The Sun. — London, England, 1827-02-09 00:00:00

Esq. had not entered into recognizances to prosecute his petition, complaining of an undne return for the county of Waterford. Mr. CROKER said, that he had been entrusted with a petition from Mr. Gee, praying for further time to com plete the recognizances, on the ground that some formality had been accidentally omitted. He should move that the debate on the petition be deferred to a future day. The Petition was then read. It stated, that the name of one of the sureties bad been inserted in an affidavit upon an erasure., which was considered by the proper officer an informality. Mr. CROKER moved, " That the prayer of the petition be pro forma' complied with." The SPEAKER remarked, that if the object were to take the discussion on a future day, it would not be necessary that the House should even pro formd consent to the prayer of the petition. Mr. WYNN agreed in this view of the subject. Mr. -S. RICE wished to know whether, according to the terms of the Act, any witness was in attendance to swear to the truth of the contents of the petition ? Mr. CROKER thought it probable, but did not know the fact. Mr. WYNN enforced the necessity of uniformity in the practice of the House in cases of this kind. For this reason, previous decisions upon the same question ought to be examined. The general rule certainly was that the House would not allow further time in eases of inattention or inadvertence. Mr. ABERCROMBY said, that the uniform prac tice had been, that on the presentation of a petition of this kind, the acts should be substantiated upon oath. No undue advantage ought to be given to the petitioner over the sitting Member ; and before the discussion on the petition was, even postponed, it ought to be ascertained whether the party presenting it was ready to verify it upon oath. Mr: CROKER had been informed that the peti tioner and his Agent were both in attendance for that purpose. Mr. BROUGHAM observed, that there could be no doubt as to the construction of the Act of Parliament : the order for taking the petition into consideration was ,to be discharged, " unless, on matters specially stated to the satisfaction of the House, and verified on oath, the House shall see cause to enlarge the time for entering into such recognizances." Mr. WYNN thought that the House had the power to fix the convenient time for examining the party upon oath. Mr. BROUGHA3I and Mr. SCARI,ETT each said a few words to the same point ; after which, Mr. J. P. Gee was called in, and being sworn at the Bar, de posed to the truth of the contents of his petition. Mr. CROKER then moved, that the time for entering into recognizances be enlarged to the let March. Mr. ABERCROMBY thought that the opposite party ought to have an opportunity, if they liked to avail themselves of it, of examining Mr. Gee again. Mr. CROKER added, that he meant to adjourn further pro ceedings on the petition to Tuesday next. It was then ordered that the petition be printed ; and, on the motion of Mr. S. RICE, that the petitioner attend again on Tuesday. The order for taking into consideration the petition of Mr. Ogilvie, complaining of an undue return for Sudbury, was dis charged for want of recognizances. The same Order was made for the same reason with regard to the petition of John Darcy, Esq., which complained of an undue return for the County of Galway. The Order on the petition of C. P. Leslie, Esq., respecting the Monaghan Election, and the return of Mr. Westenra, was also discharged on a similar ground. William Treweller, not having entered into his recognizances, the Order on his petition, complaining of an undue return for the Borough of St. Ives, was discharged. The petition of Anthony Marmion, Esq., complaining of an undue return for Dundalk, not having been supported by recog nizances, the Order made upon it was discharged. CAVAN ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House, that the unsuccessful Candidate for Cavan had not entered into recog nixances to prosecute his petition against the return. Mr. GRATTAN said, that a petition had been prepared, praying an extension of time, but it had not yet been put , vrito his hands, as he had expected. He therefore requested that tile question be postponed for a short time. While the SPEAKER was explaining that such a course was irregnlar, the petition was delivered to Mr. Grattan, and he accordingly presented it. The petition was then read, and the further consideration of t1:49 question was adjourned till Tuesday next. The orders for the consideration of the petitions against the returns for the following places were discharged, on account of the petitinners not having entered into the proper recognizances, in teems of the Act of Parliament, viz. the borough of Denbigh, the borough of Tregony, the town of Kingston-upon-Hull, the borough of Beverley, the county of Kerry, the county of Cavan, the county of Westmeath, and the town of Galway. The SPEAKER then stated, that, having gone through the list of those cases which were regularly discharged on account of the non-compliance by the petitioners with the terms of the Act of Parliament, he had now to submit to the consideration of the House another class of cases, which might require further deliberation. In these cases, the names of the enreties had been transmitted, and the recognizances had been entered into in proper time, and in the proper manner, with this exception, that the recognizances had been executed, or purport ed to have been executed, before the expiration of the eight days' previous notice required by the Act of Parliament of the 53d of the late King. This objection applied to the petitions against the returns for Leominster, for Stirling, and the boroughs con nected with it; for the town of Dover, and for the county of Limerick. The discussion of these cases was adjourned till Tues day next. Mr. FAZAKERLY, however, presented a Pe tition on the subject of the return for Leominster, which was or dered to be taken into consideration to-morrow. THE LATE DUKE OF YORK. Mr. Secretary PEEL gave notice, that on Mon day next he should move an Address of Condolence to the King, on the Demise of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York. THE CATHOLIC CLAIM'S. Mr. S. RICE presented several Petitions from the Catholic inhabitants of Parishes in different parts of Ireland, praying for the concession of the Catholic Claims ;—one from the ~ ounty of Mayo : another from the county of Tipperary; and three from the county, and one from the city, of Limerick.—Or_ dered to be printed. Sir F. BURDETT then rose to present the gene ral petition of the Catholics of Ireland. Thin duty, he said, he was anxious to lose not a moment in performing ; but he would not avail himself of that opportunity to make any preliminary re marks with reference to the general question, lest they should hereafter be productive of inconvenience in the debates that would ensue. He would content himself, therefore, with shortly ex pressing his regret at the absence of the Right Honourable Gen tleman, the Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Had that Right Hon. Gentleman been present, he (Sir F. Burdett) would have been happy to have consulted with him as to the future steps to be taken, in furtherance of the most important measure prayed for by the petitioners. He was sorry, he repeated, for the Right Hod. Gentleman's absence, both on account of its cause, and for his own sa ke, as he was desirous for his correct guidance in pro moting this great question, to have had some communication with that Right Hon. Gentleman. It had become a matter of such pressing necessity—of such hourly growing importance—(Hear, hear.)—tbat no consideration would induce him to delay bring ing it before the House at the earliest period that public con venience would permit. Iu saying this, however, he felt that he could not then undertake to name any precise day for that purpose, though he would state, that the impression on his mind, as well as that on the minds of the petitioners, was, that no further delay should take place than was absolutely neces sary, under all the circumstances that effected the discussion of the question--(Hear, hear, hear.)—The Honourable Baronet con cluded by declaring, that he earnestly hoped that it would he on a very early day that the Question would be brought forward, but at present he could not venture to fix it positively. He moved that the petition be brought up. Lord NUGENT, m seconding the motion, said, that he also had a petition, with a similar prayer, to present to the House, from a distinguished an d very considerable body o f British subjects. He would take that opportunity of stating that the petition to which he alluded was in the course of signature amongst the Catholics of England and Scotland. He would be guilty of injustice towards them, if he did not add, that he en tirely concurred in the spit2t that animated them, viz. that of the warmest and deepest sympathy with their fellow -sufferers in Ireland. — (H e ar, hear.)—The only reason why thi s pet i t i on was not then presented was, that it had not yet received the full amount of expected signatures. The general petition of the Catholics of Ireland was then brought up and read. It was ordered to be printed. THE CORN LAWS. Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from the Owners and Occupiers of Land in the North Riding of Yorkshire, against any alteration in the Corn Laws. Lord GEORGE LENOX presented similar petitions from five places in the county of Sussex. . . _ Colonel TORRENS presented a petition from the Inhabitants of London and Westminster, praying for the repeal of the Corn Laws. NAVY ESTIMATES. Sir G. CLERK brought up the Navy Estimates for the present year.—They were ordered to be printed. The Honourable BARONET then g ave notice, that he would more for a Supply on Monday. t CASE OF COLONEL BRADLEY. Mr. HUME gave notice, that he would to-morrow (this day) move for certain papers relative to Major Arthur's command at Honduras, and other matters connected with the case of Colonel Bradley. The House Adjourned at a Quarter-past Seven. THE PRESS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ma. Eniroa,—Tam a great lover of news and a regular reader oc Newspapers, and having for many years been in the habit of closely observing the political opinions of their various writers, as well as the personal feelings, friendships, and jealousies that occa sionally discpve f themselves, I almost fancy myself one of the craft- Sitting alone in my easy chair by the fire side, and rumi nating, while waiting the arrival of the evening papers, upon the politics of the day, and the affairs of the press, my— Cogitative faculties immersed In cogibundity of cogitation, I insensibly dosed off to sleep and had the following singular dream. I fancied myself in a large room dimly lighted up by a lamp suspended from the centre, furnished with a long table, surrounded by chairs, before each of which were placed vessels containing a dark black liquid, the only liquor on the table, excepting some cups of smaller dimensions, containing gall, to mix with the former according to the taste of the parties. In this room were assembled in congress the Editors of all daily morning and evening papers, attended by thoir several and respective devils. They seemed for the most part of rather bilious and saturnine complexions, and to eye each other with some slight feelings of jealousy, (though less, perhaps, than might be expected, considering the adage that two of a trade, &c.) and each seemed to cast a wistful look towards the vacant chair at the head of the room. After a few minutes delay, the parties simul taneously advanced towards the table, each, however, seemed to give place to a well-dressed and highly independent looking gen tleman, who took the chair, and opening a large folio volume near the centre, inscribed as " Times present," the preceding part being inscribed as " Times past," and the part yet unopened as " Times to come," threw his keen and penetrating eye o'er a large map of the world that lay before him, and looked as it were a Leviathan in politics and of the press. A person in the garb and dress of a Courier, booted and spur red, took his place as croupier, and laid beside him a cracked horn, much used and warn by repeatedly winding. On the right of the chair sat a gentleman, remarkable for a Whig of large dimensions, and rather antique appearance, which though somewhat modernized, did not seem exactly to fit the head of the present wearer, who amid a mass of political matter, industriously bestirred himself to Chronicle all matters touching and concerning Courts of Justice, and more especially his Majesty's High Court of Chancery, judges, justices, poachers, police officers, the law of libel, the liberty of the subject, and the rights of the poor. Opposite to him was a gentleman dressed in gorgeous heraldic attire, looking as though he were a Morning Herald-- his capacity so capacious as to embrace all things—his opinions so multifarious that they never failed to delight, since every reader enjoyed the double gratification of meeting with something to ap plaud and something to condemn. Next the gentleman in the Heraldic dress, sat a figure re sembling Mercury, with a letter bag on his arm, inscribed Morn ing Post, who with a chart of the " Fashionable World " before him, occupied himself amid the din of politics, with registering all matters relating to the opera, fashionable arrivals and de partures, dinners, balls, routs and suppers, affairs of honour, mar riages in high life, fashionable faux pas, crim. cons., and Doctors' Commons. On the opposite side was a staid steady-looking personage, who with a keen eye to politics, was occupied in entering in a Public Ledger, as a record for after ages, a careful account of the prices of-cum multis aliis, molasses, rum, drugs, pimento, saltpetre, to bacco, and brandy. Next to the latter sat a person in the garb of honest Boniface, or my old friend .Dennis Brulgruddery, his temples encircled with a wreath of hops, mingled with a few vines, and a large bouquet of barleycorns in his button-hole, who proclaimed himself to the world at large, the Morning Advertiser of political news, and the virtues of heavy wet and blue ruin, for the benefit of all honest publicans and their numerous families. On the opposite side sat a military personage, who with his left hand grasped and poised aloft the Globe, with no small address and dexterity, employing his right in noting down a daily account of the varying occurrences that take place on its surface—an ex ploit that Wellington is not likely to imitate, and in seeming bold ness, resembling that which Buonaparte attempted, and by at tempting was undone. Below the last was placed a calm and placid gentleman in dark attire, his breast adorned with a Star, whose mild effulgence— Clarior a tenebris, shed a soft and pleasing lustre on the dim political horizon around. The seat on the opposite side to the last-mentioned . was occupied by a person who entered late, as if newly arrived from a journey, with a pair of saddle-bags, the usual companions of a British Traveller, who busied himself most industriously with arranging the various articles of political information, and foreign and domestic intelligence, he had gleaned in the course of his travels. Two seats still remained unoccupied, one of which was reserved for you, Mr. Editor, the other for a morning con temporary, who had not yet appeared at the table. On a call for the absentees your missing morning contemporary was discovered immediately behind the chairman, disguified in a similar cos tume, with a book of somewhat similar form, and purporting to be a record of the Times, save only that the word New was pre fixed, attempting to play the double to the Chairman, and even to feed out of the same dish. On this discovery being made the at tending devil very unceremoniously greeted the delinquent with the rather unfriendly salutation of a " coup de pied." He then with a motion somewhat resembling, but at the same time wanting the agility of Grimaldi, took his seat at the bottom of the table next the croupier, to whom, not being permitted to play the double to the Chairman, lie was content to become the echo. Order being somewhat restored, a vote of censure was suggested against you, Mr. Editor, as the only absentee, when the worthy Croupier lost no time in moving, that your chair should be re versed at the table, that " The Sun" should not be named or quoted in any London Journal, or if quoted should be so without acknowledgement, and that quotations from all other journals should always be mutilated so as to omit the offensive name of " The Sun." The echo re-echoed the proposition of his princi pal. The Chairman, however, with that bluff independence, that for the most part characterises our countrymen, scouted the idea of making quotations without acknowledgment, when the Croupier in an under tone suggested that quotations might be acknowledg ed anonymously, as " from an Evening Paper,"—in the hustle that prevailed at the moment, no observation being heard in re ply, the Croupier considering it carried, congratulated himself on the possibility the arrangement afforded, of the readers of other journals, imagining such quotations were made from himself, and he and his echo sang a sort of duet in falsetto, the words, I be lieve from Moliere— " Nul n'aura de l'esprit, " Hors nous et nos amis, At this moment, the lamp in the room burned more dimly than usual, when presently the attention of the company was attracted by the rays of " The Sun," beaming through an eastern window, and dispersing the mists and clouds around— Post nubila Phoebus Post tenebras lux. As " the Sun" kept on his course, ascending higher in his sphere, the croupier gentleman in the Courier dress evinced strong symptoms of uneasiness, and as it gradually and majestically ad vanced towards its meridian, either fearing or feeling a coup de soled, he rose with trepidation, and seizing his cracked horn, sounded it most sonorously, which was echoed by his new ally and echo, in tones that (without a compliment) were to per fection assinine. At this moment I heard footsteps, and the slam of a door, which suddenly awoke me, and on looking round I found the Sun placed on the table before me. The servant who brought it in, by carelessly closing the door as he retired, having caused the noise that disturbed me, and prevented my sleeping to the final denouement of this interesting dream. 'Without waiting to read even your leading article, I have sat down, Mr. Editor, to write you this account, while my dream is fresh, and vivid in recollection. If you should deem it deserving a place in your Journal, it is not very likely to be transcribed by any of your contemporaries, either with or without acknowledgment; at all events, I will venture to PROPHESY, it will not appear in the co lumns of two of them, though by so doing I evidently incur the risk of losing all title to the signature I shall assume of A PROPHET. it I LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 9, 1827. We are extremely sorry to learn that the accounts from Brighton of Mr; CANNING'S health are less favourable. His indisposition is so severe, that he is confined to his bed, and is unable to attend to any public business. We received last night the Paris Papers of Tues day and the Etoile of Wednesday morning. They are chiefly filled with the debates in the Chamber of Deputies, on the proposed Law respecting the rates of postage, which was passed on Monday by a majority of 74. The Report of the Law Project on the Press was to be made on Wednesday. These papers do not contain any political news of importance, the Etoile states, that the Madrid Ga zette of the 25th January, contains a Decree of the Princess Regent of PORTUGAL, ordering the Minis ter at War to dismiss from the Portuguese Army all the Spaniards serving in it. The following are the only other articles in these papers of any interea (From the Pilote of Tuesday, Feb. 6.) " PARIS, FEB. s..—The Nuremburg Correspondent reports on the authority of letters from Vienna, that the arrival of the Marquis de Riheaupierre at Jassy has been a thunder-clap to the friends of the Greeks. They had flattered themselves that a great misunderstanding would have divided the European Powers with respect to Greece, and that open war, which they supposed would break out relatively to this question, between the Cabinets of St. .lames's and Russia, would have made the latter resolve to take up arms for the Greeks, its fellow Christians ; whereas the de. parture of M. de Riheaupierre for Constantinople has furnished an incontestable proof that all the Powers are agreed on this point. It is also known, adds the Correspondent, that Mr. Canning has given to Count Lieven entire satisfaction relative to some expres sions which dropped from him in his extempore speech in the House of Commons." " We read the following paragraph in a letter from Madrid : " The stay of Silveira, in Castile, has not been of long dura tion ; for after having replenished their powder-waggons with good ammunition, and provided themselves with money, they have again entered Portugal, and it is even affirmed that they have retaken Almeida. There must he some truth in all this, for Mr. Lamb, the English Ambassador, is preparing to depart.'" (From the Constitutionnel of Tuesday.) " Our letters from Rome announce that the defeat of the Por tuguese rebels has only had the effect of making their friends i_ - .. the Secret College redouble their zeal. " In one of the Apostolic meetings held at Rome on the even ing of the 3d of January, it was resolved to despatch circulars in every direction for the collection of money from all the monasteries and Catholic congregations, in order to send it to Spain. Accord ingly, the Apostolics say, it is not money which is wanting at the Court of Spain ; what Ferdinand wants are arms and resolution. 's His Holiness has ordered the presents usually given to the Austrian commanders, on their passing by the way of Rome, to be made in advance. " Our letters from Naples state, that the expected departure of the Austrian troops has excited the most lively joy among the in habitants. The King has given a grand farewell dinner to the Austrian Generals. He said to them, " I regret your departure ; but your sovereign knows the reason for it." Notwithstanding the vigilance of the police, which will soon cease to be supported by Austrian bayonets, numerous entertainments have been given in joy of the departure of the Army of Occupation. Never was any festival more zealously celebrated. FRENCH Futons, FEB. 6.—Five per Cents., 101 f. ; Three per Cents. 68f. 70c. ; Bank Stock, 2,000 f. ; Rentes de Naples, 74f. 60c. ; Rentes d'Espagn e , 12f. ;Royal Royal Spanish Loan, 51. Cours Authentique. Both Houses o f Parliament met last night. The Earl of LIVERPOOL w as a t his post in the House of Peers, and gave notice that he should, on M on d ay next, move an Address of Condolence to his MA JESTY on his late melancholy loss ; and that he would, on the 19th, or on some early subsequent day, bring under their Lordships' consideration the subject of the Corn Laws. His Lordship through pressed by the Earl of LAUDERDALE to state the intention of Government with respect to this question, on the plea of allowing time for the public to consider fully the measures to be proposed, carefully abstained from dropping a word which divulged their nature. His Lordship, however, distinctly stated, that after the plan is explained on the day he brings forward his motior ample time will be allowed for the expression of t! public opinion upon it, before Parliament will be call 1 upon to come to any decision. The proceedings in the House of Commons rek !d principally to Election Questions, for which we p ist refer to our Parliamentary report. Mr. PEEL gave notice of a Motion for Mor 'ay, for an Address of Condolence to his MAJESTY ; and Sir FRANCIS BURDETT, in presenting the G teral Petition of the Catholics of Ireland, express 1 an earnest hope that this question would be broug , for ward at a very early period ; but stated that at - esent he could not venture to fix a precise day. The estimates of the Navy for the present have been printed by order of the House of C nmons. They amount as follow to the sum of 6,125,85( . Os. 7d. 10d., being 9,1541. 6s. 3d. less than in the ast year. 1. Wages and victuals for 30,000 men .X 1,5 ►,500 2. Ordinary Estimate 3. Extra Estimate ' 5,969 £6,125,85C Os. Id. Sir GEO. CLERK is to move for the v eof these estimates on Monday next. We mentioned in our Paper of yeste lay, on the authority of our City Correspondent, th .an arrange ment had been made with Spain for th( ttlement of the British claims. This arrangement i said to have been finally agreed to in Paris op the .th inst. We copy from a cotemporary the followit statement of the case : f‘ It will be effected by an issue of debenf es for the sum of 8,000,000/. sterling, bearing interest at the .te of five per cent. per annum, payable half-yearly in London. The agreement was concluded between Mr. S. Cock, as agent the great body of British claimants, and two Spanish Commi• oners, especially ap pointed to treat with him, of whom one sl • Senor Aguado, the banker to the Spanish Government in Par and Senor Uriarte, the keeper of the Great Book. The deb , tures are to be deli vered in two months from the date of the ;regiment, or sooner, if they can be prepared. Mr. S. Cock arr din town yesterday from Paris, with intelligence of the conch on of this arrangement. It is material to state, for the informatio of the public, who are extremely liable to be misled ou this p& :, that this arrangement has nothing whatever to do with the bo .a of the Cortes, but re lates solely to bona fide losses of prop unjustly sustained by British subjects, by seizure, capture, or ,therwise, by the Spanish authorities, during the progress of th war with the American Colonies which has ended in establish' ; their independence. It is presumed that the debentures abi :-mentioned are to be re ceived at par, according to the indemn / awarded to each claimant. What value they will hereafter bea in the money-market, or whether, in the present state of Spa' h credit, they will be mar ketable at all, remains to be ascertai .1. It would be seen by our p er of yesterday that the prosecution of Mr. SHIEL is positively determined on, and that he has been iliged to give bail for his appearance. There are peg aps few cases which re_ quire the exercise of prucl, ce more than having to decide when seditious lan, ,age requires the interven tion of law, or is best pun ;red by treating it with con tempt. When amountin to treason, the Law Officers of the Crown are of cot ,e not authorised in over looking it ; but when it Ils short of such enormity, it is often worthy of consid ation whether a Demagogue, thirsting for a martyr's me, is not actually gratified by the infliction of the minor punishments usually awarded in cases of sed on. The prosecution of men who either assert or pre nd to assert the rights of their fellow-citizens against t ; Government of the country, is generally the means • , f encreasing that popularity which-is the object of heir ambition. Witness the case of one of the N mbers for this City of West minster. What would JOHN CAM HOBHOUSE have been without Newgate His committal was certainly the most fortunate eirc instance of his life, and he ought to have a ki Ily feeling towards all who were concerned in sen ng him to jail. It has e nabled him to sit free of expc ce, during several Parliaments , as Representative of I is great and wealthy city : but the history both of an( :nt and of modern times affords innumerable instances of a similar nature. In the case of Mr. SHELL, we feel convinced that profiting by past exp fence, the great mind of the ATTORNEY-GENER Lof Ireland, will direct him to that course which is wisest and best. Himself, the eloquent advocate of ;ose rights which are so unhap pily withheld, he will make all due allowance for the irritation of mind un which a Catholic orator ad dresses a sympathisir audience ; but if he traces in the speech, marks of remeditated treason against the Government, if he ix :eives in it a systematic exhor ation to the last apt resorted to in cases of dis puted rights—then he has no course left but to em ploy the offended la , of the country in their own vindication. Nor ca Mr. SHIEL complain if, in wishing to subvert the Constitution, he has incurred those penalties to wli h all men at the commence ment of such a career should make up their minds, even in cases of jos' fable resistance to intolerable tyranny. Dutch Papers of th 7th, and Hamburgh of the 2d inst. have been receive this morning. Their contents are of little importance,l ing c hiefly respecting the Dutch line-of-battle-ship Wa rloo, storms, drifting ice, &c. ; all which are so perfec 'y in season as to be regarded as mere matters of cou e THE HAGUE, TEL 6. Accounts received yeste ky at the Navy-office from Heligo land, dated Jan. 27, annotu that hiq Majesty's chip Waterloo had arrived in the roads on e 25th, in good condition, and had anchored in about 12 fathom► vater. M. Varkevisser, in a letter nn the island of Borkum, dated Feb. 2, writes that he had therto been prevented, by contrary winds, from approaching to Waterloo with his vessel. He was on board a pilot-boat, and would endeavour, as soon as possible, to get to the Waterloo, and bring that ship to the Texel. Later accounts from M. Varkevisser, just received by the Navy-office, and by the Burgomaster of this town, an nounce, that on Friday, the 2d, the wind being unfavourable and stormy, he put to sea from the island of Borkum, and in the evening had got within six miles of Heligoland, hoping to reach the Waterloo the following day ; but that in the night a violent storm and fall of snow arose, by which she was driven back, and having passed on Sunday the 4th off the Texel, cast anchor on Monday morning in the Nieuwe Diep, after a danger ous excursion. According to his letter, not only the coast, but the sea itself to the distance of three leagues from land, is so covered with ice, that he does not think it possible at this moment to assist the Waterloo, which ship, however, according to his report, lies at Heligoland in good condition, and may be able to do without as sistance for some time. ROTTERDAM, FEB. 5. The Flora, Captain Lemming, which sailed from Batavia the 30th September, bound for Antwerp, has brought letters from Java, stating that perfect tranquillity prevails in the district of Solo, and the old Sultan is reinstated in his authority at Djocjo, and has 2,000 good troops'under his command. AMSTERDAM, FIB. 6. The accounts from Arnbeim, Namur, and other places, state the Rhine and Waal to be full of drift ice, and in some places entirely frozen over. BERLIN, SAW. 29. The Emperor of Russia has sent hither a detachment of 20 men of different regiments, chiefly of the guard, to be instructed in the Prussian exercise. The detachMent coniiiits of officers, subalterns, and privates; they were presented to his Majesty the day before yesterday. Prince Charles, the King's son, has set out to Weimar with sledges, which are so contrived, that in case of a thaw, they can be placed on wheels. The Crown Prince, and Prince William, set out the following day to celebrate at Weimar the birth-day of the bride of Prince Charles. STOCKHOLM, JAN. 23. His Majesty's resolution to go to Norway to open the Session i of the Storthing in person, was caused by the sudden illness of Count Sandels, who according to his Majesty's resolution, was to have gone to Christiania for that purpose. A Postmaster at Wisby in Gothland, of the name of Zek, having died lately, there were found among his effects above 600 letters, some containing money, partly from Sweden, partly from foreign countries, and some even put in at Wisby itself, to be sent abroad : some of these letters have been lying there ever since 1796, and a very considerable number since 1804.—A list of them is being made out by the Magistrates at Wisby. The list of the registered letters, and those containing money, to the number of 30, have-already been published in one of our newspapers. COPENHAGEN, JAN. 27.--The importation of Sugar last year,. was considerable, being about fifteen million of pounds. The Subscription which has been opened for the purpose of erecting a monument to the memory of the late Duke of YORK, does not go on as prosperously as the promoters of it had calculated upon. This does not arise from any difference of opinion in the public at large with respect to the propriety of erecting a mo nument in memory of this great and good man, but from two circumstances :—First, that the mode hi which this subscription was set on foot does not receive the approbation of the highest quarters ; and, secondly, that a general opinion is entertained, that the public services of the Duke of YORK are deserving of, and will receive, a testimony of the nation's gratitude, by the erection of a Monument at the National expence. This course we first suggested, and the propriety of it has been universally admitted. It appears to us, as we before observed, that if"public services, not closed by death in action 'with the enemy, are ever to entitle an individual to the posthumous honour of a monu ment in St. Paul's Cathedral, the great and splendid services of the late Duke of YORK, most amply de serve this durable and honourable proof of the esti mation in which they were held by his country. No difference of opinion exists of the value of his R OYAL HIGHNESS'S services, a nd no course. so hono ura bl e to the memory of the deceased, or so gratifyi ng t o the feelings of his illustrious Relatives could be adopted, as that which we have suggested. In an address o f condolence, the stronge s t express i ons of the opinion of Parliament on the Duke's public ser vices ma y no doubt be used ; b ut we should also transmit to posterity, by means more publicly viewed, though perhaps not more durable than the votes of the British Parliament, a proof that those services were appreciated during his Royal Highness's life, And not forgotten after his decease. We cordially hope, therefore, that the Address of Condolence will be followed by another Address, praying that his MA JESTY will be graciously pleased to cause a monument to be erected in St. Paul's Cathedral to the mem ory of his late illustrious brother, and promising that Par liament will make good the expense thereof. Aenti tled eaorfedthirei t c he rii p o u io b a li l c c p o a d p e e ,, r s, , from which it would appear, that a gentlem an o f the 1111M 6 of p statement H A MMOND has been empl o y e d, un d er t h e authority of Mr. PEEL, in various projects connected w i t h the Criminal an d Civil Law of this country, it is tho ug h t necessary to give publicity to a communication mad e to M r. llAnutroxp, on "The having Consolidation p the 9th of January last, which explains the circumstances under which Mr. HAMMOND received any authority what ever from Mr. PEEL, and the limits within which that authority is restricted. It seems wholly impossible to reconcile with this com munication, the statement above referred to, entitled, " Consolidation of the Criminal Code." (COPY.) " WHITEHALL, JAN. 9. " Mr. Peel considers that it would be for the convenienc e of Mr. Hammond and himself, that Mr. Hammond should distinctly understand the nature and extent Of the authority which he bat from l‘lr• Peel, to proceed in the consolidation of a certain branch of the Statute Law of England. " Some time after Mr. Peel had undertaken, with the assist ance of Mr. Hobhouse and Mr. Gregson, to consolidate the laws relating to the trial and punishment of Criminal Offences, he learnt that Mr. Hammond was employed under the direction of a Committee of the House of Commons, in preparing . Drafts of Bills, consolidating the law relating to Forgery, and some other crimes. " Though Mr. Peel had, previously to the appointment of this Committee, undertaken a similar work, which he proposed to carry on gradually, and with that mature deliberation, which is essential to its success, he was unwilling to interfere with the per formance of the duty assigned by the Committee to Mr. Ham mond, and was ready, so far as his intentions corresponded with per mittedstatute tLoawhimre,lattiliiegand opportunity were " Mr. Peel contemplated, if time a Ham mond of the t i li v e hi C ch om th in e it c te o e. i , Tim to it s t t: e n . d u i ,o n d t . be same relation to Mr Ham he Select Committee on " From the first Resolution o f t that Committee to have been Crimi nal Law, he presumes the ob j ect of The Resolution is to the f 11 • o awing the same with his own. Consolidation of the whole of th e ultimatet Crime. effect:—Resolved, ' That it is the opinion of this Committee, PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ORDERS OF THE DAY FOR THIS DAY. 1 . 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