The Sun. — London, England, 1827-04-11 00:00:00

sion of enlightened principles be the ornament and true glory of society, the subjects of his Im perial MAJESTY are not far removed from their kindred bears, and add as little to the true great ness of Sovereignty—blessing a happy people, as they do to the dignity of man—secure in the en- JoYtnent of life and property. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY). CITY, Twelve o' Clock. Consols opened this morning at 823 3 for money, and 83 3 for account, and immediately afterwards advanced to 83 3, buyers, for account, during which some extensive business was effected ; they are now 84- 3 for account, and heavy; Stock is scarce ; the British Funsis look well, and barring any thing of a political nature, they appear likely to be on the rise from the great quantity of money in the market. India Bonds have had a further advance of °tie shilling per Cent. and may be quoted at 69 70 pm. ; Exchequer Bills have not, however, kept pace with them, and are rather lower, being 46 7 pm. The Foreign Funds, Particularly Mexican and Colombian Bonds, were rather flat at the opening of the market, they have since rallied, and 11exican have risen from 703 3to 713 ; Colombian 40310 40 ; Portuguese are about 3 per Cent. higher, being tooted at 78 3. Shares remain with scarce any attention Paid to their prices, and are stated at a slight advance, but not worth any particular notice. Thre e per Cent. Consols, 8:-',1; Ditto for account, 83 I; India Bonds, 69 70 pm. ; Exchequer Bills, 46 7 pm. Foam/4 FUNDS.—Brazilian, Buenos Ayres, ' 5 6 8 ; Chilian, 36 7 ; Colombi an , 1 824, 403 ; Danish. 603 ; Greek, 16 3 ; Mexican, 5 per Cent., 58 9 ; 6 per Cent., 713; Peruvian, 34 5 ; Portuguese, 78 3 ; Russian, 873 83; Spanish, 121 13. MiNES.—Anglo Mexican, 40 35 dis. ; Brazilian, 1 2 pm. ; Bolivar, par ; Colombian, 15 16 per Share ; Pasco Peruvian, 17 16 dis. ; Potosi, 28 30 per Share ; Real del Monte, 90 pm. ; Tlalpuxahua, 20 30 pm. ; United Mexican, 13 12 dis. Two o' Clock. Consols reached 83i- 1-, but in consequence of a sale of 200,0001. went down to 83i the present price. Twelve guineas per Cent. have been paid on specie, per his Majesty's ship Tweed, 15 have since been offered, and refused on the same risk. THREE 0' CL O CIS. Consols, 83i, buyers. FO UR o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 83:1 Danish Bonds 60i Do. for Ac. 83a Greek Do. 1825, Brazilian Bonds 641 Mexican Do. 1825, 71a Buenos Ayres Do. Peruvian Do. Chilian Do. Russian Do. 881 Columbian, 1824, 41a Spanish Do. 12i THE ARMY. Dof r Troop s o f th e 7th ( t h e P r i nce Royals') Regiment u ragoon Guards, arrived on the Bth inst. at Liverpool, bublin, on route to Birmingham and Coventry. the 2d di v i s i on o f th e D e pot of the 50th Regiment of 4 ' 4 ' it rY, embarked ou the 6th instant, on board the Prin v",a Royal, transport, at Belfast, for Portsmouth. "etachtuents belonging to the 4th, lltb, and 13th Regi ents of Light Dragoons, are ordered to march, this morn ‘4g from Westminster, for the Cavalry Depot at Maidstone. BRITISH - MERCANTILE SHIPPING. b , The number of vessels registered, th e i r t onnage an d men , 'e t e '"ging to all the ports of the British Empi re , f or th e eral years from 1814 to 1826 inclusive, were as follow : YkAtt SHIPS. TONS. NEN. 1814 21,498 2,616,956 172,786 1815 24,860 2,681,276 177,309 1816 25,864 2,784,994 178,820 1817 25,346 2,684,986 171,013 1818 25,507 2,671,463 163,609 1819 25,482 2 , 6(56 , 396 174,318 1820 25,374 2,648,593 174,514 1821 25,036 2,560,303 169,18.3 lan 24,642 '2,519,044 166,332 1823 24,512 2,506,760 165,474 1821 24,776 2,559,587 168,637 1825 21 88) 2,553,662 166,183 4 1826 24,625 2,635,611 167,636 "Ice it would seem, the our mercantile marine was l a rger in the year 181, and that in he year 48 ') than in any other year since the peace. 1823 it was THE FIGHT YESTERDAY BETWEEN REUBEN MARTIN AND GYBLETTS. i j ils fight between these two men took place yesterday, the neighbourhood of Marlborough. It had excited te at interest, and although not what is termed by many of a' .fancy a first rater, vet the known bottom of the men, their peculiar science, was sufficient to secure a good — ra sport. 1 , The men safely arrived at the place appointed, and the 41 ° N 2 were fixed at one plaCe, then another, and at last : 4 , ° „ tl .'er, where they set to anti fought for fifty minutes, ,;:`" 1 !Ig but tiguting, and both men meaning nothing but a'nuag, Icawhe a Leak appeared and spoiled the fun. Of 01414 nothing mes off. =mCORN EXCHANGE.--(THIS DAY). ere are small supplies of English Grain this week, but a out quantity of Foreign Oats. The Wheat trade !mains with. titbs teLatign from Monday. Barley Hilly maintains last quota- Oat s *. .eans are rather dearer. Pease meet a very heavy sale Next Friday little demand to-day, at the prices quoted on Monday ' ri dar being Good Friday, there will be no market. ARRIVALs. I Wheat. I Barley. . I 1 490 I 900 lrg. Irish ... , qrs. t or _. . . .......... ......... IV.A. Oats. I Flour. 260 qrs . I 2,8505ek I. 12,600 UU-YENCE, MARCH 24.—The prop osa l ma d e State s o f H ess e D a rmstadt to gra n t t h e sum of T 64,4,6 6 florins to effect the projected ratificatio n of the Se of the Rhine, above Opperheim , has been appr ove d. 114i:t work, which will carry off the water with greater ra y' and lessen the dangers of inundation, will also, be ef g -.vantage to - the navigation pf the river, as by thi s , Etonreat cut, vessels will wait only half an hour at most, t o the they now t a k e f our h our s. Nature has already come ~. til e aid of this gre a t un dertaking, which will be a lastin g ..ionU ment of the paternal care of our Government. I t P e ars that the iee and high water have already opened a "" in the direction of the proed cut, in some places to ue depth f I half depth Bor 20 feet, and s 4 . 1 the distance, it is affirmed, nearly to This fortunate circumstance will greatly leeilitate the work. ai IVIA . ,, I I s GATE.--.' By the Countess of Elgin, trannack, from Ostend, we have received the most 4 ., ,r heart-rending accounts of the effects of the late storm. The ,` - _ i e.vlound, C ra o , and St. Antonio, of that port, wt d ra I t Zat withi n a few miles of the harbour, and all on boar 'd 12 13 " 8 " 4 perished. 11 this sad visitation eight wi owe and twenty -Ave children are left in a destitute con dition. The accounts of the Scheveling boats are still more appalling. Out 0f.43. which put to sea, 37 are sup posed to have foundered, and the whole of their crews, amounting to 185 persons to have perished.—Maidstone Journal. The Lord Mayor held a Court of Aldermen business, The Sh er iff Yesterday, at Guildhall s for the genera l d i spatch of pu bli c reported the state of the various City prisons.—Commissioners of appointrt of Requests, tor the month of June next, we re an led.The prin ePalland coal meters attended, preferred complaints t against several of the labouring ine _ ter., for malpractices, the consideration o f which was adjourned to the next Zan, when the parties are to attend, and be heard.—A admitted '°, I' girl, of St. Margaret's, Westminster, was NileNile44o the school at Emanuel Hospital ; and a poor aged were elected into Rogers' Ahnshouses.--The Inquest were Ward attended, with a presentment aga i net w 1,1 ,44 3 1, q for refusing to serve the office of a constable, t o 1 1-- he had been elected. E J i i , 4l4 X 0r D ri p ':'" been elected Governor, and Samuel Drewe, E sq. that , for the ensuing year. It is not . supp ose d at 1 °Pposition will be made to the house-list of Di_ who are to be ballotted for this day. f The f o ll ow i ng is a copy of a letter receivedd re in the G eneral Post Office at Liverpool, on Mow: " "General P os t Office, April 6, 1 7 Sia--I beg t o ac k nowledge the rece i pt o f y o ur letter of the 26th ult., and to inform you that we have great pleasure in making arrangements,thich will afford addi tional facilities ti th e m emae:!knts of ." Liverpool, in fo.rward ing their letter y tween the Thai - des and Hamburgh f the stea u kets plying be this reguttion, letters specially -d• and ma a ß c otterdain. BY .. vessels to either of those destination': if to go by steam Office so late as Thursday, will he in J ut into the Post- Thief?: it bags made up for those vessels on Saturday, p a rtie:i p n r te e - - SuMed, will =Slyer all the purpose s o f t h e rested in the mode of correspondence in question. I am, Sir, &c. ' - (Signed) "F. FREEZING.. " To J. B. Braneker, Esq. Liverpool." ELECTION COMMITTEES-(THIS DAY.) THE WESTMEATH ELECTION. The petitioners have closed their case, and the result is, that so many of Mr. Tuite's voters have been cancelled, as gives Mr. Smith the majority. A Commission to examine witnesses in Ireland was then prayed for on behalf of Mr. Tuite, and opposed by Mr. Smith, on the ground that they could not with safety exa mine witnesses in the county of Westmeath, on account of the intensity of party feeling. Lord Westmeath was then called, who being sworn, deposed that he did not imagine a committee would expe rience any difficulty in examining witnesses in the county of Westmeath at present. Party feeling ran very high during the period of the election : but it had since sub sided, and he did not imagine that it could again be ex cited to the same height by a Commission. Mr. Dickson, Coroner of the county Westmeath, and Steward to Sir Thomas Chapman, deposed that he imagined witness could not with safety give evidence before the Com mission, He, himself, would not go, unless escorted by troops. He was attacked during the election by a mob who were going to cut his ears off. Lord Forbes deposed, that the party excitement dur ing the election was very great, and if any thing should raise it to a corresponding height he had no doubt that the same mischief would result. He did not imagine that witnesses could give evidence in the county Westmeath, or in any other part of Ireland, respecting this election, free from intimidation. The Committee having deliberated about an hour, re solved that Mr. Tuite should have a Commission to ex amine witnesses in Ireland. COUNTY OF DUBLIN ELECTION. Counsellor Cosgrave was examined this day on behalf of Colonel White, and contradicted in the most material parts seven of Mr. Hamilton's witnesses, who are to be brought up and re-examined in his presence on the same points. Francis Hynes, a country farmer, was examined, and entertained the Committee with his blunt, straight-forward, and open manner. He had exerted himself strenuously during the election on behalf of Cul. White, and would not accept remuneration. He would strain every nerve in his body, and shed even In; heart's blood, in support of any candidate who would vote for Catholic freedom. He said, if Mr. Hamilton had searched the whole county, he could not get worse characters than three witnesses whom he had brought from Balbriggan. GALWAY ELECTION. The Speaker sent a Message to the House of Lords on the application of the Chairman of this Committee, to re quest the attendance of. the Marquisses of Sligo and. Clan ricarde, Lords Mounteagle and Sumrnerhill, to give evi dence on behalf of Mr. Martin. The Lord Chancellor in formed the Messenger, that the Lords would return an an swer by a Messer.E, , er of their own, but the noble House forgot to return an answer, in consequence of which, Mr. Martin was compelled to close his case without the be nefit of their testimony, and the investigation being thus concluded, the Committee retired to deliberate. The Committee having deliberated for about an hour, re solved that Richard Martin, Esq. was not duly elected, and that Mr. Lambert ought to have been returned instead. The CIfAIRNIAN added that he would make a Report to the House, recommending it to adopt some measurcs to secure the freedom of election in the county of Galway for the future. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. INJUNCTION. DORAN AND OTHERS V. LIDSTER. Mr. Ducx worm! applied for an injunction to restrain the defendant from taking any further proceedings in an action at law for the recovery of 14,0001. It appeared that a gentleman named Lidster, executed a deed of assignment, by which he conveyed his property to the plaintiff Doran, in trust for the other plaintiffs. — part of this property consisted of a sum of 14,0001. secured to Lidster on a bond. Lidster died in August, 1824, and shortly after Doran took a mortgage fur the 14,0001 on the estate of the gentleman by whom it was due, and since that time the cestui que trusts have been regularly paid the interest on that debt. In February last the defendant, who never disputed the validity of the deed of assignment, took out probate on an old will, made by Lidster before the execution of the deed ; the defendant was named an exe cutor to this will. Since the probate was obtained on it, he arrested the gentleman by whom the bond had been given, although he had since secured that sum by a mort gage. The Vict-CHANcEr.tott inquired why the defendant's claim could not be disputed at law ? Mr. DUCKWORTH replied, that the defendant, as exe cutor, was prima facie entitled to recover, and that the as signment of the bond could not be set up against the action at law. It was positively sworn that the mortgaged estate was an ample security for the 14,0001. The VICE-CHANCELLOR granted the injunction. FIC-FARTS CHAMBERS INTIM MATTER OF CHAMBERS. The ATTORNZINGENKRAL, for the petitioners, proceeded to reply, and argued at considerable length that the mem bers of the Committee of Management, by whom the letter of license was revoked, had not been duly elected, and, therefore, that they had no authority under the deed, to make the revocation. One of the provisions ,of the deed was, that l 4 days notice should be given in the Gazette, and in two London newspapers, of the intention of pro posing any new committee •man at the next general meet ing. It appeared, on referring to the Gazette that the notices inserted were:of a general nature, and did not explicitly set forth that a new Committee-man was to be . submitted to them. The Attorney-General in conclusion, begged that his Honour would put the legal questions in the shape of an issue, to be tried at law, if he did not feel that the peti tioner was right in his interpretation of them. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said that it would be necessary for him to read through all the affidavits before he gave judgment. He would take care to do this during the Easter holidays, and be prepared with his judgment on their next meeting. It is an extraordinary fact, said his Honour, that one of the affidavits is a folio volume of 30 0 pages. Mr. WAKEFIELD observed that the affidavits in all, con sisted of not less than 1,500 pages. MUSIC. SOIREES DRAIIATIQUas.—Under this title the publisher presents to the musical world a selection of airs from the latest and most admired Italian, French, and German Oper as and Ballets, which being arranged by the skill of various celebrated masters, as solos for the harp, will be found as useful as agreeable to professors of, and practitioners on, that fashionable instrument. The pages before us form the first number of this work, and consist of melodies from Boieldieu's admired Opera of "La Dame Blanche," modified by Bochsa, whose music to the Ballet of " La Siege de Cy there," is now delighting the lovers of melo-dramatic com position. The adroitness and tact with which the whole of the present number of this promising work is arranged, as well with respect to the flute accompaniment as the principal or harp part, is so woqhy of the ingenious hand into which the task has fallen, as to form a favourable omen of the future numbers, and rais e an expectation which we trust their merit will justify. BOLERO FOR ONE on. Two Voxcns, composed by P. Verini.—lf we do not think very humbly of this little pro duction, neither will it permit us to conceive very highly of its pretensions. The ideas on which the air is founded are scanty in number, and in their caste not very choice or rare. The two voices, however, are legitimately and ef fectively blended. The Guitar accom paniment is skilfully constructed, and the general result must be allowed to be favourable to the judgment of the composer. TWENTY-TOUR. MAZURKAS, OR /STATIONAL POLISH DANCES, COLLECTED AND ARRANGED FOR THE PIANO FORTE, BY MARIA SZYMANOWISICA.—TheiIe dances, which are dedicated to the Princess Feodore, and form striking spe cimens of the style of Polish Music, were intended to accom i'ef attracti on , neyare Pany the action of the " light fantasTthiceirto:h. slight, but animated and pleasing. or peculiarity of the id eas on however, i s i n the nationality which their passages turn. If, no twithstanding their oe _ casional variance, they carry with them a general likenees to each other, that resemblance arises out of the very cir cumstances of their being Polish, and argues that they are of the same family, and proves the genuineness of their origin. Lover's CONTRADICTION, A SONG, WITH AN ACCOM PANIMENT FOR THE PIANO FORTE, COMPOSED BY H. DER- WoßT. — There is in the style of this Song a degree of novelty which pleases us much. The thoughts, though out of th e b eaten track of modern melody, are neither ex traneous nor unconnected, but are at once unexpected and natural, and so far at lea•,t claim our eulogistic n otice, and the favourable o pi n i on of the lovers of good vocal music. SEI STUDJ PER IL VIOLIN O ; MITSICA DA L. Secant. find in these movements some ing enious and useful exer cises, which,' inde e d, t h ey shooldhave been called rather than studies, since their object is the improvement o f the hand, and that their practice will more promote the execution than the taste or science of the learner. The passage s are very various, offer some •of the best opportu nities for acquiring facility of performance, and are well alculated for the main purpose of the publication. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Aran. E.—Arrived from London, and passed, the Thomas King, Williamson, for Demerara; Asia, Ward, for Quebec ; Amelia, for Malta ; and Valiant, ---, for St. John's, New Brunswick. Arrived, the C. Hamilton, Dickinson, from New York. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 10, SEVEN P.M.-Wind N.W..— Two ships have just brought up in St. Helen's, one an American, and the other supposed to be an outward-bound ship, from the River: PALmouTH, Aran 9.—Wind S.—Arrived, the Stan mer packet, from Lisbon ; Standley, Cciok, from Trapani ; and Gladstone, Williams, from Leith, for Madeira. Sailed, the Duke of Marlborough packet, for Lisbon ; and Marquis of Salisbury packet, for Brazils. GRAVESEND, APRIL 9.—Arrived, the Jane, Wyler, from St. Lucia. Aram 10.—Arrived, the West India, Gulbrey, from Jamaica; and Alfred, Monkman, from Smyrna. Sailed, the Princess Vittoria, Matthew, I'm' Manilla ; George, Tel cham, for Bengal; John Bigger, Kent, for Bombay; and Jupiter, Anderson, for Trieste. The Ardwell, Waddell, from Liverpool, for Tampico, put into Douglas (Isle of Man), with loss of bowsprit, jib, and fore-top-mast. The Leander, May, from Charleston, grounded in the Prince's Dock Basin, Liverpool, and filled with water. About 200 bales were landed free from damage. The Sir W. Scott, from Bultanney (Africa), has arrived at Liverpool. Ou the 18th of March spoke the Pryra cinnes, from London, for Berbice, in Fat. 20. 44., 10ng.37. Lieut. Corrie, of his Majesty's ship North Star, captured a Spanish schooner in Bonney River, with 180 slaves on hoard. OLD BAILEY-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. Nathaniel Cohen was convicted of selling twenty pieces of counterfeit coin, purporting to be shillings of this realm. It appeared that Alderson, the patrol, employed a person to purchase the money of the prisoner, who, it seemed, was a wholesale dealer. The coin was struck from the die of the Vauxhall coiaers. The case was clearly proved, and the Court sentenced the prisoner to twelve months' hard labour in Giltspur-street Compter. Sarah Minton, a good-looking young woman, was in dicted for defrauding Joseph Morris of a shawl and 13 yards of sarcenet by false pretences. The prosecutor said he was a silk mercer. The prisoner came to his shop on the Qd April, and asked permis sion to take a particular shawl for her mama to look at, who, she said, lived at No. 2, Crescent, New Bridge street, Blackfriars ; witness offered to send it, but pri soner said she would rather take it herself, as her mama was going out. She then asked to be shown some sarcenets ; witness showed her some ; she said her mama had heard Mr. Morris's coloured silks mentioned, and wished to see some of them. The prisoner then said, she would take the shawl and be back in a minute, and would leave her muff and umbrella on the counter ; witness suspecting that the transaction was not quite fair, followed the prisoner, and watched her into No. 2, in the Crescent, and she returned in a few minutes saying, that mama approved of the shawl, and also wished to take the silk, if there was sufficient for two dresses, as her cousin wished for one of the dresses. She also ordered other things to be sent, and a bill to be made out, and said they would be paid for altogether. Witness desired his young man to follow her, but did not attend to the order she had given him. Witness only lost the shawl and thirteen yards of sarcenet. At this state of the case, Mr. ADOLPHUS submitted to the Court, that the indictment could not be sustained. The prisoner only stated, that r.he came from her mother, and there was no evidence to prove that she had been guilty of any imposition. If the prisoner had represented herself as coming from an individual who did not exist, or who had not autkorised the prisoner to go for the goods, the charge might be, but as the present case stood, it could not be supported. Mr. Sergeant ARABIX fully concurred in the cogency of these arguments, and under his direction the Jury returned a verdict of acquittal. Before the prisoner was discharged, Mr. Sergeant Ara bi') cautioned her against the commission of such an of fence as that with which she was now charged. Had she been found guilty, he said he should have felt it his duty to order her to be sent out of th e country. Mr. ADOLPHUS observed, that the prisoner was only eighteen years of age, and had never before been charged with any offence. The interest which the respectability of prisoner's appear ance had created was augmented by the modesty and feel ing with which she demeaned herself. The above case concluded the business of the Sessions, and the Court adjourned until thref, o'clock, when the Recorder will pass sentence on the prisoners who hare been convicted. NEW COURT. Edmond Wright was indicted for embezzling 20 sove reigns, and on a second count, with stealing four 51. Hunt ingdon bank notes, the property of John Winskil. The prosecutor is a publican residing at the White Hart, Giltspur street. The prisoner had been in his service about three mouths previous to the 10th of February. On the morning of that day the wife of the prosecutor gave the prisoner four Huntingdon Bank notes for 51. each, with direc tions to get Bank of England notes for them at Esdaile's:Bank, and to get those notes changed for silver at the Bank of England. The prisoner departed with the notes, but never returned. Mr. Winskil ascertained that he had formerly lived in Suffolk, whither he proceeded without delay, and ultimately apprehended him at Hull. He had then spent all the money but three sovereigns, and was living with a prostitute._ He expressed his contrition, and stated to Mr. W. how he had disposed of the money. He said he bad bought a watch, a coat, and a clock, and had spent the remainder in travelling. Mr. Winskil secured the property, and now applied for the sanction of the Court for keeping it, but the prisoner with the most barefaced impudence said the property was his own, and requested the Court to make an order for it to be delivered to him. The prisoner said nothing in defence, and the Jury found him Guilty. The RECORD/It then proceeded to pass sentease, and observed, that the number of prisoners who were indicted for robbing their masters exceeded this session that of any one in his recollection for the last forty years. Such a sum as 201. lost by a tradesmen at one time, would, if he was not in good circumstances, distress him severely. The learned Judge then animadverted severely on the prisoner's un feeling impudence, who, after having robbed his master of 201., had applied to the Court for the remainder of the property which he had confessed to his master was a part of that he had stolen. He then sentenced him to fourteen years' transportation. John Murran Was convicted oistealing 301bs. of iron, on the 25th of February last, the property of George and Charlotte Turner, engine manufacturers, Whitefriars.— Seven years' transportation. JUDGMENTS. The following prisoners' received sentence of death : Daniel Bister, Ann Williams, George Harris, Robert Smith, and Charles Peirse, for stealing in a dwelling house ; Thomas Shooseley, David Skinner, Jeremiah Do novan, William Jones, James Mackie, Henry Ford, James Howley, John Wynn, and John Gardner, for burglary ; P. Williams, for burglary and . sacrilege ; Richard Price, for sheep-stealing ; John Hughes, for forging a receipt for money ; George Hill, for house-breaking ; John Brown, for a highway robbery ; Elizabeth Gardner, Francis Boyer, Edward Stuart, John Williams, and James Smith, for robbery ; John Carr, George Ford, and William Wicks, for home-stealing ; Launcelot Cooper, for uttering a forged note ; and Thomas White, for stealing goods to the value of forty pounds. AWFUL OuTßAGL—Between two and three o'clock yesterday morning, the house of John Mannin (who, on an action for trespass, tried by record, this Assizes, was awarded 50/. damages, and 6d. costs, against Mr. Mande ville), of Ballybough, was maliciously burnt, and horrible to r e late, his wife, Catherine Mannin, reduced to a cinder ! The furniture, the clothes of the family, an d almost every article were consumed to ashes ! How awful is the state of society in this county ! While his Majesty's commis sion was s itti n g, an awful and a most daring murder was committ e d near Cashel, by the lawless and indomitable ruffians that riot in rapine and murde r , set the laws at defianc e , insult his 111ajesty's Commission, and inspire the farm ers and the peasantry with such dread and terror of their li ves an d p ro p er ties, that they ca n , an d d o l evy , with impunity, rob, assassinate, and com m i t every degree , an d almost every species, of degradation. And while the al w ays - ever-to-be-respected commission continues to exer cise its most salutary, restraining , and p un i t i ve f unct i on s-- while th e mur d erer o f t h e Sheas, und er t h e aut h or ity of that commission, still exhibits an i gnominious, disgusting, and anatomized spectacle of awful pnaishment_while the murderers of Barry are b e i ng prepared for the same dread ful and shameful death...-a rains of ruffians can he found to re-act the dreadful scene which terminated the last sad old burning menleuts of the Sheas.”. gown/ Redd. THE RUSSIAN EMPIRE. According to an official statement in the Military Ga zette published yesterday, the Russian Empire in its whole extent in the three quarters of the world, with all the States incorporated with it, occupies a superficies of 375,174 square miles.* In this vast space, there is a po pulation of 59,534,000 inhabitants ; or, on an average, 158 souls to a square mile. The annual income is stated at ISO millions of rubles ; the standing army, with regu lar and irregular corps, at 1,039,180 men.—The follow ing are the details :- I.—EUROPEAN RUSSIA. Superficial extent 72,861 Sq. M. Population 44,118,600 To a Square Mile. 2.—TIIE KINGDOM OF POLAND. Superficial extent 2,293 Sq. M. Population To a Square Mile 1,615 Annual Revenue, rub. 3.— ASIATIC RUSSIA. Superficial extent 276,120 Sq. M. Population To a Square Mtiv, only 42 POSSESSIONS ON TILE NORTH WEST COAST OF AMERICA. Superficial extent 24,000 Sq. M. Population To a Square Mile 2 " German square miles are doubtless meant, being about four and a half English ; a German square mile will be equal to about twenty English. CARLOW ASSIZES. (From► the Carlow Morning Post.) Murtha Byrne was indicted for stealing on the 17th of March, two ditches of bacon, the property of Hugh Gahan, of Newtownbarry. Gahau proved his having found his bacon at Mr. Byrne's ; house identitied his bacon by a particular mark. Cross-examined by Mr. lrrl;xr.—Witness knows no thing of the farce called " The Fl:tch of Bacon ;" prisoner is no relative of his; prisoner's father-in-law and witness'. wife are half-brother and sister.—(Laughter.) Mr. BETHEL--" Then you and he are relations by the button-hole.—( Loud laughter.) The COURT intimated to prisoner that be might interro gate the witness. Prisoner—" When did you go to bed that night ?" Witness—" I went to bed early." Prisoner—" Early ! and when did your wife go to bed ?" Witness—" When she put a piece on my breeches."— (Loud laughter.) Murtha—a Do you live in peace with your wife ?" .8.--" Aye, as good as any couple from this to Banagher." .--(A laugh.) The JUDGE—" Prisoner what has this to do with the case ?" Murtha—" I'll soon chew your Lordship. Come, Mr. Gahan, wheel about again.—(Laughter.)—Did your wife propose to get her portion back from you, and go home again?-(No answer.)—Come, Sir, wheel about.— (Continued laughter.)—Did your father-in-law come with horse and car to bring her home?" Wituess—" Yes, he did." Alurtba—" Now, my Lord, is that pace at home ? (Roars of Laughter.)—To Gahan—Pll work you tight my Loy.—(Peals of laughter.)—l have plenty more questions to ask by and bye." The COURT interfered. Sergeant Maynard of the local constabulary, proved that the prisoner bad freely acknowledged to witness that he had stolen the bacon, and had an accomplice. The prisoner's daughter was called for the defence ; but she proved that prosecutor had offered to take the prison er's note for the value of the bacon. The prisoner insisted that prosecutor's wife wishing to turn a penny, had stolen the bacon, which she had, ten days before his (prisoner's) apprehension, offered to sell to him. He went on to say that, on Patrick's day, he (pri soner) had gone to Newtownbarry, that he went to Chapel first to hear and say his prayers--(laughing)—he then went to the Church to hear what the Minister had to say for himself—(continued laughter,)—and that, when re turning, he met the women carrying away the bacon, And he helped them. Sergeant Maynard, recalled by the Judge, said the pri soner was a notorious character, and that he got many a blessing for taking him. His Lordship, finding that the prisoner had been for eight mouths in confinement, previous to trial, sentenced him to four additional months of hard labour in thY House of Cor rection. A SKETCH OF COMFORT. On the Ist of April 1796, a daughter was born unto Mary the wife of William Stephenson, Ely place, Holborn, which daughter, from that blessed hour to the present, has never once ceased talking. She has got the gift of tongues in the most exube rant manner you can possibly conceive. Stentor was a fool to her: he, it is true, was noisy, she is absolutely deafening: his loquacious thunder knew at times repose, her , s is the perpetual motion which even the grave would have hard work to stop. The very first thing she did when born was to experi mentalize on her lungs, and I think I may safely add that the experiment will stick by her to the last. As she grew up this amiable weakness grew with her; at six years old she would talk at you by 'the hour together, no matter to whom or to what, whether to a man, a woman, a pug-dog, or a bed candlestick. She once talked her grandmother into fits, and when an apothecary was sent for, she chatted him too into such confusion that the worthy man forgot to take his fee.* Her father thought a school might pos sibly cure this distressing malady, so dispatched her, one Midsummer, outside the Rumford stage, to Mrs. Thompson's Seminary. Mark the upshot : on the road, she got into conversation with the coachman, who in attempting to check her prattle, dropped his reins, whereupon the horses bolted, upset the vehicle, and jirked an Alderman, in white cotton stockings, head-foremost through the ceiling of a pig-stye. As for the coachman, luckily, he only broke his neck. After a year's schooling, our prattling Miss returned home a more desperate prattler than ever. Nothing came amiss to her.— Did a Politician, , a Poet, a Patriot, a Parson, a Phy sician, a Polemic, did any or all of these happen by ill-luck to dine with her father ? no matter, his daugh ter would still set to ; talk—talk, tittle tattle, now on dress, now on balls, now on theatres, now on puppet-shows, now on novels, now on—Heaven help me ! the calendar is really too distressing, a complete Newgate calendar in short, so I hasten to dismiss it. In the year of our Lord 1814, this good lady took it into her head to marry : I suppose with a view of talking her sponse to death. The Gentleman she se l e cted for this experiment, was a good-na tured harmless little fellow, and one who adored taciturnity ; judge then what a prize he must have gain e d ! For the first month, however, things went on tolerably smooth—a newly mar ried husband w il l pardon muc h i n a goo d-l oo king wife —even, should add , which never wears out by consta nt use. For a full her tongue—the only edge-t o o l, I calendar month, therefore, i no very des perate quarrel took p lace—nothing further than a perpetual b uzz, on the part of the wife , and resig nation on that of the husba nd. But since then both partie s have become sadly changed. The wife's buzz has but " li nguaruni, " and deepened into a thunder-cla p ; the hus band's r esignation has be come des p air. And who can wonde r a t it ? The dear lady's tongue night and day is perpetually at work ; she even talk s in her sleep throuhusband, gh her nose , m akes s p eeches to every chance vi s i tor, and not only p rattles h er servants into reb e lli on, b u t even details their conduct to her 'till the poor ma n g rows bl ack in the face ' with th e exert i on of listening. The loqua c ity o f the whol e f ema l e crea tion, past, present, and t o come , seems centered in her si n gle perso n . Th ere h as been not a lapszis linguce, it has fallen upon her. She stands alone, like Porn , an unadulterated lo quacious And who i s t hi s garru l ous cu pq'eiopuislla a r nom in atlyhe wilderness riosity human -- fl o th o d is unprecedented linguist-- t hi s monument of t a lk a ti ven ess—this of egotist—this assiduous verbia g ethis Niagara This i s the only good that ever resulted from her lo quacity. of nonsense ? Reade r , i s my wife ! The Marquess Camden,.K.G. Lord Lieute nant of th e county of Kent, has, with his Majesty's ap probation, taken the command of the West Kent Regiment of Militia,....Dated 8d April, Gazette. FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS. Mr. Secretary Canning and Mr. Secretary Peel had audiences of the KING yesterday. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, accom panied by the Princes, Carlotti, left their residence in Bushy Park yesterday morning, for the King's Palace, Kensington, where the Duchess and the Princess alighted, on a visit to the Duchess of Kent. The Duke proceeded to his temporary residence, in Charles-street, Berkeley square. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess no (lore visited the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester yesterday. The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Feodore and Cariotti, visited the Princess Augusta yesterday, at her residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Lord Chancellor visited Mr. Secretary Peel on Monday. The Earl of Westmorland and Viscount Grenville transacted business at the Foreign Office yester day. The Earl of Liverpool continues much in the same state. Mr. Krause, the King's Messenger, arrived at the office of the Secret ary of for Foreign Affairs on Monday night, from Constantinople, bringing despatches from the Right Hon. Stratford Canning. The Dowager Lady Abdy entertained the Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and a select party at dinner on Monday at her house in Savile-street. In the evening her Ladyship gave a Concert, which was splen didly attended. Countess Poulett gave a grand dinner on Mon day, at her Ladyship's superb mansion, Hyde Park Ter race. Among the company were—Lord Forbes, the Hon. Captain Poulett, Sir Philip Roche, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Gosling, Mr. and the Miss Knights, and several other persons of fashion. The Marquis of Hertford had a grand musical party yesterday evening, at his house in Piccadilly, which was very numerously and fashionably attended. The Earl of Sefton entertained a distinguished party to dinner on Monday, at his house in Arlington street, among whom were Count Mortrand, Lard Foley, Sir : TolmShelley, Mr. Greville, Scc._ The late interview of the Duke of Rutland with his Majesty is said to have been the result of a special invitation from the King, and that it had reference to the kindness shown by his Grace to the late Duke of York.— The King, it is further said, presented his Grace on the occasion with a diamond ring worth 10,0001. The Subscriptions for the Monument to be erected in Edinburgh, to the Memory of the Duke of York, are going on prosperously. Since we lad noticed the subject, the 21st, or Royal Scotch Fusileers, the 71st, 79th, and 93d Highland Regiments, and numerous indivi duals, have subscribed to that laudable object. Mr. Broughton, of the Home Circuit, is ap pointed to the vacancy amongst the Police Magistrates, made by the death of Mr. Osborne. The Earl of Derby's stab hounds are appoint ed to meet on Saturday at the Hundred Acres. The son of Marshal Soult is 110 W making a tour of Cornwall. Air. Francis Baring has arrived in the packet from Rio Janeiro, after having visited Mexico, Peru (upper and lower), Buenos Ayres, and Rio Janeiro. Mr. Baring made the journey from Lima to Buenos Ayres on horseback. Lord Plymouth has subscribed 251. in aid of the fund for the celebration of the birth of Shakspeare, on the 23d inst., at Stratford. Mr. Lawlev, M.P., Mr. Shir ley, and the corporation of Stratford, have also subscribed towards the above object. The Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, (Archi bald Reed, Esq.) has issued cards of invitation to a grand dinner, to be given at the Mansion-house In that town, on the 23d inst., (St. George's Day) in honour of his Ma jesty's Birth-day. THE LATE EARL OF SIIREWSBURY.—We understand the following to be a correct statement of the will and property of this venerable Nobleman. All his ex tensive landed estates, as well as his town residence, plate, furniture, &c., devolve on his nephew, John, the present Earl, who is also residuary legatee to an accumulation of personal property, valued at upwards of 400,0001. The legacies do not amount to 30,0001., but annuities to the extent of 6,4001. per annum, are left between the Dowager Countess and the younger branches of the family. There are bequests of 500/. each to two of the London Hospitals, and 2,000/. in other charities. DINNER TO RICHARD SHELL, ESQ.—On Thursday evening, this talented and patriotic Gentleman was entertained by the friends of Civil and Religious Li berty in Clonmel. The Dinner was given at the Royal Mail Coach Hotel, in very excellent style. The Chair was was ably filled by Edward Phelan, Esq. M.D., and several excellent speeches delivered in the course of the evening.— Tipperary Free Press. A dinner is to be given next month by the Cabinet-makers' Society, when it is expected that a certain Learned Lord will take the Chair. His Lordship is sup posed to have great knowledge of the craft, and to have bestowed much attention on the turning-loom. It is said that he can even turn coats, and that ebony is his favourite material. He is anxious to turn out some very splendid specimens before the holidays. Miss Foote and Miss Jarman will play alter nate nights during Easter week at Covent-garden. - Mr. C. Kemble will play Romeo on Easter Monday. Mr. Young is re-engaged at Covent-garden, and will play Brutus on Wednesday, and Mr. Beverleg, in The Gamester, on Friday next. Miss Foote is engaged at Covent-Garden for four nights, to play Letitia Hardy, Violante, Lady Teazle, and Rosalind. The new Melo-drama for Covent-garden, to he brought out on Easter Monday, is to be called Peter Wilkins ; or, The Flying Indians, founded on the fanciful popular adventures of the same title. The receipts at Covent-garden, on Saturday evening, for the benefit of Mr. Fawcett, exceeded 700/., being the largest receipt of any night during the season, the King's visit excepted. CONVERSION OF PROTESTANTS.—Five per sons, three men and two women, were received into the Catholic Church, by one of the Curates of St. Andrew's, Townsend-street Chapel, in the course of last week, after having duly renounced the errors of Protestantism. Three more are receiving instructions previous to their admission. —Dublin Morning Register. A profound observer of human nature, the author of " Gil rilas,” asserts, that little men are com monly decisive and oracular in their opinions." John 11., King of Portugal, having one day refused a favour to a gentleman, was surprised at the warmth of his expressions of gratitude. " What do you thank me for?" demanded the King. " For not having kept me in suspense, which would have ruined me," re plied the other.—There are great men now living, to whom the study of this little anecdote might not be without profit. from himselflV Worthing, t ) n haveg, who been wa was employed examined at In the cause, Smith v. Toler, tried at the t b il l y:N r t s r i b m r a . e m ß i onl Assizes, 7 ds,sotnaa tleid flaying dog-fish (to which ha assigned some local name) for his dinner. One of the Counsel stated the fish to he a species of the shark. " Yes' my Lord," said Mr. Bolland, bowing to his Learned Friends round the table,_" we are all stated to be of that tribe I" —This produced a roar of laughter from the gentlemen of the long robe.—Maidstone Journal. A jeu .s se_ e s prthas ANE CDOTEIateIy been OFissupedlif.r.F.otßhePmYeCtrE; — olitan press, under the appellation of Nugas Conorre, which reral lively epitaphs on, and anecdotes of, celebrated medi cal characters from which we have gleaned the following l singular one of the late D r. Ford y ce :—" This cel ebrated ecturer dined every day , for more than twent y years, at Dolly's chop-house. His researches in comparative ana tomy had .'.ed him to conclude, that man through custom, eats oftener than nature requires, one meal a-day being sufficient for that noble animal the lion. At four o'clock, his a ccustomed hour of dining, the doctor regularly too., his seat at a table always reserved for him, on which were placed a silver tankard full of strong ale, a bottle of p or t wine, and a measure containing a quarter of a pint of brandy. The moment the waiter announced him, the cook put a pound and a half of rump steak on the gridiron, and on the table some delicate trifle, as a bonne bouche, to serve until the stake was ready. This was sometimes half a boiled chicken, sometimes a plate of fish : when he had eaten this, he took one glass of brandy, and then proceeded to devour his steak. When he had finished his meal, be took the remainder of his brandy, having, during his din- , ner, drunk the tankard of ale, and afterwards the bottle of port. He thus daily spent an hour and a half of his time, and then returned to his house in Essex-street, to give his six o'clock lecture on chemistry. He made no other meal until hie return next day, at four o'clock, to Dolly's," ITALIAN LOVERS. A letter from Milan, gives the following account of a double suicide, which has recently taken place in that city. The circumstance has created a very deep and general sensation in a country where self destruction is of very rare occurrence. Marco Uronn, a shopkeeper of Milan, married his daughter, Laodina, about three years ago, to a youn g man named Teranza, who was his ward, and who was, like himself, engaged in trade. Laodina brought her husband two children; she was equally remark.. able in the neighbourhooc for her modesty and piety as for her beauty. In crossing the Piazza del Duomo she was pointed out to me as one of the prettiest of the rich shopkeeper's wives who still persevered in the old custom of passing a part of the day be hind their counters. I never afterwards failed, when in that neighbourhood, to stop before the shop-wins dows, and endeavour to catch, through the shawls and muslins exposed in them, a glimpse of her charm ing face. Laodina was of middle stature, had fair hair, a mild and downcast eye, and an extremely pale complexion; her features wore a mingled expres sion of tenderness and seriousness. About six months . ago, her husband began first to suspect that she ed tertained a passion for a young shopkeeper named Valterna, whom she had known for a long time. Fired with jealousy, Teranza not only forbid Val terna his house, but caused him to bo severely cud gelled by two Buli or hired bravoes, and some time after applied to the police to prohibit Valterna from passing before hit windows. On the 18th January, Laodina went to the theatre de la Canobiano—the performance was Paolo e Virginia—her lover was in the pit, and kept his eyes constantly fixed on her. Laodina appeared to be gayer than usual; but it was remarked by one of the persons with her, that at a certain part of the performance, she said, as if to herself, and in a tone of melancholy foreboding, " Ah, such is the fate of all true lovers." Lao dine had that morning sent her children to pass some time with her mother. On returning borne towards midnight, she handed her husband a glass of agro di cedro (a kind of lemonade), in which it would appear she had put a little opium, and took another herself, in which there was poison. Laodina and her husband retired to bed; and it seems as soon as she perceived that he was asleep, she arose, quitted the room, which she locked upon him, and admitted her lover, with whom she shut herself in another apartment. About throe o'clock in the morning, some of the neighbours were awakened by the report of pistols, but hearing no further noise, they paid no more attention to the circumstance. The next morning, the young man who opened the shop, surprised at not seeing Te;an zu appear, at half-past ten o'clock went to his room, and after knocking for a considerable time, succeeded in awaking him. Transported with jealousy at not finding his wife by his side he burst open the door of his room, and finding the door of the other room locked on the inside, he also broke into it, and to his inexpressible horror saw his wife and her lover lying dead close by each other. They had provided them selves with two pair of pistols, but had made use only of one. Laodina was but little disfigured by the explosion ; she seemed to have placed the muzzle of the pistol as far back in her mouth as possible. She wore suspended roiled her neck her lover's portrait, and had on her fingers the rings he had given her ; she held in her left hand a second pistol, loaded and cocked. Teranza, without saying a wo.• of the horrible event to any one, closed the door, and went to inform the police. His jealous disposition being well known, he was kept in confinement until the physicians had made their report of the state of the bodies, and the cause of their death. As the Ger man authorities have their Werther by heart, they allowed the two ill-fated lovers to be buried toge ther in the Campo Scelerato. Two nights after, a dirge was played over their graves, whether by Ita lians or Germans is not known—most likely the lat ter. It appears by their letters which have been found, that Laodina had remained faithful to her marriage vow, and that it was a struggle between her virtue and her love that forced her to adopt the fatal resolution of putting an end to her existence.— It also appears that Laodina and her lover had de termined on self-destruction on the 25th of October ; but several domestic circumstances, amongst others the death of Valterna's father, had retarded its exe cution until the 18th of January. In many of the letters Valterna endeavoured to persuade his mis tress to elope with him, to which she always replied by reproaching him with his want of courage. I n one of her letters she says, " Should we fly, poor as we both are, we could not avoid falling into distress, which might lead us to the commission of some more shameful action ;it is better to die." Laodina's letters are said to be admirable; it is probable they will be published." THE LOVER'S SONG. What are the summer skies to me, Though bright and beautiful they be ? What are the garden's freshest flowers, And the kissing breeze of its greenest bowers ? Though beauty and fragrance mingle there, And sweet is the kiss of the amorous air, Yet flowers were never so glowing and sweet, As my lady's blush when alone we meet, And what is the kiss of the softest breeze, To my lady's lips in such nights as these ? And never so bright were the summer skies, As the living light of my lady's eyes. A PERSIAN EXECUTION.—When we halted I found myself inclosed in a dense ring of spectators, in the midst of which eteod a great brass mortar, raised on a mound of earth, and beside it, stuck in the ground, was a bitstock with a lighted match. The nussukchees ranged themselves on each side of this horrible engine ; and it was not with out some difficulty that I succeeded in gaining a position which appeared to me to secure me from the danger attend ing the explosion, and its consequences when it s h ou ld take place. Having taken my station I beg an t o l ook around me, and saw the officers of justice still pow i ng i nto t h e circle, which was widened for their reception by dint of blows. After them, or rather between two of them, came the prisoner. She was enveloped front head to foot in A black robe, which also covered her face. Her step was firm, and her carnage stately. She frequently 'Poke a few o al n ou t Fi d e , words to an eunuch who accompanied her; but the noise l A vi s ie s n h she h a e p approached c r h ed a t n li d e was so great that I could hear nothing of their discourse. intelligible to all. The officers, per ceivingcosPeemptaostlrse that be cam as e to m ni o s r h e ed qu ev ie e t rY one, and o s f m th a e de si s len oin c e e, ii ti n h p e r e e p ss o i k one eached the mortar, not a sound was to b 5 aw h n e i ad with d ma . a ddthieTsat that n, k ehre i e n t rwn g e s swo ar i dd l v d s: ad tatege d i r l e i s multitude, here interrupted her. She made no attempt to procee d, but resigned herself into their arms. They l e d her in front of the mortar, and yet her step never faltered ; neither did she speak or implore, as it is common for even men to do in her situation ; neither did she curse, as some do : neither did she weep. They told her to kneel down with her breast against its moe. zle, and she did so. They put cords round her wrists, and bound them to stakes which bad been driven for the purpose; still she showed no signs of emotion; she laid her head upon the mortar, and waited her fate with a corn posure which a soldier might have envied. At length the signal was given; the match was raised ; it descended slowly; and, at the moment when it was about to touch the powder, an audible shudder ran through the crowd. The priming caught Are; a moment of sickening sucpense followed ; a groan burst from the spectators ; the r moke passed away; no explosion followed; and the unfortunate wretch raised her head to see what had happened. A faint hope gli mme red in my own heart that perhaps this w as a device to save her life, but it was not permitted to live long. It had scarcely begun to rise within me, when I saw the priming • ren ewed and the m a t c h ra i sed again. The con demned wretch laid her head once more on its bard pillow, anti uttered a low groan as if her,spirit had parted. It had scarcely been uttered when the explosion took place, and the smoke covered every thing from nay view. As it g radually cleared away, it drew a veil from over a horrid an d revolting spectacle. The two bodiless arms hung, with their mangled and blackened ends, from the stakes to which they had been bound; and a few yards distant lay a scorched and shattered foot and leg. No trace of body or of head remained, and a few tattered remnants of clethee were all besides that were left. The arms were unbound from the stake s ; an d two women, who had issued from the ark at the sound of the explosion, rushed to the spot, seized them up, and, concealing them under their veils, hurried to the Harem with these proofs that the dernends, ofjotict bed been fulfilled.." Visit; to the Ilarwri;