The Sun. — London, England, 1836-02-25 00:00:00

THE RAILWAYS. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The sc,und and judicious measures of Government have xcited a very great sensation among the railway pro :eters. Those connected with the Stock Exchange have eft the shock as that of an earthquake, and have been de messed in proportion to their demerits. In the meantime ,oth parties, those who are interested in promoting new railways and tbose who desire to give a monopoly for those railways alree.dy formed, are coming before Parliament. On Tuesday night the monopolists, who are backed by the Duke of Cumberland in the Upper, and Colonel Sibthorp in the Lower House, presented a petition, " praying the House closely to examine into the circumstances and merits of the numerous railway projects ;" and also on the same night Mr. Handley presented the feAlowing petition, which may be considered as stating the case of those rail ways which are unopposed, unconnected with the Stock Exchange, and having a definite and certain, instead of a merely speculative object : " To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled. " The humble petition of James Dixon, of Preston, in the county of Lancaster, Solicitor, and Thomas Lord and William Spencer Nortlihouse, of Manchester-buildings, Westminster, Parliamentary agents, " Sheweth,—That your petitioners represent certain suitors to your Honourable House for leave to bring in a Bill for the purpose of causing a railway to be made between Preston and the Stone Quarries at Longridge, both in the said county. " That your petitioners have observed that your Honourable House has referred to a Select Committee the consideration of -what measures ought to be taken with reference to the pending schemes for the making of railways. " That your petitioners feel perfectly assured that your Hon. House does not intend to interfere with the exercise of private judgment in the investment of capital, which your pe titioners humbly conceive to be one of the best recognised and most sacred of the rights of property; but your peti tioners believe that your Hon. House seeks only to prevent frauds and delusions being practised on the public ; schemes of little or no public utility from being made the means of stock jobbing ; rival Railways having the same termini from being carried= without sufficient reason ; the lands of a large mi mority of dissenting owners, occupiers, and lessees, from being invaded, or such owners, occupiers, and lessees, being put to the trouble and expense of opposing Bills in Parliament; and in fine to prevent injustice, fraudulent speculation, and ruin to the unwary. ‘. That your petitioners humbly conceive, that your Hon. House does not intend to cause unnecessary delay and expense to suitors for Railways, who do not embark in such under takings for temporary speculation, but as permanent invest ments (the great majority of whom possess property in the . immediate neighbourhood); who are not opposed, but warmly encouraged, by the owners, occupiers, and lessees, of the whole line of road, who propose to save those owners, oc cupiers, and lessees, from the expense of repairing roads to which hey are at present subjected; who have a substantial and certain traffic which already exists, and is not speculative or imaginary ; who propose to greatly lessen the expense acarriage, carriage, whie they as greatly promote its facilities, and who have no rival Railway terminating at the same point to con tend against. " That your petitioners humbly represent that the suitors for the Preston and Longridge Railway are persons living on the spot ; that four-fifths of the Shares to complete the contract have been taken by owners and occupiers in the immediate neighbourhood, for permanent investment, and that there are now many applications for the same purpose, and from the same place. That the object of the said Railway is to bring steno from quarries at Longridge, seven miles from Preston (for which there has long been a great demand), at half the present cost. That they propose to considerably lessen to the owners, occupiers, and lessees along the line, the expense of making and repairing the roads, to which they are at pre sent subjected. That out of the one hundred and three owners, possessing four hundred and tifty.six closes of land, there arc but three dissentients, possessing only seventeen closes (the few neutrals being Trustees who arc individually favourable) ; that all the occupiers and lessees have assented ; that public meetings have been called, where every opportunity for oppo sition was afforded, but none was made ; that evidence has already been received by a Committee appointed by year Hon. House of the public utility of such Railway, and that all the standing orders of your Hon. House have been fully complied nith. _ . ....... " Under these circumstances your petitioners humbly solicit that your Hon. House will cause no additional delay or expense to Bills for Railways which are unopposed, definite in their object, of manifest public utility, having no rivals, contracted for in the neighbourhood, and called for by the almost unani mous voice of the owners, occupiers, and lenses, along the whole line which they traverse. " And your petitioners will ever pray, Bce. (Signed) "JAMES DIXON. "T. LORD. " W. S. NORTHHOUSE." THE JERSEY TRAGEDY. SENTENCE ON THE CRIMINAL.—On Monday the Court deli vered judgment in this case of horrible crime, to the eff:Tt that Marin should be banished the island for ever, never to return under pain of death ; and that he should be sent to England to be transported where his Majesty may deem fit. The whole of his property is confiscated. The excitement that followed the verdict of the Grand Jury is represented as exceeding the cncts of any astonishment and indignation ever before -Ait nessed in the islanc?. The Press says—" A stronger and more atrocious ease of wilful murder was never brought into a Court of Justice ; never were the facts more palpable, evident, and conclusive ; never was guilt written in nil - re crimson characters; and never perhaps was there found a jary, who from mistaken motives (we do rot throw the shadow of suspicion on their in tegrity) could acquit an assassin, under such circums anew, from the pain of death; nor a judge so phlegmatic as to suffer that acquittal to be recorded; we repeat 'justice hus been insulted.'" THEATRE ROYAL. DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the New Grand Opera of THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE. Count de Rosemberg, Mr. Seguin; Marquis de Valmour, Mr. Templeton ; Montathan, Mr. Giubelei ; Michel, Mr. H. Phillips. Clara, Miss Shiner; Marcella, Miss Forde. After which, TAM O'SHANTERt Tam o' Shanter, Mr. W. Farren ; Souter Johnny, Mr. Bartley. Maggie, Mrs. Fitzwilliam To conclude with—THE JEWESS. Cardinal de Brogny, Mr. Warde; Prince Leopold, Mr Cooper; The Grand Provost of Constance, Mr. Giubelei; The Bishop of Constance, Mr. Bedford ; Eleazar, Mr. Vandenhoff. Rachel, Miss E. Tree ; the Princess Eudocia, Mrs. Vining. Stage Manager, Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates. The Box-office is open daily, under the dirgction of Mr. Parsons, of whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtainer. Boxes, 7s. ; Second Price, 58. 35. 6d. ; Second Price, 2s. Gallery, '23. ; Second Price, ls..—Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, 6d. IRELAND. ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY.--His F.xcellency has suggested severe! alterations, the adoption of which make this Society more conformable to the constitution of other scientific bodies. If the Members wish that the society to which they belong should be nationally useful, they can have no hesitation in adopting the plan of self-reform proposed by the Vicerov. What can be more monstrous than to see a society establisliCid avowedly for the public good, and mainly supported by grant:: of the public money, becoming a secret conclave of narrow ness and monopoly. The alterations which his Excelieney proposes in the constitution of this society, are obviously re quired to make it capable of fu'filling the duties for which it was originally intended. What can be more jLst than to ad mit members by a majority of the votes of the members pre sent ? We hope they will see, before it is too late, the inevitable necessity of " setting their house in order;" if they do not, the Irish Secretary will not—and ought not—reccmmencl the continuance of the grant, when the iri , h estimates are laid before Parliament—and their being voted unworthy of public support by the people's representa tis es, they must needs deprive themselves of the possibility of doing public good. One hundred and ninety municipalities in England and Scotland pleaded their charters in defence of their plunder; but where are those charters now, and where are the corporations that boasted them ? The rotten corpora tion of Dublin may this moment boast their charter ; but in one month it will, like themselves, be as far out of date as it is out of practical utility. We trust that this society will at length see that charters arc no guarantee to malversation. —Freeman's Journal. Lord Mulgrave, in his answer to the county Tipperary ad dress, which has lately been presented to him, alludes in the following terms to the conduct of Lord Ossory, the High Sheriff of the county, who declined to convene a meeting to congratulate his Excellency on the present state of that county :---" I do not mention these circumstances from any desire to notice more particularly an extraordinary document connected with the object of your meeting. It better becomes sae to let such slanders pass unheeded by, and I can well afford to leave to the judgment of public opinion the conduct of an individual whose ignorance of the observances due from an officer of the Crown to a person holding the high situation I at present fill, was only exceeded by still greater ignorance of the facts on which his accusation was founded." • • The Court of Exchequer still continues occupied with ap plications for writs of rebellion in tithe cases. TRINITY COLLEGE.--There are two petitions to Parliament now in progress of signature in Dublin, which will be sent for presentation in a few days. One of those petitions prays against the one pound annually for registration; and the other prays that Scholarships will be opened to the Catholics and Dissenters. BLACKSOD-BAY RAILWA Y.—A meeting was recently held in Ballina in furtherance of this undertaking. It was largely and respectably attended. The Corporation keep up their corrupt servile character to the last. They have just honoured the patriotic Lord Clon curry's Protest against the Address carried by the Peers, in which he truly . said, "that the majority of Irish corporators were not only insolvent peculators, but traders in religious in tolerance." They have passed a resolution ! condemnatory of his Lordship's truth. STATE OF CRlME.—Returns, we understand, have been re ceived from twenty-one of the counties, and the following are the committals of 1835, as compared with those of the pre ceding year : Committals in 1834, 9,915 ; committals in 1835, 9,488 ; decrease upon V 834, 427. We have taken occasion before to observe, that the committals in Ireland are not a very certain test of the state of crime, there being, amongst a very large portion of the magistracy, as great a disposition to people the gaols, as to depopulate the farms. Even convictions do not exhibit the people of this country in that unfavourable contrast with the inhabitants of England, which their defamers allege to exist, and dwell upon with such complacency. offences. The Convictions are had in Ireland for ver y trivial taken Y present an aggregate of a very form i d able kind, without reference to that peculiarity. It will scarcely be supposed that offences of a graver . character are much more numerous in England, t and that their ratio of in crease is far greater there here. The fact,however,. is so, as will appear by Parliamentary on Returns.—Dub li n Register. ORANGE OUTRAGE. Monday night a desperate as sault, with intent to commit murder, t of f acp on the dwelling house and family of a man of the nam e pen sioner residing at Ballysloolugh, within a few miles il K es er :i Ea nn' killen. A party of Orangemen, armed with loaded guns , a i n s d . either coming to or from their lodge, attacked theh without the slightest colour of provocation, fired several shots uuse into it., smashed the windows, and had very nearly effected their purpose of giving a mortal wound to Kerr.—Register. HAMBURG, FEBRUARY 16, 18.36. EINE BROTHERS, Contractors for the State of HAMBURG'S GREAT LOTTERIES, beg to decline further orders for the SIXTY-SEVENTH LOTTERY, as they would most probably not reach them till after the LARGEST PRIZE shall have been drawn. To CORRESPONDENTS.—The official communication respecting the British Auxiliary Legion in Spain came too late for insertion to-day. It shall appear to-morrow. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this dap at 5 minutes past Three o'clock. r •ja ,... ei....., c.:0;;; -- . 4 • l ** , r. a '' ff7,17-.1: ,-,R.'At4:IC .. a.L . ' ,..4, y , ~ ..4 ',.,;. Li 1.4: ,• ", 214 ..,91,1:;',., ,e...;•1'..,.?_A;;e4 .e-<:" '..............c.11?);1:...4.:;%. 'Z'bg LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 25, 1836. We have received another communication from our correspondent " Mentor," on the subject of Lord BROUGHAM and Law Reform, which is well worth our readers' perusal, from the able, dispassionate, and convincing manner in which it canvasses the subject. Speaking of the uniform dispatch of business in the House of Peers, when Lord BROUGHAM presided therein, our correspondent says— ' " When appointed Lord Chancellor, ninety-four appeals were undecided in that supreme appellate tribunal ; besides the number of appeals and writs of error had gone on regularly increasing during his period of holding office. Put Lord Brougham suffered no delay to interpose whenever the parties were ready to proceed ; nor was there a single case for brat-- jug at the conclusion of the Session in 1811, which had been entered before the commencement thereof—which was most remarkable, as appeals have been frequently seven, eight, or nine sessions in ;:rrear. The number of appeals to the House of Lords in 1825, 1826, and 1827, was 221 ; in 1828, 1820, and 1830, they were 214: 1831, 1832, and 1833, they amounted to 240. Lord Brougham having afforded every fa cility to all parties for the purpose of hearing their causes, ad judicated between the arrears and appeals entered during these tie ee years upwards of three hundred and thirty—thus far ex ceeding t'3 e number ever disposed of by any of his judicial pre decessors. Notwithstanding some of these appeals were of great importance, and involved points of much difficulty, dors not the fact of all the arrears, and other substy - ,xtent appeals having been adjudicated, unquestionably demonstrate that his Lordship's judicial proceedings in the supreme appellate juris diction deserve national commendation ? Were not the ap peals, causes, and motions so prudently determined that, is hen Lord Brougham resigned the Chancellorship, no arrears existed either in the Court of Chancery, or in the House of Lords ? During the first and second, besides a great portion of the third Session, Lord Brougham had heard and adjudicated so many Scotch appeals, that the parties at length informed him , they were not ready to proceed, having been overtaken by the I dispatch of business." Yet this is the man whom the Tories have so long been endeavouring to degrade in public estimation. 1 . His Law Reforms, notwithstanding that the people are daily reaping more and more benefit from them, have been pronounced inadequate to their object ; and he himself a rash, shallow, equity lawyer, simply be cause he was an indefatigable one, and dared to be ' expeditious in his judgments. It is not, however, in the power of his enemies to lower a man like Lord BROUGII AM to the level of their own mediocrity. He towers far above them all, and can set the whole snarling crew at defiance. None know this better than the Tories themselves, and hence they hail his absence from the House of Lords as a sort of God-send to their party. But their triumph will be short-lived. His Lordship, as we hear on excellent authority, is in the enjoyment of excellent health ; and when he next makes his appearance in the Upper House, which may probably not be before Easter—for the struggle of parties in that most amiable Institution will not take place before then— we venture to predict, that he will give the affrighted Conservatives such a shock as they have not known for years. Never had the people a stauncher, abler, or more indefatigable advocate than Lord BROUGHAM ; and never did Statesman deserve to stand higher in their estimation. He is the very key-stone of the arch that supports the Reform Ministry in the House of Peers. Had it not been for his Herculean exertions last Session, Lord LYNDHURST would have carried all before him. Our Portsmouth Correspondent has forwarded to us a file of New York papers from the 22d ult. to the 2d inst. inclusive. On the 28th, the fact of England's mediation to prevent a war between France and the United States was known in that city, and produced a very general conviction that no hostilities would take place. In a letter addressed by a Member of Con gress to a friend at Baltimore, dated the 28th ult., it is stated that the PRESIDENT was opposed to British in terference, but that Mr. VAN BuREN approved of it, as did a majority of the Cabinet. Another Member writes that there is no war-spirit in the United States, and that to prevent such a catastrophe all that is wanted is sincerity on the part of France. The deci sion of the Cabinet was not officially known in New THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 183 g. York on the Ist inst., but be its tone moderate or the contrary, there will be no war. If any proof were re quired to show that Congress does not participate in the warlike sentiments of the PRESIDENT, it would ,e found in • the fact that the House of Re- presentatives rejected a string of Resolutions brought forward by Mr. YATES, a Member, on the 25th ult., to the effect that that assembly were prepared to sup- port the measures recommended and adopted by the PRESIDENT with respect to France. But though the Americans are averse to war, they are not opposed to the views of the PRESIDENT with respect to the rortification of the coast, and the increase of the navy• Under all circumstances, they regard these measures as necessary to the protective interests of the Union. The Indian War—or rather exterminating massacre ,n Florida—continues with unabated violence. The Latest accounts in these papers are to the 21st January, at which time preparations were being made by the Go• vernor of GEORGIA, for sending 1,000 troops agains the Creek and Seminole Indians, then encamped or change of the Ministry to be the exclusion of the Doctri naires--even if the 'personal composition of the new Cabinet were not more satisfactory than it is, the country ought to re ceive it with favor merely for what it does not contain. The Constitutionnel declares that it will wait for their acts before judging the Ministers, and that it looks upon_ their accession as a conquest. The Temps approves of the deference paid to the majority of the Chamber in seleetinc , three Ministers from among its Vice- Presidents ; and applauds the candour of M. Thiers in coming forward with an explanation before it was demanded of him. The arrival of M. Thiers at the head of the Cabinet is in reality a revolutionary event—the journalist six years ago, the author of the " History of the Revolution," now the Prime Minister of France, and the representative of the country to Foreign Powers ! The Moniteur du Commerce expects that to maintain the unity of the Cabinet will be the most difficult task of the new Ministry, and that their existence will not be possible unless they take themselves out of the ordinary tracks of common place Liberalism, or of the system of resistance ; and, by a con! de genie, enter upon the completion or formation of ad ministrative and economic institutions that shall finish the edi fice of constitutional monarchy. The Impartial observes that the manifesto of a coalition Ministry, like the present one, could not be expected to be very explicit and decisive. M. Thiers wishes to be judged by facts, not by words. There is some reason in this ; but it must be understood of facts to be accomplished, not of those already done. The National is not surprised at the composition of the new Cabinet. M. Thiers, the King's man, and six insignificant personages, chosen by hazard from all quarte r s , from the old from the Tiers-Parti, from the Camarilla — t his is ministry, just the Cabinet for the necessities of the Royalty of August the 7th. The oppbsition has nothing to change in its len. gunge ; the Administration of M. Thiers is one only a little worse, constitutionally speaking, because it represents the Chamber a little less and the Camarilla a little more. The Courrier Francaise says that it must be acknowledged that the re-placing of Messrs. Guizot, de Broglie, and Persil by Messrs. Passy, Sauzet, and Pelet de la Lozere, is of im portance, the latter having made themselves known by the moderation of their opinions. The fate of the new Ministry may, however, be predicted ; the fifty or sixty Deputies com manded by Messrs. Guizot, Jaubert, &c., will feign to sup port it for some days, or weeks perhaps ; but, on the first question of importance, they will vote against it with the Op position, and the minority will become aware of the treachery only too late to prevent its fall. The Q'iotidienne is scandalised at the accession of the new Ministers, particularly of M. Thiers, the only significant name of the new Cabinet. It is evident that one cause only can gain by the transformations that take place in the bosom of the Revolution—the cause of the Royalists. The Doctrinaires have no future official existence; the Tiers-Parti fall at the feet of M. Thiers ; the Left is impassible ; there remains, then, only the Right, which alone can look forward to the fu ture with hope, because it is the only party that can look all opinions in the face, without being ashamed." Such is the tone and spirit of the greetings of the Press on the recent construction of the THIERS Mi the north side of the St. Mary River. The Indians massacred indiscriminately all who fell into their hands, without distinction of age or sex, inflicting upon their victims the most barbarous acts of torture. The subject of the war in Florida was early brought under the notice of Congress. On the 29th of Ja nuary an Act was passed, which granted five hundred thousand dollars out of the public treasury, to enable the Government to send an army for the protection o the emigrants on the New River, as well as to rid the country of the Creek and Seminole Indian tribes. The Charge d'Affaires of Brazil addressed a note to Mr. FoRsYTH, the Secretary of State, on the 25th of January, announcing that the REGENT, in the name of the EMPEROR, had declared the coast of Para in a state of blockade. The following contains all that is important in the official notification : " No vessel bound for any of the blockaded ports, shall be taken, seized, or condemned, without having first received from the blockading squadron, or from one of the vessels composing it, notice or intimation of the existence or continuance of the blockade. And in order that ignorance of the blockade may not be alleged, and that the vessel which has received such in timation, may be liable to seizure, if she again appear before the blockade port—the commander of the vessel making the notification, is to endorse upon the paper of the vessel visited, a declaration (visa) of such visit, with the day on which, and the latitude and longitude of the spot where the intimation was given; and the captain of the vessel will give him in return, a certificate of this notification, containing the same de clarations, made on his papers by the commander." The question of Slavery is exciting much bad blood in the United States. Indeed it is hardly pos sible to conceive the fury which pervades the House of Assembly when'a petition on the subject is pre sented. The anti-abolitionists are much the stronger party. To give some idea of the numerical strength of this party in a single State, we shall quote the resolu tion on the subject of Slavery passed by the Virginia House of Delegates on the 20th of January, after a debate on the question which occupied the House during ten several and consecutive sittings :- 1. Resolved, That this Commonwealth only has the right to control or interfere with the subject of domestic slavery, within its limits, and that this right will be maintained at allhazards. —( Unanimous.) 2. Resolved, That the State of Virginia has a right to claim prompt and efficient legislation by her co-states, to restrain as far as may be, and to punish those of their citizens, who, in de fiance of the obligations of social duty and those of the con stitution, assail her safety and tranquillity, by forming asso ciations for the abolition of slavery, or printing, publishing or circulating through the mail or otherwise, seditious and in cendiary publications ; and that this right, founded as it is on the principles• of international law, is peculiarly fortified by a just consideration of the intimate and sacred relations that exist between the States of this Union.—( Ayes, 108. Noes, 7.) 3. Resolrcd,—That the non-slavehnlding States of the Union are respectfully but earnestly requested, promFtly to adopt penal enactments, or such other measures as will effec tually suppress all associations within their respective limits. purporting to be, or having the character of, Abolition Socie ties; and that they will make it highly penal to print, publish, or distribute newspapers, pamphlets, or other publicaticr.s, calculated, or having a tendency, to excite the slaves of the Southern States to insurrection and revolt.—(Ayes 125, Noes 1.) 4. Resolved,—That this General Assembly would regar d an Act of Congress, havincr for its object the abolition of slavery in the district of Columbia, or the territories of the United States, as affording just cause of alarm to the slave. holding States, and bringing the Union into imminent peril.— ( Ayes 122, Noes 4.) 5. Resolved,—That it is highly expedient for the slave holding States to enact such laws and regulations as may 1e necessary to suppress and prevent the circulation of any in cendiary publications within their respective limits.—( Una nistry. Marshal GERARD has been appointed Chancellor of the Legion of Honour, and Baron FAIN has ob tained the situation in the Royal Household lately filled by M. MONTALIVET• CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING OT FEB. 23. M. Dupin took the chair at a qnarter past one o'clock. Messrs. Sauzet, Pelct, and Passy took their seats on the. Mi nisterial bench. Colonel Lancy was admitted a Deputy, and :took the custo mary oath. The President announced that the order of the day was the ballot for the nomination of three Vice-Presidents of the Chamber, and at the same time reminded the Chamber that the question was to be settled by a single ballot. One of the Secretaries of the Chamber then called over the names of the Honourable Deputies present, and the latter proceeded to de posit their balls in the ballotting urn. The following was the result of the ballot :L--Number of voters, 373 ; absolute' ma jority, 187. For M. Persil, 144 votes ; for M. Ganneron, ; M. for C lll l- . m 1 6 04 n ; , 2folrs for M. , s ly ve ; rt f e o , r 2 il 2 l. ; D fo u r ch m a . tel L , a l ls 6 t 4 te ; , f 2 or 3 Dupont de l'Eure, 35 ; for General Jacqueminot, 129 ; for M. Leeelletier d'Aulnay, 34. Of the above Deputies, M. Calmon having alone obtained the number of votes necessary to constitute the absolute ma jority, was proclaimed one of the Vice-Presidents *of the Chamber. Another ballot then took place for the remaining two Vice-Presidents ; but before the result was known our re porter was obliged to quit the Chamber. PARIS, FEB. 23.—(News of the Morning.)—The Moniteur contains to-day an Ordinance of Feb. 23, appointing Baron Fain to be Intendant-General of the Civil List. M. Fain was principal Cabinet Secretary to the King. It is announced that M. Gaspain will retain, under M. Montalivet, the office of Under-Secretary of State, which he held under M. Thiess. The /I/gni/cur also publishes to-day the Ordinance (dated 4th Feb.) which appoints Marshal Gerard to the post of High Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. The following arc the terms of the note, written by the King, in the margin of the Report of the Council of Ministers on the execution of the sentence of the Court of Peers : " It is solely the sense of an imperative duty that leads me to give a sanction, wh ch i 5 one of the most painful acts of my life : only in consideration of the frankness of Fieschi's con f..!ssions, and of his conduct during the trial, it is my will that the accessary part of the punishment be dispensed with, and deeply regret that my conscience will not permit me to do more." The General Board of Commerce has given its opinion on the question of the importation of coals into some ports of France :—" The Board is of opinion that the reduction of the duty on foreign coal, granted by the Ordinance of 10th Oct., to certain portions of the coast of France, ought to be ex tended to the remainder of the coast, and that such coals should be admitted into all the ports of the kingdom at the same duty of 50 centimes per 100 kilogrammes, without prejudice to the reduction or abolition of the inland navigation duties on coals, leaving it to the Government to make the accomplishment of this wish accord with the necessity cf maintaining and ex tending the commercial relations which so closely connect Belgium and France. —Messager, Feb. 23. FRENCH FUNDS.—PARI3, FEDRUARY 23. Five per Cents., 10')f.10c. 3 c. 55c. Four per Cents., 10-2 f. 2rc. Three per Cent,. 801'. 65c. 6)c. Batik Aeti,n,, 2,165 f. Bente de 99r. BSc R'C. '7sc. Tic. SOc. Raman Five per rents. In 4. Spanish Actives, 47';'4. Spanish Difieres, , X. Passives, !WA . Horn: Spanisti Loan, :4. Belgian Loan, rive per Cents., 101 113%. fiat ciao Lo,n, 450 f. nimous. ) 6. Resolved, —That confiding in the justice and loyalty of our Northern brethren in the principles of the Union, enfo rced by the sympathies of common dangenl, sufferings, and triumphs, which ought to bind us together in fraternal c0...i -cor:1, we arc warranted in the expectation that the foregoing requests will be received in the spirit in which they arc made, and complied with.—(Ayes 125, Noes 1.) 7. Resolved,—That Congress has no constitutional power to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia, or in the terri tories of the United States.—( Ayes 105, Nocs 13.) 8. Resolved,—That the Governor be, and is he is hereby requested to forward a copy of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and to the Execu tive of each of the States of the Union, and to request that the same may be submitted to their respective Legislatures. On the other hand, the Executive Committee of the ' Anti-slavery Society are not idle. They have ad dressed a Jong Protest to the PRESIDENT of the United States, against the correctness of a paragraph in his Message to Congress of the 7th of December, 1835, charging the Members of the Society with dis turbing the harmony of the States. Their arguments —bottomed as they are on truth and justice—are in general triumphantly conclusive. Slavery is indeed such a stain upon the character of the Americans, that its advocates ought to be excluded frOm the pale of civilized society, and the whole nation put under a moral bane, till the Government has succeeded in era dicating every trace of this monstrous evil. The following includes the latest news from Texas : Extract of a letter from Col. Stephen F. Austin to his friend in this city, dated— " NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 12.—Ours is most emphatically the cause of Constitutional Rights and Liberty. It is the cause of light against darkness—of religious toleration and freedom of conscience, against intolerance and monopoly of the people —against a military and ecclesiastical aristocracy—in short, is the cause of mankind. To doubt for a moment the success of such a cause, when the contest is on the very borders of the freest people on earth, would be a calumny against North Americans, and against Republicanism. Texas must and will triumph. t n\ha es t e E ndr ie hthaai aloor l lvinm g eet, hy o ac: e eno s eaduagn w inopdat e crr woiwyl negotiated netsl provisions, nrnuaeosgx,bg though Santa . loanl particularly heb T uen me h rheet e Ahl nr of fr an ebna i 2 s rdnwei not esanoclot nsonmtaoetunohyf stuff ot enemy aalhmnlr.amdarrssse,Nahvabl left nteuwdptsi othai hrtmak i linal_sl n. not enough. Yours truly, S. F. AUSTIN. NEW ORLEANS, JAN. 11.—It is rumoured that Santa Anna has marched into Texas at the bead of 11,000 men. The following are the Administration Members of the New Senate : Maine—Mr. Ruggles, Mr. Shepley. New Hampshire—Nlr. Hill, Mr. Hubbard. Connecticut—Mr. Niles. New York—Mr. Wrig ht, Mr. Tallmad ge. New Jersey—Mr. Wal l. Pe e nr r i g s Y i C a l la a n r r nTa K M — rr. . C eo awni . Mr. Buchanan. Northing, Go Cuthbert. Alabama—Mr. King. Louisiana—Mr. Nicholas. Mississippi—Mr. Walker. Tennessee—Mr. Grundy. Illinois—Mr. Robinson, Mr. Ewing. Indiana—Mr. Hendricks, Mr. Tipton. Missouri—Mr. Benton, Mr. Linn. Ohio—Mr. Morris. Making twenty-four Members. t:':unANnv. ON LoNooN. One month, paper, —e • money, '2.5t MI.. Mec months, paper. '2.3;. 3.3 e.; money, '23f. 33.3. --(.ours Authentive. BounsE, THREE O'CLOCK.-The market has been quite calm to day. The Three per Cents. varied between 80f. 65e. and 70c., and no business has been done. The Spanish securities have slightly improved, on a report that Cordova has obtained a victdry over the Carlists ; but very little business was done in those securities. QUAItTER To FOUR.-Five per Cents., 109 f. 65c. ; Three per Cents., 80f. 70c. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gucb hards, —; Differes, New Loan, —; Actives, 473-; Passives, 15i • Ducats, 99 85 ; Romans, 104 ; Pcdros, —; Belgians, 104 ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 400 f. --c. ; Miguels, —; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 131 ; Con tinuation, --c. ; New Differes, —; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, —; Royal Loan, —. VIENNA, FEB. 15.-5 per Cent. Metal. 103; 4 per Cent. 99/. ; 3 per Cent. 754 ; Bank Shares, 1365.—Allge wine Zcitung, Feb. 19. We have received Madrid Papers to the 16th inst. They arc principally filled with details of preparations for the Carnival—the pleasures of which had super seded every other consideration. M. MENDIZABAL's financial project was anxiously expected by the money lenders. There was no recent news from the theatre of war. We beg the attention of our readers to a letter from Mr. BUCKINGHAM, which appears in another co lumn. The Honourable Member for Sheffield puts his case before the public with a force and clearness which cannot fail to bring conviction to every unpre judiced mind. So far from the merits of his case being invalidated by the defeat of Tuesday evening, we look upon them as greatly strengthened by that event. We cannot help thinking, when we look at the division, that political feeling has had its influence in stifling the voice of justice. This must give Mr. BUCKINGHAM, if possible, a stronger claim to the protection of the PEOPLE, who should understand that the most effi cient way in which they can support h i s effo a rt to to ob tain justice for the aggravate d, and, ndee, the un precedented wrongs he has sustained, is to continue to petition the Legislature in his behalf. In the Court of King's Bench this day, in the case of " Allan v. Smith and another," which was a trial for goods sold and delivered, the Jury returned a verdict for the De fendants. We shall give particulars In ab to mo- out rrow. LIES 01? THE DAY.--1. " a month, Sir R. Peel will be Prime Minister."—Standard, Jan. 22, 1836. 2. In consequence of Col. Sibthorp's determination to oppose all railways, " although his own property may be benefitted thereby," it is said that the shares of intended railways are at an alarming discount. 3. In consequence of the above legis lator's enlightened motion respecting " Tallow Wicks," it is supposed that he expects to extinguish the present Ministry, or to bring them to their last snuff !—Lincoln Gazetts. - LONGEVITY. —Mr. David Thom, the oldest resi dent in Coupar Angus, died there on the 12th instant, aged 103 years, which he completed in April last. He often gave a lengthened detail of the proczedings he witnessed in the Rebellion of 1745, being then about 13 years of age. He re tained the use of his mental powers until within a few minutes previous to his decease. We have received the whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday. The following is an epitome of the opinion of the Press respecting the new Ministry : " The Journal des Debats says that it cannot comprehend the joy expressed by the partisans of tke Opposition at the change of the Ministry ; the principles of the two Cabinets will remain very nearly the same. The principles of the former Ministry are in the Cabinet, under the President of the Coun cil—this is enough. The Debats adds that if the policy which it has defended for the last five years, and upon which the safety of the constitutional Monarchy depends, is attacked in tl-e slightest degree, it will repel that attack with all its force, from whatever hand it may come. The Constitutionnel considers the most important fact in the —.----- I RICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 1 B ink Stock.. 57 8 3 per Cent lied. 91 %. 2' Ditto Bonds 5 3 prn. :1 per Cent Coni 91% % 1 South Sea Stock — :Iti per Cent - I Old Annnities Ditto Bed 100144i; New Ditto New . 3!, per Cent. - Niew 3 per Cent —' Exch. Bills, .4: 1 ,1100 l9 21 pm. 3ant Long Annuitiesto expire Ditte 500 l9 :II pm. AA. 5, ig6o 19% 7-16! Ditto Small Jan . 10, 16.10 IOU i Ditto Commercial... ...... pm. Jan. 5. IR , ' —; Ditto Advertised rna• Jan. 5, ISBo -- Bank Stock for Account — April 5, IBSO Jan. 5, 187 ,, — I Consols for Acconnt 9 IN 'Ai Omnium — pm. I'RICES OF , FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds v. j Peruvian Bonds — Belgian Bonds — ! Ditto Account ......... ......... Ditto Account . Brazilian Bonds 8 7% ; Ditto Account Ditto Account — ' Ditto New Bonds B3q Buenos Ayres Bonds —l Ditto Account — Ditto Account — ' Ditto, 3 per cent. 53 Chillinn Bonds 49 ' Prussian Bonds Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1621 llOyV Columbian Bonds I Ditto Account ..... .......... ... i Ditto Account Columbian Bonds, 18 - 21 . 3l —3 4 Spanish Bonds — Ditto Account ! Ditto Account — Danish Bonds Ditto Account Greek Bonds — French, S per cent........... —t. —c. Ditto Bonds. 1 - 2.5 — 4 per cent. —l. —c Ditto Account -- 3 per cent. —f. C. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent —-- Exchange _l. —r. Ditto Account Dutch, 2t per cent. F5 % ,!, Ditto, 6 per cent .. 104%54 Ditto Account 1 Ditto, 5 per cent Neapolitan I Ditto Account — PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Columbian Mining Company (issued at 51. pm.)... 55 134 deal del Monte Mining Co., Registered 031. Ins. CA Ditto Unregistered — 21 United Mexican (issued at 21. pm.) Birmingham and Derby Railway Company Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Company , 5 9% Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 2 1,4 4% Commercial Blackwall Railway Company 2 3L 4 Great North of England Railway Company 2 3 Great Western Railway Company lO M 1 4 3 Hull and Selby Railway Company 5 10 9% Brighton Railway Company Brighton (Rennie's) London and Blackwall Railway T.ondon and Dover Railway Company 1 1 4 % London and Gravesend Railway Company 1 2)4% Landon and Greenwich Railway Company 2 + 30 2(J 1 ondon and Croydon Railway Company London Grand Junction Railway Northern and Eastern Railway North Midland Railway Company 5 10 li Preston and Wyre Railway Company 3 I 5 South Eastern Railway Company 0 2% York and North Midland Railway Loa pany 1 4 London and Westminster Ban!' 2O 21 South African Bank riilCEs OF I1n'&11 STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 22. 3 per Cent. Consols 91% ' Grand Canal Deb,. b per cent. Ff 3 Dittoßeduced — Ditto, 4 per cent SIIIE l'.. per Cent. Stud 9SJ Hibernian Bank Ditto New, !sin 3 1 4 ner Cent. Debentures ,11% ;National Insurance Co -- Bank Stock 2ll I City Debentures, 4 per cent... Royal Canal Storl , Grand Canal Stock 23X, per cent HIGH 'A ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-liIORBOW. Morning Ominutes after O. f minutes after 9 MI Who was this unhappy Wight That haunts our fancy like a sprite ? Did he die, long years agorae, As a recent talc has shown, Or consent to drop away, Quite worn out, the other day, Shuffling off the load of life, As Ellenborough did his wife? Was he bored to death by hearing Goulhourn twaddling, Inglis cheering, Or reading (far worse visitation) Phillpotts, on Emancipation, (Phillpotts, who, at Clubs and Courts Looks so natty in black shorts,' o And spoiled when he became a Pastor, A most consummate dancing-master)— Or was he, by Saint Agnew sly Preached into eternity ? Did Miserrimus thus die, Glad at length to take his case After sufferings such as these ? Or was he, by a lawyer's bill, Dispatched—for such things often kill— No, he still survives, to feel The stamp of Whiggery's iron heel ; To see his chance of place and pay Fast declining day by day ; To see his friends all growing needy, Or, as poets phrase it, seedy ; And hear Reformers to the skies Applaud his bitterest enemies, Bidding exultingly good bye To Protestant Ascendancy ; These many woes, without a cure, Miserrimus cloth still endure, Doomed to bow the knee to Dan, And what is worse (ill-fated man) To sign himself an—Orangeman ! Though opposed to the Right Rev. Prelate in politics, yet heaven forbid that we should do him a• 1 injustice. He looks better in black shorts than any man in Christendom, as H. B. has showu in his late felicitous poctrait of the good Bishop. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, attended by Sir John and Lady Conroy, Lady Catherine Jen kinson, and Baroness Lezben were present at the performances at Drury-lane Theatre on Monday evening. The Royal party retired at the end of the second act of The Bronze Horse, which was the afterpiece. Tuesday was the anniversary of the birth-day of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, who has entered his 62d year. THE HAGUE, FEB. 16.—The nineteenth anniver sary of the birth of his Royal Highness Prince William Alex ander, Hereditary Prince of Orange, was kept to-day with the usual ceremonies. We understand that a leading Member of the House of Commons is collecting evidence respecting certain indivi duals who hold situations under Government, and are at the same time Directors of Public Companies, under a just idea that the public service must suffer b) its servants being engaged in any speculative concerns of this nature. The Illuminations last night, in honour of her Majesty's Birth-day, were very general, although upon the whole perhaps less brilliant than on former and similar occa sions. The club-houses, as usual, took the lead as luminaries of the most conspicuous character. 'TIE NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY.—On Wednes day evening last, a public meeting:was held in the Theatre, Bolton, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for a repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers. The meeting was convened by the boroughreeves and constables of Great and Little Bolton. NEWSPAPER STAMPS.-The Edinburgh Patriot, in a singularly able and argumentative demonstration of the justice and policy of removing all restriction on the diffusion of political knowledge through the medium of the Newspaper Press, with equal truth adforce, thus concludes an article upon the subject:—" The people," says the Patriot, "have a right to insist that no artificial bar shall be opposed to the ac quisition of knowledge—that it is the privilege of every Briton to judge for himself of the advantages or disadvantages of the constitution under which he lives—and that consequently he is unjustly treated when he is deprived of the means of form ing a correct opinion on this all important subject." We are gratified to find that the agriculturists of this great county are not entirely asleep. The East Kent Association are bestirring themselves to obtain evidence for the Parliamentary Committee. The farmers themselves, who have f)r a long time deprecated the neglect of their interest by the Legislature, must put their shoulders to the wheel, and each, by giving Isis individual aid, will, we have no doubt, so strengthen the hands of their friends, that justice will no longer be denied them.- Kentish Gazette. The late winds have done great damage on the coast. At Whitstable the tide rose five feet above its level in the early part of last week, and great fear was entertained lest any portion of the wall should be washed away, and the town inundated. A vessel is said to have gone down within sight of the Cliffs, but under circumstances which prevented the most distant hope of affording aid to those on board. At Herne Bay much damage has also been done by the washing away of the beach, and the inroad of the sea into the magnificent As sembly Rooms. Our coast letters are full of particulars of the effects of the storm.—Kentish Gazette. An idea of the immense quantity of foreign mer chandise which is accumulated at Frankfort may be formed from the fact, that the duties to which they have become liable, on the putting in force of the new system of customs, are upwards of 4,300,000. The German papers mention that an Austrian gen- Oman, of great skill as a miner, has received a commission from the Porte to examine the mines of Turkey, and report on the best means of working them. It was generally u nderstood yesterday that Dr. Grey, the Bishop of Hereford, is to be translated to the See of Durham. The name of the Bishop of Chester was also mentioned in connection with this splendid :preferment, but the rumour did not obtain much credit. A grand Conservative dinner was given yesterday eveniefs at the Carlton Club, in honour of the commemora tion of her Majesty's birth-day. There was a numerous at tendance of members. The Augsburg Gazette states, on the authority of letters from Alexandria, that Mehemet Ali had renounced the system of monopoly hitherto adopted by him, and removed a number of obstacles that astructed the extension of the trade in Syria. ELOPEMENT.—DUBLIN, FEB. 22.—A young lady, not eighteen years of age, of great personal beauty and accomplishments, eloped yesterday morning with her cousin, a young gentleman not quite of age. Both parties are highly connected in this city.—Sounders. The public mind has been thrown into a state of fermentation in the Turkish capital by a regulation issued by the Sultan, abolishing the gradation of ranks, such as it stood since the establishment of the Ottoman empire ; and classing the different individuals in office, according to regulations and nomenclature —not only entirely novel, but subversive of the ancient notions of propriety and etiquette in Turkey. The English brig Diligent, Capt. Gibson, which sailed from Newcastle on the 13th, was thrown on the 17th against the northern mole of Havre, and went down before any assistance could be given her. A part of the mainmast was still seen at the surface of the waters. The crew safely reached the shore. A French gentleman having some friends to dine with him on a maigre day, was told by his servant that there was only a single salmon left in the market, which was be spoken by a barrister. " Here," said his master, putting two or three pieces of gold into his hand, " go back directly, and buy me the barrister and the salmon too." The Duke of Wellington will remain in town until Friday, when he will return to Strathfieldsaye to entertain the Judges. Lord Glenelg gave a grand official dinner yesterday in Great George-street, to a party of twenty-four, chiefly offi cial personages, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day. At the new Palace at St. James's Park are now de posited all the valuable armoury, both antient and modern, pictures, plate, books, china, glass, and other furniture which formerly adorned Carlton Palace, and which, when that edifice was taken down, was removed to the mansion in Pall-mall, once the residence of Mrs. Fitzherbert, and afterwards of Sir Walter Stirling, and to the stables in Carlton-gardens, which were fitted up at an enormous expense purposely to - receive and preserve them. At the Carnival masqued balls at the Opera at Paris, the Tombola has been discontinued ; but a bazaar or Fancy fair has been substituted for the benefit of the poor. The managers of the Opera sent to the Committee the sum of one thousand francs on the occasion of each ball, the money to be expended in articles for the bazaar. The favourite actresses of the Paris theatres officiated as merchandes at the stalls. THE REV. JOHN TOZER.-We have very great regret in stating that the apprehensions of many of the friends of the Rev. John Tozer, late Curate of St. Petrock, in this city; in which he was much respected, have proved but too well founded. The melancholy discovery has been made in a singularly striking way. The body of a gentleman was found drowned a short time since near Shrewsbury, which was not recognised by any one in the neighbourhood, but the circum stance was made known by a newspaper being sent accidentally to a friend of the family at Teignmoutb, containing the para graph of a gentleman being found drowned, the description of which caused strong suspicion of its referring to Mr. Tozer. A relation went off immediately, who examined many articles of his dress, and collected so much information as to leave not the slightest doubt of his identity. The body, it is supposed, had lain several weeks in the water previous to its discovery.— Western Luminary. SHIPOWNERS' SOCIETY.-otl Tuesday the an nual meeting of the General Shipowners' Society was held in the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, for the pur pose of hearing the Report of their Committee of Manage ment, and taking into consideratio n the p resent position of their interests. The Secretary read a Report, which, with resolutions founded upon it, was unanimously adopted. Thanks were then voted to the Committee, and the meeting separated. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, F I E n.'24.—Wind S., fresh.—Arrived the Reynard, from the South Seas ; William Pritchie, Kearn, from Bombay ; Saladin, M'Kenzie, from the Mediterranean ; Lady Brougham , Forbes, from Lisbon ; and Idea, Cranfer, from Limerick. Arrived from the rivlstiand remains in the Downs with the rest of the out ward-bound tf*Marys, Backman, for Cadiz ; and Royal Tar, Sim monds, for Santander ; except the Patriot , Ros e, for Sydney, which went away this morning. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 24.—Wind S. to S.W.—Arrived the Mon treal, Chapman, from New York. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 23.—Wind S. S.W.—Arrived the Diligent, Victorio, from Galipoli ; and Vesper, Attwood, from Mauritius. STANGATE CREEK, FEB. 24.—Arrived the Endeavour, John, from Odessa. SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 23.—Arrived the George Canning, —, from St. Michael's. TORBAY, FEB. 22.—Arrived the Wheaton, Westldy, and Busy, Browning, from Villa Novo. BRISTOL, FEs. 24.—Arrived the,Joe, Gammon, Charente. from FEB. 23.—Arrived the Red Rover, —, from Constantinople ; and Jane, Scott, from Archangel. Cr.vnE, FEB. 23d.—Arrived the Tasso, —, from Savannah. FALMOUTH, FEB. 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Scorpion Packet, from Lisbon—sailed the 31st ult. ; and Columbine, Brown, from Aux Cayes. Off port the Sisters, Ramsay, from Demerara ; and New Times, —, from Africa. The Martha, from Alexandria, was on fire in Swansea harbour yesterday, and it was feared would be burnt to the wate.'r's edge. The British ship Sybella was cut through by the ice in the Dela ware the 23d ult., and filled with water. The Barbara, from Malaga to New York , is condemned at St. Thomas's. THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Our arrivals this morning are the French. Ostend, and Lisbon mails—the latter by the Scorpion, sailed Ist February. We have likewise ship letters from China, Nassau, New York, Bombay to the 17th of October, and Mauritius to the 1 Ith of November. We have received the Jourual du Commerce of Antwerp of yesterday's date, bringing the Amsterdam prices of the 22d inst.—Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 553 ; Five per Cents. , 103 i; Ardoin's Loan, 48 7-16. The same paper brings an account that at Brussels, in the open day, the office of the Liberal newspaper was besieged by a pioneer, accompanied by seven soldiers, who demanded the editor; and on the 21st inst. about twenty soldiers of the Guides came to the office again, and told Mr. Gillct, one of the editors, that he had insulted his regiment, for which he should suffer. Several of the soldiers drew their sabres, and ill-treated Mr. Gillot, after which they destroyed everything in the House. The American Papers just received bring accounts of the arrival of the Pantaloon at New York, and that the mediation of England had been accepted by the President of the United States. Consols opened this morning at 91-3-.1 for Account, and 91*1 for Money ; Exchequer Bills, 19 21 ; India Bonds, 3 5 ; Bank Stock. 218 219; India Stock, 257 256. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds 45i ; Por tuguese, 83+ ; Three per Cents., 52i 53 ; Spanish Passive, 14i s ; Deterred, 243 ; Columbian, 31i- 32+ ; Dutch 2 per Cents., 551 1. HALF-PAST ONE. Montreal papers to the 24th of January, and Quebec to the 23rd of January, have been received at the North and South American Coffee-house ; but they do not contain any news of importance. Prices of the Stocks at New York : 7 —United States' Bank, 1194 120 ; New York, 121 125 ; Exchange, 10. Consols reached in the early part of the morning 911 for the Account, and 201 1 for Money; since which they are not so good, and may be quoted at 914 Money, 913. i . Exchequer Bills, 19 21 ; India Bonds, 3 5; Bank Stock, 2184 219 ; India Stock, 257 258. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active Bonds were done at 45i 4 ; since which they have receded to 441 k ; Passive, 144 Deferred, 224 4 ; Portuguese, 824 to 83k ; Thro• per Cents., 524 4; Colombian, 314 to 324 ; Mexican, 35:4 to 364; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 554 1. THREE O'CLOCK. Consols for the Account, 91,4 COMPARATIVE EFFICIENCY OF STEAM AND SAILING PACKETS.—His Majesty's ship Scorpion, which ar rived at Falmouth on the 23d inst. with the mail from Lisbon, it appears sailed from thence so long ago as the 31st January, making a passage of 24 days. The private steam•packet, Liverpool, left Lisbon on the evening of the 4th inst., and ar rived at Falmouth on the 9th, being a passage of little more than four days. The Duke of Wellington hunted on Saturday with Mr. Copeland's hounds in Hampshire, and continues enter taininc, parties at Strathficldsayc, having for the present ab stracted himself from polities ; but he is expected to be pre sent in the House of Lords on the discussion on the Irish Tithe Bill. There has been no Noble Lord recognized a 5 Leader in the House of Peers during the absence of the Duke, nor is one likely to be selected from the party, although the Marquis of Londonderry, the Duke of Newcastle, the Eari of Winchilsea, and Lord Wynford, are constant in their atten dance, the Marquis of Londonderry having lately taken the head on two occasions. RECORDER'S REPORT.—On Tuesday the Re corder made his report of the prisoners under sentence of death in the gaol of Newgate—viz., January Sessions—Mary Dixon, thirty-five, for burglary ; February Sessions—James Caldwin, twenty ; William Moreton, twenty-two, for burglary; James Rogers, thirty-nine, for attempting, to shoot a person - All of whom his Majesty was graciously pleased to rosP ite during his Royal pleasure. IMPROVEMENT IN THE STEAM-ENGINE.- - ° t/ Friday a number of engineers met at Mr. Edgar's, to e xamine an improved low-pressure steam-engine, in which the air-pump is dispensed with. The engine, which is of eight-horse was sct to work, and op e r a t e d t o th e entire satisfaction of a ll. This impro ve m en t w ill di m i n i s h t h e or i g inal cost and daily e 7 '" pensc, acco m p an i e d a t th e same ti me with a considerable in crease of power. The amount of increase has been estima ted at 25 per cent. This important invention is due to Mr. M'Ph er " son, manager of the works. —Glasgow Argus. po wer, GAIETIES AT PARlS.—According to reports made to the Prefect of Police, there were on Tuesday night 8 75 • privates balls, and 182 public assemblies, on the occasion of the Carnival, besides innumerable dances outside the barriers. INTOLERANCE.—UnIess men are prepared to say that we have already reached the perfection of political Avis" dom, it is evident that the interdiction of discussion, however unlimited, because it may possibly lead to the adoption of doc trines now deemed dangerous, must proceed from intolerance and that the same principle would have justified the Roma° Catholic Priests of old in denying the use of the Scriptures to the laity, and the Tories of our own day in endeavouring r° retain the people in that ignorance so advantageous for their pu poses.—Edinburgh Patriot. Thisis the anniversary of the day when Bonapart e escaped from Elba, in 1815. • BALLOT.—Scripture authority is adduced by a cot' respondent of the Patriot, for the principle of vote by ballot,. which he says " was first acted upon by dividing the land or promise among the children of Israel ; and the second im portant occasion on which it was in part used, was in choosing themselves a king ; by this plan, any feeling of jealousy, ran,' cour, or irritation, would be prevented. The wisest of th eir monarchs, after the lapse of ages, confirmed the custom ; and there is no reason why, in choosing our representatives or our law-makers, that the Lot or Ballot should not be adopted ill tl;eir election." ADVENTURE OF THE CARNIVAL.—A young , waggoner and his gentle shepherdess, having passed Tuesday night at the ball at the Ambigu, Paris, agreed to breakfast to' gether on Wednesday morning at the Ile d'Amour, at Belle ville, whether they repaired in a cabriolet. On arriving, a fiacr drew up by the side of the lighter vehicle, and three Wet whose countenances were not in accordance with the gap scene around them, got out and laid their bands on the frolic' some waggoner, whom they recognised to be a young sP i r i g of fashion, for whose arrest they had a warrant upon a jll4, mcnt obtained against him for debt. The disconsolate swain was about to be transferred from'the Island of Love to the Dor,u sombre regions of the new prison, in the Rue de Clichy, arl_ the shepherdess was re-entering her humble cab riolet slot!! and in tears, when a party of spectators of the desc ente de le!, Courtille, among whom were two deputies and a celebrate d o writer of vaudevilles, interfered, and raised a subscription, t.h e produce of which was sufficient to induce the harpies of the law to release the waggoner's frock from their gripe, and t'_ e waggoner soon forgot, not only his own cares but even t° loss of his shepherdess, who bad disappeared before his er0 2 , 11 ,, - cipation, in the enjoyment of a good breakfast, to which "'. was invited by his liberators. ETIQUETTE TO NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA-I None of us (says Las Cases, in his entertaining memoirs °, the Emperor) entered his apartment without being sent for,: and, if any thing of importance was to be communicated foie bhn, it was necessary to apply to be admitted. If he w ail lo separately with any of us, no other presumed to intrude. r , the beginning we constantly remained uncovered near his P! r , son, which appeared strange to the English, who had bees or` dared to put on their hats after the first salute. This contr.7o appeared so ridiculous to the Emperor, that he commandee,o once for all to behave like them. Nobody, except the r o, ladies, took a seat in his presence unless desired to do 5 s He was never spoken to until he had spoken first , and alviefoi and in all cases, the conversation was under his control B_o guidance. Such was the etiquette at Longwood, which 7,,,i e ntirely, as it must be evident, that of our recollections o" feelings. n f th e HANDEL.—Yesterday was the anniversary - 6 84, birth of this great composer, who was born February 24 , ',i t of and died in 1759. He retained to the last all the Warr %10, German blood, and many arc the anecdotes related of his tie, lent temper. The following, however, we believe, is n ot ge a of rally known :—One day, during the rehearsal of the °Per 1,5 a Otho, La Cuzzoni affected that she could not sing, as s he to a cold. Handel became furious, and taking her in his e t :',,ot an open window, from which he threatened to throw he,: t hat if she did not sing immediately—" I know," said he, , e bah you are a devil, but I w ill prove to you that I am Be i t t v 0 5 myself, the Ki ng of all Devils !" La Cuzzoni, who reap- et. not indisposed, commenced singing immediately, and sang e gos mirably ; thus p rov i n g that severe discipline is an c%c _„011, specific for a d libit um co lds, to those who know how to v'Y' the recipe. The Coblentz paper contains the account gh traordinary natural phenomenon, born in that nei a male child with two heads, four arms and shoulders, l',_t r e t r P ore only one body and two legs. The creature and Toot, fl ia poi e doing well, and, if they live, will put the noses of the 0 youths out of joint. b o o f u r :o li o de_,:e:if I .0: G Co Si, I hal su cce Th te usiv p ° PPos Nil 01 Per vt Alsti e , si o4s Jeeti oi Ilearir E th at "Lob ltit r i tli,