The Sun. — London, England, 1839-04-09 00:00:00

EVENIN6I- EDITION. 1 POST-OFFICE ABSURDITIES. IThe iniloev;::g are extracts from a good article on " Linirorin Penny Postage" in the last Number of the i :Brilish and F(Jreig,n Review. If !ou post a newspaper within the London Two penny-post circle, to be delivered within that circle, 1 there is a penny postage to pay ; to be delivered with out that circle it goes free ; e. g., a newspaper posted et St. ntrtin's-le-Grand, to go to Newgate-street. ad k)king, elsts a penny ; to go to and from Aberdeen, hove LOO miles, perpetually, .i , Lcosts nothing. A four-ounce letter from Kingston to Kensington, about vine miles apart, would be charged ss. 4d. as a i. General-post rate, whilst the same from Glasgow to Banron, twenty-one miles, would cost only a penny. A petition from the inhabitants of Renfrew states ,y posted a three-ounce letter to go to Loch winLoA, fourteen miles distant, it would cost one penny, but if the same letter were posted to Pollock shaas, half the distance, or seven miles, it would be that it t :ttcrs have been circulated generally to Members :egi,ilature to illustrate another Post-office priuci .tharge : one four inches by two and a-half, and its of similar size, weighs seven grains, or under the th part of an ounce weight, and is charged double eue shihing. A second piece of paper would de the postage treble, while its fellow letter, a !,: , et of" (1 , 7 , uh1e demy" being twice the size of vo sheet of sixteen pages, was charged six- i wo the je o I ;oats [:;VC B'nglC imittea on postage have established that letter from London to Edinburgh amounts possible to the sum estimated by Mr. Hill, rty-s;xtit part of a penny, and the petition of the -ksellers states that eighty letters can be p• by steam from London to Edinburgh for .ie Post-of :ice wsuld ba Is. lid. for one, or r eid 11. 1O )4t of ar nearly '' • - 1 Dar cost o diptributin4 General-post letters 1 . .-. M. it.t.L.:l poateg:., ( per (teat k , ss than the th;rtecnth part of the average arged on such letters, making the tax 1,200 Mr. Hill sheers that in the twenty years from 1815 both the gross and net revenue of the Post re ; and aho that, had the revenue pith the population, it ought to exhibit an half a million sterling. Had the net annual cf the Pest-otilee kept pace with the stage a duty which affords a very just index of cf t! - .e people to communicate with one ...Id now exhibit an increase of 2,000,0001. ution of u five-fold incre.vc of letters at a c.ithe a diminution of the present net utiug to 300,0001. ; a six-fold increase ^ulna - ten at all ; and a seven-fold in the Post-office profits about to IS Nce O ;•,:ver 7t on er ( .Igrne avci' iS3, according- to the estimates o gave evidence before the Commit. "ti c° r.,nlber of letters sent through the London pos'.. in R!io I was 9,2'21,280, but when till penny is I used to twopence, the number of letters in the lotsing year sunk to 6,587,160. In the course of ir years alter the postage on ship letters was reduced, them to the Post-office had increased the; p:Oi egul ~~ ti,a~ lAy of teccus and r told Mr. Pitt to start the mails Lour, and travel eight miles in place o guard, the Post-otlice furlctionaries o d Palmer's scheme, as Colonel Ma. iouuru ptorounces Rowland Hill'a, " prepos urd," Lut William Pitt listened to corn- The k - 14A convirx::g portion of the whole evidence `"'`''re t.le Celnmittee is the testimony of every witness " I, !onnceted with the Pest-office, that the increase of I "tt.,rs iiltaly to follow the adoption of a penny rate, v ou:d N;y guarantee the revenue from any loss as 2ri as di° change was in full operation. The confi ‘l,-nc7e whi,:h the highest mercantile authorities have in this 1-,sult is so great, that serious preparations are makitig to form a company, which will offer to farm the Post-office revenue as in olden time, and at the same ) iltnt.‘ tA) reduce all the rites to one penny. 1 MELA7.CCITOLY CIRCUMSTANCE.—On TneS ly night last an event occurred at Stavely Woodthorpe, 'a melancholy character. The wife of a labouring man, awe name we have not heard, had a few days previously, en ecliaered of a child ; and on the night in question, 'ier husband was asleep in a room down stairs, she, tc . of delirium, left the house in her night dress, he infant in her arms. It is needless to picture i the state of the husband's mind, on awaking and missing ? 1 his wife and child. S u ffi ce i t t o sa y, h e p rocee d e d i n searc h i c; them, and aft e r a dili gen t scrut i n y di scovere d th em i n I a Likw-field, near Norbrigg, nearly starved to death ! 1 'I he prior infant was is dreadful agonies, but to the time of our going to press we have not heard whether it be alive or dead. —North Derby Chronicle. ORDINATION.-- Bishop Philpotts will hold a ' "aol,mn ordination," on Sunday next, at the Cathedral. . There are many aspirants for clerical initiation, and as this is an age of inquiry, we sit down and ask ourselves what this ordination is? Ordination is the direct process by whieh a young man is initiated into the important office of , the rninis.try of the Established Churcb, and s e t a p ar t f or l tae ditehargo of its duties. There are certain preliminary .Forma to ha gone through, and one of these forms is a uni versity education, with theological studies, but whether the e of education may have been well or ill spent_ ether the student may have passed his hours in study, ' - ' - ess• and riot —his not generally been the us inquiry. It matters little what was vhil3t In a ate t6kin, j ,- C, t of a Lis previous lif e , or the inducements which may have drawn ! him into the Church—he may come reeking from the stew=, a drunkutd, and a libertine, and yet the hand of the ; Bishop •may ho laid upon his head, and the fiat shall go i forth, that. he bath received the Holy Glic.st, and hath powsm to remit sins. Now we do not mean to say that any i of the candidates on the forthcoming occasion, are men of imunmal conduct—for we will do Bishop Philpotts the justi , .2e to say, that as, far as our observation goes, he i 1 requires from the cand id ate for ordination the semblance of piety in his outward walk and conversation. But that is a part of his system ; the Church is to be used as an in strument for governing the laity ; and it is necessary to that end, that the life of the priest shall not he a standing battery opposed to its assumptions.— Western Times. A HINT TO BARRISTERS.—There ar,7 some ' , srristers who Seefri to take delight in putting to the witnesses ig questions, apparently with no other ob wa than to show that they have the power t) be imperti lent with impunity, cr with the still less amiable motive of gratifying themselves by exercising the art of ingeni , most insul rani) , tormenting. Occasionally, the obvious intention is to leave on the minds of the jurors an unfavourable impree sinn resccct;i:g• the eharacttr of the person under examina. tion. This, we muit cun , ess, is more frequently the fault of the attorney than the advocate. How many times hare we stet an honest and ingenuous individual subjected to nof torture ! On Saturday, Mr. Watson, is des( who, it will be remembered, was door-keeper on the famous occasion when Mr. Barkky was so strangely insulted, gave a gratuitous specimen of the insulting mode of cross examination. In the case of Gregory v. Green, Mr. Philip Henry Bishop, a most respectable manufacturer, and son to a highly esteemed clergyman, was called into the witness box. He gave his testimony in a very proper manner. M. Watson commenced the cross-examination by asking the witness if he knew where York Castle was ; to which the witness replied " Yes." The cross-examina tion then proceeded as follows :—Mr. Watson (loudly)— You have been recently in York Castle, I believe. Wit n:tss—No ; I have not. Mr. Watson—What ? What gaol base you been in? Witness—No gaol. Mr. Watson — No I Have y ou not b een bankrupt? Witness—No. 31r. 1 Watson —Then have you not been insolvent? Witness_ No. Mr. Watson_ Have you not compounded with your creditors ? Witness (energetically)._ No, Sir. Mr. Watson—Upon your oath have you not offered to com pound with your creditors? Witness—No, Sir. Mr, Watson —And you have never been in any gaol? Wit neis—No, Sir. Mr. Baron Parke—Have you done, Mr. Watson ? You had better go through the whole catalogue et crime while you ar. - 1 about it. Pray, Sir (to the wit ness); have you ever committed murder? Have you ever committed 'robbery ? You ought not, Air. Watson, to ask such questions without some ground. Thus rebuked, Mr. Watson sat down, and Mr. Bishop escaped further annoy -Liverpool Albion. ance. EARTHQUAKE IN THE ITIGHLANDS.--The following account of the recent earthquake that took place in the Highlands of Scotland is copied from the Inverness Courier :—" Early in the morning of the ?oth March, the siock 'of an earthquake was distinctly felt in the moun tD!nons tract of country extending from Fort Augustus to Kingtissie and Laggan in Badenueli. Between two and theeeJ'elock, A.M. the fimily of Captain Spalding, bar. rack-master, Fort Augustus, was roused from sleep by a tw i lling noise, as if a carriage was driving rapidly into the garrison. At Ardochy, the residence of Mr. Gillespie, the same noise was heard, accompanied with a tremulous d the whole household got up in alarm, and fled re. At Ruthvcn, in Badcnoch, Mr. Macpher. 90 , 1 sttites, that having some sheep in the square, he was startled by a loud noise, as if a dog had got among the she.ep and the flock was running in a body ; he arose ['ram bed, hut could:idiscover nothing. At Laggan, 4enie families were awakened believing the house to be on ire In other houses the hells were set a ringing. M r. ':lse;.':yrson, postmaster, Kingus s i c , was awa k ene d by a 71.1ml:ding sound like thunder, which was heard over the vhola village. The shock seems to have lasted about a atte, and was felt at the same time throughout the dis - itave mentioned. It did not extend so far west In Loch Oich, and at Invergarry, it was ctly : the steam dredging machine of the Cabe- Canal was lying in the lake, and the men on board ; but they were all aroused by the shack, and rush e d sit. In the house of Mr. Scott, and in Mr. Mackay's 51, at lavergarry, similar sensations were experienced ' !Le does not seem to have extended farther .t Augustus. It is many years since a ph e _ this alarming nature occurred in the High. but fortunately the present was of short duration, been accompanied with the less of life or (stior IL of do, a ct l~pltJ:l inr3 no We had a lArgc fall of snow yesterday, com rwmciagalittlebefore seven in the morning, and continu ing -with scarcely any intermission through the day. The w. ather;as as cold as a day of January, the w i nd keeping the dircetionwhich it has maintained for more than a week P4t—erst north -east.—N ort h ampton Mercury. Tt . w linen tract! in Barnsley remains steady. The E -. incipl,l dull season is ne ar l y over, but the lack of that is j nFenat(d for by an i ncreased demand for plain goods cousuratioa, so that there are very few weavers 74,inplooneastr Gazette. THE TURKISH COMMERCIAL TREATY. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 13. The reeeneration of Turkey has at length com menced ; the long anticipated period has at last arrived when the abuses which have brougot it so near to ruin are to be swept away. To-day the first cargoes of goods, both for import and export, will be entered at the Custom-house under the new system, and this will decide whether the convention can be carried into execution or not. The tariffs are, it is true, not yet quite completed, nor will the French ratifications even be exchanged till Saturday next ; but these circumstances are, it seems, not likely to be pro ductive of any difficulty or delay. As far as our tariff is concerned, so little remains to be done that the next meeting of the Commissioners will, in all proba bility, terminate it ; but the French, I believe, is not in so forward a state ; the Ambassador, however, last week sent an official communication to the mer chants, similar to that made by our Consul, wherein he gave them notice of the approach of the period from whence the change would commence, expressing also, at the same time, his perfect confidence in the good faith of the Turkish Government with regard to the fulfilment of all the engagements into which they had entered. With the coming into operation of the Treaty, however, the detractors from its merits in no way di minish ; but, on the contrary, appear to gain fresh strength from the manner in which their reasonings have been made use of and supported in England. Every argument, however frivolous in its nature, is now brought forward to prove the impossibility of carrying it into effect ; and means are, in fact, almost pointed oat to the Turks by which they may counteract or evade it. From what quarter all this comes is easily under stood. That a total change in the fiscal system, such as that now about to be worked throughout an empire like Turkey, where powerful personal interests are opposed to it, can be effected without some degree of difficulty and confusion at first, would be absurd to be expected ; but that the Sultan, however much he might have been induced by his anticipations respecting Egypt, should have heedlessly entered into engagements which he either never intended or thought himself unequal to comply with, is a supposition equally so ; and when all the immense advantages which will accrue to every class by the operation of this system arc thrown into the scale in favour of the opposite argument, it will, ' I think, appear that instead of its execution be coming impossible, it will, in fact, present less diffi euNis than its warmest advocates even could have an ticipated. Among other opinions which are advanced with regard to the obstacles in the way of this conven tion is that of the two principal powers engaged in commerce with the country not having yet become parties to it; but this is certainly of all arguments one of the easiest to be refuted. According to the system now to be introduced, all interior taxation and mono poly is, as is well known, to be abolished, and nine per coat. in lieu of it to be paid to the Government by the exporter ; the same also, but with two per cent., on imports; and this is applicable to all subjects of the Turkish dominions in their relations with subjects of those powers wh© are parties to the treaty. To whom, then, will these people, who are both producers and consumers, go to sell their produce and obtain their manufactures? To those who, paying the tax, free them from all onerous charges, or to those who by not paying it, leave them exposed to the same abuses as before ? The answer is obvious ; and however strenuously the Russian and Austrian Go• vernments may refuse to accept the terms which the treaty offers, it is quite evident that their merchants must comply with them, or relinquish into the hands of others all the commerce they now carry on. With regard to Wallachia and Moldavia, where the fiscal s3stems are different, some alterations will, as I have said, perhaps have to be made, and deputies from those Governments have now been sent to Constantinople to make representations on the subject; but the commerce of these provinces, already half Russian, however im portant it may in itself be, is, compared to the general welfare of Turkey, but a secondary consideration, and may be adjusted when it is seen how the system works ; and, according to the strict interpretation of the Treaty, though obliged to abolish such oppressive taxation and monopolies as may exist, there is certainly no article which binds them to levy the full amount of 9 per cent. on exports, if they find their commerce suffers by it. In the course of about two months from this period, something more like a definite opinion will be able to be formed of the merits and demerits of this change, and it will then be seen on which side of the question the error of judgment really lies. A grand council was, on Friday last, held at the Porte on Persian affairs, previous to which an official note had been sent to the Persian Ambassador, re quirir,g an immediate explanation of the warlike move ments on the Kourdistan frontier, and to which the answer returned is said to have been of such a naturo as has perfectly quieted the alarms of the Turks on this head. Another meeting of the Commissioners ap pointed by the different nations for the discussion of the dues to be charged on vessels for the new light houses on the Bosphorus took place this week ; a but the Turks still continue to make the same unreason able demand of 30 pares per ton, and no arrangement can, for the present, be come to. The rate of 10 pares, offered by the Commissioners, is calculated on the rate charged by the Russian Government for the lighthouses in the Black Sea, without even making any allowance for the immense difference in the price of oil between the two countries, and other expences which the Turks would not have to incur. Despatches have this week been received from Reschid Pacha, from which it seems that circumstances have now oc curred which render the period of his return to Con stantinople very uncertain ; and this may possibly tend to induce some changes in the Ministry here. His re presentative, Nourri Effendi, is daily rising in the favour of the Sultan, who, a few days since, made him a present of a magnificent villa on the Bosphorus, which for merly belonged to the celebrated Hussein Pacha, now Governor of Widdin.—Chronicle. MYSTERIOUS CASE —CHARGE OF 'MUR DER AGAINST A MOTHER.—On Saturday the circum stances attending the mysterious death of a little girl named Higgins were fully investigated by the Cheltenham bench of Magistrates. The facts are shortly these :—Oa Friday morning the child was quite well, but on the mother, who is a poor woman, returning from getting some shavings to light her fire, she screamed out, declaring that her child was dying. Some neighbours advised that the child should be taken to the doctor's, which was done, when, on looking into its mouth, the doctor said it had been either drinking boiling water or some strong acid, and advised that it should be taken instantly to the infirmary at which place the same opinion was given. The mother said there was no hot water in her house, and that the child had the day before swallowed a bone, but she had thought nothing of it ; she took the child home, and two hours afterwards it died in great agony. In the evening Coroner's inquest was held on the body, when the Jury requested that the surgeon should make a post mortem ex amination. The Coroner opposed this proposition, saying that there was no occasion for it, and recommended that a verdict of natural death should be returned. The autho rities, disapproving of the course the Coroner had taken, caused Mrs. Higgins to be brought before them, and the contents of the child's stomach to he analysed. The medi cal witnesses stated that the child appeared to have suf fered from the effects of sonic strong acid. The chemist who analysed the contents of the viscera could only detect a slight portion of acid. Several witnesses proved the kindness of the prisoner's conduct to her child, and she herself expressed her anxiety that the strictest investiga tion should be entered into. The Magistrates determined upon fully committing the prisoner for trial, upon which she declared her innocence in the most heart-rending terms. On Tuesday a bill indictment was preferred against her at the Gloucester Assizes, which was ignored by the Grand Jury. —Abridged from the Cheltenham Chronicle. SINGULAR DEATH.—On Saturday a Coroner's inquest was held at the London Hospital, on the body of Ann Laurar, aged OS. On the 19th ult. the deceased, who was a widow, residing in Webber -street, Lambeth, went to call upon her daughter, who was living in Swan street, Minories. Not finding her at home, however, and being seized with an internal pain, she went to tke occupier of the opposite house, and begged to be allowed to retire. Th• owner of the house (Mrs. Sawyer) accordingly took her into the cellar, and left her with a lighted candle, which was placed at a distance of three quarters of a yard from her. A considerable time having elapsed, and the de ceased not making her appearance, Mrs. Sawyer went to the top of the cellar stairs, when she heard loud moans. On going ! down stairs she saw the deceased en the floor en veloped in flames, end in a st a t e o f i nsensibility. With some difficulty she extinguish e d the flames, and then sent for a medical man. Prior to the arrival of that gentleman the deceased revived, and informed Mrs. Sawyer that she had fallen upon the candle in a fit. Eventually the des ceased was removed to the London Hospital, where she lingered in great agony until Thursday last. Verdict-- Accidental death. NEW KIND OF SIIOP-SIIUTTERS.—A most ingenious plan has been invented (by Mr. Sandeman, up holsterer, Grcenside-street, we believe), by which the process of placing the shutters upon shop-windows is ren dered by far more easy, safe, and convenient than the method at present adopted. It is this :—During the day , the shutters stand edgeways, and quite invisible, in a re ceptacle on each side of the window, just suffieiently large to contain them. When they are wanted to be put on, it is only necessary to give them agentle push from the inside, when they travel smoothly out upon a concealed railway, and after projecting to their full breadth, each shutter, turning upon strong hinges, immediately closes. All that is necessary afterwards is to fasten the bolts. By this means, not only is the risk of glass-breaking avoided, and a great deal of labour saved, but the shutters are rendered no incumbrance to the premises during the day. The only instance where we have yet seen them in practical operation is in the shop of Messrs. Ireland and Son, South Bridge, where our town readers may have an opportunit) of examining them for themselves. —Scoesman.—[ Shutters of various kinds, that answer the purposes mentioned by the Scotsman, are, we believe, in use in London.—ED- SUN.) TIIE CROPS. —Th e wheats on the hills do not make much progress; yet on the whole they look healthy, although backward. In the Weald, on the wet soil, they f look chilled, but not so much so that a few fine days of warm wencher would not restore them. The oat sowing is gf.-Pincgorntmheenccoel(di . s ll ti :Sl e ff v s e ( r z y i nearly finished, and so b s a e r a ley n s , ol e s x ia c prospect of a Express. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, APRIL 8. The SNEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'Clock. Mr. Parker presented returns from the Poor-law Commissioners. CARLOW ELECTION. The SPEAKER informed the House that the peti tioners against the return of Mr. Bruen for Carlow had not entered into the required sureties. The order, therefore, for hearing the petition must be discharged. —Order discharged. Mr, E. J. STANLEY presented a petition from certain electors of Carlow against the return of Mr. Bruen. The petitioners prayed that either the return might be amended by inserting the name of Mr. Gis borne for that of Mr. Bruce, or that the election might be declared void. On the motion of Captain ALSAGER the London and Croydon Railway Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. On the motion of Mr. KINNAIRD the Perth Harbour and Navigation Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed, as was also the Perth Police Bill. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE the Crichton Charities Bill was read a se cond time, and ordered to be committed. The Learned Lord presented a petition from the Magistrates and Town Council of Leith against the Newhaven Railway Bill. On the motion of Mr. GORDON, the Fraserburgb Harbour Bill, and the Eyemouth Harbour Bill, were road a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. FINCH brought in the Liverpool Court of Requests Bill, which was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. On the motion of Mr. W. GLADSTONE, the Ballochney Railway Bill, the Witham and Cottneis Road Bill, and the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Rail way Bill, were read the second time and ordered to be committed. Sir W. MOLESWORTH brought in the Leeds Small Debts' Bill, whieli was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. On the motion of Mr. HARLAND, the West Durham Railway Bid was read a second time and ordered to be committed, On the motion of Mr. W. ATT WOOD, the Londnn and Greenwich Railway Improvement Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed. NEW WRIT. On the motion of Sir T. FREEMANTLE, a new writ was ordered for the county of Ayr, in the room of Sir T. Dunlop (deceased). CHURCH EXTENSION. The LORD ADVOCATE presented a petition in favour of Church Extension (Scotland). Mr. FERGUSON presented a petition against Church Extension (Scotland). Mr. FRESHFIELD presented a petition from Falmouth, complaining of the want of spiritual in struction in the Colonies, especially in Canada. The Hon. Member noticed the omission, on the part of many Hon. Members lately, of the usual custom of putting their names to petitions which they presented. —(Hear, hear.) The SPEAKER sa4 it ought to be generally known that no petition would be printed to which the name of the Member presenting it was not affixed. That would check the neglect complained of. Mr. FRESHFIELD then brought up the Re port of the Committee on Public Petitions. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1839. CORN-LAWS. Lord J. STUART presented petitions against the Corn-laws ; also a petition in favour of National Edu cation. Sir J. Y. BULLER presented petitions from Devon shire in favour of the existing Corn.lsws ; also a petition praying for a repeal of the duties on Fire Insurances. POSTAGE. Mr. MUSKETT presented a petition from St. Al bans in favour of Dir. R. Hill's plan of postage. Mr. ELLIOT presented a petition from Kelso to the same effect. Several such petitions were presented by Hon. Mem berg, whose names we did not catch. CANADA. Sir 11. INGLIS presented a petition complaining of spiritual destitution in Canada. Mr. FINCH brought up the Report of the Com mittee on the Timberland Drainage Bill. Mr. C. WOOD moved that an bumble address be presented to her Majesty, requesting that there might be laid before the House a copy of the letter of the Se cretary of State for the Home Department to the Lords Lieutenant of certain counties respecting the Army and Nat y.—Agreed to. Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN prevented petitions from planes in the county of Limerick, praying for a dartici pation in all the political rights enjoyed by England. Mr. E. TENNENT presented a petition from the Westmeath Railway Company praying for an extension of time to bring in their Bill. On the motion of Mr. ALSTON, the London and Southampton Railway Bill was re-committed. Mr. HOGG presented a petition from Beverley, praying for some provision to prevent the sale of beer in beer houses. The ATTORNEY•GENERAL presented a peti tion from the Provost, Magistrates, and Town Council of Edinburgh, praying that a Bill might be passed for completing the Caledonian Canal, and that steam tugs might be introduced on it. CUSTODY OF INFANTS. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD postponed the motion of which he had given notice, for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the laws relating to the Custody of Infants. Sir E. CODRINGTON presented a petition from the Mayor and Town Council of Devonport in favour •f Mr. Rowland Hill's Plan for a Penny Post. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from a parish in Lancashire, in favour of a Christian system of education. THE MINISTRY. Lord JOHN RUSSELL roseand said—l am anxious, with regard to the notice which I have given for Monday next, to state that it is nay intention then to move the following resolution :—" That it is the opinion of this House, that it is expedient to persevere in those principles which have guided the Executive Government in Ireland of late years, and which have produced the effectual administration of the law, and the general improvement of that part of the United Kingdom."—(Cheers from the Alinisterialists, and laughter from the Opposit;on.) RAILWAYS. Mr. FINCH gave notice of a motion for a return of all sums which had been borrowed by Railway Companies. IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that he would on Thursday move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Imprisonment for Debt Act, passed last Session, in so far as regarded compelling Proprietors of Newspapers to insert advertisements, of whatever length, for three shillings.—(Hear, hear, from both sides of the House.) Sir F. BURDETT gave notice that be would call the attention of the House to the case of a Mr. Dillon, whose petition he had presented before Easter. RAILWAYS. Mr. P. THOMSON gave notice that be would, on as early a day as possible, move that the consideration of all Railway Bills before the House be postponed till the 23d April. On the motion of Mr. C. WOOD the Marine Mu tiny Bill passed through Committee. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL the District Prisons' Bill was read a second time and or dered to bo committed. Sir R. PEEL wished to put a question to the Noble Lord with respect to the order of proceeding on Mon day next. The Noble, Lord had given his notice not for a motion, but for an Order-day. He (Sir R. Peel) presumed that he intended to bring .t forward as a substantive motion—(Hear)—not as an amend ment on an order, but as a substantive motion. Lord J. RUSSELL replied that the course he meant to pursue was this : on Friday he should move to post pone all the Orders of the Day, so that the notice of motion might stand first, if possible and he should re quest other Hon. Members also to Postpone their mo tions, so that the one of which he had given notice might be brought on as a substantive motion. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Prisons Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. Mr. BERNAL brought up the Report of the Corn , mittee of Supply on the Ordnance Estimates. On the motion of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, the Ecclesiastical Appointments Suspension Bill, and the Borough Courts' Bill, were postponed till to-morrow. REGISTRATION OF ELECTORS' BILL. The ATTORNEY -GENERAL had hoped that this Bill would have been allowed to pass through the House quite smoothly, but as he was given to un derstand that some of his Learned Friends who were now on Circuit, had some opposition to offer to it he would postp one it till W e d nes d ay week. , The second reading of the Election Petitions Trial Bill was postponed till the 26th inst. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE, the Bankrupts' Estate Scotland Bill, went through Com mittee, and was reported without amendment. On the motion of the LORD ADVOCATE leave was given to bring in a Bill to facilitate the conveyance of heritable estates and infeftment thereon, in Scotland. —Read a first time. NORTH AMERICAN BOUNDARY. Sir W. MOLES WORTH begged to ask the Noble Lord the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whe ther any instructions had been sent out to their Mi nister, Mr. Fox, in compliance with the terms of a note of the American Minister, Mr. Forsyth, for the purpose of forming a joint Commission of exploration of the dis JJ - puted territory. He wished also to know whether there was any objection to produce the correspondence on the subject ? Lord PALMERSTON said there was every dis• position on the part of both Governments to form a Joint Commission, for the purpose of placing the boun dary as it had been settled by the treaty of 1785. The appointment of the Commissioners, however, would rest with her Majesty's Government.—(Hear, and a laugh.) • CORN-LAWS. Mr. E WART begged to ask the Noble Lord whether it was intended to lay before the House the correspon dence that had taken place with foreign countries with respect to the Corn trade ? Lord PALMERSTON said it would be necessary to refer to two or three thousand volumes of corres pondence to p:oduce the documents asked for, but he hoped to be able to comply with the spirit, if not with the letter of the motion, by obtaining copies of the documents on that subject which were in possession of the Board of Trade. He hoped these papers would be sufficient to satisfy the Hon. Member. IRISH REGISTRATION OF VOTERS. Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN postponed the considera tion of the Irish Registration of Voters Bills to Wed nesday week. Sir ROBERT PEEL asked the HonourAle Member if it was his intention to bring forward the Bill on the day for which he had given notice ? Mr. SMITH O'BRIEN was understood to say that he had not yet decided on the subject. THE CHARTISTS. - Colonel ST BTH ORP said that he understood the ma nufacture of pikes was going on to a considerable extent in some parts of the country, and the people were arming themselves ; he wished to ask the Noble Lord the Se cretary of State for the Home Department if he was aware of the fact ; and also if the Government had taken any measures in consequence ? Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that a correspondence had taken place on the subject with certain Lords Lieute nant of Counties, and that his Hon. Friend the Under Secretary of State had moved for the production of those letters, and they would be forthwith laid before the House. The other Orders of the Day where then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a QUARTEIL TO SIX O'CLOCK. SCOTLAND. GOVERNMENT OF IRELAND.—ADDREIS TO HER MAJESTY.—We understand that the. Address to her Majesty, in favour of the system of Government hitherto pursued in Ireland, has, in the course of two days, re ceived upwards of four thousand signatures. It has not yet had an opportunity of being fully advertised, and many, whn were aware of its existence, have observed that they found difficulty in discovering where it might be found. We feel little doubt that it will show such an array of names, as will effectually prove that the majority of our citizens who can write, are in favour of its spirit. Our readers will find the various places in which the Address is left for signature, in our adver tising columns.—Scotsman. FIRE-ARM SOCIETY.—We understand that a Fire- Arm Society has lately been instituted in this city. The members are of course Universal Suffrage men, who contribute small sums weekly, with which guns and pikes are purchased whenever the contributions reach a certain amount, The arms arc then distributed by lot. —lbid. THE WEATHER.—During the past week severe frosts and cold easterly winds have prevailed. Vegc-. tation has consequently been greatly retarded. Tile Cheviot hills are covered with snow.—lbid. DESTITUTION IN SHETLAND.—The subscription for the relief of the destitute inhabitants of Shetland is still open. FALL OF A RAILWAY BRIDGE.---WONI AN KILLED. —Between five and six o'clock on Wednesday after noon, the railway bridge which crosses Gilmour -street, gave way, and the whole mass of brickwork of two of the three arches, namely, the centre and eastermost ones, came to the ground with a dreadful crash. It was not supposed at the time that any person was beneath, but as a woman was that night missed, who it was known had occasion to pass that way, a search was made next morning, when her body was found beneath the rubbish, dreadfully crushed. 'Workmen had been em ployed during the day removing the supports that bore up the coombs, but it would seem that this had been done too soon, before the lime had taken proper band. The opinion is very prevalent, indeed, that the arch ought not to have been of brick at all, it being much too elliptical for brick to make a trust-worthy job. EARL OF STIRLING.—On Wednesday, in the High Court of Justiciary, in Edinburgh, thn gentleman claim ing to be Earl of Stirling pleaded "Not Guilty" to the charge of forging certain documents to establish his claim, and his trial was further deferred, at his own request, until April 29, to allow certain of his witnesses to come from France. CHuncn OF SCOTLAND.—A soiree is to be held en the evening of Tuesday the 9th inst. in the Assembly Rooms, under the direction of the same Association which got up the soiree in November last. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWMARKET. ... A few words will suffice on the termination of the Craven Meeting —dull as to sport, dull as to the weather, dull in everything but the result and return to town. The event of the last day (Friday) that astonished all was the Port. Don John, of notoriety, to be beat for the first time in his life, and in a canter, by Grey Momus—certes the most fortunate of his species. That the Don was thought fit to run is proved by the money that was laid out upon him, and at the enormous odds of 3 to 1 and .5 to 2. The Lord Chesterfield arrived from Northamptonshire the evening before solely to see him win ! Some foreigners (of distinction, no doubt) arrived the Fame morninc , expressly to buy him ! He had been see❑ in his gal lops actually running away from Epirus, and by the side of Grey Momus it did not seem as if he could gallop. He was beaten at the ditch, and that's the fact. The only way of explaining so contrary a " come off" to general expectation is, that the Grey always was, and is still, an improving horse, and that Don John is not improved at all—is no batter now than ever he was. That this will have some influence on the betting about Scott's horses is beyond a doubt, although it has been said that Don John was almost too good for a trial horse. All fears on this subject may now fortu nately be set aside. Lord Exeter's Alemdar brought up the rear, and it occurs to me just now that the sporting Marquis will very soon obtain as great celebrity for running third as Lord Suffiald enjoyed for being always second. Flambeau has made his last appearance in the Derby quotations in consequence of being beat by a head by a cult of the Duke of Portland's, after one of the finest races ever seen ; as in the case 'of Tros, strange mis takes are occasionally made in trials. " Give me public running, and hang all trials," is an old and favourite saying of a very good judge. Mr. Thornhill's Euclid disposed of another Derby one (Montreal), which by a chosen few bad been much fancied, thus reducing the field with railroad rapidity ; 4 to 1 against one, 8 to 1 against another ; bar these two, 25 to 1. I would not recommend any one to begin a book just now ; if they do, and get round, I will say they are ingenious. The run to town immediately after the races was great ; about thirty-five pair of horses being in demand, exclusive of those reserved for Lord George Bentinck. Nothing can have been more unpropitious than the weather ; a violent snow-storm fell at and around Ep ping on Friday, while, certainly, at Newmarket, it was so good as only to rain very fast and wetting. I have been considering the position of Lord Jersey's horse in the betting, and I have decided that he is too great a favourite for his performance. He won easy enough, it is true, but, alas ! for those he defeated— Tros and Darrynane. Mr. Thornhill's horse again beat Montreal, but nothing can be much worse than the public running of the latter, a moderate third being the best place ever allotted to him. If I could dis cover anything good in any one horse that has yielded to Euclid; then I should say, take 3 to 1 about Caesar, but with winds, weather, his engagements, and other chances, I should be inclined to wait ; if, however, well on the day, with Jem Robinson on his back, the horse that beats him will be one I have never seen. By an error of the type I am made to say in my last, " Ilderim, it is said, will not start again for the Derby," it should have been before, which must have been suffi ciently obvious to render this correction almost unne cessary.—Correspondent of the Post. It is reported that twenty small brigs are to be brought forwlrd to put down the Portuguese slave trade. Our attention has been directed to the arbitrary roceedings of Lord Mansfield, in stopping the path over " Downshire-bill," by which for a full mile on either side, all direct communication between Hampstead and Highgate is er,tirely cut off. This appears to us certainly to be most tyrannous and unjustifiable, but the point which has in the first place to be considered is, whether Lord Mansfield has a eight —a legal right—to make the inclosere in question. Is the path over Downshire.hill public or private? Was it ever, within the memory of man, a free path ? We have not at hand the means of deciding this point, but it certainly is one which must be considered before any effective steps can be taken. If Lord Mansfield has no legal right to in close this path he should at once be compelled to re-open it ; but if, on the other hand, he has, he can only be denounced for thus exercising that right to the serious inconvenience and injury of so many, without such inconvenience an f d a i d n . . jury being e ven i n t h e s li g h test d e gree p vantage to himself. This proceeding of Lord Mansfield demands immediate investigation. He ought at once to be called upon to prove, not only that the path in question was never a free path, but also that he has a right to inclose it. Let the inhabitants of Hampstead and Highgate_ whose interests are to a serious extent involved in the ques tion —bestir themselves boldly, and at once. Let them call upon him to show that he is legally justified in acting a s he his done, and if he cannot show this, they must have ample means at their command of causing the path to he re-opened. A small society to prevent encroachments on the public paths in this vicinity is much needed.— M e ld Dispatch. General Terrat has this week presented a cart load of coals to each of the fishermen employed on his waters on the Tweed ; he has also caused to be distributed among the families of his workmen a quantity of t ea , °read, and other articles, for the purpo, -, e, of a m?rry.tr, 2 l t i, r . on the occa b i on o f t h e marr i age o f his son. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) DEAL, APRIL 6. --Wind moderate N.E.. —Came down from the river and proceeded, the Dash, Barber, Cape of Good Hope; Pekin, Pye,Quebec ; Cottenham, Short, do.; New Brunswick, do. ; Princess Mary, Legg, do. ; Lord Goderich, Mainland, do. ; and several others names un known. 7.—E. N.E. moderate.—Came down from the river and proceeded, the James Hartis, Wright, Mira michi; Hercules, Quebec; Elutheria, Wheatley, do. ; John Purling, do. ; St. Ann's, do. ; Thetis, Baker, do; John Esdale, Wright, do. ; Alonzo, do. ; Albion, Smith, do. ; Britannia, do. ; Stately, Ncagle, do. ; Sea Bird, Cape Coast Castle ; St. Croix, Bradley, Jamaica ; Ma breister, Carter, Leghorn; Aimwell, Cape of Good Hope; Guardian, Smith, Trieste ; Alice, Boston ; Warblington, Benson, Gibraltar ; Grant, Norie, Antigua ; Ethobert, Moore, Bathurst; Norfolk, HavanLah. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 6, —Wind E. N. E. 7.--E. to S. E. —Arrived the Hibernia, Bartlett, from Guernsey, with loss foreyard and sails split; Gazelle, Tomlios,n, London. Off port, an Austrian brig from Trieste for Hull. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 7.--Wind E.N. E.—Arrived the Hartley, from Van Diemen's Land, with less of anchor and cable; Arab, Coysh, Paraiba, with loss of maintopmast and sails, &c. ; Providence, Duke, St. Michael, loss of mainboom, &c. ; Arachne, Fowler, Trieste, with loss of sails, &c. ; Deux, Sorello, Ancona; Tiro, Smith, Mar seiles ; Sally, Bowin, Cork, loss of anchor and cable ; Patriot, Liverpool. Sailed Marshal Blucher, Johns, for Hamburgh ; Navarino, Clevesley, Quebec; Cato, Do. Off Port, the Warrior, Brown, Mauritius ; Aurora, Vaudin, St. Michael's. FALMOUTH. APRIL s.—Wind N.N. W. to S.E., 6. E. S E. to. S. S. E., fresh breezes.—Arrived the Fritboi ffe, Pederson, from Longsound ; Nicholas Benjamin Aal, Pederson, Longsound; Ranger packet, Rio Janeiro; sailed, 17th February, Neptune, Chatteslain, —; Jane May, May, St. Croix; Elbe, Robson, Constantinople ; La Gievannie, Gallipoli; her Majesty's steamer Meteor on a cruise; Pheasant, Dyer, steamer, with loss of anchor and cable; Royal Tar, Brookes, Gibraltar, left 29th ult. Cadiz 30th, Lisbon, 2nd inst., Oporto and Vigo 3d ; Clyde, Kertch ; Archimides, Castellano, Gallipoli. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 6 AND 7.—Wind S. E., fresh breezes. —Arrived the Denniston, Jones, from Antigua; Colum bine, Lisbon ; Lowell, Whittle, Mobile ; Tamerlane, Sa vannah. Sailed the Toply, Mallony, for Canton • Marga ret, Prows e , V a lp ara i so ; R eso l ut i on, Gallilee, Rio Janei ro ; Bella Portina, Pyot, Monte Video ; Deslands, Per nambuco ; Girard, Humana, Po, to Rico ' - Chatham, Richardson, Bost on ; J o h n , B oot h, S t . John's, New Bruns wick ; Caledonia, Masicot, New Orleans ; Sarah, Hiter, Newfoundland ; Amanda, Simpson, Halifax ; Combatant, Pearson, Quebec; Corinthian, Davidson, ditto; Sir Waltcr Scott, Young, ditto; Province, Guadaloupe ; Themistocks, Ballow, Genoa ; Penelope, Cafficro, Naples ; Manilla, Pearson, Canton. Off port, the Earl Powis, from the Mauritius ; Rival, Maranham ; Bowditch, N.nw Orleans ; Manchester, Mobile; Francis, Barbadoes ; Medora, Charleston ; Susannah Collings, Constantinople; King of Tyre, Lisbon ; Donna Maria, Oporto ; Lydia Abey, Leer ; Nyverheid, Ostend; Joseph, ditto; Ceres, ditto; Pauline, ditto. VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.—The Symmetry, London to St. Michael's, 27th ult., lat. 42., long. 18., by the Sterling, Bur nett, arrived off Torbay ; Allandale, bound to Bombay, 20th ult., lat. 36. long. 15., by the Lord Redesdale, arrived in th Creek ; William Reed and William Forrest, lat. 48., long. 7., loy the Clyde, arrived at Falmouth; Thomas Blyth, London to the Mauritius, Feb. 20, lat. 1. S., long. 22. W. ; Elizabeth, Newfoundla , d to Oporto, 23d ult., lat. 42., long. 32., with about one-third of the cargo thrown overboard; Elizabeth (brig), with a signal of distress, 3,1 inst., off Oporto, by the Royal Tar, arrived at Falmouth ; Isabella, of Peterhead, from Cephalonia, with loss of both masts and bowsprit, lat. 36., long. 72., by the Collina, arrived at Cork; Caledonia, Harvey, from Newcastle, 21st., lat. 37., long. 9., by the Convivial, ar rived at Gibraltar. LAW INTELLIGENCE INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Arm", 8. IN RE ISAAC ➢IEDEX. This insolvent was before the Court on Friday, when he applied to be liberated on bail unl his hearing, the 24th instant. The sureties were Mr. Levy, a clothes salesman in the New -cut, and Mr. Emanuel, cf,ffee house-keeper, residing in Duke -street, Aldgato. The proposed sureties objected to sign the reeognis:u (lur ing the Passover of the Jews, and the insolvent was kept three days in prison. The parties now attended, and executed the required document. Henry Unu'in was opposed on the part of Messrs, Cox and Co., wholesale hosiers. The insolvent, who was before the Court on a former day, now ap peared for judgment. He bad been a general shop keeper at Barfield, in Essex, and the complaint against him was that he had fraudulently incurred debts, and incurred others without reasonable expectations of pay ment. He had defended the action brought by Messrs. C - ,x, and independent of their debt, had put them to an expense of upwards of 20/. When some of his creditors applied for money he informed them by letter that he had taken the " benefit." This was a ruse, and he also told them he had made an assignment ; he lied made an assignment two years ago which was before the debts were incurred? with the opposing creditors. He was now detained at the suit of Messrs. Cox. Mr. Commissioner LAW remarked on the fraudulent conduct of the insolvent, and remanded hint from his petition for a period of twelve calendar months. CALLING NAMES.—William Hale, an insolvent, ap peared to be heard. A solicitor applied on the part of the detaining creditor, that a copy of a will should be filed. The insolvent " waxed wrath," designated the creditor a " swindler," and put himself into a passion. Mr. Commissioner LAW sent him to prison for a fortnight to cool himself, telling him he would, when he again appeared, if he could not behave himself, be again remanded. THE RAILROAD MANlA.—Tlzontas Cottcrill, whose case appeared before the Court on a former day, came up for adjudication. The insolvent, who was opposed on the part of Mr. Hannan, a wine and spirit merchant, had kept the Angel Tap, Saint Clements. That once bustling place was now deserted. The coaches had ceased their rattle in the yard, and the grass was growing in the place. The railroads had occasioned this " revolution." The insolvent, after struggling to get a living, sold the pre mises, and the disposition of the money-was the com plaint against him. He had not paid his creditors, and the money had gone in the support of his famAy. Mr. Commissioner LAW told him he would be dis charged when he had been in prison six months from his petition. CRIMINAL CO URT.--(MOND A Y.) The sessions opened this morning with the usual form. The RECORDER, in addressing the Grand Jury, said the calendar, which already numbered 276 cases, would pro bably be shortly increased to 300. 3ut there was only one case which required any particular observation—that of Mr. Medhurst (charged with the unfortunate death at Hayes). The Learned Recorder then entered at some length into the facts, and &tailcd thr' law on the case, leaving it for the Grand Jury to sry whether there was ground for the charge of murder—and if not, they would return it manslaughter. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN-SQUARE. ROBBERY AT THE OPERA-HOUSE.--In the course of the buslness yesterday a person, who represented him self as valet to a merchant ia the city, handed a letter to Mr. Gregorie from his master. The contents of that letter were in relation to the robbery which occurred at the Italian Opera-house on Thursday night last, and which was fully reported in our Paper of Saturday. The writer stated that he went to the pit of the Italian Opera-house on that night, and on Friday morning was much surprised by his valet coming into his dressing room and informing him that he had found a gold watch in his great coat pocket, which he had worn the night previous. The writer was extremely puzzled at the discovery, but seeing an account in the next morning's Papers of a robbery at the Opera-house, in which a gold watch was lost, he compared the one found with the de scription of the stolen one, and found them to corres pond. He had therefore now no doubt but that the thief, finding that he could not escape with the pro perty, had adopted the above singular way of disposing of it. The valet informed the Magistrates that he had the watch with him, but Mr. White, the Magistrate who had heard the case, said he would take no steps in the matter until Tuesday (this day), when the prisoner would be again brought up for examination, and he should then wish for the gentleman on whose person the pro perty was concealed to come forward and give evidence. Mr. GREGORIE said that the above circumstance called to his recollection one of a similar nature last year. A member of the swell mob was charged with stealing a purse of money from Colonel Greenwood at the Opera, and in his fob was found 13 sovereigns. The next day Sergeant Marjoribanks gave information that he bad found an empty purse in his coat pocket, and Sir Charles Williams, Bart., that he had lost 13 sovereigns. The purse was shown to Sir Charles, and he directly identified it as his. So that the thief had just picked Sir Charles's pocket, emptied the purse of its con tents, and, as it was not desirable for him to return the latter, had made Sergeant Majoribanks' pocket its receptacle. FECUNDITY.—Mr. Grey, of Old Heaton, has nine Leicester ewes, which have this season produced 28 lambs, all of which arc living, and doing well. THE POETRY OF LABOUR.—Labour is a sys tem of contracts, bargains, imposing mutual obligations. Now the man who, in working, no matter in what way, strives perpetually to fulfil his obligations thoroughly, to do his whole work faithfully, to be honest, not because honesty is the best policy, but for the sake of justic., and that he may render to every man his due, such a labourer is continually building up in himself one of the greatest prin ciples of morality and religion. Every blow on the anvil, on the earth, or whatever material he works upon, contri butes something to the perfection of his nature. He ought to think of the benefit of those he works for, as welt as of his own ; and in so doing, in desiring, amidst his sweat and toil, to serve others as well as himself, he is exercising and growing in benevolence, as truly as if he were distributing bounty with a large hand to the poor. Such a motive hallows and dignifies the commonest pursuit. It is strange that labouring men do not think more of the vast usefulness of their toils, and take a benevolent pleasure in them on this account. This beautiful city, with its houses, furniture, markets, public walks, and numberless accommodations, has grown up under the hands of artisans and other labourers; and ought they not to take a disinterested joy its their work ? One would think that a carpenter or mason, on passing a house which he had reared, would say to himself, " This work of mine is giving comfort and enjoyment every day and hour to a family, and will continue to be a kindly shelter, a domestic gathering-place, an abode of affection, for a century or more after 1 sleep in the dust ;" and ought not a generous satisfaction to spring up at the thought? It is by thus interweaving goodness with common labours, that we give it strength and make it a habit of the soul. —Changing on Self Culture. A certiin King had a certain Jester, whom he kept, according to the fashion of the time, to minister to his amusement by witty repartees and ridiculous fooleries. One day the King was stooping down to lave his face with cool water from a golden ewer, While doing this his Jester came softly behind him, and applying his foot suddenly to the King's, tripped him up, so that his Ma jesty was prostrated flat upon the floor. The King rose in great wrath, and execrating the poor fool, ordered his instant execution. Whereupon the unhappy ob ject of his displeasure threw himself on his knees, and beseeched to piteously for his life, that his illustrious master consented to grant the paltry boon on one condition. That condition was, that the jester should within a certain period perform an act equally criminal, and instantaneously make an apology more criminal than the act itself. But a few hours elapsed before the King again stooped to lave Lis face in cool water from the golden ewer. Again the jester came up softly from behind, and precipitated his Majesty headlong to the ground. Tempestuous was the King's rage; but it instantly su b s id e d i nto f org i veness an d laug ter, when the jester promptly exclaimed—" Oh dear ! I beg your Majesty's pardon I I thought it was your wife I" INTELLECT DEVELOPED BY LABOUR.—Are labour and self-culture irreconcileable to each other. In the first place, we have seen that a man, in the midst of labour, may and ought to give himself to the most im portant improvements, that he may cultivate his sense of justice, his benevolence, and the desire of perfection. Toil is the school for these high principles; and we have here a strong presumption, that, in other respects, it does not necessarily blight the soul. Next we have seen, that the most fruitful sources of truth and wisdom are not books, precious as they are, but experience and observation ; and these belong to all conditions. It is another important consideration, that almost all labour demands intellectual activity, and is best carried on by those who invigorate their minds ; so that the two interests, toil and self-culture, are friends to each other. It is mind, after all, which does the work of the world ; so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished. A man, in proportion as he is in tclligent, makes a given force accomplish a greater task, makes skill take the place of muscles, and, with less la hour, gives a better products Make men intelligent and they become inventive ; they find shorter processes. Their knowledge of nature helps them to turn its laws to ac count, to understand the substances on which they work, and to seize on useful hints, which experience continually furnishes. It is among workmen that tome of the most useful machines have been contrived. Spread education, and, as the history of this country shows, there will be no bounds to useful inventions.—Channing ott Self Culture. LABOURERS SHOULD BE POLITICIANS.-- " I respectfully counsel those whom I address to take part in the politics of their country. These are the true disci pline of a people, and do much for their education. I counsel you to labour fora clear und4rstartditig of the subjects which agitate the community, to make theta your study, instead of wasting your leisure in vague, passsionatc talk about them. The time thrown away by the mass of the people on the rumours of the day, might, if better spent, give them a good acquaintance with the constitution, laws, history, and interests of their country, and thus establish them in those great princi ples by which particular measures are to be deter mined, In proportion as the people thus improve themselves, they will cease to be the tools of design ing politicians. Their intelligence, mot their passions and jealousies, will be addressed by those who seek their votes. They will exert, not a nominal, but a real influence on the Government and the destinies of the country, and, at the same time will forward their own growth in truth and virtue. Let not class array itself against class, where all have a common interest. One way of provoking men to crime is to suspect them of criminal designs. We do not secure our property against the poor, by accusing them of schemes of universal robbery ; nor render the rich better friends of the community, by fixing on them the brand of hostility to the people. Of all parties, those founded on different social conditions are the most pernicious." THE SECOND SIGHT.—MELANCHOLY ACCI DENT.—We copy the following from a letter written by a lady resident in the Hebrides :—" A very melancholy e,ent happened at•Raasay on the 11th of January, attended with a singular fact. William Macleod, gamekeeper to Raasay, went with his only brother on the morning of that day to Portree. As they were leaving Portree to return home, the gamekeeper stayed behind, and his brother, dreading no danger, came on without him. The other never ap peared. Day followed day without any tidings of the poor gamekeeper, though every search was made for him by the men of Raasay and those of that part of Skse. After an interval of eight days, a man from Portree came forward and stated that 14 years ago, while be was herding cattle in the daylight, he had a vision of a man falling over a certain rock (which he described), dressed in light clothes and resembling in his general appearance the individual who was missing. It was agreed to visit this spot, and ac cordingly a boat was procured, and the " gifted seer" pro ceeded with a party of men in the direction of the rock by the sea-side. At the precise spot the body of the unfortu nate gamekeeper was discovered. It is supposed that after he had left Portree he had gone on his journey as far AS the cairn, opposite Raasay, and that mistaking his way at this point (far the evening was dark and stormy) he had fallen over the rock, and thus met his death. The body was carried away amidst the tears and wonders of the people, who were astonished at this marvellous diicovery." We hope the remains of the deceased and the ciretiressanees ci case l:1 "'n examieed by tilt') proper aesa-- - inveritas Cuttrici. CORONERS' INQUESTS. SINGULAR CASE OF DEATH FROlf ANXIETY OF MlND.—Yesterday morning, an inquest was held before Mr. CARTER, the Coroner for the County, in Horse monger-lane Gaol, on view of the body of Thomas Thomas, a prisoner, who died under the melancholy ciircumstances detailed below. Henry Weston, a prisoner in the Debtors' side,said he acted as nurse in the criminal sick ward. The deceased was admitted on the 31st of March, at that time be complained of a rupture. The prison Surgeon saw and prescribed for the deceased on that occasion. On AVed nesday, the 3d of April, the deceased was taken to Union Hall for re-examination, and fully committed for trial, on a charge of felony. He remained in the prison until Saturday morning, when he expired about six o'clock. Every attention was paid to him during his illness. By a Juror—He was very low and dejected on his first coming in, but his spirits became more depressed when he was fully committed for trial, and used to complain that his heart would burst. He often ex claimed, " Oh, my poor children, what will become of them !" Mr. Bennett, the principal turnkey, said, that not only had the deceased's goods been seized for arrears of rent, but his children had been taken to the workhouse, he (the deceased) being unable to support them. Mr. Mal3olni, the surgeon to the prison, said he bad no doubt the deceased died from effusion of blood on the brain ; that, in his mind, caused his death. He was at first rather in a dejected state ; but when he was committed for trial, he was quite desponding, and used to say he would not long survive it. The evidence having been given, the Jury found a verdict of Natural Death. A CORONER DUPED BY AN ANONYMOUS CORRES PONDENT.-At six o'clock last evening an inquisition was taken before a Mr. Higgs, Coroner for the Duchy of Lancaster, at the Compasses, White Hart-street, Drury-lane, upon the body of James Miles, aged five years, whose parents reside at No. 9 in the same street. The circumstances which led to the inquiry were of an exciting and scandalous nature, and turned out utterly destitute of truth. Some person, it ap peared, under the signature of " A Neighbour," sent a letter to Mr. Higgs, containing the disgraceful asser tion that the deceased had died in consequence of Mr. Walker, Sorgeon i of Drury-lane, having administered large quantities of cold water, although the boy was labouring at the time under a severe attack of the small pox. The secret libeller also charged the same medical man with having accelerated the death of a second child in the neighbourhood within the last three days, by a similar course of treatment. Sarah Miles, the mother of the deceased, stated th . three weeks since her child had the small pox, and that Mr. 'Walker attended him, and paid every attention, but, notwithstanding, palpitation of the heart followed, and Mr. Walker changed the medicine for her son, who expired about two o'clock on Sunday week. The witness addod that this was her seventh child who bad died from palpitation of the heart ; and, in answer to the Jury, repeatedly expressed her satisfaction of Mr. Walker's treatment of the dectased. Mr. Walker complained in strong terms of the scan dalous attempt to injure his professional reputation, and dccAred it to be his conviction that it was the act of certain parties with whom he had recently had some differences. The Jury expressed themselves indignant at the con duct of the writer of the letter, and satisfied with Mr. Walker's conduct. The Coroner concurred in the opinion of the Jury, and severely remarked upon the conduct of the party who sent the letter. The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death," and generally expressed themselves that there was not the slightest imputation upon Mr. Walker's characto% Yeerdav art inquest was held before Mr. A Carter, Corno , r for Surrey, at the Tartar Inn, Conran, on view of tire body of Ruth Edwards, a little gV fourteen months. On Wednesday last the mother of the deceased had occasion to leave it by itself for a few minutes, and during her absence the poor child drank some boiling water from the tea-kettle, which was stand ing on the bob. A surgeon was instantly sent for, who rendered every possible assistanu, but the chit;'. ex; • o i the sacra , r)1711t. grfat V er ilkt " ,- )Irc " ( Death,' : Printed and Publif flea by MITPDO YOVICG, 112 , Stood , Nn. 112, Strand, Ott The Suh the county of Aliddlesex.—Tuesday, • if EVENT I NG EDITION THE MAR KE TS COAL MAR] Adairs 5. d. 20 0 Bur,lon Main '2l 0 Chi s 'er Pontop Windsor y.2i) 0 Tanfield Moor Townley lB 6 West Tanfieid l5 I W y lam Walls End Clarke and,,Co ll • NValls End Dunn's IS , Nails End Dada 2l 3 Wall , ELIA llo , spur Walls End Newmarch 2l Cl Walls End RidilelPs ...... 22 NN'a!ls End Toiid'sllensham 19 Walls EndßraddylPsDetton 25 0, WaEs rod Hetiou Walk End Land.iton 25 6 1 Walls End Russell's Hetton 1.5 31 ET.— a pril 8, L Walls End Pemberton =l 2 Walls End Stewart's u Walls v:ncl Whttwell 2l 0 Walls End Hartlepool Walls End Adelyide Walls End Barrett 6 Walls End Nevin's Tan field V; 0 Walls Ent Preston 2l a ais End South Durham '22 0 Walls Seymour'l2 6 Wails End Tees ......... 0 Walls End Tennant . 2 Walls End West Helton Blythe l7 0 21 Hartley Howard's Netherton .Wain IA Walls End Elgin SO Walls End Henderson :-hips arrived since last market-dry, 2. PRICE OF SEEDS.-April 8.: l'",•-sr Cwt. New English lied Clover 70s. 112 s. St. Folo Per (~l-uarter.4 o4. 44i 4 1 4 Old Ditto f )ii:o -s. -s. -s. Rye Gras; Os. 3 5 `. 414 New Foreign Diitst „Ks. 905. 995. nic,..y Grass _-.s. 40F. 1118, Old Ditto Ditto -s. 411 s. C.os. Linseed, for feeding 445. 5 313 . M is * New White Ciaver O5. 90s. 90s. Ditto, for sawing ...... -" 3 . Ai; F3' tls. Old Ditto Ditto w. 455. 60F. Ditto, for crushing...-- - s- --- sfts ' b ,es, New Tre!iiii 'V:. 235. "'Os. C.:-..nary _..s. POs. , ' 4f/'' Old Ditto -s. !Ss. '223. H emp -s. 56 8 - T,elo:iit , i 10:;. lls 13s. Per Bushel. English Csirraway -.4. 435. 465. White Mustard...lls. ("sl. 1 33 . r i ll '. Foreign Ditto -s. 40s. 445. Brown Ditto P's.o 4 l. 2.2 ' ti Coriander -s 13+.215. Tares 45 . 6. )6 . g z• ltapessed, Enghdi tine (per Lest):39l. 38.! . 1' iIICES OF POTATOES AT SPITALFIELDS. York Reds (from vessel) . 4l. 10s. to 51 Os. per ton. :Scotch Reds ditto . 41. ss. to 4/. 15s ditto Kidneys 4l. 10s. to 5L Os. ditto Shaws V'. 13s. to 3.1. Ss. ditto PRICES OF HOPS.-April 8. Farnham Pockets (per cwt.) G. Os. 71. 15s. to W. bs• East Kent Packets.- Ditto Bags 4l. 4s. al. 10s. to 71. 1 Mid Kent I'ockcts Ditto Bags 9'. 10s. 41. 10s to 7... is. Sussex ' I'. 3s. 3/. lis. to 4'. 10 ,3- Ycarl'ngs 2/. 10.. 31. 3s. to 41. 4 3 . Old //Ids HAMBURG MARKETS. GRAIN. ' _.... tO." W M heat. arks 444 to 468 1 Oats, Up1and,....... to 18 0 Mecklenburg 4,4 to 4r5 Mecklenburg ...... 1M . 7 0 Maldeburg - Eider l4O to .1;c0 ----- Etter 416 to 486 ' Holstein sor i o tole , - --- Auhalt, white 456 to 480 Petersb.ly , t:Riga... -- !%,(1 red ... 444 to 474 Malt, Pomeranian ..... .-105 LE Holstein Ryc, Mecklenburg.... 201 to 2641 Pease, Upland, yellow 2 55 Mtn -- Holstein 5,..„•' --- Archangel —to I 'Fares n4O to " ges to 400 Barley, Mecklenbttrgh '221 to 234 , Rapeseed ..e' 34 to St Magdeburgh . 240 to 258 I Ditto Cakes Lower Elbe ... to —1 Linseed ditto 52 ts hi COTTON. Carolina and Tennessee 73ito t 914 Maranham ..... 9 1,4t0 0 Georgia, Ist sort 10%, 0 Madras 7 ”ti 2cl '9% 10 Surats 64 7 :',.1 and 4th .... lIN 91A Dem i ngo COFFEE.. Mocha 10 to 11 Domingo 5 OA Itztavia IM Sumatra Rio 414 64 Havannah 434 •^ Bahia -'l,i 5'4;1 SUGAR,— (With 8% Discount.) Havannah, White Brown...—. 5X 6' Brown sti a Rio, White (i 4 '3Q Pernambuco, White ...64 i)i Brown NEW PRISON BILL. Yesterday a public meeting, convened by the Pro; testant Association, took place at Exeter Hall, ford° purpose of petitioning Parliament against the clause le the New Prison Bill, which provides for the appoint' ment of Catholic Chaplains in English prisons, to be pail out of the National Funds. W. S. BLACKSTONE, Esq., M.P , was called to tbe Chair, who shortly addressed the Meeting, and stated he looked with consternation upon the rapid stride° which Popery was making, but he trusted though t h , e Protestant feeling of this country had slumbered , tt would now be roused to the danger of Popish innors' tion, and would at once join and strangle tho hydra. The Rev. Dr. CROLY proposed the first resolution, to the effect " that the meeting viewed with consider' able alarm a Bill before the House of Commons, havi n g for one of its provisions the appointment of teachers ie. English prisons professing a religion differing from tb to of the Established Church, to be paid out of the n y tional funds ; and that such a provision was a violation of Protestant principles, and injurious to the interests of true religion, After this, Mr. MACLEOD WYLIE read an extract o f a letter from a gentleman in Ireland, to show the ing! i t : ence the priests had in that country, and the manne r which they interfered with the prisoners. The Rev. Mr. Thclwall, the Rev. Mr. Page, and se. veral other gentlemen addressed the meeting, and after petition had been adopted to Parliament against th e clause in the Bill to be presented to the House of L ords by the Duke of Newcastle, and to the Commons by Ist r : Blackstone, the usual vote of thanks was passed to tm " Chairman, and the meeting separated. - THE WEATHER.—During the last and II present week the weather has been most ungenial , unusually cold for the season. We have had cold placeo winds from the east and south-east, accompanied with sP*4 frost in the mornings. The thermometer has stood a,,'„, during the night, rising to 36 and 40 during the day. T o , getation makes little or no progress under these circa _d stances; and the bursting forth of the green sward aineo the hedge row buds, which at this season used to gisclao. the eye, has been materially retarded.—. Edinburgh pap of Saturday. h ANGLING EXTRAORDINARY.—On the 28th ult., as Mr. T. F. Travis was fly-fishing in the river quet, he hooked, and after half an hour's play sucealt in landing, two fine salmon, one 61b. and th e o th e r s '"; weight, making a total of 157 salmon kill e d by him Wig" the rod since February Ist !—Gateshead Observer. A PlG.—Nir.North, of TriekeyWarren farm, e l( ' hibited a dead pig in our market, last Saturday, which s ur i . e prised the most experienced judges. It was but lid, more than 22 months old, but w e ; g b e d 20 scor e (4001 135 • P and had been put up to fat only three months. The fotl: of the head was a l mos t l os t i n th e p rotru di ng fatr.ess wh ic surrounded it.— Taunton Courier. HUGE Ox.—The largest ox in the world is 10 in this city, and goes to England in the Liverpool. II : weighs 50001b 5 ., i s fi ve f eet ten i nc h es i n h e ight, Clef% feet ten inches in l eng th, o f a d a ppl e b a y co l ou r, was r a l° in New Hampshir e , an d i s s i x y ears o ld. H e belovt l 0 Mr. Swanton, who goes to England with him.- -44 Yorh paper. A SEVERE INJURY BY A KICK F ROM HORSE.—Between nine and ten o'clock yesterday r aornili Thomas Reynolds, aged 22 years, groom in the fanli l Y George Blostock, Esq., of Ryland's-place, Masten- 12P b ; Ball's Pond, was dressing a h o rs e in the s t a ble, whe n t h e animal suddenly kicked out, and struck the unfortuna4 man with such violence in the right side, that the 6rs i i third, and fourth ribs were dreadfully fractured. I le considered to be in a highly dangerous state. - DEAL, APRIL 7.—Arrived here this morn her Majesty's revenue cruiser Lively, Lieut. John Be.r ist :;' R. N., Commander, from a cruise ; she has brought ni f ti,; five casks of f o reign s pirits, crept up n e ar th e Sunk ifb, be Vessel on they 4th inst., supposed to be the cargo 01 French cutter La C aro lin e . It is scar ce ly a month ° l'd since the Lively landed here seventy-eight nas) ° pie brandy, thrown overboard from a smuggling lugger 0- fl re unknown) in the Black Deeps, that only escaped call`n-ot by crossing over a part of the sands where there ni s , sufficient depth of water for the Queen's cruiser to fnh a AO CURIOUS COINCIDENCE. The person , w in acts in the capacity of " boots" at Scarborough's o°t el lot this town, his wife, and only son, were all born on a i m & day of April ; .and, to complete the chapter of sitlgt, l _ la d ri ties, Mr. Boots and his wife were born within fourteen P t /- of each other.—Leeds Intelligencer. LADIES BEST GOLD CHAIN S The weight is given by comparison with the weight of l e es reigns, being more easily referred to than if stated 0 % 1 31 and dwts. The quality of the gold is warranted equal to that is worked into articles of this description. Price of the Cable Pattern, or Matted Ring Pattern; 7 0 Same weight as 3 sovs. £4 4 011 Same weight as 6 soil. X',2 5 0 Ditto as 4 sovs. 5 5 0 Ditto Ditto as 5 sovs. 6 6 0 Ditto The following patterns are One Guinea aas d s e B7 ar : e : r :ss :h a9 o ; 9 r:s above but cannot be made lighter than the weight sovereigns. tern The Cage patters The Chinese Pa t 1 . 11 The Ring and Bar pattern I The Victoria pate THE NEW FLAT GOLD WATCHES. 7 0 The price in gold cases, with vertical movement ..•• 7 Ditto, with i;i : ell-finished horizontal movement, in double bottomed engine -turned care, jewelled, sil- 9 0 ver dial, warranted T. COX SAVORY'S, oi. ' icir° Watchmaker, Silversmith anal Jeweller, 47, Cornhill, ( Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street). „or N.N.—The Horizontal Con s truction is pa r ticularly mended for its superior accuracy. SECOND-HAND PLATE PURCHA O9 O , A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Goldsmiths, No. 14, C°r,:#ll London (opposite the Bank of England), inform Ezecu t° "frote others, wishing to dispose of Second-hand Plate, tblit , r i e ef having a ready sale, they can offer more advantagou s Lthe r than can usually be given by the Trade ; payment 0 0 '1; e for be received in cash, or the amount allo *d in excb' ll3. other silver. BIHS On the NI inst., at Park-lan R e, T the . Cou n tess of Linc°- ir, ofs ' ~ daughter. del ° On the 3d inst., at, St. Giles's, Oxford, the lady D. , - v ,e 'W, orrell, Es., of a on. ' he On the 4th inst., s at North-end, Fulham Mrs. EQ P t -5 , Barnes, of a daughter, ). 11 011 On the sth inst., at StrandLhause, the lady of Thomas Whipham, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at, Fittleworth, Sussex, the wife of the n il. -., George William Murray, of twin daughters. MAR. -- At St. Giles's Camberwell, RlED John Fox, Esq. , e t gors e f . , John Fox, Esq., of New Bridge-street, Blankfriars, and NO," hill, Surrey, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late Jam t i son, Esq. geor On the 4th inst., at P res tb ury , near Cheldenn w , thir". o Stopford Kyle, Esq., of Li nco l n ' s I nn , barrister - a t d Cl O l of son of the Hight Re v . th e L or d Bi s h op o f Cork an pg., Julia Esther, second daughter of Andrew G 1 ee " , ber t Cockermouth. On the 4111 inst., at St. Peter's Church, D ublin ' Elie Brantston Smith, Esq., o f U pper Fitzwilliam-streot, 'Grob, both Charlotte, only surviving daughter of Richs'l ci Esq., of Fi.zwilliam-place, in that city. DIF n On the 7th i ns t., at hi s residence Y Cloudesle -street, Plir'g s Alsager, ' ;tge 54. tr ee, On V.,. John Baden, Esq., of Nevrmati"s eldest son of the late James Boaden, Esq., aged 46. a 6 4 . On the 6th inst., at Chelsea, John Fielder, Esq., lireeloes On the 6th inst., Mr. Thomas Allen Druce, of Anic-P Edmonton, aged 73. Cap t ai° On the 6th inst., in York-street, Glocester-place, Edward Pelham Brenton, C. 8., of the Royal NaVy•S .... • - gro ss ?Itiar .ron, ro ar i ° th i It th 4 Persi; E , farm' ST R; I l'eii , ..e seri best %li 1 Th, .., 11tfit tAsila ea k h. Ateaxi 11 1 4 4 St 4% Ili tt t ° ko ktp, Tit fte 8 ft,