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'..., '- 1 )Ir t illmok „;! , , i.,.„- , --,,, j ,.-- 4: . -w4S, z vitgw• Cpl a , ' °I - 911ilitiel - BRITISH INSTITUTION, PALL-MALL. IS MAJESTY having been graciously A- 1 pleased to direct that the interesting PORTRAITS of the SOVEREIGNS sad other distinguished indivi dualsfwlto assisted in bringing the late War to its conclu sion, painted by the late PRESIDUT of the ROYAL ACADEMY, should be Exhibited for the BENEFIT of his Family, the Directors of the British Institution, aniious to carry into effect• his Majesty's most gracious i ntention, give notice that the EXHIBITION of these P ORTRAITS, together with some other of the most cele brated Works of this eminent Artist, is OPEN DAILY from Ten till Six o'clock. other writers, and secure to him the right which every man ought to possess in his own efforts, whe ther bodily or intellectual. In France regulations have been long since enacted, by which the author of a successful play is entitled to a ten; It of the actual reeetptiit the door of every theatre throughout the kingdom, as long as it con tinues to be represented; none can be a fairer or-. rangement, for the provincial theatres will not per form the piece longer than they find it worth their while. Admission, ls.—Catalogues, Is. • ' WILLIAM BARNARD, Keeper. No. 11,782. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 17, 1830. PRICE 7D. THE MARKETS. EAST - INDIES.--PANORAMA of CALCUTTA. NOW OPEN, in the LARGE CIRCLE, PANORAMA, LEICESTER-SQUARE, a Su perb VIEW of CALCUTTA, embracing nearly the whole of the Public Buildings, the River Ilooghly, covered with Vessels and Bolts, and every subject of interest. The view (taken from the Esplanade, during the celebration of Hindosi Festival) is enlivened by several thousand Figures, illustrating. the singular Manners, Customs, Dress, 84 e. of the Natives. 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HALIFAX.—At our market, on Saturday, considerable business *as done, and the improvement which has, for some weeks, been experienced at Bradford, was partially felt here for the first time,—a small advance having been obtained on some descriptions of goods.—lt gives us pleisure to mid that there are few hands out of employ, and we hope to be enabled soon to convey the gratifying intelligence of an advance on wages.—Halifax Commercial Chronicle. A most melancholy and distressing accident, which has ezcited the liveliest sensation both in this town and the immediate neighbourhood, ocairred on Friday afternoon, cff Mr. Pa tten's wharf, Northfleet. On the afternoon of that day two young gentlemen, one the son of R.P.CRUDEN, Esq., of the Terrace, Milton, and the other the son of GRETTON, Esq., who had been residing , for a short time at Gravesend, procured a skiff from Flamm.; Esq., for the purpo‘?e of enjoying an hour's amusement on the water. While they were rowing off Northfleet, the skiff, it is supposed, upset, and, melancholy to relate, both sunk to rise no more. No one having been near the spot when the fatal occurrence took place, the cause of it caunot be correctly ascertained ; but it is conjectured that the unfortunate youths had unthinkingly tried experiments in rowing, by which means the little bark lost its balance, and was overturned. The accident was discovered by the oars of the boat and a hat being seen floating upon the surface of the water. It is unne cessary to add that the bereaved relatives of the young gentlemen, neither of whom had attained 17 years of age, have been plunged into the deepest di s t ress a t t hi s lament able catastrcphe. The oodles have not y e t b een p i c k e d up, although a reward of 101. has been offered for them. --Maidstone Gazette. Mr. Breoucllam resumed his arguments in this case to-day. When he lastaddressed their Lordships he had shown the existence of barony by tenure in former times by the dicta of high judicial autho rities, the records of Parliament, and the decisions of their Lordships' House. There was no autho rity to show that its existence had ceased. It had survived that great measure of the 12th of Charles 11., whereby all military tenures were abolished; for in that very measure there was an express pro vision that the privilege of being summoned to Par liament as parcel of a. tenure by barony should be saved. -He would now proceed to state the facts on Which the present claim was founded. The first grant of the honour to the Berkeley family was in the first year of the reign of Richard 1., being the first of legal memory and made by Queen Eleanor, the mother Of Richard I. (the King being then abroad). By a charter, dated the 30th of October, she granted to Maurice de Berkeley and his heirs, Berkeley- and all Berkeley Hernesse, to be holden of the King and his heirs in barony, by the service of five knights. Hernesae is of Saxon origin, and meant all the appurtenances and right attending.that barony., This charter was confirmed. by Richard himself, -and also by King John, to the succes sors 'of Maurice de Berkeley. The charter of King John gave the Lord de Berkeley supreme juris diction over the lives and properties of those who resided within the manor of Berkeley Castle. No doubt it looked very absurd that a felon escaping from gaol should have a right to sit in their Lordships' House to pass judgment on the lives and property of his fellow-subjects, as would be the case if such a person should purchase this barony, if the right now contended for wet e established; but in former days the Barons were as tender of honour and of high blood as they were at present, yet a rogue or a felon might, by purchase, become the sole judge of the lives and property of his fellow subjects, as in the case of the Duke of Argyll, who had been, by purchase, Supreme Justiciary in Scot land, who could sit at the head of the Criminal Court (as Lord Tenterden would sit at Old Bailey), though the money whereby lie should purchase such a right might have been the result of a robbery com mitted on the King's highway. No argument could formerly be advanced against that right, for it was admitted and exercised; but now there could, for it .had been abolished by legislation, not by tau n t s an d sneers, or by dissuetude ; so with a barony by te nure it might be put down by legislation, but not otherwise. The Learned Counsel having traced the pedigree down to the 15th of Edward 1., observed, that in that year it was decided by the Justices iti nerant in Gloucester, and admitted by the attorney for the King in certain proceedings in a quo War rant° against the then Lord Berkeley, that he held the various liberties and franchises therein stated per baroniam. Here was a decision of a Court of Justice recognising a barony by tenure. Having traced down the pedigree to the reign of Homy VII., he begged to call their Lordships' attention to a cir cumstance which appeared to him to amount to a demonstrative proof that this was a barony by te nure. William Lord Berkeley was a great favourite of that careful, he would not say avaricious Mo narch, Henry VII. If a person wished to win his way to a Monarch at the present day, he should do it by stock-jobbing or dabbling in the funds, quod longo absit; but it appeared that the way to propi tiate a Monarch in the time of Henry VII. was by lands. That Monarch conferred the title of Marquis de Berkeley on the then Lord Berkeley, in considera tion of his levying a fine on his property to the use of himself for life, remainder to the heirs male of his body, remainder to Henry VII., and his heirs male, remainder to the right heirs of the said Mar quis. The Marquis died without any issue, and the barony of Berkeley devolved on the King by the fine. Now if this was a barony by writ, it was evi dent that the title would devolve on the brother of the Marquis ; but as the brother did not succeed to the land, he never enjoyed the title, but died a com moner. Was not this an unanswerable proof that it was not a barony by writ ? The honour merged in the Crown, in consequence of its succeeding to the land on the death of Henry VII. The barony descended to Henry VIII., yet none of the Berkeley family sat in the House of Lords until the 14th year of that Monarch's reign, when the nephew of the Marquis was created Lord Berkeley by writ, and took his seat as a newly-created Peer. Thus, for the period of thirty years, not one of the family sat • in their Lordships' House, in consequence of the land to whida the title was attached being in the possession of the Crown. On the death of Edward VI., the reversion of the Barony devolved on the heirs-general of the Marquis de Berkeley; and it appeared that, in the reign of Philip and Mary, Henry Lord Berkeley was accordingly summoned to Parliament, and took his seat, not as the heir of the Lord who had been created by writ, but by vir tue of his tenure, for he enjoyed the same rank as the ancient Barons de Berkeley. He (Mr.Broughain) had now shown that this must have been a barony by tenure of land, by the decision of a Court of Justice in the case of the quo warranto, by the dig nity ceasing to exist in the family when the barony was out of their possession, and by its revert ing to them along with the reversion of the land. Some explanation should be given of these facts, consistently with the arguments on the other side, and inconsistently with his .(Mr. Brougham's), or his case was proved. It had been indignantly taunted, that no person ever heard of a Peer sitting in that House by tight of purchase; but in answer to that he would say, that Bishops sat in that House as Barons by tenure, and in no other way—nay, there was a Bishop who was not entitled to sit in that House, because he had not a barony; he meant the Bishop of Sodor and Man; yet he had all the other rights of a Bishop; an ordination by him was as good as one by the Pope—(Laughter)—he had a right to sit in the Convocation, but though he did not sit in the English Parliament, he sat in the Manx Parliament. He did homage to the Lord of Man. Now was it not absurd that a subject could make a Bishop ? Yet the Duke of Atholl could make a menial servant a Bishop if he could get him ordained, and such a Bishop would have a right to sit in the Convoca tion. A Bishop could not take his seat in that House until be did homage to the King, for the land which conferred the right of a seat in that House was vested in the Crown, from the death of the predecessor, until homage was done. From this it was evident that those Bishops had their baronies, not by force of their consecration or election, but by force of the land, He entreated their Lordships to dismiss front their consideration all the obligations founded on inconvenience, for many sound rights of prerogative would be superseded if such arguments were allowed. The agent of Colonel Berkeley was then called, and deposed that Colonel Berkeley was in the pos session of the manor of Berkeley Castle, with its appurtenances, and that the witness held the Court there on behalf of the Colonel. This closed the case on behalf of the claimant. The further consideration of the subject was then adjourned sine die. rdr. WILLIAM MAYFIELD, of Martin Fen, has a turkey cock which. has at upou 30 eggs the whote ' time, and brought off 20 bird5,.......,805t0n Gazette. All are agreed that the English Theatre must b e spoken o f as a thing that has been. Little interest is now taken in theatrical representation; and the talent of the nation has taken another direction. The speculations to which this decline has given rise are various. Some will have it that we have outlived the period when the drama is fitting enjoyment for the people ; and they instance the provincial theatres, which, with better founded c l a i ms f or support than ever, are quite deserted.. But, in this country, fashion is om nipotent ; and if in the metropolis the theatre is no longer the mode, the country apes the me tropolis. The desertion of the country theatres, therefore, merely proves that the people in the country are determinta not to be behind the people in town. If a taste for the theatre were to revive in town it would extend to the' country. Before we arrive at the sweeping con clusion that clue encouragement could not sti mulate dramatic genius, or that the display of .genius;seeonded by good actors, would not be successful in obtaining audiences, we ought first to remove the obstacles in the way of the attempt. The following observations on the subject in the Monthly Magazine for June, appear to us sensible. But then, of what use is it to know the conditions on which we could restore the drama, when we know, at the same time, that the monopolies are too strong to be overcome ? We look on the destruction of the theatre as inevitable, because the monopolies are too strong for the public : The unequivocal decline of dramatic writing in England has at length attracted the notice of indivi duals who are likely to offer the only hope of its restoration. Though genius is not to be created by human expedients, it is perfectly true that genius may be thwarted by human obstacles to such a dc gree that it throws up the struggle, and retires in contempt or despair. It is impossible to believe that England is dest:- tute of dramatic genius, or that it is more desti tute than it was during the last half century; or that, with its various and active vigour of mind, it cannot supply the general demands of any species of literature. The cause of our failure in the drama must be looked for in the circumstances of theatres them selves. In the first place, fifty years ago our winter theatres were comparatively small buildings, in which the chief attraction must be the finished style of the acting, or the dramatic interest of the play. Within the last fifty years this system was changed, the small theatre was distended into a» enormous building, and the direct results of the change were, theatrical debts for the building, in creased expences for the nightly performance, and the necessity of pageants to attract the audience to houses where, from the size, the pleasures of the ear must be replaced by those of the eye. This change has been charged on the late John Kemble, But be must be relieved from the charge; for DrurrJane Theatre had been built by Holland be fore Kemble had the remodelling of Covent-garden after the fire, and Holland's theatre was more colos sal than Kemble's. In England debt is always the first element of ruin. The formidable expences of the theatres soon compelled every species of temporary con trivance, to escape utter bankrup!cy. To fill the enormous house for the moment, the most extrava gant anticipations of the future revenue were made, and popular actors were engaged for short periods at inordinate salaries; spectacle and pageantry became the managerial resource; and upon a few leading favourites, and a pantomime or melodrame, was lavished the revenue which once had under wiser management been spread over the season. As the immediate consequence of the whole system authorship• was neglecter!. The 'manager's demand was for spectacle, which cost little in the authorship, and required scarcely an effort of the pen ; but which cost a vast deal in paint ing and processions, - and amply engrossed the car penters and dancers, and other mere supernumeraries of the drama. Dramatic writing is singularly difficult, and com paratively the work of a rare and peculiar kind of talent. So far it must be stimulated by finding that its labours are sufficiently remunerated. But of all public writing, a play is the most liable to be undone by the commonest contingency; the failure of an actor in his part, a popular prejudice against the writer or the subject, or any one of the commo:i impulses that may urge the multitude to injustice or absurdity, will totally destroy the labours of months in an hour. In fact, dramatic writing, from its pe culiarity and from its extreme precariousness, ought to have the prospect of larger emolument, in case of success, than any other exertion of general literature. There is as little doubt, also, that if it were ade quately encouraged by managers, its productiveness would rapidly reward their largest remuneration to the writer. But in 'the present state of the case managers ex pend on a monkey or a pretty puppet, on a dancer cr a droll, those resources which would enable them to sustain a succession of original and able plays on the stage. The whole secret of managerial success lies in the power of obtaining the assistance of able dramatists. Where tkat is neglected, riot all the skill of all the scene-painters arid the spec tacle-contrivers on earth can redeem the theatre from ruin. The course has been run before our eyes a dozen times within a dozen years. Every theatre i❑ London and round London has been plunged in de!- perate difficulties, and the sponge has been in gene ral the ouly discharge of the manager. The nature of property in plays also operates as a formidable obstacle to exertion. It contradicts all the rules of literary property. If an author produce a book he has his right in it for life, and it is avail able for a certain period after his decease; and this on the plain reason that the labour of the mind de serves protection as much as the labour of the hands. But the dramatic writer has no such pro tection. If his play be performed at one London theatre, it may be seized on by every theatre in England, and be turned into a source of profit, no part of which reaches the man most entitled to it.— To take the instance of Colman's John Bull. For this it is true that he received what was cen:;idered at the time a very liberal remuneration—about 1,0001.; but Harris, the manager, declared that his theatre cleared by - that play 12,0001., and, from its long popularity in the country theatres, the probable produce was not less than 50,000/. ! If Colman's work had been called a novel, this interlopiry , upon his property would have been arrested by the arm of the law ! But the cue is not less unjustifiable when the author chooses to publish his play before its per formance. From this moment any theatre may seize upon it, not merely without any remuneration to*the writer, but in despite of him; nay, where he had never intended his play for representation, Mana gers, too, may not merely seize it wholly, but muti late it, and make it ridiculous m any way t h e y please. Ti:is outrage has been so lo ng exc l a i me d against, that an attempt is likely to be made in the next Session to put the dramatist on a footing with PUBLIC NOTICE. IN consequence of the very increasing demand IN for DAY and MARTIN'S BLACKING, the Pro prietors hare erected a Manufactory on so extended a scale, that they will be enabled to execute all orders fur Foreign or Hems consumption at a day's notice. and to secure the Public from imposition an engraving of the New Building will appear ea the label. 97, Highs Halborn, May 1, MO. CANTERBURY. June 12, We bad a moderate extent of business this day, with a good supply of Wheat, which obtained our last currency. Beans are rather dearer, but Pease, Barley, and Oats, are without alteration. Wheat, white - red Barley, Malting Oats Beans Pease 635. to 755. 535. to 70s. to 345. 2Us. to 3Cs. 255. to 3Is. 325. to aqs —S. tO —B. —S. tO —S. 245. to 278. —S. to 39.5. 365. to 40s. 30s. to 345. TERRIFIC STORAL On Sunday, the 30th ult., a shower of hail, ac companied with terrific peals of thunder and vivid flashes of lightning, was witnessed about Auchintoul and Foggieloan, in the parish of Priarnoch ; more destructive in its nature than any thing of the kind remembered by the " oldest inhabitant" in that dis trict. The morning and early part of the day were calm and sultry, and the clouds lowering, and shift ing with great rapidity, till about three o'clock, p.m., when the southern part of the hemisphere assumed a dark and threatening aspect, and about four o'clock a slight rain commenced. A little after, a most vivid flash of lightning, of the forked kind, was seen, and was almost instantly followed by a peal of thunder, which, for loudness and terrific grandeur, has had no parallel in that part of the country for many years. To the thunder instantly succeeded a shower of hail, or rather ice, attended with a loud noise resembling that of a distant cataract. The hail, or ice, had the form of a double cone, very solid to wards the apex, and were of the greatest diameter, the size most unusual in this, or it is believed in any other country, the generality, measuring from four to 4 inches, and some of the largest above five inches in circumference. Such was their elasticity and ve locity of descent, that they rebounded several feet from the ground where they fell. This shower did not last above 10 or 15 minutes, yet the ground was covered in many places 15 inches deep ; and, notwithstanding the warmth of the day, the hail re mained upwards of 30 hours undissolved, retaining also the original shape. The extent of the damage occasioned to the district where the storm fell out has not as yet been properly ascertained. At Auchintoul House alone there have been upwards of 2,000 square feet of glass broken to atoms in the extensive hot-houses, and many of the windows in the front and sides of the mansion-house were shattered from the rebounding of the hail ; and Mr. Morrison's beautiful garden also has been greatly injured. Alexander Chalmers, Esq., of Cluny, lust the handsome cupola of his new house, besides a range of glass in his green-houses. Many birds were killed in their nests, and the destruction of young trees in the neighbouring plantations is most extensive. At the very time the above destruction was going on, a tornado or whirlwind passed through the same district, and was'attended by a like rush ing noise as that which accompanied the storm. This tornado was first observed near the mill of Auchintoul, proceeding in a westerly direction, col lecting and gathering up the pools of water, and straw, hay, &c. as it passed along; and at a place called Whitemuir it nearly unroofed the whole tene ment of offices; the thatch was torn from the roofs, and carried to an immense height in the air, assum ing, as it ascended, a regular spiral form ; and was distinctly seen whirling in the air at Banff and Portsoy, a distance of fifteen miles from the spot; and the generality of the mass, among which was a peat stack, was ultimately deposited about the Braes of Crombie and Ardmellie, a distance of several miles. The fall of the peat stack was distinctly seen by a lady from her carriage, and, from its very extraordinary appearance, seemed at first like a numerous flock of crows at one . of their extra gam bols. Many extravagant accounts of this very re markable storm are abroad.--Aberdcen Journal. A correspondent appeals through us to the public, on behalf of those poor men who have come from the northern counties, in the hope of finding employment in the hay-fields. During the last fortnight, he says, he has witnessed hundreds of them in and about the village of Highgate, in groups, depressed in spirits, and evidently suffering from the want of common support of our nature. They' do not beg, but are respectful, while their famished countenances speak to the heart. A report has been spread, that two of those poor creatures were found yes terday morning in a dying state under a bay-rick, near Finchley.—Surely some mode might be found to afford them relief for a few days. A trifle would do. Whatever is done should be done quickly.—Morning Paper. KILKENNY.—Butter 66s to 765. per cwt. ; Wheat 28s. to 31s. per barrel ; Flour 18s. to 365. per bag; Oats Os. to Ils. per bar rel; Barley 10s. to 125..; Beef 43. to 5%4. per lb. ; Mutton 33. to 4cl. ; Potatoes sd. per stone; Coals Is. 21. per cwt. ; Bacon, Pigs 245. to 265. per cwt. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND Exri JILTS. COAL MAR/ Beaumont 283. ed. East 28 0 Heblaurn Main . 32 0 30 0 Ord's Redhugh 27 0 Petaw Pontop 27 6 „.... 28 6 South 29 6 Tanfield Tanfield 28 3 Townley-- 2S 0 Wylam 30 9 Walls End Bell and Co. 33 0 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 33 3 Walls End Brown's 31 ft - Ditto Burraton 32 6 Ditto Clarke and Co. .... 30 3 Walls End Carr and Co. 29 6 Ditto Callerton 29 6 Ditto Gosforth 34 C Ditto Heaton 33 6 Ditto Hilda 31 6 Ditto 32 0 Ships at market, 975---Shl CMJNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE CET.—June 16. Walls End Newmareb... 325. 3d. Ditto Perkins and Co..— 31 9 Ditto Lliddell's„. 32 0 Ditto Walker --- 32 6 Walls End Hetton 34 9 Walls End Lambton...... 34 6 Walls End Stewart's 34 9 Ditto 28 0 Russell's Hettofi's W.E 34 9 Blyth 31 0 Calm C0x..... 27 0 Calm 28 0 Cuim Tenby Halbeath—,--,... 27 0 Hartley 32 0 Llangennech Coal „..—.. 38 0 Tenby • 55 0 Warde's Llanelly . 32 0 Walls End Selby 27 0 Ellison small 19 0 Hebburn small 18 0 Old Etherley small 18 6 ps sold, 50 —.Unsold, 47%. WEEK. CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat 7 0 9 0 Beef Barley Oats Beans 4 0 5 6 Mutton 2 6 4 0 Veal 4 9 5 6 Lamb Pease 5 0 6_ 0 . 1 Pork Hay 3/. lbs. to 3/. 15s. per ton. MARKET.—June 15. Pet lb. d. to d. 5 6 5 6 5 6 0 0 5 6 HULL MARKET.—June 15. There was a tolerably good supply of Wheat to this day's market, the best samples of which were taken off at an advance of Is. per quarter, yet the market could not be considered brisk, or the sales fee& There was little clone in other descriptions of Grain, and the quotations below are merely nominal. Wheat, Old —s. 60s. 68s. New Foreign —s. 655. 68s. ......In bond... —s. —s. —s. Oats, I'oland —s 2.05. 245. Old —s. —s. 265. Small or Feed.... —s. I2s. -- _Foreign ..... —s. 20s. 235. Barley, Norf. & Suf. ... —s. 30s. 355. Linc. & Wold —s. 30s 355. Foreign Bear • 14s. 38s. 425. Foreign .. —s. 30s. 365. Pease, White —s. 345. 38s. Grey Taros • —s 30s. 365. Foreign —s. 265. 30s. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —/. 281. 304 DUMFRIES MA' s.d. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 7 9 to 8 0 Butter, Itioz Barley '1 9 4 0 Eggs, dozen Oats 3 2 3 9 Beef, per lb. .BETS.—June V. Flour, 14W. Oatmeal 24 3 Clitlution 22 2 0 Veal O3 —.. . Potatoes, cwt. EXETER MAIL Beef (score) 9s. od. O. od. rtutton (lb.) ...... 0 5 —0 5i Veal and iamb 0 s—o 6 Pork 0 4i-0 6 Gee:e (each) 4 0 —6 6 Ducks (coup'e) 9 6—5 0 Fowls 2 0 —4 6 IRISH MA: DUBLIN MARKET NC JTE.-Ful IDAY, Jane 11 From 497 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 20 Bete l7 stone 17 Barley. l6 stone 8)3 Oats 12,311 Cwt. 9 stone 1,700 Oatmeal 8 stone Sold to ',takers only. 10,777 Cwt. Flour is o I 46 o m 0 0 13 0 - 0 13 0 17 0 I 6 0 2l 0 13 0 I 18 0 Is o I 9.3 o Average price of Wheat and Flour 51s. Bd. per Firsts, from 22.5. Od, Receipts of Flour, I,o74lSe co nds, from 14% 0(1, Sales of Do. 12,311 Thirds, from 6s. Pd, Quartern Loaf, PRICE OF BREAD. I Half Ouartern [IKE rs.—June 11. Wheat (bushel) 9s.od. 9s 31. Barley 3 6 —•3 9 Oats 3 0 —4 0 Beans 5 0 —5 6 Butter (lb) 0 8 —0 10 Eggs (18) 0 o—l 0 Potatoes (peck) 0 o—l 1 M. P. 15 7% 20 5% sack. to 5.-Is. Od. . to 21s. Od. to 13i Od. Wheat, Barley. Oats. I Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel per barrel 21 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. I Ist. s. d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d.is. d. as. d. s. o.as. d. Cork 26 6-33 6 13 0-15 0,14 0-16 018 0-21 0 7 0-18 0 Limerick !300-35 0 11 6-12 2! 8 9-14 018 0-21 0 0 0-15 0 Waterford'3o 0-35 0 13 0-16 0115 0-16 0 18 0-24 0 10 0-15 0 Clonnael — l 3l 0-36 0 11 6-14 6111 6-15 2.20 0-25 0 12 0- 16 0 Carlow —126 0-30 0 12 . 0-19 010 0-13 0120 6-21 0 0 0— 0 0 Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 20. 3d. 4th. sth. (1. a d. d. a d. s. d. as. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Cork 4; —6 4 —6 16 0 — O O 686 0 84 079 075 0.69 0 Limerick.. 3i —5 —5 32 0-33 0,86 080074068 0 62 0 Waterford 4—61 31 32 0 —23 6:82 080078073 0 70 0 Clonmel 21-4 3 —5 32 0 —35 0181 0— 0— —0 0 Carlow—,-4 —5lO —0 00 0 0178 0,74 0 164 0540 0 IMPORTED. Same pd- This nod last year. year. , Ix POILITI). Previous. ly this year. s. d. s. d. 0 0 to 0 9 00 04 04 00 In Russia a similar arrangement has been lately nacted. It now remains for the friends of the drama in England to adopt the principle, and by it lay a basis for the revival of the literature of the stage. To the common argument, that the little trifling transla tions from the French are overpaid already, and that the law needs not take the trouble of making for tunes for the translators, we answer, that those translations have been encouraged only by the dearth of original writing, and that the revival of original writing would rapidly extinguish them, and will be the only thing that can. The most natural consequence of a law protecting dramatic writing, would be to turn the efforts of men of ability to it as a regular pursuit; the only mode in which great skill in stage-authorship cati lie attained, or the stage can be supplied with a con stant succession of performances adequate to attract a manly popularity. Though Shakspeare and She ridan are gone, human nature is not fallow for ever; public attention to the rising talent of the stage is a stimulant which has never failed; and we might in the course of a few years see the deserted walls of our theatres crowded by the first personages of the empire, to witness the young genius of men that are in their day to remind us of the imperishable vigour of the British mind. To the possible objection, that, notwithstanding the French law, the national drama has gone down • in France, and the theatres are suffering under se rious embarrassments, we are entitled to reply, that no encouragement of law can alter the nature of a people—that the French are by nature farceur:, and that they seem incapable of either the sublime or beautiful, the higher tragedy or the higher co- ' medy. Their farces are in general excellent; failing • in point of force, they perfectly succeed in the-light touches of character, in dexterity of intrigue, and " in neatness of phrase. Their dialogue wants point, strength, and peculiarity. But the Frenchman in a farce scarcely requires dialogue. He makes up for the want of wit in words by wit in pantomime; his tongue is scircely required when he can make free use of his limbs; from the eyebrows to the feet he is all busy with telling his meaning; he wears per- • suasion in the eternal shrug of his shoulders, cad declaims alike with his hand or his heel. So, the French theatres of farce are flourishing; and the Theatre de Madame, in which Scribe produces all ' his farceur spoil from every stage of the earth— German, Spanish, English, Polish, Russian—is the most productive mint within the realm of half the Sovereigns of the Northern hemisphere. The public business of Parliament prevented the a , - tempt to make any serious impression on the Legisla ture in behalf of this natural right of authorship. • But we rely upon the effect of the universal public • conviction that some effort ought to be made to protect one of the very finest triumphs of the human mind. What, at this hour, constitutes the chief • glory of Greece, in the eyes of scholarship, but the Greek tragedies ?, What shines as the central jewel in the coronet of England's intellectual supremacy ? —the living glory of Shakspeare's drama. To excite the vigour of the English mind t) folloW this splendour would be among the noblest national ' services, and, for such, the authorship of the stage has a right to call on the highest zeal and energy of the Legislature. ENTRY OF THE ALLIES INTO PARIS. I feel it impossible to convey an accurate idea, or a just decription, of the scene that presented itself on the 31st in the capital of the French empire, when the Emperor of Russia, the King of Prussia, and Prince Schwartzenberg, made their entry at the head of the allied troops. The enthusiasm and exultation generally ex hibited must have very far exceeded what the most sanguine and devoted friend of the ancient dynasty of France could have ventured to hope ; and those who were less personally interested, but equally ardent in that cause, could no longer hesitate in pronouncing that the restoration of their legitimate King, the downfall of Bonaparte, and the desire of peace, had become the first and dearest wish of the Parisians, who had by the events of the last two days been emancipated from a system of terror and anarchy which it is impossible to describe, and from a state of ig norance of what was passing around them, its which they had been hitherto kept by the arts, of falsehood and deceit, almost incredible to an enlightened people, and incomprehensible to the reflecting part of mankind. The cavalry under his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Constantine, and the guards of all the allied forces, were formed into columns early i►► the morning on the road from Bondy to Paris.. The Emperor of Russia, with all his staff, his Generals, and the suites present, proceeded to Pantin, where the King of Prussia joined him , with a similar cortege. The Sovereigns, sur rounded by all the Princes and Generals in the army, together with the Prince Field Marshal and the Austrian etat-major, passed through the barrier of Paris, and entered the Faubourg St. Martin about eleven o'clock, the cossacks of the . guard forming the advance of the march. The ; crowd was already so great, and the acclamations. were so general, that it was difficult to move forward ; but before the monarchs readied the Porte St. Martin to turn on the boulevards, it was next to impossible to proceed. All Paris seemed to be assembled and concentrated on one spot; one mind and one spring evidently di rected their movements. They thronged in such masses round the Emperor and the King, that notwithstanding their condescending and graci ous familiarity shown by extending their hands on all sides, it was in vain to attempt to satisfy the populace, who made the air resound with the cries of "Vive l'Empereur Alexandre ! Vive le Roi de Prusse ! Vivent nos Liberateurs !" Nor were these cries alone heard ; for with louder ac clamations if possible, they were mingled with those of " Vive le Roi Vive Louis XVIII ! Vivent les Bourbons ! A bas le tyran !" The white cockade appeared very generally, and many of the national guards whom I saw wore them. This clamorous applause of the multitude was seconded by a similar demonstration from the higher classes, who occupied the windows, and terraces of the houses along the line to the Champs ElyEees. In short, to form an idea of such a manifestation of public feeling as the city of Paris displayed, it must have been witnessed, for no description can convey any conception of it. The Sovereigns halted at the Champs Elys6es, where the troops passed before them in the most admirable order; and the head-quarters were now established at Paris.—Lord Londonderry's Narrative vrthe War in Germany and France. Sir LI. HA RDINGE, it is understood, will de cline the honour of soliciting the, freemen for their votes, as he is likely to be appointed Secretary for Leland. Such being the case, Mr. TAYLOR and Mr. CIIAYTOR are at present the only declared caudidAteF....,Tyne On Saturday next will be published, in Bvo., 12s. CONVERSATIONS on RELIGION, with LORD BYRON and others. Held in Cephalonia a short time previous to his Lordship's Death. By the late JAMES KENNEDY, M.D., Of his Majesty's Medical Staff. John Murray, Albemarle-street. he of. alp Lb ro- is. '.B. S. ;d. 1.;