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is him, " Have patience; we must still hope ; all the lambs I a re not yet come for the wolf to eat them." I knew myself well enough that I was no longer worthy of life. I ask you for five minutes more. The crime which I have committed, it is great ; but it does not belong to me to set myself np so high as his Majesty. But the French, they love him who is for the people. I always called Louis Philippe the Napoleon of Peace. And then at the report of my ex plosion I assure you he was not troubled ; he endured the whole artillery of the great assassin, wtich is myself. ( Here Fieschi struck his breast with violence.) No, the King was in nowise troubled ; and hence they cried Vive le Roi r and from this day foreigners will say that Louis Philippe he is very capable of putting himself at the head of armies ; and Louis Philippe, he may say to his children, See, my chil dren, to what a crown exposes one. The Neapoleonists, they have rallied round the actual Government because they have their national flag. I leave the rest, Gentlemen. I beg the life of my two accomplices. Do not kill that good old man ; he will tell you the whole truth. And I, I shall be con demned ; for I ask nothing but to go down to posterity, and I shall be happy in doing so. I have nothing more to say. I am waiting for the moment of the scaffold, and I shall march to it with redoubled steps. I shall not flag ; I shall mount the ladder, and then commend myself to God. I have made my political confession, and I will make my religious confes sion. lam not a heathen. I have nothing more to say. Fieschi hesitated for some instants, to consider whether he should ask anything more, but the President put on end to his hesitation by addressing himself to the other prisoners. Fieschi then folded his arms, and sat down. The President—Morey, have you anything to add to what your counsel have said in your behalf? Morey—l have nothing to add, Sir. but that I protest, and shall do so to the very last, that I am innocent. The President—Pepin, have you anything to add in your defence ? Pepin—l have only to insist upon my innocence. The President—And you, Boireau, have you anything to say ? Boireau—Only a few words. Then, reading a paper, he continued—l should be wanting in duty if I did not begin offering my thanks to my counsel for his zealous exertions in my defence. This done. I have to supplicate the Court to show its indulgence towards me. lam here in consequence of hav ing frequented pernicious societies that are the bane of youth. The Court may say Boireau is still young, and may live to ob literate his errors. I hope, therefore, that your judgment will not inscribe on the tablet of its condemnations the unfortunate name of Boireau. The President—The other day I stated that I would put some questions to you at the end of the trial.. Recollect your self. Have you any further revelations to make. Boireau—l will say all I know. Ceitain vague reports were in circulation, which I attributed to the spirit of party. But I am in a very difficult position_; for the Procureur-General has already turned to my disadvantage my candid avowals. However, I will say what I know concerning the plot at Neuiily, for I have related everything respecting the attempt. He then repeated his former evidence. The President—Have any of the Counsel for the prisoners anything more to add? Profound silence. The proceedings are closed. The Court immediately retired into the Council Chamber, when it was resolved to postpone the deliberation upon the judgment titl to-morrow (this day). We hear that the Court will continue to sit in permanence with closed doors till the judgment is come to, and will then resume its public sitti-gs to pronounce it, however late the hour may be. MEETING TO PETITION AGAINST THE NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY, (From the Leeds Times.) On-Monday last, at twelve o'clock, a meeting of the inha bitants of the borough of Leeds was held at the Court-house in that place, to petition Parliament for the Repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. At the commencement of the proceedings a small number only was assembled, but the inces sant accessions during the early part of the proceedings soon filled the area of the Court-house ; until at the close a great number of individuals were present. GEORGE GOODMAN, Esq., Mayor of the borough, opened the business of the meeting by stat►ng that a requisition, signed by eighty-two highly respectable householders, requesting . Lim to convene a meeting on the subject, had been presented to 0.1 the Friday previous. The Mayor then proceeded to ;read the requisition, and said that lie had very gladly complied with it in caling that meeting. Having done which, he resigned tho chair into the hands of the assembly. Mr. R. BAKER moved, and Mr. ONES:JAN seconded, that the May or be requested to resume the Chair, which was car ried unanimously. _ _ _ _ ...... His WORSHIP on re-ocupying the chair was greeted with the most hearty cheering, when, as soon as it had subsided, he said—l have no doubt that on this occasion every one will have a fair and impartial hearing, and that this first public meeting held under the Municipal Act, will be so conducted as to show the good feeling and right principles of the in habitants of this town.—(Cheers.) I had scarcely been ele vated to the high and important station which I now occupy, before I was called upon to hear a case, in which the question of the Stamp Duty was involved. The magistrates used every argument and every entreat) in their power, to induce the parties to keep the law in future, and bad their request Leen complied with, a mitigated penalty only would have been awarded ; but these arguments not proving effectual, the ma gistrates had out one plain course left—to administer the law as they found it.—(Hear, hear.) I shall now be happy to hear any gentleman who has any observations to make. Mr. THOMAS PLINT, merchant, then presented himself, and was received with applause. After some observations, he pro ceeded to read the following resolution ist. That this meeting regards all restrictions on the ac quirement of knowledge, and on the exercise of the privilege of unfetterd discussion, as unsuited to tie spirit and institutions of a free government." After which he said, I am sure, Sir, this is a proposition which does not require from me, in this assembly, any particular or extended remarks. A free and popular government of course rests upon public opinion for support.—( Cheers.) A free and popular government is therefore greatly interested in the freest and fullest communication of information to the public.-- (Cheers.) If a body are to be tested by their acts, those acts must be known, and these can only be so known when fully and freely published.—( Cheers. ) I consider that a tax, the effect of which is to prohibit the circulation of all newspapers, prevents the acts and conduct of public men from being known to the whole community, and is injurious to a free government.—(Cheers.) The establishment and conducting of a newspaper requires a large capital, and when you add to that cost the amount of the tax, the cost becomes great, and shuts out the opportunity of communicating information to all those persons who cannot afford to pay for the paper.—( Cheers. ) But, admitting these principles some persons think it not desirable to give this vast amount of information. If ours were a despotic government, or an oligarchy, it would be interested in keeping the people ignorant, and de priving of the means of acquiring knowledge the men who would submit implicitly to any course that Government might adopt.—(Hear, hear.) But this is a Government founded on public opinion, and which has given to the people that which they did not possess before. It has thrown the choice of municipal officers upon the rate-payers.—( Loud cheers.) Then the Govern ment has done something more, it has extended the choice of Mem bers of Parliament to a much larger number than possessed it before. The Government are extending a degree of power to the people, which demands that they should be as fully and perfectly informed as they possibly can be.—( Hear, hear ) What is the nature of the trust? It is, that they shall have the right of choos ing those individuals who are to administer their municipal affairs. It is of the utmost importance, when so great a power is exercis;d, that the people should be fully informed. Mr. Plint then very suc cessfully replied to the objection urged by some individuals that a little knowledge was an evil • and concluded a long, but very able address, by alluding to the different tone which would be adopted Editors of newspapers in general, if the stamp duty was repealed. The speaker concluded amidst loud applause. Mr. JOSEPH LEES, who was also received with marks of appro bation, came forward to second the resolution. He said, Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, in seconding this resolution, I shall have very little to do. For many years past, many will be aware that this tax has been resisted on the ground that we could not spare such a sum of money, and the Government had no means of sub stituting another which would be equally agreeable. But I have the pleasure to say that this ground is entirely cut from under the feet of the Ministry.—( Cheers.) During the last week a deputa tion of about thirty-five individuals, all but five of whom were Mem bers of Parliament, waited upon. Lord Melbourne as a deputation from the Radical Union of London, with a petition, praying that the Government would remit the entire tax—Dr. Birkbeck was at the head. A great deal of discussion took place, and in so straight forward a way were the arguments used, that they cut from under the feet of Ministers those objections. Lord Melbourne quits the ground, and puts it upon another point, and I shall now take up that objection. He says a change in the morals and habits of the people in duced them to continue the tax. Granted that he is sincere, which I believe he is—is he progressing in the right path by continuing the Stamp Duty on Newspapers ? I think that the result of a re peal would be this, there would be a number of individuals, both religious and political, who would publish their opinions, which are considered illegal ; and I have seen them brought into this Court- House and receive sentence for a breach of the law ; but there are individuals, whose moral rectitude is so Feat that it will not allow them to transgress the law, who, if this law was repealed, would furnish papers of a highly moral character. Lord Melbourne is not warranted in this assertion of his ; public opinion is against him. If . we look back ten years to what has happened, if we go further back to twenty years—if the people were dissatisfied (I will take machinery for instance)—if the people were dissatisfied, they hurled their vengeance not only against machinery, but against the people who employed it. Now, however, the people have so progressed in intelligence, that such a thing as the destruction of machinery is never heard of in any of our manufacturing districts. The MAYOR then put the Resolution, which was carried with cheers. Mr. Councillor BOWER then came forward, and was received with loud cheers. He said—Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I rise to propose the next resolution, which is— That the imposition of a tax on political knowledge partakes of the pernicious and odious character of an infringement of the freedom of the press. This, Sir, is what was put into my hands , and I should like !o leave out one word ; but not wishing to throw any impediment in the way, I shall take it as it lays before me. This subject, Sir, has beenon my mind for many years back—it is not a new idea with me that not only political, - should but every other kind of knowledge, come free and easy to the people.—(Cheers.) Years and years have rolled over iiscores since I first conceived that there should be no tax upon knowledge ; it should be within the rea ch of the operative, the workingela- it free and easy—{ Cheers)—rnds. I mean that they should ha ve that they should have publica cations from the first press in t h e country at a cheap rate. I don't ,agree with these cheap (unstamped) publications. On political matters I always wish to submit to the law in being, but do every thing I can in a legal manner to throw off th at odious' tax.—( Hear, h ear .) But there is one observation which my friend, in his abld and eloquent speech, made. He alluded very nicely (I may say it plain out) —(Laughter)—to those whose interest it i s t o keep the tax on. As it is, it takes a greater capital, and they will have .fewer opponents.—(Laughter, and " That's it.") I don't blame th em, but I say it is no hardship for men in business to withdraw p ut ' pf their capital, and to carry on the same business with les s . Mr. Councillor CI.ARE seconded the resolution. He also w a cheered on rising, and addressed the assembly as follows :—I rise with great pleasure to second the resolution which my worthy friend Mr. Bower has proposed. When Mr. Pitt was asked to restrict the liberty of the press, his reply was, " No, the press is like the licensed libertine, and must be free." For my own part I consider it should be as free as the air we breathe. (Cheers. ) Gentlemen object to the liberty of the press because they say many things are inserted in a spurious way. That I admit ; but that is not the use of the press, it is the abuse of the press. (Cheers.) If I was asked how I would remedy the abuses of the press, I would say by the use of it. (Loud cheers.) The MAYOR then put tho resolution, which was also carried by acclamation. Mr. Councillor BAKER next came forward, and was extremely well received by the assembly. He spoke as follows—Mr. Mayor and gentlemen, I have the honour to be one of the requisitionists — (cheers)—whose name is attached to the paper, and in compliance with which this meeting has been called. I have also the honour to have a resolution put into my band, which I shall in a little time submit to the meeting. I shall have to plead the same excuse that other gentlemen have done, that the shortness of the period has not enabled me to collect so many facts, neither will it enable me to say so much on this subject as I should like to have done ; for there is no man in this assembly, or in this country, more anxious to see the entire abolition of this tax, than the humble individual who now stands before you. (Cheers.) I consider the tax upon newspapers not only an objectionable tax, but in the words of a Chancellor of the Exchequer, in 1834, " a bad and an illegal tax."—( Cheers. ) It is necessary, how ever, so long as the law exists, that we should obey it ; but it is equally necessary to see that these laws have within themselves the utility they profess, before we can be called upon to give them our implicit obedience. We have this right left us, the right to peti tion, and we must petition that House from which alone we can obtain redress, that the redress may be as speedy as possible. Our ancestors formed these laws to suit the measures of the times, but they suit not iss---(Cheers); not because we are less obedient than they were, but because we have risen above their necessities. When we petition the Legislature for the repeal of any tax which presses heavily upon any individuals or communities, it becomes us that we should explain to Government how these taxes do press upon us; and I am of opinion that we can show that the tax upon newspapers does press heavily upon the community, and that we Kaye strong grounds for petitioning for its repeal. (Cheers. ) It operates injuriously because it circumscribes the diffusion of civil knowledge—it operates injuriously, as it gives precedence to that class of productions which have been deprecated by preceding speakers, and which must be deprecated by every individual who gives attention to the subject.—The speaker concluded a long speech amidst the applause of the meeting. He moved 3d. That this meeting therefore deems the Stamp Duty on Newspapers to be an impost of the most objectionable nature, and regards its total abolition as an object deserving the support of every friend of liberty. Mr. CUM 311 NS was also greeted with loud plaudits. He said— Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, I have the pleasure of being allowed to second the motion you have just heard commented upon. The variety of observations. all tending to the same happy effect, which you have already heard, leaves one of limited capacity very little to add on the present occasion.—(Laughter.) I am going to observe, that taxes of every sort, both physical and moral, I have a perfect hatred of. I had the,pleasure, some years ago, of showing a foreign friend through the streets of London, with all the pride of an Eng lishman when he goes over the metropolis of the •world. He ad mired our shops and our streets, but remarked on the paucity of our windows ; he said, I am surprised you should have such bad taste in the first place, and so little physical knowledge in the second, as to exclude both light and air. I was compelled to explain to him, that it was not to keep out the light and air, but to keep out the tax-gatherer.—(Cheers and laughter.) The prohibition of those blessings which nature has given us in common with all its crea tures, appears to have been a refinement upon this recrement. But this has been refined on again; for not only our physical eye, but our mental eye, our mind's eye, is more completely blinded by the oppression of this enactment.—(Cheers.) Any restriction en the acquirement of knowledge is in effect to keep mankind in that state of moral blindness. as much as this tax upon windows has tended to keep us in physical darkness ; the removal of one is desirable, the removal of the other is indispensable — we may get over the first, for if we choose we can take a walk out of doors; but as regards mental or moral darkness where are we to look, to each other? Why, if the blind lead the blind, we know where they wilt go. As to the objections of those who themselves possess what they so adroitly term the uselessness of a little knowledge, for if they had been very wise, they would have seen the folly of attempt ing to keep in darkness so bright a luminary as the human in tellect, but upon the principle and feeling that a man with sue eye is king amongst the bind.—(Laughter.) They were very well satisfied with their one eye, provided they could keep both your's blinded. Some of the objectors to enlightenment—to in fsrmation—lieve been pleased to say that we of the lower or:leis have a taste for coarse viands. I deny the allegation, both morally and physically ; for not one amongst us would sit down to a toad in a hole, if we could get a nice slice of a sirloin of roast-beef. —(Loud cheers and laughter.) But it is no less true than ex traordinary, that the grossest, the most vicious (if I may call it se) of literary garbage which the press of this kingdom pours forth, is to be found in the publications patronised and reed by the first and the highest classes in society, and these in the shape of a Sunday press. There are two of them—and as I don't stand in f: ar of editors' thunders, and as the Bull may I,ot think it worth while to take the opportunity to rage at such a cal; as myself, and as the master spirit of the Age may not think me worth a consideration, I shall venture a few re marks.—(Loud laughter and cheers.) The two Sunday pap, rs, the Age and the John Bull, strange to say, have a circulation greater than that of any other paper in this kingdom, and this also amongst the highest nobles and classes in the kingdom, and I am sorry to say, one of them the elergyrnen.—(Hear, hear.) If I wished to present to a foreigner a paragraph partaking of seurril lity and brutal feeling of the worst description, the columns and the pages of the Ape and John Bull, not to say abound in them, but are full of nothing else. lam free to conies; that if the JJIO Bull and the Age upon the same principle were to be released from the shackles of this tax, and promulgated for a halfpenny, curiosity might induce you to buy them once, but after the first glance, not one of you would offer another farthing for such (as they call it) trash.—( Cheers.) In observing further upon the effect of a free competition, Mr. C. observed, that although at pres4nt some profit might be got out of dishonest prints, when the duty was repealed it would be out of the power of the Carlton Club or any other hone "to get a bit of honest roguery"when the people can get truth at the same price. The speaker concluded a most hurnourous speech amidst great cheering. Mr. SMITHSON and another person in the crowd supported the resolution, which was carried as the previous-line. Mr. H. RICH A RDSON (Editor of the Leeds Times) said—as the meeting had already expressed their hostility to the Newspaper Stamp Duty, it is my lot to call on them to petition Parliament against it. I will first beg leave to say •a word in self-defence. Newspaper editors have been attacked by a previoui speaker, and as one of them I wish to defend myself. As to the dogmatism or arguments of my writings, it is not for me to judge ; but I never have, and never will, as a newspaper editor, make a personal attack on any individual. The resolution that I have to propose, is as follows:- 4th. That the following petition from the inhabitants of Leeds to the Honourable House of Commons be left for signatures at the Leeds Newspaper Offices, and at other places, and afterwards be forwarded to Edward Baines, Esq., M.P., for presentation ; and that Sir John Beckett, Bart, M.P., Lord Morpeth, M.P., Sir 0. Strickland, Bart., M. P. , T. Wakley, Esq., M. P. , J. Hume, Esq., M.P., Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P., E. L. Bulwer, Esq., M. ~ J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., and Dr. Bowring, M.P., be requested to support the prayer of the petition. "TO THE HONOURABLE THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOMOF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRE LAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED: " The Humble Petition of the Undersigned Inhabitants of the Town and Borough of Leeds, " Sheweth,— " That your petitioners regard the Stamp Duty on Newspapers as an impost alike indefensible in principle and pernicious in practice. - " That your petitioners regard the tax as obnoxious on financial grounds because it defeats its own ends, by obstructing the circula tion of advertisements, and thereby limiting the consumption of other taxed commodities. " That your petitioners regard the tax as obnoxious on moral grounds, because it drives the labourer to seek for information and amusement at the public house, which otherwise he might procure at home, and thus encourages and increases drunkenness. " That your petitioners regard the tax as obnoxious on political grounds, because it deprives the largest class of the community of the means of acquiring political knowledge, and thereby unfits them for the right performance of their duties as citizens. " That those late Acts of the Legislature which bestow on num bers of the industrious classes political and municipal privile_ es, render it highly important to place within their reach the means of learning the acts of those whom they, in the exercise of their fran chise, have invested with important trusts. " That your petitioners, considering that a reduction of the tax would scarcely alleviate the evil, but materially postpone the re medy, beg respectfully to state to your Honourable House their firm conviction, that nothing less than a total abolition of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers will meet the requirements or satisfy the de mands of the nation. " Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray your Honourable House wholly to remove the Stamp Duty on Newspapers, and to adopt such other measures as may be requisite to render the aboli tion of the tax efficient to the welfare of the people." The speaket continued—After so much has been said, little is left for me to do ; but there is one point which has been overlooked by preceding speakers—the question of reduction or abolition—on which I have a few remarks to offer. A fact came to my know ledge the other day, bearing strongly upon the three points of the present duty, reduction, and abolition. At a village near Leeds, there is a congregation of about three hundred indivi duals of a sect who have several monthly religious periodicals, at Id. and • 2d. each. In that congregation there are seventy religious periodicals circulated per month.—(Hear.) In the same village are four other congregations, amounting to about 900, of sects, none of whose religious periodicals are lower than 4d. each, and among these, although thrice as numerous, not half the num ber of these publications are circulated as among the congrega tion of 300 who get the ld. and 2d. publications. These may be taken as examples of deduction and abolition. Now for the ex isting duty. Nina years ago, when there were no religious pe riodicals lower than 6d., which is less than the price of a stamped newspaper, that congregation which now gets seventy pamphlets per mon h, did only take in five. Dr. Birkbeck also mentioned a fact of a similar nature, when he waited on the Premier as one of the deputation already mentioned. Some years ago, a person opened the Rotunda in London, as a place of public amusement, the admission being 3d.: he found he could not pay a rent of twenty shillings a week. He reduced the admission to ld., and was then able to pay five pounds a week, and clear a fair profit be sides. After some further remarks, Mr. Richardson said, in con clusion, I congratulate you on the prospect given by the liberal policy of the Government, and the combination and determination of the people, of the speedy and complete abolition of the stamp duty on newspapers. Mr. Councillor Baeww seconded the adoption of the petition , which was the n p u t f rom t h e Ch air, and agreed to with acclamation. Mr. GREGORY moved, and Mr. SMITHSON seconded, the ap pointment of a Committee to superintend the signing and forward ing of the petition for presentation. Mr. Councillor BUTTREY moved a vote of thanks to the Mayor, which was scleonded by Mr. JOHN CIiIESMAN, and responded to by tremendous cheering, waving of hats, and other tokens of ap probation. Mr. Councillor BOWER then put the motion, which was carried by acclamation. The MAYOR rose to return thanks, when he was instantly saluted with several distinct rounds of applause. As soon as the cheering had subsided, his Worship said, I most sincerely thank Mr. But trey, and also the Gentleman who seconded the motion, and you for supporting me in the chair. It is the first time that I have oc cupied a place so important ; I can only say, when the public wish to be called together on any business, I shall be most happy to attend them.—(Loud cheers.) The Meeting then separated. S U 'l' 1-1 E Y'S C 0 NIT p E THE SECOND VOLUME WAS THIS DAY PUBLISHED. London : Baldwin and Cradock, Paternoster-row. HAMBURG, FEBRUA RY 5, 1336. A r i N approach of the 24th INSTANT, HEINE ' 1 1.5 BROTHERS, Contractors for the GREAT LOTTERIES of the State of Hamburg, beg to state that Tickets cf the SIXT Y SEVENTH HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, Warranted Undrawn, will sell between the 12th and 23d instant, at Banco 'Marks 200, or 151., say Fifteen Pounds. The largest Prize of Banco Marks 100,000 net, will moot probably be drawn on the 24th instant, it being a Premium for the FIRST DRAWN Prize of Banco Marks One Thousand. The publication of THE stiN NEWSPAPER cornrnet.ced this Say at 5 minutes past Three o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1836. PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Bank Stock 2 1 6y4 ! India Stock ..... .. .................... 3 per Cent. Red. 92 I% 2 Ditto Bonds — pm. Pir Cent Cons 9I % % Sou A th Sea Stoek ................. per Cent --1 Old nnnities ..................... -- Ditto Red 10n%%! New Ditto ........................... 89,4 Vew 314 per Cent NTew 3 per Cent - Exch. Bills, £1,000......... 18 20 pm. flank Long Annuities to expire Ditto 500 lB 20 pm. Jan. 5, 1860 l6 7-16 1 Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1850 —l Ditto Commercial... ....... —pm . 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Eertulphe, Mr. Macready ; Thancinar, Mr. Warde; Bouchard, Mr Cooper—Constance, Miss K Tree ; Ursula, Mrs. Vining. - - - - . After which—VOL-AU-VENT. The Principal Characters by the Ravel Family, who will introduce some of their most extraordinary Performances. To conclude with—THE BRONZE HORSE. Yang, Mr. Templeton; Tying Sing, Mr. Gieubelei ; Tchin Kao, Mr. Seguin ; Yanko, Mr. Duruset. Stella, Miss Forde ; Lo Mangli, Miss Poole; Toajiu, Miss H. Cawse; Peki, Miss Shirreff: -• • • Stage Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates. The Box .ollice is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of whom Private and Family Loxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained. B xis, 75. ; Second Price, Ss. GA.—Pit, 3s. 6cl. ; Second Price, 2s. Gallery. o r. ; Second Price, le.--Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, 6.1. - 3 , 84, A ~~~~~~~;~ ~.1~~~~-~ LONDON,' WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1836 Mr. O'CONNELL—as our readers will do us the justice to remember we anticipated from the first — triumphantly vindicated himself last night from all the charges brought forward against him, as respects the Carlow election affair. One by one, he * disposed of each ingenious slander, which for months past has been the sole remaining stock-in-trade of his political enemies ; and when he had substantiated his own per sonal and political integrity to the satisfaction of all unbiassed minds, he quitted his defensive position, and sallying forth, shillelagh in hand, carried the war 'right into the heart of the enemy's camp. t; It was not," he said, " in respect of any thing connected with the expenses of the Carlow election that he was now accused and ready to be convicted, but because he had contributed to put down Toryism; because he had been instrumental in keeping the Tories where be hoped they would always remain—covered with de feat. For this, and this only, he was now to be put on his trial." Nevertheless, though he knew right well the spirit that had suggested it, Mr. O'CoNNELT. did not shrink from the trial. Not he. He dared the Tories to it. He courted, and even seconded their motion for a Committee—simply insisting that the Committee should be an impartial, not a packed one. Fair play was all he demanded at the hands of the House—a .demand which so alarmed the Tories, that they made more than one dexterous attempt to get a Committee of their own choosing. Fortunately, however, their manoeuvres were unavailing ; common sense carried the day ; and consequently Mr. O'CONNELL may already look on himself as fully acquitted. But are the Tories in the same secure and honour able position ? Will nothing turn up in the Commit tee calculated to make their blank visages still blanker ? Will they be able—however eager—to stop all allusion to former electioneering intrigues at Carlow ? Not a bit of it. his impossible the Committee can so cripple and confine the range of its enquiries. Some notice— no matter how irrelevant it may be called —must be taken, of the eleven hundred persons, including one hundred and ninety-three widows, and heaven hpows how many orphans, who were driven from their homes, outcasts on the world, in consequence of the part that some of them had taken against the Conservatives in recent Carlow elections—some notice, we repeat, must be taken of these matters, and then how will the Tories stand in the eyes of the unprejudiced people ? We verily believe that the whole party is at this moment at its wits' ends,galled to the quick to think that it s h ou ld ever have been duped into stirring in the bu s i ness at all; atld, brainless,leastof politicalall,bysuchath thing as RAPHA EL , a mere coxcomb, with scarce wit enough to distinguish his right hand from hi s l e f t . However, as the Tories have made their bed, so must they lie on it. They have demanded enquiry, an d en quiry they shall have to their heart's content. Throughout the whole business, it is evident that these men have been in a false position. The spirit of corruption that they knew existed in themselves, they felt convinced must exist equally stron g in others ; for we are but too apt to judge of other men's minds by our own, and to give them credit for nothing but that which we ourselves possess. Hence, when the cry was raised against O'CoNNELL for tampering with the purity of election, the Tories to a man believed in it, and rejoiced to think that they had at last an oppor er to m a ke money by him," " He has wa s the shout of one and a ll. Y e t sought of ou r t ed t u h c e i ng ric h h im ß t A o p t e A i r E own r in lev o e r l d . how stand the facts ? Mr. O ' CONNELL did not seek out RAPHAEL, but RAPHAEL sought out him ! Moreover, the sum of two thousand pounds—which we feel persuaded will ere long be the death of the ex-Sheriff of London—was proposed, not by O'CoN NELL, but by VIGORs. But then the latter was just about to start for Ireland, and as the election for Car low was on the eve of commencement, it was necessary that RAPHAEL, if he really intended to start for the county, should make the necessary arrangements with some other influential individual. VIGOR s, who was jour neying to Ireland, could not assist him ; O'CONNELL, who was beside him, in London, could ! And to O'CONNELL accordingly he applied. Yes, it was RAPHAEL himself who made application to O'CoN NELL ; and not O'CONNELL to RAPHAEL. And this is the Tory mountain that has so long been in labour I This the mouse that it has produced ! The question lies in a nut shell. The Member for Dublin found, or rather fancied he found, in RAPHAEL, a gentleman likely to serve the cause of Reform ; and as such, he recommended him to the electors of Carlow. Pecuniary considerations had nothing to do with the matter. Mr. O'CONNELL had no more to gain by the Ex-Sheriff's election for Carlow, than just one additional friend to Ireland. He put not one penny of the celebrated " two thousand . ' into his own purse. It was all, and more, expended in the election-.-.a matter, however, which the Tories are the last people on earth to be expected to-understand, for they are famous for putting money into their purses—no matter whether it be their own or the people's. For a further vindication of Mr. O'CoNNzLL's conduct throughout this business, we refer our read ers to his own speech. It made a profound impres sion on the House, as must always be the case where a man speaks the language of truth and sincerity. Sir ROBERT PEEL was dumb. Even the jaundiced STANLEY bad not a word to say. As for poor Mr. HARDY's finical points, and affected witticisms, they were disposed of in such a manner as leads us to con elude that the Member for Bradford will never again attempt to act the wag in Parliament. His first performance in this character, will, we suspect, be his last. Nothing now remains but that we offer our cordial congratulations to the Tories on this, their second, defeat. The majority of forty-five against them, on the very first night of the Session—(the consequence of that ill-advised snow-storm)—was their first dis aster ; and now, before this is repaired, comes the se cond ; in the shape of ,an assault and battery on DANIEL, which can have no other result than to re coil on themselves. The fowlers are indeed caught in their own snare. They who digged the pit have themselves been the first to fall into it. We say this in no spirit of partizanship. We are neither Whigs nor Tories ; but we are lovers of fair-play ; and it is precisely bect.use we are so, that we intreat our readers not to take our own opinion, but to peruse O'CoNNELL's defence with the strict attention it de serves, and then judge for themselves. We copy from the - Leeds Times the Report of the proceedings at a public Meeting of the inhabitants of that influential borough, presided over by the Mayor, for the purpose of petitioning Parliament for the abolition of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. It is rather a novel spectacle to behold the Municipal Authorities thus join the people in denouncing the mischievous effects of the taxes on knowledge. The Corporate Reform Bill is yielding early fruit—to the great dismay of the Tories, in every part of the country. The venerable champions of the Six Acts are now on the eve of extinction. In defend ing themsel% es against popular influence they can no longer silence a thousand tongues, and fill with dismay a thousand hearts by the magic words "Remove the mace!—Ws Worship is indignant that the advocates of the rag le should dare to open their mouths in his presence !—This meeting is dissolved!" The change may well affright the To ries. The passing of the Municipal Reform Bill was in point of fact the spiking of their last gun. The fortress is now ours, and we cannot be dispossessed of it without betraying the country into the hands of its worst enemies. As to the Newspaper Stamp Duty, we know it to be on the eve of a very large reduction. We understand that a penny tax will be retained, at least for the first year, and that many facilities hitherto unknown to the Press will be afforded, in order to give a true direction to public opinion. Letters from Rome to the 3d instant, announce the death of Madame MARIE LETITIA BONAPARTE, the mother of NAPOLEON, who expired in that city on the morning of the 2d, in the 86th year of her age. The most extravagant romance that ever was written falls infinitely short, in point of incr;Alulity, to the real life of this extraor dinary woman. From the widow of a poor Corsican officer she saw herself elevated to the dignity of being the mother of Kings —in one moment Europe was at her feet, and before the next had passed away, empires, kingdoms, dy nasties and dignities had fleeted for ever from her view, leaving not " a wreck behind." In 1814 she retired to Rome, where she remained till her death. In her younger years she was considered a very amiable woman ; buther suf ferings of late were so excessive, that few persons were per mitted to visit her. She had entirely lost her sight, and for some years before her death, her bodily infirmities confined her in a great measure to her bed. Her greatest consolation was derived from her brother-in-law Cardinal FEscrt, who daily visited her, and on all occasions undertook to make her ac quainted with the deaths and other disastrous occurrences which happened among the members of her family. The death of the Princess of MONTFORT preyed heavily upon her spirits. She was observed to decline rapidly after the melan c holy event was made known to her ; but to the last moment she retained the use of all her faculties. Her death was so tranquil that her attendants at first imagined that she had only fallen asleep. From 1805 to 1814, Madame BONAPARTE'S life must have appeared to herself a fairy dream. Her's was a " fall ing off" indeed, from the period of her taking refuge amid the ruins of Rome ! Yet never before did the " Eternal City" receive within its walls the mother of so numerous a regal progeny. Her son, like a mighty magician, changed the surface of the Universe ; but his fall, like a counter spell, restored it again to what it was ere he existed. Gene rations yet unborn will speak of Madame BONAPARTE as the mother of NAPOLEON—as the procreatrix of an episode in the history of mankind. Madrid Papers to the 9th inst. have been received. The people were every where busy in making prepara tions for the new elections—to them a novel species of political liberty. Senor MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA, who formerly represented Granada, will again be put in nomination by some of his friends there ; and Coun TORENO has already indirectly sought the suffrages o his former constituents at Oviedo. Both the Ex-Mi nisters will be defeated if the Government think prope to take part against them. As to TORENO his popu. larity, even among the Ex-Deputies who supported him while in office, daily diminishes. Several serious charges have been recently preferred against him, and defalca tions in different branches of the Customs have been found out, of which it is rumoured he was not ignorant. The higher class of citizens in Madrid begin to shake their heads, accounting the solution of the problem of his immense wealth, amassed in two or three years, no longer difficult. The pregnancy of his lady prevents him from leaving the capital, in which he is only safe while MENDIZABAL appears personally attached to him. The Carlists are declining in strength in several of the disturbed provinces. in the beginning of Novem ber last the Pretender had a force of eleven thousand troops in Lower Arragon, and in Catalonia twenty five thousand ; this force is now reduced to two thousand men in the former Province, and fifteen in the latter. About the same time the QUEEN'S troops in Catalonia did not exceed eight thousand men ; they now exceed twenty thousand, independent of the levies which have since been raised, and who are now on their way to join the Constitutional standard. The Government has received Addresses from the principal cities in the Basques, congratulating the PREMIER on his firmness and natriotism in dissolving ;he Cortes. The QUEEN'S Government has addressed the fol lowing proclamation to the Basque Provinces : " Two years have elapsed since, seduced by a handful of some strangers to your province, you have raised the standard of revolt against a Queen who had never thought for a moment of abolish ing your venerable and antique institutions, nor of destroying those altars before which your forefathers used to prostrate. Since two years the blood of your brave children redden the soil to no purpose ; the firmness of your mind, the topographical advantages of your country, have added nothing to the domain of your Chief. History will refuse to believe that, in a country which never ceased to be the asylum of liberty, absolutism and the Inquisition can have been invoked in the nineteenth century. Basques ! it is time that such illusion should cease. Cruelly deceived by the true au thors of your disasters, you flatter yourselves with the absurd hope of being assisted by a northern Prince, 500 leagues distant from you, and who can do nothing for you without the content of the Ca binets at Paris and London. For you there exists no more hope : an army of 100,000 men, supported by France, and England and Por tugal, will soon occupy your territory ; but before this occupation takes place your Queen, as a proof of her solicitude for you in this terrible moment, wishes to be your mother. Listen to her voice ; whoever will abjure his errors and will abandon the standard of the Usurper may retire into France; he will be pardoned, and will receive from the Spanish authority at Bayonne four reels a day if a soldier, or me.e if he is an Officer, and if he takes with him his horse and war equipment. Listen to advices dictated by your interests and that of your families. Secure bread for your wives and children, and answer to the call of Royal benevolence in flying from oppression. Here are the allowances which will be granted to all those who will profit of the advantages offered : A soldier four reals a day, sergeant or a corporal five reals, Officers, including Captains, eight reals, principal Commandants and Chiefs according to their rank, to fathers, mothers, or sons of soldiers six reals, including the four reals allowed to soldiers personally. All young men who, in order to avoid serving under Don Carlos, will carry away their fathers or mothers, shall receive six reals for tw o or three persons. There will be allowed for a gun and bayone sixty reals, for a cartridge-box twenty reals, for a sabre, sword and horse 400 reals." We have received a file of Jamaica papers from the 19th of December to the 3d of January inclusive On the 25th or December his Excellency Lieut.- Col. W. M. G. COLEBROOKE opened the Legisla- tive Assembly of the Bahama Islands, with a speech, in which the state of that portion of our Colonial possessions is represented as in a most favourable condition. Schools are being established in .every district ; and from the reports of the local Magistrates, it appears that the whole of the inhabitants are orderly and industrious. The Address, in answer to the Go vernor's speech by the House of Assembly, speaks of the schools established in connexion with King's Col lege, London, as useful and flourishing establish ments. Owing to the conciliating policy adopted by the Marquis of SLIGO in Jamaica, the dissensions between the late slave-owners and the coloured ap prentices are less frequent. The apprentices are ac quiring industrious habits. The Paris papers of Monday have been received. Their contents are of no importance. It may be a week yet be fore the re-appointment of a Ministry. The trial of FIESCHI and his accomplices is now over All that remained for the Court of Peers on Monday at noon was to pass sentence on the accused. •We have given the report of FIESCHI'S speech at full length. _ PARIS, FEB. 15.—M. Pageot, Chargé d'Affaires of France in the United States, has arrived at Havre on board the Poland packet, accompanied by M. Dubois de Saligny, Secretary of Lega tion. The protection of the French interests remained intrusted to the Consult: of Great Britain. The Courier of the United States, Of Jan. 24, says—" It is probable that the Congress will not discuss the proposal of the Pre sident of the United States, till it shall have learnt the effect pro duced in France by the first Message." It is evident that if it is received at the Department for Foreign Affairs by the Duke de Broglie, it cannot be satisfactory ; but we nevertheless retain our full confidence in the continuation of peace. Good sense and reason will have more weight than idle pretensions of etiquette or criminal ambition. But then, on the other hand, we learn, by way of England, that the Senate has already complied with a part of the demands of the President, by voting funds for arming steam-boats, and that it has taken into consideration the demand to keep in reserve the surplus revenue, to employ it, in case of need, in the defence of the country. We are also informed that M. Quincey Adams has gone over to the party of the President, a circumstance which has caused no little sensation. However, an amicable conclusion, through the inter vention of England, is still hoped for. The military preparations that America might make would only be an answer to those that we have made ourselves. The Castor steam-boat is gone from Toulon to Civita Vecchia, with the Count de Latour Maubourg, Ambassador of France to the Holy See. The presence of the Count at Rome is indispensable, for the appointment of M. Lambruschini to the office of Minister of State is an event of which France ought to take advantage.— Massager, Feb. 15. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, FEBRUARY 15. Five per Cents., 109 f. 45c. scc. 60c. 50. Four per Cents.. 102 f. 50c. Three per Cents., 80f. 65c. ilk. 70c. Bank Actions, 2,165 f. Rente de Naples, 991. 50c. 55c. stc. Roman Five per Cents., 104. Spanish Actives, 47% 48. Spanish Differes, 24. Spanish Passives. 157436 g. Royal Spanish Loan, 37%. Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 37% Belgian Loan, Five per Cents, 104. Portuguese Loan, Five per Cents., 84. Portuguese Three per Cents 53. Dutch Two and a half per Cents 56f, 25c. Hay tian Loan, 4105. 400 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, —c. —c.; money 25f. SO.:. Three months, paper, —l. —c. ; money, 2 51.35 c. . rs Authentivre. • Bounsv, THREE O'CLOCK.—Very little business is doing to day ; tho Three per Cents. have, however, improved on the prices of Saturday, owing to the general opinion that the Chamber of Deputies will adopt the proposal of the committee sitting on M. Gouin's bill for the conversion. The Three per Cents. opened at 80f. 70c., and got up to WE 85 c. The Spanish securities are in demand, and the prices rather better. QUARTER TO FOUL—Five per Cents., 109 f. 80e. ; Three per Cents., 80f. 90c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb hards, —; Differes, lBf ; New Loan, —; Actives, 48 ; Passives, 15j-; Ducats, 99 55 ; Romans, ,104 ; Pedros, 84 ; Belgians, 104 ; Dutch, 56f. 25c. ; Haytians, 400 f. — c . ; Miguels, —; Brabant Ban k, —; Belgian Bank, 13i ; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Di fferes, 24 ; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, 374 ; Royal Loan, 374. PARLIAMENTARY SUMMARY. In the Loans' last night no business of any great public interes occurred. In the CommoNs', among other petitions, was one presented by Mr. Attwood from the Political Union of Birmingham, praying for reform in the House of Lords, the insertion of an appropriation clause in any Irish Chit-eh Bill that might be introduced, and the enactment of a poor law for Ireland. Mr. Hardy then brought forward his motion for a Committee to inquire into the circumstances of the late Carlow Election. Mr. Warburton moved, as an amendment, that the Committee proposed by Mr. Hardy should inquire into the manner in which the 2,000/. paid to Mr. O'Connell had actually been expended. This amendment was put and agreed to. The names of the Hon. Gentlemen to form the Committee were then agreed to. It was also ar ranged that Sir F. Pollock and Sergeant Wilde, making thirteen Members, should be on the Committee, without a vote, but for the purpose of cross-examining the witnesses. We have confined ourselves, in this part of our Paper, to the shortest possible summary of the procceedings by which the Tories vainly thought to stab the Government through the sides of Mr. O'Connell, convinced that a debate so interesting, together with our remarks elsewhere upon the signal defeat of the miserable Con servative conspirators, will not fail to engage the ready perusal of all our subscribers. Such was the effect produced on the House by the facts the lion. and Learned Member stated, that Sir. Peel, although it was scarcely ten o'clock, suggested, that owing to the excitement that prevailed, the Irish Municipal Reform Bill should be then formally brought in, and the discussion upon it deferred till the second reading. KING'S BENCH-(TITIS DAY). BINGHAM V. MURRAY. Mr. PLATT stated the case. It was an action brought by a tailor, carrying on business in Conduit-street, Bond -street, to recover a sum of 231. 25., the balance of an account for clothes furnished to a Mr. Alexander Murray. After hearing evidence, the jury found for the plaintiff. I EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY SOUTER V. SELDEN. This was an action brought to recover the sum of 22/. 3s. 2d., the amount of the plaintiff's bill for painting the drawing and dining-room of the defendant. • The Jury found a 'verdict for defendant. COMMISSION OF LUNACY.—The enquiry in Lady Kirkwall's case was resumed this morning ; and after Mr. Sergeant Talfourd bad addressed the jury at some length on behalf of her Ladyship, the case was adjourned till to-day, when it is expected to be finally closed. The gunnership of Dover Castle, which is now vacant, is in the gift of the Duke of Wellington. It is un derstood to be the rule of his Grace to give these appointments alternately to seamen who have seen service, to invalids of the Royal artillery, and to those from regiments of the line ; natives of the Cinque Ports having the preference. There are many applicants for the appointment. It is understood that the creation of Baronets is to include Vice- Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, and John Power, Esq., of Dublin. The General Officer who, in Paris, some days ago, as has been stated, fired at and wounded his wife and a man in whose company he found her, in his own house, under suspi cious circumstances, has been tried for the act of violence be fore a special military tribunal, but fully acquitted upon the ground of the great provocation. The officer's name has not been mentioned ; but he is said to be a man of high profes sional reputation. RIO DE JANEIRO PAPERS. (From the Correia Official, Dec. 2. ) This being the anniversary of the birth of our young Ern' peror, Don Pedro 11., on which his Majesty has completed the 10th year of his age; the happy event has been celebrated with great rejoicings. DEC. 12.—OFFICIAL.—CARTA DE LEl.—The Regent, Iri the name of the Emperor, •Senhor Don Pedro the Second , makes known to all the subjects of the empire that the General Legislative Assembly has decreed, and that his Majesty bee given his sanction to the following law : " Art. 1. Senhora Donna Maria the Second, Queen of Portugal, has lost the right of succession to the Crown of the Empire of Brazil. " Article 2. Senhora Donna Januaria Legitimate , daughter of Senhor Don Pedro the First, shall be recognised as Imperial Princes, according to Art. 15, sec. 3, of the Constitution, and of the law of 26th August , 1826, as successor to the Throne after his Majesty Don Pe' 11. and his legitimate descendants. All the authorities concerned are ordered to see to the entire execution of this law ; and the Secretary of State for the Interior will cause it to be printed, published, and circulated. " Given at the Palace of Rio de Janeiro, 30th October , 1835-the 14th year of the independence of the Empire. " DIEGO ANTONIO FEIGO. " ANTONIO PAULINO LIMPO DE ABREO." The accounts from Pernambuco are favourable. The mu tiny in the camp of Agua Preta did not extend to all the brave Pernambucan soldiers. The 600 men of that province or dered to go to Para with those of other provinces, to enforce the respect due to the magistrates and to the laws, were em barked. We know nothing from Bahia, except that there was still some fear that the negroes would again rise ; but as the au thorities were vigilant, these semi-barbarians had not made anY further attempt. Entire tranquillity prevails in all parts of the vast province of Menai. The accounts from St. Paulo are favourable. There is no news from Para, only that the rebels remain je possession of the town, which is nearly ruined.—Correio 0./T' cial, Dec. 17. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY .) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the French Mail, a Mail from 1110 Janeiro by the Skylark—sailed from Rio Janeiro, December 18, and from Pernambuco, November 14 ; a Leeward Island Mail by the Opossum—sailed from St. Thomas's, January 22 ; and a Jamaica Mail by the Reindeer—sailed from Jamaica, January 1. From the Jamaica Papers received at the North and South Ame rican Coffee-house to the 2d of January, we subjoin the following " The holidays are passing over with every appearance of g humour among all classes ; but the usual gaities have been wantin6 among our apprentices. The Methodi s t p reac h ers h ave so fleece et them of their means, that they are unable to provide for the expen se which has been s o bountifully contributed to make a show during the Christmas week. It will be observed from the proceedings of the Assembly, tha t the House may adjourn to the 26th January, and that the Governor has some wit in his anger, and passed the Police Bill for one 'Oar' notwithstanding the threats contained in his message of Wed' nesday.': The following message from his Excellency the Governor wee brought down to the House of Assembly en the 16th Dec.:— " Ma. SPEAKER—I am commanded by his Excellency the Ge' vernor to express to the Assembly his deep regret and disappoint ment, that all his efforts to induce them to pass a Bill to render the establishment of a Police force equal in duration with the appren ticeships, should have become ineffectual. His Excellency is ie structed to draw the particular attention of the Assembly to the series of liberal and conciliatory measures which have marked the demeanour of the British Government towards this colony for the last five years. The loan of three hundred thousand pounds stet . ' ling—the dispensation from the pledge for one year, and saber quently continued to the present time—as to the military supplies; —the acceptance of a very imperfect Abolition Bil:, and the de' claration that it was adequate and satisfactory, in the reliance that the Legislature would make the necessary amendments ; and is consequence of that declaration, the immediate recognition of the title on the part of the colony to share in the Compensatio n Fund, which is at this moment is the course of p a yment , '" if all these sacrifices, demonstrating, as they do, the anxious &sit e of Government to deal with the Assembly upon terms of liberality and mutual confidence, are to be met by a continual resistance t ° the adoption of the important measures so eminently urged upon them as connected with the ab o liti on o f s l avery —if t h e que stion of a Police Bill is to be annually revived as long as the ap pren" ticeships continue—his Excellency cannot admit the policy or fore,* going another year's military supplies ; nor would his Majesty: Ministers be able to assign to the Lords of the Treasury or Parliament any satisfactory grounds for continuing the its dulgence on this point, the repetition of which has failed t ° produce a corresponding disposition on the part of the Assembly' to conciliate and co-operate in giving effect to the great obje cts which Parliament and the British people have so m uc h a t hcsr„ t. His Excellency in adhering, therefore, to the instructi on s he 11. 7. received, intimates to the House the expectation of his Maks* Government, that provision should be made during the pres en _ year for the resumption of those payments on account of the troop: according to the existing stipulations on that head, and for w hich fixed sum was in November, 1831, pledged to be provided annua ll y by the country, the considerate measure of Government havtn , . induced them only temporarily to forbear calling for th e f u lfilmen t of this compact, from which they never in the most remote degre e considered the colony to be absolved, now expects that in all sot sequent years the usual military suppli es w ill b e prov i ded, and Excellency sincerely laments the necessity he is under to leak e hi ; communication which he has, by every argument and means i°l- power, endeavoured to a vo id, b u t w hi ch he is not warranted un-er his instructions in delaying any longer." Guiana Papers to the 11th of December, and St. John's, I sle° Brunswick to th e 17th o f J anuary, have also been received at the North and South American Coffee House. The Guiana Paper states that accounts from Venezuela coat m the anticipatio ns p rev i ous l y 3.1 received, of the restoration of order, . Cumana had at last yielded to the Constitutional f orce s, and "-- nagus had fled into the interior with only 30 men. The New Brunswick Papers state that the Legi s l a tive Se? ic po commences on W e d nes d ay next, and it is hoped th a t p u blic bilei e- o s will go on without infringing on the privileges and prerogativ e ' each other. THE FUNDS. Consols opened this morning at the prices they left off yeste r ne e 911 for the Account, and 911 for Money, with a firm appeto; of the ma r k e t , b ut with little doing. Exchequer Bills, 18 India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock, 2161 ; India Stock, 255 256. In the Foreign Market the prices are steady ; Spanish A Stock, 471 ; Portuguese, 83* a ; Three per Cents. , if Colombian, 32* 1 ; Mexican, 364 374; Dutch Two-and-u -per Cents., 551 1. HALF-PAST ONE We extract the following from the Jamaica Watchman of .1" d 19 The unfavourable appearance s w ith w hi c h t h e S es sion ",,, Assembly opened have entirely disappeared, and matters begin l ie s to assume a tranquil aspect. The Assembly by making the Bill an ann ua l Act, and not co-existent with the apprenticei hips and introd uc i ng matter i nto t h e A ct i n a id o f the Abolit i on "'f b which expi res at t h e en d o f t h e present year, contrary to the ‘4..„0. of the G overnment, h as p l ace d i t out of the power of the Gev.,°,:rio longer to withhold the demand for the pay of the troops. the Assembly intends to do it is difficult to say. The ge°_, e et t opinio n s eems t o b e t h at a refusal to pay the troops will be foliar°, by their remo va l. Th ere are some w h o d o not enterta i n any fearoo. this score ; but think that the Government will punish the C tumacy of the L eg i s l a t ure b y t h e infliction of a distinet i ve duty to Jamaica produce. Our own opinion is, that it would e .. impolitic to withdraw the troops unless the Government is V pared to abandon the island." i The Queen R egent o f S pa i n has conferred on Captain -WD n° Symons, of the steamer Royal Tar, belonging to the Dublin. London C ompany , t h e Knight Cross of the Royal Atneri c .,, Order of I sa b e ll a , as a mark of her Royal approbation, for the St` vices Thep erformed ith at vessel on the of Spain. Ballot at w the th East Indi a House coast for compensating the °%; eluded officers of the East India Companies' maritime ser•ic e ' going on with great activity, and, it is believed, in their favour present. . Pri g of are firm up to th e present time, at the morning r-lee° of 911 for the Account, and 911 for Money. Exshequer Bills, 18 20; India Bonds, 5 ; Bank Stock, 216 India Stock, 255 256. There is a more buoyant app earance i n t h e prices in the F°r ei g ° ( 15 Market since the early part of the morning. Spanish Active 1 3 1 ; may be quoted 471; Portuguese, 831; Three Per Cents., Teo Columbian Bonds, 324 to 33; Mexican, 36i to 37; Dutch and a Half per Cents., 551- a . Most of the shares have improved this morning. We have a r e p or t th a t th e F renc h G overnment i s willing o n a p p vance the Queen of Spain, i n con j unc ti on w ith E ng l an d, a loan certain security, which, it is stated, our Cabinet have taken ' consideration. T H R OLO Consols for the Account, 91i 4. ire IRISH Citunctr.—We h ave reason to be 1; "ed that the question of the Irish Church will be postPl l , l until after the Easte r recess , if not to a later per i ou • Dublin Evening Post. (ADVERTISEMENT.) W A T C H E S. BROAD, 'Watchmaker, Deceased. dot T. COX SAVORY , 47, Cornhill, having purchased O f pelf Executors of W m . Broad, Watchmaker lat e Leadenhall-s tr- of deceased, th e w h o l e o f t h e SPLEND I D STOCK, consistintif GOLD and SILVER WATCHES, offers them at prices bid advantageo us t o P urc h asers. . The whole are arranged, fr• having the price attached, and may be seen by application t" 4 1 ? COX SAVORY, Goldsmith, Silversmith, and Watchmaker' Cornhill, London. B IR TH S. o f On the 14th inst., at Kingston H ouse , Dorset-place, the 1:01Y the late Lord Suffield, of a son. York , On the 14th inst., at Warter Priory, near Pocklington, shire, the Right Hon. Lady Muncaster of a daughter. On the 13th inst., the lady of Charles Tracey Leigh, Egg' daughter. t er. On the 15th inst., M ts . H a lk et, St. Helen's-place,'of a clau.- Ot scr On the 13th inst., at Brighton, the lady of W. W. Hewett' of a son. On the 14th i ns t., th e l ady of W. Platt, Esq., of Manchester, square, of a son. MARRIED. ,5,1 On the 11 th i ns t. , at Nursling, the Rev. Francis Phill 4 70 r 0- Mary Easton, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Luhin, Re c. Nursling, Hants. Ca l On the 15th inst., at Streatham Church, Joseph, sec ond „ j ot; the late D. J enn i ngs, Esq , of Fenchurch-street, and Haw t " . of Kent, to Eli za b et h , second daughter of Stephen Wilson, Streatham. DIED. ,• rev On the 14th i nst., at S evenoa k s, aged Si, M rs. Randolph three of Joh n L or d Bi shop of London, w h om she survived twe nty ' years. W I On the 9th inst., aged 21, Elizabeth Catherina, eldest (bug of the late Rev. C. Yonge, of Eton School. • , 50 0 On the 27th of July, at Calcutta, William Blizard, third the late H. Smith, Esq., of Peckham House, Surrey. pro* London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG , ° co f ol 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand, in the of Middlesex.