their pre parations. They both propose to go by Semlin with their suites. The Sultan has ordered a scimitar to be richly mounted with the most valuable diamonds, and finished in the most magnificent style, to be taken by Aali Effendi as a present for the Prince of Wales." A fatal duel took place on the 9th of February at Malta between Lieutenant Adams, of her Majesty's 88th Regiment, and Captain Levick, of her Majesty's 59th Regiment, and now on the retired list. The seconds were Captain Jeffreys, of the 88th, and Lieutenant Mattei, of the Royul Malta Fencibles. Lieutenant Adams expired on the evening of the 10th, his adversary's ball, after fracturing the small bone of his right arm, having penetrated his side. By the Braganza steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Friday, we have accounts from L'sbon of the 21st of February. Everything was quiet in Portugal. The Ministry was not then completed, the Queen not well knowing what to do with Costa Cabral. The French Journals still discuss the pestion of the ratification of the Slavery-suppression Treaty by the Four Powers. The Debuts in answer to the furious tirades of the Opposition press against England, asks how there can be a coalition against France by Powers who have merely dune what they were requested by France to do ? and who, in ratifying the treaty, have merely exercised a diplomatic right ? The Debats ob serves, that if any party has a right to complain in this affair, it is that against which the ridiculous clamour of the Opposition journals is raised, and, alluding to the assertion that the right of search recognised by the treaty is injurious and degrading to France as it is pro fitable to England, our Contemporary inquires how it happened, if such be really the character of the right, that the Opposition have so long been silent ? This right has been exercised, says the Debuts, for eleven years, and until now they have not discovered that it was injurious and dishonourable to France. PARLIAMENTARY. The Earl of Ripon gave notice that he will bring in a Bill to regulate the relations of merchant and factor. Amongst the petitions presented was one signed ex clusively by farmers of Roxburghshire, for a total re peal of the Corn-laws ; and one from Limerick to in crease the duty on oats. Lord Brougham, after adverting to his own continued efforts to procure the passing of a Local Courts' Bill, laid one on the table of the House. Lord Cottenham has a Bill of this kind already on the table ; and the Lord Chancellor announced his intention Of introducing a third, so that the Peers will have three Bills on the same subject before them to discuss at once. In the Commons, Mr. E. Tennent postponed the second reading of the Copyright of Designs' Bill till March 14th. _ _ Lord Ellenborough, it is well known, receives a large yearly sum from the country as a compensation for an office which he held for life in the Court of Queen's Bench. At present the Noble Lord is gone to India, as Governor-General, and will have a large salary for that office. It is natural, therefore, that Mr. Buller should inquire, as he did, whether the Noble Lord was to receive both. Sir R. Peel replied, that he had looked into the Act, and the Treasury had no power to touch the compensation. The East India Company might make a reduction in the salary, which is under their consideration, but which they will hardly do. The Noble Lord will enjoy both. The length of time in which corn can be brought f. o n the United States to Liverpool was the subject of discussion, and Mr. Thornely r e f erre d to a case, sup posed to be the one already quoted by Sir Robert Peel, of corn brought from America in fifty-one days, and not, as Sir Robert l'eel had stated, forty-four. Sir R. Peel insisted on his accuracy. Lord Stanley postponed, till a distant day, the second reading of the Colonial Passengers' Bill. The Railway and Van Diemtn's Land Bills were read a second time. The Dissenting . Marriages (Ireland) Bill, was committed after some opposition to the second clause, and after a division called for by Mr. W. O'Brien, which was decided in favour of retaining the clause, by 156 to 63. In Committee on Sir Robert Peel's corn resolutions the scale as to barley was proposed. Mr. Wodehouse, as the representative of the barley-growers, objected at some length that the protection given to the article was not sufficient •, but he declined pressing his views to a division, and the scale was adopted. The discussion suf ficed, however, to show that the growers of barley are little pleased with the 'favour shown to the growers of wheat. The growers of oats, less modest than the growers of barley, loudly demanded more protection, and divided on the question of substituting Bs. for 7s. The landed gentlemen haggle for a penny. Sir Robert Peel defeated his own friends by a larger force than he defeated the total repealers, for only 53 supported the greater protection for oats, and 256 voted for Sir Robert's scale. Some objections were also made to the protection given to flour, which the millers think too little, a n d p u t up Lord Sandon as their spokesman ; but Sir Robert Peel satisfied the corn millers that his proposition was cor rect. He spoke slightingly of the millers, and attributed much of the dearness of bread to them. The Right Hon, Baronet had the great satisfaction, which he very seldom has, of quoting a speech of his own, delivered in 1827, and showing that on flour he still retains the opinion he held in 1827. "' Subsequently a brief discussion took place on Mr. O'Brien's proposition to 'admit Colonial wheat and flour at all times at a nominal duty, but finally Colonel Sib thorp's and Sir Valentine Blake's amendments having been withdrawn, and Mr. Barclay's postponed, the resolu tion was agreed to, the House resumed, the Report was brought up, and ordered to be received to-day. Ad journed at Half-past One. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle contains the subjoined observations, suggested by the recent Corn-law debates :—" It must be said for the county Members, that they know their altered position, and speak with a humility strikingly contrasted with their former self-importance. The House takes care they shall be fully aware of it ; and Sir Ro bert Peel, at any rate, takes care to remind these wretched to o l s of their subordination to him. Through out the Session his manner has been one of the most marked contempt towards them. He has often taken great pains to conciliate his opponents; but of his friends ' he has taken no notice, except to snub them, and plead their prejudices and obstinacy as an excuse for not do ing more in the way of concession. His mode of treat ing Mr. Christopher on Friday, and of making his disas ter a warning to his agricultural followers, was singu larly cont em pt uous ." The Her a ld h as a l ea di ng ar ti c le on the subject of th e Pensions grante d to her Ma j esty ' s t eac hers of l anguage, music, and dancing, wherein our Contemporary remarks: —" Great as may Queen by have been the services rendered to the these persons—Tor which services they were munificently 'remunerated by that august lady th e Duchess of Rent, to whom the nation is grateful, and has testified its gratitude—they i have been, we unhesi tatingly and c on fid ent l y assert, improperly placed on the civil list. To have successfully taught the Queen sing ing, music, and dancing, cannot constitute claims on the public purse for 3001. a year ; and we venture to think that equally successful tuition in German, French, Italian, and writing, can scarcely create better claims for 3501. a year. These pensions ought not to have been granted." The Advertise• says of Sir Robert Peel, `• It might be going too far, perhaps, to say, that there is no parallel to be found to the shabby conduct of Sir Robert Peel, as exemplified in the course of the debate, not withstanding his ostentatious parade of ingenuous deal ing, as it drew towards a close. But we run no risk of exceeding the truth, when we say, that the shabbiest conduct of the shabbiest Minister that ever sat upon the Treasury bench, never surpassed the shabby conduct-of the Conservative Premier, in laying the basis for his ar guments in favour of a continuance of the food tax." The Post remarks, in reference to some late articles in the Times :—" The Times made a fierce and most unjust attack, the other day, upon Sir James Graham, and a similar attack on Saturday upon Lord Wharncliffe. It is necessary, no doubt, that a vigilant superintendence should be exercised over the conduct of the new Poor law authorities, inasmuch as the latter are entrusted with very extemive and extraordinary powers, by any abuse of which great misery may be occasioned to a numerous and most helpless class of our fellow-creatures. But it is not necessary that everybody should be vilified who is not ready to take for granted that every accusa -1 tion made, no matter by whom, or in what circum stances, against the Poor-law Commissioners, or any board of guardians, must be well founded. It is not ne cessary that everybody should be vilified who is not pre pared to abandon, at the mandate of the Times, an expe riment in domestic economy deliberately resorted to, and still deliberately approved by a decided majority of both Houses of Parliament." The Times says that the result of the late Corn-law debates has been the utter overthrow of the Anti-Corn- League, s,nd adds :—" One result of these discussions all good citizens will contemplate with unmixed satisfac tion—we mean the signal and utter rout of the Jacobin Anti-Corn-law League. Not only were they unable to muster more than 91 upon a division—not only were they beaten by a majority of 303—but they received a still more deadly blow by the speech in which Mr. Ferrand (for the second time) gave utterance to the estimation in which they are held by the working classes of their own districts, and held up them and their practices to the contempt of the population of the whole United Kingdom. The agitators trembled while they heard his unanswerable facts, one after another, fearlessly and ably stated, amid the indignant cheers of the House of Commons." MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. At Stratford, in Essex, upwards of 1,000 persons are employed in stay-making. After labouring twelve hours per day their earnings do not amount to 21d. each. At Bolton, the cotton trade is still severely depressed. At Halifax and Huddersfield the market is dull and dis couraging. At Leeds the cloth sale is very limited, and Leicester gives unfavourable prospect of a spring trade. At Manchester the masters will be compelled to close their mills or reduce wages. PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. The statue of Sir John Cass, formerly Mayor of London, and founder of the charity schools which go by his name, was removed on Friday from the niche in Aldgate churchyard, previous to throwing open the corner of Hounsditch and Al. gate. A suitable site will be selected for its re-erection NAVAL AND MILITARY. The increase of the army in India, by which the na tive regiments intended for service there, are to have their establishments raised at once to twelve companies instead of ten, has been begun. There are to be one hundred rank and file in each company. "'• LAW AND POLICE. A man of the name of Leary, who, in the summer of the year 1833, murdered the Rev. Mr. Hamilton, near Bandon, in the county of Cork, escaped, along with his gang, till a few days ago, when a soldier of the 69th Regiment, named Burgon, stationed at Fermanagh, was joking with him, and said, " Leary, I saw you at the Blackpool, and, if I am not mistaken, you are the man who murdered the Rev. Mr. Hamilton." Conscience smitten, although Burgon was only in jest, Leary sent for his commanding officer, Col. Motiens, and confessed the whole crime, with many others. He is now in gaol. SPORTING. Yesterday hare hunting ended. At the meeting of the Queen's stag hounds on Wed nesday, near the village of Esher, the Scotch deer, Robin Hood, was uncarted, and on running to Hamp ton-court, as it attempted to leap the high iron-railing from the Park into the Gardens, fell on the spikes, five of which entered its body. It was afterwards killed. COURT--PASIZIONAELE. Plas-Newydd, the charming seat in the Isle of An glesey, has been let by the Marquis cf Anglesey for a lengthened term to Mr. T. A. Smith. The Earl of Devon has gone dov• n to Powderham Castle, and remains there till Easter. Viscountess Powerscourt was safely delivered of a son on Friday morning, at Powerscourt House, Wicklow. Lord Beresford is now on a visit to Boulogne. The marriage of the Earl of Morley and Mrs. Coryton, sister of Mr. M. E. Parker, late M.P. for South Devon, is to be solemnized to-day. The Duke of Montebello, the French Ambassador at the Court of Naples, gave a grand ball there on the 4th inst. The King and Queen of Naples were present. • MISCELLANEOUS. Yesterday, in 1606, Henry Garnet, Superior of the Jesuits in England. was tried and condemned at Guild hall, for his participation in the " Gunpowder plot," be fore nine Commissioners specially appointed for that purpose. Garnet was hanged on the 3d of May, in the same year, on a - scaffold at the west-end of St. Paul's. At a meeting of the Proprietors held yesterday, at the Crown and Anchor, the Directors, in their Report, recommended the continuance of the present toll of one halfpenny, on which an amendment was proposed by Mr. Sangster, that they should resume the old penny toll, on and after the 15th of March next. The original resolution was carried by a large majority. It appeared from the report, that the total receipts for 1840 were 10,1321. 10s., and in 1841, 9,4421. 6s. 10d. In the course of last month, however, the increase was 161. 15. 7d., over that of the same month last year. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert left the Royal Pavilion, Brighton, at twenty-five minutes before eight o'clock yester day morning for Portsmouth, accompanied by their Serene Highnesses the Duke Ferdinand and the Princes Augustus and Leopold of Saxe Coburg. The Royal Suite consisted of Lady Portman, Mr. George Edward Anson, Colonel Wylde, Count de Degenfeld Schomberg, le Capitaine de Zaitsch, Dr. Prte torius, the Archdeacon Wilberforce, and Captain Aleynell. Sir Robert Peel took his departure from the Pavilion about the same time for town. The Lord Steward left the Palace at twelve o'clock last night for Portsmouth, to make the necessary arrangements for her Majesty's reception. In addition to her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Duke Ferdinand and the Princes of Saxe-Cobourg, and the Royil Suite in attendance from Brighton, the following had the honour of joinirg the Royal Dinner Party last evening in the Royal Apartments, at the Admiralty House, Portsmouth : The Duke of Wellington, the Earl of Haddington, Admiral Sir Edward Codrington and three Misses Codrington, Earl of Liverpool, Admiral Sir George Cockburn, Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Owen, Rear-Admiral Hon. D. P. Bouverie, Hon. Rear-Admiral Percy, Sir Thomas Cochrane, Sir Hercules and Lady Pakenham, Lieut.-Colonel and the Lady Catherine Vernon Harcourt, Major-General Arnold (Royal Engineers), the Earl of Hardwicke, and Colonel Buckley. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess and the Princess Au gusta of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knesebeck, left town at halt past nine o'clock yesterday morning, to honour the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort with a visit, at their seat Bad minton, Gloucestershire. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the Duke of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House. A Deputation from the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, consisting of George Stacey, G. W. Alexander, Samuel Fox, James Carlisle, Henry Sterry, Benjamin Wiffen, J. H. Hinton, John Scoble, John Beaumont, Stafford Allen, Josiah Condor, and Joseph Cooper, had an interview with Lcrd Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Sir Robert Peel arrived in town yesterday morn . ng, from a visit to her Majesty at the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Mr. J. Walker, Treasurer of Trinidad, transacted business at the Colonial-office yesterday. Baron de Moneorvo, the Portuguese Minister, and the Prince Castelcicala transacted business yesterday at the Fe reign.office. Kir. J. Tucker Williams, from Canada, had an interview with Lord Stanley at the Colonial-office yesterday. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office, from the Governor of Gibraltar. THE VISIT OF THE QUEEN TO PORTSMOUTH. The subjoined memoranda at the present moment on a topic which engages general attention, may not be unpieasing to our readers. HONOURS OF PORTSMOUTH.—In 1140, Maud, the Em press Queen landed here, to contend with King Stephen for the crown. Catharine, the Infanta cf Portugal, met Charles IL, here, and was afterwards married to him in 1666. Queen, Elizabeth, on her visit here, saw the necessity of placing a garrison on this important spot to keep watch day and night at the town-gates, and by her order also, troops were set at the top of the Church tower, where by ringing of a bell, they could give notice what horse and foot were advancing towards the town, and waving colours, signify from what quarter they came. This popular Queen, in her progress, not far from this spot, was received with four days' entertain ments. Latin odes, complimentary verses, devices of all forms and fashions, were constructed to do her the best homage. She was apostrophised under the poetical name of " Elise," by the following verses, which, if the same gallantry had existed at the present day as then, would, if addressed to the Queen of the present day, have read thus:— Victoria is the fairest Queen That ever trod upon this green; Victoria's eyes are blessed stars, Inducing peace, subduing wars ; Victoria's hand is christal bright, Her words are b dm, her looks are light, Victoria's breast is that fair hili Where virtue dwells and sacred skill ; 0 blessed be each day and hour Where sweet Victoria builds her bower. This was sung before her Majesty in the highway " with the musicke of an exellent consort; wherein was the lute, bandora, base viol, citterne, treble viol, and lute." NORRIS CASTLE.—This place has been chosen for the young Princess in hopes that its salutary air may produce on her a good effect. It is a very handsome modern edifice, built by James Wyatt, Esq., for Lord Henry Seymour, and stands in a peculiarly fine situation near the shore : it commands some grand and extensive views of Southampton Water, Portsmouth, and the adjacent parts. CARISBROOK CASTLE.—It cannot be expected that her Majesty will return to Brighton without visiting this ancient and historic edifice, to which great repairs were done by Queen Elizabeth. In a shield over the outer gate are her initials, E. R. It has a most extensive prospect, the sea being visible to the north, east, and south, but hid on the west by a hill. The Countess of Portland, on the breaking out of the troubles in the island between King Charles and the Parliament, held this castle for the king. L was besieged by Moses Reid, Mayor of Newport, at the head of the militia of that town and four hundred sailors. The garrison then consisted of twenty men, and for this small number there were but three days' provisions. Nevertheless, the Countess, with the magna nimity of a Roman matron, went to the platform with a match in her hand, vowing she would fire the cannons herself, and defend the castle to the utmost extremity. Honourable terms were, in consequence, granted. It was here, Clarendon relates, that King Charles I. was imprisoned, and attempts were made to set him at liberty by sawing asunder the iron-bar of his dungeon window with a file and saw; and it was here, on the Bth of September, 1650, died his daughter, the Princess Elizabeth, whom the levelling rulers of that time intended to apprentice to a button-maker. She was buried on the 24th of the same month, at Newport. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, MONDAY EVENING. The business transacted in the Funds to-day did not indicate much confidence. Consols for immediate transfer were at €O, l to 89i, and for time at 89i, closing sellers at this quotation. Exchequer biiis realised 24 to 26 premium, and India Bonds Bto 10 premium. Bank Stock improi ed to 170 to 171, anti India Stock remained flat at 245 to 246. New Three-and-a- Half per Cents. were 984 to 99, and the Three per Cent. Annui ties 854 to 891. _ _ There was a farther rise in Colombian Stock to-day, the price attained being 28b, though at the close of business 231 to 231 was the nearer price. Portuguese New Five per Cents. were also higher upon the news received from Lisbon, being 33k. The other foreign ser•urities varied but little. Mexican Bonds were quiet. at 35* to 35k; Buenos Ayres at 19i to 20i ; and Brazilian rallied to 654; Spanish Active Bouds touched 24i 3 in the morning, but left off at 241. to 24* ; French Five per Cents. were steady at 1 l Bf. 50c., but the Three per Cents. were not higher than 79f. 50c. ; Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. realised 52 to 521, The Railway Share Market was rather brisker—Great Western realised 214 to 23, the New, 11 to 11i • London and Birmingham, 78 to 80; Y or k an d North Midland, 33, and South Western, 19i to 20A premium; Brighton were at 13; to 14* dis. ; the Loan Notes at to 1 premium ; North Midland at 33i dis. ; and Eastern Countie s a t 131 di s . ; P rov i nc i a l Bank of Ire land Shares were 16 premium, and Canada Com pany 3i discount. _ . - (From The Sun of Last Night.) LIVERPOOL COTsON MARKET, FEB. 26.—The sales to-day comprise 4,000 bales, principally low up to fair qualities ; holders generally speaking are pressing sales; the trade can consequently purchase on rather easier terms. Of the above quantity exporters have taken 400 bags. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, FEB. 26.—Eastern Counties, New, 31. 19s. 2d. ; Eastern Counties Debentures, 101. 16s. 5d.; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 44 3 / 4 ; Great Western Half Shares, 614 ; Ditto Fifths, 10; London and Birmingham, 169; New, 29i ; Paris and Rouen, 14.4. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 26.—We have had a very quiet Market to-day in consequence of a scarcity of Stock. London and South Western, 59 594; Manchester and Leeds, 734 74 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 28* 4 ; Lon don and Brighton, 351 h 36 ; Eastern Counties, 9 94. . Both the English and Foreign Securities opened firm this morning, with a tendency to advance. Consols are 894 4 for Money, and 894 4 for the Account ; Three per Cents. Re duced, 894 4 ; Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 994 ; Bank Stock, 170 171 ; Exchequer Bills, 24 26 prem. Spanish Active Stock is 244 ; Passive, 5 1 4 %; Deferred, 124 4 ; Portuguese Five per Cents. are 32* 4 ; Ditto, Three per Cents. 19 1 % % ; Mexican Bonds, 354 36; Colombian Bonds, which advanced on Saturday full 1 per cent., have further improved this morning; they are now quoted at 24i. There are numerous arrivals to-day from different quarters, but the intelligence they bring is not of importance. The intelligence brought by the packet-ship George Wash ington, from the United States, is considered to be more fa vourable in New York. The Money Market was quiet, with little variation. The banks discount with considerable free dom, and the amount of obligations now making being small, the demand is readily supplied. At present discounts of paper are effected with much greater facility than loans upon stocks, the latter securities have greatly fallen in confidence, and the events daily occurring are by no means calculated to restore it. A fair demand for sterling bills existed for the above packet, without any alteration; the quotati,n was upon England Si. Domestic Exchange had fluctuated more, and while upon some points an improvement had taken place, on others, the rate of discount had increased. The non-pay ment of the State interest in Pennsylvania, and the failure of the Pennsylvanian Bank, while preventing an additional amount of paper from being thrown into circulation, had compelled the remaining banks to take measures to retain the public con fidence and avoid similar calamities. The principal stock dealt in this morning in the Stock Ex change has been South American. Buenos Ayres Bonds, are 19 1 , 20 ; Colombian, 24%; Mexican, 35 3 / 4 ; Portuguese Fives, 32%; Sp an i s h A ctives , 24% ; Defrred, 12%; Dutch 2 3 / 2 per Cents, 524; Ditto Fives, 104 4. The English Securities continue firm, with little business doing. Consols are 894 a for Money, and 894 for the Account. Exchequer Bills, 24 26. India Bonds, 8 10 prem. Bank Stock, 170 171. India ditto, 244 245. In Shares there has been but little doing, and the quotations are nearly the same as on Saturday. Great Western, 86 3 / 4 ex-div. ; Ditto New, 614 ; Eastern Counties Debentures, 101. 6s. Bd. ; London and Brighton Loan Notes, 54 ; London and Black wall, 114 ; London and South Western, 584 ; York and North Midland, 88; Ditto New Shares, 29. It has been stated to us, on good authority, that the report which has appeared in some Journals here of a large expedition, under Mr. Schomburck's direction, being about to start from British Guiana to the frontiers of Brazil, with hostile intentions, is entirely without foundation, the simple fact being, that the latter gentleman is about to proceed with a small party towards the frontier of the Rio Branco, with the peaceable object of surveying the boun dary line. _ _ Some anxiqy is felt to learn something further respecting the state of affairs in India, but, up to this hour, we have no thing beyond the information received on Saturday. Consols, for the Account, 89k sellers ; Colombian, 238 ; Mexican, 35i I ; Spanish, 248 8. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock l7l India Stock ..... 245 3 per Cent Red B9B Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons B9h Ditto Old Annuities ... 3i per Cent Red 994 Ditto New Annuities... New 3i per Cent New 5 per Cent. Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small 24 pm Jan. 1860.......... 12 13-16 Bank Stock for 0pg,... Oct 1859..., ..... 128 India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct B9i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 pei cent.— IPortuguese 5 per cent. 56 Belgian, 5 pea cent — IDitto, New ' Ditto 33A Brazilian 80nd5.... 651 (Prussian, 5 per cent. ~ — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 19* Russian, 5 per cent. Chilian 6 per cent.-- Ditto, Metallic . . .... . Colombian, 6 per cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent. 24i Ditto, 1824.. ....... ..... 232 Ditto, Deferred.... . 121 Danish, 3 per cent — i French, 5 per cent.llB.. 50c. Greek, 1825,5 per cent — ; Exchange - I -c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 353 French, 3 per cent 79 . 50c Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 2i per cent. , 52h Peruvian, 1825, f;per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . 1023 SHARES. Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 55 Cheltenham and Great Western (72i paid) 13i Ditto Debentures ( paid) .... ........ —.lOl 6s 8d Great Western Railway (65 paid) ..... . BB Ditto New Shares (50 paid) Ditto Fifth (4 paid) London and Brighton (50 paid) fi6 London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 11Z Ditto New Shares ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) London and South Western Ditto New Shares ( paid)... ........ ... 57 Northern and Eastern (40 paid) •• .. 35i North Midland Railway (100) Ditto Thirds (15 paid):: l5 South Eastern and Dover (48 paid) . 26A York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ..... Se 3 Ditto New Shares (15 paid 29* BELO] A N l! U NDS—BRUSsims, FEB. 26 Actual Debt, `2% per Cent. Itt,thschild's Lean, 5 per Cc.nt IO2I Lean of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent. . 3 per Cent. ..... — 72% .(1440) 10336 Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent i.26 Society of Commerce, 4iv per Cent M — Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent.. ........... Nationa !Society. Exchange on London (short) _ --Brussels Papers. Feb. 26. AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 19. k treper Costs. Metalliques ......„ ................ ....., i 6 Fear per Cents. I O ,N "I hree p.r Cents. ;Ltrik :Y , arcl. —.4ll, 4 e , nente Zeitt.g. Feb. 22. Thirty-seven , LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 28. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Campbell, Lord De Lisle, and the Bishop of Exeter, sat in the House of Lords to-day to hear appeals, THE LORD ADVOCATE V. LORD DOUGLAS. The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed, and concluded to-day, when Their Lounsitirs gate judgment, dismissing the appeal with costa. RENTON V. ANSTRUTHER. This appeal was opened at four o'clock. The arguments were adjourned till to-morrow (this day). FRASER V. LORD LOVAT. Lord COTTENHAM gave judgment to-day in this case, af firming the judgment of the Court below, with costs. ROLLS' COURT, Feb. 28. IN RE IntOOKSBANIC AND FARN. In this cause, which came before the Court on petition, the bill was filed by the Duke of Brunswick, and prayed to have an account taken, and the bills taxed. It appeared that there had been some litigation in France between the Duke of Brunswick and the Duke of Cambridge, in which a large amount of costs had been awarded to the former. Subsequently, both the parties being in England, and the Duke of Cambridge not having paid the costs awarded by the Court in France to the Duke of Brunswick, the latter brought an action in this coun try for the recovery of those costs, and the interest accruing upon them, from the date of the trial in France. In this second action he was also successful. The defendants Brooksbank and Fan) had been the soli citors of his Serene Highness in those transactions, and the bills of costs with which they furnished their Illustrious Client formed the ground of the present application. The arguments in the case engaged the Court from an early hour in the morning, and were not brought to a close when his Lordship rose. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Feb. 28. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) ROBINSON V. MILNER. This cause came before his Honour •n exceptions and further di•ections. The question in the suit, as stated at the bar, turned upon the sanity of a person of the name of William Broad, at the time of executing a deed. The Master had found that he was not competent. The case was part heard on Saturday, and counsel for the plaintiff concluded his reply this morning. His HONOUR, after commenting upon the evidence, and stating that the case was one in which it was impossible for him to decree specific performance dismissed the bill with costs, and overruled the exceptions. BRANFILL V. BRYDGES. The arguments in this part-heard case occupied the Court , t he whole day. COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, Feb. 28. The Court was engaged all the morning in trying the case of Raymond v. the General Steam Navigation Company. The plaintiff was tile proprietor of a barge called the Leicester, which had been run down in the river by one of the steam packets belonging to the defendants. The case was of no in terest, except to the parties concerned. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Feb. 28. IN RE FRE DERICK ROBERTON. The insolvent in this case carried on business as a draper and mercer. The amount of debts in his balance-sheet was consi derable, and amongst the creditors' names were those of Messrs. Leaf, Cole, and Co., Scott and Day, Robson and Macgregor, and several other warehousemen in the City. He had been before the Court for hearing some time back, when the case was adjourned for the purpose of filing a fresh balance-sheet. His petition to be discharged was opposed by Mr. Woodroffe, upon the grounds of havisig given an undue preference to a cre ditor of the name of Colquhouii, by handing over to him a number of bills of exchange which were becoming due shortly before the time of his arrest, and with hav ing executed a warrant of attorney in favour of his brother, and of having concealed the fact from those from whom he got credit. The Learned Counsel E~~ also opposed on the grounds of having made away with certain property to the detriment of his estate, and having been s. party in a collusive judgment got against him by entering an appearance immediately, and allowing that creditor to issue execution prior to any of the others; and further, with having concealed certain books connected with his trade. Several witnesses Laving been examined, whose evidence oc cupied the entire morning, Mr. COOKE, on behalf of the insolvent, said he began busi ness in January, 1839, with a good capital, but h' o ' - ing suffered much by sickness, he was placed in his pre sent position. With respect to the alleged preference in favour of Mr. Colquhoun, the fact was, that he was the person who suffered most of all the insolvent's creditors, as he had-ad" vanced large sums of ready money, and of the bills of exchange which he received in repayment the greater number had been dishonoured when they became dile. The books which 10 was accused of having concealed, were nothing more but a few memoranda, which he made whilst be Wa ll in prison, and not at all connected with Ifs t sae accounts. As far as the opposition for having concealed th e fact of having executed a warrant of attorney from his credit or ' went, he (Mr. Cook e ► would cite a ca s e from a d-cision-pr.°• noucced in October, 1837, by the Learned Chief Cornnu°' sioner himself; in the case of an insolvent named DaVies, van he held that the suppre ss i on o f t h e f act of t h e ex i sten ce 0 a warrant of attorney was no offence under the Act. , _ The insolvent had been now i n pr i son upwar d s o f s i x itie o ",! s ' and he trusted that would b e d eeme d more t h an su ffi c i e nt for an insolvency arising from ill health. The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said the case wis complicated, and the evidence so lengthened, that he 11 1 1' take some time before he would pronounce judgment, and be should therefore defer it to Saturday next. CENTRAL CRTMTN — AL COURT. " The: Sessions at the Old Bailey commenced yesterasi before the Right Hon. Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Aldertne°' and Sheriffs. As soon as the Grand Jury had been sworn, The RECORDER delivered his charge to the following effe ct ' The cases that would be presented to them were of the ordinal character, and contended no points of law calling upon him for explanation. There were t wo or t h ree cases to w hich would briefly allude—of murder and manslaughter. In one e these in which the prisoner was c h arge d w i t h the greatest offence' it appeared that the blow had been inflicted with a dangere ss instrument, loaded heavily with stone. The prisoner, it tr A peered, had followed the f ema l e , hi s v i ct i m , to a h ouse , and e 7„ watched the door until she ca me ou t, u tt er i ng l anguage evinciess a disposition to strike her. The prisoner was in a state of toxication at the time, b u t th e R ecor d er f e l t b oun d to to " the Jury that excitement of the passions, through the influence of intoxication, was no answer to any charge of assault. T he prisoner, in this c ase , s t ruc k th e fortale on her appearance !t A the door, a blow whi c h p ro d uce d concuss i on o f the brain, and ultimately death. It be came hi s d u t y t o t e ll t h e J ury that i the blow was inflicted w ith ou t m i scon d uct on the put of the person injured, and inflicted with any inet z ,,,; ment of a dangerous natu re , more espec i a ll y if party inflicting the blow had appeared to have been suin g mg an opportunity, under the se c i rcums t ances b y law, ' would be held that the offence amounted to murder. case should be proved to them as involving circumstances like these, it would be the duty of the Jury to put that case h! ii i course for further inquiry. Another case to which he view; allude, involved a charge of murder on the high seas. It WI: not an ordinary case, for the charge was against the captei_!; mate of a vessel, for supplying bad provisions to two lads,, .1". at the same time exacting more l a b our f rom th em than uf health would admit of, and whi c h t rea t ment was *Deb -- j to have accelerated their desths. The case was Id of great importance, and in w hi c h th e G ran d Jury wt.. make anxious inquiry. The thi r d case t o w hi c h h e w ould . lode was one in which a blow of the fist had been inflict.-- ;, a moment of intoxication, but w hi c h, a lth oug h ser i ous WI was the consequence, did not amount to murder, but cam, under the denomination of m ans l aug ht er , as th ere did not sP; pear to have been any indication of p reme dit at i on . After at other general remarks, the Learned Recorder remitted Grand Jury to their several duties. ADELPHI THEATRE. The attraction at this theatre last night consisted of a bap' lesque on Acis and Galatea, which a few nights since ' t brought out at Drury-lane. T rans f orme d so as to su it Adell; fancies, the classical sentiment of the original gives way en t Aristephanesque spirit of satiric drollery, which is !T o points was fairly touched off. Scencs, persons, ze 7 1 0 the accompanying serenata, share one and all in absurdities of the •new metamorphosis. The blue-12 1 " -, Nereid" Galatea, personified in the original by Miss Rolf' became, in the persoa of Mr. Wright, a whimsical s ea-nycoP u l quite unrelated to all our pre-conceived notions of subaque ° • beauties, and who, in her method of love-making so Acis, cop es veyed no indiffe r ent id ea o f an enamoure d sea-ca lf . Mrs' P. Grattan, as Acis, was a sprightly imitation, for it scarce; descended to burle s que, o f Miss P. Horton. With her eas es poll, f a ce, an d p re tti ness o f manner, s h e strum,. , o ff the uth Sicilian shepherd-b o y i n an arc h an d na i ve sty l e. Cupids n:4 in the refined mythology of the Grecian pastoral, is light-wirr, as Zephyr, and an aer i a l spar kl er among rose- b owers and D-of mortals, took on him th e f orm , as enacte d b y M r. Wilkinso n 0 one of the most buxo m mons t ros i t i es o f earth, thegirth of vrn,..,° waist, and diameter of whose limbs, were of true Dan Lan l 7l, dimensions. Polyphe mus , in th e person of Mr. Paul Hedro ng was as jocose a transcript of the Cyclops of Virgil as co be expected ; and realized the well-known ./Eneid-line 1 1 . every humourous respect. With regar d to t h e 01 8 characters that figure about the scene, as well as scenes themselves, the Arcadian refinements of 0„ 11 7.4 became converted into the mo re i n t e lli g ibl e ruran' o f which appertain to English customs. The thyrsni 0 1 the ancient fete became a may-p o l e d resse d out i n gr een's flowers, and a Jack-in-the-Green, with its accompanica . en i dancing villagers, took the pla ce o f th e flower-shows wind, as' "... corated the old games of Flora. Handel, too, does not es"wo the prevalence of the burlesque : the " linked sweetn e i rd. of his octaves, and the depth of his bass, are ridiculously to vanish into childish pipings, while the passe of his sublime are noted by the grumblings of the tr 01 1 ) ... The verse, dialogue of course, retains so much of the prinzit r ` c ; elegance of Theocritus, that instead of suiting the shepherds of the golden age," it is scarcely fluted for the "ears of the groundlings." It is advertised in the bills as got up for,„ purpose of bringing the Adelphi season to a prosperous teewi t nation, and though not as happy as Norma we presnd, e ,," will have the desired effect. There are one o r two P ° 7 4 ,.. which on repetitio a, would with advantage be omitted or rat". gated, one being the repulsive elongation of Acis, after he he: been dug out from un d er t h e rock b y which he h as bee p crushed by Polyphemus. The piece wz.s announced forre3 tition with applause. It was prece d e d b y t h e Brea' Promise of Marriage, which Mrs. Yates, as Lady Eas acted with ease and truth, and Mr. Wright, as the Attor7 l Dabbleton, with the tact and p r e var i ca ti ve as t u t eness c0n2 01 .4 to the gentry of p:rchments and codicils. The staple piec . k--' Jack Sheppard, concluded the entertainments. THE MARKETS.-( YESTERDAY! . ) j CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of the past week were small of Wheat, but el l t ; tiderable of Barley and Oats. The fresh supply was re0d,14„.. of Wheat, and good of other Grain. Wheat, if very fi ner: ie . ther dearer, and other qualities obtained last week's le"' Barley very dull and ls. per quarter lower. Beans and also Is. per quarter cheaper. The Oat trade is for the .pr 0,03 overdone with quantity, and sales are difficult at 1 6 .7; r":: ; quarter below last currency. Flour as last reported. ..,..lit.,, 4 KRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DIMIN O LAST w'''"" I Wheat. Barley. oat s . Flollt. 0, , English Irish _ 15,092 i S C° 16 Foreign -- 1 6,26 9 " rascals 014 BOARD OF HUI' Wheat,Red (old) -i. —s. Beans, Small (new) 316 , 4 881 , 8 . ..-- White (old). ..... --s. -.4 . ''''......---... (old 42 , ....-- Red 184.1) 520 s`is ---- Tick (new s 27 214‘ " vs,- . 41 1 i 4 •-.------ Fine 50's. 635. --- (old) ... - -- , - •395,' -- Superfine 615.66:. --- Harrow (new) ...... 30 • 4 1,.. .---..... White (1841) Ms. 595. ------ I.'ine 6Ol 62s Brank ---- Superfine "Os. 725. Oats, Feed.. ..... ... .... 8. 06 ........ , 5, ----Foreign free 564 765. -- N e w ' - ‘ ..5. 6 ' ' lye .38s. 40s. Poland 24) 1414 fbarley 265. 32s N ew ~* Grinding '2ss 28s Potatoe a. Malting Ms. 355. Malt 5Es. 60s Scotch 2 6 5 .26 b --- Fine New 62.. 64s Irish 14, . )7 , • 1 ... 60s. Pease, Grey, New 10s. 32 5 . Fl our T own (per sack).... .• . ' o. Maple New :th. 335. Seconds ?,2s. 4 ‘ .. ' White .345. 3Es —........ 14..rth Country ...• — An ' 5 gs.t -- Boilers 3tis 38s Bran • SMITHFIELD. t t The supply of Beasts was good, of Sheep a n d Pi gs s hortj i- t0. , ; of Calves moderate ; the trade was brisk. Beef, 36 r j 43 831; Mutton, 4s to 5s 2d ; Veal, 5s to 6s ; Pork, 4s uuth. 6s 6d, Beasts, 2,835 ; Sheep, 19,540 ; Pigs, 419 ; Calvehr- 'g'- PROVISION MARKET. Butter sells steadily. Fine Dutch at 114 s. to 1161. per 04 ; 0 ; and the best Irish 90s. per cwt. Bacon heavy, and prict, 4 the decline. Lard dull, at 68 s . f or th e b est bladdered. lw ddficult of sale. TEA MARKET. Tbj. Prices firm at Is. l Id. for Company's Congon cash. market was in a dull state for both Black and Green deScr' • Lions. The deliveries keep large. TALLOW MARKET. The demand was good, and 48s. 3d. the current rate for cels on the spot. F or d e li very i n t h e l ast three months art., yrar holders were fi rm at 495. per cw t. Th ere h ave been '- ther arrivals of South American. HOP MARKET. Prices firm, a good demand, the supply small, and b Ol4 Look for higher rates. PRICE OF BREAD. 41° '1 he highest ;rite of Bre a d i t he M, t rop9 li s Is 0 1 1,1 for the Loaf. Gut d Bread may be had at 71-d. COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market.day, 19 s. d. Chester Main ... ......... l7 0 Holywell Main 2O 0 Nelson's West Hartley l7 0 Old Tantield l5 0 Ord's Redheugh l5 0 Townley... ............. ..... 16 6 West Hart ley. .... Walls End (11 . son l9 M Walls End Heaton l9 Walls End Hedlcy l9 t, Walls End Killing worth Walls End Riddell's l9 ;I Walls End Belmont W. E. Braddyll's H a tt on Walls End Haswell. ...... 4 . 0. rO., . Walls End Hetton ... 9l 0 ~ Wall; End Larnbton ... 0! : Webs End Pemberton ., !,, Walls End Stewart's ,,, 5,,, , Walls s s E E t n d d :ewubguhr.H.all :: ::, %vail Tennant'; End Ha a r r t ri l erg Farrington r ; : : Walls End St. Helen's Tee' 19 0 .. Walls End Seymour's lO 0 1 Wal sEh d lee,. .. 1 6 . Cowpen 0 0,, 'Hartley " 09 = 4l Stone Coat! 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SIZE FOR GENTLEMEN. • Patent detached Lever Watches, jewelled iia four holes, seconds, and double-backed gold cases, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, seconds, double-backed gold cases and enamel dials, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in six holes, secunds, double-backed gold cases 0 0 and gold dials, warranted Either of the Gentlemen's W a t c h es may b e had -411::3(1 hunting cases for 3/. 3s. ea c h ex t ra. N . B. Second Watches purchased in exehanze. 17 17 , MARRIED. T. On the 19th ult., at St. Ma r y' s Ch urc h, Marylebon e, Clarke, Esq., of Upper Berkeley -street, Portman - W a London, to Louisa, only daughte r of the late Edward Young, Esq., of Knockhawn Cottage, Armagh, Ireland. DIED. On the 14th ult., at Turnham-green, William Martin , 5°D of Colonel Martin, Hon. E as t India Com an 's set vice. m i t t On th? 21st ult., M rs . Urmston, relict of the late C a .P tio e James Urmston, of the H on. 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