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LIEUTENANT-COLONEL NAPIER'S NEW WORK. Now ready, in 2 vols., small Bvo., with Plates, 21s. bound, WILD SPORTS IN EUROPE, ASIA, AND AFRICA. By Lieutenant-Colonel NAPIER. Author of " Scenes and Sports In Foreign Lands," " Excursions along the Shores of the Mediterranean," &c. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street.: MAJESTY'S THEATRE. SEASON 1844. The ibllowing outline of the arrangements for the ensuing season respectfully presented to the Nobility, Subscribers, and the Public. ENGAGEMENTS FOR THE OPERA. Madame Grist, Mx‘ilie M. Favanti (her first appearance at this Theatre), Madame Bellinl, Madame Dal Fiori, and Madame Persian'. ~ijnor Mario, Sig. Correll' (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Dal Fiori, Sig. Felice (his first appearance at this Theatre), Sig. Fornasari, Sig. F. Labiache, and Sig. Lablacha. Director of the Music, Composer, and Conductor, Sig. Costa. • Madlle. Carlotta Grisi, Madile. Adelaide Fres!, of the Teatro di Pergola, Florence (her first appearance at this theatre) ; Mad. Guy titcpban ; Mackie. Scheffire, Madlle. Ferdinand, Madlle. Planquet, Madlle. Barville (their first appearance at this theatre) ; Fanny Elssler, and Madlle. Cerito ; M. St. Leon, M. Montassu (his fret appearance In this country), M. Coulon, M. Gosselin, M. Gouriet, M. Venafra, M. Bertram, and M. Perrot, and a numerous and efficient Corps de Ballet. Arrangements are also pending with Madlle. Taglioni, and there is. every probability that the talent of this eminent artiste will be se cured cbr a ihnfted number of representations. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING. FEBRUARY 26, Will be performed Shalcspeare's Tragedy of MACBEfH. Mac. both. Mr. C. Kean; Hecate, Mr. LeSter ; Lady Macbeth, Mrs Warner. Alter which, WM be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY OF OMEN C. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert ; Benedict, M. goguet Vestris; Beatrix, Mdlle. Fleury ; Agnes, Mdlle. Clara W&ster ; Julia, S:ads.me Petit Stephan; Diana, Mdlle. O'Bryan. THEATRE ROYAL, COVENT- CI A RDEN. M. JULLIEN S CONCERTR THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, PROGRAMME FOR Tills EVENING—PART I. (Wafture, Fra Diavelo—Auber. T 1 Ciainere Quadrille—Julliete• Symphony, C. Miner—Beethoven. Solo. Bassoon, ititearm. Valse, La Vase Tans—Jullien. The Destruction o ompeii—Roch Albert. PART 11. Solo,Mßebert le Diable. e• and Fantasia, with Solos—Meyerbeer. ow uadrille, The Irish Bchors—Jullion. rnot-a.pistons, Herr KOMig, The Storm—RochAlbert. Vake. Hymens Feuer Kiang—Lessner. She English Kiang —Jullien. M. JULLIEW has:henour to announce that his ANNUAL BENEFIT will take p lace on THURSDAY NEXT, Faa. 29, the last night but two. e Programme, of which full particulars wilt Ise duly announced, will include Thompson's Seasons, the Grand Woe of Haydn ; a Selection from Rossini's Stalest Mater ; Fantasia from Torquato Tease; The Duet from Norma; Solos by Messrs. Biebardson, Deloffre, Barret, Baumann, and Herr Romig ; also by 111. Met, the celebrated Violoncellist, who has just arrived from Paris, and will make his first appearance; and for the first time this season, the Nightingale Valse, performed on the Piccolo, by M. JULLIEN. One of M. Jullien's most favourite Valses will be pee. rented to each Lady visiting the Dress Circle or Private Boxes. _ THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKE'I M tt. BENJAMIN WEBSTER, I EssIEB. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, Will be performed a New Comic Drama, entitled GRIST TO THE MILL. Marquis de Richeville, Mr. Charles Mathews ; Francine, Madame V estris. • After which, a New Comic Drama, entitled USED UP. Sir Charles Coldstream, Bart., Mr. Charles Mathews; Sir Adonus Leech, Mr Tilbury; Wurzle, Mr . James Bland ; Mary, Miss Julia Bennett; Lady Clutterbuck, Mrs. Humby. I'ocuclude with a New hairy Extravaganza, entitled THE FAIR ONE WITH THE GOLDEN LOCKS! King Lachrymoso, Mr. J. *and; Prince Graceful, Miss P. Horton ; Queen Lucidorz, Mita Julia Bennett. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, Will be performed Auber's Opera of I. RA DI A VOLO. Fra Diavolo, Mr. Wood ; Lord Allcash, Mr. Morris Barnett ; Zerlina, Mts. Wood; Lady Allcash, Miss Grant. Agee which, a New Petite Comedy, called AGED FORTY. Sir Harry Wilder, Mr. Walter Lacy ; Ms. Dapper, Mr. Oxberfy ; Lady Clifton, Miss Fortescue. To conclude with a Comic Drama, called BLASE; or, The Man in Search of a Sensation. Monsieur Blase, Mr. Kee ey ; Orosfer, Mr. Paul Bedford; Louise, Madame Eugeiiie Prosper; Madame Pipou. Mn Grattan. THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI. THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, Will be repeated, by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CURISTM AS CA ROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews. Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED AND SETTLED. Antony, Mt. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar. After which, the Tragedy of RICHARD THE THIBD. Hi. chard, Mr. Wright; Lady Anne Miss E. Stanley. To conclude with THE DAUGHTER OF THE DANUBE. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE THIS EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, Will be performed a New Drama, entitled THE LAST SHIL LING, supported by all the Company. After which, The Armenian Prodigy, or Wonderful Ariel Pole Dancer. To be followed by JINIES; The Man that couldn't help it. Ants Mr. Sheppard. To conclude with THE PLEDOE OF LOVE. TIIE WEATIIER.—SuN OFFICE, FEB. 26. TMERMOMETER, Lowest, 38 ; Highest, 51 ; Noon, 51. BAROMETEP., S. to S.W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usually placed cppositb 30, and rain at 29. lIIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE TIIIB DAY. Noralag 30 minutes after 6 J Erenlng .. 52 minutes after G. - ~ -1- , . - : , 17 - • , • ... V, ' . •• • , ),, • !If ' (IP .1. • - • .. 4,:,tb,,;t' A 111 11116:7% 0 5 4411pimil , . ~\ alte''' 4 • ito'S ‘,. ~ , \ - 4 0t , 7. SECOND EDITION: 1 4 BOWDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. other, keep him in a constant state of uneasiness and vacillation—he cannot offer a single authoritative opinion on the subject of the religious disputes that now distract the country, for the Puseyites and the Anti-Puseyites, and other rebellious sectaries, hold him in such complete thraldom among them, that he dare not side with one party, lest he should array against him the influence of the other. And yet the man who acts in this tame, halting, equivocal spirit who is neither Monopolist nor Free-trader, neither Orangeman nor Libe ral, neither Puseyite nor Low-Churchman—this man is the Prime Minister of Great Britain ! Is he not burlesqueing the high office he holds—an office which was once . held by a CHATHAM, a PITT, a CANNING, a WELLINGTON, and a GREY—by such abject, truckling timidity ? Should not an English Premier lead, rather than follow, public opinion —put himself boldly in the van of a movement, instead of sneaking ingloriously in the rear ? For what pur pose is he placed at the helm, but that he may steer the State-vessel steadily and safely into port? If he is to fall asleep at his post, and trust to the winds and waves to waft the ship into a secure haven, we may just as well have no pilot at all. And indeed to all intents and purposes we have none, for though Sir ROBERT PEEL is nominally at the helm, yet it is the ship's crew that are doing his work among The report of that "hedging" Bill, entitled the " Horse-racing Penalties Bill," comes on for further consideration this evening. If we had ever doubted the inherent tendencies of such an assembly as the House of Commons to the vice of class-legislation, the frivolous and selfish debate on this question last week would have effectually dispelled any such scepticism. But believing always that such tendencies are absolutely inseparable from the ele mentary constitution of a Chamber, which, even since the passing of the Reform Bill, still continues rather the representative of the two aristocracies of rank and money than of the people and popular prin ciples, we are disposed to look upon the discussion in question as the most characteristic which has taken place, within the same walls, for some time past. The Bill was introduAl into the House of Lords by the Duke of RICHMOND, with the candid admission that its object was—what ? To put down the frightful practice of gaming ? To withhold or deter the rich from setting a demoralising example to the poor, in staking sums of money on the event of races to be run between certain horses ? To impress upon the ill-paid agricultural labourer, the small tradesman, the plodding artisan or operative, the profligacy of their reckless conduct in perilling the support of their families, and the maintenance of their homes, on wagers as to the tincertain issue of matches at any rural or local sports ? To encourage the abstinence of small farmers and their servants, of humble tenants and humbler husbandmen, of provincial shopkeepers and working men, from habitual betting and games of hazard, by the disinterested promulgation of penal Acts against such practices, at the special instance of noble or opulent landlords, merchants, manufacturers, awl mill-owners ? No—nothing like this was the avowed object of his Grace's Bill, as stated by Mr. lirosrumr, who has charge of it in the Commons. It was simply to protect some noble and other patrons of the turf from qui tam actions which have been brought against them by parties prepared to prove the well-known facts of their having won and lost, paid or received, large stakes at races, and other sports, and hoping to realise, by such actions, penalties to an ezirmr,lous amount under the statute of Queen ANNE. We need not recur to the recent deliberations of the tels,upon this measure, or to the amendment by which the operation of the Act of ANNE was su perseded for a limited period. It N our purpose to look at the roziitiple of the Bill, as i t h as b een brought into the Ilouse of Commons. them, while he looks lazily and contentedly on, com forting himself with the reflection—so dear to some men, who regard the show rather than the substance of power—that, in name at least, he is a pilot. There never yet lived an English Minister who, while apparently he did so much, in reality did so little as the Right lion. Baronet. Not one single bold opinion does he dare to promulgate of his own accord. Not one single manly conviction does he presume to entertain. Even the slightest fragment of a declaration must be wrung from him. It is not he that governs England, but the two great an tagonist parties of the Leaguers and the protectionists ! It is not he that governs IrlSnd, but Now, how grossly partial, how palpably exclusive this principle is—how clearly invoked, pro h&c vice, as it were—to serve the turn, to meet the case of the Lord GsOIIGE or the Sir JOHN, or the sporting Peer, or the titled Commoner, whom the dreaded qui lain " Ogres" were about to pounce upon, and tear to pieces, like the Mr. BOND (who has, indeed, escaped from their clutches, but with only a rat-like extrica tion, minus its tail)—enough, perhaps, has been already premised to show. But the hypocrisy of the prin ciple, and the defectiveness of the scope of this Bill, may be much more strongly illustrated. Why was not the protection of the Bill to be thrown around the copper or shilling " collection," " top plug 101.," contributed by the sturdy cham pions of the village green, as well as the " sub scription horses " and gold cups, the splendid plates and magnificent sweepstakes, provided by the patri cian subscribers to the betting-rooms,---" the " Dii majores" of the Grand Stands,—the elite of Tatter ' sail's ? But is this invidious distinction, thus sought to be established against the poor, who may be dis posed to follow their native English bent for " sport ing," in common with their wealthier compatriots, an imaginary grievance ? There is very little of mere abstract, inferential reasoning,—of purely sentimental hypothesis in the practical illustration supplied by Atr. WAILLET the Repealers and the Orangemen ! All the momentous public questions of the day are agitated and helped forward by private—that is to say, by non-official—individuals, without the slightest de ference to his authority, without even the show of respect for his sentiments. Mr. COBDEN cares not two straws for his opinions—the Duke of Ricu- MOND scarcely conceals his contempt for him—Mr. O'CONNELL, " convicted conspirator" as he is, throws down the gauntlet at his feet, and dares him to take it up. Nay, even in the Principality, his power, or his reluctance—call it what you will—to act with decision is so apparent, that the Times quietly takes the duties of Govern ment on its own shoulders, and tranquillises the sen sitive " Rebecca and her Daughters," by directing public attention to, and suggesting remedial measures for, the grievances under which they labour. So far as we can see, we might just as well have the Guildhall giant Gog or his brother Magog for our Prime Minister, as Sir ROBERT PEEL. They would be quite as useful, and they could not well be more inactive. In other and better times the country used to look to the opinions of their Pre mier as a soft of barometer, which indicated the success or failure of the political schemes of t e day ; but no one thinks of doing so now If we wish to know what chances we have of getting Commercial Re rm we consult the League, not the Prime Minister. If we wish to know what hope there is for Ireland, O'CoN NELL, not PEEL, is the individual to whom we turn for infomeation. In like manner, the Monopolists— treating with utter indifference the distrusted decla rations of the Premier—read the speeches of the Dukes of RICHMOND or BUCKINGHAM, in order to ascertain what prospect they have of suc cess. All parties, Free-traders and Anti-Free traders, Orangemen and Repealers, however they may differ in other points, yet agree in this one —namely, that the opinions of the Prime Minister of Great Britain—the dispenser ofoffice, ht the favours vour s should b o e f the Crown—he who, by virtue of his the most influential person in the three kingdoms "A number of little boys were in the habit of amusing themselves by playing at pitch and toss—which some ,persons constdered a highly immoral and injurious 1 A.1.1:1 practice, while others regarded it as innocent and one ~; to which no punishment ought to be attached; but he regretted to say that there were magistrates in this town—stipendiary magistrates—who were in the habit of sending littldboys to prison and to the treadmill for indulging in, t practice. In the course of the present 0 1 4 • :4449 days ago, three boys were committed 1%4. S —all parties, we say, agree in thinking that the opinions of this illustrious individual are not worth a moment's serious consideration ; for all know that he is the veriest slave of circumstances—the for having been guilty, as was stated in the warrants, of the enormous crime of playing at ' pitch and toss.' " There are few country gentlemen who have had more experience of the business of quarter sessions, and of the sort of cases which come before county magistrates to be summarily disposed of, than Lord WHARNCLIFFB or the Duke of RICHMOND. There have been few keener patrons of the turf and the betting room than the Duke of RICHIdOND and Lord WHARNCLIFFE. Is either of these Noble Peers pre pared to bring in a Bill to rescue the infant patrons of that most ancient of all games of chance, " pitch and toss," from the avenging naltimuses of the magis tracy—unpaid or stipendiary ? Such a course may be thought very incompatible with the dignity of a present Lord President, or an ex-Postmaster-General —but it would be conduct much more consistent than the support of either to a " Goodwood" Bill of this kind. We are anxious not to be misunderstood as being the apologists of betting, or of gaming of any kind. If we cannot go the whole length of Lord HOWICH'S serious appeal to the Legislature to discourage (by some new enactment ?) " the practice of betting on horses ;" if, on the contrary, we plead guilty to a little secret passion for horse-racing, the excitement of which, we find, years cannot quite extinguish— we willingly concur with Mr. WORTLET, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, and others, in wishing that the " practice of betting" could be entirely abolished. But since this is about as futile an expectation—since it is to suppose about as complete a revulsion of men's natures, as to look for the Bishop of LONDON'S petitioning the QUEEN and the Parliament to be al lowed to exchange his mitre and his see against the surplice and " perpetual curacy" of some Rev. OwEN AP-MEREDITH, among the mountains of South Wales ; we must deal with the matter as we find it—an origi nal innate propensity of man, as strong in the rudest state of savage nature, as in this most refined civili sation. The Bill before us, then, ought to have in corporated the broad principle involved in the amend ment moved by Mr. BRIGHT, which would have crushed at once the pretences and the profits of a race of men who are the common pest and nuisance of so ciety. He moved, " That on the motion for going into a Committee on the Horse-racing Penalties Bill, instructions be given to the Committee to extend the provisions of the Bill to all proceedings of common informers, under the authority of any penal statute." The amendment—although supported in an excel lent speech from Mr. CHRISTIE (who argued that, if the House passed the Bill to defeat the objects of common informers in this particular case, they were "bound to stop all proceedings of common informers in every case")—was finally lost. Sir R. PEEL, whom we shall henceforth be apt to regard as a trimmer in legislation and public morals as well as in politics, after deprecating the danger of the prin ciple involved in measures of this kind, which went to intercept the operations of existing laws, made this characteristic compromise of his constitutional principle with the conventional expediency which is ever his besetting sin :—" It was the peculiar circum stances of the present case which made him ready to grant the relief asked for." Very peculiar circumstances, no doubt ; and among them not the least is, if we mistake not, the accident of a namesake of the Right Hon. Baronet being one of the victims whom qui tam voracity had contem plated for its peculiar delectation. The frankness of Mr. THOMAS DUSCOMBE'S statement is much more to his credit and to our taste. He described the Bill as being " essentially a private and personal Bill, to exempt certain noblemen and gentlemen from penal ties to which they had subjected themselves by their ignorance of the law," and he fairly avowed his sup port of the measure on these grounds. If ever public man was placed in a humiliating and ridiculous position, that man is Sir ROBERT PEEL. Though he has a majority in the House of Commons to back him, and the entire strength of the House of Lords at his command, he cannot take a single decisive step of moment—he dare not declare himself unreser vedly on the side of the monopolists, nor dare he declare himself unreservedly against them—he dare not ori ginate one solitary bold, remedial measure as regards Ireland, for he takes fright equally at Orangeman and Catholic—he has no comprehensive scheme of national education to propose, for the Dissen ters on the one hand, and the Churchmen on the helpless tool, not the vigorous controller, of events, who is carried along in the go-cart of expediency, without presuming to make a movement of his own. If this teazing, contemptible imbecility and vacillation on the part of Sir R. PEEL continue much longer, we do hope Mr. Hums will come forward in Parliament with a proposal for abolishing the office of Premier, as well as other sinecures ; for we do not see why the country should pay six thousand a year for a Prime Minister, who is no better than a mere cypher. In the House of Lords, on Friday night, the Bishop of EXETER took occasion,—after presenting petitions from the clergy of Powderham, in Devon, and Pen ryn, in Cornwall, praying their Lordships to: cause effectual means to be adopted with a view to provide spiritual instruction for the inmates of the different workhouses in the several unions of the country ;—to submit a motion for the appointment of a Select Com mittee on the same subject. But the keen-sighted Prelate took care to incorporate into the terms of his motion a gloss, to the effect that this spiritual instruc tion should be administered by chaplains of the Esta- blished Church, one of whom he would have nominated to every principal poor-house. This was the point which the Bishop chiefly laboured throughout his very long and statistics-crowded speech. The gravamen of his complaint—we shall use his own words —was, that, in the union of St. Austell, as in others, " the Church was thrust out from her place as the instructress of the people." The remedy he proposed for this state of things was the nomination of chap lains, as we have already stated. To corroborate his statements, and to enforce the deduction he thus drew from them, the Right Reverend Prelate read a vast number of communications which he had re- ceived from numerous districts, both within and beyond his own very extensive diocese,—from the north, as well as from the west and the south, — all more or less illustrative of the condition of spiritual destitution in which the pauper in mates of poor-houses were left, in the loeali- ties specified, by the defective provisions of the Poor-law Commissioners at the original crea tion of the particular union, or of the board of guar dians of the parish or district, on first entering upon their duties under the administration of the amended poor-law. Liskeard, St. Austell, Bodmin, St. Co lumb, St. Germain's, Penzance, and Redruth, all came in, by turns, for a share of his Lordship's cen sure, touching their management of these matter'. He reflected pretty severely on the illiberality and unorthodox indifference manifested by the Cornwall boards of guardians especially, and by the Cornubian public, in general. Then his Lordship moved on, like a thunder-cloud, and passing over the county of Devon, fulminated against Axminster and Axbridge, Tavistock and Tiverton. Anon, as if caught in a sudden flaw of wind, he veered away with surprising velo city to discharge the remainder of his bolts over " devoted York and Lancaster ;" from the city of the Minster, to the town of guilds and pageants. Finally, leaving York and Preston, he rolled over Cheshire, he re-appeared in the counties of Durham, North umberland, and Westmoreland, and expended his last wrath upon the monotony of Cambridgeshire. Thus, after muttering in the North Riding of York shire, his ominous denunciation became furious at Mac clesfield ; terrible throughout the proud Palatinates of his spiritual brothers of Durham and Chester ; and finally sank hissing—as a red-hot Oxford man will ever do in such a locality—amidst the sedges of the sluggish " Cam." In sober truth, the whole effect of this declamatory address was not so much to bring under the eyes of their Lordships the un questionable evils of deficient spiritual instruction among large bodies of the community—segregated as the inmates of poor-houses are, from that active communication with other classes of society, which might, in some sort, supply this essential want—as to show that those evils could only be grappled with through the instrumentality of chaplains of the Establishment. To say that the debate, throughout, was only one long, but involuntary exposition of the interested championship of a High Church Prelate on the one hand,—or of a heartless, sordid, calculating indif ference to the spiritual consolation of the poor, on the part of the framers of the new poor law, and of its more responsible functionaries, on the other,—would neither be correct in fact, nor fair in construction. We can easily believe, objecting as we have ever done to much of the unnecessary hardships and stringency of the amended poor-law, and to its want of flexibility and adaptation to perpetually occurring combina tions of circumstances, which no anticipatory legis lation can meet even in the mass, but with which this law affects to deal, categorically, even in their minutest details ; we can easily believe, that its enactments had their origin in a spirit of the most unaffected and comprehensive charity. In like manner, we can do justice to the sincerity of the Bishop of EXETER'S zeal on behalf of the Church, in whose hierarchy he wears a mitre, albeit that, on coming into contact with the temporalities and influence attaching to expanded patronage, he is apt to become a little purblind to the connexion—so visible to all the world beside—be tween his own orthodox affection to the " loving mother," and the present advantages, and lively hopes of benefits to come, by which she excites and main tains that affection. This infirmity of the Reverend Prelate's is occasional only, so occasional—and, truly, so convenient too,—that it reminds us of the " night blindness" of European and Asiatic soldiers in hot climates, and bad quarters. Their disease is never so aggravated, so disabling, or so epidemical, as when they fancy they are about to march from an indifferent station to a worse one, or to exchange a good for a bad one. If it were day time they could, literally, " see their way." It is but charity to suppose that the Bishop's solicitude, touching the nomination of chaplains of the Es tablishment to poor union -houses, is net at all affected by the mere accident of the pa . ronage that would attach to such appointments. We dare wager that he has not the sight of half an eye for any such valuable results from the consummation he so desires! Only, we could wish that he had not laid so much stress on the Liskeard Dissenters hav- ing communicated to every board of guardians in the kingdom, the fact of their having defeated the proposed nomination of a Church of England clergyman to the chaplaincy of their union. Again, when the Bishop complains that a Dissenting minister officiates twice every Sunday at St. Austell's poor-house, in the room set apart for a chapel, though not specially sent for by any of the inmates,—does it not occur to him that herein consists the truest praise of the Christian teacher's voluntary devotion to the spiritual wants of the poor ? or, that it may suggest an unfavourable comparison with other parties who do not go to such abodes, nor among such forlorn ones, until they are sent for, and then not voluntarily? And what are the Bishop's notions of the moral guilt of what we must call the " ecclesiastical" apostacy of which he speaks, in the case of an individual who had cast off the office he once held in our Church, and whose subsequent delinquencies the Bishop conducts, in this extraordinary manner, to what he obviously assumes to be their climax :-1. That this "apostate" attached himself to a lady who was the daughter of a rigid Dissenter, a banker in Penzance ; 2d, that he went so far as to attend her chapel, and have his children baptized there ; 3d, that he took away the prefix of " Reverend " from his name ;" and 4th, that he actually (prop pudor), " went so far as to appear in a blue coat, and other coloured unmentionables?" Let us finally ask the Bishop how he can suppose the public will sympathise with his indignation, that at Redruth the Dissenters were not willing that the chaplain appointed should perform the two services; and so the consequence was that one of the two services was performed by a Dissenting minister ? Very good, say we. Just as it should be. The members of the Established Church had the advantage of one service in conformity with their own opinions ; the mem bers of the Dissenting denomination heard another service, in conformity with their opinions. If the same arrangement could only be carried out universally, we should hear of no more complaints of deficient spiritual instruction for the inhabitants of poor-houses. We are, however, glad to perceive that this defi ciency of instruction will be attended to in the pro gress of the pending Bill through the House of Com mons. What the Bishop stated of the voluntary offers of clergymen to officiate gratuitously in several cases being rejected, on account of a trum pery, ill-considered, and brutal enactment of the present poor-law, which requires that the officiating chaplain must be an officer of the union, and paid for his services, is enough to make one blush for modern legislation, and its utter forgetfulness, or something worse, of the moral welfare of those whom it affects to protect. The spiritual destitution of the poor, especially youth and children, in the union-houses of Kings bridge, Tavistock, and Preston, does appear, from the Bishop's account, to be appalling; the desecra tion of the Church services, in these and other such houses, almost incredible from its indecorum. And this last instance of the scandalous neglect even of social and moral discipline, to say 'nothing of spiri tual instruction, we quote, adding only this acknow ledgment, which it undoubtedly extorts from us, that it confirms the case laid by the Bishop for the neces sity of a Parliamentary inquiry. His Lordship's motion for the present, however, has been rejected by the Lords : " The Right Rev. Prelate here read the evidence of Mr. Tufnell on this part of the question, iu which the inferiority of the instruction given, and, in some instances, the cruelties practised by the schoolmasters towards the children were detailed at considerable length, the master, in one case, having been detected by the chaplain—herein showing the value, again, of the appointment of such an officer—in attempts to seduce some of the elder girls in the union." Madrid journals, of the lath, have been received, and, if they are to be credited, no doubt remained that the means adopted by the Government to put down the insurgents would speedily be crowned with success. Accounts from Bayonne, however, state that risings had taken place at several places ; among others Teruel and Barcelona. At the latter place Senor BORELL, a very rich merchant of that city, of Republican principles, and several other persons, have been arrested, and domiciliary visits in search for arms are made daily. A report prevailed at Ma drid that BONET had, in retaliation for the execution of seven officers, by RONCALL s near Alicant, put four -teen of his prisoners to death. We fear the report will prove too well founded. On the Madrid Bourse the Three per Cents. were done at 29k for cash; 29 15-16ths for 60 days. The Fives, for cash, 20; and at 60 days 20j. Owing to the severity of the weather we have no accounts from Paris later than those of the 23d, of which we gave an outline on Saturday. In the Chamber of Deputies on the 22d a rather sharp dis cussion took place, relative to the resignation of M. DE SALVANDY, late Ambassador at the Sardinian Court. M. ODILLON BAREOT demanded some expla nation on the subject. M. GUIZOT at once replied, "I will give no answer to questions which have been or may be proposed on that topic." M. nn SAL VANDY in like manner refused to answer any ques tions. M. THIERS felt annoyed at this, as he expected to hearfrom that Deputy some accountof the inter between the KING and him ; and then made an attack, not upon the Foreign Minister, but the Crown. We may judge from the following part of his speech, that M. THIERS has met with some slight or disappointment at the Tuileries:—" Did a Minister say to M. DE SALVANDY, an Ambassador ought to be so firmly bound to the Ministry, as never to vote against it; we pronounce your dismissal ?' Was it, I ask, a Minister who said this ? If so, we have constitutionally nothing to say. We may discuss the question, if this conduct of a Minister was judicious —and nothing more. But in my opinion it was not a Minister who so addressed M. DE SALVANDY.— (Confusion, and cries of Order, order.') M. DE SALVANDY thought it his duty in such a case to tender his resignation. He perceived that he ought to see in all this only the Ministry, but this resigna tion was afterwards withdrawn through respect for the KING, and again offered, because they wanted to impose a condition on him which amounted to a penal clause. Such are the facts, and I again repeat that it was not a Minister who spoke, as I have stated above, to M. DE SALVANDY.—(Cries of ' Order, order; you are attacking the KING.') I hear the Minister of the Interior crying out Order.' There is only one way of showing that there is good reason for such an ex clamation, and that is to prove that what I state is false. What are we to conclude from all this ? Why, nothing less than that, under the present Administra tion, acts pass which are at variance with the rigour of constitutional rules." M. GUIZOT followed, and in firm language pointed out what he considered constitutional government:— " My friends, my colleagues, and myself," said he, " consider the representative government in as se rious a light as any one, and it is because we do so that, after serious reflection, I refused to reply to the questions addressed to me. I accept the responsibi lity on everything, but not the discussion. There are matters which I allow myself to be fully respon sible for, but on which I ought not to speak before the Chamber. If any of you think the silence of the Government blameable, let him come forward and prefer a bill of indictment against me. At no period, in any constitutional Government, has it been the practice to force the Ministry to come forward and state the reasons why a resignation is accepted. You n ve speak of constitutional rules, a n d ye t you as k us to infringe them. Silence may he as cons tit u ti ona l as language, to maintain and prac tice, the constituti o nal rules, w nations. Take from the lenas w e sc rupulousl y refuse and we Cabinet the majority—overthro w th e Ministry—at tack it as you best may—such ar e y our cons tit u ti ona l privileges, and no one contests th em . B u t d o no t pretend to dictate to us our duty, or sa y th a t we ought to render an account of all the a c t s th a t tak e place in the fulfilment of the constit u ti ona l preroga tives. It is through respect for th e cons tit u ti ona l rules, of which you have spoken, that I d escen d f rom this tribune without having replied to your ques ti ons . _(Approbation from the Cent re , an d rumours from to k g give a know x you,hpol the Left.)" The mot ion, as we stated on Saturday, was lost. We have since received the Paris papers of Satur day, but they bring no additional news. The Journal des Debuts contains a bitter article against M. THISRS, which leaves no doubt of the fact ad verted to above, that a complete rupture has taken place between him and the Court. The conduct of Admiral DUFBTIT TUOUARS was the subject of general conversation, and was viewed with alarm by the friends of peace in Paris. It was generally believed that the Government had nothing whatever to do with the affair, and that he had acted on his own re sponsibility. On Saturday the French Three per Cents. closed at 82f. 50c.; the Fives at 125 f. 80c. ; Orleans Shares, 842 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 830 f.; Havre, 672 f. 50c. ; Avignon, 745 ; Spanish Active, 32i. RAIL WAY REFORM. (FROM • CORRESPONDENT.) An important inquiry into a practical grievance, which, though felt by all, presses most severely on the poor and working classes, is about to be submitted to the House of Commons by Mr. Wallace, the Member for Greenock, on the 29th inst. We allude to that Gentleman's motion for the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the entire working of the railway system of this country. The spirit of the present age is against the existence of all monopolies—the struggle of the present day is between mono poly and free trade ; and we can but wonder that a monopoly so prejudicial to the best interest of this country, so galling in its exercise to the poorer classes, and so injurious to the trading interest, by the heavy charges made on all descrip tion of merchandise, as is so clearly demonstrated in the pamphlet entitled " Railway Reform," should'have been suffered to exist up to the present time. Should the system proposed in this pamphlet be adopted, an immense benefit would be conferred on all classes. So great a reform could have no more fitting advocate than the man whose in domitable perseverance and energetic talent carried into effect Mr. R. Hill's plan of Post-office Reform. For the achievement of that great work this country ! s indebted to Mr. Wallace, and from the well-known charact4 of that Hon. Gentleman no effort will be wanting on his pat to induce the Legislature to carry into effect a reform so obviously necessary, and which is certain to confer on all classeS such great benefit without in jury to the interest of those who have embarked their capital in these undertakings. SCENE AT A CORONER'S INQUEST. — Late on Tues day evening an inquest was held at Newington, before Mr. Carter, on view of the body of a new-born male child, which was found in a decomposed state in a basket in Trinity gardens, by police constable 64 M , while walking his rounds at two o'clock on the previous Sunday morning. The body underwent a post-mortem examination, but the medical men would not undertake to swear that t he child had been born alive. A verdict of " Found dead " was agreed to. On Mr. Brooks, the beadle, however, going round to obtain the sig natures of the jurymen to the inquisttaor!, he found one o f them (named W ar d) f as t as leep. After being shaken several times, he fell on his knees. He was then taken before the Coroner, and reprimanded for his conduct. In answer to a question from the Coroner he said he could not tell the precise time he fell asleep, but he understood that the child had not been born alive. The circumstance created great laughter. yi r nisrals.—Of all things avoid a vulgar whisker. This is of various kind s . A short, scrubby , indomitable red whisker is a v u l gar w hisker; a weak, fuzzy, white, moth-eaten, mou ld y w hi s k er, i s a vulgar whisker ; a twist ing, twining, serpe n ti ne , sen ti m ental, cork-screw of a whis ker is a vulgar whi s k er; a big, black, bluff, brutal-looking whisker is a vulgar whisker; a ma thematical, methodist ical, master-of-artistieal diag ram of a whisker is a vulgar whisker. Whatever is not any of these—will do.—Dublin University Magazine. ONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 26, 1844. THE SUM, LONDON, SUMMARY OF NEWS AND iittbitt eptittott. " Wito runs map read." rozwicar. Queen Christina attended Divine service at the Cathedral at Lyons on the 20th inst. After the mass, the Queen re ceived in her apartments the Prefect, the Mayor, and all the civil, law, and military officers of the city. In the morning of the 21st her Majesty embarked in another steam-boat for Avignon, where she would arrive the same evening. It is stated in a letter from Hayti, 23d ult., that M. A. Barrot, not having been able to come to an understanding with the Government as to the time to be allowed for the payment of the French claims 4 had broken off the negotia tions, and embarked on the 18th in the Aube corvette, taking with him, however, the funds for the payment of the instal ment due in 1843. An envoy from Hayti is, as has been al ready announced, to visit France for the purpose of renewing the negotiation with the French Government. The mandement of the Archbishop of Paris for the observ ance of Lent has just been published. It permits the eating of eggs, butter, and milk during Lent, except for the three last days of Passion week, and butcher's meat on the Sun days, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, except in Passion week. Persons who wish to eat meat every day may do so by distributing alms, to be employed towards the purchase of the old convent of the Carmelites, and for the relief of the poor. • The King of Saxony, on the sth inst., issued an ordon mince which so far relaxes the restrictions on the press as to decree that henceforth all pamphlets, and other publications exceeding twenty sheets of letter-press, shall be exempt from the censorship. A letter from Vienna, Feb. 15, says :—" Our railroads have been impassable for three days, on account.of the enor mous quantities of snow that have fallen. To-morrow the lines will be again open." A letter from Constantinople, 'Jan. 81, in the Journal de Francfort, contains the following paragraph :—" It will be remembered that some months back the trial of a Turk took place for offensive expressions against the Prophet. The affair took place precisely at the moment when France and the other Powers presented their notes to the Divan, to pro test energetically against the execution of the unfortunate Ovagliun. It was already reported that the impiety of the Turk was about to be punished with death, conformably to the text of the law, but the profound impression made by the note of the Minister of France caused the sentence of death to be revoked. M. de Bourqueney, blinded by false hopes, was proclaiming his pretended triumphs everywhere, but all was deception. In a fortnight after the Greek of Biledjik was executed, and now we learn that the Turk of Salonica has been decapitated." The Union des Provinces states that the cold weather in France is not to be compared to the severe frost which has been experienced in Germany and Switzerland, as will appear from the following facts :—" At Konigsberg snow fell in such quantities that wolves entered the town in the noon-day. At Nuremberg the snow was nine feet in depth. In the Grisons in Switzerland the glass stood at 23 degrees of Reaumur (51 Fahrenheit) below freezing point, and sub sequently there came a fall of snow, which completely covered the hills and valleys. During several days a snow storm prevailed, which caused much injury. Five persons perished of cold and fatigue in crossing Mount Albula, and several others had their limbs frozen. Five:men and thirteen head of oxen perished in an avalanche which fell from a mountain to the east of Niederwald." COTTS.T....-PASITIONAZZE. Lord and Lady Brougham have caused invitations to be sent out for a grand dinner on Saturday next. The Duke of Wellington, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, &c., are among those invited. Lord Plunket will entertain a select party to dinner on Wednesday, at his Lordship's new residence in Eccleston square, Belgrave-road. Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., left Argyll House, on Satur day, for Barnes Court, the seat of the Marquis of Abercorn, in the county Tyrone. His Lordship purposes to remain in Ireland till after the Eastern recess. Lady Lyndhurst and lion. Miss Copley have returned to town from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort at Badminton. The Duke of Norfolk arrived in town on Friday, from Arundel Castle, Sussex. The Dowager Countess of Clonmel and Ladies Caroline and Augusta Scott, Hon. Miss Morison, Mr. Ewing, and a select party, have been visiting the Earl and Countess of Warwick during the last week at Warwick Castle. . _ The Earl and Countess of Morley have returned to Sal tram Castle, Devon, from town, and it is the intention of the Noble Earl and Countess to stay there until Easter. Earl Fortescue, who, on leaving town for Devon, proceeded to Powderham Castle to meet the Countess, has arrived at Castle Hill. MISCELLANEOUS. A meeting of the Committee for erecting the Wellington City statue, took place at the Mansion-house, on Thursday afternoon ; present, the Lord Mayor, Aldermen Lucas, Sir Claudius Hunter, Sir Peter Laurie, Sir James Duke, J. Johnson, Dr. Croly, Mr. Rainbow (honorary secretary) and several other members. A letter from Mr. frevillian, of the Treasury, was read, in which their Lordships sanctioned the appropriation of the surplus metal of guns placed at the dis posal of Sir Francis Chantrey, to execute this statue, one moiety in the Nelson column, in Trafalgar-square, and the other to the great Wellington statue now casting by Mr. Wyatt fer the west end of the metropolis. A motion was made, and carried unanimously, that a letter should be written to the executors of Sir F. Chantrey, requesting them to have the statue ready for inauguration on the 18th of June next, the anniversary of Waterloo. An Anti-League meeting is to take place at Aberdeen on the let of March, in compliance with a requisition addressed to the Earl of Erroll, the Lord Lieutenant of the county, and signed by landowners and farmers of Aberdeenshire, includ ing the names of the Duke of Richmond, the Earl of March, Lord James Hay, Lord Forbes, Robert Grant, Esq., of Tilly four, Convenor of Aberdeenshire, and Sir Charles Bannerman, Bart. All our fairs and markets, says a Dublin correspondent, exhibit a decided tendency to advance. In consequence of the increased demand from England, there was a considerable rise in the price of cattle at Smithfield market on Thursday. In this northern county incendiarism has appeared. On Sa turday night three large stacks of corn were consumed in the haggard of the Rev. Mr. Atwell, Rector of Clonoe. The sale of the first portion of Bank-buildings, which was commenced on Monday by Mr. Pullen, the auctioneer, and concluded the following day, has realised about 1,300/., the property disposed of included the spacious banking house and residence of Messrs. Ladbroke and Co., and three other houses. The total number ofcattle, sheep, and pigs imported last year, under the new tariff, amount only to 2,099, while during the preceding year it was 5,316. The mortal remains of the late Viscount Glentworth were removed for temporary interment to the cemetery in the Harrow-road on Thursday last, it having been found that the necessary arrangements in the Pery Chapel, in the Cathedral at Limerick, could not be completed within the required time. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has given directions to Mr. Francis, the sculptor, for a statue to the memory of his father, the late reigning Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests have purchased for the sum of 5801. the old buildings on the south side of Holyrood House, and have appointed Mr. Donald Horne their agent in Scotland, vice Mr. Roderick Mackenzie, deceased. On Friday the examinations for degrees took place at the College of Surgeons, when, of fifteen candidates, ten passed and five were rejected. AMERICAN NEWS. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. We have further advices to-day from New York by a packet from that port. By her we have received dates from New York to the 3d February, being two days later than those brought to us by the Britannia steamer. The frost con tinued to be intense, so much so, that several persons who had been unfortunately benighted had perished before morn ing. New York was literally isolated—no mails had reached from the south for six days, nor from Boston and eastward for two at least. Persons could skate over to Long Island. Steam navigation was consequently put a stop to, and the mails which were dispatched overland could not be reckoned to accomplish the journey in less than treble the usual time. At Boston the very greatest exertion had been made to enable the steamer Britannia to leave the harbour; 400 men were employed to cut the canal through the ice ; they began at Fort Independence, and the first contractors gave up the work in despair, and several of the men retired severely frost bitten. It was, however, again undertaken with morevigour and success. The latest accounts from New Orleans announce the death of the lion. Alexander Porter, senator of the State of Louisiana, a man of talent and eminence. lie was a native of Ireland. In the Senate, on the 30th, the debate on Mr. M‘Dufae's Revenue Bill was not progressed with. Mr. Evans expressed a willingness to go on with the debate, but there was a very general desire expressed among senators to go into Execu tive Session, and the matter was postponed till the following day; not, however, before Mr. blgiutEe had given notice that he would change the character of the Bill, so as to ac commodate it to the views of those gentlemen who denied the right of jurisdiction in it present form. He would so modify it as to make it a Bill to repeal the existing tariff law. This modification,- it is understood, will open the whole subject of the tariff and the finances of the country to dis cussion. The Washington Correspondent of the Courier and En quirer remarks, that " The last speech of Mr. M'Duife, the closing part of which I did not hear, presents new matter fur grave and serious consideration. The language used by him should be placed before every man, so that the whole people can judge of the tone of feeling which obtains with that class of politicians of which Mr. iNPLutlie is the repre sentative, and also that the aims and objects of these men may be rightly understood. Yuu will see by refi3rence to the speech as reported, that Mr. M'lluffie gravely proposes a dissolution of the union, and a creation of 'three confede racies; one in the south-west, embracing the producing States; one in the north-west, embracing the grain-growing States; and one in the north-east, embracing the manufac turing States.' In this classification he does not regard agricultural or manufacturing labour as productive industry —a distinction which even his philosophy must teach him to be absurd." CANADA.—Mr. Buchanan, of Niagara, lately her Britannic Majesty's Consul at New York, has addressed a letter to his countrymen at work on th e W e ll an d C an al, proposing to m ee t tive married and five single men, as delegates from the Cork men, at ten o'clock on the 18th inst., at Port Robinson, and an equal number as delegates from the Connaught men at Thorold, at two o'clock, with a view to endeavour to recon cile the divisions between two factions.—Montreal Herald. Fitoat TuxAs.—Late news is received by Galveston papers of the 10th inst. The differences between President Houston and Congress were not adjusted. He had again declined to communicate the Executive correspondence with England, but offers to lay it before the Speaker and Foreign Commit tee of the House, and intimates that other papers communi cated under the seal or secresy had been exposed. He has also refused to comply with the request to recal Charles H Raymond, bearer of dispatches to the United States. It is reported that the negotiations between the Mexican and Texan Commissioners had been broken off. General Mercer, of Virginia, was there making arrange ments to visit Germany under colonisation contracts. NEW YORK COMMERCIAL NEWS, FEB. 2. Cotton has received a favourable impulse from the southern news. There is a better feeling, and the sales reach 2,000 bales. There continues to be a good domestic demand for Flour. Richmond city is wanted for shipment, at 5 dolls. 75c., but holders refuse that price. Sales of Flair„Seed at 9 dolls. 75 tee. ; Clover at 101 e. for poor up to 12' and 12k for very clean and free; Timothy 14 to 15 dolls. Nothing to report in grain. Provisions quiet. No business in exchange. Stocks as yesterday, perhaps a shade bettor I.S.—EYENINo.--The .(11e$ of cotton for the day reach 2,500 bale 4. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY. Of Wheat fresh up to-day the finest parcels commanded a steady sale, at prices fully equal to those of this day se'nnight. In the middling and inferior kinds only a moderate amount of business was transacted. Malting Barley at full quotations—grinding and distilling sort on easier terms. In Malt a trifling abatement in value was submitted. to. Oats at late rates. Beans, Peas, and Flour, at barely sta tionary prices. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. WHEAT—Essex Sr Kent, i MALT—Chevalier......... 031 to red 44s to 63s OATS—Yorkshire and Ditto, white Norfolk and Lin Potatoe coin, red Ditto white 454 to 58s black Irish, red 47s to 50s Cork, white ... ...... 19s to 20a Ditto, white Rva—Old New 36s to 38s I PEAS Grey BARLEY—Grinding 2ss to 29s Maple Malting Chevalier ..... .......... Ws to 35s Boilers s2s to 38s MALT--Sutiblk and NOT- FLOUR—Town made folk 568 to 62i Sudo k 348 to 38. Brown 50. to 548 Stockton & Nortoik 34a to 30 Kingston and Ware stis to 628 FOREIGN GRAIN AI , WHEAT—DantZIe 5l. to Ms D FLOUR IN BOND. BE/ila rFL ois 23s to 21's owt—American Baltic HatmLurgti 36s to AOs BARLEY ...... OATS—New Feed l4s to 16s, SMITHFIELD. The scarcity of really prime Scots induced the salesmen to hold for improved rates. Although we cannot quote any actual advance in prices, they may be considered the turn higher, yet the very highest figure realised for the above mentioned breed did not exceed 4s. per 81bs. The Mutton Trade may be considered steady, but by no means animated, at prices about equal to those obtained on Friday. A few very superior old Downs, realising 4s 6d per 81bs. Veal at about stationary prices. For Pigs late rates were well supported. Per Sibs. to sink the off4l. I. d. to I. d.l s. d. to s. d. Inferior Beasts 210 30 4 Inferior Sheep . . .... 3 0 3 2 Second quality itto 3 4 9 6, Second quality ditto... 3 4 9 6 Prime large Ozen 3• 9 10, Coares-woolled ditto.. 8 S 4 0 Prime &ota. &c. Large coarse Calves 9llO 4 41 Large H0g5............ 3 0 3 6 Prime small ditto 4 6 410 Small Porkers 310 4 Suckling Calves. each 12 0 29 0 I Quarter old Pigs. eaciil6 0 21 SUPPLY AT MARKET. Beasts. Sheep. I I Calves. Pigs. 2.319 I 24,560 83 " 3_7 iSEVIGATIC AND LEADMINNA2O6. With meat killed in the metropolis, we have been amply supplied. Prime Meat has sold steadily, at full quotations, but in all other kinds a limited amount of business has been transacted, and the prices of such are barely maintained. , At per stone, by the Carcase s. d. to s. d.l s. d. to 9. 6. Beef, inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior 2 4 2 8 - middling 2 6 29; - middling 2lO 8 2 - prime large 210 3 0 ( - prime 3 4 8 6 - prime small 3 2 3 4 i Pork, large 2 0 8 6 Veal 8 4 111/ -small ......... 3 ti 4 2 ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK. beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pip. Scotland SO 600 812 Yorkshire Norfolk Suffolk IS 120 70 Cambridgeshire 10 100 —• 60 Essex Surrey 42 400 219 :150 Devonshire Wiltshire Other parts Total 209 2,555 521 5,214 Previous week's arrival 355 2,572 820 3,350 Difference since our last... 146 7 1 136 BOROUGH BOP MEASULZIT. With the exception of Weald of Kents, in pockets, having advanced 2s, some parcels having produced 61 17s per cwt, we have no variation whatever to notice in the quotations. The demand, however, is very steady, with limited supplies on offer. DONOUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Prime qualities of Potatoes are in demand, at full prices ; but in other kinds very little is doing. WOOL IVIARZET. By private contract, notwithstanding the supplies offering are large for the time of year, the demand is active, at very full prices. TALLOW. There is but little variation in this market since our last report. There is ver7 little disposition to meddle with Tallow for the Autumn. I own Tallow is plentiful, and the price 41s 6d to 42s net cash. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(T HIS DAY.) LONDON, FEB. 26.—Wind, strong breeze from W. to S.W., with heavy passing clouds. DEAL, FEB. 24, A.m.—Wind W.N.W. to N.N.W., blowing strong ; P.M., N.N.E., moderate ; 25th, A. e., S.E. to S.W. and W.S.W., strong; P.M., ditto, a gale.-24th, Arrd. Portlev, Reed, China ; London, Edwards / Singapore ; Hope, Goss, Sava ; Lady Margaret, Thompson, Mauritius ; Grace Darling, Airth, Madeira.-25th, Cumbrian, Dring, Calcutta ; William Gales, Venies, Ceylon ; Belle Creole, Purchase, and Helen Mary, Pal mer , M aur i t i us; Floraville, Rio. Sld. Eudora, Hobart Town ; Dorothea, Granada. Put back, Barbara Gordon, for Tobago, with loss of foretopmast, &c., arrived from the River, and remain, Rover, for South Seas Erin, China ; Lady Rowena, Calcutta ; Ida, Bombay •, Vigi lant, Cape of Good Hope; Princess Royal, Gambia; Barba (lees, St. Kitts. PC;RTSMOUTII, FEU. 24.—Wind S.S.W. to W.N.W. ; 25th, W.S.W., a hard gale and verb squally.—Arrd. Mediator, Chadwick, New York, sailed 3d instant. COWICB, Fhii 44.—Acrd. Princess Charlotte, London for Belize ; Catherine, Mould, Charleston for Bremen. TORBAY, FEB. 25.—Put back Elizabeth, for Cadiz, with loss of topmasts , boats stove, &c. PLVAtouTzt, Faa. 25.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Sons of Com merce, Loudon for Singapore; George, London for Calcutta; Clarendon, London for Jamaica; Eliza, London for St. Vin cent's; Amazon, London for Calcutta. DARTMOUTH, FEB. 23.—Arrd. Anne, Cardiff for London, with loss of bulwarks, &c., having been struck by a sea dur ing a gale last night. FALMOUTH, FEB. 25.—Wind W.S.W., fresh gales and squall v.—Arrd.Perellau, Havre for Havannah ; Mary, Han nal'ord, Lisbon, with loss of jib-boom, bulwarks, and stan chions, and boats stove. Put back Albert, for Dominica. SWANSEA, FEB. 25.—Arrd. Jane Boyde, Middleton, Cuba ; Cynthia, Craig, Valparaiso. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 2 4.—Wind variable and easterly. 25. W.S.W. moderate.—Arrd. Antilla, Bushby, Valparaiso, Oct. 27. Mary White, Mazatlan and Valparaiso ; Ann Dingwall, Arthur, Porto Rico. William Peile and Brooke, Campbell, Buenos Ayres; Broad Oak, APCoy, Bahia; Lady Worsley, Yard], Rlaranham, 17th ult. ; Maguire, Durie, Savanilla, Dec. 29 ; St. Martin, Vaughan, Savannah, 28th ult. ; Cam bridge, Barstow, New York, 2d inst. Sailed, Ripley, Cal cutta • Mary, Demerara; Denison, Antigua; Persia, M o bil e; Washington, Savannah. 25. Zante, Tampico. Off, Burley, Patna, and Siren. WAIXFLEHT, FED. 24.—The Thomas and William, Cooper, of Lynn, is on shore on Wainfleet sands, with considerable damage—crew saved. _ _ Lif;VESTOFFE, FEB. 24.—The New Eagle, Marshall, in proceeding through the Roads during a gale, this morning, struck on the Ridge, but came off with assistance, and proceeded. OFF DOVER, FEB. 24.—Tanjore, Calcutta; Ida, Charles ton, for Copenhagen : Exporter. Anwell, Sydney, New South Wales, sailed Oct. 10. DEAL, FEB. 24.—Throughout last night it blew a gale at S. W. to W.N.W. The vessels all rode well. Feb. 25.—At 11 A.M. to-day, the wind veered to S.W., blowing strong, and soon increased to a strong gala from SW. to W.S.W. The shipping in the Downs are riding heavily; several have driven with considerable damage, and most of them have both anchors down. 7 r.m.—The gale continues with very severe squalls. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 24.—1 t blew a hard gale all last night from S.S.W. to N.N.W., during which the Elizabeth, 'Wil kinson, of and from Sunderland, coal laden, drove on shore in Stokes Bay, but was got off the following tide, apparently without damage. The Redcliff, Collins of Bristol, was aban doned 21st inst., lat. 48, lon. 7, having been iu contact with a brig, name unknown : crew saved and lauded here. FALMOUTH, FEB. 25.—1 t blew a violent gale on the night of the 23d inst., and continued till coon yesterd a y, w h en i t abated. Part f the cargo of the Gallovidea, from Newcastle to Liverpool, discharging at this port, is found to be damaged. CARDIFF, FEB. W.S.W., very strong.—The Margaret and Anna, Phillips, of Newport, is on shore on Breaksea Point, and it is expected will go to pieces. I.I.ANHADOCIi, FEB. 24.—The Susan, of Cork, from Bristol to Llanelly, is on shore in Oxwich Bay, and appears to be much strained, crew saved. RAmsaArE:Ficu. 4.—Several vessels have put in here with loss of anchors. The Magdelena Dorothea, Erkew, from Hull to Jersey, has put in here with four feet water in her hold, pumps choked, and mails damaged. ILFRACOMBE, FEB. 24.—The Margeretta, Cooper, from Swansea, has been assisted in here in a sinking state, with loss of bulwarks, &c. PORT TALBOT, Fan. 24.—The Sussex, Jones, from Lisbon to Bristol, got on shore last night to the Eastward of Forth cawl, but is expected off next springs, cargo safe. SCARBOROUIai, FEB. 25.—The yawls Emulous, of this port, and Jerome, of Foley, in making this harbour during a heavy gale at S.E. yesterday morni ng , caps i ze d an d sank ; crews drowned. The wreck of a small vessel with boat-stern and muster roll marked Ann, of Perth, has washed on shore at Staiuton. Gundsity, Fan. 24.—The John and Hannah's Endeavour, Lewaut, from Lynu, foundered last night in the Humber, having been in contact with a brig; crew saved. BRIDLINGTON, FEB. 25.—1 t came on to blow a very heavy gale at 8 r.az., on the 23d instant, during which the sloop Primrose drove ashore one mile to the northward ; crew saved. The Cemus, Pelham, of Jersey, with a cargo of salt, fur this port, has been brought in here entirely dismasted, having been boarded outside the Smither Saud, by a boat's crew from this place. The Speaker of the House of Commons had his third Parliamentary dinner on Saturday, at his mansion in Eaton-square. Among the company were—Lord Ashley, Viscount Jocelyn, Mr. Bottield, Mr. Pltunptre, Mr. Shirley, Sir Howard Douglas, Sir Stephen Glynne, Bart., Mr. Card well, Colonel Powell, Viscount Sandon, Sir R. H. Inglis, Bart., Mr. Estcourt, Hon. Wm. Bingham Baring, Mr. Emer son Tennent, Col. Peel, Captain Bolder°, Mr. Charles Hope, Viscount Mahon, Marquis of Douro, Hon. J. S. Wortley, Right Hon. F. Shaw, Mr. Packs, Mr. Maunsell, Sir Robert Pigott, Mr. Neville, Sir W. Heathcate, and Hon. R. Clive. On Saturday next the Right Hon. Gentleman holds his first levee. Sir Robert Peel had a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday last, at his private residence in Whitehall-gardens. It was the last of a series of three entertainments given by the Right Hon. I3art. on a larger scale than usual, to those Mem bers of the House of Commons who generally support the present Government. Covers were laid on this occasion for 48, and among the guests were Capt. Archdall, Mr. Ark wright, Mr. Balfour, Mr. Beresford, Mr. Banbury, Sir John Chetwode, Bart., Mr. Cresswell, Mr. Cripps, Mr. Eaton, Sir Edmund Filmer, Bart., Mr. Fuller, Mr. Ormsby Gore, Mr. W. Ormsby Gore, Mr. C. Goring, Mr. Greenall, Mr. Hamp den, Mr. Hornby, Sir John V. B. Johnstone, Bart., Capt. Jones, Mr. Lindsey, Mr. Mackenzie, Mr. W. F. Mackenzie, Mr. Mainwaring, Mr. C. Morgan, Mr. Rashleigh, Mr. J. Round, Colonel Rushbrooke, Mr. C. Russell, Mr. Walter Russell, Hon. Rose Scarlett, Hon. F. Tollemache, Mr. J. Tollemache, Mr. Tomline, Mr. Waddington Sir John Walsh, Bart., Mr. Wodehouse, Hon. Eli o t Yorke, Mr. Ludlow Bruges, Mr. Lefroy, Mr. Smollett, Mr. Blackstone, Mr. H. Kemble, Mr. D. S. Ker, Mr. Nathaniel Alexander, Mr. New degate, Mr. Knight. Pooß-LAW.—A lengthened investigation has just been concluded before an Assistant-Commissioner, relative to charges of ill-treatment of the inmates of Basford union workhouse, Nottinghamshire, when the whole appeared groundless, with the exception of some irregularity in the change of paupers' stockings. Fox CHASE.—The other day, Sir Henry Every's hounds ran a fox Into Derby. Poor Reynard, who was completely "run down," ran along Cross.lane, down to the brook, where two boys turned him, and he then ran through Mr. Ja y 's g arden into a field, where, haying taken refuge underneath a hea p of sticks, ibe was secured, and "bagged " (Cr another day' s " opiort."...—Dtr y Reputer.. • LAW INTELLIGENV ). QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)SI ' (Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Dr-soLLN an d a SPeci Jury.) THE QUEEN v. WILLIAMS AND °TITERS. , n a In this proceeding the Attorney and Solicitor-Generals 'ir; for the prosecution ; Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Clarkson for . f defendants. It was an indictment against three persoas the names of Mottram, Williams, and Horsley, ware b° „ us ti e d men in Cheapside, for having cheated the Crown of revvl L duties by managing, collusively with officers of the Cust°,7 to pass certain cases of French goods at a less duty than t,d laid down by the tariff. One of the defendants, Horsley', absconded; Williams pleaded Guilty; and Blottrani pu t the plea of Not guilty. A beelt Up to the time of going to press a fraud of 8 00 /. clearly proved, and evidence was being given by the C I: to prove much heavier delinquencies. The crosa-eitun de, tion of one witness for the Crown disclosed a system , e f t pravity of the most disgusting character—but the dread and not respect for, the libel law, warns us not to pu bli '" to details. This worthy, whose own evidence proved 1 2 T 1 0 , be far more guilty than the persons under prosecution, 194, tually at the present moment in the receipt 0/fift een To lugs a day from the Crown ! The case was proceeding ghee we went to press. COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) (Before Chief Justice TINDAL.) c the aso The Court was engaged this morning in hearing od of Selby v. Blockade. It was au issue directed f r°W . Vice-Chancellor's Court, and the object was to ascernuhnia whom certain moneys should be given. There was 13° in the cause of the least general interest. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY)' (Sit ting at Nisi Wius in London.) so There were a few s special jury eases and me cor a l jury cases set down for trial to-dav, but nothing of 31/ teresting nature came before the Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE' MAR YLEBONE.—(THIS DAY'i t e Win. Ford, an Irish labourer , was placed before 31 1 . , 0 00 linson, charged with having stolen from an unfinished in Ridgemont-place, Paddington, five window-sesu„,`,Ao l taming about 60 squares of glass, the p r operty of Mr. r '— Allen builder. fro° John Hanworth, living nearly opposite the houses which the sashes were abstracted, sa w a t ruc k standing 'of, on Saturday night, about twenty minutes after seve l ' 4 4ll. suspecting something wrong, he w a t c h e d, an d soon , prisoner came out, and, after placing the sashes on the ttu he moved off with it. The witness followed, and 010. into custody of Sergeant Taylor, on suspicion of stealinV„ Sergeant Taylor, 11 S., said that the prisoner told Dico'ail was going to take the property to a Mr. James, bu t l ived , nut satisfactorily answer as to where that g entlennul , a ta and would not give his own address. He was therefor e into custody. m e otit 4 Joseph Sfartin, clerk of the works to Mr. Allen, ai • bJ the property, and the prisoner h a vi ng no thing to is)' - defence, was fully committed for trial. bu l Margaret Robinson was charged with a street row — i c 'our the case could not be fully proved. She was, howel r c :',oll mitted for a month to the Hous e o f COrrection as 2 dish person. CLERKENWELL-(THIS DAY' Richard Briggs 2, Cottage-buildings, Pancras-sliii'coi tenham-court-road, was charged with having been d driving a cub without a badge. the • Ou Saturday afternoon police-constable, G 72, " t - h , prl' duty in Margaret-street, Bagnigge-wells-road, s,„,st vr j;, - 'O Ol , soner driving the cab 1,263 at a rapid pace. lu'v ri, e was drunk, and had not proceeded far before be ,„ e ;trefr, cab over the foot of a man, who was crossing t he to tt . The officer took him into custody, and sent the ca b r Green-yard. It was there ascertained that the prit.„ lle j talr, an unlicensed driver, and had, according to his "Lifer fr went, been asked to drive the cab by John Baxter , "- Mr. Seabrook, cab proprietor. cba r t i Baxter who was present was placed at the bar an d d e fel , `,. l by Mr. Seabrook, with neglect of duty. Baxter ,° 1 ,150" was, that he merely asked the prisoner to attend t ° , whilst in the Green Man public-h ouse , O x ford-strew' Briggs admitted he was unlicensed. Pert a Mr. GREENWOOD said that Briggs had committ!' r ly bad offence. If the proprietor of the cab knoriilo - an unlicensed person to drive it, he subjected 0 0: to a fine of 101., and the licensed driver who emplur ' j licensed person rendered himself liabl e to a fine of• -4 thvioa`, a mercy that Briggs had not kill e d some body o r o r 01 ',' tine Briggs, who had incurred a p ena lty of sL , i n'ter month's imprisonment and hard l a b our , and v' t shillings, or seven days. THE LATE MILITARY OUTRAGE AT 8. - 2, go% At the East Sussex adjourned sess i ons on Friday Hubbard, a corporal in the 7th Hussars, priva tes Ne t h . Baldwin, Ill'lntyre, and 'Weston, and John Keen , 6 : 1 ; Brie Captain Sir W. Russell, were all indicted for havieg,' 0 01 ton, on the Ist of February, u n l aw f u lly and riotous l y olse; bled to disturb the peace, a n d b e i ng so asse mbled, f or a otil e i fully and violently assaulting Lorenzo Leurien s A loe persons, and damaging their house and proPertY% i Off'ic'e soners, except the corporal, had been bailed out by t? 1 , 1,. The prisoners (exc e pt Willi ams ) were a ll f o und e i ` l lol 3 r Earl;of Chiche s te r , i n pass i ng sentence, sa id the hvenial ,,o been guilty of a most serious offence, and one whie h ,,,, discr e ;, the infliction of heavy puni s h men t . H e r egretted 00 1 , ° , dit which to some extent th e i r con d uc t m ust thro w regiment to which they belon g giled. He had kli T e a o 7th all his life. The regiment had been distinis u .,,d P. for its services in the field, it s con d uct i n ga rrison, t pl 4 l " abilities of its commanders. He had no doubt tbat h : v 1 , 0 4 ' Boners had received previous provocation, and tb,_ 144 „,70 19 `,3' labouring under excitement, for under an other co - 7,71 11', had disgraced themselves, ollu v could he believe that British soldiers could coullu', : 4 o " outrage. Still they discredit on the distinguished regiment to which longed. The peaceable inhabitants of Brighton 113 . ° 0 - 11 3 ; ) protected against such outrages, particularly trot:ll°SO', were stationed there for the Five:the of aiding the Vess i in the preservation of the peace. The sentence of t. 1%, was, that they be committed to the House of Correc.`pited al kept to hard labour for ten months. The case terg li „ midnight, after occupying ton hours, during which tu 0 was densely crowded, 0 , Qui TAM ACTIONS.—On Thursday a O ttir ,,,oo o` g ' made to the House of Comm ons o f the writs of sum f? sued out of the Court of Exchequer during the las t ried.tr of 1843. The write amounted to 34 in number, silos..,Pr the debt and penalties, and issued by Mr. James t he foP ho ° fo sell, of 37, Percy - streat, Bedford-square, ag ains , t i - the ing parties, at the suit of Charles Henry Russe ll , the solicitor, and John Lewis :—Lord George Bentincw, Jo, of Eglinton ; the others against George Anson, Bowes, John Gully, Peter Clover, Henry Jus tice, 5, .1,0„ Crockford, 'William Henry Gregory, John G r A ea l tr i e lK i ii ' Bayley, Jonathan P ee l, Ch ar l es G rev ill e, a nd pro `'' .¢r In the Bill, now before the House of Commons, " rs c° ,o l that iu future, before an action can be brough t ma y penalties on games, the sanction of the Attorn e y . ) I f , must first be obtained. tha t. THE EXCISE.—W e have already stat°- Moreton Carr has been appointed to succeed AP * . - ,400 0 .; Solicitor of Excise in England. It is now wi d t - c rr , „„a the salary of Mr. Carr is fixed at 2,000/. a vea l, tion of 5004 on the amount hitherto received hY; fscm iv ii of that department. The office of Solicitor 01 Scotland, with a salary of 1,5001. per annul i:, Oil lately filled by Mr. Carr, will, we h ear, be don e it t cly, as a separate appointment, and the establishreeuot 3,°L be otherwise provided for. By this new arrang eul to a year will be saved to the public. —Observer. 00, Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston 61 1,0 1 4 if the Marquis of Clanricarde, Viscount Melbour i . e 'iye, P O4 , Russell, Dowager Lady Holland, Viscountess J e r„, l l -Cfj Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess Leveson , ":01/' Hon. W. Cowper, Mr. Charles Greville, Mr. L thei r ,i 0 5 4 distinguished circ le at dinner on Saturday las t, ' art el f ion on Cariton-house-teiTace. In the latter P oo elf", evening her Ladyship had a soiree, when aw e " clt • were the French Ambassad or an d Countess de r, 3r013 j Marquis of Normanby, Count Kielmansegge, 13319 t, Lo r ; Earl and Countess of Clarendon, Lord Beauno ~.3 , jorwA i r Lady Monteagle, Lord J. Manners, Baroness Laubil BJ pelt Swedish Minister and Countess Bjornstjerno , 1341 ACO P jerna, Lord Seymour, Mr. and Mrs. E. Buller, Lor a D and a great number of distinguished personage s ' n ight 0 14 YOUTHFUL ELOPEMENT.-011 Friday o f /‘ gentlemen arrived here from Warwi c kshire, in 0 1 7. if v ,7 )l ' lady, aged IS, who had el o p e d w iti a ' A gen tl e man, age d . were traced successively to Birmingham,Tdanche"e and thence to this island. Suspicion having been , ,e cco r D s that the fugitives had set out f or B a ll au gh, the pa rt lost no time in making all p oss ibl e se arch in ° l eve r, tile a without success,. On retutning te Douglaki, " 1 : 9 00 114 ;,,11 19 f away couple were discovered in lodgings, passing t"_, rio oPkollf, uncle and niece We need scarcely add, that then: 4 ' oc 060 1 . 0 0 1 ; had not been tied ; although the young lady rePea t t bet ib e c father, who was one of the party in search of D er ' fl i o g, j,l O have " George" for a husband! On Saturday Wol e party embarked en beard the King Orry, and r ecur • 0 11 1 pool.—Mona Rerala. je• PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS IN .-nvd,o,t hol in' e , N o thegen Russian Government," says: the Journal des m iy - e ll j e rr_4 lllljr cidedly declared war against the civilization A l do it ,GoriP o f rows and philosophic spirit of our age, and every Jo t be . so vier 0 further progress in this deplorable course. Eve ry . DY a ' s . journals bring us accounts of persecutions o tee. t „, the Emperor against the Jews who inhabit to s brim . and t c fer, ukase has filled the cup of persecution to th e w e vatt . to duced that unfortunate population to despair. 0 the fa 'lO ;I the most unfortunate period of our history, an d ‘ r t otas. t° of ° c i d' which dictated the revocation of the edict of "„ 00 , example for this tyranny which has struck halt , : otio , a0r ...40 0 1 ; When we consider, that without say serio us 0 0 , the moat frivolous pretext, an entire industrious r i ; ! r ed to c is c i. tvo t , women, children, and old men—have been coOP , th ew homes en masse, to break the bonds which attsc.: 000 ,0 01 11 : 1: , 0 . ; native soil, to renounce their affections , their t he 00 ,1o_ r their interests, to seek in unknown Po" see 0k 'f o p .c ground marked out for them by the desP . c4 _ , eea t i o involuntarily it be really Europe in tn: th e ist , Ao. whether it be not in the remotest corner . _ a l opie j I.l r o_" A b y rights of humanity have been violated and a l !._„ g ortle s c % We almost imagine that we see the transport t.wi". our c Kings Darius and Nebuchadnezzar repea s t r, „o weight 4,e, society in which human misery or death I " 400 1,04: 00 ;o; parison with the caprice of a conqueror." 1" letters and journals describe the Jews r ro eu e e ' o o publishes a letter, dated Berlin, sth instan ed t, , il_ta n ti _ ng , o lh tle of P neg i f dominions, although severely grieved, as 1 1 1 t. r we re 11 ro jeth , and talent, the more surprising as the Polish oer"' nabbi, tt l ° vitr i°l2 , considered to be half barbarians. The , )1 , • e on J oer• his suftring t et.. , quarters to interest himself for awo nge . be was lately at Berlin, and received applications (O w 5 01 Israelites, highly distinguished in literatu re,w_,. Lehman, formerly director of the Slate Gazet te, ce _ 2' l_ l7 0 t t , Highness was pleased to say, that a representati on,ror rep , of Prussia, who referred him to the strongest terms, sl*uld be made to the Empe . • ed en his Jewish subl et, n . 0 to the oppression practised ine' this remonstrance is anxiously expected. eye _ O O SUICIDE AT WATERLOO-BRIDG E • &eas ed 0 1 ; dd few minutes after eleven o'clock, a dec n en .. Y: )f idales Prij°";eochearotit passed through the tollkeeper's gate e t. e tn_a r e: a , . 0 ,01 , of Waterloo-bridge. On arriving at th e was observed suddenly to quit the_path, j ou 1 1 1 11 f t he throw herself from the parapet. EverY ea ' - ` dex ioetl o "- to rescue her from her fate, but from the the ° et ' evening, no traces could be discovered. .. 0 An Irishman was once brought liP ic pe _ ' six ' gistfates for marrying six wives. The magistr to , _ A ,I Ivor he could be so hardened a villain " rhos • or Paddy, " I was trying to get a good one."lb "A lbe rt , sala her t 11 1 A PRETTY COMPLIMENT. —" A _ I , as jestv, the other day, " do you ever recal ou r ' !tr i o. to Treport, with pleasure "Of course, i,report his Royal Highness, " for I can never t hink ort' out thinking of Eu." f th 13e 9 ' 0 1 0 ro BADMINTON PARK.—The , who had the misfortune to fracture a rlb,lsl,e.Y.fcirenC" from his horse while following the hotuads, vu Tuesday, is goiug vu famrably. - - • c . 6.1 • a ri Il Pi lal Ii au gf is 41i 17 a hal tuz loth be AT f VI ) to, 111 L I 1.4