The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-29 00:00:00

SPIRE r OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Surely the speech of the Duke of Wellington on Monday evening is not to be taken as an index of the policy by which his Grac e would govern Ireland in case of his return to power. Only conceive a British statesman asserting gravely that the whole of the existing agitation in Ireland on the tithe question arises from the grant of a silk gown to Mr. O'Connell !! We have heard before now that Ten terden steeple had caused the Goodwin Sands ; but in the way of a sequitur, this vagary of his Grace the Duke of Wellington about the Church out-soars an hundred steeples. And does the Duke of Wel lington fancy that because the right of the Church of Ireland to tithe is founded on the letter of the law, the Government must therefore be blameable for not enforcing the payment of that impost? Does his Grace mean to pledge his word for the pos sibility of maintaining an institution from age to age, merely because it is an institution ? Why, the penal code against Catholics was as much protected by law as is now the payment of - o Protestant clergy men. Yet who was it that gave the finisher to the penal code, and defended the act as being one, not of choice, but of dire necessity ? So Lord Grey and his colleagues,—and indeed every man of the lea,t common sense in the co mmunity,—admits that the continuance of tithe is impossible, and that if a thousand laws were made for its enforcement, not one of them would be obeyed. When the Noble Duke and other noble persons talk of the King, being sworn to preserve " the interests of the Church," what do they mean by the " interests" of Church ? Is it the interest of the Church to demand tithe froms the peasantry, and receive nothing but execration ? Is it for the interest of the Church to quote Acts of Parliament, and be met by an appeal to arms ? The fact is, that laws may be obsolete before they are repealed; and that any law which would compel a whole nation to do what it is determined not to do, must be executed, not by writs or processes, but by armed soldiers.—Times. The Earl of Aberdeen, who seems to consider the Holy Alliance as being under his especial pro tection—who carefully guards the interests of that despotic confederacy, from the Volga to the Tagus —demands an explanation of the projected move ment of a French army towards the plains of Italy. He says truly enough that the " farce of nos-intervention has gone by, and that we shall hear no more of it." But then his political jealousies appear only to be excited by the Gallic violation of that principle. He asks no question as to the right of Austria to interfere in the internal quar rels of the people of the Italian States and their rulers ;—yet, if the novel and loudly-proclaimed principle of " non-intervention" is allowed to be practically interpreted by any Power as mean ng " active interference," surely France has as good a right to construe it in that sense as Aus tria. Ever since that term was introduced ir#o the diplomacy of Europe, what have we had but repeated violations of it ? The interference of the " Five Powers" in the affairs of Belgium and Holland followed close upon the first announcement of the new political doctrine of non-intervention. Then came the invasion of the " independent" kingdom of Poland by the whole disposable force oi Russia, followed by enormous carnage and the final massacre of Warsaw, without the remonstrance of France or England, or any other Power. Then the A , sPrian invasion of Iraly, followed by some slaughter in the field, but by more bloodshed on the scaffold. Now we have both Austria and France striving which shall show most assi duity in impressing upon the minds of the miserable Italians that " non•intervention" means nothing else than supporting the Papal brigands in shooting and sabreing them for the love of the Church, and through a most pious zeal for tran quillity and order I. Nor does Lord Aberdeen ask any ex2laration respecting the intended intervention of the " beloved" Ferdinand of Spain in the con test of two brothers for the Crown of Portugal— not even although for some time past that champion of " divine right" has been concentrating troops upon the frontiers of Portugal, with the design of prac tising a more open and honest intervention in support of I)on Miguel than Prussia did for the protection of the beaten armies of the Czar in the Polish conflict. Why is it that, amid all those violations of the prin ciple of non-intervention, Lord Aberdeen only ob jects to that of France ? Does he fear that the armies of a free people, however unholy the mission upon which they are sent, can never pitch their tents within a land of slaves without carrying with them some of that political malaria which makes the prin ciples of freedom contagious ?-2forning Herald. The conspiracy to defeat the Reform Bill, which we yesterday denounced, has been, we rejoice to say, defeated. The motion of the 'Marqnis of Chan dos was rejected by a majority of 316 to 236, leav ing a majority of 80. We consider the representa tion of the metropolitan boroughs as of so much importance in any scheme of efficient Reform, that it would he difficult to persuade us that any one man in the minority of 236 was a Reformer in his heart, whatever his professions. 'We would, there fore, have the 236 names kept as much as possible before the public, as men in whom little confidence can be with safety reposed by the people. The proposal of the Marquis of Chandos was, instead of giving eight Members to the four metropolitan bo roughs, to give two additional 'Members to Middle sex, to add Marylehone to Westminster, Lam beth to Southwark, and Finsbury and the Tower Hamlets to the city of London. His arguments were not even plausible. One applied to all real representation whatever, for we deem a borough menger nominee the real representative of his soli tary constituent, as much as the representative of a populous place is of his constituency. " I cannot help recollecting (said his Lordship) that when a Member of the City, actuated no doubt by the most honourable feelings, thought proper to vote accord ing to the dictates of his conscience, he was imme diately called to account by his constituents, and overhauled, as I may say, for his conduct in Parlia ment, and told not to vote again in the same manner, at the risk of losing their favour and his own seat." — (Hear, hear.) Good Lord Chandos, do not consti ctents, whether single boroughmongers or bodies of ,eleetors, choose their representati yes, either because they 'l44e their principles or like their money ? When alaoroughmonger sells a seat at the fair market price, the representative has an opinion of his own; when he gives a seat, the representative votes ac cording to orders. Is it not notorious that the no minee who differs with his patron, must, if he wish to avoid the reputation of dishonesty, immediately take the Chiltern Hundreds ? The object of a Reform in Parliament is to effect a conformity be tween the views of the constituency and the repre sentatives. The King, dissatisfied with the former Parliament, appealed to the nation, and on the great question of Parliamentary Reform every can didate was necessarily pledged one way or the ether, If, after the election, representatives were to be thoroughly independent of their constituents, and free in all questions to take whatever side they please, what is the use of representatives at all ? tf there is to be no conformity between the views of the constituency and the representative, the re presentative may be named for the constituency by others, as well as by them. The very object of re presentation is to enable the people of an extended empire to do by deputies what the inhabitants of a single town can do by themselves. Many questions cannot be anticipated ; many questions must be de cided without delay. In all such cases the repre sentative must act according to the best of his own judgment ; and his constituents, if they believe him conscientious, will make due allowance for views and opinions which they may not share. But in cases where the opinions of a constituency are well known, to say that a representative should not be pledged at his election to support them, or that he ought not to be called to account for a departure from his pledge, is to say in so many words that there should be no community of views between the people and those who represent t hem, and that the people should have no assurance that their interests will be pretested by those whom they ssild 3 9 liament. This piece of aristocratical affectation of ti independence of a constituency, is the more offen sive from its proceeding from those who lick the hands of their borough patrons. It would be ridi culous, were it riot too mischievous to be ridiculous, for there are weak men who have the folly to dis claim the having given pledges to their constituents, and who think they show their independency by avowing that they entered Parliament free and un shackled, as they phrase it. The Noble Marquis was unable to show that on any principle recog nised as efficient in a scheme of Reform, the metro politan districts ought not to be represented. S'r Edward Sugden acknowledged, that whether wealth or population were taken as a criterion, the metro polis ought at least to have fifty Members. The real objection to the metropolitan boroughs is, that the representatives would be efficient, that they would attend to the interests of their constituents, instead of favouring the views of the enemies of the people. "We shall, if we agree to this vote (said the Noble Marquis), be placing these district bo roughs in the hands of individuals who will have nothing but local interests to protect, and who must necessarily have a strong leaning towards po pular questions, and that in a degree far too warm to be consonant with the real interests of the coun try." Local interests ! nothing but local interests to attend to ! But the interests of a nation are an aggregate of local interests ; and of these local in terests, the interests of a place paying one-half of the assessed taxes of all England, and containing a share of the wealth of the empire out of all propor tion greater than corresponds to its large popula tion, are surely worth more attending to, than the interests of a hundred such places as Buckingham. The eight Members for the metropolitan boroughs will no doubt represent feelings and opinions that exist in the metropolis ; and, if it be said that these feelings and opinions should not have representa tives in Parliament, this is striking at popular repre sentation altogether. What ! in a House of 652 Members, grumble at eight for four boroughs, con taining each three or four times more property—at least paving three or four times more assessed taxes—than any other town in the island ! The Tory aristocracy must be amazingly afraid of popu lar representalioa. But, as was well observed by Mr. Macaulay, " the fear was still more remarkable; for the Noble Lord proposed to add two Members to Middlesex; so that it might be said that the Noble Lord feared six Members—a number not so great as was returned by some individual Peers to that House." Mr. Macaulay very happily exposed the pride and the meanness conjoined, which in volved the only argument against the giving repre sentatives to the metropolitan boroughs : "The only argument (said the Honourable and Learned Gentleman; against giving representatives to the metropolitan districts was, that the Members would be called to a very strict account by their constituents ; that they would not speak their own sense, but merely the fluctuating sense of those who sent them as their representatives. But that argument applied as strongly to the instances of Members returned by individuals. He did not understand the grounds on which those who repre sented the submission of Members to be called to account by a numerous constituency as a disgrace, thought it a point of honour to submit to the same strictness of account in an indi vidual. He did not understand that spirit of honour that could lick the heels of an Oligarchy, while it spurned at the wishes of the people.—(Hear, hear.) He did not understand that point of honour which made a man boast that he had gone out of his seat because he had voted in a particular manner against the wishes of one man, his patron, while he taunted another Mem ber for quitting his seat solely because he had offended 12,000 persons.—(Hear, hear.;" The dread is the influence of the people, as if the metropolis ought not to have influence in any Par liament, or as if it were possible to prevent its hav ing influence. " Even in Tutkey, in despotic Tur key," as Mr. Macaulay observed, " even there, where raged the most absolute, the most unmiti gated despotism, the tyrant of Constantinople was often forced to obey the will of the people living in he neighbourhood of the Seraglio." One distinction aken by Mr. Macaulay is well deserving the at ention of those violent men who wish to exasperate the people, and who do not see how much their own power and influence depends on the existence of kindly feelings between themselves and the people. " From all time," he said, "the city of London had been of great importance in the struggles of party or of the people ; and it has generally, by the force of its power, decided these struggles ; but it would be absurd to think of making a law to regulate a power which was only to be directed when all law was at an end. As long as the rule of law con tinued, the power of London would consist of 1,500,000 men, and of that power there was nothing to deprive it. As long as regular Government ex isted, the metropolis was, in fact, weak ; but when the course of regular Government was disturbed, the metropolis possessed, and could employ, a vast and overwhelming force.—(Hear.)" The Tories, who are constantly seeking to produce confusion, cannot be brought to understand that though they might not be the only sufferers, the first effect of confusion would be to destroy them. At a well-known period in our history, when a weak King, trusting in his Church and his Nobility, and setting at defiance his people, the interruption of order in London pro duced results which, we trust, Noble Lords do not wish to see repeated. In a tract published in 1648, called " The Church's Eleventh Persecution," we have, by a Zealot of the High Church side, a striking picture of the manner in which the people of Lon don treated the House of Lords. " Mr. Pym (said the writer) is sent into the city to make speeches against obstructions in the body politic, that Refor mation could not go on till they were removed, which soon raised the city in tumults to petition the Parliament that the Bishops and Popish Lords might be thrown out of the House of Peers, as the only hinderers of reformation of religion, thereby indeed to lessen the number of votes likeliest to op po-e the Puritan faction ; those tumults daily in creasing (upon the c o untenance they found from the Parliament, where t h ey were 1)14 to come like men, that is with swords) by the rabble of por ters, and apprentices daily sent by their masters, hut chiefly by their mistresses, with clubs and swords, to cry for reformation at the Parlia ments' doors ; the faction in London having also combined to shut up their shops for many days together, and persuaded others to do the like, upon some pretended fears ; but the truth was, to make the poor people in and about the city a pretence to mutiny for want of work, so heighte ned the faction in the House of Commons that they sent up Mr. Hollis to the House of Peers to demand the names of the dissenting Lords, that so they might expose them to the people's fury (as they posted the dis senting Members of the House of Commons in the case of the Earl of Stafford); the ringleaders, who led the route, were Dr. Burgess and Captain Ven, who sent tickets by porters and emissaries to raise these myrmidons ; who, with this confused army, as , aulting the Bishop of Lincoln's house in West minster, had his brains dashed out with a stone from the wall, and was buried at the collected charges among the apprentices. The House of Peers, thus drily assaulted without, and wanting no false bre thren within, was not likely to hold out any long siege. Some Lords had their cloaks torn from their backs at the Parliament doors, nor could the Bishops or Popish Lords, as they called them, come to the House without apparent hazard of their persons." This is a sample of what people will do when the bonds of law are dissolved. The idea of Mr. Macaulay is both profound and happily expressed. It will be seen that Lord Sandon, who, by the in fluence of the Government, threw out a genuine Reformer in Liverpool, voted against the metropo litan districts.-3forning Chronicle. The discussion of the Reform Bill was last night very greatly impeded in the Commons by a motion on the part of Alderman Thompson, which at any other time would have been sensible and judicious, but which, at the present moment, was very ill natured, or very ill-timed. It was a motion for the reduction of the duty on soap and in lieu of it the imposition of a duty on Russian tallow. Lord Al thorp is evidently inclined to g i ve to t h e su bj e ct his best consideration, and had due notice been given of the motion, or had the motion be en b roug ht for ward at a proper period, there can be no doubt that it would have met with thw most favourable *Wen- Lion ; but no notice was given of it ; and what is more, it was excessively ill-timed. We are most anxious to see the duty on soap, and the duties on all other articles of general consumption, either totally repealed, or so reduced in amount, as to be but partially felt by the poorer classes of society ; but had it been in our power to have made a motion on the subject, we should assuredly have refrained from doing so at the present moment. Mr. Hunt gave the Alderman a very respectable dressing on the subject, which, we trust, will not be very spee dily either by him, or by his bit-and-bit companions. The present is no time for play, and nonsense—the Anti-Reform army is in the field, and be who is not to be found in the ranks of the Re formers, must be set down as a deserter from them, or an abettor of those who are united against them.— Morning Advertiser. The question of giving eight additional Members to the metropolis was discussed in the House of Commons last night, when this perhaps the most of jectionable provision of the whole Bill was car carried by a majority of 316 to 236. The powerful speech of Sir Robert Peel would hare set the matter at rest in any assembly but one of pledged delegates. Mr. Macaulay, adopting his usual method of pro pounding vague and general theories, which appear plausible enough at first sight and therefore pass for eloquence, but which will not bear a moment's deliberate scrutiny, asserted, that the surest way to guard against popular commotions in the me tropolis on political questions, was to give repre- sentatives to the districts at present unrepresented; and stated, as a general principle, that Parliamentary representation, by affording a legitimate mode of expression to the popular will, always acts as a safety valve to discontent and excitement. Sir R. Peel, in allusion to this argument, recalled the atten tion of the House from the theoretical speculations and generalities of the Member for Caine to the matter of fact, and proceeded to shew that practice, so far from bearing out these dogmas, proved them to be utterly fallacious. The Right Hon. Baronet, with peculiar felicity, adduced the examples of Not tingham and Bristol, two places in which the right of suffrage is on the most popular scale, yet to which his Majesty's Government found it necessary to send down two Special Commissions subsequently to the introduction of the Reform Bill. Again, as to the qualification, Sir R. Peel spewed that in many provincial boroughs the total number of houses is to the number of 101. houses as eight to one, in others as six to one, in others four to one, and in few less than two to ene. Thus for the most part in the count!) , the number of voters will be to the number of householders in the proportion of only one to three or four. Yet in each of the metro politan districts proposed to be enfranchised the constituency will be more extensive than if an universal suffrage of householders were e , tablished ; in the metropolis, as Sir Robert Peel proved from official returns, the number of voters will be ac• tually greater than the number of householders ! This extraordinary result arises from the right of voting which will be acquired by lodgers paying ten pound a.year and upwards. But let any man imagine for a moment the quality of the constituency thus provided for the metro polis; the scores of thousands of the veriest rabble which the King's Ministers would call forth, for the purpose of choosing eight, or we might more properly say with Sir Edward Sug den, twc.and-twenty Members of Parliament, who tire to appear as the representatives of the fist city in the empire. A man who pays so low a rent as twenty pounds is exempted, as Sir E. Sug den observed, from the payment of the poor's rate, and is not considered fit to have any voice in pa rochial matters ; yet, by this monstrous Reform Bill, not only men of the above description, but men who rent houses of 10/. value, nay those who are unable to pay any rent at all, and therefore let out their houses to lodgers who make up the rent for them, are to exercise a right which will be equivalent to a full and entire controul over all the wealth, talent, and respectability of this great metropolis. Such is the project which the Ministers and the adherents declare to be an essential portion of the Reform measure. The Marquis of Chandos opened the debate with much ability, and justly argued that there is no neces sity whatever for giving additional representatives to the meti.ropolis, because, on account of its being the seat of Government, and the residence of so many Members of the Legislature, its interests are never disregarded, but, on the contrary, are always at tended to with peculiar care, even on matters com paratively trivial; witness the large attendance of Members when St. Saviour's Church was recently the subject of discussion. Under whatever point of view we regard this project of metropolitan boroughs, it appears the most dangerous, the most unwarrantable, and withall the most unnecessary in• novation that is contemplated by the Ministerial scheme of Morm. Threats, of course, were held forth last night against the House of Lords with re gard to this point; but if the Bill, which we can scarcely believe, shall be suffered to pass the second reading, the Radicals may be satisfied that the enfran chisement of the metropolitan suburbs will never be sanctioned by the Upper House of Parliament.— Morning Post. COURT CIRCULAR. The answer given yesterday at Gloucester-house to the nu. merous inquiries among the Nobility and Gentry of the state of the Duchess of Gloucester was, "The Duchess of Gloucester continues better : her Royal Highness's night has been a very good one." Augusta and the Princess Sophia paid s aj t e o s Majesty gave TheP audiences heirßroiPrincess ssA His Sister ug yesterday. yesterday to Earl Grey and the Hanoverian Minister. Their Majesties entertained the Princess Augusta and a select ' party at dinner, on Monday, at the Palace at St. James's. The Duchess of Cumberland and the Princess Sophia visited their Majesties yesterday, and partook of a dejeune with the King and Queen. The Duchess of Northumberland and Mrs_ Howley also visited the Queen yesterday. A deputation of Noblemen arid gentlemen connected with Jamaica waited on Earl Grey yesterday at the Treasury, and had a conference with his Lordship. The deputation consisted of Mr. Burge, the agent for Jamaica, the Duke of Bucking ham, Lord St. Vincent, Lord Seaford, Mr. Irving, M.P., Messrs. It. Gordon, Slackly, Bright, Davison, Seton, It. Mitchell, and Stewart. Mr. Mayers, the agent for Barbadoes, Lord Sandon, Messrs. Irving, Bainbridge, Blunt, and Latouche, had interviews yes terday with Viscount Goderich, at the Colonial-office. READING, FEB. 27. THE MARQUIS OF DOWNSHIRE V. MAKEPEACE PRICES OF STOCKS THIS Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 834 3 3 per Cent. Cons. 82%74 3S per Cent. Ditto Red 90 70434 i NfewNper Cent....SON 90 89% 3 per Cent. Ann. 1728.... - 4 Per Cent. 18t26 - -- 7001 y% B,,nk Long Ann. to expire Jan. 5, 1860 l6 13-16 N i Oct. 10, 1859 - Jan. 5, 1860 1634 Jan. 5, 1880 - April 5, 1880 Jan. 5. 1870...... - ruts DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Peruvian Bonds Ditto Account Portuguese Bonds , Ditto Account Regency Scrip I ,y dis. Ditto Account ,par Prussian Bonds - Ditto Account — Ditto Bonds, 189:2 Ditto Accoont Russian Vonds, 18 - 2't 99.74 New Loan 9:2 Ditto Account Spanish Bonds, 18:11 130 14 Ditto Account 13% Ditto Bonds, 18‘23 Ditto Account French Rentes, sp. c. 96f 75c. - Exchange 9.5f 4°c. per 66f. The. - Exchange 25f 40e. Dutch Scrip 40 % French Scrip AND OTHERS. Mr. JERVIS addressed the Jury. This action, which the Marquis of Downshire had been under the necessity of bring ing, was one of trespass—a trespass committed by the defend ants for the purpose of asserting a right which they, on the part of the public, claimed to have over the property in question.— The trespass was committed on the sth of October in the last year. It had been committed advisedly by the three defend ants, under notice given to the Marquis's agents. The Mar quis of Downshire was well known to the Jury, as a nobleman resident in their neighbourhood during the greater part of the year. His park and mansion were at Easthampstead. The defendant, Mr. William Makepeace, was an attorney and soli citor. His present residence was at Warfield, in this county. The other defendants, Messrs. William anti Joseph Parfett, were the sons of a respectable brewer at Eversley. Those three par ties went on the sth of October last to Easthampstead, for the purpose of committing the trespass in question. Mr. Make peace went, accompanied by a great number of people, and amongst others he took with him some labouring m en t o cu t down certain mounds and till up certain ditches, in the place in question. These mounds and ditches had been made for the purpose of obstructing the right of way which the defendants on the part of the public claimed. It had been found on the former trial, that there was no right of public way, and there fore the Noble Marquis had made mounds and cut ditches across the place in question. The Learned Counsel proceeded to de scribe the manner in which the trespass was committed, and concluded by expressing his confidence that the verdict would be in favour of his Noble client, who did not require more than nominal damages, although his privacy had been invaded, and he had sustained injury and vexation to a very considerable extent. After evidence had been adduced for the Noble plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW had been heard for the defendants, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. The Learned JUDGE asked them what their opinion was as to the right of way, to which they replied that they were of opinion that there was no right of way. The English Opera Company will commence their performances this season at the Olympic instead of the Adelvhi. r., 4 , 4111.4 LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 29, 1832 In the House of Lords last night, after Lord PLUNKETT had moved for various returns re specting the appointments to Secretaryships made by Irish Chancellors, and Lord KING assertion c had put forth some pertinent observations on the nature of the tenure by which tithes are held, which seemed to give the Bishop of LONDON no little uneasiness, the Earl of RODEN pre sented numerous petitions from places in Ire land, complaining in energetic terms of the new system of public education introduced by Go vernment into the sister country. Lord PLUN KETT strenuously defended the conduc t of Ministers on this occasion , but his sub j ect would have carried him through , e ven had he not brought his great acknow l e d g ed p owers of reason ingo to community n beartityo upon conv e l t t h n e e e r d e e fi d ee n t iontghpios portion io o n rds ofhitph'e m s that the Ultra-Biblicals are wholly without argument or excuse in their strictures on this new system of education introduced by Government into Ireland. Their cause, indeed, has not a leg to stand upon. They give out hat the Bible is henceforth to be an interdicted (or all but interdicted) book in the sister coun try ! Yet, what is the fact ? Why neither more nor less than that its circulation is to be en couraged among Protestants more, if pos7 sible, than ever, but that in order to en gender a conciliatory disposition, there should be no longer separate schools for Catholic and Protestant, but both should be educated together, and so meet, as it were, on common ground. " Children," said the Noble and Learned Lord, " during school-hours, would be instructed in selections from the Scriptures, ccnveying moral lessons to their mind 7, such as were calculated to make them good men and good citizens. These selections were to be learned in the schools during the hours of common instruction. Besides, two days in the week should be appointed, on which, from an early period in the day, the Protestant and Catholic children should retire apart, to re ceive separately religious and scriptural instruc tions from their respective pastors." Can any great national system of education have a more enlightened and conciliatory tendency than this : one more exactly in accordance with the wants and spirit of the age ? Assuredly not, and it is this very recommendation that is its great blemish in the eyes of the bigotted Ascendancy-men. It strikes at the root of their supremacy ; it is the bow of promise hung out, it is true, in a . stormy atmospher e , h u t typ ifying serener times for Ireland ; hence the clamour of those who have grown grey under the old system of persecution and intolerance, that and who cannot , or who will not, allow that any chpossiblyange can have the for so better. many The ages civil and l be fo distracted Ireland, bid fair under the new system of education to be brought to a close--what then was to be expected, hut that such a system should meet with des- an religious l i des perate opposition from those who, to promote their own vile interests—for after all th e question, though it profess to be a religious, is in reality a political one—would gladly con tinue, ad kfinituni, the senseless feuds and schisms that have hitherto disgraced the sister country. he proposal for giving additional Members to certain of the metropolitan districts was hotly debated in the House of Commons last night. The Opposition mustered all their forces on the occasion, and resisted the proposition chiefly on the ground that it gave too much power to the democracy. Mr. MAcAuLAY ably supported Ministers, who carried the question by 316 to 236, being a majority of 80 ! This result could not but have been anticipated —even independently of the numerical strength of the Ministerial phalanx in the House—for the Opposition, though they exhibited abundant sophistry, had not a single sound argument to sup port them. They could advance nothing against the one plain, conclusive fact, that if population, wealth, or intelligence, entitled a certain distric.4 or districts to the privilege of returning Members to Parliament, the metropolis had already made out its claim to the honour of having additional representatives. The Charles-street gang, not withstanding, had high expectations of the result of this debate; they had intrigued so shrewdly and, as they thought, securely, that no doubt could be entertained of their success. They will now, we suppose, take a lesson from their leaders in the House of Lords, and become frantic. Desperate they have long been. The French Papers of Monday, anti the Even ing Papers dated Tuesday, have been received, but they contain scarcely any news of interest to the English reader. The Moniteur announces the appointment of the Count de RAYNEVAL as Ambassador from the Court of France to the King of SPAIN. It was reported that CASI MIR PERIER intended to reconcile the dif ferences at present existing between the Cham bers by transplanting a good many Depu ties to the Peers. The following are among the names mentioned :—Messrs. JARS, RAMBU TEA U, ROYER COLLARD, ODIER, DELES SERT, LOBEAU, ETIENNE, HUMANN, LA FITTE, LAMARQUE, LAFAYETTE, DUPONT DE L'EURE, CLAUSEL, BIGNON, and SAL VERTE. _ • -- - FRENCII FUNDS, PARIS, Fee. 27.-riv . f per Cents., 97f. 60 c. 65c. 70c. 65c. 70c. 60 c. 65 c. 70 c. 7 5 c. 9 7 f. 7 0c. 65c. 70c. 65c. 70c; Four i.er Cents., - 82f. ; Three per Cents., 67f. 10e. 67f. 661. 95c. 67f. 671. sc. 10c. 15c. 67f. 20c. 10c.; Bank Stock, 1,620 f. 1,622 f. 50c.; Rente de Naples, 781. 20c. 30c. 40c.; Rente d'Espagne, 10%; Royal Spanish Loan, 751 A 74 73% %74 ; Rente Perpetuelle d'Espagne, 53 1 ,4 51!.4 51 51 yy 51 511 u 51 51 1 ,E % % 52 52>1 ) 7 4 ; Haytian Loan, 2121. 50c. Exchange on London, one month, paper, 25f. 55c.; money, 25f. 50c.; three months, pa per, 25f. 35c. ; money, 25f. 30c.- i Cours Authentique. We are glad to perceive that the London and Birmingham Railway Bill was read a second time last night, notwithstanding the many selfish interests leagued against it. We advocate the pass ing of this measure solely on the grounds of public utility and general commercial advantage. The simple fact of the wonderful success of the Liverpool and Manchester rail-road is, we think, decisive in its favour. Our only regret in the present instance is, that the conductors of this undertaking have limited their plan to two lines instead of four. It must surely be manifest that, if an improvement of this nature be wanted, it should be done on a scale commensurate with the end in view—worthy of the national cha racter for enterprise, and so complete as to ob viate the necessity of any other to supply its deficiency. Undertakings of this gigantic cha racter should not be attempted by halves. A rail-road from London to Birmingham is not like a turnpike-road from one town to another, but a great channel of communication from the heart of the kingdom to the most populous towns, the largest commercial districts, and the great hives of industry throughout the northern parts of the Empire. Even in a poli tical point of view, we look on a proper railway from London to the North as of the first necessity. Why then should the projectors of this stupendous concern hesitate in making it at once worthy of national support ? DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. New 5 per Cent. India Stock Ditto Bonds 1 di s. South Sea Stock 9l Old Annuities New Ditto ............ 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 - Ex. Bills, £1,000......... 8 7 pm. Ditt0........—..500 B:3 pm. Ditto Small 8 9 pm. Ditto Commercial. —pm. 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LIVING ARTISTS, No. 13, Henry Bone, R.A., and AN ODE to LORD GAMBIER. on the Temperance Societies, by THOMAS HOOD. The MONTHLY PART for FEBRUARY, price Is. 4d., is now ready.-7, Catherine-street. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW, No. XCIII. will be published NEXT WEEK. Ito Contenrri are:-- I. DOMESTIC MANNERS of the AMERICANS. 11. On the CHANGES in the ORGANIC WORLD now in PROGRE-S. 111. LIFE and WRITINGS of HESIOD. IV. POETRY by MARY COLLING, a SERVANT. V. The EARL of MUNSTER'S and CAPTAIN HALL'S MILITARY and NAVAL RECOLLECTIONS. VI. On the PUNISHMENT of DEATH in the tMETRO POLIS, by EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD. VII. ENGLISH FOX-HUNTING —MELTON MOWBRAY. VIII. MISS FANNY KEMBLE'S TRAGEDY of FI;ANCIS the FIRST. IX. THE REVOLUTIONS of 1640 and 18:31, &c. &c. Albemarle-street, Feb. 25. ,NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 474 Genoa 25 85 Venice 474 Malta 46 Naples 4O Palermo per oz. 119 Lisbon Oporto 494 Rio .laneiro Bahia 28;4 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 days' sight ll6 Cork 1 ➢ULLION, PER OZ. g. d. Portugal Gold, coin 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 WI New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars Silver bars, standard 0 0 0; THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There are this week short supplies of most kinds of Grain, and not much Flour. The Wheat trade is ♦ery dull today, at Mon day's terms. Barley, Beans, and Pease, remain as last quoted. Oats find buyers slowly, but illrmly maintain the terms of last market day. Flour unvaried. ARRIVALS. • -- . Wheat. Barley. Oats. Flour. English 943 qrs. 3,4 95 qrs. 1,91 9 qrs. 2 , B7 7sacks. I r i s h - 8 ,6 22 Foreign - 1 - brls KING'S THEATRE. AILRCADANTE'S Opera, entitled Elisa e Claudio, was performed last night in creditable style. Its principal features ware the Elisa of Madame MEarc and the Count of MARINARI, the parts formerly sustained by BLAStS and SANTINI. MERIC'S silvery tones were heard to great ad vantage in her first air, the duet with the Count i❑ the second act, and her scena in the finale. In the second of these she was rapturously encored. She displayed also cons;derable powers of acting, and her performance wcs at once energetic and elegant. She was generally called for at the conclusion of the Opera, and complied with the summons. MARIANz was good, but adopted too fre quently a staccato style, which reminded us of SANTINI'S burlesque singing in La Franca d'un Opera Seria. V. GALL: was the Marquis, and sang respectably. Cu atom, as Claudio, had little more to sing than the fa vourite duetto Claudio, Claudio! with MARIAM, and this be did in excellent style. ALRERTINI, as Charlotte, confirmed us, not that further confirmation was necessary, in the opinion we have already expressed of her merits. G. GALLI and Madame CASTELLI were in the cast, but sang only in the concerted pieces. Of the debutant, Signor ARNA on, who took the insignificant part of Celso, we can only speak in qualified terms of praise. Sir WILLIAM GARROW will receive the full retiring allowance of 3,5001. per annum as a superanuated Judge, after 15 years' service. Sir GEORGE GRAHAM, Sir JOHN R ICHARDSON, and Sir JAmns BURROUGH, are in the receipt of the same amount of peneiou. A private letter from Paris, dated Feb. 25, says :—" The Government has adopted the resolution of not isolating the individuals attacked with cholera in the event of the disease visiting France ; every experin.nt has proved that, so far from any good arising from this inhuman precaution, the moral contagion produced by the fear and apprehension which it creates is far greater than the supposed physical contagion of the disease." DEATH OF MR. DELME RADCLIFFE.— On Sunday afternoon E. D. RADCLIFFE, while in conversation with the Earl of ALBEXARLE and other distinguished friends, at his residence, 59, Conduit-street, suddenly exclaimed "Oh !" and fell back insensible. Dr. Cm.A3tunns, of Brook-street, was shortly in attendance, but he found that life was extinct. The deceased was about 60 years of age, and very eminent on the turf. He was honoured by the intimacy of his late AIAs E s TY , an d h a d the managemert of the R o y al racing stud. He bad been ill for some time past, though not seriously. His death is attributed to the rupture of a blood vessel in the heart. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) PRACTICE OF THE COURT. Their Honours the Judges of the Court of Review took their seats shortly atter ten o'clock this morning, when the Registrar proceeded to call on the petitions in the order in which they stood in the paper; but in many of them no solicitor being pre sent, and in others no Counsel, they could not be proceeded with. The CHIEF JUSTICE, after consultation with the other Judges, said it was the determination of the Court to adopt and strictly to adhere to that rule which existed both in the Equity and Common Law Courts ; and that in future, where a petition was called on and no person appeared for the respondent, the Court would hear the petition ; where the respondent appeared and no person was in Court to advocate the cause of the peti tioner, in that case the Court would dismiss the petition; but where neither party appeared, the Court would order the peti tion to be struck out of the paper. Mr. Justice PELL observed, that as one of the Judges of that Court, he had observed that it was almost a matter where a petition was called on, and neither Counsel or Solicitors were present, to put it at the bottom of the paper; that was attended with great inconvenience, because matters were then called on which no person expected, and in which no. body was prepared, and the inconvenience was personal to the Court, because it had been obliged to read through many long petitions for no purpose. His Honour trusted that now the Court had laid down the rule, it would be strictly acted upon, and that the profession in general would lend their assistance in carrying it into effect. Mr. SPENCE thought that the rule would be productive of great convenience to the profession in general, and hoped the Court would, in no instance, depart from it. The COURT then ordered the paper to be again gone through, and Counsel and Solicitors being then in attendance the Court proceeded with the petitions. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, FEL N.N.E.—Arrived from the river the Hannah, Jackson, for Bombay, and the Smyrna Packet, from Smyrna. Passed to the westward his Majesty's steamer Confiance. LIVERPOOL, Fes. 27.—Arrived the James, from Trieste_ CORK, FEB. 26.—Wind E.—Arrived the City of Edinburgh transport, from Dublin. Arrived at New York the North American, Macy,and Canada, Wilson, from Liverpool. The Hope, Robinson, from Liverpool to Eastport, is totally lost on Ragged Island, Cape Sable—crew saved. The True Blue, from St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, haa ar rived at Toad's Cove, leaky, and with loss of sails, bound to Liverpool. The Maria Louisa, from Smyrna, has arrived in the Downs. The following vessels have arrived at St. John's, New Bruns wick :—The Sarah, Young, from Cork; Thomas, Walker, from Demerara ; and the Seahorse, Callander, from Barbadoes. The following vessels have arrived at Campobello :—The Amaranthe, Carl, from Barbadoes, and the Temperance, Dor man, from Jamaica. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. BOARD OF HEALTH. WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) )RT of CHOLERA CASES. CENTRAL COUNCIL OFFICE, DAILY REPO DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. ;i A c 9 on o .., Places and Date. 2v a . .F 1 Jc.) f, pi.c.,:g •;:.= I x ~) ,g i 1 i§ E3e ~,.... 4 I ...i g g r.-4 4 --- 4 1:2,1 0 Newcastle, Feb. 27 .... ..... 3 1 1 2 I 1 961 302 North Shields &c. Feb. 27 33 0 2 0 31 325 96 South Shields, Feb. 27 1 0 0 0 1 11 5 Hetton, &c., Feb. 27. Musselburgh, Feb. 26 Edinburgh, Feb. 26 4 1 0 2 3 33 l6 Kirkintilloch, Feb. 26 Glasgow, &c., Feb. 26 23 22 2 7 32 142 56 Paisley, Feb 26 l2 4 3 2 11 a i 37 Barrhead, Feb. 26 Mary Hill, Feb. 26 SI 0 0I 2 3l 33 11 Coat Bridge, Feb. 25 OI 3 111111 30 I 12 Total lll 1 .- 96 3BI ,23, i 00 12607 8.,8 Total from places where the disease has ceased, or from which no returns have been this day received 289( 762 —.. Grand Total 5497 116hi0 LONDON —FEB. 28, FIVE P.M. 1 ' '6 r. .. 1 -t ii i ii l Districts. C c 9. i.. 1 3 '4 7 u J '- , e; ::: td .i 37, 73 8 gg,§ c , . 5 Z r:4 Ca = ;.-.4 ( 4ffi - r ` Afloat in the River 1 1 1 0 1 15 12 Poplar 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 Bermondsey 0 2 0 0 .2 5 3 Southwark.. 9 16 7 2 16 59 25 Newington Butts 3 1 1 0 3 9 a Chelsea 1 0 0 0 1 2 1 Lambeth, Feb. 0 2 0 0 2 '7 5 Westminster 0 2 1 1 0I 2 1 St. Giles's Whitechapel ....... —. Total IS 2.6 12 4 28 119 65 Cases before reported from other places .... ....... ... 17 16 —. Grand Total. ..... ...1 110 81 II 110 1 at LEAN, Stiretary. (Slgned) THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. We have no arrivals this morning either of ship letters or fo. reign mails, with the exception of an express from Paris, which brings the French prices as follows :—Five per Cents., 971.70 c. ; Three per Cents., 67E 20c. 67f. 10c. THE FUNDS. This being pay-slay in the Consol Market of the settling of the account of yesterday, little is doing, except in paying and receiv. ing balances, which, up to the present hour, are going off well. Consols, which left off yesterday at 82% .F 4, opened at 825{ % for next account, and 82X, for money. At present they are at he express from Paris does not bring any political news of consequence. The public are chiefly occupied in perusing the debates of last ni !soP t ihing doing as yet in the Foreign Market. HALF-PAST ONE. We continue in the same state as in the early part of the dal, without reports or any political information of consequence; consequently the Funds have remained steady during most part of the morning, at 8?% 34 for the account, and 824 for money. It is now expected, as the grand opposition on the Reform gill O l t i h be in im st m . in the House of Commons has been got rid of, it will b e i n a f ev r ed A i l a l te t l h y e cr t e r te; 9 1. days sent to the Lords, and should Ministers find a s t rong oppo sitionMreadadehirga, nareewo Peers th een e w l there are in favour of the youn g Q ueen o f P ortuga l , w i th the ex ception of the Governor an d.l ea di ng o ffi cers. Theoine'tt THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 82k. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols .. Ditto for Account 821 a Greek, 1825 23. Brazilian Bonds Mexican, 1825 Buenos Ayres... Peruvian Chilian Ditto.... Russian 991 Columbian 1824 Spanish l4 COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. FRIEDLANDER V. THE LONDON INSORANCY Cog , . PANY.-In this case, which was an action brought by the plaintiff, a Prussian Jew merchant, against the defendants, to recover cotnpensatien for a loss sustained by fire, the Jury returned a verdict for the defendants on the third plea, that there was a fraudulent valuation of the property. On being asked whether they would find for the plaintiff 00 the other pleas, they said they did not consider, from bit Lordship's charge, that they were called on to come to any decision on those points. " How do you think LACY has done the Devil at Covent-Garden ?" asked one of a coterie assemble! as usual at the Garrick after the play. " Why," replit the punster, "he has done like a very Greek—by shewioo himself to be quite a Lacycltmonian." BIRTHS. On the 26th inst. in F.aton.place, the lady of the Rev. Thal Fuller, of a son. On the '.7th inst. the wife of Mr. J. Ireland, of Artillery.plac h of a daughter, the sixth child. On the 16th inst. at North Runcton, Lady Harriet Gurney' of a daughter. MARRIED. On the `29th inst. at St. James's Church Major-General th e Hon. Henry King t o C at h er i ne, youngest daughter of the la te Rev. E. Phillips, of Lampeter, Pembrokeshire. On the tltith inst. at Richmond, Sir George Smart to Mil. F. M. Hope, th e youngest daughter of the Itev. C. S. Hope, 0 Derby. _ . On the 18th inst. George Kirkaldy, Esq. of Baldovie, Forfar. shire, N. 8., to Eliza Louisa Hearne, only daughter of the late E Hearne, Esq., of Hearnesbrook, GalwaY, and sister of O f late I'. D. Hearne, Esq. On the 18th inst. at Voole, Dortetshire, the Rev, J. L. De' vies, of Edmonton, Middlesex, to Mariana Paull, eldest dangly ter of S. Salter, Esq.. of the fernier place. DIED. On the 'Z'3,l inst. at Harlyn, In the county of Cornwall, Vrt Peter, relict of Henry Peter, Esq., of that place, and daughte' of the late Thomas Roos, Esq. of Piercefield, Monmouthshire. On the 27th inst. 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