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ow ready, NOV and Cheaper Edition, with numerous important additions, the three volumes of the First Edition being comprised in two, price 21s. bound, LETTERS OF MARY QUEEN of SCOTS, Edited with an Historical Introduction and Notes. By .1.4.1-NES STRICKLAND. " Undoubtedly the most valuable, and by tier the most interesting work illustrative of the life and character of Mary Stuart, ever given to t.te world."-Edinburgh Evening Post. Henry Colburn, Publisher, 13, Great Marlborough-street. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 12, WM be repeated a New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, called THE BOHEMIA)? GIRL, Count Arriheim, Mr. Borrani; Thaddeus, Mr. W. Harrison • Arline, Miss Ramtorth; Queen of the Gipsies, Miss Betts. After which, Will be repeated Albert's celebrated Ballet of THE BEAUTY OF GHENT. Marquis de San Lucar, M. Albert; Beneiict, M. }loguet Vestris; Beatrix. Mdlle. Fleury ,- Agnes, Mdlle Clara Webster; Julia, Madame Petit Stephan ; Diana. Mdlle. O'Bryan. Dress Boxes 75., Second Price 3s. 6d. ; Upper Circles of Boxes es., Second Price 35.; Pit 3s , Second Price 21.; Middle Gallery 28., S.cond Price Is.; Upper Gallery Is., Second Price 6d. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. MIL BENJ AMIN WEBSTER, LESSEE. THIS EVENING, MARCH 12, Will be performed Mr. Sheridan Knowles' Comedy of THE LOVE CHASE. Sir William Fondlove, Mr. Strickland; Master Walter, Mr. Howe; Wildrake, Mr. Webster; Widow Green, Mrs. Glover ; Lydia, Mrs. E. laniold ; Constance, Mrs. Nisbett . After which, a Duo-Drama, by Mr. Buckstone, called THE SNAPPING TURTLES ; or, Matrimonial Masquerading, in which all the Characters will be sustained by Mr. Buckstone and Mts. To be followed by a New Farce, called THE TRUMPETER'S DAUGHTER. Phillipot, Mr. Webster; Michael Angelo Muller, Mr. Strickland; Madelon, Madame Celeste. To conclude with MAKE YOUR WILLS. Joseph Brag, Mr. Bucket me. Orchestra Stalls, ss. ; Boxes, ss. ; Pit, 3s. ; Gallery. 25.; Upper Gallery. Is. Half.price —Boxes 3s. ; Pit, 23.; Gallery, Is. ; Upper Gallery, 6d. Doors opened at halt-past Six, and the Performance commence at Seven. Tickets and Places to be had of Mr L T. Archer, at the Box. office, from Ten till Five. PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD.STREET. LESSEE, Mr. J. M. MADDOX. THIS EVENING, MARCH 12, Will be performed LA SO NN A MBULA. Amina, Mrs. Wood; Liza, Miss Grant; Elvino, Mr. Wood. To be followed by a New Farce, in One Act. entitled THE YOUNG SCAMP; or My Grandmother's Pet. J o seph, M rs . Keeley; Mildew, Mr.Feeley. To conclude with a Nov Grand Ballet, entitled LEOLA; or, the May.day Bride. Patrick. Mr. Chicheley; Phelim; Mr. Gilbert ; Rhona, Miss Charleton ; Leola. Miss Bailin. THEATRE ROYAL. ADELPHI, EVNING, MARCH 12, Will be repeated, THlS by permission of Charles Dickens, Esq., THE CHRISTMAS CAROL. Principal Characters—Messrs. 0. Smith, Wright, Lyon, Maynard, Forman, Miss Woolgar. Mrs. F. Mathews, Miss Chaplin, and Miss Lee. To be followed by ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA MARRIED AND SETTLED. Antony, Mr. Wright; Cleopatra, Miss Woolgar. After which, VLRICA ; or, The Prisoner of State. Principal Characters—Messrs. Lyon, O. Smith, Maynard, Forman, Wieland, and Hamilton ; Mesdames Yates. D. Lee and Chaplin. To conclude with DEEDS OF DREADFUL NOTE. Timid, Mr. Wright; Fright, Mr. Forman; Mrs, Fright, Miss Emma Stanley. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, Is. ; Second price at Nine. Doors open at Half.past Six, commence at Seven o'Clock. DAVIDGE'S ROYAL SURREY THEATRE EVENING, CH 12 Will be perform T ed HlS a New Drama, MA entit ß led THE LAST SHIL LING, supported by all the Company. After which, the Ballet of THE SOLDIER'S DREAM; or, A Conscript's Jealousy. To c nclude with THE FOUNDLING OF THE FOREST. Count de Valmont, Mr. H. Hughes; Florian, Mr. J. T. Johnson; Bertrand, Mr. N. T. Hicks; Eugenia, Mrs. H. Vining. Places and Private Boxes to be had of Mr. Kerschner, at the Box office, from Eleven io Four. TILE WEATHER.—S-UN OFFICE, MARCH 11. THERMOMETER, Lowest, 35 ; Highest, 55; Noon, 50. BAROMETER, 29. G.—WIND,.—WIND, S. to W. NOTE.—The number 32 on the Thermometer denotes the freezing point, and 55 temperate. In Barometers fair is usukoly placed Opposite 30, and rain at 29. - - HIGH WATER AT LONDON-BRIDGE THIS DAY. Morning_ lO minutes after 7 I Evening .. 45 minutes after 7. A. ) ( % 4 og 441 • 4 ✓ 4 , • 4 'l )) 'l 4: if tv.l Jilt 10 0 , 6 . A 4 .\ • owo. biE v • mos \ „,, Mantintt LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1841. The proceedings at a meeting, on Wednesday last, of tenant-farmers, merchants, and tradesmen of Har leston, in the county of Suffolk, held at the Swan Inn, in that town, and convened for the purpose of peti tioning Parliament to repeal the duties on foreign corn and malt, and in favour of free trade, generally, were, with some trifling exceptions, worthy of the in telligence, good sense, and spirit of one of the most important agricultural districts in England. We are disposed to notice the affair, the rather because the scope which the address of the respected Chairman embraced was remarkable for the novelty of some of its views, in combination with a demand for corn law repeal, and the soundness and sagacity of the opinions avowed with regard to the operation of our system of currency, past and present. Desiring to say so much, without any sort of offence to the agricultural bodies of this kingdom, we must own that, in general, their notions upon the theory of our monetary arrangements by no means square with those which we have formed upon the results of long and attentive observation. But the Chairman of the Harleston meeting enunciated some propositions on these subjects, highly important in themselves, and to us not the less interesting, because of their coinci dence with those which, from time to time, we have advocated. This gentleman, Mr. T. L. TAYLOR, of Starderston, a landowner of station and considerable property in the neighbourhood, reminded the meet ing that if the corn-laws were really beneficial, as had been contended, to those immediately interested, they must be so to himself. But he was for their entire repeal ; believing that they now were, and had, almost always, been, injurious to the tenant farmers, and their labourers. He proceeded to il lustrate this important point by some statistical de tails, very well digested and very much to the purpose. At the same time, and with a becoming and manly ingenuousness (which we could wish to see exten sively imitated at other meetings, whether of societies for the protection of British agriculture, or of their opponents), he said that he was far from thinking that the repeal of these laws would produce very cheap corn, as the Anti-Corn-law League assumed that it would do. He went so far as to state that the League " had much injured the cause of repeal and of free trade by holding out thatllope." In his:opinion the effect would rather be " to produce greater uniformity be tween French and English prices,—and also greater regularity." He regretted, too, that " both ma nufacturers and landowners are too selfish and one sided in their views of this question." There is much of grave truth in all this. If the fact is to be deplored, it is not the less essential that, like other disagreeable testimonies of truth, it should be deliberately heard and considered. For our own parts, we have so recently and so often urged the claims of those most important, but most neglected classes—the producing labourers and artisans, who are the great sufferers in this squabble of contending interests, by reason of cruelly diminished wages and exorbitantly increased demands on their working hours; and by the almost absorption of the needful " intervals for food and rest ;"—that we are compelled to concur in this grave imputation of selfishness upon both those classes of capitalists alluded to. The Chairman next developed the results upon the scale of rents and upon the prices of corn, which had been realized under the various corn-laws passed from 1805 to the present time. And first, as to the period from 1805 to 1815. Between 1805 and 1814 the price of corn never fell so low as 665. the quarter (the "pivot price" of Mr. BoniNsores Act of 1815), and consequently the trade was free ; and yet, notwithstanding that freedom of importation, in some parts of this same term, the price ranged up to 120 s. per quarter. This was a salient and remarkable event in the history of the first corn-law ; and Mr. TAYLOR skil fully availed himself of so prominent a fact, in order to explain his own convictions of the opera tion of other causes—seldom or never sufficiently allowed for in corn-law discussions,—in bring ing about the high prices, and the high rents put upon the land, which are usually ascribed to the sole agency of the law in question. " Did not," said he, " the paper money produce some effect ? And he would ask, might not the present currency-law (he referred partly to Peel's Bill of 1819) produce some effect,—more even than the present corn-law does on present prices." If these questions were answered affirmatively, then were the farmers wrong in looking for protection to the corn-law and a sliding -scale only." The lovers of " protection " would really do well to lay seriously to heart these considerations, at once so inconteStible and so pertinent, and especially the statistical proofs of which we have spoken above. Thus, in the same ten years, 1805 to 1815, the import of foreign wheat averaged about 500,000 quarters per annum. " This showed," Mr. TAYLOR argited, " that with open ports and high prices to tempt importation, we cannot have unlimited supplies, as some suppose." In 1838, 1839, and 1840, it s ' our importations of wheat ex ceeded 2,00,0,04 i 4tuu.ters per annum ; and yet it eould4t tie \ s 1 - ti.icrthat,tlieii cas, all that time, a sur plus i .,,, e)1 ~ t, -or that - wheat was especially cheap. The pfs ‘,,that with the lapse of years our popu- L a latio factures ; with these, the manufacturing community; and with that community, our consumption. " The THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 12, 1844. more our manufacturers are employed," said he, " the more corn and food they require; and the better ' prices we (the growers) shall receive." Granted, — if the Legislature, meanwhile, will only discharge the first and most imperative duty which j ustice, feeling, and the safety of the empire alike require; namely, so amend our existing monetary system;—so to remodel and ameliorate the currency as to make it perform the hitherto neglected function of distribution to the poor and labouring classes, whose condition at present deteriorates, from day to day, in the inverse ratio of manufacturing production and of the accumulation of capital in the kingdom. Let us hear Mr. TAYLOR fur ther on this very point; for to that, we find, his state ments and his reasoning irresistibly tend. We could not desire a more convincing argument for the change in the currency, which we contend ought immediately to be adopted with regard to issuing Government paper, convertible into Bank notes or gold or silver, at the market value of bullion, to the extent of our present taxa tion. That extent or amount, be it remembered, is neither allowed for by the manufacturer in•wages to his workmen, nor represented by the convertible cur rency exclusively legalised, and abridged to the arbi trary gold standard of PEEL'S Bill of 1819:—" In 1815 wheat was down to 635. Bd. per quarter on the average; and the landowners, considering, then, that it could not be grown for less than 80s. per quarter, passed a law prohibiting importation when the price was below that sum. Then the ruin of the tenant farmer and the labourer commenced; and mark— during the operation of this corn-law PEEL'S Cur rency Bill was passed." It might be imagined impossible to enhance the enormity of the injustice, worked by such a statute, passed under such circumstances, at such a period. Nothing, however, is more certain than that the very next illustEtion,' supplied by the same speaker, does greatly exaggerate its oppressive injustice. Want of space compels us here, for the present, to break off. With the abstract which we shall publish to-morrow of the proceedings, the speeches delivered, &c. at that meeting, we shall probably recur to the subject. It is now some three or four years since a proposi tion was brought forward in the House of Commons, and agreed to, for the formation of a public park at the east-end of the metropolis, to be entitled " Vic toria Park." Not a few ad captandum speeches were made on the occasion ; and those, in particular, who introduced the measure, took credit to themselves for the kindly feeling by which they were actuated, in endeavouring to provide for the health and re creation of those immense masses of the London population who dwell eastward of Temple-bar, in the remote regions of Shoreditch, White ehapel, Mile-end, Bethnal-green, &c., in whose vici nity the park was proposed to be located. 'Three or four years, we repeat—probably more—have elapsed since this useful measure received the sanction of Parliament, and from that period to the present it would appear that not a single decisive step has been taken with a view to carry it into effect. The matter remains in precisely the same state in which it was when it was first broached in the House of Commons ; and there, we suppose, it will be permitted to remain, unless an active stir be made on the subject, for the majority of those interested in the completion of the park, are a poor, hard-working class, weavers, small: mechanics, and such like, who are utterly without means and influence to press their claims on the kindly consideration of the Legislature, with any chance of success. By the following paragraph, which we quote from a Morning Contemporary, it will be seen that we have not been speaking without warrant, but that " Victoria Park" is still among the things that are yet to be :—" Notwithstanding the eager anticipations of the inhabitants of the eastern division of the metropolis, of the commencement of operations for the formation of the park early in the present spring, these are disappointed by the Crown having actually given permission to the market-gardeners to continue in occupation and plant their lands, IA hich were lately purchased, for six months longer. The inhabitants naturally consider that the want of funds cannot be the reason of this strange delay, as the Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in their report of 1842, state that they had received 100,0001. from the sale of York House, which they had invested in Exchequer bills, and their report of 1843 further states that it remains there invested, for the purpose required, in the hands of trustees." It is clear from the above paragraph that little or nothing of moment will be done towards the formation of the park this year, at least ; for six months hence the fitting period for such out-door work will in a great measure have passed away; the fine long days of summer will be at an end, and the rain and gloom of confirmed autumn will have set in. Really this long delay is quite inexcusable, the more so when we consider how imperative is the necessity that exists for a healthy, open place of recreation at the east end of the metropolis. The inhabitants of that quarter have no airy and cheerful green fields lying within a short walking distance of them, such as is the case in the northern district of London ; they have no spacious and salubrious parks, such as the west-end can boast of; but are shut up in narrow, crowded streets, and lanes and alleys, which stretch away to an almost interminable distance. Here and there, to be sure, they may get sight of a thing growing in a miserably small, old-fashioned square, and calling itself a tree, but which looks rather like a quiz upon vegeta tion ; but with this rare exception, they can see nothing to remind them of the country, and have no possible chance of gulping in a mouth ful of fresh, unadultQrated air, unless they stroll away to a disellece of some miles from their homes. As for the west-end parks, they are scarcely to be reached without fatigue, except through the agency of an omnibus—and sixpences, we fear, do not abound among the poor, toiling artisans of Bethnal-green and Whitechapel ; and the cheerful sylvan uplands of Hampstead in the north, and of Brixton in the south, are still more remote, and con sequently inaccessible, localities. Under these cir cumstances, the formation cf a park, wherein they may stroll at leisure on sunny summer evenings or on Sundays, becomes not merely a luxury, but a matter of absolute necessity, to the hard worked, ill-fed, and scantily paid artisans of the east end of London, who are numbered not by thousands but by tens of thousands ; and we do hope that Go vernment will take their case promptly into consi deration, and if a " Victoria Park" is to be formed at all, give directions to have it formed immediately. When a National Gallery, or any other luxury is required for the embellishment and convenience of the fashionable west-end, not an instant's time is lost in setting to work at it ; Committees of Taste are appointed, and the matter becomes quite an affair of moment; but when a park is proposed for the use of a poor, plebeian, unfashionable district, whose inhabitants have no other means of obtaining fresh air and exercise; then, after the first mooting of the question and the first flourish of patriotic trumpets in Parliament, the affair is allowed to drop quietly out of notice, and no man seems to think it worth his while 'to revive it. This should not be ; to say the least of it, it is ungenerous and impolitic ; and we do hope that those officials who have a voice in the matter, will bear in mind that the poor mechanics at the t e o as h t -aevnedof the their intmereetsrtoconsultedlishave ve quiteas those as much wli o ri dwell g : h at the west-end, and wh o c l a i m, in conseq uence , th e privileges and consideration due to their unquestioned respectability. Madrid papers of the 3d have been received, but as usual they contain no news. The Gazette publishes a dispatch from General RONCALI, which seems a duplicate of one trans mitted some ten days previous. It is dated Fe bruary 28, and states, " that the insurgents had on that day made a sortie, under cover of the fort of San Fernando, but met with such a warm reception that they were soon obliged to re-enter, under protection of the fort, leaving behind them several killed and wounded. The heavy artillery was land ing, and every preparation making for bombarding the city of Alicant." The QUEEN-MOTHER WAS expected at Albacete, on the 10th instant. Great preparations were going on at different places for her reception. The Three per Cents. were done at 301 at 60 days ; the Five per Cents. at 228 at 60 days ; and the floating debt at 51 at 60 days. We have received Paris papers of Friday and Sa turday. The affair of Otaheite, and the subscriptions for a sword to the gallant Admiral, still excite some interest. The conduct of the students of the Polytechnic School, in favouring the subscription has been condemned by the masters ; and the delin quents, as a punishment, are to be confined within doors for fifteen days. The testimonial is also re ceiving support in other quarters ; and, according to some accounts, subscription-lists have been opened in the ranks of the national guards, and even the troops of the line. No one will suffer more from this foolish display, and none, probably, will regret it more, than Admiral DUPETIT THOUARS, and he will be placed in the painful position of offending the Government, or the subscribers. The following are extracts from the papers : On Saturday the Chamber of Deputies again anulled the election of M. Charles Laffitte, and the discussion of the re • port on the petitions against the Paris fortifications was con tinued. The French Government has received the following tele graphic dispatch :--- " PERPIGNAN, MARCH 7.—The entry of Queen Christina into Barcelona on the 4th was a triumph; there was great enthusiasm, and the town was magnificently illuminated. The fetes were continuing the day before yesterday. Her Majesty was to leave this day or to-morrow by land for Tar ragona, there to embark in the Lavoisier for Valencia.—The municipal elections of Valencia were known on the 3d. The Moderados had gained the upper hand." The Journal des Chemins de Fer states that at a meeting of the Cabinet Council, held on Friday, the Ministry decided that the Orleans and Tours Railway Bill and the Paris and Chartres Railway Bill should be presented to the Chambers without delay. " We have learned," says the Patric," that some Italian emi grants resident in Paris, such as Lieut.-General Pepe, General Busi, Count Mamianic, and Lovatelli, Amari, Canalli, Crema, Leopardi, Montalegie, Roberchi, and Gonna, were this day sent for to the Prefecture of Police. M. Delapor informed them, that the French Government was acquainted with the intrigues of M. Mappini, Chief of La Jeune Italie, for produc ing an insurrection in Italy, and he, as a friend, advised them to abstain from taking any part in acts by which they might be compromised." "The Augsburgh Gazette gives the following from Posen, 25th ult. :—The fate of the Russo-Polish refugees is decided. This morning about two-thirds of them were sent under escort to Magdeburg. The remainder will follow in a few days, with the exception of a few who have received permission to stay until the end of March. Amongst the persons affected by the measure are the Count de Plater, who has always re sided here in a very retired manner, and who recently pur chased an estate in the Grand Duchy; the rich Count de Potocki, son-in-law of Count Edward de Razzinhi ; Count Eugene Breza ; and M. do Luszewski, who is the owner of two houses in Posen." With the exception of the Five per Cent. Stock, the Funds on Saturday continued firm. THE BOURSE,-SATuRDAy, MARCH 9. First Highest Lowest Price Price. Price. Price. French Five per Cents. ex dlv 122 65 = .. 122 65 .. 122 40 .. 122 45 Four-and-a-Half. .. • 110 50 . • 110 50 .. 110 50 .. 110 50 Four per Cents. .. • . 104 50 . • 105 .. 104 50 .. 105 Three per Cents 82 90 .. 82 90 .. 82 80 .. 82 80 Bank of France....... 3265 —3265 ..3265 ..3265 Latlltte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllos ..1105 .. 1105 .. 1105 5,000 f. BharessoBs ..5085 ..5085 —5085 Belgian Fives ..•...- 1840 ........ 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 .. 1081 1842 Spanish Active •• • ... Passive 6l • • 61 .. 61 .. 6/ Threes ............ 37 .. 37 . • 361 .. 36/ Portuguese Five per Cents.. 461 .. 46/ .. 461 .. 461 Neapolitan-- • ... 102 40 .. 102 60 .. 102 40 .. 102 60 Roman RAILWAY SHARES. St. Germain ........ .. Versailles, R.B. L.B. 175 .. 175 .. 172 50 •• 172 50 Rouen 865 .. 872 50 .. 865 .. 670 Rouen to Havre. Orleans Strasburg to Bale • ..... • . 245 .. 245 • • 243 75 . • 243 75 Avignon to Marseilles.... 775 .. 775 • • 771 25 .. 771 25 RAILWAY SHARES, FOR TIIE ACCOUNT. St. Germain .......• ••.• • • 830 .. 832 50 .. 830 .. 832 50 Versailles, HAL.... .• ••• • • . 380 .. 385 .. 380 .. 385 L. 8....... ••• • • . 172 50 .. 175 • • 172 50 .. 175 Rotten 870 .. 877 50 .. 870 .. 877 50 Rouen to llavre. Orleans ........• •• • • Strasburg to Ilal. Avignon to Marseilles • . 775 .. 780 .. 771 25 .. 775 The Earl of RADNOR presented a petition from the county of Somerset, praying for the removal of all du ties on the necessaries of life, and a revision of the whole system of taxation. A few remarks, which the Noble Earl made on presenting the petition, led to a little discussion, in which Lord PORTMAN said he was an amphibious animal, and had taken part neither with the League nor the Anti-League. He was, however, op posed to a total repeal of the corn•laws, but did not ap prove of the sliding scale, and trusted that the contend ing parties would be disposed to meet upon his view of the question. After a few remarks from the Duke of WELLINGTON, the Duke of RICHMOND denounced the proceedings of the League in strong terms. Some other Lords spoke on the subject, but as there was no motion before the House, the discussion led to no result. On the motion of Lord BROUGHAM, the Privy Counci Appellate Jurisdiction Bill was referred to a Selec Committee. A brief conversation ensued, relative to the new Houses of Parliament, from which it appeared that it would not be possible to fit up the Houses with perma nent fittings by next session. In answer to a question from Lord GIFFORD, relative to the Rev. Mr. MARSH, The Bishop of PETERBOROUGH (Dr. Davys) said the Church Discipline Act prevented him from punishing any offence committed two years before, or out of the diocese. (What a humane act!) The reverend offender, however, had been prohibited from performing any ser vice in the diocese. The House adjourned at Half-past Seven. In the House of Commons, Mr. O'CONNELL gave no tice that, on an early day after the recess, he should move fur leave to bring in aßill to define the law of conspiracy. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD gave notice that, on the second reading of the Commons'lnclosure Bill, he should move that it be read a second time on that day six months. In answer to a question from Mr. ESCOTT, Mr. Con- DEN said he would bring on his motion relative to the effects of protective duties this day. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Report on the Three-and• a-Half per Cents. Annui ties Acts was brought up, and the resolutions were agreed to. On the Report of the Committee of Supply being brought up, Capt. BEnxiL moved for a copy of any letter or correspondence which had taken place between the Secretary-at-War and the widow of Colonel Faw- CETT, relative to the withholding of her pension. After giving a brief history of duelling, and mentioning some great names who had set the example to Colonel Few cETT, he expressed a hope that the Right lion. Gentle man would reverse his decision, and not visit the sins of the husband upon his widow. Sir HENRY HARDINGE, in reply, pointed out one or two cases in which pensions had been refused under similar circumstances. The papers, however, would be produced ; but he could not hold out any hopes that the pension would be granted, as there were many reasons for not acceding to it, which might not exist in other cases. Other Member& fol lowed, and among them Sir CHARLES NAPIER, who made a good and amusing speech on the subject. The only remedy, he said, was to legalise duelling, and pass a law that all duels should be fought across a table ; that one pistol only should be loaded, and that the survivor should be hanged. The resolution was ultimately withdrawn. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, the Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduction Bill was ordered to be read a second time this day, and the House adjourned at Nine o'clock. A Bill has been brought into the House of Commons for improving the Church Establishment in Scotland, by disjoining and dividing extensive or populous parishes, and erecting new parishes suited to the religious wants of the people. Anything like improvement in that excellent Church we hail with unmixed delight. It is the cheapest, and we may add, what is more to its credit, the most useful ecclesiastical institution in any part of the world ; and if its beneficial influence can be increased by any new Legislative act, all good men will rejoice in the result. In many parts of the country there are Parishes of such a vast extent that the clergyman can not by the utmost exertion give religious instruction or perhaps what is of more effect, show a good example, to his parishioners. Some of the Highland parishes extend from forty to sixty miles in length, the population is so thin and scattered that Dissenting clergymen could not find subsistence among them, and the consequence is they are left almost entirely without instruction, and what they get is of the very worst kind. They have no schools that arc really useful ; they have no church within their reach; they flock once or twice a-year, travelling fifteen or twenty miles, to the nearest church, to attend the Sacrament; but in this they per form neither a religious nor a moral duty, for one-half they hear they do not understand, and the other half only excites some wild fanatical ideas, which neither improve their morals nor give them any correct no tions of religion. The Lord Advocate, therefore, de serves nvp oivatttebt er hands t ed h credit t woo f frf o o r t the ngh Lordsi Bill e s noA: n than EHtDr for ueEsEsi oexne mlasts t st hs to w o;y t belaou roht look hc toahu has he upon ne. etheintogm Li more objectionshr e e a clergymen as the only real instructors, and to have for gotten the most useful class in Scotland—the teachers of the rising generation. A minister, without a school master, is the most useless animal in existence ; yet in the whole of this Bill not the slightest allusion is made to parish schools. Of what use is it to send a minister among a people who are ignorant of the first rudiments of knowledge ? It is only casting seed on waste land which springs up and is choked by rank weeds. If Mr. M•NEILL had consulted any practical man on the subject, the answer would have been — "Begin with the beginning. Send schoolmasters among the people, who would be passing rich with forty pounds a year—lnstil into their minds some knowledge of reading, and writing, and arithmetic, and the history of their country, but on no other condition send a clergy man among them." Each clergyman is to receive 120/. a year, no great sum; but the question is whether it might not be better applied, and whether three school masters would not be a greater blessing than one clergyman. But even admitting the use of the Church Establishment, why not adhere to the old system, which has done so much for Scotland. It is quite an anomaly in that country to have a parish church without a pa rish school, and if the Bill is not materially altered in this respect, it will give no satisfaction either to Church men or laynen. But this measure is only in keeping with the Tory rage of the day. The cry is, not for more knowledge, more sound principles of right and wrong, more sound, religious, and moral doctrines but for more Church, as if a steeple and bells, and a sermon once a week would chace away ignorance, and make the community happy. In our opinion, all these para phernalia have only the contrary effect. They are in tended only to mislead the people for the interest of the Church, or make them subservient to State purposes. Church extension, by itself, is only a wild delusion or a wicked scheme, for enslaving the working classes. The political and religious principles of the men who shout loudest for' Mother Church " can leave no doubt as to their object. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, MONDAY EVENING. There was a quieter market this afternoon for the English investments, the rates of the morning, however, being fully supported. Consols were 98* to .1. The Spanish Market wore a little flatness, the Actives leaving off at 25* to *, and the Three per Cents. at 35* to 1. Mexican also did not quite sustain the rise, being 36 to *. Brazilian for Account advanced to 82 and 83. Chilian were firm at 104*. Portuguese Converted realised 461 ; and Russian 117. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. rose to 57, the ne.v finance laws adopted on Friday by the States• General of Holland being calcu lated, it is presumed, to consolidate the credit of the country. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these .—Birmingham and Gloucester New were 3; Bristol and Exeter, 1*; Ditto and Gloucester, 13 ; East ern Counties Extension, 1 ; Great 'Western, 37 ; Ditto New, 20} 4 ; Birmingham, 138 ; Manchester and Leeds, 46 ; Ditto New, 21; Northern and E as t ern , 121 ; R ouen and Havre, 61 ; and Yarmouth and Norwich, 7* prem. Brighton, 6 to 51 ; Blackwall, 10 to 104 ; Greenwich, 7+ ; Ditto Preference, s ; and South Eastern, 141 dis. (From The Sun of Last Night.) This is the first day appointed in the resolutions of the House of Commons to receive notice of dissent from the holders of the Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities, to the scheme of conversion propounded by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on Friday last, but up to the hour which heads this article not one inscription has been made in the book provided for that purpose in the chief cashier's office. A considerable amount of business has been transacted in the Consol Market this morning, and all in favour of a rise in prices. This indicates a feeling that the Government proposition will tend to enhance the value of the Three per Cents. For Money, as well as for the Account, the price of Consols has been 98k to 94 The Commissioners bought 21,300/. Consols at 98a. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been done at 1021 and 104 Exchequer Bills at 71s. to 725. premium, and Reduced Annuities, with the dividend, at 99. Pursuant to promise, the agents for the Republic of Mexico have advertised the half-year's dividend that remained unpaid on 11th October,lB.l.3, they having now in hand most ample means to do so. By the last West India steamer, the actual amount receiv e d for the dividend fund was 130,500 dol lars. There are assurances held out of the punctual payment of the interest upon Mexican Stock for the future, and the con sequence is, that the prices of the Bonds have continued to advance. The Old Five per Cents. have improved since Saturday from 354 to 364, and the Deferred from 144 to 15. For Spanish Stock the price receded from 251 1 to 234, and the Three per Cents. from 354 to 354. Dutch Stock keeps up, and Belgian have been sold at 104 Chilian Deferred are at 50; Brazilian at S 1; Peruvian at 30; and Colombian, ex Venezuela, at 14Z. A vast amount of business has been done againte-day in the Railway Share Market, but prices are scarcely so firm as they were on Saturday. MANCHESTER S TOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 9.—We have had a very buoyant market to-day, and a considerable business has been done at the quotations :—Eastern Counties, 114 to 9-16ths ; Ditto Perpetual, 1/. 9s. 10d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow Quarters, 15*- ; Manchester and Birmingham, 44i ex div. Paris and Orleans, 341; Sheffield and Manchester 69k South Western One .Eighth Shares, 4* ; Manchester Assur ante, 10*. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock _. ............ ..... Indian Stock — In• 3 per Cent. Red PO Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent. Cons. ......... 98% !Ditto 014 Annuities 3% per Cent. Mel ...... ... Ditto New Annuities — ,B E 'L a i jp n kii Bills, ttiool Stock lssSbno'lal, 00 ); . A . . . I c . N C ' t . d .. : 19 17 7 %- 713Ppinmm:. New 3% per Cent LoNerigsApnenr Annuities to expire I—°N Jan. 1860 Oct. 1839 — Consols for Acct 1 ' 833 Jan. 1860 — India Stock for Acct.... 28i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian. 5 per Cent ..... .... ;Portuguese, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent IN% Ditto, New Ditto — Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... ; Russian, 5 per Ccnt ll7 Chllian, 6 per Cent ..„....„.. 101 Ditto, Metallic _ Colombian, 6 per Cent_ IS% Spanish, 5 per Cent — Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent — Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 !Ditto, Deferred l4 ii D.:nish, 3 per Cent - (French, 5 rer Cent —t. —c. Greek, 16.5, 5 per Cent — Exchange —f. --c. Mexican, 5 per Cent Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837. — Dutch, 2% per Cent 57 Peruvian, 1E25, 6 per Cent... 'Ditto, 5 per Cent lOl% SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) B3 • Ditto New (17% daid) Bristol and Exeter (.0 paid) 7l Eastern Counties (23 paid) 11 Ditto New (25 pain) 13 1 % 1 Great Western (75 paid) 112 534 Ditto Half Shares (50 paid) ..... Ditto Extension (Ws. ( 4 1 d ri.v . nti pa .1(,41,g i l d esi ) .. 70% Ditto t itths ( 12 paid)... .......... , 6 11:: : :::1) ..... 10 % Lon Jon and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall (161. 135. 41 1 ) t % London and Birmingham (Stock) (131. 17s. 2d. pd) 238 18 paid) ~, 82 4 London London ilLitt oo , Eighthsaann Preferencedd Greenwich South ,svvsor r ppaid Western er Lancaster and Carlisle ( S paid).... Manchester and Leeds go paid) ll6 Ditto 'slew Shares (30 pa i d) Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) Northern and Eastern (41 paid) Paris and Orleans (20 paid) ....... " $ Paris and Rouen (20 paid) Rouen and 'Havre (_ , J paid) my 23 South Yarmouth iocvhercejpap paid) .......... 3 i COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday morning in the Royal Gardens of Buckingham Palace. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out , on horseback Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by yesterday. Ladyhife i l Prince Albert, yesterday Majesty Waiting, dined with her evening, at Buckingham Palace. Lady e e s r t yF ß a o an y nn a Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Lieut.-Colonel Johnson had an interview with Lord Stan ley yesterday at the Colonial-office. Mr. Butler had also an interview with his Lordship yesterday. Sir Robert H. Inglis transacted business yesterday at the Home-office. . • ..... Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Dispatches were also received yesterday from the Governor of the Mau ritius. ' S -YESTERDAY. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. 10 to 1 agst Col. Cradock's Pagan TA.TTER c S I A IE L s L TEit cup. 14 to 1 agst Mr. Milbank's Sir Robert—taken 17 to 1 agst Mr. Bristow's Pharaoh 27 to 1 agst Duke of Richmond's Red Deer 30 to 1 agst Mr. Stebbing's Celeste—taken 30 to 1 agst Mr. llesseltine's The Prior 30 to 1 agst Mr. Tuting's Tacita 35 to 1 agst Mr. Stanley's Vakeel—taken 1000 to 20 agst Mr. Mostyn's General Pollock—taken So little notice was bestowed upon this race that were it not for the disappearance of the Prior from the commanding position he so long held in the quotations, our task would be simply to return the market prices of a very select list of fa vourites. His retreat is the effect of some operations in Lan cashire, where certain parties have suddenly discovered that he is troubled with divers infirmities, to which his late and present owners appear to have been strangers, and who, odd as it may read, insist that he is perfectly sound, and fit. Without hazarding an opinion as to the degree of credibility attachable to the rumours afloat, we may venture to interpret them as suggestive of caution to those not in the " secret," — he may be "a cripple," and he may see 12 to 1 again • in either case no one who watched the Chester Cup betting last year need be surprised. DERBY. 13 to 2 agst Mr. Crockford's Rattan—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. John Day's The Ugly Buck—taken 16 to I agst Col. Peel's Orlando 20 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's T'Auld Squire—t. and aft, off. 20 to 1 agst Mr. Quin's Loadstone 22 to I agst Lord Maidstone's Cockamaroo 25 to 1 agst Mr. A. Wood's Running Rein 35 to 1 agst Mr. Thornhill's Apprentice 40 to 1 agst Mr. Onglev's King of the Gipsies—taken 500 to 8 agst Mr. Scott's Sister to Grey Momus colt—t. 2000 to 25 agst Mr. Bradshaw's Sir Isaac—taken 1000 to 10 agst Lord Orford's Boots—taken freely 3000 to 25 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Akbar—taken. The betting at the commencement was eminently calcu lated to increase the alarm of those who stand on The Ugly Buck ; 600 to 100 was taken about his Newmarket rival ; 300 to 100, four or five times, between the two and the field ; and almost at the same moment, 15 to 2 laid to 501. agst The Buck, half a point less, looking at the 3 to 1 bets, than the real market price. As the afternoon advanced a different feeling was evinced, and at the close of the room 13 to 2 was laid agst Rattan, and 7 to 1 was hardly obtainable about the other. Offers to take 22 each about T'Auld Squire and Leander, and 25 to 1 about Cockamaroo, and 40 to 1 about Apprentice. 1,000 to 25 was taken about The King of the Gipsies ; 2,000 to 30 and 2,000 to 25, three or four times, about Sir Isaac ; 1,000 to 10 freely about Boots ; 500 to 8 about the Sister to Grey Momus colt ; 1,000 to 35 about Mr. Ford's lot ; 1,000 to 15 about Lord George Bentinck's lot ; 1,000 to 10, three or four times, about Boots ; and 3,000 to 25 agst Akbar. 300 even between Campanero and lonian. OAKS. -• 11 to 1 agst Mr. Gregory's Barricade —taken 12 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's The Bee—t. 16 to 1 against Lord Westminster's Fanny Eden 17 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Boarding School - A BLANK DAY WITH SIR JOHN COPES FOXHOUNDS. —The meet on Saturday last was at Temple House , Birham , near Great Marl ow , the res id en ce of 'l'. P. Williams , Esq., M.P. for that borough, where a splendid luncheon had been prepared for Sir John Cope and his friends. After drawing the several gre a t covers at M r . Clayton's, around Clay Hall, near Hurley, B blank, the pack was then taken to wards Twy ford, then to Mr. ulkeley's at Hare Hatch , and nea rl y to Wargrave, and th ence a ll around to Lawrence Waltham, and although between 40 and 50 covers were drawn, extending over a large portion of the county of Berks, not so much as the ghost of a fox was found during the whole of the day up to four o'clock in the afternoon, when the flack returned to kennel. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Optuton. " Who runs may read." POREIGIC Accounts from Paris state that the Duke of Nemours is seriously indisposed. The complaint is said to be sore throat. The report caused a depression of 30c. in the Three per Cent. Stock on Friday, but on Saturday they recovered and ultimately closed at 82f. 80e. The heads of the banking-houses in Paris who negotiated the Belgian Loan of 1831-32, on Friday had an interview with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, to whom they presented a peti tion, signed by the holders of shares in that loan, praying him to use his influence with the Belgian Government to prevent its reducing the interest of the loan from Five to Four per Cent., contrary to the terms of the contract. The Minister informed them that he had already taken the first steps; and promised to transmit their representations to Brussels. The Viscount de Contades died a few days ago at Paris, from the following comparatively slight cause :—Walking along the street only a few days before, he fell and broke his thumb. The pain brought on a fever, which terminated his life. The Faubourg St. Martin was on Friday morning in com motion, in consequence of the discovery of a new murder, the body of a woman being found in a cellar cut in pieces. The husband, it is said, has been arrested. The arrests in the Basque Provinces continue. Several of ' the principal persons in the district are involved in the Carlist conspiracy. The Descartes steam-frigate of 450 horse power, was launched at Rochefort on the sth inst. Captain Essen of the English vessel the Romulus, whose crew had the affray with the French ship the Laurentine, in the harbour of Marseilles, which we mentioned on Tuesday, has published in the journals of that port a statement of the affair in justification of himself, his officers, and men. He de dares, that being obliged to remov e th e berth of his vessel to escape the consequences of the gale, he was attempting to do so when the men of the Laurentine, carried a hawser from her to a Neapolitan vessel and barred his passage. Some of his crew went on board the Neapolitan and cast off the rope, but it was twice replaced and laid across his way again, Upon this his mate went on board the Laurentine to remon strate when he was violently assaulted and struck in the loins with a handspike, and that what was afterwards done by his men was merely in self-defence. A few nights ago, as six men belonging to a fishing smack, of Dieppe were in a boat laying the nets for fishing for whit ing, a violent gust of wind surprised them, and capsized the boat, causing the loss of every man in her. The Memorial de Rouen states that the quays of Rouen are under water from the flood in the Seine, and considerable damage has been done to goods lying in the cellars of the adjacent houses. The low grounds near Rouen are all inun dated, and much property has been washed away. COURT-PASIBIONABLE. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge entertained his Ex cellency Baron Brunnow and a select party on Sunday even ing, at Kew Cottage. Her Majesty's first drawing-room, on the 25th instant, is expected to be very numerously attended. It is understood that the Royal apartments in Kew Palace are to be forthwith prepared for the temporary sojourn of the Prince of Wales, and the Princesses Royal and Alice, during the stay of the Court in town, for the advantage of the coun try air. _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford House on Friday evening, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Carlisle, at Castle Howard, Yorkshire. We are happy to hear that the Noble Earl is in a fair way of recovery. The Duke and Duchess of Montrose left town on Saturday, on their return to Sulby Hall, for the remainder of the hunting season._ The Duke of Devonshire leaves Devonshire House early in the week to join the Earl and Countess of Granville, at Brighton. The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland also will shortly go to Brighton, where their family are residing, and purpose prolonging their stay there until Easter. The Duke of Buccleuch and a distinguished circle were entertained by the Earl of Haddington at the Admiralty, on Saturday last. The Noble Earl will commence his levees at the Admiralty on Thursday next, the 14th inst. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertained Lord Melbourne and a select party at dinner, on Friday evening, at Lansdowne House. The Marquis of Conyngham left Jermyn-street at the end of last week, for Cowes, to superintend the alterations in his yacht, the Flower of Yarrow (late a cutter), which is being lengthened, as his Lordship intends to go afloat early in the season. The Earl of Mountcharles, his Lordship's eldest son, has been on a continental tour. Lord and Lady Brougham entertained a select party at dinner, on Sunday evening, in Grafton-street. The Speaker of the House of Commons has his last levee on Saturday next, and that gentleman's parliamentary dinners conclude this session on the3oth inst. liII*CLIZ.4.II.IO US. A meeting of tenant-farmers was held idllarleston, in Suf folk, on Wednesday, when resolutions, condemnatory of the corn-laws, were carried by a great majority. A numerous and highly respectable meeting was held on Thursday evening in the Theatre, Preston, in aid of the 100,0001. League fund. A deputation from the League, con - sisting of Richard Cobden, Esq., M.P., Colonel Thompson, and Mr. R. R. Moore, addressed the meeting for several hours. After which, a subscription was commenced, and the sum of 8954 was announced by the chairman as the amount collected. The importation of live stock from Scotland to the port of London is rapidly on the increase. During the past week no fewer than 374 live cattle were landed. On Friday after noon the steam-ship Dundee, Captain Kidd, arrived at Wap ping from Dundee—her first trip this season. She brought 112 live cattle, 40 sheep, 24 boxes of the river Tay salmon, about 15 tons of killed beef, mutton, and pork ; about 10,000 hares and rabbits, and a large quantity of Forfarshire manu factured goods. The other importations of cattle during the week were, from Aberdeen, 150; Banff, 86; and Fraser burgh, 26. ➢lr.'Baily has just received a commission for a statue in marble of his late Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, for the Masonic-hall at the Freemasons' Tavern. We understand that there is no truth in the story of coins having been found at Chatsworth to the amount of 10,0001., as stated in some of the papers. A sermon in behalf of the Scotch Free Church was preached on Sunday, at Surrey Chapel, Blackfriars• road, by the Rev. Dr. Candlish, of Edinburgh. Divine service commenced at half-past ten o'clock in the forenoon. The attendance was not so great as might have been expected, but this circumstance may be attributed to the very unsettled state of the weather. Sermons were also preached in various other Dissenting cha pels throughout the metropolis for the same object. On Friday evening, a deputation visited Saddleworth, for the purpose of addressing a meeting convened iu aid of the League fund. The meeting, which was held in a large Dissenting place of worship, crowded to excess, was addressed by the members of the deputation with great effect, and at the close of their speeches, a subscription was commenced, and upwards of 2501. was collected before the meeting separated. Sir Robert and Lady Peel received the Duchess of Buccleuch, his Excellency Mr. Everett, M. and Madame Hummelauer, the Right Hon. H. Hobhouse, Viscount Ma hon, Lord Meadowbank, the Hon. Sydney Herbert, Sir Ben jamin ,Brodie, Professor Owen, Sir John Pelly, Mr. Sydney Smirk, the Right Hon. John Wilson Croker, Mr. Barry, Mr. Eastlake, Mr. Thomas Baring, Mr. W. R. Hamilton, &c., at dinner, on Saturday last, at the family mansion in Whitehall-gardens. Lady Peel had a soiree after the enter tainment, when the splendid picture gallery and connecting saloons were thrown open for the reception of a brilliant circle, including his Excellency the French Ambassador and Countess de St. Aulaire, the Marquis de St. Aulaire, Baroness Langs dorff, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Marquis and Mar chioness of Blandford, Lady Louisa Churchill, Sir Henry and Lady Emily and Miss Hardinge, Countess of Verulam and Lady Jane Grimston, Viscount Grimston, the Earl of Aberdeen, his Excellency Baron Hugel, the Hon. Captain Maxwell, M.P., Mr. Temline, M.P., Mademoiselle D'Este, Viscount Castlereagh, Baron Bjornstjerna, Earl Jermyn, Lord Alfred Hervey, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Sir James and Lady Graham, his Excellendy the Bava rian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, Sir George and Lady Seymour and Miss Seymour, Mr. Milnes Gaskell, M.P., Mr. G. Hope, the Hon. Francis and Lady Anne Charteris, Captain Peel, Captain A'Court, M.P., Mr. R. Ne ville, M.P., Mr. M. Manes, M P., his Excellency the Vene zuelan Minister, Mr. Stafford O'Brien, M.P., the Right Hon. George and Mrs. Dawson, his Excellency the Turkish Am bassador, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, Mr. Benjamin D'lsraeli, M.P., and Mrs. D'lsraeli, Viscount and Viscountess Hawarden, Lady Fuller, his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, Marquis and Marchioness of Ailesbury, Lady Lyndhurst and Hon. Miss Copley, Mrs. and Misses Smith, Mr. Stephenson, Mr A'Court, Viscountess Beresford, Mr. A. and Lady Mildred Hope, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, Sir George Murray, Lord Redesdale and Hon. Miss Milford, Ladies Murray, Sir George and Lady Clerk and Miss Clerk, Baron Koller, Earl of Lincoln, Mr. 'W. Beckett, M P., Mr. and Lady Blanche Balfour, Baron Lebzeltem, Lord and Lady Brougham, Mr. T. Egerton, M.P., Colonel Thomas Wood, Lord Charles Wellesley, his Excellency the Brazilian Mi. nister and Marchioness de Lisboa, his Excellency Count Pol lon, Mr. Cochrane, M.P., Lord and Lady Granville Somer set and Hon. Miss Somerset, Lord Byron, Lord Ernest Bruce, Hon. Charles Murray, Mr. and Mrs. Anson, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and. Madame Van der Weyer. VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON'S PAR- Tins.—On Saturday the Duke of Devonshire, Marquis of Normanby, Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, Viscount and Viscountess Severn, Dowager Lady Hol land, Lord and Lady Ashley, Lord Foley, Mr. and. Mrs. Stanley, Mr. F. Byng, and a distinguished party, were entertained at dinner by Viscount and Viscountess Pal merston, at their residence in Carlton House-terrace. Her Ladyship had an assembly after dinner, when about 250 personages of rank and distinction graced her Lady ship's salons by their presence. Among the leading visitors were the Marquis of Headfort - and Ladies Mary and Olivia Taylor, Marchioness of Sligo and Ladies Browne, Marquis of Lansdowne, his Excellency the Russian Minister and Baroness Brunnow, his Excellency Count Reventlow, his Excellency Count Pollen, his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Mad. Van de Weyer, M. and Mad. Hummelauer, Viscountess Dillon and Honourable Misses Dillon, Countess of Euston and Lady Louisa Fitzroy, Earl of Arran, Lord Beaumont, Countess of Charlemont and Lady Harriet Ponsonby, Lord Crewe, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn, Viscount and Viscountess Howick, Baron and Baroness Lionel Rothschild,, Lady Caroline Wood, Honourable Mr. Grey, Sir Augustus and Lady Clifford and Miss Clifford, Sir G. Staunton, his Excellency Chevalier Bunsen, Countess of Rose* bell' and Ladies Primrose, Viscount and Viscountess Duncan, Lady Hislop and Miss Hislop, Lord Monteagle, Hon. Mao Foley, Mrs. M. Martyn, Viscount Emlyn, Hon. C. and Lady Catherine Cavendish and Miss Cavendish, Earl of Auckland and Hon. Miss Eden, Sir Thomas Winnington, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Lady Methuen and the Hon. Miss Methuen, Mrs. Morier and Misses Morier, Lord Glenelg, Lady Pechel, Sir John and Lady Easthope, Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Smith, Lord James Stuart, Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Rose, his Excellency the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, Sir Augustus and Lady A. Forster, Mr. E. Landseer, Hon. F. and Lady Anne Charteris, his Excellency Baron Hugel, Lady Seaford and Misses Hardy, Sir George and Lady Seymour and Miss Sey mour, Lord Ernest Bruce, his Excelleney the Turkish Am. bassador, Countess Reventlow, Mr. G. E. and Mrs. Anson Hon. C. Murray, his Excellency Prince Castelcicala, Baron do Thille, Sir William Middleton, Lord and Lady Vi vian, Lady Dacre and Miss Sullivan, Mr. and Lady Blanche Balfour, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Romilly, his Excellency Mr. Everett, Lady Elizabeth Gore, Hon. R. Gore, Lord Marcus Hill, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ellice, Baron Bjornstjerna, Baron Koller, B aron Lebzeltern, his Excellency Count Kielmansegge, Mr. and Mrs. T owne l ey, M r. E . B uller, Mr. and Mrs. Gibson Craig, Mr. Macdonald, Sir Charles Leman, Mr. M. Milnes, Mr. and Miss Grenfell, Lord Cotten ham and Hon. Misses Pep s, Sir John Cam Hobh ouse , Lo r d and Lady Colborne and Hon. Miss Ridley ‘Colborne, Dlr. Tufnell, licc. ST. JAMES'S THEATRE; FRENCH PLAYS. Madame Albert made her first appearance for the season last evening, in the character of Marie, in the new vaudeville, La Camargo, ou Opera en 1750. The scene in the first act is laid in a remote part of the province of Brittany, where we find the Baron de Camargo, a poor yet proud nobleman, living Ivith his son and daughter, in his ancient chateau. The son would fain engage in commercial pursuits, to retrieve the mined fortunes of the family, but the father will not for one moment tolerate such a degradation. The daughter Marie, a simple-minded, lively girl, is sought in marriage by the Fermier-General of the district, but the Baron will not listen to the proposal of such a mesalliance. The Due de Lionne, Intendant des Menus Plaiiirs du Roi, a libertine of the Court of Louis XV., arrives in the district, sees Marie, and determines to make her his own. He offers his services to the Baron de Camargo, to provide for his daughter as a danseuse in the Academie Royal de Musique. The old Baron starts at the mention of the word danseuse at first, but on being assured that the danseuses of the Academie are of the household of the King, and, consequently, that it is no de gradation to a lady of noble family to belong to the Aca demie, the Baron consents to the plan, and the Duke carries off Marie with him to Paris. In the second act we find La Camargo, the Deesse of the opera, as gay, as espiegle, as nave as ever—but also as virtuous. Her very simplicity is her safeguard. Libertines know not how to approach one who is at the same time so lively and so prudent. The Duke de Lionne lays a plot to carry her off, and her old lover, the Fermier- General, now created a Viscount, determines to eh ' cumvent him. A letter arrives, commanding her attendance at Versailles to dance before the King. Her lover desires her not to go, but she replies that to refuse she must be neither an actress nor a woman. She goes with the Duke; and in the third act we find her at Versailles, but not at the Palace. The Duke has conducted her to his own apartments, and endeavours to ply her with wine. At the supper which he gives in her honour, she falls asleep in a chair, and the Duke conducts his guests away. Her lover enters, awakens her, and proves to her her danger, and she flies with him, while Mademoiselle Briant, a former favourite of the Duke's, having previously extinguished the lights, takes her place. The Duke enters stealthily in anticipation of his triumph, but is, of course, caught in his own trap, and while his comrades are enjoying the joke which has been played upon. him, La Camargo enters with her husband, the Fermier-General, now the Vicomte de St. Sauveur, and all, of course, ends happily. Madame Albert was the life and soul of the piece. In the first act, as Marie, the country girl, her acting was beautifully true to nature, an&n the second and third acts, as La Camargo, the Deesse de r Opera—the admired and the adored of all Paris, she gave herself the prettiest airs imaginable. Witty, gay, and sarcastic, she sang, and danced, and flirted, in the most fascinating man ner, so that it was impossible to wonder at the universal popularity of La Camargo. She was called for at the fall of the curtain, and received with the usual honours. She afterwards appeared as Georgette, in the vaudeville of that name, which she made so popular by her exquisite acting last season. The house was well and fashionably attended. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, MAncn 11.—Wind this day at noon, strong breeze from S. to W., and cloudy, with rain at times. DEAL, MARCH 9.—W. S.W. to W. by S. 10.—S.W. to N.N.E. and N., squally.—Arrd. Medora, Spragge, Berbice ; Wilhelm Ludwig, Batavia, for Bremen ; John William Dare, Calcutta, for London ; John, Mauritius ; Caroline, Bock, Rio, for Hamburgh ; Secret, Valparaiso ; Octavie, Peterson, Para, for Antwerp. Ski. British Empire, Madras ' • Rose berry, Bombay ; Toronto and Harriet, Cape of Good Hope ; Lucretia, Cape Coast Castle ; Vicar of Bray, Valparaiso ; Janet, Willis, Demerara; Thistle, Antigua; Martha, Trinidad; Gla diator, New York ; William, Henderson, St. John's, N.B. ; Harmony, St. John's, New Foundland, with the rest of the outward bound. The Claudine, from China, has not arrived in the Downs as reported. The Toronto, for the Cape of Good Hope, and the Thistle, for Antigna, were in contact to-day, and both received considerable damage ; the former preceeded down the Channel, and the latter has put into Dover, with bowsprit sprung, &c. OFF MARGATE, MARCH 9.—T. Hoult, Cape of Good Hope. OFF DOVER, 111Ancx 10.—Mary Catherine, Taylor, China; Agrippina, Rogers, Mauritius. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 9.—Wind W., fresh breezes. 10th. —W.S.W. to N.N.W., hard.—Sld. Surge, China; Ellison, New York. OFF THE START, MARCH 9.—Stadt Schiedam and Gu zina, Batayia for Rotterdam. PLYMOUTH, MARCH 10.—Wind S.W.—Sld. Hymen, Lima. LIVERPOOL, :MARCH 9.—Wind W.N.W., fresh. 10th.— N.W. moderate. 9th.—Arrd. Commerce, Jones, Ichoboe, Jan. 10 ; Violet, Simpson, Cameroons ; Irt, Grier, Pernam buco ; Gipsy, Cresswell, Maranham, 4th ult. ; Matthew King, Miller, St. Domingo; Captain Ross, Kinnaird, Hon duras ; Perseverance, Bennett, Savannah, 10th ; Pickwick, Cornish, Lima, Dec. 6; Champion, New Orleans; Spring field, Roy, Savannah ; Abijon, Charleston ; Challenger, M'Ewen, Ichoboe, Jan. 10. Off—Lady Paget. WHITBY, MAncu 9.—The Queen, Read, of and from Shields to Charente, drove from her anchors, and went out to sea during a gale atW.N.W., the master and five men on shore at the time. A large loaded brig was seen to go down between one and two o'clock this morning, four miles to the north ward, with all hands. BRIDLINGTON, MARCH 10.—The George Canning, Allen, from Shields to London, sprung a leak yesterday afternoon, and was run on the rocks to the north of Flamborough Head Light-house, and went to pieces (crew saved), it blowing a gale at west-north-west at the time. - FALMOUTH, MARCH 9.—Wind W.S.W. to N.W., fresh breeze. 10.—S.W. to N.W., strong gales and squally.—Arrd. Mary, Hendrichsen, Buenos Ayres, and sailed 9th for Ham burgh ; Swift, David, Aux Cayes. Off port, St. George, Lughrue, Callao ; Edward, Schmidt, Buenos Ayres, and sailed for Antwerp. GUERNSEY, MARCH s.—Sld. William, Cape of Good Hope. JERSEY, MARCH 9.—Sld. Damon, St. Helena ; Harriet, Campbell, Rio Janeiro. SUNDERLAND, MARCH 9.—The Symmetry, Palin, of this port, was abandoned last night, in a sinking state, having been in contact with the Elizabeth Adnet, arrived here—crew saved. REDCAR, MARCH 9.—The Jenny, of Faversham, is sup posed to have foundered, 26th ult., off this port—crew sup posed to be drowned. The Hopewell, from Whitby to Stock ton, was driven on the rocks near here this morning, and is now on the beach, with loss of rudder—crew saved. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. Arrivals.—John William Dare, Ellis, from Bengal, off Port land, sailed 17th October, St. Helena 10th January ; Mary Catherine, Taylor, from China, off Dover, sailed 29th Oct., Cape Bth Jan., St. Helena 20th Jan. ; Jane, Stewart, from Mauritius, off Margate, sailed 4th Dec. ; Agrippina, Rogers, from Mauritius, off Dover, sailed 29th Nov., St. Helena, 15th Jan; Commerce, Jones, from Angra Pequena, sailed Ichiboe 10th Jan., St. Helena 24th Jan. ; Amelia Mulholland, Evans, from Mauritius, off Cork, and proceeded t o L on d on , sa il e d 14th Dec. ; Challenger, M'Guen, from Angra Pequena, at Liverpool, sailed 13th Jan., St. Helena, 26th Jan. ' • Champion, Steele, from Mauritius, at Liverp oo l, sa il e d 11th Dec. Arrivals at Mauritius.—Tartar, Luce, Dec. 13, from Bom bay, and Colombo, Active, Reliant, from Madras. Departures from Mauritius.—Peru, Dec. 9, to Cork ; Prince of Waterloo and Juli ana , 11th to Cal cutta; Sucrier, to Bour bon ' • Cowslip, 12th, to Lond on . Arrivals in Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope.—Carron, Dec. 5, from the Clyde ; Lascar, 6th, from Ceylon •, Caroline aad Apprentice, from Mauritius ; Mountain Maid, from London ; Meg Merrilees, from Mauritius; Courier and Wilmot, 7th, from London ; Harriet, from Cape de Verds ; Argyra, Bth, from Ceylon ; Dublin, Bth, from Sydney and Port Philip ; Hamilton, Ross, from Calcutta ; Mary Barbara, sth, from Calcutta; Roberts, Elder, 6th, from London to Madras and Bengal. Arrivals at Aden.—William Abrams, Edward, 27th, from Shields ; Ocean Queen, from London ; St. Mungo, Jan. 15, from Newport ; Hope, Kerr, from the Clyde ; Palinurus, 19th, from Cape Guardafui ; Cheverell, Feb. 2, from New castle. Arrivals at Ichaboe, West Coast. of Africa, previous to Jan. 10 Baron of Bramber, Blake, and Colchester, from Liverpool ; Britannia, Wylie, from —, and all loading for Liverpool ; Ann, Farr, from Bristol ; Maid of Athens, from Cape, and both loading for Cork ; . Unicorn, from Olyde, and loading for Grenada ; Clydesdale and Isabella, from Liver pool; Clifton, Lockey, and Halifax, from —; last five not loading. Arrivals at Sydney, New South Wales.—Gondolier, Oct. 17, from China. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.—Sam, Liverpool to Ceylon, 10th Dec., lat. 6 S., lon. 23 W., by the Corsair, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. Ann Milne, Calcutta to London, Jan. 1; Ambulator, from Mauritius sth, by the Argyra, Rees, arrived at Cape of Good Hope. Nereid, Liverpool to Singapore 18th Nov. off Luciparas Island ; Guiaua ‘ of Port Adelaide, 22d, in the Straits of Sunder; Diligentia, Smith, Batavia to Amster dam, Dec. 22, by the Mary Catherine, arrived at the Cape of Good Hope. PRINCESS'S TUEATRE.-A new ballet, in two acts and four tableaux, was produced at this theatre on Saturday night. The scene is under, on, and near the Lakes ofKillar ney ; the music (which is composed and adapted by M. Corti) is well selected ; and the dances (which are arrangeol by Madame Vedv) are national and characteristic. The first tableau of Raiad groups is really striking. A Naiad must visit earth to win a mortal lover to the Lakes on May-night, at the peril, in case of failure, of incurring everlasting torture. Leola, Miss Baffin, accepts the offices and having been first deprived by Rhona. Miss Charlton, the Naiad Queen, of her talisman of immortality, proceeds to perform in it the character of a gipsy girl. All objects on earth are new to Leola—the bird, the rose, the butterfly. The first flies from her; the thorn of the second, when she plucks it, pains her ; the third by its death, when incautiously crushed, hor rifies her. She succeeds, however, in securing a lover, the son of an Irish farmer, Phelim (Mr, Gilbert), whose brother, Ryan (Mr. Harris), becomes his malignant rival. When Rhona demands the victim, Leola substitutes Ryan for Phelim, and receives again in reward from the Naiad Queen her chaplet of immortality. Then follows a struggle between love and duty. In the end she throws her talisman into the lake, and, giving up immortality for love, is united to her mortal lover. A beautiful tableau concludes the ballet. The dancing is in parts rather tedious, and the whole needs abridgment ; but, doubtless, when properly cut, the piece will prove very attractive. Bouquets were flung to Miss Bailin, and the ballet was given out for repetition with great applause. NATURAL CLAIRVOTANCE.-Dr. Teste, of Paris, has lately announced the arrival in France of a man who, in his natural state, has the power of seeing through opaque bodies. He is a Polish Jew, named Rabbi Horsch Dcene mark, and on his arrival at Mentz, in August last, exhibited letters from the Pope, Prince Metternich, and some professors in Germany, testifying the reality of his pretensions. The three seances he held at that city are asserted to have been satisfactory. He read a closed book by his hand. He has a son, aged ten, at St. Petersburgh, who is said to.possess the same faculties in a higher degree. He is consulted in cases of sickness, or as to the future event of affairs ; he is declared to have mentioned to the Emperor Nicholas what was con tained in the apartments of the Empress. At a recent ex amination of his pretensions, he is said to have exhibited proofs of his powers ; they are to be investigated by a com mission of the faculty.--Polytechnic Review. In a provincial town in Hampshire, not a dozen miles from Southampton, a member of the musical profession announced his intention of forming a singing class on the plan adopted by Hullah. He commenced by giving an in troductory lecture, in whi c h h e descanted much on good singing, and moralised on the relative merits of nature and art, observing that the former could materially assist the latter, but that art could not improve nature, when he w as interrupted by a voi ce f rom amon g his auditors, with "How would you look w ith ou t your w i g Ream ?"—Dratnati e and Musical FREE CHURCH OFSCOTLAND. Clai re A public meeting of the friends of the Free. for b b of Scotland was held last evening at xeter flai l : e pee purpose of receiving, from a deputation fromudi Church of Scotland, a statement of the preseatTro. tion and prospects of that Church, with the riew.: o , 0 lag a contribution towards the expense of erec: 1 1 ;" ) , the places of worship for those congregations whit' roe. ) secession from the Establishment, are left without..atied, accommodation. The meeting was very. fully attended' the hall and galleries being crowded. A le it r g e s P t elor t ' tion of the meeting consisted of ladies. r• , Esq., M.P., presided. ftb e n t Ge The following gentlemen, being ineraber..,_ u s f i hr putation, were present :—Rev, Dr. lia , "Th;nien' Forbes, Dr. Candlish, Dr. Wilson, Dr. BelL e edie Messrs. Beith, Wallace, Smith, Alexander, Fastest, Cowe, Main, Buchan, C. J. Brown, Sir Jame s ti forJ" Bart., of Comiston ;W. H. Crauford, Esq., 0 1 „,,soo , land ; James Bridges, Esq. •, Alexander T here Esq., of Banchory, and Dr. Mushet. There i v i e e if e lii: l present the Rev. Dr. Alder, Dr. Jenkins, Pf• ua tiog , Dr. Jenkins, Dr. Campbell, Dr. Bennett, 1-fl.irketeli . Dr. Henderson, Hon. and Rev. B. W. Noel , Rev. n. i,o' ton, Rev. Mr. Shearman, Rev. Mr. Cubitt, Be Noo',l rimer, Rev. Mr. Roxburgh, tztc , &c. ~ : r e P gentlemen of the lay friends of the church present : Captain Macintosh, R. Saul, J. l iether W. Hamilton, J. Robertson, Townley, 1) ,,' yirtn e i spoon, J. Finlaison, Thomas Farmer, te,..mrpleff G. Webster, Alexander Gillespie, William Pr. sa , W. Stevenson, Esqrs.; and Major Jervis, wo'iresei The proceedings of the meeting having been A, by a prayer from the Rev. Dr. Jenkins, is of The CHAIRMAN called attention to the objee wore! meeting. The question to be submitted to tbelcc.ooo9 one that could be confined within the limits of 46 0 or England. It was a momentous question 5".,,,t0 every Christian in the world. He was, n et t r a tl ° l trench on the business of those around hire" Jet t` in abler hands than his; but one point he hatters 'I, He had the privilege of glancing at the oo tistP those who had come as the deputation from :" thel This was no slight point. What an evidence tiler not offered of their sincerity, by givine . 0 1 ) A sse tiO worldly endowments, to which they refused to the o lit religious liberty and spiritual independence f°r ies . wer f of expediency. Theie were the men to whom t , asked to listen. They were there, not to'plead . 0 t 1)! selves, but for the destitute congregations left.i!nare3 wilderness without shade or shelter. Eight u fait ifof congregations came out from the Establishment,or ore these congregations 500 churches had been bali t ',• i ief` l , about to built. The had, therefore, still to P r i , e o ; 200 or 300 congregations. This was the cause t" to plead for, and he was sure that the efforts ° e l l $ ll who were to address them would be both su sses 5 convincing. He then called on I iti s6r Dr. MAKELLAR, late Moderator of the Gel-w rit he ose e :i bly of the Church of - Scotland, who addressed t ot h ing. He said though the nature of the events 0e taken place in Scotland was becoming better ltDat, England, still some explanation of the objeet oni r mission was necessary. They came as a deP uta b l of b c : the Church of Scotland—not from the Chtl re d no e.„"; land as by law established ; with that they 118 _teer: d nection ; they differed with it in spirit, in char"; is in proceedings. He did not use this long ,t r eb yt offensive sense ; their controversy with that u' c l no t Pi p one of principle, not of passion. They eav i ,, e to set,l i , Church its possessions. Their object was not iChsl a rival Church ; they wished to constitute a red t he t t o —(Cheers.) And that the Free Church 1,1 °, 14 be ° , Church of Scotland was proved by reference t° mg."; of their Church, the proceedings of its Gene ra ,test l `j blies, the history of the Church, and to the CO ll s ol o t of the country.—(Cheers.) By the union cbs tc „( with England, the independence of theie lae st had been injured, and their full elO re vee t ol the privileges of their Church been 1 ) ,,,i The evil their forefathers c onteraPl l an d tri o occurred, and by the preponderance of E i lig n t had been wronged and injured. They di" rl- w he bring " a railing accusation" against those rejo g ir caused that injury and wrong, whether they we „, as 11 1 0 legislators, or ministers of state. But fr° : , ns r e 3 willingness to look into and examine wh at " t her o i the constitution of the Church of Scotland,. 00,11/ been induced to judge it by a theory of the ir c here l he by what was really the constitution of thati,sh peel) (Hear, hear.) They did not accuse the Eng; L i just ba of being parties to this wrong ; they were °f ste el generous people ; they did not accuse them ° ste el , Y ;t i t instruments of this injury. But they till- an d ,)), through the intercourse they had with tben i i ;;o4 . : o , information that had gone abroad on this s c a d o e,i4 people of this country would use their best k ell oo A!::$ not to put them back where they were- 4 ' ll d vet' D e them in maintaining the cause of God 511 .,„ of,'?) cause that might, sooner than they were sera,'" Oa) to their own door.—(Cheers.) That the Fi — , e (lor was the true Church of Scotland, might be P l i n io ls ' from its constitution and the conduct of its .„ w o 9 1r e , They had no desire to speak there of their obis ,Pr; fices ; but at the same time it would be rai s ,,„ er ; bsi tation to say that they had not suffered , 7 . . d5 . severely.— ( Hear, hear.) Five hundred 0. 1 oft quitted connexion with the Established Char ta s tbt land ; from the relative number of the rain ls ljetel'h Established Church in England, and the et° if Sti C. t y population, they would be able to es tirnateA n rclihe secession were to take place in the English ‘ I t A 11) 1 extent of the sacrifice. Of the probationers , Church of Scotland—men duly lic e nsed to r t h th e e gospel-170 had quitted the Establishment 1 / 1 7 0 0te, ministers, and that under circumstances eve n - 0 10 7 _4 0 0 1 ing than those attending the separation of th e s i t ee'v/ They were in the morning of their days, ih„, lase of their , hopes, seeing before them a prosPer °— Tbei a se and all this they had renounced. Cheers.) t he further evidence that the Free Church vi ss sta t e' Church of Scotland in the conduct of the der' of those who were in course of training for th e v re ° o of the Gospel. At their Theological College t o bpd #3 o more than two hundred students, and those w itiit ec i t e advantage of being the most intimately aci ° t hat to them—their professors and others—states at e s tn students were more distinguished by talent t he 0 study, fervent piety, and real devotedness, tt eor s.) l o ut dents before them for forty years back. -- ( C e s sa e j5S ' could also refer, as a proof, to the missionario fortp„ to foreign countries, to India and elsevvbere'o ing another proof of the influence of the Fr og, The missionaries had, without a single exeleotlsliatf.l their adherence to the Free Church of .....(01/?‘' (Cheers.). This testimony was of great Nellie. le ,/ Besides all this, the Free Church was tbe; t eh rt- re ° „ e ‘P 1 1 , j Scotland, because it was the Church of 1 1 t he r (Pr (Cheers.) There were at least a million 0 t werej bt once attached to the Established Church tb ° A s o ,er, on the side of the Free Church.—(Hear , oo la believed that Scotland no undue influence were e, se t l o o l° ;De ll t b h e e p n e othpel eside f the Free a Church. three-fourths The distil art o ,er o t he had the happiness to be attached ws s ( I , l ha rse t , o e': Highlands of Scotland. They all knew th e ; c l the Highlanders for loyalty, for courage,,,o'ripe —(Cheers.) The battle plains of - 611 .; teallne-at bb the world had testified to their ri c— ri . thier courage, and their bravery.—(C h f e ",,:girl tV l ' s had now to tell them that never had tt s e, e:„ e OL, courage testimony in of an th y e e ir art d h e l lr y -ote e d en n t e e s a s t, to any c g l to as they h oot ) T A I I , their firm, faithful, and determined attr r heers'i ti e cause of the Free Church of Scotland. --- k t i 0 0 people of that district were almost e ntire I; sd te, t o ar of the Free Church, and if they 01111 with enough to send among them, acquainted: l , l i n thrt - t i, language and feelings, they would be as ,:inh The Free Church claimed nothing "..„ntlellee4 of right belong to the Church. The bidr" lie 'to claimed meant an exemtion frort. sr ~. the of the civil magistrates in th e .4 They claimed nothing more. ' - ' ll O 4 trary, in civil matters, they were r e t ail t e n oe' s " tribute to whom tribute was due, cu s hoo 1 1 1,0" uns u re custom, fear to whom fear, honour to vr b ft 0 , • But in things spiritual they felt it -;vouldtfteay 00 4 !le. of conscience to yield to the authority r t hey4 r ist ie d had also further to notice the symPa t4 t her ceived and were receiving from the c d e spe c e rne Churches of Europe and America, an n tioa s of t j j e England. The various religious denon s il c oo th, it .A 1 land had expressed towards them a ) A d ba r kindest and most gratifying Ila tu t r iy h fl a d visits they had paid sandhi cou t ny tio a, or e P er e times of refreshment coes, c ` a i ts of t r e trusted that these were but the first tra'. ibn tio - co op cious blessings to come. Their contr eci , of bef if t ed needful and valuable to them. 1 10 ,_ D : c1 „ toelirelic gations were without places of worsuir e rr' 3 there to ask their assistance to provide thetc . ,..b to , ere' p v ot* t io 0 "40 that 3001, or not much more, was - , r egs place of worship for some of these co n `. a im e ss // 0 , he trusted their appeal would not be ic 00 0 to e I to eluded by thankin the meeting for tb e s which it had heard him, and hor that oho dulgence would be extended to t e oth ers b ° se a • o l ettecoed him. n ati,., re g s fOr # o o Dr. BUCHANAN (of Glasgow) 11 -- , 0 brwlor 0 1 0 ' 60 0 meeting. He said the question he had or tel l an ee was no longer a novel one. The nin e of t he c°soll net that had elapsed since the breaking uP st ate ' bill ieo between the Church of Scotland and the ier#o oe , . l it e lllO discussion the movement had since 1107thWhielilie is' cessarily deprived it of the freshness w (lo co ea t , t o au • her e struck upon the mind. But to to" ~e w oe ao st present, the question must always hal pio nths tb o terest. The event that happ?ned ten sty instoiteurid striking enough to excite an intereet:_o e. , d s sluggish breast ; but now the inters t s " bonti of hearing how that movement he" .. . d holt e t y on, how it had been sustained+ sen d tbe 0 4 0 04 14 telling on tahnedcoafusteheofwtorruled raetlifiarogue.sarliitletfbilte:oooo: space since their career began, it h r ductboth of as itsto iatsdhcoenresntitatu,titoon atinicel perhaps, at such a meeting as the pre ",,, o uld test„ w o ,i be without its use to set before it vvbal'.. t of this show how the Free Church had come ha d a` pe a n ici process. To the principles the Chuirleo,_ta they had adhered, and without ,2,eer's'.) cation they intended to adhere.--( bac k ist° to e 0 ,1 1 10% ni P rti;:te Trsly_esiitet 5 . 0 1 _l4 ot t t o li t °ol not attempt to carry the meeting. con e ia ag ies en ce f controversy by which these principles the d i l l e 05 0 But he would say that they were r s• Tr b ie principles of the Reformation.—(Cbee.ssed the d It s ! t o of the Reformation was that it recog e lli d es crih e ° the God. The work of Luther might b tro th t! be d 0 , 'lard 0 ' f e ° that he recovered the great standard 0 an t and the only infallible rule of faith. s raid ied, great principle that God alone se w ce a d,e ,: a f o d u ;e l c t ; 00 : 0 0 11 1 : :cv • P , D io e S i science. On these principles they IT as a 11 dee; ili a he contended that they had (Hear.) It was as a Church that the) , tita tl A, , 0 a nd COn' tlitt i rl i I P • of the Legislature; both legally , o f Se° wi t re Free Church.claimed to be the Churcn,_ latu re tine s had no intention of troubling the Legl',„, ve ral question now,--(lmmense cheering:, ! ;