The Sun. — London, England, 1836-05-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF - THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. This night the Peers will be called upon to decide —first, whether Ireland is to be governed as an in tegral portion of the British empire, or as a conquered province ; and, secondly, whether their own privi leges, nay, their House, is compatible with the common weal. Never, in our conscience, we do be lieve, was a question of deeper import submitted to the consideration of any branch of the Legislature. If the privileges of the Peers are continued to that body for the public good, it is incumbent upon those to whom these privileges have descended by in heritance, to reflect seriously whether the denial of a participation in salutary British institutions to a third of the population of the United Kingdom, to a people proud and brave, and already too much estranged from us by causes connected with reli gion, betokens that foresight, denotes that pru dence, that sagacity, which alone can justify in our times the continuing to any body of men the right to make laws for the government of the people, The country will not now be deluded by chi merical fears or induced to sanction overt wrong by silly or unprincipled misrepresentations. Rea sons must be assigned for the refusal of Municipal Reform to a country to which has been already granted the right of electing nearly a sixth of the representatives of the United Kingdom. It will not do to tell the Reformers of Great Britain that Ireland is unfit for municipal institutions, after the concession to that island of Parliamentary Reform. The Irish were Catholics in 1832—nay, it was because of their catholicity that the Bill of 1829, entitling them to sit in Parliament, and to hold all offices under the Crown, save the Viceroyalty of Ireland, and the Great Seal, was passed into a law. And are they to be excluded from corporate privileges who are admitted into the Legislature ? And is that profession of faith which is no bar to the attainment of the chief seat upon the King's Bench to estop the same individual, perhaps, who might become the Lord Chief Justice, from be coming a Mayor or a Town Councillor ? Upon this question the House of Lords *ill decide to-night ; for this is the question involved in the amendments of Lord Lyndhurst. Amendments, did we say ? What a flagrant abuse of terms I Of the original - Bill not half a dozen clauses have escaped the ruthless hand of the ex-Chancellor, and the man must possess a large share of cool effrontery who will lay his hand on his heart and declare that every one of the changes in troduced by Lord Lyndhurst is not pernicious. The cloven-foot appears in the very preamble—for even that has been transformed—and in the succeeding pages the spirit of malignant faction riots in the ruin it has effected. To satisfy the public mind of the iniquity of the Amended (?) Bill, we will briefly reca pitulate its details. The first section squares with the corresponding section in the original Bill, and repeals all charters, &c., upon which , the existing Corpora tions depend ; in other words, it abolishes all muni cipal institutions in Ireland—a vestige of which is not to remain, should the Peers be so unjust and the Com mons so base as to accept the amendments—after the first day of the ensuing year. The existing and in choate rights of freemen are preserved as by the original Bill ; so likewise is the Parliamentary fran chise as guaranteed by the Reform Act ; but here the affinity and resemblance between the two Bills cease. Twenty-three clauses of the Mi nisterial measure are cut out, and it is de clared that henceforth there shall be no corpo rate Government in Ireland. The whole system is wiped out by a dash of Lord Lyndhurst's pen. Commissioners not exeeeding seven, and not fewer than five, are to be appointed to discharge the civic functions, and this valuable patronage is conferred upon the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland by those hypocrites who clamour against the Bill for reforming the con, stabulary in the sister country because it gives the Viceroy patronage. The infamous inconsistency of this proceeding cannot escape public observation and public abhorence. The solitary fact we have stated ought and would, if all other causes of quarrel with the Tories were removed, bring universal contempt and odium upon that perfidious party. They object to the Viceroy's having the power to appoint a common constable, and they authorise him to nominate a sub stitute for all the Irish Corporations now in being ! A gnat they strain at—a camel they swallow. To day the Police Bill is mutilated, lest the Viceroy should obtain an increase of patronage : to-mor row the Corporation Bill is mangled and im mense patronage thrown into his Excellency's hands. The object and the motive are alike - in both instances, however dissimilar the procedure. To do mischief is the design, to insult the Irish people is the motive in both cases. In the one case, the Viceroy is denied patronage, because.he might use it for the public good ; in the other, it is thrust on him, because this is prejudicial to the public interests, and hateful to the feelings of the people. By a batch - of confused, unintelligible clauses, the duties of the Com missioners are defined. They are to seize upon all the corporate properties' in Ireland—to prosecute, de fend, or compromise law-suits—to pay and recover all debts due by or to the present corporations—to keep accounts of the proceedings—to make annual reports to the Lord Lieutenant, besides as many intermediate reports as his Excellency shall desire—to sell advow sons, by direction of the ecclesiastical commissioners of Ireland—to manage the " town fund" (so the cor porate property is in future to be designated), and to pay the salaries of their officers. So far for the Com missioners. With respect to recorders and courts of conscience, these are to be preserved, a power being given to the Viceroy to abolish the latter at his plea sure ; and should any funds remain in the chest of the Commissioners after defraying the other expenses already alluded to, a portion of the residue is to go to wards paying the salaries of recorders and presidents of courts of conscience. And in towns where the 9th George IV. is in operation, any surplus that may still lie over shall be given to the Board of Commissioners of Paving and Lighting. —The most important clauses, however, of the amended Bill, next after those which sweep away all existing corporations and forbid re formation, remain to be noticed. By sections 13 and 14, clauses 58 ands 9 of the original Bill are amended. And how ? By perpetuating the town-clerks, cham berlains, and butter-tasters, after the abolition of their offices ! The occupation of these gentry will be gone ; but the occupiers will be preserved by a spe cies of embalming, for which the public will be obliged to pay as dearly as if the process were tried for their benefit and at their solicitation. We shall no doubt be told that section 44 authorises the Commissioners to dismiss these sinecurists, while the 45th clause se cures them compensation. Very true ; but it is not the less true that the 14th clause preserves the officers after their offices have been e xtinguished and their du ties done away with. What means this vile ma noeuvring ? We have heard that an active town-clerk from the city of Cork has been in constant communi cation with Lord Lyndhurst. Was it to meet his wishes that the nefarious clause to which we pray attention was smuggled into this nefarious Bill ? There can be no doubt but that to some e q uall y cogent and creditable cause we must attribute the introduction of another precious clause—the nine teenth—which preserves to those corporators who are ex of members of committees of charitable or other trusts, the right to hold and execute these trusts after the extinction of the offices by virtue of which they originally obts,:ned snob right I. It little matters, however, what the prop ellin g motive i n these cases has been. There are few who will question its turpitude ; and yet there are some who will harangue you by the hour upon its purity. Virtuous or pro fligate as the motive may be, the Act is vicious, and must be denounced by the House of Commons, as un questionably it will be thrown back in its authors' teeth with the indignant scorn of the millions, whose willthat House has been chosen to represent. Of the idler sections of this iniquitous Bill we have not now either room or inclination to enter into an analysis. More than enough has been pointed out to rouse the feelings of the people of Ireland against the flagitious machinations of the Tories, and to stir up our reform ing countrymen in defence of those wholesome princi ples which they have established in Great Britain, in defiance of the corruptionists, but which can never be sufficiently developed till they are planted in *very quarter of the Empire. Reformers of THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MAV 9, 1836. England and of Scotland ! this is your cause as well as the cause of the Irish. You are as deeply 'interested in the result of this night's Parlia mentary proceedings as your fellow-subjects who are separated from you by a narrow channel. The same Ministers who achieved for you a reform of your mu nicipal institutions offer a similar measure to Ireland, and they are opposed by the self-same titled and unti tled enemies of popular liberty, who resisted, with an energy and perse.verance which malice and selfishness alone could supply, your emancipation from their cruel grasp, and yielded to your just demands only when terror seized upon their hearts. We will not harbour for a moment the humiliating thought that Britons will tamely permit a mere handful of bigots and oppressors to crush that liberty in a sister land which they have mainly endea - voured to stifle in this, and for the good which ourselves have extorted from their fears to take vengeance upon a people allied to us by the closest bonds that can connect two countries, a com munity of interests, a love of the same laws, and—to say nothing of the Act of 1800—an ardent admira tion of the same Constitution. The House of Lords may go on madly in its mischievous career—it may set itself against public opinion, and believe that the plaudits of its mercenary parasites are the echo of the public voice—it may indulge the insane hope that its puny arm can slay the mighty giant which, in the peaceful garments of Reform, walks through the land, cheering the oppressed and scathing the oppressor— all this folly the House of Lords may perpetrate, but it must in the end yield to the just claim of the mass, or perish in the conflict. Emphatically we tell the Lords the empire will not have Lord Lyndhurst's de structive measure. Let the Hereditary Chamber but adopt that infamous Bill, and the nation will soon make known its feelings in a voice at the sound of which their House will tremble.—Morning Chronicle. Various speculations were afloat during the week last past as to the probable motive of the adjournment to be proposed by Ministers from the 20th to the 30th inst. The rumours of a dissolution at first obtained some credit, it being clear that the evidence before the Committee on the-Dublin Election must eventually de prive Ministers of their indispensable leader in the Lower House of Parliament. A joint of the tail, however, has just been cut off to provide for this con tingency, and the rumour of a dissolution has conse quently died away. Another motive for the adjourn ment was sought by some in the perplexities of the Whig-Radical Government, who, in one sense of ,the phrase, may truly boast that they are " open to all parcies, and influenced by none ;" for, with a disposi tion to truckle in all directions, they cannot muster de termination sufficient to adopt any one decided line whatever. A respite in the middle of the Session from such a state of bewilderment, though at first sight it may appear an assignable motive for the pro posed adjournment, will scarcely bear consideration. For, upon the same principl—namely, the difficulty of extricating an incapable Ministry from the poli tical perplexities in which it has involved itself by a tortuous and truckling policy—on this principle Lord John Russell might reasonably move the adjourn ment of the House of Commons sane die. The pre sent generation can hardly hope to see the day when the Noble Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment will be competent to dispose of the tithe ques tion ; the " superficial" Chancellor of the Exchequer to administer our financial concerns to the satisfacion of the community ; Lord Morpeth to compete with the House of Lords in legislating for Ireland ; Lord Palmerston to maintain the balance of power by his protocols ; or Lord Glenelg to preserve our Canadian possessions by his imperturbable repose. Thus we are compelled to seek elsewhere for the secret of this unusual adjournment. Left to conjecture, we shall perhaps be pardoned should we be somewhat wide of the mark, and the " superficial inches" at the service of Mr. Rice arc open for a refutation of our conjec ture. We have heard, then, that not the public affairs of this nation, for the administration of which the Prime Minister has so. abundantly proved that he is in competent, but certain achieVements in a field on which the Noble Lord has already L., , -ainecl triumphant laurels, render it necessary that for his own sake, and for that of the Government of which he is the head, the un divided attention of the Cabinet should be given to a matter of the most delicate nature. The Lord-Lieu tenant - of Ireland, on many grounds eminently qualified to give the best advice in this crisis of moral character, is forthwith to repair to England ; and here, for the first time since his appointment to his high station, will be required to do the bidding of the Prime Minister, and not that of the prime agitator. That he will do this cheerfully, no one who has observed Lord Mulgrave's career can doubt ; nor will • the head of the Govern ment look in vain for the sympathy of Lord Palmerston, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Holland, Mr. Poulctt Thorn son, and other "men of the world," as they are emphati cally called. But what will the more staid members of the Government, such as Lords J. Russell, Dun cannon, and,Howick, and, above all, the immaculate Lord Glenelg—what will they say to this new diffi culty ? There will be a " division in the Cabinet" with a vengeance. Nor can we well see how, on the re-assembling of Parliament, those Members of the House of Commons classed under the generic term " saints" can, without considerable qualms of con science, sanction this social interpretration of the " Repeal of the Union." Surely Sir Andrew Agnew, Sir Oswald Mosley, Mr. Buxton, Mr. R. Colborne, and others, who are solicitous lest Sunday-baked joints and Sunday air and exercise should inflame the pas sions of the poor, will think of framing a clause to preserve the wealthy from temptation. We have merely indicated the subject of the little drama which is said to be in contemplation. A few days will show how far our conjecture is correct ; and, perhaps, the organs of Government will favour the public with an authorized list of the dramatis persona., and an an nouncement of the day fixed for the public representa tion.—Times. The Chancellor of the Exchequer having this year, as an honest Hibernian might say, " opened" the Budget in effect before it was " made up," little or no interest attached to its more regular and formal open ing—the greater part of the surplus revenue that could be spared it was known long ago would be applied to the reduction of newspaper stamps, or, as they are pe dantically called, the " taxes on knowledge" and the paper duties. Of the 660,0001. in round numbers, which Mr. Rice takes as the actual balance of the year, after deducting the charges of the West India loan, he disposes of the sum of 351,0001. under va rious heads of reduction, each of which is of an insig nificant amount, with the exception of the two items that we have mentioned, amounting together to 275,000/. ; leaving but 76, 0001. more to be disposed of under the other heads of reduction-20,0001. of this is the estimated loss upon the Post-office treaty with France—another 20,0001. the loss upon probates by the new system of stamp duties-6,0001. the re duction upon Irish advertisements-5,0 001 . the re duction on tax-carts, flvs, &c. Then there remains 15,000/. of the 351,060/. to be disposed of. How does the ingenious Chancellor of the Exchequer get rid of that "odd 15,0001.? He generously be stows it in the way of relief to the agricultural interests, by reducing the fire insurances on farm ing buildings. Oh, too happy agriculturists we may say with the Roman poet, if they only knew their own happiness. Surely, after this, it must be admitted that Lord Chandos's motion was quite superfluous, and that Sir Robert Peel did right to oppose it, know ing, as he did, how equitably the mob-led Ministers would deal with the quiet, loyal, and suffering culti vators of the soil, whose distress they deeply commis serated in the Speech from the Throne, and upon whom they lavish the splendid relief of 15,0001. out of a surplus of 660,000/. ! The foregoing short pa ragraph contains the sum and substance of the Budget, upon which Mr. Spring Rice bestowed a speech which filled six columns of small print in our paper. If the greatness of the orator was to be calculated by the magnitude of his speeches, Mr. Spring Rice would fairly bear away the palm of eloquence from most of the orators of ancient times, and from many of the moderns, by a very considerable extent of measurement in " superficial inches." But we ask the Right Hon. Gentleman whether it is right of him, when he is about to curtail Newspapers of their fair proportions, to " monopolise.' a whole side of one of our broad sheets with a statement upon the Budget, which might have been despatched in one-sixth of the space. We have measured his speech, and it occupies no less than 459 superficial - inches, which is nearly one-third of the space which he is about to fix as the Exchequer maxi num of size. If we were at present limited to 1,530 aches, deducting his speech, we should have had only 1,071 inches, little better than two-thirds of that space Lo give to the remainder of the debate in the Commons, the whole of the discussion in the Lords, our foreign intelligence from various countries, our domestic in telligence, comprising public meetings, the reports of Law Courts, police offices, &c., Court news, City news, fashionable movements, agricultural, commercial, and manufacturing intelligence, and all the other mis cellaneous matter, independently of leading articles and advertisements. Why then—(and we ask the ques tion in the greatest good humour) —why then will the Right Hon. Gentleman persist in cutting down our double sheet to 1,500 inches, when he has ocular demonstration that a single speech of his own can cover one-third of that space, and, consequently, three speeches of the same length would exhaust the whole superficial measurement, and deprive the news paper-reading public of all that varied intelligence, foreign and domestic, which constitutes the attractive miscellany of a daily Journal ? We still trust and hope the Chancellor of the Exchequer will re-consider and revise his ill-conceived and ill-digested measure. It concerns as much his own reputation as the interests of the Press and the public convenience, that he should not signalise his financial career by rashly adopting, and obstinately clinging to a principle of restriction upon the Press, and consequently upon the " diffusion of knowledge" which was suggested by some " inge nious" blockhead to a Tory Chancellor of the Exche quer—Mr. Goulburn, and contemptuously rejected Politically opposed, as we are, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and his party, in most of their measures, we bear him no personal hostility, notwithstanding the blow which he has aimed, at us, and the undue preference which he originally gave by his scale of measurement to a ministerial journal. If, indeed, we were supporters of his politics, we would think it necessary to his fame—and to the character of the Cabinet in which he fills so conspicuous a station —to make every effort to dissuade him from persisting with the " superficial inch of know ledge" plan, to the injury of the Press, the inconveni ence of the public, the detriment of the revenue, and the lasting discredit of the Administration. If, however, the Chancellor of the Exchequer be resolved to cling to a principle so opposed to the " diffusion of knowledge," and to the principles of free trade, the enlargement of his scale to some few hundred super ficial inches more will still leave the principle untouched. Let him only measure the largest sheet now published, we mean, of couse, a double sheet, which is only one sheet folded like two ; and let him take the measure of that largest sheet as his nzaxinzum of size. He will thereby avoid the actual restriction of any existing Newspaper, and the restriction will only operate against future enlargements of existing journals beyond that maximum. To the subject of an efficient copy right protection for Morning Newspapers, which we before endeavoured to bring under the notice of Go vernment, we hope he will edirect his attention. It was always understood that the reduction of the Stamp Duties was to be accompanied by some measure of the sort to protect the Daily Papers against the piracy of their origiiial intelligence. We also unite with those who recommend that far each Newspaper there should be a distinct and peculiar stamp, with the name of the Newspaper upon it. This would prevent much delusion being practised upon the public in regard to the comparative circulation of Newspapers. And as the Stamp-office must have new dies for the altered duties, the thing can be done with out additional expense. In consequence of what fell from the Chancellor of the Exchequer in his Budget speech, respecting the alleged assent of the petition ing Newspapers to his plan, we have only to repeat our denial of Thursday last—viz., that " with the Right Hon. Gentleman we have had no communica tion, either personally or by representatives, touching his superficial inch of knowledge plan, nor did he with our privity or concurrence, extend his original restric tions from the exact dimensions of a Ministerial Morn ing Paper to the more enlarged area of fifteen hundred superficial inches." We may add, that we never heard of such a change of his plan being in contemplation, until it was notified to us that it had been determined upon. Surely it does not stand to reason, nor is it consistent with the possession of the most ordinar degree of discretion, that we should have solicited tilt Chancellor of the Exchequer, or employed any one else to solicit him, to take a step most prejudicial to our interests. The thing is so absurd on the face of it, that the mere statement ought to carry with it its own refutation.—Morning Herald. The cruel and brutal treatment which children of both sexes endure in our manufactories excited about three years ago a considerable share of public attention. For this humane and truly patriotic direction of the public mind, the nation was mainly indebted to the persevering and laborious efforts of the late Mr. Sadler, who struggled against discouragements and obstacles, which would have paralysed any man who was not a Christian enthusiast, until he had brought a large and commanding proportion of the whole British people to think and feel with him. The cunning worshippers of Mammon, with Mr. P. Thom son for their leader and High Priest, were made to feel that they could not attempt to defend the factory system, without incurring a desperate risk of utter and complete ruin to themselves, and to the political party with which they are indissolubly allied. They ac cordingly gave way to the sense of the community. They agreed to abandon the system . of extracting wealth from the moral and physical energy, from the social affections, from the minds and souls, from the bones, and sinews, and blood, to the utter destruc tion of all these, of the infant population of England. The mills which ground into gold the health and the life, the bodies and the minds, the morals and the sal vation of tens of thousands of the sons and daughters of Great Britain by the year, were to be checked in their pernicious and destructive career. But time was to be given for the idolators of mammon gradually to detaCh themselves from their accustomed worship at his blood stained altar. The temples of the British Juggernaut were to be dismantled by degrees. Lord Ashley, treading in the steps of Mr. Sadler, and aided by the full tide of national feeling, could only obtain a partial mitigation of the horrors which that amiable philanthropist had exposed. The rest was decreed by the Legislature, but it was to be postponed until in terests could have time to adjust themselves—humanity and religion were to wait, in a word, until vested capital could secure to itself a commodious retreat. Well, the time which vested capital required to withdraw itself from the profitable trade of infant ruin is about to expire, and the House of Commons has this night to decide whether Mr. P. Thomson, in order to cultivate the favour of the Manchester people, who made him a Member of Parliament, shall he permitted to grant a new lease to infanticide—whe ther the mills which crush the bones and the flesh, which transmute the affections, and the intellects, and the and souls nce of m p sha i l l l l inos of children pursue theirh ldn re into pounds, unabated processous, s o h f i l g l inuigl guilty and barbarous alchemy. The idea of Mr. P. Thom son and his friends is that the people of England have forgotten the subject, and become indifferent to it, and that they may now do what they like with the factory children. They are fools enough to fancy that their cunning speculation as to the effect of postponement and delay has been successful. They have deceived themselves, as such persons are prone to do. The life, and health, and morals of children in countless numbers will not be left to their tender mercy. Al though Mr. Sadler has been taken away to reap the rich reward of his benevolent exertions in the cause of hu manity, the feelings which actuated him are not, as they will soon find to their cost, wholly extinct.— Morning Post. The Tories in the House of Commons, to whom repeated defeats and decreasing numbers might have taught a more salutary lesson, have, it would seem, decided upon one more formal trial of strength. The executive Dierctory of the Carlton Club have just issued a circular, " earnestly entreating the uninter rupted daily attendance in their places in Parliament, until the adjournment for the Whitsuntide holidays, of the Members professing constitutional principles." The circular proceeds to state that, within the time indicated, various important measures will be submitted to the consideration of the House, upon some 91 which a division is inevitable. It will be observed that this Tory manifesto is cautiously worded, and endeavours to secure the constant attendance of the adherents of the faction without committing its contrivers to a division upon any definite or specific point. The object in adopting this vague mode of expression is at once fraudulent and shallow. The party, ready to take advantage of any favourable opportunity, will muster in full strength, but they will carefully abstain from a division, unless they are encouraged by the appearance of disunion in the ranks of the Reformers, rumours of which have for some time been industriously circulated. We have designated this piece of Tory tactics by the epithets of fraudulent and shallow. It is fraudu lent because its professed purpose is to put forward an appearance of numerical strength, which does not intrinsically belong to the party, but is expected to be derived from a division of the force of their most determined political antagonists—it is shallow, be cause it is based on the gratuitous assumption of dissensions in the ranks of the constitutional re formers, which assumption has no better foundation than a rumour circulated by the runners of the Con servative clique. But although the Tory circular avoids naming the precise subject which is to be made their cheval de bataille before the Whitsuntide recess, there is a pretty general understanding that Sir Ed ward Knatchbull's proposed substitution of the repeal of the tax on Soap, in place of the Newspaper Stamp duty recommended by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will be the point on which a stand will be made—if, indeed, they can muster resolution to make a stand at all. For our own parts—with the certain conviction that another formal division will be only another expo sure .of weakness, with the additional mortification of proving that the weakness is progressively aug menting—we think the Tories will not venture to make a fair stand-up fight, unless an opportunity offers to take the Reformers at a disadvantage : and the best possible way to prevent such a misfortune is by a simple exposure of the meditated fraud of the enemy. We are not, in general admirers of Con servative sentiments, or Conservative language; but we are tempted upon this occasion to borrow a sen tence from the Carlton circular which gave occasion to our present observations, and " earnestly to en treat the uninterrupted daily attendance in their places in Parliament, until the adjournment for the Whit suntide holidays, of the Members professing constitu tional principles." It is needless to observe that in our vocabulary " the professors of constitutional prin ciples" are :comprehended under a very different cate gory from that assigned them by the learned lexicogra phers who superintend the printing press of the Carl ,on Club.—Morning Adverviser. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Leeds Intel*neer of Saturday.) LEEDS.—Business is as brisk in all departments of the woollen trade as it has been for some time past ; the prin cipal demand being for coarse woollens, though cloths of lighter qualities are beginning to be more in request. The sales of black cloths in the Halls on Tuesday were not quite so brisk as on Saturday, partly occasioned by the want of variety. BRADFORD.—We had again a good market on Thurs day, and there was scarcely any variation from that of last week to be noted. The yarn market was a little brisker, but the demand for goods and wool was similar to what it has been for some weeks past. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, on Tuesday, was again a brisk one, and there was a good demand for cloths and fancy articles of all, sorts. HALIFAX MARKET, on Saturday, was not quite so brisk as on the previous Saturday ; indeed, many of the manufac turers intimated that they should do as little as pOssible until some material alteration took place either in the de mand for or the price of goods. ROCHDALE, MAY 3.—Our market still continues very dull ; the manufacturers cannot quit their goods at a price to pay them, and therefore they remain on hand ; the de mand has Men off amazingly, owing to the high price of wool. We should have had a fair trade had wool kept steady. The staplers have but little to do, but as yet the prices keep up. We are sorry to learn that letters from the Wes Highlands, but more particularly the Isles, give melancholy accounts of the ravages of disease and death among the black cattle, from the want of fodder. The extreme length of the season on which the beasts have been dependent on in door feeding, has exhausted the provender of the farmers in the Isle of Mull, and the distress consequent thereon is truly heart-rending. People with carts are going from one place to another begging for small supplies, &c., just to keep the best part of the stock of cattle alive, until vegetation clothes the fields with food for them. In and about Strachur we hear that cattle are also dying for want, and the poor beasts are so wean that they cannot be moved for transmission to places where fodder is to be had.—Ayr Observer. No fewer than 2.264 persons have been confined in Wakefield House of Correction, for various periods, during the year just ended ; 450 of them have been sick, and 13 have died during the same period. We understand that a few days ago, a prisoner, upon whom sentence of transportation for life had been passed, resolved to put an end to his existence, if possible, by eating glass, and for that purpose broke a square in the windo - v of his cell, which he broke into small pieces, and swallowed with his bread, saying he hoped it would bring on a lingering illness, and then he should have time to pre pare for another world! THE TALLOW TRADE.—The last commercial advices received from the Russian capital, state that the pro bable supply of new tallow for the present season was estimated by the principal commercial houses at 100,000 casks, which would include 41,000 casks left on hand at the close of last season, and 10,000 casks which were on board ships locked up in the ice. At the last dates from St. Petersburgh, tallow had risen from 118 to 133 roubles per pood, and at the ad avanced price about 30,000 casks had been pu chased of the Russians. The stock of tallow on the Ist inst., in the port of London, was 17,883 casks, against 30,940 casks at the same period last year. • The present price of Russian tallow is nearly 7s. per cwt. higher than it was at this time last year, while town tallow is not less than 12s. per cwt. higher than it was en the Ist of May last. The Kentish Observer, with a flourish of trumpets, publishes the reply of the Oxford Convocation to the Arch deacon and Clergy of the diocese of Canterbury. The reply aforesaid, of course, is big with bigotry—that bastard of reli gion—it cries aloud for persecution, and repeats the narrow sectarian, and, as it turns out utterly false, charges against Dr. Hampden's theological opinions, which fools and fanatics still persist in vomiting forth, and which fools and fanatics only care one straw about. Every one, however, must admire the odium theologicum displayed. LUDICROUS SCENE.—The following scene, which took place at Dessein's Hotel, at Calais, is extracted from the diary of Reynolds, the dramatist :—Wanting to walk on the pier," says Reynolds, " I asked the garcon, who spoke English very tolerably, the French for it. lie, thinking as Milord An glais, I could mean nothing but Peer, a Lord, replied pair.' Away I then went, and passing over the market-place, and drawbridge, stumbled on the pier, without having had occasion to inquire my way to it by the garcon's novel appellation— there I remained, strutting my half-hour till dinner-time. At the table d'hote, the Commandant of the troops of the town sat next to me, and among other officers and gentlemen at the table were the President of the Council at Ratisbon, a Russian Count, and several Prussians—in all amounting to about twenty, not one of whom, as it appeared to me, spoke a word of English. I thought I could never please a Frenchman so much as by praising his town:—' Monsieur,' I said condescendingly to the Commandant, J'ai vu votre pair,' meaning I have seen your pier, but which he naturally understood, have seen your father. This address from a per fect stranger surprised him. II est beau et grand, Mon sieur,' I continued. The Commandant examined me from head to foot with an astonishment that imparted to me an al most equal share. I saw there was a mistake, and I attempted to explain by pronouncing very articulately, " Oui, Monsieur, j'ai vu votre pair— votre pair sur le havre." " Eh; bien, Monsieur," replied the Commandant, " Et que vous a-t-il dit ?" (What did he say to you ?) I was astounded, and looking round the room for the keeper of the supposed madman, I discovered that the eyes of the whole company were upon me. " Monsieur," I cried, attempting again to explain, with as much deliberation and precision, and in as good French as I could command—" Monsieur, est-il possible que vous re!idiez . ci, et que vous ne connaissiez pas votre pair —votre long !" This speech only increased the incomprehensibility of the whole conversation ; and the Commandant beginning, in rather haut en bas terms, to demand an explanation, like all cowards, when driven into a corner, I became desperate— " Messieurs," I cried somewhat boisterous, " Il faut que vous connaissiez votre pair le pair de votre vine, qui e t fait de pierre, et ala tete de bois." This was the coup de grace to all decorum ; every Frenchman abandoned himself to his laughter, till the room fairly shook with their shouts, and even the Commandant himself could not help joining them.—" Allow me, Sir," said a gentleman whom I had not previously observed—" My dear, Sir," interrupted I, "you are an Englishman, "pray, pray, explain."—" Sir," he re. plied, " you have just told this gen tleman (pointing to the Commandant) that his father is the father of the whole town, that he is made of stone, and has a wooden head !" I was pa ralyzed. " Tell me," I cried, as if my life depended on an answer—" what is the French for pier ?" "Jettee," he re plied. I had scarcely sense enough left to assist the English man in his good-natured attempts to unravel the error. He succeeded, however, and then commenced in French an ex planation to the officer. At this moment the waiter informed me that the St. Omer diligence was about to depart. I rushed from the scene of my disgrace, and stepped into the vehicle, just as the termination of the Englishman's recital exploded an additional eclat de rire at my expense.—Mirror. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK SI OCKS, I THE IVIARQU. D 0 NDE RRY ASSURANCE COMPANIES, Sze. &c. &c. AND MR. MORGAN O'CON- NEL 13' Westminster Club, 24, Great George-street, My Lord—ln the report of your Lordshi p 's speech OYn the Irish Constabulary Bill, as given in the Times of this day, the following passage appears : " A very excellent and Gallant Officer, Colonel Shaw Ke.l: nedy, had been named for the office of Inspector-General, anti to such an appointment no one could object ; but how lonk,t. would he be continued in that situation ? What security had. they that, after this Bill had passed th eir Lordships' House, and become law, the Lord Lieutenant w ho, vested with the crate powers of such a Bill, had justly been termed an Auto, would not dismiss that Gallant Officer, and appoint in his stead. Mr. Morgan O'Connell." self May I request your Lordship will hav e the gocydness to in - form me if such reportle '-irrect ; and , if so, I feel my luctantly called on to request your Lords hi p' s withdrawal of a c omparison derogatory to my character , or to state why you conceive me deserving of such unfavourable n otice. I have the honour'M ORGAN O'CONNE;.LL. The Most Noble the Marquis of London derr y , o LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 6. Price Number Dividend of per CANA LS,per Paid. e Shares. Amnon. Shari Shares. ~760 61 pet ceut. Ashton and Oldham....ATerage 975. 18s. sh. 1,482 6/. Ashby-dede-Zouch Average 113/. s. 651 1, Basingstoke lOO/. sh. 51 1,005 5/. Brecknoc4 and Abergavenny l5O . sh, 9C 4,00015 h. 12/. 10s. Birmingham, 1 -/6th share l7/. 10s. 206 4,000 Ditto arAl Liverpool Junct....loo/. sh. all pd 301 600 Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd 64 400 5/. Chelmer and Black water .. lOO/. sh. 102 100/. sh. 801 500 421, Coventry 4,546 f lroyclon Average 31/. '.25. 10d. sh. 3 1001. sh. 7 8 2,0604 31. 10s. Dudley 61'0 6/. Derby 100/. sh. 120 20,000 Danube and Mayne 4l/. 13s. 4d. 1211. pd 81 3,5754 Ellesmere and Chester...... Average 133/. sh. 84 231 43'. Eyewash 100/. sh. VP 1,297 091. Forth and Clyde ....... Average lekl.los. sh. 591) 1,50 12/. Grand Junc" - 2,649./ Grand U nion 1001. sh. 25 l,5!1 Gran d Surre y lOO/. sh. 10,000/. 41. per cent. Ditto (opt ional) Loan lOO/. 75 3,096 Grand Wes tern 104. sh. all pd 19 600 13/. 12.5. 9d. Glatnorganshlre, Average cost 1721. 13s. 4cl. 230 1,9f30 Gloucester and Berkley 1501. sh. 202 141 749 10i. Grantham 6,238 1/. 10s. Huddersfield Average 571. 6s. 6d. p sh . 10. 311 100 Kensington 100 sh. all 5,228 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 391. Ss. 100/.d. sh. sh. 510' 101 2,8971 201. Leeds a nd Liver p ool lO 1401. sh. 140 515 194 Leicester 907 41. Leicester and N or th a mpton Aver. 63/. 103. 78 2,401) 9/. Monmouthshire 100/. sh. Is 2 91. Melton Mowbray 100/. sh. 200 250 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 58 0 3,000 Macclesfield 100/. sh. all pd. 54 247 15/. Neath 1001. sh. 325 -1,786 32/. Oxford 100/. sh. 085 522 '2l. Oakham 130/. sh. 38 2,400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 104 31,118 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 33/. 165. ed. sh. 18 5.0)(9 51. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 120 510 W. Shropshire 1'251. sh. 140 SOO 10/. Somerset Coal RO/. sh. 160 0 61 p e r cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock l2/. 10s. sh. 11. 45'7001'00 361. Stafford and Worcester l4Ol. sh. 6 1 0 500 11/. Shrewsbury 1251. sh. t.:41 300 8/. Stourbridge 3,647 U. Ills. Stratford-on-Avon...Average 79/. Os. l 1.4d 001 .. sshh. 21 421 533 13/. Swansea . 5 3,762 1 /. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av. 35/. sh. 17 2,60015 n. 32/. 10s. Trent and Mersey, 1 share 100/. sh. 608 8,119 Thames and Medway... Aver. 10/. Ss. 80. sh. 2 1,005h.1 I,W• W arw ick and Birmingham lOOl. sh• 276 I,ooolsh. 9SO 1)4.. Warwick and Napton lOO/. sh. 216 6,000 3/. lOs Worcester and Birmingham...A v. 781.81. sh. 82 5,0(5) 255. Wilts and Berlss .. Average 67/. 10s. Sd. sh. 181 800 61. Wyrley and Essington 125/. sh '75 126 Wisbeach lO5/. sh. 45 9 . ..05 It. \Vey and Arun HO/. sh. 22,' DOCKS. 2 ' 6°llBr } 'C' 3 n Commercial• 1,06515 h - 108,667 Z/. 4 per cent. East India 3,23%3101/. 50s. p. et. lAM dOll Ditto Bonds ,360,0001. 51. per ct. West India 2,:0 I :3/. 6s. 4sl. Bristol Average 147/. 1:!c. sh. 05 68,321/. Si. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 .352,752 3 par cent. S t . Katharine Stock 881 104 500,003 41 per cent. Ditto Bonds .. _ Ditto Bonds for 10 years lO2l &c. &c. &c. 11336 Holdernesse House, May 3, - of Sir -I hasten to assure you that I had not the least iLlea making any comparisons of character whatever. My speech is in all the journals most in correctly rep o rt . ed. But I did state that by the Bill the Lord-Lioutcnant might displace Colonel Shaw Kennedy, and appoint either Mr. Maurice or Mr. Morgan O'Connell ; an d that I would: p wove Ta r no political confidence in such appointme nt, nor did I a of such power being given to the Lord-Lieutenant, vi'host al3- 1 pouitments I distrust.—l have the hono It VANE LONDONDER..Y. pt Morgan O'Connell, Esq. sh. 57 • ~,,.Stock 105 ▪ .....Stock 5S 200,000 4 per cent AM() n 00,... ._ Shoreham Harbour 2.5r.0 ........ Deptford Pier .01. sh. 3/. pd BRII)GES. 1/. Hammersmith 5Ol. sh. 23 Southwark, OW Av. li3/. 2s. 8, sh. 2 ~100 I/. 15 3 . Ditto, New, of 79 per cent. 5O/. sh. 14 5,000 Waterloo lOO/. sh. 2; 5,000 1/. 2s. Ditto , Old Annuities of W. 6O/ .1 pd 2 249 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto , New Ditto of 71 40. pd 0 60,0001. 51. per cent. [Otto Bonds (1,000 1/. Vauxhall ............... Avlrage 701. 10s. 3d. sh. 22 ASBURANCE COMPANIES. 2,000 31 lOs Albion 500/. sh. 501. pd 78 50,000 [5 p a e n r d %nt.l Alli an ce, British & Foreign 100 /. s h. 10/. p d 121 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, 'Marine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 51 2501. sh. 24,000 :1. per sh. Atlasso/. sh. Si. pd 105 141 1,200 '-sh. 4/. Birmingham Fire 250/ sh 5 50/ Si . d 20,000 4/ per cent. B r itish Fire 12,000 61. per cent. British Commercial NI/. sh. 5/, pd 61 5,000 51. iier cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life, 110/. sh. 121105 p p d d 4 3 1 50/ 4,000 2/ 10s Cou nt y 100/. sh. Si.pd 6 10,000 ss• E a g le 200 c 5 per cent. E co nomic Life lOOO /. sh . 2501. p d 375 am' :30/ bs. 2,271 51/. per cent. Europe an Life 2 50,000 2s. Ditto , New O/. sh. 2/. pd 11. He. 159 1001. sh. 201. ,000,0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 379 20,000 11 . Gu ardian pd 40,000 Fire 5 p ct.l „„‘, [Life 8 p ct. j -'," 501. sh. 5/. pd ei 2,400 5/. 7s. 6d. Imperial Fire 5001. sh. 50/. pd 120 1001. sh. 101. pd 10 7,500 Os. Imperial L ife 13,453 10s.6d.'per sh. Inde mnit y Marine 1 ( .01. sh, 31. pd 17 2,020 3/ 10s Kent F ire 5O/ . sh. all pd 9, 79 3/. Ditto Life 10,000 16s. Law Life ... ........................ 1001. di. 10/. pd 28 3,900 1 000 Londea, Ship ...............251. sh. 10/. 10s. pd 141 30,000 5/. per cent. Palladium Life 501. sh. '2l. pd 21'73fid 250,001 Is. (id. Protector File 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 1/18. Od 2,500 1/. Provident Life lOO/. sh. 111/. pd 191 100,000 ss. Rock Life 9 0/. sh. V. pd '7/ 689,2001 Si. per cent. Roya l Exchan g e Stock... 202 Sun 210 6,000 5 per cent. University Life lOOl. sh. 5/. pd 51 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2l. pd T STOCK BANKS 5,000 Australa , ia 4Ol. sh. 401. pd 59 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham 5ll. sh. 101. lid 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank . 5O/. oh. 5/. pd 14 18,000 2 percent. ',onion and Westminster...loo/ sh. 15/. pd 269 3,000 Lancaste r ........................... '2 0 1. d 22 25,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 1001 sh. 10/. pd 30,000 71 per cent. Manchester and Liverpool/ 100/. sh. 101 pi 1 23 Discount 20,000 6 per cent. Manchester 1001. sh. 20/ pd 35 9 20,000 h per cent. Provincial Bank of Ireland 100/. sh. '251. pd 43 20 0 ,. (0 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland -5-1. oh. 1211. ptl 17 9 1000 :9, , 000 10 per rent. Gloucestershir - 5O/. oh. 74/. pd 15 6,000 Hampshire 501. ph 5/. pd 9 GAS LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. 500 1112 e Bath 2O/. sh. 10/. pd '25 5,000 6/. per cent. Britis h 4O/. sh. 161. pd 21 C5/.percent Di, 5,000 t ar . d Bs. 55.3 Ditto Provincial 201 . sh. 19 p d 24 814 5/ lOs Birmingham 50/. sh. 105 20 . sh. 40 4,250 2/ 03 Bristol 201. sh. 14 1,500 Brig hton 750 Ditto, New 2O/. sh. 181. pd 11 1 2,471 5 per cent. Bright on General 201. sh. all pd 19 4,000 3 /. Continental Cansolidated IOW. 51:ll p 4 pd i)9 1,000 1 0 /. City of London lOO/. s 60/. pd 115 h. ad 185 1,000 61. Ditto, New 100/. sh. 4,4100 4/. 10s, Equitable 5O/. 40/. pd :11 43 10,1(00 5/. per cent. Imperial SOO 5/. per cent. Isle fl Planet 25/. sh. '2O/. pd 191 2,351) 6/. per cent. Independent 3Ol. oh. all pd 48 1,500 74 per cent. Leeds "0/ oh. 20 /. pd 25 0,0"0 3/. per cent. Phrenix AO/. sh. 391. pd 22 1,000 4/. per cent. Ilatcliff - 100/. sh. l'6l. pi 65 4,0(10 South 51ctropo!itan 5 ,1. sh. 131. pd 17 8,200 5/. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 45/. pd 371 240 M. per cent. Warwick 400 8/. per cent Wakefi eld '2s/. sh. 40 12,000 3/, We stminster Chartered 5O/. sh. s'll 6,1411 12 Ditto , New 5O/. sh 1/. pd 10 EGO Yarmouth 00/. oh. 1 0 1. pd 9 WATE7I. W3RKS. ,800 Birmi n g ham 231. sh. 25/. pd 26 4 4,433 5/. East London lOO/. sh. 107 .1,500 2/ lOs Otani Junction ....Average 41/ 13s 100!.. 4d. sh sh. 46. 511 2,000 2 /. Ke nt 3M 10/. Liverpool Bootle 220/. sh. 210 1,500 2/ 100 New 'Over London Bridge Water Annuities -58 6,486 1/. Mrachester and Salford 1,000 4 per cent. Sind) London lOO/. sh. 84 5,!(00 3/. West Middlesex Average 63/. 12s. 9d. sh. '769. 1,360 1/ 14s York Building Co. Lessee Prop 1001. sh. 351 IRON RAILWAYS. 2,500 Aylesbury 2O/. oh. 1/. pd. 2: 7,500 Birmingham, Bristol, and 'names Junction 11 Bristol and Exeter 29 69 660 Bolton and Leigh 1 0,000 Calcutta and Saugur 2,000 Clarence lOO/. :h. 100/, pd 45 2,500 194. Forest of Dean 50/. pd 24 30,000 Grand Junction 100/. sh. 40/. p 1 117 30,020 Great Western Ish. 100/. oh. 100/. d pd 3 S7l 5: 2,000 ... ...... Hartlepool 9,100 ......... Hull and Belsy oli ) 50/. sh. Si. pd 9 2,100 Leeds and Selby lll Leicester and -' Ivannington ..,.syl. sh : al i,.1 1180 eict. . I .iverpool and Manchet:ier...loo/.sh. 100/. pd 280 Ditto Quarter Shares .5/. pd 61 Loughborough London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 51 pd 191 Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...201 sh. 11. pd 0; Ditto ditto (Rennie) London and Blackwall 50/ sh. 31. pd. 44 London and Dover 50/. sh. 1/. pd (.11 London and Gravesend -20/ sh 11. pd I 4 London and Greenwich 2O/. ah. 201. pd 97 London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. 601. pd 1394 London and Southampton Wt. sh. ill. pd 29 London and Croydon 5/, pd 61 Northern and Eastern lOO/. sin 31. pd 41 North Midland lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 15 Preston and Wyre 501. sh. 3/. pd 11 Stockton and Darlington 100!. sh. 240 Tha.i , es Haven 5O/. sh. '2l. las. pd 2 York and North Midland 5Ol. sh. 11. pd 5 MINES. Albion Copper Si. sh. 2/. pd 04 Alten 15/. sh. 10/. 10s pd 8k Anglo Mexican, iss. 51. pm.... 100/. sh. all pd 54 Ditto Subscription 45/. pd 5„ Bolanos l5O/. sh all pd 145 Brazilian Imp. iss. 51. pm... 1, 35/. sh. V/. pd 224 Macaubas ix Cocaes United 225/. sh. 22/. pd 114 Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. El/. pd 54 Bolivar Copper Company 201. sh. '2Ol. pd 12 Ditto Scrip 4/. pd 6 British Iron 5Ol. sh. 5(11 pd 39 British Copper Si. sh. 3(1. pd 54 Cata Branca qt. Ixl S Candonga if 1. pd 1 Copiapo 2O/. sh 12 4 ! pd 204 Colombian, in. Si. pm....... 55/. sh. 55/. p d' 1 4 English General Mining Association...2o/. sit. 15/. pd 74 Mexican Company 100/. sh 514!. pd 24 Polberou Consols 101. sh. 81. pd 9 Real del Monte, Unregistered 23 Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd 135 United Mexican, iss. 2 pm ....401. sh, all pd 34 Ditto Scrip 3/ Ditto Subscription 2/. pd Ditto New Scrip 5/ pc! 5 Union Gold, iss. '2/. ss. pm.... 2241. sh. 44/. pd West Cork 4/. sh. 50/. pd 36 LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. London, with Bronze Ticket 7535. sh. 21 London University 1001. sh. all pd 25 Russell .sgs. sh. 8 King' College lOO/. pd 50 MISCELLANEOUS. 10,000 105. Australian Agricultural-JO Ol . sti. 264/.ld 424 1,090 1/. Auction Mart 501. sh. 19 6,000 British American Land Company l3/. pd HI 10,000 61, per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 201. pd 39 200,000 51. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent lO3 15,000 1/, per cent. General Steam Navigation ...151. ch. 13/. pd 26 101. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 2,000 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. '75/. sh. 19 New Brunswick Land Company 9 21 pd 19; 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary I nterest 50c...100/. sh. 1001. pd 133 2,633 51. per cent. Ditto New 100/. sh. 45/. pd 771 4,000 10,000 Van Diemen's Land 100/. sh. 171. pd 15 1,500 5,100 A per cent 70 IW. 0,000 15,000 30,000 ...... 20,000 3 per cent. 25,000 ......... 20,100 ......... 20,n00 12,500 2,(iOJ .••• •••• 1,000 61. per cent 8,000 6,001) ......... 8,000 .•••••••• 4,000 .••• •••• 10,000 .•• •• •• 2,000 I 11,00 6,0110 10,000 10,000 ... 20,0'11 1/. [Os. 6,000 11,000 10,000 8:500 2,850 3/. 20,000 6,155 2,000 11,500 31,000 5,( 00 - 1,000 1,500 700 A VISIT TO THE WHITE MAN S GRA VI , Esq. _i t i s not ( SIERRA LEONE) by Francis Harrison Rankin , often that a book of travels combines the amusing and inst. 'ac tive at one and the same time. Felicity of descriPtio 0- - humorous and laughter-provoking incidents, and deep ins 'es, tigitions into causes and effects, are rarely to be encount e red in works of this nature ; yet we may safely assert that suc a phenomenon does occur in these volumes. The very Ereisace reminds us of / 0 Elia," and the narrative is writ ten in the happiest style of Coleridge. The spirit of enterprise and 'en thusiastic determination to view all things through a bright we medium, seem to have fully possessed ou r author ; boree d a nd have a continued flow of vivid sketches , eq uall y well time well sustained. The various dialects of the different tri.bes inhabiting Sierra Leone are given with a humour which m ige t raise envy in Mrs. Trollope. Beef was selling in Bradford market on Thursday last as high as 10d. per pound. An officer of the Guards, who h as latel y had the honour of dining frequently at —, has given us the foll 4 'w ing account of the domestic habits there At dinner there was much French spoken, but more German, which the ----- utters with clear rapidity and much gesticul ation, frequently' quoting from the poetical and prose writer s in that languagre. Her amiable consort has something cheerful t o say to evey guest, with an extraordinary power of remembering nam es and events which interest the parties a ddressed. lei a a hearty laugher, and enjoys a gay anecdote extremely, being good raconteur himself. After dinner the -- em p l oys her er- self with the German worsted - work , of w hich she is .na"' e 0 gaged in executing a laborious pattern , the g entlemen 31` .an ding around her table and conversing while she works. Gnr in formant was many times struck by her reference to the OP I " nions and principles of Ch--, more especially wh e. ll the young P—of P— inquired as to some point s of eii quette in this country ; among others, he asked 4 , how was di, line drawn as to receiving or excluding any female whose co-. duct was said to be questionable ?" The replied, "I S was the rule of the late Q—, that, if a lady' s character was unimpeached before marriage, the Court was not to know all of her actions as long as she lived under her husband's roof once leaving that protection, under any pretence , after having excited observation by her,conduct, no circumstances could re instate her in her former position in society." The added, " And in the case of divorced persons , Madam?" " reply was, The Q--- disapproved of this proceeding at) much, that, although she publicly received sorte persons th t l, situated, they were never admitted to her private parties The P e inquired, ' When the new P—e was to be ill' habited ?" and was answered, I wish it as soorr as possible, and constantly go to superintend its decoration. it quite lo be my rooms there, and those charming garde n s . " Duringthe evening the -- played cribbage and whist with :ome of d the ve teran companions of his early days, but constan t l y mixe ni the conversations around, relating adventures whi ' e h had ec" curred to him and his family. He always uses the • words t " 031 father, or " my mother," instead of the m ore formal titles, giving an impression of natural affection in the allusions to f them. Politics were never once intrcduced, and persons all parties were invited together. The dress of the -----' k i ; private, is as plain as possible, generally a simple ght 61 . ti and she wears very few ornaments, except her rfa r g a B i • er w t b b lc art u are always of great value and beauty. She is much last year, and in figure considerably slighter. LW colt, seems in excellent health, occasionally disposed to sleep Bi r t h dinner, a habit he much dislikes, and dreads its int Teag e Isis years. On Monday last, thirty freemen of the lx plough o f Alnwick, were initiated according to the old estab'iished cuesi torn, in presence of about 2,000 spectators. The cerem on y; initiation is singular and ridiculous. Those about la a rec el : t the franchise, or " go through the well," as it is to rmed , •;,- tend a public meeting in the Town-hall, on the ever ling d on ceding, St. Mark's day, to prove their qualificati ont a n ". e ° the following day (April 25th), the houses of the nevi fre e ` — l i r are distinguished by a holly-tree being planted hof ore the doors, as a signal for friends to assemble and ma VA, belle Between eight and nine o'clock the " chevalier sc," "), n et mounted and armed with swords, assemble in t: an place, where they are joined by the Chamberlains an" n ",. 0 . Duke's Bailiff, attended by two men with halberts. Th e to cession is accompanied by a great concourse of spe etatorsrds the " ceremonial well," a dirty stagnant pool, about 25 wick. in length, near Freeman Hill, four miles S. W. of Alrlt t he On arrivin,g at a certain point, on their way to the Ive"'d aa whole number set off at full gallop, and it being consiider e t u p honour to arrive there first, a well contested race is• lop erec , till they reach the aquatic goal. On arriving, the yot ing ' stu d men immediately prepare for immersion ; and having in themselves of their usual garments , are speedily equ I PP - t hen , a white dress and cap ornamented with ribbands. lc; and on a signal being given, plunge at once into the V trther wade and scramble with the utmost expedition to th,e oted, end ; and after being well drenched and nearly Sc u ° t oll they are assisted out in a rueful condition, affordini t his ludicrous and amusing scene to the spectators. A itt „ e ats, filthy feat the parties arc again dressed in their usual g and remounting, the cavalcade proceeds to t he Hill 0' 00 of law or Townlaw Cairns, where the names of all the fr 0%00 Alnwick are called over ; and the ceremoriy is subs. ;ecl is yard closed in the Market-place, over a bowl of punch. It a p 0 0! that King John having been missed, whilst hunting, i .11 9 100 now called " freemen's well," decreed that no burges'l.astcr• enter upon his freedom, till he encountered a similar laydols It is traditionally asserted ,that the same Kin g gave tbe Forest or Alnwick Moor, to the Burg e s ses ; and ind ef c , of ceremony of initiation is not improbably the contr ite such a capricious tyrant. • _ .••• " e 5 ....... " ---- c ...................--- ,-- IC a, SILVER CANDLESTI v , Six Guineas a pair. w l on, A variety of patterns of elegant Silve r Candlesticks 10 in, 4,, es u y, may be selected from at the above pr i c e, at T. COX SAlWrobill, Working Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker, 47, London. , plated A pamphlet, giving a detailed list o f the prices of Platg' Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c. may be had g ratis. / B IR TITS. On the 2d inst., at No. 15, Circ us-road, St. John t h e lady " 110 's o Aire °d -f°34- the lady of Julius Plock, of a son. _0 On the 7th inst., in Upper anelagh-street, of R Boodle, un., Esq., of a . son. • On the ith inst., at East Dulwich , Surr e y , Mrs. John 'R e "' ' a daughter. ,r, On the Ist inst., at Great Gaddesden , the lady of the Bel. _. B. Bingham, of a son. sir ar. , On the 7th inst., Mrs. T. S. Brandreth, of No. 8, Queen n of of a son. On the 7th inst., in Poitland-place, the Hon. Mrs. 1 en ! " ..., a daughter. On the sth inst., at Congham-lodge, Norfolk, the laity of Sir P' Parry, R.N., of a daughter MARRIED. On the sth inst., at Sawbridgeworth, William Attfieleh_ts;l'ell- Pentonville, to Sarah, daughter of Mr. T. Rivers, of - 13 ' Cottage, Sawbridgeworth. , 5 101 1 9 t° On the 7th inst., Charles B. Claydon, Esq., of Lincoln t iol' Mary Ann, youngest daughter of Mr. Brook, of Castle-sree ' boru. Cap p On the 7th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-!quare! , w ar_ Codrington, Coldstream Guards, son of Vice-Adnural,Str, o f 0 6 Codrington, to Mary, second daughter of Levi A.rnes,i-"'C''' Hyde, Hertfordshire. On the 2d inst., in Grosvenor-square, Lady -------- DIED. „ , • Clernet!"' daughter of Robert and Elizabeth, Earl and Countess t 0 Louisa , Leitriul, aged 63. che lle A n ' On the 6th inst., in Cowley-road, North Brixton, RS P.- 3,1 Belo Wallis. t ß h e e Foot late Foot,m tse e oil ,o Captainf ti Lieut. Robert o. L bc e eo g rlt i o o r n i e f the On the 17th ult., aged 23, Major Anthony 'Wright, °;. ro nt 0 R etil relie t °: On the 6th inst., at Loam-pit-hl, Mr& Rebecca Gre Proparti East logs ,-, Service. Grey,lA Sotphfaoi theny l s a taie7onife.ttohne Z4nt: of t" On the sth inst., aged 48 Mary, 'le of Mr. , va F• Peas!oc, Victualling-yard, Deptford.of h° On the sth inst., at Brighton, Elizabeth,the daughter , . 0 1 late Mr. D • ewdney, of Castle-mill Dorking• ughter On the 4th inst., in Ar 11-street, Elizabeth, eldest di, gy o f the the late Professor Young, of Glasgow. late On the sth inst in Sl , M Robert Sands. ~ in Sloane-street, .1 r. alit' War-office.• abelth, On the 3d inst., B 1 Hall, Staffordshire, Eliz at Bet ley dal• daughter of G. Toilet, Esq. of -40'sler On the 6th inst., Anthony Tcnterden, eldest son, o f r icar - list, Esq., barrister-at-law• On the sth int., aged 77, the Rev. J-hn Robertsßoo r4 a Great Bentley and Brightlingsca, Essex. ...... ____. 1 ► On the Ist inst., at Hastings, aged 54, ; Ifr• Hew; . rat Mare-street, Hackney. 0- C h a r le 1 s 1 / 11111 On the 7th inst., in Abingdon-street, aged .- , i , ~.. Esq, surgeon. !--- -- <' o * -----,a f y '2l' ---------------- i 0 LL " . ° ° s 9 London , Printed and Published by 3111 RD Strand, i , t be o' l 112, Strand, at The Suit Office, No• 112, of 'Middlesex. LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, MAY 2, 1836. BANKS. 1,500,001/. Gt. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 831. Gs Bd. sh. all pd 2,000,00 e/. p. ct. Royal of Scotland 100/. sh. all pd 500,0)e/. 6p. ct. British Linen Company 1001. sh.: 11 pd 3,000,0001. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. sh. 100/. pd 5,000,000/. 5 p. ct. National lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 2,001,0001. 4/. p. et. Glasgow Union 2.50/. sh. 501. pd t,000,000/. 4 p. ct. INSURANCE Western of Scotland 20015.. sh 30/. pd 25fi.000sh. p. ct. Scottish Union 20/. el. I/. pd 255 7,500 sp. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. 10/. pd 14/ Os. 100,000 sp. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland .. .10/.shsh. 10/l al p d d 71 53. 10s. 50,000 6p. et. North British 2 . 00/. . . p 1 1,000 sp. et. Caledonian Fire... lOO/. 14/10sd 15/ 106 5,000 6p. ct. Edinburgh 1 Are lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 100,000 4p. ct. West of Scotland . .. ............... 101 . p d 9/ 10s MISCELLAN.OUs. 4,810 Edin. and Glas. Un. Cana1...50/. sh. all pd 9 , Ditto Allocated .. ... .. . ...... 90/. sh. all pd 5,400 5 per cent. Etlinb."Joint Stock Water.... 2 5/. sh. all pd Carron . Iron Company ........... sh. all pd 000 sh. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Fo undery ......... 511/.sh. 38/. pd 0,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass ....201. sh. 16/. pd 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 4,450 10 per cent. Glasgow Gas .....................251.5/. sh. all pd 750 6 per cent. Leith Coal Gas 1, 200 5 per cent. Edinburgh and Dalkeith Railway...so/AL 3,000 61 percent. Equitable Loan Company 25g sh. 9/ . pd 17(1/. 170/, 240/. 1801. 15i/. 65/, 37;3/. 450/. C -7 1 ,tino 7,9:31 ,000 is OF LON I