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thousands of innocent individuals would be reduce(' In, if there were 400 Lords and 658 Commoners — that' is, almost 1,100 men in the kingdom,—noto rionsly exempt from every risk of being coerced the only means hitherto left at the disposal of the Chancellor for insuring respect to his judicial power. The Lord Chancellor, we believe, exercises no posi tive power over persons, but through the medium of " committal for contempt." In the case of minors, see how monstrous would be any Parliamentary decision which, without substituting some other remedy, should render this species of committal ii - applicable to certain classes of wrong-doers. Mr. Long Wellesley might have perpetrated against any other infant, the daughter of Mr. Wynn himself, of of the Speaker, the same mischief of which, in thi eye of the law at least he made his owe child the victim,—that of forcible abduc tion from the refuge which had been provided for her by the parental care and wisdom of the Court of Chancery. Mr. Wellesley may have meant inno cently by his own child, and no doubt he did, and affectionately too, for we have not the smallest doubt of his parental fondness. But a less conscientious and moral man than Mr. Wellesley, if in Parlia ment, and meditating against a ward in Chancery, not his own daughter, the most sordid or depraved of purposes, might carry it into execution with a perfect confidence of impunity, so far as the Lord Chancellor, the recognized guardian of such infant, was concerned, if the House of Commons should be inclined and enabled to shield the guilt of such a culprit under the pretence of privilege. Again, u contemner of the highest equity jurisdiction of the realm, if the exemption of Mr. Long Wellesley be insisted on, might, though not a "Member of Parlia ment, commit the most heinous outrage on a ward in Chancery, and emerge from custody,and so escape with all but absolute impunity, by getting himself elected into the House of Commons the day after the Chancellor had imprisoned him. Privi lege in that case, also, would cover every thing. Now, we are far from laying it down that the Lord Chancellor ought to possess this specific power of imprisoning Members of Parliament or env body else for contempt of Court ; but that the head of so high and vast a tribunal ought to have authority for exercising some power over such offenders,—and, indeed, a summary power, in certain cases, over all offenders,—is, we apprehend, so unquestionable, that it would greatly alarm us to see the Courts of equity stripped of what authority they now enjoy, without the previous substitution of another, as efficacious or more se, to every end of protecting against deliberate wrong the most helpless, pitiable, and interesting portion of society. In what a light would it place the Lords and Commons before the eyes of the people of England, to exhibit them as a race of " chartered libertines," who might commit what crimes they pleased, and set all punishment at defiance! And yet such would be the result of Parhamentary privilege in such a case. The Chancery jurisdiction would become, as far as Mem bers of Parliament are concerned, a mere nullity—a brutuni fulmen.—Times. The minority' in the Commons are learning their letters with a little more facility than during the last few days. They have got through their ABC in the Reform alphabet of schedule A, having cleared the way to Corfe Castle, and no division occurring last night. The country, however, must not be deluded by any false anticipations of rapid progress with the Bill, or believe in the probability of its early passage through the Commons. The fact is indisputable, and must be plainly stated, that a very formidable phalanx defends every pass in possession of the boroughmongers ; and, unfortunately, the nature of their strong holds of corruption affords them strong positions against the invasion of their enemies. The forms of the House, and the neces cessary modes of a representative and deliberative assembly, must be decently conformed to, and are aggravated by the excessive and inconvenient num ber of Members. This perilous situation of mat ters must be met by Ministers with decision and d e termination, or the prediction of an Ho- 1 nourable Member, who last night said, that he doubted whether the English Bill could be extricated from the Committee in the year 1831, will be verified. We are always enemies to delu sion, whether unintentional or sincere; and it is fitting, therefore, to look broadly in the face the slow march of the great measure of Reform. A voyage round the world may be accomplished in less time, unless the Cabinet boldly determines to devote all its ener gies to quicken the pace. Delay is the palpable ob ject and policy of the minority. The possible death of the Monarch or of his leadieg Ministers, events foreign or domestic, internal dissensions in a Cabi- ' net, and all the risks of time are the " chapters of accidents," the benefits of which are well known to those inaticeuvrers «ho are now arrayed in blind opposition to the will of the people. We need only allude to the details of the Bill and its necessary stages, to illustrate to the public that our fears and our counsel are not without a just founda tion. The English Bill contains thirty-seven folio pages ; and the Committee is now setting (after the lapse of ten days) on the twelfth line of the first page ! The schedule A, referred to in the first clause of the Bill, is the present subject of discussion; and of 57 boroughs in that schedule only fourteen are yet disposed of. When the sfthedulis is concluded it has then to be moved as a clause, the joyous occasion of course of a specific and protracted debate. Schedule B, referred to in the second clause of the first page, will then have to undergo a similar process of protracted discussion. Schedule C, E, and F, all involving questions of a separate character arid import, must then pass through the straining-bag of the Opposition. The destructive part of the Bill has hitherto been barely debated ; the creative portion will eventually become the sub ject of a fresh and most discursive consideration. The feanchise—that all-important subject (the soul of the proposed substitute for the borough system) —will, after the disposal of the questions of county representation, contained in schedules G and IT, be come the vital, and, we fear, the cost involving part of the whole measure. When ail these innumerable departments of the Billare debated, they will be again, and separately, discussed as the clauses of the Bill. the interstices of the debate;, and last, though not least, will arrive the important consideration of the various instructions, of which notices now till the Par liamentaryPapers,and each of which will beget its pro geny. Finally, the debates on the committal of the Bill and its third reading will complete the yawning chasm of delay ! So much for the painful labs u of the House of Commons, and which travail, pa tient reader, is to be again endured in the Howse of Lords! We have been thus far only alluding to the passage of the English Bill to the Royal Assent. The Scotch and Irish Bills will follow it procession. We repeat, that the country and the Ministry must look this eventful situation full in the face; and we foresee that some alteration of the mode of pro cedure, or of the hours of the House, must take pie*. if the Bills are to pass this year. It is alleged that the Committees on pri:vale Bills (twelve of which have been sitting in the mornings and after noons of the present week, occupying the attention and time of at least a hundred Members) are an im pediment to the meeting of the Commons at ten in the morning, or earlier than four in the evening. We can only say that all private business in this really awful oasis of the one great national Bill should give way to the public weal. The rising of the sun and its seeting hour should be at once elected 5. , 2 the substituted eicree, and one es sential benefit would result, as the lawyer; occupied with their briefs in Court would be brief in their prolix and long-winded discoursea against the rights of the people. We verily believe that they are speaking for time." One learned and verbose gentleman is said, once on an occasion when time was necessary to au etection petition, to ha e spoken while the professional three days (if not nights), agent of the boroughnionger went, down to Launceston by the Falmouth mail for new evidence, and up again. Tse tactic must be defeated. r each he " candour s " never practise it. These who p Sir Robert Peel is an old sportsman. The hunt;- man does not do the dirty work of the pack ; he knows his place, and the whippers-in hunt the dogs 'n the dingle, while he waits with the gentlemen autaide the cover, with eyes intensely fixed upon reynard's brush. The cant word is a blind . adroitly used t o cover af ter am b us h. The fact Is palpable that delay is the grand, and we fear too successful manoeuvre of the Opposition. 'We would have the Ministry at once fit up Westmin ter-hall (the fitting place for the trial of impeach ments), a commodious and airy building, and there meet de die in diem, after an early breakfast, and sit till sun-set. Two Members are already " gone dead," or " paired off" to another world ; and if at this season of the year the old and the young, with habits of exercise and fresh air, are to be stifled in the bad atmosphere of the House of Commons, the cholera morbus, or some equally fatal epidemic, will be generated. Unless some such project is early adopted, and an expedient adopted to hasten the mode of procedure, the statute of limitations will be cited by Sir Charles Wetherell and his little aide de-camp, Sir Edward Sugden, and the debates on the Reform Bill of England alone will in duration ex ceed the abortive discussions on the memorable trial of Warren Hastings. But we will not treat this vital question with levity. We warn the Ministry not to lose the confidence, or tire out the patience, or tempt the ardour of the people.—Morn. Citron. It was Lord Peterborough, we believe, who bowed to the statue of Jupiter, at Rome, wishing his God ship to remember, if ever he came into fashion again, that his Lordship had worshiped him in the days of his adversity. We remember well when many of those men who are now staunch Reformers, treated Major Cartwright, whose memory was yesterday commemorated at the White Conduit Tavern, as one who was deserving of the execra tions of Englishmen. We never approved of the mode in which the worthy Major derived from the Anglo-Saxon customs the right of the present race of Englishmen to good Government; but we always respected him as a man, whom no considera tion could swerve from what he considered the path of virtue and honour, and as possessed of a single mindedness without example in these times. But we remember the time whennot to abuse this worthy man was to lay one open tosuspicion little less than treason. Many a political writer who now basks in the sun -bine of the present Administration, treated the Worthy Major as the Rev. Robert Taylor is now treated. If the files of newspapers were not pre served, it would hardly be believed that men who, at the late elections, were canvassing as Reformers, spoke of the poor Major, whenever he appeared OH the hustings, at Palace-yard, as " a hoary old sin ner." The old Reformers are now lost in the crowd, and it is well that such is the case. " There is more joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, than over ninety and nine just persons which need no re pentance," and therefore it is quite selon les regles that those who on principle thought ill of the Major when Reform was unfashionable, should now, when Reform is fashionable, idolise him.—Morn. Citron. The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to move this day that the Reform Bill shall in future take the precedence of other business. We thought, from the appearance which matters had assumed, that some thing must be done to hasten the progress of the measure. On referring to the proceedings of Tues day we find, indeed, that some progress was made; but then we find, on the other hand, not only that the same vexatious and harassing opposition is still persisted in, but that the Ministerial, or, as we would rather call it, the reforming majority, is on the de cline. For some time the only progress which the Bill had made was in the mouth of the Chairman, preparatory to his asking leave to sit again; and though now it has actually stirred—though it has shown symptoms of life and motion—it requires an additional impetus to carry it forward with the speed which its importance demands. The Opposition, however, it would seem are averse to the arrange ment, for this simple reason, because their object is not discus•ion, but delay and confusion. Any rule that will simplify the process of investigation, or aid the advancement of with, is, in so far as it pro motes such ends, at variance with their plan. What they want is, to increase the business as much as possible, that by multiplying the topics of discus sion they may distract the interest and turn the pub lic attention to any thing but what it ought to be fixed upon at this moment. Still we have no doubt but their projects will be defeated. Let the Ministers insist upon giving precedence to the great question, and then let us see whether their majorities will con tinue to decline. The falling off of the majorities is a bad symptom, not that we have any fear as to the ultimate success of the question—far from it, but we have other fears. We know, for instance, that some of those Members who gave pledges to their constituents were required to make such pledges be cause they were suspected of being adverse to the Bill. Da they think that, having voted once for the second reading of the Bill, they have redeemed their pledges, and may now skulk away one by one when the danger is most imminent ? Let them not deceive themselves, for they cannot deceive the public. Their conduct is narrowly watched, and will be strictly canvassed. They have bound themselves to support the Bill, and the way to do it effectually is to do it cordially arid sincerely, by being counted in every division which takes place, that the house of Lords may learn prudence from the knowledge of their numbers and their per. severance. The proposition of Lord Althorp will probably be resisted by the whole force of the cor ruptionists, because it aims a blow at the juggling which they know so well how to employ in a case like the present. It will probably lead to a trial of strength between the contending parties. If the majority falls off again upon this occasion, we shall begin to feel that there is treachery in the camp.— From that moment it will become the duty of every man to be oo his gnerd, that the public interest may not be sacrificed to the aell.::rnes of designing indivi duals, nor the public peace endangered by the folly and rapacity of those who ought to be its defenders, But, to tn,ro from this picture, let us hope that such apprehensions Sti'Z onfounded, and that every one who professes to suppori reform will be found to do so with all his might, and, if necessary, to the last eziyemity.-31ornitig Herald. We are truly - glad to find that the cause which we have so long and so steadfastly advocated—the cause of the gallant but onJessed Poles—has at length attracted the attention of our cotemporaries and still niora, that the Governments of France And England are about to interfere in their behalf in a manner equally creditable to themselves, and, we would hope, truly beneficial to the objects of their intervention. That these two Powers have not hitherto interfered in a strenuous and decisive man ner in behalf of the Poles need be no object of won der to any one : for while the question of the sepa ration of Belgium and Holland remain unsettled, it must be evident to every one that no useful inter vention could take place except at the risk of in volving all Europe in war, end ; consequently, of destroying the probable chances of either the independence of Belgium, or that of Poland, being eventually secured, The spell, however, which bound them, is now broken,—the ques tion of P,elgium may be considered as finally settled ; and in consequence, there is no ex ruse for a continuance of ei.. - f.e:rent apathy on the part of pr o ce and England, to the mike of the Poles, there will, eve know, be such a demonstration on the part of both, io ,th.pir favour, as we have little doubt will prove effectual, :lel Dilly in arresting the further effusion of blood, but in seccring to the Poles the independence which they have shown to be so amply their desert. To argue the claim of the Poles to such eo i n ntorvention on part of civilized E E u v r e op ry e o , n w e o i ul dbe se convinced i t n o c e ssas d ' o t i e t words on h justice tofe theirempty ai cause, r. and the dreadful oppr,ssion that go a d e d them to withdraw themselves from th e d om i n i on of the "P thern tyrant ; and without, theref ore , attempting to go over this beaten ground, we shall content Our selves with expressing an ardent hope that s the in tervention of France and England may be a as, we doubt not, it will be sincere, and as determined and effectual, as it is just, and most imperiously de manded by the state of Europe.—Morn. Advertiser. The Committee proceeded last night with the first clause of the Reform Bill, and considerable havoc was effected among the proscribed boroughs, no less than twelve having been annihilated. It was, to adopt the expression of Sir C. We therell, a grind Radical feast. The conduct of the Opposition on this occasion sufficiently refutes the calumnious charge that they are actuated by the sole desire of causing delay. They maintained the right of Appleby anti Great Bedwin to be placed in schedule B, because those boroughs were entitled to that privilege, according to the prin. ciple of the Bill itself. But where, as in the nu merous instances of last night, no such case could be made out, they abstained from vexatious opposi tion, and offered only a few passing remarks on the disfranchised boroughs.—Morning Post. We have perused a pamphlet in the shape of a letter to Earl Grey, written in December last by Mr. Jonathan Sisson, of Dublin, stating the causes of the state of public feeling in Ireland on the subject of a repeal of the Union with Great Britain, and of her present distresses, and recommending the appointment of a Board of Commissioners to sit in Dublin, to be composed of persons of practical experience in its trade, manufactures, agriculture, fisheries, and all public works and internal improve ments, to receive communications from all persons in Ireland relative to those objects, and to be the organ of communication through the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to the British Government on these im portant subjects, for the purpose of affording such relief and assistance as Parliament may think de sirable, and which plan it states, if brought into operation, would lighten very much Irish affairs in the House of Commons, as well as with the Irish Government, which, from its constant changes, can not be in the possession of that local knowledge so necessary in the members of its Administration for the welfare of that country. We understand that a petition to this effect is now here from the Corpora tion and citizens of Dublin, brought before the Quarter Assembly by Mr. Sisson, and agreed to una nimously ; and which has also the cordial and unqua lified assent and approbation of all classes of persons in Ireland, as a measure which must lead to the happiest effects in that country. Much, however, de pends on the Commissioners so named being co►n posed of persons properly suited for the purpose, and acquainted by experience with the commerce, manu factures, agriculture, fisheries, roads, bogs, waste lands, and other local interests and concerns of Ire land—being men of patriotism and talent, who can devote their entire time to such important subjects, and which would under such Board be free from the evils and abuses which existed in former Boards. The letter referred to recommends the Board to be unpaid, and extended. We hope the Irish Mem bers, without distinction, will interest themselves on a subject so important to the tranquillity and wel fare of Ireland. We hear the petition will be pre sented this evening. His Majesty's Government have, it appears, brought in a Bill for lending money on roads and public works in Ireland, but quite too confined to reach the great and useful objects con tained in the plan referred to, or to satisfy the people of Ireland.—Morning Post. HORRIBLE CANNIBALISM IN NEW ZEALAND. [The following account of the present state of so ciety in this interesting portion of the world will be ' read with astonishment by those who have been for y rare contributing large sums for the support of Missionaries to preach the Gospel and extend the blessings of civilization throughout the Nandi of the South Sea. Unless the inhabitants are in curably vicious and intractable—and the accounts of our voyages give us no reason to believe that they are so—those who have been sent for their im provement and instruction must have lamentably neglected their duty. The events we record are from the Tasmanian. The editor promises further information, which may probably throw light on this question.] (From the Tasmanian, Jan. 28, 1931.) New Zealand is composed of two large islands, extending together from let. 34. to 48 South, and separated by a passage from fifteen to twenty miles wide, called Cook's Strait. The southern of these islands appears to be in many parts mountainous and barren. The Northern Island is much more favoured by nature. The soil is rich, and every valley pos sesses a rivulet of excellent water. The climate Dearly resembles that of our own. The winters are much milder than those in Britain ; the summers not hotter; and it is found that every kind of European grain, plants, and fruits, flourish with the very utmost luxuriance. As may be imagined in such a country, the people are a remarkably fine race; the men, speaking generally, perhaps the very finest on the face of the earth, from six to seven feet high, their forms of the justest symmetry. The women equally well formed, and of very beautiful features. These are the personal characters of the whole people of both islands, which are very thickly inhabited; and as the mutest► progress of population might have been productive of considerable evil, a Malthusian attention thereto has most kindly furnished them with the means of checking it, by the happy intro duction of the instruments of European warfare. So also an insatiable desire for rum and tobacco.-- These two refinements, unknown to these savage heathens, until their commerce with European Christians, have also tended very materially towards this most desirable end. That part of these islands, where the events we are about to relate took place, is at the southern extremity of the northern island, a beautiful country, possessing important rivers and harbours, and every other natural advantage. The natives there congregate in numbers of from 800 to 1,000, under the authority of some influential in dividual, who possesses, we apprehend, a sort of le gitimate hereditary chieftainship. At that part of the northern island to which we now refer, there are two of these sovereigns, the one is named Hecht), the other Robtilloh. It does not appear that these names are patronymic ; they appear to be rather titulatory, inasmuch as the article " The" is always prefixed to them. Thus they are designated as " The Hecho," or " The Ilobullob." As is the case in all other parts of the world, Christian even more so than heathen, the people are engaged in frequent wars; upon these occasions, all prisoner! who are taken,become not only slaves to the captors, but their lives are only held by the uncertain tenure of the pleasure of the owner. The chief, Hecho, has 600 or 700 of these unfortunate people. Most of the chieftains of both islands have paid more than one visit to Sydney, generally in some one of the Missionary vessels, who are occupied in an exten sive, and it cannot but be a highly profitable trade, conveying from these and the other islands the Pacific, cargoes of pork, cocoa-nut oil, flax, and other articles. When a ship anchors in any of the bays, the chief, attended by a eurnerous body of his sect, goes on board immediately. His first operation is to examine the strength of the vessel, as respects her means of offence or defence, arid this not more with a view of petty thieving, which is con sidered a matter-of-course practice, but to the capture of the vessel herself, if such appears to be practi cable. They appear to possess some of the worst propensities with which the human race is afflicted. For example, ae respects their food, they consider human flesh to be the sweetest and !post delicious of all possible food. So regardless are they of human life, that they are in the habit continually of coolly murdering their slaves for the slightest fault. Cap tain Briggs was witness to an instance of a young female being put to death, merely for refusing to perform some menial service required of her, and he himself saved the lives of two young men (who had run away from their owners for fear of being mur dered for some trifling offence), by purchasing them fora few pounds of gunpowder arid some fish-hooks. It is not easy to explain the peculiarly horrible pas sions and habits of this finely-formed race of people by general description. Perhaps the best method will be to relate some of the circumstances which attended Captain Briggs' late - visit, from which the redder will be able to form a tolerably accurate judg ment of the state of things in general. Hecht), the chief of whom we have spoken, is a remarkably fino young man of about 25 years old. He is six feet four or five inches in height, and per fectly well proportioned. He is the son of a chief who is spoken of as " The Payie," who was taken to England some years ago, where having received great attention, upon his return he declared himself the enemy of all those of his country who should attack any Briglish vessel, or injure any English man, of course beyond the mere practice of thiev ing, which, as we have said, is the vocation of these islanders. Some few years ago, a chieftain of the south-eastern coast had killed and eaten Captain Downie and the crew of the brig Samuel, a vessel which had been trading there, bartering muskets, powder, and balls, for flax and other pro duce; but being either over-confidential or unguarded, his vessel was captured and himself and crew eaten. The same people it was, who had succeeded in tak ing a midshipman and a boat'e crew of his Majesty's ship Warspite, commanded by the late Sir J. Bris• bane, who were killed and afterwards eaten, as mere matter of course. To avenge these atrocities thus committed upon Payie's friends arid allies, the Eng lish, that chief and the Robulloh, went in 1822, with a strong body of their people, and taking the former by surprise, they killed and ate all they could find, destroying all before them of the unfortunate clan, who, in their turn, furnished food for their cannibal appetite. Glutted with blood, but still hankering for more, they landed upon Banks's Island with the same horrible intent. But there, they met with a check. The chieftain who was called the Marinewie, was prepared for their reception ; a battle ensued, in which the invaders were defeated, with the loss of the Payie, who being taken by the Marinewie, was by that chief killed and eaten, as was also an Englishman named Smith, who had joined the allies in their predatory excursion. The Robulloh escaped and on his return to his native place, united with the Hecho, the son of the Payie, who had succeeded to his eaten father's throne, in the determination to avenge the former disaster. Thus matters stood until about the middle of last year, when Captain Briggs, in the Dragon, arrived at the territory of these allied Chieftains. Their first attempt was to endeavour to induce him to accompany them in an expedition which they had been for some time preparing, against the Marinewie, promising him that if he would join them therein, they would furnish his ship with a full cargo of flax in return. They were by no means unskilful diplomatists.— They urged that the Payie had been in England, and was the friend and avenger of the English—that the - Marinewie, who had killed and eaten him, had also killed and eaten more white men than any other New Zealander whatever, and they promised " subsidit s" in return for the essential service which they well knew they should receive from a commander and a vessel such as Captain Briggs and the Dragon. They did not however succeed. Captain Briggs peremptorily refused to be associated in the horrid enterprize. Not so, however, the Commander of another British vessel, which happened just then to arrive upon a trading voyage. She was a fine brig of 300 tons, whose name, and that of the Com• mender, we forbear for the present !o insert. The two Chiefs agreed with this person, that his ship should convey them and their people to the country of the Marinewie, where the war was to be carried on to utter extermination. On the 29th October, of the last year, the expedition sailed : there was a fine fleet of war canoes, and the two Chief?, with about one hundred picked warriors, were on board the English brig. Captain Briggs remained at the anchorage, procuring, by the usual means of barter, a cargo for his vessel. On the 11th November the expedition returned, having been entirely successful. The Marinewie had been taken by surprise, his whole people destroyed, except such as fled into the interior beyond the reach of pursuit, and himself, his wife, and his daughter, a beautiful girl of 15, taken prisoners. The Captain of the English vessel stated, that on their arrival at Banks's 'Labour, the Payie arid the Robulloh had caused all their people to conceal themselves below; that the Marinewie sent immediately on board to negociate for the trading, which he, of course, sup posed was the object of the Englishman's arrival.— He demanded two double guns, by way of tribute to himself, for permission to open the trade. This was granted. The trade commenced, and the Marinewie not suspecting the fate which awaited him, confiding fully on the Englishman's honour, went himself on board to visit him. After he had been seated inn the cabin a short time, the Hecho and the Robulloh jumped upon him, from their place of concealment, as did their people upon all those who had attended him on board, and seizing him by the hair, explained to him his situation. The scene which followed is too dread ful to describe. Under the colour of night, the Ita• bulloh, the Payie, and their men, landed from the ship, and having succeeded in capturing the wife and daughter of the Marinewie, they sent them on board, and a work of death ensued, utterly unspeak able or indescribable, for the horrible cruelties which were perpetrated. The whole population of the place who did not escape were killed, except about fifty reserved to be taken back to be sacrificed at the bloody feast 31 triumph which awaited their return. At day-light in the morning , the victors were seen actively employed in cutting up arid preparing for the steam-kettle the dead bodies of the slaughtered wt. hich they y cr w o i v t n o e f s s t e l d i e a y s e sbseeyl beyond l. The whole of the day was s e v c v li r e . d s t t i l i ( ce r f l l g i t o h r d e r r o e r n a s i d g fu ‘ i v ' ry occupiaridboeddiesiitiosabletiecogt,ve and p conveyed b a a c e k k i . ng A i in b mo a n sk gs e t ts t , h treads vic tims was a fine young woman, near her accouche ment, who was cut o p en, her unborn infant ex tracted, her head and part of her bod y salt e d, and the remainder, in the presence of the Captain, offi cers, and the whole cre w of the British ship, given to the pigs ! On the llth of November, in the morning, the brig having arrived with her cargo of human flesh, living arid dead, at about eleven, A.M., preparations were made for the triumphal landing. And here a peculiar feature in the character of the New Zea landers was exhibited. Ferocious as appears to be the male character, that of the female appears in strong contrast thereto. Not a single woman was on the beach to receive either husband or lover (for such there are even in the moat savage state, and the New Zealanders appear to be eminently susceptible of the tender passion), riot a child to welcome its pa rent, not a father to welcome his son. All was silence, and, except as respected thecannibal warrior s, and the mutilated remains of their slaughtered victims,solitude. The prisoners were landed and ranged, seated on the beach ; their conquerors having brought on shore in baskets the salted bodies of the victims of their fero city. Each basket is of sufficient size to hold a hu man body cut up into pieces ; of these there were, according to Captain Briggs' calculation, about one hundred. The war dance then commenced. It is the most frightful method of rejoicing, any idea of which the human mind can convey to itself. The warriors entirely naked—their long black hair, al though matted with }Ronan gore, yet flowing par tially in the wind—in the left hand a human head-- in the right a bayonetted musket, held by the middle of the barrel. Thus, with a song, the terrible ex pression of which can only he imagined by b e i ng heard,flgtldeiriredi 111) gt t oi y nr gt d u a dr n ee c 4 e l t Bo undert t they .rmdwoi most e t tnhcoohtield. iceible tti formni o i t' s --every now and again approaching the m w i t h ges tures None of them were killed. All were app ort i oned amo ng the conquering warriors as slaves, one old men and a little boy excepted, who were sentenced to be sacrificed to their demon of vengeance. The feast was then prepared, at which these too victims were to be killed and eaten. It consisted of about one hundred baskets of potatoes, and a sort of green vegetable of delicious flavour, and equal quantiti es of whale blubber and human flesh. Every thin g ' bring arranged, the poor old man was brought forth horribly accoutred for death, having affixed rounr! his neck the head of his son, whose body formed part of the infernal banquet then exhibited. Here, for the first time, to the disgrace of the female cha racter, a few women appeared. Some few wives or mothers, whose husbands or whose sons had been in their turn killed and eaten, approached the poor old man, and plucking the hair of his head and his beard, pricking him with the teeth of some fish or other animal, inflicted ❑pon him every possible bodily torture, while the inventions of their demoniacal countrymen, were doing their utmost to agonise his mind ! Captain Briggs, who witnessed all this, de termined to save this poor man's life arid that of the boy, who was also to be sacrificed, if such could be done by either force or price. The boy was brought forth to die. A man had the axe extended over his head, and was about to cleave it in twain, when Captain Briggs, at a hazard which may be easily understood, seized him, and by threats and entreatie , , the risk of which at such a time he cannot now con template without shuddering, obtained the life of the boy altogether, and that of the old man for the time ! The next day he was taken to another place, where his doom was sealed with every cir cumstance of horror and atrocity. The boy still lives. Captain Briggs paid the ransom of his - life in muskets and gunpowder. He conveyed him in safety to his ship, and he is now here, in Hobart Town, gratefully acknowledging his obligation to the worthy man who saved him from death. In the meantime the bloody banquet went on, the Hecho, the Robulloh, and the rest, devouring the' contents of the baskets we have described with the greatest delight. The manner in which the bodies had been salted, at nearly the hottest season of the year, had been too imperfect to prevent the process of decomposition from proceeding to so considerable an extent that the worms crawled from the putrid flesh as it was devoured. It was a horrible sight. Captain Briggs had the curiosity to open one of the baskets which was near hint. It contained the head and body of a beautiful young female. One of the officers of the ship who was with him had resolution enough to dissect the breast away with his penknife; he wrapped it up in a handkerchief, took it on board the Dragon, put it into spirits, and presented it to a gentleman in Hobart Town, in whose possession it now is. While this dreadful scene was going on, the Ma. rinewie was confined in irons in the fore-cabin of the English brig of which we have spoken. On the passage from Banks's Harbour to Cook's Strait this chieftain and Lis wife, well knowing the dread ful tortures which awaited them from their feroci ous enemies, took an effectual method of preventing their daughter from undergoing the sufferings to which they knew she was destined : they strangled her. The Captain then placed both the Marinewie and his wife in irons to prevent them from also de stroying themselves. They were landed on the 12th November by the Robulloh, and conveyed from the coast some short distance into the interior. Captain Briggs was not able to ascertain their fate, but we understood that it was intended that after they had been dispatched with all the torture usual in such cases, the heart of Marinewie should be sent to be eaten by the Hecho's mother, the widow of the Payie, who had been eaten by the Marinewie, that the Robulloh should eat his brains, the Hecho his eyes, the Hecho's sister his tongue, and that the rest of his body should be sent as presents to the Chiefs in the interior. Having now given our readers some insight of the progress of civilization effected by the Missionaries during a period of upwards of twenty years' resi dence at these naturally high-favoured islands, we shall now state how far their efforts have succeeded as respects the conversion of these people from their heathen habits to Christianity. There is not one single man or woman in the whole country who has really and in perfect sincerity renegaded from the native idolatry They have now, as they have had ever since the first discovery of their islands by Europeans, a God, a Devil, and a Spirit. They fear all, but they love neither. They have no reli gious principles whatever; neither are they (perhaps the only good trait in ;heir character) very much subjected to the infirmity of being priest-ridden. They have a description of female priests, whose occupation will be better understood if we apply to them the term witches. Captain Briggs mentions one of these whom he saw, named Anorighie, as the most beautiful woman in the country. It is re markable that the word " taboo," which implies being rendered sacredly impervious to all touch or communication, is common to all the Islands in the Southern Pacific, from New Zealand to the Sand wich Islands. When a chief takes a wife, she is ta bood, and inconstancy on her part is death to her and her paramour. Any man can tabood his house or his land by some trifling present to the Chief, and ' the violation of it is death. 'When any of their slaves die, their bodies are given to be eaten by the pigs. If their children die under a certain age the bodies are put into a sort of trough covered with a mat, and hoisted upon a pole about six or seven feet high, where they are left to moulder away. When the Chiefs die a natural death their bodies are burnt with much ceremony. Their ordinary burial places are so strictly tabood, that it is next to impossible for even a stranger to penetrate into them. They express excessive joy and grief in the same manner, by inflicting severe wounds upon themselves with the sharp bone of a fish until the blood runs down in torrents. The females frequently exchange their infants with each other, and a mother whose infant dies before it is weaned will frequently replace it by a puppy or a young seal, both of which animals have been seen nursed by women. In a word their habits ate exactly as they were when their island was first visited by Europeans, with this exception, that they have now fire-arms in general use throughout the island, and the work of human destruction goes on with proportionate increased activity. Th e Chiefs begin to take a wider range in their desire to obtain the most powerful and effectual instruments of death. They know the superiority of cannon over musketry, and they express an anxious desire to be fur nished with these formidable engines, well know ing that the possessors of such will be enabled to ob tain a greater quantity of their favourite food, by the increased means thereby afforded them of carrying death and destruction in whatever direction their appetite, or their vindictiveness, may carry them. This is the only effect of their communication with Europeans which yet appears. We should like to hear the most bigotted of the whole body of Mis sionaries justify this. It will require more than or dinary Missionary ingenuity to attempt it. We have exceeded our limits, and we have only furnished our readers with the text of the subject, the comtnentary is yet to come. The following dialogue in the hand-writinc , t o i f o n M i r n . t I h i e u c a i m s s e , a s and n b e d a r a gvariousthe s m . at papers o f c o o r rtrieui7t gentleman :—" ' Fraternal Dialogue between John Bull and his b ro th er J onathan. (Dated July, 1825.') Jonathan—You are a very good . and constant customer, John, at my sh o p, f or fl our , h oops , s t aves , an d many other articles of my trade ; you are good pay, and I am always glad to deal with you. John—l believe all you say—l wish to continue a good customer ; but I must say your mode of dealing with me is rather hard. Every time I travel to, or send to your shop (Sunday or not), I am ohhged to pay double toll at the turnpike-gate, which is close keforp it. •Jon.—Yetr need not take that trouble. I prefer sending my goods to my customers by spy own porters ; and, as they are always ready and punctual in deli vering the packages, I do not see why you should corn, plain. :John—l complain because my own cart and horses have nothing to do, and my people are upon the poor -rate, whilst lam paying you for porterage. 1 will Lot go on this way. Jon.—Well! we will consider of it next Christina., when the partners in our firm meet to talk aver the concern. (John remains patient for another year ; when, finding the Sunday toll still continued, he asks what Brother Jonathan and his firm have decided. July, 1826.) Jon.—We have resolved to giant a new leas e of the tolls, without making any alteration in the terms. John—You have ! then I withdraw my custom. Jon.—The devil you do ! (Aside.) We mistook him for a more patient ass than he proves to be. How shall we contrive to bring him back to our shop?" LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, JuLr 20. IN RE WELLESLEY. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he wal instructed to apply to the Court for the purpose of discharging the order which had been recently pronounced by the Lord Chancellor for the committal of Wel lesley. He wished to know whether his Lordship would fix a day upon which the application might be heard, and wished also that it might be arranged so as to suit the convenience of the parties on the other side. The LORD CHANCELLOR said the earliest oppor tunity would be best for such a purpose. He sup posed the application to discharge the order was to be made upon the merits. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, certainly ; it was upon the particular facts of the case that he was in structed to make the application. His LORDSHIP said, as to the jurisdiction there could be no doub'. In order to meet the applica tion upon the merits, which he should be very will ing to entertain, he thought Friday would be a con venient day. Sir E. SUGDEN, on the other side, said that Fri day would be as convenient as any other day to him. His LORDSHIP then directed that if any affidavits were to be filed on the part of Mr. Wellesley, they should be furnished to the other side in due time, so as to enable them to understand the grounds upon which the application was to be made. His LORDSHIP sat from half-past twelve to six o'clock, and disposed of some motions. When Lord Brougham received the Great Seal the enormous number of 103 appeals was standing in the Chancellor's paper, for hearing. Incredible as it • must appear to those at all acquainted with the pro ceedings of this Court for the last thirty years , the whole of thane appeals whi c h are rea dy f or adjudica tion, will, we are informed, have been heard and de cided before the close of the week. Earl v. Pickerin, the last of the above-mentioned appeals (the 103 d), is actually in his Lordship's pa per for hearing this day. THE ARMY. The 84th Regiment, under the command of Major Nicholls, was reviewed on the 9th of May in the Barrack , yard at Spanish-town, Jamaica, by Sir Willoughby Cott °" who was plea-ed with their condition and appearance. On the 23d of the same month, the 33d Regiment WO reviewed by the same officer, at Up-park Camp, under the command of Colonel Knight. Thomas Whittaker was killed early in May, in Jamaica, in a battle, by Roderick Basset, both were privates in the Royal Artillery. The survivor has been committed for trial. A strong sensation has been created at Battle, by the re sult of a court-tnartial on Serieant-Major Leggett, 7th Do' goon Guards, charged with h av i ng g i ven a fa l se repor t O , ti e piquet to Lieutenant Le Marchant. The inquiry be e reduced the Serjeant-M a j or t o t h e ran k s . Th e peop l e Uf Battle are represented to 119 as being highly indignant at the proceeding, deeming Leggett an injured man. This, we are told, is only the fourth Serjeant-Major broke in the same troop within a short period. The inhabitants have petitioned the Colonel of the Regiment and Lord Hill upon the subject. —Brighton Guardian. THE MARKETS. COAL MARI Dean's 255. Od. Felling Main 22 0 Hebburn Main 28 0 Holywell 27 6 Killingworth 28 6 Newburn .27 6 Ord's Bedbug!) Percy Bensham , .. 27 0 Pont%) Windsor 27 0 rantield 30 0 Townley 26 6 West Hartley 25 0 Willington 29 6 Wylani 25 6 Walls End Brown's 2B 0 _Ditto (unscreened) 0 Ditto 11,11,11obson,&Co. 27 6 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 30 6 Walls End Callerton— 25 n Walls End Carr and Co. 27 0 Walls End Gosforth ..... 29 9 Walls End Heaton—..—.. 30 3 Walls End Hotspur...,. 27 9 slop. at market, 60%---Shil Walls End Newmarch— 29.4. f* :ET.—July 90 Ditto Northumberland 2S Ditto Peareth ," Ditto Perkins and C 0... '„ Walls End Riddell's 29 „' Ditto Walker 30 Lambton Primrose 29 Springwell Main--- '; Walla End Hetton 31 ‘ , ll Walls End Lainbton 31 Dcrl W Woiiy a tawp l ti ls t e End Stewart's 31 Knollo Russell's nn 30 Barnsley New. ,24 . 0 h Culin Trimsaram 9. 5 ed 0 Hartley 5 Silkstone Field and Co• South Hetton Seats.--... 24 6 Warde's Llanelly :9 6 Greenwich Hospital...—. 24 0 ...la. 54 1 4—Unso1d, IN. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TH WEEK Wheat. L . Barlef. Oats. Bea n " Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. I. to 2. I. to Abingdon 62 81 31 43 22 30 73 80 37 41 A Birmingham-- 64 72 22 40 24 32 - - Bridport ......--.. 56 74 32 39 26 30 42 Cirencester 60 76 38 44 24 29 -- 4 : 8 4 92 7840 9.33 4 6 4 4 1 2 8 (1 7 26 — 3385 —7 - - • Faringdort 43 6 54 2 8. 80 3 3 2 3° 4 35 2 2 2 8 8 3 ° 34 56 n7 ° Guildford H eley Maidenhead 65 80 32 46 20 33 -- S iNt a leo l a i n s t b imi t n i o r gu y t = h (4 1 5 7' 2 52' C 7 97 4: 7 2.2, 31 47 223 2 J 1 3 32- 2 32 45044 4 : Southampton 54 78 37 40 28 32 4t l Stroud Tewkestotry 65 74 40 42 30 38 Uxbridge 48 78 32 38 24 34 Wastage 58 80 30 43 21 30 Warminster 45 68 28 28 25 39 Windsor ~ 59 21 22 A 5 W0rce5ter............ 64 68 24 36 24 ULL IV ARK ET.—July 19. —s. 608. f3s. New —s. 51s e i°g ] —s. 545. 58s. ln bond... —l. — 6 . — on .; —s. 245. 28s. Old —B..—s. . 1•••• 1.... —s. 245. 26s —6 ---S. .--8. • ...S• —s. 225. 24s ..-8. —.4. ..„ —s. 40s. 425. Line. & Vold --s, 368 , ..' —s. V2s. ''''. 36a. 38s. Vs. Foreign ....5. 38i. 40. —s. 465. 48s. Grey —s —s. —s. Foreign ...8. 30 s. 01. none. Wheat, Old Foreign Oats, Poland Small or Feed Foreign Barley, Norf. & Foreign Beans Pease, White Tares Rapeseed, in bond CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. (I. to s. d Wheat Barley 4 0 5 6 Oats 4 0 4 3 Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Hay 3l. 103. MARKET.—JuIy 19. Pet lb. I l' to d ' 6 Beef 5 ti Mutton Veal Pork Lamb 0 to 3/. 15a. Ott. per ton DUMFRIES MA s. d. s. A. F‘Vo,heira, i i t,l:p. Bush 7 (to 8 0 Barley 4 6 5 0 Oats " 7 3 3 l 2 4 3 0 Oatmeal Potatoes. cwt. RKETS.-July 13. B.d. f•c./ 0 Butter, 16oz 0 0 to 0 0 Eggs, dozen 0 0 g 6 Beef, per lb. Mutton Veal 0 4 ,-, 6 Quartern Loaf 0 7 " LITERATURE.--Messrs. COLBURN a nti BENTLEY have just published the following New W o rks:l 1. The Dutchman's Fire-Sid e . By th e A u th or o f " Lette r " from the South," " The Back-Woodsman," &e. 2 vol , '" ' 2. The Adventures in Abyssinia of NATHANIEL PicAs c ! . . With an account of his Extraordinary Life, writte n e himself, 2 vols.-3. Jacqueline of Holland. By rrb, Author of " The Heiress of Bruges," 3 vole.—" t story of the heroine, which is one of intense inter es t ; strongly resembles, in many respects, that of MARY Quel,, of Scots."—Globe.-4. The Lives of the Players. JOHN GALT, Esq. 2 vols. including those of Mrs. SioP °ll , " J. P. KE:kintE, Mrs. JoanAN, EAtsERY, G. F. Coo l h l G AR RICK, FOOTE, QUIN, &c. &C.-5. Pin Mon e y. BY t Authoress of " Manners of the Day," 3 vols.—" A N °l l, of extraordinary merit."—lllorning Post.-6. A Fren g te Edition of BOURRIENNE'S Life of NAPOLEON, conIP I ", in 5 vols. Bvo. with seventeen Plates and copious fO re b ; now first added, price 2/. 12 s . 6d., b e i ng on ly ball t price of the Paris edition. B I RTHS. • dY °I On the ISth inst. a t Leopardstown, near Dublin, the 1 3 Fenton Hort, Esq. of a son. 9 44 On the 17th inst. at Brighton, the lady of W. Sergison, of a daughter. a .4,, of a son.Onth! 16th inst. the lady of the Hon. Capt. Bridgeman, leen On the 16th inst. at Kew, the lady or the Rev. H. W T • of a daughter. t ett On the 18th inst. Mrs. IL Mortimor, of New Ornaoud - ' t of a daughter. e r ti On the 18th inst. at Kensington, the lady of H. B. Ale:0" Esq., of a daughter. fra° 6 _ j'ot MARRIED. On the 16th inst. at Churchill, Soniersetshire, T. F. D'e t ';, r Esq., of Banjo' College, Oxford, M.A., t o A nn e, dauflil the late W: Perry, Esq. of the fOrmer dace.("halo )n the 14th inst.. at paris 2 at the British Ambas;,adot s . by the Right Rev. Bishop Luscombe, the Baron de 11.0 f Emily Elizabeth, eldest daughter of J. J. Henry, Esq. , d o iec 6 county of Tipperary, and th e Ri g ht ll on. L a d y E m ily, a" e t of the Duke of Leinster, At Cheshurst, Henry Decie, Esq. of Clonakilty, col i ger Cork, to Catherine, daughter of Sir G. Prescott, Bart. 01 bald's Park, Herts. DIED. ,00 1 ' On the 16th inst. a t Manor House, High Beach, Esser Sotheby, Esq., Admiral of the White, aged 72. S C• i "r s.4 On the 18th in s t. a t Il ampton, T . Greatorex, Etq. F... 0 .y fa iest, Organist of W es t m i nster Abbey, Conductor o f his so Concerts ( f Antient Music, &c. ra(rtietilii,eil:sB(tili, i a n g s t t ,d .a 7 t 6 lsleworth, Margaret, relict of the lit e r r i late" On the 16th nut. at Bristol Frances Elizabeth, ( the late Rev. E. Woodcock. _......er--"a PRINTED AND PUBLISHED SY MO ' 1 .11)0 YO UN 0, AT SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND. LONDONsi ( 7 ) having for ma tirely comfoi to bon public per mj Albion July s-____ A' and s ill and to ev ery favo ur, Berat e their e( The and f a . a Pah lion e l visiting 4 avenj N, g, Pn Incisiox tee SI tilderatii th e syn eir eurn, Ncrip °f Lith, The Wil Pretient, I = - übi M„ia 'Phi " da CA Planatot and h D ew) , COI sit uati eurn o n txte 4t e T ow nt Lak ß ~ v es 1%7: tEi.i L'