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his Tegs making some remarks, approving the system adopted by Ministers with regard to the supply,,of medicines, for the arriiy,•by, which a saiing. of 19.p.er cent. had been eirectettbeyo.nd VG min expended for the same purpose in -the navy. SUPERANNUATION ALLOWANCES. On the Order of the Day being read• for going into a. Committee on the Superannuation Allow- ances, • Mr. IT umE, after few observations, proceeded to read to the House an extract from the Sixth Report of the. Finance Committee, in which they (the Committee) recommended that an inquiry should be instituted into the Superannuation Al lowances, in order to find out those which ought to be continued, and those which ought to be abolished. The Hon. Member proceeded to point out several instances of persons receiving super annuation allowanceslo the amount of 2001. 300/. 4001. .and 5001. a year, and who, at the same time,, held situations of several hundreds, nay, in some instances, thousaitids a year. He con cluded. by moving the following Resolution : Ret•6:t-ted, " That as there are individuals in the List of Su.' --rations and Retired Allowances, who receive large sums sofa few years, and who are at this time in perfect .t and performing duty in lucrative employments, it is ex that this House, before granting any . of, the Super annuated-Allowances for this year, should appoint a Committee of this • House, conformable to the recommendation of the fminer. Committee—(6th Report from Committee on Finance, 11311ip. 195), in the following terms Where the sum has been granted 'as a Supuannuation Allowance to a person who nevertheless had health. and strength afterwards to hold other active and lucrative situations, your Committee feel that the public have an undoubted right to revise the whole of such grants, and to curtail and modify them in a way which may answer to the intentions which would have influenced the origi nal grantors, if the whole case had been fairly before them. Your Committee therefore feel it to be their indispensible duty to recommend, that such revision should take place before the Aninial Estimates, in which the Grants alluded to are com prised, are again presented to Parliament."' Lord PALMERSTON, in answer to the Hon. Mather," read an extract from a Ministeiial Cir cular, of July, 1817, in which it was ordered that no person upon the Superannuation List should hold an' appointment greater in emolu ment than that from which he had been superan nuated, without being deprived of the difference between such situation and that which such per son had formerly held. tot After a fetv• words from Mr. Bernal, Lord Palmerstonond Lord A. Hamilton, The Marquis of LONDONDERRY observed, that there was at this moment under the consideration of Government a measure for lessening the . scale of superannuation allowances, with respect to persons who held public offices. Mr. BENNET supported the Resolution.—The Marquis .of LONDONDERRY explained. After a few observations from Mr. G. Benne and Sir, Robert Wilson, the House divided, whe there appeared— For Mr. Ilume's Amendment - - - Against it - - - - - Majority against the Amendment .; COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY. The House then went into the Committee. Mr. BANICES moved that a sum not exceeding 84751. should be granted for the suppOrt of the British Museum.—Agreed to. Lord PALMERSTON moved a resolution for granting the sum of 31,5201. for defraying the chargé of Superannuations and Retired Pensions in England. . Mr. lIUME said there was one appointment of 5001." a year in this estimate which did not appear in that of last year. Lord .PALmEnszoN said that the appointment was to: Sir Howard Douglas , whose services richly merited the remuneration. Mr. HOME was of opinion that as that officer still received his half pa sr, the extra 5001. a year was a most exorbitant allowance. Sir IL HARDINGE bore testimony to the high character and services of the Officer to whom allusion had been made. Air. G. BENNET agreed in allowing every merit to . Sir H. Douglas, but still the extra salary of 5001. was most extravagant. Colonel DAVIES contended, that such compen satiOris as that under discussion were contrary to the spirit and even the letter of the Act for regu lating- such allowances. If this were the case, 'an'd he defied Ministers to shew to the contrary, he put it to them whether they should not recal the resolution, and take the question into further consideration. Should this not be done, he shoUld move that the Chairman do report progress. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that if there was really a doubt upon any legal point like that suggested by the lion. Member, he should be most anxious to refer it to the Law Officers of the Crown, before Parliament came to _a:final decision upon it. But in this case he was satisfied. that the allowance did not come within the meaning of the Act. The Resolution was then agreed to, as was a similar one for granting 8,6861. 6s. 4d. for . the use of Ireland. Lord PALMERSTON moved that a sum not ex ceeding 35,0601. should be.granted for the pay ment of Exchequer Fees. Mr. numr wished to ask if there was any in tention of. abolishing - , these fees ; or if not, whe ther it was contemplated to bring the whole fees of all public offices into one account, to be charged upon the Consolidated Fund.. Sir C. LONG said that the persons who re ceived these fees were- entitled to them by Act of Parliament. Mr.,Burke's Act for regulating this department had recognised their claims, and he considered that it would be unfair to dispos sesithem of the fees. Mr. HUME explained. He wished to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman whether there was any intention of bringing this subject under the consideration of Government ; if not, he should feel it his duty, to lay it before Parliament. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that as the regulations were sanctioned by Act of Par liament, and if the fees-.were abolished, the allow ances must be made in some other shape, he could not see the necessity of any alteration. After a few further observations from Mr. HUME, Mr. G. BENNET, and Sir C. LONG, the resolution was agreed to. The sums of 269,5001. for the disembodied Militia of England, and 25,3001. for that of Ire land, were.then proposed and agreed.to. The House then resumed .; the•CHAilthiAli re. _4l ported progress and obtained leave to sit again On Fridy. - • METROPOLIS POLICE. BILL. On. the Order of the Day for the second read ig of the Metropolis Police Bill being read, Mr. BERNAL wished that there should be a clause added to give the Magistrates power to grant the expenses of employing police officers for the detection of robbers in the houses of per- sons too poor to afford these expences. He wished also for other facilities to be given for enabling the constable of the night to allow persons charged with petty misdemeanours to go out on bail till e morning. Mr. G. BENNBT expressed his dissatisfaction at the general tendency and provisions of the Bill, which he thought altogether unwise and in 'dequate t( th- "roposed He com- adequate to e purposes p. )poi, . plained of the unaltered system of police ma nagement ; the machinery was the same as before; that which had been proved to exist be fore the Police Committee was left unreformed— great service, great temptation, and little pay : such was the system, and such was it to main. He could prove it on the evidence of the police people, that there was no offender tried at the Old Bailey who could not com promise if he had money. The pay of the first police-officei was a guinea a week; some of them derived a trifling advantage from attending on the Royal Family, or occasions of a similar nature, but besides this they had no allowance except their pay—no provision for their widows_if they should be killed in the performance of their duty. He read Vickery's evidence from the Report of the kit Committee, to shew the arduous duty and small remuneration of Police-officers. Mo ney they must have, however, and for want of fair and adequate remuneration, the system had become generally corrupt. It pervaded the de partment of constables, three-fourths of whom served by deputy at night. The deputies were frequently no better than thieves. He mention ed the case of a cons,able who had applied to a Magistrate to be sworn, to whom he was known to be a thief, and threatened to sue for a man damus, because the Magistrate refused to swear him. To give an example of the system, he re minded the House that a Bill had passed to do away the reward to the chief witnesses in capital felonies. The witness was to swear that he had heard the confession of the cri minal, and while the reward existed that sort of evidence was never wanting ; since its abolition there had not been one instance of it. The head constables were frequently bankrupts, and their predilection for coal-dealing was miraculous—they supplied ale houses, brothels, and gin-shops with them. The police was better served within Temple-bar than without, as Mr. Bill Soames acknowledged. The City police had 30s. a week. The Westminster police was very 41-proportioned to the popula tion, and, there were as many officers for the Queen-square Office, where the district contained 24,000 souls, as at the Marlborough-street Of fice, where the district contained upwards of 300,000. He wished to see more equality in those proportions, and the officers better paid. Penury in these cases was extravagance. He thought that the Bill would fall perniciously on the Irish labourers ; they being guilty of po verty would be laid hold of, and brought to the offices for the sake of the reward given by the Bill for apprehending those who are found with out means or employment in the public streets. He recommended that the Bill should be sent for modification to a Committee up stairs. Mr. 11. CLIVE observed, that the principle of the Bill was the same as had passed in 1814. The Magistrates had been consulted, and their uggestions adopted. The Reports of several Committees had also been acted upon. The ob ject of the Bill was to enable Magistrates to re ward meritorious officers, and instead of a guinea the pay of officers was proposed to be 255. a week. The town was to be divided into sixteen districts, and each to have patroles. It was also proposed, that the watchmen should be put under the modified control of the nearest Police Office, and none could be appointed above the age of 40 years. To relieve the Marlborough district, the office of Whitechapel had been removed to Mary le-Bone. Mr. DENMAN said, that some of the clauses re minded him of the power possessed in a neigh bouring country. The latter part of the Bill had no connection with the former, and the whole of the Bill was liable to ,many constitutional objec tions, and gave by far too much power to the Magistrates. He would recommend the intro duction of a new Bill. Mr. BATHURST thought that all officers ought to be adequately paid, as well Magistrates as Police Officers, otherwise , a conscientious dis charge of duty could not be expected from them. The present system had continued for several years. Would the Hon. Gentleman who had spoken last maintain that the whole system ought to be abolished by the non-passing of the present Bill, as it would take place, if a few clauses were to have the Bill thrown out ? The details which were objected to could be modified in the Committee. He hoped, therefore, that the Bill would be allowed to go into the Com mittee. Mr. BENN•ET explained.—The whole system contained within it the seeds of corruption.— Mr. DENMAN and Mr. CLIVE also explained. Mr. Alderman WOOD was of opinion that the pay of the Police Officers was far too small. The Officers in the City having been better paid, were far more active than those outside could be ex pected to be. lie thought the best course would be to refer the whole Bill back to a Committee up stairs. The Bill was then read a second time, and or dered to be committed on that day fortnight. On the motion for the second reading of the Irish Court of Chancery Compensation Bill, Mr. S. RICE said he thought the Bill highly objec tionable. The Hon. Member proposed several verbal amendments, which, after a few observa tions from Mr. C. GRANT, Mr. DENMAN, and Sir G. HILL, were adopted. The Bill was then read a third time and passed.—The other Orders of the •Day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at TWELVE O'CLOCK.. TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. °Aux -EX .TRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS.] [MORNING POST.] Paris Papers mention, on the authority of a German Journal, that the insurrection in Mol davia and Wallachia has subsided ; but so far from - this being the case, we have reason to be lieve that the Greeks are becoming every and that the day more and more formidable, firmness of their determination is in foil proportion to the increase of their strength. There is a report of an action having been fought betwee n th e Turks and Prince Ypsilanti ; and as the Journals un favourable to the cause of the Greeks represent the result as bearing no decisive character, it is not unreasonably concluded that the Turks had the worst of the battle. A short time will pro bably enable us to communicate some important intelligence from that quarter. From Presburg it is stated that the advanced guard of the Rus sian army entered that capital on the 19th ult., and that the Austrian and Russian troops were advancing towards the Turkish frontiers. This movement, however, we repeat, is merely pre cautionary, and by no means with a view of in terfering in the contest between the Turks and Greeks. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] Nothing certainly was ever worse timed than the jocularity of The Courier on the subject of the present state of the country :-- 44 It is a great consolation, however," he says, 64 to reflect that all the evils which are destroying us, are getting so old, that they cannot be expected to live much longer. We doubt if there is a single one of the grievances which now menace us, of less standing than a century and a half." This at a time when the aristocracy of the country are trembling for their very existence—when all schemes have been tried for keeping up landed property to the value to which it was raised by war prices, and have failed—and when one universal ruin threatens to devour the all of the occupiers of farms ! Really the Agricultural Gentlemen (who, to give them their due, have all along been among the most strenuous of the supporters of Ministers) are very much indebted to The Courier for this happy sally. "Itis a great consolation !"—They may well, in the language of, the old fable, tell him it may be sport to you, but it is death to us.— Their expectations of the short livedness of their distress are not very sanguine ; and we be lieve the investigation on which they lately en tered has not had the effect of tranquillising them on that head. [BRITISH PRESS.] There is no circumstance in our domestic affairs that demands so imperatively the anxious atten tion of the Ministers of the Crown, of Parliament, and of all humane and goad men in the empire, as the very alarming extent to which the system of smuggling prevails in parts of the country. Smuggling is no longer the timid hesitating at tempt of a few poor and irresolute fishermen to evade the scrutiny of tide-waiters and custom house officers, it has assumed the bold and impu dent front of a system regularly-organised and well-supported, and proceeds with a confidence which nothing could inspire but the assurance not only of ready markets and large gains, but also of receiving protection and assistance from numerous bands of armed men. Along the coasts of Kent and Sussex in particular smuggling pre vails to a most alarming degree ; vessels are equipped, armed, and well manned for this particular service, while on shore there are land forces, trained and disciplined to effect the de barkation of the merchandise, and to defeat the efforts of the officers and seamen employed on the preventive stations, should they attempt to seize the suspected articles. We read continually of severe actions fought between the seamen and the smugglers,and we have had occasionally to perform the melancholy task of announcing the premature death of some gallant officers and men who have fallen in this inglorious strife about casks of brandy and rolls of tobacco. NEW TINES.] We yesterday intimated our hope, that the affairs of Spain might be settled by negotia tion. Such was our wish in the case of Naples ; and such would have been the event, but for the folly of the traitors who had there usurped the supreme power. They flatter ed themselves that Revolutions breaking out all over Italy, and even in France, would have kept the Austrian armies at a distance from Na ples ; for it never was any part of their scheme to fight in propria per.tona. Their disappoint ment, however, holds, out a salutary lesson to the revolutionists of Spain ; and we are happy to learn that some of them are inclined to profit by it. Dispatches are almost daily sent off from Madrid to Laybach ; and the result of this intercourse, we trust, will be to effect an approximation of the views of the opposite parties. If the demo cratic faction will not abate any thing of their monstrous pretensions—if they are determined to renew the atrocities of the French Revolution, to plunder the churches, to proclaim mar tial law over the whole country, to establish revolutionary tribunals, and to effect arbitrary deportations—in short, if they are resolved to tyrannize, like Robespierre himself, over a de graded King and a desolated country, that ty ranny will necessarily produce resistance ; and, to stop the horrors of a civil war, it will become necessary to march a foreign force to the support of that part of the nation which sighs only for the return of order and tranquillity. [THE TIMES.] If any proof were wanting of the total indif ference of the greater number of those Members of Parliament who are usually denominated the Representatives a the landed interest, to the expenditure of the public money, the pro ceedings of Monday last on the Army Esti mates would supply that proof. In a House of 658 Members, only 9.7 could be found at any one time of the evening, to oppose the several extravagant grants. The minorities, pub lished yesterday, contain the names of only three County Members, and we think the Opposition, as they are denominated, ought to look on these 1 small minorities with some concern. We have long witnessed a great indifference in the Douse to the simple ) real ) and practicable means of serving the public ) viz. by retrenchment ; and the long-continued exertions of Messrs. Hume, Ben net, Davies, and a few others, supported by such trifling minorities, have given proof of the most marked kind. But, we ask, where are the County Members—those who complain so loudly of distress, which they admit to be owing to the heavy taxation, and yet take no measures to reduce the expenditure, and to check the extravagance of the different establishments ? If there is'a question about turning out the Minis ters, every one of them is at his post; but if a vote for the relief of the public, by reduction of the number of the army, and of the expenses, is required, these Members disappear. We are satisfied that real relief cannot be expected, until the Members of the House of Commons show that attention to the money votes which the state of the country requires; and the time is fast ap proaching when the general loss of rents will, we think effect a chancre. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. We are glad to find that we are not singular in our opinions respecting the attacks on our Eccle siastical Establishment which have appeared in The Morning Chronicle, and the tendency of which must alarm every friend to the Constitu tion in Church and State. The following obser va.tions on this subject are taken from the Leeds Intelligence!. of. Monday last, a Paper distinguish ed for loyalty, sound constitutional principles, and ability in support of them : " We find that the Cortes of Portugal are following . the ex ample of the French National Assembly, and the Spanish Cor tes, in resorting to property of the church, as a ready means for defraying the exigencies of the state. " This," says the MoRN ING CHRONICLE, "is going to work the right way. No funds can with more propriety be made available to the relief of a people from taxation, than those of an overgrown Church Establishment." The 11LonsING CIIRONICLE has frequently more than hinted, that our own is an " overgrown Church Es tablishment and, as that paper is confessed to be the official organ of the Whigs, we presume we are doing no injustice to that party, when we venture to suppose, that if they had the power, they do not want the will to commit the same spolia tions upon the revenues of our Clergy, as have been committed upon those of the Priests of France and Spain, and are con templated to be committed in Portugal. We would, how ever, venture to suggest to the enemies of the Church—to those who look with a greedy and envious eye upon the pos sessions which the piety of our forefathers, and the wisdom of our Government, have set apart for the maintenance of the ministers of religion—that we frequently hear from the dis contented, complaints of " overgrown landholders," as well as of an " overgrown Clergy." We would remind them, that in France, the pfoperty of the landed proprietor followed the fate of that of the Church ; and we would call to their recollec tion, that a diVision of the estates of some of our largest land holders, has been contemplated by the very men, from whom the Whigs must receive the chief of their support, should they ever attain to power. It is, therefore, their interest, to restrain their journalist from thus encouraging the idea of a public robbery, as a remedy for public difficulties ; for, depend upon it, that should the principle of property be once violated in the per sons of the Clergy, the violation will soon be followed up by an agrarian . law, or some other mode of making the estates of our rich Nobles and Gentlemen available, not to the necessities of the state, but to the wants of the revolutionary partizans of re form, whose object is plunder, and whose hope is to revel in the spoils of their opulent and distinguished superiors. We do not deem it requisite to follow the subject up any further at pre sent • but, we shall always be ready to resist any attempt to de spoil, either the clergy, the landholder, or the fundholder, of their just possessions." LAW.—Sittings appointed in Middlesex and London, before the Right Honourable Sir ROBERT DALLAS, Knt., Lord Chief Justice of his Majety's Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster, in and after Easter Term, 1321 : Ix TERM. Thursday Thursday Thursday Tuesday LONDON. - May 1 0 - —l7 - —24 _ -29 Friday - . May 11 Friday - - -13 Friday - - -25 Wednesday - -30 TERM. Wednesday - June 6 AFTER - June 5 Tuesday DISEASES OF TUE EYE.—Yesterday the foun dation-stone of the London Infirmary, for curing the Diseases of the Eye, was deposited byWIL LIAM MELLisn, Esq. in presence of a numerous and most respectable assemblao - e of both sexes, near the Roman Catholic Chapel, Moorfields. The ceremony took place between the hours of two and three. Afterwards the President and Committee had the pleasure of dining with the other friends of the Institution, at the London Tavern. PUBLIC OFFICE, BOW-STREET. — Yesterday a person who styled himself a Half-pay Officer, and whose name, it has been since ascertained, is Horner, was brought before the Sitting Magis trate, G. It. MINSHULL, Esq., from Covent- Garden Watch-house, charged upon the oath of Mr. Wm. Maynard, the Check-taker of the box lobby of Covent-Garden Theatre, who stated, that the prisoner, about ten o'clock on Tues day evening, presented himself to the wit ness for admission without any check or order, and upon his refusing, the prisoner made no hesitation in forcing his way, and he had got as far as the first circle before the persons connected with the Theatre could stop him. It was found absolutely necessary to send for some officers before they could succeed in turning him out of the house. About an hour afterwards he again made his appearance, stat ing, that he had come in search of a Lady.— The check taker, not caring to let him pass so quietly as he did at first, shut too the little iron wicket gate. The prisoner not minding bars and bolts, as he said, as he had come in search of so divine an object, was in the act of getting over the gate, and in doing so, he laid old of a pedestal statue just by, which is connected with the main cock of the gas pipes, and by some unlucky slip, he fell down, bringing the statue along with him, which weighs upwards of two hundred weight. The lobby was instantly filled with gas, and if •it had not been for the active exertions of some persons present, it might have caused the house to be in, flames. Mr. Brandon stated, that 'the damage done to the pedestal and iron work, was in his estima tion three pounds. The worthy Magistrate asked the Prisoner to account for his conduct, who re. plied, that he went there in search of the Queen of the Magic Spell ; and that he was authorized by her to do any thing any where, and every where. The whole of the unfortnnate man's conduct convinced every person present that he was in a complete state of derangement. He was ordered to pay the damage done, which he did ; and also to find bail for assaulting the officers. MIDDLESEX. SMUGGLING. In noticing in our last the lamentably unlaw ful occurrence at llrne Bay, we stated such cir cumstances as had then come to our knowledge, expressing, at the same time, a hope that the event would not prove fatal to the officer (Mr. Snow) who had been wounded, In that expec. tation, we regret to add, we have been disap pointed, the unfortunate young man, after the ball in the shoulder bad been extracted under the armpit, breathed his last on Friday morning the 27th ult. He had previously received the sacrament, and deposed to the circumstances of his death before George May, Esq. one of the Magistrates of this county, who visited him for the purpose ; and continued sensible and devout to the last moment. His remains were yesterday' (Monday, 30th ult.) interred in Herne Church yard with the honours due to his rank, the body being preceded by the band of the 4th Light Dragoons, and a firing party of that regiment, and followed by Captain M'Culloch, eight Lieu tenants, and many of his brother officers •of the Severn ; and it would be an injustice to his me mory not to record, that his conduct since he had been stationed in the vicinity of the place where he fell, has been uniformly correct, moral, and humane; and in accordance with that sense of duty, which under such feelings would actuate a British officer, he met his fate. At seven o'clock on Saturday morning (the 28th ult.) a Coroner's Inquest was held on the body, before T. T . De lasaux, Gent. one of the Coroners of this county, when, after a patient investigation, in which it ap peared that Sydenham Snow, a Midshipman of his. Majesty's Navy, stationed at llerne Bay, for the prevention of smuggling, had died from the wounds received on the Tuesday morning preceding, from a: party of armed smugglers, whilst in the execution of his duty, the Jury returned a verdict of " wilful murder against some person or persons un-' known." From what has also transpired, it ap pears that Mr. Snow, while attempting to seize: the boat, was shot by some persons who were' behind him, both the bullets having entered his body in that direction ; and so close had the fire-arms been discharged, that the back of his jacket was burnt from the explosion. While lying wounded on the beach, he had the mortifi cation to see the contraband cargo carried off, and he would probably have been drowned by the- flowing of the tide, had not assistance been afforded him, as soon as the smugglers retired. ._ is satisfactory, howeVer, to add, that from in 'ormation which has been obtained, several of the persons implicated in the transaction were OIL Saturday night (28th ult.) taken into custody by two of the Bow-street officers, assisted by a detachment of the 4th Light Dragoons, and con veyed on Sunday (29th ult.) through this city to London. The parties apprehended resided. at Littlebourn, Iloath, and Sturry ; and it is/some what remarkable that none of these persons are those who might have been supposed, from their necessities, to have been compelled to resort to this illegal mode of obtaining a livelihood, or of those who are said to be " rendered desperate by a total want of employment."--(Kentis h Gazette.) EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF MCIRDEit; - David Haggart, who murdered the turnkey °' Dumfries jail, and effected his escape some time' / after the event, was committed to the jail Of Downpatrick for picking pockets, and under the assumed name of •David Bryan, was convicted at the last assizes,and received sentence of transpor tation. The Rev. Mr. BLACKER, a magistrate of that county, finding that his description answered that of the person mentioned in the Hue-and -Cry , wrote to the magistrates of Dumfries ; they? in consequence, sent over John Richardson, police officer, who arrived in Dublin on Mon- . day morning, and proceeded to Kilmainham Gaol, to which place the convicts had been removed/ in order to their being sent off by the first o ppor' tunity to New South Wales. Richardson having identified the man to be Haggart, he applied at the Head Police Office, produced his warrant an information was then taken as to the facts, and forwarded to Mr. Gregory, to be laid b e fore Excellency the Lord Lieutenant. An order was given on Tuesday evening, by Mr. GregorY7 to deliver Haggart into the custody of Richardson! and he proceeded, accompanied by Robinson at the Head Police Office, by the Belfast coach/ Øli his way to Scotland. The assizes for Dumfries a will be on Saturday next. The prisoner is smart young man - , about nineteen 'years of age lo has been several times in custody, and bro many of the prisons in Scotland.--(Dublin Journal') CORN-EXCHANGE, MAY 2.—We had no firesi t li of arrivals of any grain to-day, but a considerable qua „ day 's Wheat from Essex and Kent remained over from ill ° , ll rites supply, for which there was no demand this morning ; bu " being are nominally the same as on that day ; Fine Baal was scarce sold on full as good terms as on Monday ; but they.e..aie, very little sale for the inferior qualities ; Oats were dull and rather cheaper ; in Beans and Peas no altcration-___,..f" BIRTIIS. • Lately, at Versailles, the Lady of Lieutenant-Gene ral Fla ler,.of a daughter. At Edinburgh, on the 27th April, Mrs. Dalrymple, Nelson street, of a son. MAR R IE D. n o rr 3 ' Yesterday, at Streatham, Surrey, by the Rev. Will' fa yor, daile, A.M. Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Lard Joseph Taylor Lowndes, Esq. of Watling street, t° fifth daughter of William Borradaile, Esq. of Streath, a of Nor- On Tuesday, the Ist inst., at West Basham, Coa n tlizabeth folk, Lieut. Thomas Holloway, R. N., to Miss Jan e Rudkin, of Lynn. DIED. squa re, th e At his house in New Norfolk-street, Grosve nor- Hon. Charles Stuart, in the 78th yeai of his age. Fro- At Quebec, on the 18th of March, Benjamin Josepho bisher, Esq. Provincial Lieutenant-Co'pnel,land Aitices477l3f to his Excellency the Earl of Dalhousie , Governor-,,en-ria ° the Canadas. On Tuesday last, in Percy-street, aged 61, Mrs. DenhY, Wife of Colonel Denby, and sister to Mr. Bent, Paternoster-row. Yesterday, at Battersea, John Hodgson, Fisq,., aged 86, ma n y , ,, years malt - distiller of the same place, surviving -his daur,llLe^ only 10 weeks. On Saturday, the 28th ult., at Thorncro ft, near t Meatherheal, ar, eldest (aughter of James Stirlin, E. Yeysterday, the 2d instant., at her house, isqn Salisbury-80°14e' Mrs. Elizabeth Pritchard, in the 85th year of her age. -•- . LONDON : Printed by J. B. CARSTA IRS, Ormond-street, Queen -square ; and published by WL' ~.: of No. 29, Wet SCRIPPS, of No. 7, South Molten-street, at Till : - OFFICE, No. 112, Strand; where Any EicrisEmEN_Ts, ORDERS, LETTERS , &e. (post-paid) must be addressed,