The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. There is but one Member of the name of " Wortley," in the House—the Hen. Mr. S. Wortley, M.P., for the West Riding. THE WEATHER.—Noon, APRIL 15. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer... 45 Highest 47 Lowest 36 Barometer 30.12.—Wind N.E.—Freezing Point '..32 Deg,. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning 23 minutes after 4 I Evening 39 minutes after 4. - =A, 441,3 XvtrOlttto SUN OFFICE Three o'Clock. France is not the only country suffering from a war mania. In the New York papers to the 20th ult. received this morning, nothing is discussed but a prohibitive tariff, and the necessity of preparing for a war with England. " Ninety-nine men out of every hundred in this country," says the New York Courier and Inquirer, " without reference to party, cry aloud to Congress for action and protection. The cry is everywhere heard, 'Build war steamers—increase our navy—put our forts in a state of defence—re-organize the militia—accumulate every where munitions of war—regulate the . . national cur rency—impose heavy import duties —tax all free arti cles—and, if necessary, lay on direct taxes to any amount that the wants of the country may require.' This is the language of the people." We are sorry for it. Such language betrays much ignorance and great folly. The at tempt to raise a revenue by heavy import duties—or in other words by a prohibitive tariff, can have no other effect than to ruin the foreign, trade of the United States, and thus add to the commercial embarrassments of the country. In Congress an import duty of thirty-five per cent. is spoken of as necessary to protect native indus try. With such a duty Congress will be obliged to grant a premium upon exports, as assuredly European vessels will not go in ballast to the United States to export her staples. With respect to the question of a war with England, nothing can be more absurd or more wicked than the attempts which the press of the United States is making to expedite such a calamity. To go to war about a boundary line, or the right of search question, would be madness. With respect •to a right of search, for the purpose of impressing British subjects found on board foreign vessels, we are decidedly of opinion that it. ought to be given up. Such a national right ought to be blottel out of the law of nations ; nor can an attempt to enforce it be made by nations speaking a common language, without acts of individual wrong being com mitted, calculated to lead to the most serious consequences. • In Congress coshing is cluing ; but if we are to be lieve the Journals, public opinion, was never less repre sented at a Versailles Bed of Justice, in the good old clays of the French Monarchy, than in the legislative assembly of wise men at Washington. Hear what the Courier and Inquirer says of them in a leading article . Never was there such universal contempt felt by the people at large for any Cody of men, as is everywhere openly expressed in, regard to the present Congress ; and, in our opinion, this gene ral contempt is most richly merited. We do not refer to any party in particular ; all are equally to blame, and at this moment a majority of the House of Representatives and of both parties in that House, are justly looked upon by the people, as men who are alike void of the necessary talents for the discharge of their duties, and of the patriotism which should prompt them to discharge those duties according to the best interests of their constitu ents. And just so certainly as they do not change their course of conduct, and now, when an opportunity otters, come forward and show that they have at least some little American feeling in their bosoms, they may anticipate a burst of indignation from the whole people, such as never before has been elicited in this or any other country. It appears to us, that such a benighted set of men never got together as is now assembled at Washing. ton, or they certainly would be aware of the deep and uni versal feeling of contempt which their conduct has excited. Let them beware that they do not convert that contempt into indignation. Lord KENYON, the last of his bigoted race, we hope, in the House of Peers, attempted last night to get up a dis cussion oil that bugbear of Orangemen—Maynooth Col lege, but met with no support. The Bishop of EXETER was silent, not one of the Ron Err school even gave him a so litary cheer ; and one of his own party in politics told the Noble Peer in direct terms, that to petition Parlia ment to overthrow the grant was the " height of absur dity." This pithy rebuke drew forth cheers from Whig and Tory Lords, and also from the Puseyite Bishops. This circumstance forms a remarkable feature of the present time, which every friend of his country will hail as an omen of good, and as the most secure pledge for the happy union of two religious parties, the dire enemies of each other ever since the days of the Reformation. While, but some dozen years ago, petitions flowed in from all quarters of the kingdom, breathing the most bitter hostility to Catholics, a large proportion of the Commons, and a great majority of the Peers, re fused even to entertain their claims for emancipation, and every attempt was in t ade by a bigoted priesthood, and a ruthless press, to stir up the worst passions of the people for erroneous or selfish purposes, the wild rage has nearly died away, and only manifests itself at certain periods of the years among the old women of Essex, and Denbigh, and the showy ladies that frequent Exeter-hall. If Lord KEN YON has really such a dread of Roman Catholics, why does he not look at colleges nearer home than that o- Maynooth ? Rank Popery has displayed itself in Ox ford, it is all but openly professed by many of the mi nisters of the Protestant Church, and receives no check from the Bench of Bishops ; yet this Peer, so anxious to put down the base and demoralizing doctrines of Popery, is blind to the perjury of his own Church, vents all his rage on consistent Churchmen, and wickedly and falsely accuses the learned and moral professors at Maynooth, of teaching doc trines subversive of Christianity. In order to put an end to this malevolent, attack on a respectable and numerous class, we trust the advice given by Lord CLONCURRY and the Earl of WicxLow will be followed, and the House of Commons will mark its disapprobation of such mis chievous bigotry by increasing the grant tenfold. Such a measure would tend to promote the tranquillity of Ire land, and at the same time induce men of a higher rank ,n enter the Catholic Church as priests. On looking at the treatment which members of other Churches re ceive from the Legislature, the Catholics have good reason to complain. While a large sum every year is voted to raise small livings in Scotland, and mil lions have been granted for building additional places of worship for the richest Church in the world, these miser a:nle, envious bigots grudge a few thousand pounds to Catholics, from whom the Legislature has taken the whole of their ecclesiastical property. It is high time to do away with such unjustifiable partiality, place all classes on something like a footing of equality, and in these times of danger unite them in one common bond of unity for maintaining the independence and honour of the country. We must not omit the consistent part Mr. WALLACE took last night in the discussion, and we would point to the very different Constitutional opinions entertained by the Member for Greenock from those expressed last night by the crotchety Lord who represents Sunderland We have always believed that when any question in duced the people to send " petitions to the House by the cart load," that it was the bounden duty of the people's servants then to pay fax more respect to them than when they were few and far . between ; but this is not the Howlex logic ; we perceive that scion of aris tocracy sneers at cart loads of petitions. We would remind him that the conduct of his Noble Father was very different when a Member of the House of, Commons—the petitions of all ranks were ably handled by that statesman, and the nearer their approaohnvas to cart loads, the more zeal did Lord GRE* evince in giving effect to them. What would / his Lord ship's early friend, CIIAP.LES Fox, say, were he permitted to wiiness the peculiar conduct of the son to that friend of the people, so well known for many years as Mr. GIIEY in the Common's House ? What would Fox, and SIIERIDAN, and RONILLY, and GRATTAN, think of those who now not only refuse to listen to those who would plead the cause of the people, but who have, by an immens e ma j or i t y, ma de a St an di ng O rder against a single word even being said, either in the way -of explanatio n or confirmation of the contents o f petitions ? They certainly would say they might call themselves 'Whigs, if they chose ; but they were not of the genuine :iort, but a mongrel rare, more than half Tory. Mr. - WALLACE, like Mr. DuNewinn, deserves the thanks of the whole body of the peopl e for his steady advocacy of the untrammelled right of petitioning, and for the stand lie has made, and will make again, in this sacred cause. When the newly-passed Standing Orders come to be read over at the commencement of next session, will b e th e proper time for Mr. WALLACE again to fight he battle, and we cannot doubt h e w ill d o so effectually, for by that time the income tz.?.: will have had a trial ; and we shall be greatly surprised If the constitu encies do not pledge their representatives to vote w i t h Mr. WALLACE in favour of discussing their petitions for its discontinuance, from day to day, when so instructed, in place of laying them on the table without one word in kliS iti behalf of ;heir contents, and then seeing them coolly thrust bag, for such use as the Committee may see fit to em to. Like Mr. WALLACE, and the band who upported him on both occasions, we solemnly pro ainst the, new -f ang l e d not i ons oqr Tory-Whigs 71 !ii opted, and s h a ll cont i nue stea dil y t o advocate ;k :,)126;!„. 'Alienable right of the people to the full, free, and complete exercise of petitioning their own House of Parliament, and having their wishes enforced by their representatives. From Madrid the latest news is of the 6th inst. On that day there was some discussion in the Second Cham ber about a commercial treaty with England. M. GoN ZALES, President of the Council, said that the Govern ment, feeling the great interest attached to this question, were not disposed to bring forward a special project o f l a w on the subject, until after a thorough examination of the effect it would have on the dif ferent interests in the ?country, and this examination, although prosecuted with the greatest assiduity, was not yet completed. The Government, he said, had not yet discovered the means of reconciling the many conflicting interests connected with the question, but they would nut relax their exertions to bring the matter to a solution, A M. ZERMAN, a German swindler, who was said to be on a secret mission from Prince METTERNICH, has been ordered to quit the Spanish capital in 24 hours. Madrid Bourse, on the 6th, was 28i for cash. The French journals received this morning are barren of news of any interest. In the Chambers the closing business of the Session is rapidly progressing to a con clusion. A report was read in the Chamber of Deputies on Wednesday, on the subject of M. GOLBERY'S foolish project for the circulation of the Debates. It occupied two hours, and was finally thrown aside, by the refusal of the Chamber to appoint any time for discussing it. M. Callier Aid-de-Camp of the Minister of War, set oui by yesterday's post for Oran. _ The Corrimiitee on the Colonisation of Algeria, having ter minated its investigation, and availcd itself of all the documents useful for the plans of the Government, has divided into four Sub-Committees, each specially charged with important labours. The first is the Sub-Committee which is to inquire into and report on the state of property, of which M. Laplagne Barris, Peer of France, is President. The second has to inquire into the state of the inhabitants, the civil law, justice, legislation, and mu n icip a l organ i sa ti on; ount Gasparin, Peer of t'rance, President. The third has for the subject of its labours the public security, salubrity, draining villages, enclosures ; Lieut.-General Count de Tehramur, Peer of France, President. The fourth has far its share produc tion, cultivation, commerce, and tariff of customs ; Bar o n Charles Dupin, Peer of France, President. The Toulon journals of the 10th contain several letters from Algiers and Oran, which announce the presence of a great number of Moroquese in the Beylick of Tlemecen. The Meteore steamer had just left Toulon for Algiers with extraordinary despatches. It seems that it departed in conse quence of the arrival of a telegraphic despatch. Commerce. BO ;IRS E—PARIS, WE DN ESDAY, APRIL 13. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Pric% Price. French 5 per Cents llB 50 .. 118 55 .. 118 40 —. 118 55 4 1 ,4 per Cenci, lO7 LC ... 1. 7 50 ... 107 `0 ... 107 50 4per Cents. ...... 3 per .... Al .- 81 Rank of terance Latlittc tank 1,0001. :slares lIVS ... Sit 95 ... SI ...J3i'! 5U..: :375 _II 25 .. .....__ ..... -- 5,0011 r. stares te4o —5040 ...50-10 —5040 delgian flank 18:1.. Belgian 5 per Cents. 5 l•erC,n,:., 1840 10..1i ... 10.1% ... I0(ii ... 104% Dutch .t...., er Cents. spiniai Active ll6 ... :16% ... 251' ... •..6 Passive 5% — 5% -• *4%..---• 5 U , levolitait Ronlars HAILWAI ,HAtilt,S. .. _.. . ..._...._ ..... . t. Germain v ers. T i tic., 1... °Hi 25 .. 218 25 ... 215 .... 215 Konen SM 75 ... 5,3 15 ... 5.3 75'... :23 75 orikin. Sn.atiurg to Bale '233 75 ... 375 . 232 50 - ;:. — .32 ..0 The Queen gives her first State Ball this season at Buckingham Palace this evening. The AlembersW the Royal Family, and also a numerous list comprising the leading nobility in town, have b een h onoure d with'iriVi tations. The fete is expeci.en Lo be one of the,most brilliant since her Majesty's accession. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.' CITY, QUAItT.EIt TO THREE.,,,i Consols are firm at 91i 914 for Money, and 91/ 91a for tlw, Account. The business on the Stock Exchange has been chiefly confined to the payment of the daerences upon the late settlement, which are generally of small amount. The New. Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 100 ; Bank Stock, 165 166 ; India Stock 242 244; the Londs, 18 20 ; and Exche quer Bills, 39 41 prom. This is nominally the settling day in Foreign Bonds, but now fortunately it is of no moment. The quotations are—Mexican % 41i ; Colombian, 27 k ; Buenos Ayres, 28; Per uvian from Iti* to 21 for Money, and 20i1 for the Account ; Portuguese Five per rents., 36 ; Spanish Active, 241- ; } the Three per C en t s ., 25%. The price of the Dutch Five per ents. ,100 i Railway Shares are all firm. Great Western, 95*, the New Shares 654; Birmingham Quarter Shares, 59 59 ; South Western, 60 61 ; South Eastern, 29i 30; Brighton, 37.. Two instances have occurred to-day remarkably illustrative of the real nature of busineis carried or, in Foreign Bonds Peruvian, which opened at 18* for Money, are at present quoted 21, and the New Spanish Three per Cent. Stock opened at 256. roseto 26*, and ha, sincefallen to the first ofthese quotations. In the first case an artificial scarcity of Stock has been created, and in the other the decline has been caused by a party offering to sell, and the belief that he really bad the Stock to delive r . The Paris Stock Exchange Committee have literally kicked the new Stock from the Bourse. and wi 1 tot recognise it until Spain shall appear to be inclined to do justice to her foreign creditors. The North America packet-ship has brought accounts from New York to the 19th March inclusive. Scarcely any altera tion in mercantile affairs had occurred. The amount of busi ness continued to be small, being wholly confined to transac tions for immediate wants, and for thes e mone y was a b un d ant; while for speculation th e banks and capitalists refused to make advances. The progress of resumption was going on steadily, and as a natural consequence, the banks without capital were obliged to wind up their affairs. If this plan be pursued, it will tend more than any other to bring about a more healthy state. A calculation made some time since showed that there were in eighteen States one hundred and ninety millions of dollars of banking capital wholly unconvertible and unredeem able in specie, and that according to the report of the Treasury, upwards of three hundred and five millions of dollars had been sunk by the banking system. The debt due by • the Federal Gcvernment was still a chief topic of discussion, and the necessity .of meeting it and provid ing for future demands universally allowed ; but the idea of direct taxation was as universally repudiated. The only plan which could apparently be tolerated, was that of raising the duties on imports. If this should be carried into effect, it will, it is supposed, add to the jealousy at present existing between the southern and northern States, the former holding the doc trine that they should not be taxed for the sake of the latter, and that the manufactures received in exchange for their raw ' produce should not be virtually prohibited, which would be the case if higher duties be imposed. The duty on British Cotton is nominally 20 per cent., but by the existing regulations, and by extra charges, difference in exchange, &c,, it is in reality much more. The Stocks appear to be somewhat higher than they were by the previous arrival; Indian Fives, 181 191 ; Itinois Sixes, 181 18k; Ohio Sixes, 58; Exchange on England, 71 74 premium. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. Birmingham and Derby Eastern Counties Edinburgh and GlaTow Great Western Ditto New London ant Brighten Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 Ditto Thirds London and South Western 3BL 6O Manchester & Leeds (i- Shares) 2 Northern and Eastern South Eastern and Dover LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, APRIL 14.—The market presented a very animated appearance, and fully, /0,000 bales changed hands; prices, however, were much the same; 4,500 Americans were taken on speculation, and 74.:6 for export. The sales were 500 Surat, 3i 4 1 / 1 ; 200 Peruvian, 5% ; 100 Egyptian, 77A ; 50 Maranham, 51 ; and 9 4 150 American, 4 i 6 k. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 14.—Eastern Coun ties were in good request at 94 ; Debentures, 111,; New, 54 ; the other shares were steady ; Edinburgh and Gla.gow, 50/ ; Grand Junction, 190 ; Halves, 941; Liverpool and Manches ter Halves, 69 ; London and Birmingliiiti paid up 321. shares, 60 ; Manchester and Leeds Quarters, 5i ; Midland Counties, 791; North Midland, 70i ; Paris End Rouen, 16i ; and South Eastern, '294. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 14.—The Share Market remains firm, and prices are still improving. Stock is but sparingly offered. The sales are—Edinburgh and Glas gow, 50i; Lancaster and Preston, Three-quarter Shares, 151 j; Liverpool anti Manchester,,Half Shares, 881; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 36k ; Sheffield and Manchester, 33i. LLOYD'S SEIPPING-(THIS DAY). LONDON, Aran 15.—Wind this day at noon, N.H. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 14.—Wind L.N.E.—And. Leicester, Ancona. Sailed, Osprey, Singapore; Argyle. Bombay; Stan dard, Demerara; Thomas Taylor, Havannah ; Caledonia, Ja maica; Garrick, Liverpool, and Britannia, New York; Gleaner, Halifax; Lady Harvey, Madeira. Arrived off, North America, New York, Golden Fleece, and Diana. OFF CAPE CLEAR.—Francis, Barbadoes. , DEAL, APRIL 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived from the River, and sailed, Caledonia, P. Phillip, Elizabeth, and Beulah (trans ports), Madras; Glaphyra, St. Kitt's. PORTSMOUTH, APR IL 9.—WindE.N.E. to E.—arrived Sir John Falstaff, Gordon, New Zealand. Sailed Cornwall (trans port), China. RAMSGATE, APRIL 14. Sir Walter Scott, Bermuda. DARTMOUTH, APRIL 13.—Sid. Elizabeth, Quebec. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 13.. Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Eliza Ann, Hamburgh for Newfound:and. Mirsoan, APRIL 12.—The Atalanta, from Alexrndria, ar rived here this morning; in running for the Quarantine station got in contact with the Lazarette, carried away her bowspi it, stove her bows, and received considerable damage. The John, Gilbert, arrived here from Newhaven to Dublin, was run into by a steamer last night, had her,hows stove, and received 'other damage. DOVER, APRIL 14.—The Iltulah, (tpt.), from London to Madras, is ashore in the East Bay of Dungeness. Two steamers have been sent to her assistance. The Prince Leopold, from Calais to Newcastle, which was ashore behind the South Pier, has teen got off, and into the harbour. HULL, Arum 14.—.-Sid. Conradine, Tampico. LEITH, APRIL 12.—till. Triad and Acadia, Quebec. KINGSTON, APRIL 13.—Arrd. Isabella Watson, London for New South Wales. DUBLIN, APRIL 12.--Sid. Naparino, Quebec. CROOKHA FEN, Aram 11.—The wreck of a barque (from St. John's) water-logged and abandoned, was passed in lat. 46 N., lon. 31 NV., by the Constitution arrived off this port. CORK, APRIL 12.—Arrd. Barbara, Smart, Mauritius ; England, Lewis, Sierra Leone, in 53 days. STaost NESS, Arm 10.—The Rapid, M id, from Newcastle to Montreal, has put in here leaky, and with rudder unshipped ; has been ashore sin the Island of Stroma ; must di-charge to repair. 'I he William Hannington must repair at Shields. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 15, 1842 The West Indian was revived at the Haymarket last night, and a new Major ('Flaherty was introduced in the person of Mr. Mahone Raymond from the Liverpool Theatre. He was quite successful. C oUIitT—PASEIONAMLE. The Earl and Countess Brownlovv are expected in Belgrave square in the course of the ensuing week, from Torquay. The Marquis and Marchioness D'Harcourt have delayed their visit to this country until the close of the season, on account of the approaching accouchement of the Countess at Paris. Lord and Lady Maryborough, Countess of Wilton, Countess Dowager of Clarendon, &c., have been staying at Tunbridge Wells. _ _ _ The Earl and Countess of Beauchamp, and Lord and Lady Dalhousie, are among the fashionables still at Brighton. The East India Directors will give a sumptuous entertain. ment to Major-General the Marquis of Tweeddale, previous to his embarkation, on his appointment as Governor and Com mander-in-Chief of the Presidency of Fort St. George, Madras. The Earl and Countess of Surrey will riot take possession of the Duke of Norfolk's mansion in Hyde Park-place until next season. _ _ We are sorry to learn that the Earl of Coventry is in a dan gerous state. We hear that Lord Bective, son and heir of the Marquis of Headfort, wi'l shortly be united to the daughter of Alderman Thompson. It is stated that the King of Prussia, on his return from Petersburgh, will hold a grand review at Col , gne, at which the Kings of Hanover, Holland, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Bel gium, with, it is rumoured, the Duke of Nemours and Prince Albert, will meet on the banks of the Rhine to witness it. AUSCM.I.LICtri Mt, u S. A fancy fair, under the patronage of Lord Blomfield, will be held in June, at Nightingale-vale, Woolwich, for the benefit of soldiers' wives who have borne children, or who have been left behind when their husbands are ordered on foreign service. On this day in 1784 died Babe, the eminent French natu ralist. His " Natural History," consisting of thirty-six volumes, occupied nearly fifty years of his life. The Duke of Argyll kissed hands at the Levee last Wednes day, on his appointment as Keeper of the Seal, used in place of the Great Seal of Scotland. Mr. Robert Burt4n, of Kennington, and a personal fri.nd of Prince George of Cambridge, was thrown from his horse in the "ride" in Hyde-park yes‘erday, and has since expired un der the accident at St. 'George's Hospital. He was connected with the first families, and on his majority would have suc ceeded to a princely fortune; A temporary and elegant room, to accommodate 1,100 per sons, will be erected on the lawn at the forthcoming tale of the Strawberry-hill effects. SUMMARY OF NEVIS AND tAtilttr tntOtt• " Who runs may read." POIiGEIGN. The leading articles of the Paris Journals are principally on the result of the proposition of M. Golbery, for the publication of an official report of the sittings of the Chamber of Deputies, and on the discussion of Monday in the Chamber of Peers, re letive to the treaty for the right of search. With respect to the former, they agree in regarding the plan as wild and im practicable, and as having been so considered by the Cham ber, which, whilst apparently postponing the consideration of it, has virtually rejected it, inasmuch as it is cer tain that no discussion on the subject can take place at the period to which it is postponed. The arti cles on the treaty for the right of search are so similar, gene rally speaking, to what have already been given, that we think it unnecessary to give extracts. On Monday M. Guizot, the Russian Charge d'Affaires, and the English and Greek Ambassadors, had a long conference at the Tuileries. The Commerce states that a report is in circulation of an am nesty to a certain extent for political offences, being in contem plation for the King's fete-day. The Constituciona/ of Barcelona, of the 6th inst., contains the following official announcergent by the Pol.*ical Chief of Catalonia :—" 1 learn by a despatch from the Constitutional Alcade of Cardona that, in the evening of the 2d inst., thebrave soldiers of the Marine, killed, in an engagement, the factious brigand and Carlist Colonel, Jose Tristany, ex-Governor of Cervera, and brother of the famous Mosen Benet Tristasy." The King of Sardinia held a Chapter of the Order of the Annunciation on the 4th of April, and invested with the Grand Collar of the Order Count Saluzzo and Count Paul Francois d! Sales, Ministers of State. His Mak sty also honoured with the title of Knights of the Order the Hereditary Prince of Lucca, and the Archbishop, of Vercelli. There is but one Knight of the Order in France, viz., the Viscount de Cha teaubriand. PArtzrArdENTAlalr. On presenting a petition last night in the House of Lords against the tariff, Lord Western said the peti tioners accused the Government of having deceived them. The Duke of Wellington was obviously nettled at the charge, and while he deprecated the use of such language, he gave the accusation a flat denial. Lord Western repeated the accusation, and was loudly cheered by the Earl of Winchilsea. The presentation of a petition against Maynooth en shied both Lord Cloncurry and the Earl of Wicklow to say that the grant for the College ought to be enlarg e 4; not lessened, es desired by the bigots. The Spirit Duties (Ireland) Bill went through ajCom rnittee, after Lord Monteagle had objected to it at some length that it would promote illicit distillation. A little conversation took place about the 'reenwich Naval School, wbi.h Lord Dtmcannon cen ured, but hich the Earl of Haddington defended. he House adjourned, to get rid of Lord Dancannon's otion to send an inspector from the Privy Council to look after the school. In the. Commons Mr. Iledington report° from the Sudbury Election Committee that the two sitting Mem bers were not duly elected, • and that the elecoon was void. Such bribery had been committed that cie Com mittee recommended that the borough be disfranchised. Lord Francis Egerton moved a series of rei4lutions confirming the present 'practices of the H4se as to receiving petitions, but discontinuing thei;prac tice of not receiving petitims against a tat* for the service of the year, and converting those practices into standing orders. The motion was opposed oeihe ground that it would finally establish the present practice of not discussing petitions, but, on a diVi sion, was carried by 262 to 46. A resolution, almost itt the very words, Mr. T. Duncombe originally moved on the subject of petitions, was carried, so that,' the right to present petitions against a proposed tax is secured. Mr. Wakley complained that Sir John Easthope had usurped his seat, and would not give it up. The Baronet replied that Mr. Wakley had requested him rudely to resign it. Borthwick had given notice of a motion about the metropolitan roads, but was obliged to withdraw it be :cause the Hon. Member, from ignorance of the forms of the House, had not complied with them. A Bill to settle the question of patronage in the Kirk of Scotland was, on the motion of Mr. Campbell. or dered to be brought in ; and was brought in and read a first time ; but the Government does not sanction the 'measure. It is to be read a second time on May 4. The Colonial Passengers' Bill went through a Corn miite,e. The Australia and New Zealand Bill was read a second time. -The Resolutions for equalising the duties and draw baol§a..on Irish and Scotch Malt were agreed to in a Committee, and ordered to be reported. Adyoutned at Ten o'Clock. • PUZLIC OPZINTIOIT. The. Herald finds fault with the Colonial Customs Bill in the following terms :—" The Colonial Customs Bill, which stands for discussion in the House of Commons this evening, is more Whiggish than the Whig Bill proposed List year by Mr. LabouChere •' it is a measure of very doubtf u l p o li c y ; if it d o benefit .our West Indian colonies, it will be at the cost of our North American dependencies. It is a complete breach of the principal of reciprocity in matters of commerce, by which Sir Robert Peel professes to regulate his trading policy. It proposes to convert that trade, now carried on indirectly through Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, between the West Indies and the United States, into a direct trade, and will thereby throw out of employment a large portion of colonial shipping, and roost probably destroy the comrxercial intercourse between our northerneand southern American coloniei ; it proposes to open the markets of those colonies to foreign European manufac tures; and it proposes either object without obtaining from the United States, or the manufacturing nations of Europe, any countervailing advantages." The Times contains some remarks suggested by Lord Francis Egerton's resolutions on the subject of the right of petitioning :—" Sir Robert Peel," says our Contemporary, " will lose me credit with the public by the frank avowal that the Opposition has simply beaten him, or by the easy tone which he has taken in the debate. It would, indeed, have been little in accordance with his consistent deference (exagge rated as we have sometimes thought it) to the decisions and authority of the House of Commons, had he allowed himself to be led into any tidier course • yet, still we confess we were not without our fears that it might have been so, and that either the provocations of an angry Opposition, or the supposed necessity for unusual firmness in making his power telt bv friend and foe, might have induced him to adopt a tone and policy whitli we should have felt less satisfaction in recording. We repeat our hope, that he and his supporters may continue to understand the diff,rence between those great occasions when he may fairly expect a decisive and unwavering support, and those more open questions on which, like the present, it is necessary, for the independence both of the country and its re presentatives, that the Miniver should allow free play to the judgment of the Legislature." The Post has the following observations The division of Wednesday night was a great triamph for the Conservative Administration. Every one knows what the R higs prophesied after they had taken time to consider the possibility of getting 'up a great public discontent on the subject of the income tax. Every one knows what they calculated upon doing during the Easter recess, and with what persevering efforts of mere fac tion they postponed the resolution of the Committee on the ground that, were the public allowed sufficient time, such a demonstration would be made against the Ministerial policy, as it was of the utmost importance the House should take into account before coming to a vote. All this has turned out to be mere miscalculation and blunder." The Chronicle says :—" London, Liverpool, and all the other commercial towns, are loud in their exclamations against the delay in proceeding with the tariff. But the income tax discussion has nothing to de with the tariff. It is preposterous to pretend that the Liberals are in any way responsible for the delay which has taken place in proceeding with that measure. Sir Robert Peel may have had reasons for not proceeding which he does not choose to avow. It may have been neces sary for him to negotiate with -some of those who told him they could unmake him as well as make kim. But, to use the common adage, let the saddle be put on the right horse. The delay is a pure Tory affair. The Opposition offered to take the tariff first, but the Government hung back. Indeed, so little were Ministers disposed to discuss the tariff that it has actually been only two days on the table. Let, then, those who wish to participate in the benefits which the tariff is about to confer, and those who suffer from a stagnation of trade, apply the spur to Sir Robert Peel, and not to the Opposition, for the progress of the tariff rests with him alone." MONEY—TRADE—COMMERCE. At a meeting last night to oppose the income tax, Mr. Smith quoted the old remark of the late Mr. Cobbett—" That, let taxes be put on in what way, or under what guise they might, they were sure at length to reach the working-man." Meetings against the income tax have, within the last week, been held in the Tower Hamlets, at Newcastle, Leominster, Bath, Chatham, High Wycombe, and Edinburgh. Against the tariff, by the agriculturists at Worcester, the Isle of Sheppy, and Nonington in Kent, with petitions and memorials from each. It was stated at a meeting of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, upon the discuss:on of Sir Robert Peel's financial scheme, that the proposed reduction on cork would do no good to the revenue, while 30,000 men would be set idle. PUBLIC nurROVEIVIETTICS. A large building, intended to be a of commerce, and a place (if meeting for public bodies, is now being erected on the site of the French Protestant Church in Threadneedle-street. The front is 100 feet in breadth, and 60 in height ; the in terior consists of two great halls, and several smaller rooms. Mr. Moxay, biscuit-baker, is the proprietor. EZI:CTXONEEItING. The nomination for the Montrose burghs is fired for to morrow. Mr. Hume is certain of success. NAVAL AND MIMI' Lord Frederick Fitzclarence, the M. W. G.M. of Scotland, has been appointed Commander of the Forces in North Britain, in the room of Lord Greenock, also a Freemason. Among other military men who have been Freemasons are Lord Lyne doch, Admiralty Ommaney, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Tweeddale, Lord Combermere, &c. Sir John Moore was also a Scottish Mason, as also the immortal Nelson. , At high.water yesterday morning, the steam-ship Duchess of Sutherland, which went on chore in Sca-lieach about one o'c:ocl; on Tuesday morning, v as towed off by two steam-tugs, and arrived at her moorings, off the Irongate stairs, Tower, at noon. LANIT .11. ND P© ICE. James Cockburn, late an extensive East India merchant in Broad -street, City, passed his final examination yesterday in the Bankruptcy Court. His accredited property, as well as that in Sydney, New South Wales, and at sea, so far as could be accurately estimated, would be sufficient to dh.cha'ge his liabiltics. The Secretary of the Society for the Registration of Patents attended at Bow-street yesterday, stating that a person of the name of Edward Reynolds had taken out a patent at the office, purporting to be for Lord Amherst, and had presented a cheque, said to be his Lordship's, for 25/., out of which he paid bl. ss. for the patent, and received the change. The cheque isa forgery, and the police have instructions to arrest him. Hobert Th ompson, an old mtn, formerly a sh i p. b a k er o f s cha • to to-morrow large property, %Ia stealing a table-cover from a ship in St. Katharine's docks. t r o ge .m d o a r t L w ambeth-street yesterday with . BRUSSELS, APRIL 11.—Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, He stand s remanded the eldest son of Prince Paul Esterhazy, who lately mar:ied LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC. the daughter of Lord Jersey, arrived at Leige on the Bth of The orthography of both the French and Swedish docu- April, on his way to Vienna. The Countess Vandermeere, ments of King Gustavus 111., written by his own hand, and mothe r of the General, died yesterday morning , at en advanced i deposited in the chest at Upsala, evinces throughout that his age, after a long and painful illness. She had supported with Majesty enjoyed the reputation of a great author, without admirable resignation the arrest and condemnation of her son, I knowing how to spell. REVISING BARRISTERS.—It appears by a return THEATRICAL. moved for by Mr. R. Wagon, of the names of barristers ap- Lablache, Mario, Gio.Ron con i, an d M adame Persian', ap pointed t o rev i se lists of voters, their time employed, fees and pear to-morrow night in the Eli s i r , at t h e Opera. Lablacheexpenses received, &c., in 1836, 26, 8711. ; that in 1835 they received 32,0791. ;is the Dulcamara; Gm. Ronconi, wh o i n I taly has always in 1837, 31,222/. ;in 1838, 30,5371. , in played Dulcamara, takes the part of B a l core, to render the cast 1839, 30,557/. ; i n 1840, 2 8,980/. ; and in 1841, 30,3571. as strong as possible. ARMY FOR INDIA. The 78th Regiment •-is- to embark at Gravesend for. Bombay,rsas IbliOws, viz. :.__ • On the 18th inst., per Murky 204 persons. /, 9, di ary" 250 ~ ~ ~ Colurnbus I/ ~ Lord Lyndoch 240 „ 9,9, Boadieelt, 192 „ On 20th rer Bussorah Merchant 200 „ Thic Mellish is taken up to convey titiops' to Madras ; the Ann, Princess Royal, Inglis, Volusia, Ocean Queen, Dauntless, Mermaid, Berkshire, and several other ships, are also engaged for the same purpose. •. Tonnage has been advertised fr, to'take the 25th Regiment from the Cape of Good Hope to Madras. We regret to announce that accounts haVe•been re ceived of the death of Captain Vernon, of the 15th Hussars, at Aden, on his route to India. MR. H UIVIE. ARBROATH, APRIL 13.—Mr. Hume made a trii+phant entry into the town last night, and was welcomed with the most hearty and boisterous applause. Music and banners were in attendance, and some thousands escorted him to the inn, where he addressed them from one of the windows. Strath bogie sympathisers and rigid Non-Intrusionists were to be seen belore his arrival running through the streets canvassing the voters, and even threatening thosewho were any w a y d e p en d en t upon them. The game, however, is up with them ; but it shows what Non-Intrusion is when it. would league itself with Intru sion against the most important interests of the country. Mr., 'Hume will be returned without opposition. The•Angusburgha Will once more send a thorn to the House to prick the sides of 'ls6th Whigs and Tries. I),L. /L ELECTION COMMITTEES. r : (THIS DAY.) LONG FORD. The tommittee were occupied during the forenoon in hear ing the Continuation of the arguments on the question whether the additional rent that. could be got for a farm should be the test of the value to constitute the franchise, or the produce of the farm, wording to the usual practice of agriculture. IPSWICH. James Adims, the drummer, was re-examined by Mr. Phillips for thil'ritting Member—Witness was also a fifer, and he performed do a; tin whistle during the late election.-- (Laughter. ) Tie never shouted in derision of Mr. Wa , on, though Mr. Was,n did speak disrespectfully of him, by having cried out to folloT him, for Adams was not the man to give a bribe before a third person—(Laughter)—though he never bribed any one.—(Laughter.) A good deal of other exami nation followed, but,the only point elicited was that one wit ness who voted for the sitting Members on principle, soon after was appointed to a place in the Customs. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. - (RECEIVED THIS DAY.) NEWMARKET—THURSDAY NIGHT. BETTING IN THE EVENING. Two THOUSAND GUINEA STAKE'S.-9 to 4 agst Meteor ; 7 to 2 apt Potentia c. DERRY-3 to 1 lgst Sceit's lot (t); Bto 1 agst Attila; 10 to 1 agst The Frederica c (t); 14 to 1 agst Canadian (t); 14 to 1 agst Auckland ; 20 to 1 agst Joanna c ; 25 to 1 agst The Lord of Holderncss ; 30 to 1 agst Ballinkeele ; 30 to 1 agst Eleus (t freely); 50 to 1 agat Policy; 50 to 1 agst Tiptoe ; 1000 to 15 agat Master '1 homas ; 1,000 to 15 agst Dirce ; 2000 to 15 agst The 0 - olden little (t). At present there is only one race for to-morrow, viz. the match between Albion and the Petulance c. Dilbar walks over for the Stake, the Duke of Bedford and Lord Albemarle divide the Port, and Archy and Edgeworth Bess receive in their matches. . THE MARKETS.-L(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Grain this week have been small. Wheat at Monday's prices, With a slow demand, Barley and Oats l iTn s to . aEoc lOd. per lb. cash. firmly maintained their value. Flour as last stated. goo S d l , si t i li l e 'll tr F a l d E e l d ls l;ll, there being but few dea T le h r e s a s t lip m p a ly rk w et a , s and prices as follo*i :—Beasts, 570; Sheep and Lambs, 6,080 ; Pigs, 420; Calves; 170. Beef. 3s. 2d. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 3s. to 4s. 4d. ; Veal, 4s. to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 35. 4d. to Si. 2d. ; Lamb, 6s. to S E d T .. COLONIAL MARKET. The operations were limiti.d, but holders were firm, and in place. Sugar sells less freely. Ak tive, and prices were barely sustained. Company's prices little n5 l i yi t a. t ar l e kceotnigs variationou,still TALLOW MARKET. and full rates were paid. P. Y. Ca T nd h l e e, de r6s a . n 3 d wd.oans stead y, the spot ; and 435. 3d. for delivery in the last three months of the year. ...—..........—..., WEDNESD S DIVISION. S —76. LIBERALS. O'Ferrall, More Dawson, Hon. T. V. Ltwall, It. French, F. Butter, Hon. P. Watson, W. H. Smitti; Ve non fleetwood, Sir P. H. Howard, Sir It. Cnristie, W. D. Browne, R. D. Hinfiley, C. arles Holland, Robert Greenaway, C. Colizrne, W. Ridley Bernal, It. Heatin, Sir R. Fitzwi!liam, G. W. Pipet, D. IL Berkeley, C. Layard, Captain Drax Browne, W. Bainard. K G. Byng, G. S. Leveson, Lord White. Luke Anson, Hon. Colonel Jardine, William White, Henry Surrey, Earl of 'Acheson, Viscount Horsman E. . lrodie, W. B. Sombre, D. 0 Dyce Shelburn, Lord Gibson, T. M. \Vood, Sir Matthew CONSERVATIVES. Alexander. N. Ashley, Hon. H. A. Bentinck, Lord G Bruen, Colonel Burdett, Sir F. Cardwell, Edward Cartwright, W. R. Castlereagh, Visct. Cole, Hon. A. H. Copeland, W. D'lsraeli, Benjamin Duncombe. O. Eastnor, Viscount Ftblliott, John Forman, 'l'. S. Granby, Marquis Grant, Sir A. C. Gregory, W. H. Hughes, %V. B. Kelburne, Lo d Kerrison, Sir E. Li•ton, E. Murray, C. R. S. Palmer, G. Peel, Jonathan Pennant, Hon. D. Powell, Colonel Roue, Hon. Captain Scott, Hon. F. Shaw, F. Shirley, Evelyn J. Smyth, Sir G. H Stanley, k dward Tollemache, F. J. Tomline, George Vesev, Hon .I'. Williams, T. P. Wynn, C. W. ABSENT CONS Bagge, Wm. Bankes, George Barneby, John Benett, John Bruce, C. L. Clements, H. J. Cre swell, Baker .- Dick, Quintin Hamilton, James Henniker, Lord Hotham, Lord , RVATIVES-21. Jones, John Kerr, D. Kirk, P Martin, C. W. Morgan, C. Rae, Sir William Itamay, W. It. Taylor, 1. E. Eir J.E. i. Wyndham, W. •.r. 'ABSENT 1.1. Armstrong, Sir A. Bellew, h. tri. Berkeley, G. Blake, Alarki: Blake, Sir V.ilentine Bowes, J. Callaghan, Daniel Copley, E. S. Crawford, W. S. ';urrie, ltaikes !Jellison W. J. D'Eyneourt, C. T. Ellice, Hi. Hon. E. Esmonde, Sir F. Ferguson, Sir It A. Grosvenor, Lord R. Heathco e, G. J. Hoskins, Jervis, J. Johnson, General BERALS-40. Lambton, H. • Larpent, Sir G. M'Namara, W. Martin, 'l. B. Muntz, G. F. O'Connell, Maurice EhConnor Don Rennie, George . L Ricardo, John Lewis • Roebuck, J A. Scott, Robert Seymour, Lord Sock, Talbot, C. R. M. , • Vane, Lord Harry Wemysa, Captain Westenra, J. C. Westenra IL R. Wigney, Yorke, H. Redhead ---- - THE DIVISION. " • summAity OF Majority (includi ng T e ll ers ) .•• Minority (including Tellers) • Paired ........... kbsent Conservatives . Liberals . Speaker ................... • • ••• Seats:Vacant, &c,Meath Thetford, i ] ontrosa, Shropstire (Lord Newport not taken his -,1 • ,:Southampton, Cardigan 310 204 76 21 ......; 659 LONDON HosriTAL.—The addition to the east wing of this highly useful establishnient has jut been completed, and in it have been formed wards for the accommodation of Hebrew patients, those for the.. men being ca led " Roths child" and " Goldsmid ;" and' those for the females " Han nah" and " Esther." The peculiarities of their manners and customs in respect to food, cooking, bathing, &c., are to be ob.erved in every particular, fur which suitable attendants are to he provided. AN e learn from Ilinne that the murderer of Count Palin has been tried tend condemned to death. He was a dealer in antiquitiesfof whom the Count -was in the habit of making purchases. ',‘ The A uziliaire Breton says that a mad dog rushed a few days back; "through Orvault, and seized on a young boy, race, and the child would in all probability have the Mayor's iteph ew . Th e furious animal inflicted several wounds on h perished, it a little girl, attracted by his cries, had not very courageoutly runup and flung her apron over the dog's head drawing it as tight as possible. A struggle took place, w hich must have ended in her being overcome, when the neighbours came:4 and killed the animal. The girl was unhurt., LAW INTELLIGENCE CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) This day being the first of Easter Term, the Judges proceeded in the usual manner to Westminster Hall. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Bench at half-past one precisely, and proceeded to dispose of several un opposed motions. CATTIL V. SIMONS. This was an application by Mr. ANDEADON, to set aside a purchase, on the grrund of fraud. The bill also prayed that the plot ofland in d►spute might be set aside, and the proceeds applied to the payment of costs. The Learned Glimsel was proceeding to read the evidence in support of his case when we went to press. ROLL'S COORT.-(THIS DAY.) This being the first day of Easier Term, his Lordship, the MasTER of the ROLLS, entered the Court at half past one o'clock, and immediately proceeded to hear motins. ATTORNEY-CENERAL V. THE CORPORATION OF NEWCASTLE UPON-TYNE. On the application of llr. Pu RVIS this cause was postponed to the first day of hearing after Trinity Term. BISHOP OF EXETER V. HAWKINS. On the applica.iun of Mr. l'EstnEwrox this (ruse was al lowed to stand over to the 31st inst. , 11AVCTIIORN V. JAMES. Mr. PEMBERTON applied for an order in this case to refer it to the Ilas.er to appoint one or more managers, or dormant managers --(Laughtet )—of a certain plantation estate in the West Indies. Lord LA NOPALE—What can be meant by " dormant mana gers?" Mr. PEMBERTON really was not aware of what could be meant by " dormant managers," but the object of the bill filed in the cause was to raise certain charges on the estate in ques tion, Lord LANGDALE-It is impossible to appoint "dormant managers," who might go to sleep over their charge.— (Laughter.) You can take the common order to appoint one or more managers. VICE CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR OF ENGLANn.) His HoNowt took his scat at half past one. The cases heard before the Court were, as is usual on the first day of Term, chiefly motions of course. Vice-Chancellors WICRA Al and KNIGHT BRUCE sat to-day in Lincoln's Inn, as the Committee Rooms, Nos. 1 and 2, of the House of Commons, in which they have hitherto sat during term, are occupied by the Election Committees now sitting. QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.) This being the first day of Term, the Learned Judgei break fasted with the Lord Chancellor, according t , i•aneient - custom, and afterwards proceeded to Westminster Hall to their respec tive Courts. Their Lordships did not take their seats up. n the bench until half-past one. tr TUE QUEEN V. ELLIS. This was a me which had been tried before Mr. Justice Patteson, at Stafford. The defendant, Samuel Ellis, bad been indicted fo- having, at the last election for the borough of Stoke-upon-Trent, given a false answer to the third question put to him, in accordance with the provisions of the Reform Act, at that clec:ion, ho having stated that he possessed the same qualification that he had when his name was placed on the reg:ster, he having at that time quitted the premises which he had previously occupied, and as the occupier of which his name had been placed on the register cf voters. The defer.dant had been convicted. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD moved for an arrest of ju i lg. merit, on the ground that the indictment did not contain any sulgtantive 'averment of a traversable fact. There was no allegation that there had been an elec tion. There was no allegation that a poll had been demanded, without which no one would Lave had any right to put the question to defendant. There was no allegation stating that the defendant had no right to vote. In short, there was not a single substantive averment throughout the indictment. The Co It ea. granted a rule to show cause. BAIL COURT-(T.EIIS DAY.) This being the first day of Term, Mr. Justice Coleridge took his seat on the Bench at half-past one o'clock. Ilis Lordship disposed cf a few motions of no public interest, After which the Court adjourned. SECONDAHIES-(THIS DAY.) LENNY AND OTHERS V. DIMES. In :this action John Grimley Lenny, and another, were the plaintiffs, and William Dimes the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiffs are surveyors, residing at Bury St. Etibunds, and the defendant practised as a solicitor in LondeT. In 1835 the defendant employed the plaintiffs to survey an estate in the caiintry, for which he was professionally eonce me d. The plaintiffs surviyed the estate, and prepared a map of the estate, whiCh was forwarded to the defendant in London, who' paid the plaintiffs their charges for making the survey, &c. The defendant afterwards succeeded in disposing of part of • the estate, and the person to wh om the estate , was sold required a declaration to be made by some person that 'the survey which the plaintiffs hail made was cor rect, and the defendant wrote. to the plaintiffs, enclosing the survey of the estate, and requesting them to make the declara tion requireth , ;, The plaintiffs again compared the plan with the estate, made the declaration, and forwarded the same to the defendant in London, together with an account of, the charges attending the making of the declaration, which amounted to five guineas, for thejecovery of which sum the present action had been brought. Evidence was adduced to prove the facts, and Mr. 11IILLiit' addressed the Jury at some length on be half of the defendant, contending that the defendant hal em ployed the plaintiffs in his official character as attorney for 11'r. Fisk, who had purchased a portion of the estate which the plaintiffs had sws;eyed, and he Mr. Fisk was the party liable to the plaintiff for tl.e amount of their claim in respect of the declaration made by them. The Learned Secondary PATTEN then summed up, and the Jury returned eifirdiet for the defendant. POLICE -- INTE LLIGENC GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.) Sarah Maithetch„ Ann Lamb, and Sarah Wel c h, tlree girls apparently about 1 6 - years of age, were placed at the bar, citarged with being disorderly in the West London Union. The officer of the Union stated that the prisoners were brought home latiriii i iht in a state of intoxication, and he re fused to take then) in. They immediately commenced abusing him, and created &great disturbance. Each of, the prisoners, taking up a stone, deliberately threw it through a window. Mr. Alderman GlBBS—Matthews, what have you to say to this charge? Matthews—Nothing. Mr. Alderman 9iuus—Lamb, what have you to say? Lamb—Nothing. Mr. Alderman., tens—Welch, what have you to say ? Welch othing. The Police-oWer--Please, your Worship, they don't care for going to prison sit all. Mr. Alderman Giaas—Well, I must try them. They must go to prison for 14 days; and during that time must be kept to hard labour. Matthews (leaving the bar)—That's right, your Worship. BOW-S-TREET-(T HIS DAY.) A neat:y attired, good-looking young female, named Mary Anne Broddick was - brought up before Mr. JARDINE, charged with the following robbery : Mrs. Mattbevik the prosecutor, of No. 12, Crown -street, stated that oa Wednesday last, about half-past seven in the evening, she sept A little girl named Ann Eagles, who was in her employ, to Queen• street, with a bundle of linen, containing 1 sheet, 4 petticoats, 4 pairs of socks, 1 pair of stockings, 2 shawls, an apron, 5 pinbefores, 4 nightgowns, 4 towels, and other articles—value, in the whole, about 30s. Ann Eagles ;corroborated the prosecutrix's evidence, and stated that when she wentwith the linen, she took her mistress's little boy with; her ; ; just before she arrived at Queen -street, tine prisoner came up and said to witness—alluding to the child— " Poor little, fellew, let me carry him for you." She then asked witness to go and get change of a sovereign for her, at the same time giving her a piece of paper with something wrapped up .fr id it. Witness said she would, and was about to unfold the paPer when the prisoner said, " Don't undo it, or perhaps yoll'itt lose it." She then told witness to leave her bundle and go and get the change. Witness left her bundle accordinelyijand proceed( d on her errand. She turned the corner of the street, but previous to going into a shop to ask for change*he undid the paper to get out the sovereign, when, to her surprise, all that she could see was a poor, solitary, un conscious, farthing ! She immediately retraced her steps to the speit,'W,here she had parted from the prisoner; but alas, she was gone ; or as Mr. Wakley might express it in the exuber ance oflisi.poetieal fancy-- Prisoner and bundle had fled together, Atiticthough witness tried to, she couldn't End neither. The nest day witness observed the prisoner going past her mis tress's house, whom, when the prisoner saw, she made off as last as her legs could carry her. Witness gave the alarm, and the expert young damsel wes pursued and secured by Policeman 10, who held her tight, and conveyed her to the station-house. Eliza Steele kept an old clothes shop in Crown -street, St. Gila's. Prisoner sold her some of the property, which prose clitrix identified as part of that which had been stolen. The prisoner declining to say anything in her defence, was fully committed for trial, and the witnesses having made their respective" , marks " to the depositions, the prisoner was re moved. We understand these cases are of very frequent occurrence just now, and people cannot be too cautious how they trust young children with property in the streets, when there are so many ways of defrauding and robbing them, which may be prac tised by persons cunning in the art. MALBOROUGH-STREET. (1 1 111 S DAY.) ROBBERY ay A SERVANT. —Aura Church, a good-looking young woman about IS years of age, was charged with robbing her master, Mr. Matthew Bewley, of No. 338, Piccaddly, tobacconist and cigar dealer, under the following circumstances. The prosecutor stated that the prisoner hatl been in his service only three weeks, when she came to him she was destitute and had not AS she herself stated any money in her possession. From time to time. he the prosecutor missed money from out of the pockets of his clothes, which of a night on going to bed he generally placed over a cot in which one of his children slept. At first he did not sus pect the prisoner of being the thief, but in a few days coming to the knowledge that she had money in her pos. session, and had also purchased a shawl and some other articles of wearing apparel, he last evening placed in his waistcoat pocket some marked slyer money, to the amount of 2s. 6d., which he this morning missed, and in consequence called in a policeman, and gave the prisoner into custody, and on her box being searched the marked money in question was found, and also some other coins, which he (the prosecutor) was able to identify as having been stolen from him. The pri.oner, on being called on for her defence, stated that she picked the money up from the floor of the room, and tho - aght she was entitled to it as the " sweeper's perquisites." She was committed to take her trial at the Central Criminal Court. CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) Emma Vetrin, servant to Mr. Berdesly, jeweller, No. 9• Upper Charles street, Clerlcenwell, was fully committed to take her trial, for stealing several articles of jewellery from her mistress. A man, named M• Donnell, was charged with stabbing Con stable, G 42, under the colt owing circumstances. The prosecutor stated that the pr.soner was disturbing the peace in White Lion-street, with a crowd of women—that re fusing to cease he wrested him. On his way to the station 'house he took out a knife and stabbed witness in the hand, so as to render him unable to detain him further. He then made his escape, but was soon after arrested by another police constable, whom he likewise assaulted in a savage manner. He had three knives about him, one of which was stained with blood. The policeman's hand was bandaged. Mr. GREENWOOD said had the stab been a little more to the ball of the 11;ttalb, lockjaw would have the iner:table consequence. • Ho was committed for a month to hard labour. /AY PAIR QUEEN-SQUARE.--(THIS DAY.) Amongst the night charges brought before the Court this morning none were of the slightest public interest. THE ENGLISH PRESS AND THE FRENCH POST-OFFICE. TRIAL AND PROSECUTION OF THE COURIER EMPLOYED BY THE LONDON JOURNALS, "THE MORNING HERALD, " "MORNING CHRONICLE," AND "MORNING POST, " :TO TRANSFER THE LAST CALCUTTA MAIL TO BOULOGNE. TRIBUNAL DE PR,EMIER. INSTANCE, BOULOGNE, APRIL 13 The public is aware that, since the events in China and India have assumed such an important aspect, the London papers have spared neither trouble nor. expense to insure to their readers early publication of authent c news drought by the Overland India mail. To effect this object, and to coun teract the mischievous effect of private speculators running ex traordinary expresses from Marseille* to London, whereby the British funds and markets have, at various times, been seriously affected, the London papers resorted to a very rapid mode of transmis inn of the intelligence on its arrival at Marseilles. The French Post-office authorities, and the Administration of Finance affected to see in these occasional and accidental expresses an oi ganised system of competition with their Malle Poste, which perform in 80 to 90 hours what the newspaper couriers did in 63 to 65 hours. The vexations that these couriers have been subjected to are well known. On the occasion oi the arrival of a steamer at Marseilles, on the 23d of February last, despatches conveyed to Paris by the estaffette of the F. ench Government were expressed in the usual way to Lou den ; but at Boulogne they were seized, and after being de tained 24 hours, forwarded to their destination by the Post office authorities of that town. This illegal seizure was made the special subject of complaint to the British Ambassador in Paris, who has made representations to the French Govern ment. The Post-office, relying on an old law, instituted a prosecution against the courier who was the bearer of these despatches. The trial was fixed for this morning at the Tri bunal of Premiere Instance. The process has assumed a snore than ordinary interest, as M. Berryer, the Deputy and Advocate, was charged with the defence of the courier, a 51 Vivier, residing in Paris. On the 6th the Procureur du Roi had opened his case, and the ComMisSary of Police and M. Barry, of the Alome Hotel, at Boulogne, were examined, the first as to the seizure, and the latter as to the receipt of the despatch, which was addressed to Mr. Marsh, at Dover. The Court then adjourned the case till this day, as M. Berryer was, unable to attend on the 6th. Nothing could exceed the inte rest excited by this trial. Many parties of distinction came from Calais and other places to hear the distinguished orator. The Court was crammed to excess, and a large assemblage o.f ladies was accommodated on the benches of the Court and the barristers. At a quar:er-past ten the cause was called on, Procureur du Ifni v. Vivier. The President then called upon M. Berryer. The Learned Advocate stated that he had wit nesses in attendance to establish the practice, for a number of years, of commercial couriers being allowed to run without hindrance. The Court, having deliberated, decided that there was no occasion for the examination of these witnesses. M. Berryer then opcnsd the case. " You are aware," he stated, " by: the proves verbal, that M. 'Vivier, courier, arrived in this town, and remitted a despatch, of which he was the bearer, to Air. 13 iffy, who was charged to forward the same to England. Mr. Barry went, according to the : usual custom, to the Coinmissary of Police, in order to get the permit of embarkation. The director of the post-office opposed the transmission of this despatch, and ordered its seizu.e. M. Vivier`evas now prosecuted for being the bearer of a letter in contravention of the special laws regulating the service of the French NA-office. But it must be recollected. that Vivier was not even present at the seizure, and this was decidedly irregular, as the proces verbal was drawn up agains Mr. Barry. Vivier did not come to Boulogne on his own account, and the persons who had employed him for that, purpose considered themselves bound to defend him. I am charged by these persons to oppose the accusation brought` against him. 'l his is no ordinary cause. • The defence was of a general interest, for it affected seriously not. only the neces sities of commercial enterprise, but there was a grave question of the rapidity of intelligence. It interested materially the vital relations between countries, for communications ought to be rapid and certain between civilised and intelligent riationa. An international interest was at stake, and it was, therefore ? most important that it should be maturely deliberated upon. It: must, in fact, be decided whether in France there existed regu lations whica could oppose a thousand obstacles to the rapid transmission of news, and the urgent necessities of commerce: What was the law invoked by the Procureur-General? It was: the arrete of the Consuls of the 27 Prairial, year 9. M. Bens ryer then proceeded to quote these old laws, and showed their signifieation to be quite at variance with the construction put upon them by the Procureur- General. M. Berryer then pro • ceeded :—Journalists spread news far and wide—from one end of the world to the other—publicity was a protec tion of the world at large. It was a weak supposition, that because couriera went for newspapers from Paris to London, or to Germany, that it was a competition with the Post-office. No prejudice was done to it, and no financial da mage. A regularly established service of letters was another affair altogether; but in the case of Vivier it was only a single despatch, addressed to Dover, and it was no violation of the law. Had not any individual the right of sending his servant with a letter for a short or a long distance—to the next street, or to the next province, or to the next kingdom, if urgency required it. If a servant could he so despatched with a single letter, why not a hired courier and men, who, for the last half century, have lived by their capability of endurance of fatigue in rapid courses. If a letter could be sent by a foot messenger, by rail, by a horseman, or by a carriage, common sense revolted against the notion of a fraud being contemplated, where so much expense was incurred, not to save postage, but to come rapidly. The law had in view the object of the sender of a letter. The penalty was attached to a fraud, and not to the accidental transmission 'of a despatch. Custom and usage, from time immemorial, guaranteed the sending of couriers for the purpose, public or private. In 800. It gne, everybody was fully competent to appreciate the value of expresses, through the agency of which i apid communications were insured. At all eventful epochs, at all important periods, at all the important places in the world, the principle was re cognised, and had been acted upon without impediment. There were men whose sole occupation was to travel the great roads of the universe, to carry to the extremities of the world the important events affectino commerce, speculation, the funds, the exchanges, and, above all, great political incidents. The system of expres ion to and from all parts of the world continued without. molestation till 184 U. Then important events broke out in the East. The Levant mails became of intense interest. Couriers were in great request. Speculators and mer cantile interests were on the alert as well as journalism. The Rothschilds figured by tht it expresses as well as others. Why had not M. Rothschild been prosecuted ? As he had never been submitted to a legal tribunal for a contravention of the law and fiscal regulations, why was an inferior person chosen ? Yet it was notorious that Rothschihi sent couriers periodically ; and this was rational enough, for it would be the height of absurdity for the Post-office to tell him, that, with all his enormous outlay, he was defrauding the Govern ment of its postage. It was quite useless to dwell longer on this point. The right of sending couriers was unquestionable, and until 1840 had never given rise to jealousies and rivalries. From whence du they arise? It is my duty, at all events, to prove to foreigners that they do not arise from the narrow and restrictive character of our laws. No. I protest with all my force against this supposition. There do not exist in France laws to embarrass mercantile enterprise—there are no impedi ments to the prompt distribution of intelligence by virtue of existing regulations. Our laws have not such an odious cha racter as it is attempted to attribute to them by this action. We will not put obstacles in the way of the imperious necessi ties of commerce, and we do not mean to interfere with inter national relations. What I has the Procureur du Roi talked of tolerance and particular authorisation to run expresses ? And by what law, pray, is this attempt made to attack the perfect freedom and equality of all classes of society—of all social positions? What ! Will it he pretended thatany particular person shall have the favour from a Ministry of agitating the capitals of the world, to affect the operations of all the exchanges, and thus to realise enormous profits, at the expense of hundreds of families ? This is monstrous—this is detestable—this is flagrant injustice. There can be no infraction where the outlay of an express exceeds so tremendously the cost of a letter by the post. What is to be concluded from all this? Simply that no special authorisations from the Post-office are necessary—that any person is justified to express, if he will incur the expense It certainly could be no especial pleasure to express for 4,000 r. what would cost three francs by the ordinary post. What is, then, the meaning of all this? I will say, because there is a question of journalism. And is not that a general and most impoi tent interest? Does not the whole world partake of the enormous expenditure, and great trouble of its conductors ? Of what are the great elements of publicity the echo? Have they not an enormous weight in protecting the public from fraud, by the early publication of news affecting the funds and markets? And is not this a general interest? The jour nals favour not the rich at the expense of the poor. It is an equal advantage for all. Their object is to make known to everybody the truth as it is received. This is an immense ad vantage dearly publicity, for it is equality for all. It is the ex change of facts between nations. It is a continental dissemi nation of intelligence affecting our public interests and affect ing our private feelings. It is the means of attaching by closer ties people of every nation. In 1840 we were all taken up with Eastern affairs. Daily, the news which might arive would affect the peace of the world, and the face of everything was exposed to change. Every steam•-packet arriving at Marseilles excited the deepest interest. At that period mercantile houseshad agents at that pert, to receive despatches from their correspondents, and if they were deemed of importance, expresses were sent. Journalism, in the interest of the public at large, followed the same course. But then certain favoured persons, who had been accustomed to have the monopoly of early news, began to be alarmed, for their game was spoilt. They murmured, and, as a result, impediments began to fall in the nay of the couriers charged to convey the despatches from Marseilles brought by the overland India mail. This is the reason that the Court is occupied this day. The persons for whom I plead had active and intelligent correspondents at Malta, and at Constantinople, at Alexandria, on the coast of Syria, in China, in India, and in short, wherever there was a public: interest in. England to serve, the papers were early and active in tl:e field. Judicious agents judged whether the masses of papers and letters received at Marseilles were of a nature to require prompt publication. If so, an express was sent at any cost. 11 not, the ordinary post was resorted to when the news was of a routine nature. And such was the zeal of the newspaper agents, that forty hours were gained upon the regular channel of events, justifying the enormous outlay. For whose benefit was this ? For that of civilization at large. The public had the advantage, for it was protected from fraud by sordid speculators. But jealous interests slid not like this early publicity. Certain financial persons, habituated to run expresses exclusively, and to profit by them, as well as to assist their friends, made fresh attempts with the Ministry of October to secure their monopoly. Under the Cabinet of M. Thiers, when some impediments were first thrown in the way, that Minister decided in a Cabinet Council, that it was purely a fiscal question, which could be met by the payment of the post age of the packet expressed at Marseilles. When M. Hurnann re commenced the So stem of annoyance, a demand was aderessed to him by the Paris correspondents of the Post, Herald, and Chro nicle, for an authorisation to express from Marseilles to England. What was the reply of the Minister? (Here M. Berryer read M. Hurnann's reply, to the effect that the Post -office had the exclusive right of transporting letters and despatches, and that if permissions had been sometimes granted, the cases were ex ceptional, and dirt not constitute a privilege.) " Thus," con • tinned M. I3erryer, " in the very words of the Minister himself, he reserved for himself and friends a power and privilege of expressing. The Finance Administration reserved to itself the right and faculty for such and such a favoured person to forwa d couriers, whilst others were pre vented from so doing. Thus enormous advantages might be realised by this exclusive system. but we have not only M. riumarm's monstrous claims, in his letter to the correspondents of the Herald, Post, and Chro nicle, but there is another, addressed to the correspondent of the Morning Post by Marshal Soult, President of the Council of Alinisters (111. Bet yer here read the letter.) Marshal Soult was then quite anxious to assist the object of the London journals. He states that the Minister of Finance was stilling to meet their views, and that be saw no inconvenience in the sending of their despatches by any vehicle with post-horses, but not by a man on horseback.—( Much laughter in the Court. ) This was a nice distinction. You may defraud the Post-office iii a carriage, but not with a horse. You must not have an ester fette a cheval, but the favoured person who had the horse could heat the unfortunate man in the carriage by forty hours in the transit. This is 1 ,01-- as ti,iiculotis as pit is odious. In Fe bruary but our Tu i arrived at -Itlerasillegr, and brought moot important news !ruin Caubui. A courier was bearer of despatches, and was arrested no less than thirteen : n im in e u s te ; s b o u f t th he e p s a e s i s z ed ur — e, a v n h d ic i h rh ( y ie ? cia Llf a commercial one, and was bearer of only a single desea; was an important admission for the printed form that he was allowed by the gendarmerie to pass. Th is ' t o re emananated from the Post-offica itself. Till the period I ° but fion speculation was immense t Paris and ill 1 -' 9nd tk 5 . th ß at e 2 rr a y s er the he c r o e uri r e e a r d . thl i principally in the latter capital. The funds and i n-- e a st were deeply affected by every mail. it " 5 un important to learn what the British Government lo.g"" de. dertake in the midst of news of' such gravity from in But there was a subsequent affair of greater gravity, clisP i of the se . en. ay ia~ an extent of bad will on the part' of the Post-offia' - th 4 e thorities unexampled in these times. A letter sent froretoe Paris Post-office. and placed therein by the correspoodeundf the London Papers, was stamped the 2d of April, and w° e ;;,,ts. delivered to the Boulogne agent on the 4th, bearing the office-stamp hf the last date, and kept back-twenty-or hoe o r Here is the proof. (M. Berryer here displayed the en/ell:ate the letter.) Thus the Post-office not only refused to n ele expresses, but it kept back despatches, for seine inexpl!c;oed reason, twenty-four hours. Let the fact' be eV ia c nie e how it will be, or rather how it can be. It some' happens that letters are delivered too late , but it bas•fitt rarely occurred that the letter itself explains ad proves that this delay arose from the Post-offiec c iel ministration itself. To resume this affair. This Pre t ' — t he contravention affects the greatest interest in relation of public journals, and in respect to the facility and rapiditY; c e eornmenications. It is an indisputable right that of son" letter by a courier. This is the cause. Couriers aeon:11 have never yet been protecuted. There is not a case 0 ,.' 5, , 5e , cord. The convictions hard invaeiebly been for these Pe r - e seeking ; 0 save the postage. Theree ih not one inseaeee e' at , n similar prosecution where the expense erfe r eveling °' d'"r t P not , hes been so great. The great commereidrinterest olu, s e ie se cannot, be leit to the mercy of a Minister;' be he w - be " n the.lt is unjust, it is absurd, arid if the Court admitted 'l e ee l conviction in this case it would decide nothing, for a P h es t:died evade the law by making the weight of his des ,) 3 t c oj d tred the kilogramme. such judgment would be illueer officer of no value. Maintain, then, the law—protect the Post- but do ith not interfere w long-snges. e speech of M. Berryer, tan of d which usa the above is 13 :e t at feeble outline, produced the greatest sensation ie the oe e ed.) Comte and it was some time before silence could be ecb ' The ,substitut of the Pc (=rear du Roi then began h is ' l l' Be could not enter into the various considerations put s o et' by the Learned Orator. lie had to invoke the la w 5 ,,,, e s isted, with all i 0 severity ; for the judges were the s'.s the law, and cited from the law hooks various cas es of ~m ol - 0 convicted of illegally being the bearers of lette rs, to testii postage. He argued that no exception could exist , and ing its Ministers had granted p L ivileges that they were disoheP nrovisione . The Post-oftee alone had the exclusive The substitut therefore insisted that a conviction Il s e Pe' low, and he called for the infliction of the maximum of t if 150 francs. cit M. Berryer then replied with great power , th ( e , e nt eoO it the letter of the 2d instant kept back by the ),; e i thea Post-office. - The subititut of the Proculeeur that the read an examination of the postman, and ist• stated the let' latter had neglected his duty in the iron-delivery °, ace d s tees. To remedy his fault, he had sureeptites Phseest. stamp of the 4th on the letter. It was, add ;the s u ien atio,!* most unfortunate event, but it was susceptible 0 f AI. Berryer explained, that there was one letter ! ta le, ° J 2d, addressed to the Boulogne agent, another of . t", e d ger' ore of the 4th. Two of these letters were regular 1 cticl hut the third, one of great importance. containing -I %4er , o ,a to the agent to have a steam-boat for the Cabinet c, 41053 having also the news of the India mail. The tuba gel; that the postman would be discharged ; he was a:r e . e 'de,4 pended.—( A laugh in the Court.) M. Berryer ak s : for with great force on the retention of the setter of the ta' 4 / hours. After the pleadings had ceased, the Preside,' 005 nounced that the judgment of the Court would be e n to the 20th, at the next sitting. The Court then broke 41 case having , excited the deepest interest. CORONER'S INQUEST- ea tot Yesterday afternoon a long investigation was ente r , ee tb 1 before Mr. Baker and a Jury, at the London HosP it t'ee tl it : 0 body of Charles Caull, aged 36, who was alleged 50 " t ise : from the effects of starvation, some particulars rely • which appeared in this Journal yesterday. too . e aire i John Smith, police-constable H 189, said that e n detY, i s day morning about half-past six o'clock he was ° I hita t '' $ George-yard, Whitechapel, when a woman infort deal o• 10'.,, there was a man lying in the passage of the' hens e . 'i„ft O !ow lodging-house, the door of which was iasfariab IY a f ' ",.. at nights, in an insensible state. He went there , ~ ,.- c o til7 „ „t deceased lying on the floor of the first landing. sOF a ite ': sensible, but on close examination he found bim '' lece i s iba ei , and cold, and conveyed him to the workhouse. T 1 1 ,, i 01,0 . _ appeared to have been in a perfectly destitute Eta t b at e ' sniall portion of clothing he had on appeared to 4 workhouse clothing. clecl s. , s ,t &rah Hicks stated that she had cohabited with til l fob for the last seven years, and up to Tuesday night last h v go, e , with him at No. 11, George-yard. She got her living a ;,,a i' out vqshing, .for which she got one shilling per day , Vet victuals.. Between seven and eight o'clock on Tner'ii' Oa - ing, she was sent for to go home, as deceased Wirt in t er SO . state f . : r want of food. On seeing her he begge d so „ him some food, but she bad not the means of doing . .:- e "'' left him to go and finish her day's work, and on returnta7 I again about eleven o'clock the same night, she i' l te rie i on the , room door, and heard that the landlady had found 's Is deceased out. into the street because the 2s. for-her week h a d i 4 , had not been paid her that morning. The landlady to 0 ,. seized upon the bed, and had directed the police o f i ‘ the deceased to the poor-house. She went in e'sear e sou s , but to no purpose. He had been in Spitalfields worko ~, i five weeks, and left it aboutl fortnight since. the st'' Anne Short said that on Tuesday evening she sa el po tsi t i, ceased's landlady turn him out of the house. Ile arP,;-, ~i ip ' the time quite silly, and there was a mob collected, w the tip 0 Out " Shame." ' She was taking in some bread at ,to .4 i 0 and the deceased came and begged and prayed of he e ' oe , ii . 0 him some. She took him in doors, and gave hint. ', 3 e0 1 it and he ate upwards of half a quartern loaf, he was so t oo , r A , He left shortly after. She heard groaning in the e sse t . , of the night, but did not know where it came frora. ...I no doubt he died fro exsure and want. he ( l e" ►" 1 Mr. Mears, surgeon m , gave it as his opinion that I 0 00 1 of had died in a fit, from the effects of over-eating, his s od being from its previous emptiness in a very weak state' pis destitute condition. ~. ti f ies s al The Coroner and jury strongly animadverted r. 4,70 t humanity of the deceased's landlady, and the fornit,:jors ' that, as there was no distinct proof of starvation, ` t " _4 ts ; in better return an open verdict. iti rem Ss . • The jury ultimately returned a verdict of " F °s 40 the passage of a lodging-house, but by what means was no evidence to show." i • ill' , ra lne'%; t ... , SOCIETY OF AIITS--" A subject of consit ie s oy 1 ' Of terest was brought forward and discussed on Wed ° ,, e ro ces'' ie! that of DelOruck ' s patent autogenous soldering, ',lert ' e I i'' which it it appears that the use of solder in an ' e :i st etn s oh° is entirely done away With, so that when used la „ - d, as ' eta holding strong acids no galvanic action is prodn e t ;i s CO rt,M I cafe in the old method; where two different le e ' h aitY ° re' contact. The economy of the process and the du ra n ost° t oe', vessels are also great recommendations. The I,Pi r e gas t; eP . spired is simple, ingenious, and useful: A pnr,_ ° : the i''' bol e rater, with bellows and blow ' pipe attached, taseZerefote o .c? the open fire-pot and red-hot irons ; and we enaYl. o 00 .s ' , that in future no more buildings will be expose" - 0 0 7,9 ilk dents by fire as have so frequently arisen fret° 0,--- I _. se . gerous accompaniments of a plumber's operations! it 0 1 _1: sis This is the invention we some time since had oseas' ° „ o. lr ., , e l ets of in terms of praise, and which was then, a nd is: ecaT i as biting gratuitously by Messrs. Clarke and Son, D e ta t tl e i i,:r Southwark. Its application is eof greater imP e r re par 0 0 18 ,, would be supposed by the above quotation. and 3 '1,0 arf_„ l Ir, larly to manufacturing chemists, whose " c hats:wl: o OP% iea by this process of lead, and of lead alone, thus 107',, e etn : $ possibility of the valuable ingredients under co mbin t a; ioe isini s is in contact with any other metal, and thereby del o. e ht. for. 5 , ". entirely destroying the chance of the result sone ld ? roc' moreover much cheaper and quicker than the 0 . . ► if Standard. . 6 ,1 4" r , ,,,vICT ~- 0 ..,1 SUICIDE OF THE CAPTAIN OF A kin"- - r at , g7i Yesterday morning a determined act of selfede r st e f a t e 4 ,0 committed by Captain Weakney, the corernand e ssn n'eci nt ,b o ' Admiral convict ship, now lying off Woolwich. ',„ the ,c ,i 0 night, Captain . Weakney supped with his o fficer: 1 :1 ; 0 ov ‘,T ri tse and when he retired to rest there appeared netT h l i nti 1 itto his mauner, and he was apparently in good heal: bea r f t? ' Yesterday morning, about six o'clock, the peopl e a.,sterns lb, Royal Admiral were hailed by the crew of a brig ( I, ha ov erboa r si ed t said the female convicts wore jumping - c eru° de °. 1 officers of the ship went upon deck, and s Soo° as h& j tna .i i a te all was safe below, and that none of the convie,cerer, Fe.. 000 attempt to escape. The crew cf the brig , h e ste rtvw s ` tli ° that some one had jumped overheard from the nce, seu ot ee . - of the cabin, and they had seen the party rise.t_,fro hire sink. The cabin-door, which was fastened wi ll h i !' ies _ diately broken open, and the Captain ei as sett a 00%0. i berth. All his clothes were in the cabin, an°; er a ane ae a the . gone overboard with nothing on but his s tirt ako elt c a pt . e ° Immediate search was made for Captain 11 ' ov ered• e t tb" t river was dragged, but the body was Weakney was fifty-six years of age. J 4e A a ria l' s ,Ii He d' ree had bse d lo ts Sears in the Royal Navy, was much respec "' • „A. Frei,, . 0 eye in an engagement with the enemy. ...--- sear - t he We read in the Observateur Grea : r si% i i' t ie . 40 officer, Col nel Thouet, who has resided I 00esee.,.eite, .0 officer, Greece, is charged with the erection of a 1 1 2 phlra t r 0 01 8 church of Napoli di Romania, in honour of the tie (i _ly I ri g , ~ who fell in Greece. When M. Piscatory P t, ~ aq i „ r l it , Napoli, last year, the Colonel requested biny e st is ' r tin g French Government for a copy of a paintin l l It t 10 `,,, pal° to be placed near the monument. The Fre" orders 1. Interior has complied with the request, 80 '‘', of be , to be made." ntin °l3' O ise tria d • According to a letter from Consta ‘.i. lA , Aos ill, 9th ult. } in the Leipsic Gazette, a differe o ;d the_ .: Exe T , tween the English and French Ambassadors, t he /Intl ie ` iv Internuncio, respecting the choice o' s , c ot °' ti's t _iat who are to be named for the Govertewletends be I ' s ? banon. " France," says this letter, _l g ' obt to oteo id es choice of the chief of the Maronites,:r 'her P r ior ? i to le her, as the Catholics of Syria are un u con trarY , m oil "a• The Austrian Internuneio maintains the w ii , Cons itsh 4 4 , that the Deputation of the Marmites P ° The Eeg te d 11 , the have solicited the protection of Austria- h a ve in'is tlY e' if bassador, on the other hand, is said t° 4 „,.t e pend ert is r ane e', the Druses having a chief of their own '-n with a tri. w" Alaronites. Austria, it is added, Would Jot _catholic? . she would agree to the appointment t!f e t i r fas onite 3 '.,, w ell ' j ot of the Lebanon as temporal chief of tla e 'i rriine ot ;: is „, REVERSE OF FORTUNE . -- -A n , .., Nn pall , who at one time was reported to be an inmate of the Charter-House. w.st . s ,„, beo _ ii . To MARINERS.—A lantern of the 1 ,,b7 t ,,,, g pier, ! ro ot s . n ° pot ivider e tt• ' is now fixed oo- the larboard end °f t nd the - ; e s , whet' r latitudes between Richmond-terra ce and the t he p.-- , ~ _ set s s All masters of vessels are advised to ne eand i e for ttlf it s: le fl uff the ' d en ti, , I. state of the weather permits, an d 5 eo f ace! p o em ~., In ease gal convenience of all voyagers. worth 400,°°°'' Of the lantern. ‘n _stit a lucifer-box made fast to the handle 0 on Wed e se*-" appTnihnetedMGaoratrinisor of 'l'« A T I Esr assd-ereasd.dale was, „ Z- 7 ---------L--"_--._.-.•-. ---- • .-. "" ---- - --- B IR TII S. On the 7th inst., the lady o f Nicholas Lockl'er;4ooo.- ~. Princes-square, Plymouth, of a son. On the Bth inst., at Coll ark, the lady of .J. 13 1 i SI ' Esq., of a son and heir. r• 11 ' ijtcv On the 23th ult., at Rome, the lady of Arthu •,... _. Esq., eldest son of Sir C. Elton, Bart., of °d au W e l, (.1n the llth inst.,at Kentish-town , ------- ___ MARRIED. Cht web,. On the 6th inst., at Jersey, at St. Saviour's ,‘, vo per Owen, Esq., late of the Hon. East India CompanY's xi° 0 1 1's vice, to Georgina, second daughter of Robert Gordon, late Lieutenant-Colonel of the 23d Light• Dragoons. Mrs. S. Sancl ILO__ BO ° 0 f D O o n o t o h o e s s2:th countyul t . 0 , f in Dublin,Clare. i.' S l i l i : Hugh Dillon Mass}', Jb ° On the 7th i n st., at his seat, Read Hall, Lancashire2e of Fo• t, Esq., late M.P. for the b.irough of Clithero, and a LI P Lieutenant and Magistate of the Mita , 60 01 Loockn: Printed and Publislled by ail BI Y Ol - 4. d No . 112, Stran:i at Mc Sun. 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