The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-20 00:00:00

SOUTIR Y. My first interview with Mr. Southey was at the Queen's Head Inn, in Keswick, where I dad arrived, wearied, one evening, on my way to Westmoreland ; and not liking to intrude on his family circle that evening, I sent a note up to Greta Hall, requesting him to come down and tee me, and drink one half mutchkin along with Me. He came on the instant, and stayed with The about and hour and a half. But I was a grieved as well as an astonished man, when I found that he refused all participation in my beverage of rum punch. For a poet to refuse his glass was to me a phenomenon ; and I confess I doubted in my own mind, and doubt to this day, if perfect sobriety and tran scendent poetical genius can exist together. In Scotland lam sure they cannot. With regard to the English, I shall leave them to settle that among themselves, as they have little that is worth drinking. " Before we had been ten minutes together my heart was knit to Southey, and every hour thereafter my esteem for him increased. I break fasted with him next morning, and remained With him all that day and the next ; and the weather being fine, we spent the time in rambling on the hills and sailing on the lake ; and all the tim e he manifested a uelightful flow of spirits, as well as a kind sincerity of manner, repeating convivial poems and ballads, and also between hands breaking jokes on his nephew, young Cole ridge, in whom he seemed to take great delight. He gave me, with the utmost readiness, a poem and ballad of his own, for a work which I then pro jected. I objected to his going with Cole ridge and me, for fear of encroaching on his literary labours ; and, as I had previously re sided a month at Keswick, I knew every scene almost in Cumberland ; but he said he was an early riser, and never suffered any task to inter fere with his social enjoyments and recreations ; and along with us he went both days. Southey certainly is as elegant a writer as any in the kingdom. But those who would love Southey as well as admire him, must see him, as I did, in the bosom, not only of one lovely failiny, but of three all attached to him as a fa ther, and all elegantly maintained and educated, it is generally said, by his indefatigable pen. The whole of Southey's conversation and economy,both at home and afield, left an impression of vene ration on my mind, which no future contingency Mall ever either extinguish or injure. Both his figur e and countenance are imposing, and deep thought is strongly marked in his dark eye.— fl °gg's Altrive Tales. CHOLERA AT PARIS. txtraet of a letter from Paris, dated the 15th A pril, 1832 If the news of your cholera, which we find in the rt Lon " Papers, he * tie , I can assure you that the disease has n " been so gee on the banks of the Seine. The official number of deaths on Monday the 9th, was 11,300, and since that day nearly as many more have perished. The gravediggers at the cemet e ry o f M on t mar t re cannot di g Wid graves enough. In vain is th e common f ose l arge an d e enough to contain a company of soldiers in line. The sextons have not time to arrange the bodies which are con tinually arriving in all sorts of vehicles, even in the mili tary hospital waggons. The authorities have been obl iged to employ the artillery horses from Vincennes to relieve those employed in the hearses and hackney coaches, no longer able to convey the de id. The funerals now all take place by night. I have been zn Y s elf to Montmartre, and a ft e r the horrors that I hav e t hel'e witnessed, I can affirm the official number of deaths i 4 at least not exaggerated. In vain do our own Journals assure us, that the viru lence of the disease has diminished, whilst we see such a frightful succession of funerals, and the layers of carcasses which the gravediggers have not time to cover, busy as they are, in measuring the intervals between the full-grown b 'des, in order to fill them up with children and women. TThirty thous an d at l east w ill h ave fallen victims to ole befor e it quits Paris. la the lower parts of the town, near the Place de Gr?ve, along th e r i ver, t h e hearses pass from do or to d oor , escorte d by the p o li ce, w h o can scarcely prevent the wretched People from fighting for the melancholy privilege of having a dead relation or friend carried to the grave in these more appropriate conveyances, to avoid their being huddled l ino an humbler vehicle. CHOLERA MORBUS. This being Good Friday no official return of the cholera W B 4 made, but we understand that since the last report there are seventy-six new cases and thirty-seven deaths in the country, and in London there are ten new cases and bye deaths. ----- PRICES OF IRISH STOCr:S, DUBLIN, APRIL 1(3. Rank Stock ... ...... .......... 2 t St. Patrick I nstar.(petShare Consols 3 per ...... % Royal Irish Ditto — DittDotr. B tOelt, 3% per cent. 90% National Ditto o. New .............. .... 90% .Patriotic Ditto ........ ......- — I per Cent ... -.- ........... - - ' Hibernian Bank 51-o v. Deb. 3% percent.... 86% :Provincial Ditto Royal lanai Stock ......... --- I Royal Irish Mine — Srand Canal 5t0ck , ....... Ilrnperial Mine ........ - amity Deb. 4 per cent....... 77 Mining Co. of Ireland • tallast office Deb. 4p.C. -- Commercial Buildings -.. THE ROYAL CLAR ENCE VASE. T HIS splendid and incomparable WORK of ART is NOW EXHIBITING for the SEASON, it the EGYPTIAN HALL, Piccadilly. The weight of he Vase is 8 tons, the height 14 feet, the diameter of the fowl 12 feet, and would contain 900 gallons. Admittance, )ne Shining. Lth Xe . f a. ro e - • *tilt. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. APRIL 20, 1832. The French Papers of Wednesday are prin ipally occupied with the progress of the cholera nd strictures upon an offer of 12,000 francs 4801.) by the Duchess DE BERRY to relieve he Parisians in their present calamity. This [onation has been promptly refused by M. lONDY, Prefect of the Seine, which has irritated he Ultra Papers very much, while the Liberal 104rnals pour forth all mann er o f pra i se upon he Prefect for his spirited conduct. The Constitutionnel is particularly indignant " the occasion. The offer was made through CHATEAUBRIAND, who publishes his own !tter, but suppresses the reply of the Prefect, on e ground that he was not authorized to make Public. On this the Constitutionnel remarks-- "We hope the Prefect will fill up the blank left Y M. CHATEAURRIAND, and himself publish le letter containing the motives of that refusal, 'hie!' will be applauded by all France. In the lean ti me , let us express the sentiments of Adain and indignation with which the pro ktnation of this ostentatious act of charity been universally received, and pro. it, in the name of the people of Paris, ainst this new intrigue of a miserable faction. 'hat ! could the daughter•in-law of CHARLES imagine that th e people of Paris would de tde themselves so low as to accept money her w h o only two years ago was coolly 4 i ng for her pictur e w hil e the b lood of t l tttchmen was flowing in to rren t s ? f rom who, when at St. Cloud, uttered the q gross insult s against therm, on hearing the roaring of the carmen that Was sweeping diem to destruction? Could the mother of HENRY V. believe that the Parisians would abandon all national fraternity, and accept a gift from that hand which is showering gold for the purpose of recruiting and maintaining chouan nery, fomenting civil war, and promoting the plunder and assassination of loyal Frenchmen in La Vendee?" Neither the Monileur nor the Journal des Debuts makes any comment upon the subject, but the other Journals are full of it. The Moniteur contains the official pro mulgation of the law regulating army promo tions ; of that regulating the importation and exportation of corn ; of that granting 2,000,000 f. for the extraordinary expenses occasioned by the cholera ; and of that modi fying the 164th article of the Civil Code rela tive to marriages between brother and sisters-in law, uncles and nieces, and aunts and nephews. The following are a few extracts respecting the cholera, &c.:— (From Galignani's Messenger.) THE CHOLERA. The Moniteur publishes the report made by M. Ta boureau of the total number of deaths by cholera, up to the 14th instant inclusive, from which it will be seen that the mortality, though deplorably great, is much less than public rumour had estimated it. The deaths on the 15th are stated to be 4367 ; namely, 183 in the hospitals, and 384 at home; and on the 16th, 512—namely, 183 in the hospitals, and 329 at home. From this it is evi dent that the disease is gradually and steadily diminish ing in intensity. We understand that, in order to be more correct, the daily reports of deaths will not now be published until twenty-four hours later than heretofore; so that to-morrow we shall hare those of the 17th, and so on. 31. Taboureau, in giving his report, accounts for the inaccuracies in the former statements in the same manner as the article of the Moniteur which we have before quoted, and adds, that the number of deaths which bare occurred in Paris, between the Ist and 14th inst., from causes other than the cholera is 1,454, making the whole mortality during that period 8,987. Among the last victims are Count Cassini, Peer of France, Mesdames Bellanger and Doaan, daughters of Lieut. Gen. Taviel, who both died within forty-eight hours, and Count Morand. The cholera has manifested itself in the following places since our last account :—Aisne : Laon, Yervins, Soissons. Eure : Les Andelys. Leiret : Gien. Nord : Douai, Hasbrouck. Orne : Montargis. Oise : Senlis, Crevecieur, Bretuil, Clermont, Faye), Luchy, Blain- Verneuil. Sarthe Courville. Yonne : Sens, Joigny, Serigny. From the Private Cirrespondenee of the Constitutionnel. SWEDEN. STocKmOLM, MARcir 27.—The most satisfactory re ports continue to be received on the subject of the silver mines of Kongsberg. They yielded, in the months of January and February of this year, 1,635 marks two ounces of fine silver; and a fortnight since, a mass of pure silver, weighing 145 marks and six ounces, was dug up. The herring fishery on the Norwegian coast is over for the season ; besides what the minor towns of Egersund, Fleekefjird, Sagedel, &c., may have caught, Bergen has salted morn than 130,000 tons, and Staranger more than 100,000. By the prohibition of brandy, the State-Treasury has lost up to the let of October, an income of more than 800,000 rix thalera, a deficit which must be covered by a higher duty being imposed on several articles of colonial merchandise. The Counsellor in the department of War, M. Von Orchimont, has been appointed General Intend ant of the camp to be fixed for the purposes of pleasure in the month of June. The report is prevalent that the Crown Prince of Prussia will be present. M. Brouilhon, a commissary of police, accompanied by several agents, entered this evening at five o'clock the house of M. Felix Auril, secretary of the " Society of tl.e Friends of the People," and, in execution of a warrant signed by the " Juge d'lnstruction, d'Herbelot," seised 500 copies of a pamphlet entitled, " On Civilzation," and which, it is said, had not yet been publi4hed. We cannot but regret the fate of Sir ROBERT PEEL'S motion the other evening in the House of Commons, respecting the appropriation of a certain sum for the erection of a National Pic ture Gallery. Such a building is much wanted, for it is a notorious fact, that many of our most valuable paintings are in no slight degree lost to the public, from the way in which they are scat tered (as if they were merely so much lumber) about the metropolis and elsewhere. We are rich in the fine arts : we are in possession of many of the choicest paintings of the most consummate artists that ever existed ; yet for all the advantages that the nation derives from those treasures, it might just as well be perfectly destitute. But this is no re cent grievance; for years and years past Go vernment has been called on by the people, through the Press, to rectify it : we are surprised, therefore, that Sir ROBERT PEEL should only just now have turned his attention to the subject. He is himself, and has been for a long series of years, a munificent patron of the fine arts ; he is well aware ofthe salutary influence their cultivation works on the intellect of the age : why did he not then, when he had the power, take up the subject? Was his Tory Administration so impoveri , hed by the unceasing demands made on it by the host of placemen and pensioners whom it kept in pay, as to be unable to afford even a grant of thirty thousand pounds, for the erection of that indispensable requisite, a national Picture Gallery ? If se, he can hardly wonder that Lord ALTHORP objected to his motion ; for the pre sent Administration cannot, however desirous, afford as yet to be generous, seeing that its means are crippled by the lavish extravagance of the Governments that preceded it. But the Re form question, we doubt not, will soon set this, as well as other important matters, right. The Times of this morning contains a mas terly analysis, by " Radical," of the Duke of WELLINGTON'S Protest against the Reform Bill, which is proved unanswerably to be a tissue of the grossest blunders and inconsistencies. His Grace's remark, that " we are bound, above all things, to bear in mind that the Government of this country is, what from the earliest period of our history it has ever been, a monarchy," is shown up in fine style. " Radical," we perceive, attributes the manufacture of the Protest to a late Presi dent of the Council, with the assistance of a late Secretary of a Public Board. Whoever is the manufacturer, he does well to pres erve hi s ano nymy, for a more illogical, inconsequential piece of reasoning never yet challenged public attention. Lisbon Gazettes, to the 7th of April, in clusive, have been received ; but as these papers are so completely under the control of Don AlmuEr., it would be idle to expect any news on which to place reliance. Comment is there fore quite unnecessary. The following is an abstract of a long manifesto published by the usurper : Lnimx, Arau. 3.—The Gazette contains a decree of his Majesty, confirming and extending the provisions of the defile of the 9th bt %kiwi, 1831, by *bleb two commissioners were appointed, in the citiee of Lisbon and Oporto, to try and condemn prisoners guilty of the causes of excitement to revolt, sedition, tumultuous ease:skimps. to the detriment and security of the State, and other simi lar acts of treason. His Majesty has issued an extremely loug manifesto. in which he combats the pretences of his brother Doe Pedro and of his niece Donna Maria ta the crown of Por tu,eal. His principal argument is, that Don Pedro had accepted the sovereignty of a State which, by Article I. of its constitution, cannot be connected with Por tugal ; that he had caused himself and his children to be naturalized, not only as citizens, but as Princes of Brazil. By several articles of that Charter he had bound himself by articles 104 and 116 to reside constantly in Brazil ; that on the 15th July, 1824, he had voluntarily declared to his August father that he had no claims whatever upon Portugal ; that to be King of Portugal was incompatible with the interests of Brazil ; that the fundamental laws of Portugal require that their Kings shall not be foreign Princes, and that they shall reside in the kingdom. The manifesto proceeds to show that even had Don Pedro succeeded to the throne of his father, and taken the requisite oath, he could have no right whatever to change the fundamental laws of the kingdom, without the consent of the three estates assembled in the Cortes ; but as Don Pedro was expresslyexcluded from the throve of Portugal by the fundamental laws both of Portugal and Brazil, he could not exercise any act as Sove reign of Portugal, nor abdicate a crown which he did not possess. This abdication in favour of the Princess of Grand Para (who was besides, herself a Brazilian Princess, and consequently disqualified) was of course null and void. The manifesto proceeds to show the illegality of the mea sure taken by Don Pedro, and the absurdity of promul gating laws in the name of a Sovereign who had abdi cated. Meantime a strong party was formed in the kingdom in favour of Don Miguel, which in July and October, 1826, proclaimed him King, in Tras-os-Montes and Algarve, and formed a Regency in his name, in which movements he, residing at Vienna, had no concern with the Powers of Europe, save that such a state of things could not endure, and that it was necessary he should return to Portugal, to which he consented, bar ing first, while at the Court of Vienna, made an especial reservation of his rights. The manifesto then recites the return of the Prince to Portugal, and the convocation of the three estates by which he was declared King. The manifesto declaims vehemently against the democratic and disorganizing faction, extols the fidelity of the Portuguese nation, " which will assuredly defeat the most rash at. tempt ever made by that rebellious faction, if they should basely come to attack their own country with the help of foreign vagabonds banished from their own nation. The clergy of the whole kingdom, the firm supporters of reli. gion and the throne, renew the noble example they have at all times given ; the nobility are in the ranks of the army, and the numerous and valiant troops hasten to arms; every moment his Majesty receives proofs of their fidelity ; lastly, the whole nation rises like one man ready to defend itself: and as it took a solemn oath to me by its representatives in the three estates, I have to perform that which I took be fore the same estates, and the promise of the assembly made to the Holy King Don Alphonse Henriques on the plains of Out ique will continue to be fulfilled, and to save those kingdoms from impiety and anarchy. "Palace of Queluz, 28th March, 1852. " The KING.' 'Lisbon Gazettes to 7th April inclusive.) Dutch and German Papers have been re ceived this morning. We are sick of speculation upon the affairs of the continent in the present uncertain state of things. The general impres sion is pacific, notwithstanding the unsatisfac tory position of affairs in Italy, Belgium, and Poland : Bxaux, Aran. 13.—According to accounts from St. Petersburgh of the 4th instant, the last regiment of the guards, returning from Poland, had arrived in that city. His Majesty the Emperor had expressed to the Grand Duke Michael his satisfaction with the discipline and courage of those regiments during the war in Poland, and with their present fine appearance. Of the volunteers here, the re giments who offered to assist in the storming of Warsaw, only 33 remain alive, and have returned to St. Peters burgh : 15 of them have the cross of St. George. The Emperor has enjoined all the authorities of the empire strictly to enforce the ordinances of his predece►sor against card-playing and games of chance, and to punish the convicted gamblers, without distinction of persons, only observing that the higher the rank of the guilty the greater shall be their punishment. In the year 1831, there was at Warsaw 4850 births and 11,111 deaths, including 2308, viz., 1158 males and 1151 females, of the cholera. The great excess in the nunaber of deaths is doubtless to be ascribed to the circum stances of the times. AMSTERDAM, APRIL 17. Actual Debt, 4% per Cent 42L4 to 42% Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent 6 9 34 to 70% Ditto. ditto, 3 per Cent. Exchange on London, one month ll 95 Two Months ll 90 —Dutch Papers, April 18. VIENNA, APRIL B.—A Secretary of the Prussian Le gation is sent to Berlin ; it is said, with despatches of great importance. A Russian courier has gone to Naples, and an Austrian arrived from St. Petershurgh. This evening an Austrian courier will set out for Paris. The accounts from the Hague have caused great excitement on our change, andstocks have fallen in consequence of the decl 'ration of Count Oloff. It is feared that hostilities be tween Holland and Belgium are unavoidable, and the next accounts from the Hague are anxiously looked for. The higher prices from Paris have had no effect today. It is especially feared that Antwerp many suffer; and as our merchants have large magazines of wool there, this may have contributed to depress the funds. VIENNA, APRIL P.—Five per Cent. 87 4 5 ; Four per Cent, 77 i; Bank Silures, 1153. —Aggemei nc Zcitung, April 14. THE FUNDS._ (THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE 0' CLOCK. This day being Good Friday it is a close holyday is the city, but the letters by the mails are delivered. A Lisbon mail and a Dutch mail have arrived, the Former sailed on the Bth April. We have also an arrival of the estafette from Paris, bringing the French Rentes steady at the same price pre viously received, 70f. 50c. The official report of the cholera at Paris states, that on Monday last the deaths were 512, on the preceding Monday 861. In Paris a report was in circulation that M. Perier was not likely to resume his office. The French flag was taken down at Ancona on the 31st of March, and a treaty re specting the legat;on had been concluded at Rome. By the French mail this morning, a Paris Paper states that the deaths by the cholera, since the commencement of the disease, is calculated at from 9 to 10,000. Accounts from Antwerp state that a plot had been dis covered in the citadel of that place as twenty-one officers on suspicion had been sent on board the Dutch ship of the line Zeeuw. Also that an encounter took place at Bergen•op-Zoom with the citizens and the troops of the line in garrison. A Dutch major had deserted from the citadel. As we stated in our City article of yesterday that Austria and Prussia had ratified and exchanged, the Dutch Treaty is now confirmed ; that of Russia is still wanting to give the final blow to the affairs of Holland. The question now is, what will the King:of Hollandpo ? To resist the five great Powers for any length of time would be cutting off his nose to be revenged of his face.— The enormous expense of keeping up his army will soon cause a discontent amongst his subjects; and, bis ports blockaded, would likewise destroy the commerce of Hol land. This the Dutch nation cannot withstand for any length of time ; therefore we are of a firm opinion that Count Orloff will act as a mediator in regard to the mo difications which will be soon brought on the tapis, and the King of Holland will make the best bargain he can. Hobart Town Papers, to the 27th of October, have been received at the North and South American Coffee house. So unfavourable has been the season for feeding of cattle, &c., that the t illow-chandlers of Launceston cannot procure fat sufficient to supply the usual demand forcandles. The Lieutenant -Governor has arrived at Launceston. The whsle of his Excellency's time was occupied in consul tation on aboriginal affairs. A detachment of military is about to proceed to New Zealand, for the purpose of taking possession of that island ; thus adding to the British empire. We are sorry to find the shipments of wheat from this island of l a t e h ave b een too great to allow of the price holding np. At Sydney about half of the Nintrod's wheat was sold at 6s. 9d. So rapidly has Sydney increased within dm few months, and wages are so high, that mechanics and labourea are now kicking their heels at Hobart Tow*, would make a fine barred by visiting us. A LAMENT.FOR THE RIGHT TION..T. CROKER. TUE REPRESENTATIVi OF TILE 3R1T1311 POETS,•• A;eqUj Toy .Mwviv. Bios. I weep for that wag, one of Il ert f ord ' s old cron i es, Whom Lawrence has painted an Irish Adonis. In strains which Stunt sublime would call but Jeffrey mediocre, I sing the fall—the dismal fall--ef poor John Wilson Croker. I've prayed the Muse to aid my song, but vainly I invoke ber, She's fast asleep o'er the lyric lays of poor John Wilson Croker, I roused her with " Busaeo,"+ but the name, I thought, wouli choke her, So utterly she hates the rhymes of poor John Wilson Croker. But yesterday, and who so famed as wit, buffoon, and joker ? To.day, and who so great a quack as poor John Wilson Croker P In vain he rises in the ?louse, stiff, starch, as any poker, The Tory snores, the Whig he roars, " Oh poor John Wilson Croker.•j In vain in the Public's ear he shouts, the dame when he has woke her, Cries " Curse the fellow's impudence"--ph i poor John Wilson Croker. In vain in all the fustian robes of Tory cant he'd cloak her- No tailor to tke public taste is poor John Wilson Croker. He's shipwrecked as a Statesman, he's bankrupt as a broker Of pedlar wares is verse and prose—Oh, poor John Wilson Croker ! Ah mei my eyes are filled with tears, my checks like yellow ochre, When I think of the fall—the latter fall—of poor John Wilson Croker. • At the late celebrated Hogg Dinner, the health of Lord Porchester (of Lord Porchester!) was given as the Represen tative of the British Poets. ;3de Mr. Croker's Poem of 13uss.co, in which, if we remem ber rightly, the Lyric Muse is represented as a postboy, bearing an express to Britannia, informing her of the Duke of Wel lington's victory, and presenting her with an exact catalogue of the corporals slain in the engagement. DIVISION ON THE REFORM BILL, The following is an analysis of the difference between the votes of Saturday, the Sth of October, 1631, and Satur day, the 14th of April, 1832 : The majority in the House of Lords ou Saturday, the Bth of October, 1831, was The majority on Saturday, the 14th of April, 1832, was 9 The Anti-Reformers gained 3, who voted on the latter and not en the former occasions,—vis. Marquess of Abercorn Earl of Ashburnham Lord Oriel (Viscount Ferrard).., The Reformers lost 3, who voted on the former but not on the latter occasion,—vis. Marquess of Donegal Marquess of Westmeath Lord Dawnay (Viscount Downe)l A comparison between Ridgway's Lists will thus ac. count for the 56. A 11 Peers who voted against in 1831, voted for in 1832, each counting as two B 11 Peers who voted against in 1831, did not vote at all in 1832 10 C 12 Peers who had not voted at all in 1831, voted for in 1832. l2 A (17), Earl of Harrowby Tankerville Bradford Coventry Lord De Roos B (10). Marquess of Bath Earl of St. Germain Stamford Dudley Lord Carberry Skelmersdale ; Hibblesdale C (1. Earl Stanhope — Sorrier. O'Neill Stradbroke Lord Middleton Crewe Calthorpe Wharnclifib Gambier Gage Karensworth Northwick Melros (Earl of Haddington) Bishop of Lincoln Llandaff Duff. ri n Stuart (Earl of Moray) Archbishop of York Bishop of London St. David's Worc, stir Chester. Roes (Earl of Glasgow) Bishop of Peterbo rough Lichfield and Coventry Bath and Wells and one Irish Bishop, viz. Killaloe All the four Irish in 1831. relates having voted .agaiast the measure ACCOUNT of the FORCES of DON PEDRO ALREADY ASSEMBLED at the AZORES. Guns. Tons. Frigates—Raynha de Portugal OO 12)0 Donna Maria 11. Corvettes--Juno Regeneia de Portugal l6 460 Sebooners--Ilha Terceira Fayal (the Sterrett) Coquet Brigs.--Flurelnente Conde de Valettor Liberal Boa nperanza 4880 Transports—ln the , Azores,l 3350 From France and England, 27 87M 12,073 English Seaman 1200 Portuguese ditto PORTUGUESE FORCES IN THE AZORES, DEC. 1, 183 Infantry of the Line 3956 Light Infantry 3OlO Artillery New levy 2950 Battalion of Portuguese Volunteers formed in France 350 Corps of Officers ditto. FOREIGN TROOPS. - - English battalion First and Second French ditto 600 1200 13,186 There are in the Azores about 1,200 officers, who, with 7,000 men of the militia, will form the garrison of the islands when the regular forces leave them. The armament, clothing, provisions, and stores, wanted for the expedition, have been sent from England and France to Terceira and Belle Isle in the following vessels, chartered for the purpose, composing together about 5,300 tons : Cyrus Jean Alexander Adams Sarah Janet Asiatique Ph yllerea Princess Victoria Louise Anne Fairlie Numa Jules Tyrian Louisa Roxalane Azores Packet Wan sbeck Isambert John Dunscombe Manlius Bordelais. Alert THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) SMITHFIELD MARKET. This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep, Porkers ' and MUch Cows, was limited ; of Fat Calvet tolerably good; of Lambs, as is usual on a Good Friday, rather great. The trade with Beef, Mutton, and Pork was very dull at barely, with Lamb and Veal brisk at fully, and perhaps in some few instances a little beyond, Mon day's prices. Of Milch Cows there were very few buyers, but those that were sold fully supported their last week's currency. PRICES PER STONE OF HMIS. TO SINK THE IDITALs t. d. to s. d. s. d. toe. d. Inferior Beasts 2 2 2 6 Large Lambs 0 0 0 0 Second quality ditto 210 3 2 Prime small ditto... 6 0 7 2 Prime large Oxen... 3 6 3 8 Large coarse Calves S 8 310 Prime Scots, &c..... 310 4 0 Prime small ditto... 4 8 5 4 Inferior Sheep 2 8 2 10 1 Large Hogs S 8 310 Secondquality ditto 32 3 101 Small Porkers 4 4 410 e,w Coarsoolledchtto 310 4 fi Suckling Calves 12s t0264.ea...h. S , utlidownWethers 4 4 4 8, Quarteroldrigs 12s tolt4s. each. SUTTLT, AS PER cLitim's iIITATEIVINWT. Beasts. (Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs. 347 8,370 205 110 NEWGATE AND LEAI)ENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. toe. d. s. d.toi. d inferior 2 2 2 4 Mutton, inferior... 2 4 2 6 - middling„ 2 4 2 S ....—. middling.. 2 S 3 2 prime large 3 0 8 2 —.-- prime...... 3 2 4 0 .-- prime small 3 0 3 4 p or k, l arge 1 4 4 2 Veal 3 2 5 0 —small 3 S 4 8 Lamb —...........—.............. 4s. Bd. to 6s. 4d. Beet, AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH.-- On Tuesday Mr. &Lich:lel Oakshott, 19 years of age, son of Mr. Oakshntt, of the Bathhouse Academy, Rich tonnd, went out take a walk with his sister and a young lady ; while walking on the banks of the river, some con versation arose of rather an unpleasant nature, and the young gentleman became very warm in his language, in the midst of which he suddenly fell backwards and expired. It is impossible to describe the terror of the ladies; an alarm was given, and a medical gentleman was soon in at tendance, who endeavoured to bleed him, bat in rain, and he pronounced him quite deed. A , R ".—This expression i s not yet f orty years old ; and th oug h i t was nurse d i n L on d on , an d served its apprenti ces hi p i n G loucesters hi re , w h ere i t was born, it has long wroug h t j ourneywor k i n St a ff or d e hi re . Jonas Bell, a co untry schoolmaster, near M i nc hi n h ampton, hot in the new is.to-be borough of Stroud, had a pupil so remarkably s tupid, that on one occasion when he found it necessary to exhibit his abilities before the lady patroness at a fixed examination, he selected the most familiar words t o commence his analysis upon: the first was M.I.L.K ; and whet does that spell ? said Jonas, " Don't know," said the lad. What does your mother put in her tea?— said Jonas, quite cock-sure of his answer. R u m, Sir, " replied the promising youth. The lady patroness vanished, Jones Bell was bothered, and the boy was pleased with his own sharpness ; but it eoon became a matter among the s p ar ks of Gloucestershire when recommended to the favour o f a young lady, first of all to inquire if thir was " a ram 'an." DEPTFORD PETTY SESSIONS. Yesterday a Petty Session was held at Mr. Merchant's Office, in High•atreet, Deptford, before Mestere. STAN FIELD, Yoewe. and towaarrs, the Magistrates. A fashionably-dressed young woman, of prepossessing mpearantv, who gave her name Elizabeth Taylor, arw described herself as the wife of a respectable builder, wa •harged with stealing 20 yards of silk; two caps, and ady's collar, from the shop of Mr. Fleay, a respectable linendraper, in the Broadway, Deptford. It appeared from the evidence, that about ten o'cloe's yesterday morning the prisoner entered the prosecutor', shop, and, at her request, was shown a variety of cape and ladies' collars. After examining the articles about a quarter of an hour, she said she could not find the pat tern she wanted, and was about leaving the shop when the ahopman, named Edward Challis, missing the articles above enumerated stopped her, and found them secreted under her cloak. Ha called in a police constable, and gave the prisoner into custody. In reply to the charge, the prisoner said that she had paid the shopman for the articles, after which he made overtures of an immoral nature to her, which she re sented, and he instantly accused her of the felony. The Magistrates said she Foust convince a Jury of the truth of her statement, and fully committed her to take her trial at the Maidstone Assizes. She was removed from the office in the custody of Pa narn, a parish constable, who conveyed her to the Old Fountain Inn, where he and Sergeant Parry, of No. 6, R division, became so beastly intoxicated that their fair prisoner escaped through the window, and jumped into a hackney coach, before they bad the least idea of ber being absent without leave. An outcry being raised, the prisoner was pursued, and brought bark to the public house, where she was locked up by Panam, who soon afterwards was unable to find his keys. We understand it is the intention of Mr. Fleay to take proceedings against the parish constable for getting drunk, while a prisoner committed on an accusation of felony was in his custody. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock, THE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLTENCY, RICHARD ALLINAND, Wem, Salop, victualler. JOHN ATKINSON, Cockermoutb, Cumberland, manufac- Auer of slates. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. JOHN REYNOLDS' Koyston, Hertfordshire, carrier, from April 20 to 27, at aloyen, at the Court of Banruptcy. BANKRUPTS. WILLIAM CPIALKLEN, Warwick.square, Kensington boarding-house-keeper, to surrender April 30 and June 1, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Tomlins, Staple Inn. JOHN VIZE, Crawford-street, Brvanstone-square, sta tioner, April 2ti, at eleven, and June 1, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. CHA RLES HALL, jun., Walsall, Staffordshire, brush.maker, May 2, at four, 3, and June 1, at twelve, at the George Hotel, Walsall. JOSEPH BORSLEY, Lower Grosvenor-place, Middlesex, boot and shoe-maker, April 30, and June I, at ten, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Kerly and Ware, Gray's Inn-square; Luling. ton, Official Assignee, Basinghall-street. GEORGE CROOKS, Anglesea-place Limehouse, baker. JOHN JAMESON, Muscovy-c o u r t, London, wine -merchant. WALTER HANNAY, Liverpool, Merchant. WILLIAM BICCLEY GA DBURY, Leadenhall-street, woollen-draper. JOHN GREENACRE, Brompton, cuilder. ROWLmND WILLIAMS, Tottenham-court-road, chemist, WILLIAM TALBOT, Cambridge, jeweller. THOMAS WALKER, Burslem, Staffordshire, iron-founde r FRANCIS ROOKER, Manchester, yarn-dealer. THOMAS GOULDING RAMSAY and SAMUEL LAN. CASTER, Mark-lane, wine.merchants. The news of the Reform Bill having passed the second reading, was received with the utmost gratifi cation in this city. In the coffee-rooms the intelligence was hailed with cheers. Throughout the city and suburbs numerous flags are to-day unfurled from the windows and house-tops in honour of the mgt.—Glasgow Chroxick. That remarkable production of nature, the toad fish, was brought to this town on Moniay, for exhi. bition, having been caught in the Bristol Channel, at Burnham, a few miles from Bridgewater, the preceding day. It is two feet in length, of a dark earthy colour, has a large head, &c., tongue numerously furnished with fangs, and a short bony tail. It is well known to naturalists, but has rarely, we understand, been seen on this roast. Taunton Courier. THE MISFORTUNE 011 IMPATIENCE.--A man named BourriLL was committed to Essex county gaol, on Tuesday, for sheep-stealing. The next day he learnt the death of his grandfather, and that he had left him an estate in land of the estimated value of 5,0001. ! Country Paper. CHOLERA POLITICS.—.In England the ace? /era attacked only the poor—in Paris it extends its ravages to all classes. There is no wonder in this, for in this country the plague is an aristocrat, while in France the plague is a republican.—Figaro in London. The liberty of a people consists in being go verned by the laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government ; the liberty of a private man, in being master of his own time and action, as far as may consist with the laws of Gon and of Lis country.— Cowley. The " main of cocks," which was to have lasted three days in Laing's Bazar, Edinburgh, has been stopped by orders from the Lord Pro►ost, who will not allow such brutality in the city. It was a bet between some pot - sons from Forfar and Glasgow. A destructive fire, which is supposed to have originated in malevolence, broke out at St. Avoid, near Mete, in the evening of the 14th instant, and continued burning for more than twelve hours. About sixty houses were consumed, and twelve individuals, four of whom were military men, perished in the flames. We have net heard any estimate of the amount of property destroyed.-- Galignani's Messenger. CURRAN AND THE Cow.--A few days be fore his death, he was taking an airing with some friends, and as the state of hie health would only allow the carriage to proceed at a very slow rate, a cow that was grazing by the road side put her head in at the ooach window. " What a very curious circumstance," exclaimed cone of the gentlemen, " Not at all, Sir," replied Mr. CURRAN, " she knew you were Irish, and was looking for a bull. ' In the city of Norwich there were, a few weeks ago, no lees than TWELVE THOUSAND persons, out of a total pordstion of 70,000, receiving parochial relief ! In one paush the rates amount to no lees than thirty shillings in the pound. EMIGRATION.—From all we can learn, emi gration to the Csnadas, and other parts of the Continent of America, is proceeding in an accelerated and aceelerat hag ratio, despite the recent regulation, orig.-taring in the dread of cholera merbes, which renders it imperative on the part of the shipowners to employ a surgeon wherever the number of passengers amounts to or exceeds fifty per sons. Last year, as was lately stated in Parliament, op. wards of 40,000 emigrants entered the St. Lawrence, and emb , rked at Montreal ; and as this is only one point, and leaves untouched St. John's, Prince Edward's, Nova Scotia, and the United States, the aggregate emigration must have been very greet. And this year it promises to be double, treble, or quadruple the former amount; nor is it at all improbable that it will go on increasing for some years to come, in what may be called geome trical progression. And the reason is obvious. let the first instance, few, save the unfortunate, the roving, the hardy, and the enterprising, tore themselves from their belayed father-land ; but after an experience of years, when the axe had done its work in the back woods, and thriving culture, more or less extensive, had usurped the place of the tangled forest, the settlers very generally despatched to their friends such cheering accounts of their altered lot and improved condition, that the maxim that it is " better to bear the ills we have, than fly to others that we know not of," became every year less inveterate. Few probably at first deemed it prudent to encourage their friends, or were ahle to render them any assistance ; but as their own prospects brightened, they naturally turned their attention to relatives pining in poverty at hotne—a circumstance which, combined with other causes, account. for the revival of the trade of emigration after a comparative stagnation of several years' dura.ion. The hardy back woodsmen, so long as they remain in an incipient state, are compelled, as it were, to do everything for themselves, practising, however rudely, various trades; but as their numbers multiply they cease to forge, fashion, and build, finding it more for their interests to employ proper tradesmen, and restrict their attention to the management of stock, and the culture of corn, excepting perhaps daring the winter months, when they sally forth with the gun or the axe, to wage war, as the case may be, against the fowls of the air, the beasts of the field, or the giants of the forest. And thus one thing leads to another, until even artisans are able to earn a livelihood amidst the inmost recessed of the wilds of C 401441..... sunfrie Courier. VT`fg ARTS. DON QUIXOTE AND SANciro PANZA We have just seen an engraving on this sub ject by Quilley, from a painting by Withering. ton, which possesses merit, though of no very superlative order, with the exception of Sancho's Dapple, which is admirably fore-shortened, and quished, the face particularly, with the most r:gid attention to details. The Rosinante, however, is feebly and stiffly executed. It is a horse of neither " mark nor likelihood," which was not the case with the valorous Munchausen's immortal steed, who, as Cervantes tells us, had as many angles in his body as a Spanish vial. The expressiom of Sancho's face is capital. Here the engraver has ably seconded the efforts of the painter. The print is a mezzotinto. B 0 NNIN G T ON'S FISHING BOATS. This, like the last, is a mezzotint° engraving by Quilley, but of an incomparably superior character. There is not a particle of stiffness or harshness about it. The lights and shades are blended together with the most perfect har mony, and the misty aspect of the atmosphere remarkably well preserved. The water dripping from from the oar which hangs over the stern •f one of the boats in the foreground is as beautiful a bit of engraving as we have seen for some time, and will add considerably to Mr. Quilley's reputation. SIR ISAAC NEWTON'S LAST ILL NESS AND DEATH. After some months of tolerable good health, he was seized in January, 1725, with a violent cough and inflammation of the lungs ; and, in consequence of this attack, he was prevailed upon, with some difficulty, to take up his residence at Kensington, where his health experienced a de cided improvement. In February, 172.5, he was attacked in both his feet with a fit of the gout, of which he had received a slight warning a few years before, and the effect of this new complaint was to produce a great and beneficial change in his general health. On Sunday, the 7th of March, when his head was clearer and his memory stronger than Mr. Conduit had known it to be for some time, he entered into a long conversation on various subjects in astro nomy. He explained to Mr. Conduit how co mets might be formed out of the light of vapours discharged from the sun and the fixed stars as the centres of systems. He conceived that these luminaries were replenished by the same comets being again returned to them ; and, upon this principle, he explained the extraordinary lights which were seen among the fixed stars by Hip. parchus, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler's disciples, and which he supposed to arise from the addi. . tional fuel which they received. Notwithstanding the improvement which his health had experienced, his indisposition was still sufficiently severe to unfit him for the dis. charge of his duties at the Mint ; and, as his old deputy was confined with the drop,y, he was desirous, in 1725, of resigning his office to Mr. Conduit. Difficulties, probably, were experi enced in making this arrangement, but his ne phew discharged for him all the duties of his office; and, during the last year of his life, he hardly ever went to the Mint. But, though every kind of motion was calcu lated to aggravate hie complaint, and though he had derived from absolute rest, and from the air at Kensington, the highest benefit, yet gr ea t difficulty was experienced in preventing hina from occasionally going to town. Feeling him self able for the journey, he went t o London on Tuesday, the 28th of February, 1727, to pre side at a meeting of the Royal Society. On the following day, Mr. Conduit considered him better than he had been for many years, and Sir Isaac was himself so sensible of this improvel ment in his health, that he assured his nephew, that on the Sunday preceding, he had sleFt from 11 o'clock at night till eight o'clock next morning, without waking. Ile had undergone, however, great fatigue in attending the meeting of the Royal Society, and in paying and receiv ing visits, and the consequence of this was a violent return of his former complaint. He re turned to Kensington on Saturday, the 4th of March, and was attended by Dr. Mead and Dr. Cheselden, who pronounced his disease to be stone, and held out no hopes of his recovery. From the time of his last journey to London lie had experienced violent fits of pain with very short intermissions; and though the drops (~f sweat ran down his face during these severe pa roxyams, yet he never uttered a cry or a coin gmatti the es short r p t e e intery ish: coin plaint, l e a sT t o , r or im p d a is t p ie l n ay c e e d thebu but u a r s i t u ; vals of relief which occur re d, h e sm il e d an d con e versed with his usual gayety and cheerfulness. On Wednesday, the 15th of March, he seemed a little better ; and slight, though groundless, hopes were still entertained of his recovery. On the morning of Saturday, th e 18 t h, h e rea d t h e newspaFers, and carried on a pretty long con.. versation with Dr. Mead, when all his senses and faculties were strong and vigorous ; but at six o'clock of the same evening he became in. sensible, and he continued in that state during the whole of Sunday, and till Monday, the 20th, when he expired between one and two o'clock in the morning, in the 85th year of his age.— Family Library, No. XX/I ~ Dr. Brewster's Life of Newton. NEW NOVEL BY THE AUTHOR OF GUANZT.—We are requested te state, that Mr Ltitrra% new novel, entitled " Arlington," is now te&dy far pub— lication, by Messrs. Coutuax and BENTLEY, and may be obtained of all Booksellers, and at all the respectable Libraries in the United Kingdom. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. BELL and BAADFUTE, Ediobtligh; and fur Ire. land, Mr. JOHN CUMMING, A watch has recently been found near the spot where the body of CELIA HOLLOWAY was deposited. It is supposed to have been dropped by the murderer ; and although considerably defaced, the characters of /lotto- WAY ' S name are sufficiently legible to he recoemised• Had the murderer remained till now undiseovervil, this watch would have afforded a strong clue to his apprehension. It lere a ta t nd i. , e in the possession of a e u ld : er' e w if e .— B i''' r w ig e u hto r : aet A STURGEON CAUGHT IN THE RIBBLE. - - —A considerable degree of interest wa last week excited amongst the Ribble fishermen, by the eircumstsaco of a sturgeon, of a large size, having been observed in the river, a little above the bridge at Walton, near Preston. On Sunday morning week, about six o'clock, it was dislodged from its bed in tile deep, itumidiately under Walton Church, and after a gal!ant resistance, was drawn out and killed. It was found to be a female, hea vily charged with roe, and is bulk measured eight feet ten inches in length from snout to till; its girth was four feet two inches, aril w e i g h t a b out two-and-a-half hun dred weight. Th e h o .y wai carried in triumph to Pres ton, and e xhibi te d to some hundreds of individuals, as rare and fin e spec i men of its kind ; and such was t h e re quisition f or i ts flesh, a. an acknowledged delicacy, that, with the exception of the heed and tail, the whole was speedily disposed of at an average price of about a shilling a pound. Nearly twelve yeas have e'apsed since a stur geon WM seep 1110 tar up the river...-Liesepou