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'c02 0 6 ir.) FROST LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. Tbe b.. W HITEHALL, FEB. 21, 1831. p a , se4 ' i ng has been pleased to direct letters patent to be B ar. , nder the Great Seal, for granting the dignity of d a to s u nel of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Irelan , dl — ex, Bayley, male in the county of Mid. — ex. and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten. 11E p„ in CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 21. s '' S RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRE- Boa ctur ,,. SENT PARLIAMENT. Durk un OP D EVIZES.—Sir Philip Charles Henderso n a nd _ an ; of Frodel, of the county of Fife, in North Br ita i n, ‘....._fililLstreet, Berkeley square, in the county of Middlesex, ed the"'•-IL! in the room of Montague Gore, Esq., who has accept Chiltern Hundreds. ilui l, °u " OP TOTNESS. The Right Honourable in n wa th rd e Nom es SeYmour commonly called Lord Seymour, i . linna°l.eidJ:lnes Cornish, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Boi t , l'h " ()P LE EDS. —Edward Baines, Esq., in the room of C hilte rn ni ria , ,_, 7 l ngton reds. Macaulay, Esq., who has accepted the ' l . (" 1 5011 1 . \VAR-OFFICE, FEB. 21. Cojli egirnent of Light Dragoons—Sergeant-Major Francis Feb.lt • vice Chettle, deceased, 6. Regimental Quartermaster, na 24 Regiment of Dragoons—Cornet R. Miller to be Lieute_ fi tt ; Y P u rchase, v i ce Wynne, who ret i res; T . W..Traffbrd, Sigeth,,to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Miller, Feb. 21 n eg et of Foot—H. A. Sullivan, Gent , I,t'hYrPrch to be En. oUase, vice Chambers,who retires, Feb. 2 1 . titteha,, o _ t . — Ensign M . A . H . Tuite to be Lieutenant, by nBiv'ee Stewart, who retires ; T. Stoney, Gent., to be Nu; Purchase, vice Tuite, Feb. 21. l'nrcii,e'°nt—Ensign J. H. Mathews to be Lieutenant, by : 1 5th vi ce Horne, promoted, Feb. 21. to Ca p ° ,: -- CaPtain G. Seton, from the half-pay Unattached, 41, t n, vice Maxwell, who retires, Feb. 21. Ql aes - e 4° °! --- T. Hogg, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, l vice 4.lthr';nose appointment has not taken place, Feb. T W. Halfhide to be ieu 2 tenant, froln -thHalfhi l'n,rehase, vice LeWis, deceased Ensign, vice Ensign C. W. Crickitt, PaY of the 80th Regiment, to be 1511 Feb. 21. ykeJoh,,"----W. R. Lewis, Gent., to be. Ensign, by purchase, 62,1 ro..'nn, Who retires Feb. 21. ile: t-- , Lieut. A. H. Irvine, from the half-pay of the 3d Feb, • 21 . t be Lieutenant, vice J. Butler, who exchanges, 63d Fo thase "Ce 1!, A. A; A F. Codd to be Lieutenant, by pur. -eh, yl,, Ce whoretres; P. Lindesay, Gent., to be En ha e i:Urchase, vice Codd, Feb. 21. vie°°t's-P. A. Errington, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur 65th t,V.Vilvnot, ho retires, Feb. 21. . EnsH i J Training to be Adjutant (w Rh the 41'51e,uit,ilant,': vice Bates, who resigns the Adjutantcy ,d 1 , 0 • chase °t—Eluign N. W. Smith to be Lieutenant, by pu b r ; tnsi ice Brash, who retires ;W.F. W. Martin, Gent., to . I2gd ~boY:uarpclptiaaiste,,,,,viiccee Smith, Feb. 21. 41 934 to Fo b, t — c C aptain M. K. Atherky, from the 96th_ Robertson, who exchanges, '.lUtchas Ensign P. A. Goulden to be LieutenantF, Feb. 2!. A e 'ir Lamb, deceased, Jan. 13; Gentleman C . e vir e ' A.Aartle, front the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, 9 6th P e n, Feb. 21 . t , be ca 'nt--Captain F. Robetson, from the 92d Regiment, -Pta in, vice Atherley, who exchanges, Feb. 21. Li eut UNATTACHED. Ptir c6, , • A. Horne, f rom t h e 34th Regiment, to be Captain, by "•e, Feb. 2 1. -rnissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire. , i. 4t hern Regiment of Nottinghamshire Yeomanry Cavalry. • • (A h a • • arttn, Esq., to be Captain, vice J. Hassall, resigned ; w 5 00 . Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, Feb. 12. Th e L WHITEHALL, FEB. 15. th e L ord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Jenner, of Rye , 111 th ' „tY of Sussex, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary 'gh Court of Chancery. The Lo rd WHITEHALL, FEB. 14. Ch has apnted Philip Cowley, the ka, st r, of Watford, in ancellor the coun ty of Hertford, Gent., to be a -t Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DAYS CROWN-OFFICE, FEB. 21. SPRING ld • - the and PLACES appointed for ho tnig ASSIZES for the following CIRCUITS The MIDLAND CIRCUIT. Righ t Hon. Sir NICOLAS CONYNGHAM TINDAL, Knt., I,zork_LOrd Chief Justice, and Mr. Justice LirrutnatE. It otr itonsh ire - -Saturday, March 1, at Northamp t on. tioo:tail:Ye---Friday, March 7, at Oakham. 1 City of Lire--Saturday, March 8, at the Castle . of L l incoln. Notttoth.,..heela--The same day, at the City of Luacon. Town of ''' Nott i o re--Thurs day, March 13, at Notting h am. Not , ,"ngham. gham-The same day, at the Town of . 4- ;erhYs • ire-Tuesday, March 18, at Derby. ..eicestershire-Tuesday, Leicester. Boron March 25, at the Castle of 0 _ Leicester. Leicester -The same day, at the Boroug h I I i City of Coventry-Saturda 14 'W arwickshi r e same day, at Warwick. The Ri g h t Hon. HOME CIRCUIT . JOHN SINGLETON Loan LYNDHURST, Lord l i,ertf ordsh Chie l f v l e tz da . ylllr. Justice GASELEE. Feb. 26, at Hertford. Z5eX-Sionday, March 3, at Chelmsford. Sussex et--14a nday, March 10, at Maidstone. si, '"--Monday, March 17, at Lewes. -rrelr"--blonday, March 24, at Kingston-upon-Thames. WESTERN CIRCUIT. Justice BORA NQUET. SVC V 'll il than'l ßOD-Sat l U i r r elay i" , u ;l t a . rch 1, at the C astle of Winchester. Dorset, Saturday, March 8, at New S a rum. kt;Oetfts h ire Er s e - t e : ' ___ r I day' March 14, at Dorchester. pity '4shire-Thursday, March 20, at the . Castle hail o o f f Ex th e e t c er i . ty of taersetshire The same day, at the Guild (s,°' Thursd March 27, at Launceston. W a eLesday, April 2, at the Castle of Taunton. OXFORD CIRCUIT. ha tksh . Mr. Justice PARK. Mr. Justice PArrEsom. O'sto wi L re " -- •, Tuesday, Feb. 25, at Reading. Wores7re--Saturday March 1, at Oxford. s l oet r ri n e v r4 ir s : }l --_ ire__ T u eit7,71, ..- 'ershir e -- Thur ' sday, March 6, at Worcester. Btft:' "rcester-The same day, at the City of Worcester. SI, Z.Thire--Tuesda , March 11 , at Stafford. es day, Y March 18, at Shrewsbury. Saturday, March 22, at Hereford. 4loorees°ll,"l'hire - Wednesday, March 26, at Monmout h . thy .`erShiaturday March 29, at Gloucester. e, Glouc ester The same day, at the City of Gloucester. m NORTHERN CIRCUIT. 13111,1%,:lustice TAUNTON. Mr. Justice AL DE RSON. Nottiturday Feb. 22, at Durham. yu„--uerland---weduesday, Feb. 26, at Newcastle-upon. To wn :- ~ .. New hill of ~,, castle-upon -Tyne-The same day , at the Guild _lrktietb.,,,'"elleaatle upon -Tyne. 1 . wert ol - o Q ii.in . d--.......5a,5tu. ;day, March 1 , at Carlisle. '7lllcoshire....o_A•nursday, March 6, at Appleby. f,'. rkshire""MaY, qty -..tUrda i‘ March 8, at Lancaster. 0 nr0rk..... 1 ,, Y, larch 22, . at the Castle ldhalio of fYork.the City City of . o tlt. -ne same day, at the Gut elit eUrr ------'e'---- • of the PRINCIPALITY of WALES and L.C2NY PALATINE of CHESTER tla taorL_ - "' 4atcb BoLLAND and Mr. Baron . GURNEY. arrl,, `",hire-- Thursday Feb. 27, at CardA kr° I:then ahire.... 4l , d ugh of r , urs ay ' , March 6, at Carmarthen. nlarth ~armarthen—Same day, at the Borough of Car. korp_ e 4 1,.. 2110 e ,,.... 01°0 Thsh -j ; thi ' e--- Saturday, March 8 , "Tabroek t he March 12, at Bala. at Welch Pool. Cobary, exhir e---Thursday, March 13, at Haverordwest. Ca'dilla°l4.hires--Saturday, March 15, at Carnarvon. h- Ir— nsi'4 l - "Wednesday, March 19, at Cardigan. r 8 —taw" vrednesday March 19, at Beau h m: 1 . treekil"skre---Saturday' , March 22, at Rut rec i 0 . n. Saturday,/11441:ekshire-- March 22, at B kd e hp ".Wednesda - March 26, at Mold. . -11"11.11thire.-- Wedn } d ' March 26, at Presteign. • 11.6"--Satur day, e 111a a r Y ch 29, at Chester. - ------16 " -- WIMPAECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. -..iv i B ARBER, shoe-maker, York. k a „,.,!lA.NTKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.Ifrom 410,--, , Feb. 25 to A Pril i s '-', '''' IOALY, bricklayer, Liverpool, e Ak ,,,----01. A WI/4 f t t wo, at the Clarendon rooms, Li; .1411 3 ;" .st:/IISTER tailor, Liverpool, pool.' eleven, at the ' Clarendon -rooms, Liverpo lajt ivl „ BANKRUPTS. from March 11 to B°llthivol,° ?E ER CHRISTIAN HANSEN, c0 . 71 4 -m at er e c le h v a e n n t : at the Count surrender March 4, at one, and Apri , West,.... of Bankruptcy. Hayward, Palace New.road, bard atr —unstet.br. . eetilotteial 4418 e; Clark, St. Swithin's-lane, Lombard. rMnajprteleh-c3r411, aL it°t,,vbl:A:lsT et t ll7 , l r i j o i s, tier, Gracechurch-street, London, nk. at eleven, at the Courtof . Bank. eernbe LyonteB74'4l(lag's Arms yard, official assignee E 1 14 0 t , 4(1 : 3 ; ° l It O °a and Z r l i pl , r t the o u e tfi g li c h e r indfgeß., H. Andersshirek wl ork. L ever, c 4 ,,t eleven, a dell bLl,Lotires.v:lLarfassi-uslnnisqEuayre London ; Anderson,Yor n L Commission-agent, Qua l t ve . erhy A b at t 4, la-t ouch e° lnt T av ouch . ern 12. e tt A )y a , t ro ll r e e w e , e . a a n n d d April e r 4. , A a t s h t b w y e - d e ~ uln, L Austin and Hobson, Raymond-buildings, Gray's J OStpi,P' 144::'1486e:1d. WHALLEY, grocer, Lockwood, Yorkshire, and LAepvreilr,4o,tnayt ten, at the office Barker, 114 tIrle.- ° 4 + t t "ILLINS, broker, Warwick, Inn-square; sqlia r e • March Barker,ofHuddersfield nd April. 1, 4 , 1 4 .... welve, at the George Inn, Warwick. Burbury acl I.°4( ro r a aY ' 'Warw ick ; Meyrick and Cox, Red Lion.square, It • Ashb y . DIVIDENDS. kr°, tnealoaan, Staines, Feb. 2 4—J. Jarvis, tailor, e,i'.Pton, March 17y. Plummer and W. Wilson, merchants ehurch.street, March 17 —J, Fraser, patent ship-hearth o s ; il) lo t sr' to iV , ( 1! t rc re It I I ;d .0! = te ( t V , of I • J et It l3 I V of tr,e 64d /&60 //e (No. 2,934.) manufacturer, Limehouse, March 17—W. Homan, smack. owner, Barking, Essex, March 14—8.. George, stage-coach maker, Parker-street, Drury-lane, March 14—P. Barratt, jew eller, New Bond-street, March 14—S. E. Hobbs, grocer, Hit chin, Hertfordshire, March 14—M. Tyler, brewer, Lincombe, Somersetshire, March 24—J. Atkinson, dealer in slates, Cock ermouth, Cumberland, March 20—T. C. Waters, ironmonger, Bristol, March 15—T. Wood, ironmonger, Bilston, Stafford. shire, March 15—J. Taylor, timber-merchant, Manchester, March 5. _ -,:40 ,. - 4, .....- . --- _,--,- 4 2.0e1 f'.. 1 •:, 4 .).- ...,,,,...., ... , - --.- , . i .. , Lffrz, r, ,-- '=--------- it ‘ • ' .... o.iTi• - LtAti. 9 \ -1 . 14- I .. -- l' ...r. . , iik- \.` '-'' r ti v - -11. -f .- N 't , PAILt =-•- \ ' -", - '''''':47,', l ::,... , . . , 1 .-.- A.. , 4 ' . . _ 7 - - ,// 0 •\.,„..,_ . 1 - ' -..t4 1 47 . 4 . ..:.:,-,: ~: . -, f"-- ' ~,,,,- 'ag v: '. ki`\ \ , , ' , O-, • - ~ '7‹......x. )..4-4.-. - , '4 Ill ith' a ,:‘ -- \...\ l** : 1-1- i : = 2 '" 's: /..1 1 \ \,\, - '.. t; !- 4 , ,,. lti. '...... : , , .., 4.\. , .., ' ~,- \ .A. ' , _.,...., 2,4., ,„; ,_ • t . ~ , -4 .1,...,1 1 - 4\ ........,,,.. „0,--...-4..,, , ,-4 I ‘ L . , it_ LI . . , i . _ .....--, , ( .r#:° -- ' ,4 . \. l' o .cr:- . ' . ,o.< N -:,=•--.•,---'-' ------ 7--:,: „....... --- 7 ( : '".'• 1.4 v v. _-,,,....c.,.... 4 ,tr _,,.4.5.,-- r: , - i.,-.1 " Hoc opus est:" " Quantum mutatus ab illo!" ( PRICE 7D.) Cross-examined by Sir J. SCARLErr—Had been at Bewdle since this action. Went to the " Standard" office in the nam:' of both Mr. Crudington and Allport. Has no other clients a' Bewdley who intend to bring such actions as these. Was a: Bewdley a week, and lived in Mr. Crudington's house. Had a letter on Saturday last, between four and five o'clock, to say that the justifications were withdrawn ; and about 8 o'clock a notice to attend the Judge on Monday. By Mr. PoLLocx—There had been three previous orders to amend the pleas, and part of the last was, no future amend ment should be made, and the Judge consented, on the ground of the distance which the witnesses came. The pleas were word for word the same on the record. Sir J. SCARLETT objected to the reading of the pleas. Mr. Pouocx—They are here, and we consider them read. That is the case for the prosecution. Sir J. SCARLETT then proceeded to address the Jury for the defendant. Having expressed some impatience at the long speech made by his Learned Friend Mr. Pollock, he should not make one himself: he considered half an hour quite time enough, though his Learned Friend had continued one hour and ten minutes. _ _ Mr. POLLOCK said if these remarks were indulged in he should notice the time consumed by his Learned Friend on the northern circuit.—(A laugh.) Sir JAM ES SCsaLErr resumed. Some gentlemen had the art of prolonging cases by remarks upon every trivial circum stance ; it was only the other day his Learned Friend spent three hours in endeavouring to persuade a jury that it was no libel to say of a Bishop who had so far forgot the precept, " do as you would be done by," as to retain money not his own in his hands, that he acted contrary to justice and equity, and to-day he had spent an hour and a half in trying to persuade the jury that was a libel which, for the honour of his genius let it be said, he did not begin to read himself until he was just about to address them ; and after going tediously through it he found his libel at last like a needle in a bottle of hay, very rusty and pointless. Why was so much time wasted in this case from Bewdley, and who was this tanner of Bewdley that it should be necessary to bring his case before a Jury of London citizens, to vindicate his honour at Bewdley ? And where was a single witness to prove that the tanner of Bewdley had suffered anything from the alleged libel ? His Learned Friend had endeavoured to influence the Jury by pleas which were withdrawn last week ; every tyro in the law knew that to be irregular. He (Sir James Scarlett) could make no objection to the general issue, but he had objection to the reading of the pleas, which had been withdrawn, Such a course was a perfect novelty, but he excused it, because his Learned Friend wanted matter. He had gone on a great deal about a man not being able to dine at an election dinner without being libelled, in terms so affecting, that he wondered his Learned Friend did not shed tears.—(Laughter.) He thought the case of this poor tanner would certainly have made him weep. It was not very long ago that his Lordship stated to a jury that publications arising out of contested elections had better be disregarded by all par ties; and he (Sir J. Scarlett,) was lately counsel for a Learned Friend who was himself a candidate, and who had been at tacked in several libels. His Lordship advised the Jury to pass over the first and second, because they were almost simultaneous with the election itself, but the third, being six months after date, when it might have reason. ably been supposed that party spirit had subsided, a verdict fcr the plaintiff was given upon it, but only to the amount of 20s. 'Why were the pleas withdrawn in this case? Notice was given last Saturday, and a letter might have gone to Bewdley in a night, but still nothing was done. Why was this ? Be cause, in fact, it was discovered a little too late that the letter complained of was not a libel. It did not in any wise relate to the plaintiff's character as a private man, nor was it calculated in the least degree to affect him in his trade and business. In the late general election a Member, of course was roturned for Bewdley, and a dinner given to cele brate the success of the popular candidate, of which an-account had appealed in the " Worcester Herald," which, however, his Learned Friend had not read to the Jury. Upon reading that account some one wrote a letter to the "Standard," which really contained no libel at all, but concluded with a scrap of Latin, in which Mr. Allport, no doubt thought all the libello,s matter was con- tained : " Facilis descensus averni ; Sed revocare gradum, superasque evadere ad auras, Hic labar, hoc opus est." He remembered a play in which a schoolmaster quoted Latin, at which the person whom he addressed was much annoyed— " Facilis descensus averni," says the schoolmaster. " Sir," replies theman, " I , will not endure such abuse." "Sed revocare graduum superasque evadere ad auras," con tinues the schoolmaster. " Zounds I" cries the man, " why that is worse and worse."—(Laughter.) The plaintiff ought to have been informed by his adviser that these words were no libel at all, but merely a quotation from Virgil. There was . . net even an inuendo in it that Mr. Alport was a bad tanner, or that he could not sustain his credit. No, his Counsel had not proved that, but left the Jury to draw it out of the Latin. - , " Hic labor, hoc opus est!" There was the libel; that was the most laborious part; That was the sting.—(Laughter.) Nor was it worthy of an English Jury to be occupied with such a case as this ?—lf it was treated as a libel at all, it would be a bad precedent. If, as his Learned Friend had said, those who won would laugh, it was natural that those who lost should be allowed to rail a little. Mr. Aliport had figured in the " Worcester Herald," and some disappointed elector thinking he would also figure in the London papers wrote to the " S andard" here to take him down a peg or two. There was no libel of and concerning his trade and business, as stated in the declaration which described him as " a tanner in good cir cumstances, and carrying on business in good fame;" but there was no evidence to prove that called. But the libel did not say one word against his eminence as a tanner in Bewdley, nor was even a copy of the paper, containing the libel produced. The publication was admitted, but the libel was denied. The plaintiff's attorney had been , a week at Bewdley, and good quar ters, no doubt; but the counsel for the prosecution had not ventured to ask him if he believed Mr. Allport had suffered by the letter. Mr. Crudgington was sitting before him ; but that gentleman had not been called upon to give evidence. Mr. C. was spoken of in the letter as an independent gentle man, who had condescended to associate with a tanner, and the association was deemed unnatural, and it was observed of him Surely it was no libel to say that a gentleman forming a new association with a tanner, had descended from his rank—it could be no libel upon the tanner. As to his being a man of no note, and that he had everything to gain, and nothing to lose, such were the common expressions used in reference to persons who wished for political changes, that they might have to exercise some privilege which they did not perhaps before possess. All through the letter, it would be seen by any unprejudiced person, that Mr. Allport was spoken of in a political sense only, and not in reference to his character or standing as a gentleman or tradesman. It was said that Allport was lower in rank than Mr. Crudging ton, was that a libel ? A great attempt was made to shew there Was an indemnity, but there was no proof of it. They teased the editor to give up the author ; he could not find the letter and there was no proof that it ever existed. No doubt if a verdict for ss. was given, the mail coach would go down with ribbons, because costs would be carried. It was, however. a paltry thing, and he hoped the jury would give a verdict for the de. fendant—was it necessary that a political squib like this should be made the subject of an action ? Was there any proof of da. mages ? He would undertake to say if this was made the sub. ject of damages, there were thousands of such libels, and the profession would have no time to attend to any thing else. The letter was merely to shew that the successful candidate was not supported by the higher part of the Corporation, and not affect ing the plaintiff in his bussness. He trusted that the jury would by their verdict shew they entertained the same notion of the case as he did. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the case shortly to the Jury, who, after a consultation of nearly forty minutes re turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 40s. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We think we ought to congratulate Ministers, as well as the public, on the majority which has rescinded the motion for a committee of inquiry into the conduct of Mr. Baron Smith. That committee would have done no good to counterbalance the enormous evil resulting from its being considered, as it would have been throughout nine-tenths of the Irish popula. tion, a triumph over the Judicial Bench. That Bench presents almost the only moral barrier to the never-m*4'i; violence of the Irish agitators; remove it, and nothing remain, but an immediate appeal to brute force. We have sees; that the Government never treated the question as a mi. nisterial one ; this was evident from the conduct and de clarations of Ministers themselves, as well of those who voted for, as of those who voted against, Mr. O'Connell's mo tion for the committee, and from their total abstinence (since Sir Edward Knatchbull gave notice of his motion) of any soli citation or attempt to muster their friends in support of the decision of Thursday se'nnight. They felt that the vote of that night was calculated to produce the salutary effect of con trolling the indiscretion of the learned Baron whose conduct had been impugned : and they must, therefore, rejoice in a result which has cut away the necessity of any further inves.i. gation,—superfluous as further investigation must have beet, with respect to the learned object of the inquiry, and mis chievous as regards the people of Ireland.—Tintes. The frivolous though insidious motion made last evening 133 Lord Chandos produced a debate, the whole of which, untie the last half hour, was amongst the most stupid and tiresome which we ever heard. It was, with that exception, a true low-price- malt-tax, land-ruination, corn-law, country-gossip At length, in an evil hour for himself, on came O'Conne 1 whose speech will be found in our report; but of which, les' the agitator should go to the Scrgeant.at-Arms to answer us we think fit to take but little further notice. Nevertheless we may remind the reader, that there II a personage who some. CERTIFICATES, MARCH 14 W. J. Robberds, money-scriviner, Norwich—C. Attenburrow, surgeon, Costock, Nottinghamshire—T. S. Vallett, commission agent, Bolton-le-Moors, Lancashire—J. Hendrey, plumber, West-street, Seven Dials—H. Brisband, pearl button-manu facturer, Birmingham—C. F. Trahn, jun., merchant, Mark lane. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. Waller and T. B. Smith, Brazilian-grass hat manufac turers, St. Albans—T. Gregory and T. Lowe, licensed vic tuallers, Kennington-lane—S. Mongol', J. Cull, and F. Ken nett, butchers, Ramsgate—G. Adams and J. Adams, plas terers, High-street, Portland-town—J. Coolbear and J. Scott, carpenters, Southend, Essex—W. Potter and R. Clare, farmers, Chesham, Buckinghamshire—T. Cooke and C. Barnsdall, gra. cers, Nottingham—G. Duclos, F. Caron, and H. Perrier, Not tingham—B. Barker and J. Barker, woollen-drapers, Norwich —A. Hampson and J. Benson, drapers, Doncaster—J. Allen, J. Webster, and E. Hodson, coach.proprietors, Manchester—J. Hayward and F. G. Green, builders, Queen Ann.street, Mary lebone—J. Stanton and H. Stanton, shippers of coal, Newport, Monmouthshire—T. Harrison, D. Harrison, and W. -Wick ings, attorneys, Bond.cour.t, Walbrook—G. Jones and R. Turley, ironfounders, Highfield, Staffordshire. THE KING'S LEVEE. (From the Court Circular.) His Majesty held a Levee (the first this season), yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Palace. The usual attendants on State occasions were on duty. The Hon. Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners lined the Presence Cham ber, through which the general company passed to the Ball room; the Yeoman Guard, commanded by their Lieutenant, and the Exons on duty, Messrs. Samuel, Hancock, and Pearson, lined the Guard Chamber, and also the approaches for the Entrge company. _ . Those who have the privilege of the Entrée were first intro duced to the presence of the King, when the following presen tations took place:— _ . Count Mandelsohn, the Wirtemberg Minister, had an audi ence to deliver a letter from his Sovereign, to which he was in troduced by Viscount Palmerston, his Majesty's Principal Se cretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, the Master of the Ceremonies. Mons. Schinas, Grecian Charge d'Affairs, was presented to the King. Count de Seckendorff, Chamberlain to the King of Prussia, and first Secretary of the Prussian Legation at this Court, by Baron Bulow. Mons. de Bille, Secretary of the Danish Legation at this Court, by Baron de Biome. Count Moiran, Attache to the Sardinian Legation, by Count Pollon. The Chevalier de Paiva, Secretary to the Brazilian Legation, by Viscountthe Chevalier Torrington,e Matins, by Braziliantthbee Marquis of Winchester, ! e ster Groom of the Stole, on his appoi ntment as Lord of the Bedchamber. The Lord Mayor, by Lord Viscount Melbourne. Mr. Sheriff Wilson, by Lord Vi scount Melbourne. Major-General Sir Hugh Fraser of th e Madras Army (who was nominated about two years ago a Knight Commander of the Bath), was invested by his Majesty with the insignia of a Knight Commander. Sir William Woods, Secretary to the Knights Commanders of the Bath, assisted at the ceremony. Among the company were their Royal Hignesses the Dukes of Cumberland and Gloucester ; the Russian; Austrian, and French Ambassadors; the Neapolitan, Prussian, Swedish, Wirtemberg, Netherlands, Brazilian, Buenos Ayres, Spanish, Danish, Bavarian, Saxon, Hanse Towns Ministers ; the Sardi nian, United States, Hanoverian Charge d'Affaires; Prince Paul Lieven ; the Secretaries to the Neapolitan and Swedish Legation; M. Dedel, the Dutch Special Minister; the Arch bishops of Canterbury and York ; the Bishop of London, the Lord President of the Council, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments, the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, the President of the Board of Control, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Postmaster-General, the Earl of Carlisle, the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Horse, the Vice- Chamberlain, the Master of the King's Buck-hounds, the Cap tain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen Pensioners, the Captain of the Yeoman Guard, the Master of the Rolls, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Waiting, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Treasurer of the Household, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, the Adjutant- General to the Forces, Sir Wathen Waller, extra Groom in Waiting; Captain Woolmore, Deputy Master of the Trinity House, Sir William Woods (Clarenceux) King of Arms; the Master of the Ceremonies, the Master of the Robes, Marquis of Thomond and Lord Saltoun, Aides-de-Camp to the King; Mr. Under Secretary Backhouse, Mr. Robert Hay, Under Secretary of the Colonial Department; the Lord Mayor, Mr. Sheriff Wilson, Mr. Meek, Comptroller of the Victualling of the Navy ; Sir Astley Cooper, Sergeant-Surgeon to his Majesty; the Principal Chaplain to his Majesty's Forces, the Rev. the Sub-Dean of the Chapels Royal, Mr. Thomas Poynder, Trea surer of Christ's Hospital; the Clerk Marshal, Colonel Bowater, Equerry in Waiting, the Groom of the Robes, the Page of Honour. The King gave audiences to Earl Grey, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Althorp, Sir James era_ ham, the Duke of Richmond, the Right Hon. Charles Grant, Viscount Palmerston, Mr. Secretary Stanley, the Right Hon. Robert Grant (the Judge Advocate General), Lord Hill, and the Marquis of Winchester. Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence and Sir Charles Rowley were the Lord and Groom in waiting. Count Mandelsohn, the Wirtemberg Minister, had an au dience yesterday of the Queen to deliver a letter, to which he was introduced by the Earl of Denbigh, her Majesty's Lord Chamberlain, and conducted by Sir Robert Chester, the• Master of the Ceremonies. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday, when her Royal Highness presented to her Majesty Lady Flora Hastings and Lady Theresa Strangways, upon their appointment to be Ladies of the Bedchamber to her Royal Highness, the Duke of Sussex, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia also visited her Majesty yesterday. The following were presented to his Majesty : Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, who had the honour of kissing his Majesty's hand, upon being chosen Chancellor of the University of Oxford. The Earl of Durham, by Earl Grey. Lord King, on succeeding to the peerage, by Viscount Eb rington. _ . Capt. Lord George Paulett, R.N., on his promotion and return from foreign service. . Capt. Charles Lane, 47th regt., on his promotion, by Major. General Lord Fitzroy Somerset. _ _. Capt. John Ross, R.N., on his return from a voyage of disco very, by Sir James Graham. Commander James Clarke Ross, on his return from discovery in the arctic regions, and appointment to his Majesty's ship Victory, by the Right Hon. Sir James Graham. Sir Henry Cipriani, by General Sir Hilgrove Turner. Rev. J. Greenwood, D.D., Head Master of Christ's Hospital, on taking his Doctor's degree, by Mr. Thomas Poynder, Trea surer. Rev. Charles Wesley, on being appointed Chaplain at St. James's Palace, by the Bishop of London. The Lord Advocate of Scotland, by the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. J. Horsley Dakens, on being appointed Priest in Ordinary of his Majesty's Chapels Royal, by the Right Hon. and Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of London. Rev. Wm. Orger, by Mr. Sheriff Wilson. The Rev. H. Clissold, Chaplain to the Lord Mayor, by the Lord Mayor. Lieut. C. B. Dyke Ackland, R.N., by Sir Thomas Dyke Ack land, Bart. Lieut. Mundy, on his appointment to the 23d Fusileers, by his father, Lieut.. Gen. Mundy. Lord Fred. C. P. Beaucicrk, on his promotion to Commander, R.N., by Lord A. Beauclerk. Viscount Howick, on his appointment as Under Secretary of State for the Home Department, by Viscount Melbourne. Lord Auckland, on his appointment to the Auditorship of the Exchequer, by Earl Grey. The Dean of Lichfield, by Earl Grey. Mr. Gordon, on being appointed Secretary to the India Board, by the Right Hon. Charles Grant. Chief Justice Field (of Gibraltar), by Mr. Secretary Stanley. Sir George Hamilton, by Lord Palmerston. Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, on appointment as Lieut. Governor of Nova Scotia, by the Right Hon. E. Stanley. Rev. Montagu Wynyard, on his appointment as Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majesty. Sir Edward C. Disbrowe, his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Sweden, to kiss hands, on his appointment. Major-General Sir Thomas M`Mahon, Bart., K.C.B„ upon appointment to the Staff and to the Lieutenant -Governorship of Portsmouth, by Lord Hill. Sir Samuel Meyrick, K.H., on his appointment of High Sheriff for the county of Hereford, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. The Rev. Dr. Hunt, on his appointment to a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral church of Canterbury. General F. Maitland, appointed Colonel of the 58th regiment, by General Lord Hill. Mr. Philip Stewart, Bombay Civil service, by the Eail of Belfast. Colonel Campbell, C,8., 46th regiment, on his appointment LONDON, sArrwz DAY EVENING, FE BRUA RY '22, 1834. as Aide-de-Camp to the King, and return from India, be Lord Hill. Captain Hay, R.N., on promotion, by the Earl of Errol. Mr. Home Purves, on his being appointed to the First Gre nadier Guards, by the Earl of Rosslyn. Mr. W. Hughes Hughes, M.P., to present a copy of his new edition, dedicated to the King, of " De Lolme, on the Constitution of England." Lieut.-Col. H. Bulteel Harris, Deputy Adjutant-Genera , Nova Scotia, on his return from America, ald on receiving the 2d class of the Moyal Guelphic Order, by the Master-General of the Ordnance. Ensign Troubridge, on his appointment to the 13th Regi ment, by Sir Thomas Troubridge. Lieut.-Col. Power, C.8.R.A., on receiving the 3d class of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. Capt. Sir John Franklin, on his return from the Mediterra nean, by Sir James Graham. Capt. Hamilton, on his marriage, by hia father, Lieut.- General Sir John Hamilton, Bart. Commander Joseph C. Woolnough, R. N., on being ho. floured with the 3d class of the Royal Hanoverian • Order of Guelph, by Sir Herbert Taylor. Capt. Hon. Henry Duncan, on being granted the precedence of the son of an EarL Mr. F. Alleyne M`Geachy, by General Frederick Maitland. Major Joshua Smith, on promotion, by Captain Woolmore. Lieut.-Colonel Commandant Robert Henry Clive, by Lord Littleton. Commander Fair, R.N., on receiving the 3d class of the, Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, by Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Taylor, G. C.H. Commander the Honourable Henry Keppel, on promotion, by the Earl of Albemarle. Mr. Bankhead, his Majesty's. Secretary of Legation to the United States, by Lord Palmerston. Lieutenant C. Curtis, on his return from foreign service, by his Grace the Duke of Gordon. Rev. Joseph Jackson, M.A., on his appointment as Chaplain at the King's Palace, Kensington, by Lieut.-Gen. Sir P.A. Wetherell, G. C. H. Captain Blacklin, on his return from foreign service, * by his Grace the Duke of Gordon. Captain Charles Hotham, R.N., on promotion and return from foreign service, by Lord Hotham. The Rev. William John Hall, on his appointment as Priest in Ordinary of his Majesty's Chapels Royal, by the Lord Bishop of London. The Rev. John V. Povah, on his appointment as Priest in Ordinary at his Majesty's Chapels Royal, by the Lord Bishop of London. Sir Robert Kennedy, on being appointed a Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, by Gen. Sir J. Champagne. Major-General Sir Patoick Ross, on being appointed Military Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, by his Grace the Duke of Wellington. Mr. Hansler, on being appointed Deputy-Lieutenant for the county of Essex, by Lord Melbourne. Lieut. Col. Alexander Findlay, late Lieut.-Governor of Sierra Leone, on his return from Africa, by the Right Hon. E. G. Stanley. Mr. George Boughton Kingdon, on his appointment as one of the Gentlemen of his Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Chamber, by the Earl of Belfast. Major-General Sir Hugh Fraser, on his return from India, and being appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath, by the Right Hon. Charles Grant. Goldie, on appointment to the 35th Regiment, by Lord Hill. Lieut.-Col. Todd, on promotion, by Lord Hill. Mr. E. B. Grant, by Gen. Sir L. Grant. Lieutenant and Adjutant Hill, by Col. Sir G. Teesdale. Lieutenant-Colonel Power, C. 8., on receiving the 3d class of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. Major Bayly, by Colonel Rice, C.B. Lieutenant Abbott, by Colonel Fox. Lieutenant-Colonel Nicholls, on promotion, br Sir J. Kempt. Cornet Kenyon, by Lord Kenyon. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hopkinson, C. 8., by Major- General Sir P. Ross. Captain Gambier, on promotion, by Colonel Bowater. Captain Temple, on his return from Canada, by Lord Harris. Captain Strong, on his appointment to his Majesty's ship Belvidera, by Sir J. Graham. Captain Henry Wilson, by Col. Sir G. Teesdale. Captain G. W. D. O'Hara, on promotion, by Lieut.-Colonel Wodehouse. Gaptain Williams, by Sir A. Dickson. [We are compelled to omit the company present, and many of the presentations.] COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 21. (Before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.) LIBEL.—♦LLPORT V. BALDWIN. This was an action brought by the plaintiff; Mr. Allport, a highly respectable tanner, residing at Bewdley, against the de fendant, the editor of the " Standard" newspaper, for the inser tion of a letter, written by a person signing himselt " A Lover of Truth," reflecting greatly upon the character of the plaintiff. Mr. GODSON opened the pleadings, in the course of which he stated that the libel imputed to the plaintiff want of credit and respectability. To that libel the defendant had put in several pleas—first the general issue, and then a justification. Sir J. ScanLETT--The defendant has obtained an order with drawing his plea of justification; there is, therefore, no necessity to open the pleadings on that point. Mr. GODSON-The plea of justification is still existing on the record. Sir J. Scaaturr—The defendant has obtained an order for striking out his plea of justification from the record, and if that has not been done it is the neglect of the plaintiff. Mr. PotLocx—We have had no notice of this ; the plea of justification still forms part of the record, and it therefore remains with the Court to say whether it is to be struck out or not. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—As an order has been obtained for the purpose of removing that plea, perhaps it will be the better way to strike it out of the record. Mr. Pouocir would bow to the decision of the Court. The justification was now struck out, but he begged the Jury to recollect that up to the present moment it did exist. The order upon which the Court had directed its officer to erase that plea was dated on the 17th of February, only four days ago, the present cause only being on the paper yesterday. That plea had therefore been withdrawn at the eleventh hour, after the cause had been set down for hearing, when all the briefs had been delivered, and when Counsel had made themselves mas ters of all the facts contained in those briefs. The effect of the adoption of such a course on the part of the defendants was to lead the plaintiff to the belief that he was to be held up as the proper object of the calumnious remarks that had been put forth by the defendants with respect to him. This was a great grievance, and the withdrawing of the plea at the eleventh hour was, in the opinion of the Learned Counsel, a con siderable aggravation of the original calumny, the object of putting a justification on the record clearly being to frighten the plaintiff out of Court and to prevent him from prosecuting his action for fear of a painful and disagreeable inquiry into his circumstances. That end, however, had hap pily been frustrated : the plaintiff, notwithstanding all that had taken place, had proceeded with his action, and the Jury would have to say what damages he was entitled to for the injury that had been inflicted by the adoption of the course pursued by the defendant in addition to the publication of the libel. He would now state to the Court and Jury what the libel, of which the plaintiff complained, was. Had not the plea of justification been withdrawn he should have clearly shown them that the whole of the statements in the libel were totally false, and have called upon the Jury on that ground for commensurate da mages. Now, who were the parties to this suit ? The plaintiff was a respectable tradesman residing in the town of Bewdley, and the defendant was the Editor of the" Standard" newspaper, who had inserted in his journal the letter of an anonymous correspondent. He did not ask to fix this slanderous paragraph upon the editor of the " Standard" newspaper, except so far as he was responsible for publishing the communications of correspon dents, whose names he would not disclose. He had no doubt at all that the paragraph was founded upon a communication that was sent to the editor. He would not for one moment im. pute to the editor of the " Standard," or any other newspaper, the fabrication of a paragraph, of the description of the libel, for the mere purpose of personal annoyance, slander, and libel He had no doubt that the editor had received his communication from some person who signed himself " A Lover of Truth," whose name he would not give up, doubtless on the ground that a Jury would give much more severe damages against an individual who resided in the same town where the plaintiff resided, than against the editor of the " Standard" newspaper. The " Lover of Truth" had, no doubt, indemnified the editor of the " Standard" for any damages that might be given against him, being convinced that a jury of Englishmen would give more temperate damages against the editor of a newspaper, who must be supposed to have no personal feelings to induce him to give insertion to a libel, than they would against a party who had some personal, disgraceful, and hateful motive. In his address to another jury in a libel case that day, he felt himself called upon to do jus tice to the manliness of the defendant, who had had the courage to put his name to the letter he had written; and, in the same proportion as he had borne witness to the manliness of the de fendant, he complained of the meanness and cowardice of a person coming forward and, under the appellation of" A Lover of Truth," publishing that which was calculated to injure the credit and character of the plaintiff in the cause. The libel in question arose out of a dinner that took place shortly after the election in the latter end of 1832. Sir Thomas Winning ton was returned at that election as the Member for Bewdiey, and the Reform Bill having taken away the elective franchise from the Corporation of Bewdley,and given it to the inhabitants of the town, they were determined to commemorate the event of the first election by giving a dinner to the newly _elected Mem ber. A short paragraph of the proceedings at that dinner was inserted in the " Worcester Herald," stating that everything passed off' in the most cheerful and pleasant manner. In an swer to that paragraph, the present libel was sent to the " Standard" newspaper, by a person residing at Bewdley, who did not choose to let so flattering a statement pass without contradiction. The letter was as follows :—" A false report having been circulated in the " Worcester Herald" paper, a regards the Bewdley election, I beg the favoUr of your giving publicity to the following statement, by inserting it in your valuable paper. An attempt was made by a Mr. Crudgington and Mr. Allport to get up a dinner in this town on Wednesday last, to celebrate the return of Sir Thomas Edward Winning ton. Everything was done by them that could be done, but it was a miserable failure." There would be no objection to this if it had gone no further, as it was natural, if a Whig dinner took place, and a disappointed Tory was not a partaker of it, that he should proclaim it a "miserable failure." But the letter went on—" The facts are these," —he (Mr. Pollock) begged the Jury to recollect that this letter came from an inhabitant of Bewdley, who signed himself " A Lover of Truth"—" the corpora tion of Bewdley are individually a most respectable set of men, and, with the exception of one or two, are decidedly opposed to the Reform Bill, but rather than a contest should take place for the borough, would not oppose Sir Thomas's elec tion. I may also add, that independently of the corporation, many of the respectable inhabitants of this place arc opposed to reform." That might be so, but that was a subject about which in this Court he should say nothing. This Court had nothing on earth to do with politics, and he would not pollute its walls by stating any opinion he might entertain upon the subject. The letter went on to state—" Well, a dinner was get up, and the chair taken by a Mr. Skry, a perfect igno ramus, and no voter." That was Mr. Skry's business. " About eighty persons attended the dinner."—A most respectable number, in his opinion, for he had seen din ners got up to celebrate much more important events than the return of a candidate, at which a much smaller number attended. The letter, however, went on to say, that " that number was composed principally of the tenants of Sir Thomas, and a number of gentry hunted up from all parts of the country (and it is a hard case if a candidate cannot supply a few friends), and a very few respectable inhabitants ; but it is a fact that not half a dozen gentlemen of the town attended, and, I by the bye, one that did attend, a pragmatical little upstart M.P., was no elector, and had, a few weeks previous to the elec tion, denounced Sir Thomas as a most unfit representative for this borough. For this I don't quarrel with him ; but mark his consistency. It must not be forgotten, Ask that to obtain what inhabitants did attend at the dinner, the most earnest en treaties were made, and a list handed round the town to obtain signatures ; and this, Mr. Editor, is a dinner to celebrate the return of a Whig Member." Now if t his had been all, Mr. Allport would have had nothing to complain of; but the letter went on—" And any body not connected with Bewdley reading the account of this mock dinner, as given in the " Worcester Herald," would fancy Mr. Crudgington and Mr..Allport to be the leading characters of the town. Of the latter I have only to say, he is one of those who have nothing to lose, of no note or respect ability." Now he would stop here merely for the purpose of stating, that it was a common topic with those who opposed the Reform Bill, that its advocates were persons who had nothing to lose; in the present instance, however, the writer was very much mistaken, for Mr. Allport if he lost his character and credit would lose his all. Mr. Allport, as he had before stated, was a respectable tradesman at Bewdley, and whether he occu pied a house of one value or another was quite immaterial, it was, quite enough that he occupied a house that gave him a right of voting, and the fact of his having assembled with other gentlemen to meet the candidate whom they had chosen, and who had been elected, had given rise to those ill feelings under which the libel was put forth. What right, he would ask, had any party, from the mere fact of Mr. Allport having attended such a dinner, for party or private purposes, to represent Mr. Allport as being a person of no note or respectability, and having nothing to lose? But the writer, not content with this, went on to sap—" By the bye, I have heard he was likely to lose his lite, in consequence of a fight he had with one of the constables of the night." Now, with re spect to that, he (Mr. Pollock) believed that statement was ut terly devoid of any foundation ; it was only thrown in as a cir cumstance to disparage and disgrace Mr. Allport. Then the letter contained some observations on Mr. Crudgington—" Of the former gentleman—for a gentleman he has always hitherto been considered—quantum mutatus ab Ulm But when I say he is a disappointed young man, perhaps I say enough." Mr. Crudginton, in this instance, seemed to be introduced more for the purpose of abusing Mr. Allport than for any thing else. The letter went on—" He is, however, a man of no weight or influence in the borough, though of a small yet independent fortune. That he should have contracted so un_ natural an alliance as the society of Mr. Allport, and let him self down so low on the stage of society in which he before moved, is in him the height of folly and infatuation. I would just quote to him a few words from Virgil—Dryden will give him a good English translation— " Facilis descensus averni ; " Sed revocare gradum superasque evadere ad auras— " Hic labor, hoc opus est." " I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, " A LOVER OF TRUTH." He (Mr. Pollock) would not insult the Jury by giving them a translation of those words, neither would he refer them to Dryden, feeling confident• they were too good Latinists to re quire it ; but this he would say, that the present, of all libels in '•' " • the world, was one of which an individual in the situation of Mr Allport was most justified in complaining. Persons stand ing in a public situation of life might allow such calumnious expressions to be used with impunity ; but a gentleman in Mr. A.'s sphere could not afford it. The Duke of Wellington,when he was in office, and Lurd Grey, now Premier, had allowed such aspersions to pass by them without notice, but Mr. Allport could not do so. He could not allow it to be said of him that he was an individual who had no character to lose ; and that Mr. Crudgington had disgraced himself by an unnatural alliance with him. With respect to the various pleas that had been put in by thedefendant, the first was the general issue, and the se cond that the plaintiff carried on a small and inconsiderable trade as a tanner, and was in bad circumstances, and incapable of paying his just debts, to wit, the sum of 1001. to a person named Samuel Rawlings, and a like sum to the person named Shaw. That statement was untrue; those two gentlemen being in town for the purpose of denying it. In another place he was stated as being aperson unworthy of credit. Mr; Sergeant STOCKS observed that the fifth count described the plaintiff as a disreputable person. The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE said damages could not be obtained for anything of that kind; it only showed that the defendant persisted in the libel up to a late period. Mr. POLLOCK resumed—He thought this was precisely that kind of libel which did injury to a private person. The impu tation was, that he was a disreputable and indigent person, of no weight, of no note, and not respectable, and any gentleman who associated with him would descend to a low state of so ciety, and such an association would be unnatural. Was a tradesman in town, having the good or ill fortune to return a Member, to be made the object of libel by a slanderer who skulks behind a newspaper? ,Of all cases, such as this deserved punishment. The Duke of Devonshire or Mr. Rotch could bear any slight attack upon their credit, but no man who used credit, and lived by it, could do so. Was a private enemy or a political enemy, in the same town, to take occasion of a dinner to slander a man, under the signature of " A Lover of Truth," in the " Standard" newspaper ? But, forgetting the raper al together, what would they not do to the slanderer, if he could be brought to light ? The " Standard" was indemnified, having refused to give up the author; and he was quite sure the Jury would give such damages as the cause of justice to personal character demanded. The admission was read, but there was no copy of the " Standard" produced. A copy of the " Morning Post," of Dec. 19, 1832, which also contained the alleged libel, was put in, and it was read from that paper. Edward Church is attorney for the plaintif, who is a tanner at Bewdley. Has no knowledge of the defendant ; but on the 21st of December, 1832, went to the " Standard" newspaper office and saw Mr. Baldwin, and afterwards Dr. Gifford, and then both together. Mr. Baldwin said he left the matter entirely in the hands of Dr, Giffbrd. Ap plied for the name of the Bewdley correspondent, and was referred to Dr. Gifford, who said he believed the oliginal letter Was destroyed, and, therefore, he did not think he could give the name. Witness then told him that unless the author was given up the paper would be prosecuted for libel. He replied, " We shall not suffer you to shoot at us, we shall give up the author unless he holds us harmless." Witness said, " You mean an indemnity P" Dr. Gifford replied " Yes." Witness told him he had much rather proceed against the real author. The next morning Dr. Gifford said he had not found the letter, and could not give the name. A letter dated the 21st Dec., 1632, was sent by witness to the " Standard" office, directed "To the Editor of the Standard' newspaper ; to be opened by the gentleman in the Editor's room should he be absent." " Sir—As I am waiting in London this evening expressly to obtain your answer as to whether you will give up the name and address of the person who wrote the letter in your paper of the 18th instant, signed A Loves of Truth,' have the goodness to say, per bearer, if you have looked after the letter ; and I shall be obliged if you will let me have the name and address of the writer, as I am not authorised to stay proceedings against you, unless that information is supplied betore I leave London. If it be refused the bearer, I shall consider it a positive refusal on your part to supply the information, and proceed accordingly. (Signed) " E. CHURCH." Witness received no answer to that letter, as Dr. Gifford wished to have time allowed to consult his legal adviser, and to write to the country. On the 27th of December, he received a letter from Dr. Gifford, of which the following is a copy : Sir,--I find nothing from my Bewdley correspondent this morning among my letters; I call, however, the better under stand this, because I believe he is now in London, and very near us." Witness waited on Dr. Gifford after this, and he told wit ness he might do just whit lw pleased, times West :Ma Mon& to tlid 164rgh, and dart illustrattuu of that remark be wanting, we re:or for it to the declarations which Mr. O'Connell is reported to have hazarded in respect of the national debt, and of which Sir Robert Peel made a use so unmerciful against the unfortunate repealer. The division•on Lord Chandos' resolution showed a strong muster of the agri i cultural force, and the necessity of a general union of constitu- Itional effort throughout the country to obtain a release from ; theshackles which those squires have imposed upon it. —Times. Mr. O'Connell and agitation have had a signal triumph in the success of Sir Edward Knatchbull's motion, after the supportinquiry i t u h i s e t o c r o s n . du i c i t e o u f ,i 1 8 1 a t r r o iu n m S p m ho it u h t ly h a u d rg r e ec t h e e i ved the of vote f 161 to 155 in favour of Sir Edward's motion, as a proof that nothing for Ireland is to be expected from a British Legis. lature ; that even a Ministry, all-powerful when the object is Ito coerce Ireland, can do nothing when the object is to benefit the people. We are almost inclined to believe, that Mr. O'Connell laid himself out in the early part of the evening to shock and cli.gust the English Members, by openly advo cating successit e confiscations of the property of the national creditors, in order to make even the temporary concurrence with him of disservice to Ministers. Well was Sir Robert Peel aware of the advantage which might be drawn frdta the feeling excited by Mr. O'Connell's revolting proposition, when, with an eye to the following debate, he exclaimed :—" He could not refrain from calling upon all who were concerned to judge, from the principles which had been just developed by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, what would be the probable con sequences of the establishment of an independent Legislature in the sister country. Oh ! all you (exclaimed Sir R.) who arein terested in the fate of Ireland--all you Protestants in Ireland— learn from this indiscreet declaration of the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin, what you might expect if you were handed over to the tender mercies of a popular assembly, in which that Hon. and Learned Gentleman sl.ould have an undisputed pre dominance. He could not help believing that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had completely decided the question of the repeal of the Union by this preliminary step of his; for every man of reflection would draw this inference from the recom mendation of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman, that if State necessity justified so gross and glaring a violation of national faith, there was no security left for any description of pro perty whatever." Although we are quite aware that prin ciples give little trouble to the Hon. and Learned Gentle man, we also know that he is too shrewd, too acute an ob server, not to be aware that with a people like the English, the barefaced proposition of robbery would excite infinite disgust ; and we incline to think that his object was to injure Ministers by the odium of even a temporary coincidence with him. This is what he wishes. His trade is at an end if Ministers could proceed in a straightforward course, without reference either t o Orangemen or Catholics. He wishes to throw them into the arms of the Orangemen—to render it impossible for them to check such incendiaries as Baron Smith, without drawing down on themselves the odium of forming part of O'Connell's train. Strange that English Members should not see through the game he is playing—should not see, that in refusing to inquire into the conduct of Baron Smith, they are really enabling O'Con nell to wield, with ten-fold more force than ever, the demo cracy of Ireland. No man was ever more disappointed than Mr. O'Connell was, when Mr. Littleton, yielding only to the justice of the case, determined to consent to the motion, though that motion was made by Mr. O'Connell. We confess that the result grieves us beyond measure. We see in it a bar to every thing like legislating for Ireland without reference to party. We see in it the lines between Orangemen and Catholics drawn more distinctly than ever, and fresh fuel for agitation, to the interruption of the progress made in the improvement of the country. The Tories, from the first, saw the advantage which they might derive from this question. They were aware that the motion was not recom mended in the eyes of Englishmen by being brought forward by Mr. O'Connell, and they cunningly represented it as affording a triumph to Mr. O'Connell. They knew, too; that English gen tlemen dislike very much interfering with Judges. They fore saw that they had materials not only to strengthen ascendancy and agitation in Ireland, but to produce divisions in the Minis. terial camp. Sir James Graham foolishly played into their hands ; and thus Mr. O'Connell and the Tories have obtained a signal triumph over a well-intentioned Ministry—a triumph to the consequences of which we look forward with apprehen sion. All manner of rumours were afloat after the division. Mr. Littleton, of course, must consider himself deeply injured by the course which some members of the Ministry have held t. wards him in this business, and feel that it grealy impairo 1 his power of being useful in Ireland. Members of the Cabinet who supported Mr. Littleton have equal reason to complain a: the invitation held out by the imprudent conduct of Sir James Graham, to secession from the Ministerial ranks of their usual supporters. The determination tobe honourable came ton late. Suspicion had come over the minds of Members. Though we believe that Ministers have the most honest intentions towards the nation, and though we see in the honest zeal with which they grapple with the abuses of the poor laws, and of municipal corporations, to say nothing of their plans for commuting tithes in Ireland and England, and a determination to devote them selves to the good of the people, yet we cannot help lamenting that they do not borrow a little more of the discipline of some of their predecessors. But it too often happens that men who have honest intentions are less compactly united than those whose views are selfish and dishonest. We should be sorry if the vote of last night were to lead to any serious differences. We fear, however, that it will leave a sting behind.—Morning Chronicle. The Marquis of Chandos last night moved a reacautioti pledging the House to pay attention to the distressed state of the agricultural interest in any remission of taxation which the circumstances of the country may render practicable. Upon a division the numbers were— For the motion Against it Majority against it —4 Can it be said that the country has a Government when thu. within the space of a single week, on two most important questions—the one affecting the prerogative of the King, the other the relief of the peasant—the Ministers of the Cro,vl 4 triumph in the one case by a majority of eight, in the other by a majority of four ? We presume that Lord Althoep must of necessity introduce some measure by which a direct relief will be afforded to the suffering agriculturist. Professing to think the unpopularity of a tax a large ingredient in its impropriety, he must have learned something of the unpopularity of the bur.. dens to which the agricultural interest is subjected in the numbers which were arrayed against him last night. Declar ing that there are taxes which he would rather see rerikiited than those which he had promised to repeal, he must now ouspeci that there are also taxes the remission of which the country will hail with a not less cordial pleasure. But perhaps Lord Althorp will leave to other hands the task of doing what must evidently be done. It is possible that the Whigs may not wait for another such victory. Deserted in their difficulties by the despicable allies they have courted, and saved from ruin by the honourable enemies they have calumniated, — scorned in the country, and buffeted in the Parliament, —loathed by the labourer, whose necessities they have contemned, and distrusted by the Prince, whose preroga tive they have betrayed,—they may be even now medi tating an escape from the penalties of their misused power. There is much in our report of the debate on the rno6, Lion of the Noble Marquis which will well repay the troull',e or perusal. We recommend to the attention of our readers the doctrines boldly promulgated by Mr. O'Connell upon. the " cast of keeping nationalfaitli." We are grateful to Igr, O'Connell on this, as on some former occasions, -for e;iling forth a torrent of indignant eloquence from Sir Robert Peel. Whether we regard the deep wisdom of the judgment he expressed,—the singular power of the rhetoric by which he enforced it,—or the ready boldness with which he encountered the unprincipled enemy to whom he was opposed,—wp find in Sir Robert Peel's masterly speech at once the work of the able statesman, the accomplished orator, and the thoroughly honest man.—Morn. ing Post, - With the highest satisfaction we refer our readers the re snit of the debate on Sir E. Knatchbull's motion ;ur the dis charge of the order for a Committee on the conduct of Mr. Ba ron Smith. On a division the numbers were— For themotion.. Against ft Majority ,..„ —6 The order for the Committee is: therefore discharged, and the miserable injustice of the Ministera in their attack on the ye. nerable Judge has experienped a signal defeat. What may be the ultimate consequence of this overthrow we have not time now to consider. Let us only congratulate our country and our King upon the immediate result—our country, for there never was a time in which she more needed independence and integrity in her Judges —our King, for history would contrast the reign of the son disadvantageously with the reign of the father, if she should write that the Independence of the judicial bench, having been redeemed by George the Third from the corrupt influence of the Crown, was sacrificed by William the Fourth to the capricious passions of the people.—Morning Post, The Carnival at Turin closed this, year with 3 grand ball in costume, given by the w r of the British Envoy. The dresses were tasteful, rich, and accurate, Not less than 700 persons were present. Among the par. ties particularly to hp distinguished were the ; erforncers in t quadrille of character , from the romance of Fiera llosca, written by the Alarquis d'Azeglio, son-in law to Manz:Hai, in which some of the Az , glio family, now at Turin, were conspicuous. A quadrille of characters fruni tire rommee of Quentin Durward, in which thee Mar-, quirk. de Buy! (one of the ladies of the Court), amt khe :Vlarquise d'Adria, the daughter of the Prussian .',Ainister, the ante de Marescalchi, Mr. Boyle, attache to the British Mission, &c., fuured. Also a group of characters, in perfect costume of the time of 1.04 is XIII., as found in ,he paintings of Ruben% The wife of the great painter vita beautifqlly represented by the Marquise tie Baenre, titer of the • Prince della Cisterns. There were Aso a Charles le Temeraire, and a Richard Coeur-de.Lion, es cell as others, in rich armour, which, it is understood, was graciously lent Ix the occasion to gentlemen of his lousehold Ly the King of Sirdinia, out of his curious col lection of old armour. The palace of the mis.ion was ,rarticularly well adapted for such a fete; and a distiti. uished artist of the country, M. Gonin, was present, who nade sketches of the saloon and the principal groups, .vhich are to be lithograplied.—Frestch Paper. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.—Under the ad of fashionable arrivals, the Manchester Chronicle f 4st Saturday bas the following announcement 1,593 pigs have arrived by the railway during the week :" OC ) ‘ , le in con• ut° die' r P°", ;ll l ' c 0 ttcf (,) IP ; ,0 l' , 'i o A