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he might not lose sight of the moderation observed by the *Noble Lord who had introduced the question, if he (Mr. B.) stated his objections to the opinions which were so ably and temperately supported by the Right Hon. Secre tary. And if, in following the Right Hon. Gent. through the line of argument he had adduced, lie (Mr. B.) should advert to the grounds upon which he (Mr. Peel) had fixed their foundation, he (Mr. Brougham) might find it necessary to advert to the general question of Parlia mentary Reform, instead of confining himself to the question immediately before the House, lie begged to be considered as doing so unwillingly. The Noble Lord, who brought forward a motion confined and specific in its object, had yet deviated into that general question of Parliamentary Reform ; but he (Mr. B.) would rather a great deal that he had confined himself to the specific pro position, which a man might support, although lie were opposed to the general question of Parliamentary Reform, as he believed was the case with the Hon. Member op posite anti the Hon. Member for Durham, who had de clared their adhesion in the present instance because they were opposed to a sweeping alteration. But since the question had been broached in its generality, he could not refrain from following the Right Hon. Gentleman. He was not one of those who believed that if a larger portion of popular opinion had been infused into the Councils of that House by means of a more popular representation, that a perfect security would be afforded against that most enormous of ail calamities—that calun'ty which was boundless in its extent, and unmeasurahle in the evils it entailed--that calamity, in short, which in volved every form, degree, and species of public injury— he meant a state of war.---(Hear, bear.)—And if he could fur a moment be led to believe that bringing a greater quantity of popular feeling to bear upon that House would have the effect of making even that slender alteration, which it could alone effect, in the security against that most horrible of all calamities, he would not say that he would decide against the measure of reform, but it certainly would make hint pause and review that which had been the opinion of his life.—(}fear, hear.) — He freely confessed that this security might not be in creased by the change contemplated, but he contended that principles and practice alike might satisfy them, as they had satisfied him, that this security would not be lessened.—(Hear, hear.)—lle agreed that the American war anti the French war were not simply the work of the existing Parliament. He said not this so much in praise of those who had preceded them, as out of common jus tice. No; lie allowed that that criminal love of the false phantom which was worshipped by its silly votaries under the title of National Glory, then pervaded all classes of the people. lie allowed that all men then looked with a feverish anxiety for those trophies which were to be purchased by the tears, and blood, and treasure of their country, and by the enduring woes of the existing generation. While those miseries which know no end—those curses which never die were inflicted upon their children, who were now in sorrow, in sadness—in all but hopelessness, reaping the bitter fruits which had been bequeathed to them by the folly, or madness, or criminality of their ancestors.—(Loud cheers. )—He acknowledged the crimes of both these wars— the American and the French war—were not confined to the Parliament ; but they were shared with those who re turned the Members to that House, and with those who were neither representatives nor constituents. The com mon cry and the general feeling urged them on, and so, forsooth, the community was implicated in the crime and folly of those wars. But there was a remark to be made upon this subject ; why did not the representatives of the people, though they were not the sole originators of these wars, impose some restraint upon the delusion of the nation ? Why did not they, in whom such pure wisdom was presumed to reside, look with a more philosophic eye upon the state of things ? Why did not they, who were infleenced by no popular feelings or opinions, who, as they were told, were the representatives of the talent and learn ing of the nation, why did not they interfere to check the delusion of the day, anti convince the unfortunate people of their error ?—(llear, hear.) In the various panegyrics which he had read upon the House of Commons, if be remembered rightly, there was one which applauded it as being partly composed of popular Members, who were returned by the voice of the multitude—and of others not so chosen, who represented the wisdom, the knowledge, and the intelligence of the country. Why, then, lee would ask, did they not check that irregular motion upon the part of the people— that motion which in their infallible wisdom they ought to have seen must have entailed upon them the most direful effects ? But did they do so ? No, all that could be urged in their favour was, that the people were as bail as the Par liament ; but they eorld not deny that the Parliament was as bad as the people. There was another point on which he wished to touch—a point which, to his great surprise, had escaped the Right Hon. Gent. and his Hon. and Learned Friend. In the beginning be freely confessed that the Parliament was backed and incited by the people, and that therefore there 'inlet have been a war whether they fancied it or not. Now the assertion was at least a hundred years old, that in some cases the rabble were right, and in some cases they were wrong ; here they were wrong. It was true that in the years 1 776 and 1777 the people were wild for war—it was alto true that Mr. Burke had fallen into some disgrace with his constituents for advocating contrary mea sures; but this, be wished to observe, arose in a great inea sure out of local circumstances; without meaning to offer any offence to the Hon. Member for Bristol, he might take leave to remark that the good city of Bristol was particu larly interested in the question_—(Laughter.)-13ut the people in general, after the French hail taken part in the American war—whatever might have been the feeling of certain contractors and jobbers in particular parts—did eer tainly see their error; and lie could decidedly say that, ge nerally speaking, the American war h ad outlived its popu larity—that the French war hail also outlived its popularity was a proposition so clear that it could not b e denied, The people who suffer from the calamities of a war were always those who first wished to have an end of it, rather than their rulers, who, in the discharge of their splendid duties, end in the compromise of their high honour, were too apt to forget the sufferings of those beneath them ; therefore, thought both wars might have been produced under a more popular representation of the people, yet world they have been brought to a more speedy conclusion. The Right Hon. Secretary, in alluding to the Americans, and he (Mr. B.) was disposed to concur iss that feeling of respect, end even to add, esteem arid friendship for that people, so far as their conduct would allow ; the sentiments, however, of the Right Hon. Secretary were not always those which he had heard from that bench—he, therefore, hailed them with much pleasure; he regretted with the Right Hon. Secretary that so disgraceful a net of regulations should exist upon the statute book of any country ; but he denied, as strongly as he might, that they proved anything against the great question of Parliamentary Reform.— Now he maintained that they would not afford the slightest iota of a reason even egaieet that species of returns which was usually designated as universal suffrage, and proceeded to an extent he had never advocated. No, the cruel, the disgraceful, the inhuman statute of Georgia did not afford the shadow of a shade of argument against reform. Ile said, on the contrary, that if he were disposed to maintain the expediency of universal suffrage, he should rest hie lint on that disgraceful page, and declare that it was because the representation was restricted—be cause there wee not, in ties whole body it affected, one single voice raised in the choice of thee Legislature; and for this season was it that. page blackened in the eight, and condemned the code of Georgia—it was true that they had there enacted the most cruel and revolting penalties—against themselves ? Against their constituents? Against the .Members of the Legislature? No ; but against those whom they never once allowed to raise their voice in the choice of a repre centative. These were cruel statutes enacted against those Who were there the coloured population, wherein one made it a capital offence against any one who should teach a slave to read or write—a law which it was quite clear could never have been passed if these slaves were capable of admission to the Legislature or Representation. The Right Hon. Gent. had said that this House would trot do so—that this House would never enact such statutes, He had a very high reepeset for that House, and should be extremely loth to offer it the least offence, but he doubted if he could trust it if such a proposition were laid before it in the regular way, and if they were in the same situation with the legis lature of Georgia ; for it was most specially to be taken into consideration that, supposing they had a race stamped with a marked difference, and that by a municipal law, co-existent with the very law of nature itself, they ware prohibited from all interference in the legislature and goi , ernment of the eountry, that House, it might be inferred, would act as he could show they had done on other occasions—one case was that of Ireland ; be was reluctant, however, to rake up recollections that might be b e tt er f orgot t en , or t o ma k e anything bordering upon a personal allusion, He wished merely to refer to matters of history, and looking thus, what law did he find in our oldest English Colony—in Barbadoes, which was called Little England? The law was tlitts tl.at if any white person should by inadvertence or so forth (enumerating all the varieties of chance-medley anti roan 'slaughter) kill a person of colour, he should go free, but if be should kill him under those circumstances which con stituted a rounder, that he should be fined in the sum of 11/. tits. 2,1.—( Hear, hear, and laughter. )—Now he should boldly take upon himself to say, that in all Northern America no such law disgraced their Statute Book ; a law produced under those most unfortunate of all circuni statics, when a passion of fear mastered deliberative legis lation, He felt that it might be tiresome to the How to argue those questions which had been so often discussed be fore; but he could not avoid feeling that they had acquired a sort of fresh interest from the temperate manner in which they had been that night considered. One of the last points on which the Right Hon. Secretary had dwelt was, the excessive influence which would be given to the House of Commons by a truly popular Representation. The ar gument was one which, if not originally Mr. Burke's, had at least been rendered his by the genius with which it was applied ; and it went to this:—the influence of the people over the Commons would become so great, and the strength of the House, from its being really as well as nominally a representation of the people, would be so excessive, that there would be no security for the House of Lords, or even Majesty itself. But he would ask, what was it that really supported the Crown and the Aristocracy, but the circum stance that the majority of the people preferred a Govern ment composed of King, Lords, and Commons ? What security had we even with the corrupt boroughs in their present state; even if no popular voice could be heard in that assembly, what was in fact practically, soberly, and calmly speaking, that which gave security for the perma nency of the present institutions, not only of the Aristo cracy and of the Crown, but of that House itself, except that the great bulk of the people, however they might be for the moment discontented and dissatisfied, were a loyal and orderly people, and, if even tolerably well treated, were not desirous of revolutions?—(Hear.)—ln his con science he believed tleit that was their best security ; and he had no desire to see a people so attached to Kingly Government—so attached to the Aristocracy that he would venture to say no man who might have seen all the world besides, would ever have seen any people under the sun more attached to them—he said he had no desire to see such people treated with indifference. Those who were in favour of Reform hoped to see not these institutions at tacked, or their influence diminished, but the influence of the people more regarded. They wished to substitute in fluence for force, love for fear, and confidence for distrust ; and by so doing they 01001 confirm the stability of exist- ing institutions, but weaken the popular attachment to them. He felt that in thus going into the general ques tion he had been drawn away from the proper topic of the discussion, which was, whether the three great towns men tioned by the Noble Lord should have the privilege of sending Representatives to Parliament. He would not deny that popular opinion and feeling had found their way into that House, but his objection was, that they were too long in getting there; and in proof of this he would mention not a recent subject--for he wished to avoid creating uneasiness in the minds of any men—but one which had long gone by, and which remained long enough to be the greatest disgrace upon the Legisla ture—he meant the African slave trade, which had been condemned by the whole country twenty years before it was abolished by Parliament.—(Hear, hear. )—His Hon. Friend, the Member for Tregony, had alluded to the practical evils felt by the country in consequence of Manchester, Leeds, and Birmingham, having no repre sentatives in that House. lie would refer them to one strong instance of these evils. During the discussions in late years upon commercial distress—discussions in which these towns were so deeply interested—they sent up deputations, who held a sort of Parliament of their own on the other side of Palace-yard, and were obliged, as they had no representatives of their own, to apply to Members for other towns, and to entrust to them the task of laying their opinions and wishes before Parliament. They were obliged to rely on strangers for that which should have been done by their own representatives.— ( Hear, hear.)—These towns felt the pressure of this evil, and that single circumstance made them change their opinions on Parliamentary Reform ; and from the friends of things as they were, and the opponents of any change, they swerved round to the other side, and were now in the van of those who 'called for a temperate but a practical reform.—(Hear, hear.)—This motion seemed to him to be almost without objection. It was not, as it had been supposed, an in fringement of the Treaty of Union with Scotland ; for he did not hesitate to assert that that treaty, while it asserted the right of Scotland to send a certain number of Peers and Commoners to Parliament, did not limit the number that England was to have. But the treaty did affect to pro tect heritable jurisdictions; yet in 1746 they were alio lished, the argument being the salus populi, to the con viction of which the Scotch Peers and Commoners had yielded, and the heritable jurisdictions for the safety of England and the well-being of Scotland, were abolished. But after that, what was the Union with Ireland but a Parliamentary Revolution, not a Reform ; it added 100 Commoners, and he did not know how many Peers, to time Parliament—and yet, though that union as-as strongly debated in Ireland and gravely discussed here, the Scotch Representatives did not object to it as an infraction of their Treaty of Union. From the terms of that Treaty and the practice of both countries, there was certainly no objection to the present motion, which wile a restoration of, not an innovation upon, the Constitution. There was one topic more against which he hoped the House would be on its guard. It was compromised in the question, " Where will this end ?" Such an answer to a motion would pre clude all improvement. Arm him with that topic, and And him men simple enough to be misled by it--(Cheers) —and then, if he had no other principle or doctrine, pro vided he were backed by men timid or thoughtless enough to be scared by such a maxim, he would desire no better security for things as they were, the whole of things as they were, and nothing but things as they were.— (Cheers.)—They would never see improvement* of any kind—never reform—nor would abuses ever be attacked with the slightest prospect of success. He hoped and trusted better things, both from the Right Honourable Gentleman and from the House. He said, with the Right Hon. Gent., let the Government proceed on their own principles, and towards their own good purpose-- let them not be deterred, o❑ the one hand, by fears of the doctrines which he proscribed and repudiated ; but let them not, on the other hand, be attracted by the silly, groundless, unreasonable chances of that mischief which had no charms, when it was not founded upon reason, in formation, and sound principle—let them love that popu larity which followed, but was not sought after—and let that Right Hon. Gentleman respect the feelings of the peo ple and the dictates of his own good judgment; and if he did, there was no doubt he would be found among the warmest and most sincere supporters of this motion.— (Loud cheering.) As soon as the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had re sumed his seat, the cry of " Reply !" arose : but it was quickly drowned in the still stronger cry of " Divide, withdraw !" and the gallery having bee❑ cleared, the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion - - l4O Against it lBB Majority against the motion IS The Howw, after disposing of the Orders of the Day, adjourned at Half-past One o'clock-. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, FEB. 23.—Wind W.—Arrived from London, the Pres'ilent Matson, Robertson, for Bermuda; Elea nor, Snell, for ditto ; Harris, Mellish, for Constanti nople; Fame, Strange, for Santa Martha; William Mitchell, Partridge, for Jamaica ; and Solvay, Head, for St. Lucia. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 23.—Wind \V.—Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Cordelia, from Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, Fan. 22.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Armenian, Wilson, from St. Michael's. FALMOUTH, FJAs. 22 —Wind W.S.W. to S. W.— Arrived the Duke of Marlborough packet, from Lisbon, sailed the 14th inst. ; and the Lapwing packet, from the Mediterranean, sailed from Malta the Bth ult., Cadiz the 14th inst., and Gibraltar the 11th. Sailed the Princess Elizabeth packet for St. Domingo, Jamaica, &c.; and Calypso packet, for Brazil. The Dapatch, Barrett, front Charente to London, was abandoned, water-logged. She was fallen in with the 19th inst., in lat. 48. long. 7. The Delas, Harvey, from London, airived at Smyrna in 24 days. The Benjamin Rush, Dufl, from Baltimore, has ar rived at Liverpool. The Salvage, Wills, from St. Übes; and Liberty, Purney, front Gilboa, have arrived at Bristol. The Martha, Wylee, from Alicant, has arrived off Kinsale. FUNERAL OF LAVALETTE.—The burial of Count LAN - ALETTr: was attended by a large number of friends, mongst whom were the Duke nt.: BASSANI), Prince LATOUR D'AUVERGNE, Cgtillt ALEXANDER DE LA IlocurroucAuvr, the Marquis DE SALIIOLIET, General MATHIEU DUMAS, Count DE AIONTLOSIER, Baron BIG NON, NlEcurti, lONY, DE NORWINg, CIIAUVELIN, VOISIN DE GA RTEM SE, &c., the pall being borne by the Lieu t"""ntB General, Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour, Counts SyttAsTtANl, LAMA Rots, and Ex E1.31A Fri itch Parr. tuu Tbr LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1830. His MAJESTY holds a Council at Windsor Castle this day. Most of the Cabinet Ministers left town this morning for the purpose of attend ing the Council. A deputation of gentlemen connected with the Mining Districts, amongst whom were Lord PAULETT, Lord LOWTHER, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM, had a long interview with Mr. HERRIES, and the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, at the office of the Board of Trade this morning. Despatches have been received at the Foreign office this morning from Lisbon ; they are dated the 13th instant. Despatches have been received at the Colonial office from Malta and Gibraltar. The following are extracts from Lisbon Ohzettes to the 13th inst. inclusive : LISBON, FEE. 9. The official part of the Gazette contains a Royal Alvara for the encouragement of learning, by which his Majesty thinks fit to extend to the Royal Professors of Rational and Moral Philosophy, of Elementary Mathe matics, and History, the exemptions and privileges en joyed by the Professors of the Greek and Latin Languages and of Rhetoric. Fins. 12.—Department of the Minister of Finance._ I, the King, make known to all those to whom this Alvara shall come, that, taking into my Royal consideration that the decree of the 15th of April, IS2I, by virtue of which the revenues of all the estates of the Crown and commend anis which should henceforward become vacant, were to be paid into the fifth coffer ( Quinta Cuixa) of the Junta of the Royal Loans, which originated solely in the disorganising principles which prevailed at the calamitous period in which it was promulgated, tended on the one hand to annihilate and extinguish all the houses of the principal Nobility of these kingdoms, whose ancestors, by signal and glorious deeds, deserved to be rewarded by the Kings, my predecessors, with grants of estates of this description; and, on the other hand, tended to deprive the Crown of these king_ douse of the power of rewardin , distinguished services, which must necessarily cause the most serious prejudice to the good of the State ; and it being also my wish not only to maintain unimpaired the public credit, which it i s my intention religiously to preserve, but also to promote and to accelerate the extinction of the debt of the State, to which the fifth branch of the revenue of the said Junta is applied, by assigning ❑ew funds for the redemption of the consolidated debt, fur which the laws hitherto pub lished make no provision ; for all these reasons I am pleased to ordain : Here follow the regulations; in seven articles, by which, 1. All the revenues of the estates of the Crown, or of the Orders, assigned to the fifth branch of the said Junta, shall continue to be paid to it.. 2. For the gradual redemption of the consolidated debt yet unprovided for, the new Junta shall henceforth receive a portion of the revenues of the estates of the Crown, and of the orders which shall become vacant, sufficient to make up a sum of 500 contos of reis per annum. 3. To make up this sum, shall be applied the revenues of the estates of the Crown, and orders which shall in future become vacant, and in which no grants have been made, or shall be made hereafter; and in case his Ma jesty should make such grants beyond those already given, the persons on whom they are already bestowed shall pay five per cent. of the annual revenue. 4. As it may Le hoped that the sum of 500 contos will in this manner be soon complete, it is decreed, that when the receipts arising from the above resources shall exceed this sum, the remainder shall be employed in re ducing the paper currency. 5. The Junta to employ this surplus in purchasing such kinds of paper currency as a fund assigned for their redemption, and which may be purchased at the most advantage. 6. A detailed report of the operations to be laid before his Majesty. 7. The estates belonging to the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, the revenues of which have been hitherto re ceived by the Junta, shall be restored to the Order, which shall pay annually to the Junta 19 contos and 500 milrees. By another decree his Majesty, for the relief of his sub jects civil and military, who receive from the Treasury their means of subsistence, from the prejudice they suffer by the discount of the paper currency, ordains that the produce of the estates of the Crown, and of all others or dered by the decrees of 2d September and sth December, 1823, to be sold for the redemption of the public debt, shall be paid half in bonds of the public debt, an d h a lf i n paper currency, which shall be publicly burnt by the Junta. A third decree orders measures to be taken to ascertain, within six months, the actual amount of the paper cur rency in circulation. The pressure of Parliamentary Debates and other matters, prevents our going at length into the question of Parliamentary Reform—or rather into the propriety of granting to such cities as Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, the right of returning Representatives to Par liament. But, indeed, argument upon such a question is idle ; common sense is the same all the world over, and we ask Mr. PEEL, and time opponents to Lord Joux RussELL's ' motion, if it be reconcileable to common sense, or to common decency, in a country where free re presentation is said to be the distinguished charac teristic of its people, that representatives shall be denied to cities of great population, immense ca pital, unwearied industry, and enterprising spi rit, when such. paltry places as Gleam), we will even say Westbury, and a nest of jobbing bo roughs, shall be allowed the privilege of offending the common sense—if not the en durance—of a free people, by the mockery of their representatives ? The thing is not only indefensible but unjustifiable. But perhaps we ought to rejoice that the claims of the great places we have mentioned are again thrown back into the scale of Parliamentary Reform, in order to give it a preponderance and ominous weight which even the Duke of WELLINGTON found it expedient to recognise, in that often despised but as often recoiling measure—Catholic Emeti cipation. We support Ministers, because we believe they mean well, but whenever we find their measures to fall short of their professions, we shall candidly tell them so ; and, acting in this spirit, we say that their rejection of the Question of Parliamentary Reform is not po pular out of doors, however pleasant it may be to those who profit by the wages of corruption. Parliamentary Re form must be granted, and the sooner the bet ter. A virtuous Ministry can stand well with the KING and the country without the aid of corrupt majorities, and if it need these the sooner it appeals to the gratitude of a free people the better for all parties. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TIVELVE 0' CL 0 CK. Charleston Papers hive been received at the North and South America❑ Coffee-house to the 22d January. The Mobile Regirter of the Bth July states, by accounts from New Orleans, that information was received there from Tampico, that a number of hats, such as worn by the American seamen, with the word Hornet on them, were picked up the coast. This report is considered as confirming the melancholy fate of the Hornet. Accounts from Mexico state that the decree by which the importation of certain goods was prohibited, after the 22d November had been suspended, and an order issued extending the period to the 31st December. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONX O'CLOCK. Rank Stock 3 per Cost. Red. ...... ...... 92% Old Annuities 3 per Cent. Cons. 92 1%.2 New Ditto — ! - 11.4 per Cent. — Ex. Bills, ..€1,(100 2d. I*7 Ili pm. Ditto Red.! lo o l,i II)itto lid. 77 76 on. 4 per Cent. Ann. Ditto, 1426 Bank L. Ann. l9 11-16 Ditta 6mall Ditto 30 years - Ditto lid. 78 76 pm. Ditto 30 years India Stock Ditto Bonds 7O 76 pm. Cons. for Feb.2s 92 1% 2 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAT AT ONR O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds - Neapolitan — Brazilian Bonds 69Y, Peruvian Bonds Buenos Ayres Bonds — Portuguese Bonds Chilian Bonds — Colombian Bonds — iD Pr i u tt— Ditto, ' Prussian, New Old 1824 Danish Greek Bonds 4Ol- 1823. — Ditto, 1825 lllsi ,French Rentes, sp. C. —I. —c. Guatimala — Exchange —f. --e. Mexican Bonds . — -- .:3 per cent. Ditto, 18251 — ! Exchange —f. —c. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.).ZlOO Brazilian Mining Company 5 Brazilian Imp. Alm. Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) £2O Ditto National lO 21 20 Mexican Mining Co. £3s 14 13)4 Real del Monte Mining Co £4-00 59 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 21. pm.) £19% 19(4 Protector Insurance Comp General Steam Navigation Co. COURSE OF EXCH. Amsterdam C.F. 12 9 Ditto, at sight 12 Rotterdam 2 U 12 9 Antwerp 12 9 Hamburg 11.8 14 3 Altona l4 31 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 85 Ditto 2 U. 26 10 Bordoaux .6 10 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 1551 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective fl. 2 M. 10 16 Trieste do 10 17 Madrid 56 Cadiz '*S t, i Bilboa Barcelona . 35% Seville '15% Gibraltar 4742 Arrived. Due. 0 America O Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthag,ena 0 1 Dublin 0 O Flanders 0 I) France 0 O Guernsey &Jersey 0 9 MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ... 49 minutes atter 3. I Evening... 5 minutes after 4. NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 4 7 14 Genoa 26 10 Venice 47% Malta 4B4 (i Naples . '39'4 Palermo per oz. 118% Lisbon Oporto 44 Rio Janeiro Bahia Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork l %. BULLION, Peg OZ. a. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0 Arrived. Due. O Hamburg O Holland O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands 1 Lisbon 0 O Mexico O Sweden 1 Waterford TJJF. FUNDS. Notwithstanding the present depression in the Fund., occasioned by some large sales by the Scotch Banks, it is confidently expected by the well informed that Mini sters have resolved to reduce the interest of tho 4 per Cents., which no doubt will be soon officially ascertained, as the Budget is expected to be brought forward at a very early period. The Consol Market opened this morning at the price they left off yesterday, 92 to for the Account, since which they were sellers at 92, and at present they are 92 to and for next Acpuut 92.. Te-tnorrow being settling-day in Consols, most of the jobbers and brokers are busy in making up their accounts. A Lisbon mail has at rived, brought by the Marlborough, which sailed the 14th Feb. The Lisbon Papers are void of interest. A Malta mail has also arrived by the Lapwing, which sailed the Bth Jam. In the Foreig❑ Market scarce a bargain has been done to the preent hour. Greek maintains the price of yesterday. We have several arrivals of ship-letters, but of old dates. ENGLISH } Bank Stock, 2181 191 34 per Cent. 1001 India Stock, 240 1 New 4 per Cent., 102 i 3 per Cent Cons. 92 4 per Cent. 1826 105 i, Do., for Account, 92 India Bonds, 76 77 Ditto Reduced, 934 y Exchequer Bills. '76 77 TWO 0' CL 0 CK. Tu the present hour we have scarce a feature in the Consul Market worth relating, it being a holiday at the Bank. No money transactions are doing. Consols, in the course of the morning, were done at 911 and 92 to for the Account ; and may now he quoted as 91i, and for next Account 921 fj-. The Bears are complete masters of the Bulls this Account. The transactions in the Foreign Market are scarce worth noticing; very few bargains have liven done. Foreign Stocks appear languid at present. In the Corn Exchange, this morning, there were large arrivals of Barley and Oats since Monday ; still both ar ticles support that day's prices. The Wheat trade continued without variation. The small majority which Ministers had last night in :he House, has rather surprised our City politicians, who link they are awkwardly situated. Consols are 92 again for Account. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 921 FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols 92 Danish 75 Do. for Ac. 92 Greek, 18 9 5 42 Brazilian Bonds 693- Mexican, 1825 Buenos Ayres Peruvian Chiliau Do. Rtissiail Columbian, 1824, Spanish /3i THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals to this day's market are tolerably good of Wheat and Flour, and there is another large supply of Barley and Oats coastwise. The finest Wheat remains at Monday's quotations, but other sorts are dull, and upon the whole we cannot consider the trade so good as last market day. In Barley, Beans, Pease, and Oats, there is little doing at %louday's prices. The demand for Flour continues good, but tie top price is still unaltered, ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Flour. English 3,600 qrs. 10,550 qrs. i f 11,010 qrs. 4,4o6s4cics. Irish Foreign brl4, HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 30 Trusses.) SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 5 0 Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 10...0enerully Ott Struw £2 4to £2 81 Wheat Straw 3 8 2 15 &limited supply, and trade tolerably brisk at yesterday's prices. The neighbourhood of Baffle-bridge, at the bottom of Gray's-inn-lane, is undergoing the very greatest change. It has been, for many years, a filthy and dan gerous vicinity, and at one side of it the contents of the dust-carts of the town used to be emptied. Mr. PEEL gave directions for erecting a rendeevous for the new po lice at the point of junction of the six roads. This is to be called the " St. George's Cross." It will be an octa gonal building, with pillars, and will supply all requisite accommodation. A double-illuminated clock will show the hour to the Paddington and Pentonville roads. All the roads in the neighbourhood are brilliantly lighted up, and an immense number of old houses are to be immedi ately levelled. Even within the last month several houses, upon a large and elegant scale, have been raised. On Monday afternoon, about two o'clock, one of thew edi fices, the newly-constructed and elegant little theatre in Gray's-inn-lane-road, called the " Panharmonion," had nearly been destroyed by fire. Signor LANZA had an nounced the opening of the theatre on Monday next; and the wall and interior of the house generally being extremely damp, large chafing dishes, or stoves filled with lighted coal and coke, were placed in various situatious to air the establishment. About the time above stated, the company were on the stage rehearsing the opera of the Siege of Belgrade, when it was found that the effluvia that arose from one of these chafing-dishes, which was placed in the pit, near the orchestra, most powerfully affected the voices of the ladies in the rehearsal of their songs; the conse quence was, that Signor LANzA ordered it to be removed to another station, and the men in the act of doing so up set the whole of the burning coal and coke amongst an immense heap of shavings and wcod, and in one instant they became ignited ; but the flaims were soon extinguished without doing touch damage. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY). COURT OF KING'S BENCH. lIREACII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGF..--SINCLAIR V. ROTIIERAM. Mr. GURNEY, with whom was Mr. Atneasox, stated that this was an action to recover compensation in damages for a breach of promise of marriage. The plaintiff was a young lady between 19 and 20 years of age. She was the daughter of a gentleman, who for a considerable time carried on business with success in the public line, but had now retired and lived on his property. The defendant, he understood, was between 28 and 30 years of age. He was a man of good address, lively in his (Exposition, and carried on a moat extensive business as a linen-draper in Shoreditch. He was in all respects well calculated to win the affections of a female. The defendant first became acquainted with the plaintiff's family in the latter end of 1828. In February of last year he wrote her a letter, which contained a most ardent declaration of love. In that letter he said he had been much attached to her for more than two years. In the most solicitous manner he sought her affections, and begged to be received as her lover. He hoped that his proposals would meet with the approbation of the plaintiff's father. Shortly after the receipt of that letter, the defendant himself asked the consent of the plaintiff's father to pay his addresses to Miss Sinclair. Mr. Sinclair said he should not be able to give his daughter any fortun., and perhaps he might expect money. The defendant re plied he did not want money; all he wanted was the young lady, for he was in a very prosperous busineae, in the first year of which he returned nearly 50,0001., and it had been every year increasing, so that he was able to maintain a wife in the most respectable manner. Mr. Sinclair did not refuse his assent, and an intimacy ensued. The defendant used to write to the plaintiff, and visit her two or three times a-week. He paid her very great attention until June last year, when he urgently requested that the marriage day might be ap pointed, and urged as a reason that his mother was then in town, and he particularly wished her to be present at the wedding. Accordingly the first week in August was named for that ceremony to be performed, and every preparation was made by the young lady for that happy event. But all on a sudden this ardent lover, he who professed such an utter disregard for money, be came cool. When he visited, he staid a shorter time, and those visits were less frequent. Miss Sinclair naturally felt uneasy, and remonstrated with him on the change of his affection. He begged her to understand there was no change whatever in his affection for her; and if she at tributed it to that cause, he could assure her she was quite mistaken. But the real cause was an alteration in the state of Lis affairs. What would the Jury think when he shortly afterwards told her that if her father would consent to settle two hundred a year on her he would lulfil his promise. This was the real cause why this disinterested lover broke off the acquaintance. He knew that it was a proposition that Mr. Sinclair, in justice to his other children, could not comply with, and in consequence he dropped all further acquaintance. Shortly after this the brother of the plaintiff called upon the defendant for an explanation, when the latter said, that he had broken off the connexion, by command of a rich uncle. But he (Mr. Gurney) thought the rm►l reason was, that he had formed an attachment elsewhere, for a short time afterwards he was found courting another young lady. This was the conduct of a man, who for several months had kept the closest intimacy with the young lady who, he understood, was a very prepossessing person and accomplished. It would therefore be for the Jury to say what damages she ought to receive for so serious an injury. In such eases there was no telling what an ill-natured world might say, but he was happy that in this case not a word could be advanced against her propriety of conduct. He would ask the Jury to feel for her situation in the same manner as if a similar injury had been inflicted on a sister or a daughter. He would conclude by calling on them to render justice to his unfor tunate client. John Sinclair—l am brother to the plaintiff, she is in her 20th year, and lives with her father in Lambeth. At the time the defendant was paying his addresses to the plaintiff, she lived in the new North-road ; my father is a retired publican ; it has been about four years since defendant first became acquainted with my sister, he is a linen draper, in a very large business, and employed between thirty and forty young men. He had told witness that he returned 50,0001. a year, and got a profit of li per cent. In the year 1829, he said his business bad considerably increased. The defendant used to visit my sister three or fear times a week; he made a proposal of marriage to her, and asked for my father's approbation; my father said, per haps you will expect money with her, and I have none to give. He replied, Ido not want money, " all I want is your daughter." This conversation took place in Fe bruary, 1829. My sister encouraged his addresses ; she used frequently to walk out with him, and they always went to church together on a Sunday; this intimacy existed until July; and the first week in August was ap pointed for the marriage. My sister and other parts of the family had provided part of the wedding-clothes. The latter end of July the defendant's visits became less fre quent, and witness called upon him for an explanation, when he said his uncle, who was rich, had found out that he was courting the plaintiff, and had told him that if he married her, he (the uncle) would " clip his wings." Ile also said his sisters, who were very fond of his uncle, had been the principal cause. He afterwards refused to marry my sister, or any one else that had not got money. The defendant is about 28 years of age. The breaking off of this connection much affected my sister's health and spirits. Cross-examined by the ATTonNET-GENIZRAL---My fa ther kept a wine -vaults, my sister used to live with him. Ile kept the Baker and Basket public-house, in Worship street, for 19 years. The plaintiff used to assist in the business, but my father never would allow her to go into the tap-room. There was no gin-shop. My father has now taken the Windmill, in the New Cut. My sister does not now assist him. The intimacy of the parties first counuenced at the Baker and Basket.--(A laugh.)— The defendant first gave witness an account of the profits of his business before he " discovered" himself to the plaintiff. Witness did not attend a meeting at the Man sion -house, on Monday, relating to the distress of the country. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL-Is your sister very much affected now, Sir? Witness—Time will wear every thing off.—(A laugh.) A letter from the defendant, dated Feb. 14, 1829, was here put in and read. It was written in a very passion ate strain, and declared thy most sincere love. About twenty other letters in a similar strain were also put in and real. All of them began with "My deur Polly." Miss Wrightson examined—l know defendant ;he is at the present time paying his addresses to my sister. Cross•examined—l cannot exactly say when the inti macy commenced ; I think it was in December. This witness, a young lady fashionably attired, and of very prepossessing appearance, immediately after leaving the box, went off into violent hysterics. Her screams were dreadful, and might have been heard at a consider able distance. She was carried out of Court in the arm s of the officers in attendance. This was the plaintiff's case. The AITORNEY-GUNERAL, for the defendant, sub mitted that this action could not be sustained, as there was no evidence to prove that Mr. Rotheram was paying his addresses to any other lady at the time it commenced. Lord TENT/Min( overruled the objection. The ATIORNEY-GENEKAL (with whom was Mr. Brougham) then argued at great length, for the defendant, in mitigation of damages, in the course of which he com mented on the evidence adduced for the plaintiff, particu larly on the letter which defendant had written to the plaintiff's daughter, declining the marriage. Lord TENTERDEN then charged the Jury, who, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff —Damages 400/. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. BARCH V. ILACKBICAN. This was an action for the recovery of damages against the defendant for injury sustained by the plaintiff. The plaintiff in last July was passing by the defendant's resi dence, in Whitechapel, at twelve o'clock in the day, when a large dog ran out of his yard and bit the plaintiff very severely in the leg, so that he was obliged to go to the workhouse, where he was confined for a length of time from the effects of the accident, and has now only just re covered from the effects of the bite. This action was, therefore, brought for compensation, which, it was alleged, the plaintiff was entitled to from the very grievous injury he sustained, and alio the great loss of time he suffered from the great length of time it was thought necessary to confine him in order to effect a perfect cure. The evidence adduced on the trial went to show that the df fendant was guilty of great negligence and incaution i❑ not having his dog better secured, for want of which such accidents as these might be of very frequent occurrence. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 701. His Grace the Duke of WELLINGTON left Apsley House this morning at ten o'clock, on a visit to his MAJESTY at Windsor. STEAM NAVIGATION. As the growing importance of Steam Naviga tion to this country naturally excites very ge neral interest in the progress of its improvement, our attention was forcibly arrested by the ac counts given in several of the Morning Papers of a trial recently made of the improved Paddle Wheel, introduced by Mr. Morgan, and fitted to his Majesty's steamer, the Cor!fiance. De sirous of satisfying ourselves of the accuracy of the report alluded to, we have directed our en quiries to the subject, and have much pleasure in being enabled to state that whilst the facts re lated are correct in the main, the further parti culars which our enquiries have elicited, tend to show the advantages to be of more importance than the previous accounts attributed to the in vention. It appears that the Cogfiance, to which the new wheels have been fitted, was originally laid down for a gun brig, but was subsequently converted into a steam vessel, she in consequence was, as well as her sister vessel, the Echo, a heavy sailer for her power. The Columbia, on the contrary, is the last steam vessel built by Government, expressly for such, and with every care and improvement which practice has pointed out as desirable. She is twenty feet longer than the CoViance, although their midship sections are precisely similar, and she has engines of twenty-horse power more than any of the Go vernment Boats. On the late trial the draft of water of both vessels was nearly similar, the Col!fiance being however the deepest. The improvement therefore in the system Mr. Mor gan proposes to introduce must be most re levant, if competing with so many advantages possessed by the Colombia, it enabled the Cots fiance to keep way with a vessel in every other respect so much her superior. The new wheel is somewhat less than half the breadth of the old one, and is we are informed about one-third lighter. We understand that this is not the first trip made by the Colifiance with these wheels but that previously to the severe frosts she was sent to Chatham and back, during which passages it was found unnecessary to work her engines at more than half their power, in order to propel the vessel at her former best rate of going with the old paddle wheel. The con sequent saving of fuel was very considerable, being nearly one-half of the quantity previously required to produce the same result in speed. Under these circumstances, we are led to con sider the success of the system to be complete, and the invention replete with striking advantages for all branches of steam navigation. DIVORCE BILLS. Lord Ellenborough's Divorce Bill has already been in troduced into the House of Lords, and was read a first time on Monday, and it is to be read a second time on the 9th of March next. It sets forth that Lady Ellenborough was absent from this country, and living in a state of adultery with Prince Swartzenburg; also the verdict for the separation from bed and board pronounced on Saturday last by the Ecclesiastical Court against her Ladyship; a nd it contains a clause prohibiting her Ladyship from inter marrying with the " offending party." It is requisite that this clause should be introduced, to make it palatable to the Standing Orders of the House of Lards. The like clause is introduced into all Divorce Bills. It will be struck out in the house of Commons, and in its amended form re turned to the House of Lords, who take no further notice of the matter ; at least, such is the way that the clause has been got rid of in former Bills. In the Commons a clause will be introduced, if not previously inserted, making a provision for her Ladyship; and as the Commons require such Bill to proceed on the verdict of a Jury--a condi tion not required by the Lords—a clause will there be pro posed, setting forth the absence from the country of the guilty parties, which prevented Lord Ellenborough from appealing to a Court of Law for the customary remedy. The adultery abroad, however, will be proved at the Bar. The second Divorce Bill now before their Lordships is that of William Medewa Hamerton, Esq., who obtained 2,0001. damages (after a second trial) against Hudson ) Gurney, Esq., a branch of the Norwich Quaker family. It is to be read a second time on the 10th March: The third Bill before their Lordships is entitled Shakerley's Divorce Bill. SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, Siv o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. OF THIS EVENING. The House met this evening, when Mr. DAwsox postponed the Committee of Supply, and the further con sideration of the Army Estimates till Friday. The House went into a Committee on the Solicitors Five Bills, after which it adjourned. The name of Sir W. GUISE was omitted in the list of the 38 'Members who voted in favour of Mr. fluxzs's amendment for reducing the sum to be granted for defraying the charge of the general Staff-officers, and also in the list of the minority of 42 who voted with Mr. HUME for reducing the sum to be granted for defraying the charges of the allowances to the principal officers of the public departments. The names of Lord G. LENNox and of Sir STRATFORD CANNING were left out of the published list of the majority on the rote for the army estimates on Friday last. We understand that Mr. ARNOLD has sent a letter to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, re questing to know if they are disposed to purchase the ground opposite to Waterloo-bridge, on a part of which the old theatre stood, with a view to improvement in that quarter. The proposed arrangement is one so calcu lated to benefit the public that we suppose the Commis sioners will not hesitate to agree to it, especially as they some time ago were in actual treaty with Mr. Aunoto for the same ground. The Commissioners have indeed shown, on several occasions, a ready disposition to listen to all reasonable propositions for augmenting the splen dour and multiplying the conveniences of the metropolis. The county petition against the Malt and Beer Duties was sent from this town last Thursday morn ing; it was signed by 801 persons—a ♦ery trifling number considering the population of the town and neighbourhood. But the fact is, that the question excites very little jute rest here, for it seems to be a general opinion that even the repeal prayed for, if granted, would produce very trifling benefit, compared with taking off the taxes on some more necessary articles of consumption.—Boston Gazette. All the Docks are now crowded with vessels, and great activity is observable along the quays in the loading and the discharging of vessels. —Liverpool Albion. BIRTHS. On the 22d inst., in Upper Brook-street, the lady Agnes Byng, of a ion and heir. On the 21st inst. the lady of Capt. E. M. Daniell, of the Hon. East India Company's service, of a daughter. On the 21 st inst. the lady of F. Madden, Esq. of the British Museum, of a son. MARRIED. priors, G. Y. Ri c k etts , Esq the late J. M. M o l on k, O . n , n Esq , both of Leamington. to the E 2 m 2 i l y n s s e t c . o t d L d e a a u s g n h i n t g e I to o n i On the 20th inst. at Paddington, J. Minors, Esq., of Brook -street, to Mary, only daughter of J. Vale, Esq., of Westbourn-terrace. On the 224 inst. at Streatham Church, IL Pttekle, Esq., of Clapham-common, to Clementia, slaughter of J. Kaye, Esq. DIED. On the 20th inst. aged 60, at Balliol-college, Oxford, G. Powell, M.A. On the 224 inst. Susanna Maria, wife of R. G. Mid dleton, Esq., Commissioner of the Navy, and daughter of S. M. Leake, Esq., of Thorpe-hall, Essex, and Mar shall'', Herts. Oa the 19th inst. at Fort Clarence, Chatham, the in fant son of Dr. Burrell. 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