The Sun. — London, England, 1825-03-31 00:00:00

IiANGLO-M EX ICAN MINING ASSOCIATION. lIE DIRECTORS of the ASSOCIATION f"tzAsANTING in WORK ING:t he MINES of IQ EX ICO and cutlet' Parts of SPANISH AMERICA, having made a Call of FIVE POUNDS on each of the Shares of the Association, andel. the powers vested in them by the Deed, the Proprie tors are requested to pay the same on the Amount of t heir rvspective Shares to Messrs. BARCLAY, TRITTON, BEVAN, and Co. on or before the 12th day of April next. JOSEPH 'LOVE, Secretary. 147, Leadenhaihstreet, 11!arch 8, 1325. — PlticE - OFsTocKg THIS - Um? k Stock 3 per Cent. Red. per Cent. Cunt'. 93i 3 3{ per Cent. bitto Red 4 pet Cent. Dissd { N lO5Va e w .11ank Lon , r Ann. 1 In n. 3 pe;'Cents. India Stock Ditto Bonds BO pm. South Sea Stock PftiCES OF FOREIGN Fl Austrian Ms, 5 per ct.... 93} Brazilian Bds Scrip • 1825 2 pm.Buenos Ayres Bds .(!olornbisn Bds, 6 per ct. 90i do. 1824 ... 891 Mt -uanish, 5 per cent. 1) 0. Scrip Bds Do. Scrip, 1825 5 4 44 dis. Mexican Bds 79k 80. f 80 DO. Scrip 1825 gii pm. Y AT ONE o'cLocii: Old Annuities New Ditto , Bills 1000!. 2d. Ditto Lid. 61 63 t 9 61 Ditto 500/.2ed. . — Ditto 1 d. 61 63 59 61 Ditto Small 2d. Ditto I4d. 61 63 59 61 Ditto Advertised 2d. Bank for Act India for Acct. Cons. for Acct. NOS, AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bds, 6 per ct. 894 90 Peruvian Bonds B7 6i Neapolitan, 5 per test. Neapolitan Scrip Portuguese Bonds Prussian, 5 per ct. Ditto New Russian. New, 5 per ct. Spanish 1821, 5 per ct. 233 182 . French Rentes ...—f. ex. div. — . Exchange Scrip PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. Per Share. AngtO.Mexie an Mi n i ng C om p an y Brazilian Mining Company C hilian Mining Company • Colombi an Mi n i ng C ompany . Chißan and Peruvi a n Company liEnglish Mining Company • 24 231. 2 PaSCO Per uv i an Mi n i ng C o mpany Peruvian Mining Company W elch•lron and Coal Mining Company All iance Fire and Life Assurance Company Do , Marine Fire and Life Assurance Company Co • ,•. 81 - ntinentai Gas - Company Atl %tide and P a cific 101 1.1 . Aus tralian Company . British I ron Company, Canada Company • . 38 39 2 2 1 ,1 20 3 Canal Gas Engine Company • • Col umbian Colonial Company ~.lquimbie jilanb_3,* Cotrippy____ . 21_ i 1.4 ‘lenerl Steam Navigation Company - 10 94 %old' Coast Association Iliberni.,, r,,:-, ,-,--- . " - . 4 i -,o ernian Joint Sto c k Comp a ny li texican C ompany 4 i Iletropolitan Alderney Dairy Company 11 Il etropolitan Fish Company 194 19 Pearl Bankpy, Yellow Receipt 12* Hi 12 11i 12 Provincial of Ireland P earl a Patent Steam Car isCery Cori pa p Comany ny nd Coral F3l 34 33. 39 83 384 FOMEIGN MAILS. ARRIVED. DIIE. - - - Lisbon 0 1 Gottenburgh 0 • 1 - - 11amburgh - - 0 1 Fran ce - . . Flande rs - - - - 1 0 - - 1 0 Malta - - - 0 1 Buenos Ay res - - 0 , 1 110 1 , .1 1 4 0th; ' WA TER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-3101111.0W. 11 minutes after 0.1 Evening, 41 tainutes after 0. T up - Tx 2 it LA 1 1 • SO-Elll QUIS DICERE FALSUM LONDON, -711Iu RSDAY EVENING, 31, 1825 Con solid attract-siation of the Statutes is a term which S tatute Law ev of e r y body. We are told that the 3 (1 or 40 the Realm is scattered through volumes, and that what is law, is so mixed up with repealed, expired, and obsolete Provisions, that it is impossible without the greatest labou r to be correctly extracted. Now, 4 great deal of this is very true, but we are in clined to think that the evil is inseparable from t he very nature of Statutes, and could not be eradicated even by consolidation. For it must be obvious, that the same reason which made the consolidation necessary to-day, will also at So me futur e period .render it necessary to recon sulidate the consolidating act, with all its amend ing and altering acts. Whether this is to be con `idered as an evil or not, depends in some mea- gore on the fact, whether the officers entrusted with the administration of the law are able readily tO lay their hands on any particular Statute they 'int Y require, and if it should be found that they 41) ) at least a very large portion of the evil (if it is an evil) is got rid of. It is an un doubted fact that the officers can do so, and 7 herl any branch of law is consolidated they have the ,trouble to unlearn their old lesson an d lear n a new one, and the only benefit that teas hith erto followed has been that the public Na ve. know n f rom j ust t h e rema i n d er o f one the c ommencemen t o f th e n e xt, th a t th e l ll Statut e L aw on this or that particular subject all contained in an Act of Parliament, passed s uch and such a Session. Each succeeding Ses alter,uas been productive of Bills to amend or to and each succeeding Session has thus in some 11 . 'll t , tree undone what was 'd o n e i n th e p r i or one , 34 ' 1 the branch so nicely consolidated is in the to rg e Stat e o f confusion as it was previous to its husolitlation. I n or d er to shew that we do not say a me rely on th eoret i ca l groun d s,we will just take ha e ry sh or t review of such branches of the law as e been consolidated in the reigns of George the hird a n d F ourth. First, the Customs Duties. TheseT Were consolidated in the 27th, 43d, 49th 44., oul 59 th of George 3d. Thi s last Act, which was mteYr Passed on t h e 2d July, 1819, has been el or amended by no less than 24 different ' Acts of Parliament since, and there is a Bill now before Parliament on the subject. The Excise and Stamp laws have also been at different times consolidated ; but as the principal of consoiida 7 tion is less objectionable when applied to Acts that impose a tax, we will forbear to insist on these. But this fact would be alone sufficient to prove the truth of what we have here advanced. But to go still further,we will takeanother branch of the Law, viz. The Land Tax Redemption Acts. These Acts were consolidated in the 42d year of Geo. 3d, be tween that time and the 57th year, seven other Acts have been passed for altering or amending the consolidating Act. Their provisions are contained in very nearly 300 different clauses, all thrown together without any attention to the or der of the subject, so that although powers may be given to Commissioners in the first clause, we feel by no means certain additional powers may not be confered in the 10th, 20th, 50th, or any other subsequent clause, wherp chance has direct ed it to fall. The next subject is the Turnpike Acts. A kind of consolidation of these took place in the 30th George 2d ; and again in the 6th of George 3d. In the 7th of George the Third, they were, to use the words of the Act itself, c: reduced into one Act." This Act was at dif ferent times altered and amended, in so much so that in the 14th Geo. 3(1. the turnpike laws were again reduced into one Act, and after a variety of alterations, repealings, and amendments, the 3d Geo. 4th saw the turnpike laws for the fifth time reduced into one Act. Even this last consolidated Act', which contains 153 sections, was in the very following session amended by an Act of 94 sec tions, and by another of three sections. It was " further amended " in the sth of George the 4th, and not unlikely, if Lord LOWTHER'S Committee are expeditious, to be again amended in the pre sent session. The Vagrant law was consolidated in the 3d session of George the 4th, and the sth ses sion repealed the consolidating Act entirely, and enacted another instead. The Transportation law was consolidated in the last Session of Parliament, but it has been done with so little attention to the former law, that it has left a doubt whether some prior Act of Parliament on the subject (we think 19th Geo. 111. cap. 74.) is or is not in force. The Bankrupt and Slave Trade laws were also consolidated in the last Session, and both are now again under review. There may be perhaps many other instances, but we have neither time or space to notice more. Enough here is shewn to prove that mere simple consolidation does more harm than good, and we therefore wish that if the plan be confined to simple conso lidation, to see it abandoned. Mr. Secretary PEEL 111 his speech on the Jury Law, a few nights ago, gave us hope that, a Commission for an In quiry into the state of the Statute Law would be formed, and if this commission is instructed to reviezn the Statutes, leaving what is good, and ex punging only what is useless or worse than useless, the nation, we think, may expect to derive great benefit from its labours, and whatso ever might be the expence it would be cheer fully sustained. We have been led into these observations by Sir M. W. RIDLEY'S notice in the House last night, that he would, on the 28th April, submit a motion on the subject. It appears by the remainder of the Paris Pa pers of Monday, which arrived last night, that diplomatic conferences are daily taking place at the hotel of Prince METTERNICH, which are at- tended by the Ambassadors of Austria, Russia, and Prussia, but it is not known to what object they relate. By some it is conjectured that they have reference to the intended suppression of the publicity of the debates in the German Legisla tive Assemblies; and what gives an air of credit to the rumour is the alarm generally felt by the Representative States in Germany that such a measure is contemplated by the Holy Al liance, one of its members having already carried it into effect in his Kingdom of Poland. There is good reason, indeed, to sup pose, from the activity -shewn at Paris by the French Cabinet and the Ambassadors of the loly Alliance, that some political objects of im- portance are in discussion ;for couriers have been repeatedly dispatched to the different Conti- nental Courts, and at ten o'clock, on Friday night, Count Tor,sToy, a Russian General, ar rived at Paris from St. Petersburg'', with dis patches,having travelled the whole distance as an extraordinary courier. The Russian Ambassador continued engaged in business with the Count until two o'clock in the morning; and at ten o'clock the next day his Excellency repaired to the Hotel of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, Baron EE DA mAs, with whom he had an interview which lasted several hours. From Madrid we learn that some changes have taken place in the Spanish Ministry. UGARTE is dismissed for his incapacity, and Lorcz ALCARAZ is again placed at the head of the Finance Department. QUESADA, it was ex pected, would be appointed Director-General of the Royal Infantry. fa tha, ar t y . Tw o b atta li ons o f provincial arrived i n t h e en virons of Madrid, where th e y were wa i ting recruits l to be equipped from France, in order to form part of the new Royal Guard. There was no longer anything said of the, evacuation of Sp a i n by the French troops. Considerable alarm is felt lest the Congthutionalists sitould attempt another landing on the coast near Algesi rag. Demonstratimis of such an intention had been observed, and the public spirit throughout Andalusia is so decidedly adverse to 'Mlle Government of Fu'itnt - NAND, that a general risinE,r, would, it is feared, take place in support of the Constitutionalists. Young LucIEN MUI AT remained a captive in a dungeon. No one yen hired to mention him to the the KING, lest,the indisposition o f his MAJEST Y should . be increased, or the serenity of his temper ruined by any allu sion to that individual. Tuesday's Brucsels Papers arrived this morn ing. The Netherlande r s are highly pleased with the alterations in our Colonial trade proposed by Mr. HUSKISSON in his speech last Monday week, and are anticipating great advantages from the new openings it will give to their commerce, and from the ability it will afford them of entering into competition with this rountry in certain branches of their manufacture, which are thus enumerated : " First, our woollen cloths,-especially those of Verviers, which in quality and be au ty sur p ass or at least equal the English, and which, from their moderate price, must obtain the preference. The linens of Flanders will likewise he in demand, at least the finer sorts, which are so much admired in hot climates for the dress of both sexes, on account of their agreeable coolness. Our agriculture will likewise profit by the abolition, if our farmers can succeed in giving our flour that dryness which dis tinguishes that of th e U n i te d States, and renders it fit for long voyages; a process of which the Rhenish West India Company at Elberfeld has contrived to obtain the knowledge, by means of agents sent on purpose to the United States, and which it actually puts in practice in the vicinity of Dantzig, to prepare flour for the South American market. Other articles of the produce or manufactures of Belgium may doubtless be sent with advantage to the new markets." It will be seen by the following extract' of a letter, taken from a Brussels Paper, that if the French Government should be induced to accede to the demandsof the Ultras for the restoration to the Emig -rants of their landed property, the mea sure will not be very easily carried into tffect " A private letter from Paris speaks of an association of Pro prietors of National Domains, to oppose the efforts • that emi grants may make to obtain possession of their former estates. such an association, of which the richest men in Frunce, as purchasers of national domains, will make a part, must pro cluce'a great effect." The Journal de Gand 7 of re c e nt date, h as th e following • extract from a private letter, dated .Paris 221 March. The present POPE, it seems, is determined to revive all the ancient pretensions and authority enjoyed in the dark ages by his predecessors in the Chair of St. Peter. What will the Caiholics of Ireland say to this ! " If we may believe letters from Italy, the Pope has declared that-he does not recognise the new King of Naples, because he has not obtained from him the investiture of his Kingdom ; and also that his Holiness has forbidden the Biships to crown him till he shall have come in person publicly to present the tribute due from the Kings of Naples to the Holy See. These letters further state that his Holiness has caused it to be signified to 'Maria Louisa, Duchess of Parma, that she has to pay the tri bute of a golden chalice to St. Peter, which that Duchy used to offer as a token of vassalage. But the news that excites the most sensation among the Romans is, that after the end of the year .1825 they are not to have any more actresses in their theatres." Two French Cabinet Messengers, on their way from Germany to Paris, with dispatches, passed through Brussels on Monday. The Emperor of RusstA has presented a-very handsome diamond ring to Capt. STONEIIOUSE, Of the English brig Parks, of London; and has had a medal struck in his honour, for having saved the life of a Russian Officer and several sailors during the late inundations, It is stated in a letter from Odessa of the sth instant, that since the discovery of the hue con spiracy atConstantinople the Sultan has sent part of his treasures to Asia, and intends removing his residence thither. This statement rests wholly upon vague rumour, and little credit is attach ed to it. The Prince de Caor, Grand Almoner of France, has been made a Cardinal. The Theatre at Wiemar was burnt down in the night of the 21st instant. The fire spread so ra pidly through the whole building, that it was im pos,,ible to save it. It is said in one of the letters from Paris, by the last French mail, that at the last Cabinet Council, the Duke of ANGOULEME proposed for the adoption of the Government a line of conduct similar to that of Mr. litismssoN, in the repeal or modification of the import duties, but that this proposition was overruled by M. De Villele, on the, ground that the financial state of France would not admit of it. The last letters from Madrid state that the Clergy of Cordova have made a violent protest against the decree of banishment pronounced against two of their body, for improper conduct towards the Constitutionalists of that place. On the 9th inst. a Commissioner arrived at Cordova from Madrid to enforce the decree, but he was compelled to return without having performed the object of his mission. Dt: EA OFUL ATTACK,--Last eveninz Mrs. D'A viLLE, a lady of fortune and native of Portugal, was returning about eight o'clock from the Roman Catholic Chapel, Duke street, to her residence in Lincoln's lon-square, when crossing the square a ruffian, dressed in the garb of a gentleman, endea voured to take an improper liberty with her, which she repelling, he struck her several tiMes, and fled in the direction of Clement's lane. Mrs. D'Anville found she had been stabbed, and uttering a shriek, called for assistance, and was assisted home nearly insen sible. On being examined, she was found to have received two stabs over the right breast; her clothes were perforated in several places. The melancholy effect of the outrage is this--the lady being advanced in pregnancy, is confined to her bed alarmingly ill, and fears are entertained of the most serious and afflicting nature. It is needless to say, the ruffian escaped. A reward will be offered for his apprehension. EXTRAORDINARY BEAST.---Last , an extraordinary week was dinthrelreamrwointhoirled, fed by e was 1,315 lb?. or l s a b rg u e gl h it e e i rta , f a o t ur P y itc ea l r il s ey a ' n , 1111 i tittle e Cox, po j lard, r b d u , t cbhuetr no o f c t a b k a e t . tow T n h , e o lv n .e g ig ra b s t s o , f h t a h y e , ca m:Li s ps, an d a 164 stone 3 lbs. THE LATE RESPITE.—The in qu i r i es into the case of Roger Adams, which induced th e resp i te of himself and his unfortunate fellow culprit are still continued, and we are given t o understand, that yesterday some further inform at i on relative to the character of the persons enga ge d i n the prov.cution was obtained , which w ill warran t another application for delay, when it i s co " . dentiv anticipated such facts will be adduced as to warrant the remission of the pnnishm ent. Teo much praise cannot be given to the Gentlemen , who have so laudably interested themselves. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. Viscountess Cremorne, in Stanhope-street, May-fair ; Sir Charles Henry Coote, in Connaught-place ; Hon. M. Brown low, at the Clarendon Hotel; Mr. Adams, in Grosvenor-place; Lady Janet St. Clair Erskine, in St. James's-square; Lady Campbell and Miss Stoughton, in Lower Brook-street; Lady Jane Houston and Miss Long, in • York -street, St. James's-square; Mrs. and Miss Welbore Innes, in Park street, Grosvenor-Square; Lady Howard, of Effingham, in. Mansfield-street, Portland-place ; COlonel and Mrs. Eglintoun, in Harley-street; Mrs. and Miss Beatichamp, in South Audley_ street ; Lady Eleanor Howard, in Bruton-street, Berkeley square ; Lady and the Misses Ogle, in - Grafton-street, Berke ley-square; Mrs : H enr y O g l e , i n tratton:street, Piccadilly; Count Woronzow, at lass house in Welbeck-street, from South ampton ; Mr. and Mrs. Taylor, at Miller's Hotel, Jermyn street, from Ember Court, Surrey. DEPARTURES FOR THE noLTDAYS.—The Earl and Countess Beauchamp, from Pftirtman-square, for Worcester shire ; the Earl and Countess di...Darnley, for their seat, Cob ham Hall, Kent; Lord and Lady King, for their seat, Oak ham, Surrey; Countess De Grey, for her seat in Surrey; the Marquis of Chandos, for Stowe ; Sir Charles Saxton, Bart. for his seat, Abingdon ; Dowager Lady Suffield, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Emily Marchioness of London- derry's seat, North Cray, Kent; the Earl of:Ormond and Os- ! gory, from the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington-street, for his seat, Kilkenny Castle ; Sir George Thomas, Bart, from Nerot's Hotel. FASHIONABLE PARTIES. The Duchess of Kent had a select party yesterday evening, at her apartments in the King's Palace, Kensington. Yesterday afternoon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave a grand dinner to the Cabinet Ministers, at his house in Down ing-street. The Marquis of Hertford had a grand dinner and 3nusical party on Tuesday, at his house in Piccadilly. Yesterday his Lordship had another grand dinner and evening party. The Marquis of Lansdown entertained a large party at din ner yesterday, at Lansdowu House, Berkeley-square. ELOPEMENT.—One of these romantic adventures has just occurred in the family of a wealthy merchant in the City. The young lady, who has not yet attained her 16th year, and is heiress to a considerable fortune in her own right, was being educated at a boarding-school on the Windsor-road, where an acquaintance commenced, rather accidentally, with the partner of her prespnt flight, who was resident in the vicinity of the school, in the humble capacity of valet to a gentleman of fashion. Unluckily, as is too often the case, the latter took singular pleasure in dressing out his fellow (as the phrase is) in the extreme of elegance, so that the man was generally mistaken for the master, and vice versa. Possessing a tolerable address, with an immense stock of assurance, this 'gentleman's gentleman contrived to ingra t;:te himself so far into the unhappy girl's good graces, as to be favoured with several appointed meetings • in the course of which, li e i n d uce d h er to e l ope w i t h him, which she did on Sunday evening. When she was missed, the lady, to whose charge she was committed, dispatched a messenger to her father's, in the supposition that having taken umbrage at a re monstrance made by her Governess a few days previously, on account of inattention to her studies, she had merely gone home to complain to her father—as young ladies of her age are gene rally disposed to consider any infringement on their pleasures, an unwarrantable exercise of authority. The distress of a parent, on receipt of such a piece of intelligence, may be better conceived than desscribed ;—an inquiry was di rectly made, and -it was ascertained that the fugitives had set off for the Metropolis, by one of the stages, on the evening that the young lady left sch oo l. O n 111onSay, strict search was made, and it appeared that the lovers had taken a 1 temporary refuge at a house in Margaret-street, Westmin sten but were actively preparing for a trip to the Hymeneal Coal at the other side of the Tweed. In consequence of this intelli , rence the enraged father applied f or a d v i ce t o th e , Ma gistrates of Queen-square Police Office, who of course told him, by all means to exercise his p aren t a l aut h or i ty , an d with the aid of a constable, if necessary, force his daughter away. With this design he proceed e d t o t h e h ouse , but 1 what was his mortification, when he discovered that the person of whom he came in search had already gone, the fellow li aviOg learned the steps that were being taken by the justly enraged parent of his intended ; and as they had taken their de parture, without a moment's notice to the lady in whose house they lodged, no possibility of tracing them could be had, and as a last resource, application was made to the fellow's master, to ascertain what description of character his faith less valet sustained previously, but the information received in that quarter was by no means consolatory to the wounded feelings of a parent; as the master intimated a belief that the felloi was already married to another. The father and friends of the unhappy girl entertain not the least doubt that they have gone off' to Scotland, to complete their ill-assorted union which will, if the suspicions of the fellow's master prove correct, be dissolved by a charge of bigamy being preferred against the husband. We are sorry to hear.that the Earl of CRAVEN is seriously indisposed at his house in Charles -street.—Lord CRAVEN, we understand, is attended by Dr. NATON and Dr. EDEN. Mit. SOANE'S MUSEUM.—The third, and, as we understood, the last Exhibition of the valuable rarities of this spacious Mansion, took place yesterday evening, and was, as before, attended by a numero us concourse of visitors,_ among whom were Lord Harrowby, Mr. Peel, M r . Wynn, Don Ber nardino Rividavia, one of the Founders of the Republic of Buenos Ayres, a gentleman conspicuous for integrity and learn ing; Archdeacon Nares and Lady; several Members of the Royal Academy, and other eminent Artists; a large assemblage of private friends and elegant females, who testified the highest pleasure in being invited to this intellectual repast. We have so often adverted tot his extraordinary assemblage of Ancient and Modern Art, that we have no occasion to dilate on the subject. The Company remained nn the spot till a late hour. All seem ed to rejoice that the power of possessing such a treasure had fallen into the hands of a Gentleman whose taste in selecting, and munificence in acquiring so strikingly mark the whole collection, and to join in the patriotic hope that it will here after become the property of the Nation, as it certainly cannot be rivalled in any &her country. MAUNDY THURSDAY.— This 1110rDing, pvr suant to ancient custom, as many men and women as the King is years old was presented with the Royal Bounty, in a spacious building erected for that purpose in the rear of White hall Chapel. The bOunty consisted of a loaf of bread weighing one pound and a half, three pounds and a half beef, strewed with parsley ; and after grace was read before and after meat, directions were given for the removal of the cloth, and each of, the Maundy men and women were presented with two salt cod, two salt salmon, 18 red and a similar number of salt her rings, surmounted with four loaves, and a leather flagon of ale. The Sub-Almoner, Dr. GOODENOUGH, then drank the health of the KING, which was als o d ran k b y t h e men and women in succession, and the receipienti departed with their provision. They afterwards returned, and the S'ub-Almoner presented themen with shoes and stockings, and also woollen and linen cloth, and the silver pieces of money were given to the men and women. They were then presented with a glass of wine each, in which they drank the health of their Royal Benefactor a second time. When all were supplied, the recei pients departed. The building was thronged with the Nobi lity and Gentry during the interesting spectacle. 1 IBARGANY CAUSE.—This important question by Appeal to the House of Lords, in which Mrs. Mackay Hamil ton Fullarton is Appellant, and Sir Hew Dalymple Hamilton, Bart., is Respondent, involving the right of succession to pro perty of great value, will be heard in the House of Lords on Thursday, April 21. Eminent Scottish Counsel, on both sides, will plead the 'cause at the bar of the House. Mrs. Fullarton has been disputing the title of Sir Hew and his predecessor, for 30 years in the Court of Session in Scotland. The Haymarket Theatre will open immediately after the Italian Company quit it. Report speaks highly of the arrangements for the next season. A Committee has been formed to take into con sideration the proceedings necessary for a new establishment, E o u s s i e . for the effective representation of Italian Opera, consisting of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen :—The Marquis of 48 Lorda n d - Anglesea ; Earls Craven, Sefton, and Mount Charles Ravensworth, Count St. Antonio ; Sirs G. Warrenden, Gore Ousley, J. Murray, G. Clerk, and Andrew F. Barnard ; Gen. ford,Tth he CommitteeoEn s . q A . m , t h r u . r hce U ul dr p t t o t n eE , i r t st. first Hanmonde.eivtGiin.rgesytaetlwltahoroettThN,hicaHhtcoehinserodynh e Tavern. Their next meeting is expected to take place imme diately after the holidays, on Thursday, the 12th April. WESTMINSTER SESS . IONS- 7 -(r itu; DAY.) As INCORRIGIBLE THIEF.—IIarr N „logics, a well-known offender, was put, to the bar, charged with robbing a gentleman of a silk handkerchief &c. his property, on the .29th of March last. The prisoner, though very young in years, had re peatedly been in custody, and on the .present oc casion committed the offence in open day.-- T Th e Jury found him Guilty, and, in order to savpir k il vi from destruction, sentenced him to be transported for seven years. ..'4. J t5 76 V '',,,. rlt p t :? :; ,: i , ,f r , ~ 1 ,, ,_-,,, IP - t• c,) , ), 4 ~.„,...7„*,:„._ 4 . , t. ..- 7 _,.., ~,, , ' l4. ''') r-,-, 'Y • 1 -I k ,--4 ' 1,; ,3 4‘. '' - •.'''''N. , ....i. - V t . -) • ~,,,,,...., 1 . 11 •0-6,A h t,- , ,,,, t ; 4, '.. - . sv-i -- 44..tv - t, :;,•,,... (....;\ g• IN I , . ~ 4,., ~ -4 , • 4111 :1:. Oi / - X ..' . 1 4 ' , 4t., kit r?, MERCANTILE SHIPPING. Manc throwgii for the liiver the Sisters; from Demerara ; and the Cossack, Todd, from Alexandria, the latter reifitt ins. Passed . through from the River the Robert and Ann, flikitly, Columbia, Tay lor, and Hopewell, Dobson, tbr QueliekiLAyor, Deiripster, for • Grenada ; Union, for , and the Atlas,. Hunt, tin the Cape and India. , PORTSMOUTH, .111aucii E..—Put back the Superb, George, for Rotterdam, from China. Sailed the Coiii merce, Fleming, for Pernambuco ; and the Albion, Hall, for Quebec. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind E.—Sailed the LToyds, Winterbottom ; Perseverance, Barrett, and Elizabeth, Moore. for America; Importer, Adams, end Accession, Roddam, for Hamburgh ; and Europe, Wills, for Quebec. Arrived off the Port the Olinda, , from Pernambuco. FALMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind E.—Arrived the Maty Ellen, Donaldson, f r o m Li verpoo l. f or C o l um bi a. Off t h e Port he Miranda, Wildgoose, from Demerara, in 40 days. LlVEltro.or.., MARCH 29.—Wind N.—Arrived the Odessa, Patterson, from Smyrna; and Pretty Lass, Hamilton, front Sicily. SHEERNESS , MARCH 30.—Sailed the Diadem tranFmort for the Downs. !tummy, MARCH 30.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Tweed from Portsmouth, to take on board Admiral Plumper. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following ships were taken up and thus sta tioned, viz.: —Coldstream, Guilford, Albion, Childe Harold, Bussorah Merchant, Broxbournbury, Malcolm, Java, lelrti Hungerford, and Berwick, for Bengal direct; Cambridg, Lady Kennaway, James Sibbald, and Maitland, for Bombay direct. The following Commanders took leave of the Court previous 'to departing for their respective destinations, viz.— Capt. William Hay, Charles Grant, for Bengal and China. Captain Christopher Biden, Princess Charlotte of Wales ; Captain George Probyn, .Minerva; 'and Capt. George Mason, Warren Hastings, for Madras and Bengal. Capt. William Manning. was sworn into the command of the ship Thomas Grenville, consigned to Bengal direct. HOAX EXTRAORDINAY. ( From Me Dublin Morning Post of Monday.) " Very like a whale." Yesterday the inhabitants of Ciontarf worn alarmed by an extraordinary influx of visitors. Every road and avenue leading to the Sheds were thronged with travellers of every description, from the humble pedestrian to theliveried charioteer. The learned and the ignorant, the humble and the great, were all impelled for war d b y cur i os i ty to one focus of attraction. the pier of Clontarf, where sonic persons had, in printed hand bills, promised to exhibit a whale, measuring seventy feet from the snout to the tail ! The carmen, who really profited by the joke, were to be heard describing it " as large as eleven houses, and longer than the pier itself." . Not the least amus ing part of the scene was, that those who had been themselves deceived, endeavouring to cajole others by accounts of the, whale, so astonishin g an d seem i ng l y so accurate , t h at i would have deceived even Nestor himself. It was not until about five o'clock in the evening that the hubbub and confusion from the innumerable cars, gigs, and coaches, on the different roads, began to cease, and all th e i r occupants returned, con-- pletely satisfied that " the royal fish" had not condescended to visit the eastern shores of Ireland this season. TITE BUONAPARTE The following i:; an extract of a private letter frcm Rowe, dated the 6th of this month : "The wife of the too famous Prince of Peace, Emanuel Godoi. • . a Princess of the Blood of the Bourbons, and cousin - Berman of Ferdinand VII. Kin g of Sp a i n , h as been some time arrived in. thR Roman States. It has been a matter of great surprise that she has joined her husband, with whom she had serious cause to be dis pleased whilst he was all powerful in Spain. Her re, union to' tl is - man at present leading a retir e d an d o b scure lif e, an d l oa d ed w i tti public contempt, is perhaps an honourable trait in her charac ter to those who reflect. The rof Napoleon, Madame Lwtitia Buonaparte, enjoys very variable health ; 'her fortune is considerable. Her sons, Lucent, Louis, and Jerome, Jive in magnificent palaces, the two first cultivate the arts and 'cuffs. The Princess of Wurtemburg, the wife of Jerome, entertains an attachment to that Ex-King, examples of which are rarely to be met with in private life. Such is at present the state or a family, whose unheard-of prosperity in modern history lißs so much astonished the world," It has been asserted by eminent Thysidanr; that if old people would be persuaded to stay at home 'ail the winter, it would be the means of preserving their life several years. Newton, Bishop of Bristol, was very observant of this rule. One fine warm day in December, hoWever, when the wind was in th e S ou th, an d t h e sun shone bright and clear, he went to the Levee. His late Ma;esty, who noticed the pecu liarities of all persons in the habit of attending the Court, im mediately went up to him and sard, " Ah ! a visit from you, my Lord, in D ecem b er ! Wh y , I did not expect to see you till May." • In the old Roman Calendars, it was common ; to mark the lucky days, or periods . of the year for adventurers of every kind ; and SHAKSPE t ItE'S words are strongly impressed on many good reel-' soners of the present day, cc that there is a tide in the affairs of men, - which taken at t h e flood leads on to fortune." No adage can be bette,e confirmed than this has been in the uovar;ed spring tide of Bisu's ..Luck in selling capital Prizes in April, In one April he sold All the Thirty Thousands ! and there has been scarcely a Lottery drawn iu April, without Bissi selling at least two otit of three of the Grand Prizes.— ] f the present March winds have. been as favour. able in wafting Fortune to BLitt's Offices, as in former years (and why should they not?) where . can a few pounds be now adventured with so ca. • pital a prospect of Four Twenty Thousands, - and Thirty other great PriZes which must ail be drawn on Tuesday, April 12. SuicinE.--Yesterday evening an elderly widow lady, of the name of Halls, residing at 15, Warwiek-lar.e, Ludgate-bill, put a period to her existence by cutting her throat. It appears that for some time past different di. - rxiesti:, circumstances had preyed heavily on her mind, and produced so great a despondency, that her relatives, fearful of her com mitting violence on herself, had watched her motions. Last night, however, she contrived to elude their vigilance, and, re tiring up stairs, committed the fatal act with a razor , w hi c h s h e took from a dressiog-case that stood •in the room. She was discovered half an 'hour afterwards lying on the floor quite dead, and weltering in her blood. The event has caused the greatest affliction to her family. MELANCHOLY ACClDENT.—Yesterday after• noon, about four o'clock, as J. DUNLOP, Esq. son of General DUNLOP, M.P. was riding in Piccadilly, his horse took fright and galloped off at full speed. Mr. Dunlop endeavoured to stop his career, but the reins broke, and the animal, finding himself at liberty, increased his speed. Mr. Dunlop endeavoured to throw himself from the saddle, but his feet getting entangled in the stirrups, he was precipitated with such violence on the stones, that his skull was fractured. He was conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he now lies without any hope of recovery. Mr. Dunlop returned from the University on Sunday last. The horse was stopped at 11yde Park. where it came in c on t a ct w i t h the iron railing,., and was greatly injured.