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various illegal practices, the Attorney- General be directed to prosecute the Earl of Warwick, and all other named or described in the report of the said Select Committee, as concerned in the unlawful proceedings afore said." Of course the Gallant Member is well enough acquainted with the forms of the House to have been aware that the Usher of the Black Rod would summon the House to undergo the ceremony of prorogation long before it could come to a vote upon the subject : and by this means the motion was disposed of. The case of the Earl of Warwick, however, must be vigorously dealt with next session. We here subjoin all the resolutions about the interference of Peers in elections which were adopted this session, February 13, as they have been in preceding sessions : we published one of them yesterday. There is a report, we hope well founded, that the Earl of Warwick intends to resign his office : " RUOLUTIONS OF THE House OF COMMONS. (13th February, 1833.) " Elections--Resolved, That no Peer of the realm, except such Peers of Ireland as shall for the time being be actually elected, and shall not have declined to serve for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, bath any right to give his vote in the election of any Member to *rya in Parliament. '' That it is a high infringement of the liberties and privileges of the Commons of the United Kingdom for any Lord of Parliament or other peer or prelate, not being a Peer of Ireland at the time elected, and not having declined to serve for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, to concern himself in the election of Members to serve for the Commons in Parliament, except only any Peer of Ire land .t such elections in Great Britain respectively where such Peer shall appear as a candidate, or by himself or any others be proposed to be elected; or for any Lord-Lieute nant, or governor of any county, to avail himself of any authority derived from his commission to influence the election of any Member to serve for the Commons in Par liament: "Resolved, Tbat if it shall appear that any person bath been elected or returned a Member of this House, or en deavoured so to be, by bribery, or any other corrupt practices, this House trill proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as have been wilfully concerned in such bribery, or other corrupt practices."— Times. The King's Speech, delivered yesterday, is, all things considered, a moderate and unassuming epitome of the proceedings of the session just terminated—a session not more remarkable for its inconvenient length than for the variety and importance of its legislative labours. Foreign affairs, considering their extraordinary magni tude, and the degree of interest which they nave excited throughout the country, are touched upon in the speech with more brevity than might have been desired ; but the great domes tic questions which have, for the present, been decided by Parliament, are all referred to se riatim, and au opinion, which must naturally be that entertained, or at least encouraged, by Ali nisters,is pronounced in favour of each arrange ment, as it comes in due course under his Ma jesty's notice. The terms on which the Bank Charter has been renewed are declared to be " well calculated to sustain public credit, and to secure the usefulness of that important establish ment." Now we must, with all deference, dis sent from both Members of the above pane gyric ; for it appears to us that nothing can snore tend to undermine and endanger public credit than a contraction of the metallic basis of the currency, and a proportionate ex tension of paper ; while, if new faculties of use fulness were given (which we deny), to the Bank, there would be more than an equivalent for them in an increased temptation to the mis chievous exercise of its powers through aug mented issues to the country bankers. Of all the dealings with great commercial interests which have distinguished the present session, that by which the Charter of the India Company has been renewed may, perhaps, be regarded as the least open to exception. Two objects of immense value do undoubtedly seem to have been aimed at, and successfully, by the framers of the new Charter, viz., a more beneficent and wholesome Government for the natives of India, and a recovery for the British people of that natural and inherent freedom of commerce which had been wrested from them by the barbarous monopoly of the trade with the Chinese empire. The abolition of West Indian slavery is spoken of by his Majesty with cordial satisfaction. The difficulty of reconciling the dictates of humanity with the rights and interests of the planters, is not overlooked by the King, and an anxious hope is expressed that both the colonial assem blies and the emancipated slaves may give willing effect to the intentions of the Legislature. The several amendments of the law, by which the titles to property have been rendered more secure, and the proceedings at law and equity less costly, form a subject of just congratulation ; and the appointment of a commission for digesting into one body the enactments of the criminal law,and for inquiring how far a similar process of codification might be extended to other branches of our jurispru dence, is pointed to as a proof of the deep and anxious interest taken by his Majesty in all those efforts of the Legislature which have for their object to make justice easily accessible to all his subjects. In our opinion the measures passed during the last session for cleansing the Augean stable of the law, and the congenial ones which were proposed, but have not yet passed, for ac complishing more effectually that inestimable purpose, are those which, among all others of the present age—we might add of more than a century past—will have left behind them the most enduring and most ameliorating con sequences. The corporate improvements, recently referred to in this journal, as deriv able from Lord Brougham's Bill introduced a few days ago, but postponed in its progress until the ensuing session, are alluded to, with an intimation th at t h e notice of Parliament w i ll again be called to the subject. The Irish Coercion Bill is described as having been productive of the best effects in subduing f the spirit of insubordi nation which Ireland. The had so lon g ongPrevailed throughout Temporalities Bill, abo-, fishing vestry c ess , and il regulating juries, both! as as to their criminal andfunctions, is ad duced to demonstrat e t h e reliance which may be placed by the people of Ireland on th e Imperi a l Parliament, for its di s p os i t i on to in s ure welfare ; and the Kin g d ec l ares his determination their h to preserve the Union inviolate. u whole it may be rem ar k e d, as to t p hi n s first session of a Reformed House of Commons, that the new instrument has worked more kindly in some respects than its most sanguine friends had predicted from so unripe an experiment ; and that it has signally disappointed the forebodings of its enemies, who stigmatized, by anticipation, an assembly chosen by the people as one through which it would be "impossible to carry on the public business, —as a slave and pander to the lawless mob,—as a wild democracy, inconsistent with the maintenance of property and order, and repugnant to the spirit of our monarchical con atitution."— Times. The first session of the Reformed Parliament Is now at an end. Parliament was yesterday prorogued to the 31st of October next, when it will, of course, be further prorogued as7usual, One peculiarity in the session which has just closed, was pointed out yesterday by Sir R. In glis. The House of Commons has sat twice the number of days, and thrice the number of hours of former sessi ons . Th e P ar li a ment which passed the Reform Bill sat 119 days, the last session of 142 days, or 1,270 hours. In 1806, Parliament sat 129 days and 645 hours; in 1807, it sat 104 days and 5 hours a day ; and in 1811, the average of hours was four and a balfa day. In the late session, the sittings were on an average nine hours a day, and for much the larger part of the session considerably more than 12 hours a day. We may say, without fear of contradiction, that a great deal of time has been spent very unprofitably. The system of discussing, the various clauses of long Bills in Committees of the whole House, seems to us to betray a great want of skill in the mode of conducting business. We cannot help thinking that the Bills should undergo much preliminary criticism in Committees, and that they should be laid before the whole House in so perfect a shape as to leave little room for dis cussing more than the principle. The in novation of discussing every popular measure three or four days too ought to be abandoned. The consequence of such a waste of time in the beginning of the session is the hurrying over all measures whatever towards the close. It is to be hoped that in the period between this and the next session of Parliament, Ministers will avail themselves of the labours of some able man of business to draw up a system of improved procedure for future Parliaments, which may be submitted to the House on its re-assembling. The present system might have been endured when there were only a dozen speakers in the House of Commons; but in the present day, when upwards of 600 Members are returned principally for their powers of ready declamation, it is now altogether unsuitable. The Speech of his Majesty contains a clear and succint account of the labours of the session, and indicates some of the subjects which must be entered on in the next session. The view which is taken in it of our foreign relations is fair and candid. On Portugal Ministers would have been justified in indulging more perhaps than they have done in the language of gratulation. What has been achieved in that country is in reality a proud subject of triumph. No pretext has been af forded to the enemies of liberty and good go vernment, from complaining of any violation of international law ;and the detection of the intrigues of the Conservatives in favour of Don Miguel must for ever shut their mouths in Parliament on the subject of Portugal. Should the news of the death of the King of Spain be confirmed, and the consequence be a civil war in that country, we shall be able to appreciate the value of what has been effected in Portugal. On the whole, the representatives of the people may not in all cases have redeemed their pledges ; and the constituencies may have expected more from Ministers and the Reformed Parliament than has been realised. But we cannot help thinking that, on reflection, they will admit that much has been done both in the way of reduc tion of expenditure and improvement of our institutions. And it ought to be borne in mind, that the vessel of the State is now fairly launched on the sea of Reform—that what has been gained this Session in the way of reduc tion and municipal improvement, lays the foun dation for still further reduction and still further improvement. The balance of the Constitution has been inclined towards reform ; and what we have not received this year we shall infallibly obtain in future years. Upon the whole, then, we think the situation of affairs is such as to give satisfaction to the people ; and that we may look with pride and satisfaction on the first session of the Reformed Parliament.—Morning Chronicle. The special reports of the Warwick Election Committee were again the subject of discussion yesterday, in the House of Commons, on the motion of Colonel Evans, and which was pre maturely closed by the prorogation of Parlia ment. Lord Althorp objected to the motion of the Gallant Colonel as premature, because the evidence was not printed, and Mr. Peter hav ing given notice of his motion for next session ; but the Noble Lord pledged the Government to the future impartial consideration of this im portant case, and that Ministers " were deter mined not to protect any individual in the vio lation of the privileges of that House." His Lordship also stated that the Earl of Warwick had returned "no written answer to the letter which had been written to him," and that he, there fore, could not, say " what course Government, these circumstances, meant to pursue." Lord Warwick has, of course, like all men thus awk wardly circumstanced, shrewd reasons for not committing himself on paper. But as the letter of Lord Melbourne remains without reply, Ministers may still consider themselves obliged to recommend to the Crown Lord War wick's removal from the lord lieutenancy. Thus this notorious matter at present reposes, but it is evident that the Reformed House of Com- mons will not allow it to rest, and will signally punish the gross and scandalous violation of the freedom and purity of election. It is very con venient, and a politic recrimination in the Con servative journals, to cite the cases of well-known election interference by Whig Noblemen in other boroughs, " who have gone infinitely further than Lord Warwick is accused of going." We doubt the fact of any Whig " proprietors of boroughs" having excelled or equalled the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis of Salisbury, the Marquis of Exeter, or Lord Warwick, in elec tioneering illegality and political oppression ; but if true, it furnishes additional arguments why this abominable invasion of the liberties of the people should he stayed by the signal ex ample a detected offender. But we may fairly observe that during the existence of the " borough system" the Liberal party could only succeed in maintaining a small phalanx of men of popular opinions in Parliament by the pur chase and management of boroughs. Lord Litch field may have outstepped the law and propriety in maintaining his political "influence" in the city of Litchfield. He may be " only one of fifty Whig Peers who have gone infinitely further than Lord Warwick is even accused of going," as the Standard asserts . B ut t h ere i s t hi s essent i a l difference between the Whig and Tory Nobi late Earl Fitzwill'a y—that the late Duke of Sutherland, the Dukes of Cleveland Norfolk, and Bedford, the boroughs at the advetntctaolfly Litchfield, all patriotically the Earls ' of Radnor and surrendered up their Parliamentary Reform, the amendment of the re Grey's and supported Lordnoble measures for Rutland, Tory Dukes of Newcastle, Hertford, \vratrford, Exeter, and Beaufort, the Marquisestof lølifidly anAdievkieLio°ulsilsy. tailailde,Scaulimsbutnryu,itaiisi ,Eall r Earls opposing, to the last moment, the great renova tion of the British Constitution. We do not marvel, therefore, that those " Conser7ative" Peers who blindly supported the close and nomi nation boroughs, should still blindly continue the old practices of " electioneering." They must, however, be cured; and nothing will more effectually tend to extirpate the political cancer of our Constitution than the prescription of the Warwick Election special report. If the detection and exposure had been that of a Whig Peer, the Morning Chronicle would have dealt out impartial justice; and the columns of our journal, for a series of years, prove that we have been the oldest and most consistent opponents of the "Boroughmongers," and not the least daring or merciful in dangerous times when it was penal "to bring Parliament into contempt." Melancholy and heartbreaking are the memorials of those noble but indiscreet men—patriots gone prematurely to their tombs— who were sacrificed on the altar of borough mongering corruption. The trial of Joseph Gerald especially, his bold and heroic defence, and his honourable conduct to his bail—his infamous punishment, the affecting scene of his death among transports and outcasts, and the eloquent inscription on his tomb, in Botany Bay, would draw tears from the eyes of any man not a " Conservative." It was these ardent but impatient spirits who kept alive the sacred fire of Reform, and whose coffins were the step ping -stones of the present generation ; and there are many men yet alive, who have " served their time," when immured in prisons for advocacy of political propositions inferior in extent to the recent Reform Acts. Are we then to shed crocodile tears over the mere degradation from offices of undeserved power and authority of Tory Peers, who thus persecute the people, arid trample on their rights ? Can Mr. Cobbett forget or forgive his imprisonment in Newgate for twelve months, and his fine of 1,000/., for denunciation of military flogging ? The pseudo sensibility of the Conservatives is extremely affected and amusing. The Ballot is denied the electoral constituency of this country, be cause its protection of the people of the schedule B and miserable little boroughs, yet extant, would effectually extirpate corrupt influence and political coercion. Bribery, treating, and bru talising drunkenness, ignorance, and delusion, are the main ingredients of our present represen tative system of class voting, by which money is continued almost the only qualification for a representative of large counties and small bo roughs ; and thus talent and the higher moral qualities ate excluded from Parliament—thus such men as Mr. Bailey of Sheffield, and Mr. Thornley of Liverpool, are prevented from serv ing their country. We forewarn the aristocracy that these gross evils are approaching their end —that the Reform Acts have effected a new dis- tribution of political power, which no monopo lists can many years withstand. Knowledge is miraculously illuminating the minds of the middle and lower classes, and its meridian will soon he displayed to the wonder-struck eyes of the aristo cracy. Those public writers are their best friends who tell them these truths, however unpalatable, and however hard of belief. No general election was ever so notorious for profligate and brutalizing scenes as the last. The provincial journals teemed with reports of bloody riots, military interference, and of a life scarcely credible. Their collection and publication would do good service to the cause of reform, and it is honourable to the present Parliament and the Government that they have shown a new and determined resolution to terminate this monstrous national shame. We are under no apprehension that the Tory Peers dare oppose the Bills for the reform of the detected boroughs and the political extinction of Stafford. The Commons will i ssue no new writs ; and they possess powers more effective than the prerogative of creating Peers, if they will boldly and honestly exercise them. A " revolution " had become necessary, and has taken place—a moral and dignified revolution, such as the intellectual energies of no other country in the world could have accomplished ; and which, if it had not timely occurred, would have necessitated a demolition of the Tory Aristocracy, and a dissolution of the whole struc ture of society. If now the inevitable and irresis tible consequences of this great Political Refor mation are not allowed to flow naturally, we need not the spirit of prophets to foretel the result. We have proved this Session of Parliament, that we were not the advocates of an extreme political movement, and that it was irrational and illiberal to expect impossibilities of the pre sent Administration, surrounded as they were with almost insuperable difficulties, environed by bitter enemies, and struggling with the mani fold evils of our former misgovernment. But they will be clad in stronger armour next Ses sion ; and, unless we greatly miscalculate, the reformed House of Commons will occupy a higher position. Unquestionably Lord Grey's Ministry has been generously treated by the House of Commons and by the people at large, who may reasonably demand a firm reliance on public opinion, which is the only sheet anchor of the present Cabinet, amid the storms of vicious party and political difficulties.—Morn ing Chronicle. We look upon the passing of the Bank Char ter Bill as the first dawn of prosperity to the country, after a long winter of gloom and des pondency ; and we feel inclined to forgive Lord Grey's Administration half its sins, both of omission and commission (always excepting those of the Foreign Department), for having, at length, by this measure, began to remove that incubus which Peel's Bill has been upon all the energies of the country. We are inclined to give the present Administration the more credit on this account, as it seems pretty clear, from the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel's avowal of their hostility to the measure, that it would not have been wrung from them, except as Catholic emancipation and reform were wrung from them—that is, after they had ceased to be considered as boons, and had, therefore, lost no small part of their value. We cannot help comparin g t h e country, un d er t h e h an d s of the miserable currency theorists, to a man who, la bouring under no disease, is nevertheless swathed and bandaged up by his doctors, till he loses, and scarcely knows, the use of his limbs. At length he persuades them to let his right arm free ; with this he speedily tears off the rest of the bandages, throws away his crutches, and is himself again, in spite of the doctors. So we trust it will now be with the legs and arms of England, whose sinews, though so long cramped and paralyzed, will, it may be hop e d, soon resume t h e i r wonted pliability and strength, and impel that current through her veins for the want of which her health has been so seriously impaired. We consider the legal tender clause in this Bill, as only the beginning of good. The enlarged system of banking to which the sixty-five mile clause will give rise, will be another impetus to renewed prosperity. By the proposed establish ment of joint stock banks in the metropolis, it is calculated that not less than 5,000,000/. will be, added to the circulation of the country, which, as we have uniformly contended, as long as it represents actual value, can never run to excess. At the same time, we are not such advocates for a paper currency, as to overlook the defects it is at present liable to. As far as the Bank of England is concerned, the faith of the country may be said to be pledged for the integrity of its issues : But not so as yet with other banks of issue; nor will Parliament have clone what the country has a right to expect at its hands till it provides for ample security from those who take upon themselves the trade of providing a circulating medium for the country, and, as it were, entering into competition with the Crown in its power of providing a metallic currency. At the same time these are minor matters, and susceptible of easy regulation. The great point, we repeat, has been gained—the overthrow of the miserable theorists, who have well nigh driven the country to ruin and despair. The prospect at length brightens. May no clouds again intervene to overshadow it.— Morning Herald. The first session of the Reformed Parliament was concluded yesterday by a speech from the throne, in the concocting of which his Majesty's Ministers had the modesty and good sense to refrain from the introduction of any expression of congratulation to the Legislature on account of the change which it has undergone. The Reformed Parliament has completed its first session, distinguished from Parliaments not re formed only or chiefly by the circumstance that the community at large now for the first time in the cessation of Parliamentary labour, a great public good. The assembling and prorogation of Parliament are almost the only occasions which bring the Sovereign of this country imme diately to the view of the people. And it has been the practice to compute the degree of favour in which the political measures of the period are held, by the lower and middle classes of society, from the reception which the Mo narch experiences upon being thus brought into the immediate presence of the public. In the present instance there is much discrepancy in the evidence upon this point. Some of our contemporaries say that his Majesty was received with warm expressions of attachment, others allege that a general feeling of indifference was manifested, while there are some who go so far as to assert that whenever any attempt was made to give utterance to anything approaching to loyal attachment it was universally put down or discountenanced by popular manifestations of contumely and insult. Having been attentive observers of the scene, or of many parts of it, we think it right to say that, according to our judgment, none of these accounts are precisely accurate. So far as our observation extended his Majesty was nowhere received with en thusiasm, nor was he anywhere met with the expression of contumely or insult. Of that class of society which is most prone to vehe mence in the expression of its political feelings, the class we mean by the influence of whose vociferations the Reform Bill was carried, and the present Ministers sustained while they forced it upon the Peerage and the King, very few made their appear ance ; while the beauty of the weather and the gaiety of the spectacle attracted a consider able assemblage of those classes to whose prin ciples, feeling, and habits every semblance of disrespect towards the King must always be repugnant. We believe, and hope we are cor rect in saying that his Majesty was treated uni versally with respect ; but we fancied we could detect in the testimonies of respect which were offered to him some admixture of commisera tion. Thousands of manly heads were unco vered at his approach ; many forms of female loveliness bent before him ; but the warm bursts of gratitude, and confidence, and joy—we lis tened for them and heard them not. Of the Speech which Ministers put into the mouth of his Majesty upon this occasion, we can only say that it consists almost entirely of a summary of the Legislative Acts of the Session, mingled with expressions of praise, which, as the authors of the Acts are also the authors of the Speech, may be considered of doubtful value. The general allu sion to the state of foreign affairs conveys just as much meaning as such allusions generally con vey, that is none at all ; while upon the single branch of foreign policy which excited the desire and the expectation of something more definite and intelligible, that which relates to Portugal, his Majesty is restricted to the communication of the fact that the diplomatic relations of Eng land with that country have been renewed, and to the expression of his Royal wish for the restoration of peace, happiness, and prosperity to its inhabitants. As to the style of King's Speeches we would not be fastidiously critical. The statesmen by whom they are written often are, and always ought to be, intent upon graver matters than mere elegancies of composition. But if we wanted any proof that the boasted march of intellect is a retrograde march, and might be permitted to infer meanness and barba rity of thought from meanness and barbarity of language,we should point with confidence to the King's Speech of yesterday.—Morning Post. The town of Killarney is, and has been for some time, more thronged with visiters to the Lakes than has been observed for the last three years. It is in contemplation to establish a Regatta on the Lakes for the ensuing season. SINGULAR CASE.—About a week since the following ludicrous circumstances occurred in the hospital for the cure of M a lignant Diseases in Greville street, Hatton garden :—A young man named George Nicholls, who was labouring under the dreadful symptoms of that malignant scourge, cholera, was admitted an in patient of that lazar e tto. Having remained th e r e in two or or three days he was declared to be sufficiently re covered to leave it. Oa inquiring for his clothes they were nowhere to he found, when an Irishman, who had charge of the patients' wearing apparel and other property was interrogated respecting them, and he admitted having sold them on the presumption that the owner would die, and therefore have no further need of them. The ma nagers were consequently under the necessity of rigging Nicholls out with the fumiga'ed apparel of the deceased patients which were of all sizes, and he left the hospital in a plight worthy the pencil of a Cruikshank. REVIVAL OF DUCKING-STOOLS.---AVYE BKIDON NIORALITY.—The faithb-ss sib of a well known character in this refined part of the good town of Mon mouth, a few weeks since deferred her liege Lord, and did not return to her duty till Saturday last, having in the interim conducted herself in a manner not in very strict accordance with certain sacred obligations imposed upon her on entering that state of which she has proved herself not one of the brightest ornarnfnts. On her return on the day mentioned, the injured husband requested she would accompany him a few yards into the ‘Vye, into which they waded until they had arrived at a sufficient depth of water to answer the intended purpose, when, in the presence of numerous spectators, Benedict, with the g reatest took hi s spouse i n hi s arms, and dq)ped composure,hersisliccssive times, over head and ears, into the cold stream ; after which he handed her to the shore, and directed her to walk home. The equanimity with which the lady submitted to the penalty imposed upon thlfir her was truly editying ; and we are d isra'innstgenredseson d i to s, procure, by subscription among the husbands of the neighbourhood, a ducking stool, after t h c manner of the anci e nt s , an d to ta k e some means o f expressing their obligation s (probably by decorating with garlands the already ornament e d brows of their friend) for his revival of a custom likely to produce very salutary rt sultes BANKRUPTCY COURT, Aua. 29. An old man named Robert Roberts, a horse dealer, a debtor to the estate of Mr. Joseph Ma berly, was brought before Mr. Commissioner FoN BLANQUE under these circumstances :—He had been summoned several times before the Commissioner to make some arrangement for the payment of the debt, but he treated the applications with the most peefect indifference, and the Commissioner there fore issued a warrant against him, upon which he was arrested this morning, and brought in custody into Court. The Commissioner called upon him for some explanation of his conduct, when he begged pardon of the Court, and pleaded ill-health and poverty. The COMMISSIONER said he must make some ar rangement with the official assignee for the payment of the debt, and also pay the expenses of being taken into custody. John Turner, of Lynn, watchmaker, was brought before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque to pass his examination. He was opposed by several creditors for having improperly made away with property subsequent to the issuing of the fiat. The solicitor was proceeding with the examination, when the Commissioner interposed, and said that if the bankrupt persisted in answering the questions in the unsatisfactory manner he had done he should be sent to Newgate for contempt. From the un willingness which the bankrupt evinced to account for his property it was impossible he could pass his examination that day, and he thought therefore it ought to be adjourned tine die. The solicitor agreed to this arrangement, and the case was ad journed. The bankrupt was deprived of bis pro tection. KILLARNEY PETTY SESSIONS, Aua. 20, A TALE OF A TEAPOT.—Mrs. Johanna Mahony, charged Mrs. Betty O'Leary with saisin her by the crap o' the neck, calling her a thief, swearing she would make an open show of her, and demanding satisfaction for a certain utensil called a taypot. She furthermore dragged her, in utter disregard of the delicacy of her situation (Mis. Mahony being just now in a most interesting condition), down through the main street of this picturesque town, and would, as deponent verily believed, have continued to drag her until the present moment, had not a reverend gentleman come to the rescue, and delivered her out of her tender grasp. Mrs. O'Leary owned the soft impaychment. She did meet Mra. Mahony on Thur4day, and was not sorry for it. That wasn't the first time she had seen her, "for last year," said the respondent," when I lay on the flat o' my back in the thick of the cho layra, she used to be commit] back and forrid, out of friendship"—(here Mrs. O'Leary winked emphati cally)—" and think'n the Almighty would take me to himself, as he did many a poor sinner besides, she walks off wid my taypot; but blessed be his Iloly Name, and thanks to Docthur Mac Diermot, I'm to the fore to claim my own." JUSTICE-But why assault her ? Mrs. O'Leary—What for did she stale my article ? Mrs. Mahony now announced her intention of relating the whole course of neighbourhood by which the teapot had come into her possession, but at the earnest request of the Bench she spared herself that trouble, and produced the chose of action in Court. A most venerable concocter of hot water it seemed to be, and might for its antique appearance have claimed kindred with the Lachrymal: which the curious root up from the ruins of Pompeii. It was exhibited to the public gaze; but no sooner did Mrs. O'Leary scan its dimensions, which had been re duced since it came into Mrs. Mahony's custody, by the mutilation of the spout, than she set up a yell beyond all magisterial control, and would have much discomposed the dignity of the Bench but for a divarsion created by a row out of doors. The factions of the Lynches and the Aitons had " come into town for justice," but thinking it long to wait, till tile affair of the teapot should come to a termi nation, they agreed to settle their little dispute with the help of a few cart-loads of Mr. M'Adam's handywork, which lay very handy to them. The war-shout of these parties rolled back the reverbe rations of Mrs. O'Leary's shrill pipe through the open windows, and justice had to lean on her elbow until the din was over. Then the case was resumed, and Mrs. O'Leary affixed the price of half-a-crown on her shattered article. Half-a-crown," said the worthy President of Court ; " I would pay that myself sooner than lose my time about such a rotten concern." " Rotten, yonr Worship !" said Mrs. O'Leary; " with great respect to you, 'tis rale Injee chany." "Well, no matter for that ; you had no right to assault a respectable young woman, and charge her with being a thief." " Why did she insinyate herself into my room, like a pet-fox rummagin from hole to corner to thry what she could pick up ?" The Magistrates recommended a friendly ad justment of the dispute, and appointed a good humoured-looking male spectator to act the part of an umpire between the ladies ; but in his efforts to produce a composition he had nearly got the taypot reduced to fragments against his own pate, and the Court finally took informations of the assault, and transferred the ladies to the assistant Barrister. The branch railway to Leith continues to progress, the levelling is nearly complete to the Fishwive's Causeway, while the upper soil has been removed from the line on the Craigentinney property, preparatory to opera. tions there. It may now be hoped that by next summer Leith will be in possession of at least some of the advan tages peculiar to a loading port.—EdinburghAdvertiser. SIR WILLIAM COURTENAY.—Mr. Torn, as is well known, carried on the spirit and malting trade at Pydar-street, in this town (Truro), where he was con• sidered a mm of good abilities, and possessing information rather above his class ; it is also true that by his marriage he acquired some property. An illness about two years since rather disordered his intellect, but, under proper ma nagement, he so far recovered as to be able to conduct his business. About 18 months ago he went with a cargo of malt to Liverpool, and which he sold there for about 1,0001. With this money he set out on his adventures, took up his abode at Canterbury, where he assumed the name of Courtenay ; said he was the son of Lord Courte nay, for many years a voluntary exile from this country ; that he had travelled extensively, bad resided amongst the Turks, been an inmate in the tents of the Arabi, and was a Knight of Malta. He contrived to get acquainted with same respectable families at Canterbury and in the neigh bourhood, profes.ed high Tory principles (whilst at Truro he was a stanch Recottner), actually stood at the last ge ner.ll election for Canterbury on the Tory interest, and was very near being returned, being defeated by a few votes only. Since that time he has shown rather more eccen. tricity, and having, at a trial relative to a smuggling transaction, sworn that he witnessed some circumstances at a particular time and place, when it was clearly proved that he was thirty miles off at the moment, he was in dicted for perjury, and, being found guilty, was sentenced to be imprisoned for three months, and afterwards to be tr insported for seven years. It appears that when he found himself incarcerated, and without friends or money, he let fall some hints that lel to an application to his fri:nds here; when Mrs. Tom and Mr. Hugo, who is married to her sister, went to Maidstone, where they at once recognised the fugitive, of whom, for so long a time, they could hear no tidings. That Mr. Tom is deranged there can be no reasonable doubt, though there is a strange method in his madness, and it is supposed that Govern ment will remit his sentence, on an undertaking by his friends that he shall be properly looked after.— West Briton. POIsONOUS SNAKE.—On Wednesday last, as tahe d party g f s gentl suddenly em pointed, e n 'ereshooting o o n y D„ti who cb accompanieda l Moor, one of the party cried out, " a snake , a snake ! raised hi s gun to strike it, but before he accomplished this, the snake reared on his tail, and stung him on the hand. The boy's father on coming up, and seeing. what had been done, also made a blow at the s nake, but it stung him too. By the time the party reached the Moor-house, tl.e arms of both the father and son were much swelled, the son's so much so that the sleeve of his coat had to be rpped up. The pain, on one oc casion, was so severe that the boy fainted under it, and some fears were entertained for him. Both father and son were conveyed to K lbarchan, where they are still confined. The snake, which was about 22 fees lung, was killed,--444erden Herald, ug Of ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE Ah- - S STEAM-PACKET. „ r oid On Sunday evening as the H e ro was re t 'ltlie to London, when about half-way f rom Gravege ° ",rito attention of the captain (Large) was called t° f o re of" Stop her! stop her!" p rocee di n g from tb e e tlf part of the vsssel. The engines were in st ein stopped, when a• passenger informed the ci d that only a hat had f a lle n over b oar d. The . 0 had resumed its progress for a few yard;, i l4 after a slight delay, from th e difficulty of l ear i t ge the truth from the passengers in the fore deck , 0 the confusion which prevailed in that pa, rt : t o captain being informed, f or th e fi rs t time, t" ;g0 man was overboard," th e eng i n es were ';tl promptly stopped, and a man was observe d o• distance of twenty or thi r ty y ar d s i n the wok!, vessel, swimming and flo a ti ng a lt erna tely, wi t h tY ' prising ability. Two or three boats had bY d v time put off to his assist a n ce , arid, being Pic k e d td a punt, he was pl a c e d a b oar d t h e s t ea mer 0 t o cheers of the n u m erous an d a l arme d pas,s e h ti p r of who were in a state o f grea t exc i tem ent. ir m itt fortunate man, it was reported, had jump" ri b^ard from off the r a il w hi c h su p por t s the bowq b e in bravado, declaring that he would do "what man could dare attempt ;" but on inquiring o „te sufferer, who, exc e pt b e i ng i n a ver y eaba" - 01 state (from the time he had been in the wate r ', ei exertion of swimming, b e i ng encum bered by ° fort , coat, in addition to his us ua l a pp are l), was un this report turned out to b e un f oun d e d. m g °,/ account of the accident is precisely as followl;i o g That sitting on the f ore p art , a b ove the rail "pig (but perfectly sobe r ), e i t h er f rom th e motion ° lit vessel, or from the pressure of the passengelNli lost his balanc e , an d f a lli ng over b oar d, imEne ul f ev t lie felt the draught caused by the revolution 0 ' of paddle-wheel. He with wonderful presell ee .1 mind, and happily being a most expert swimin e h i l o i this most critical juncture struck o ff, a nd thus, u k ` , 4 clear of the wheels, his i n t ent i on was of ° 36-1 0 towards the shore; in doing so he was picked 11 ‘ „,P t dr before mentioned, a t th e di stance o f at l ea st 10 0 rif l e from the packet. His escape was declared by aid captain to have been miraculous, as falling as he of in the way of the v esse l, an d w h en a t the , ter hlo her speed (from t en to twe l ve m il es an hourP;011 the paddle-wheel caught but an inch of his liel j oie. immediate destruction mu st h ave b ee n inevilhood The sufferer is a shopk ee p er i n t h e ne ighboo r '; of Spitalfields, and thus, through the merciful os t terposition of a kind Providence, he has bee° l/3 0 4 wonderfully pres e rv e d t o t h e support o f a Wi le young family. THE MARKETS. e. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF CO For the Week ended Aug. 24, 1833, made up from the of the Inspectors to the different Cities and Towns In gd and Wales, pet Imperial Quarter. 6t• id. I Wheat—..... 545. &L Oats --. 19s. 7d.18ean5....-•3 1 . 40 , 27s 2d Rye .............. 325. 10(1, Pease...... ... 6 00 , 4 IYPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS 555. 5(1.1 Oats 194. 4(1. / Beans...." a s , 4c1,1 Rye 325. 54 1 Pease.......** - 5 4, DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 31s. Bd.l Oats —,., 18s. 3d.1 Beans.-**" Lzs 9. oj, Barley --225. 10d.a Rye —21 s. 3(1.1 CoUN l'ltY COHN AI Aftfc EIS DUHINCi THE Barley-225. 10d.I Rye 2n. 3(11 CoUNI'ItY CORN Al ARKET3 DUItINO Wheat. I Barley. Oats. to 40 Per Quarter. s. t o s . s . s. s , to s • Blandford 54 26 20 30 Briftg 40 58 36 40 15 V 55 22 19 Chard 52 58 24 28 18 3 26 1 $1 Huntingdon 58 63 21 23 14 30 3 g 5i Long 56 64 17 22 ga 51 Louth 50 55 27 32 19 20 32 0 Lynn 5O 60 22 25 16 20 4 . 3 Newark 36 42 61 22 29 14 21 5 1 Nottingham 44 60 25 27 18 2 3 2 4 Peterborough 43 60 23 28 113 21 4 5 Plymouth 50 64 30 34 20 2 3 67 43 O 32 27 41 Sleafonl 65 70 36 38 22 ..,° Uppingham 48 57 24 35 16 24 go Wlsbech 48 62 20 33 14 22 LEEDS CORN MA RK ET.—Aug. 2 7 • es. i Wheat, Norfolk and Sutlblk, 601 b.. 4os• t '. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suflblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, Potatoe 0 155.4 4. pets, —Mealing, I or. 121 to 13d Eng. 9d. to 10 io t , Shelling ...../. 1 Rapeseed, English. 251. to 27. Foreign, --1. to LIVER O POOL CORN EXCHANk:.— A ug , 9e,#/ ' 0 i WHEAT, English, White, per 70lb . Bs. 041 13 5 Red a 0 —.....—.. Scotch, Welch, an d M anx Irish, White 7lO /J o -- Red 7 8 9 0 Foreign . 9 0 . 5, 0 ...... OATS, E h n is g h lish, Welsh, and Scot c h, per 451 b 2 2 1 9 0 , rll o Foreign 2 5 g 4 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter SO 0 • 0 .----. Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 3lO 49 a BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 3B a 39 0 Irish, &c. Foreign Pease, English, per Imperial quarter Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 45 0 45 6 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 23 0 59 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. 1 5 0 56 0 Rya, per Imperial quarter . 12 0 6 .2 MALT, per Imperial quarter Aug'u 0,4, IMPORT OF (TRAIN fur the Week ending ---' is , -;....,o- Wheat] Oats. 1 Barley Flour. ii-iu sag' 9 1 Qrs. Qrs. Qre. [Foreign, Brl9.llrish,Sa. 11,437 4,673 53 2,951 1 2,769 MEETINGS OF CREDITOR n tgI% AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STO`" (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, AVG. 31. 1 1 DIVIDENDS. W. and G. Bourne, woollen-drapers, Coleman-stre et '''''' R. Morris, wholesale linen-d r ape r , Lawrence-lane '''''''' tF DONNYBROOK FAIR.—The LORD ' L „bi e ',ls has issued a pr oc l amat i on , comman di ng a strie, t ance of the Sabbath during the fair of DonnybrooN, commenced on the 231 inst.—Dublin Packet. t i je ° Of $ ll ti; o In most parts of the country cattle - c 0 0 0 scriptions are suff er i ng e x cess iv e ly f r om the I°P,i'ty°o nued drought. Ponds are nearly everywhere ea'rfri oe o cleared out ; and it is only in the neighbourhood Orel and never-failing springs that the present want not severely felt. C° R tals Lady i ofconsiderable S GAT E.— r ril e property, servanto at N press re asseso . 00 e . jo jo o d . To ' 'T a t Ram.gate for the benefit of her health) I e e l to be walking under the cliffs at the flowi n g of 49 oetso,o He heard the voice of souse one cryin for 0 ,0 01 .0 , which he discovered to have p rocee d e d' from sl oe "d i , with her two children in her arms em b a y e d and up to her waist in th e w a t er . H e immedia te ' c lii i " t hef to her assistance, and rescu e d h er an d h e r Pi O- L be from their perilous situation. On hearing ° l ' ll itiOt i ef exclaim that there was another, he again dasb e el o r tt er, water, when he found a male child stiuggling t° oll o 4 1, 0 ' up a rock; in his company was an old woma° , 11 0 ' 0 0 having been twice was h e d away b y t h e wave°,'', whom he also fortunately succeeded in resed' - 'O O O watery grave. On reaching his mistress's I,olPe'o4. o,ti cumstance had such an effect on his mind th' t ic a t . j ;r l i recovereddifficulty hseowmatiny o resto f re h d is fro f : o a w lo b n eing gfa s in i t r i:g a f o rtocri worthy of remark, t h at t h e man who thus "-$ 4 " 1 grave was unable to swim r 04 ., of On the 28th BIRTHS. inst., the lady of Henry Earle, "of street, Hanover. square, of a son. On the 27th inst., at Broxbournbury, Hats, the J. Bosanquet, Esq., of a daughter. t 4r ; re ° MARRIED. On the 27th i ns t., at Wool r, in the countY 0+ (7+ V I land, by the Rev. Charles Weston A.M., Ft ee r r fte a f. o" p i Ilorsley and Ockham, in the county Surre'l , t , l- ria e ot•": o ti o i nard Shafto Orde, B.A. son of the late Lit e ge ( ,, , , and Lady Louisa Orde, of Westwood Hall, in `,,i 3 ligoo l , Northumberland, to Anna Maria Charlotte, elites' o e,c : Sir Horace St. Paul, Bart., of Ewart Park, in .r0 , .11, the 0 vf, o On the 29th inst., at Christchurch, St. MarYle'', 4 oo" Or t Rev. Forster Maynard, M.A., the Rev. Williatn;ylan6loilitt Liverpool, second son of Captain Maynard, of V iog O ro vA r , near Colchester, to Esther Cooper, fourth su rv i l iss oo - ° 1 3r 0P :44 of the late Thomas Suffield Alde r sey, Esq., On the 29th inst., at the Church of the Holy e 6. "' o il' ton, by the Itev. G. F. L. Nicolay, M.A., Ge°R.f,te Ale E,q., of Earl's-court, to Martha, w id o w of th e I)on, Esq. r IL On the '2Bth inst., at Chel p te i n E h D am . , o pc o 4t r.', C. 8., late Governor of Tobago. „ On the 27th inst., at Kensington, Mr. Pc"); Long -24, second son of Mr. William Strong, No• II '? On the 28th inst., at Cheltenham, Katharin _! A for. Henry Burchall, Esq., of Broadfield-co urt. the 53d year of her age, Major-Geneo I'iIINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU D 0 Y SUN OFFICI O 11; STRAP"). ,n'tinLu°el:4ltll:: H E Sol e 13