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was itopoesil.le to land good- in any other part. By one of the Acts, the Corporation were to appoint trustees, who were to make by-laws, and manage the docks. There was then the whole business transacted by the dock trustees, and the Corporation had nothing to do with the *hyping. The whole management had passed away from the mayor, bailiffs, and burgesses, as a Corporation, and was vested is the trustees of the docks. The considera tion, therefore, for these tolls, as regarded the Corpora. tion, was withdrawn, and there being no consideration on their part, they had no right to seek to enforce the dues. The Learned Counsel having proceeded at very great length, concluded by calling on the Jury to discoun tenance the present claims, and to set the question at rest by finaing a verdict for the defendants. The Jury returned a verdict fur the Corporation, thereby establishing their right to exact the town dues. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The Bill " For more effectual suppression of local dis turbances and dangerous associations in Ireland," brought in last night by Earl Grey is printed. The character and provisions of this intended law de monstrate the sense en.ertained by Ministers of the cruel alternative to which they have been reduced by the contempt for civil authority, the systematic overthrow of peace and order, the violation of the most sacred rights of property, and the reckless and awful sacrifice of human life, to which Ireland has so lung been a victim. We know nothing more deplorable than the condition of a Govern ment composed of honest men who find themselves unab:e, through the most diligent and skil•ul administration of the existing laws, to promote that end for which alone it is worth while to establish any law at all, or to proclaim a free constitution. Civil liberty is nothing more than the legal security of every citizen against wrong, and civil government nothing more than the practical enforcement of such security. To Ministers it has doubtless appeared that as they could not, under the old forms of the consti tution, discharge the first duty of a Government, by offering to its faithful nd unoffending subjects that pro tection in return for which, and on no other condition,it pos leases the right to exact their obedience and loyalty, it became their bounden duty to apply to the Legislature for such additional powers as might enable them to protect the Kin,'s subjects, and thereby to maintain his sove reignly, to punish acknowl , dged crime, and to remove what trey considered to be its immediate causes. We make no shadow of question that such have been the feel ings of his Maje.ty's Government on this momentous oc casion, or that Lord Grey and his colleagues, in settling tthe amount of their demands upon the confidence of the country, have kept steadily in view the minimum of excess beyond the fixed boundaries of the British constitution, by which they would conceive themselves qualified to fulfil the most solemn of all their trusts,—namely, that of preserving, or restoring rather, the reign of law and the internal peace of society :—" either we and the people of Ireland must submit to the outrageous and perpetual despotism of the mob, or we must subdue it by a stronger, though transient despotism." That is the short way of stating the difficulty. The answer to it is seen in the eopy of the Bill, which we subjoin : ABSTRACT OF THE CONTENTS OF THE BILL. The recital states, that a conspiracy exists against property and against the administration of the laws, causing such general alarm as to frustrate the ordinary modes of criminal proceed ing; that divers meetings, inconsistent with the public peace, have been lately held ; and that the laws now in force are not sufficient to suppress such mischiefs. Sec. 1 enacts, that the Lord-Lieutenant may suppress, by order, the meeting of any assembly deemed by him to be dangerous to the public safety, or inconsistent with the due administration of the law ; and may suppress any adjourned or continued meeting of the same. Every meeting so prohibited shall be deemed an unlawful assembly, and any persons present shall be deemed guilty of a _ . misdemeanor. Sec. 2 empowers two justices, upon being refused admission, to enter by force any house or place where any prohibited assembly is held, and there read a notice to the persons so assembled to disperse. Notice. Persons so assembled, and not dispersing within a quarter of an hour from the reading of such notice, may be apprehended then or afterwards, and upon conviction imprisoned three months for the first offence, and one year for any subsequent offence. Sec. 3 enacts, that persons prosecuted by indictment shall plead forthwith. Sec. 4 enacts, that the Lord Lieutenant may issue his pro clamation declaring any county, &c., to be disturbed, and to require the application of this law, and that such county shall be deemed a proclaimed district. Sec. 5 enacts, that such proclamation shall warn the inhabi tants to abstain from seditious and other unlawful assemblies, he., and to continue in their houses between sunset and sunrise. Sec. 6 enacts, that every county, &c., so proclaimed shall be a proclaimed district within the Act, from the publishing of the proclamation within such district. Sec. 7 enacts, that all justices, constables, &c., and all com missioned officers of the line, in Ireland, and all persons autho rized by the Lord Lieutenant, shall be required to put down and suppress disturbances and outrages in the proclaimed dis tricts, and to search for, arrest, and bring to trial offenders. Sec. 8 enacts, that the .Dublin Gazette shall be conclusive evidence of the issuing of the proclamation there contained. Sec. 9 enacts, that no meeting be allowed in a proclaimed district for petitioning Parliament, or for discussing any al leged grievance, or any matter in Church or State, without a previous written notice of ten days, specifying the objects of the meeting, given to the Lord-Lieutenant, and his consent obtained, &c. ; and all such meetings without such notice and consent, are declared to be illegal assemblies, and every person attending to be guilty of a misdemeanor. See. 10 enacts, that the Lord-Lieutenant may appoint corn. missioned officers of the line for trial of offences within this Act. Proviso as to age and time of service. Sec. 11 enacts, that any number of persons so appointed, not more than nine nor less than five, shall be deemed a court martial for the trial of offences within this Act, and shall have the powers of any courtmartial, and also the powers of any court of oyer and terminer, gaol delivery, or sessions of the peace, and may pass judgment in like manner as might be done by any court of oyer and terminer, &c. Sec. 12 enacts, that the Lord-Lieutenant shall nominate a sergeant-at-law or King's counsel to act at such courtmartial, who shall perform the duties of a judge.advocate, &c. Sec. 13 enacts the oath to be taken by persons so nominated. Sec. 14. enacts, that the decision of the majority of suet courtmartial shall have the same farce as the decision of the whole court. Sec. 15 enacts, that such courtmartial may issue orders for bringing before them persons charged with offences under this Act, or for carrying into effect their sentences; and all jus. flees, sheriffs, &c., shall execute the same. Sec. 16. gives power to such courtmartial for compelling the attendance of witnesses, and for committing in case of refusal to give evidence. By sec. 17, any person liable to be prosecuted within any proclaimed district for any offence against 27 Geo. 111., c. 15 (I), 50 Geo. 111., e. 102, 1 and 2 Wm. IV., c. 44, or 2 and 3 Wm. IV., c. 118, or with any offence against this Act, may be tried by such courtmartial, who may, in case of conviction, pass judgment as any court of oyer and terminer, or gaol de livery, or other court of criminal jurisdiction, might have done, whether the offence has been committed before the issuing of the proclamation or not. Provided that if the offence is capital the courtmartial shall not try it without the special direction of the Lord Lieutenant; but the court, being so directed, may try such offence, and sen. tence to transportation for life, or for a term not less than seven years. Sec. 18 enacts, that any magistrate, peace.oftiCer, pr other person authorized by the Lord Lieutenant, may commit to prison any one found out of his house in the proclaimed dis, trict from one hour after sunset to sunrise, who may be tried before any such courtmartial, and if convicted shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Sec. 19 enacts, that any justice, or any person with warrant of justice, accompanied by a commissioned officer or efilef con stable, may, from one hour after sunset to sunrise, demand admission into any house In a proclaimed district, and if en. trance is refused, may enter by force any house from which he suspects the inhabitants are absent, and may search for them, or for arms, weapons, &c. ; and all persons absent shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, unless they prove some lawful occasion of absence. Sec. 20 enacts, that if, on search, arms are found, and the person inhabiting the house, or having possession of the arms, has been called upon to deliver them up, such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and punishable by a court martial, unless he make it appear that the arms were there without his knowledge. See. 21 enacts, that any person who disposes of a seditious paper in a proclaimed district, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and liable to imprisonment (for not more than twelve months), unless he discover by whom he was so em ployed. Sec. 22 enacts, that any person who shall injure the pro perty or person of any one who has appeared as juror, wit.. ness, or prosecutor, or for the purpose of any prosecution or civil proceedings, or who by menaces or otherwise shall deter Any one from appearing as juror, witness, &c., or otherwise, shall be triable for such offence if committed within any pro. claimed district, by a courtmartial, and on conviction be liable to transportation for 7 or 14 years. Sec. 23 enacts, that nothing done in pursuance of this Act, in any proclaimed district, shall be questionable in any civil or criminal court ; and that all officers and soldiers acting in pursuance of such power or authority shall be responsible only to courtsmartial. Sec. 24 enacts, that in the case of any person arrested under this Act, the person to whom the warrant is directed may de. Lain him in any place within Ireland, and the place where he is detained shall be deemed a lawful gaol for his detention. The Lord-Lieutenant, or Chief Secretary, or any Command ing-officer, or person authorized by the Lord-Lieutenant, m a y, by warrant, change from time to time the place of safe custody. Sec. 25 provides, that copies of such warrants shall be trans. Milted to the clerk of the Crown, and by him filed. ' Sec. 20 enacts, that any person knowingly swearing falsely, in giving evidence before any Court under this Act, shalt be liable to all the penalties of corrupt perjury. Sec. 27 enacts,that in case of a Habeas Corpus sued out within three calendar months by a person detained in custody under the powers of this Act, it shall he a sufficient return that the person so detained is detained by virtue of this Act. Sec. 25 enacts, that offences under this Act shall not be bailable, and that persons arrested shall be brought to trial within three calendar months. [The next three clauses are money clauses, which are left to the House of Commons.] See. 32 enacts, that Magistrates of next adjacent counties may execute this Act within counties of cities (except in county of city of Dublin), and magistrates of counties of cities may execute it in the adjacent counties at large. Sec. :13 enacts, that powers given by this Act to magistrates of counties are given also to magistrates of counties of towns or of cities. Sec. 34 enacts, that any action against a person for anything done under this Act, not within a proclaimed district, shall be commenced within three months after the Act complained of was committed ; and the person sued may plead the general issue. Sec. 35 enacts, that in case of verdict for the defendant, the judge may certify that the act complained of was done by vir tue of this Act, and the defendant in that case shall be allowed his treble costs. Sec. 36 enacts, that in case of verdict for the plaintiff in ac. tion for false imprisonment, or entering a house, if it appear to the judge that there was probable cause for so doing, and he certifies accordingly, the plaintiff shall recover only 6d. da mages, and not the costs of suit ; but plaintiff shall recover tre ble costs if the judge certify the act to be malicious. Sec. 37 enacts, that the Lord Lieutenant may by proclama tion revoke any former proclamation. Sec. 3S provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to take away or annul the prerogative of the Crown to resort to the exercise of martial law, or to any pewers given by law for suppression of insurrection. Sec. 39 enacts, that this Act is to continue in force for years. The Insurrection Act is not unknown to Ireland, and we are sore that the efficiency of that tremendous measure, was always equal to its harshness. In some important respects, the present Bill creates the same restrictive and coercive powers as the Insurrection Act. In others the machinery which it employs, is at once less exasperating and more formidable. At the same time, it is hut frank to confess, that in its actual shape we would not vouch for the Bill making way through the House of Commons. The Bill assumes, and we hive expressed our acquiescence in the probable truth of that assumption, that the attacks upon life, pro perty, and the public peace throughout Ireland, have had politicsl meetings for their innisediute movers. That no meetings, no agitation, no efforts at excitement of the pas sions, could have wrought with such mischievous success upon a we'l-governed and prosperous people, or could therefore have been just objects of alarm to the Legisla ture, it is quite needless to insist. Agitation may have been, probably has been, the proximate mover of the crimes which are now to he repressed, but what has armed aei tation itself with its power of working evil ?—National yrierances—deeply. routed, inveterate, odious grievances. Hut to return to the Bill, that is, to some of its clauses. The Lord-Lieuten int may suppress, by or. der, any meeting which he thinks dangerous, and any adjourned or continued meeting. We believe that a similar provision existed some two or three years ago, hut that in practice it was found extremely difficult of xecution. Two Justices msy enter such meetings by force (if neces•ary,) and there read a notice to disperse, which must he complied with in a quarter of an hour, on pain of caption, trial, and imprisonment, on conviction of the parties. This is all that relates to the agitation class of offences; all the rest of the (viz., 36) sections deal direc ly with outrages upon life and property, and the King s peace. We refer our readers to the clauses. The Act empowers the Lord-Lieutenant to appoint com missioned officers of the line to try offences in the pro claimed counties, the Court thus composed having the usual powers of Ccurts of Oyer and 'rerminer and gaol delivery. There seems, however, to be one or two points open to animadversion in the concoction of this Bill, and of extreme importance. Murder and arson being by Jar the most terrible crimes which prevailed, and those, in fact, on which the chief stress has been laid by Lord Grey in his recommendation of this strong measure to Parliament, it strikes us as extraordinary that they are precisely the very iffences for the trial and punishment of which no provision whatsoever has been made in the Bill, the powers of the courtmartial being limited to sentences of imprisonment and transportation, and, of course, to the trial of minor or mitigated felonies. Another apparent defect is, that no time has been distinctly specified within which an accused party must be brought to trias, unless we can take it as an implied obligation to that effect, that a detention under this Bill" shall be a valid return to a writ of habeas corpus only, if the writ be issued within three months from the caption of the party : the two sections relating to these points may bear this meaning, but should be expressed more clearly. Thete is, how ever, one difficulty with which the Bill contends in vain, nor do we see by what expedient or contrivance it can be fully overpowered. The intimidation of juries ha, been comphined of, and no doubt with justice; a new tribunal—that of commissioned r fficers—has been there lore constituttd, and to that extent the change will pro uility be favourable to the due administration of jus i;ce. But, are jurors the i.nly parties intimidaied ? On ;he contrary, in almost every instance where a prosecution Las Idled, it has been from the want of evidence, owing to the fears of popular vengeance entertained by witnesses who durst not attend, or, if they did attend, durst not speak truth. How, then, can the suhstitution of a military 1.4. a civil tribunal supply that inherent and fundamental want in the machinery of judicial pro.•eedings—the absence of testimony on which to pronounce judgment ? It wit nesses ate .tfrsid of their lives in one case, will they not in both ? We see not how this is to be obviated. The Act does, indeed, compel the attendance of a witness, hut how does it conquer the fear of speaking truth ? We do not see. Upon the whole, as we have great confidence in the inte grity of those who have called fur this precautionary" mea sure, and not less in the honour, and humanity, and good sense, of the noblemen by whom it is to be administered, we struggle hard to vanquish in its favour the antipathy ind repugnance with which it is impossible not to comm. Wate any proposed accession, in a free state, to the power of the Executive Government over our fellow-citizens; nor shall we feel at ease u,til the necessity for such power shall have terminated,—the free action of the community been unmanacled,—and the ordinary course of law and justice between Crown and subject been restored.— Tines. Lsst night End Grey introduced to the House of Lords the measure, with respect to Ireland, for which we wtre prepared by the King's speech. The measure is one of very great severity. But will it produce the anticipated results? We confess we were somewhat astonished at hearing a statesman like Lord Grey, expressing himself, with respect to Ireland, in this manner:— " It has been said that all the disturbances which have arisen, have arisen from a mere sense of injury, and that reparation of injury, if alone, will be sufficient to restore tranquillity to Ire- land. Would to God, my Lords, that I could lay that flatter ing unction to my soul, that any hope arising from past eipe rience, or from the present aspect of affairs, would allow me to Indulge in the hope that, by a redress of grievance alone, the peace of Ireland could he established. My Lords, we all re_ member the Catholic question.—(Hear.) Nobody was more sanguine than I was in my hope that that great, that necessary, and fundamental measure would have produced peace and con tentment throughout Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) ➢ly Lords, I say it—the truth obliges me to say it—but I say it with regret and pain, that hope has been grievously disappointed. Nobody indulged In it more fervently than I did, and I expressed that feeling in every debate upon the subject, that though this was the' necessary, the primary, and fninfarnental - rnessure, stilt, that that alone would be found insufficient; and that it must Xie followed by other measures of an alleviating and effectual nature to repair the injuries of centuries.—(Hear, hear, hear.) But I did hope that that measure having been once passed with this earnest of the Legislature and the Government to attend to the just wants and complaints of Ireland, it would have enabled us to pursue that course undisturbed by popular agitation." When did it ever yet happen in the history of the world, that a people in the condition of the great body of the Irish, possessed the patience expected from them ? All the circumstances enumerated by his T.ordship, prove that the agitation in Ireland is a struggle between irldividuals fur existence. Alen who are in easy circumstances, or at least who have a house over their heads, may wait with patience for the effects of healing laws; but the wretch who is turned out to the highway without resources, has recourse to the knife or the torch. The description of the offences given by Lord Grey proves that they are not political, but the offspring of desperate circumstances, " ffndoubtedly (said his Lordship) there is a strong feeling again:f tithes in Ireland, the unfortunate consequenc,s of which are to he regretted; and it is still more to be regretted that something was not sooner done to remove or obviate ite effects; but the ass,mblies I speak of are not exclusively directed to attain the object of getting rid of tithes. They prescribe on whet terms land shall be let, and who shall hire it ;—they prescribe the mode in which a man shall dispose of his property, under the penalty of death." That is, they endeavour to escape death by starvation, by in flicting death on those who would take their possessions over their beads, We are astonished that Lord Grey should express wonder that the victims should be the poor and defenceless. "Of one hundred and fifty victims (he said) not one is connected with tithes--not one victim was a gentleman or man of fortune, but the poor and defence h-sir ; labourers, women, and the most helpless c'ase of the community were the victims of that tyranny which was carried Uri in such a relentless spirit, and in such blind obedience to a cruel system." Why all this is perfectly natural. A gentleman or Loan of fortune does not choose to place himself in jeopardy by taking a farm over the head of another. It is the poor and the necessitous alone, who, to escape destitution, brave the vengeance of those whom they expose to destitution. This is the same sort of reasoning which we hear employed in England in the ease of the Knobsticks. It is not the tnanufac:urers who are named in the case of turns-out, but the poor and the necessitous who offer to take the work which the members of the combination decline. The combina tion of peasants is the same in principle with the turns-out in our manufacturing towns. No man can mis take the cause. And every man can understand why the poor should he selected as victims. The peasant knows that, if he can only intimidate the poor from taking his farm, he is in no danger from the rich, who can only act on him through the instrumentality of the poor. He is not such a fool as to attack the barricaded mansion, when he can effect his object without danger by firing the cot tage. The provisions of the measure are dreadfully sp. vere. The Lord Lieutenant is to be armed with power to disperse meetings de•med by him dangerous, and the offence of non-compliance with the proclamation is mis demeanor. The Lord Lieutenant may also declare dis tricts in a state of disturbance, and all persons in a pro claimed district must be in their houses from sunset to sunrise. The offenders to be tried by courtsmartial, con sisting of not more than nine, nor fewer than seven per sons, and the highest sentence to be transportation. The powers are, indeed, terrible. Let us hope that, as the Government have the power of c &Iling the law into action through the Lord Lieutenant, Ministers will be careful how they abuse the powers. We are glad, at all events, that the power is taken from the ordin.ay Magistrates.__ Morning Chronicle. The proceedings in each of the two Houses of Parlia ment last night were of the very highest interest. Jr the Ilouse of L .rds they related to one of the most im portant and difficult of the domestic embarrassments of the empire; and in the Commons to a subject of foreig❑ policy in which the interests and the honour of the country ale deeply involved, and in respect to which the interests and the honour of the country, it may now be said without the fear of contradiction, have sustained in the hands of the present Ministers the deepest injury. In the House of Lords the Premier introduced the measures which, in the judgment of the King's Ministers, the actual state of Ireland renders necessary. We do not dispute, in this instance, the correctness of the Ministerial judgment. The state of Ireland—of Ireland, the petted child, whom successive races of British Ministers have contributed to spoil, and whose froward ness was never cultivated to its highest point of perfection until the Whigs came into power—is unquestionably such, at the present moment, as to furnish at least a plausible apology for the sudden and violent transition from weak indulgence to rigorous and lawless severity which is now seen to be the last resort of Ministerial wisdom. Ireland is to be committed to the hands of a military dictator, by virtue of whose uncontrolled authority any portion of her population is at any time to be deprived of all the legal protection for li berty, property, and life which the Constitution of Great Britain has hitherto thrown over all who have had the happi- less to be the subjects of the British Crown. The Go.. vernment, when it pleases, is to assume the power of con. signing to prison whom it pleases, and for any period that it pleases. The Government, when it pleases, is to subject the inhabitants of any district in Ireland to the jurisdiction of military courts, as a substitute for trial by jury, in any case not affecting life. The Government, when it pleases, is to asssume the power of removing persons accused of capital crimes from the cognizance of their natural Judges, altd of trans ferring the decision of their fate to a Jury empannelled in any county in Ireland, however remote from the domicile of the accused and the scene of the alleged crime. Thus a Presby terian from the North may be tried for his life in Tipperary, and the Whitefoot of Mayo be arraigned before an Orange Jury in Derry and Cavan. These are terrible powers to confer upon any Government, and still more terrible when they are to be conferred upon a Government composed of men whose selfishness, folly, and want of principle, have produced the necessity for such violent outrages upon the Constitution. But it is not and cannot be denied, that the necessity exists for arming the Executive Government with extraordinary powers; and as these are the powers which the actual Government de clares to be necessary in order to enable it to exercise its func tions, and as it is plainly essential that there should at length be a Government in Ireland, the danger would probably be greater of withholding these powers, arbitrary, despotic, uncon. stitutional as they are, than of granting them. The Con servative party, the only party in the State that has any sincere and rational attachment to the Con stitution of the country, cannot risk the destruction of Ireland by withholding the powers which the King's Ministers, upon their official responsibility, and with their superior means of forming an accurate judgment, pronounce to be indispensable to its preservation. It will be recollected that. when in former times it has been the misfortune of Tory Administrations to be compelled to apply to Parliament for powers unknown to the Constitution, in order to avert some extraordinary and ur gent danger to the State, they have never failed to submit, in the first instance, to Committees of the two Houses such evi dence as was sufficient to satisfy those Committees of the reality and cogency of the impending danger. The Whigs, however, have a more compendious course when the esta blishment of a temporary despotism seems to them necessary or convenient. After flattering and rewarding traitors for a period of three years, they suddenly turn round and say, " It is now time to suppress treason ; therefore, without more circumstance at all, we hold it good that you, the Parliament, suspend the Constitution." Now we cannot but think that the Tory practice was the better of the two, inasmuch ac the pre vious inves igation by Committees of the two Houses of Par.. liament, if good for nothing else, was at least good for this, that it served to show the degree of reverence in which the Constitution was held, and proclaimed to the world that some thing more of form and circumstance was required in suspend ing it than in passing a Turnpike or Canal Bill. But our notions are old-fashioned, and much too narrow for the present enlightened age of intellect and liberality, of which the despotism to be established in Ireland, without trouble or ceremony, is, we suppose, to be considered as one of the most splendid triumphs. The subject of discussion in the House of Commons was the ern_ bargo laid upon the Dutch vessels in our ports, and the other mea sures of hostility to which the British Government has had re. course against Holland. And we need only refer to the masterly and splendid speeeh of Sir Robert Peel, and to the speech, as in courtesy we suppose we must call it, of Lord Palmerston, to vindicate the language we have employed in describing this question of foreign policy, as one in which the honour and the interests of Great Britain are deeply involved, and in respect to which it may now be said, without the fear of contradiction, that, in the hands of the present Ministers, both the interests and the honour of the country have sustained deep and irre parable injury. Contradiction and dispute upon this subject are no longer possible. The commanding eloquence, the tri umphant and irresistible argumentation, of Sir Robert Peel have finished the business; and had they not done so, it would have been finished as completely by the deplorable, wretched, contemptible failure of Lord Palmerston. Between the talents of the two men it is quite certain that nobody would ever think of instituting any comparison ; but no dis parity of talent that can possibly exist between two beings of the same species will fully account for the elevation of the one and the relative depression of the other, that were last night exhibited. These can only be explained by the facts that the former was the bold and vigorous champion of right, and the latter the laborious, tricky, and unprincipled advocate of wrong. Would that the noble-minded King of the Netherlands could have been a witness to the scene. It was a treat to all honest and virtuous men to see the friends of the Administration hang down their heads abashed, and skulk away from the House, in visible fear lest they should meet some acquaintance in the lobby or passages, who, in malice or in sport might talk to them perchance of Palmerston or of Peel. The triumph of right over wrong, of sense over folly, of British wisdom and integrity over revolutionary and dishonest partialities, was complete and decisive; nor can it fail to produce beneficial and permanent effects upon the character and fortunes of the country.— Morning Post. THE NAVAL AND MILITARY GA ZETTE. No. 11. price 7d., published this day at 19, CATHERINE.STREET, STRAND, contains an Address to the Services—Distribution of the Royal Navy at the present time, from the most au•hentic sources— The late•t India❑ Intelligence—An elaborate Review of Colonel Mackinnon's History of the Coldstream Guards, wi'h Extracts—Also of the Memoirs of Sir William Hoste, K.C.B.—Funeral of Lord Exmouth—Memoirs of the late Generals Lewis, Mackenzie, and Sir John Macleod—The United States Navy—The " Pennsylvania" of 200 guns —Promotions and Appointments—Courts Mar ial—Ge neral Orde: s—Correspondence—New Ships Building— Presentation of New Colours, by Sir FL Vivian to the 90th Regiment—The Grand Sitnor and the Pacha of Egypt—Con.piracy against the King of Spain—Prepara tions in the United States for War with Carolina—News from Van Diemen's Land—Parliamentary Proceedings— Case of Admiral Sir Charles Neale—Hume's Motion re •pectine Naval and Mili,try Sinecures. &c. &c. Orders received by ,11 - Bo..k•ellers and Newsmen. FROM. LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, FEB. 11. Royal Regiment of Artillery. First Lieutenant H. G. Ord to be Second Captain, vice Haw kins, retired on half-pay, Feb S. s Corp of Royal Eineers. Second Lieutenant St. George L. Lys ng tet to be First Lieutenant, vice Blakiston, retired, Feb. 4. WAR-OFFICE, FEB. 15, 18-13. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—G. T. Quin Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice T yre ll , promoted, Feb. 15. 6th Regunent of I)ragoon Guards—Lieut. J. W. D. Hebson to be Adjutant, vice Gerard, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Feb. 15. Ist Regiment of Foot—Ensign W. Landreth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Macleod, promoted; A. C. Sanderson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Landreth, Feb. 15. 4th Foot—Ensign M. Fortescue to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Drake, deceased, Jan. 2../ ; Ensign J Greetham, from the half-pay of the 30th Regiment, to be Ensign, vice Fortescue, Feb. 15. 7th Foot—Lieut. C. T. Freer, from the half-pay, to be Lieu tenant, paying the difference, vice Byng, appointed to the 29th Regiment, Fib. 15. I 1 th Foot—Capt. B V. Derinzy, to be Major, without pur chase, vice O'Kelly, deceased ; Lieut. F. Marsh, to be Captain, yice I )erinzy ; Ensiga E. L. Wolley, to be Lieutenant, vice Marsh ' Jan. 4 ; Gentlema n C a d et E . A. W. Keane, from the Royal College, to be Ensign, vice W o ll e y, F e b . 15 . Foot—Surgeonl4th lila D. Hender son M.D., from the '7Bth Regi ment,Nit to be Surgeon, vice M.Andrchir, who exchanges, Feb. IS. '26th Foot—Capt. W. Senhou se , f rom t h e half.pay, to be Cap tain, vice A. Calder, who exchanges, receiving the difference, Feb. 15. _ . f2(Jth Foot—Lieu . W. F. Byng, from the 7th Regiment, to be Liputenanr, vice J. O'Neill, who retires upon half-pay, receiving the difference, Feb. 15. 38th Foot—Ensign H. Close, to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Whittell, deceased, Jan. 24 ; H. W. Race, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Close, Feb. 15. 42J Foot—Assistant-Surgeon 4. T. Jackson, from the Staff; to be Ass stant-Surgeon, vice Maguin, who exchanges, Feb. 15. 45th Foot—Major E. F. Boy s , to b e Lieutenant-Colonel, purchase,with out vice Shaw, deceased ; Brevet Major R. Moore, to be Major, vice Boys ; Lieut. J. M'lntyre, to be Captain, vice Moore, June 21, 1832. 55th Foot —Ensign - J. Coats, to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Macdonald, deceased, June 3, 1832 ; Ensign H. M'Caskill, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Morrison, deceased, June 4 ; Ensign I'. de Havilland, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice whose promotion ; by purchase, is NORTHERN DIVISION OF NORTHAMPTON SHIRE. COPY OF A REQUISITION PRESENTED TO THE HO. NOURABLE W. C. WENTWORTH FITZWILLIAM, TOGETHER WITH HIS ANSWER. To the Hon. W. C. WENTWORTH FITZ WILLIAM. stn., BY the lamented death of y our v enera bl e and most highly respected relative, Earl Fitzwilliam, and the consequent elevation of your Father to the Peer age. a vacancy is ccca-ioned in the representation of the Northern Division of this County. We, the undersigned ElecAirs, believing that you are sincerely attached to the great causeV e Civil and Religious Liberty, that you will advocate pie t ikbolition of Slavery, and support those prin.. ciples byllittlherence to which your family has so long been distspfuished, do request that you will permit your self to be put in nomination on the present occasion, as a CandPate for this Division, and we promise you our individual support, and our best exertions to secure your return. Signed by 1,11i5 ELECTORS. Kettering, Feb. 9, 1833. Milton, Feb. 13, 1833. GENTLEMEN-4 have this morning received your re quisition, subscribed by 1,185 names, and calling upon me to become a Candidate for the honour of representing this Division of the County of Northampton. It would be highly culpable in me if I were to conceal front you the fact, that had it been left open to me to pursue the course pointed out to me by my own views of duty, so far should I have been from seeking this high honour, and heavy responsibility, that no persuasion could have induced me, without so general a call, to offer imyself to your choice, I should have had insuperable ob jections to taking such a step. In the first place, the consideration of my youth and inexperience, would have led me to suppose that you would look to some one not liable to these objections. And this was the hope in which I earnestly indulged. In the second, my connexion with this County (as numbers of you are aware) does not result from my being the immediate Heir to any of the Landed Property of my Family in it, and it, therefore, might he o' jetted to use by some, that I was not so naturally and permanently connected with your local interests, as to make me the Fitt. et object of your selection. You, however, though fully aware of all these facts, have thought otherwise, and the requisition you have Rent me has shown me that that kindness of which I have had proof, whenever inclination or duty has brought me among you, has led you to confer a greater and more va blade mark of your favour, by urging me to undertake the responsible office of your Servant. This, Gentlemen, without both injustice to you in the present emergency, and ingratitude to you for past favours to my Father, I cannot reuse to do. If, therefore, your exertions should place me in that highly honourable station, I will exert myself to act in accordance with those principles hereditary io my family, which I conceive to be founded upon truth and justice, believing, as I do, that mode of Government to be the best by which liberty and happiness are extended, and se cured, in the greatest degree, to the greatest number of individuals. In compliance with your wishes, I shall declare myself a Candidate at the errliest moment permitted, by the double calamity which has afflicted our family, and shall present myself among you to solicit your suffrages. I have th e hmiour to be, Gentlemen, Your most faithful and obtdient Servant, (Signed) W. C. WENTWORTH FITZWILLIASI. IMPORTANT TO CHANCERY OFFICES, THE LEGAL PROFESSION, AND THE PUBLIC. . — The Town of To-morrow, will contain exclusive and full particulars of the proposed Bill of the Loan CHANCELLOR fur abolishing the Six Clerks' Office, Remodelling the Masters', Regis trars', and other Offices. The Law Department of this Paper is edited by a high and distinguished Member of the Bar, and all the other Departments by the first writers of the day, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16, 1833. The measures which Earl GREY brought forward last night in the House of Lords, for " the more effectual suppression of local disiurbances and dangerous associa tions in Ireland," will create an extraordinary sensation throughout the kingdom. Nothing like them, nothing even approaching to them, in despotic character, has been known to Irishmen since the mernor dile year of 98. On proposing them to the House, Far' GREY did not attempt to mince matters, or understate their extreme severity; he allowed (like CHARLES X. when he promulgated his famous Ordinances) that they were measures at variance with the spirit of the Constitution; hut then he insisted that they were absolutely necessary, for that such was the present condition of a large portion of Ireland, that the ordinary law of the land was a dead letter, and life and property in daily, nay hourly. jeopardy, His Lordship, we giant, made out a strong case—a case calling for the promptest ,ind most decisive attention of Government ; but he did not prove, or attempt to prove, that Ireland was in a state o f broad, open, daring rebellion, and we know nothing short of this can justify a Government in having recourse• to measures whose first arid most prominent feature is, that they are not only at variance with, but actually ah horrent—deeply, incurably abhorrent to, the Constitution, and every known law of the realm. We do not urge this point out of any splenetic opposi. tion to Government. They are placed i❑ a peculiarly embarrassing position, and deserve the most 1 , -nient consideration. They see plainly (what, indeed, no one can deny) that Ireland is in a most distracted con dition ; that what with repeal agitators on the one hand, and The miscreant factions of the Whiteboys, &c., on the other, she is, from north to south, a threatening moral Vestivitia. Gwtrnment see this, and in their wish to meet the difficulty with becoming energy—to grapple with it like men of mettle, it is scarcely to be wondered at, though lamented, that their zeal gets the better of their discretion, and that they over-act rather than under-act, their part. 01 one thing, however, Government may be certain, and of this one thing they cannot be too soon assured, for, if we mistake not, it will shortly be thundered in their ears from every quarter of the kingdom. They must proceed, without a moment's de lay, to conciliate Ireland with as much zeal as they have now coerced her. Their liberal measures must, at least, go hand in hand with their despotic ones. The olive-branch must be held out at the same mo. ment of time with the sword, or even their Irish Church Reform will not save them, for it bears no pro.. portion as an act of grace to their present proposition us an act of severity. It is but as Fa/stairs halfpennyworth of bread, to his monstrous tavern bill Mr sack ! We repeat, then, (and as men interested in the welfare of Ireland, we have every right to insist on it), that since Ministers have shown such an ardent desire to coerce Ireland, they must now show equal desire to conciliate her. They must teach her to respect, as well as to fear thee. They must purify her grievances at the fountain-head, and not content themselves with dam ming up the numerous disturbed waters that flow from such a source. They must not be Radicals in despotism, and bit-by-bit' Reformers in liberality. Such conduct will never do, and the spirit is now at work throughout Ireland, which will convince Ministers that we speak hut the bare, literal truth: For the details of these alarming measures of coercion, we refer our readers to the Spirit of our Public Journals. A word more, and we have done. Lord Emnorr, we perceive, strenuously advocated the protracted continu ance of three measures, and Lord ELLENBOROUGH (even while he voted for them) bewailed them in terms that might have drawn tears from a rock of adamant. This is in strict accordance with the fitness of things, for what more natural than that bigotry and hypocrisy should go hand in hand together, and both jump to the same iniquitous conclusion ? The debate in the House of Commons last night pre sents few features of novelty or interest. Seine set speeches of Sir ROBERT PEEL, Sir RICHARLI VYVYAN, &C., on the subject of the Dutch embargo, with those of Lord PAL MERSTON, Dr. LUSHINGTON, and the ATTORNEY-GENE RAL in answer, occupied the greater part of the evening. No motion was made, nor was any object proposed to be gained by . ihe disc uss i on , exce pt t h e h arassing o f Ministers. Had the Tories been in power, they must have pursued ex actly thesamecourse as that which has b .en taken b by the pre sent Government ; b u t k n owing, as ti ey do, that it is utterly impossible, with a due reg rd to the interests of the coun try, that the documents which would jusiify th it course, can be made public, they take the opportunity of maki ng a set at Alinisters, which they avow is to end in nothing. The only real ground of complaint . that exists agai nst Ali fishers is, that they have been too indulgent to the per verse injustice of the King of HOLLAND, or of the Nether m. lands, as Sir R. VYVYAN foetaf r er er:it war, t at two arrangement years ago, c o mmerce of s o he o h would,long ere this, have resumed its accustomed chan- NG ol I k it necessary for the interest of all ard: Eu rope pd i l v i s e e: . En venturing ltndauunrapdi avoidedi n o l g n m e t tl yi cha n ce n ; cntufhheto interfere ce parties to have made, it is out of the question. The beauty of the arguments advanced last night by Sir Rouivr not to takeplace ; S. Campbell, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Coats, Feb. 15, 1833. 78th Foot—J. F. Haliburton, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur. chase, vice Alvares. who retires; Surgeon John M.Andrew, from the 14th regiment, to be Surgeon, vice Henderson, who exchanges, Feb. 15. 87th Foot—Captain J. B. Graves, from the half.pay Unat tached, to be Captain, vice Wood, who retires, Feb. 15. UNATTACHED. Lieut. A. L Macleod, from the Ist Foot, to be Captain, by purchase, Feb. 15. HOSPITAL STAFF. Assistant-Surgeon D. W. Maguin, from the 42d Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Jackson, who exchanges Feb. 15. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. THOM AS GANKRODGER, merchant, Huddersfield. AR MUR CLARKE, ale-brewer, Worcester. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM FREDERICK SPACKMAN, oilman, Wharf. road, City-road, to surrender, Feb. 26, and March 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Howell, Hatton-garden. LEWIN MOSELY, Staffordshire-warehouseman, High street, Shadwell, Feb. 22, and March 29, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nias, Copthall.court, Throgmorton-street. GEORGE MATHEWS, wine -merchant, Lawrence Yount ney.lane, Feb. 22, and March 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Croft, Webber, and Bland, Bedford-row. GEORGE HEARN, ' , lumber, Maldon, Essex, Feb. 22, and March 29, at half-past ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Digby, Maldon ; Crick, Maldon ; Tilsons, Squance, and Tilson, Cole man-street, London. WII.LIAM DOLLAR and GEORGE THOMSON, Man chester-warehousemen, Bucklersbury, Feb. 26, and March 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nias, Copthall-court. CH ARLES HOLTZENDORFF BYRNE, sailmaker, Li verpool, March 7, and 29, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Robinson, Liverpool ; Blackstock and Bunce, Ser geant's Inn, Fleet-street. JAMES COGSWELL, wharfinger, Liverpool, March 4 and 29, at two, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Vincent, King's Bench Walk, 7 emple; Bartley and Roberts, Liverpool. JOHN PAYNE, dyer, Leicester, Feb. 27, at eleven, and March 29, at one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bristol. Poole and Gamlen, Gray's Inn-square; Davis and Son, Bristol. MARGARET PHILLIPS, saddler, Plymouth, March 1 and 29, at eleven, at the London Inn, Devonport. Wimburn, 01- lett, and Dyson, Chancery-lane ; Chapman, Devonport. WILLIAM BINNS, flour-dealer, Manchester, March 5,6, and 29, at two, at the Palace Inn, Manchester. Barratt, jun., Manchester; Hume, Southampton-buildings, Chancery-lane, London. JAMES WOODS,coal-merchant, Liverpool, March 5, and 29, at twelve, at the Clarendon-rooms, Liverpool. Mallaby, Liver pool ; Chester, Staple Inn, London. ROBERT PULLAN, carpenter, Hatfield, Yorkshire, Feb. 27, and March 29, at twelve, at the Red Lion Inn, Thorne. Yorkshire. Walker and Rickards, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London; Beck itt, Thorne. JOHN THOMAS, grocer, Walsall, Staffordshire, Feb. 2, at two, and March 29, at eleven, at Radenhurst's New Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Walker and Rickards, Lincoln's Inn fields, London ; Thomas, jun., Walsall. THOMAS LLOYD JONES, brewer, Holyhead, Anglesea, Feb. 25, and March 29, at eleven, at the Castle Hotel, Castle_ square, Carnarvon. Byrne, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn, Lon don ; Williams, Penrhos, near Carnarvon. JOHN PAGE, tailor, Birmingham, Feb. 27, and March 29, at two, at the White Horse Inn, Congreve-street, Birmingham. Alexander, Gem, and Pooley, Carey-street, Lincoln's Inn ; Gem and Son, Birmingham. GEORGE KEYZ AR, timber-merchant, Toxteth pa)k, near Liverpool, March 4, and 29, at one, at the Clarendon-rot ans, Li_ verpool. Bri , towe and Fairclough, Liverpool ; Swain, Stevens and Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GA RI There was a good supply at t trade was still dull. Potatoes, Greens, cheaper than on this about stationary. _ .. DEN MARKET. this morning's market, but the Turnips, Greens, and Turnip day se'nnight ; prices otherwise s.d. s.d. Potatoes (cwt.) Ca' bages,Savoy(l2) I 6 3 0 Ditto Bed. .. 2 6 4 Brocoli 0 6 1 6 rlorse Itadish(bulate) 4 0 6 0 Celery ... U 6 1 3 Carrots 12b,alches)... 4 0 6 6 1' rrops Coleworts or Greens 3 0 4 0 I .eek s For. Gralligertrrer lb.) 0 8 2 6 English, toi*, - 44 1 0 2 6 09 1 0 Pine Apple§ (Xi) 4 6 7 0 HAY Pd Ct11)1- ' Low s. d. s. d Spinach (half-sieve) 0 4 too 8 Apples 2 0 S 0 Pears 4 0 8 0 Onions 2 6 4 0 Seville Oranges (100) 8 0 12 0 Sweet Oranges 8 0 14 0 Lem , ns 8 0 16 0 English Walnuts Span. Chesnuts (peck) 6 0 10 I) French ditto Spanish t tazienuts French Walnuts Brazilian Nuts 2 0 4 0 Turnip Greens (hush.) 0 6 0 8 A It KETS.--(At per Load 02 30 Troiscs.) .BERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy ~owland Meadow Hay £2 0 to £2 5 4ew Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old l)itto 2 15 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 0 Clover Hay 4 0 5 0 Oat Straw £1 Bto .C 1 101 Wheat , ttaw „. 110 113 Supply rather limited, trade dull, and prices stationary. SMITHFIELD. - Coirse heavy Lowland lift;do;;}lizTy ---. X 2 5 to £2 10 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 3 15 3 5 Fine Lpiand .Meadow and Kye-grass Hay ...... Clover Hay (extra fine)...Xs 0 ..Generally Oat straw ...,g1 4to X 1 61 Wheat straw I 8 1 10 A limited supply, and a very dull trade ; prices stationary. riticEx OF STOCKS THIs DAY AT UN 0 o'cLnex. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent Cons.' 314 rer Cent. - -- South Sea Stock 98% Ditto Red..... 955A5_ Old Annuities - New :3Y.4' per Cent. 9414% New Ditto -- 3 per Cent. Ann. 1726 .... -- :1 per Cent. Ann. 1751 4 per Cent. 1826 , 02%% lEx. Bills, £1,000...60 52 49 pm. Bank Long An. to expire I Ditt0............50( ...51 52 49 pm. Jan. 5,186 P . .........17 5-16 14 Ditto Small 50 52 49 pm. Oct. 10, 1859 17% 2_16 Ditto Commercial. pm. Jan. 5, 1860 -- Ditto Advertised pm. Jan. 5, 1880 - Bank for Account April 5, 1880 - India for Account - Jan. 5. 1870 - Cons. for Feb. 27 875 p I.i PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS Austrian Bonds 91y 2 Belgian Bonds Ditto Account 83 2 Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account Chilian Bonds ....... - - Ditto Account Columbian Bonds. 1214 Ditto Account '254 Ditto Bonds, 18'24 Ditto Account 1354 Danish Bonds "3% ... ! Ditto Account — I Greek Bonds 0 6% ! Ditto Bonds, i 825 1034 ! Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto Account 0 2 1 4 Ditto, ii per cent • — Ditto Account 9.241 i 1 Neapolitan —! ____ THIS DAY AT ONE O ' CLOCK. (Peruvian Bonds 19.1 I Ditto Account — ,' Port uguese Bonds Ditto Account 52 / Regency Scrip 4 clis. Ditto Account 3; dis. Prussian Bonds lO2 3 Ni Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 1822 — Russian Bonds, 1822 lO4 Ditto Acc0unt......... 104V6 New Loan 95 Spanish Bonds, 1821 l 7 l' I Ditto Account 1714 Ditto Bonds, 1823 ...... .....15!;;1 I Renter,ou n t 5. .. p . : ... ..... i Lt . I--3 per cent...,,,. 77f 25c. tcth° Exchange .f __,.. • Exchange.... 25f 80c. 4,5 %W1: Ditto Account 45?;,%h 4 Franch Scrip 4 Y.i pin. ,r111'D___:F.:1:::_il:: DAT AT ONE 0-CLOCK. Phid. pm.) XlOO £l5O '. pm.) £2il 173.6 10 5 £5O . pm) 495{ 1234 12 £46 Per Share. 11% 11 1474 1521,1 58 16% 4% 'lss. 18% 8 254 83 4 9.6 V , couitsE ur IS XCHA Amsterdam C tr . 12 2 Ditto, at sight 11 19 Rotterdam ° U 12 2 Antwerp 12 7 Hamburg M.B. 13 15 Altona l3 15 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 90 Ditto ° U 26 15 Bordeaux 0 0 Berlin Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 153 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 10 0 Vienna, effective 11. 2 M. 10 11 Trieste do lO 12 Madrid '36 radix '36% Bilboa Barcelona 31796 Seville 36 Gibraltar 47li 6NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 46N Genoa 26 10 Venice Malta Naples . ;9•N Palermo per oz. 120 Lisbon Oporto 49 I Rio Janeiro Bahia 32 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight I Cork BULLION, PER OZ. s. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silverhars, standard 0 0 0 FREN.:II FUNDS, PARIS, FEB. 12.-Five per Cents. 102 f. 90c. 80c. The. 80 r. Poe. 103 f. 102 f. 90c. 95c. 90c. 11 , 31. 10'2f. 95c. 90e 95c. 90c. 9.5 c. 103 f. 25c. 30c. 35e. 3.v. 35c. 30c. ; Loan of 1832, 1001. 45c. ; Four and a Half per Cents., 99f. 50e. ; Four per Cents. 91f. 75c. 50c.; Three per Cents., 76f. 30c. 20c. 10c. 76f. 76f. 15c. 20c. 10c. 15c. 25c. 40c. s°c. 55c. 40c. ; National Loan, 1031. ; Rente de Naples, 87f. 90c. 50c. 60c. 95c. 90c. 75c. 70c. ; Roman Five per Cents., 83 831;, 83; Rente d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 12 3 ,4 13 ; Bente d'Espagne, Th ree per C ents., 39 39.4 39 39 14 % ; Royal Spanish Loan, 84N 8514'14 ; Rente Perpetuelled'Espagne, Five per Cent, 64 6334 % % sy 31 ; Belgian Loan, 1831, 83 14 14 3 %. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f 75c. ; money, 25f. 70c.; three months, paper, 25f. 65c.; money, 25f. 60c. -fours Authentique. FEB la -Five per Cents., 104 f. 103 f. 50c. 60c. 70c. 611 c. 75c. 90e. 80c. file. 50c. ; Loan of 1831, 103 f 90c. ; Four per Cents., 25c. ; Three per Cents. 71 f. 40c. 30c. 35e. 35c. 50c. 45c. 50c. 35c. 45e. 60c. 50c 20c. 76f. 90c. 77f. ; National Loan, 101 f 50c. ; Bank Actions, 1,6901: ; Rente de Naples, 88f. 88f. 50c. 40c. 30c. 45c. 10c. ; Roman Five per Cents., 8331 84 83 3 14 ; Rente d'E-pagne, Five per Cents., 13; Rente d'Espagne, Three per C en t s ., 394 4 40 3 .7j. 4 4039% 8 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 851 1 4 ; Rente Per petuelle d'Espagne, Five per Cents. ; 64 ; Belgian Loan, 1831, 8344 8414 1 ,4 % 84. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 75c. ; money, 25f. 70c. ; three months, paper, 251. 65c., money, 25f. 60c.-Ibid. *ult. PRICKS OP SHARKS THI, Anglo Mex. Min. Co. tiss. at 5! Bolanos Mining Compan) Brazilian Imp. Mitt. Co. (iss. at 5/ Ditto National Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaes. .... British Iron Mining Company Columbian Nlining Co. (iss. at 51 English Mining Company t;eneral Mining Association Mexican Miring Co Heal del Monte Mining' co. ..., I PEEL, and the verbose booby who was his pri porter, the proportion of whose ideas to his one to the bushel ; the chief beauty of awlr argui 9 ,Z, say, was, that they did not di spute the right of r'"2 and France to interfere in a case where their inter*: so obviously concerned, but chiefly found Au the mode of th e i n t er f erence . t , If," 131 if "you bad declared war against Holland, or were in anticip a ti on o f war , your '% W embargo on Dutch vessels would be all very we ll' , you say yo u are not at war w i t h H ol l an d, sod u` ) : 1( ticipate going to war with her, your raid"' A ls all precedent." Th en f o ll ow h a lf a d ozen mutilat e d tions from GROTIUS, PUFFENDOKF, and VAT TSL. O humbug of all this may be very well ' m the I " u 7,'t agreed between the Ins and the Outs that t he vu' l i t , place shall be fought according to certain convent 1 04 never to be dep ar t e d f rom ; but a sensible by-standert"' , looking to th e i n t erest o f t h e pu b l i c, will ask srb !, e t t cedent has t o d o w i t h t h e matter, when the P rec' r - f never arose before. W e rea ll y believe that reverper public rights s o muc h re . pec . e d as at presen t. acnoroing to all p rece d ent , B e l g i um wou ld have be e 'y throned, perhaps Holland also, or both would h' ve po conquered by France, or lastly, the Dutch KIND is have been well whipp e d into good behaviou r Being,. according to precedent and the rights of 511 , 1' 0 being well understood in war, Sir R. VvvYAN have objected to this ; but because the rod is 1 ° 41 ' 1 ;1 because extreme measures are had recourse to si°` ° , e with reluctance, the cry is, " Oh, this was never de pt fore; this must be wrong." If here be no Pt,e ce n ei the course which has lately been taken by 113 " England, their having made one does honour t° t 6 calm,. moderate, upright, and enlightened viosi . 0 tl own interests. The only thing to be regretted It'd their . moderation has been thrown away. We trust t i t interests w ll ai n t laakneuoaraf manufacturers safnri thousands g m aol ift thehtre past, and and endeavour a t . ° A bring the question to a settlement , and not stic rl rt "..si and feelings of delicacy of the King ofcalon-ludonLmtLriltelisNiontno.st4 i n a Hh , , , v d PE gents for s hm,l THE t'° 1 t Saturday PHE , 'eith er , ot! einthAL\ , pr The ! ott,. LA, La Ain ALtr„,, NAvAI , rEA.r. Ij , 31 op t 141T , 1 ) st lIS 4SCH ort Vo, / Thi" art(' It Ily , • si t We learn f rom an aut h entic source, tna t it is intention of the CHANCELLO R of the ExettE(2 o l 4 l- 0 0 . pose any a lt erat i on i n t h e newspaper stamp 11",t;bel April, when th e s t a t e o f t h e financial y ea r shall D al be declared. There is a surplus of 600,000 t. op year, but thi s will do little m o r e th an cover the d eo previously occasioned by the reduction of " 56' 6 1 far as the state of the financial year' the sth of April, can be judged of by the r e ' r e e 0 1 , pearance, there will be a surplus of rather 03° 00 ) ;',, - illi half a million, but the CHANCELLOR of the El cctt 'bel!q„'ll has not, we believe, yet made up his mind as t" sv be fPrOlir ; be should apply the surplus to the diminution of o r' L S , kr vise Duties, the reduction of the Assessed T 3) '1 0 ,1? b 4t ' A New'paper Stamps. Should there be no other "i , har of taxation than the surplus will allow, we l'i la g. t r o e d CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER will apply th,„ at i i to the diminution of the taxes on knowledge. r' 3 ",b il le lion thus applied would be productive of conside r " nefit, whereas that amount of relief would be hirdlf either upon the Assessed Taxes or upon the Exci'e. 7 1- ou - a at abi t . ' t heli 4 fur \`` I ' s'utTW I n • R I n d in p V FW\ ~Opk ThP he d al BY th e P t la t N, th e el i a ( ork ''t • AI„ - 'll * entt We fi n d, upon i nqu i ry this morning, that t C pl Irish Members are much enraged at the annourree' o f the intenti ons o f G overnment, which was made 10t 0, qt the Hous e o f L or d s b y E arl GREY. As fir a' itei judge, however, from whit we have herd, they p o ,``. he support e d i n th e i r oppos i t i on b y any considerable ber of the Engli s h M em b ers, most of whom, 3..4:i they regret th e sever i ty o f t h e measure, attac h gr— portance to the dis cre ti onary power veste d in °le 0 1l Lieutenint of I RELAND , b y w h om t h ey knout it exercised with mildness and ju igment. I %he t lot fet of ,ottit"" pn F iii4Nto t , t bt ot:t are ktilo t.l ' P f 4tH ity th e lo °ter , p t° .h„ ' pq _rdp,, fir p i 4 Ni t ) 4 44 N:f, mei s c Cp 4 Sh th Lr tet A id Y e b t 4 h. k id L et ' ;( 1.11 tf We hear from a certain source, that there is ale rupture b tween the Russian and French Cabiner Belgian question. M. Pozzo DE Bo ß co bas I°- r time discontinu e d his visits .0 M. DI TALLEtta.O9. We are glad to perceive that Viscount ikillct yiel4ed to th e request of the independent elegy t+, Northampto ns hi re to succeed h i s father as repr eg at for that cimnty. His spi r i re d a dd ress on the ()c will be found in another column. r tht ta * AN tta lil t , th,..% 4, LI Y lo t til.44l4Zith Fll, th t ,t ti l iZOp t h I i t , /4 f ro th, kijtepara 13 42 • r 14 0 0 t b e , ti 4 9.EZ t a 13. 41 1 hY( Pe AN., P , 14 4 th t :1 4 ) ; r ' t * i t, :: ),ay .- l it ` C SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (THIS 0 FROM LLOYD'S. orni el DEAL, FEB. 15.—Durin g th e n i ght and this t tl- to s d „1 blew heavily from N. N. W. t o N . W.—A rr i ve d froinrAl Sultana, Scott, for Gibralt ar , w ith l oss of anchor ap„,„,,, John, Pirie, for Trinidad, remains; Llan, RurnneY, ip r ot of anchor and c a bl e .—Fi ve p. m. the Montreal statirlii, the Downs (off South Sand He a d). Th e ou t warc l_boun apparently well. s lll PORTSMOUTH, FEZ. 15.—1 t bl ew a very heavYlP' e , 0,1 night and to-day . f rom W . N. \V but at 6p. bee o , , moderate. The ships a t S p i t h ead, and the Motherb3o'4 out the gale all we ll , except the James, bound to r he ti pori s o Islands, which parted her cable last night, and drOre - rte d Hoarse, and in ge tti ng under weigh this afternoon Prors!:1:0', other, but is now in th e h ar b our. The Creole, Frencl'" I sailed on a cruise. A rr i ve d t h e John and Sally, J a m St. Michael's. NO PLYMOUTH, FEB. 14. Wind S. W. to S. S. , ' a heavy gale for the last 20 hours, but is now moders'Or; Concepcion, Lequimiche, f rom C orunna to Br i sto l, W r, tP in here, was driven on s h ore d ur i ng the gale in Cat-wa le ,' is totally wrecked. A sma ll part of her cargo if °SivePd damaged state. The A c hill es, W eat h erly, which wa s shore yesterday in Cat-water, is discharging her cargo , oi 7 expected the vessel will float off next tide. Arrives jerty's ships Rover and Griffin. ° ta FALMOUTH, FEB. 14.--ft blew a violent 10 gale. mendous squalls, from S . W. W. W., all last night„ ti ar o sS until noon, when it m o d erated. s p. m.---Tbe win" veered to S. S., W. The shipping all rode out the Sa jeo t U Goldfinch packet, bo un d t o H alifax and Bermuda hag P 4,01 MARGATE, Era. I 5 off port, the - Esther, Vivers, from St. Michael's. DOVER, FEB. 15.—Arrived the Forth, Robert i" Launceston—sailed 22d Sept em b er. COWES, FEB. 1 5 .-- Arrived the Sommerear, , Gottenburg, bound to Liverpool —cargo shifted. THE FUNDS.--(THIS DA CITY, TWELVE 0' e The French mails arrived this morning, by WI the following accounts : The French papers of Tuesday state that th , declined 1 per cent, owing to a report that Prussi had favoured the pretensions of the King of a Austria was disposed to concur with the Cabinet of conference was to take place at the house of th, Foreign Affairs, between M. Broglie and the A bassador. Letters from the Hague state, that the King of ceived an autograph from the Emperor of Russi his demands. . _ . They write from Brussels, that M. de Tallena: several times to the Hague, but his mission has 1 1( On the arrival of despatches to Sir Robert Adair ,„ to he sent off one of his private secretaries to the Hague' to the King of Holland to order the evacuation of ' d , to and Liefkoenshoek, as well as to open the S s ,,,li e tai: f i foreign vessels. The answer of the King of O° , O lY i short and precise. He stated that he would not e ° - fore e jli the demands of England and France only by th e l, SO arms. This answer was immediately despatched t Adair to England. e d l t s The chief topic of convers a ti on thi s morn i ng , and jth of t, tion of the public, rel a t e t o th e i mportant d e batc h of 0 in the House , of Lords, particularly to the sPee c , t oll 0 Grey on the measure s t o b e adopted in Ireland. " e ta 's° 0 'fij that the towns in Ireland in a state of insurrectio n e isd (I)k,k declared in a state of siege, and that the revolted 10051 A n - HI 11 , 4 4 ~..........„ N4+ tried by martial law. This is a similar principle to o ' o o by the French Government, and, no doubt, will b e ei I, , 4..,1 aired effect. a tr 1- 4 h a , 4 ! to. ti „ Consols opened at the same price at which theY l e- sio ' [74 4:4: 1 4 terday, 87% for the account ;at present they are ' 4 tio4 kr PI with little doing. p 4,4 *l l , 4 4 , ' t'l , r o s j i t 4 , . HALF-PAS. „, d i ;1 . 4 ,4,,l li th h - We have nothing official yet as to France having 04 - 4 4,.`44 - ', b war with Portugal, nor do we suppose that even" l4 `o , 'l, t 4t o ,'Y place without the consent of England. Another rubs # intilo eon 4 t vails, that four sail of the line and two frigates a r ll , 1) :1 11t ‘' l4 V4 4 , t , t1 1 ' 1 4 ,!' of sailing from Brest to the Tagus. Nothing 011 "" 0 - rig 4 /le' t,,,,'",' 1 yet transpired of the despatches received at 'Asl3 oll ;. ° 4.5 c 014, that - ,Y,kte 'Oil It is stated that the French Funds come lower, o 'lo/y, lin ot ' til l ve Consols, which were in the early part of the ( 10 1,4 'l9 is; , t ilti;" ti at present 87% si for the Account, with little or nOti• tioo 0 ~, 'l3, Neat of Foreign market is in the same state of stagn a 1: 4)v, '4 14 of the British ; prices much the same as yesterdaY• „C/v itib, f ir, v I. WI THREE 0' vs - INI th, Consols for the Account 871 a. li hi 11 13 , „ A ll titi o 416 to y Vis v- il i ti ,b1"41 tie The Hon. Mr. WENTwonTO.(n- o f 1 0 g' a " '' 't'Nl MILTON) has yielded to the strong solicitati ° " b e eS t k or a 1e,, , he I I mense nutnber of electors, and consented to Of it, optio PPliPet , candidate fur the north division of the cou n . t _Y ri 0 0 0 / dt ti h f t , t ql, ate pton, on the vacancy in the representa ti° i t is 0, )4 4 , 4 41, , 1 4 i i by the succession of i s is father in the Peerag e 'i t ion fideutly believed that tlore will be no oPix:: c0 ,t11 , 9 0 , ~:244ti0 , .Pthl to , i 1 , trc rty 4, 131, 1 , , return, the Conservatives having so lately h...!_ 00 jot I : . (tvi o ..°) wi of the futility of their efforts against the 5 1 '" 0 11 ii ties, 4 1:0 tt AI t h . Y ht, —Lincoln Mercury. - Hey b th e b POST-OFFICE ROBBERY. - • —A6 i o diCl e 7 .. o te 1 , !le 0 , 41 Bailey, (this day) THOMAS HODGSON til a e ' r, 00'''0 1 )it t ,: i 'd. 7 , 1 t 1 1 ? on the 7th of January last, stealing a lett ___ o g*th 11 hs t4 u ,h) j, money, which was not concluded when we wr A l i tt i n 'tl, „. eal A 'r IDI ~f : I ' , tl ~- V 1464 'hull Sirs OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDO PRINTED AND Pususnau ay MU It 1) 0 Y ti it. A l iaif Ti t txto ttry T kY.) „ tI C t er. q t . ,r t , t, CL OC 9 °I :4N *6 n hi w hich ° 4 ttli„ , tv the fu l li s tie g 44Z / t h l h e ;six 3 0 A toi li th4 liq, 1'011 0" th e 'tati,, of Frs ilce ;f ° itZ 'W led • le W ist 1: 4 4 4 htt o; Austr iln ,44 eßet r 1-I° ll '7o l R w 11 ) of sia, D' ° 4 11`C'T , ,nay 411 not I:000 to 41 /hi ( tl aech troll' p o t e th I tO N 20" q f‘,.. lOf f'" () rsi*ii,"q 'he s ,behit lithe te gay—ewe Ict.e t col l o 11l 4 4501 thePsit deei,l°,4) r-' iae l l 3lll‘ woo