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LITERATURE. HISTORY OF THE COJTIMONERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Br JOHN SURrEp P.M VOL. 111. Henry Colburn, 1836. We have received the third volume of this wotk, which, according to the title page, will be perfected ._ lll four volumes. No nation ever produced a record !cl which her people could turn with more just and laudable pride than may Englishmen to this history of our illustrious Commoners. It is indeed a treasure which every person will be most eager to possess. The present volume is embellished with a half-length portrait of Mr. Coke, of Holkhatn, beautifully exe tUted, Intelligence and benevolence are expressed in :every feature, of his face, as expressive in itself as any l i ve ev er l ooked at. Mr. Coke is, in appearance at ea s , an admirable specimen of " the fine old English entle alan"—a race, which Mr. Burke assures us, is no dan ger of becoming extinct. We would almost lentU re to test a man's love for his country by his re card for this history of British and Irish Commoners. EXCISE REGULATIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SI/t, --- Allow m e t o po i nt out one of the many hardships of the Excis e L aws, viz. :—I am a wholesale spirit dealer, town : 114 am obliged to remove my stock from one part of the to another, and on applying at the Excise-office to I f la ve my license ( w hi c h cost me 10/.) transferred. I am in orzned it cannot be done, as the house, and not the indivi dual, is li censed. I am, therefore, called upon to pay 51 . fora fresh license to July, the time when my present one t l Pire 3 . The license fora house open to the public, I am ready, to admit ought not to be transferable ; but it is not pniY absurd, but un• just to apply the principle to the cellars of a wholesale dealer. I remain yours, &c. A CONSTANT READER. COURT CIRCULAR. Th Rot.-ioritl.nchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, and their te r V "'illnesses' Household, attended Divine Service yes- T a L Y. The Dean of Chester officiated. " Landgravine of Hesse Homburg and the Princess An t, attended Divine Service yesterday morning in the eh ' Oyal, St. James's. tae Landg rav i ne o f H esse H om b erg and the Princess Au rPa P la aid ce a visit yesterd a y t o th e D u k e o f S ussex at Kensing. o a kßaron de Moncorvo, the . Portuguese Minister, left town yes i_tdiay for C a l a i s , t o atten d on h i s Royal Highness the Prince nand of Portugal ; and in the course of the afternoon "'4:ard Elphinstone, one of th e L or d s of the Bedchamber, also 3 teem for Dover, so receive and attend on his Royal High ~E,* Who w ill arr i ve at Dover this day. v ery arrang ement h as been made at Dover to receive the i4inee with the greatest respect and attention. Three of the berearriages have been sent to Dover, to convey his Royal I lles:, to Kensington Palace, where he will arrive for din -1411 Auesday, when the Duchess of Kent will entertain her Z-cious relatives, their suite, the Portuguese Minister, &c. visifu Tuesday evening, it is expected, the Royal party will „flhtie King' s Theatre, when they will occupy the Queen's e Duchess of Kent's boxes. t o " Prince Ferdinand of Portugal is accompanied to this p l r l i ntrY by his father and brothers, their Serene Highnesses the 'lces Ferdinand and Augustus of Saxe Coburg, and his Se an:. Highness the Prince of Leningen, the Duchess of Kent's * as also by Count Lavradio (on a s p ec i a l m i ss i on ) , Mon it!. V...asconcellas, Baron de D re i s k au , & c . Tooke,• M.P. Mr. Freshfield, M. P., M r . F reere , M . P ., Hohne, a deputation from the Incorporated Law So on is had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer turday, in Downing -street. t ur 's Cabinet C ounc il was held at the Foreign O ffi ce on Sa thl afternoon. It_ was attended by Viscount _Melbourne, ord Ch ancellor, Viscount Duncannon, Lord John 11 el l, Viscount Palmerston, Lord Glen e l g , M r . S pr i ng p''° , Earl of Mi nto, Si r J o h n Ho b house, Lord Holland, Mr. %lett Thomson, and Viscount Howick. The Council sat three hours. homessieurs Williams, Pim, Perry, Mac Mullen, and Ma k ne Y of Dublin, had an interview with the Chancellor of the it:obequer on Saturday, ' on the subject of a general packet Pon on the south-west coast of Ireland. I- h O rd John Russell entertained a party of Members of the e —s e of Commons at dinner, un Saturday evening, in Wilton reseent, Amongst the company were Lords Ebrington and Bent. Sir John Wrottesley and Robert Price, Colonel D.,"„' , Messrs. Loch, Ridley, Colborne, Patrick Stewart, tt, Pazakerley, T. L. Hodges, Warburton, and Ellice. i.ll,;;kount Melbourne h a d a di nner par t y on S atur d ay even. 'll South-street. WINDSOR. —SUNDAY. Th e u nfavourable state of the weather yesterday prevented Majesties leaving the Castle. ra o Zl i e Rev. I saac Gossett performed Divine Service this Ay,. I ,Service in the Castl e . I n t h e even i ng the Queen attended 1.44 tr Service in St. G eorge ' s C hapel. The anthem was Nid e e n t ee. l-I Yran. The Rev. Dr. Goodall was the Canon in B Po, w e Duke of Welli ng t on occasionally dines at the ai ° ' united Service Club, quite alone, and merely from the No. His Grac e i s most a b stem i ous i n h i s habit, so far as it 11 a, -`ll to wine ; and although the hospitality at his own house aiiCual t , , jar for its magnificence and excellent taste, the Duke Thif of L ooS dale ; in his di et , i s one of the most simple men in England. li - e Earlwhose eyes were couched , ad or ) %Ite, the direction of Mr. Alexander, with such complete le at e l a s that his Lordship's sight is entirely restored, pre %jail:l'4%th: eminent oculist with 1,000 guineas as a profes- , tal ' 41 411 11(1Y manufacturer, ori- Foot, the celebrated•snuff k t b Y kept a small tobacconist's shop at Limerick. One A t hi s h . : 4 s 1 1 . 0 ouse, which was uninsured, was burnt to theground. ta t • ti ' u ntemplated the smoking ruins on the following n m o o rr r . n_- t ou i a hi state bordering on despair, some of the poor i,,h 1 en4l g ro ping among the embers for what they could find, lf_ ne t t' g among several canisters of unconsumed but half uses "use s ', n ue, which they tried, and found it so grateful to their La itt i t uat they loaded their waistcoat pockets with the spoil.. t tara t O Y I P ° O I, roused from his stupor, at length imitated their `ast at r i e. and took a pinch of his own property, when he had aeq ui _t 3' struck by the superior pungency and flavour it T larl o ied from the heat to which it had been exposed. rea ,ealiethtlp this valuable hint, he took another house in a place Ne ' ul ack yard, and, preparing a large oven for the pur- N ab ' r'et diligently about the manufacture of that high-dried iNir--ty which soon became widely known as Black-yard .4 4 terra subsequently corrupted into the more familiar qtarttl3lackguard. Lundy Foot, making his customers pay te a l s 1 through the nose, raised the price of his production, katie4flarger house in Dublin, ' and ultimately made a hand- Th ht tune by having been ruined.— Tin Trumpet. Ihe o,e,beggar woman who has for several years walked L "ok h rrd Circuit barefoot, following the rpute of the Judges 's a os t, r "ace to place, as their Lordships go to hold the Assizes, butel that circuit as usual. liltlntercourse with Greece is every day becom ,:ser, and Producing additional benefits to the rising Go blare flt of that country. Athens was visited last year by taOr hglishmen than had * been there for years, and, indeed, 11 ,,a4 ti our countrymen were to be met there than might I :(B 4 b e ri e d n found in many towns in France or Germany... Mr.... t h g e, en English gentleman of fortune, is cultivatin b Ntlks • tteat assiduity a farm he has purchased on Mount Hyme ia4twi others of our countrymen have been induced, by t tl ike ttrilt kus of health or economy, to settle in .tEgina and il Poiii "hr commercial relations with Greece have also ttnitiobly improved. The direct imports at Patras, from ii,eed;,, dinare thisyear nearly treble the amount of the year t i 1 i.% . 0, i w .. , 11 ilst the exports have advanced from 73,000 to ii. tsh a" 'Ps, the value of the merchandise imported e by millor ts "'Ps, direct from England, amounts to half the en ire eth er iftvaile the exports from all the other States put to aisttlimalthl scarcely a ninth part of the value shipped for „„nr, 4 British vessels. These cargoes, consisting almost the y ,, hf currants, have, notwithstanding the . late reduction lan ,lllty t o -u sooo/ . . One-half its former amount, paid a duty of above A , to the English Customs ‘t it "rr ible i p .l2.. _eth erie , murder was committed a few days since t 0 i!ap e i gne , I _ l l the department of the Oise, between Senlis and pOri, and it body of a young man, who proceedingwas fra a itlr ' ci ze, n e ;: s othnad about him a sum of 1,200 sin son of a merchant of St. Quentin.. The coq er , Was effectede, during . his sleep, by the mistress of the %l b I e !' e he low ed, ;1 41 5t eti on _,. ged, assisted by her servant, who, after the 11 0 br e , i 1 th.eir cr ime, cut up the body into small pi . ee• , titiirneih, _tlem into the river ! The anxious father receivi . n n g utit'., and of his son, set the police of Paris on the i air : aear ,ttoorn.sequence of the discovery of a bloody napkin,to 4 4 ( 1 .thei r h`L,lver, which had served for the murderers . . 1 `; fell colausssioonn,oltihoeiteedri.minals were eventually detected, 1., 4 , i ee er,. li earl Y jtiperp has ow investigation, says the Stockport Ad wielent >n urinated. The evidence is decisive, and the a t ., :0 t11.,u,,t.be " to Newgate," if the House of Commons rell;rati'nua.otaln even the appearance of impartiality.—[The t ot q e rs thnlL which repeated defeats has driven the Tories, te 4i ,Y. li. I now wholly regardless of truth and common de tiffetakteelyr b e l'alrnn.g., 'were punishable by law, Newgate _would . It liar s.] large enough for the Stockport -school class of Pri se f or !IN .to angler considerable period been matter of snr be,, '4 th e r ,F and others thatsalmon were seldom or never el,' t ioti e ,i`. lv e u shoals have h -rd. -c, la t h e Sg, near Hereford, although t tli ~.t he i „ ‘ wYe, into which the Lugo. flows at Mor tta.ateor.a.e,o.ve -r;t}7..ry,however, has lately been partly solved N. which • 4 ' n umbers of otters (the remarkable pen !hll4laloq4,,rters animal for fish is 11 known), had taken up es ti A ut th ~,,n ea r the mouth ofth l e ve Lu g and intercepted the hap ia,,lrriaiesitPa3suc'e up the river. g No ' fewer than eight of "Ncl?; t ler e f av e !Zen captured by Mr. Shiers, an inhabi -114 il l IZt- ' th e .!:rfid a i Ll -1.-bre - ingenuity and - perseverance in, appal-lei - gl hhe a „s a 1 sled creditable to him. ine m "Mbpl it was by placing traps baited ;olore, with fish near their places of resort. One of them, which was caught last week, is a reniaatiliJiy fine one, measuring about five feet in letlgin. The eetintehaiice, ti'the animal is v er y "PreS - aiee, poseessing Much et the inieliigence,Of the dog, and the otter, like the Shah is; peld4pi; or being ta me d. Biting fhb adtriiitia ef a Scarce and valuable fish caused by thete ereettiP es they are perfectly harmless. On Saturday the adjourned Licensing Meeting of Magistrates was held for the parish *Of St. George, Hanover square, wh en a ll the applications for n ew public houses were refused% A *resolution was also passed, upon the proposition of Charles Graham, Esq., that, hereafter; if any public houses were converted into " &n .lAlaces;'' and a transfer ap plied for, it should tt6t be granted, unless such houses were still providocl With the customary accdminodation of a tap-room, required for the use of the ind4etrions labo ur i ng c l asses. BIBLIOTHEtA FIEBERIANA.—The eighth por tion of this library c onc l u d e d most brilliantly at Evans's on Saturday last. Melusine Roman du Chevalrie, 63!. Thorpe. Holy Bible, by Milee CoVerelale first complete English trans lation, 1535, very imperfect, 63!. New Testament, by Miles Covertlale, 1538, 341. 13s. New Testament, by Miles Cover dale, 12mo. 1550, 20/., Thorpe. Mery Gestes of a Shrewde Wife (the original story of the Taming of a Shrew) 28/. 10s. This extremely rare tract, of which no other perfect copy is known ) was purchased by Mr. Daniel, the accomplished and erudite editor of Cumberland's edition of the English Drama, and the author of the biographical sketches. Skelton's Poeme against a Comely Coystrowne, and Ballets, printed by Pynson, 304 10s. Sabie's Fisherman's Tale, 1595, 161. How ye Hye Fader of Heven sendeth Deth to every Creature, a morall playe, imprynted by Skot, 32/. Shakspeare's King Lear, first edition, 15/. 10s., Thorpe. Shakspeare's Life of Sir J. Oldcastle, first edition, 10!. 155., Thorpe. Painter's Palace of Pleasure, 2 vols., 23/. 12s. 6d. Pacifici Maximi Hecate legium, one of the scarcest volumes in existence, Florent, 1489, 20/. Lyson's Collectanea Historica, 8 vols., 55/. 135., Rodd. This portion produced within a few pounds of 4,000/. : there was great competition for many of the articles. Mr. Miller, M. P. for Newcastle-under-Lyne, who, since Heber's death, is the prime bibliomanist of the day, has enriched his library beyond other collectors. Thorpe has purchased largely, so have Rodd, Lilley, and Bohn. The rapid decline of the trade in Barilla within the last few years is very remarkable. In 1831, the shipments of this article into the port of London from Spain, Sicily, and at the Canaries amounted to 7,600 tons. In 1835, the shipments from Spain and Sicily had entirely ceased, and those from the Canaries had fallen to 900 tons. Such are the results of high duties. The price of Barilla, per ton, is from 71. to 91. in bond, and the duty is 21. The trade has now gone into the hands of the United States, who will soon possess themselves entirely of all the commerce of the Canaries, as they have already supplanted us in other branches of trade at several of the ports of the Mediterranean. A moth has lately been caught at Arracan, which measures ten inches from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other, both being variegated with the brightest colours. It is supposed to be the largest moth upon record, exceeding in di mensions even the largest in the British Museum, which mea sures about nine in c h es b e tw een th e wing-tips.—_Mirror. PREMIUM LEECHES.—We perceive that the Mas sachussetts Medical Society offers a reward of 500 dollars for the best 1,000 leeches propagated in this country from a foreign stock. If the kitchen cabinet has an eye to its own interest it will obtain this premium ; for the deuce is in it, if out of the forty or fifty thousand blood-suckers upon the spoils depart. ment, the best thousand cannot be found for the purpose, and that too of a most undoubted " foreign stock."—American Paper. EDINBURGH CORPORATION.--We regret to learn, from the proceedings of the Council, and from other quarters, that there is no hope of any amicable arrangement between the Corporation and its creditors. Mr. Labouchere's propositions contained, it appears, the ultimatum of Govern ment ; it was the verdict which he, the Government Commis sioner, pronounced, on a laborious examination of the city af fairs, from which there is not the least hope of his receding ; and accordingly it has been intimated to the trustees for the creditors of the city, that in future they must correspond di rectly with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject of its affairs. The creditors appear to be equally determined with the Government in rejecting Mr. Labouchere's proposi tions, so that the respective claims of each party must come to be litigated before a Court of Justice. This is a discou raging prospect; and in the meantime no farther opposition can be offered on the part of Leith to rival harbours, wherever they may be planned. Thus the interest of the port will be seriously compromised • everything will be com mitted to the un cer t a i n c h ances of litigation ; and no one can foretel the issue, or when affairs may come to any definite ter mination.—Edinburgh Courant. A very fine specimen of the Crested Grebe, was shot on the Dcrwent Lake (March 1), by Mr. Atkinson, of Keswick, after a most arduous chase for nearly four hours (du ring which time it never attempted to fly), and affording a so litary instance of the crested grebe ever having been known to visit this neighbourhood. Specimens of this bird are not easily procured, as the rapidity with which they dive renders the shooting of them extremely difficult. MODE OF POURING OUT TEA 50 YEARS SINCE. —" At seven o'clock this evening, being the 7th of Decem ber, I imagine I see you in your box at the coffee-house. No doubt the waiter, as ingenious and adroit as his predecessors were before him, raises the tea-pot to the ceiling with his right hand, while in his left the tea-cup, descending almost to the floor, receives a limpid stream,—limpid in its descent, but no sooner has it reached its destination, than frothing and foaming to the view, it becomes a roaring syllabub. This is the nineteenth winter since I saw you in this situation ; and if nineteen more pass over me before I die, I shall still remem ber a circumstance we have often laughed at."—Southey's Cowper, Vol. 11., just published. THE IPSWICH BRIBERS.--It was anticipated that some further disclosures relating to the nefarious transactions at the late Ipswich election would be made during the trials of the parties accused of Bribery, at the approaching Assizes ; but it seems to be the better policy of the Conservatives to prevent, as far as lies in their power, all possibility of such an event. The consequence has been that Dasent, Finch, and Cook, have withdrawn their plea of " not Guilty" to the charges for which they were indicted and have pleaded GUILTY, thus rendering their appearance before a jury of their country men unnecessary. This proceeding, however, will in no way modify the punishment for the crime laid to their charge, and they will be called up to the bar of the Court of King's Bench, next term, to receive judgment. It is yet uncertain what course Pilgrim means to pursue. Over and over again, has Mr. Kelly declared that until he has been found guilty by a British Jury, he is entitled to be considered innocent of the crimes and misdemeanours laid to his charge by the petitioners. The Committee of the House of Commons declared that " R. A. Dundas and Fitz Roy Kelly, Esqrs., were by their friends and agents, guilty of bribery and corruption." These friends and agents have pleaded guilty, yet Mr. Kelly is inno cent. Inoculated as the Ipswich Conservatives have been by such an extraordinary kind of innocence, as Mr. Kelly has shown himself to be possessed of, we cannot wonder that the electors of the borough have since preferred Morrison and Wa son to Broke and Holmes as their representatives in Parlia ment, and the Municipal constituency, a Reforming Town.- Council to,the worn-out and despised faction, who for so long a period had squandered away the public funds, mortgaged the Charity estates, and made the seat of Justice the reward of those only who plunged into the thickest szenes of political delinqUency.—Suffout Chronicle. Lord Denman walked down to the Castle of York, in plain clothes, on Thursday morning, before eight o'clock, at which time the Courts were locked up. The ancient hal berdiers, probably disliking the early hours of business intro. ducvl by his Lordship, had not arrived. The Lord Chief Justice was knocking at the doors for admission, when up came a man, and not recognizing who was before him, or deeming, perhaps, that as " the wisdom's in the wig," so respect was. only due to the functionaries of the law when attired in all their official paraphernalia, refused to unlock the door for Lord Denman, until a more seasonable hour, saying, " Nay, thou can't get in yet—come again when 't Court's open." With this answer his Lordship was obliged to be satisfied, and re tired to the Governor's house, where his person being better known, he was accompanied back to the Court, and the doors opened. He shortly after took his seat on the bench, and pro ceeded with the business of the day.—Hull Advertiser. Mr. GALLY KNIGHT.—AIas ! that the northern division of this county should be represented by such a drivel ler of the Stanley tail, while we have many gentlemen of the most liberal principles resident within it, and there is one no bleman, who formerly did represent the county, who is all but radical, the defender of Sicilian independence, the enlightened Governor of India, on his return to his native country, who owes his scat in Parliament to the city of Glasgow. Such a blot in the escutcheon of North Nottinghamshire must not be permitted to continue, and if the passenger in the Derby dilly will not give up his seat, be must be told distinctly that he does not possess the confidence of the electors, that they dis trust him, and the hollow pretensions of reform which permit ted his election.—Nottingham Review. PUGILISM.—GLASGOW, MARCH 1.--A prize fight for 40 sovereigns, betwixt a Scotsman of the name of Montgomery, and an Irishman named M‘Ginty, was fought on Mearns Moor. They fought an hour an a half, during which time there were 45 knock downs, of which Montgomery had not above 12. Montgomery, after being severely beaten, yielded the victory. Dr. Johns, an eminent Physician of Manchester, has been addressing a succession of letters to the Dissenters of that great and important town, in regard to the aspect of the Dissenters' claims in the present Session of Parliament. Ac cording to his letter, it appears that a diversity of opinion exists, in regard to the clause in the intended Marriage Bill, which appoints the Registrar to be present at the celebration, if in a Dissenting Chapel, but makes the Minister of the Church the Registrar himself.—Nottingham Review. WAR UPON LOLLYPOPS.—On Sunday last, the authorities of this city issued their mandates against the ven ders of apples, halfpenny cakes, and lollypops, and ordered se veral of these gross offenders (mostly old women and widows) to appear before their saintships on Thursday_ next, f o r ex posing their sweets to public view. The Sund a y- sc h oo l T children and others, who get an extra halfpenny to spend, for their attention to their lessons, are in a state of insubordination e m m e o m ria o l ri r a i l t i e r s e a t n h d e authorities ratobe a in ga c i o n n s s t e t r e en vi c o e l , at a i n o d n a o r f e t a h b e o se ut im t m o p y allowed to suck a lollypop after their Sunday's dinner as here- If We are allowed to be present when the memo acCisgivtse a faithful reception. ountpof r s t e h n e t e g d r , a e lv o e u s promise r a o c u i r o u r s e a m d a e n r s n etre of its Some people Compound for sins they have a By damning thos.: they're not inclined —Lincoln G aze tte. mind to, to. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 14 1 1836 dnd sell chairs and tables to=day; will delte and sell the beds to-morrow„ andfollow, that out with the bioOdzithinding echo of " Vi r inqVG" VirAgi Vdti .N 04." lam further confirmed in ind ctlitHetidri kdti urge concession upon your flock, because it is your own senti ment ; for in urging Dean Pellew to concur in instructing the Catholics—this is your language—l adopt it as mine, and I apply it to Church -rates, against the use of jails for enforcing Church rates, as matter of earnest recommenda tion. Nay, if you hesitate about it, Venerable Sir, I use it as matter of admonition to you who are its author, and have deemed it right to tifgo it to Dean Pellew, Writing of educating the Catholic childrcn—.and I, you know, am speaking of instructing men in the principles of justice—writing to Dean Pellew, you say " But, Sir, let me further ask, is this boon, harmless as to evil, and probably subservient to good, more than we ought, as Protestants, to extend to the posterity of those from whose ancestors these very revenues in question were wrested, and to whom they had for so many centuries pre viously belonged? Is it not enough for us to enjoy that great mass of temporalities which will yet remain, and all that can be usefully employed without grudging that little and scanty dole which is here proposed to be dealt out to them ? Shall we 'eat the fat and drink the sweet,' but forget the other part of the prophet's counsel, to send our portion to them for whom nothing is prepared?' Shall we proudly and contentedly sit down beneath our own vine and our own fig-tree, and revel in the luxuries of pros perity, and forbid these Papal dogs even to taste the crumbs that fall from their master's table ?' No, my dear Sir : whatever may become of the principle you oppose, the principle you set up against it, if carried out to its full length, would be both monstrous and impracticable. It would reduce society to a chaos, and make every man his neighbour's enemy. The bulwarks of our Sion cannot be defended thus—the faith of our primitive founders was not moulded in such a cast. If our Church do fall, it will fall, not from a spirit of kindly concession in things just and reasonable towards them that are without,' but from that spirit which will listen to no suggestions of cha rity, and admit no reparations to be needful for their edifice till they find it tumbling about their ears." It is not, I trust, too much to expect from the vene rable Archdeacon that he will be prompt' to illustrate by his practice the theories he has taught. ZENAS. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 12.—FRE/ICH SQUADRON IN THE WEST INDIES.—Capt. Stowe, of the brig Bunker hill, at this port, from Antigua, St. Kitt's and St. Bartho lomew's, informs us that a fleet of five sail of the line and six frigates had recently arrived at Fort Royal (Martinique) from France, and that he left at St. Bartholomew's the French man-of-war schooner Mutine, stationed at that place.—Norfolk Beacon. The Harrier, 18, Commander Carew, arrived out at Rio de Janeiro, on the 31st of December, having touched at the Cape Verd Islands ; she sailed again from Rio, for the Ba hia and Pernambuco station, on the 17th of January. The whole coast of Brazil is swarming with slave-vessels, and the trade in no period of remembrance was ever so brisk as it was at th e d a t e o f th e presen t accounts . Th e Harrier captured one of these vessels, and carried her in on the 18th of January for condemnation. The Talbot, 28, was hourly expected from Rio Plata, whither the Cockatrice brig was about to proceed. The ships at Rio de Janeiro were the Dublin, Actaeon, Wanderer, (since arrived at the West Indies) and Hornet. It was the intention of Admiral Sir G. E. Hamond to visit St. Catherine's. Capt. G. Willes has taken the command of the Dublin (flag ship.) The Melville, 74, with the flag of Vice-Admiral Sir P. Halkett, went out of harbour on. Tuesday. She was paid wages on Thursday, and will proceed to-morrow t o B ermu d a where Si r Peter - will assume the command of the Halifax and West India station, vice Sir G. Cockburn. She takes out 20 second-class boys, from the ordinary here, to fill va cancies on the station. The Portland, 50, Beacon surveying ship, are hourly expected at Spithead, from the Mediterranean. No intimation has this week been received relative to the ships to be commissioned. The Madagascar, however, will be fitted out forthwith, to relieve the Castor, on the coast of Spain ; which ship will be re-fitted and re-commis sioned in June with the Pique, and Captain Hayes's new frigate the Inconstant. These three ships, of similar force and number of men, will afford a fair opportunity of ascer taining which system of ship-building is the best. Orders have been received here to enter seamen for general service. At Spithead—Melville. In Harbour--Britannia, Excellent, Royal George, Pan taloon, and Sovereign transport. PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Lieutenant James Shambler to the William and Mary yacht, but to command the Lightniner Admiralty steam yacht ; Lieut. Peter Inskip to the Coast Blockade at Eastbourne ; Lieut. E. de Mont morency (1801) to Greenwich Hospital, vice Meree, dec. ; Mr. M. de Courcey, Mate, to Melville ; Mr. James Ran dall, Acting Master, and Mr. Woodrich, Assistant Sur geon, to the Swift packet ; Mr. Howell, of the Pylades, to be Second Master of the Curlew, vice Saunders, invalided ; Mr. Thompson, from the Actaeon, to be Master of the Dublin, vice Taylor, invalided ; Mr. Biddlecombe to be Master of the Actmon ; Mr. Robert Hayward (of Land port, Portsea), Assistant Surgeon, to the Pandora. (From the DevonportTelegraph, March 12.) The Pluto steam-vessel, which sailed from Hamoaze on Monday, Feb. 29, for Falmouth, to take out the Mediter ranean mail,'returned to Falmouth on Sunday evening last, and arrived here on Tuesday morning, having experienced hard and contrary gales, with a heavy sea, during 50 hours, having left Falmouth on Friday morning ; she shipped a heavy sea, which washed off the crank hatches, and neces sarily a great quantity of water went below to the engine room. She laboured so much that it. became necessary to heave the coals, which were on deck, overboard. On examination the stern-post was found much damacrbedand the rudder-head sprung, causing a leak which de stroyed a great portion of the bread. The midship part of deck is sunk about four inches, which shows that the vessel must have been much strained, and in fact that a constitu- tional defect has taken place. The length of the Pluto, in comparison with her beam, is incompatible with strength, and her draught, which is not more than seven feet, must altoptlier render her unfit for service, especially in the winter season, and when 200 or 300 bags of coals are piled upon the decks, in that part of the vessel—midships, which is, undoubtedly, the weakest. The Phoenix steam frigate met with a similar accident, and it is generally con sidered that these vessels have nct a bow sufficiently bluff to contend with a heavy head sea. The Irish and Scotch boats, and also the Rhadamanthus, present fair specimens of steam-vessels, which would prove good and safe boats in a sea-way. His Majesty's ship Minden, 74, was undocked on Sa turday last, having had her copper cleaned ; and on Tues day the Talavera, 74, was taken into dock for the like pur pose, and undocked again the next day. The Star packet is daily expected here from the West Indies, and is ordered to be repaired at this port. Admiral Sir Thomas Williams, Port Admiral at Ports mouth, will strike his flag on the 4th of April. Remaining in Hamoaze.—Royal Adelaide, Pluto steam vessel, and Drake lighter. In Barnpool.—Phoenix steam-vessel. His Majesty's ship Endymion, 50, Captain Sir Samuel Roberts, was at Corunna on the 12th ult , all well, having just returned from Santander, to which place she had taken 12,000 stand of arms from Vigo. The Russell, 74, Capt. Sir William H. Dill o n, was a t Ferrol. His Majesty's brig Harpy, l 0, Lieut.-Com. Hon. G. R. A. Clements, was paid wages in advance on Tuesday, and pro ceeded on Thursday for the West Indies ; but a heavy gale of wind having sprung up from the westward, it is supposed she will be driven up Channel. Orders have been received to enter men on board the Royal Ad e l a id e, 120, flag-ship at this p or t, f or genera l service. Wxuitcit ItA'Vg; TO ARCHPEACONACOVEIi, 14dIsLREgIDENT PERPETUAL CURATE OF BUNGAY, SAINT MARY, THE REV. R. COBB, HIS SUB-CURATE, AND TO SAMUEL SCOTT, and HIS CHURCHWARDENS JAMES GOWER„, 3 So! Venerable and iteverend Sirs ; and Worsbiaul Chum wardens, you are nursing again ; the rustling has reached me. 1 address myself td yeti all; becadse yoit are a ll a actors—though three you are but toots in the great work of undermining, under the pretence of propping, the Old House—whose larder has so long sheltered and fed the sleek and downy Venerables and Hierarchs of your ch eese .. devouring- band. You have all shared in the glory of causing the seizure of chairs and tables, you were afraid to sell—you have all been wise enough to proclaim that the injustice of church-rates had so raised the indignation of your parishioners, that you were fearful of popular tu mu l t ; and that therefore, you ware compelled to seize and sen d to gaol, Mr. John Childs, one of your principal parishioners. You thought, I wist, that the excess of oppressi on m i g h t subdue the sense of justice, and induce submission to church exactions. You knew not—l am aware that three of you were too unreflecting t 3 know —that twenty years of peace, and an active local Press, had taught your townsmen and the surrounding mass of the people, to read, to write, and to do more—to think. You did not know that thought and the Scriptures invariably lead to a clearer perception of religious truth ; and that God, in his goodness, has so con stituted the human intellect, that knowledge and reflection invariably lead man to a perception of justice, an d wean him, in religious matters, from blind idolatry to wordly authority. The people have learned, but you did not know it, and therefore we have winked at your ignorance —they have learned that the union of church and state, and the attempt to make the Dissenters pay for new pewing your churches— for providing surplices for your clergy—choristers for your psalmody, and bread and wine for your communicants— forms no part of religious duty, and is plainly unjust ; and that if you want clean vestments for your bonzes, and cushions to sit easy upon, the least you can do is to pay yourselves for the washing and the horse-hair ; but I leave you, the three subordinate actors—the slaves and tools of a bad system—the one the victim of the circumstances in which he is placed, and the others of the ignorance under which they labour,—and I direct my attention to your Venerable Leader —venerable by courtesy. As a professed Reformer, he has, you know, disavowed participation in your jail-invoking propensity. He says he loves not oppression —of course he loves not oppressors— and he has recently written in the public paper s , though a pluralist, and discharging his cure of souls by deputy, a letter in which he has had the boldness to use this language, and to give to the gainsayers the advice which so distinctly conveys his own condemnation : " What can be a shorter or more simple mode of dealing with an idle and non-resident clergyman than to tell him plainly, You must faithfully labour in your vineyard, or the grapes will riot be yours ?' Is not this the mode in which you deal with every other department in society ; and is it not found to be the best and most effective stimu lus to exertion ? You may properly tell the poor man, that if he refuse to labour, neither shall he eat." Now, Venerable Sir—Archdeacon of the Diocese, and perpetual curate, pluralist, and non-resident—the last para graph is your language. You, being always a professed Reformer, have taken especial care t o p l ace yourse lf dis tinctly to before the mind's eye of the public. I acquit you of having an eye to his Majesty's Whig Ministers, though it so happened that you seized a very critical occasion for putting yourself forward to rebuke Tory parsons, particu larly when you wrote to Dean Pellew the letter from which I have above given an extract. Dean Pellew had simply invited you, as one of the clergy of the diocese, to meet your brethren, to consider of an ad dress to his Majesty, beseeching him to take the Church under his especial care ; and on that occasion, though the Dean might have expected a quiet reply, you rushed into print, very unadvisedly as you will find, BECAUSE YOU HAVE NOT ACTED UP TO YOUR PROFESSIONS. You have sought to herd with the sheep and hold with the dogs, and the sheep are no longer So ignorant as not to know that they have more to fear from false friends than open ene mies, or so timid as not to rebuke them. You have been struggling to combine inconsistencies, you refuse to join your brethren in addressing the King, and seized the occasion to launch a just Phillipic against the Irish church, and the oppression and injustice of which the Irish church was the cause. Yet, when notice was forwarded to you of meeting of your own parishioners to impose a church-rate upon the Dissenters of that parish (perhaps a non-resident pluralist may be the cause of that dissent), you abstain from attending, though you took care to be present at a previous meeting, when your claim to ap , point one of the churchwardens was to be exercised. I inform you that your churchwardens have , given notice for " a Vestry Meeting on Tuesday next, the 15th instant, to take into consideration the several assessments of Church-rates iii arrear." Now, venerable Sir, pray go to this consulta tion ; don't absent yourself. When a Reformer, particu larly a venerable and re veren d A rc hd eacon , w h o has been so many years within one step of a Bishopric, addresses his flock in accents of mercy, they will listen. Pray go, and perhaps when you, like Paul, whose disinterestedness it should be your ambition to imitate—when you reason, as he reasoned, "of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come," they may tremble to commit iniquity, and turn from the error and evil of their ways. Pray go as the minister of peace, pour oil over the troubled waters —assuage the heart-burnings which you well know exist amongst those whose souls are committed to your care—tell them not to send men to gaol for not raising an altar at which they think it sinful to worship,—for not adorning a shrine before which they dare not kneel, is unjust, irreligious and wicked; —above all things, as you know you have Catholics in your flock (not one of whom have your personal and holy efforts, yet won over to the pure faith which you hold), tell your vestry, who look up to you for spiritual food, for the illus tration of that which you and I know to be indisputable truth —that your sect took by force from the Catholics, only three centuries ago, those noble buildings in which your meek spirited, rate-levying sect now assemble to worship ;—tell them it is peculiarly unjust to compel Catholics to repair the buildings which their clergy, when, they were in power, BUILT AND REPAIRED OUT OF THEIR OWN INCOMES. Tell them that which you know is true, though it may not b e very pleasant to own it, that the shepherds of th e esta blished Church—the teachers of your sect, of which you are a venerable ornament—took also the loaves and fishes which were by the Catholic clergy applied to building, re pairing, and keeping those noble piles, AND TO FEEDING THE POOR ; but that you keep the- funds, and neither mi nister to the wants of the wretched, nor repair the effects of time upon the beautiful structures raised by Catholic piety. Remember that when the rate was imposed, the arrears of which your churchwardens and flock are now aboukto consider ; that is, TO DEBATE WHETHER THEY SHALL SEND MORE VICTIMS TO PRISON, OR MORE CHAIRS OR BEDS TO THE BROKER—the Rev. Joseph Wilson, Catholic priest attended, and though himself compe ll ed to bear this, to him, peculiarly unjust yoke, proposed, in order to allay the irritation occasioned by the refusal of your purer church to bear the expenses of its own worship, to make a voluntary subscription in the town to remove the necessity of this rate : and that Mr. John Cuddon, another Catholic, pub licly offered in vestry to those men who received through your deputy your spiritual instruction, to pay a voluntary subscription twice the amount of his proportion of this church-rate. Remember this, venerable Sir ; and pray, impress it on tour flock—will you ? I know you will ; because I have before me your letter to Dean Pellcw on the subject of Church reform, in which you advocate the necessity of a reform of the Irish Church, and in which you urge the ne cessity of his yielding to the voice of the people, and tell the Dean that it is from the State, i.c., the people (for you know that it is the people which constitute a State) from whom all the Church revenues are derived. Let me not be supposed to be mis-stating you—l will give you your own language from that letter : " It is from the State that our Church revenues, as Pro testants, were derived—it is under the sanction and pro tection of the State that they are continued to us; and the same authority has a full right to see that those endow ments answer the intent for, which they were conferred : it has an unquestioned right to regulate them as the changes of times and circumstances may require ; for if not, all the title we derive from the reformation is worth nothing beyond what we derive from the Statute of Limitations. But I have full confidence in its justice, and am ready to bow with submission to the wisdom of its decrees. It will not, and cannot oppose the will and voice of those for whom it legislates, and that will and that voice will be with us, so long as we are careful to deserve them." I know you wil do what I have here asked you to do, be cause you are doubtless entitled to credit for honesty and consistency—because in that letter you advocate the cause of policy and justice ably and powerfully. "If conversion be our object, can any means more unlikely be adopted— can any project be marked by a more signal failure? Has not the present system been pursued long enough to answer every purpose of experiment ? It has gone on for about three hundred years ; and that wretched country, so far from becoming more Protestant or more reconciled to their yoke of spiritual bondage, has gone on in one unvaried course of discontent, rebellion, and bloodshed—a burden instead of a benefit to Great Britain ; and that Gospel, which should have been the harbinger of peace, has been used as the source and watchword of the most savage bar barities and the most relentless discord." In this letter you speak of the Irish Church, but the English and Irish Churches are one and indivisible, and tbbse who will seize INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Ine Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoners hereinafter named (the same having been filed in tho Court) are app o i nte d to be heard at the Court-house, in Portugal street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Tuesday, March 15, 1836, at Nine o'Clock in the Forenoon. Sladen,. E., Burchnall, W., Rosc-street, Newgate-market, meat-salesman. Onle, T. Sclwood, J. T., Newgate-market, poulterer. East Pekham, Kent, farmer. Beaumont, Wilkinson, J., Fenchurch-street, City, tea-dealer. Bradley, n., Netherton, Worcestershire, clerk to the Pump-house Colliery, West Bromwich, , George -street, Chelsea, coal, coke, and potatoe dealer. Staffordshire. Brown, J. Cooper, W., High-street, Bow, Pork-butcher. W., Town-end Farm, near St. Alban's, Herts, farmer. Aslet, B. Vale-place, North-end, Fulham, bricklayer. S. , Elder -road, Norwood, licensed beer seller. - Dench, J., High -street, -.igh-street, Putney, fishmonger and Poulterer. T rrE CUSTOM HOUSE ROBBERY.—On Saturday morning, at an ear l y h our , th e p r i soner Willi am J our d an, alias John Leary, together with 25 other convicts sentenced to transportation for life, was removed from Newgate in a van, under a strong escort of the turnkeys of the gaol and police, on board one of the receiving or convict ships at Chatham, preparatory to being sent out of the country, pursuant to the terms of his sentence. In a short time after, Mott and Seale were put into a coach, strongly handcuffed, and taken by Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newcrate, and one of his keepers, to Woolwich and placed saf 6 ely on board one of the hulks st a ti oned there. Sullivan still remains in Newgate, and as it has been the direction from the Secretary of State's InstituteOffi at Northampton,BY G AGAS.—Op cbee removed e keep move dhim without and Jourd andelay to p a o p r a t r s t n , it will lout i h s t . thought that he • ' ' echanics crowded, roomW was ednesday evening, Mr. 1 James Sh arp exhibited his Gas Apparatus at the ,l FIRE IN PLYMOUTH CITADEL LOSS OF LIFE. e stop the Press to attic/tithe that this neighbourhood hag Nein into great Colisternation hy ail warming fire which took pl ac e earlk this morning (Saturday; itit!rch 12th) within the walls of the Sfrodg,i§ fettified and ancient citadel of Plymouth. The fire originated ?if it4e house of the veteran Fort-Major Watson, by means, as we alder stand, of a coal or cinder having escaped from the grate of the dining room, and ignited the carpet, during the heavy gale that was blowing at the time. About four o'clock, the bell of the Major's house was rung vi o l e ntly, w hich awo ke a gentlem an called Pode, a surgeon of Plympton, who was on a visit to the family. Mr. Pode proceeded to the window ; and inhaling a strong smell of fire, with great presence of mind, refrained from opening it, dreading the effects of the wind. Recol lecting that one of the Major's daughters slept in an ad joining apartment, be instantly awoke her, and succeeded in preserving her. A younger daughter about 16 years of age had reached an upper window, and while in the act ofgetting out, being assisted by her brother, the floor gave way, and she fell a prey to the devouring elements, as did also her sister, of 22 years of age. Both brothers were mi raculously preserved, although one of them is nearly blind. The aged Major Watson was also seen at the window, and while efforts were making to facilitate his rescue, the floor sunk under him, and he was consigned to the burning ruins beneath. We understand that the fire was first discovered by the artilleryman who was about to discharge the morning gun. He dropped the match, proceeded to the house, and gave the alarm. Shortly after the bugle sounded, and the troops were under arms. Although every exertion was used, the Major's house and five others were destroyed ; and the gallant veteran, with two daughters, were literally consumed in the flames. The eldest daughter escaped, but not without injury. We have just heard that the remains of the unfortunate officer has been dug out of the ruins, a mass of cinder of about three feet, although he was six feet high when alive. The remains of the daughters (Elizabeth and Mary Anne Watson), have also been identified by a surgeon. What makes the calamity more affecting is f that escape was apparently easy, none of the windows being 12 feet from the ground. A Coroner's Inquest is now sitting, to investigate all the circumstances connected with this dreadfui catastrophe.— Devonport Independent. CONFLAGRATION AT NEW YORK Saturday a public meeting was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose, as stated in the bills, of raising a subscription for the relief of the sufferers by this calamity. Among the persons present known to the public were Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. D. O'Connell, Dr. Bowring, Mr. Pot ter, M.P., Mr. Ewart, M.P., Lieut.-Colonel Stanhope, and Mr. Sheridan Knowles. A letter was read from the Lord Mayor, expressing regret at being unable to preside, and expressing sympathy with the sufferers on whose behalf the meeting was convened. Lord DUDLEY STUART having been called to the Chair, his Lordship stated the object of the meeting. Mr. O'CoNNELL then moved the first resolution, express ing a sympathy with the sufferers, which he introduced with a speech stating their claims as the assertors of liberty, and descended from the same stock. Colonel L. STANHOPE seconded the resolution. Mr. EWART moved the second resolution, expressing the admiration of the meeting at the fortitude with which the sufferers have sustained their loss. He said he felt a deep interest in America, as it was assimilated to a great portion of the people of Great Britain in democratic principles. Dr. BowIING seconded the resolution. Here a boy of about fourteen years of age, the son of Ellen Courtney, and who,claims Mr. O'Connell for his fa ther, rose to speak, but was prohibited by the Chairman. The boy sat down, and Mr. O'Connell almost immediately after retired. Mr. SHERIDAN KNOWLES seconded the resolution in an eloquent speech. It was the only one worthy of notice. Mr. POTTER moved the last resolution, recommending a subscription, wnich was carried unanimously ; after which the meeting separated. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—A new piece, called The Fate of War ; or, Adventures in a Camp, was produced at this theatre on Saturday night, and met with a most disastrous fate. Its scene was Spain during the Penin sular war, and it exhibited some very extensive stratagetic movements of detachments of both French and British armies. But the Generals in command were almost as bad as some who are recorded in our annals, and their blunders were so palpable and perpetual, that the military instincts of pit, boxes, and galleries were alike shocked, and for the last two of three acts the heroes of the adventure were assailed with an unrelenting mistraille of hisses,'groans, and whistling, and other accoustic projectiles. Poor Wallack, who played the part of an 0' Gallaher, of " the fighting division," came in for his due share of the good things going. At the fall of the curtain he was specially and uproariously summoned before a formidable Court-martial, where he had to purge himself of any share in the command of the rig'lars and irrig'lars. In conclusion, he announced, amid the shouts of the enemy, that the piece was surrendered unconditionally. By a stretch of generosity he was allowed to march off with bag and baggage. Indian rubber has been applied in Pans to the casing of steel busks for ladies' stays, and is said to answer we ll in resisting the metallic oxides upon the dresses. STATISTICS OF SWEDEN.—The freehold property in this kingdom continued in the exclusive possession of the higher classes longer than was the case in more commercial countries. Of late years the lower classes have been making rapid strides in advance ; and in " Forsell's Sweden," they are represented to be now the .wners of more than four-fifths of the country. Some tables which have been recently prepared by the Swedish Government give the following details on this interesting subject :—From January, 1822, to December, 1834, the freehold property of the nobility had decreased to the amount of 631,362/. ; that of' the middle class had increased by 360,176/. ; and that of the peasantry had increased by 271.599/. The unredeemed mortgages of the property of the three classes are stated to be—of the nobility 2,511,6611. ; middle class, 2,222,7741. ; peasantry, 2,247,375/. All trans fers of land are registered, and all individuals are divided by law into these three classes ; so that the accuracy of the above calculation may be rel ied on. March is said to " come in like a lion, and go out like a Lamb." The last week certainly exhibited all the lion qualities in more than ordinary fierceness, if hail, rain, and tempest may be so denominated. FATAL ACCIDENT IN A LEAD MINE.-011 Friday last a miner of the name of James Wood, of Wensley, near Matlock, was employed excavating in a lead mine ; in the course of his operations a large quantity of stones and earth fell upon him ; though assistance was at hand, and the rubbish promptly removed from him, he was found quite dead, it is supposed from suffocation, as no bruises were observed upon the body. He has left a wife and three small children to lament their loss.—Doncaster Gazette. There has been lately, in the Canton of Tessin, a fall of snow exceeding any within the memory of man, and all the roads arc utterly impassable. The President and many of the members of the Grand Council, who were proceeding to Bellinzona, were stopped on the road, no money being suffi cient to induce any one to attempt to convey them forwards, or even to carry them back home. Several disasters are ap prehended from avalanches. When Mr. Justice Williams entered the town of Reading to hold the Assizes, attended by the High Sheriff and the usual cortege, there was in the rear of the procession, and as if belonging to it, a tilted cart, on the tilt of which was painted the name " John Doe." INCENDIARISM.—The inhabitants of Wareham ' were on Wednesday night alarmed by a second fire on the pre mises of Mr. Townsend, brewer. From the statement given by the man who has watched since the first attempt, the fire occurred in the brewhouse. The whole range of buildings, including the dwelling-house, was soon one mass of fire, and no efforts to stop its progress were availing. There were con sumed about 160 quarters of barley, 130 of malt, 50 pockets of hops, a quantity of new staves, the brewing utensils, and house hold furniture. There seems reason to fear it was the work of as incendiary, as was the previous fire. Mr. Townsend was insured.—An incendiary fire broke out at Rushton Farm, near Wareham, on the 6th instant, which totally destroyed a barn and wheat rick, containing about 80 sacks of wheat, about 400 reed sheaves, and two rick staddles. ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE Or LADY COVENTRY. —Extract of a letter of the Ist inst. from Rome :—" The day before yesterday, at five A.M., an attempt was made on the life of the Countess of Coventry by a man named Rocco„.ot taviani, a native of the province of Frosinone, in the Roman States. The villain entered her Ladyship's bedchamber with a lamp in one hand and- a weapon in the other. It appears that her Ladyship heard a noise in the room, and cried out— ' Who is there ?' when the assassin answered---' Eccelenza, it is Rocco,' and immediately rushed to her bed. In . great alarm her Ladyship slipped from the bed, rung a bell, and got to the door of her room, where a struggle ensued. She again escaped from the hands of the assas sin, and,reached another room, where a dreadful struggle took place, that lasted nearly twenty minutes. The villain never succeeded in throwing her Lady prostrate, but, when on her knees, defending herself with great courage and exer tion, he attempted several times to strangle her, whilst with a weapon (supposed to be a clasp knife) he wounded her in several places. At last her ladyship felt exhausted, and screamed, You have murdered me.' The villain then made his escape by a back staircase ; the servants at last appeared, and found her Ladyship on the floor exhausted, and her night clothes saturated with blood. Dr. Kissock was immediately called in, and pronounced that no mortal wound had taken place. Mr. Aubin, Secretary of Legation to the Embassy at Florence, and Mr. Freeborn the British Consular Agent, re paired immediately to the Palace Barberini to render assis tance ; and a demand for prompt and ample justice from the Roman Government has not been neglected. The assassin had been employed twelve years at the Palace Barbarini as a house-porter (fachino), and had been discharged on the Ist of January for a theft. It is reported that revenge, and an tion to steal h er Ladyship's jewels, ac t ua t e d the villain corntnit this outrage, Her Ladyship is now doing well. IRELAND: (A REPRESENTATION OF KILBF, have been watching with intense interest, fo the :go eeedings of the Dublin Election C '6 o ,..Nl4'd o pr,eitend that the result will be the loss of ise -...tOrrsifting bleaker& Mr. Sullivan, our pregtht ttek Minded representative, has signified r - bat lire t 44 was only waiting some favourable pq re to theta, unsullied, the high trust repo [ittl , thin. it might be hatidird over to such successor as he was sure would be amen by the free and unbought suffrages of the electors of Kilkenny. If we mistake not, Mr. O'Connell would feel complimented by being returned for Kilkenny,. so famed for its election purity, and uncompromising inde pendence ; and we are confident he would not fail, in the event of an adverse decision of the Election Committee, to solicit and obtain the free suffrages of its emoituency„ should Mr. Sullivan think well of affording him that oppor tunity. These are suggestions which we respectfully sub mit to Mr. Sullivan's consideration. He was determined to leave on the 10th, but we are sure that by deferring his departure for a few days, he will do his constituents and his country service, because, in the event of our apprehensions being realised, and our expectations and our wishes with regard to him and to Mr. O'Connell not proving visionary, his presence here would be of vital importance.—Kilkenny Journal. REPRESENTATION OF SLIGO.—It is intended; we under stand, during the present Assizes at Sligo, to hold a meet ing there, for the purpose of carrying into effect the views of the Reform Registry Association. The representation of both the county and the borough of Sligo is at present a disgrace to the Liberal interest. The great mass of the population and of the electors is Catholic, and they tri umphantly asserted their independence in 1828, by the re turn of General King ; but since he betrayed the trust reposed in him, by votinc , contrary to his pledges on the hustings, they have sunk iglu a most reprehensible apathy, and have tamely consented to yield up all their electoral rights into the hands of a few Tory landlords. The repre sentation of the borough, too, was compromised in the re turn of Mr. John Martin, who is supported by a foriner violent opponent, to prevent his father from exerting his influence in the county against Colonel Perceval. We trust the men of Sligo are at length determined to rid themselves of the reproach to which, by their want of spirit, they have been so long subject.—Dublin Freeman's Journal. Three Men hers of the Peerage , ten Deputy Lieutt nants—fortv-eight Justices of thePeace—twent3-six Cler gymen of the Established Church, and near three hundred others of independence and intelligence, have signed an ad dress to the High Sheriff of the County of Kerry—and the signatures are still increasing—for his spirit, loyalty, and propriety, in refusing to convene the County, to raise some fetid incense acceptable to the 0' Mulgrave nose. It is well to see so erect and manly a spirit still alive and strong in Daniel's District, where he affects uncontested supremacy. —Cork Herald.—[lt were really difficult to determine whether truth or felicity of expression most predominate in the above paragraph.] DUBLIN CORPORATION.—The Dituitn L'Aining Post, in commenting on Mr. Shaw's silence, asks, " Is not the very circumstance—the mere naked statement of the circum stance—namely, that the veriest Tory in England, nay, the most outrageous Orangeman in Ireland, was ashamed to say a single word in its behalf; nay, that its own Recorder, overwhelmed by the might and magnitude of its disgrace, voted—for he supported by his vote Lord Francis Eger ton's amendment—for its utter annihilation. And will the public remember —can, indeed, the citizens of Dublin ever forget—the insolence, the brutality of these fellows while they exercised Municipal authority in Dublin? We have grown prematurely grey in struggling with this foul con federacy—we could almost chaunt Demittis me, Domine, now that we have lived to witness their approaching ex tirpation." DUBLIN SOCIETY.—It is suggested that, for the recon struction of a " Royal Irish Institute," " Seven, or five, English and Scotch (no Irish) Commissionars, at the least, should be appointed for the investigation ; and when the report shall have been made, Government will be in a con dition to legislate wiol,v and maturely, as to the expe dience of establishing a scientific, a practical, and a literary society in Dublin, worthy the Jiberality of Parliament, the prodigious advance which has taken place in all the arts of life, and the incalculable influence of snch a central body in the capital of the country." TITHES.-It will be seen by the following extract from Mr. Butler's letter, that the Hon. and Gallant Member for Kilkenny entertains doubts as to the intentions of the Ministry, regarding the vitally important and all-absorbing subject : " I believe I need not assure you that I perfectly agree with you in the view you take on the subject of tithes ; but, sorry am I to say, that I fear the present Ministry take a very different viow of the matter, and, I much ap prehend, that their Bill of this Session, come when it may, will be even worse than their two last, rejected by the House of Lords." THE ENNISKILLEN ORANGEMEN.—A number of per sons, Protestants and Catholics, were brought to trial at the Fermanagh Assizes on Thursday, for a riot in which a homicide had been committed. It should be stated that at the previous delivery of the gaol two persons had been con victed of manslaughter, and there was an understanding, it would seem, that the two batches of the adverse factions recently arraigned should only be put upon their trial for an aggravated assault and riot. The Crown Counsel, how ever, showed a disposition to persist, but the Court, Mr. Justice Moore and Mr. Baron Pennefather, humanely, as well as justly, directed that the milder issue should alone be rent to the Jury. We never yet, in the course of our ex perience, read a speech from the bench which has filled ra with feelings more deeply gratifying, and with hopes so rea sonable, that its effects will be permanent—that its opera: tion upon the country will outlive the present times, and that hereafter the name of this Judge will live in the grate ful recollection of a county restored to peace, and purged from the miseries and the crimes of faction.—Dublin Post. DISSOLUTION OF THE ORANGE SYSTE:►I.—The Balli nahinch Orange Lodge, county of Antrim, has come to a determination of dissolving, and we have good reason to know that the other Lodges of this county are preparing to follow the good example. The Boyne Orange Lodge (Meath,) have resolved, in pursuance of the wish of the King, and the advice of Randal Plunkett, to dissolve forthwith. The Summerhill Lodge, in the same county, have dissolved, after voting a loyal address to the King. Alost sincerely do we congratulate our Orange brethren on the judicious determination to which they have come.-- Dublin Post. W. F. FINN, Ese•, M.P.—A subscription has been set on foot to mark the sense entertained by his fellow- countrymen of the services of this uncompromising and indefatigable Irishman i❑ reference to Orangeism. The merit of its overthrow is so entirely his, that little of it can be ascribed to others, however good their intentions, or useful their exertions in recent instances.—Register. THE IRISH MEMBERS.—The sudden return of some of the Irish Members before the termination of even one month of the Session, is loudly and justly complained of. During the recess, parties were considered nearly balanced in the House of Commons, and there has been yet only a single division of any moment. It was unquestionably the duiy of Irish Members to make arrangements for remain ing at their posts until the principle, at least, of the great measures so vitally affecting their country, was decided in the House. WRECKS. (From a New York Paper.) The brig Regulator, Phelps, from Smyrna, for Boston, went ashore on Brown's Island, near Plymouth, last Thursday even ing, and five of the crew perished. Vessel and cargo a total loss. Captain Phelps and the surviving part of the crew, were taken off by the brig Cervantes, Kendrick, from Charles ton, for Boston (below). The names of those who perished arc—George Dryden, an Englishman ; Daniel Canton, of New York ; Augustus Tileston, of Vermont ; John Smith, a Swede ; and a Greek by, of Smyrna. Captain Phelps had one foot frozen, and otherwise frost bitten : Mar tin Adams, chief mate, both bands and feet frozen, and badly bruised ; James Warden, second mate, hands frozen, feet frost bitten ; Elijah Butler, hands and feet fruzen • Lewis Almeira, hands and feet frozen, and badly frosted ; Cook, slightly frozen. Her cargo consisted of the following articles :-460 bales wool, 35 cases opium, 25 ditto gum Arabic, 12 bales , senna, 12 drums scamony, 2,000 drums Sultana raisins, 2,000 boxes raisins, 5 packages cow tails, case safflower, 400 sacks salt, tons logwood. Captain Phelps spoke about 26th ult- lat. 61, long. 67 50, British ship Majestic, from Dundee, for New York—had been run foul of, lost bowsprit and head, and leaked badly—wanted no assistance that he could render. Brig Triton, Wortman, of New York , from Wilmington, N.C., for Port-au-Prince, was wrecked on the night of the 28th December on the Caicos. The Captain, crew, and some of the effects saved, arrived at Turks Island previous to the 13th ult. The ship Scotia, at St. John's, New Brunswick, saw ox the sth November a wreck to leeward, with a signal of distre - ss flying—bore down, and found it to be the John Miller, of Liverpool ; hard gales prevailing to the N. W., hove to under her lee, and remained by her until 10 A. N. on the 27th, whet our boat was got and we succeeded i nbo n a u rd br in e g . the rch wreck, weather n in rescuing the officers and crew, 23 in n m continuing stormy, and being rather short of water, bore up for Floris on the 29 t h, where a supply was obtained, and 14 m en left in charge of the British Consul. The John Miller sailed from Liverpool for Savannah on the Ist November. The Falmouth and Halifax packet Star, arrived some time since at Nevis, was in company Nov 21st with an American bark, and at eight A. M. saw her American and bowsprit go by the board—she then showed ari and at nine her main and mizenreasls- went by r t i h e e ll b e o n ard e , and' in alolut 15 minutes after she went down. I