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tostilby, ie before t h e As , a sk our bringing he name and the • short- s of the irman ces ion were know" [lced, be 'Y ft" 8t end find and al" ite, they it an In : e Cont i ' sive t han ve ma de to of t he COTTA , unary may he we have ary as s°- in which lon strate man ce of Poksellere in &ea- g ;ent COrl' ve bu- m o ther , material it ought is shook, dot). It ciety hog .al of t he turn , lts nun ity 0 CX . come to t W a r that t he owing 17 Aral fea r ': a way tne riving the loss of the tnen her' t:k. The War r I , waiting or tht tic' been ( I °l Altboog ,0 politico sfacket ; letter fri o hihited the lates t f the R as . hie 1 6 Gene r " I, and h"e ind S' ut ? trut h of lg !I, ?G) 1 o• . had e r i r .- 0 t ters ic I, mention nx i e tyf L )9 al )ac e in l'e P art ° f 1 Y de have y rhe 31°`3e 'receded. ; 0 CO' is s yste: e lfast.. ake call his ca M r 11 ; r 1 ' Mao' n ot nne er e e j for repay 00 ,rnnl' s o ral bertlotr' g e le d th en • esl or' We st P o/ giv , e fi ,; s r et, to he ac t • a tea es 30', Il er• too e t , ye .„ter Tu esti do b on a th vo i „Ra „ ro t, e d prep „cy. re ste, 0 tn- L, r; s ° lo s4 81 ' e se Wi are ~ o me t re _ n igh t s Dt atte °4 o4 lli, !to c lod " the ',pre , t hat v iew tbe 'Ai re p 410 • I W ,sot . a tteil ° o 4 hCr i s o§ haft an d rue d ob" If t ot Jo , be rfF 'ytr ; IV eu l i° B l3B tbs t t o' a lle d cho .0 0 ffice hi° t c ' l . O O tO r be re-elipsl t. 41NING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) 114 ; FROM LLOYD'S. t a lArcir 17.—Wind W. moderate.—Arrived te Thomson from Rio Janeiro. The outward- Oti z ,, t Qll:n in th e D owns . Hi s M a j esty ' s s hi p W arren 'd u n Lady Turner, Vulture, Venus, Ranier, Dee, Oral others. l'k ktt S4ol;Ttr, MARCH 17.—Wind W.—The Par tlk.zi,Port broke adrift last night, and drifted athwart ( )f the Lord William Bentinck transport ; the her mizen mast, and both sustained damage. MARCH 17.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived litP, t ransport from Woolwich. L i kk e ik‘,dII3;MARCH 17.—Arrived the Arab, Smith , from N1:433L, M ARCH 16.—A rr i ve d the Mary Porter, from Demerara. MAticir 16.—Arrived the Woodland Castle, from Barbadoes. MARcri 16.—A vessel was lost on the the Skerries on the night of the 12th inst. and °4l\l drowned. Nothing has been found to ascer kbiteigi but f rom a f ew f a th oms o f a new twelve-in c h ' she must have been between two and three tO4 . Several pieces of hoard have been picked 1 (3 ?! N\ lA," probably Britannia ; on another ` r, perhaps Harrington. ,pk4l,lgunde, Klempt, from St. Thomas's, has ar 141,trighton. Ckn, from Pictou to Dublin, which was at sea the ' lst of December, drifted into Bode, 44 t , 1V, on 'Tuesday morning. i kYO ELECTION-(T HIS DAY.) 1 4 f t i C i 4 Httuittee this dry declared that Dominick Brown, t ~~ttinglllernber) was duly elected, and that the Joseph Macdonald, EN. was both ftivolous MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. & 4 1 t ' v rous state of the weather has kept back the vessels, als in c,nsequenee are small. The Wheat trade is ,44Y, but not altered in price Barley for malting main ic,ir't_quo:ations. Beans and Pease are unvaried. Oats 'titi on ; fully support the terms of Monday. In Hour ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. Flour. , ..... 1, 0 qrs 810 qrs. 1 qrs. 735 sacks. 7,430 - br Is. SAIITI.IFIELD MARKET. l~bdki.s Market which exhibited a limited supply through. I likiv4nci of meat met with a somewhat brisk sale, Veal it l ie of from 4d. to 6d. per stone; Beef, Mutton, and ,onday's prices. Mulch C ows , w hi c h were a l s o i n he l fully supported their last week's prices, an use tlet o rns, with her small calf, producing from 211. to 23/. P ER STONE OF I3LBS• TO SINK THE OFFALS. , r te s. d. to S. d. s . d. to t. d. .1, 44. 5 ts ..... 2 6 2 8 Large Lambs ti,NS,ty ditto 210 3 4 P r i me sma ll ditto 0 0 0 0 Oxen... 3 8 4 2 Large coarse Calves 310 4 6 SheeSze• .... 4 2 4 61 Prime small ditto 5 6 6 0 .. .... :3 0 3 4; Large hogs 3lO 1,,,,„tY ditto 3 2 4 2, Small Porkers 4 4 410 1,47,„"ed ditto 4 6 5 21 Suckling Calves 12s to36s. eadr 'vv ethers 5 2 5 61 Quarter old Pigs Its to 18s. each. 4,B tI PPLY, AS PER CLERK ' S STATEMENT. 377 4 ' 1 Sheep. 1 I Calves. Pigs. 1 3,410 1 125 l3O w - ATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. s. toe. d. .. ............ 2 4 4 0 Veal 3 4 5 t .•.. 2 8 4 6 Pork 3 4 410 C g i T - MARKETS.—(TWO 'O'CLOCK.) sil t Z7 , here has been an increase of business in the Sugar , 14,11 1 n the last two days, the refiners as well as the gro- A tteTeen uchasers. The sck of Suas beg low has Ift). much being done as was expected g , r but in prices are Low brown Berbice fetch 465., and low brown to %:!31aica from 475. to 51s. Fine qualities are very scarce. L '14,1 ,1 4 for Foreign Sugars is steady. The purchases of all have been large, at from 1355. to :335. per cwt. for ', i ons, and from 355. to 365. for middling to good de- Igh, r Prices may be quoted generally from Is. to is. rd. per ! , 11 10 : Mauritius Sugarsar are steady. In refined goods there Og;: 1 0ing, but are firm. tti',r,E there is less activity than for some time past. lac e East India may be quoted Is per cwt. cheaper. There ~1 4 4,44 . St. Domingo at 40s. per cwt. Jamaica and D u t c h 1,,,J Prices. Lt'roof Leewards are not obtained under Is. 10, 3 / 2 d. per tls t ,e of the finest sorts of Jamaicas are in demand for &4 ) ,For low Brandy there is a good demand for exporta ,a.ke;_, first mark, is a t s s . Id. to s s . 2d. ; second ditto t 14 ° 4s. &1., and third mark from 3.5. Gd. to 4s. 4d. per EdTRADE—Since the last sale Teas have been in ''',tl, l ; l Hops there is little doing in bags and pockets, ex ,r.,.11,,v0;me trade, at a reduction of from 3s. to 4s. per Vie 41 0j , 5. ri ee 'RODUCE.—Thedemand for Tallow has increased, 's now from 48s. 6d. to 495. per cw t. H em p, o f N O Wth, is at W. 10s. ; ditto, this year's, 39!. 10s. per ton. I . N ti :_" - -The Cotton market is steady. The de man d f or I,lpes active. tt., i t is a very good demand for in e j i can Fur l s.Racoon realize from 4s. to ss. fid. per Ot t "" 6. Otter, from 255. to 345.; Bear, 51s. to 80s. ; Cross , e t to 26s :34:1 Th bli sl tl - t h te u caes a ey,a ic a os tlstZ e t3 s was p afforded, went off briskly at advanced prices 41S MAJESTY'S SHIP THETIS. 1 , " 1 -4 TIA Len the CAPTAIN, 0 F Fl and CRE IV of IL M. S. THE TI S. PORTEIMOUTII, MARCH 17. 4) t , tl i Tt opened this day a t n i ne o ' c l oc k. Th e fi rst 1q - 4 7 4 Was Lieut. Hamilton, of th e net* who When the C a pt a i n as k e d th e master if t h ey rt a lter the course of th e s hip a po i n t or two , t h e /r d tt4 . .Plied in the affirmative,! and accordingly it 4i i t t ; l tP,, tl eei a master in the navy, was next examined, ep q,b c. :' , he knew of a current on th a t coas t, runn i ng t ib tt ' 0 S.W., but did not i n f orm th e C a pt a i n o r 1, 1 14, 4 4 '1ae he considered that they knew more of the did ; that he (Mr. Trounce) would have atlees for the same current if he had been master 11: 4 4cI P I : and that, considering the c o ur s e o f the ship, , 44 sounded when near Cape Frio. tt, f Ceach, t h e b oatswa i n, was called, an d gave an ;N t he shipwreck,and of his own duties performed O 4. FC. • t v It seems, from the evidence of this witness, t• y aA fro the chief means of savi ng th e gr e ater part of t o,i, 41 a watery grave. 141 1 7 quarter-master was then called, and corm ge other witnesses' evidence with regard to the te t i ship's course, &c., which had been debited at lth l vtl? length by th e severa l w i tnesses . fitness was called, and swore that at five and itf the Captain,kppt hr away from N.E th . to E.N.E. by and corroborated e greater part of 'la' evid • ' Ot ence. The Court th e n adjourned till the MEATH ASSIZES. ,k;l l ;., l 'AcE, in a speech of three hours, defended c, , 1( 4 ,` - ' oll rtenay, against the prosecution of Miss , ti a conspi racy , as not i ce d i n our pa p er a few ' ;,t tar The foll o wi ng were th e conc l u ding sentences ,Nl. ll ed Gentleman's appeal:— ,'"oi` t nen of the Jury,—l implore of you not to i t tk t ::Alieit a confidence in the swearing of any hu e,ed e, when pl ace d i n a re l at i ve pos iti on with the t st , by the prisoners. PI ice not implicit con !11 % a : I Y human being when brought forward to .:. ei; d. Own case, where their fortunes, their lives, ,:st e 4r acterg, are in Jeopardy. There is one eir ';'i, I , tif my life to which I cannot recur without It c'aY say of repentance, of pain, and of sor .? th 4 6 0, d difficult to overcome. When I look ',lstl 11 c ircumstances connected with that event, L tl l ,,, ° °k around here to-day, and see his Lord 'iitt s ncb before toe, and two poor unfortunate 1 1e, t iL: s at bar charged with emspiracy, it brings to ;fed ", with all the force of bitter regret, the ,:,th u ,Pon that o ccas i on — a n a c t w hi c h I s h a ll re !l "test hour of my life. I was at one time )i'''ch h as side, an d hi s L or d s hip, wh o i s now on II 'lf I,.°e f ore me, was Counsel at the other. A ,t'ip;lgll rank and station in life was accused of a t,' poor peasant was his accuser ;he was i . i ti k 'Piracy, and I was retained as Counsel on ' Al l i ßlif ta g l e . Pi.rson accused was no less a personage than 1 ,. 11 , 1 tt e , Yof the church. He was of imposing . mein , 1 1 --- "Ile cam e into Court to support his own eta; ° ' N ,Pols of the Lord God were put into his 1, it 4t i - c , his eye s to H eaven , t o a pp ea l to that God 'tL kt L e ,' 4 nctity, whom h e was go i ng to blaspheme, \ i,,,lt t ,i' about to swear was true. The solemnity ''Nl,l l 41 taking that oath, which he knew to be Yi ) tit,"°ce you to exclaim at once that he was in ,kykt tt c ::: ) . l i c the oath, accompanying it with . an appeal o li tie 1 , , 4 e was innocent of the charge imputed to obiltly t4(n .ier ; yet he swore what was false. I 4 .brief, exclaiming that he who made the t ty, vile conspirator. The unfortunate man was t Witit'd suffered an ignominious punishment.— h,"\ ; 11 1, 4 ' 14 " burst into tears, and every individual 1 / 4 11 t , t i .. a . " deeply affected.)—Mr.. Wallace,. after an Vl:i ti ' 4 vour to overcome his feelings, begged 40 so affected, and concluded by giving, with ' l ke, the case of his clients into their hands." ASSIZES.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.) LANCASTER, MARCH 16. John. Hallocal, aged 20, James Anderton. aged IS, Peter Kenyon, aged 19, John Greenhalgh, aged 30, and Robert Grayson, aged 23, who were all colliers in the employment of Lord Balcarras, were arraigned upon two indictments charging them with having, at Adlington, on the sth day of January last, burgiariously entered the dwelling-house of Roger Leigh, with intent to ravish Rachel and Alice, the wife and daughter of the said Roger Leigh'; and in other counts it was alleged that they had carnally known these two women, by force and against their will. The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty. There were two otherindictruents charging the prisoners with burglary in the house of the said Roger Leigh, and with breaking some weaving looms, his property, and to those the prisoners also pleaded Not Guilty,"and they were put upon their trial on the first indictment. Mr. STA RKIE (with whom was Mr. COWLEY) having stated the facts in support oft he indictment for the rape, called— Roger Leigh—l am a weaver. I live in Adlington, in a cottage, which is ore of a row of six, and the row less than three-quarters of a mile from any other house, and from the high-road leading froin Bolton to Chorley. I first went to live in the cottage on the 3d of January last. My fa mily consisted of myself, my wife, and daughter. The house consists of a kitchen and a room above it, between which there is a communication by a flight of steps, and then a hole in the floor. On the sth of January we all went to bed about ten o'clock at night. The door of the lower room was then fastened with a staple, and in the course of the night, I think about twelve o'clock, I was awakened by the door being forced open. I then heard the loom props pulled down. I heard stones come through the windows of the lower room at first, and afterwards through the windows of the upper room. One of the stones cut my wife above the eye. A person called out three times from the kitchen, Roger, we are unioning ; will you be allnion ?" But I made no answer. I asked my mistress to set some water on the fire, that I might scald them. A man offered to conic up through a hole in the room, and I took a spade full of burning coals, and threw them on him. I afterwards threw three spadefulls of fire on them, but that (lid not drive them away.— The people below said, " Let's not be managed with him; crash (rush) upon him." They then took a scythe which was in the kitchen, and cut at me who was stand ing at the hole. The scythe broke, and they threw that and the pole into the room. I took the scythe pole in my hand and struck at one of them. One of them took a basket and put it over his head and got through the hole in the floor into the room where we were all in bed to gether. We had but one bed. After the first man got into the room three others followed. They then broke a winding wle el and some pots, and pulled down the fire grate which was in the room. It was quite dark, and I laid hold of my daughter, thinking it was my wife, to rescue her. At that time two persons had hold of my daughter and threw her on the bed, and I got hold of her legs to keep her from harm, but two or three men forced her from me, and one of them said " Bobby White," took me by the throat and struck me three times, and again went to my daughter. I was lying on the bed with my daughter, and the men. My wife and all the men went down into the kitchen. I followed, and I saw a man dragging her by the feet through the kitchen to the third cottage door, which is occupied by a per son named Pennington. I ran towards them to rescue her, and the man ran across the fields pur sued by me, but I could not catch him. I could hear the voices of other men at the bottom of the field, but could not distinguish what they said. Whilst the men were in the upper room I heard my wife shriked (scream), but, as it was dark, I could not see what any one was doing to her. My wife, daughter and I all shriked " murder." I think the men remained in the house from an hour and a half to two hours. I heard my wife beg her life many times. The first time I heard her beg for her life was about twenty minutes after the men first broke the windows. I never to my knowledge saw more than four men in the upper room. In the afternoon of thet day, between one and two o'clock, some men called at my house, but I did not take any particular notice of them. One of them had a white hat on, and two of them peeped into the upper room. I think Anderton was one of them, but I cannot say that any of the other prisoners were among those men. I know an ale-house called the White Bear, and the men went by Pennington's cottage, which is about a quarter of a mile from the White Bear. Cross-examined—l cannot pretend to swear that any of the prisoners was among those men. I think Anderton was one of them, but I would rather not swear to him. The men were abont an hour in the kitchen before they c ime up stairs. During all the time the men were in the upper room I was on the hell with my daughter, who was on the opposite side of the room from my wife. When m y wife was going down to the kitchen I saw one man following her; the other three men had left the room a minute before. I know the hour the men went away be cause I immediately went to Pennington's house, and Pen nington told me it was two o'clock. I know Ellen Hughes, who is an old woman living in a cottage near me, but I did not see her that night. I see her every day, and it is likely that within two or three days after this business I spoke to her about coming to Lan caster, and said, " Well, Ellen, what spirits for Lan caster ?" She answered, " Very poor ones ;" but I did not tell her that my daughter had not been raped that night ; Ellen Hughes pretended to say that the woman had not been meddled with ; that she had looked at my daughter, and knew she had not; but I said that it was impossible for her to tell. I did not say to her or to any body else that I would hang two or three of the lads, and then go to London. Ido not think I know Thomas Thompson a labourer, at Blackrod. Scares of men came to my house next morning, but I did not say to any of them that " I had some drunken lads here; they got my (laughter down, and I believe they would have used my wife the same way only she would not let them." I never in my life said that nor any thing of the kind. On the Sunday night that I was coming to Lancaster, I called at the Duke of York public-house in Choi ley; I did not say that " if any body would give me five sovereigns I would not appear against the lads." I have been confined in the New Bailey at Manchester for three months for neg lecting my weaving. I was confined in Preston House of Correction for being loose (deserting) from my wife. I am sure that I was never in prison at any other time. Re-examined—I was discharged from Preston at the Sessions. The men meddled with th e women a b ou t a minute after they got into the upper room. Witness upon leaving the box said, "My Lord, have mercy upon the men, they are young." Reamed Leigh, the wife of last witness, corroborated his statement and preyed that violence had been done to her person by two of the men, one of whom was taller than the other, and that this was done against her will. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE-If the felony charged were robbing the house I should say the fifth man in the kitchen was aiding and abetting them; but when I look at the evidence and see the conduct of the prisoners in entering the house commenced by breaking the looms of tho furni ture, I cannot tell the Jury that there is sufficient evidence to sustain an indictment charging them with entering the house. Other evidence was adduced, after which the Jury found the prisoners Not Guilty. A similar verdict was taken upon the other indictment for a rape upon Alice Leigh. _ _ John Ashton, a man of respectable appearance, and stated to be a book-keeper in a canal warehouse at Wigan, was indicted for having, on the 26th of July last, used a certain instrument to procure the abortion of Sarah Mor ris, who was pregnant by the prisoner. The (let tils of the case are - unfit for publication, but it having appeared that the prosecutrix was never, in fact, pregnant, his Lordship said if the Jury thought the woman had never been pregnant, they ought to acquit the prisoner; and the Jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The business on the civil side was concluded this day. ROYAL BON MOT--The Duke of OR LEANS (father of the present King of th e F renc h) , li ved on terms of great intimacy with the Duke of QUEENS BERRY ; their intercourse was made the subject of a lion mot by the Prince of Wales (GEORGE IV.) A sufficient knowledge of the French language was not among the at tainments of the Duke of QUEENSBERRY, who yet valued himself en this as on every other accomplishment. He happened to speak before the Prince of his being on par ticularly good terms with the Duke of ORLEAN S . 64 I understand that, on the contrary, you never agree," said the Prince. " Your Royal Highness," replied the Duke, " is misinformed : we never had the slightest difference." " That is strange," rejoined the Prince, " for they say you never speak to him without giving him bad language." The publication of " The Standard Novels" has commenced auspiciously with " The Pilot," by the ,‘ Walter Scott of America." The handsome size of the volumes, and the clearness and beauty of the type and embellishments, give this publication an air very superior to the great majority of works published in a periodical series ; and the lovers of romance must rejoice in the ex pectation held out to them by this popular undertaking, of obtaining their favourite stories for the first time at a price within the reach of all. LITERATURE. HISTORY OF THE WAR IN THE PE NINSULA. VOL. 111.-LONDON, IS3I. To those who desire to glean a just notion of the character, tendency, &c. of the memorable Peninsular war ; of the indomitable prowess of the British soldier, and of the skill, presence of mind, perseverance, and heroism of the British Commander ; in a word, to those who would wish to know how British soldiers fight, and British officers command—to all such we would recommend the perusal of Colonel Napier's book. Though penned in a professedly learned spirit, by a military man whose service and love of tactics are at least on a par with his enthu siasm, it is neither burthened with techni calities, nor mystified by a pedantic osten- ' tation of science. On the contrary, the style is remarkable for its simplicity and manliness, and the description of battles, blending the seientific . with the ornamental, is characterised by an energy, and even a picturesque power of effect, li that strongly rivet the attention. There are few finer things in the records of military literature than the details of the battle of Albuera, with its startling reverses, and its unforeseen, triumphant termination. Colonel Napier writes, we should conceive, pretty much as he fights, that is to say with strength, earnestness, and determination. Sincerity breathes in every page—the sincerity that results from the conviction of a good cause, and the knowledge that he is merely stating, not burdening with ornament, the plain, unadulte rated truth. Where he condemns, he condemns with candour, and we may add severity ; where he praises it is with equal heartiness. Here and there we fancy we can detect a lurking spirit of partizanship ; but the alloy is trifling and of no moment. Were we col lecting or arranging an extensive library, we should make a point of placing Colonel Napier's Narrative of the Peninsular War by the side of Ctesar's Commentaries, and as military histo rians, or rather Journalists, we know not to which of the two we should assign the preference. Et vitula to (lignus et hic ; both are equally worthy to be held in remembrance as military annalists. In precision and fulness of detail, however, the modern is superior to the ancient ; in energy too he is superior, but in classic elegance inferior. ATTEMPTS IN VERSE. By J. Joys LONDON. 1831. We must confess, we anticipate no very speedy or extensive sale for this volume, the most valuable portion of which proceeds from the pen of its Editor, R. Southey, Esq., Doctor, Poet Laureat, and so forth. It contains the productions of an elderly gentleman named Jones, a poet, from inclination, and a footman from necessity, who some time since transmitted his manuscript effusions to Mr. Southey, who chanced to be residing in his neighbourhood, near Harrowgate. The laureate, struck with the good feeling and candid and unaffected nature that these effu sions, together with the letter that introduced them,- evinced, at once agreed to the task of su perintending them for publication, but fearful that if left to stand alone on their own merits, they might sink, wisely interspersed throughout the volumes desultory but animated notices of those among our uneducated poets whose names are now forgotten. Among these is a sketch of Taylor, the water poet, which is full of interest, and which we suspect will form the redeeming feature in the volume. Mr. Jones's share of the work we shall dismiss with the remark that his poems, under the circumstances, are clever and readable, but deficient in nerve, character, and polish. Homeliness is the chief feature. A MODERN SPANISH ROSINANTE. After being detained a day longer at Aranjuez than I had contemplated, for want of a convey ance, my little friend Jose at length procured me the means of reaching Toledo. Indeed, I was just thinking of the expediency of departing afoot, on the fourth morning of my absence from Madrid, when Jose knocked at my door, and told me that he had got a horse for me, and that he was to go along, to bring him back, on a borrico. I liked this arrangement well. So, paying my bill, and packing up my sack, I sallied out into the court-yard, to commence my journey. I did not expect to be very splendidly mounted, but my astonishment and confusion were indeed great, on finding that I had to ride upon a mi serable racer that had lost its hair by some dis ease, especially upon the tail, which was as long and as naked as the trunk of an elephant. The only flesh the animal had left seemed to have descended into the legs, and as for his hips, his backbone, and ribs, they were everywhere con spicuous, save where concealed by a huge pack saddle, stuffed with straw and covered with canvas. What made the matter still worse, the master of the beast, an old man in a brown cloak, held his hand before me, as I was approaching to take a nearer view ; and told me that if it was iqual to me, he would take the two dollars beforehand. I explained to the old man how very possible it was that his horse would not live to complete the journey ; to which he replied, with some indignation, that he would carry me to las Indias, much more to Toledo. As he continued to held out his hand with a resolute air, I dropped the required sum the pack-saddle for want of a into mane, it , and l vaulted at once into the seat. The back of the poor animal cracked and twisted under the burthen, and, as he gave some indi cations of a disposition to lie down, I drew forcibly upon the halter. Thus roughly handled, his neck bent backward like a broken bow, and backed f u ll u p on the id ea o f so l ong an excursion, j m o a s k e i , n wg ho, r o e , t ro wellgwr a ap d sl e eda rs s ae t wd e steps, w s u , pt hh behind, ehind, upon a li tt l e mouse-coloured ass, with the game-bag, which contained all my travelling equip age , h ung round his neck and hanging from his sh ou ld er . T hree or four sound blows from the cudgel of Jose, accompanied by a kick under the belly f rom the master of the beast, corrected this retrograde motion, which, being changed for an advance, we sallied out of the inn and took our way through the market-place, to the admiration of all Aran juez.—A Young American's Year in Spain. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of CUMBERLAND, accompanied by Prince GEORGE, dined with the Archbishop of YORK, on Wedne, day, at his residence in Grosvenor-square, and afterwards accompanied his Grace to the Concert of Ancient Music, at the Hanover-square-rooms. The Loan CIiAMBERLAIN gave a grand dinner on Wed nesday, at Devonshire House, to the Landgravine of HESSE Homattc, and a select party of the nobility and gentry. The Prince of ORANGE visited the Princess AUGUSTA on Wednesday. At the Levee held by his MAJEsrr on Wednesday, the Right Hen. CHARLES GRANT, the President of the Board of Controul, delivered a letter of condolence and congratula tion to the KING, on his succession to the British Throne, from the Shah of PERSIA. A meeting. of Members of the House of Commons, con sidered to be friendly to the measure of Reform now before Parliament, took place yesterday at the residence of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. in Downing-street. The meeting was attended by 147 Members, among whom were the Marquis of TAvisTocK, Viscount AIORPETII, Viscount EBRINGTON, Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Lord G. HILL, Lord A. lltr.e, the Right Hon. ROBERT GRANT, Sir JOHN SEBRIGIIT, Sir M. W. Iltnr.F.Y, Sir F. BURDETT, Sir R. W ILSON , Sir J. MACINTOSH, Sir J. NEWPORT, Sir J. GRAHAM, Alderman WOOO, Mr. RIDLEY Col.• BORNE, Mr. ELLIcE, &co. &c. The Members continued assembled about an hour. The Ambassadors and Ministers of the great Powers held a conference for some hours yesterday afternoon with Vis count PALmERsroN, at the Foreign Office. There wi re prese n t the Russian, Austrian, and French Ambassadors, and the Prussian Minister. The Spanish Minister transacted business yesterday at the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Lord HOLLAND has been severely indisposed during the last ten days at his residence in Eurlington•street. Sir HENRY HALFORD, Dr. THOMSON, and Mr. BRODIE, have been c Ailed in to render their professional assistance. Mr. ALLEN is in constant attendance on his Lordship. Viscount Ari-war visited Earl GREY yesterday at the Treasury, after the breaking up of the meeting of Members of the House of Commons. Suannonses were issued late in the afternoon for a Cabinet Council, which was to assemble at ten o'clock last night. THE LONDON COLLEGE OF MEDICINE. A very numerous and respectable public meeting of me. dical gentlemen was held on Wednesday evening at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, Josxrx HOME, Esq. M.P. in the chair. The objects of the meeting were stated by the Hon. Chairman and various speakers. The late rage committed by the President and Council of the Royal College of Surgeons against their own Members, by expelling them with Bow-street officers ri et armis from their own theatre, was adverted to with warmth and universal indignation. The monopoly and various abuses arising therefrom of that College was also condemned in very unmeasured terms. The almost insurmountable manner in which gentlemen were shut out from obtaining the degree of Doctor from the Laudon College of Physicians, owing to the restrictive nature of the by-laws of that College, and the paltryness of the privileges conferred on their licentiates by their license ; the trading and money-making monopoly of the Apothecaries' Company by their Examiners, and the numerous evils resulting from the workings of the Act—together with the many discrepancies existing at present in the medical profession —were brought for cibly under the notice of the meeting. It was ably con tended that the existing artificial divisions and discre pancies led to disunion, jealousies, discos ds, and every thing but what ought to be found in so liberal a profession. In such a state of things the respectability of the pro fession must be compromised, the zealous cultivation of the science could not be promoted, and consequently the health of the community must be neglected, and the public thereby deeply injured. It was absolutely necessary that mankind should be protected against these gross and grow ing evils. The simple query was, what was the best course to be adopted ? and the meeting finally and unanimously resolved that they should have two strings to their bow, that they should present a petition to Parliament, praying among other things, the Legislature to abolish the self electing system of the Council of the College of Surgeons, and give the e!ective franchise to the Members at large, and that at the same time they should proceed, forthwith, in every effort in the formation of a new college, (as Mr. Wakley emphatically said) a temple of fame to man kind—a monument to the shrine of charity—a building to rest on the adamantine pillars of truth, and to be called " The London College of Medicine." In the sup port of this College all medical men and the public should be earnestly requested to come forward. Into it all le gally authorized practitioners, whether physicians, sur geons, or apothecaries should be received ; all should be considered Fellows, and all have the title of Doctor Its officers should be elected by the body at general meet ings --its students examined publicly —open to the press and every person, with the subject before them, and with out reg a rd to the quarter fro m , or t h e way i n w hi c h t h e i r knowledge might have bee n o bt a i ne d— t h e di p l omas grant e d a t as little cost as cou ld b e cons i stent w i t h t h e dignity and support of the College—and that a fund should be raised for the support of the poor widows and orphans of the Fellows. There could be no doubt that Parliament would unhesitatingly grant its protection to such a College. The Hon. Ch a i rman p l e d ge d hi mse lf to do ev ery t hi ng for it in his power, and the meeting dis persed highly gratified with the proceedings, and confident of success. In' the House of Commons last night, Mr. HonacE Twiss endeavoured to escape from the obloquy which his application of the quotation from Ecclesiostieus subjected him to. We cannot exactly understand his dis tinction between the middle classes, and the classes about to receive the suffrage by the Reform Bill. We could say something in answer to Mr. Twiss; hut he has already paid for his indiscretion.—Morning Chronicic. The anniversary dinner for the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick was held yesterday at the Free masons' Tavern, Lord F. L. GOWER in the chair. Mr. BARTLEY stated on Wednesday, at the Committee of the Covent-garden Theatrical Fund, that on Monday week, when his MAJEsTy was retiring from the theatre, be said (addressing Mr. C. KEMBLE), " KESIBLE, when is your dinner ?" Mr. KEMBLE, at the moment not recollecting the precise d ay appo i nted for that purpose, appealed to him (Mr. BARTLEY), who having informed his 111AJESTY that the dinner was fixed to take Place on the 23d, " Very well," observed the Kitio em phatically, " communicate to the Committee that I shall not forget them." A NEW WAY TO HANDLE TILE REFORM QUESTION.—As Mons. MALLAN, the celebrated dentist, of Half-moon-street, Pir2adilly, on his journey home from Bath last week, was changing horses, a well-known M.P. Anti-Reformer asked him what he thought of the Reform question ? Mons. MALLAN very quietly replied, we must look at home for Reform, and as the gentleman's teeth is sadly out of order, we recommend him to Reform the same by calling at his establi,hment. ITALY.--Italy contains a population of 21,000,000 inhabitants spread upon a surface of 90,652 square miles, which is rather more than 231 inhabitants to one square mile. Her stated revenue is about 323,370,000 francs; her active army, 116,911 men. CURIOUS DOCUMENT FOUND AT T HE TuttinttEs.........lNTEavtEw WITH TIIE GRAND DDNE CONSTANTINE.-The Court Jo urna l o f S a t ur d ay , March 19th, will contain in addition to its usual variety of fashion able intelligence, &c. two highly curious and interesting papers. one consisting of curious documents found in the writing desk of the Duchess D'ANGOULEME, during the recent' attack of th e T u il er i es , i n t h e actua l h a nd-writing of the Duchess herself, the Emp er o r o f A UST RIA, King of PRUSSIA, Princess AUGUSTA, Princess WitarELarptA. &C. The other a r e l a ti on o f an i nterv i ew an d co nversation be tween the Gr an d D u k e CowsrawriNit, the Polish Envoy, and Count WOLICKI, immediately after the recent flight of the Grand Duke from Warsaw. The late Mr. R—, when Minister of Inehture, had a heavy share in one of the Dundee whalers. One season the vessel was missing, and thought to be lost. On a Sabbath morning the news reached Inchturo that the missing whaler had come safely in. As usual t h e beadle was in att e nd ance to usher the minister into the pulpit ; while on his way through the church -yard, he turned round with a face full of importance, and said, " Sir, the whale ship's come in." " Hold your Peace, JOHN," replied the minister, with a frown, " How dare you speak to me about whale ships on the Lord's day ?" The poor beadl e was quite crest fallen at this rebuke ; however, when he was opening the door, the minister said, archly, " Hark y e, man ! any fish ?" " I dinna ken an it be right to sp ea k about fish on the Lord's day, but they say she is a bumper ship." "Is she faith !" exclaimed the clergyman, striking his cane on the ground. The news raised hi s sp i r i ts so f ar a bove their ordina r y t one, that his hearers declared they never heard him so lively either before or after.— Glasgow Evening Post. BENEFICIAL EMPLOYMENT TO THE LABOURING CLASSES. SUGGESTIONS ON THE BEST 3IEANS OF OBTAINING FUNDS TO ENABLE GOVERNMENT TO GIVE BENEFICIAL EMPLOYMENT TO THE LABOURING CLASSES, TIIROWN OUT OF WORK By the introduction qf Machinery, or by any other cause. In May, 1826, the Editor of The Sun, and also the Editor of Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, published a letter of mine, in which I recommended that Government should purchase waste or uncultivated land in the neighbourhood of Blackburn and Manchester, and employ the manufacturers who were then out of work and in distress. in dividing that land into farms of from a hundred to a hundred and fifty acres in each, and after the bounds and division fences were completed, I advised that these farms should be sold. I presume that by adopting such a plan the funds obtained to carry on these improve ments would progressively increase. It appears to me that the present distress amongst the working classes might be relieved by the adoption of measures of nearly a similar description to those above alluded to ; the only difference being that Government should pur chase estates instead of waste land, and employ those who were now or at any future time thrown out of work by the introduction of agricultural or manufacturing machinery, in improving those estates. For a groat many years I advocated the cultivation of waste lands, though I well knew that in all the cultivated lands throughout the kingdom there was scarcely one field that did not require to be improved, and to complete the im provement of enclosed lands, with buildings erected upon them, would be much more eco nomical, than to erect buildings, and manure, fence, and cultivate waste lands. I knew that to force the proprietors to improve their estates was quite out of the question, and it did not occur to me till lately that there was any means by which Government could obtain possession of a sufficient extent of enclosed and cultivated laud, to give work at all times to those who were thrown out of employment by the intro duction of machinery. As, however, I think I now see my way more clearly, I am of opinion that men of all descriptions, able and willing to work, should by no means be encouraged to emigrate to distant colonies, but be induced to remain at home, by Government obtaining by purchase cultivated land, and offering to give employment and reasonable wages to effect its improvement. When arrived at this point of my letter, you will I think, be inclined to ask me, from whence the funds are to be obtained to enable Govern ment to purchase estates, and to pay the labourers employed in improving them ? Whsn I have made a few remarks respecting machinery, I shall endeavour to show from whence sufficient funds for the purchase of estates and for the payment of labourers in the improvement re quired upon them, are to be derived. In the debates in the }louse of Lords I read the speeches of Earl Stanhope, Earl Grey, and Lord Wynford. Earl Stanhope said " that one thing he was determined on, whatever others might do ; he would think it his duty to lay aside those new machines which threw out of employment such numbers of the labouaing poor. To the ancient machinery he had no ob jection, but he really did think some limit should be put to the use of those modern inven tions which displaced so great a quantity of ma nual labour." Earl Grey asked Earl Stanhope " what he meant by the ancient machinery ? was it a spade ? was it a plough ? or did he mean to retain the rude implements of agricul ture, and reject all improvements ?" Lord Wyn ford observed " that he had said nothing against the use of machinery, but only against its abuse ; all things, even the most useful, were liable to abuse ; he had no wish to restrain human in tellect, but he considered that the interests of the labourers should be sacred in their Lord ships' eyes." I agree with Lord Wynford " that human inventions should not be restrained, and that fetters should not be put upon the human intel lect." My opinion is, that the saving of manual labour by the use of machinery, increases the national wealth ; the invention of machinery should therefore be encouraged ; but when per sons are thrown out of employment by machinery being substituted for manual labour, they should be protected by Government, and have reason able wages offered to them for their labour in in improving land.* It is evident that if this were done, men capable of labour could have no plea for applying for parish relief, and we should therefore require no poor's rate, except to sup , port in comfort the aged and infirm poor. I shall now proceed to point out the means by which it appears to me that all the funds re quired by Government, for every kind of na tional expenditure, might be easily obtained. Mr. Robinson, ie Parliament, said, that a pro perty tax would be necessary. Before this op pressive tax is inflicted upon us, let the follow ing mode of obtaining money be tried : Let Government appoint a place (some bank for instance) in every large town in the king . dom, in which there should be placed a strong iron chest, with a door well secured with locks, the keys of which should be entrusted to the keeping of different persons. In this chest let there be a space just large enough for a person to introduce his hand, to deposit his per centage upon income or property, instead of paying it to the tax collector. When an individual had made a deposit, he should receive a certificate of his having so done, and should then, or at some specified time, produce such certificate to some duly constituted authority, and make oath that the sum deposited was the full amount of the per centag e called for by Government.± If this experiment were not found to succeed, then the Government might, perhaps, be justified in re sorting to an income or a property tax, collected in the usual manner, however great the evils at tendant upon it might be. I am, however, of opinion, that my mode would produce a revenue amply sufficient for all the purposes of the State, and also afford full means for the employment of the poor, in the way I have before pointed out. If a Reform in Parliament and an abolition of useless places and unmerited pensions, went hand in hand with the measures I have recom ! mended, I have no doubt whatever that the country would surmount all its present difficul ' ties, and become richer and more powerful than it ever has been. They should not be confined to their own paz but employed in improving land wherever it could be ob tained for them. t If an oath should be objected to, let a declaration to the effect above-mentioned be signed in the presence of several respectable witnesses; let two of them witness the declaration of each individual, who should then have his certificate given to him. Deposits might be made by parishes, and the names of the inhabitants alphabetically arranged, who had received certificates, might be exhi bited upon the church-doors, together with the total amount found to have been deposited in that parish. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Miacß 17. The LORD CHANCELLOR, took his seat on the Wed.; :ack shortly after Five o'clock. Sir A. 'GRAIIT and others from the Commons brought up several private Dille. Petitions were presented by the Earl of Radnor from four parishes in the West Riding of York in favour of Parliamentary Reform, and from Ramsgate to the same effect ; by the Duke of Richmond, from Joseph Sparrow, in favour of Reform, and from a parish in Sussex, praying to be relieved from the new Beer 13111; by Lord Calthorpe, from Bristol, for an increased allowance for the building: of churches, and from Kingston-upon-Hull to the same effect ; by the Bishop of Lichfield and Co ventry, to the same effect, from Derby ; by the Marquis of Londonderry, from the city of Londonderry, complaining of the misapplication of certain funds by the Corporation of Londonderry. BREACH OF PRIVILEGE. Lieutenant Woodcock, to whom Lord Farnham had alluded some evenings back, as having sent to his Lordship a threatening letter, was brought to the bar of the House, in the custody of the Black Rod ; and, upon being asked by the Lord Chancellor, he admitted writing the letter to Lord Farnham in a moment of irritation, and with a mistaken view of the facts of the ease. He humbly apologized to their Lordships for the breach of privilege, and had written a letter of apology to Lord Farnham. Lord FARNIIANI expressed himself perfectly satisfied with the apology: that it was a+ full and ample as be could desire. Earl GREY did not doubt that the character of Lieut. Woodcock was just as it had been represented to be. The Noble Lord to whom the insult was offered had expressed himself satisfied with the apology, and he shou!d, there fore, move the House—and he had authority for doing so in the case of a gentleman named Ross, who bad committed a breach of privilege in 1811—to declare that it was a breach of privilege, and that Lieut. Woodcock should be reprimanded by the Lord Chancellor at the bar. The LORD CHANCELLOR then, in eloquent terms, reprimanded Lieutenant Woodcock, who was afterwards discharged. THE LORI) CHANCELLOR AND THE HORSE GUARDS. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY took that opportu nity of calling the attention of their Lordships to an occur rence which, in his mind, deserved as much of their no tice as the business which had just occupied them did. They had just reprimanded a military person for having disregarded their privileges : and standing, as he did, in the situation of one attached to the same profession, he felt himself called upon to maintain the military authority, which had been, as he understood, infringed upon on a late occasion by a Noble Personage then present. He would, therefore, call upon his Noble and Gallant Friend, the Commander-in-Chief, to state whether there was any foundation for a statement which had appeared in the • newspapers, and by which it would seem that tire autho rity of his Gallant Friend had been treated with very little ceremony. His Lordship would see how necessary it was that military orders should be upheld, and that no indivi dual, however high his station, should he permitted to contravene them; and he was sure that, when it was al leged that the first law officer of the country had broken through that authority, some explanation was clue, and he had no doubt but that some explanation would he given, It was not too much for him to say that the first law officer of the State had no more power to break through the regulations imposed by military discipline than any other person. He would not trouble the House with further detail, but state that the Lord Chancellor had been charged with forcing through the King's guard on the day of the last drawing-room, From the statement that had appeared in public, it would seem that all regard to military form was broken through; but he had no doubt the statement was overcharged, fur it was, in his opinion, impossible for the Noble and Learned Lord to have acted in so violent a manner. It so happened, however, that he had been informed of the circumstance by a Noble Friend of his, who was in part a witne , a to the transaction, and in consequence he had had further in quiries ; from all which he collected, though there might he exaggeration in the accounts that appeared in the papers, there was no doubt of the main fact, that the King's guard had been forced by the Lord Chancellor. In . order, therefore, that their Lordships should be in posses sion of the facts, he would ask his Noble and Gallant Friend three questions—lst, Whether the King's guard had been forced by the Lord Chancellor on the day of the last drawing-room ? 2d, Whether that arose from mistake or from a misconception of the orders given to the guard ? 3d, Whether the officer whose guard was forced had been put under arrest, or had satisfactorily excused himself ? He hoped his Noble Friend Would give the House and the country an explanation of the circumstances, as he hoped their Lordships were as impressed with the necessity of maintaining the military discipline of the force of the country as they were of upholding the privileges of their House. —(Hear.) Lord HILL said that he had no difficulty in giving the explanation required by his Noble Friend. In the first place he must state that in the year 1815 an order proceeded . from the late King, relative to the arrangements to be ob served in the Parks on the occasions of his birth-day, which order was still in existence ; and it was in particular com manded that no carriage should be allowed to pass through the Horse-guards on those days. On the day of the late drawing-room the officer in command gave the proper or ders to the non-commissioned officer of his guard, and a corporal was stationed outside the gate to prevent any car riage driving in. Several carriages had been stopped in the course of the morning, and when the Lord Chancellor's car riage came to the passage, the corporal held up his hand to the coachman to keep back ; but the horses' heads having got inside the gate, the sentinel laid hold of the reins, and prevented further ingress. The Lord Chancellor then, as he understood, inquired why he was detained, and, being informed that the soldier acted by orders, lie . desired to see the officeroof the guard ; and when the officer appeared, he first inquired did be know him. The officer replied, that he believed be had the honour of speaking to the Lord Chancellor. The Lord Chancellor then in quired why was he detained? and the officer informed him that no one but the Speaker of the House of Commons had the privilege of going through, with the exception of the Earl of Shaftesbury, who had obtained the privilege for that particular day. The Lord Chancellor having asked was he to understand that he could not go through, and being answered that it was not possible, sail, " then we must go hack," on which the officer waived his hand to the sentinel to let go the reins, and the coachman, who it was supposed had not heard the last observation of the Lord Chancellor, whipped his horses, and passed through the gate before he could be stopped. He (Lord Hill) had taken care to see the officer who had been then on duty, and the corporal and soldier, and to make inquiries into the subject, and he was bound to say that, after the fullest investigation, he came to the conclusion that the officer was not to blame, and that the corporal and soldier had both fulfilled their duty, and he was quite satisfied, from his communication with the Noble and Learned Lord him self, that the Lord Chancellor had no idea whatever o forcing the guard.—(Hear, hear.) The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that he must feel grateful to the Noble Marquis for having call« 1 on his Noble Friend for the explanation which he had just made to their Lordship'; but in the first place he should say that he had not been aware of the comments that had been made on his conduct with regard to this transaction until his particular attention had been lately called to it. He must at the same time be allowed to mention that he wished the Noble Marquis had chosen any other day but this for the discussion of such a subject, and that be, at least, entered upon it without connecting it with that re primand which he, as Speaker of their Lordships' House, had just delivered, in obedience to their commands. He saw no reason why this case should be put in converse to the other, and why it should be set forth that, inasmuch , as a military attack (by the way, which the other was not) had been made on the privileges of the House, an attack should be made by a civil functionary of the House opal . ' the military. It was thus he had been put on his trial by the Noble Marquis—not at the bar, certainly, but on the Woolsack; but he must tell the Noble Marquis that there was no more comparison between the two cases than existed between any of the two most opposite things in the world. Still he could not be otherwise than obliged by - the Noble Marquis having drawn forth the clear and explicit statement of the Noble and Gallant Lord, and he had little more to do thin to confirm the statement of his Noble Friend.—(Hear, hear.) He could assure their Lordships that no one in the world thought less of the state and primp of the office which he held than he did. Tire observances of that state and pomp were to him certainly the most irksome and the most op pressive parts of his public duty ; arid it was not from any foolish wish of passing through the Horse-guards, instead of going round by Piccadilly and down Constitution-bill, and, indeed, the latter was the course lie should have pre ferred if time permitted, in as much as he would have at tained a little more air and exercise, that he had ordered_ his carriage to the Horse-guards. But the fact was, he had been sitting in the House the greater part of the day, having made a great effort to bring to a c on t e r l a u c si t o e : , t ! be z. bearing of a cause which had been long Pr", , 1 i which one of the parties was in distress, wh ich