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A celebrated German critic hos said, that the fame of Shakspeare, " for centuries to come, will continue to gather strength, like an Alpine avalanche, at every period of its de• scent." Certain it is, that any work connected with Shak speare's name, and which has for its object the illustration of his inimitable productions, may confidently rely on finding favour with the world. His fame is the cause of fame in others. Commentatbrs innumerable have been permit ted to inscribe - their otherwise perishable natues on the eternal rock of his genius . and even Players have for yearsaequired opulence and popularity by happy portraitures of his living characters.. In announcing, therefore, a series of engravings,- intended as embellishments for any edition of Shakspearc's Plays, it is unnecessary to offer an argument to vindicate, or an apology to excuse, the undertaking. The spirit of poetry, which haunts every scene of the Plays of Shakspeare, beckons to her sister art to wander with her, and thus " make society the sweeter welcome ;." and it will now, it is hoped, be seen that she does not call in vain. In the whole range of the drama, there me 110 works in which characters so striking and - various, or situations so romantic and delightful, present theinlettesoo invite the illustration, and inspire the emulation, of painting. The edition's of our Poet's plays hate for the most part beed - published without 'embellishments, or encumbered with en gravings so indifferent, as to make their possessors consider them " when unadotned, adorned the most." It is chiefly to supply such editions that the Proprietors of. time present Work hare undertaken it. Each Play will tarnish subjects for five elegant Engravings, in addition to a Vignette the aggregate number, therefore, of the plates will be Two,Hun dred anti Twenty-two. of one gun, value, one pound sterling, on the King's highway, at,Ballinacurra, in the Liberties of the City of Jiiirterick, and of assaulting the said Edward Sandwith.—The Witnesses were Mr. Sand with, and two soldiers of the 3d Light Dra goons, John Parnell and John Percival, who fully and clearly proved, the case.--Guilty.. After the trialand conviction of Francis Shaugh nessy, in the City Court, the Judges proceeded to that of the Comity, where they resumed bu- FOR. THE SU.&. battle, as the sacred Minister of Heaven-and peace, alike by Inistile and infuriate parties. At length came that period of wild and .daring. speculation, when the unprecedented convul sions of the politiCal World were only paralleled by those of th e •moral World, and both seemed confusion, reverenced, like the heralds of old in. fraught with anarchy and desolation. The bonds of society were Iciosened, altars and thrones, and Empires fell;, and their destroyers, wild with conquest, arid. frantic with impiety; threatened:to blot out the light of revelation, aad to subvert the Throne of God." Mr. MALTHUS's SCHOOL of POLITICAL ECONOMY " As wealth ,is created _through the labour of the multitude, " it also derives its greatest means of increas from the =lye " niences, from the pleasure s ,. an d even from the enjoyments of ". the multitude."—v!. GANILTI, p. 487, THE LATE RIGHT HON. HENRY GRATTAN Royal Exchange, Tuestlay, Dublin MR, Enrrott7--Among the sciences which this scientific age has cultivated, the science ofli cal Economy is unquestionably one which justly deserves a pre-eminent, rank ;, since it professes to explain the means by which all those objects of human desire that are comprehended in the term wealth, may be Most easily and plentifully created, and most widely and beneficially distri buted among the various classes of society, The happiness of States is,- therefore, involved in the result of the inquiries which are directed to this ,extensive subject. I have said the scienceof Political Economy; but, - notwithstanding all the intelligence and industry Which have been so laudably devoted to this de partment of knowledge, it can scarcely be said as ,yet to have attained the rank. of a science.. All the .works which have hitherto .affected .to esta blish general truths, and to found upon those truths fixed rules for the guidance of the intluin. fial members of the community, in the appro priation of capital and the direction of la hour, can only be regarded as essays, more or less successful, according as the writers en joyed opportunities of collecting facts, or pos sessed the faculty of arranging them. The contrariety of opinion, which prevails at this day, as to whether a great variety of sepa rate interests should be protected and encouraged by legislative enactments, or left to adjust them selves, is sufficient to prove that we have much to learn before we can be qualified to lay down fixed and determinate rules for the management of our internal affairs. I have not, believe me, the vanity to suppose that I can throw much additional light upon the very complicated and important questions to which I have alluded. I, however, have an opi nion ;—and, with your indulgence, may be in:. ,duced hereafter to state it. Permit me to express the satisfaction it has afforded me to find that your leading article occasionally treats. of the subject of Political Economy. It really is high time that some respectable Journal should en deavour to dissipate the obscurity which hangs over the public mind, in regard to the means of . recovering the elasticity and activity which .for merly distinguished the British People - . We have been so satiated with Revolutions, and have seen so little good arise from them, that the. downfall of foreign monarchies now excites litth! interest. God knows, our fathers. Would haveheen swallow ed -up with astonishment at the events which are at this time passim?, around us: and yet, although the Journals are full of revolutionary tidings, th e paper is handed .about , with a remark that there is nothing iii it . ! • Nov. 27, 1821. AT a MEETING of th e FRIENDS an d ADMIRERS of the late Right Honourable HENRY GRATTAN, held this day, pursuant to Adjournment from the 20th Inst.; ROBERT DAY, Esq. in the Chair ; siness. A - violent outrage had been attempted fo be committed upon the person of a Roman Catholic Clergyman of a neighbouring Parish, by some of his own flock, for attempting to expostulate with them on the insanity of their proceedings. That Gentleman is thellev. Mr. Cleary, of the Parish of Ballybricken, who has come forward to pro-. secute the offenders... Informations were duly sworn,, and a man named JameS2Walsh, one of the offenders, was arrested on Thursday, and Com mitted to prison. Bills of indictment were pre ferred and he was put on his trial this day ; but,' on the motion of the Solicitor-General, who stated that as there were other persons charged-as well as the prisoner at the bar, who, if the case were gone into, would be aware pf their mode, of pro secution, and prepare a defence to meet it ; he and his brethren thought it .prudent to let it lie over; and as the prisoner was entitled to put in bail, he hoped their Lordships would require 'such security, consistent with his means, as would insure his forthcoming. A weapon was fonnd in his house, Which, on exhibitiowin Court, would shew of what description he was. • The Rev. Mr. Cleary was then called in, and, having stated that the prisoner was a labourer, the Court Ordered him to find bail, himself in . 160/, and two solvent.sureties in 201. each, for his 'appearance at -the Adjournment of the Commission. - Baron M'Cr.x.m.aNn sentenced John Ward to eighteen mOnths'imprisonthent, and each of the others, viz. Patrick Lee, Morgan Crevan, George Darcy, Patrick Enright, Thomas Stein, Daniel Keith, John .Kean, Patrick Cregan, and Patrick Brown, to twelve months' imprisonment, and to find'security at the termination of that period i n 100/. and two sureties 25/. each, for seven years. Daniel Martin, convicted of a misde meanour, was sentenced to six months' imprison ment,- and to be - twice publicly whipped dating that Period in the townof Newcastle. Martin Grady, John Grady, Thomas Kelly, Michael Kelly, John Mullane, John Elision, and Timothy Shea,lweived sentence of Death. The Court .was then adjourned- . l"OArma till the 12th of . January. DEc.22.—This morning the Judges took their seats on . the, Bench in the City Court, w h en Michael McGrath was put to the bar, on an in , dictment, for feloniously taking a gun from Ber nard illorgan, a private soldier-of the 93d -11e,g-i -tnenti on the King's highway, at Cabermarry, on Saturday last. - The prisoner• was found guilty, and, with Francis Shaughnessy, ordered for exe- Cntion.on Monday next. The Commission will not - be held for the pre sent in Kerry, Clare, the Queen's County, or Tipperary.,---The Judges set off to-morrow for Dublin. On Wednesday last, an. Inquest was held on the body of Owen Cullinane, at Rockhill, near Bruree, by JamesJ when a, Esq. C oroner , a, verdict of Wilful Murder was-found againSt some villains, who came to demand fire-arms froth hiM. It appeared that after. breaking open the door, Cullinanaided by his brother, made a most spirited resistance, and succeeded in keep ing out the assassins:. the conflict, the unfor.: tunate poor man received three gun-sliot wounds, of which he languished in great agony until Tuesday last, When. death put 'San end. to his sufferings - On 'lNlonday night„a man of the name 'of Tho rnas Donnelly was. murdered at Mayo' in the Queen's County : it is supposed that he was sus pected :of .giving information against a set of fellows with whom he was connected,—(Carloa Post.) " An opposite system has been raised on the ruins of this; a system not less deadly to•the hopes and best feelings of mankind. ‘Ve are forbidden to hope more than a temporary ad vance, to be compensated by succeeding gloOm ; —they abandon the prospect of improvement fur the heartless notion of running an eternal round of transitory prosperity, followed by War, - and vice, and misery." • The following Requisition, with the names annexed thereto, was read•to the Meeting: " The Friends and Admirers of the late Right Hon. Henry Grattan, without any distinction of Party, are requested to Meet at the Royal Exchange, on Tuesday, the 27th instant, at Three o'Clock, to consider the propriety of erecting„ in same stiitible place, A SIATCE•of that justly laMented Character, by Public Subscription." Leinster Downshire William Humphreys • Thomas Wallace Meath Thomas Gould r Fingal John Burne , Powerscourt W. H. Curran Frankfort, &c. H. M'Dougall George Kilmore J. P. M'Cabe Cloncurry Thomas M'Donnell Killeen Thomas Kernmis John Newport Arthur Hume ' Marcus Somerville Richard Power Robert Shaw G. P. Bostic Charles Grant James Corry Maurice Fitzgerald : Michael Hackett James Daly Alexander Jackson t M.D. Luke White John Orr Thomas Ellis Jahn O'Brien James. Cuff Francis O'Beirne Robert Day Isaac Stewart William Johnson Nicholas Mahon G. Latouche and Company Lyndon Bolton , Richard Guinness Cornelius M'Loughlin O'Connor Don John Cumming William Murphy M. Plutiket John Arinit and Co. James Scott Molloy Daniel O'Connell Richard Milliken Edward Moore Andrew Dena Hugh O'Connor Ross M'Can Val. O'Connor M. F. Cuppinger Frederick Oarlei , James Vance Henry Charles Sire John Cash James Connelly William Lone James Ferrall ' William Moore 'William Sweetroan . James I'lunket Arch. Hamilton Bowan Anthony Willis. Mark Byrne The following Resolutions were thereupon proposed, and unanimously carried : " To this a celebrated Essay on population has greatly contributed ; though the facts there adduced by no means warrant all the inferencei, of the author himself, still less those of mans cif his followers; yet they have made it the fashion to despair. Because man read not rightly then, the page Of observation he is now taught Ao doubt that of revelation. The advances of the mind are barred against hope, as though she were the most unwelcome visitant. It is true, these fancied chains are but withes, which need no Herculean strength to tear them asunder. The philosopher sets up. a calculation of the impossibilities that impede OmnipotenCe : and the politician points to the supposed failure of one attempt to amelia. rate the state of man as a demonstration of his miserable and degraded destiny. Let not the sneers of such, or the dread of reputed enthusi asm, prevent the assertion of what is true, scrip tural, important, useful, and consolatory, .at time when most it is needed. Let us cling to Scripture, let us lay hold on prophesy. On the summit of that mountain. all is •brightness' and sunshine, while clouds darken and desdlate the plain below. The two systems are iii full con trast. How different the views they give us' of God and man, the present and , the future!— We may surely demand that a belief so ab horrent to our nature should rest on no slight foundation. foundation. On no partial evidence let that tence be pronounced, which consigns to ihe darkness of the grave our dearest . expectations':" " If that be true which nature never told. - Let wisdom smjle not on finer concitrer'd field; . " No rapture dawns, no treasure is revealed ! " Oh! let her read nor loudly nor elate, " The doom that bars us from a better fate : " But sad as angels fbr the good man's sin, " - Weep to record, and blush 'to give it in." Although I make no apology for haying intro duced so long a quotation, I would not.haveyon suppose that 1. am about to draw my maximi. of Political Economy from the prophetical or po. etkal sources to which the worthy writer alludes. It it is true, -the Reverend Author of the ;essa y Ott could not, very con s istently with hit sacred character, resist the force of arguments founded on holy writ : but I haVe no need to resort - to that authority ; he has himself fur nished me with the weapons which I mean to turn against th e sy s t em th a t h as b een ra i se d upon a partial view of tik Ess'ay.—llaying :aid this, 1 shall close my letter, and resume My task at an early opportunity. The name of the Artist froth whose hand the Paintings for this Work are to proceed, may fully justify, and will doubt less not deceive, the most sangnine exptc:ations. The Ge nius of Smirke has successfully diiplayed its power in his Il lustrations to Gil Blas, the Arabian Nights' Entertainments, and the late Edition of Don Quixote : And the varied scenes of passion and burnout; in the Ph-6s of ShAspeare, will afford a still more ample scope for the extraordinary Shill and beauty of his pencil. The Proprietors, refraining from the usual promises and flatteries of a, prospectus, content themselves with referring the public to the Numbers already published of this Work, as a fair specimen of the care and ability with which the whole will regnlarly be produced. • MOE OF PUBLICATION: I. The Work will be comprised in Thirty-seven Numbers ; each Numher containing Fiye Illustrative Engravings, and a Vignette. _ . 11. A Numher will' Le pfibiishi.4l ever' TWO'Months; t completed. ' ' " " . ,E'• '.e. d. India paper, proofs, 4to .. 1 10 0 French paper, proUfs, 410 1 5 0 Imperial Sr° " • 018 O-' Royal Oro O 14 0 For the accommodation of those who may he desirous of possessing a beautiful and collect Edition•Of Shasspeare, it is intended to publish one in Octavo, (Without Notes,) from the last corrected text ofJohnsan and Steerensl and the Play illustratet: will be published at 1 he,same time with the . Em bellishments, price Three Shillings each Number. A limit ed numbitr of copieS will be printed on . Imperial Octavo, price Six Shillings each Number. Tile Numbers already published are as follow :- 1. The Tempest. 11. Taming of the Shrew. • 111. Merry Wives of Windsor. Regoteed—That as the life of the Right Hop. Henry• Grat tan was devoted exclusively to the public good, his int -----.llp,rtal services during half a century, as the patriot of his coantry, and thelounder of her liberty, should be com memorated by a permanent testimonial ; which, though ut,- t►ectssary to transmit his name to posterity, may be a mont /bent to record the gratitude and admiration of the Age that witnessed those splendid exertions, in which he lived IV. TweMil Night, (in Fehrullik 1822.) V. Measure for Measure; (in April.) . VI. Romeo , awl Juliet, (in June.) VII. Henry the Fourth, Part I, (in August.) VIII. Midsummer Night's Dream, (in October.) IX. Two Gentlemen of Verona, (in December.) • '.. London • Printed for Rodwell and Martin, Bond-street . sold by Culnaghi and Co. Corkspnr-street, and the principa! Booksellers in the United Kingdom. and died.' Aesoli.ed, That a Statue of the Hight Honourable Henry Grattan, its marble or bronze, be erected by public sub scription, in some public situation in this city, to be here- IRELAND. We regret to perceive, by the various enormi ties which have been committed in the disturbed districts, in the South of Ireland, during the last week, that the events at the Special Commission at Limerick had not made a suitable impression on the peasantry. -- (Dublin Correspondent, Dec. 24.) _ after named. , Resolved, That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen berrequested to act as a Committee to receive Subscrip tions : The Earl of Meath - Humphreys. Esq.. he Earl. of Fingal Thomas Wallace, Esq. - Sir Edward Bellew, Bart. Thomas *Donnell, Esq. W. Cunynghatn Plunhet, Esq. Robert Day, Esq. Peter La Touche, jun. Esq. James Connolly, Esq. Edward Moore, Esq. • Michael O'Brien, E s q. • Arthur Guinness, Esq. Peter Ilurrowes, Esq. William Murphy, Esq. • • Gervase P. Bushy, Esq. Joseph Hone, Esq. • James Cory, Esq. Valentine O'Connor, Esq. Michael Hackett, Esq. Joshua Pim, Esq., James Vance, Esq. Nicholas Mahon, Esq, Resolved, That the Committee be requested to pay the Subsciiptions they receive into the Bank of the Messrs. La Touche and Co., who have kindly undertaken to art as Trea- This day the Address from the. City of Dublir, to Earl TALBOT was presented to his Excellency and the Sheriff's received the honour or -Knight• hood on the occasion.—(lbid.) I remain dear Sir, Dec. 2V, 1321. Your's very truly,. --- THE MARQUIS 'WELLESLEY. SPECIAL COMMISSION. surers. Resolved, That the following Banks be requested to re ceive Subscriptions, in aid of those to be received at the Bank of Messrs. La Touche, the Treasurers, viz.—Lord Newcomen and Co.; J. Finlay and Co.; Sir Robert Shaw and• Co.; B. Ball and Co. Bankers, of Dublin ; Messrs. Coutts aud Co.; and Pugct ,, and Bainbridge, Bankers, of London. Resolved, That all Subscribers be ,•timrooned to meet on the 22d of January next, at the Royal Exchange, Dublin, to take such further proceedings as shall then appear to be ne cessary, for carrying into effect this great ohject of. National Interest. ROBERT DAY. .ANCASHIRE.--,—LEIGHTONT HALL.-- To be LET, Furnished, for a Term of Years, and may be entered upon - at the usual times in the ensuing Springavitit 100 Acres, more or less, of excellent arable, meadow and pas ture land, all that modern, spacious, and c onven i en t M ans i on House called LEIGHTON HALL, at present in the occatpa ' lion of S. Powell, Esq. containing a breakfast room and li brary, drawing-room, dining-room of large dimensions, on the ground floor; and six good lodging-rooms on the first floor ; the House also contains commodious servants' 104 7 . ing-room9,servants-ballAitchrnc, pantries . , brewhouse, dairy, and excellent cellars.—Attached to the House, is a handsome billiard -room, coach-house, two stables, and many other de sirable offices.—Also, an extensive and productive gardeu and orchard, brick-walled, well stocked with fruit trees of high be4ring, and a lint-house with choice vines. —Also, a large and convenient farm-house, with barns, stable, shippon, and other commodious farming-buildings, contiguous to the 'dwelling -house.—The lawn and pleasure grounds are disposed in an elegant and modern stile ; the plantations are thriving, and several parts of the estate command picturesque scenery, scarcely equalled in the North of England. The house stands about one mile from the sea, nine' from Lancaster, twelve front Kendal, five from Milnthorpe, two from Burton, all good market towns ; plenty of coal may be had near, and the Estate, with the farms thereto adjoining and belonging, are situated in a sporting country. The House is fitted up with fashionable and valuable furni ture, anti is a most comfortable and desirable residence fur a numerous and genteel family. The Premises may be viewed by applying to Messrs. Wors stick and Co., Lancaster, of whom, or of Messrs. Wilson and Higgin, Solicitors, Lancaster, further particulars may be known. LIMERICK, DEC. ( 20.—Patrick Lee, Morgan Craven, George D'Arcy, Patrick Enright, Tho mas Stein, Daniel Keith, John Hogan, Patrick Cregan, and Patrick Brown, were indicted for 4 misdemeanour and riot, (noticed . in Tiii SUN of yesterday), on Catherine •Hassett, and a person named Bevan, who were witnesses at the last Assizes. The witnesses had been escorted by two of the Police on a car, and when they ap proached the town they were assailed by ,a vast number of persons who pelted them with sticks, stones, &c., calling them by the most opprobrious names, and inflicted so many wounds , upon her as to have nearly deprived her of life. The witness circumstantially detailed the injuries she sustained from the various prisoners, and un derwent a long cross-examination, without shak ing her direct testimony. A great many persons were then brought forward to prove an alibi, but their evidence was but one mass of prevarication and, falsity. It was curious that most of the wit nesses were engaged in shaving during the early part of the day laid in the indictment, when the Solicitor-General remarked that some keen shaver was at the head of this business.----The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty on all the prisoners. Due. haMpast nine o'clock this morn ing, the Judges proceeded to the City Court, where, for the first time since the Commission, the Long Panel was called over. Francis•Shaughnessy was put to the bar, on an indiftment for forcibly and feloniously robbing Mr. Elward'Sandwith, on the 4th of Deceniber7. IRISH POPULATION. [From the. `` Cork Mercantile Chronick."] TO THE EDITOR. Sxß—ln a late Paper you gave the Population of several Baronies in the County of Cork, amounting to 477,329, observ ing that it was ext./ ive of the City of Cork. It is not only exclusive of the City and Liberties of Cork, which it since a4p pears contains 100,43 inhabitants ; but, also exclusive of five entire Baronies, the returns of which were kept back by the Enumerators (most respectable Gentlemen of Family) in con sequence of an attempt made to withhold from them the pro:- rhiscd or understood remuneration for a very arduous, dis agreeable, but right-well executed undertaking. These Ban) . - are_. _ . .. Duhallow, which by the Census of 1813, contained 43.087 Fermoy by do. do. - 34,182 Orrery and Kihnorc do. do. - 24,462 Kinalea by do. do. . 16,547 Kilnataloon by do. do. - 6,6,13 Total - 124,931 There.can be no doubt but these five Baronies increased since 1813, as much as the others; but, taking them at the Census of that year,,you have the County of Cork ccntaming a-Popu lation of 702,795, being greater than ALL Wales together, and over THE ONE-THIRD of the Population of ALL Scotland. I am, Sir, your obliged, AN OLD SUBSCRIBER. The Earl of Conti has presented the Tiev. TimmAs GIBBINGS to the Vicarage of Bailin gary, in the Diocese of Limerick, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr. Gatbtrs.—The Earl of CORK has presented the Rev. JAMES ELLA RD, Jun., to the Rectory o . f. Kilfinan, in the same: county, void by the demise of Dr. GIUMES. If, then, Sir, suck:Sweeping, changes as are taking place in the south of Europe, in Turkey, and in South America, are deemed insipid, how can you expect that the'disinissal of the French Ministry; and other trifles of that sort, can sup press the yawn of your •reader ! I beseech you to try another course. Try Whether our apathy be proof against a clear and striking exposition of "the state of our 'domestic affairs, and of the means of again acquiring National Prosperity. I say this the, rather,. because you have already let out enough to convince me that you du not despair of the commonwealtlL There is merit in this at a period when sloth, in pursuit of a - remedy' to human misery, is every where seen and felt; a chilline - despair, and abandtinment to . .'ate, reign triumphant.----Then, prithee, • " imitate the Sun, " Who Moth permit the bise contagious clouds " To. smother up his beauty front the: world ; " 'That when he please again te,be himself, " Being Wanted, he may tic mote wondered at, " By, urea king through the foul and ugly mists "• Of vapours that did aeenrto strangle him." " A gloomy system," (Says an eloquent wri ter')," has lately prevailed both 'with religionists' and philosophers, which doort the human race for ever to alternations of good and evil, instead of alloWing the hope q/'a,gradual adpance. change is much owing to disappc,inted hopes. It is a revulsion of feeling after the hOld expecta tions which, thirty years ago, floated on men's minds. But that embitterod feeling should now be corrected, It does not beCome philosophy nor the minds of the rising generation to despair, unless there be convincing preof that all was fal lacious. Let us .rather revert, now .that the storm is passing, to the inspiring faith of elder times.' For ages,- holy and benevolent men en tertained this.glorious hope (the hope of a pro gressive advancement), received it as a truth with gratitude, and cherished it . With devotion. It was the spring and seilace of their souls. In their'career of successful exertion, it was the heart-stirring motive that impelled their efforts, and they hailed each triumph over vice and mi sery as a pledge of its truth, and an earnest of its accomplishment; and in their failures it saved them from despondency. , It was the conimon faith of Christians; or rather of the World : for here the spesulations of ploilosophers harmonized with the dictates of Heaven's commissioned teachers; and the songs of idolatrous bards pealed in transient, .yet blissful unison with the pre dictive strainsorthe harp of Judah: It ascended . , in evidence and lovelineSs from the inspiration of poetry to .that of prophesy: ; and from the plau- • sibility of conjecture to the certainty or revela tion. When theological .warfare raged, when systems were created, and systems- destroyed, it passed unattached and , untonched, thrrpo,z.h . the.: Mr. 'Si. 'J. rox. His Excellency the Marquis WELLES LE K, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, alighted and changed horses at the Talbot Inn, in this town (Shrews bury,) yesterday afternoon (Tuesday the '2501 instant,) on his way to assume the Vice-Regal authority. His Lordship was preceded a short time by two King's Messengers. He travelled. in - a plain carriage and four, accompanied by Dr. Hunter, and attended by four servants. On his departure hence for Oswestry,. a number of per sons had assembled near the carriage, and on tha, Noble Viceroy's appearance they paid their re spects to him,by taking off their hats, which mark of attention he acknowledged by repeated obeisanceS. His Excellency seemed to be in per fect health. The Noble Marquis was to sleep last night at. Brynkinalt, the seat of Lord Dun gannon, and is expected to reach Dublin on Thursday.—(Salopian Journal.) The Marquis Wellesley passed through this town at half-past one, yesterday (Tuesday 25. th inst.) on his way to Ireland, and changed horses at the Lion. Inn. The suite of his Excellency, with the Chief Secretary, slept at the same inn on Sunday night.—(Wolperhamptcn Chronicle.) The Marquis Wellesley and suite arrived at York House on- Sunday afternoon, (23d instant) on his route to fill his Viceregal appointment. The Noble Marquis left on Monday for Worces ter : previously to his. dipartnre, he caused an:. elegant scroll to be presented to Mr. Reill y, which his ar m s, cres t, and supporters, are tnoct . beautifutly,emblazoned,.under which his name, style, titles, and Vice-regal rank, are inscribed. (Path Chronicle.) Accounts from Warsa w , of December 4, F . at., that an Ukase has been issue.l. proh"biting Free mason Lodges in Russia ; they have been shut up, since the 15th of Ocioher. This has excited. the 'greater surprise', qs .the Emperor ALExANDt it. has been into the mysteries of that Order. -.The execution of,-,this measure. isinexplicable . except from motivo of lhe , higirst importance.