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of the Cotnmittee of the House of Commons, Seen") from the speech in which he prefaced his motion for suspending the issuing of the writ, to think that the corruption was confined to the lowest class of voters. Ah little does !se Honourable Gentleman know the burgesses , elf Liverpool. Confined to the lowest class indeed . Why, we could undertake to furnish him with the names of county Magistrates, retired gentlemen, substantial tradesmen, flourishing shopkeepers, whose venality was greater than that of the lowest class of voters, and who, from the circumstance of their' holding off from the poll till the very last, received, some sixty sov ere i gns f or some forty, some fifty, their votes ! The names of such persons we could produce,—at least we know the individuals who could produce them." Like everything else, cor ruption in Liverpool rose from small beginnings. Rome was not built in a day. The system " wrought the total corruption of the lower class of burgesses first, and subsequently the degradation of too many in the middle class also, who demanded sovereigns, instead of shillings, for their votes." At last, county Magistrates and retired gentlemen think, when money is going, they may as well pocket their' sixty sovereigns as their neighbours ! Put is there any thing in this to surprise us ? It is the inevitable working of an unreformed Parliament. It flows ne cessarily from boroughrnongering. The moment you depart from the principle that Government ought to be carried on by a few, independently of the direct influence of the possessors of property, you must have recourse to force and fraud. 'Where a Sovereign is despotic, the money of the people may be taken without ceremony by the soldier, whose businese it is, in return for his hire, to eoerce them. In coun tries in which a small number of individuals are ena bled to share power through a representation, po pular in form, but in which the great body of pos sessors of property cannot influence the elections, the power can only be en j o y e d b y t h e b r ib ery o f t h e majority, at least, of those who are accessary to the ' return. The man who enjoys the franchise and does not make the most of his vote in such Case is a fool. He is one of the co-partnery, founded on the prin ciple of robbery of his fellow-citizens, and it ie un dervaluing his own importance to accent little when he can extort much as his share, When a man is once enrolled in a gang of swindlers and burglars, he naturally wishes to have a share of the booty corresponding to his consequence. To take the money of the people, and to dispose of it without their consent, either directly given or by representa tive, may be called governing them, and it may not always be prudent to refuse to submit to such go verning, just as it might be imprudent to refuse to deliver your purse to a highwaymen ; but it is ob vious that the value of this power of taking and dis posing of money will soon be understood by all those who possess it, that the limit of the ex action will generally be the ability of the people, and that the shares to the various individuals possessed of the power will adjust themselves according to some thing like an equitable scale. Thus, for instance, the seventy freeholders of a Scotch county naturally ex pect to have a much larger share of the public spoil than the 4,000 electors of Liverpool, who return two Members. We consider the sums bestowed on Ire late elections at Liverpool as disproportionately large, from accidental causes, and that in a fair esti mate of the dividend to the electors, we ought to leave the passion of particular families out of the ac count. The seventy freeholders of a Scotch county would make it a condition with the representative that patronage—that is, a title empowering the possessor to a share of the public money, to a con siderable amount—should be distributed among t In an English corporation, the electors must also obtain patronage for their votes. In potwallop rug places, again, the number of voters being greater, a sum in hand must be given. When the voters are few, the sum in meal or malt will be large; when the voters are many, it will be small. If we suppose the places returning 350 Members to have the monopoly of power, 5,000 electors, who return two Members, ought not to bag so much as ten electors, who return the same number. In practice all this is admirably understood ; arid the man who should for a moment suppose that any other than interested motives govern the conduct of the electors, would, in English society, be set down as a fit subject for a Lunatic Commission. The laws against bribery are kept up, from an idea entertained by the leading partners in the firm of corruption, that they may have some effect in keep ing down the amount to be divided among the hum bler partners. In this light they are viewed by the voters, who are indignant that they, who are placed by them in a situation to dispose of the spoil of the country, should wish to exclude them from their share. In the pamphlet lately published by Bishop Doyle, on the subject of Poor Laws for Ireland, we have a masterly description of a degree of audacity in plundering the public, greater than has ever been known in England ; for this simple reason, that the Irish plunderers had a less enlightened and a more enslaved public than the English. . _ There can be no doubt (he says) that till within these very few years, every administration of public money or business in Ireland was most corrupt. There was no faith kept with God or man by those to whom the public interests, or any portion of them, happened to be com mitted. From the highest tribunals to the lowe-t collector of Excise, bribery, extortion, perjury prevailed. In all the public offices peculation and plunder were reduced to system—openly avowed and acted upon. The Commis sioners at the different Boaids were as regularly fed by those who had business to transact with them, as they were paid by Government. But the Government itself was the great debauchee. There was no job too gross, no proceeding so licentious, no abuse of power or patronage so glaring, to which its active agency or best sanction was not extended. The Church was in perfect keeping with the State, the public offices were dens of thieves, the Courts of Justice, with their purlieus, were sinks of cor ruption, and the Grand Juries throughout the country invited by their practice and example the suitors or claim ants at every Court of Assize in Ireland, to disregard both truth and justice—to commit perjury, and to plunder or oppress their neighbour. There is no exagger ationno high colouring in the foregoing statement. The ti uth of l i every portion of it is either already recorded in evi dence reported to Parliament, or could be proved by ten thousand living witnesses. This then being, till lately, the state of Ireland, and of the administration of all her public affairs, it is no wonder that men doubt whether money could be levied equitably, and expended honestly and impartially, even for the benefit of the poor. Let it, however, be considered, in the first place that, until within a few years past, an exceedingly small frac tion of the people of this country held exclusive possession of the administration of public business in all its diversity and ramifications. That fraction of the people lived by their offices, pensions, sinecures, or employments; they alone constituted society in Ireland—they were all sharers alike in oppression, and each took his portion of the spoil produced by it. They were not ashamed of each other, fir no man blushes at his own theft in a company of thieves. There was no Government to exercise contralti. The business of Government was to divide among them their ill-gotten store. There was no Court to which they could be cited, for they themselves filled the Bench and composed the Juries : there was no tribunal created by public opinion to which virtue could appeal from oppres sion, or before which profligacy might be arraigned and convicted. No ! for there was no Press but that wen ked by the hireling of corruption; or if another Press only hreatlaed on gilded or ermined crime, it was subdued, persecuted, persecuted, and extinguished. But as the people of this nation multiplied, they waxed strong ; they caught a glimpse of knowledge as Moses saw the Deity, whilst it P a ""' by, and the multitude, warmed and in vigorated by it, overthrew and broke down that fortress of corruption which had held them so long enslaved. This popular might operating Parliament, has bid a new order of things to arise in Ireland.” In England the fear of the people has made corrup tion more skilful and more moderate. Still it fed and rioted upon the nation; and it would continue to feed and riot, but that an enlightened nation, under one of those fortunate accidents which can not be excluded in any country—namely, an honest Administration—have, at the call of that Admi, nistration, determined to cut up corruption by the roots. A whole nation cannot be bribed ; if the possessors of property return the representatives to the House of Commons, it would be as useless for them to take bribeS, as for a man to take money from one pocket to put it into another. Bribery and corraption will therefore receive their death-blow by the only practical means. The security for ho nesty must be the impossibility of acting otherwise than honestly in the face of an enlightened public, to which Members are accountable. "But the Government will not be able to controul the nation as it has hitherto done." This niuet be admitted. The Duke of Wellington thinkr, that the Govern ment ought not to b 21, - ;countable to the nation, and that Parliament ought not to be a check on Ad ministtation. "He wished the House to advert to what the business of the King's Government was, It was the duty of that Government to manage 'everything. He had heard the Noble and Learned Lord on the Woolsack, in a si*ech of admirable eloquence and knowledge, propose a new judi cial system at the commencement of the Session ; but he maint tined that it Way impossible for the Government ul timately to decido on that question, and he told the n'.;le and Learned Lord this—that if a Parliatnent were con structed on the new plan, it .old be too strong for Go vernment on that ouestion. So, also, in matters affecting commerce an!! l'oanufactures, Government would depend entirely Upon Parliament. He wanted to know how Go vernment was to carry any measure en the appointment of a new Parliament ? Th , re was a great question how be fore the House of Commons on the subject of Tithes. A Government might submit to the will of a majority op pored to its Own view's oh other questions; but on the question of Tithes and Church, their duty was clearly pointed oe_t, the King's Coronation Oath and the Acts of Union with Scotland and Ireland tutaanteeing the inte grity of the Church establishment. But he wanted to know how Government was to maint tin the safety of the Established. Church after placing Parliament on the foot. ing pl-oposed ? He did not wish to carry this argument farther than it would go ; but ho inferred from every thing he could see, that the Constitution of the country could not he carried on as hitherto if this plan were adopted." Ili-, system therefore is, we admit, irreconcileable with a reformed Parliament. A reformed Parlia ment may not be free from errors any more than Government ; but it ettinot be for the interest of a nation ti plunder itself s whereas it is for the in terest of a Government, without a reformed Parlia ment, to plunder the nation.—Monzing Chronicle. The quarterly account of the Revenue, which we published yesterday, having been made up, we judge hastily, and with reference to payments to the last moment, seems now to be incorrect in some of its details. The difference which in the general re sult it presents, as compared with the more elabo rate table, which will be found in another part of our Paper of this day, is unimportant indeed; but it is as well that the account has been made strictly accurate, and the public informed of the exact state of the condition of the revenue. It now appears that, in the table showing the " income of, and change upon, the Consolidated Fund," the income of the last year was over stated, it being estimated at 8,391,2401., whereas it turns out, in fact, to be no more than 8,3.58,302/, being a difference, to the disfavour of the quarter, of 32,9381., which is to be added to the sum necessary to be raised by the re issue of Exchequer Bills for that quarter. The real deficiency, then, as between the quarter ending on Tuesday last and the corresponding quarter last year, svill be 773,2471., instead of 740,3091., and, as upon the whole year, as compared with the last, 1,167,8851., instead of 1,134,9471., as stated yes terday. The mistake seems to have arisen, not from overstating the produce of the Customs, or any other branch of public income, or underrating any item of public expenditure, but in making a wrong estimate of the produce of the surplus which was to be transferred from the Irish Consolidated Fund. The practical effect will he to increase the amount of Exchequer Bills to be re-issued from 4,795,6501. to 4,B2B,sBBl.—Morning Herald. Scotland continues to furnish proofs of the urgent necessity for a Reform of Parliament. Whilst the people, encouraged by the example of the great body of independent and well-educated gentlemen in town and country, throughout that part of Great Britain, are coming forward by tens of thousands with addresses in favour of the Bill, the few, but noxious individuals, whom it aims at divesting of their ill•getten and worse-exercised power, employ every expedient within the reach of intrigue and at tifice to throw petty obstructions in the way of its irresistible progress. A meeting was held last week in the County Hall of Dumbarton, where resolutions approving of the ministerial measure were proposed by Sir J. Colythoun, and seconded by Mr. Dunlop; but on an amendment being moved by Sir Archibald Campbell, designating this Bill " as a rash arid ill digested measure, dangerous to the Crown, degrad ing to the aristocracy,and calculated re overthrow the existing Constitution," it was carried by 36 to 25 votes. Now we venture to affirm that if a newspaper had reported the transactions of any " county meeting" throughout the whole of England, and had stated that an amendment hostile to Reform had been carried by a show of bands, or by a plurality of voices, no human creature in this country, reading such a re port, would have believed a single word of it. So staunch, so determined, so united are the nation, in their eagerness to see the downfall of that mass of grievances from which the measure now on its way through Parliament is destined to relieve them, that any assertion, however grave and positive, of such a fact as is here affirmed in relatien to the " county meeting" of Dumbarton, would have been met by one universal shout of incredulity. Nevertheless, as told of the Dumbartonshire meeting, the state ment is unquestionably trite : and yet the inhabitants of Dumbartonshire, like those of Middlesex, and admitting as few exceptions as those of Middlesex, are enthusiastic in the cause of Reform. How, then, is the seeming contradiction to be accounted for ? Let us see of what number arid description of persons this famous " county meeting consisted." Can an English gentleman or yeoman give a guess at the numbers which attended it ? When the question was put to the vote, after some short speeches and lan guid proceedings, the friends of Reform were twenty five; its adversaries, thirty-six ; altogether, including Lord John:Camphell, the chairman, sixty-two indivi duals ! and a countymeeting fhen comes the descrip tion of personages—who and what were they ? They call themselves " the Noblemen, Freeholders, Com missioners of Supply, and Justices of the Peace" of the county of Dumbarton. We hear nothing of gentlemen, landowners, leaseholders, farmers, or in habitants generally of the county. No, no,—that would not have done at all. It must be a snug, official, magisterial, in-door meeting. Then, as for noblemen, there was but one,—a bit of a nobleman, — and he (Lord John Campbell) being a Whig, was neu tralized by consenting to be achairman.With regard to the others,—what were they ? Freeholders, Scotch freeholders, holders of certain parchments,and as much connected with theinterestsor feelings of Dumbarton shire in virtue of such parchments, as they might be with those of the Crimea. As for your " Commis• sioners of Supply," and "Justices of the Peace," what are they throughout the best part of Scotland but remnants of that corrupt mechanism by which the Dundas dynasty had ruled her for almost fifty years,—a dynasty under which no mortal man was ever admitted to the enjoyment of an office—to the investiture of a trust—to the exercise of the most insignificant, or the meanest functions connected with the Government in its very minutest ramifica tions,—until after evidence, satisfactory to the Mel ville cabinet, that he would be a thorough-going, inveterate, unflinching, reckless partisan of the poli tics of that heroic school ? The opposition to Re form at this Dumbarton meeting, we repeat it, was a Melville opposition in its last agonies—it was the Dundas power, torn from its pedestal, and flung upon the earth, and writhing and cursing when it could no longer tyrannize over Scotland. There is no more salutary picture than this of Dumbarton Toryism, kicking against a unanimous people, nor any more convincing proof of the unnatural and into lerable character of that system by which the right to rule over millions of men has been carefully confined to one p e tty junta, recommended to its pa trou by its rejection of all responsibility but to him alone, and of all sympathy with the unfortunate na tion, which it wa s the rule, the genius, and the ne cessary prin c ipl e o f hi s usurped authority, to plun der: In of ; Scotland, b e yond every - other divi s i on the empire, the wh o l e e difice of state policy has for ages rested on a mass of the most revolting factions;' and their very enormity and antiquity has made the friends of Reform, however enterprising, despair of seeing them corrected. We find, with heartfelt sa tisfaction, that in an opposite district of the island, a staggering but well-merited blow has been struck at the vitals of the ancient oligarchy. The house of Beaufort has received notice to quit. The people of .Monmouthshire have taken courage, and have told Lord Worcester—we hope his Lordship can understand plain English—that he may henceforth go about his business, as they, his former vassals, choose to have opinions of their own, and men of their own choice to consult their interest, instead of such high-born and cavalier gentlemen, as make nc, better use of a vote in Parliament than as an engine for 4uarto:ing a tribe of their hungry relatives on the people's money. Indeed—but a dissolution would now be a carnival for Old England.—Times. We have given in another column a report of a meeting highly numerous and respectable, which must be equally gratifying both to the friends of charity and to the friends of Reform. We allude to the anniversary dinner of the friends and sup porters of the Licensed Victallers' Asylum ; and it is but a bare act of justice to observe, that we were never present at a dinner where greater conviviality, good humour, and unanimity prevailed; and that we never saw a chair more ably filled than it was by the illustrious personage who presided. From the removal of the cloth to the time at which his Royal flightless retired, there was but one sentiment, one feeling, one desire—that of evincing to his Royal Highness how worthy, in every re spect, the Institution, of which he condescended to become Patron, was of his patronage, and how grateful his friends were for the sincere and enthusiastic interest which he had manifested in its successful completion. The different addresses of his Royal Highness upon the subject, will be read with the interest and attention which they so amply deserve; but notwithstanding our best endeavours to give their tone and spirit, we must confess that our report, as well as every other which could have been given, falls far short of the enthusiastic, the lively, and humorous varie•y, by which they were charac terized. Never did we see his Royal Highness fill the chair of charity and patriotism so successfully,— so much to the credit of his own abilities,—so much to the benefit of arty institution,—or so much to the satisfaction of any company. He, indeed, outdid himself, and left on the minds of all present, im pre,sions of his kindly and charitable disposition, which 110 circumstances can efface. The Royal Chairman was ably supported by Mr. Calvert, Mr. Rarnsbottom, Mr. Briscoe, Sir Peter Laurie, Mr. Alderman Brown; and many other gentlemen, zealous in behalf of the Institution, and who gave sterling proofs of the interest which they take in its success. The spirit which, by their united exertions, was com municated to the meeting cannot fail in exercising a salutary effect on the benevolent feelings of those who have not yet contributed to this noble undertaking, and we would fain hope in enabling its zealous officers to bring it to a successful completion. But in thus adverting to the anniversary dinner of the friends and supporters of the Licensed Victuallers' Asylum, we should fail in our duty were we not to remark its political as well as charitable features. That the healths of the King and his illustrious Consort should be received with unanimous approbation, was naturally to be expected from a body of men who have always been conspicuous for their loyalty; but in addition to these were in troduced, the " Healths of his Majesty's Ministers, and success to the arduous undertaking in which they are engaged," and never did we witness such a demonstration of public feeling as was then mani fested. There was one deafening and long-conti nued shout of applause, and not one dissentient voice ! The Royal Chairman gave additional effect to the toast, by a brilliant and interesting speech, which we commend to the particular attention of our readers, and which produced a powerful effect on all present. He was ably seconded in this mat ter also by the Members fur Surrey arid Windsor ; but as our limits are exhausted, we must forbear all comment upon their speeches. The meeting was most harmonious throughout, and did not separate until a late hour.—. Horning Advertiser. LONDON SESSIONS. These Sessions commenced yesterday before the RECORDER, Alderman WAITIIMAN, Alderman SMITH, &c. THE GRAVE-DIGGERS. A man named Bampton, who keeps a coal-shed, was indicted for having assaulted two grave-diggers, named Harrell and Warner. There was a great deal of laughter excited by the detail. The defendant, it appeared, had lest two children within a short time, and had applied to Harrell and Warner, " the diggers of the Cripplegate ground," to bury the last that died in the grave of the first, which lay nine feet under the surface. He, how ever, would pay no more money than would go four feet down, and, of course, the diggers stopped when they got so far. The defendant, upon going to the place of sepulture, and finding that the grave was not as deep as he wished it to be, obtained the as sistance of a friend, who leaped into it, for the pur pose of throwing up the mould. A contest imme diately arose, and the defendant beat the grave diggers in the grave itself. It appeared that the diggers had shown every wish to compromise the matter, and had drank ruin with the defendant, pre paratory to the expected arrangement, and Mr. Clarkson, their Counsel, very ingeniously endea voured to show that the rum was quite an adequate recom pence. Alderman WAITIIMAN—One of you says that his coat was torn. I thought that you usually wore no coat but that you wore half-a-dozen waistcoats ? Grave-digger—" We do wear as many waistcoats sometimes, my Lord; but we sometimes wear a coat. You see, my Lord, if he'd said as he'd wanted nine feet, why we'd a digged it ; but he said four would do, and so we (Jigged four. So yo►► see, my Lord, down he comes with a rope and a bucket, and an Irishman—(Loud laughter)—and they gets down below, and I foilows arter, because it wa'nt proper that none but grave-diggers should dig in sich a spot of ground. So you see, my Lord, he draws me a wipe across the face, and then he draws me another, and he gives it me again and again, and he tears my coat, and so, you see, I was obligated for to come forrad against him." The RECORDER—Had you any thing to drink at the expense of the defendant after this business ? Grave-digger—W e had a drop of rum; and the man talked about getting us to sign a paper, and he wanted to stand a supper. Well, that did'nt look very like malice ?—Why, you see, my Lord, he tried it on with us; he tried to make us intossicated, but we would'nt have it, on no account whatsomdever.—(Laughs► r.) I did'nt know that it would be an unpardonable offence to a grave-digger to make him drunk— (A laugh) 2—lt w•ould'nt do, please your Lordship, for I had only two•pennyworth.—(Laughter.) Mr. CLARKsON . submitted that the rum' was a sufficient recompense, and declared that allowance ought to made for the feelings of a father on an oc casion when a pair of grave-diggers refuFed to do their duty properly. Verdict—Guilty, but recom mended to mercy. The COURT sentenced the defendant to a fine of s. for striking the one grave-digger, and a fine of 40s. for striking the other. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 4.—Public opinion has rather increased hers than diminished in favour of the Reform Bill. More than a thousand persons have left Birmingham to-day to attend the great county meeting at Warwick. Mr. PIUNT, M.P. for Preston, is here. He was invited to attend the Warwick meeting, but having no property in the county, he with proper feeling declined. He is on his way to Preston to visit his constituents. The late hours of the House of Commons do not appear to have agreed with him, for he is very thin, and complains of ill health.. Mr. HUNT'S condact in the House, so con trary to what was expected, has made him a favourite in this neighbourhood. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGM-STREET. Yesterday Elizabeth Flint, cook to Sir George Tuthill, Bart., was brought up for final examination, before Mr. Roe, charged with having embezzled be tween 2001. and 3001, the moneys of Sir George. She was fully committed for trial. MARYLEB ONE. Eliza Hicks, a married woman, about 30 years of age, was charged with attempting to destroy herself the preceding evening. A respectable-looking woman, who gave her name Mary Daniels, stated that on her return from Kent ish-town, about seven o'clock on Tuesday evening, when she got as far as the Elephant and Castle, in the Pancras-road, she saw the prisoner, who ap peared in a state bordering on insanity, endeavour ing to throw herself over some palings which fence a deep marshy ditch by the road-side. In this at tempt she was prevented by a young man, who was afterwards stated to be her brother, and who dragged her into the field, where, after beating her severely, he left her. The unfortunate creature then used every endeavour to beat her brains out, seeking every precipitous spot she could, and throwing herself down head-foremost, until at length some humane persons seized fur, and brought her into the public house. Mr. RAWLINSON asked her why slte acted in this manner ? to which she replied that she had been parted from her husband for several years, and sup ported herself by servitude. She had been for some time out of place, and, being obliged to subsist upon her friends, they at length grew tired of her, and, an altercation having taken place, she tried to de stroy herself. She added that her father lived in \Vilstead-street, and that, if she were set at liberty, she would return to him, as she was confident he would receive her. Mrs. Daniels said that the prisoner expressed her dcterrn;nation to destroy herself, even utter she was in custody. Mr. RAWLINSON asked Mrs. Daniels if she consi- dered the prisoner to be sober at the time ? Mrs. Daniels considered her to be perfectly sober. Mr. RAWLINSON did not think it prudent, after so determined an attempt at self-destruction, to suffer her, on her own assurance, to go at large, and ac cordingly ordered her to be taken to the workhouse of St. Pancras. HATT ON- GARDEN. Yesterday Wiliiam Cole and Thomas Ireland, alias Harper, young me❑ of respectable appearance, were brought before Mr. ROGERS and Mr. Serjeant SELLON, charged on suspicion of having been con cerned in illicit distillation. The Magistrates convicted the prisoner Ireland, alias Harpur, in the mitigated penalty of 301., and, in default of payment, committed him to three months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction, and discharged the other prisoner, as he was not found on the premises. TV ORSHIP- STREE T. A young man, who gave his name - Newport, yesterday entered the office to request the Magis trate's assistance. The applicant stated that his fa ther, who was eighty-three years of age, and resided with him at No 1, Saxon Cottage, Mare-street, Hackney, had left home on Saturday last, at twelve o'clock in the day, for the purpose of taking, as they considered, his usual walk, but had never since re turned. He was well-dressed, rather tall, stout made, and had on at the time a blue coat, light waistcoat, and black breeches. Applicant said he strongly suspected that his father had been way laid and robbed, or detained by some persons for the purpose of obtaining a reward. Mr. BENETT, the sitting Magistrate, ordered the officers to render the applicant all their assistance to find the old gentleman. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday, John Whanzell, a tall ruffianly fellow, in the employ of Mr. Fernee, greengrocer and carrier, Shadwell High -street, was charged with wanton cruelty to his master's horse, and assaulting and severely beating Capt. Charles Gaytor, master of a collier, and several other persons who interfered. From the evidence of Captain Gaytor, whose face bore the marks of severe punishment, it appeared that on the previous afternoon he was passing down Cannon-street-road, in company with a gentleman named Brown, when he observed the prisoner cruelly beating a horse both on the fore and hind legs, be cause he was unable to extricate a van, heavily laden, from a low part of the road. He requested the prisoner to put his shoulder to the wheel, and offered to assist, but the driver refused, and the poor animal being unable to move the load, he flogged it in a most barbarous manlier under the flank until the horse fell on its knees from weakness. Witness again remonstrated with him, but to no purpose; he was assailed with a volley of the lowest abuse, and the defendant seized him by the collar, shook him vio lently, and then knocked him down. On recovering his legs he saw the defendant beating the horse on the head with the butt end of the whip, until the fellow was nearly exhausted with his own exertions. He again remonstrated with him, when the prisoner exclaimed '` What the is it to you ?" and felled him to the ground by a heavy blow in the face. Mr. Robert Brown, a merchant, confirmed his friend's statement, and said that he never saw a horse more inhumanly beaten. The load was suffi cient for two dray-horses. Witness was grossly abused and struck by the prisoner. Several other witnesses said that the prisoner " chopped" the horse on its head with the butt end of the whip. Robert Edwards, a policeman, No. 43, K., said there was a great disturbance on the spot, owing to the indignation of the persons assembled at the wan ton cruelty of the prisoner, whom he saw beating the horse when he came up, and found Captain Gaytor bleeding profusely from the nose and mouth. The prisoner, in defence, said that the horse was a little one, and he was remarkably fond of it, but it wanted coaxing and heating to make it draw. The Magistrates animadverted in strong terms on the shocking brutality of the defendant, and said the interference of Captain Gaytor was highly pta'se worthy. They convicted the defendant in the highest penalty of 51., or, in default of payment, two months' imprisonment. DUBLIN POLICE. Alicia Keating, a hale, stout, hearty-looking wench, and a candidate for matrimony, was charged by her brother b fo u r i r n o a bb a itg )Ie i fatherrof 4 husband. H Her brother, b l re o t l h ., for who the pur pose pre ferred the charge, stated that his sister went off with her own cousin, a young gossoon, about 18 years ould, and who would not be married for 20 years to come. This cousin of his was a great drinker and reprobate, and an estate would not last him—skure b e got 108 owld ginnees, and 42/. in notes, from his sister, and if he could be found he would prosecute him—at all evints she should be prosecuted. Magistrate—Do you wish to swear against her? If you do I must send her to Newgate. Musha, your Honour, replied the brother, you ma y send her wherever your Honour chooses. Prisoner—Arrah shure I only tuck a trifle to pay our passage to America. He was a cousin of my own, and a well-lamed boy, and a baker besides, and I give the money to him, and I don't know where he is. Magistrate—Do you mean to swear informations a gainst her ? Brother—Sartainly, your Worship. The two of thins must be committed, and hanging is too good for them ; Mitre did'nt his father say he ought to be hanged long ago ?—He then proceeded to lodge informations, when the brother re-appeared, and begged of his Worship to keep her over till the mornen, when they might get the boy. To this the Magistrate assented, and the loving brother departed, heaping benedictions on his Worship. PICTURE OF A SPANISH BOARDING• HOUSE. A Young American, during his " Year in Spain," performed the journey from Cordova, in one of those huge galeras or covered waggons, which, as they slowly toil across the naked plains of Spain, resemble great ships traversing the ocean. Among the motley crew of this ark was a Spanish curate, a handsome galliard priest of about thirty years of age, with whom the lieu tenant, with his usual facility, became very so• ciable. When they landed together in " fair Seville's famous city," the lieutenant was for seeking an inn ; but the provident priest, who had, doubtless, been accustomed to beat up that part of the country, recommended a casa de pupilos, or boarding-house, where they would find " more comfort, more retirement, and, at the same time, more society." A barber of Seville, with the proverbial promptness of his craft, pointed them out a house of the kind, kept by a widow lady, where they could not fail to be accommodated a gusto—that is, to their heart's content. They accordingly approach a house, furnished in the delightful Andalusian style, with an interior court, and babbling foun tam ; they ascend a staircase, enter a saloon, the windows of which open on balconies, and are shaped by striped red and white awnings ; and, for the rest, we leave the lieutenant to tell his own story :—" T;iere were few ornaments here ; unless, indeed, three young women—the two daughters and niece of the ancient hostess— who sat with their embroidery in the cool bal cony, might be so esteemed. One of them was at least five-and-twenty ; the next might be eighteen—a dark-eyed damsel, with a swarthy, Moorish complexion and passionate tempera ment. The niece was a little girl from Ecija, the native place of the whole family, who had come to Seville to witness the splendours of the holy week. She was just beginning to lose the careless animation, the simplicity, and the prattle of the child, in the suppressed demeanour, the softness, the voice and figure of a woman. She looked as though she might have talked and acted like a child a week or two ago in Ecija, but had been awaked to new and unknown feel ings by the scenes of Seville. As for the Mo risco, she touched the guitar and sang, not only with passion and feeling, but with no mean taste, for she went frequently to the Italian opera. The other two waltzed like true Anda luzas, as I had occasion to see that every even ing. Such being the state of affairs, the curate and I decided that we would go no farther, and accordingly accepted the rooms that were offered us, and agreed to take our meals with the family. Nor did we afterwards regret our precipitation, for the house was in all things delightful. As for myself, it furnished me with a favourable op portunity of seeing something of those Sevil lanas, of whose charms and graces, of whose sprightliness and courtesy, I had already heard such favourable mention. With these, and some other specimens which I saw of the sex, as it is in Seville, I was, indeed, delighted ; de lighted with their looks, their words and actions, their Andalusian Spanish, their seducing accent, and their augmentatives and diminutives, froni grandissimo to poquito and chiquiti-ti-ti-to. Every thing is very big or very little in the mouth of a Sevillana : she is a superlative crea ture, and is ever in the superlative. There is one thing, however, in my situation in this case de pupilos, which was new and singular, - to say nothing of its inconvenience, and which may furnish a curious study of' Spanish customs. This was the position of my bedchamber. It had a grated window looking on the street, and a door opening into the court-yard. Next it was a long room, running to the back of the building. This also was a bed-chamber, and the bed-chamber of the old lady and of the three ninas of Ecija, who slept on cots, ranged along the room. But it may not be amiss to tell how I came by this information. Now it chanced that the partition wall between my room and this next did not extend to the ceiling, nor, in deed, more than two-thirds of the way up, the remainder being left open to admit a free circu lation of air, and keep the rooms cool ; for Se ville, in summer, is little better than an oven. This being the case, I could hear every thing that was going on next me. We used to commend each other to God over the wall very regularly, every night before going to sleep, and presently I used to hear the old woman snore. The girls, however, would go on talking in a whisper, that they might not disturb their mo ther. In the morning again, we always woke at the same hour and with the customary saluta tions. Sometimes, too, I would be aroused in the dead of the night, and kept from sleeping for hours, just by the creaking of a cot, as one of my fair neighbours turned over; or may be on no greater provocation than the suppressed moan of a troubled dreamer, or the half-heard sigh of one just awoke from some blissful vision." We can readily imagine the anxiety of the reader to know how our modern Telemachus extricated himself from the perils of this island of Calypso, and we confess that we feel a mischievous ple' sure in baulking his curiosity as did Yorick when he left untold the delicate denouement of the affair of the corking pins. If he wishes in formation on the subject, let him consult the book itself. SELLING A WIFE.—The following memo randum (says the S/eckport Advertiser), drawn upon a Is. 6d, stamp, will best explain the nature of a bargain between two fellows at a beer shop in the Flil!gate, in this town. AIit.LwARD is a butcher, and was last week fined before our magistrates for using uneven balances in his trading transactions. The (Aker persons are unknown to us. I Booth Millward, bought of William Clayton, his wife, for five shillings, to be delivered on the tith of March, 1931, to be delivered in a alter, at Mr. John Lomases house. WILLIAM CLAYTON. Witnesses.—Joseph Gordon.—G. Wood.—George 'Whalley. THE VILLAGE OF DON QUIXOTE.—fIe who may hereafter visit La Mancha, in the intention of travelling in the footsteps of Don Quixote, may probably say with me, it is a thousand pities that CERVANTES has not told us the name of the village in a certain corner of La Mancha," where " there lately lived one of those country gentlemen who adorn their balls with a rusty lance and a worm-eaten target, and ride forth on a skele ton of a horse to course with a starved greyhound." CERVANTES has not, however, left us altogether in the dark as to the corner of La Mancha in which this gentle. man lived. El Toboso, the village of his dulcinea, lay in its neighbourhood; and in the coulee of one day's ride from his own house, the knight met the merchants on the road from Toledo to Murcia, and the Biscayan and the lady on the road to Seville ; and the same day that he quitted home he entered the windmills in the neighbour hood of Puerto Lapiche. The locality of Don Quixote's village is therefore sufficiently pointed out ; and the vil lages in this part of La Mancha are not so thickly sown, but that, with these helps, we may even hit upon the Frecise spot that CERVANTES had in his eye when h e t e ll s us that " one morning before sunrise, unseen by any body, in the scorching month of July, he buckled on his armour, mouated Rozinante, braced his target, seized his lance, and through the bask door of his yard sallied into the field." This village could be no other than Miguel Este -van, situated a league and a half or two leagues from El •Toboso, within a day's ride of Puerto Lapiche, and hall day'sa n 9 journeyfromagthaezirne.oad between Toledo and Seville. •E /is nia 7: , s m DUTCH PAPERS. SECOND CHAMBER OF THE STATES GENERAL. THE HAGUE, APRIL 2. The Minister for Foreign Aff►irs addressed the Chamber in a discourse of which the following is a substance The Minister of Finance having, in the course of the week, stated the sum requisite for the p u bli c expenditure, arid the means of providing for it, the Chamber has to complete information on the sub ject, especially the reasons which call for such ex penceS fur , the army, and the defence of the frontier fortresses. His Excellency had, two months ago, expressed his hopes of a favourable result of the negotiations with the five great Powers : those hopes have been fulfilled by the Protocols Nos. 11 and 12, which regulate in an equitable manner, the chief points of the separation of the two divisions of the kingdom, viz. the demarkation of the frontier, and the shale to be borne by each in the debt. The King intimated his assent to these terms, and reason ably expected that every thing would soon be an.. ranged. He observed, that farther armaments in Belgium were now without an object, and that they should cease, in order that the armaments on our side might also be put an end to. Contrary to expectation, no progress was made since the beginning of the year : all those succes sively invested with power in Belgium, even the present Regent has shown no disposition to execute the protocols, but the contrary. The Powers re presented in the Congress of London were treated in a manner that could not be expected in civilized Europe, even in the midst of war. Our territory is continually violated by Belgian marauders, who m ike individuals residing near the frontiers feel all the hardships of war. The communication with Maestricht is in sonic degree open, but the Belgian tr tops have by no means retired to the positions which they occupied before the 21st of November, 1830 ; nay, the Belgians have gone further, and publicly propose to renew hostilities with us. The Regent has sworn to a Constitution which is at variance with the rights of Holland, and with the protocols of the Five Powers, ant in his installation issue :1 a proclamation which shows a manifest dis regard to all that has been done. His Excellency submits to the Chamber the do cuments which show the course of affairs, and prove his Majesty's earnest wish to arrive at some final settlement, that he may alleviate the burdens which press so heavily on Holland. However, his Ma jesty had no choke but to provide for the security of the fiontieies, and to deprive the insurgents event of the notion that they might attack us. Half measures would not do. It was necessary to ex tend the measures of defence to ail the points threatened to the whole of the line of our fortresses. For what would have happened had those lawless bands penetrated into the heart of our country ? Would they not have caused us injuries far greater than the burdens which we now have to bear ? His Majesty deeply regrets having bad no other choice. The present aspect of the citizens and inhabitants of some States, baffles the calculations of politicians, and has great influence on the question of peace and war. The dissolution of society, the overthrow of legitimate authority, are no longer rare occurrences. Agitators, aiming at their own aggrandisement, find in their incessant attempts short-sighted nations ready to throw away the good which the laws insure for a sudden change, by which they think to obtain continual amelioration. Among those nations Bel gium has the that rank. Its dangerauS neighbour hood obliges us to provide for the defence of our southern frontiers against a licentious populace, as we defend our western frontier from the fury of the ocean. Perhaps, however, the hour is not distant when the Powers may think of opposing with . vigour the unjust pretensions of the Belgians. At all events, the Government of Holland must not cease for a moment to take all measures required to main tain the honour, the independence, the inviolability of our territory and its financial interests.—Duleh Paprs, April 5. THE MARKETS. COAL MA RI Adair's 21.5.1 kt • fleaumeolt 2'2 0 Benshain Main —..— 21 3 Charlotte --- 24 6 Dean's Primrose— 23 6 Ellison Main Bean 21 0 Kdlingworth 25 0 Liddell's Msin 22 3 Ord's Itedhugh -- 22:9 Pelaw Pelaw, unscreened 22 6 Pontop Windsor.— 21 6 Pantiehl Townley 23 0 Willington WallsEndllewicke&Co. 28 3 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 24 6 Walls End Boundary 22 0 Ditto Brown's unse. 25 0 Ditto Burraton —24 9 Walls En I Callerton 2l 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0..., 23 3 Ditto Crandington.......... 22 (1 ,tops at market, 190q—Sli: 1.:11'. : -April Walls End Hilda `23s. 61. Ditto Heaton 27 6 Ditto Jestnond second— 24 0 Walls rind Newinareh«, '26 3 Ditto Peareth---. 23 0 Ditto Perkins and C 0... 25 0 Ditto lliddell's 27 6 Walls End Russell's to deliver at Blackwall—. 26 0 Ditto Walker 27 6 Walls End Helton 30 0 Walls End Lambton— 254 6 Walls End Stewart's 30 0 W. E. Russell's HettOn 30 0 Ditto Russell's Lyon's.. 26 9 W. E. Cleveland 22 6 Walls End 27 0 Cowpen . 23 6 Fordel 25 0 Hartley 26 0 Silkstonc Field 23 6 Callerton small —....... 16 6 ips sold, 42N—Unsold, 148. COUNTRY CORN Mf-RKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. j Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Ouartcr. Abingdon--- A nclover--- I. to Birmingham Ilridport Cirencester -- Faringdon----.. Guildford --. Henley. Hereford -- - 40 - Highworth --- Maidenhead --- Monmouth-- Reading Salisb 42 45 Southampton Stroud . - 4‘ Tewkesbury —.— Uxbridge %Vantage -, 42 38. 46 42 46 - 49 - 48 Warminster Windsor Worcester--.—.. )ril 5. lut the trade was still HULL MARKET.—A We had a good supply of Grain to-day, dull, at nearly last week's prices. Wheat, Old —s. 6.55. 705....... New —s. 653 CBs. Foreign —s. 645. 683. ln bond... —s. —B. —,s. Oats, Poland —s. 245. 28s. Old —s. —5. 303. Small or Feed.... —s. 245. 2lis Foreign —s. 245. 2(s Barley, Norf. & Sul. ... —5. 4'25. 435. Line. & Wold —a. 335 465. Foreign Beans 3Ss. 40s. 425. Foreign —s. 40s. 425. Pease, White... —s. 485. 50s. Grey Tares —s 50s. 70s. Foreign —a. 365. 501. Rapeseed, in bond none. CHELTENHAM it A RKET.—April 5. Pei lb. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 4 0 5 0 Oats 4 0 4 3 Beans Pease 5 0 8 0 31. 3s. Beef Mutton Veal Pork Lainb to 31. 13s. td. per ton DUMFRIES MARKETS.—March 30. d. to d. 5 6 5 6 5 6 5 6 • 0 0 s. d. s. e 4. Wheat, Imp. Bush 8 0 to 8 8 Barley 4 9 5 0 Oats 34 46 Flour, 111 h.... 2 4 3 0 Oatmeal Pdtatoes„ cwt..... 1 9 2 0 Butter, l6oz Eggs, dozen Beef, per lb. Mutton Veal Quartern Loaf s. d. s. d 0 0 to 0 0 00 00 04 05 ' 0 4 0 5 04 06 07 08, t a o s° t t h illi e l Hon. Francis Hesinte.rls of fo rt t BIRTHS. On the 3d inst. at Killiney, near Dublin, Mrs. H. Scovell, of a daughter. h he ti l a r:t l e , Graburn,:h q. , da o l f ig: daughter . A.M., _t h h o e ri lt c h h i il nj . t. at BrommpAtoßn,FttlhEeDwiife of E. Gilbert, Esq. of On the sth inst. at Hastings, by the Rev. W. T. Patteson, Lo O rd n i t ., h i e lfo s r t d k . inst. at Hampstead, the Rev. T. H. Causton, • o f Norwich, to Hannah, third William Hanker, E . S. i. , Jun. daughter of the late Lincolnshire. of Bath. - On the Bth of October, at Agra, It. H. de Montmorency, Esq. to O c r a y i s h t e a sth s ,d inst. , aotniSyt. daughtero la‘' e's, o S f o t l e h Southwark, , Re E. ,. Gould, 1 d i ia E w s e q i . , , , Lieut. of the 65th Regiment, to Anna Matilda, third (laughter of Round Oak, Surrey. H. Revel l , E sq ., , _ present Earl. On the Ht la of October, ,D A o„tuhh g lse r Ede a wa,D , üßi. .i tgee . hd H tofeof . ,r Jd L oosir o i, w . eitrp , hehe, E sq . , Lieutenant of the 39th Regiment, grandson of the late Right Hon. Viscount Boyne, to Emily, fourth daughter of H. Revell, Esq., of Round . Oak, Surrey. t ßl h ai e tdeg ß : i ,, g eat h ye t : E H Es c ag n t. i t . ginont, county of Lancaster. On the 9.(1 inst. at Kingstown, near Dublin, Elizabeth Frances, wife of Lieut.-Colonel Hustler, of the Royal Engineers, and only daughter of Orbell Ray Oakes Esof Nwt and Bury St , q., . o on, , Edmund's, Suffolk. oiL.,ttfuo( O di 1),1 ni t yl ; odttw t hhh, the 31st Charlotteat i 34 nti t hsd h t i i unn sisters . t t ,. . o a idtl tllooCGutoh, Elizabeth,r, l e se d f e o - . oe nor.place, Peter Vere, Esq., in the 62,1 year of his age. On the 3d init. at Pinkuey's.green, Mrs. Harriett Casarnsjor. in her 76th year. PRINTED AND PUBLIRRED BY MURDo YOUNG, AT nut SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. • Nc, PRIG'; Sun •co at Ono the r®o N, county of the to his weigh) supers' freque variety every rices Cap., ing, F hail o come' Y vir-' 11 ,1 P' On Iv F Perio held i Marc rentii forty; of th Rego, to pr ing t nod Me e t Ti fully our! limn wisd firm ty's to th it wi satis the . stitt