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im P r neill2 the navy, The disturhancet which broke out in Candia rompe'lril Piei.a to seril Ii s A Irn ral there' left d orde ha m w le ards , vent him., If. O n his diparture he ers fir Ruch barb:l66e, t•r ire inflicted, that Osrnln disgusted' and suffered such expressions garnet the injustice of Ibrahi m towards him to esclpe, that he was iskorrsaidh that on his return to Eg ypt he would in.vitahly I is head. Ahnut the 15th of December, Osman re ceived orders to leave Candia, but his fleet was not in a cin.s ar gon to p ot to sea, and his fears increased. He left 17shtP, shifted his flag to a small brig of war, and set 'ail to t A of -Ylilene his native island , in pursuance, be said, iNtructions t:e bad ' received. On his arrival, he landed hi s I mo . bgage, and a sum of money. amounting, it is . be „ved, r ,4 ioeo piastres, and then sent his brig to Alexandria. This is the fifth departure from the Pasha of iiv,„ . — 3'PE since the commencement of the war, and the cod sin ce t h e peace. Re will feel this as sensibly as lie did that of Selim Bev, his son-in_law, and Private '' c re t atv, who quitted him, and neat to settle at Con e• 4 .. .. ---- - - - .11,., k P •••• 7 r-s o, sTt , cx's Trri s OAY AT ON FP O'Cl 0 K. toe pSttliK Iced• shut I slew 5 per Cent. — S r "t lied. ... . shut lndia Stock ter cen.con, ........... 91 .... 1 4 I Ditto Bond? 3 l -29 pm. brtto'er Cent. ...... shut 'South Sea Stock - 102% Ne It el ....... .hut Dld Annu4tie. . ... 2 1 ,„ 3 % Per Cent. .. ::: • .. .. ...... 1 % !New Ditto — _ 0. 4 .r Cent. Ann. 17'N . i .. ... 1 per Cent. Ann. 1751 P4 , 1 2 .,t e f e c , r. ' l - 1 526 - .shut 'Ex. Bills, .4-..:1,000 52 53 otn. ja •nz Ann. to expire . Ditto...". 50~• 52 54 MTh 0: 1 , 5 . ISM ............... shut Ditto Small Ja e , 4 " , Ism) .............. . shut Ditto Commercial r,m. 't i "... 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O Hamburg 0 0 O Holland 0 0 America ............... O Jamaica. 0 Brazil ........ . ........ 0 Buenos... .."'•'• Ayres 0 0 Carthagen a IDublin nanderz Lisbon stviw Leeward adtae .. Islands . o t (i ) 1 * France. ....... .. 0 , .... I lierrisev At lersev Wilsterfbrd Morni":" W ATIIIi AT LoNnoN BRIDi To-mtotow. after 4.1 Evening o ...:3Bmin u utesafter 4. MISS ED GEWORTFI'S NEW This day WORK. w a' Published , in 3 roll, post Bro., E L N. b : 313 Y MA RIA EDGEWORTH. .cnard Benttey, 8, N ew B url i ngton - street. thZnothb:utoltti (Suceeinto r t o Henry C o lb urn .) United ain e d also efall respectable Booksellers Kingdom. Zbr 414 k - r(-,SI 13310 LONDN, IRUR SDAY EVENING, O MARCH 27, 1834. I: The anoma li es an d a b uses i n the administra ;'°n of cr i m i na l j ust i ce i n t h e metropolis have 40 ng formed just s u bj ects o f complaint. N o. tili ng, in fact, could be more absurd than some o 1 the a noma li es. Th oug h L on d on, ,Westrr n er, and S out h wark have long been regarded 48. th e constituent parts of London, and so inti mately blended that they ought to be under le juri sdiction, wh et h er as regar d s t h e pol i ce or t he trial of offenders, yet they are under sepa ate inmagistrates--vary in p o li ce regu l at i ons , s.nd deed h ave scarcely any community 1 , 1 : the ad m i nistration or execution of the law. endr criminal for i nstance, arrested on the Surrey Oof Blackf r i ars- b ridge is not carried for trial the Old B a il ey, where possibly he may be -ed an d recei ve hi s sentence in a week or a day, t b h Ut i s fi rst committed to the Southwark prison, en en nfined f or three or four months—con yheYrontightthillart ck Y miles f or tr i a l to G u il dford, and to the same prison to undergo the sentence of th e l aw. The expense, inconvenience, r 7 d del ay of ju st i ce caused by such practices are that° reat and palp a bl e t h at the only wonder is they have been allowed to exist for one y ar jurisdic ear. t he s ame may be said of the peculi ti on giv en to t h e Middlesex magist 14 0de o f fi n di ng bi lls against persons to b rates e tithe 41 the Old B a il ey, the vast increase of criminal business at the Quarter Sessions, and offences t he power given to magistrates of tryin g which should be left to the judges of the land. :Ile bill introduced by the LORD CHANCELLOR ;7 e veni ng , h as for its object the abolition e s o f y' an omalies an d a b uses . Its c hi e f pro- Clr v isions are to di scont i nue t h e Wi n t er R ome euit 'to try a ll serious offences corn 'idled within a prescribed inetr • line around the 1: °polls befor e the Judges at the Old Bailey --t o hold the sessions every month, and . t n o . ( • itnnte n a grand jury to consider bills o f 1 ti l i e trnent in the immediate neighbourhood . of !nntirt where prisoners are tried. That line Ni.4cildinclude the principal places in Surrey, Kent, mi; lesex, and Essex, within eight or ten of s es fr ° 4 l the °it! Bailey; such as the boroughs and uthwark, Lambeth, Greenwich, Woolwich, E:sexa ;number of smaller towns in Kent and a pop ul e a , l prehendi ng, w i th the metropolis, n on 811 eighth of nearly two millions, or As P a i r u t_ . of the whole o f E ng l an d . Lancespeedy i ii J Klee is of the fi rs t impor vEanstoi ai n u r? t ,h ort r i e o P ti res sing cri me , an d suc h a of t h e o ff ences committed in th is n take pl ace within the proposed limits, s me as th cieN Y ore, to get h er with the admitted e of' the new police, may be regarded as one great step towards a rational and efficient ad ministration of the criminal law. It will be effected, too, without any additional expense, or imposing more labour on the Judges. But v h3t is of more importance, it will hold out to the guilty a cer. taro prospect of quick punishment, and subject those unjustly accused to almost the shortest possible period of confircment. Mr. EWART has also obtained leave to bring in a bill to abolish the absurd practice of passing sentence of death for numerous offences seldom or nevcr capitally punished—namely, returning from transportation, letter-stealing, and various cases of burglary. Such a practice cannot be too soon abolished ; but we hope the law officers of the Crown, by a timely intimation of their intention, will relieve the hon. member of a task for which they ought to be better qualified. We wonder that among the numerous peti tions in favour of new improvements, Scc., that are in daily course of presentation to the House of Commons, none have been presented on the subject of the Thames Tunnel. This magnifi cent work which once bid fair to be the glory of the nation, is now its shame and reproach. Though the question of its practicability has been long since set at rest ; though it is already, and has been for some time, nearly half com pleted, yet, from lack of proper encouragement, it remains in precisely the same state that it was in two years since. We wish some active, influential member would bring the question fully and fairly before the House of CommonS. It is positively a reflection on the national enterprise, that the most stupendous project of modern times, to which, on their arrival in the metropolis, all foreigners make a point of paying their first visit, should be the only one left in a state of utter neglect. We will do the Duke of WELLING TON the justice to say, that he was perfectly alive to the paramount importance and utility of the undertaking ; and, when in power, did his best to get it completed, in a spirit worthy of the nation. A party of scientific gentlemen, among whom were several foreigners of distinc tion, visited the Tunnel yesterday ; and, among them all, there was but one opinion, namely, that " it was an imputation on the country that the requisite funds for completing the work should have been so long withheld." In the House of Commons last night, Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave notice, on the part of Lord ALTHORP, that his Lordship would, on the 17th of April, move for leave to bring in a bill for the amendment of the present poor laws. This announcement is not made before its time, for not a day passes but the evils of the present system of poor laws make themselves sensibly felt by the community. The House of Commons on its rising last night adjourned to Monday the 14th April. The French papers of Tuesday contain little or no foreign or domestic news of importance. The discussions on the law against Associations was not yet brought to a close. A letter from Bayonne, dated the 21st inst., mentions that the Carlists had not succeeded in making themselves masters of Vittoria, though they had been cruel enough to massacre one hun dred and nineteen prisoners whom they had taken in the environs of the town. To aggravate this case of atrocity the prisoners were taken, unarmed, while attending mass at Gamara. It was rumoured that the Carlists had lost a thous3nd men in an engagement, which was said to have taken place at Ruante-la-Reyna. FRENCH FUNDS.—Pmus, mutes 25. Five per Cents., 104 f. 50c. 45c. Three per Cents., 7Sf. 30c. Bank Actions, 1,797 f. 50c. Rente de Naples, 945. 20c. Roman Five per Cents., 95. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 26%. Itente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 40%. Royal Spanish Loan, 81%. Bente Perpet. d'E,pagne, Five per Cents., (WA Belgian:Loan, 1531, Five per Cents , 99%. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. ; money:2sf. 25c. Three months, paper, 25f. 17%c. ; money, 25f. 15c. —Co.rrs Authentique. Easter Week has arrived, and very little public business has yet been done in either house of Parliament. Ministers, in order to relieve themselves from responsibility in this respect, have obtained the appointment of a select committee " to inquire into the best mode of expediting the business of the house." We find this subject adverted to in a publication• which has just reached us, intituled, " The Philosophy of Legislation," by ALEXANDER MUNDELL, Esq., and we beg leave to lay some extracts from it before our readers : " The proceedings of a session of parliament are like the plan of a campaign : they should be considered and settled before the season for operation begins. " Every measure to Ira brought forward by the govern ment should be matured, and every bill to be brought in by it should be prepared during the vacation; and the whole should be propounded immediately after the address is voted, and the necessary resolutions should be proposed, and the necessary bills should be presented forthwith thereafter. " The ground would he thus pre-occupied, and the mi nisters of the government should not suffer themselves to be driven from it. " The country would thus also come to know every measure by which it was to be affected, in time to enable every interest in it to take care of itself. The interests of this great country are so numerous, and so various, thst no public measure can come before parliament, which will not affect them in some way or other. It is from the persons whose interests are to be affected, that the govern ment or the l eg i s l ature can rece i ve the details necessary to the right consideration of any measure whatever ; and if bills are neither announced nor brought in until the close of the aessi , w , how can these details be afforded, or how can those i nterests be protected ? The instances of suf fering thus brought upon the country have been almost as numerous as the bills of is most importance that have been passed. One instancequiteai sufficient to demonstrate the consequences ; the bil to thethe duties on tea was not brought in until the very close of and received the royal assent among the last of se t s h s e ion bills that were passed ; nsmely, on the 29th of August. It was a conse quence of the bill, which receiv e d t h e royal assent onl y the day before, to give effect to the arrangement with the East India Company. Both bills should mhaadvee been introduced at the commencement of the session ; but the second should, at all events, have been brought in as soon as the first. The trade to China, the opening up of which had been a favourite object with the public many years before, was no longer to be carried on by the East India Comploy,—because that company could not carry it on in competition with the country at large,—but was thereafter to be carried on by individuals, who c.uld sue tain a competition with each other. By the one bill the trade was thrown open, and by the other it has again been shut. The East India Company can no longer carry it on, and others in the country cannot embark in it, because the duties they are to pay are so contrived as to peril the whole capital which any one may embark in the trade. a Need a word more be said, to show, not merely the propriety, but the necessity of introducing all public bill 'nt the commeneetrient of the beetion ? This Wia the an cient and the r i ght course Of proceeding, the mernor;al or which remains, of every bill hearing to he pAseted as on the first day of the session, until the hill brotr2r,.,t in by the Tate ord Stanhope, requirinz all bills to hear date on the dty on which they received the royal assent. (33 Geo. M . , c. IS.) . _ " The ground is not only not preoccupied by the go vernment at the comrneircem“nt of a ses,ion of parliament, but it is preoccupied by others. Sixty-Lne notices of motions were given on the first day of the present session." After some further remarks on this head, Mr. AIuNDELL proceeds to observe, that " Every legislative net proceeds best from the govern ment, with whom the responsibility of every legislative measure rests. Still there is no reason, but the contr try, why legislative acts should not be proposed by any mem ber of the legislature. " But they should not be rashly or crudely brought forward. The course which has been taken with regard to private bills suggests a wholesome course in this respect. Every private bid is sent to a committee up stairs. Every public bill, brought in by any individual member of Parliament, should be sent to a committee up stairs also. If that committee does not think fit to repot, the bill to the house, then there is an end of it, at least tir that session. If the committee to whom any such bill shall be referred shall report it to the house, then, and then only, it comes to be discussed by either house of p Lrliament, upon the report, or upon the third reading of the bill ; whereas, at present, either house has a debate trponthe motion to bring in 4 bill, which it may negative, or upon the bill itself, when it shall be brought in, which it may throw out; or upon clauses in it, which can be much better discussed, at lest, in the first instance, in a committee up stairs. " Neither house of parliament would, in this way, part with any sound discussion upon, or any deliberate consi deration, which it ought to give to, every legislative mea sure. But both houses would be saved long speeches upon motions which fall to the ground, and discussions which lead to no result. The measure, whatever it might be, if it was fit to be discussed and deliberated upon by 4he whole house, would thus be matured, and put in a proper shape for its consideration. " But the constitution of committees up stairs ought to be altered, both with reference to public and to pri vate hills." After adverting to the constitution of com mittees on private bills, Mr. MUNDELL suggests that— " As private bills are sent to committees up stairs for examination and consideration, so any public bill, that is proposed to be brought in by a member not of the go vernment, should be sent to a committee up stairs also. There will then be this distinction between bills brought in by the government and bills brought in by members not of the government, that bills brought in by the go. vernment may be considered and discussed, in all their stages, in the house, but other public bills will be die. cussed and considered in a committee up stairs, before they shall be discussed and considered by the house. The government ought to mature every measure and prepare every bill in the vacation ; and the house has the sane ion of the responsibility of the members of the government, not only for character, but for place, that the measure has been matured, and that the bill is well prep tred. But there is no such sanction, in the case of an individual member, who may, moreover, be under the influence of excitement, from which the government ought at all tunes to be free, or of the influence of his constituents, or under the feeling of a false popularity : against all which it is fit that the house should be guarded by the intervention of a committee, to whom the bill should be referred as a matter of course. The member who pro• poses it will thus obtain his object, if the bill is what it ought to be; and the house will be saved from the loss of much time and interrurion to the public business, if it be not what it ought to be. " When any public committee is now appointed, some twenty or thirty members are selected, upon the sugges tion of the mover. Such committees are not fitted either for inquiry or consideration. It can hardly be expected that any twenty or thirty persons will agree as to the course to be pursued in any inquiry, or submit to the re gularity necessary to the elucidation of truth in the ex amination of evidence. The course of inquiry followed is thus either that proposed by the mover of the com mittee or a sort of compromise among its members ; all ' of whom are entitled to put questions _during the course of the proceeding, often to the disturbance of the regu larity of its proceedings, and the expiscation of the truth. Numbers in this way only serve to perplex and confound the proceeding, and remove the responsibility which ought always to belong to it. " Whether for the purposes of inquiry, or for the pur pose of considering and reporting upon a bill, a committee should never consist of more than five members. Here the chairman, who will be either the mover of the com mittee, or some member of his suggestion, should have a vote, as well as every other member. The measure is a public one, and should be free from the local bias or pre judice, which should supersede the vote of the chairman of a private committee. The naming of the committee may be given to the member who moves the inquiry, or proposes the bill.* " But in moving for an inquiry, the member who moves it should state the ulterior measure of which it is meant to form the foundation. Without an ulterior measure, which is fit to be adopted, there should be no inquiry. In all cases, therefore, before a committee of inquiry is appointed, the ulterior measure, as stated by the mover, must undergo discussion and consideration ; and if the ulterior measure shall not be approved of, 'then no committee should be appointed. "As soon as conveniently may be, after its appoint. ment, every committee of inquiry should draw up a plan of its intended proceedings, which should be reported - to the house, and printed; whereby every stibject of the realm, in the case of an inquiry, as well as in the case of a bill (which should also be printed before being re ferred to a committee), would learn the subject-matter to which the labours of the committee were to be directed ; and it should be allowed to any of the subjects of the realm to petition the house in behalf of their interests, if they are prepared to show that they will suffer, either by any bill referred to a committee, or by any ulterior mea sure which is to be founded upon its report; and all such petitions should be referred to the committee, whether it be appointed to consider and report upon a bill, or to make an inquiry and report with reference to any ul terior measure, in order that it may hear the parties by themselves (if not by their counsel or agents), and any witnesses who may come before it. in support of any such petition. " By this, or some such course of procedure, both houses of Parliament will be enabled to devote their time and attention to the public business of the country, and the government will be freed from much interruption at present given to it, without depriving the country of any benefit it may derive from the labour. of individual mem bers, or preventing individual members from bringing forward and carrying, if they be right and fitting, any measure calculated to promote its welfare. There will only be cast upon them, and those whom they themselves may choose to associate with them in their labours, the duty of maturing every such measure before the time of the house is occupied in discussing it." • In the case of a select committee, it was determined by the house, " that at the examination of witnesses any member of the house may be present, but the select committee only are to send for the witnessses and examine them ;" and it was ordered, " that no member of the house shall be present at the debate, disposition, or penning of the business by the select committee, but only to be present at the examination, and that without interposition." (Hatsell, vol. iv. p. 135. Note.) According to this resolution, any member who chooses may attend a select committee, though he is not allowed to interfere with its proceedings. If many members were so to choose to be present at a select committee, the attendance might be in. convenient to it. But supposing the number of a select com mittee to be limited to five members as here suggested, it may deserve consideration, whether any member or members, with the permission, may not be allowed to attend a select com mittee in the way of assistants to it in its proceedings. [The following was omitted yesterday in consequence o the length of the morning debate on the Cambridge petition.] Buneos Ayres Papers have been received to the 21st of December inclusive, by which we are happy to learn that tranquillity prevailed throughout that country. The Dictator o Paraguay was giving some annoyance in a section of the frontiers, but nothing serious was apprehended. h appears by the following correspondence that the Representative of this country has officially notified the intention of our Government to keep possession of the Falk land Islands :-- " BUENOS Allies, Nov OFFlClAL.compliance with the orders of his Court, the und ers i gned, his Britannic Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, has the honour to notify to the Govern ment of Buenos Ayres that the Rear -Admiral Commander in Chief of his Majesty's naval forces in South America, has been direetecil to appoint a Lieutenant from under his command, with a certain number . of men to reside at the ralkland Islands, for the protection of his Majesty's rights in those islands " The undersigned, in making this communication to his Excellency General Guido, minister for Foreign Relations, avails himself, with much satisfaction, of the opportunity to offer him the assurance of his high and distinguished consi deration. (Signed) " PHILIP F. GORE. " His Excellency Gen. Guido." " BUENOS AYRES, I? Ott; 11, 1833-24th year of the liberty and 18th of the indepen tD :a of the republic. " To the Charge d'Atia,res of his Britannic Majesty, Philip Y. Gore, Esq. " The undersigned minister of Foreign Affairs has received and laid before his government the note of the charge d'affairs, ad interim, of his Britannic Majesty, in this city, dated the 91th instant, notifying that the rear admiral, commander in-chief of his Majesty's naval forces in South America, has heen directed to appoint a lieutenant from under his command, with a certain number of men, to reside at the Malvina Islands, for the protection ofhis Majesty's rights. " The undersigned r.cquaints the charge d'affaires whom he addresses, that his government, adhering to the protest which it has made to the government of his Britannic Majesty, through the agency of its minister at the court of Lon don, in reclamation of the positive tights of the republic to the aforementioned Malvina Islands, confines itself for the present to state that it has informed itself of the contents of the note which the undersigned has now the honour to answer. "The Charge d'Affaires will please to accept the assurances of the most perfect consideration with which the undersigned salutes him. " TOMAS GUIDO." The House of Representatives, after a long discussion upon the liberty of the press, came to a resolution ►o revoke the decrees of the 15th October and the 2d November, which imposed restrictions thereon. The accounts from Chili come down to the 2d of December, at which period tranquillity prevailed in that republic, but not in Peru and Montonera, where dissatisfaction existed to such an extent in some departments that it even reached to the gates of Lima. The intelligence from Rio de Janeiro is to the 13th January. There also tranquillity pre vailed, and addresses from various parts of the empire assured the Regency that the inhabitants were firmly resolved to defend the throne of the young Emperor Don PEDRO 11. and the poli tical constitution of the empire. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, MARCH 26. Wind N.N. W., moderate.—Arrived the Britannia, from the South Seas. Toe outward-bound sailed at 10 p.m., with a moderate breeze from N.N.E., which has since shifted to N.N. W. PonTsmourn, MARCO 26.—Wind N N.E. to W., light airs. FALMOUTH, MARCH 25.—Wind N.N. W. to N.E., strong breezes.—Arrived the Lady Mary Pelham packet, from Vera Cruz—sailed from Tampic - i the 12th January, Vera Cruz the 18th, and Havannah the 6th ult., with about 1,000,000 of dol. lars on freight. Sailed the City of Pembroke, for Lisbon ; Treasurer, Lowrie, for Port-au-Prince; Levant packet, Da niel, for Galipoli ; and Elizabeth, Tonkin, for Lisbon. DOVER, MARCH 26.—Arrived off port the Royal Adelaide, Westbold, from Westport. TORBAY, MARCH 25.—Arrived the Orange Branch, Adams, from Terceira; and William, Cobley, from St. Michael's. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 25.—Arrived the Incomparable, Via nello, from Venice; I'eg-a-Ramsey, Vibber, from Marseilles; and Acorn, Christie, from Tarragona. Ofrport the :Northum brian, from Savannah. GREENOCK, MARCH 24.—Arrived the Jean Hastie, Robert son, from Demerara. DARTMOUTH, MARCH 2.s.—Arrived off port the Fair Arca dian, Tanner, Cabel Angas, Whittle, and Elizabeth and Jane, from Honduras. HULL, MARCH 25.—Arrived the Oswy, Fairburn, from Gottenburg. " Ship Ealing Grove, Woodbridge Bay, Feb. I " According to your honour's request, I have, in company with your harbourmaster, Mr. Rand, and Captain Coltbrd, of the barque Jane Lockhart, carefully surveyed the shoal on which the brig Mary Anne was wrecked last June, and all the other dangers round Scott's Head. " The N. end of the above shoal lies from the flagstaff, or middle of the Bluff of Scott's Head, N. 66. 30 W. and S., and N. 72. 30 W., per compass, at the distance of 160 fa. thorns from the beach. It is a flat coral reef, lying N.N.W. and S.S.E., about 150 feet, with from 6 to 10 feet water on it, and 12 to 16 fathoms all round and close to it, " There are also several other shoals round the Head, in a southwesterly direction from the above flagstaff, at the dis tance of full half a cable's length from the shore. Therefore, ships approaching from the eastward and southward, ought to give the Head a berth of at least two cables' length, until the flagstaff or middle of the Bluf bears S.E. per compass; when they can then haul up for either of the bays, giving lackpoint a berth of one cabel's length. " I have the honour to be " Your honour's obedient humble servant, "JAMES FALCONER., Master of the Ealing Grove. " To his Honour Sir Charles Schoenberg, &c. &c." THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY,) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. New York Papers to the sth, and Philadelphia to the 3d March, Montreal papers to the 26th and Quebec to the 22d Fe. bruary, and Bombay to the 7th November, have been received this morning at the North and South American Coffee House. The New York papers do not contain any information of consequence. A Baltimore paper of the Ist March states that a revolution had broken out in Guayaguil, and Rocafourte, with about 1,000 men, was besieging that city, and many of the inhabitants who were banished from it had arrived at Payta ; but a counter revolution is said to have taken place more re cently by General Mena, who had been shot by order of Roca. fourte. The disturbances in Peru had not terminated. General Salavere entered Truxillo with 300 troops, but the Prefect soon after collected some troops and retook the city. A New York paper of the 3d March confirms the former intelligence received from Mexico of the 28th January, and from Vera Cruz of the sth February, that tranquillity prevailed in the whole of the Republic, with the exception of two or three small bands which deserted Bravo, and were plundering the inhabitants. The New Tariff was under discussion. The Quebec papers state that a bill for securing the inde pendence of the Council was read a second time. - The Montreal papers mention that a most respectable meet ing was held in Quebec, for the purpose of appointing delegates to attend the Convention in the city of Montreal. The Upper Canada papers are void of interest. The Bombay Gazette of the 6th Nov. states, with regret, that accounts of the most gloomy nature had been received from Guzerat—a succession of burning winds had destroyed the whole of the Goware crops of the season. Heat, scarcity, and distress prevailed in that province ; and the c i v il au th or i t i es The hav e applied to the government to stren g th en t h e i r power. Calcutta steam fund is still on the increase. THE FUNDS. The Lady Pelham packet, so long looked for, has at length arrived from Mexico and Vera Cruz. Sailed on the 18th Janu ary ; but she is not of so late a date as previously received. It is stated she brings thirty-two tons of money on merchants' account, with four passengers. Consols opened this morning at the price they left off yes terday, 911 I for the account. The chief business is doing in the Foreign market. Spanish and Portuguese Stocks continue receding. The tbrmer, 304 ; the latter, 651. The express from Paris is of little import. French Funds, 31f. 30c. Spanish, 261-1. HALF.PAST ONE. since the early part of the morning, the funds have become heavy, and Consols, which were 91 If for the Account, have receded to 91 L}. It is somewhat singular that, while we are led to believe that peace will be maintained throughout Europe, armaments are going forward both in the east and north of Europe. Tur key is preparing for som e un f oreseen event. At Flush i ng all the Dutch men - of-war have gone out of the basin, for the purpose of taking their former stations in the Scheldt, and others are preparing to proceed on the same destination. A Dutch army is held in readiness to strike a blow at an hour's notice. What all this means we cannot divine at present. The Spanish and Portuguese Stocks continue heavy, with little doing at present. Spanish 301 Portuguese 651 I. In other securdiis little or nothing doing. The accounts from America are still gloomy. Up to the pre sent hour, we have no arrival from Portugal. The Lightning is expected hourly, as the wind is fair. THREE O'CLOCK. Console for the Account, 114 g. CLOSING PRICES.-FOUR O'CLOCK. Bank Stock - 3 per Cent. Red 1 Ditto Bonds.. 29 pm 3 pet Cam. Cons 9l ! South Sea Stock 1(.4 3 per Cent 3i per Cc nt. Red 1 Ditto New Aiin B9l New •31 per Cent 9Bl Ex. Bills, 1000/ 53 pin. 4 per 1e nt .................. Ditto sno/ 5l pm, Long Ann. to expire Ditto Small 54 pm. Jan. 1860 . ............. Bank S. for Ace. 217 Oct. 1859.. ............ Consols for Opg 9ll Jan. 1860 .............. 17 -16 India St. for Opg. 255 FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent 991 Portuguese, 5 per cent.... 651 Belgian, 5 per cent 99/ Ditto, Reg. Bonds Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent. 25 Russian Bonds, 5 per cent 163.1 Chilian, 6 per cent. 25/ Ditto, Metallic 103; Columbian, 6 per cent Spanish, 5 per cent 3O; Ditto, 1824 ................... 0 ,4/ Ditto, 1823 2B} Danish ........................... 751 French 5 per Cent.... —1 —c. Greek, 5 per cent 2B l, Exchange Mexican 5 per Cen ts , 18 2 5 311 French 3 per Cent --f. —c. Ditto 6 per Cent., 1825 3B/ Dutch, 24 per cent 491 I'eruvian 6 per Cent. 2Ol Ditto, 5 per cent. 971 - 1 - - - VIE MARKETS:-(TITS 13AV.) HAY MARKETS.—( At per Lo,d of 36 Tru3ses.) CUMBERLAND. Supply good, trade dull, alai prices as last tooted. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Haw £3 10 to £3 15 New , eaduw Hay .. . 0 0 0 0 Ifieful Old Ditto Fne Upland Meadow and Oye.grass iiav 4 6 4 10 Cover flay 4 5 5 0 Oat Straw CI Bto ..-1: I 101 Wlt••.t. ,t, a, ~. 1 12 1 14 SMITHFIELD. A moderate supply, and a very dull trade; prices as last quottd Cud,. heavy I...wland Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10 Vew Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 10 3 15 F.ne t'pland Nteadow and itye-grass Hay 4 0 4 4 ;!over Hay (extra fine)...C4 15... Generally at Straw .., £1 12 to .C 1 14 I Wheat -craw 1 14 1 10 lIUNGERFOHD. A limited supply, and a sluggish trade. Coarse Meadow Hay £3 5 to £3 10 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto Floe Upland Meadow and nye.grass Hay 4 2 4 6 Clover Hay 1 0 4 15 Cat Straw £1 Bto .C 1 1, I Wheat Straw.... 112 116 Many of the leading and influential members iif the Universi•y of Canthridee, though highly sensilsle or she value of the Duke of W,llington's inrerferem•e on a Lite °cession, feel, it iv said, not a little mortified at. the silt-et - ice and the silence of their own Chanclior, the Duk of (doucester, on the presentation of the petition in favour of the Dissenters. The Committee on Captain Ross's claims met yesterday to consider their Report, which we learn is i'.vourable to the Gallant Of cause. The late Mr. Adair, in landed and personal estates, is suimosed to have been one of the wealthiest individuals in the kingdom. Extract of a private letter from Quebec, dated Feb. 14 You may have had some accounts of the state of business here, but you cannot form a correct idea of the depression unless you were on the spot. In summer was expected the fall trade world be better ; the reverse,— cales have dwindled to insignificance : in wholesale and retail at this moment literally nothing doing. Collations the same. Newly half of the retailers have been obliged to close, no: being able to take up the notes they had granted in the spring. One auctioneer has been obliged to retire to the amount of:15,000/. This crisis is alarming. In the States the distress, though only beginni.g, is alre dy beyond expectation ; exchange down to 4 per cent, under pa, ; speculations in shares, bonds, cinals, rairrulds, banks, Szc., have been carried beyond all just calculation." EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM PARIS.— A ridi :talons story was got up some time ago of a mis und.intanding between the Court of Stockholm and the Court of the Tuileries, between the old ex-General of N.po leon and the Citizen King of the French, respecting their oriein or their dignities. It wus stated that King Charles John, though a soldier of fortune, did not like to be re presented as the cumarade of a corporal on the French stage, and that he got angry with his Royal brother for not preventing the dr .tnatic scandal. As it is always alutea , le to mike out a goad and perfect story when the proper foundation is laid, it was added that Louis Philip, to booth the wounded pride of the Swedish Monarch, by showing that he had a brother in misfonune, ind to c invince Into et the sime time that he had no power to eirvorce the suppression of the obnoxious farce. sent him some of the numerous car c.tures in which he himself is held up to 'he derision of his people in his own capital •ind at the very gars of his own palace. This appears not to have been sari-factory, awl in order to complicate matters, a misunderstanding was added respect trig a neglect shown by Louis Philip, to the young Duke of Leuchtenberg, to whose sister, we believe, t , e Crown Prince of Swerten is married. The stitemeni seemed not at all improbable ; and you may state, on the sest aut , way, that it had not in it a single word of ti tub. It is, indeed, a fact, that the French Ambassador was lately recalled from Stockholm; but his recall had not any relation to the acting of a French farce, or to the neglect of a German Prince. It was solely owing to an offence taken by Louis Philip at some onservations made by Charles John, in familiar conversation with the French Ambassador, on the weakness of the French Government, in permiiing so many tumults in the streets of Paris. Tills language of blame being conveyed to the Court of the Tuileries as expressive of the sentiments of a foreign Prince, who had no right to deliver an opinion on such a swiject, gave umbrage to the susceptible temper of the citizen King, and caused the temporary alienation between the Co9rts, which ce lard as soon as explana tions could be offered or received.— Times. WOOL IN FRANCE.—The result of a table, just published by the Admioibtration of the Customs, shows that in the course of the year 1833, the importations of wool into France amounted to 10,725,952 kiit•grammil, the total value in tiatics being 23,0 1.0, 42, of which 9,310,702 kilogrammes, of the value of 19,182,894 francs, were used in the manufactories of France. The cod fishing off the Isle of Man is just now very prosperous. One but alone took upwards of 1,300 fish last week, off Port-le.Airy, and si venal have talc, n on board at one drawing of the lines upwards of 400 fi.ie fi.h. The prices have been 6d., 9d., to 11. each.— Whitehaven Herald. A fine young sturgeon, which measured 4 feet 2 inches in lengtn, and weighA 241b5., was caught last week at all Quay, by a man who sold it to Mr. Tutte, fishmonger, at whose house the fish was exhibited for one evening. Mr. T. forwarded the sturgeon to London the next morning as a present to his Majesty. _Brighton G oz LIVERPOOL COTTON -MARKET, MARCH 25.—We have had a good demand for cotton to day. The operations reach 3,500 bap, chitfly American descriptions, at full prices. :MONEY OF NO USE.—When Spencer (the author of " View of the State of Ireland,") and his wife were forced in great distress to fly from their hon•e, which was burnt in the Irisn rebellion, the Earl of Essex sent him 20 pieces ; but he refused them, telling the person that brought them, he was sure be had no time to spend th•m.—Mirror. RIGHTS OF COLOURED PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES.-Some months since, a coloured person brought an action in the Common Pleas at Boston, fur damages, against a master of a steam boat, for refusing to admit his wile into the hdies' cabin, although her passage had been paid in advance. The cause was decided in favour of the plaintiff, but was afterwards reversed by the Supreme Court. We are concerned to state that Francis Douce, Esq., the celebrated antiquarian, lies dangerously ill at his house iu Gower -street, without hopes of recovery. He is upwards of SO years of age, and one of the oldest and most distinguished members of the Antiquarian Society, and has been a gentleman of great research, and well versed in ancient lore. lie is the author of " "ham tions of Sbakspeare," and editor of " Holbein's Dance of Death." UNUSUAL DROUGHT.—At the village of Easton, near Stamford, every well is dry. The inhabi tants are wholly supplied with water by means of carts from a neighbouring s d ring.—Boston Herald. STORY OF A CAT SUCKLING A MOUSE.— A eat belonging to Mr. Smith, the respectable bailiff and agent of the Earl of Lucan, at Laleham, is in the constant habit of taking her place before the parlour fire. SLe bad been deprived of all her litter of kittens but one, and her milk incommoded her. I mention this, in order to account, in some de,ree, for the following circuin. stance :—One evening, as the family were seated round the fire, they observed a mouse m eking its way from the cupboard which was near the fire-place, and lay itself down on the stomach of the cat, as a kitten would do when she is going to suck. Surprised at what they saw, and afraid of disturbing the mouse, which appeared to be fu'l grown, they did not immediately ascertain whetter it was in the act of sucking or not. After remaining with be cat a considerable length of time, it returned to the cupbo ird. These visits were repeated on several other occasions and were witnessed by many pers , .ns. The cat not only appeared to expect the mouse, but uttered that sort of greeting purr which the animal is so well known to make use of when she is visited by her kitten. The mouse bad every appearance of being in the act of sticking the cat; but such was its vigilance, that it re treated as soon as a hand was put out to take it up. Wben the cat, after being absent, returned to the room, her greeting call was made, and the mouse came to her. The attachment which existed between these two incongruous I animals could not be mistaken, and it lasted some time. The fate of the mouse, like that of most pets, was a melancholy one. During the absence of its nurse, a a range cat came into the room. The poor mouse, mis taking her for its old friend and protectress, ran out to meet eeul her, rescued from andwa s immediately her clutches.seize d and Thegrief o e fo f r e t b i e t d be foster-mother was extreme. On returning to the parlour, she made her usual call, but no mouse came to meet her. She was restless and uneasy, went mewiug about the house, and showed her distress in the most marked man tier. What rendered the anecdote I have been r e lating the more extraordinary, is the fact of the cat being an excellent mouser, and that during the time she was show i ig so much fondness for the mouse, she was preying up on "hers with the utmost avidity. She is still alive.— Jesse's Gleanings in Nataral History. SOCIETY OF MUTUALTSTg."--44‘'7 That honcnirable i),, ;;le li e , the Mayor of Lyons, who proceeded from Paris to Lyons during the late strike, seems to have ac gaired an extensive knowledge of the objects and designs of the onion of workmen by which that strike was directed. I - Ic stated that the Society of Mutualists, or the association for mutual aid, consisted of 3,000 members, and that through its intervention the Lyons work men had lately stood out for a rise of wages. This association disclaimed all connexion with politics ; but their papers and orders of the day showed that political societies had pro posed a junction with them and with the disaffected operatives. One of these orders of the day recommended " to the brethren, to he their guard against attempts made to intro lace the printed papers of the Society of the Rights of Man into their lodges," and made • the chiefs of these lodges responsible for the yxecution of this command. The lion. deputy inferred from this and other facts, that the poli tical clubs of Paris had endeavoured to take advantage of the social discontents of Lyons to convert a dispute about wages into an insurrec tion against the Government. The lrades' Union had expelled some of these political agitators from their lodges, declaring that they were desirous to avoid politics, but the very fact that, upon so insufficient grounds, they had interrupted the labours of 60,000 people, for ten Or fifteen days, showed that they had been excited by political theories, or encouraged by political agitators. Tile hon. member ascribed both their opinions on state politics, and their notions on the unlimited powers of their masterF; to increase their wages, to their ignorance; hut thought that they would not have behaved as they did, unless their heads had been filled with republican or Saint Simonian doctrines. The society of Mutualists is said to be very formi dable. It is composed, like the trades' unions of this country, of a certain number of lodges; 12 of these lodges correspond with a central lodge, and these central lodges again are connected wit h a com mon centre, which is called the executive council. The authority of this executive council governed for more than ten days more than 50,000 workmen in and about Lyons with absolute sway. It is further stated by the same hon. deputy, that, though about 4,000 of the fore men of the differeat 'workshops were opposed to this tyranny of the executive council, they could not at first overcome ii, or resist its interdiction of labour. They even denounced 33 of its ingleaders to the King's procureur, but no legal proceedings were taken against them. This inaction appeared to M. Prunelle to be inju dicious, but both the local law officers of the crown and the general government seemed un willing to interfere. This last observation called op the Minister of Trade, who justified the conduct of the government by saying that judicial proceedings against the council of the Mutualists would have brought oti a collision between the people and the military force, which would certainly have been useless, and might have been san guinary. All that the authorities, therefore, thought themselves justified in doing was to watch over the public peace—to refrain from active interference in settling the question of wages—to collect a sufficient force to restrain every attempt at plunder or violence—to assure the masters, that, whatever course they should pursue, they might rely on finding protecion, and therefore to request them to wait the result, if they chose to hold out against the demands of their workmen, without terror or alarm. The effect of this forbearance was the return of the men to their work, after a fortnight's strike, without any disturbance of public order or any promise or expectation of increased wages. From this statement of facts, of which we can entertain no doubt, two important inferences may be drawn by the foolish and unthinking members of our trades' unions, and by the abettors of the existing Derby strike. The first is, that they are as likely to be the dupes of mischievous poli tical plotters as the clubs or lodges of the silk weavers of Lyons ; and the second, that they are as certain to meet with signal losses and final discomfiture. The working population of Lyons, it will be remem bered, rose against their masters on a demand for higher wages in November, 1831. Their unanimity was then so great, their discipline so perfect, and their numbers so overwhelming, that they conquered and disarmed the National Guard, composed of the shopkeepers and ma nufacturers—that they drove out the large gar rison force from the city, and stood out against large reinforcements of troops sent from the neighbouring departments—and that they usurp ed the civil and military authority of the place, holding unequivocal dominion in the second chief manufacturing town of France for more than a week. Much blood was shed on the occasion, and great alarm was felt for the result over all the kingdom. But what was the fruit of this bloodshed and of these apprehensions ? Nothing but loss to the workmen, who were obliged, after suffering great privations, to return to their work on the old terms. Within these last six weeks other combinations have been formed in the same city ; and without the commission of the same violence, a cessa lion of all labour has been successfully en forced by the executive council of the trades' unions. What again, in this second instance, has been the result? Why, after the loss of ten days or a fortnight's wages, the 50,000 work men of Lyons, commanded to desist from their work till their masters should raise their .vages, are compelled by want and threatened starvation to come back, and to solicit employ ment from their masters at the old terms. In both cases they have had an overwhelming physical force in their favour,—in both cases they entered into a competition with the capital of their employers in circumstances which must have intimidated the latter into a compliance with their terms, if, as they supposed, the aarmboittrianrty e o rgu fwage is was dependent alone on thei r —and in both cases after i on exhausting the amoun t of their funds and t he resourc es of 'their ingenuity, and after end u ri ng at the greatest hardship s that their masters were as necessary to them as trecrous a nm. n d staca p n r gac i tr v lea a sn t , a dt o hbe ts er l ys , ac t fa h noly e rel y ,n f i ' od o ra u b id trades' lilne experiment : liv t o i' u e r bi a re ble tmriae c sd i u ttlioe i ry o e n s t in this country ? Let those who would counsel a great strike, or who have ruined the poor men at Derby by their pernicious aid, answer the question.— Times. A BRUMMAGENI SARDANAPALUS.--One night last week a man named Bike , ell, who lives at Birmingham, vexed by the bad conduct of his wile, col- I,Tted all bis household goods in a lower room, and set fire to it, after which he composedly retired to bed! where be would no doubt have been burnt, had not the fire been discovered by the watchman, and extinguished