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MARRIAGE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. FOR THE SUN. TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF ELDON, LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF ENGLAND, &C. &C. LETTER I. My LORD-1s a Peer who strenuously op posed the recent adoption of what has been called " The Marriage Act Amendment Bill," perhaps your Lordship will allow an humble in dividual to address a few remarks to you upon that most extraordinary measure. I beg to be understood distinctly, that in commenting upon the Act, any expressions which I may feel it 'necessary to have recourse to, must not be con sidered as in the least applicable to the dignified assemblies through which it has passed, but as totally confined to the measure itself, as affecting the nearest and dearest interests of all classes of the community. With respect to a measure, my Lord, of such fearful importance, it is surely ad visable that the most extended discussion should take place, in order to produce that ultimate benefit and legislation which the exigencies of the case so loudly demand. In addressing your 'Lordship upon the present occasion, I trust I shall not be accused of presumption ; as I only venture to address you, from a desire to call the attention of the public to a measure which your Lordship so firmly opposed. I should indeed be deserving of unqualified ridicule, were I capable for one moment of harbouring the extravagant idea that it was possible for your Lordship not to have felt in tenfold force any valid objection that can have occurred to a mind like mine. My Lord, it is not one of the least remarkable circumstances attending the Act to which I refer, that it received the'adoption of the Legis lature, against the declared opinions of the --greatest Lawyers the age has produced. Parlia ment have usually paid that respect and defe rence to those who. have devoted' their lives to the study of ,the law—to those who have studied it to understand, and" administered it to satisfy, which is certainly due ' • but in the recent in stance this respect and deference appear, from some unaccountable cause, to have been with drawn, and the public have witnessed the novel spectacle of a Bill of the highest possibre con-, sequence to, the Peer and the peasant—to the comfort of the domestic circle, and the well- being of the public in general—carried through both Houses against the decided and strongly ex pressed opinions of the highest legal characters in the country, and notwithstanding the open and fervent opposition of a Lord Chancellor, and that Chancellor, LORD ELDON !—Doubtless, my Lord, Parliament are not bound to be guided by legal opinions, nor would it be right to affirm that they did not consider them when given. In saying what I have, I only allude to what has been the usual practice, and in observing upon its 'having been laid aside in the late case, I do not intend to impute to our Legislators either im proper motives or irregular conduct. Every good subject is bound to believe that Parliament had some valid reason for the course it thought proper to adopt; and I sincerely join in that belief. In a case, however, where it is under : stoo.d, on all hands, that an Act is not a final one, 'but to he •explained and amended by subsequent enactments, I apprehend that no irregularity will be committed in commenting rather freely upon ;t. The recent Act begins with repealing that part of the ACt of the 26 Geo. 11. which re guired the consent of parents and guardians to the marriages of minors by licence. It is to be remarked that this repeal extends from Monday last (22d inst.) on which day the Bill received the Royai assent. Now, my Lord, I should wish to be infortned, under these circumstances, what is the law at this moment in England, with respect to the Marriages of Minors by Licence I should like to know, my Lord, what is the law to be acted on until the Ist of September next ? The Act of the 23 Geo. 11. is repealed— nothing, as I see, is substituted in its stead—and, unless the ancient Canon Law can be again =Drought into operation, there is no law whatever applicable to the cac.n. What! is there no ex- Dress Legislative Enactment remaining on the Statute book of England to meet so important a case, and one of such frequent occurrence ? I believe, my Lord, there is none regulating the Marriages of Minors by Licence, and fortunate indeed it is for the public that the 26 Geo.ll. did not expressly repeal the Canon Law, or at this moment the country would probably have been left without directions on the point. I do not believe that the framers of the recent Act in -tended to revive the Canons of 1603—they surely could never intend to leave the country exposed to the operation of provisions so confused and difficult of apprehension. I ask, too, whether it was their intention to render the consent of both the father and mother of a minor necessary be fore a licence for marriage could be obtained ? This, however, is now the law of the land—is at least the law obligatory on the authorities who have the power of granting licences ; and what is more, until the Ist September next, any de parture from the forms laid dawn by the Canons for the granting of licences, will (as far as the Canons are concerned) render those instruments void. I ask again, was this contemplated by the Act, and is it not directly at variance with its professed principle ? If any one, my Lord, had affirmed, six months since, that we should have' travelled back to the age of JAMES I. for Legislation, or rather for di rections, on so highly important a subject, I fancy much attention would not halite been paid to his assertion. The Act was professedly passed to obviate litigation and promote certainty ; but there is only occasion to refer to the second arid 'five following clauses to shew how completely it is likely to fail in these objects. The number of questions which may be raised upon the second clause as to the cohabitation of parties whose marriages are intended to be validated by the Act are by no means few ; and with respect to the third section, it is involved in considerable obscurity. It is as follows—" Provided always, and be it enacted, that nothing in this Act con tained shall extend or he construed to extend to render valid any marriage declared invalid by au Court of competent jurisdiction be fore the passing of this Act, nor any mar-' riage where either of the parties shall at any time afterwards, daring the life of the other party, have lawfully intermarried with any other person." As far as the clause goes to the principle of non-interference with marriages which had been declared invalid, previous to the passing of it, nothing can be said ; but the con- eluding part of the clause it is not very easy to understand. The difficulty arises upon the word " afterwards." At first sight, it does not appear very consonant with common sense, for an Act of Parliament to declare that it is not to " render valid" a marriage lawfully solemnized before the passing of it. The question naturally arises, if the marriage had been lawfully solemnized, why need the Act have alluded to' it at all ? As I said before, the difficulty arises upon the word " afterwards." If the clause is to be understood as confined to the cases of those whose first mar riages have been declared void by a competent Court, then undoubtedly the word " afterwards" will be understood as applying to the period which intervened between the pagsing of the sentence, and the second marriage of both or either of the parties whose prior marriage had been declared void. The clause, however, will bear another construction ; the word " after wards" may refer to any period after the solem nisation of a marriage de facto clearly illegal, and where both or either of the parties marry again. The latter part of the clause is not so exclusively connected with the former part as to limit its operation to the first case I have men tioned ; and therefore I conceive that a wide door for litigation is opened, in cases where par ties, presuming on the ipso facto illegality of a first marriage, have ventured on a second con nection. I shall resume the consideration of the subject to-morrow, and in the interim beg to subscribe myself, my Lord, your Lordship's obedient and humble servant, July 29, 1822. BRITANNICUS. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. VINDICATION OF CIIARACTER. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—:Messrs. ADOLPIIUS and AL LEY having done with a case of felony in which they were en gaged yesterday, the latter drew a Sunday newspaper from his.pOcket, which contained an obnoxious paragraph, copied from an Evening Paper of Saturday, as it avowed, as follows : " In the meanwhile look at the Bishop's bail, which, accord ing to an account published - in our Paper of yesterday by Ex. Sheriff Parkins, and signed with his name, is even less than that which we had before read. Mr. Parkins states this bail to have been only 5001. for the Bishop himself, and two suretiesin 2501. each ; but why have we not, as in other cases, the names of the two tradesmen?' Were they tradesmen ? We do not believe it. We have heard to , the contrary. We have heard that one of the bail belonged to a profession not usually very fond of becoming bail. However, all must come out at last." Mr. ALLEY addressed Mr. Dyer on the flagrant attack made on himself, or a respectable Attorney by whom he was employ ed, by the insinuation contained in the above paragraph, which it was impossible any man could read without supposing that one or the other had been bail on the occasion alluded to, by the words marked in italics. The Learned Cour sel re quested of Mr. Dyer, the Clerk, and Officers who were pre sent, to state whether there was any foundation for such re port, or whether such had originated with them ? The answer to which was—" Certainly not." Mr. Alley took leave dis tinctly to say, that the person with whom the report originated, be he whom he may, was a liar, a slanderer, and a coward, a base, infamous coward, who had asserted a falsehood behind his back, which dared not attempt in his presence. Mr. Alley observed, that it was a most cruel thing, that being called upon in the usual way by a most respectable Attorney to attend profes sionally for a bad man, that he should become an object of malignant slander. He was not conscious of having deviated from his usual practice; that it was against the etiquette of the profession to become bail for a client; and he de dared upon his honour that he had never bailed a man in his life; and, on the occasion alluded to, had any one asked such a thing, he ahould have been tempted to spit in his face. On the char'e having been established for the misdemeanor, he submitted - that the defendant was entitled to bail, without any allusion to the amount. He believed that Mr. Parkins had no participation in the declaration stated, although the writer spoke in the plural throughout. Mr. Cobbett, he was informed, is as the avowed Editor of the Evening Paper. He was not aware he had ever done an unkindness to Cobbett • nor could he even have incurred his displeasure as a political op ponent, as he never interfered in politics ; and he was sur prised that he should have lent himself to so unjust and un warrantable an attack. Mr. DYE it observed. that Mr. Alley conducted himself upon the occasion with that delicacy and propriety he had ever ob served of him; .7.nd he was sorry so many observations, un founded in truth, should have found their way into the news papers. The Magistrate observed, that he had no apology to make, and he considered the many observations that had been made as having originated in ignorance or malice, in those whose disposition it was to attack the public institutions and constituted authorities of the country. UNION TIALL.—ROBBERY BY A SERVANT.—Yester day a young female of interesting appearance, named Cathe rine Slee , was brought up in thecustody of Rice, the offi cer, charged with stealing from a letter, a banker's cheque j for the amount of 26/. 12s. 6d. the property of her master, Mr. William Ford, a maltster, at Nine Elms, Battersea.— The prisoner in her defence said, that as she was carrying the letter to the Post-office, the child that she took with her cried to have it, and in order to pacify it, she gave the child the letter, who broke the seal and the cheque tumbled out.— She was fearful if she made it known to her master he would discharge her, therefore she tore the letter in pieces and kept the cheque by her. She declared she never had any notion of procuring the money for it.—The Magistrate said the charge was sufficiently made out against her, to authorize his sending her to take her trial for the robbery ; and she was committed accordingly. ILITToix-GARDEN.—Yesterday Thomas Maxwell, other wise Redman, Thomas Owen, otherwise Stayer, Williani Picker ing, otherv:is?, Skinner, and Peter Hand, better known by, the name of Pcter the Bold, and six more of the bargemen who were charged with being concerned in the riot and combination to raise their wages or last Thursday morning, when the 3d regi ment of Guards were to embark at Paddington on board 26 of Messrs. Pickford and Co.'s boats for Liverpool, were brought up for examination. The prisoners in defence stated, that they were compelled, under a threat of being thrown into the water, to join in the riot by the rest of the bargemen, particularly by Owen, Chester, SVorssel, and little George, (nicknames) their real names they did not know, none of whom are yet in cus tody. The Magistrates being satisfied with the proof against the prisoners, committed them to prison to abide their trials at the ensuing Session. YORK, JULY 27.—SENTENCES OF ALL THE PRISONERS. At three o'clock Baron WOOD passed sentence on the pri soners which had been convicted, as follows : Death.—Robcrt Moseley, Robert Ibbetson, Isaac Jessop, Robert Craggs, Robert Wright, and Robert Moore, for bur glary; Robert Welford, for stealing from a dwelling house to the amount of 401.; James Brown and George Colley for sa crilege ; Henry Thompson, William Brammer, and Roger Dobson, fOr highway robbery ; James Hewson, for horse stealing ; and Marroaduke Mennison, for sheap-stealing.— Mercy would, his Worship intimated, be extended to all ex cept to Dobson, for robbing the mail. Transportation for Steen Ycars.—Jane Hardy, for con veying files and saws into the Castle, to aid the escape of her husband. . . Judgment Arrested.—Thomas Wood, for receiving stolen goods, knowing them to be so, of the value of tenpence. The Liverpool Sessions commenced on Mon day last : among other bills presented by the Grand Jury was one against T. B. Johnson for a libel on Mrs. M'Gibbon. The libel charged that Lady and several other performers at the theatre with having entered into a conspiracy to compel Mr. Vandenhoff to quit the stage by unfair and harassing behaviour towards him. Extract of a Letter from the Agents to Lloyd's at Genoa; dated 18th inst. " Mr. Ctiocr, Master of the Sardinia brig La Pace, arrived in this port yesterday from Con stantinople, which he left on the 15th ult., re ports, that the Grecian fleet, on the night of the 18th, burnt and destroyed the greater part of the Turkish fleet off Cisme, by means of fire ships.—We learn that this statement has been also given by Mr. BALDINI, Master of the Aus trian brig 11 Comnzercio de Triest, who arrived yesterday from Odessa. Should the intelligence be correct, it will no doubt be soon confirmed by other channels." The Paris Papers of Saturday and Sunday have arrived. They contai❑ little intelligence of any interest, except the following article respecting Spain, from the Drapeau Blanc, the most violent of the Ultra Journals, to which no credit is to be attached ; for not the slightest effect had been produced at Paris by this news on the Spanish Stock, nor is there any allusion to the counter. revolution at Madrid, mentioned by the Drapeau Blanc, in the Spanish Papers of the 18th, which have arrived in town, and which, on the contrary, assert that all was quiet and orderly in Madrid. PAnis, JULY 28.—News which reached us to-day from the Spanish frontier announce that Madrid is in the power of the Royalists, and that the King is rescued from the hands of the Jacobins. A private letter states that General Morillo put himself at the head of the Royalist party, and completely defeated that of the Liberals. Every - where the emblems called Constitutional are destroyed, and nothing is heard hut the cry of " Viva el Rey veto !"" What gives great consistency to this news is, the reserve with which the liberal papers announce that a courier, coming from the south, arrived yesterday at ten o'clock in the morn ing, at the house of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. • The question was agitated some days before, to know whe ther the King could be forced to . quit his palace, and whether the Municipality would not require, that, under the pfetext of safety, he should be shut up in the Pal a c e of Buen-It e ti r o, formerly a royal habitation, but transformed into a fortress since the occupation of Madrid by the French. The news from Andalusia, very alarming for the Jacobin party, made them alter their resolution, which had it been car ried into execution, would have renewed the frightful captivity of the Temple. The Spaniards, then, will have the sole ho nour of having with their own hands strangled the monster of the revolution, without foreign aid, and then they will in truth deserve the epithet of of heroic. The French Chamber of Deputies is still occupied in discussing the various articles of the Budget. On the resolution that 50,000 francs be voted for the encouragement of primary instruction, M. DE LA BORDE proposed that the vote should be doubled in favour of the plan of mutual instruction. This was opposed by the Minister of the Interior, and the amendment was rejected. It would appear that the present Government of France is hostile to the Bell and Lancaster System, because it is best calculated to diffuse instruction among the mass of the people ; an object which they have evidently no disposition to promote, by their recent no mination of the Abbe de Fraysinous to super intend the Establishments of Public Instroction, who had declared that the people ought not to be taught to read or write. On the proposal of the sum of 190,000 francs, for the encouragement of sciences, letters, the fine arts, and the dramatic art, and 220,000 francs for subscribing to national works, M. B. CONSTANT objected to the grants, and moved their suppression, on the ground that the promo- Lion of letters, sciences, and the arts was best consulted by a total independence of Govern ment protection. M. RoDET, continuing the dis cussion, objected to the sums destinued for the re-establishment of the Statues of Louis XIII., Louis XIV., and Louis XV.,on whose charac ters he animadverted in such strong language as to call forth the violent disapprobation of the right side, which ultimately reduced him to silence. On the resolution being proposed, that 575,000 francs be set apart for defraying the ex pences of the Protestant worship, M. CHAUBAUD LATOUR complained of its insufficiency, and of its disproportion to the Protestant population, which exceeded 1,200,000, to the amount of the contri butions paid by Protestants to the general sup port of religion, and added that it would ❑ot equal the twentieth part of their necessities, with regard o places of worship. Ife therefore proposed that it should be raised to 700,000, admitting, at the same time, the gratifying fact that there were more Protestant places of worship•and more Pro testant pastors appointed since theßestoration,than under the preceding Government. The Minister of the Interior, in opposing the amendment, stated that the funds destined for the building and re pairs of Protestant Churches was in proportion to those granted for the same purposes to the Catholics. The amendment was rejected. The following are further extracts : PARIS, JULY 27.—The affair of Messrs. Peugniet, Walther, and 'Prole, officers of artillery, accused of having attempted to form secret associations against the Government, was brought on the 22d before the Second Council of War of the Fifth Mi- litary Division (Strasburgh). M. Peugniet was defended by M. Lichtenberger, M. Walther by M. Detroyes, and M. 'P role by M. Fargcs-Alericourt ; all three Advocates of the Courts at Strasburgh. The first sitting was devoted to the reading of do cuments ; the interrogatory of the accused and the examination of witnesses, who are not numerous!, is to take place on the 23d ; the speeches of Counsel will commence on the 24th. A Petition was this day presented to the Chamber of Depu ties, signed by 130 inhabitants of the town of Malhausen, who demand an inquiry into the events which took place in the De partment of the Upper Rhine, on the 2d and 3d of July, and into the conduct of superior Authorities on that occasion.— ( Constitutionnel.) MADRID, JULY 16.—The militia are held in destestation by the population for their conduct on the 7th. All respectable people recoil from them, and many demand certificates to prove that they took no part in the massacre. The hospitals in which the wounded royal guards are placed, are abundantly provided I with every necessary. The comntuneros take great credit to themselves for the care they bestow on the wounded ; but every body knows that this care results from the active liberality and lbenevolence of the most honourable people in Madrid.—(La Quotidienne.) FRENCH FUNDS.-JULY 27. Five per Cents 9l f. 25 c. Bank Stock l6OO f. c. Exchange on London—One Month 25 f. 35 c, Three Months 25 f. 20 c. Frankfort Papers to the 22d inst. have also arrived. From Aix-la-Chapelle we learn that the Turks persevere in their intentions of 'occupying Moldavia and Wallachia; and that the disasters experienced by the Ottoman squadron, and the death of the Capitan Paella, have been confirmed by commer cial letters. These events had produced a great sensation at Constantinople; and the rage of the people and the troops knew no bounds. The intentions of Russia relative to Turkey are involved in the same doubt and mystery. It is evident, by the following extracts, that the question between those two powers is far from settled. NUREMBERG, JULY 17.—The Nuremberg Correspondent of this date contains the following (undated) article : "RUSSIA.—A report continues to prevail, that the Emperor will shortly undertake a long journey out of the empire, which will occupy the whole summer, and even part of the autumn. It is already determined that the Empress, who is at present indisposed at Zarkjiselo, will remove, on the Emperor's de parture, to Oranienbaum. Count Capo d'lstria and Baron Strogonoff were indisposed before the Emperor's journey to Lithuania, and had not appeared for some time at Court, or in the cabinet council. M. de Tatischeff seems at present to enjoy in an extraordinary degree the confidence of the Emperor. The contents of the circular note are now pretty well known, which was issued by our cabinet on the affairs of Turkey to the great European Powers shortly after the departure of the Emperor to Wilna, and the second journey of M. de Tatischeff to Vienna, and which was sent by couriers from St. Petersburgh to the Russian Ambassadors at Vienna, Paris, London, and Berlin, with orders to communicate it officially to the Courts to which they were accredited. A great part of this Note ap pears, as far as the sense is concerned, to agree with the , document which was lately published by the Constitution ad, as having been sent to it from an unknown quarter.— The expressions and terms are, however, often different.— That published by the . Constitutionnd is, perhaps, an older document, which was issued from St. Petersbu at a time when our Cabinet still hesitated on the decision of the question of war or peace, in which, perhaps, there has been only a con fusion of tile dates. The Circular Note issued by the Russian Court, in the month of May, is so far of a pacific complexion as the wish and inclination of the Emperor to maintain peace with the Porte is expressed in it in a clear and unequivocal manner; but at the same time it is made a condition of this maintenance of peace, that the Turkish Government shall scru pulously fulfil the written and verbal promises which it has ' made to the Ministers of the Mediating Powers at COnstanti nople. When the Circular Note in question was drawn up, in the office of Count Nesselrode, the last Official Note, addressed on the 18th April by the Reis Effendi to Viscount Strangford, in Pera, had already been communicated to our Cabinet by Baron Lebezeltern, the Austrian Ambassador at St. Peters. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Luncc, 29° die .Tnlii, 1822. Mr. Speaker reported the Royal Assent,—to Charge of Loan Bill, Receivers General Bill, Silk Bounties Bill, Royal Burghs Accounts Bill, Annuity Memorials. Bill, Thames Lastage and Ballastage Bill, Southwark and Surrey Roads Bill, and Wiick's and Coesvelt's Naturalization Bills. SUPERANNUATION ACT AMENDMENT' BILL BRIMSTONE DRAWBACK BILL l Read a third time, EAST INDIA SUGAR BILL SPIRITS EXPORTATION (SCOTLAND) and passed. BILL SMUGGLING PREVENTION BILL CALCUTTA BANKERS PETITION Commur TEE—Report brought up and read ; to be printed. MESSAGE. FROM TIIE Loans—That they have agreed to, East India Company's Loan Bill, Malt Duties Collection Bill, Queen's Servants Pensions Bill, New South Wales Duties Bill, Salt Duties Repeal (Ireland) Bill, National Monument (Scotland) Bill, and Stage-Coach Duties Bill, without amendment. NOTICE OF MOTION for THIS DAY. Colonel Wood,—Resolutions regarding the Laws of Settle ment of the Poor. ORDERS OF THE DAY for THIS DAY. 1. Exchequer Bills Bill—Report. 2. Stamp Duties Reduction (Ireland) Bill—Report. 3. Barilla Duties Bill—Report. 4. Militia Pay Bill—Third Reading. 5. Militia Pay(lreland) Bill—Third Reading. 6. Appropriation Bill—Third Reading. 7. Tithes Leasing (Ireland) Bill—Third Reading. 13. Deeds Registry (Ireland) Bill—Repose. 9. Usual Sessional Addresses—Committee thereupon. PRIVATE BlLL—Second Reading, for THIS DAY. Koch's Naturalization. *„.* For SIDNEY, Letter XVII., see the Fourth Page. PRICE OF STOCKS Tins DAY kl" ONE 0-CLOCK. Bank Stocks ' 3 514 3 per Cent. Red • 81$ 1 , 3 per Cent. Cons. 31 per Cent cl2.t Old 99gi 4 per Cent. t New 99p., 5 per Cents. 1797 Bank Long Ann.... 20 15-16ths Imp. 3 per Cents. India Stock 251 India Bonds 62s. 645. South Sea Stock 9l 90i Old Annuities Ex. Bills 2 7 pr. Ditto Small Bank for Cons. Act.: 251 i 252 India for Con. Acct. Cons. tbrAccount' PRICE of FOREIGN STOCKS' IN LONDON, JULY 30, AT ONE O'CLOCK. French ' Five per Cents. 00. Prussian f Five per Cent. Bonds, 88i 39. ( Ditto New, Bq. . . (Old Bonds, 00. Colombian Six per Cent. Bonds, 85k. (Ditto Scrip, 85/. Spanish j Five per Cent. Bonds, ti:.2,. ( New Ditto, 62. Danish Five per Cent. Bonds, 87i. Neapolitan Five per Cent. Bonds, 72i. Austrian Five per Cents. (Metallic) 00. (Six per Cents. 00. -,, Five per Cents. (Metallic) 78. (Ditto New 00. {Bank Shares 00. Six per Cents. 93 99. Three per Cents. 00. Five per Cent. Loan, 1820, 09. Five per Cent. Loan, 1821, 00. Chili 80 80i. Russian 83. This moment 100 Spanish Bonds have been sold at 62., with a dull market. Russian American PRICE OF IRISH STOCK, Jur-Y 27- Bank Stock 249 i I Grand Canal Loan, 4 p.ct. Gov. Deb. 3 t per cent 9l Stock,3 per ct 9lgt Gov. Deb. 4 per cent. 99h Gov. Deb. 5 per cent. —Stock, 5 per cent. Treasury Bills, 5 per cent. City Debentures, 5 per cent. Lying in Hospital 4 per ct. Exchange on Lon HIGH WA TER AT WNW) Morning, 15 minutes after 0.. —Ditto 6 per Ceni....72H Ditto Stock Royal Canal Stock Wide-street Cert. 6 per ct — Do. Deb. with Gov. Sec — Pipe Water Deb. 5 per ct. Do. Ballast Office Govt. Sec. 5 per cent. on, July 26, 8/3. N BRIDGE TO-MORROW, 1 Evening, 45 minutes after 12. THE SUN. SOLEN QUIS DICERE FA LSTIM AUDEAT LONDON, TUESDAY, JULY 30, 1822. ..6 61 burgh, and the Emperor is said to have consented to be6l dle of with the contents of this Turkish Note, supposing that it quel would shew that the assurances contained in i t are , empty words, and the Ottoman Government realises w's AO l- promises. In this spirit the new Russian Circular to the pean Cabinets is drawn up." this hasJULY 18.—The Correspondent of has the following article : , , to the ! " ST. PETERSBURGH, JUNE 23.—The Circularl,°Thth Allied Courts, issued by the Russian Cabinet in the founded May, May, before the second mission of M. de Tatischeff , is 1";rtlf partly on the official Turkish note of the 18th of April, a_ . ,°"?„, the on subsequent verbal promises made to Lord Strangfor" Ltis- Reis Effendi. It did not seem that the Emperor could he„01 lied with the assurance given in the note, that the Porte Z o o fulfil its obligations when tranquillity should be restored. t: ; 60 days later, however, the Turkish Minister informed the ),l' es ji Ambassador that all preparations were made, and orders I ,o r given to fulfil as soon as possible the two main pohlt, A s i fi ri g sts pute, viz. the evacuation of the principalities by the t ru iylo timed in theni, and the appointment of Christian fl et tile In such circumstances, the only question can be, w ile irsai s Porte will really keep its promises ? The Russian Circ°:, thati expressly that the Emperor has nothing more a t Iteni be the maintenance of peace with the Porte, an d no one g ill t ote more disposed than himself to contribute his efforts to the ancient relations with that power. But at the soT; fo• it is signified in the note, that Russia depends on tiler good offices of the Allied Powers, that the E m p eror f o r the not be compelled in the contrary case to take measures coo mainteaance of solemn treaties, which the dignity of measure the would require. It appears, therefore, that, notwithstan„,s-J" ( personal inclination of the Emperor to peace, the c i — decifr the future relation of Russia and the Porte is not yet, „ 5 ,11 , , with certainty, but that this decision will depend 00 we,,.ctot of the farther negotiations at Constantinople, or the con".`‘true, the Turkish Government. The Imperial Guards, return to St. Petersburgh, but the corps remain retuY pist e the field, though orders have been given (since the itu lil i e j) breaking out of the war is in no case to be appre li c e r e n withdraw it to a greater distance from the Turkis h : A ^ - i ) e i and place it in more extended cantonments. It s fi e ld il l served, besides, that the Guards have never taken the he" 'Turkish war ; and, on this occasion, also, if hostilitiqvio commenced with the Turks, would have remained in the provinces, as a reserve and corps of observation." VIEN NA, Jut. Y 15.—Metalliques 79i.-13ank Shares I' r , pti , " . JAMAICA, JUNE 11.—A letter from t he SHEPPERD, of this port, dated San Blas, 9th MaY , e' partial commencement of the American trade along t o ,o' coast, which has been for some time a traffic of consideraw"ti, terest, and, if not checked in its progress, will become °;01 ally injurious to the island. A Spanish brig or schoo ner ' . 0 10 St. Jago de Cuba, had captured a brig and two stnajj:vel,:r nr` from the island ; and it was their intention to retain " der every vessel they fell in with, without respect to f l4s ' ot, Stock Exchange, One o'Ciock.—The n4'oo' w ith lit tle up to this hour, remains steady, uation ; Consols SOB. 4d W V MARGATE, JULY 29.—Arrived the yacht from Ost e nd, and l an d e d hi s Roya. ness the Duke of GLOUCESTPt. a pr The opinion wiT—ch we submitted ► t° Readers, as to the true cause of the of Irish distress, which Colonel Ta Escli d 3 ff nounced to the House of Commons on il/l o rs o s e s rs has been fully confirmed by the Irish Jtbe since received. The funds possessed 14 e lf local Committees in several quarters are entiroo, exhausted, and the continued assistance of re • land is declared to be indispensable for t he F tr i, servation of multitudes of the sufferincr Pe tts° : t oe when the period iten the maturity of the P tl- ,,ce crop shall enable them to subsist upon th eir l - 0 1 resources. A Cork Paper, speaking of the Celo Committee of that populous and distressed c °° A A t says, " It is to be regretted that the ftl it ' s are 11 1 1 1' d present in the hands of the Committ ee re plenis extinct, and that unless they ar e from that prolific source, British be hi " °l le tee the relief of the distressed poor in thoot sive county must be retarded, a t a ill°oolii when a little additional humane hell) °toe enable them to support a tolerable el tis ole ro until Providence sitould pour before vie the bounties of the forthcoming harvest' that Report of the Committee itself st atesl esti t the cases of distress are so numerous, th at a ° I , ;le of two shillings per family, voted on the 1° af ids , 1 stant, amounted to above five thonsa rldll og o f and exceeded, by 1501. the sum in the h° are the Treasurer. V - ,l e reP re ' . c ery great efforts, po ol 7 still obviously required from the Britis h ,iff; ofs 3l in order to complete the god-like Wor „,k,k JOUesS a whole people from destruction. 60 0 0; has only been diininislied by English bell e nt i a tr and can still be kept down only by the :ltl °3 ance of those generous exertions by sv l " c been successfully checked. lie oi l , l ------The Irish Constables Bill and the IS•I' 11 , e were last night read a third time in the 0 0 ' th e f.ords, and passed. In the discussion O ‘ l v pi m ar former Bill,n consequence o iqf some re) Lord HOLLAND, the Earl of Livr,r.Pool4 °i ti t)(l reprobated the annual procession and d ec ;1 0 11 7 of King WILLIAM'S Statue on the I`2th el tef ol o and expressed a hope that the Lord-Liellivoll would be able to prevent its recurrence. '3600 eserving the opinion that the public cele hr o pt+ of the battle of the Boyne is not o nly i nn(l e ot ° but laudable in itself, and is only to be dePr t sf # ed in consequence of the pretext Whi ch we tio fords for the perpetration cf feud s 7 o f hope that, after this express declaration object, sentiments of Government on the j 5511 and the understood wishes of his 'AD e d himself, the Orangemen of Dahlia will se C llst°P propriety of voluntarily aban doning the 00 °11 In the House of Commons, the SuPerann l a tec i CELLOR of the E_ xcllEouEß. Bill received two additional clauses/ calc c ° o 4 4 ' to soften its rigour, on the motion of t be ae r Ir. CA1451?4 • r( Pt ie E