The Sun. — London, England, 1827-03-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We would rouse, though almost in despair of a beneficial re sult, attention to the trickery which is practised on the nation with respect to the corn bill. What we may call the centre ad mission prices of barley and oats have been suddenly and unex pectedly raised in the Committee ; and in the same surreptitious manner have the corresponding import duties upon each of those articles been raised also, at their centre points. We could hardly have conceived any thing so severe and cruel upon the manufac turing population, as well as so great a deviation from the prin ciple of the original bill. First, with respect to barley—it is well known that bailey forms the chief constituent ingredient in the bread of the poor throughout the north of England. It is sold, and even grown, mingled with the wheat, and the whole is balled netslin ; so that the increase of the tax upon barley is really 'au s increase of the tax upon the bread of the poor : it is also an intost upon his drink ; and though the brewer may not imme diately raise the price of his article, he will lower its strength, and that at a time when there is, from its low price, so Itebtig a temptation to drink gin. Oats, too, are also a con stituent article in the bread of Scotland ; so that the Corn Bill, thus metamorphosed, is likely to turn out a most grievous :opptession on the manufacturing poor, and to place their ";read, coarse as it is, beyond their reach. Better would it have been, in our mind, to have raised the price of the bread of the rich, by rendering wheat as far as possible inadmis sible, than thus to have dropped down with heavy hand upon the only necessaries of life which the poor can procure for the sup port of nature. However, the cruelty is, we suspect, to be in discriminate ; for we have heard that the condition of the Bill's passing is, that a prohibitory duty, even upon wheat, shall be un posed in its progress up to the Royal assent—that is, that foreign Nirbeat shall not be admitted at all till the home article has mounted t ap to a certain price. Snch an arrangement preserves the mis chief of the old system, and amalgamates it with whatever is noxious and distressing in the new. And do Mr. Canning and Mr. Huskisson submit to these distortions of their originally be nevolent plan ? If so, we ask, who are Ministers ? Where does the responsibility attach? There is no First Lord of the Trea sury ! No President of the Board of Trade ! No Secretary-for Foreign Affairs ! They are all sick ; and we doubt much whe ther the nation will not be sicker still of the measures which are adopted during their abeyance. At least the Constitution is evi dently changing its form, and becoming an Aristocracy. The King is absent; his responsible Ministers are absent; and we are governed by the legislative bodies, actuated by that influence which is known to prevail in them. America is at this moment as much a monarchy as England.— Times. Can we wonder that such opposite accounts should be given of distant countries by travellers, when we find that the same con trariety prevails in the accounts of a country within a few miles of our own coast, and connected with us by language and laws ? The Ear) of Carnarvo observed last night in the House of Lords, that " Ireland was, without exception, the most wretched country of Europe, and its people presented the singular anomaly of being under the British Constitution, and being the most miserable of any on the habitable globe. They were like the Greeks under the Turks." This Noble Lord was followed by the Earl of Roden, who said, " there was no people more happy, or who enjoyed more real liberty than the people of Ire'and." Now the Peer who thus proclaimed to the world the supreme felicity of the Irish, and the liberty they enjoyed in so eminent a degree, is not a stranger to Ireland ; but as he tells us himself, resides continually in that country, and so far from being one of those who, in the language of Mr. Cobbett, if not carefully looked after, would thrust their knife and fork into their cheeks, or jump into a chalk pit, has actually been selected by his brother Peers, to represent the wisdom and intelligence of the body in the Imperial Parlia ment The people of Ireland are the happiest and freest in Europe, says Lord Roden, but as their happiness and freedom de pend on their having a Protestant Church and a Protestant Legis lature, we must, for their own sakes, refuse to them " the right to legislate for a Protestant State and a Protestant Church."— Lord Roden is a Saint, and, perhaps, takes a Scriptural view of happiness, esteeming wealth not merely as dross, but as some thing worse, as cutting men oil from all hopes of happiness in the next world. His Lordship, who has the misfortune to have large possessions, has, no doubt, often meditated in sorrow all the interdict pronounced against himself, that " it is as impossible for a rich man to enter the kingdom of Heaven as it is for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle. It is, we suppose, because the excessive exactions of the Aristocracy and Hierarchy create so much poverty in Ireland, that he is determined to sup port most strenuously all the pretensions of both, to preserve to the Irish the grand distinction of being the poorest, and, conse quently, the happiest people in Europe. The Church will not surely be less generous than Lord Roden, but continue to suffer all the evils of bloated wealth, for the sake of the people. It is a generous devotion in Lord Roden and the Church—we hope it will be appreciated as it ought to be. Happy Irish, and free as happy !—But we are astonished how Lord Roden can give his support to a set of Ministers, who, so far from taking a correct view of the condition of Ireland, have for ears past been doing nothing but instituting inquiries into the causes of the misery of the people of Ireland, with a view to a remedy. We have had one Parliamentary inquiry after another, and the witnesses have not certainly had the good fortune to see the country through Lord Roden's spectacles, for they all describe the people as wretch ed and miserable in the extreme. This comes of not forming cor rect ideas of happiness and freedom I —lreland is destined to be the scene of constant miracles. In the middle ages, all the learning of Europe was confieed to that island; nay, so addicted were the people to learning, that they had not even time to build houses, for, as Sir John Davies remarks, a building, beyond the dimensions of a hut, with the exception of one or two Danish towers on the coast, did not exist till the English invaded the country. And now, though the people are the happiest and freest in Europe, a preternatural blindness seems to have fallen on all the rest of man hind, so as to prevent them from seeing this, that the honour of the grand discovery might be reserved for the Earl of Roden.— r n ing Chronicle. After the length of time which Ministers have taken to concoct their measure on the Corn Laws, the public bad a right to ex pect that the scheme would have been formed upon such ample and authentic data, and upon such due and mature deliberation, as would have rendered the immediate abandonment of any part of it -unnecessary. This, however, unfortunately turns out not to he the case ; and t-ie wonder-working proposition, which has taken nearly a twelvemonth to compose, is no sooner divulged, than, as it affects two articles, Barley and Oats, it turns out to he quite erroneous, and is so admitted to be by Mr. Peel, in the name of Mr. Canning. We, from the first, believed the fact to be so, and are far from blaming the manly openness with which the error is avowed. What we contend is, that Ministers ought to be better served, and better informed, than t 3 fall into such mis takes, and thereby render ouch awkward admissions necessary. The truth, we fear, is, as was hinted in our Paper a few days ago, that the public men of the present day are too ready to catch at any proposition which saves them " the trouble of thinking ;" and that, instead of opening their doors widely to practical men ; they are too easily imposed upon by the ignorant and the inte rested persons by whom they are surrounded, and who obtain the entre of office. It did, to be sure, appear exceedingly absurd, that the bringing forward of the Corn Question should devolve upon the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who, of course, could have in his office no persons likely to assist him in the details, and in which it now appears that, from that or some other cause, he does not seen to have been super-eminently well informed. Mad the proposition come, as we think it ought to have done, from the Board of Trade or the Treasury, it is to be hoped that one or both of these departments possessed the means of obtaining more accurate information upon the subject than was likely to be obtained in Downing-street. However, this affair seems hardly sufficient to justify the violent philippic of Mr. Hobhouse against the general policy of the Government ; which we can tell that Honourable Gentleman too might as well have been dispensed with on another ground—we mean on ac count of Mr. Canning's absence. The Hon. Member for ',Vest esainster, no doubt, remembers the fable of the Sick Lion. He remembers, too, some severe blows which he has received from the lion when in health. And there are those, therefore, who will he uncharitable enough to suspect that the blow which the Hon. Gentleman attempted to give the lion in his absence, would not have been attempted bad the noble animal been present, and in full possession of his powers. The inhabitants of Westminster expect something more from their representative, and a higher tone of fieling than is to be found in these petty, personal, party squabbles. Such efforts amuse--but they do not edify—they may raise a laugh, but it is at the expenee of those who cause it. While u pon the subject of the Corn Question, we cannot but regret the symptoms of impatience which appear to be shown by the landed gentlemen when any thing unfriendly to their interests is stated in the House. In some instances this impatience is shown by anti cipation. We can tell such persons that this is not the way to satisfy people out of doors upon the subject. All that the better and well-judging part of the public require, is that the subject should be determined by the unerring tests of,truth and justice. But if clamour and impatience are used to extinguish argument, those at least who know no better will be led to think that selfish ness and not truth is the motive of those who resort to such means of silencing discussion.— Morning Herald. On the subject of the statement, " that the Lords of the Trea sury have, on being memorialized by the Executors of the Duke of York, remitted the amount of the Probate Duty on his RoTal Highness's Will, in consequence of the assets falling short of the debts," the Times of yesterday has the following remarks : " We do not know what right the Lords of the Treasury had to remit that duty which the law imposes upon the personal property of one defunct ; that is, we do not know whence the Lords of the Treasury enjoy a dispensing power, in the case of the most essential right of the House of Commons—in the case of a Money Bill, converted into an Act of Parliament, by the approbation of the other House, and the Royal Assent. However, a more iniquitous law than that upon which their Lordships are said to have thus exercised their dispensing power, never existed in a civilized country ! We hope, that as they have remitted its provisions once, they will remit them always till the law is repealed." As the Times does not know what right the Lords of the Treasury have to remit the Probate Duty, in a case like the one in question, we will inform it, that the Act of the 55th Geo. 111. c. 184, sec. 51, authorizes such remission, and that it is a matter of every day occurrence, for the executors of a de funct person to petition for it, where, as in the present case, the assets are found to fall short of the debts. We are inclined to devote a few words more to this singularly consistent Jour nal. In an article, yesterday, founded upon an analysis of the Majority and Minority on the Catholic Question, the other night, the object of which is to chew that " all the wisdom, eloquence, Parliamentary experience, and historical research," were in the latter, while, in the former, there was not " one individual of talent or reputation" (except Mr. Peel and the Master of the Rolls), the recently-published letter of Dr. Phillpots is charac terized as a " pert, abusive pamphlet, addressed to Mr. Can ning." Ton days ago (on the 3d instant) this same Dr. Phill pots, the author of this same " pert and abusive" pamphlet, was described, in this same Paper, thus :—" The, ablest champion of the Anti-Catholic policy (Dr. Phillpots) has just come forth with a letter to Mr. Canning, the influence of which, the author has, reserved for the eve of the Parliamentary discussion." Perhaps (for we like to assist a friend in a dilemma) our contemporary means to say, that the ablest champion which the Anti-Catholic party can produce, is one who writes " pert and abusive pain phlets"—but we are still puzzled to understand, wherein consists I the " influence" of such a writer.—New Times. THE ARMY. Detachments belonging to the 12th Lancers, the Grenadier Guards, and the 4th Regiment of Infantry, have received orders to embark at Portsmouth ; and detachments belonging to the 23d and 43d Regiments of Foot are ordered to embark at Ply mouth, on board his Majesty's ship Romney, for conveyance to Portugal. One troop, belonging to the 4th Dragoon Guards, is ordered to march this day from Coventry, for Christchurch. Two troops belonging to the 4th Dragoon Guards are ordered to march this day from Birrilinghani, for Coventry. Detachments belonging to the 4th and 35th Regiments of Foot received orders to march, this morning, from Westminster, for Portsmouth. A detachment belonging to the 76th Regiment of Infantry re ceived orders to march, this morning, from Westminster, for Portsmouth, on route to Jersey. A detachment belonging to the 70th Regiment of Foot received orders to march, this morning, from Westminster, fur Ports mouth, on route to Guernsey. War-Office, March 12. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Cornet and Sub. Lieutenant Hon. Craven F. Berkeley to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lyon ; promoted ; Sir Henry Webb, Bart., to be Cornet and Sub.-Lieu _ _ tenant, by purchase, vice Berkeley. 2el Ditto Dragoon Guards—To be Majors—Captain C. Kear ney, by purchase, vice Chamberlain, promoted ; Captain Thomas Boyd, from the itb Dragoon Guards, vice Soulaby, deceased. To be Captain, by purchase—Lieutenant William Donaldson Davies, vice Kearney. To be Lieutenant, by purchase—Cornet Henry Wilmot Charl ton, vice Davies. To be Cornet, by purchase---Ensign John Penn Hickman, from the 63d Foot, vice Charlton. 4th Ditto—Lieutenant James Shaw to be Captain, without purchase, vice Boyd, promoted in the 2d Dragoon Guards. To be Cornets—Cornet and Riding-master Thomas Wm. Lloyd, without purchase, retaining his original situation in the regiment; Hon. Henry Fitzroy, by purchase, vice Collingwood, promoted. sth Ditto—Regimental Sergeant-Major B. O'Brien to be Quarter-master, vice Atkinson, deceased. 7th Ditto—Gentleman Cadet Piety:me William Craven, from the Royal Military College, to be Cornet, by purchase, vice At kinson, promoted. Ist Ditto Dragoons—Cornet John Yates to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Webb, promoted ; Hon. William Rollo to be Cor net, by purchase, vice Yates, promoted. 4th Ditto—Captain. R. Ellis, crom the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Jeremiah Robinson, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 6th Ditto—Lieutenant Jeremiah Ratcliffe, from the 3d Light D rago ons, to be Captain, vice Ramsay, deceased. 7th Ditto Light Dragoons—Captain Philip Dundee, from the half-pay, to be Captain, paying the difference to the Half-pay Fund, vice Strangways, deceased. 15th Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon Charles Dealey, from the 12th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Quincy, promoted. 16th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant ;3lurdock John Maclaine Ross to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Mouat, promoted in the 14th Foot. 17th Ditto—Cornet Nathaniel Bogle French Shawe, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Greville, promoted. Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards _Li Henry Salwey, from the half-pay, Colonel, vice John Waters, who exs. to be Captain and Lieutenant -Ist Regiment of Foot—..baptain Joseph Wetherell, to be Major, by purchase, vice Hopkins, whose promotion has not taken place. To be C a ptains, without purchase—Lieutenant James Bland, vice Harvey, deceased ; Lieutenant John Tracey Holebrooke. To be Lieutenants—Lieutenant George Bell, from the 45th Foot, vice James M'Greger, wt i t ,`. exchanges ; Ensign Francis Hoskins, by purchase, vice Butler, promoted ; Ensign Richard Going, by purchase, vice M'Pherson, promoted ; Ensign Alex. Barry Montgomery, vice Carter, deceased; Ensign Chas. Curtis, vice John M'Gregor, deceased; Ensign Robert John Hill, vice Dugald Campbell, deceased ; Ensign James Ritchie, vice Gray, deceased; Ensign William Wilson Hornsby, from the 33d Foot. To be Ensigns--Volunteer John Maclaine Ross, without pur chase, vice Montgomery, promoted ; Volunteer James Brown, vice Church, deceased ; Hew Manners Dalrymple, gent., by pur chase, vice Hoskins; Gentleman Cadet F. W. H. Valiance, from the Royal Military College, vice Curtis ; William Webster, gent., vice Hill ; Thomas John Furnell, gent., vice Ritchie. 6th Ditto—Acting Quarter -master - Sergeant William Hornby, to be Quarter-master, vice Smart, who retires ; Assistant-Surgeon Robert Goodrich, to be Surgeon, vice Trigge, deceased ; Hospital- Assistant Thomas Spence, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Goodrich. 10th Ditto--Captain William Locke, from the half-pay, to be Captain vice George Chandler, who exchanges, receiving the d ifference. 13th Ditto—Lieutenant Knox Barrett, to be Captain, vice Reed, deceased. To be Lieutenants--Ensign Richard William Croker, vice Pyne, deceased ; Lieutenant George Keir, from the 67th Foot, vice Barrett. To be Ensigns, without purchase—George John Douglas M'Kenzie, gent., vice Croker; Wade, gent., vice Grierson, promoted in the 87th Foot. 14th Ditto—Assistant -Surgeon James Mouat, 3LD., from the 16th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Thomas Jackson, re tired on half-pay. 16th Ditto—To be Ensigns, by purchase—William-Whitaker, gent., vice Lane, promoted; Frances Fairtlough, gent., vice Douglass, promoted. 19th Ditto--Assistant-Surgeon W. Finnie, from the Ist Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Savoy, whose appointment has not taken place. 20th Ditto—Assistant-Surgeon M. Griffith, to be surgeon, s ice A. Arnot, who retires upon half-pay ; Hospital-Assistant James Wenayss Moffat, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Griffith, promoted. 22d Ditto—Lieut. Rodolphus Hobbs Reardon, from half-pay 27th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice James Huie, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 23d Ditto—Captain Augustus Denham, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Samuel Falkiner, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 24th Ditto—Major :standiA O'Grady, from the balf-pay, to be Major, she James Adair, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 25th Ditto—Captain James Robert Young, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Macdougall, promoted ; John Lucas Wilton, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grove, promoted. 28th Ditto —Major Harris Hailes, from the 88th Foot, to he Major, vice Onalow, who exchanges. 30th Ditto —Ensign Ninon Armstrong, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice M'Leod, resigned ; Waldron, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Armstrong. 31st Ditto--Quarter-master-sergeant S a m ue l Palm e r, to be Quarter-master, vice Waters, deceased. 32(1 Ditto —Ensign Arthur Ralph Green Thomas, to be Lien tenant, by purchase, vice Suckling, promoted ; John Thomas Hill, Gent. to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Thomas. 33d Ditto—Elias Borough, Gent. to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Hornsby, promoted in the Ist Foot. 36th Ditto—Lieuteuant Charles Trollops, from the half-pay, to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Lewis, who exelanges, receiving the difference. 58th Ditto--Quarter-master.Serjeant David Goold, to be Quar ter-master, vice Southall, deceased. Ilst Ditto—Captain Charles Lucas Bell, front the 87th Foot, to be Major, without purchase, vice Chambers, promoted in the 87th Foot ; James Bayley, gent, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Price, promoted in the 47th Foot ; Quarter-master-Serjeant William Randle, to be Quarter-master, vice Smith, deceased. 44th Ditto--Lieutenant William Boxell Scott, to be Adjutant, vice Gledstanes, deceased. 45th Ditto—To-be Lieutenants—Lieutenant James M'Gregor, from the let Foot, vice Bell, who exchanges; Lieutenant John Smeaton Brooke, from the half-pay, vice Robert Spence Knox, who exchanges. 46th Ditto—To be Lieutenants—Ensign Charles W. Zuhlcke, vice Read, deceased ; Second Lieutenant Jo Edwards, from the Ceylon Regiment, by purchase, vice Muttlebury; promoted. To be Ensign, without purchase—James Campbell, gent. vice Zuhlcke. 47th Ditto—To be Lieutenants, without purchase—Ensign John Lardner, vice Kyffin, appointed to the 22d Foot ; Ensign Appleton Marsh Robinson, vice M'Carthy, deceased ; Ensign William Drew llewsen, vice Douglas, deceased ; Ensign H. H. F. Clarke, vice Frome, deceased; Ensign - Henry M'Nally, vice Millar, deceased; Ensign Richard Price, from the 41st Foot, vice Murray, deceased. To be E n signs—Gentleman Cadet Francis C. Fyers, from thc Royal Military College, vice Larduer; W. Hope, gent. vice Ro binson ; William Wise, gent., by purchase, vice Clarke ; Herbert Hutchinson, gent, vice Hewson. To be Adjutant—Lieutenant W. D. Deverell, vice . M'Citrthy, deceased. 48th Ditto—Ensign James Amitews Erskine, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Weston, promoted ; Henry Disney Roebuck, gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Erskine. 49th Ditto—Lieutenant James Sutton, from half-pay 9th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Burrows, appointed to the Royal African Colonial Corps. 50th Ditto—Captain Joseph Foskett, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice Connell James Baldwin, who exchanges, receiving the difference. 52d Ditto—Captain Grenville Berkeley, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice John" Godfree, who exchanges, receiving the dif- ference. 54th Ditto—Lieutenant Charles Hill, to be Captain, vice Bur nett, deceased. To be Lieutenants—Ensign John Beach Dodd, vice Fraser, deceased ; Lieutenant Thomas Kennedy, from the 67th Foot, vice Hill. To be Ensign, by purchase—Frederick John Chinery, gent., vice Burton, promoted. 59th Ditto—Ensign W. S. Marley, to be Lieutenant, rice Coventry, deceased ; James Mockler, gent., to be Ensign, vice Marley. 64th Ditto—Captain John Michel, from the half-pay, to be Captain, vice William Beates, who exchanges, receiving the dif- ference. 65th Ditto—Lieutenant Thomas Lawrence Whitaker, from half-pay 34th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Allen Walker, who exchanges. 67th Ditto --Captain Arthur Poyntz, to be Major, by purchase, vice. Taylor, who retires. To be C a ptains--Lieutenant William Warburton, vice Web ster, deceased ; Lieutenant Foster Fyane, by purchase, vicePoyntz, To be Adjutant—Lieutenant John Bolton, vice Warburton, promoted. 71st Ditto—Edward Curtis Fownes, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Whyte, promoted. 72d Ditto—Captain Charles Maxwell Maclean, to be Major, by purchase, vice Maberly, promoted in the 96th Foot. 80th Ditto--Samuel Lettsom, gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Christie, promoted. 82d Ditto —Ensign T. Blennerhasset. Thompson, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Macdonnell,who exchanges. 86th Ditto —Captain William Richardson to be Major, by pur chase, vice Baird, who retires ; Lieutenant James Barrett, from the 89th Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Richardson. 87th Ditto—Major Peter Latouche Chambers, from the 41st Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Shaw, deceased. To be Lieutenants—Ensign Decimus Herbert, vice Doyle, de ceased; Ensign Alexander Grierson, from the 13th Foot, by pur chase, vice Doyle, whose promotion, by purchase, has been cancelled. 88th Ditto—Major William Onslow, from the 28th Foot, to be Major, vice Hailer, who exchanges. 96th Ditto—Hospital-Assistant Adam Walker Murray to be Assisktant-Snrgeon, vice Wilson, appointed to the 4th Foot. 97th Ttitto--ILiteut. 'Thomas INl'Doriougli, from half.pay SEAR Foot. to be Lieut., vice Richard Edward Butler, who exchanges. 99th Ditto--Lieut. Simon William Mayne to be Captain, by purchase, vice Moray, who retires; Ensign John Canney to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Moray; Richard Jenkins, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Canney. 2d West India Regiment—Ensign George Macdonnell, from the 82d Foot, to be Ensign, vice Thompson, who exchanges. Ceylon Regiment--Second Lieut. Henry Folliott Powell to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Reyne, promoted ; Charles Hamilton Roddy, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Powell. Royal African Colonial Corps—Lieut. Charles Montagu Bur rows, from the 49th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Edward Miller, who retires upon half-pay 9th Foot. H osp i ta l Staff—To be Hospital-Assistants to the Forces—John Archibald, Gent. ; Robert Hope Alston Hunter, Gent. ; Horatio Nelson Holden, Gent. ; Denis Joseph Magrath, M.D. ; Isaac Brooks, Gent. ; John O'Brien, Gent. ; Alexander Muir, Gent.; Robert M'Nab Robertson, Gent., vice Home, promoted in the 2d Dragoon Guards ; Joseph Laing, Gent., vice Molyneaux, ap pointed to the 51st Foot; Robert William Scott, Gent., vice Tuthill, appointed to the 52d Foot ; Henry Francis Gisborne, Gent., vice Foss, appointed to the 59th Foot. Garrisons—Lieut.-Colonel Henry Debbieg, on half-pay sth Garrison Battalion, to be Fort. Major of Dartmouth, vice Lieute nant-Colonel Belford. Brevet--Major Edward Kelly, half-pay 23d Light Dragoons, Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces serving in Ava, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the arm y ; John Oke, Esq. late Major half pay 61st Foot and Lieutenant-Colonel, to have the rank of Lieut.- Colonel on the Continent of Europe only. The under-mentioned Cadets; of the Honourable the East India Company's Service, to have the temporary rank as Ensigns during the period of their being placed under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Pasley, of the Royal Engineers at Chatham, for field in struction in the art of Sapping and Mining : Gentleman Cadet William Erskine Baker; Gentleman Cadet Charles Seton Guthrie ; Gentleman Cadet Henry Beethon. Commissariat —Deputy Assistant-Commissary-General John Banner Price to be Assistant-Commissary-General. Unattached—Lieutenant Nelson Suckling, from the 32d Foot, to be Captain of Infantry, by purchase. To be Lieutenants of Infantry by purchase—Ensign Joseph John Grove, from the 25th Foot ; Ensign Andrew Hatboro, from the 29th Foot ; Ensign Thomas Dowglass, from the 16th Foet. To be Ensign, by purchase—William Bromley, gent. vice Frederick Q. Turner, whose appointment has not taken place. The under-mentioned Lieutenants, actually serving upon full pay in Regiments of the Line, whose commissions are dated in or previous to the year 1811, have accepted the 'unattached rank of Captain upon half-pay, according to the General Order of the 27th of December last : To be Captains of Infantry—Lieutenant George Forman, from the Bth Foot; Lieutenant John Thorne We3land, from the 34th Foot ; Lieutenant Edward Picking, from the 34th Foot ; Lieu tenant Alexander M'Farlane, from the 34th Foot; Lieutenant John Alves, from the 74th Foot ; Lieutenant William M'Keneie, from the east Foot ; Lieutenant Philip M'Pherson, from the 35th Foot.; Lieutenant Charles C. M'Carthy, from the 66th Foot ; Lieutenant Hugh Stafford Donnellan, from the 8211 Foot; Lieu tenant Joseph Smith, from the 2d Foot ; Lieutenant Henry Kean, fr o m the 25th Foot ; Lieutenant John Miller, from the 25th Foot ; Lieut. Win. M'Leod, from the 36th Foot. The under-mentioned officers have been allowed to dispose of their half pay : Lieutenant Thomas Hawkins, half-pay 71st Foot; Paymaster Wm. D'Arcy Todd, half-pay Recruiting Districts ; Lieut. Chas. Gordon Urquhart, half-pay 84th Foot ; Lieut. Benjamin Barrie, half-pay 4th West India Regiment. Office of Ordnance, March 10. Second Lieutenant Henry O'Brien, to be First Lieutenant, vice to he Se- Hutchins, decea se d ; Fi rs t Lieutenant Sa mue l Wyatt, cond zac retiredCaptai h n a , ri N a l i ceD iu e d w g •e e l,l,t o b e First Lieutenant, v i ce Wy a tt ; on half - pay ; Second Lieu tenantVeterinary'Surgeon Charlca O'Connor, from half -pay, to be Ve terinary Surgeon. March 12. !loyal Regiment of Artillery—Major-General John F. S. S m ith, to he Col one l-Commandant , vice Ramsey, deceased ; Major-General Henry Shrapnel], to be Colonel-C omman d an t, vice Sir Edward Howorth, K.C.8., deceased. The usual notice has been issued from the Exche quc,r, calling in all bills dated in January, February, and March, 1826, and the interest on the new hills, which are offered in ex change for the old ones, is to remain at Qd per diem. bRtTRY-LANE nitATRE. It has been remarked by many theatrical critics, that Mr. Kean's Othello, has of late evinced symptoms of negligence, and that in consequence, a new " Moor " should as speedily as possible be manufactured. With this view a gentleman, on Monday night "made his first appearance on any stage,' in that peculiarcharacter, kindly intending, no doubt, to supply the deficiencies of Mr. Kean. It was "an amiable weakness," and we feel proud to add, that the gentleman in question made the most gentlemanly Othello we have ever witnessed. The pleasant indifference of his man ner, when first stung by lago into madness, far exceeded the vulgar energy of Mr. Kean ; his pathos too was more cheerful, and his jealous agitation bore the very impress of good-humour. Mr. Kean foolishly enacted the part like a man ; his rival never for an instant forgot that he was a gentleman, while in point of effect, we do not hesitate to assert that we never yet saw Othello played to so lively an audience. One smirking little gentleman, in particular, stuck up like a popinjay, in the tenth row of the pit, excited by the enthusiasm of his vivacity, " encored" the farewell speech, which the majority of the audience, could they have woke at the proper time, would no doubt have seconded. But while we thus do justice to the inconceiv able abilities of the new Othello, we must confess that we are far from thinking him perfect. In murdering his wife, for instance ; he seemed to fancy himself in a slaughter-house, and accordingly dispatched her rather too much like a butcher. Indeed, we have seen many of that " sanguinary brotherhood," handle a calf far less scientifically. Again—in his address to the aenate,:he reminded us too frequently of Mr. Cubbett, when with elegance peculiar to himself he addressed an equally refined audi ence, at the late Preston election. But this perhaps may be an unconscious plagiarism, for great geniuses, as we all know, will have points in common. Were we to select any particular pas sages for admiration, we should say, that his soliloquy just pre vious to the murder of Desdvmona, was inimitable. Liston in Lord Doodle, or Mathews in Tom Thumb, never yet produced such an electrical effect; so much so, that the laughter of one half the house woke the other half who were asleep, when both instantly went partners in one thriving firm of loud universal merriment. " The force of genius can no further go." Pray, in the name, and on the behalf of an admiring public, may we ask who is this genius ? MASQUERADE. A Masquerade took place, on Monday night,at the Argyll Rooms, which displayed the usual allowance of humour, taste, and buf foonery. There was a Paul Pry, admirable in every respect, but that of resemblance to the character ; a Spaniard, exceedingly like a Dutchman of stunted dimensions; a Portuguese rebel, whose very countenance would be enough to hang him ; an Adonis, as ugly as Adonises are apt to be ; a Venus, with a broad Irish brogue ; two Apollos, gifted with a characteristic Cheapside dialect ; four Julius Caesars, one Diogenes, a brace of Scotch Witches, half-a-dozen Ferdinauds, a pair of Persians, six Swedes, and a ghost• There was also a devil, but as he bad been mani festly drunk from an early hour in the evening, there is little or nothing to be said (except that he was appropriately possessed by spirits) in the way either of praise or blame. On the whole, leaving out those two indispeusables, wit and humour, the enter tainmentwas amusing enough. NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARCH 13. " A YORISHIREMAN JUST COME TO TOWN." Yesterday the following curious dialogue, between Mr. Cam missioner LAW and a Witness, took place :-- The insolvent, (Jonathan Elsworth), it appeared, bad wort gaged his estate to his brother, John Elsworth, for 2001. whom Mr. Crooke (Counsel for the applicant), said, was in Court, to explain under what circumstances the property became mortgaged, and on the Learned Gentleman calling upon him to give evidence, he said,—" Here I eze, Zur." Mr. Commissioner LAW—What are you, and where did you come from?—lze a miller, Zur, when at whome at Bradfort, at your sarvice. Q. What did your brother do when arrested ?—A. Why, he gave a bail, Zur.—(A laugh.) Q. What else ?—A. Why, Zur, three week ater, a warranter o'torney, I thinks they call her. Q. What brought you here; did you come on your brother's account?—A. 0 no, Zur, Ize cum to zee what wor going on in Lunnun. Q. And to be arrested yourself? A. Nay, clang it, Zur, (laughing) only just to peep. •Q. Peep at what, at this Court, I suppose? A. Well, Zur, only. to zoo sokoAvelacrr doin g in tkic pls..), just to look oboist on you knows. Q. What directed you to this Court ; did you come to . give evidence for your brother ? A. Nay, Zur, Ize cumm'd to zee what dye call un 0-o—Ouze Brig, (Blackfriars Bridge.) (Renewed laughter.) Mr. Commissioner LAW—You are dreaming you're in York shire? Witness (scratching his head, and looking about him) — No, Zur, Ize sartain this place aint Yorkshire.—(Much laughter.) Q. Did you not know that your brother was to be brought up to day ? A. No, Zur, for zartain I did not. Mr. Commissioner Law—Let the case stand over until to morrow. This day ( Tuesday), Mr. Comm proceeded with the exami nation. Q. What brought you to London? A. I cumm'd to zee my brother, alive guardsman, in what d'ye Callum lane.—(A laugh.) Mr. COOKE—Was it near the Saracen's Head ? Witness— Deng it Zur, thoits the sign. II A v i e t n o t Mr. Commissioner LAW—What for ? Witness—My brother told me poor Jonathan vor very ill in the Fleet, and that he Court. — (Laughter. hvaeuanxteeddLa t a h u a g n h , w a n . d ) —Poor Jonathan vas discharged. Court,an l a d n i d d cu m mmeetatoeucmumtotcoeaurt, LENT ASSIZES. WESTERN CIRCUIT, SALISBVP.T, MARCH IQ. (Before Mr. Justice Beitaorax.) BURGE V. ITALCOMB AND OTHERS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a public carrier, in the county of Wilts, to recover compensation for 'the lose of the service of a horse of his, which had been seriously injured by the careless driving of a servant of the defendants, who are the pro prietors of a coach which runs to Rome. After a minute's deliberation, the Jury returned a verdict fur the plaintiff —Damages 51. REEVES V. FOLET AND APPLEGATE. This wee an action brought against the defendants, two con stables, by the plaintiff, who is a weaver, residing at Trowbridge, for a trespass. Mr. WILLIAMS said, that the circumstances of the case were, that on the °lst of November, the defendants had to execute a distress warrant against the plaintiff : in pursuit of that office they went to the plaintiff' s house, and put a man into the house to take possession of the goods. Two days afterwards, they came back again, and began to remove all the furniture from the house; among other things in the house , w ere some looms, all of which were in use : the work that wag upon the looms, the defendants threatened to cut off, but, upon a repre sentation of the loss which the plaintiff would s ustain, the de fendants agreed to let it remain, if the sum of 91. was p aid to them. That sum was paid, and the remain der of the g oods taken off the premises. At the expiration of a fortnight the de fendants came back again to the plaintiff's house, and at the hour of 12 o'clock at night, or nearly as late , broke in at the window of the house, and seizing upon the pla intiff, took him awa y to the plaintiff's n houseco ns derably d amage d i n t h e i r con veyance in disorder, an d l e f t to ta k e cage, and on the following morn in g to prison. Knowin g th a t they dare not retain both the pla intiff and his goods, the furnitur e , &c. which had been taken aw a y , were brought bark and pl ac e d tinhetilrie chance, kitehe afternofthehap,l,aiiiitgit to and fro. The conviction and warrant for distress and arrest were then put in and proved. The Magistrate's Clerk deposed, that the plaintiff, and the land lord in the plaintiff's presence, said, that the furniture of the house was the landlord's property, -and that a man was in the house to keep possession of the things. On hearing this evidence, Mr. Justice BURROVGII stopped the case . It was quite impossible that the action could be maintained by the plaintiff, now that it appeared that he himself had admitted not only that he had no claim upon the furniture, but that he was not even in possession of it. The plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited. THE FLEET Pit isoN.—On Monday evening an Inquest was held at the Fleet Prison on the body of James Chap man. It appeared that the deceased had been confined five years for a contempt of the Court of Chancery, and died of diseased lungs and rheumatism. lie was attended by Dr. Clutterbnek, who considered his case hopeless from the first, and did not think the progress of the disorder accelerated by the locality of his situa tion.—Verdict, " Died a Natural Death."—After the verdict was returned, Mr. Brown, the Warden, stated, that an appointment had that day been made of a medical attendant for the poor side of the prison. A similar arrangement had been made in the King's Bench prison. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Po ta SMOUT 11, MARCH i2.—Wind S.W.—Yesterday, his Majesty's sloop Larne arrived from the East Indies, and sailed this afternoon for Chatham, to be paid off. She left Trincomalee on the 27th of October. The Hind, Captain. Turneaux, was there, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Gage, the Boadicea having gone to Madras for a freight. The Java had not arrived. The India squadron were healthy when the Larne left. About fifty invalids came home by this opportunity, and were yesterday received on board the Victory, for survey. This morning, his Majesty'. ten der Bittern arrived from Plymouth, and sailed again in the after noon, having landed a party of the Marine Artillery, with which she was sent here. By Letters from Lima, of 24th Nov., we learn that the Cam bridge was to sail in a few days for Valparaiso, and from thence to England. No accounts had then reached Lima of the Warspite. Captain Patrick Campbell has been appointed to the Ocean. 1L•. Robert Bower has been appointed Supernumerary Surgeon of the Barham Flag-ship at Jamaica. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE, MARCH FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL,'.tacit 12._Wind W.—Arrived from London and remain, the Demerara packet, from Jamaica ; Mulgrave Castle, from Honduras; Protector, Waugh, from Madras; and Jane r frons Madeira. Remains, the Abercrombie, from China. Arrived, the Albion, Bulley, from Mediterranean; Graham Moore, Dueller, from Naples ; Palmanter, Grenfell, from Cadiz ; Bee, Hunt, from Brazil ; and Cireayria, Couthwaite, from Colombo. PORTSMOUTH, Moral 12.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Alfred, Wilson, from London, for Trieste ; Dryad, Power, from Shields, far Demerara; Grattan, Lausar, from Honduras, in 56 days, with loss of boats, bulwarks, &c. ; on the 22d February /poke the Choice, of London, Wheatly, 19 days from St. Domingo ; the brig Jessey, Wilson, from London to Honduras, was totally Wrecked at Punta Sal, and plundered by Spaniards. The follow ing ships were in the Bay of Honduras :—Pedril, Antram, Are thusa, Arrowsmith, Devcruu, Lines., James, Dunlop, Lawson, Duckenfield, Lyon, Julius Cmsar, Stafford, Snipe, Swan, Jane, Hogg, Peter Ellice, and Mariner. Passed, the Berwick shire and Duchess of Athol, Clement, from St. Helena, left the 29th January; North Britain also sailed same day. FALMOUTH, MARCH 11.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W..—Arrivecl the Magnet packet, from Lisbon, in six days ; and a brig, name unknown, supposed an outward bound West Indian. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 11.—Wind S. W.—Arrived from London the Clyde, Thomson, for Malta ; Olive Branch from the Cape of Good Hope ; and Margaret Halls, Davidson, from Deniers:a. Newhaven, Maßcu 12.—The Liverpool packet, Rosewell, from Leghorn, in entering the harbour yesterday, struck on the East Pier and broke several planks, by which she made considerable water. The cargo will be damaged. GaAvtsEsip.—Sailed the St. David, Richardson, for Bombay. The Atalanta, of London, f.;.u. Bombay, was spoken 25th Jan., in lat. 5, S. lon, IS, by the Arab, Smart, off Margate. The Belzoni, from India, broke from her anchors off Gravesend, on the night of 11th, and went on shore on North-fleet point, but has since been got off without damage. The Pelican, Edwards, from Bengal to London, foundered off Holyhead on Sunday, crew saved. A large West Indiaman was driven on shore the 4th inst. at Largy, and afterwards wrecked at the Isle of Muck, near Belfast ; eleven of the crew were drowned. A dead body, supposed the master, floated on shore ; his boots were marked " M'Gill, Wor rall, boot-maker, Limerick." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. --Edward Davis, a man who describes him self aS I:" dealer in the carpet line," was placed at the bar, before Sir Bacaiim BIH.IE, yesterday, charged with having picked the pocket of a Mrs. Wooding, of Prospect .terrace, Gray's-inn-lane. Duke, an officer, stated, that he knew the priioner to be a no , torious thief. The prisoner slid, " it was very bard he should be called a no torious thief, when he had'nt been inside a gaol these. four years." He was committed for trial. _ . _ ..... UNION-HALL.—Yesterday Bond, a beadle of Christchurch parish, Blaekfriars-road, brought a Chelsea pensioner before R. G. CHAUDERS, Esq., for causing an obstruction in the footpath, by selling papers, in which a pretended dialogue was carried on be tween a farmer, a butcher, a miller, a publican, a tea-dealer, $ cheesemonger, a milkman, a baker, a brewer, and a church warden. The beadle said that ft vast crowd had assembled round the de fendant near the Rev. Rowland Hill's chapel, where he stood of fering the dialogue for sale. Mr. CimfliEßS asked to have one of the papers handed to him, which was accordingly done. His Worship having perused it,. observed, that although it was mere trash, yet it was calcu lated at the present moment, new the COM Laws were under discussion, to do no good, as it might cause the ignorant to feel dissatisfaction. The defendant was sorry for having caused the pavement to be obstructed, and, if the Magistrate would pardon him this time, he would never offend again. Mr. CH MISERS had the preceding day committed a man to Brixton, for singing obscene songs in the street ; and (observed his Worship), on looking through the papers which the beadle had handed to him, I perceive one here, about a barber and a publican, not of a very moral tendency. I promise you (con cluded the Magistrate) that if you are again brought here with suchlike productions, I shall be under the necessity of sending you to the tread-wheel. The defendant promised that he would not, and was discharged. THE MARKETS. HAY MARKETS, March 13.—( At per Load of 36 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. Lowland Meadow Hay,X4 otos 0 I Clover Hay £4 10 toll 10 Upland Ditto Rye-grass Hay ... 5 0 6 6 Wheat Ditto IIS S 4 Straw 4s. per load higher than last quoted ; prices of both Meadow and Clover Hay, with the exception of the highest price of, the former hav ing been obtained in but a very few instances, stationary. Supply good, and trade dull. SMITHFIELD. Lowland Meadow Hay.,£3 - 15 to 4 15 — Upland Ditto Rye-grass Hay New Meadow Hay Good Meadow Hay 5.3., good Cloy 3s. per load higher than on Saturd; owing to the advance. Clover Hay generally £4 10 to 6 10 Do. extraordinary One 0 0 7 0 Oat Straw Wheat Dttto 'er Hay lre., and Straw from 2a. to ay. Supply limited, and trade dull, COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Ni7leat: I Barley. Oats, Per Quarter. Boston — Canterbury —.— Grantham Grimsby Horneastle Lincoln Spilsby wo•••••••••• Stamford* I. to 5, e. to e 39 35 39 40 38 42 37 40 37 50' 63 1 51 61 1 55 5s ! 52 55 51 5,4 1-3 •63 55 56 M 57 COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND IXTOIITII. IMPORTED. Same pe- This I nod last year. year. 13110, &c. Bags, &c. 1 Liverpool London 3,645 12,471 Glasgow 6,3 0 ,2 4,031 , Total exported in 181 1 9., BIRTHS. Beans. ! Pease._ s. to s E. to W. 40 26 26 43 26 42 41 34 28 42 25 40 45 38 42 42 21 37 44 98 40 43 29 40 48 W 2 Q. to I. 57 49 62 57 63 60 68 go 60 63 -- 46 60 48 64 60 63 -- 55 08 sirow LTRb. Previcytti ly this year. 'Bags, Aze. Bat. &c. 790 3,590 90 On the 11th inst., at Sutton-court, Herefordshire, the lady of Thomas Charles Bridges, Esq., of a daughter. On the 12th-inst., at Kentish Town, Mrs. Yocliaey, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Clapton, Mrs. H. W. Mertens, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at St. James's, Westminster, by the Rev. J. G. 'Ward, J. W. E. Biscoc, of the Bengal Cavalry Service, Esq., to Mary, ortiy daughter of the late John Harris, Es * , AL D., of Kingston, Jamaica. On the 10th inst., at St. Mildred's, Bread-street, Mr. James P. Hill, surgeon, Wine-office -court, Fleet-street, to Louisa, eldest daughter of William Mathie, Esq., Friday-street. DIED. On the 12th inst., after a short illness, Harriet Sophia Drink water, third daughter of Colonel and Mrs. Drinkwater, of Fitz roy-square. On the 9th inst., at Cambz,re-ell, in the 21 st year of her age, Maria, third daughter of Mr . M. Cotton, Receiver to Cbrix t ' s Hospital. On the 11th inst., Edm und Alexander Howard, in York place, Portman-square. On the 10th inst. , i n Manchester square, R. B. R o b son , Esq. Printed and P u blished No by M. YO St UNG, at the Six-Oreice, . 11?, rand. I r