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Li e ;et w( if Ho' o. ckl' ;ay $i 13. Iron Le rec. io as to Count n ar ot ' eg a ti° ' 1. Of [ iU• vAb le y the a OM: ) ocito n uholi n, - 3 Mr. Bue ll f )rde! lrakl a n o e i 3 c , s , ' ;CO° • ltit elit "1.1)214°11 xquis t't ,re also niP er ' eGr e /' )erdee°' 011 ' A.let , cle s s ,dclet , stio r4 3111e111. oso gory Robert . Fraser, Willirito , Fleet. ightleff , NI. P.► Croftow fiel m d ' o. ,ane, J. Rose L. • , oht~e p g ri t ' Rh, ". 11, Joc enbanl' pigOtt jr-. ll' rn.J, ' ele Sir r i ~E. ar ear ye ea XI CENING ED I .1_ Ik/1A 1 The T.ion, T. Charles Hanbury Tracy, by Lord Sudeley 1 Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., on elevation to the Ba ,r( ei-tag ; , by the Earl of Minto. Sir 'Walter Stirling, by the Right Hon. George S. Byng. H an. Gilbert Talbot, by Earl Talbot. l I iord Prudhoe, by the Duke of Northumberland. 0 'l;he ansdown e . w Right non. Charles Bronlow, by the Marquis 1 I ii Rev. Charles Lane, by the 3larqUised Londonderry. . i Mr. Murchison to present his work, System." Mr. M. was preseeted by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex. " The Silurian Doctor Taylor Gordon, Physician Extraordinary to his Royal Highness the; buke of Cambridge, by the Earl of Westmoreland, Mr. S. Gird'Ast ' ne, Queen's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor. c Ur. Griffiti, Richards, ' on his appointment as Quee n's Counse' by the Lord Chancellor. Air ' Nile by Goodenough fleeter, M P., on rece i vin g a ivrPate,r, •4 of precedency by the Lord Chancellor. ..";,.* - 1 =avid Salomon s, High Sheriff of the County of , r ae re, by the Marquis of Camden. 'tr. William Woodeate, Under- Sheriff of the County of 0 31 Mr. David Salomons, the High Sheriff. mr• Pul man, Richm on d H erald, on his appointment, by M el te Duke o f N orfolk. • R. H. Haywood, by the Right H eieurable the Lord „._ll Layer. „.,nlr. Bruen, by the Earl of Charleville. tvi,i.r. Buck, by Lord Rolle. me• Thomas Evans, Borougbrevo of Manchester, by tire „R ight Hon. C. Poulett Thomson. Mr, Long, by General Sir William Houston. M. William c rJunt R. Hobinson, D e p uty Li eutenant of the of Midd K.IC ese H x, by Rear-Admiral Sir Charles I itilleny, C. 8., .. Lie entenent- Ia Colonel Pringl e T ay l or, on promotion, by , ie Iljor-Geneal Sir F. M u l caster. L 4 0 f t uten ant-Colon e l O'R eilly, on receiving the Companion he Bath, by Lord Hill. Re cor• D r . K nox, Chaplain to the High Sheriff of the , ' unt Kent, by Mr. David S o l omons, High Sheriff dof Kentf r • H. Au.gustus Cowper, upon his appointment as her C ap Majesty'e Consul t o P ara, b y Lord 'Viscount Palmersto n . are tain W. Daniel T yssen, by C.:01. Sir John K enwoa d M Sh, Bart. m m..r.r. Da niel Jones, by M r. Fitzs',ephen Fre nc h, M . P . Knox, on his appointment ',.0 the North Mayo Militia, , „by the Marquis of Sligo. °lr. Campbell, of Farfield, Deputy-Lieutenant for Ayr shire) by Lord James Staten. Mr. Charles Stewart, P, arrister-ae..Law, by his brother, „Captain Stewart, Royal Artillery. eer. C. M. St. George, High Sheriff of County Lei!r - m, Ireland, by the Maraini; of Normenby. • Enfasingtnry,Hboyn. Hamil!,on Duncan 71st Hihland Light In" his frather the Earl of Camperdowne. Mr. Mackenzie L yttleto n. , (of S ca t we ll), on his marriage, by L or d '''' • Speires, M.P., on being appointed Lord Lieutenant A h of Ri,enr! ewshire, by Viscount Falkland. .N... -`l,egleaald James Blewitt, 'M.P., by the Hon. Fox B-. Lame M. ,3 ar ''' &P. " P Henr , Eat t y de Vi smes, b y Sir James Hamilton, _. . . ''''' v e d lee r. Bl oomfield, Vicree of Besbrook, R ut l and, to Gree 'Present to h er M ajesty 7. copy of the third edition of his k Te t e' n stament l aotes, by the A rc hbi s h op of Canterbury. The lave. Mr . Hone Mr. Cooper Cooper. D • • ' 'by rli. William Pollock ,by Lieutenant -General Mawby. The High Sheriffor, the County of Kildare, by Mr. Henry Grettan. Cdr• Williams, 4',h (or the King's Own) Regiment, by m Col. Warre C. 13., Commandant, Chatham. Major Pe ncter, of the Royal Military College, by the L. Governor Majerr. Gen. Sir G. Scovell, K C. B. Lreut.- Col. 11. 13entinck, Coldstream Guards, on his re_ G.i.turunarfdrosm the `Vest Indies, by Cu!. Walton, Coldstream ala3eraGen. C. M c Leod, C. B. Madras Army, on promo tbo, by Lieut., Gen. Sir J. SPLeod, C. B. and K. C. H. J°r-Gen• Ek..anhope, by Gen. the Hon. Sir Charles Colville, G. C.B. Mr. Knighttey, by Sir C. Knightly, Mr. Buxton, by the Marqui s of Aylesbur Mr. W. Jud ri, Bedford Miliela, by Lord De Y. Lisle. Dr. J. Ros-a Cormack, bl, Lord Arthur Lennox. Captain, Ld.ston, fith Regiment, by Major Hartley, Bth Regim e e t. Mejor-General Sir :fames Limo n& C. 8., on promotion, appoir :talent to tine Order of the Bath, and return from „the cLontinent, by General Sir F. Wetherell. %-•ape.ain Bunbury, 21st Fusileers, on promotion, by the Adjutant- General. 'aptain the Hon. George Grey, R.N., by Earl Grey. Ensign Longden, 10th Regiment, by General the Hon. Sir Edwar•a Paget, G. C. B. Mr. Williara Leslie Melville, on return from India, by Sir Charles Colville. Ensign C.. NV. Tupper, on his appointment to the 69th Regimrnt, by Mr. Martin Tupper, his father. Ensign Jaacy, 76th Regiment, by Major-General Alexan der D ickson, G. C. B. and K. C. H. Admire,' Fleming, on appointment to command at Ports rno•Jth. Cetetain P. De Lanety, 75th Regiment, by Lieut.- General ir Hud son L owe, K. C. B. Major Robb, Bengal Army, by Captain Sir J. Hill, R. N. Major Thomas Liv:,ngston Mitchell, by the Marquis of Normanby. .C.atnpetanitn, by yybbon Monypenny, M.P., West Kent Regi- Color lel Sir J. K. Shaw, Bart. mein —Colonel (3urwood, C. 8., on being placed on the pi es, List, by Viscount Melbourne. ee•rAdstiiral `sir Charles Adam, on his appointment as I.'vis Majestvs Lieutenant for the county of Kinross, by Rev. c3runt 11%ellaourne. Rev, G o ' 13..auey, by Viscount Melbourne. il. Majer..o4f; *Neill, by the Duke of Ag} p ersi ep eral Sir Henry Bethune, on r his return from M a ' 4 ' by Viscount Palmerston. E r i?r E gre y by Lord Fitzroy Somerset. -.7s,,lgrin William H. S vmonr, on his appointment to the LieZete•ohai-Ahlanders, b e4 Rtar-Admiral Hawker. , Se a chi! th H ammond, Rifle Brigade, by the Earl of Win eeeo , • er ° '• Lieut Burdett, Royal Rifles, by Lieut-Colonel ri " o r th. • a•ore s eet Palk, Royal Dragoons, by Colonel Sir Horace Priour Si ; j • b Mrs Cr o f ton, Deputy Lieutenant, County of Sligo, lei mr• Eitzstephen Trench, M. P. L° John Maclean, 20th Regiment, on promotion, by ,rhe 'taro.), Somerset. so il,. el'. Lord Wriothesley Russell, by Lord John Rus- C c e e a s P 4 3 l l . . Ba u ß r ll i e t in i . 7 ° X nri n . b e e N : ii iz• N., C. 8., by Rear Admiral Sir le Ellice, -•—•, on his appointment to her Majesty's a l e p n ta e l l n ß L a o ti w n ee n n e d ia ite ' s !l ia A,_ drni I Fleming. Mr. William Phillipethbyl(riang'sHusiars, by Lieut. Co. e. I g 4 J. Paton, Reginald9lst.Re7irenent,by. Ells' J .th e J . J. Earl 1e v r ef i t t,E Errol. At. P. el r J ~. oseph Paeet be ee t t ••b ' J the Hon. Fox Melee. A • Christie, Nertha mptonshire'Regiment of Militia, by c the Marquie of Northampton. ' aPt. wee?. ilner, 31st Regiment of Infantry, by Lieu c4ttenant-Geb. Slater Rebow. A P I...* Wrn. liamilton Halford, 41st Regiment Bengal c a;',"437, hi: Viscount Combermere, G. C. 8., G. C. H. t'" V Prnon 33d Regiment, on promotion, by the Earl of c- • ' Li_ areligan. elate the Hon. C. R. West, on his return from Canada, be L ; the Earl Delawarre. .eut. T. W. S. Smith, 38th Regiment, by Gen. Sir H. Pigott, G.C.M. G. laietat. Goldie, 22d Regiment, by Gen. Goldie. Lieut. J. Vernon, 15th Hussars, by Col. Badeock, 15th Hussars. tieut. D. Fitz Evans 16th Regiment Bengal Native In fautey, on his return from India, by Major-Gen. Sir David Xernenies, K.C. H. ~eNat. Chambers, 15th Hussars, by Col. Badcoek. lait. Spencer Buller, 66th Regiment Bengal Infantry, Li eu Lieu'enant-Gen. Sir Thomas Bradford, G. C.B. entenant Robert Eergusson, Rifle Brigade, by the ~..Ea.rl of Caraperdown. 11. Richard !Jenkins, G. C. 8., M. P., as Chairman of the ~ast bathe Company, and on being nominated a Civil Gay e rtTd Cross of the Bath; Mr. William Buttervrorth 4Y.ey, Deputy Chairman of the East India Company 10Jor-General Sir Ephraim Stannies, C. 8., on bis .lornotion; Major- General Briggs on promotion ; Lieut. Major. 10th Regiment Beneal Light Infantry, en his return to India; Lieutenant °J. Phillott„ 10th Sinlent Bengal Native Infantry ; Lieut. J. N. Tapp, `,„„ati Regiment Madras Light Infantry ; Lieut. A. F. 4:04 "teepherson, 43d Regiment Bengal Native Infantry; irYLieut. T bor 7th Regiment Bengal Light Infan ,, t.arit.hie return' from India—by the Right Hon. Sir .I,i, '-' rtobhouse, Bart. etellent- Colonel D I Royal Artillery, on being awlsointed Cornpank Y n ne Of e t Y he Bath ; Lieutenant_ Colonel ells, Ro al E ' ers on being appointed ; n Lieut nf' th e 13 Y v 9 cit, .r t J, ' a ate ; Licut. W ' ilder, Royal e A m r e u t l i l e er n y ; ; Cerat.ra•eers, Royal Artillery, on promotion Lieut. lcu. Cooper Royal Artillery, gbilar Royal Artillery—by 1.)1,..`ut• Francis ' B. Ward, Royal Artillery; h s a " a o n i d n a t m L r e ' e n l u t t ; . f the ~., . , L:,.. en-dine/Imthe G G e neenrearla theo ile„crien,t-General Slater Rebow,• Ca. Sir Here -ales Pakenharn, on appointment Staff of Lieut-- theevernor of Portsmouth, 'and on the General K . C. H. on Arr ay , Najor as Major -Gen. Sir David Xemenies, l ears ; earPreP.°l"me to the Board 404 r .,. on being appointed a err eolonel Macintosh, on his promot i o n __. e• -re abroad —by General Lord Hill, G. C. 13 of Companion Gene o o ffi f the and return Bath Col. N.,on re.R. on ' a P ts in Toup Nicolas, C. 8., on his appointmen a t " to mend 11. M. Belleisle ; Capt. Chappell, c o m - ceiv ing his promotion ; Capt. R. Crozier, R. N., pro s and return from India ; Capt. Deans, R. N . l . li n 413 t. Pe stincr, R.N., on being nominated a Companion C of t he Bath ;c Capt. Jenkin Jones, on appointment to 4 411 N rn and H. M. ship C,uracoa ; Capt. Houston Stewart, Ben. b '-''' o n his appointment to command H. M. ship °yr; Capt. John Parker, R. N., on his appointment to cernt nend H. M. ship Winchester ; Capt. Mildmay? t t :N., on return from foreign service ; Commander A. 1,1 Montgomery on promotion • Commander C. J. F. "s,eWton, R. N. : -Commander Butterfield . ; Lieutenant Si Frederick Nicolson, Bart., R N., on his return from foreigh service ; and Lieutenant J. S. Ellman, R.N., on return from foreign service, by the Earl of Minto, j, U ' C .H., First Lord of the Admiralty ieutenant G. F. Stuart, 88th Regiment, on promotion, N,rby Lieut.-General Sir H. Keating 2 • Francis Walpole, by Viscount Clive 'algain Sir Thomas Maryon Wilson, Bart., by Col. Sir K. K. Shaw lictitenant 11PDonald, 25th Regiment, by General Sir Henry p. Campbell, K. C. B. ~,After the Levee their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of efT. e , ~anl Cambridge, and the Knights Gallery, Order e th [it,- e,arter assembled iu the Portrait wee M e "ights Companions were robed by Mr. Hunter and co r le. de in their splendid mantles, and wearing also their I "' The Knights were afterwards called over by "`.................._ . Garter, there were present his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke cf Wellington, the Marquis of Anglesea, the Marquis of Exeter, Earl Grey, Duke of Norfolk, Mar quis of Lansdowne, and the Duke of Somerset. The Officers of the Order present were the Bishop of Winches ter, Prelate, the Dean of Windsor, Registrar; Sir Wm. Woods, K. H. Garter, Principal King of Arms, and Mr. Pulman, acting for the Gentleman Usher of the Grder. The Officers wore their mantles, chains, and Ipttdges. The Knights Compani,ms proceeded to the Voyal Clo set, where the Queen held a Chapter of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Her Majesty being seated in the Chair of State, the Knights took their respective seats at the table according to the order of their Stalls. Sir Wm. Woods, Garter, was by the Sovereign's command intro duced, and, kneeling near the Queen, the oath of office, as Chief Officer of Arms of the Most Noble Order was ad ministered to him ; Sir William, ri,ing, had the honour to kiss her Majesty's hand, and then withdrew to his place at the bottom of the table. Her Majesty's will and pleasure Was signified to the Chapter, that the vacant stall in the Royal Chapel of St. George, at Windsor, should. bt filled, and as by the Sta tute none but a Knigb: can he elected, his Grace the Duke of Cleveland ',vas introduced, and was Knighted by Her Majesty, with. the sword of State. The Knight's companions proceedvd to the election, and their suffrages were collected awl presented to the Sovereign, who was pleased to zommand the Prelate to declare, and he ac cordingl:y declared the Moat Noble the Duke of Cleve had been duly elected a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. His Grace (between the Marquis of Lansdowne, and the Duke of Somerset, the two junior Knights present), kneeling near the Sovereign, and Sir William Woods presenting on his knee the Garter, their Royal Highnesses, the Dukes of Sussex and Cambridge, the two Senior Knight's Companions present, buckled it on his Grace's left leg, the Prelate pronouncing the usual admonition. ' Garter then presented in like manner the Ribband with the George, and Her Majesty with the assistance of the Royal Senior Knights, put the same over the Duke of Cleveland's left shoulder, the Prelate reading the admonition ; after which his Grace had the honour to kiss the Queen's hand, and hiving received the congratulations cf each of the Knights Companions, with drew. The Chapter being ended, Garter again called over the Knights Companions. The Sword of State was borne at the ceremony by Mr. Martins, Gentleman Usher. The Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Normanby, the Lord Chamberlain, Viscount Melbourne, Lord John Russell, the Field Officer in Waititig, and the Captain of the Guard. Her Majesty and suite afterwards returned to Bucking, ham PJace. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Newmarket, Wednesday Afternoon NEWMARKET FIRST SPRING MEETING. The B. C. 50/. Plate was walked over for by Lord G. Ben, thick's Grey Nhimus, no other horse having been entered. There is only one racy for decision, viz., a Handicap Sweep stakes of 10 so us . eac h, D . M ., for which the following are named :—Derrynane, 8 - st. 71b. ; Mergauser, Bst. 61b. ; Egotist, 7st. 1:11b. ; Colt by Shortwaist, dam by Bobadil, Bst. ; and Courier, ist. The following list of the betting after the races will show :hat the 2,000 Guineas Stakes has made a more open market: NEWMARK STAKES-FRIDAY. 50 even on Ceenis and The Corsair (Gulnare colt) against the field (taken). TliF. DERBY. 3 to 1 agst Scott's Lot 5 to I agst Lord Jersey's lot (taken) 13 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhil's lot 6 to 1 agst Mr. G. Clark's Dragoman (taken) 7 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ciesar (taken) 8 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's The Dey of Algiers 9 to 1 agst Lord Lichfield's Corsair, Gulnare colt (taken 13 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim 20 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Euclid (taken) 20 to 1 agst Duk , of Richmond's Bulwark (taken) 30 to I agst Sir G. lleathcote's Valainceurt (taken) 33 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's Hither—(token) 33 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Decoy colt (taken) 40 to 1 agst Lord Albemarle's Domino (taken) 40 to 1 agst Marquis of Westminster's Lord Mayor (taken; 40 to 1 agst Air. Batson's Brother to Plenipo (taken) 50 to 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Westonian (taken) 1,000 to 15 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti (taken) The bets en Westonian and Wapiti were made in the morning. lIIETROPOLITAN POLITICAL REFORM OR REVOLUTION. CIE SUNDAY TIMES 16:1, on fte 21st of APRIL, 1839, present to its SulLeribers a Stamped SUPPLEMENT, GRATIS, Containing every particular relative to the IMPORTANT DEBATE. The crisis has arrived, and the Battle of Parties commenced; it now only remains for the people to do their duty and demand a far more Liberal Ministry, for nothing but that can save the Country from War Abroad and Revolution at Home. Printed and published by J. K. Chapman, 72, Fleet-street, SUMMARY. The Morning Herald of this day, commenting on Mr. Grote's speech last night in the House of Commons, says— ‘• This result is precisely what we expected. Mr, Grote and his friends—the men who boast that at all hazards they are always ready to assert those principles to which they profess unshrinking devotion, the political purists, in short, efooxfuptnehddeiteHonco be y use of Com mons —t h ese men, we say, are always _ in t 11 practiceN.er veriest tthe abettors most paltry h those dirtyt e s u N p y p h o i l g t ers of prac tises, which, in all their disquisitions they affect to repro bate. B ut a l t h ough Mr. Grote will now, as on all other occasions when Whiveryfhappens to be in peril, vote for the Whigs rGentlemane n e Government of t h,course, cares nothing for the 'Melbourne, l Oh no I the Hon. fLoribeei‘railr.GGorvoetreumvoetnetsod that he sighs for the recur eththateswhaolrlseeure to the country either a eMtori time assures Grote, Lor e Liberal Opposition ; and there fore the continuance of that system under which (according to his assumption) both have dis appeared." The Morning Advertisre observes, in the course of a leading article on the subject of the debate now in pro gress in the House of C0mm0n5....." Ministers will have a majority, and a greater majority than they ever dreamed of. With the solitary exception of the place-hunters of all parties, men of Independent and patriotic minds have been brought by the discussion which is now in progress to a sense of the necessity of preserving a Government which, while it continues to improve the institutions of the country, does not abruptly interfere with existing interests. That this is the soundest policy, under every circumstance, no one can possibly question ; but under the present cir cumstances, it is more than ever necessary that a Govern. ment should continue to exist which, as a whole, repre sents the feelings of Englishmen, and, in cultivating peace, demands and receives apologies of the most satisfactory character from every power that has dared to offer an in. suit to the honour and supremacy of the country." The Morning Chronicle, alluding to the late Irish dis cussion in the House of Lords, remarks that one pecu liarly beneficial effect has resulted from the bare-faced at tempt to pack a Committee of the Lords, to strike at the Government through Lord Normanby's Irish Administra tion. The accusers of his Lordship are Orangemen—the old enemies of the Irish people. Ministers were defeated in the House of Lords by Orangemen. The banners of Orangeism were unfurled, and the vote of the House cf Lords was naturally viewed as the consummation of the policy which in the pulpits, in the Times, Standard, and other newspapers, and by means of itinerant orators, has been incessantly seeking to inffime the religious prejudi ces of the people of England. But is the vote of the Lords really a victory ? Has it not been of infinitely more detriment to the Tories than to their op ponents s The vote has in reality paralyzed the Tories. Sir Robert Peel found Orangeism a convenient instrument to excite opposition to Ministers; but he shrinks from its alliance when he conceives office is within view. The Morning Post contains a leading article suggested by the debate now in progress in the Commons, in the course of which our Contemporary makes the following ob servations :—" As it is, the Conservatives are indeed kept out of office, and out of patronage; but he must be an idiot who supposes they are kept out of political power. They exercise a practical veto, and' something more. They not only compel the united band of feeble Whigs and truck ling Radicals to abandon such measures as seem hostile to Conservative interests, but because Ministers are ashamed to pass through Session after Session without appearing to do anything at all, and because they will not be allowed to do anything unless they accept Conservative suggestions, the measures which do pass, arc, in a material degree, framed by the Conservative leaders." LLOYD'S SI-I IPPING.-(TIIIS DAY.) DEAL, APRIL 17. Wind S. W. fresh.—Arrived James Hunt, from Rotterdam. C ame d own f rom t h e R i ver A E le m xa a ri n d u e , r i: Rio ana G r b a a r d Y o ° e n s e '; Arab, j We s tmorland, , .Falcon, Hobart Mahoney,T oven n ; Dearness, Quebec ; Mariner, Bartlett, do. ; Orestes, • , Mogadore ; Orient, Pitts, Constantinople Moody, Miramachi ; Harmony, Tindal, do. ; Flying Fish, Edwards, Iberia, —, Cadiz ; Sapphire, Brown, Quebe c . S a il e d the Isabella Anne, Tucker, Siera L eone . P ut b ac k t h e Calcutta, Ross, Sydney, New- South Wales.—Arrived Partley, Orynthia, Black Nymph, Ashburton. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 17.—Wind W. to W. S. W., fresh breezes and squally.—Arrived the President, Chadwick, from New York —sailed 22d ult. ; Marshal H arve y, f rom Swansea, with loss o f jib-boom, bowsprit, cutwater, &c., having been in contact with a schooner last night off Port. land, and must discharge part of her cargo. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 17.--Wind W.—Sailed the Belle, Sbipeott, for Lisbon. FALMOUTH, APRIL 16.—Wind S. to S. S. W., fresh breezes. —Arrived the Neptunus, Blom, from Skien ; her Majesty's steamer Aletcor, from a cruise. Off port, the Blanche, from St. Kitt's. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 17. —Wind W. N. W,, fresh.— Arrived, the T rave ll er, Pillot, from Pernambuco; Hebc, Duncan, Demerara ; Laidmans (late Hughes), Savanilla ; Rockingham, Natchez; Shakspeare, Henderson; Banff shire, Pitcairn ; Ri ga , S mith ; and Saxon, Mansfield, New Orleans; Haywood, Jones, Mobile ; Fergus, Cun fork, Aphalachicola ; John Francis Cotter, Savannah Irving, Reed, Ditto; Britannia, Atcleson, Philadelphia Afgonquin, Turley, Philad e l p hi a ; Margaret Johnson, M•Auley, Charleston; Sarah Sheafe, Merry, New Yolk; Portsmouth, Wilson, Ditto; Jane Mari a , N ewfoundland ; Lady Buckley, St. Michael's ; Anna Josepha, Le Bas, Bayonne ; Peckne, Fuime; Pioneer, Ancona, We regret to bear that Miss Louisa H. Sheri dan is so alarmingly ill that doubts arc entertained of her permanent recovery. Her Majesty wore at the Levee yesterday a scarlet velvet train, lined with white satin, and trimmed with a rich gold border and swan's down ; dress of white satin, the body, sleeves, and skirt ornamented with dia rnonds and swan's down. The trimming was made of the black swan from New South Wales, lately presented to her Majesty. The Marchioness of Lansdowne issued cards yesterday afternoon for a grand concert on the 24th inst. at Lansdowne House to her Majesty. The invitations are particularly select. into THE the H 0 , PAPER D UTIEs.—A Bill has been brought Ase of Commons, by the Chancellor of the Excheq uer . , and read a second time, which purposes to be a W t .. to Con so lid ate an d A mend t h e L aws to Collect t iAirk h s, z e te. E ac • td. , tTeo i eosh eferosme D i eet is ne s hoket o sh, n P pad another clause yh merite a il p eal e u r s , weoiafnsi inflicting ; di h wnu get ayd under t tne u bd s e erp, re six nitxahledtya intro duceoyolsd: 101..f0r every label lost or mislaid. London. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT GARDEN. The Public is respectfully informed, that the PRESENT MANAGEMENT WILL TERMINATE WITH THIS SEASON ; The following Programme is therefore given of its final ar rangements : The Standard Plays, as brought out at this Theatre, will each be performed once more, viz. : MACBETH, OTHELLO, HAAILET,I CORIOLANUS, lON, THE TWO FOSCARI, WEINER, and YIRGINIUS. THIS EVENING, Arum 18, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MISS HELEN FAUCIT. Will be presented the Comedy of • AS YOU LIKE IT. Jacques, Mr. Macready ; Orlando, Mr. Anderson ; Touch stone ; Mr. Harley ; Rosalnd, Miss Helen Faucit. After tishich, A MUSICAL MELANGE. After which (never acted), a New Farce, in One Act, called SAYINGS AND DOINGS. To conclude with THE QUAKER. To-Morrow, Richelieu. ~'"~ r 2J ~ *'~. ~~T'z '~,~~' ••> 4 toe 9 ~un LONDON : THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1839. The Lords only received petitions and passed the Mu. tiny Bills last night. In the Commons there was a brief discussion on a ques tion of Members voting in a Committee on a Private 818 of no public interest. Several petitions, some complain ing of life and property being insecure in Ireland, and others in favour of the Government were presented. The debate on the Irish question was resumed and occu pied the remainder of the evening. Mr. BARRON opened the proceedings, and introduced a little variety into the debate, by a statement concerning the conduct of the Marquis of Warranaorna, in turning tenants off his land, and which, like many other statements made during the debate, was contradicted. Mr. BARRON eulogized the Government, and showed in a variety of ways, such as an improvement in the value of land, the progress of manufactures, &c., that. Ireland had made considerable progress under Lord NOR.. MA NBY'S Administration. Sir ROBERT BATESON took a directly opposite view, and discussed the subjects of Rail-roads, the Kildare street Society, the Orange faction, &c. &c., concluding his omnibus speech by very properly implying that he could not gild the refined gold of Sir ROBERT PEEL. The Irish Baronet must be a bad metallurgist to take the tinsel of the English Baronet for gold, particularly after it has been tested and proved to be base metal, Mr. Gao-ra's speech is remarkable for declaring his intention to vote for Lord JOHN RUSSELL'S motion, and his dissent from the general policy of the Ministry. He had no wish, he said, to see Lord MELBOURNE continue in office, and he expressed an opinion that a vote was asked by the Ministers on this part of their policy, because it was equitable and just. It stood out is relief from their general adherence to the Tory principles of Government. He also _ signified his determination to vote for Mr. T. DUNCOMBE'S amendment. Such language publicly used by Mr. GROTE, who is most certainly a sincere and a calm-minded man, must, we presume, convince the Ministers bow much they have fallen in the estimation of their usual supporters, and how necessary it is for them, if they wish to be distin guished from the Tories, and retain the confidence of their own friends, to assume a bolder and more decided character. They ought to state openly and honestly what they mean to do, and what are the difficulties which they find in carrying out a Reform policy. If honestly stated, they might perchance convince men like Mr. GROTE of the impossibility of now acting on the pi inciples he ad vocates. Whether or not the continuance of the Liberal Ministers in office does not turn patriots into Tories, by feeding them on Tory food, is a question which some of , our brethren should discuss. Mr. GROTE, wanting no thing, may probably be afraid, if the Whigs remain in office, that he will by and bye be almost the only Radical , left. Mr. GinsoN, a gentleman who has, on two or three oc casions, distinguished himself; declared last night, though he sits on the Tory side, that he would not vote for Sir ROBERT PEEL'S amendment, because he did not know whether the appointment of a Committee by the Lords were or were not a censure on the Government. He con gratulated Sir ROBERT on his declaration that he would not make religious opinions a qualification for office—a de claration in which the Right Hon. Bart. must be insincere, or he must not mean, as he said, to protect the Irish Church. His Irish friends have no peculiar claims on him but their religious opinions; and Mr. Sergeant JACKSON, and the other Protestants, would look askance at Sir ROBERT, were be to show no preference for them to Catholics. Mr. GIBSON expressed a hope also, that Sir ROBERT PEEL'S denunciation of party meetings would influence the con. duct of the bigots who are to meet at Exeter.hall. Sir ROBERT ought to have denaunced their meetings before he profited by them. Sir E. L. BULWER supported the Government, and pointed out that but for the mild and just administration of the Marquis of NORMANBY, the Irish, grievously disap pointed by the Apprporiation Clause being excluded from the Irish Tithe Act, would not have submitted to it, and Ireland would again have been plunged into confusion. Mr. LITTON introduced the Irish Corporation B:11, and the normal schools of agitation, into the debate, for which he was deservedly complimented by Mr. PIGOTT, as having brought variety into the discussion. Mr. PIGOTT, the Solicitor-General for Ireland, wasted his powers by combating the assertions of Mr. EMERSON TEN NENT, which every other person thinks unworthy of no tire. The Learned Gentleman otherwise made a sensible, clever speech, and demonstrated, as far as anything con cerning Ireland can be demonstrated, that the number of crimes had diminished under Lord NORMANBY'S Govern- men The Recorder of Dublin, Mr. SHAW, was piqued by Mr. PIGOTT'3 observations into making a speech which might as well have been omitted. A great deal of the discus sion between these Gentlemen concerned the returns made by the Inspectors of Prisons, and those made by the Clerks of the Peace of Ireland, the discrepancies between which combined with the continued contradic- tions given to each other by Irish Members, have be gotten a general suspicion that neither documents nor as sertions concerning Ireland, can be relied on. This makes us heartily sick of the subject. The Dobate was again adjourned at Twelve o'Clock. The Conservatives, if we are to judge from their Journals, are the most pure, the most noble, the most virtuous politicians in existence. They include all the respectable and opulent classes. Their opponents, ac cording to them, are only the mob, political dissenters, hungry placemen, fellows who wish to destroy the Church that they may have its property, and root out the present race of landlords only to clothe themselves in their spoils. Conservative policy even assumes a religious character. Those who follow it assert that they arc God-fearing, humble-hearted men, while their opponents are mere superstitious Catholics, hard hearted infidels, and arrogant atheists. We mean to question the justice of this self-praise, and show what the Conservatives really are. Up to a recent period they gloried in the title of Tories, and then were the de fenders of oligarchical tyranny. They were Right Divine men, and brought the attributes of the Al mighty into discredit by describing their brutal tyranny as ordained by Him. Their avowed creed was, that " many were made for one," and their purpose was every where to degrade the many into being the servants or the slaves of one or a few. According to them Govern ment was framed to preserve the many in slavery; and by acting on that principle they brought Government itself into disrepute. The progress of society put an end to their scheme. As the people acquired know ledge it was necessary to defer to them. They could no longer be ruled except by an appeal to their reason. The Whi g maxim of Government being f rame d f or the good o f the people, became the universal creed, and then the tyrant Tories turned Conservatives. Con servatives of what ? Of the Reform Act. We will take our stand on that, said their organ, Sir R. PEEL, and not allow it to be altered. In its progress they denounced that Act as every thing that was bad, and, unquestionably, it has not an swered the expectations of its framers. In many points, as to the reg istration for example, it is a d m i tte d by its authors to b a failure. The Tories, then, have become conservatives of the errors and abortions of the Whi g s. High-minded politicians, whose gre a t es t b oast i s to ad opt as their creed the discarded errors of the oppo nents whom they decry ! A similar fate has awaited them from the time of the Revolution. The political successors of the Jacobitesgradually became the staunch supporters of the House of Hanover ; and the Tory party, defeated in 1688, have since become rigidly con servative of the chains then imposed on their own ty ranny. Their principles have throughout made this their lot ; and greater degradation we cannot conceive in any race of boasting politicians than thus to live, as it were like the worshippers of the Lama, on the dirt of their opponents. The degradation, however, is the natural and neces sary consequence of their principle. If a set of men were to unite to preserve in use the ploughs and looms and ships of each east generation and prevent all change, and of course all improvement—if they had not the power to arrest the progress of society, it is clear that THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL is. 1836 • practice of the Government, where the law hag been iier vetted into an instrument of injustice, and where concession was never made to the oppressed until it was extorted from the fears of the oppressor, thus losing its grace and fail ing of its effect, Turbulent and lawless habits among the people are the natural consequences of such a system of government,and --- must be expected to continue longafter the system which gave them birth is extinct. Let it be borne in mind that improvement has commenced, that a movement in the right direction has taken place, and that a counter movement will leave Ireland a prey to greater evils, if possible, than those from which she is beginning to emerge. This a point worthy of the consideration of those who see no harm in the sub stitution of a Tory for a Liberal Administration, the resurrection of the blessed " Ascendancy," and the res toration of the forme r order of things. ,f; _ roofs, such as no honest mind can resist, aro not wanting of the important and gratifying fact, that Ire land has entered upon a course of amelioration. One great criterion of the state of a country is the value of landed p roperty. Now if we apply this rule to Ireland, by comparing the price of land at present with its price some years ago, we shall see how things have altered for the, better. It is but a few weeks since we had occasion to ad vert to the statement made by an auc tioneer much employed in the sale of landed property in the sister country, who not only bore testimony to the general r i se i n the value of land, but gave, as a particular i ns t ance, the result of a sale, in which a price amounting to upwards of thirty years' purchase had been obtained. Another estate has also lately fetched the vast sum of 75,000/. more than was offered for it three or four years ago. Are these facts, we ask, reconcileable with the audacious assertion of the " ascendancy" crew, that life and property are as inse cure now as they were under their grinding and hateful tyranny ? That they have done all in their power to render them so, we readily admit. That they have laboured with indefatigable zeal to goad the people into acts of des. peration, no one, who has any regard for truth, can deny. Neither can it be denied that their humane and pa- triotic exertions in this way have been attended with a certain measure of success, for to them may be directly traced much of that agrarian outrage which is . almost the only spe c i es o f h e i nous cr i me now comm i tted i n Ireland. Formerly the Tory landlord's insatiable cu pidity was the main, if not the only source of those violent acts of which the wretched peasants were guilty when turned out of their dwellings, to make way for others who agreed to pay a little mo re rent. To this motive of action, powerful enough of itself God knows, in the breast of an Irish landowner, another is now added. Party spirit, in its most ranco- rous form, impels the tyrant of the soil to instigate his victims to the commission of crime. What does an Orangeman care for the prevalence of murder or arson, provided he can make it a handle for serving his own political purposes. His paramour. t duty is to prevent by all means the existence of a state of things under a Liberal Administration, which would contrast with that which existed under the Orange regime._ ., EWr; new crime is to him a source, not of painful reflection, but of heartfelt, though s2cret gratification ; and if, while he is himself the real author of it, h e can con t r i ve to throw the blame on his political opponents, he is thought to play the game of his party to perfection. It was only the other day that Lord LORTON pulled down the huts on one of his estates, and ejected nearly five hundred of the inmates, for no other reason than that they were Catholics, replacing them by Protestants from other quarters. Is it wonderful that these desti tute and miserable beings shculd betake themselves to criminal courses—that they should be hurried on in a moment of reckless exasperation to wreak their ven geance on the persons by whom they have been sup planted ? Lord LoaToN may say that he has a right to "do as he likes with his own," but he must not exp ec t that that sophism will screen him and others who act like him from the charge of wilfully contributing to the spread of crime in Ireland. In spite, however, of all the efforts of the Orange men to clog the wheels of a reformi ng G overnment, and in spite of all the demoralization which the system pursued by the party when in power, has been the means of producing, it has not been in their power to counteract the effects of the impartial administration of justice, and the paternal character of the Government, The people have now, what they never had before, con fidence in the laws. They see and feel that there is no longer one rule for the Protestant and another for the Ca- tholic. The consequenco, of this feeling is, that although many breaches of the law take place—us how should they not ?—there is not that reluctance to bring the offenders under its power, which used to prevail when it was differently administered. The Rodenites them selves are compelled to admit the unpalatable fact that the proportion of convictions to committals is greater than ever it was before, and has been gradually on the increase for the last few years. We gave the debate on Tuesday night in the House of Commons at full length, according to our usual prac ate prvvt:d b.,. S 9: If to worship error, to eat dirt, to grovel in a superititiotis fetetente for an age more ignorant than the present, constitute a set of high minded, pure, noble, virtuous race of politicians, those characteristics must be conceded to the Conservatives ; but i in cur judgment, they are more suitable to belong to the Whigs,ltadicals, Political Dissenters, and Infidels. We quite agree with a Lady who does us the honour to address us on the subject of Court purity, that the moral influence of her MansTv is of very great importance ; but from anything we have ever heard of the aristocracy, it would be somewhat difficult to find one of them, whose moral character, in the sense the words are used by our Correspondent, has not been impeached. Of some individuals such a thing may be more known than of others, but if her MAJESTY were to have no Minister till she could find one morally irreproachable, we are afraid that she would have to administer the whole of the public affairs herself. The prosent Ministry . have certainly done themselves honour by selecting for her MAJESTY'S Court ladies of high rank and unblemished reputation. We know none whose character stands higher than those of the several Ladies who fill the highest offices of the Court. More could not be done by any Ministry, and the scandal that has arisen has no connexion whatever with the character of any member of it. It is publicly notorious that the whole scene was the result of the tattle of some ladies ; and the statement is, that no gentleman except the medical man, had any con cern with it. True, the Tories have made this paltry piece of scandal, for it is nothing more, a means of attacking the Ministers, and true it is that the HASTINGS family have, in some way or other, been made auxiliary to the attack ; but from any thing which has publicly transpired, the Minister has behaved with no impropriety. Whether the medical man in question have or have not been dismissed from Court, it is clear that Lord MELBounNE could return no other answer to the second letter of the Marchioness of HASTINGS than a mere acknowledgement of the receipt. Such topics are very unpleasant, very unfit for public discussion ; and the interest of all parties concerned, requires that as little as possible should be published on the matter. It appears from a communication inserted in another part of The Sun, that the late scandalous prosecution of the Dissenters of Truro, whose goods were seized for Church-rates, and the still more scandalous sentence pronounced upon them by the Judge who tried the cause, have kindled a flame in that borough which is not likely to be extinguished in a hurry. The opposite parties are more exasperated than ever against each other, nor can any reasonable hope be entertained that peace will he restored to the town until the cause of irritation be removed by the abatement of the Church-rate nuisance. All attempt s to accommodate matters have proved fruitless, and we are not sorry for it, for a compromise in questions in which conscience is concerned is what all right-thinking persons must reprobate. It is derogatory to the reli gious character of the party who makes such a sacrifice of principle, and cannot form the basis of lasting tran quillity. The proposal to pay the Church•rate of a parish out of the borough funds is exactly similar to that by which the Church-rates were to be charged on the Consolidated Fund. The form of payment is thus changed from direct to indirect, but the money comes out of the same pockets. Our advice to the abolitionists of Truro, and all other places, is to fight out the battle without flinching. The evil of Church-rates must be exposed in all ways, and on all occasions, until its abet tors themselves call out for a remedy. We are glad to perceive that a subscription has been commenced todefray the expenses incurrcdby these vic tims of ecclesiastical persecution is the defence of the disgraceful action brought against them, and to pay the fine which that mirror of Justices, the Baptist-Presbyterian-Churchman, Baron GURNEY, in his mercy imposed upon them. We think the Learned Baron ought to be invited to the public dinner which is to be given to the sufferers for conscience sake when their term of imprisonment expires, that he may be a witness of the happy effects produced on the public mind by his impartial conduct on that bench, of which he is so distinguished an ornament. Letters and papers from Madrid of the 9th inst. have reached us. The Supreme Council of 'War has decided that it is important •to try General CORDOVA, whose offence renders him only amenable to the ordinary tri bunals of the country. One of ESPARTERO'S paymas ter's is missing, having taken with him in his flight 70,000 dollars belonging to the Army of the North. Don CARLOS remains at Tolosa. The French Court party is in ecstasies. M. PASSY one of the Leaders of the Opposition, but who is under stood to have gone over to the KING, was at half-past four o'clock on Tuesday elected President of the French Chamber of Deputies. M. PASSY attended a meetinc , of the Left Centre on Monday night, at the house of M. GARNERIN, where those who had suspected him of apostasy had previously resolved not only to sound his opinions, but to try the extent of the loss which the Co- ali:ion would sustain by his defection. Accordingly it was proposed that M. BAlllicalMild', be President of the Chamber, whim it forid that M. PASSY, who objected tothis, coup 3Only cointn9.nd ten votes out of eighty-four. On 'ruesdiy morning, however, M. PASSY was waited on by a deputation of the supporters of the late Cabinet, with an offer of their suffrages, which he at once accepted—thus openly throwing himself into the arms of the Court. The fol lowing is the result of the Presidential election : __ - • - - Number of Votes Required Majority 216 For M. Pussy 223 For M. Barrot For M. Dupin . 9 For M. Dufaure 3 For M. Cunin Gridaine Legal Majority of Votes for M. Passy 7 Whereupon M. PASSY was declared duly elected Pre sident of the Chamber, and conducted to the chair by his friends with the usual formalities. While we admit that the result of this election is cal culated to raise the hopes of the Court., we apprehend that it will not fill the honest leaders of the Opposition with despondency. The victory in this instance was the result of a combination of trickery and apostacy. The recreancy of PASSY was hardly known, and it may be supposed that many who voted for him on personal grounds, had doubts of the reality of his apostacy, especially as it was only the night before that he was present, as usual, at a meeting of his friends of the Left Centre. Had PASSY been a staunch Ministerialist, and one of the minority of 221, his election would be indeed tantamount to a restoration of the MOLE Cabi net ; but, under present circumstances, the KING can only boast of having succeeded in averting what his MAJESTY regarded as the direst of Monarchical cala mitiesthe election of the Republican M. ODILLON BARROT. What the KING looks forward to as the consequence of this vote, is the power of forming a Cabinet of which Souvr and PASSY will be the leaders, and from which, as a matter of course, TIIIERS is to be excluded. Could be prevail upon the Duke DE BROGLIE to accept the Foreign Department, &MILT the Presidency of the Council and War, PASSY the Interior, and VILLEMAIN or GUJZOT Public Instruction, he feels persuaded that by a proper application of Court patronage, and a pru dent distribution of the Secret Service Fund, the Coali tion might be so broken up, or weakened by desertions, as to allow him to continue the old system. A very few days now will clear up all doubts upon this highly im portant question. Nothing that has yet taken place weakens our confidence in the ultimate success of M. TRIERS and his friends. The following account is published in the French papers of the meeting of the Haytian bondholders : " The general meeting of the Haytian bondholders at the Bourse, on Sunday, was attended by upwards of three hundred persons. The Committee having by their report shown that it was impossible to conic to any definite terms of compromise with the Haytian Commis sioners now in Paris, the meeting resolved that a letter should be addressed to the President of Hayti, in the name of the majority of the shareholders, pro posing to treat definitively on the following bases : —l. To abandon the ten years' arrears due from Ist July, 1828, to Ist July, 1838. 2. To reduce the annual interest in fu- ture from the contracted rate of 6 per cent. to 3 per cent. 3. That from Ist July next 1,000 bonds, to be drawn for in the manner stipulated by the contract, should be paid off at par. It was at the same time declared that the bondhold ers did not intend, by making the above sacrifices, to re nounce their claim to the protection of the French Govern ment, and that the enormous sacrifice which they im posed on themselves, in consideration of the financial situation of Hayti, was sufficient to proof of their con descendence and of their disinterestedness, to show that these concessions were ane plus ultra. A notice was posted up at the Bourse, calling on all the shareholders who were not present at the meeting to attend at the office of the Secretary, No. 22, Rue St. Anne, and affix their signatures to a memorial to the President of the Havtian Republic to the effect of the above resolutions." There is nothing particular in the private papers of the Bth, from Madrid. The Barcelona journals are to the sth. The Baron de Meer had succeeded in getting a convoy of ammunition and provisions into Sulsona. The Memorial Bordelais of the 13th says :--" Maroto is still inactive, and desirous, it is said, as well as his former comrade Espartero, to end the war by a diplomatic arrange ment, but it seems that the Northern Powers absolutely refuse to take any part in the dynastic conventions proposed for Spain." The Memorial Bordelais of the 15th, says :—" It is said that Cabrera has just received the insignia of a mili tary order from Russia , as an unequivocal testimony of the admiration of the Emperor, and perhaps, too, to show that the Russian Court openly sympathises with the loyal adversary of the political system of Maroto.—Com tnerce. but we cannot, in the conscientious exercise of our duty, recommend it to the perusal of our readers, for, so tar from their reaping any reward for the time and patience necessary for the accomplishment of so arduous a task, we tell them at once that their only return would be a deep feeling of regret that they had made so mi serable a sacrifice of both. The long-winded gentleman who commenced the discussion began by commu nicating to his auditors the cheering information that he could fix upon no point which had not been already completely exhausted, and yet, after a preamble so full of promise—so much in the nature of a pledge, that nothing more serious than a few subsidiary remarks was intended—what does he do but inflict upon us a point less homily, which drags its slow length along the best part of five mortal columns. The man who found the two grains of wheat in two bushels of chaff, was singularly fortunate, when compared with him who shall wade through this unconscionable quantity of twaddle. The Lord deliver us from Mr. EstEnsoN TENNENT, and such as he. This eacocthes loquendi must really be subdued. It is beyond all en durance that the time which ought to be employed in doing the business of the country should be wasted, ap parently for no other purpose than to gratify the inor dinate vanity of certain small fry of faction. For any new light which the Opposition declaimers have thrown upon the ,subject at issue, it is quite clear that the vote might have been taken on the first night of the debate. Sir ROBERT PEEL ' S speech is their case—a lame enough one it must be admitted, but still the best that could be presented under the circurn. stances. If that speech is destitute of those masculine, straightforward, and comprehensive principles which characterise that of the Ministerial leader, and which are the offspring only of superior minds—if it has no claim to sound argument, or to any of the attributes of genuine eloquence, it yet abounds in those spe cious fallacies, ingenious mystifications, rhetorical clap traps, and other base coin of the same stamp, which the Right Hon. Baronet shuffles off upon his hearers with the dexterity of a practised hand, and which well answers his purpose for the time. Why, then, aot let the case rest as ho has left it ? Is it that there may be grounds against Ministers for the usual charge of having done little during the Session that this needless and wearisome " iteration" is resorted to ? The point which the Opposition s eem_ to regard as their stronghold is the num ber of offences still com mitted in Ireland. If your system of Government, say they, has been so very effectual, whence all this crime ? From Tory misgovernment, we answer. The crimes now committed in Ireland are the necessary re- sult of the mal-administration to which Ireland has so long been exposed. You may reverse the wheel of go vernment in an instant, but you cannot produce an in stantaneous moral revolution. The process of amelioration must necessarily be slow in a country which has been for centuries subjected to misrule, in which the sacrifice of the interests of the vast majority of the people to a favoured clique of partisans has been the never-failing they must certainly eat dirt like our Conservative poli ticians ; and continually adopt, while they decried, the improvements of those they pretended to restrain. But of politicians this general principle is more cer tain and more humiliating than it would be o f such a body of Conservatives, if they could exist, of ancient arts. However rude might be the first and all successive spades , p lou g hs, looms, and shi ps , each one answered, to a certain extent, the purpose of its in ventor, and contributed enjoyment. to lighten hum an l a b our r . and increase human ynent But such i s not the case w ith: laws or institutions. Th ey are, in their own nature hindrances and restraints. The best character given of them is that th ey a re necessary evils ; and the instant it i s ascertained that they do not answer the purpose for vvhieh they were intended, they became pure, unmixed, and unne cessary evils. A bad spade may still be a u se f u l in strument, but a bad institution or bad policyla is s laws, simply mischievous. The Conservati ve though time to cling to demonstrate that they are unjust, and then the Conservatives must make the errors of their predecessor s the objects of their worship. The laws being in all cases intended to provide for the future welfare of society, it is clear that those who persist in adhering to old laws cannot be right. Those h cated sy s t em who p ro p ose c hanges in cu bit s those compli wh o as politi ca l society may , adhere to existing institutions must, be wrong. It is of no use to tell us that with every form of institution considerable prosperity has co-existed ; for that only proves that the innat e l aws of human nature arc stronger than the fool ish restraints imposed on it by ignorance and presump tion. France enjoyed a long career of prosperity under her feudal institutions, but they ended at length in a vio lent revolution. Spain was very prosperou s for many years, but her adherence to Conservative policy has plunged her now into great and continued disasters. Italy is ano th er rigidly Conservative count r y. Sh e has preserved her Popes and her Princes. Up to the 16th century her system was compatible with great opulence and va s t na ti ona l progress ; her continued a dh erence to the same system has brought her now into misery and degradation. Experience speaks as strongly, therefore, against the Conservative policy as theory, and not only must the boasting Conservatives be wrong, but they BOURSE.—Psnis, TUESDAY, Arlin. 16. HALF-PAST THREE.—The quantity of business has been less than in the last few days. For the Account the Three per Cents. opened at Slf. 15c., rose to 811; 2.0 c., declined to Slf., and closed at 81f. 5c., being 10e. towel than yesterday. The Five per Cents. from 110 f. 5c., declined to 1 09 f. 90c., last price, a fall of 10c. also. For money the Three per Cents. are 15 cents. lower, and the Five per Cents. sc. The Bank of France Shares are sf. higher. The Belgian Five per Cents. are unaltered, as are the Bank Shares. For the Account the Three per Cents. are 72f. 20c. The Lallitte Bank Shares unvaried. The Spanish Active from 20 s declined to J 20i. The Railway Shares have been firm, and have all advanced except the St. Germain and the Orleans, which are as yesterday. First Highest Lowest Last Price. Price. Price. Price. French 5 per Cents 149 90 109 95 ... 109 90 ... 109 0 4 re 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 ... 101 50 3 per Cents 4... tit la ril 90 . 1 5 ... 81 5 Bank of FranNt Laffitte Bank I,ooof. sh lain _lO5O —.1050 ...1050 5,903 f. 5190 ...5190 ...5190 Belgian 5 per Cents lOl% 101% ... 101 ... 101% Bank 720 ... 722 50 717 50 ... 720 Coupons S,anish Ac ive '2o% ... 20% ... 20q 204 Passive ... ... ... 4 Neapolitan Roman RAILWAY SHARES. 6.93 ... 695 695 ... 695 697 51 ... 700 ... 697 50 700 270 ... 272 50 270 ... 272 50 Havre Orleans Strasburg to Bale 36 25 ... 340 ... 336 23 ... 340 Charleroi ... 455 ... 455 ... 455 455 ASPFIALTES AND BITUMENS. Yarn (Maberly's) St. Germain Versailles, IL B L B PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. ADVERTISEMENTS, A RETURN, showing the Total Number of ADVERTISE MENTS, and Total Amount received therefrom, in Eng land and Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, respectively, for each Year since the Duty was reduced to Is. 6d., and for each Year during a corresponding period before the Duty was reduced. ENGLAND AND WALES. NUMBER, Year ended January 5, 1829 DUTY. X. s. d. 779,250 136,36 S 17 10 1330 777,443 136,652 18 10 1831 783,091 ...... ...137,915 19 4 1832 787,649 ..... -137,838 12 3 1833 783,437 137,122 10 0 1834* 1835 977,441 73,308 1 6 1336 1837 1,173,136 87,985 4 8 1838 1,266,680 1839 _ IRELAND. January 5, 1829 124,26 ) 15,532 15 0 11L30 119,885 14,935 6 0 1831 130,705 16,337 14 0 183 9 125,380 1833 121,931 ...... ... 15,243 17 4 1834* • 1835 162,600 8,130 14 8 1836 169,360 8,468 12 2 1837 170,780 8,539 6 0 1838 173,580 8,679 4 8 1839 178,200 8,910 12 0 Sc OTLA ND. January 5, 1829 108,226 18,939 12 5 1830 100,527......... 17,592 5 7 1831... 111,80, ', 19,566 8 0 1 832 108,914 19,060 0 0 1833 104,447 18,278 6 0 1834* 18.35 134,36 1 10,114 16 2 1836 1i1,171 10,587 17 0 1837... 138,017 10,351 6 0 1838 151,518 11,438 18 0 1839 176,411 13,230 16 6 THOS. LIGHTFOOT, A. C. G. Accountant and Comptroller-General's Office, Stamps and Taxes, April 4, 1639. * Duty reduced to Is. 6d. in Great Britain, and Is. in Ire. land, from July 5, 1833. CORN AVERAGES. GENER AL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended April 13, 1539, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englant and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat FB.4. 3d. Oats Barley 3 ,3, 2.1, I Rye IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TILE P:E WEI.KS PRECEDING. Wheat 7O;. MCI Oats Barley 33s. 3,1, I Rye EVENING EDITION BAIL COURT. 7 (THIS DAY.) THE QUEEN V. THE LONDON CEMETERY COMPANY. Mr. IfIGGIN9 moved for a rule to show cause why a quo warran'o should not issue against the Directors of the Company, who, it was alleged, had obtained the manage ment in a manner contrary to the provisions of the Act under which the Company was incorporated. His LORDSIIIP declined granting the rule, and referred Mr. Higgins to the full Court. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. The trial of Parker and Neal, indicted for a conspiracy to defraud, by obtaining goods under false pretences, came on this morning; it was expected to last for two days, but the case breaking down early the prisoners were acquitted, with the consent of the Counsel for the proiecution. Nicholls, who has been twice acquitted on the charge of the commission of an unnatural offonce, but convicted of the misdemeanour, was yesterday sentenced to two years' imprisonment, with hard labour. Ann Ilearu was indicted for feloniously an maliciously cutting and wounding Thomas Hearn, her husband, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. ,The parties live at Deptford. On the evening of the 24th of March both of them were intoxicated. An alter cation ensued ; the prosecutor struck his wife. The light went out, and he found himself stabbed, how he did not know, no person being in the room except himself and his wife. The prosecutor throughout gave his evidence in a very hesi tating manner with an evident intention of making the case bear as lightly against the prisoner as possible ; he was severely examined by the Learned Recorder. The pri soner had admitted her guilt to the policeman, who took her into custody. The surgeon who was called in to at tend described the nature of the wound inflicted. The prisoner said in her defence that it was the result of acci. dent in the scuffle, and that she had no intention of injuring the prosecutor. The Recorder summed up and found the prisoner Guilty. After the verdict was returned, the RECORDER reed aloud the evidence given by the prosecutor before the Magis trates, which differed materially from the account ht bad thin• day given. _ _ A paper was also put in and read, in which the prisorwe stated that her husband forced her to prostitute, herself, and that when she did not give him the wages of her in. famy he ill.used her, and that was the occasion of the quarrel on the night in question. The police sergeant said, in answer to a question from the Recorder, that he believed this to be the case. The RECORDER, at the conclusion of a most impressive address, in which he alluded to the increase which had taken place in the crime of stabbing, and more particularly to a case which had recently been tried in that Court, sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in the House of Correction for two years. The prisoner having been removed the prosecutor was ordered to stand up and %es adnresed by the Recorder as follows;--." Although I ve thought it my duty to pass this sentence on the prisoner, you, Thomas Hearn, are not blameless in the transaction. You stand before the Court a degraded ; the Court will not allow you your ex penses." Hearn was about to make some observation, when The RECORDER said " Stand down Sir ; your conduct has been infamous." This being the la , st case in the Calendar, the Jury was diEchargcd, after being thanked by the Recorder for their attention. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) A well-known thief, named John Taylor, was charged with attempting to commit a burglary under the following circumstances:— William Bass, a youth in the service of Mr. James Leonard, a surgeon, at No. 18, Craven-street, Strand, stated that a little after seven o'clock last night he was in the parlour, attending to his business, when he heard a noise at the key-hole of the hall-door, and thinking that he had forgot to take out the latch key, he went and saw the prisoner leave the door in a hurried manner to join another per_on, who was standing hard by. He immediately de— manded the key, still supposing it was the latch-key, but the prisoner refused to give it up, and was going away. Witness said he should not leave him, and unless be sur rendered the key he should give him in charge. On getting into the Strand the prisoner threw the skeleton key produced into the caariage-way and darted off, but was taken into custody by 50 F division, near to the Post-office. Witness, on his return home, found the latch-11.4y safe where he had laid it in the course of the evening. The second person made his escape. The prisoner denied the charge, and Mr. TrusELTorr, a county Magistrate, ordered him to bd sent to hard labour in the House of Correction for three months. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat los. Sd 0:41.8 Barley 4s. 10d. Rye MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TTVELVE O'CLOCK. The arrivals this morning are French and Ostend mails, and ship letters from Demerara, St. Helena, Per nambuco, Mauritius, 11th January, and New York, by the President, arrived at Portsmouth, of old date. We have received Mauritius papers to the 9th January. From the Price Current of the Bth of January :—Exchange on London, Mauritius Government Bills, 30 days sight, 2 per cent. prem. ; Bank Bills, 90 days sight, at par ; Private Bills, 90 days sight, 5 to 6 per cent. discount; on France, 90 days sight, 5 to 6 per cent. discount. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, WF.DNESDAY.—Tho de mand for Cotton continues to be on a moderate scale. The sales to-day are confined to 2,000 bags, without change in price. The Margaret Johnson, arrived this day, spoke the Great Western steamer to New York on the 3d April, in lat. 43, long. 31 ; out 101 days ; not half way to New York. The accounts received this morning from Manchester state that the impression there is thz.t the price of cotton cannot be maintained, and that any extensive purchases of goods and pm, would be unsafe, though hithertolit has pro duced little or no effect upon the Liverpool Cotton Market. The demand both for yarn and goods was exceedingly li mited yesterday, and tha business done was in almost all cases at !declining prices, and the general feeling in the market was gloomy in the extreme. We have received the Journal de Commerce of Antwerp of yesterday's date, but it does not contaia any news of importance. A grand review is to take pliCe on the 22d cf this month in the en virons of Tibbourg, of the troops stationed in that province, in honour of the Imperial Prince of Russia, who is to be present. TILE FUNDS. Consols continue firm. closed at 92'1 N, and opened at this morning at 92,1 93, for the Account, Money, 92i i ; Exchequer Bills also improved, 50 52 ; India Bands, 50 52 ; Bahl: Stock, 1964 107 ; India Stock, 2544 255:i. Ia the Foreign Market Spanish Active continues heavy, closed 191, and at present may be quoted at 19i ; Portu guese also lower, owing to the 'Bondholders being disap pointed of receiving favourable accounts respecting the dividend as was anticipated, closed at 351 at present 354; Three per Cents., 214- ; Belgian, 1021 103 ; Bra zilian, 774; Colombian, 29 ; Mexican, 244; Spanish Passive, .4 , ; Deferred, 91- 1 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents. 551 ; Five per Cents., 1028 ; 4 1 . We have very few arrivals this morning, and none of im portance, with the exception of the express from Paris, stating that M. Passy has been appointed President of the Chambers. PRICES OF STOCKS THIB Bank Steck 197 6 ~, 3 per Cent. Red. ... ..... 91% 9.'4 '2 3 per Cent. Cons. c r23s % N Y per Cent - Ditto Red. 49 !i 1, 2 New BS, per Cent looi N New 5 per Cent. - Bank Long Annuities tocxpire Jan. 5, 1860 l4 7-16Y 2 Oct. 13, 1859 .4.n. 5, 1801 141 i 11-1(1 Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 188(1 - Jan. 5,1570 - DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. India Stock Ditto Bond• 5l pm South Sea Stock Old Annuities New Ditto 3 per Cent. Annuities, IThl Exch. Bills, xi,eoo 50 51 49 pm. Ditto 500 MI 51 49 pm. Ditto Small 50 tl 49 pm. Ditto Commercial — pm. Ditto Advertised Bank Stock for Account ... India Stock for Account ... `55!., Consols for Account * 2 ;zi. 3 - - . PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds , Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account - 5.7; 476 5 Buenos Ayres Bonds Ditto Account Chilian Bonds D tto Account Coluinbian Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, IKI4 — Spanish Bonds.. Ditto Account Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account. Greek 80nd5......... ............ French, 5 per cent....... —f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 18'25 — 4 per cent. Ditto Account Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. Exch.mge. —r. —, Ditto Account ......... ..... Dutch, t.2,i per cunt. Ditto, 0 per Cent _ Ditto Account — Ditto Account Neapolitan —} Ditto Account PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Eastern Counties Railway l3 7 34 8 .4 Great Western Railway Company 65 71 70 Brighton Railway 1.,.nd0n an . 6l_llirmingham Railway Company 9O 15ti _ . . I)itto %;Sharcs 5 24 ndon and tireenivlch lkailatty Compgny I6N, London and Southampton 17s. NI. 43 Eo - 1 . 1 7 .1o; - ; and Westrnitister Pank 2O PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUIILIN, APRIL 16. 3 per Cent. Consols • ”u per Cent. Stock Ditto Reduced Ditto New, 1530 ...... .. 94i City of Dublin Steam Comp. 3y, per Cent. Debentures... 92 1 h i National Insurance Company Bank stock - Grand Canal Stock Royal Canal Stock HALF-PAST OIVE. An overland express has arrived from [lndia, via Mar seilles, of the same dates as previously received by the special express at the India House, and Government, con firming the previous information. The regular mail has not arrived. The Nellie Castle, a large Indiaman, going from Singapore to China, was lost on the Louisa Shoal ; crew and passengers saved, but not the cargo. There is very little doing, either in the British or Foreign Market, to the present hour. Consols continue buoyant at 92 i i, buyers for the Account. The speculators arc waiting the result of the division in the House of Commons. Consols for Money, 921- ; Exchequer Bills rather lower, 48; India Bonds better, 51; Bank Stock lower, 197 1961 ; Spanish, 19 ; Portuguese has been 34f1, at present 35 ; Three per Cents., 211 ; Belgian, 102 a ; Dutch Two and-a- Half per Cents., 55:i ; Five per Cents., 1024 STATE OF TRADE.—The impression that the present price of cotton cannot be maintained, and that, consequently, any extensive purchases of goods and yarn would be unsafe, appears to become more general every day, and to exercise a most injurious influence upon busi ness in this town ; though, hitherto, it has produced little or no effect upon the Liverpool cotton market. The de mand, both for yarns and goods, was exceedingly limited yesterday, and the business done was, in almost all cases, at declining prices; and the general feeling in the market was gloomy in the extreme.—Manchester Guardian. MARIO DE CANDIA.---Thi s singer is to spend his two months' leave of absence in London, where he will perform in L'Elisir d'Amore, Lacrecia Borgia, and La Donna del Lago. He is to leave Paris about the end of May.—Paris Print. GLIONI.—On the 2d inst. Taglioni appeared at Vienna for the first time, in the well-known ballet, La FLIle du Danube. She was received with extreme ap plause, though the interest excited by the ballet itself had much decreased. The Austrian Government has prohibited the performance of a ballet called Life, composed by a well known ballet master of Germany. The first act is entitled " Birth," the second " Living," and the third 4 , Death." SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yesterday morning, as John Jameson, Esq., residing at Fulham, was riding along the King's-road, Chelsea, the horse suddenly stumbled, and Mr. Jameson was thrown off, and fell with great force upon his head. lie received a severe concussion of the brain, and remains in a hopeless state. IRELAND. MINISTERIAL MOVEMENT IN IRELAND.—In addition to the other meetings which we hare before noticed, several other counties, cities, and towns have since met to record their adhesion to the Irish policy of the present Cabinet. The Dublin papers of Tuesday contain reports of tke proceedings tf the following public meetings:— County of Galway, county of Kilkenny, city of Kilkenny, city of Limerick, town of Sligo, and Carrick-on-Suir, county of Cork, county of Kerry, and Carlow county. At all these meetings a determination never again to sub mit to a Tory Government was strongly and unanimously declared. The Dublin Evening Post (from whose a lumus we / subjoin some extracts) says, " The voice of Ireland—of the most distinguished of her Peers, her Gentry, her inere cantile and professional men, has gone froth, and we feel convinced that its effect will be witnessed in the result of ihn ("abate in the House of Commons, xhich commenced last Momlay tight. It could not be otherwise. Such a demonstration as that on Thursday was never before made by the friends cf good government in Ireland. We have spoken of the Liberals as a "party," but we employ the term merely in a conventional sense ; for that assemblag e, which included many such me n as M r. B alfour and Mr . Ro:s, of Rosstrevor—whom the Tories would de light to claim as their own—could not be called a party meeting. No, it was a meeting of the friends of peace and the supporter; of just government in Leland, who Pre daily strengthening their ranks by the adhesion o f men of the first consideration—the rei]resentatives of some of the most distinguished Tory families in the country— ‘v ho are• commencing their political career by a chival rous ecclarivion of opinion in favour of the Irish policy of the present Administration. We have spoken of Mr. Balfour. That gentleman, who had been Governor of the Mauritius, is the nephew of the Earl of Enniskillen, and he stands in the same degree of relationship to the Earl of Ripon. We have now the gratification of announcing, that amongst the names which arrived too late for pub- lication in the requisition are those of Thomas For tescue, Esq., of Haven dale, High Sheriff of Louth, and Thomas Lee Norman, Eq., of Corboilis, in the same county'. Mr. Fortescue, who has but recently attained his majurity, is the head of the great Fortescue family, and the inheritor of vast possessions in Louth, which had been for many years represented by members of his family. We need not add one word as to the immenta importance of such adhesions to the Liberal phalanx. They may he regarded as unerring indications of the certain tri umph '. of the cause of justice, and of the advent of social ; peace and permanent prosperity in Ireland. i ___ lave been hon - our&I With the following commu nication from that excellent Nobleman and sincere friend of Ireland, Lord Oranmore, which we shall here intro duce : TO TILE EDITOR OF TIIE DUBLIN EVENING POST. Alculsey, April 13, 1839. SlR,—Perhaps you will permit me to trespass on your paper on a matter not en ti re l y personal to my self, as having represented an Irish county in seven Parliaments, and thirty years supported the principles of her Majesty's preset:t Ministers. My not being in Dublin to receive Lord Ebrington was caused by being here confined to my bed; and on the 31st of March 1 wrote a l e tt er (whi c h I suppose, has mis carried) to one of the most prominent friends of Lord Melbourne's Administration, requesting him to affix my name to any requisition or address to which he placed his own, as, certainly, no Lord Lieutenant ever professed opinions more identically my own than Lord Ebrington. I have the honour to be, Sir, your faithful servant, ORANMORE. LORD-LIEUTENNNT OF TYRONE.—Wc have the grati fication to announce—and every Reformer in Ireland will hail the announcement with delight—that his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant has appointed the Earl of Charlemont Lieutenant of the county of Tyrone, in the room of the late Earl of Caledon. An inquiry took place yesterday before Mr. Wakley, M. P., at the University College Hospital, touch ing the death of Joseph Thomas , ag ed 43, a fishmoger, who was reported to have died from the effects of a kick in the abdomen, inflicted by his wife. A medical gentle man deposed that a post mortem examination of the body had been made, and death was found to have been caused by a rupture of the intestines, which must have been uced cauthsed by external violence. A kick wo uld have prode rupture, and it might also be the effect of a fall. Joseph Thomas, a most intelligent boy, the deceased's son, about six years of age, was called in and examined, but not on oath. His clear and distinct account of the cause of Isis unfor. tunate father's death elicited the approbation of the Coroner and jury. In substance it was, that his father bad been out drinking with a policeman, a countryman of his, on Thurs day, and that while coming down the steps of the area with a tray of fish in his hand his foot slipped, and he fell critic his stomach on the edge of the tray. He exclaimed to his son—" My dear child, I fear I have ruined myself." In the evening he beat his wife severely, and she put up her leg t o p r otect herself, she being forced on the sofa and her hands clasped by her husband in one hand, while he and t o frequently hi s g.nf e • beat her with the other. —Bridget Thomas was examined, after having been cautioned by the Coroner, and her state ment was fully corroborative of that of her son. It wall evident the deceased was a dissipated man, ill-used her, but she said he was a good father to his chil good mother, - and dren. The Coroner said the impression that had gone abroad, imputing the death of the deceased r d i i n e t t e , l4l,ig A we e nl e ce i e : owfa tshevidentlyboyclearly that The s sa g acity he v,.as a and was frequently ill-used by her husband. C:ids and admirers of that uncompro mising Radical, Colonel Churchill, with the view of showing some small testimony of the honest conduct of that gentleman, havin g inte a t t l e d .—Liii a coln lab azetete supper at the Black Horse, Eastg A. IIE ARGUS NEWS P A PER , of SUNDAY Nrxr, will contain the only authentic Particulars of the "Palace Conspiracy" to calumniate Lady Flora Hastings and separate the Duchess of Kent from the QUedh The whole of the Correspondence between the Marquis and Dowager Marchioness of Hastings, Lord Melbourne, and her Majestfy with an appeal to the Nation on the present state of Ole British Court. " The Argus" is the largest, the boldest, and the best Conservative Journal, Office, No. 2, Catherlne-street, Strand. N z tit St , lock, Ward' eY, Sir ' leat ), 1 1 0 3$t. P e l: on, t i. ief b- A. PP P ' C. ". C F. 4 V. . ine , 3,er,f , XO O4 sir J. ming, GNP ide r )cto s ' clotO I. s. , n tea Drpe - I b { nt 0 , jes ti Cor' Po" tY I P". ugb' Ire. o pe gl is , net s ;II in [ a fr I th e ow' goo l ent 'with 50 0 ' the