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RVEN LNG EDITION The Committee then divided, the nu:,.bers For stiik;ng the ab ove wor d s ou t 91 Against it Maj or it y Mr. DARBY thought the better course would be to report progress, and ask leave to sit again. , Mr. BARNE BY would have no objection to the adoption of that course. After some discussion as to whether the proposition should be adopted or not, the Committee again divided, when there appeared— For reporting progress • 47 Against it Majority The CHAtestAx then reported progress, and leave was give n to sit ag,,i n on Wednesday. On the motion of Mr. PEASE, the Durham Court of Plots Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. O n the motion for the second reading of the Drainage of Lands Bill, Colonel SIBTHORP objected to it, and moved that It be read a second time that day six months. No Member seconding the motion, the Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. R ATING OF TENEMENTS. Rating Mr. GO RDON moved -th e secon d rea di ng o f t h e of T enements Bill. CRESWELL opposed the motion, considering the Bill extremely objectionable. Th e course p ro p ose d to be adopted by it had been tried in Liverpool, and Was found to create great dissatisfaction. The Hon. and Learned Member concluded by moving that the Bill be read a second time that day six months. Bill Mr. GO RING supported the second reading of tl:e Mr. L ANGDALE objected to the Bill, as it would have the effect of creating disunion between the higher l eello !od!lotver classes, an d wou ld go far to sever the kindly Mr. gs the poor en t erta i ne d towards their employers. Mr.DARBY supported th e Bill. -""d P RTNIE was opp ose d t o t h e pr i nc i p l e o f th e and instanced one or two large towns in which the same system had been tried and failed. He believed it would be found that they were merely imposing a tax u P,°w the poor. In Liverpool it had had the effect of drop the them from small into smaller houses, and be ,l"ing that it would be most injurious to their interests be he would oppos e the Bill, Mr. BURROUGHES supported the Bill, although he did not think it perfect in its etai. h . Mr. JER VIS objected to the d Bill, ls which seemed to ' 4l in direct variance with the principle of the Reform Bill. Sir HARRY VERNEY would vote for the second reading of the Bill. gol. IV OOD thou g ht th e Bill wou ld t en d t o th e u lling do wn cottages ; it was' frotn that fear that Mr. turge s el —ourn e ' s A ct was not a ll owe d to rate property -bow the value of 61. a year. He must therefore vote against the Bill, believing, as he did, that the law as it ext at pre sent stood was t h e most safe. He thoug h t i t was o tre Bill desir a bl e to l ower t h e rent o f cottages , an d if t 4- 'm went int o C omm i ttee h e wou ld propose a c l ause 0 Provide th at the owners should be rated only to the "mount of the rent he let his property at. e BR OTHERTON would vote for the Bill be ”se he thought it would be a great benefit to the poor. It wa , proposed to exclude the cottages let under a certain rent from being rated at all he would vote for it, as he thought the poor paid out of all pro- Portion towards the other taxes. His wish, founded upon t h e scenes of distress he had seen in the p or 6 o u ,. h he had th e h onour to represent, was t h at t h e should never sae the tax-gatherer.—(Hear, hear.) LThe landlords were to be allowed 50 per cent. for the rostu.hle they were to be put to, and he thought that was Sir G. STRICKLAND was opposed to the Bill be cause he did not think that was the proper time to dis franchise any part of the people because they were poor. He wished that rates should be paid by the lowest classes Possible, for any one paying even a small rate felt himself r aised in society, as he was then enabled to stand on the same footing as his superior by being enabled to vote in vestries. Mr. PLUMPTRE would support the Bill at all event s in its present stage. Mr. ESTCOURT said the Hon. Baronet opposite Was labouring under a mistake, for the Bill would not disfranchise any one—that was provided for in the Bill. His experience as a Magistrate in a large town told him that those who were unable to pay their rate without a distress paid it twice—as they had previously paid it to the landlord in the shape of an increased rent on the chance of not being called upon to pay the rates. He would certainly vote for the second reading of the Bill. Mr. M. PHILLIPS supported the seco n d readi-g! Mr. Serge an t TALFOURD said, if there was any class which ought to be l oo k e d on with favour, it was those who h a d invested their small savings in the pur chase of land. In the town which he had the honour to represent, there were not less than 100 proprietors of small tenements, the rents of which they collected with difficulty, and which would be worthless if the pre sent Bill should pass. He trusted the House would not Pass the present Bill, unless they were prepared to re vise the whole law with respect to rating.—(Hear.) nefi Mr. PEA SE, thinking the Bill would be a great be tot the poor, would support its second reading. _ a Nir. BR ISCOE hoped the second reading would be '`4 ° ed F rri by a l arge ma j or i ty, and would ultimately pass a Mr, A. rev .. A. WHITE said lie should vote for the second f ra 41 ,ng of the Bill, because he thought it would not dis roise a single voter. b e I r. CA.YLEY thought the effect of the Bill would re,Yery doubtful. He did not think it would be any lief to the poor. • Mr.oal). GORDON said if there wa s an y thi ng objec ttil'o_,le in the clauses, te better plan wou'd be to et go into Committee, and propose amend men ts. Th House then divided, when there appeared— For the second reading] .. . Against it Th e W Majo r it y f or t h e Bill . . Committeeaterford Fever Hospital Bill went t at N:ne °clock. " THE HUSBAND -HUNTER," sec.—We are requested to state that the new novel, entitled "The Hus band-Hunter;..pslo9rttazy, Es:in. or, Das Schiksal," by Dennis Ignatius , author of " The Wife Hunter" (in 3 vols. Burlin tt:i.), is published this day by Mr. Bentley, New I g on.street, and may now be obtained at all the 1- braries. Mr. Bentl . y j has als E o s just üblished " Charles Tyrrell," by G. P. q r p id " Bi.thi, Deaths, tr.d Marriages," by Thec a : l :re Hook, DEATII OF TH E MA VERY REV. DR. WOODi RE STE R OF ST. JOUN's COLLEGE, DEAN OP ELY, AND RECTOR OF FRESHWATER, ISLE OF WIGHT.—WO stop the press to announce the decease of the highly ta lented, a n d highly respected , Master of St. J u hn's, Which melancholy event has just taken pl ace . Ti me Will not allow us to enter i nto f urt h er part i culars, than that he proceeded to his B. A. degree in the year 1782, 4nd was Senior Wrangler of his year. Ho took his MA. degree 1785, was elected Master of St. John's 1815, and pre sented to the Deanery of Ely , i n 1 8 20 , on t h e death of Dr. Pearce. Dr. Wood was auth , r of an " Algebra," Which still retsina its place amongst many other modern Works since published • and has also edited oth er mathe matical wo Its of sterling merit.—Camlridge General -advertiser. SUDDEN DE ATll. — Yesterday an inquest was held before Mr. W a klcy, M. P., at the sign of th e u Falcon. r Uxb r id ge , on view of the body of Mr. C harles yen., aged sixty-seven years, a highly respect a bl e build e r . In that town, and for many years high Constable of thr Uxbridge division of the county of Middlesex. From thc evidence it appeared that the deceased, who was a rem:ail:- 144 Y corpulent man, had been in the enjoyment of prett. good health until the morning of Friday last, when he go: °ot of bed at his usual time, but, feeling unwell, he soon afterwards returned to his bed, when his wife and daugh tp., observing change to pass over his features, imme. . l ately sent f u r medical assistance, but before Mr. Bullock, i. s s urgeon, c ou ld arrive the deceased had breat hed his last u l death arising, it is supposed, from the rupture of a of ( • 7l of th e heart. Verd i ct, " Died by the vi.itation _ _ „; tv ELCI-1 CALVINISTIC METHODISTS.— Rernongst the passengers on board the Liver p ool al e th y • Henry Rees, of this town, and the Rev. Moses Parry, of Denbigh, who arc sent as a d utation from the a,,soci lited body of Welch Calvii,istictP Methodists to visit their untryrnen who reside in great n umbers in various parts o f the United States. up wa rds of 160o l f i t r h e e d ir fi f ) r r ie t n h d e s p a n e r: e,sulnPanied them to the ship in a steamer 114 e, and during their movements about the . Liverpool, _ 1 0 . 6 number of verses composed todrinthnethoecc,Aa.siniodnw. ryas so h i - L told that the singing, notwitostan g", , was h ear d at some di stanc e, and . the effect was re thal'oibly Pleasing . Previously to their going on b ,ard e Liverpool, the two ministers placed themselves in a 13 .,`' p 2i tion which gave all their friends an o ppo e r t t i u n n g it n y n t e o . say' dee'"ewell I” and the scene was truly an aff . 'e oferves to be recorded, that, in consideration of the object th tile mission on which these two gentlemen are going, .ne uire ctors of the T ransa tl an ti c Steam Companyhave, their the most hand some manner, rem i tte d a portion of ra4"Ze mo ney. —Liverpool Courier. Is , rile packet-ship Cambridge, which was to leave s "V York on the Ist instant, and has consequently been e ,„`.be time due, has not yet arrived. In the meantime vrivate letter, dated St. John's, 31st of March, has been Pi re ik e r e l Ve d by way of Derry, which states that " the bor let tr sat an end, each party having agreed to withdraw the tl °°P !' and appoint a civil force to protect the timber on IQodlBPuted territory."—Liverpool Courier. 1 ,%-' I IARG E OF ATTEMPTING TO SET FIRE TO 1,413 tit YARD. —Joseph Parnacott, a young man in the b—lnoyment of Mr. George Baker, a timber-merchant and s 3 sid► ng in Montague-place, Russell-squ a re, was t:4l'nesday committed itted for trial from Union- Hall, c h arge d L. attempting t o set fire to an extensive timber , ? 44 1 in the occupati on of his master, situated in the Pa- Isee-road, Lambeth. VATTEMPTED BURGLARY.—Tuesday morn c, about two o'clock, a thief entered the premises of M.-. le bnis, of Belisle Islington, when the family were alarmed UL of their sleep.' He made his escape across the ymd, Pursu ed by a dog, which he attacked with a large bludgeon and by its legs, and beat it about the head until he killed it. He was ultimately taken into custody by 85 N i sn • He gave his name John Sheppey. He was ex a•._lll'ned at Hattcn-garden, and sentenced to six weeks' Imprisonment and hard labour. DR. WARDLAW'S LECTURES ON NATIONAL CHURCH ESTABLISHMENTS. LECTURE V, After prayers by the Rev. Thotnae Binney, Dr. Ward law observed that the subject of that day's lecture was the objects of the Voluntaries, and the means by which they sought their attainment. They bad been accused of seeking much that was extravagant and absurd. That would have mattered little, had it come from the underlings of the Church ; but it had come from one who, by his deserved eminence, might be ranked among the very highest. Dr. Chalmers, to whom he alluded, had dilated at length on the difference between the Reformers of the past and those of the present times. While the former wished merely to change the machinery, the object the latter sought to accomplish was the destruction of the frame-work itself. The change in substance amounted to that. Ile seemed to consider it to be taken as granted that the frame-work was unobjectionable, and to forget or overlook what. was so very obvious, namely, that the whole resolved itself into the question as to whether the machinery vvas good? The old Reformers, he said, had for their aim sot the destruction of the Established Church, but to change its doctrines, to purify its tenets, and inculcate new and purer principles, but their successors in the present age were mere " machine breakers." They would calmly but firmly repel the charge. But the question again recurred, was the machinery for working out man's salvation originally established good? If it was, they would bow to the rebuke. That was the point about which they differed. A human machine had been invented and set up by human agency upon the ruins of that system'of Church government which was established by Divino sanction in the day of the Apostles, and which continued till it was overturned by Constantine. Who, then, he would ask, were the machine-breakers but they who presumed to interfere with the Church as established under divine sanction ? They desired to displace the machinery set up by Constantine, and to re-establish that which existed under Apostolic sanction.—(Cheers.) Their object was to substitute the Divine for the human go vernment. —(Renewed cheering.) That was the point on which the voluntaries were united as one. They wished to restore the Church of Christ to its original basis. Was there anything to be dreaded in the re storation of what was Divine ? The nearer the Church was to that the greater would be its purity, and the greater its prosperity. Dr. Chalmers had accused them of being indifferent alike to all sys tems for the diffusion of Gospel instructions. " The days were," says he, " when a man was famous ac cording as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees, or according as he gave of materials or money for the building and the endowment of Churches. But now they would break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. They have said in their hearts, let us destroy them together ; they would burn up all the synagogues of God in the land." Would they indeed ? Where was the voluntary who would not willingly and heartily join in the reprobation of such sentiments ? No true voluntary sought such an object. No, no! the sword was not their weapon. Those who used the sword might perish with the sword. They did not approve of coercive measures—they freely made these (wee to the compulsories. They would seek the attainment of their purpose after the example of their Divine Master, by the influence of gentleness and per suasion. —(Cheers.) If there was one solitary indi vidual in their ranks who was prepared to act otherwise, he (Dr. W.) would be the first to renounce his connec tion. He did not say that the establishment was doomed to fall like the temple of Jerusalem—but if there was an individual who, like a soldier in the army of Titus, against the command of his general, who should kindle a conflagration which should consume the Church machinery of the present time, he did not say that they were prepared to welcome such destruction with shouts of exultation, but if a shout should arise, it would be one of religious liberty, when the altars of man shall be changed for the altars of God. Were there, indeed, no altars but those of an Esta blishment on which the sacrifices of faith could be placed ? The voluntaries presumed to think that there were, and that an altar after the apostolic model was preferable to one after that of Constantine. They had not the same hostility to all establishments, but if Dr. Chalmers and others still persisted in the contrary be lief, he would reply it was a light thing to be judged by man's judgment. He would appeal to the living God. In opposition to those charges he would place in pleasing contrast the amiable and Christian senti ments expressed by the Rev. Baptist Noel, who had said that it was wrong to impute to their Christian brethren corrupt motives at all times, but especially when they were repudiated. The voluntaries denied that they sought the destruction of the Church. They be lieved it was plated by its divine Founder on a rock that the gates of hell should never prevail against it. They believed it would stand for ever. " Nec tames consu mebatur." To free the Church from her secular in cumbrances was not to destroy, but to re-invigorate its existence. IL.v many times should he repeat that the Establishment of the Church was not the Church itself'. So far from fearing that the Church would be endangered or hurt by her deliverance from secular bondage, they believed it would be the day of her renewal and increased purity and prosperity.—(Cheers.) In the minds of many, and those amongst the highest in the land, this important distinction was entirely overlooked. When only desiring Church reform, they were accused of wishing to eradicate and destroy the Christian religions. In reply to an accusation of that description in the Upper House of Parliament, Lord Roden had very properly observed that the temporalities and the spiritualities of the Church were quite distinct and different. The one might be destroyed, and the other remain uninjured. The Church might be stripped of its worldly wealth, and its spirituality remain entire. He agreed with Mr. Gladstone that the day of the Church's separation from the State would be the day of the Church's spiritual revival. He had now to direct their attention to the second head of the present lecture— namely, the means to be used by the voluntaries in the attainment of their object. There, too, had they been most mercilessly assailed. The voluntaries were convinced that religion had suffered greatly from her connection with the State. What, then, were the means they proposed to employ to rid themselves of the evil ? They proposed none but the most legitimate. They proposed none but conformity with the directions contained in the word of God.—( Cheers.) They had a humble but firm confidence in that word, and they would not be discouraged. There were two classes of means, the one appertaining to them as subjects ofChri,t, an d t h e otheras subjects of the British throne. First,all th e means they possessed for the diffusion of divine principle s ; and, secondly, political means, or the legitimate exercise of their rights as citizens. With the former, they would address their Christian brethren as on a common ground. For the exercise of the latter they were justi tied by the recorded example of the very chiefest of the apostles. "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondernned ?" said Paul, on one oc casion, and on another, " No man may deliver me unto them (the Jews) ; I appeal unto Caesar." The apostle Paul did not scruple to plead his rights as a Roman citizen to benefit his cause as a Christian, and neither would they —they would act in the same way. Their petition to the Government should not be to legislate for the Church, but to cease to legislate—to confine themselves to the exercise of their own proper functions, and to leave the Church to legislate for itself. He was aware that it was . urged by man y th a t see i ng an E sta bli s h ment did v est, although it might not be the best imagin able, it ought to be let alone. Just so might the o t r iee pon h e o n rr t o ofrs of to this very ho negro emancip a ti on h ave argue d , and fthat abominable traffic ffi c Had •wouldliate ben perpetrated Luther and his coadjutors thus quietly acquiesced in the then existing state of things, Europe would stil ;have con tinued sunk i n t h e d epths of religious darkness and ig norance. Had J o h n K nox an d h i s compations ar gue d thus, Scotland might still have been clouded by the mists of papal superstition. But, no ! thanks be to God, these men bad been actuated by nobler, higher, and holier motives, and their posterity were now enjoying the fruits of their glorious exertions. No, no ! Apathy and religious indifference would not do. They must arouse themselves in the cause of truth and be up and doing. That the connection of Church and State was detrimental to religion, was what they maintained Their object was to sever that union. They desired to restore to the Church, her original Divine consti tution.—(Cheers.) Their opponents might smile at the weakness of their means, but they would not be discouraged. They had the might of truth on their side, and with that they might feel assured of the countenance anti approbation of the Almighty. With the exception of a mere handful in the North, the Dissenters of Scotland did not desire to par ticipate in the benefits of a State endowment. He regretted that the acceptanc e of the RegiumDonum compelled him to include a larger number in that class in 'rebid. They were also many in England, but he would venture to assert that the majority did not. lie was aware of the puzzling questions that might be raised as to the disposal of Church p ro p er t y , b ut t h at was n ot their province. Their province was to settle prin ciples. There were two sources of Church revenue, namely, from Government grant and private bequest. According to I-lai!an the first might be resumed; or re-distributed as the State saw occasion, but existing rights should be respected ; but the latter should be strictly applied to the purposes intended by the donors. The Lecturer concluded with an exposition of his opi nions on this sulject, and intimated that his next lec ture " On the efficiency of the voluntary principle, and a vindication of it against misrepresentations and objections," would be delivered this day. In the year 1758 the Emperor Francis I. of Germany held a grand hunt on the estate of Prince Col loredo, in Bohemia; the number of hunters was twenty three, including three ladies, and it continued eighteen days. 47,950 heads of game were killed, consisting of 19 dear, 77 roes, 10 foxes, 18,243 hares, 19,545 partridges, 9,499 pheasants, 114 larks, 353 quails, &c. The Emperor had 9,789 shots, and the Princess Charlotte, his sister, 9,010. The total number of shots fired was 116,209. — Foreign Quarterly Review. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1839. was altogether unfounded, and quite inconsistent with the character of our countrymen. If Mr. M'Culloch's opinion were acknowledged to be correct, there was an end to all chance of transacting the ordinary business of life ; since, if men could not be found to fulfil their duty without a cheek, what became of nine tenths of the duties which we entrusted to paid-servants ! * # * * * * ___ . This seemed to impute that not only letter-carriers, but the whole community, were so devoid of all principle, that unless men could get sixpence by it, they would not be honest ; that if a letter was left for him, which in reality belonged to some one else, as the letter was paid, and be should not get the postage returned, he would not do an act of justice by returning the letter to the Post-office. It appeared to him that those two assump tions were as groundless as they were unjust on the part of Mr. M'Culloch, and they were very like bringing an accusation of criminality against a whole country. It was Burke, he believed, who declared that he did not know how to draw up a❑ inditment against a whole people ; and if Mr. Nl . Culloch had here brought an unfounded charge against a whole people, he thought they were at least entitled to an apolozr from him. CASE OF ARISTOCitAI'IC OP PRESSION: (From the Staffordshire Examiner.) With feelings of shame and sorrow we refer our readers and contemporarie s to the report of a case heard before the Westbromwich Magistrates on Tuesday, which appears in another column of our paper. It seems that a poor max was engaged by sonic parties con cerned in the opposition to the election of Lord Dartmouth's nominee as churchwarden at Westbrom• with, to publish a number of circulars containing the re print, from the Leeds Mercury, of an apparently very flagrant case of oppression on the part of his Lordship towards a Dissenting congregation in a Yorkshire parish. The appearance of this report must of course have been very obnoxious to his Lordship. He went forth to the public as having been engaged in a gross act of persecu tion, to which accusation no refutation had been opposed. Under these circumstances. what will the public sup pose was the course pursued by the Noble Earl or his agents, for whose conduct of course, he must be taken to be responsible ? Why, advantage has been taken of the statute of George 111., which imposes a penalty on the dissemination of printed papers not authenticated with the printer's name, to convict the distributor in a mitigated (!) penalty of ten pounds for each paper so proved to be distributed, in the event of the non-pay ment of which penalty within a week he will be incar cerated for an indefinite period! Nothing libellous has been proved to have been published in the handbill, and a perusal of it will show to! our readers . that it is by no means violent or rancorous in its expressions; nay, that the principal charges it publishes against the Noble Earl have already appeared, and gone forth to the world without contradiction or comment, through the medium of that widely-circulated and most respectable paper, the Leeds Mercury. And yet with these facts before the public, advantage has been taken of a mere flaw, and a penalty has been imposed upon a poor man who could not be charged as either author or printer of the offen sive paper, under one of the most cruel laws which dis grace our statute book—a law, of which a celebrated Judge has said, " it is so obnoxious as seldom to be en forced"—a law, which having been raked from its ob scurity, and taken advantage of by the common in formers of the metropolis, the Solicitor-General deemed it desirable, on Wednesday last, to move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend and modify !! It should be here mentioned that Wilkes, though in an humble sphere of life, is a great favourite with the majority of the parishioners, from the bold and indepen dent spirit which he has always shown in resisting op pression, and in particular for his opposition to Church rates. Several years ago he refused to pay a Church rate, and in consequence his household furniture was sold under a distress warrant. His example shamed and stimulated others in a higher walk in life to resist this odious tax, and from that time Church-rates were abolished in this parish. He e was suppos e d f or thi s cause to be an object of peculiar dislike to our lay rector, the Earl of Dartmouth. The first information was quashed on the ground that the name of the informer was incorrectly set forth, and the second shared the same fate, on the ground of some alleged tampering with a witness on the part of the Earl of Dartmouth's mine agent. On this being an nounced, the audience expressed their exultation by loud cheers. The third and fourth information s were sub stantiated, on which Mr. G. Baker, the Eirl of Dart mouth's solicitor, applied (as we understand) to the Magistrates to fine in thepd/amount of the penalty, for making which application he was severely taken to task by Mr. Edmonds. The defendant stated that he was a poor man with nine children ; that the papers were sent to him, he did not know by whom ; that he did not know the name of the author or the printer, and never heard of the Act of Parliament before, The Magistrates, however, did not appear to consider these circumstances as any extenuation, but convicted him in the penalty of ten pounds on each information, allowing him one week to pay the money, at the end of which time he would be sent to gaol if it be not paid. We rejoice to learn, however, that the inhabitants of Westbromwich have commenced a public subscription of one penny from each contributor to pay the fines and espenscs, and to present Wilkes with a handsome sum of money, to show their opinten of 'the - means to which his accuser has resorted. The following is the handbill alluded to : Westbronvich March 14, 1839. " Friends and Neighbours—As the time is ap proaching at which'it •may be•expected that the persons who so arrogantly style themselves the friends of the Church,' will, at the instigation of our lay-rector, the Earl of Dartmouth, propose that you should elect as your Churchwarden some servile tenant of his Lordship, in order that my Lord may the more easily renew the attempt to tax )on by means of a Church-rate ; and as I fear that some of you may be induced by a love of ease and a dislike of a public contest, to rem tin in your peaceful homes instead of attending the vestry meeting and resisting the imposition, I think this a proper time to hold up to your imitation the uncompromising firm ness of the poor Dissenters of Morley, in Yorkshire, un der the cruel oppression of the present Earl of Dart mouth. I have reason to think that a very small num ber only of the inhabitant s of th's parish have heard of this transaction, and as I wish to hold up his Lordship's conduct to the reprobatio n - which it deserves, I think I cannot do better than reprint the notice of it, which ap peared in the Leeds , Mercury, in June, 1884." [The extract front the Leeds Mercury is too long for us to insert. The whole gist of the case lying in that which is already stated.] LIFE OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—Mr. Colburn has just published the First Part, p r i ce 2S. Gal., embellished with a fine Portrait of " The Life of the Duke of Wellinelon " , , embracing his military, civil, and po litical career to the present time. Thelo x rk ande is under ofthe the appropriate editorship o f Sir James 42d Royal Highlanders. As the leader of armies the cha racter of the Duke of Wellington was known to all the world; but his disposition, his qualities as a man, his con duct as a statesman and diplomatist, remained yet to be pourtrayed. To supply this desideratum is the object of the present biography, whi c h, not confining its scope to the display of that genius which conceived and executed the plans that were crowned with legit's" , succe ss at Waterloo, and decided th e f u t ure d est i n i es o f 'Europe, endeavours to hying into fuller view all the most striking points of the character of the individual. The work is to be completed in 12 Monthly Parts, at 25. 6d. each, beautifully embel lished with Portraits , Batt le Scenes, &c., by Landseer, Warren, Landells, and other eminent artists. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE FOR MAY, it seems, is to present us with the first of a new se ries of papers by Mrs. Trollope, entitled " The Widow Married," being a continuation of the celebrated " Widow Barnaby." The last we heard of her was her auspicious marriage with the notorious Major Allen ; and much we regretted that the clos e o f t h e t hi r d volume of her m emo i rs shut out from ou r v i ew th e connu bial felicity o f t h e well matched couple. The curtain,hovrever, is about to rise again, arid the whole novel-reading world will welcom e with a shout of applause the re-appearance in the "New Monthh" of the bouncing Barnaby, now f at, fair, a nd—(vo dare n o t for our eyes meddle with so delicate a subje c t as the Barnaby's chronology)—and blessed with so meet a h e l p _ mate. The story will be illustrated by numerous etchings 1 by Buss. r, ~. T ILE PHANTOM 0111 P, BY CAPT. NIA tt- INY AT, IL N.—This inte restin g narrative, of which we h ave _ inviig b e f o re made frequent me ntion in term s of great and de served praise, appears before us in the n shape of three orthodox post octavo volumes.. It certainly possesses all those characterist ics of the p eculiarit y of captain ~ar. ryat's genius and style of writing , ' with ellich o Peter '' s i im. ~ Mr. Midshipman Easy," so abounded. There I "and Sim ple," e, . . gss a freshness is a freshness about all our author's writn of feeling as well as of tho u g ht, a p ow er to devel op° elm racter also, and a perp etual cheerfulness and vein of „ phantomp lots s to rivet hu mour, which assd-t the s tartlin g interest of hi s s the attention of the re ader. The certainly the best of Captain Marryat's novels, the most masterly written, and of the most various originality._ Court Journal. It is rumoured that another Miss Lyons is about of the E ar l o f Or to enter the holy estate ; th e eldest so n ford Wing named as the gentleman. Th e complaint seems raging at Athens, and we only trust Sir Edmund has more daughte rs f or our young nobles. James It Bradford, Esq . of the Royal Horse Guards (Blue), eldest son of Si; Thomas Bradford, Bart., is pronounced the affianced hus band of the daughter of Mrs. Russell Ellice, o f concert giving not or i e ty. The marriage is not to be so l emn i sed until after Christmas, by which period th e gentleman will have assumed the name of Atkinson, and succeeded to a large property. Yesterday, a pollacea, bearing the flan. 1 • 0 of his 1 Holiness th e P o pe—the keys of St. Peter surmounted by the mitre—arrived at Greenock from Ancona, loaded with wheat and flour. At the time (three mouths) when this vessel sailed from Ancona, a vast number of both Foreign and British vessels, loaded with wheat and flour, sailed for various ports in Britain, but, owing to the contrary winds, few of them have arrived. This is much to be regretted, as the working of the obnoxious Corn-laws will cause this supply of gra i n to be bonded. This vessel is supp ose d to be the fir s t b ea ring the flag of the Pope th at has visited ; the Clyde since the Revolution.—Glasgow Chronicle. CORN-LAWS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—Knowing the interest you take in the diffusion of a right knowledge of the probable effects consequent upon a repeal of the existing Corn-laws, at the request of several inhabitants of Cheltenham, ardently interested in the question, I trouble you with the statement of an event, than which nothing more prejudicial to the cause could have transpired in our town, hoping that it may call forth a satisfactory explanation from the parties im mediately interested in the matter. During the past week placards were posted in all directions, announcing that Mr. Paulton would lecture upon the Corn-laws, at the Assembly Rooms, " on the evening of Thursday, the 18th of April, 1839 ;" acord ingly, long before the hour specified, hundreds were wending their way to hear a man, of whom, through the medium of your widely circulated Paper, they had been led to form a high opinion of his power to deal with a subject, which the fact of there being at least 1,000 present long before the time specified—fully proves them to have taken a deep interest in. You may imagine then the general disappointmeat felt, and more especially the chagrin of those who were known by their fellow-toa nsmen to ha the advocates of the views which have been so ably from time to time expressed in your columns, on finding that, although in addi tion to the posting of bills, a communication had been received from the Corn-law Association of Man chester, engaging the room for two nights, and yet at the time advertized Mr. Paulton was not forthcoming, nor was any explanation furnished by letter or otherwise explanatory of the cause of his absence. Now, Sir, I the more regret this strange occurrence, because, happening, as the advertized time did, upon our market-day, and situated as Cheltenham is in the centre of a most populous agricultural district, many most respectable and wealthy farmers delayed their de parture after the conclusion of the market, for the ex press purpose of hearing the Lecturer's arguments against their now cherished opinions. And these are the men who require, more than any others, information upon a subject, which to them (not less than us) is of paramount importance, and upon which it is natural (and I say it not to their disparage ment) they should feel a prejudice, uncommon to the rest of the community, in favour of a law which from childhood they have been taught to consider the ground work of agricultural prosperity ; a notion so palpably erroneous, that we were led to imagine the correct data and cogent arguments adduced by the Lecturer, would at any rate have set their thinking faculties in operation, and thus eventually they might have been brought to admit, that whilst the existing protecting duties, have, like an incubus, crippled our trade and commerce, and is destroying the energies, physical, moral, and mental, of the labouring population, it has failed altogether in giving that protection to the farmer which the originators of the present Corn-laws, with a view to enlist their sympathy and support, boldly asserted that it would. Another most potent cause of regret we have at Mr. Paulton's non-arrival is, that the Chartists of our town attended the meeting to listen to, and not disturb the proceedings, as has been the case so frequently at meet ings of a similar character in other places, and I would that those who have enrolled themselves under the Chartist banner generally acted as worthily on all occasions, as the working men of Cheltenham, not taking their tone from this or that demagogue's ill judged advice, but thinking and acting for themselves, instead of rashly following in the wake of dangerous and interested leaders ; then indeed would the middle classes of society join heart and hand with them in en deavouring not only to ameliorate their particular con dition, but, aided by them, how satisfactory would be the progression of those great and salutary reforms, which alone can bind together the links of society, strained almost to breaking, by the ill-advised doctrines of finality in legislation, and elevate the condition alike of the farmer, the artizan, and the labourer—the manu facturer, the merchant, and the landlord, to a pitch of .greatness, prosperity, and consequent happiness, un equalled in past ages or at the present, and which, great as it is and has been (despite the difficulties en countered), is but as a shadow compared with what it would be, when the trammels at present existing shall be removed, and the untiring energy, skill, and enter prise of our people, shall have that full development which can alone be brought about by suffering, without let or hindrance, the free interchange between nation and nation of those commodities which one alone may have in abundance, and the other be anxious to possess. SAMUEL ONLEY, Jun. Cheltenham, 23d April, 1832. P.S. I should have written you earlier, but that I waited until after the 22d, the day on which the last lecture was to have been delivered, hoping, did he not come then, that the cause would have been made known. POST-OFFICE REFORM. Mr. M'Culloch is, we believe, the only person of any authority who has pronounced an opinion adverse to Mr. Hill's plan of Post-Office Reform. He slys f At present t letter-carrier receives a number of letters, the por.tage of which amounts to a certain sum, and he must either b.r;ng back that sum, or a portion of it, and undelivered letters making up the deficiency. But if be have merely to deliver paid letters, it is difficult to see what security can be had for the careful performance of his duty. But supposinc , the letter-carriers to be as cau tious and attentive under the proposed system as at present, still the safe delivery of the letters would not be secured. Few persons will receive letters paying 61 •r Is. each for them, unless they really believe that they arc the parties fur whom the letters are intended ; but if they get them for nothing, they would be infinitely less scrupulous, and the chances are, that under the pro posed system all, or mostly all, letters would be received by the servants or others, to whom they might be of fered, and that very few indeed of those found to be improperly addressed would be returned to the Post- Offic,!." Mr. Hill states that he had anticipated this argument and thus answered it in the third edition of his pamphlet : _ It has been urged as an objection to the required payment in advance, that it would destroy the security for the delivery of letters which is now derived from the letter-carrier having to account for the receipt of post age—that an idle letter-carrier might destroy the letters to save himself the trouble of making his round. In reply to this objection I would remark, that the pre sent security, such as it is, applies only to part of die correspondence—there is nothing to prevent the de struction of franked or paid letters. But it is said that a letter-carrier is now obliged to make his round for the delivery of the unpaid letters, and, therefore, that as it would save but little trouble, there is slight temptation to destroy the others. As regards an important part of the correspondence, it appears, then, that under the present arrangements, the only security afforded for the de livery of the letters is that the letter-carrier is obliged to make his round. Now let us examine the security af forded by the proposed arrangements. At page 61* a plan is suggested which will.enable any one, for a small fee, to obtain a receipt for any letter put into the Post office. The fee is so trifling (only a halfpenny), and the trouble would be so little, that there can be no doubt that the plan would come into extensive operation. Every letter-carrier would therefore know that, as re gards many of his letters, receipts had been taken, and that if any of these letters were destroyed, inquiry and detection would certainly follow ; he would there fore, as at present, be obliged to make his round. But he would have no means of distinguishing the receipted from the unreccipted letters ; there is no difficulty in distinguishing the paid from th e un p a id let ters ; therefore he would be careful to deliver all. It follows, then, that the proposed arrangements are superior to the present, as a security against idleness on the part of the letter-carrier. It is needless to point out their superiority against his dishonesty ; the collec tion of the postage is no security against the abstraction of a money letter, if the contents exceed the postage. On this part of the plan the Committee express the following opinion :—Pre-payment has been objected to, on the ground that it would diminish the security for the delivery of letters. Mr. Hill appears to admit that such might be the case, unless precautionary measures— such as giving to the sender of a letter the option, on payment of a small extra rate, of taking a receipt for the letter (a plan for effecting which he describes in detail) were adopted. With these precautions, which appear desirable on other grounds, he shows that the security for the delivery of letters would be augmented ; but no evidence has been afforded that post-paid letters, after having once reached a post-office, arc less secure of being delivered than other letters. A precedent for the compulsory pre-payment of postage is found in the case of the letters of soldiers and sailors, which are subject to a penny rate.—Re port, p. 37. The admission alluded to arose out of my not suffi ciently considering wherefore post-paid letters are less certain of reaching their destination than others. As stated in the Report, " no evidence has been afforied that post-paid letters, after having once reached a post office, are less secure of being delivered than other let ters." On the contrary, evidence was given by expe rienced men from the Post.office, to the effect that they were equally secure, and this opinion was confirmed by all the commercial witnesses who were examined, I be lieve without exception. The insecurity is on the way to the Post-office, and it arises out of the present neces sity for entrusting messengers with money to pay post age. But with s t am ps t hi s necess i ty would be obviated, and the insecurity removed. Mr. M'Culloch is of opinion that people, if they had no postage to pay, would receive and retain letters in tended for others. This appears to me to be taking a much more unfavourable view of public morality than is warranted by the facts of the case. In the first place, under good regulations the Post-office would rarely af ford opportunities for so acting. In the next place, there arc, I trust, few persons so lost to all sense of propriety, and so heedless of detection, as to avail them selves of these rare opportunities when they did arise. And lastly, the objection, if well founded, applies at pre sent, not only to franked letters, which Mr. M'Culloch says are ‘. almost always addressed to persons of some notoriety and consideration," but to a much larger class of letters, which he omits to notice, namely—post-paid letters, which go to people of every description, and to soldiers' and sailors' letters, which arc, for the most part, addressed to poor persons. And yet the evidence be fore the Postage Committee shows no feeling of inse curity, either on the part of the public or on that of the Post-office, as to the delivery of such letters after they have once found their way to the Post-office. Mr. M'Culloch, speaking of the plan of stamps, says, " provided it could be practically carried into effect, we are inclined to think that its adoption would be a mate rial improvement." I see no serious, much less insu perable, difficulty to its being carried into effect. Mr. M'Culloch says the delivery of letters would he ren dered insecure thereby. As 1 have shown, the fact may be doubted, even if no remedy were provided ; but I have proposed a specific remedy, to which no objection has as yet been raised, and which, in the opinion of the Postage Committee, would render the delivery even more secure than it now is. Of this remedy Mr. M'Culloch takes no notice whatever ; he was possibly unaware of it ; but whether he was or not, as his ob jections are founded on a partial view of the subject, they have no force as applied to the whole plan. The letter-carriers are, or ought to be, men selected on account of their trustworthiness. Such men, pro perly disciplined and well paid, may be relied upon in almost all cases for a conscientious discharge of duty, just as other men are safely depended upon in other con fidential positions. Though the plan of receipts were not adopted, no letter-carrier could in a single instance neglect to deliver the letters even of a small district, without causing such a clamour as would certainly lead to his detection, disgrace, and dismissal—a punishment much more severe than the loss of any amount of postage with which a man is ever trusted. But if other securi ties are found necessary, the receipts will afford them ; with blank receipts it would be found impossible for carelessness or fraud either on the part of the letter-car riers, or that of the public to remain long undetected. * PLAN OF RECEIPTS FOR LETTERS. The evidence given before the Commissioners of Re venue Inquiry shows the great desirability of semi?, plan which would render it practicable and easy for the Post office to give, when required, receipts for letters sent to the post. In many instances such a plan would be the means of tracing lust letters : oftentimes it would protect the Post-office front needless applications and unfounded complaints ; and it would oppose an effectual bar to the fraudulent conduct of servants, who, under the present arrangements, are known, in many instances, to have destroyed letters, in order to pocket the postage. I propose that every person desiring a receipt should, on taking the letter to the receiving -house, present a copy of the superscription, on which the receiver should stamp a receipt, with the date, and his own address. Preei,ely such a stamp as is placed on the letter would suffice. I propose that the charge for such receipt should be a halfpenny, and that, as a means of collecting the same, it should be required that the copy of the superscrip tion should be made on a printed form, to be provided by the Post•office, and to be sold to the public at the rate of a halfpenny each, by the receiver, either singly or in books, as might be required —a certain profit on their sale being allowed by the Post-office as a remune ration to the receiver. These receipts would, I image, constitute good legal evidence of delivery ; and as they might be made to form a cheap register of all letters despatched by post, many persons would probably adopt the practice of taking them for that reason alone. As a large number of persons would probably avail themselves of this arrangement, no small benefit might thus accrue to the revenue. I am informed that precisely such receipts as are here described, except that a printed form is not employed, are given gratuitously in the Presidency of Madras. A recent Parliamentary return (1837, No. 497) of alleged losses in the Post-office for the eight years end ing with 1836, as respects England and Wales, shows in a strong point of view the necessity for some such arrangement as the above. The return consists of eighty-one folio pages, closely printed in double columns, and contains upwards of 10,000 entries. The total amount of property is not stated in the return, but it has been estimated by Mr. Wallace at 618,951/. The variety of the claims is no less remarkable than their extent : one missing letter is said to contain a bill of exchange to the amount of 28,7501., while in another the inclosure is " three dozen birds' eyes." At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, Mr. M'Culloch's objection was thus noticed by Mr. Cobden. Mr. McCulloch had taken for granted the impossibility of finding men of moral probity and conscientious charaeter to take the office of letter-car niers. He (Mr. Cobden) really thought this assumption ANTI-CORN-LAW LEAGUE.- The spirit with which this body has commenced its ope rations, augurs well for its future success. By the exten sive insertion of important documents in the Provincial Nelspapers, the distribution of Anti-Corn-law pamphlets, and the labours of its increasing number of lecturers, it is rapidly disseminating that sound information on the subject of the Corn-laws, which alone is wanted to rouse the na- tin en masse to demand their immediate and total repeal. la addition to there means the Anti. Corn-law Circular, the first number of which has already appeared, is to be a regular vehicle of communication to all. parts of the Country. Mr. P.utlton, who was the first to take the field as an Anti-Corn.law lecturer, has, within the last two weeks, instructed and delighted large aisemblies in Dudley, Kid. derminster, Worcester, &c. Mr. Sidney Smith, of Edin burgh, a gentleman of high intellectual attainments and a powerful speaker, has, within the same period been enthu siastically recc:ved by large and reipectable audiences at Wakefield, Doncaster, and Lincoln. Mr. Shearman has lectured with success to the farmers and operatives in the same quarter, and Mr. Craig, of the Leeds Anti-Corn law Association, whose talents are very highly spoken of, has also been labouring to good purpose in that populous and important neighbourhood. Mr. Acland has lectured to numerous meetings at Exeter, and intends to make a tour of the agricultural districts there. No Chartist op position has been anywhere offered, but the Tories have, in various places, made attempts at disturbances which have only recoiled on themselves. The eagerness of the people for information on the sub ject of the Corn-laws is evident from the avidity with which it is everywhere received ; and in all quarters vs lure the lecturers have appeared, a progress in the public mind is visible, which affords unequivocal proof of the efficiency of the plan adopted by the League, and an assurance that their success depends only on the degree of vigour with which it shall be followeCi up. MODERATORSHIP OF THE GENERAL As sEmoLv.—We understand that the gentleman intended t) be proposed for this h;gh office is the Rev. Henry Duncan, minister of Ruthwell, the distinguished originator of Sav• ings banks, and aut'ior of " Philosophy of the Seasons," and other excellent works.—Edinburgh Advertiser. MATcif MA K ERS.—Tuesday morning, between nine and ten o'clock, as James Bowetless, a porter in the employ of Mr. Reyneuset, chemist, in the Westminster road, was pounding some ingredients for lucifer matches, the materials exploded iv his face, whereby it is feared he will be deprived of the sight of both eyes. RAILWAY FlRES.—Shortly after five o'clock, on Tuesday afternoon, a bean rick standing near the Great Western Railroad at Salthill, was fired by the sparks of the steamer conveying the five o'clock train, and en tirely consumed; it was the property of Mr. Aldridge of Chippenham. About a quarter before eight in the even ing of the same day, a range of sheds belonging to the company at Horsmoor-green, about two miles higher up the line, was fired destroyed ; and the same evening the coke sheds belonging to the company at Maidenhead were partly consumed, having taken fire from some coke that was thrown into them in a burning state.—Readiny Mercury. To MARINERs.—The Tees Navigation Com pany have erected light-houses near the entrance of, and also moored a light vessel within, the river Tees, from which lights will be exhibited on the 2d day of May next, and thenceforward continue from sunset to sunrise, i., order that the Tees' bar may be rendered navigable, and anchorage obtained within the bar by Light in favourable weather. SIIOREIIANI.—CASE OF JOIIN We extract the following from the report given in The Sun of Tuesday week of the meeting of the National Con vention held on that day.—[The article which then appeared in our paper being a report of something which - transpired at the Convention relative to` John . Hindus was inserted.] " Mad; bow plain a tale shall put you down." As stated by Mr. Frost, John Hindus was a Greenwich pensioner." But having been con%ieted at the Quarter Sessions, and on his own confession, of a misdemeanor, charging him with keeping at Shoreham a house opal fante of the very ler.vest descrption, he thereby forfeited his pension, and it was in consequence discontinued. We need hardly add that the answer attributed to the Collector of the Port of Shoreham is a pure fabrication nor will the reader any longer won der why Mr. 0' Connell was unsuccessful, why the reason that his application failed is suppressed, nor why Lord Melbourne did not deign to reply to Mr. Frost. —Brighton Guardian. [ Admitting the facts here stated, it does not follow that an old sailor should be deprived of his pension for keeping a house of ill fame. It was not bestowed on him for his mora lity, but for his services at sea. The principle of depriving officers of their pensions on similar grounds has been much reprobrated. In the particular case, though nothing is said of any further punishment, the Magistrates probably in flicted one, in which case Hindus is doubly punished. Ano ther man would only be confined for a month, he was con fined and lost the pension that he would otherwise have en joyed for life.—En.SoN.] Last week, owing to high words which occurred during a municiprl debate, the Mayor of Portsmouth was compelled to bind over two of the town council to keep the peace. BALLOON ASCENT.—On Monday evening a candidate for aeronautic fame, made his first ascent from the gardens of the Standard Tavern, Shepherdess-walk, City-road. The inflation being completed the ascent t oo k place a few minutes before six, having in the car M r. Gypson, the proprietor, Mrs. Brady, the wife of the pro prietor of the gardens, and Mr. Henry Green, who took the management of the machine. The latter excited con siderable notice and apprehension from the crowd, on ac count of his temerity of standing on the hoop at the bottom of the balloon until the machine went out of sight. The balloon soon disappeared behind a cloud, and took a direc tion towards Essex. HER MAJESTY'S LEVEE. I The Queen held a Levee yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Pa'ace. Her Majcs'y end Suite came in State, in thr c carriages, escoitei by a l a•ty of the Life Guards, from Buckingham Palace, shorty before two o'clock. Her Majesty was attended by the Countess of Charlemont and the Marchioness of Norn►anby, Ladies in Waiting; Marquis of Headfort, Lord in Waiting; Hon.. William CJwper, Groem in Waiting; Colonel Buckley, Equerry is Waiting; Master Cowell and Master Cavendish, Pages of Honour in Waiting. Count de Potldn, the Sirdinian Minister had an AU- • dience of her Majesty in the Royal Closet, to deliver letters from his Royal Highness the Duke of Lucca. His Excellency was introduced by Viscount Palmerston, G. C B , her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by S:r Robert Chester, Master of the C,:remonies. Her Majesty having entered the Throne Room, the following pi% sent,tions toe place in the Diplomats e.rele : The Prince de Mestehersky, Charnbt rla:n of his Majesty tl:e Emperor of Russia, by Count Pozzo di liJrgo, the Russian Ambassador. Mr. M. Charles Paterson, of New York, and Mr. Carroll Mactavish, of Maryland, by Mr. Stevenson, the American Minister. Count Cigala, a Piedmontese Noble, by Count Pollon, the Sardinian Minister. The Chevalier de Cancha, Scaretary to the Legation of her C at h o li c M ajesty, by General Alava, the c'Spani,h Minister. Mr. Hamilton Jackson, Lieutenant in the 5.h Regiment of Hussar,: in the Austrian service, by M. Harnmelauer, Austrian Charge d'Affaires. Baron de Wenner, Prussian Charge d'Affaires, Baron de BJurqueney, French Charge d'Affisires, and Baron Beatinek, Netherlands Charge d'Affaires, by Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 8., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. At the General Levee Mr. John Archibald Muerry, on being appointed a Judge of the Court of Session (Scot land) was presented to the Queen by Lord J. Russell. The Levee was attended by the Russian Ambassador, the Wurtembarg, Belgian, Danish, Bavarian, United States, Sardinian, Hanoverian, Spanish, and Saxon Mi- Asters ; M. de Hummelauer, Austrian Charge d'Affaires; Baron Rehausen, Swedish Charge d'Affaires; Prince J. Souza, Grecian Charge d'Affaires; Mr. Benjamin Rush, Secretary of the United States Legation ; Baron Behr, Belgian Minister at 'he Court of the Sublime Porte ; M. Nothomb, Belgian Minister of Public Works; Captain Bedingfeld, of the Austrian service; the Lord President, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Secretaries of State for the Foreign and Colonial Departments ; the Chancel lor of the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, the Lord Chamberlain, the Master of the Horse, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, Lord Hill, Gold Stick in Wait ing ; the Captain of the Yeomen Guard; the Comptroller of the flousehold ; Mr. Maule, Under Secretary for Home De, a tment; Mr. C. Wood, M. P., Secretary of the Ad ! miralty ; Hon. Edward Butler, Lieutenant of the Honour. able Corps of Gentlemen at Arms ; the Master of the Cc remonies; Colonel Cavendish, the Clerk Marshal; Sir Thomas Reeve, Standard Bearer to the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Sir David Wilkie, R A., Prin cipal Painter in Ordinary to her Majesty; Colonel Wood, A. D. C. to her Majesty ; Captain Sir Fran cis Collier, Naval Aide-de-Camp in Waiting; Colo nel Brown and Colonel Baker (Royal Wilts Yeo manry) Aides-de-Camp to her Majesty; Mr James Bunco Curling, Clerk of the Cheque to the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms; Rev. Montagu \Vynyard, Chaplain in Ordinary in Waiting ; Lieut. Col. Reid, 21 Life Guards, Silver Stick; Major Hyde, Assistant Master and Marshal of the Ceremonies; Mr. Alfred Montgomery, Gentleman Usher to her Majesty; Mr. Mellish, Gentle_ man Usher to her Majesty the Queen Dowager ; the Groom of the Robes; Captain Green and Mr. Blackwood, Gentlemen Ushers in Waiting; Colonel Walton, Field Officer in Waiting ; Lieut.-Colonel Angerstein, Gren a di er Guards, Capt a in o f th e G uar d ; an d the following Dr;Kes—Cleveland, Rutland, Montrose. MARQUISES--Granby, Downshire, Hartford, Bute, Tho. mond, Salisbury, Sligo. Eant.s—Rosebery, Falmouth, Gosford, Lovelace, Yar_ borough, Huntingdon, Stradbrokc, Darlington, Mutter, Jersey, Mansfield. Vt-couNTs_Boyle, Cole, Falkland, Hor.al, Alford, Lake, Folkstone, Maynard, Emlyn. LORDS—Teignmouth, Boscawen, Marcus Hill, Nugent, Hatherton, Saltoun, Norreys, Stavordale, W. Lennox, Braybroke, Fitzgerald and Vesci, Fitzalan, Bridport, G. Paget, Harewood, J. Somerset. ARCSIRISDOP—Armagh. 13isiroe— Rochester. RIGHT HOSOURABLES—Sir Robert Peel, Sir Stratford Canning, Sir C. Bagot, J. W. Croker. florrourranLea—Charles Law, M. P., Q. C., John Dun das, W. Temple, Manners Sutton, Charles Vanneck, H. G. Liddell, M. P., Rev. A. Phipp s' W. Duncombe, Captain Sauntarez, Captain flood, E. Phipps, W. Stourton, Captain Keppel, R. N. Mr. Bagot, Captain Roue, R. N., Captain Fitzmaurice. IlaaoNers--Jolin Johuston, Charles Lemon, Themes Dyke Acland, John Edmond De Beauvoir, Robert Shafto Adair, Edmund Antrobus, J. R. Reid, C. Monck, C H. Coote, C. Domvile, T. Gage, R. F. Russell, G. C. Style, R. Bu'eson, M. P., C. Barrel!. KNIGHTS—JaiI Kirkland, W. Gosset. REVEREND DOCTORS—Claxson, REVEREND MESSIEURS —James 11. Harrison, G. M. D' Arcy Irvine, William Cromie, W. Ellis, John Henry Smith, G. Carew, M. A., J. Abbess, E. Scobell, E. Renton. DOCTOR—N. Spalding. SERGEANT—Curry, M.P. LORD PROVOST of Glasgow. MESSIEURS—BIake, Robert Vaughan Richards, Q. C., Hope, M. P. J. Thomso n , B annerman, E merson Tennent, M. P., Smyth, Shaft() Adair, Hugh Adair, Irving, M. P., Archbold, M. P., G. Ponsonby, Goodrich, H. Alexander, Barneby, M. P., Hopkinson, S. Pcrceval, R. Sharp, M. Montgomerie, O'C. Don, Mackinnon, M. P., A. Gossett, Collingwood, Hoare, Dickins, Blechford, Wilson, R. D. Craig, Macdonald, Stanley, J. Garratt, Wickham, Hart Davis, Goulburn, Alston, Challoncr, G. Alexander, H. Borrer, Bankes, G. Berkeley, Duckworth, Lucas, M. P., Charles Lushing ton, Macgregor, C. A. Wilkinson, 0. P. Goodrich, B. Baker, Dunbar, J. A. Davis, Lister, H. Story, \V. V. Stewart, M. P., Pelly, D. F. Jones, S. Elston, Fleming, M.P., J. Burke, C. Conelly, 11. ners, G. Wilkinson, E. V. Neale, G. I. Repton, A. Trollope, Babbage, P. Bennet, Palmer, Pilgrim, W. Tollernache, Balfour. ADNIIRALS—Sir Charles Ogle. S7r Philip H. Durham, G. C. 8., Sir G. Moore, Skipsey, Sir E. Hamilton, Sir W. Lake. CAPTAINS—Sir George Seymour, Bowyer, Otway, W. A. Ilerringliam, Eden, Corry, 0. V. Harcourt, P. Ri chards, Sir T. Thompson. TRINITY HOUSE—Capt. Clalke. CommaNnstas—Henry Mangles DellbUll, F. R. S., Sparshott, H. G. Hamilton, M Iltvaine, G. Herbert, Hen. Edward. LIEUTENANTS—Petty, H. Page, G. Western, F. Mac- Gregor, G. Hurst, \V. C. Metcalfe, G. Lavie. GENERALS—Sir Henry John Cumming Reeves, C. 8., Sir P. Ras, Sir Lewis Grant, G. Michell, Hon. W. H. Gardner, B. Clayton, Alexander, Sir W. Thornton, R. Blunt, Dickson, Lord C. Manners, Han. Sir W. Lumley. COLONI/LS —lion. Leicester Stanhope, C. 8., K. C. H., Conolly, M. P., Webster, Ilay, Money, H. Montagu, El icombe, B. Osten, Mane, Wyndkam, J. Stanhope, Grant,. Arbuthnot, O'Grady, C rosse , A s h wort h, N orc liffe, Wing field, Hankey, Badcock, Allix, Percival, M. P., Armstrong, R. Wallace. MAJORS—M‘Queen, Trevor, Gage, Paine, Dowse, Hall, Sir W. Scott, Hamilton. CAPTAINS—BIake, Paterson, H. Cooper, A. Erskine, E. C. Ansel', Watson, Hickman, A. Wathen, Guille, Wil braham, Croly, Murray, Fletcher, Villiers, F. Seymour. LIEUTENANTS—J. R. Palmer, W. Warde, T. Evans Brett, IL Phillott Rattenhury, Hon. C. C. Scott, W. B. Gardner, C. A. Broke, El. J. Keane, Grant, Stawell, Jones, M. Archdale, M.P. ADJUTANT—White. CORN ITS —Jennyns, Bradford, Townsend. ENSlGNS—Anderson, Crawley, Bleukinsopp, A. Wal lace. The following Noblemen and Gentlemen presented Ad drrsses to her Majesty :—The Marquis of Downshire, the Earl of Hillsborough, Viscount Castlereagh, Sir Robert 13ateson, Air. Dut:bar ; Mr. Emerson Tennant— From the Town of 13ellast and its vicinity, assuring her Majesty of their ardent and unabated attachment to her Majestj's sacred person, rights and power, and of their con tinued obedience to the laws of the realm ; complaining of the gross an] inconsistent calumnies heaped upon her Ma jesty's Protestant subjects in Ireland by a faction who threaten to resort to insurrection in the event of her Ma jesty's deeminv, it advisable to change her Ministers, and assuring her Majesty of the unshaken loyalty and attach ment of her Protestant subjects, who have not enjoyed of late years, from the Executive Government that protection in person and property to which they are entitled, and praing that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to re move from her . Majesty's councils her present advisers, and appoint a Ministry in their stead who will govern Ireland v,ith impartiality, enforce the proper execution of the laws, and sustain her Majesty's authority over all classes of her Majesty's subjects. The Marquis of Sligo and a deputation—From the No bility, Clergy, Gentry, and inhabitants of Ireland, in ag. gregate meeting assembled in Dublin, on the 11th April, 1839, expressive of confidence in her Majesty's present Ministers. Also, from the County of Galway, expressive: of confidence in her Majesty's present Ministers. Mr. Irving, M. P.—Prom the Colonists of Mauritius, of congnitulation and a prayer, that after 28 years of proved fidelity they may have conferred upon them the benefits and privileges of the British Constitution. Colonel Perccval, M.P.—From Protestants of the County of Sligo, deploring the appointment of Lord Eb. rington, as the avowed enemy of the Established Church in I'cland, more especially as having declared his inten tion of following the example of his predecessor, under whose sway trial by jury was virtually extinguished, and life and property rendered insecure. An Address was presented from Leeds against making any alteration as to the delivery of letters on the Sabbath Day. • The following Noblcm n and Gentlemen were presented to the Queen:— Viscount Boyle, by the Marquis of Normanby. Lord Teignmouth, on his marriage, by Gen. Lord Hill: lion. John Dundas, on his appointment to the Lord Lieu tenancy of Orkney and Zealand, by the Earl of Zetland. The Hon. Mr. Manners Sutton, by Lieut.-Gen. Lord Charles Manners. lion. Capt. Keppel, R.N., on his marriage, by the Earl of Albemarle. Sir John Kirkland, by Major-Gen. Sir. Henry Wheatley. Rev. John Henry Smith, by Rev. Edward Scobell. Mr. James Thomson, on his appointment as one of her Majesty's lion. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, by Lord Foley. Mr. Robert Vaughan Richards, on his appointment as Queen's Counsel, by the Lord Chancellor. EVENING EDITION. Mr. Shafto Adair, by his father, Sir Robert Shaft° Ade Bart. Mr. Hugh Adair, by his father, Sir Robert Shaetta_Aitairi Bart. Mr. Wickham, on his appointment to the Board of Stamps and Taxes, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr. Smyth, by the Right Hon. George Byrg. Hon. Wiliam Stourton, on his marriage, by his Grace the Duke of N )rfolk. Rev. Edward Repton, on being appointed to a Prebendal I Stall at Westminster, by Viscount Me:bouree. Rev. Edward Scobell, by Vice-Admiral Lord M Kerr. , Hot,. C..ptain Hood, Scuts Fusilier Guards, on his mar- i riage, by the Marquis of Downshire. Hon. Captain Fitzmaurice, 21 Life Guards, by the Mar quis ef Thomond. Hon. Charles Vanaek, by the E irl of Stra ibr .ke Admiral Sir Phil p H. Durham, G. C. B L ,rd Anita. Commander Henry Mangles Denham, R. N. F. R. S , on his being elected a Fallow of tic Ro, al Soei, ty, j submitting his Rep,' t on the Nav igation of the Dee aid Mee soy, by the Marquis of Doe rishire. Lieutenint Pelly, 11. N , by his f..ther, the Deputy- Go vernor of the Bank. Licutenan -General Sir Lewis Grant, on appointment to the Coloneley of the 9 , 3Lh Regiment, by Lord Hill. Mr. Dunbar, by tie M arqu i s o f Dow:lshii e. Mr. C. P. Goodrich, by Mr. Hope. Mr. Macgregor, on his return from Austria, by Viscount Paline son. Mr. Charles Lushington, or, hi:: marriage, by Admiral Sir John Beresford. Mr. Charles Allix Wilkinson, Bedfordaiiira Militia, on going abroad, by Colonel A lix. Major *Queen, 15th Hussars, on promotion by Brevet, by Lieut.-Colonel Badcock. Captain Paterson, 26th Regiment, on his marriage, by Lieut.-General Sir Wm. Paterson, K. C. H. Captain Blake, 331 Regiment, by his father, Mr. Blake. Mr. Duckaortb, on being appointed a Master in Chan cery, by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. G. Alexander, by the Hen. Fox Manic. Mr. Ham,in Barrer, by Sir C. M. Burrell, Bart. Mr. Pilgrim, 15:h Hussars, by Captain Watson. Mr. Ado'phus Trollope, by Colonel Grant. Mr. Philip Bennett, Captain Ist L oya l Suffolk Yemsianry Cavalry, by Captain Watson. Mr. George S:anley Repton, by the Earl of Eldon Mr. Edward Vansittart Neale, by the Earl of Eldon. Mr. Charles Conolly, by the Earl of Gosford. Mr. Pelly, Deputy Governor of the Bank, by the Chan. cellor of the Exci equer. Mr. Joseph Burke, on his appointment as Assistant Poor- Law Commissioner, by Lord Morpeth. Commander Hon. Edward, IL N., by Viscount Fitaarris. Captain Guille, 25th Regiment, by General Sir Henry F. Campbell, K. C.B. Major. General Alexander, on his promotion, by Viscount Cembermere, G. C. B. Lieu'.-Colonel Wingfield, on his promotion, by Lord Hill. Lieut.-Colonel Hankey, on his promotion, by Lord Hill. 4 ' Lieut.- Geaeral Richard Blunt, by General Lord Hill. Captain Peter Richards, R.N., by the Earl of Minto. Lieutenant-Colonel Hay, Coldstream Guards, on his de parture for Canada, by Colonel Freemantle. Lieut.- G. neral Sir William Thornton, on promotion and appointment t) the 55th Regiment, by Lord Hill. General Browne Clayton, K. C., on promotion by Lord Combermere. Captain Curry, R.N., on Ilia return from foreign Bei - vie:e a by Earl de Grey. Captain Hickman, 15th Hussars, on departure .for India, by Colonel &deceit. Lieut. W. C. Metcalfe, R. N., on his return from abroad, by the Right Hon. Earl of Albemarle. Captain A. Wathen, 15th or King's Hussars, on proceeds ing to India,, by Lieut.-Colonel Bad coc k. Commander George Herbert, on his appointment to H. M. S. Poictiers, by the Earl of Minto. Commander M'llwaine, R.N., on promotion, by the Earl of Minto, G.C.B. Admiral Sir Graham Moore, on his appointment to the Port Command at Plymouth, by the Earl of Minto. Captain Otwty, R.N., on his promotion, by Admiral Sir Philip Esurham, G. C. B. Casite'ar Eden, R.N., on his appointment to H. M. S. impregnable, by Lard Minter. Major Trevor, by Mr. Fleming, M.P. Major Dowse, Royal Artillery, by the Master- General of the Ordnance, on returning to the Canadcs. Major Hall, Royal Engineers, on his return from Gibral tar, by the Inspector-General of Fortifications. Captain Villiers, Coldstream Guards, on promotion, by Colonel Walton. Captain Wilbraham, Royal Fusiliers, on his return fruit Persia, by Viscount Palmerston, - Major Hamilton, 22d Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, by Vice-Admiral Sir E. Hamilton. Lieut. W. B. Gardner, on return from abroad, by the Hon. Major-General Gardner. Captain Archibald Erskine, 45th Regiment, by Colonel Vigoureux, C. B. Lieut. H. J. Keane, Royal Engineers, by Lieut.-Gen, Sir Hussey Vivian, Master-General of the Ordnance. Lieut. Stowell, 54th Regiment, on his return from India, by Colonel Vigoireux, C. 13. Lieut. Grant, Royal Rifles, by Sir William Gossett. Lieut. Mervyn Archdall, M.P., lnniskillen Dragoons, by General lion. Sir William Lumley, G. C. B. Cornet Townsend, 15th Hussars, by Colonel Badcock. Lieutenant and Adjutant White, 40th Regiment, by Lola Holland. Major Paine, Royal Sussex Militia, by the Duke of Ri&i. mond. Lieutenant George Western, R N., by the Earl of Minto, Lieutenrnt Henry Page, R.N., on promotion, by the Earl of Minto. Major Gage, Scots Fusilier Guards, on promotion by Cul. Aitcheson. Lieutenant Fitzjames M'Gregor, R.N., on promotion, by the Earl of Minto. Lieutenant George Hurst, R. N., on his appointment as Naval Knight of Windsor, by Lord Minter. Lieutenant G. Lavie, R. N., on his return from foreign service, by Sir C. Adam. Captain Henry Cooper, 45th Regiment, by Sic H. Par. nail, Bart. Lieutenant J. R. Palmer, 17th Lancers, by the Earl of Huntingdon. Captain Fletcher, A. D.C., Ist Life Guards, on his mar riage, by General Lord Hill, G. C. B. Major Sir W. Scott, King's Hussars, by Col. Badcock. Lieut. Walter Warde, 74th Regiment, on his return from Jamaica, by Sir Henry Dukenfiald, Bart. Lieut. Brett, lath Queen's Hussars, on his departure for India, by Lieut.-Col. Badcock. Lieut. Charles Acton Broke, Royal Engineers, on am , b.irkine. ' for Corfu, by Major- Gen. Sir C. Br o k e V ere Ensign Crawley, 45th Regiment, on his return from India, by Col. Vigoureux, C.B. Ensign Anderson, ma Reprnent, by Lieut.-Gm. Sir Henry John Cumming. Ensign Blenkinsopp, 45th Regiment, on his return frniai India, by Col. Vigou:cux, C. B. Ensign Albany Wallace, 26th Regiment, on his nppoMt:. tent, by his father. Lieut.-Col. IL Wallace, K. H. Colonel Arbuthnot, 72d Highlanders, on promotion and return from Ceylon, by Lord Hill. Major-General Dickson, C. 8., Madras Cavalry, on pro. motion, by the Right Hon. Sir J. C. Hobhpuse, Bart. Sergeant Curry, M. P., by Lord Gosford. Captain E. C. Ansell, 74th Regiment, en promotion and return from foreign service, by Lieut.-General Sir P. Riall, K. C. B. The Lord Provost of Glasgow, by his Grace the Duke of Montrose. Sir Juhn Rae Rcid, Bart., M. P. Governor of the by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Sir Charles Burrell, by Colonel Wyndham. The Rev. William Cromic by Lord Kilmaine. Mr. John Garrett, Royal Ist Devon Yeomanry Cavalry, by Lord Rolle. Mr. Hart Davis, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Excise on his appointment by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Rev. Dr. Claxson by H. T. Hope, Esq., M.P. The Rev. James H. Harrison, by Mr. Cartwright, The Rev. Dr. Irving, Chaplain in Ordinary to here Ma. jeety, by the Marquis Camden. Count Jennyns, 16th Hussars, by Colonel Badcock. Mr. Goodrich, by Viscount Beresford. Mr. Hopkinson, by Lord John Somerset. Mr. Spencer Percival, by the Right Hon. Henry Goal. borne. Rev. George M. D'Arcy Irvine, by Lord Viscount Cole, M.P. Mr. Richard Sharpe, 26th Regiment, by Mr. Mackia non, M. P. Mr. Hoare, by the Hon. Locke King. Mr. Wilson, Governor of the Bank of Ireland, by the Earl of Gosford. Mr. IL D. Craig, by Lord Hathertan. Mr. Collingwood, by Sir Charles Mona. Her Majesty gave audience to Viscount Melbourne, Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chamberlain, Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Allee n.arle, the Field Officer in \Vaiting, and the Captain of the Guard. Her Majesty and Suite returned to Buckingham Palace I after the Levee. The Queen honouri:d the Marquis aid Marehions of i i Lansdowne with her company at ,dinner last evening at Lansdowne House. Iler Majesty anal Suite arrived in three of the Royal carriages. Her Royal highness the I Du in ss of Kent accompanied the Queen. The Royal Suite i included the Countess of Chaileinont, Lady in Waiting l on her Mijesty ; La•ly Flora fla.tings, Lady in Waiting 1 on the Duchess of Keut ; the Eall of Albemarle, G. C. 11., Master of the Horse; the Marquis of Conyngham, K. P., • Lord Chamberlain ; the Marquis of Ileadfort, K P., Levi in Waiting ; and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting. i The dinner party to meet her Majesty consisted of the Duke of Norfolk, K. G., the Duchess of Bedford, the i Duchess of Hamilton, Marquis of Anglesea, K. G., E a pi i Grey. K. G., Eatl of Clarendon, G. C. 8., Earl and Conn- ' teas Bruce, Viscount Melhote no, Viscount Palmerston, G. C. 13., Lord Holland, and Lord Morpeth. The Marchioness of Lansdowne afterwards gave a Crud , Concert in the Statue Galery, to which a large party the Nobility were invited. • i • Her M.ijesty rode out on horseback yest erda y . t A Cabinet Council was held at half - past three o'clock ; yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office. Baron Bentinck has been appointed Charge cit Aff A i reS of his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, during th, absence of M. Dedel. i A Deputation, including Mr. Mark Philips, .sir 0. Mosley, and Mr. Pattison, had an interview with the Chanoel:or of the Exchequeryesterday i n D • owning. street. - • • A Mr. Hodges bad an interview with Lord John r yesterday at the Home O ffi ce. tka tell t The Duke of Argyll, Marquis of Northampt on , i wi t h t h e C han. a Deputation had an interview vtill the Ch an ii ' ar " 4 , Exchequer yesterday. IfiraodmantliineteCryitiyew yesterdayc, copanied by t h e Ci ty f. ce ° l c of the i R c ik ra embra nuc Deputationr, cellor of the Exchequer. emeresszamegtmasnzamp Mr. Ivory, the new Solicitor -General • -G ) en 1 ' able lawyer, and at pre sent Sheriff of B era , is a tau also long been distinguished for bl • uteahire. I-I, e b e . s Greenock Adve r ti ser . s Liberal priee',/oesr--• ~~,~ 0 ~~ ~,:~1 NT MION r ~,~._ q .