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bearing deportment, and rude refusal of a well-fed Overseer, may increase even the horrors of starvation. It has been clearly established, that the perverted priii eiPle of the Poor Laws of England goes to the subver sion of all property. Acquaint the great body of the People, that however improvident, however idle they may be, still the industrious part of the community must sup port them, and you at once offer a bounty to impru dence and idleness. Let the proportion of this base class increase sufficiently, and the industrious few will cease to cultivate land or to labour at all, when drones are to divide with them the fruit of their exertions. What natural right has he to expect assistance, who m arries when unable to support hinesey; without the incumbrance of a wife and family ? But hold out the Poor Rates, and there is no farther necessity for Prudence. The manly spirit of English indepen dence is in danger of being extinguished for ever ! We repeat it, that old age, sickness, and unforeseen calamity, are the legitimate objects of charity, and for thes e all our bounty should be reserved—undiminished by contribution s to those who are idle and profligate , upon system, for by these the deserving and helpless are virtually robbed. No one can grow sick or old for t he Purpose of enjoying the poor rates, and we would hav e for them double their present comforts and a per manent provision —but nothing of the sort for the Young and healthy. Their number is indefinite, and t hey will always consume any fated amount of provision, even after which cases of unforeseen calamity like the Present will occur, when the means of relief, and the i nclination also, have been completely exhausted by r egular stated contributions to those who sulkily view them as their legal right. We trust that this subject will soon come again tinde r the consideratio n of Parliament. Existing con tracts must continue, but a period may be fixed after which marriages palpably imprudent and protested against should preclude the,parties f r om all claim to parochi a l aid. This, of itself, would go some length towards diminishi ng the existing evil of enormous poor rates, b " w ithout effectual relief. A check, fortu na t e l y , h as een already g i ven to the system which some years ago en creasing at _a rate rapid enough to alarm the most supine. Much, however, still remains to be done. Th , e Duk e o f WELLINGTON has taken upon him self the duties of Commander-in-Chief, and has pro mulgated the same to the Army by a General Order, characteristic of his Grace's brevity and unostentatious mode 01 transacting business. lie contents himself with simply announcing the fact of having assumed the command of the Army, and requesting the assist ance of the General and other Officers to maintain its di scipline, good order, and high character. The Duke of WELLINGTON'S habits of business are Peculiarly calculated to render his great military P er iellce o f pract i cal utility in the high office to which he has been called by his MAJESTY. Acute and discriminating his Gr ace sees at once the promi nent feature of every case, and, putting aside all mi j"t6) directs his whole attention to its principal ob eet• Equally acute and discriminatin g in personal character, the Duke of WELLINGTON forms an ac emirate opinion of individuals, and this quality com bined with his experience, will enable him to select ° kers best qualified fox' the most important posts w hich fall to his nomination. Not easily warped in hill judgment by favour or prejudice, his Grace will Probably not be influenced by those feelings which d t : ° commonly operate on many ; and possessing as he oes the hi g h est m i litary renown in the world, we trust that his administration of the affairs of the Army Pr° fes 111 % be le ss popu l ar amongst the members of that aion, than just and useful to his country. t h e It i s matter of congratulation to those wh o k now importance o f t h e D UKE ' S temper and judgment e ll the Cabinet, that his GRACE'S appointment as °lntri ander-i n -Chi e f i s not to remove him from his e ' tt in his MAJESTY'S Councils. Priv- • coe....iate letter from Lisbon mentions, tha . t . the Baron de Porto their u oe Randeira invited the staff of the British Army to take up is residence in his Palace. or n t Y a Decree issued by the Emperor of Brazil, Captain P . Pascoe 4, 4 1 411 , who distinguished himself in so gallant a manner i A n the el %actin, on the 30th of last Jnly, with the Buenos p e li. ll o , °°, in which he lost an arm, has been decreed an annual_ periari .and, in addition to this testimony of his esteem, his m ab o /4 kle'tY, by two other Decrees, directed that a gun - shoutlUZ_b_e laotTchsd, should also bear . his name ; Imperial Order of the C ru ll i a r, :nted an Honorary Dignitary of the and also, that he eintelligence of a late date has been received by the James Agiir from New York, respecting the Mining operations in Cr ' an d °f 800,000 dollars being about to be shipped at Vera Grua for England. Pit o tturbert2tyletGinasEtaSnSt,Otrhi.ritßy.EsixitElfoitMATlON.—On Sunday, person namely, fifteen men and the errOnn ofntn"' b late professing Roman Catholicism, renounced one tnenria_,' 9ery in the Church of Cavan. On the same day chtunii 01,13Zight women abandoned their former faith in the day not forrilerlr aiBt-Which, with three on the preceding Sun the persons wh o announced oh, make the number twelve; so that the Bth October, 18;'`Ilforrned in the County of Cavan, since and Seventy -two. -.....E„ 49'c'unts to the number of Four Hundred .r, "0,9 Mai/. ELEGANT 111.711Nrru Cooper, 93, L Biehopsgte_str 11 t.. E, . GLASSES, Nobility and Gentry, that heel° of U pholstery and Cabinet Wornk Weitllin, respectfully apprizes the :nue* to supply every description Nine size as well as moderate ditne wi i til Glasses of the most ere with the furnishing of 4 , 0 % nm, and every other article w ell as the neatest style, com bi ning el:le/11,in the tsiost splendid as true t aett, thus obtaining, at a very inn T era e t e and simplicity perior e expence, such a,..t. general effect, which the most laboured and costly se en-u sot well arran ed f 1 t g , ever at s o pr o d, Hot i furniture e. Fenton's New r e , St. J ames's -street, which is considered 0 • e of the first in ' °l) Pe for elegance and convenience, was entirenl fitted up from "damthis Estab/ishment, and presents a handsome speermir i: o .f . the style fed by H. L. C. to attain the desired effect. • C.. con -gen§ he can eom ete for excellence of worknaanship quality of Iglittetiala with any other house in London, and at suacnhdreasonable lon fr e* _ 4 ! Will ensure him the patronage and support he has so ki 6 ` n ioYed of some of the most distinguished families in the Illtiont, THE FUNDS. CITY, (Tuts DAY), Twelve o'clock. There has been a perfect calm in the British Funds since the commencement of business, which was very trifling ; Consols opened, at 7Si 9, both for money and account, and have since been 79, buyers and sellers, for account, at which price they have continued up to the above hour, being now buyers at 79 ; India Bonds, 46 S ; and Exchequer Bills, 25 7 pm. The Foreign Funds evince a like dullness with the English Securities, and scarcely a bargain has been made in them ; Mexican Bonds are 62i 34 ; Colombian, 314 2 ; Spanish 12 4 ; Portuguese, 731 44; and Russian, 86 , the only novelty is in Poyais Bonds, Which were sold a short time since as curiosities, at a few shillings for a 100/. Bond, and from some cause not apparent, have risen to 30s. for the same sum. In Shares very little business is trans ' acting, now and then we hear of a sale in two or three of these speculations, but nothing of importance can be quoted, or any alteration in prices, except Brazilian Mines, which are rather better, and are now quoted at 33 24 dis. ; Colombian are, on the contrary, a shade worse, being 13 15 per Shall.. Three per Cent. Consols, 79 ; Ditto for account, 79 ; India Bonds, 46 8 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 25 7 pin. Foal:lc:sr Fustns.—Brazilian, 60 1 ; Buenos Ayres, 54 6 ; Chilian, 35 7 ; Danish, 584 9 ; Colombian, 1824, 314 2 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 32 3 ; Ditto 6 per Cent., 62 34; Peru vian, 30 1 ; Portuguese, 734 44 ; Greek, 144 15 ; Russian, 86 4 ; Spanish, 12 4. MlNEs.—Anglo Mexican, 35 30 dis. ; United Mexican, 114 104 dis. ; Brazilian, 34 24 dis. ; Real del Monte, 90 100 pm. ; Tl;lpuxahua, 45 55 pm. ; Bolivar, 2 3 pm. ; Colombian, 13 15 per Share ; Potosi, 46 8 per Share. TWO Clock. Consols remain steady at 79 4, with scarcely a bargain doing. Three per Cents. reduced 79 4. Monday being the Anniversary of his Majesty's Accession is a Holiday at both Stock Exchanges.—Mexican Si x p er C ent . B on d s are rather higher, 63 a i ; Spanish lower, 114 124. THREE 0' CL 0 CAT. Three per Cent. Consols for account, 79 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY.—(Tura DAT.) AcELLESLEY V. DUKE OF BEAUFORT. At a considerable time before the LORD CHANCELLOR came [nto Court, which he did at 20 minutes past ten, it was filled in every corner, in expectation of hearing the reply. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in rising to make that reply, con fessed that he felt it an extremely unpleasant task. Had it not been that the other Counsel in the ease had, in their discretion, thought it proper to go into the circumstances at large a second time, the publicity that had been given to them needed not to have been made; the pain of doing which had been materially aggravated from the fact, that Mr. Wellesley had thought proper to be in attendance during the whole of the discussion which ne cessarily went to assail the character of that individual on every hand. Mr. Hart had been pleased to say, that the present course of attack on Mr. W.'s character had been made for secondary pur poses; but he (Mr. Attorney-General) met that statement, by saying, that Mr. W.'s character was alone the subject at issue ; and he did not know he could have discussed the inca pability of a man to be the guardian of his children, unless by demonstrating the perjury and the demorality of the mind of that individual, which had been sworn to by several witnesses. The Learned Counsel, in replying, would endeavour to he as concise as possible, at the same time he would have to take a review of the case from the very commencement of the circumstances connected with it. Had he waived his reply, such a course would hare been construed into an ac cedence with some of the general observations made by the other side. He would commence his review of the case from the meet ing of Mr. W. Mrs. W. and Mrs. Bligh, at Naples. Mrs. B. was the daughter of Colonel Patterson, and was brought by his Grace the Duke of Wellington, from India to London, or by his Grace's directions; after arriving in this country, she was introduced at some parties to Mrs. W, at her princely man sion at Wanstead. It did not appear from the affidavits that the acquaintance between Mr. W. and Mrs. B. had been kept up till they met at Naples. In Naples, however, they did meet; Mrs. W. did not then recognise Mrs. B. or re collect ever having . seen her, either at Wanstead, or any where else. At Naples the acquaintance was renewed, and there, it was sworn, Mr. Wellesley had been a party to the attempt of effecting infanticide. The adulterous intercourse between the two had taken place there ; and with a meanness, not only moat unbecoming the high spirit of a gentleman, but unmanly and disgraceful to any individual in the most humble situation of life, Mr. Wellesley had endeavoured to per suade the Court that his amiable wife had been the procuress of Mrs. B. into his family ; not only did Mr: W. insinuate this, but in some parts, he had directly stated that the introduction of this woman into his family was not only made by Mrs. Wellesley, but made by her against his inclination ; but looking at all the affidavits, at the state of slavish servility in which Mrs. W. had been kept by Mr. W., and at the dominion and tyranny that he had ex ercised over her, no man in Court, the Learned Counsel contended, would permit his judgment to be mocked and his understanding insulted by Mr. W. saying, that it was not agreeable to his wishes that Mrs. B. had been brought into his family. This had been sworn to by Mr. W., and was, in Mr. Attorney-General's opinion, a gross and moral perjury. In 1823, a party was formed to as cend Mount Vesuvius, of which Mr. and Mrs. B. formed two ; but Mrs. W. was left behind, from a delicate state of health ; and there it was stated, the improper intercourse between Mr. W. and Mrs. B. took place. From Dr. Bulkeley's affidavit, it appeared Mr. W. had been party to the consultations that took place with Dr. 8., the object of which was get him to procure abortion. Sub sequently it was sworn, and admitted, that Mrs. B. left her hus band's house on the 31st July, 1823. Mr. W. had endeavoured to make out, with equal meanness, falsehood, and perjury, with his other statements, that this separation was owing to a quarrel between her and her husband ; the truth, however, was, that the adultry bet ween h er and Mr. Wellesley had been made public, the result was, that she left her husband's home. This latter part of this statement was made out by the affidavit of tJhoihenwnNilteaersas dep ;a o n s d ec n i o where did perjury, on the part of Mr. W. , appear t o b e more -clearly demonstrated than by this affidavit : his master, Me. W' .that on th e I st o f August, 1823, he saw with his 1' •, in a m os t fl urr i e d an d ag i tate d state , an d Ts parched ; M r . W . then stated to him—" they are going to Play hell with me. Mrs. Bligh has left her husband ; all I am a f ra i d of is, the groom and' lady's maid ; you must go to them, and offer them any thing, as these Blighs have not got parohekthought theCou 1, on th ave a sons." Well might Mr. W. h make an affidavit before the Consul at day, for y la , e f e o n r oo the flurried, v e r y ag o i e t agitated, dd,i did he course had taken place between at his late wife's hands, for the that no improper inter imhimos? of persuading B. which he put into h her to believe the most subtle dissecting knife, dissectedonsl the statement it contained. The Counselr the other side had, with caute rized the affidavit of Dr. B. from beginning to en , d cut i t t it, t a h n e d hf finding some morbid atom in it; and at last they with tied up o the e subject, by assigning falsehood to it, and declaring it to be a hellish statement made to injure the parties. ll@ (Mr. At torney-General) had followed the knife of his Learned Friends most minutely, by having read cover and over again, every syllable in that af f idavit, and in the affidavits bearing upon the points mentioned in Dr. Bulkeley's; and if Dr. Bulkeley had fabricated this hellish story, he hoped, that on the Doctor's bead would fall the vengeance such a fabrication merited ; but if the whole was substantially and decidedly true, as he firmly believed it to be, was Mr. W. whose conduct was such as that affi davit depicted, and who had positively sworn, that Dr. Bulkcley was perjured—a fit man to have the guardianship of his chil dren ? The affidavit made by Mr. Wellesley at Naples, was cer tainly alleged to be to satisfy the public that no adultery had taken place ; but it was no doubt intended also to deceive Mrs. W., for it had been shown to her for that purpose. The 'affidavit of Mr. W. had been set up against both the affidavits of Dr. B. and Meara; but if there were no other affidavit against Mr. W.'s, and thohgh he were the discarded valet of Mr. W., his affidavit was more worthy of credit than his ci devant master ; and it would be a degradation and total extirpation of common sense to suppose, that Mr. Wellesley'e affidavit was to outweigh both that of Dr. Bulkeley and Meara. In the Learned Counsel's opinion, the statements in general in these two affidavits were not only substantially true, but strictly correct in their most minute parts, leaving the affidavit of Mr. W. a tissue of falsehcods. —Mr. W. had gone on, even down to February 1826, swearing that neither open nor clandestine adultery had taken place between him and Mrs. Bligh, which (the Attorney-General) coolly and deliberately, decidedly and advisedly, designated as gross and wilful perjury. Mr. Horne has been moat unsparing in his reproach upon Dr.Bulkeley, and particularly in alluding to the statement respect. ing the challenge that had been sent to Mr. W. by Mr. B. Now, the fact was, that Mr. Bligh had sent the challenge, which proved his belief at that time of having been an injured man. The people all at Naples believed that the adultery had taken place; and Mr. Wellesley himself chewed his conviction of Mr. B.'s justice to complain, by his having refused to meet Mr. 8,, but having said he would refer it to the Duke of Wellington and Lord Darnley, and that if they, or either of them gave it as their opinion that Mr. Wellesley ought to take the field, he would give the meeting. The meeting, however, never was given ; a farther communication took place between the parties, conveyed by Dr. 8., and it was attempted to be made out, that as he had been the bearer of these hostile communications, he had wished Mr. W. to meet Mr. 8., and to have been his murderer, but this he had denied. As to the verdict in this country against Mr. W., that showed that it was pretty clear that the Jury had been satis fied of Mr. B.'s ground of complaint. His Lottostur observed, that if the adultery had been made out at the trial, as it had been now alleged it existed, from its al leged commencement at Naples, there could be no doubt of that having been a circumstance calculated considerably to en• hance the amount of damages ; but if the conduct of Mr. B. was such to his wife, as had been now stated, in favour of Mr. W.'s case, there could be no doubt that that ought to have dimi nished the amount; but this Court could not help thinking other witnesses ought to have been called at the trial. His Lordship well knew, that many cases were tried at law, as the foundation of proceedings elsewhere, but which had been tried in such a way as not to give authenticity to nine of the verdicts out of every ten of such cases that were tried. Mr. ATTORNEY-GENERAL was content to take the case at law as it stood, and if the other side had been dissatisfied with the re sult of it, it was for them to have made the complaint in the proper mode and quarter. Mr. HORNE said, that that trial had been conducted in the most hostile manner, as well as the mode taken of recovering the amount of damages. The ATTORNEY-GENER AL now thought he had kept the Court in the Bay of Naples long enough ; and' therefore he proceeded to convey his Lordship from Naples to Florence, where Mrs. W. had been entirely undeceived, where the conduct between Mr. W. and Mrs. 8., and that of Mr. W. to Mrs. W., was of the most gross, improper, and indecent kind, and where Mrs. W. separated her self from Mrs. B. The learned counsel was pursuing, with as much zeal and power of argument, when we left the Court, his case against the claim of Mr. Wellesley to have the care and custody of his children, as that with which he had set out. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT—(Tnis DAY.) THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EARL OF LONSDALE. This was an information filed by , the Attorney-General ;;;Inst the defendant, for the purpose of establishing a certain charity, al leged to have been founded by Viscount Lonsdale, in May, 1697, and of procuring the application to the maintenance of that charity of certain funds originally appropriated to it. (The arguments of Counsel, which contained little interest, oc cupied the Court to a late hour.) COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—(Tnis Day.) CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. CAMPBELL move fcir a rule, calling upon a Magistrate of the county of Stafford (whose name he declined to mention) to show cause why criminal information should not be filed against him for illegally, maliciously, and corruptly committing to prison two children, one a boy, ten years old, the other a girl, only , seven years of age. The father of these children was a labouring man, residing in Staffordshire. He and their mother having left home on business on the 12th of October last, the children were left in the care of their aunt. In the course of the day they , went to a common, which was about one hundred yards dis tant, in which there was a pool, with ducks swimming in it, partly belonging to their father, and the rest to several of the neighbours. The boy and girl took off their shoes and stockings, walked into the pool, caught two of the ducks, took them to the bank, and were trying to make them fight, when the prosecutor, who owned some of the ducks, came up. The chit• dren, on seeing him, threw the ducks away, and ran off, without their shoes and stockings. The prose cutor prevailed on a person named John Ward, by giv ing him his dinner and a pint of beer, to run after them and bring them to him. Ward accordingly went to the mother's house and insisted on having the children brought to the prosecutor's ; the mother accompanied the boy thither, end the prosecutor took him before a Magistrate, who on hearing the prosecutor's state ment, without any further investigation, directed him to keep the boy in his custody until next day, and then to bring'him and the girl before him, the prosecutor accordingly kept the boy, and put him to sleep with his cow-mean ; when they were in bed, the prosecutor came with a rope and a candle in his hand, and asked the boy what he was doing with the ducks? He replied, that he was only playing with -them. "If you don't confess," said the prosecutor, " that your father desired you to steal them, I shall hang you with this rope." The boy still persevered in adhering to the truth. Next day the boy and the girl were brought before the Magistrate, who asked them separately, " what they were doing with the ducks ?" they both made the same reply, viz. that they were fighting them ; on which he said that lie would send them to gaol._ The mother was about to remonstrate against the hardship of such a proceeding, when the Magistrate told her, that if she said a word be would send her to gaol too; then addressing himself to the prosecutor, he said, " I am sorry you did not wait until they had taken the ducks away, and then I should send both the father and mother to gaol." The children were accordingly com mitted to prison on the 13th of October, where they were kept until the 25th, when they were tried for felony and acquitted. The cause which warranted the conclusion that the prosecutor had been actuated by malice, was a previous quarrel which he had with the father of the children, during which he killed one of the father's geese, and threw it before his door. The corrup tion of the Magistrate was inferred from his being on intimate terms with the prosecutor, and consequently disposed, however unwarrantably, to promote his purposes. It was also alleged, as a cause of his being influenced by malice, that a sister-in-law of the father had given evidence in an action in which the Magistrate was concerned. The facts as above stated were corroborated by the affidavits of the-mother and the boy—the girl being too tender in years to have an oath administered to her.—Rule granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS—(Tuts DAY.) STOCIELEY V. CLEMENT. This was an action for a libel contained in an Advertisement, published in the Morning Chronicle, of which the defendant is proprietor. The Advertisement was signed by Mr. Binns, Attor ney for the Dowager Lady Turner, and stated, " that, whereas information had been given to him (Binns), that attempts had been made to obtain the discount of a bill of exchange for 6,000/. dated the 26th day of May, 1825, and payable twelve months after date, drawn by the plaintiff Stockley upon and ac cepted by the said Dowager Lady Turner ; he (Binns) thereby gave notice that she had not accepted such bill, and that if her name appeared in it, it was forged, or, if genuine, was obtained of fu fy her ra signature." and , in total The h ignorance, eeane on h swas tried p i e d a a r t t , t of he the Sitting intendedafter effect rl e a c e t t Term, before Lord Chief Justice Best, at Westminster, and a ver dict found for the defendant. It appeared in evidence that the plaintiff was a tenant of Lady Turner's and also manager of one of her farms in Kent. His brother was examined, from whose testimony it appeared that the plaintiff had become embarrassed in his circumstances, and had applied for the benefit of the Insolvent Act, but without success ; he was indebted to Lady Turner to a considerable extent, but got her to sign the bill in question, as an accommodation for him, on which he procured 1000/. It appeared also that Lady Turner was old, and sometimes not capable of transacting business. Mr. Sergeant WILDE, for the plaintiff, now moved for a rule to spew cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial granted, on the ground of the Judge having misdirected the Jury, and admitted evidence which ought not to have been al lowed. The Learned Counsel contended, that the evidence of the plaintiff's brother, as to his circumstances, ought not to have been received. The plaintiff was charged with baying forged or fraudulently obtained the bill, but of this there was no evi dence ; and therefore the advertisement had stated more than was sufficient, in order to protect Lady Turner. He further con tended, that as the charges in the advertisement were not proved, the defendant had been guilty of malice in the legal sense of the term in having given circulation to them, and that there fore the verdict ought to have been for the plaintiff. The CHIEF JUSTICE said, that he was still of the same opinion as at the trial, viz., that Mr. Binns having suspected that the bill was obtained fraudulently, was entitled to publish the adver tisement in question. All the Judges, however, were of opinion that it was a question of importance, and therefore granted the rule. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—(Tuts DA Y ,) LADY BARAYMORE. —This unfortunate being was again brought to this Office last night, at the suit of a good-natured little pub lican of Bedfordbury, for breaking a glass. She was yesterday morning liberated from the House of Correction, where she has al most constantly resided for the last few years, and always, while there, behaved herself in a most steady manner. The way in which she has scraped and continued an acquaintanc e with the present complainant is rather singular. Being some time since in her Bacchanalian eccentricities, and followed by a dangerous mob, he took her into his public-house, to shelter her from being pelted. Ever since that time• she has shown her gratitude, and constantly, on her liberation from prison, and receipt of the usual shilling, she had paid him the honour of the first visit, to the certain demoli tion of his gin -glasses, &e. She last night asked him t o t rea t h e r, and, on his r e f us i ng, smashe d a g l ass , in conseq uence o f w hi c h s h e was taken to the watch-house.--Diseharged. FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS BRIGHTON, JAN. 25.—The attendance of Nobi lity and Gentry at the Palace to-day, to leave their names in the Hall Book, has been quite as great as that of yesterday. Among others we noticed-- The Dowager Marchioness of Donegall and the Misses Godfrey, the Countess Dowager of pinto and Lady Anna Maria Elliott, Lord and Lady G. and Miss Seymour, the Earl of Cardigan and the Ladies Brudenell, Lady G. and Mr. Baillie, Sir Hugh Palli ser, Vice-Admiral Sir H. Blackwood, Lieutenant -General Sir W. and Lady Inglis, Major-General Sir C. Pratt, Colonel Sir G. Way, Mr. and Mrs. Cholmeley Dering, Sir T. and Lady Leth bridge, Lady Harvey Lady A'Court, General and Mrs. Fitzroy, Sir G. and Lady Berkeley, Lieut.-General Sir J. and Lady Ha milton, Lord Dunglas, &e. The most gratifying answer to all enquiries, at the Palace to-day, respecting the KING, has been precisely the same as that of yesterday, viz. :—" His INIAJEsTv is well." The names left in the Hall book, exclusively for the Duchess of Gloucester, have also been numerous to-day. L► addition to the arrivals mentioned yesterday, Sir William Kepple,,joined the Royal suite at the Palace this evening. The weather here continues rigidly severe; and scarce any out-door exercise is taken. His Majesty's Private Band has arrived with us, but their attendance at the Palace has not yet been required. Those experienced police veterans, Town shend and Sayers are as usual when Royalty is here, sojourning with us. The Duke of Sussex left his apartments in the King's Palace, at Kensington, about eleven o'clock yesterday morning, in his carriage and four, on a visit to the Princess Augusta, at her seat at Frogruore. Mr. Secretary Peel is expected to-day at the seat of Mr. Huskisson, at Earth, near Petworth, Sussex. Mr. Waring, the King's Messenger, arrived, at an early hour yesterday morning, at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, with despatches from Richard Vaughan, Esq., the British Minister to the United Sitates of America: Mr. W. had a very quick passage. Some of the despatches from Washington were dated up to the let inst. The Under !:;ecretary of State in attendance opened the despatches, and immediately forwarded them to Mr. Canning. Despatches, dated the 9th inst. were received yes terday morning, at the Colonial Office, from Lieutenant-General Sir William Clinton, at Lisbon. Despatches were also received yesterday morning at the Colonial Office, from Lord Beresford, at Lisbon. Miss Jarman, late of the Dublin Theatre, has arrived in 'London, and will shortly make her appearance, at Covent Garden Theatre, in the character of Letitia Hardy. The most sanguine expectations are formed as to her success. Baroness Willoughby de Erisby entertained the Dowager Countess of Clare, Lady I. Fitzgibbon, Lady Gwydir. Hon. George Agar Ellis, and a select party to dinner on Thurs.- day at her house, Whitehall. Lady Bathurst, the sister of the late Duke of Rich mond, was not forgotten by the late Duke of York in his last moments.—The conduct of the Duke of York in refusing to fire when he met the Duke of Richmond, then Colonel Lennox, on the occasion of their dispute, excited the highest admiration of his Royal Highness's magnanimity in the mind of her Ladyship. —A strong friendship existed between the Duke of York and Lady Bathurst from that time to the period of his Royal High ness's death.—At the interview which took place between his Majesty and his Royal Brother immediately before the Duke of York's death, his Royal Highness requested that his Majesty would, in the event of the disorder proving fatal, send a lock of his Royal Highness's hair to her Ladyship, in token of his friend- ship and affection. On Monday last his Majesty forwarded the hair to Lady Bathurst, at the Albion Hotel at Brighton. BIRTH.-On the 26th instant, in James-street, Buckingham Gate, the Lady of Henry Bedford, Esq., of a son. The Right Hon. the Earl of Llarrowby,'of Sandon Hall, near Stafford, has been pleased to present the Rev. William Edward Coldwell, 31. A. Rector of St. Mary's, Stafford, and late of Catherine Hall, to the vicarage of Sandon, vacant by the death of the Rev. George Bonney, M.A.—Cambridge Chronicle. NEW LONDON UNIVERSITY.—Dr. Fellowes has made a very princely bequest to this Institution,—as much ground in the Regent's Park as the Council may deem requisite for a com plete botanic garden.—Literary Gazette. A report generally prevails that Mr. Baron Graham had resigned his official duties (or was on the point of so doing), as a Baron of the Court of Exchequer, and that Mr. Serjeant Vaughan was to be appointed to succeed the Learned Judge. A Supplement of the Mirror, of this day, contains a spirited programme of the funeral procession of the late Duke of York, taken from Hatchett's Hotel to Hyde Park Corner. The hand of the King's Guard' played for the first time since the death of their Royal Commander, on Thursday morning, while mounting guard at the King's Palace, St. James's. The band was that of the First Regiment of Foot Guards. The Privates of the 24th and 66th regiments in Limerick garrison have applied, and obtained leave from their Co lonels to wear mourning on the left arm, in memory of the late Duke of York. The Scots' Grays and Royal Artillery also wear crape round the left arm. The 73d Regiment stationed at Waterford, at• tended Divine Service on Sunday last, the Officers and Men wear. ing crape on their caps and left arms. W. Neat, a paymaster-serjeant in the 94th Regi ment, who had come from Gibraltar to Plymouth on leave, has been committed to - the Devon county gaol, on a charge of stealing a sovereign, the property of J. Roach, master of a Falmouth barge, lying at Stonehouse. The various lots of Play Bills sold yesterday, by Sotheby, in the sale of Field's Dramatic Library, produced about 1401. Charles Mathews, the comedian, was the principal purchaser. AN INFANT AS LARGE AS ITS MOTHER.—The Macclesfield Courier of Saturday last announces to its readers, that an infant, borne by a pauper in the workhouse of that town, after being weighed, proved to be upwards of 1001bs. This is indeed "a thumping boy.—Stockport Advertiser. BAD WRITING.—An eastern writer, speaking of a man 'of a weak understanding and deformed parson, but magnifi cently attired, compares him to a wretched hand-writing traced in characters of gold. No less than 1,606 grains of barley were last week aken from the crop of a pheasant at a gentleman's house at Bury. —Cambridge Chronicle. A TYRANT.—Knowles, in his Turkish History, relates an extraordinary instance of capricious tyranny. It is, that a German prisoner, of a gigantic figure and heroic courage, was exposed by command of the Salton, with his hands and feet securely fettered, and destroyed inch-meal by a dwarf who reached little higher than his knees. Mr. John Marfleet, miller, of Huttoft, killed a fat pig a few days ago, not two years old, which weighed 47 stone, 14 pounds to the stone. —Stamford News. STEAM VESSELS.—At Calcutta, the Indians, from seeing the steam-boat stemming wind, tide, and current, have called it Sheitaun Koonoo (the devil's boat ;) and an intelli gent Persian Syyud, wishing to compliment our national inge nuity, thus expressed himself :—" When the arts were in their in fancy, it was natural to give the devil credit for any now inven tion; but now, so advanced are the English in every kind of im provement, that they are more than a match for the devil him self !" Capt. Keppel's Journal. I TASQUERADES.—The first Masquerade given in England upon the foreign plan, uniting, after the Venetian fa shion, elegance and rude mirth and revelry, was by the Queen of Charles 1., but as it was unfortunately fixed for a Sunday, the populace loudly complained of the profanation of the Lord's Day. In the front of the hanquetting-house at Whitehall, a scuffle en sued between the soldiers and the people, in which half a dozen of the latter were killed, and two or three of the guards. This produced a general dislike of the Queen, which afterwards aggra vated every other imputation that was cast upon that unfortunate lady, as well as created a ♦iolent popular and somewhat tuagiste ria opposition to masquerades generally, fur nearly a century after. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 27. —We lament to state that the health of the highly respected Lord Bishop of this diocese is in such an warm ing state, that on inquiry last evening we were informed his disso lution was hourly expected. ECCLESIASTICAL PR EFERDIENTS..—The Hon. and Reverend George Pellevr, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, in this Uni versity, to the Rectory of St. George, with St. Mary Magdalen, Canterbury. l'he Rev. Thomas Morgan, D.D. of Jesus College, and Chap lain of his Majesty's Dock-yard, at Portsmouth, has been insti tuted, by the Lord Bishop of St. David's, to the Vicarage of Llan sadwrn, Llanwrda Chapel, Carmarthenshire : Patron, Admiral Sir Thomas Foley, G.C.B. The Lord Bishop of Chester has collated the Rev. S. Head-- land, M.A., Rector of Wycliffe, Yorkshire, to the office or dig' nity of Archdeacon of Richmond, lately held by the Rev. H. Law. M.A., now Archdeacon of Wells. On the nomination of the Corporation of Shrewsbury. thy! Rev. W. Vaughan, M.A., to the perpetual Cum/ of Aetloyi within the exempt Jurisdiction of the Royal Peculiar of St. Mary, Shrewsbury, void by the resignation of the Rev. imams Matthews, M.A. The Rev. F. Swanton has been licenced to th• perpetual Cu racy of St. John's Church, Winchester, by the. Lord Bishop of that diocese, to whose donation it belongs. The King has been pleased to present the Rev. Charles Mus grave, M.A., Vicar of Whitkirk, and perpetual Curate of Round hay, Yorkshire, and late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Halifax, vacant by the death of the Rev. S. Knight. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. GAME SHOOTING. On the 19th instant, at Bassi!don, the seat of Sir F. Sykes, Bart., near Reading, in the County of Berko, a number of sportsmen met, by invitation of the worthy owner; and • after partakin g o f b rea kf ast , went i nto the coverts adjoin i ng, and had excellent sport, killing (with four guns) 107 phea sants, eleven woodcocks, and 114 hares. Sir F. Sykes and his amiable and beautiful lady were not present, being unfortunately detained in Ireland by contrary winds ;. but a sumptuous dinner was provided, with every delicacy of the season, and a variety of wines, of which the gentlemen, after the toils of the day. partook; and, with Mr. Villebois in the chair, good-humour and hilarity prevailed till a late hour in the evening. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS FOR NEXT WEEK. Sir R. Sutton's hounds meet on Monday, at Wickerby ; Wed nesday, at Kettlethorpe ; Thursday, at Brattleby ; Saturday, at Nocton Wood.-10 each day. Lord Yarborough's hounds, Monday, at Beelsby Village ; Tnee day, at Saxby Mill ; 'Thursday, at Redbourn North Wood ; Sa turday, at Rye Hill.-1 I each day. The Compton harriers, Monday, at Windmill Hill. The Conock harriers, Monday, at Redhouse Gate; Friday, at Hasking's Penning. The Worcestershire hounds, Tuesday, at Shrawley ; Friday, at Stone Bow Turnpike. Mr. Boycott's hounds, Monday, at Burnall Green. The Radsworth fox-hound, Tuesday, at Pollington ; Thursday, at Owston ; Saturday, at Notton Village, at halt past ten o'clock. Sir George Sitwell's, Friday, at Noctoff; Tuesday, at Scar cliffs Park; and Friday, at High-lane, Moabrough Moor-10 each day. TROTTING MATCH. Mr. Bullock, upon his mare Roxana, performed his match (eight miles in half an hour) at a trot, with nearly two minutes to spare. It was for 100 cove., two miles on the Huntingdon road. The first two miles was done in seven minutes and three seconds; the second, in seven minutes six seconds; the third, in seVee minutes four seconds ; and the fourth, in seven minutes five seconds, winning easy in 28 minutes 19 seconds.—Betting, five to four on the mare. A few days ago, a Dick Andrews mare, the property of the Earl of Scarborough, prodyced a fine colt foal to Catton. FEMALE PEDESTRIANISM.-At ten o'clock on Tuesday morn ing, Mary M'Mullen commenced the task (for a collection purse) of walking, at Mansfield, 20 miles in four hours and a half. She started from the Blue Bell public-house, half a mile out and in, and, although the ground was very slippery, she completed the undertaking in four hours and ten minutes. THE MARKETS. COVENT-GARDEN MARKET.—(Txxs DAY.) There was a limited supply at this morning's market, and the trade was rather dull ; prices of Potatoes, Onions, and Fruit, stationary ; those of other things considerably higher than on this day se'nnight. s. d. to s. d. Potatoes (per cwt.) 3 6 7 0 Cabbages (12 heads) 1 6 3 0 Savoys 2 0 4 0 Parsnips (dozen) Horseßadish (bundle) '2 6 5 0 Brocoli 1 6 3 0 Celery 1 6 8 0 Carrots (12 bunches) Turnips Coleworts or Greens 2 6 4 6 Leeks Spillage (half-sieve) 1 6 2 0 Onions 2 6 4 0 I. d. to I d. Pears (half-sieve) 9 6 8 0 Apples, Common 2 0 3 6 Ditto, Choice 4 0 8 6 Quinces Oranges (100) Lemons English Walnuts 1 0 2 0 SpanishChesnuts(peck) 3 0 6 8 French ditto 2 6 , 5 8 French Walnuts 3 6 4 0 Spanish Harlenuts Filberts (121b5.) 8 0 12 0 Grapes 9 0 12 0 HAY MARKET: (At per Load < ST. JA Lowland Meadow Hay £4 oto 5 0 Upland Ditto ' 506 O . Rye-grass Hay New Meadow Hay 415 515 Meadow Hay 55., Clover Hay 4s. to 55., and Straw Qs. to 41., higher than last quoted. Supply rather limited, and trade brisk. SMITHFIELD. Lowland Meadow Hay f 3 sto 4 5 Clover Hay penally £4 10 to 6 0 Upland Ditto Rye-grass Hay New Meadow Hay —. 4 5 5 5 Wheat Ditto ll2 116 Supply good, trade dull, and prices as on Thursday. S. Tats DA Y. ) of 36 ruses.) MES'S. IClover Hay £4 ISto6 10 Oat Straw ll2 114 Wheat Ditto LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 23. Beet 4s. 4d. to ss. Od. I Veal —,.—......... Os. Od. to Os. Od. Mutton 4 0 4 6 Pork 4 0 4 4 Supply of Beasts limited, that of Sheep rather great ; trade, with every thing except a few of the primest Beasts, very dull. Ropf—.., Mutton HAII.SHAM MARKET.—Jan. 24. . 4e. Od. to 4s. Ad. Veal. I . 4 0 4 6 Pork So. Od. to Si. 4d, 40- 0 0 Supply short, any trade rather dull, NOTTINGHAM MARKET.—Jan. 24. Beef (st. of 141 b.),.. 7s. Od. to is. 9d. Veal 7s. Od. to 78. 6d Pork—____ 6 6 '7 0 cient for the demand. 69 7 3 Supply short, but au! SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Jan. 24. We had a short supply of all sorts of Grain to-day, owing to the heavy fall of snow. Top price of Barley Is. 6d. lower; all other sorts of Grain remain without any material alteration. Wheat. Barley. Oats. i Pease. Beans. First Second 2Bs 6cl 28s 6,1 285 Od 27s 6d 278 6el Third 26s fld 26s Od 25s Od 25s Od 25$ Od There were 672 bolls of N heat in market, which sold as under : 1 21 , at... 325. Od. 158 at... 295. 6d. I ra at... 285. 4d. 8.5 at... 275. 6d. 18 30 30 0 51 Average, 28s. 4d. 10.12ths. EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET.—Jan. 24. was fully a s goo d as l ast wee k , 2 600 The supply of She e p White-faced wedders, 20s. to 255. Od. ; Blaek-faced, 18s. to 225. ; Ewes, 15 s . t o 1 9s. ; a dull sale, part of the stock be i ng very inferio r . I n t h e Grasemarket the supply of Cattle was much the same as l ast week (207) ; best, 7s. Od. to 7s. 9d.; inferior, 6s. Od. t o 7 s. ; a d ull sale, and p rulers or movisioxs, &C.• Beef, per lb. O s. 3 d. to O s. 7d . F r esh Butter, per lb. led. t o O s. Od. Mutton 0 4 0 7 Salt Ditt0 , ....—.....—. 10 0 0 V eal 0 8 010 Ditto , per cwt. --M 15 . 0 0 0 6 Pork 0 4 prices a shade lower. Eggs, per doyen —I 2 0 0 Lamb, per quarter 0 0 0 0 Oat Straw. (te mp,) IS 8 19 0 Tallow, per lb. 044 0 5 Wheat 1:otto ---.12 0 13 0 Quarter', L0af..,.... 0 9 0 0 Barley Ditto ___..is p 0 0 Potatoes, per Illb. 0 6 0 0 Good Hay, per st. 8 0 1 4 GLASGOW CORN No alteration in Wheat. Bad Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. a. d. British, old 290t03110 new ro 296 MARKET. —Jan. 24. y rather dearer. Oats steady. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. s. d. 1 n"h290 to 28 0 British — 0 0 Beans, per 280 lb English ........... 0 Scottish Pease, Scottish VT 0 29 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b 23 0 24 0 Flour, per 2901 b. 49 0 50 0 Canada, free UB 0 so Irish , 26 0 28 0 Barley, per Zilolb. English • 34 0 35 0 Scottish Irish 2B 0 32 0 By way of ridiculing family pride, Doctor Monsey used to relate that the first of his ancestors of any note was a baker and dealer in hops, a trade by which he with some difficulty sup 'uPPrllLrd their a ir Severe difference blight with u ported a l arge f am i ly. On one occasion to meet an urgent de mand he was oblig e d t o ro b t h e f eat h er b eds of their contents an d hops were very scarce and ex cess i ve l y d ear, t h e h orded treasure was pic k e d out of the beds, an d a goo d sum was procured for hops, which, in a niverslallyea prevailing, ble hops A year or two afte plentiful season wou ld be unsaleable ; and thus, said the doctor, al; family hopped from obscurity.—Leedo Paper.