The Sun. — London, England, 1839-02-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the SUNDAY JOURNALS: UPENING OF PARMA NIENT.—WC sometimes think that if posterity should be deprived of our Parliamentary Mirror and debates—but should suddenly discover A collection of Royal speeches addressed to the I_2egi'Sla ture during the present centurg,nss-a great field of specu lation would be opened to - historiansof the Sceptic School. Justly might the fiature Niehbuhr exclaim,--" We have lien told dint in the winter of 1839 the price of wheat was 80s,o—that great excitement against the then ex isting Corn-laws prevailed—that the manufacturing Owens sent their delegates to the metropolis—and that petitions from every corner of the kingdom for a repeal ofthose laws--hailed the commencement of the session: Alas ! to what length will the credulity or the inventions of fabulists extend. Sufficient refutation of these absurd figments will be found in the simple fact that the Speech from the Throne, dated February sth, 1839, though com posed by the able and eminent statesmen forming the Ministry of that day, does not contain the re motest allusion to this great Anti-Corn Law agita tion ! Yet in that speech, so minute is the attention shown to the affairs of the empire, that every disturb ' Once in its remotest regions, receives specific notice and I remark ; ray, every new variation in the features of the external commerce of the country ; and yet not a single syllable is said,—not the most distant allusion is made, — to this supposed increase in the price of human food ; this alleged agitation throughout the country, upon a subject involving the very existence of British com merce ;—this imaginary assemblage of phantom dele gates, congregated but a few yards distant from the very spot where the speech was delivered. And this is the way in which the English history has been written !" It eettainly is a singular characteristic of Royal speeches, that whatever most agitates the country is always most certain not to be touched on. In the Lords the address was moved by the Earl of Lovelace, a nobleman of considerable attainments, the son-irolaw of Lord 'Byron, and heir to the name and ho nours of the Lord King, whose bold and uncompromising invectives so often stirred the pious gall of the Prelacy. It was seconded with ability and promise by Lord Ver non. The succeeding debate was not, however, very animated, in spite of the quidquid ainari of Lord Brougham's speech, which had evidently been got up in concert with the Tories, whose prepared ground of at tack is shifted from Ireland to India. Lord Brougham is fond of distant warfare, and provided he can shoot with the long bow, it seems that he cares little where the shaft may lodge. In order to sustain his alliance Kith the Tories, Lord Brougham patriotically consents to s lerifiee one of the nearest relations of his wife, in the person of a very able and enlightened man, Lord Auck land. It was, by the way, an amusing episode in the discussion to observe the affectionate zeal with which Lord Brougham gratuitously sprung up to vindi ca t e t h e anxiety o f hi s no b le friend (!) the Earl of Durham for fie speedy production of the Report on Canada. Lord Brougham seems to Bold that friendship, like charity, begins at I ome ; for, Heaven knows, he showed little en ,ugh of that amiable affection when his "noble friend" was abroad ! Mr. O'Connell came hi for a share of the Learned Lord's discursive denunciation s ; but, in comparing the agitation of Mr. O'Connell with that of Mr. O'Connor, he forgot that the one preaches peace in order to ameliorate the law, and the other incites to arms in order to get rid of the law altogether.* The tone of the Duke of Wellingto n was not that of a man prepared for an early assault on the citadel of the Government ; he seemed contest to skirmish on the outworks, and to indicate that the same Fabian mode of hostility which so greatly displeased his more ardent followers in the last session will constitute the strategy of the present. Lord Melbourne's speech was chiefly remarkable for the definitio n he gave of the relative confidence be tween the Government and Mr. O'Connell, and for his declaration that a change in the Corn-laws was to continue an open quest.ion,—and nothing more. In the Conitnons, the debate (not upon the whole equal to the occasion) was, so far as our domestic policy is concerned, rodoced to two topics—the Corn laws and Parliamcr:cary Reform. With regard to the first, the advocate s for Repeal encountered a most dis agreeable surprise in the speech of the Member for Kenial. ''..ecording to that gentleman (the Chair man of the Chamber of Commerce of Manchester) no tione can be more fallacious than the statements of conimerciol decline, upon which the most popular and striking arguments for repeal have been founded. There was something at once painful and ludicrous in tha effect which this part of Mr. Wood's speech pro duced. The astonishment of the advocates of free -trade in the House—the nervous anxiety of the Delegates under the gallery—the whispered assurances of the sagacious, that " Wood was a deep fellow, and would wind it all round before he sat down"—the respectful at tention of Sir Robert Peel—the startled applause of the ceuntry gentlemen—and the unconscious, earnest, and solemn complacency with which the orator himself con tinued, brick by brick, to demolish the foundations of the. castle Le was commissioned to garrisd whit play-writers ca ll " a situation" that would e have been irresistibly d ro ll if the House of Commons were the Adelphi Theatre, and the Corn-laws a Farce,—.instead of a question involving the interests of millions, and, perhaps, fraught with a fearful tragedy. Sir Robert Peel did not fail to use " the facts" of Mr. 'Wood with his usual sinister subtlety. Mr Villiers replied to them with spirit and acuteness. It is melancholy to see in the temper of the House on the Corn-laws a clear indication of the stupendous diffi culties with which we have to contend in the present Parliament. The hopes of the conversion of Sir Ro bert Peel, which the celebrated article in the Times had engendered, are destroyed ; the Tories (with the exception or a number not calculated at more than seven or eight) will vote with their leader ; a considerable por tion of the Whigs, and those from their property and local ccnnections, the most secure of their seats (in cluding even some of the moderate Radicals like Lord Worsley), are for no alteration ; and the Government themselves will do no more than leave the matter pre cisely what Lord Melbourne says it always has been, viz., an open question. If the manufacturers had not decided to reject the compromise of a moderate fixed duty, we believe that that intermediate step would have been attained ; that it would have become a Cabinet question ; and that_ neither the Com mons nor the Lords would have ventured to reject it. ' The amendment of Mr. Duncombe carried the House into the question of further Constitutioual Reform. W e do not think that the motion' was Well-timed ; for no great question can 'be discussed thus incidentally with advantage, unless it involves some imminent peril, which may seem to force it into instant consideration out of the customary order of things ; but still, not withstanding every disadvantage of time and season— the result was a very considerable minority, when com pared with that which graced the somewhat similar amendment of Mr. Wakley last Session. One cause of this distinction was, to be sure, in the milder and less definite terms of Mr. Duncombe's amend ment, but reasons more cogent are to be found in the dissatisfaction among the Liberal constituencies at the general opposition given by Lord John Russell to all further constitutional change, during the last session ; and' in the speech which the Noble Lord delivered in the coarse of the night's debate. Many Reformers who did not sympathise with Mr. Duncombe's acrimonious and indiscriminate censure of the Government, and still less with his invidious compliments to the foresight and consisteney of Sir Robert Peel, had decided to vote agamst his amendment, till converted by the speech of Lord John, repeating, though in milder and mote con ciliatory terms, the sentiments he had expresssed on the previous question. Still, when , we see Ref ormers as staunch as Mr. Clay, Mr. Marshall, Mr. Strutt, ese., voting with the majority, we cannot agree with Mr. Duncombe, that the division furnished a fair test of " the finality and non-finality men." An expression used in the course of the discussion by Mr. O'Con nell has given rise to many surmises. In his not vory lust' explanation of his motives for voting with Mr. Duncombe, after having voted last session against Mr. Wakley, the Learned Gentleman observed with marked emphasis, that " the relations between the Government and himself were altered." The Tories caught up the phrase with a sarcastic cheer— Nr. O'Connell smiled, and took care not to explain away the impression his words conveyed. We can not, however, agree with those who, from this and other circumstances, have come to the conclusion that Alr. O'Connell will lend himself to any serious or systematic hostilities against the Government. Despite the indiscretions to which his passions fre quently urge him, Mr. O'Connell is too experienced a politician not to see that any change in the Government —till there are the materials and the basis of support for a more popular Administration—will be the worse for Ireland, and we do not think he will rashly hazard the restitution of Orange ascendancy for a period, that might possibly last the remainder of his life. Neither has Mr. O'Connell taken the course which would best have served his purpose had he meditated any assault on the Administration. He has separated himself from the Chartists ; he has been dragged into open war with Lord Brougham, and his enmity with the enemies of the Go vernment would greatly cripple him in any measures tending to further their objects, though with out securing their confidence and co-operation. l ilpen the whole, the position of ministers is much altered ; th e T or i es, i n concert w i t h Lord Brougham, h ave evidently resolved to make their great party question—their strong division—eheval de bataille— the state of affairs in India; a sufficient proof of' their inab ility to se l ec t' more popu l ar an d i nterest i ng topics ef quarrel at borne. Upon this we shall reserve our rstnerk till ampler materials of information arc furnish- u --------- IV i . which ` is singular enough that nearly every occasion in the Speaker has thought it necessary to rebuke allusions to Members of the House of Lords has been in behalf of Lord Brougham, and yet that learned personage ha s 'flora than any other Peer complained of the liberties taken with the Lords in the Representative Assembly. Sor ely, as Mr. the re c O'Connela observed if it be right t o c h ec k ri mination, the authority of the Lurd Chancellor, or the taste of the House of Lords, should forbid the attack. s i it la w t t lia they wh o d we ll i n glass houses should not c '' 7..,,43-tgritlio;t but it genera ll y happens that the jaculation t i 4 eA in proportion to the quantity of the glass. 1; 4 .\!. ta to the public. Meanwhile, amidst the mighty.eom plications of a great empire ; it is strange to see how little the agitatitin of the recess is an accu rate test bt' the precise ground upon which the battles of party are fought in the session. Strange if, after steering through the Scylla of Mr. O'Connell, and the Charybdis of the Orangemen—after escaping the discontent of their ablest supporters in their adhe rence to the imperfect and mutilated Reform Bill—after conquering all the hostilities of the most powerful Church in Christendom—after extricating themselves from the meshes of Canaria, and hearing the buffets from both sides in the angry contest of Corn and Cotton—strange indeed if the Melbourne Ministry should find their most imminent peril on a question that has excited no agitation,—but little remark,—quickened in that most familiar neighbour of our empire called Afghan istan, and involving the interests of personages so thoroughly well known to all parties as Schah Soojah-001-Moolk and Maharajah Runjeet LSingh ! We cannot quit the subject of the Address without expressing our great satisfaction at the paragraph which promises a " most speedy and certain administration of justice. This appears to us the essence drop which fla vours a great deal of Nothing and water. The only way to convince the working classes that this Parliament is not as bad as they say, is to give them protection against the most exasperating wrongs. Next to cheap bread is the benefit of cheap and prompt justice.—Examiner. Since we submitted to our readers in an early part of to day's edition, the fact of Lord Glenelg's ill-treat ment, and consequent resignation, many have been the rumours which have circulated as to his Lordship's suc cessor. One feeling, however, pervades all classes—we mean that of disgust and contempt for the conduct of those who have permitted Lord Glenelg to go on, in curring all the responsibility of the measures which have been taken with regard to the Canadas, the West Indies, and all our colonial possessions, for months, during which they had made up their minds to get rid of him immediately on the meeting of the Parliament, in which he might be enabled to vindicate his past con duct, or justify his policy. On the first day of the Session—although up to that day he had constantly at tended the Cabinet Councils, in the implicit belief that he had the fullest confidence of his colleagues—they ejected him by a " round robin," and without either ceremony or consideration, cast an indignity upon him unparalleled, we believe, in political history. We are glad, however, to know that Lord Glenelg has rallied all his long dormant energies, and has written a letter which, for power and spirit, reminds us of the palmy days of Charles Grunt, before he united himself to those who have thus betrayed and degraded him. This letter we may, at no great distance of time, submit to our readers. But we would ask the remaining members of the Cabinet individually, which one of them now fancies himselfsecure, or which one of them has, or can have, the slightest faith in his colleagues, or dismiss from his mind the suspicion that he may be the next victim to intrigue and duplicity ? There is one of the body who has already served in every Administration which has existed during the last quarter of a ce n t ur y, except i ng that of Sir Robert Peel, who we should imagine likely to feel some apprehension that his turn may conic next ; and assuredly it would come if any further jobbery were considered necessary by his friends. Now, as to Lord Glcnelg's successor, there are, as we have said, various rumours. Some have it, that Lord Normanby—under the arrangement made without Lord Glenelg's kaowledge, when his Excellency the Lord Lieu tenant was last in town—will have the Colonial Seals : and then some revive the report that Lord Radnor will go to Ireland ; but it is more commonly thought that Lord Clarendon—who has been sent far —would suc ceed Lord Normanby. All these schemes, however, are interfered with, by the claims of Lord Howick upon the colonial portfeuille ; claims which Ministers will have some difficulty in resisting ; especially as Lord HoWick's official parliamentary training has rendered him much more competent to the duties of the office, than Lord Normanby just assuming it, and not versed in the de tails, or familiar with the system, could possibly ba supposed to be. In this case, Lord Howick must be called up to the House of Peers, it not being customary that more than two of the Secre taries of State should sit in the House of Commons. The excuse trumped up by the existing Cabinet for their conduct is, if possible, an aggravation of their of fence ; for as we hear, so far fiom admitting the allega tion of Lord Glenelg that all the offensive measures which have driven him from office were adopted in his absence from council, they declare he was present at all discussions—that he made no objections, but on the contrary, kept nodding his head, and that they consi dered " silence gave consent "—the fact being that his Lordship was during the whole period, as usual, fast asleep.—John Bull. TilE QUEEN'S SPEECH.—It is the good sense of the people which tells them that their bane is the Corn-laws ; that the House of Commons is not, to scarcely a particle, their representation ; that it is not a neutral, but an inimical body ; and that the whole of their proceedings are but an outrage against property, opinion, and freedom in every sense of the word. On this part of the Speech we join issue with the Crown. The Queen depends upon the efficacy of the law ; we rely upon its destruction. She appeals to the good sense of the people, and so do we ; and we are assured that this good sense being predomi. nant, the present system of representation cannot last another year, and that the Corn-laws will give an in creased impetus to the glowing execration of that pri vileged body which has inflicted their curse on the peo ple. The Queen depends on the public sense of justice. The challenge is fair ! Immediately that the popular sentiment begins to operate, Ministers will throw justice to the dogs, and resort to the " efficacy" of the law. The mode in which this vile Speech has been received, might at least cure us of any similar exhi bitions. It is a law of Parliament that the young men who are to go through the humbug imposition of moving an address, confine themselves servilely to the Speech itself. Here the rule has been reversed, or rather conversed, for although the puppets that did the Minis terial bidding could not oppos e th e Sp eec h, t h ey intro duced into tle debate those topics which Ministers had carefully omitted. This is a base collusion between the Cabinet and its tools. We had better have one thing or the other, Let the speech be expressive of policy at least on important subjects, or let it die a natural death. Why omit the state of the Navy ?—the subject of national education ?—that of the Corn-laws ?—thatl cured only 86 votes, and yet to deny his proposition was as absurd as to say that the sun is the origin of darkness, and that light existed before the sun.—Weck/y Dis patch. THE DIVISION ON MR. DUNCOMBE'S MOTION TO AMEND THE REFORM ACT.—Should the professing Liberals who voted against Mr. Duncombe's Amend ment be hereafter the objects of popular suspicion, classed among the " Finality men" and accounted "sham Reformers," they will have no ground to complain of injustice. They preferred a junction with Tories and Tory-Whigs to the discharge of their duty to their constituents. Every Member in the majority, who pretends to regard the Ballot as desirable, the Suffrage as too exclusive, and -seven years toe long a term for the duration of Parliaments, was guilty of inconsistency and dereliction of duty. For what was the scope and meaning of the Amendment ? Simply this—that the Reform Act requires improvement, and that the House would take the subject into its early consideration Will the Ballot.. men or the advocates of Triennial Parliament deny that the Reform Bill needs amendment ? If they will not and cannot deny this, why did they refuse to give effect to their opinions when the opportunity was offered ? They cannot pretend that the matter or the wording of the Amendment was offensive to the Queen, or that it was brought forward or supported in an indecorous man ner. The Ministerial Address was not short of its com pliments ; neither was it proposed to append a syllable of reproof or even of advice to her Majesty. The Amendment but declared that which many, who rejected it, have of ten affirmed, and gained their seats by pledges to maintain with their votes. Even the miserable pretence, that to carry the Amendment would have been to "let in the Tories," was too gross for anybody to avow, except Mr. James of Cumberland. That gentleman, we must sup pose, could not " count the noses" on the Tory side of the House, or he must have perceived that Ministers were sure of a majority ; yes, and of a majority com posed of men who would not have abandoned any prin ciple or cheated any constituency. Of Tories in the House there were Doubtfuls, sure on this question to vote with Tories 9 Ministers and men in office 3O 310 The professing Liberals (excluding Doubtfuls) in the majority, were only Deduct the phalanx of officials 146 30 116 The minority was 86 ; whence it appears that the majo rity of unplaced Liberals against Mr. Duncombe's motion was just 30. And moreover, in this number are reckoned twelve Members whose connexion with the Ministers is so close as almost to destroy their inde pendence— Mr. G. A. Abercromby, Sir George Anson, Lord Charles• Russell, Mr. Ellice, Captain Ellice, Mr. Elliott, Mr. Ilobhouse, Mr. F. J. Howard, Mr. Lefevre, Lord Leveson, Lord Alfred Paget, Mr. W. Stanley. With the deduction of this dozen, the majority of Li berals dwindles down to 18. Very creditable, indeed, it is to the following gentlemen, that they, (whose names are especially exhibited for the information of their constituents,) should have made up two-thirds of this glorious majority ! Mr. Bannerman, Aberdeen ; Mr. Berkeley, Bristol ; Mr. Baines, Leeds; Mr. Clay, Tower Hamlets; Mr. Humphery, Southwark; Mr. Strutt, Derby; Mr. Erle, Oxford; Mr. Hastie, Paisley ; Mr. Kionaird, Perth ; Mr. Mark Phillips, Manchester; Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Reading. Each and all of these gentlemen, we believe, profess themselves dissatisfied with the Reform Act, and desirous of progression. As for the following, being members of the Government, they cannot call their votes their own : the list illustrates the system of selecting official men for Representatives of the People : Mr. Baring, Portsmouth ; Sir John Campbell, Edin burgh ; Lord Dalmeny, Stirling Burghs; Sir George Grey, Devonport ; Sir John Hobhouse, Nottingham ; Lord Morpeth, West Yorkshire; Mr. J. A. Murray, Leith; Mr. Parker, Sheffield; Sir Henry Parnell, Dundee: Lord John Russell, Stroud; Mr. Sheil, Tipperary ; Mr. Poulett Thomson, Manchester ; Mr. Charles Wood, Halifax ; Mr. Vernon Smith, Northampton ; Lord Seymour, Totnes ; Sir R. Rolfe, Penryn. A glance at these lists shows that the responsi bility of Members of the House of Commons to their constituents, and representation, as it is called, arc little better than a nullity. The Members for most Liberal constituencies are found opposing a mo tion to take the amendment of the Reform Act into consideration ; and in several instances the vote of one Member neutralizes that of his colleague. Thus, Reformers. " Finality" Men. For Plymouth, there is Collier versus... Bewes ; Northampton, Currie Smith ; Bradford, Lister Busfield; Leede, Molesworth Baines ; Halifax, Protheroe Wood ; Sheffield, Ward Parker ; Coventry, Williams Ellice; Southwark, Harvey Humphery; East Cumberland Aglionby ...... ...James ; Dublin, O'Connell Hutton. The selected instances are of men representing the same boroughs, and professing the same polities, found on different sides. The catalogue might be extended con siderably by the addition of places which have elected Members of avowedly different politics. London City, Westminster, Finsbury, Lambeth, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, arid Leicester were truly represented. Glasgow gave one vote, Mr. Deanistoun's (Lord W. Bentinck being absent), on the right ride ; Manchester and Bristol both wrong, Hull neutralised. On the the whole, the scrutiny of the Division-lists creates no disappointment to us. The minority is most respect ble ; but it ought to have been swelled by the votes of many who appear in the Tory-Whig lists. 7'ory. Whig it is properly called, for the Tories were to the Liberals as 280 to 146.—Spectator. POPULAR EDUCATION : THE DISSENTERS.—TIIC mixture of insult and cajolery with which a certain portion of our political Churchmen are accustomed to treat the Dissenters of England, is both offensive and ridiculous. Offensive, because of the haughty tone of assumption and scarcely covert contempt which is adopted ; ridiculous, by reason of the pretence that such a tone is intended to be conciliatory towards the " non-conformists." Of this class the Times is the organ. Different alike from the open bitter hatred of the Standard, and the sectarian bigotry of the Record, intended probably to in fluence those insincere and self-seeking Dissenters, who delight in communion with the Treasury, and at tendance upon the aristocracy, it seems to us to be the most deeply insulting. Of these observations the lead ing article of the Times of Saturday, the 2d inst., may be taken as an illustration. Can the writer of that article mean what he has written ? or does he merely intend to amuse his High Church readers by misplaced irony at the expense of the Dissenters ? Can he be lieve " the more enlightened lay Dissenters" can be led to forget the ribaldry of the earlier parts of his article, by the canting Jesuistry of the latter ? To the sober, liberal, and " enlightened," whether Dis senter or Churchman,—Lay or of the Ministry,—we shall do an essential service by exposing the virulent hypocrisy of the " leading journal ;" controlled, if report speaks true, by a Tory Peer, and an ex-Whig, but now, for good considerations, Tory Judge. The writer commences by stating that it is a " delusion to suppose that the Established Church does not possess the confidence of the more enlightened lay Dissenters ;" and cites " evidences of the fact" which are said to be " both numerous and conclusive ;" some of which we will now examine. The first is, " the trifling amount of marriage business done in the many non-conformist chapels licensed for that purpose ;' and the coarse-minded writer thus proceeds to " empty the vials " of his unmanly venom upon such of his country-women as presume to dissent from the doctrine or discipline of the dominant sect. " The system of Superintendent Regis' r trs is not in favour -with them. The lovelier sex of puritans won't endure being pointed at as the superintended of the young Mr. Thingumbob's ; so, in nineteen cases out of twenty, they prefer to be regularly mar ried at an episcopal altar." This is a favourite topic with the organs of the dominant and domineering hierarchy ; and it is quite consistent with the dark spirit and unenlightened age in which ecclesiastical establishments had their origin. It is intended to operate as a moral torture—the modern substitute for thumb-screws—upon the feelings of sensitive and re tiring females. We know not to what extent it may be true that Dissenters are still driven to use the ser vices of the Episcopalian priests for the celebration of marriages ; but we can easily conceive that the studied contumely of the formalities by which the marriages of Dissenters in their own chapels arc surrounded may induce many to feel indifferent when they pass under the yoke of the hierarchy, whether it be held by the hands of a Clergyman or a Superintendent-registrar. The present kw, which permits the marriage of Dissenters in their own places of worship, is little more than a mockery. There is but one mode, and it is a very simple one, by which justice can be done to all sects of Churchmen and Dissenters. Let the certifi ca t es o f a ll Di ss enting ministers have precisely th e same e ff ec t, an d b e no tified to the civil registrar in precisely the same way as those of the Esta blished clergy. Th us wou ld th e na ti ona l o bject of a civil registry be attained, and the religious feelings of all sects satisfied. Why should not Dissenting minis ters publish bans of marriage in their own chapels? Why should not li censes b e gran t e d by such minis ters ? Are they less worthy of trust ? Do they per form th e i r d u ti es LESS car f u ll y t h an t h e Established clergy ? Even the coarse jester of the Times dare not affirm either. The other evidences offered— Dissenters sending their children to schools where they are t rained to the communion of the Established Church,—the alleged "exultation " of some of them " in the domiciliary visits of parish clergymen"— the appointment of Episcopalian clergymen to master ships of proprietary Dissenting schools—and the se cession of very rich Dissenters from their own sect, merely prove, when such cases occur, that amongat the Dissenters there are persons who profess and practise not —who are weak, wavering, time-serving, or insincere : does the Ti mes imagine there are none such in the bosom of the Church ? But beyond the fling at Dis senters' marriages, the main object of the article we refer the state of the representation ? and in all point;,wiii; respect to the Suffrage, the Ballot, and the duration "of Parliament ? All persons in both Houses treated the Queen's speech with a decent contempt. The Earl of Hardwicke gave notice that he would call the attention of the House to one omission from the speech. The Duke of Wellington confessed that he felt no ob jection to the Speech, a very lame and impotent cora pliment to her Majesty. The Duke of Richmond agreed to the Address, but very much disagreed from those whO moved it. Lord Winchelsea would not have troubled the House with any observations on the Speech, but for the objectionable remarks of those who moved and se conded the Address. Lord Brougham assured their Lordships that there was nothing to be found in the Speech that called for any observation. Thus was her Majesty scurvily treated in the House of Peers. In the other House the case was no batter. Sir Robert Peel treated her Majesty's Speech as an object of contempt, or at least as a nonentity, and called the attention of the House to the real business of the county, as if the Speech ought to have related to any thing else. Even Lord John Russell confessed that most important points and questions had been omitted from the Speech, but added, that they might be brought forward in future debates. Another Minister of the Crown treated the Speech as a thing of form and ceremony, and the address as another thing of courtesy, and entered upon what he confessed to be an important point of national interests, which had been totally omitted by the Throne, namely the Corn Laws. In fact, all parties differed upon all points ex cept one, and that was, that the Speech of the Queen was to be entirely thrown overboard, and that the business of the country was to be conducted without the slightest regard to her Majesty's oratory, and par infrence to her Majesty herself. The prelude of one debate must have an inevitable consequence. The pretext for omitting the Corn Law Question from theßoyal Speech appears to us to be little less than infamous. It is said that the question is to be left open to the Cabinet. This has for ever been the vile refuge of a balance of parties. During the very many years in which the Slave Trade was discussed, Mr. Pitt always said that it was an open question, and yet he might have crushed the trade in one year had he been sincere or honest. What esteem can the country have of a Government which, upon points involving almost the national existence, professes that it has no collective opinion whatever? When mischief is to be done it is a Cabinet question—where benefits are to be diffused we have no Cabinet whatever. The Duke of Wellington was more honest in Parliamentary language, for when Mr. Huskisson gave one honest vote the Duke dismissed him with the exclamation, " It is no mistake," which might be translated into the phrase," It is a Cabi net question." A question which is to left open implies a question to be lost, and lost with the good wishes of the Administration. The Ministers may urge that if they were to carry a Bill for the repeal of the vile Corn-laws in the House of Commons, they would be unquestionably beaten in the House of Peers. Why not let them take their stand on this ground? According to the Speech, they are doing it on the Irish Cor . poration Bill. if they can incur the disgrace, or what we should call, the honour of a defeat on the Corporation Bill, they may as well risk the ques tion of the Corn.laws. The fact is, that Ministers have made up their minds to a compromise with the Peers pon the Irish Corporation Bill, to the effect of totally annihilating the substance of the measure. They have, therefore, no objection to insert the question in the Queen's Speech, but they are determined that the Corn laws shall be open to debate, or in other terms over whelmed by majorities. In former days, Cabinets split upon vital policies and compromised all minor differences. Now the case is reversed. The House. of Commons has no connexion with the country, and Ministers might bring- it into unison, were they so disposed. The peo ple must look to themselves, for they have no friends in the upper classes. Even Mr. Duneornho's motion pro- THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY,-EVENING EDI to seems to have been to recommend the clergy to admit the use of the " Assembly's Catechism" for Dissenting children in the Episcopal schools. This is a most insidious attempt to disarm the opposition of the less sturdy and intelligent amongst the Dissenters to some scheme of general education UNDER THE EXCLUSIVE CONTROL OF THE CLERGY OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH, which is unquestionably being concocted by our Whig and Tory factions. As uncompromising advocates of religious free dom, we warn the Dissenters against all such schemes— such " harmless indulgences to Dissenters" from their haughty contemners—and call upon them to assert bold ly the principle, whatever obstacles may oppose its com plete reduction into practice, that an established sect is a gross infringement of liberty of conscience.—Weekly True Sun. SLAVERY in the UNITED STATES Extract of a letter from a gentleman in New York, to a friend in England, dated 16 January, 1839 I inclose you a copy of a mock petition, lately pre sented to Congsess by J. Quincy Adams, but which was refused acceptance ; the satire is well merited, though it does not raise a blush on the face of the Southern Members. This Memorial showeth—That whereas sundry evil minded and ignorant persons have petitioned Congress for a recognition of the indep en d ence of Hayti, other wise called St. Domingo, a black republic ; and whereas, should such recognition take place, a black negro am bassador must necessarily take up his residence at the seat of Government, to the great scandal of slave holders, and the eternal disgrace of th e A ng l o -S axon blood ; and whereas a President ( a " N orthern man with Southern principles") could not maintain ami cable relations with sueh a functionary ; and whereas, unless the President interposed his authority, such functionary would not be permitt e d to mix inl good society, or receive the usual civilities paid to other public characters ; and whereas, such treatment would necessarily give offence to the Government of which he is the accredited representative, thereby leading to his recall, and in all probability to a war between the two countries : for these and various other reasons unneces sary to mention, your Memorialists humbly pray that your honourable body would enact a law prohibiting any foreign nation from sending to our own any man who is not a full blooded Anglo-Saxon man, and can trace his lineage back to Japhet, without any taint, mixture, stain, or blemish from the accursed race of Ham, from whom the inhabitants of Africa are de scended. And they further pray that an Act may be passed prohibiting any one from holding any civil or military office in the United States who shall have the least mixture of African blood in his veins. And to carry this law iota snore complete effect, your Memorialists pray that there may be a standing Com mittee of the House appointed, called " The Committee on Colours," or " The Whitewashing Committee," whose duty it shall be to examine into the pedigree of every Member of Congress, and every man appointed to public office, especially in the slaveholding States ; and whenever, in any case, any taint of African blood be discovered, such Member shall instantly be expelled from office, and his place filled with a pure Anglo-Saxon American. And your .Memorialists further pray that that notoriously false assertion contained in the Decla ration of Independence, viz. that " all men are created free and equal," be erased from that document, and burnt by the hands of the common hangman. And your Memorialists will ever pray. (Signed by 46.) The Slavery question is becoming more serious every day in its effects upon the feelings of the Southern people ; they no longer love the Union for its own sake, and all their distinguished men look forward to the time when its dissolution is probable, if not una voidable. All the exertions now being made to ex tend their railroads to the Western waters, and to esta blish a direct trade with Europe for the importation of every article of consumption, are for the express purpose of rendering them independent of the Northern States in all respects. The emancipation of the negroes in the West Indies is looked upon as a piece of political insanity on the part of Great Britain, and the total ruin of the whole white population is confidently predicted Judging from the public prints, I should think. that the planters of Jamaica were very gene• rally doing all they could to ruin themselves and the ncgroes, and seem more fearful on this account than on any other. if the proprietors, or their agents, were sincerely desirous of the success of dui great experi ment, they would by kindness encourage the poor black in every possible way ; instead of endeavouring, to coerce them, by offering them wages insufficient for theircomplete support. The punishment, however, will fall on them selves eventually, if they persist in such an insane course. No one will pity them ! John Quincy Adams's opinions upon slavery in the United States, extracted from a letter addressed by him to the Secretary of the Rhode Island Anti-Slavery Society, dated Washington, Dec. 13, 1838 : No one attentive to the progress of our history as an independent nation can fail to perceive that in the silent lapse of ,time slavery, the very name of which our revo lutionary fathers inflexibly excluded from the Constitu tion which was to secure to their posterity the blessings of liberty, and which was tolerated only to give time for its extirpation, has been winding its cobweb thread round all our free institutions, till we have seen a free inhabitant of a free State delivered up to a dungeon and chains, upon false pretences—de livered up without the benefit of his habeas corpus— without the shield of a trial by his peers. Nor is this outrage upon all human freedom alone. We have seen this same demand advanced at the edge of the bowie knife, and with the threat of civil war, if denied. We have seen hanging denounced in the Senate of the United States, and assassination conspired by a public Minister of our own abroad, against a champion of human liberty, for pointing the finger of merited execra tion against the breeder of slaves for sale. We have seen and heard—but my pen refuses to trace the hor rors which we are witnessing from day to day in the convulsive agonies of slavery, clinging to ber human victims, and struggling to perpetuate her blessings, ce mented with African —no, with our own native Ame rican blood. " Non hmc in fcedera veni." This was not the covenant to which we pledged our faith in the Declara tion of Independence. The total and irreversible abo lition of slavery was pledged in that compact by the appeal to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the truth of its self-evident axioms. The time and mode of emancipation were left to the conscience, the justice, and humanity of the masters, but the breaking of the oppressor's chain was a virtual and tacit stipulation of that great charter of the race, binding upon every signer of that instrument, and upon all whom they represented, by obligations as indissoluble as that of the common Union substituted for the dissolved and discarded allegiance to a Sovereign beyond the seas. Such was undoubtedly the construction given by George Washington to the bond, and he accordingly emancipated his slaves by his last will. George Washington was thus, in the broadest and most comprehensive sense of the word an Abolitionist. So vies Thomas Jefferson —and if the threat of hang ing, openly uttered in the Senate of the United States, was any thing more than a brutum fulmen, a mere flourish of trumpets, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, were they now alive, and should dare to show their faces and to utter the self-evident truths of the Declaration of Independence within the State of South Carolina, would be hanged !—hanged in spite of the interposition of every Government upon earth, including that of the Union. I call to your attention the present words and deeds of exasperated and irresponsible multitudes, who know not what they do—of gentlemanly mobs who burn down convents, churches, school-houses, halls of freedom, who cast printing presses into the river, and speed the rifle ball to the heart of the minister of Christ, who break up with insult and contumely peaceful assemblages of women, or who carry about them the bowie knife, with " Death to Abolition," inscribed upon its blade. All this we have seen and heard—all this and more we daily see and bear in " this land of the free and this home of the brave." And what is the purpose of all this ? To rivet the chains of unmitigated servitude upon three millions of our countrymen and upon their posterity to the end of time. It is not the occasional ebullition of popular passions, however terrible or destructive, which constitutes the most remarkabl e contrast between the principles univer sally recognized at the period of our revolution by its founders, and the slave-holding doctrines of the pre sent day. It is the perversion of intellect, the de pravation of moral feeling, the degradation of man to the standard of the brute, which marks the Ame rican school of servile philosophy. Professors of morals at Universities, Chancellors sworn to adminis ter equity between men, Judges of Courts of Justice, Governors and Senators of Sovereign States, now tell us that the Declaration of Independence was an im posture, that its self-evident truths were a pack of cold tohdeeirdsainndceirmitpudent lies; not one word of which was believ e d b y t h ose who signed the i nstrume nt, and ap pealed t o the Supreme Judge of the world fo r the p roof of Y. And what is is that has wrought this woful change ? What but that fatal drop of slavery intermingled in our primitive association, and which it was the intention of all at that time as soon as possible to extinguish ? The servile doctrines of the present day are in compatible with any system of Liberty. Just as far as the people of the free States submit to them, or acquiesce in them, just so far they suffer their own liberties to be crippled and impaired. Were it possible for them to give way to the encroach ments which far the last three or four years have been creeping upon them w ith ou t a recoil, they would soon sink thmselves into the most abject of slaves. Ido not believe that the descendants from the revolutionary stock have burns yet, th oug h with a fli c k er ing flame in Ne w En so d egener ated. The fire of liberty gland. It will yet kindle and consume to ashes the dastardly sophisms with which slavery would pollute our souls. I may not live to see the day, but I wait for it only to say with Simeon, " Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace." J. Q. ADAMS. lON,-FEBRUARY 14, 18 REGISTRAR OF HACKNEY CAR RIAGES. Copies of any Appointments to the Office of Registrar of Hackney Carriages; and of any Correspondence which has taken place between the Secretary of State for the Home Department and the Lords of the Treasury, re. lating to the said Office. Extract of a Letter from D. W. Harvey, Esq., to Lord John Russell, dated the 25th August, 1838 . " Respecting the appointment which your Lordship pro poses to give me immediately, I presume it is not usual to insert the salary in the document itself. The amount of salary may be made the subject of a Treasury Minute, sub ject, of course, to the understanding I have from the be ginning reserved, that no emolument or p ro fi t w ill b e re ceived by me, should Parliament determine that the office of Registrar comes within the Act of Anne ; for though I fully appreciate your Lordship's consideration in conferring upon me the appointment, and acceptable as I admit it to be, in more than one particular. yet I cannot reconcile the position and remuneration of the office to the being dis qualified to represent the borough of Southwark, or any other large section of the people in Parliament." Metropolitan Public Carriages' Office, 20, Adam-street, Ade'.phi, Sept. 19, 1838. My Lord,—My experience of the responsible duties at tached to the office of Registrar, in no way relaxes my original disinclination to hazard my seat, by accepting the contemplated salary. That the acceptance of salary would probably so act, is indicated by the concurrent opinions of the Law•officers of the Crown, by whose authority the House of Commons would in all probability be guided ; at all events, I should not attempt to dissuade them from it, though with all humility I venture to question their law. Upon receipt, therefore, of your Lordship's letter, I proceeded instantly to the Treasury, to avert a conse quence against which I have from the beginning provided, and was favoured with an interview with Mr. Phillips, and afterwards, at his suggestion, with Mr. Baring. The latter Gentleman informed me, that all that was at present known at the Treasury Board, was your Lordship's re commendation of myself for the office of Registrar, and the adoption of that recommendation by the Boat d. and that the subject of salary bad not as yet come under its notice. I then detailed to Mr. Baring the substance of my inter views and correspondence with your Lordship, and my de termination not to endanger my seat upon which state ment that Gentleman gave it as his decided opinion, that the wisest course would be for your Lordship to commu nicate to the Board of Treasury the actual state of the case, to the effect " that, as it was doubtful whether the office of Registrar might not be regarded as an office of profit under the Crown, Mr. Harvey declined to accept any salary until the question be disposed of to his satisfac tion, either by the opinion of competent law authority, or by an appeal to to the House of Commons; paeferring to execute the duties of the office gratuitously, than to ha zard his seat by accepting any emolument ; and that as Parliament could not at the time of accepting the office by Mr. Harvey be justly appealed to, the Prorogation being at hand, your Lordship acquiesced in tnis arrangement." This was the substance of Mr. Baring's advice, in which I entitely concur ; for should the question be raised in the House of Commons, all cavil would be silenced by the simple truth. I . entirely concur with the Attorney-General, that re nunciation of salary would not obviate the disqualification, if the office so works; but renunciation implies acceptance, which in my case has been expressly, and from the begin ning, repudiated. I much regret the trouble this correspondence gives to your Lordship, but I desire to assure you that I shall dis charge the duties of my office with equal zeal and fidelity without salary as with salary, and shall regard myself equally obliged by your Lordship's consideration.—l have, &c., (Signed) D. W. HARVEY. Lord John Russell, M. P., her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department. Adam-street, 30th January, 1839. My Lord,—Having most anxiously weighed the subject in my mind, I cannot reconcile it to the claims of my con. stituents or to my own feelings, to retain the office you have so kindly conferred upon me. I therefore beg leave, with the most grateful sense of your Lordship's kindness, at once to resign it. As I renounce all salary, I shall most readily continue here until your Lordship shall have found it convenient to appoint a successor.—l have, &e. (Signed) D. W. HARVEY. Right Hon. Lord John Russell, M P., &c. &c. &c. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir,--Well :knowing your columns are always open to the cause of humanity, truth, and justice, I am, from a sense of duty (as a Guardian) I owe to the destitute and afflicted poor, bpund to solicit a place in your valuable journal for the following, unvarnished tale of a poor, desti tute, and afflicted man, Roger Cohen ; aged .48 years, who arrived in London from Cornwall about three weeks ago, who, being quite destitute, made his way on Thursday night last, the 7th inst., to the Houseless Asylum in Play House-yard ; he, being ill, was refused admittance, but supplied with sixpence from the Committee, to get lodg ing where he could: he made inquiry of a policeman on duty where he could get a lodging, who informed him that he would not be enabled to get a lodging that time of night (near twelve o'clock), but seeing the poor man was ill, took him to the station house in Featherstone -street, there finding he was very ill, was then taken to the relieving overseer of the parish of St. Luke, between twelve and one o'clock in the night, who immediately gave an order for him to be taken to the workhouse, which was done, and the parish doctor sent for. His assistant was soon in attendance, who did, and ordered to be done, every thing the poor man's case required—his toes all frost bitten last winter and gone, while in Cornwall, and his feet now in almost a mortified state, with violent sore throat, &c., and nearly starved. Every care is now taken of him for his comfort. Allow me, Sir, to make a few remarks on this House less Asylum as to the manner it is conducted, as I have stated in my former letters that the Society take in the hale and hearty, and reject the affl cted and diseased, who, of all the poor creatures in existence, stand most in noed of nightly shelter. I ask, how can these benevolent gentlemen who compose the Committee screw up their benevolent minds to turn away a poor, destitute, afflicted fellow-crea ture from their asylum, with a few pence to go and perish in the streets, or in some poor, dirty, damp lodging-house, if not picked up by the police, and thrown A burden on the parish of St. Luke ; is there any justice or humanity in so doing? At a time the Society have funds in hand to the amount of somewhere about 10,0001. at their disposal, and further subscriptions pouring in upon them, as may be seen by the Times paper a few days ago. I was at the Asylum nearly two hours last night, and saw some of the Committee ; I told them the Ayslum was a complete nuisance as now conducted ; one gentleman admitted it, but what was to be done ? He hoped the proper authorities would inter fere and shut it up--the fact is, if they admit the afflicted and diseased, they will have more patients than any in. firmary or hospital in London. Therefore I have no hesi tation in saying, although the Society, when first estab lished, was, from the purest motives and benevolent inten tions, it is a failure, which I firmly believe many members of the Committee are ready to admit, there being many evils they cannot surmount. Your's, respectfully, RICHARD WARD, Guardian of the Poor 27, Banner-street, Feb. 10. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, FEB. 13. FRITH V. WALKER. Mr. PLATT and Mr. PETERSHORFF appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. HUMPHREY for the defendant. It appeared that the defendant who is a bricklayer, had en tered into a contract to erect certain buildings for the London and Birmingham Railway Company, and that he employed the plaintiff, who is a stone-mason, to lay the base of a chimney, for which he had contracted to pay 751. The plaintiff called his brother, who proved the contract, and that the whole of the work had been done, except the weathering. It was begun in November 1837, and continued until January 1838, when the severe frost set in. All the witnesses said that the particular stone they were work ing was as easily and as well worked in frost as not; but when the plaintiff's servants were witbin an hour or two of finishing, the de. fendant drove them off. The plaintiff had brought his action in the Sheriff's Court for a balance of 151. 165., having received 501, on account, and he obtained a verdict. The defendant applied to the Court, and had that verdict set side. The plaintiff now sought to recover a balance of 291. 125., the extras being made up for charges for taking in an iron rim and the weathering. For the defendant Mr. Fox, the engineer to the Railway Com pity, was called, who stated that a dispute arose between the par- tics, who waited on him in his office, and placed the account, amounting to 701. 1 es., before him. He knew the work, and said the charges were exorbitant- He asked then whether they in. tended to abide by his decision; fur, if they did not, he should de cline giving any opinion. They both assented; and he reduced the bill to 651. 16s. as being, in his judgment, fair between the parties. Mr. Baron ALDERSON said if the defendant had intended to rely upon the evidence of Mr. Fox, he ought to have pleaded the new contract. By the pleadings the only question the Jury had to deter mine was, whether there had been a contract binding upon both parties, that the work should be performed for 75/. The extras he thought did not very cle irly appear, but the whole question was one for their consideration. The Jury found for the plaintiff; damages 24/. 53. CRIMINAL CORUT, FEB. 13. OLD COURT. Elizabeth Smith, aged 20, was indicted for stealing, on the 6th of January, a quantity of flannel, value 141., and upwards, the property of Mr. Atkinson, a shopkeeper, of Westminster Bridge.road. The particulars have already appeared in the police report. She was acquitted. Ellen Saggers, a married woman, was indicted for stealing a 51. bank note and one sovereign, the property of Frances Maria Kitche ner, an officer's widow. Mr. Payne conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defence. It appeared that a close intimacy had always existed between the prosecutrix and the prisoner, and on the 9th of January, after re ceiving her pension, she had the prisoner with her to spend the evening. During her stay there was 6d. worth of gin sent for, after taking part of which the prosecutrix threw herself on the bed, and upon her return to her sitting-room she opened a drawer in which her purse was deposited, containing the money in question, but it was gone. The prisoner had taken her departure, and it was subsequently discovered that the prisoner had on the same evening changed the note produced at the White Hart public-house, in the Wal worth-road. Sufficient legal proof of he identity of the note not having been adduced, T he Jury, under the directions of his Lor &hip, returned a ver dict of acquittal. NEW COURT. John Howard, aged 12, was indicted for stealing 2561b5, of tallow, value 71. and upwards, the property of Mr. Parry, his master, and John March, aged 54, an oilman, was indicted for receiving the same, well knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. BODKIN appeared for the latter prisoner. The prosecutor, who carries on his business near to the City-road, stated, that on the 1 I th January a man in his employ was induced to follow the boy on his leaving his work, and he traced him into the shop of the other prisoner in Lamb-street, Spitalfields. After delaying some time he entered the shop, and saw the bag which the boy had in his possession in the weighing machine, and the other prisoner in the act of paying him money. Upon asking the boy what brought him there, he said he came to buy some soap and soda. It was proved in the course of the trial that when stock was DEPARTURES FROM CHINA. — Laton, Austin, Oct. 9, for Manilla ; Duchess of Northumberland for Manilla and Cape of Good Hope; London ; Hellas,Scanlaw, for Singapor e an d Bombay, Fort Wit_ Unity, of Blune, for Norfolk Sound; Faerie Queen; H ug h es, for " Bencoolen, 'fate; Mermaid (A ), Eagle ton, for . " London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG' .f No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office. No. 112. Strand, i" the comity of lllkldlesex.—Thursday, February 14, 60' taken in the shop it was left to the prisoner's son, and he was pre sent at the time, but seemed entirely ignorant of the business, and persons not well acquainted with the trade might take Russian tai low to be dripping. Mr. Miller, Who had let the shop to the prisoner's son, proved that the prisoner was entirely ignorant of the trade. After his Lordship had sumined up, the Jury acquitted March, on the ground that he might not have known that the property had been stolen, but found the other prisoner guilty, and ha was sen tenced to be transported for seven years. SOUTHWARK. SPECIAL SESSIONS. EXECUTORS OF COX V. THE LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY COMPANY Yesterday a Court of Compensation was held at the Town Hall, Southwark, before Sir John Key, Alderman Copeland, M.P., and Mr. Holmes, the Iligh Bailiff, and a Special Jury, for the purpose of awarding the sum of 3964 13s. 4d. as a compensation to the executors of a gentleman of the name of Cox, for three houses, situ ated in Canterbury-square, the site of which had been required by the London and Croydon Railway Company. The terms having been previously arranged between the parties, the present proceedings were merely a matter of form. After the Jury had returned their verdict, Mr. Burehell, the solicitor to the Company, and who had recently started for the Coronership of Middlesex, went up to the Jury and tendered to them 31. The Foreman appeared rather surprised at the offer, and, after looking at the money for a moment, said, Why, this is only ss. for each of the Jurors. Mr. Burchell observed that he thought this sum was quite suffi cient, for their time had not been occupied many minu'es. The Foreman, in reply, said, that they might have been occupied the whole day; but as they had been drawn out of their businesses moue of them could think of taking less than 10s. Mr Burchell untended, that as economy was the order of the day, he was bound not to spend the money of the Company wastefully. The Foreman here consulted with his brother Jurors, and then handed back the three sovereigns ; at the same time he observed that the legal sum was a guinea each. The Learned Gentleman finding that the Jury felt no inclination to receive a crown instead of a sovereign, handed, after some de. mur, another three sovereigns, andleft the Court. The High Bailiff having witnessed what had taken place, said, that he was glad to see the Jury stand up for their rights. The Foreman said, that seeing Mr Jackson in Court, the Jury wished to know what was the sum they were legally entitled to. Mr Jackson—The Act of Parliament fixes the remuneration at a guinea for each Juror. The innovation on the part of the Company upon this momentous subject, appeared to create a great sensation in the minds of the Jury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. TVORSHIP STREET. Two ruffianly looking fellows, named Blakeman and Cols', were charged with a violent assault on Mr. Johnson, landlord of the Mul berry Tree public house, Wilson-street, Finsbury. The prisoners, it appeared, entered the house and called for some liquor, which they refused to pay for, after having drunk it, and when the landlord insisted upon having his money, they fell upon him and struck him several blows, which cut his head and face in a frightful manner. They then left the house, but were shortly after wards pursued and apprehended by a policeman. After reading them a severe lecture, the bench ordered the pri. soner Blakeman (the more violent of the two) to pay a fine of 50s. and committed him for six weeks, in default. The prisoner, Cole, was fined 20s. or one month's imprionmint. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. (LLOYD'S.) CUSTO_SI HOUSE, FEB. 13 ENTERED INWARDS.—The Tagus, Symons, from Lisbon ; Marie Joseph, Degendel, Lucon; James, Reader, Tarragona; Wave, Goldsmith, Hobart Town ; Mary, Wilkinson, Marseilles ; George Fcyleer, Rustringsiel ; Jcune Pierre, Rose. St. Mato ; Mi. nerva, Ireland, Madras ; Fame, Itowson, Bordeaux : Typhis, Redell, Nantes ; Red Port, Gibbons, Oporto; Albion, M`Donald, Cadiz ; Clara, Gaming, Guernsey ; Eagle, Stephenson, St. John's, NB. ; Sarah, Stephens, St. Michael's ; John Wood, Murray, Havre; Eliza, Barnes, Ostend ; Solide, Lade, Nantes; Trusty, Stephens, Guernsey ; Egham, Gibraltar. ENTERED OUTWARDS.—The Harlequin, Strannack, for Boulogne; Union, Rommens, Ostend; Sirenc, Kuper, Brussels; Mornit.g Star, Linton, Canton; Sabez, Mosey, Odessa; Star, Weeks, Malta; Admiral Moorsom, Wood, Demerara. CLEARED OUT CARGOES —The Soho, Whitcombe, for Antwerp Bantoria, Middleton, Calais; Harlequin, Strannack, Boulogne Barlow, Spence, Bermuda; Amanda, Poland, Newfoundland Steadfast, Smith, Amsterdam. CLEARED IN BALLAST.—The Perseverance, Vries, for Antwerp ; Charlotte, Antwerp; City of Genoa, Hare, Lisbon; Peace, Brecksin, Antwerp; Friends, Cousins, Harlengen ; Fanny, Peag, Lisbon; Anna Cornelia, Daniels, Emden. LIVERPOOL, FEB. I2.—Wind variable and light.—Arrived the Scie,.ce, from Honduras; Ebro, Havre; Tennent, Gray, Natchez ; Liverpool, D.2vonport, New Orleans; Belvidere, Charleston; Francis de Pace, Forbes, from ditto; Royal Saxon, St. John's N.P.; Flora, Hunter, Smyrna; Azores packet, Peters, St. Michael's; Harmony, Brown, Cadiz; Mathilda, Gird, Barmw. ; Theresa, Bor. deaux ; Aimable, Pertetue, Charante. Off-port, Ida, Lucier, for Africa. Cowell, FEB. 12, Arrived the Betsy, Cooke, from London. RAMSGATE, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Christina, Amsterdam. CREEK, FEB. I2.—Arrived the Mary Ann, Anderson, from Kerteh ; Magara, Champion, Villa Viciosa. PENZANCE, FEB. I I.—Sailed the Zonileta, Malter, for Cork. SIMREHAM, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Soveign, Pratt, Rotterdam, EASTBOURNE, FEB. H.—Arrived off—The Tennis, ClappeSOß, Lisbon ; Tagus, Smith, Chatente. JERSEY, FEB. 11.—Arrived the Wayveron. De Caen, from Rio Janeiro; Minerva, Anderson, Louring. Sailed the Royal, Wil liam, Faunes, Gambia. HULL, FEB. 12.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived the Anna, Steward, Antwerp. _ _ GLOUCESTER, FEB 1 I.—Arrived the Jourville, Noir, Nantes. BRISTOL, FEB. 12..—Artived the Iris, Browse, from St. Mi. chaels ; Hebe, Partridge, Charente; Amelia, Nantes; Hope, Davis Newfoundland ; Active, Nankeen, Odessa; Serene, Aubert, Nantes ; Gine, do. , DUBLIN, FEB. 11.—Arrived the Vrow Elizabeth, Vantome, from Ostend ; Constitution, Sewell, St. John's, N.B. KINGSTOWN, Fse. 11.—Arrived the Calcutta, M`Kemmel from Liverpool, to stop a leak. KING Roan, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Emily, Turner, from Leg. horn, Charloti.e, St. Michaels'. SUNDERLAND, FEB. 11.—Arrived the Gresham, Honfleur Falcon, White, Havre. SIIIELDA, FEB. 11.— Arrived the St. Anthony, from Cephalonia; Sterling, Hunter, Emden ; Henry Kneckland, Bantrim, Amster dam ; Enyo, Howe, Nantes. Sailed Apollo, Walker, New York. DEAL, FEB. 12.—The brig reported last night on shore on the Goodwin Sands proves to be the St. Joseph from Nantes to London, was assisted off by the Deal boatmen, with loss of anchor and cable, and has been supplied and remains. MARYPORT, FEB. 9.—The Alexander 111`Isreill, M`Neill, from Strumer to Whitehaven, put in here on the 7th inst., and must discharge her cargo. ABERDEEN, FRB. 9.—The Reward, of Aberdeen, sailed from Gainsborough on the 6th ult., for Newcastle, and has not since been heard of. HAvaE, FEB. 9.—The Duke of York (English ship), was lost at Guadeloupe previous to the 29th of December. MARSIELLES, Feu. 6.—Several bales of cotton, marked V T H, were passed on the 30th ult., fifteen leagues south of Carthagena. GRAVESEND, FEB. 12.—Arrived the Wave, from Van Dieman's Land ; Hopeful, Smyrna; Nereid, Leghorn; Celine, Nantes; Marie Joseph, ditto; Neptune, Ostend; Lively, Rotterdam ; Hope, ditto; Trusty, Guernsey; Recovery, Calcutta; Minerva, Madras; Strath. fieldsaye, Valparaiso; Robert, St. Kitt's ; Coronation, St, John's, New Brunswick ; Mary, Marseilles; James, Tarragona , Albion, Cadiz ; Flora, ditto; Egham, ditto; Red Port, Oporto; Ruby, St. Übes ; Tagus, Lisbon; Fanny, ditto; Fame. Bordeaux; Sonde, Nantes; Typhis , ditto; Clara, Guernsey. Sailed the St. George, for Cape Patnas ; Tigris, South Australia; Giraffe, Launceston; Partheon, Brussels; San Repos, Antwerp. VESSELS SPOKEN WlTlL—Planet, of London for Jamaica, with loss of boats and bulwarks, lat. 23, lon. 41, out 30 days; James, Ancona, to London, sth inst., lat. 48, lon. 10; Rhone, Havre to New York, 6th inst , lat. 50, lon. 8; Surprise, of Jersey, for Maran ham, 3d ult., lat. 2, lon. 35 ; John Marshall, from Havre, 6th inst., lat. 50, lon. 11 ; Susannah, Grim, of Amsterdam, bound to Batavia, 2d ult., lat 3, N, lon. 20; Washington, Barnett, Lisbon to Buenos Ayres, 4th inst., lat 4, lon. 21, by the Mary, Robertson, arrived in the Downs ; Matilda, Leghorn to Liverpool, 21st ult. off Cape Sr. Vincent, by the Bellona, Wylie, arrived at Bristol; Cecilia, Clyde to Demerara, 27th ult., lat. 47, lon. 18, with loss of boats, bulwarks, and stauncheons, having been struck by a sea—by the Albatross, Westmorland, arrived in the river. EAST INDIA SHIPPING, An overland mail from India via Marseilles, arrived in London this morning (Wednesday). Dates from Bombay Ist January, Cal cutta, ISth Dec., Madras, Dec., Ceylon, 7th Dec., Singapore, 28th Nov., and China, 14th Nov; the Atalante (S.) brings the mails from Bombay and the following passengers; she arrived at Suez, 20th January :—Mrs. Onslow and live children ; Mr. and Mrs. Stulz and family ; Sir Herbert Compton and family ; Admiral Malcolm landed at Cossier; Major Lee; Dr. Smythson landed at Cossier; Compton, Esq. ; Hon. Anstruther and Lady Whitehead ; Mr. Young, Mr. Neale, Com. Rowband, late of the Indian Nary. ARRIVALS AT KEDGEREE, BeNGAL.-Wanderer, Smith, Nov. 24, from Mauritius ; Northumberland, Compton, 25, from Moalmein ; Bengal Merchant, Campbell, 26, from Penang; Mary Keinball, Tucker. 26, from Boston ; Orista, Bend, 27, from Voorie ; Louisa Munro, Lowry, 28, from Mauritius; Duvivier, Giraud, cB , from Bordeaux and Monte Video; Constance, Soreau, 28, from Bourbon ; Tom Thumb, McGill, 29, Clarisse; Andree, 30, from Moalmein ; Catherine, Evans, 80, from Madras; Annundchander, Jones, 30, from Moalmein ; Valparaiso, Lockwood, 30, from New York ; Red Rover, Wright, 30, from China and Singapore; Louisa, Hazlewood, Dec. 1, from Rangoon; Scotia, Campbell, 2, from Portsmouth ; Richmond, McLeod, 2, from Portsmouth and Cape of Good Hope ; True Briton, Beach, 2, from Madras ; Isabella, Dickinson, 3 from Hull and Cape of Guod Hope; Blorenge, Banks, 5, from Liverpool ; Mahmoody, Nacoda, from Mocha and Penang; Ceuerton, Chatter_ ton, 4, from Liverpool; Britannia, Leith, from Madras; Laneigh, Fairford, 5 from Philadelphia; Raby, Wilson, 6, from Mauritius; Jessy, Auld, 7, from Penang; Mary, Davis, 8, from Rangoon; Diane, Ireland, 9, from Bordeaux and Nicobar ; St. George, Wil liams, 9, from Bristol and Madeira; Futtay Salaam, Gillett, from China and Singapore; Bengal Packet, Steward. The October mail from London, arrived at Calcutta 10th December, Eleanor Russell, Worlts, 10th, from Mauritius ; John Cree, Boyd, 14th, from Newcastle; Superbe, Tangueray, 4th, from Mauritius; Robert Small, Falcher, 14th, from Portsmouth; Eber Pebble, 14th, from Boston ; Arid, Warden, 15th, from China and Singa pore ; John Adam, Eales, 16th, from Raahice and Cachin ; Vulcan, from -; Lord Hungerford, Farquharson, 17th, from Portsmouth ; Mary Eliza, Patterson, from Mauritius. ARRIVALS AT COLOMBO.—CCyIOr , Captain Cook Johnson, Nov. 23rd, from Bombay and Coast, bound to London. ARRIVAL AT TRICOMALEE.— Her Majesty's barque Algerine, Thomas, Nov. 17th, from China. DEPARTURES FROM Cocomso.—Caroline, Williams, for Point de Galle; Duchess of Clarence, for Bombay; Iris, Mackwood, for London. ARRIVAL AT REIVOAK Plloo.—Sava, Soiling, from Calcutta, ex perienced a severe gale on the 22nd and 23rd Nov. , about 30 leagues to the eastward of the S an d H eads. The same gale was felt at Rhyoak Phoo, and several vessels were driven on shore. The Sava was expected to sail again 7th Dec. for Calcutta. ARRIVALS AT previous to the 10th Nov. Cleveland, Marley, and Sulunany, McFarlane, Bombay ; Albi on , Putnam, from New York ; J o h n O ' Gaunt, Robertson, from Liverpool and Batavia; Eliza, Lay, from Calcutta ; Sultana, Page, and Indus, McFarlane, from Bombay; Westminster, Mollison, from Soura_ baya ; Fazel Currim, Bennett, and Faizer, Rabolmy, from Bombay and Singapore; Reliance, Marglies, from Madras and Singapore; Mary Chilton, Drew, from Boston ; Earl of Clare, Scott, from Bombay; York, Meyer, from Liverpool and Batavia; Henry Clay, Gill man, from Calloa ; Nabob, l'UtWalll, from Sumatra ; N. Goster, Davis, from Gibraltar ; Porcia, Swift, from Callao ; Patriota, Mercado, from Manilla; Nater `'Filets, Re) nell, from Calcutta; L'Esperance, Lindstedt, from Batavia; L'Artemise, French frigate, La Place, from Manilla ; Julia, Richards, from Bombay; Fanny, McCarthy, from Penang and Singapore; Van Ceuvert, Hallett, from Boston, Java ; Her Majesty's ship Larne, Blake, October the 18th, from a cruise in search of the Antonio Perena ; Hortensia, Hilley, 23d, from Singapore, and sailed for Singapore, Duke of Lancaster, Hargreaves, in November, from Bombay and Singapore; Cowasjee, Farnely, Stayers, from Calcutta and Singapore ; Ann Gales, Giles, from Manila; Ornega, Hellert, from New York, - • - - Manilla ; General Palmer, Down, in November, for London ; Jane Blain, Reid, for Cape of Good Hope ; Caledonia, Burn, for Boni• bay; Drongon, Rump, for Calcutta, to sail Nov. l 0; CowasJee• Family, for Calcutta and City of Poonah for Bombay, to sail in a fel , days. SHIPS ADVERTISED TO SAIL FROM CHINA, Nov. 10.—Inglis, Rotdt, Viscount Melbourne, Drayner, Hopkinson, Stephens, London, Dart, and William Jardine Crosbie, all for London; Imogen, Maxwell, for Liverpool; Bolton, Young, for Bombay, to sail Nov. .15. ARRIVALS AT MANILLA PREVIOUS TO OCT. Is.—Hope, Cockbain, from Batavia; Layton, Austin, from China, and both loading for England ; Saguenay; from China, and would load for Liverpool ; the James, Tuscan, and Bencoolen were expected from China, and would load for England on their arrival. ARRIVALS AT MADRAS,—BIeng, M'Dowall, from Liverpool; Wel lington, Liddell , Canatic; Voss and Duke of Argyle, Bristow, frogs Portsmouth, and Cape of Good Hope; Windsor, Nesbitt, and Mary Ann, Tarbolt, from Portsmouth; Repulse, Pryce, from I. o ° - don and the Downs. ARRIVALS AT BOMBAY.—Clydesdale and Cornudea from Liver pool; Ann, from Llanelly; Balfour, Foster, Dec. 25, from Liver. pool; Cornwallis, Clarke, from China ; Lady Fevers tam, Webster, from London ; Nerbudda, Patrick, from Mauritius ; Charles Forbes, Wells, from the Indus : Dornia, Carmelila, 26, from Cal cutta ; Duke of Clarence, 29, from Ceylon. DEPARTURES FROM BOMBAY. —Catherine, Prendergast, Dec. 22, for Penang, and Singapore; General Doherty, Norway, 23, the Ma labar Coast; Good Success, Frazer, 24, Cuina Pyen ; Bow en ' Atinder, 28, Calcutta; Stains Carthe, Pelne, China, previous to 99th Dec; George Canning, Wern, London ; Argyle, WDona ld and Arania Liverpool; Hero, Smallwood, for the Clyde. VESSELS LOADING AT BOMBAY.—Tory, for China, to sail Ist Jan.; Jupiter, Livei pool, Ist Jan. ; Hellas, China, 151 h Jan. ; En id / Jane, China, 15th Jan. ; Hugh Lindsay, Suez, 19th Jan. ; l‘lalabar, London, 3d Jan. ; Sir Edward Paget, London ; Cornubia and Clyde:dale, Liverpool ; Elora Blair, Clyde. CALCUTTA, I (ITII DEC —STATEMENT OF SHIPPING LYING IN T ng RIVER lloocuLy.—Adelaide, Guthrie, for London, via the Cape , Ist Jan. ; Attalevi, Clarke, Bombay; Alterton, Chattcrton, London ; A miunhehunder, Jones ; Ariel, Warden ; and Asia, Lon" don in a few days; Belhaven, Crawford, Singapore and China, in n day or two; Bengal Merchant, Campbell, for Bombay ; Beng al Packet, Steward,. Bombay and Muscat in a day or two ; Bloreng e ' Banks, Liverpool ; Brighton, Cothing, Boston ; Britannia, Leilt, Catherine, Brown; and Catherine, Evans, London, via the Cap e, 25th January; Colombo, M'Kellar. Suez, via Madras; Courier, Dixon, Cape of Good Hope; Diana, Ireland; Diana, Gautreatt Drummond, Mylne, Liverpool; Duke of Bedford, Bowen, London, first week in January; Earl of Hardwicke, the Cape and London 22d January ; Eleanor Russell, England, Rea, London ; EiSpFTRIIC C, Mackie, London; Eudora, Addison, Hobart Town ; Falcon, A"' struther, Liverpool; Frances Ann, Hay, Liverpool; Harmon'', Douglas, the Cape; Jane, Whelan, Mauritius; Isabella, Dickenson, Hull, 30th Dec.; James Ewing, Hamilton, Clyde; John, Smith, London; John Bagshaw, Clueas, Moulmein, day or two, London; Wimble, London first week in Jan. L. Moonc, Liverpool. THE MARKETS. COAL MAIO+ Per Ton. s , Adair's 19 0 Hebburn Main 2l 6 Wylava Walls End Bell and Brown 21 Walls End Bewicke and Co. 21 6 Walls End Hotspur .. Walls End Killingworth 21 V Walls End Newiaarch .20 0 Walls End Riddell's Walls End Belrnont Walls End Haswell Ships arrive 4 since kET—Feb. 13. d. Yer Ton. N Walls End fletton o3 0 walls End Lambton End Stewart's .. .. o o Walls End Hartlepool Walls End Barrington 'fees 20 Walls End South Durham 21 " End Tees 22 P. 6 Bamptou Main Cowpen 25 6 Graigoll 25 6 Nevill's Llanelly last market—day. 35. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEE Per Quarter. Abingdon....,. Andover dirmingham Bridport--. Cirencester Guildford Henley Hereford—,,.. Highwerth].., Maidenhead., Monmouth Salisbury Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury., Uxbridge .. Vantage Wrirrninster— Windsor . Worcester.,— Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. s. to s. 2'2 30 Beans. i. tO 11. 43 -- - 33 25 16 22 26 30 20 25 26 30 20 30 23 26 22 29 28 34 20 20 22 29 20 27 20 28 28 32 20 24 35 —122 32 70 71 28 32 17 28 63 72 24 34 20 25 67 70 27 34 22 26 76 21 22 65 71 32 36 30 32 Cl - lELTENHAbI MARKS ihel, s. d. to s. Wheat barley Oats 3 9 6 6 Veal Beans Pease 5 0 5 6 Lain% Hay 31.151. to V. Ills. Od. per ton. Per 131.11 32 40 - 49 - 43 34 44 34 40 39 42 41 46 33 42 36 40 - 25 resat. ! I I ...S. .... .... ..... •••• ..... •,..... .... 4e 34 39 - - 35 ""° - -- - v.. .... ..... ... . . 42 3-3 48 4 - 6 . "is 4. to d• 61 n 9 7 7 • 0 8 0 9 HULL MARKET.—Feb. 13. Wheat, Old 68s. 70s. 83s. New 835.705 80 5 . Foreign —s. —s —........1n bond... —5. — ll . "'''' Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 22s Old —B. 23 1 . 24 -- Small or Feed.... —s. 17s. 18s Foreign —s. —s. —s ....5...., ... 9 ' Barley, Norf. & Suf ... 3os 32s 335. Line. & Wold --4.308. am• -- Foreign ...,..: - c __ 6 .-4. Beans 42s 465. 4Ss Foreign 2(1;.28. 5 " Pease, White.... 335. 3Ss. 40s. Grey 26s. 2SB. 3 06 Tare. ...•, 3Bs. 41s. 42s Foreign Rapeseed. in bond none Free, per last 301. Os. 133'. LEEDS CORN MARKET.- Feb. 13; Wheat, Norfolk and Sullblk, 6 0Ib. - 3 York. and Lincoln. 60th. Barley, Norfolk and :•itittblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans Oats, l'otatoe 25; to 27e. Mli, —eang, For. —d. to--d E g. Foreign, 14:31.6305, to t . o t 1 . r1 : t 3e 1 1.3 . 1. per .ll, w e r s r 1;0 ° 2 Rapeseed, English, 304. to 32' ... L.VERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Fcb. 13 __ „ A. WHEAT, English, White, per 70th. I Is, 6,1 to 12 A r —_--- Red 10 9 11 ' Scotch , Welch, and Manx Irish, White ---- Red Foreign 7i 0 O s 6) 00 11 5, 10 lt ‘0, 6 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 39 4 u Foreign 0 0 0 0 BARLEY, English , M a lti ng, per I mp. quarter 43 0 47 0 Scotch and Irish, per 6011 is. Feeding 5 3 5 6 . fIuANS, English, per I m p er i a l quarter 50 • 54 .. Irish, &c. 44 0 47 0 Foreign 48 0 5 1 g PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 52 0 Foreign 14 0 FLOUR, English, per D 302). 6( 5 00 71 0 Irish 52 0 .&/ OATMEAL, Engli s h and Irish, per 2401bs 32 6 :34 0 48 0 [Now; Coax, ix r 4401 h. w44 0 Rye, per. Imp eria l quarter 51 48 0 0 45 '' 0 MALT, per Imperi a l quarter 7l • a. : P rEt a L Ni vnUloyMß one 0 7 Tt WARD ' S t fi n f impressiveost t N h E t oNrVi stories moral"Fte ent itl e d e " p s l t h Uets o a gß t i‘,F; S OF i' is modern genius has produced. The following o bs i erv ict a u t r io ls i • from the New Monthly, are true in every respect :—" In point °. real and exact observation of life in the various phases and cia g ' e ". treated of, in happy in that vivid, yet su b dued display of passion, which the restraint oil. and easy, y e t sp i r i ted development o f c haracter modern manner s and society exact ; awl, above all, in that to " t , ' ing sympathy w i th all that appertains to the human heart, its nee! sities, its weaknesses its desires, it s d u ti es , i ts d ev i ces . ; —in all these the ta le ceits, its nu merous and anomalous mysteries i ts sell-n e of Sterling' m a y rank with the very best of Mr. Ward's Previous l productions. And i n one respect —a respect too, in which h i s wor are pre-emin en t— Sterling surpaseses them all—we mean 1° I; moral tendency —f or w i thout obtruding a mcral in any instance, at every s t ep i mpresses one so forcibly upon themind and heart of th e reader, that it i s i mposible for him to rise from the perusal o ther wise than a wises and better man." MESSRS. F ECTOR AND BORTHWICK (F rOO l an Evening Paper). —On their way to the head-quarteer: of the Pretender, Messrs: Fector and B ort hwiek about a score of prisoners on their way, under eget.", to Aseoitia ' • some of them belonged to the free e ls of Don Martin Zurbano, the others to the di vi : of the army of the centre. These two gentlemen asks told what occasion they had been made prisoners, and were es, that th ey h a d b een found traversing the country like save / pillaging, ro bbi ng, and maltreating the peasan!s, and the ws , were going to be placed at the disposal of the Minister of the On arriving at. the head-quarters, Mr. Fector inquired of Marquis d e V a ld esp i na w h at h e i ntended doing with the: prisoners. The Miniver gave orders, before his fa , e, to„ t he duct them to the general depot. " But," cried Mrr Fector, t conduct of these men has been atrocious, you ought to fed them." The Minister re f use d . Mr. Fector in vain ft' liel .„d that the prisoners should be treated as they deserved , ‘ - 11 offered to make the demand in writing in order to take I l l s i r or a responsibil . ty from the Marquis; but the latter rernaine",_;t - to and the prisoners were led away. This fact has been relit , '" o f us, according to the recital of Mr. Fector, by a person worthY. credit. We candidly own that we do not credit this story. From an Evening Paper.—[Nor do we.—En. Sun. J A ATTACK THE SOFTEST PLACES FIRST great outbreak of light has taken place in the public mind durw it. ' the last t we l ve months on this subject. All men arc mov ing t° is I don't know a man, except he be interested, who now stands % oh favour of the existing prohibitions. We are not all agreed 'v ow way we should march—we are all agreed that the existing Pre ut to tions ought to be removed—the only dispute is the way we en s g',.„ o begin to produce that effect we all desire. My opinion hta. b ye always always plainly stated—to attack the softest places first is the way to attack the hard ones. That is the reason which has me to go against many men whom I confess I esteem and va' e oiot that has induced me to maintain that we should move upon th e _i ) oo t when we have th e l arge masses o f soc i ety ready to ass ist us, and ,rtio on the p o i n t w h ere we may b e insulated and without ass i s tance cai ;, policy of prudent men is always to take everybody when would never to go against anybody unless you find your principles t ; biic compromised with them. Th a t i s th e means by w hich great P evils are got rid of. Ido not scruple to class this great evil wi th _ 10 . 0 .. most enormous evils ever i n fli c t e d on t hi s coun t r y by rni'g o ment —From Colonel Thompson's Speech at Hull. _ BIRMINGHAM THEATRE.—The celebrated vo r of calist, Braharn i has been engaged by the enterprising nlana_ rao t this Theatre, who, we are glad to find has, si n c e thecomme." owin g of the season, received the reward of his exe rtions by of e r" houses. f °l'd As Mr. Maule, Queen's Counsel of the Og d on Circuit, and M.P. for Carlow, is to succeed Mr. Baron:ro.isoiserioot the Exchequer Bench, it is con fi dently reported that Talfourd is to be promoted to the dignity of Queen's 5erjea!t........... 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Esoq.n, of e Le l e 2 d t s h , t in o st uar a y t D s u n r s h an am , , on G ly eo d r a g o e gh A te lb r em of a rl t e ho C u at eT George Townsend, Prebendary of Durham. Yesterday, at th e Ch urch of St. M ary , Hampton wick, Bartholomew Ch ur c hi ll, Esq , of Twickenham , to Atueae_: youngest d aug h ter of Mr. Alexander Fraser, of Hampton Gr Hampton Court. DIED. On the 9th i ns t , at Leamington, Lieutenant-Colonel Ali of In i ns t., On the 12th inst., at shi The Vineyard, chmartine, Pthre. near Wellingt on, Cat h e rine, rine, r e li c t o f th e l a te William Charlton, Esq., of Ap le Y Cas tle, aged 73. ,Nt I I I to ; cot Joc the t a ' g D u