The Sun. — London, England, 1842-03-03 00:00:00

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" "CA LI.ERY OF SCIENCE, A DELAIDE-STREET ,arytnonieter... 51 Hi g h est 52 L owest 44 44otater29.13.—Wind S.W.—Freezing Point 22 Deg. "1"" 111(11- A tlorp in TER AT LONDON BRIDGE DAY. minutes after- 5 Evening ......15 minutes after 6. V.:-,C=4/1-1"7, nit --- tonl92bition SUN OFFICE, Three o' Cluck. Mr. 1„,:(; jet) , f or 11 AuLE evidently labours under great anx iety his rebelli ous f r i en d s i n S trat hb og i e . Th e Duke n • 11 ?!" 1 ), shock e d at th e crue l sen tence of deposi kero;Lsstled by the last General Assembly against seven oletre.tee'erse of o fi f il li ' n re g sb u y p iery, has committed the unpardonable with() lICSRANR, the vacancy caused by the death of one of the deposed clergymen, tied `once CORSRIIifig' CHALMERS, CANDLISH, and Co. siooi::rne outbreak, instigated no doubt by the Non-Intru 'Party is anticipated on the induction of the pre eettee.-,T, ' The Home Secretary has, therefore, made provision a gainst fruit any serious disturbance by ordering certain troops b re 4t.4berdeen to proceed to Huntly, and keep the law :1:3 in order. W e regret to see suc h a movemen t, tu r ,, e4 7 e t he dominant party in the Kirk will attempt to sett Ct t 6 their advantage ; and it is aa unseemly act to e • .1). ministerof peace in a parish under the protec don ~ do a military force. But what can the Government him., The Non-Intrusionist, not the Whig or Tory mi ll,. - .7, were the aggressors, and were the first to set the qt he land at d e fi ance . T eac h ers o f th e G os p e l, men peo• nhis_h.ould, by their example and preaching, lead their h, to obey the rulers that be, have done every thing r Power to stir them up aga i nst the law of the land. itede "Y the abused the Judges of the Court of Session, fop d landlords i n the. House of Peers, and, when they th e tho u appeals rejected by the highest authorities, th e ,„ 4 recourse t o di rect f a l se h oo d s , by asse rting that f ore ' never recognised . their authority. How, there the ea u the people, who put confidence in to sa Y i ngs and d o i ngs of such men, be expec.eo bell; Mai n quiet, when' thus excited to open re -41 a l? We s h a ll regre t e x ceedingly if any of the 1 - ' d Parishioners hive recourse to acts of violence stiffer for th e i r i m p ru d en ce, for they are not the I ll e t at nderS. The-really guilty,parties are the Non rusii Clergy, s ho, we regret to say, have been th: ll :. l ea anced by high authority, both in the law and uv ernment.; and it is the duty of Sir JAmEE le a d 431 , therefore, to proceed against the ring for era a nd punis:i them, not their innocent agents, controverting the laws of the country. The vi .°4llt °f 6 * the cha nge of Ministry, as regards th . 14 '0 ' l n party' is only what any man of common sense have Pt t ,' foreseen. Lord ABERDEEN, Sir ROBERT 'b u n t ' a nd Sir J AMES G RAHAM , were not the men to ra er ; n anee the vagaries of the wild sect, or show any thei r Y to those w h o t ram pl e d w ith sa vage cruelty on too lenient breth ren . The Court of Session was far k ent s li; ' e nt toward s th e offenders, and of this the Govern tiled eet na convinced. Lord President HOPE only threat -04, t o " chastise them with . whips." Sir JAMES -411131 Will " chastise them with scorpions." sp etth movements of Mr. CHARLES DICKENS, and the of JOHN QUINCEY ADAMS in Congress, or dis -4i g th e F ederal Union, occupy the attention of the t opie e r . l ean Press almost to the exclusion of every other anxi Our transatlantic brethren are exceedingly re t Z is to have it known to all the world that they 4 4 0 Pay to genius that homage which they deny to v et ; The di st i nct i on i s wort h y o f t h em — wort h y o f a BU enli gbtened, free people. but tho ugh JOHN QUINCET ADAMS speech has created exist lne wsPaPense ne r stir, there does not appear to th an y e slighte s t app re h ension th a t th e Union is in e onst ' t uuger o f b e i ng di sso l ve d . Th e f r i ct i on o f th e Nth titn /nal machinery of the Federal Government er serve s to impress the public mind that it works Ite7 Prevents a n in A row only lets off the steam, C° ex n p g lo r s e i s o s n, to use their own busi -k; f 7 lll speech. According to the New York of —8 the Americans can rush to the very verge the-u Pen rebellion without the slightest danger to al F in.ederal Union, as when there they are 1% Z .)' 1, '6 a hurry to rush back again. Convu l s i o ns put WOUld shake a monarchy to pieces woull not s tate tbe smallest spring of the vast machine of the O bserv e d t he Expres s , " very remarkable things are n is b ow • ' n en done among us. Now and then a man se '"nifed on the floor of a Legislative As- Ifer a h 3T ers in a ome of the new States. Now and then afttir , of Congress try to throttle each other not deb ate. Now and then a city mob turn peak er Ass o nt of his chair in a Legislative t r;•1 ; but th e en d o f th e world, after all, is not titers' for the people are not moved or shaken by all 11t • Th e m a sses are quiet." This we take to be a 1 , 1 14 ' Picture. The riots in the United States portend no : 11 ger to the Union, because the masses are well lodged, ' ell elothed, well fed, and have abundance of employ tnellt• The licentiousness which proceeds from an everfulness of the belly among a nation is never dan gerous to the Government. Individuals' heads may O : in danger, but the public and political institutions are ,bl7 re etly safeso fur as regards the masses. It is only ; ne n hun ger enters i nto t h e h ear t s o f a people— w h en r lt famine has set his seal upon their thin visages— "ell 'en sun riseswithout hope, and towards setting k el? g t hens the dark shadows of despair, that Govern .,,,4ts have r eason to tremble* for their safety. gzatthe New Yo r k p a p ers qu it e mi s take the feel- C re „, l,,h ieh prevails in E u r o p e , a nd especially in 4 ti..e 4 Britain, as to t h e quarter w h ence d anger t o Feder a l Union is apprehended. No one here t,_sP"ts the soun d ness o f th e popu l ar h eart o f t h e a r • tt ed Ntites. It is the patriotism of the American Ahi`lst., edgy of wealth that is suspected here—wealth, produci , all the inequalities of social life ob sell'bl • ng tn cr . e In the oldest monarchies of Europe. An aris -14, of the purse may become a more dangerous foe to alre ady -tY t han aristocracy of blood. Such an aristocracy in, exists in the United States, and it is fast extend kl/41.`s. influence. It is from this quarter that the great great i s to be apprehended. But that danger is never I ktik t While the people keep kicking up dusts about fo rp s' bankruptcy, and Presidents' elezlions. We there tha-t. ( i n ite agree with our New York Contt mporaries, lte t , the Federal U n i on i s sa f e s o long as Congress stt: fi ghting about it, and so supplying an agitating nien u t l4 W 3 to the p opu l ar m i n d. Th e F e d e r a l Govern th, a Wears established on principles which allowed for and tear of opposition friction. ti e 1446, _advantages which our follow-subjects might , ro sy Ite, from ex - the total repeal of the Corn-laws, tract 7 partly conjectured from the subjoined ac_ enu e h t , 'Nul an American Paper, giving an fo 1 , - „,"F the labours of a Joint Stock Company to tm it . l . lti a. city at the confluence of the rivers Ohiothe eorilci 'tississippi, to form the great empo . rium . of .. l itt ti ; til tas with England. This city, which is viith- Mth-',..leerritory of the State of Ohio, and connected , cit y f . l ' n . great Canada Lakes, is very distant period to he o: Calr % and promises at no . to be called the rid, it will not W o --e ° I -tile finest marts of commerce in the New %L s,' `fie trust the spirited founders of Si r their labours in consequence ,of the passing of has BERT PEEL'S Bill. The knell of the Corn-laws ‘Niil '' t e "'en rank co urse °l)solete the statutes against witchcraft. In the in England, and in a few years they ),... - " r4 e of . as • 0 1,•et ti b a C onversation between . a. r for \tar - lebone and Sir ROBERT PEEL, thous . evenings 3 ago, in the House of COM . b e ' It was contended that wheat could N n i o w t . Yorkr c.a.. "fi.nt , in less' than sixty days from . 0 1 1 _, ' N 'm we are convinced that with our , b e 4 —mnt steam -boat improvements, grain could `' th e ~r ciered and conveyed to this country from the site r of ' . e '„, re 'Posed city of Cairo, in the Gulf of Mexico, in fi tyi ,'. . 1 . : I V% or say, at the very latest, in sixty. The homeward %;;: th .° i r n t g t month is still a long one, but the ditfic t .. O rec t lsse. kw C t o h ni e pared with the importation of grain from a ports of the Black Sea. Besides, in t Yea r; Cairo would open one of the most lucrative - - mark ets in the world for British produce. , It ,gnat •-!kli st i 6enerally known that a Company of English capi. u,estave possessed themselves, in connection with parties e,..., r . ern America of the delta, Cr point of confluence of g th a e %...!_t (tiers Ohio and Mississippi, and commenced building .: zsno(under most liberal Charter, Its t eop ....",bY the State of Illinois), ai the City of Cairo. specially granted for the • Nt rPuical 1 esitio n is nearly in the cei tre of the United . f.,„: js, is open to th e sea (via New Orleans), the whole year . thi t Ze IrarFest class of steamers. Above this point, for h o . ats noi the Year, the river navigation extends for smaller 'fin a l • t ., 11.11 ~r.nceettehis twenty thousand miles, and the rail . sa!s and ',.- bra e i n i n . i (I d in tiart constructed by the State, e..m -1,,.. ai t i m ls e iial?wards of eleven hundred miles in extent, connecting i, ' IL _ i till and the Canadas,hav e their terminus at Cairo Ca..; ~47 . , the, n, w . ),11 the vast mineral and agricultural productions . , ~,; : syl.!-,ttile and immense states of Western America, he carried 4 : , 4/4 4 Y , ," sleam power," to this central point "the Odessa o Ntl, p .., eaf sv i nd from thence shipped to all parts of the world. , it„Z`en w i e flour- mill, ship and boat-yards, founderies, ' -' ' '' Works ' sa w - rains, and machine - shops, are already in • impress, and a Dart in successful operation; warehouses, dwell -I„ii•seand other 'buildings and improvements, necessary for the '• f tiettiri 3 and conveniences of a great commercial and manu . I n , o n i F ci .ty , are considerably advanced. • . X,,..Y , tations are intended to be made direct to this port front %,:iitli.7..l7l.,nrclernaedn t a h m e p e l :p .r o e.t it u a r :f in b p r a o y ad me s n t ut. ff s , and provisions, alone • op e i, - t4 .ase . d facility will thus be given to commerce, and aha - British and -other manufactures, a market by a new ---' 14..4..t:ect. communication with the richest agricultural portions (and in time will -be the most populous) of the United States. :The site of Cairo, like that of New Orleans, Lyons. in France, St. Petersburgh in Russia, and many towns in Holland, re quires to be protected from any unusual rise of water, by an embankment, or level, of several feet. With regard to the practicability and importance of building a city at this com manding position, the report of the English and American en gineers employed by the Corporation is most conclusive ; they say ' "We cannot refrain or withhold our surprise, that any doubts should ever have been entertained or acted upon, with reference to the practicability of erecting a city at the con fluence of these great navigable rives. Topographically con sidered, the site is nearly in the centre of the United States ; the texture and solidity of the banks at the points is as firm and secure as any other positions for building between it and the rocky formations higher up the streams. It is at the very threshold of the most fertile regions of the west, surrounded by the best timber and bituminous coal, and from the construction of the great cen tral railroad, and the immense range of navigable rivers, ali centring at this point, it must necessarily have the exclusive advantage of becoming the great entrepot of all the agricultural and mineral wealth of this great empire of industry and enter prize. In short, there is not in any quarter of the globe a situation so commanding, and ieplete with every kind of pro duce and materials to promote the prosperity of the merchant, the skill of the mechanic, and the growth of a great city. The parties associated in this great work is the best guarantee that, if money and good management will insure success to the undertaking, this splendid enterprise, premising so beneficial results to the country at large, cannot fail also to secure to the proprietors the immense returns anticipated by the outlay of adequate capital to render the . city what nature intended it should be—the "Emporium of 'Western America."—American Paper. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 2.—The general tone of the market is unchanged. Cotton is freely offered at previous rates. Sales amount to 4,000 bales ; 300 Surat, 3d. to 4id. ; 160 Bahia, 60. to 7d. ; 200 Maranham, 6d. to Rd. ; 50 Pernam, 7 d ; 100 Egyptian, 7d..t0 9 d. ; 70 Peruvian, s&d. The remainder American, 41d. to 7d. LIVERPOOL SHARE IARKET, MARCIE 2.—The Market closes firmly for Great Western, London and Birmingham, and Eastern Counties —kiirmingham, 163 ; Ditto 25/. Shares, 3.5 h ; Ditto 321. Shares,. 59h ; Eastern Counties, 8h ; Ditto Debentures, 10/. 14s. 2d. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 2.—T-day we have had a very quiet market, and only a limited business done. Birmingham and Gioucester, 55 to 57 ; Bristol and Exeter, 36 to 38; Great Western, 88 to .89 ex dividend ; Ditto Fifths, 10% to 10%. > i-n►eel THE FUNDS. The English Stock Market opened buoyant this morning, and a decided improvement upon the prices of yesterday has taken place. Consols arenow quoted for money at 89* buyers, and E9i for the Account. Three-and-a-Half Reduced; 99i ; Exchequer Bills, 25 a 27 premium. The Foreign Market is also firm. Mexican Stock has im proved 14 per cent. upon the close of yesterday's business, being now 87i to 38i ; Co!ointilan Bonds have also advanced, and are firm at 244 ,• Spanish Stock continues steady at 244 i ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 3 24 5 33%; Ditto, Three per Cents. l 9 to 20; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 514 to 52i; and Five per Cents. 102% to 103. By the arrival of the packet-ship United States at Liverpool from New York, which place she left on the 14th ult., papers .f that date have been received. The Money Market at New York was quiet, and with but little alteration since tl.e previous advices. The Ba..ks discount sparingly, and appeared deter mined to pursue a cautious and restrictive policy. There was no great demand for money. The importations for the last two or three weeks had been quite large. Foreign Bills were without alteration, the scarcity of money among the remitters prevented large transactions. On England the rate was 8i to and on France 5, 284. The fluctuations of Stocks had, with hardly a single exception, been downward, and the ten dency was still to decline. State Stocks, formerly a very fa vourite investment, are no longer so, the inability of some and indi-position of others producing a feeling unfavourable to the whole. pRIcY.S OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. a A ILWAY3. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Gloucester 100 ...... 57 Easter; Counties Great Western - Ditto New London anc Brighton London and Birmingham 90 .....178 ...... to 130 Ditto i Shares Ditto Thirds Ditto New ... .. 2 London and South Western 3Bj 574 to Manchester and Leeds Ditto i Shares Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 Midland C Junties .. lOO York and North Midland JOINT STOCK RANKS. lonian State 25 HALF-PAST ONE. The English Securities continue, the transactions during the morning have not been to any great extent. Consols for Money were last done at 89k, and for the Account they may be quoted 89i % ; Reduced 'lhree-and-a-Half per Cents., 99i ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 99; India Bonds, II prem. ; Exchequer Bills have advanced Is., being now 28s. prem. In the Foreign Market considerable business has been done in Mexican and Colombian Stocks, and the advance is fully maintained. The former Stock is quoted 374, and the latter 24i, at which prices they are firm. Spanish Stock is steady at 29i. In Portuguese there has been nothing done. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 511. In the Share Market business to a fair extent has been transacted, and London and Birmingham Shares have made a start from 173 (at which price business was done yesterdaz) to 180, at which they are officially quoted this morning. ("meat Western still sustain their improvement, being firm at 90, and New 621 ; in other shares , we do not notice any variation. London and Brighton are 36/, ex Loan Notes. London and South Western, 571. QUARTER TO THREE. As the period approaches for the re-opening of the navigation in the North of Europe, the prospects of the Tallow trade begin to excite more interest. At present, however, there is not any new feature, the demand for consumption continuing good, without any d sposition on the part of the ho!ders to force sales New Tallow is the object of attraction, as the Russians are still reported to be buying at high rates. Se veral hundred casks have been sold here at 495. 6d. per cwt., and at St. P-tersburg 136 roubles have been given for par cels to be delivered in August, with 10 roubles band-money. The quantity of New Tallow, it is conjectured, witl tall short of last year. Consols, for Account, 89i %; Colombian, 24 1 / 2 4; Mexican, 37% 3 / 4 ; Spanish, 241 i. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS_DA Y.) - - LONDON, MARCH 3.—Wind this day at noon, W. to S.Y. RAMSGATE, MARCH 2.—Arrd. Amtlia, Muchelland, Lon don for Mauritius, with damage to rigging; Maria, ditto for ditto, with loss of anchor and chain. DEAL, MARCH 2.—Wind S.W., strong gale.—Arrd. Mar garet Parley, Currie , Calcutta. Arrd. from the Riser, Sir John Lae, Reid. St. Kitt's; Mary Laing, Jamaica; Alexan der Robertson, Montserrat—the two last have proceeded to Ramsgate. Seven P.m.—The gale continues, with every ap pearance of a stormy night. LivearooL, MARCH 2.—Wind S. to W., fresh.—Arrd. Philip Bean, St. Croix ; Valparaiso, sailed 3d Dec. ; Hope, Collins, Savannah ; Anna, Palermo ; Annetta, . Michael, Mes sina. Ski Terror, Sydney... Put back, Emma, for Mauritius. Arrd. off United States, New York , old. 14th lt. The Lydia from Trieste, and George Washington, from New York. got in contact this morning in the river , the former lost mizen-mast, the latter slipped her chains and cable. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 2.—lt has blown a gale all to-day from W. S. W. SOUTHA Jarrow, MAacu 2.—Sid. Trent (s.), Barbadoes. DARTMOUTH, FEB. Ds.---,Arrd. Nova Rita, Gergenti, very leaky. Sid. Talbot, Newfoundland. FALMOUTH, MARCH 1. Wind, N.W. to W.S.W., fresh gales, and squally.—Arrd.. Seagull, packet, Parsons, West Indies, sld. from St. Thomak's 7th inst. ; Mary Ann, Ancona. Off. port. Columbine, Robertson, Aux Cayes, and proceeded for Antwerp. The Emma, from Newport to Boston, abandoned, was fallen in with 27th ult., lat. 48, lon. 15, by the Seagull packet, arrived at Falmouth. MARGATE, MARCH 2.—A schooner and a brig, apparently colliers, got in contact to-day, off the North Foreland, the .former foundered, and the latter is riding at anchor with main mast gone. YOUGIHAL, FEB. 28.—Tiie Margaret and Elizabeth, hence to London, has put back leaky, and is expected must discharge. SHIELDs, MARCH I.—Sailed the Edward, Bombay. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL MARKET. The public sales were of little moment, and privately little business was transacted ; but in prices little variation took place. The imports were fair. TEA .MARKET. The biddings at the public sales were brisk, and most of tlie Tea found buyers at full rates. Common Congou, ls. Ilid. cash. TALLOW MARKET. The market was firm, but the demand limi ted, at 48s. 3d. on the spot, and 495. for delivery. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET. A very middling supply, and demand. Clover, 21. lbs. to 5/. 10s. ; Hay, 21. to 4/. ; Straw, 11. 10s. to 21. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for the week, ending Feb. 26, 1842:- I'assengers Merchandise £1,063 15 5 Darlington, March 2. W. O'BIZIEN, Secretary. THE DIORAMA, REGENT'S-PARK.—This place of amusement opened yesterday for the season, with a view of the Shrine of the Nativity, at Bethlehem, executed by M. Renoux, from al sketch made by Air. Roberts during his recent tour in the Holy Land. The picture represents the shrine, or stable, as it new appears. It is exhibited to the spectator under two distinct effects The first is with the lamps over the manger, and round the image of the miraculous star and the altar, which nurn continually night and day. The second effect is the cele bration of midnight mass by the Franciscan monks, with figures in the act of devotion, when the whole of the gold and silver lamps contained in the edifice, of which there is a goodly number, are seen brilliantly illuminated. The transition from a state of comparative darkness to the blaze produced by the illumination of so many , oriental lamps is beautifully managed. On the right of the spectator is seen the shrine, in which the position of the manger is indicated by a stone, and which also contains an altar marking the spot where the Aligi worshipped the Saviour ; a stone bench, on which the mother of Jesus sat while present ing the infant, and an altar erected by the Empress Helena, the mother of Constantine. On the left is a recess in a semi circular form, in the centre . of which is the representation of ' the miraculous star, to mark, the spot where it rested after preceding the wiFe men of the East. Directly in front is a staircase which leads to the church built over the stable. 'I he whole scene is of a very solemn and imposing description. A re presentation of the village of Alagna in Fildmont, as, it ap peared before and after its destruction by an avalanche is also shown. 'I his has been before exhibited, and excited so much admiration at the time that it may well bear reproduction. AIELANctioLY Mondav morning hist about eleven o'clock, Air. William Maryon, of Chelmsford. who has for upwards of fifty years filled the office of conti dential clerk to C. G. Pat ker, Esq., as registrar of wills, was found by his servant suspended in his stable lifeless. He uas 76 years of age, and much respected. The Jury at the Coroner's inquest returned a verdict of " Suicide, whilst labour • ing under temporary insanity."---- Chelmsford Chronicle. SEVERE GALE AND RAIN STORM.—" March winds" have commenced early and in gone earnest. Yesterday morn ing the weather was fine, with occasional sunshine. but about nine o'clock the sky became darkened, and soon afterwards the rain fell in torrents, with a heavy gale, varying from S.W. to W.N. W. Most of the vessels in the Pool, and at other places on the Ricer, were last night riding at double moorings, with but several steam-pack e t s an d sa ili ng ves their topmasts struck . The shipping has not, however, sus• tained any damage , 1-sels, overdue, have not arrived. THE SUN, LON SUMYARY OF NEWS AND utUtt OPtlitOn. " Who runs 'may read." FOREIGN. We have news from the United States, South Ame rica, and the West Indies; of which the substance, in a sufficiently compressed form, appears in another part of The Sun. The Continental mails have not arrived. PARLIAMENTARY. 'The Lords did not meet yesterday. In the Commons the Soncitor-General for Ireland in formed Mr. O'Connell that the plan of challenging Jurors established by the late Attorney-General was to be adhered to. _ _ In reply to Mr. Fox Muule, Sir J. Graham admitted that troops had been ordered from Aberdeen, but he would not state whither nor why. Mr. F. Manic implied that they had been sent to. the parish of Glass, in antici pation of a disturbance on the induction of a minister. In reply to Mr. Mangles, Sir Robert Peel stated that Government had no direct accounts from Caboul of a later date than had been already published, and no account of a capitulation or surrender. The report on the Corn-law resolutions was brought up and agreed to, after Mi. Buller and Mr. Hastie had severally moved their amendinents and withdrawn them. The Bill will no doubt be immediately introduced. The Van Diemen's Land Bill and the Dissenters' Mar riages (Ireland) Bill, were read a third time and passed. The Queen's Prison Bill went through a Committee, and the Colonial Passengers' Bill was read a second time. Adjourned at Eight o'Clock. PUBLIC OPINION. The Chronicle, speaking of Mr. Duncombe's motion on the subject of prison discipline, says :—" One inci dental good of the discussion raised by the Hon. Member for Finsbury was to elicit a • very striking testimony to the merits of the late Administration. The course par sued for the last seven years in ameliorating, and bring ing towards uniformity, 'the regulations of different gaols, is allowed by the present Home Secretary to have left him nothing to do but to follow in the footsteps of his predecessor. As to the party, this praise partakes largely of the nature of a recantation." The Morning Post thus incidentally alludes to the present political aspect of England :—" In England, at this moment, our social movements partake, unquestion ably, of a revolutionary character. Class is divided against class ; interest is at war with interest. Manu factures and trade have opposed themselves to agricul ture. The pretensions of capita interfere with the claims of //bout ; while a section of the labouring classes denounce the institution of private property as the source of all the evils under which industry groans. One political party demands the abolition of monarchy ; another de mands the overthrow of aristocracy ; while a third de mands (as Mr: Roebuck did' in the House of Commons last session) the removal of " all social distinctions w hate ver." • The Herald is of opinion that the proposed diminution of protection on the great. staple of Irish agriculture will not realize the fears which are entertained in that island:—" Firstly, because those fears are greatly ex aggerated• ; and, secondly, because that diminution will, we trust, by increasing slightly the pressure on Irish agriculture, .lead to an improved system of husbandry, and increase wheat cultivation. To give Ireland a mo nopoly of the oat market of England would not ulti mately benefit that country; a little competition from Danish, Swedish, or Dutch ,oats will, if the ordinary rules of political economy, as exemplified elsewhere, are applicable to the Sister Island, produce industrial results therein of the happiest nature." The Advertiser contains the following remarks sug gested by the debate on the Hill Coolies :—" The atten tion of the House of Commons was on Tuesday night employed in a discussion respecting the Hill Coolies. We are decidedly of opinion the Government had no right to legislate on this subject without the assistance of Parliament. The question is one in which the coun try:is as much interested as on slavery itself ; in fact, it is in close affinity with the late syStem of slavery—it is over-much like it—the only difference is, that the victims of the former system were Africans, and of the latter are Asiatics.'! MONEY-TRADE-COMMERCX. The bark of the limetrees, in Russia is ;ITobject of Considerable commercial importance. No less than four teen AliPions of mattings are thits annually manufactured in Russia, • besides sacks, shoes, work-baskets; coverings for roofs, &c., for which parpOses upwards of one million lime trees fall before the axe annual! PUBLIC IMPIOVSIVIENTS: Frogmore Lodge, Winillsor, which is now being sur rounded by a variety of improvements, will, it is believed, be occupied by the Duchess of Kent and her suite during the approaching summer. NAVAL AND MILITARY. On her Majesty's visit to the " Queet," in Portsmouth dockyard on Tuesday last, which noble ship sails for the Mediterranean on Sunday next, with above 900 men on board, she tasted the soup and " three-water grog" of the crew, and remarked with a dash somewhat in the Queen Elizabeth spirit, and with a smile, that it " was not strong enough"—a remark which the sailors relished wonderfully, and will long be remembered in the Navy. Her Majesty evidently is no teetotaller. Good-service pensions have been granted by the Ad miralty to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Baker, K.C.8., Captain R. Elliott, Captain Cuthbert F. Daly, Captain Thomas White, Captain Hon. W. Waldegrave. Captain J. Pasco, Captain J. D. Murkland, C. 8., Captain 'l'. T. Tucker, Captain J. W. Maurice, and Capt. Thos. White. LAW AND POLICE, For theVace of a Crown Solicitor, who lately died in Munster, the Limerick Chronic lL states that there wcro no less than 1.50 candidates. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. The Sanctuary of St. -Alariin's-le-Grand, which for merly existed in the City, was for a long time a grievous evil. Felons and others took refuge there in numbers ; the priests realised ,a fine revenue from it, by letting out. lodgings to the Sanctuary-men at high rates, and some times seizing upon property, which the marauders fre quently brought within the precincts. • COURT—FASNIONAXIME. - - - -- - The Duke of Buceleuch has arrived in town from the North. The Duke of Wellington has returned to town from I'ortsmouth. The Marchioness of Lansdowne had a soiree last night at Lansdowne House • Lady Feel had a soiree last night at her residence in Whitehall Gardens. Lord J. Russell has consented to preside at the ap proaching dinner of the Jews' Orphan Asylum. ivntscztL.ANAtnifi. To-day is the anniversary a the death of Wm. Stuke • ley, the eminent antiquarian. A week previous to his death he was attacked by palsy, and desired the house keeper to procure assistance for his removal up stairs, adding—" I shall never com e d own a g a i n but upon men's shoulders." His prophecy was verified, and seven days afterwards he died in his 78th year. The poll for a Church -rate at Birmingham has now be n open for six days, and during that time only 65 have voted for the rate, while' 2,552 have voted against it. WEST INDIA By the arrival of Her Majesty's packet Seagull, with a mail from the West Indies, papers have been received at the North and South American Coffee House, from Trinadad of the 18th, Demerara 19th, Barbadoes, 22(1, and Jamaica, the 27th January. The Jamaica p a p ers do not contain any particular news. The House of Assembly had been prorogued by his Excellency the Governor, and the Stamp Act is lost. The Jamaica papers of the 27th January contains the fol lowing :—Her Majesty's brigantine Charybdis has just arrived here from Carthagena, which Place she left on the lath of January. Peace had been proclaimed, and all British subjects who had been detained as prisoners set at. liberty. '1 he Fede ralists evacuated the Lapopa on the I bth January, after burning all they could, and have returned, as supposed, back to Baran quilla. Carthagena was in a state of quietness. DEMERA KA, JAN. 22.—We are happy to announce the re turn of the labourers to work (at wages which the planting body can afford) on various plan:ations, and we need hardly suggest, that as other labourers have the good sense to come into the reduced rate which must prevail ovi r the whole co lony, it is no vain-glorious victory over the peasantry that vie shall have accomplished, but. the means of barely preserving our own existence, and as. such should the change be mode rately viewed. MURDER AT NOTTINGHAVI. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] NOTTINGHAM, MARCH 2.—A murder has been committed here which causes great excitement. It appears that an old man, of the name of Robinson, a coal dealer, living at Fries land, two miles from Nottinghain, had been constantly in the habit of attending Nottingham market, and often was in a state of intoxication before the day was over. On Saturday fort night he, as usual, got intoxicated, and while in that state was deco)ed to a very low house near the market, and there a plan was formed to rob him ; and laudanum was fetched, and large quantities poured down his throat till be was in a state of stupor, and then he was robbed, and put out into the cold wet street. Some persons passing placed him in a stable, from whence he was removed in the morning, and died very ,hortly afterwards. A Coroner's Jury sat upon the body, and, after three ad journments, returned a verdict of" Wilful Murder against Ben jamin Kurd, and his wife, and the girl who fetched the lau danum, all being involved in the crime." On hearing of the man's death, they had, hoWever, packed up all their goods, and left the town; and in spite of the vigi lance of the police to stop them, they have not yet been heard of. MANSLAUGHTER.—Yesterday afternoon a length ened investigation was entered into before Mr. Wakley, M.P., at the Salmon and Compasses, Penton-street, .Pentonville, on view of the body of Mr. Richard Simmonds, aged 44, fish mrtnger, late of No. 93, Chapel-street;, in the same neighbour hoot!, who died in vonsequence of injuries inflicted on him by a young man named Fiederick Jones (now in custod, ), of highly respectable connections, residing with his parents at No. 4, York-terrace, Barnsbury-park, Islington. The case was noticed under the head of " Law and Police " on Tuesday. Ihe Jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Frede rick Jones, " who was forthwith committed on the Coro ner ' s w a r rant to Newgate. Captain Blanchard, of the American ship Rowland, arrived at Havre-de-Grace on the 24th of February, from •- a vannah, reports, that on the 14 th of February, in lat. 46 15, re S. v g.2 ‘,,, 554 Z his vessel, while scudding i n a h eavy ga l e from was struck by lightning, which set the ship on fire between decks. '1 he greatest alarm prevailed on board, and to e xtinguish the flames was deemed next to an impossibility. However, the attempt was made by the crew, who commenced by throwing part of h er c ar g o (cotton) overboard, and cutting holes through her decks, and pouring down a large quantity co water. By their united exertions, from f our t ilt e i g h t o ' c l oc k in the morning, they succeeded in extinguishing the fire, but not before considerable damage had been done to the Rowland and her cat go. SEVERITY OF THE WEATHER.--A correspondent some idea can be Thrmed of the severity of the weather on t h e Derbyshire hills, when I tell you that a few d a y s ago a grouse was found crouched am o ng the trees at the kitchen door ofalliend'. house 4idnVerAirtiaStere' so exhausted that it wa s ta k en ailve."—Stcitrord s i DON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 3, 1842 LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY ) The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Lord Feveraham, and the Bari of Falmouth. GA ILONAR V. SCOTT. This case came before their Lordships upon an ex parte ap peal, on behalf of the appellant, against the decision of the Court of Session, declaring that his title was not sufficient to enable himself to be infeoft in certain lands in Scotland, called Lochquarter. ROLL'S COURT.—(THIS DAY). No case of interest came before his. Lordship to-day. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THis DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCEELOR of ENGLAND.) BRUNFILE r. BRynoEs. The farther arguments in this case occupied the Court the whole day. Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. GORDON appeared for the ap • pellant, and the latter gent!eman had not concluded when our Evening Edition went to press. INSOLVENT COURT--(THIS DAY) RE JOHN LIVINCsToNE. The insolvent, in this rase, was joint patentee with John Davis and John Gerard De Witt, in an invention for the security of buildings from fire. He now appeared in Court on his petition to bedischarged, which was supported bs Mr Cooke. His petition was opposed in p erson , b y an i n d v idu a l n ame d Youles who was clerk to an attorney belonging to this Court, for a debt arising out of a bill.discounting transaction. It appeared that the opposing creditor had discounted a 291. bill of Exchange for the insolvent, charging a discount of Ss. 61 in the pound, and a balance remaining due, the present oppo sition, was entered. Two deeds of assignment of certain rights, which the insolvent was possessed . of, under the above patent, were executed in favour of 111 r. -Alderman Thomas Wood, and subsequently of a gentleman named Young, which Mr. Youles required to be produced in Court. The Learned CHIEF Comstisslostxa said, although he was amazed at the nature of the opposition entered against the in solvent, yet it would be but justice to the body of creditors that those deeds of assignment should be produced, and he should consequently adjourn the further hearing of the case for that purpose. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. -(THIS DAY.) There were no cases pessessing the slightest interest brought before the Court this morning, the whole of the night charges consisting of cases of " drunk and incapable." In t re, y instance the prisoners were discharged, and the business of the Court was terminated by eleven o'clock. ------------ - MARLBOROUGH:STREET. (THIS DAY.) . Thomas Wharen, aged b e t ween eight and nine years, who has at least a dozen times been summarily convicted at this Court of misdemeanors, with felonious intent, was again com mitted for two months, to Westminster, Bridewell to hard labour, for having been found between seven and eight o'clock last evening, secreted behind the' counter, of the shop of No. 15, King-street, Golden-square, for an unlawful purpose, no doubt to empty the till of whatever money it might contain at the first opportunity. When asked if he had anything to say in his defence, he answered with a smile, " I've nothing to say. I have no father or mother, that you know; and 1 was hungry ; and so I went into a baker',s shop, where there was summat to eat, and what s the harm of that ?" Thomas Collinson, another well-known boy-thief, was re manded until Saturday next, on suspicion of stealing a parcel of loaf-sugar, about 121bs. weight, which was found in his pos session last night in Panton-street, Leicester-square, the pro perty of some person or persons unknown. WORSHIP-STREET--(THIS DAY.) Caroline Lewis, one of the frail , yisterhood, was charged with having stolen a pair of shoes.at - the shop of 111 r. Walsh, shoemaker, Brick-lane, Spitalfields. From the evidence of the prosecutor's apprentice, a shrewd and intelligent lad, it appeared that on the preceding evening the prisoner called at the shop in company with another woman, and produced an odd shoe, which she :said she wanted to have repaired. Whilst he was loolciug at the shoe, the prisoner took a pair of shoes from a shelf close to the spot where she was standing, and' handed them to her companion, but the latter appeared flurried and frightened, and ran out of the shop, upon which the'prisoner with perfect cool ness, replaced the shoes on the shelf from which she had taken them. Witness called a policeman and gave the prisoner into custody. In her defence, the prisoner said, that she took up the shoes for the purpose of looking at them, and had not the remotest intention of stealing them.—The prisoner was remanded. RE ROBERTON. The hearing of this insohent's petition, which was reported in The Sun, came before the Coda on Monday, when it was ordered to stand over, to afford time for the Learned Chief Commissioner to look over the evidence adduced on both sides previous to pronouncing judg m ent. Mr. Cooke having' moved that judgment might be pro nounced to-day, The Learned Chief COMMISSIORER said, from the imultifari - ous business pressing upon the Court, he had been unable as yet to reiaa over the evidence. On Monday next the case might come on finally. RE RICHARD AHMED. The insolvent, who carried on business as a fishmonger at 22, Devon-hire-street, Portland-place, was opposed by Mr. Nicholls, on behalf of Mr. Joliet Moore, and supported by Mr. Cooke. The amount of debts appearing in his schedule was 1,5541. 19s. 3d., whilst the sum available to his creditors was 163. He calculated his weekly profits for a portion of the time, during which he carried on business in Devon shire-street, at 131., and expenses at 121. The chief ground of opposition was fir having executed a warrant of•attorney in favour of a gentleman named Mathole, who also held held the lease of his house as security for 200/. which he lent. Arr. Mathole said the sum he realised was only 2131. by the lease, and he was quite willing to place himself upon the same footing as the rest of the creditors. Mr. NicnoLLs said the conduct of this gentleman was highly creditable to him. Mr. Commissioner REYNOLDC concurred in the opinion of the Learned Counsel. Without any reference to the present transaction, he should read the report of a case which was brought before one of the Commissioners of Bankruptcy yes terday, when that Learned Gentleman said nothing could be more injurious to the interests .f the .commercial community than allowing insolvent debtors to give a preference to one cre ditor above another. It was a principle which ought by all means to be abolished, as nothing tended more to produce liti gation and dishonesty. In these sentiments he (Mr. Commis sioner Reynolds) fully concurred, and would act upon them generally as much as circumstances permitted. A witness, who had been in waiting to give evidence for four days, being absent, the case was ordered to stand over to next Wednesday. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The business of the Court did not commence this morning till half-past ten o'clock, when the Jndges arrived, in conse quence of the absence of the Aldermen. The usual hour for the business to commence is nine o'clock. (Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL. ) CHARGE or MURDER. —James Roberts, aged 39, a sailor, was put to the bar charged with the wilful murder of Mary Reed. Mr. Adolphus conducted the prosecution and Mr. Ballantyne appeared for the defence. George Francis Crome, a butcher, in York-street, West minster, stated that oil Monday evening the 14th of February, the prisoner was passing along York-street, and he met the de ceased. They commenced a conversation, and soon came to high words. The deceased said, you would not use me so if my husband was here. Witness saw the prisoner push the de ceased, and she put a pair of shoes, she had in her hand, into his face. The prisoner struck her on the hand. He said to wit ness, Go on, my good fellow." The prisoner carried in his hand a " grindle," or instrument used by knife-grinders, having a circular piece of wood at one end, and a stone at the other. The prisoner continued abusing the old woman, the deceased ; and he went into a beer-shop, and when coming out he struck her down with the Brindle. Elizabeth Rutter deposed that she was a widow, residing in York-terrace, York-street. ',remember, the night the transac tion happened. Heard the pristner using i mproper language to a woman, as I was passing by. After that saw Airs. Read; she was an old woman. Did not hear her say anything to the prisoner. Saw the prisoner strike Mrs. Read against the wall. When I first saw her, she was against her own door. She tried to get past the prisoner, and he took hold of a saucepan, and struck her with it. '1 he deceased turned then to go into a beer-shop. The prisoner said, " You need not go in there for pro' ec.ion, for I will wait for thee till thee comes out." The deceased stayed in the beer-shop about three minutes. The prisoner had that thing in his hand (a kind of grinding-stone was here produced, having a long bar of iron through the mid dle of it). As the decea s ed came out of the beer-shop door, the prisoner lifted up his hand and struck her Kith that thing (pointing to the bar of iron). That was be fore anything was said on either side, but immediately ies T he vo en r e p r r s i ah s pe o pn eared aa r rine a de g ot a ou i n t . Baiahave I been he did e e n ne d net i would nk the deceased appeared at th e d oor, t h e d ecease d fell back r printo t r. h .t e . r s ' h T ' ohinpel pegive :t e lt b e h u m e t r ahe l befr.a was not very much intoxicated. I saw no more of tEe deceased. Cross-examined.—l was an acquaintance of the deceased. I have known her about fifteen years. I have been examined before respecting this transaction. I will swear it was with the stone-end of the instrument that the prisoner struck the de ceased. I have never had any conversation with Mr. Crow about the stone. I have had no talk with Mr. Crow about the matter at all. Mr. BALLANTYNE, reading from the depositions—ls this true, " the man had a grind -stone in his hand, there was a t tone and a buff in the instrument. I don't know whether it was the stone or the buff end that he struck her with." Is that true? Witness—l said there' was the buff at one end, and the stone at the other. I put my mark to that paper, which meant that it was true. Did not see the deceased attempt to strike the prisoner with a pair of shoes. I saw her lift her hand up to defend herself. William Alfred Keane —Lives in York-street. Knew the deceased. Her husband was a plasterer. On the 14th Feb. the deceased came into a public-house called the Fortune of War, in York-street, Westminster. She came up to the tap, and remained from three to five minutes. She went out again, when I heard a blow, and saw the woman stagger back on the " settle." She said a man had knocked ner down with a grindstone. Witness went to the door with the deceased as she was bleeding. The prisoner was there, and he said "it served her right, and he would do it again ; she was drunk, and he was not. The deceased was not drunk, but the pri soner was the worse for liquor. Cross-examined 7 -yad known the deceased about two years. William Henry host, 58 B—Took the prisoner into cus tody. When he took him to Queen square, the prisoner said , Where is the woman ?" I said she was not well enough to give her evidence. He said, " God her eyes, I wish I had killed her quite. If I had known she was going to give me such a cold berth as she did I would have knocked her down and jumped upon her, and killed her quite." ( A thrill of horror ran through the Court.) Witness had never asked him any question concerning this transaction. Reginald James—ls house-surgeon to Westminster Hospital The deceased was admitted on the 14th February. ' , he had a " starred" wound on the upper part of the head ' • it appeared to have been caused by a blunt instrument. She lived two days. She lost a good deal of blood at the time of the accident. She died from concussion of the brain. This was the case for the prosecution. Mr. BALLANTYNE then addressed the .1 ury for the prisoner, contending that there was no_intentitin on the part of the pri sonar to kill the deceased, and concluded by mill, g the follow ing w itnesses :-- Thomas Chandler—Remembers this transaction. Never saw either the deceased or the prisoner before. Was crossing to the Fortune of War, and saw the prisoner and deceased. The prisoner had two kettles in one hand and a grindstone in the other. He was calling pots and kettles to mend. He ap- peared to be drunk. The deceased was close behind him. T u h p e , aud kettles r e m m a iingehdt about. have She passed him on the side on which the kettles were. Saw ht theerunbnoi had down again she had a shoe in each er in the breast with one shoe struck her, as they were swinging about. The deceased said the kettles go against her something, but did not hear what, and then she struck him on the hand with a i air of shoes which she had in her hand. She •Pw w ri -e • nt tha a h f an t en e 'n r di n'htuahatnesetd.eontshehWdeerht.:etn:u. UaserhpkdesttochaaneinPae: thatiles ya' time the prisoner had struck no blow at all. The deceased then ran into the Fortune of War. When the prisoner was struck he followed the deceased to the a minute. Witness the blow saw the blow struck. After . had been struck the much excited. prisoner appeared very t d the last • William Dug); corrobora e witness. Several other witnesses were called, all a whom gave similar door. The deceased came out in about testimony. Dlr. ADOLTITUS having address . ed the Jury on this evidence, The LEARNED JUDGfi S UTDr er ed t : e p,and in doing so said that . wast struck, that was consi. the Jury had to consider, law which he should ex; prisoner was s e guilty of murder, or of law provided that, in cases of this kind, where abeen struck from which struck ' death ensued, if that blow was a held to b in emollient of excitement, and in hot blood, that was not had e murder, but manslaughter pthlaeincrtiomteheomf them, whether only. But if a certain time _ ew elapsed between the moment of provocation and when the hl dered to be an act of . deliberate vengeance , and, con sequently, was wilful murder. They wool I have to con sider from the evidence, whether the fatal blow in delibe question was struck close upon the bl ow t h e prisoner had received, or whether there was sufficient time between the two blows for the blood o f the prisoner to co o l. I f they thought that the fatal blow had been inflicted i n a moment of irritation would and hot blood, then they find him guilty of manslaughter only ; but if, on the contrary, there was reasonable ground to suppose that there had been sufficient time fi n the bleod to cool, it bounden duty to find him guilty of the crime of wilful murder. The Jury immediately returned a verdict against the priso ner—Guilty of manslaughter. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE then addressed the prisoner, and said he had been found guilty of the crime of manslaughter, by a Jury of his countrymen. The offence was committed under most aggravated circumstances. It wa s a cr i me n early guilty approaching to murder ; and had the y j ot — , upon consideration of the evidence, found him of the full crime of murder, he should have inflicted upon him the full penalty of the law. The prisoner had shown a purpose reckless of human life, and , it was necessary, for the sake of the public, that he should leave the country for life. The sentence therefore was, that be t e tranotted for the term of his natural life. UNION-HALL-(THIS DAY.) Two men named Robert Smith and James Soanes, were plated at the bar before Mr. Cottinghore, charged with assault ing and robbing a gentleman, named Pawle, residing at No. 2, Lyon's inn. Mr. Pawle stated that himself and a friend were returning from the Surrey Theatre, about twelve o'clock last night, and nearly opposite Rowland Hill's chapel, he was accosted by the prisoner Soanes, who demanded from him a halfpenny. lie told him that he had not got, one. The prisoner was about to strike him, but his friend deterred him -from so doing. The prisoner was then assisted by Smith, and about ten more, who hustled him and his friend; he felt some person's hand in Isis coat pocket, and on turning round he distinctly saw his silk handkerchief in the prisoner Smith's hand. He immediately called " Police." and detained the prisoner, but was severely struck by Soanes, who attempted to rescue him ; and had not a policeman come up at the time, he has no doubt the prisoners would have murdered them. Policeman 164, L, said, that the prisoner Smith is well known as a street thief. _ _ • _ Mr. COTTINGHAM stated, that it was a most daring highway robbery, and had not the police arrived to the assistance of the gentlemen, there is no doubt the prisoners would have emptied their pockets, and severely injured them . ; he should have com mitted them for trial, but the gentlettien did not wish to pro secute, therefore, he should sentence Smith to fourteen days' hard labour at the House of Correction, and Soanes for seven days. Achilles Bull, a stout, athletic young countryman, was charged with stealing a loaf of bread from the shop of Mr. Turner, a baker, in the New Cut. The complainant stated that un the previous afternoon, the prisoner walked into his shop, and having asked for a loaf, in stead of paying for it, he commenced "eating it. When re quested to pay for it, he said that he had no money, and that he'd be d dif he was going to starve in a land of plenty. He was then given into custody. MAcIsTnATE—You are a fine, powerful young man ; if re duced to such distress why not enli,t in the army ; they would be glad to receive you, as recruits are wanting ? Prisoner—l don't like to enlist. I would not ge for a seldiet to please any body. Give me a month at the gaol. 'ihe MAGISTRATE said that he should commit the prisoner to hard labour for a month. THAMES-OFFICE.-(THIS DAY.) Lieutenant John Glen Johnston of the Hon. East India Company's service, belonging to the armed steamer Mem non, appeared to a warrant issued on Monday, chat ging him with having committed an assault upon Robert Gray, Quarter master of the same vessel, on the 27th of Feb. last. Gray stated that in the evening of the day before named he was in bed, in the cabin, with his wife, when the Lieutenant came to him and ordered him on deck, and having I.one there he was then ordered below, and was to consider himself a pri soner. Gray refused without knowing what for, when, as he stated, be was forced down, and in the scuffle his shoulder was dislocated. Mr. BALLANTINE inquired, of Lieutenant Johnston what reply he had to make to the charge. Lieut. Johnston said that he was an officer in the service of the Hon. East India Company. The Memnon, to which he belonged, was a vessel of war, intended for the East India navy, and was about to proceed to Singapore; to join the naval force there. By sections six and forty-three of an Act 3d and 4th Victoria, it is set forth that all officers and men serving in the Indian navy are amenable to martial law, the same as those belonging directly to her Majesty's service. Mr. BALLANTINE asked if the vessel was so constituted while on Ibis side of the Cape? Mr. Johnston replied that the Act stated "within or with ont the limits of the Charter." Mr. BALLANTINE having referred to the Act, said that the terms were so strong and comprehensive, that he should dis miss the warrant, being convinced that he had no jurisdiction in the ewe. If the complainant thought proper, he was at li berty to carry his complaint elsewhere. Lieutenant Johnston expressed his regret that the case could not be gone into, as they bad evidence to prove, not only that the assault was not committed, but that the conduct of the man was such as to require the interference of the officers, he having his wife on board -without permission. MONEY MARKET ►nd CITY NEWS . FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. POST.—The report is revived of Mr. R. Thornton being about to be invested with the duties and dignities of President of the Finance Commission of Spain. fhe long-promised advertisement of Messrs. Borrajo and Salamanca, with respect to the capitalisation of coupons, is still looked for in vain by the bondholders, and the reason assigned to Mr. Thornton on the 21st ultimo, for the delay, must, therefore, be another of the many mistakes which have marked the proceedings of these curious people. We understood M. Borrajo to say, that the observance of strict fairness and good faith required that the announcement should appear simultaneously here and at Path, and that this was the cause of procrastination ; but we have excuse upon excuse, postponement upon p stporement, and to speculate on what is actually going on—what is actually meant —or upon the question whether payment will ultimately take place, or whether it will not—were equally unprofitable to ourselves and our readers. It will, however, occur to most persons interested in the result, that as time elapses, and im pediments seem still to stand in the way of the payment of the present pittance of a dividend, the prospect of a continuance of payment, in the event of a commencement of it being ever made, become less and less encouraging. TIM ES. —The premium on gold at Paris is 105 per mille,whic'n at the English M int price of 31. 17s. 105 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 44, and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 575, it follows that gold is 0.64 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 431 i per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10',4d. per ounce, for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 Bh, and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 95, it follows that gold is 0.63 per cent. dearer in London than in Hamburgh. The c ,urse of exchange at. New York on London is 1081 per cent., and the par of exchange between England anti America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the ex change is 1.33 per cent. against England. But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted from the aforesaid difference. SUN.-1 he Stock Market was undisturbed by any further operations on the part •of the Hebrew dealers, but the public made a few investments at yesterday's rates, the prices therefore for Money were rather better than those for Ac counts. Consols for immediate transfer were 89 b to 89i, and for Account 891 1 to 89g. Exchequer Bills improved to 255. and 275. premium, and East India Bonds were steady at 10s. to lls. premium. Bank Stock with the dividend was quoted 170 to 1701. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were 981 to 99, and the Three per Cent. Annuities 89 3 4 to 90. The Foreign Stocks atrracted but little attention, and al though there is a talk that the Spanish dividend announce ment will be out to-morrow, we do not find that many arc dis posed to speculate on the chances of so uncertain an event. The South American Bonds continue to engross the chief at tention. Mexican Bonds maintained there value at 364 to 36k. and Columbian at 234 to 23.. Brazilian were dull at 65. Spanish Actives were at 244, Portuguese New at32i. Russian Bonds were marked 1124 to 1121 ex-dividend, and Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 52 to 51%. The demand in the Share Market bore again principally upon the Great Western, but which, however, were not quoted quite so high as yesterday. The other Railway Shares were at fair rates—Great Western were 23 to 244, the New, 114 to 124, the Manchester and Leeds, 6, the York and North Midland, 3:3, and the South Western, 17a to 184 premium ex. div. Brighton Shires were 14 dis. London and Westminster Bank Shares did not go higher upon the result of the favourable meeting held to-day, and at which a dividend of six Ler cent. was de clared. They were 2i Fern. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY COMPANY. —The I2th nalf-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the Great North of England Railway was held at the Company's office, Darlington, on Tuesday last, when it appeared, from the Report read, that the Directors were enabled to declare a 'dividend of 2/. ss. per share, after deduction of which, the clear balance remaining on hand would be 1,111/. 14s. 2d., which, with forfeited dividends and a remaining balance, formed a reserve fund of 4,2681. 13s. sd. No collision or ac cident has taken place during the winter, and the number of passengers conveyed during the quarter vs ding June 30, 1841, was 32,954, and in the last half year, 80,548. Arrangements were stated to be in course of formation for obtaining a rail way communication with Newcastle by means of the New castle and Darlington Junction Railway, and the Darlington and Shincliffe line is also proposed to be jo'ned to theirs. klt'LL AND SELBY RAILM'AY.-1.33, the Report of this Company, a meeting of which was held at York last week, it appeared from the account of passengers who have travelled by it during the six months from the Ist of July to the 31st of December last, that there had been an increase of 35,786 during that lime, over the first six months of 1841, and that no less than 91,000 passengers had been conveyed by the railway during the past year. The clear balance in the hands of the Company was 6,2361.16 x. 5d., and a dividend of 15s. was ordered to be paid on the 11th of April next. YORK CAr.EleuAn..-1;y a summary of the calendar for the Yorkshire Spring Assizes, it appears that there are 140 ewes for the West Riding, of which, amonng the more serious, are five for murder, seven for manslaughter, eight for stab bing, and one for rape. In the North Riding, out of nine cases, there are two for murder and two for manslaughter. In the East Riding, one for murder, being the only case. Mr. Leigh, the Mayor of Liverpool, who is already reported to be the richest commoner in England, has, during t he last month, received an accession of fortune under the will of some old lady, who lived somewhere at the south-end of that town. Curti) IN TIIE COAL MlNES.—Upwards of 500 letters above the average number passed through the post office of Newcastle-upon-Tyne on Val'entine's-day—a sure proof that the "Eoke gid" is atterniting to undermine the h e arts of the miners, watt-land: Oa THE CORN-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,— A glorious meeting was held to-day on 'Change here, and a resolution condemnatory of the Corn-laws, and Peers second edition, or as he calls it " improved version," unani mously carried 1 Think of this, amongst the Manchester Tory manufacturers of whom there are so many ! Peel must and wil lfeel this, as a great blow to monopoly, and to his strength as a Minister. He relied on our divisions, but to-day will show him that we are united on this point, if we can agree on no other. Your paper of I , st night was in the right strain — go on and prosper. This Bill must not pass, and it cannot do so if you are faithful. • Yours, Sr.C. Manchester, Mareh 1, 1842. A REPEALER. W HAT the PEOPLE HAVE TO DO TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—If the greater number of the manufacturers be in earnest ; and if the majority of us who are depending upon our daily labour for our bread, be filled with just indignation fort he wrongs and insults wo.are suffering from the monopolists, why arc we talking like angry women, and not acting as English men ought, when the alternative is victory, or misery and de gradation for themselves and their latest posteoity. Work is every where slat k. Let every Monday be a holiday, until the evils be removed. An arrangement of this kind can be easily carried into effect. It will give us the opportunity of meeting from week to week, hearing what has been done, and consulting together as to what is to be done. I do not dwell upon the advantages which would result from the pro ductive classes confrideiing Monday for the present a day sacred to national purposes, because I th nk they are obvious, and I shall be glad if you will advocate the measure. Our of pres stirs have leisure and every convenience for consultations; and whilst these bad men are conspiring to rob us let us meet together and consider how we can best protect ourselves. AN ENGLISH MECHANIC. Liverpool, Feb. 26, 1842. SUGGESTIONS FOR TtlE CONSI DERATION OF THE ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUI% SIR,-It is time for the Anti-Corn-•law League to abandon the hopeless effort to conrinse the landlords of the iniquity of the Corn-law, and of its ruinous effects in the nation. The makers of the laws still persist in their blind adherence to that system, which the most enlightened of their own class de nounce as the most effectual way to depreciate the value of land below that of such countries as Portugal and Poland, and to involve all the interests of the country in one sweeping ruin. Every rational and right-thinking man must be of your opi nion, that it is right to oppose such a law ; nay, that is wrong not to oppose it; that it is as much our duty to evade the law, as it is to take a bye-path in order to avoid an attack of high way robbers. If, therefore, the starvation laws continue, in another shve, some means of evading it must be adopted. Let the millions of operatives unite with the wealthy middle classes, and that which is called law, will be found only to be words on parchment. On the true principles of trade, I submit, why should we be their customers? Is there no other market from which to derive our supplies?—Yes. The granaries of-other nations are full, and will readily be emptied in exchange for our manufactures. I beg to propose, therefore, that the consumers of corn pledge themselves to use foreign corn only, if sufficient can be obtained, till free trade in corn be conceded by law. Let the merchants, manufacturers, dealers, and operatives, throughout the country, combine and form a Joint Stock Corn-Trading Company—such a Company should provide foreign corn for the members of the League, and effect the exchange of our goods for corn with the countries of the Con. tinent, and especially with America. In the latter country a corresponding Company might probably be formed to faci litate the operations of the British Company. In case the imports of corn should not be balanced by the exports of ' goods, and to prevent too great an efflux of gold, the mem bers of the League should abstain from foreign luxuries, and even such as tea, coffee, sugar, &c., which are essential to the comfort of the British workman. I conceive that this plan, if boldly taken up by the presen Anti-Corn•law League, and extensively acted upon, would effect such a reduction in the price of British wheat, as would be ruinous to the agriculturists, and would ere long bring them to terms It would greatly increase our export trade, without dceleasing our home demand for goods ; because, while it would furnish full employment to our manufacturing popula tion, it would not increase the price of food beyond that which otherwise must be given for British grain, under the undis turbed operatiou of the famine laws. I should gladly enter more fully into the details of this scheme, did the duties and cares of a large manufactufng establishment permit, but I must content myself with thus hastily submitting my suggestions to all who would rejoice to see the arm of the unrighteous oppressor broken, without war and bloodshed. A HATER OF OPPRESSION. MORE BURNING 1N EFFIGY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Allow me to inform you that Sir Robert Peel's effigy was burned here on Saturday last. It was mounted upon a gal lows twelve feet high, and placed in a dung-cart, and taken through the streets to the Corn Market, where the sentence, the same as was read at Derby, was read over to him, when hundreds of voices were heard, wishing it was himself. On his back was a printed paper with the words," Judas Iscariot's own brother." Around his hat, " A New Jim Crow," on which was the word, " Demon." It was calculated that there could not be less than 4,000 persons present remain, Sir, your obedient servant, though a constant reader of your liberal paper. Bridgenorth, Feb. 33, 1842. A o WORKING MAN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—It has been asserted that a reaction has taken place in the public opinion relative to the Corn-laws, because the signa tures to petitions for the repeal, dated 1842, amount only to between 400,000 and 500,000, whereas those dated in 1841 amounted to upwards of 1,000,000. It appears to me that the signatures to petitions forwarded in 11342 ought to be added to the previous 1,000,000, not com pared with them. The unenlightened public were not aware of Parliamentary forms, and those 1410 signed a petition in 1841, addressed to the same, or nearly the same set of men, have not felt it necessary to put their names to, or even to get up a fresh petition, because these same gentlemen meet under a fresh writ; and Ido not doubt but that, if the signatures w ere examined, this would be found to be the case. We must, therefore, say that the number of petitioners against the Corn laws, since the late Ministry brought the question before Par liament, and this is the fair and just way ot viewing it, amount to 1,800,000, say perhaps 2,000,000, or nearly one-half of the acult male population of England. Cver-production ! I would ask if all the surplus would not be taken off our hands if we could take corn or provisions in exchange ? Poland a in a state of destitution, says one wise gentleman. Could they take off our manufactur es? If we had announced twelve months ago that we would take as much corn as the) could grow for us, would not a large quantity of corn be now ready for us, and what would Ihey have done with the gold we should be now sending in retarn for it? They would not have eaten it, nor buried, nor hoarded it. It must have come back to us to purchase clothes and articles of manufacturing indus try, whether of cotton, of wool, of iron, or of brass ; because we have them always ready for their orders, or can prepare them with more expedition than any nation in the world, and at as low a rate. Are such assertions as those I have noticed above capable of carrying weight with any mind disposed to use its faculties in reasoning on the subject? ONE OF YOUR NUMEROUS SUBSCRIBERS. Fulham, 25th Feb:, 1842. TILE RAT AND ILLS TAIL.—Poor Peel ! Unfortunate Prime Minister ! You thought you could cat the farmer's cheese without being caught in his starving-trap. But Richmond has effectually caught you by the tail, and you must either remain where you are, or recover your liberty by biting off your caudal appendage. Every body wonders why the Duke of Buckingham resigned, after they discovered the distinction without a difference betwixt the old sliding scale and the new. The reason of the re signation is obvious. Peel's proposal to the Cabinet was for a much lower duty than that which he actually laid before the House. It was carried in the Cabinet, and the " Farmer's Friend' resigned. But the threats which his resignation produced forced Peel to abandon his own measure, and on the Wednesday morning; the day on which he made his declaration, the Cabinet was com pelled to throw up all their pans, and make an alteration in which there should be no change. Unhappy man: We almost pity even him, as Burns did the devil, lie is the mere tool of a cormorant faction, and alt the good or sagacity that is in him is overborne by the scoundrels of whom he is the instrument, and to the ambition of leading whom he is ready to sacrifice his own character and a great nation.—The Free Trader. . _ APPALLING MURDER.—AII inquest was held on the lfith, on the body of Andrew Martin, of Skinagin, parish of Do nagh. The deceased was about seventy years of age. It ap peared from evidence, that he had been sitting at the fire.. side alone about the hour of nine o'clock, on the night of the 18th, when a gun, loaded with slugs, was fired at him through the window, and which unfortunately took effect. Two slugs were removed from the body by Dr. Moffett, of Glass lough, and handed to the Coroner. One passed through the lungs, and lodged in the heart ; the second was removed from behind the knee-joint. The verdict was, "That the deceased, Andrew Mar tin, came by his death from a gun-shot wound of the heart, inflicted by some person unknown."—Northern Standard. DECEASE OF THE MARQUIS OF HERTFORD.—This Nobleman, who has for some time been in a declining state of health, expired at Dorchester House yesterday afternoon, a few minutes before four o'clock. The late Francis Charles Seymour Conway, Marquis of Hertford, Earl of Hertford and Yarmouth, Viscount Beauchamp of Hache, and Lord Conway, Baron of Rag- Icy, in the Peerage of Great Britain and Baron Conway, of Kil. lultagl , , county Antrim, in the Peerage of Ireland, was K.G., Knight of the Russian Order of St. Anne, Warden of the Stannaries, Steward and Vice-Admiral of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Chief Commissioner for managing the affairs of the Duchy, Lieu tenant- Colonel Commandant of the Militia corps of Cornwall and Devonshire Miners, Vice- Admiral of the coast of Suffolk, Recorder of Coventry and Bodmin, Custos Rotulorum of Antrim, and a P.C. The deceased Marquis was born on the llth of March, 1777, and was consequently in his 65th year. He succeeded to the title on the 17th of June, 1822, anti was married on the 18th of May, 1798, to Maria Fagniani, by whom he had issue—the Lady Frances Maria, who was born on the I,ld of February, 1799, and married, in February, 18112, the Marquis de Chevigne (her Ladyship died a few months after her marriage); Richard, Earl of Yarmouth (the present Marquis), a Captain in the Army, born February 9.2, 1800; and Lord Henry Seymour, who was born January 18, 1805, who has been so long resident in Paris. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign (Mice yesterday. The hour appointed for meeting was two o'clock, but before that time most of the Ministers were in attendance. ACCIDENT (TO MR. JONES, THE Coal EDIAN.—The public will regret to learn that Mr. Jones, for many yt ars un rivalled in his line at Covent Garden Theatre, lately met with an extraordinary and serious accident. Mr. Jones, while in the act of advancing hastily towards the fire-place, by some mea ns entangled his foot in the hearth - rug , and fell headlong against the stove, with such violence as to scalp the skull to a considerable extent. In consequence of this accident he has been under the constant care of an eminent surgeon during the last fortnight, but we are happy to learn that our old dramatic favourite is at knight convalescent, and will shortly resume his accustomed avocations. FOUR PERSONS I)ROWNED.-KIRKCUMIRIGIIT, FEB 27.—A very melancholy accident occurred here to-day. Five young men went out to take a sail in a small boat, and were on . - their return down the river, when a squall upset the boat, and four of the men were drowned. Their names are—Stewart 'Watson, who has left a wife and two children ; Hugh More land and Thomas Al'Keachie, single men. 'lhe bodies of the above three have been got; the other, thigh M'Adam, has not yet been found. Too much praise cannot be given to the men belonging to the port, for their exertions in trying to save the unfortunate sufferers, and afterwards in endeavouring to find the bodies.— Shipping Gazette. - CURIOUS ANTIQUARIAN D isc ovEßY.—ln making excavations at the Hotel de Ville, at Mons, recently, a leaden coffin has been discovered, containing the body of a female, well preserved, and the robes, in black silk, almost intact. Ihe head, placed by the side of the body, showed that the individual had been executed. It proves to be the body f t ohe Countess Inez de Mendoza, who was privately executed in the c o sf the Hotel de Ville, on the 9th of June, 1618, as an accomplice in the conspiracy o f the Marquis de Henriqun. A ring on one of the fingers bore the -arms of the Mendoza family. The coffin was transferred to the museum of the town. '•.? H W TO GET PRAISE IN TH NAV Y. , Ni ! e f o h l e as j , u o d f g . i t n ,h e e nt ar s tia l l ess o o n ns ofi7tichteivec7oucortztin which .A - will not be thrown away on the navy. It appears that an officer is not to blame for getting his ship under weigh on a lee shore, and in a rising gale, under sail which would not keep her under command in so possible or probable an event as hap pened, the wind's heading in a squall. This is vul garly called chancing it, in which there is nothing censurable. liad the wind held, the ship under courses, would have reached her anchorage ; but as the wind headed, and the ship could not stay under courses, she had no resource but to let go her anchor, which did not save her from striking. Had the gale continued from the south, she must have been lost, and probably all her crew with her ; but as one chance put her in jeopardy under sail with which she could not stay, so another released her. Next, an officer is not to blame for steering a course bringing him to the edge of a shoal, especially in so unknown and unmarked a sea as that between the Nab and St. Helen's Roads, where the sight of such - a thing as a buoy is as strange as a pine-apple on Salisbury plain. The Captain, as usual in all such cases, laid the blame to the compasses, which would not traverse; the compasses, poor dumb things, could not defend themselves, and retaliate that the Cap tain could not traverse a distance short of a league with out two great. faults; but the Court honourably ac quitted both the compasses and the Captain. " The Court cannot decide with precision on the causes which led to the disaster They appear to have rested mainly on some error in the supposed position of the ship when at anchor off the Nab, on the morning of the 26th of January last, and in the course intended, to he wade good whilst under weigh, but it is not proved by evi dence, that there was any material error or deviation in - the compasses." The Court was thus of opinion that the compasses were right, and the course wrong; but it saw no thing censurable in mistaking the position of the ship in that unknown sea within half a league of the Nab, or in shaping a - wrong course in -a kind of voyage of discovery thence to St. Helen's Roads.. 'in w amazement of the ship's company at the unex pected phenomenon of the buoy on the lee bow must indeed have been most deadly and unaffected. . .Nobody - and nothing having been to blame, not even those common causes of such catastrophes, the Nth- . less compasses ; her Majesty's ship the Vindictive was handsomely thumping on the shoal, and in this blame ' less jeopardy her Captain gains more credit for his conduct than the ship loses from her bottom. Should any other officer happen to be in the like circumstances to those in which Captain Nicolas was placed, he will do all that Captain Nicolas did, and nothing but what he did, and with the full sanction of the' Court-martial just held, he will run his ship ashore. After the example and sanction now given, no - officer will venture to set his top-sails in the same predicament.—Examiner. GOOD SERVICE PENSIONS. The Lords of the Admiralty have been pleased to grant Good Service Pensions of 1501. per annum to the iollowini ? * gallant officers : Captain J. W. Maurice (1809), R.N., residing at StOnehouse. This officer was in Lord Bridport's action in 1795, and assisted at the capture of two French frigates, La Unite and La Virgine ; was senior Lieute nant of the Centaur at the capture of St. Lucie and oaer West India islands ; was wounded storming a battery at Martinique in 1803 ; was distinguished for his-defence of the Diamond Rock in 1805, and the island of Anholt in 1811. His last post was governor of that island in the Cattegat, the garrison of which presented him with a valuable and highly finished sword, in token of their admiration of his personal bravery, and his conduct during his government. Captain Thomas White (a) (IMO), residing at Buck!ast Abbey, Devon. This officer commenced his career under Lord Hood, and was in seven actions with that distinguished officer between the 29th April, 1781, and the 12th April, 1782, on which day he was con cerned in capturing the French Admiral de Grasse, in the Ville de Paris of 112 guns, together with four other ships :of the line. In 1794, as first lieutenant of the Canada, he, by his unwearied exertions and suggestions to improve her sailing, saved that ship from capture, she having, in company with the Alexander, fallen in with and maintained a running fight with five French line-of-battle ships and three heavy frigates for some hours, in which the latter ship was taken by the enemy, As acting Commander of the Pelican, off St. Domingo,. in September, 1797, he fell in with two French privateers. one mounting 14 guns, %%jai a complement of 75 men, • while the other had 60 men for the purpose of boarding' • thus exceeding his own complement by 40 men. He in a second action sunk the former, and would have taken the latter, had lie not stopped to save the crew of the sunken vessel. For this action he received the thanks of the Admiralty, and was Gazetted, but never obtained the third Order of the Bath, it having been confined to the second war ; but not so with the first and second - Order. of the Bath. In 1805, whim commanding La. Eleche, of 18 guns, he attacked a French flotilla, and had several men wounded, when passing close under the battery of Greaeaz. In command of the- Ariel, in 1808, in the Baltic, he was frequenily under the fire of the Russian batteries while watching the Russian fleet in Rogerwick, then locked imp by the Swedes and British, tinder the late Lord de Saumarez. In 1813, when Captain of the Virgo, bearing the flag of Sir James N. Morris, in company with the Zealous, of the line, the Ulysses and Hatnadryad, frigates, &c., &c., no less than 375 merchant-ships were convoyed safely through the Sound, in defiance of the batteries of •Chronburgh Castle., to which were superadded mortars and heavy • guns slung in chains, fl- the purpose of throning shot over to the Swedish shore, which was then for the first time accomplished. Captain White served as flag captain to the gallant Sir Thomas Hardy, on the South American station, from 1819 to 1822, and in 1838-9 commanded the Royal Adelaide, bearing the flag of Lord Am e li us Beauclerk. then Commander-in-chief at this port. Captain John Pasco, R.N. (1811), residing at Stone house, Devon: This officer was tieutenant on board Lord Nelson's ship, the Victory, at the battle of Tra falgar, and was severely wounded in that glorious action. for which he receives a pension of 2501. a-year in addition to his half-pay. He has since served in other ships with much credit.—Devonport Independent. The premises in Milsom-street, Bath, known as the Old Bath Bank, and recently occupied by Messrs. Hobbouse and Co., were sold on Saturday, at the large sum of 4,030!. The purchase was made by the Directors of the West of Eng land and South Wales District Bank. A tradesman bid 4,0201., but refused to go higher. Last week the fbllowing extraordinary change of fortune occurred to Mr. Biddulph, 63 years of age, formed master butcher in Clare-market, but from adversities he un fortunately became so reduced in circumstances as to be cbligcd to become an inmate of the union -workhouse, in Cleveland • street, Fitzroy-square. After remaining there some time, a law-suit terminated in his favour, by which be has become possessed of funded property and estates to the amount of 30.000/. Yesterday he quitted the workhouse in company with his attorney, to take possession of his unexpected wealth. Mrs. Wood, on her ride from her villa near Wake field, to take the railway train for Leeds,on Sunday evening last, swing to the sudden flight of a favourite horse, was thrown with considerable force over the head of the animal, and, for a time. excited great fears as to the consequences of so untoward an accident. She was not, however, prevented by it from com mencing an engagement at Leeds on the following evening. There is a humorous story recorded of the Earl of Devonshire, A. r. 1240. who asked a farmer of his, " How he could bear his situation, seeing that his grange was much troubled by fairies, which," added the nobleman, a may be spirits from hell."—" Right honoured Lord," replied the quaint fellow, "there be verily two saints blessed in heaven which do trouble me more than all the devils in hell, and in true sadness those be the mother of our Dad and St. Michael, the archangel ; because it is on their days that I am bound to pay his dues to the good Earl of Devonshire." A lady was burned to death at Clontarf on Wednes day night, while sitting up for some of her family, who had gone to the Castle ball.—Dublin Paper. Yesterday morning a man, named Richard Flinn, aged 50, a fisherman, living at No. 5, Crown-court, Bankside, committed suicide by hanging himself from a bed-post by his neckerchief. No cause can be assigned for the committal of the rash act, as the deceased was a very steady man. A bombardier of the Royal Artillery at Ballineol lig, was tried by a court-martial a few days ago, and sentenced to be reduced to the rank i.f private, for repeated drunkenness. When the finding was promulgated he retired to his room and put a period to his existence, by discharging the contents of his tireloek in his mouth.— Cork Reporter. The whole world is put in motion, either bv the thirst after fame, the aspiring: of ambition, the desire for riches, or the dread of poverty. Aliss Rowe, the daughter of a local missionary at Gloucester, was dreadfully gored by a vicious cow on the Bristol-road, Lear that town, last Wednesday afternoon. The animal also wounded its driver, and tossed two other persons, and it would probably have done much more serious mischief had it not been secured. All the parties are recovering. Miss Rowe, who was most seriously injured, seems to have escaped with her life only in consequence of her cloak bee; ming unfurled. Some friends o 1 the gentleman, who, by a late de cree of the Jockey-Club, has been expelled from Newmarket and the other gambling territories of that society, were lament ing his hard fate, when a stander-by consoled them with the assurance that, after all, he was only in the situation of a man who had been " kicked out of h —ll ! We are authorized to state, that in compliance.with a request made to the Right Hon. Lord John Russell, that Nobleman has kindly coiner ted to preside at the ensuing public dinner, about to take place in behalf of that laudable charity, the Jews' Orphan A sylum. ----- - . _ "NO llumAN GOVERNMENT. " —The New Haven Herald says, a Mrs. Tuttle, of Prospect, was.committed to jail on Saturday by the Supetior Court at New Haven, " for re fusing to testify, on the ground of conscientious scruples, she denying the jurisdiction of the Court and all human laws. She stil remains in jail, and thinks the accommodations pretty good for a martyr." THE LIVERPOOL REFORM ASSOCIATION has published n letter to the electors of Liverpool, stating wh.r . t h . 7 thonOit it %inadvisable to eontvst the borough at. present. After adverting to the number of free in en I . v!_ o , r , h r e e bribed on former occasions, the letter , sf , tl :o 2'; ), aseen foregoing iJtatement shows the source f of the edancy, in the Parliamentary Elections to exist in the venality o f a great . major it y propriety of free men, and points out, to Reform ft °feisocial depression and staining, during this season the chief and undesir political apathy, from a ui con b : () i f this borough, to force their adverAaries this tire able result of which wo ul d d x enditure of money, the venal to gratify, by increase amongst theeelPectors !" Sir Howard' Doug la.,,, therefore, t alks over the course, alld is by 1, and corm'? Representative of ,Liverpool.