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to defend tY t i xays said p COMO he 11. 4 ats. But ow to imitsk t can didate d i s as a pro re they 00 1 ,,Y II not da iy head, fiuw e Comedic; th instant', io n t, and 5 of her beJ'\ es she $W 0 ••• 140,„ 4 01 , 3 75 oe - 5 0 2 50 ••• $ 73 os j'rder del! ;tt whicht s ed is cote, and 7 re ce His ' r esi tights Ike of la a vor a i n .111de NE", rilliglef settle/0o gr eat 4 9 01 4s beit i g t b o f r the 2jj, Three -P" d Exc lield . $(4 Bl fe ds, oe d " 01 P nr _ i egu utch , re h al iltiP " ighst Ip4 oth I Bright gi re 0 0 th ro redac t ' tbe Preroen2.lo ce 1 0 c o ill csoll 0 40 st aa to eh it m" CO' Per OP Thiet Fairs, iro V cinch in f Wit 4 the # racy , reige j 1 10 rs p r eo es 00 3/ f es r f oll col% 100 stelp tot ey, t , be 'VP aM ot e. leS. !1 0 1000 PP . i fr M to d t i p" bee° jor bOrs cr• - 'Ol 01 r* . Vll' 0 0 ' OP OP SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vitbitt taptittott, " Who runs may read." POREIGN. The C ourr i er de la Gironde of the sth inst. publishes a letter from the delegates of the Sugar Committee of Bordeaux, giving an account of their reception by the King. They state that the King appeared to 'oe deeply impressed with the corn- Plaints of the delegates, rand of the Deputies of the Gironde, who accompanied there. relative to the perturbation caused by the po s t ponement of tlae.sugar bill, but observed that he could only repeat the motiva a s assigned by his Ministers for the post pOnement, at the saane time confirming the promise made by 'netts to present a bill at the commencement of the next session. A body of forty Ithe P linen-manufacturers waited la s t we e k upon resident of the Council and the Minister a of Commerce and Finances, ar s d represented to them, that more than a third of the manufactorie s w e re s t an di ng st ill, an d t h at t h e li nen trade was it a a melancholy position. They in consequence ;'lied for r. 4 increased protecting duty of 10 per cent. on cloth, 3 ) 141 T , 15 , r,ser cent. on thread, imported from 1 ngland. The „, e l i i,a`ant of the Council and his two colleagues promised to `":" eat in their power to meet the views of the linen trade, after "l -e close of the session. The same manufacturers afterwards r r wcoedod to the Chamber, and obtained a premise of support ,','oni - several Deputies, particularly MM. Victor Grandin and arbla y . ~_ The French So c iety f or th e Ab o li t i on o f Sl avery have come :no resolution to give their sanction to the Government Bills re befo re t h e Ch am b ers, re l ative to forced expropriations in -o! colonies, and to the attributes of the Colonial Councils, as as m g a transition from slavery towards abolition. • o The sev en th anniversary o f the bi rth of The Duke of Bra t• heir -presumptive to the Throne of Belgium, was stele i"Le, dln Saturday by a grand military review. There were ci-„ue.j) °motions - in the army, he infant hero of many s ze ! , iVratchati nurse-faces was toreceive his first commission c ti lkoss, are all born wise and warlike, and are legislators and — "era as soon as they have cut their teeth. it Pfhe ceremony of the exchange of rings, or plighting of - 4 ° ths between the Princess Sophia of the Netherlands and the L he reditary Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar Eisenbach, took it e*. on the sth inst., at the Hague, in the palace of the theerdeinde, in the presence of the King and Queen, the parents of , affisneed bride, all the members of her Minis .ers s o ef State, the Officers of the Household, a and y g a t numerous ttrt. In the afternoon there was a grand dinner, and in the , Felting th e y oung coup l e rece i ved the congratulations of all the di °T egn Ministers, and a numerous assem bl age o f persons of ~.,stinetion. Th e f ron t o f t h e pa l ace was brilliantly illuminated 1 I the cyphers of the affianced 1 air. 4 : h „. e Leipsic Gazette of the 4th instant, states that the B r a. s ue arch had solicited permission from Mehemet Ali ouernarch, a bOdy of troops through Egypt to the Isthmus of 4 for the purpose of facilitating their arrival in India. The n i a e/ - 4 is said to have replied that he could not grant the re -. 4.. Alt without the consent of the Sultan. The object of Semi iT's visit to Constantinople is to represent to the,. Sultan the s,e a -pediency of granting a similar permission, and to suggest Propnety of erecting a line of forts on the coast of the Sea, ~ The PUBLIC OPINION. Morning Herald says :—" The position which Sir Ro t„o2a a states:nee emphatically invited by the . nation to re -14;7: it from its; embarrassments, has assumed is, both per= ' 111 7.. and constitutionally, a legitimate one.. Hoving ac . thr_ t m the ofP.ce tendered to him in such a crisis, it is no more o i . - 7 .0 a s privih a ge he may fairly claim to stand . or fall by the ap tc yation vs rejection of the general policy which he proposes th i lar c sue ; an d if h e b e somew h at too sens i t i ve or positive on o zT lor ,itis an error on the right side. It is an agreeable ti to see a Minister rather mere tenacious of his principles we ?I his place, and we may therefo-e set off any seeming htp u -mess of opinion against his evident sincerity of purpose. LI We must not arid cannot conceal the truth that Sir Ros e t's dominance (if we may so term it) borrows a compara 114e lustre from the unpoplarity of his predecessors, and that la c ° PPosition are blindly doing their best. to heighten the con 'en. to their disadvantage." l) ' Chronicle, speaking of Sir Robert Peel's recent bear towards the House of Commons, observes :—" Sir R. Peel tta' been i n more pass i ons s i nce the 3d of February, not only fLan Lord J o h n R usse ll s i nce hi s entrance i nto the House of Carrion: but all the Whig Ministers put together (including ti - "rd Stanley) during their ten years of power. It is become ,Z,inson subject of inquiry, when a Member comes into the ow is " How is Sir Robe r t ?" "I s h e in a passion ?" t o °,w is the g re at m a n ' s temper?" "Did he snob Lord tn„ity ?" " W as h e ru d e t o 11.1 r. Baring ?" "Did h e b u lly fo r - ,,nense of Commons ?" But, whatever fnay have been the a l s"„or the Tamworth tempest on former occasions, such a scene 4 0 ; fi llt of Friday night was never witnessed in the House. % % gorae minutes the great man was de a absolutely hors to t t• He could not read hand-writing, he could not speak e, t c onsecutive sentences. Ho was bearish to the Speaker ; if the House of Commons permit this vulgar bullying to o k api there is really an end to the character of British gentle fsc:„• Charles Fox used to say that nobody but a man of ti tt "Y could lead the House of Commons. Up to the present 4t e Sir R. Peel has disproved the opinion of the gifted Whig ; k l a ,t a truth, it seems that prosperity has turned his head ; e t ;that he is ; not gentlemen enough to deport himself with de le a .." to his - opponents. It is, however, a c o nso l a ti on t o us it t •ye that there is some impartiality in th ese vu l gar i t i es; an d lou. but ill for his Government that Lord Stanley is at 1 4 ~/b4l showing some syniptonis of self-respect, and is beginning 1 3 , discover that the head of the house of Derby ought not. to qatere dead weight, or of Knatchbull-like dimensions in the o l L att.” trott"e following is from the Pas 4 i—“ No ,doubt there are kte l l s eho are eargrised—marty Who are. disappointed—at the Rho urea which the Premier iffse brought forward. But they tl At blade him the leader of `the majority did not put him in Position in order to carry this or that measure which they in o, ll ecl. They gave him power because_ they had confidence alth r , 4 Judgment, and they have not withdrawn that confidence, .Wl 4 ; 4 lth Ile mai have come to deterrninations different from h earsi the Y expected. Within' the last three weeks we have i..• oundreds of the Tory party stating the objections which Is tot - ed to themagainst the measures which have been brought kkqetrd, b ut en di ng w i th the assertion that they believed Sir so il it Peel and the Duke of Wellingtonknew better than they --- kLlvhat the honour- and interests of the country required, 44. therefore that axe measures of the Government should have s r support." . '. VI an article on tho subject of Sir R. Peel's income tax, the ~lea thus expresses itself :—" We do not pledge ourselves tC - ,7i, while, as mu s t h ave b een suff i c i ently obvious to our taees, either to all the details of his plan, or to the argu cltta 'which have been urged in its support. One such argu teelo,eP,ed by Mr. Roebuck, and, we are sorry to say, re -410,." 1 ' a modified shape by Sir R. Peel, in a debate shortly I '4 : Easter, was well refuted by Lord John Russell. It tlhn o " of those merely popular topics which, from their very !PolaZess and a certain appearance of point, men use to elicit :„ .. aa ca o l f rorri their own supporters. The opposition to the ;Lan ta tt risitorial was met by the assertion that an honest l — *lth ca Ilot fear the exposure of his affairs. We call such a e ekle tt 't Ungenerous as oell as unreal. It is the random, r"es 0 , „ s aaing of a man who knows Itoothin about the difficul 4iist.`"e nature of business. is like those sweeping .hitt •ef strict morality which some people are fond of apply ;4'4 0 4se s in which the have no cocern—wide, unpractical right set which only show y that those who make them have Sea ;`,t their minds and consciences in earnest to find out o l f l u Wrong, have never really dealt with those complicated lo ra c onscience which every man has now and then to settle Th e a c,. l f. Lord J. Russell justly protested against this fallacy. lell ak 114-ieerpool Journal states that the agriculturists are 4 61 14 ,1 t . I Y opposed to the new tariff, and observes :—" Hay eh o t Mime to read, mark, and inwardly digest it, and notice ;try try 1 1,0 11,1 y it cuts away that ' protection,' which, as they S tl eroal says the present Tory majority in the House was t ot t _o to sustain, they have raised an outcry which has k. `ts, at7rthe friends of free trade much more than the Minis- Le is t agei one end of the three kingdoms to the other they k - Toga,'" arms, and are backed by various other smaller mo -42.8, Whose interests are menaced by the proposed 10 C. On the other hand, the resistance to the income rh o slow, is gathering; and though not formidable in dice would add, if directed to a resolute opposition to the t l i , to the weight of the other." ~etts tPubfin Evening Post thus alludes to the probable ef ,ielest:34 the tariff on the glove trade :—" The admirable ten Z,:ea ts, °f ork ar e h ang i ng i n t h e market, and for the Limerick o ‘ et ht. ' el hioh we rea ll y thi n k b etter t h an the best Paris we Ote ro "— (but, sooty to s ay, we are not particular in these °I you cannot m a k e sa l e . In England, this trad e , an d b `rades includ e d in th e genuine haberdashery, are suffer -414'4 When the duty is lowered, what will become of the ho a ; We might almost say, employed in the work? 'this ~,,Vi+% they will have to answer in England, as best they can.% eto4lote the following remarks from the Leeds Times ‘ ‘ , 4 l 4 o tl l , ; _ l Y it is in the division of his enemies that Peel's strength, 44_ weakness, consists. An immense . number of classes 4,,tl )e 'est4 are dissatisfied, but all for different reasons— irpitt ,cause the measure is ton liberal, others because it is ttat c s t c h 'te and inquisitorial —some because it diminishes the Ces 0 1 ' 4 ° , 1 1 of the home producers, others because it main kwNte triost egregious mischiefs of the present system. The Leshr lariats, the coal-owners, the manufacturers, the shop aZt. l ol ', te . professional classes, are all complaining, more or r i N te ",' their opposition has no plan or concord in it : the disc ' Parties cannot coalesce and act together, and conse kl:llj,,Peel feels himself strong, and his measure safe." te 'Woman observes, on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's o t t'ti tariff:—We will not be entrapped into a hasty c00,,,„,,ii ,,,„ , ,ii of the proposed ameliorations, however incomplete ; lON, t4i .i _h certain " working interests" may suffer, the ob ta`if "etc f h h oee is to benefit the nation at large. , sue C a k k h a e endcon that in the -march of this great principle, not hilttlC"mtbarriers which ' protect' labour should be spared, how d c bsi c ; t aelger must be our hostility to that monstrous mono thq, ~ ~ t , hi order to swell the rent-rolls of the aristocracy, til l 'lto_ e poor not only of bread, but of employment! Yet Itto7 ,ni aster-grievance for which Sir Robert has dragged IL t '6'llorred it.come-tax from its grave expressly to defend !" IN%, gonbrio n says:—" It cannot be too often repeated, , t, the bent Peel came into power to prevent justice being Ve L l e Ce People. He is the Minister of the monopolists. It to,lli t ' to telt him that there is all the difference in the lI,N o.,P ° int of justice between a tax on property and a tax lls'eta,. dr -e atrie of trades and professions. He is not at liberty kti th ol ° e l the income tax part of his scheme. He has told N kti t Z' he must carry the income tax or quit office. Of Nes ; 8 e o f the community, the owners of lend ought, for Pea_ B4 htis, to be equally taxed with the owners of per h rty . > • e k et ' lt Sta s k ° VET— I'It.a.DE— COMMERCE. ' k t i: 4 - . 4 ' e of trade at Bradford is more animated; at Leicester 4 4‘1 11, , d o ing in the glove and hosiery lines, but general 142111 proved. At Blackburn and Leeds the aspect of ‘IL v rY depressed ; Manchester is worse. OS ° bee . IV A VAL .B.N 1) MILITARY. . . t N T armed steam-vessel, called the Semiramis. built by bkNesore ship -master, fur the East India Company, has . 11 44 Y launthed at Bombay. thtkitli toilaerally believed in the naval circles that Admiral Sir e laYreco p e k ' G-C.B.a will succeed Admiral Sir G. Moore hi VII ° Na as "' command • Admiral Sir Chas. Rowley, G. C. 8., 4 , tolcelth command • and Rear-Admiral Hyde Parker, o l ,:e the successor to Rear-Admiral the Honourable A l tot e ' tr ie, whose time is up in July neat. 44 4 11 % , rt H e LAW AND , P 0 1.1. C. k.. 1. ~.8 . fo p 4 „" and Jonathan Taylor, convicted at the last York -4 04,.`,"e murder of their wives, were executed at York ,4, r,„ •Y last. From 10,00 to 12,000 persons were present. isrtt tithe SPORTING, 4, L Pt fr _ Queen's stao-hounda meet. at Slough: the three '4 p 3 "lint in the New Forest fixed upon for next week 4 , l'i,t 8 t isned. 444 .4 1 , 4 rthh t ?, ? V IIT—PASHIONABLE. • Vti c Zill ( .7 410 P of Canterbury's public dinners at Lambeth tit f N asclinnence on Saturday next. ig o c/ eS:," Countess of Jersey entertaned a select circle at ~ru a •ac ti w day, in Berkeley-square. li ( hatlda o ' e Pcy Earl De Grey arrived at the family mansion \ t t,.io:sarr o '" . .nin Dub:iri Castle. k 4 N S ` ' Germaine has arrived at the Marine Hotel, 0 11 . t, i l 4 .tt md 1 %,, 0 Isd, . Viscountess Beresford leave Bedgebury Park, tl'Oal linty/51..0r Cavendish-square. .1 (i ,1 1 J"r,,, p Inters left town on Saturday last for Newmarket. cl 4 0 . has arrived at Alivart's Hotel, from Crewe Hall; 44 % 1 4 '11't ' t P eel will give a grand dinner on the 23d inst., at MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Yates, the actor, has become so much better, as to en. able Mrs. Yates to resume her duties at the Dublin Theatre. Petitions against the income tax h ave b een numerously bign ed at Wolverhampton, Wakefield, Darlir.gton, Durham, Wooler, the parish of St. Marylebone, and several county towns during the past week. On this day was concluded, in 1713, the celebrated peace of Utrecht, and with it termineed the 12 years' war for the suc cession to the throne of Spain. At a meeting of the Floricultural Society last week, it was stated, in told n of the high price and value of tulips, that in 1809, Titian, a fine spe- imen, sold for 501. ; Dowager Conn te:s of kt, l estury, 1001. ; Gloria Florum Suprema, 300/. ; and in 1818, Joie de Davey, 5001. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) WIGAN. RESULT OF THE PETITION. The Committee met at the usual hour, and were informed by the Agent of the petitioners that . bath parties agreed that the proceedings should terminate where they were—that is that Mr. Standish, one of the petitioners, should be substitutM for Mr. Crosse, as ene of the Members f,r the . Borough of Wigan. The Committee then came to a resolution to that effect. Mr. Greenall and Mr. Standish are therefore the sitting Members. LONGFORD. The Committee met at ten o'clock this morning, and Mr. A LISTEN commenced his argument against opening the re gistry. He began by givin zan elaborate and minute description of the law of registration in Ireland, and noting the points in which it differed from that of England. He pointed out to the Com. mittee that the registration in Ireland is not animal as in Eng land, but that a vote once put on the registry remained on it for eight years. The claimant to vote was compelled to send in a notice to be lut on the register, instead of his name being ylaccd there by the act of the overseer. The decision on all cases arising from the registration was given by the Assistant Barrister of the county, an independent officer, and the Chief Civil and Criminal Judge of the county. The mode of examination was much more stringent, and he contended that the investigations by the law of England and Scotland were not near so perfect anti complete as that exacted by the law of Ireland. GREAT MARLOW. The Committee met again this morning at the usual hour. The room was immediately cleared, and rema ned closed for some time; but the subject of the deliberations of the Com mittee did rot transpire. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, addressing the Committee, said that the Counsel on both sides had had an opportunity since Saturday of looking over the lists, and having determined that Air. Henn Hampden should be rift in a majority, they had 'found an easy means of effecting that object without troubling the Committee with a re-consideration of the vote of Charles Giibons. He should, therefore, withdraw his appli cation upon that subject, and he would propose that the vote of William Plumridge should be struck off the roll, on the ground that he had received relief from the parish, and was not, therefore, entitled to vote at the late election. Mr. KINGLAKE, on the part of the sit ting Member, admitted that the family of the voter Plumridge had, under peculiar cir cumstances, received relief fiom the parish, and he would not, therefore, support the vote. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to say, that as Mr. Hampden had again been placed in a majority, the sitting Member wished to retire from the contest. He might be permitted to say, without meaning any disrespect to the Committee, that some of their decisions on the registration question had taken Counsel on both sides by surprise. The Counsel for the sitting Member had been duced to advise him not to prosecute the inquiry any further in consequence of the great length to which the prom dings had already been protracted, and from a conviction that by persevering in defending the seat, the result would be doubtful, and most, in any ease, lead to great additional expense. Mr. Sergeant \%'RANGtiAM then intimated that he only wished the usual resolutions to be passed. ITe room was then cleared, and the Committee came to the usual decision in such cases, declaring that Sir William Clayton had been unduly elected to serve as a burgess for the borough of Great Marlow in the present Parliament ; and that Mr. Henn Hampden ought to have been returned as Member for the borough. The Chairman, Sir J. Y. BULLER, intimated that the Corn. mittee were ready to hear ai,y statement which might be made to them relative to their former proceedings. Mr. Joseph Parkes, the agent • for Sir William Clayt on , th en stated to the C omm i ttee , on behalf of Richard Gibbons, whom the Committee decided to have been guilty of perjury, in the evidence he had given on a former day, that the witness, pre vious to his appearing before the Committee, had been ex. amined in a very hurried manner by the agents of Sir William Clayton ; that the evidence so taken had been briefed, and that the voter had been examined upon it before the Committee, Gibbons had since stated that he had been thus led into con fusion by the questions put to him ; that he had confounded the names of Pusey and Povey, and that everything he ha 4 said of the one was perfectly true of the other. Mr. Cooper confirmed the statement of Mr. Parkes relative to the rapidity with which the evidence of Gibbons had been taken in the first instance. The room was then cleared, but the Committee came to no decision. It was understood that they had agreed that the subject should be left to the di,cretion of the House. REWARD OF. ONE HUNDRED POUNDS FOR THE APPREHENSION OF GOOD. But little doubt exists that in the course of a few hours Da.- niel Good will be in the custody of the Police, as, about one o'clock this day, an order came front Sir James Graham, the Secretary of State, to the Police Commissioners, autho rising them to offer a reward of One Hundred Pounds, far the apprehension of Daniel Good. That the retreat of the murderer is known there can be no doubt, from the fact that last night and this morning several of the lower class of Irish, living in the vicinity of Tooley-street, havingmade inquiries of the police whether any reward was likely to be offered in the course of Monday, and whether they thought it would be a large sum or not. It is also known that .he has some cousins residing iii the above locality, and that he is on the Surrey side of the water is strongly supported by a lengthened report laid before the Commissioners of Police, by Mr. Superintendent. Mallalieu, of the R or Greenwich di vision, which in substance is as follows :—About half-past nine o'clock last night a man, who evidently was Good, went into the Union public-house, situated at the eastern ex tremity of Greenwich, and as soon as he entered the tap-room ordered a pint of beer, which was brought in and drank off at a draught. He then asked for a penny loaf, which he began to eat in a ravenous manner. His manner and con duct excited thtse present ; when one of the parties said, " I should like to know whether Good is taken." The words were scarcely out of the mouth of the speaker, before the man ran out, leaving the bread behind. He was followed, and from the sound of the footsteps, took the direction towards the marshes, but was lost sight of. The police, however, on duty at this part of Greenwich saw nothing of such a person, while at an early hour this morning the various inlets were searched, for the purpose of ascertaining whether he had de stroyed himself, but up to the time of Air. Ballantine leav ing no discovery was made. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. HIGH PRICE or MEAT.—The extravagant price obtained for butchers' meat induced the farmers in this island (and in deed in all parts of England) to fatten and sell all their o!d cows ; the consequence is, that they are now trying to make up their stock, and are saving all the it cow calves for that pur pose. This has occasioned the price of veal to be increased from the price it used to bring 4d. to sd. per lb. to 8(.1. ! THE WHALE.—At public auction this monster brought only 241. It was bought, as we expected, by a party from Cowes, and was towed up on Saturday, and grounded in Gurnet Bay, a slight distance to the westward of Cowes harbour. Hun dreds fleck to see it; the shore and sands are lined with a wondering multitude, and many a fair hand is engaged in cutting up the carcass ; they cannot take a lock of the old gen tleman's hair, so they take a piece of his skin or bone, to keep in remembrance of this visit, as at the sale all seem to be anxious for a slice, but none seem to know what to do with the whole. Its lergth appears very different to different persons, some making it. only 72 feet, while others measure it 100. The tail is 14 feet broad ; it lies on its side, and appears about 8 feet out of water, and is supposed to be three feet under; as it is ex pected to make dry this morning or to-morrow (Monday), its dimensions will then be correctly taken. One report says it was seen alive from the Needles lighthouse on Good Friday. Another, that it was seen drifting in the Channel, and thought to be a ship bottom upwards. It is likely to turn out a very profitable speculation, although the charge for viewing it is but one penny. East Cowes is all bustle and anxious expectation. A number of men are employed marking out the roads of the new town, they are to be sixty-six feet in width, and are to be made by contract, about two miles has already been marked off on the north side, while on the south side men arc employed digging brick earth for the manufacture of thirty millions of bricks. The contract for the iron fencing for the Botanic Garden, an extent of forty acres, has been t a k en b y a L on d on house. The Society is under the patronage of the President of the Royal Botanic Society of London; G. G. Sig:mond, M.D., F.L. S., F. H. S., F. R. B. S. ; Sir B. C. Brodie, Bart., F. R. S. ; Samuel Askwell, M.D. ; J. A. Paris, M.D., ; J. Elliotson, M. D., F. R. S. ; Professo r Li n dl e y, P . H . D., F. R. S. ; G. J. uthrie Esq., M.R.C.S., F. ; R. A. St a ff or d, Esq., M.R. C. Si, F. R. S. ; Thomas Addison, M. D., F, R, B. S.l W. B. Costello, M.D. ; W. Ifell, M.D., F.R.8.5.; J. C. Turner, M.D. ; John Fleming, Esq., M.P. ; Hyde Clarke, Esq., F. R. B. S. ; David Jardine, Esq. , F. R.B. S. ; Major- General Sir Burges Camac, ; Sir R. P. Joddrell, Bart., and the principal scientific gentlemen in the kingdom. The Park is 160 acres in extent, on which it is proposed that. 150 detached villas should be built. From the great rise in the land, each will command sea and land views of unequalled beauty. NEWS FROM PORTUGAL. We have letters from Lisbon, via Southampton, to the 4th instant. The Duke of Paltnella's appointment as Plenipo tentiary to negotiate th e commerci a l an d s l ave trade treaties with England received its formal ratification in the Council of State on the Thursday preceding. The draught of the commercial treaty had been received by Lord Howard De Walden, and a conference hail already taken place between the British Minister and Portuguese Plenipotentiary, which was understood to have been of a most satisfactory descrip tion. Baron Fayal, the Al mister of Finance, had been associated by consent with the two Plenipotentiaries, to aid them in consider.. ing the practical questions of the maximum and minimum points in the reduction of duties. The calculations with reference to the fiscal alterations upon articles of import and export proposed by England were all completed, and the understanding was that these were to be submitted to competent referees, approved by both parties, with a view to test their justice. This being ascertained, lit le would remain but to sign the treaty, a result which might be expected to take place very speedily, the more so as memorials bad been forwarded from Ma deira and Oporto, praying for the speedy conclusion of this commercial treaty, and representing a general bankruptcy as the inevitable consequence of further delay. The memorial from the Madeira merchants even went the length of arguing a temporary suspension of the tariff, with a view to the revival of commerce. The expected Papal brief had been received, investing Mounjna with full powers to represent his Holiness as sponsor at the approaching baptism of the infant Prince, which was expected to be celebrated with much solemnity. The new Nati ,nal Guard was being enrolled, and preparations were also made for a vehement struggle at the ensuing elections ; but the Govern ment was daily acquiring fresh strength and stability. Major C. J. - Vander Menlen, of the 73d, a most distinguished Peninsular officer, in which warfare he served from 1809 till the surrender of Paris, and in which service he was three times wounded, has received the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, fcr having commanded the guard of honour that received her Msjesty on her late visit here. We trust that Captains Willes and Fynmore, of the Royal Marines, of the St. Vincent and Queen, will also have the brevet rank of Major, having commanded the guards of honour in those ships on t. a occasion of her Majesty's first visit to the fleet. We hope no little jealousies between the Admiralty and the Horse Ulla* will prevent this act of justice.,flantpahire Telegraph. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EV.I4_!NING. APRIL 11, 184 2 AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT CALLINGTON. (Abridged from the Devonport Independent.) On Wednesday last, pursuant to requisition, a public meet ing was held in the Town .hall, at Callington, in the county of Cornwall, for the purpose of opposing the new tariff relative to the introduction of foreign cattle, &c. The requisitionists, with the exception of two, are Tories, and consequently a meeting got up for the purpose of opposing a Government formed of the " farmers' friends," excited no small degree of interest. B. SNELL, Esq., of Landulph, one of the requisitionists, was called to the chair. On his right were Sir W. L. S. Tre lawny, Bart., and J. S. Trelawny, Esq. ; on his left W. Nat tle, Esq. The hall was crowded almost to suffocation. The CHAIRMAN read the requisition, and said he had, at the desire of the requisitionists, enclosed copies of the requisition to Lord Eliot and Mr. Rashleigh. Lord Eliot returned a prompt and ready reply, in which he expressed his sorrow that any mea sure of the Government should endanger the agricultural inte rests of the county, but he did not believe that the alterations proposed would have that effect; but he would lay before the Government any statements of facts that the meeting should think tit to send him. Mr. Rashleigh had not replied. J, BOGER, Esq., moved the first resolution, to the effect that the object of the proposed new tariff was to give a stimulus to trade and manufactures, and to afford employment to those branches of trade which were at present in suffering or distress; that the agriculturists were prepared to take, in common with other classes, the proper share of any sacrifices which might be necessary to arrive at to important a result ; but that whilst they were not des'rous of raising any obstacles to the attain ment of that object, they thought the proposed tariff made alterations in the admission of agricultural produce to a much greater extent than necessary, and to an extent that was likely to prove injurious to the British farmer. The resolution was seconded by Mr. Hawke. J. S. TRELAWNY, Esq. rose. It was impossible for him to allow that reso'ution to pass without a few preliminary ob servations. He (Mr. Trelawny) was placed in a peculiar position, for while he could not entirely support the resolution, on the other hand he must partly oppose it. At the last election he told them that a change would be pro posed in the Corn-laws, and many would recollect that on the hustings at Bodmin he asked Lord Eliot whether he would bind himself to support the principle of protection. What was the answer of Lord Eliot? He said, " I will support no change that shall not be acceptable to the agriculturists themselves," or words to that effect.—(Cheers.) He asked them whether or net they were contented with the measures recently pro posed ; he asked whether Lord Eliot would have fulfilled that pledge if he supported the measures of Sir R. Peel ? • The CHAIRMAN thought it was hardly fair to presume that he would support those measures. Mr. TRELAWNY now thought they were bound to apply to Lord Eliot either to resign or to oppose Sir R. Peel. W. NATTLE, Esq., questioned very much whether the reso lution proposed by Mr. &ger was in accordance with the feel ing of the meeting.—(Cheers.) Befere they passed the reso lution he would beg to ask them whether they had met there to oppose the present tariff or not. Everyman of common sense knew that this tariff was unfair in its application, and yet at a meeting which had been called to oppose it, a resolution had been submitted to them which contained a perfectly quiescent acknowledgement on their part that the object of the Govern ment was a proper one ; and, without wishing to touch on party politics, he would ask the meeting whether not only the Government had deceived them, but whether their own representatives. Mr. Rashleigh and Lord Eliot, had not also de ceived them.—( Cheers and uproar.) He would most distinctly state that the present Government had got into power on delusive principles, and that they had deceived the public.—(Cheers.) Sonic one had said that he had no stake in this matter, but he might state that he believed he should have in spring tillage this year a greater number of acres of corn than any man that was likely to address them ; he thought theref ore h e m i g ht b e allowed to h ave s o m e f ee ling on the object of the meeting. Mr. Nettle concluded by moving an amendment to the ori ginal resolution. As the amendment had to be put first it was subsequently altered and proposed in these words:— Resolved, that to acquiesce in the measures recently pro posed by Sir Robert Peel, would be to acquiesce in the policy of Sir Robert Peel, of which this meeting entirely disap proves."—( Enthusiastic cheering. ) W. S. Moanax, Esq., of Launceston, seconded the amend ment. He thought that the measures proposed by Sir R. Peel were such as the people of England would not assent to, and if the Hon. Bar4sset had announced those measures before he dissolved the lath' Parliament, be would not now have had a hundred followers in the House.—( Hear, hear.) As for pe titioning the House of Lords upon the subject, he would as soon petition a brick wall.—(Creat cheering, and cries of " Chair.") The only way was to memorial.se her Majesty, who had shown her patriotism on this occasion, for she had said to her Prime Minister, " if you tax my people, you shall tax me too."—(Loud cheers.) What had been the principles of the Tories ? From the beginning to the end they had never taken off a tax as long as they could keep it on. Pressure from without had always done that. Press them now, gentle men.—(Cheers.) Press them now by calling for different measures. Press them how in their Tory districts._(Cheere and laughter.) It was new a time for them all to come for ward, for he had taxed the landowner, the renter, and the in • dustrious class of manufacturers. He had taxed them all, and the worst tax of all was the income tax, for it would paralyze the whole country.—(Cheeis.) On the amendment being put, the Chairman declared it carried by a large majority. The original resolution was sub. sequently discussed at some length, but on being put to the vote was rejected. THE TWO ADMIRALS. 3 VA. Bentley, London. 1842. recommends the expediency of our being satisfi• ed with just vindicating the dignity of our national cht tracter. The prose tales are as amusing as the general run of such Magazine articles. LITERATURE. WESTMINSTER REVIEW, No, LX XIII. Hooper, London, 1842. Like a lady's letter, the most important article in this Number is introduced by way of Fos tcript, armi is THE 'SPORTSMAN AND THE SPORTING a discussion on the financial project of Sir Robert MAGAZINE Peel, wherein the Reviewer e aters a just .and: forcible " The Pedestrian," a continuation . of a series of arti ,, ye pro-protest against the income tax, o . .sserving,des on France, in the first of these publications, contains test against the injustice of so levying the tax that it some interesting details on the manners and customs of will fall lightly on the rich, but with a crushing the people. as well as the state of manufactures in that weight upon the commercial and professional c lasses. country. The writer calculates that of the thirty-six We deplore the wrong about to be cu-Inmitted, as thousand English resident in France not fewer than ten thousand are employed as artificers and manufacturei - s• bringing odium upon a principle of taxation in itself Want coal, e of tte e however, forms a sad drawback on indus-• just, and which, when confined to realiz‘rd caPita ) , undoubtedly the best mode of obtaining a revenue, otrfy,Eth eland. being under one. fifth of tt degreeco o s f ts a t ia w t ice as much ash n because that which interferes in the slightes .1 ; , London, the total annual valuee consumed in the with the productive interests of a country. „ l e, French capital being estim a t e d at 1,600,0001. The sport- Reviewer then goes on to speak in terms of qu42119 lift ing intelligence for the month is very copious. Nimrod approbation of the new commercial tariff, addi.lg, gives a good account of a day's hunt with the Queen's however, by way of drawback, " a false prim - , hounds, and Prince Albert's stud—ln the Sporting Ma ple pervades the whole, which we regret exceed- , gazine th ere are t wo goo d s k e t c h es, w i th well-executed ingly to see set up, and which we remark w ith I naps, of th e pl aces o f mee ti ng o f t h e H unt of the Mar some surprise, because opposed to the spi r it in which clu- , s of Hastings in the country around Castle Donni ng _ most of the reforms app e ar to be mad e ." Th e ." false ton, and of Mr. M u i r ' s H un t i n S u ff o lk. principle" here alluded to, is the principle of protoc tion which, says the reviewer, " Sir Robert Peel de stroys with one hand, while with the other he calls it again into operation." In the "Memoirs of Jeremy Bentham," one or two anecdotes are related of the philosopher's youth, which, we a re assure d, ex hibi t an extraordinary " sedateness of thought and self reliance:' On one occasion, it seems, "the Duchess of Leeds said, Little Bentham, you know who lam ?' I had no notion she was a great lady, and answered, 'No, Madan), I have not that honour.' " We must honestly confess that we are blind to the " sedateness of thought and self-reliance" of this reply. Here is an other anecdote.." A short time before dinner Bentham was summoned up stairs to the Duke of Leeds's apartment, where there was a physician, to whom he said, This is Bentham, a little philosopher.' A philosopher !' replied the doctor : can you screw your head off and on ?' The answer was, No, Sir.'" This answer seems to h ave th rown the Reviewer into transports of admiration, for he detects in it not only a world of " sedateness of thought and self-reliance," but also the precocious understanding of the " em bryo founder of the utilitarian philosophy." In another part of this article, we are told that Dr. Bowring, to whom Bentham " bequeathed the greatest marks of his esteem, is a poet and a linguist." Linguist he may possibly be, for we believe he has translated, one after another, and with equal success, all the known and unknow n lan guages of the world ; but we must in common justice acquit him of the charge of being a poet, for anything less resembling poetry than the majority of the Doctor's rhymes, we never yet read. We should as soon suspect Mr. Wakley of being a poet. " Recent Tragedies " is a disriminating criticism on two suc cessful dramas that have lately appeared from the pens of Messrs. Troughton and Marston. In the " Political Retrospect " for the last ten years, the Reviewer points out several of the principal defects of the Re form Bill, adding, "we do not consider that the present existence of a Conservative majority is by any means to be taken as a proof that the Bill was wholly a failure ; but we assert an opinion long weighed and deliberately formed, that in the instance of numerous small constituencies, the Reform Bill introduced de moralizing influences infinitely greater than any which prevailed under the old system of pocket-boroughs." From a notice of some recent " Travels in the Himalaya," we quote some interesting details of that wild, mountainous region : It must not be supposed that eternal snow prevails always in these regions. The valleys, though set in a frame of everlasting snow and ice, are often very warm and exceediegly productive. Grain of several kinds is produced, sometimes to a considerable height up the mountains, where the flocks in summer also find abundant pasture. After crossing a snowy pass, or sterile district of peaked rocks, the traveller will occasionally descend suddenly upon a valley neatly laid out in fields and gar dens of peas, beans, and turnip s , a b un d ant l y supp li e d with water by numerous channels, and studded with rural cottages and villages, and where there are shady avenues of apricots and widely spreading walnuts, which form dark arbours and afford a cool retreat. In some favoured spots two crops of grain are produced an nually ; of the vine, eighteen kinds are cultivated in the district ; and so plentifully is fruit, that the inhabitants would often bring loads of grapes to.feast our traveller's followers, and would shrike the trees, when the party passed through an avenue of apricots, to shower down ,their produce in the greatest abundance. Even potatoes are to be had, thanks to the author's brother, vt•ho dis. tributed more than 2,0001b5. weight for planting ; yet the natives are not so Hibernian in their taste as he could desire, for the root is not nearly- so common as it ought to be. This, however, does not surprise us ; for if the inhabitants can, as the C a pt a i n reports, get a tole rable supply of sheep and goat's flesh, with grain, vege tables, and fruit in abundance, they can hardly be blamed fur looking coldly on the potat oes . Th e c li mate o f t hi s region is almost as rem9rkable as the face of the country, and a person may, in a short space, experience every change from the heat of the torrid zone ahnoSt to the temperature of a Lapland winter.i, I VEDDER'S POEM. Smith, Glasg ow , 1842. Mr. David Vedder, the author of this collection of icgendvry, lyrical, and descriptive poems, displays m ucti ease and grace of versification, together with a corm and of imagery that proves him to be skilled in the rt.'source s o f hi s ar t. H e h as attempte d a great variety of metre s , an d h as success f u ll y ac quitted himself in all. His " Ode on the Anniver sary of BurnO" is characterised by a high strain of generous enthus!asin ; but, generally s p ea ki ng , hi s odes are not his lin 1 - vniest performanc es , h e i s more a t home in the simpie ,ballad, to which h e i mpar t s an worthy of Hogg i n hi s b es t energy and feeling not u k : days. The vo l ume i s en qlished with severa l spi rited & engraN'ngs. ____ THE WARD OF THORPE-C6... 11 8-E. 3 Vosil. Bentley, London, 1842. With the single exception of her "Widovvr,:lrnaby," we incline to consider the " Ward of Thorpe-Combe" the cleverest work of fiction that Mrs. 'I rollope has yet produced, if only for the portrait of the demure, intriguing, ambitious Miss Sophia Martin. There is a vigour, and even an originality, about this character, an • adroitness in its development, and a per fectly con amore spirit in the manner in which it is .sustained throughout, that convince us— cud we need further assurance of the fact—that the authoress is well read in the human heal t, and takes a pleasure in dragging into light all its latent weak nesses and vices. Mrs. Trollope is certainly a powerful writer, but she is not a tolerant or an amiable one. She has none of the bonhommie of Sir Walter Scott—none of that sunny socia lity of temperament which conciliates the reader, and imparts a generous glow to his feelings. She looks on humanity with the stern eye of scepticism, is quick to believe in its inherent baseness, slow to discover i 1 redeeming qualities. Even her humour has nothing cordial about it, but is dry and sarcastic—a thing, of the head, not t& heart. In a word, she is a Dean Swift in petticoats, though it is but justice to add, that she never trespasses against decorum, as was too often the case with the author of " Gulliver's Travels." Her present work is written with singular I force, and keeps attention on the alert throughout. The heroine, Miss Sophia Martin, is a young orphan, who haS been brought up under the superintendence of a . kind-hearted uncle and aunt, Major and Mrs. Heathcote ;. in her early youth she is repreSented as being reserved, self-possessed, and diffident, appa rently, to a very unusual degree ; but a handsome for tune having been unexpectedly left her by an eccentric relative, her whole woman's nature undergoes a total change, and she becomes as bold, confident, and aspiring as she once was—or appeared to be—the reverse. No longer the timid, thoughtful, sycophantic depen dent on another's bounty, she suddenly starts up the re solute, ambitious, subtle despot, hungering and thristing for ascendancy over all who come within the sphere of her influence, greedy of wealth, and determined of purpose to obtain a titled husband, no matter at what cost. Ultimately, she is deprived of the fortune that had been leis her, by . the sudden return to England of the rightful heir, who had been long supposed dead, and then, after a violent burst of in dignation, she coolly sets her wits to work, and accepts . the hand of a man of moderate indeperylence who had courted her on the supposition that she was still pos sessed of wealth, and is not made acquainted with the fraud that has been practised on him, until the indis soluble knot has. been tied. This character is essen tially dramatic, and has lost nothing of its efficiency in Mrs. Trollope's hands. The, other personages of the ,story have nothing particularly; noticeable about them, but ere evidently intended merely to set off, and bring into active play the pa - ssions and ties of the plotting, ambitious Sophia Martin. A REGULAR “DOWN EAST" SAM. PLE OF THE LEX TALIONIS. (From the Sporting Review.) Among the earliest settlers in the wilds of Salmon River, was a Vermontese, of the name of Dobson—a large, resolute man. Returning, one evening, from a fruitless hunt after his vagrant cows, which, according to the custom in new countries, had been turned into the woods, to procure their own subsistence from the rank herbage of the early summer ; just before emerg ing from the forest, upon the clearing of his neighbour, the worthy Joseph Sleeper, he saw a large bear descending from a lofty sycamore, where he had been, probably, in quest of honey. A bear ascends a tree much more expertly than he descends it, being obliged to come down hindforemost. My friend Dobson did not like to be joined, in his evening walk, by such a com panion; and without reflecting what he should do with the " varmint" afterwards, ran to the tree on the opposite side from the animal's body, and just before he reached the ground, he seized him by the fore-paws. Bruin growled and gnashed his tusks; but he soon ascertained that his paws were in the grasp of iron paws, equally iron-strong with his own ; nor could he use his hinder paws to disembowel his antagonist, as the manner of the bear is, inasmuch as the trunk of the tree was between them. But Dobson's pre dicament, as he was endowed with rather the most reason, was worse yet. He could no more assail the bear than the bear could assail him ; nor could he venture to let him go—a very gra cious return for thus unceremoniously taking him by the hand. The twilight was fast descending into darkness, and his position was far less com fortable than it otherwise would have been at the same hour, surrounded by his wife and children, at the supper-table, to say nothing of the gloomy prospects for the night. Still, as Joe Sleeper's house was not far distant, he hoped to be able to call him to his assistance; but his lungs, although none of the weakest, were unequal to the task; and although he halloaed and bawled the live long night, making the woods and welkin ring again, he succeeded no better than old Glen dower of old, in calling spirits from the vasty deep. It was a wearisome night for Dobson, such a game of hold fast he had never been engaged in before. Bruin, too, was somewhat worried, al though he could not describe his sensations in English, albeit he took the regular John Bull method of making known his dissatisfaction— that is to say, he growled incessantly. But there was no let go in the case, and Dobson was, there fore, under the necessity of holding fast, until it seemed, to his clenched and aching fingers, as though the bear's paws and his had grown to gether. As daylight returned, the smoke from Mr. Sleeper's chimney began to curl up gracefully, though rather dimly, in the distance. Dobson again repeated his cries for succour, and his heart was soon gladdened by the appearance of his worthy, but inactive neighbour, who had at last been attracted by the voice of the impatient suf ferer, bearing an axe on his shoulder. Dobson had never been so much rejoiced at seeing Mr. Sleeper before, albeit he was a very kind and estimable neighbour. " Why don't you make haste, Mr. Sleeper, and not be lounging at that rate when you see a fellow-Christian in such a kittle of fish as this ?" " I run! is that you, Mr. Dobson, up a tree there? And was it you I heard halloaing so last night? I guess you ought to have your lodging for nothing, if you've stood up agin' the tree all night." '' It's no joke, though, I can tell you, Mr. Sleeper; if you had hold of the paws of a black varmint all night, it strikes me you'd think you paid dear enough for it. But if you heard me calling for help in the night, why did'nt you come and see what was the trouble?' " Oh, I was going tired to bed, after laying up log fence all day, and I thought I'd wait till incrning., and come bright and airly. But if I'd known it was you---" " Known 'twas me ?" replied Dobson, bitterly, you knew 'twas somebody who had flesh and blood too good for these plaguy varmints though; and you know there's been a smart sprinkle of bears about the settlement all the sprmg. o " Well, don't be in a huff, Tommy. It's never too late to do good. So hold tight now, and don't let the tarnal critter get loose, while I split his head open." " No, no," said Dobson. " After holding the beast here all night, I think I ought to have the pleasure of killing him. So you just take hold of his paws here, and I will take the axe and let a streak of daylight into his skull about the quickest." The proposition being a fair one, Mr. Sleeper was too reasonable a man to object. He was no coward either; and he therefore stepped up to the tree : and, cautiously taking the bear .with HISTORY OF 1.11171AT10.N. Spencer, London, 1842. In this volume we have the substance of twelve lectures, comprising a detailed account of the rites and ceremonies, doctrines and discipline, of all the secret and mysterious institutions of the ancient world. The work is got up with evident care, and the it-• rangement being in a great measure new, and propor tionably abstruse, " I have," observes the author, th e Rev. Dr. Oliver, "advanced with much caution, and have not ventured to introduce • any single fact with out its accompanying authority." We may add that the volume displays in every page marks of extensi ve research ; that the materials are well digested, and the language of the lectured uniformly recommended by ease and perspicuity. Those who take an interest in Freemasonry will read it with pleasure. Mr. Cooper must be a man of a strange, way A'ard temper, for nothing ever seems to give him satisfac tion. If he writes about America, he is sure to write in such a tetchy, unpleasant spirit as never fails to give offence to his American readers; end if he writes about England, he produces similar effects on the minds of his English readers. Some few years ago he took to abusing the habits and manners of the aristo cratic classes in London, notwithstanding he was kindly received among them ; and in his novel of "Eve Effingham" he lavished similar abuse—but with much more justice—on the fashionable circles of New York. He is now out of humour with the petty, purblind character of American nationality ; and in speaking of the naval system of the United States, is quite indignant that the Yankees exhibit such reluc tance to collect a fleet, and to reward naval offi cers as they deserve to be rewarded. " The Repub lic," he says, in his preface, " possesses the mate rials for collecting a fleet, but has ever seemed to be wanting in the will. A strange and dangerous reluctance to create even the military rank that is in dispensable to the exercise of a due authority over such a force, has existed in - the councils of the State. The legislators of the country apparently expect that men will perform miracles without the inducements which usually influence human beings to perform anything.—Whenever the national councils shall give us admirals ,and fleets to write about, it will be our delight to aid, in our own humble way, in attempting to illustrate their deeds." These censures may, or may not, be deserved, but at any rate they are mis placed in a work of fiction, where an author's object should be to conciliate as many of his readers as pos sible, and not offend a large and influential body of them, like the American middle classes, at the very threshold of his narrative. Mr. Cooper, however, is a man whose temper—we judge only from his writings —too often gets the better of his judgment, and who imagines that he is expressing wholesome, well-inten tioned truths, when he is merely giving vent to his spleen. He has yet to learn that there is a material difference between the hasty ebullitions of a waspish temperament, and the sound convictions of a calm and matured understanding. But to the tale before us. It is, as the author observes, almost exclusively a " Tale of the Sea," and refers to the middle of the last century—about the year 1745, when Oakes and Bluewater, who are the Two Ad mirals, were first and second in command of the channel fleet, on the occasion of a battle with the French fleet, which, as a matter of course, terminated favourably for the English. In the two first volumes —more especially the first—the interest of the nar ration sometimes flags ; but when once Mr. Cooper gets fairly"launched into his proper element, the sea, his incidents become exciting in a high degree, and his descriptions exhibit uncommon vigour, combined with, apparently, the most literal and pains-taking Minuteness. His details of the manoeuvres of the fleets in action, are among the happiest and most striking effects he has yet produced in fiction, though, as a whole, we consider the " Two Admirals" as in ferior to the " Pilot," or the " Red Rover." LAW INTELLIGENCE INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY) RE WALTERS. The insolvent in this case carried on business as a currier and leather-dresser in Stepney. The amount of debts and liabilities appearing in his schedule exceeded 1,5001., and the available assets were very trifling. In his examination he attributed his insolvency to having joined John Law, his brother-in-law in several bills of ex. , change, soon after which he became bankrupt. Several creditors opposed his petition in person, but the amount of their debts was small, and the opposition without any general interest. The LEARNED COMMISSIONER said, although always anxious to mark his disapprobation of the practice of accepting accom sr.oda! ion bills, yet in the present instance he did not think the insolvent's conduct called for a remand. The insolvent was then ordered to be discharged forthwith. Several unopposed petitions were disposed of during the morning, and the applicants discharged. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. William Lawrence, 18, carpenter, was indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of John Frederick Archbold, E. q., and stealing one violin, and ether articles, value 81., his property. It appeared from the evidence that the prosecutor resided in Park-street, Westminster. On the 3d March last, the pre mises were broken into and the articles named in the in dictment stolen therein. On the 13th of the same month, the prisoner was discovered at six o'clock in the morning at tempting to get into the house of the prosecutor by means of the scullery. The prisoner was observed by a policeman, who immediately took him into custody, and on his being searched at the station-house, pawnbrokers' duplicates were found upon him for the articles stolen from the house of the prosecutor on the night of the 3d of March. The COMMON SERGEANT summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. '1 he prisoner was sentenced to fifteen years' transportation. James Johnson, 19, labourer, was indicted for stealing one clock, value 10/., the property of James Egan, in his dwelling house. Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor's wife and another witness, that the prisoner lived in Monmouth-street, Seven-dials. On the 24th of March last the clock in question was safe ie the house at six o'clock in the evening, and at eight it was missing. It usually stood on a dresser in the parlour. On the 29th, an officer; noticed the prisoner get out of a cab in the neighbourhood of Monmouth-street, and hand a bag out of the cab to another person. They went away with the bag, and the officer followed them, ;sod on their observing him to do so, they let the bag fall and ran' away. The officer cried stop thief, and pursued the parties, but only succeeded in cap turing the prisoner. The bag was examined and found to con tain the clock missed by the prosecutor. Mr. I3ALLANTINE addressed the Jury for the defence, eon tending that there was so direct evidence to prove that the pri ioner committed this robbery, consequently the indictment in its then form could not be supported. It was for the Jury to consider whether the offence named in that indictment had been committed, and however guilty the prisoner might be in another sense, it was not that they had to consider. The COMMON-SERGEANT summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. Several witnesses stepped forward after the verdict was re turned, and gave the prisoner an excellent character for honesty. The witnesses had known him for a number of years.— Sentence on the prisoner was deferred. NEW COURT. IN THE MATTER OF BARNARD GREGORY, ESQ. Scon after the opening of the Court, Mr. Gregory, who stands indiced for publishing in the Satirist newspaper a scan dalous libel of, and concerning the Queen and tier Consort, appeared in Court in order to enter into recognkances to appear to abide his trial at the next sessions, himself in the sum o 80/., and Messrs. Sangster and Ward in the sum of 40/. each, The defendant put in a plea of Not Guilty, wnich was re. corded by the Clerk of Arraigns. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, BOW-STREET--(THIS DAY.) A stiff looking little man was charged with creating a dis turbance in Wyld-street. Police Constable F, 121, stated that on Saturday when on duty in Wyld-street, he perceived the prisoner and another man engaged in a wordy conflict relative to the quality of certain baked " taturs" which the other man wm selling. Witness watched the progress of the dispute, which soon waxed into a furious storm ; high words passed, and to them, as is generally the ease, blows succeeded, and they gave each other " plaguey knocks"; witness now thought it high time for him to interfere in his official cal acity as preserver of the peace, and he com manded the noble combatants to move on ; the baked-tatur man nothing loth, immediately acquiesced in the command of this " terror to evil doers" and exp; essed his readiness to obey ; but in proportion as the baked-tatur man was quiet, the pri soner waxed more wroth, and when the baked-tatur man said he would not fight any more, the prisoner grew most despe rately pugnacious, and said but he be d—d if he would not tight." Under these circumstances witness deemed it his duty to remove the bell'gerent little man to the station house, which he accordingly did, and the baked-tatur man moved away in an opposite direction to pursue his humble, but delightful occupation of administering to the wants and comforts of the people by giving them two baked taturs, a spoonful of salt, a dust o' pepper, and a scrapin' o' butter, all for a penny. The prisoner said that as he vos a goin' along Vyld-street he see'd a man asellin o' baked taturs, vich, he felt rather peckish, and he says to hiniself, I thinks I shou.d like a' tatur jest by vay,of a treat. It vos Saturday night, and he didn't mind spendin' a brown ; yell he called bout to the tatur man, - and be says, " I say, old feller, gives a ha'penny tatur, I d,n't want none o' yer buttir, so give us a prime un. Veil, yet. Vertship, continued the prisoner, he gave me a tatur, and I tipped him the brown, vich, yen I came to heat it, it vos all rotten in the inside— varnt fit for no hanimdl to eat, much more a 'specable man ; after I'd guy him the brown, too, and didn t have no butter. Vell, nuflin no furder than that 'ere,- he comes up, and he 'saultp . rne, and in course I returns the compliment, vich the crusher cum up, and takes me to the station-house. There vos rrothinlcno furder than that I assure you, Sir, vich I got a vitness to prove. James Wood was then called, but he did not at all improve the prisoner's case. He said that he was going to buy some taturs of a man with a can they called the " Nonpariel, when the prisoner said. " Don't buy of him, they're rough 'uns." 'lha vendor of the ripe Irish fruit did'nt like to have his taturs called down in that fashion, so he aced the prisoner what he meant, prisoner replied not in the most gentle terms, and a fight ensued, the policeman came up, ordered him on, prisoner resisted, and was taken to the station-house. Mr. HALL ordered the prisoner to pay a fine of 55., or be imprisoned four days. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET, SUNDAY NIGHT. The entries for the Craven and Handicap Stakes, to be run for to. morrow, closed this evening as follows Craven Stakes.—Captain Daintree's b c, by Mulatto, dam by Middleton, 3 yrs ; Mr. Oshaldeston's Mountain Sylph, 5 yrs ; Duke of Grafton's Florence, 4 yrs, Mr. Batson's 'Bar bara, 4 yrs ; Duke of Richmond's The Currier, 6 yrs ; Mr. Ford's Heads or Tails, 3 yrs ; Mr. Pettit's Michaelmas-day, 3 yrs; Lord Albemarle's Minaret, 4 yrs. Handicap. D.M.--Young Quo Minus, 4 yrs, Bst 321 b ; cby Muley, dam by Actaeon, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Buffalo, 4 yrs, 7st 121 b ; Scarf, 4 yrs, 6st 121 b ; c by Mundig, out of Thebes. 7st 7slbis;terLtiobpurenrs,o4is),3 y yrs, 6rsst, 7st 4l 41b. 41b; Tiptoe, 3 yrs, Est; Etherilda ( Handicap, T.Y.C.—Garry Owen, 5 yrs, Bst 71b ; Mena lippe, ti yrs, 7st 1213 ; King of the Peak, 5 yrs, 7st 61b. The Duke of Bedford's Mona colt and Lord Stradbroke's Memima colt have paid forfeit for the Tivistock Stakes to- Morrow, and both the Doke of Bedford's for their engagements tin Tuesday. A match is made for Wednesday, between John O'Gaunt, Bst 121 b, and Fitzroy, 85t—T.51.111., 1001. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, APRIL 11.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. DEAL, APRIL 10.—Wind, N.E. by N., light.—Arrd. from the River and sailed, Cuba, Barbadoes ; Funehae, Texas; Forturiato, San Guiseppe, Pernambuco ; Mountaineer, Deme rara ; Quebec, New York; Elphinstone, Hobart Town ; Orion, Quebec Fanny, Newfoundland; Diamond, Constantinople. RAMSGATE, APRIL 9.—Sld. Maria, Frederick, Surinam. LivEapoor., APRIL 9.—Wind S.S.E., fresh breeses.- 10. Wind S., light.—Arrd. Eve, Airth, Monte Video; Windsor, Heaton, Ceara, sailed 24th Feb. Sailed Querida, Manilla ; Blackaver, Jamaica • Dublin, Philadelphia ; Me dora, Charlesto n ; L aure l, Splendid, Science, and Themis, New York ; G:enlyon, Aberdeen, and John, Quebec ; Airey, James Reddin Thoburn, Henry Muir, and Alpha, Montreal; Lena, Halifax ; Lady Constable, Hal fax ; Active, Sydney, Cape Breton ; Pero, Newfoundland; Pumstead, Constanti nople ; Black Eyed Susan,. Ancona ; Wingfield, Calcutta ; Venus, Lima ; Apparition, Lake Guayra; Elizabeth, do. ; James, Berbice ; Hand of Providence, Odessa; Conquest and Beccles, Smyrna ; Norden and Sophia, Trieste ; Petetseau, Leghorn ; Regina, Constantinople. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 9. —Sid. Liverpool st., Gibraltar. Pool., Aran 10.—S1d. Vere, Quebec, Samuel and Eliza, and Mary, Newfoundland. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 10.— Wind E.—Arrd. Peterel, Read, Ancona. And. off Garrnania, Havannah, for Bremen, William Rippon, Sunderland, for Richibucto. FALMOUTH, APRIL B.—Wind N.E. to S.E.-9th. Wind E. to E.S. E., strong breeze.—Arrd. Oriental steamer, Soy, Alexandria, left 23d ult., Malta, 28th, and Gibraltar, 3d inst. ; Olga, Odessa; Mary Ann, Woodworth, Calcutta, sailed from Algoa - Bay, Jan. 8. Sid. Skylark, Alicant. Arrd. off Albertross. Haasnob, Batavia; Harriet, Munday, Jamaica ; Robert Watt, Mason, Cadiz. Arrd. Brapnza (s.), Gibraltar, left 31st ult., Cadiz Ist inst., Lisbon 4th, Oporto and Vigo 6th. PENZANCE ' APRIL B.—Arrd. Louise Elizabeth, with l oss of sails, boat, bulwarks, &c., and leaky. Arrd. off, Cald er , Arthur, Matanzas, sailed 25th Feb. ; Arab, Dalgarno, C e yl on; Echo, Cormilsen, for Hamburgh. Sld. Antigua, Planter, Antigua. GLOUCESTER, APRIL 7.—Arrd. Pallas , Muncey, Ancona. Std. Coblina, Quebec. GUERNSEY, APRIL B.—Sld. Veritas, New York. -JERSEY, APRIL 7.—Sld. Habnab, Bahia; Antelope, Per nambuco. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 9.—Wind E.N.E. to E. S.E. —lO. E. N.E. to S. E. —Sid. Samarang, Madras. Arrd off, Eliza beth, Naples, with loss of bulwarks. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10.—Sailed Elizabeth, Quebec. BRISTOL, APRIL 10.—Sailed Emanuel, Quebec. WIVENHOE, APRIL 9.—The Independente, Bovasor, from Hamburgh to Havannah, has been b roug h t in here leaky, and with loss of rudder, &c., after being on the West Rocks. WHITSTABLE, APRIL 10.—A ship's boat, marked " Bruns wick, of Hull, "I bonus Porter," has been picked up andbrought in here, with broad.ide damaged. POOLE, APRIL 9.—Sailed S au, Rumney, Quebec. PADSTOW, APRIL B.—Sailed Bell, Quebec. CORK, APRIL B.—Arrd. Mary Caroline, Liverpool, for St. John's, New Brunswick. Sld. Albion, Clyde, and Pall as , S t . John's, New Brunswick; Albion, Baltimore; and Do. Trusty, Newfoundland. WATERFORD, APRIL 7.—51 , 1. City of Waterford and Ann Quebec; Bth, Brigand, Newfoundland. , ABERDEEN, APRIL 7.—Sld. Herwin and Robert M'Wil ham, Quebec. LEITH, APRIL 7.—Sld. Elizabeth, Quebec. SHIELDS, APRIL 7.—Sld. Cottager, Constantinople • Countess of Westmoreland, Alexandria; B r iti s h H ero, Montreal'. SOCIETY OF ARTS.—AVe are glad to find that this SJcietv is beginning to shake off the indolence under which it was suffering for some time past, and that the members are endeavouring to make it useful and interesting, as it ought to be. There have been several instructive and amusing lectures delivered there lately, and on - Wednesday next the 13th instant, Mr. Edward Solly, jun., will give a lecture on the manufac ture of soap, to commence at 8 o'clock precisely. Each mem ber may introduce two friends. The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel the Giraffe, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-house yesterday, with the Dutch Dlail. - ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE. It is early 3-et to speak in decided terms of a peri odical which has only just reached its third number; but, so far as we can venture to form an opinion from the monthly specimens that have appeared, we should be disposed to augur favourably of the prospects of the St. James's Magazine. In p ar ti cu l ar, t h e present number is a very excellent one, abounding in varieties both in prose and verse. Sketchy as it is, the account of Rabelais is well worth reading, for it displays a very creditable acquaintance with the subject, and a sincere admiration of the genius of the first humorist that France ever produced. " The Recall," by Mrs. Ward, is a sweet and touching poem, describing the repentance of a thoughtless wife, who, while meditat ing an elopement from her domestic hearth, is sul denly recalled to a sense of her duties, by the faint cry of her child in the chamber adjoining her own. The " Afghanistan Expedition Considered" adopts the =dente and dispassionate view of the question, 4nd THE WAR IN AFFGHANISTAN. The position of the British forces west of the Indus is neither desperate nor disheartening. We . are in the possession of Kelat and Kandahar; and the communication of these posi tions with Bombay is open. Jellalabad still holds out ; and the Sikhs, through whose country the communication from the Presidency of Bengal must be kept up, are friendly. There is every reason to believe that they will continue so. There is an inveterate hatred between them and the AffghaLs, origi nating in, and festered by, the prejudices both of race and religion. The Sikhs can have no sincere or lasting friendship with the Affghans ; and to quarrel with the B r it is h on their account wenild be to place themselves between two fires. The wealth Ond efficiency of the British Government in India, and the intelleetual character of those who direct it, render it able not. only to make great and energetic efforts, but to main tain a protracted struggle without flagging. The Affghan po pulation is not dense ; it is broken up into a mul!iplicity of rude clans, devoid of a common aim, jealous of each other ; th ere is no man among the m of sufficient command or influence to organise thein for a continuous defence. It is only in the vi cinity of Cabool that the tribes have been roused to an enthu siastic and successful attack upon the British ; and even in that district it is clear. that the effervescence had already begun to cool. Akbar Khan had been unable to rally the clans for an at tack on Jellalabad ; and they were already beginning to decide upon the claims of various chiefs to the sovereign authority. It is an easy matter for a Government possessing such resources as the British in India to concentrate its forces upon - the region around Cabool. It is there alone that any thing has o u n been done which the British G overnment i s b oun d b y self respect and in self-defence t o pun i sh. And the i nhabitants of that region are not in a con di t i on to oppose such an overwhelming attack as the Briti s h G overnment, act i ng judi. ei Y , can make upon them. Th e fi rs t duly then, is as plain as it is easy— toforce upon the Cabool di s t r i c t as shall be able to reduce its inhabit ants to surren d er at discre tion. The true economy in such a case i s to commence opera tionsnoandßritish marching at once on a sufficient Kale to bring the affair to an im mediate settlement. Whatever may have been the morality or prudence of our first Interference, there is no other course for us now. Rude though the Affghans be, they know that falsehood and treachery are indefensible. Nor is their love of national independence a sufficient excuse for the atrocities they have been guilty of. The Affghans have on many occa *ions— when they usurped the throne of Persia, and founded dynasties in flindostan —when their chiefs intrigued alternately with the British, the Persians, and the Russians, to promote their oWn selfish views —shown how lightly, when they had any object to serve, they could regard national independence. They have done what they cannot defend; and the British Go vernment is b,,und alike by the principles of justice and self preservation to make them feel that the moral principles taught by their own mullahs, and reverenced even amid the clash of arms, are not to he violated with impunity. The next duty of the British Government is equally clear—as soon as the Affghan clans have been made to feel its strength, so that there can be no mistake either on their part or on the part of any Oriental nation as to the motive of the retreat, to resume the frontier of the Sutledge, and withdraw every British soldier fran the West of the Indus. It is useless to theorize on the occupation of India by this country : we govern it as a dependency : in the stage of social improvement which it has reached, it would lose infinitely were the British au thority withdrawn ; and as to preparing it for self-govern ment, that must task the native energies in some incalculable futurity.— Spectator. TORY OPPRESSION JN BATH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Slit, —I take the oppOrtunity, through the medium of your widely circulated paper, of exposing as heartless a proceeding on the part of some of the Bath Conservatives, as ever was conceived and perpetrated by man. It is of course well known how signal was the defeat sustained by this party at the last election, but it is probably not in the knowled ge o f an y save the inhabitants of this place, that on that occasion numerous bands of navigators, from the neighbouring railway, were hired for the express purpose of contending with the Liberals, and of making themselves generally useful to the Blues, or Conservatives, by whom they were fed an d pa id . O n the day of the nomination some fearful outrages were committed by these men, who in large bodies endeavoured to disturb the pro ceedings of the day : in this they were defeated, and the re sult of the nomination was most decisively in favour of the Liberal Candidates. In the evening of that day (28th June last) one of the Liberal voters, in passing down Avon-street, was savagely attacked, and almost murdered, by a party of these men, who immediately afterwards retreated into a low public house close by, called the Pig and Whistle : th e a l arm h av i ng been given, a party of the Liberals immediat e l y came to t h e rescue of the injured man, and finding out to w h a t h ouse hi s landlord assailers to turn had retreated, them treate out d,th : this eyw h went to e d t r oi f t u , s a e nd demanded o f th e to do, at the same' time denying that any of the Blues were there ; upon t hi s the Liberals burst open the door, but not being enabled to get at uil their opponents, who contrived to make their escape, l eft the house, and as may have been expestertaetde,snoon aeh t without e o x f pr h e a s y s i i i n ,g g h th e e r i e r th a e ng d e i r stu b r y b b an re e a e k e i nde breaking most of the windowwseirne the apprehended,bd building; A few days after this, fifteen of the Liberal s , suppose d to pa and hav taken e been ken presentbefore the on Baththe i‘ f above ae occasion , begun to demolish the Pig and Whistle. The c ase o f t h e com plainantearefnl e examination n f a u t l o y n investigated, several ag: _ e , trates came to the conclusion that there were no grounds fo r support i ng the capital charge of felony for beginning to dem o li s h , but coin and days, after the tient and a most mated the parties to take their trial for " a riot," at the then next borough quarter sessions, at the same time taking bail for their due appearance. The prosecutor, not satisfied with this, proceeded to the County Assizes in August last, and there presented a bill to the Grand t J o u r d y e m ( which at that time "beginning tlish," a h n e y o ff fo e u n n e t e l found) fur h t h i e s o f a a g n a d i n w ao punishable with death. Upon the bill being found, these poor fellows (most of them in the humblest c ircumstances) were again taken into custody; some of them, after an expensive application to a Judge in London, were admitted to bail ; others, from their poverty, were unable to procur e this advan tage, and were in consequence confined in gaol from last Au gust to the assizes which are just over. Upon the indictment coming on for trial, a legal objection was taken on behalf of the prisoners to its sufficiency—the objection ultimately prevailed. Up goes another bill for the felony ("beginning to-demolish") which the Grand Jury, upon the evidence alone of the prose cution, found. The men, twelve in number, were then put upon their trial, and the case broke down in its infancy. It appeared clear upon the evidence that the prisoners never had any intention whatever of demolishing the house, and so the Judge stated to the Jury, who, without callin g upon the pri soners for their defence, immediately acquitted them. Nothing could more plainly show the sense in which the Learned Judge viewed these proceedings, than his refusing to allow the prosecutor a large portion of his expenses ; which, how ever, will dJubtless be paid by the Conservative Association, who are, beyond a doubt, at the bottom of the whole pro ceedings. I am, Sir, yours, &e. A HATER OF OPPRESSION. Bath, 6th March, 1842. ' 'both hands, relieved honest,. Dobson from -predicament. 1 - The hands of the latter, though sadly stiffened by the tenacity with which they had been clenched for so many hours, wore seen brandish ing the axe ; a n d h e , apparent l y , made all prepa rations for giving the deadly blow—and deadly it would have been, had be struck. 13irt, to the Isurprise of Sleeper, he did not strike; and to his • , (furtner consternation, D o b son swung t h e axe upon his shoulder and marched away, whistling. as he went, with as much apparent indifference as the other had shown in coming to his relief. It was now Sleeper's turn to make the rforest vocal with his cries. In vain, he raved, and cKlled, and threatened. Dobson walked on and disappeared, leaving his friend as sad a prospect for his breakfast as lie himself had for his supper. To relieve the suspense of the read er, it is right to add that Dobson returned and killedthe bear in the course of the afternoon. CASE OF ABDUCTION AT LIVERPOOL. • (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) This extraordinary , case was further investigated at liver pool on Friday. The Court opened at two o'clock. The examination was taken before Mr. Rushton, the Police Ma gistrate. The first witness called was John Rodgers, gate-keeper at Roby—Recollected five persons coming to embark on the rail way train on the 19th of March. Miss Crellin, Mrs. Clayton, M'Gill, Jones, and Quick, were amongst the number. Mists Crellin appeared to be intoxicated. It was five minutes be fore ten in the morning. Asked Quick what was to do with the lady. He said it was a funny way she had. He asked the gentleman to put them in a carriage by, themselves, which he did. Miss Crellin was assisted into the carriage by Jones and. 11 4 Gill. Saw Qui c k th e S unday but one following, in the evening. He came t o th e R oby Station, to book for Liver pool. He said, " I think I shall want you this week." " What for?" was asked. " Concerning the party who went from here the other day," was the reply. He also. said the parties who were friends to Miss Crellin, seemed to say they conveyed her away in the night, and he wished hint to state the contrary. Witness said he must give him notice, as he must put a man in his place. He said lie would send a nete, and give him 21. tor his trouble. „Matthew Eckersley, porter at Parkside station on hie Man chester and Liverpool railway, remember ed the train arriving on the,' morning of the 18th March, about five minutes to eleven. Saw Quick. Jones, Mrs. Clayton, and Miss Crellin walk dow." to the North Union station. They sat down in I witness's place for nearly half an hour. Miss Cnellin appeared to be rather in a drunken state. He was smoking his pipe, and she asked him to give her a pipe. He said to.her, " 0 yes, by all means." He gave her a pipe, and she amok ed it for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour, and became rather faint. The man she called Jones, and the docto r wa lk e d out w i t h her for a little pur e a i r . Ho handed them into the carriage, and the train started immediately. The fare was paid by Quick. Crosssexansined by Mr. G aocorr — A n hour elapsed before ',the train came up after the party arrived. The lady seorned tcs enjoy her pipe very much. There was very little trouble let getting Miss Crellin into the carriage. She seemed to b e very che.erful—the same as drunken people are. James Baines, coachman of the North Briton, which i tuts from Lancaster to Shap, took a party with him on the 18t1 aof March. They were Quick, M'Gill, Jones, Mrs. Clayton, )nd Miss Crellin. Quick took the places in the name of Thai tsp. , son. He paid for three inside and two out to Carlisle. Jo nes, Mrs. Clayton, and Miss Crellin rode inside. They dines lat the King's Arms, where they went from the railway. • At the coach office Miss Crellin was swearing and making a meat noise, and Quick said to M‘Gill, " Get inside and quieten the old b— h." M'Gill then went inside and rode to Cann forth. . The doctor went into the house, and the waiter brought some 1 brandy to th ose i n th e coac h. Th ey went on to B uxton, i where they had glasses again. M'Gill then got outside. !..00ked into the coach and saw Miss Crellin's head on Jones's shasalder. She appeared to be asleep. Heard no names given to any of the parties. Had three glasses of ale with them and some brandy. The doctor said to M'Gill, "Bring oat the bottle and let us all have a drink." M'Gill said. Mrss Crellin had drunk it all. Asked the doctor if they were taking the lady to an asylum? "No," said the doctor. " You would not think the old lady was worth 66,000/." This was at Bur rough's-green. Quick said they were doctors in the army, and, were on leave of absence; they had come over to Liverpool to see the steeple-chase. The doctor called and paid for all on the road except once. Miss Crellin and Mrs. Clayton got out at a place called Hucks, seven miles from Shap. Assisted her out. She appeared to be very tipsy, and could not walk herself. T. Brownrigg, the post-boy at the Bush Inn, Carlisle, was examined at length, and described the conduct of the parties during the journey to Gretna Hall. He pulled up about two miles from the Sark Bar. Looked into the carriage, a n d saw that Jones had a glass bottle in his hand. Mrs. Clayton had a wine-glass. Al/ along the road the party kept " stirkiing" out with fits of laughter, the ladies more particularly. , Q u i c k . paid for the coach hire. Cross-examined—They were let down between two or -Ririe - miles from Gretna Hall, where Jelin Linton lived. Watched ' the party a few hundred yards; • the doctor began to play al tout- un the road. The doctor paid him for driving. Mr. GROCOTT hoped they would call the parson. . - 3.- Mr. Dowrallo said he had n o t su d e e e d e d'i n getting I l i a c, ~ .li.. .: He did not feel authorised to give the sum he wanted.- .• - ;',.id's Mr. Stowe/at, said lie wanted 201. for himself, and 304, • - ..w" for his daughter. Mr. RUSHTON said that all recoverable expenses vrould7Ea ve .' ken paid, but there was no doubt he would be brought I efore ' - '' a proper tribunal. Mr. George M'Gill, of Dublin, said he knew the prim toner .' - *Gill. He was the son of a Mr. M'Gill, a tailor, who itived in South Frederick-street, Dublin. His father was neve r a • soldier. He kept his carriage, and horses, and livery-serve .nts . In Dublin. Cross.examined'by Mr. Gaocorr—Was no relation to:pri- - ,; soner, whose father left a handsome fortune behind him, , and ' M'Gill got a share of it. Never knew Mr. Gill's father to be a colonel. , t. A number of other witnesses were examined, but they st a ted no new facts. and the prisoners were remanded till the follow ing day, when some additional evidence was given, but not king material was elicited. Mr. RUSHTON said it was his intention to commit the pri. soners for felony, and then there would be a fUrther ch aro for conspiracy against them all. Upon Copeland being told if he had anything to say, Eden was the time, the prisoner replied he had nothi ng to say. The MAGISTRATE then said, that as the charge against:li ra was for obtaining money under false pretences, he vrouleit lake bail, himself in 100/., and two sureties in 501. each. Mr. GROCOTT hoped the Magistrate wou'd allow bail !to be taken for Mr. Rogerson. Mr. RUSHTON = NO; he is guilty of felony like the rest. They are al, with the exception of Copelanci, guilty of felony. All the witnesses were then bound over to prosecute at the next Assizes. The prisoners were then removed from the bar, and the Court broke up at twenty minutes past six o'clock. The Court continued crowded till the termjnation of thy pro ceedings. DUBLIN CORPORATION AD DRESS TO THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT. The address was read by the Lord Mayor, in a very im. pressive style, and the answer of her Majesty vtas conveyed with that grace of delivery for which our Sovereign has been so much admired. THE QUEEN'S ANSWER. " I return you my cordial thanks for the loyal and (Wald address which you have presented to me. " This strong assurance of your faithful attachment to my person, of allegiance to my throne, and of devoted loyalty tomy family, is received by me with the warmest satisfaction. " Be assured that my anxious endeavours are constantly de voted to the promotion of the prosperity of all parts of !this realm, and that I feel an equal solicitude for the happiness of all classes of my subjects. " I am confident that my faithful City of Dublin will, by its example, confirm that strength which concordamong my people can alone give to my dominions." DUBLIN CORPORATION DINNER. On Saturday evening, the members of the Dublin Corpora tion who had come to London for the purpose of presenting the congratulatory address to her Majesty and Prince Albert, dined together at the London Tavern, Ludgate-hill. The Right Honourable Daniel O'Connell, AI.P., Lard Mayor, presided on the occasion ; the vice-chair was filled by Alderman George Roe, one of the wealthiest merchants of Dublin. The Lord Mayor was 'supported on his right by the Very Rev. Doctor Doyle, James Power, Esq., M. P. for Wex ford, and M. Councillor Staunton, the proprietor of the Dublin Register; and on his left, by Alderman Keshan (senior Alderman), Alderman M'Kenna, Alderman Gardiner, and Alderman Rooney. The vice-chair was supported by Mt. Councillor Sims, the son-in-law of Baron Richards; John O'Connell, Esq., M.P. for Kilkenny ; Caleb Powell, Esq., M.P. for Limerick ; Mr. Marshall Reynolds, and Mr. Coun cillor Sheridan. Alderman ROE, in proposing "the health of the Chief Ma gistrate of Dublin," very happily observed, that "if they had nothing more for which they ought to be grateful to Mr. O'Connell, the very circumstance of that day would prove how well entitled he was to the thanks of kis country. The manner in which that Hight Honourable Gentleman had performed the duties that devolved upon him, in the presence of their Sove reign, had struck with admiration all who had the happiness of being eye-witnesses of the scene." It is not necessary to say that this sentiment was responded to with the most cordial cheers, as well as that in which the worthy Alderman referred to the manifold services to, and sacrifices of, Mr. O'Connell for Ireland. The pervading feeling of the evening was one of unmingled joy, occasioned by the kind and most gracious manner of her Majesty to the members of the Corporation—by the perfect mode in which the ceremonies of the day had been gone through, and the consciousness of the love of the people of Ireland to wards their Sovereign, which was fully appreciated; the kind ness of the Monarch being manifested, not only in words but by manner, the gracious intention of which' it was impossible to misapprehend. The hope was frequently . expressed in the course of the evening, that many such occasions of the Irish people displaying their attachment to the person of the Sove reign might be afforded. Th 3 Duke of Wellington, albeit unused to the soft mood, actually wept like a child when the news of our disasters in. Affghanistan was reported to him, declaring, in all bis expe rience, or that handed down from history, he had never heard of so lamentable a sacrifice of life in a British force.--Limerick Chronicle. The gentlemen of the Corn Exchange expect that the new Corn-law will be in operation on Thursday fortnight- Wheat, in bond. is now worth about 605., which, with 12s. for duty, would make free wheat worth about 755. per quarter, making allowance for profit. The price of corn has risen in the Baltic ports, anticipating a demand for export to this country. The traffic by the London and _Birmingham Rail way was such on Monday last, that eich of three trains con veyed upwards of 300 passengers. During the week large bodies of troops have Bien transported along the railway . , some of them northwards, but the great majority to the metrop o li s . —R a il way Ti mes . f rom Birmingham RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday evening one of the trains on the North Union Railway, whilst going at full speed, nea r the Exton station, unfortunately knocked down one of the rural police force, and tke whole of the carriages passed over his body. The poor fellow was , taken up_ir re it n e .e d .e. d, his body being literally cut to pieces•—i . . 0 ,,00l 1;1 , 1 t et a - c -M tive r i e n sat vi A n;a ge n rs tim , number vent of the Bon Pasteur from droiirn nuns belonging to the Con be that The two o soldiers,J ou rnal w been given in the Messenger, have by the Superior with a valuable repeater. dhoe were. lfa e o is engraved inside , with a few words 0 praise Each man's name hinego,naenacacch presented n a ted which has for his conduct. At the late sessions for Cheshire, the Chairman, in hi s charge, told the Ju r y , that " many of the criminals same cut of workhouses, and some of them had even stated that they preferred imprisonment in a gaol to confinement in a work. house." — Stockport Advertiser. Despatches from the Governor of Malta were received yesterday et the Colonial-nice. dr4 est i• .t .. ~S~ _- ~ r~ y S '4. PP 'at 495'