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I LITERATURE; 111E111OIRS OF MIRABEA U. Fl' lII.USELF, HIS FATHER, HIS UNCLE S AND HIS ADOPTED CHILD. Vols.: M. and: IV: London : Cturton. 1836. These Volumes' include a period of eight• years of the life of one of the . most extraordinary men to whom France ever have birth. In k rather long review of the first. and second volumes of this work, which, if we remember rightly, appeared some twelve or fourteen Months since in the cohimns of The Sun, we gave an account of the birth, parentage, education, youthful studies, and pursuits of the Count de Mirabeau, till the commencement of the year 1780, when he was engaged in a correspondence with his, uncle, the Bailli de Mirabeau, nee,ociating his lib:!ra tion from the prison of Vincennes, in which his father had confined him by a letire de cachet. We par ticularly dwelt upon the fatal circumstance of the un natural abhorrence with which the Marquis de Mira beau, his father, regarded him from his very childhood -=-the unfortunate domestic quarrels which afflicted the Mirabeau fathily, with the exception 'of the Mar quis and his brother the Bailli—the assorted mar , ridge of Mirabeau—and his intrigues with the Mar chioness de Monnier, so fatal to the peace, and so dis grieeful to the character of all parties. The private life , of Mirabeau, from that period till his arrival in Paris in 1788,-presents nothing worthy of especial notice.. The circumstances of his trial for adultery ; his pardon ; his compulsory . divorce, at the suit of the Countess de irabeau; his reconciliation with Ms . sister, his uncle, his father ; his quarrel with his mother, and his total separatioM from his mistress, ar e not' sufficiently interesting to claim more than 1 ) . ss iPg observation in the colum ns• of a dail y j ournal. 'e cOnfess, moreover, that this part of the MenioirS of Mirabeau failed in awakening that lively interest . w hich - we always have felt in perusing the details.of the priv a t e life of celebrated public characters. ' The t ext, in fact, is overloaded with extracts from . the cor respondence of two pedantic, hollow-hearted, old men, who i n • a series of letters on one subject, spreading ove r the greater part of three volumes, - continually repeat themselves • and each other.. We are, in truth,. deeps far 'from agreeing in the opinion of the writer, with respect to his estimate of the character of the Bailli de Mirabeau. Ile was a timid man ; and :like all timid men, he was a time-serving flatterer, who was ever read'y to desert his friends when they stood hi the greatest teed of his active services. Such men are to bt pitied—not praised. They, have,,in,general, good hearts, but Weak heads, and vacillating judg ments. They ma y be loved, but it is ituussible that wise men should ever either esteem -or trust them. We have known —we even know—many such Men ; and if there be a c haracter which we have studied with advantage to o urselVes,.it is that of the Constitutionally timid—and sach was the uncle of Mirabeau. Why so many letters on subjects so im material to the biography of Mirabeau have been pre- Served, unless to swell the memoirs, and so render them a more profitable speculation to publishers and booksellers, we cannot for the life Of S discover. At the same time we have much reason to. complain, 'that while the victim of parental fear and hatred— the dreaded' of friends and enemies, for reasons which ewe cannot discover—is constantly paraded before us, kihe - man is wholly kept-' out of sight ; so that in t ' point of fact, we know no more about him, as an in dividual, at eoncluding one of these volumes, than we did at the commencement. This is very absurd on the part of the author. If he knew nothing of the private'life, habits, and conversations of Mirabeau, he ' ought - not to have attempted a biography of him ; if he did know, it was his duty to have told all, without reserve of any kind. It is the private actions of Mira bea4—not the senile twaddle of his father and uncle, that posterity is interested in becoming well acquainted with. Nor arc the author's sentiments respecting the conduct of Mirabeau's noble. paramour, subsequent to the termination of her illicit commerce *ith him, more to our taste than the endless literary missiirc,s,, • the Marquis, and his brother the. Bailli. Such pecca dillos as the entertainment of a pair of favoured lovers by an adulteress, 'followed up by suicide, may seem anything but blemishes in the eyes of •a Frenchman ; but we , confess, that in us . they excite feelings of loathing and disgust. We cannot understand the maudlin sensibility of lovers, dying for one another this minute, and flinging themselves into the arms of strangers the next. Neither can we reconcile prosti tution in any woman, with proper notions of female rectitude,. and unspotted purity of heart. Such doc trines may find disciples in France ; but, thank Heaven 1 bad as we are-, no one would dare to pro pagate therd in England. But the most important part of time life of Mirabeau —the scenes of his first appearance, and his triumphs in the National Assembly, out of which he may be said to have stepped into his grac;e---are yet to be published. Here nothing ought to . he suppressed—nothing par tially concealed. Mirabeau it was who gave a con stitutional charter to France ; and had he lived, there . is no doubt but that he would have succeeded in pre venting the commission of the horrible enormities - which tarnish the triumphs of the first Revolu tionists. One thing at least is certain--he. would have saved the lives of such of the Royal family as perished on the revolutionary seal:foil His presence alone it was which gave unity to the measures of time Right Side, emboldened the Plain, and awed the Mountain. Robespierre dnrsehardly op: l his mouth in the presence of Mirabeau ; aint his death was ne cessary to enable such wretches as Marat to obtain seats in the Assembly. Although we are - hardly jus tified in anticipating the biography of Mirabeau, we cannot resist quoting the sentiments of M. Thiers, now Minister of the Interior, respecting the power which Mirabeau exercised'over the National Assembly. —a power which went on increasing till the day 'of his death. The extract which we are about to make will,be found in M. Thiers' history of the first French Revolution—or more properly his history of the Gil ronde, for his narrative closes with the proscription of the chiefs of that party : " But of all the popular chiefs, Mirabeau took time lead in every bold and perilous deliberation. The absurd institutions of the old monarchy had, wounded all unprejudiced persons, and irritated every upright heart ; it was not possible, therefore, that they could tall in outraging and exasperating a n enthusiastic and passi onate mind. Such was the' mind of Mirabeau, who, eucountering from his birth all kinds of despo tic‘m—that of his father, of the Government, and the coats of justice_, spent his youth in hating and •com bating them di,stincruished himself early by his is debauched life, h: • Hisquarrels, and his vehement elo quence.trawls, observations, and extensive ;reading, bad g ive n him knowledge on every subject, iliing'that he learned. Extra , matt ."" and he'retained every vagmt, eccentr ic ,, an, s op hi st i cal, even w ithout k' the• aid of .passidn, he I "' --- -evne quite another man when under its influence. E leitQ by the warmth 'of a debate, or the presence ofhire pnepts, fa` t. ke‘instantly took fire :.his first Were anfavg4 l , t nces broken, an d hi s flesh ‘V . al;' , lt at i but; - -` 3 13.10- n e . uputi ei r „ q etely," light ul 6 in an instant the atvirealwiit and reiq -e4ion of years ; and even in the very act of speaking, his ani PRE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1836 p4t . ministerial conduct has some titles to show. I demand this. conservation of a system, 'which has for its-object . to consolidate the' Throne, and establish liberty, Without hay ing recourse=--(I repeat this, and'l pledge myself lermally to it)—either to new loans, or to new taxes, or to tile sale of, national property. I must confess, Gentlemen, what I have already done is to me a sure guarantee that I shall be 'able to effect still more ; and I entertain the hope that what 14ill most distinguish the present Administration from those that have preceded it, will be the frank. exposition of its views, and its firmness in carrying them into execution. Believe it firmly, Gentlemen,---(here the voice of the Presi dent of the Council acquired new energy)—believe. it firmly that here, as in Portugal, I have had the opportunity of convincing myself that everything may- be - obtained from the people when they are not deceived. (These words of the Minister were almost lost in the applauses that burst forth simultaneously from all the public Galleries). M. Isturiz, President of the Chamber, said that if tie interruption should be renewed, he would find himself ob ' liged to hale the galleries cleared. M. 'Meridizabal, resuming his speech under the influence of great emotion of feeling, continued to present an apo logy for his systaa. The debate was adjourned to the day following. The follo:ying is the official statement of the extraordi nary levy of 100,000 men, as collected from the latest re turns,' and published in the Gazette of 28th December : Date. ' District. Contingent. Totalraised December 8 New Castile 10,540 16 Old Castile . - . . 13,88 4 12,464 15 Arragon 15 Valencia & Murcia 11,865 8,085 Returns not yet re mitted Belearic Islands .... 1,06 Dec. 15 Andalusia 9, 90 ,1 ,' '272 17 Grenada 16 Galicia 12,181 4,079 8 Estremadura 4, ';:iii.. Total 81,373. 56,07? . The 18„6:27 wanting to complete the nnmber of 100,000 are those belonging to Catalonia, Navarre, and the Basque provinces, where te ballot has not been effected. The 3,100 dispensed with are those who have paid for not saw ing. There arc, besides, according to communications re ceived since the 17th, 604 others who have advanced the money for that purpose. The results of the redemption money are 15,474,000 reals and 639 horses. Of the new levies 22,120 men have already been removed by virtue of a Royal Order of the 13th December. Whence. - Num. Whither From Cadiz Andalusia .. 3 520 Gallicia, by sea. • Valencia 2,6001 ni - - a . orca. • Teruel 1,500 . , - Andalusia 4,100 Alicant .1,000 Catalonia, by sca. Majorca l,OOO Andalusia 3,00 p 1 Estremadura. New Castile 2,000 Ciudad- Real • 1,500 Carthagena. Albacete and Lorca 1,400 . Valencia. Total 22,120 The same Gazette contains a circular letter from M. Mendizabal to the provincial deputations of Burgos, to grono, Navarre, Biscay, and Guipuzcoa, which states that the provincial deputation of the province of Alava, aware of the true interests of the inhabitants, and that upon taking proper care of them they could do a Singular service to the State, had proposed to her Majesty to supply rations to a corps of 15,000 infantry, and 1,000 cavalry, under very favourable conditions, thereby proving their patriotism and disinterestedness. Her Majesty had been pleased to approve of them,.as being at the same time favourable to the "Trea sury and to the army, the welfare of whiCh her Majesty has so much at heart, as deserving the hi g hest c o m me n da ti i m for their valour, coriStancy,.and enthusiasm`in Support of the rights of her august daughter and of liberty. Being.desirous that the same system should be extended to the other pro vinces occupied by the armies of the north and of reserve, her Majesty was pleased to state the nature of the contract proposed by the deputation of Alava, as approved of by her, and in order that it may excite the zeal of those pro vinces to act in a similar manner towards the troops sta tioned therein. In compliance with the orders of the Queen, the Minister proceeds to show the advantages derivable from the plan, and signalizes the following : " 1. The. Royal Treasury will save considerable sums in the differences of prices at which the Corporation can ac quire the articles, from that which is now paid to the con tractors and the agents of the military Administration, who frequently want the requisite funds, and as they have nei ther the influence nor the experience of the authoritie3 and popular Corporations, and can' also pr3veat the abuses ari sing from the circumstances of the war in the drawing the rations. "2. The General-in-Chief could then—being assured of • finding 'abundant provision;—undertake various; important, operations hitherto laid, aside, and thereby put an end spee dily to the horrors of war now afflicting those provinces. All those provisions being collected in stores, or in the houses of individuals along the line of operations, could be easily removed to the places where they become necessary., " 3. The regularity and order with which each deputa tion could effect the purchases and payments, and arrange • the supplies, - would free the villages from the prejudices. which they now suffer from the exactions caused by the pre sent system of carrying on the war, and the villages of the Castiles would in particular experience much advantage from their commerce being encouraged by the consumption, while at present they enjoy no such advantages, as their ac counts are not liquidated nor paid with due exactness, and they, are obliged to sell-the documents and bills of the con tractors at low prices. " As large hospitals have been found disadvantageous in consequence of the number of sick and wounded being hud- , died together,and the danger of fevers and epidemic diseases, and as in the large villages there are houses fit for 30, 40, and 50 beds, and means of supplying all the necessaries ; in which places the soldier, whose life is so interesting to her Majesty, and of so much value to the State, could be soon cured, and instead of spending three or four months in the hospital could speedily return to the ranks ; " In order to carry this plan of service into effect, and to avoid all exactness in the rations, 'and that the accounts should be conducted with exactness, the corporations or individuals who give the supplies shall every Sunday remit a bill, with a duplicate, and signed by the au thorities, expressing the cumber and quality of the ra tions delivered, the value according to agreement, the persons who received them, their corps and their passports. The accounts of the hospitals to be made ,up every 15 day E The deputation to send a statement of all their accounts every month to . the Army-office, for examination and liqui dation within the first ten days of each month. " Conformable to the proposal of the deputation of Alava, the payments to be made by bills, drawn by the Chief Com missary in favour of each corporation, on tile Royal trea sury, in such a manner as that the supplies of January shall be paid in March, and those of Bsbruary in April, and so on successively. " Her Majesty being persuaded that if the deputations should take this service upon theMselves, it would be pro ductive of great benefit, from their well-known Patriotism and disinterestedness. There is no doubt that- many se rious difficulties will have to be overcome, but nothing can withstand a firm resolution to overcome them. The deo tations will then have the glory of having contributed directly and efficaciously to the support of the throne of the lawful Queen and. of liberty, and to the welfare and happiness of the provinces over which they preside, by liberating them froth' vexations now indispensable, and making the inhabitants know the blessings of a paternal and enlightened. Government. The recompense of the deputations will be that not only of seeing the happy re sulti, which cannot but be grateful to all those who love their country, but a solemn dclaration that the individuals comprising the deputations shall have.inerited well „of their nativeland.7 This important measure, which shOwS the financial talent of M. Mendizabal, is calculated to produce the best . results in those provinces, as well as all over the country. -The Carlists have contrived to support their tioops' in the northern provinces by forced loans and rations torn from the villages ; the Queen's Minister asks the deputations to confer the benefits of regularity and good government on their provinces, and in all probability none will refuSe. There is published an order in the Gazelle, that persons above 50 years belonging to the custom-houses, who claim retired allolkances, shall shoW that they are unable to do duty, as the Royal treasury could not be charged with pen sions to persons capable of doing service. Another state ment explains why certain documents of the public debt had not been paid, in consequence of several forged ones having been presented, which required a careful examination • of the whole. The discussion is likely to begin under faVourable aus pices, as the news has been published of the total destruc tion of the rebel bands in the mountains of Tolede, and of several others in Gallicia. M. MendiZAbAl, who b',, s hitherto proved his equanimity, is described as . 0 1 allow ing these successes to infl t his 1' slightest manner. a LC in the sagatest manner. News from the Havanah to the 7th of November re present the islana of Cuba as perfectly tranquil. Since the entranQe into power of the present Ministry, more than Ncl qtscs. of unfortunate persons thrown into Pr*Vo. l :tq.. §9, ll 4.lgliug, 4nd usually neglected therein, have been ex c a n l iPeCl 4eAl decided upon. Lists of those decisions are publithcci PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL EVANS, .":1" he General-in-Chief of the Dritis.h. Auxiliary Division lins'3ust . addressed th,e follyAving li'oclalltation to the In habitants of t ‘ .l-1 ilroyince. of Alava. Vrorn the first moment that, in company W ith the . British auxiliary. divisiou, ktlaced my foot ou the soil of mated andiapid,expressions discovered and enlightened his subject, and flashed conviction on his auditors. If opposed again, he returned to the charge still. more forcibly and more clear, and displayed the truth in images either striking or terrible. If the situation of affairs were difficult, and the minds of all wearied by a long discussion, or intimidated by danger, some electric expression, or decisive sentence, would escape from him, his countenance, at such moments, becoming terrible, from the combined expression of ugliness and genius ; and the assembly, enlightened or confirmed in their opinions, passed wise laws, and entered into . vigorous resolutions. " Proud of his great qualities, and making vice his amusement ; alternately haughty, or courteous and flattering, he seduced some, intimidated others by his boldness and irony, and brought all into his train by a guitar power of fascination. His party was every whereamong the people, in the assembly, in the court itself, and in all those to whom he addressed himself at the moment. Mixing familiarly with all men, and just when it was expedient, he applauded the rising talents of Barnave, although he did not like his young - friends; he appreciated the profound genius of - Sieyes, and flattered his eccentric temper; he feared . the.. purity 'of Lafayette's life; and he detested in Necker an extreme severity of principle, a pride of reasoning, and the pretension of governing a revolu tion, which he knew was a .part that belonged to him self. The Duke of Orleans; and his vague ambition, but little suited him ; and they had never a ,Common interest. Thus singly, and without any support but from his own genius, he attacked despotism, which he had sworn to destroy. Yet, if he was an enemy to the vanities of monarchy, he was no less so to the ostra cism of republics; but not being yet sufficiently avenged on the great, and on power, he still continued his. hostilities. In addition to this, being harrassed by .poverty, and discontented with the present, he pushed forward to an unknown future, and made everything supposable from . his talents, his ambition, his vices, and the bad state of his fortune ; and authorized, by the impudence of his discourses, every suspicion and calumny." Such was Mirabeau at the commencement of the French revolution. Thiers, than whom few historians are more to be depended upon, throws considerable light on his public character about this period ; and while he acknowledges that the Deputy of Aix was in communion with the Court, and even owed' his sup port to the private liberality of the King, he produces proofs in abundance of the integrity with which he ad hered to the constitutional principles of the Assembly. The particulars of his death are happily given by the same historian ; but it will be time. enough. to allude to that event when the publication of these Memoirs is concluded. In one of the volumes before us, there is a long account of Mirabeau's writings, accompanied by a critical analysis of their merits, upon which we have no opinion to offer. With the exception of his treatise on despotism, and extracts from his speeches the National Assembly, Mirabeau did not write a line that will go down to posterity. The fourth volume is embellished with a portrait of Mirabeau, accompanied with a fac-simile of his auto graph. The phrenologist will discover in it every trait of his character. It is well executed. CANTERBURY. In consequence of the injudicious determination of the first elected Town Councillors, to appoint six of their own body as Aldermen, thereby occasioning the necessity for fresh elections, the Tories seeing their advantage rallied again to the contest, and the result of the polling for the six new TOwn Cooncillors was as follows : LEASE JOHN `YARD.— Sankey (Tory):elected, 151; 'Philpett (Tory) elected, 143 ; Lavender (Tory) elected, 134; \V&A wright (Liberal), 129 ; Drewitt (Liberal), 120 ; Leader (Li beral), 112. WESTGATE WA RD. —Avann (Liberal) elected, 143 ; Ro berts (Liberal) elected, 142; Homersham (Tory), 116 ; Chris tian (Tory) 111. NORTHGATE WARD. —Shindler (Liberal) elected, 114; Ben- nett 71. . Thus ,the, Tories, who ten days ago were utterly de feated, have'now fought the Liberals on equal terms. Tile .11efortners' majority in the Council was, in the fii*.in stance, in the proportion of eight to. one. Had six Libe rals:been selected for Aldermen, out . of the ,Court, our majority would.have been eleven,to one,; now it is reduced, at one blow, to less than four to one. A fearful reduction ! It is to be hoped that the lamentable result of this first false step. will be a warning to the Town Council, who have still a large majority , if they wi l l turn it to a proper account. BRIGHTON-WEDNESDAY. The King gave audience to Sir R. Smirke and Admiral Sir C. Rowley this morning. Neither their Majesties nor their Royal relatives have taken their accustomed carriane exercise this day, owing to the gloomy appearance of the weather.. This evening .Mr..Balfe, - Mrs. H. R. BiShop, and several of our professionals, will have the honour, of singing in the presence of their Majesties. . Their Majesties entertained at dinner yesterday evening the Dowager Marchioness and the - Marquis of Cholmon deley, and Sir James Cockburn. Lieutenant-Colonel Gooch, the Hon. Mrs. Pelham, and the Misses Bowen, left their names at the' Palace this morning on quitting Brighton. Lord Abinger and the Ho'n. Mr. Ashley, who also left their names at the Palace this morning, arc atnoug, our latest arrivals. SPAIN • • St nuniwy of tile Report of the Special Committee of the Est umento of Procuradores, on the Project of Law rela tive to the Vote of Confidence askedlorby the Govern ment for the year 1836, as read in, the Chamber on the 24th inst. " Ti)e Committee appointed to examine the project of law presented by the Government, for the purpose of con tinuing in operation until the assembling of the next Le gislature the estimates voted in the last session, has given to this most important subject the urgent attention required by its nature. " Desirous of obtaining the intelligence and information indispensable for forming a complete and correct judgment, it has requested from the Government various explana tions which it had the satisfaction of hearing from the Se cretary of Despatch, who is now the interim President of the Council of Ministers. The decision of the - Committee respecting the continuation of the law of the 26th of May last has been altogether conformable. As individuals, they lament the necessity in which circumstances place the Cortes, of forbearing to exercise one of its most im portant prerogatives, but they find no means of avoiding that sacrifice without compromising the existence of the Government and the destinies of the nation. The time will come, and perhaps it is not far distant when, while, examining the use that shall have been made of the extraordinary faculties thus conferred on the Govern ment, the internal system of the State may be regulated and arranged, and the important attribution shall be duly exercised' of voting the taxes, and of deciding on their fixed application. Yet, in the mean time, the confidence, of which it has' proved itself so. deserving, cannot be refused to the Government. The Committee, on giving its approval to the project of law, looks upon itself as the echo of the sentiments expressed by the Estamento in the reply to the speech from the throne. Those sentiments have been heard with applause by this generous nation, which never forgets the benefits bestowed on it, and never omits to cor respond with them in a manner worthy of its elevation and greatness. "The three laws, of the elections, of the liberty of the press, and of the responsibility of. Ministers,' and the addi tions to the organic law of the National Guard, contain the principal guarantees of the rights of the nation, and afford the means of the most secure and lawful defence against the arbitrary acts of power. " The project of law will, therefore, in the judgment of the CoMmittee, be best worded in the following manner " Article I. The Government of her Majesty is autho rized to continue the collection of the revenue, contribu tions, and taxes, approved of by the law of the 26th May last, and the application of the amount to the expenses of the state, subjecting itself in all ordinary cases to the dis positions therein contained, being allowed to diminish, but in no wise to increase them, until the estimates be presented to the Cortes in the next Session. • " 2.- It is also authorized, without altering the essential form of the contibutions, to make the alterations which it may consider convenient in the system of administering and le6ying them, with the intent of augmenting their value, and of diminishing as far as possible the difficulties and prejudices which they cause to the tax-payer and to traffic. " 3. The Government of her Majesty is in like manner authorized to provide whatsoever resources and. means it may consider necessary for the maintenance and support of the armed force, and to terminate, within as short a time as possible, the civil war. The Government cannot provide those means in new loans, or in diverting from their pUr pose the properties of the State, designated, or which may be hereafter designated, to the consolidation or amortization of the public debt, the amelioration of which it will prove, by insuring the lot of all the creditors.. " 4. The Government will give an account to the Cortes in the next immediate session, of the use which it shall have made of the extraordinary faculties conferred on it by this law, as well as of those anteriorly' conferred on it. - " J. M. FERRER. " J. FONTAGUD GARGOLLO. " R. GARCIA CARRASCO. " J. V. AGUIRRE SOLARTE. " J. ORTIZ 'DE VELASCO, " R. LLANO CHEVARRI.- " F. CRESFO DE TEJADA. " J. SAN JUST. " S. CALDERON Y COLLANTES. " Madrid, Dec. 23, 1835." . , CHAMBER OF PROCURADORES.—SITtING OF DECEMBER 28. The order of the day was the discussion of the Bill upon the vote of confidence ; and, as the debate was expected to be of much interest, the hall was crowded. In the gal lery of the diplomatic body were the Ambassadors of France and England. The beginning of the sitting was taken up; by the communication of the report of the Committee upon the .Election Bill, among the different members of which a complete disagreement had taken place, and three reports were read upon the same subject. The report of the Com mittee upon the Bill of the vote of confidence, as approved of by the Ministers, was also read, and the debate upon the: Bill an. 'The Secretary, M. Onis, communicated the list of the names of Deputies who had inscribed them, bothfor and against the measure. Among . the former were Messrs. Lopez, Caballero, Gallium, Isturiz, and most of the Pro curadoi es belonging to the progressive system. Among the latter Messrs. Perpina, Martinez de la Rosa, De Toreno, and De las Navas. The strange contrast made by the juxta position of the two last names caused a general expression of surprise. On the motion of M. Perpina, the Chamber decided that the discussion of the measure should not be . eloiod.till after all the names of the speakers inscribed on the list should have been gone through. M. Orense, an Opposition Member, opened the debate by a speech which, at first, bore a character of indecision. He was not indisposed to support the two first clauses of the Bill, but protested strongly against the third, which he styled the grand war-horse of the Ministry.—(Laughter.) After some observations from M. Parejo, the Count de Las Navas, in the uniform of the National Guard of Bil boa, addressed the Chamber. " I hasten to declare," he observed, " that I am not going to make any factious oppo sition. I have full confidence in the intentions 'Of the Mi nisters, and if my word for it be sufficient, I have great pleasure in repeating this assurance ; but I cannot give my support to the Bill proposed to the Chamber, because my experience has proved to me that votes of confidence have never led the country to any good results." M. Terrer, one of the Members of the Committee, re plied to the arguments of the Count de Las Navas. M. Martinez de la Rosa next, ascended the tribune, when profound silence immediately reigned. He said—l, too, am anxious to declare that I come not 'here to make a systematic opposition. It is not my habit to judge of a system by the men who form it, nor to attack it be cause it is supported by my political adversaries. I seek a knowli dge of things as well as of men ; and when my mind is satisfied I form my judgment., The vote of con fidence demanded of this Chamber is an act of such high illy, ortance, that I feel it requires the deepest con sideration before I can decide upon it. Nevertheless, I can at orce say, that on calling upon the Chamber for such a vac, it should have had the authority of a Royal decree, ('emonstrating its necessity ; and upon this alone can it legally proceed, since the Constitution warrants no other mode of proceeding. Let the Ministry, to whom lam ready to cede the first two articles, with some modifieations, show me the resources upon which they rely, and then I can vote the third, which at present I must - oppose. • I know but three mesas of obtaining money—.by the taxes, by loans, or by sale of the property of the State. The Government refuses to enter upon any one of these three capital mea sures. . The days of miracles being passed, I confess I can not imagine any other way of supplying the wants of the State. Consequently I shall retain my vote until lam in formed as to the mysterious treasure which they, no doubt, have in reserve. Surely, I shall not be taxed with indiscre tion in asking of Ministers only what the Committee asked before it made its report, namely, explanations? They can never be more necessary than in a matter of figures. The Honourable Deputy here entered into a long disquisitiOn on public credit. He recapitulated to the Chambers the . cir cumstances under which it had granted votes of confidence to him, and Which he trusted he had not abused This part' of his, speech formed a most animated and eloqUent answer to the attack of N. de Las Navas. He concluded by in . sistingu} aa the necessity of the Chamber being enlightened as to the financial expedients of the Ministry, whose up rightness he did not question, but whose infallibility he could not adinit . Though M. Martinez de la Rosa spoke for two hours;he was listened to by the Chamber with un remitted attention. M. Menclizabal-The best answer that I can find to the insinuations thrown out against my system is in the past, which has justified all that I had previously calculated upon, even beyond my hopes. For those who criticize - the Mi nisters, or who - seek to embarrass their proceedings, I will reed to their memories what has happened since 1 came to the head of affairs. The provincial Juntas were all power ful. I declared that I would' get the upper haad of those Juntas, that I would master the movement, and that I would bring back to the foot of the'Tbrone all these local Dictatorships. I was treated as a visionary ardu o us did the task appear. Success crowned my efforts, but i n this affair it was not' I that triumphed over the Jun tas—it was the good sense of the Spanish pe ople, which ll e auto tliC op e e n r °) a t t ' iO ' n my Means, for the armatnent reason.. At a later period a - decree was pronpAlgated, •1* has proved to me that I did not count upon scilt'emwei:t9.ll:. 100,000 men, er,r Wf reprobation met this mcasure 41s0 it Was said to i r ie tn s i si s hl;, a o n r d t y l e m t t it would only tent] 10 as if by enchatitmait, atid will very , soon be com pleted. At the present day I come before the Chamber to demand tt vote: of ?t)llficlqcg ich My LIVERPOOL MUNICIPALITY. We have waded through a long article in the Liverpool. Standard of Tuesday, where that Tory organ plays most plaintively. After upbraiding the new Corporation for be ginning the work of reform and retrenchment , it co m p lains that the Town Councillors have already, in two short days, " swamped, lost, and utterly flung away, without excuse, without a shadow of reason, without any deliberation, with out any inquiry into, circumstances, more than the whole sur plus revenue cf the town of Liverpool for the next two years." And how does our Contemporary prove this extraordinary assertion. Why, by the astounding fact, that the services of one of the serva.ics of the old corrupt Corporation seem likely to be dispensed with by the newly created Municipal body. Mr. Jelin Dean Case, exclims the Standard, if not dismissed, is already marked for dismissal. Mr. Thomas Foster, the Town Clerk :—This ever-to be-lamented Gentleman, and highly paid functionary, is no longer Town Clerk ! A Whig lawyer is to be his suc cessor—a lawyer, and therefore of necessity, as the Standard says, " totally unfit for the office, inasmuch as he must be ignorant of all the intricate forms and elaborate details" relating to " the management of the Corporation property, its debts, its claims, its income; and assets." 'We are then told that the Corporation bonds are by such doings rendered of little value to the holders, and that the leaseholders' tenure is particularly precarious. But the most extraordinary part of the business is to be found in the discovery that the supercession of the said Mr. Foster will entail a charge of very nearly 100,0001.! and which must be paid, or " England is a dishonest and de graded nation." To 100,0001. at least, the superceded Town Clerk has a legal claim, that sum being " two-thirds of all the fees, salary, emoluments, profits, and pecuniary contingencies of every kind which he may have received for the five years previous to the sth June, 1835." Then the Treasurer's compensation will amount to eigl or ten thousand more ! It is quite plain, continues our complaining Contemporary, that " the Reformers have, by their ECONOMY, saddled the town with an unnecessary debt Of at least 100,000/., if not 120,000/., in forty 7 eight.hour." He afterwards adds, " If they go on at this rate, the low&st average per dices for the next fortnight cannot possibly be less than 15,0001. For, remember, they are resolved, as their journals say, to make a clean sweep. And if we take the clean sweep in the one hand, and the cost, of the sweep in the other, we shall find that the whole surplus revenue of the town of Liver Pool, as we have already stated, is unk, merged, and melted, for the nest two years !" Hear this, ye men of Liverpool, and proclaim throughout all the ends of the town that a Daniel bath come amongst you. The Reformers, in the foolishness of their hearts, Lave believed a vain thing, imagining that the c)mpensation of the old Town Clerk might be saved out of the reduced salary of his successor, and that by cutting down salaries to the degree of remuneration which is equitable, a saving would be effected They are so silly as to tell the burgesses that Mr. Fos ter's income was a burden upon the Corporation Fund— that having 6,0001. or 7,0001. a year, the sum saved would Le an ample income to the new Town Clerk, and that the excess upon that income would provide for the pension of the retiring Town Clerk." lint this is a miscalculation—a vulgar error—which, it seems , no ne but Reformers could entertain. Heaven save 'te Standard! The bankers were busily engaged yesterday signing . the Iva(' and w arrants for the dividends of their respec tive principals , an d this da y the merchants will sign. The sum which they will receive will amount to about three millions, and will be paid at the treasury of the Bank, by which regulation the public will not be retarded or incolif . ,L yenienced when receiving their dividends in.theiNiarrant 0.420 1 w hich will amount to abon . t,fiv i - sic riAw 4 exclusive , of th 4 Omit 0 4 to the bankers and meT,o4l.s ) T HE regret to state , that rthe.en doavour to bola itutMir ille#4 o s 033 44rlei at the Town , 110, Glasgow, was a tiniurd. COURT CIRCULAR. • The French Ambassadar h an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street. His Excellency also transacted business a t the Foreign Office. The Right Hon. Frankland Lewis, Mr. Mallett, Messrs. Perceval and Sitwell (Baremoor Castle), had interviews yesterday with Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street. The Swedish Minister and the Master-General of the Ordnance had interviews yesterday with Lord Glenelg, at the Colonial Office. The Belgic Minister transacted business yesterday at the Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Messrs. Irving, Colvile, and a Deputation; had an inter view yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir John Newport visited the Right Hon. Gentleman yesterday. Lord Holland entertained a small party, including Lor& Melbourne and Stanley, at dinner.on Tuesday evening. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. Colonel and Lady C. Lyster, at 'Brvant's Hotel, Conduit street, Bond-street, from Brussels; Sir Gilbert Stirling, at ditto, from Scotland; John F. Schroder, Esq., Mrs. Schroder, and Miss Schroder, at Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Caven dish-square; R. Pulsford, Esq., at ditto ; J. A. Slack, Esq., at ditto ; Lord Lilford, from his seat, Oundle, Northampton ; Earl Stanhope, from his seat, Chevening, Seven Oaks, Kent; Charles Lyne Stephens, Esq., in Portman-square, from Melton Mowbray ; Lord Colcliester, from his scat, Kidbrooke, Sussex ; the Rev. Mr. and Mrs: Whitefoord and family, at Batt's Hotel, Dover-street, froM Kent; Madame Strickland and the two Masters Strickland, :at Symmons's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Seizery Castle, Westmoreland; Mr. and Lady Charlotte Guest, at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Wales ; Lord Crewe, at ditto, from his seat, Crewe Hall, Cheshire; S. S. Prime, Esq., at ditto, from a tour; Sir Robert Wilson, Bart., at ditto, from Brighton; Mr. and Mrs. John Lewis, in Brook-street, from the Continent. DEPARTURES. The Earl of - Portarlington, from Bryant's Hotel, Conduit street, Bond street, for Brettenhaua Park, Suffolk ; the Viscount Itabayana, from Marshall Thompson's Hotel, Ca vendish-square, 'for France; W. Sawbridge, Esq., from ditto ; Captain ^L. Fyler, to join his regiment at Liverpool ; Lord and Lady Avliter, from Warren's Hotel, Regent-street, for Sir William Call, Bart.'s ' scat . Whiteford, Cornwall ; Mr. and Mrs. H. Sykes, from ditto, for Bath; C. H. Tynte, Esq., for Bridgewater; Sir F. Goorlricke, from Sudley Castle, for Selby Wellsford ; Captain and Mrs. Ravenshaw, from Raggett's Hotel, Dover-street, for Brighton. MARRIAGE IN HIGII LIFE.-7--The Hon. John Dutton, the second son of Lord Sherborne, will• lead to the hymeneal altar, early in the next month, the beautiful and highly accomplished Miss Lavinia Parker, youngest daughter of the Hon. Cbloiale Parker, brother:of the Earl of Mac clesfield. RashtOn Hall, near Kettering, the magnificent - seal of the Hope family, was nearly destroyed by fire on Wed , neslay night. The Polish Princes have, last week, been visiting Earl Grey, at Howick, accompanied by Sir T. Dick Lauder. THE LATE LADY FANNY PoNsoNsy.—The interment of the remains of this lady took place on Thurs day morning, at a very early hour, in the church-yard of Fiddown, the burial place of the Pousonby family. It was intended that the ceremony should be conducted as pri vately as possible ; but no arrangement could prevent hun dred 4 of , an attached tenantry, including many of the most respectable in the neighbourhood, from paying the last tes timonial of respect to one who, for the brief period of her . „ sojourn at Besborougb, won the esteem and affection of all. Among the :mourners on the melancholy occasion, were Lord Dlincannon, the Hon. Mr. Ponsonby, her Ladyship's liosband, and the Hon. Mr. Lambton, her Ladyship's uncle who arrived.aC,Besborough a few days before her lamented demise. —Tipperary Free Press. • Baron de . Sampayo, the late Consul-General of Don died'yesterday morning. ' , Mr . . Braliam is now sole proprietor of the Collos scum, 'Mr. Yates having accepted of 1,0001. to withdraw. The purchase money of the Colosseum was 30,0001., paya ble in seven years. Serle's drama of the Ghost: Story at the Adelphi inereasr.- in attraction.. Yrs. Stirling has deservedly re ceived' the most enthusiastic' and signal marks Of applause for her spirited and,ehaste,PerfOrtuance of Catherine Graham in that piece. ad • nrov4ilow's scat, Belton . House, near Grantham, is now full of company, who enjoy the sports of the field with the three hunts of .Belvoir,,Meiton, and Cot tesmore. Among the visitants are his Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge and Prince Ernest of Hesse PhilipPsthal (who arrived late on Tuesday evening), the Duke of Wellington, Lord Forester, Lord Begot, Lord Alford, &c. Hilary 'Term begins on Monday next, during which the Nobility and Gentry generally return from their seats in the country for the winter to town, which is expected to be remarkably full previous to the meeting of Parliament, on the 4th of next mouth. The Polish Prince Adam Czartoski, and his nephew Count Tamowski, arc visiting at Sandon Hall, the hoSpitable seat of the Earl of _Harrowby. The Count is the son of the Prince's youngest sister, the Countess So phia Tamowski. The Prince's other sister is marrried to Prince Louis of Wurternberg, from whom, however, she has been separated since 1792. The Lords Commissioners of the Great Seal will receive the Judges, King's Counsel, &c. on Monday nest, the first day of Hilary Term, in Lincoln's Inn Hall. We understand that a special envoy from Nepaul, who is one of the ablest men in the Cabinet, is shOrtly expected in this country, to make his own personal obser vations on the people, the Government, the manners, and resources of England, for the information of his Court. The Nepaulese are in frequent communication with the Government of Pekin. We understand that Lieut. : General John Vincent will get the 69th Regiment, now vacant. He is - also Lieut.-Governor of Duncannon Fort. Lieut.-General Vincent served in the 66th and 49th regiments, was at the taking of St. Domingo, served in the expedition to Copen hagen,' and commanded the 49th in Canada during the last American war. A few days since, a very fine sporting dog, value 20 guineas, the property of Captain Thompson, of Ed= monsbury, was stuffed with -a quantity of hay, by some cowardly wretches, from the effects of which the poor ani mal died. —Leinster Express. INAUGURATION OF COL. JERVOIS, THE NEW M.C.—A grand: ball, the fullest of the season, and which, by ancient usage . on this particular ceremonial, is always open to the general body of tl:e citizens, took place on Fri day evening. At nine the band. struck up ". God save the King," and the Committee, accompanied by the Gallant Colonel, and headed by the lessee, Mr. Bellamy, carrying the jewel of office on a superb cushion of crimson and gold satin damask, entered the great room and proceeded to the state chair at the upper end of the ball-room, in which was seated the Countess of Belmour, surrounded by several ladies also connected with the noble families of the three kingdoms. Her Ladyship had been attended to this seat a few minutes before by two gentlemen of distinction. At this moment there could not have been less than 600 indi viduals in the ball-room, amongst whom we Observed most of the distinguished fashionable:, of both sexes, and many superb orders on the breasts of officers of rank,' belonging to both the services. After a short pause, Lord James O'Brien, having introduced Colonel Jervois to the Noble Countess, who welcomed him very graciously, proceeded on the part of her Ladyship to address the Gallant Colonel, and, in congratulating him and the city at large on his ap pointment, to point out to him that Bath, the theme of praise for an entire century, both in prose and verse, owed her high station in the scale of cities and of fitshion to the observance of that propriety and decorum which hest be came exalted rank ; and that lie trusted the Gallant Colo nel would strenuously continue to uphold those honourable and distinguished characteristics of this elegant and r efined city. Colonel Jervois having acknowledged the addreswiths in a few words, was then invested by the Noble Counte ss the insignia of office, amidst the most enthusiastic and gra tifying.applause. The ball was attended by nearly —a more splendid assemblage than has been known for .0 years.—Bath Journal. ,9- 00 Mr. Feargus O'Connor was in Manchester on Friday, in th e course of his mission for the establishment of Radical Associations. He addressed a number of people from a cart in Stephenson's-square, and enforced the abso lute necessity of annual parliaments, universal suffrage , by ballot, and no qualification. A dinner was to be give n to liim in the evening. vote our country, oppressed and wasted by the most deplorable and.bloody .of civil wars ever beheld for ages, I have never for a moment , ceased to contribute, by all the means in my poWer, td the enterminntion of a faction which, attacking the throne of Isabella ll.,your innocent Queen, has declared arme d with ignorance an d poverty , h ave re open war against all amelioration and lib er ty. F a n a ti c i sm and ambition, volted against that throne, brilliant, solid, and resting on an indestructible foundation.. Enormous etTorts, but vain and. fruitless, have been made by the faction to obtain success ; and now, when its resources are exhausted, and itself dis heartened by the fatal checks which it experienced In th e late actions with the valiant national army, the opnol4 tu4 i ty: is presented of destrOying.and annihilating it. You have, been witnesses• of the plagues inflicted by this fracl-:el4al war : yo:u have beheld its horrible consequences, anti ought therefore to be convinced Of the nN.essty of in.inore , ; it teb a conclusion. The natives of this province, who under ferent denominations have enlisted to fight against the rebels, those assassins of their country, have given, public and undoubted proofs of their valour, and their approach has always spread terror among the rebels. Intimately persuaded of this truth, and being aware of the neces sity of creating and encouraging the formation of such patriotic companies, I have resolved that one shall be formed consisting of the natives of this province, ~ to ,be commanded by Spanish officers, and subject to the mi.... litary regulations of Spain ;and that, bearing the name of: . - Battalion of Guides,' it 'shall serve under my immedia ;e orders. With thiS view there will from the present moment be assigned to every individual choesingto - enlist five teals per diem, a ratio of bread, .wine, and meat, and, suitable clothing. Come, then—delay npt. You are'appealed to • by the Chief of a Foreign Logien, it is true ; but he be longs to a country which is the intimate ally of Yours, and a friend to your Government, your QUee:n, and her legiti mate throne, which constitutes the pledge of your happiness, prosperity, peace, and tranquillity, and of the well-being or the existing and future generations of Spain. The present, moments are most, opportune—do not loSe . them ; the far,' thin approaches its end—come and' join in its deStructie n. You, the children of this lovely soil, are principally intereßted in this event ; let Spain and the whole` of Europe sce,, that though the faction unfortunately found partlsans to enlist in its ranks, there still exist faithful subjects, full of valour an enthusiasm, who, far from faltering' at the sight of bands; the detestable allies of darkness, will, invoking the magical names of Isabella and Christina, fearlesily and impatiently attack them, and will never cease to fight until they have effected their total extermination. II you answer this ap— peal, you will perform an heroic service in favour of your. country ; and I; being ever after deeply beholden to you, shall enjoy the satisfaction of having contributed ks- these means to the triumph of the arms of your Qur,en Isabella 11., of the cause of amelioration and liberty, which is' the symbol of her reign. DE LACY EVANS, Lieutenant-General. " Vittoria, Dec..ls, 183,32" MEXICAN LEGATION. The following official letter has been received by the Chairman of the Committee of Mexican Bondholders . _ " Mexican Legation, London, Jan, 3, 1335. " have the satisfaction to inform. -you, by direction' from Senor .Miguel .Santa Maria, that in reply, to his urgent letter of July last-to the Mexican Government, respecting the interruption which had been experienced in the pay ment of the 'dividends' on the Mexican bonds, the Legation has received a communication from the Secretary of Foreign Affairs:in Mexico, accompanied by a copy of another ad dressed by the Secretary of Finance to the collectors of customs in the ports of the Republic, ordering a strict ob r servance ,of the disposition of the Government order of the 15th of February, 1833, by which was - assigned' six per cent upon the receipts of the said custom-Clauses:for the payment of the dividends to the Mexican bondholders in England. In the mean time the Government will use every effort towards applying the sixth part of these re ceipts to that object. " - Whilst fhb' Secretary laments the unsettled. circum stances, known to all the. world, which to the pl-esont mo ment have impeded the fulfilment of the engag-tnnents of the Mexican Government, with respect to the above-mentioned resolutions, he places confidence in the belief that the Me:.i can bondholders will view fiwourably the endeavours of the Government to di6charge_its . eb:lgations towards them. I have the honour to he, &c., " A. DP. ITURBIDE. " Lieutenant-General Sir Robert )Viison." This letter is sine by the Secretary of the Me7.6ean „ . . Legation in London, Senor Santa 'Marin, the AinhaF.sadoi, being at present in . Madrid; r,\ , aitiw the conclusion of the arrangements for alreaty of independence. It affords sa tisfactory proof at least of the good intentions of the Mexi can Government towards the credit - oil in this country, and though much `disappointment has teviOusly' Veen'' eXpe rienced, it is heped , . that. good . faithooiilbfor Abe -.future be steadily adhered to. It is understopl„that„,ifjthe„pro mises of the Government _are.rcaligcd, , the bondholderS . will have been under Rtwhehliga.tion, to thif:Artnratiiehonour :.J)le rop':cscatations transmitted home 'by Senor ,Santa. Maria on this subject. A notice was issued by the Posifodice, on Tuesday, hat the. mails for Lisbon will be made up and dc;so n tehed :'rom the Ge - no'ral Post' Oflice eveill Satin'Aav: iu tcsd of Friday, as heretofore. This . arranp,ttler!t (!onnnence with the mail, to be made up and deiyatohed from benee on Saturday. next, the 9th inst. A celebrated Pbacher, witallact emigratedto Ame rica, being met in' his new country hv a person who knew bis,propr. ety in the old, wa§congr a tbl a t e d o n being able co pursue it with impunity ; to . which ht replied, " if you will believe me, I seargely ever think about jo2: them i.v 2291k0dy here ticut sees to ,kiader us." . The following fact, taken from a private lettei re ceived from,Cracow, shows to what degree the hatred of the Emperor Nicholas exists in Poland. On the lOth the anniKrsary of the Emperoes:namcday (St. Nicholau, 6th Peccmber, old style), a M. Adam Siemonski, known for an eccentricity often bordering , on insanity, took it into his head to illuMinate his house, whieh is situate in one of the principal streets of the city. In,an instant .a large crowd collected before it, and with stones broke every-uldow in the building. A. servant of N. Siemonski appeared at a window to extinguish the lamps, a i d thui reniove the cause of popular displeasure, but the exasperation was such that a pistol was fired against him, which fortunately did not wound him. • On Saturday an inquest Was held at the Windmill public house, Croydon, on the body of Sarah Penfold, who had been 'a Servant to a tradesman of the name of Freeman, on Croydon Common. It-appeared from hi§ evidence, that on Sunday last he and his family went out; leaving the de ceased in charge of the house. The keys of the cupboards were also intrusted to her. On Monday morning it was dis covered that some liquor had been taken out of a bottle, which had been filled up with water. The deceased was accused of having done it, and she confessed that a man named Lauacelot, who had formerly been employed by him, had gone to the house on . Sunday,' during the fiunily's ab seam' and induced her to give him the liquor. lie remon strated with her on the subject. She appeared much a fected, and left the house shortly afterwards, and he saw WO more of her till she was taken out of the canal on Wedues day.morning. The father of the deceased was also, .exa mined, and admitted having told the., deceased that if she lost her place he would turn her oat of doors. The police man who found her deposed to finding. the - body of the de- I ceased in the canal, and to there being; no . marts of violence upon her person. The Jury returneda verdict that the de ceased was " Found drownrd." INCENDIARY FIRE AT BRAY.-L-Mll§ 111Ornillg, about `five o'clock, a des'tructive fire' toOk'phice' on the 'remises of Mr. Mloway, 41:respectable farmer, of -Stroud Farm, Bray. A carter in. Mr.. Alloway's employ first dis covered the fire in, a shed, which was filled with straw, and. he instantly gave the alarm. Assistance was speedily cured, but the flames spread rapidly„ and in spite of every attempt tO stop the progress of the devouring element., all the outbuildings, excepting one barn, with their contents of cum, thrashed and unfinished (of which there was a large quantity), were wholly destroyed. The dwelling-house and ad the cattle were fortunately saved. There is no doubt that the fire was the work of an ince4diary.—Wind.- sor Express of Saturday. MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.--On the morning of Monday last, the body of Mr. Milne, farmer at Gotha!), was found in the river Findborn. Mr. Milne had for many years back been employed as forester or Overs Aler on the estate of Sir W. G. Cumming of Altvre, and, ! is factor on the estate of Duuphail, the property of Mir. Cumming , Bruce; M.P., and Ird consequently mr.ny valuable books 'and papers belonging to these gentler:len in his possession, Owing to some accident, his wrung-office , where these wer:: deposited, caught tire on the previous Saturday, an d the most important of them were destroyed. Th e d eceased, o n „ z s, s in any ti .n p ,ie p n g a t t o . C 4 n l ; di s n t e a oc t in e . of in cunsequence of this, evinced symptoms of.great uneasi ness of mind, but by de rangement. Suncl.ay, he remained all day at home with o t t h i e )a f ‘ a l m ng ilv g b o by re h q i u s e f a a c m e, il a y s , i a s nc s l ,, a p t p9 n , i e g t r o n f. fire the preceding e vening), be left the, house about one o'eb.ck on l',lf:nday• morning, and was neither seen nor heard. of after, tili his body was found in the water a'oont a mile down the stream. Whether the deceased had fallen' acci od nbtiasily house(lo precipi ce th a t l ea d s fr om t h e ga ble or whether, in a fit of temporary delirium, he had consigned himself to the mercy of the rapid stream at this place, is very naecrtain. Mr. Milne has left a widew cud a numerous and respectable family, by whom,. as. well as by a ll i n the ueigh! - Murbood who bad the slightest acquaintance w ith, l'. ; .*M„' his death is deeply regretted.— Invcrne.TA