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tat to Priday. Now as that was the clay on which he (Mr. Davenport) had given notice of a motion on the State of the Nation, he put it to the Hon. Member for Hertfordshire whether he would not postpone the proceed ing with.his Rill to a future day. Mr. N. CALVERT said he had fixed Friday because he knew that many Hon. Members were anxiou a for the progress of the Bill. He was, however, entirely in the hands of the House. Mr. WESTERN allowed that the Bill was important, hut he thought that his Hon. Friend's motion was still more so. The House then resolved itself into the Committee. Sir H. HARDINGE proposed that the sum of 7,6561. be granted for the expence of the Military College. Mr. HUME thought, considering the state of the public feeling, it was time that the Government take into its serious consideration the propriety of reducing this esta blishment. He begged leave to ask, why gentlemen in tending to enter the military service should not pay for their own education, when there were one hundred appli cants for every commission? He noticed, too, that the Lieutenant-Governor had received a pension of 500/. ; and he did not know why he, who was a military man, should not fall back on his half-pay. There was a mon strous system of giving pensions to persons who had no just claim to them, to which he would continually object. On this establishment the pensions were now 33,5001., and he really did not know why the officers, who had been pensioned, should not receive only their half-pay. Sir HENRY HARDINGE would first state why the Military College should not pay its own expences. There were three classes of students. The first were the or phans, whose fathers had been in his Majesty's service, and they were educated gratuitously; the second class. each of whom paid 201. a year, were the children of officers yet in the service ; and the expellee of their educa tion was supplied by the charge on the young men of the third class, each of whom paid 1501. Within two years the expence of this College bad been reduced from 12,000/. to 7,0001. ; and as that did not satisfy the Hon. Member for Montrose, lie must despair of satisfying him. As to the pension given to the Lieutenant-Governor, that gentleman held a commission in the Artillery twenty five years a.fo, and had he now been in the service, he would have been a Major-General. He had retired with the rank of a Colonel after twenty-five years' service, and had a pension of 8001. a year. With respect to the suggestion of the Hon. Member, that the officers should fall back on their half-pay, that was to be the system in future. Colonel DAVIES thought that in the circumstances of the country this grant was most extravagant. He doubted the utility of the education the young men received at the Military College ; and if it were continued, it certainly ought to be on a more limited scale than at present. Sir H. HARDINGE again defended the grant of the pension. Lord EUSTON also objected to the grant in the state of the country, and he should feel himself called on not to support it. The present was not a time to make young soldiers ; there was no want of them ) and there was plenty of old officers. He did not know that he should find a seconder, but he certainly felt inclined to move that the vote be stopped altogether. Mr. HUAIE said the Noble Lord should not want a se conder. He wished to know how many of the young men educated so superiorly at the College had been gained to his Majesty's service? Sir H. HARDINGE.—Forty commissions had been given away, in the course of the last year, to the cadets: Mr. HUME.—Then all that I have to say upon that subject is, that I think that those who obtained such splendid prizes ought to have educated themselves.—(Hear.) —As to the orphans who are educated there, I think that it would he much better if their fathers and mothers would take care of them.—(Roars of laughter for some minutes.) I own that I have made a slip—l meant their guardians. The Hon. Member then proceeded to argue, that if proper reductions were made, and proper regulations adopted in the Military College, the whole expense of it need not cost the country 500/. a year. He thought that this grant should only be passed for six months : in that time Go vernment might make all the necessary retrenchments.— He therefore suggested to the Noble Lord the propriety of granting the selinistry 3,800/., which was half the vote, in order to enable them to take the necessary steps to get rid of the other half. Mr. JEPHSON supported the views taken by the Hon. Member for Aberdeen upon this subject. The Earl of EUSTON was understood to agree to the suggestion of Mr. Hume. Sir GEORGE MURRAY contended that the system of military education adopted in this country had been very imperfect till the foundation of the Military College, which had been eminently beneficial in its resul , s to the discipline and information of the army. Mr. MABERLY controverted the opinions laid down by the Secretary at War, and also by the Secretary for the Colonies. Colonel DAVIES impugned the system of education pursued at the College, and repeated that he had himself derived little benefit from it. Sir HENRY HARDINGE assured his Gallant Friend that the system of education at the Military College had been greatly improved of late years. He was sorry to learn that his Gallant Friend had received so little benefit from the education which he had received there. Mr. WARBURTON thought that there should be a reduction of this grant. lie was the more inclined to make it, because he thought that by a proper augmentation of the fees of the third class of cadets, all the expenses of the establishment might easily be defrayed. Colonel DAWKINS said that he had derived great ad.. vantage from the education which he had received at the Military College. The instruction which he had obtained there was of the greatest assistance to him when he first joined his regiment. Anxious as he was to relieve the dis tress of the people, he could not bring himself to think that this was an establishment tha( could he dispensed with. Mr. HUME was happy to hear the gallant officer say tlsat he had derived advantage from his education at th e military college, and was only sorry that the gallant officer had not paid for it himself.—(Plear, and a laugh.) —The lion. Member for Lincoln had that night presented a petition complaining loudly of the distress of the country, and calling for retrenchment as a means of relief. Where was the lion. Member now, when an attempt was making to enforce retrenchment?—(Colonel Sibthorpe, though not in his usual place, was sitting a few benches bele. , Mr. Hume.)—Oh ! the lion. Member for Lincoln was present—but where were other lion. Members who had presented similar petitions?—( Hear, hear.)—Not one of them was to be found at his post when reduction was talked of.—(Hear.) —For his own part he was of opinion, that if it were not for the people out of doors, who might suppose that lion. Members, concurred in the extravagance of Ministers, it would be much better that the Chancel lor of the Exchequer should take all his votes in silence. He knew not what support he might meet with, but with the assent of the Noble Lord (Euston) he would move, as an amendment, that only 3,8301. be this year granted to the Military College. The Committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment 18 Against it B5 Majority against the amendment... 67. The original resolution was then agreed to. The Chairman reported progress, and obtained leave to .•it again on Monday next. A person from the East India-house presented certain accounts. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter to One. iT OF THE MINOR 'OTED ON LORD EUSTON 1E ROYAL MILITARY CC I'S MOTION TO REDUCE as 44 44 UP* :br Mal te- Brun. G raberg. Pinkerton. Christianity 220,000,000 236,000,000 235,000,000 Judaism Islamism Brahminism 60,000,000 60,000,000 (0,000,000 Buddhism 150,000,000 150,000,000 180,000,000 All other religions 100,000,000 115,000,000 100,000,000 -- Total 653,000,000 686,000,000 700,000,000 :Hassel. f Balbe. Christianity 252,000,000 260,006,000 Judaism , 3,930,000 4,000,0;41 Islamism Brahminism 111,353,000 60,000,0110 Buddhism 315,977,000 170,000,000 All other religions 131,190,000 147,000,000 Total ILLEGE AT THE EM) OF Jcphson, C. D. Townshend, Lord C. Moberly, J. Trant, W. H. O'Connell, D. Warburton, H. PaHiner, C. N. Wood, John l'onsonby, Hon. ltickford, W. TELLER. Ridley, Sir M. W. Hume, Joseph LIS OP EIGIITEEN, WHO Yi THE EXPIIISE OF SI I MONTHS. Baring, F. Davenport, E. Daviea, Col. Dawson, A. Dundas, Hon. Sir R. Euston, Earl of Gordon, R. LIST OF THE MINORITY OF T Witt:Ty-FIVE, WHO ♦OTED FOR THE MOTION OF MR. D. 1% 171 RV KY, " That it is destructive of the ends of public and private justice, and inconsistent with the duty of any Member of this House, t• vote in Committee on any 13111 in which he is directly per. sonally interested. Baring, Sir T. Blake, Sir F. Bernal R. I Cave, I. 0. Duncombe, T. Denison, W. J. Dawson, A. Grant, It. Hobhouse, J. C. Howard, Henry Maberly, J. Thomson, C. P. Marshall, NV. Wait h man, Aid. O'Connell, D. Whitbread, NV. H. Sykes, D. Warburton, H. Stewart, J. Wood, John Sebright, Sir John Wood, Alderman Taylor, M. A. Tennyson C. TELLER;. Tratit, W. H. Harvey, 1). W. Hume, 7o6eph The French Ambassador left town yesterday morning I about ten o'clock in his carriage and four, and proceeded to the residence of Prince LEOPOLD, at Claremont. His Excellency remained with his Royal Highness upwards of two boon, and then returned to town. His Excellency, on his return to town about four o'clock, proceedel to the office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and bad a long conference with the Earl of Azzanzim. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1630. The Lords of his Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council had a Meeting this morning. Those present were the MASTER of the ROLLS, Sir CHRIS TOPHER ROBINSON, and the Right Hon. JOHN WILSON BROKER. Their Lordships were occupied the whole morning in hearing arguments on Appeals remitted from the Colonies. We have only space left to point attention to the Meetings at Manchester and Aylesbury on the distress of the country. The speech of Lord NUGENT is particularly eloquent, honest, and convincing : his Lordship is indeed a Reformer of the " right sort "—and will, we hope, live long to witness and enjoy the triumph of principles which he has advocated with admirable consistency through good and through evil report. The following, from our Paris Correspondent, would have appeared yesterday did room permit : " PARIS, ?EIS. 23. " Rumours cont;nue to circulate of an adjournment of the Chambers immediately after the opening of the Ses sion; but a reason exists which appears to render such an event impracticable, and which it is not impossible may have escaped the attention even of the advisers of the Crown. The law by which the sinking fund is regulated expires in the month of June, 1830, and before that pe•• riod a new law on the subject must be passed. This, it is believed, will be an insurmountable objection to the ru moured adjournment. The same cause may even affect the possibility of dissolving the Chambers before the month of June. As the dissolution could not be effected until after the discussion on the Address, which, accord ing to the French Parliamentary forms, must he attended with considerable delay, the time which would remain for convoking the Electoral Colleges, and afterwards assem bling the new Chamber, would be protracted beyond the period when it thus appears that Legislative intervention is indispensible, unless a dangerous crisis is to be hazarded in the public securities of France. " According to the calculations of the Gazette de France, the Ministry may reckon on 200 votes out of the MO member, of which the Lower Chamber is composed. Of these, 120 belong to the extreme right, and 80 to the right centre of the Chamber. The remaining 230 are composed, according to the same authority, of 200 of the extreme left and left centre, and SO of what are called the defection. it is now distinctly admitted, therefore, that the Cabinet is to he left in the minority : and, from the invective% with which the defection' is loaded, it is to be presumed that the hope is now abandoned of gaining over any part of the thirty calumniated voters. " The direction of the financial operations relative to the conversion of Dutch Bonds into Rentcs Perpetuelles, has been accepted by the house of Willing, jun., on terms to which the house of Hope and Co. refused to accede. " It is stated in the Corfu Gazette, that Mr. Gordon, the brother of the English Ambassador at Constantinople, hal embarked on board an lonian steam-boat, with most important dispatches for Patras. The same journal an nounces the total evacuation of the Morea by the French troops, and the daily augmentation of the British naval forces. " A report is current this morning, the origin of which I have been unable to trace, which states that a new Pro• tocol has been signed at London on the subject of Greece, by which that of the 6th of July has been modified in one essential particular. The new Greek State is, it is said, to be henceforth formally recognized as completely independent of the Porte, without even the existence of a nominal suzerainte. This concession is understood to have been the condition stipulated by Prince Leopold for his acceptance of the Crown ; and will, no doubt, prove a very desirable portion for the people who adopt him as their King. If this report is to be trusted, the affairs of the new State arc now definitively arranged. " The Globe has received a third citation, to answer for the boldness with which he has entered on his new career of daily political discussion." " FARIS, FIB. 24. " The accounts which have for some time arrived in succession from the territories occupied by the Russian troops beyond the Balkan, as well as from Poland, seem all to point to a state of things which cannot be very satis factory to the Government of St. Petersburgh. The dis content of the troops has been so open and undisguised, as to have already produced the dismissal of several supe rior officers; and it even appears that this refractory spirit has shown itself i❑ portions of the army which had no active share in the late war. The origi❑ of this general feeling of discontent may, it appears, be every where traced to the same causes. The men murmur at the precipitate conclusion of the treaty of peace witk the Turks, and at the loss they have sustained in glory, and in profit too, perhaps, by having thus been prevented from entering as victors into the capital of the Ottomans, " At the same time it is scarcely comeealed that the true source of the agitation, under which the whole army is suffering, is of a more •ital and important nature. The investigations hitherto set on foot by the higher authorities have not yet succeeded in probing the evil to the bottom ; but it is strongly suspected to emanate from the very centre of the Russian power. From the same source, whatever it may be, the same disaffected spirit appears to have spread, not only over all the provinces of the Mus covite empire in the more limited sense of that term, but " These estimates may all be regarded' as contempora neous, since the oldest of them, that of Malte-Brun, is dated in 1810, while that of Graberg appeared in 1613. The works of Pinkerton and Hassel were published in 1817, and the calculations of Balbi are dated in 1829." Dutch Papers of the 24th instant have been re ceived. They contain some proceedings of the States-General, which we have not space fcr. For some days past the North Sea, along the Dutch coast, has been covered with ice to the dis tance of about a mile, and near to the batik it is piled up to the height of several feet. The oldest inhabitants do not remember to have seen such a quantity of ice on the coasts. But little change has taken place in the state of the rivers in this country : the water continues to fall. The accounts from Germany are distressing, the breaking up of the ice in the Moselle and the Rhine has caused greater disaster than in 1823. If the Powers of Spain were as effective as her efforts to disturb the peace of the South American Republics are pertinacious, the equipment of an• other expedition against Mexico would be an event which other Governments, and especially that of Great Britain, could hardly view with indifference. There is little doubt that the Spanish troops lately shipped from the Havannah are destined to attempt a repetition of the late descent upon Tampico, and, strongly as we hope, and firmly as we believe, that they will susta'n as signal a defeat as on the last occasion, the event suggests some considerations which ought not to be overlooked by our Govern ment, in the maintenance of the strict impartiality it has professed to observe between Spain and her liberated Colonies. There is not, so far as we know, any one gene ral principle by which the right of interference, or the duty of non-interference, with the conduct of one nation by another, can be abstractedly deter mined. The acts of a State, like those of an in. dividull, must always depend upon time, place, and circumstance,—so that what is its duty at one periori may become exactly the reverse at another. There is no permanent political code for the world, neither are politics, if they at all approach the dignity of a science, any thing more than an experimental one, or a science consisting altogether in the observation of circumstances. To apply to those circumstances that morality by which the happiness of mankind is best promoted, is the first duty of Governments—their second being to advance the prosperity of their own subjects to the utmost of their ability. Whenever, therefore, more permanent good may be effected by interference than by neutrality, such interference is not only justifiable, but required by that moral law to which nations and individuals are alike subject, and of which HOOKER has said, that " its seat is in the bosom of Goo—its voice in the harmony of the world." We are far from saying that the British Govern ment ought to assist Mexico against Spain, in the present position of those Powers towards each other, because, however desirable to Great Britain the peace and prosperity of Mexico may be in a commercial point of view, and however inju rious the perpetuance of such hostilities to a large portion of mankind, yet so certain is Mexico of being eventually freed from these annoyances by her own arms, that there is no better reason for giving her foreign aid, than for assisting a man fight ing in his own defence, who is on the point of sub duing his wrongful assailant. In a war of exter mination, on the other hand, such as that of the Turks and Greeks, the standers-by ought no more to remain neutral, than to suffer the murder of an innocent person whom they have the power of saving. This is the sole and sufficient justification of the Greek Treaty, the only real reproach of which is that it was made several years too late, and that Europe had heard for so long a time unmoved those cries, which NIEBUHR, in his Roman History, bitterly calls " the swanlike strains of a slaughtered nation." That England should have countenanced the Mexican descent upon Cuba, on any other grounds than for the preservation of her own consistency and character for fair dealing, cannot, from what has been said, be at all inferred. Our frus tration of that measure was undoubtedly an in defensible breach of our neutrality, made in furtherance of the odious and abominable attempts of Spain to check the growth of American freedom ; but our true policy was to have left Spain and Mexico to themselves, because, of the triumph if the ynung Republic over her decrepid ancestor, there never could have been any ra- •ional doubt. As to there being any prospect of the Annexation of Cuba to Mexico, Rich a speculatio►► is at present perfectly frivolous. Neither does there exist in that island any disposition for such a con nection ; nor does it hold out advantages whatever to induce the inhabitants to desire it. The inde pendence of Cuba would be merely nominal, for the Mexican Deputies must always prevail in the Legi slature; and the protection to be afforded by a State without money itself, and, in truth, insolvent—in want of both soldiers and ships—and far from en joying internal tranquillity—would, to Cuba, be not less imaginary. A supply of Mexican produce might be a benefit, if the charges of carriage and freight would not enhance the price to the consumer in Cuba so enormously, that it has been calculated sugar and flour would cost full six times as much as they could be produced for on the spot. There appears therefore no inducement to the Cubans to substitute an Union either with Mexico or Colombia, for their present dependence on Spain, which has uniformly governed them with a degree of practical tolerance and liberality very far exceeding that displayed in the Mother Country. The resident in Cuba, is molested neither in liberty of opinion, ►►or of action, and is taxed very mode rately,—advantages which naturally produce con tent with his present rulers. The free population is very large, being to the slave as 64 to 36, whilst in Sr. Domingo, before the Revolution, the slaves exceeded the free men in the r►tio of 87 to 13, a►►d the population is said to be now about the same in the other West India Islands. There is therefore little fear either of a slave insurrection, or of any other in Cuba at present, nor does there appear any reason for doubting the continuance of the Spanish rule in that Island, unless the free inhabitants be in duced from circumstances to declare their i►►de pendence of the Mother Country. Would that the moderation with which Cuba is governed, had been imitated by the prudent relinquishment of a futile claim to those Colonies, which are jewels severed for ever from the Spanish Crown, that they may shine the more brightly with an independent lustre ! DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS 13 ink stock 219 % 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent- Cons. 9IVA I A Iti per Cent. IOON% 'Ditto Red.... 9914 wog 100 % t per Cent. Ann. Ditto, 1826 Rank L. Ann 19 3 4 9-16 Ditto 30 years Ditto 30 years India Stock 246% Ditto Bonds '77 pm. South Sea Stock Old Annuities ....... New Ditto Ex. Bills, Xl,OOO 2d. 77 76 pm. Ditto lid. 77 '76 pm. Ditto ............500 2d. '7'7 '76 pm. Ditto lid. 77 76 pm. Ditty Small 2d. '77 76 pm. Ditto lid. '77 76 pm. Bank for Account India for Account ...... - Cons. for April 16 9l %"c THIS DAT AT ONE O'CLOCK. i Neapolitan — jPeruvian Bonds ,Portuguese Bonds — Prussian, Old ....... Ditto, New — Russian llO% Spanish. :821 l3 Int• ••• ... • se French Rcntes, 5 p. c. —f —C. Exchange —f. —,-. 3 per cent. —t. —c. 1 ---- Exchange —f. —e. PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds Brazilian Bonds 69'A Buenos Ayres Bonds Chilian Bonds ........... Colombian Bonds Ditto, 1824 Danish 75 Greek Bonds Ditto, i 825. 4115•?; G uatimala Mexican Bonds Ditto, 1825 PRICES Or ,SHARES THIS DAY AY ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share. Anglo Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) .£lOO SSii Brazilian Mining Company 5 SA Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (iss. at 51. pm.) £2O Ditto National lO Columbian Mining Co. (iss. at 5/. pm.) .£3734 United Mex. Min. Co. (iss. at 2/. pm.) £39) 20 19U 8 19% X PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB, 24. Bank Stock 250 IBt. Patrick Inatir. (per ah.) Consols, 3 per cent. Gov. Stock, 354 per cent 991 Ditto, New - 4 per Cent lOl% Gov. Deb. 3% percent 91% Royal lanai Stock 46 Grand Canal Stock - City Deb. 4 per cent - allast Office Deb. 4 p. c - j Royal Irish Ditto - National Ditto Patriotic Ditto 2l( Hibernian Bank 19 1 4 Provincial Ditto 25 Royal Irish Mine — Imperial Mine Mining Co. of Ireland Commercial Buildings — FOREIGN EXCHAN AMSTERDAM, FEB. 1 Two montl HA: Arrived. Due. O America '0 Brazil O Buenos Ayres 0 O Carthagena 0 1 Dublin 0 O Flanders 0 O France 0 O Guernsey&Jersey 0 NGE YESTERDAY. COURSE OF EXCHJ Amsterdam C.F 12 9 Ditto, at sight 12 Rotterdam 2 U 12 9 Antwerp 12 9 Hamburg M.B. 14 91 Altona l4 31 Paris, 3 days' sight '2s 85 Ditto 2 U. 26 10 Bordeaux 26 10 Berlin Frank fort on Maine, Ex. M 153 i Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective fl. 2 M. 10 16 Trieste do 10 17 Madrid. Cadiz 36V, liilboa Barcelona Seville 35 Gibraltar 47% Leghorn 4 7 1,4 Genoa 26 10 Venice 4 74 Malta 4814 Naples Palermo per az. 118% Lisbon Oporto 44 Rio .►aneiro Bahia 25 Buenos Ayrea Dublin, 21 days' sight l% Cork ll,i BULLION, PER OZ. 1 . s. 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 tGES ON LONDON. 19.-12. 30. ,hs-12. '25. . Amred. Due. O Hamburg I 1 Holland ....«......... 0 O Jamaica 0 O Leeward Islands O Lisbon 0 O Mexico O Sweden 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning ... 49 minutes after 4. I Evening... minutes after 6. even into the kingdom of Poland, where it is asserted in repeated communications that the whole of the soldiery has been gained over, and especially the officers of inferior rank. Among the officers in Poland who have been placed under arrest, on suspicion of their connection with these intrigues, those of the rank of staff officers have rarely been implicated. A great number, however, of in ferior station, including captains and subalterns, have been dismissed the service ; others have been degraded, and not a few of those who have been least inculpated have been forced to leave the regiments and garrisons, and to enter into other corps. " In a letter from Constantinople of the 25th of January, which appears in the Austrian Observer, it is stated that the Russian ship of the line the Parmen had entered the roadstead of Bujukdere, her destination being 'to convey the Russian Plenipotentiary, Count Orloff, to Odessa from Constantinople, where his mission had been terminated by the arrival of the Marquis de Ribeaupierre. The fo reign ships of war were the Blonde frigate, the Airmen, a 44-gun Russian frigate, and a 16-gun brig belonging to the same Power. On the 16th the Sultan had embarked on board a steam-boat, and proceeded to the coast of Mar more, where he had remained for several days to enjoy the pleasures of the chace. On the 22d a fire had broke out at Galata, which had for some time assumed an alarming appearance, but had at length been overcome by the united exertions of the Turkish firemen, and of the crews of the English and Russian ships of war, so that the conflagra tion had been confined to about twenty lions' s. The Ca pitan Pacha and the Reis Effendi were both recovering from their indisposition. " The Smyrna Courier of the 21st of January an nounces that Prince Ipsylanti had tendered his resignation, which had been accepted, to the great regret of the troops, who are said to entertain a decided aversion for Count Capo d'lstria. During the stay of M. de Ribeaupierre he had been constantly attended by the President. A deputation from the Senate bad laid before him a view of the present state of Greece, and of her immediate necessities ; but the reception of this deputation was the only public act of M. de Ribeaupierre. " The correspondent at Lisbon of one of the French liberal journals has, it seems, been arrested on the 2d instant by order of the Portuguese authorities. The indi vidual in question is said to have been in the employment of the French Consul-General, who had applied to the Viscount de Santarem for his liberation ; but at the date of the letter in which the fact is announced the applica tion had not been attended with success. " I subjoin a comparative statement of the opinions of the principal Writers on general statistics, Malte-Brun, Graberg, Pinkerton, Hassel, and Balbi, as to the total population of the globe, and the numbers classed by each under the great divisions, arising from differences in reli gious opinion:— LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY). VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT. INJ UNCTION. -TR USSf AN AND OTHERS V. SAUNDERS AND OTHERS. The plaintiffs in this case were highly respectable gen tlemen, carrying on the business of merchants in Mincing lane. The defendants, who had become bankrupts, had also originally carried on the business of merchants, trading to the Mauritius. Some time since the defendants being in want of money, applied to the plaintiffs, With whom they were in constant communication, to lend them the sum of 10,000/., offering as security the consignment of the cargoes of several ships laden with sugar, that were shortly expected to arrive in the port of London. The plaintiffs lent the sum required, and since that period tke defendants had become bankrupts. One of the ships in question, called the Lord Melville, had just arrived in the West India Docks, and the object of the present motion, which was made ex-parte, was for an injunction to re strain Mr. George Smith, the treasurer of the West India Dock Company, from parting with the cargo of that ship. Mr. Purrs, with whom was Mr. RICHARDS, in ap plying for the injunction, stated the grounds of the appli cation to be, that the assignment in question was to be taken as an equitable assignment of the cargoes of all the ships for the security of the debt, and therefore that the plaintiffs were entitled to avail themselves of their security in preference to the other creditors.—lnjunction granted. IN THE MATTER OF WARDLE—DISOBEDIENCE OF TILE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, Fee. i'6,—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Margare►, Hall, from Demerara; the Thomas King, Williams, from ditto; and the Elphinstone, Richardson, from India. The outward bound remain. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 26.—Wind S.W. to W.S.W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Dartmouth, from Gibraltar. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 25.—Arrived the William and Mary, Tope, from Lisbon. The Cumberland, Pew, from Whitehaven to Jamaica, and the Scipio, Thornton, of Whitehaven, ran foul of each other on Tuesday night off t'ouglas, the latter lost her foremast, bowsprit, &c., and both vessels afterwards ran on shore at Braestones, near Whitehaven. The James, Quayle, from Strangford to Glasgow, was on shore at Ballyferries, with three feet water in her hold on Tuesday, but expected to be got off. The Stag, Ellis, from Seville, has arrived off Dover. The Lord Suffield, from Corfu, has arrived at Cork. The London, from New Orleans, has arrived off Liverpool. The Mogul, from Savannah, and the William, Muloy, from Naples, have arrived off Holyhead. The Mercury, Cochran, from Cadiz, and the Lark, from Lis bon, have arrived at Poole. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE came to town yesterday morning from their residence in Bushy Park...—. - The Duchess of GLOUCESTER and the Princess Sortcla. visited their Royal Highnesses at their residence in the King's Palace, St. James's. The Royal party partook 'of • a dejeune. Their Royal Highnesses returned to Bushy in the afternoon. The Princess AUGUSTA is expected to arrive in town in a few days from Worthing. The Duchess of GLOUCESTER visited the Duchess of KENT and the Princess So - rxia yesterday, at their resi dence in the King's Palace at Kensington. The Duke of CLARENCE is sitting for his bust to Mr. CHANTREY. Sir HOWARD DOUGLAS, the Governor of New Bruns. wick, had an interview on Thursday with the Duke of WELLINGTON at the Treasury. Despatches were received yesterday at the Admiralty from Admiral Sir P. MALCOLM in the Mediterranean. They were brought by a messenger who arrived from An cona, with flvsp aches from Mr. DAWKINS, our resident in Greece, for the Earl of ABERDEEN. EAST INDIA COMMITTEE. At the sitting of this Committee on Tuesday last, Charles Marjoribanks, Esq. was the only witness called daring the day. The Committee were occupied a considerable time in herring explanations on some doubtful points in the evi deuce given by this gentleman on the preceding Thursday. Mr. 51arjoribanks then stated that the Company contracted yearly with the Hong merchants for their teas, to the extent ' of about two-thirdst of the investment. The prises varied acc , rtling to the quality of the teas, which were not valued until seen by the Company's inspectors in China, who re ported the qualities to the &elect committee. That the price of congo ten contracted for was from 25 to 28 tales per peen!, a weight equal to 1331 b. and 1-3 d. In 1825 the Company reduced the price, _by which they paved ' 20,0001. per annum. About two-thirds of the congo tea which forms the bulk of each year's investment is con• tracted for. The remaining third is called winter congo, which is annually porch/m(1 to the extent of 90,000 or 100,000 chests. _ The contracts for tea are divided into 21 shares, which arc apportioned between the seven Hong merchants in various parcels, differing in amount, according to their seniority. The Company are always anxious to forward the inte rests of the British trade, and readily grant licences for the • ; country ships to take cargoes of tea to the various ports in Asia, to New South Wales, &c. Sincapore is not fre quented by ships freighted with tea. The officers of the ships have free liberty to import . British manufactures into China ; indeed, every facility is . rendrred by the Company to encourage the British trade. The ships, on their arrival in China, are put under the charge of a Hong merchant, who becomes security for them to the Government of that country. The Americans and others do not find it difficult to , procure security, although a preference is given to the Company's ships. The merchants who become security for the Company's ships are not, on that account, entitled to the trade with those ships With regard to the Ame ricans, who deal with outside merchants as well as with the Hong, the latter arty require the ship to purchase of them, as a compensation for their risk in securing it. The ships concerned in the contraband trade are net secured. • The trade in opium is confined to the islands at the . mouth of the river, amongst which the contraband traders lie. Chinese men of-war boats cruise about, and occa sionally seize upon the natives employed in conveying the drug on shore, whose heads are chopped off. These war vessels report to the authorities at Canton, that the ocean has been swept clear of the smuggling ships. The corrupt Government of China, and the great neglect of its laws, produce numerous edicts and proclama mations from the Emperor, which are perfectly ineffectual, causing absurd reports to be made, which are considered sufficient, and the illegal traffic continues. The opium seized is condemned to be burnt. Large fires are lighted on the hills; a great blaze is made, but it is very doubtful whether the opium is consumed in that manner. _ . . ..... The opium is put into hags for the purpose of being conveyed on slime, the original package remaining on board. ',Thump, the Hong merchant, who became bankruP t s was confided in a small room, and allowed only a little rice. lie found great consolation in a pipe of opium, which drug is smoked even in the Imperial Palace itself. The duties on most articles of imports into China a re . very high, and appear to be levied with the view of pro tecting the manufactures of that country. Camlets, of which article large importations annually take place, pay duty as high on the average as 18 dollars per piece, and , • with other charges upon them, are raised nearly 50 per cent. on the cost price. The cause of this high duty on camlets is stated to be owing to their near resemblance to silks. A good many are smuggled into the country, which the I.xity of the officers of the Government readily adrailn of tieing accomplished. In the event of a consul being appointed at Canton by . the English Government, no benefit would arise, as the East India Company's supercargoes there would even then he considered the principal representatives of the British nation. The Chinese do not attach any degree of honour to Ambassadors, considering them merely as tribute bearers from an inferior power to his Celestial Majesty. Formerly there were eleven llong merchants, four of whom are bankrupts. Of the remaining seven, five are substantial men. The Company make up any deficiency of their funds in China by bills drawn on the Bengal Government. Dr. Morrison is not the editor of the Canton Resister. The accounts of trade, &c. in that paper are as correct as moat newspaper information, being derived from the same sources, and theref , re sometimes incorrect. The Company's exports from China are confined solely to tea. Nankeens and silks were formerly exported by them. For the benefit of the officers of the Company's ships, these articles have been discontinued in the invest ment, the Company wishing by every means to encourage their servants. Mr. Iklarjoribanks, in the course of his evidence, gave an opinion at some length on the currency of the Chinese, by which it appears that the tael is merely a nominal coin ; and that the Chinese prefer dollars to uncoined sil ver in payment of goods, considering the dollar to be of a more equal standard to their own coin than the other. The East India Committee met again on Thursday,' when two witnesses were examined (Mr. William Brown and Mr. Richard Milne), both, we believe, gentlemen connected with the town of Liverpool, and engaged in the American trade carried on between this country and China, and China and the United States. They entered into a minute detail of the manner in which the American trade was conducted, and stated that, not withstanding the difficulties which attended the various transactions with the Chinese, and the many article" which presented themselves, this trade was pursued with little or no interruption, and with considerable advantage. Woollens, for example, which arc exported from this country into China by the Americans, realized a fair profit. They had lately turned their attention to cotton yarns► as an article suited to the Chinese market, and with evetj prospect of success. The Americans considered themselves, and indeed were, upon an equal footing with other nations in China. The English East India Company did not exercise any undo" influence or controul there. Obstacles occurred to the traders with China, owing to the peculiar customs of that people. In cases of damage occurring to the tea-chests, by which the artiele became unsaleable, the merchants of Chins would, in most eases, exchange the chests for others when returned. The Canadas, no doubt, to a certain extent, were sup plied with tea, by the United States previously to the E a st India Company sending it there. The Americans considered their tea to be equal to the English, in point of quality. From American habits, green tea preponderated in that country. Their Graces the fr D om u t k h e ei a r n p d riv D at u e eLe i s ie s rs of an N d o h : TILUMBKRI,AND have detrrmined to enforce a stricter se: tention to the etiquette on the part of the Nobility ste" all nho a Gentry, l' l y i se e :t c e l 7l ( t i l i i n e g mselves from the levee and drawing" room. Two remarkable eases have already occurred. Colonel G--, a distinguished military functionary, went to the levee, but his lady did not attend the drawing room. The lady of a certain Church dignitary appeared at the latter, while, at the levee, her husband was invi sible. Cards of invitation have been forwarded to the Colonel and the dignitary's lady only ; and the names of their respective consorts have been omitted. In any last' mentioned that none of the Protestant Prelates attended at the levee; none, therefore, of their Lordships werein vited to the first gold service dinner, which took place last week, while Dr. MtrAKAY and Dr. KILL', the titu lar Archbishops of Dublin and Tuam, were present. The two latter were present at the levee. ORDERS OF THE COURT• Mr. MONTAGUE stated, that an order had been made by his Honour a few days ago on this matter, that a cre ditor, who through mistake, had omitted to prove his debt at a dividend meeting under the Commission, should he at liberty to prove. The Court had likewise resciaded the order with respect to the dividend•, and directed the Com missioners to recalculate them, including the debt that had not been proved. The creditor attended the 14th list of Commissioners yesterday and proved his debt, but one of the Commissioners, Mr. Impey, refused to obey that part of the order of his Honour which directed the recalculating of the dividend, and ordered the divi dend meeting to he advertised. The other two Com missioners, Mr. Grant and Mr. Sorters, were per fectly ready and willing to attend to the order pro nounced. Under these circumstances, he (Mr. Mon tague) was instructed to request the Court to intimate to the Commissioners that it was their duty to obey its orders, there being no means of compelling them to do so except by removing them. The VICE-CHANCELLOR could not conceive the reason why Mr. Impey had so acted, or what question had been raised to prevent him from complying with the orders of the Court. Mr. KNIOHT observed that the only question was, whe ther the Court or Mr. Impey was the superior Judge. The VICE-CHANCELLOR—My order must be obeyed, and, if it is not, application must be made to the Lord Chancellor to remove Mr. Impey, and to place some other gentleman in his room who will obey the orders of the Court. Mr. KNioirr requested the Court to give some direc tions, with which they might endorse their briefs. The VICE-CIIANCELLOA—The order must be obeyed. If it is not, I shall take care that it is notified to the Lord Chancellor• Ilk HONOUR having disposed of all the causes in the paper of the day, rose at a quarter before one o'clock. Nothing of particular public interest took place to-day in and• of the other Law Courts up to the time of our going to Press. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CL CK. We have only arrivals this morning from the East, Sin gapore, Mauritius, and Ceylon, which do not bring any thing of importance. The Dutch Mail brings the Dutch Funds per c 'nt. higher ; Russian Stock the same as last account ; Sp an i s h Hope Loan, 1 per cent. higher ; Corks Bonds, per cent. lower ; Consols done there per cent, higher; Greek Bonds, the same as last account. Consols, which left off yesterday at 91i to 92, opened this morning at 914 and are at present 911, with little or nothing doing. Nothing doing in the Foreign Market. ENGLISit JNDS. Bank Stock, 21E4 19/ India Stock, 2 t 6 8 S per Cent Cons. 911 Do. for April Account, 91i Ditto Reduced, 921 I OREM 31 per Cent. 100 1 New 4 per Cent., 1021 2- 4 per Cent. 1826 105/11 India Roods, 76 77 Exchequer Bills, 76 77 FUNDS. Greek, 414 2 Mexican, 251 Peruvian, 19 -1 Portuguese, 581 91 Prussian, Russian, 1101 11 Spanish, 121 131 TWO 0' CL 0 CK. Brazilian, 68i a Buenos Ayres, 29 31 Chilian, Colombian, 22i Danish, 741 5 French, 5 per Cent. 109 Ditto, 3 per Cent. 84 1- The Consul Market has remained during the morning at 91 , and 91- for the Account. At present they may be quoted 914 and for money It is supposed in the House that the Hebrew party have been shipping their stock, owing to an expectation that the present French Ministry will not be of long duration. Important events may soon be looked for from that quarter. A French Parer states, that out of the 430 Members 200 are for the Ministry. THREE 0' CL 0 CK. Consols for Account, 9li 1,. The Court Journal of this day contains —Life in Ireland—A Royal Favourite !—The English in Rome—Original Anecdotes of the Emperor NICHOLAS _-General lnvitationa_-Sit• THOMAS LAWRENCE at Aix la-Chapelle—Migh Life in Paris—Letter from Mr. T. CAmearmr. to Mr. T. Moortx—Fashionahle Gaieties of the Week—A Critic of the 18th, and a Critic of the 19th Century—A Royal Epigram !--Mies KEMBLE'S Mrs. Beverley—Court Gossip—The Duke in the Gazette — New Mot of BR UMMEL, &c.—Lord LONDONDERRY'S new Work—The Adventures of a Man of the World— Theatres, Fine Arts, Literature, ff.c. &c. ARRIVALS. The Earl of Kenmair, at Crawley's Hotel (late Cook's), Albe marle-street, from Paris; Sir Thomas and Lady Acland and fa. roily, in Pall-mall, from their seat in Devonshire; C. A. Dale, Esq. at the St. James's Hotel, Jermyn-street, from Oxford ; Lord and Lady Wrottesley Russell and Lord. Edward Russell, at Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, from Woburn Abbey, Beds ; Le Chevalier de Werthcimstein and family, at ditto, from Paris ; Mr. James Stuart, and family, at ditto, from Cooper's. hill ; Mr. and Mrs. Aldridge, at the Burlington Hotel, from Sussex; G. Heneage, Esq. M.P. at ditto, from Lincolnshire; - Fellowes, Esq. at Morley's Hotel, Cockspur-street, from a tour ; Colonel and Mrs. Gooch, at Symrnons's Hotel, St. James's street, from the Continent • the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. C. Jones, in Wimpole.street, from Bath ; Mr. and Mrs. Ruggles Brim, at Fladong's Hotel, Oxford-street, from Spain's Hall; Le Cheva lier de Li.na, at ditto, from the Continent; Captain Frederick Markham, at ditto, from a tour; Mrs. Prendergrass, at ditto ; F. Cole, Esq. at ditto. DEPARTURES. The Earl and Countess Somers, from Thomas's Hotel, Berke. ley-square for the Priory, Ryegate ; Mr. and Mrs. Keene and family, from ditto, for Surrey; J. Moss, Esq. from the Burling ton Hotel, for Liverpool ; - Harrison. Esq. from ditto, for ditto ; Lord and Lady Grantley, from Warren's Hotel, Regent street, for their seat, near Guildford; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Savage, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for Dover ; J. Brown, Esq. from ditto, for Liverpool; the Rev. William Coul son, from Pall-mall, for Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. Hibbert, from the Pulteney Hotel, Albemarle-street, for Canterbury; William Lawley, Esq. from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Ox ford • Mrs. Jekin, for Kent ; J. Fitzgibbon, Esq. on a tour ; Captain Warrington, for Warwickshire; H. Williamson, Esq. for Cambridgeshire. FEMALE FASHIONS FOR MARCH. (From La Belle Assemblee.) MORNING DRESS. A gros de- Naples dress, the colour a shade between lavender and lilac; the corsage sits close to the shape, is made quite up to the throat, and fastens behind imperceptibly. Tight long sleeve, with a very full upper sleeve, which comes nearly to the elbow. The ruffles are of embroidered muslin, and of a new form; they are composed of two rows each, set on full ; one turns upwards, the other falls over the hand. A black velvet bracelet, with a gold clasp, divides the ruffle. The trimming of the skirt consists of two rows of very broad rich feather-fringe, corresponding in colour with the dress; the tows placed very near each other. The colla rette is worked to correspond with the ruffles ; it is of the pelerine form, but of a small size. Morning cap, a high full caul of English lace, the fullness divided by rouleaux of satin, edged with narrow lace. A bouquet of roses is placed rather to the right side, and some single flowers are interspersed among the rouleaux. The strings, which are of broad gauze ribbon, hang loose. BALL DRESS. A dress of bright cherry-coloured gaze de St. Valiere, over a grope de Naples slip to correspond. An under corsage of white satin, is cut low, and square, and edged round the bust with narrow blond lace. The corsage of the dress is open before and behind to the centre of the waist. It turns back in a full, which is very narrow at the bottom, but broad at the top of the bust. These folds are edged with blond lace ; they are open on the shoulder, anti form an elegant finish to the sleeve. Cherry-coloured ceinturc, embroidered in gold, and ter minated at the waist by a fall of gold fringe. Sleeve, a ht Maintenon, terminated en manchettc, with very broad blond lace. The trimming of the skirt consists of a wreath of foliage, embroidered in gold at the upper edge of the hem. Coiffeure dla Donna Maria. The hair is dressed in very full curls on the temples, and in binds and bows, which are brought very high on the summit of the head. It is ornamented witb`gold flowers mingled with white roses. The bouquet, ala Jardini?re, placed on one side of the bosom, corresponds with that in the hair. The bracelets and ear-rings are of massive gold ; the latter in the girandole form. (From the World of Fashion.) EVENING mums. A dress of Vert American satin royal, the corsage has a very little fulness across the bosom, which is arranged in a few small plaits, by a rouleau of the same material, placed longitudinally; the bust is ornamented with a fall of blond lace, disposed a Pen. fast. Beret sleeve, terminated erg manchate, with blond lace to correspond with the bosom. The trimming of the skirt con. sists of rouleaux, arranged in dents de sois ; they are interlaced in a ♦ery novel manner. The headdress is a velvet beret, the colour is rose du Parnasse. It is ornamented with a mixture of s ilver roulcaux, white gauze riband, and white ostrich feathers. D12E88119. Velvet, satin, and crape are the materials most in favour in full dress. The bodies of dresses continue to be cut very low, and arc in general much ornamented. The large sleeves of satin or velvet dresses are always of blond lace, or rich gauze, and made extremely wide, or if the long sleeve is of the same mate rial, it is nearly tight, and surtnounte4 by an epaulette a la belle Pante, or a sleeve in beret, or double beret ; the greater number of the beret sleeves arc finished with blond lace. The tunic form continues in the highest favour in grand cot tume ; a superb dress of this kind is composed of white crape, trimmed sound with gold fringe ; a Grecian border embroidered in gold serves as a head to the fringe. The under dress is in white gros des hales, embroidered round the bottom in a Gre cian border to correspond with that on the tunic, but much deeper. BALL D BESS. Never were the fair votaries of Terpsichore attired with such splendour, taste, and invention as at present. Crape, tulle, and various rich gauzes are the materials employed for dresses. Blond is much used to ornament the corsage and sleeves. We have seen some dresses which had the back part of the bust, and as far as the shoulder in front, trimmed with blond lace ; it is set moderately full round the back, but excessively so on the shoulder, where it. fastens with a cameo, diamond, or pearl agrafii.. We select the following from a number of beautiful trimmings. A dress of vapour crape, embroidered above the hem in a wreath of flowers, and foliage of different shades of green ; the flowers and leaves are bordered with a narrow gold filet, which corre sponds with the stalks, which are also of gold. The trimming of a white crape dress is composed of bouquets of leaves, embroidered in granite silk, and intermingled with branches of jessamine, embroidered in silver. GENTLEMEN'S FASHIONS. (From the Gentleman's Magazine of Fashions, 4c.) ♦N RVENING DRESS. A Diebitsch pelisse, made rather long; it has Astracan fur on the edges three quarters of an inch wide; the sleeves are large, particularly at top ; the back, at the waist, is gathered in like a pelisse, and has a rich bullion fringe across the hips ; there are four silk frogs on each breast, running broad across the chest. The collar is a full roll, entirely to the waist, and is made of Astracan fur, which is continued to the bottom of the skirt ; it is about four inches broad. The skirts are lined through with velvet, and the sleeves with silk. A bottle-green dress coat, with white satin waistcoat, intermixed with silver. Black kerseymere tight pantaloons. ADDITIONAL NOVELTIES IN GENTLEMEN'S DRESSES, &C. Dandies distinguish themselves by the following costume, which is so very general, that it might pass for their uniform. Coat of a deep chestnut colour ; collar and facings of velvet to , correspond ; cloth buttons, with patterns of gold in relief; cravat of white satin, waistcoat of white velvet, painted in bouquets of diffbrent colours, with six buttons, composed of precious stones; small-clothes of black cassimere, occasionally of black panta loons ; plain black gauze silk stockings; a claque of black vel vet, with a torsade in gold or silver, fastened by a button in precious stones. Shoes of glazed leather, with small gold buckles. Many gentlemen appear at the theatres in black or blue coats, with pantaloons of corresponding colour ; a strap, which passes from the pantalcon round the shoe, is attached on each side by a gold button ; the waistcoat is of velours espelugle, in gold ; cravat of black silk, and straw-coloured gloves, highly glazed. Some dandies have appeared at balls in small-clothes of pewee coloured cassimere, and black silk stockings, with Open worked clocks. The materials for waistcoats have never been more varied. White Marsella, black, grey, blue, and granite satin, figured and flowered ; silk and velvet materials of variegated colours, and of running patterns, are all equally adopted; but waistcoats of white velvet, with patterns , painted in different colours, and buttons of precious stones, are considered the most decidedly elegant. For evening dresi, waistcoats are also worn. Black velvet, with small blue and yellow spots or stripes, and terry velvets of all colours, and of the most striking patterns, with silks of the same character, are fashionable; they should have satin or spangled silk under to correspond. The collars are still turned over or made rolling waistcoats. Plain turn-over black silk, faced with black Genoa velvet, is a good deal worn at present. The under waistcoat should then be of white Marsella, or white satin. The waistcoats worn by some dashers at balls arc made of sky blue satin, with a rolling collar. The cravats of our dandies are of white satin ; the ends are creased in front, and fastened by one or two large buttons, either of grencts or diamonds. Elegant men of fashion are seen in cra vats of the finest lr.dia Ruffles and tuckers of Brussels lace have lately been fashion able. The ruffles are rather more than an inch below the cuff of the coat. Shoes are of glazed leather, with small gold buckles. Dress hats for grand balls or parties are composed of velvet. The elastic chapeau bras, so much in fa, our lately with our dandies, has given place to a black velvet hat, with a low crown, the bottom of which Is surrounded by a small flat chain Cocked bati, for evening dress, arc considered the mo,t fs shionable. The most elegant are those trimmed with a steel button and loop, with a black feather. Instead of steel button and loop, some dandies wear on their dress hats a loop composed of small gold beads. The most fashionable hats arc about eight inches high in the crown ; they are called pointed, because they are much smaller at the top than at the bottom of the crown. The brim is narrow, and turned up at the sides, kepi Min t %i glu that or o sue} the tnitt his Sh, the seal oire ant Ste citt; 30 to in ti di Cl u: Y I tc ii tt kt G