The Sun. — London, England, 1834-04-02 00:00:00

ASSIZES.-(RECEIVED THIS DAY.) ISLE OF ELY, Msacu 31. (Before Mr. Sergeant STormas, Chief Justice of the Isle of Ely.) Robert Brigstock, aged 19, and Thomas Story, aged 19, were placed at the bar, charged with having on the morning of Sunday, the Bth of December last, maliciously set fire to a certain stable, chaff-house, hovel, a stack of wheat, and a waggon loaded with haulm, or stubble, the property of Mr. William Vawser, of March, in the Isle of Ely. Thomas Butcher, a beer-shop-keeper, heard the prisoner Brigstock say in his house, shortly before the Ike, when Mr. Vawser was passing the window, " that man, I'll give a scrizzler, before the winter's out." Witness went to the fire as soon as it broke out, and saw Brigstock going through a gateway in a direction from the fire. When he came out of the gate, he said, " Here's a blessed blaze." He (prisoner) went about forty yards and sat upon a rail, but was at the fire, assisting to put it out, in about five minutes afterwards. T. Elliott, constable, was at the fire, and near it he found part of a fire-shovel on the Tuesday following. The shovel had the remains of turf-ashes upon it. On the morning of the fire, about half-past 4, he saw Brig stock there. About one o'clock in the middle of Sun day, he traced footsteps near the Northfield-gate, a short distance from the fire, proceeding from a shrub bery, leading towards Hartley's house, where Story lodged. The steps appeared to be long in the outset, but were shorter towards the conclusion, as if a person had been running, but was fatigued before stopped, and consequently shortened his steps. The shoes of Story exactly corresponded with those footmarks. Emma Shaw, a neighbour of Brigstock, proved that the fire-shovel, found by the constable, was exactly similar to the one she used to see in his father's house, but would not swear it was the same. _ John Fletcher was watching the lock-up house, in which the prisoners were confined, on the Monday night after the fire, and heard one say, " They are lis tening, don't split." The witness then detailed a con versation which he had with Story, on the way to Wis beach, which caused him to take the prisoner back to the magistrates, he having previously been exa mined. He afterwards took Brigstock to Ely gaol, who confessed on the road that Story went with him from Edgeley's beer-house. That after kicking at people's doors, and breaking windows, they went to wards Mr. Vawser's. Brigstock said to Story, " We'll give him a smasher." Story answered, " We'll set fire to his stacks." Brigstock went to his father's house and got a piece of fire, whilst Story went forward to pull a hole in the stack. Having set fire to the stack, he threw the shovel away, and ran off. They were both frightened when it blazed; and Story tried to put it out, but could not. His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation, found both the prisoners Guilty, but recommended them to mercy on account of their youth. Sentence of Death was then passed upon them ; and his Lordship wished them to prepare for that doom which awaited them, without indulging the slightest hope for mercy. Both the prisoners went from the dock without evincing the least emotion of dread ; and, indeed, they scarcely seemed aware of the awful situation in which they were placed. There was another charge of arson against a youth named Thomas Thody, eighteen years of age, who was indicted for setting fire to a stack and outbuildings, in the occupation of his master, Dyson Savage, of Littleport. The fire was of great magnitude, burning numerous outbuildings, as well as corp. After going through the evidence, the jury returned a verdict of A cquittal. William Bosworth and Joseph Skeels were charged with setting fire to a stack of corn, the property of John Seward, of Chatteris, on Wednesday, the 13th of November last ; but the evidence before the Grand Jury being insufficient, they returned no true bill. WESTERN CIRCUIT.-LAUNCESTON, MARCH 31 JENKINS V. HARVEY AND ANOTHER. In this cause a Special Jury had been summoned, which, together with Sir James Scarlett being retained on behalf of the defendants, excited great interest, and the Court was crowded at an early hour. It appeared that the corporation of Truro had been accustomed for more than seventy years to levy a tax of 4d. per chaldron on coals imported into the port of Truro. The corporation had claimed this as metage, and persons discharging cargoes had uniformly paid it, from 1752 until 1820, when some demur arose among the merchants-as to the validity of the claim ; and from that time the dues were not regularly paid. It ap peared from the evidence that the corporation had con ferred the office of meter on a Mr. Stephen Tippett, by virtue of a lease for a term of 99 years, determin able on three lives, granted in 1752 for a valuable consideration, receiving an annual rent of 3/. Mr. Tippett was at that time a member of the corporate body, and Collector of Customs for the port of Truro. At his death, the office of meter de volved on his son, and after him his grand son, the former of whom was also a member of the corporation, and collector of the Customs ; and the latter, though unconnected with the municipal body, was yet collector of customs. No meter has been appointed for the specific purpose of measuring the coals for the lessee of the corporation, but the go vernment meter, whose office it was, whilst there was a government duty to collect, to take an account of the number of chaldrons of coals discharged at Truro and who likewise acted in the capacity of meter for the lessee, of the corporation. It further appears that the government measures were for one and the same pur pose, and that the masters of the colliers have been accustomed to pay the corporation dues to the collector of Customs for the time being, with those imposed by the Government. Of late years a general refusal had been made to pay this metage, and since the duty on coals has been repealed, no one would pay these corporation dues. The defendants landed their coals at their own wharf, as did many other mer chants of the port at theirs ; they considered the office of meter now entirely useless. The jury, after hearing counsel on both sides, found a verdict for the defendants, thus establishing the freedom of the port of Truro from a long existing, il legal, and obnoxious tax. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-THIS DAY. FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, APRIL 1. —Wind E. N. E., moderate. Arrived from the river and sailed, the Charles Grant, Hyde, for Bombay, and the Edward, barque, for —. The Kellie Castle sailed for the river this morning. Ar rived the London, Ball, from Messina. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL I.—Wind N.N.W. to N. Passed by the Reliance, Cook, from the Mauritius, sailed 15th Dec., Cape f Good Hope 14th Jan., and St. Helena Ist Feb. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 31.—Wind N. to W. FALMOUTH MARCH 31.—Wind N. to W., strong breezes and squally. MARGATE, APRIL I.—Arrived off port the Cumber land, Coke, from Seville. STANGATE CREEK, APRIL I.—Arrived the Argyle, Franeorich, from Trieste. JIVERPOOL, MARCH 31.—Arrived. the Erin, Thom, from Honduras. Off port the Tapley, Tapley; from Mauritius ; Glanmalia, Hewan, from Valparaiso ; Bagston, Armstrong, from Barba d o es ; and William, Tings, from Maranham. CORK, MARCH 30.—Arrived the Jane Sheriffs, Derry, from Honduras. The Indian, Borthwick, arrived here from Pernambuco; passed, on the 22d instant, in lat 43. long. 34., a loaded barque, appa rently under jury-masts, with another barque lying-to by her. The Linnaeus, Smith, from Liverpool to Bombay, was totally wrecked near Dyers' Island, Cape of Good Hope, on the 15th January—crew saved. The Paragon, Thompson, of London, on going into Moran Bay, on the 13th of February, to fill up, got on the Moran Reef ; about fifty casks of her cargo had been saved, but it was feared the remainder, with the vessel, would be lost. The Laidmans, Hughes, from Liverpool, got aground at Fort Augusta, beating up to Kingston, Jamaica, on the 14th of February. The Rose sailed from the Brazils for Newfoundland on the 29th of September, and has not since been heard of. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grafi] this week are moderate, except of Oats from Ireland, o f w iyith the return is abundant. The trade for every article remains without variation from Monday, and is in general dull. Flour very heavy in sale. ARRIVALS. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Flour. English 2,670 qrs 3,(30 qrs. 1,7 50 qrs. 2,67osa e ks -Irish 4OO 800 24,30) - LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 2, 1834. The Paris Papers of Monday are very bar ren of intelligence. The accounts from Bayonne mention that great preparations are going for ward in Spain, among the QUEEN'S forces, to put down Carlism, but that is easier said than (lone. The only effectual way to carry her point is to convoke the Cortes, and unite all good Spaniards in one glorious cause—the regene ration and independence of their country. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, MARCH 31. Five per Cents., 104 f. 3ec. Mc. Three per Cents., 781 30c. 15c. National Loan, 104 r 20c. Bank Actions, 2,785 f. 1,790 E Rente de Naples, 04t. 34c. Roman Five per Cents., 94%. Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 26 1 A Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., 4001. Royal Spanish Loan, 111%. Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., f Belgian Loan, 115.31, Five per Cents , 100. Haytian Loan, 270 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 25c. '1 hree months, paper, —f. —c.; money, 2.3 f. 15c. —Co.. rs Authentiflue. The new Spanish Ministry seems, by all ac counts, to make little or no progress. Some thing there is that paralyses their every scheme for ameliorating the condition of the country. The QUEEN-REGENT, too, is by no means increasing in popularity, for with the constitu tion on her lips, she appears to be at heart a despot. What between the determined bi gotry of Don CARLOS, and the hollow libe rality of the QUEEN, Spain is, if possible, in a more declining state than ever. Nothing but the creation of a duly constituted body, like the Cortes, can possibly save it. The only individual connected with the QUEEN'S party, who shows the slightest vigour, is the Captain- General of Catalonia, who is arming the mi litia of his province with singular promptitude and energy. By accounts from Naples, dated March 15, we learn that the union of Prince LEOPOLD, Viceroy of Sicily, and second brother to the King, with the Princess MARY, daughter of the King of the FRENCH, is resolved on, and that the marriage will be celebrated in the course of the spring. LOUIS PHILIP seems wonderfully anxious to match all his family with crowned heads, anticipating, possi bly, the period when he may be without a crown himself : but it would be far more con ducive to his interests, if his ambition were to take a more domestic turn, and he were to endeavour to ingratiate himself with his own subjects. The German Papers, received this morning, do not add much to our previous information. They mention, indeed, that the Russian autho rities in the Black Sea are most obsequiously on the alert to show every attention and re- spect to Ac iimET PACHA, the Turkish ambassador, who was expected at Odessa on his return from St. Petersburgh. This is only another proof, if any were wanted, to evince the deep designs of Russia with regard to her victim Turkey. But the wily Emperor Nic 0- LAS may prove too cunning in laying his snares. His plans have hitherto worked well, from the culpable or too confiding supineness of England, and the embarrassed position of the French Government. It is clear, however, that this state of things cannot be suffered to continue any longer, if France and England understand , their true interests. The feeling of the Court of Vienna towards the constitutional cause in Spain and Portugal may be inferred from the avidity' with which news to the prejudice of the QUEEN REGENT and Don PEDRO are received. Anarchy is again prevalent in Bosnia : but it is idle ever to look for tranquillity in any of the Turkish provinces so long as Russian and Austrian agents stir up the people to revolt. We are glad to learn by enquiries at Ken sington Palace that T‘ His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX is improving in health." Wednesday, April 2. Considering how intimately good order and industrious habits are connected with early edu cation, it is astonishing the Legislature should have been so backward in adopting any general measure for establishing parish schools in Eng land. A vast proportion of the persons com mitted to Newgate can neither read nor write. They have received neither moral nor religious instruction, and have become engaged in crime more from ignorance and habits required from their peculiar condition, than from any innate depravity. Thousands who have suffered for capital offences, might have been saved from utter ruin had the Government, the clergy, and the trustees of charities, only performed what was their imperative duty. This is almost the only civilized country where the Government have left the poorer classes without the means of instruction. In France, Switzerland, Prussia, Scotland, and many other States, parish schools are now nearly as common as parish chuiches. Here the people must provide schools themselves or go without education. There are exceptions to the general rule, but the wretched ignorance not of the peasantry only, but of persons above the lowest grade of society, shows that these exceptions are very few. It is disgraceful to the church that we should have the best paid clergy in the world and the most ignorant population. Millions have been expended in maintaining ancient and useless ceremonies, in keeping up the worldly splendour of prelates and dignitaries, and in instructing a few of the higher classes at our greaf schools and colleges, while the great body of the people in many places have not even the rudest means of instruction. The incomes of a few of the bishops alone would be sufficient to provide schoolmasters for the whole of England. - Which of the two, we ask, would be the more useful members of society—schoolmas ters with 501. or 601. a-year spread over the face of the country, or Bishops with 20,0001. or 30,0001., residing one-half of their time in the metropolis or abroad? Every Englishman who attends to the subject must blush for the pre vailing ignorance of his countrymen. The re ports of the state of our prisons, when they furnish the relative proportions of the educated and uneducated, show how greatly the latter exceed the former. In many places not a half can read or write, and in others not a fourth, or a seventh. At the Ely assizes, for instance, the number of prisoners for trial is thirty-two, and of these only one-fourth or one-eighth can read and write. But this is not at all surprising when want of education is so general, that in many districts the very overseers are as ignorant as the poor themselves. The following extracts from the reports of the revising barristers give a humiliating picture of our country population : " The class of persons," says Mr. Moylan, " whom I have seen in the office of overseer are generally men who, far from being able to fulfil the duties imposed upon them, seem unable to comprehend those duties. The general ignorance and stupidity of the overseers in country parishes with whom I became acquainted as Revising Barrister in Cheshire and Nottinghamshire, surpassed any thing which I could have previously conceived. In some of the agricultural parishes we found a aC substituted for the overseer's signature to the list of voters." " In 1832," says Mr. Maclean, " I revised the list of voters for the Western Division of the county of Sussex, and in the present year I have revised the lists of the Northern Division of the county of Essex. hi both counties I met with many overseers apparently perfectly unable to comprehend, from reading the Re form Act, what they were required to do. Many were unable to write at all, and others could with difficulty affix their names to the lists." • • # 4 • " Several had omitted to make out lists at all. In one instance I was attended by a female overseer, and it is due to her to state, that the list furnished by her, and in her own handwriting, was one of the most cor rect I met with." " Mr. Flood, Revising Barrister for the Northern Division of the county of Leicester, states,—' I found very great difficulty in revising the lists of voters, owing to the illiterate character of the overseers of many of the parishes. In one instance, where there were two overseers, one had not acted, and did not sign the list, though he was able to write ; and a mark X was substituted for the signature of the other. There were, I think, three or four lists unsigned, none of the overseers being able to write, and about the same number only signed by one overseer. In about sixteen or eighteen lists the overseers had resorted to the assistance of the parish-schoolmaster, or some other person, to assist them. In not more than ten parishes did the overseers appear in the least to com prehend the duties they were required to perform. I found, however, the overseers of the parishes of Loughborough, Castle Donington, Melton Mowbray and Ashby-de-la- Zouch exceedingly intelligent men, while in the eastern side of the county, where the po pulation is exclusively agricultural, I met with a degree of ignorance I was utterly unprepared to find in a civilised country.' " The Marquis of BREADALBANE died at Teymouth on Saturday, at three o'clock in the afternoon. Lord ORMELIE succeeds to the title, and it is supposed that Mr. GRAHAM, nephew of Lord LYNDOCII, and heir to his estates, will be elected for Perthshire, and be made one of the Lords of the Treasury. FEMALE BEAUTY.—The ladies in Japan gild their teeth, and those of the Indies paint them red. The pearl of teeth must be dyed black to be beautiful in Guzerat. In Greenland the women colour their faces with blue and yellow. However fresh the complexion of a Muscovite may be, she would think herself very ugly if she was not plastered over with paint. The Chinese must have their feet as diminu tive as those of she goats. In ancient Persia an aqui line nose was often thought worthy of the crown ; and if there was any competition between two princes, the people generally went by this criterion of majesty. In some countries the women break the noses of their children, and in others press the head between two boards, that it may become square. The modern Per sians have a strong aversion to red hair : the Turks, on the contrary, are warm admirers of it. The female Hottentot receives from the hand of her lover, not silks nor wreaths of flowers, but warm guts and reeking tripe, to dress herself with enviable ornaments.— D'lsraeles Curiosities of Literature. DAY AT ONI O'CLOCK. TRICKS OF STOCKS THII Bank Stock shut ' 3 per Cent. Red shut 3 per Cent. C0n5....91.b0% 3'j per Cent. shut Ditto Red shut New 3;4 per Cent 98%U 1•i 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... - 3 per Cent. 1826 shut Bank Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1664► shut Oct.lo, 1859 shut Jan. 5, 1860............ 17 3-16 Jan, 5, 1880 Aprils, 1880 Jan. 5, 1870 New 5 per Cent. — Ihdia Stock Ditto Bonds 03 30 pm. South Sea Stock 102% Old Annuities New Ditto — 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 — Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 52 53" pm Ditto 'OO 52 53 pm. Ditto Small Ditto Commercial ...... ... pm. Ditto Advertised — pm Bank for Account India for Account ..... 259 4 9 Cons. for Account ... 91% 1 4 PRICEs OP FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austria= Bonds lO2 Peruvian Bonds °O% Bf•Ig I n Bonds . 99 4 I Ditto Account 01% Ditto Account 94% Portugueseßonda 654 Brazilian Bonds 71% Ditto Account 654 Ditto Account 711 Ditto New Bonds —6s P.I - n:. e s Ayres Bonds .25 i Ditto Acconnt 65 4R, 5% Ditto Account • {Prussian Bonds 103„ 3 Chilian Bonds .... ........... —25% f Ditto Bonds, 18t1:2 Ditto Account 26 Russian Bonds, 1822 1(.34 Columbian Bonds Ditto Account.-- Ditto Bonds, 1824 24;6% ; Spanish Bonds, 11+21 Ditto Account 25! Ditto Acc. 30'4 30 , 1), Aanish Bon .i ""1 3 4 Ditto Bonds, !Eta 26% '7 Ditto Acceunt 731 , 4 Ditto Account 27 Greek Bonds French Bentes, sp. c. —I. —c. Ditto Bonds, iii2s ......-2974 Exchange —f —c. Ditto Account — --n per cent."... -f —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent 31% i -- Exchange — f C. Ditto Account Dutch, 21 p. c. 49% :mt. o, 6 per cent 39 : Ditto Account 49% Ditto Account 39 % I Ditto, sp. c. 94 3 4 54' Neapolitan....... ....... PRICES or SHARES THIS DAY AT ONZ O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Alten Mining Company £9 1136 Anglo Mex. Min ;o. iss. at 5/. pm ) £lOO 736 Bolanos Mining Company ..£l5O 125 Brazilian Mining Company £s 15 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O 59;6 Ditto Macaubas Cocaes 2O 1836 Ditto St. John Del Rey Cata Branca Mining Company tl% 5% Pritish Iron Mininv Comoanv £so 31 Columbizn Minim, Co. (its. at 5/. pm.) 52.% 10% Engiish Mining Company . 12% 25 General Mining Association l2 Hibernian Mining Co. £lO 3% Mexican Mining Co £4B 9 Real del Monte Mining C 0.... (unreg.) 36 nited Mex. ISBn. Co. (iss. at el. pm.) 40 7 511% Ditto New Scrip .5 10 Alliance Fire insurance Comp 0 12N Protector Insurance Comp. Australian Co. Canada Company lB 493( General Steam Navigation Co. National Provincial Bank of England 15 1654 56 Rio Doce 2 2% Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 42% PRICKS OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 29. Bank atock __.. ISt. I.`tricit Insur.(perShare Consols, 2 ner cent G.v. Stock, SK. per cent 97% Ditto, New 97% I per ........ - G. 5 1 7. Deb. 3Y, percent.... 159%!: Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock City Deb. 3 per cent. - Ballast Office Deb. 4 0. c. -I' Royal Irish Ditto National Ditto Patriotic Ditto ........... Hibernian Bank 2.'3% 'Provincial Ditto Royal Irish Mine ,Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland ICommercial Buildings HOE THIS DAY. COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam Cr. 12 41 Ditto, at sight. In 3 Rotterdam 2 U. 12 Antwerp l2 5 Hamburg 51.13.1312 Altona l3 12 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 50 Dit to 2 U. 25 80 Bordeaux 25 85 Berlin 7 Frank foi t on Maine, Ex. M. 152 Petersburgli, ruble, 3 Us. 10% Vienna, effective ft. 2M. 959 Trieste do lO 0 Madrid 36% Cadiz 37% Bilboa Farcelona 36 Gibraltar 47 Leghorn 4831 Genoa. `)5 75 Milan 11 Venice 47 Naples . 4034 Palermo per oz. 123 Lisbon Oporto 52 Rio Janeiro 97 V, Bahia 3l Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork l% BULLION, PCB OZ. .t. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silvcrbars,standard () 0 0 HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning —.56 minutes after 9. Evening... 26 minutes after 10. riffir. *lan e _ POZZO AND LORD DURHAM. (From the Constitutionnel.) Since the arrival of Lord Durham at Paris, M. Pozzo di Borgo has redoubled his zeal and acti vity, in order to enfeeble the effects which might be produced by the revelations of the English diplomatist as to the plots of Russia--revelations which may in deed compromise the projects of the Czar. We believe we can state that M. Pozzo has visited in the same day the Ambassadors of Prussia, Austria, and" Holland. Twice he has been to Lord Granville, and the Ambassador of England has simply sent to M. Pozzo his card. M. Pozzo, ordinarily so easily ap proached, has shut himself up two whole mornings to prepare his despatches. He causes the smallest move ments of Lord Durham to be carefully watched—and when this diplomatist went yesterday, accompanied by his Ambassador, Lord Granville, to M. de Broglie, M. Po'zzo had preceded them several hours. To what tends all these movements? What does Russia demand of our cabinet? What means this ex treme respect and attachment for a crown so disdained and looked down upon a few months ago ? To what point would Russia arrive ? We repeat—M. Pozzo fears the effect of the reve lations to be made by Lord Durham. Up to this time he had arranged his plots, and had endeavoured by his intrigues to dissolve the strong and intimate alliance of ' , ranee and England. But all this he may now fail in, and how is he to extricate himself from this em barrassment ? How is he to reply to official docu ments? How is he to answer copies of despatches which the infidelity of some Russian agents has placed in the hands of England ? The designs of Russia were secret. From this time they may see the light of day. They were in the first instance communicated to England, and she was in vited to separate from France. This was the object of the last journey of M. Pozzo to London, when he ran away from the Tuileries at the end of the year 1832, in order to avoid complimenting the King of the French on New Year's Day, 1833. What then was it Russia desired? It was to favour a combination of Tories and Whigs, in order to ruin the Whigs, and then get back to the old combinations of the Holy Alliance. Being frustrated in this proceeding by England, Russia turned to France. She knows that the strong hold of the Whig Ministry is the French alliance—the moral support of the revolution of July ; and, in order to destroy one after the other, Russia aims to separate the Whigs from the revolution. The Reform Bills and the French revolution are two united facts which are indestructible. It is for this reason that Russia endeavours to attack or invalidate them by finessing, by promises she cannot fulfil, and by engage ments which Pozzo di Borgo knows himself that Rus sia will not and cannot keep. M. Pozzo is not ignorant of the fact that the prin cipal disclosures which Lord Durham is charged to make relate to the affair of Holland, where the ill-will of Russia to France has particularly displayed itself. In order to destroy the effect of these revelations, Pozzo has had several conferences with the Envoy of Holland, and has even offered to put an end to all differ ences. He speaks "in the name of his master." He dis avows the hostile acts of William of Holland ; and yet the truth is that, if the King of Holland still hesitates to give up, and if he still maintain, on a war footing, an exaggerated and enormous army—so exaggerated when compared with the resources of his kingdom—it is to the counsels, to the insinuations, of Russia that all this must be attributed. Pozzo di Borgo knows it. He plays the double game—follows double orders ; and this is the cause of all. In his conference with M. d'Appony and the Minis ter of Prussia, M. Pozzo di Borgo has demanded their support in the line of policy he proposes to pursue. He feels that his influence may be lost, and so he wishes to regain his position by a common intervention. He endeavours, aided by the elements of the Holy Alliance, to make head against the English nobleman sent to Paris to represent another political system. Lord Durham is everywhere well received. We regret that he does not meet from the Doctrinaire ministry the same loyal and frank alliance in favour of his liberal ideas, and in favour of the alliance of the two nations. We do not desire, any more than England does, the triumph of radicalism. It is necessary to be on our guard against turbulent revolutions which de stroy empires. But progress is not anarchy, and the Whigs in England represent progress. The best means of preserving a country from popular troubles is to make concessions to national ideas and interests. Behold, if we are rightly informed, all the theory of Lord Durham, and the desire of the Grey ministry. It will indeed be sad, if this be not understood and felt by our statesmen. GERMAN PAPERS. GRATZ, MARCH 20.—0 n the 11th of this month five villages in the district of Neuschlos, near the ca pital, were destroyed by fire. It broke out in the village of Oberpremstetten, and a terrible hurricane prevailing at the time, the flames spread to four neigh bouring villages. The most strenuous exertions failed in arresting the fury of the conflagration. Only a few houses escaped, which lay out of the direction of the wind; 128 houses, with their stables and barns, are reduced to a heap of ruins. No lives, however, were lost. STUTTOARD, MARCH 26.—The detachment of troops that has been stationed at Tubingen marched away yesterday, and henceforth there will be no garrison in Tubingen. The Wirtemberg Gazette declares itself authorised to contradict the report that Earl Stanhope has offered a reward for the discovery of the assassin of Caspar Hauser, and adds, "On the contrary, his Lordship has had many reasons for these eighteen months past to entertain doubts of the truth of Caspar Hauser's his tory, and it also appears to him that in the account given of the alleged assassination of the unfortunate young man, there are many suspicious circumstances. —Frankfort Papers, March 27. BERLIN, MARCH 21.—His Majesty has been pleased to grant an annual sum of 10,000 dollars from the public treasury, to be employed in repairing the Cathedral of Cologne. In the hope that an equal sum might be raised by public collections, his Majesty has authorized a public collection in the Catholic churches, as well as in the private houses in the Rhenish pro vinces, and in Westphalia. From Easter next a law will be put in force, by which no student will be allowed to go to the uni versity, till after having passed two years in the first class of the Gynana (or high schools), and the student must, besides, have a certificate of the first class. D. Julius, whose philanthropic exertions for the improvement of prisons are well known, will set out next month for England, whence he means to proceed to the United States.—JournaldeFrankfort, March 26. VIENNA, MARCH 19. —The mail from Constantinople is arrived, but the letters are not all delivered. The few received by the merchants are uninteresting. Achmet Pacha was expected in the capital. It is said lie had taken the road to Odessa, intending to embark there. The Russian admiralty had already given or ders for a ship of the line to be in readiness in case the Turkish Ambassador should go by way of Odessa. This was not decided when he left St. Petersburgh, as he expected to find at Moscow letters from Constanti nople to inform him whether he should return by way of Odesia or through the principalities. In the latter case it was supposed that the nomination of hospodars was re solved upon at Constantinople. Achmet Pacha being designated as the commissioner, to proceed in the name of the Porte to the installation of the hospodars. It is said that Count de St. Aulaire, the French ambassador at Vienna, will leave us at the beginning of May, on leave of absence, and will pass some months at Paris. We have received, by way of Genoa, news from Spain and Portugal, which give a melancholy picture of the state of the Peninsula. The credit of the Queen, as well as that of Don Pedro, seems to have de clined considerably, and the hopes of the pretenders to the Spanish and Portuguese thrones appear from these letters to be increased ; the number of them is said to be augmented by the injudicious measures of the Regencies at Madrid and Lisbon. Many say that the best means they can adopt to obtain the Government is to let Queen Christina and Don Pedro take their own course, as they had found the means to make themselves, in process of time, hated by every body. It may be that Don Carlos follows this plan, which would alone account for his inactivity up to this time. BELGRADE, MARCH 12.—Anarchy seems to be spreading in Bosnia ; at least if one may judge by what passes on our frontiers. Hordes of ban ditti infest the Bosnian villages nearest to uS, and commit all kinds of excesses. Last week such a band even came into the Servian territory and plundered some villages. Prince William ordered his brother to collect 4,000 men, and to cross the frontier with this corps to chastise the robbers and obtain satisfaction for the Servian subjects who had been plundered. Baron Rothschild is daily expected here on his re.. turn from Constantinople. The news that the nego tiations respectin& greece are concluded have pre ceded him. It is said that M. Rothschild has already paid to the Porte a part of the territorial indemnity, and promised at the request of the Porte to deliver the remainder in gold bars. P. S.—MARCH 15. —The Constantinople mail of the 4th has arrived. It brings little that is interesting. Incendiarism had ceased. Baron Von Rothschild had had his audience of leave of the Sultan, but had not set out for the capital. Bagorides, Prince of Samos, was present at this audience, a circumstance which caused some sensation. The ratedge of at T 4 u o r 4 k, is 4 h m 05 ,400n5e 405-p w e very The low. h e r T a h t e e f o e f r ienx cwashan sa netary state of the capital was good. There was no news from the Archipelago. NAPLES, MARCH 15.--The union of Prince Leo pold, Viceroy of Sicily, and second brother to the King, with the Princess Mary, daughter of the King of the French, is no longer a matter of doubt ; the marriage is to be celebrated in the course of this spring. Much hope is placed in the alliance, the young princess having been educated under the immediate eye of Ma dame Adelaide, whose cultivated understanding, and richly endowed mind, are well known. In Palermo, which is to be the residence of the royal pair, the news has created the liveliest sensation, the young prin cess having been born there. It is said that the Queen of the French will accompany her daughter here ; at alater period the Dukes of Orleans and Nemours will also pay us a visit. This has given rise to a report that our Sove reign had changed his opinion relative to his sister, the Queen-Regent of Spain. Interesting discoveries have been made at Torre del Annunciato ; it is not yet known whether the temple, being now cleared there, forms part of a grand Roman villa, or whether it be the commencement of a third buried city like Herculaneum and Pompeii. Communication is now opened with Greece. Vesuvius is sending fort slight eruptions. VIENNA, MARCH 22.—Five per, Cent. Metalliques, 98 1-16 ; Four per Cent. ditto, 88 7-16 ; Bank Shares, I,24B.—Allgenteine Zeitung,_ March 27. HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The House sat to-day to hear Scotch Appeals. The Lords present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Rosslyn, Lord Denman, and the Bishop of Hereford. MILLAR V. THE EARL OP GLASGOW AND OTHERS. The question involved in this appeal is one of consi derable importance to the interest of the Established Church of Scotland, namely, whether it is competent to the presbytery, where it appears that the inhabit ants of a parish have permanently increased, so that there is no longer accommodation to be found for them in the parish church, to assess the inhabitants to the amount required for the enlargement of the church, so as to provide for the accommodation of the increased number of parishioners. In the year 1829 the parish church of Neilston, near Paisley, becoming totally inadequate for the accommodation of the increased number of the parishioners, in consequence of the extensive public works established in that place, the presbytery of Paisley took upon themselves to enlarge and repair it, the expense of which amount ed to upwards of 4,0001. The payment of this sum the presbytery imposed upon the heritors of the parish, all of whom were made respondents to the appeal. To this assessment the heritors objected, and proceedings were instituted before the Lord Ordinary, before whom it was contended, on the part of the appellant, that the presbytery had no jurisdiction to do what they had done ; that their proceedings were irregular and incompetent, and that it was only in the case where the church was in such a ruinous state as to require re building, or where the repairs would be equivalent to the expense of re-building, that the church was to be made commensurate with the accommodation of two thirds of the examinable population, and that the heritors of the parish could be called upon to con tribute to those repairs. On the part of the appellant it was argued that whether the church was in good repair or not, according to the law of Scot land, it was competent to the presbytery to compel the enlargement of the church for the purpose of accommo dating the population of the parish to the extent of two thirds of those who were examinable. The Lord Ordi nary, considering that it was not competent for the'pres bytery to order an enlargement of the church of Neil ston, on account of its inadequacy to accommodate the increased population, and there being no clear evi dence before him that the church was in such a di lapidated state as to require repair, gave judgment in favour of the respondents. On the case coming before the Court of Session, their Lordships affirmed the decision of the Lord Ordinary, and from that judgment the present appeal was brought. The Lord Advocate, Dr. Lushington, and Mr. Bell, appeared on behalf of the appellants, and the Attorney-General and Mr. Murray for the respondents. By an arrangement with the Lord Advocate, Dr. Lushington first addressed their lordships on behalf of the appellants, and had not concluded when our reporter left. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Hobart Town Papers to the 16th October have been received at the North and South American Coffee house. (From the Colonial Times, October 15.) The accounts from Cloudy Bay, brought by the Marian, have been so extremely gratifying, that half the people of Hobart Town are crazy to leave for the new colony now establishing. The soil is of the best quality, and the climate, although rather cold, is salu brious. We understand that Mr. Murray is about to colonise New Zealand : his corps d'armee is already formed, consisting of Lieut.-General Emmets and Major-Ge neral Gilbert Robinson. It is with pleasure we observe, from the proceedings of the Legislative Council, that attention has been drawn to the number of insolvents now in confinement, both at Hobart Town and Launceston, for debt, and that the subject has been referred to the consideration of the judges. (From the Hobart Town Paper of Oct. 11.) It is with unmingled regret we announce, that at the very moment we are writing.jhese few lines, our doom, our existence as a journal, will, we fear, be sealed in the Council Chamber, if the proposed post age, amounting on the average to 2d. per paper, be resolved upon. Accounts from Alexandria, Egypt, state that a fire broke out on board a 64 gun-ship in that port, which was consumed. Fortunately there was no powder on board. Mehemet Ali, with his ministers, were at Cairo, where they expected to be joined by Ibrahim Pacha, where a conference is to be held on the affairs of Turkey. THE FUNDS. Portuguese 65. HALF-PAST ONE. o t n h s e o y l s a o r e p e 9 n l e , d w a i t t h 9l l tttoj- doing n t g h e . A csepoa Spanish 30 At t p o r sen C t e- Jamaica (From the Jamaica Dispatch of the 15th Feb.) r p e a c p e e iv rs ed t . o the 16th February, five days later, nature. The Paragon, Thompson, with a very ea n m t b e ae ll ie i en g a ence has just reached town of a distressing valu able cargo on board, from the north side,_ on her pas sage in Morant Bay, struck on a rock. Fears arc entertained that she will become a complete wreck. Our country readers will be surprised to hear that attempts are making to get up a memorial to the King to abolish the Jamaica Legislature : this must be man fully resisted by the independent planters, and those who have property at stake in the country. All was tranquil in the island. Both the weather and Funds have a dull appear ance this morning, and little or nothing doing. Con sols are at present 91 to for the Account. Spanish 30 ; Portuguese 65. Letters are in town from Pernambuco to the middle of February, and at that period order was again re stored. Great anxiety prevails for further information from Lisbon, as it is expected that Don Miguel will make some movement. At present few persons are in attendance in the Fo reign Market, consequently there is little or nothing doing in Portuguese and Spanish Securities. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for the Account, 91 to FASHION.—In the reign of Elizabeth, the mode of enormous breeches was pushed to a most laughable excess. The beaux of that day stuffed out their breeches with rags, feathers, and other light mat ters, till they brought them out to an enormous size. They resembled woolsacks, and in a public spectacle they were obliged to raise scaffolds for the seats of these ponderous beaux. To accord with this fantastical taste, the ladies invented large hoop farthingales ; two lovers aside could surely have never taken one another by the hand.---.D 'lsraeli. THE MAGAZINES. METROPOLITAN .MAGAZINE. Better late than never. Why or v vberef ceived our copy, which, of course, it is we know not, but the Metropail an is al e notice in brief terms. " Jacob ways a day behind hand ; we have only jus t r : we can only and thong see, continues his autobiography , as Peter Simple, he is not so pleasant a gossip Con yet, as he breaks up fresh ground, be trives to render himself very diverting. " Chit ; chat" is what all chit-chat should be, but what English chit-chat seldom is, I '9, and sparkling, hopping gracefully and airily from subject to subject, like a bird &obi: spray to spray. " Sicilian Facts" will ~ read with strong interest, for they have all the wild romance of Mrs. Ratcliffe's Siciliaa fictions. The subject of the present anecdote is the murder of a Sicilian nobleman by a priest: ders, yet never doing any thing ; ' Dick Dennet" is a life-like sketch of one at Faithfull,' h those very common, sanguine characters NO° are always in a bustle, always going to do Non" always on the jog, yet never getting forward. ° flßetlteTrlsSoHt Bishop The MS AhoGpAnrsZiolNEe. Ow Horsley are tinned in thi s num b e r, though without th e P ale of the c h urc h, we q u e sti o n whether theY w ; l ' meet with a single reader. They are s°lei ) doctrinal confined to the discussion of poin ts 0f divinity, than which no bleached bones 01 all Arabian sand were ever dryer. The school' en of old days were fond of raising learned quibbles on scriptural matters ; but this race o f solein n ' laborious triflers is gone by now : the last, w e' believe, still lingers in the person of Dr. M rs :; Bishop of Peterborough.. We are not sorrY their extinction, for the heart sh ould be the seat of religion, not the head. There is $ pretty sketch, by way of frontispiece t° the present number, of Cole-orton with the littl e v ill age parish ch urch p laced the Centre of the grounds. Of the two edifices. we prefer the chur c h. It w ears an aspect ohfc mingled grace and simplicity ; wherea s the 03 is cold, formal, naked, with a sort of po nd ' 1113 : t start air of assumption about it, ju st as if l e were ashamed of its modest neighbour, and `sere determined to stare it out of countenano, 00`,, give it the cut direct. Yet the late owner this aristocratic-looking mansion, Sir G. Bea _, mont, was a most worthy man, hi g hly a cc o; plished, and of no mean skill a s a painter. 111.1• was, besides, the bosom frien d of Wordswort ENCYCLOPIEDIA OF GARDENING. GARDENER'S MAGAZINE. We class these two works together, for _ ttic l rs; are both published by the same booksellers and bo both edited by the same gentleman ; 10 011 treat on the same subject. Th e E nc ' v C P re' displays in every page proofs of uncominos search, and is profusely embellished with t P c rited wood-cuts of many of the most celebra England' noblemen's and gentlemen's seats in ro and on the continent. The sketches of s° _r private mansions in the neighbourhoo id Warsaw, convey a v i v id idea of their archtec tural magnificence. ARNOLD'S MAGAZINE. too, thf, Fine A peri o di ca l d evo t e d for the m ost p art ine Art s , th oug h like " a universal geni4 it has som e thi ng to say on every subject, an ti _ tI profound u p on none. We dislike thissort 0, charl a t an i sm ; it never answers in the long 0 - 1 , 11 „ The be s t, i n d ee d th e only good article i_ , i ; number, is that on the " genius of Stothard• . The AsiaticASl i A s, TlC JOU.RthNeAnit most w 7 believe, abl e yeller its journal that derives its name and the Wil k of 1 information from the East. It will al ways be interesting to our Anglo-Indians , for it contain: a copious obituary, and a world o f miseellane° gossip. --ma UNITED SERVICE JOURNA-4* • „ r ti 10 111 There are several very interesting ..- --e . 1 of this number ; among them is a minute M ai .s " Camaign of Waterloo," which s lio e l c s t, the marks of anentimate familiarity with the subJad and is written quite in a con amore spiri t; iat e a sketch of the military ~ Services, of the I sviri creditors, on oYorkn the , tulol-flength fig ure r 111 5 eyes 01 _ .O shortly be exhibited to the admiring Carlton-terrace. the column u SPORTING MAGAZIN E . . _ re - Contains an interesting commun ication , Co • specting Yacht Clubs—that most nob le l aL l truly British of all amusements. We are glad of to perceive that the popular opinion in f av°ll The yachting is every year gaining streng th ' e- or pictorial embellishments are neither be tt worse than usual. NEW SPORTING MAGA The "Hunting Reminiscences" N 0f Ni gems f t gu h rr e atphheire o d f es t io : n i s.num recommendations ber, of si these h aesogtrial e%`yin gs: 1 0 . is n ttf e eur o ll f oo w ff h ps i pu c i l p l r , pi tia.ess,kFeiteclidi Fielding a is b bittern on on the t his pai nter e f t he isTiclleev-eFr,oxb-uhtoitbnyd,o‘oitrolleto equal to the Bittern. IT , o strokeST hg T iv A eet ao G t raEon, the E apmd k ' or si ; E : wocnhaTaei.n,g—ohaoenOdd lowea as s night comedian' t t i 1 I 1 t . e e„ D fav i i l if the furor of extravagance in his a cting , Pe,' jlfis`„; money, he ran to the character of L o v e gold in the comedy of t r t - a haPr n i f his front 0 % c a , a snatched the harpsichord-player's wig oil; c ne y! Y ° „ as loud as he could, " You have got my ' ll .fig" till Ylir have got my money ! and I'll keep your d ig ti return it !" The gentlemen of Cecilia's ba n % ir r° put their hands on their heads to secure the ' ton ° 0 and immediately quitted the orchestra. A t l i a p p' o man whose bald head had been exposotl,; Pip, of 1 :p f which got the ridiculous plgcr a tPuL l `": 4 for " plause, could get no satisfaction from 11,71trat.,10 insult, for he called it a theatrical joke. -- mO;4 s f r h a e nt f i t c h t ;( o c rt s ih t ' ag e l l, : i : ss l . o l; g a TALES OT A VOYAGER'TO 1:" 41 3 0 Mof OCEAN.—This very interesting work forms Librat./ number of the Cheap Naval and Military nblics:i Entertainment, now in the course of monthlY.Pon all" tion. The lover of original and striking fic ti ~i li, „i v an d a ato. - 0 0 17" of true descriptions of the geogra by tory of a wonderful and nf - -entPed part of th e , 00; where every object is a marveluileu" and a InY ster • Y lilO r ti t n h o o t but esteem aaswayvalurabtole thaceceAsrsoiotinc toc'elelli,"iolyt their appearance at theagperesent moment is pa r ' r esel i " well timed, as a more valuable and interesting P could scarcely be made to any young person.