The Sun. — London, England, 1839-02-18 00:00:00

COURT CAR CULAR. Her Majesty Majesty and her august Alether attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the Chapel Royal, S:. James's. The sermon wss preached by the Lord Bishop or St. Asaph, from Colossians, chap. 3, verse 17. Th e l essons we re rea d b y t h e Rev. W. H. Hall, and the prayers by the Rev. C. Wesley. The communion service vas read by the Lord Bishop of London, and the Rev. D. Sleath, Sub-Drain The chant was the Earl of Morn ingtoit's; the Te Deurn and Jubilate, Boyce, in A ; the sanctus, Dupin's ; the responses, Caleb ; and the anthem 0 Lord give ear" (Greene) was sung by Messrs. Knyvett and Hobbs. Sir George Smart presided at the N'gan. .The Bishop of Norwich, Clerk of the Closet, was in waiting. The Queen was attended by Lady Port 'flan, Hol. Miss Murray, Lady Caroline Barrington, Earl 1 of Uxbridge, Hon. Major Keppel, and Colonel Wemyss. Her Majesty and Suite afterwards returned in three carriages to Buckingham Palace. The Queen rode out on Satunday afternoon, attended by th e H onourable Miss :Murray, l l3aroness Lehze.u, Miss Quentin, Earl of Fingall, dol,mel Wetnyaa, Earl of Uxbridge, H onoura bl e Major iieppel, Lord Alf re d P age t, Sir F re d er i c k S tovin, and Sir tit orge Qu en ti n . The R oya l di nner party 'sea Saturday even i ng , i nc l u d e d the he of Albemarle, Viscount Melbourne, Viscount , .Lord Lilford, I,ord Alfred Paget, Right Ho nourable George Ste rens ByrtE, Colonel and Lady Mary F ox. Viscount Melbourne hail an audience of her Majesty on Saturday. The Duke and Dunhess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambris'ige attended Divine Service yesterday g ° Friiiig, in Grey senor Chapel. Miss Kerr was in wait g on the Royal Duchess. The Duke an d Du c h ess o f C am b r id ge h a d a di nner Party on Sansra ae . Th ere were present the Marquis and Marchioness..of Salisbury, E ar l an d C ountess o f Tanker ,tintsilk Earl sl Clare, Earl of Ab er d een , E ar l an d C ountess Cvrdo iscount an d Vi scountess B eresford, Viscount a Lord and L a d y Bl oom fi e ld , Lord Ossulaton, tort'eh r ,„ fr ;V A'oinger, Si r Robert and Lady Peel, Sir Joh n a n d add, 'Shelley, Sir Robert Gordon, Sir Alexander Grant, 554 ' Mademoiselle d'Este. The Duchess of Cambridge held afterwards an evening party, which was very numerously attended. The entire suite of state rooms were opened fur the reception of the c " nd d 'Pailaa The ba n d o f t h e C o ld stream G uards attended, a uring the evening performed a variety of favourite selections. Amongst the company were her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, attended by Lady Georgiana Bathurst; his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca, at teefled by his Grand Equry, the Baron de sozwenerg ; t he Russian Ambassadur ; er Countess Sebastia l n', the Lady 0 1 the French Ambassador ; the Ottoman Ambassador, ac compani e d by Mr. Salatne, her Majesty's Oriental Inter• • h re ter; the Danish ;Minister, the Bevarian Minister and litioness du Cetto ; the Netherlands, United States, Sar than, Hanoverian, and Saxon Ministers ; M. de Hum melauer, An.strian Charge d'Affaires; the Swedish Charge dAffaires and th e Baroness Rehausen, Baron de Bour (il4"°.Y• Baron Werther, Court Seefft, Ceuta Revel, /s ugar! Bertouch, M. d'Odelga, Baron Lebzeltern, ou n m t d e Rol, Baron 13sniinek ; Duk e s o f Wel lington, Dorset; Marquises Lothian, Cholinondeley, Lansdowne Winchester, 13rsadalnane ; Marchionesses Cho lmondeley, 13readalbane, Sligo, Ailesbury ; Earls Stanhope, Uxbridge, Huntingden, Kinnoull, Albemarle; ..:ountesses Lichfield, Kinnoull, Stanhope, Dowager Clare I!.°wage r C owper, Ashburnham, De Sells, Albemarle ; viscounts Gag e , Mahon ; Viscount ess G age ; L or d s By "Fr, Lyndhurst' Brongham Stanley, Colch es ter, C ar t ere t, y, ta nels Gordon, Frederi c k Gordon, B urg h ers h, Eli o t, '," el le3a Redesdale, Cowley, George Quin, Fitzroy Somers ',-, t, A. Pag e t, H ot h am, Adolphus Fitzclarence, John Churchill ; Ladies Antrobus, Brougham, Stanley, Isabella F R ' i t g , iljbon, F rances Gordon, August a Go r don, D o w a ger St ars, Maryborough, Charles Fitzroy, Anne, 13, ekett, k 2) ephe nson, Hardy, Colchester, Agnes Buller, Carteret, Campbell, Fitzroy . / Somerset, Wilhelmina Stanhope, 1 .-- L :_ adi P es au A le sh t, le, 2 ) Ma K r e;er, De Clifford, Fanny Cowper, .1- Christopher, Eleanor Paget, WI 4}lrll Povvlett, (2) Ashburnharn, Fuller, (2) Browne, Mons,erb°fln Gordon, Kirkland, Louisa De Horsey ;—Right Mons. Sir John Beckett, Sir William Freemantle ;_... s. Charles A. Murray, Colonel Cavendish, William laathurst, Charles Gorr, ‘‘.'illiam Cowper, Mr. Ashley, Mrs lwesilley, Ma' or Ashley, Cecil For - rester, M. P., Miss Hope John stone, Miss Mitford, ",aliss Dutton, Miss Pitt, Miss Wel or Kespel, General Meade ;—Sirs, Henry 8 eatleh Erasns:'s Burdett, Edmund Antrobus, George Kirkl , • lnd eYmour r." ' s arles Doyle, Fred. Trench, W. Gordon, J. „ C. Bagot, A. Murray, B. Stephenson ;—Gene ruis '-'' 0 I WI • C 1 1 A't, he n Jones, Ar ne • o one s i c so , rnit a s Y e Y , ' ' a , srs" ;—Captains Hill, Pitt, Paget;—Count Charles -,.st Countess Pozzo di Borgo, M. de Regina ;—Messrs. welly Knight, Mellish, Murray, Broadhead, Christopher, vel bot,Charles de Sal is, Mortimer,Drummond, DeHorsey ; Misstresses Gully Knight, D'Oylev, Talbot, White, Morier, Mead e ; Misses, (2) Wheatley, Peel, Shelley, Antrobus, B urdett Boutts, Burdett, Somerset, (2) Morier, Fuller, Meade, Gordon, (2) Bagot, (2) Hardy, (2) Stephenson. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign Office. It was attended by Viscount Mel bourne, Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord John Russell, vis count Palmerston, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl ° ,.„i Minto, Sir John Hobh ou se, L or d H o ll an d, M r. P ou l ett T homson, Viscount Howick, and Lord Morpeth. The Council sat two hours and a half. 1 1 A deputation from the wholesale dealers in spirits and 1/' 4l° .,eurs, consisting of Mr. Adcock, and Messrs. Amor, 4 "ter, Johnson, Fortnum, Morel, M‘Naughten, Sher ti", Sams, and Selby, waited on the Chancellor of tole Exchequer on Saturday in Downing -street, relative are . . ~,, traction on their trade. a T he French Ambassdor transacted business on Saturs 'ilY at the Foreign Office. t „ Despat c h es f rom the Governors of the Cape of Good HPe, St. Helena, and the Settlement at the Swan River, were received on Saturday at the Colonial Office. Sir Th omas and Lady Lethbridge arrived at Farranee's hotel on Saturday from Everleigh House, Wilts ; m A t the sitting of the Judicial Committee on Saturday, r • ' Sergea n t S pan ki e an d M r. Turton were heard for the fromßijai Bengal. The case was adjourned for further hearing. PASH; ONABLE IN TELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. yZe,he Du chess de Canni zanro, i n Cavendish.square, from Brighton ; totint and Viscountess Sydney, in Bruton-street, from their seat, k of ser aY, Kent ; General Schleder, from St. P e t ers b urg h ; Si r Eatl ofDo ken M.P., in P ar k- s t ree t, f rom S andwich, Kent ; the Be auchamp, in Portman-square, from his seat, Madresfield Wo rcestershire; l lr tht. , Earl and Countess of Uxbridze, in a 44" -'4-s t reet, from Maple Hayes, their seat in Staffordshire ; Lord aidaa 14 .,. Douglas, in Berkeley-square, from Brighton; Mr. George BUrlLouisa Finch, in South Audley-street, from their seat, Nfole.Yon-the-Hill, Lincolnshire; Viscount and Viscountess vra vil . !, , from his seat, Atherton Castle, near Edinburgh a (Inc's Head, from his seat,e, Warwickshire; Colonel N I L j'adY Mary Fox, in Pall-mall, from Scotland ; the Earl of et;;;oesbury, Whitehall.gardens, from his seat, Heron-court, near dish stch " r ch, Hants ; the Dowager-Countess of Cbarleville, in Cave's itos;,,k,uare, fr om Brighton ; the Marquis of WeAmeath and Lady it, tare, from 'Wootton Park, Bucks ; Sir Ch a rl es d es V ceux, kwararleY - street, from Sussex ; Lady Charlotte Guest, in Grosvenor. Nam frour the family n ea t , D ow l as H ouse , Wales; Sir George IN, 1(: "o, Bart., f rom s v i s i t to Lady Baillie Hamilton, at Lea -4„, S pa ; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. Paulet Mildmay a n d family, li a rdz itreet, Portm a n- square ; th e H on . Syd ney H u b ert, on to Ca Unv er.street, from Wilton House ; Mr. Fleming, M.P., tktior:hb-square, from Stoneham Park, Hants; Mr. and Miss Ilalford, in Curzon-street : Viscount Torrington, from the i t o f Sir John Dugdale Astley, Bart., Evelagh, near Warminster, Mr, and Lady Katherine Beauclerk, at John Beauclerk's, ar i l in Eato n-square, from a tou r; Si r R a l p h an d L a d y H ow- Ale. „, a , t their n ew residence, in Belgrave.square, from Brighton; Laly`;aidstone, M.P., in Carlton- gardens, from Paris ; Lord and Lieu t. ,a"" and family, in Grosv enor pl ace, f rom t h e seat o f folk -`,eneral Sir Edward Kerrison, K.C.H„ Oakley Park, Suf. tq Mr• and the Mi sses Philli ps, in Upper Seymour-street, Port vviikluare ; Mr. Broadwood, M.P., in Whitehall-yard ; Sir M r. -41 Clayton Bart., M.P., in Gloucester. lace from Marlow; lv, h , t a h n izt Mrs. Hedworth Lainbton, in Chester-street, from the , n „, DEPARTURES. ain, s Mrs. Temple West, from Marley -street for Bath; Sir ttr ee , an d Lady C arnac , family, mid suite, from Upper Harley 4tit: ( l tb g t Bombay ' • Lord Forrester, from Charles- s tr ee t, Berkeley- C,.1" hunting-I,:dge at Melton Mowbray. Lord and L a dy til, r . e ": for St. Leonard's-o ' n-Sea, Sussex ; Lord and Lady John So. q1 0 ,„ 1 from Cumberland -street, for their seat, near Stock Grill - ord , r oe fiestershire W. Blount, Esq., for Brighton ; Major Oliphant, lie n. n ., tl ; Sir Williatn and Lady Geary, on a tour in Italy; the Mr. and Mis. Rice Trevor, from Stretton-street, for Brighton. Ab l , t he Hon. Niarmadnke Langley, of \Vykeham 4eo:1, Yorkshire, has bought the fine estate at Hutton Bushel, of O sbaldeston, Esq.—Hull Rockingham. nta nd °4l3 HILL'S LEVEE.—Lord Hill, as Corn 'as held a levee on Th urs d ay at t h e H orse Guards, o rd attended by Lord Hotham, Ad m i ra l Si! John Bereaford, aresfo rds Licut -General Keating, General Sir Moore Disney, Le o4, : x n ari t-G eneral Huskisson, Major-General Murr a y, Lord A. T h Sod about 30 other officers. hir e e 110 11. Capt a i n an d L a d y H arr i et H am il ton Ne, arriv ed, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Aber. rf,at Bentley Priory, near Stanmore. ihe hi_hoengYouthf.ul Princess Mary of Cambridge, now ‘ras er,.,,,'l*th Year, attended by her nurse. maid and a single footman, %t or the promenaders in Hyde Park on Friday, at the early his e ten A.m. His Royal Highness Prince George, attended by terrigauerrY, Colonel Cornwall, of the Coldstream Guards, has fre r n e i . tisiii„,,t.? Gibraltar, in her Majesty's stetin-s'essel Blazer, ,the principal ports on the coast of Andalusia. , ho nedi..: ll 4i ( 4 1 ,_, Y e 0_ n i ! e e g r u e .e S n f e o e. r Wl - 10!,e parties have been post of the demise of the infant son of Mr. and ` - ` 0 1)e, will give her first so i ree tomorrow, in Cavendish_ lleW onitile;el.l. the a pproval Great Seal for i l n r ecloaunnccl w il, has hich has one es side just a Maiesty e • the t d Q on ue a en Throne supported by two figures th e , ch g i ° , l arid " l a e on the other , an equestrian portrait of the horse Justiceand bei ' m, , led by a page in a fancy costume. 111 ter I) er INEW VACCINE VIRUS.—The last nurn lir.nts!.!e London Medical Gazette" contains a third letter from ,icso.ntinuing the account of the recent . supply of Cow.pox t e lt l i t i t v e ii : i if l o r l o:ni its original source to the present time. It appears that n extensively used in England, and has been sent to the „nishenitnd to America. Its activity is described as being un btiroY its passage through about twenty human subjects. Mr. tonci„;as sent seine of it to the National Vaccine Establishment in titiun.r. to fa c i litate its being transmitted to thoze medical prat:. , ge t o ' „„ who May wi s h to use it, as the Government grants the privi. Institution of receiving letters of application, and ofrwar. post age. Vaccine Matter to every part o f th e kinVom free o! T HE !ti the LAS T POR TRAIT OF B ONAPARTE. — t ek , collection at Ilampt c n Court there is a pictu re w hi c h , we 'r granted, fe w ; cf our reTlt rs have al eii ; for it is oo , d to casual visitors. After ..Napoloon's death, aed we sh ort . a g'oe, from the attenuated ; haracter of the countenance, Portrait tune before his interment, Madame Bertrand painted his featur , it i s in pretile an , ;as apparently taken by tracing the blue shastly e t x h p e re c s a , n ie v ri as o s,: t a h n e ti fa tl e i e c ‘ colo urieg it so as to copy death. li aek the corps e t from s a hr d o e t e ul p nvelopcd, 'c a n s d th tl e 'e y cl s e t a a r nd wh o l u te t e f f ro t tern s ft : ck-groUnd, excite sensations exceedingly painful ; and one 484 wetn-1 it with a natural shudder. Of the accuracy of the li e- Pre sent t o not entertain a doubt. The picture was, we believe, ii t ,t d e to Georgo the Fourth by Sir Hudson Lowe; but h qu ow . it rptt.ie possession of the ex -Governor of St Helena, is t 4 l l 4 : e reo ti f on of traverS'al;ainatt: i ' l -l ie ' l:i " ;:sli " Ge ' vernMei;for ' the ' recovery From the fire Union. I meet passed indig- G. W. e, be to the had G. rnent ; • warded nn Mr- Secre- 839• etter 01 of the . ern arks o n se day of tr i m ent a nd so 3e Case , ortifica th your ed, an d ress, for fa:AS t° idicc,?f Sirhr his Pa lt vas _i of grel ed with self, in acashire said on and the ice , an into the e Dele on the ec t, but t haviog, rn which light, to neglect be 01)- ress, de we bee n ly jo u ' ec , or- eal file" mould of articular Ben t , tO vantage, to d Iloci' tied a n , think : r receiY -1 times, ,i by rig I ° 6 M r. c veni4 . a o f Mr. e Coto' d by ISi r ' n. 1, that i t e ly car' kes then ,turns a d ip t he ~ e m a yo. su ch hich b a i s en y a Ms ene l o 2l.l fternoon a CO" for tbst Lion deuce!" Pel la; xer tion: for tbo ctors of eded to by c ha ff le f' o f the -r rich tlie ,nebouse doubt of rb. 'e, ESq‘ eting I, Tient for port la' 11 -10 ° ' ; of 08- 18 3 of Ned T 1 MAGAZINES. PARLEY'S MAGAZINE. A lively little work enough, cheap in price, and well calcu!ated to amuse children of tender age, for whose use, it is intended. NEW 31 - ‘,NTIILY MAG A ZINE. In this Magazine we have a continuation of Cap taain Marryat's " Phantom Ship," which it may be borne in mind was abruptly dropped—in consequence of the gallant author's departure to America—about twelve or fourteen months since. The continuation is in no respect a falling-off, but, on the contrary, keeps up the mystery of the story unimpaired. The sketch of the old pilot Schrifter, with his lank spectral figure, his icy hand, and his strange lustrous eye, is in particular, a constant provocative to the reader's curio sity, and reminds us of one of the most prominent non descrip!s in Maturin's romance of Melmoth—the peru sal of which in " still midnight," as.the late John Scott used to say, always male his candles burn blue! " Elegiac Tribute to the Memory of L. E. L." is the best, because the most heart-felt, poem ever penned by Mrs. Cornwall Baron Wilson. We quote two of the stanzas. "This Fate forbids: but in thy lyric page Thine epitaph is written; down the stream Of gliding years, to many a distant age, Shall flo.t thy magic numbers—as a dream Haunting the memory with sweet sounds, that seem Like snatches of some old fimiliar strain, Waking fond thoughts of childhood's hours again. For thou wert Feeling's own impassioned child ! Her girdling spells were on thee; and thy heart Was as a living lyre, whose chords the wild, Soft breezes kissed to music ; forth would start, At Nature's touch (for thou disdainedst Art), The gushing stream of song—the kindling flame, Breathed on by thee, in answering numbers came." " Major Gahagan's Historical Reminiscences" abound in grotesque and amusing specimens of the mendacious and bombastic, to a degree scarcely surpassed even by the rcdoubted Baron Munchausen in his noto-ious volume of travels. " A Manual for Suitors" is inge nious common-place. In the tale called " The Atone ment," which is the production of Theodore Hook, there is one scene which in its stern, tragic power, re minds us of the closing scene of his cleverest story, " Cousin William." LITERATURE. HOOD'S COMIC ANNUAL. Baily, London, 1839. Whoever loves a broad grin, and would rather laugh and grow fat, than sigh and grow le in, let him hasten to acquaint himself with the contents of this delightful little volume, whose very title-page is a joke of the broadest and most grotesque quality. If it be true, as Peter Pindar has said, that " Care to our coffin adds a nail, no doubt, But every jest so merry draws one out," then the Comic Annual, acting the reverse way of Morison's Pills, will operate as an invaluable " Life Preserver." To read it is like inhaling the " lata4hing gas." Your risible muscles are called vehemently into action every instant. Nor are the plates less provocative of inextinguishable merriment. They are not less than fifty in number, and not one but overflows with true humour. We will just briefly describe a few of them. " Poplar and Wapping" is illustrated by two elderly females, one of whom—short, and squat, and round to a degree approaching the supernatural—looks just like a fillet of veal upon castors ; while the other is as thin as a skewer, as tall as a May-pole, and as straight and s•iff as a ram-rod. The countenances of these be witching creatures are admirably contrasted. One looks as if she were holiday making ; the other as if she were doing penance for an act of meditated suicide. "If you are not engaged for the next sat" is capital. Conceive a great brown Norway bear, with his right paw placed, dandy-fashion, on his heart, sidling up to a young lady in a ball-room, and with a smile of the most engaging suavity, requesting the honour of her hand for the next quadrille! The lady, as might be expected, looks the very picture of astonishment ; though why, we cannot, for the life of us, imagine, for bears are by no means un common in London ball-rooms. Indeed, they are as often to be met with there as lions. "A Detachment of Infantry" is a touching domestic incident that cannot but come home to the hearts of all parents, illustrating, as it does, the old proverb, that " accidents will happen in the best regulated families." A discreet father and mo ther are walking out with their children, whom Papa is dragging along in a little chaise, utterly unconscious— for his back, as also his wife's, is turned towards the helpless innocents—that they have all three pitched out of the tiny vehicle, and are sprawling, one over the other, on the ground ! " Hound drawing Cover" re presents another domestic catastrophe. An officious dog has just made a snap at the breakfast cloth, awl pulled cups and saucers, eggs and tea-pot, all - .); the table. The servant-maid in attendance to ;,Ks horrified, and you can read in her eye that `'... 1 .1e anticipates " a a month's warning." " Fl y ing Fish"—this plate ex hibits an old Billingsgate fisv.i.,,x:man, who, stumbling up, against a loose brick deranges her perpendicular, an d , showers the co "...cents of her fish-basket on the unshel a little boy who is passing by. Her face tered head . o f evinc: - ..4 much ludicrous perturbation. The verse and arose in illustration of these and other plates are full of those quips and cranks in which Mr. Hood so much delights. The best—and perhaps the best its author ever wrote, so far as blended whim and fancy are con cerned—is the poem entitled the " Flying Visit," in which the visit to Earth of the Man in the Moon is re lated with all due emphasis. EXCURSIONS IN THE INTERIOR OF RUSSIA. 2 Vols. Colburn, London, 1839. It is a striking proof of the great and increasing in terest which the people of this country take in Russia, that scarcely a month passes without public attention being drawn to the subject, either by volumes of travels, statistic pamphlets, or elaborate essays in the periodi cals. Within the last quarter of a year we have been called on to notice not less than four distinct publica tions on this popular theme, all of which, however they may have differed in other respects, yet agree in repre senting the resources, and more especially the policy, of Russia, as likely, at no remote date, to prove detrimental to the best interests of Great Britain. The volumes now, lying before us are almost the first we have yet met with, which, take a different view of the question—that-is to say regard Russia not as a sort of bugbear, whose very name is a word of ill-omen in English ears, but simply as a thriving and industrious Power, whose naval movements, which the majority of recent travellers lay_ such particular stress on, need not inspire the slightest apprehension, provided only they be watched with due vigilance. " While we refuse to adopt the exaggera tions in which some have indulged on this subject," ob serves the author, "we cannot coaceal the fact that Russia now possesses a navy which ought to make us look searchingly at the state of our. own. It never was before in such high condition as it now is. Ships and men, even the worst in the service, are far superior to any she ever before could boast of. We saw nothing in Russia,however,that need make any Englishman seriously afraid of her power. England, if she be once fairly aware of the danger, may smile at the Emperor, and his thirty mile of ships." This flourishing navy which just now appears to be Nicholas's hobby, is almost entirely his on n creation—a fact which impresses us, knowing the difficulties he must have had to contend against in rais ing it to its present high state of discipline, with the most favourable idea of his energy and perseverance. The author, who inquired much, and had many excellent opportunities of gaining information, relates many in teresting anecdotes of Nicholas, all of which prove that he is a man of dauntless determination, ready sagacity, and desperate ambition. By the lower classes of his subjects he is adored—indeed looked up to as a sort of god ; but with the Noblesse he is by no means so popu lar, for he holds a tight reign over them, exacting the most implicit, we might almost say slavish, obedience from them. Here is a deeply interesting sketch of the Emperor, which is worth whole volumes of Lord Lon donderry's tauday, exaggerated description : " On land it is part of Nicholas's policy to surprize the people by encountering difficulties of any kind ; flying here and flying there in the face of danger ; accomplish ing journies by doing all kind of things that nobody else would do. The peasant holds up his hands at the nara tion. Eto Stranno. It is strange. Nicholas is a wonder and the Emperor knows well what he is about. By his acti vity and energy he has brought the people to look on him as a God. His very name strikes them with awe—not with terror, for let the admission from an Englishmen be viewed in England with what prejudice it may, the Empe ror is most enthusiastically beloved by the great mass of the people. To surprize—to impress with an idea of his intrepidity, coolness, and decision,—is what he lives for. He has taken another Emperor, who long filled the eye of Europe, for his model, in this, as in some other things. The end is not yet ! Will there be any resemblance in their closing destinies? Nicholas has a strange trick of being caught in storms. He never comes to sea without raising a riot. No state of the elements ever daunts him, and the Russians say, that no degree of labour from ex posure in this, or any other way; can kill him. As yet, he has shown no tendency to disease of any kind. His iron frame looks as if nothing could wear it out." The author's account of the naval and commercial resources of Russia, on which he expatiates at consi derable length, and apparently with much impartiality ; of the habits and peculiarities of her Indigetes, as they are found in full perfection, in the neighbourhood of Moscow ; of the discipline of the army ; and the domestic condition of those adscripti gkbre—the serfs ;—these various particulars are full of deep in tere -t, and will insure the success of the author's vo!ti rues. INTarriag,es were never so many as this Shrovetide among,t the peasantry in the south of Ireland —Limerick Chronicle. The new ro.. ! ulation of the General Post-office, as respects mail-coach guards, took effect on the London and Car lisle mail on the 10th ult. This has done away with the custom of passengers paying the guards; they are now paid full wages of 1301. per year, and not allowed, under any excuse, to take any fee what even—Lancaster Guardian. Ayr race ground is now in process of being I!‘g 1. ••r !mg, rxr , . 71,e oxen are harnessed M tem usual fashion, and obey the :alit with the utmost docility.—Ayr Observer. THE suN, LONDON, MON'DAY,--V,ENING EDITION,—FEBRUARY Is, I IRELAND. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, VEB. 15. THE LORD LIEUTENANT'S DEPARTURE. Nearly every parish in Dublin has had its meeting to address the Lord Lieutenant. In addition to these the Trades' Union had a meeting last night, at which an address to his Excellency was adopted. The address of the Union of SS. Michael's and John's, which I subjoin (along with Lord Normanby's reply), is a fair specimen of the spirit and style of these documents : " To his Excellency Constantine Henry Marquis of Normanby, Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governor of Ireland. " The Address of the Inhabitants of the Union of SS. Michael and John. " May it please your Excellency—We, the inhabi tants of SS. Michael and John, the parish in which your Excellency resides, cannot permit you to leave our shores without taking leave to approach your Excellency with the expression of our feelings of thanks and grati tude for the uniform support and patronage extended by your Excellency and your amiable and benevolent consort to all our charities, admiration of your adminis tration of the government of Ireland, and heartfelt sorrow at your removal from amongst us. " Under your Excellency's paternal and benign rule justice, order, and peace have prevailed in Ireland to an extent previously unknown—and whilst you asserted the supremacy of the laws, checked the progress of crime, and upheld the dignity of the Crown, you won the affections of the people by maintaining the princi ples of rational freedom and just equality. " In the untiring discharge of your great duties you traversed the country, studied the genius and character of the Irish people, and saw with your own eyes their wants, and heard with your own ears their wishes. " And, though we deeply deplore the' close of the ad ministration of (beyond all comparison) the best Governor Ireland ever had, we are in some degree consoled by the reflection that in losing the Governor we have not lost the friend, hut that in your Excellency, as a Member of the Ca binet, Ireland will still have an organ and an advocate, that the accurate knowledge of her condition, you have so laboriously acquired, will be applied to her social, moral, and political improvement, and that your Excellency will add another to the already many great claims you have on the gratitude of your country, by binding to the crown, and th e c o nnex i on w ith E ng l an d, thi s fair por tion of the British empire in the adamantine link of an affectionate equality. "Confident that wisdom will guide, and philanthropy influence your courae, we have only to pray that suc cess may attend you in the arduous undertaking to which you have been called. " Under your sway the Negro felt not his chains— your influence mainly contributed to strike the fetters from his limbs ; under your sway there was peace' in Ireland. Be your's the still higher glory of bidding civil war to cease, of sheathing the sword of vengeance, and restoring order and contentment to the colonies committed to your care, by the application of the same firm, moderate, and impartial policy which characterised your government here—above all, by the exercise of that quality twice blessed, which is mightiest in the mightiest, and becomes the throned monarch, better than his crown'—mercy. " Signed, on behalf of the meeting, LUKE DILLON, Chairman." To which his Excellency returned ; . the followin g reply : " Gentlemen—ln offering to you my grateful thanks for this address, for your approval of the past, and your good wishes for the future, I would refer to the address presented by your parish after my arrival—in answer to which I stated that the sympathies I had felt, and the principles on which I had acted in your cause, had dated from a period long antecedent to my arrival amongst you. I trust that the knowledge I have since acquired may still be available for your service, long after this abrupt and unwelcome termination of our immediate connection. " Trust me I shall ever consider myself bound by the ties of gratitude to active exertions in the cause of Ire and." The other parish addresses will be presented to-mor row morning, at the undress levee, before his Excel. lency's departure. . . A. levee was held at the Castle to-day, which was numerously and respectably attended ; afterwards his Excellency received deputations with, addresses. The first was from the City of Dublin, deputed by the great meeting of yesterday. His Excellency, in replying to it, appeared deeply affected, and the Marchioness and somo of his suite who were present were almost ;- answer contained a brief review lear4' ltlis here, • Government and a promise to be , i next receive- 1 -.ways the friend of Irel an d. H e u an address from th e t own o f B e lf ast , whip' though at such a distance from the metropolis, was thus prompt in expressing its gratitude and affec tion towards Lord Normanby. 700 parish deputations were subsequently received, and presented their ad dresses. At the undress levee on Saturday a great many further addresses will be received up to twelve o'clock, at which hour the Marquis and Marchioness, with their suite, leave the Castle for Kingstown. _ - DEPARTURE OF THE MARQUIS OF NORMANDY.— The Marquis of Normanby left this country to day for England, and it may be truly said that he carried with him the heartfelt good wishes of every independent man and friend of good Government in this country. Previous to his departure he held an undress levee at the Castle, which was numerously and fashionably attended. Ad dresses from various parishes in the City, from Kingstown, and other parts of the country, were presented to him, to all of which he returned appro priate answers, containing the most warm and ardent expressions of gratitude for the kindness ex tended towards him by the Irish people. His Lordship, accompanied by a numerous suite, several of the Nobility and Gentry, and attended by a guard of honour, composed of a troop of the 7th Lancers, proceeded at twelve o'clock from the Castle to Kingstown, where he arrived at a quarter past two. Nothing could equal the enthusiastic demonstrations of the dense multitudes by which the streets, through which he passed, were thronged as he passed by them. The procession by which he was followed, ex tended for three miles along the road to Kings town. His entry into Kingstown was announced by the loud shouts of the people, and on his arrival on the Quay, at which place the vessel was moored, he was received by a guard of honour, of the 60th Rifles, under the command of the Hon. Captain Spencer. When his Lordship and the Marchioness were proceeding on board, the cheering was resumed with increased ardour. They both seemed deeply affected, and frequently acknow ledged the compliments thus showered on them. Se veral Nobleman and Gentlemen paid their respects to his Lordship on board the steamer, and shortly after their return on shore the vessel sailed for Holyhead. MARQUIS OF WATERFORD.—Tfic report which has been for some time going the round of the papers that this eccentric Nobleman was unwell, is contradicted by the IVateiford Chronicle, which states he is in excellent health and spirits, and about purchasing a new racer, which is said to be of considerable pretensions. THE ORANGE INsTiTunoNs.—The revival of this Society is going on through the North. On Wednes day last, a meeting took place in Enniskillen, at which the Fermanagh Lodges were re-organized ; it is, how ever, confined to the lowest, most illiterate, and disre putable classes in the country. The Clonmel election will take place on Monday. Mr. Pigot, the Solicitor-General, will be returned with out opposition. RAILWAYS.—A deputation of the Committee ap pointed at the late Railway Meeting in Dublin, had an interview with the Lord Lieutenant and pre sented an address to him, putting forward in the strongest shape the necessity for railways in this country, and of the Government undertaking the management of them. It is hoped that Lord Normanby will repre sent their views favourably to the Cabinet, A young man, who went to Musard's last masked ball in the disguise of a female, was accor'ted in the course of the evening almost simultaneously by two cavaliers, one in the costume of the renowned Robert Macaire, and the other in that of a porter. The I allants, strange to say, manifested not the slightest jealousy of each other, and the pretended lady fair finding it pleasant to mystify both, accepted their invitation towards five o'clock in the morning t• a supper at the Trots Freres Provencaux. She kept on her mask during the whole time of supper—a proceed. ing to which, however unusual, her male companions made not the slightest objection. After the discussion of several bottles of cham pagne, the bill was called for and paid by the two cavaliers, and at this moment the pretended belle dropped the mask both literally and figuratively, and, addressing one of her admirers—" You are an egregious ninny," said the mystificator, "for I am not . . . ." "You are another," retorted the immortal Robert hlacaire, " for I have the honour to be a Sheriff's officer, and have accompanied you hither, along with my deputy, to arrest you for debt at the suit of M. P." Having so:said, Robertus and his coadjutor handed the stupefied ex-lady into a fiaere which was waiting at the door, and the trio were immediately striven to the well.known hotel for the. accommodation of debtors in Rue de Clichy.—Galignani's Messenger The interment of the remains of the late Duchess- Countess of Sutherland takes place at Dornoch, in Sutherland, this day. Her Grace will be laid by the side of her husband, the late Duke, in the family mausoleum. The Hon. William Howard, brother to Lor 1 Carlisle, Mr. Egerton. son of Lord Francis and Lord Edward Howard, grandsons to her Grace, will officiate as chief mourners at the mekincholy ceremony. Mr. Loch, the Member for the Wick district of burghs, auditor of the Duke of Sutherland's estates, and agent to the late Duchess, is in the administration of the affairs of her Grace until the return of the Duke from Rome, whence he is expected in ten days. PORTRAIT OF A CONIPOSER, BY HIMSELF.-- Dalayrac, an artist of the school of Gatery, has left the following description of his own character among his papers; " I am of a sensitive but easy nature; extreme!) , susceptible of pleasure and Pain; I easily exaggerate fear and hope; I do not know how to wait ; I give my confidence blindly ; I sometimes suspect on very slight appearances ; I am soon transported with rage; injustice, wherever I see it, revolts and maddens me." Dalayrac supplied the French opera with ?tout fifty-six works. Besides being a composer of high talent, he was a man of severe principles and rigid probity.-- Musical World. SineWe mentions a cat which, being confined in a room, in order to get out and meet its mate of the other sex earned of itself to open the latch of a door; and I knew a pony in the stable here, that used both to open the latch of the stable, and raise the lid of the corn-chest—things which must have been learned by himself from his own observation, for no one is likely to have taught them to him. Nay, it was only the other day that I ob served one of the horses taken in here to grass, in a field through whiel 0, a , mile runs, open one of the wickets by pressing down the upright 'ha of the latch, and open it exactly as you or I do. — Lord Brougham's Dissertation on Subjects of Science. MEETING AT TRURO AGAINST THE CORN-LAWS.-DEFEAT Tyg CHARTISTS. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Saturday, Feb. 16, 1839. The other day a few farmers, at the instigation of a met% chant residing in this town, assembled privately at the Red Lion Hotel, and agreed to petition Parliament in favour of continuance of the present Corn. laws. In con sequence of this underhanded movement several of the Anti-Corn law inhabitants, who had before rested supine, had their feelings roused, and they determined to send a requisi tion to the Mayor to call a public meeting to take into consideration the propriety of petitioning , for a revisal or repeal of the Corn. laws. His Worship immediately acceded to the call of the requisionists, and called a meet. ing for last evening. At seven o'clock, the appointed hour, there was a good attendaece, and before the com mencement of the business, the Town Hall was crammed in every part, and many persons were unable to get in. There was evidence of a very strong feeling on the subject, and it was soon seen that there are a lame body of Cornishmen deoidedly opposed to the present Corn-laws, although this is the first meeting that has been held in the county during the present agitation, called for the express purpose of pe titioning for their repeal. JOSEPH Hobos, Esq., the Mayor, on taking the chair, briefly expressed his opinion of the importance of the sub ject which they were called upon to discuss, and desired that every one, whatever might be his opinions, should have a free and impartial hearing. 11- 8 . STOKES, Esq., one of the Town Council, then came forward, and in a speech of great eloquence, as well as of minute detail, laid Lane many of the fallacies used in the support of the prescnt system. He thought it impera tive on the population of all parts of this kingdom to come forward and say what they thought of the existing Corn lawa, and to declare themselves either for or against them. The Learned Gentleman then read a petition which ho proposed for their adoption, praying for inquiry at the bar of the Houses of Parliament, and for a revision of the Corn-laws ; after which he proceeded to remark, that he was anxious to express his equal interest, as far as his wishes went, in agricultur e as in commerce, and that the interests of the two should never be separated ; that the farmer and the manufacturer, the tradesman and the labourer should go hand in hand together, each labour ing in his separate vocation for the benefit of the whole. Those who sought to set up one interest against the other did a great and permanent injury to the State. Mr. Stokes then contended that both the agricultural and manufactur ing interests %hire allied, after which he gave a detail of the history of the Corn-laws down to 1815, when a scale of duties like the present were laid on corn, and continued with occasional alterations down to the present time. He would now ask of what advantage had these Corn-laws been to any class in the community—of what advantage had they been to the agriculturists themselves? Did the alteration which took place in 1815 insure to the farmtr high'prices for corn? Did they prevent agricultural distress? were they not indeed, in their effect, positively the reverse? Did not agricultural distress continue to increase after that period ? Did not the farmer at that time, under the foolish expectation which the alteration encouraged them to main. ain, take their farms at higher rents, and become in volved, through the gambling of the speculators in foreign corn, until they had that extraordinary outcry about agricultural distress in 1822, which led to an inquiry in the House of Commons ? Mr. Stokes then referred to the recommendation of the Agricultural Committee ap pointed by the House of Commons in that year for inquiry into the subject, who, in their report, urged what many now prayed for. He thought that a free trade in corn, or a very low import duty, would be infinitely better than the system of 1815, which was precisely like the present system in princi ple. He then referred to the statements of Mr. Greg, Air. Smith, and others in the Chamber of Commerce at Man chester, to show the injurious effects of the laws on manufac tures. It was said that if the Corn- laws were repelled, a vast body of agricultural labourers would be thrown out of employ—but what had been their effects already ? Had not pauperism continued to increase? Had not paupers most frightfully multiplied in the land, and had not the condition of the agriculturalists been made constantly worse and worse ? Had they not been compelled to adopt a poor law of the most coercive kind to keep down this system ? and he asked whether it was fair that the farmer should coerce the labourer, to reduce his wages, to drive him to the Union, to separate him from his wife and children, and at the same to make him pay double the pr ice for his bread r- (Loud cheers.) They said to the labourer, " You shall earn your bread by the sweat of your brow;" but their Parliament and the landed interest stepped in and said, " You shall pay double for it," One effect of these Corn-laws was, that pauperism bad been goaded until it had become thspetate, till at one time they had seen on every hill ih the land the fire of the midnight incendia r y , and cr i me had increased till it made the heart of every m an o f sens i t i ve f ee li ng bl ee d for hi s country. Let t h em cont i nue the present system—let them I . `.;', uvr d own t h e gaunt l et to f ore i gn relat i ons, and compel them to comp e t e w ith us, till our trade w a s utt er ly destroyed, and then tell him what would be the burden upon the land ?—(Loud cheers. The poor would be thrown by thousands, and by hundreds of thousands, upon the land, and then the British farmer would be utterly crushed, and unable to make way. The farmers themselves would then have most deeply to rue their own folly. Mr. Stokes con tinued at great length to point out the ruinous effects that foreign competition had had upon our own commerce, and noticed many other matters intimate') connected with the subject, and concluded by proposing the adoption of the petition, which he had already read. Mr. SPUR, an operative, then rose to propose as an amendment, a resolution declaratory of the inutility of petitioning Parliament for the repeal of the Corn-laws, and urging the people present to pray for nothing but the Charter—the grand panacea for all their woes. He had no confidence in the present House of Commons, and he believed that the agitation of the Corn• laws was first com menced, and was now continued, in order to upset the agitation in favour of the National Petition. Else, why this sudden ebullition in favour of a repeal of the Corn laws—of laws which bad existed for five and twenty years, and against which no measures had before been taken? He believed that the middle classes having obtained their rights wished to leave the working-men in the lurch, and although he had ever been opposed to the Corn-laws, yet he thought this was an im proper time for the agitation of their repeal. Such being his opinion, t e declared " by the God who made him, and by the Redeemer who he hoped would save him," he would not now sign any petition for their repeal. Mr. Spur continued to urge, in the strong language which characte rizes the proceedings of the Chartists everywhere, the claims that they haze to public support, and concluded by proposing, amidst great uproar, his resolution for the adoption of the meeting. Mr. 11 EATII, another operative, seconded the amend ment. G. CONCANEN, Esq., combated the resolution in an able manner, and pointed out the impolicy there was in pressing a resolution of the kind now proposed as en amendment on the 15th of the mouth, when they might have another meeting for the consideration of the sub ject on which it touched, on the 25th. He would go as far as any man in seeking for Reform. He would support any measure that would go to give the working man his rights in the choice of those who were to make the laws ; but he did not like to see their hopes wrecked, or their prospects blasted, by such madness as that which now marked the proceedings of the Chartists. lie, there fore, implored the working men not to press their amend ment, and he would agree to any motion at a future time, or sign any requisition, and render any assistance in get ting up a meeting to assist them in the objects that they had in yicw. Mr. SPUR continued to press his amendment, amidst loud and repeated calls on the part of some for him to with draw it, and still louder vociferatious by others that he would tot do so. At first he seemed undecided, but he again wormed, and determined he would have the sense of the meeting. After much uproar and confusion, The MAYOR put the amendment, and then the original motion. There were a few hands held up for the amend. meat, hitt the petition was carried by an immense majority. JOHN PADnoN, Esq., then proposed that the petition to the Lords should be forwarded to the Earl of Falmouth for presentation, and that to the Commons to the Borough Members. Mr. UoLow seconded the motion. Mr. TEALOR begged to propose that the petition be sent to Lord Brougham.----( Tremendous cheering, which was again and again renewed. ) Mr. W. Rowe seconded the amendment, which was carried by acclamation. A vote of thanks was then given to the Mayor, after which the meeting gave three cheers for Sir Hussey Vivian for his letter, in favour of a repeal of the Corn-laws ; three cheers to Mr. Stokes, and three cheers to Mr. Tooke, one of cur late representatives ; after which the Mayor returned thanks. Mr. Sruft then asked his Worship, whether they might have the use of the Hall on Monday night, for a Charter meeting. The MAY OR--Certainly.—( Loud cheers.) The meeting then quietly separated. The petition has been very fully signed during th e d ay, and will be forwarded by the mail this evening. THE NAVY: • ;PO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—From the very great attention you have always paid to the affairs of the Navy, I am led to request von will be pleased to insert the following re. marks on the debate in the House of Lords, on the evening of the 13th inst., respecting the Naval College, which establishment was wisely abolished by the present Government. _ . . In the debate on Naval Education, brought forward by a Captain in the Navy (Lord Hardwicke) in the House of Lords, and replied to by Lord Minto, in which Lord Melville and Lord Colchester joined, the latter also a Naval Captain, the former for many years at the head of the Tory Admiralty, I was surprised that these Noble Lords should have displayed such total ignorance on the subject, which they ought to have had at their fingers' ends, and I felt regret that Lord Minto let them off so easily. After such great boast ing of what was to be expected by the motion on the State of the Navy, and which motion was to have sunk the present Admiralty, to find it finish with a flash in the van, by a question as to what Lord Minto intended doing with respect to the education of young naval officers, is really absurd. As an old war Captain, and one who has been much employed, I have no hesitation in saying that the best service Lord Minto ever per formed for the good of the Navy, was doing away with this useless Establishment, the Naval College ; and I will chall,mge Lord Melville, or either of the two Naval Lord Captains, to point out one single instance of a bright character as a sailor or a navigator, who re ceived his instruction at the College. The school was founded on wrong principles, and I appeal to every Cap tain in the Navy, who will give a candid and unbiassed opinion, whether these Collegians were not the most useless lads in their ships, and those who had re ceived medals, could, at the end of four years at sea, claim their Lieutenants Commission without re gaid to character as sailors ; in fact, I once had one of these gold medal boys, highly connected, on board with me, who cared as little about his ship or profession as if he were only on a voyage of pleasure, whenever he was found fault with, which was nearly every day, he always consoled himself by opening his writing-case when he went below, and, taking out his gold medal, stated that was his commission. The only inducement parents had for sending their sons to the Naval College, vas the circumstance of their getting entered in the Navy, also of skulking out of two years' service by remaining on shore ; and I blush to read that a Naval Captain in the House of Lords should have talked of the poor little fellows re quiring parental care, and being preserved the first two years from wet jackets, night watches, and other dread ful I should like to know how many wet jackets Lords Nelson, Collingwood, Exmouth, &c. &C., bad before they were fifteen years of age ? It is such sprigs of nobility who have entered the service at the cabin windows with a silver spoon in their mouths, that alone require this parental protection, the lust two }ears, in a snug retreat like the late Naval Col lege, and then go to sea with two years time into the bargain, whilst the sons of many old veteran sailors have been keeping their watch and braving the battle and the breeze, without having, at the end of six years' standing, the most distant chance of promotion. Surely the sage Lord will discover the longitude from his remarks, for he also mentioned the wonderful ad vantage the Collegians had in seeing ships docked— that alone was enough to make sailors of them all! forgetting, at the same time, the disadvantage they la houred under from being left entirely under the pa rental care of Sergeants of Marines during their leisure hours. I will as k, who can deny this? as the different Professors lived in the town. I shall pass over all the nonsense about officers not knowing any thing of ship-building when called en to survey a ship. Wlsat has an Admiral or a Captain to do with shop-building? I trust, Mr. Editor, we shall never see the College opened again ; let every boy enter the service, and get on by his own merit, and let Lord Minto follow up the plan of appointing scientific men as schoolmasters to ships, when the Mids will be firing out of a double-sbotted gun, and hitting two ob jects at once—seamanship and mathematics, notwith standing Lord Hardwicke's absurd notion of the pretty pastime of seeing novel sights in foreign ports, shorten ing sail, and getting wet jackets. When the Noble Lord made these observations he forgot that most Mids now-a-days wear a Mackintosh ; and it appears from that old naval paper the Hants Telegraph, that they are occasionally seen on the quarterdeck with an um brella up in a shower! What would old Benbow say to all this ? Let us look to our sailors—find out a strong inducement for them to enter, and we shall yet do well. However, I must mind what lam about, or I pro bably may get the giant pen of the Admiralty scribe adrift at me, although it had not courage enough to break a lance with the conqueror of Miguel's fleet. I am, Mr. Editor, your Constant Reader, NEPTUNE. United Service Club, Pall-Mall, Feb. 16, 1839. A letter from Toulon, dated Feb. 9, mentions —" The English squadron is daily receiving reinforcements in the Mediterranean, but is not yet sufficiently strong to lot ce, in case of necessity, the passage of the Dardanelles. Russia, on the other hand, continues unremitting in her preparations, and a pacific solution of the grand question of the East, is looked on as impracticable Ashburnham House is still filled with workmen beautifying the edifice, preparatory to the commencement of the sea son. The visit of the hereditary Grand Duke Alexander of Russia is still uncertain. His Highness has arrived at Naples on a visit to the King and Queen of the Two Sicilies, whence he will return to Rome. SIR ROBERT WALPOLE.—It appears that in the summer of 1739, Thomas Carte the historian, being then about to undertake a journey to Rome, was entrusted with a message from Walpole to the Pretender. declaring his secret attachment, and pro mising his zealous services, but desiring to have s, me assurances of James's intentions as to the Church of England, and as to the Princes of the House of Hanover. In reply, James wrote, and {Alt into the hands of Carte a ♦ery judicious letter, in which he expresses great doubts as to the sincerity of Walpole's good wishes, but pro. raises that if they shall be real and effective, they shall be duly re warded at his restoration. " I have no difficulty," he adds, "in putting it in your power to satisfy him authentically on the two articles about which he is solicitous, since, independent of his de. sires, I am fully resolved to protect and secure the Church of Eng. land, according to my reiterated promises As for the Princes of the House of Hanover, I thank God I have no resentment against them, nor against any one living. I shall never repine at their living happily in their own country after I am in possession of my kingdoms; and should they fall into my power, upon any attempt for my restoration, I shall certainly not touch a hair of their heads.' "—Lord Mahon's History of England. A CASE OF GREAT DISTRESS.—At the Cri minal Court, Henry Cook, formerly stage manager of the Clarence Theatre, was found guilty of forging and disposing of certain papers, partly printed and partly written, purporting to be admis sions to the Adelphi Theatre, with intent to defraud the proprietors thereof. There were also two other indictments, which imputed to the prisoner similar misdemeanors. Mr. Ballantine addressed the Jury. He said that puring his short experience he had never known a case equally distressing with the present. The prisoner had been in respectable circum stances, and maintained his family in respectability. Some time since he became afflicted with a dangerous rupture, which rendered him incapable of pursuing his usual avo cations; hence he was obliged from day, to day, and from ' week to week, to dispose of his property until all was gone, and he, as well as his sorrowing partner, and a large family of small children were reduced to the direst penury —in fact, to starva tion. He would alto state the fact, that during this state of destitution two of his children were afflicted with the small. pox, which, of course, added to the physical as well as mental affliction of the prisoner. It was at a period like this that he disposed of the document produced for the trifling sum of four pence in order to buy bread for his children, who had not tasted food for two days previously. It might be said that he had better have applied to the parish. No; he knew well that had he done so he would have been s, parated from his wife and children, whom he tenderly loved—in fact, he preferred throw ing himself upon the mercy of the officers of justice, to that of those who dole out a reluctant and scanty pittance. He was no wrong in his calculation, for the ministers of justice, in whose cus tody he at present was, had listened to his statement, and upon in vestigating they had found it true—literally and deplorably true, he (Mr. B.) should prove from the lips of a gentleman whose charac ter and station the court and jury well knew and appreciat ad. INCLEDON AND THE QUAKER.—One night when Mathews and Incledon joined the Leicester company, on passing through, they agreed to perform in the musical piece of the Quaker, Incledon to play " Steady." It was not until alter the name was its the playbills that he discovered the bareness of his wardrobe. It did not contain a fragment of the Quaker costume. Incledon, al ways exciteable, was now wretched ; an attempt to patch up a dress made him more miserable still. At last, as be and Mathews were lounging up the principal street, Incledon caught sight of a portly Quaker standing at the door of a chemist's shop. "Charles, my dear boy," said Incledon, winking his eyes, (his habit when peculiarly pleased,) do you sae that Quaker there ? What a dress he has got on! just my size. I've a good mind, Charles, to ask him to lead it to me for to-night." " Absurd! " said Matthews, " you could not think of such a thing." " My dear boy," replied Incledon, " only consider what a comfort it would be to me, instead of that trumpery suit from the wardrobe. I'll go in and ask him; he looks like a good-natured creature." Accordingly, in lie walked, in quiring of Obadiah for some quack medicines, and after some small purchases began in his blandest manner and voice to address the quaker upon the real object which he had in view. "My dear and respectad sir,"—the man stared,—" allow me to explain to you how I am situated, and grant me a patient hearing." The Quaker looked patience itself; and Mathews, curious to hear the result, took his seat in the shop. " My dear sir," continued Incledon, " I am one of a class of men, of whom, of course, your peculiar tenets can not allow you to know much. In fact, lam of the theatrical profes sion—Charles Incledon, of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, first ballad-singer in England." This was uttered with great emphasis and volubility, in his peculiar dialect, that of Cornwall. The Quaker started back, and looked at Mathews, as if doubting the sanity of the person addressing him. Incledon resumed, " Pray, sir, lam an actor. lam this night advertised at your—no, not at your theatre —at the theatre in Leicester, for Steady, the Quaker, and it so hap. pens that there is no proper dress for the character, which is highly complimentary to your people. Independently of the want of effect, from a bad dress, I am truly mortified to do discredit to so respectable a body as yours. In fact, part of my own family were originally of your profession, my dear sir; and this is an additional rea. son why I am anxious to do all possible honour to the revered So ciety of Friends. In short, my worthy Sir, without your humane assistance, I shall come before all the gentry of Leicester in a dress very degrading to the proverbial neatness of your sea. Will you lend me one of your suits ? You and I are pf a size. And, in so doing you will at show the liberality of your character, and keep up the respect ability of the admirable body of people, so deservedly es. teemed by all the world, and by none more than Charles le "soft sawder " a nd human . natter"m Sli could k not have himself, with is surprise better, i the Mathews, e ff , e , effect Incledon." Sa was proportionate. The chemist, to done th eit melted by this eloquent appeal to the honour of his sect, not i h only lent a suit of clothes, but yiel ded to the p ersuasions of the singer, to be put into a private cor ner ! to be an unseen witness of the manner in which the stage upheld his persuasion. That he was charmed with Steady, there was no doubt, for he readily cone fessed this to Incledon, on his returning the suit of clothes.—L(f. QfMathcws. SEIZURE FOR CHURCH-RATES. PUBLIC SALE. FROM A (:.oßitg3PON;)gNii. The town of Chesterfield has now become as notorious for neitation on the Church-rate question, as any town in her Majesty's dominions. The first indication of the rising storm was in 183'7, when Mr. &lot-, a gentleman very extensively engaged in the drapery business, and several other respectable tradesmen, made a stand against the conscience-tat party, and in speeches of considerable ability, exhibited the lit:policy and injustice of taxing Dissenters far the support of a Church whose tenets and practices they disapprove. There was a large attendance of rate payers from the surrounding Hamlets as well as from the town, who raised their voices against the grievance, consequently the proposition for a rate was negatived by show of hands. The Church party did not d eman d , a poll, but commenced a voluntary subscription, which was responded to Very liberally by Dis senters. In 18:A, the Church party, the more bigotted of whom carry their raiicottr into private circles, re solved to try their strength. They w e re sick of volun taryism, because it inflicted a little humility. Mr. Sayer, Mr. Bingham ( Quaker), and other respectable trades men, again came forward to oppose the rate, which was again negatived by a show of hands, but lost in the poll, in consequence of intimidation, and the use of' undue in fluence on the part of their opponents. Messrs. Elurst, Sayer, and Cantrell resolved to allow the law to take its ' course ; they refused to pay the tax, theft' goods were seized, and advertised for sale on Saturday last, the 16th instant. At the hour appointed an immense con course of people assembled in the Market-place, some of them evidently anxious to have a clita9 bargain, and others as positively determined that no bargain should be made. The auctioneer (Mr. Nicholson) had no sooner mounted the rottrum, than he was sainted by a volley of yells and groans, which rather disturbed the usual serenity and good nature of the worthy gentleman's countenance. He shortly recovered himself, and jocularly proceeded to do his duty by offering some of the articles for a " bidding;" but as well might he have asked for twenty thousand guineas, as for a " bid" in that vast crowd. The offer was received with the most horrid yells and hisses, and every succeeding attempt on his part was utterly hope• less, for the noise drowned the sounds of his voice, and prevented anything in the shape of words being heard. No attempt at violence or rioting was made ; the sole ob ject of the populace appeared to be to shout the auctioneer down, and frustrate the intentions of the High Church party ( I say High Church party, for there are many Libe ral churchmen in Chesterfield who look upon the conduct of their bigoted brethren with pity and disgust). 15eving the utter hopelessness of his situation, Mr. Nicholson moved off towards the Angel Inn, whither the crowd fol lowed him, under the idea that his object was to baffle them. The shouting and groaning was kept up, as they followed him from place to place ; until at length he pru dently took refuge in the Angel Inn, and awaited the dis persion of the crowd. Never, perhaps, does the oldest inhabitant recollect scene half so uproarious in the ancient borough of Chester field ; and it will be well if the High Church party take warning from this popular outburst of feeling, and never again satiate their bigotry and intolerance by seizing the goods of peaceable citizens. The struggle has commenced in earnest in Chesterfield, and there will be ne more peace for Mother Church until the iniquitous law is blotted out. Only three dissentients opposed the tax this year—we ven ture to say that next year there will be three times twenty three. The goods were disposed of in the evening by private contract. PAPERS ON EDUCATION. (PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT BY TIER MAJESTY'S COMMAND.) Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be printed, Feb. 12, 1x39, My Lord, Whitehall, Feb. 4, 11139. I have received her Majesty's commands to make a communica tion to your Lordship on a subject of the greatest importance. Her Majesty has observed with deep concern the want of instruction which is still observable among the poorer classes of her subjects. All the inquiries wbich have been made show a deficiency in the general education of the people which is not in accordance with the character of a civilized and Christian nation. The Reports of tho Chaplains of gaols show that to a large number of unfortunate prisoners a kowledge of the fundamental truths of nature' and revealed religion has never been imparted. It is some consolation to her Majesty to perceive that of late years the zeal fir popular education has increased, that the Established Church has made great efforts to promote the building of schools, and that the National and British and Foreign School Societies have actively endeavoured to stimulate the liberality of the benevolent and enlightened friends of general education. Still much remains to be done ; and among the chief defects yet subsisting may be reckoned the insufficient number of qualified schoolni:.sters, the imperfect mode of teaching which prevails in, perhaps, the greater number of the schools, the absence of any suf ficient inspection of the schools, and examination of the nature of the instruction given, the want of a Model-school which might serve for the example of those Societies and Committees which anxiously seek to improve their own methods of teaching, and, finally, the neglect of this great subject among the enactments of our voluminous legislation. Some of these defects appear to admit of an immediate remedy, and I am directed by her Majesty to desire, in the first place, that your Lordship, with four other of tke Queen's servants, should form a Board or Committee, for the consideration of all matters affecting the Education of the People. For the present it is thought advisable that this Board should con. fist of: The Lord President of the Council. The Lord Privy Seal. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Secretary of State for the Home Department, and The Master of the Mint. It is proposed that the Board should be entrusted with the ap plication of any sums which may be voted by Parliament for the purposes of Education in England and Wales. Among the first objects to which any grant may be applied, will be the establishment of a Normal SohooL In such a school a body of schoolmasters may be formed, compe tent to assume the management of similar institutions in all parts of the country. In such a school likewise the best modes of teach. ing may be introduced, and those who wish to improve the schools of their neighbourhood may have an opportunity of observing their results. The Board will consider whether it may not be advisable, for some years, to apply a sum of money annually in aid of the Normal Schools of the National, and of the British and Foriegn School Societies. They will likewise determine whether their mea.ures will allow them to afford gratuities to deserving schoolmasters; there is no class of men whose rewards are so disproportionate to their useful. ness to the community. In any Normal or Model School to be established by the Board, four principal objects should be kept in view, viz.,— 1. Religious Instruction. 2. Genend Instruction. 3. Moral Training. 4. Habits of Industry. Of these four I need only allude to the first; with respect to Re ligious Instruction there is, your Lordship is aware, a wide or apparently wide difference of opinion among those who have been most forward in promoting education. . The National Society, supported by the Established Church, con. tend that the schoolmaster should be invariably a Churchman ; that the Church Catechism should be taught in the school to all the scholars that all should be required to attend church on Sundays, and that the schools should be in every case under the superintend. ence of the clergyman of the parish. The British and Foreign School Society, on the other hand, admit Churchmen and Dissenters equally as schoolmasters, require that the Bible should be taught in their schools, but insist that no Cate chism should be admitted. Others again contend that secular instruction should be the bud nest of the school, and that the ministers of different persuasions should each instruct separately the children of their own followers. In the midst of these conflicting opinions there is not practically that exclusiveness among the Church Societies, nor that indifference to religion among those who exclude dogmatic instruction from the school, which their mutual accusations would lead bystanders to suppose. Much therefore may be effected by a temperate attention to the fair claims of the Established Church, and the religious freedom sanctioned by law. On this subject I need only say that it is her Majesty's wish that the youth of this kingdom should be religiously brought up, and that the right of conscience should be respected. Moreover, there is a large class of children who may be fitted to be good members of society without injury or offence to any party -- I mean pauper orphans, children deserted by their parents, and the offspring of criminals and their associates. It is from this class that the thieves and housebreakers of society are continually recruited. It is this class likewise which has filled the workhouses with ignorant and idle inmates. The Poor Law Commissioners have very properly undertaken to amend the vicious system which has hitherto prevailed, and in the neighhourhood of the metropolis much has been already done under their auspices. It is in this direction likewise that certain good can be accom plished. It sometimes happens that the training which a child of poor but virtuous parents receives at home, is but ill exchanged for the imperfect or faulty instruction which he receives at school, debased by vicious association; but for those whose parents are dead, or who have no home but one of habitual vice, there can be no such danger. In all such instances, by combining moral training with general instruction, the young may be saved from the temptations to crime, and the whole community receive Indisputable benefit. These and other considerations will, I am persuaded, receive from your Lordship the must careful attention. I need not enter, at present, into any further plans in contemplation for the extension of the blessings of sound and religious education. - I have, Sic. (Signed) J. RUSSELL. The Lord President of the Connell, &c. Berkeley-square, Feb. 6, 1639. My Lord—l have had the honour to receive your Lordship's letter, conveying to me her Majesty's desire that I, as President of the Council, together with certain other of her Majesty's servants, should compose a Board, or Committee, to consider the state of edu cation, and direct the application of any sums which may be ap propriated by Parliament for promoting its improvement. I hasten to express my readiness, whilst I continue to fill that situation, to discharge my share of such a duty, convinced as I am of the importance of the objects proposed, and the improbability of their being satisfactorily accomplished without the countenance and superintendence of her Majesty's Government. I at the same time beg leave, at the outset, to state my opinion, that the establishment of a Normal School, for training masters in the most perfect methods of communicating literary and industrial, as well as moral and religious instruction, is the most pressi n g and important of these objects, both in itself and as being a necessary step to the attainment of the rest; and also the strong conviction which I entertain that it should be a positive condition of such an establish. ment, that it should be so regulated and provided with sufficient meats to enable the teachers,Who are trained there, to acquire and to give such religious instruction as may be required at all ordinary schools, in the principles of the Church of England, without any exclusion of those who may be connected with such other religious persuasions as are known to prevail amongst a considerable portion of the po pulation of the country, who may be desirous of and should be enabled to receive similar instruction from their own Ministers, subject to the control and superintendence of the authority under tvhi.h theschool will be placed. That such a regulation should be distinctly promulgated and un derstood, appears to me indispensable for its success, in diffusing widely those benefits which all are alike entitled to receive, and combining with the most approved methods of education the most solid foundation on which it can be placed.—l have, &c., (Signed) LANSDOWNE.. The Lord John Russell, &c. Whitehall, Feb. 9, 1835. My Lord,—l have had the honour to lay before the Queen your Lordship's letter to me of the Gth instant, and I am commanded to inform you that her Majesty is pleased to approve of the course your Lordship proposes to pursue. -_I have. &c , (Signed) J. RUSSELL. The President of the Council Earl Bathurst left town on Friday for Abingdon Abbey, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, who are entertaining the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort and a distin guished party. HADDING". ON COUNTY MEETING. Last Friday, a public meeting of the nobility, gen t ry, farmers, and others interested in agriculture in th e county of East Lothian, was held in the Assembly Rooms, H a d dington, pursuant to requisition, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament in favour of the present system of Corn-laws. There were present Lord Maitland ; Hon, Gen. P. Stewart: Sir John Hall of Dunglass, Bart. ; Si r G. Grant Suttie, Bart. ;.` Sir David Kinloch, Bart. ; Sir George Warrender, Bart. ; Sir Robert Houstoun, Bart. ; Captain Walker Drummond, yr. of llawthornden ; Capt. Hay of Hopes; Mr. Burn Callender; Mr. Anderson of St. Germains ; Mr. Fletcher of Saltoun ; Captain Hay of Belton; Mr. Aitchison of Alderston ; Mr. Hamilton of Ninewalls ; Mr. Sheriff Substitute Riddell ; Rev. Mr, Cook of Haddington ; Mr. Hay Newton of Newtonhall ; Mr. Charles Stewart ; Mr. Hay of Linplum ; Mr. Hal dane of Haddington ; Mr. Sprott of Spott, &c. Lord MAITLAND having been called to the Chair, said Mr. Villiers having given notice of a motion to beer evi dence at the bar of the House of Commons on the subject of the Corn-laws, it was thought fit that the county of East Lo..hian should -come forward and set an example to the other counties of Scotland. As to the subject itself, it would not, perhaps, be becoming in him to enter upon the snbject at at any length, as that task would be more befit ting those gentlemen who are to move the resolutions.— ( Cheers.) ' Sir GEORGE WARRENDER then rose and said—My name was not nffized to the requisition which called you together, because I have had the misfortune, on many occasions, to differ from the almost unanimous opinion of the county ou the import‘nt subject wi;cla has called us together ; and as I was suffering from indisposition, I was afraid I should be prevented from addressing ycu. But I afterwards de tertnined, at all hazards, to be present to-day, that I might wi'ness the triumph of these enlightened commercial principles which I learned from a lamented statesman, whose confidence and friendship I enjoyed up to the hour which eklmsed his irreparable loss to his county. You must all perceive that I allude to Mr. Huskisson. Since I have tome here a series of resolutions has been put into my hands, in the conceeting of which I had no share, but I am free to confess that I concur entirely in the sentiments of those resolutions ; and I must also own, that if I had beitia at the greatest pains for severe! weeks together,' I am sure I could have produced noth;ng more satisfactsory to my own mind than those that have !- , con put into my hands by the gentlemen who prepared them. It so happens that these resolutions concur in and applaud that system of Corn-laws which was prepared !)), .Mr• Huskisson, and laid before Parliament, in the year 2827, which at that time this country did not condor la. --(cheers.) It is unnecessary for me to enter into the details of this question, especially before a meeting of agricultural men, many of whom understand the ques tion much better than I can be supposed to do ; but I may observe, that the great advantage of these laws was to afford protection to agriculture. During four years of the period that they have been in operation, the prices of grain have been low, but that has not prevented agrienleure froru being eminently improved throughout the counter', and nowhere more than in this county where we are now !net. But all the:' improvements were effected under the sanc tion and by means of the command which the present laws give the agriculturis:e of the home market; so that though the agriculturist to meet the of land brought under the price of grain did net exceed 465. per quarter, yet these improvements enabled deficiency by increasing the qua:nitY cnitivatlon. These improvements have all been effected under the present system of lean-law: but if you abolish them, and admit corn duty free, these impeovements will bo put an end to ; and then how are y ou to avei;t the calamities which a had harvest wo uld brin g u p on the, country ( Hear.) During the first ten years that the sy :stem has been in operation.—that is from 1827 to 1837—. 1 find that there had been an active, sound, progressive i n e ee .. - se in the manufactures of the country, rising gradually front year to year till they arrived in 1837 at a sum exceed ing by upwards of twenty millions sterling, the exports of manufactured goods in 1827. Vie average exports of the three last years of this period, that is, of 1834. 1835, and 1836, above that of the three first years of the operation of them laws was 10,851,118/. 'f bat in crease and prosperity has not been confined to any one branch of our manufactures. It was spread over the cotton, cotton twist, hardware, linens, woollens, &c. The cotton manufacture alone shows an increase of more than three millions in that period. I may also allude to the shipping interest ; and to give you an idea of the prosperity exist ing in that interest, the increase of the year 1836 over that of 1835, was 164,648 tons inwards; crud 241,476 tons outwards ; which last item necessarily shows what a vast exportation there has been from this country in manufac tured goods. I ought not to omit to state, that these facts are all taken from Parliamentary documents, from the offi cialooff highthe rcpt; fatten returns. But besides this documentary ev:fienc.., I ant N w S o 7 o r O ld d : t a he g p en re t s le ic r e a n n t able to refer to oral evidence of equally high testimoiv ;eith t t a h t e io se n d in oc t u h m e e c n otm ere i r a . l Cham ber of Commerce at Manchester, stated lately in his Pla in Parliament that the improvements of 1838 h a d exceeded the average of the preceding four years by up war d s of three millions. For these reasons it is clear to me that th e manufec. curers are prospering under the present system of the Corn laws ; and on that ground I at present adhere to them. Here Sir George referred to some of the speeches at Man chester as taking this view of the subject ; he also referred to Mr. M'Larcn's speech in Edinburgh, as stating that one effect of the abolition of the Corn-laws would be to reduce the price of labour to some extent. The Hon. Baronet concluded by proposing a series of resolutions, expressing the satisfaction of the meeting with the present system of Corn-laws, and deprecating the attempts now maki ng to repeal them. Mr. Bacons, of Amisfield Mains, seconded the resolution. I Sir GEORGE GRANT SUTTIE concurred in the resolutions to a certain extent—that was to say, in the first place, that protection was necessary to agriculture; and, in the second place, that a graduated scale of duty was best fitted for the purpose. At the same time he did not concur in all the rea sons advanced to support those principles. An argument ad vanced on behalf of protecting native agriculturewas,that the overwhelming majority of the population were engaged in it. Now, it appeared to him that the strongest argument for protecting agriculture was the smallness of the population engaged in it, as compared with that portion of the popu lation engaged in manufactures and commerce. It ought also to be remembered, as a reason for protection, that manual labour was employed in agriculture t o a f ar greater extent than in manufactures ; the farmer could not employ the steam-engine nearly to the same extent as the manu facturer could. But though there were portions of the resolutions which were not so distinctly expressed as he cculd wish, yet as he concurred in their sentiments gene rally, he a ould not oppose them.—( Hear. ) Captain WALKER DRUMAIOYD, Jutl. , of Hawthornden, said, on this occasion it becomes the duty of every person connected with the landed interest to come forward, to ex press his strong dissent from the attempts that are now making to disturb the existing system of the Corn-laws. After referring at some length to the operation of the pre:- sent system of Corn-laws, Captain Drummond proceeded I do not mean to enter into any political argument at this meeting, where it is desirable that unanimity should prevail ; but as we are about to present a petition to the Legis!ature, praying for protection, it is essentially neces sary that we should look forward to see what reception we may meet with from the Government ; and, looking to Lord Melbourne, I think we have not much to expect from him. The fact appears to me that almost every i T ,_ portant question is made open, except one—the question of retaining their places ; and God knows that is close enough. Sir GEORGE GRANT SUTTIE rose to order. If Mr. Drummond was allowed to introduce politics into the die, cussion, he must beg to be heard in reply. The resolutions were then unanimously agreed to. Mr. B. CALLENDER moved that a petition, founded on the resolutions, should be prepared, and, after receiving signatures, be presented to the House of Lords by the Marquis of Tvveeddale, and to the House of Commons by Sir J. Buchan Hepburn. On the motion of Sir DAVID KINLOCII thanks were voted to Lord Maitland for his conduct in the chair, after whic:: the meeting separated. NUMBER and TONNAGE of STEAM VESSELS in GREAT BRITAIN and the UNITED STATES. The Secretary of the Navy at Washington has just issued (Jan. 16.) an interesting document of statistics on this subject, from which we may gather materials fur settling a question mooted some time since in your co lumns about the comparative steamboat force of your country and ours. In 1836 you had 600 at home and abroad. Doubtless the number ha s increased since then. Our number is rated at 800 now hi , of which 600 belong to the western waters—where, i? 1834, th , ere were but 254 ; so that you m a y g et a glimpse of what will be a few years hence. About 140 belong to th e state of New York. In tonnage iyo are more in advan ce of you, the total here being estimated at 155,000 to about 68,000 on your side, two years ago. At th e same time we have no boats equal in _size to som e o f yours ; our largest run s between New . Y ork an d I Natchez, and is of 860 tons ; the next in size are on Lake Erie, and along the New England coast. Th e average is 200 tons.—Correspondent of the Athenceum, The number of steam vessels belonging to G reat Britain, exclus ive of those belonging to the British Plantations, in 1837, was 696, and the tonnage 80,714, but this does not include steam vessels employed. exclusively in river traffic, which are very numerous • 139 that if we take these into account , with t he number built since 1837, and the different modes of admeasure ment here and in America (in Great Britain the space occupied by the machinery being excluded), the steam boat force (as Jonathan writes) of the two countries may be reckoned nearly equal. France has n o t more than 200 steam vessels, and probably this country and the United States have twice as many as all the other States in the world together. Considerable talk and laughter has been created amongst the inhabitants of the p arish e s of St. Peter at Gowts, and St. Botolph's, in consequen ce of the circumstance of a fem a l e who resides in the last-named pa rish having in disguise (being dressed in man's clothes), and under preten ce . of love, induced Miss B a young lady of the first-name d . parish, to . accompany her round the banks, ta.,by Moonl i g h t . It is said tha . t this affair has been goin g (sit for the last three months, but that Miss B--- was totally u quainted with the hoax till last week, whan she was told by s om e one who had heard of the c ir cumstance.—Lincoln Gazette. "1- Died on Friday last, the Bth inst, at Kirby L oris . dale, Mr. Geoffrey Metcalfe, aged 76 years ; he was a carrier be. tween Kirkby Lonsdale and Manchester for the long period of 36 years, performing that journey twice and often three times a weck, calculating 129 journeys in each year, at 30 miles each, he must have travelled the enormous distance of 129,600 mil es.—Lancaster Guardian. The Nottingham hosiery trade is now in a more healthy and active state, at least there is a considerable demand for wide frames. Mr. Parker sold 200 frames last week, the average price of which was 91. ss, each, a larger sum than they would have fetched at any time within the last twenty years. SCOTLAND. ANTI-ENDOWMENT MEETING.—The great Glasgow meeting to petition Parliament against, further endowments to the Church of Scotland, and also for the entire separation of the Church from the State, took place last Tuesday evening in Greyfriar's Chapel. A peti tion in accordance with these objects was, after much interesting discussion, agreed to. T he insidious manlier in which the peti tion of the Church of Scotland has been got up w as admirablf exposed. U NIVERSAL SUFFRAGE MEETING.—OIt Tuesday night a crowd e d meeting of the Universa l Suffrage Association was held in the Jus. ticiary Hall. It was resolved that Female Radical Associations should be organised throughout the country, and a vote of thanks was tendered to the Female Radical Associaton of Bridgton, for the enthusiastic way they had aided the cause of Universal Suffrage. The first stone of the monument to the memory of the lamented George Duke of Gordon was laid o n th e Lady Hill, Edinburgh, on Wednesday, by Sir Archibald Dunbar, Bart., with masonic honours. TREMENDOUS STORM AT WHITBY.—On Wednesday evening this town was visited with a terrific storm of wind from the North, with occasional showers of snow and sleet. Two chimneys of a house situate in Silver.street, in the occupation of Mrs J. Fatkin, were blown down, carrying in the whole of one side of the roof, and doing material damage to the furniture. A serious accident occurred to a boy about eleven years of age, named Henry Rattan ; whilst walking i n Baxtergate a h eavy gust of wind blew from the top of a chimney a brick, whi c h unfortunately alighted on the head of the poor boy, and fractured his skull in a most dreadful manner. The storm continued with great violence all night, and on Thursday morning it blew a complete hurricane from the North East, carrying sh owers of slates an d tiles from off the houses. On Wednesday evening as Thomas Ni sh i tt, from Staithcs to Whitby, was procee din g on the san,i s to the farrier former place, the covering of the waggon was taken off with the violence of the wind and sea; the greatest part of his goods was washed out of the carriage, and one of his h orses carri ed away. The stern of a vessel, bearing the inscription of " Star of Sunderland," is driven on the beach at Sandsend. The number of pieces nf wreck which have been discovered gives us sufficient reason to enter. tain great fears of immense loss and distress at sea.—Newcastle Chronicle. e, A r.... , ~ , , i ..........: L ;:_7_7' ::•:`:-, t.,,,,,..5 . ~, . ; .. ,, ,, ,,: -- t , ( - ,, 1 , Cfj• - & 4".te' ~~ -,; ~i ~ /;:~,~ .~ .7 ~cs y N\ - - k .1 A.L O. m o A t ach or der o f ,n d ts 1) / , e , nd h cum' wee " eran ee ht oUt h Oc- .Igh oleo „Joe r th e iehoid w ho r th e la, Lora „tins ,ing ,f the cant; a the :toil