The Sun. — London, England, 1834-02-14 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR. • • - 1 .- _ a ' The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked and 1.5 , 7 e in Hyde -park yesterday for some time. . . -- 0 ' The. C hevalier de Lima, the Portuguese Minister, , bac% !!. interview yesterday with Earl Grey at Oreasury. Zs. .Excellency afterwards risited Viscount Pal nat the 71, Office. The Ch evalier called on al Cabinet Mi. "'gets in th e course of t i : l ake leave. the'day; atthelies i eily'e residences, _. rrinceTalkyrand had att r interview with Viscount Palmer , t i o t r n . airs. 64.4 -:4—T- - - :tr 5i5.... 84 7,-lT es'l (. me Pt, the Master-General of the 'Ordnance,' 1 ewalbUsinessyesterday at the Colonial Office.. p e , ter e ii Earl of Belfast (Vice -Chamberlain) visited Earl Grey aY at the Treasury „ 'I. BRIGEITON, FEB. 13 :e weQueen, accompanied by Lady Clinton and Miss Hui'. nt to St. George's Chapel yesterday morning, to attend li 'll". s ervce, (it being Ash Wednesday,) after which her a aicarr.iage airing with . .the:ing to Shoreham, and e ..g th e , e hour evening. id her cnees, lid Lady Mary Taylor took an airing 2,, a 2 4 , 1. 06 carriage for more than two hours. Ldy"'Fa land took their final departure from - Yestearday for . the season. day . I , 4 :` l ng gave audience to Sir Thomas M`Malion, yester_ t ki f - L' if retort k t e 'is appointed to the Governor lheth:Yilianouth Pienatsh r r u oc:m of Sir C. Campbell, although 11;,-Intitient has not y e et been officially notified. Mar ti.kiel:nYal Dinner Party last evening comprised, Lad A y r Lkire.k;Co:onel and Lady Georgiana Cathcart, I and C stal,L c aPel, the Bari and Countess of Uxbridge, Earl and tti„,_ ,o -!. 4 )B4oetErrol, Sir Charles Thornton, Miss Hudson, Lady Ar ef ,..._. • ' of the Dissenters of Brighton was convened by liss4„ 11 1 last evenin g at Hanover Chapel, for the purpose of itlifeithresolutions condemnatory of the disabilities under k _ ll°l / or 1r l abour, and equally expressive of their disapp d ro t b h a e _ raii.44l"ia Church E,tablishment, and they conclude `v, °tthe.evening by adopting a petition, to be presented "' t iP Prayin g the removal of their grievances. 4Je sb • `4',k_TCll OF THE LONDON MAIL,- 4 'es a n iie en a'sured on the authority of our London . tlfteitti"'ent, who has ' derived his intelligence from an kYtil tu tt l' i r ees that after the 6th of March next, ot e de ep t:44' fo terr ', n o on via Holyhead, will n , fr nln I)lin 9 until six o'clock, p.m. This t ' L llei he 14 must g " • great satisfaction to the com i ' 4 llll l Prt i'n of our fellow-cit . z.ins as it will ~ ffir. lt i s additional hours to prepare th , it English letters. Ni - n rn g Isneitf:,t that mleli an extension o . f the period inter- I 'd th e . I "en the transaction of their ordina . r busine Nat he t 4" Tocessary for writing their adviee y s to must nler. elletribennnexioos on the other side of the channel,.. 4 een, Ute ' no rail (1- to their convenience. .• yourn degree, ka ll EP Rae ri ' 4 llll A "" s "ES• viscountess Powerscourt 1 44 - vis m Bro. n i it from Coxon's Hotel, Green-street, sOn - - to the Lady Cleineuts's, Long Dittoir. tE !kw : 4s ,ET HOUSE.—The Cormni , sioners -1 . . 4 w llor when a rate i s to b e ma d e a l s consult Of giridanee, have, in conscqueuee of the decision lliz t i tti % rat e d S omerset House as liable to the sewer rate, tio rtha t Which Gavernm• ut demur, on the ground that the House is not l egally subject to such rate, or to liej i l / 4 7 1 ' rate, or parochi a l taxes, on the ground that no re % 'sleep s on the premises; but, however, bring litsi -141 an amicable adjostment, the Government has k t l t a e (With t h e concurrence o f t h e C ommissioners) to 'Ai , a case, which is to be subinitt d to one of the ii; 4 ° E We s t m i nster H a ll an d a j ury , f or th e purpos e W'l t s et ue ing finally d ec id e d w h et h er S omerse t House be l' liable to rates or not. n e late Lord Glammis, whose death we 4 on Friday to have t,leen place on the 2W h ult. 11 04 np t urr in Normandy, was the on)) , son and heir i tp h i r 4 titi e t ;!, the Earl of Strathmore by his first . marriage. l ul Gliminis is probably the most ancient in tie 1311,..tiarc-r Semiarid Jo ,, n Lyon having got from King inbiu;gtir reversion: of the tharodom of Glammie.— w Ad ve rtiser. nderstand that to-day the Bridgehouse 11eehi.t" will make their report upon the numerously 1 411 . „7„ e ' a blY signed petition which was presented . to ray rte "" the autsji.ct of pulling down Messrs. Smith, at th_'"d Smith's house, to effect the real improvement i l ' r ety street by la moving an unsightly building.. .It leasnexP'?eted that the Committee and their architrct there t Wish es of thei r fellow•citizans ; b u t, whe tahl',‘ td or not, it is to be hoped th every ll- L ee 4t t p,.. ° real improve in in the c e nt re o f d the City we "io post.wil t o 18 a well-ascertained fact that Saltash, a.4lllpound, Canington, Cimelford, and most the other ",!lfranallised boroughs in Cornwall, have ever of since Iren h l t l iea in prosierity ; schedule A thua turnin g out to Se a 4 patron than any of them ever had previously. PUB 11 t.L LTC I.EETING OF FRIENDS To THE ,f7ABLISHED CHURCH AT To —ln pursuance addressed to the Mayor, W. H. Evens, ir4Vigned by one hundred and forty-fiv e of the principal )4,4 ta nts, a numerous and most influential meet . ingof Bruitit!°f•various political sentiments took place in the Thel.l'4ll of this IllrOugh on Saturday the Bth instant. ,tota all Was crowded at the time appointed for the t r°7 "„ e vlllent of the proceedings, which were opened tl f h' I TIYor reading the requisition and the declaration 9titit'attY which lid been subscribed to by all the re etliel*-;°4l'tss it was to be propesed for the adoption of 4 :sa l di ee mg r and the signature generally of all persons tl' Yto th Church Establishment. The worthy ea g ls trate was in v it e d t o t h e c h a i r b y acc l amat i on, i ta l ! r°e " d ed hy expr ess i ng t h e grat ifi cat i on i t afforde d Wit ness th e assem b lage of so respectable a hotly of bl ilh °w "m'n• Ile spoke in favour of the Church Este ‘ry Mewl Which he considered had greatly tended to pre -40", this country, and which would doubtless continue ao long as the Church w preserved. 'fire ap . Prim e . as resol utions, alter several eloquent and imprea ua"Peches had been deliv 4 tii7. then voted to the er e., were agreed to. Thanks ,:_tloenclaration being 4 0 1' ) and the meeting separated, r`ri s who attended S t i li g:e ul d ee b t y in i g n . ost of the large body of L IVERPOO L have hie( COTT 'ON-MARKET, FEB, 12. more doing to-day, and consequently a tit 4" Market. sales are about 2,500 bales. Roweds BP.. and Sad. • New Orleans, Sid. to 9d.; P,„ B dsto ni 4 3 ld • and "s4eutlthueos 10i-1i:to; A i la i r d a . nham s 9 4 e1. to 10, 1 per lb. this...I)tICTION.—In many parts of the country m o d e , L. . d eeially or curtainin g a wife is resorte to, esp l ' e atl: h the week or two Preceding Lent. In one barony thin tv i 'if a dozen matches of this kind have taken place ri a few ays. The lover honourably depo-its his "41 to h° friend the parties, and fta,• returns use of a mutual to ~"otte ' „ to Make the best bargain be can with the tl‘ ople who tp . ra t . ~, no are not aware of the place of co . n- Wiit..(inuneLb,:t settlement of the fortune ( for to say the 4 111 r nalvat' ) " girls of fortune" enjoy the distinction lb. dow n ": dchated with the keenest diplomatic ' ;;Ittiferottnreaoer:ls t e h n e v " rY splitting hia-a. crown. At -- , ne laded tlie imprisoned damsel steps 14b b ee 4 ibr4t d v oluntary durance, and the wedding Co g ter, feed w,t ot all the merriment that music, -9 erv at i: e "' 4 g, and drinki ng , can occasion.— Wexford L, • T LAT E uesd i"-LURDER AT GREENWICH, 11 1; 1'4 %44 t "uille, Farmer and Sanderson, the officers, i .lbov e the Infirmary in Greenwich Hospital, to Goal• ua : , d, th e pensioner, who had killed another pen w-ed Bailey, a few weeks ago, to Maidstone %it it, ha v i, - b e t - , Which . ) e een released horn the strait waist -14 I strt tli „"e had been confined since the mureler, c a tvall ted "e . d to the handcuffs being placed on him. re k n ; b ut Quietly through the town, and entered the ta t4 i na ,efruett:tolinediately after it started he behaved in the . be I.°Ws. The D anner, and attempted to vet out at the ten7T lC e'll o ne _7 46 tars compelled him to sit down, whe n e ;latotle, of ~.1/ them violently. He was very violent . tl d urin the tourney. He only once mentioned the 1-t'lle coo l g the journey. He said he had killed a man do tt n eft .t hell* it.--but be was not mad—and it was 1 , 41 : wh ie he h ad Itanen. deliveredeinvt: not killed more—he might have about it. He appeared very ri d e! the custody of the gaoler at Mai • -Le /7, 11 e a d '` e ur k op en; °N by es a calculation of what has e -2;1 ihetj.-em'siioench Chamber of Deputies from the it of 12 , on the 23d of Diceinher last, t ti:l!Peotaara tha t t h e Y' r , During that intet val of a month, analysis° tor divided in'hannier was occupied only seventy ()g te l l a e r °off speech h t evla sdlg ags. and o gives and dune, mentions the kinui" "I which a,""", givin g a humorous turn to tle 0 f eht ▪ lilts :pns t i nye a fy iaoa:ingyrd, tooiept:::teekb:::ri tr,'Wone: te d (t e i l , i e ve s i p e e d e . ch) l: an ndmi‘ntii.oDustlit:;": filty.three of which times I.c °• Person s or things. 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MEXICO. ! brotherly invitation, then may the homicidal sword meet in our breasts impregnable b-trriers to defend our country. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC TO HIS FELLOW PLAN. 1. A National Assembly shall be established for the purpose of consolidating the march of the Government, and putting an end to domestic contention. 2. To conciliate as far as possible the various interests, the social distinctjons, as well as the (minions compro mised in the present struggle, an as,embly shall be in stituted, consisting of fiiur individuals for each state and territory, chosen by lot, who, having met in a place appointNd• for the purpose, shall form the said National Assembly. 3. This Assembly shall he invested with the soy-reign character during the period of its existence, which shall be 99 business days from the time of installation, and th e per,ons of the members composing the Assembly shall be inviolable during the continuance of their legislative mission. 4. The four individuals chosen by lot in eich state and territory shall consist of an officer of the rank of c.iptain upwards,—a parish priest, a practising lawyer, and a landowner, whose landed property clear of all incumbrance, amounts to 25,000 dollars—all such individuals as have taken an active part in the existing revolution being ex cluded from these four classes. The states will respectively furnish to the members ',f tht,Assetobly the allowances n cessary for them. 6. To assist the said election by lot, lists shall be formed in each state and territory of all the permanent residents belonging to each of the four mentioned classes, and the election shall be conducted publicly in each capital. 7. With respect to the time and place of the meet ing of the National Assembly, the belligerent parties, ac cepting this plan of conciliation, will agree among them selves as to the day and place. The existing general Congress will arrange the formalities of it , installation. The belligerent parties, accepting the present plan, shall immediately ce.ise all hostilities. The executive power shall be deposited, during the period of the existence of the National Assembly, in the President of the Supreme Court of Justice, and the existing Legislative body shall susp-nd its sittings. 9. A general amnesty for all political offenees shall be proclaimed, and all prorrty confiscated for political causes shall be restored to the original owners. 10. Upon giving in their adherence to the present plan of conciliation, all those who have declared in favour of any other shall immediately withdraw from all anterior agreements. Mexico, Dec. 13, 1833. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, FEB. 13. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Woolsack shortly after five o'clock. The Duke of RICHMOND presented petitions from Donnington, and another parish in the county of Lincoln, praying for an extended renewal of the Labour Rate Act. The Noble Duke observed that he understood the peti tioners had tried the labour rite, and found it must be neficial. C -1 -;/ if (PlucE 7v.) to bring the case of one Irish Judge before the public, I because he thought in doing so, it would in all proba bility lead to an alteration in the administration of justice in Ireland. The Judges in Ireland had grown so old that they were really incompetent to dis charge their duties.—(Hear, hear.) There was one species of economy which he regarded as the worst. That was, the making the retiring salaries of Judges in finitely lower than their incomes while on the Bench. In consequence of this, there was added to the considera tion of descending from the dignity and honour (in the retirement of a Judge) which he held while in office, the feeling that he was to sustain a great loss in his Exchequer. He did not think there could be any j money better applied in Ireland, and possibly in England too, than in buying off Judges who had grown too old for the discharge of their duties. However, the difference between the income of a judge while in office, and his I retiring salary was so great, that he (Mr. O'Connell) sup- I posed every judge would die in his office, and not retire while he was able to sign his quarterly receipt. The ; first allegation against Baron Smith was, that ecarcely on any day did he attend in Court, before from half-past twelve till four o'clock at the earliest. His state of health was such as enabled him to sit out the night, but not to rise by day.—(A laugh.) The Hon. Member for Monaghan obtained a return last year, which, I though exceedingly defective, showed how very unable i this gentleman was to continue longer on the judicial I Bench. The Clerks of the Assizes had been directed I to return the number of hours (luring which each of the judges sat. Certain counties were selected, and returns of the hours for each of those counties made. In the county of Armagh sittings were held from after noon and continued till midnight. What was the state I of the wretched prisoners kept in the dock till that hour, or the jurors, who were all fatigued and asleep ? The ; witnesses having dined, or at least having taken some i refreshment—was that a fit time, or were those fit circumstances to decide on the lives of men? No ; and the consequence was, that out of the great number who were 1 brought up for trial, only two were convicted. He (Mr. O'Connell) recollected, at the Court of Nisi Prins, after last Michaelmas Term, when the Learned Judge did not come into Court until past twelve and sometimes half.past one in the month of December. What was the consequence ? Why, he happened at the time to be employed as counsel for a merchant in Liverpool, who Was seeking to recover the cost of coals delivered and not paid for ; twelve or fourteen witnesses were brought from Liverpool to Dublin at an enormous expense and attended the sittings each day, hut the case was not called on, because the Learned Judge did not choose to come into Court at a proper time. This was vexatious, yet there was no help for it or satisfaction, and this enormous expenditure must be again repeated before any chance be afforded of recovering the amount due. It may be said that the duty at the time devolved upon the Chief Baron ; hut that was no reason why Baron Smith should take upon himself to discharge it, and not do so afterwards; but it really did devolve upon Baron Smith, as the Chief Baron at the time was unwell. He (Mr. O'Connell) would put it to that House, whether Englisbmen would endure such omissions and neglect of duty as those be instanced now ? If the House granted him a Committee, he was prepared to lay before them sufficient testimony of the facts he had alleged.—( Hear, hear.) He remembered once going a circuit with the same Baron, who then presided over the Civil Court. It was in the city of Limerick ; the judge who presided over the criminal court went to business at eight o'clock in the morning, and rose at four. Baron Smith never went into court before half past three, and did not rise till three in the morning. He (Mr. O'Connell) had been employed in almost every case, and after leaving Judge Fletcher's Court, he afterwards attended the civil business until that un seasonable hour. In the Court of Exchequer the same Baron came at a very late hour in the day, and after ap pearing to write a letter departed, taking no father part in the proceedings. If such neglect as that furnished a case deserving the consideration of that House, what would they think of his becoming invested with the functions of a politician ? In September, 1833, at a special commission held in Dublin—for commissions are held four times a year in Dublin, while here they are held eight times—the calendar of a population of upwards of 300,000 contained only seventeen names on it ; four of which were for cow-stealing, three for petty larceny, three for pig-stealing, one case of bigamy, and a case of an attorney for swindling.—(Loud laughter.) Now, if ever there was an occasion in which a Judge might repose or relax a little from his duties, this was, undoubtedly, one ; he had no law to explain—no Grand Jury to charge—yet still, he (Mr. O'Connell) could prove that he wrote with his own hand, or, at least, corrected.it, and sent to the newspapers, the charge he de livered on this occasion—a charge embracing every topic, except the one it should.—(Laughter.) He replied to the speeches of his Majesty's Ministers—said how vigilant he had been for the last three years—and what he (Mr. O'C.) considered worst of all, endeavoured to foment religious discord in the country, which had been dormant so long. Such coming from a Judge, remarkable for his former opinions, rendered it doubly mischievous. He (Mr. O'C.) recounted the substance of the charge deli vered by Baron Smith on the occasion alluded to. —(Hear, hear.) The first observation was one where he apprised them of the state of the country as requiring observations from him on the bench. What would be ((aid if a Judge, appointed to try felons at the Old Bailey, were to go out of his way in order to give a dissertation on the state of the country? It was contrary to common sense to say that a Judge who entered on a crusade of politics, was fit to exercise his judicial duties. The Hon. and Learned Member read a succeeding passage, in which Mr. Baron Smith said, when he found the state of the country to be misunderstood, he sounded the tocsin. Now he (Mr. O'C.) denied that I that was a part of the duty of a Judge; it was not his I duty to explain the political state of the country. He ought to be neutral with regard to politics, and to have his mind, like a juryman, perfectly free from bias of any kind.—(Hear.) It was intolerable for any Judge to say, that because the political state of the country was supposed to be misunderstood, he sounded the tocsin and explained it. In a subsequent paragraph the Learned Baronet spoke of " the audacity of factious leaders,' , and made some severe comments on them, and of their increase in numbers.—(Hear, hear, from several Members.) Au Hon. Baronet near him cried " Hear, hear," but sup pose the Learned Judge had to try one of those factious leaders—(Hear, hear)—in what a situation would he be placed when he found the Attorney-General against him, and that the Judge not only had made up his mind upon the verdict but had passed sentence upon him.— (Hear, hear.) He (Mr. O'Connell) felt obliged to the Hon. Baronet for that cheer. The Learned Baron next alluded to the opposition to taxes and tithes; and the Hun. and Learned Member asked whether that was judi cial—was it impartiality ? The business of the Judges of the land was to act impartially and without reference to politics. It was his (Mr. O'C.'s) intention to have the charge read by the clerk; and he would just state in general terms what it contained. The Learned Baron attacked the Hon. Member for Drogheda for what he bad said in this House, and commented on a speech delivered by that Hon. Member last session ; he next took up the cudgels for a brother Judge (Mr. Baron Pennefather), and the discussion of a question as between that learned person and the Members of this House. That speech might have been very well if delivered on a political hustings, or at a political dinner, but it was unbecoming in a Judge to deliver it. He also discussed the right of petitioning, and the abuse; of that right, and complained that the conversations in the House tended to degrade the diguity of the Bench. The Judges were surely responsible to the House of Commons—it was a part of the duty of a Member of Parliament to watch over the conduct of the Judges. He (Mr. O'Connell) thought, that looking at all those cir cumstances, particularly at the late hours at which the Learned Baron tried prisoners for felony, the House was bound to investigate the conduct of this gentleman. This Judge also proceeded to touch upon Cabinet Minis ters ; nothing escaped : rents, mates, tithes, and Cabine e Ministers—all were brought into his speech. He sounded his tocsin upon every thing, and this upon the trial of some pig and cow stealers. that what he(Mr. O'C.) principally objected to was the revival of dissension. This Judge went on to say--" It had been remarked that there wa• no longer a Catholic party in Ireland—they had got all they wanted, and were quiet. Why then was there so much taboo; of our Church, and such delight at the diminution of nu,. B.shops ?" Taat was a gross calumny, for instead of re juicing at the diminution of the Protestant Bishops, 1, 1 and other Members of the same persuasion in that House, CITIZENS • The fatigues of the two campaigns in which the inte rests of liberty required my presence have given a shock to my health, and placed it in such danger as to render it necessary for me to apply to the august National Congress tor permission to proceed for fhc months to my retreat in the country—to that peaceful asylum which I abandoned only in obedience to the call of my country. The Chambers have granted my prayer. I leave you, then, ; but at parting it is my duty to address you, to explain the desires and express the ardent wishes of one who thinks himself entitled to be regarded as the first of your friends. I carry with me the gratifying reflection that the peace so bravely fought for during the last year is consolidated. Great was the anxiety, dreadful the agitation ; but the invincible people put forth their resources, and humbled for ever their enemies. Those federal institutions, which misled or perverse politicians allege to be in direct and permanent contradiction with our habits and our wants, have resisted all the eff , rts of the interested opponents of social improvement, the shock of all the passions and all the furies concentrated, and are now about to pro ceed tranquilly in their course, gradually ameliorating the condition of our population. A spark of the fl me still remains to be extinguished in a corner of the South. A General, whose name has been associated with several public calamities, has recently appeared with the torch of discord in his hand, and has put himself at the head of the miserable remains of the insurgents. One chastisement more is what he has to expect. I have summoned him, both officially and in a friendly manner, to orch•r. If he should disregard this last opportunity of saving himself, then will b' repeated, with g! eater dis grace and detriment to him, the day of Tulancingo. Brave Generals, federalists worthy of public confidence, will conquer in Chilepa, as they conquered in Guanajuato, the best troops of the rebels. I have directed the neces sary measures, and soon there will remain of the insurrec tion only the odium attached to its memory. The powers given to the Executive in moments of crisis have been spontaneously resigned by me, and restored to the Congress. The constitution has recov,red its empire, and the tutelary laws of citizenship their benign influ ence. I recommend to you, my countrymen, the most sincere, frank, and faithful attachment to the fundamental law which so often has save• us in our political ship. wrecks. Nine years of social exis'ence under its auspices afford the best proof of the sound judgment of the con stituents of 1824. In some of the new Republics of our America, every revolution, every commotion, ev. ry tumult has had for its result a new constitution. Affairs and men have thus constantly been in an unsettled state. We can congratulate ourselves, that though the shocks have injured, they have not destroyed our social edifice. The constitution facilitates the means of repara- tion and conservation. Reforms may be accomplished without causing subversions ; and by listening to the use ful lessons of experience, you be able to give to that work of wisdom the perfection of which it is susceptible. Let public opinion be enlightened, the door to discussion on our great political intere,ts he thrown wide open, the will of the people be ascertained, and the National Con. gress will then completely satisfy your wishes. Those eyes must be obstin itely shut which do not see the progress of knowledge, which do not perceive that the time has arrived for accommodating to its growing in fluence even the secondary institutions of Mexican society. The improving movement which has been the tendency of that society since the commencement of its revolution, has received a new impulse, because the question has for tut:lively been opened on reasonable and just principles, and because the resistance and the obstinacy of the enemies of liberty have demonstrated that the benefit, which is with base design disputed, should no longer be delayed. The people will exercise with moderation the rights which the Mexican legislators will, with their well known pru dence, secure and regulate. The inflexible severity of the laws is about to be directed against those who pervert the blessings of peace. All po litical necessities and emergencies have been foreseen. Allow the laws to operate, and crime will no longer enjoy impunity, nor will innocence be trampled on and op pressed. Tolerance is the only balsam which can cure the wounds opened by civil dissension. It is the peculiar characteristic of free nations, and elevates their govern ments above the sphere of turbulent and atrocious pas sions. Union, fellow citizens,--union is earnestly recom mended to you on paring, by one who retains no resentment, who needs to make no effort to pardon inju ries, because be forgets them. I hope that Providence will continue to us the favour of its manifest protection. But if new conflicts should yet occur, know, my friends, that I belong entirely to our dear country. Her voice will not he disregarded—her commands will be executed with that submissive will with which I have always obeyed them. Announce to me the epoch of danger, and it will be the signal for my instant return to the difficult and complicated labours of public administration, or to the fatigues of the field. But these alternatives are distant, for the good sense of the nation banishes all fear, and I have placed the reins of the Government in that upright magistrate who never bowed his head in the storm, and who knows how to main tain it erect and serene in opposition to every low and selfish intrigue. No compunctions of conscience accompany me. I have laboured to do good with the purest intentions. You will excuse the errors of judgment, if curb there have been, and mistakes' which have arisen from that cause. Never shall I forget, fellow-citizens, that you have bestowed on me all that a people who are, and deserve to be free, could give. My means of recompense are sterile, but my gratitude, my life, my honour, my all, is due to the great and magnanimous Mexican nation. ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANNA. Mexico, Dec. 14, 1833. DECLARATION AND PLAN OF GENERAL BRAVO IN CHICHUALCO. General Bravo, who till now seemed to have remained neutral in the civil war which desolates the country, has at length begun to make a traffic of the laurels he gathered in the fields of independence, and has placed himself at the head of the ref els, as is manifest from the following documents transmitted from Tixtla by express. Their contents being as criminal as they are undisguised, need no comment—suffice it to say, that the exposition 4 comprehended in the printed manifesto which has been forwarded to us contains many libels on the character of the first Magistrate of the republic, which we have thought it our duty to omit, out of respect to that high functionary. GENERAL BRAVO'I PROCLAMATION. Fellow-countrymen !—The time has arrived for think ing seriously on the means of saving our country. Her miseries are many, and it behoves us to attend to their alleviation, foregoing, freely and entirely, all those per sonal pretensions which blind our vision, and turn us from the paths of justice and of reason. Now is time time for putting an end to the prevailing system of arbitrary government, to the license and excesses of a Government whose views are iniquitous ! Now is the period for calling to a severe account the shameless profaners of our consti tutions ! Listen to the voice of a veteran in time cause of liberty! Be faithful to the ties of religion, of law, and of experience ! Are you not yet tired of so many vexations and afflictions ? Follow the example of my companions in arms in their firmness, decision, and patriotism. If these honour me with their confidence by spontaneously nominating me to the supreme command over their opera tions, do I deserve any less at your hands? Entertain no fear of our tyrants; they will speedily receive the just reward of their attempts again(t the altar and their country ! To arms, ye honourable and valiant soldiers! To arms, ye patriots ! and all you citizens who prize true liberty, and are the enemies of disorder and confusion, come and assist us in allaying the spirit of anarchy, and join us in the mighty work of regeneration, peace, and glory ! Lint if, inclined by salutary inspiration, our blind op pressors should enter into measures for the consolidation of peace, bounded on good faith and guarantees, repudiating their chief and his criminal acts, restraining the wildness of the demagogues who follow in his train, and openly admitting the proposed reconciliation, then I and my com p anions will ail sheath the sword, and our grateful country will enjoy a day of glory, which will at once efface the many pages of our history which are stained by blind am bition ! But if—oh shame !—pride turn a deaf ear to our MESSAGE FROM THE COMMONS. Mr. BERN AL, and other Members of , the Howe of Com mons, In ought up the Factories' Regulation Act Amend ment Bill. On the motion of the Earl of SHAFTESBURY, the Bill was read a first time, ordered to be printed, and read a second time to-morrow. The fiouse then adjourned till to-morrow, at half-past hree o'clo3k. HOUSE OF COMMONS, FEB. 13. Mr. FITZSIMON brought up the report of the Com mitte on the Dublin and King.zton Railway Petition. The report state,' that the standing orders hid been complied with. IRISH TOBACCO. Mr. O'CONNELL begged to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Spring Rice) what the precise sum was which had been paid by the Government for the Irish to. hac-•o that had been bought up and consumed. He un derstood that no less a sum than 800,0001. had been paid for it. 111 r. SPRING RICE said if the report had not been so absurd as almost to contradict itself he would have noticed the matter before. He now thanked the Hon. and Learned Gentleman for having put the question, as it enabled him to state what had been actually done. By the Bill which had been brought in, prohibiting the growth of Irish tobacco, persons then holding it could derive no advantage from it, after a certain period. It was then proposed that the Govi-rrnent should buy up all the tobacco on hand at a sum not exceed ing 2e. per pound. The Government were subsequently enabled to buy it up at Is. and a fraction per pound. It was state) that this had amounted to no I,ss a sum than 800,0001. In reality, the tobacco purchased had weighed 800,000 lbs. weight, and it was in this way the mistake bad originated. The Government had been attacked for purchasing and destroying tobacco, the only fault of which was that it was Irish. This charge was also unfounded, I , r it had been done to benefit the holders of the tobacco. 50,0001. was the whole of the suns which bad been thus spent. Lord MORPETH moved for some returns, the purport of which we were unable to catch from the noise pre vailing in the House. Mr._ R. WALLACE moved for certain returns to be laid on the table and printed. BARON SMITH. Mr. O'CONNELL rose to bring forward the case of Mr. Baron Smith. In doing so, he stated that he was not presumptuous enough to imagine the question would engage much of the attention of gentlemen in that House, not immediately connected with Irel Ind. It was purely an Irish question. It related to the liberties and lives of the people of Ireland, and was one of those questions which he was afraid people here would consider beneath the dignity of that House It was a question which, if it related to an English or Scotch judge, would not take up much time, for no Minister would feel himself justified in interfering between an inquiry and one of those judges, if such a case as he had now to submit was made against one of them. There was not a greater misfortune to Ireland than that theGovetn ment of this country did not understand its situation. If in an English court of justice a barrister were to get up and address a special jury in these terms—" It is my duty to state this case to you as one very complicated in fact, and important in law ; it is therefore a case that ought to require very much of the assistance of the Learned Judge, but both you and I perceive it is impossible you can get any assistance from that Judge, because, if lie interferes at all, he will only interfere to disturb the course of justice"—if any bar rister so expressed himself in a court of law here, be would instantly and properly be committed for contempt. But he (Mr. O'Connell) had stated that to a special jury in a court of justice in Ireland—and what was his an swer? Why the judge said he was a comical fellow.— (Laughter.) He replied to the judge, that he was more in melancholy than in merriment at that moment, and that if he had been incorrect, his (the Judge's) duty would have been to have sent him to gaol. But he could not do that, because he felt lie had not uttered one word unauthorised by his duty to his client, and that lie was hound to warn the Jury against what fell from the Court. That very Judge had actually remained three years on the Bench after he (Mr. O'Connell) had made that statement to him and the jury. From that it must appear that the people here knew nothing of the judici stile of Ireland. Hu was one who asked the people to respect the law, and wished to see the law respected ; but then he was anxious that the law should be properly ad• ministered. The case he had to bring forward against Mr. Baron Smith was of a double description : first, the grossest neglect of his duty as a judge; and next, his making compensation for that gross neglect of his duty by becoming a very violent politician— his politics being the only consolation he gave the people of Ireland for the neglect of his judicial services. In bringing forward this sullect, he was satisfied it would he impossible to impute to him any motives of partisan ship. It was merely a strict sense of duty that com pelled him thus to act, at a period, too, when a strong attempt was making to raise religious dis cussions in Ireland, and to aggravate the feeling on that subject; at the same time he was bound. to do this Judge the justice to say, that wh-n in Ireland, some 30 or 40 years ago, he had the opportunity of voting in Parliament in favour of the Catholic question, he certainly did so, which would show the mere clearly the present motion originated in him merely from a sense of propriety.—(Hear, hear.) lie was the more anxious r_ - • * 2,927.) ,s and eight tfrtrea_,to interrupt. Of various speakers there were forty four, and ninety_nine interruptions. Fifty-six speeches from the centre, ten from the right, and seven teen from the left. We all know that the French Chamber is not the most polite and ts , ,nified assetnbly in the world, but this se , sion the mem , ers appear to have caused more noise and interruption than ever. Perhaps, however, an ether assembly could he named nearer home, where they d 3 not order things much better. It is intended to abolish the provisions in the Customs Acts by which service in the navy is made a pu nishment for smuggling offences. TRADE OF JAVA.—The following state ment, contained in one of the Singapore papers, shows the progress of the trade of Java during the last three years, an l the rr,r;at increase in the exportation of articles from that island : 1830. 1831. 1832. Coffl.e, piculs Sugar, Tin, Pepper, Indigo, pounds Rice, piculs 392,067 ... 503,199 ... 62'2,994 Arrack, leggers 1,927 ... 1,497 ... 2,090 Hides, in number Rattans, piculs 5,094 ... 5,188 ... 14,323 Tortoiseshell Tripang Birds'-nests, Mace, Nutmegs, Cloves 4,908... 4,059 ... 5,378 261 ... 246 ... 322 177 ... 715 ... • 947 1,3 , 4 ... 2,559 ... 3,849 893 1,531 ... 5,144 The annexed official letter has been addressed to one of the shareholders of the United Mexican Associ ation, and evinces a laudable regard on the part of the Government to the protection of British interests in a part of the world where they appear to stand very much in need of it. One of the last reforms to be looked for in Mexico is probably that of the administration of justice, without which, however, much of that benefit from pro perty in mines, in pursuit of which so much capital has been squandered, will, in the few instances in which suc cess has been attained, be wrested from the hands of the unfortunate proprietors. The matter is well deserving of a spirited interference on the part of the British Govern- ment : " Foreign-office, Feb. 10 Sir,—With reference to that part of your letter of the 27th ult., in which you represent the losses which the United Mexican Mining Association has suffered in Mexico, in conse quence of the partial administration of justice in their legal proceedings with the Marquis of Rayas, I am directed by Lord Palmerston to inform you, that by a despatch received by the last mail from his Majesty's Charge d'Affaires in Mexico, in answer to an instruction which was addressed to Mr. Pakenham on the 22d of August last, founded on the memorial of the United Mexican Mining Association of the 20th, and on your letter of the 21st of the same month, it appears that Mr. Pa kenham had, lost no time in addressing a representation upon the subject to the Mexican Government. But he observed, that as his note would have to be referred to the Govern Went of the State of Guanaxuato, some time must necessarily elapse before he could expect to receive .n answer. He hoped, how ever to be able to transmit some information on the subject by the following packet ; and in the mean time he assured Lord Palmerston that he would endeavour by every means in his power to convince the Mexican Government of the necessity of compelling the State of Guanaxuato to do its duty in protecting the United Mexican Company against the measures of the Mar quis of Rayas.—l am, Sir, " J. BACKHOUSE." SEIZURES IN MARYLEBONE FOR KING'S TAXES.—A great sensation was produced on Tuesday after noon throughout the parish of Marylebone by several se!zutes being trade on different householders for arrears of the house and window taxes. A numerous body of police were stationed in the neighbourhood to suppress any tumult that might arise. and to prevent hindrance or ob struction beine offered to the Sheriffs' officers in making the levies. The first seizure was made upon the pro prietor of the King and Queen public-house at the corner of Duke-street and Oxford -street, who immediately paid the demand. This example was followed in all the other instances where a distraint was made. A number of persons assembled, and followed the officers from pl ,ce to place, but conducted themselves in a very peaceable manner, with the exception of venting curses both " loud and deep" on the occasion. These seiv;res have been ex pected for the last three er four days, and the policemen grumble much at the extra duty they have had to perform in holding themselves in readiness to act at a moment's notice on any emergency. The Mathon and Colwell hounds had an excellent run on the 31st ult. ; they met at Staunton Swan, and proceeded thence to Limbury, where they found almost immediately. After one or two rings round the cover, the fox went away to Charter's Grove, and from thence to Milsemore Rough, where he dragged a little for wind, and finding the country on the other side covered with water, he was obliged to beat a retreat, and broke in the direction for Corse Grove. Here some of the horse men with more ardour than judgment, rode away with about three couple of hounds, and it was with some diffi culty that they could be prevailed upon to wait for tiie bo!ly of hounds to be brought up. At length the pack was got tnerether, and the pice became so fast, that it was the destiny of miny who had shown a feeling to over-ride the hounds at the commencement of the run, to be some miles behind : and Reynard not liking to face the hill between Maisemore and Corse, again turned towards Liinbury, where he tried the earths, but finding no shelter, was obliged to face the open country, where he was kill d after a run of one hour and thirty minutes without a single check. The proprietors of the hounds, without wishing to be personal, request certain gentlemen who are in the habit of meeting them, to allow the hounds to settle to their fox before they over-ride them, after which they will be perfectly at liberty (if there is any thing like it scent) to catch them if they can.— Cheltenhamehronirle. DANGEROUS NUISANCE.—On Wednesday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Globe, Gold-. smith's.row, Hackney, on the body of Thomas Hadnett, ;In apprentice to a g ass-drop-cutter, residing in Gold smith's-grove. L appeared that the deceased, in return ing to his master's house with some beer, during the fog on Sunday night, fell into a deep pond, situate close to the public footpath. A bricklayer named Dawson heard the splash, and torch,s were brought to the spot, but all trace of the deceased was lost. The drags were then procured and the body t iken out. Dawson said the ditch, which was six feet deep, and filled with dirt and water, was so situate that a person walking in the dark was sure to fall into it; ' and in consequence no fewer than eleven persons had met with accidents. The jury said, the owner of the place could not be discovered, and the parish knew not which way to effect the removal of the nuisance. Mr. Baker recommended an applicatio❑ to the Commiss:oners of Sewers.—The Jury returned a verdict, "That the de ceased Thomas Hadnett came by his desth by falling into a pond, which was left in an unprotected state ; and that the said pond was a dangerous and filthy nuisance, and a proper object for indictment." A few days since an appalling discovery was made at Staplehurst. Some boys were playing in a hay barn, and mounted the remaining portion of a stack. In one part t f it they discovered a pair of shoes, and some thing like a bundle of clashes on the top of it. They mentioned the circumstance to some men, who examined the place, and found the remains of a man, which appeared to have been lying there for some months. The deceased, who was reduced to a perfect skeleton, was recognized by a yellow band round his hat as a poor labourer, who had been at work in the neighbourhood previously to the hop ping season, and who had engaged himself to do some work in the season. He disappeared at that time, and most likely died suddenly while sleeping in a hole in the hay, some surgeons, whom he had then consulted, having previously told him that the nature of a complaint with which he was affected would probably terminate his ex istence abruptly. His name, we believe, is unknown.— Kentish Gazette. MELANCHOLY AND FATAL ACCIDENT.— On the night of Tuesday the 21st current, some of the men working at the Glenturret Distillery, Crieff, were alarmed by the cries of one apparently in great agony, in a part of the premises s,lelorn frequented after sunset. On reaching the spot, it was found that John 111(0wen, weaver in Crieff, while in the act of filing a cask, Ly dipping it in a sunken vessel containing boiling drege just discharged from the still, bad slipped a foot and fallen in : and, to relieve the pain thereby occasioned, had, upon regaining his footing, rolled himself into the mill lade, which flows close by the vessel's edge. His cries bespoke dreadful sufferings; and, upon being taken intt, the house, he adverted dim to the sensation of cold pro duced by the waver. lie was immediately conveyed to his own house, where he iingered in the most intense. agony till Thursday night, when be died. —Aberdeen Herald. / ~f~ /( ‘)-2 did any thing but rejoice in their diminution. Again this Judge said " Why was there such satisfaction at the wane of Protestant seminaries, and why were such proceedings instituted against Protestant bodies, and everything done which could depress the Protestant Church and elevate the Roman Catholic hierarchy ?" Now did it become a Judge to turn politician, and make his Court the arena for rivivin,g, dissension and hatred ?—(Hear.) Having the wealthy class among the Protestant, and the power among the Catholic com munity, was it befitting in a Judge to endeavour to reani mate religious prejudice and fury? Was it right in him to be calumniating the Catholic clergy and people who were not before him, and taunting the Protestants with language calculated to irritate them Protestants ! the Roman Catholics are triumphing over you ; they exult in the wane of your establishments." He was a gentleman, it was true, a scholar, and an able man, and a man, therefore, capable of reviving the dying embers—if, indeed, there were dying embers of religious animo.ity. He put it to the nouse f if any judge in England had done this, what would have been the consequence?—(Hear.) If a judge bad n , glected his duty by day here, and tried prisoners in the darkness of night, and sounded the political tocsin from the Bench, was there a man in that House who would attempt to screen him, or prevent inquiry into his conduct? —(Hear.) Should he then be told that it U'ett3 only in Ireland this had taken place ; that there Was nothing in jeopardy but the lives and property of Irisri people, aild therefore inquiry was unnecessary? All he demanded was inquiry, and he pledged himself to prove a stronger case than he had mentioned, if called upon to do so. :did doubt he should receive an answer proper in its tone and' temper. But what signified tone and temper ? What could take away the conviction from the minds of the people of Ireland that here was a man who ought to be the pro tector, pronouncing from the bench a philippic ihvoiting the peace and security of the country ? Should he bb refused inquiry, it might be said, as a ground for refusing, that a gentleman at his (Baron Smith's) time of life, certainly ought to be excused on account of the infirmities of age. Excused indeed ! was it not proved that be was too active whatever his age might be, and that it would have been better if he had had legs 'bf such activity about hitn He knew of no chastity that ought to be more pate Iliad the ermine. What would become of all the institutions of the country if the people were to see such sights as that then seen? The Judges ought to he free from all the pol lution of politics—they ought to be like a stream of pure water running through the land, but if such conduct as was then imputed to Mr. Baron Smith were to be allowed by that House with impunity, then it would be like a foul stream which produced nothing but noxious vapours, and all who breathed of it would, if not . - killed outright, carry away a taint with them. It would make men think there was no protection for life or property. And yet was an inquiry into such grave charges to he refused ? Then let them come forward and say at Once, that because he was a partisan they would protect him. It would be detestable if, on such a ground, an inquiry was to he stifled. What remedy would the people have? Were they to go before this judge who, in his place from the Bench, hallooed on the Protestants against the Catholics? It might be said that faction raged in Ireland—that agitation also prevailed. He acknowledged that it did ; but for that reason, if no other, the Judges ought to be free from it—there ought to he one green spot kept sacred from the all-devouring flame. It should Bei the conduct of the Judge to sooth the feelings of agita tion that prevailed, and in place or setting one party of religionists against another, to smooth down the e.g.' y feelings of both. Instead of that, what did they new see ? Why, the Judge, in all the majesty of the law, throwing off his robes, and putting on the ribands of the partisan. Having shown his partisanship, incapacity, and nen-attendance to his duties, he called upon the Hoarse not to stand between a man of such a character and d fulli ftir, and impartial inquiry. The Government could not afford to do so—they were not strong enough. There never was an Administration that had character enough to spare to enable them to act in such a manner.—(Hear, hear.) It might be said that the reports were not authenticated—that they were mere rumours from newspapers, but all he asked for was inquiry, in order that it might not be said the Judge was the first criminal—that the prisoner in the dock should not point to him and say, " It was you who first brought me to this,—it was by your advice I took that course which placed me here." The Hon. Gentleman then moved for a Committee of inquiry on the conduct of Baron Smith with respeet to the neglect of his duties as a Judge, and the intro duction of political topics into his charge to Grand Juries. The motion was seconded by Mr. O'DWYER. The question having been put from the Chair, Mr. LITTLETON rose and said, that during the time that he had had the honour of a seat in that House, he had not been called upon frequently to address them, but he had never approached the consideration of any question with so much pain as that which had just been propounded to the House. The Hon. Gentleman, the Member fur Dublin, when be give notice of this motion, had es pressed it in terms which, if he had continued to use, he (Mr. Littleton) shou'd have felt it to be his duty to oppose it, as the Hon. Member for Dublin stated that his object in instituting an investigation into the conduct of Baron Smith, before a Committee, was to remove him front / the Bench. if the Hon. Mernkr had persisted in this motion, he (Mr. Littleton) would have felt it his duty to resist it, but be felt that the present motion was sup parted by such statements, and what was much more important, by such evidence, that be owed it to the people of Ireland, to his own character, to the character of this country, and the House, to accede to the motion. —(Loud cries of " Hear.") He did this with the niora pain, because his Hon. Friend, if be would permit tem so to call him, the Recorder of Dublin, animated by feel ings of kindness towards Mr. Baron Smith, and convinced that these proceedings were unnecessary, had inquired if it was his (Mr. Littleton's) intention to oppose the motion, and he (Mr. Littleton) had informed him, the terms of the motion being then different, and such full evidence respecting the late sittings of the Learned Baron not having been adduced, that though he felt it his duty to ani madvert upon some parts of the conduct of the Learned Baron ; yet it was not his intention to accede to the motion. The late sittings of the Learned Baron had been made last year the subject of a motion by the Honourable and Learned Member for Mona ghan, but it was not till this morning that he (Mr. Littleton) bad seen the returns. He found that there was much in these returns to prove the extreme irregu larity of Baron Smith with regard to the sittings.- -(Hear, hear, bear.) It was highly expedient to the due administration of justice, that the sittings should be at an early hour in the morning, and should cease at an early hour in the evening. With respect to the politics introduced into the Learned Baron's charges, he could subscribe to a great part of what bad been stated by the Hon. Member for Dublin.—(Hear, hear.) He would not, as the Honourable and Learned Mew her had already gone through the speech, do that which he was prepared to do, call the attention of • the House to the character of it, but he must say, that notwithstanding its great length there was not one statement in it that had any reference to the case that was to come before the Grand Jury.— (Hear, hear.) It was well known to all that the state of crime in Ireland, was such as often to render it im peratively necessary for the Judge to make obser vations of a political character to the Grand Jury, but that was not the case in the instance alluded to, there being no prisoner for trial charged with offences of a political character, such as tithe centre.- versies, party processions, or Wbiteboyism.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. and Learned Gentleman, in the course of his observations on the speech of Mr. Baron Smith, had not adverted to one particular passage which bad struck him (Mr. Littleton) with astonishtnent., At the time he heard it in Dublin, it filled him with no small regret. In that part the Learned Baron had made obser divaaut t ei i 7t o n n a s noyf with aa r nn e s d p b e a c t t ahso ltiocwootfb. sense ei o n m t o a Roman s C i t a h t o f h t p o uil l nd i oini o n p si e u ni - i from the service of the country. He was sure that any petit juror, plaintiff, or defendant, after hearing such a statement, would go away perfectly satisfied that a Judge who would snake a statement of such a kind, could not act justly between them. It was his intention . when he entered the House to oppose the motion, on the ground of its being essentially necessary at t i mes to mix up politics with judges' chatges to grand juries, but in the present instance that ground aas completely cut from under him. Under these cir cumstances, and in the amended form in which it had been put, he had no objection to accede to the motion of the Han. and Learned Member for Dublin. Mr. SHAW felt great difficulty in rising to defend the Learned Baron, both against the Hon. and Learned Wern her for Dublin, on the one bide, and against the represen tative of the Government of Ireland on the other si«?e.— (Hear, hear.) He found by the return made on the mo • t , on of the Hon. Member for Monaghan, that on an ave r,:ge the Courts generally sat at eleven or half-past eleven .'clock in the evening. There was one case—that at Armagh—in which ti,e Learned Judge did think i , ne ..:,-bsary to sit during the greater part of the night. The r•rsuns who were called on to wake returns as to the tittle when the Judges were in the habit of sitting, said '..4 -If