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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY ixtractsfrom the Morning Papers,Feb.24,lB2s. [THE TIMPS.I T .Yhe,Clait/Is of the Army of the Deccan to sus tiee. are becoming daily more and more urgent, and the _language of the sufferers assumes a louder and, bolder tone as their hopes of redress grow fainiei. In consequeoce of this feeling, s jtate 'tnentS Eave found their w a y into the public our mats, whiCh, though imperfect and in some re spects erroneous, have naturally excited consider able attention. We have fortunately beets re cently enabled to possess ourselves of much addi tional. evidence to explain. the causes by which the expectations of the army have been baffled, and which we can disclose whenever it may be cocrie expedient. The notorious facts, however, of this extraordinary case are in themselves sufficient so awaken suspicion and compel inquiry. It is known that eight years have elapsed since a large bp'oty was acquired in a contest of singular hard ship and danger—that some of the booty was ad mitted by all parties to .be lawful prize, and its *mount ascertained—that claims have been made to a far greater extent on the East India Com pany,: who derived such extensive and important benefits- from the war—that, after a protracted litigation, the rights of the actual captors were fully 'recognized by the. Crown, and a grant made to trustees for them to collect the booty and frame a scheme for its 'distribution among them, according to the usages of the service and the Prize Act ; and yet that up to this hour not a farthing has been disbursed, nor a single claim successfully asserted. Such a result is surely calculated to shake the confidence of the army in usages which 'are held more sacred than law, and to make them apprehensive that on future occasions the systematic gratitude of the Crown may be defeated - by the chicanery or weakness of its delegates. These circumstances are so extraordinary, that, whatever rutty be said of the fitness and integrity of the individuals who have been appointed to act as trustees for the army, it is scarcely possible hut that the suspi cion must be circulated of their being the princi pal if not the only cause of a delay so ruinous to the captors, and so injurious to time character of the country. We may fairly, too, inquire why The Commander-in-Chief of the capturing army has not be. n appointed in this instance to su perintend the collection and distribution of its l prize-money ? Why has this wise and just rule not been adhered to ? Of all other men he has the greatest interest in recovering the booty, time closest sympathy with the soldiers who- have fought under him, and the best oppor tunity of obtaining information .respecting the p-riie-money. But the Crown, it seems, was advised in the case before us to deviate from this salu tary practice, and to appoint time Duke of Wel .fington and Mr. Arbuthnot—relying, perhaps, on the zeal of the former for the interests of his own profession and his general knowledge of In dian military affairs. We are sorry to have to add,-that the tenour of the information we have received justifies us in stating, that their conduct as trustees has been of late, to say the least of it, kighly reprehensible. We understand that they now exclude parties deeply interested from all information, debarring them not only from all share in their councils, but from all knowledge of their proceedings. At present we abstain from tracing the history of the transactions which have led to this extraordinary state•of affairs, but it cannot long be concealed. In the mean time, the hdvisers of the Crown will do well to take care that its own intentions are not defeated, and that the boon it. has granted—or rather, the sa cred right which it has sanctioned—is not con verted lute a source of intrigue oni the one ' side, and of protracted vexation on the other. We are informed, on military authority, of what appears to he an abuse of patronage, or at feait a fact requiring explanation ; because, al though it he on a small scale, it is of a nature to excite jealousies in one department of the army, and so far to injure the public service. The Ox ford Blues had two troops added to them in 1812 ; these two troops were reduced again in August, 114 —that is to say, the non-commissioned of ficers awl privates; but the Captains and sub alterns were retained, and are still retained,. upon the strength of the regiment, and on fiat pay. Now the other cavalry regiments have only othcers for eight troops, the actual -number of their establishment ; but the Blues, consisting of eight troops likewise, have officers for ten—a difference not, merely expensive (pro tunic) to tke country, but unjust to other cavalry corps.— We trust that his Grace the Duke of Welling ton, whose reputation is certainly not that of a jobber, will, if this be wrong, take care to have it rectified, or that Parliament will do it for him. • [MORNING, C.111:0N-IcLE-] The Army Estimates have now been laid be- Vire the House of Conimons and printed, by which we are enabled, will'', much satisfaction, to appeal to the correctness of the information Which we exclosively furnished, at the moment when the Chancellor of the Exchequer felt him self justified in declaring that the amount of the augmentation . was 8,000 men. We, in the face of that higli authority, said that it would !us nearly • 20,000, and the Estimates shew an increase to the ling of i'9,000.* It remains with the Chancellor to reconcile his statement with the Estimates. Th e re l uctance o f ill inis ters in 1113 king admissions as to the increase of the Army may readily be explained, if, as rumour reports, circumstances base occurr e d si n ce the Speech was delivered to Parliament, which may materially affect the nature of our Foreign Rela tions. Our present object is chiefly to shew that we have been correct. • The disembodying of the Veterans can scarcely be taken as a reduction, betause the officers and men will go back to their fell pay-and pensions, and are liable at any ti me to be again callei out. Mr. Brougham, in moving for leave to bring in ICBM to amend the Apothecaries Act, took occasion to say " that the Colleges o f Edinburgh sad Glasgo w -were the two most eminent Medical Seminaries in existence." Alas! then, for the ' character of Medical Seminaries. They are eminent, it is true, but how long will they con tinue so ? It is well understood, that they live now enterely on their reputation. Our youth, from the impossibility of obtaining sub jects, have been obliged to repair to the Con tinent ; and we are sorry to say that they have not, in all cases, in lieu of the illi berality of the authorities at home, found better treatment abroad. The English students have been driven from Paris, where they were in great numbers, from the refusal of the Government to allow them to obtain subjects, which are provid ed to French students gratis. They have been obliged to repair elsewhere to solicit from the charity of other States what they cannot obtain at home. What an idea foreigners must have of our civilization, of which we boast so much, when they find from the incontrovertible evidence of numberless English fugitives, that. the most important of all studies is. in a manner, inter dicted in this Island.—(lbid.) [MORNING POST.] A salutary regulation has been adopted by the House of Commons for the due management of private business. It is this—that Members shall be excluded from voting on occasions where they have a direct pecuniary interest. Mr. Grenfell last night suggested that the rule of exclusion ought also, upon the same principle, to apply to those Members who had a direct pecuniary inte rest in the failure of the the measure. This is certainly as necessary as the first, if it be wished that true impartiality should guide the decisions of Committees and of the House. Mr. Brougham and Mr. Baring then gave much curious information respecting the efforts made to obtain votes and majorities in Committees on private Bills, which shewed in a still stronger light the propriety of the determination taken by the House. Mr. Brougham indeed advised that it should be car ried farther, and should exclude those who had a direct interest in any public measure. This, however, appeared calculated to impede the free play of the Parliamentary machine, and for the present at least was laid aside. But Mr. Hume gave notice that on Friday next he would submit a proposition to the House to determine how far it had been the custom of Parliament to disqualify Members from voting upon measures in which they had a direct pecuniary interest.— In reply to some observations made by Mr. Warre, whilst presenting a Petition from 'faun ' ton against the Land Tax, Mr. Herries said, that he was ready to redeem the pledge which he had given last Session, and should shortly propose a measure which would place in the hands of the Treasury a controulling power over the whole Assessment of the Land Tax. [BRITISH PRESS.] A Supplement to Tuesday's Gazette was pub lished yesterday, containing the official dis patches relating to the progress of the Burmese war. With the exception of the loss of the stockade of Tek Naaf, which was delivered up by a mutinous body of irregular provincials, the enemy has been foiled and chastised in every at tempt against us. The Governor-General states, in his dispatch to the Court of Directors, that, "in Assam, the progress of our troops has se cured the important object of depriving the enemy of nearly two-thirds of that territory, of destroying a considerable portion of their force there, and, as we hope, of placing serious obsta cles in the way of any attempt which the Bur mese might be disposed to make to invade Ben gal, by the route of the Burhampooter." The indefatigable Member for Aberdeen moved, last night, amongst a number of other motions, for a Return of the Sh►ps added to the Royal Navy since January, distinguishing all the circumstances of their building and treat ment, with a view to ascertain their present con dition, and the wisdom of the course followed with regard to them. Sir George Clerk ex pressed his entire concurt - ence with the motion. 1k was " anxious to show the very efficient state in which the naval force of the country was, and the great superiority which the vessels lately built held over those constructed at more distant periods." It is of importance that this fact should he known, for it is not enough that a nation should be strong : she should seem what she is. So much has been said on the subject of dry-rot, that we believe some of our countrymen began to dread that their wooden walls were not in the soundest state. The assurances given on this subject by Lord Melville on Monday, and re peated last night by Sir George Clerk, must sa tisfy every rational mind as to the falsehood of the bugbear, tl►at our navy was crumbling to ❑o thing by some new and mysterious disease.— ( Ibid.) [NEW TIMES.] In the House of Commons last night, a con versation took place upon Mr. Byng'4 moving for leave to bring in a Bill for the construction of Docks in the Isle of Dogs, as to the propriety of any Member, who might possess a direct pecu niary interest in a Private Bill, being allowed to vote upon it in any stage of its progress through the House. In this conversation Mr. Grenfell, Mr. Brougham, Mr. Baring, and others, took a part, and the result was, that Mr. Ilume gave notice that on Friday he would submit a proposition respecting the disqualification from voting. In thus proceeding Mr. Hume will introduce a practical alteration in Par liamentary business, w hich, in the present day may lead to consequences very difficult to be fore seen. We do not mean to ascribe to the Hon. Gentleman the talent of invention. Of that we never suspected him ; probably the rule existed, but had become a dead letter, that Members should not vote on questions in which they had a personal interest. "I his sounds very prettily no doubt in theory, and may have been appli cable to some ancient peTiods. But let us try a little how it will operate in practice in our own days. The first victim is Mr. Peter Moore. Ile is a proprietor in a Coal Gas Company, ergo he can't vote on an Oil Gas Bill. The next is Mr. Pascoe Grenfell. He is a shareholder in the St. Katharine's Dock Company, ergo (we sup pose) he can't vote on any other Dock Company. So far so good ! But let us first ask how many such tabooed Members there are in the House of Commons, or rather who are not tabooed . 2 Who has abstained from taking shares in all and every of the Thousand-and-One Schemes now afloat ? The pure Members we fear will be very few in number. Some are tempted by a golden moun tain in Potosi ; some by a railway from John-o'- Groat's House to the Land's End ; some are for a cool promenade in the London Subways ; some for crossing under the Thames in a 'funnel ; others for crossing over it on an iron bridge, and as many of these schemes clash more or less with others, the Proprietors will be disfranchised of their legislative votes on a vast variety of ques, tions. But, again, can the principle stop here ? What are we to say to Stockholders voting on a question which may raise or depress their property 20 per cent ? How can we permit Country Gen tlemen to have any thing to say about Corn Laws. Nay, even Mr. Hume himself would be disqualified from voting and, afortiori, from speak ing on that interesting topic, the liberation of Greece; for if we mistake not Grecian Scrip and he are still pretty close acquaintance, though some weeks back they were not quite so cordial. We only throw out these hints for the more mature consideration of those who profess a more inti mate knowledge than we can boast of the Lex et Consuetado Parlianienti.—The Bill for granting relief as to the manlier of solemnizing Marriage among Dissenters was on the motion of Mr. W. Smith read a first time. [MORNING HERALD.] We are glad that the St. Katharine's Dock Bill makes such progress, because we are well convinced that a Dock in that part of the town will be highly beneficial to the trading commu nity. The other Docks are too far off. The very centre of business for all descriptions of heavy goods, is St. Catharine's. Therefore St. Katha rine's is the place for a Dock. What wholesome grocer in Mark or Mincing-lane, but would like to have his hogsheads of sugar rolled into his warehouse from the ship in his immediate vici nity, rather than to have them carted from the IV est India Docks, lying at the distance they do ? What wholesome grocer would like to be pestered any more than he could possibly help with those insolent carmen, with their unwieldy carts and elephant-like horses, running against or over all the women and children they meet, except they get out of their %gay ? We congratulate the City on this scheme. We were glad, on the second reading of the Bill, that the votes of such Members as were interested against the establishment of this Dock were objected to, for we would wis h the purity of both Houses of Parliament preserved. We hope that this moral watchfulness will be strictly maintained by Mr. Hurne and others this Ses sion. We should suggest, that %len the Bills for any of the schemes now pending, are brought before the House, the question should he put to each Member voting in favour of or against such schemes, " are you or are you not interested ? Have the scheme Committees put your name down in their books, as being a pos sessor of any number of shares ?" Then we would hate every Member to pledge his word of honour that he had no shares, and that neither directly or indirectly was he interested in the vote he was about to give. We think that if this regulation were adopted, schemes would lessen in number. But above all things, we would have the moral purity of both Houses preserved. [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] The intelligence received yesterday from South America, is decisive of the fate of that vast and fine country. According to the last authentic accounts from General Bolivar, which are dated the 18th of September, fourteen Provinces had at that time embraced the Independent Cause ; and the Liberator had, in every instance, been hailed with the greatest enthusiasm by the in habitants. The Spaniards, who appeared to see no other hope of temporary safety but in flight, had lost more than 4000 men since the battle of Junin ; and were so disorganised at last, that their submission, or total dispersion, was confi— dently anticipated. There is a noble and cha racteristic trait related of General Bolivar: — Several spies had been. sent to examine the strength and feel the pulse of his army ; and when he had detected them, he dismissed them all without any punishment, saying, that he had no objection to any Spanish Officer ex amining the state of his corps. Only a Ge neral, supporting a generous cause, could adopt such a resolution without risk ; for, where every soldier lights, from principle, he is inaccessible to the common arts of debauchery ; whereas Can teract, however honourably disposed himself) would, in the same circumstances, have been compelled to employ the utmost severity. Whilst the Liberator was reflecting additional lustre on his glorious career by such traits as the fore- . going, he had the gratification of receiving, through the hands of one of his Aides -decamp, a communication from the Spanish General in Upper Peru, i n w hi c h th e latter an nounced that it had b een l ong his intention to co-operate with him in completing the liberation of " this beautiful portion of South America. ,, _ This letter, which i s d ate d t h e 10th of October, was the more gr a tif y i ng, as it insured not Only a speedy termin a ti on of the con t es t, but encou raged a hope that the remainder of it would have a bloodless character. If the Royalist leaders were previously reduced to nearly the last state of diffi culty, what must have been their situation, when they were threatened in their rear, as well as in front. Olaneta, who was at the head of nearly 5,000 men, and had personal, a s well as publi c, grounds of di s lik e to the Royalist Leaders, would, besides thos e , i n d ucements to a ct vigorously against them, see the necessity of re trievin g , b y some hold op erat i on, the t i me h e had lost. It is proof either o f extraordinary f o resight, or of con summate addr ess, on the part o f Bolivar, that he had always cal cu l ate d on b e ing joined by the for mer ; and w e suspect, that at the o p enin g of the campaign it was preconcer ted between t hem.— This suppositi on woul d acco unt for the implacable dislike which Olaneta has shown to act under ' the orders of the Viceroy and it seems to us probable that his declaration in favour of the ab solute King was merely a feint ; whilst it enabled him to deceive his troops. The letter in which Olaneta makes known his intention of co-operat ing with General Bolivar, is addressed to Colonel O'Leary ; and it is really surprising, as well as gratifying, to see the valuable aid which the cause of Liberty in South America has received from the swords of Irishmen, nay, of Irish Catholics. Every where, but at home, their merits are duly appreciated ; and whilst in the New World, they are seen occupying the foremost rank—the first in zeal, as well as in courage, amongst its gallant defenders, they are thought fit for only pains and penalties in their own country. How long will this anomally last ? —or rather, how long will a Government, distinguished in every thing else by its libe rality and good sense, display an abandonment of both in their treatment of more than six sevenths of the People of Ireland ? As long as this line of distinction is drawn, one thing at least is clear, that we hold our prosperity by no firm tenure ; and the empire, when it appears to be most flourishing, may be compared to a tree, crowned with leafy honours, but which contains within the principle of rapid destruction. Ear-' nestly do we implore those who have not only the tranquillity of Ireland, but perhaps the fate of this splendid empire in their hands, to reflect dispassionately on the effects of their irritating measures in Ireland, and not to point out to her Catholic Population, that whilst they are treated much in the manner of outcasts at home, they are able to carve out for themselves the high est honours in every other country with their swords. We address this warning the more fearlessly, because'we cannot engage with the re quisite confidence, in any great enterprise either of war or peace, as long as Ireland is a prey to internal distractions ; and because we know that foreign Powers see in her troubles the means of gratifying their envy of English prosperity, and their deep hatred of English freedom. We can not close our remarks without noticing the gal lant action which took place off Callao, between the Prueva, in the Peruvian service, and the Asia, Spanish men of war. The action lasted four hours,at the end of which the Asia was forced to fly under the batteries of Callao ; and the block ade of that port was resumed a few days after wards. What renders this success the more striking is, the vast difference in the size of the two vessels, one earring only 44 and the other 80 guns. Only Captain Guise, who commands the Prueva, would have ventured to fight a frigate of her dimensions against a ship carrying 80 guns ; and he has confirmed by this heroic act the high reputation he had acquired in our own service. THE GAME. LAWS. The Bill brought in by Mr. Stuart Wortley, " to amend the Laws for the Preservation of Game," has been printed. The preamble sets forth that " the laws now in being, prohibiting persons under a certain degree of rank, and not possessing estates of a certain annual value, from killing game, and making it penal to buy or sell game, have been found to be impolitic and inconvenient, and in many cases oppressive and unjust ; and it is expedient to repeal certain parts of the same, and to establish other provinces in lieu thereof." The Bill then proceeds to repeal " so much and such parts of any Acts now in force for the preservation of hares, pheasants, partridges, black game, grouse, heath and moor game, as re strain . persons under such degree or rank, and not possessing such estates, as in the said Acts respectively are specified, from killing, or havifig in their possession, game, and as impose any penalty upon persons _ ho, not bei ng qua lified in such manner as prescribed by such Acts or any of them, shall pursde, take or destroy game, or have game in their possession, or keep or use any gun, dog, net, snare, or other engine for the destruc tion of game ; and also so much and such parts of any Acts now in force as prohibit the buying or selling of game, or as impose any penalty upon persons buying or selling game." By the next clause game is declared to be the property of the owner of the land, except it be common or avast land ; in which case the lords of manors are entitled to the game. A . provision follows, vesting the right to game in persons having rights of common in cases in which there are no lords of manors. Persons entitled to free warren or free chase are entitled to the game found therein. By the next clause the owners of land, lords of manors, and persons entitled to free warren or free chase, are enabled to de mise game. But tenants for lives or years determinable on lives; or for longer terms than twenty-one years, are entitled to the game unless it be specially reserved. _ No agreement for a lease shall be valid, unless in writing, and duly stamped. The following clause restrains persons from sporting during unlawful seasons, and also unless they have taken out game certificates for the current year. Blanks are then left for the penalty on persons trespassing on lands, for the purpose of sporting, without consent. Trespassers refusing to quit land may be apprehended. A further penalty is to be levied on trespassers refusing to give their names. In the next clause blanks are left for the punishment of night poachers. Offenders may he seized by owners or occupiers, and put in custody of 'a peace-officer. If they resist they shall be com mitted, or held to bail. Offenders using violence, and not seized, may be afterwards apprehended by warrant. The convictions are to b e - registered and stated, as to being the first, second, or third offence. nle sslicensed p er son s by pursuing the on certain days, and destroying g a me - nests or eggs. Justices No persons (except gamekeepers) are allowed to have snares, &c. The penalties are next t to l be fixed u on No person may deal in game of Peace. ' Persons entitled to the property in game may sell it to li censed persons ; and any person may purchase game of such licensed person ; and licensed persons may buy and sell game under certain restrictions. Persons licensed to deal in game shall deliver, with the game sold by them, their names anti addresses. The powers given by this Act are not to extend to game at present prohibited at certain seasons. By the following clauses power is given to search licensed persons and their premises, and gamekeepers are prohibited from dealing in game, except with permission. The next clause enacts, that " no innkeeper, tavernkeeper, or v ictualler, nor any o wn e r, dr iver , or guard of stage-coa c h' or cart, caravan, waggon, van, or other public conveyance, nor any higgler or carrier, nor any person or persons in the employ of any of the above-described persons, nor any mail-guard or mail coachman, shall buy or sell game." It is next declared, that " For the purposes of this Act the word game shall be deemed and taken to include and mean, hares, partridges, pheasants, black game, grouse, heath, moor game, and bustards. Summonses for any thing relating to this Act shall be writ ten, and given to the parties or left at their residence. The parties convicted may appeal to the Quarter Sessions. The penalty on witnesses refusing to attend when summoned is fixed at 40s. persons st ea li ng game to i n di c tments for The f efelony, n A y c, . is exceptnot t o i n subjectcas cases expressly p rov id e d f or ; an d all for mer Acts are to. remain in force, except t h ey are express ly re. pealed by the present Act. No proceeding under this Act can be removed by certiorari —saving the rights of his AlajestY and the officers of royal forests ; and saving all rights of sporting granted by former Acts of Parliament. The Act will not extend to.Seotland or Ireland r,- and it may be altered or repealed by • any subsepent Act during the presen t Session. FOR THE SUS. LENT. MR. EDITOR—III the primitive church it Will the custom that, on Ash Wednesday, penitents should appear before their respective Bishops with bare feet,and their bodies covered with coarse sackcloth. Such among them as had deserved exemplary punishment, after being sprinkled with the ashes of the palms burnt on the Palm Sunday of the preceding year, were afterwards thrust out of the church door. In this ceremony they were followed by the clergy, who repeated the curse denounced against our first parents: " In the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread." A repetition of this ceremony took place on the following Sunday. Those who had been guilty of less heinous offences were simply marked upon the forehead with the sign of the cross, and admonished to persevere in their penitent course. Among the primitive Christians the fast of Lent did not begin until the Sunday ,after quive .qua jesima, or until the day now called the First Sunday in Lent, and terminated at Easter Sunday. 1 t therefore continued in all 42 days and as the Sundays were not days of fast, the . number of fasting days was thirtyfsix, the tenth . part of the 360 days, composing the most ancient year, and thus forming a tythe of the year conse. crated to God. In the year 487, Pope Felik the Third added to the above 36 days the four - . days that , precede old Lent Sunday thus mak-. ing the number of days in Lent 40, and making it equal to the length Of time our Saviour fasted, - as recorded in the Evangelists. Since this pe riod Lent has ever began on Ash Wednesday. The practice which still prevails in the Roman Catholic Church, of sprinkling ashes on that day upon the congregation, was introduced by Pope Gregory the Great, whence it received the name of Dies Cinerani, or Ash Wednesday, which it . still retains. In the year 1091 the observance of this pious ceremony was strictly cornman&d by the Council of Beneventum. This practice continued to prevail in this coun try until the Reformation, when a service called the Comminution was appointed in its stead. This. service contains a public reading of all the crimes that are found denounced in Scripture. On Ash \Wednesday the celebrated Miserere is sung in the Sistine Chapel at Rome. The effect produced on this occasion is thus well de- . scribed by the author of Rome in the nineteenth century " The shadows of evening had now closed U 1 and we should have been left almost in total darkness, but for the dull red glare which pro ceeded from the hidden lights of the unseen cho-. risters, and which, mingling with the deepening twilight, produced a most melancholy After 'a deep and most impressive pause- of knee, the solemn Miserere commenced ; and never by mortal ear was heard a strain of such powerful, such heart moving pathos. The ac' cordant tones of a hundred human-voices, and one' which seemed more than human, ascended toge - . ther to Heaven for mercy to mankind—for par don to a guilty and sinning world. It had nothing in it of this earth—nothing that breathed the or-' dinary feelings of our nature. It seemed. as if every sense and power had been concentered. into that plaintive expression of lamentation, 'of deep suffering, and supplication, which possessed the soul. I t was the strain that disembodied spi-. rits might have used who had just passed the boundaries of death, and sought relief from the mysterious weight of woe and the tremblings armor tat agony-that they had suffered in the passage of the grave. It was the music of another state of, being. It lasted till the shadows of evenin' fell deeper and the red dusky - glare, as it issued stronger from the conc ea l e d recess w h ence the singing proceeded, sh e d a part i a l, b ut stro ng light upon the figure s near i t . It ceased—a priest with a light mov e d across th e cha pe l , an d carr ied - a book to the officiating Cardinal, who read a fetv words in en awful and impressive tone. Thal again the light disappeared., and the last, the most entrancing harmony arose, in a deeper, m ore pathetic sound . of lamentation, than mortal voices ever breathed. The effect upon the minds of those who heard it was almost too powerful tt ) be borne, and never, never can be forgotten. One gentleman fainted and was carried out ; and many of. the ladies.were in. an agitation even more distressing, which they vainly struggled to sup' press. lt was the music of Allegri; but the composition, however fine, is nothing without the voices.who perform it here. It is only the singers of the Papal Chapel who.can execute the Mise rere ; it has been tried by the best singers in Germany, and totally failed of effect. There is never any accompaniment, though, at times, the solemn swell of the softened organ seemed to blend with the voices. This music is more wonderful,and its effect more powerful, than ail thing than can be conceived." -A. P. BIRTH. On the 22d inst., in Powis.place, Mrs. Daniel Feraid, of s' daughter. MARRIED. ..... . On Monday, the 14th February, at Limerick Cathedral, bt. the Lord Bishop of Limerick, David, eldest• son of DOW' Roche, Esq., of Carrass, county of Limerick, to. Francet daughter of the late .Colonel John - Ormsby Vandeleur, (s"`, Dragoon Guards), of Ballilamona. On the sth inst., at Oporto, Robert Woodhouse, Esq., t ° Donna Maria Ertnelinda Gomez d'Oliveira, of that city. • DIED. On Friday, the 11th inst., in the Rue Richepanse i Paris, the infant daughter of James Arthur Wilson, M.D. On Saturday, Mrs. Mary Ladyman, Church-row, NewitlP ton-butts, at the advanced age of 82. On the 21st inst., Mrs. diary Ann Smith, relict of the Lyle Wm. Smith, Esq., of Dulwich, Surrey. On the 22d inst., at his house, Union -court, Broad-street , Mr. Samuel Arnott, citizen and fletcher, twenty years keeper of the Monument, at the advanced age of 82. On the same day, Mrs. Susannah Arnott, wife of the above, at the age of 7 6- On the 22d in s t., S ara h, on l y d aug h ter of? William more, Esq., and grand-daughter of the late John Tialing, Esq . ' aged 22. _ _ At Edinburgh, on the 16th inst., John Menzies, Esq., soli citor of Customs for Scotland. Printed and Published for the PnoPaivrons, at the Svi.r" OFFICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. 13. CARSTAIII!. I