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'near' hiria (Lord Co 4 tenhain) seemed to hint not • *were. - least; he did not argue es if he - were the difficulties - which • *etc in the *ay of this I ' .. ..t4:'z l beasur e . There was no other Measure which gave - lain e. , ::f!.._ n 'tnneh trouble and labour in preparing and digesting, !, 511 1* measure he introduced On the subject. If Were' one deputatiOn, thnre'Were:oo or 300 if there was k l ,`4 • e . mbireOrial asid remonstrante; there were 800 against Registry Act. The.Reform' 13.11 itself had riot Met" so much opposition out Of diks—he did not say in their. Lordships' HMIS'', Ina out of doers. The same uenees which • were 'at work •against the Registry Act , • Pe• re now at work in Opposition to the-present measure. •itie entire influence 'of the banded gentry, with their solicitors and proctors,' was at work .to support their • 4. 6 .41' edurts; and to:prevent an efficient measure of re a t'm ' He therefore believed that almost "insuperable' tiil liculties'vieteoppoSed to the carrying out of the melt:, , ° d-re7---niit- in this hnt in thi . other House of Par ',..arlient';..iind It was the business of this House not to ' s e nd measure A.° the other Howe Winch there was ot reasonable prospect of carrying. --(Hear, hear.) . phisY ought, therefore, to take all they could get. But by •• ; Bill they were going to 'create ' thirty : diocesan •- • .' a dges, - who would have 'considerable salaries. The con ts• ,eltrerice iias;-.that they 'were throwing obstruction's' in Infpf further reform, if it Was deemed necessary. . Aberdare 'thought that they should - accept their • ; 4 08 Onthe Understanding 'that their removal was not ilandin the iii: r of - any future reform. , The LORD -CHANCELLOR said that,was provided fee in - the Bill. • •• • • - • • - Lord BROUGHAM—Then his objection :was.AltO-, gether removed.. :His principal reason for supporting I. ll e - Bill • was, that 'it did away with the courts of gem ' 4* irt old exempt S-one of the greutest improvements which Could . be -made. thought that they were a scandal in the 1 eceleSiastical systeM. - For this reason • „llneiPally, but reserving to himself the option of pro .' - , itig such ainendinents in COmmitteeas he might be he Shonld- Vote for the second reading of the - Lord CAMPBELL said the House had had no intima tiOn of the reasons which induced her Majesty's Mi 'aSe'ra:tti abandon the Bill • ivhich was. introduced last eession' His Noble and Learned friend who spoke last t e kl - offeted ingenious aglilogy for The p resent Bill, but had not' Stated W that he as present ' 'at t he deliberations ',Pt the. Cabinet, or that he had been ehoien as ,the organ • of • • • t he - Gov er nment to communicate un e ormatioe to the -N ere *ere entirely in the dark /c• tOthhlntitivei 'which. caused the abandonment of the .. • : last 'session. , -Yet there were, five members of the ( I'rernment 'nest/14 wad atn'ongst 'thim a Noble Duke, rl l6 t • , Was able to emilain , the advantages and disadvan , •.•d i ffesof.Any -measure e end-there was the President of' e Council, himself judge; and also the President 'of 'llthe Board or Cowl?), who, as 1t• magistrate at quarter lessons, must be well acquainted with the working of eve courts.; Yet they Irere *ll silent.. , Right Rev.. r4itte --- (the Bishop:of ; Londo4 gave no explanation. ~_w i lgteVer,.hit 'con fi rmed the-objections of his Noble and , ' - ' e arned Friend ZLord Cottenham), saying that he would ''''Llreler the ,13ill - Of last session. 'The Right Rev. Prelate t .° 4 -eoncurred in thelteporrof the Commissioners, who tk t eontmended • the - abolition of the litigious jurisdiction of e courts. - 1816 a Bill to that effect did pass" the blouse o f C o m m e ns and • 'was . rejected in this House bet„ thelfyible and Learned Lord who'inoved the second • :s 4 dine professed' to .anticipate his (Lord Campbell's) ;aPPeet. -However, he • abOrild 'be guilty of the grossest "t. oll SiStency . 'if lie supported it, because it re tarried all..the • litigious •jeriedietion: in respect to • t `"lttriages and •It continued the necessity of two Prerogative courts for erich'diocese---.-one in the provinces • onein London:- The Bill 'of Sir Frederick Pollock rovided• for theappointment''af' officers .in the countrY , 9r• the - regulatiOn of wills, but it Would have - taken a way the jurisdiction - personal' . 'and testamentary eases. - -(He 'fLord7Camp . htllydid not wish to interfere . s .!:;jth the authority o f the. Church in matters of ortho -2./ty or discipline, bat-what had the 'Church to do with lls and marriages ?. • All questi , ns relating to mar riage re so l ve d theniselvese into the construction of an • ,'.e▪ t'of . Parliament-to• be determined by the • Queen's d odges; • and the ecelAiastieal eourts had no - right to I nterfere with them. 'With "respect- to - wills, the Right eeerend • Prelate- • (the - 'l3l,hop :" of - :London) said, That he 'much .regretted the,. Church had anything • do with them -; and he wished. as soon as possible, .: . • v ewt it 7shoitlit,bo - relieeetr from them. The Church Meully . elitimed tO . have cognizance of wills, because it „ ip Ita in fo rme r ti mes U s ual for persons 16 leave money to t. l e'• Church 'to-"say say' Masses for their souls ; but now the <nitztti had its much to do with wills as with policies of • • . .,... 441 ireanee; - • -His opinionwas - , - that there ought to be only " .• s- - 94 0 . •cOitrt to Control these Matters - for England and ,_lvales, an d th a t s h ou ld sit London: He was for but,'ill the con.ti talon of Ideal courts, two, ~ o tiditiorie were necessary ; first,.ihat there should be ; and ; secondly, that there , should be competent • ruges. - In the diocesan courts there. was neither one n or' the other:7 ~ .- , N one of them' had more than the frac . oof a case ire the year ; and how could the judges be • eopetent,whe l e they were chosen froth persons who had • 'hnewledge of 'the civil law Ilecould say from OWn experience that there never was - a etatement in' eieh the greateat- blunders had, not been committed;exce . ptieg the . 'Metropolitan, courts. Two Beck , ''lstical . Comtnissions, - and a Commission of that Howie •"' real eatiites, hid :condemned these.courti. He was . -t o i _rrY' that his Noble and Learned Friend . on the Wool-, lek had not -More fully explained the motives of the • 11 0 ternment -abandoning , their own measure of last J e er- In. 1835,-?when his-Noble Friend - held edifferent Position in that Henst, - he enlightened their Lordships its an elahOrate review of the •btisiness - of the session, 45 7 the - purpOse •of showing that the Government t j, that day had- , not carried the measures which f; t Y. -had introduced. Amongst: • other things t taunted th e m with not having brought in a measure f °° a ( led;on the report .respeeting ecclesiastical courts was prepared by Dr; Lush in gt on, • Nolv, in 1842, h et Majesty's Ministers were instructed to inform the that It measere would be laid before Parliament • e'ise the jurisdiction" the' ecclesiastical courts. :Bat !I that year no'Bill was introduced. 'Why was it not ? at that time there was not' • the Same 'prejudice against • r i t e :Measure which had since been raised. -In 1843, her ..1 , Th '. l lesty's Ministers.again intimated that &measure upon subject would- be. introduced. - • Why was that not l l )a e- 2 -. A- Bill Was, introduced in the House of Com- - e l , ° as in a proper form by the-' Attorney-General, who ilePosed .abolish• the -litigious jurisdiction of 7 8 4 COurts. ;• , That 13i11;'wate supported by Sir Jamei abam, a n d no measuireeould btve' received warmer sup- Prt, in that House. - But be mnst'say diet it was not the h iu lt of their Lordships - that - the Bill did not pass, fOr it' ~..tjever reached them. . He.would conclude . his observe • : 3 01 1 in the words of his. Noble and Learned Friend, ~ .1 , "-1 1 hi- said.thgit:the ine&iure .which they (the Govern erns.,.%) themselves had devised, -prepared ; and • brought ..:1,7. - .74rc1-,involving,..as they told- them; the most un- - ~1 7 .tant.interests. o f the country-4;-4they,•withont -scruple, r e up, at the wish of a section of a party• He (Lord /bust say there was some mystery hangirig about et transaction that required. explanatiote•and which, e hoped his Noble, and Learned - Friend on the. Wool- Would plecar -14 p. • • , 6 .1,13 e Bi s h op.o f LONDON,deniedthat .had, as at ,,‘:(''''atea • ti. him by the.. Noble'- and Learned Lord t ,lit Pbell.); ; said he would Opposethe Bill- of last year "wete now introduced. He had said nothing of the • Po rt - CAMPBELL said he must have:- been under A„, Misapprehension. e had thought the 'Right Rev. 1 ,,,1ate had said ne- B. • - ol; ta e LORD:CHAINCELLOR wished to make a few • el ee rvetions in answer. to the Noble and Learned Lord, . asked what reason. the Government had, for dee ‘•ll ti ng-from tkeir, original plan. . His•Noble.and Learned ,e nd -44 supposed that he .-(the Lord-Chancellor) as rober of the:Government had. not concurred in the of introducing the , Bill - of laetl 4 ear•intb-the-House th • C o mmons;- • His Noble •and- Learned Friend was in! ti tt i " respect quite mistaken.- Nothing that he (the Lord et Zleellor) had said that night in the course of the (Bs, Pu warranted his N o ble and_ Learned Friend in lbr„lng to that eoncluSien. He, in point:n(34*Al' the rest' l'uck Cabinet, entirely approved of that measure, and aY , Were all. most desirous ,p£ carrying it. into effect. 4 4 3 Noble, .and Learned. Lgtd now turned -rounds and the why they had abandoned .that measure, and why 'th t y, now -introduced .a measure curtailed of .some of ...Better: parts of the measure of last • 'session. '4 11 : Noble and Learned Friends thought there was some hr• , 4 teiry, about :the matter; but , - if -they-referred to the - 46 - - .. wy of the Bill in its progress through the other ` • s tot Parliament, it would , afford them.an ixplana , of the matter. After the second reading of the A te in the • House' of Commons, it was' seen by .ever y touter in that_Housethat it would.be quite impossible in a rc's it, in its,then form, through to the_ third read . tj! .. _ Such alterations were made in the Committee as, fs b :ender it probable thai it might .be carried in the ive e - that- it. then assumed: •• The- question then was, se t) Liter the measure should- be wholly Abandoned; or , ited ti Ld be carried in its curtailed - State. What reason •.4 ! . goy to suppose that'tbe Bill, in its original fOrm, la gri l t had been sent . to. the House of Corn-. ip !I again •so sent, :,would ,not be treated tio tt •Tsimilar manper as it had been hiSt s e g. ia .The. Bill now introduced was -in the state ote' - uch it went through Conunittee . last session in the.' helot. et 1.1 , ---. ?use 'and in whichit bad. he believed, been laid' ‘1 ) Iler their Lordships' House. He thought it right and ent not to .do that „which experience had shovin had ld i neffectual, but to bring in a - , measure , which ahead obtained 'approval. The. Rill could be read 1 h et ‘ ° time, a d e and then, if any Noble Lord thought that. ,e-otod . '"aure of last .yeaecould be,passed into a •law, he ~,..Inove an am en d men t to th a t effect. B u t h e (the N t ii 4 •alttneellor) would-not • give: his sanction to any eee t , s ' L elendreent. That was his explanation of the the 2 whiehlad ,been pursued .by the Government in Qov e h lter;•and in that course every member of the Threitnent concurred. • . was then read a second time, and. ordered to otZeuaitted ,on Tuesday next:. • relate • a few words-from - the Duke of ,BUCCLEUC • tz wai _ e to the observations made that . night by the l'es bi ,l'uld Learned Lord opposite (Lord Campbell) with tilr‘ to the Three-and-a-Half ,per Cents. Annuities ti C o • . • • , "rnmons! Amendments to the Gaming Tmnsic . ti ritis t , i ( fi l o e u s r se ned s' Indemnity Bill were agreed to, and the at Nine o'Clock. ROUE" OF COMMONS, March 21. Cen.t.PRAIKR ,Ett took the Chair at P ou r o 'Cl oc k. EASTERN RAILWAY 13EANCHES. b . KNATC7III3ULT4 moved th a t it b e an th e —4 cLion to the Committee of ,Selection t o p os t pone Itall ,e ethlt; of the C omm itt ee on the South Eastern until after Easter... He said that his object of trsitting this motion. was .to ensure the attendance eMbers who were interested in the Bill. B i tt 4 r *Sew words from Mr. GLADSTONE, IP • 70/4'.ARD KNAICIIBULL consented t o w i t h - - ` 4 ° . "notion. • . NEW WRIT. -.*ltunion of Six THOMAS FREMANTLE , a * i.l ,• new writ Wai ordered tO forthe Borough of Christ• Chdrck. EDINBURGH, SLAMANNAN, Ste., _RAILWAYS: Mr. GIBSON CRAIG, pursuant to notice, moved that the order made on Friday, the 15th day of this instant `March—That it be an instruction to the Committee of Selection to refer the-Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Sla mannan, and the Edinburgh, Leith, - and Newhaven Railway Bills, to the same Committee—be discharged, in so far as relates to the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail way Bill ; and that the Committee on the said Bill have leave to. sit and proeeed on Wednesday next, without furthernotice. The Hon: Member's observations were -inaudible. - - Mr. MACKENZIE opposed the motion, and defended the order proposed to `be discharged, on the ground that the'railways were ,in reality but cne line. _ " Sir W. HEATHCOTE opposed the motion. Mr.LABOUCHERE said he would . oppose any de- - •parture from the rules of the House.-::He thought the resolution' of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Mackenzie) was one which the House ought not to sanction. He would, therefore, vote for rescinding the resolution, and would' support the motion of the Hon. Member for Edinburgh. Zr. GLADSTONE said that the terms of the rule were quite 'clear, and if parties were suffering incon venience it was through their own neglect. He must say that he thought it was for the interest of all the parties concerned to adhere strictly to the rules laid down by the House on this subject. - • - Sir G. - GREY hoped the House would not establish a dangerous precedent. He thought the best course would be to extend the resolutions which the House had adopted, with regard to competing lines, to connecting , lines ; and, with this opinion, he should vote for - the motion of his Hon.. Friend. Mr. ESTCOUET said Mat the order having keen made, ho Was not disposed to vote for its discharge. The-House then divided, when there appeared— For the motion 65 - Against it 66 Majority Against the motiou —l • THE LATE STATE 'TRIALS. Mr..WYSE rose to present a petition from the mem bers of the Repeal - Association of Ireland, praying for inquiry into the late State prosecutions in that country. The petition had reeeiied a larger number of signatures than any petition that had ever been presented to that House from Ireland. The. petition was signed by 821,334 persons, and had, been got up in the short space of three weeks. It was signed by the coporations of the cities and boroughs of Cork, Kilkenny, Armagh, and other places, by several of the boards of guardians of the poor, and, other persons of influence and standing in the country. There was also the greatest care taken to prevent any kind of fraud in the signatures attached to the petition. Means of every.-description were resorted to, during those prosecutions by the Attorney-General' to insure a conviction of the ,traversers. The charge of the'.Tudge also was such as to impress upon the minds of the peo ple of Ireland and also of the world generally, thai there had not been a fair trial in this case. ' • The petition was then borne up to the table, by Mr._ 0!Connell, Mi. Wyse, Sir H. W.' Barron, Mr.• Blake, Colonel Rawdon, and. Mr. Hindley. Upon _the Speaker putting the motion "that it he laid on the table, there was much laughter, fur it seemed to require the united strength of all those Hon. Gentlemen to raise the pon derous mass of paper from the ground. When it was "laid upon the table," it completely-covered it,' books, ink, and papers. - • , The petition aas.then read at length by the laerit at the table, and • Mr. WYSE begged to move that the petition be printed as it was.—(Cries of ". Order," "Chair.") .The SPEAKER said the Hon. Member Must• give notice of any motion on the subject. . • Mr. WYSE then gave notice that he would call the .attention of the House, to the subject of the petttipn on Monday next. • • WELSH GRIEVANCES. Dr. BOWRING gave notice that he should, before the recess, inquire of the Home Secretary whether it was his intention, during the present session ' to propose any remedy .for the removal - of the Welsh g rievances, whose existence had beta recognised in the Report'pre sented to the House.. . • NEW POOR LAW. Sir CHARLES NAPIER gave notice that, in Com mittee on the Poor-law Bill, he would more that, the guardians. should - be authorised to give a higher rate of relief to aged people above sixty who had paid their poor rates. Also that in the event of a man possessing a cottage of the.-value of 1001. being no longer capable of work, he should be eligible to relief. 'JAMAICA. Mr. VERNON SMITH said that in the papers which had been presented to the House on the subject of immigration- the Noble Lord (Lord Stanley) had inserted queries with respect to the possibi lity of relaxing the rule confirming the immigra tion of women into the colonies to one-third. He begged to ask whether he entertained any intention of proposing a relaxation of the rule which had hitherto existed ? Lord STANLEY._said that-in consquence of a repre sentation which had been made to him, he had written to the Governors of Trinidad and Guiana to ascertain whether any practical inconvenience :would 'result from the relaxation of the rule. He had only received the answers five or six days ago; consequently he had not had time to send out-further instructions... THE AITGINTMENLOF MR. O'BRIEN IN THE COUNTY OF GALWAY.. Mr. BELLEW rose to ask the Noble Lord the Secre tary for Ireland a- question respecting the appointment. Of a Mr.-Thomss O'Brien, as a magistrate in the county of Galway, that gentleman having been until very lately a violent and undoubted Repealer. , • t Lord ELIOT said the Hon. Gentleman was quite out of order in making ,such, observations.....lf the -Hon. Gentleman had any motion .to make he (Lord Eliot) would be prepared to gire him any Womatic t a respect ing it: . Mr. BELLEW merely . wished .to know on what grounds the appointment had hoen made. 1. 4 0 r d. ELIOT said he MuSt , decline answering the question., - • ; • IMPORT DUTik. 'Mr. EWART rose to move the' following resolution That it is indispensable to the maintenance and ex tension of the trade of this'eeintry, that ,those dude's be repealed which press on the raw materials of ,manii facture, 'eSpecially the raw materials of the woollen and cotton trade.- That it is - expedient also that those. duties be greatly reduced which, press upon articles of interchange in return for our manufactures-1 -especially such articles of -interchange as, at the same time,- Concern-the subsistence of the people ; being (be `sides corn, -- which is the subject of superior and separate consideration) such 'articles as tea, sugar, coffee, bacon, butter,' and cheese. That it' is ' expedient, that those duties alio be greatly reduced which, by their amount, :encourage: smuggling ;. being at once injurious to the • revenue - and dangerous' to .the morality of the country ; such as the duties on tobacco, silk goods, and foreign spirits: That whatever temporary deficiency of revenue be' caused : by such reduction, ought, Until the revenue, regain its former amount, to' be sustained by the property; and not by the trade and labour of the country." He said that the repeal - of these duties were particularly called for in a time of peace, and still more so in a time of distress; such' as that which' thia 'cOuntli had 'lately witnessed.. The same argument which applied, to cotton also applied: to wool:. They would not be able to compete with foreign countries if they kept up their present. high .duties. They were obliged to re-export large quantities of the wool imported into this country. By repealing those duties they would; add to the comforts of the .people, and . they would extend their commerce in coffee, tea, sugar, bacon, butter, and cheese —articles-which *ere 'So necessary for the poor. He thought that 'for their sake they ought to remove the duties .on those articles. America, with peculiar sagacityi , abstained from levying 'any duty . on tea and coffee. These articles had become mere important to the people of this country than formerly, because they had became , more . temperate. The tea duty, pressed with peculiar severity on the poor.. Taking the amount of- tea imported into the country to bb.40,000,000 lbs., it Was no too: much to . say that ; 22,000,000 lbs. 'of it consisted of cougou, the tea used by the poor. There was a duty of 2s. ld. on - tea cif-rall deSeriptions, which pressed equally on the tea consumed by the poor andhy the rich. On *the - trade with China bhing :opened, a propositionwas made that there should be a distinction in the duty, 'but a , COMmittee having .sat to consider the subject, -they found the difficulty of distinguishing the different teas so great that they ' recommended the present roe of: duty, which was adopted. He Was of opinion that to make up to the poor for this, ‘ they ought' to remove the duty on cotton. They anticipated an ex tensive trade with China, but unless they removed the duties on cotton- they would not belible to compete with 'Russia, who, .next to themselves, w*re the greatest ex-- orters to China. The duty wa s reduced in 1784 by Mr. Pitt, and the consumption was finteediately . doubled. , From p,000,p00. lbs. weight it Was increased to 10,000,000, and in two years the consumption of tea, in consequence. of that reduction, rose from 5,090,000 to 17,000,000 lbs. Weight. Then, as to the duty on sugar, it also pressed heavily on the labouring poor, and it was known that ' ten per cent. of all the inferior.§ugar consumed by the, poor was adulterated. This was owing to: the high duties on that article: With respect to coffee, the con sumption increased in an inverse ratio to the amount of ditty. In'lBll -there was but one coffee-house which -Was frequented by the poor in London-there were now 20900, and in consequence ,of the reductions made from time ,to time. in the duties. upon that article. In the'llii.e.adjusirpent; or. the, tariff he - regretted that the Right Hon. Baronet did not Make an equal reduction of duty on both foreign and, colonial coffee, The article of. coffee bad shown in a peculiar degree the wisdom of re ducing duty to increase consumption. The: present high duties were great encouragements to the smugglers, Look at the enormous duties which were imposed on the importation of tobacco.. The lity on tobacco was about 800 per cent. on the original cost of the article. Hardly a day passed without some poor,unfortunate man being brought before the stipendiary Magistratee in. Liverpool for having contraband tobacco in- his possession. He thought the duty on tobacco ought to be reduced from 3s. to Is.' "I hope," said the Hon.; Gentleman, i n allusion tO.,a somewhat ,ominous gesture on the part of an Hon. Member on the Ministerial , side, "I hope the Hon. Member* deei - not ineditckte anything of that sort . to'soon • The nom. MEMBER alluded to protested that he did , not comprehend the meaning of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Ewart). Considerable laughter was occasioned by this little incident, and upon its subsiding Mr. EWART proceeded. On former occasions, when duties were reduced, the revenue had' always been benefited. This' had - been 'particularly the case with respect to the article of brandy. He thought the duty on brandy ought to be further reduced, considering that it was now very much used for pliarmateutical purposes. An HON. MEMBER here moved that the House be 'counted, and there being only thirty-eight Members m4eht, the Speaketactiourned the House at. Seven, - T E- :SUN 3 -THE. ;'HIGHLAND SOCIETY . OF. LONDON. The anniversary dinner of the Highland Society ,was held last evening , at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street; it being the anniversary of the battle of Alexandria, rendered memorable to all High-. lenders, by The conduct of the Scotch Regiments upon that glorious day, and by the fall of the Gallant Corn mender, Sir Ralph Abercrombie: -- Previous to the banquet the Society held a general court,: at which - the minutes of the former meetings were read by Mr. G. Bain, the Honorary Secretary. The attendance Was very numerous; above a hundred' gentlemen:sat down to dinner. The scene was - a most brilliant one, . -from the number of naval and military uniforms, and the display of the picturesque costume of the Highlands, some individual specimens of which were _of the most magnificent description. The gallery, too, was filled with elegantly dressed lathes who re mained as-spectators during nearly the whole of the. proceedings. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in , attendance, and played several of the most ,favourite Scotch airs and popular pieces during the dinner, its performance being varied by the skill of M'Kay, - the piper to the Highland Society; and of the pipers to the Duke of Sutherland and her Majesty. Every arrangement was made that could conduce to the comfort, the hilarity, and the amuse ment of the company, and as .a-display of national feeling, looking with pride upon' the deeds of . the pest, and forward with hope and' kindliness to the future, nothing ; could , exceed , it. The number' 'of visitors of " Saxon," as distinguished from " ,Celtic" Mood, was alluded to during the evening with 'very happy effect, as a proof that there is not that anti pathy and estrangement between them which has been too' often stated to exist The dinner was an excellent one, and the wines unexceptionable, and all the 'arrangements gave the utmost satisfaction. Among the distinguished gentlemen 'present we obierved Colonel the Earl of Cardigan, General Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Bart., the Adjutant. ! Greneral (Sir John Macdonald), Major-Gen. Duffy, Major-Gen. Sir J. L. Lushington, Colonel Munro, RA., Colonel Rolt , Captain Sir Andrew Green, R.N., .Colonel Elwin, Captain Lloyd, R.N.; Captain .Fead, R.N., COlonel Falconer, Captain Beares, Major Burnes (son of the - Poet), Major Lutyens, Sir J. Sinclair ' Major , Chase Captain Gunning, Sir John Hall, Sir W. D. Ross, J. E. Tennent, Esq., M.P., Dr. Quin, Colonel Godson, John. Walter, Esq., MU lister,Of Inistrynich, &c.. &c. . Lieutenant-General Sir JAMES MACDONELL pre sided. On the removal of the cloth, grace was said in Gaelii - the. Rev. J.. Lee,. the chaplain of, this So ciety anc h ,the Caledoman Asylum. _ The CanasisN -their severally gave the AoastS of the " Queen," the " Queen Dowager,". the "Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," which were drank with every mark of leyalty and enthu . . _ The GRAMMAR, next gave "His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Chief of the Highland Society." The toast was drank with " Bighland honours," and tumultuous applause. The CHAIRMAN said he bad now to propose the health of an illustrious individual, the <mere mention of whose name would, he was sure, make the hall re sound with applause. He gave.them the health of his_ Grace " the Duke of. Wellington"—,(Cheers)— and he had to inform them, at the same time, that his friend, Sir J. Macdonald, the Adjutant-General, was charged to deliver to them a message from his Grace. The Noble Duke's health was drank with the warmest applause.--Air--" See the conquering hero comes.": • , Sir J 0 MACDONALD.- (Adjutant-General); re plied to the toast ; he said he was desired to convey to them individually and collectively; an expression of. the, great and. sincere regret which his Grace, the 'Duke of Wellington felt, at not• being able to , meet them here to-day. He was prevented from at tending by the pressure of - his Parliamentary dutiei; which were of such a mature as on this evening to 'call for his' particular attention.- That circumstance must be his rexcuse for not meeting thenr.—(Cheers.) They might :well: suppose that the Duke of "%Veiling ton, would have been desirous of meeting with the 'members of a Society of Highlanders who had always been remarkable - for their loyalty and attachment to the Crown. It was a great source of disappointment to. the Noble Duke, that he was not able to mingle with the members of a Society, of which the Consort of their beloved 'Queen—(Cheers) —had that evening been announced as the Chief. (Cheers.) , He would also have been most , anxious to do honour , to - .the merits of the distinguished officer whom they, as -Highlandert, 'must be proud to see in the - chair.-(Loud cheers.) ---That gallant -officer was one who had acquired, not merely high, but the very highest, distinction in his profession, on the-most - eventful day that - had distinguished the Noble -Duke's' career.--(Hear, • hear,. and cheers.) At the battle of Waterloo their Chairman had the good fortune to be called to defend, if not the most difficult, certainly a very difficult post of the ,English position;" and' he' defended it with the greatest braverrand the - most consummate military ability and judgment.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then gave, ". The Army'and Navir." Sir ANDREW Gammam. replied to the toast, on te.. half of the Navy, paying a high tribute to -the gal lantry-of their Chairman. Sir FITZROY MACLEAN acknowledged the toast on' the part of the array. , ,He referred to the high esti-' mation in which the officers' of both' service's were held abroad, and - stated that it , was the Constant en-' deavour of the officers of the -army to 'cultivate a good "understanding: with the officers of the, other . great branch' Of her Majesty's service. The CHAIRMAN gave, as the next toast, " The Memory of Abercrombie, - and of the heroes who fell 'with him in Egypt." The toast was drank in solemn silence; • and the band played the "'Dead March," WhiCh Contrasted with great effect with the previous festivity. • ' • , The Citarasurt said 'they were favoured 'with the presence of several officers. He regretted. `that their number was small who were survivors of the celebrated battle of Alexandria.—(Cheers.) Sir. JOHN . MACDONALD, in acknowledging the' toast, said it could not be otherwise than gratifying . to him and hit brother officers to find the last toast so well received. There'could 'doubt that the services of the Army in Egypt were most important to the nation .while they were rendered memorable: by the fall oithe commander in the glorious' struggle in whiCh he' was engaged. - As, one of the survivors of that battle he returned them his thanks for the honnur they had done him and them. The Earl of CARDIGAN roge to give the next toast ; he was received with applause, nochoWever, without some- epressions Of disapprobation. He Said that, at a moment's notide,'hc had been desired to .perform a drit, which; 'however agreable: he still felt some hesitation underta king, . • That duty was to pr o p os e the health of - theirs gallant and distinguished Chair- Man, - Sir . Jam eS Macdon ell .—(Cheers .) That ;toast 'ought to 'be ii•oPOied in a manner . worthy -beth •of the Gallant Officer and of the Society with whom he was then sitting,'' but he felt liiniself incom petent •to- do justice td ' it. Nor ,was it necessary that he should dwell upon the gallant services he had rendered his „country, 'w for they were well •-• khown - to" .eveity . indivi dual present. He was covered with honours and, wounds gained in the service of his country. Ho begged to connect with ; the, health: of the - Gallant Officer some mention of the'chiritable exertioni 'of the Highland Society itself, which had been 'productive of much good among the children of soldiers. The Cneresrvi (Sir J. Macdonell) acknowledged the toast in a feeling "speech, expressive of his sense of the condescension of the Duke of Wellington, in having taking notice of them on this occasion, and thanking the Noble Earl for the kindly manner in which he had introduced his health. Alluding to what had been said respecting the. share he took in the battle ,of Waterloo; he said,. in the defence of. Hougoumont, the instructions given to himself and his companions were'briefly these—to defend the post to the last. ; ---(Cheers.) They eventually succeeded and in doing so, he could assure them, he. laid claim tsz , no greater 'merit than, that oflaving.denelis duy to the utmost.---(Lond Cheers.) ' On such a subject theyy , would excuse him from saying more.---:(Cheers.) The 'emu - roux then gav e as a toast, "Chiefs and Clans."—lt was drunk with all the honours, and every mark of enthusiasm. - The toast was followed by a Highland reel by the four young men who danced before her Majesty at Taymouth Castle. They wore the full Costume of the Highlander, and . displayed an activity perfectly astonishing. The spectator might well exclaim in witnessing.it— " Magic motion'! changeful 'evet;, Can I catch thee ; catch thee ? Never !' • Whirling o'er the slippery boards !" The dancers were • enthusiastically applauded by all present. THE Cnisnowa rose to acknowledge the last toast. He was greeted with cheers that cnntinued for some time. He said, no 'person could, for a:moment,. doubt the cause of the enthusiasm with which the toast had been received. The toast of "Chiefs and Clans" included in it every Highlander.—(Cheers.) No wonder, then, that such a toast should be so re ceived in such a Society. He could not forget, too, that there were many among them of their Saxon 'fellow-countrymen, and to them he felt especially grateful for the ' warni sympathy with which they had entered into their na ti ona l f ee li ngs .—(Ch eers .) They had heard much—too much lately—of a necessary incongruity between the races of the Celt and the Saxon. Let the cordiality and good feeling evinced among them that' evening, for ever give the lie to so vile and so false an asser tion.--(Loud cheers.) Would --that the same good * The farm of liougoutnont; on the field 9f Wateriob, Which *as' several time t during the day the point akainst Which the dercot of Napcloon'A attacks sere directed. Tr T - Vil k 1 , • LON:DON i ----PRI-D-A y- - - -EV-E-NI-NG MARCII 2 1844. 2,1 - feelings could he diffused among all those generous Celts' who were 'first led to believe that alienation must necessarily exist between the Celt and ' the Saxon, and who then,' with marvellous inconsistency, were told that the Saxon was well-disposed towards them.—(Cheers.) He knew not what other branches of - the Celtic raee might believe, but he was . con vinced he was only speaking the sentiment of every modern Celt, when he declared that he con sidered all animosity and jealousy had ceased to exist between them and their Saxon fellow-country men, except that which' might be, called jealousy, but which he should rather term 3). generous emulation to outvie each other in feelings of loyalty to the common Sovereign of their common country.—(Load cheers.) The proud pre-eminence - of Highlanders in this qua lity he attribtited to that patriarchal system alluded to 'in the toast of Chiefs and Clans. —(Cheers.)• Under that system, the Highlander was taught, from his earliest infamy, that the chief of his clan was his temporal 'superior, and one from whom he had a right to expect every sympathy and support. The bonds which united ,‘ chiefs and clans" were those of reciprocal love ; in them there existed no.feudal tyranny on the one hand, and no servile vassalage on the other.—(Cheers.) The Highlander imbibed the principle of loyalty from his birth; and as his limbs straightened - and' as his frame hardened by exposure to the breeze on his native mountain's side, he felt that inborn spirit of Highland chivalry . which fostered the memory of the deeds that their fathers had done, and 'which their country might one day require at their' hands.—(Loud cheers.) Thanks' be to Grodl the finger of undying fame had not left his country's glory.without some record of its heroes' deeds. Their attention had been called, that evening, to the ex pedition to Egypt, under Sir Ralph Abercrombie; they had been reminded of the deeds. the Highlanders there performed. While they dwelt upon them, _he must beg to remind them of the fact that, although the British force mustered only 15,000 swords and bayonets, yet, so good an account did they render 'of their enemy, that,, besides the more than human efforts they made 'on the field, for the glory of Britain and the freedom'of England, they shipped for Eng land 82,000 French prisoners.—(Loud cheers.) ,Although assailed by the invinciblelegions of Na poleon, their enemy quailed beneath the stalwart arms of the gallant 421—(Cheers.) ~The, Colonel of that Regiment—the Black lAratch of Scotlind—was then pfesent with them.—(Cheers.) If he cast his eye over the campaigns of the Peninsular war, wherever they had been called they had maintained the character of their country, as if proud of the name • which, as' Highlanders,- they bore.—(Lowl cheers.) . In the last great struggle, after, the scourge. of Europe burst from his, island prison, and displayed his standard in the plains of Waterloo, there,--too, the Highlanders•showed.how they could dare, and do, and die I—(Loud cheers.) Sir Walter Scott, in speaking of the fall of Colonel Cameron, of the 92d Highlanders, could find no stronger reason for the gallant bearing of that distinguished officer, than the strong Highland blood that ran in his veins. FREE CHURCH OF SCOT AND. . t A meeting took place on Wednesday eve ing at the Wesleyan Chapel, Sloane-terrace, Chelsea, - hich was' ,very respectably attended by the friend f the/Free Church movement. Mr. Farmer, a gentle n residing in the neighbourhood, Was called to the char, and was supported by the Rev. D. M'Kellar, late 1 erator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland the Rev. Dr. Buchanan, of Glasgow ;'the Rev. Mr. Tweedie, late of the Tolhooth Church,:Edin rgh ; the Rev. George Scott, Wesleyan Minister of ravesend ; and other ministers interested in this spiritu mission. The. CHAIRMAN stated that he regretted hat justice should not be done to ,the mighty cause of t th ,by one More efficient' than himself. It was indeed a, omentous, a most important movement whi c h was then oing on— a movement which ought to, and did, draw bl sings and reverence upon the beads of those pious and co scientious men engaged therein. Such blessings had bee and con tinued to be poured upon them not only by those who had the welfare of the Church of Scotland p • uliarly at heart, but praises were heard from all to who ; the soul inspiring struggle for conscience sake was oft • slightest import.—(Cheers.) - The Rev. Dr. Becitastasi explained the cha ter of the visits of the Scottish Free Church ministers. He said that to show the extent of the movement to those who dwelt in England, it might be but necessary t say, that if such an one had been , made in England, he results in proportion to that in Scotland would have ; • •n, that 500 ministers would have quitted the Establish .' Church, I and that from six to seven millions of laymen it ust have followed, to be in the same ratio as the num ter of the people whb seceded in Scotland. But he wo d not say that numbers at all times constituted the ight and honesty of . the cause in which such number were en gaged. The Rev. Doctor then went fully int I the rev , sons which induced the ministers of Scotland I give up private emolument and domestie comfort, and • become voluntary exiles from their land in search of ympathy, adopting, as it were, the character of sacre t mission- I aries, the better to make the grievances under a' ich their Church laboured, known to. their fellow-men. He (the Rev. Doctor) would urge, that as God was t t head of the Church, his ministers could not bow do . or obey a temporal master. He would strongly mite. d for the right of the people to elect their own pastor and the interference • which had sprung up to meddle with this wholesome ' right was a c tel and oppressive act, wholly at variance with the' s rict com mands of Divine precept, and in direct violati n of th e laws as guaranteed to the Church of Scotl • d. The people had a right to see that the man who 't : sent to look after the welfare of their souls was n A a cold, worldly mortal, alike careless of the spiritual , elfare of his flock, as of that of his own. They, the p .ple, had a right to see that such a man was not an eligious man, whose intrusioh had only for its end the i ; olatry of Mammon and not the worship of God. Tet su h a right was denied them.—( Hear, hear.) The first s' pin the revival of the Scottish Church after the Re 'irmation, was the check which was laid upon the law of 1 : tronage. The patron might nominate an individual' 1 t a parish, but, before he could be received, he must 'reach at least four sermons, and, if such accorded wit the feel ings of the majority of the Church members, th patron's nominee was elected, but, if oth erw i se , ano th e must be r i provided, and so on until a fit an d p roper p e e s n , w h ose character, too, would bear the stron ges t - se i ny , was found. This salutary system was exercised for upwards of a century, and the results were eminently eneficial, and there came from day to day into the various parishes a class of ministers whom, for evangelical doctrine, ex cellence of heart, and brotherly love, no portion of the civilised world could surpass, or did ever equal : -(Hear, hear, and cheers.) This period was very propetly called a revival, but such blessings excited the envyland dis pleasure of the world, and the most insidious opposition to the progress of good arose. The patron ca jealous, and insisted upon his prot e ge being thrust • upon the people. This the people ;resisted, and the wealthy patron* flew to the c urts of law, where he unhappily obtained a y e di e t t o compel the people and minister s t o e l t his protege to the parish—a man whom th e y ey so lemnly believed—and had the most irrefragibl proof— ,} was wholly unfit to be intrusted with so sacred and re sponsible an office.—(Hear, hear.) What did the minis ters do ? They refused.—(Cheers.) They 'acid they could not fly in the face of the laws of God. Theirduty was written in the hely book—there was their hiw, and that law they must obey.—(Cheers.) The patron goes again to the Courts of Civil Law, and g a ver dict, subjecting the Church to submit to sar in the things which are Christ's.—(Hear, hear.) y hen the ministers deposed men for immorality, the Cisfil Court interposed to keep them in office, and to this day some of those men remain. —(Hear, hear.) The Rev. Gentleman concluded an address,' marked with great pdwer, by , stating that he looked upon the present accident in the Church's history as being one for its good. ' It had caused persons of most religious denominations to ex tend the hand of fellowship and_ co-operation to them, and such a friendship and co-operation might, at. a crisis when he saw infidelity upon the one hand, and:Popery upon the other, coming in like a flood, be f moist espe cial service to the great cause of enlightenmeni and of truth. He was about to leave for Scotland tliat very night, and he carried back to the land of his birth a very strong sense of gratitude' for the sympathy which had everywhere in England been raised on behalf of the Free . Church.—(The Rev, Gentleman then quiited"the platform amidst loud and continued plaudits.) The Rev. Mr. TWEEDIE said that in England the Reformation commenced 'with the King, and went downwards to the people ; in Scotland it commenced with the people, and went upwards to the King.— (Elear.) The books of policy in Scotland eXpressly stated that " no minister shall be fOrced into any; parish contrary to the will of the people," and the' principle is embodied in the word of God.—(Cheers.) The Ipeople must either listen to the minister thus forced upon theta, or go some twenty, or it might be thirty, miles to hear another more consonant to the spirit within then, (Hear.) Such men who had been forced upon the pee - - ple were, in many cases, "experimentalists," such as got into the Church by subscribing to her cloctri4s and when there, repudiated them—men who went sd far as to state that to visit the heathen, and endearour t 4 make him acquainted with the blessed Redeemer, wait both useless and foolish.—(Hear, hear.) Now there 4vas an Act passed by the Court of Session in General Assembly, and which was ultimately eulogised by the Lord 'Chan cellor Brougham from the woolsack, and its validity recognised by the Attorney-General and Solicitor- General of Scotland. This Act protected the people, or was supposed by these great authorities to protect them from the tyranny of the 'patron ; yet,' in endea vouring to carry it out, the ministers got into contact with the lay officers, and, whilst seeking to give the people their privileges, they (the ministers) lost their own. They (the ministers) -would not consent - to see their people thus subjected to have a man sent amongst them who was unworthy, and for this they were dragged into the civil courts, and the damages were laid at' 16,0001. ! Since that period, in 1836, the ministers had not had a day's peace. Actions of damages and penal ties followed, rapidly upon each . other, and thus;- - by- taking the advice of the law makers, they (the ministers) became the law breakers.--(Loud laughter.) The Rev, Speaker then contended for the spiritual independence of the Church of Christ, urging that no human being had a right to give laws to conscience, but the God Of conscience. They were ready to the death to submit to civil laws, in matters which . Were civil, and they were equally ready to the death, to resist the interference of civil laws in things which were Spit-Heal. The ministers preferred retiring from such a state of affairs, where they had not the liberty to con 7 sult God's word, but were to be-cot:lapelled to take man dates from a certain Act of 'Parliament, which now lies upon the Presbytery table. He (the Rev. Speaker) would net take the interpretation of God's word from an Act of •Parliament; while - he had the word itself to go to,--(Loud cheers.) No statute-should' bind him to things spiritual, but the Statute Book of the Almighty, —cLoud cheering.) Five hundred churches hadbeen . built during the last five , months, to provide for the hn raense number of 'persons who had followed their pastors into the Free Chtirch. But he would tell them' that these churches were ,built with every regard to economy—Scotch economy.—(Hear.) These, or nearly all these churches had been raised out of the deep po verty of the'people; yet so thoroughly were they embued with the necessity for such edifices, that upwards of 206,000 L were subscribed by the poor' and despised. Two hundred and eighty-seven new churches were yet needed. Their people were well nigh exhausted, and it was for this the ministry appealed. The Rev. Gentle man concluded by stating, that the weekly income for the sispport- of •the - Tree Church ministers was now 2,3541., and , that not a farthing of the' money subicribed for church-building purposes, went to the maintenance of 'the clergY. The Rev. Mr. M'KnLLAa and other ministers Utters wards spoke at some length, and the meeting separated at ten o'clock. : " Where Cameron in the shock of , steel, Fell like the offspring 9f Lochiel ! " —(Cheers.) -He 'would for awhile forget his .re lationship to the Chairman, and once more relate how the blood of the Macdonell and the spirit of Glengarry showed,itself that day.—(Cheers.) These deeds and such as these would never die— No ! Agincourt may be forgot, • And Cresiy be an unknown spot, ' And Blenheim's name be new ; Yet, still in story and in song, For many an age remembered long, Shall livelhe towers of Hougoumont, And field of Waterloo I -After a song in Gaelic, sang by Mr. M'Alister, The CHAIRMAN gave " The British and Native Soldiers in India." Sir JAMES LUST/MCP/ON replied to the toast in a neat speech,' in' which he alluded to the services of the detachment of. the. army in India, which, under Sit David Baird, marched across the Desert to co operate with the force in Egypt under Sir Ralph Abercrombie. •He also paid a lust tribute of praise to the conduct - of-the 74th Highland Regiment at the battle of Assaye. The CHAIRMAN then gave " The Visitors, " coupling with the toast the name of the Rev. Mr. Gleig (the Chaplain =of•Chelsea Hospital). The Rev. Mr. GLEIG returned thanks. He thanked them, as•a clergyman of the Church of Eng land, for the compliment paid him by many who, he was aware, were not members of that Church. He had seed some service in the army, and he knew what soldiers were .; though he never had the honour or be longing to a Highland regiment, yet he knew what they were, and. what was the extent of their grati tude to those who endeavoured to make them not only good soldiers, but gOod men.. - • - The "Highland and Agricultural Society of Scot land" was then drank, the " Caledonian Society" being ; joined• with it. • The latter part-of the toast was acknowledged by Mr. GORDON Derr, who stated that the asylum, which educated . ninety-three boys, had just added ten to that number, and that the funds of the institu tion enabled them to add to their present building ac commodation for 100 inmates. - • A song, most sweetly sung by Miss P. Horton, " Will ye come to the Highlands," followed. The Cne.utstAN gave "The Branch Societies in the Colonies and elsewhere ;" the name of the Bishop of Newfoundland was -mentioned with great praise in connection with this toast. Mr. Templeton sang, in his best style, the song of +' There lived a young lassie all down in yon glen." " The Emerald Isle" was then toasted, and was followed by, an Irish.song l .admirably given by Mr. Jones. The toast of " The poetry of - our native country" was followed .by a song from Major Burns. " The Ladies" were given with all the honours. " Highlanders, shoulder to shoulder," followed ; after• which Mr. M'lan sang " Donald Caird." On the motion of The CHISHOLM Sir John Mac donald was elect e d a member of the Highland So ciety .by acclamati on .- Colonel—Faulkner and Mr. M'Crregor Of the Board' of Trade) were chosen mem-. hers in the same manner. "The Fine Arts and Scottish Artists" was then given, and was followed by a song, 'The oak and the ivy," from Mr. Ransford. • The `CHAIRMAN gave . the " Gaelic School So ciety of Edinburgh." In introducing it, he stated that when he was. in Canada he met with many - of his old relations and friends, for they 'were Highlanders, and he was Trench morti fied_ to find that their children could not speak a. word of Gaelic. . This, he thought, •was a sort of insult. to their mother country. The French Canadians, on the contrary, still spoke theirnative French, and many" of them had even learned the Gaelic, but Could not speak• ' English. He hoped, therefore, that the Society would do all in its power to extend the knowledge of the Gaelic language. . The toasts concluded with The land we live in." In addition' to Mr. M'Kay (the Piper of the So ciety),. his brother (her Majesty's Piper), by per mis.sion, attended also, Prince Albert being , chosen Chief .of the Society. His pipes• were of the most splendid description, the Itoyal arms being richly embroidered in gold on a blue banner. Macbeth (the Piper of the Duke of Sutherland) was also present, and the three; in their picturesque costumes, added much to the brilliancy and effect' of the entertainment, as they parided the hall— "In the plume of the eagleand plaid of the north!" The company separated atone , o'clock. TRH ,MURDRR Or • Ma.. SOLOMONS.—At , an ad urned meeting- of the Brighton Commissioners of Police, ho on Wednesday, the following resolution, moved by Mr. Folkard, and seconded by Mr. Bradshaw, was unanimously carried: It is with the most painful feelings the Com missioners have heard the awful account of the murder of Mr. Henry Solomons, their chief officer of police, and coin . mend their clerk for the - steps he has taken in bringing the murderer to justice. The Commissioners cannot but express their' abhorrence and detestation of the cold-blooded deed which has deprived the town of an'old, faithful, and valuable servant, the country of a most zealous and vigilant officer, The Clanimissioners, deeply and a mother and nine children of the onjy su pp or t on w hi c h ation into w hi c h, by thi s aw tezhineymdiseepreantdinegd th fo e r 4 su iet b r s ess iste iu n g c e e itu ful act; the family of their late chief officer is plunged, resolve, That a special meeting be convened on Wednesday, the 27th inst., for the purpose of taking their unhappy circumstances into consideration, and to adopt such measures relating thereto as the meeting may deem expedient.:' ' [ArovEnTisrial.ENT.l- - ON TII VERGE Or -. THFI GRAVE ; OR. .A MtstACCTl,A)tis CUBE BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS! --- - James Langley, a ladies' shoemaker, residing in Alien street, Goswell-street, caught a violent cold about twelve months since, which, being neglected,' brought on a swelling of the legs and feet, pains in the side and shoulders, night sweats, with inability to keep food on his stomach : indeed, , he was at last reduced to such a state of general weakness I and debility, that no one thought he could long survive ; but by the use of Holloway's Pills every dangerous system quickly disappeared, and he is now as hale and as hearty as ever lie was in his life.—Sold at Professor Holloway's Esta blishment, 244, Strand (where advice may be had gratis) ; and by almost all respectable venders of medicine throughout the civilised world. .. TRATALGAR-S4UAR.I3. — The works within the en closuie are proceeding rapidly towards completion, Mr. Barry;the architect, having devoted much of his time of late, for the purpose of causing the whole to be thrown open to the public during the summer months. The Artesian well is likewise fast advancing, the bore having been already sunk a considerable depth. The basins of the fountains will be 83 feet in diameter, and are to be covered with Maude's Patent Portland Cement, which has been fonrid to resist the action of the atmosphere and of water as long as most de scriptions of stone, while it possesses and retains the colour of that material. The pavement_of the inner court of the quadrangle is to be laid out in a somewhat te,sselated style, the darker parts being composed of asphalts, and relieved by the introduction of onuuriental'work in the Portland Cement. The whole space to be covered is about 18,000 fat. ' INTERESTING ANECDOTE OF BERNADOTTB, KING OF SWEDEN.—Among the wounded prisoners, was a young. French sergeant, who -80 particularly attracted the notice of Colonel Wangenheitn, commandant of the Hanoverian troops in the English service, by his interesting appearance and manners, that lie onlered the young man to be conveyed to his own tent, where he was treated with attention and kindness until his recovery and release. Many years afterwards, when the French army, under Bernadotte, entered Hanover,. General Wangenheim, among others, attended the levee of the con queror. " You have served a great deal," said Bernadotte 'on his being presented,.',' and,' as I understand, in India ?" " I have served there" —L" M. Cudalore ?"—" I was there — Have you any recollection of a wounded sergeant, whom you took under your protection. in the course of that service ?" The circumstance was not immediately present to the Gene tura mind; but on recollection, he resumed. "I do, indeed, re member, the circumstance, and a very fine young man he was ; I have entirely lost sight of him ever since, but it would give me pleasure to hear of his welfare." " That young Sergeant," said Bernadotte, " was the person who has now the • honour. to address you, and who is happy in the leublic opportunity of acknowledging the obligation, and will omit no means within his power of testifying his gratitude to General Wan genheim."— Sketches of the South of India. SERIOUS ACCIDENT.- ffi r ednesdaT evening, about six o'clock, W. B. Glasse, Esq. of Lincoln s Inn, was proceed ing along Portland-place on horseback, accompanied at a. distance by a youth, his groom, when the animal, a. high-spirited one, upon which the latter was riding, took fright and ran with . gregt violence against a lamp-post ; by the concussion the horse was nearly stunned, but after a short lapse of time, it started off again, and came with such violence against some area railings, that A dropped dead upon the spot. The groom 'fell'under the animal, and on being extricated he was immediately conveyed in a cabin the surgery of Mr. A. B. Chisholm, in Devonshire-street, who upon examina tion, found, that , there was a severe concussion, his right ankle being much injured, and otherwise bruised very much in various parts of the body. Ho was promptly bled--and we are happy to find that the sufferer is doing well. • • The new Easter spectacle ItltiCE a s t s t ' s h e T p H ri E nts ßE 'r Theatre is from the pen of one preparingPof ' -the principal . contributors to a mot .popular_periodi, cal. It will combine all the comic talent of the Theatre, with the addition of Wright, and the a id o f th e a d m i re d ballet. company. The musical arrangements are entrusted to Mr. Corti who displayed so much tact in his labours in the Magic lirror, and the ballet of I oda. Dispatches were received yesterday afternoon at the Colo nial-office from the Governor of the Falkland Islands. • THE BANK of ENGLAND and the CURRENCY QUESTION. - Tli s e folkowinF remarks upon . the late Mr. Harman (one of the most active Directprs of the Bank of : England during the late French war) are extracted from the Banker's Circulae, of the lath FebrUary, 1844 "Having mentioned the. name of Jeremiah Har: man (who died last week, full of years and honour), we cannot, for the sake of example, refrain from di recting reflection to the virtues of thig eminent per son, which were as remarkable in his private as his public station ; the latter Only being within our province to 'notice here. During that eventful and critical period of our history which elapsed between the years 1 797 and 1818, Jeremiah H arman h a d more concern with the regulation of that vital func tion of our system—its money power—than any other man : he exercised this, without emolument or titular distinction, with a degree of foresight, circumspection, prudence, and vigour, which, if there ever be an, historian capable of doing ju.sticeta human actions in the most important positions of life, will place his• name among the most estimable and illustrious of the a . g,.e in which he lived.. What are the duties o f a Lord Chaneellor, with laws and recedents and a learned bar to assist and guide himAimpared with those of-a man who, in an extraordinary, difficult, and unprece dented conjuncture of affairs, is appointed to hold the balance which determines whether the people, what ever the sacrifices demanded from them, shall prosper or wither in their industry ? What honour belongs to that the highest subject of the realm, that is not due to the balance-holder after he has performed his duty discreetly, judiciously, and wisely? Where - would have stood the names of Peel and Arkwright if a man of oppoSite character to Mr. Harman had.. governed the affairs of the Bank when they were struggling to acquire wealth and , pour wealth into the country ? 'They would have figured in the Royal Gazelle as bankrupts, instead of being re corded there with honourable titles. Where would' have been Wellington's victories and glory, if such a man as that had not given rigour to the " sinews of war ?" And let . not us of . the 'lower grades of the commonalty ever forget that Mr. Harman was the, man who boldly stretched out his arm to "avert that fatal blow on his industrious countrymen—the Act of 'l9; for he it was principally, we believe, who composed and tendered that celebrated remonstrance against the impending mischief with which the, Act of 'l9 was charged, and which drew forth the undignified sneers of Lords Grenville. and Liverpool, and Mr. Huskisson—presumptuous men, who dealt with a case of which they were Vitally ignorant in defiance and contempt of the remonstrance of those who practically knew all. We here 'speak of Mr. Harman as the last of the old school, with no desire to detract from the merit of his colleagues and coadjutors. We had no intercourse with him, and have not had the pleasure of seeing his grave, benevolent, and intelligent countenance, for ten years but it would be wrong in a publication set up for the purpose of giving warning of any danger which may be seen approaching, in consequence of the disre gard of Mr. Harman's counsel, to omit this feeble expression of our veneration for his character. He was the brightest example of an independent high minded British merchant, as anxious for the success of others as for his own, which ever appeared in our path of life." _ - We subjoin a copy of the memorial of 1819, which is alluded to in the above remarks as being princi pally composed by the late Mr: Harman. The man ner in which his fears and predictions have been since realised, constitutes an imperishable monument to his memory. " The universal interests of the em pire, in all the relations of agriculture, manufacture, commerce, and reienue, have been ruinously compro mised, notwithstanding the prolonged state of peace with which this, nation has been blessed since that period." 4 The Directoris of the Bank of - England, having taken into their most serious consideration the reports of the Secret Committees of the two houses of Parlia ment, appointed to inquire into the state of the Bank of England, with reference to the expediency of the re sumption of cash payments at the period now fixed— have thought it their duty to lay before his Majesty's Ministers, as early as possible, their sentiments, with regard to the measures suggested by these Committees for the approbation of Parliament. " In the first place it appears, that, in the view of the Committees, the measure of the Bank recommencing cash payments on the sth of July next, the time pre scribed by the existing law, is utterly impracticable, and would be entirely inefficient, if not ruinous. Secondly, it appears that the two Committees have come to their conclusion at a period, when the outstand ing notes of the Bank of England do not much exceed 25,0000000/. ; when the price of gold is about 41. Is. per ounce ;. and when there is great distress, from the stag nation of commerce, and the fall of prices of imported articles. ." It must be obvious io his Majesty's Ministers, that, as long as such a state of things shall last, or one in any degree similar, without either considerable improvement on one side, or growing worse on the , other, the Bank, acting as it does at present, and keeping its issues nearly at the present level, could not venture to return to cash payments, with any probability of benefit to the public, or safety to the establishment. " The two Committees of Parliament, apparently ac tuated by this consideration, have advised that the Bank shall not open payments in coin foi a period of four years, but shall be obliged, from the Ist of May, 1821, to discharge their notes in standard gold bullion, at Mint price, when demanded in sums not amounting to less than thirty ounces. And, as it appears to the Commit tees expedient, that this return to payments at Mintprice should be made gradually, they propose that on the Ist day Of February next, the Bank should pay their notes in bullion, if demanded in sums not less than sixty ounces, at the rate of 41. Is. an ounce, and from the Ist of October, 1820, to the Ist of May following, at 31. 19s. 6d. an ounce. • " If the Directors of the Bank have a true compre hension of the views of the Committees in submitting thia,schemeiet,Parliament,.they are obliged to infer, that the object of the Committees is to secure, at every ha zard, and wider every possible, variation of circum • stances, the retutrn of payments in gold at Mint price for Bank notes, at the expiration 'of two years ; and that, this measure is so to be managed, that the Mint price denominations shall ever afterwards be preserved, leaving the market or exchange price of gold to be controlled by the Bank, solely by the amount of their issues of notes. " It further appears to the Directors, with regard to - the'final execution of this plan, and thepayment of Bank notes in gold at Mint price, that discretionary power is to be taken away from the Bank ; and that it is merely to regulate its issues, and make purchases of gold, so as to be enabled to answer all possible demands, whenever its treasury shall be again open for the payment of its notes. "'Under these impressions, the Directors of the Bank think it right to observe to his Majesty's Ministers, that being engaged to pay on demand their notes in sta tutable coin, at the Mint price of 3/. 17s. 10fd. an ounce, they ought to be the last persons who should object to any measure calculated to effect that end ; but as it is incumbent on them to consider the , effect of any mea sure to be adopted, as operating upon the general issue of their notes, by which all the private banks are regu lated, and of which the whole currency, exchtsive of the notes of private bankers, is composed, they feel them selves obliged, by the new situation in which they have been placed by the Restriction Act of 1797, to bear in mind not less their duties to the community at large, whose interest in a pecuniary and commercial relation, have in a.great degree been confined to their discretion. " The Directors being thus obliged to extend their views, and embrace the interest of the whole commu nity, in their consideration of this measure, cannot but feel a repugnance, however involuntary, to pledge them selves in approbation of a system, which in their opi nion, in all its great tendencies and operations, concerns the country in general more than the immediate inte rests of the Bank alone. It is not certainly a part of the regular duty of the Bank, underits original institution, to enter. into the general views of policy by which this great empire is to be governed in all its commercial and pecuniary transactions,,which exclusively belong to the Adminis tration, to Parliament, and to. the community at large ; nor is itthe province of th e B an k to expound the prin ciples by which these views ought to be regulated. Its peculiar and appropriate duty is the management of the concerns of the banking . establishment, as connected with the payment of the interest of the national debt, the lodgments consigned to its care, and the ordinary advances it has been accustomed to make to (loyea n .. meet. But when the Directors are now to be called upon, in the new situation in which they are placed by the Restriction Act, to procure a fund for supporting the whole national currency, either in bullion or in coin, and when it is proposed that they should effect this measure within a given period, by regulating the mar ket price of gold by a limitation of the amount of the issue of Bank notes, with whatever distress such limita tion may be attended to individuals, or the community at large, they feel it their bounden and imperious duty to state their sentiments thus explicity, in the first in stance, to his Majesty's Ministers on this subject, that a tacit consent and concurrence at this juncture may not, at,some future period, be construed into a previous im plied sanction on their part, of a system, which they cannot but consider fraught with very great uncertainty and risk. " It it impossible for them to decide beforehand what shall be the course of events for the next two, much less for the next four years ; they have no right to hazard a flattering conjecture, for which they have not real grounds, in which they 'may be 'disappointed, and for which they may i considered respon sible. They cannot venture to advise an 'unrelenting continuance of pecuniary pressures upon the commer cial world, of which it is impossible for them either to foresee or estimate the consequences. " The Directors have already submitted to the House of Lords the 'expediency of the Bank paying its notes in bullion at the market price of the day, with a view of 'seeing how far favourable commercial balances may operate in restoring the former order of things, of which they might take an advantage ; and ' with a - similar .view they have proposed, that Government'should repay the Bank a considerable part of the-sums that have been advanced upon Exchequer-bills. ". These two measures would allow time -for a correct judgment to be formed upon the state of the bullion market, and upon the real result of those changes, which the late war may have produced, in all its conse quences, of increased pu'ilic debt, increased taxes, in - creaked prices, and altered relations, as to interest, ca pita), and commercial dealings with the Continent ; and how far the alterat'ons thus produced are temporary or permanent ; and . to what extent, and in what degree, they operate. " It was the design of the Directors, in pursuance of the before-mentioned two measures, to take advantage of every circumstance which could enable the Bank to ex tend its purchases of bullion, as far'ks a legitimate con sideration of the ordinary wants of the nation, for a sufficient currency, could possibly warrant. Beyond this point, they do not consider themselves justified in going, upon any opinion, conjecture, or speculation, merely their own ; and, when a system is recom mended, which seems to take away from the Bank anything like a discretionary consideration of the ne cessities and distresses of the commercial world ; if the Directors withhold their previous consent, it is not from a want of deference to his Majesty's Government, or to the opinions of the ComMittees of the two Houses of Parliament, but solely from a serious feeling that they have noright whatever to invest themselves, of Their, own accord, with ,the responsibility of counten ancing a measure, in which the whole community is so deeply involved ; and possibly to compromise the universal interests of the empire, in all the relations of agriculture, manufacture, comma ce, and revenue, by a seeming ac quiescence, or declared approbation, on the part of the Directors of the Bank of England. " The consideration of these great questions, and of the degrees in which all these leading and commanding interests may be affected by the• measure proposed, rests with:the Legislature ; and it, is for them, after solemn deliberation, and not for the Bank, to determine and de cide upon the course to be adopted. " Whatever reflections may have from time to time been cast upon the Bank, whatever invidious represen tations of its conduct may have been made, the cautious - conduct it adopted, in so measuring the amount of cur rency, as to make it adequate to the wants both of the nation and of the Government ; at the same time keeping it within reasonable bounds, when compared with what existed before the war, as is shown in the .Lords' Reports, pages 10, 11, 12, and 13 ; the recent effort to-return to a system of cash payments, which commenced with the fairest prospects (but which was afterwards frustrated by events which could not be fore 'seen nor controlled by the Bank), are. of themselves a Sufficient •refutation of all the obloqtty, which has been so undeservedly heaped upon' the establishment. " The . Directors of the Bank of England, in sub mitting these considerations- to his Majesty's Ministers, request that they may be allowed to assure them, that it is always their anxious desire, as fax as depends upon them, to aid, by every consistent mean s ,,th e measures o f the Legislature, for furthering the prosperity of the empire. " ROBERT BEST, Secretary." THE WILL FORGERIES. Lydia Sanders, the wife of Sanders, and the fictitious Emma Slack, with whose name the public have been so long acquainted in connexion with the will forgeries, has, as well as her husband, been apprehended, through the able instrumentality of John and Daniel Forrester, •the officers. They will be placed at the bar of the Man sion-house on Saturday, together with Barber, Fletcher, Mrs. Dorey, and Griffin when the depositions against all the prisoners willbe read over preparatory (according to the general expectation formed upon the evidence pub licly -adduced against them) to their commitment to Newgate for trial, at the ensuing session, at the Central Criminal Court. After much activity and tact of investigation exhi bited upon the part of the officers employed by the pro secutors it became apparent that S a nd e r s and his wife were bo th secreted at Edinburgh, or in the immediate neighlsourhood of that city. John Forrester was, upon the receipt of such information, dispatched to Edin burgh, and, after considerable difficulty, he ascertained that persons answering the description of the two ac cused individuals had been lodging, under assumed names, from the middle of January until within the last three weeks, at a small lodging in an unfrequented part of Edinburgh, but that, in consequence of some dis turbance between two of the inmates of the house, on account of which a threat had been held out that the as sistance of the police should be claimed, they had de parted, but whither, the occupiers of the house were un able to afford any information. • Forrester, however, through the medium of the Post office, learned that when Sanders and his wife left the above-mentioned lodging, the former requested the post man of the district to leave the letters addressed to him at a grocer's shop, where it appeared they had been in the habit of dealing since their arrival, and during their stay in Edinburgh. The people of .the shop, it would seem, did not know. Sanders's place of residence, but they knew him from the calls he had made to purchase various articles, and to receive his letters. Having aster tained so strong a fact, Forrester forthwith obtained permission to have two of the Edinburgh police stationed at the back part of the premises from morning till night for the purpose of pouncing upon Sanders when he should call for his letters. This course was pursued for several days, until at last, at about nine o'clock in the evening of. Wednesday, the 13th instant, the hus band of the notorious Lydia Sanders, alias Emma Slack, made his appearance at the shop, and purchased a small quantity of tea. The desirable visit was instantly com municated to the police stationed on the premises, and to Forrester, who, dreading that he might lose Sanders in tracing him to his home, considered that the best plan he could adopt was to secure the prisoner he had so long sought for on the spot. Sanders refused to state where he resided, what his name was, or to answer any questions put to him by Forrester, who, of course, could not guess amidst suc h exclusive cautioh as that exhibited by him and his wife. The law of Scotland does not, it appears, authorise the committal of a person apprehended under such circum stances as those above described to prison, and Forres ter was, in consequence of so remarkable a difference between the English and Scotch systems, obliged to keep Sanders at his hotel, in custody of two men, night and day during his stay in Edinburgh, where he was delayed in the hope of finding Emma Slack. With this view the officer remained in Edinburgh during the whole of Thursday and Friday, but without success, when San ders ultimately requiring that the warrant should be complied with, viz. that the prisoner should be taken before the Lord Mayor, there was no alternative, and Forrester was obliged on Saturday to leave Edinburgh with the individual named in the warrant, after having given strict injunctions to the Edinburgh police to pur sue-the inquiry, and apprehend the female they sought, if she was, to be found. He arrived in town with the prisoner at six o'clock on Monday morning, in the mail. At twelve o'clock on the same day Sanders was taken before the Lord Mayor, and, after a short examination, remanded till Saturday next, when her final examina tion is to take place. Forester, having deposited his -prisoner in safe custody, left London again for Edin burgh on the same night, to renew his search after . Mrs. Sanders, alias Emma Slack. It seemed to be next to impossible that she should escape, as it would appear that she had little or no money in her possession, and her friends had no means of sending her any assist ance, except through the former • address, where, of course, she would be apprehended, if she went to receive what might be necessary to her existence. A dispatch was, we understand, received yesterday morning, from the chief of the Edinburgh pislice, an nouncing that they had discovered Mrs. Sanders in the course of Tuesday, and that she had been apprehended, and was then in custody; and it was proposed to send her to town on Wednesday night in the care of a male and a female guard. Forrester, it is conjectured, arrived at Edinburgh on Wednesday last, and will, no doubt, accompany the prisoner, who is to be attended by a female to town, where they will arrive in the course of this day. We have been.given to understand that before it be came known to the prosecutors that Mrs. Sanders was 'the party . who personated the fictitious Emma Slack, suspicion attached to various females who were in any degree connected with, or known to either Barber or Fletcher; and in fact we have reason to believe that at one time Emma Slack was supposed to have been a man in female disguise. Daniel Forrester contrived, with great ingenuity, that Mrs. and Miss Neville should ob tain interviews, under the most extraordinary pre tences, with these parties, they little suspecting at the time the object of the mission. Ultimately, however, it appeared that Mrs. Dorey had been seen to kiss the female who personated Emma Slack, and that kiss at once suggested to the prosecutors the utility of looking more closelY to the connexions of the former. The description of Emma Slack was accordingly ob tained with the greatest precision and accuracy, in cluding her manners, her habits ' her made of singing, of which she was represented- to be very fond, and the songs she sung. Armed with all this information, the officers employed u p on th ese i mportant i nvestigat i ons, found that no two persons could be found so closely to resemble each other in all those particulars. Dates were then compared, and it was ascertained that Mrs. Sanders was absent from Bristol at the time in ques tion. Other facts were also ascertained, which it is net necessary to represent here, but which, combined with what we have detailed, remove all doubts as to iden tity. All that was then to be done was to track Mrs. Lydia Sanders, alias Emma Slack, out ; an undertak ing which has been just so ably accomplished by the sagacious officers to whom the task was consigned. TOE STORM IN AYRSIIIRE.--Early on the morn ing of_Saturday last, one of the most fearful storms raged around Kilmarnock which the memory of that sagacious carlo, " the oldest inhabitant," enables him to recal from his youth upward. As-the day advahced the storm deepened into the utmost pitch of hurricane fury. The gusts which roared in hollows were alike stunning from their noise and violence ; the woods resembled an army making war upon itself; branches were lopped in pruning-knife fashion, torn, twisted, and whi r l e d th roug h th e a i r , an d ec h o e s awa kened in hidden - recesses, - so clamorous that they seemed to be "sympathisers" witlfthe Spirit of the Storm. Little chil dren in venturing abroad, were in many instances toppled head 'Over heels, and - even adults, taxing their energies to the uttermost, were in danger of sharing the smile fate. Cans were dashed from chimney-tops, roofs at least partially titled, and: lhatch . ccfferings grievously disturbed, if not bloWn bodily away. to the west end of the town, two stately beeches ivere'piostrated, that had withstood the blasts of many a wintek shrubberies greatly injured, and the architectural ornaments on villas grievously defaced. But the strangest arrival of all, was the arrival, at the ter minus of the Glasgow and , A):r -Railway, of a truck used in the transmission of goods, driven by the wind at the rate of severity Miles an hour. In approaching the depot it split the huge pillars of the gate, and .would have done otherwise much mischief, had not its career been stayed by the buffers —Dumfries:Conrier. Three weeks ago a mare, belonging to Mr. Father stone, of Tibberton, was backed for ten sovereigns to trot four miles in sixteen minutes. The animal was in the straw yard, and quite out of cOnditioti at - the time, but last week she_ justified the confidence of her backers by trotting from the Cross to the fourth mile-stone on the Drciitwich road in fifteen minutes and a half, being half a minute under the time. .`