The Sun. — London, England, 1836-04-02 00:00:00

' r IRELAND. POOR LAWS FOR IRELAND On Tuesday, pursuant to I V ery numero us l y s i gne d requ i s i t i on a dd resse d t o t h e L or d Mayo r of Dublin, requesting him to call a meeting for the Purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of peti thming Parliament for a legal provision for the poor, and with which requisition his Lordship immediately complied, a meeting, comprised of the citizens of Dublin of all reli gious and political opinions, and a good number of the landed gentry of the neighbouring counties, was held at the, Royal t Ex c h ange. 'The Ri g ht H on . the Lord Mayo r was called. o the Chair. Th e speec h es exten d to a l engt h so con siderable, as to preclude the possibility of furnishing here even an e pi tome of them, that should convey a correct re- Presentation of the several speakers' views. AFFAI R or HONOUR.—On Tuesday, Mr. Thomas Rey; n .. olds an d Mr. Michael Murphy were held to bail to keep the peace, in their personal recof.r,nizances of 500/. each, by Counsellor Hamilton of the Head Police-office. It appeared that in the course of a discussion at the Central Registra tion Club on the preceding evening, some rather warm ob aerrations passed between these gentlemen, when several members of the club, apprehending that the misunderstand ing might terminate in a duel, informations were given at the Head Police-office, in consequence of which the parties were taken into custody by the police, and obliged to enter Into securities to the above-mentioned amount. E XTERMINATION IN CARLOW.—It appears by the peti tion of certain landholders of the barony of Idrone West, that the most damnable conspiracy in modern times was entered into against the.very lives of their Catholic tenantry, by some of the Carlow landlords. We well knew the misery they created, and the desolation they caused in once haPPy families—but that they entered into a confederacy—a cold, calenlating, oath-bound confederacy, to extirpate one Class of their fellow men, because they dared to exercise the elective franchise constitutionally—such deliberate and de moniac cruelty we were t nnvilling to attribute to any class of men, even to the Carlow lamilords.—Freenian. —.— ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY.—At the last meeting of the Society,. Sir Robert Shaw, Bart., presided. Upwards of one hundred members attended. They agreed upon a me- Morial to the Lord Lieutenant, which, if differing in many respects from the propositions of his Excellency, at least displays a spirit widely dissimilar from that which pervaded its first proceedings. They state that if his ExcellenCy should desire the appointment of another deputation, to do that which the last so strangely concluded they had not Power to do, the desire shall be most readily acquiesced in, stating further, " that 'in the consideration of any proposi tions tending to increase the efficiency of the Society as a practical and scientific Institution, they entertain every dis position to co-operate with his Excellency in that fair and candid spirit which, in the performance of a public duty, they concur with him in thinking lie has a right to expect from the Society." In evidence to their practical utility as a b ody, they refer to their Botanic Garden, Library, Mu seum, &c. They disclaim the influence of political feeling amongst them as a body ; and appeal to the fact that in the course of the last thirty-four years, only four candidates for admission have been rejected. While, therefore, they do not de em it advisable to alter the mode of election in con formity with his Excellency's proposition, they are willing to modify the ext's,sg by-law to this extent—" that no in dividual shall be exclucL'd, notwithstanding one-third of the Members present shall have :, - 2ted for his rejection, unless at least thirty members shall vote against his admission." Th e Proposal to give to members the 0 , - :! - Ion of an annual PauYnient, in li eu o f a lif e su b scr ipti on , is o bjected to. The Memorial thus wi n d s u p :—" Your memorialists therefore 'l. trust, that his Majesty's Government will be pleased to re c?lnroend t o P ar li ament t h e usua l annua l gr ant, as the Society have contracted liabilities with their Professors and 'Ricers on the faith of its continuance."—Register. °IIANGE LOYALTY.—We saw that the loyal Orangemen of Belf as t district lately resolved, that they would not obey the command of the King, but would wait to learn the Will of the Grand Lodge. We observe that this species of tlgr a n t disloyalty has been manifested in various other quarters. " The Enniskillen District Lodge"' held a ineeting on the 21st instant, at which, after expressing the ir " heartfelt indignation at the base and anti-Pro testant conduct of the present Ministry," and speaking of their " devoted principles of loyalty, and undeviating a ttac hment to the King," they resolve as follows We are, however, determined to meet as usual in our , dge-ro oms , until we learn the decision to which tho 1 7 r and Lodge of Ireland shall come, on the 14th of April, Which alone we are resolved to be swayed." This, we suPpos e , they mean as evidence of their loyalty and " un. deviating attachment to their King." They are the most of men—quite conspicuous for loyalty ; but though I , the Commons have resolved, and the King has commanded , both Ring and Commons may go to the —, for they are " re solved to be swayed by the Grand Lodge alone!" Such is the de t ermination of the loyal Enniskilleners. The Grand ,Lodge of C avan , i n conc l ave me t, h ave d e termined that before the meeting of the Grand Lodge, they can'come to no d etermination, " save that of remaining together, in the. mean time, united in brotherly love, as members of the O range Society ;" and the brave boys of Roscrea, with a spirit which would do honour to them, if they were not in rebellion against the King. have resolved—" That, repos ing the utmost confidence in the wisdom, discretion, and incorruptible fidelity of the Grand Committee, we cheer fully respond to the heart-stirring appeal of No surren der,' and will rally under our unsullied banner at the usual times, until suppressed by a legal enactment, or instructed to suspend our meeting by the Grand Lodge of Ireland, duly assembled." The Grand Lodge of Fermanagh have resolved, that, " in accordance with the feelings of loyalty to our Sovereign, &c , We do not feel ourselves competent to adopt any decisive steps, until after the meeting of the Grand Lodge of Ireland." This is all tolerably well in the way of loyalty ; but it is perfect tameness when compared With the " No surrender" heroes of Armagh. " At a meeting of the Loyal Orange Association of the district of Armagh, held at Armagh on th e 18th i ns t an t, ,, as we are Offi cially informed, " B ro th er J o h n Kit son , Di str i ct Mas ter, in the Chair," it was unanimously resolved, " that there __never was a period that we are more imperatively called upon to stand forward in the avowed name of Orangemen, a nd . We are determined to do so." After this outrage ,! al ast loyalty, in language which proves the gross illite rate barbarism of the Orange Association of Armagh, the. w _ rue high powers resolve—" That we hereby declare, that is. 7 will strictly abide by, and to the utmost of our powers I s !PPort and maintain, the Orange Institution, unless a law r o _ made, by the three constituted authorities of the State, r °Ur total suppression."—Northern Whig. I_4. _Correspondent in Newtownlimivad y states, that on r " li t Patrick's Day a number of Orangemen from the sur 4z3r_n_ding neighbourhood came into that town to meet their grange brethren, who were returning in triumph from the a r‘ tr B . Bl - 4 ." " Derry. They assembled in large numbers in the ceis, with drums, &c., and shouting " 'To hell with the Oh e 110 To hell with M u l grave ," &c. They occasionally wri t opposite a C a th o li c h ouse , an d sa l ute d t h e i nmates th e P;5) 1 1Y of imprecations, not forgetting to pay a visit to f ish Priest, before whose house they gave full vent Zretti pious ejaculations. It would appear that there besitde: magistrates resident in or adjacent to the town, le a k ed _a Party of police, who, our correspondent says, . i dly on, and never attempted to curb these lawless (loverntating proceedings. Our correspondent thinks that this cere ment ought to have some kind of investigation into of a _ r . e atostance, particularly as he states that proceedings and h:milar kind are of frequent occurrence in that town ; adds that this lass outrage is the sixth of the kind nii year. den t , c We beg to inf orm our respected correspon tiated. 4 ' l l the inquiry he seeks for will certainly be insti y,_ 4-Oublin Evening Post. IN CO RPORATION.—Their 'great, big, grand- ho mfoui? such as Davy M'Cleery and Alderman James, are following tl w h o l o t) th e example, it would seem, of the Blacksmiths, , say, o ti ast of the popish protection of St. Loy ; that is to Prete to a st are votin g money to each other, under certain by the n e w They forget that all this money is recoverable With tole Corporation, and that the parties now dealing Publie funds may have to appear in the King's D. blin, Post. Inu tly ' 'rITHEs • -- On Tuesd a y l as t th ere were f orty p l oug h s, as farmers,rroivs, ten or t we l ve o f the respecta bl e f armers and , ' , lad a g,.. 5 0 ," 3 SOWBI g the seed ; and early in the day they of twelve acres enaronletely 6 • ploughed, sowed with oats, and finished for Mr. Benjamin Pilsworth, of Moone. Wedn es ame s daY , a similar service was performed for Mr. nes e , to \ - 1. ..7Y ; and Yesterday, they finished a field of twenty be rith as: Thomas Byrne, of Irish-town. Such was the a i i :_n? a o nd spirit displayed, that the people wished to .1 ) o n sepit e r lt no. supOy the seed, but that was not necessary. rd m u l e in the evening they gave three cheers for W ee heart 'g r ave, three cheers for • D aniel O'Connell, and ea rl , Y groan s for tithes. Mr. P. Ryan and Mr. Bret b.'. got out on the second day of confinement. I . re a ve y e d in n g oblige d to say that the lady of Mr. Warren is in 1 41 ,Z' er:Ous state of health ; the breaking the door, ?h: U gl y house, even to the very chambers, by . sh e is er y ru ffi ans, caused such a fright and terror, .1e 0 „ n. since under the care of the physicians.— t e t_egulsritv,PFs.tuous state of the weather has disturbed the iti tr n a t apiti ed w Z which the London mails are commonly at t 'Monday err The mail of Thursday did not arrive he fell ow : lnfr morning—wh en it was received with tho rnail ofoiesiry „,s ( lay. _Cork Herald. p aris , l 0 1 ,1:PER ARY .—On Friday, the excellent pastor u uo, af ter 'hustle, the Rev. Mr. Keane, took occa :drithem ti `'ivlne service, to address his flock, and read Which. he pointedly called their attention, and echo r t...3 caches 4 , "I them to abstain from rioting and all other p rw h ew t f . ue peace, and by good conduct prove that they "C'd a L o _u_, aPpreciate the imartial sway of so just and so fu Lieutenant, who p was determined to do all in his power, and that was much, to improve both the condi tion of the people and the country.. The Rev. Gentleman was heard throughout with the deepest attention, and his excellent advice was well received by his numerous au dience.—Tipperary Free Press. Mn. BUCKINGIIAM.—Justice and gratitude alike require that the public should afford that redress for unmerited op pression, which has been refused by their representatives. The object of Mr. Buckingham's friends, is to purchase an annuity for his life, and that of his wife ; most earnestly do we wish the all the success which their philanthropic in titintions merit.—Wateiford Chronicle. • The Dublin and Wicklow hills are - covered with snow. The works of.the field have been suspended, and we are. on the eve of the last month of spring. THE CORPORATION.— A meeting of the Common- Council took place on Monday, when resolutions were adopted with a view to getting compensation, &e., by the old Corporators. REBELLION.—That the twopenny Writ of Rebellion was not a hoax—a grave and deliberate satire upon the sys tem, as many were forced to believe, Mr. Browne's letter will prove. No blame, of course, after this letter, can at tach to Mr. Brabazon Browne. But better it had been, it' he had not volunteered a defence for his principal. If the defaulter, an humble farmer, be without excuse f or th e non-payment of 2d.—not justly, although legally due—how much the more is a Noble of the land (Lord Westmeath) to be condemned, when, for the recovery of such an amount, he puts that awful machinery in operation which is calculated to produce a rebellion far other than such as has its exis tence in a legal fiction.—Register. CORPORATION OF CAVAN.—Considerable anxiety and much disappointment has been felt at Cavan, that its Cor poration did not appear in the - schedule of the new Munici pal Bill. To whatever cause this omission is attributable, whether owing to the Report of the Commissioners, or to want of adequate information, nothing can be possibly more unjust than to have passed over a borough, important with reference to the extent and value of its property, the num ber of its population (4,000 souls), and by being the assizes town of the county.—Dublin Evening Post. The weather is more boisterous, than it has been in any, the most inclement March, ever. known. Up to Thursday evening, the glorious result of the dis cussion on the Municipal Reform Bill was unknown in Dublin.. Total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks is, it ap pears, much the fashion in the neighbourhood of Cork. The Herald of that city contains lengthened reports of temperance meetings. In the advocacy of temperance we are as zealous as any men can possibly be, but we suspect that the instances of total abstinence are very few, either in Cork or elsewhere. The Irish press continues to fulminate its most vehement censures against an assimilation orduty. The equalization, they contend, is most unequal. THE CONSTABULARY.—CoIoneI Shaw Kennedy, who is to be Inspector-General of the Police of Ireland, under the new Constabulary Bill, arrived in the city on Saturday, and remained until Monday evening, when he proceeded to Waterford en route to Cork. During his stay in Kilkenny, he was engaged with Mr. Tuckey, our Sub-Inspector of Police, on business connected with the management of the constabulary force.—Kilhenny Moderator. MURDER.—Two policemen are committed to Clonmel gaol, for shooting a countryman near Thurles. UPPER CANADA. PROVINCIAL PARLIAMENT OF UPPER CA NADA, FEB. 15. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. Mr. Speaker reported that Mr. Secretary Joseph had brought down from his Excellency the Lieutenant-Gover nor a message and several documents. The message was read as follows : F. B. HEAD, The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the House of As sembly the following answer to its address of the sth inst. : It appears to the Lieutenant-Governor that this address contains— Ist. A statement of the opinions of the house on various subjects of high importance to this province. 2d. A request that the Lieutenant-Governor should him self give the house certain explanations. 3d. A request that the Lieutenant Governor should transmit to the house copies of certain documents and de spatches which are mentioned. The Lieutenant-Governor assures the House of Assembly that every opinion stated in their address shall receive his at tentive and deliberate consideration. With respect to the explanations, as also the copies of the documents and despatches which the House of Assembly has requested from the Lieutenant-Governor, he will now proceed to consider these subjects seriatim, in the order in which they appear in the address. 1. The Lieutenant-Governor transmits herewith to the House of Assembly, according to its request, a copy of the correspondence desired to be obtaired by our address to his Excellency Sir John Colborne, dated the 19th of January, 1835, relative to the removal of the late Attorney-Gene ral and Solicitor-General, the appointment of the present Attorney-General, and the re-appointment of the Solicitor- General. The Lieutenant-Governor informs the House of As sembly that there also exists in the Government office one other despatch on the above subject marked " confidential," and which he withholds from the House because it is not even left to his discretion to impart it. The Lieutenant-Governor, however, briefly explains to the House of Assembly that Lord Goderich's order of the Bth of March, 1833, for the retirement of the Solicitor- General, was subsequently reversed by his Majesty's Go vernment, in consequence of exculpatory explanations which that officer made during his visit to England. 2. The Governor transmits herewith to the House of Assembly, according to its request, " a copy of the corre spondence concerning the several expulsions of a member of this House in the last Parliament." 3. The House of Assembly requests copies of any de paches " that would serve to explain to this House the apparent contradictions between the Royal instructions re lative to the dismissal or resignation of public officers when they cease to give a conscientious support to the measures of the Government, and the continuance in office of per sons composing the E,aecutive Council and legal advisers of the Government, notwithstanding their opposition to many urgent and beneficial measures of Reform, so often and loudly called for by a large majority of the people of the colony„ and recommended by the Earl of Ripon, as set forth in his despatch of the Bth of November, 1832, which oppo sition and utter contempt of the wishes of the people and the recommendation of his Majesty's Government, as afore said, will most strikingly appear by reference to the jour nals, in regard to the proceedings had on the said despatch, which was sent down to both the Houses by his Excellency Sir John Colborne, in compliance with the instruction of the Earl of Ripon to make it public in Canada, by which re ference it will most distinctly appear that the above descrip tion of persons have not only opposed the carrying into effect the said recommendation, but offered the greatest indignity to his Majesty and his Ministers, by voting to send the said despatch back to his Excellency, in opposition to a motion fbr printing and publishing it ; and on another occasion opposed and prevented the passing of an address to his Majesty, for his prompt attention displayed in the said despatch to the wishes and interests of the people of the country, by moving another address in amendment, of a censurable character, upon his Majesty's Minister, for writing and transmitting the said despatch ; . which address was afterwards presented to his Excellency as the address of the House, although never carried through its several stages." In reply to the above request, the Lieutenant-Governor informs the House of Assembly, that no despatches exist in the Government office affording the explanation desired. 4. The Lieutenant-Governor transmits herewith to the House of Assembly, according to its request, "a statement of the several persons who compose your Excellency's Exe cutive Council and of your legal advisers, with the dates of their appointment, and at which they were severally sworn into office." _ _ 5. The House of Assembly requests " that your .Excel lency will please to inform this House whether it is consi dered that their appointments and continuance in office are in strict accordance with the spirit of the Royal instructions, and that they are taken from among that class of his Ma jesty's subjects who have given a conscientious support to those measures of the Government which are enumerated in the despatch of the Earl of Ripon, as aforesaid." As the appointment of the individuals alluded to is the prerogative . of the Crown, the Lieutenant-Governor cannot presume to offer to the House of Assembly any opinion on that subject ; but, with respect to the question whether their continuance in office is in strict conformity with the spirit of the Royal instructions contained in Lord Ripon's despatch of the Bth of November, 1832, the Lieutenant- Governor conceives that the real meaning of those instruc tions was to arm the Lieutenant-Governor of this province with power to require, and, if necessary, to insist on the re signation of any or all individuals holding official situations, or latently opp ose the • measures of his who Government. openly The Lieutenant-Governor will certainly not hesitate to avail himself of this power, should he ever feel it his pain ful duty to do so, but he considers it would not be a fruit ful application of his time were he now retrospectively to attempt to determine whether these individuals ever had or had not opposed any measure of the Government of his predeCessor, who is responsible to his Majesty alone for his decisi o n s . He therefore feels he is bound in justice to infer neverreciuire•that as his predecessor did not see occasion to dismiss these office rs , th e i r con tinuance in office to the present date is in strict accordanceviith the spirit o f the Ro y al instructions,d that these po le m en shou ld inflict which upon themselves the penalty awarded in case they should oppose the measures of the Government. Z 1 THE SUN, LONDON, SAURDA • it T , APRIL 2, 1836. 6. The House of Assembly state, " that in reply to the representations of this House to. his Majesty against the composition of the Legislative Council, the despatch of Lord Glenelg refers with approbation to the Report of the Committee of the House of Commoni on Canada aff.tirs, in the year 1828, and we cannot, by any possible inge nuity, reconcile the principles laid down in that Re port and that despatch with those acted upon in the recent appointment to seats in the Legislative Council (if we may believe general report),' inasmuch -as all those said to be lately appointed to the said Council who were Members of the last Parliament (including the gentleman who has during the present session already taken his seat), took a most conspicuous and prominent part in the contemptuous proceedings on the Earl of Ri pon's despatch, which a reference to the journals of this House will most amply show ; and all said to be so ap pointed have always been understood to be violently opposed to the principal measures of improvement and policy so long required by a large majority of the people, thereby in creasing, if possible, instead of diminishing, the great ob stacle to the reform necessary to be accomplished, in order to secure to the people of this colony peace, happiness, and prosperity, and the full enjoyment of their civil and reli gious rights and privileges: We therefore desire to obtain copies of any communications between the*Colonial-ofEce and Government of this colony, relating to the late appoint ments to the Legislative Council, of those of any other persons whose appointments have not been acceded to, or confirmed by the King ; and to be informed, who among those lately appointed have taken the oath as legislative councillors, and who, if any of them, have declined accept ing of the appointment ; and we request your Excellency, as early as may be, to call upon any such as have been so appointed either to accept the said appointment, and take the necessary oath, &c., or to decline the same." As the Lieutenant-Governor is incompetent to judge of the principles which regulated the conduct of his respected predecessor, it is totally out of his power to attempt to re concile to the House of Assembly the recent appointments to the Legislative Council with the report and citspatch alluded to by the House of Assembly. But, although these appointments are the prerogatives of his Majesty, and although the recommendations from which they pro ceeded ought not to transpire, the Lieutenant-Governor nevertheless transmits to the House of Assembly, accord inc, to its request, " copies of any communications Netleen the Colonial Office and the Government of this colony re lating to the late appointments to the Legislative Council, or those of any other persons whose appointments have not been acceded to or confirmed by the King ;" and moreover the Lieutenant Governor informs the House that those gentlemen who have been lately appointed have been already required to take the oath as Legislative Councillors. 7. The House of Assembly states, " We therefore trust that your Excellency will take immediate steps, in fulfil ment of the gracious wishes of the King, to carry into effect his benevolent intentions, as desired by the great body of the people of this colony, by calling upon the said Bishop (of Regiopolis) and Archdeacon (of York) either to withdraw from the Legislative Council altogether, or re sign their other offices." _ _ . - The Lieutenant-Governor is not aware that his Majesty has expressed any " intentions" on the above subject, but opinions have been very clearly expressed by Lord Ripon, in his dispatch of the Bth November, 1832, to the full ex tent and th• meaning of which the Lieutenant-Governor as sures the House he shall feel it his duty strictly to attend. 8. The House of Assembly requests, " that your Ex cellency will lay before us any other information or instruc tions that you may have received (if any) from his Ma jesty's Government beyond what has been already sent to us, relative to the administration of the Government. In reply to the above request, the Lieutenant-Governor feels it will be only necessary for him to remind the House of Assembly of the following extract of the message he communicated on the 30th ult. :—" The Lieutenant-Go vernor was commanded by his Majesty to communicate the substance' of his instructions to both Houses of the Pro vincial Parliament ; but, considering it would be more sa tisfactory to them to receive the whole, he accordingly transmits it herewith." 9. The House of Assembly requests the Lieutenant-Go vernor will transmit " any other information or instruction in answer to a resolution transmitted to his Majesty through his Excellency Sir John Colborne, which resolution was re ported to this House by the Finance .Committee, and adopted by the House, as containing our views on the im portant question of the appropriation of the proceeds of the natural resources of the country by the Legislature, and strongly remonstrating against the charter and improvident sale to the Canada Company, which has proved, and is likely to continue to prove, exceedingly injurious to the province." In answer to the above request, the Lieutenant-Governor re-assures the House of Assembly, that he has received from his Majesty's Government no other information or instructions on the subject beyond what he has already - communipted. 10. The Lieutenant-Governor transmits bereWith to the House of Assembly, according to its request, " Copies of answers to any other resolutions or addresses of this House, transmitted to his Majesty by its order." 11. The House of Assembly requests the Lieutenant- Governor to transmit copies " of correspondence between his Majesty's Government and the Government of this pro vince, especially relative to the address reported by the committee on grievances, and adopted by this House, on the complaint of an outi age on William Forsyth, of the Niagara Falls Hotel." In reply to this request, the Lieutenant-Governor informs the House of Assembly, that the case of Mr. William For syth, with the documents relating to it, is at this moment under the consideration of his Majesty's Government ; and that as soon as the Lieutenant-Governor receives his Ma jesty's final decision, it shall immediately be communicated to the House. 12. The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the House of Assembly, according to its request, " the copy of th e de spatch of his Excellency Sir John Colborne to the Secre tary for the Colonies, dated Sept. 12, last." The despatch dated the 16th, containing his Excellency's observati ons on r w t ith. on grievances,some e topics t c e n n a l n b t r_a G e e o d v e i r t n i 0 t r h c e a n s n e o v t e n t r tl a i n s r i e ni t p o out the sanction of the Secretary of State. 13. The House of Assembly requests the Lieutenant- Governor to transmit to the House " copies of all other communications between the Colonial-office and the Execu tive Government of this province, on matters of public or general interest to the inhabitants of this province, since the period of the general election of members to serve in the House of Assembly, and referred to in th e despatch of the Secretary of State, sent down to this House on Saturday last, as being for your Excellency guidance and instruction." In reply to this request, the Lieutenant-Governor ob serves to the House of Assembly, that in his instruction s alluded to lie certainly was referred for information b y the Colonial Minister "to the correspondence of m y predecessor and myself with the officers who have succes sively a dministered the provisional government ;" but he is sure the House will feel that it was not either the intention or wish of his Majesty's Government that the Lieutenant- Governor should (as requested by the house) unreservedly, and without even a specification ofthe documents required, divulge to one branch of the Legislature a voluminous cor respondence, which, from its nature, must unavoidably re. late to many questions belonging exclusively to the other two branches ; but must also unavoidably contain subjects of a strictly confidential nature, besides others the publica tion of which would merely tend to revive bygone dis cussions." , The Lieutenant-Governor takes this opportunity of ap pealinc, to the liberality and good sense of the House of Assembly for consideration, that, as a stranger to this pro vince, totally unconnected even with the political differences which have existed in the mother country, he hai but lately arrived here, intrusted by our most gracious Sovereign with ins:ructions, the undisguised object of which is— firmly to maintain the happy Constitution of this country inviolate, but to correct cautiously yet effectually all real grievances. The House of Assembly is deeply interested in the im portance and magnitude of the task he has to perform, and he is confident it will, on reflection, be of opinion that the Lieutenant-Governor of this Province had better look stea dily forward to its future prosperity and improvement — that he had better attact into Upper Canada the supera bundant capital and population of the mother country, by encouraging internal peace and tranquillity, than to be ob served occupying himself only in re-considering the occur rences of the past. The Lieutenant-Governor does not assert that the latter occupation would be totally useless, but he maintains that the former is by far the most useful, and that to attend to both is impossible. 14. The Lieutenant-Governor transmits to the House of Assembly, according to its request, " a statement of the proceedings and steps taken by the Government relative to a special matter contained in the third report of the com mittee on finance of last session, in reference to a defalcation of monies by the late collector of the town of Kingston, which defalcation had for several years been reported and appeared in the public accounts, but which was omitted to be stated by the Inspector-General in the last accounts sent down to thi s House w i t h out any aut h or it y t o d o so f rom the Legislatu re ," Government -house, Feb. 15, 1836. A very handsome property in the north-west of Ireland has been willed to a man named James Gilmer. It appears that Gilmer has latterly resided at Scarborough, in ver y poor circumstances, and has only a few days ago set off for Iceland to take possession of the property which has been left to him by his brother Alexander Gilmeii it con sists of an extensive estate, and other property in the county ~.• o f (jamb T}ll POLES AT PORTSMOUTH. (FORRIING TIIE POLISII COMMUNE GRUDZIAZ.) TO THE FRIENDS OF POLAND. _ The groans of our brethren have pierced our hearts : the blow which is destined to cut them off for ever from the nations of Europe hangs suspended over their devoted heads, threatening every Moment to fall! • To you—to the freemen of the west—their brethren in feeling and principle —they stretch through us their suppliant hands! Time is urgent ; but endless formalities and obstacles stifle our voice, and impede its reaching the cars of those who both can and will, we are confident, lend us the most effectual aid, prevent its reaching the cars of the British people, and, through their irresistible intercession, the ears of their representatives in Parliament. For petitions from us to that Parliament there is no access. Nevertheless, silence on our part would be a crime, betrayal of every human duty . ; an infamous acquiescence in the murder of our bre thren and countrymen, a base submission to the new atro city perpetrated upon our beloved fitherland. Hence, as the shortest and most efficient method of communicating our views and sentiments to that assembly, we have ap plied to him to become our interpreter and advocate there, who being the devoted and zealous defender of all po pular rights, must necessarily best understand and appreciate the interests of Poland—to Daniel O'Connell, whose elo quent appeal of 1832 is embalmed in our memory, and en graven indelibly on our hearts, and who bath renewed his claims to our eternal gratitude by the words in which, upon . the 18th of-March, he .directed the attention of the House, not only to the secondary question of the occupation of Cracow, but also to the more important one of the impre scriptible rights of our whole country, and by so doing has furnished us with an occasion for testifying how truly anxious we are to recognise, as our rightful Representative before Europe, every friend who bases our cause upon en larged, sacred, and immutable principles, and to contemn the mistaken friendship of those who, confining themselves within the narrow limits and to . the mere lette r o f s p o liat or y and parricidal treaties, are the organs, not of the Polish people, but of the selfish interest and egotism of that peo ple's but too often implacable enemies—the Polish aristo cracy. Friends of Poland !—We implore you to give Mr. O'Con nell every possible support. Pour in your petitions, meet and raise your voices in behalf of Poland, for our desolated country is about to lose the last of her sons ; and it is to the protection of you only that she can commend them. Remember, that of the once great, free, and flourishing republic of Poland, but a small nook was left as an invalu able but melancholy asylum for her devoted sons! A peace able residence (vas assured to them, by every possible gua rantee,whiCh existing institutions can offer and existing Governments suggest, in the ancient city of Cracow, that cemetry of' departed grandeur. From thence the thoughts of our brethren plunged into the realms of futurity, and they beheld in imagination a new fatherland arising from out of the ashes of the old. There their feet pressed a soil that was native to them, and from that contact they derived new strength to endure misery and persecution. For know, friends of Poland, that the influence of our beloved native land over us is fascinating and all powerful ; his native mountains are not more dear to a Swiss, nor his native snow to a Laplande,r,,than are our gloomy forests to us. This Nicholas well knows, and hence he envied his victims even this consolation. 'When he can no longer shed our blood, he will have our tears—his vengeance is inexorable! To gratify that he has not hesitated to trample upon treaties, upon the sanctity of oaths, upon the guarantees of public faith. His co-partners in spoliation easily became accom plices in his new and barbarous felony, and their three armies entered Cracow. That sacred city of Poland has been desecrated by the Cossack ; and the most devoted of her sons, instead of finding an asylum among their brethren in misfortune, have now nothing to look forward to or to hope for, but the filthy straw of an Austrian dungeon, and eternal banishment from Europe. Even now they are being trans ported to Trieste ; even now the wildernesses of America are preparinc, to engulf them, an d d es t ruc ti on at h ome awa i ts those who refuse' to be victimised abroad. If the people of the West open not their arms to receive them, if Great Britain proffer them not the same hospitality which she per mits us to enjoy, abandoned to the vengeance of the Czar, they will be entombed in the snows of Siberia, or in its mines be prematurely hurried to the grave. Friends of Poland, how many, think you, are there of these victims ? Four hundred ! Four hundred by a single Russian Ukaso were doomed to proscription. But eight days were allowed them to make their last wills, to arrange their affairs, to save their wives and children from misery, beggary, and bankruptcy! And before the atrocious order tbr the proscription of these four hundred had been made known to the Senate of the town, the territory of Cracow was invested, egress interdicted, all communication cut off, and the bayonet pointed, against the deliberative assembly, which was preparing to decide upon the fate of the proscribed. The Senate denianded time,.but-its dpuand- was disdainfully- rejected-; and at tliP . verification of the passports and the examination of tour hundred individuals more than occupied the whole eight days assigned, the Cossack entered the city lat - wo in hand, at once tho accuser, judge, and executioner of his allotted victims ! Nor was the end in view, or the proceeding it self, as pretended, a more measure of general security of police ; it was in effect punishment -without previous trid, exile en mane ; in a word, proscription, Expul sion merely will not satisfy the tyrante--..nothing will sa tisfy them but the banishment of our brethren to America. They will not even allow our unhappy countrymen the melancholy privilege of choosing thlir own asylum'! Nay, even Great Britain and France are denied the right of receiving them ! Oh ! no doubt, the paternal solicitude of the robber Courts would fain extend its protecting mgis over even the public mind of Groat Britain and Franco I—would ardently wish—after having succeeded in establishing, through the instrumentality of Louis Phillipe, some of their favourite institutions in the latter country—now to sur round these islands with a "cordon sanitaire" against the contagion of destructive principles, with the view of ulti mately establishing amongst you, Britons, a censorship, the spy-system, and modern star-chambers! But Lord" Pa lmerston bath told you that your Government had no pre vious intelligence of the salutary measure thus adopted for your safety ; the allied Courts dispensed with its consent, and their protection of your interests was on their part an entirely spontaneous act. Then is it for you, citizens of Great Britain, to protest against this insult ; then is it for you to demand, to insist upon, the-proscribed being re united to their countrymen, to declare that your land needeth not the tutelary care of despotism, and that, - far from feeling grateful for its interference, you hail its victims as your brethren, to avow before all nations that it is but necessary for you to be told who are the martyrs of liberty, to induce you to welcome them, as you have us, to make common cause with them against the homicidal designs of all tyrants. Friends of Poland ! Men of Great Britain, of Ireland ! You will not, you cannot, forget what is due to yourselves, your own honour, and dignity. You will not abando9 our un happy countrymen—our desecrated country. Poland suppli cates your protection for the last of her sons. Alas! few are now left her! But they, if you receive them, will await but the moment—not long distant—which shall 'summon - them to shed their blood in her and your defence, will repay cheerful) , with their lives the generous sacrifices you may make in their behalf will come but to add another link to the chain of brotherhood which unites you to all other free nations, that brotherhood which will sooner or later enable us to achieve our inevitable and sublime destiny—the firm establishment of our country's rights and liberties. -Hasten then, friends of Poland, to snatch our brethren from the grasp of their tyrants, restore them to us, and suffer not our beloved county to lose the last of her sons, nor Europe and freedom some of their most courageous and devoted de fenders. Dziewicki Wontrobka Buchowski —Worcell— Lelejewski— Swidzinski —Rupniewski Picut kowski Wellman —Jaworski Wolski—Am broziewicz Racgonas Czajkowski— Baczyn ski. GRONKOWSKI, Portsmouth, March 26. Secretary of the Committee. The • weather at Dumfries is still miserably cold ; hail, sleet, wind, and rain. During the whole of last week the hills were white, and are snow-capped still. Storm, which thickens the fur of hares and rabbits, has a contrary effect on the flocks ; for in severe seasons the fleece is lighter, a lt hough it may be a shade finer in quality. Lambing, around Queensberry, where the sheep are for the most part white-faced, commences about the 10th or 12th of April—an important period for store-master and shepherd. Many of the ewes require to be watched, and where the lambs are very weak the only mode of saving them is to roll them in a corner of the plaid, until they can be conveyed to, and placed before, the nearest fire. The dams follow, and are fed about the doors till the nurslings recover or die. Thousands of lambs are saved every year in the manner described ; the shepherd's sheeling affords all the aid it can, and even masters, where the locality suits, succour weakly lambs both before the kitchen and the parlour fire. But these matters, of course, will sound stran ge to Londoners and o th e rs, who know littl e o f the flocks beyond what they see in the stalls or at the table, and live in the same happy ignorance of the wintry terrors of those .hills that make even unconcerned spectators cold to look at them.—Dumfries Courier. p „, FL OGGING IN TILE ARMY.—The Courtier ran eels, on the subject of the abolition of the flogging system in the English army, says that the truo que stion to be decided is not so much whether the discipline o f an army so composed can be sof tened, as whether it is not to the interest of the country to abolish usages no longer in harmony with the s p irit of the a ge . The existence of an army in England is lo ok e d upon by th e E nglish citizen only as a necessary ev il ; b ‘ u; still it may be a s k e d , whether it be not r t lssN4to peeohelle this necessity with the opin'qr, the Iftness of modifying the mode ponisemerier vri . :•iiil4 might be made more civic and more free at the same time. CHINA. The Canton Register of -the Ist December, contains a Proclamation issued by Kc, " Guardian of the Prince,- and Acting' Governor and Fooyuen of li.vantung ;" by which Proclamation it appears that the late conflagration was supposed to be the work of incendiaries, and it pro poses to make very short work with them ; in fact, to decl with them el In Bnekingham—" Chop ofF their heals!" The following is a copy of the official document ; " It is known that the provincial city .is thickly crowl_..,l with dwellings, and there are always vagabonds ready to seize every opportunity of sAtinff fire to houses, scheming to steal money and goods, regardless of the bodies and lives of men ; craainess and wickedness dwell in their hearts—they are altogether devoid of heavenly principles, and their depravity is carried to the very extreme paint. The law must cut them utterly off. Let all the civil and military officers, soldiers, people, and police, make them selves fully acquainted with this Proclamation. If these fire-spreading villains arc found, seize them immediately, and take them before the Magistrates—let them be tried —and the Royal order be respectfully requested (to put them to death), and firthwith cut rdr their heads !—show not the least indulgence ! Let all tremblingly ob3y without opposition. A special Edict. Tenth moon, 9th day."— (28th November.) LeW, the Nanhaeheen, has also issued a similar procla mation. The same Register contains the following very charac teristic proclamations upon matters which, in the Celestial Empire, are considered of high importance " Pvvan, by Imperial appointment, Hoppo of Canton, &c., issues a perspicuous edict for general information. " When the foreign ships anchor at Whampoa, the ser vants and sailors are constantly going in sanpaus, and they form parties and wonder about together, or go ou shore to walk or shoot birds, and disturb the resident people and oc casion mishaps. Now as at this period the foreign ships are successively entering the port, it is proper to issue a proclamation, and to order the Hong merchants and lin guists to fully inform theriaselves of the contents thereof. When the foreign ships approach the native vessels, the captains of the said ships are to keep their crews in strict order, and not allow them to go on shore in parties, firing off fowling-pieces and killing birds. The said Hong mer chants and linguists should with sincerity advise them and explain the proclamation, and order them respectfully to obey the laws and regulations of the Celestial Dynasty. But if any dare oppose, rake out and disturb (the people), they will be immediately examined and punished. The said Hong merchants and linguists must particularly at tend to this business, and prevent any confusion, otherwise they will be guilty and will be severely punished. All should, without opposition, tremblingly obey. A special proclamation. " Taoukwang, 15th year, 9th moon, 22d day." " Pwan, the acting Kwanchowfoo, issues a proclamation. The 10th day of the 10th moon of the 15th year of Taoukwang is the birthday of the Empress Dowager, when she attains her 60th year, and similar congratulations are made throughout the empire. All ye military, people, and traders are hereby ordered one day before and after, that is, from the 9th to the 11th of the 10th moon, to hang out from your door-posts a piece of brilliant silk, and to set re spectfully forth tables with incense, and all respectfully in voke blessings to manifest your sincere veneration. It is not necessary to erect bamboo stages and mat coverings in the streets in order to suspend variegated lanterns thereon, which may cause the calamity of fire. Let all respectfully obey—oppose not. A special proclamation. " Taoukwang, 15th year, 10th moon, 3d day (22d No vember, 1835.)" We are further informed that the Emperor, with a view to induce his subjects to celebrate his mother's birth-day with the greater glee, has forgiven them all the taxes due to the Imperial Treasury previous to the year 1830 ;—a long arrear, and one which would not have been suffered to ac crue by the tax-gatherers of some countries that we know. The following is the official announcement : __ " REMISSION OF TAXES.—His Majesty Taoukwang has issued a decree, directing all the chief officers of the empire to make speedy returns of all the sums which were due to the Imperial Treasury previous to the tenth year of his reign, 1830. This is done that all such debts may be re mitted, in order to show forth, throughout the empire, his boundless goodness and joy, occasioned by the completion of the sixtieth year in the age of his holy mother, tier Imperial Highness the Empress." MILITARY PUNISHMENTS On Wednesday last we endeavoured 1-• o sao by a refe rence to authentic details, that the • • . statement in the report of the Commissioners, that " 'death by shooting was the hinge on which the wrl , -' . .01e system of discipline in the French army turned... as wholly untenable. At the risk of up. peartam 'tedious, which we belie ve i s th e l as t of the flippant ,ttarges brought against our persevering inquiry into this important question, we shall mention a point which, in the accumulation of evidence, we omitted to urge when consi dering the comparative severity in the French service and in our own. In the evidence of M. Le Baron de l'Ostcnde the following passage occurs i— " In the case of an offence of a civil nature committed upon the property or persons of civilians, is the soldier tried by the civil courts or the military courts ?—lf a soldier and :v civilian are accomplices in the commission of an offence, then it is tried by a civil court ; but if one or more soldiers, without civilian accomplices, commit an offence, though it be a civil offence, such us theft or any other offence towards an inhabitant of the town, he is tried by a court. martial." So that into the account of the military punishments in the French army must he taken the number of civi/offences committed by soldiers and punished by martial law. For instance, in the list of capital punishments quoted by us on Wednesday there were only two for crimes committed in France in an army of 398,9.81 men. And what were these crimes ? In both instances attempts to kill—offences which, unless committed on parade, would in England be tried by the civil tribunals. But. we need scarcely press this point further. If, in a nation in which the military character of the people is so extensively fostered . as it is among the French, secondary punishments are found adequate to the maintenance of discipline in one of the largest standing ar mies in the world, we can conceive no platisible argument for continuing corporal punishment among ourselves. The pretence of a superior class filling the ranks of the French army we have already considered. We ha ve s t a t e d th at a service justifying secondary punishments, equivalent to trans portation and expulsion with ignominy from the British army, is not and cannot be composed of a class of men so far superior to the labouring and manufacturin g p o p u l a ti on o f England as to justify the distinction existing in the question of punishment by the lash. That by the law of conscrip tion some young men of respectable families, yet unable to purchase substitutes, enter the ranks is true ; but it is cear from the evidence of the French officers, that wherever pe cuniary means exist, the services of substitutes are pur chased, and we should be glad to know in what respect such substitutes are superior to the class of persons voluntarily enlisting in the English army ? On this point Colonel Keate deposes as tbllows : " Even in the case of conscription, it would be necessary to give the conscript, the person ballotted, the power to find a substitute ?—I do not know how that is managed iu foreign armies, where there is no corporal punishment. " Arc you not aware that in France, where the army is re cruited by conscription, there is a power in the balloted matt to obtain a substitute ?—I should suppose so. " Supposing a ballot to be established here, do you not think that in a great number of instances the balloted man would find a substitute?—Most likely. " And that substitute would be the same description of men as we have now ?—Yes ; therefore I should still conceive it necessary to retain the power of corporal punishment." To us it appears that the sequitur of the gallant Colonel is as applicable to the substitutes in the French army as it can be to the volunteers in our own. If we are to be told that the besetting sin of drunkenness constitutes the un favourable distinction in our own army, we may refer to the evidence of Colonel Brotherton, commanding the depot at Maidstone, an officer having relatives in the French army, and one who has lived with the regiments there, and had ample opportunities of judging of the general character of the service. This officer deposes as follows : " Did the crime of drunkenness appear to you to have be come more frequent in the French army of late ?—lt " Have you ever heard any of the officers of the French army give any reason for the increase of that offence ?—I heard local reasons assigned at Tours, which I did not consider adequate. The officers told me that I must make some allow ance for the troops then in the garrison, who had just come from the north of France into the wine country of Tours. I did not admit that reasoning, for I know that spirits are so cheap in the north of France, that I have heard officers in the south dread marching to the north on account of the eau de vie being so cheap there. It is evident that drunkenness has of late crept into the French army a good deal ; and it ap peared to be treated, comparatively, with impunity, as their officers saw them drunk in the streets without noticing it. Now, although we do not speak to a drunken soldier in the streets, we take measures to have him sent to the barracks-" In their anxiety to establish this their favourite point— namely, the distinction between the class of recruits in the French army and our own—the Commissioners have suf fered themselves to be betrayed into a line of examination certainly injudicious, if not disingenuous. Take, for ex ample, the following passage from the examination of Colonel Brotherton ; D o you take recruits for the East India Company ?—..No, only for the King's service ; and the riding establishment er . t h e army is also under my command, cignp&ied of old R ^l , We have the dept s of I'm TV44n on it s o f B r i t i s h ,t e i . s. are now in Ka l cavalry which " cyl you tuici that theso tion of recruits 'i•egiments °Vain hotter the other re&itueuts should say not a descri bettcr s',l, though a very peoultar description of re cruits; men who are anx i ous to giNt out of the country, either reason. r having quarrelled w i t h their families, or for some otherre. oo "Men of a superior c l ass i n lif e ?—V ery su perior; I h ad - - the son of a Pcer of the realm come to me IN iftin the last fit" months. " In such cases as these do you find these men mcn amer a. ble to discipline and order than men of a lower class of lire? —I am sorry to say that I think the worst description of sol dier is a decayed gentleman, or a man born in a better sphere of Ire. " In your opinion, which is the best description of recru't ? —The common agricultural labourer. Would you prefer such to the s9us of tradesmen, who hare been taught to read and write, and received a certain de. gree of education ?—By far. I have observed that the fewer men that road or write in a troop or company, the better be haved they are. In what way da these gentlemen's sons show their unfit ness for the service ?—ln the first place, they do not mix so well with the remainder as if they were on a level with them, and I experience some degree of perplexity in dealing with them. If they show anything lilac gentlemanly feeling, you cannot apply, without reluctance, the sime means of coercing them as applied to men of a different- chats. In the instance I have mentioned I wrote to the father of the yoUtv g,elitlernatt, •stating that I should wish him to reconsidPr the subject before I sent his sent to India as a private soldier. " Was be discharged in consequence of that ?—No. 1 . - ie went to Ind:a as 'a private Dragoon, the father perscreting in, his determination. " Are you at all aware of what sort of a scrape he hai get into besides being in debt ?—I really do not know. I recently had a lady who came down in her carriage with be: own son to place him with me as a recruit. I asked her to tell me wbat was his prevei!ing vice, and she candidly told me that he was a robber ; but from the father of the other young gentleman I never could obtain any direct information cf the sort; he merely said that his son was .‘ a finished blackguard.' I cer tainly found him wanting in proper pride, but he has sometimes cried before me, which I thought shoe;ed not a t ota l a b sence o f feel hag. " Now, we ask, can any thing he more shallow or insin cere than this style of examination ? The " better descrip tion of recruits," the `- 4 men of superior class of life," are sneered at, by implicati on , i n t h e li ne o f questioning adopted by the ComPnssioners. But a moment's reflection must. make tEs matter plain to every one. We, and others, anxious, by the removal of a degrading stigma, and by con current. measures of an elevating nature, to render the posi tion and character of the soldier deserving of general sym pathy and respect, have urged that by such means a better class of men would be induced to enter the ranks of the British army. But we are not aware that " decayed gen tlemen," exhausted roues, outcasts from their families, robbers," and " finished blackguards," were ever repre sented by us as forming a part of the " better description" of our countrymen. It is the honest, industrious, and re spectable portion of our youthful population who, though not connected with the gentry, are yet in the en:oyment of that sterling self-respect in a great degree distinguishing the - middle classes of England—this portion of the population it is that we contend - would be available for the recruiting of the army, if the measures we advocate were adopted. In many instances the Commissioners asked the officers ex amined whether recruits, when enlisting, take into conside-. ration the subject of their liability to the lash. To this question it is replied invariably, " No, they do not,"— an answer which appears to afford marvellous satisfaction to the Commissioners. But, giving this answer its full effect, what. does it prove? . Does it prove that the liability to the lash is not. a consideration deterring . young men of respect able families from enlisting ? By no means. It only proves that the class of persons who now enlist evince no anxiety on the subject —a class of persons, be it remem bered, designated by the witnesses as the very lowest of our population ; or, to use the words of Colonel Middle ton, " the very dregs of society." Our argimient is, not that respectable persons now apply and queition the recruit ing officer as 'to the existence or prevalence of the punish ment of flogging, but that, with the fullest consciousness on tl6 point, they arc deterred from offering their services at all. And we cannot but express our regret that a report submitted to his Majesty, and by his Majesty's gracinus command presented to both Houses of Parliament, should have been characterized by an absence of that Calm and candid consideration, wanting which the labours of this el' any other commission must of necessity prove nugatory. Another question which is asked during the course of these examinations is, whether the men gook upon a soldier who has been punished as a deg,r'l - .'red ma n , an d s h un hi s corn puny on account of the 1 1 ::, gg i n , 6 which he has undergone. It has never been said by the 'advocates of the abolition of the PunisbnyTht. Oa the contrary, their g rea t o bj ec ti on is, that w l• fie it hardens the delinquent, it awakens a senti ment_ of sympathy for his sufferings in the breasts of his comrades, which feelinm is certainly not likely to make them shun his society, though it is well calculated to cause them to forget his offence in their natural horror at his -punish ment. On both these points the evidence of the majority of the officers examined is conclusive. Colonel Henry Booth, himself opposed to the practice, though favourable to the continuance of the power of flogging, speaks as fol lows as to the effect produced by the punishment on the man undergoing it : " As to the indiiidual himsclf, do you think it hardens his character, or makes him a worse soldier afterwards ?—I think the more frequently a man receives corporal Punishment the worse be becomes, and more hardened and• reckless of his character; but if he has only received corporal punishment once for an offence, it may have a good _effect in reclaiming him. When it is frequently resorted to, it makes a man care less ; he thinks himself degraded, and his character•irretriev able." So also Colonel Burrell:— -.‘ Upon the soldier himself, is the effect of it rather to -- harden him than to deter him from commtting the same - of._' fence again ?—That depends upon the character of the ityrte vidual. Oa some m en w h o are pun i s h ed there is not ;tlso •. - slightest effect produced; others are desponding and rited after- it, and apparently affected by the exhibition they have made." As to the impression upon the soldiers witnessing the punishment, our readers may remember that we quoted. a few days ago the opinion of Sir Henry Fane, to the effect that the punishment mast be appalling, because the younger soldiers fainted away in the ranks at beholding it. Similar evidence is given by more than one gallant officer ; but the two following answers may suffice—one from the examina tion of an officer, the other from that of a sergeant-major : " In cases of corporal punishment, when inflicted at Chat ham, do you conceive that those punishments have had more effect in the way of example ?—1 do think so; because, on the occasion of the very List corporal punishment we had there, now some time ago,•there were a great number of recruits pre sent to witness it, and I dare say as many as 25 or 30 of them fell out of the ranks, and some actually fainted, though the punishment was extremely slight—the man received only 100 lashes." " Has corporal punishment a great effect on the men who witness it, by way of example ?—lt has. I have seen a num ber cif men faint, particularly the young men." Now, to us, pretending to no more profound judgment on the subject than every human being is competent to exercise, it does appear self-evident that a punishment, the bare sight of which produces such an effect as that deicribed, must be too shocking to the sensibilities of our common nature to admit of its exercising a truly salutary influence on the minds of those witnessing it. When _C 4 --tbil yr buthnot tells the Commissioner-, that from 12 to 16 men were obliged to leave the square while the corporal punish ment was going on, and this decidedly from terror, and not from disgust at the sight of the punishment, the gallant officer draws a distinction which we think it would be diffi cult to substantiate. That terror is inspired by such a spectacle we cannot doubt, but equally certain do we feel that it must excite unmitigated disgust. We now conceive that this part of the question, namely, the nature and effects of corporal punishment, may be safely left to the good sense and the good feeling of our fellow countrymen.' We have certainly not sought to heighten the colouring of a subject by its very nature sufficiently ab- ' }torrent to the popular sympathies.. We have contented ourselves by stating facts, on the authority of the report which the Commissioners have laid .before his Majesty ; and, as we have had no object so much at heart as the per manent interests of the army, which we feel to be deeply im plicated in the settlement of this question, - we shall not stop short at the consideration of corporal punishments. only, but shall request the public attention to certain points of discipline mentioned by Sir Henry Hardinge and others, which we think should be calmly determined on, at the same moment . that corporal punishment is finally abo lished.-7'intes. Ma. O'CONNELL.—The lunatic asylums through out the country must be enlarged. We all know the melan choly effects produced in certain temperaments by violent emotions of the mind, and we lament to perceive decided symptoms of these eff:ets among the more morbid of some of the poor defeated Tories. The Editor of the Hull Parket had a very violent paroxysm yesterday. The immediate ex citing cause is, we learn, intimately connected with Mr. O'Connell's visit. When he heard how great was the en thusiasm with which the Liberator's arrival was hailed, our unfortunate friend became raving mad. He was, of course, very incoherent, and not a little abusive, as will be seen by the following outbreak One of the paltriest scribes among his countrymen talks of his (Mr. O'Cor.. - Jell) receiv ing renewed assurances of British symltath!," in the native town of Andrew Marvell.' Shade of '_,,drew Marvell! hear this; and LA some one of your desn'endants blight with your honest but withering scorn bo!lir''..e advocated and the advocate. They talk of Andrew 2stikr7eil they ! aliens in birth, in cha. ra:ter, in priprinciple, g enius !—they, who symp at hi se with your natiw a b o ut as much as the self- mut il ated lirah -0a1,7 e 1 o t om t } - mission house of England's Church. They !" Tv :lE LATE loss. e l s ' t i i i m e ated a t between of property Bo at t,OO and only to the amo un t o f one-third is insured. 1,000/• , has already been subsc r ib e d f or the relief of the unfor- Lunate sufferers. ilafioroet The, marriage of Madame Malibran with M. do Boriot took place on Tuesday last, at the mayory of the socond arrondissement of Paris, upon which occasion they gave 1,000 francs to be distributed to the poor. Madame de Be riot has set out for London, to fulfil an engagement with the manager of Drury. lane- Theatre.—Morning -., e