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ri!41:1 WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TOMORROW. ilorn.rq wyANs's CONVIVIAL ORDINARY ALI on WEDNESDAY, at Six o'Clock, will afford a rich treat to the lovers'of Harmony. Tickets, 3s. each. GRAND HOTEL, PIAZZA, COVENT-GARDEN. Bed and Breakfast, One Guinea per Week. This day is published, price 2s. 6d., ALETTER to the SHAREHOLDERS of the GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY on the FIT NESS of the WIDTH of GUAGE of that Railway for the attainment of a high rate of speed and a maximum of profit. By EDWARD RYLEY. John Weak, Architectural Library, London ; and Strong, 1 - . lll\llON BANK OF LONDON. The DIRECTORS have taken the PREMISES, No. 12, ARGYLL-PLACE (one door from Regent-street), as a! OFFICE 'for. their WEST-END BRANCH, at which Business will Commence on the 25th instant. - W.• W. SCRIMGEOUR, General Manager. No. 8, Moorgate-street, London. NORTH DEVON ELECTION. TH E DAYS of POLLING arc FRIDAY and SATURDAY next. Mr. 'BULLER'S LONDON COMMITTEE sit daily at No. 3, Cleveland Row, Westminster, whet° arrangements for conveyance to the Poll will be made, and any information given and received. EDWARD DIVETT, Chairman. UTIS Majesty the EMPEROR . of AUSTRIA, His Majesty the EMPEROR of RUSSIA, And His .Majesty the KING of PRUSSIA. having AUTHORISED and GUARANTEED several Dis .ributions of Money, which (though they are NO LOT rERIEs, offer a great many possibilities of obtaining LARGE FORTUNES, HEINE BROTHERS at HAMBURG 11, and HEINE BROTHERS at LUBECK, are NOW SELLING SHARES for any of the said DIS TRIBUTIONS of MONEY, at various prices. The Dis tributions contain various portions, from NINE POUNDS TO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS and upwards. Persons desirous to purchase may receive PRE VIOUS to giving any order, the Prospectus and Particulars, upon addressing, WITHOUT DELAY, a line to - HEINE BROTHERS at HANIBURGH. P. S. THE NEXT AUSTRIAN DISTRIBUTION CONTAINS PORTIONS OF 4,0001., 7,5001., and 30,0001. the Admiralty, were neither fairly stated nor capa ble of substantiation. As we have protested from the commencement against making the condition of our Navy a party question—a weapon in the hands of faction to be wielded for factious pur poses—we have no intention whatever to trouble ourselves about the cavils of Whigs and Tories on this score. The real question to be solved by Mi nisters is, not whether the Navy of England is ac tually as powerful now as it was at any previous period, but whether it is so relatively to the growing Navies of other countries ? In the way of ships, men, and materiel, do we bear the same rela tion to the combined naval srength of France, Russia, and the United States, that our greatest Statesmen have prescribed as essential to the main tenance of the true interests of this country ? A naval force, more than adequate to the wants of the country in 1834, might fall far short of the complement required in 1839 ; and to this extent the argument made use of by the Right Hon. Baronet holds good. To assume an extreme case, by way of illustration, the merest tyro must admit that were the fleets of France, Russia, and the United States all destroyed, a single British gun boat in commission would be relatively a greater naval force than the twenty-one sail of the line now forming the proud boast of the Board of Admiralty and its brace of applause-compelling Secretaries. But the great fallacy on all sides, is an overlook ing of the fact that seamen, like muskets or pieces of ordnance, are not to be manufactured at a moment's notice. To make a good seaman is a long and difficult undertaking; ar d, as seamen are the very staple of our power—the keystone of the arch of our greatness, it is of the last importance that we should at all times abound in them. Other nations may be great on land—England can refover be truly powerful but at sea. The grand error, therefore, of recent Governments has been the ne glect of our seamen. They looked to the materiel, when they should have looked to the men—to the supply of spars and sails, instead of the more valuable and more necessary supply of able and well-affected sailors. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENAARDEN. THIS EVENING, MAR 2, Will performed th e N ew Plan In 'Acts, called, RICHELIEU, Oft THE CONSPIRACY, Written by Sir E. tytten Bulwer, Bart. Thu Characters by Mr. Elton, Mr. Ditlkear, Mr. Macready, Mr. Warde, Mr. An dersen, Mr. Vini.-.lg, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Phelps, Mr. G. Ben nett, Mr. Halve, Miss E. Phillips, Mr. Tilbury, Mr. Yar nold, Mr, W. H. Payne, Mr. C. J. Smith, Mr. Bonder, lir. Paulo, Mr. Gough, Mr. Thorne, Mr. Brady, Mr. Bur ,t, Mr. Smith, Mr. Kirke, Mr. Hollingsworth, Mr. Wal o, Mr. Ayliffe, Mr. Andrews, Mr. T. Matthews, Miss n FAueit, Miss Charles, Mesdames Heed, Corder, Lee, Ifathews, Mew, and Morgan. But though Sir ROBERT Pn.m.'s defence of the . administration of the Navy by the Government of • which he was the head, was more plausible than correct or statesmanlike, his attacks upon the pre • sent Board of Admiralty were directed with tact, judgment, and effect. He demonstrated, in the clearest manner, that the Government had been culpably remiss in sending a squadron to Mexico ; although we do not agree in the opinion that even for such a purpose it would have been advisable to diminish by a single ship, our fleet in the Mediterranean. We ought under no circum ' stances to diminish a force requisite to keep in check the aggressive policy of Russia in a quarter where she can most easily—and assuredly would, had she an opportunity—inflict a mortal wound upon the independence of the Porte. Mr. LABOUCHERE's explanation of the intentions of Lord AucKLANDas chief of the Admiralty,and Mr. CHARLEs WOon's vindication of the statements contained in his former speech on the question, added but little to the general interest of the debate. As regarded essentials, both the Honourable Gentle men left the question where they found it, except that Mr. Wool) communicated to the House the satisfactory intelligence that three new ships would be launched this Spring, and that there was no lack of activity in the Dock-yards. Captain PECHELL denounced the system of manning the Navy, while supporting in general terms the Naval administration of the present Government. The Hon. and Gallant Officer was pleased to ridi cule the idea of a Russia❑ invasion—a proof of the wonders we may expect, no less from his prowess than his sagacity, should the country ever happen to require his services in a field more responsible than the floor of the House of Commons. Captain GORDON condemned the recent practice of leaving our own shores unprotected. When a naval force was required to be sent to Lisbon during the Government of Mr. CANNING, it was the boast of that Statesman that. in one week he was able to send a fleet to the Tagus, whereas now it was doubtful whether in so long a period a single man-of-war could be got in readi.: ness for active service. The experience of the last six months proves that if the Hon. and Gallant Member had substituted a month for a week, as the time within which it would be difficult to fit out a ship of the line for sea with a full complement of hands, in any of our great naval ports, he would have been much nearer the mark. As was subsequently stated by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, in support of the system of demon ' stration ships recommended by him while First Lord of the Admiralty, it took no less than three months of the last year to fit out the Ganges; three months have not sufficed for fitting out the Powerful, though under the command of the Gal lant Captain NAPIER ; and the Impregnable, though with the crew of the Malabar entirely at her disposal, has been more than a month in com mission without being able to put to sea. These facts are the best illustrations of the defects in the present system. And yet when we come to in quire the cause of the delay in the fitting out of these ships, we are astonished to find hardly so much as a passing allusion to it in the speeches of Right Honourable and Honourable gentlemen on either side of the House. Most unquestionably neither Lords PALNIERsTON nor JOHN RUSSELL —in attempting to show that our interests were not neglected in any part of the world, but particularly in Mexico--forgot to make even a passing refe rence to the difficulty of obtaining able and efficient crews for the ships destined for the South Ameri can station. With respect to the sound policy of keeping a good squadron in the Mediterranean, we have before stated that we entirely agree in the view of this question taken by the Noble Foreign Secre tary. But why, in order to check the policy of Russia in the Black Sea, should we be so unmindful of her power in the Baltic ? Is she more dangerous if she approach us by way of the Dardanelles than if she were to menace us by passing the Sound ? Does it not look rather farcical to be always apprehensive of the de signs of Russia, in one quarter, and' yet wantonly to expose ourselves—nay, , to court her attacks in another? Approving, as we do, of the po licy of the Government in keeping up a strong squadron in the Mediterranean, as required to check Russian aggression in that quarter, we are truly at a loss to understand upon what principle we leave our own shores exposed to the possibility of invasion by the same unscrupulous power, unless we are hypocrites enough to feign a greater solicitude for the welfare of the subjects of the Sultan MAHMOUD than for that of our British fellow-countrymen I We can surely maintain a few guard-ships on our own coast without being under the necessity of withdrawing tt single frigate from, any foreign station. Valan;luke After which, THE INVINCIBLE. Te-Morrow there will be no performance. On Thursday, Richelieu, with Fra Diavolo. The col. TO CORRESPONDENTS. nication from J. B. G., of Paris, has been received and shall be duly at tended to. =~~ 4 A kt c . "`" , t 1 =41:440 .- 71.: • t: . 5. F LONDON : TUESDAY, MARCH 1!2, 1'339. In'the House of Lords, Lord FurzwiwAm's ninton en the Corn-laws was fixed for the 14th instant, next Toursday. The Bishop of LONDON, who wishes the people to keep Lent like the Papists, and the Sabbath like the Puritans, a , ked Lord MELBOURNE what the Govern ment meant to do touching a Sundaydelivery of letterset the Pokt-olhee, but all that he could get from Lord MELBOURNE was, that the proposition was not under the consideration of the Treasury, and that nothing had been done on the subject, which the Lordly Bishop con sidered not satisfactory. In reply to a question by Lord LYNDHURST, Lord MELBOURNE explained that the capture of Aden, at the entrance of the Red Sea, was caused by an attack having been made by the fortress on an English ship, which led to a negotiation to purchase the fortress ; tf_qms were agreed on, but when the Eng lish came to take possession, more was demanded, upon which the fortress was attacked and captured. It in not usual in private life—what may be the diplomatic rule ne Jinow not—to take a commodity from the owner, be cause he is reluctant to part with it for a price once agreed on, and he demands something more. The do cuments in the case ate to be laid before the House. If we can preserve the spot, it seems likely to facilitate very much the communication by steam between Bom bay and Suez. iLord LYNDH URST move d t h at the %officer of the House of Lords might attend the Court of Queen's IBench with the notes of the evidence taken be fore the New Zealand Committee. It app'ars that ithe evidence was, an application from the Commons, I sent to that House, which ordered it to be printed. 1 Part of the Report was printed by the Times, and against the Times an action was brought for a libel contained in passages extracted from the Report. The defendant pleaded a justification, and requested that . ! the of B;;er of the House of Lords might be allowed to prove in Court that he had only published evidence tak e n before the Lords. A Committee sat first to in quire into the propriety of granting their request, it I being one of privilege, and decided against it. ' Lord LYNDHURST asked the Lords to rescind the resolution of the Committee. The LORD CHANCELLOR, Lords HOLLAND, ELLENBOROUGH t and SHAFTESBURY, supported the Committee. Lnrd BROUGHAM made a good speech in favour of Lord LYNDHURST'S motion, which was finally carried by 31 to 18. This decision was, we think, important. It breaks down another barrier of privilege. It was con tended on the one hand, that it is ridiculous, absurd, aid hypocritical to pretend to regard as sacred, privi leges that are every day violated, which their Lordships afford convenience to violate, and actually pay for the violation; and it was added, if their Lordships allow their speethes to be reported, why should they not allow the evidence taken before their Select Committees to be published, and if published, why not allow the fact, that it is evidence taken before them to be proved by compe tent persons? It was argued on the other side, that tlon-,h their Lordships silently permitted a violation of their privileges by the publication of the debates, they were not to concede a fa% our to an individual on the ground that he had committed a breach of privilege ; that it they sent their officer into a Court of Justice to prove the report of the evidence, they might next be called on to prove the reports of their Lordships' speeches, which would be contrary to the Bill of Rights. This is the second important question of privilege which has grown out of the Commons pub iishing reports, that of Stockdale being the other ; and their Lordships' decision in this case seems likely to d lning the matter to a speedy issue. The LORD CRIES JUSTICE has held that the printer of the House of Commons is answerable for any libels he may print ; • nl, if after the evidence has been proved to be take before the Lords. the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE should hold to his opinion, and the matter be libellous, he will be brought probably into conflict with the Lords as well as the Commons. Lord HOLLAND, indeed, protested strongly against their Lordships being impli cated in anything. the Commons thought proper to print, but as they have allowed their officer to appear in the. Court, they permit that to be questioned as libellous which is a part of their own proceedings. Lord HOLLAND'S suggestion, that the Court should be contented with the best evidence it could get, would avoid the difficulty. His opinion, however, was over• ruled,' and the privileges of the Peers given up. Lord BROUGHAM'S able and amusing speech, is worthy of perusal. The Peers did no other business Notwithstanding the consistent opposhitn of the Hon. Members for Kilken n y and Bridport, the Resolution of the Committee was finally carried without a division. From the spirit manifested by men of all parties during the debate, we my justly claim for Captains CRA UFURP and NAPIER, for the Flag Officer, and if we may be allowed without vanity to include ourselves, the merit of having succeeded in preparing the way for important reforms in the future administration of this De partment of the Public Service. Though Minis ters, for their own credits' sake, will take some time to introduce the changes which have been forced upon them by the nation, yet we will undertake to pledge ourselves that never again during the life time of the present generation will the interests of the Navy be so neglected as they have been since the death of Mr. CANNING. Neverthe less, till the reforms are effected we shall not relax in our efforts to accelera.e their accom plishment. In the Commons, after the presentation of petitions, on the motion for going into a Committee of Supply, Mr. T. DUNCOMBE moved his vote of censure on the Ministers for interfering, in the case of the theatres, with a resolution of the House. He complained of the Nlnisk.rs having treated the House with eontempt, and made a speech full of interest and knowledge on the subject. Lord JOHN RUSSELL explained that her MAJESTY'S Ministers had not thought it decent or proper to interfere with the customary observances of Lent, but that they did propose next year to make an alteration. The Noble Lord's speech was deemed conciliatory, and Mr. DUNCOMBE was advised to Rithdraw his motion, to which he objected, unless he obtained an assurance, that the Bill to be proposed by the Noble Lord had the sanction of the Bishop of Lori n.lN. At length, however, he consented—as was un. derstood, and the motion was withdrawn, and so ends the contest between Mr. BuNN and the Bishop of LONDON, which has been carried on through the Imperial Parliament and the highest officers of Ler Mqjesty's crown. 9: - . rilS 'Motion thin t'vening Mr. VILLIERS bri ngs ,or tht: House to i:.,solve itself into a Committee on the Corn , iaws, to which Mr. CAYLEV, a * , ,t mentioned on the Ist, who almost recommended open rebellion in 1835 - because barley was down to 245, per quarter, is to move an amendment that the Corn-laws have always worked well. Few or no persons have any sanguine hopes of success. For our parts, we must say that we consider the CornAaws, so abominable—they are such an out- Th y , rage aga i nst d ecency an d j ust i ce—so d estructive of postponed debate on the Navy tsti mates nat i onal prosperity, and so inimical to the national was op ene d l ast night by Sir It. PEEL, with a peace, that, bad as we think of the Legislature—. app rov i ng speech, in w hi c h the Rightof 11-.. Hon. Baronet—aft e r selfish as we k now the Members of the House of th e policy - • of the creasing our n a v a l Com mons to be—ignorant as w e are we ll aware force triarin a ratio co rrespon di ng w i th the increase in they are of the effect of their own actions, yet we 444 ine armaments of France a n d R uss i a — i cannot suppo se t h em so fiendish, so utterly lost to wove that t h e c h arges of dangerous reduc. I all honest and honourable thought, as to ersev i y the H naval stren g th of the coun b try, brou g h t I in upholding the Devil's law s . ere At l p east till we vernment bon. Secretary for i learn from the Votes of the House, that they have so 1 'Fite House went into a Committee of supply on the Naval estimates, to which we have elsewhere adverted. Aftenvards the House resumed the adjourned debate on .Nlr. SHAW'S motion concerning the state of Ireland, and a considerable deal more talk took place on that three& bare subject, till at 15 minutes past two o'Clock all parties being heartily sick of further discussion,. .the House was counted out for want of an audiencei So much for Irish crimes, and Irish For grievances. NE 4(.',1(y. ' I N ft s resolved, we will not form such hard thoughts of them, for that implies that they are thoroughly in= sensible to the distinction between right and wrong, and careless if they provoke just rebellion by avowing a hatred of rectitude and a love of crime. On their decision hangs the fate of this country. If they decide one way, we may see the revival of prospe rity, the cessation of hostility between landlords and manufacturers, between capitalists and labourers, possibly the re-installation of authority ; if they de cide the other, starvation, decay, open strife, and a thorough contempt for every thing assuming the name of legislation, will overwhelm the land. A more awful responsibility at this moment hangs on the Commons of England than ever yet weighed on any Representative Assembly. At the meeting of the Delegates at Manchester, Colonel THomPsoN, without much disguise, pointed to open resistance to the law-making land lords, as the consequence of their resisting the just demands of the people : " All parties in the State were in fact now put upon their trial.—( Cheers.) Those who attached great im portance to things as they are, must urge upon their fel lows the necessity of demonstrating that things as thy are were sufficient to aford us justice.—(Cheers.) These who were for cautious and timid change, must show us that such change was competent to putting down the public wrong we were here met to complain of.—( Cheers. ) We must try this string, till it either gained their end or broke ; but if it broke, what next? Why, if it came to that , the Delega , es must, as the soldiers say, sound the disperse, and then fill in again.—( Loud cheers.) No man, after trying what his own politics would do, could quarrel with other men for trying theirs.—( Cheers.) If at last it came to this, it was clear enough in whit road things must go. There must be an approximation between the two parties whose want of union had caused the pre sent failure.—( Loud cheers.) Each party must come down somewhat from its present position and meet in the middle." For our parts, supposing legislative authority to be founded on reason, not on brute force, and not merely on prescription and custom, we see no good grounds which the injured manufac turers, the starving labourers, and the poll-taxed people, will have either to respect or obey the Legislature. It is true that very few, even of those who ad vocate the abolition of the laws, seem exactly to share our views, or to be duly impressed with the importance of the subject. They seem to imagine that a Legislature, unlike individuals, may handle Fitch and riot he defiled ; that it can play with wickedness and catch none of its contagion—that it can commit the enormous crime of plundering large masses of human beings, and starving hun dreds and thousands out of existence, without being guilty of robbery and murder. Such is not our view. The laws of right and wrong are the same for Legislatures as for individuals ; and if it be wrong in a single landlord to take away every day half the loaf of a poor family, and prevent them exchanging the fruits of their labour with another family in a neighbouring village, so that they can not replace the half loaf, and thus to doom the parents to hunger and the children to speedy death from insufficient nourishment, it must he equally a crime, in a combination of landlords, to effect the same ends by means of a Corn-law. If those who, like Mr. STURGE, and the bulk of the Delegates, take a view something like ours, and demand the total repeal of these laws, are, in ever so slight a degree, censurable for the excess and sternness of their justice, those, in our estimation, are infinitely more worthy of blame, who pre tending to he advocates of this great cause, palter with it, and encourage the landlords to go on in their career, by expressing doubts whether to cease from robbery be expedient. Such half-and-half friends who recommend a ten-shilling duty, to be di minithed a shilling a year till it becomes five shil lings, then to remain fixed, admit the sconndvi principle against which we earnestly contend ; AS(I plead, under the pretext of justice, for the continu ance of a little theft. According to them a tax on the people's bread would be expedient by enabling the Government to increase its revenue, and to relieve the people from some onerous taxes. But in the name of humanity and political economy, what tax is or can be so onerous as a tax on bread, which, in the supposition of a fixed duty of 10s., might put a mil lion a year into the coffers of the State, and would, by augmenting the prices of everything grown or borne by the soil, cause perhaps one hundred millions to be taken from some membe-s of the community, and given to others ; and which, en hancing the price of all the necessaries of life, im pedes interchange, cripples industry, and renders the payment of any taxes, however small, an intole rable burden ? With those pretended pleaders for justice, but advocates of wrong, who, in the name of the people, give up their cause to the landlords, we have nothing in common. We demand the • total abolition of the Corn-laws ; and it is for those who contend for those laws, not for those who contend against them, to propose something short of complete success. That the people cannot have what is tight, is what the Ministers, in forgetfulness of their high functions, have un happily said, and they have thereby stimulated the landlords to adhere to the Corn-laws. We do not wholly despair, though the Liberal Ministers have deserted us, even of the present House of Commons, for we are riot Chartists. We remarked at the time—and well we remember— that Sir R. PEEL on one occasion reproached the manufaiturers with wishing to injure the agricul turists. He, therefore, only resists the abolition, from supposing this will be injurious to the farmers. He, in common with all statesmen, embraces the creed that all the interests of a gteat commu nity are inseparably linked together, and he must therefore admit, that to injure the manufactu rers, is also to injure the agriculturists. But there cannot be the shadow of a doubt that to prevent the manufacturers buying in the cheapest market, and selling where they like, is a grevious injury to them. It must be admitted, therefore, unless the whole basis of modern states manship, the community of interest is a lie, that that Corn-laws are injurious to the agriculturists at well as to the manufacturers. Nor is evi dence wanting that such is their effect. We have over and over again proved that to enhance the cost of raising corn here so far above the cost of raising it in the surrounding countries, limits our farmers to our own market, and prevents the possibility of ex porting corn in fruitful years. We have shown that no more certain method can be fallen on when tea, coffee, sugar, rice, sago, fish, and a variety of other things, come into habitual competition with the pro duce of our own soil, of doitig itljtlry to the farmer than to raise the Cost of his production by a law which renders the competition disadvantageous to him, and gives a bounty on t h e consumpt i on O f t h e foreign produce. Snell; too, Seems to have been Mr. flusittBsoN's views towards the close of his life, and from what he said on one of the last occa sions when he spoke of the cl—orn-laits; we hale no doubt that had h lived till now he would have been our side. When the present Act was first pro posed in 1828, he spoke thus of the . Corn-laws of 1815, the then most apprc , v , iri.tettriWire Code:— . " He wonld 1 6 - nly that Hon. Member, that he %%eat& from the bottom of his soul, the- mass of evil and misery, and the destruction of capital, which that law, in the course of its twelve years' operation, had prodneed ? and he did believe that he cottld nialo it distinctly appear; if the moment vvert h pm:Ter one, that the effect of the Bill, at kr as regarded the agriculturist thlemselltA ; had been to keep the-prices Of pralkelotiier, fol' thole twelve years, than they *ould have been it the trade in corn had been entirely open." But the law passed in 1828 has turned ,.. out no better than the law which kept dorin w The c a o s r t n e - d iaw c s a , pit t a h l, en i : et b w t t g a ii. 8 1 i l k i 6 l e injuriousttg vii classes, cau s ing poverty ; dOtitUtron) Alia As : in n we will not s) :4 llsp6Ae iil! ",;e'• record be bef ore us,that t tt ii i t;ornmons of England will per severeeinxagnisruitchi, atinii.vveiii,coxirurnii.oend n s o! A good the gentlemen or Lngia:nd now act so Will the peo ple do, and their decision on the great eitieStiOn will either restore amongst us the de!itit'il6n of justice or establish fraud and violence as the rules of out lives ; Awful, we repeat, is the responsibility which now rests on the Commons' House of Parlisinoti The Bishop of LONDON seems to be utterly nib conscious of the opinion which the public have formed of him. He goes on night after night in the House of Lords, as if he laboured under the delusion that he gets credit, either in the House or out of it, for sincerity in his fuss-making about religion, whereas all the world knows that CHARLES JAMES is the whitest of the " whited sepulchres" that adorn our Apostolical Establishment. The Right Reverend Father is not a bigot —far from it. He is quite as. far from being a zealot—he is totally destitute of the essen tial, and, to a certain degree, redeeming quality of both these characters. If, then, we are asked what he really is, we should say he is something between tied His First Champagne, was produced here last night. Th;s ',Wee *as tirWii • Allt ,atqed, 8t .1.116 Strand Theatre some ve years since, but the Theatre was inter , dieted by the then Lord Chamberlain (the Duke of Devonshire), on ite fifth representation.. The plot is simple. CraVen (Mr. koihY) is tetiiithed to Mis%; BTz grove (Miss Mordaunt), who loves a Captain Smith (Mr. Wigan). Craven is invited to the hotise of the lady's, uncle; Mr. Morton (Mr. Brdoks),. and , being ",paitictilirlY titilitl;" ei - iNte the services of one dickey in k Watt ( Mr. Wrench), late his valet, whom he, Craven, takes with him as the Hon. A ------- s''' - '' " , vat's, vrou ID tV S rPOqih , kh's. ioAct.p. : votutlipio ,f Q i. hi s ~introducer. . rf:, T liy o 'effect tlii. the "suppositious awaits persitade§ Cl'aiib - i to refreshed,dr ga ii ce i, makes aChampagneetsali for the fi o r i st e tr r e a 4 he gets des perate lore ,to the ColiAin 'ti.f . the lady* lie was to .heVe married ; the piece ends by his marrying the latter i l ,adY, assigni:T hik previously intended to her 'right='right=-ul lover, Captain smith, and by eiterybddY fdrgetting and f orig iVi4. The plebe atioUnds iii piths ne* and I.31:01 - ; good, bad, and indifferent. The last scene but one is what is ~ • 1 • • .., ..•••reo a , sc,t one. 01 ti 1a ~,. i 4 pats at one nr - flour-110,,r window, •C‘raven n r, a;totlP9s; e.nd , W.tinch ot4 tt, lie'aci up through the hole of the coal tehnical -- -- - . li Ni at h re al , beilar. Wrench was most effective, and made all hisjokes tell; Brooks played the hen-Peeked httsband admirably; and Miss Jane Mordtunt looked lovely as the 14roiOd. The far ce was received throughtnit With iihorlie oNughtet.; feeding in d h e T a eV% 00 hounds A StiOit'iiNG dow. T c I ' of the horn which met at Ford-common on Monday last, and found a fox somewhere in that neighbourhood, which after a severe run was fortunate enoug-h to bale all his foes amongst the complicated mazes of Tindal House Wood. As the hunt ing party went galloping along by the village of Etal, a white COW, belon g to Mr. Smith, of Etal Mill, a court-yard with two or three others, on hearing the hl rat some of the stray dogs which had been left out of the chase, became the whipper-in was sounding to warn in , so elated, that she commenced scampering in good earnest, and c l eared the gate of the yard in g all ant style, She next went boldly at another gate which opposed her, but mis s i ng h er footing she alighted on it with her breast, and smash e d i t to the ground. The gate that she leaped over successfully was u p wards of five feet two inches ._ Berwick Advertiser. I a Pharisee and a Sadducee, or rather, a henna phroditic mixture of the two.. As to orthodoxy, or any other doxy, he cares not one straw about it, further than it may be a part of the sacerdotal system which, for reasons of his own, he upholds with all his talents, and they afe not small. Let people only conform externally to the usages of the State religion—let them go to Church every Sunday—!et them be particularly careful to have a splendidly-bound prayer-book, conspicuously paraded by a livery servant on such occasions—let them elongate their faces on Wednes days and Fridays during Lent—let them carefully attend to these and similar observances, and the " weightier matters of the law" may shift for them selves. Justice, mercy, and charity, are to be prac tised only according to the canons; if any one in the practice of these virtues, swerve from the regulations therein made and provided, woe to such unhappy wight, if he happen to be under the spiritual authority of CHARLES JAMES. It matters not whether his name be BAPTIST NOEL, or JOHN THE BAPTIST, he would fall equally under condemnation when brought before the judgment -seat of the Protestant Cardinal. It will be observed, from our Parliamentary report, that this officious personage made him self busy last night about the delivery of letters in London on Sunday, making a memorial, pre sented by a number of attornevs against such deli very, a peg to hang his questions on. The attor neys are well known to be the most religious mem bers of the community, and this religious Pe late affected to be amazed that their representation, ex pressing as it did, a pious horror of the contem plated desecration of the first day of the week, by assimilating its observanc e in London to that which universally obtains in all other parts of England, Ireland, and Scotland, had not been answered, or even so much as acknowledged! Lord MELBOURNE was most provokingly costive, as to the intentions of Government. The Bishop tried hard to entrap the Premier into a specific promise ; but all that he could get was the contemptuous answer—that the Memorial had not yet been submitted to the Treasury. Madrid Journals of the 3d. inst., have reached us, with accounts from Bayonne of the 6th. ESPARTERO instead of turning his arms against the enemy, was en gaged in plundering the miserable inhabitants of Pam peluna. Great discord reigned in the Carlist camp. The whole of the Paris Journals of Sundry have been received this morning. No apparent progress has been made towards the construction of the new Ca binet. The KING'S object, is evidently to gain time.. Were the Be!gian question disposed of, the Oppo. ition would soon find the doors of the chateau thrown (Ten to them. Nor will the delay give any personal uneasiluss to M. THIERS, whatever impatience he may affect. H. will be as much rejoiced as the KING to find himself rid of a busincs only made use of as a popular step ping -stone to office. The remembrances of his former political tergiversations are too fresh to allow him at the outset to hazard the violation of a pledge ; and yet it is no secret to his friends that M. TRIERS would not advise the firsng of a shot., to prevent what it served his purpose to denounce as the " dismemberment of Bel gium." But of the final resignation of MOLE and his colleagues all doubt is removed by the fact that they were to quit their official residences on Monday. The following document from the French papers is given for the information of our commercial readers : Letter addressed by the Minister of Commerce to the Commercial Chamber of Havre:— " Paris, March S. " Gentlemen,---You are aware that in order to enjoy the advantage of the national treatment stipulated in the convention of 1826, the captlins of French vessels taking in cargoes of coals in England, for importation into France, are obliged to bird themselves and to give bail to furnish, within six months, the certificate of an English Consul, declaring that the vessel had landed its cargo in France. " Hitherto that obligation was drawn up on a sheet of stamped paper of the value of ss. ; it was necessary, be sides, to allow a commission to the merchant giving security, and to pay Ilf. 40c. for the certificate of the Consul. " The Government of the King has remonstrated against it, and the Administration has decided— " That instead of the penalty now attached to the non presentation of the certificate, and which amounts is all cases to 501., the Custom-house officer shall hereafter re qaire a guarantee only for the actual amount of the duty, and that it must be satisfied with the obligation of the captain and master of the exporting vessel, without bail, which will put an end to the difficulties experienced by the interested parties in procuring bail in a foreign country. "2. That the stamp duty of ss. shall be reimbursed by the Custom-office. "3. That the English Consuls shall be ordered not to demand any fee for the certificate of landing. " I invite you to commffhicate this intelligence to the merchants of your city whom it may interest. —(Commerce.) " MARTIN DU NORD." By letters from Berlin of the 22d ult., we find it announced that the Prussian Government was nego tiating for a loan of six millions of dollars. Advices ' from the same capital of the sth inst. state that a Re publican conspiracy had been discovered in Posen, in consequence of which, numerous arrests have taken place. By accounts from Hanover of the sth inst., we are informed that the KING was taken so ill on the previous Sunday at church, as 'to be obliged to retire before Divine Service was concluded. As no bulletins were published, it was supposed that the attack was merely momentary. HAMBURG. BORSEN HALLE, Mitten g. Bills. Montl. Austrian Metallques, 5 per cent. Div° ditto 3 per cent. — Ditto ditto 2g per cent Lotto Bank Shares - , ~,,, ~,,,........1483 Anglo-Russian Loan ION 101% Russian 5 per cents. Metal. Paper Inscription, 6 per cent lf 4 .... Russian Inscription, Hope and Co., 9d and 4th Series • 4 ; ..., •l' '6.4 95 iii 98 Ditto, Certificates Portuguese Regency Bonds, 5 per cent — Ditto, 3 per cent. — Dutch 2 per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents 99N 994 Polish Bonds, 3 per cents. New Tickets 1574 1564., Anglo-Danith Loan, 3 per centa. ii .. ?••l66e ..... • 71 71% Norwegian Loan of IW4, 4 Oci cetits. ...... Spanish, in piastres, 3 per Cents — Cortes Loan, 5 per Cen' — Cheek 4 per cents. 1633, guaranteed by France EXCHANGES ON LONDON. Hammitt°, MARCH 8.-13 5% ; two months, 13 4%. STOCKHOLM, MARCH I.—Two months, 12 2. Baimin, MARCH s.—Three months, 6. 25 , f, ST. PZTERSSU RGH , Fei . P6.—Three montht4 11 11.31 —llcinibiifg Papers. Mar,::.h 8, PRUSSIAN FUNDL—Banin, Mancit 5. 8i3% lls, Money. St. Schuld. Sch., 4 p er cent . lO 102 , Prussian English Loan, 1830, 4 per cent 1021/, 101 i Xxchange on London, three months 6 9 6% —Pros:kin State Gazette. March 5. By the Iberia steamer, which arrived. at Falmouth on Sunday, from the Tagus, We have received Lisbon Papers — of the sth instant. Their contents are of no political or commercial interest. Money was ex ceedingly scarce=- -- no novelty iti Portugal t and the southern proVinces were overrun with bandits—an equally common-place occurrence. No question of importance occupied the attention of the Chambers. THE ADMIRALTir.--..We have the Worst possi ble otliniod thiq brAnbh et the palic stirvice. M . though not competent to sit in judgment on naval affairs, we have heard from sufficiently informed persons of credi bility, enough to convince us of " its incompetency." We are also 4vrar9 of .sattiq i'etY discreditable cases of favour and of leai/ing old officers, who have seen active ser vicetwenty years and more, on Lieutenant's pay. We have, therefore, no hesitation in joining in the very gervr4l commendation of the spirited conduct of Captain Berkeley. His gxpulsiont so„discrklitab.leJo 014 his own true sense of duty, and the manly independence with which he acted up to it.—Chelicnham Free Press, ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—A new farce, enti- SPORTING IN TELLIGEN CE. TATTERSALL'S, MARCH 11 As the largeness of ottr subjoined list is calculated to en courage a belief that a good deal of business was trans acted, it may be as well to state at once that, notwithstand ing the room was fully attended, and that a consider.ible number of bets Wert: made, the transactions, on the whole, were shy both in amount and itripoftance. In the first part of the afternoon 10 to 1 was betted three or four times about the first favourite ; after that half a point less was taken, but at the close 10 to 1 was egain laid currently. Flam-: beau was supported at 15 to 1, and the Dey at a point more, the odds in the latter case being afterwards offered. Krem lin and Tros closed at 20 to 1 each, the former with backers. Erin go Bragh and Meunier were nominally at la , t Thurs day's prices, but their friends, if they still have any, were non eat. Zimmerman was hacked at 40, 35, and 30 to I, the middle price being the final one,. as near as we could ascertain. Epidaurus, /Ether, Accelerator, Cammelino, and two or three others were backed without experienci g any changes of position. Closing prices :- 10 to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Brother toßay Middleton—taken 15 to 1 agst Duke of Rutland's Flambeau 16 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's Dey of Algiers--taken and off. 20 to 1 a -at Lord Albemarle's 'fros 20 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Kremlin—talon 25 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Meunier 25 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Erin-go-Bragh 25 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's The Lord Mayor to 1 agst Lord Jersey's Ilderim—taken and offered 30 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Epidaurus—taken 35 to 1 agst Duke of Grafton's 2Ether—taken 35 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Val ,incourt 40 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Accelerator—tap en 40 to 1 agst Mr. Ridsdale's Bloomsbury—taken 40 to 1 agst Mr. Dixon's Cammellino 45 t o 1 agst Mr. Wreford's Wapiti—taken 2000 to 40 agst Mr. Clark's Dragsman—taken and offered 1000 to 12 agst Cap►ain Williamson's Melbourne—taken 1000 to 10 agst Mr. Bowes ' s King of Kelton—taken 1000 to 1 agst Mr. Coekes's Lady-day--taken 1000 to 5 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Oronooko 5 to 1 ags' Scott's lot. 16 to 2 agst Lord Jersey', lot, and 8 to 1 agst John Day's lot—taken in one bet. 14 to 1 agst Bulwark and Westonian—taken 25 to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's lot—taken 35, ?3, and finally, 30 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's lot—taken 16 to I each agst Flambeau, Dey of A'giers, and Kremlin, in one bet. 600 to 500 on Zimmerman and Erin-go-Bragh agst Tros—taken 500 on Brother to Bay Middleton, Tros, and Kremlin, agst Flambeau, and Dey of Algiers, the same bet repeated, the Lord Mayor being substituted for Tros. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(TtIIS DAY.) DEAL, MARCH 11.—Wind E. S.E., fresh breezes.—Sailed the Thomas, Marquis, for Madras ,&c. Came down down the River and proceeded the Gladiator, for New York ; Renown, Gordon, for Sydney ; and I 'ourier, Smith, for Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 11,—Wind S. E., fresh breezes.— Arrived the Glenarm, Gruber, from Manilla—sailed on the 11th of Sept. ; and Atlas, Schmidt. . - PLYMOUTH, MCRCH 10.—Wind E. S. E. —Arrived the Jinn, Allan, from Bordeaux ; Auline, Olive, from Bordeaux ; Asia, Freeman, from London ; and Adelaide (steamer), ditto. FALMOUTH, MA RCH 10. —Wind E. S. E., fresh breezes. Arrived theDiadem,Yale, from Port-au-Prince; James Cooper, Gibraltar—left 2d inst., Cadiz 3d, Lisbon sth, Oporto 6th, and Vigo 7th ; Joseph Cats, from Antwerp, with loss of topm fists ; Liverpool (steamer) Lewis, from London. Sailed Iberia. (steamer), Cooper, London. LIVERPOOL, MARCH 11.—Wind S., fresh.— Arrived the St. Mark, Varmar, from Savannah ; Reindeer, King. Leg horn ' ' Active, Russell, Lisbon • Guerge, Irving, Bordeaux. Sailed the Caledonia, Manson, for llavannah ; St. Lawrence, New Orleans ; St. James, Howe, ditto ; Mozart, Welch, ditto ; Henry Bliss, ditto ; Mantura, Weeks, Terceira ; Shannon, Carpenter, Zante. Off port, the Wilberforce, form Alaranham ; Elizabeth Bruce Mobile ; Albion, St. John's, New Bru nsw i c k ; Hendrika Arendina, Rotterdam. CREEK, Mexclill.—Arrived the Charles Carter, Broad, from Odessa ; Saracen, Pucky, Tangiers. RAMSGATE, MARCH 11.—Wind S.S.E. moderate.—Sailed the Sisters, Rose, for Shi e ld s; Elizabeth, gpring, Stockholm. YARMOUTH, MARCH 11.—Wind S.—Arrived the Schaff ney, from Newstadt. Sailed the Hope, Henry, for Antwerp ; Jane, Armstrong, Rotterdam. SLIGO, MARCH 9.—Arrived the Dunrobin, Sinclair, from Liverpool ; Reliance, Smith, ditto; Robert Burns, Brown, Bangor, BRISTOL, MARCH 11. —Arrived the Bess, Chapman, .morn St. Michael's; Eugene, Howe, Bayonne; Vigilant, Bussoch, Nates ; Juno, ditto. _ _ SOUTHAMPTON, Mancif 11. Arrived the Magdalene, Bowen, from Limerick ; Marritta, Make, Nantes ; Bonne Aurelie, David, ditto ; Emma Roselle, ditto. POOLE, Mancn 11.—Arrived the Jean Marie, Rochelle, from Bourdeaux. ' DARTMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Arrived the Rhoda, Mathews, from Mogalore. HOLYHEAD, MA RCH 10.—Arrrived the Trader (No. 1,063. ) KINGROAD, MARCH 11.—Arrived the Mentor, Bordeaux. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 9.—Arrived the Falcon, White, from Rotterdam : and Friendship, Harold, Flinsburg. HULL, Ala sof 11.—Wind S.S.E. fresh.—Arrived the Ebenezor, Molter, from Moscow ; Treide, Benfoldt, Lubeck ; Dependent, Thomas, Emden ; Amelon, Dram ; and Agnes, Helegus, ditto. Sailed the Lord Nelson, for St. Michael's. CORK, MARCH 9.—Arrived the Cambrian packet, White, from Odessa; Eliza, Billing, Ancona; Barbara, Catherine, Scott, Antwerp. DROGHEDA, MA RCH 4.—Arrived the Mary, Wells, London. HULL, MARCH 11.—The Betsy Kerr, Scourfield, fi om Shields for Kiel, has put in here leaky, and with loss of boats and of masts, &c., has been towed into Grimsby. LLANELLY, MA RCH ]o.—The Charles, Roberts, to Bristol, in coming into this port, grounded on the South Bknk, but was got off with little damage. GIBRALTAR, MA RCH I.—Tiie Fortina, Mondhack, from Messina to Vaarlingen, put into this port, 23d ult., with mast sprung, and loss of bowsprit, jibboom, and two yards and mizen boom, and has discharged part of her cargo from the main hatchway. MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 11.—The demand ' for Cotton to-day has been to a fair extent, and former prices have been obtained. The sale is 4to 5,000 bags, chiefly of American descriptions. The arrivals this morning are the French mail, and mails from Lisbon and Gibraltar, by the Iberia, sailed from the latter port March 2d, Cadiz 3d, Lisbon sth, Oporto 6th, and Vigo 7th. W.J have received Gibraltar Chronicles to ALirch 2, from which we extract the following : " Vessels from the Canary Islands are henceforth to be admitted to free pratique on the coast of Catalonia, all symptoms of the yellow fever having disappeared from Palma, where that malady had broken out." . _ The above Papers, as usual, are anticipated by the F ren ch Journals, in the information from the seat of war in Spain: Vi rd Batik arrivals this morning from Lisbon and Bahia, but the inteliigenet they bring is not of much im port. Tilos debate of last night chiefly occupies the atten tion of the public. Consols opened this m orn i n g at 1 1:- .: leaving-off prices of r ; !Money . ; yesterday, 03i for th e A ccount ; and 92-1- 93 0 Exchequer Bills, 04 66 ; India Bonds, 65 67 ; Bank Stock, shut ; India Stock, 2.56 257. In the Foreign Market the only business doing at pre sent is in Spanish Active, which is rather lower than it closed at yesterday, and receded from 20/ i, to 201 i ; Portuguese 341 35 ; Three per Cents 2li 22 ; Belgian 1011 1 ; Bratilian 791 804; Script If prem. ; Colombian 201 ; Mexican 231 24 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 551 1 ; Five per Cents 104 I. The Great Western Steamer still remains due. We have no doubt that her arrival is prevented by the prevail ing strong easterly winds. She is very anxiously looked for by'the American merchants. Consols improvnd gSi to i for the Account. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock —l India Stock - 3 per Cent. Red. ..... ......... I Ditto Bonds 65 67 pm 3 per Cent. Cons. l3 "T 5 3 , ,fi 3 j South Sea Stook 3 '..i. per Cent — i Old Annuities Ditto Red. — New Ditto New 3 per Cent looi %% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent. Bank Long Annuities toexplre Ditto 500 ... 63 65 pm. Jan. 5, IMO —...l Ditto Small 63 65 pm. Oct. 10, 1151 — 1 Ditto Commercial — pm. Jan. 5, 1860 . — 1 Ditto Advertised ...... pm Jan. .5; 1180 . • . ~.. I tank Stock for Account ... 203 April 5, 1310 . - • ...,.. I India Stock for Account ... 256 yi Jan. 5. 1570 — ' Corisols for Account ...... .. x 314, PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC IC, Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds lB Belgian Bonds Ditto Account Brazilian Bonds Ditto Account - l iii Mi Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per Cent. .........2 I % , , , i, Ditto AcedUtit .., .n. . . Chilian Bonds , ..,- I Prussian Bands D tto Account Colinnloian Bonds —! Ditto Account... ......... ... Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 1824 — ! Spanish Bonds Ditto Account Danish Bends - • - - , Ditto Bonds, 1134 2OX% Ditto Account Greek Bonds Ditto Bonds, 1625 • .... .., I --.-- 4 per cent....... —f. —c. Ditto ,Ictitiiit . - • • - 5 per cent. Mexican ponds, 5 per Cent. - ,- -1 --_mss Ekchange Ditto Account —l Dutch, Mii per tent ....... 55 1 4 % Ditto, 6 per Cent , Ditto Account ,,, Ditto Account Neapolitan - Ditto Aec0unt........ ... ... HALF-PAST ONE. NVe have do further arrivals, consequently a great dull ness Preiittlis in ilie City in respect to intelligence; the speculators, both in the British atid Foreign refunds, are anxious to ascertain the composition of the near Prencli Ministry, which, no doubt, will have some effect on the market. gir Robert Peel's speech, in the House of Corn-. mons last night, is read with much attention, particularly b y tiw,L6 ri e r t ,9m= who are intereated in commercial affairs with Meti63; The British Funds Li!-Fe rather improved since the morning, !IP(1111 . y be quoted at preet:t ti3i. 4 for the Ac count, Money 93k ; ,Exchequer P l O 5 03 65 ; ail ild Bonds 15 d/ B4ritt Stnck shut; also India. Spanish Actibe at 901¢; Portuguese also • 141 3S; Belgian Brazilian 791 t.Jlltttirtioin 20. ; 11 , 1exi6an 29i 24; Duteh.Two-and-a- alf per Ceuta. i 5 4. i; !ire Very little biAinesi doing ifs either of the Market.s. Money is more easy for good commercial bals. CLOSING PRICES. Vitt - fist; PurDs. .• Wink MGM' , ••• pOr cont. fle.4,- • i t:;• . ; c; . ihy2r Cent. `.1.00 ;.4 per Cent. Red 101% New per Cent 100% Ncw 5 per Cent Long Annuities to expire Jan. 180 I • •• " Jan. 1800 ..... rottEta 1 India Stack i;;: , ,tp _BOricid„.i;„ . :•: • - • . 47 Ditto N,.: i'!" "M , Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2%(.1....05 iiiii Ditto 50 0 1 65 pm Ditto 5001 65 ;an. Bank Stock for Opg ‘ - o,i India Stock for Opg '2.56% Consols for Att. .... 93% tit FEIRDB. Portuguese Bonds, sper ceht. 74 4 Ditto. New Ditto .., ' 44% Prussian, 5 per cent Russian Bonds, 5 per cent, — Ditto, Metallic...,. Spanish, 5 per cent 20% ,Ditto, Consolidated French, 5 per cent. —f —c. Exchange f —c. French, 3 per cen' f. —c. Dutch, t 2.% per cent. `s% Ditto, 5 per cent. 'OA kRES, Asturian, 5 per cent Belgian, 5 per cent , 101 Brazilian Bonds . BO Buenos Ayrus, 6 per Cent.,, Chilian, 6 per cent , Colomb,an, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 29 Li Danish, 3 per cent ;6 Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct — Mexican, 5 per cent — Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 — Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent , Sit Hull and Selby London and Brighton Raiivel London and Birmingham BA! Ditto Quarter Shares . London and Southampton I+ a Manchester and Birmingham Ditto ditto South Eastern and Dover 15 ilway 168 Away 4B ltailway :xtenslon 5 11.4 COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of Sussex visited her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. Viscount Melbourne hid an audience yesterday of the (been. The Marquis of Headfort, Earl of Surrey, Earl of Ux bridge, and Viscount Melbourne joined the Royal dinner party at the Palace last evet.ing. The Duke of Sussex visited the Duchess of Cambridge yesterday at Cambridge House. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge honoured the Marquis and Marchionegs of Ailesbury with their company at dinner yesterday at their residence in Grosvenor-square. A Deputation from the British American Land Coin pany, consisting of Mr. G. R. Robinson, Governor ; Mr. Nathaniel Gould, Deputy-Governor; Messrs. Alexander Gillespie, jun., lihn Shuter, Wm. P. Craufurd, and Mr. H. P. Bruyeres, Secretary, had an interview with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday, at the Colonial Office. A Deputation from the City of London had an inter view with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Hume Office. The Deputation consisted of the Lord Mayor, Sir Matthew Wood, M. P. ; Mr. George Grote, M. P. ; Mr. J. Pattison, M. P. ; Mr. W. Crawford, M. P. ; Mr. John Humphrey, Sir James Duke, Alderman Venabl?s, Alderman Farebrother, Sir Peter Laurie, Alderman MAg nay, the Recorder, the Remembrancer, Messrs. R. L. Jones, J.ihn Brown, Stacey, Corney, and Stevens. Captain Conroy, if the Cold,tream Guards, is appointed to the Staff of the Lord Lieutenant of Iretaud. A Deputation from the Cape of Good Hope Slide Society bad an interview with the Mirquii of Nomura)) , yesterday, at the Colonial Office, on the subject of Part Natal. The De p utation included Mr. Abraham ifirra. daile, Chairman, Me-srs. Alexander lt , bert Sinclair, John Robert Thomson, Henry Maynard, Laurence Twentymao, John Bagahaw, and Mr. James Su , herla.id, Secretary The Chancellor of the Exchequ.sr left town on Satur day evening for Grundisburg Hall, Norfolk. A Deputation of the Aust,alian Agricultural Company, including Mr. Smith, the Governor ; Mr. J. S. Bro,wn rigg, M P., Deputy-Governor; Mr. Hart Davis, Mr. J. Wm. Buckle, Mr. John G. Ravenshaw, Mr. Stewart Majoribanks, Hon. T. T. L. Melville, Mr. Wm. Brown, Mr. Thomas Tooke, Mr. Wm Crawford, M.P., and Mr. T. Ebsworth, Secretary, had au interview with the Mar quis of Normanby, at the Colonial Office, yesterday. The Belgian Minister, and Mr. John M•Neill, h r Ma jesty's Minister to Persia, transacted business yesterday at the Foreign Office. Lord Fitzroy Somerset and Colonel Rowan had inter views with Lord John Russell yesterday at the Home Office. Major Michell, Surveyor-General of the Cape, Mr. Colquhoun, Captain Edward Smith, R. N., Sir Duncan M•Dougall, Mr. O'Brien, Mr. Langdale, Mr. F. Beding feld, Rev. J. W. Cunningham, Mr. Blount, and Mr. NV. Smith, had interviews with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday. YAR3IOIITH-VIONDAY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) This day application was made to the Mayor, Simon Cobh. Esq , when in the Jnstice-room, for leave to allow the Chartists to lecture in the Town-hall of this borough. His WORSHIP—DO Sou personally know the persons whom you wish to be allowed the use of the Town-hall ? Applicants—No, we do not. His WORSHIP—WiII you undertake to assure me and my brother Magistrates, the persons for whom you apply for leave to lecture will not advise the people to arm, and to have recourse to physical force ? Applicants—No, we cannot assure you anything of the sort. MAYOR—Then I can readily assure you the Town-hall shall not be at your service. The applicants then withdrew. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.— WORCESTBR, MIRO/ 7. The Commission wig opened yesterday by Mr. Justice PATTESON and Mr. Justice ERSKINE. There were nineteen causes on the list, none of them possessing any great public interest. In the calendar were forty-three county, and eleven city prisoners. Among these are two prsons ac cused of murder—John Rexe, accused of the murder of Joshua llollier ; and Maria Webster, of child murder. The only case of any importance tried to day was the following : Joseph Wright, John Evans, Joseph Round, and Jo seph Smith. were indicted for a burglary in the house of Joseph Histon, on the 3d of November. at Dudley. After evidence had been heard, the Jury found Joseph Wright and Joseph Smith guilty, and acquitted the other two.—Sentence, Transportation for life. FATAL EFFECTS OF GAMBLING.—An in quest was held last week at the Queen's Head, Acton street, Gray's-inn-road, before Mr. Wakley, on the body of George Chapman, aged 32, a footman, lately residing at 11, King. street, Grosvenor-square. A police-constable found deceased on Saturday forenoon last in Gray's-inn road. He was vomiting at the time, and his lips were covered with frothy saliva. He was taken to Mr. M‘Don nell's, a surgeon, in whose shop he almost immediately expired. A letter, addressed to his wife, was found on deceased's person, in which he stated his determination to destroy himself, and said that the last shilling she gave him would be spent in the purchase of the fatal draught. Thos. Thorpe, of 43, Mecklenburg-square, said deceased was his brother-in-law, and that he had latterly appeared very unhappy, which witness attributed to deceased's bad con duct, and to his having lost all his money by gambling. Verdict—That deceased took poison whilst in a state of nsanity. On Monday last an accident of a very frightful nature occurred to a girl, seven year of age. named Hayes, at a quarry, near Cabbage hall, belonging to Mr. Christo pher Rawdon. It appears that she had been amusing herself by running upon a piece of square timber, which reached close to the edge of the stone quarry, and, having lost her footing, she was precipitated into the abyss below. On examination, it was found that her head was literally bruised to a jelly, and a portion of the brain protruded from a large opening, immediately above the right ear; notwithstanding the apparent hopelessness of the case, the little sufferer is still living.—Liverpool Chronicle. THE CHALLENGER 07 THE WORLD" IN TROUBLE.—On Thursday last, a person known here as Jem Bailey, a pugilist, and who was ready to challenge the whole world in feats of prowess, was brought before Captain Money and N. Palmer, Esqrs., at the Sword Room, and charged with an assault on Mrs. Walkley. The Magistrates said they should sentence him to pay a fine of 20s. and costs, which were 10s. more, or in default of payment to a month's imprisonment. He said he would sooner go to prison than pay it ; but son altered his mind, and sent one of the officers to a friend's for the money, but who refused to send it, and not being quite so ready to meet the wishes of the Magistrates as he expected, was re tained in custody. Bailey boasts of having beaten almost the great fighters in the kingdom, and has offered to -- - to walk 1,440 yards, run 1,440 do., push a back if -an yards, wheel a barrow 1.440 yard, pair of gig wheels ' ward 720 yards in an hour hop 720 yards, and walk bet... • and he challenges to wrestle with any man for 25/ or 50i., 1 that the to fight all the world. He appeared surprise. . Magistrates thought " the sooner such a man was out .. the city the better."—Norfolk Chronicle. THE LATE CASE OF STABBING AT Sorritardreoe.—Sir John Milbank, Bart., was tried at Winchester last week on a charge of having maliciously stabbed Mr. George Powell, at a ball held in Southamp ton, under circumstances which were fully detailed at the time of the occurrence, The jury without hesitation ac quitted the accused. Mr. Maries, of Barford, has a ewe which has yeaned twenty-nine lambs at nine times. She produced them as follows':—Four times, four each—four times, three each—and but one only once. One day last week she yeaned four, and on the same day a theave of the same ewe produced three. The mother of the twenty-nine has hitherto reared all her young.— Warwick Advertiser. Kotchetovsky-Aotchlovy-Doory is given by a re cent traveller as " the lovely little Russian name" of a village. THE WEATHER —THE PARKS.—The frost, which set in on Tuesday night last, still continues, but with abated severity. On Sunday morning many persons ventured on the ice on the round pond and long water in Kensington-gardens, the Serpentine, in Hyde Park, and the ornamental waters in the Regent's and St. James's Parks, but fortunately, owing to the attendance of the ice men belonging to the Royal Humane Society, although several persons became immersed, no accident of a serious nature occurred. After eleven o'clock the influence of the sun had operated so strongly on the ice as to render it quite unsafe for persons to venture on it. Towards even ing, however, it again froze, and yesterday morning a con siderable number of persons skated and slid thereon. In the Regent's Park three persons became immersed, but were happily extricated. In St James's Park a boy broke through the ice, but was instantly extricated by Mr. Wil. son, linendraper, of Tothill street, Westminster, without sustaining any injury beyond a ducking. About three o'clock in the afternoon a strong breeze from the east set in, which soon broke up the ice on the Serpentine, which had been rendered weak by the action of the sun. The drive during the afternoon was very nearly deserted. THE SUBLIME.—The Sherborne Mercury, in describing a ball which took place last week in Dorsetshire, says—' Dancing was kept up with great spirit until 5.1 doffed his nightcap and squinted through the sky!" The Countess of Alhertsdorf, late Miss Graham, who a few months ago publish:•d an interesting pamphlit on the mysterious history of G, spard Hauser, is said, in a fetter from Munich, to be preparing another for the press, •a will expose some highly important fa 4 ts, and give a '-every of the perpetrators of his atrocious if.ssenger. whit:. 'Attu to this OF A LEOPARD. the Jun, em. Hos- ttiOdef Clliunani . . DEATii iftOM 'arc. 13171rx, Last eVening Mr. .aak„i, th 6 ._Cirafte patteOed on Friday last, re-assembled at the London _. pita!, for the Of further prosecuting their inquiey tout,::!ng the death of Haynes, the trainer of the animals, who, it will be recollected. died from the cff et of' the bite of a leopard, at p esent exhibiting in the etiltection wi'l'd bffa.t!ts at the St. James's Tlyeatre. At the conch./ sion or the eiYiVeilce the Coroner observed, that so f.o. as respected the present unfOrafnate accident, the act of the deceased in going into the den was perWctly voluntary and of his own tree will. The case would be very different had he been forced into it by any person. or compelled fu enter it by his master. In his (the Coroner's) opinion the case did not amount to anything beyond mere accident. The Jury were of a similar opinion, and returned a verdict accordingly. TOULON, MARCH s.—The packet from the Levant brilvs the following - news from Smyrna, dated February 20 :—The packet from Constantinople announces that the Capitan Pasha had been for some days in the Dardanelles, where he left two engineers, who had received orders to place the port in a good state of defence. On his return to Constantinople the Capitan Pasha will inspect all the fortifications of the coast, and will leave instructions respecting the works to be executed. The news from Constantinople was uninteresting, but the preparationq or the armament of the fleet were proceeding with activity. MUNE Y MARKET and CITY POST.—The Committee of the Stock Exchange have been engaged since Friday last in the consideration of an appeal very properly made to them on the part of the job bers. It seems rbat one of the influential brokers came into the market on that day and purchaicd, fur the opening Three-and-a- Half per Cent. Reduced Stock at the price of 1011, the current quotation b e i ng a t th e ti me o nly lea to I. The jobbers would readily have furnished the sure required at a 4 per cent. lower, and the operation being consequently out of the regular course of business, it wad suggested to the gentlemen of the Committee that it could not with propriety be inserted in the authorised lists of the house, or rather, that being inserted, it should be expunged. The Committee, contrary to the usual practice in cases where bargains have been concluded at a price notoriously •above or below that which regUlates the general busincsa of the day, and which must be considered a false one, de cided that the transaction referred to should be regarded as legitimate, and that the quotation complained of should stand. A decision so contrary to common sense, so op posed to the ordinary usage of the establishment, and at the same time so unfair towards the jobbers at large and the public, has naturally caused great dissatisfaction. Atf effort was made to get the objectionable quotation super seded on the first is , tring by the Committee of their rnr prirnatur, and the case was accordingly reconsidered, but the determination originally pronounced upon the matter has to-day, we understand, been confirmed. If these irre gularities are to be permitted we do not, we confess, see what confidence can in future be placed in the lists which t h e public have been hitherto in the habit of consulting and regarding as authentic. We perceive by the Manchester papers received in town this morning that meaturee have been taken by the spinnert and manufacturers in some parts of Lancashire for breaking up the Liverpool cotton monopoly, the reason assigned fel* t'iis proceeding being exactly that which might be ex pected from the class of persons in question, namely, "that they derive no benefit from it." A general meeting of the spinners and manufacturers of Sta oyleridge and the neigh bourhood was, it appears, held last Wednesday, when it was resolved that the respective firms composing " the asso ciation" should, oa the following Moaday (this day) eon - mence working three days a week only, the prohibition tu continue for the space of six months, unless a change of circumstances should arise. It was understood that similar step would be taken by,all the spinners at Ashton' under Line. so that, because the masters sear nothing out of the monopoly among the holders 0 ; the raw material, the poor workmen and their faerilie. are, all on a sudden, to be stripped of half their viegeill wages for six months out of the twelve. We consider 4lir r combination of cotton speculators and bankers a most it' tolerable evil, and shall be very glad to learn that it hat been pin an end to ; but if such a result is to be brough about only by the wholesale ruin of the operatives, we shal be inclined to consider the remedy worse than the disease The state of the corn trade in Mark-lane was to-day subject of very general interest and attention among coin' mercial men. It will be seen, on reference to our Cori Exchange report, in its proper place, that the market lid again become nearly stegnant, and that another heavy re- !, deletion in the price of w heat—foreign importations rnor particularly—has been submitted to by the holders. He ,, sales of the latter description been at all pressed, the de cline would, it is acknowledged, have been even material ) ,'' greater than there recorded. METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Chronicle of this day, speaking tf Mr. Villiers' Corn law motion, which comes on to-nigbt is the Commons, says—" A , . open question is only snotty . phrase for continued agitation. Ireland might bear a twenty years' embroilment on Catholic Emancipation ; bu t ' a Corn-law agitation of half that length, would infi:ct wounds on the prosperity of Great Britain, which it wouio be difficult ever to recover, The Parliamentary advocate' of the Corn.laws, answer for its being ruinous to tit* cultivator • the manufacturers answer for its being ruinolo to themselves. Ministers must not shrink from their duty• On all sides, the present uncertainty is declared to br decidedly injurious to the country. How do they propose to extricate the country from it? What is their remedy ? Not to produce one, is to proclaim their incompetency, °r to confess their cowardice." -The Morning Herald contains a leading article on the subject of the resignation of the French Ministry, in' th' course of which our Contemporary observes as follows " Louis Philippe seems well a:rare of his position, ana we have no doubt mill steer his coarse with consumma , e tact. He will still be Prime Minister whoever may cora pose the Cabinet—an able Minister, as Lord Brought:at called him the other night—able and false, as all the world admit, and worthy of the people whom he has t' manage." Th; Times, in an article suggested by Lord John RO . sell's reply last night to Mr. Duncombe's speech respea ing Lent theatrical entertainments, states that the incident, small as it is, illustrates suitably the smallness of the Mi nisters who have been turned round by it. " They iti ? attacked," says our Contemporary, " upon what they sup . pose is likely to be made a Church question ; in the apP" .. .a" pension of some new defeat, they hurry to assume a Ger.' servative tone ; they find the Conservatives, however, te": rational to invest so trifling a question with ecclesiastic al importance ; and so, seeing themselves safe, they give 9 1 ' in a trice the defensive position at first so ostentatiou: l Y assumed, and strike the flag, as usual, to their Radio! allies." The Morning Post makes a would-be emphatic aPPc.. to the Conservative Memb ers , i m pl or i ng th em to b e i n thV: place to.night in the Commons, in order to support the Corn-laws. The following are the absurd and bombastic' terms of our Contemporary's appeal:—" Give the mone i . jobber s an d h e m ill owners t h e i r way, an d the monarchy r' England is gone. These people say they owe no alle giance to the so il o f E ng l an d , and if they dared, would say that they owe no allegiance to the Crown of E ng land It is evident that they feel none. There is but one thing that they reverence and worship, and that is, gain. For that they would sacrifice everything. Every Member, sch° feels as an Englishman ought, should take care to be is his place to thwart these people." The Morning Advertiser, anticipating the rejection, by the House of Commons, of Mr. Villiers' motion, ob serves :—." Should the House reject Mr. Villiers' motion in favour of the amendment, we would strongly recom mend it to d o so i n silence, for any explanations on the subject will serve only to place its injustice and duplicity in more revolting relief." ANNIVERSARY OF t HE MEMORY OF THE LATE WILLIAM COBBETT. Last night about 100 of the friends of the above gentle man assembled at the Crown and Anchor to commemorate the return of his nativity. Mr. Feilden, M.P., in the chair. When the cloth had been removed the Rev. Dr. Wsd e made the usual acknowledgments to the Deity for hi' blessings, after which the Chairman, in a long speech , set forth that the object of Mr. Cobbett's endeavours during his life was to obtain the amelioration of the condi' tion of the labouring classes. He proposed "the memory of Mr. Cobbett," which was drunk in solemn silence. Mr. WILYINSON, proposed " The People's Delegatel: and may they soon accomplish the People's Charter, whict. was responded to with much applause. Dr. TAYLO replied to this toast. Mr RICVARDSON is " The speedy restoration of the 43d of Elizabeth, or the allocation of Church property' to its original purposes." This toast called forth the universal applause of the meeting. Several other toasts, pledging the compny to su pport Liberal Members, were drunk, and the com a pan separated ve at a late hour, highly pl e ased with the enin y g's enter tainment. At Teversal, near Mansfield, on Monday, an at!' man died in his 95th year ; he was a farmer, named GeorgF Reynolds, and was appo nted parish clerk in 1764, th e duties of which office he performed for upwards of 70 yea" . ' and to the week before his death attended to his farm. Sheffield Chronicle. On Wednesday morning, Ramsden, the walking postman to Bellericay, was found dead on his route. 01/ Sunday morning Henniker, who was appointed to do his duty, dropped down in a fit as he was bringing in the let • tors and shortly after expired.—Chelmsford Chronicle. FRONI LORD LANGFORD TO MESSRS. S. AND B. SoLostoNs, 39, ALBEMARLE STREET, PICCADILLT• " Gentlemen—l have derived much benefit from the toe of your small Voice Conductor, and the comfort I have ex perienced since I have used your improved Spectacles, stn" been under your care, is so very great, that I shall lose 0 ° opportunity of recommending them amongst my friend s and acquaintance. I have worn spectacles for many year s ' but never without feeling pain and weariness in the eyes: which is not the case with those I have purchased from you ; added to which, their clearness and softness is pect' liarly pleasant. I am. Gentlemen, your's, &c. LONGFORD' 66, Baker-street, Portman-square, Jan. 9, 1839."—Th0 Messrs. Solomons state that their operative Voice Co'l ductor, by which thousands of persons have been benefited, is the size of a seven-shilling piece, and when fixed int° the cavity of the ear is soft, easy, and not more uncoil' fortable or perceptible than having a piece of wool in place, and the faintest whisper at a public assembly heard with distinctness.-39, Albemarle-street. PLA ;'E.—T. COX SAVORY, Silversmith, Ike' 47, Cornhill ( ate ven Doors from Gracechu rc h. s t ree t), London' The best wrought:* Fiddle-Pattern Spoons and Forks, I t 7s. 2d. per ounce. Th e following are th e we i g ht s rec°lll. mended, but the articles ma; P t : had lighter or he av ier at th e same price per ounce : ' 0!. a. d. £ 16 40 4 Fiddle-pattern Table Spoons Ditto Dessert ditto Ditto Table Forks 20 at 7 2 10 `" Ditto Dessert ditto 2O at 7 2 7 iii i° ft 2 Ditto Gravy Spoons ..... 10 at 7 2 3r i t 1 Ditto Soup Ladle ... ......... ... 10 a t 7 2 3 ` . ditto Sauce ditt o 0 4 .... 'al t s 1 0 0 4 Ditto '''' ' l'ot . lis (gilt strong) g 10 • e . . to at 7 6 310 0 0 16 12 1 1 I )D P j a i tt i cf ; (o) Ditto Tea S l- ''' ug .'-'74 r BP ' l° l' i c) :: : 1 1 ); s ( str o n g ) . . . rsi a te. N.B.—A pamphlet containing a list of Prices of ' o r Plated Goods, Watches, Clocks, &c., may be had gratis'', will be forwarded in answer to a post-paid applicatio2 7, , ..........2-0' ' H S. On the 9th inst., at Hyde Park-gate, Kensington, the WY ° if James Pratt liv.rlow, Esq., of a son, which an vived only h a an hour. O❑ the Bth inst., at Basting., he lady of the Rev. Joh° Sterling, of a son. DIET,. On the fish inst., at th e res id ence of her son, Chiddingfold Rectpry, Surrey, M rs. NI, garet Legrew Hesse rel i ct of L. Hesse, Esq. On the ith i ns t., a t Bi re hfi e ld-house, near Birminghani, George Joseph, e ld es t son o f George Joseph Green, Esg'' aged 24. , London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG• in No. 112, strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, the county of Middlesex.—Tuesday,l‘larch 12, 1839. EVEN ING EDITION. THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, MARCH 12 1539. EVEN TT