The Sun. — London, England, 1836-03-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We had imagined that the Duke of Wellington ould set an example of moderation to the Tory Peers 'his Session, and we attributed the furious article on the application of the military system to politics, in which our Contemporary the Standard laboured to prove that the Duke of Newcastle was not only a greater orator than the Duke of Wellington, but also a wiser statesman, to something like a conviction that the latter had parted company with the more violent ultras ; but the threatened opposition to the Irish Con stabulary Bill by the Duke of Wellington inclines us to believe that his Grace is about to change his Murse, and that the Peers will receive his countenance in their absurd resistance to all measures of improvement. Has his Grace been frightened out of his moderation by the Standard? Or has he determined to make the amende honorable to the Marquis of Londonderry by showing that he know s what is right in some cases, hut can be as absurd as his Lordship in others ? If the Peers imagine that they will strengthen themselves by resisting all improvement, on the principle that every abuse -removed strengthens the popular party, and leads necessarily to further de mands for reform, they are grievously mistaken. It is unquestionably true that the Tories have been weakened by every reform which has been extorted from them ; but it does not follow, that if they had held out, their power would have been greater than it now is. They yielded to circumstances which they could not control ; but the circumstances and not their own inclinations caused the Reform, and it is there fore folly to speculate on their refusing to concede re form when it was in their power to prevent it. In like manner, they cannot, by arraying themselves against the people of England, defeat, except for a season, ally of the measures demanded by them ; but by making the attempt they may greatly weaken their order, by producing in the public mind a conviction that a reformed House of Commons and an unreformed House of Peers cannot work harmoniously together. The greatest enemies to the Peers, therefore, are the more violent of their own body, who seek to place them in a state of constant hostility to all improve ment. The publication of Mrs. Austin's translation of M. von Raumer's " England in 1835," has placed within the reach of our Tory Lords many sound opi nions on the subjects which now agitate the country, from which they might derive much benefit. We would particularly recommend to them the enlightened views of the German historian on the subject of con- cession - : " Is it with my consent," he observes, " that time rolls on, and that every thing changes with time ? Did the Pope consent to the Reformation ; or did his non-consent ing retard it? Did the Venetians consent to the new direc tion taken by the commerce of the world ; or did the Eng lish concede' independence to America? * * In public affairs a concession is generally the consequence of a demand ; and neither is the result of any individual will. * * * The formal right of expressing the will (such as that possessed by the Lords, or the King, of throwing out Bills) has no effect in deciding the thing, and gives no answer to the question of wisdom or folly, justice or injustice. It is often maintained in letter, when it is dead in spirit. Such maxims as, that a Go vernment ought to grant no demand, or to grant every demand, are equally null. Because it is possible that the concession of a just demand may be followed by an absurd and unjust one, I am in no degree absolved from the first ; on the contrary, the concession of the just, is precisely what will give me strength to withhold the unjust. When, on the other hand, one just principle gives birth to a whole series of new conclusions, we ought not to be alarmed, hut should learn to understand how and why such was the natural, the inevitable, and the proper result. This ensued upon the abolition of the shire-trade, or villenage, of commercial restrictions, of ex clusive class or corporate privileges, and so on. New forms of disease, as well as new vital energies, are doubtless con nected with every new stage of development, but the latter cannot be represse.l, nor can the former be cured, with old nostrums. Never was a universal ruin brought about by the concession of what was just and suited to the age (which, indeed. inquiry proves to be identical) ; what was destroyed by such means had lived out its life. Never, on the con trary, have senseless and untimely changes borne the fruits Loped for by lovers of revolution. Therefore let every man who has a share in public affairs exert his understanding to tl:e nttro,q : an:l lay aside his prejudices, that he may see where it is fit to concede and where to withhold ; and not fancy himself a statesman because be can repeat a few phrases out of Haller or Bentham. , ‘.General changes, moreover, are not effected by mere personal springs of action. If Luther's opposition to the sale of indulgeocies proceeded (as some Catholics falsely aFs. , rt) only from envy and avarice, the Reformation would not the less remain a mighty turn in human affairs— an event belonging to universal history. Supposing that O'Connell's efforts in behalf of his countrymen spring from ambition or from avarice—the discovery or the pro clamation of this fact will neither tranquillize Ire!and, nor settle the justice or injustice of their demands. lfimmoral springs of action are really at worl., the way to render them impotent is to withhold nothing that ought to be granted." • The ConAtalmlary Bill was thrown out` by the Lords Inst year, solely because it was approved of by Mr. O'Connell. Sir Robert Peel, in the House of Commons, parted company with his old Orange asso ciates, and approved of the principle of depriving the local magistrates of all power over the police. But this, we suppose, was merely to cover Ins attempt to destroy the Irish Corporations, in order to deprive the people of the management of their local concerns. The Lords, on reflection, find, we suppose, that they cannot afford to be rational, for they hold together as a party by retaining every absurd opinion, and' making common cause with the opponents of all necessary re forms ; consequently every folly abandoned irritates the fools or knave/ who clung to it, and thins the Tory ranks.—Morning Chronicle. The varid and main objection to the " principle" of the Irish Municipal Bill, which comes to a thild read ing in the House of Commons thiS evening, has always been, that the pretended principle is not the true prin ciple, and that the whole measure is nothing better than a downright fraud. In England the municipal franchise has been made more popular—literally, as well as substantially, more " democratic." Now, although to our judgment the most rational fear for Great Britain at this moment, or, in other words, •the risk most likely to be realized, is, the overgrowth and despotism of mere democracy—a democracy at once unenlightened, insolent, and coarse—we can imagine dangers in their nature more terrible, and a yoke by far more degrading. The bill of so called mu nicipal reform for Ireland is one which professes to in troduce a more popular spirit than heretofore into the corporations of that island, but in fact and truth it does no such thing. It blinds and mystifies those who claim to .he the body of English Liberals, by taking for its motto with regard to Ireland, the name of "demo cracy," while the real purpose is to set up a " hiero cracy," which, under that watchword of democracy shall make the populace the tool of its tyrannical ambition. A motion was made in •the House of Commons by Sergeant Lefroy last Friday, which the House thought proper, in its wisdom, to reject, but which if carried would have thrown curious light upon a subject closely interwoven with this of Irish municipal reform. It was for a return of the number of voters at the last Cork election who had affixed their marks to the affidavits of registry—in short, for a return of the proportion of the Cork constituency under the Reform Bill who could not read or write. Sergeant Jackson, as it may be recollected, had averred that there were no less than 600 of the electors of Cork who could not write their names I What the consideration must have been which alone could operate upon the Irish Artorney-Ge neral to resist such a motion, it is easy enough to con ceive. It certainly wa s not precisely the same as that so humorously implied by Dr. Baldwin, viz., that he . was afraid to let this country know to what a pitch the Corkonian rabble were over-educated ! No ; Sergeant Jackson was unfortunately too well informed. He knew well wh a t sort o f an i ma l s t h ey ar e who exercise the political functions of Irish electors, and used the fact as , a warning to P ar li ament aga i nst th e admission to municipal, or any other power, which could be brought to bear against the constitution, of a description of persons still less intelligent and independent than those whose wretchedness it now appears that the Irish Attorney-General was ashamed to have recorded by a Parliamentary proceeding. Those scandalously incom petent Cork ,electors were men lyi ng prostrate un d er the tyranny . of their priests. The e v id ence d e li vere d ce placed before the intimidation Committee long sin before our readers the manner in which that tyrannical :lominion has been invariably exerted. The atrocious prosecution of Abraham Sly the other day at Carlow, plotted for between two perjured witnesses, and 'coun tenanced at least by the priest who had Corrigan's con science in his keeping, will leave no one in doubt as to the wicked ends for which the Popish priests of Ireland are capable of abusing their unbridled power.. Yet it is upon a class of creatures, lower, meaner, more abject in their submission to the ghostly tempter —more illiterate, more devoid of all pretension to free agency, beyond all comparison more so than the Cork constituency, whose moral and intellectual nakedness the Irish Attorney-General was so eager to screen—it is upon nominal occupants of 5/. premises, besides nominal ten pounders—it is on such priest-ridden dupes and slaves that the municipal franchise is about to be bestowed, under the name of a popular, free, and enlightened institution T. There never was so dark a crime meditated against the constitutional monarchy of England—there never was a blow more fatal struck against good government and civil liberty—than this surrender to a gross, low minded, and turbulent priesthood, already gorged with social domination over a superstitious race, the guardianship of the very barriers which by our wiser ancesters had been raised against its assaults, and the authority to employ its myriads of vassals in the de. molition of such our defences. With doctrinal Popery as we have often said, the State has no concern—with political Popery, much. The Ministry, bestridden by O'Connell, is now handing over 50 or 60 Protestant corporations. in Ireland to be devoured by a single Popish corporation, that insatiable cormorant called the Popish Church, by nature and necessity the sworn foe of every civil power which strives for equality with it. What political Popery has done for the further ance of its own objects it will do again for the further- ante of similar objects. What reason is there why the temporal power of Popery in Ireland should now demean itself with more integrity than it did 150 years ago, or with greater forbearance towards the members of the Protestant community ? Let us present the reader with a few further specimens of the wrongs which were inflicted on Irish Protestants—of the de signs which were avowed for the extirpation of their religion, and for the universal establishment of the Romish Church and State in Ireland ; nor ought the tricks played by these pious revolutionists, in what con cerned the corporations of Ireland, to be deemed un seasonable at a:time like this. They affirmed, both publicly and privately, with many oaths, that they would in a short time have our estates and Churches ; that if they suffered us to live, they would make us hewers of wood and drawers of water ; that Ire land must be a Catholic country whatever it cost ; and as for the English, they would make them as poor devils as when they came first into Ireland. And they assured us that this was no rash surmise of their own, but that it was premeditated and resolved, and that we should quickly find it by the effects ; of which they were so confident (though we could not believe them) that some of the most serious amongst them advised their Protestant friends in private, with all earnestness, to change their religion ; for,' said they, you will be forced to do it at length, and if you delay but a little time, it will he too late, and perhaps you may not be accepted—for no Protestant must expect to enjoy any thing in this kingdom ; and we resolve to re duce all things to the state they were in under Henry VII., before Poiniug's Act." " The sheriffs and deputy-lieutenants - of counties were generally poor and mean people; many of them had been servants in the meanest condition of Protestants ; who, if they injured anybody in their employments, had not sub stance enough to answer the charges of a suit, much less the damrp,-es expected by way of reparation. After the Earl of Tyrconnel had named his sheriffs of this stamp for the year 1687, it will hardly be• found that any Protestant recovered any debt by execution. The main reason of this was the poverty of sheriffs; which made men unwilling to trust the execution of a bond for 20/. into their hands, they not being responsible even for such a small sum, as too many found to their. cost. The mayors and other magistrates in their new-modelled Corporations were generally of the same sort. In Dublin they could not pick up men enough that bad the face to appear as burgesses ; and some of those that they named had not money to buy themselves gowns. 1 think their number was never com plete. It was yet worse in the country Corporations : in many places they were not able to pay the Attorney-Gene ral's fees, which stopped their new charters, till the. calling a Parliament necessitated him to pass them gratis." We implore Members of Parliament to turn these matters in their minds. They are characterisacs of temporal Popery, unchangeable and intrinsic. They apply as closely to 1836 rs they did to 1686. They involve now, as . they did at that time, the whole fate of Ireland.— Times. Upon the third reading of the Bill for Irish Muni cipal Reform there will be a debate in which the Con servatives will undoubtedly be triumphant, and a divi sion in which the Destructives will probably be vic torious. If the battle were to be concluded upon the floor of the .Lower House, we should not be well con ented with such an apportionment of the honours of But, knowing that there will be abundant time for an appeal to the calm and deliberate judgment of our countrymen. upon this most important question, we consent—while we see the brutal ferocity of Mr. O'Connell foiled by the polished keenness of Lord Stanley, and the tumid insanity of Lord John Russell contrasted with the masculine energy of Sir Robert Peel,—to have the balance of the strength of the de bate most imperfectly represented by the calculation of the numbers of the division. Nevertheless we shall both lament and 'condemn the absence from the struggle of any whom their pledges entitle us to call the friends of the Constitution, as it exists in Church and State. We know that the Bill is in the most comprehensive sense of the word unpopular ; that the mind and heart of England revolt from the cause of the bloated dema gogue and the factious priest : that the enslaved Cabi net is a scorn and scoff even to the mob of the mar ket-place, even to the caucus of the tavern. Very often have our adversaries concealed their actual weak ness by a show of noisy strength, overpowering the still and quiet disapprobation of the million by the boisterious and 'talkative sympathy of the score. "It is in disputes," says Swift, " as in armies, where the weaker side sets up false lights and makes a great noise, to make the enemy believe them more numerous and strong than they really are." But in the question on which the House of Commons is now to pronounce its judgment we have not even a show, a pretence, of national sentiment. Where are the petitions, the ad dresses, the meetings, the pamphlets ? In perfect reliance upon public sympathy and support, the House of Lords may proceed to the discharge of its duty. Nevertheless, it is not fair even to the House of Commons that it should be suffered to appear more averse to religion, more hostile to justice, more forgetful of truth than it really is, and for this reason the Conservative Member of Parliament will be guilty of a grievous error who shall be absent from his seat without sufficient cause on this momentous oc casion. It is not the design—nay, it is not the pro posal—of his Majesty's Government to frame a good system of Municipal Government for Ireland. The Bill which Parliament is called upon to pass does not contemplate an improvement in the administration of corporate funds, a change in the selection of borough magistrates, better watching, better lighting—or does not contemplate these things as the final object of its provisions. It purposes to effect the return to Parlia ment of an increased number of Roches, and Ruth yens, and Wyses, and Finns. How does the best witness describe the intended working of the measure ? Does he talk of prevented peculation, of reformed abuses, of corrected partialities, of removed disquali fications ? Psha ! he anticipates with exultation his " normal schools for political agitation." He tells us they have been erected in England, and must be erected in Ireland. And if the English Municipal Reform Act has really perpetuated an evil which it was in tended to remedy, has simply transferred an abuse which it was intended to extinguish, it would be wise to re gard it, in th ose respects in which it has thus failed, as a beacon to be shunned, rather than as a guide to be followed. If in the English boroughs we see magistrates and councillors chosen with reference to no qualification but the fury of their political zeal, we may be sure that in the Irish boroughs the application of the same principles will not elevate candour and impartiality to the Chamber or the Bench. If in the English boroughs* we see municipal patronage exer cised for political purposes with a recklessness of which Toryism never dreamed, we may be sure that in the Irish boroughs we are not likely to see cooler eaution, war. THE SEJN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 28, 183 G. or more considerate moderation. The mischief is, in deed, great in England, where its source is only in po litical animosities ; but it will be multiplied an hun dred fold in Ireland, where, as every religious topic is made political, every political topic is of necessity made religious. The existing state of the Irish Cor porations is represented as abominably bad. If we concede all their enemies say of them, the very hyper bole in which we describe the evil condemns the pro posed cure. The Protestant Mayor, the Protestant Aldermen, the Protestant Police, have been the in stalments of a faction. Be it so. The Popish Mayor, the Popish Aldermen, the Popish Police, will be the instrument of a faction—of a faction more numerous, more greedy, less educated, less !oyal—of a faetion exasperated by the memory of long subjugation, and stimulated by the intoxica tion of recent triumph. Judging the Irish people by all the evidence which their recent history affords. of their actual position—by the reluctance of their wit nesses to inform, and by the refusals of their juries to convict—by the shorthand writer's report of the rhe toric of their Romanist divines, and by the increasing premium on the insurance of the lives of their Pro testant ministers—by their Corrigans and their Anne Rooneys,—by their Sheils and their Woulves,—we think deliberately that the form of Government which is found to be suitable to England is, prima facie, unsuitable to Ireland. The adoption of a set of ab stract principles for the guidance of Statesmen in the government of two countries Which have no resem blance of circumstance or character is madness. We appeal from the Whigs of to-day to those of the old time : from the Russell of 1836 to the Russell of 1683 —from Lord Plunket to Lord Somers—from Dr. Mac• Hale to the protesting Bishops—and from the prin ciples which Lord Melbourne would force upon his Sovereign to the principles which, for the welfare and happiness of these kingdoms, placed the family of that Sovereign upon the Throne.—Morning Post. The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Bill, the third reading of which will be moved this evening in the House of Commons, is, we believe, very little al tered from what it was at its first introduction to that •House. Sir Robert Peel said, when he proposd a total alteration of the measure, both in principle and its working machinery, that, if he did not succed in this, he would give Ministers very little trouble in re spect to the details of their Bill. He has kept his word, and the consequence is, that the public know nothing about these details, except that on certain nights a certain number of clauses were gone through. We do not know why it was deemed expedient thus to neglect the Bill as soon as it was decided that a ma jority of the House preferred the general plan of the Government (suggested no doubt by Mr. O'Connell) to that proposed by .Sir It. Peel and Lord.F. Egerton. We hope that no feeling of petty pride was at the bottom of this neglect. The Bill remains what we described it to be at the beginning, a party measure, framed for the purpose of transferring the local power and patronage of towns into the hands of the Roman Catholic priests and other political agitators, and wholly unfitted for securing to the towns of Ireland that improvement of their local go- Vernment of which they so greatly stand in need. We have heard nothing like an argument in favour of the Bill, beyond some variations and additional flourishes upon Mr. O'Connell's mock theme of " equal justice." As Ministers have borrowed the plan, so they have also borrowed their sole argument in support of it from the same source. " England and Scotland," they say, have had a Municipal Reform founde'd upon election by 5/. householders—let us beware, lest we treat Ire land as. if she had not an equal claim to Municipal Reform with England and Scotland." In such an ar gument they seem to forget that an " equal claim" and a claim to a similar measure are very different things. We certainly do not wish to deny equal justice to Ire land. We desire to see equal and ample justice prevail every where : but it is possible (from the different cir cumstances and habits of the people) that the same le ;islative provisions which would procure justice in Eng land, would procure injustice in Ireland. It is justice to give to the respectable inhabitants of towns the power of conducting their own local government by the election of it persons from among themselves to carry it on ; but if we happen to know by experience that tIM power which an Act of Parliament nominally gives to the inhabitant householders would in effect be wielded by the Homan Catholic priests, and Made subservient to their interests, such an Act of- Parliament would not be an act of justice but of oppreSion. It would be adding to an influence which is already monstrous, and i which we well know to be 'tyrannously ab used u p on i every occasion of political excitement. The pretence (for it is nothing better), that Ireland has a just claim to laws of the same character as those which are con sidered safe and• useful in England, is falsified, not only by general knowledge respecting the different habits and circumstances of the two kingdoms, but by the measures and the declarations of those who put forward the pretence. If the Irish ought to have the same sort of municipal Corporations as the English, because it is equal justice, should they not, on the same principle, have the same sort of police, and the same small amount of military force to keep them in subjec tion ? But Ministers know that circumstances will not permit of this. They know that Ireland must have an armed police, such as the English would not tole rate, because they are conscious to themselves that they submit to the law without such force. The 'Ministers know that Ireland must have six times the amount of military force, in proportion to its popula tion, which is required in England, and yet they have the confidence to pretend that if similar laws are not given to Ireland as to England, the Irish may, com plain that they do not get equal justice t. But the Parliamentary proceedings of Friday night furnish the most instructive example that could . be desired of what Ministers and Mr. O'Connell mean by " equal justice." Lord John Russell was asked whether it was intended that the Marriage and Registration of Births Bills should extend to Ireland. The Noble Lord an swered .that Ireland would not be included, for the Roman Catholic clergy had an objection to it. In this short declaration we have the whole secret re garding the present mode of Ministerial legislation for Ireland. That which the Roman Catholic clergy desire to have is " equal justice," but such laws as they do not desire to have, England may keep, to herself. In such matters it seems that unequal justice is pre ferable ! Such is the state of thraldom of the present Ministry on Irish affairs, that Lord John Russell would not dare to tell the House of Commons that he had taken, or omitted to take, any particular course on account of the objection of the Protestant clergy ; but the Roman Catholic Clergy must be attended to in everything, because their Representative, Mr. O'Con nell, will have it so, and their will goes by th e name of " equal justice." We trust we have now said enough to show that upon this absurd pretence no this ß even man Roman honest and intelli gent M em b er o f Parli ament ought to vote with Mr. O'Co nne ll an d th e Ministers ing. It is not, however, merely to prevent the Catholic priests from obtaining fresh power, which they would be sure to abuse, that the present Bill ought to be rejected. There is another motive, which every be • nevolent man who knows anything about Thatthe rkeianlosdtoamte y good and effi cient I s r o ela la n m d e o n u ta g h h l t y to in b w e a a n c t tu o a f te a d r b e y ail system of local government, for the amendment t of local evils, that it is a deplorable ambnopairltdiyshoh eradi more dbifi hands thing official aaa than lost, dr o oaurnts l ys e e v t Ne h hr e o present noeefh btihtuewt it el hlxo o ihss p eet in o fwg r tibluopont,oihtwyj from nothing b smi e s f lost, hraoeum: no have searched into the most obscure and abominable recesses of London depravity and wretchedness, notorioushednescan stateform anof the ad largerequa adequate idea of those e o ao io fthe habituailsh t owns , which a Irish it is now proposed to invest with the trappings of mu- Scot.urGtsileasn'sdis'alleys b etween th m e ay purlieus kow mu nicipal government. Some of our reade o r r s o w f h a s t a t i h r e o s i h lb qu o a r r te t r h o e f Whitechapel and Spitalfields. Let them imagine two or three decent streets , and the remainder of a town made up of such habitations and such inhabitants as the neighbourhoods we have just mentioned furnish— they will then have a tolerably correct notion of what the small towns in the Roman Catholic part of Ireland generally are. The moral debasement, the noisome filth, the savage destitution and savage excess of these places exceeds all that language can convey of what is loathsome and detestable to both the physical and moral sense. It is time that a vigilant system of local Government were set on foot, to endeavour to put an end to this. Great would be the labour—we well know—and great the perse verance necessary to accomplish a reform of such abominations, which are deeply rooted in the habits of the population for generation upon generation. Butit ought nevertheless to be attempted, and to make any new constitution of municipal government, without a most earnest view to the cleansing away of those town nuisances, is a neglect little short of criminal. Now there is no chance of any reform of this kind under the operation of the new Bill. The lower order of rate payers are so accustomed to the sight of this beggary and beastliness—these perpetual brawls and breaches of the peace, that habit has worn away disgust. It is certain that they will neither take the trouble nor make the sacrifices necessary for the removal of these horrid sinks of degradation, crime, and pestilence, nor is there any hope that the Roman Catholic clergy will exert themselves for such a purpese. They are too busily employed in political agitation to have any time or energy to spare for civilizing the people over whom they reign with absolute sway. , Neither have they (in general) much inclination that way, for with improve ment would come independence, and the priests do not wish the common people to be independent of them. We therefore intreat. every man in and out of Parlia ment, who has the welfare of Ireland at heart, to re member that a system is wanted in that kingdom which may teach the people habits of cleanliness, and com fort, and decency, and independence, and that nothing is less likely to promote such a system than new laws for the furtherance of political agitation, and for giving the Roman Catholic priests fresh interest in making passive political instruments of the population. For God's sake let the people of Ireland have moral and physical improvement, and let great care be taken to provide for them such government and such teachers. as will promote these ends. Assuredly neither Mr. O'Connell and his political trained bands, nor the Ro man Catholic priests, with their ardent craving after .political domination, will be the means of providing real justice and sound reform for the Irish people.— Morning Herald. The picture of the condition of things in Spain, as pourtrayed by our Expresses, is not many degrees more satisfactory, and barely more intelligible, than the neutralized and amphibious state of administrative ex istence, Sketched by the same hand, in reference to France. M. Mendizabal is, however, a very different man from M. Thiers, nor could the Christino Go vernment be compared with the Orleans, without im putative calumny on the former. M. Mendizabal's Cabinet is surrounded by difficulties, like that of Louis Phillippe ; but they are not difficulties growing out of his own treachery, or of his own creating He is it once an able and an honest man ; and in his exertions to overcome the difficulties which Conservative in trigues and Conservative funds have contrived to gather round his path, he has, at all events, the sympathy of the people with him, in whose cause no one can doubt that he is sincerely embarked. If those difficulties are occasionally too much for him --if in spite of - all zeal and ability, they occasion ally counteract or subvert, the best of his pro jects, and the most liberal of his plans, justice will be rendered to him by those who are perfectly aware of what he has to encounter from secret treachery and open violence. If he fails or falls, there will, there fore, neither be the humiliation accompanying the failure, nor the danger following the fall, as we on Friday inferred would certainly accompany the first trip of Louis Phillippe. M. Mendizabal has steadily pursued the line of liberal policy which he chalked out on entering the Ministry, and to which he owned him self pledged. All his measures, since he has been in power, have been unexceptionably in conformity with the spirit of the age. A broad, sagaciout and states manlike policy has characterised all he has proposed or effected—whether in organic reforms, or administra tive—whether in the overthrow of ecclesiastical or of political abuses—whether in his commercial or fiscal modifications or improvements. The features of a philosophical statesmanship, which ought to mark all intelligent Governments at the present day, charac terize all he has proposed, all he has accomplished, and all lie has, unfortunately, .failed accom plishing. He may be said rather to have been in ad vance of the demands of the age, than either to have followed or accompanied them. This is a high cha racter—the highest that a statesman can deserve or enjoy—and it is one which will always follow him, either in the bustle of the Cabinet, or should he fall into the tranquillity of retreat. The difficulties with which he is surrounded appear to us 'to be almost in surmountable. We - suspect those difficulties to arise, in a very large degree—not less from the secret aid of the Conservative and Absolutist factions, whose in terest is the same in every part of Europe—not less from sins of commission by • end - tries than from sins of omission by friends. We mean a want of cordial support from the neighbouring Govern ment of France, whence (being ostensibly embarked in the same cause) he ought to expect in common reason; corroboration, countenance, and aid. But that Government, as we showed on Friday, is not in a wholesome state. It wears the mere mask of li berty. The language of the Barricades is on its lips, but its heart is with the despots. It is hollow, false and rotten from top to toe. Were it not, indeed, that the despots perfectly understand Louis Phillippe's se cret inclinations towards them, they would not dare to risk the repeated acts of aggression upon European liberty which they do. What can be expected from a Government hypocritically pandering to the liberti cide design of the absolute powers, in order to earn a place in their divan, and to perfume itself into fitness for their legitimate and democratic sa vour of the Barricades ?—How can such a poli tical "standing lie" as this Government sympa thise with the honest intentions of Mendizabal in favour of public liberty and public reform ? Every liberal measure he brings forward must b 9 felt as a moral blow by his apostate neighbour, and every improvement which he makes will be felt, and truly felt,. to increase the clatterer of his position by aug menting, through unfavourable contrast, the public odium in which he has been long sinking, and is at present involved. In a word, we believe the duplicity of France to be one of the main causes of the ambigu ously protracted warfare in the North of Spain. There is a moral as well as physical aid, and vice versa. Hints are occasionally thrown out of French interven tion against the Carlist rebels ; but we are not to be deluded into a belief that the " Ethiopian changes his skin, or the leopard his spots." There is not - tile slightest sincerity in any such intention. " Credat Judceus appella ; non Ego." A man does not readily assist that which he dreads ; nor weaken or injure that cause with which his sympathies are bound up ; upon the success of which he builds his evil hopes ; and plays his last desperate and dishonourable stake...—. Morning Advertiser. TRENIAINE.—The Quarterly Review, in an able ar ticle on Mr. Ward's " Tremaine, or the Man of Refinement," remarks that "the character of the hero is admirably sustained, He exhibits one of the very few faithful pictures of the gen tlemanlike character. The story is excellently told." This production, a most worthy companion to " Pelham," is now in course of publication in the new issue of " Colburn's Modern Novelists, in weekly shilling Numbers, and is, like Mr. Bul wer's admirable work, to be completed in six Parts, with a portrait of the author, and three other engravings, by the Findens. The second Number is now before us. RIPON.--TITHE UPON MlLK.—William Darn borough was this day, (March 18th,) summoned before two of the Magistrates, viz., Charles Oxley, Esq., and the Rev. J. Newsam, for the payment of tithe upon milk, to the amount of 11. 4s. After the reading of the summons, William Dar n _ borough was asked why he would not pay, to which he replied that he thought it unreasonable, and stated that the milk was ready according to the previous notice he had given, for the tithe upon it to be taken in kind, and further stated the milk should be ready for them every morning and evening, if they would only come for it, and he very civilly and firmly stated, that he would not pay the tithe upon it in any other way than in kind. The Rev. Magistrate recommended the tithe agent, who is a solicitor, to go to the extremity of the law in getting the demand. Is it not repugnant to the feelings of every libe ral minded person to see the established priesthood thus fed from the hard-earned earnings of the laborious and indus trious. And for what ? To pamper a Dean and Chapter al ready rolling in wealth and luxury.' The late Dean of Ripon ( Dr. Waddilove) left him an immense fortune about 120,0001., or more, and it is well known the church nursed him well, and yet he never demanded this obnoxious tithe upon milk to the rigour now enforced. Well may the juvenile inhabitants of Ripon follow " the very reverend the Dean," saying " Milk Dean," which words are also writen on the door posts. PRICES OF CANALS, DOCK SI OCKS, I SHIPPING INTELLIGE ASSURANCE COMPANIES, &c. &c. &c. LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 25. Number ' Dividend Price of ' per CANALS. per Paid. Share. Shares. Annum. ~760 61, per cent. Ashton and 01dham....k -e7age 971. 188. sh. 102 1,482 6/. Ashby•de_le-Zouch Average 1131. sh. 65 1,260 Basingstoke lOOl. sh. 51 1,005 5/. Brecknocr: and Abergavenny 150 . sh. 90 4,oooksh. 121. Ws. Birmingham, I-16th share l7/. 10s. 129.1 4,000 Ditto and Liverpool .1unct....11;0/. sh. all pd 301 6(5) Bridgewater and Taunton ....100/. sh. all pd GI 400 5/. Chelmer and Blackwate r 100/. sh. 102 500 421. Coventry 1001. sh. SIO 4,516 Croydon Average 31/. 2s. 10d. sh. 21 2,01 11 / 31. 10s. Dudley lOll/. sh. '7B 600 - 6/. Derby 100/. sh. 120 20,000 3,5751 Ellesmere and Chester Average 133/. sh. 85 fflt 43% Erewash 1001. sh. 400 1,297 28/. Forth and Clyde Average 4C.01.1(75. sh. €O9 1,500 12/. Grand Junctic -- . _ ... tlO/. sh. 226 ?,8491 Grand Union 100/. sh. 25 1,521 Grand Surrey lOO/. sh. 10,000/. 4/. per cent. Ditto (optional) Loan ION. 3,096 Grand Western 600 131. 12s. Bd. Glamorganshire, Average cost 172/.13s 4d. 1,960 - Gloucester and Berkley In/. sh. - 749 • 10t. Grantham 150/. oh. 6,238 1/. 10s Huddersfield Average 57/. 6s. 6d. sh. 100 Kensington 100 sh all pd. 5,328 11. Kennet and Avon, Average 391.85. 10d. sh. 2,8971 20/, Leeds and Liverpool 100/. sh. 545 124 Leicester l4O/. sh. 907 41. Leicester and Northampton... Aver 831. 10s. 550 5/. per cent. I,iskeard and i.ooe Union 251. sh. all pd, 2,409 91. Monmouthshire 100/.811. 150 9/. Melton Mowbray 1001. sh. 500 25/. Mersey and Irwell lOO/. sh. 3,000 Macclesfield 1001. sh. all pd. 247 15/. Neath 100/. sh 100 Nene Navigation Bonds -WO/. sh. 100/. pd, 1,786 321. Oxford lOOl. sh. 5)2 2/. Oakham 1301. sh. '2,400 4/. Peak Forest Average about 781. sh. 11,418 14s. Regent's (or London) Aver. 331. His. PAL Mi. 5,689 5/. per cent. Rochdale Average 85/. sh. 500 8/. Shropshire 1'.25/. sh. 800 10/. Somerset Coal 150/. sh. 45,0 0 04 61 per cent. Ditto Lock Fund Stock ..... ....... 12/ 10s. sh. 700 064 Staftbrd .and Worcester llO/. sh. 500 M. Shrewsbury 125/. sh. 300 Si. Stourbridge - 3,047 ll. 10s. ' Stratford-on-Av,it ...Average 79/. 9s. 1:41. sh. 533 13/. Swansea 100/. sh. 3,762 1/. Severn and Wye and Railway ...Av 35/. sh. 2,60 4 so. 32/. Ws. Trent and Mersey, 1-share 100/. sh. 8,119 Thames and Medway...Aver. 19/. ss. 13d. O. 1,00051. l 151 Warwick and Birmingham lOO/. sh. 1 poit:h. 3 940 ' Pi.. Watwick and Napton lOOl. sh. 6,000 3/. 108 Worcester and Birmingham...A v. 78/. Bs. sh. 5,003 255. Wilts and Berks .. Average 67/. 10s. Sd. sh. 800 61, Wyrley and Essington ' 125/. sh 120 ... . . Wisbeack 105/. sh. 905 li. Wey an'l Arun llO/. sh. DOCKS. 220 85 19 75 45 22, 2 ' 609 84 3 o c. Commercial 1,06715 h .' 499,667 g/. 4 per cent. East India 3,235,3101/. 5Gs. p. et. London Ditto Bonds 1,3:40,0004 51; per et. West India '2: . 0 .1 31. 6s. 4d. Bristol Average 147/. IPs. sit. F 5 6,4,324/. 5/. per cent. Ditto Notes, various amounts ll6 1.352,752 3 onr cent. St. Katharine Stock 85i 500,000 4 i per cent. Ditto Bonds lO4 200,000 'lent. Ditto Bonds for 10 years lOll -100/. sli. 57 Stock 108 Stock 59 4 per c, Shoreham Harbour Deptford Pier "0/. sh. 3/. pd BRII)GES. 1,600 11. Hammersmith 5O/. sh. 7,231 Southwark, Old . As'. C 3/. 2s. 84. sh. 1,700 1/. 15s. . Ditto, New, of 7t per cent. 5O/. sh. 5,000 ... ...... Waterloo lOO/. sh. 5,000 I/. 2s. Ditto, Old Annuities of 8/. ... . 6O/. pd 5,000 19s. 3d. Ditto, New Ditto of 71 40/. pd 60,000/. 51. per cent. Ditto Bonds 5,818 17s. Vauxhall Average 49/. Os. Od. sh. ASSURANCE COMPANIES. 17,000 3/ lOs Albion 500/. sh. 50/, pd 50 ,000 f 5 per centi All i ance, B rit i s h & F ore i g n 100/. sh. 10/. pd 1 and 55. 50,000 6 per cent. Ditto, Marine 100/. sh. 5/. pd 24,000 f 1 per sh. Atlas 50/. sh. 5/. pd 1,`200 ';sh. 4/. Birmingham Fire 2501. sh. 55/. pd 20,000 4/ per cent. British Fire . 250/. sh. 50/: pd 12,000 6/. per cent. British Commercial 50/. sh. 5/. pd 5,000 5/. per cent. Clerical, Medical, &c. Life, ICOLsh. 12/10s pd 4,000 21 lOs County 100/. sh. pd 10,000 ss. Eagle 5O/. sh. 5/. pd ~,°„ (5 per cent. Economic Life lOOO/. sh. 250/. pd 37 ``'" /an 30/ bs. 2,271 5//. per cent. European Life 2Ol. sh. all pd 20 50,000 2s. Ditto, New 9 01. sh. 2/. pd 1/. 12, 1,000.0001. 71. per ct. Globe Stock 158 20,000 1 1. Guardian 100/. sh. '2Ol. pd 361 40,000 Fire 5 p et.") [l.:f 8 t. 3 Ho p e 501. sh. 5/. pd CI i e pc • 2,400 '61.75. (id. Imperial Fire 500/ sh. 50/. pd 120 7;500 9s. Imperial Life 100/. sh. 10/. pd 0' 13,458 10s.6d.'per sh. Indemnity Marine 1 , 0/. sh. 81. pd 15 2,020 3/ lOs Keat Fire 50/. sh. all pd .92 3/. Ditto Life • 29 10, 0 00 16s. Law Life .lOO/. sh. 10/: pd 28 3,900 London, Fire "Si. sh. 121. 103 p 1 ln 31 00) .....,... Londen, Ship 25/. sh. 12/. 10s. pd 16 9 1 ,0'd :"1. per cent. Palladium Life 50/. sh. 21. pd 21 Os 0, '5 9 ,00) Is. 6d. ['rotes tor Fire 2O/. sh. 2/. pd 1/17 , 04 2,500 11. Provident Life WOE sh. Pl. pd 194 100,000 ss. Rock Life 20/. sh. 21. pd eit 639,2•204 5/. per ceut. Royal Exchange Stork... 202 Sun 6,000 5 per cent. University Life 'OO/. sh. 5/. pd 14 50,000 4 per cent. United Kingdom Life 2/. pd ' JOINT STOCK BANKS • 5,000 • A ustralaia 4O!. sh. 49/. pd 60 10,000 10 per cent. Bank of Birmingham S IE sh. 10/. pd 13 10,000 10 per cent. Birmingham Bank .... 5O/. sh. 5/. pd 14 18,000 2 per cent. [,on/'on and Westminster...loo/ sh. 15/. pd 3,000 Lancaster 100 W. sh. 201. pd 30 25,000 6 per cent. Liverpool 100/ sh. 10/. pd 17 30,040 71 per cent. Manchester and Liverpooll 100/. sh. 10! pd 20 Discount 21,000 0 per cent. Manchester 20,000 8 per cent. Provincial Bank of 1 reland 100/. sh. 25/. pd 4:14 20, (.0 5 per cent. National Bank of Ireland s'' l. sh. 10/. pi Ic.i 10,000 National Provincial Eng. ....WO/. sh. 25/. pd 279 10,000 10 per cent. Gloucestershire 50/. sh. 71/. p 4 15 6,000 Hampshire • 5O/. sh 5/. ixl 8 G'S LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. . 501 1/ 12s Bath "01. sh. Ir/. pd 25 5,000 0/. per cent_ British 4O!. s'i. 161. pd 21; nr , ( '.percent.l s ' n s"" : l;• , d Bs. ss. j Ditto Provincial 20/. sh. 19 pd 221 811 5110 s Birmingham 50/. sh. 105 4,250 21 Os Bristol 1,500 Brighton 2O/. sh. 13, 750 Ditto, New '2Ol. sh. IS/. pd 12 2,471 5 per cent. Brighton General 20/ sh. all pd 19 4,000 31. Continental Cansolidated lOO/. 511/. pd 93 1,000 10/. City of London lOO/. sh. all pd 1, 1 00 6/. Ditto, New 4,1)00 4/. 10s. Equitable 4O/. pd 31 European 5/. pd 4 ; 10;00 5/. per cent. imperial 5O/. sh. 42, 81)0 5! per cent. Isle of Thanet 9 5/. sh. 20/. pd 20 2,351) 61. per cent. independent 3O/. sh. all pd 50 1,5"0 71 per cent. Leeds 9,0 , 0 3/. per cent. Phoenix 5 0 /. sit. 39/. pd 22! 1,600 4/. per cent. Batcliff - 100/. sh. COE pi 69 4,0'0 South Metropolitan s ' ,/. sh. 13/. pd 8200 W. per cent. United General 5O/. sh. 451. pd 35. 214 51. per cent. Warwick . 50/. sh. 50 400 1/ 55 Wakefield 25/. sh. 22 . 12,000 3!. Westminster Chartered 5O/. sh. 50 8,00 i• 12 Di tto, New SCO Yarmouth 2O/. sh. 181. pd 9 WATER WORKS. 4,800 Birmingham ' 25/. sh. 25/. pd 26 4,423 5!. East London lOO/. sh. 127 4,500 2/ lo s Grind Junction ....Average 41/ 133. 4d. sh. 51 2,000 2/. Kent 100/. sh. 4(i 3s'B 10/. Livet pool - Bootle 2201. sh. 310 1,500 2/ los New River London Bridge Water Annuities 58 6,486 1/. Manchester and Salford lOO/. sh. 52 1 , 000 4 per cent. Smith London 100/. sh. 81 B,aoo 31. West Middlesex ....Average 631. 12s. 94. sh. '77 1,360 1/ Hs York Building Co. Lessee Prop 100/. sh. 05 IRON RAILWAYS. Bristol and Exeter - 8 Bolton and Leigh Clarence lOO/. sh. 100/. pi 40 Forest of Dean • 501. pd 28 Grand Junction 100/. sh. 40/. p 1 81 Great Western IOW. sh. 10/. p 4 4( Ilartlepool 100/. sh. 100/. pd 8 Hull and Selby 5O/. sh. 4/. ipd I( Leeds and Selby lOO sh. 12( Leicester and Swannington -XV. sh. all pd 4.F. I,i verpool and Manch ester...loo/. sh. 100/. pd 25` Ditto Quarter Shares "Si. pd 61 Loughborough . '.`zAverage 142!. 17s. sh. London and Brighton lOO/. sh. 5/ pd 2' Ditto ditto (Gibbs') ...20/. sh. I/. pd I Ditto , ditto (Rennie) London and Blackwell 50/ sh. 3/ pd : Londo . and Dover 50/. sh. 1/. pd I London and Gravesend 201 sh 1/. pi London and Greenwich .0/. sk. 20/ pd 3( London and Birmingham ...100/. sh. 501. pit 10) London and Southampton 5Ol. sh. lot pi 2 , London and Croydon 51. pd Northern and. Eastern lO9/. sh. 0/. pd North Midland lOO/. sh. 5/. pd 11 Preston and. Wigan '3O/. pd Preston and Wyrq 50/. sh. 3/. pd I! Stockton and Darlington ION. sh. 24 , DurhaM Junction 100/. sh. 101. pd • MINES. Albion Copper 5/. sh. 3/. pd A lten 15/. sh. 10/. 10s pd ' Anglo Mexican, iss. 5L pm....100E sh. all pd • Ditto Subscription 25/. pd Bolanos • l5Ol. sh all pd 13 Brazilian Imp. iss. 5/. pm 35/. sh. 20/ pd 2 Macaubas & Cocacs United....2s/ sh. 22/. pd I Ditto St. John Del Rey 20/. sh. ('. pd Cata Branca... 61/. pd Candonga 7 41. pd 2.500 (361 2,000 2,500 Ws. 30,003 'J.) 2,0 , 0 2,100 2,010 1,500 5,100 1) per cent. 70 1441. 10,000 45,000 12,000 30,000 20,000 3 per cent. 25;000 20,(}00 20,000 12,500 2,500 2,600 1;000 6/. per cent. 800 8,000 4,000 10,000 2,000 10,000 31..'5. 6,0L0 11,000 10,000 ...... 10,000 10,000 20,03) 11.10 s. 0,000 $,500 2,850 3/. 20,000 0,155 2,000 11,500 Copiapo 2Ol, sh .124/ j , tl Bolivar Copper Compariy 20/. sh. 201. pc! 23 2 14 2.1 24 20i 131 105 40 42 6 . _ Ditto Scifp 4/. pd British Iron 50/. sh. 504 pd British Coppyr Si. sh. 33/. pd Columbian, iss. Si. pm. English General Mining A ssoclation...2o/. sh. 151. pd Mexican Company 10 0 /. sh 5131. p Polberou Consols 10/. sh. 8/. pd Real del Monte, Unregistered Ditto Loan Notes l5Ol. pd United Mexican, iss. 2pm ....401. sh. all pd Ditto Scrip Ditto Subscription 2l. pd Ditto New Scrip Si pd Union Gold, iss. 21.55. pm.... 223/. sh. 43/. pd West Cork ' 50/. sh. 45/. pd LITERARY INSTITUTIONS. London, with Bronze Ticket 75gs. Mi. Lond , m University 100/. sh. all pd Russell 2sgs. sli King' College 100/. pd MISCELLANEOUS. 4 10,000 10s. Australian Agricultural....loo/. sh. Fit. pd 1,030 1/. Auction Mart 50/. sh. 6,000 British American Land Company Mi. pd 10,000 61 per cent. Canada Company 1001. sh. 20/. pd 200,000 5/. per cent. Upper Canada Loan City Bonds, 4 per cent 15,000 1/. per cent. General Steam Navigation ...15/. sh. 131. pd 10/. per cent. Hudson's Bay Stock 1/. London Corn. Sale Rooms Av. 75/. sh. New Brunswick Land Company 22/ pd 2,754 5/. per cent. Reversionary Interest 50c...100/. sh. 100/. pd 2,633 Si. per cent. Ditto New 100 . /. sh. 4ZI. pd 4,000 10,000 Van Diemer.'s Land 100/. sh. 17/. pd 30,000 5,( 00 1,000 1,500 ....... 700 2,000 LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES, :MARCH 17, 1836. • BANKS. 1,500,00)1. 61. p. ct. Bank of Scotland 6s Bd. sh. all pd 204 2,000,0 Y/. sp. ct. Royal of Scotland 1001.0 h. all pd 17 500,0111. Bp. ct. British Linen Company 100/. sh. ..11 pd 9 3,000,00 e/. 61. p. ct. Commercial 5OOl. oh. 1001 pd 5,000,900/. 5 p. ct. National lOO/. sh. 10/. pd 2,000,000/. 4/. p. ct. Glasgow Union 25 0 / sh. 50/. pd t,000,0(0/. 4p. ct. Western of Scotland 2OOl. sh 301. pd INSURANCE COMPANIES -..— ...... -- - ‘251.000511. fit -- P. ct. Scottish Union 201. sh. 11. pd 251. - ,500 5 p. ct. Hercules 1001. sh. 101. pd 151 0; 1 0 e,0 0 0 5 p. ct. Insurance Co. of Scotland ...10/. sh. all pd '7l les 50,000 6 p. ct. North British 2001. sh. 101. pd 151. 1,000 5 p. et. Caledonian Fire 1001. sh. 101. pd 151 Os 5 , 00 0 F p. et. Edinburgh Life 1001. sh. 101. pd 14110, 100,000 4 p. ct. West of Scotland lOl. pd 10/ lOs MISCELLANEOUS. 4,510 ...... ... Edin. and Glas. Un. Cana1...501. sh. all pd 251 . Ditto Allocated ...9 5 1. sh. all pd 651. 5,400 5 per cent. Edinb. Joint Stock Water.... 251. sh. all pd 344 Carron Iron Company 2501. sh. all pd 450/ . 2,0005 h. 15 per cent. Shotts Iron Foundery 50/. sh. 3SI. pd 25/. 10,000 3 per cent. Edinburgh & Leith Glass 2O/. sh. 16/. pd FL. 4,500 10 per cent. Edinburgh Coal Gas 25/. sh. all pd 65/. 4,450 1 Opeecent. Glasgow Gas all s P h . d 375411 3,000 1 , 51 per ceat. .. 25/. sh. all pd 60/. 750 6 per cent. Leith Coa l Gas 20. s 1 . 1,200 5 per cent. Edinbu r g h and Dalkeith Ilailwa l y.. l .so Zquitable Loan Cora L pan y ,251 sh. 91 pd 101. _ riIJS ESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE 1/4-' TOM-HOUSE, MARCH 26. v ‘ .3 E. The Ramona, Strannack, from Hamburgh; Ed w ard, \' sels, Bremen. 26- , ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, MAR°, s - , The Lucretia, Muirhcad, for Demerara ; Countess Dam.' Todd, Sidney ; Hamilton, Johnson, Demerara; Factor, price, Cape Coast ; Atwich, Mackay, Hobart Town ; Broull!!! Knox, Quebec; Sir William Curtis, Haward, St. Michael!! Bengal, Marjoram, Bombay ; Jeremiah, M‘Laren, Lubec' ; Britannia, Downie, Hamburgh ; William Joliffe, Dowlfi Calais. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, 3 1 A Rcil 26' The C Ms, fol. Dunkirk - Queen of t he Isl es ' Blokallar, ater, Leghorn ; erril Jonge Johanna, 'Verbruggen, Antwerp i, Prince of Waterloo, Page, Ostend ; FriendsChapt, Dauler. Hamburgh; Naiad, Brown, Halifax ; Jane, Woo d ' Memel, White, Hamburgh ; Betton, Didou, Constontinlik. Julia, Preagu, Calais ; Batavia, Dunlop, R rdanr; otte maar, Heath, ditto. 26. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, MA nc la All , ' The Post Boy, Perrian, for Marseilles ; Mary Gray, Dodds , ' Antwerp ; Navarino, Murray, Quebec ; Waterloo, Q u ebec; Restigouche ; Esther, Hill, Quebec ; Elizabeth, Bott, Lively,•Coats, Riga; Lord God " h Kent, Quebec; 3l ° , garet, White, Riga. Stettin: ARRIVED AT LIVERPOOL, MARCO 2b. La. The John o'Gaunt, Robinson, from Canto n ; Sophia, zana, Catania, &c. ; 10, Barnes, Demerara; Fairy, Laguna. • ENTERED FOR LOADING, The Caledonia, for Africa ; Bamboo, Brook, Calcut7! Tigris, Canton ; Hebe, Thompson, Gibraltar ; Nero, Jr': Lisbon ; Red Rover, Watkins, Messina and Palermo; I"rila Rot s ct Marshall, and Birmingham, Patterson, New Orleans ; child. Laidley, New Orleans, Cole, Howard, Clark' and Pacific, Hoxie, New Orleans • Trefusis, Kinnon, Mcssirl,„3„;le', MARCH 26. Palermo ; Millman, Arnold, 'Campo Bello, Haselden, (,)" ton, Anderson, and Abercromby, Ford, Quebec. CLEARED OUTWARDS, MARCH 26. ,„,a, The Mary, Mackenzie, foa.Naples, &c. ; Emerald, • and Miranda, Bolton, Demerara ; Mary, Hogarth Paragon, Ncholls, Boston ; Mark Breeds, Robinson: Cons"-dc tinople ; Tiger, Upton, New York Wells, Trinida Crown, Ponsonby, Calcutta ; Boyket, Austin, Bordeatt Clementson, Newby, Jamaica; Florida, Corrie, Nevi_,Y ° , l , • Magnet, Payne, Montreal ; United Brothers, Fox, Pla, ll :l s' Agnes and Ann, Roebuck, New Orleans; Credo, 14° " e' Quebec. TELEGRAPHED. Off Holyhead, inward bound, at 12 noon, the Gi P se y sto ,inr; from Waterford. Off Point Lynas, inward boun d, at 2;;; the Napoleon, A. S. New York Packet. East of the r frog' ing Light, inward bound, the John o'Gaunt, 13. 5 " Canton. c MARINE SOCIETY.—The anniversary dione..lre this valuable and patriotic Institution took place on Satwibe at the London Tavern. In the absence of Lord 110 133 °„ ° /,' st• arty e re tao P ef r eg e dr s ei i n d a gt en , n President, themw gentlemen,bhe eohrpawaoi patrons s owdni p asss r t e iotn v fag e k n uteh t i eseehdbedb Institution,yEo ffi i a l r l c n led e r illness Grey. t n :ien h hyo i c s . n Navy,fgasmAt family rahrsoglrb ate°s "ed, to dinner at . six o'clock. Amongst the company we ° ore' the Ambassador from the King of Oude, whose health w a _„" ss posed in a neat and appropriate speech by the Chairtryined honour for which a gentleman sitting next him re, tu beea thanks on his part. After the usual loyal toasts ha m frs' drunk, followed by appropriate music by the band and s P . 0 ' 4 , are a sional singers in attendance, the most interesting ..-,„tdre the evening occurred in the appearance of about a °", ship' well-conditioned hardy youths, belonging to the SocietY''ore° g account t s who marched round the room in excellent order, and goever gave surer,a gratifying r r a e t t i f u y r i n n i g n hearty cheers as they retired. Wm. Astell, Esq., the drank' offorthheisi ns titu t from eqoip pwhichequipped fo rit the appears sea; i that 8 3 i in 1833, 1 4 8 7 3 6 3 : i 3 n 7 1 0 83 b 5 7 6 9 7 ; re: t e a r :sit: l c:, January, 1836, 160. A liberal list 9f subscriptions sccaestYi progressh ealth of f havingt the been tiop; announced, including a hundred guineas from his 501. from Lord Romney; 30/. from Earl de Grey, ac. 0 ,0 , t C/ J BEER-DRINKING.—It is a fact, well medical men of experience in the metropolis, that e° ll ,. beer-drinker in London can scarcely scratch his &Ir . ; 11 C I out risking his life. To whatever extent the publieat.;ool" this truth may interfere with the ,interests of Mr. n h9 Buxton, and other pious dealers in beer, it is for the P ly o safety to have it known that, whether from some peeuliaroldoa the London climate, or of the London beer, a c opious u pel i beer-drinker is all orie vital part. He wears his bearf,"sil his sleeve, bare to a death wound, even from a rust) -01,0" the claw of a cat. We remember to have he ard or r&oper, cannot positively say which, in a lecture of Sir AstleY „Vl!' that the worst patients brought into the metropolitan bd6-sioitinu arc those apparently fine models of health, strength , an iVe 5 ness—the London draymen. When one of these re ° old serious injury, we think Sir Astley said, it was alwaY s fi e . c c e ban r ! to amputate, if you would give the patient the most:distam of life. The draymen, it is well known, have the unlirnit vilege of the brewer's cellar, and of course exercise that I 'oo loge with boundless liberality. In the lecture to whie l ' A w i e . , n r° „, referred, Sir Astley illustrated the effect of such inu' l ,7 e tiOi upon the constitution by an incident that had, a shorwcalie. before, occurred to him in his practice. He had bee° a irb)' to attend a draynian, a powerful, fresh-coloured, be tu g wound, looking man, who had suffered an injury in his finger fr s ) tbe small splinter of a stave. Suppuration had taken place T, of course, opened the small abscess with his lancet. Lipael,' fo tiring, the justly distinguished surgeon found that he h which appeared but atrifling one, and Sir Asler r e• gotten his lancet-case, returned to recover it, and. 53s fey; patient in a dying state ; and dead the patient vras a ,„ r e , alley minutes, or, at most, in a few hours, we cannot accurratr member which. But the impression was upon Si tw o" mind, and that which he evidently intended to impres:e ;D o , ' the minds of his pupils, was, that in London, at least, t". the case of draymen and other beer-drinkers, without conslf, r ,icio: trifling surgical operation can scarcely be resorted t° enable hazard of losing the patient. Of course, where ar e "porf, operation is dangerous, the injury calling for it Mus t a bove ll dangerous still; so that every medical man in Lonclon case; things dreads a beer-drinker for his patient in a surgleautit COLCHESTER CORPORATION.—The a c ha s P er the Chamberlain of the borough for the year 18 35 co pe 3° J been published, from which it appears that the total in _,, en de, , the year was 1,927/. 10s. 6d., of which 730/. ls. was.edepei, in feasting, in electioneering, and in law expenses, 'flsprielit, ent of the Town Clerk's and Recorder's, and MaY° r's t s ' The Suffolk Chronicle is, perhaps, unnecessarily se then °wain defunct Corporation, for merely dining well at et°, t beiu expense, seeing that their best dinna did not sta°' a id , ` l , quite 100/., which is exactly Bs. 10d. less than th e Y o P o s . e of the Corporation funds for opposing the Corporat _o3yiso form Bill, Truly these Corporators were knaves of an capacity for taking care of themselves 11 1, - --- .„- I to (AnvERTisEmENT.)—T. COX SAVOn , that , e ii,e o , stc., 47, Cornhill, London, informs the Public,rr l ip P eo SILVER WATCHES, on the celebrated PATE N j f at° fo' CONSTRUCTION, (the most accurate on which a i s i.tes t i les , be made) for SIX GUINEAS EACH, with all th e fo ur li ° ,,io , provements, i. c. the detached escapement, jewelled in ~,c 1 in capped, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamelled dia l ' - 4 taming power to continue going while winding U. ~s,Ol- °I) WaNtc.hße's p l u f re i h n ise H d u i n n ti e n x g ehan Car e. s, 10s. 6d, eatra.---'- .. On the 25th inst., at Hac k ney, BlliTklS. F • ol P On the 25th inst. , still-born. i . , fi . Colfi k , Pall Mall East, of a son. f J. ID On the 23d inst., at Torquay, Devonshire, the lady ° e s' 14° 1° inpiecndlly,rs. the wrainfecinsi7l7o, (itivo,i. sq., of Whitwell Hall, Yorkshire, of a son. On the 26th inst., in Lower Brook street, Viscolip te'' ,1 ,ter ingf dale, of a son. • On the 26th inst., at Bayswater, the lady of the Re v ' j. ,C of a daughter. A"dre" On the 21st inst., at Kensington-crescent, Mrs. E. bter, a daughter.f a da''r Ll' ti' On the 24th inst., at Margate, Mrs. N. Howard, o of vec t On the 26th inst., the wife of R. A. Arden, s(1•' / square, of a son. ‘,0131 0° MARRIED. ar e, I". ll ,ileg e 2 f .On the 26th inst., at St. George' , Hanover-squ it y v , a ltc , Cleasby, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, and s Fellow of the late 0 Cambridge, to Lucy Susan, youngest daughter of the 0 0- 4 -,rho ar Fawkes, Esq., of Fernley Hall, Yorkshire. hone , f VD' On the 26th hist, at Trinity Church, Maryle,.., „ o f 54 ., Alaltby, Esq., eldest son of the late Thomas Maltby. r''''.' oe , Harley-street, to Emma Carter, eldest daughter of J. 'felile 'tl, 0 . 4 , of Upper Wimp°le-street. too oo , 4o pli , On the 26th inst., at Trinity Church, Claph l atn t C o ° ,j_ r u i l cei r el , . Greenwell, Esq., of Park-square, Regent's-park, eldest daughter of Jeremiah Evans, Esq. of ClaPha` v jr.A'o,llo" On the 26th inst., at St. Mar's, ke„ington, eldest da r' Wooldrige, of Jermyn-street, surgeon, to' Mary,,ton_greee',ool of the late C. Armstrong, Esq ,of Upper Kenninz, . 05 IV ui.' ° Colp , oo , On the 26th inst., at St. Mary's Church, 1 0 f. of A bchurch-lane; to Emma, daughter of F. F' G e° f el St e 00 the same place. Robert oee On the 26th inst., at St. Mark's, Kennington, a o ld, Esq., surgeon, of Kennington, to Christiana ae Ar tillery . daughter of the late Major Briscoe, of the Roya. of Middlesex, Co ; London: Printed and Published by 111111113, Strad' 0 t c 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112 .--- ~--~ labli. , au. b, daughter of the late Major Briscoe, of the Roya , '-- Vi'' ie d e ' . ' DIED. On the 24th inst., aged 28, Susan, daughter o f T. Sandridge, Herts. D . 1, fq:r. °' On the 23d inst., at Hackney, aged 86, Da vid - ul t I / '' ' Op the 21st inst., age d 16,Joseph, el d es t s on 0 pq.' Sharp, of York-street, Portman-square. kiii soll , . , On the 23d inst., at Bangor, Anne, widow of B. P ic , ld i° of Hendon, Middlsex. ' Oar,' On the 26th inst., at Kentish-town, age d ' ' "3 3 ` Ao Shull, Esq. Loai ° ct , " bridg e ' of A ,On the 21st inst., at Newnham, near Cam sc l'' je 4 drews, daughter of the late William' Neville flart, Middlesex. 5f -buil difig i On the 26th inst., F. Bi g Esq., of RodneY mie.gale Kent-road, aged 67. g ' ,„,,i a ce , ..,, On the 26th inst., in Park-crescent, Portlamt l' _ ea ru _ o f " Cavan, aged 14 years and 3 months. Dario', Br On the 26th inst., aged 46, Miss Mary Ann r V. ' hill, Tunbridge. „ .1,,_. Artlit, efi te ` l , oci eC l of On the 4th ult., on his passage to Jama i ca, 1 " ham, late of Trinity College, Dublin. lly 13111 Ale%))ic p On the Bth ult., at Kingston, Jamaica univers_afenee , ~., otit respected, after an illness of four months,,Captain l' an , s jel,teeo,o Connor, H.P. and Special Justice. This gentr is tiriipa 5i 0 ) ; was accelerated by the arduous duties of his . ° s ine'tlais !1e..0 e among the body of sixty-one Special Justice.,_e last vi e ' 140 , the Ist of August, 1834, and the twelfth during te v 0 of US`'' o , _ . ehe