The Sun. — London, England, 1839-05-11 00:00:00

EVENESG EDITION JAMAICA. , meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Planters, and ehants interesteXl in and connected with the colony of i ' ,ica, took place yesterday at the Thatched House Ta- St. ' , James's-street, for the purpose of considering N steps it might be necessary to take in reference to the Cid lately introduced into Parliament for the suspension of the Constitution efJarnaica. Among those present we observed Earl St. Vincent, the Earl of Harewood, Sir Alex. Grant, Sir Wm. Dalling, Sir E. East, Mr. God son, M. P., and Mr. R. Bernal, M. P. At half-past one o'clock, the Earl of Ileeewooh was I Ailed to the Chair, aria read the advertisement calling i ' e meeting. i Mr. BURGE, agent for Jamaica, said it had appeared to n after the proceedings in the the House of Commons on S'endey night last, that the occasion presented itself, and that it was exceedingly important that the great pro prietary interest of Jamaica should express to the people of England, that the result of these proceedings had not, LI the slightest degrM altered or diminished the anxiety ~ they bad at all times felt to promote that spirit of legislation / e ,he Colony of Jamaica, which was best calculated to 1 , mote the beneficial working of the great measure of 1 lancipation. That so far from that anxiety being di i _ nished it had rather been increased, because it was ob e•ous that these prooeedings might lead individuals to ex ercise various opinions upon the motives which influenced 1 them and the people of Jamaica. It was therefore of the 1 greatest importance that the great Proprietary of Jamaica in that country should set themselves right with the public, and set the public right with regard to them. It ap peered also important that they should avail themselves of the present occasion, to convey to their fellow :colonists irit impression which they had received from the recent Iproceedings, and the reasonable expectations which they formed that the House of Assembly and the people of Jamaica would carry out that spirit which, on several cc easions, they had expressed their confident belief would be niccessful in promoting that legislation. However painful might be to the people of Jamaica to have their conduct and motives misrepresented, yet it would be gra tifying to find themselves supported by their fellow colo- Mats ig that country in the hour when their Constitution was assailed. He was quite convinced that the present was a period whet) their friendly communication and co-opera tion with them would be most gladly received. When the expression of 'their opinions would produce the most beneficial results upon their future conduct and proceedings. —( Hear, hear.) He had found these sentiments partici pated in by a large body of Jamaica proprietors in the country, and he alluded particularly to the Noble Earl who now presided over them —( Hear.) He had seen the resolutions• Which were about to be proposed, and he fully concurred in them—they conveyed the sentiments which he and his friends advocated to the people of Eng land And the people of Jamaica. They abstain from all allusions to persons or ...LIU and he trusted they would receive the unanimous apiMlleillkl of the present meeting; for the more unanimous they were the more powerful the ex pression of their opinions would be.—(Hear.) On these grounds he was gratified to find that the resolutions cau. tic tidy abstained from calling in question the conduct of the preceding Goverment, or any persons who had sup ported them, or inviting any species of discussion on the character or motives of any party or persons—they had solely for their object to enable the people of Jamaica to stand well with the public, and to assure them that no per sons wore more anxious to work out the great measure of emancipation. —( Hear. ) Earl ST. VINO NT expressed his entire concurrence in the sentiments o(his Learned Friend, Mr. Burge. He and every Gentleman present were, he was satisfied, most anxious to carry out the Act of Emancipation to the very letter. He had no desire to reflect upon the conduct or motives of any party, because he believed that many well intentioned persons had been led awes , by rnisrepresenta tien. They had all the same object in view—namely, to benefit the negroes, and assist them in making a proper use of their newly acquired rights.—( Cheers.) The Noble Earl then read the resolutions to the meeting. Sir A. GRANT wished, before the resolutions were put Iseriatim, totrnake a few observations. He objected not to any part of the resolutions that had been read, but he thought the proprietary of Jamaica had so frequently 1 Alined the object of the members of the Association to be th..t the great measure of emancipation should be carried out to its full extent, that he bad expected the present meeting would have had to go a little further. He would er,:irely deprecate making this a party question. The acivertisement invited the members to meet in reference to the late proceedings in Parliament • of course, therefore, he concluded that they would be called upon to take areview of tl.e late proceedings in Parliament, and in any resolutions to , which they came they would in some way advert to them. What was their position ? The Bill was introduced into Par 'lament for the temporary suspension of the Constitution of Jamaica. There were two meetings of the proprietary on the subject. The result was that a petition to Parliament AciS agreed to, and signed by 580 persons interested in Jamaica, the prayer of which was supported by 291 members of Parliament. The first object then he should have thought would have been to have passed a vote of thanks to that portion of the Ilouse of Commons, who, satisfied with their reasoning, and listening to their prayer, had con summated their object. He thought that was due to them. He felt at the same time that some persons might consider that that would be identifying themselves with parties ; but that eould not be a fair construction, because some who supported - their views were directly opposed to the politics of the Tories, and he really felt it was due 1 to the 291 that the thanks of the meeting should be tzndered to them. The proprietary here had a right also to express to the House of Assembly their 1 Gpt,.ion on the subject, and to call on the House o f I Asiembly to consider what they owed to those in this ' country, who bad supported them. The meetin gs o f th e i proprietary were confined to Members of the Association, and it might be a long time before another meeting was theld at which mortagees and others importantly interested I' in the island, as well as members, might be present; there ' fore he deemed it the more desirable for the future admi nistration of the Colonies that a declaration should be made on the part of the meeting going further than the re &solutions which bad been read embodied. He had sketched ... rout two or three resolutions, which he should have inclined to think would have been such as the meeting would have apprevecl of, arid which he should read, not for the purpose of moving them as an amendment, or for the adoption of the meeting, but merely that they might, as they probably would, present some topics for some other gentleman to suggest in the shape of resolutions. The effect of the resolutions was, that the thanks of the meet ing were eminently due to Sir Robert Peel, and those who had supported him—that the meeting enter tained the strongest hope that the House of Assem bly would duly appreciate the exertions that had been made hero in their defence, and that that House would avail itself of the opportunity now reserved to it of resuming its legislative functions with a spirit in accordance with the feelings of the British nation, and its represeetatives in the Imperial Parliament, and that the meeting felt confidence that the colonial policy of th 2 new Government, while it protected the newly enfran chi,ed population - from encroachments on their rights and lib,rtiee would not neglect the general interests of the Isltaid or of the landholders. Sir EDWARD H. EAST said his Hon. Friend opposite had no doubt expressed the feelings of the great proportion. of the proprietary on this subject, but his suggestions came rather late. The object of the present meeting was to secure as fir as was possible, the unanimous voice of the proprie tore in England, in the steady and sober carrying out of the Emancipation Bill—( Cheers)—and to adopt such a course as would carry with it a recommendation to the same eft ct to the negro population in Jamaica, le:ceuee the Bill would fail altogether if there IV aS not to be fair labour for fair wages.---( Hear, hear.) 1 the question of the Bill in Parliament had been still ::ding he might have gone along with the observations vc . ..leh had just been offered to the meeting, but that was I: t the case. Th e Bill had been abandoned' notice of that , ndonment had been given by those who had been its supporters, and therefore they were now all of one mind. t --(Cheers.) It had been a Meat political struggle ; no iebt there had been som e p arty f ee li ng introduced into it; the parties had notes as it were, shaken hands, and there it in end to the contest. Theflsad tried the experiment, ); . .'eund there were so many Reform Members opposed r to J, on principle as to induce them entirely to give up the. test. Nobody had questioned that the operation of the f tencipatien Bill should be carried fully into effect—every i ;., .iy was of opinion that it should; therefore, all th e y h a d go t se do was to tie grateful to those who had been instru :Loma] in preserving the Constitution of Jamaica, and to ioegratulate the House of Assembly, to congratulate them ielvcs, and to congratulate the country on the escape of that , if use. I Mr. BERNAL wished to know from Mr. Burge, under s I.ese notice the resolutions which had been read to the i . eting, had been—whether, regard being had to the qternent contained in th e fi rs t reso l u ti on , there would not Ibe a danger of the Proprietary here having to throw the House of Assembly overboard, provided that House, when ;' met in April, should bring forward a measure proposing , raise the franchise. Mr. BURGR said, that as far as he was able to judge, he le:td no hesitation in saying that the resolution precisely i xpressed the feelings of the people in Jamaica; and if he had not thought so, he should not have so ex • pressed it at the Bar of the House of Commons. 1 , They would now be able to meet as men emancipated in 1 Ithcir minds as well as in their bodies. _ _ I Mr. GODSON said that notwithstanding what had been said as to the first resolution, he could not refrain from saying they had met there differing in politics and dif fering in religion ; and he must congratulate the meeting that they seemed to be determined to abolish all discussion either on religion or politics. He (Mr. Godson) had on two or three occasions stood upon the hustings, and had been abused and treated in the grossest manner, be cluse he was a slave-owner. In fact, their statements were deemed unworthy of credit. On his estate he had one fourni white labourers, and was it to be supposed that he would sanction any law which would equally oppress the whites and the blacks. Was 'Pt to be supposed that forty thousand whites, and one hundred and ten thousand browns Would sanction any law against the blacks, that might here after be applied to themselves ?—( Hear, hear.) All they asked for saffias that they should obtain credit for treating 1 their workmen, for their ()Ain sakes, as well as they were treated by their masters in that or any other county There mu: y. t however be some remedy applied to the gsievallPes of which Jamaica complained, and more espe cially th e trusted would be inhabitan Stipendiarythat t VI ri . t t ( Hear, hear.) He actuated . a,is ra es.- 7 -• whoever the new Ministry might be , they s ba sincere desire to do justice to all the tof the Colony, —( livar, h ear.) mr. C. P. BARKL who had not often interfaced he regretted, on the whether white, brown, or black. Y belonged to a class (the Radicals) p e r r4e: e d in the affairs of Jamaica, and bconmade b.. 0, i .exanndt occasion, that an attempt had .Y. ' 11 like party politics. Sir A. GRANTI utterl Mr. BARKLEY said of course they Gaint's disclaimer. yerdGenryanitt. to introduce anything must take Sir Alex. He would, however, caution them ag:.inst introduci n g an y thin g ca lculated to divid e the l pre sent mcetirg by swerving from the line th e y h a d originally ladopted. If he had misunderstood Sir A. Grant, he 'begged his pardon—(Hear, hear)—but seeing a vote of .00•111111WPRIPINS- f .., , ,,-...."----,, ,, , , -.. . thanks to Sir R. Peel in the resolutions, he, as a Radical, ' could not consent to that.—(Hear, and a laugh.) Sir A. GRANT explained. After a few observations from Mr BURGE, The resolutions originally proposed by Lord St. Vincent were put from the chair and carried unanimously. Lord ST. VINCENT moved and Mr. GODSON secon 'ed a vote of thanks to the Noble Chairman, who briefly ack: ow ledged the compliment. A Committee was then appointed to make arrangements for a future meeting of the persons interested in the welfare of the colony, and the meeting broke up. MEMORIAL ON THE JA MAICA BILL. The undersigned, being persons connected with the Island of Jamaica, admit that the suspension of a Constitution like that of Jamaica, of ancient date, and based upon the principle of popular representation, would be a measure only justifiable by paramount ne cessity ; but they wish to confine themselves to the important practical consideration of the present critical situation of that colony, and the measures which that situation renders necessary. They find -1 st—That new laws are required to regulate the new relations of employer and labourer, and that the colony is now suffering severely from the want of those laws ; and that, unless they are speedily passed, cultivation must cease, and the great experiment of emancipation, as far as Jamaica is concerned, must utterly fail. 2d—That the House of Assembly has de facie sus pended its functions ; that it refuses to resume those functions unless Parliament shall make certain conces sions, which concessions all parties in Parliament seem determined to refuse. The undersigned, therefore, looking to the present critical condition of the island of Jamaica, and consider ing that postponement of legislation will daily aggravate the danger to which the Colony is exposed, do not hesitate to declare their conviction, that it is expedient, under all the circumstances of the case, that a Bill " to make temporary provision for the government of Jamaica" should be passed as speedily as possible, in full reliance that the Crown will be advised to nominate a Legislative Council, calculated, from its constitution and the character of its members, to obtain the confi dence of the Proprietors and inhabitants of all classes in Jamaica. A. COLVILLE. HENRY LUSHINGTON. R. GORDON. THOS. B. BIRCH. HANKEYS, PLUMMER,and WILSON, FRAS. L. BECKFORD. BENJAMIN GREENE. C. E. LONG. SEAFORD. WILLIAM ALERS HANKEY. ANDREW ARCEDECKNE, J. MORANT. F. B. LONG. WILLIAM BECKFORD. FREDERICK MORTON. F. H. DICKINSON. PENNY POSTAGE. To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parlia- ment assembled. The Petition of the undersigned Wives, Mothers, Sisters, and Daughters of Seamen sailing from the port of Great Yarmouth, in the County of Norfolk— MOST HUMBLY SHOWETH, That your Petitioners have long felt the present rate of postage a great grievance, it frequently occurring that when their husbands, children, or fathers, after a long absence, have written from a distant port in the United Kingdom, to acquaint their families with their safety, wd relieve them from a painful anxiety, the amount for postage of their letters have been so high that they have been unable to pay it, and your Petiti oners have consequently been deprived of the gratifying information they so fondly expected, and ardently desired. _ _ _ That, confiding in the sympathy of the Members of your Honourable House, your Petitioners humbly pray that the proposition submitted to your Honour able House, by Mr. Rowland Hill, for a uniform Penny Postage may be adopted. And when the peculiar hardships of many of your Petitioners shall be considered, and the feelings of wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters adverted to by Members of your Honourable House individually, your Petitioners feel encouraged and emboldened to anticipate (what they most earnestly, but with hu mility and becoming deference, thus entreat and sup plicate) the candid attention of your Honourable House, to the object of their Petition. And your Petitioners will ever pray, &c. &c. (Signed.) *,* Besides this petition there are two others from the same persons, one to the Queen, and the other to the Lords. Already there are many hundred signatures affixed to them. STEAM NA VIGATION.—Captain Robinson has just published a valuable little work, entitled " The Nau tical Steam Engine Described, and its Powers and Capa bilities Explained; for the use of Naval Officers and others interested in the important results of Steam Navi gation." Captain Robinson's is, we believe, the only work specifically devoted to this subject, and he has succeeded admirably in divesting it of technical obscurity. Most per sons who travel in steam vessels are desirous of knowing the principles and power of the steam engine, and they will learn more from the perusal of this work than they could possibly gain by the casual inquiry of inspection. To officers of the navy especially this work must prove in valuable. LORD STASILEY.—The advocate of coercion in Ireland, of coercion in Canada, became of a sudden the opponent of a coercive policy, when a despicable oligarchy of petty tyrants were to be curbed and deprived of their mischievous power. Lnrd Stanley warned the House to beware of rousing a spirit of insubordination in a single colony ; but he discovered no such wise caation when the peace of whole provinces was at stake. He would coerce the millions of Ireland, but affects a constitutional horror at applying a stringent measure to the forty-four legislators of Jamaica! He affected to be anxious that the negroes should have the whole of their civil rights as freemen, while opposing a Bill intended to prepare the way for their being put into possession of them. But a slip of the tongue betrayed the spirit of the speaker. Ministers were acting thus tyrannically, Lord Stanley said, both to the negroes and to the whites, who were their masters and owners. Cheers from the Ministerial benches induced the Noble Lord to recal the untoward expression " not owners, but employers." A delicate phrase for the Jamaica overseers. —Patriot. CHEAP POSTAGE.—The Presbytery of Loch carron at a late meeting petitioned both Houses of Par liament in favour of Mr. Hill's plan fir a low and uniform rate of postage. This is the first instance in which a Church Court has come forward as petitioners on the sub ject. The example, however, was very speedily followed, for the Synod of Ross, at their annual meeting shortly afterwards, resolved also to petition for the same measure. The subject is one which the clergy ought to have much at heart, for it nearly concerns the interests and happiness of their poor parishioners. Every wise and humane per son should join in the advocacy of that mighty reform in which poor as well as rich are deeply interested ; and which in its results, would be to the people of this kingdom an inestimable boon.—lnverness Courier. SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.—At the ordinary meeting held on Thursday evening, Mr. Hallam, Vice- PresiLnt, in the Chair, a letter was read from Sir W. Beetham, Ulster King-at-Arms, on an ancient bronze arm which is in his possession, and an illustration of which will be found in the " Vetusta Monumenta." It was described as a religious relic of the ancient Irish, of about the 7th or Bth century, but the inscriptions were very difficult to decipher. The author remarked on the paucity of classic Irish scholars, the vernacular or spoken Irish becoming every day more corrupt, and losing all the purity and chasteness of the ancient tongue. Sir William Beetham also gave a description of a stone in the wall of a Church two miles distant from Brecknock, in South Wales, which had on it the rude figure of a man with several inscriptions in Irish. The stone, to which from this circumstance considerable interest was attached, was a funeral monument to some ancient British Christian, about the 2d or 3d century, and when under the domination of the Romans. A continuation was read of an interesting paper by Mr. Bond on the introduction of the Italian money-lenders into England in the reigns of Edward 1., IL, and 111. QUEEN ELIZABETH S STATUE.—Yesterday morning the preliminary works having been completed, the recently discovered statue of Queen Elizabeth, was erected in St. Dunstan's Church avenue. The pedestal is fixed over a Gothic portico on the eastern side of the Church, which has been erected for the purpose. Under neath is block of black stone, on which is engraved the fol lowing inscription :—" This statue of Queen Elizabeth for merly stood on the west side of Ludgate, and was presented by the City to Sir Fras. Gosling, Knt., Alderman of the Ward, who caused it to be placed here." A very fine trout has been observed for some time La the river Stour, between King's-bridge and the Friars, within the walls of this city. It attracted the at tention of many persons, and various attempts were made to ensnare, and even to shoot it, without success. On Tuesday a person named Lamberton, stationed in a garden at the back of All Saint's-lane, succeeded in taking it with a rod and line, using a common ground bait. This king of the stream was a remarkably handsome fish of the true trout species ; it weighed 0f lb. It measured two feet two inches in length, and twenty inches in girth. So large a trout has not been taken in this stream for upwards of thirty years.—Kentish Gazette. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.—It is with extreme re gret that we announce that a most distructive ire, which there is every reason to believe was the act of an incendiary, took place on Thursday at Steeple Ashton. It happened at about 11 o'clock, on the premises of Mr. Miles, nea r the church. Pive wheat ricks • three barns, in which were about 100 sacks of what; three wagon sheds; a stable, and cottages were totally consumed—Mr. Miles lately dis charged all his labourers for having attended a Chartist meeting. The fire was distinctly visible from Devizes.— Wiltshire Independent. Tll E A T ER.—Thursday morning, after the thunder storm, the weather became extremely cold for the season ; and yesterday at noon the thermometer was 12 degrees lower than it was at the same hour two days ago. Though the barometer has been nearly as high as 30 degrees for these few days, there have been heavy falls of rain, with a keen north-cast wind. TIII4I SUN, LONDON , SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1839. PRESENT STATE of the COUNTRY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir.—The public mind being naturally in a state of excitement at the present moment, there are partial differences of opinion on the present situation of the affairs, and as to the Government of the country ; and though a humble individual, beg to offer my ideas, if you should think them worth inserting in our Paper. I assume as a fact too clear to be contradicted, that the cause of the late resignation of her Majesty's Ministers is their not having had courage and resolution sufficient, to meet the increased and increasing effect of public information and liberality ; and I take it to be equally clear, that a strong Liberal, or Radical pal ty as it is termed. has forced that resignation. It is equally clear, I presume, that no Ministry acting upon Tory principles, can possibly keep their seats many months. No, Sir, a very great majority in this country call for, and demand a much more Liberal Government than that which has lately retired—and it cannot be supposed for a moment that a Tory party can, after their unremitting endeavours to thwart their comparatively Liberal predecessors, attempt to pursue a liberal course ; that would be for them to fall lower than the condemnation they are at present as sailed with ; it would be to sink themselves in utter con tempt; the gross, venal, ambitious hypocrisy would be at once seen through, despised, and not for a moment relied upon ; nor can they for a moment flatter them selves (unless they be perfectly stolid) that the Liberal or Radical party will support them, as they must be aware that party seceded from the late Ministry ex pressly for the purpose of driving them to resign, be cause they had not courage to act sufficiently Liberal in public opinion ; and they will instantly turn round upon a Tory Ministry consistently and for the same reason, to convince the richer orders of society, that no administration can or shall stand, but a really Liberal one. Wealth, Sir, has a cer tain limited power only, but the wealth of the few cannot withstand the power and force of the millions. Can the partial monopolizers of wealth continue still blind to this, and the general glaring signs of the times. If they are determined to shut their eyes, a crisis much to be dreaded by every thinking mind will advance upon them more rapidly than they appear to be aware of. It is marching with silent though sure steps, as has been seen in every other country similarly situated. Before this country or government can be in a healthy state, some alterations must necessarily take place. To mention a few—an absolute and complete dereliction of the tyran nical principles of centralization, both with respect to the Police and the Poor-laws ; the first, because it is taking the organization and conduct of it from the only proper and just hands, the inhabitants of each district ; and because it is a standing army under the assumed name of Police—the latter, the Poor-laws, because it is in direct opposition to the law of God, morality, and justice. Let them be judged by the only book of truth, the Bible. An abolition of the Corn-laws—Household Suffrage without reference to value—the rescinding of the agricultural tenant at will clause—the Vote by Ballot at elections for Members—Triennial Parlia ments, and an abolition of the disgraceful practice of voting by proxy in the House of Lords, &c. I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, May 9, 1839. WATKIN LEWES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. NATIONAL PROVINCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND. The annual general meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of the National Provincial Bank of England took place on Thursday at the London Tavern, Bishops gate-street, and was attended by a large body of the Proprietors. Upon the motion of J. RUDDELL TODD, Esq., se conded by HENRY WAYMOUTH, E sq . , PHILIP COURTENAY, Esq., M.P., was called to the Chair. The CHAIRMAN, an opening the proceedings, said he regretted very much the absence of Mr. Melville, whose discretion and judgment, and business-like habits, had rendered him a valuable member of the establishment. —(Hear, hear.) It was now his duty to lay before them a statement of the affairs of the concern for the past year, and he thought he should best discharge that duty by reading for them the Report itself, as it was entitled to much more weight than the opinion of any individual Director. The CHAIRMAN then read the following REPORT. The satisfaction with which the Directors always meet the Proprietors is on the present occasion enhanced from their being enabled to lay before the annual Meet ing a Report on the affairs of the Company, fully justi fying the confidence which they have from time to time expressed in its prospects of succ ess . Under the Company s system of Branch establish ments, in the which the chief value of the Scoteh system of banking has been found to consist, the Directors were prepared to expect during its earlier years that the progress of the undertaking would in any circumstances be slow. But being satisfied of its superior efficacy in developing the resources of the country, they felt assured from the outset that as the power and facility thence derived of meeting the legitimate wants of the trading community should be come apparent, a great progressive increase of business must yearly take place. The Directors have the plea sure of stating that the accession of business during the past year has greatly exceeded the expectation which they had formed. The deposits have generally, and in some districts very largely increased, while in others new, safe, and profitabl opportunities of employing them have pre sented themselves. The Directors have also to state, with reference to the newly established branches, announced in the last Report, that they have prospered beyond their anticipa tions, and that all of them have already become sources of profit to the Bank. To the branch established last year at Devonport has been added the business of Husband and Co., private bankers, and the ar rangement made with them, while it is advantageous in itself, promises to be useful also in strength ening the position of other branches in that locality. Since the last Meeting the Directors have been solicited to open in various quarters ; but acting upon the determination stated in the last Report with regard to additional Branches, they have contented themselves with establishing the following, viz.— Southampton, Brixham, Leominster, Portsea. The connections formed at other Branches ren dered it advisable, and indeed in some degree necessary, to open at Southampton and Leominster, where the Company has already met with respectable support. At Brixham which possesses a considerable and wealthy population, largely interested in the shipping trade, the Directors were induced to establish them selves in consequence of the retirement of Messrs. Browse and Co., the only bankers in that town, who have promised to give the aid of their respectable in fluence to the Company. In Portsea, with a population of 35,000, there was only an agency of a private Portsmouth bank —there was no bank of issue, which produced some in convenience, and as little or no interest was allowed on deposits the Directors considered that a branch there would be productive of benefit t o the public, and at the same time of profit to the bank. The Directors have to inform the Proprietors, that finding the house occupied by the Company in Austin Friars too small, and in other respect unsuit able for the purposes of the London establishment, they have embraced an opportunity which offered of purchas ing the valuable freehold property in Bishopsgate-street, belonging to the Devizees of the late William Mellish, Esq. These eligible premises have been obtained for a sum considerably under their estimated value, and with certain alterations, are exceedingly well adapted to the business of the Company, and possess the ad ditional advantage of being capable of enlargement at any future period, should further accommodation be required. The Directors will now submit a statement prepared in the usual manner, of the result of the Company's operations for the last twelve months, observing pre viously,however,that the greater number of the Branches Lave not been in operation more than from two to three years. . 1838. January Ist, Amount or undivided Profits December Ist, Net Profits after making allowance for Bad Debts, and proportion of Prelimi nary Expenses 31,638 2 10 57,211 15 0 Deduct Dividend for 1838 Remains amount of undivided Profits at 3lst December, 1838 £36,670 5 0 From the above statement it will be observed that the surplus profit upon the transactions of last year passed to the reserve fund, amount to 11,096/. 12s. 10d. It is with much pleasure that the Directors have to congratulate the Shareholders on the continued in crease of the public confidence in the establishment, thus evinced in the augmentation of business above no ticed; but satisfactory as the condition of its affairs now is, they consider it only as an earnest of that prosperity which experience and judicious conduct may enable it to attain. It is matter of especial gratification to observe the favourable and still improving disposition of the public towards that important principle of the Com pany's management, which, by working through a Me tropolitan Board, instead of a local direction, relieves the connections of the Bank from all apprehension, either that their transactions may be disclosed in their respective neighbourhoods, or that their interests may be prejudiced or checked by any personal favour to their competitors in business. _ In closing their Report the Direct ors b eg to assure t h e meeting that they will continue to exercise the utmost caution and vigilance in discharging ra t ler he important e trust committed to them, consulting rather t character of the Bank, and the safely of it s t ran sactions than being governed by a desire for a large and hazardous busi ness. And they trust that the Proprietors will sanc tion them in a firm adherence to the maxims of sound banking, and to the steadfast policy b es t su it e d f or a n establisment, the stability and inter es t o f w hi c h are now to some extent identified with the public welfare. The Directors have only further to state that three of their number go out of office by rotation, viz.— Philip Courtenay, Esq., M.P. ; Wm. Henry Sharp, Esq. ; and Henry Weymouth , Esq., wh o b e i ng e li g ibl e to be re-elected, offer themselves accordingly. The Report was received with loud cheers. A PROP R IETOR said lie had much pleasure in moving the adoption of the report. It afforded the most satis factory evidence of the soundness of the principles upon which the establishment was based, and which as had been proved in the case of the Scotch banks had been in every instance successful.—(Hear, hear.) The motion having been seconded was carried una nimously. Messrs. P. Courtenay, W. H. Sharpe, an d H. Way mOuth;Vvere then re-elected. Directors, having gone out by rotation, and no other candidates having been pro posed. A PROPRIETOR begged to ask whether the Directors had come to any determination as to the dividend to be declared next year ? The. CHAIRMAN said they could not be expected, at that early period of the current year, to pledge them selves as to what course they would pursue. At the same time, it was most satisfactory to know that their prospects were much more favourable than iilnacithe course of the last year.—( Hear, hear.) They indeed . every reason to calculate on a consider able increase. The best foundation they c ould have, and the best security for the future wa s to be found in the past.—(Cheer s.) Always bearing in mind that the Directors had, like the Proprietors, a la r g e stake in the conc ern , and were just as deeply interes ted in its pros perity,—(Hear, hear.) Whenever they could do so with due regard to the character of their Bank and of Joint Stock Banks in general, they might depend upon an addition to the dividend, and so long as they p ossessed the confidence of the Share holders, the interests of the Joint Stock Banking system: would not suffer in their bands.—(Cheers.) It must be evident that they could not pledge them selves to any particular course. Their conduct must be regulated by circumstances, and at present these cir cumstances were of an extremely favourable nature. It was quite clear from the statement laid before them that they might, if they bad thought proper, have increased th e dividend last year, and with perfect safety, but they had preferred increasing their reserve fund to a sum of nearly 37,0001., which in the early years of the undertaking, when these expenses were necessarily great, was, he thought, a very satisfac tory circumstance.—(Cheers.) That was n sufficient pledge of the caution with which they would conduct themselves. A PROPRIETOR said if there was one principle more than another which should influence the proceedings of a concern like that it was caution.—( Hear, hear.) If the Directors came forward and made a proposition, which circumstances might prevent their fulfilling on a future occasion, it would tend very much to shake that confidence which he at present reposed i n them. In his opinion a dividend should not be announced one day or even one hour before it was due. That he held to be one of the fundamental rules of the managers of an establishment like the present ; and nothing could be more injurious to its interests than to give any intimation of their intentions before the legitimate time arrived. It would only promote stock jobbing and speculation, and he should object to any reply being given to the question. Another gentleman observed that their great object should be to show the public that they were pro ceeding with discretion and judgment, and from a long experience in public companies he could state that it was much more satisfactory to the public and the Proprie tors to show that they had an ample reserved fund to fall back upon in case of any emergency than to announce a dividend of one or two per cent. higher than would otherwise be the case—(Hear, hear.) The PROPRIETOR who had asked the question said he understood the dividend for the current year was to have been declared at the meeting, or he should not have asked the question. He had the most implicit confi dence in the Directors, and he was satisfied the con cern would prosper under their management. He would conclude by moving the best thanks of the Proprietary to the Chairman and Board of Directors and their con tinued confidence in them. The resolution having been seconded, was put and carried unanimously. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks on behalf of himself and the' other Directors. So long as they were ho noured with the confidence of the Shareholders, they might depend upon it that their best energies would be devoted to bringing that concern, which was as yet but in its infancy, to a state of prosperity such as its warmest friends could scarcely anticipate.—(Cheers.) A vote of thanks was then moved, and carried by ac clamation, to Daniel Robertson, Esq., the principal ma nager, and the other officers of the Company. Mr. ROBERTSON begged to assure the meeting that the favourable notice which had just been taken of his colleague and himself, was very gratifying to them. Although they must leave it to others to judge of the merits which belonged to their services, yet, as regarded an earnest and conscientious desire to promote the pros perity of the Company, he might truly assert they did not yield to the Proprietors themselves. They did not discharge their duties as a mere task imposed upon them, indifferent as to the result of their labours. On the contrary, they took the deepest interest in the working out of a great principle in Banking, convinced, as prac tical men, that it was best calculated to confer great public benefit, and at the same time to secure, with the lest possible degree of risk, a steady and certain return to the Shareholders.—(Cheers.) The meeting then broke up. DAVIS AND ANOTHER, U. QUICKE. SIR—In justice to my clients I deem it right to call your attention to a report of this case, which appeared in your paper of last night, wherein it is stated that the plaintiffs charged the defendant I6s. per bottle for Champagne ; now, as this may do my clients a great injury, by leading the public to suppose they charge such exorbitant prices, I request you therefore to con tradict the statement made by you. The price charged for the Champagne was 84s. per dozen. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, JAMES P. DAVIS. 14, Charlotte-street, Bedford-square, May 10, 1839. ARMING OF THE PEOPLE. We have received the following circular from a cor respondent at Newtown, in Lancashire, who states that it has been generally circulated in that district : TO THE WORKING CLASSES OF NEW TOWN. FELLOW TOWNSMEN,—WiII you permit one, who actuated by a very strong feeling for your peace,your safety, and your commerce, and who feels deeply interested in your general welfare, to offer you at this most momen tous period the most disinterested advice. I have no claims to your confidence other than that of an honest member of society, anxious for 'the prosperity of our townouuLthemelfaro ef.itainhalgtants, but the time is renaerocismitical !pry , theaggressiva acts of Iriolonoaconi mitted in a neiglabouribg town. You say that you have wrongs that require redress, which I admit ; but you have unhappily been taught that the medium of redress lies only in your being armed and prepared to use them. Abandon, I conjure you, my fellow townsmen, the idea of such a source, which can only lead to ill consequences to yourselves individually, and even if suc2essful (of which there can be no hope), it would end in the worst tyranny of Go vernment. History and experience prove the enormous mischiefs which have ever resulted from tumultuous and sanguinary changes in political and social strife. Of the men who have for months endeavoured to teach you the doctrine of arms I will say nothing. They may, or they may not, be honest. That you believe in their integrity to a certain extent is evident, and that you indulged in the hope of their success by supporting one for months in luxury far superior to that which greets your own table, is equally well known. You have a perfect right to dispose of the proceeds of your indus try in any way consistent with your interest, or conge nial with your feelings, without effecting thereby any injury to your fellow-citizens, but it is a matter of consi deration whether your families have not stronger claims upon you than these men have. Man by nature is dependent upon his fellow-man ; in our social state we are dependent upon each other : the operative and his family are dependent for the food and wages of his industry rendered to his employer. Consider then for amoment if you were all out of work for two weeks, the manufactories shut, wages neither paid nor earned,how could your wives and families subsist ? You may live (but God forbid you should entertain the thought) on the plunder of your wealthier neighbours, who would then be reduced to the same state of misery as your selves. Subsistence would be cut off—famine would stare us on every side—and countless numbers of us would inevitably perish the victims of the criminal ex citement of men who ought to have known better. No pen can describe, no tongue can tell, the results—the tremendous results—that would be realized. No siege, however bloody and desolating —no war however wild and ferocious, has shown a parallel for the misery that would instantly descend upon society. I pray of you, my fellow townsmen, that the idea of arming, training, and parading, be entirely abolished. Let your voices be loud against intimidation, violence, and incitement to arms for the destruction of life and property, and although unorganized bodies may commit murder and outrage, against the disciplined forces of the state—aided as that force will be by the moral power of wise and good men—resistance would be scattered to the winds. By every power that I can imagine I implore you to obliterate the idea of any proceeding which may injure yourselves, or tarnish the credit and repute of your town. Trade is greatly injured by this excitement ; and let me remind you, with the best possible feeling, " That resistance to the civil force with arms is treason, and punishable with death." I remain, my fellow townsmen, AN INHABITANT. Newtown, May Ist 1839. MANY-COLOURED STARS.—The light of the stars is by no means uniform ; the ray of Sirius, for in stance, differs not merely in intensity, but in kind from the ray of Vega; and in countries where the atmosphere is less humid and hazy than ours, the difference is striking to the naked eye—one star shining as an emerald, another as a ruby, and the whole heavens sparkling as with various gems. This attribute of variety of colours also charac terises the double stars; but the remarkable thing is, that in many instances, when one is of one marked colour, its companion is of the opposite. Instances abound in which a red and green star are associated, or a yellow and blue. When the stars are of different degrees of brilliancy, this contrast may originate in an optical delusion—in that ten dency which disposes the eye, when gazing on any bright colour, to endow fainter objects near it with the op posite or complimentary colour by way of relief; but the explanation is not universally borne out, inas much as many couples, in precisely similar circum stances, show no such contrast. Sir John Herschel was at first decidedly inclined to attribute this phenomenon to an actual difference of colour; and although he has since —perhaps on good grounds—half relinquished that con clusion, we have the acquiescing testimony of Struve, founded on observations with the Dorpat telescope, whose clearness has never yet been rivalled, so that we may not absolutely part with the early pleasing speculations of the British astronomer. "It may easier be suggested in words," says Sir John, " than conceived in imagination, what variety of illumination two stars—a red and a green, or a yellow and blue one—must afford a planet circulating around either ; and what cheering contrasts and grateful vicissitudes, a red and green day, for instance, alternating with a white one and with darkness, might arise from the presence or absence of one or other, or both, from the horizon."—Dr. Nichol's Architecture of the Heavens. A GEORGIA LOAFER'S SOLILOQUY.—Here I am, a beautiful rascal, low in funds, sunk in reputation, seven hundred and fifty miles from home, and no mule to ride. If I owe my landlord anything, I will stay and eat it out with him like a gentleman ; and if I owe any porson else anyth:ng, I freely forgive the debt. Some stranger, and Irishman we presume, has been extensively placarding the walls of our city, offering a reward for a lost favourite dog, and in order that there may be no mistake in recognising the animal , he states in conspicuous characters that the dog answers to the name of " Queen," and is deaf! —Glasgow Chronicle. NEW POPULATION TABLE. There are many political problems, says a Correspondent of a Morning Contemporary, of which the solution re quires that we know not merely the absolute number of persons inhabiting a given district, but likewise the pro portion between their absolute number and the territorial sur taco over which they are spread. For example, the counties of Lincolnshire and Northumberland each exceed in total surface the county of Lancashire ; but the average population upon a square mile of either of the two first, is not the sixth part of that inhabiting the same superficial extent in the last.named county ; and this difference in the density of po pulation must be a term of frequent recurrence, and clearly of indispensible importance in most political calculations. The absolute population of each county is inscribed within its perimeter on the maps of the " Parliamentary Census," but, in that arduous and comprehensive work, as it is be lieved by some, though others esteem it of inferior authority, there is to be found no statement of specific populations, an important deficiency in the statistical materials of England which the subjoined table is designed to supply. Column II exhibits the specific population of the several counties, i.e., the mean number of individuals inhabiting each statute square mile ; and column II P, the proportion between the specific population of each county, and the specific population of all England taken as unity. TABLE Of the specific populations of the several counties of Eng. land, showing II =-- the number of inhabitants to the square statute mile in each county, and II P.--- the pro- portion between the specific population of each county and the specific population of all England, taken as unity. The figures on the right of the commas are decimal fractions. Names of Counties. Values of 11. Values of II P. Middlesex Lancashire Surrey York, City and Ainsty ... 411,186 - West Riding Warwickshire 375,266 Staffordshire Cheshire . 317,862 Kent Gloucestershire Nottinghamshire England, Forty Counties. 259,809 Somersetshire 245,714 Leicestershire Durham . . . 231,467 Hertfordshire 227,525 Cornwall • 226,261 ° 0,87087 'Worcestershire Essex Bedfordshire ° 206,226 Oxfordshire Monmouthshire Buckinghamshire Suffolk Hampshire 193,403 ...... 0,74440 . . ...__- ___ .. . Berkshire Norfolk Devoushire Suctsex . Wiltshire Cambridge 167,975 Shropshire Dorsetshirc York, East Riding ...... 150,930 Huntingdonshire Northamptonshire Rutlandshire Herefordshire 128,865 Northumberland 124,486 Lincolnshire . 121,687 ....... .... 0,46798 Cumberland York, North Riding 92,824 ... . ...... 0,35727 Westmoreland HER MAJESTY'S CONCERTS.—We have been informed that the concert to be given by the Queen on Mon day next, is only the precursor of a series. The principal foreign singers will be engaged at the first, and the second will consist of native talent—a very proper arrangement on the part of her Majesty, and one that cannot fail of afford. ing universal gratification to her harmonious subjects.— Musical lVorld. Madame Taglioni is expected to arrive in England on the 15th of this month. The new ballet to welcome this celebrated danseuse is to be called La Gattana.— Musical World. Mr. Greene, the barrister, brother of the Learned Sergeant, threw himself from the window into the street, in Dublin, last week, in a paroxysm of fever, and expired shortly after. His bereaved widow labours at present under the same malady, which she contracted while in at tendance on her lamented husband, and which has been ag gravated from the efforts she made to prevent him from leaving his bed and open the window, whence he precipi tated himself.—Cord Paper. DEATH OF LORD ELDON'S ELDEST SON.— The first severe domestic affliction of Lord Eldon was so far back as the 24th of December, 1805, on the death of his eldest son, John, who had only a year and a half pre viously married the daughter of Sir Matthew Ridley, and had become but ten days before the father of the present Earl. The Hon. John Scott was of an amiable disposi tion and graceful mind, full of jest and frolic in society, hut too convivial for a delicate and asthmatic constitution. He had then been suffering from a slight indisposition, and from much anxiety, but his death was very sudden, and shocked his father the more as he might have been present at the time. In the morning no apprehensions of his being in danger were entertained, and Lord Eldon left home to attend to some pressing business, but in the course of the day a communication of an alarming nature was forwarded to him, requesting his immediate attendance on his son. Accustomed to bear of his ailments, and unfor tunately supposing that the danger was exaggerated by the natural fears of a mother, he continued his occupation, and when he arrived his son had just expired. He was a man of excellent abilities, but neglected, and suffered to run to waste from an excessive addiction to society. With an overweening fondness (similar to that displayed by Burke), Lord Eldon formed an undue estimate of his talents, and was accustomed to defer to his opinion on sub jects of which he had himself a far superior judgment.— The Law Magazine, Art. "Life of Lord Eldon." NURSING IN RUSSIA.—The traveller seldom sees infantr in a Russian village. In no part of the country did we ever meet a woman with a child in her arms ; but there may be seen near all the houses a small hand carriage, in which the youngest of the family is dragged about. It is not unusual to meet a woman returning from the distant field pulling one of these behind hcr, with a brat perched in it, swaddled up like a mummied cat. —Bremner's Russia. A BATH BULL.—A gentleman having asked a gardener, at the last Bath Horticultural meeting, how he managed to preserve his apples so well ? the latter replied, "that it wa s by k eep i ng t h em i n empty j ars dur i ng the winter and spring." THE iNTAGDALEN.—You cannot understand me, madam ; and it is well you cannot. Blest with a fond husband, surrounded by every comfort, you have never been assailed by the horrible temptations to which misery has exposed me. You have never known what it is to want food, raiment, abetter. You have never seen the child within your arms perishing from hunger, and no relief to be obtained. You have never felt the hearts of all har dened against you ; have never heard the jeer or curse from every lip ; nor endured the insult and the blow from every hand. I have suffered all this. I could resist the tempter now. lam strong in health,—in mind. But then—. Oh I madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when reason is well nigh benighted; when the horrible prompt ings of despair can, alone, be listened to ; and when vice itself assumes the aspect of virtue. Pardon what I have said, madam. Ido not desire to extenuate my guilt—far less to defend it ; but I would show you, and such as you —who, happily, are exempted from trials like mine—how much misery has to do with crime. And I affirm to you, on my own conviction, that she who falls because she has not strength granted her to struggle with affliction, mvy be reclaimed—may repent, and be forgiven—even as she, whose sins, " though many, were forgiven her."—Mr. insworth's " Jack Sheppard." METROPOLITAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Morning Post of this day accounts for the sud den resignation of Sir R. Peel in the following diverting manner :—" It is said that several of the Radical Mem bers of the House of Commons who opposed Ministers, or deserted them, on the Jamaica question, finding that the consequences of the division were not likely to re alize their wishes and expectations, have repented them of their misdoing, recanted their error, expressed their contrition to Ministers, and promised that if any means could be discovered of keeping the Tories out, they would be more tractable and obedient tools for the fu ture. On this hint, duly communicated to them, the female tyrants of Buckingham Palace again seized hold of the Royal victim, whom they had released for a mo ment from their foul and poisonous grasp." This is ex quisitely rich. So, the Radicals, it seems, were, after all, at the bottom of the plot ! Sir Robert Peel's disap pointment is entirely owing to them ! They it was who ear-wigged the " female tyrants" of Buckingham Palace ; who in return, " seized hold of the Royal victim," and compelled her—sc r .ly against her inclination, no doubt— to decline Sir Robert Peel's temperate and courteous proposition ! The absurdity of this hypothesis is so self-evident as to need no comment. In another article, our afflicted Contemporary says—" How could any one of common sense and common information, suppose for one moment that Sir R. Peel could comply with her Majesty's commands to form an Administration, while he was withheld from directing the arrangements of the Household ! That which has appeared in the Whig and Radical papers of last evening about Tory harshness and oppression in this matter, is nothing better than ranting nonsense and prancing falsehood." Of course it is ! The Tories were never guilty of " harshness" and " op pression ;" they were always a bland, merciful party ; and, in this particular instance, are as innocent of harshness or oppression as young lambs. In fact, a meeker, more amiable, more harmless, and more cruelly vilified faction, was never yet sent to the right-about, in the short space of ten minutes ! The Morning Chronicle puts forth the following judicious and spirited remarks on the subject of Sir Robert Peel's impromptu resignation :—•‘ The country will be not a little astonished to learn that the Peel Administration is already at an end. Sir Robert, it would appear, allowed himself to be so far elated by the circumstances under which the Govern ment had fallen into his hands, as to believe that, having nothing now to apprehend from the Liberals, the Queen was so completely at his mercy that he might trample on her with impunity. The possession of political power was not enough for this mighty conqueror ; he demanded that she should divest herself of all her affections and friendships—consent to the removal of every female attendant—and suffer herself to be surrounded by strangers, who, knowing that they owed their situations, not to their nominal Mistress, but to Tory Ministers, would disregard her tastes and inclinations, and poison her happiness. That the Queen might at once know that she was in as complete a state of thraldom as if she had been delivered over to the tender mercies of her uncle, the King of Hanover, she was called upon to part with every person in whose society she took plea svre—not excepting even those endeared to her by inti macy from the days of her childhood. What is life without the sympathies of friendship—without the circle in which the restraints of ceremony may be laide aside—and the feelings of the heart be safely indulged ? The Prince and the peasant have their different duties ; but the feelings of our nature are common to both. No rank can elevate the possessor above the necessity for that solace which can only be found in the society of sympa thising friends. The aged and hackneyed in the ways of the world, whose feelings are worn out, may be contented with a mere animal existence ; but to the young, whose feelings are not yet blunted, of all miseries that of isola tion from confiding friends and associates is the most into lerable. We have never understood that Ministerial re sponsibility extended to the affections and domestic en joyments of the Sovereign. This, we believe, is the first time that a Minister contended that the Sovereign should be a perfect automaton in his hands, and consent to be placed in personal durance. We protest, in the name of the country, against this cruel system. We are sure that the people of these kingdoms will never sanction such an unfeeling tyranny as that of which Sir Robert Peel has dared to claim the exercise with regard to our young Queen. And what is the pretext for this wanton vio lation of all the charities of life ? Why must the Queen consent to the sacrifice of every private friend ? Sir Robert Peel, not satisfied with the possession of all the powers of Government, including every political appointment, insists on naming even the personal at tendants of her Majesty, that not a thought may be uttered in her presence not in accordance with the purest Toryism. It was said of Robespierre that timidity was the cause of his cruelty—that he was in apprehension from almost every one—and that, to rid himself from danger, he proceeded from sacrifice to sacrifice. There is something very unlike the manly spirit of English men in this determination to force the Queen to sur round herself with strangers, in order that Tory power may be the more secure. Sir Robert and his partners wished to make assurance doubly sure, and no doubt plumed themselves already on the dexterity of their contrivance for securing every possible avenue to to the Queen. Had her Majesty yielded to the demands of those who showed themselves disposed to take so mean an advantage of the helpless situation in which they supposed her to be, there is no extremity to which they might not have pushed their exactions. They pre sumed, however, too much on the youth of the Queen, and her readiness to submit to insult. Her Majesty soon convinced them that if they could not draw the line between Ministerial responsibility and improper in terference with the domestic comforts and private friend ships of the Sovereign, she could ; and Sir Robert Peel and the Tories have been taught a lesson by her Ma jesty which they will long remember." The Times is frantic with rage about the sad affair of yesterday, and intimates pretty plainly that the re signation of the Melbourne Ministry was a mere sham resignation—a manifest do, of which the innocent Tories • have been made the victims. We subjoin a portion of our Contemporary's observations :—" What is the plain fact of the matter ? Sir Robert Peel never once so much as hinted at a general change of the ladies composing the household. On the con trary, the suggestion of the Right Hon. Baronet on that subject was confined most scrupulously to such a pro portion of the ladies having domestic access to the So vereign as might suffice to show the country that the new public servant, officially authorized by Queen Vic toria to form a Government, and to guide the empire in her name, had enough of her reputed confidence to give effect to his instructions as a Minister, and to discredit any report which might he circulated, that others, who had ceased to be responsible for their actions, could exercise over the Royal mind an influence opposed to that of her Majesty's actual advisers. The proposition of Sir Robert Peel to her Majesty was indispensable to the discharge of the duty which his Sovereign had graciously imposed upon him, nor could anything be more delicate than the manner in which the Right Hon. Baronet approached that trying subject, limiting his communication to the manifest necessity of the case. We have already stated, and we do so on good authority, that the allegation of Sir Robert Peel having required a sweeping removal of all the female household of her Majesty, is neither more nor less than a flagitious falsehood, brought forward with dis honest and mali g nant motives by every one o f l ast night's Radical Evening Papers. Equally is it an auda cious and rancorous falsehood, that Sir Robert Peel proposed, or ever thought of proposing, the slightest re straint upon her Majesty's voluntary social intercourse with such friends as she might wish to invite to the Pa lace. Even in the case of Lord Melbourne, privy to, as we fear he is, if not the chief originator of a sham re signation, got up for a tricky purpose, even in his case, so sacred were her Majesty's social preferences to the eyes of Sir Robert Peel, that the Queen was assured of the most perfect and absolute power to act on such points as might accord with her own free pleasure. Evidence abundant, however, has been arrived at, to prove that the resignation of the O'Connell Ministers was not a bona fide, but a fabricated, resignation— that the objections to a just and necessary chancre in some persons of the Royal household were prepared be forehand by her Majesty's Whig-Radical advisers." This attempt to white-wash Sir Robert Peel, by show ing that his proposition to the Queen respecting her Household, was everything that such a proposition should be—mild, tolerant, courteous, and singularly free from aught approaching to despotism, deserves notice, if only for its surpassing effrontery. Those who be lieve it must, of course, be prepared to believe also that the Right Hon. Baronet has fallen a victim to hisanti dictatorial conduct on this occasion—to his invincible dislike of keeping her Majesty in leading-strings. Now that a Prime Min:ster should be dismissed for presuming to dictate to his Sovereign, is natural enough ; but that he should be dismissed for the offence of non-dictation— that is to say, for making such a modest and rational proposition as no sane Sovereign could possibly object to—is such an absurd, preposterous assertion, that we are surprised the 'Furies could venture to put it forth ! The .illerning Herald observes in the course of a leading article on the great political topic of the day, Sir Robert Peel's resignation :—" Of the Queen's con duct in this matter, it were unjust to speak with harsh ness. Ample allowances ought to be made on the score of her Majesty's youth, and consequent inexperience— as well as on the score of some of the best impulses of our nature, to the guidance of which her Majesty has, obviously, abandoned herself. Nothing can be more natural, than that the Queen should part unwil lingly with those, who have contrived to constitute themselves her Majesty's sole companions, ever since her accession to the throne. The blame in this affair must be reserved for those who have tampered with her Majesty's kindliest affections—in other words, the blame must be reserved for certain of Lord Melbourne's late associates, whose ladies are in constant attendance upon the Queen. Such an action upon the Royal mind was the only chance left to these miserable outcasts from o ffi ce ; and ever since Wednesday night, it is notorious at the \Vest-end, that the underlings of the Melbourne Ministry speculated publicly on the influence of the 141VENTINC , EDITION. , ladies in question, as on the only hope that had not departed from them. The. scheme of these miserable intriguers has succeeded for the moment—and little car . e the framers o f th a t s c h eme f o r the injury which thenr fleeting success may ultimately inflict on their Royal victim." The Morning Advertiser thus alludes to the causes of Sir R. Peel's resignation :—" The negotiation for a new Ministry is at an end. The cause is a personal insult to our young Queen by Sir Robert Peel, and strange to say, authorised by the Duke of Wellington. Every office in the State—every place in the Household, held by any Member of Parlia ment, or any person of political influence, was placed at the disposal of Sir Robert Peel. But not content with this sacrifice, sanctioned by our constitu tional principles, though never freely or completely granted by her grandfather and uncles, and in truth never exacted from them to its full extent—the Queen was required to sacrifice to the vanity of the Tory Ladies, or to the rapacity of their lords and husbands , all the ladies in attendance on her person. In other words, a young Queen, twenty years of age, who has lived for two years with friends whose affections she had gained, and to whom she was warmly attached, was ab ruptly called upon to ensconce herself among persons who have shown, particularly of late, no affection to her person, and who, for anything she knows, may be secret friends and adherents of her uncle of Hanover, the heir to her throne There could be no political motive for this attack but a desire to degrade her Majesty, an d make her life miserable." IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Mar 10. The news of the resignation of the Tory Administra tion, which was circulated with the greatest rapidity this afternoon, occasioned a large number of persons to assemble in Palace-yard, near the entrance of the House of Lords. Within the House, also, there wa s , an appearance of unusual excitement. The strangers gallery was completely filled, and the space below the bar was crowded with Members of the House of Commons. There was a goodly array of Tory Peers on the Op position benches, including the Duke of Wellington , the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Wharncliffe, Lord Roden, Earl of Winchilsea, the Earl of Haddington, &C. 84 ;: There were no Peers on the Mi n isterial beac h till after the proceedings had commenced, when Lord Holland and Earl Grey entered the House. They were followed shortly afterwards by Lord Glenelg, wi th whom Lord Brougham shook hands in the most cordial manner. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Mel bourne, the Marquis of Normanby, Viscount Dunee n ; non, and Earl Minto took their seats on the Ministeri al Bench in their usual places. They appeared in hig h spirits, while on the contrary, the Duke of Wellingto n, from the time he entered the House, seemed extremely thoughtful and abstracted. Behind the Woolsack we observed Lord Morpeth, Mr. Fox Maule, and s everal other elder sons of Peers, and while the prelimina l l, business of presenting petitions was go i ng on groups °_' Peers were congregated in various p a rt s o f the House' engaged in earnest conversation. Previously to the opening of the strangers' gallery th e Earl of Essex took the oaths and sub sc ribed the Par' liamentary roll. At twenty minutes past five o ' c l oc k there were er, wards of two hundred Peers p resen t, w h en his Roya l Highness the Duke of Su ssex en t ere d th e House an d took his seat on the left of the Lord Chancellor. The Duke of Argyle, Lord Radnor, Lord Haddialr ton, Lord Brougham, the Duke of Richmond, th e Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Rutland, Lord Portman, Lord Bandon, Lord Zetland, and s everal other Noble Lords presented a great variety of peti tions from different places, principally in England and Scotland, all praying for the adoption of a penny postage. Lord DUNCANNON laid on the table certain r e " turns of committals in Ireland. The Earl of RIPON said it was not his intention to proceed with the motion of whi c h he had given not ice for to-night. Upon the motion of Earl SHAFTESBURY , t he Archbishops and Bishop s ' R es id ences Bill was report ed, and read a third time. Upon the motion of the LORD CHANCELL OR ' the order th a t s t oo d f or M on d ay , f or t h e s econd reed ing of the Chur c h Bill Di sc i p li ne Bill was diseharg ed mo ving The Earl o f SHAFTESBU RY, prev i o us to the adjournment o f th e H ouse , a dd resse d a few ord in a whisper to L or d M e lb ourne , w h o t o uched his bat and bowed, intimating that h e h a d no communication t° make to the House. ed The LORD CHANCELLOR having adjourn 111 : the House in the usual form till Monday, Lord Brougham rose, and after looking at the vas! crowd below the bar and in the gallery, shrugile s . a his shoulders two or th ree times and laughed. Th i significant allusion to the disappointment they had ex perienced convulsed the House with laughter. The House adjourned at HALF-PAST FIVE o'clock' COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty gave audiences yesterday, at Buckingham Palace, to Viscount Melbourne and Lord John Russell. Her Majesty gave last evening her first State Ball this season at Buckingham Palace. The arrange' ments for the fete were similar to those of last sew:" The large Ball-room and the North Y e ll ow Drawing -r°°— were prepared for dancing, and the Grand Saloon, be tween these apartments, was used as the reception room. The Picture Gallery and Green Drawing-room were alto opened. me The orchestras for the quadrille bands in the Ball - r °° , l i were covered with draperies of yellow and gold Or% ponding with the furniture, and canopies were erecte.uich both rooms for the Queen and the Royal visitors , ss n were lined with white and silver draperies, and w ere de e r. rated with some of the choicest flowering shrubs : th i ne tion of the room was slightly elevated. Portraits r ., Duke of Kent (by Wilki e ) an d o f t h e l ate Princess tdu lt ho lotte were pl ace d i n t h e l arge Ball-room; and in t a Throne-room (which was used during the night ag„ be refreshment room) were portraits of his Majesty George l a Third, and of his consort, Queen Charlotte. The w h° , suite of rooms, and more particularly the Ball - r 0 were brilliantly illuminated with chandeliers, candel e , b and branches. On the ground-floor the Sculpture Gabe was adorned with bronze busts, on pedestals, of Socrates: Archimedes, Zeus, Solon, Homer, Seneca, Euriphle. Epicurus, Aristides, and Diogenes. A figure of Mineraoso, and other specimens of sculpture in marble, were plac ed pedestals at the ends of the Gallery. d i n the A great variety o f s h ru b s an d pl an t s were place rs niches and re cesses on th e G ran d S ta i rcase , arid otbesti were tastefully grouped in the M a rbl e H a ll. The 9 ..„ °1 4- ante-room at the top of the staircase contained a very if nificent c a bi ne t o f t or t o i ses h e ll, b eau tif u lly an d elabor ete inlaid. The Duchess of Gl ouces t e r v isited the Princess Au gusta yesterday, at Clarence House, St. James's. "of His Royal Hi g h ness t h e H ere di tary G ran d Du" . of Russia, his R o y a l Hi g h ness P r i nce William Henry„lde Orange, P r inc e D o l gorou k y , C ount T o l sto y, Ber° - e c- Lieven, General Kaveline, with a distinguished suite' the companied by L or d T orr i ngton, v i s i te d t h e mo del 0 o n battle of Waterloo, at the E g ypti an H a ll, Piccadil l y , de , Thursday. The illustrious visiters being p art i c ularly r e. sirous of seeing th e s p o t w h ere t h e P r i nce of Orang e o r. ceived his wound, it was pointed out to them by t he jeants in attendance on the model. A Cabinet Council was summoned b Viscount c • bourne to meet at t en o ' c l oc k on Thursdayy night, r sidence in South-street. The Council sat upwards of two hours. o f S ir I A meeting was h e ld y es t er d ay at t h e res idence a by Robert Peel, in Whitehall-gardens. It was atien d , d the Duke of Wellington, Earl of Aberdeen, Lor d "" li brs' hurst, Lord Stanley, Lord Ellenboroug,h, Sir Jaalc s ik orl ham, Sir Henry Hardinge, and the Right 11 ° 12 ' G oulburn. otO e Viscount Melbourne, the Marquis of Normanby , dl Duncannon, and Lord Morpeth, visited Lord John yesterday, at the Home-office. His Excellency Andrew Stevenson, the Anlor':', 4 i c "on' nister, visited Lord Palmersto n on Thursday, ' at the e office. ba° The lion. C. A. Murray has returned to 1 3 ti cking Palace from Leaington, Warwickshire. 0 0 11 Colonel Rowan s had an interview with Lord Joh n yesterday, at the II mie-office. ,7 1 O a The Right H 1 Hon. T. Grenville entertained the .1.,0ra Countess Grosvenor, Earl and Countess of Cawd °r '„ e r o n and Lady Franci s Ege r t o n, an d a se l ec t party at dill- Thursday. ertlaY MA It RIACE IN II IGII ;- -t Er° morning the amiable and highly accomplished Lady sitar daughter of Earl Man s fi e ld, was l e d to the hYrneni.caseoteh by Capt. Seymour, bel o nging to the 2d battalion 01 our, of Fusilier Guards, and son of Admiral Sir John Sevrrtiord, Hampton Court, and nephew to the Marquis of l ie bv the The ceremony was performed by special licence 'lace, Dean of Chichester, at All Souls Church, Lang , har n- o d of St. Marylebone. There were upwards of one b un dr ..oos the fashionable world, who were invited, prese nt to II! : re , the marriage ; after which they, with the happyP: he re a turned to Mansfield-house, in Langham-place , occa' most sumptuous entertainment was provided for t!h air sion. Bands of music performed numerous beautit°; . ne w After breakfast the happy pair set off, in an e le g ant chariot and four, for Denham-park, in Hertfordshire. oe QUEEN'S THEATItE.—On Thursday Dig' & Ace ra ro. ante' Beulah Spa, so long a favourite at the Olympic, Was a t this theatre, when a Miss Vivyen made her first aPPearcoo- The young lady chose for her debut the character oc str ia, line Grantley, the character sustained by Madame e hoot Her success was complete. She was received t hrou t na. with loud and universal plaudits, by one of the Inc,sa the merous and respectable audiences which ever gra" o at establishment. Miss Vivyen is possessed of great pe rs _ h ilc attractions. We have rarely seen a finer figure, :ion, there was a wonderful ease and g racefulness in her o : the considering th a t it was th e fi rs t time she had ever t! . , to boards of a th eatre. N or was her acting less entitle (I wo praise, it f u ll y d eserve d th e applause w ith which ln greeted. She has a quick perception of character.i.e W as her personation of the character of the Minstreo , peculiarly happy—nothing could be more true t 5.n than her acting in this part of the piece. The 1 g:% too, was excellent, and was, as it deserved to be,. rn e ° : t th r : P re turously encored. At the conclusion of the p was a loud and universal call fur the accompli l s c h eed d I) W as u tante, and, on presenting herself to the audience, have have received with deafenir g acclamations. We hay _ t hav e indeed, witnessed a more triumphant debut. It mast lady exceeded the most sanguine expectations either of the herself or her friends. 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